RE: up2date

2003-09-04 Thread Francis Lau
, but did not get downloaded. For example, the newest package for openssl is openssl-0.9.7a-5.i686, yet my machine is only running openssl-0.9.7a-2. Can anyone tell me whether the up2date only updates new releases of a software or new versions of a software, or both? Thanks, Francis -- redhat

RE: up2date

2003-09-04 Thread Francis Lau
overlooked the -u option, as it gave me the impression of instructing up2date to download everything, even programs that I don't have. Many thanks, Francis -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: ssh2 keygen??

2003-03-25 Thread James Francis
entering anything. Put these keys into your authorized_keys files on the remote machine and you will be good to go. JMF James Francis TechRx Inc. 530 Lindbergh Dr. Coraopolis, Pa. 15108 Phone: (412) 474-1078 Fax: (412) 474-1074 This E-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s

RE: LVM or not

2003-03-25 Thread James Francis
Jon Haugsand wrote: * Ian Dobson what is the benefit of LVM on say an 80 GB drive rather than just giving 78GB to / ? 1. Whenever you buy a new disk so you have 160 GB, you can easily increase any file system. 2. Whenever you want to reinstall, you can scratch / and /usr, while you

RE: Making Partitions Bigger?

2003-03-19 Thread James Francis
appropriately for the size of the filesystem. FYI, LVM also makes it easy to move partitions from 1 disk to another. man pvmove. JMF James Francis TechRx Inc. 530 Lindbergh Dr. Coraopolis, Pa. 15108 Phone: (412) 474-1078 Fax: (412) 474-1074 This E-mail message is for the sole use of the intended

RE: Making Partitions Bigger?

2003-03-19 Thread James Francis
the filesystem. Just make sure you are in single user mode. JMF James Francis TechRx Inc. 530 Lindbergh Dr. Coraopolis, Pa. 15108 Phone: (412) 474-1078 Fax: (412) 474-1074 This E-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any

RE: Making Partitions Bigger?

2003-03-19 Thread James Francis
James Francis wrote: Cannon, Andrew wrote: Does that apply to LVM partitions too? For LVM, use e2fsadm. Do a man on e2fsadm. It will work flawlessly. If you are using ext3 partitions, I would change them to ext2 first. 1. Umount the partition. 2. Remove the journal, tune2fs -O

RE: default groud

2003-03-19 Thread James Francis
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RE: files that are foobar'd

2003-03-19 Thread James Francis
down the road. You might also have to shutdown the service that is accessing them, fuser filename should tell you this. If you are confident that they should not be there, you can always do an unlink filename if removing doesn't work. JMF James Francis TechRx Inc. 530 Lindbergh Dr. Coraopolis, Pa

rndc connection refused - named, bind

2003-03-19 Thread Rob Francis
I have successfully installed a master DNS server on Red Hat Linux 8. When I test it with the host command it works just fine. When I try to setup DNS on another box (also Red Hat Linux 8) but run it as a slave, I continually get rndc: connect: connection refused I am using the Red Hat BIND

RE: Making Partitions Bigger?

2003-03-18 Thread James Francis
James Francis TechRx Inc. 530 Lindbergh Dr. Coraopolis, Pa. 15108 Phone: (412) 474-1078 Fax: (412) 474-1074 This E-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution

Starting and stopping bind

2003-03-18 Thread Rob Francis
Hi, I am a long time Windows systems administrator and developer who is moving to Linux - so treat me as a newbie. :) I cannot restart or stop bind on either of my two DNS boxes both running RHL 8. I have tried command line and the Services Manager GUI. Both fail. Other services such as

RE: Starting and stopping bind

2003-03-18 Thread Rob Francis
` will give a nifty UI for this stuff. If all else fails you can kill any process with `kill [process id]`, the Process ID can be found with `ps -e`. Or you can try my favourite kill `pidof named` (no quotes!). /B - Original Message - From: Rob Francis To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday

RE: program to monitor directory changes (new files) and send e-mail

2003-03-13 Thread James Francis
Douglas, Stuart wrote: OK, tried all this out and am running into a problem. If I use your script as written, the exact phrase 'ls --full-time $watchdir | md5sum' is the only thing that gets written into the sumfile. I've tried a few things to change the syntax (switch the option and the

RE: FSTAB - am I missing something? 1st crack at it...

