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Re: [Wlug] RedHat 7.1 boot floppy

by James Baldassari

Hi Norm. You can probably find a Red Hat boot disk image somewhere (just google it), and there are Windows utilities for writing images to floppies. I think one of them is called rwfloppy, which I can send to you if you can't find it. You will probably have to edit the boot disk once it's created so that it points to your linux drive. When you get your system back up and running I would recommend installing LILO so that you don't run into this problem again. The newer versions of Windows also have built-in support for booting multiple OSes. -James On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Norm Legare wrote: > Hi All, > > My desktop has 2 hard drives, one with Windows, one with Linux. By > inserting the floppy, it boots Linux. Unfortunately, the floppy just > stopped working (I get the Linux prompt, but then booting reports disk > failure) for some reason. I need to retrieve several files on the > Linux hard drive. I have RedHat 7.1 on cd. Can a new boot floppy > be made while preserving the existing Linux installation? > > Thanks, > Norm > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > >

Feb. 1, 2004

RedHat 7.1 boot floppy

by Norm Legare

Hi All, My desktop has 2 hard drives, one with Windows, one with Linux. By inserting the floppy, it boots Linux. Unfortunately, the floppy just stopped working (I get the Linux prompt, but then booting reports disk failure) for some reason. I need to retrieve several files on the Linux hard drive. I have RedHat 7.1 on cd. Can a new boot floppy be made while preserving the existing Linux installation? Thanks, Norm __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

Feb. 1, 2004

[Fwd: http://www.icetalk.com/linux/news/story/00401271992.html]

by jeff

Jan. 29, 2004

Re: [Wlug] RH AS 2.1?

by Theo Van Dinter

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:10:52AM -0500, Keith Wright wrote: > I'm not sure exactly what you are asking for. > RH means Red Hat, no? What is AS? RedHat Enterprise Linux. AS == Advanced Server. (they also have ES and WS...) My understanding is that the software and such is basically free, but you pay for support/update systems, etc. At the moment, btw, if you were a subscriber to RHN for the RH9 and previous versions, you can get a 50% discount to goto WS or ES for 2 years. AS 2.1 is old at this point, 3 came out a few months ago. I have ES 3 on my home server, and I've started rolling out ES and AS 3 at work. So far, things look good, minus the sometimes tempermental SCSI driver on the IBM x445 series (Summit code needed, sometimes the driver decides to wind itself into a ball and freeze the box...) > I have an old CD that says Red Hat 2.1 LiNUX with the "digital" > logo. (as in Digital Equipment Corp, DEC) The files are dated > November 1995. Is that what you are talking about? I have one of those too, it was for the Alpha, and mine's autographed by Linus. ;) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: Running Windows on a Pentium is like having a brand new Porsche but only be able to drive backwards with the handbrake on. (Unknown source)

Jan. 28, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Looking for linux work estimate

