Re: Speaking of USB (instant USB disk question)

2003-03-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Richard Crawford wrote: Over the weekend, my wife and I purchased a couple of those spiffy USB disk pen things that hold 64MB on flash RAM. Very useful little device. I was sold because the package claims to support every version of Windows that we run in our house, and

Re: shell script - expert question

2003-03-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 16 Mar 2003, Kleiner Hampel wrote: Hi, now it works, but because of the '*'. now i want to remove the leading abc from all files in my directory. i tried this: for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i | sed s/abc//`; done but it doesn't do that. i always get the error, that the last

Re: Printing problems

2003-03-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Alexander Fomin wrote: Hi All , I have RedHat 6.2 and having printing problems on PostScript Printer HP 4 ML. How can I remove last page from EVERY print job, where it says my username and date. It's like ID page, but I don't need it. Thanks Try adding a line to

RE: / partition full

2003-03-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is it just me, or does anyone else find it odd that so many of his directories (that should be big, like usr) are listed as 4096 size?... Try inserting your install disk run the ls command from

Re: / partition full

2003-03-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Mikevl wrote: I can somebody please help me out with this.? My root partition seems to be full but I cannot find the files which fill it up. Many thanks Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1

Re: Change cd path when installing 3rd party RPM

2003-03-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, DuSTiN KRySaK wrote: Hi there - earlier yesterday, someone passed on the info on how to change the path the redhat-config-packages looks for the rh8 cd's, but I have a question.. What if you are installing a 3rd party RPM, and it prompts for a cd? Is there a way to point

Re: External parallel ZIP drive

2003-03-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a 100Mb Zip drive and want to be able to use this with my RH Linux. What do I need to do to get this to work. I have tried to run insmod ppa, but it came back with some messages about missing modules. Regards, John Use modprobe

Re: bootable backup

2003-03-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Distribution Lists wrote: Does anyone know how to a make bootable full system backup? Preferably on tape. Instead of having to reinstall a new system from installation CDs then restore with tar or cpio. Regards There are a couple of backup programs/scripts on

Re: MySQL Gui

2003-03-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, DuSTiN KRySaK wrote: Can anyone recommend a MySQL Gui besides phpMyAdmin? I also tried the MySQLcc as well and it just locks up on connection to the SQL server Dustin I have MySQLcc workign fine on a couple of 7.3 systems. Connecting to both local and

Re: 2 IP addresses on one NIC ?

2003-03-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Kent Borg wrote: Cool. I have use for that, but I have a related question too: How do I easily have a second configuration for my eth0? Mostly I use DHCP for my notebook, but there is one network I visit where I need to have a fixed IP address. Right now I use a hacky

Re: Change the path - prompted for CD's

2003-03-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, DuSTiN KRySaK wrote: Hi there - is there a way to change the path that that redhat-config-packages looks in when installing stuff from cd? I have a large hard drive, and want to copy the 3 cd's to my backup drive, and then if I ever install, update or anything like that -

Re: DHCP+ IP MASQ

2003-03-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, CHUNRIMA CHUNRIMA wrote: Hi..ALL: I have a linux box (Redhat 8.0) with two ethernet cards. eth0 is connected to the internet and eth1 is used for local lan connection. After running dhcp daemon, everything works fine except for web surfing from client side. When I

Re: MySQL RPM for 7.3

2003-03-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found a whole bunch of MySQL RPM's for redhat, but there are many with very similar files names. Can someone point me toward the lastest full version of MySQL that will work in RedHat 7.3? Below is my detailed version information Linux

Re: Can I create a windows partition to my existing RH system?

