[OT] IDE Hotswap configuration

2002-10-21 Thread Robert Monical
I purchased an IDE hotswap carrier. When I use it on my old (circa 1998) Supermicro systems, hot swapping causes a lock up. Not finding much on this. What is required for me to get IDE Hot swapping working? TIA Robert Monical Moving Restech to Linux and Oracle 9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailing

RedHat Faq

2002-10-14 Thread Robert Monical
. 4. My tiny business sits on an under-used T1, so I'll probably start out hosting it. I have a nasty travel schedule for the next month so will not be around the list much. After getting my RedHat in box down to less than 200 messages last week, it is back up to 548 (sigh). Regards Robert

Re: strange network cable problem...

2002-10-09 Thread Robert Monical
or just one type of card, I'd just figure it was the hardware. But I have this problem with three different boxes. Does anyone else have the same issue? It's just wierd. Robert Monical Moving Restech to Linux and Oracle 9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailing list stuff) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (everything else

RedHat-list FAQ?

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Monical
propose an outline and solicit input in a couple of days. Robert Monical Reservation Technologies, Inc. Technology Solutions for Destination Marketing Organizations [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.restek.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https

Re: to newcomers: please try to solve the problem yourself before asking

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Monical
for information we can provide in a few seconds then we will restrict the growth of our community. There is power in numbers. Robert Monical Reservation Technologies, Inc. Technology Solutions for Destination Marketing Organizations [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.restek.com -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: Apache

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Monical
these directories and files. Does anyone have any suggestions how to make the LAN based Apache server respond to a domain name like http://www.name.com Robert Monical Reservation Technologies, Inc. Technology Solutions for Destination Marketing Organizations [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.restek.com

Re: making apache a service

2002-10-07 Thread Robert Monical
it seems to run at every init level. I created an S88apache and a K88apache and put them in rc2.d Is this the correct approach? Robert Monical Reservation Technologies, Inc. Technology Solutions for Destination Marketing Organizations [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.restek.com -- redhat-list mailing

Re: routed

2002-10-07 Thread Robert Monical
than happy to send it along. Robert Monical Reservation Technologies, Inc. Technology Solutions for Destination Marketing Organizations [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.restek.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman

modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0

2002-10-04 Thread Robert Monical
Robert Monical Reservation Technologies, Inc. Technology Solutions for Destination Marketing Organizations [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.restek.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Bash and my mid-life crises

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Monical
Moving from Solaris (csh) to Linux (bash). I'm liking bash a lot. RedHat 7.2. I have some environment variables defined in .bash_profile. When using KDE and opening the terminal from the control panel, these are set as expected. I also have some functions defined in that same .bash_profile (

Re: Installing Windows Ontop of Linux

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Monical
. My Oracle Linux install doc tells me otherwise. Given the amount of memory sucked up by the Jave runtime engine that comes with Oracle 9i, I'm thinking that this is not a universal rule of thumb. Robert Monical Reservation Technologies, Inc. Technology Solutions for Destination Marketing

Re: redundant ethernet cards

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Monical
Interfacing) This may be the answer. just my 2pence worth Robert Monical Reservation Technologies, Inc. Technology Solutions for Destination Marketing Organizations [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.restek.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https

Re: Bash and my mid-life crises

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Monical
function rpmgqa () { rpm -qa | grep $1 } Perfect. Unix gets better and better. Thanks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Bash and my mid-life crises

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Monical
At 07:12 PM 10/3/2002 -0400, you wrote: On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:46:21PM -0700, Robert Monical wrote: Some questions: 1. Any idea why the functions are not active when opening a KDE terminal? man bash, and read the INVOCATION part about initialization files, login shells, and interactive

Re: formate drive with linux

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Monical
/mbr to remove the linux boot loader. Robert Monical Reservation Technologies, Inc. Technology Solutions for Destination Marketing Organizations [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.restek.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com

GTOP Details are Asian characters

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Monical
Hello Running gtop in KDE. Rest of gnome is not installed. When I right click on a process and select details, the character set is some Asian set. Anybody else ever experience this? TIA Robert Monical Reservation Technologies, Inc. Technology Solutions for Destination Marketing

Re: Bash and my mid-life crises

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Monical
Anyone else have any useful functions or aliases they'd like to show off? I'm glad that you asked. I was looking for an FM to read. Robert Monical Reservation Technologies, Inc. Technology Solutions for Destination Marketing Organizations [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.restek.com

