Re: Unable To Install In Graphic Mode

2009-12-31 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
On 12/31/2009 12:11 PM, David Dembrow wrote: Attempting to install fedora 12, I get a message that there is not enough memory to install in graphic mode and it reverts to a text mode and installs some prepackaged set of applications. It is a system with 384 megabytes of memory and the graphic

Re: How to determine if a file is in use

2009-11-03 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Donald Russell wrote: Another system uses FTP to drop files in a directory for me to process. I have a bash script to process the incoming files. The script is started by cron periodically. There's a problem if the FTP transfer is still in progress because the process begins reading the file

Re: iptables on FC11

2009-10-13 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
paul van der meij wrote: I upgraded from FC9 to FC11 (new install) but iptables is behaving strange. My /etc/sysconfig/iptables file shows a number of ports as accept, but nmap tells a different story. e.g. imap port 143 is closed in nmap (and in truce), open in iptables file. I did use the

Re: Fedora 10, software RAID weirdness

2009-10-12 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: Hello, I wanted to upgrade my F10 system to F11 (fresh install), but F11's anaconda wouldn't detect my md RAID sets. I booted back into F10 and after a bit of investigation, I discovered fdisk can't even read the partition table of my 3 drive RAID 5 set. But, a look

Re: What development rpm am I missing?

2009-09-23 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Mogens Kjaer wrote: On 09/23/2009 01:35 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: '/test1: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `{ Starting the script with #!/bin/bash might be a good idea. I used vi to insert this line and I get: ./test1 -bash: ./test1: /bin/bash^M:

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-11 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
gil...@altern.org wrote: Sometimes OpenOffice reminds me of the bad old days of WordPerfect. Everything is so complicated, even though the document formatting I need is just elementary. For now, all I want to do is set automatic page numbering in the x/y format, e.g.: 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, etc., for

Re: Excluding two subdirectories in rsync

2009-08-25 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have been using an rsync for Centos updates like: rsync -auv rsync://mirrors/updates/i386/ --delete --exclude=debug/ /repos/centos/updates/i386 But for Fedora 11, I see there is a drpms subdirectory that I ASSuME I don't need, drpms. How do I exclude two

Re: Unable to kill runaway app. -

2009-08-20 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Bob Goodwin wrote: I just had perhaps the third occurrence of this problem. I tried to shut down gthumb which was displaying a a photo from the nfs server. It would not shut down, at least not in a reasonable amount if time. Gkrellm showed cup1 running at max. and top indicated the cup at

Re: Samba Issues [ALMOST SOLVED] still need help

2009-07-07 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Mike Adolf wrote: Could the problem be due to the ntfs file system on the shared folder? If I change it to ext how does windows use it? Mike How does which windows use it? If the ntfs partition is solely mounted by your Linux OS, and shared with Windows on other boxes via Samba, then the

Re: Common F11 Bugs

2009-06-05 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
David wrote: On 6/5/2009 5:22 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 05:06:36PM -0400, David wrote: On 6/5/2009 4:25 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: Hello list, All software has bugs. Some are known, and some are

Re: ssh connects to originating host

2009-05-12 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Geoffrey Leach wrote: Two systems A and B, connected via wireless. A and B both have the same /etc/hosts. Connecting from B to A, ssh A, works fine. However on A, ssh B logs me into A. This used to work fine; the only clue I have is that ssh did not like the stored RSA key. I let it fix it,

Re: ssh connects to originating host

2009-05-12 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 12 May 2009 14:12:42 -0400 Christopher K. Johnson wrote: The stored key issue was symptomatic of the problem resolving host to ip address incorrectly. There is a command who's name I forget for printing the arp tables, so you can find out what mac address

Re: screen blanks with nomodeset

2009-04-06 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Jack Howarth wrote: Is anyone else still having the stock ati drivers in Fedora 10 occasionally blank out the screen? I have been resorting to the use of the nomodeset kernel argument in an attempt to disable modesetting, but, while less frequent, the black screens still appear. Normally, it

Re: FC9 Compromised...

