Re: Re: My Redhat linux is forced to reboot for every 7 or 10 days.

2000-10-16 Thread Kirk
try these links for updated kernel RPMS: Offical RedHat 2.2.16 Kernel look in the directory for you cpu class ie i686, i586, etc: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.1/ Excellent Contributed Kernel 2.2.17 ftp://duke.eburg.com/pub/linux/redhat-6.x-mycontrib/RPMS/ Kirk > Is there any patches,

Re: Tordvald's Linux

2000-10-16 Thread Eero Suomi
> cristian wrote: > > Hy, > > I was reading in a magazine that the Linux distribution used in > Finland was translated in English and it contains more than 100 games > and a SEGA simulator. > Did anyone heard about such a thing or is only a joke? > > Cristian That is not joke. Look at www.bestl

Re: DSL Pricing...

2000-10-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Eddie Strohmier wrote: >Hello: > > I know from seeing past post that quite a few of you have DSL and I have > just been informed today that DSL is now available in my area via > earthlink.net. They are charging 49.95 /month and the offer includes: > > · FREE DSL Modem a

H E L P H E L P H E L P

2000-10-16 Thread Deependra B. Tandukar
Dear All, Greetings from Kathmandu! I am using RedHat 6.0 with Apache. I have my intranet site on the server and there are more than 1000 files in my Web and I am having link problem. Is there any method for checking and getting the report on the links? Looking forward to hearing from you. DT

Headless linux boxes, monitors through serial ports? Plus Q on Wyse 30,50,60,150 models as monitors

2000-10-16 Thread Dan Browning
I've read recently about running linux boxes that can use mgetty, vgetty, or something-getty on certain serial ports as monitors (instead of using a normal vga video card / monitor combo). How is this done? Is there a website for it? Where can I learn more? This may not be related, but is there

Re: My Redhat linux is forced to reboot for every 7 or 10 days.

2000-10-16 Thread Kiran Kumar M
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Dave Wreski wrote: > > > Lack of memory, It is not allowing one to shutdown the and restart > > through OS, So I need to switch off and on, whenever it happens. > > How do you know it's out of memory? Is there swap being used? In my mail I clearly mentioned the type of m

DSL Pricing...

2000-10-16 Thread Eddie Strohmier
Hello: I know from seeing past post that quite a few of you have DSL and I have just been informed today that DSL is now available in my area via earthlink.net. They are charging 49.95 /month and the offer includes: · FREE DSL Modem and Equipment · FREE Professional Installation · FREE Setup

Re: Tordvald's Linux

2000-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, cristian wrote: > I was reading in a magazine that the Linux distribution used in > Finland was translated in English and it contains more than 100 games > and a SEGA simulator. Did anyone heard about such a thing or is only a > joke? I haven't heard of such a thing, but tha

Re: Checksum Error

2000-10-16 Thread Jack Bowling
** Reply to message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 16 Oct 2000 11:02:11 -0400 > Hey there, > > Got a question for you. I am trying to compile 2.2.17 with Sybios Logic > Driver patches and I keep getting an error message when I compile. It > says Checksum.S has a badly punctuated parameter lis

Re: starting apache

2000-10-16 Thread Mike Burger
That's what installing via the RPMs usually does. That notwithstanding, copy the attached file to your /etc/rc.d/init.d file...it's a standard RedHat httpd script from that very directory on one of my boxes. Then, logged in as root, issue the following command: ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd /e

RE: My Redhat linux is forced to reboot for every 7 or 10 days.

2000-10-16 Thread Jamin Collins
Are you sure that the system's memory is good? I would suggest the memtest86 program. A simple search of freshmeat should reveal it for you. Jamin W. Collins -Original Message- From: Kiran Kumar M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 7:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

xntpd log entries

2000-10-16 Thread Bret Hughes
I have been getting a lot of these lately, any ideas as to why this box would loose sync so often? Oct 16 12:03:00 tulfw1 xntpd[414]: kernel pll status change 89 Oct 16 12:21:08 tulfw1 xntpd[414]: synchronisation lost Oct 16 12:26:19 tulfw1 xntpd[414]: synchronized to LOCAL(0), stratum=10 Oct 16

Re: starting apache

2000-10-16 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
Bob Hartung wrote: > > Hi, > I am making progress. Apache, postgresql installed. Now > trying to make apache autostart on boot. I could place a > line in rc.local something like: > >/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start > > but is there a way to place a file in init.d and then link >

RE: starting apache

2000-10-16 Thread Jason Holland
Bob, if you did an rpm install of apache, you have an init script already installed in /etc/rc.d/init.d. try these steps to make apache start/stop as the system comes up and down. # cd /etc/rc.d/init.d # chkconfig --list httpd # chkconfig httpd on # chkconfig --list httpd chkconfig is useful

Re: solaris or linux

2000-10-16 Thread Martin A. Marques
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, you wrote: > > > I'm not sure what the intent of your questions is > > > > Linux would be a better shot then Solaris. I would like to know how each > > kernel works. How do the allocate memory, etc. > > Now, I'll still indicate that your question is a little too generic fo

Re: Any ideas?