Re: Bash and my mid-life crises

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Monical
Your account should have received working copies of both files from /etc/skel when created. If not, take a look in /etc/skel to see how the two files relate to each other. It did. I just missed the .bashrc explanation when I scanned man bash. Thanks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: too many DEFUNCT processes

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Monical
. Interesting. When I fire up an Oracle application using the bundled JRE 1.3x I get a bunch of Jave process. When I exit the application, the processes remain. Since I'm not experienced with Jave, I wonder if this is a similar phenomena? Thanks Robert Monical Reservation Technologies, Inc

Gnome desktop does not load?

2002-10-01 Thread Robert Monical
Hello, New RedHat install. Configured with Gnome desktop. Root logs into gnome with the bottom panel etc. Normal users just seem to log into the window manager. How do I get a user to log into Gnome? TIA -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe

Re: hard drive performance

2002-10-01 Thread Robert Monical
RAID 0: Striped: best performance because data is written across strips simultaneously: single point of failure RAID 1: Mirroring. 50% reduction in disk space eliminate single disk failures RAID 5: parity: slower but you can get up to 80% effective disk usage. You can add hot spares to RAID 5

Re: virtual interfaces routing

2002-10-01 Thread Robert Monical
I'm not a RedHat expert, but it looks like you are trying to build a router with a single NIC. I've never seen this before and I've been a casual user/sysadmin for TCP/IP networking for 15 years. I'm not even sure that you can define virtual addresses for a NIC that are on different subnets.

Setting SEMNMI etc.

2002-09-30 Thread Robert Monical
Preparing to install Oracle 9i on a new RH 7.2 system. The installation guide wants me to set a number of kernel parameters. I tells me to write a script to set these at system startup. I'm thinking there is a configuration file that contains these initial values but am striking out. TIA

/tmp/orbit-root ???

2002-09-30 Thread Robert Monical
This is a new install of Redhat 7.2. Installed-subscribed to RHN and let it update overnight. Today, working on the Oracle install and see this orbit-root directory in tmp. Some of the files cannot be deleted. Any idea what it is? TIA -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

RHN Subscription Only??

2002-08-29 Thread Robert Monical
I installed RedHat 7.2 last night: boxed set. When I tried to run up2date wu-ftpd I get a message (this was midnight Pacific time). Due to extremely high traffic. I then found the place to register a 30 day subscription to software updates from the Product Activation Card. This

Re: Advanced Server - Oracle 9i install issues

2002-08-29 Thread Robert Monical
Looks like this is a not a certified configuration Here is what Orale sez about 7.1 I have not tried this install yet APPENDIX A - Solutions for the relinking problem seen with Oracle 9.0.1 on Red Hat 7.1. Option 1: (remove -z defs from genclntsh file) (Workaround) 1. When you

Re: Advanced Server - Oracle 9i install issues

2002-08-29 Thread Robert Monical
Sorry about the last. Looks like this is a not a certified configuration Here is what Orale sez about 7.1 I have not tried this install yet APPENDIX A - Solutions for the relinking problem seen with Oracle 9.0.1 on Red Hat 7.1. Option 1: (remove -z defs from genclntsh file)

RH 7.2 Cannot reconfigure eth0

2002-04-06 Thread Robert Monical
these problems, I installed initscripts-6.43-1.i386.rpm. But maybe it was too late. Is IP interface management simply broken in this release of Red Hat? Are there more bugfixes I need? Is there such a thing as a consolidated patch download? Robert Monical Reservation Technologies, Inc

RH 7.2 Cannot reconfigure eth0

2002-04-06 Thread Robert Monical
to be well. After these problems, I installed initscripts-6.43-1.i386.rpm. But maybe it was too late. Is IP interface management simply broken in this release of Red Hat? Are there more bugfixes I need? Is there such a thing as a consolidated patch download? Robert Monical Reservation Technologies

arping and the Cisco Pix. was: RH 7.2 Cannot reconfigure eth0

2002-04-06 Thread Robert Monical
address on the local NIC. Once the local IP address is set, arping does not respond at all to that address. Now I know that arping does not need a local IP address and if it has a local IP address, works across subnetworks. So I guess it ignores it. That's pretty kool (I think). Robert Monical