2003-03-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Eric wrote: Hello, Actually, I'm using RH-8.0 on all my 40 Gb HDD. The bad news is I want to play some games and I don't have choice to re-install back win98. I think to take about 3Gb for win. So, there is a way to create a windows partition *without* to loose my

Re: Cannot load module (after recompiling kernel)

2003-03-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 9 Mar 2003, Kleiner Hampel wrote: Hello, i have compiled emu10k1 in section 'sound' as module. After 'insmod emu10lk1' i get this: /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: init_module: No such device Which device is missing and why? /dev/audio exists.. many

Re: chkconfig

2003-03-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Nicholas Marsh wrote: Anyone know of good documentation for the chkconfig command? The man page is a lacking, and a Google only came up with a few lame results. Thanks. nick marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] What version of Redhat are you running? What do you mean by the man

Re: Com Ports

2003-03-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Nicholas Marsh wrote: How does one use a COM port in Linux to connect to serial devices like Cisco routers and etc? nick marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are looking for a program to talk to devices on a serial port, you may want to look at minicom. If you are

Re: Compiling custom modules

2003-03-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Shaw, Marco wrote: Ignoring the fact I'm using an older kernel... I've installed kernel-2.4.18-18.7.xbigmem along with the kernel-source-2.4.18-18.x. I've compiled a few custom modules, yet I get this error for 3 modules I've built: # insmod esm Using

Re: Display ghost

2003-03-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Heru Walmsley wrote: Hi All, I am running Linux Terminal Server (www.ltsp.org) v3 on RH8. One of my terminals is a Packard Bell P133 with the built in Cirrus chip set. It is using a 3Com 3C590 NIC. It boots fine but when I get to the X session it appears as 2 images on

Re: Ssh and root risk

2003-03-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, David Busby wrote: I'll probably get flamed for this but... On my boxes I leave root able to SSH, but I also give root a 12 char password from a random-char-gen thingy. Makes it hard to remember/brute force my passwords so I feel OK. I'm also using the latest

Re: terminal timing out

2003-03-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 20:31 08 Mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Steve Lee wrote: | In SecureCRT, (windows people) can send a packet every so many | hours, to keep it alive,

Re: Mount windows volume drive - is it possible ?

2003-03-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I am planning to use a hard disk of 120 GB IDE in my linux server serving as a file server using NFS. I am having a doubt if it is possible to mount and use a drive partifion created in windows2000 server as a volume drive. Is this

Re: Update Kernel, Breaks Boot

2003-03-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Kent Borg wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 04:28:49PM -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Well, it apears the system boots just fine without the initial ramdisk, so what I would try is commenting out the initrd lines, and see if that helps. Yes, that fixes it. So what

RE: Access Denied connecting to samba printer (was: Samba PrinterShare)

2003-03-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Andreas Freyvogel wrote: I had this problem yesterday and found that they need some access rights to the /tmp directory. I changed this and all seems well for the time being. -Andreas p.s. Anyone know of any security issues with allowing users access rights to the

Re: Broken lilo...?

2003-03-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 6 Mar 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger 'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman Reading boot sector from /dev/hda Merging with /boot/boot.b Secondary loader: 11 sectors. Mapping message file /boot/message

Re: Two questions on Red Hat Linux 6.2

2003-03-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Sudhakar list wrote: Hi All, I've been fiddling with .bash_profile and after I logged in to system after a logout I can see only a bash$ instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I'd appreciate if any of you gurus can tell me what could be the reason for this occurance. Did you

Re: Weird Crash (revisited - again)

2003-03-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Bret Hughes wrote: have you tried any of the performance monitoring tools like sar that will log stuff periodically to get a feel for if it is a resource issue? Yeap - it's idle whenever it crashes. Try disabling apmd, and see if

Re: Update Kernel, Breaks Boot

2003-03-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Kent Borg wrote: I installed yesterday's kernel update for RH 7.3, and then my Sony notebook wouldn't reboot. After various futzing, I can get it up manually, but not with my grub.conf. Manually I can get it to boot this way: - At grub screen hit c for command line

Re: Two questions on Red Hat Linux 6.2

2003-03-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Sudhakar list wrote: Hi, I don't know how it has occured but when I type in $echo $PS1 it shows as bash\$ instead of the format [EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\$. I'd appreciate if you can guide me in changing PS1 back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\$ since I tried $PS1=[EMAIL

Re: Why isn't there a Postfix upgrade?