2000-10-16 Thread Chris Harvey
> Chris - I am running Helix-gnome and, yes, I have the same running > CORBA processes. However, you would have to pry my Helix-gnome out of > my cold dead hands before I took it off my machine. To each their own. Haha.. sounds like a line from a movie script! Yeah I have to say, I like it. I can

Re: "Masking" ports from IP ranges (was RE: Thanks & port 80 filtering by IP)

2000-10-16 Thread Jeff Hogg
-Original Message- From: Ward William E PHDN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, October 16, 2000 1:37 PM Subject: "Masking" ports from IP ranges (was RE: Thanks & port 80 filtering by IP) >Dan, this got me thinking I realize you may not hav

Re: starting apache

2000-10-16 Thread Marco Shaw
Just link /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S55apache to /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl, for example. By default, the init scripts will run ~/rc5.d/S55apache with a 'start' argument. Make sure to add an ~/rc0.d/K55apache & ~/rc6.d/K55apache, which will get a 'stop' argument. Marco - Original Message - F

Re: pump vs dhcpcd

2000-10-16 Thread Steven W. Orr
Don't know if you're asking me or not, but here's the relevent line from ifdown: # [ -n "`pidof -x dhcpcd`" ] && dhcpcd -k ${DEVICE} if [ -n "`pidof -x dhcpcd`" ] then ps aux | grep /sbin/dhcpcd | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -TERM fi And

Symbios 1010 and Checksum Error

2000-10-16 Thread kwood
Hey guys, Just want to stop the presses before someone replies. I just went to Symbios' Website and found an updated driver (showed up today at 10:00AM) that is a direct patch for RH7.0. Once I repatched the kernel with this and recompiled, my Checksum went away and I'm all set. Thanks Kevin

Re: boot sector

2000-10-16 Thread cristian
Thanks for advices to everybody. But I still have problems. Something was changed in the boot sector because now I can't use fips. Fips is generating a file and then stops.I can use the disk. It is an usual disk of 4.3Gb. I don't know how much is true in this file. Because if it would be true I sh

dial-up as user

2000-10-16 Thread cristian
Hy, all   I am using RH 6.0 and I have problems with permissions when I want to make a dial-up connection as user. As root there is no problem. I modified the permissions for pppd, resolv.conf (this seems normal) but is also necessary to modify permissions for ttyS1. It works only if I make

BeOs

2000-10-16 Thread cristian
Hy, everybody   I tried something called BeOs and seemed to me some kind of Linux. Am I right ? They say it is made for multimedia. Indeed the multimedia facilities are nice. I don't like it because it is non-transparent like Windows? Maybe some of you tried it. Would it be possible to achiev

Tordvald's Linux

2000-10-16 Thread cristian
Hy,   I was reading in a magazine that the Linux distribution used in Finland was translated in English and it contains more than 100 games and a SEGA simulator. Did anyone heard about such a thing or is only a joke?   Cristian

Re: add footer to multiple files

2000-10-16 Thread redhat
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 09:36:37PM -0400, kf wrote: Hi Ken, Thank you very much for your input. I tried you script with sed like this. #!/bin/bash cd /var/qmail/alias/pppdir.footer/new/ # go where files are for ff in ./*.narada.col7.metta.lk # select files do # cl

Re: pump vs dhcpcd

2000-10-16 Thread Charles Galpin
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > I also have a new reason not to trust it, now. RedHat 7.0 seems > to have a problem that may be related to THAT version of pump. My son > installed RedHat 7.0 on his system and set it to aquire an address from > dhcp (which happens to be

Re: Compiling Kernel Problem [reply+OT comments]

2000-10-16 Thread Jeff Hogg
-Original Message- From: Pedro Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, October 15, 2000 7:54 AM Subject: Re: Compiling Kernel Problem [reply+OT comments] > > You bet! Besides having Nic Hudson´s problem compiling the >distribution kernel,

Re: My Redhat linux is forced to reboot for every 7 or 10 days.

