Re: bind config file in redhat9

2003-10-22 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install the caching-nameserver package. If bind itsellf does not have a conf file, that package has. regards, Willem On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Bilal Dar wrote: Hello, I recently installed redhat9, and there is no bind config file. Do i have to create it myself manually or i have any other

Re: Error during Oracle Installaion

2003-10-22 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, Which version of Oracle are you trying to install? There are different issues with different versions. Do you install from cd or a staging area? Have you followed all the pre-installation steps, eg. creating a dba group etc? An Oracle install under any unix is a pain to say the least, but

Re: Oracle AND 2.4 kernel

2003-10-21 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, You do not need to compile a special kernel for running oracle. The only thing with Oracle 9i is that you have to un-install the openldap packages and let oracle install its own. If you want support from Oracle you would have to buy the Red Hat advanced server. If not, then you can install

Re: rpm questions? solved

2003-10-13 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, The advanced server rpm packages seems to have been currupted files. Thanks for the pointer to the files in /var/lib/rpm for the hanging rpm problem i had. Regards, 'Willem -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

rpm questions?

2003-10-10 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I have two rpm questions. 1. On redhat 9 by forcing installs etc. i got rpm to a state where it hung. With some difficulty i killed it. It now does not even want to do a query. I tried rebuilding the database with rpmdb --rebuilddb. It also seemed to hang, (I left it over night). What

Re: Open TCP UDP Ports

2003-10-09 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HHi, I do not know about all of these, but it look like lpd is running port 515 close by chkconfig lpd off May be you can close 111 by stopping nfs if it is running. chkconfig nfs off hth Willem On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Jack Bowling wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 03:21:13PM -0400, Reuben D.

Re: redhat 9 down, need help

2003-10-09 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, Try checking the root file system. It looks like the grep program got currupted. at the # prompt do fsck / and exit when it is done. try rebooting and send the next error if it does not work. Regards, Willem On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Ray D. Stambaugh wrote: Hi I am running Red hat 9. The

Re: NFS: How to Use?

2003-10-08 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, On the server where the shares are, you need to setup /etc/exports. This is a file which tells the nfs server which areas of the disk must be exported so that they are visible to the other users. After you have made changes to this file, you should restart nfs for the changes to take

RE: malware firewall

2003-10-01 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trend's interscan runs on Linux too. On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Thomas Fortner wrote: Message: 5 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:33:20 -0500 (CDT) Subject: OT: http content scanning proxy From: Distribution Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone know of

Re: Linear RAID? (was: Two partitions as one?)

2003-09-11 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, You can have partitions from the same disk in raid. During the Redhat training we did that when learning raid. regards, Willem On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: Hi Thomas, Hm... The HOWTO isn't clear on whether those partitions can reside on one single disk (which is

Re: problem with telnet on RH 9

2003-09-02 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, As root, do service telnet start. Do setup and select system services. make sure telnet is marked to start up by default. You should now be able to telnet to the box, but you will have to log in as a normal non-root user and su - root to get root access. regards, Willem On Tue, 2 Sep 2003

Re: dd to clone hard drive

2003-09-02 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I have done what you want to do although it was not win 2000. You might get an io error at the end of dd but things should work fine. It should copy the hole thing as is and it should work. Just check xxx records in and xxx records out to make sure they are the same. regards, willem On Tue,

Re: question on burning iso's

2003-09-01 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, from the command line do: cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 --eject --data file.iso That should put the iso image on the disk the way you want. It assumes you are using an ide cdwriter and that you have no scsi devices. It would complain soon enough if this is not the case so you might just try the

Re: IP CHAINS on Red Hat Linux 7.1

2003-08-14 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am not that sure mysellf, but you need to load two modules like this: modprobe ip_nat_ftp modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp and then ftp connections works correctly. Other members on this list is better qualified than me to tell you exactly what these modules do. hth Willem On 7 Aug 2003, Sinon wrote:

