RE: LDAP Auth un RH 8.0

2002-10-03 Thread Chuck Carson
  Has anyone got Red Hat, either 7.x or 8.0 to authenticate via ldap to a MS Active Directory server?   Thanks, CC   Chuck Carson  Sr. Systems Administrator Syrrx, Inc. 10410 Science Center Drive San Diego, CA 92121 E

Linking Oracle under RH 8.0

2002-10-03 Thread Chuck Carson
Title: Message   I managed to get the 9.2.0 client to install and link under RH 8, but I cannot get the enterprise server to link. RH 8.0 is still using glib 2.2, so it should work. Has anyone else had the same problem?   Thanks, CC   Chuck Carson  Sr. Systems Administrator Syrrx, Inc

LDAP Auth un RH 8.0

2002-10-03 Thread Chuck Carson
Title: Message   Has anyone got Red Hat, either 7.x or 8.0 to authenticate via ldap to a MS Active Directory server?   Thanks, CC   Chuck Carson  Sr. Systems Administrator Syrrx, Inc. 10410 Science Center Drive San Diego, CA 92121 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: 858.731.3540 M: 858.442.0827

RE: Killing "D" process

2001-01-30 Thread Chuck Carson
-Original Message- From: James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 9:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Killing "D" process - Original Message - From: "Matthew Melvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[

Swap question

2001-01-30 Thread Chuck Carson
This maybe be a dumb question or something I just never noticed, but why does swap space not display in 'df'? I thought swap was mounted as /tmp. Under Solaris it behaves this way. Is it possible to modify RH6.2 to behave like this? Thanks, CC ___ R

RE: kernel upgrade or recompile from 2.2.5 to 2.4.0

2001-01-30 Thread Chuck Carson
First, Inventory every piece of hardware on your system. Especially your NIC. These can be a pain in the ass if you do not know the exact module you need. If you have a 3com card, add all the 3com modules to the kernel. (I think a lot of them use the same module anyway) Do an 'lsmod' and see what

RE: Killing "D" process

2001-01-30 Thread Chuck Carson
First, do a 'truss -p ' or 'strace' can't remember which is it for linux and see if the process has any interaction with the kernel, if it does not, and does not respond to 'kill -9', and it's parent process is 1, it cannot be killed. It is more than likely a dangling fork, and I think can only b

RE: [OT] Checking for the existance of a file in Bash scripts

2001-01-30 Thread Chuck Carson
Here is a handy little script I have been using for years. Not sure who wrote it or I would give them due credit, not really complicated but had no shell scripting experience when I first started using it. (why reinvent the wheel?) I call it 'jic' (just in case) and place it in /usr/local/bin. Th

RE: Very slow to connect

2001-01-29 Thread Chuck Carson
You need to identify what the bottleneck in the system is? Is it disk I/O? Do you need more MySQL child processes running. Do you need to spread your MySQL data accross different drive spindles? Is memory the bottleneck? Is it an open files bottleneck? You really need to set up scripts to gather

RE: 'fsck' on a mounted partition

2001-01-29 Thread Chuck Carson
t: Saturday, January 27, 2001 8:07 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: 'fsck' on a mounted partition On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Chuck Carson wrote: > > Is there a way to safely run 'fsck' on a mounted partition? Under Solaris > you can do this by refferin

RE: User cloning

2001-01-27 Thread Chuck Carson
Well, not sure how easy of a method you are looking for, but open /etc/passwd in vi, copy and paste the user you want to copy, change the uid/gid/username/home directory and all that stuff, exit. Add them as a group as well if you do it that way. Run 'pwconv' and then set the user a password. Or,

'fsck' on a mounted partition

2001-01-27 Thread Chuck Carson
Is there a way to safely run 'fsck' on a mounted partition? Under Solaris you can do this by reffering to /dev/rdsk/ and not worry about pear shaping anything (I could not find anything resembling this in RH's device tree). I have several hard hit web servers with /var patition getting hammered.