2000-10-16 Thread Dave Wreski
> Lack of memory, It is not allowing one to shutdown the and restart > through OS, So I need to switch off and on, whenever it happens. How do you know it's out of memory? Is there swap being used? > It is very obvious that, the process which were utilized memory is not > realsed completly, or

Re: My Redhat linux is forced to reboot for every 7 or 10 days.

2000-10-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Kiran Kumar M wrote: > I am using redhat 6.1, Kernel 2.2.5-15smp First, I'd update that kernel to a more recent version. Get one from either a 6.2 or 7.0 Red Hat mirror. (Though, if you grab the package from Red Hat 7.0, you'll also have to update rpm...) > process. It is

Re: My Redhat linux is forced to reboot for every 7 or 10 days.

2000-10-16 Thread Kirk
Is there a runaway process? What does top show? Kirk >At 06:29 PM 10/16/00 +0530, you wrote: > >Hi, > >I am using redhat 6.1, Kernel 2.2.5-15smp, for the services like DNS, >Mail, and Web, etc. I am forced to restart the system for every 7 to 10 >days because of lack of memory or system is not a

Re: Re: Any ideas?

2000-10-16 Thread Kirk
Yes those are created by Helix Gnome and Gnome in genreal. If you log out of X all the way to a regular console you will see that they are gone. To my knowledge nothing to be too concerned about. The concerning ones are TCP and UDP not really the unix 0. Kirk >Can someone who's running Heliz Gn

Redhat 7.0 lockup

2000-10-16 Thread Lance Spence
Dave I tried what you suggested but that didn't work either. My Ricoh CD-Burner and SCSI Zip are recognized only with I compile them into the kernel and not as a module. Then the system locks up during bootup. Are there any other suggestions? Thanks Dave I'll try your suggestions. As far as t

Re: cdrom

2000-10-16 Thread Matt Nelson
if you want to execute files directly from a CDROM, be sure that you have it mounted with the 'exec' option. i.e., your fstab entry should have 'exec' in the cdrom mount options, like: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user,exec 0 0 (the other options are my preferences, and are not

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Checksum Error

2000-10-16 Thread kwood
Hey there, Got a question for you. I am trying to compile 2.2.17 with Sybios Logic Driver patches and I keep getting an error message when I compile. It says Checksum.S has a badly punctuated parameter list at #define 231 and repeats for 237. Does anyone have an idea what this is and how I mig

RE: solaris or linux

2000-10-16 Thread Alfredo Macias
Even a lot smaller questions require a lot of reading. There are a bunch of books that dedicate entire chapters to discuss how the kernel works on every platform/os. I'd recommend to do lots of reading to cover the overall parts, then when you have errors to correct or when troubleshooting hard-

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starting apache

2000-10-16 Thread Bob Hartung
Hi, I am making progress. Apache, postgresql installed. Now trying to make apache autostart on boot. I could place a line in rc.local something like: /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start but is there a way to place a file in init.d and then link to it from rc5.d? As I said, progre

Re: My Redhat linux is forced to reboot for every 7 or 10 days.

2000-10-16 Thread Chuck Mead
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Kiran Kumar M spewed into the bitstream: KKM> KKM>Hi, KKM> KKM>I am using redhat 6.1, Kernel 2.2.5-15smp, for the services like DNS, KKM>Mail, and Web, etc. I am forced to restart the system for every 7 to 10 KKM>days because of lack of memory or system is not able to handle

"Masking" ports from IP ranges (was RE: Thanks & port 80 filtering by IP)

2000-10-16 Thread Ward William E PHDN
Dan, this got me thinking I realize you may not have the answer, but someone here might. Suppose someone has a High-Bandwidth connection, DSL or Cable, and wants to run services, such as httpd. They also have an ISP who has one of the "no-services" policies. If you use ipchains to block th

RE: solaris or linux

2000-10-16 Thread Ward William E PHDN
Cute, very cute since Ford is quite likely to be one of the next names for the RH pre7.1 release, you had me going there for a minute, until I caught the joke. :P Oh, and Chevy is probably RH7.1, so Chevy will work better than Ford because one's a beta of a release I would think then th

Re: Any ideas?

2000-10-16 Thread Jack Bowling
** Reply to message from "Chris Harvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 16 Oct 2000 07:49:24 -0400 > Chris > > > Anyone got any idea what this may be? > > > > > > There's a lot of them when I run netstat -a, and I'm thinking this has > something to do with Helix Gnome? > > > > > > unix 0 [ ACC

Re: DNS Search Order (resolve.conf)

2000-10-16 Thread Charles Galpin
using pump, you can use the domainsearch keyword in /etc/pump.conf, but unless you use the nodns keyword, I'm not sure if this will work since I haven't tried that combo. Try it. hth charles On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Chad W. Skinner wrote: > I am using DHCP on my LAN at home and at work, but after

My Redhat linux is forced to reboot for every 7 or 10 days.

