Linux-Setup Digest #686, Volume #20 Thu, 22 Feb 01 16:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Ker-Clunk on Western Digital Drive - Normal for Linux? (Steve Bradley)
Recommendation for flavor wanted ("Martin Hebel")
Re: xinetd.d problem. (Peter B. Steiger)
Re: Recommendation for flavor wanted (Peter B. Steiger)
Re: OPTIMUM DISK Partition? (Dean Kwak)
Re: G400, GLX with 2.4 kernel, is it working? (Dr Entropy)
Re: mount can't find hda1 (Marc Ulrich)
Re: Recommendation for flavor wanted ("Martin Hebel")
Linux Networking
How to remove items from GNOME menus? ("Speaker-To-Animals")
Install linux on laptop with broken floppy? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ARRRGGGGG... can't use Helix Gnome updater! ("Speaker-To-Animals")
Re: RPM option (Chiefy)
drop folder ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: install probelms (Dr Entropy)
Re: Recommendation for flavor wanted (Peter B. Steiger)
Re: LILO, boot problems ("Eric en Jolanda")
Dhcp Declaration Problem Help!!! (Charles Anderson)
Pan newsreader has a bad bug... ("Speaker-To-Animals")
Re: xinetd.d problem. (Peter Gregson)
Re: Linux Networking (Peter B. Steiger)
Re: drop folder (Erik Hensema)
Re: LILO, boot problems ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: OPTIMUM DISK Partition? ("Eric en Jolanda")
Gnome-session->mount CDROM->migrate to tar.gz & .dsc files, then what?? (DTi4565459)
Re: RedHat hard drive installation problem ("Bjarne Larsen")
Installing RH7 through WIN 98. ("Mr. Kipling")
Identical logons... (Patrick M Geahan)
Re: drop folder ("Peter T. Breuer")
install scripts RedHat (SSH2.3.0) ("RJHM van den Bergh")
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From: Steve Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ker-Clunk on Western Digital Drive - Normal for Linux?
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:21:10 GMT
> However, occasionally I will hear a 'ker-clunk' sound from the drive.
> And after I have thought about it, I seem to only hear it when using
> Linux.
I have one 30G 7200rpm WD drive in my system, and 1 30G 7200rpm IBM Deskstar
- the WD is definately noiser than the IBM, but it doesnt actually klunk.
Like Gene though, my computer is on 24/7/365, so if it's "thermal
calibration", mine would have stopped months ago...
Be safe, if it doesn't stop, even after it's had a chance "warm up", take it
back!
--
Steve Bradley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Public key available at:
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/bradleysm/bradleysm_public_key.asc
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From: "Martin Hebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recommendation for flavor wanted
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:26:18 -0600
Hi,
I want to set up Linux for Internet services only, www, FTP, smtp/pop3
maybe, etc.
I do not want any GUIs installed.
I need to install on 500Meg drives. Support for Ethernet (of course).
What would be a good choice for simple & reliabable installation of just
those major services with a small footprint?
Thanks,
Martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter B. Steiger)
Subject: Re: xinetd.d problem.
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:47:58 GMT
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:51:23 -0400, Peter Gregson sez:
>I'm running RedHat 7.0 and have a pronblem that either the xinetd.conf
>file is not being accessed or the files in xinetd.d are not being read
>or used properly. The symptom is that neither telnetd nor wu-ftpd is
>being run. The processes are not running and I cannot telnet or ftp
>into the box from another. I can access via ssh, however. My
>hosts.deny is empty.
You'll love this... for reasons known only to the authors, the config
files default to "disable = yes". Go into each file and comment out
or remove the line (or change it to disable = no).
Peter B. Steiger
Cheyenne, WY
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter B. Steiger)
Subject: Re: Recommendation for flavor wanted
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:53:50 GMT
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:26:18 -0600, Martin Hebel sez:
>I want to set up Linux for Internet services only, www, FTP, smtp/pop3
>maybe, etc.
>
>I do not want any GUIs installed.
>
>I need to install on 500Meg drives. Support for Ethernet (of course).
>
>What would be a good choice for simple & reliabable installation of just
>those major services with a small footprint?
Sheesh, why not just ask "What's the best religion"? Ask 10 people
and you'll get 27 conflicting answers, cascading into two years' worth
of flame wars.
