update software
by Waqas Toor
hi ,
I am writing a script that will first check for the update and then
install the latest version by downloading it and building it from
source.
now my question is this, is there any way that in BASH i get to know
about the latest version
i.e. software is p3scan and the latest version is 2.3
now how to know about that through bash ??? help me out
Regards
Waqas
17 years, 8 months
Badblocks results, some help ?
by Philippe
Hi,
I just launched e2fsck -c /dev/hdb1 on my hard drive and have this
result this morning. I know that this hardrive was deficient this
week-end, I just want to know more. But is the result good or bad ? I
dunno ;-)
e2fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): done
040
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
root: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
root: 11/9781248 files (9.1% non-contiguous), 353056/19537040 blocks
Thanks for your help,
Philippe
--
Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand
May The Source Be With You
17 years, 8 months
Re: nfs questions!!!
by David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)
Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 13:48 -0400, Thom Paine wrote:
>
>>> Do you have a user with the same name and password on both hosts?
>>
>>
>
>That's not how NFS works. You need to have the same user ID
>(numerical), and that's it. The local box associates a user name and
>password with local users.
>
>i.e. user 500 is use 500 on both boxes (unless you remap user IDs across
>NFS). It doesn't matter whether use 500 is john on one and fred on the
>other. And the passwords aren't compared, either.
>
>If you've set boxes up so that you end up being user 500 on one of them,
>but 501 on another, you're different users on both. You've either got
>to do some user ID remapping between boxes through NFS (I've no advice
>on how to do that to give you), or you change users on one of the boxes
>to match.
>
Actually, the preferred solution is to use NIS and have a single login
to network resources. Using NIS allows the UIDs and GIDs to be
administered on a single box. That being said, its somewhat overkill
for home users and just making sure the UIDs and GIDs are the same on a
couple of boxes isn't all that bad.
Cheers,
Dave
--
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
-- Ambrose Bierce
17 years, 8 months
Problems with mtpscsih kernel module
by Brian D. McGrew
Running on a Dell PowerEdge 1800 using Fedora Core 3 and a 2.6.16.16
kernel.
I've built up this new kernel to roll out to our production systems and
it's been in test on a PE1800 for a long time and working fine.
However, the machine that it's been testing on has SATA drives.
Yesterday I moved it to a production system, another PE1800 with SCSI
drives and I'm getting an error
Insmod /lib/modules/mptscshih.ko: -l unknown symbol
The only differences I can find between the two machines is that the
original build/test machine has gcc-3.4.4 and the new machine has
gcc-3.4.2; but it looks like all the system libraries are the same and
everything else.
I even went so far as to move the entire source tree to this machine and
do a make clean and rebuild and reinstall and I'm still having the same
problem. What am I missing here???
Thanks!
:b!
Brian D. McGrew { brian(a)visionpro.com || brian(a)doubledimension.com }
--
> This is a test. This is only a test!
Had this been an actual emergency, you would have been
told to cancel this test and seek professional assistance!
17 years, 8 months
add new Linux on new Hard Drive
by Victor L.
I have a dual boot (Wondows/FC 5) system using one partioned hardrive.
I have added a second hard drive and would like to add FC 5 to the new
drive before erasing old version. Want to dedicate the new drive to
Linux. Installation works fine but the grub process does not. When I
reboot, Grub only shows the old Linux (as well as Windows.) Howver,
Linux Rescue lets me choose between the two Linux installations. Being
able to boot to just the new drive would be fine.
Any suggests, references. Thx
17 years, 8 months
How can I import emails and the address book from an old Kmail into Evolution?
by Patrick Doyle
Does anybody know how I can do this? When I select "Import", I can
browse to specific files to import, but it appears that, for some
reason (perhaps due to an earlier import/upgrade into kmail), some of
my mail folders were stored in mbox files, while others were stored in
directories (perhaps in "maildir" format, but I haven't verified that
yet).
Anyway, I have my old Mail directory -- I would like to get it,
including the contact data, imported into Evolution, the
straightforward "Import" command works for some of the files, but not
for all of them, and not for the contacts. And I don't know where to
go from here except to ask for help.
help! :-)
--wpd
17 years, 8 months
Re: add new Linux on new Hard Drive
by Jeff Vian
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 07:54 -0400, Victor L. wrote:
> I have a dual boot (Wondows/FC 5) system using one partioned hardrive.
> I have added a second hard drive and would like to add FC 5 to the new
> drive before erasing old version. Want to dedicate the new drive to
> Linux. Installation works fine but the grub process does not. When I
> reboot, Grub only shows the old Linux (as well as Windows.) Howver,
> Linux Rescue lets me choose between the two Linux installations. Being
> able to boot to just the new drive would be fine.
>
> Any suggests, references. Thx
>
It sounds like the original /boot and grub.conf is being used.
You need to do a little bit of editing on the grub.conf in the new
install, then from the rescue mode with the new install mounted run
grub-install /dev/hda (assuming hda is your first drive and the one the
system boots from.)
17 years, 8 months
software raid drive failed, please provide step bu step to rebuild
by Dan Carl
I have/had a software raid running and sdc drive failed.
I got a replacement drive today and installed it.
My only experience with set partitions and raids in during initail setup.
I could not fdisk the new drive because i guess it wasn't reconized so I
rebooted.
Now I can reach the drive via fdisk but I have made more problems now (no
swap now)
and I'm not sure the steps to rebuild.
Background:
I have a FC3 with a software raid.
I have 3 SCSI 18gb hard drives
If I recall this how I set it up
md0 /boot 100MB raid 1 sda, sdb and sdc as spare
md1 /swp 768MB raid 0 sda, sdb, sdc
md2 / ext3 33GB raid 5 sda, sdb, sdc
Can someone please help?
17 years, 8 months