Question regarding uptime and filesystem integrity

2001-01-24 Thread Chuck Carson
I am having problems with heavy hit /var partitions needed 'fsck' badly. One got so bad that after deleting nearly 2gig of files 'df' failed to recognize the newly acquired free space. After 'fsck' and many many repairs, it was fine again. Is this related to lengthly uptimes and very heavy hit /v

Threads library

2001-01-22 Thread Chuck Carson
Is the linuxthreads library default with RH 6.2. There is no linuxthreads RPM installed, nor can I find one on any of the sites. I am trying to build perl 5.6 with threads support. Thanks, CC ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://li

Strange fork limit

2001-01-22 Thread Chuck Carson
I have a perl script that is trying to fork many processes (this is a cgi load teting script) but for some reason I cannot grab more than 54 child processes at any given time. I am running the script as root. Is there a shell level parameter that affects this or something? Thanks, CC

Connection Pooling Java Server

2001-01-21 Thread Chuck Carson
Does anyone know of a freeware java server that will maintain a persistent pool of database connections supporting Oracle and MySQL? It does not have to support EJB's but needs to support jsp and preferably have an apache plug-in. The last time I looked at Resin, about 6 mothns ago, it did not d

RE: napster working?

2001-01-19 Thread Chuck Carson
Now that I think about it, I believe Exodus in El Segundo taps into 3 different grids, one as far as Colorado. I quote the sales puke a talked to once, "You would have to dig a 40 foot deep trench around three sides of the building to cut it off from power and bandwidth." =) -Original Mess

RE: napster working?

2001-01-19 Thread Chuck Carson
I am in San Diego and have never lost power. Out of the 4 colo facilities I conduct work in, Level 3 in SD and LA, Exodus in Irvine and El Segundo, they have yet to lose power, besides the fact that they have 30 day generator backup - minimum. -Original Message- From: Statux [mailto:[

Problem running oracle installer remotely

2001-01-18 Thread Chuck Carson
I have a 6.2 server that has no X components installed. I am trying to export my display to a gui workstation and get this error when trying to run the oracle installer: [oracle@ora1 Oracle8iR2]$ ./runInstaller [oracle@ora1 Oracle8iR2]$ Initializing Java Virtual Machine from ../stage/Components

Cannot export display and run X stuff

2001-01-18 Thread Chuck Carson
I installed a RH62 server with no X components. I need to be able to export my display and run X apps on another workstation from that machine. What are the minimum packages I need to install to allow this? Thanks, CC ___ Redhat-list mailing list [

Silly grep problem within script

2001-01-18 Thread Chuck Carson
I am trying to grep for a process as follows: [root@ora3]:/usr/local/admin# ps -ef | grep ntpd root 24634 1 0 Jan11 ?00:40:21 /usr/local/bin/ntpd -p /var/log/ root 27476 27214 0 09:25 pts/21 00:00:00 grep ntpd Solaris does not print the 2nd line, but RH 62 does. Does an

3c905 problem:

2001-01-17 Thread Chuck Carson
I finally got my NIC's to 100Megabit. I compiled kernel 2.2.18 and only included support for 3c90x, but the NIC's then would not work at all. Next I got the source code for the 3c90x driver from 3com and compiled it (However, it the docs said it was for some older kernels). I copied the resulting

RE: NIC's stuck at 10Meg

2001-01-17 Thread Chuck Carson
ion Systems Manager ePlus Technology of PA 610-495-7800 Ext. 264 610-495-1264 direct 610-495-2800 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Chuck Carson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 2:06 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: NIC's stuck at 10Me

NIC's stuck at 10Meg

2001-01-17 Thread Chuck Carson
I have two 3Com NIC's in a RH62 box using the '3c59x' driver. They are 10/100 cards but stuck at 10. If I reboot and then plug the cable into a NIC, it will initially read 100M link, but some time later it changes to 10. These NIC's plug directly into an HP switch, and I have many other RH62 boxe

Can I Install sendmail 8.11 from RH 7 onto a RH 6.2 box?