Any distribution you can find adequate documentation that makes
sense to you will work. Why did I pick Red Hat? Because I like
hats! Now that I have learned the RPM lifestyle I would probably
have a bit of trouble switching to Debian or Slackware, but folks
who started off with those flavours will tell you that theirs is the
absolute best in the known universe.
Peter B. Steiger
Cheyenne, WY
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From: Dean Kwak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OPTIMUM DISK Partition?
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:47:23 -0800
there is no "partition" section. is that the name of the chapter in the
HOWTO doc?
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Eric wrote:
> Read the partitioning howto.
> It's all well explained there.
>
> Eric
>
>
>
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From: Dr Entropy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: G400, GLX with 2.4 kernel, is it working?
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 08:10:55 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TheMartian wrote:
>
> Just built this thing from source tarballs installed it, no errors are
> reported at all, nothing reported even with enabled logging.
>
> Any ideas how I can tell if this is actually working?
>
> David
> Sydney, Australia
I'd say it's working... We can see ya here!
--
Dr E--
mhm 17x1
SGM #3
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FWAC:"Old No.-7"
Surgeon General-Relativity
Commodore/Upper-Half/1st Virginia Volunteers/CEsium Brigade
NF & TCIB
=============================
If you jump we will save you.
There is no way out. -- JungleAcid.
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From: Marc Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mount can't find hda1
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:11:04 -0500
Well, this will amuse you. I came in this morning to these messages and
proceeded to see if I could apply this advice. Well . . . the problem no
longer existed! I guess something changed when I recompiled the kernel.
I recompiled the kernel (2.4.1) as I was walking out the door and I
don't think I paid attention to the boot messages. Anyway, I was
surprised! I still don't have the kernel doing what it is supposed to on
all accounts (like the parallel port doesn't exist even though it is
included in the kernel), but this was the most important part.
Thanks
Marc
Eric wrote:
> As Herman suggested, check the major/minor numbers, and look at the
> partitiontable. (fdisk -l /dev/hda)
>
> Eric
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From: "Martin Hebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommendation for flavor wanted
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:19:31 -0600
Thanks Peter, I had used Red Hat a couple years ago, went well with a full
install, but someone had told me recently it is more difficult to do a
limited install with it. True? False?
I know it was a very open opinionated-response question, but discussions can
be good reading :)
-Martin
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Networking
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:26:44 GMT
I've heard quite a bit about Linux and am very interested in learning more
about it, possibly for use here in my office. Currently, I'm running a
Windows NT network with Windows98 clients. I'm fed up with NT and its
"little idiosyncrasies." What I'd like to know, is if it's possible to run
a network using Linux as the OS for the file server and still keep the
Windows98 clients. If it is possible I need to know how. A pointer to a
good online resource or book would be immensely helpful, unless any
respondents really want to type out detailed instructions and post it here.
Thanks so much for your help!
--Patrick Hughes
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From: "Speaker-To-Animals" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to remove items from GNOME menus?
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 14:18:46 -0500
All,
I tried using the Settings -> Menu Editor program to edit my menus but
I've run into two annoying problems:
1) I can't add any top-level menus. Only submenus beneath the menus
already provided. That means that there will always be exactly three
top-level menus... Programs, Applets and Favorites. I can't seem to add
any new top-level menus.
2) Using the Menu Editor again I want to remove a lot of the annoying
text-based applications that are in these top-level menus like TRN and
STRN etc. Guess what? The Menu Editor doesn't display any of these, I
guess because it doesn't understand non-Gnome applications.
So how do I add top-level menus and how do I delete those text-based and
apparently non-Gnome applications from the menus?
Gnome is seriously frustrating much of the time.
- Speaker
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Install linux on laptop with broken floppy?
Date: 22 Feb 2001 19:29:24 GMT
Hello,
I bought a laptop that had Windows NT 3.51 installed on it. Now I
realize the floppy drive is broken. I can download files under WinNT with
the modem.
I'm out of luck, aren't I, because the NT boot loader wants a
valid bootsector and I can't really provide one. Loadlin won't work. Is
there any way I can do this? I was hoping I could somehow boot a linux
kernel and mount a ramdisk, then nfs mount with a NIC to my desktop to do
the install.
Thanks,
Todd
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From: "Speaker-To-Animals" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ARRRGGGGG... can't use Helix Gnome updater!
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 14:23:02 -0500
All,
The Helix GNome updater was SUPPOSED to handle file version conflicts and
incompatibilites but apparently it doesn't. Everytime I use the Helix
Updater, I get messages that complain about RPM conflicts and version
mismatches.
Excuse me... THAT'S WHY I'M USING THE UPDATER... TO GET AROUND THIS.
I've also tried downloading the latest libariaries and RPMs from the
Ximian site but that's even worse. Those RPMs never seem to be in sync
with each other.
So what do I need to do to just get the latest Gnome libraries? I can't
install some of the Gnome based apps because of these conflicts.
- Speaker
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Subject: Re: RPM option
Date: 22 Feb 2001 19:48:26 GMT
21 Feb 2001 08:37 UTC, Ron Nicholls typed:
>Is there a way to view/list the files in an RPM
>package BEFORE it's installed.
It's possible to 'see' inside an RPM with the MC file viewer.
--
Chiefy. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: drop folder
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:53:40 -0800
I need to create on linux what in the MacOS is called a drop-folder. It
doesn't need to be a "real" directory, but needs to perform an action on
files that touch it or enter it.
I currently have an application that "watches" the directory scanning,
sleeping, scanning, sleeping, but I'd rather create something more real
time.
- Craig
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From: Dr Entropy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: install probelms
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:56:39 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shravan Mahidhara wrote:
>
> Hi.
> I'm trying to install Red Hat 7 with kernel 2.2-16 on an X86 machine.The
> first time I booted with the CD(one that came with Red Hat Linux Bible),it
> worked fine and I went ahead with the procedure for a custom
> installation.Midway through the install,it froze.
> Now,when I boot from the CDROM,it doesn't recongnise the CD,doesn't read
> from it and doesn't go into the install program.Instead,I get a "kernel
> panic" error.
> I tried making a boot floppy and booting it off of that.It works till the
> time the files have to be read off the CDROM.I then get a message that says
> "I could not find a Red Hat CDROM in any of your CDROM drives".
> So,I'm stuck with a machine that has no OS and I can't think of a way to
> load Linux on it.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Shravan
Have you tried the update-install on RH website? I had a similar
experience, and that straightened it out.
HTH
--
Dr E--
mhm 17x1
SGM #3
smeeter #5
FWAC:"Old No.-7"
Surgeon General-Relativity
Commodore/Upper-Half/1st Virginia Volunteers/CEsium Brigade
NF & TCIB
=============================
If you jump we will save you.
There is no way out. -- JungleAcid.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter B. Steiger)
Subject: Re: Recommendation for flavor wanted
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 19:57:44 GMT
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:19:31 -0600, Martin Hebel sez:
>Thanks Peter, I had used Red Hat a couple years ago, went well with a full
>install, but someone had told me recently it is more difficult to do a
>limited install with it. True? False?
{shrug} if you run the full install, especially under "expert" mode,
there are options to enable and disable just about every aspect,
including the whole boatload of X-windows stuff. You can hit
a function key - F2, I think - to get a description of what each
package does, so you can decide whether or not you need it.
Peter B. Steiger
Cheyenne, WY
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO, boot problems
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:04:12 +0100
> I don't thinks, but if that is the case, how do I fix that?
>
Why not?
Have you checked this?
Eric
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From: Charles Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dhcp Declaration Problem Help!!!
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:04:56 -0500
Hi could someone help me out,
I have Redhat 7.0 running on a computer with two NIC's. One is for the
internet eth0, and the other is local eth1. I have Dhcp running on
this server also but when i start the demon i get a message saying "no
declaration for eth0, please add a declaration for eth0". Could
someone please explain to me what that is and how to do this.
BTW
the dhcp server is running and it is giving out addresses.
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From: "Speaker-To-Animals" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pan newsreader has a bad bug...
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 14:59:03 -0500
The Pan newsreader seems to have a bad bug. If I select an article in
the newsgroups list to save and then navigate to Folder Tools and "Move
Article", Pan just complains that I have to select a target folder in the
Groups list...
but everytime I select the Folder to move to, the newsgroup headers for
the newsgroup I'm in dissapear and so I can't select an article to move.
Either I'm not doing something right, or this is a seriously bad design
flaw in the interface. Exactly how am I supposed to save articles from
newsgroups in Pan? It doesn't seem possible...
and Pan REALLY needs to implement drag and drop. Come on its the 21st
Century! Drag and drop should be standard!
