Re: rpm won't run as root

2003-08-17 Thread Keith Morse
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, RedMule.com wrote:

 On one of my RH9 boxes, when I do something like 'rpm -q -a moz*' it 
 runs fine when logged in as myself. But when I do that as root it hangs. 
 The process won't even kill unless I use -9.
 
 Tried '--rebuilddb' but that hangs also when run as root and it can't be 
 run without permissions.
 
 Any thoughts?
 
 Michael


I haven't seen this mentioned yet in the replies.  I ended up having to 
delete /var/lib/rpm/__db.*  and the doing the rpm --rebuilddb thing to get 
this to work.
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Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:23:59 +1000
Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Sorry this is really M$ related but:
 I had a customer with a constant rebooting machine, which we found was
 a motherboard problem, PSU was fine and also switch was. So I used the
 latest Gigabyte motherboard as a replacement GA-700N-400Pro, which was
 an advanced board on the older 333 motherboard that went.
 
 Installed MB strted the machine up with the XP cd in as boot to access
 R (repair) so as to reconfigure the hd system to boot on new board,
 done this before. However it all of a sudden had just a C: drive
 whilst it used to have AFAICR C,D,E,F. It now sees only a c: of 80 gig
 and will not access repair.
 
 Looking at the drive in dos it sees c: only and If I access the R and
 fixmbr it says its not a standard mbr. All we did was change the
 motherboard, could this wipe the mbr and scaramble it? Is there a way
 to fix without losing all the data? It looks to me as if there is no
 way out but to reformat and re partition etc.

Do you have a backup of your data?

If no, boot using Knoppix and pull all the data you need off.  Once
you've verified you have all the data and it's in good shape, you can do
pretty much whatever you need to to get things going again.

Then as sson as possible, convince this customer M$ _will_ eventually
cost them their data and if it means anything to them they should
consider migrating to Linux.

But _all_ systems with important data need backups.

Ciao,

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samba as BDC

2003-08-17 Thread Vu Pham
Hi all,

I am looking for documentation to build a Samba server ( I am using Samba
2.2.7 on RH 9 ) as a backup domain controller. All of my searches returned
results for Samba server as primary controller.

Have anybody tried Samba as BDC ? Could you pelase share me some experience
?

Thanks,

Vu

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Re: rpm won't run as root

2003-08-17 Thread Net Llama!
On 08/16/03 23:55, Keith Morse wrote:

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, RedMule.com wrote:


On one of my RH9 boxes, when I do something like 'rpm -q -a moz*' it 
runs fine when logged in as myself. But when I do that as root it hangs. 
The process won't even kill unless I use -9.

Tried '--rebuilddb' but that hangs also when run as root and it can't be 
run without permissions.

Any thoughts?
As luck would have it, i ran into something similar on one of my RH9 boxen 
yesterday.  Any rpm command (root or othewise) would hang, and the only 
thing that would kill it would be a kill -9.  Rebooting the box fixed it.

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Re: rpm won't run as root

2003-08-17 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 06:07:37 -0700
Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On 08/16/03 23:55, Keith Morse wrote:
 
  On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, RedMule.com wrote:
  
  
 On one of my RH9 boxes, when I do something like 'rpm -q -a moz*' it
 
 runs fine when logged in as myself. But when I do that as root it
 hangs. The process won't even kill unless I use -9.
 
 Tried '--rebuilddb' but that hangs also when run as root and it
 can't be run without permissions.
 
 Any thoughts?
 
 As luck would have it, i ran into something similar on one of my RH9
 boxen yesterday.  Any rpm command (root or othewise) would hang, and
 the only thing that would kill it would be a kill -9.  Rebooting the
 box fixed it.
 

Wow!  Has RH been taking lessons from M$?  I thought only Windows
offered the reboot fixes all philosophy.

