Linux-Misc Digest #893, Volume #25 Thu, 28 Sep 00 21:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: CD-ROM problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Running NT4/2000 on linux (James Myers)
Re: RIGHT NOW!!! anyone reading this, how long till I get my answer (Patton Echols)
Re: New HD question ("Matt O'Toole")
Please help me install, I'm stuck!! (Exits Funnel)
Re: "maximum mount count reached" error : what's that? (Jerry L Kreps)
Re: Java on Linux? (Jerry L Kreps)
Re: New HD question (Jerry L Kreps)
IE browser cache _carcass_ explorer? ("Dan Jacobson")
devfs, yay or nay ("max barwell")
ftp problem (Al)
fh_verify permission failure - huh? (Bob Terrell)
Reinstall linux will loss file? (Xingzhi Zhang)
how can I do this? ("choi jinhyuk")
Problem with rpm (Al)
Re: "maximum mount count reached" error : what's that? (Bob Martin)
Re: PPP Client (works great with GUI rp3) but how about the command line??? (Steve)
Re: NEWBIE: exploring Linux + win/lin modem (Steve)
Re: Help Help Oracle 8i install (Azad Bulla)
Re: Reinstall linux will loss file? (E J)
Re: how can I do this? (E J)
Re: Linux Deployment Tools (Christopher Browne)
Re: Partitioning..... (Christopher Browne)
Re: ftp problem (Steve)
Re: Boot problem (Bob Martin)
Re: where go get sshd (Jeff Grossman)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CD-ROM problem
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:23:26 GMT
I am typing
"mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom"
then it says
"mount: Wrong medium type"
This error is with the same RH CD from which I installed the Linux. The
error msg is the same for other data CDs too. I am not using any audio
CDs at all.
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From: James Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Running NT4/2000 on linux
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:38:34 -0700
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Hi Rich,
A product called VMWARE is what you are looking for. It runs $39
non-commercial, $99
commercial. Works great for most things.
Give it a try and let me know what you think.
James Myers
Rich Edwards wrote:
> All,
> Before I get any messages back saying 'Why do you want to do that?' and
> 'Just ditch your Microsoft products' - they are not an option.
> Question:
> Can I run an NT OS on a linux based machine, if so how?
>
> --
> Remove the 'NOSPAM' from my email address to reply
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James Myers
JM Consulting
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Hi Rich,
<p>A product called VMWARE is what you are looking for. It runs $39
non-commercial, $99
<br>commercial. Works great for most things.
<p>Give it a try and let me know what you think.
<p>James Myers
<p>Rich Edwards wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>All,
<br>Before I get any messages back saying 'Why do you want to do that?'
and
<br>'Just ditch your Microsoft products' - they are not an option.
<br>Question:
<br>Can I run an NT OS on a linux based machine, if so how?
<p>--
<br>Remove the 'NOSPAM' from my email address to reply</blockquote>
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JM Consulting
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From: Patton Echols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RIGHT NOW!!! anyone reading this, how long till I get my answer
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:41:42 -0700
Wait at least a day or two for replies. Traffic on this group is
heavy. Most of us don't read it every day. maybe no-one knows the
answer. (BTW, Being overly demanding of an answer or reposting too
quickly is considered rude IMHO and will -decrease- the chance of
getting help)
Emil Vatai wrote:
>
> should I hang up or keep the conection! ('cause I just posted a msg)
> btw I'm listening to "Should I saty or sould I go" from the Clash :)
> Guess that got me inspired sorry to bother.
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Reply-To: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New HD question
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:08:36 -0700
"Leejay Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> HTH. HAND.
Thanks, Leejay!
Matt O.
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From: Exits Funnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Please help me install, I'm stuck!!
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:40:55 GMT
Hello,
I'm trying to install Redhat 6.2 on a machine which is currently running
NT Server 4.0. I'm trying to install from a CD. I put the CD in the
machine and reboot. Everything begins OK, it reads the CD at startup
and I get the first installation screen. I then press <ENTER> and the
following information is displayed (there are a few lines missing off
the top which I can't quite catch):
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
Linux version 2.2.14-5.0BOOT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
egcs-2.9
1.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Tue Mar 7 20:31:32 EST 2000
Detected 199743029 Hz Processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 199.07 BogoMIPS
Memory: 110964k/114688k available (1000k kernel code, 412k reserved,
1416k data, 60k init, 0k bigmem)
general protection fault: 0000
CPU: 0
Then there's some stack information and a Call Trace and finally:
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In swapper task - not syncing
And than it just hangs. I have no idea what the problem is. I don't
know much about the machine (it's just an extra one at work) other than
it seems to run NT without any difficulty. Since my intention is to let
hte installation program reformat the drive and start over and since the
machine seems to run NT without any difficulty I can't imagine that I
shouldn't be able to install Linux, but I'm stuck? Any suggestions
would be greatly appreciated.