2001-01-17 Thread Chuck Carson
Can I Install sendmail 8.11 from RH 7 onto a RH 6.2 box? If not, does anyone know where I can get the rpm version of sendmail 8.10 or 8.11 that will work with RH 62? Thanks, CC ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.co

Specifying System.amp in lilo.conf

2001-01-16 Thread Chuck Carson
Is there a way to specify the System.map file in lilo.conf instead of the symbolic link System.map in /boot? I am testing several different kernels, including 2.4, and have a need to do this. Thanks greatly for any help, -CC ___ Redhat-list mailing

Hanging on post-install configuration

2001-01-16 Thread Chuck Carson
I did not install any X/GUI components. Thanks for any advice, -Chuck Chuck CarsonManager of Network Operations [EMAIL PROTECTED] Global Domains International Phone 760.602.3000 Carlsbad, California Fax 760.602.3099 http://www.websi

RE: ssh-agent woes: Still Not Working

2001-01-12 Thread Chuck Carson
Yea, but I also need to support password auth as well. Does anyone know if the commercial version works in this regard. Thanks, Chuck As I suggested in an eariler message, look in your /etc/ssh_config and /etc/sshd_config. I've got the following along with lots of other lines, but I think th

RE: ssh-agent woes: Still Not Working

2001-01-12 Thread Chuck Carson
Here is the verbose output, executed at the user 'chuckc'. Note: User 'chuckc' exists on the target machine and has identical uid/gid, if that matters. #START #ssh -v logs SSH Version OpenSSH_2.1.1, protocol versions 1.5/2.0. Compiled with SSL (0x0090581f). debug: Reading configuration data /etc/s

ssh-agent: More Info

2001-01-12 Thread Chuck Carson
Just another thought. Most of these hosts I am working with have multiple interfaces and multiple domains associated with them. I noticed that the key files usually contain some username@hostname, ie chuck@logs or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you think this has any impact? -Chuck Chuck Carson

RE: ssh-agent woes: Still Not Working

2001-01-12 Thread Chuck Carson
I have the ssh-agent problem fixed, however, I am still prompted for my password to each host I try. I have created both key files, identity and the id_dsa, and placed the correspnding public versions into {HOME}/.ssh/authorized_keys and ${HOME}/.ssh/authorized_keys2 respectively. I have verified

ssh-agent woes

2001-01-12 Thread Chuck Carson
I am trying to utilize the ssh-agent, ssh-add, ssh-keygen features of sshv2. I am not sure if I am even doing this correctly, and the man pages are kind of confusing. I want to be able to ssh/scp to several machines and not be prompted for a password. I have ran ssh-keygen, which created private

xntpd

2001-01-11 Thread Chuck Carson
Where are running RH 6.2 servers. What is the latest and most secure version of time synchronization tu use? I just downloaded ntp4.x, last update July 2000. Should I use this? Thanks, CC ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listma

Larger than 4G support: kernel 2.4?

2001-01-06 Thread Chuck Carson
Can you get larger than 4G memory support prior to the 2.4 kernel? I just built the 2.4 kernel and it seems to be working smoothly, but I need to upgrade a core Oracle database to this kernel and am a little uneasy with the kernel being so new. Has anyone done any stress testing against the 2.4 k

RE: ( apcupsd || pchute+ ) ?

