We experienced similar issues but between different platforms.
The machine serving filesystems was an Irix 6.5.13 machine and
the client was running RH7.1 on Itanium 2's. Both machines are
on the same VLAN.
Copying to NFS mounts would hang (errors would be logged in messages
about the NFS
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Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 3:03 PM
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Subject: RE: NFS between Linux and Solaris
There are no hangs or delays. I believe what you are
describing was a
What options did you pass to configure?
-Steve
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Subject: QT installation
Hi;
I am using Redhat8.0 and wanted to install QT-X113.2.1. I
followed the
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So let me see if I understand this.
The dependency called libDCOP.so.4
is part
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From: Rodolfo J. Paiz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 1:43 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What's the easiest way to deal with dependencies???
At 12:21 10/17/2003, you wrote:
Ok I downloaded apt-get. By the way I have Red Hat
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Subject: Re: NFS Action
Steve, please press Enter every 70 chars or so. Thanks.
On 14:50 07 Oct 2003, Rigler, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Is NFS started on the server?
| Use chkconfig --list to make sure nfs, nfslock and
portmap are all turned on
. Turn them
Is NFS started on the server?
Use chkconfig --list to make sure nfs, nfslock and portmap are all turned on. Turn
them on and start them (with service) if they aren't already turned on.
Once you know it's working on the server, check from the client with rpcinfo -p
servername. If it still
i dont have to work with win98 anymore fortunately, so i
might be wrong.
But i think with win98 you have to check in the smb config
file if you are
encrypting the login or not. I dont remember the exact
setting or if it
would give you the error you are getting. But if the prior
Is DLT8000 at end of life now? Based on the age of the technology and
that the capacity (native specs) doesn't necessarily provide the 50GB
requirement I'd suggest SDLT of the two.
LTO is a good choice also. We're running IBM Ultrium I and II here.
-Steve
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From: Ed
On mine (RH9) I just hit the print screen key and a dialog pops up asking
where to save the image (this is provided by the gnome-panel package and
it looks like the keybinding is to /usr/bin/gnome-panel-screenshot). Using
alt + printscreen also works to grab individual windows.
GIMP also has a
To find symbolic links recursively you could do:
find . -type l -print
I don't know of a way to find hardlinks.
-Steve
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From: Kelerion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 9:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: rescurive ls to find
chkconfig --add service name
The startup script for the app should have information in the
comments near the top for chkconfig to figure out what run
levels to start/stop the script at (look at the other scripts
in /etc/init.d/ for examples).
-Steve
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From: Tom Ferguson
There's also http://www.mondorescue.org/
I haven't tried it, but it looks promising.
-Steve
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From: john lawler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: best gpl'd norton ghost-like solution?
Hi,
I'm looking
As a disclaimer, I've never used ODBC with MySQL on RH, but I
stepped through what you described and, with some adjustments,
was able to successfully attach to a database with isql.
First:
/usr/lib/libmyodbc.so is on my system and came with the MyODBC
package.
my /etc/odbcinst.ini was already
I would assume that a telnet server which authenticates against W2K
isn't what you need. You would probably do better looking for PAM
support to authenticate against W2K/AD, etc.
Try googling for linux pam active directory support (assuming
authentication against AD is what you need).
-Steve
Try using the soft option on the client when you mount the filesystem.
mount -o soft host:/home/gerry /mnt/fns
Read man mount for other options.
-Steve
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From: Gerry Doris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 12:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've investigated this same issue and I am unaware of any
way to enforce password policies internally within OpenLDAP.
We're falling back on enforcing policies on the client
machines (I don't know how you use OpenLDAP, but we are
using it as a NIS replacement). We use the attributes within
the
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From: Hal Burgiss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:23 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: udp port 624 listening?
Care to wager? I am betting on sgi_fam.
A quick google search brought up some similar threads, fam came up
in at
Mike,
AFAIK, xinetd does not determine on what port it should listen for a
given service by that service's file in /etc/xinetd.d. I believe xinetd
gets information about a service from the file in /etc/xinetd.d and
then determines what port by the appropriate entry in /etc/services.
My
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From: Mike Vanecek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 9:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: udp port 624 listening?