Re: network configuration

2003-08-14 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try telnet site.name 80 and see if it connects. If not, and you can ping it, it sounds like a firewall blocking port 80 somewhere between you and the site. regards, Willem On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Andre Kirchner wrote: Hi, I have the DNS servers IP correctly configured, and so I can discover the

Re: IP CHAINS on Red Hat Linux 7.1

2003-08-07 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, ftp use port 20 for the data transfer. It looks like you have not opened that. Port 21 is just for making the ftp connection. I think you also need to call a module ipcontract to allow the ftp connection to be initiated and the data on another port to be seen as part of the same established

RE: problem with realtek 8139

2003-07-30 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, can you ping yourself? I mean can you ping from rh9 the ip address set up on eth0? Is your gateway set? On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah ok I have now trashed my box and installed redhat 9 .. what a suprise it does exactly the same... Can anyone help me out

Re: Shell Scripts for automating Telnet sessions

2003-07-30 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
do man nc or info nc nc is netcat and can be used to do what you want. On 30 Jul 2003, anil garrepally wrote: Hi Everyone, Can anyone tell me how to write a Bash script, that will do telnet login to one machine and do some activity on that logged machine. I was informed that

Re: Inventory Databases

2003-07-29 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, You can look at compieer. It uses Oracle which you would need to purchase, but you can evaluate the thing using an evaluation copy of Oracle for Linux. LIa href=http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/;SourceForge: Project Info - Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution/a LIa

Re: problem with realtek 8139

2003-07-24 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Try using pci=bios in lilo.conf or as kernel parameter on the command line. I have an LG card containing the same chip and it does not put the irq option in modules.conf. Why is it on this irq? hth Willem On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im having a problem trying to get a

Re: Need your help [arguments for open source databases]

2003-07-24 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ZHello, The best argument for using postgresql in place of Oracle is that the latest Oracle has lots and lots of feutures which one normally do not need. It is expencive and is normally only required for large multi-national companies. hth Willem On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, ETI - Barry Irchad Kader

Re: Frontpage extensions (RH9)

2003-06-23 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looking at a later message in this thread, refering to web editors, you can also look at HPbuilder from IBM i think. It has a customized wine package under which it run. It is wysiwyg. It generates valid but inifficient code. regards, Willem On 20 Jun 2003, David Hart wrote: Has anyone

Re: Radius reccomendation RH8 and later?

2003-06-19 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
best choice. On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If any one is using a radius server on RH8 or later, please let me know? -- Res - Network Solutions: clueless f'wits who dont care whos business they damage through their incompetance

Re: WGET information needed.

2003-06-18 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, wget -b http://www.whatever.com/file.xxx will fetch file.xxx from the site and store it in the default directory. The -b makes wget go to the background. It will log the results of the transfer in wget-log in the default directory. Do man wget for the other options. You can do a lot more

Radius reccomendation RH8 and later?

2003-06-18 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I am still trying to log dialup users (Cisco 2610). I googled for radius and found a few servers. I know almost nothing about radius as yet and want to start with a program that is known to work. i found Ic-radus which sounds like what i want. It seems a bit old in Open-source terms and the

Re: ot: logging Cisco dialup user logins using rh syslog/snmp?

2003-05-30 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
detailled suggestion. regards, Willem On Thu, 29 May 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2003, Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My bos wants a weekly list of user accesses to our dialup service, showing at what time who was logged in for how long. We hav a Cisco 2610

ot: logging Cisco dialup user logins using rh syslog/snmp?

