Linux-Misc Digest #408, Volume #26 Mon, 27 Nov 00 17:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: insmod via82cxxx failed ("Tauno Voipio")
Re: XTI o TLI (Andi Kleen)
Re: KDE boycotting RedHat? (asage)
Re: Can't mount or dd nonstandard floppy (B'ichela)
Re: Where can I get a pre-built POSE for Linux ? (Peter da Silva)
PC puts through telephone calls (Ekkard Gerlach)
Re: optimizing kernelbuild (Paul Kimoto)
Re: sendmail logging (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: PC puts through telephone calls (Jean-David Beyer)
www.ibbnet.nl Bcksp/Delete Config [was: problem with tcsh and bksp key] (Sven
Mascheck)
Re: gnome main menu gone? (asage)
Re: PC puts through telephone calls ("Kevin White")
pam.d/system-auth dependency? (Lori Holder-Webb)
Re: I don't understand my password encoding (Alex Hart)
Re: optimizing kernelbuild (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Luis_Domingo_L=F3pez?=)
Re: ipchains vs. iptables for firewalls?? (Patrick Schaaf)
Re: Can't mount or dd nonstandard floppy ("JB")
Re: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix? (Moe Koenig)
Re: Cdrecord. (Young4ert)
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: insmod via82cxxx failed
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:09:33 GMT
"Doug Angus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I'm trying to get sound for my K7V MB via82cxxx and when I enter
> /sbin/modprobe via82cxxx I get
> this:
>
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/sb.o: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/sb.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/sb.o: insmod via82cxxx failed
I seems that there is a port address or interrupt number conflict: some
already loaded driver is using a port or an interrupt your sound board
driver tries to use.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: XTI o TLI
Date: 27 Nov 2000 19:04:33 +0100
"Massimiliano Caovilla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi
> The question is simple this time:
> XTI: where do I find them???
> I'm porting a BIG project that make heavy use of them from solaris,
> please, please, please don't tell me they are not available for linux!
> Please, tell me I'm stupid enought not to find them while I have them in
> front of my face...
The kernel does not support XTI/TLI, but there are various emulation
libraries for it. One of them is included in the Linux TIRPC port
at ftp.inr.ac.ru:/TIRPC
If your application uses STREAMS directly it'll get a bit more
difficult.
-Andi
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From: asage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE boycotting RedHat?
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:50:59 GMT
AFAIK Redhat is still treating KDE2 as a preview (ie unstable). (Hmmm...
maybe *that* explains why I can't get the Gnome panel to recognize KDE2.)
That's how it's set up on the ISOs.
As noted, there are links, you have to dig a bit. I found my download by
looking for "Preview" directories in the 'usual' places where I get RPMs.
For example, he following site is not too slow (not blazing either, but
steady):
ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/redhat-7.0/i386/en/preview/RPMS/
Kevin Mooneyham wrote:
> Larry Autry wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Hurst) wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > >Anybody know why the KDE packagers are boycotting RH 6.x users? It's the
> > >third day of KDE2 release now, and there are only a paltry few SRPMs on
> > >all ftp sites.
> > >
> > >Ed
> > >
> > This link for RH 6.2 was in the KDE2 announcement page:
> > http://master.kde.org/~bero/rc2/rh6.2/i386/
> >
> > If you missed the announcement page, here it is:
> > http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-2.0-RC2.html
> >
> > Larry Autry
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Isn't that a pre-release version?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Can't mount or dd nonstandard floppy
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:02:18 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:20:59 GMT, John W. Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Tim Allen, www.timallen.org" wrote:
>>
>> I have a stack of floppies from a (now defunct) Smith Corona wordprocessor.
>> A writer friend desperately needs the files on them. I can't figure out how
>> to mount the floppies, or even to sucessfully dd them. Help! My absolutely
>> non-techy buddy has his life's work on these floppies, and I can't let him
>> down. I'm on SlackWare 4.0.
