Linux-Misc Digest #864, Volume #25 Mon, 25 Sep 00 08:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Changing from /etc/passwd -> /etc/shadow (Joakim Hove)
Re: Disk Druid (Eric)
Re: Changing from /etc/passwd -> /etc/shadow (Christian Duclou)
Re: How could I add a directory to path? (Andreas K�h�ri)
Re: Group Passwords (Christian Duclou)
Re: Screen savers not working! (Andreas K�h�ri)
inetd[642]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use ("Vinson Armstead")
Re: 2.4.0 kernel DOES NOT BOOT!!! (ray)
Re: Helix Bug/Black Screen of Death, any ideas?? (Anita Lewis)
Re: inetd[642]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use (Jan Bredereke)
Re: Helix Bug/Black Screen of Death, any ideas?? (Robert Kiesling)
Re: New Linux Install (Chris Sherlock)
Re: Can we fix my wtmp/utmp, please? (ray)
Re: kernel recompile needed, but Mandrake has modified the source... (Bruce LaZerte)
Re: Implications (Eric Junkermann)
Help Help Oracle 8i install (george habr)
Re: Implications (Eric Junkermann)
Re: Help Help Oracle 8i install (Davide Bianchi)
Re: kernel recompile needed, but Mandrake has modified the source... (Hartmann
Schaffer)
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From: Joakim Hove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Changing from /etc/passwd -> /etc/shadow
Date: 25 Sep 2000 10:18:56 +0200
Hello,
I was wondering if there was a simple way of changing from /etc/passwd
to /etc/shadow for storing passwords. According to what I have heard
the encryption is totally different - so it is not possible to just
copy the (encrypted) contents of /etc/passwd to /etc/shadow.
Any tips/pointers etc. would be very much appreciated.
Joakim Hove
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Disk Druid
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:42:46 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bill Unruh wrote:
>
> In <8qka3r$e4a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "He Kun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ]Why not use fdisk?It's more power than Disk Druid.
> ]To run it ,just goto /sbin and type ./fdisk dev/hda
>
> fdisk cannot resize partitions. Thus you cannot make room for a new
> partition.
I've never seen that option in diskdruid either.
Eric
>
> ]> How can I run Disk Druid in Red Hat 6.2 (in order to add a new
> ]> partition) ?
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From: Christian Duclou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing from /etc/passwd -> /etc/shadow
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:05:15 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
"/usr/sbin/pwconv" convert /etc/passwd to /etc/shadow
"/usr/sbin/pwunconv" convert /etc/shadow to /etc/passwd
"/usr/sbin/grpconv" convert /etc/group to /etc/gshadow
"/usr/sbin/grpunconv" convert /etc/gshadow to /etc/group
Joakim Hove wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if there was a simple way of changing from /etc/passwd
> to /etc/shadow for storing passwords. According to what I have heard
> the encryption is totally different - so it is not possible to just
> copy the (encrypted) contents of /etc/passwd to /etc/shadow.
>
> Any tips/pointers etc. would be very much appreciated.
>
> Joakim Hove
>
> --
> === Joakim Hove www.phys.ntnu.no/~hove/ ======================
> # Institutt for fysikk (735) 93637 / E3-166 | Sk�yensgate 10D #
> # N - 7491 Trondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] | N - 7030 Trondheim #
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Subject: Re: How could I add a directory to path?
From: Andreas K�h�ri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 25 Sep 2000 11:07:30 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Severin Greimel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You have to edit your $PATH environment variable. Add something like the
>following into your /etc/profile to make it permanent:
>
>PATH=$PATH:/this/is/the/dir/you/want/to/add
>export PATH
>
>This will keep your current PATH as well as add the new directory to it.
>
>Severin (going to the Oktoberfest now :)
To add something to your PATH locally (not system wide), add it in you
~/.bashrc (or the equivalent file for the shell that you use). Don't
add the current directory ('.') to your path. Search Deja and the LDP
to find out why.
/A
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From: Christian Duclou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Group Passwords
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:11:16 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Do you know any command that use this group password ?
newgrp does'nt seem to do...
Christian
Steffen Kluge wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I think you may be misunderstanding things a tad; it's _users_ that
> >have passwords, not groups.
>
> Groups can have passwords, too. Use the gpasswd command to set
> them (man group; man gpasswd).
>
> Cheers
> Steffen.
>
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Subject: Re: Screen savers not working!
From: Andreas K�h�ri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 25 Sep 2000 11:13:21 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brenda Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Suddenly I noticed my screensavers weren't coming on after the specified
>time. I can preview them, but after setting for 1 minute they still won't
>work. Would someone please tell me what I can do, and please use terms I
>as a new computer user will be able to understand.
>I am using windows 98 and have a pentium 3 intell 667 mhg.