-Exits
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From: Jerry L Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux,redhat.misc
Subject: Re: "maximum mount count reached" error : what's that?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:50:19 -0500
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, TM wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm sometimes getting this kind of error at boot time:
>
>/dev/drive_id has reached maximum mount count check forced
>
>what's that and how do I fix it?
>
>Thanks
>
>TM
It's when your boot counter reaches a certain number, set in the kernel I
think, an fsck of each mount is performed. It is a good thing. Don't attempt
to short circut it.
You can use the ReiserFS. Do a google search on it to find out more, or check
in at the SuSE web site.
JLK
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From: Jerry L Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Java on Linux?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:55:56 -0500
On IBM Linux developer website they offer (or use to) VisualAge for Java 3.0.
It is a full GUI RAD java develolper app. Very good!
JLK
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Bob Tennent wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:15:24 GMT, Exits Funnel wrote:
> >
> >I'm a java developer new to linux (or any unix for that matter). I'm
> >wondering what java compilers/tools most linux developers favor. I know
> >Sun's JDK is available on linux but am wondering what alternatives there
> >are. Does GNU have a Java offering?
>
>Being worked on at Cygnus I believe. IBM's Jikes is really fast as
>a "compiler" (i.e., to byte code) and it produces good error messages.
>Kaffe is a good and fast-byte code interpreter.
>
>Bob T.
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From: Jerry L Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New HD question
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:57:49 -0500
Why copy anything over?
Just mount it as a new partition, say "/opt2" or something like that.
It is save to copy any directories that you have made and populated, provided
that you modify your path and other env variables to reflect the changes.
JLK
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Matt O'Toole wrote:
>I'm running out of space on my drive, and I want to *add* a new one (I have
>an extra). I don't want to copy the whole system over, just part of it.
>I'm running Mandrake 7.0, with everything on one big partition. Which
>directories should I copy over? Do I need to change any settings after
>copying them over, or will the system take care of that? Also, since now
>would be a good time to create new partitions, are there any suggestions for
>good setups? I'm thinking I could have all the system files on the original
>drive, with the rest on the new one.
>
>BTW, I've read the new hard drive howtos. Call me stupid if you want, but I
>need further assistance.
>
>Matt O.
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From: "Dan Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.windows98,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc,gnu.emacs.help
Subject: IE browser cache _carcass_ explorer?
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 07:07:39 +0800
Though I hope to convert to Linux, I have a carcass of IE browser files
that represent many hour$ of modem time, I dare not tell IE its location
lest it get mangled. I used nfatcw [web-search to get it] from Japan as
it usually works but cryptically, however it says that the data file is
too big and quits.
Many of the off line cache explorer software are for reading the current
'temporary internet files' file only, but I want to point them to various
carcasses and snapshots of the TIF I make, as I found IE5.5 often
mysteriously wipes its cache out even though I set many gigs as the limit.
Perhaps there is even an emacs tool to do this, e.g., I hear even the beta
of gnus [www.gnus.org] can read OExpress DBX files, see article
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From: "max barwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: devfs, yay or nay
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 11:10:59 +1200
I was wondering what people think about it, i was using it but it seemed
to have a few teething problems, apart from that seems like a good idea. Any one
else like to share their views or experiences. is it really worth using?
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From: Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ftp problem
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:11:00 GMT
Hi all.
I'm having problems with ftp on my linux boxes.
I have 2 boxes (a and b).
I can ftp from a to b but not from b to a.
I copied the following files from a to b, so a=b
inetd.config
hosts
rebooted both machines then from b I type:
ftp <DNS of a> and get the message:
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
Still no ftp from b to a.
does anyone have any idea of what I'm missing or doing wrong?
all I want to do is have my two machines ftp to each other.
I know I can get away with ftp'ing in only one direction and use get or
put depending on the direction of the transfer, but i still want both
machines to have the same capabilities.
Any assistance will be appreciated
Alfredo
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From: Bob Terrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fh_verify permission failure - huh?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 19:26:08 -0400
Hi. On a RH 6.2 system which is an nfs server
I am getting a lot of /var/log/messages like
Sep 28 18:39:14 hercules kernel: fh_verify: joe/mail
permission failure, acc=4,error=13
I can't tell what is doing it and can't find
"fh_verify" in the source anywhere. Anybody
know what this is, and what is going on?
