SIGIO

2000-12-14 Thread Rubén Alonso
Hi to all. I wish know if signal SIGIO works with an ordinary file descriptor. If in a process i open a file and caugth SIGIO with 'signal(SIGIO,my_function)' and i write to this file from other process, my_function will be executed? I try this with sockets and it works, but with other file desc

Re: Best backup system/plan for maximum safety - what do y'all do?

2000-12-14 Thread Bill Anderson
Jonathan Wilson wrote: > > Howdy, > > Now that we've spent a good deal of time setting up our system of servers, it's >occurred to us that we should be dome something more rigorous then once a week manual >"cp -a /etc /backup/$DATE" > > First off, we do NOT want to buy a commercial app like A

RE: RAID

2000-12-14 Thread Shanmuga Raj
If your server is running any critical applications and downtime is a concern, then you should configure a RAID 5, with RAID 5 you will get (n-1) i.e 18GB in your case. In case of a single drive failure you can easily replace only the failed drive, and your Array will auto rebuild itself. With RAI

glide on rh7?

2000-12-14 Thread Michael Jinks
Just came from the 3Dfx driver site, which is looking a little long in the tooth these days -- for example their hint tables only cover Red Hat up through version 6.1. This leads me to suspect that a lot of the information on that site is probably not applicable to version 7, not least because of

Re: telnetd

2000-12-14 Thread Charles Galpin
It's now called openssh-server :) On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Tony Johnson wrote: > I for some reason installed redhat 7.0 and had no telnetd after the > installation. I just copied one from a 6.2 box but I really want to install > it from the correct source. What rpm does telnetd come from?

Best backup system/plan for maximum safety - what do y'all do?

2000-12-14 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Howdy, Now that we've spent a good deal of time setting up our system of servers, it's occurred to us that we should be dome something more rigorous then once a week manual "cp -a /etc /backup/$DATE" First off, we do NOT want to buy a commercial app like Arieka or BRU. We want to use Free Sof

Re: Compiler questions: architecture, kernel version

2000-12-14 Thread Dave Reed
> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:11:41 -0600 (CST) > From: David Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello all -- > > Please let me qualify the following by saying that a) I'm not > C-literate, and b) I'll be perfectly happy with links to FAQs, or a > more appropriate forum to which to direct these quest

Compiler questions: architecture, kernel version

2000-12-14 Thread David Talkington
Hello all -- Please let me qualify the following by saying that a) I'm not C-literate, and b) I'll be perfectly happy with links to FAQs, or a more appropriate forum to which to direct these questions. If I wish to compile a binary on a fast machine and transfer this binary to another box of le

Re: Can Name-based and IP-based virtual hosts be used on the same server?

2000-12-14 Thread Richellère Yao Attiégoua
Hi, You can set up an intranet with your PC having the real IP address. This PC must be connected to internet and it'll be the gateway of the other computers on the network. Then you will use ipchains on the gateway (running linux) to enable the IP asquerading of the over computers on the intra

Re: How can I turn off "Header" and "page" in a Word file?

2000-12-14 Thread Richellère Yao Attiégoua
Salut Essai avec StarOffice. Il peut te permettre d'ouvrir tes documents *.doc. _ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com ___ Red

Re: RPM and Bzip Chasing Tails - Still

2000-12-14 Thread Luke C Gavel
Hi, cd /usr/local rpm -Uvh `ls rpm*rpm` `ls bzip2*rpm` g'luck, LG PS: Your log seems to indicate you may have to clear up some space (351 k's worth) on '/' for even the above to work. -- Generated Signature -- I've always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers. -- End Sig -

RPM and Bzip Chasing Tails - Still

2000-12-14 Thread Max Hugen
First, sorry I'm posting "out of thread", but I haven't figured out how to reply to a specific msg at the list's http site... Many thanks to David Talkington and Wolfgang Pfeiffer and others for your comments. We have tried running the rpms together, but still no go. From the log of our telnet se

Re: How to increase file handles? [SOLVED]