2001-01-06 Thread Chuck Carson
Yes, This software is very customizable. (The powerchute software) It can be configured to run custom scripts, etc.. after many different types of anomalies. ie APC on battery, APC on regular power, also you can have the software execute command scripts at X number of minutes after any defined ano

Question about modutils

2001-01-05 Thread Chuck Carson
How will installing the modutils-2.4 rpm affect me booting 2.2 kernels? I am doing Oracle testing with several different kernels and will be booting many different kernels. Thanks, CC ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.r

Build 2.4 kernel, but one problem

2001-01-05 Thread Chuck Carson
This isn't related to the kernel being 2.4, but my initial kernel detected and loaded a sound module, which I no longer want since this is a server. I built the 2.4 kernel and now I get the following: Jan 5 13:56:20 hitler modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module cmpci Jan 5 13:56:33 hitler ker

File system corruption after RPM Updates

2001-01-04 Thread Chuck Carson
I just had a very interesting time trying to install some updates. I have a cherry installed RH 6.2 box, installed with no GUI stuff what-so-ever. I applied all the updates from the update site except for any of the kernel updates. Several of them bombed because they were dependent upon X librari

Proper place for staic routes and interface config

2001-01-04 Thread Chuck Carson
I know this is simple but I am stuck in Solaris mode. Where is the proper place to put static routes and configure other interfaces. I am adding a second IP address to eth0, done form the command line as follows: ifconfig eth0:2 broadcast netmask Also adding a 2nd default gateway route add

RE: Is everyone seeing double? JUST STARTED

2001-01-04 Thread Chuck Carson
/03/01, 08:00:22PM -0800, Chuck Carson wrote: > > Is everyone getting double copies of each post, or is it a problem on my > end? > > -Chuck > I sometimes get doubles, sometimes not. > > > ___ > Redhat-list mailing li

Is everyone seeing double?

2001-01-03 Thread Chuck Carson
Is everyone getting double copies of each post, or is it a problem on my end? -Chuck ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: Supporting more than 65535 UID's under 6.2

2001-01-03 Thread Chuck Carson
many documents on this. -miah On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:18:34PM -0800, Chuck Carson wrote: > > Yea, > > We are a top level domain and our offering email addresses so the need for > this many account is necessary. What other solutions do you know of? > > -Chuck >

RE: Supporting more than 65535 UID's under 6.2

2001-01-03 Thread Chuck Carson
;iron" you use. btw, if it is for a pop/imap server, you can avoid creating accounts for every user with some servers/configurations that use a database instead. thanks charles On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Chuck Carson wrote: > > Is it possible under the 2.2.x kernels to support greater th

Supporting more than 65535 UID's under 6.2

2001-01-03 Thread Chuck Carson
Is it possible under the 2.2.x kernels to support greater than 2^16 UID's? If so, is it a patch or entirely new kernel we need to look at? Thanks greatly, CC ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/

RE: New Install Issues

2001-01-02 Thread Chuck Carson
You need to install LILO onto the MBR, not the default selection under RH 7.0. Also, I believe you must install windows first, or it will overwrite the MBR during install. What you can now do is add the linux partition to the windows boot manager or start over. (I think this will work on Windows

Command to check RAM configuration

2001-01-02 Thread Chuck Carson
n's hardware. I just assumed a large network of many linux boxes which cannot be brough down. Thanks, CC Chuck Carson Manager of Network Operations [EMAIL PROTECTED] Global Domains International (760) 602-3000 Carlsbad, California ___

Where is GDM started from

2001-01-01 Thread Chuck Carson
I am running RH 6.2 and currently gdk is started at boot as the login manager but I want to change this to kdm. I looked throughout /etc/rc.d and could not find where this is started. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, CC ___ Redha

RE: File Size Limit?

2001-01-01 Thread Chuck Carson
Yea, I just finallly deep-sixed 7.0 after 2 months of trying to get crap to work (as I deep-sixed RH 5.0, and 6.0). I think I have finally had my fill of Red Hat. I have to support a few VA-Linux boxes however, and need to do large Oracle exports. I have been fading Red Hat out and using SuSE 7.0

i368, i586, and i686 updates directories?

2001-01-01 Thread Chuck Carson
Under the updates for 6.2, there i386, i586, and i686 directories. The i586 and i686 directories only contain kernel updates. What are these for? I tried using the i686 update on a box with a PIII 700 and it failed. Thanks for any help, CC ___ Redha

File Size Limit?