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Re: apt-rpm vs. apt4rpm

2003-08-17 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Tim Wunder wrote:

On Saturday 16 August 2003 10:55 am, someone claiming to be Klaus-Peter 
Schrage wrote:
 

Tim Wunder wrote:
   

On Saturday 16 August 2003 9:45 am, someone claiming to be Michael Hipp 
 

wrote:
snip
 

Does apt preclude the continued use of RedHat's up2date tool?
   

No, but you'll need to execute up2date -p to update the package list on
RHN. Also, if you do what I did and install kde-redhat.sf.net's KDE
packages, they're named differently. So RHN will think KDE will need to
be updated even when it doesn't. I have that problem with kde and gaim.
The more current packages that I have installed are named differently
than RHN's, so RHN will think they need to be updated.
 

Sorry, but I can't confirm that. This week I installed kde v. 3.1.2 from
kde-redhat.sf.net, and I just did an up2date which only gave me a new
unzip package. No kde packages were marked as to be updated, although
Redhat have put up a new set recently due to a security issue.
Klaus
   

Hmmm...
Have you ever executed 'up2date -p'?
 

Yes, I do from time to time, after having applied several fixes manually 
(via downloading the resp. rpms from one of RH's mirrors) or by way of apt.
As I understand it, up2date -p  synchronizes RHN's list  of  fixes that 
are pending on my box with the actual state of my rpm database.
According to my RHN, there is only one erratum pending: the kernel, 
which I never update via up2date.
Klaus

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Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Joel Hammer
Just a recent bad experience using Knoppix to recover data.

I recently used Knoppix to recover data on my dual boot machine when my
lindows installation got whacked when XP crashed. (It was curious. The
lindows boot process just seemed to end very prematurely as shown in
messages but the thing still booted up, but without numerous subsystems
loaded, like the NIC, which was reported as undetectable with ifconfig.)

I used ftp from the command line in Knoppix to transfer the files.
It didn't pull off the hidden files, which, to my surprise, didn't
transfer with mput *. It is unclear to me why so many linux programs,
like mutt and pcal and all the rest, keep their configuration files in
hidden files, but, sigh  So, beware of that nuisance.

BTW, is there a command with ftp which will make file transfer recursive
or do you have to use tar first as stated in man ftp.  Is there an ftp
substitute which will transfer recursively?

Joel

 If no, boot using Knoppix and pull all the data you need off.  Once
 you've verified you have all the data and it's in good shape, you can do
 pretty much whatever you need to to get things going again.
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Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-17 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On 16 Aug 2003 04:23:29 -0400
burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Code that causes this much disruption of commerce is anything but
 benign. These are more than just the digital equivalent of a rck thrown
 through a window, they suck up huge amounts of bandwidth, both as people
 attempt to deal with them and for the fact that many carry DDoS
 elements, plus they cause significant loss in productivity.
 
 The people that write and launch these programs in the wild should
 caught and forced to do something really unpleasant for a very long
 time.

I wouldn't argur this fact.  What I am saying is that the Windows world ain't seen 
nothing yet.  So far we have seen disruption, a little DOS here and there (and the 
list of totally fscked companies is long and distinguished).  I'm not saying this 
isn't very disruptive and hugely problematic (especially since I believe the power 
grid thing is related :)
But so far I'm not in fear for my credit card numbers, my mortgage information, and 
many other things that could be put in danger.  Disruption, however unsettling and 
unpleasant, is such a minor use of the technology of these worms.  Imagine if the 
writers had truely malignant purposes.,.
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The Nigerian/SCO Connection

2003-08-17 Thread Kurt Wall
ROFLMAO! Oh, my sides hurt:

http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html

Kurt
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Re: The Nigerian/SCO Connection

2003-08-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 17 August 2003 11:03 am, Kurt Wall wrote:
 ROFLMAO! Oh, my sides hurt:

 http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html

 Kurt


Excellent! I just emailed a copy of it to work and tomorrow I run it off on 
one of the lasers. It'll make a great poster.