>
>I would suggest that you (or your buddy) get SpinRite from Gibson
>Research Corp. http://grc.com/spinrite.htm It is probably the best DOS
>disk repair utility available. My second choice would be Norton
>Utilities but it is not nearly as good as SpinRite.
If you are going to recomend DOS for this job. Anadisk 2.07
will examine the disk AND make a disk dump. The geometry info alone
makes it a worthy program to keep DOS for! Plus it is shareware. (non
Crippled). To my knowledge Spinrite only does HARD Disks! These are
floppy disks! Another idea is for your friend to go to flea markets
and look for another Smith Corona WP and use that to read those
disks. (heck! I got Os9 Level II disks like that! my Coco3 is still
usable so I plugged in a serial cable and blasted the files up via
ymodem! (forget Zmodem with anything faster than 4800bps. it locks
up!
Now where to find anadisk 2.07? Last time I looked
www.simtelnet.com or is it www.simtel.net had the Msdos repository
online. A search with ftpsearch for anad207.zip should also find the
bugger! While it MAY not help get 22dsk140.zip also! it will
read/write format CP/M 80 and cpm86 disks for you! Possibly usefull
for the Smith Corona disks.
--
B'ichela
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter da Silva)
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: 27 Nov 2000 19:05:33 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Stuart Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Peter da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Look, the bloke made a mistake, but geeze, why are you all jumping on him
>> like a bunch of wannabe Alpha Geeks.
>beacuse he won't admit it was a mistake, but clings to a 'right' to do
>what he wants?
Given the way you mob have responded, he'd have to be half an angel to
react any other way. Proverbs 15:1
--
Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. WWFD?
"Be conservative in what you generate, and liberal in what you accept"
-- Matthew 10:16 (l.trans)
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From: Ekkard Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.dial-up,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: PC puts through telephone calls
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:15:50 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
** who the hell kills the body of my mail I posted
** already two times? Because of my old subject:
** "Handy -> PC put through -> somewhere else" ???
Hello,
somebody knows how I can configure my PC (Linux)
to put through a telephone call to another site ?
I have ISDN (two lines) with an ISDN-card and
an analog adapter for old analog telephones an modems.
I want to dial xxxxxxxxyyyyyyyyy
where xxxxxxxx is the number of my PC
and yyyyyyyy is the number the PC has to
put through.
The aim is to save money: calls from handy to special
numbers
(like my home area with my PC)
are very cheap as well as ALL calls from home (my PC) to
somewhere else by wire (non-radio).
Has somebody an idea how to realise? Are there perhaps only
Windows tools for this?
thx
Ekkard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: optimizing kernelbuild
Date: 27 Nov 2000 14:36:50 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dirk Groeneveld wrote:
> Honestly I didn't know that there was anything beyond -O3.
In the standard version of gcc, "-O4", "-O5", etc., all do the same as
"-O3". Other versions may use these to introduce some other optimizations.
The only one I know about is "pgcc".
--
Paul Kimoto
This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images,
hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sendmail logging
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:48:31 -0500
Kari Hurtta wrote:
>
> "Joe Terry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes in comp.mail.sendmail:
>
> > Sendmail is building a log using syslog. The log is supposed to be
> > generated in /var/log/maillog. I am running linux and there are cron jobs
> > that change the logs by appending 1, 2, 3 etc. to the names of the logfiles
> > and then building a new log file. Example maillog would become maillog.1
> > and a new maillog would be built. This has taken place, but the logging
> > information continues to be written in maillog.1, while maillog is empty.
> > Has anyone seen this? Is there a fix?
Sounds like logrotate is not working correctly. See if there is an
update for logrotate for your distribution. This would imply the same
problem for other files up there in /var/log such as messages... .
>
> Ypu are asking from wrong newsgroup :-)
>
> These logs are written by syslogd (or equivalent) -- not sendmail.