2003-05-29 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, My bos wants a weekly list of user accesses to our dialup service, showing at what time who was logged in for how long. We hav a Cisco 2610 router with 16 integrated modems. The phone lines is in a hunting group and linked to a single number that the users dial to get in. Using snmptrapd on rh

Re: RedHat 9.0 - The Practical Side

2003-03-25 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
is there a way to mount a disc image without it being on a disc? ( I dont have a burner.) mount -tiso9660 disk.iso /mnt/cdrom -o loop -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: upgrading your system... my experience

2003-03-25 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, Regarding the message with this subject on redhat-list: You can normally use epox boards with either Intell or AMD processors. The Asus boards can be a problem as they do not always use the same chipset maker. I do not know where you are, but if you are in Gauteng, you can contact me and

RE: sendmail secondary relay gives user unknown after up2date

2003-03-18 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
sendmail that health.gov.za is another name for top.health.gov.za and caused the machine to look for a user on top instead of relaying the message. thanks aggain Willem On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Cowles, Steve wrote: -Original Message- From: Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

sendmail secondary relay gives user unknown after up2date

2003-03-17 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, The machine top.health.gov.za 196.15.225.8 is the secondary relay for our domain, health.gov.za. It worked fine running rh 7.1. I ran up2 date on it to update the sendmail after the 3 March exploit became known. I kept the old files as is in /etc/mail. It now behaves as follows: When mail is

Re: sendmail secondary relay gives user unknown after up2date

2003-03-17 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Thanks sofar. It worked, but now i have an open relay. I had a modified local-host-names file that was modified by the update. It had the comment that it made the entry top.health.gov.za health.gov.za from the obsoleted /etc/sendmail.cw file regards, Willem On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Willem Brown

Re: Help changing video card driver through console

2003-03-03 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you have not sorted this out by now, you should be able to run Xconfigurator from a root console prompt. This is based on rh 7.3 and earlyer. On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Antonio Burzio wrote: I installed linux rh 8.0 and i have a ati radeon 9500, but I choose (since I had no other choice) driver

enableing udma support on rh-7.3?

2003-03-03 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, For the first time, i have a motherboard, Epox, and a 7200 rpm hard drive that both supports udma. I have seen the discussions about hdparm and getting the dvd cdrom to use dma. Should i also load a module for the ide hard disk somewhere? regards, Willem -- Willem van der Walt Information

Re: enableing udma support on rh-7.3?

2003-03-03 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Thanks so far! I have tryed to uncomment Use_dma=1 and rebooted. I then get a message permission denyed in /var/log/messages. Is this because i have not uncommented the other options or do i still have another problem? thanks aggain Willem On 3 Mar 2003, Richie Crews wrote: if you look in

Re: rh 7x install hangs on MS-6368 motherboard solved!

2003-02-14 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi The vidio ram is in fact taken from the main memory, causing the 121M. One can set the amount of ram provided to the video card down to 2 megabyte. If we have gotten hold of a good technition over the phone, we would not have taken the board in for testing. It was fine, but the manual does

Re: rh 7x install hangs on MS-6368 motherboard

2003-02-13 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks, I'll try that if they find the board to be ok. regards, Willem On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Edward Dekkers wrote: Hi, I thought there are too many problems with rh 8.0 and decided to wait for 8.1. We are now taking the board to the distributor for testing. The 121 mb ram is shown as

rh 7x install hangs on MS-6368 motherboard

2003-02-12 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am trying to install rh 7.3 on this board. Also tryed 7.2 both hangs. 7.3 goes fine until it asks for the second cd and then hangs. On 7.2 it does not always hang on the same place. Does any one have this board and had the same problem? What did you do? The ram shows as 121 mb not 128 mb as it

RE: rh 7x install hangs on MS-6368 motherboard

2003-02-12 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
? -Original Message- From: Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 1:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: rh 7x install hangs on MS-6368 motherboard I am trying to install rh 7.3 on this board. Also tryed 7.2 both hangs. 7.3

Re: establishing a gateway

2003-02-11 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Connect your linux box to the internet, setup a firewall on it and you are basicly there. You can setup squid as a web cacheing/proxy server to speed up things. You can do it on a relativly small box. regards, Willem On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Daniel wrote: Does anyone know how to establish an

Re: Text based PDF printing

2003-02-11 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
use: cat file.pdf | pdftops | lp Just check if you can pipe through pdftops. On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Kevin - KD Micro Software wrote: Hello all, I'm looking for a command line text based utility that can print PDF files. I know the cups print system does this, but it would be a lot easier if

