Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just wondering
Do you folks have prefered backup utils and methods?
ie tar or cpio, perhaps something else?
Is there a beter way to backup, instead of tape perhaps to another
Harddrive?
Just a thought that occured to me, I would like to see if my backup
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NetGear GA302T Copper Gigabait Ethernet 32bit PCI Card
working for me
Jack
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I agree with William Ward:
Can we please get back to Redhat Linux now?
I started this whole thing off,
caused mainly by my not understanding
the common use of "miles ahead"
and thus i leaped to criticize use of "light-years"
bc I was takin
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hal Burgiss responded to another thread:
Mutt + procmail is light years ahead of this stuff. Especially, when
you consider vim can be used as the editor.
I am reasonably sure most members of this list,
and almost surely Hal himself,
really know that "
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OT : light years, ah
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:57:51 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Jack Byers wro
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
redhat 8.0 kde
When i have several emacs files open, with any changes saved
and then logout, ie killing X then rerunning startx
or even shutting down and fully rebooting
these open emacs windows are back just as I left them, all is well.
however this works
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
what is difference between
1) shutdown -t60 -h now
and
2) shutdown -h +1
both forms discussed on manpage but
I dont understand the difference
the 'time' argument 'now' in 1) and '+1' in 2)
is a mandatory argument accordin
Ted Gervais wrote:
I am wondering about whether there are any good examples of various
configurations for iptables.
In particular the use of NAT and port forwarding etc.
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/ipmasq/examples/
complete scripts with comments
so you can follow what the ipta
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Dooley, Ryan wrote:
Randomly, but about every two days, the system will lock hard. No
messages in syslog or on console. The only way to recover the box is to
hard boot it.
I have had similar hard freezing;
In my case my vendor and I
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have looked around for some nice backup scripts or console
applications for my Redhat 7.3 system. There are some nice scripts around,
but most of require a good amount of configuration (I'm looking for the
easy way out!). I can't really
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
you might like 'bu' by Vincent Stemen, free :
do a yahoo or google search on Vincent Stemen, it will come up right away
He designed this specifically for backing up to disk as opposed to tape
Uses 'cp' exclusively i think
My main machine n
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've had extremely good service
from Net Express
www.tdl.com/~netex/
suggest you browse their wkstn pages first
then
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with specific questions
that email addr is for your pre-buy questions
they might take a day or two to respond
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
do man dvips
if your default printer is setup
then just dvips xxx.dvi should do it
you can put it to a postscript file
dvips -o xxx.ps xxx.dvi
and specify printer
dvips -P printername xxx.dvi
Jack
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have two swap partitions,
one on sda2, other on sdb2
if one of them sda2 is not listed in fstab, but sdb2 is in fstab
will the system see anduse only the swap in sdb2?
if neither is listed in fstab,
will thesystem notsee or use either swap partition
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
you need a 2nd stanza in lilo.conf
modify it something like so:
modify for 7.0 and 8.0
let linux be label for 7.0
let linux8.0 be label for 8.0
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
default=linux
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gregory:
I have acroread 3.0
(on a rh 5.2 system)
'Find' under the 'Tools' menu works fine.
I also have a rh6.2box w acroread 4.0 i think, but it is not up
right now. If i get a chance i will check out w acroread4. there
and report
>From: "Jack Byers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>trying to use nfs to mount a directory from my rhat6.2 corni to
>my rhat5.2 byers
>
>from byers:
>[root@byers /]# mount corni:/home/jack /mnt/jack
>mount: RPC: Program not registered
>[root@byers /]#
&g
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
trying to use nfs to mount a directory from my rhat6.2 corni to
my rhat5.2 byers
from byers:
[root@byers /]# mount corni:/home/jack /mnt/jack
mount: RPC: Program not registered
[root@byers /]#
what does this mean?
I have stopped and started portmap and nfs
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>"Braverman, Rachel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I have RH7.1 installed on a system.
> I'm trying to install RH7.2 on a second disk.
> I want to be able to boot from either of the two versions.
> The problem is with the boot partiti
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
what is /etc/MACHINE.SID ?
[jack@corni jack]$ cat /etc/MACHINE.SID
S-1-5-21-294535841-2723149962-632958105
how is it generated, and used for what?
how to restore if trashed?
this is more than just curiosity:
in my recent debacle of overwriting part of /etc on
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 08:59:49PM +, Jack Byers wrote:
> >
> > Well I was trying to back up my /etc dir of my 5.2 sys byers
> > by copying it over to a subdir under a username on my 6.2 sys corni
> > I used ftp as root and tho
Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
big trouble and of course no backup..
ironically it was during a backup attempt that i messed up...
