RE: [expert] Linux Serverbox Setup
It has nothing to do with Linux. If your card supports it - fine. My server box doesn't so I have to flip the switchbox over to it when I turn it on, then flip it back has soon as I have video on the screen. Most video cards should work ok without a monitor. Most Trident Chipset cards that I have seen have issues and need a monitor attached, preferably a non energy star model. Regards, Ran Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Sevatio Octavio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 8:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Linux Serverbox Setup For those of you that turned older machines into dedicated servers... Since you can do most things remotely, do you still keep a monitor attached to it? Can it reboot without the monitor connected? Seve
RE: [expert] Reboot Remote LinBox - How To?
I use init 6, or shutdown -r. Not sure what the difference is. Regards, Ran Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Sevatio Octavio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 4:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Reboot Remote LinBox - How To? I have a remote box running LM 7.1 without a monitor. How do you instruct that box to reboot via Telnet? Seve
[expert] How 2 fix?
I keep getting warnings that sendmail is running as uid root? I know I have to do a chown but how do I do it so it still works? Regards, Ran Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] 7.2
Can anybody tell me if install Mandrake 7.2, will I end up with Apache, PHP and MySql all working correctly, ie --with mysql_support etc.? Regards, Ran Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var
I know there is a thread related to this, I just want to make sure I get it right! I am running Mandrake 7.1 on an IDE drive. I need some space and a backup so I am adding the following: AHA-2940UW SCSI Seagate 4/8 DAT SCSI Seagate 2.1GB Barracuda. My data that is using space is on /var, currently I have / as one drive/partition. I would like to end up with the new drive being /var for space sake. My plan is thus: 1) Install hardware. 2) Boot up. 3) Kill anything using /var 3) insmod the aic7xxx.o 4) tar czpf /vardata.tar.gz /var 5) mv /var /oldvar 6) Run diskdrake, mount the drive, hopefully it takes care of fstab yes? 7) tar xzpf /vardata.tar.gz /var 8) if everything goes well whack /oldvar 9) Enjoy more space, and whoa, backups. Does this make sense? Will I get an exact duplicate (Links, permissions, etc.) of /var this way? My questions are as follows. 1) I know I need to use the command: insmod aic7xxx.o upon bootup to see the card and the devices attached. Where is the 'correct' place to put this command so that if the server reboots I don't have to be there to type it in. 2) Is using diskdrake safe for this? Will diskdrake auto update my fstab accordingly? So I'm *assuming* that I should end up with the additional line to my fstab: /dev/sda1 /var ext2 defaults 1 1 3) When all is said and done my tape drive will be /dev/st0 right? Any advice is much appreciated. Regards, Ran Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var
diskdrake is the gui disk partitioning program you see when you first install mandrake. It can also be run from x. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alexander Skwar Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 11:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var So sprach Ran Hooper am Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:32:10PM -0800: 4) tar czpf /vardata.tar.gz /var -z isn't necesssary if you have enough freespace in / I would do it a little different, but your approach wasn't wrong though. 1) turn off computer 2) install hardware 3) turn on 4) add alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx to /etc/modules.conf 5) run cfdisk/fdisk to partition the drive 6) I'd choose reiserfs as the fs for the new drive, but that's up to you 7) mkreiserfs /dev/sda1 (or mke2fs /dev/sda1) 8) add /dev/sda1 /var reiserfs defaults 0 0 to /etc/fstab 9) mount (-t reiserfs) /dev/sda1 /mnt/newvar 10) tar cfvsp - -C /var | tar xfvsp - -C /mnt/newvar (now you have a copy of /var in /mnt) 11) mv /var /varold 12) umount /mnv/newvar 13) mount /var 14) rm -rf /varold 6) Run diskdrake, mount the drive, hopefully it takes care of fstab yes? What does diskdrake do? Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.dp.ath.cx GnuPG ID: 4E35467E FP: 93367E5B4AB777B42065533F456FF17C4E35467E ICQ:7328191 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var
Cool, now where do I put insmod on boot so that I can get /var mounted before any of the apps want to use it? Regards, Ran Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var
About adding that scsi adapter: insmod aic7xxx and modprobe aic7xxx works fine. I get an error message when I run modprobe that says 'Note: conf.modules is more recent than modules.dep' but if I follow modprobe with the aic7xxx it loads fine. What am I doing wrong here? I added line 4 to my conf.modules and it never loads. What am I missing here? I tried renaming my conf.modules to modules.conf with no results. I get the feeling that my bootup process isn't even trying to load modules, although there is a line in there about adding my ethernet card and that works well enough. So, what I want to accomplish is almost there, how do I finish it? I can't just insmod it since I want to move /var to one of the new drives :( I would do it a little different, but your approach wasn't wrong though. 1) turn off computer 2) install hardware 3) turn on 4) add alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx to /etc/modules.conf 5) run cfdisk/fdisk to partition the drive 6) I'd choose reiserfs as the fs for the new drive, but that's up to you 7) mkreiserfs /dev/sda1 (or mke2fs /dev/sda1) 8) add /dev/sda1 /var reiserfs defaults 0 0 to /etc/fstab 9) mount (-t reiserfs) /dev/sda1 /mnt/newvar 10) tar cfvsp - -C /var | tar xfvsp - -C /mnt/newvar (now you have a copy of /var in /mnt) 11) mv /var /varold 12) umount /mnv/newvar 13) mount /var 14) rm -rf /varold 6) Run diskdrake, mount the drive, hopefully it takes care of fstab yes? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] mail as set-uid root process problem
