stability of RHEL ES 4 (was: RE: trouble installing/running the Domain Name Service Configuration Tool)

[Ed McCorduck]

Tesekkür. This Linux novice has now gained another bit of knowledge the hard way, i.e. with a little embarrassment over my ignorance. Not only do I now know how to spot source RPMs but I know what to do with them, too, so again, tesekkür. 

But before I could try your solution, for the third time my Linux system has crashed with kernel panics and file system errors that have again left me with a nonbooting system, so I'll need to reinstall Linux one more time. With my limited capabilities I can't tell if the problem is with my computer's hardware or with the Linux system software itself, but one thing I can do is this: I'd like to ask if any of you have also experienced major problems keeping Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4 stable. I downloaded the installation files for the "Update 1" version of RHEL ES 4 and it has usually installed fine, but after a short time (a couple of days or a week) of doing anything with the system it crashes into uselessness. 


Ed McCorduck
Department of English
State University of New York College at Cortland
Ed.McCorduck at Cortland.edu 
http://mccorduck.cortland.edu 
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> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> Ali Erdinç Köroglu
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 7:36 AM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: trouble installing/running the Domain Name 
> Service Configuration Tool
> 
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> Hi, you installed a source-rpm which is not a binary package. 
> But you can make your 
> own rpm package. "rpmbuild --rebuild 
> redhat-config-bind-2.0.0-14.src.rpm" when you 
> do this you will have redhat-config-bind-2.0.0-14.rpm in 
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 if there is no dependicies in specfile.
> 
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 07:15:36 -0400
> "Ed McCorduck" <MCCORDUC at cortland.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Hello, I have Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Update 1, installed on my 
> > computer. Included in my configuration is Berkeley Internet Name 
> > Domain (BIND). which I had installed from my RHEL 4 
> installation CDs. 
> > With BIND on my system, I assumed that I could run the Domain Name 
> > Service Configuration Tool as described on the printed page 
> 181 of the 
> > _Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reference Guide_. However, 
> after entering 
> > the given command redhat-config-bind at a shell prompt, I got the 
> > response
> > 
> > bash: redhat-config-bind: command not found
> > 
> > Seeing no way to install the Domain Name Service Configuration Tool 
> > under System Settings > Add/Remove Applications on my 
> system, I went 
> > to the Red Hat public FTP site 
> > 
> ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/os/i386/SRPMS > to try 
> > to locate this package but I did not see it listed under this 
> > directory. I therefore backtracked and tried the directory 
> > 
> ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/os/i386/SRPMS > where I 
> > did find the package "redhat-config-bind-2.0.0-14.src.rpm."  I 
> > downloaded this file to a directory on my computer and I 
> installed and 
> > attempted to run it, with the following results:
> > 
> > [root at edshpvec RHEL3]# dir redhat-config-bind-2.0.0-14.src.rpm  
> > redhat-config- samba-1.0.16-1.src.rpm 
> > redhat-config-httpd-1.1.0-4.src.rpm
> > [root at edshpvec RHEL3]# rpm -ivh redhat-config- bind-2.0.0-14.src.rpm
> >    1:redhat-config-bind     
> > ########################################### [100%] [root at edshpvec 
> > RHEL3]# redhat-config-bind
> > bash: redhat-config-bind: command not found
> > 
> > Hence, this package does not run for me and I do not know 
> how to make 
> > it run. I would appreciate your help in properly installing and/or 
> > running this application. Thank you in advance.
> 
> Regards
> Ali Erdinc Koroglu
> http://www.prosoft.com.tr
> 
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