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ypbind running but not available under rpc info.

joel — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:51:35 GMT

Hi,

Good Day.

I'm a novice to linux and trying fedoracore 9 as NIS server using VMware, i followed the steps from

linuxhomenetworking.com/Quick_HOWTO Ch30_:_Configuring_NIS

I started in the "Configuring the NIS Server" portion and Installed ypserve rpm for fedora9 i386, all worked fine until after i start ypbind service, when i do rpcinfo -g localhost the service is not available..but if i do service ypbind status, it shows it as running..

now if i create an nis user and i do ypmatch it will give me "can't match key user in map passwd.byname: Internal NIS error"

hope anybody can help or give me advice on this..

thanks,
joel

Viewing progress or timer of processes !!

Arun_adm — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:58:55 GMT

Dear Experts,
As a inchange of server tasks in my company, I running administrative commands and scripts.
During doing all these tasks, inbetween I wanted to perform other importent tasks but I'm not sure that the commands and scripts which used to run will take how much time to complete.
I want that when I perform any task by running command(s) or scripts, a timer or progress should display in the screen (i.e. in % or remaining time format). This will help me to figure out that how long the running command or script will take time which will help me to perform other tasks inbetween. I couldn't figure out the solution.
pls help me out to resolve the problem. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Upgrading to FC9 from FC8

pandora — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:56:39 GMT

Anyone tried upgrading to FC9 from FC8? I have a FC8 webserver with mediawiki and phpBB that I'd like to upgrade to FC9 and then to FC10 rather than reinstalling.

There are some pages on the web about this that make it seem simple.

Has anyone had any experience with this yet?

RFC: New Forum Theme 20080927

peter — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:05:29 GMT

Purpose: Create a theme that is supported in vBulletin 3.8

Other Information: The current "Retro Blue" theme was created for vBulletin version 3.6 and is now unsupported by its creator. Fortunately, the theme survived the upgrade to v3.7 after a number of modifications. vBulletin v3.8 is about to be released. Prior to its release I'd like to migrate the forums over to a theme based on the default style with very few modifications. This will allow the forums to be upgraded with fewer issues.

I have created a new "LHN 1.0" theme which you can select from a drop down menu at the bottom left hand side of this page.

Many of the icons and style elements of Retro Blue have been maintained. The forum is also brighter and registered users will see much less advertising.

The monthly community bulletin will also announce this. To receive the community bulletin you need to enable "Receive Community Bulletin Newsletters" in your profile options.

Poll Question: Is this a site modification that requires a vote from the entire membership, or can this be implemented without one? This is part of the change process.

How to create a customize dvd of fedora 8 as a bootable kickstart

ashishkhatri — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:49:12 GMT

hello guys

hi guys
I want to end up with a bootable DVD that will automagically start the kickstart script and perform an unattended install. I have read a few things that say that ks.cfg must be in the root of the image. I've read other things that say that isolinux/ is really the root, and so the ks.cfg must be there. Neither work. In my isolinux.cfg, I have:

label ks
kernel vmlinuz
append ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192

ks.cfg is in isolinux/ as well as the top-level directory. What am I missing? How do I get the booted OS to read and use ks.cfg?

also i had added "default ks" in isolinux.cfg file
i had used the following command to make the isoimage of ks.cfg i had placed my dump of fedora8 in /bkup/dump3
"mkisofs -o ../cdrom.iso -A 'ISOLINUX' -V 'ISOLINUX' -b isolinux.bin -c boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table ."

also the .treeinfo and .diskinfo both hidden files are present.
then i created the isoimage of my dump with the command
"mkisofs -o /fedora.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table /bkup/dump3."
then i burned the iso image "fedora.iso" to a dvd with the help of k3b
the dvd is bootable but at boot time when prompt comes i gave the command "linux ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg"

but its giving me the error
RAMDISK: compressed image found at block 0
crc error
VFS:cannot open root device "" or unknown-block (253,0)
please appened a coorect "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
kernel panic - not syncing:VFS:unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(253,0).