2003-03-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Martin Marques wrote: Quoting Eric Sisler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm on a RedHat 7.3 using postfix, and I found out that the only way to have mailman is installing sendmail. Not true. I'm running RedHat 7.3, mailman and postfix. In fact the mailman website

Re: geting incorrect password from windows box

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 5 Mar 2003, Muhd Ramley wrote: Hi all, I'm a Linux newbie, running a RH8 box. Trying to configure samba. I can see the shares from the windows machine connecting to samba. But when I click on the shares I keep getting incorrect password. Try again. I followed every help docs that i

Re: Sendmail problem

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Mingle, Michael wrote: I have 2 Linux servers on a small test LAN. I am trying to setup sendmail properly. I have configured the proper MX records in the DNS database. I have setup Sendmail to allow connections other than localhost (127.0.0.1). Only one of the servers is

Re: USB external hard drive

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Jedicosmonaut wrote: I recently bought a maxtor USB 120 gig external hard drive. I have been trying to get it to work on Red Hat 8.0. It does not seem to recognize it when i attempt to mount it. Has anyone have any information on how to accomplish this. Thanks How

Re: HowTo : get compiled 'ps' command

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, cana rich wrote: Hello, I have a Linux machine without 'ps' command. I would like to copy a compiled 'ps' (ps -axf) command so i can exeute it on this machine. I didn't find the source code for 'ps', only the RPM. I don't have RPM application on the linux

Re: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: All. I have a problem installing the emu10k1 stuff. I got it from cvs (latest source) and read the instructions in the ./doc/redme file. it says you should be able to do a make and if the right kernel is reported, do a make again, and then

RE: geting incorrect password from windows box

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Larry Brown wrote: OK, before you see the question about using un-encrypted passwords in 98 don't go and do so. You're smb.conf file shows that you are enabling encrypted passwords which is sufficient. When you create a user, the user must have a linux account with a

Re: kernel doesnt seem to take user-specified kernel options

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, lar lar wrote: i have a server that's dead, when it boots up it gives the following message, complaining it cant find initrd: Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel booting with linux init=/bin/sh, it still complains about not finding initrd,

Re: SENDMAIL Customisation?

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 6 Mar 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: My system is: RH 7.3+, SENDMAIL I have is the default for RH 7.3 - so I haven't updated/upgraded it (not that I want to). The question is, however, I've been trying to dig through all the sendmail configurations - and am trying to find out where I can

RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: well actually i did do that as well. i got the kernel-source... i386 rpm and installed it too.. no luck really since this still did not create anything for the new version of the kernal in /usr/src/ should it have? Yes, after running rpm -ivh

RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: btw. why is it the case that i need the i386 source rpm. when in fact i have used the i686 rpm for the kernel install itself. maybe i am wrong, but i imagine that the SRPMS contain the source for all archs including i686 and i386... etc. and

Re: Upgrade Linux Kernel on 6.2 machine

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, Would you mind to tell me how to upgrade the Linux Kernel on 6.2 machine with quick guide ? And is there any resolution about the problem of Network card ( rtl8139 chips set ) ? When I add a PCI network card into server machine ( 6.2 )

Re: Weird Crash (revisited - again)

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Todd A. Jacobs wrote: Sometimes hardware is just crappy--even when it's brand new. If you have lots of unexplainable errors, it's sometimes cheaper just to buy a new system than to troubleshoot the components. The bad thing is, it's

RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: hmmm i wonder why there is no such dir created. this may be a problem when i actually installed the kernel itself from the i686 rpm. when i did this, i got a number of grubbby errors relating to no appropriate templates being found... i

RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: ok well i also did not find a /usr/src/linux-2.4 directory at all. i did see a /usr/src/linux-2.4 symlink to somewhere. not sure where. where should this point to? anyway thanks for the tips on diskclean. distclean, not diskclean. Make is

RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: and i only have two versions of the kernal, the one from the cd install and the new 24.8.0 one. i admit i did install the debug and smp and umi ones for the new kernal. but these are not really that huge. could this have been a prob?