This is a RH 9 system, does that make a difference?
I don't really see why there would be a difference, but I am
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From: Boom Stickity [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 8:47 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: tuning redhat tcp
more google searching helped me to find this:
If your kernel has been compile with sur /proc filesystem
support,
Is your client mounting the NFS exports with the soft option?
-Steve
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From: Gerry Doris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 10:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NFS Question
I sometimes manually mount NFS volumes on my internal lan.
Scalc (comes with OpenOffice) works good.
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From: David Hart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 12:33 PM
To: Redhat General List
Subject: Spreadsheet program?
There MUST be something better than KSpread. Any suggestions?
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From: Boom Stickity [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 9:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RE: tuning redhat tcp
Before running sysctl -p I would like to view the current
parameters. I have added the following to
Ken,
Maybe you've already tried this, but my cable modem has a feature
which requires it to be reset every time a new device is plugged
into it.
-Steve
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From: Ken Plumley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:47 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You should rarely run into a legitimate reason for reinstalling your
operating system (especially if you regularly use a non-root account
when you are on your machine).
Try to troubleshoot the problem. Make sure that it exists for all
users. If not then start trying to pinpoint differences
I think this depends on what video card you're using. I've configured
dual-head machines with NVidia cards, but I am led to believe this is
a different process than other situations.
-Steve
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From: Sue Champigny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003
Jason,
The link you posted was actually broken. I believe it should have been:
http://www.msykes.com/geek/multihead.html
-Steve
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From: Jason Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 8:32 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dual Monitors
On
You haven't really provided any specifics, but a (possibly) similar issue
was brought up on the openldap mailing list:
http://www.netsys.com/openldap-software/2003/02/msg00202.html
-Steve
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From: Michael Hamam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003
Then there are applications that inconsistently prompt...
The Netbackup 4.5 Java GUI's like to prompt for inane little things
but don't bother when you've request a destructive action (like cancelling
all backups).
-Steve
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From: Mark Neidorff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
At the risk of sounding picky, the same goal could be achieved via:
awk '{print $1}' $filename | uniq
or alternatively:
cut -d -f1 $filename | uniq
-Steve
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From: Barry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Look at /sbin/mkfs.vfat. It is provided by the dosfstools
package.
-Steve
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From: Andre Kirchner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 2:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to format a VFAT partition
Hi,
how can I format a VFAT partition with
Sentinel:
What does the output of bperror -jobid failed job num give you?
I'm curious about this as well..
-Steve
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From: sentinel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 6:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RedHat 9 and Veritas Netbackup
Has anyone
It sounds like there may be some confusion as to what the service
command does.
/sbin/service is basically a script that prepends /etc/init.d to
whatever argument you feed it. When you enter service vsftpd start
it says service not found because it has no script in /etc/init.d.
The reason it
think you have to restart xinetd manually. I could be wrong and am too
lazy to test :)
Jon
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Rigler, Steve wrote:
It sounds like there may be some confusion as to what the service
command does.
/sbin/service is basically a script that prepends /etc/init.d to
whatever
?
I'd ideally like to have FTP, Web, MySQL, and Telnet services running - this machine
is on a local area network with a gateway setting and is not directly connected to the
net.
Rigler, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It sounds like there may be some confusion as to what the service
command
Does which java give you the java at /usr/java/.../bin or some
other one? If it's the wrong one then you should probably switch
that PATH statement around so that the JDK path is searched first.
-Steve
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From: Robert Fausey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday,
You need to make sure the telnet-server rpm is installed and
that you do chkconfig telnet on to enable it.
-Steve
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From: Go, Jeffrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 4:25 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Telnet service
Wouldn't wget just download the output from execution of the php file?
-Steve
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From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Proper way to keep users out of a directory
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at
Seriously...unless anyone can explain otherwise, being able to use
wget to download the source code to a cgi should be as effective
as using a browser to load a page and do view source.
-Steve
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From: Scott Antonivich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15,
rpm -qf some file
eg:
rpm -qf /bin/ls
rpm -qf $(which ssh)
etc...
