Re: Booting on RAID set failing

2002-09-18 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > Just to clarify, my suggestion was to mirror the "system" portitions over > all 4 drives. I was suggesting the "data" portitions be exported without > any RAID (and doing the RAID-0/1

Re: Booting on RAID set failing

2002-09-18 Thread bscott
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, at 4:33pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Errr, what do you mean the "system" portions. Not /, /boot, /usr, /var? The parts that are not exported as data. In this storage appliance scenario, I would expect each node to have a single partition with a very minimal set of operat

Re: Booting on RAID set failing

2002-09-18 Thread pll
In a message dated: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:40:43 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, at 4:17pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Can you boot from a CD or other external media, start the RAID sets, and >>> fsck the filesystems (as a sanity check)? >> >> No, the system has 4 IDE drives, n

Re: Booting on RAID set failing

2002-09-18 Thread bscott
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, at 4:17pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Can you boot from a CD or other external media, start the RAID sets, and >> fsck the filesystems (as a sanity check)? > > No, the system has 4 IDE drives, no floppy or CDROM, hence the attempt to > build systems using FAI. Not even a

Re: Booting on RAID set failing

2002-09-18 Thread pll
In a message dated: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:11:02 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Those two usually indicate the wrong filesystem got mounted as root (or >your filesystem is trashed). It could not open an initial console because >/dev/console is missing, and it could not find init because /sbin/init

Re: init scripts, redhat, console use

2002-09-18 Thread bscott
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, at 2:41pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But, as I have no idea what is, and am running under a deadline ... Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and commen~t out the part that restarts itself under initlog. Ugly, but it should work. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions exp

Re: Booting on RAID set failing

2002-09-18 Thread bscott
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, at 3:03pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Warning: unable to open an initial console > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. Those two usually indicate the wrong filesystem got mounted as root (or your filesystem is trashed). It could not ope

Re: sql-ledger

2002-09-18 Thread bscott
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, at 2:02pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Also, you might want to visit Chris Browne's home pages where he haa > links to a bunch of different accouting apps: > http://cbbrowne.com/info/finances.html http://linux4smallbiz.com/ also has good info. They have an article on

Re: Web-based address book

2002-09-18 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Tom Buskey wrote: > There are a few LDAP to web packages out there. You definitely want > LDAP for this kind of thing. FWIW I've used Netscape's system (back > when Netscape was its own company). It worked well but I imagine there > are free systems that are just as good

Re: Web-based address book

2002-09-18 Thread Tom Buskey
There are a few LDAP to web packages out there. You definitely want LDAP for this kind of thing. FWIW I've used Netscape's system (back when Netscape was its own company). It worked well but I imagine there are free systems that are just as good. Sorry I don't have specifics. [EMAIL PROTEC

Booting on RAID set failing

2002-09-18 Thread pll
Hi all, I've got my system installing to the RAID 1 set (4-way mirror). My fstab looks like this: /dev/md0/ ext3defaults,notail 0 1 /dev/md1/boot ext3defaults,notail 0 1 /dev/md2/usr

Re: sql-ledger

2002-09-18 Thread pll
In a message dated: 18 Sep 2002 13:41:26 EDT Paul Iadonisi said: >I understand, for instance, that gnucash is a good replacement for >Quicken, but not really a good substitute for QuickBooks, but I >couldn't tell you why. You might want to take another look at GnuCash. I know they're working

Web-based address book

2002-09-18 Thread bscott
Hello list, I am looking at web-based interfaces to company directories (address books), for a customer who is interested in such things. I'm trying the usual suspects (Google, Freshmeat), but I'm curious as to if anyone here has any opinions. LDAP functionality is a plus (as that way it can

sql-ledger

2002-09-18 Thread Paul Iadonisi
Does anyone know of any small businesses using sql-ledger (http://www.sql-ledger.org/) and how happy they are with it? I'm looking at using it for my own business accounting and I have someone else who is interested as well, but since I'm not a finance guy, I don't know what to look for in a fi

Re: init scripts, redhat, console use

2002-09-18 Thread Kevin D. Clark
"Derek D. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How it gets there, when it gets there, is unclear to me. I do note > that all the echo commands have the string preceded by '$'... though I > tried echoing a string with that, and it did nothing. This is for I18N. Bash will call use your environ

Anyone going to LISA'02?

