serial port quickie

-icanon -iexten -echo -echoe -echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt -echoctl -echoke -- Steve Borho Principal Engineer Ageia Technologies, Inc. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: [OT] Business Week Article Shows Linux Gains

which didn't change is the [OT] tag. :-)) I'm glad to be back. I took a three year break myself (startups, you gotta love em), and have been back lurking for a short while. Welcome back. -- Steve Borho Principal Engineer Ageia Technologies, Inc. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: one question about gzip

On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 20:46, Jianping Zhu wrote: I have a file foo, I to gzip it. by using gzip foo It will get a file called foo.gz but i want a compress file named bar.gz Is there a way to do that? The simplest syntax is: gzip foo bar.gz -- Steve Borho Principle Engineer

Re: /ect/rc.d/rc.local ?

sourced by any login shells. You would be better served putting those two lines in a new file in /etc/profile.d /etc/profile.d/java.sh would be an appropriate name for it -- Steve Borho -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https

Re: Change Email

of the e-mail addresses can do these things. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Steve Borho -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https

Re: man format problem since RH8 install

. -- Steve Borho Voice: 508-305-7223 Member of Technical Staff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https

Re: 8.0 man command seems broken again

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 11:38:20AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 10:16, Steve Borho wrote: Is everyone else having problems displaying man pages in RH8.0? No. What terminal are you using? If it's xterm, you can get better results with: xterm -fa mono -fs 14

Re: bash scripting question

in a variable as an integer. i tried the following: let x=`./configure --prefix=$1` but it doesn't work. any tips? Here's a very nice book/tutorial on bash scripting: Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide-1.6.tar.bz2 -- Steve Borho

8.0 man command seems broken again

Is everyone else having problems displaying man pages in RH8.0? For instance, if I run 'man xset', I get this garbage: NAME xset E28090 user preference utility for X -- Steve Borho Voice: 508-305-7223 Member of Technical Staff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: hacked?

. This is so it can L3 forward all IP packets that come from your box and not have to deal with L2 bridging or broadcast forwarding. Another name for this scheme is 'half-bridging'. Cheers. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inc

Re: Samba

/smbpasswd (or someplace else, if you have no /etc/samba directory) Than as root, you need to give each windows user a password. smbpasswd -a windows_user1 smbpasswd -a windows_user2 ... etc ... Hope that helps -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff

Re: Diagnosing an elusive fault on a critical system [long]

informative answers from the kernel mailing list. They'll have a better idea for where the problem really originated. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt -- redhat-list mailing

Re: Package dependancies

came so early. The new GCC would imply that this is going to be a new major release, since they don't change tool-sets like that in a minor release. That's probably why the beta was released early. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks

re: red hat 8 - maybe a stupid question?

resides. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Pilot Project/Feasibility Study (This is a Big'un)

to the file or maybe make them symlinks to versions which reside on NFS. Hope that is what you were wanting to hear. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt signature.asc Description

Re: xfs problems

On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 09:49:53AM -0800, Jack Bowling wrote: Yep, happens here too. "rm -rf ./netscape/cache *" is a frequent incantation on my box. I hope that's a typo :^) -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Ne

[OT] Any cable modem experts out there?

the answer. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Dropping Route

thing. I have applied the new bind and apache and also most of the preferred 6.2 errata. What else should I check? make sure you don't have routed or gated running. Use static routing for your internal machines. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff

Re: routing / ipchains / security question?

to the external IP address, they're sending those packets to the firewall for forwarding to the internet, and the firewall isn't handling them correctly. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925

Re: pump vs dhcpcd

. This should be filed as a bug in bugzilla if it isn't there already. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt ___ Redhat-list mailing list

Re: RH 6.2 and Ultra 66 problem

2.2.17-1.i386.rpm Description: The kernel-utils package contains ksymoops, a utility that can be used for decrypting the kernel's OOPS output. So, in your case, you probably only want the kernel and header files and maybe kernel-utils and kernel-doc if you feel the need. -- Steve Borho

Re: GCC 2.95.2 on RH 7

as you want to build for it. Any other way is going to make a mess. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt ___ Redhat-list mailing list

Re: FHS directory question

partition, but otherwise they should probably go on the same filesystem as /home so the data gets included in whatever backup scheme you use. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt

Re: Can't ping. Can ping?

start working all of a sudden. Bizarre. The only thing I can recommend is to verify that both machines are using the same netmask. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt

Re: Can't ping. Can ping?