by Pete Wason

Chuck Homic wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 11:33:39PM -0500, Pete Wason wrote: > >>Things I might require help with: > > > I can't help, but.... (and mind you, these are merely my OPINIONS) > > >>1. Samba config > > > Easy. Install from RPM's, and follow the instructions in > /etc/samba/smb.conf (or similar). It should take less than a few hours if > you've never done it before. Less than 30 minutes, otherwise. > Well, I've done this, but some things are not working quite right. It may have more to do with general file/dir ownership/permissions than Samba itself. But all the stuff I read never quite answers the questions I have. For example: I have a www share for my /var/www/ directory. I can access this dir, but nothing below it, and I can't write anything to it, or delete, etc. I have to transfer stuff to my home folder, and then run over to the server and copy/move the files into my /var/www/html folder... > >>2. Apache config > > > Again, install from RPMs, edit /etc/apache/httpd.conf as per the inline > instructions. One to a few hours again. > Once again, it may just be ownership/perms that are killing me, but what I'd like to do is have somebody who's really familiar with this kind of thing just check it out for glaring config errors or security holes. Should everything under www be owned by root? or by apache? etc. I'm also using Rebol extensively for CGI stuff. For example: I've tried using * in conjunction with vhost configs, but I get errors when I do this, so right now I'm using my IP, which is less than desireable if I understand anything at all about this. > >>3. Disable sendmail, inst/conf tcpserver and qmail > > > http://www.lifewithqmail.org > > Do whatever they say there, I swear. Step by step. First you have to > patch up the qmail dist to make it reasonable. I added at least one more > patch myself (SMTP-AUTH). 1-2 days if you've never done it before. After > I figured out what I was doing I preferred to blow away my installation > and do it again. That took 2-3 hours. > > Make sure you read and understand the qmail Big Picture > (http://www.nrg4u.com/) That helped me a lot in my understanding of how > qmail is put together, which in turned helped me to effectively hack in my > customizations. > OK, so I'm lazy ;-) No, wait, I'm *busy*. I fear that I will try to do too much too fast and really screw up the whole system. That's the last thing I need right now with everything else that's going on. I've been "directed" to cancel my current offsite vhost/email account before the end of the week, so I don't have a lot of time to work with (but that's really more of a personal problem, so I'll leave it to you to ruminate as to the exact situation here). Thanks for the links... > >>4. Some general Linux admin questions >>5. Some special-project-related things > > > Well, you can certainly address the list. > Ownership/perms. Best way to keep the system up to date now that RHN is ignoring me. Security, security, security. Installing/configuring Kylix, Sphereserver, et al. All of the above, etc. > >>6. Possibly ditching RH8 and moving to YD or Debian > > > Dell will tell you to suck it, support-wise, if you do that. But you > might be happier in the long run. The system I set up had some > unfamiliar-to-me hardware such as as raid controller, system monitoring > stuff, so we chose to leave it stock. > > If you do this, I'd recommend making it step 1, instead of 6, however. :) Yes ;-) The likely Dell response is why I haven't moved on this already. I wonder what Dell is thinking in regards to RH's move - seems like RH dropped a big customer support issue in Dell's lap. I think YD is cool, even though I don't really know how it staxup against the alternatives, and Debian is one of the distros approved for another machine I'm betatesting (Pegasos). Thanks for the reply, and TIA for any future helps/ideas/infos... Pete

Jan. 28, 2004

Re: [Wlug] RH AS 2.1?

by Keith Wright

> From: "Mike Peckar" <fog(a)fognet.com> > > > Not sure if this can be had without ponying up the buckeroos, but > I'm looking for a copy to run an app that's only supported on that > platform. Failing that, is there a free way to get the bits I need > to run the app compiled thereupon? I'm not sure exactly what you are asking for. RH means Red Hat, no? What is AS? I have an old CD that says Red Hat 2.1 LiNUX with the "digital" logo. (as in Digital Equipment Corp, DEC) The files are dated November 1995. Is that what you are talking about? -- Keith

Jan. 28, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Looking for linux work estimate

by Chuck Homic

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 11:33:39PM -0500, Pete Wason wrote: > Things I might require help with: I can't help, but.... (and mind you, these are merely my OPINIONS) > 1. Samba config Easy. Install from RPM's, and follow the instructions in /etc/samba/smb.conf (or similar). It should take less than a few hours if you've never done it before. Less than 30 minutes, otherwise. > 2. Apache config Again, install from RPMs, edit /etc/apache/httpd.conf as per the inline instructions. One to a few hours again. > 3. Disable sendmail, inst/conf tcpserver and qmail http://www.lifewithqmail.org Do whatever they say there, I swear. Step by step. First you have to patch up the qmail dist to make it reasonable. I added at least one more patch myself (SMTP-AUTH). 1-2 days if you've never done it before. After I figured out what I was doing I preferred to blow away my installation and do it again. That took 2-3 hours. Make sure you read and understand the qmail Big Picture (http://www.nrg4u.com/) That helped me a lot in my understanding of how qmail is put together, which in turned helped me to effectively hack in my customizations. > 4. Some general Linux admin questions > 5. Some special-project-related things Well, you can certainly address the list. > 6. Possibly ditching RH8 and moving to YD or Debian Dell will tell you to suck it, support-wise, if you do that. But you might be happier in the long run. The system I set up had some unfamiliar-to-me hardware such as as raid controller, system monitoring stuff, so we chose to leave it stock. If you do this, I'd recommend making it step 1, instead of 6, however. :) -Chuck