Epson Perfection 1260 foto install under 7.3

2003-02-10 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I got this scanner yesterday. I have never worked with any usb devices under linux, I have never worked with sane. I downloaded the iscan rpm from Epson. It installed without problems. When i run scanimage it says: no scanner devices found. Do i need to configure sane? According to the

Re: comparison between redhat6.2 and redhat 7.2

2003-02-09 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, 7.2 uses kernel 2.4 where 6.2 still uses kernel 2.2. There are a lot of differences due to that. A lot more hardware support etc. On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody provide me with relative comparison between features of redhat6.2 and redhat7.2.I shall be highly

Re: cd-rw error and how-to ?

2003-01-22 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Although not on a rewritable, i have seen this. I got almost the exact error when i tried to write a cd at speed 1 when the media could be written at speeds starting at 2. On 20 Jan 2003, shawn wrote: Hello, I am trying to back something up to my cd-rw and keep getting errors. I tried

rh 7.3 gimp incomplete according to gum

2002-11-28 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, My wife is working through the gimp users manual GUM and Grokking the gimp, another book on gimp. The gimp programs are installed from the rh-7.3 cds. The problem is that some of the features discussed in the books are not available in this installed version. I at first thought it is only the

Re: PHP/MySQL/Apache

2002-11-18 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Look for the rpm packages containing mysql in the name and install them. Look for the packages starting with php and install them. Edit /etc/php.ini and /etc/httpd.conf to enable mysql. hth Willem On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Toto Gamez wrote: Hi, I just installed apache server on my test box

Re: ftp connects but very slow to prompt

2002-11-14 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had a simmelar problem with ftp. I solved it by adding a host entry of the ftp client machine into the /etc/hosts file of the machine running the ftp server. You could also look at your resolv.conf files of both machines. If the dns that is specified there is unreachable, one also get

urgent file removal problem

2002-11-13 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have managed to create a file called --multi on an rh7.3 box. I need to remove it urgently as it filled up the root filesystem. rm '--multi' or rm *multi does not work. what command should i use? -- Willem van der Walt Information Services Directorate Department of Health South Africa tel: 27

Re: urgent file removal problem

2002-11-13 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks! It worked. I would like to understand why it works though. regards, Willem On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have managed to create a file called --multi on an rh7.3 box. I need to remove it urgently

Re: HOW TO : increase disk space to /dev/hdb2

2002-11-12 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, First, check what partitions exists on the disk. it sounds like the first partition on the disk is very small. depending on the output of the fdisk /dev/hd p option, one can deside if you want to repartition or if you only want to mount another partition. regards, Willem On Wed, 13 Nov

How do i limit the postmaster mailbox size?

2002-11-06 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I am running sendmail as a mail relay for our department. I am not a fulltime mail administrator, so I do not check the postmaster mailbox as often as one should. I now did it for a change and found the postmaster to have a 120 megabyte mailbox due to messages that came back due to 552 size

Re: complete system backup

2002-11-06 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, You would get very close to that by making a dd image of your partitions and write them on another machine. There are some imaging programs for linux. As i recall, one sets up a server containing the images of the various machines and can then restore/install from the server. I hav'nt used

Re: Help needed

2002-11-05 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I think that your problem is the following: You have installed lilo when you had rh on the box and have not removed it before you wiped the disk. Lilo is now sitting on the bootsector of the drive. You are suppose to be able to remove it with fdisk /mbr using the windows startup disk. In

Re: Config router and Gateway under RH8.0

2002-10-30 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I hav'nt used rh8, but in previous versions ip forwarding is not enabled by default in the kernel. It is done by echoing a 1 to I think, /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Read the masquerading howto for more info. hth Willem On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Geoffroy Hallard wrote: Hi, I'm new user

Re: FTP and LOGIN

2002-10-30 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Change the shell in /etc/passwd to /bin/false The default is /bin/bash hth Willem On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Tony Hickinbottom wrote: Using Red Hat 7.x What must I do to allow a user account to be accessed for ftp uploads and downloads but not for login. -- Willem van der Walt Information

Re: Samba - XP Networking Book Recommendation

2002-10-29 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, The HOWTO documents are so comprehensive that you would do well to start there. By the sound of it, you are only trying to make your machines use your router as the gateway to the internet. I found more information in the Linux howtos than any other place. They aught to be on one of your rh

Re: Intresting problem after connecting to my ISP...