2003-03-12 Thread James Francis
directory, if not, do a mkdir /data. In your example before, you mounted it to /mnt/data. JMF James Francis TechRx Inc. 530 Lindbergh Dr. Coraopolis, Pa. 15108 Phone: (412) 474-1078 Fax: (412) 474-1074 This E-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain

RE: Do up2date files remain on updated system?

2003-02-12 Thread James Francis
will be in /var/spool/up2date, if not they won't be there, but you can change this behavior for the next go 'round. Just run up2date -configure and make sure After installation, keep binary images on disk is checked. JMF James Francis TechRx Inc. 530 Lindbergh Dr. Coraopolis, Pa. 15108 Phone: (412) 474

RE: Scripting help

2003-02-12 Thread James Francis
help would be greatly appreciated Regards / Met vriendelijk groet, Arden My favorite of all time is the The KornShell by David Korn. The Korn shell is on all Unix systems, and the concepts and coding work equally well under GNU's bash. JMF James Francis TechRx Inc. 530 Lindbergh Dr. Coraopolis

RE: Grub on RH8.0 (help)

2003-01-14 Thread James Francis
, but I am always hesitant to install grub or lilo into my MBR, as Windows always likes to overwrite the MBR. see http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub-0.92/html_mono/grub.html for more info. James Francis TechRx Inc. 530 Lindbergh Dr. Coraopolis, Pa. 15108 Phone: (412) 474-1078 Fax: (412) 474-1074

RE: Grub installation

2003-01-10 Thread James Francis
to. see http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub-0.92/html_mono/grub.html for more info. JMF James Francis TechRx Inc. 530 Lindbergh Dr. Coraopolis, Pa. 15108 Phone: (412) 474-1078 Fax: (412) 474-1074 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https

RE: Boot Loader in RH8.0

2003-01-10 Thread James Francis
and it is referencing old kernel information. Did you have lilo installed at one time? JMF James Francis TechRx Inc. 530 Lindbergh Dr. Coraopolis, Pa. 15108 Phone: (412) 474-1078 Fax: (412) 474-1074 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https

RE: Gateway reg.

2003-01-09 Thread James Francis
/init.d/iptables stop or /etc/init.d/ipchains stop. JMF James Francis TechRx Inc. 530 Lindbergh Dr. Coraopolis, Pa. 15108 Phone: (412) 474-1078 Fax: (412) 474-1074 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

RE: Adding menu items in Bluecurve

2003-01-02 Thread James Francis
-Original Message- From: Bob Hartung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 2:21 PM To: redhat list Subject: Adding menu items in Bluecurve Hi all, Installed RH 8 with all updates etc. I am following the instructions to add an application to the

RE: Only static IPs works, DHCP hangs ..... It works now.

2002-12-13 Thread James Francis
-Original Message- From: Michael Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 7:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Only static IPs works, DHCP hangs . It works now. Thank you to all who sent responses. The culprit, besides my ignorance, was

RE: Samba vs. WIndows XP

2002-12-13 Thread James Francis
-Original Message- From: Linux Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 8:35 PM To: Redhat List Subject: Samba vs. WIndows XP I am trying to access a Samba share from a Windows XP PC. The share is configured with SHARE security mode. Guest access is

RE: Only static IPs works, DHCP hangs .....

2002-12-12 Thread James Francis
-Original Message- From: Michael Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 12:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Only static IPs works, DHCP hangs . I am trying to use DHCP because my ISP requires it. I thought setting up DHCP was easy!

RE: Problem with man pages

2002-12-12 Thread James Francis
-Original Message- From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem with man pages On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Michael Tyrrell wrote: I am running Red Hat 8.0 If I try to read the man pages I get

RE: Decent Word / Excel Conversion: Not yet?

2002-12-12 Thread James Francis
Raj, Well-worded. Like it or not, and trust me I hate it, Microsoft Word is a standard. For what it is worth, I receive .lwp documents from IBM all the time. I can't open them up in OpenOffice and I can't open them up in Microsoft Word. After research, I realized that lwp is for Lotus Word Pro.

