Linux-Misc Digest #389, Volume #26 Sun, 26 Nov 00 04:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: Kernel Too Old error (B'ichela)
Re: New To Linux - Distributions (Hartmann Schaffer)
Reiserfs (Koen Verbeke)
Re: Need a user password ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: standard output redirection question (Floyd Davidson)
Re: Where can I get a pre-built POSE for Linux ? (Floyd Davidson)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Subject: Re: Kernel Too Old error
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 00:53:56 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:32:58 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
>> I get this message trying to install a package built on one machine and
>> then installing on another. The target system is very minimal with no
>> compiler, etc. and running 2.0.38 kernel. So I have to build this rascal
>> on a 2.2 system. Surely there is a way to do this. Any help appreciated.
>
>You'll need to install the 2.0.38 kernel includes somewhere and force the
>compiler to use those rather than the standard 2.2 set.
Or... Just install the 2.0.38 kernel source tree in /usr/src.
Your directory path will look like this.
/usr/src/linux-2.0.38
cd into /usr/src/linux-2.0.38 and do your work there.
Now if you have a libc5 vs glibc2 issue. Sorry I only have
libc5 here and I have no reason to upgrade. Perhaps Gcc has options
to switch to either lib?
--
B'ichela
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hartmann Schaffer)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: New To Linux - Distributions
Date: 25 Nov 2000 22:54:52 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
>Get a book. Now you can get books specific to distributions. Usually
>they have a CD, so if you look carefully you can get CD and book in one
>step.
one word of caution: it usually is better to get book and cd
seperately. i gave up checking out these books a few years ago
because the cds tended to be way behind the latest release
> ...
hs
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From: Koen Verbeke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Reiserfs
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 04:25:53 GMT
Hi
I use the reiser filesystem instead of ext2 on my notebook. Sometimes I
leave the thing on too long without power. The thought of "no data
loss" and a speedy bootstrap afterwards caught me.
I am now under the impression that it is rather intensive/active and not
that stable. Every so many seconds, the hard drive has to spin where ext2
doesn't. No load, just console, no background jobs, no crons, no ats, no
servers running, no nothings. It spins for half a second and
quits. Continuously. In a silent room, this sound can make you go
bananas! ;-)
Also, with ext2, I had uptimes of over 100 days on my notebook (for my
notebook - that's impressive, the battery runs out from time to time when
I'm not around ;-) ). With reiser: an average of ten days. Then it just
hangs. Same distribution, same notebook, same kernel, same daily activity
and treatment, yatayatayata...
Question: reiser is still a bit unstable?
Ciao,
- Koen
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Koen Verbeke Software Engineer
"When in the shit,
the wise man plants courgettes."
http://users.chello.be/cr42305
ICQ: 96543760 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need a user password
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 07:43:11 GMT
Bradley J. Bartram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I'm working on one of my servers and I have a user account which I need to
: access but have forgotten its password. I'm the root user so how can I find
: this users password?
You can't. But you can change it to whatever you want.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 07:43:13 GMT
In comp.os.linux.setup Moe Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 08:52:53 +0800, Robert Masters
: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>>You've been hacked. Thats the usual response when a 'rootkit' has been
:>>Take it offline ASAP to prevent any further useage by the hacker. Then
:>>backup any data you need, and only what you need so as to not backup the
:>>hackers work, wipe the disk clean and reinstall.
:>This is actually a bit extreme - if you can work out which packages have been
:>worked over, you can do a forced install of those packages from the
:>distribution - much less hassle!
: WRONG APPROACH!
: No matter how much time you spend, you can *never* be sure to have
: really found all changes and backdoors a hacker could have inserted.
Oh yes _I_ can. I have an md5 list stored on another machine (as well
as 20 other binary identical machines to compare with). It's perfectly
possible. And I can count entries in /proc to see how many processes
are running, and boot off a new kernel with my choice of shell to
give myself a good view. COme to that, I have a copy of the / partition
at the other end of every disk ...
Peter
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: standard output redirection question
Date: 25 Nov 2000 22:07:46 -0900
Cevat Ustun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thank you.
>
>Cev.
>
>Thank yTim Hockin wrote:
>>
>> Cevat Ustun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> : How does one log the output of a program to
>> : a file and at the same time view it on the
>> : screen?
>>
>> command | tee file
Sometimes you'll want to go one step farther than that, because
error messages are sent to stderr, not stdout. The pipe command
above sends only the stdout of "command" to "tee". To collect
both stdout and stderr, use
command 2>&1 | tee file
The "2>&1" part means to send file descriptor 2 (stderr) to file
descriptor 1 (stdout). For some programs you might not want
that; but for example the output of a compiler is sometimes full
of messages to stderr that are more useful than what is sent to
stdout, and then that is exactly what is needed.
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Where can I get a pre-built POSE for Linux ?
Date: 25 Nov 2000 22:21:52 -0900
Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>To build the POSE, I typed "make | tee errors.txt", and an error file
>was generated.
>I've attached the file, but it doesn't have everything.
>Some lines of text that's displayed in the terminal window seems to be
>missing in the error.txt file.
Your command pipes stdout to "tee", but leaves stderr going only
to the screen. To send both to the file as well as to the screen,
my normal command for make redirects stderr to stdout like this,
make 2>&1 | tee make.out
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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