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Re: The Nigerian/SCO Connection

2003-08-17 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:03:05 -0400
Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted:

ROFLMAO! Oh, my sides hurt:

http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html

Kurt
==
Thanks for sharing that one!!  Had to print and bookmark it!!
Best,
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HELP - Dialogue windows bug in Slackware 9

2003-08-17 Thread Bruno Vieira
Hi everyone.

I am having problems on Slackware 9.

The problem is : the dialogue windows close themseself in the second time i
call them.

Example: When I click on setup button of the KPPP the dialogue window appear
correctly. But if i close that and try clicking again on KPPP setup button
the dialogue box appears and close itself in less than 1 second.

It also happens with other applications that use dialogue windows.

Someone Knows how to solve that ?

Thanks a lot.

Bruno Vieira


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Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Leon A. Goldstein


Keith Antoine wrote inter alia:

Looking at the drive in dos it sees c: only and If I access the R and fixmbr
it says its not a standard mbr. All we did was change the motherboard, could
this wipe the mbr and scaramble it? Is there a way to fix without losing all
the data? It looks to me as if there is no way out but to reformat and re
partition etc.


Sounds like another partition overlay problem (Maxblast, EZDrive,
etc.). I believe these programs interact with the BIOS, so a different
BIOS will mess up how it reads the MBR.
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Re: The Nigerian/SCO Connection

2003-08-17 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:03:05 -0400
Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 ROFLMAO! Oh, my sides hurt:
 
 http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html
 

That's the funniest thing I've seen since you sent us the picture of
Darl McBride and his buddy Sadaam!  He definitely has more in common
with internet scam artists than with legitimite businessmen.

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Re: HELP - Dialogue windows bug in Slackware 9

2003-08-17 Thread Tom Marinis
Greets Bruno

Bruno Vieira wrote:
Hi everyone.

I am having problems on Slackware 9.

The problem is : the dialogue windows close themseself in the second time i
call them.
Example: When I click on setup button of the KPPP the dialogue window appear
correctly. But if i close that and try clicking again on KPPP setup button
the dialogue box appears and close itself in less than 1 second.
It also happens with other applications that use dialogue windows.

Someone Knows how to solve that ?

Thanks a lot.

Bruno Vieira
Uhm, I have a question:

Are you trying this from fresh installation of
Slackware 9.0, with no patches yet?
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Re: HELP - Dialogue windows bug in Slackware 9

2003-08-17 Thread Bruno Vieira
Thanks for your answer.

But this problems happens not only in KDE.



- Original Message -
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: HELP - Dialogue windows bug in Slackware 9


 Quoth Bruno Vieira:
  Hi everyone.
 
  I am having problems on Slackware 9.
 
  The problem is : the dialogue windows close themseself in the second
time i
  call them.
 
  Example: When I click on setup button of the KPPP the dialogue window
appear
  correctly. But if i close that and try clicking again on KPPP setup
button
  the dialogue box appears and close itself in less than 1 second.

 Sounds like a KDE problem. Restarting KDE might help, but I don't
 really know, not being a KDE user.

 Kurt
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Re: The Nigerian/SCO Connection

2003-08-17 Thread James McDonald
Kurt Wall wrote:
ROFLMAO! Oh, my sides hurt:

http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html

Kurt
I don't know it sounds like a rather kosher offer ;)

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Re: SCO is suing SCO

2003-08-17 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth bof:
 For background to this article, first read 
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/32233.html.
 
 In a surprise press conference today, SCO's Darryl McBride announced 
 that SCO is suing SCO .

[snort]

 The conference ended when he fired himself, rehired himself, and then 
 fired himself again.

We can only hope.