2002-10-27 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try: route add default ppp0 after the connection has been made. hth Willem On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Balazs Laszlo wrote: Hi! I have Red Hat Linux 7.2, internal modem HSP56 MR ( with pctel-0.9.4 driver ). I connect to the internet using the Kppp. The problem is that after i connect to my isp

Re: Cron job

2002-10-22 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, By default you end up in the vi editor. It is the clasic unix text editor. I use an editor called joe but that is not installed by default on rh. Pico is installed and that is easyer to use than vi for me. before you say crontab -e, first do: export EDITOR=pico and enter. then do crontab -e

Re: RH7.1 doesn't recognize SMP system

2002-10-22 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I seem to recall having to install the smp rpm by hand on an ibm netfinity box when installing 7.1. Then one has to change lilo.conf and rerun lilo to load the correct kernel. Then do dmesg to see if it worked. hth Willem On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Claudio Lapidus wrote: Hello, I have an old

Re: Tape Drive

2002-10-18 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Have you tried /dev/st0 Normally things will work better if you create a link /dev/tape to the device. from the commandline, do mt status after you have done: ln -s /dev/st0 /dev/tape If it shows up, you should be ok with most software. hth On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, IS Department wrote: I have

Re: Audio CD - Ogg/MP3 - which program?

2002-10-16 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Thomas Ribbrock wrote: And: Which program to use to convert LPs? I suppose one has to cut the tracks manually, but with what? gramofile to filter out noise and cut tracks. You can record using sound recorder or any commandline tool that can record at cd quality.

Re: SB Live Digital Audio Output

2002-10-03 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Have you tryed running sndconfig? On RH 7.3 sndconfig sets it up. regards, Willem -- Willem van der Walt Information Services Directorate Department of Health South Africa tel: 27 12 3120700 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe

Re: Directing a Linux machines output to a gateway

2002-10-01 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, It is in /etc/sysconfig/network. network is a file which can contain a gateway statement. If that file contains no gateway statement, check /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts for the file: ifcfg_eth0 or simmelar. that is the configuration file of the eth0 interface. That, i think can also

Re: oracle 9i client server connetctivity.

2002-09-27 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
what does the listener status tell you about the activity of the listener and what does the listener log say? Use lsnrctl status to check. Can you connect from the server itself to: sqlplus scott/tiger@test1 On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Ravi Narwade wrote: hi everybody i have installed oracle 9i as

Re: oracle 9i client server connetctivity.

2002-09-27 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
start failed. Listener may already be running so what i have to do now? On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what does the listener status tell you about the activity of the listener and what does the listener log say? Use lsnrctl status to check. Can you

Re: Silent audio CD's

2002-09-25 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi, Check under your mixer settings that the volume of the cd itself is set high. Also doublecheck that your speakers are connected to the correct output on your sound card. I have a simmelar situation where I do not get sound on the one channal, but on the second channal connected to my high

Re: unattended inode

2002-09-13 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, The error loading shared library is not normal. If the error remains after a clean shutdown/restart, I would find the fsck package on the cds and do: at the /cdrom/RedHat/RPMS# prompt: rpm --verify fsck*rpm and then take it from there. It might be that the libc.so.* file got damaged in the

Re: Serial port to Cisco console port connection

2002-09-13 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I use C-kermit. Cannot remember if if downloaded it or found it on the rh cd set. It is made for the job you want to do. Mail me privatly and I can mail the rpm to you. regards, Willem On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Eric Sisler wrote: Ok, I know there must be a simple answer to this, but I just can't

Re: unattended inode

2002-09-12 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
if you are at a # prompt, type: fsck / if / is normally mounted on /dev/hda1. It will likely then ask you if it can fix it. hth willem On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Michael Hill wrote: I got an error at boot-up: /dev/hda1 contains a file system with errors, check forced. /dev/hda1: unattended

off topic, hexdump usage on dd like file?