RE: Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: ah ok so a symlink to the dir in the same dir as the symlink? if so, that is what i thought. Yes, the symlink and the directory it points to are both in /usr/src. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and

Re: Boot script should have the route set-up?

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, J. M. Brenner wrote: So, I've got a routing table that more or less works for me. Now where am I expected to put the route add commands so that the routing table will still be there after I reboot? My impression is that I need to create this file, and put them in

Re: Upgrade Linux Kernel on 6.2 machine

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I am not sure about the rtl8139 - the card I have didn't have problems with the origional driver. Have you ever tried to install and use the card on 6.2 machine ? Yes, I did. If I remember correctly, it is still

Re: Weird Crash (revisited - again)

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I am new to this thread - did you try updating to the latest kernel? Some people had problems with the 2.4.18-17 and others with the 2.4.18-18 kernels. I am not sure about the 2.4.18-24 kernels... No I have

Re: Broken lilo...?

2003-03-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 6 Mar 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I mucked up my system by trying to reinstall XP on one of the partitions on my /dev/hda - of course, it hosed up my otherwise perfectly good, perfectly working lilo. In trying to get BACK to my beloved and stable RH, I made the /boot active via using FDISK

Re: help - booted into single user mode

2003-03-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Dana Holland wrote: Yes, I'm a newbie... :-) I just installed a fiber gigabit card in my RH 7.2 box, configured it, and then was attempting to reboot the box. The box came back up as far as saying that it was telling init to boot into single user mode. I'm

Re: How to access real memory address under linux?

2003-03-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Edward Dekkers wrote: Hi all, I'm working memory test program based on the linux. As my understanding, linux provides the virtual memory for user program to access. Does anyone know how to make linux allow user program to access real memory space instead of the virtual

Re: nameserver host finding

2003-03-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: Hi all. Does anyone know how to get linux to find the nameserver of your isp automatically when you dial up with wvdial? also is there a way to print to the screen lots of information about your conenction like isp server names, nameserver, dns,

Re: gpg: BAD signature from Sendmail Signing Key/2003sendmail@Sendmail.ORG

2003-03-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Al Sparks wrote: This is driving me nuts. But I am a newbie to gpg. I'm running RH 7.2. The gpg is from the standard rpm off of the CD. Here's the output from gpg --version: gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.6 Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with

Re: USB printer doesn't work

2003-03-02 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 2 Mar 2003, Kleiner Hampel wrote: Hello, my USB printer doesn't work. I have configured it with redhat-config-printer. All modules are loaded correctly, no error messages at boot, all seems to be [ OK ]. Even the printer's name was recognized in redhat-config-printer!! The only

Re: Grub Problem

2003-03-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Kieran Hood wrote: Ok, I deleted all of my red-hat linux 8 partitions from my hard drive using WinXP without thinking (not a good idea, i know lol) and now when I reboot my computer when the graphical grub screen would normally load i get a command line grub screen...im

Re: $PATH and startup sequence

2003-03-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, exits funnel wrote: Hello, I'm trying to determine where exactly $PATH is set. I've read the bash man page which was informative but doesn't quite answer my question. When I add an 'echo $PATH' to the beginning of /etc/profile and than start a login shell I can see

Re: Need procmail recepie for 100k attachments.

