RE: TCP/IP transmission problems

2003-03-31 Thread Rick Carroll
I have seen duplex mismatch cause this. Try mii-tool or ethtool and check the settings on your card. Thanks, Rick Carroll Operations Engineer SocketWare 404-815-1998 ext. 23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Alston, Lois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: LVM Configuration and Resources

2003-03-28 Thread Rick Carroll
Go to google and search for LVM-howto You will get LOTS of info. HTH Rick. -Original Message- From: Rodrigo Nascimento [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 9:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LVM Configuration and Resources Hi List, I need to

RE: JDK for linux

2003-03-27 Thread Rick Carroll
http://java.sun.com Rick. -Original Message- From: Stephen Spalding [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 3:49 PM To: redhat Subject:JDK for linux Hi all, I'm looking for JDK for Redhat 8.0, and it does not appear to be included in the base

RE: Memory usage very high

2003-03-20 Thread Rick Carroll
LINUX uses up memory for buffers and cache, but will release that memory for programs if needed. What do free and/or vmstat tell you? Remember, the values in the -/+ buffers/cache: can be available. In my experience, you are only low on memory if you are actually seeing swap

RE: Help get ssh working

2003-03-18 Thread Rick Carroll
Is sshd running? chkconfig --list and if not, chkconfig --level 345 sshd on HTH Rick Carroll -Original Message- From: Andrew Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 11:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Help get ssh working I'm trying

RE: NIC issue

2003-03-05 Thread Rick Carroll
Sorry, there is way too little information here... Did you check /var/log/messages? I haven't seen this. Could the system be shutting one down due to address conflict? On the same subnet without proper routing administration? I'm not sure it would shut one down though... Some things to check

RE: 4L IBM ServeRAID

2003-03-04 Thread Rick Carroll
I can't answer for sure, but given IBM's commitment to linux, I'd say it's a pretty good bet... Rick. -Original Message- From: Aris Santillan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 3/4/2003 12:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject:4L IBM ServeRAID hi guys I would

RE: Support of file greater than 2gb

2003-03-03 Thread Rick Carroll
It is probably lftp that is failing... When largefile support first came out in HPUX it was the same way. Some utilities could create/use files greater than 2GB. But others couldn't. It wasn't until HPUX 11 that everything worked. My sense is that lftp doesn't have 2GB support. Rick

RE: reread new partition table

2003-03-03 Thread Rick Carroll
hdparm --help says hdparm -z (device) rereads the partition table... Rick -Original Message- From: Bret Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 10:51 PM To: redhat-list Subject:reread new partition table Is there really no way to get the

RE: RH 8.0 - 2 NICS and routing between 2 subnets

2003-02-28 Thread Rick Carroll
echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward HTH Rick -Original Message- From: Pacheco, Michael F. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 11:02 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RH 8.0 - 2 NICS and routing between 2 subnets Hi All, I've got a single RH

how safe is UDP DNS

2003-02-27 Thread Rick Carroll
My firewall is rejecting a TON of UDP dns requests. Are they generally considered safe or dangerous? TIA Rick. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: how safe is UDP DNS

2003-02-27 Thread Rick Carroll
Rick -Original Message- From: nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: how safe is UDP DNS Rick Carroll said: My firewall is rejecting a TON of UDP dns requests. Are they generally considered safe

RE: Binding to eth0:0-ip but why using eth0-ip for outgoing traffic?

2003-02-27 Thread Rick Carroll
Stefan, His server is probably sending to you via the default route which is his primary IP. A netstat -nr output would be nice... See man page for route command for options to add a route using a specific interface. I think it would be: route add -host your host -gw his existing gw IP address

RE: forward roots mail

2003-02-27 Thread Rick Carroll
The 'linux gnomes' are at lurking:) -Original Message- From: Nick White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: forward roots mail Mutt wasn't installed. I came in this morning, and I had 41 messages

RE: startup on boot

2003-02-27 Thread Rick Carroll
If these commands require environment variables (like something like MYSQL_HOME or whatever) you will need to source those in before you run your other scripts. Put a line in rc.d that says something like: . /path/environment variable script path means the path to the script environment

RE: Anybody got experience with LVM on soft-raid 1 and ext3?