(email me if so, please)
thanks,
Bob
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From: Xingzhi Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Reinstall linux will loss file?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 19:42:41 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear linux fellows!
If I reinstall Redhat 6.1 linux, will I loss all the files I have on the
hard disk? Because my system can not boot up after I moved to a new
address because all the network parameter is different from old set
numbers. So I want to reinstall it.
Is there other way to boot it up?
You help is greatly appreciated.
Xingzhi Zhang
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Reply-To: "choi jinhyuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "choi jinhyuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how can I do this?
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:56:12 +0900
I want to record all messages including errors
during compiling.
how can I save normal outputs and errors or exit codes?
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From: Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with rpm
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:01:54 GMT
Hi all.
I'm trying to install an rpm package for Linux. I'm running
Gentus Linux on a celeron machine. But when I try
rpm -1 <packagename>, get the message:
package <packagename> is for a different operating system.
Don't all linux distributions recognize the same Linux rpm packages?
Any assistance will be appreciated.
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "maximum mount count reached" error : what's that?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 19:23:54 -0500
TM wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm sometimes getting this kind of error at boot time:
>
> /dev/drive_id has reached maximum mount count check forced
>
> what's that and how do I fix it?
>
> Thanks
>
> TM
The extfs filesystem has maximum number of time it can be mounted before
a file system check is forced, default is 20. There is nothing to fix,
you can view the file system parameters with dumpe2fs and tune2fs. Read
the man pages and heed the warnings.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: PPP Client (works great with GUI rp3) but how about the command line???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 29 Sep 2000 01:29:17 +0100
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:12:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>PPP Client (works great with GUI rp3) but how about the command line???
>
>I setup my diel out access with RP3 and it works great. but the down
>side is that I am trying to setup a shell script that will do the
>following
>
>1) Run top and save the output to a file
>2) Dail out to my ISP
>3) email me the output of top
>4) Logout from ISP
>
>How can I get the RP3 to dail out without the GUI???
I don't know what RP3 is, I have a script that dials,
gets my mail and news then disconnects. It goes something
like this:
/sbin/ifup ppp0 ## try this from the command line to connect
# sleep 45s ## you may need this, I did on an older version of RH
pullall ## my own script that pulls mail and news
/sbin/ifdown ppp0 ## then this to disconnect.
You might need to change the permissions on ifup.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: NEWBIE: exploring Linux + win/lin modem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 29 Sep 2000 01:29:18 +0100
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:57:32 +0200, Emil Vatai wrote:
>1st the Modem: Lucent Win Modem (says Win98), LT modem (says Win2K), Genius
>GM56PCI-L 56Kmodem (says it's box)?
>The prob is half fixed: I've got REDHAT 6.0 (I don't know its kernel #) but
>I got a driver for "lucent chipset"? (I think) and it need's 2.2.12-20
>(which is higher than linux RH 6.0's). I don't know if the modem driver will
>work for me and getting a kernel is new for me (shoul I be afraid? or is it
>no biggy?).
It's something I've never done, and don't like the sound of, but there is a
lot of documentation on the subject, see the Kernel-HOWTO in /usr/doc/HOWTO.
>
>The last part carries me to the next topic...
>
>I'm relatively new to linux. I've been reading about it, understood most of
>it, and I'm cool whit it. But since I haven't found anything yet (I hope)
>that I can do on Linux what I can't do on Win, I'm still pretty much Windows
>based (don't hate me for it I'm just 17). To tell you the truth I still find
>windows 2000 better (but I say that I hope that will change in time). btw I
>this is my first contact whit other Linux users.
First, I have found that the multitasking of linux is far superior to Win,
if you like dabbelling in development it's heaven, it comes with so much
stuff that will work well, like GCC, perl, and the list goes on. For me
X seems slower than Win95 was, but I tend to do almost everything in an
xterm or rxvt window these days, and everything is so configurable.
With linux I like the feeling of being in controle of what I can and can't
do, which is something that I didn't find with Windows. And it's so
stable, I really hammer the CPU with raytracing and various other activities,
and the last two times that I've had to restart have been because of
power failures in the house, today my dad trying to fix something, and the
time before that me knocking the switches in the fuse cupboard. See some
of my posts from yesterday they all have the current uptime of this system
stamped on them.
I havn't used Win95 since last November, and have only been using linux since
(yes you've guessed it), last November, for me it was love at first site,
so I formatted the drive and gave all my M$ software to worthy causes (I know,
that was cruel).
>My aproach to Linux, is it good?