2003-02-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Daevid Vincent wrote: Anyone have a procmail recepie for those idiots who insist on sending large file attachments? Ideally I'd like it to reply to them a message, and then remove the attachment and only save the message, or else just delete the whole thing. Sometime

Re: severe fsck problem on bootup

2003-02-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Webmaster wrote: Hi, got a very severe problem. I have two hard drives in my RS server and I am getting the secondary drive removed. Here's the problem. After the secondary drive is removed, the server fails to bootup completely, crashing at fsck. The server boots up

Re: Bursts of traffic on my firewall

2001-05-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Stephen King wrote: I was meaning that I doubt that his ISP was forwarding private packets on to him since internet routers don't forward private IPs. Really? Your ISP routes private IPs your way Well, I hope they are from another user of the same ISP, but I do see

Re: Diskette.........

2001-05-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Remo Mattei wrote: Hi guys any suggestion on how to make an install diskette from RH cd. In caldera I would use the dd if=install.144 of=/dev/fd0 but I could not find the install..144 I have tried the boot.img but I cannot boot same result with the oldcdrom.img Thanks

Re: Diskette.........

2001-05-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: On Sat, 5 May 2001, Remo Mattei wrote: Hi guys any suggestion on how to make an install diskette from RH cd. In caldera I would use the dd if=install.144 of=/dev/fd0 but I could not find the install..144 I have tried the boot.img but I

Re: Sendmail question

2001-05-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Steve Kieu wrote: I have asked them and they only said I should use their web mail instead, their service is not available for out look express mail and udora , bla bla.. even they do not say anything technically...; They have a web based email for their customers but I

Re: Re Diskette

2001-05-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Remo Mattei wrote: I does not boot with the CMOS change, I have the floppy which is external and the CDROM which is internal. Still ... I have tried to boot with floppy and it goes to the point that it ask for another like said in the list before. I

Re: Bursts of traffic on my firewall

2001-05-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Stephen King wrote: As far as I'm aware routers won't route 192.168.* packets. It depends on how the router is set up. Most will route all the private networks with the default setup. It is good practice to block them on your border routers. You probably should also

Re: what is wrong with root login for ssh2

2001-05-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Justin Ellison wrote: I have also heard this before, and it took a lot of pondering before I came up with my own answer - it's my own, not backed by anything: Think of brute force attacks. If someone were to start brute forcing ssh connections, they will obviously try

Re: 2 ip addresses

2001-05-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Ted Gervais wrote: Just wondering something here - I have two ipaddresses. And therefore have two ways of getting to my gateway. One of the ipaddresses is an amateur radio address (ampr.org address) and the other the normal commerical address. If I have my workstation

Re: fdisk /MBR doesn't work

2001-05-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Stefan Backstrom wrote: Hello. I scrued up my MBR when trying to install the latest lilo from brun.dyndns.org and I can't replace the boot sector with the DOS command FDISK /MBR... I get the lilo prompt but when I choose dos nothing happens. Linux is booted nicely..

Re: 2 ip addresses

2001-05-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Ted Gervais wrote: What does your routing table look like for each setup? Are you using the same interface to reach both gateways? Are both gateways the same device? Yes, and Yes.. I would need to know more about your setup, but the gateway could be set up

Re: fdisk /MBR doesn't work

2001-05-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Ted Gervais wrote: On Friday 04 May 2001 10:00 am, you wrote: Hello. I scrued up my MBR when trying to install the latest lilo from brun.dyndns.org and I can't replace the boot sector with the DOS command FDISK /MBR... Are you doing this after booting to DOS

Re: 2 ip addresses

2001-05-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Ted Gervais wrote: On Friday 04 May 2001 11:43 am, you wrote: Well, you may be able to get by with adding another route. Boot up using the 142.176.139.107 IP, and try running: route add -net 44.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 gw 44.135.34.201 eth0 OK. I did as you said and

Re: NFS

2001-05-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 4 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah.. I did that, but no luck at all.. this is the /etc/fstab - /dev/hdXX /mnt/mountpoint auto,rw,user,gid=501,umask=007 0 0 501 Corresponds to the group that is allowed to write on it, but I also chaged it to some defaults - auto,rw 0 0 -