2000-12-14 Thread Jonathan Wilson
from an older post (also this article: http://www.byte.com/column/BYT2829S0006 ): The settings you want are in /proc/sys/fs/file-max and /proc/sys/fs/inode-max. By default they're 4096 and 7680 respectivly. To increase them just echo the number you want into the file... echo 8192 > /proc/s

Re: Logins

2000-12-14 Thread Ray Curtis
> "rp" == Ray Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: rp> How can one limit simultaneous logins to a shell account on an individual rp> user? I just use something simple like this in /etc/profile: # This script allows you to login only 3 times as any user # logcount=`/usr/bin/w | /bin/grep -c $L

RAID

2000-12-14 Thread Mark Basil
I am planning on purchasing an Adaptec Ultra 160 Single Channel RAID controller. Does anyone have any advise/pointers as to getting started with this. Are there any issue that I should be aware of? I've never used RAID before. I going to be setting up 3 9.1 Seagate Barracuda drives on a RAID 0

How to increase file handles?

2000-12-14 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Howdy, I'm having a hard time finding info on increasing the number of file handles. I know in the past I've read articles on it, but it never mattered before. Does anyone know where some articles on this are? (or know for sure how to do it. This is a production server, so no wild guesses ;-)

Re: LS-120 newbie question

2000-12-14 Thread hello
Hello Eduardo, have a look at my fstab... This works for me pretty good..:-)) Thomas Eduardo Arista wrote: 23A66BF3.8645.A30E70@localhost">Rick:Thanks for your advice.I tried it but it did not work.At boot time the bios recognize the drive as:ATAPI Device LS-120 ver 5 00 UHD FloppyAny other

gibberish on ppp log-in

2000-12-14 Thread Bob Hartung
Moving along, Kernel rebuilt and modules figured out. Now a new problem that I have not seen with three prior ppp setups. Upon logging into ISP with minicom or kppp I receive gibberish [example &**%*&()((**%&$]. Is this as simple as having the wrong script for the terminal window - but I

Re: LS-120 newbie question

2000-12-14 Thread Giulio Orsero
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 08:31:59 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >On Wed, 14 Dec 1988, Eduardo Arista wrote: >I've had no success as yet using the LS120 drives as a boot device. Sometime ago I managed to boot off an ls120 by copying an entire file system on it, just like it was an ide HD, and then using the

Logins

2000-12-14 Thread Ray Parish
How can one limit simultaneous logins to a shell account on an individual user? Thanks Ray ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: LS-120 newbie question

2000-12-14 Thread Rick Forrister
Eduardo, I should have also mentioned that mounting the ls120 drive with a standard 1.44Mb floppy instead of a 120Mb ls120 disk means you must do the mount on the entire disk; ie.: your mount line would be: /dev/hdd/mnt/floppy autonoauto,owner0 0 best rickf Rick Forrist

Re: PCMCIA driver disk

2000-12-14 Thread James
- Original Message - From: "Bret Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 7:42 AM Subject: Re: PCMCIA driver disk > "Mitchell K. Smith" wrote: > > > I have a Compaq Armada 1130T laptop that I am trying to setup with Linux > > 7.0. > > > > It

Re: LS-120 newbie question

2000-12-14 Thread Eduardo Arista
Rick: I thank you very much for your input. I will try to mount a ext2 formatted floppy, exactly as you do. Can you check is your LS 120 of the same version?. I mean an ATAPI device or an ide-floppy are these different things? Eduardo On 14 Dec 2000, at 11:11, Rick Forrister wrote: > > Eduardo

Re: sa2

2000-12-14 Thread Ray Parish
Can you please let me know what you find out on this? I have the same error. Thanks Ray Parish - Original Message - From: "Moby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 2:04 PM Subject: sa2 > I noticed that my RH 7.0 box runs /usrlib/sa/sa2 -A dai

Re: modules - unresolved symbols

2000-12-14 Thread rpjday
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Bob Hartung wrote: > Dave, > That was it! Now I wonder why in the past, since RH 5.2 I > have never had to rename the original modules directory > under /lib and I have recompiled every kernel since 5.2 when > installed? Oh well, another lession learned. > > I did go thro

