RE: SPAM

> Does anyone know where the PRM's are located ? rpmfind.net for all your rpm finding needs :) steve -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: Shell Script...more

use whoami or more specifically "VarName=`whoami`" steve > -Original Message- > From: Matthew Melvin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 26 July 2002 03:35 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Shell Script...more > > > On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 at 9:17pm (-0500), Jesse Angell wrote: > > >

RE: HOWTO : configure date and time

> I would like to configure the date and time for > today. Is someone know what is the command line for > it? > I've tried : > > date 18072002 > so i have the date of today july 18th at 20:02 time > but I don't know how to configure the year. date 180720022002 steve __

develop

Textmode ? Use dialog and a few scripts. Man dialog, steve -Original Message- From: Ximo Llacer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 July 2002 08:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: develop Hi. Does anyone knows any tools to develop programs based in textmode ? I have to develop a pr

RE: A question.

> this version is *way* too old to use. get a copy of 7.3 or, if you're > feeling bold and daring, get the limbo beta. there's no point at all > using 6.0. That's a very subjective statement. On some boxen here I'm still happy enough running 5.2 ... steve ___

RE: How do you set default user characteristics?

Try setting the "Password & account policies" in userconf steve > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 10 July 2002 13:32 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How do you set default user characteristics? > > > Folks, > > I'm using Redhat

RE: CIPE

Stephen, Take a look through http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/cipe.html There are patches and later versions available here as well as the address of a CIPE mailing list :) What exactly becomes unreliable ? The packet encription o

RE: samba swat

Type "setup" in a terminal. Select "System Services" and scroll down and select swat. steve -Original Message- From: Tyler Durdin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 July 2002 14:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: samba swat I forgot to go into select individual packa

RE: the most embarrassing question this season...

>Hi ! >I cannot get W98 to use proxy into internet. hmmm, yes I can see how that could be a problem. Have you considered using Linux ? steve :) ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: Shell Script

sed '/VirtualHost/,/VirtualHost/d' /www/conf/httpd.conf steve -Original Message- From: Jesse Angell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 June 2002 02:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Shell Script Hello, I need to write a shell script to do the following edit the /www/conf/httpd.co

RE: sed scripting

loose the quotes, they force literal. sed s/$1/$2/g $3 > $3.tmp steve -Original Message- From: Shaw, Marco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 June 2002 15:29 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: sed scripting I'm trying to use sed to do something like: # sh function.sh "something = yes"

RE: How do I stop RH from sidplaying log messages on thescreen?

>then restart syslogd (I use "/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog restart" - there is an easier >command, but I keep forgetting its name...). service syslog restart steve ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

RE: uninstalling packages

use RPM, check the man page under the uninstall and query options. steve -Original Message- From: Thomas Baumgartner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 June 2002 05:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: uninstalling packages Hi! I would like to ask if anyone has a

RE: uninstalling packages

-Original Message- From: Thomas Baumgartner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 June 2002 05:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: uninstalling packages Hi! I would like to ask if anyone has a suggestion on what is the best method of uninstalling all the packages t

RE: can't boot 7.3

Check that the system BIOS is set to boot from CD. Or just create a boot diskette from the CD and install that way. steve -Original Message- From: Jonathan Gaudette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 June 2002 14:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: can't boot 7.3 Did you do

RE: Shell Scripting

sed /'\'/,/'\'/d /www/conf/httpd.conf will do it, leave out the '/' in the second RegEx match steve -Original Message- From: Jesse Angell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 June 2002 02:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Shell Scripting I need to have a script open the file /www/conf/h

RE: Darn you Tux Racer!

>> 4) make their box dual-boot and you use it to access your own remotely >I don't want there systems Dual Boot, for now; there systems aren't >quite powerful enough for good dual boot boxes, IMO. A machine doesn't have to be any more powerful to run a dual boot than either of the two OS's indivi

RE: scripting

Just use echo "" >> /www/conf/httpd.conf and so on... steve -Original Message- From: Jesse Angell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 June 2002 10:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: scripting Okay I used SED worked great.. turned hours of work into less then a second.. Now here is

RE: My kernel keeps panicing

>The system boots and runs quite happily but about every two days at what >apepars to be idle time it panics. That makes it somewhat harder to diagnose >Compared to other similar servers I maintain it seems to get an >inordinate amount of firewall reject packets and I am wondering if it is >som

RE: How to start KDE

well it is quite possible and I wrote a script several years ago to launch KDE and Gnome on the same machine in different VTs ... steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 April 2002 20:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How to start

RE: My kernel keeps panicing

At what stage does the panic occur, is it at boot up, idle time, when certain applications/processes are running ? If the system panics at boot, try booting in single user mode or from a rescue disk and switch on the services one at a time to establish if any of them are causing the hiccu

RE: root / stuck on boot !