I have one rhat5.2 sys byers my main machine and it is still ok
I have another rhat6.2 sys corni (mainly my wife's)
Well I was trying to back up my /et
On both my rhat 5.2 system and my rhat 6.2 system:
linuxconf appears in /etc/inetd.conf
and also appears as a result of
/sbin/chkconfig --list
I was under the impression that in general,
services were controlled
by either
inetd
or
were 'standalone daemons' controlled by chkconfig.
ie not bo
My vote for best response by redhat for the year
(lean, to the point, no extra junk, and also the funniest)
Trond Eivind Glomsrød responded:
>Statux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Keep in mind that somehow RedHat manages to fix major problems with the
> > SAME version of the package (just a d
two pci nics share same interrupt here no problem
rhat 5.2
[byers@byers /proc]$ cat interrupts
CPU0
0:2109101 XT-PIC timer
1: 3043 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 1 XT-PIC soundblaster
8: 1
James wrote:
>I've been having a very puzzling problem setting up a home LAN.
>I'm only trying to get two machines to talk to each other via >ethernet, so
>my routing table is very short and sweet.
>/sbin/route -n
>DESTINATIONGW MASK FLAGS METRIC >DEV
>192.1
I seem to have built up to a huge netscape cache
[byers@byers .netscape]$ cd cache
[byers@byers cache]$ du -s
733740 .
that looks like 3/4 of a 1gig to me
when i gointo edit preferences advanced cache
and then try to
clear disk cache
and
clear memory cache
it seems to have zero effect,
du -s o
>On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hi Jack and Luke,
>
> > BINDINGS: leave as is
>
> Whoh! If you are going to connect this machine straight to the internet
>the
>LEAST you will have to do is to disable file and printer sharing!
Well, I presumed that file and
> from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: linux guy cant get w98 networking going
>Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 02:26:38 GMT
> >>I am not sure how these 3 identical lines
>>for intel nic got put in nor the 3 tcp/ip binding line
>>Possibly caused by me in my inexpert following o
>From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Looks like you don't have your ethernet adapter configured.
>Right-click on "my computer" and select "properties." Then
>click on "device manager" at the top. Go down to "network
>adapters" and see if the ethernet adapter is there. If not,
>close that m
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luke C Gavel)
>To: Jack Byers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>If the 'corni' machine sees the internet fine when it is booted
>into Linux, then all you have to do is alter some setting in
>Win98 to make it see the Inte
>From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>CC: Jack Byers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: linux guy cant get w98 networking going
jack byers wrote:
> > 192.168.2.1 lanside of my main linux box byers
> > 192.168.2.7 ip of the othe
2 computer setup with adsl, hub, works fine with both systems running linux
1)gateway computer my rhat 5.2 byers connected to adsl
2) a dual boot w98, linux rhat6.2 corni
when corni booted up into linux, networking fine, good access to
internet etc
= note, I have _zero_ Windows experienc
Ken responded:
>This looks like a permissions/id problem.
>Did you "su -" (i.e., to root) from an ordinary user account before
>running this?
uhh, not quite, I did
just 'su' (not 'su -') from an ordinary user account, before running
I am not sure what you are implying, but Iwill try again
do
trying to backup /etc from byers my rhat 5.2 system
to a backupdir on corni rhat6.2 on my lan
the target backupdir:
[root@corni /]# ls -ld dcproot
drwxrwxrwx7 root root 4096 Sep 20 04:38 dcproot
[root@corni /]#
[root@byers byers]# mount corni:/dcproot /mnt/jack
[root@byers byers]
>From: "Mike McNally" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: nfs not showing up in 'ps'
>If you look at /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs, you'll see that the script exits if
>it can't find the bits or if there's no exp
in my redhat6.2 system nfs doesnt show up on 'ps ax' or 'pstree'
root@corni /root]# pstree |grep nfs
[root@corni /root]#
[root@corni /root]# pstree |grep portmap
|-portmap
[root@corni /root]#
[root@corni /root]# pstree |grep mountd
[root@corni /root]#
only portmap shows up
but, nfs sho
>Daemon won't start
try, as root on your 6.2 system
/usr/sbin/lpc restart
Jack
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>I am running Red Hat 6.2 on one of the boxes in my lab. I want to
>set up a remote printer that connects to another pc (Red Hat 6.1). >I
>used printtool to set up the remote printer but without success. >Daemon
>won't start on the remote
>host. I checked hosts.lpd and it is ok. I don't have
I don't understand this behavior at all.
I have a script that has an 'enscript' command in it.
I also have several text files saving things like $0, $1 for testing
purposes. These text files are saved to /tmp
so far ok
but now i find that even after deleting those /tmp files
if i even run anot
Gordon Messmer responded
>Jack Byers wrote:
> >I went back to your script ( a newer one i think) and i was getting
>>more comfortable with the syntax, but still nervous that i didnt
>>exactly know just where to put MY ip numbers etc.,
>The latest verison has mu
Gordon Messmer responded
>Jack Byers wrote:
> ftp://duke.eburg.com/pub/linux/init.firewall
...