-Steve
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From: Sambit Nanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to find RPM from command
is there any way to find out the RPM name from
Can you define connect? Are you setting up XWare to connect via
XDMCP or some other method?
-Steve
-Original Message-
From: Hari Om [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 12:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux + NCD PCXware + Thin Clinets
I am having some
I was curious about this as well.
I tested it by:
1. Opening a new shell and su - to root
2. Use a group that root isn't a member of and do newgrp GROUP
3. Type id and see that root is using that group for his gid.
Since root is root he won't get a prompt from assuming any identity
even if it's
I wouldn't go so far as to say ssh is the same as telnet.
The openssh and openssh-clients packages give you commands which
replace the functionality of a lot of insecure programs like
rsh, rlogin, rcp, ftp, telnet.
SSH can be used to establish login sessions or run commands,
scripts, etc.
Check out this link:
ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/linux
It's a perl script that spits out hw details similar to what
hinv would show.
There's also a thread discussing this subject at:
http://bizforums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x3abb3a7b3682d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html
-Steve
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, the mind of Rigler, Steve wrote:
Recently (this week) I ran into a similar issue. It appears as if the login
banner on the ftp servers was confusing our firewall into dropping ftp
connections.
Running snoop on the clients and servers didn't reveal much except that the
server saw 8 packets
Recently (this week) I ran into a similar issue. It appears as if the login
banner on the ftp servers was confusing our firewall into dropping ftp
connections.
Running snoop on the clients and servers didn't reveal much except that the
server saw 8 packets transmitted/received during the session
Hi Paul,
1. There are various tools available, some that come to mind are:
-lspci
-lsdev
-various files in /proc (cpuinfo, etc)
2. Look at /etc/sysctl.conf
-Steve
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From: Paul Gotter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 11:48 AM
To: Redhat
Subject:
I had to setup /var as a symbolic link after letting RH7.2 decide my
partition layout during the install (and not paying attention to the
fact that it made it ~100 Megs which wasn't quite enough for the 256
Megs of packages up2date wanted to download).
It worked fine for me until I got around to
Look in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts (if you've created it) and ~/.ssh/known_hosts.
Just delete any lines referring to the host to which you are trying to connect.
I ran into this issue when upgrading some Irix machines loaded with their
freeware OpenSSH packages to an OS rev that bundled SSH. The
FYI, there is no csh on RedHat (other distro's too?).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] steve]$ ls -l $(which csh)
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Oct 6 2002 /bin/csh - tcsh
And no bourne shell either:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] steve]$ ls -l $(which sh)
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Oct 6
What purpose would your Linux box serve? With the later versions, RH
provides some decent security with the firewall and ssh being the only
service turned on by default.
One thing I always add is some protection against people getting root
locally by rebooting to single-user mode. If you use
Finding some creative way to restrict access to /proc might do it
also.
-Steve
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From: Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 9:55 AM
To: RedHat Email List
Subject: Re: Restrict output of ps
Well, in theory, you could patch the ps program...
Sun ONE Studio 4 (aka Forte 4 java) runs fine on the 2 RH8 boxes I've
loaded it on.
-Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 3:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Finding Software and Support for RedHat Linux 8.0
Hi
Unless they happen to be running winpopup.
-Steve
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From: John Nichel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: message pop-up onto a windows box?
And to the best of my knowledge, neither does 95, 98, and ME
AFAIK, the OS Level setting only affects your Samba server's ability to win
a browser election.
-Steve
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From: Curtis Vaughan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 3:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Samba Server in an SBS4.5 environment
Has
chkconfig iptables off
service iptables stop
run your customized script.
-Steve
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From: Mingle, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:12 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: I want my ipchains back
What procedure should I use to get
This can be done with authorized_keys.
It's been some time since I set this up, but I remember the procedure being
something like this:
On the host you will be ssh'ing from do:
ssh-keygen -t rsa
You will be prompted for a file to save the key to and a passphrase. Make
the passphrase empty.
rpm -qi package name
Look for a line that says Install date
-Steve
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From: Robert Adkins II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 1:48 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: What time was an RPM installed?
Hello Everyone,
I am curious to know
I think that depends on the program.
It can usually be -V, -v, or --version.