also my directory tree is as follows
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2008-09-24 19:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2008-09-24 19:02 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9627648 2008-09-24 19:24 cdrom.iso
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 109 2007-11-02 20:29 .discinfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2882 2007-11-02 20:26 fedora.css
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18363 2007-11-02 20:26 GPL
drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 4096 2007-11-02 20:26 images
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-09-24 19:23 isolinux
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 94 2007-11-02 20:29 media.repo
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 122880 2007-11-02 19:51 Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9680 2007-11-02 20:26 README-BURNING-ISOS-en_US.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 172530 2007-11-02 20:26 RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-11-02 20:29 repodata
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 73728 2007-11-02 19:55 repoview
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1910 2007-11-02 20:26 RPM-GPG-KEY
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1706 2007-11-02 20:26 RPM-GPG-KEY-beta
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1519 2007-11-02 20:26 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1105 2007-11-02 20:26 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1076 2007-11-02 20:26 RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1232 2007-11-02 20:26 RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-11-02 20:26 stylesheet-images
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4290 2007-11-02 20:29 TRANS.TBL
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 430 2007-11-02 20:26 .treeinfo

CD ISOLINUX
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-09-24 19:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2008-09-24 19:24 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2048 2007-11-02 20:29 boot.cat
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 292 2007-11-02 20:24 boot.msg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 919 2007-11-02 20:24 general.msg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 6587351 2007-11-02 20:24 initrd.img
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 10932 2008-09-24 19:25 isolinux.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1057 2008-09-24 19:23 isolinux.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1389 2008-09-24 19:14 ks.cfg
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 103260 2007-11-02 20:24 memtest
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 817 2007-11-02 20:24 options.msg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 517 2007-11-02 20:24 param.msg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 490 2007-11-02 20:24 rescue.msg
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 446917 2007-11-02 20:24 splash.jpg
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 117568 2007-11-02 20:24 vesamenu.c32
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1978624 2007-11-02 20:24 vmlinuz

VI ISOLINUX.CFG
default ks
prompt 1
timeout 600

display boot.msg
F1 boot.msg
F2 options.msg
F3 general.msg
F4 param.msg
F5 rescue.msg

menu background splash.jpg
menu title Welcome to Fedora 8!
menu color border 0 #ffffffff #00000000
menu color sel 7 #ffffffff #ff000000
menu color title 0 #ffffffff #00000000
menu color tabmsg 0 #ffffffff #00000000
menu color unsel 0 #ffffffff #00000000
menu color hotsel 0 #ff000000 #ffffffff
menu color hotkey 7 #ffffffff #ff000000

label linux
menu label ^Install or upgrade an existing system
menu default
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img
label text
menu label Install or upgrade an existing system (^text mode)
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img text
label rescue
menu label ^Rescue installed system
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img rescue
label local
menu label Boot from ^local drive
localboot 0xffff
label memtest86
menu label ^Memory test
kernel memtest
append -
label ks
menu label ^Install from kickstart
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img ks=cdrom:/isolinux/ks.cfg

PLZZZZZZ GUYS HELP ME correcting this error.

Ashish khatri

How To Deploy A Linux LiveCD on Windows Without Burning A CD

bochiman — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:39:16 GMT

While we have searching a rapid and cheap method to deploy Linux LiveCDs directly in Windows, without restarting the computer and burn a CD, we have found a simple to install and use, freeware Windows application of only 1.6 MB size, a low file size as compared with similar emulation software. It is based on Qemu. An interesting article alongside a high quality video tutorial regarding this Windows freeware called MobaLiveCD can be found on downloadtube.com/blog website.

Python Help

jmn0729 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:37:07 GMT

Is anyone interested in helping an RHCE learn python. I'm reading right now, but I have some scripts I need to write that will help a University "Linux Security" class. The scripts will be used to grade case studies.

Thanks,

RHCE #805008527832836

help me to setup DNS in RHEL5/CENTOS5

badru — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:57:29 GMT

hello frndz ....plz help me to set up DNS in RHEL5/CENTOS5.
i tried several times but failed .......plz help me to get rid of it

Internal Dialup modem

szi.asif — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:27:10 GMT

dear friends i would like to test the dislup connection in 2.6 kernel ,any 1 can help me regarding this issue?