Yes
>I don't have any, I'm useing it beside win98 and win2k, I made an acount for
>my selfe, but I find it anoying that when ever I wana do something I have to
>'su', I find X window a bit slower than MSwindows, and I'm thinking that
>maybe I should look at it more as a server and less as win95 workstation.
Once you've got everything set up properly you'll very rarely have to use
su, and it's good to keep it like that because you're safer that way. On
Win95 you're logged in as root all the time, (no wonder they have to format
and reinstall 5 times a month).
>
>Internet?
>Since I have a winmodem I don't connect Linux and the Internet too much
>(I've downloaded the Xfree86 Server for my Voodoo3 once, and the lucent
>modem driver, that's all). But at the same time it's absolutly no problem to
>get a pirat CD and theire really cheap and not illegal (that is, no one
>cares! cute). So I've bought RH 5.2, and RH6.0... can I keep it up
>continueing like that?
If you're buying pirate CDs of RH 5.2 you're being ripped off, I bought my
RH 6.2 CD officially (not pirate), for the price of a pint of beer (just a
bit more than half a litre).
Keep reading the documentation, and get a book if you can, O'reilly's Running
Linux is good and their Learning RedHat Linux.
Good Luck.
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From: Azad Bulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.oracle.misc
Subject: Re: Help Help Oracle 8i install
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:46:20 +1000
Hi
Global database name : ORACLE
SID : ORCL
Hope it will help
Azad
AUSSIE
george habr wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm an oracle DBA student .
> I'm trying to install oracle8i personal edition. but I have trouble with it
> during installation it will ask me for
> Globale batabase name: ????
>
> SID: ???
>
> I don't have any database before ...
> what should I do ?
> if you have any kind of information who to install the oracle8i please reply
> thanks again ....
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Reinstall linux will loss file?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:46:33 -0700
Use the boot floppy, you created during the installation of RH6.1
At the lilo prompt get into the single user mode and reinstall lilo and
when you reboot hopefully lilo will work.
lilo: linux single
bash# lilo
bash# # fix up you network card stuff here.
bash# reboot
Xingzhi Zhang wrote:
> Dear linux fellows!
>
> If I reinstall Redhat 6.1 linux, will I loss all the files I have on the
> hard disk? Because my system can not boot up after I moved to a new
> address because all the network parameter is different from old set
> numbers. So I want to reinstall it.
>
> Is there other way to boot it up?
>
> You help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Xingzhi Zhang
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how can I do this?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:52:20 -0700
choi jinhyuk wrote:
> I want to record all messages including errors
> during compiling.
> how can I save normal outputs and errors or exit codes?
$ script
Script started, file is typescript
$ compile_this compile_file
yada-yada-yada-compiler messages
yada-yada-yada-error messages
yada-yada-yada-RTFM messages :)
$ # good time to get the compiler messages
$ exit
exit
Script done, file is typescript
$ vi typescript
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Linux Deployment Tools
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:53:07 GMT
In our last episode (Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:35:47 +0100),
the artist formerly known as J.Smith said:
>I am looking for tools that would help to deploy and manage Linux and
>replace M$-Windows. However, I have become rather accustomed to the
>deployment and management tools that the M$ world has to offer. Some
>examples of what I am looking for for Linux are:
>
>* Automated OS installation on a clean system, possibly in
>combination with boot from network.
Red Hat has a "QuickStart" scheme that allows you to configure a disk
with a list of packages/parameters to drop into place if you're doing
mass installs.
And you might look at <http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/>:
"We present a non interactive system, called FAI (Fully Automatic
Installation), to install a Debian Linux operating system on a PC
cluster.
We take one or more virgin PCs, turn on the power and after a few
minutes Linux is installed, configured and running on the whole
cluster, without any interaction necessary. In addition, the
configuration can be changed automatically on all Linux cluster
nodes. Thus we have a scalable method for installing and updating a
cluster with little effort involved."
Uses Debian, some shell scripts, some Perl, and does system
configuration using cfengine.
>* Automated hardware detection and installation during the automated
>OS install.
Hmmm...
As far as detecting devices is concerned, this typically takes place
each time the kernel boots, and if there's a good set of kernel
modules in /lib/modules, this works pretty well for a pretty wide
variety of hardware.
Automagically partitioning disks of varying size may be a bit more
"challenging," although I expect that both "QuickStart" and "FAI" cope
with that. I've not had call for either, so you'll need to look to
that yourself...
>* Scheduled and automated application installation, removal, and
> configuration.
Red Hat (and likely its near clones) offers a tool called "AutoRPM"
that can look for and automagically upgrade packages according to your
favorite rule set. Debian (and friends) has "apt-get" which does much
the same.