That's one heavy computer...
>
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Try a Windows news group instead. Your news reader should support
searchng for news groups by name. Search for any group that contains
the word "windows" in its name. Make sure your question is on topic in
the group that you find.
/A
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From: "Vinson Armstead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: inetd[642]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:25:35 GMT
Hello,
I have been noticing a large number of the below message in my log files. I
am not sure but it seem that my system thinks there is another system on the
network with same IP address it has?!?!?!?!?
"inetd[642]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use"
Any clarity would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
Vinson
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 2.4.0 kernel DOES NOT BOOT!!!
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:47:02 GMT
"Rinaldi J. Montessi" wrote:
> Igor wrote:
> >
> > Hi... I am trying to get a 2.4.0 test5 version of the kernel to run.
> > I have compiled it etc. When I get to the lilo prompt and try to
> > select linux-240, it says something like "starting kernel" and then
> > hangs. I have verified that the kernel is where the lilo.conf
> > says it is. Any ideas?
> >
>
> Stay away from 2.4.test-pre-alpha-whatever until 2.4.10 is available.
> Unless you like kernel hangs at boot.
>
> see news://muc.lists.linux-kernel and get the latest info.
>
> --
> Rinaldi]$
> "The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people,
> too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the
> Constitution." --Ronald Reagan
I can't possibly know if the kernel hang is intrinsic in the 2.4 test
series on your hardware. However,
I do know that on my box, I have run them all from test2 to test7 (i have
8 but havent compiled yet) I have experienced totally rock solid
performance. I read several newsgroups, and this issue is certainly not
endemic.
Many people are using the 2.4. tests including the forward reaching
features, without issues. I am running the
LVM stuff here, on a daily basis. I would rather suspect some issue with
compile time choices. This is RH6.2
on very generic PC hardware. Maybe try compiling a very simple kernel,
find the boot issues, then add
things you need.
--
Ray R. Jones
Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Helix Bug/Black Screen of Death, any ideas??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:05:08 GMT
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:57:23 -0400, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:
>
>Yes. But I have never booted to level five and seeing the number of
>problems that can happen I think it is a _bad_ thing.
>
>--
>Rinaldi]$
Then just don't do 'linux 5' and you will not boot into that runlevel. It's
only bad if something goes wrong with X. And that is not bad if you know to
do 'linux 3' at boot to get into console. If remove the possibility of
entering runlevel 5 then you will not be able to go into X at all, because
running X means going into runlevel 5.
Anita
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Bredereke)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: inetd[642]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
Date: 25 Sep 2000 10:43:38 GMT
Hi Vinson,
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:25:35 GMT, Vinson Armstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been noticing a large number of the below message in my log files. I
> am not sure but it seem that my system thinks there is another system on the
> network with same IP address it has?!?!?!?!?
>
> "inetd[642]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use"
No. This message of the "bind" system call means that another
process on the *same* machine has already grabbed the port in order
to listen to incoming requests. The TCP port appears to be auth,
i.e., 113 (see /etc/services). So the inetd process cannot bind to
it. Look for another process providing auth services. (Maybe it is
spawned by the inet daemon, too?)
Hope that helps,
Jan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Kiesling)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Helix Bug/Black Screen of Death, any ideas??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 25 Sep 2000 07:07:17 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:57:23 -0400, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:
>>
>>Yes. But I have never booted to level five and seeing the number of
>>problems that can happen I think it is a _bad_ thing.
>>
>>--
>>Rinaldi]$
>
>Then just don't do 'linux 5' and you will not boot into that runlevel. It's
>only bad if something goes wrong with X. And that is not bad if you know to
>do 'linux 3' at boot to get into console. If remove the possibility of
>entering runlevel 5 then you will not be able to go into X at all, because
>running X means going into runlevel 5.
That is untrue, or at least an over-simplification. Runlevel 5 starts
xdm over the console shell, which spawns an X session after login.
Runlevel 3 means executing a console shell for login. At any shell
prompt, a user can run "startx" after log-in. Both of them spawn X
servers, but from completely different login session. Is that clear?
Robert
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 22:29:17 +1000
From: Chris Sherlock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: New Linux Install
>From what I understand, the new LBA32 extensions in LILO will circumvent
this problem. I don't know much more about this as I haven't had to
worry about hitting the 1024 cylinder ceiling yet.
Would someone care to comment?
Chris
"James M. Luongo" wrote:
>
> I plan on installing Linux Mandrake 7.1 for the first time. I need some
> help. How big should the partitions be? And, I heard something about
> LiLo not recognizing a Linux partition after a certain disk cylinder (or
> sector, whatever). I think it was 1023, but I'm not sure. Is this
> true? Help!
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> ------------------------
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> Draper Laboratory Room 4207
> ------------------------
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can we fix my wtmp/utmp, please?