RE: minor bash script issue

2002-12-11 Thread James Francis
-Original Message- From: dbrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:29 PM To: Robert P. J. Day Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: minor bash script issue I though your correction would work, but the output still gives me the error message. I would

RE: Samba - SWAT

2002-12-11 Thread James Francis
-Original Message- From: Periyasamy, Raj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:32 PM To: Redhat List Subject: Samba - SWAT Hello list, In order to use Samba - SWAT, do I need to have Apache installed ? I installed Samba , Samba-client and Samba-common. When I

RE: Samba - SWAT

2002-12-11 Thread James Francis
-Original Message- From: Periyasamy, Raj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 3:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Samba - SWAT James, Does swat files /usr/sbin/swat get installed automatically along with Samba or do I have install it manually ?

RE: Samba - SWAT

2002-12-11 Thread James Francis
-Original Message- From: Periyasamy, Raj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 4:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Samba - SWAT Thanks Jim, Does samba-swat depend on samba-common files. If so, If I run the samba-swat from the RH8 distribution CDs,

RE: How do I add MySQL to existing RH 7.3 server?

2002-12-03 Thread James Francis
do I have to do to add this to my existing installation? On Redhat 8.0, I believe it is on the 3rd cd of the set. You could also download the rpms from www.mysql.com, put them in a directory, and to a rpm -Uvh on the packages. JMF James Francis TechRx Inc. 530 Lindbergh Dr. Coraopolis, Pa. 15108

RE: Tripwire Report via Mail

2002-12-02 Thread James Francis
-Original Message- From: Allen Wayne Best [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 1:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tripwire Report via Mail hi all: i am having a most curious problem with tripwire on one of my servers. it will not mail the report

Re: cvs behind a firewall

2002-10-31 Thread Will Francis
export CVS_RSH=ssh -p your port or maybe in your shell rc file: alias ssh 'ssh -p your port' Don't have the time to test those but it might work. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe

automouter showing multiple mounts

2002-10-15 Thread Will Francis
Under RH7.1 with autofs 3.1.7, I'm seeing a lot stuff like this with the mount or df command: deimos.incyte.com:/vol/fndremote on /var/opt/fnd/remote type nfs (rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,intr,tcp,lock,addr=10.98.18.216) deimos.incyte.com:/vol/fndremote on /var/opt/fnd/remote type nfs

Re: up2date

2002-09-18 Thread Will Francis
Hi, I'm trying to use the up2date service but keep getting Free service limited due to high load, please try again later (server 1001266289. Is this server ever not busy? Any suggested time to try this? How effective is this service..I've never used it before... Take a look at

Re: mount RH 6.1

2002-09-12 Thread Will Francis
I've used the command mount /mnt/floppy and mount /dev/fd0 but these spew out that extra command s are needed and the msdos format on the floppy is not recognised You can always (as root) mount it manually: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy or even more specifically mount /dev/fd0u1440

Re: Help a newbie!

2002-08-19 Thread Will Francis
I have a RH 7.3 installed and I want to show at the shel the full = Machine hostname ( [[EMAIL PROTECTED] root] ) but it shows only = [root@Machine root] . Is there a related how to for that ??? Or how can = I do that??? See the man page for your shell and look in particular how to

Re: spying on my users

2002-07-22 Thread Will Francis
as root, is there a way to see what commands my users are typing into their consoles? ideally, i'd like to see exactly what they see on their screen. One way is to have your users run screen(1). See the -x option As a side note, see the detach/attach and multiple window functionality of

Re: Java plugin not installing in mozilla 1.0

2002-07-16 Thread Will Francis
Hi all, I have been very happy with mozilla 1.0 since downloading it and installing it. Following the instructions on sun's site, I was not able to intall the java plugin. Has anyone found a way to? (I had been using netscape 6.2 before mozilla. I never removed it. Would that make a

Re: TYAN S2720 Dual P4 Xeon with Redhat 7.3

2002-07-09 Thread Will Francis
Hi all, I'm having a bit of difficulty getting new newest server set up and was wondering if this issues has arisen before. I have the Tyan S2720 Dual P4 Xeon board with 2x2.0GHz P4 Xeons, 4GB DDR2100 Memory and a Promise SX6000 IDE Raid controller. I am unable to get the system to

Re: Partition Size ???