An easy way, if it was installed with rpm, is to do
rpm -qf somefile.
-Steve
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From: Richard Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 1:23 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How about:
fuser -k /dev/pts/12
Will kill all processes on that tty.
You can also kill all processes owned by that user with something like:
ps -ef | awk '$1 == username { print $2 }' | xargs kill -9
-Steve
-Original Message-
From: Reuben D. Budiardja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
Corrupt utmp maybe?
I'm not sure what the prescribed method of fixing utmp is.
If this is just a one time deal you can try this:
cd /var/run
cp utmp utmp_orig
cp /dev/null utmp
You should be able to delete your user at this point. Then do:
mv utmp_orig utmp
Your user will probably still
Can you be sure that X is the cause of the slowdown? If you are not
at the computer and something is bogging it down then maybe it's the
screensaver you are running or some other process related to your
session.
-Steve
-Original Message-
From: Richard S. Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL
Assuming he's in runlevel 3
-Steve
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From: DuSTiN KRySaK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:17 PM
To: Redhat Mailing List
Subject: Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?
On 3/28/03 10:07 AM, Richard S. Crawford [EMAIL
AFAIK, Netbackup only needs rsh access to install the client
software. Rlogin shouldn't be necessary.
-Steve
-Original Message-
From: Stephen Spalding [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 12:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: rlogin access
Bingo! I had to add
25, 2003 at 02:52:39PM -0600, Rigler, Steve wrote:
MS's version numbering system is so screwed it doesn't even deserve
mention (am I a version number, a year or a 2 letter buzz-phrase?).
To their credit, I think Microsoft had a good idea when they started
using the year instead of a version
Interesting:
Starting with Red Hat Linux 9 the numbering system for
the consumer release will be stated only as an integer.
So RH is trying to confuse everybody the same way Sun did with the Solaris
version numbers.
-Steve
-Original Message-
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try:
mii-tool eth0
If you don't trust the results look at /var/log/messages or /var/log/dmesg for
relevant information which would have been logged when your machine booted and
loaded the module for your NIC.
-Steve
-Original Message-
From: Rodrigo Nascimento [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I doubt if having IRQ #'s 15 is your problem. I'm running RH 7.3
on an IBM Intellistation and have devices on IRQ's as high as 22
with no issues specific to the motherboard.
-Steve
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From: Jeffrey Lawton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 12:09 PM
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Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 1:22 PM
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Subject: Re: RHCE certifications and how current they are - answer below
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:25:49PM -0600, Rigler, Steve wrote:
Starting with Red Hat Linux 9 the numbering system for
the consumer release will be stated
echo text to add file
-Steve
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From: Jianping Zhu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 9:11 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: how to add string to a file from command line?
I have file f1 and i want to add a line to the end of the file from
command
Try grep -w
-Steve
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From: Distribution Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 8:47 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: grep an exact match
Can anyone tell me the syntax for grep to grep and an exact match,
rather than grep 'something1' and get
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Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 9:13 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: grep an exact match
Rigler, Steve wrote:
Try grep -w
That will work if the word is on a line by itself. If there may be other
words on the line, try this:
grep '\Wsomething\W'
That will match the target string
Your VMWare is running its own instance of smbd, perhaps? Do you know
if you are using this feature? If not, disable it (vmware-config, AFAIK).
-Steve
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From: Simpson, Doug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 12:18 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Make sure you aren't appending something like .i386.rpm onto the
end of the package name when you do rpm --erase.
-Steve
-Original Message-
From: dbrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 10:20 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: rpm confused
I am having problem with
Add /sbin and /usr/sbin to your path. If you are using
bash for your shell add this to your ~/.bash_profile:
PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin ; export PATH
Alternatively you can just type the full path to the commands
you need (eg /sbin/service).
-Steve
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL
the jdk dir to /usr/java/jdk so that I can add
/usr/java/jdk/bin to my path once and not have to worry about
changing it every time I install a new jdk.
-Steve
-Original Message-
From: truc nguyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 9:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Rigler
Is there something you need in addition to the existing
java.io, java.awt and javax.swing?
-Steve
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From: Mike Wooding [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 9:47 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Java SDK v 1.4.1
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