Re: Z22 Printer questions

2000-12-14 Thread Bill Carlson
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Michael Burger wrote: > Not completely win-printers...check out the Z52...Lexmark has Linux > drivers for it. Lexmark also has drivers for the Z32 and according to them one can use this driver with the Z22 as long as both cartridges are used (black and color). Check this ar

sa2

2000-12-14 Thread Moby
I noticed that my RH 7.0 box runs /usrlib/sa/sa2 -A daily. Every time the script runs it complains about being unable to find /var/log/sa/sardd where dd is the current day of month. Is this normal? Should the file /var/log/sa/sardd already exist? If so, where does it come from? Thanks in adva

problems with command "ps"

2000-12-14 Thread gmurad
I am having problems with commands related to the procps group; The command "ps -ef" does not find any process i search; it was working fine; this happened after i installed sqmgrlog, i guess; anyway, i am trying to reinstall procps suit, which contains the command "ps", but i get the followi

Radius detail file again!

2000-12-14 Thread Szemerédy Gábor
Hello! Does somebody from ISP's have a cgi or other script to analyze the Cistron Radius server produced detail file, allowing for dial in users to see their used connect time trough their browser ? Thanks! begin:vcard n:Szemerédy;Gábor x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.srce.net org:Zavod za i

Re: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2000-12-14 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Reply to message from Charles Galpin on Thu, 14 Dec 2000, 10:23 <-0500>: > > > > Wolfgang Pfeiffer stated the following: > > > > But let me point to this: 'wget' does ftp *and* http -- I find it very > > > useful for downloading html-ized manuals: wget is able to follow links on > > > html-pages

Anyone have CUPS working on RH 6.2/

2000-12-14 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Anyone have CUPS working on RH 6.2? Whenever I try to install the RPM it segfaults on me :-) Any ideas? JW Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.c

Re: telnetd

2000-12-14 Thread Thornton Prime
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Tony Johnson wrote: > I for some reason installed redhat 7.0 and had no telnetd after the > installation. I just copied one from a 6.2 box but I really want to install > it from the correct source. What rpm does telnetd come from? telnet-server thornton __

Re: Using a printserver

2000-12-14 Thread Mike Burger
Oh, the printcap was fine...LPR/LPD printing works fine on my LaserJet 4 with teh internal JetDirect card. It's something about the Netport... I'm hoping to get an external JetDirct, instead. On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Mike Burger wrote: > > > I'd be

telnetd

2000-12-14 Thread Tony Johnson
I for some reason installed redhat 7.0 and had no telnetd after the installation. I just copied one from a 6.2 box but I really want to install it from the correct source. What rpm does telnetd come from? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: LS-120 newbie question

2000-12-14 Thread Eduardo Arista
Rick: Thanks for your advice. I tried it but it did not work. At boot time the bios recognize the drive as: ATAPI Device LS-120 ver 5 00 UHD Floppy Any other ideas?. Eduardo On 14 Dec 2000, at 8:31, Rick Forrister wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 1988, Eduardo Arista wrote: > > > Hello! > > I am instal

Re: Using a printserver

2000-12-14 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Mike Burger wrote: > I'd be happy if I could get any printer to print through the print server > I have here...Intel NetportExpress Pro...as an LPR/LPD server, it sucks. > > What does your /etc/printcap look like? The big change from using a local printer is to replace the

Re: modules - unresolved symbols

2000-12-14 Thread Bob Hartung
Dave, That was it! Now I wonder why in the past, since RH 5.2 I have never had to rename the original modules directory under /lib and I have recompiled every kernel since 5.2 when installed? Oh well, another lession learned. I did go through the Linux Kernel HOWTO and it doesn't say to renam

Re: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2000-12-14 Thread Charles Galpin
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, SoloCDM wrote: > Charles Galpin stated the following: > > 1. I can't figure out the option to get wget to retry when the server says > > it's too busy to accept any more connections. -t doesn't fix this. > > Try --tries=0 or greater than zero. Zero keeps trying unlimitless