>I have a Linux Server (about 200 miles away) that has crashed and hung on >startup. I need to enter the root password so I can run fsck manually >Problem is, I don't want to give the users the root password! They could reboot in single user mode thereby not needing the root password to log in as

RE: How do you pipe text to the top of a file?

well more correctly: sed '1i\ first line\ second line' filename Then redirect the output steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 April 2002 17:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How do you pipe text to the top of a file? sed -e '1i\ fi

RE: How do you pipe text to the top of a file?

sed -e '1i\ first line' -e '3i\ second line' filename steve -Original Message- From: Werner Puschitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 April 2002 17:05 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: How do you pipe text to the top of a file? On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Ward William E DLDN wrote: >

RE: Where the file goes?

you could just run updatedb and then try locate again. Find should have found it though ... steve -Original Message- From: Jianping Zhu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 April 2002 04:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Where the file goes? I have redhat

RE: emulate ICQ, messenger!

for icq use jabber. steve -Original Message- From: ramzez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 March 2002 16:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: emulate ICQ, messenger! -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi... there is some applicationa that emulate the ICQ

RE: (no subject)

> Hi > HOw to upgrade the Kernel, i have Redhat7.0 installed > and its not seeing the whole memory for some reason > tried append and command line parameters. > How much memory do you have ? I happily see 2Gb of RAM with kernel version 2.2.5 on one of the boxen here ... steve

RE: Using the date command in a crontab entry

actually its the % that crond is interpreting as newline. use /usr/local/sbin/backup.bash "`date +\%Y-\%m-\%d`" Fri steve -Original Message- From: Eric Sisler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 March 2002 15:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Using the date command in a crontab entry G

RE: run backup script by cron question

MAILTO=root 30 23 * * * /usr/localbin/scp /usr/localfile remotehost:/backup/ It should run at 11:30 PM every day and mail root the output. Set it up as root with crontab -e. Test crond with something like : * * * * * /bin/touch /tmp/crontest and see if the file is created. If not run : ser

RE: fortune

<" If you want a fun challenge after this, figure out :-) >how to display :-) >>random fortune quotes in a box on the login screen. :-) it will br great to do so ...plz tell me how "> fortune > /etc/redhat-release or use sed to replace the line every now and then, run from a cron t

RE: Which Red Hat distro for 2.2.x?

That depends entirely on your requirements from the version. I'm happily running a server with RH 5.2 and kernel 2.2.5 as well as a desktop with RH 7 and kernel 2.2.16. steve -Original Message- From: OLA SAMUELSON [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 January 2002 11:55 To: [EMAI

RE: Disable Finger

The file you're looking for is /etc/xinetd.d/finger. Comment everything in here out and save. Then restart xinetd. steve -Original Message- From: James Pifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 November 2001 13:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Disable Finger How do I disable

RE: another md5sum question

David, --checksig checks the PGP signature. The RPM itself is signed and thus contains the signature. I presume you mean --nopgp ? This "ignores PGP errors when verifying". Its not a md5 checksum, it doesn't check the correctness of the file only the origin. Steve -Original Message--

RE: md5sum question

using the -c switch is much faster though ... -Original Message- From: Statux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 November 2001 02:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: md5sum question -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Quickly, you could just do: # md5sum filename and the

RE: Top for MP systems..

it's "top -C" available with procps 2.0.7 -Original Message- From: Clarence Donath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 February 2001 13:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Top for MP systems.. On Feb 13, 14:32, Duncan Hill wrote: > Subject: Top for MP systems.. > > I think I read some

RE: Redhat Exam

to be more specific ... Training Homepage http://www.redhat.ie/training/rhce/ RH033 Beginners http://www.redhat.ie/training/rhce/rh033_desc.php3 RH133 Basic User http://www.redhat.ie/training/rhce/rh133_desc.php3 RH253 Advanced/Experienced User/Admin http://www.redhat.ie/training/rhce/rh253_

RE: Redhat Exam

www.rhce2b.com steve -Original Message- From: Selim Jahangir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 February 2001 10:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Redhat Exam Dear All Where can I find information about Red Hat Certfication Exam ? Thanks selim

RE: Bash Script Questions

>> var3=`echo -e "$var1\n$var2"` >>...does the trick. It's the -e option in echo that's doing this, it allows the \n to be read and used as a new line. e.g. echo -e "$var1\n$var2" should read: a b but echo var3 after above would still give: a b Now what you should do is store the \n's in v