2002-09-11 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I am trying to recover a deleted oracle datafile from a solaris machine using the tct program. In the process I want to use hexdump to find out with which characters an Oracle datafile starts and stops. I do not properly understand hexdump's output. I want to see: 00 or ff and know that it is

Re: How to migrate database from Oracle 8.1.7 to mysql??

2002-09-05 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, The easy way is to run Oracle under linux. Then do a database export on windows and a full import on linux. Convert your licenses to linux. If you want to go for another free database, coming from Oracle, I would suggest you go for postgresql. Depending on the amount of data/tables/triggers

Re: Don't even know where to turn

2002-09-03 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Have you downloaded the latest rpm from the Varicad site that is speciphic for rh 7.3? Ours crashed as well. regards, Willem On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Leon Goldman wrote: I am using RH 7.3. When I upgraded to it from RH 7.2 the VariCAD program I was using crashed. It uses OpenGL. I contacted

Re: required help regarding redhat linux 6.2

2002-08-27 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, You need to change the run level to which your box boot. I think it is in inittab. I think runlevel 5 will have X started and level 3 will have only text mode started. For the packages problem, either upgrade your linux or try to get a tar.gz staticly linked version of the packages and

Re: argent help

2002-07-12 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, You could try to put the line: lba32 in lilo.conf and then run lilo again. Windows prefers to be on hda1 in my experience. regards, Willem On 12 Jul 2002, shyam wrote: hi friends i am trying to install RH7.2 with win 95 ,with each of 9GB partition i have windows partition on

Re: Newbie: File system error!

2002-07-12 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, After putting the root password, you should run fsck / It then goes into checking and would most likely assk you to anser yes or no on questions like: eg. invalid inode, correct it yes or no. Just answer yes to all these questions and type reboot when you get to the # prompt again. It should

re: print to a file

2002-07-08 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
nmap -oN any_file_name.log host this will log the nmap output to the file: any_file_name.log hth Willem -- Willem van der Walt Information Services Directorate Department of Health South Africa tel: 27 12 3120700 ___ Redhat-list mailing list

Re: Antivirus for Linux 7.3

2002-07-02 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Trend Micro has virus software for Linux. They also has software for most other platforms like Solaris and Novell. I think their international web site is: http://www.trendmicro.com. The south African site is: http://www.sd.co.za hth Willem On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, CCI-ICC Administrator wrote:

Re: Installing Oracle 8i for Linux

2002-06-26 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, You have to have a java jre installed. TRe is also a patch for relinking oracle. I do not know if it is these days included with the cd set. there is a good set of instructions about this I cannot lay my hands on it know. Look at the linux Howtos for oracle. regards, Willem On Wed, 26 Jun

Re: new linux server, re-partitioning

2002-06-21 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Under 7.2, the web home dir is normally under /var/www. I would try to tell the installation program to change prefix to some thing else. If that does not work, I would make a link to a directory under /usr where there is a lot of space. If it wants to create a directory called newprog

access to Netware ldap not working?

2002-06-03 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone succeded in making squid do ldap authentication using an ldap server running on Netware? I have the squid_auth_ldap utility, but do not get anywhere with it.It does not find the user on novell. I think the problem is on the novell side, but I do not know enough about Netware to correct

Re: RE : Microsoft Money

2002-05-17 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Gnucash is on one of the RH cds. Depending which rh you have it will differ. It might be on the powertools cd if you have an old version. I cannot remember the name, but *cash*rpm should do. hth Willem On Fri, 17 May 2002, Yohann DESQUERRE (DSI NOISIEL) wrote: Interested in gnucash i tried

Re: what does pine use for sending mail?