>
> (hint: you perhaps want restart syslogd)
>
> --
> /"\ | Kari
> \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Hurtta
> X Against HTML Mail |
> / \ |
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 2:45pm up 1 day, 22:13, 2 users, load average: 2.13, 2.19, 2.00
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PC puts through telephone calls
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:51:38 -0500
Ekkard Gerlach wrote:
>
> ** who the hell kills the body of my mail I posted
> ** already two times? Because of my old subject:
> ** "Handy -> PC put through -> somewhere else" ???
>
> Hello,
>
> somebody knows how I can configure my PC (Linux)
> to put through a telephone call to another site ?
> I have ISDN (two lines) with an ISDN-card and
> an analog adapter for old analog telephones an modems.
>
> I want to dial xxxxxxxxyyyyyyyyy
> where xxxxxxxx is the number of my PC
> and yyyyyyyy is the number the PC has to
> put through.
>
> The aim is to save money: calls from handy to special
> numbers
> (like my home area with my PC)
> are very cheap as well as ALL calls from home (my PC) to
> somewhere else by wire (non-radio).
>
> Has somebody an idea how to realise? Are there perhaps only
> Windows tools for this?
>
> thx
> Ekkard
You better remember to put a lot of security in there or, far from
saving money, it could cost you thousands of dollars per day as drug
dealers and crackers use your machine as a free long-distance gateway.
And do not think you can avoid paying because you were hacked. The
operating companies feel that if they provided the service to you,
that you should pay for it.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 2:45pm up 1 day, 22:13, 2 users, load average: 2.13, 2.19, 2.00
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From: Sven Mascheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: www.ibbnet.nl Bcksp/Delete Config [was: problem with tcsh and bksp key]
Date: 27 Nov 2000 20:51:48 +0100
Robert Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Linux is set up so that by default the backspace key sends Control-? (^?).
> Many programs expect Control-H (^H) for backspace.
Once there was a document containing lots of details and
history about this:
<URL:http://www.ibbnet.nl/~anne/keyboard.html>
"Consistent BackSpace and Delete Configuration"
Does anybody know what happened to www.ibbnet.nl?
LDP links still reference this.
Even the MX doesn't exist anymore.
After heavyily using search engines some time ago i found this:
<URL:http://turquoise.cs.ucr.edu/keyboard2/keyboard.html>
Looks like a mirror, as it still contains the old invalid
references and is last modified Mar'98.
And back to the configuration: Keep also the Keyboard-HOWTO in mind.
Sven
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From: asage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gnome main menu gone?
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:56:25 GMT
I can help with the first problem, as it happened with me:
Go to the Control Centre. Go to Panel. Go to Menu. For Programs, press
"In a submenu". That should do it :)
Allison Sage
"Saender A. Clark" wrote:
> I seem to have lost the gnome main menu (footprint)
>
> how do I get it back?
>
> Also, when I try to minimize a window, it closes. How do I reset this?
>
> sandy
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From: "Kevin White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PC puts through telephone calls
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.dial-up,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:17:29 +0600
I've not dealt with this before but you may want to check out some of the
ham radio utilities for linux dealing with phone patches. I know ham
operators can patch a phone call trough their equipment to local #'s and
I know linux has several ham oriented utilities...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ekkard Gerlach"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ** who the hell kills the body of my mail I posted
> ** already two times? Because of my old subject:
> ** "Handy -> PC put through -> somewhere else" ???
>
>
> Hello,
>
> somebody knows how I can configure my PC (Linux) to put through a
> telephone call to another site ? I have ISDN (two lines) with an
> ISDN-card and an analog adapter for old analog telephones an modems.
>
> I want to dial xxxxxxxxyyyyyyyyy where xxxxxxxx is the number of my PC
> and yyyyyyyy is the number the PC has to put through.
>
> The aim is to save money: calls from handy to special numbers
> (like my home area with my PC)
> are very cheap as well as ALL calls from home (my PC) to somewhere else
> by wire (non-radio).
>
> Has somebody an idea how to realise? Are there perhaps only Windows
> tools for this?
