Linux-Misc Digest #184, Volume #20 Thu, 13 May 99 10:14:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: fdisk /MBR ??? (Jon Skeet)
Strange password problem (Robert Thomas)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522) (Walter Tice
USG)
Re: What app Is a better Dialup alternative to pon/poff??? (Michael Powe)
Re: fdisk /MBR ??? (Mark Tranchant)
Re: problem with grepping (Tim Sutherland)
Re: mounting freebsd fs in Linux (Tim Sutherland)
Re: Hardware failure or an attack? (Tim Sutherland)
Re: Problems with looking up hostnames after upgrade (Tim Sutherland)
Re: New user needing help (Michael Powe)
Re: KDE very slow ("Ming98")
USB Support ("Chris")
A: which commands, programs avail. (Mihaly Gyulai)
Amaya: works only with local files ? (Mihaly Gyulai)
installation with win95 n linux ("Jemas")
Re: Where is best location of swap partition on a disk? (Andrew Gabriel)
Linux and windows floppy drive problems ("Baumans")
email server problem? ("Scott Chu")
Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
system won't boot after RPM update failed ("Jonathan W. Rose")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Crossposted-To:
comp.protocols.nfs,comp.os.linux.help,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: fdisk /MBR ???
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 13:20:27 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, I just wanna know what the command /mbr does?
> I know u can use it with fdisk to "get ridd of" Lilo , but what does it
> really do?
It writes the "standard" MS bootloader into the master boot record of the
hard disk.
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: Robert Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Strange password problem
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 06:47:57 -0500
Hi All -
I am running RH5.2 and when I log on to the OS I have noticed that
as long as I type the correct password everthing is OK. When I type the
password plus additional characters, it also is accepted.
For example, if my password is 'simple' , I can also type
'simple12345' or 'simpleabcd' or any other string as long as my password
is the first set of characters. Is this normal ?
Thanks,
Robert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Tice USG)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522)
Date: 7 May 1999 16:08:00 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (witra) writes:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach) wrote:
>>snip...
>>1. Do you believe the people who claim the U.S. has <50% literacy, or the
>>people who claim it has nearly total literacy?
>Depends on what you're reading - the destination signs on buses, the
>constitution, or the unix manual pages. :)
>>2. Do companies generally find that they are better off if the general
>>populace is literate?
>>snip..
>Literate people generally earn higher income and therefore makes
>better customers. They'd also probably make better employees.
There are studies from the late 70's/early 80's AFAIK still true which
indicates that success in business can be correlated to two things:
1. vocabulary (one assumes that they mean general as well as pertaining
to the job at hand).
2. physical height
I believe that there are other things such as emotional smarts and
being organized along the lines of "7 Habits of Highly Effective People"
which would play a large role as well.
Emotional smarts are not needed in technical areas - witness the
high percentage of disfunctional people that make great Engineers, but
you won't find these folks climbing the corporate ladder - which is
either not important to them, or they say it's not important to them
since they have to chance to do so.
In any event, literate implies more then just reading or speaking.
It also implies an increased ability to perceive and discriminate
beyond the purely linear and literal. The doors to most worthwhile
things open to those that have earned those skills - IMO.
W
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Subject: Re: What app Is a better Dialup alternative to pon/poff???
From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 13 May 1999 01:30:33 -0700
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>>>>> "anon" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
anon> I Have a new Debian linux setup. It doesn't have x-windows,
anon> or other gui's, just text interface since its an old
anon> computer with small hd, anyway, what is a good secure and
anon> "friendlier" alternative to pon/poff??
Dang! How hard is it to type `pon' and press RETURN? What could be
any easier? Have someone come in the room and type it in for you?
anon> as for pon/poff, where is the password stored, I would like
anon> to get rid of the file if i can.
Typically, the password will be stored in one of the scripts.
anon> btw, is it possible to get pon to "password prompt" me
anon> everytime I sign on to my ppp host, instead of having a
anon> password stored on my computer???