Re: Software based Raid using two IDE drives

2001-05-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Mike W wrote: Somewhere I heard that Linux supported using two IDE drives as a two drive raid, i.e., all writes to one drive was replicated on the second creating an instant backup. Has anyone any info on this? Mike W It is called software RAID. You may want to read

Re: partition question

2001-05-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 4 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am getting ready to install a new 20 gig hard drive in my husbands win98 box. I was thinking about breaking it up into several partitions so I could add linux to it later. He is begining to show a little interest the fact that windows

Re: Software based Raid using two IDE drives

2001-05-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Mike W wrote: I just found it and looked it over. Is RAID now included in the 2.4 kernel in RH 7.1? Mike W Probably. I know it is included in the 2.2.x kernels from Red Hat. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good

Re: 2 ip addresses

2001-05-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Ted Gervais wrote: Just wondering something - you wouldn't have any ampr.org addresses set up. You try pinging that ve7tsi or ve4umr. You system should be able to resolve them but let me know if you reach them? I bet you do.. I don't have an ampr.org

Re: DST changes gone after reboot

2001-05-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Alex Bron wrote: Dear all, I have a nice server with its timezone set to Europe/Amsterdam (DST enabled). Everything works fine except for one thing. In winter, system time is always correct. When going into DST, the clock adjusts itself and again time is correct.

Re: Other than fd0 in text updates ?

2001-05-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Mike Maravillo wrote: Hi guys! Is it possible to use a different device other than fd0 (an image or a disk partition perhaps) with text updates during Red Hat installation? TIA, Mike It depends on your system. If you can boot off the CD-ROM, you can

Re: Possibility to avoid passwd change for root?

2001-05-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Hossein S. Zadeh wrote: If your untrusted users have physical access to the server, so they can reboot the machine and go to single user mode, you've got much more to worry about than just changed root password. I plan to install a simple

Re: Router Config

2001-05-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On 2 May 2001, BC Anness@net wrote: Hey folks, I'm trying to set up a router on a RH 7.1 box. Each network can see it's connected NIC in the router and the router can ping both eth0 and eth1 (both NICs). The problem is no routing is taking place between the networks. A host on one network

Re: PROBLEM IN INSTALLING VER6.2

2001-05-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Jeff Hogg wrote: This sounds very much like a ram problem. It's the most common source of that type of error. If you can swap the ram out to test it, it would be worth your time. Good luck. Jeff Hogg If you can not swap out the memory, download memtest86 and use

Re: Dial Up Network extension

2001-05-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Ted Hilts wrote: This is a 3 part question. Part 1: When adding a network dial up extension (where the network machine is remote to the network and must dial up to get onto the network) can this incoming dial up connection be handled by the same machine which handles

Re: Error 0X01

2001-05-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Massimo Alonzo wrote: Hi, I moved my second hard disk from secondary master to secondary slave hoping to make my cdburner work (without success); the trouble is that I installed RH7 for tests on that disk (as /dev/hdd2) and the system doesn't like it. In detail: -

Re: Netbios-ns

2001-05-03 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 3 May 2001, John Aldrich wrote: Are there any known vulnerabilities in RH 6.2 (if you're not running bind) for netbios-ns? I've noticed a rash of dgram to netbios-ns in my logfiles lately and Im wondering if it's because of some known vulnerability or what I get the usual sunrpc

Re: Newbie question on loading NIC module

2001-05-02 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Priyan Gunatilake wrote: Hi, I am new to linux and have the following problem regarding the module ne2k-pci.o. FYI, I am runningRedhat 7.0 I have a realtek 8029 pci NIC. During bootup, I see a message that says unresolved symbols for ne2k-pci.o. Therefore, eth0

RE: Core dump on kernel upgrade.

2001-05-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Ajay Tikoo wrote: Thank you Mikkel. I tried to run rpm --rebuilddb. It takes some time to execute and then returns to the shell prompt without any message displayed. Yes I did upgrade the rpm version before this problem started. What should I do now. Ajay Try

RE: Core dump on kernel upgrade.