2009-02-27 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Jack Lauman wrote: Yes, I need to add root back in... Not necessarily. You would be safer to boot rescue from an installer DVD, then choose to mount the filesystems for your compromised F9. Shutdown each system, move it to a trusted network, or off-net and attach an external disk to save

Re: Update Broke NFS Exports

2009-01-17 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Jameson wrote: Ok, now, I've set up a reverse zone containing just the two entries for the 192.168.1.55 client and my server at 192.168.1.51. Forward look ups work fine. host 192.168.1.55 gives me: Host 55.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Well, I fixed this.. I

Re: Update Broke NFS Exports

2009-01-16 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Jameson wrote: All of my NFS exports suddenly stopped working last night after updating my F10 server. The only thing I can think of that has changed has been the updates. In messages, I'm getting: mountd Warning: Client IP address '192.168.1.55' not found in host lookup mountd: connect from

Re: Virtual DNS questiona and reverse lookup table conflicts

2008-12-06 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 13:34:06 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to have a single DNS server support two different domain names, with each domain name having it's own forward and reverse lookups? It is possible for PTR lookups

Re: fedora 9 live firewall

2008-12-02 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Eric Penrose wrote: I find it confusing that the settings on fedora 9 live for firewall are such that we tick the options that we trust such as secure http or http. If firewall is on anyway, what is the implication of setting these internet options to trust as opposed to leaving firewall on,

Re: set up NAT (network address translation) on local server

2008-11-20 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Does /etc/sysconfig/iptables actually contain the lines *nat :PREROUTING ACCEPT [1:233] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]

Re: set up NAT (network address translation) on local server

2008-11-20 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
I would add the *nat through COMMIT before the existing *filter line. I don't believe it matters as long as you do not mix them together. But usually the *nat is much briefer than *filter, thus a good convention to put it first to find easily later. Antonio Olivares wrote: It seems that it

Re: set up NAT (network address translation) on local server

2008-11-20 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
If you send me off-list the iptables file you want as an attachment, I will send you back notes and a corrected file. Clearly there is some simple mis-communication or editing going on because this is a basic iptables configuration. Chris -- A society grows great when old men plant trees

Re: set up NAT (network address translation) on local server

2008-11-20 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Tim wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 07:46 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables *nat :PREROUTING ACCEPT [1:233]

Re: set up NAT (network address translation) on local server

2008-11-19 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
What does this command produce? (shows whether your snat rule is implemented correctly) iptables -vnL -t nat And this one? (tells if ip forwarding is on) cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Chris -- A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in

Re: set up NAT (network address translation) on local server

2008-11-19 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
No snat rule in effect! Was the rule you provided in your original post verbatim? Because it had 'a' instead of the public address. In fact the rule seemed overly specific in other ways too. Here is what I have for a snat rule where the public (Internet) interface is eth1 (substitute your

Re: 54 GB in /var/log!! -- UPDATE

2008-10-28 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Beartooth wrote: I'd like to pipe that into top, or some such, to make it display only the files of 100K and up; but trying to read the man page for top, as usual for powerful commands, makes me think of standing at the foot of a huge cliff of ice How about looking at the largest 30 files and

Re: Beeping while running

2008-10-14 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
I don't know if this is a silly suggestion, because I don't know your physical setup. Any chance that the beeping is actually from an adjacent UPS instead? Some provide similar indications when tested and there is an issue such as weak batteries, and your software for the UPS could be

Re: bind update keeps messing up write-rights

2008-07-19 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Gijs wrote: Sam Varshavchik wrote: Gijs writes: Hey List, Not sure why this is happening so perhaps someone can explain this to me. Whenever I update bind it messes up/resets access rights on my zone files. Now normally this wouldn't be a bad thing, but because I have dynamic updates on,

Re: ssh reverse tunnel

2008-06-30 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
Rick Bilonick wrote: This works fine. The only problem is the connection always times out even though I've changed the sshd_config files on both machines to keep it alive. I've restarted the sshd daemon also. Not sure why the connection keeps closing. Some firewalls have a time limit on