1 ms for time on each ping. I made a copy and is listed below. Also see at the end how there is a 25% loss. What the heck is going on? Are you seeing any framing errors or TX restarts? -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inc

Re: mulitple disk setup and lilo

, you'll never have any problems with lilo. (and even that may not be an issue, it depends on your BIOS). Remember, all LILO has to do is find your kernel and boot it. Where everything else is located is the job of the kernel to find out about, and it's much more capable than LILO. -- Steve Borho

C++/STL compilation under 7.0

.dummy What's the proper way to make the compiler pick one or the other? -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt ___ Redhat-list mailing

Re: C++/STL compilation under 7.0

On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 08:57:44PM +0200, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Steve Borho wrote: Has anyone tried to compile a C++ program which uses the stdc++ libs with 7.0? Sure - no problems at all here. Initially the compile complains it can't find header files

Re: [OT - beers] (was: Re: name of current release)

to drinking anything less heavenly. Bad enough that I have to order the stuff from out of state as it is. Hmmm. Have to go looking for that some time. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925

Re: RH70: traceroute.rpm Bug ?

, it works! It seems that there is a bug in the aliases.patch. You should file this with http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt

Re: Matrox G400 dual-head XFree86 (was Re: XFree86 -4.01a)

-mail me privately, I can bounce you the XF86Config which they're using. BTW: I don't think it's 100% stable yet. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt

Re: name of current release

on Sir Alec Guinness... but it could just as easily be Smiley as anything based on the Star Wars stuff True... he left quite a legacy. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt

Re: issues

ting Alice :-) You're showing your age, Bret :^) I wonder how many people got that one. With circles 'n arrows 'n a paragraph on the back of each one to be used as evidence against us... 8^) We're all a bunch of Group W's for letting this thread go on for so long. -- Steve Borho

Re: RH70: traceroute.rpm Bug ?

it fail? -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: 7.0

On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:21:52AM -0400, Charles Galpin wrote: no, at a minimum you will need disk1 and disk2. A bit annoying too since you can't leave it unattended anymore. I did a basic workstation install (picked no options) and it worked with just the first CD. -- Steve Borho

Re: issues

On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 04:34:59PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: "Michael R. Jinks" wrote: cue arlo guthrie tune You can get anything you want at rpmfind.net. Excepting Alice :-) You're showing your age, Bret :^) I wonder how many people got that one. -- S

Re: name of current release

estionable name to attach a distribution to) -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Questions about 2nd NIC

e using two networks on one wire? netcfg is definately confused. The xx.yy.zz.0 route is necessary because you've defined a host route to xx.yy.zz.4 over eth0. route del -net 38.248.19.0 gw router -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staf

Re: Service Control

for all such services AFIK: service inet restart this was added in 6.1 (I think) but was broken badly, then it was fixed in 6.2. I just wish I had time to write a zsh completion script so that it completes filenames in /etc/rc.d/init.d when I type 'service TAB' -- Steve Borho

Re: Network Speed

of the ethernet framer and even lets you tweak some settings. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL

Re: vi question

d the real vi on the machine you're telnetting into (or the vim on the other machine is emulating vi more closely). The real vi doesn't allow cursor keys. You're supposed to use h,j,k,l -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Ne

Fixing vi mode in bash

the unset INPUTRC command. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.