Jan. 27, 2004

Re: [Wlug] RH AS 2.1?

by gboyce＠badbelly.com

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Mike Peckar wrote: > > Not sure if this can be had without ponying up the buckeroos, but I'm > looking for a copy to run an app that's only supported on that platform. > Failing that, is there a free way to get the bits I need to run the app > compiled thereupon? How much time do you have? If you start with Redhat 7.2, you can rebuild RHAS 2.1 from the source RPMs, and then install that. There is a FAQ online somehow on exactly what order packages must be installed in. http://www2.uibk.ac.at/zid/software/unix/linux/rhel-rebuild.htm Of course, this will probably take a very long time, so it might be worthwhile to just buy RHAT 2.1.

Jan. 27, 2004

RH AS 2.1?

by Mike Peckar

Not sure if this can be had without ponying up the buckeroos, but I'm looking for a copy to run an app that's only supported on that platform. Failing that, is there a free way to get the bits I need to run the app compiled thereupon? Thanks, Mike ovf(a)wblt.org

Jan. 27, 2004

Looking for linux work estimate

by Pete Wason

Hiall! I have a Dell P4 server running RH8, Apache, Samba & sendmail (et al.), on a network with several other operating systems, and a broadband connection. Things I might require help with: 1. Samba config 2. Apache config 3. Disable sendmail, inst/conf tcpserver and qmail 4. Some general Linux admin questions 5. Some special-project-related things 6. Possibly ditching RH8 and moving to YD or Debian If there's anyone who would be interested in helping me out a little, enough to at least identify the main problems, I'd appreciate it greatly. I'll supply the beer/pizza. Pete Wason rogue(a)hynoom.com IM:Codevark

Jan. 27, 2004

Anti spam filters now active on wlug list

by Frank Sweetser

While at first glance it may appear that the WLUG list never contains any spam, this due to the fact that the list is closed - any emails coming from an address that is not subscribed to the list are held for approval by a moderator, ie, me. In reality, the WLUG list does get a fair amount of spam, sometimes ten or twenty on a bad day. In an effort to not have to deal with this manually, the WLUG list will now use the X-Perlmx-Spam header that is added by the WPI spam filter. Hopefully this will mean that the only messages I have to worry about manually approving are legitimate emails from people who for whateve reason aren't subscribed properly. If anyone thinks that they're losing email sent to the list, please email me directly and I'll take a look. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu WPI Network Engineer

Jan. 27, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Recommened QUIET cdrw/dvd drives?

by jeff

> Lite On 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive, Model LTC48161H, Retail > Sony 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive, Model CRX300E/A, OEM > > I'm leaning towards the Lite-On one, since it comes with Burner > software which my Wife can use (I plan on getting two of these BTW) > while I'm happy with Linux in the basement. :] hey john. i use cdrecord with my lite-on burner all the time. so nice. never had problems with it, quick and clean and quiet too. good investment in my opinion. good luck! -jeff

Jan. 21, 2004

RE: [Wlug] Recommened QUIET cdrw/dvd drives?