2001-01-01 Thread Chuck Carson
Is the size of a file under RH still 2G? I really have a need to support large files in order to perform large Oracle exports w/o messing with pipes and etc... Thanks greatly for any help, CC ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://li

Where to diaable gui login

2000-06-24 Thread Chuck Carson
Where is the GUI login (gdm/kdm) started from. I checked all the startup scripts and cannot find where the X server or gdm is started. Also, how can you change your resolution while X Windows is running. I remember years ago CTRL +/- used to do this. Thanks for any help, Chuck -- To unsubsc

Configuring Sendmail wil Linuxconf problem

2000-06-23 Thread Chuck Carson
I am trying to configure sendmail to accept mail for my domain. Using linuxconf the check box for 'accept email for ' appears. Why is my domain not appearing there. I have /etc/hosts configured properly. Any ideas? Thanks, Chuck Chuck CarsonSr. Systems Engineer 85

Not receiving mail

2000-06-23 Thread Chuck Carson
I have a RH 6.2 machine which I am having mail difficulties. I have an MX record pointing to this machine as a mail server. Whenever I send mail to an account on the RH box from a remote host, I can see the remote mail relay connecting to the RH box, but the mail bounce back. I have the hostname

Problem: Too many open files

2000-06-16 Thread Chuck Carson
in turn creates too many open files and thus telnet and ftp stop respponding. (However, secure shell doesn't luckily) Any ideas? Also, just for my information, where do youchange the hard limit for file descriptors in Red Hat? Thanks, Chuck Chuck CarsonSr. Systems Eng

RH62 goes stagnant after a day or two

2000-06-13 Thread Chuck Carson
We are running RH62 on a dual PIII 550 box with 512meg ram. This is pretty much a server config which is never run in gui mode (X win). After a day or so the system becomes unreacheable via telnet/ftp, however ssh, which I have configured on the default port is reacheable. I also have syslogs fro

Problem installing Oracle on RH 6.2

2000-06-05 Thread Chuck Carson
n response. The JDK's were all properly installed and accessibly form both /usr/java and /usr/local/java. Has anyone had similiar problems? Thanks, Chuck Chuck CarsonSr. Systems Engineer 858.720.5040[EMAIL PROTECTED] <<...>> -- To unsubscribe:

nmbd not starting from inetd

2000-05-23 Thread Chuck Carson
, restarted inetd (and even rebooted). My Samba configuration works fine on several Solaris 2.6 and a few RH 6.1 boxes, but will not work un RH 6.2. Any ideas? Chuck CarsonSr. Systems Engineer 858.720.5040[EMAIL PROTECTED] <<...>> -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMA

Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

1998-05-15 Thread Chuck Carson
Linux can out perform NT maybe, but Solaris? That is like comparing a GEO Metro to a Mercedes Benz IMHO. Linux wouldn't stand a chance against Solaris nor would any other Unix save AIX. I have personally ran test suites on IRIX, Solairs 2.6, AIX, and Linux. We were looking at using some Linux mac

Re: adding users?

1998-05-15 Thread Chuck Carson
Wow, you are using NT and your boss thinks it can't handle it? Linux can do thrice as good with 1/4th the hardware. Simply put. Oh yea, I forgot to add, 1/10th the maintenance. Well, I worked for an ISP and we used a p133 with 64 megs of ram. 32 megs of swap, running crusty old slakware with a 1

Re: partitions?