2002-07-01 Thread Will Francis
Ok, so what size should partitions actually be ?? Whatever size the application calls for. I always create partitions with the usage in mind. I am running a server and my /var always seems to be too small. Log files fill it up, spool files fill it up etc etc. 300Mb free seems too little

RE: [OT] telnet client for NT to a UNix with csh

2002-06-11 Thread James Francis
-Original Message- From: Dominic Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 11:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OT] telnet client for NT to a UNix with csh Hi, What is a good telnet client for NT. I like CRT available from www.vandyke.com. They

RE: Hard drive boot problem

2002-06-07 Thread James Francis
-Original Message- From: Chris Mason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 8:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Hard drive boot problem Yes, I could always boot from the floppy. I found the solution, scary as it was. I put the drives on the

Re: What is the command to view all 65536 ports?

2002-04-29 Thread Will Francis
What is the command to view all 65536 ports by name? The best you will do on your local computer is cat /etc/services which will show you a subset of the official ones as defined by IANA. http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers If, you mean by view see what's running on your computer,

Re: Can I delete some files form /usr

2002-04-10 Thread Will Francis
I need some 20 M space because my boss need to put some files there imediately. I know it very risk to delete files from there. Here is the result by using df -s /usr/* I think a better solution (that I've used many times) is to find a partition that has space left on it and put all your

Re: DHCP host name doesn't change on boot

2002-04-08 Thread Will Francis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Will Francis wrote: How can I make it such that when a machine reboots and gets a new DHCP address that the hostname will reflect that change? It's been bothering me for years, but now it's become a major problem. That's an easy one

Re: Intel eepro100 collisions

2002-04-08 Thread Will Francis
Hello, I'm trying to find out how I can set my Compaq DL320 running Red Hat 7.1 to connect, without collisions to the network switch. Apparently, I am experiencing a speed issue because of all of these collisions. Can anyone point me to an FAQ or anything of that ilk that might help me

DHCP host name doesn't change on boot

2002-04-05 Thread Will Francis
How can I make it such that when a machine reboots and gets a new DHCP address that the hostname will reflect that change? It's been bothering me for years, but now it's become a major problem. Thanks. Will ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL

Re: DHCP host name doesn't change on boot

2002-04-05 Thread Will Francis
Not quite sure I understand your question. In theory the hostname you assign to the machine need not bear any relation to what's in the DNS for you ... especially since a machine with 2 NICs or multiple IP addresses on one interface has multiple network names anyway. I install machines

RE: Networking: The Saga, The Sequel

2001-11-20 Thread James Francis
-Original Message- From: Ben Ocean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 3:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Networking: The Saga, The Sequel Hello yet again; Hello... OUTLINING THE PROBLEM I am currently able to ping from the Doze box to the RH

RE: Networking: The Saga, The Sequel

2001-11-20 Thread James Francis
Ben, CONFIGURING MASQUERADING vi /etc/rc.d/rc.masq /sbin/depmod -a /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.2/24 -j MASQ ## I do have other IPchains installed... Forgot to mention...make sure you have a rule like the following:

Keyboard Problems when setting DISPLAY env variable

2001-11-12 Thread James Francis
Hello, Under Redhat 7.1, I open an xterm and do an xhost + to allow remote X displays. Now, I login to an IBM RS6000 box running AIX 4.3. When I run an xterm, the xterm opens on the Redhat box like it is supposed to, but I cannot type inside the window. Any clues? Thanks, JMF James Francis

RE: Keyboard Problems when setting DISPLAY env variable

2001-11-12 Thread James Francis
Under Redhat 7.1, I open an xterm and do an xhost + to allow remote X displays. Now, I login to an IBM RS6000 box running AIX 4.3. When I run an xterm, the xterm opens on the Redhat box like it is supposed to, but I cannot type inside the window. Nevermind, I figured it out... There is a

mkbootdisk: Does it work?

2000-01-24 Thread Chachi S. Francis
I mkbootdisk well for RH-Linux 6.0 kernel 2.2.5-15. When I boot with it, I get a message at a later stage: Warning: Unable to open an initial console. Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. Let ideas flow here now... Francis. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL

nameserver registration

2000-01-22 Thread Chachi S. Francis
What do I need to do in order to register my domain as a recognised nameserver? Francis. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.