2000-10-16 Thread Kiran Kumar M
Hi, I am using redhat 6.1, Kernel 2.2.5-15smp, for the services like DNS, Mail, and Web, etc. I am forced to restart the system for every 7 to 10 days because of lack of memory or system is not able to handle any process. It is giving different reasons for not handling the tasks. Most frequently

Re: pump vs dhcpcd

2000-10-16 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:15:52AM -0400, Cokey de Percin wrote: > "Michael H. Warfield" wrote: > [snip] > > I can't argue with you because I'm also using dhcpcd, but for > > a totally different reason. I have to restart some IPSec VPN's when > > ever things change and the .info file that

RE: Increasing the size of virtual drive size on Samba

2000-10-16 Thread Jason Holland
what client are you connecting from? win98? nt? you increase the size by changing the filesystem that is shared out with samba. look in your smb.conf file, which is probably in /etc. near the bottom of the file you will find the exported directories. change one to a filesystem you have that i

Re: Anyone know what ircd is?

2000-10-16 Thread Chris Harvey
Arr.. indeed. I didn't think to try shutting that down and seeing the effect. Isn't it funny to see that adding 2+2 still does come to 4! Thanks guys. Chris - Original Message - From: "Perry J. Blalock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 1:43 AM S

Re: Any ideas?

2000-10-16 Thread Chris Harvey
Chris > > Anyone got any idea what this may be? > > > > There's a lot of them when I run netstat -a, and I'm thinking this has something to do with Helix Gnome? > > > > unix 0 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 10690 /tmp/orbit-root/orb-988892790302538924 > > I think that this is part of C

A follow up to 'ps -ef woes'

2000-10-16 Thread Chris Harvey
Well I promised to give an update on the ps -ef thing I had a few weeks ago and also the timestamp problem. This is for those others out there who might also be scratching their head as to what changed. Essentially if you remember, I was asking why when running ps -ef I seemed to get a very short

RE: Increasing the size of virtual drive size on Samba

2000-10-16 Thread Daniel Wong
I am running kernel 2.2.16 and the samba from Redhat6.2 can't remember the version. when I map a shared linux directory on a Windoze box, say the share folder on the linux box (which is public), it says the mapped drive is 50MB ... how do I increase the size of this ?? or are shared directory fix

RE: pico can cripple a system

2000-10-16 Thread Stephen_Reilly
The issue is not with PICO but with the fact that an ordinary user had privilages to gobble ALL the systems resources. You could substitute in any power hungry app here for the same effect. You wanna be looking at ulimit, getrlimit, setrlimit, sysconf and so on. There are man pages applen

Re: pump vs dhcpcd

2000-10-16 Thread Cokey de Percin
"Michael H. Warfield" wrote: [snip] > I can't argue with you because I'm also using dhcpcd, but for > a totally different reason. I have to restart some IPSec VPN's when > ever things change and the .info file that dhcpcd generates is ideal > for sourcing into the scripts that reconfigure

Re: File System and RPM Integrity/Security Checker

2000-10-16 Thread Angel L. Mateo
Kevin Diffily escribió: > > Can anyone recommend a program(s) that will recursively walk through > my file system and look for potentially dangerous permissions and/or > installed executables? > You can try tripwire. -- Angel L. Mateo Servicio de Informática Universidad de Murcia Edific

CD woes

2000-10-16 Thread Drew Hunt
I used my CD to install RH6.2 and it worked fine. Now, since I have gotten Samba working (thanks!), I've shared it to my win box. The problem is, now it will only list the files and be able to copy very small (<100k) files. It fails on larger copies, running a program, and just about everything

Re: Any ideas?

2000-10-16 Thread Chris Dowling
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Chris Harvey wrote: > Anyone got any idea what this may be? > > There's a lot of them when I run netstat -a, and I'm thinking this has something to >do with Helix Gnome? > > unix 0 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 10690 >/tmp/orbit-root/orb-988892790302538924 >

Re: Anyone know what ircd is?

2000-10-16 Thread Perry J. Blalock
Well needless to say that as long as you're running sentry, you'll have to live with this...but that's a good thing :-) > Yep, I sure am. > - Original Message - > From: "Perry J. Blalock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 12:04 PM > Subject: