Linux-Setup Digest #988, Volume #20 Thu, 5 Apr 01 00:13:15 EDT
Contents:
Re: Novice admin trying to secure a server ("David White")
Re: boot floppy error ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: boot floppy error ("Gilles Lamoureux")
Re: What distribution should I use to make a compact Linux system < (Michael
McPhail)
Re: Partioning problem during install (Carl Wick)
Re: Upgrading packages with RPM ("Matt Greer")
Hylafax and vgetty, Anyone got it working?? ("Anthony Childers")
rpm & kpackage (Jay & Shell)
Silkymail 1.0 21-Feb-2001 (Chris Hendrickx)
modem installation. ("Graham")
FYI on Power Failure induced crashes (in Linux) (Arthur Sowers)
Re: this is Bellsouth policy. ("charlieman")
Re: Upgrading packages with RPM (KCmaniac)
LINUX FEVER magazine ... check it out! (tom)
LVS - load balancing 2 web servers (SolarisCert)
Re: Upgrading packages with RPM (H.Bruijn)
Re: Upgrading packages with RPM (KCmaniac)
Re: this is Bellsouth policy. (Jack)
Re: Upgrading packages with RPM (H.Bruijn)
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From: "David White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Novice admin trying to secure a server
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 21:29:07 -0400
Thanks very much to everyone who gave suggestions. The links you gave me
were great, and have provided me with a lot of material I look forward to
getting into. I appreciate everyone's helpfullness!
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot floppy error
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 02:51:10 +0200
Gilles Lamoureux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Allo people,
> Okay, I blew it. I admit it. I extended the root partition via partition
> magic software, and somehow, I can't any longer boot the Linux 6.0 OS from
> the floppy boot disk. Normally, if I modify or copy the partition, the
Booot a rescue system and examine what damage you did.
> floppy works, but this time, no luck. Of course, LILO is on /dev/hda6, and
> not hda5. I normally type: linux root=/dev/hda6 to gain access to the root
> partition. No luck . I just receive: 0X10 error.
Peter
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From: "Gilles Lamoureux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot floppy error
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 20:46:40 -0500
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Gilles Lamoureux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Allo people,
>
> > Okay, I blew it. I admit it. I extended the root partition via
partition
> > magic software, and somehow, I can't any longer boot the Linux 6.0 OS
from
> > the floppy boot disk. Normally, if I modify or copy the partition, the
>
> Booot a rescue system and examine what damage you did.
I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean?
>
> > floppy works, but this time, no luck. Of course, LILO is on /dev/hda6,
and
> > not hda5. I normally type: linux root=/dev/hda6 to gain access to the
root
> > partition. No luck . I just receive: 0X10 error.
>
> Peter
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From: Michael McPhail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: What distribution should I use to make a compact Linux system <
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 01:56:16 GMT
Check out Peanut Linux (http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/). I have it
running on an older laptop and it's a nice little distribution.
Mike
Ivory Bones wrote:
>
> "Keith Twombley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> Slackware has a version called ZipSlack which will install in 100Mb. I have
> done it, and it works. As to your other requirements, I don't know, I'm a
> linux newbie.
>
> Don
> <Mg_q6.25066$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >basically, I want a Linux router with minimal services, like httpd and
> >ftpd.
> >
> >I have a 170MB disk, but the smallest install of Redhat 7.0 is about
> >200MB (without any needed packages)
> >
> >I don't quite want LRP because I want more flexibility, and have more HD
> >space than 1.44MB
> >
> >any help?
> >
> >thanks!
> >
> >-daoist
> >
> >
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Wick)
Subject: Re: Partioning problem during install
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 01:43:50 GMT
That worked, clearing the mfd with your dd command worked. I think
what I did was I may have deleted my linux partitons using the dos
fdisk not the linux fdisk. Then everything came unwound.
Anyway, I did the mknod command after booting up rescue. I tried
fdisk o then w like someone else posted but that didn't wipe out the
mfd. Then I did your dd command and that blew away the drive. I made
my dos extened partition using dos fdisk leaving several gig
unpartitiond. Started the RH install again and disk druid is letting
me slice up the unpartitioned space.
sweet
thanks
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:02:08 +0200, "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Question, when I boot up the RH7 install disk and select rescue it didn't
>> let me fdisk /dev/hdb. Said the device wasn't there, do you think it will
>> let me do your dd comands? I am not at that machine or I would try it
>know.
>>
>
>This is just a silly setup that redhat uses in their rescue systems.
>Use mknod first to create the /dev/hdb entry:
>
>mknod /dev/hdb b 3 64
>
>Eric
>
>
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From: "Matt Greer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrading packages with RPM
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 21:10:44 -0500
"KCmaniac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> When using the -U switch with RPM I keep getting this same message:
>
> "only packages with major numbers <=3 are supported by this version of
> RPM
> package <rpm name> can not be installed"
>
> Anybody know what major numbers are or what this means?
>
Say a piece of software is at version 3.24
3 is the major number, 24 is the minor number.
Basically RPM is asking for newer packages.
--
Matt
http://www.classicgaming.com/neotokens
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From: "Anthony Childers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Hylafax and vgetty, Anyone got it working??
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 02:13:51 GMT
I have spent days trying to set-up my linux machine to serve as a fax and
answering machine. I have been mostly successful but I am still having a
problem with vgetty.
Let me explain my set-up. My linux machine is running Red Hat 6.1. I have a
single telephone line with distinctive ring. The single ring (RING A) is for
voice calls and the double ring (RING B) is for fax calls.
I am using HylaFAX to handle the incomming calls and receive the faxes. I am
trying to setup vgetty to take care of the answering machine part.
Hylafax (actually faxgetty) is able to recognize RING A and RING B just
fine. In fact the fax part is working fine.
The problem is when I get RING A and try to execute vgetty. Vgetty is
executed with the command line arguments specified by VGettyArgs in the
config file. I have specified only the device (/dev/ttyS2). So vgetty gets
executed like this:
/bin/vgetty /dev/ttyS2
For some reason, it does not work. I suspect the problem is with the
arguments that I am passing (or need to pass) to vgetty.
Does anyone have this working?! If so, please share your config file with
us.
Thanks,
Anthony
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From: Jay & Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rpm & kpackage
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 02:25:23 GMT
How do I fix this, I upgraded my rpm to version 3.0.5 and in a term
window as root: kpackage
kpackage: Symbol 'rmpTagTable' has different size in shared object,
consider re-linking
I'm running Mandrake 7.1 kernel 2.2.16, and using Gnome 1.2 for my
desktop, if this helps.
--
Registered Linux User #192969
Ms-Windows = A Colorful Clown Suit For Dos !
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From: Chris Hendrickx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.imap
Subject: Silkymail 1.0 21-Feb-2001
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 21:24:58 -0500
I don't know if this is the place to ask about silkymail
(http://www.silkymail.com), but I'm trying to get it set up. I can log in
and view mail fine, but when I try to send a message, I get these errors:
"Warning: Uninitialized variable or array index or property ( 4) in
/home/httpd/html/silkymail/imp/compose.php3 on line 188
Warning: Uninitialized variable in
/home/httpd/html/silkymail/imp/compose.php3 on line 190"
If I try to cancel the message, I get:
"Warning: Uninitialized variable or array index or property ( 50) in
/home/httpd/html/silkymail/imp/compose.php3 on line 188
Warning: Uninitialized variable in
/home/httpd/html/silkymail/imp/compose.php3 on line 190"
If I try to view the folders by clicking on the folders link, I get:
"Warning: Invalid content of \{\} in ./lib/imp.lib on line 585
Warning: Uninitialized array index (1) in ./lib/imp.lib on line 586
Warning: Uninitialized array index (2) in ./lib/imp.lib on line 587
Warning: Uninitialized variable or array index or property (label) in
./lib/imp.lib on line 592
Warning: Uninitialized variable or array index or property (value) in
/home/httpd/html/silkymail/imp/folders.php3 on line 218
Warning: Uninitialized variable or array index or property (label) in
/home/httpd/html/silkymail/imp/folders.php3 on line 219
Warning: Uninitialized variable or array index or property (name) in
/home/httpd/html/silkymail/imp/folders.php3 on line 229
Warning: Uninitialized variable or array index or property (name) in
/home/httpd/html/silkymail/imp/folders.php3 on line 229
Warning: Uninitialized variable in
/home/httpd/html/silkymail/imp/folders.php3 on line 262"
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance!
--Chris Hendrickx
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From: "Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modem installation.
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:29:34 +1200
I am having problems installing a modem into linus mandrake 7.2
the modem is Rockwell chipset. it's serial is FM-56PCI/HFC.
I am unsure if I need to download a driver or if I need to set up a genric
driver ?
if any one can help could you please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks for any help
Linux newbie. Graham
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From: Arthur Sowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.questions,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.os.linux.redhat,alt.os.linux.questions,comp.os.msdos.misc,linux.redhat.install,sci.research.careers
Subject: FYI on Power Failure induced crashes (in Linux)
Date: 5 Apr 2001 02:45:05 GMT
(cross post to ten NGs)
A number of months ago I posted a question _related_ to the subject and
cross posted it to about as many newsgroups but despite a few lengthy and
well-meaning replies I never got a really satisfying answer. Recently I
think I figured it out and want to share this with the audience.
Brief review: Being a newbie with Linux and in the course of getting
hands-on experience with it, I managed to get "into" certain things
without knowing how to get "out" of those certain things (sorry, I didn't
write down everything I did) but sometimes I ended up with a locked up
keyboard (this is before I learned about switching to any of the
six virtual terminals available in the function keys) and nothing else to
do but turn off the power switch and turn it back on again (something the
books say you can't do because it needs a graceful shutdown). All this
happened to me several times and upon reboot, the boot process hangs
somewhere and won't complete. Ergo, I had to reinstall the whole OS!
So, the problem came up that as I talked to a few other people about
this who, themselves, were using Linux (I think on desktops), they said to
me that they could shut off the power switch and back on again without any
problems in booting up and/or running applications. When I asked further,
none of them could tell me why I was having problems but they were not.
It occurred to me that the default install (almost all of my experience
has been with Red Hat 5.2 and Red Hat 6.2 Linux) of the OS sets up the
install with quite a few of the "services' (daemons) to start up and run
after boot up. Looking through many of my Linux books led me to discover
one book that said that the startup of these services during bootup can be
controlled. If I recall correctly what I did, I opened up a terminal
window and typed in:
ntsysv <cr>
and it brought back the whole list of services that it controls complete
with "check" marks or blank spaces for all of the services that are
accessible. I just un-Xed all the services that were part of the default
install except the log, printer, and one other (can't remember) services
and closed the window. Then graceful shutdown & reboot, and sure enough, I
can now turn off the power switch, turn it back on 20-30 sec later, and it
all boots up just fine (it does do a filecheck that takes maybe a minute
or so, but still ends up with a complete bootup). Even with StarOffice
runing, a power off and turn back on still boots up fine and can launch SO
fine, and it works fine, and it all collapses back upon exit from the
application and does graceful shutdowns without problems.
So, the mystery seems solved.
Thanks to all who attempted to help me. I hope this post helps others,
particularly those moving or trying to move to Linux as an alternative to
Windows.
Art Sowers
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Reply-To: "charlieman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "charlieman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,bellsouth.net.support.adsl,bellsouth.net.support.linux
Subject: Re: this is Bellsouth policy.
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 21:46:55 -0500
what is the bridging that your talking about?
"Stray Cat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:gamkctgv5g1j5pi8fa69oi9985l7igk1jj@localhost...
> On Tue, 03 Apr 2001 22:34:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack Agent
> 3509) wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 03 Apr 2001 01:55:40 -0400, Stray Cat
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>On Tue, 03 Apr 2001 05:03:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack Agent
> >>3509) wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 17:25:02 -0400, John M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>A happy Bellsouth customer without a decent news server?
> >>>
> >>>I would be a happy Bellsouth customer even if they just discontinued
> >>>the damn newservers already. They have pretty much always sucked
> >>>anyway.
> >>>
> >>>On the other hand, you could always get a T-1 and then for your $1000
> >>>per month you will have to buy a premium newservice anyway..
> >>>
> >>>You pay $50 for this service...come on. No affordable home broadband
> >>>can even come close to this!! Hell they could also can the stinking
> >>>mail servers for all I care.
> >>
> >>Really? I pay $50, and get good news and mail (but I don't use the
> >>mail, I run my own).
> >
> >Does Telocity's newservers really compare to alt, supernews or any of
> >the premium servers?? When they eventually force me off my bridged
> >connection I will probably get to see firsthand...
>
> Sure. When the server was in top shape completion and speed were
> absolutely stellar. It more than rivaled commercial services, it was
> clearly better. These days completion in now good again, but not quite
> as good as it was. Speed is off a bit during peak hours, but great
> during the day. There is interaction between the completion and the
> speed. When the server is under heavy reading load, completion can
> start to slip. But it a very good freebie still.
>
> Given Bellsouth's now public admission that bridging will be
> deprecated, that ought to clinch it for those who find this important
> to them. How many will wait till it's gone before actually going
> elsewhere is the big question. My feel is that the longer you postpone
> the inevitable, the greater the chance that a change will be more
> difficult or not turn out as well. Of course Bellsouth's performance
> to schedules could mean that bridging will be around a lot longer than
> they are saying now. But so is that news server fiasco that was
> supposed to be cleared up by April 2000. I wouldn't count on this
> though.
>
> >>>Who wants their IP and all that BS crap in the headers anyway?
> >>
> >>My ISP's news server doesn't put IPs in the headers. But they still
> >>can know who made the post.
> >
> >I'm pretty sure anyone running a newserver could tell who made a post
> >in question, the difference is just seeing it in the headers or
> >obtaining a court order.
>
> Anyone running a news server can tell who made posts if they keep
> logs. They don't need a court order to read their own logs. They may
> require a court order to reveal that information to interested third
> parties, but plenty of them will roll over without any legal paperwork
> at all.
>
> >
> >>>One warez post and you would be back on dialup...
> >>
> >>LOL. And you'd lose that account too on the next illegal post if you
> >>upped it directly to a news server. Unless the server was in Russia or
> >>some such place.
> >
> >
> >I'm talking about the difference in upping warez from your bellsouth
> >server vs say alt.net's servers. With one you MAY lose your news
> >account - the other...back on dialup....or the next broadband
> >provider...
> >
>
> Sure. But you might not even lose your news account on alt.net. You
> will have to deal with the legal problems yourself, alt.net doesn't
> get involved in that. They just surrender evidence. But everyone gets
> a second chance there, at least.
>
> All you have to do is re-affirm that you won't use the service in ways
> that are against the AUP. In fact, I don't know anyone who actually
> got shut off for warezing. They generated some posts that led to
> complaints, the complaints were forwarded to the poster and they had
> to reply that they got the complaint and that they would abide by the
> AUP.
>
> The tone of the letter is completely non-accusatory. They don't say
> you did anything wrong or illegal, just that someone complained, and
> if what they say happened is true, it might be a problem.
>
> The only catch with this is that you can't ignore the letter. They
> will send e-mail to your address on record and if you ignore it or it
> bounces, they may disable your ability to post until you get in touch
> with them about this.
>
> But sure, posting something bad to a Bellsouth news server wouldn't be
> smart if you could do it another way, even if you had to pay for that
> other way. However, it's a matter of degree. If someone complains to
> altnet, for example, they get your name and the IP you used too. There
> is nothing to prevent the complainant from also whining to Bellsouth
> about illegal use of the service. Check your AUP on this. It doesn't
> say illegal acts on their servers, it says illegal acts using their
> network.
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From: KCmaniac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrading packages with RPM
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 23:19:44 -0400
Matt Greer wrote:
> > When using the -U switch with RPM I keep getting this same message:
> >
> > "only packages with major numbers <=3 are supported by this version of
> > RPM
> > package <rpm name> can not be installed"
> >
> > Anybody know what major numbers are or what this means?
> >
>
> Say a piece of software is at version 3.24
>
> 3 is the major number, 24 is the minor number.
>
> Basically RPM is asking for newer packages.
>
Newer packages?? The RPMs I am trying to upgrade with are supposedly the
latest and greatest? Or do you mean the packages that RPM is made up of?
If so, how do I upgrade my version of RPM? Doesn't the currently installed
RMP handle the installation of the newer RPM. If the current can't install
the newer then how is the newer installed? In all the reading I have done I
have not seen anything that told me that RPM version 3.x could not install
RPM version 4.x. If my version of RPM can't install RPMs newer than itself
how does one upgrade? I am really confused. I never read or saw anything
about this. I saw a readme file that said something about increcrmently
upgrading older RPM versions to finally get up to the latest. But the
version I have with RH5.2 was not included in that category. It said
nothing about this.
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Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 23:27:36 -0400
From: tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LINUX FEVER magazine ... check it out!
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From: SolarisCert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LVS - load balancing 2 web servers
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 16:25:27 +0800
I would like to set up VS-NAT for load-balancing 2 real web servers
here is the details:
load balancer IP:
eth0 203.84.123.123
eth1 172.16.0.1
2 real servers IP:
172.16.0.2
172.16.0.3
Here is what I type in load balancer:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 172.16.0.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0
ipvsadm -A -t 203.84.123.123:80 -s rr
ipvsadm -a -t 203.84.123.123:80 -r 172.16.0.2:80 -m
ipvsadm -a -t 203.84.123.123:80 -r 172.16.0.3:80 -m
When I use lynx outside to test, it shows me the web site in round robin
style.
But when I use Netscape or IE, it does not. And the response is very
very slow.
I've tried to delete cache once in every trial.