1998-05-14 Thread Chuck Carson
Make a symbolic link called /var/spool/mail that points to /home or some directory beneath home. If you go ahead and redo all your partitions anyways, for a mail server I would make a 200 MB partition for the system and the rest for the mail file system. Also, 128 MB swap is probably to much. I m

Re: Western Digital

1998-05-13 Thread Chuck Carson
Have you looked at possible hazards in the immediate environment the system is in? ie, is it hot, is the drive close to a faulty power supply that gets real hot, etc... Is the system ever physically moved around or possibly on a desk that could get bumped alot. Sounds crazy but I have seen little

About to give up on RH 5

1998-05-11 Thread Chuck Carson
As I am almost ready to regress back to the somewhat stable 4.2 dist., I am going to make one final effort to get jdk installed. I have given up on the other troublesome Okay. I have a cherry install of RH 5.0. I upgraded glibc to the latest on the RH site. After removing the texinfo package I

Re: jdk1.1.5 installation

1998-05-11 Thread Chuck Carson
What rpm's do I need to update to install the jdk? I have a cherry version on RH 5 running. Thanks, Chuck -Original Message- From: Matthew Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, May 11, 1998 10:37 AM Subject: Re: jdk1.1.5 installation I have

Re: BogoMips

1998-05-08 Thread Chuck Carson
I wondered about this as well before, but I believe this is a measurement of how long it takes to perform an empty loop a million times or something like that. I noticed that accross several different installs on the same hardware that this number varies by 100 points in each direction. I currentl

Re: Newbie question: Directory & File structure

1998-05-08 Thread Chuck Carson
Any respectable Unix/Linux book should cover this. I have one that is a pretty good starting point for new Linux users, it is called: Linux Programming Written by: Neil Matthew & Richard Stones Published by: Wrox I got the book thru a research proffessor but you can probably get it thru Amazon.c

Problem configuring Xfree with a Matrox Mill-II

1998-05-07 Thread Chuck Carson
I have a pci Matrox Mill-2 with 4 megs and a CTX 1765GM monitor that supports 1280x1024 at 60hz. I cannot get a resolution higher then 1024x768. I have selected several different monitor types to inlcude the generic that can do 1280x1024 at 60hz. Has anyone had better results with this video boar

Re: root password unknown

1998-05-06 Thread Chuck Carson
Just curious, what could an attorney do? What laws would govern the requirement for someone to give a password back to an ineffeciently ran company? What is stopping that individual from 'forgetting' the password? From: Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Slackware install errors

1998-05-06 Thread Chuck Carson
Simply this is a _REDHAT_ list. What is so hard to understand? There are a plethora of lists supporting other ditributions. Take some intiative and find them. The volume on this list is already high enough, it doesn't need slackware questions confusing and misleading the newer Red Hat users. This

Strange idle times in 'w' listing

1998-05-05 Thread Chuck Carson
I noticed something odd. I booted up and immeaditely went in to X. I start several xterm's from within a .xinitrc file. From inside one of the xterms I did a 'w' command and it listed one root entry for each xterm but for the idle times for all the xterms except the one I was using said 641days.

Problem upgrading glibc

1998-05-05 Thread Chuck Carson
Okay, I am running RH 5 and am trying to get the jdk115 to work. The site said to upgrade glibc and glibc-devel to the latest located at redhat.com. Okay, I downloaded these and tried to upgrade them. rpm -U glibc-whatever... rpm -U glibc-devel-whatever.. This devel package wold not upgrade

Re: Totally off topic: RJ45 fab

1998-05-04 Thread Chuck Carson
The color does not matter as long as they match up at each end. (ie. the red cable in position 1 at one end must be in position 1 at the other end) The cabling I have used in the past had a solid colored wire paired with a wire of the same color with white stripes. I usually kept each color togeth

Re: No Remote Login

1998-05-02 Thread Chuck Carson
I am assuming you are at least getting a login in prompt (ie you can see the Linux machine) so you do not have a networking problem. I would look at /etc/security (I think that is what it is in Linux. I bounce around across 4 different unixes all day long and they all tend to differ) anyways, mak

Re: matrox

1998-05-02 Thread Chuck Carson
I have had the same problems with X-windows, both Xfree and Metro-X. I have experimented with several high end video boards on two different monitors that have very high scan rates. I simply believe both servers are poorly developed. I have ran Solaris X-86 and the display is immaculate at any se