Kurt
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than the sun.  Why?, he was asked.  Because at night we need the
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Re: rpm won't run as root

2003-08-17 Thread Michael Hipp
Collins Richey wrote:

Wow!  Has RH been taking lessons from M$?  I thought only Windows
offered the reboot fixes all philosophy.
The neat thing was, I only thought of rebooting after someone mentioned 
it here. Maybe I'm beginning to unlearn some of my bad Windows habits :-)

Michael

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Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-17 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:18:15 -0600
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:42:26 -0500
Alma J Wetzker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ other stuff snipped - see the thread for details ]



I agree with the sentiment but the reality is much harsher.  Most
linux apps just aren't up to their windoze counterparts.  This is
especially true for personal productivity apps.  The server stuff is
much closer.


It would help to know exactly what you mean by personal productivity
apps.
There are still functions that I need for school reports that I have not 
found in Koffice or Open Office.  Adobe Photoshop can be simulated but 
it is a kludge.  I can't find anything like a recent or complete version 
of spice.  My version of xine tends to pause every once in a while.  Is 
there a quickbooks like app that is well supported?

Personal productivity apps, to me, are the horizontal apps that any 
business person would use for documents to spreadsheets all the way to 
the business/department specific functions that users would run in the 
course of a typical week ON THEIR PERSONAL MACHINE.


All of this is true, but companies have to deal with the (negative)
business payoff of loosing business productivity and/or data every time
a script kiddo comes up with a new worm.  There is a also big business
payoff in terms of licensing fees.  

every executive I have ever met will spit nails about downtime and the 
cost to the company until you tell them how much it will cost to fix it. 
 Then the executive goes away, until next time.


The only true option to pursue for linux desktop adoption is to
continue interoperability plans with the M$ network du jour (com, 
dcom, .net...) and start building functionality into linux friendly 
architectures.  It requires long term thinking and a dedication to the
strategy.  It also requires better personal productivity apps.

One thing that would help (I've mentioned this frequently) would be for
the major open source support products (glibc, gcc, and the desktop
products like kde and gnome, perhaps even the kernel) to stop the
practice of changing the interfaces and releasing non-compatible new
versions every couple of years.
even Microsoft has been cured of this churn of API's and standards (I 
know they do have relapses but they are learning to kick the habit.)

There is a dearth of long term thinking in the business world.  How to
cook the books for the current quarter is about as long term as it gets.
Bingo!

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Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Keith Antoine
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 02:03 am, David A. Bandel wrote:

 AFAIK, ftp wasn't designed for recursive transfers.  For that, I would
 use rsync.  That said, I use cpio to grab directories/disks.  Generally,
 I create a TOC using find, then cat that TOC through cpio with all the
 appropriate switches.  Once I have a .cpio file, I bzip2 it and xfer it.
  cpio has always had the advantage that it will grab special files
 (named pipes, sockets, device files) that tar won't.  I also verify
 backups, and I note that most youngsters today don't.

 But then you're asking an old school admin who still types sync three
 times before unmounting a disk.  Could be tar will do you nicely.

 Ciao,

 David A. Bandel

David,

I was thinking that if I installed a linux on this other drive and called a 
cron job from there, would it backup windows to linux even though its not 
actually running? Just a no brain query.

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Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Keith Antoine
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 02:17 am, Leon A. Goldstein wrote:
 Keith Antoine wrote inter alia:
  Looking at the drive in dos it sees c: only and If I access the R and
  fixmbr it says its not a standard mbr. All we did was change the
  motherboard, could this wipe the mbr and scaramble it? Is there a way to
  fix without losing all the data? It looks to me as if there is no way out
  but to reformat and re partition etc.

 Sounds like another partition overlay problem (Maxblast, EZDrive,
 etc.).  I believe these programs interact with the BIOS, so a different
 BIOS will mess up how it reads the MBR.

 --
 Leon A. Goldstein

 Powered by Libranet 1.9.1 Debian Linux
 System 5151

Now I see the light, as the saying goes. Yes that would account for the 
problem in that the new baord has these 'new fangled dual bios thigo's'.
I did try the old board back in but it also was corrupted by this time. Ok 
lesson well learnt. Mind you have run XP after a MB change before, with R
in the install section, this was the first glitch. Lesson backup to something 
else first.