Re: modules - unresolved symbols

2000-12-14 Thread Dave Reed
> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:32:27 -0600 > From: Bob Hartung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > After successful recompile, I made modules and installed > them. Upon rebooting I have 25 unresolved symbols reported > in dmesg. How do I start tracking these down. This is > driving me up the proverbial wall

Re: LS-120 newbie question

2000-12-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Rick Forrister wrote: > > I've had no success as yet using the LS120 drives as a boot device. > Just out of curiosity have you tried using a floppy in the LS120 drive to boot off of? From what I've read in the past, I don't think it'll work, but I thought I'd ask. :-)

modules - unresolved symbols

2000-12-14 Thread Bob Hartung
After successful recompile, I made modules and installed them. Upon rebooting I have 25 unresolved symbols reported in dmesg. How do I start tracking these down. This is driving me up the proverbial wall and RH is of NO HELP! Bob -- Bob Hartung www.radiologygrouppc.com www.qchealthwatch.com

ipchains + qmail + vmailmgr

2000-12-14 Thread Mark Lo
Hi, I am facing a huge problem for ipchains with my pop server using vmailmgr+qmail.  My server is not able to receive any emails once the firewall (ipchains) is executed. my pop server startup script is as follow: exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -c200 202.35.12.1 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail

Re: PCMCIA driver disk

2000-12-14 Thread Bret Hughes
"Mitchell K. Smith" wrote: > I have a Compaq Armada 1130T laptop that I am trying to setup with Linux > 7.0. > > It does not have an internal CDROM drive. I do have an Panasonic external > CD attached via a pcmcia card. > > When I boot from the install floppy and start setup, it prompts me for a

Re: LS-120 newbie question

2000-12-14 Thread Rick Forrister
On Wed, 14 Dec 1988, Eduardo Arista wrote: > Hello! > I am installing RedHat 6.2 in a machine with a LS-120 UHD instead > of the common floppy. Can someone help me with the fstab file?. > Also does the kernel support this device or do I need some > particular module which one and where can it

Re: LS-120 newbie question

2000-12-14 Thread thomas schönhoff
Hey Eduardo, if you can wait a moment I am going to give you my fstab in the evening, at the moment impossible, because I am at my job :-)) see you Thomas Eduardo Arista schrieb: > Hello! > I am installing RedHat 6.2 in a machine with a LS-120 UHD instead > of the common floppy. Can someone h

Re: [Fwd: delivery failure]

2000-12-14 Thread Mike Burger
I got it...I figured it came through the list. On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Frank Carreiro wrote: > anyone else get this? > > Sounds like someone should LEAVE this group if they are not interested > in opinions regarding their posts :-) > > No offense intended but this was weird. > > Frank > > > > -

Re: LS-120 newbie question

2000-12-14 Thread Eduardo Arista
Hello! I am installing RedHat 6.2 in a machine with a LS-120 UHD instead of the common floppy. Can someone help me with the fstab file?. Also does the kernel support this device or do I need some particular module which one and where can it be find? In the machine there is also a Yamaha DS-XG m

[Fwd: delivery failure]

2000-12-14 Thread Frank Carreiro
anyone else get this? Sounds like someone should LEAVE this group if they are not interested in opinions regarding their posts :-) No offense intended but this was weird. Frank Original Message Subject: delivery failure Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 03:58:44 +0100 From: "Bernhard

Re: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2000-12-14 Thread SoloCDM
Charles Galpin stated the following: > > > Wolfgang Pfeiffer stated the following: > > > > But let me point to this: 'wget' does ftp *and* http -- I find it very > > > useful for downloading html-ized manuals: wget is able to follow links on > > > html-pages and then download them ... perhaps a

Re: Red Hat 7.0 and 4 GB memory

2000-12-14 Thread Charles Galpin
very interesting. Are there any downsides to running one of these on say a 500mhz AMD athlon with 256MB of ram? In other words, do these "enterprise" optimizaions hurt you if you aren't running some serious iron? Would I be better off just getting the patches i am most interested in (like 64-bit f

