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Subject: SO on 6.0 instructions From: Steve Borho <sborho@ststech.com> Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 14:50:27 -0500 found this on Linux Weekly News (lwn.net) http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=474060588 === Subject: Re: rh6, su, xwindows From: Steve Borho <sborho@ststech.com> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 15:53:16 -0500 On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 03:51:40PM -0400, Jan Carlson wrote: > Steve Borho's method works for me: > > xu:3:respawn:/bin/su --login username -c startx > > in /etc/inittab. > > Thanks for the syntax that works. This probably doesn't work with 6.0 and their new authentication methods. I've only tried it with 5.2. ======= Subject: RE: rh6, su, xwindows From: Joel Golden <jgolden@bcs-systems.com> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 16:23:49 -0500 Are you running RH6? I've tried this syntax and get the same error. Authentication Failed Xinit:server error _X11TransocketUNIXConnect: can't connect errno: 111 xinit: connection refused unable to connect to xserver However, if I log in normally everything works fine. Joel Golden www.bcs-systems.com Jgolden@bcs-systems.com BCS 1100 71 Plaza Court Suite 11 Springdale, AR 72764 (501)750-7475 -----Original Message----- From: Jan Carlson [mailto:janc@iname.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 2:52 PM To: redhat-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: rh6, su, xwindows Steve Borho's method works for me: xu:3:respawn:/bin/su --login username -c startx in /etc/inittab. Thanks for the syntax that works. === Subject: Re: help- DNS? From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com> Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 15:06:35 -0400 Blake Thornton wrote: > I need some help. I recently installed RH6.0 over the > RH5.1 that I was running. I have several > problems/questions that I would really like help to: > DNS: I can get ppp running, but I cannot get the name > server working. I have tried to follow redhat's > instructions in the install guide, but haven't gotten it > to work. I recall that when I installed 5.1 I had this > problem, but all I had to do was make sure DNS was > selected during the install and there was no problem. > HELP! The dns configuration file has changed its name, and its syntax, because of the new version of the named server. The operative one is now /etc/named.conf. DNS now ignores /etc/named.boot. Move your changes from /etc/named.*rpmsave into /etc/named.conf using the new syntax. === Subject: Re: Do not use stock RedHat 6.0 kernels with SMBFS! From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 13:07:03 -0400 "Michael H. Warfield" wrote: > Ok... I reported this problem to RedHat several > days ago, so they have had at least a small chance to look > it over and be ready for this announcement. I'm > continuing to hear complaints about corrupted timestamps > on smbfs mounts so this word needs to get out. > Synopsis: > Do NOT use the stock RedHat kernels from RedHat > 6.0 if you are using SMBFS with Windows NT, Windows 2000, > or Windows 98. These kernels were incorrectly compiled > with a configuration option, the Windows 95 bug > workaround, that will cause corruption of timestamp > information on shares mounted from any of those other > systems. [...] Red Hat released an updated set of kernels (2.2.5-22) for RH 6.0. Do those have the same problem as the stock RH 6.0 kernels? === Subject: Re: Raidtools BROKEN in 6.0 From: Steve Borho <sborho@ststech.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:19:24 -0500 On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 04:12:56PM -0500, Brian wrote: > Why was /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit not updated to use the correct commands? Why I don't know. > even after using "raidstart" do raids not work? I had to > use the raidtools from 5.2 to get it to work. Does anyone > know if its possible to use RAID0 partitions built under > 5.2 with the 6.0 raidtools? Check the howto that comes with the 6.0 raid tools. You have to build a new style raidtab file and then run mkraid -o on it, but it can be done. === Subject: Re: probable faq: is Redhat 6.0 stable as a web server? From: Steve Borho <sborho@ststech.