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Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Shawn Tayler
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:41:48 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
professed:

 What we do have in Australia is electronic tax, that has to be sent
 quarterly, its like a VAT system. It is for windows only and installs
 ONLY on C drive, typical Govt program, so I cannot get rid of windows
 unfortunately as yet.

I Remember taking a look at that piece of garbage when I was down there. 
It really looked like some kind of Visual Basic derived ap.  Have you given
wine a go?  Might be worth a try?

Shawn
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Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-17 Thread burns
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 18:49, Alma J Wetzker wrote:

 see that doesn't happen.  What busines apps do we have for linux that 
 make people want to run linux so that they can use that application? 
 Office?  Spice?  Photoshop?  What do we have that is close?
 
  
I would hardly classify Photoshop as a major business app for anything
but the graphics market. It's not really a mainstream cubicle app in
the same way that MS Office is.

Linux has chosen to chase the server market rather than expending most
of its energy on the desktop where Windows has a stranglehold.
Notwithstanding that, the Gnome and KDE folks continue to move the
yardsticks month after month.

As far as office productivity apps go, Star Office has shed some of its
bloat and Open Office has emerged as a winner. Collaborative calendaring
is now available in a fairly polished and attractive form, Outlook
clones exist (e.g. Ximian Evolution)and spreadsheet applications are no
longer a poor etch-a-sketch drawing. In fact, if you really wanted to,
this year there is no good reason why you couldn't switch your office
over seamlessly to a Linux desktop. With KDE, even the conversion
training would be minimal because it is so similar to Windows.
 
 (I have a dream of writing a SAP-like application for distribution 
 businesses for linux but I just don't have the time with going to school 
 right now.)
 
Eh, Ummm...
http://www.sap.com/company/press/press.asp?pressID=39
http://www.sap.com/linux/news.asp
http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/database/theme_pages/index.html?linux_02032003.html
http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/db2/linux/
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/library/specsheets/websphere_as_linux.html
http://www-3.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/sys-auto-linux/library.html

Or did you mean dot Net, perhaps? ;o)
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Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-17 Thread burns
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:06, Alma J Wetzker wrote:

 every executive I have ever met will spit nails about downtime and the 
 cost to the company until you tell them how much it will cost to fix it. 
   Then the executive goes away, until next time.

That's the business we're in and I can tell you that it depends on
you're approach. Nobody spends money on technology just because
anymore. You have to frame it in a credible rationalized business case,
comparing the cost of making the system improvements, vs the risk, vs
the cost of NOT doing it. This is where we as technologists get lazy and
usually fail. 
Suits are nothing if not predictable. Show them where they can reduce
risk and save money and they WILL listen. Tell them about neat
technology that is better and their eyes glaze over.
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Re: SCO is suing SCO

2003-08-17 Thread Tom Condon

On Sunday 17 August 2003 09:23, bof carved in granite:
 For background to this article, first read
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/32233.html.

 In a surprise press conference today, SCO's Darryl McBride
 announced that SCO is suing SCO .
Major Snip
 The conference ended when he fired himself, rehired
 himself, and then fired himself again.

Further investigative reporting shows that Mr. McBride is 
resting comfortably in a hospital bed after treatment for 
lacerations, contusions and fractures.  Witnesses report that 
after the press conference he took himself out into the alley 
and beat the *#^% out of himself.  Doctors refuse to 
speculate whether the coma he appears to be in was caused by 
blunt force trauma or blunt logic.


In Harmony's Way and In A Chord,

Tom  ;-})

Tom. Condon
Barbershop Bass Singer
Registered Linux User #154358
A Jester Unemployed


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Backup questions, was Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Ian Stephen
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 09:03, David A. Bandel wrote:
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  cpio has always had the advantage that it will grab
  special files that tar won't.

What format is best for cpio, or does it matter?  I see the default is
'bin', but that bin is also obsolete.  Is ustar better?

thanks,
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