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:36:40 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ray wrote:
> >I run RH6.2. Waaaay back, maybe in RH6.0 I screwed up /var/log wtmp and
> >
> >utmp. I don't now know how I did that. When I ask for "last", i get
> >
> >[ray@gordo ray]$ last
> >
> >wtmp begins Wed Mar 7 21:48:32 1934
> >
> >1934? Hmm, I don't think so. lastb still works. Here's what it looks like
> >
> >in there from a ls -alu
> >
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 16 09:04 utmp
> >drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp 4096 Sep 24 04:02 uucp
> >-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 34561 Sep 24 07:17 wtmp
> >-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 21504 Sep 23 09:53 wtmp.1
> >-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 2537088 Sep 23 09:53 wtmpx
> >
> >This is all "data" and I have no idea how to get things back to "normal"
> >
> >in there. The reading is all about how to USE these things, but that's
> >
> >not much help when they are corrupt. (if they are).
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >--
> >Ray R. Jones
> >Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >HTTP://gordo.penguinpowered.com
>
> [korthals@bsh1-578 korthals]$ ls -l /var/run/utmp
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 5376 Sep 24 22:00 /var/run/utmp
Thank you sir. This means utmp is not even IN /var/log? Or is in both
places? Surely not. I wonder how I managed to get it in the wrong dir. :)
Perhaps wtmp and friends is in /var/log, utmp and friends is in /var/run.
I wonder if the system will create these files, allowing me to just rm all of
'em, and let it start all over? Do I need to touch them or will it just
create them on it's own? Why do I have things like utmpx, and wtmpx?
--
Ray R. Jones
Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce LaZerte)
Subject: Re: kernel recompile needed, but Mandrake has modified the source...
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:31:11 GMT
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:50:09, -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could AC (Alan ?) be Alan Cox??
>
That's him.
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From: Eric Junkermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.software.config-mgmt
Subject: Re: Implications
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:32:39 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm seeing it through (comp.software.config-mgmt) where it is
> slightly topical, but uninteresting.
More than slightly, and interesting as well to some of us. You can use
the best Software Configuration Management practices in developing your
piece of software, but that is not the end of the SCM issues for those
who will use your software, since you will not have configuration-
managed their software (and hardware) environment. What if they need,
to run some _other_ piece of software, a different version of some
library that you use only indirectly. Your software will not work for
them, and though you may choose to dismiss their problems as self-
created, they are both real and universal.
Somebody has to deal with the SCM issues of a complete end-user system
with software from different sources. I am one of them, and any
contributions, even at a theoretical level, will be gratefully received.
Eric
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From: george habr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.oracle.misc
Subject: Help Help Oracle 8i install
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:43:56 GMT
Hi all,
I'm an oracle DBA student .
I'm trying to install oracle8i personal edition. but I have trouble with it
during installation it will ask me for
Globale batabase name: ????
SID: ???
I don't have any database before ...
what should I do ?
if you have any kind of information who to install the oracle8i please reply
thanks again ....
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From: Eric Junkermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.software.config-mgmt
Subject: Re: Implications
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:48:44 GMT
In article <8qioop$rqk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
>
> Amen. I couldn't follow the stream of thought, and if I couldn't, few
> people can.
Arrogance.
> I think he is trying to say something connected with the
> old idea of maintaining a programs history along with its code.
<snip>
I don't think so. Let's wait and see if anyone else has an opinion.
Eric
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.oracle.misc
Subject: Re: Help Help Oracle 8i install
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:01:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:43:56 GMT, george habr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>I'm an oracle DBA student .
>I'm trying to install oracle8i personal edition. but I have trouble with it
>during installation it will ask me for
>Globale batabase name: ????
>SID: ???
Oracle can manage differente "databases" on the same server, each
database is composed by different files that contains tables, users,
indexes etc. etc.
Each database is identified by a "global name" or "instance name",
for each database a new deamon is created (so you can stop one
database without affecting the others).
The SID or GLOBAL NAME is the name you have to use to connect and
use one database or the other.
Usually the SID/GLOBAL NAME is 4 char long. The "default"
SID is ORCL (usually).
Of course, you can add/remove databases after the installation,
create other SID and so on...
Pay attention: Oracle is BIG, FAT and COMPLICATED, read some
documentation before jump down into the pool...
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hartmann Schaffer)
Subject: Re: kernel recompile needed, but Mandrake has modified the source...
Date: 24 Sep 2000 18:46:12 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David_C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
>I use RedHat. AFAIK, they don't change the kernel sources at all in
>their distribution.
Wrong. I recently tried a ppp patch (for encryption), and it wouldn't
compile. It was easy to fix though (they had added an argument to a
kernel function).
hs
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