A good approach for just about _any_ of these systems is to have a
central directory on one server that contains upgrades, and to have a
cron job on the remote systems that checks for packages in that
location, installing anything new.
The "central directory" could be accessed via HTTP, FTP, or NFS;
that's your call :-).
I'd think that cfengine would be a _natural_ tool to use to push out
the combination of configuration/utilities to ensure that this
happens.
>* wake up from lan.
>From the horse's mouth, as it were (Donald Becker, the Guru Of Network
Cards):
<http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/net/9910.0/0029.html>
<ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/misc/ether-wake.c>
And
<http://www.scyld.com/expert/wake-on-lan.html>
<http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/mini-howto/wol-mini-howto-2.html>
>* Hardware and Software Inventory.
>* Centralized user management
Both of these things represent the sorts of things that would likely
be implemented by a set of Your Own Software to collect/produce the
customized sorts of information appropriate to Your environment and
policies.
You should most certainly have a central "NFS" mount from which remote
hosts can pull central information; it should be read-only so that it
is _CAREFULLY_ controlled as it has a whole lot of influence on how
all the machines out there work.
It would also be good to have another, distinctly separate, NFS mount
to which remote hosts could periodically submit "inventory."
information.
In theory, the SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) was designed
to allow collecting this sort of information; in practice, it seems to
be quite a lot of trouble to actually _use_ SNMP.
>It would be nice if there was some kind of integrated deployment
>toolkit out there, but I doubt there is. I guess that it will boil
>down to getting seperated packages that do *ONE* of these things, and
>then integrate it all myself using shell-scripts and such?
Definitely the nearest thing to this latter thing is cfengine.
<http://www.iu.hioslo.no/cfengine/>
Run, don't walk to find it. It is a language/engine designed with
your requirements specifically in mind. It doesn't "do it all" out of
the box; you have to write up scripts/rules to describe how your
systems are intended to work.
>All information, tips, or links to web-sites on Linux Deployment and
>management in medium to large sites is more than welcome.
Lots of relevant links at the URL below.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Partitioning.....
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:53:11 GMT
In our last episode (Tue, 26 Sep 2000 22:53:22 -0500),
the artist formerly known as The Jigsaw Man said:
>> 3. As part of the install process, you will also be asked where to place
>> Lilo, the Linux Loader. Make sure you indicate "Linux partition" (whatever
>> your distribution calls it), and _not_ MBR (Master Boot Record).
>
>One of my documents said I had to have the kernal set before the 1203
>cylinder in order that BIOS can "see" it, but it was an older document.
>Is this still relevant if I want to only boot to Linux with a disk?
>(Win98 otherwise) If so, how can I assure it's placement?
The issue relates more to the age of your motherboard than anything
else.
Old motherboard --> It's guaranteed to be a problem;
Newer design --> Less likely problematic.
The way to _guarantee_ that it's a non-issue is to have the kernel
reside in the /boot partition, and to have that be a small partition,
defined to entirely reside within the legal cylinder limit.
That is, one of your first partitions will be a small one that you use
for either /boot, or perhaps /.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: ftp problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 29 Sep 2000 01:54:28 +0100
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:11:00 GMT, Al wrote:
>Hi all.
>
>I'm having problems with ftp on my linux boxes.
>I have 2 boxes (a and b).
>I can ftp from a to b but not from b to a.
>I copied the following files from a to b, so a=b
> inetd.config
> hosts
>rebooted both machines then from b I type:
>
>ftp <DNS of a> and get the message:
Have you checked your hosts.allow and hosts.deny files on each
machine.
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot problem
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 19:57:10 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I started up my computer today, running Red Hat 6.2, and I get this odd
> error.
>
> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> Fatal Server Error
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> It displays the previous line about 8 times I think. Then it switches
> to runlevel: 3, where I can hit Enter and go to the command prompt.
>
> This error occurs when it is switching to the graphical login. I have
> no idea what could be causing this. Please give me some help.
>
Sounds like the font server, xfs, is not running. check that the font
server is running, do 'ps -aux' and look for xfs. If it is not running ,
try restarting it from the command line with '/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs
start'. Note any error messages, sometimes a stale lock file in
/var/lock/subsys will prevent it from startiing.
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From: Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where go get sshd
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:03:40 -0700
In article <8qss0v$qeh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> i'm looking for sshd, the daemon side of ssh.
> where can i donwload it? rpm's prefered, source code ok.
> thanks.
When looking for RPM's, I would recommend www.rpmfind.net. They have
RPM's of almost all Linux programs.
Jeff
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