Re: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2000-12-14 Thread Charles Galpin
> Wolfgang Pfeiffer stated the following: > > But let me point to this: 'wget' does ftp *and* http -- I find it very > > useful for downloading html-ized manuals: wget is able to follow links on > > html-pages and then download them ... perhaps a bit complicated for > > beginners as I am, but o

Slrnpull in Expire Mode

2000-12-14 Thread SoloCDM
The following message was output when /etc/cron.daily was executed by run-parts through crond. Is it a mistake by the programs in /etc/cron.daily or is it real? What can be done to rectify the problem? 12/12/2000 11:26:51 slrnpull started in expire mode. 12/12/2000 11:26:51 Reading /var/spool/

Re: Sendmail Question

2000-12-14 Thread Charles Galpin
To enable virtual user table support you need the folowing line in your sendmail.mc file FEATURE(virtusertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable') Don't forget to regenerate your .cf file with something like m4 /etc/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf make backups as needed of course. You also need

SIGIO

2000-12-14 Thread Rubén Alonso
Hi to all. I wish know if signal SIGIO works with an ordinary file descriptor. If in a process i open a file and caugth SIGIO with 'signal(SIGIO,my_function)' and i write to this file from other process, my_function will be executed? I try this with sockets and it works, but with other file desc

Re: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2000-12-14 Thread SoloCDM
Wolfgang Pfeiffer stated the following: > > Reply to message from Wolfgang Pfeiffer on Wed, 13 Dec 2000, 02:23 <+0100>: > > > Reply to message from Charles Galpin on Tue, 12 Dec 2000, 20:01 <-0500>: > > > > > I'd assume yes, but here is the info on the version I am using. Try here > > > first >

xfs bombs w/o /tmp font directory

2000-12-14 Thread Carey F. Cox
Because of difficulties in getting StarOffice to work on my RH7.0 system at school (see separate post entitled "StarOffice aborts on rh7.0"), I decided to try installing it on my home computer to see if I had the same problems there. What I found is that I couldn't install it because I didn't hav

Re: Messages in mbox not visible to imap clients

2000-12-14 Thread Bret Hughes
Bret Hughes wrote: > I finally upgraded our internal mail server to RH6.2 with all updates. > AFAICT everything is working except that messages in the mbox file in > the users home directory are no longer visible to an imap client. In > netscape I ended up subscribing to mbox and dragging (movin

Re: StarOffice aborts on rh7.0

2000-12-14 Thread Carey F. Cox
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Robert Key wrote: > "Carey F. Cox" wrote: > > > > I am having a problem with running StarOffice on RH7.0. Everytime I > > start it up, the sun logo comes up, then it abruptly stops loading > > leaving the informative message, "aborting." Does anyone have this > > successfully

Re: make modules failure

2000-12-14 Thread Bob Hartung
I give up on 2.2.16-22. I have never downloaded a kernel - always store box complete. I am presuming that I can download the kernel and headers from rpmfind.net, install then recompile. I don't know if this will affect the module errors or not or whether they arise from RHs use of kgcc to co

PCMCIA driver disk

2000-12-14 Thread Mitchell K. Smith
I have a Compaq Armada 1130T laptop that I am trying to setup with Linux 7.0. It does not have an internal CDROM drive. I do have an Panasonic external CD attached via a pcmcia card. When I boot from the install floppy and start setup, it prompts me for a driver disk. Is it possible to create

EXT2 and Kernel 2.4.0-test12 w/ test13 patches

2000-12-14 Thread kwood
Hey there guys and gals, I have question for you. I finally figured out how to get a kernel to compile on RH7.0 last night (Whooohooo!). Problem I am having is that I went bleeding edge and downloaded the 2.4.0-test12 kernel and then applied the test13 patches to it. The problem I am having is

Re: gcc not finding include files...?

2000-12-14 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 08:42:37PM -0600, christopher j bottaro wrote: [...] > files in the package is dependent on audiofile.h which is > /usr/local/kde2/include, but gcc can't find it. how can i fix this? i know > if i was invoking gcc myself i'd use the -I option. but this package is > be