Any body has the same experience?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: Upgrading packages with RPM
Date: 5 Apr 2001 03:34:34 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 04 Apr 2001 20:53:22 -0400, KCmaniac allegedly wrote:
>When using the -U switch with RPM I keep getting this same message:
>
>"only packages with major numbers <=3 are supported by this
>version of RPM.
>package <rpm name> can not be installed"
>
>Anybody know what major numbers are or what this means?
>
>Any help on this would be appreciated, thanks.
RedHat released a new version of the Redhat Package Manager, it is now
at major number (releas number) 4. With the new version there have also
been some changes in the way the .rpm packages are created. The older
versions of the Redhat Package Manager can't handle the newer packages.
You apperently still have version 3 of the Redhat Package Manager, but
are trying to install a package created with version 4.
So there are three options:
* upgrade your version of the Redhat Package Manager to major number 4
* download the piece of software in a version 3 package
* download the source code, and compile and install the software
yourself.
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
========================================================================
Herman Bruijn website: http://hermanbruijn.com
The Netherlands
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From: KCmaniac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrading packages with RPM
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 23:41:46 -0400
> >When using the -U switch with RPM I keep getting this same message:
> >
> >"only packages with major numbers <=3 are supported by this
> >version of RPM.
> >package <rpm name> can not be installed"
> >
> >Anybody know what major numbers are or what this means?
> >
> >Any help on this would be appreciated, thanks.
>
> RedHat released a new version of the Redhat Package Manager, it is now
> at major number (releas number) 4. With the new version there have also
> been some changes in the way the .rpm packages are created. The older
> versions of the Redhat Package Manager can't handle the newer packages.
>
> You apperently still have version 3 of the Redhat Package Manager, but
> are trying to install a package created with version 4.
> So there are three options:
> * upgrade your version of the Redhat Package Manager to major number 4
> * download the piece of software in a version 3 package
> * download the source code, and compile and install the software
> yourself.
> Herman Bruijn
Thank you, Herman. Can you tell me how do I upgrade my version of RPM to
4.x when my current can't handle it? I looked and looked trying to find
documentation on this exact subject because I had a feeling I needed to
upgrade my RPM before I could install any other packages but I could not
find anything about it. Amazing, it seems when this is so crucial to
upgrading. They tell you where you need to go on the otherside of the door
but they fail to tell you how to open the door. Can you help me here? I
know there are several packages to upgrade the RPM version but I have no
idea how to get them installed.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack)
Crossposted-To:
ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,bellsouth.net.support.adsl,bellsouth.net.support.linux
Subject: Re: this is Bellsouth policy.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 04:06:39 GMT
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 21:46:55 -0500, "charlieman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>what is the bridging that your talking about?
An old style bellsouth adsl connection that has kept it's ip for 1 1/2
years. It also works on anything that has a NIC & TCP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: Upgrading packages with RPM
Date: 5 Apr 2001 04:09:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 04 Apr 2001 23:41:46 -0400, KCmaniac allegedly wrote:
>> >"only packages with major numbers <=3 are supported by this
>> >version of RPM.
>> >package <rpm name> can not be installed"
>> >
>> RedHat released a new version of the Redhat Package Manager, it is now
>> at major number (releas number) 4. With the new version there have also
>> been some changes in the way the .rpm packages are created. The older
>> versions of the Redhat Package Manager can't handle the newer packages.
>>
>> You apperently still have version 3 of the Redhat Package Manager, but
>> are trying to install a package created with version 4.
>> So there are three options:
>> * upgrade your version of the Redhat Package Manager to major number 4
>
>Thank you, Herman. Can you tell me how do I upgrade my version of RPM to
>4.x when my current can't handle it? I looked and looked trying to find
>documentation on this exact subject because I had a feeling I needed to
>upgrade my RPM before I could install any other packages but I could not
>find anything about it. Amazing, it seems when this is so crucial to
>upgrading. They tell you where you need to go on the otherside of the door
>but they fail to tell you how to open the door. Can you help me here? I
>know there are several packages to upgrade the RPM version but I have no
>idea how to get them installed.
I don't know which version you are using now, but on the redhat mirrors
you should be able to find an upgrade package:
* Find a nearby mirror of updates.redhat.com at
http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html
* find the correct update for rpm in the directory for your release:
5.2/i386/rpm-4.0.2-5x.i386.rpm
5.2 RedHat Release
i386 or i586, i686, alpha, sparc or sparc64 depending on your CPU
* download it, and then install it after testing for problems
rpm -U --test rpm-4.0.2-5x.i386.rpm
solve potential problems, conflicts, missing libraries etc. and
then install the update:
rpm -U rpm-4.0.2-5x.i386.rpm
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