Re: System Load when using Linux as a router

1998-05-01 Thread Chuck Carson
know, however, if the serial card is supported under the Linux kernel. I do not have the brand of the serial board handy at the moment) Thanks, WC -Original Message- From: Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Derek Balling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C

System Load when using Linux as a router

1998-04-30 Thread Chuck Carson
I am curious as to what kind of load using Linux as a router places on a machine. I want to use a RH box with an ISDN circuit to route to a 5 to 6 computer lan. I want to also use the Linux machine as a mail and web server. The Linux box is a dual pent 200 mmx machine with all UW SCSI and 2 intel

Re: Sendmail

1998-04-30 Thread Chuck Carson
I have had this problem as well, and sendmail would never time out. Well, not in 60 minutes anyways. I am not a sendmail wiz, but I just bought O'Rielly's book and am going thru it and it is a pretty good book. When I was having the problem with it hanging, my hostname was declared in /etc/hosts a

Re: Need Info to shut up Mircosoft lover on MSNBC BB !!!!!!

1998-04-28 Thread Chuck Carson
Two big companies, SAGE Electronics and Polywell computers. Search for both of them and you should find them. You can get 533 mhz alpha based RH systems from SAGE from $3000 with uw scsi. WC -Original Message- From: Jeffrey Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTEC

Problems with xlock

1998-04-28 Thread Chuck Carson
I have a strange problem. I have a newly installed RH 5 system in which I am running Metro-X with fvwm2. I have used this same configuration on this machine several times before with no problems. (I just like tio reinstall things alot). This time xlock does not work. I execute xock and nothing. I

Re: Is *anyone* running 2 SCSI CD-ROM drives successfully?

1998-04-27 Thread Chuck Carson
What is the ID of your boot device? (Do you have a SCSI disk?) Normally SCSI disks (the first one anyways) is ID 0, this may be why you cannot see the Ricoh. -Original Message- From: Jil Tardiff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 6:

Different Cron System (similar to AIX)

1998-04-23 Thread Chuck Carson
Is there any other cron packages for RH 5? I was looking for something similar to the Cron system used by AIX. Wherein you have one file containing every cron job. To modify the crontab you use crontab -e, and each entry in the file has it's own specific time to run. I know RH's cron system can be

Re: Log Files

1998-04-22 Thread Chuck Carson
It is always a good idea to 'pipe null' into a log file to clean it out. I do not think it would matter to these two but to others it does. To do this, issue the following command: : > This will reduce the file size to 0... CC -Original Message- From: Michael Segulja <[EMAIL PROTECT

PPP With Ethernet and Modem

1998-04-22 Thread Chuck Carson
I have a slight problem. I have a small lan that contains a mix of NT and RH machines. One of my redhat machines I use to dial up to the internet from time to time. Here is the problem: If the network device (eth0) is active, I cannot dial out using the modem. If I temporarily disable eth0, I can

Perl interacting with ODBC drivers from Unix side

1998-04-21 Thread Chuck Carson
I hope this is not a stupid question.. I have some perl CGI scripts I wrote that are used on an NT based front page web server. These scripts use the Win32::ODBC functionality to manipulate an Access database (Add, Retrieve, and delete data from some tables). What I want to do is place these Acce

What RPM's to update, etc...

1998-04-20 Thread Chuck Carson
I have completely con*$#@ my system installing various rpm's both from the contrib and redhat directories. I have since reinstalled from scratch. (I originally screwed everything up trying to install gcc 2.8 and then the jdk) Anyways, of the rpm's in the 'redhat' directory (not contrib), which sh

Re: Netscape install in redhat 5.0

1998-04-20 Thread Chuck Carson
Try ./ns-install If this fixes the problem, you need to add the CWD to your path. Append a :. to the end of your path. For bash, add this to your .bahrc file PATH=$PATH:. export PATH CC -Original Message- From: Mccorkle Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Netscape 5.0

1998-04-18 Thread Chuck Carson
Does anyone know what the status of Netscape 5.0 is? It was supposed to be released before the end of March as well as the source code. All I have seen released lately is 4.05 CC -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FA

Re: Redhat and Nt?