Re: disks, cables, file corruption..

by a bunch of these INIT: ld "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: ld "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes ... I'd make sure libc and the dynamic linker are still ok -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Tech

Re: disks, cables, file corruption..

another thing to try is to boot withlinux init=/bin/sh this will drop you immediately to a shell (if it can spawn one). You'll have to remount / rw if you want to fix anything though. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inc

Re: disks, cables, file corruption..

for the obvious plug. If you're annoyed, hit 'd'. I won't make a habit of it. PS2: If you do reply, _please_ take it offline to my [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] address. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inc

Re: echo command

On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:55:17AM -0700, Stephen King wrote: What is the echo command that returns a 0 if the previous command ran correctly? echo $? But I find it more useful to use other constructs... program_foo echo "It ran fine" -- Steve Borho Voice

Re: Creating unprivledged users, just as nobody

listar -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Who broke GCC compiling ...

programs might find useful is actually handled by the C library header files (at least this is true for glibc). The header files bundled in glibc-devel provide 'wrappers' for the data defined in the kernel headers so that they never need to be included directly. -- Steve Borho

Re: IPCHAINS - Did I do this right?

, or should it be a 16? you want 16 (the number of 1 bits in the netmask) -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt ___ Redhat-list mailing

Re: refined du on /home

a list of just those home directories over size X, then pipe du through awk instead of sort. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt

Re: memory problem?

On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 11:22:46PM -0400, Charles Galpin wrote: anyone? Sep 7 19:52:04 server kernel: Unable to load interpreter Sep 7 19:52:04 server last message repeated 4 times this message usually indicates running out of virtual memory. -- Steve Borho

Re: Echo colored text to console

m not sure where to find them directly, but the ncurses man page and the cur_color man page describe how to make a program write in color. Browsing through /etc/termcap and looking at it's manpage might be useful as well (even though everything uses terminfo these days) -- S

Re: Urgent: Masquerading

, depending on how your modem is configured, but that is unlikely. You're worst problem is going to be the waste of network bandwith and the complexities of running two subnets on one cable. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inc

Re: SSH Machine permissions...

, so host.allo/deny doesn't have anything to do with it... What else is there? Hmm... I'm not sure about my firewall, I'll have to check that... ssh _can_ and usually _is_ compiled with tcp wrappers support. So it does respect what's in hosts.allow|deny. -- Steve Borho

Re: ps detects context?

to query the current window size of the controlling tty so that it doesn't put more than one line per process on the screen. When that check fails (the controlling tty is a file), it defaults to 80 chars. man isatty -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff

Re: simple way to list full path of files

' output into which but the files aren't executables nor in my path (nor does which apparently accept multip[le lines of input). find does this really well. find /full/path/to/dir -print -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inc

Re: ipx routing

with IPX and some frame types and windows. Make sure the Windows boxes aren't trying to use Netbeui. 2) A network sniffer would be a good place to start. I would recommend ethereal. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inc

Re: FTP Transfer of a RH ISO Image just STOPS???

atterns within the data stream being the "problem"? The connection is ADSL (Flashcom), anyone know where data compression might be occuring??? add asyncmap to /etc/ppp/options -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Net

Re: Graphical diff

deleted and orange lines that have been altered, etc. Does anyone know of a program like this for linux? there are many graphical diff programs, but if you want one which is configured for cvs (shows differences between revisions) look at cvsweb. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439

Re: Traceroute woes!

a PIX firewall is. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman

Re: leaving xterm open

the results of the command and any error messages. try this: ps aux | grep emacs | gless -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8342 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt

Re: missing something again???

or use --force to do the upgrade. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-314-439-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: system logging

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 02:13:48PM -0700, Andy Schuler wrote: Where are connection attempts logged in RH? I know FreeBSD sends them directly to console /var/log/secure -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-314-439-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inc

Re: Bug reporting software

ope or PHP. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-314-439-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailma

Re: Text editor that prints color

ditor will do this, or is there a filter I can pipe the source file through to get a postscript file? try a2ps. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-314-439-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt

Re: Backspace key

On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 11:49:15PM -0500, Vidiot wrote: Steve Borho posted: I've run into the same mess. It's only broken on xterm and vi. Try this: pc% stty erase  # ctrl-v backspace And add this to .Xdefaults VT100*backarrowKey: true As mentioned, changing it to "