2001-05-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Ajay Tikoo wrote: After running rpm --rebuild, I just tried to upgrade the kernel again and it worked! Thank you once again, Mikkel. Ajay Great! Thanks for letting me know. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't open MODULES.DEP for writing.

2001-05-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Chris Worth wrote: hey gang, I've got a strange problem. I'm getting an error on boot that my system can't write to the modules.dep file. well interestingly enough it isn't in the path that is being displayed in the error. where do i change where the system looks

Re: Upgrading to 7.1 without complete install

2001-05-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Tue, 1 May 2001, K Old wrote: Hello, I have a server that is running RH 6.1 and I'd like to upgrade it to 7.1 without doing a complete install. Can I just apply all of the rpms in the updates for 6.2 and 7.0? I'd also like to take advantage of the Red Hat Network to automate this in

Re: RAM

2001-04-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, you wrote: Hi!, I have a big problem, i have a server with 288 Mega RAM but when the server is up i don't know what happend but my server only can see 64 Mega, so what should i do?. What's going on. Can you give us some

Re: Core dump on kernel upgrade.

2001-04-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Ajay Tikoo wrote: Hi, I am somewhat new to linux world. I was trying to upgrade the kernel from 2.2.17 to 2.2.19. While doing so, I get the error core dumped. What could be wrong? Thank You Possible a corrupted RPM data base. Try running rpm --rebuilddb and see what

Re: lp0 dead after kernel upgrade

2001-04-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Eric Sisler wrote: Greetings all, I've just upgraded my 6.2 servers from kernel 2.2.17-14 to 2.2.19-6.2.1 and discovered I can no longer print to /dev/lp0. I compiled my own kernel but re-used the config file from the older kernel and tweaked it a little. AFAIK, I

Re: Printing over Samba

2001-04-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Mike W wrote: What if you want to do both? Mike W Mike Burger wrote: Get the printer working correctly in /etc/printcap. Then let Samba export the printers to Windows machines. This is what I do with one Winprinter Laser printer I have. You can create a special

Re: How to keep from logging a particular facility code

2001-04-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, roy wrote: I want every thing except local7.* going into my one file. I tried the following statement (and others) and think it should work, but it doesn't. I'm still getting local4 stuff in messages. I also have local4 directed to another files altogether and it works

Re: route command querry

2001-04-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Tim wrote: I'm helping to set up a rather odd network environment, and I'm running into some difficulties in the route command. This is what I want to accomplish: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface domain *

Re: Cannot ping Gateway from DSL client !! Help!

2001-04-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Travis Ryan wrote: Hello, I have a DSL connection with two static IPs. I can connect fine with my Win98 machine, but cannot get my Linux machine to ping anything outside my hub. I have had the same physical layer setup as before as far as cabling and the hub connected

Re: CD-ROM problem /SCSI emulation problem under RH7/2.4.2 -- More;partial answer

2001-04-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, John P. Verel wrote: More. I added a kernel option to my lilo.conf, eliminating the append option. This solved the immediate problem -- access to the CDROMS. However, now I must figure out how to set up scsi emulation under this kernel. John John, Do you

Re: Lost Bootable Disks.

2001-04-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Rajaram wrote: Hi all, I lost bootable floppy disks of Redhat Linux. I have windows running on my machine. I redhat on a partition. While installing, did not choose to install LILO. Instead opted to boot from a floppy. Now, I lost the bootable floppy. What should I

Re: route command querry

2001-04-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Tim wrote: I'm helping to set up a rather odd network environment, and I'm running into some difficulties in the route command. This is what I want to accomplish: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface domain *

Re: Server failure

2001-04-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, David Talkington wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- scott.list wrote: 3. other things I can try if it happens again short of an ungracefull power cycle? Another thought on this: if you have a root window open to this system somewhere at the time of the

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