2003-02-26 Thread Rick Carroll
I have no experience with Soft-raid 1, but I've been using LVM in HP-UX and now Linux for years. Very happy with it. Using with ext3 in RH8 and RH7.3 no problems to report, except in 7.3 I had to issue: vgchange -a y volume-group-name in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to keep mount -a from barking during

RE: Weird crash

2003-02-26 Thread Rick Carroll
This is SO typical of a memory problem. If you haven't tried memtest86 I would start there... http://www.memtest86.com HTH Rick -Original Message- From: Ashley M. Kirchner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 11:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: telnet with root

2003-02-25 Thread Rick Carroll
I don't remember exactly what the problem is, but it has to do with PAM. As I recall there's a PAM module that won't authorize root except on the console. Rick -Original Message- From: Vincent Couvreur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 11:09 AM To:

RE: telnet with root

2003-02-25 Thread Rick Carroll
One more thing, this is a BAD idea... You should not log in as root for a variety of reasons. If you insist, root is very powerful, and it's your funeral (as they say...) Thanks, Rick Carroll Operations Engineer SocketWare 404-815-1998 ext. 23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From

RE: Weird crash

2003-02-25 Thread Rick Carroll
Could be bad memory. Try MemTest86 - http://www.memtest86.com and see if that throws up anything. Rick -Original Message- From: Ashley M. Kirchner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 12:23 PM To: Red Hat Mailing List Subject:Weird crash I

RE: GREP on Redhat 7.3

2003-02-19 Thread Rick Carroll
Perhaps save text option (sticky bit) will help. Causes the program's text to be saved in memory for faster subsequent execution. chmod o+t /bin/grep Rick -Original Message- From: Dan Gervais [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 9:33 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: Custom Kernel wont boot

2003-02-18 Thread Rick Carroll
Michael, I wish I could tell you exactly why, but all I know is that you need to make a new initrd to support the LABEL=/ thing. That is what's running when you try to mount the ext3 root filesystem. I had this same problem when I first started building kernels, and all the discussion boards,

RE: HELP: Recompiling kernel (RH 8.0)

2003-02-18 Thread Rick Carroll
Build and install a new initrd. This is what drivers are running when you try to mount /. Thanks, Rick Carroll Operations Engineer SocketWare 404-815-1998 ext. 23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: J.R Ong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 5:56 PM

RE: Custom Kernel wont boot

2003-02-18 Thread Rick Carroll
I can only guess at this point. Did you configure ext3 as a module? Look at the file system differences between a distro config file and your custom config file. I'm reasonably sure that you're not getting ext3 in your initrd. Mount the initrd from the distro, and the custom one and look for

RE: Custom Kernel wont boot

2003-02-18 Thread Rick Carroll
You might try: http://www.telenovela-world.com/~spade/linux/howto/Kernel-HOWTO-2.html Thanks, Rick Carroll Operations Engineer SocketWare 404-815-1998 ext. 23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Mingle, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 10

RE: init/runlevel help needed in RHL 8.

2003-02-14 Thread Rick Carroll
What you're missing, is that apachectl uses start, stop, etc to control the httpd server as it always has. This is NOT an init.d script, it's virtually the same apachectl they have been using for years. When S85httpd gets run by init it gets passed a start argument. K15 gets passed a stop

RE: init/runlevel help needed in RHL 8.

2003-02-14 Thread Rick Carroll
and should be executable during init; I think, I concede to more knowledgable persons. Tim -Original Message- From: Rick Carroll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 9:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: init/runlevel help needed in RHL 8. What you're

RE: Monitor Shakes....

2003-02-11 Thread Rick Carroll
If you have a fluorescent lamp near your monitor, move it away... Rick -Original Message- From: Dwayne Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 11:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Monitor Shakes Interesting I have experienced a

RE: Errors firewall

2003-02-07 Thread Rick Carroll
It sounds like maybe your machine doesn't have the correct gateway. Check your gateway. netstat -nr should look something like: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.4.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U40 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0

RE: SymLinks..

2003-02-06 Thread Rick Carroll
The man page for find says to use -type l (that's the letter L in lower case.) as in find / -type l -print Rick -Original Message- From: Ted Gervais [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 10:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:SymLinks.. I wonder

RE: SymLinks..

2003-02-06 Thread Rick Carroll
??? So - is there a way to find out where I have that link set? What would be the strategic commands and switches to locate this rascal.. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me on this.. On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 09:51, Rick Carroll wrote: The man page for find says to use -type l (that's

RE: error messages bind RH8

2003-02-04 Thread Rick Carroll
My first inclination from the message, is that you have a networking problem. It appears that the dns request is getting to the DNS server, but when the server attempts to send the reply, it's either timing out, or it's getting a ICMP message from some networking element (switch, router, etc.)

RE: DISPLAY ?

2003-02-04 Thread Rick Carroll
Have you allowed the remote host to connect to your local display with the xhost command? If you want to allow ANY host to connect to your local display use: xhost + Rick -Original Message- From: Ted Gervais [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 10:24 AM

RE: (no subject)

2003-01-29 Thread Rick Carroll
mii-tool Thanks, Rick -Original Message- From: Geoff Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:(no subject) HelP!!.i need to know how to get my network card to run down at 10mbps, as right now it's

RE: who am i ?