1998-04-18 Thread Chuck Carson
I have a similar setup and from great experince in dual OS's on one machine this is the method I have had the least problems with. Step 1: Use OS/2's boot manager and install the boot manager in the first part of the disk. Next create your NT partitions and set the first one as installable. Reboo

Re: directory recursing script needed

1998-04-16 Thread Chuck Carson
You can do this with perl in a handfull of lines. You can also use sed commands and place them in a bash script. (Actually countless ways to do this, but I do not know of any pre-built scripts available) Perl would probably be the easiest and most useful (and you could easily tweak the script onc

Re: Zip Drive

1998-04-16 Thread Chuck Carson
to Mount a zip with vfat I do this: (I have a directory at the root level called /zip) mount -t vfat /dev/sdc4 /zip To mount as msdos mount -t msdos /dev/sdc4 /zip Add an entry in /etc/fstab to automatically mount it at boot time. -Original Message- From: Vance Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Which 10/100 network card?

1998-04-15 Thread Chuck Carson
I bought a couple intel 10/100 pro pci cards at $42 a pop and they work great. CC -Original Message- From: Maxwell Spangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 12:16 PM Subject: Re: Which

Re: PPP

1998-04-15 Thread Chuck Carson
I have a script that you run and it asks you all the pertinent data and creates a script for you. You can get it at http://digmo.org/chuck/linux/ It has worked for several different ISP's for me. (Including my current one that uses the old radius authentication) CC -Original Message- F

Re: jdk-1.1.3

1998-04-15 Thread Chuck Carson
Where did you obtain the rpm for jdk? Thanks, Chuck -Original Message- From: Linus Åkerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 12:49 PM Subject: Re: jdk-1.1.3 On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Dan Hughes wrote: > Hello, > I have been working

Sorry, Java problems with typo corretions (Ignore previous)

1998-04-15 Thread Chuck Carson
Has anyone experienced any probs with the java kit that ships with RH 5? I installed everything that came with the CD and am having problems with some java programs. My first problem was fixed when I installed the kaffe update (rpm). So now I can compile java programs without errors but when I tr

Problem with Java compilers under RH5

1998-04-15 Thread Chuck Carson
Has anyone experienced any probs with the java kit that ships with RH 5? I installed everything that came with the CD and am having problems with some java programs. My first problem was fixed when I installed the kaffe update (rpm). So know I can compile java programs with errors but when I try

Pre-Built Linux Software

1998-04-05 Thread Chuck Carson
I am looking for sites that have pre-built binaries compatible for RH 5. Specifically the lastest version of the GNU compiler (2.8.1 I belive) I am having a hell of a time getting it installed manually. (The c ompiler works fine but any C++ code I try and compile I get tons of errors from the head

X-Server for Matrox Mill-II

1998-04-02 Thread Chuck Carson
I have a Matrox Mill-II vid-board and am currently running the Metro-X server distributed with RH 5. I get screen corruption when the system sits idle and was wondering what is the best server to use with this vid-board. I have used the Xfree SVGA server (3.3.1 I think) and was wondering if there

Re: ?How to Kill Apache 1.1.3-3 (RH 4.2 Dis'n)

1998-04-02 Thread Chuck Carson
Look in the conf directory for the apache server and find where the file httpd.pid is stored. This file contains the process ID of the initial server process. Kill this process and all others die. For 113 I think the conf directory is in /etc/httpd Chuck -Original Message- From: Brian <[

Re: Newbie problem

1998-04-02 Thread Chuck Carson
I have gone thru several C books and the best I have found is by Kelley and Pohl entitles "A Book On C". I used the third edition, there is now a fourth, almost twice as thick, so I am sure it is still just as good. However, nothing will ever be as up to date as man pages. Chuck -Original M