>>I too found these sites useful.
>>The Burgiss script was easiest for me, mainly because it was a working
>>example. I was able to take his script and just change a f
Bob Hartung wrote
>I too am struggling with IPCHAINS. I have found a few sites some
> with sample scripts to use as templates or whatever:
> ftp://duke.eburg.com/pub/linux/init.firewall
> http://personal.sdf.bellsouth.net/sdf/h/b/hburgiss/linux/ipchains.html
I too found these sites useful
thanks Mikkel, now I know it was a nutty idea.
Mikkel L. Ellertson responded
>You might have an interesting time configuring the single NIC as
>eth1. The install program will make it eth0, so you will have to go in
>and edit things afterwords to make it eth1. Besides, the configurations
>will n
>RE Hal Burgiss : http://feenix.eyep.net/xstuff/xfs.html
Hal Burgiss responded:
>>briefly, I am using
>>XFree86-xfs-3.3.5-1.5.x
>>XFree86-SVGA-3.3.5-1.5.x, ...etc,etc
>>recently updated from rhat site.
>>
>>my bootup in rhat5.2 says something like (too fast to catch it all)
>>...xfs nice..
For an internal MASQed computer, with a single nic
is it ok to configure that nic as eth1 instead of eth0?
I ask because my main Masqserver linux box uses eth0 for
its connection via dsl to outside,
and hence eth1 for the internal net.
So it seems to me, simply for symmetry if nothing else,
be
Tom, thanks for that detailed explanation.
The key for me was
>Lilo includes several files. One is "lilo", one is "boot.b".
>
>Those files must come from the same version of lilo.
I didnt appreciate that both "lilo" and "boot.b"
would be on a rescue disk that had Lilo on it.
regards,
Jack
RE Hal Burgiss : http://feenix.eyep.net/xstuff/xfs.html
a very goodpage with lots of hints
all focused on 6.0 thru 6.2 rhat users
I am still in rhat 5.2 so the specific instructions therein
probably dont really apply to me, but I have some peculiar responses
re xfs in my 5.2 system that maybe H
Tom Oehser wrote:
> > lilo -r /linux -v
>
>No. This is the wrong way to do it. You are likely to get a version
>conflict as you will be running the lilo executable on tomsrtbt against
>the boot.b file on your system.
uhh, i don't get it.
what exactly conflicts with what?
it seems to me if t
[byers@byers /]$ ls -l /etc/X11/X
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Apr 14 1999 /etc/X11/X ->
../../../../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFCom_Matrox
[byers@byers /]$
I dont grok the 5 levels of ../ in this link
it seem to me i am asking for info on a file(a link) X
2 levels below /so i would
I think I did something rather dumb, and not surehow
togo about correctingit.
I have redhat5.2 kernel 2.2.9
I had (still have?) xfree86 3.3.3.1
Tried to update to 3.3.5 via rpms available at
ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/i386/
got all the rpms i thot i needed, wasnt really
conscious at that time
I am running a firewall script(from HalBurgiss, slightly tweaked)
by placing the script firewall.sh in /usr/sbin
and making it executable by root
and at end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local
I put the command:
/usr/sbin/firewall.sh &
this all seems to work and the firewall tests as expected.
Only peculi
I took Hal Burgiss's firewall script (modified version of nerdherd)
and it seems to work as advertised for me.
I test it with ShieldsUP http://grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1ck2l2
(or https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 ...not sure ofthe exactaddr)
and many ports previously shown as
'open' now show as 'st
thanks to Hal Burgiss and Bret Hughes for response.
I am encouraged from Hal's experience that the midentd probably not needed.
FYI, here is the beginning of the README in the mindentd-1.6 dir
from the downloaded tar file from http://ipchains.nerdherd.org
[byers@byers midentd-1.6]$ pwd
/data/hom
Hal Burgiss and also i think Tom Burke presented to this list
their versions
of a firewall script originally coming from the nerdherd group.
I have been trying to fully grok what those scripts do.
