[SLUG] quotas, Redhat 7.1

2001-09-13 Thread Danny Yee
Is it my imagination, or is the latest quota package update for Red Hat 7.1 totally broken? Half the commands won't use the version two quota files... So when I run quotaon, it complains quotaon: using /home/quota.user on /dev/sdb3: No such file or directory and it doesn't try to use

Re: [SLUG] Re: Check this out

2001-09-13 Thread Laurie Savage
So far, so good (surprisingly). Colin Powell seems to have had a moderating effect on them although Rice and Rumfeldt(?) are a worry. They're ideologues, Powell has real experience. On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, David Fisher wrote: :In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jon Biddell :writ :es: :At 21:02

Re: [SLUG] Open Office build On Debian Woody.

2001-09-13 Thread Anand Kumria
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:43:15AM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: Successful build and install on Debian woody from scratch from source from CVS OO638B. Congrats; did mkdepend build out of the box? I just updated to current CVS and it died. Anand. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List

[SLUG] Linux on Cyrix-233: what's happen here...?

2001-09-13 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
I have a second hand Cyrix IBM 233 with the peocessor description: 6 * 86 MX PR233 IBM26*86MX-CVAPR233GE3.0X 66MHZ-2.9V CORE I set the mother-board jumpper corectly as stated in the docs. The funny thing here is: if i set it properly, the linux installation will stop at: Running

Re: [SLUG] Linux on Cyrix-233: what's happen here...?

2001-09-13 Thread Jeff Allison
Thats because PR stands for perfomance Rating ie as fast as a 233 because our chips are better I've got a MII 300 it only clocks at 233 when you see linux boot it will report the actual mhz. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: From: Phillipus Gunawan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Linux on Cyrix-233:

Re: [SLUG] Linux on Cyrix-233: what's happen here...?

2001-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Borg
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: I have a second hand Cyrix IBM 233 with the peocessor description: 6 * 86 MX PR233 IBM26*86MX-CVAPR233GE 3.0X 66MHZ-2.9V CORE that 3.0X 66MHZ as meaning in that it only *runs* at 200mhz the PR stuff is just marketing hype because it

[SLUG] Stability of 2.4.x kernels

2001-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Borg
Hi I want to just share a few incidents which involve the 2.4 kernel and comparasions to 2.2.x Firstly I recently upgraded my machine and it was either go to 2.4 or use 2.2 with ide patches so I took the 2.4 plunge. Secondly my firewall setup is much simplier thanks to netfilter :-) also DNAT

[SLUG] ipchains logging to console

2001-09-13 Thread Howard Lowndes
ipchains on my gateway has suddenly taken to logging to the console. The syslog.conf file has the standard settings, but these are also mirrored to log to another machine as well. The standard logging is happening, as is the logging to the other machine, but additionally there is this logging

[SLUG] to C/H/S, or not to C/H/S?

2001-09-13 Thread Howard Lowndes
Situation Perform a customised server installation of RH7.1 with RAID 1 Mission Create a multi-partition RAID 1 set on two identical IDE drives, /dev/hda /dev/hdc (Seagate ST320410A). Execution Perform a graphical RH7.1 install, but when it gets to the bit about

[SLUG] bootdisk problem Lilo,dd and permission denied

2001-09-13 Thread Gareth Walters
G'day all, I have done some searching and despite references to this problem I have not found a solution to this yet. I have a bootdisk system that mounts root via nfs but I just went to make a new bootdisk and change some options on it for testing and I found the following error. dd

RE: [SLUG] ipchains logging to console

2001-09-13 Thread Jill Rowling
Disk full? -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Howard Lowndes

RE: [SLUG] to C/H/S, or not to C/H/S?

2001-09-13 Thread Jill Rowling
I wonder if fdisk was just reporting the existing partition arrangements first? Although both drives were the same brand (I hope), possibly one was partitioned by the manufacturer or reseller beforehand. If it now works, I wouldn't worry about it. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng.

Re: [SLUG] ipchains logging to console

2001-09-13 Thread dopey
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... : ipchains on my gateway has suddenly taken to logging to the console. : : The syslog.conf file has the standard settings, but these are also mirrored to : log to another machine as well. : : The standard logging is happening, as

[SLUG] making SSH port forwarding externally available

2001-09-13 Thread Sonam Chauhan
Hello Sluggers: To workaround a local network misconfiguration, I am port forwarding a local port to a remote machine using ssh. This works for my local loopback address: 'localhost', but I would like to make the tunnel accessible to another person at work. (he doesn't use Linux but need to

Re: [SLUG] making SSH port forwarding externally available

2001-09-13 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 12:51:45PM +1000, Sonam Chauhan wrote: To workaround a local network misconfiguration, I am port forwarding a local port to a remote machine using ssh. This works for my local loopback address: 'localhost', but I would like to make the tunnel accessible to another