It certainly is possible to write a wrapper script & make the passwd a
commandline argument. To me, it seems more sensible to simply leave
it in the script and make sure the script permissions are such that
only root can read it. You also could use permissions to prevent
anyone but you from invoking the script. Passing it as a command line
option means typing it in the clear, somebody could shoulder-surf you.
Another alternative would be to put the passwd in a file by itself
with secure permissions and then use redirection to pass it to the
script, like `script < passwd'.
An example of the command line option -- a modified version of the
ppp-on script on my box:
8<-------------------------------------------------------->8
#! /bin/bash
# These are the parameters. Change as needed.
TELEPHONE=293-0848 # The telephone number for the connection
ACCOUNT=looie # The account name for logon (as in 'George Burns')
#
# password is entered as a command line option
PASSWORD=$1 # The password for this account (and 'Gracie Allen')
#
LOCAL_IP=0.0.0.0 # Local IP address if known. Dynamic = 0.0.0.0
REMOTE_IP=0.0.0.0 # Remote IP address if desired. Normally 0.0.0.0
NETMASK=255.255.255.0 # The proper netmask if needed
#
#
export TELEPHONE ACCOUNT PASSWORD
#
DIALER_SCRIPT=/etc/ppp/ppp-on-dialer
#
# Initiate the connection
#
/usr/sbin/pppd -detach modem crtscts /dev/ttyS2 38400 defaultroute \
connect $DIALER_SCRIPT &
8<-------------------------------------------------------->8
mp
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.protocols.nfs,comp.os.linux.help,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: fdisk /MBR ???
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 12:35:36 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It overwrites the master boot record (hence MBR) with the code that
forces a jump to DOS.
Mark.
Mikael Wetterstrand wrote:
>
> Hello
> Well, I just wanna know what the command /mbr does?
> I know u can use it with fdisk to "get ridd of" Lilo , but what does it
> really do?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sutherland)
Subject: Re: problem with grepping
Date: 13 May 1999 08:37:33 GMT
In article <7h0iha$107m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Horne wrote:
>Hi --
>
>I am having a somewhat unique problem. One of my friend's hard drives was
>destroyed by chernoybl the other day and he asked me to get his emails back.
>I stuck it in my system and typed:
>
> grep "Received:" -A200 /dev/hdc1 > mail.txt
>
>This had worked fine when I had booted up his system with a slackware rescue
>disk and took roughly 5 minutes. When I did it on mine, it took an
>extraordinary amount of time and only produced a few megs worth of
>information. It seems as though it was trying to put the entire hard drive's
>(hdc1) contents into memory.
Let me guess - the working directory is a directory on the hdc1 partition? Grep
is putting data containing "Received:" into mail.txt. Since mail.txt is on hdc1,
grep matches lines from mail.txt and keeps going.
Pipe the output of grep to somewhere other than a file on hdc1.
--
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of
insincerity possible between two human beings.
-- Vicki Baum
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sutherland)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mounting freebsd fs in Linux
Date: 13 May 1999 08:37:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arun Sharma wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a primary partition (/dev/hda3) dedicated to freebsd. Freebsd
>has created its filesystems (/, /usr, /var) within this partion. After
>reading the FAQs, I figured out that on my Redhat 6.0 system, I can
>mount it as
>
>mount -t ufs ufstype=44bsd /dev/hda3 /bsd
>
>And it seems to work just fine. Now, how do I mount /usr and /var ?
They will be in /bsd (i.e. /bsd/usr and /bsd/var). You mount partitions, not
directories. FreeBSD's /usr and /var are in the hda3 partition which you have
mounted on /bsd.
--
Never pay a compliment as if expecting a receipt.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sutherland)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Hardware failure or an attack?
Date: 13 May 1999 08:37:35 GMT
In article <7h2d0m$6vu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>We've a damaged server, and opinion is divided over whether it's damaged
>because of some software/hardware failure or due to an attempt to crack it.
>
>OS: Redhat Linux v5.2
>Hardware: Compaq Presario, IDE drive, AMD-K6, nothing exotic
>
>Symptoms: - root filesystem is full. (was at 24% for about a month) -
What's taking up all the space? Check /tmp and /var especially.
