Re: Symantec GHOST cloning dual-boot WinXP+RH9

2003-10-10 Thread bkrusic
Hi, I used GHost 7.5 with the sector copy enabled to clone a Win2K/RH9-SGI_XFS partitions via ethernet. The boot disk was easy to create so I would try v7.5. The copy took 1 hour for a 40GB drive via 100baseT. Bri- __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - wit

wierd shadow entries

2003-10-03 Thread bkrusic
Hi, I noticed that my shadow passwd entries are in plain text!!! I have a fresh install of Redhat 9 with all the patches and no custom configs. Before I implement YP, I need to make sure that ypcat will not return passwords in plaintext. Can anyone help me in figuring out why /etc/shadow has th

Re: Which version of RedHat for production systems

2003-06-11 Thread bkrusic
Hi, Would you mind sharing some info about your setup? I'd rather use NFS and autfs/sym links to create a type of unified dir structure that I usually have done on SGIs that are very production worthy but am shy to do so on Linux. I can make the Linux NFS server choke with 10 clients and doing a

Re: Which version of RedHat for production systems

2003-06-11 Thread bkrusic
Hi, Regarding production, well it depends what type of production you mean. If its visual effects then I would strongly recomend you research this to death or it will be your death as post is insane. Issues I found in post using Linux client and server; 1) Both NFS client and server are weak.

Re: DHCP Script to Update Dynamic DNS with IP Changes?

2003-06-04 Thread bkrusic
Hi, Well, not sure if this applies to your situation but I have my dns records updated when a client pulls an addy via dhcp. This is done via an entry in my dhcpd.conf and has the lines; ddns-update-style interim; ddns-updates on; Since addys are requested from clients and when they get an addr

Re: dhcp - max lease time

2003-06-03 Thread bkrusic
> { > hardware Ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00; > fixed-address 10.x.x.x; > } Hi, I was hoping to avoid this as I've 60+ clients (and new ones coming and going weekly) and don't want to know there MAC addy. Howver, it looks as if this may be the only wa

Re: dhcp - max lease time

2003-06-03 Thread bkrusic
> Lease times are set by the ISP. Hi, I am assigning my own leases internally via my dhcp server to my dhcp clients. Bri- __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list un

dhcp - max lease time

2003-06-03 Thread bkrusic
Hi, For permanent leases or leases that I wish to never expire, what should I modify in /etc/dhcpd.conf? The man pages don't mention permanent or infinite lease times. Bri- __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://

vers of Samba on Redhat 8

2003-05-29 Thread bkrusic
Hi, We are using Samba 2.2.7-5.8 as it runs smoothly with RedHat 8.0 and comes as RPMS. Does it come with support for Dfs (was it built with this flag; --with-msdfs I'd rather use just RPMs keeping the Linux roll out here simple and strait forward for our sys admins to maintain. Bri- _

NFS mount probs

2003-04-03 Thread bkrusic
Hi, When mounting via NFS, sometimes I get; mount: RPC: Timed out Other times it works. NFS servers are a combo of 7.3/8.0 patched as of yesturday. Using DDNS for host resolution. I wish I had more info so that I can fix it so I'm hoping someone here can based on this small amont of info. Br