2002-09-18 Thread Scott Garman
I was curious if anyone is going to the LISA SysAdmin conference this November. I'm signed up for tutorial sessions on Sunday and Monday. I'd be interested in meeting up with any GNHLUGers at the event, and could even split a room if you're interested. If you're curious to find out more about the

Re: init scripts, redhat, console use

2002-09-18 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, at 9:39am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I've always just used the "read" built-in for this. > > > > Doesn't seem to work with init scripts. > > Hmmm. One of the

Re: Installing onto RAID

2002-09-18 Thread pll
In a message dated: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:45:21 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> Actually, it does work. It may not be officially supported, I don't know, >> but I know it's currently being used. > > Really? You mean, in your raidtab file, you can have a "raid-level" set >to 1 with a "nr-raid-dis

[Semi-OT] ApacheCon 2002 US: Registration open!

2002-09-18 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Greetings! We've been encountering a series of bugs in the new registration system, delaying the opening of general registration. However, we seem to have killed them all, so now's the time! Please spread the word; forward this message around to co-workers, f

Re: Installing onto RAID

2002-09-18 Thread pll
In a message dated: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:29:26 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I can't seem to find any mention of the auto-detection option in the >> HOWTO. Of course, this HOWTO is 2 years old, not having been updated >> since January of 2000, so I

Re: Red Hat Beta iso

2002-09-18 Thread Thomas M. Albright
Thanks to everyone for their help. I ended up getting the iso files from Germany. :) -- TARogue (Linux user number 234357) A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. -Adlai Stevenson, statesman (1900-1965) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing

Re: Installing onto RAID

2002-09-18 Thread rdp
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:42:59 EDT > Rich Payne said: > > >> I know the kernel also needs "autodetection" enabled, however I can't > >> seem to find that option in the kernel config. Anyone know where > >> that is? > >> -- > >It use

Re: Installing onto RAID

2002-09-18 Thread bscott
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, at 5:03pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> I want to mirror all the file systems on all 4 drives ... >> >> AFAIK, this is not supported in the Linux "md" driver. It should be >> pretty easy to do, but it has not been done. > > Actually, it does work. It may not be officially s

Re: init scripts, redhat, console use

2002-09-18 Thread bscott
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, at 9:39am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I've always just used the "read" built-in for this. > > Doesn't seem to work with init scripts. Hmmm. One of the things Red Hat's initscripts do is run themselves through a program called "initlog". The initlog program captures cons

Re: init scripts, redhat, console use

2002-09-18 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Suzanne Hillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to interact with the user from an init script, so was hoping > someone here would have a suggestion on how to set stdin and stdout in a > (bash) init script. This is under redhat (7.1, I believe), if it matters. I've seen RH SYSV init scr

Re: init scripts, redhat, console use

2002-09-18 Thread bscott
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, at 11:07am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to interact with the user from an init script ... I've always just used the "read" built-in for this. echo -n "What is your name? " read FOO echo "You're a real frood, $FOO. You really know where your towel is." > ... how

Re: Installing onto RAID

2002-09-18 Thread pll
In a message dated: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:42:59 EDT Rich Payne said: >> I know the kernel also needs "autodetection" enabled, however I can't >> seem to find that option in the kernel config. Anyone know where >> that is? >> -- >It used to be that you had to apply the RAID patches in order to get

connecting linux box to windows 2000 domain

2002-09-18 Thread Derek Doucette
I am having some problems connecting my linux box to a win2k domain. After running the command smbpasswd: -j -r my machine gets added to the system, and can be seen by computers on the network, however in order to authenticate, I still need to use my linux box account. In the smbusers I h