by Martin, Eric

I actually have bought two of those (the Lite-On) and no complaints here. Comes with Nero and PowerDVD. -----Original Message----- From: John Stoffel [mailto:stoffel@lucent.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:50 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] Recommened QUIET cdrw/dvd drives? Hi all, Does anyone has a recommendatio on a nice quiet CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive? I see that newegg.com has a Lite-On and a Sony for sale today, both under $50 which seems like a steal. Sounds like a good thing since my SCSI CDRW drive is finally biting the bullet and acting flaky. One requirement is that the drive is quiet. I hate those CDROM drives which sound like jet engines on startup and then just click and whir and sound really loud all the time when running. I especially hate it when they spin up and down constantly. I'd rather have it just spin all the time if possible, or at least not spin down quite so quickly. The two I'm looking at are: Lite On 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive, Model LTC48161H, Retail Sony 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive, Model CRX300E/A, OEM I'm leaning towards the Lite-On one, since it comes with Burner software which my Wife can use (I plan on getting two of these BTW) while I'm happy with Linux in the basement. :] John _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Jan. 21, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Long File Name Listed.

by Bill Mills-Curran

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:53:47AM -0800, Aramico wrote: > > Friends, > > I have an index.htm with several frames inside. One of the is linked to > http://user:password@url_address. > The problem is, the listed files on my defined url are long file name, So, I > could not view the name complettely. > Its a problem for me, cause, several files has the same name for some firs > characters. > Can I display a full name here. > > > Thanks > > > Aramico Aramico, If you are using Apache for your web server, see the "IndexOptions" directive. It has several options for formatting directory listings. An alternative would be to add an "index.pl" to the directory, and write that perl script to format your directory listing the way you want it. Bill

Jan. 20, 2004

Recommened QUIET cdrw/dvd drives?

by John Stoffel

Hi all, Does anyone has a recommendatio on a nice quiet CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive? I see that newegg.com has a Lite-On and a Sony for sale today, both under $50 which seems like a steal. Sounds like a good thing since my SCSI CDRW drive is finally biting the bullet and acting flaky. One requirement is that the drive is quiet. I hate those CDROM drives which sound like jet engines on startup and then just click and whir and sound really loud all the time when running. I especially hate it when they spin up and down constantly. I'd rather have it just spin all the time if possible, or at least not spin down quite so quickly. The two I'm looking at are: Lite On 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive, Model LTC48161H, Retail Sony 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive, Model CRX300E/A, OEM I'm leaning towards the Lite-On one, since it comes with Burner software which my Wife can use (I plan on getting two of these BTW) while I'm happy with Linux in the basement. :] John

Jan. 20, 2004

Long File Name Listed.

by Aramico

Friends, I have an index.htm with several frames inside. One of the is linked to http://user:password@url_address. The problem is, the listed files on my defined url are long file name, So, I could not view the name complettely. Its a problem for me, cause, several files has the same name for some firs characters. Can I display a full name here. Thanks Aramico

Jan. 20, 2004

Re: [Wlug] mutt & SMTP

by Charles R. Anderson

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 06:15:39PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote: > Chuck Homic <chuck(a)vvisions.com> writes: > > > If you don't mind building some code, then get SMTPClient: > > http://www.engelschall.com/sw/smtpclient/distrib/smtpclient-1.0.0.tar.gz > > A couple of other options are nullmailer and ssmtp. Of course, there is the good-old standby, sendmail, which comes practically preconfigured for this kind of use on Red Hat, just edit: /etc/mail/sendmail.mc Remove the "dnl" comment characters from the beginning of this line, and set it to your smart relay host: define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.myprovider.com') Make sure you have the sendmail-cf package installed, then restart sendmail: service sendmail restart The .cf files will be rebuilt automagically. Oh, one more thing, make sure DAEMON=yes in /etc/sysconfig/sendmail, or this will fail to work (this is a change from earlier RH releases, where it might have been a good idea to set DAEMON=no). This will run the daemon ONLY as a local server (on 127.0.0.1) for the sole purpose of submissions by MUAs.