>lost+found directory is 12 MB.
Are you sure it's not 12 KB?
>That's the directory, there are no files
>visible in it. - empty wtmp
Did wtmp normally contain data?
>- telnet (port 23) into box OK, but on SMTP and
>POP ports connection is refused
Can you see why?
>(we're running Communigate Pro as a mail
>server) - system clock has moved back several hours.
Doesn't look good.
>- machine has rebooted
>unattended (by anyone we know anyway :-) - w reports that I restarted and
>logged in about 20 mins before I really did.
Barring clock problems, a cracker is appearing more likely.
>- fsck reports no (other)
>problems. - rpm -Va reports nothing untoward, except for some missing
>startup and shutdown scripts (they're not changed, they're missing) - vi
>reports unable to open swap file (presumably due to the full root FS,
>although there is a separate swap partition).
>
>Anyone heard of anything similar? Anything to look for?
Take a very thorough look through all the log files. Pay close attention to the
dates and compare with 'normal' logs.
--
... Logically incoherent, semantically incomprehensible, and legally ...
impeccable!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sutherland)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Problems with looking up hostnames after upgrade
Date: 13 May 1999 08:37:38 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gambit32 wrote:
>Also:
>
>May 10 12:19:44 www named[6317]: Ready to answer queries.
>May 10 12:19:54 www named[6317]: No root nameservers for class IN
>>(http://www.academic.marist.edu/carob/) it should be saying came from
from my /var/named/named.root
; This file holds the information on root name servers needed to
; initialize cache of Internet domain name servers
; (e.g. reference this file in the "cache . <file>"
; configuration file of BIND domain name servers).
;
; This file is made available by InterNIC registration services
; under anonymous FTP as
; file /domain/named.root
; on server FTP.RS.INTERNIC.NET
; -OR- under Gopher at RS.INTERNIC.NET
; under menu InterNIC Registration Services (NSI)
; submenu InterNIC Registration Archives
; file named.root
Make sure you have
zone "." {
type hint;
file "named.root";
};
in your /etc/named.conf
And that named.root is in the options{directory"foo/baz";} directory.
--
Beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.
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Subject: Re: New user needing help
From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 13 May 1999 01:38:46 -0700
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>>>>> "Glenn" == Glenn Belyea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Glenn> I guess one of my biggest problems is the lack of support
Glenn> for commands, kind of like trying to figure out DOS
Glenn> commands. Does anyone know where I can find a comprehensive
Glenn> listing of commands, and their variables?
<Unix in a Nutshell> is an excellent compendium of all the unix/linux
commands with explanations & examples. Well worth the $20.
Glenn> I have tried to find the contents of my hard drive but
Glenn> everytime I do a ls in a directory, if the list is more
Glenn> than a page, it goes by so fast that I reaaly have no idea
Glenn> what is in the directory. Any ideas?
Two options: use dired in emacs; make a shell alias like this one
that I use (in my .cshrc):
alias dl 'ls -al | less'
Whenever I want to control the scrolling, I just type `dl'.
mp
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From: "Ming98" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE very slow
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 09:10:24 +0100
I have recently upgrade to kernel 2.2.2 and KDE1.1 and my previously good
KDE performance went 'down the pan'. I have now resolved my KDE performance
problem by removing the xfstt port from the XF86Config fonts path. Now I
have to work out why the fonts were slugging KDE.
Gordon
Jonas wrote in message ...
>"mikerego" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I've installed KDE desktop and find it very, very slow.
>> I have a Intel 233 mmx processor, 3.2 gig hard drive, 48megs of EDO
>> ram 35megs of swap space and I am running RedHat 5.2.
>
>Did you install KDe from binary RPMs? If so perhaps you should
>compiling it from the source code.
>
>I am running KDE1.1 (compiled from source) on a p150 with 24Mb of RAM
>and 32MB of swap space with an updated version of
>RedHat5.2. Admittedly KDE takes about a minute to start up an display
>everything when I log in, but after that it runs fine.