>
> thx Ekkard
>
>
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From: Lori Holder-Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pam.d/system-auth dependency?
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:32:23 -0600
I'm trying to upgrade gnorpm after having upgraded the rpm to 3.0.5.
This system started out as a RH 6.1 custom install but has been upgraded
via downloads from later RH distros.
When I try to upgrade the gnorpm rpm, I get a message that
"gnorpm-0.95.1-5.6x requires /etc/pam.d/system-auth".
I've installed the pam-0.72-6.i386.rpm but still no system-auth.
My questions:
What is this file?
Where does it come from?
What does it do?
Why does gnorpm require this?
Thanks for any help...
Lori
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From: Alex Hart <news@#nospam#althepal.com>
Subject: Re: I don't understand my password encoding
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:45:05 GMT
The question is what kind of encoding is this. I want to be able to use the
passwd file for other verification, but I don't understand how the password
is encoded. Can someone please explain how the string
"$1$PpyX5YbW$Kd2cg7iBLKiwnU7be5H110" was arrived at?
Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> Alex Hart wrote:
> >
> > In my passwd file I see this:
> >
> > seif:$1$PpyX5YbW$Kd2cg7iBLKiwnU7be5H110:501:500:Erik
> > Sert:/home/seif:/bin/bash
>
> Good idea to enable shadow passwords. I could now apply password
> cracking software and probably figure out yours.
>
> What used to be done, and perhaps still is, is that they took a
> standard string, that was once a bunch of spaces (6? 8?) and encrypted
> them with your password. The resulting encrypted string was stored in
> your /etc/password file. While this is a many to few mapping, it is
> exceedingly difficult to determine the password from the encrypted
> value of the standard string. Furthermore, the same standard string
> and password can be encrypted in, IIRC, 4096 different ways to make
> this more difficult.
>
> But the reason to use shadow passwords is because /etc/passwd must be
> publically readable, and because of this, a cracker can download the
> file and crack it at his leisure. By using shadow passwords, your
> encrypted password stuff is kept in another file that is readable only
> by the super-user.
> >
> > what kind of encoding is this for the password. At 34 characters it's
> > not plain crypt. I thought maybe it was MD5, but I was unable to
> > reproduce this string with the Perl MD5 module. Can someone please tell
> > me how I can verify a user's password against this string, and how I can
> > know which encoding mechanism to use. Not all the entries in my passwd
> > file look like this. Some of the passwords are encoded with crypt, and I
> > know how to verify those.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > --
> >
> > - Alex Hart
> >
> > $j="592888088758319859281631592858792919873179698955";
> > $p="push\@_,";$c="chop(\$_)";$_="$p$p($c.$c)+19;eval;
> > +".$j;eval;%_=map{chr}reverse@_;foreach(sort+keys%_){print$_{$_}}
>
> --
> .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
> /V\ Registered Machine 73926.
> /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
> ^^-^^ 6:50am up 1 day, 14:18, 3 users, load average: 2.07, 2.06, 2.07
--
- Alex Hart
my JAPH:
$j="592888088758319859281631592858792919873179698955";
$p="push\@_,";$c="chop(\$_)";$_="$p$p($c.$c)+19;eval;
+".$j;eval;%_=map{chr}reverse@_;foreach(sort+keys%_){print$_{$_}}
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Luis_Domingo_L=F3pez?=)
Subject: Re: optimizing kernelbuild
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:23:51 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
El d�a Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:32:21 +0100,
Dirk Groeneveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�:
> David .. wrote:
>
> [using -O for gcc]
>
> > I use the "-O9" setting for an i686-smp kernel compile and have no
> > troubles with it.
>
> Honestly I didn't know that there was anything beyond -O3. Does -O9ing
> of frequently used packages, like X, KDE or certain libaries like glibc
> or qt pay off? What are the drawbacks? Compile time? Size?