Re: [SLUG] making SSH port forwarding externally available

2001-09-13 Thread Andre Pang
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 12:51:45PM +1000, Sonam Chauhan wrote: i.e.: If I do a ssh -f -N -L 1234:remote:1234 remote , then telnet localhost 2323 establishes a connection to 'remote' via the ssh tunnel, but telnet my_machine_IP 2323 doesn't. from the ssh(1) manpage: -g Allows

[SLUG] Re Solved : bootdisk problem Lilo,dd and permission denied

2001-09-13 Thread Gareth Walters
Found the answer eventually. mount -o dev /mnt/floppy Fixed the problem ---Gareth -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] making SSH port forwarding externally available

2001-09-13 Thread Sonam Chauhan
from the ssh(1) manpage: -g Allows remote hosts to connect local port forwarding ports. The default is that only localhost may connect to locally binded ports. that's what you're after :) Excellent - That works great. Thanks Andre. I missed

[SLUG] Lost C class ip range

2001-09-13 Thread Richard Hayes
Dear list, I purchased a C class network (255 IP addresses) but never used them. I have lost the no. range and can't find a command in whois or dig to locate them. Would some point me to a faq / docs on how to locate them? -- Richard Hayes Nada Marketing - 113-115 Oxford St Darlinghurst

RE: [SLUG] to C/H/S, or not to C/H/S?

2001-09-13 Thread Marty Richards
Hi Howard, I see this a lot. It seems that hda is in LBA mode, and hdc is CHS. I don't usually change the mode or the settings, just calculate and create hdcX slightly larger than the hdaX. This works nicely for disaster recovery also. Cheers, Marty -Original Message- From: Howard

Re: [SLUG] to C/H/S, or not to C/H/S?

2001-09-13 Thread John Ferlito
It is fixable. johnf@odie:~$ cat /proc/ide/hdc/geometry physical 16383/16/63 logical 2495/255/63 then you reboot and at the liloprompt you do linux hdc=16383,16,63 that mean in this boot linux will force the geometry into lba mode. You then run fdisk and recreate the partition table

[SLUG] smp_num_cpus error

2001-09-13 Thread Terry Collins
Do anyone have a definite understanding as the what causes this error and the fix? It turns up from time to time when I'm rebuilding kernels. This time a RH7.0 on 2.2.26-?? kernel. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www:

[SLUG] how can i echo * character

2001-09-13 Thread Jeff Ai
Hello guys, how can i get the * character in shellscript(bash) I tried use '*' and it desn't work. Jeff ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or

Re: [SLUG] how can i echo * character

2001-09-13 Thread Tony Green
* This one time, at band camp, Jeff Ai said: Hello guys, how can i get the * character in shellscript(bash) I tried use '*' and it desn't work. Jeff tgreen@animal:~$ echo \* * tgreen@animal:~$ \ escapes the character from the shell -- Greeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key :

Re: [SLUG] how can I echo * character

2001-09-13 Thread Silcock, Stephen
Did you try echo \* S. :) PLEASE NOTE: This email transmission is confidential and intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, you must not use, disclose or print this transmission and you should delete it from your system. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

Re: [SLUG] how can i echo * character

2001-09-13 Thread Tony Green
* On Fri Sep 14, 2001 at 03:21:28PM +1000, Jeff Ai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: No, that is not what i want. i want to echo * in a shell script. e.g: STAR='*' echo $STAR \ is the first thing i tried, didn't work. STAR='*' echo $STAR -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile :

RE: [SLUG] how can i echo * character

2001-09-13 Thread Jeff Ai
Fixed by Tony Green STAR='*' echo "$STAR" -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff AiSent: Friday, 14 September 2001 3:15 PMTo: 'Slug (E-mail)Subject: [SLUG] how can i echo * character Hello guys, how can i get the *

Re: [SLUG] how can i echo * character

2001-09-13 Thread CaT
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:41:53PM +1000, Jeff Ai wrote: Fixed by Tony Green STAR='*' echo $STAR That's very convoluted. The following will work: echo * echo '*' echo \* If you're using bash anyhow. -- CaTAs you can expect it's really affecting my sex life. I can't help

Re: [SLUG] bootdisk problem Lilo,dd and permission denied

2001-09-13 Thread David Fitch
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:00:38AM +1000, Gareth Walters wrote: dd if=/root/nfs-p3bdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k lilo -C bdlilo.con -r /mn/floppy Fatal:/dev/fd0 Permission Denied [you mean /mnt/floppy?] just some ideas: - you're root I take it? (su - not just su?) - automounter not got the