2003-01-24 Thread Rick Carroll
Try the last command... It tells you about real logins, and if they're still logged in... Searches wtmp file. run man last for more info... If you do who -utH you get more interesting info such as process ID (PID) of the shell. kill -KILL PID and they're outa here... Rick -Original

RE: static-routes with RH8.0

2003-01-21 Thread Rick Carroll
The shell code from /etc/init.d/network # Add non interface-specific static-routes. if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/static-routes ]; then grep ^any /etc/sysconfig/static-routes | while read ignore args ; do /sbin/route add -$args done fi It only

RE: how to use script to run perl scripts

2003-01-17 Thread Rick Carroll
Add ./ or the full path when you type pp. Or you can END (anywhere else not considered secure) your PATH environment variable with : or :. To search the current directory. Make sure it's at the end, or at least after ANY AND ALL system directories such as /bin or /usr/bin, and so on. Rick.

RE: How to detatch a process from the terminal

2003-01-17 Thread Rick Carroll
Perhaps your process needs to see an input stream (stdin) and is dying when stdin closes. I'm not sure this is happening under nohup, but it's worth a try. Try: #nohup ./startserver.sh /dev/null I had a problem similar to this years ago trying to run: shutdown -y -g0 -i6 on sun machines via

RE: Remove --exclude

2003-01-16 Thread Rick Carroll
You can also put your file name in single quotes rm '- - exclude' A third option if the directory is small, is rm -i * and answer n to everything but the file you want to remove. -Original Message- From: Brian Ashe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 3:41

RE: how to substutue string in a text file

2003-01-13 Thread Rick Carroll
Use back-ticks `` (like single quotes in the opposite direction) around your command. Example MYVAR=`grep foo bar` This redirects the standard out of a command into a variable. Rick -Original Message- From: Jianping Zhu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003

RE: how to substutue string in a text file

2003-01-13 Thread Rick Carroll
, it will change it. There are ways to change this behavior, but that requires reading the man page or other books on sed. Thanks, Rick Carroll Operations Engineer SocketWare 404-815-1998 ext. 23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jianping Zhu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent

RE: Sendmail as a forwarder only

2003-01-10 Thread Rick Carroll
It appears you're using the format for the M4 SMART_HOST macro (used in the sendmail.mc file) If you're going to edit sendmail.cf directly use: DSrelayhostname Depending on your name resolving setup you may need to use the fully qualified name. i.e. DSrelayhostname.yourdomain.com Rick.

using proftp as sftp

2003-01-10 Thread Rick Carroll
Has anyone ever modified the ssh_config file to use proftpd successfully? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: using proftp as sftp

2003-01-10 Thread Rick Carroll
Sorry for the followup... As an alternative, does anyone know how to lock down sftp (chroot) so the user can only access his/her own directory? Thanks, Rick Carroll -Original Message- From: Rick Carroll Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 9:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

RE: [RH List] Re: A Troublesome Little Problem with Syslog

2003-01-08 Thread Rick Carroll
hosts will invalidate and rebuild the host cache. Also, check /etc/nsswitch.conf to see what the lookup order is for hosts. The more versatile networking becomes the more complicated problems with forward and reverse name lookups get. Hope this helps. Rick Carroll -Original Message

RE: HOWTO get System Monitor and motherboard stats

2003-01-08 Thread Rick Carroll
http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/ -Original Message- From: Christopher Lyon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:HOWTO get System Monitor and motherboard stats Does anybody know how to get the detailed

RE: Unable to use telnet

2003-01-03 Thread Rick Carroll
Be advised that putty has been identified as having security vulnerabilities. http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-36.html -Original Message- From: gihas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 12:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Unable to

RE: File Copying Library

2003-01-03 Thread Rick Carroll
Why build the engine when you only need to drive the car? -Original Message- From: Adam H. Pendleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: File Copying Library File: PGP.sig Yes, I am sure I could, but

RE: name resolution

2003-01-03 Thread Rick Carroll
Have you checked /etc/nsswitch.conf? What do you get when you do: ypcat -k hosts | grep sualco you can also do some troubleshooting with: getent -service=nis hosts sulaco or getent -service=files hosts sulaco or getent -service=dns hosts sulaco -Original Message- From: Hidong Kim

RE: which file/files I need to check...?

2003-01-02 Thread Rick Carroll
You will also find dhcp messages in /var/log/messages. listening on, etc. -Original Message- From: Keith Morse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 3:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: which file/files I need to check...? On Mon, 30 Dec

Advanced server on poweredge 2300

2002-12-30 Thread Rick Carroll
Does anyone have AS running on a poweredge 2300? It's not listed as certified on hardware/redhat.com/hcl Thanks, Rick -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list