My main question concerns the nerdherd readme from their downloaded
tar file, wherein they include
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>gatekeeper.Infinity-ltd.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA23494;Fri, 9 Jun
>2000 17:22:05 -0500
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jun 09 16:00:08 2000
>In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Message-ID:
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>On Fri, 9 Jun 2000,
when hitting stuff like this, that used tojust work
I think i will forever be a newbie
anyway i can no longer get any response out of xhost
either as normal user or when su'ing to root
[byers@byers byers]$ xhost
access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect
[byers@byers byers]$ su
Rick
I dont have any experience myself
but the vendor I use NetExpress
has a lot of info on its web pages
and a cursory reading says the 820 amd 840 some versions
at least are good.
quoting from the netex motherboard page:
http://www.tdl.com/~netex/mb/mb.html
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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 16:07:06 PST
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Jon Knews wrote:
>Anyone know of a good low-priced (under $250) motherboard that definitely
>supports DUAL CELERON 500MHz ??? I have a single Celeron 500 mother-
>board in my computer, and would like
Try NetExpress
www.tdl.com/~netex
I know they sell ISP packaged solutions.
I dont know about onsite support
They have been very helpful to me in my prebuy info gathering
for my workstation, and in its upgrade.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is their email just for info
designed to field prebuy question
Apologies for sending this again,
but I again found that my email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
as received by me via the digest version
cutoff my last section of my reply.
I dont know whether it didnt get sent out of hotmail correctly
(i received a copy i sent to myself but that is internal to hotmail),
o
rday wrote:
>i'd like some comments on another way to set up multiple linux
>installations on the same box that i've been thinking of trying.
>haven't done it yet, but i'm curious if there's any fatal flaw.
>for each installation, set up LILO to install in the boot partition
>for that install --N
I am experiencing an odd result from email i send to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I subscribe only to the digest, not the regular list:
twice now, with slightly different versions of the same email
I have received via the digest, my email truncated
both times at exactly same spot, the last paragraph or so
Sorry for the repeat, the redhat digest evidently cutoff last half
of full reply
Here it is again, with a few more comments hopefully clarifying
just how I set up multiple RH on different disks.
Dave Reed wrote:
>I eventually just decided to trust the floppy boot disk wouldn't go
>bad (I have ne
Dave Reed wrote:
>I eventually just decided to trust the floppy boot disk wouldn't go
>bad (I have never found floppy disks to be that reliable) and just
>tried it.
>Fortunately, it worked fine. I'm not certain how lilo figures out
>where /boot is when it's on a different partition than / (in th
>Dave Reed wrote:
>>I've looked (albeit quickly) at the lilo and lilo.conf man pages and
>>the LILO HOWTO and am not certain exactly how to do this - and don't
>>want to try for fear of messing things up.
I had this in extreme degree until I discovere
Dave Reed wrote:
>I've looked (albeit quickly) at the lilo and lilo.conf man pages and
>the LILO HOWTO and am not certain exactly how to do this - and don't
>want to try for fear of messing things up.
dave
here is what I did, with a lot of help from my vendor netexpress
www.tdl.com/~netex
es
Steve Borho wrote
>It's always been my experience that Linux is as reliable as your hardware.
>With PC's, this isn't saying much (which explains why I use a DEC Alpha and
>a Netwinder at home).
Can you explain just how you use a Netwinder?
perhaps as a dedicated firewall or ???.
What makes the
>Was I the only one to receive a ~1MB-sized RH digest with almost 600
>messages after several days of no digests at all?
>Regards,
>- Juha
Same here; I thought at first it was trouble with my hotmail.
I finally sent a msg to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about it--
Never got a reply, just the huge digest
I have an apple lw IIF connected via serial port.
It works for both postscript and ascii text but some probs on
missing first column, and sometimes first line especially on TeX ps
files---
so I wouldn't trust my printcap as the best.
I had to do things with a script to recover the first column,
n
to see ppp connect messages try:
tail -f /var/log/messages
thisshould spit back all of your ppp stuff with responses
regards,
Jack
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I have used this same location to get the jdk1.1.1 and it works
fine, instructions re linux good
regards
Jack Byers
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>> > I just tried doing your ps-while-acroread_printing suggestion
>> > and I see _no_ evidence of ghostscript.
>> Well, that's understandable if you have a Postscript printer. I
>> don't. :)
>> David E. Fox
asoaa, sorry to be so dim, I thot Iwas missing something
essen
my 2 recent msgs re "reading pdf files" responses to David Fox
both were refused on the cc to David Fox with following:
rom Sat Mar 7 13:50:28 1998
Received: from localhost (localhost) by shell12.ba.best.com
(8.8.8/8.8.BEST)
with internal id NAA27852; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 13:50:28 -0800 (PS
David Fox replied to Jack Byers:
> > Uh, maybe I'm missing something, but
>> I can print pdf files from inside acroread in either of 2 ways:
>> -- directly from the print command under file menu in acroread
>Do you select any options or do the o
David E. Fox wrote
...
> acroread displays it OK. So, as another poster suggests, acroread
> can handle displaying some PDFs that the other alternatives have
> problems with.
> But I am no better off than I was before -- I need to print this
> thing, and ghostscript won't do it. I don't see why.
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