- Speaker
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From: Peter Gregson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xinetd.d problem.
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 16:11:19 -0400
I uncommented the line
#default: on
at the start of each of the config files in xinetd.d. It did not help.
The systems still does not allow any of these services (specifically
telnet and wu-ftpd).
Also, my mouse no longer allows cut and paste as it did with other
versions of Linux. Any idea why?
All help gratefully acknowledged.
Peter
"Peter B. Steiger" wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:51:23 -0400, Peter Gregson sez:
> >I'm running RedHat 7.0 and have a pronblem that either the xinetd.conf
> >file is not being accessed or the files in xinetd.d are not being read
> >or used properly. The symptom is that neither telnetd nor wu-ftpd is
> >being run. The processes are not running and I cannot telnet or ftp
> >into the box from another. I can access via ssh, however. My
> >hosts.deny is empty.
>
> You'll love this... for reasons known only to the authors, the config
> files default to "disable = yes". Go into each file and comment out
> or remove the line (or change it to disable = no).
>
> Peter B. Steiger
> Cheyenne, WY
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter B. Steiger)
Subject: Re: Linux Networking
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 20:09:24 GMT
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:26:44 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sez:
>I've heard quite a bit about Linux and am very interested in learning more
>about it, possibly for use here in my office. Currently, I'm running a
>Windows NT network with Windows98 clients. I'm fed up with NT and its
>"little idiosyncrasies." What I'd like to know, is if it's possible to run
>a network using Linux as the OS for the file server and still keep the
>Windows98 clients. If it is possible I need to know how. A pointer to a
>good online resource or book would be immensely helpful, unless any
>respondents really want to type out detailed instructions and post it here.
I'm doing it even as we speak... errr, type! With no training and
only cursory reads of the multitude of HOWTOs, I installed Red Hat
on a second partition of my Win95 box (I left a partition available
when I got the drive, knowing I would eventually want to play with
Linux). In less than a day I had Samba (that's the main thing you'll
need) running as a file server; I now also use the Linux box as
my Internet firewall/gateway/DNS/etc. My NT client doesn't even
know the difference - it thinks it is connecting to another NT server.
Take THAT, Bill! {chortle}
I don't remember the last time I booted up the Windows partition,
and now I kind of regret wasting all that disk space on it :-(
One word of warning speaking as one newbie to another, make
a good backup of your current Windows files if you'll be putting
Linux over top of an existing file system. And once you get the
server running the way you like, make a good backup of your
configuration files (mostly the /etc hierarchy). Not that Linux is
unstable, but the user is. On several occasions I have gotten the
urge to experiment and started uninstalling and reinstalling packages,
erasing "temporary" files, etc. only to shriek "NOOOOoooooo!" in
horror as I realized I just removed key components of the kernel,
irreplacable and highly customized configuration files, etc.
On the other hand, to give you an idea how easy it is, I speak C
about as well as I speak German (ask my German father how
bad THAT is) and yet I was able to install the kernel source,
apply patches, even make my own modifications so I have a
customized kernel built to my specifications. Wow!
Peter B. Steiger
Cheyenne, WY
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erik Hensema)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: drop folder
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:09:02 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>I need to create on linux what in the MacOS is called a drop-folder.
>It doesn't need to be a "real" directory, but needs to perform an
>action on files that touch it or enter it.
>I currently have an application that "watches" the directory
>scanning, sleeping, scanning, sleeping, but I'd rather create
>something more real time.
As far as I know (and when I understand you correctly) this doesn't exist
under Linux, but when you're a programmer you may want to look at the
automounter code (kernel and userspace). It does something similar. 100%
userspace automounter implementations also exists, IIRC.
--
Erik Hensema ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) || ICQ# 8280101
A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that
your wife will give you for free.
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO, boot problems
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:11:44 +0100
> I don't thinks, but if that is the case, how do I fix that?
>
Maybe you're right.
I read your story only half.
I actually do fail to see how the recompilation of the kernel,
would have *any* effect on the visibility of your HDD to the BIOS.
Is it properly connected? Is it jumpered correct (Master/Slave/(Single))?
You didn't install some weird program in the MBR so the BIOS
can see the disc? You only updated the BIOS, right?
Eric
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OPTIMUM DISK Partition?
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:14:05 +0100
> there is no "partition" section. is that the name of the chapter in the
> HOWTO doc?