2002-05-16 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
What i do is to leave the smtp address blank. Pine then use the sendmail on the Linux desktop. As long as the firewalls allow it, the mail will go out to the other smtp server directly. use h to see where this mail has travled. That is turn full header display on in pine. hth Willem On Thu, 16

help needed: using squid to authenticate netware users for internetaccess?

2002-04-24 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I am trying to configure squid to authenticate users for internet access. Squid is running on an rh 7.1 box. I have compiled a module called squid_auth_ldap. It, according to /var/log/messages, successfully connects to the netware ldap server but does not find the users as one looks for

Re: star office install from rh 7.2 cd

2002-03-12 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I do not know about the Redhat version of Staroffice, but if you do not have a java runtime installed, Staroffice still works. It just says that you would not have some java related support. hth Willem -- Willem van der Walt Information Services Directorate Department of Health South

Re: star office install from rh 7.2 cd

2002-03-10 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I once had a simelar problem. mount the cd by hand. umount /mnt/cdrom mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom Do ls and look if the setup file is there. If not, there should be a directory like Linux. cd to that directory and ls there to look for setup. If it is there, do ./setup from there.

Re: Release/patches/updates questions

2002-03-01 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, You would have to do the updates afterwards. regards, Willem On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Kerry Miller wrote: This is probably a dumb question, but I'm just curious so I'll ask it anyway! If I download the iso's for 7.2, have those iso's been frozen and I'll still need to install all the

Re: dial-up problems

2002-02-27 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Look in /etc/ppp/peers or there abbouts for another resolv.conf. If it if there, it will contain the nameserver entry you need for the second isp. Just append this file to your /etc/resolv.conf and things should work. hth Willem On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Silviu Cojocaru wrote: I am using RH

Re: RH 7.2 CDROM issue, Dell OptiPlex GX1

2002-02-21 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi, I think your cd is fine. It sounds like the install cd kernel does not see your cdrom. I think you can press alt-f2 to get to a kind of a shell prompt. From there you might be able to see what it picked up. You can also try to create an install floppy and try booting with that. May be, it

HP lh3 symbios raid hangs instaling rh7.2

2002-02-13 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, We are trying to install rh7.2 on an HP lh3 with a symbios raid controler. The install stand still when loading a symbios raid driver. What could be the problem or sollution? regards, Willem ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrade hell

2002-02-07 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would suggest you go into rescue mode and try to get lilo installed on the boot sector from there. regards, Willem On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Steve Cohen wrote: Aargh! I am in upgrade hell. I tried to upgrade a system that was running 7.0 to 7.2. It is a dual boot system with Win 98 running in

Re: Upgrade hell

2002-02-07 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
One can load either of them, I just do'nt know grub. With lilo, one would basicly get to a linux prompt using the rescue disk, mount your linux partition, change to the correct spot, chroot configure and run lilo. I think grub would be like wize. regards, Willem On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Steve Cohen

Re: Upgrade hell

2002-02-07 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any ideas on why the boot-floppy generator failed? It had no trouble writing to the floppy. I don't think it's a disk-media problem. It seems more likely that the installer is writing a bad floppy. What's up with that? Is this a known problem with the RedHat installer? Is it

Re: Upgrade hell

2002-02-07 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is tthe default system that you want to boot the Linux or the win? You could try to put default = lin into y0our lilo.conf if you have the statement label = lin in the description of the linux image. It should then boot your linux from where you can fix things further. Even though lilo does not

Re: Upgrade hell

2002-02-07 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, lba32 stands for large block access or something. If you have a disk that is big like 20 gb, it might help or even be required to use lba32. You should look in your bios when starting the computer if your disk is set as a lba disk. lba32 has got to do with the interpretation of the disk

ppp establishment problem to Cisco terminal server

2002-01-31 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I am trying to connect a rh box using wvdial. The ISP's technical support only knows windows. Using minicom, I found out that the terminal server on their end is some Cisco router/terminal server. It accepts the username and the password. To get it to start ppp negotiation, i found out