RE: Bash Script Questions

probably a bit late with this but; > > varlist=`echo "$varlist" | sed 's/$//'` > varlist=`echo "$varlist" | sed 's/\\$//'` > > 2) Given two variables, say var1="a" and var2="b", I want to create var3 > > such that it is "ab", i.e 'echo "$var3"' produces: > > > > a > > b > > > You w

RE: Errata Adventure

/usr/bin usually -Original Message- From: Tony Campisi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 January 2001 20:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Errata Adventure :: You need the glibc-common rpm as well... the best and easiest way for : you to keep your machine updated would be to run u

RE: do_try_to_free_pages failed

>Well, this has happened to me a few times now. Once I tried to use the machine >and all it did was give me this errors. Dumped those messages to all of the >vt's so I couldn't write any commands. All I could do was a cold reboot. That can happen, you would have had to telnet in and start killing

RE: do_try_to_free_pages failed

Peter, If they are only occasional errors then it's fine but if there are loads of them the system could hang, but of course not in your case as the process is being killed instead. What's happening is the syslogd cannot free up pages. Syslogd has directly made a request for free memory wh

RE: awk FS

cut -f2 -d'=' means you don't have to fire up awk to do it steve -Original Message- From: David Brett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 December 2000 16:36 To: Cameron Simpson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: awk FS Hi Cameron It does! I don't know how I missed that combination.

RE: Sound installation from scratch

it has its own rpm, go to rpmfind.net and do a search, grab the latest edition. cat vmlinuz > /dev/audio to hear god steve -Original Message- From: Vikas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 9:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sound installation from scrat

RE: cat |grep |???

well you can leave out the n, grep -5 ^9 filename steve -Original Message- From: Eric Clover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 1:11 PM To: redhat Subject: cat |grep |??? hello, i have a need for something that will cat a large file, grep it for a word and ha

RE: cat |grep |???

grep -n5 ^9 filename steve -Original Message- From: Eric Clover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 1:11 PM To: redhat Subject: cat |grep |??? hello, i have a need for something that will cat a large file, grep it for a word and have the ability to pull the 5

RE: sed -e "s/\(^.TH*\)4F/\14/g"

what about firing up grep as well ... grep -i ^.TH | sed 's/4F/4/g' steve -Original Message- From: Lee Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 8:24 PM To: Matthew Melvin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sed -e "s/\(^.TH*\)4F/\14/g" At 05:12 PM 11/15/00 +

RE: scripting help / question

ls -la s* | awk '{print $9}' | sed "s/^./grep -i \'&/g" | sed "s/$/\' file/g" > srcipt.sh is really evil looking steve -Original Message- From: Marco Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 12:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: scripting help / question Y

RE: Linux-memory Help

to go back to the one unanswered question >> Prevent X from starting automatically at startup. for this follow previous unstructions to get to a terminal screen and edit your /etc/inittab change the id:5:initdefault: line to read id:3:initdefault: Now on reboot you will have to run X from the CLI

RE: /var/log/cron file

yeah it's perfectly normal, according to man page: " Rmmod unloads loadable modules from the running kernel. Rmmod tries to unload a set of modules from the kernel, with the restriction that they are not in use and that they are not referred to by other modules. If

RE: Need help choosing MB/RAID card

Dell use Adaptec PERC$ (various versions) controller cards, I can get you drivers for most of them. They perform quite well here, Adaptec PERC2 /Si, PERC3/Si, Di, 3/Di. You may however be able to pick up a cheaper product elsewhere ... steve (my own opinions, not Dell's) -Origina

RE: 2 gig limitation on file?

Steve, The patch written by Matti Aarnio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is available on ftp://mea.tml.tele.fi/linux/LFS/ . Another one is on ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz//pub/local/mj/linux/smugfs-0.0.tar.gz written by Martin Mares. Again with the 31 Bit offset. Unfortunetly the VFS abstraction lay

RE: pico can cripple a system

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

Enable 64Bit file access on 32Bit architecture

Apparantly Matti Aarnio has written a kernel patch which achieves the above, thus allowing a person to read from and write to a file above 2Gb on an x86. The only location I could find referenced for the patch was ftp://mea.tml.tele.fi/linux/LFS/ which unfortunetly I can't access. Has any

RE: Enable 64Bit file access on 32Bit architecture

ooh oooh think i found one ... ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz//pub/local/mj/linux/smugfs-0.0.tar.gz -Original Message- From: Reilly, Stephen Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 4:14 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Enable 64Bit file access on 32Bit architecture Apparantly Matti