Re: [OT] Netscape address book crashes the whole app

to improve the quality of their software. ("light a fire under the engineers" so to speak) ;^)-(notice the wink) -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-314-439-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networks Inchttp://www.ietf

Re: IBM ServeRAID + Linux

this has changed, has it? It used to be that you couldn't have a software RAID root partition. Now the only criteria is you can't have a S-RAID boot partition. I don't think there are any limitations with hardware RAID. But, like everything, YMMV (your mileage may vary). -- Steve Borho

Re: CVS Question

(export CVS_RSH=ssh). Make backups. That's about it. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networking Inc Fortune of the day: I love dogs, but I hate Chihuahuas. A Chihuahua isn't a dog. It's a rat with a thyroid problem

Re: Backspace key

this to .Xdefaults VT100*backarrowKey: true -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networking Inc Fortune of the day: I love dogs, but I hate Chihuahuas. A Chihuahua isn't a dog. It's a rat with a thyroid problem

Re: Questions about mounting filesystem, groups and permissions

g --level 345 ypbind on Then tell the initscripts about your domain name echo "NISDOMAIN=YOUR_NIS_DOMAIN_NAME" /etc/sysconfig/network BTW: Your NIS domain name is completely different, semantically, from your DNS domain, but sometimes they are set to the same string. -- Steve Borho

Re: Names

hedquarters, someone is snickering their heads off) Hedwig: Owl in Harry Potter books. Hedwig and The Angry Inch off broadway show. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networking Inc Fortune of the day: You have an unusual

Re: rpm cannot install

ake sure they were not already installed. Try rpm -qa|grep perl. My guess is they're already installed. Remember, when you do an rpm -q you only need the package name, not the entire rpm filename. They're two different things. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8300 ext:3042 M

Re: Gnome and Multihead

manager aware of multiple X servers (except you can cheat a bit with x2x). Usually in multihead situations the one X server controls both heads. Don't ask me how keyboard focus, etc works. :^) -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox

Re: Editor used to read How-To

. If you printed the file to any printer you would see what you expected. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-439-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networking Inc Fortune of the day: Be cautious in your daily affairs

Re: Most stable window manager?

KDE. Any other suggestions? xfce is also good, so is Window Maker. I think icewm is similar to blackbox. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-429-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networking Inc Fortune of the day: Women aren't as mere as they used

Re: Sendmail

on the Hp 10.20 but not Linux. Does any one know why? I think you need to setup envelope masquerading as well. This is out of my expertise, though. Try Chuck Mead's site http://moongroup.com/mailhelp.phtml -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-429-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical S

Re: Routing causes _slow_ ftp

the IP link is brought up and down. From those you can try and massage the routing table. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-429-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networking Inc Fortune of the day: Women aren't as mere as they used to be. -- Pogo

Re: how to schedule ftp-transfer?

.weekly/getfile chmod +x /etc/cron.weekly/getfile -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-429-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networking Inc Fortune of the day: In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Re: [RHL] Ethernet woes

this be a driver problem, or can I consider the card as dead? If the link light doesn't go on, that usually means the card is useless/dead. for info on the linux driver for it, go to: http://www.scyld.com/network/3c509.html The driver should already be installed. just modprobe 3c509 -- Steve Borho

Re: owner option for mount command

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 06:25:28PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Steve Borho wrote: Red Hat by default has 6 virtual terminals... reachable through ctrlalt-F1-6. X is usually spawned on a seventh console. Oh. Now I see what you mean... :) I was trying

Re: owner option for mount command

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 09:53:33AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Steve Borho wrote: Nah, where people run into problems is when they're in X and decide they need a root shell so they drop to VT2 and log in as root. When they do that they loose ownership

Re: libgd vs gd

/gd-1.3/index.html /usr/doc/gd-1.3/readme.txt /usr/lib/libgd.so.1.2 They seem to be equivalent -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-429-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networking Inc Fortune of the day: I would gladly raise my voice in praise of women, only they won't let

