SOLVED: EBCDIC support

2002-10-22 Thread Claudio Lapidus
Nevermind, I just found it. In case someone cares: $ dd if=infile of=outfile conv=ebcdic thanks anyway cl. Por favor, responda a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado por: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Destinatarios: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Asunto: EBCDIC support Clasificación: Hello, I'm in

EBCDIC support

2002-10-22 Thread Claudio Lapidus
Hello, I'm integrating a system that makes some queries to an SQL database, does some fiddling with the results and assembles fixed-width recors for export to the next system in the food chain. The problem is that this next system expects the text files to de coded in EBCDIC, instead of ASCII. Doe

Re: RH7.1 doesn't recognize SMP system

2002-10-22 Thread Claudio Lapidus
reciate your help cl. Destinatarios: Claudio Lapidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: RH7.1 doesn't recognize SMP system Clasificación: I seem to recall having to install the smp rpm by hand on an ibm netfinity box when installing 7.1. Then one has to cha

RH7.1 doesn't recognize SMP system

2002-10-22 Thread Claudio Lapidus
Hello, I have an old Proliant 6000 (2-way Pentium II) from about 1998, currently is running RedHat 7.1 (last fixes and all), but it is unable to correctly detect the SMP motherboard. Follows relevant kernel output: [root@streamer /root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : Gen

Re: Uninstallation help

2002-06-30 Thread Claudio Lapidus
Hey Bosko, > >Does anyone have any ideas as to what I can do to get the computer working >again because I'm stumped. First of all, you will need to remove all Linux partitions from the hard disk. You'll need the Linux fdisk, cos' the DOS version cannot handle Linux partitions. If Linux is sti

Re: How do I convert a DOS file to a UNIX file?

2002-06-27 Thread Claudio Lapidus
>I am not allowed to ftp UNIX files from one Linux server directly to >another. >Instead, I have to ftp to a general staging area, copy to a Windows 2000 >server, >burn a CD-ROM, then mount the CD-ROM on my DMZ'd Linux Server. >Major pain in the a**! > >When I go to edit the file on my destination

Performance measurement

2002-06-25 Thread Claudio Lapidus
Hi all, Can any of you people suggest some tools to measure host performance? I'm trying to compare performance of a certain application in diverse platforms and I would like to try to establish a ratio between the actual application's performance and some index of raw host performance, in order

Failed to resolve localhost name

2002-06-10 Thread Claudio Lapidus
Hi all, Here we have a 7.2 system which is unable to resolve its own 'localhost' name. However, its network name works fine. Following are relevant configs. Perhaps I'm missing something here, but everything looks fine to me. Output is shown for host command only, but the same is true for any

Re: RAID

2002-04-04 Thread Claudio Lapidus
>I have one IDE harddisk running RedHat 7.1, I would like to add a second >HD to mirror the first one. Is there any documentation to help the setup? $ man mkraid and the ones mentioned in the SEE ALSO section of that page. Also take a look at /usr/share/doc/raidtools* hth cl. __

Re: disk space

2002-04-04 Thread Claudio Lapidus
>I have a rh linux 7.1 server. How can I check the total disk space of > the /home directory and how much space has been used up? $ df /home will give you total, used and free blocks for the filesystem involved. If you want finer grain, specially regarding usage, try $ du /home and its varia

Re: nsswitch.conf [solved]

2002-04-02 Thread Claudio Lapidus
Gordon Messmer wrote: >I don't think "host" uses resolv.conf at all. It's part of the bind >package (bind-utils rpm), and uses its own library for DNS operations. >"host" will not ever try to use files or NIS, because it isn't using the >common libc resolver library. Yes, Sir, you are right. It

nsswitch.conf

2002-04-02 Thread Claudio Lapidus
Hi all, I've recently changed this line from nsswitch.conf from: hosts: files nisplus nis dns to: hosts: files dns according to the fact that I don't run NIS at all. The man page for this file says: "Within each process that uses nsswitch.conf, the entire file is read only