>
> Dirk
>
You should also try improving your compiler. There are two proejcts out
thers (PentiumGCC and AthlonGCC) that have patches against egcs (or gcc,
don't remember) to optimize the resulting code for newer processors.
It's said that there are important improvements in speed. Add using
optimization to this and you'll get the most out of your CPU.
--
Jos� Luis Domingo L�pez
Linux Registered User #189436 Debian GNU/Linux Potato (P166 64 MB RAM)
jdomingo EN internautas PUNTO org => � Spam ? Atente a las consecuencias
jdomingo AT internautas DOT org => Spam at your own risk
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: ipchains vs. iptables for firewalls??
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Schaaf)
Date: 27 Nov 2000 21:24:56 GMT
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Schaaf) writes:
>> Nice. What did the developers / maintainers say to your problem
>> when you reported it?
>i got no response whatsoever to the two postings i made about this to
>the netfilter mailing list. here is a record of what i sent to them.
><URL:http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/netfilter/2000-November/005838.html>
>are other people experiencing problems with smp and iptables?
Hmm. I saw no problems, even under (synthetic) load of about 400mbit/s,
on a dual P-III box, with kernel and netfilter somewhere around -test7.
The .config in your mail to the list looks fine; however, you do now
provide ksymoops output - didn't you get any, i.e. did you see a hard
halt of the machine without any output? With the information in your
mail, and no comparable machine to reproduce it, I wouldn't know how
to tackle the issue.
Will try out test10 in some days, and come back to you (and the list)
if I can reproduce.
regards
Patrick
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From: "JB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Can't mount or dd nonstandard floppy
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:20:49 +0200
Reply-To: "JB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Your diskette is no way nonstandard it is simply damaged
You may need to get Norton disk doctor/dos ( any version will do) usable for
one reading of diskette after all repairs - or edit disk the way that only
fat is second one, simply first one has weared out
"Tim Allen, www.timallen.org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8vtbht$fj6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a stack of floppies from a (now defunct) Smith Corona
wordprocessor.
> A writer friend desperately needs the files on them. I can't figure out
how
> to mount the floppies, or even to sucessfully dd them. Help! My
absolutely
> non-techy buddy has his life's work on these floppies, and I can't let him
> down. I'm on SlackWare 4.0.
>
> Here's what I've tried so far-- excuse the verbosity of the output, I'm
> hoping someone else has already trudged through this successfully, and
don't
> want to give too little information:
>
> 1) I logged on as root
>
> 2) After a standard "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy" failed, I tried
doing
> a dd to dump into the "file" utility to determine its type.
> When I typed the command:
> macondo:/home/tim/peter# dd if=/dev/fd0 | file -
>
> I get the following:
> standard input: x86 boot sector, system MSDOS5.0, FAT (12
bit)
> floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 3, size 2
> floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 3, size 2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2
> dd: /dev/fd0: I/O error
> 2+0 records in
> 2+0 records out
>
> 3) Although there were errors, it looked like a FAT12 MSDOS disk. So I
> tried a mount, using "msdos" as the type, with options fat=12, and
> check=relaxed. I experimented with different blocksizes (1024, 512...),
and
> eventually wrote a perl script to try every blocksize between 1 and 2048.
> As it turned out, 1 was the only block size that allowed me to mount it.
I
> tried this command to mount to a local directory called "floppy":
> macondo:/home/tim/peter# mount -t msdos -o fat=12,check=r,bs=1 /dev/fd0
> floppy
>
> and got this output:
> mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> floppy0: sector not found: track 0, head 0, sector 8, size 2
> floppy0: data CRC error: track 0, head 0, sector 8, size 2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 7
>
> 4) Again, there were errors, but I figured on pushing ahead. I did an ls
on
> the directory "floppy":
> macondo:/home/tim/peter# ls floppy
> how.pwl thanks.pwl trouble.pwl water.pwl zep.pwl
> how.pwp thanks.pwp trouble.pwp water.pwp zep.pwp
>
> 5) And sure enough, I got a directory listing! Pretty excited now, I
tried
> copying "how.pwl" to the local directory:
> macondo:/home/tim/peter# cp floppy/how.pwl ./how.pwl
>
> and got the following error 16 times, with varying tracks, heads, and
> sectors:
> floppy0: data CRC error: track 0, head 0, sector 2, size 2
> floppy0: data CRC error: track 0, head 0, sector 2, size 2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 1
> bread in fat_access failed
> etc. etc. etc...