Jan. 20, 2004

Re: [Wlug] mutt & SMTP

by Chuck Homic

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:16:55PM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > I've been looking for a configuration variable to have mutt use an > SMTP server other than localhost. I haven't seen one, yet. Is it > possible? If you don't mind building some code, then get SMTPClient: http://www.engelschall.com/sw/smtpclient/distrib/smtpclient-1.0.0.tar.gz Then apply my patch (attached). Then you can put a line like this in your .muttrc: set sendmail="/path/to/smtpclient -Smy.smtp.server.org -H -fbill(a)mills-curran.net" That's the technology that brings you this message here. -Chuck

Jan. 19, 2004

Re: [Wlug] mutt & SMTP

by Josh Huber

Chuck Homic <chuck(a)vvisions.com> writes: > If you don't mind building some code, then get SMTPClient: > http://www.engelschall.com/sw/smtpclient/distrib/smtpclient-1.0.0.tar.gz A couple of other options are nullmailer and ssmtp. nullmailer: This is nullmailer, a sendmail/qmail/etc replacement MTA for hosts which relay to a fixed set of smart relays. It is designed to be simple to configure, secure, and easily extendable. ssmtp: A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a system to your mail hub. It contains no suid-binaries or other dangerous things - no mail spool to poke around in, and no daemons running in the background. Mail is simply forwarded to the configured mailhost. Extremely easy configuration. -- Josh Huber

Jan. 19, 2004

Re: [Wlug] mutt & SMTP

by Gregory Boyce

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 17:16, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > I've been looking for a configuration variable to have mutt use an > SMTP server other than localhost. I haven't seen one, yet. Is it > possible? http://www.fefe.de/muttfaq/faq.html#SMTP "You can't. Mutt is a MUA (Mail User Agent), not a MTA (Mail Transport Agent). Other email programs include MTA functionality but the Mutt way is to use the proper tool for each task, instead of making a giant program that does everything. In short, it's not Mutt's job to get the mail to a remote SMTP server." After I quick search, I came across this though: http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/520550/msmtp.html It's an SMTP plugin for mutt. Not sure how well it works, but it might help you out. Greg

Jan. 19, 2004

mutt & SMTP

by Bill Mills-Curran

I've been looking for a configuration variable to have mutt use an SMTP server other than localhost. I haven't seen one, yet. Is it possible? TIA, Bill

Jan. 19, 2004

Re: [Wlug] mkinitrd

by Bill Mills-Curran

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:34:54AM -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:08:46AM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > > Question: Do I need to boot to the single-processor kernel in order > > to make a valid initrd image for a single-processor boot? I would > > hope that I can, but the man page is not specific about it. (I want > > to avoid the extra boot cycles.) > > Mo, you can make an initrd for any installed kernel without booting to > it. > > mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-28.9.img 2.4.20-28.9 > mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-28.9smp.img 2.4.20-28.9smp > > Additionally, installing a Red Hat kernel package automatically does > the mkinitrd and grub.conf steps for you, so you only need to manually > run the commands above if you want a special kernel module loaded > before / is mounted, or if you have a custom compiled kernel. > > See also /sbin/installkernel. > Charles, Worked fine. Thanks. I needed to generate a new initrd to support a fibre HBA -- my machine is connected to a Clariion disk array with Qlogic HBA's. Bill

Jan. 18, 2004

Sound card troubleshooting

by Michael Long

Hi, I have been running Suse 8.2 and Sound Blaster sblive! EMU10k1 with no trouble until the last online update from suse. Now I get the message "Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it." And yet when using suse's configuration tool, YAST, the card appears to be configured correctly. The only weird thing I can find is that when I go to the hardware info page I see the following 2 entries: Unique key:_+Pw.mTanvDDnb_0 old_unique_key: airf.mTanvDDnb_0 Where should I start looking to figure out what got broken. Thanks, Mike

Jan. 18, 2004

Reminder: WLUG meeting TONIGHT 7:00 PM

by Andy Stewart

(This space intentionally left blank) -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

Jan. 15, 2004

Re: [Wlug] FreeBSD - cvsup access down?

by John Stoffel

Sigh... it turned out that my co-lo site was blocking port 5999 (cvsup) on me, due to their ISP complaing about problems earlier. They forgot, and since I hadn't done an update in a while, I didn't notice either. All it well now, and I've changed to useing the MIT mirror, it's pretty darn fast. John

Jan. 14, 2004