Re: [RHL] Auto loading at boot

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 04:46:15PM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: Are scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ automatically executed at boot? not necessarily http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/Boot-Process-Tips/Boot-Process-Tips.html -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-429-8300 ext

Re: Samba, Win2000, Election

/smb.conf I changed the line preferred master = Yes to No but it didn't change any thing and that election message comes up every 2 hours. change the os level to something lower than W2K's default value. (10 is usually safe) -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-429-8300 ext:3042 Member

Re: owner option for mount command

ome drives if it is configured to. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-429-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networking Inc Fortune of the day: As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wi

Re: owner option for mount command

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 01:35:36PM -0400, rpjday wrote: On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Steve Borho wrote: mount/unmounting drives requires root access (since you're modifying important filesystem tables). Since /bin/mount is setuid root, it can allow normal users to mount some drives

Re: owner option for mount command

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 01:24:20PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Steve Borho wrote: The only problem with this scheme is that multiple people can log into the console... ie: multiple VT's plus X, and only the last one to log in has ownership rights. Multiple local

Re: kernel upgrade bah!

and also likely to make your box unbootable. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-429-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networking Inc Fortune of the day: If you put your supper dish to your ear you can hear the sounds of a restaurant. -- Snoopy

Re: Install problems!

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 08:30:56AM -0600, Chuck Mead wrote: On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Steve Borho spewed into the bitstream: SB mcopy a:* . SB SB Then type: ls SB SB Voila! It's magic... :-) SB SBTwo stipulations: SB1) mtools is installed Agreed. SB2) You put quotes around the asterisk

Re: Install problems!

On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:36:49AM -0600, Chuck Mead wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Steve Borho spewed into the bitstream: SBDoesn't work here. Strange. Which shell do you use? SB SBix% mcopy a:* . SBzsh: no matches found: a:* SBix% bash ix% bash [steve@ix steve]$ mcopy a:* . Can't open

Re: How do I copy the backup boot sector

to sector zero of the NT parition using Linux? Read the lilo man page. Especially the bit about uninstalling, then run 'lilo -u /dev/hda' (assuming hda is your hard drive) Next read the Linux+NT mini-Howto :^) -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-429-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical

Re: the mechanics of LILO

ly time /etc/lilo.conf is read is when you execute /sbin/lilo. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-429-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networking Inc Fortune of the day: IBM's original motto: Cogito ergo vendo; vendo ergo sum. _

Re: Floppy icon missing!!!!

unt points for removable media. -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-429-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networking Inc Fortune of the day: I'd rather have two girls at 21 each than one girl at 42. -- W.C. Fields

Re: Install problems!

around the asterisk so the shell doesn't attempt to complete it for you (ie: mcopy "a:*" . ) -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-429-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networking Inc Fortune of the day: I'd rather have two girls at 21 each than one

Re: pppd daemon died unexpectedly....

, received 709 bytes. Aug 8 08:54:33 titan pppd[11639]: Exit. Your pppd is not allowing the ISP's RAS server to use the IP address it wants. What options are you using in /etc/ppp/options? -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-429-8300 ext:3042 Member of Technical Staff Celox Networking Inc

Re: upgrading to rpm 4

and upgrading your rpm database that way. I would guess there's no real clean way to do that yourself save by compiling rpm 4.0, using it to update the rpm database, and then forcing the update of the rpm-4.0*.rpm The only way to know for sure would be to RTFM. -- Steve Borho Voice

Re: cpio messages

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 11:04:34AM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: Steve Borho wrote: To quote the archive: The cpio file format uses short ints for inode numbers, while the ext2 uses int (generally 32-bits.) The truncation is a harmless artifact of forcing ints into shorts

Re: cpio messages

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Re: loading scsi module on boot [SOLVED]

:) snip Brother Borho thinks that since the compiled in driver worked without providing any special 'append=' options, that you should just remove that line from conf.modules and try to make another boot disk :^) BTW: How did you know I was in a fraternity in college? :^) -- Steve Borho

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