RE: unsubscribe -can someone at least bother to reply 4 the first time

Well here in Ireland a sod is quite simply a measure of turf. As in "a sod of turf", it kind-of means lump of dirt, but not really. My word theseraus has it that a sod is similar to dirt with grass, or turf. Hmmm, anyone apply Matti Aarnio's (or other) kernel patch to enable 64Bit file ha

RE: Backdoor Root

>The error for a user account is: > su: incorrect password >Note: When you reply to this message, please include > the mailing list and my email address. >* >Signed, >SoloCDM There was a similar problem menti

RE: Dual boot question

>> [1] Anybody setup a dual boot using NT(NTFS) and RH7 >Worked OK for me. I just made the first partition /boot on the first disk >(important that it's below 1024 cylinders sometimes). Then put Linux in >MBR, and it could boot NT4 and Win2k just fine (like you describe). But do make sure to

RE: [OT - beers] (was: Re: name of current release)

> > Guinness. Hopefully *not* related to that nasty-tasting beer > > of the same name. > absolute nectar of the Gods, I rarely drink anything else, must go play with my spanking new QNX box . . . steve (irish) ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PR

RE: Web Discussion Board

> Hiya - I'm looking for a good web discussion board type solution... http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/wwwboard.shtml steve ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ___

RE: simple way to list full path of files

Getting in on this very late I know but find/locate etc. would be the ticket if you know the name of the files, otherwise use ls -R to recurse. steve -Original Message- From: Alan Mead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 7:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

RE: [OFF TOPIC] Dell PowerEdge

I can only give a cursory responce to this one (massive conflicts of interest and what have you), but if you're going to buy a Poweredge anyway and then trash what's on it (NT or wever) to install Linux then why not start with RH and build from there ?? That way you get the Linuxcare supp

RE: Users??

for simplicity, type init 1; init 3 that switches between single user mode and then back, bit harsh though, on second thought nah just kill off the processes. Do a ps -aux | grep -i login. Kill -9 (offending PIDs) --steve -Original Message- From: Gregory Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: Users??

kill -9 `ps -aux | grep -i ^username | cut -c10,11,12,13,14` guaranteed to kill ALL processes started by that user, even if killing the user PID doesn't. --steve -Original Message- From: Bret Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 3:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Recognizing Newlines with Sed

> > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, SoloCDM wrote: > > > > > I successfully used "cat | tr -d '\n'" on a file that "sed > > > 's/\n//g' " failed to properly recognize. I need sed to > > > effectively recognize newlines or ask that someone provide a perl > > > script that will. > sed will recognise $ as

RE: [OT] Linux keyboards

>> And after all, you don't _need_ Windows keys! >Go working at a Sun Sparc or Ultra for a while and you might reconsider >that statement... ;-) Another set of modifiers can be dead handy at >times... it's handy to be able to map alt/shift/sysrq to a spare metakey . . . or even alt/ctrl/backspac

RE: 64 Bit OS Port

The effort to fully port is not yet complete . . . It is great to see the amount of big name companies working together toward this one goal though. There's a lot involved. http://www.linuxia64.org/ --steve > -- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Repl

64 Bit OS Port

Does anyone know of any documentation or definitive website regarding porting Redhat (or any other distros for that matter) to 64 Bit OS architechture ? I have only been able to find general information regarding commercial Unix ports, need specific Linux info, or more in depth info on th

RE: Linux+Novell

this should help a bit, Caldera and Netware http://linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-02/lw-02-netware_p.html you can also install Caldera's Netware for Linux which I'm sure is documented on the Caldera site, supposedly quite limited though. What level of interoperability are you looking for ? Wi

RE: Dell Latitude Cpt V466GT

you may find this link useful: http://rosebud.sps.queensu.ca/~edd/lcpt400.html --steve > -- > From: Stuart[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 February 2000 20:07 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Dell Latitude Cpt V466GT > >

RE: Redhat on Dell or IBM Laptops?

Helvetiella Longoria wrote: > > Hi, I am about to make a recommendation on a laptop that has a docking > station to our > telecommunications/networking group at the university. They want to be able > to run RedHat Linux on it > as the primary Operating System with WindowsNT as the second OS.

RE: Core Problem from Gnome

start by using file or adb they should tell you what dumped, it's fine to delete the thing though if your not concerned what caused it... --steve > -- > From: Jim Kannengieser[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 December 1999 15:23 > To:

RE: INSTALL: Dell Inspiron 7500

Tom, Dell farm out Linux support to Linuxcare and yes it will always be difficult to get Linux support on Laptops. Having said that, you should be aware that the bulk of Linux or indeed any other software support will not be found at the hardware vendor. The site below details Inspiron 75