>
>I compiled it with only O2 optimisation as I don't really have enough
>memory for O3 optimisation (the compile crashed when compiling the
>kdelibs with O3 optimisation). However, you shouldn't have any
>problems with higher levels of optimisation. You end up with larger
>binaries, but better performance.
>
>RPMs and distirbuted binaries are compiled (usually) for 386's
>(i.e. the lowest common denominator) so you often get better
>performance by compiling (memory-hungry) software yourself. Okay it
>takes a bit longer than an ordinary rpm install but it's worth it in
>the long run.
>
>HTH
>
>--
>Giles Paterson
> 4th Year MEng Software Engineering Student,
>"... Nowadays it is hard to die young, no matter how stupid, slow or
>myopic you are." Dr Richard Dawkins
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From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: USB Support
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 09:42:56 +0100
First off, please excuse my ignorance, it is about to become apparent.
I would like to have an option to boot my very expensive (!) laptop into
Linux which could house a mirror of my server configuration.
PCMCIA is OK I believe, etc..
However I have invested in USB peripherals, (Primarily zip/mouse) for use
with the machine.
WIll an incantation of Linux be able to address this port sometime. Or is
the architecture such that Linux will very likely not support USB for a long
time to come?
I can certainly survive, my interest is as much curiosity as necessity.
--
Chris
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From: Mihaly Gyulai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A: which commands, programs avail.
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 08:41:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Glenn Belyea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[a problem about what commands, programs are available, and what they do]
I suggest you to login more than 1 console. You can do it with :
Alt-F1, Alt-F2, ... Alt-F6 (it's common to have 6 consoles).
Now, switch to the first console : Alt-F1, and type : a <Tab><Tab>
You'll get a list of commands, beginning with the letter 'A'.
If the list is too big, you can type 'ab' or 'ac' or whatever.
Switch to another console : Alt-F2 , type 'man' and whichever command
you want to study : e.g. man adduser
This way you can discover the available commands, and mostly the programs,
as well.
If there is no 'man' page for a program, you may search after info in
/usr/doc/ directories.
I suggest to you using a file-manager program like Midnight Commander
(mc) for exploring the system, especially for viewing files.
---
Mihaly Gyulai
http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gyulai/
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From: Mihaly Gyulai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Amaya: works only with local files ?
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 08:23:36 GMT
I successfully installed the Amaya browser. The problem is : I can view
only my local HTML files, and not web sites...
Is Amaya capable of viewing the Internet or not ?
(as we have a proxy server, I have set it in Amaya...)
Anyone use Amaya for browsing the Net ?
Mihaly Gyulai
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From: "Jemas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: installation with win95 n linux
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 20:27:44 +0800
I'm new to linux, i just got rh5.2 and i want to install it onto my current
Win95 OS harddisk. When ever i run the set up straight from the rh5.2 CD,
i'm alway stuck somewhere in the partition of my harddisk. How can i mount
the drive, How can i partition with Disk Druid and how do partition the
necessary drive and how to set a root drive.
Thank a lot for the help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Gabriel)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Where is best location of swap partition on a disk?
Date: 13 May 1999 07:58:59 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Hucka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>>> On 12 May 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> jarobinson> Cyl 0 (where the label is) starts on the outside.
Yes, except for CD-ROMs (and I guess DVD too).
--
Andrew Gabriel
Consultant Software Engineer
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From: "Baumans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and windows floppy drive problems
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 21:56:27 GMT
I use a 3.5 inch floppy drive. It works fine normally, but
when I have linux installed, it always says that (in windows) any
(formatted)
floppy isn't formated. This happened both times when I installed linux
twice, and when I uninstalled
linux the first time, it worked. Do you know any way to fix it without
uninstalling linux.I use slackware linux 3.6 .
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From: "Scott Chu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: email server problem?
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 20:26:45 +0800
I have 2 questions need urgent help:
1> constantly, there's file left in /usr/tmp/.pop with the filename same as
username, and the user can't read/write mail since client software keep get
server response of 'error already reading mail', if I kill that file,
everthing is ok, why? how to solve this problem?