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 14:00:32 -0500 On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 11:05:06AM -0700, Stewart McCullough wrote: > I need to set up a new web server and am wondering if the redhat 6.0 > distribution is reliable enough. Is it more or less stable/secure > than 5.2? As is the case with most web servers, it is important > that this computer not crash. I would keep mission critical stuff on 5.2 for a while longer unless you need something specific to 6.0. For just a web server you probably don't need the performance tweaks of the 2.2 kernel (unless it's going to use RAID or SMP). I haven't heard about anything being broken in 6.0, but it's also only 6 weeks old. === Subject: Re: LILO, Bootblocks and NT Loader --- SOLVED. From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 13:45:28 -0400 "John N. Alegre" wrote: > > For any of you who have been following this thread, I found the problem. > > I removed the prompt and timeout lines from lilo.conf and > reran LILO. After that > > dd if=/dev/sdb2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 > > and mcopy this over to the /dos partition. Then move it > onto a path pointed to in boot.ini on NT. > > Why this was different in 6.0 no clue. [...] There is a new version of lilo in RH6. This is probably why you needed to update the bootsect.lnx for NT. Doesn't it work with or without the timeout and prompt? === `Subject: PageUP/Down key in nxterm on Redhat 6.0 From: citecdam <citecdam@citec.qld.gov.au> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:15:34 +1000 (EST) To the list, I use Redhat 5.2 at work and the PageUP and PageDown keys work with nxterm to enable me to read pages of info if they scroll off the window rather than using the scroll bar at the side on the nxterm window. However under RedHat 6.0 ( standard clean install at home ) this does not work. I'm assuming that there is a config file of app-default file that sets this up but I haven't been able to find it. Why it was changed between 5.2 and 6.0 I would like to know. Anyway could someone point me in the correct direction so that I can change this under 6.0 === Subject: Re: dhcpcd -> pump... why? From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 21:41:41 -0400 Roy Kidder wrote: > > Does anyone have any insight as to why RedHat decided to dump dhcpcd in > favor of pump in RH 6.0? You can still use dhcpcd. It's on the RH6 CD. === Subject: Re: [rant] rhl6.0 + procmail + sendmail 8.9 From: "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <scoile@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 14:50:19 -0400 (EDT) On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Brian Anderson wrote: > wow. i was _not_ expecting the hassles involved in upgrading a mail server > to 6.0. That's why the conventional systems administration wisdom is to upgrade a non-production box first and test it, rather than upgrading production boxes. Whatever the case, the easy fix is to simply disable smrsh in sendmail.mc, regenerate sendmail.cf, and restart Sendmail. === Subject: Re: XF86Setup problems From: "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <scoile@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 07:40:10 -0400 (EDT) On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Jason Costomiris wrote: [...] > On RH 5.2, xfs is not required. It is under 6.0. === Subject: Re: dhcpcd and eth0...not together on bootup From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:57:03 -0400 Patrick O'Neil wrote: > > I have a 3Com 3c900TX ethernet card in my system and I > use the 3c59x driver. I set it up to go active at bootup > and to use dhcp in net-tool. When I bootup, I see the > eth0 device initialize just fine but then it fails to > get an IP address. I have to run "dhcpcd" as su to > get an IP address assigned (I have a DSL connection > thru USWest with a Cisco router/DSL modem). The scripts are running 'pump', a program meant to replace dhcpcd. It seems pump still has problems. In some situations pump works, in others like yours, it fails. > > I don't like having to do this. How would I go about > setting things up so that during bootup, just about the > time that eth0 is configured, dhcpcd is run so that it > will automatically get an IP address? I thought it was > SUPPOSED to do this anyway, since I selected active at > bootup and dhcp in net-tool for the eth0 card. It doesn't > work that way, though. In the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory, edit ifup and ifdown to start and stop dhcpcd instead of pump. It's only a couple lines to change in each. === Subject: Re: kernel upgrade thru RPMs From: Steve Borho <sborho@ststech.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:24:24 -0500 On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 08:31:05PM +0530, Raju K. V. wrote: > I am currently using Redhat 5.1. The kernel version is > 2.0.34. I want to update my kernel to 2.2.x (the one which > comes with Redhat 6.0). I don't want to compile the > kernel. Is it enough if I follow the steps given in > http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/docs/kernel-upgrade/kernel-upgrade.html There's too many other libraries that need to be updated for the 2.2 kernel to work cleanly on 5.1. I'd recommend at least updating to 5.2 and then following Red Hat's instructions on how to bring it up to 2.2. Even better would be to bring it up to 6.0. ===