>
I can't tell if it's on your system.
Go to www.google.com and enter "partitioning howto"
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DTi4565459)
Date: 22 Feb 2001 20:49:14 GMT
Subject: Gnome-session->mount CDROM->migrate to tar.gz & .dsc files, then what??
I'm trying to learn how to compile some Debian apps from source on disk #4 of
the 6 disc distro. apt-get wants to go to ftp sites, but the machine is not on
the net yet. How can I make it deal with the files on the cdrom? Will dpkg
work? Or do I need to go to console and use basic linux commands on the files?
IF so, how?? Good howto anywhere about exactly what linux commands??? Thanks
in advance.
dave
http://www.columbia.edu/~mdt1/
(1 = one, not little L; and don't forget the trailing / )
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From: "Bjarne Larsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat hard drive installation problem
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:50:13 +0100
Try D:/RedHat/ -remember the last slash!
BL.
"Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i en meddelelse
news:973gau$ae0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> A Linux 7.0 installation question. I've downloaded the RPMS and base
> directories to my D: drive. In a directory named RedHat with
subdirectories
> of RPMS and base. During the install I select hard drive as the software
> source. I get to the Select Partition screen. When I specify the source of
> the software I get an error saying that the it cannot be found.
> Device /dev/hda5 does not appear to contain a RedHat installation tree.
> At the "Directory holding RedHat:" prompt I specify the directory holding
> the RPMS and base directory. I've tried every path I can think of that it
> may recognize with no success. Examples: d:/RedHat d:/RedHat/RPMS /RedHat
> etc. I suspect that I'm giving it a path that Linux doesn't understand.
> Help!
>
>
>
>
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From: "Mr. Kipling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing RH7 through WIN 98.
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 19:25:21 -0000
HELP!
I have installed Redhat 6.2, which is on a partitioned hard drive with
Windows 98.
I want to upgrade to Redhat 7 using my ADSL connection but the problem is
that RH 6.2 doesn't support ADSL and i can only use it form windows.
Can someone help please?
Mr. Kipling
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From: Patrick M Geahan<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Identical logons...
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 20:59:15 GMT
I currently have a three-box network. One box Win98, another box running
Redhat 5.2, and a third which will either be running RH6.2 or NetBSD.
I have plans currently to use NIS or NIS+ to coordinate logons and home
directories between the LInux and BSD boxes. However, I got to thinking
about tying the Windows box in as well.
I have a pretty good idea of how to get the home directories in, but I'm
unsure as to the logons themselves. I haven't been able to find any
documentation as to whether Win98 works with NIS, or what.
Does anyone have any ideas? Is NIS the wrong tack altogether? Or will I
have to run a separate daemon for the Win98 logins?
Thanks in advance.
--
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world that he congested bandwidth by forwarding email to everyone in
his address book?'" - Tom Sevart in alt.folklore.urban
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: drop folder
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:42:38 +0100
In comp.os.linux.help Erik Hensema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>>I need to create on linux what in the MacOS is called a drop-folder.
>>It doesn't need to be a "real" directory, but needs to perform an
>>action on files that touch it or enter it.
>>I currently have an application that "watches" the directory
>>scanning, sleeping, scanning, sleeping, but I'd rather create
>>something more real time.
> As far as I know (and when I understand you correctly) this doesn't exist
> under Linux, but when you're a programmer you may want to look at the
> automounter code (kernel and userspace). It does something similar. 100%
> userspace automounter implementations also exists, IIRC.
I don't think he needs to be a programmer. The automount daemon
can be configured to run an executable when an access is made to a
certain directory. The problem is that it doesn't distinguish between
read and write access.
You could do it, but you'd have to work real hard with permissions and
so on.
Peter
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From: "RJHM van den Bergh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: install scripts RedHat (SSH2.3.0)
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 22:06:08 +0100
I've an old RedHat 5.2 and managed to install the ssh2.3.0
I had to use the source rpm to get it going.
Compiled the thing by hand
I found the source rpm also contains a install script to be used with
/etc/rc.d/init.d
No I'm not sure what to do next.
I want to place symbolic links at the rc directories.
So when next time the system boots ssh2 is also started.
But is that save to do.
Does a failure cause the server not to reboot ?
Now I do start the ssh2 deamon with rc.local.
Or was there another way to do it.
rpm rebuild or something.
Thanks for any advice
Rob,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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