2>our sendmail received too many mail cause file table overflow, and queue
has too many entries. mail can't read/write as normal, any way to solve this
condition?
Hope you guru can give me some advice. Thanks in advance anyway
Scott
or if you wish you can reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 12:23:53 GMT
Leslie Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>Leslie Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> >snip<
:>: I thought the freebsd ports/packages system installed things under
:>: /usr/local which then become mingled with the things that you
:>: need to maintain yourself.
:>
:> How do you *think* we "maintain" them?! With the ports system and
:> package database!
:
: You put your own local programs into ports?
Yes, actually (in /usr/local/ports). It makes building/installing
them on other systems trivial, not to mention maintaining local
patches. -When I upgrade a version I likely won't have to mess with
local patches again as the ports system does this for me when it
doesn't spook the diff.
However, one does not need to use ports at all to use the package
database. Most often, anything outside of $HOME/bin should be
registered.
:> Even if you do a non-port/non-package install you'll still be *far*
:> better off if you register them in the package database to *help*
:> you *maintain* them yourself. It's really quite trivial.
:
: So if I take the time to do this for the freebsd boxes, build RPMS
: for the Linux boxes, and whatever the equivalent is for the solaris
: boxes, what do I get in return?
An admin without a migraine.
: How does this end up being easier than just grabbing the source from cvs
How you install it doesn't matter, it should still be registered.
At any point in time one should be able to issue `pkg_info -a' or
what have you and get a complete list of all installed software on
the system.
: or nfs mounting a master copy
It still should be registered, if only on the NFS server.
: for the install in a new or updated system?
System components don't need to be registered so any arguments about
new or updated systems is meaningless.
: I really don't want to track every program that other people are
: maintaining, I want to upgrade everything to the newest in one shot
: and be done for a while.
cd /usr/ports
make install
Can it be any more trivial?
However, there are 2308 ports. Do you really want to install that
much software simply because you "can" upgrade *everything*?
: That means I'll blow away the package database anyway
Why?
If you install any non-system software durring system
install/upgrade under FreeBSD that software is *registered* just
like if it was manually built from a port or installed with a
package.
If a system install isn't registering non-system software, it's
simply brain dead.
: and then put my own programs back if necessary.
That does not follow.
You just said that *you* wanted to quote, "upgrade everything to the
newest". Why would you then go back and install your own older
version?
If you're talking about random hack programs you like keeping
around, either register them (it's *really* trivial) or create a
/usr/local/random_hack hierarchy (if not $HOME/bin).
It is really so hard to keep your renegade software away from
registered software? No, it's not. It's below trivial. If you're
running some hacked up home box, sure do whatever you like. If
you're in any larger setting to ignore the standard admin systems
that *every* Unix has isn't lazy, it's stupid.
:>: I'm easily confused. I want the unmodified installations to go one place,
:>: the ones I expect to have to tweak even after the next upgrade in another.
:>
:> No one should "expect" to have to tweak *any* non-system components
:> after a system upgrade, period.
:
: OK, it just hasn't worked that way for me.
Case subject?
:> This isn't Linux; We don't have random a.out vs ELF, g?libc[0-9],
:> etc BS to deal with after a system upgrade.
:
: I have no problems with that under Linux. There were some versions
: where the compatibility libs were broken. I don't use those versions.
So now we're expected to hope and pray that the distribution we
picked didn't fall pray to the failings of all the rest? No thanks.
--
-Zenin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
My code is filled with comments! It's just that my comments are
written in Perl.
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From: "Jonathan W. Rose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: system won't boot after RPM update failed
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 08:45:39 -0400
I tried upgrading a package using glint in RH5.1. The upgrade finished
up to the point where it tried to update the RPM database, where it
failed saying it was out of space package NOT upgraded. From that point
on I couldn't type any commands without getting GLIBC missing symbols.
The only thing I could do is reboot the machine, but now I can't get
back in to Linux. Is there anyway I can get in to Linux so I can clean
up this mess short of doing a fresh install??? Any help would be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jonathan W. Rose
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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