RedHat 7.2 server freezes...

2002-09-23 Thread Tinu Patel
Hello Everyone I have a RedHat 7.2 (2.4.7-10 kernel) server that has constantly been freezing. The machine will be on, but its as good as its turned off. When I go to the console, there is no video signal, and all I can do at that point is a cold reboot. I have replaced the NIC,

RE: Raid install Failure

2002-09-18 Thread Tinu Patel
a champ now -Original Message- From: Tinu Patel Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 9:50 AM To: Redhat-List (E-mail) Subject: Raid install Failure Hello all, I just finished installing a RH 7.2 server on a machine with 5 ide drives. /dev/hda - OS install /dev/hde - Raid Disk 0 /dev

Raid install Failure

2002-09-17 Thread Tinu Patel
Hello all, I just finished installing a RH 7.2 server on a machine with 5 ide drives. /dev/hda - OS install /dev/hde - Raid Disk 0 /dev/hdg - Raid Disk 1 /dev/hdi - Raid Disk 2 /dev/hdk - Spare-Disk 1 The 4 drives for RAID are on a Promise ATA100 controller. I made a RAID 5 partition

RE: exporting dirs

2002-09-17 Thread Tinu Patel
I believe you want to use NFS (Network File System) for this. Its fairly simple to setup and offers the functionality you want. There are plenty of how tos online if you search on google. -Original Message- From: shyam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002

Software to create images

2002-08-01 Thread Tinu Patel
Hi everyone, I was wondering if there is another software (other than Norton Ghost and Partition Image) that I can use to create images of my RedHat servers. I have been having problems with Partition Image since it doesn't recognize the logical raid partition. I have tried all sorts of

Superrescue ISO image does not boot??

2002-07-31 Thread Tinu Patel
Hi everyone, I downloaded a copy of superrescue-2.1.0.iso.gz from their website. I did a gzip -d superrescue-2.1.0.iso.gz so that I could convert it to a regular ISO image file. It got decompressed to superrescue-2.1.0.iso which I burned on a CD. Now when I used it to boot, it didn't

Using rdev to create custom boot disk

2002-07-30 Thread Tinu Patel
Hi All, I have a RH 72 server for which I would like to create a custom bootdisk using rdev. The following are the steps I performed: rdev bzImage /dev/fd0 rdev bzImage 49152 rdev -R bzImage 0 dd if=/boot/bzImage of=/dev/fd0 I need this bootdisk for using Parition Image for Linux, the

httpsdctl start take too long to start

2001-12-19 Thread Tinu Patel
Hi all. I have successfully installed apache with ssl.  My problem is that when I try to start the server with the following command: /../apache/bin/httpsdctl start it takes a long time for it to start.  At times it starts after about 3mins (is there a reason why it takes so

DNS server security

2001-12-03 Thread Tinu Patel
I have a RH 7.1 box which is my DNS server.  I would like to secure it so that only 2 ports are open SSH and DOMAIN.  I would also like to be able to send outbound mail only (not receive).  This is all the services that I need on that box.  What is the best way to approach this?  I am

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2001-11-28 Thread Tinu Patel
Hello all. I have a RH 7.1 DNS server.  The server is working fine and resolving names without any problems from external requests.  I am also using IP chains to shut all ports except 22 and 53.  My problem is that when I try to do a nslookup from that box, it gives me the following

nslookup fails on RH 7.1

2001-11-28 Thread Tinu Patel
Hello all. I have a RH 7.1 DNS server.  The server is working fine and resolving names without any problems from external requests.  I am also using IP chains to shut all ports except 22 and 53.  My problem is that when I try to do a nslookup from that box, it gives me the following