I just set mine to nobody. Be advised that linuxconf really thinks it should be set uid root, so advise caution when using this utility. I think I read somewhere that webmin also thinks it should set uid root too, but I cannot confirm this. Regards, Ran Hooper I get paid while I'm on the Internet, Do you? http://www.how2surf4cash.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of praedor Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 5:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] mail as set-uid root process problem If I send mail as a user, I always get this message: send-mail: warning: sendmail is set-uid root, or is run from a set-uid root process First off, I do not have sendmail installed, it is postfix, but nevertheless I would like to eliminate this problem/message. How do I do this? Who should own/run the mail program if not root ? By this I mean if I am to remove root uid, to whom to I change it? Daemon? praedor Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] OpenSSH Frustrations
Can anyone give me the readers digest version on getting this to work on Mandrake 8? I've read the man pages. I've tried going through online tutorials. I've hacked my hosts.allow to pieces. I'm about to blow it up. I have run ssh-keygen several times, as my username and as root. I even unloaded xinet.d to see if that would work. I was getting an error message in my /etc/auth.log about my hosts.deny config. I added: sshd: ALL to hosts.allow and now I'm getting no logs anywhere (that I can find). When I type: ssh -l ran localhost I get: Secure connection to localhost refused. Again I'm not seeing anything in any log I can find so now where should I go. Everything I've seen seems to think it's a few simple commands. Can anyone pretend they are setting it up from scratch and give me the rundown? Regards, Ran Hooper Regards, Ran Hooper
RE: [expert] Solved - OpenSSH Frustrations
Jerry and everyone else. Thanks. It wasn't running. I was using linuxconf to start and stop, and to set the service to run. It wasn't working correctly. Now it is. I apologize. I'm now happily sshing. Thanks again. -Original Message- From: Jerry Sternesky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 5:08 AM To: Ran Hooper; Expert Mandrake Subject: Re: [expert] OpenSSH Frustrations Do you have the server side installed and running? Open a console as root and type service sshd status. If you get something other than: sshd (pid ###) is running ... You probably need to start the service. So then type: service sshd start You can add it as one of the service to start when boot up. Also if you are already logged in as ran and you want to connect as ran you don't need the -l you can just do ssh localhost. The -l is usefull if you are logged in as user1 and you want to connect to another machine as user2. Then you would do ssh -l user2 localhost for example. The first connection to a machine you will get a message about generating a key and adding to your know hosts, type yes as the reply. Then in you home directory you will have a hidden directory .ssh with a known hosts file in it. Hope this helps. Jerry On Sunday 29 July 2001 04:15 am, Ran Hooper wrote: Can anyone give me the readers digest version on getting this to work on Mandrake 8? I've read the man pages. I've tried going through online tutorials. I've hacked my hosts.allow to pieces. I'm about to blow it up. I have run ssh-keygen several times, as my username and as root. I even unloaded xinet.d to see if that would work. I was getting an error message in my /etc/auth.log about my hosts.deny config. I added: sshd: ALL to hosts.allow and now I'm getting no logs anywhere (that I can find). When I type: ssh -l ran localhost I get: Secure connection to localhost refused. Again I'm not seeing anything in any log I can find so now where should I go. Everything I've seen seems to think it's a few simple commands. Can anyone pretend they are setting it up from scratch and give me the rundown? Regards, Ran Hooper Regards, Ran Hooper
[expert] Announcement only mailing list
What's my best bet for an announcement only mailing list running on Mandrake? Preferably with a Web front end for management from Windows and compatible with Postfix. Of course authentication and users able to remove themselves is a must too. I don't mind paying for it if it comes with support. It needs to work through a third party hosting the email, so I assume fetch would be needed too? Regards, Ran Hooper Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Multiple Web Server Mail Servers on one box
I've successfully setup Mandrake to host one domain, one website domain and one email domain. Relatively easy stuff. Is it possible using Mandrake to setup Apache to host multiple domains? I'm talking three public and one private. I believe this is called virtual hosting but I'm not 100%. www.a.com www.b.com www.c.com www.d.com In this same vein can I also host the email for three separate domains too? [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well you get the idea I'm sure. I'm thinking you might need multiple IP's and multiple nics, which isn't a concern. Regards, Ran Hooper Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