>
> 6) After this, I also tried just doing a straight dd to dump the entire
> contents of the diskette to my hard drive, but never get beyond the first
> 2048 bytes, even with conv=noerror:
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/files/temp conv=noerror
> (however, vi'ing the resulting file did confirm that the disk at least has
> the words "MSDOS FAT12" and some other nonreadable stuff in its first
> block-- sorry, I didn't capture this bit, but if it's necessary, I can)
>
> Please, if you have any idea about this, help me out. I'll ask my buddy
to
> put your name in the acknowledgements when he gets published!
>
> thanks. -tim
> --
> Tim Allen, barcelona, spain
> change cold to hot to respond
> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/linux/
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Moe Koenig)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix?
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:31:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 07:43:13 GMT, "Peter T. Breuer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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 ...
You obviously have not looked into the latest kernel mods
the friendly blackhat next door uses, yet.
Talk about a kernel patch that cloaks its presence (files will not
show up, /proc will hide stuff), returns content of the previous,
innocent file(s) on read()-requests (there your md5 goes...) and
intercepts any attempt to overwrite the kernel binary used by lilo.
Now, recover from that one using your method.
I would consider any hacked machine untrusted until it has been wiped
once or better twice.
Ofcourse you can detect modified files but as far as I know the most
recent utilities implement almost everything at kernel level which is
pretty hard to deal with.
So, once your machine has been compromised it usually takes less time
to do a plain re-install than it would take to find and remove all the
patches...
regards, m.k.
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,de.comp.periph.cdrom
Subject: Re: Cdrecord.
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:34:51 GMT
I got similar error messages when trying to burn a CDRW media; however,
the burnt media seems to be working just fine. I have no idea why such
error messages did pop up when my drive was trying to FIXATING the CDRW
media. So far, I have not tried to verify if the burnt CDRW media is
100% identical with the original one. Also, I have not had a chance to
burn a CDR media, yet. My CDRW is an Acer 8x4x32.
I don't know if the above information will do you good. Good luck.
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Federico Baraldi wrote:
> =
> Hi all, I've a Mandrake 7.2 and a problem using my ATAPI cd-recorder.
> =
> Here what's happening ....
> =
> [root@fred root]# cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J=F6rg
> Schilling
> Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
> scsibus0:
> 0,0,0 0) 'MITSUMI ' 'CR-2801TE ' '1.07' Removable CD-ROM
> 0,1,0 1) '_NEC ' 'DV-5700A ' '1.91' Removable CD-ROM
> 0,2,0 2) *
> 0,3,0 3) *
> 0,4,0 4) *
> 0,5,0 5) *
> 0,6,0 6) *
> 0,7,0 7) *
> =
> [root@fred root]# cdrecord speed=3D2 dev=3D0,0,0 -isosize /dev/scd1
> Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J=F6rg
> Schilling
> scsidev: '0,0,0'
> scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
> Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
> Device type : Removable CD-ROM
> Version : 0
> Response Format: 1
> Vendor_info : 'MITSUMI '
> Identifikation : 'CR-2801TE '
> Revision : '1.07'
> Device seems to be: Philips CDD-522.
> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
> Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in write mode for single session.
> Last chance to quit, starting real write in 9 seconds, ecc.
> cdrecord: Errore di input/output. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable err=
or
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 00
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 30 08 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x08 (cannot write - application code mismatch) F=
ru
> 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> cdrecord: Errore di input/output. close track/session: scsi sendcmd:
> retryable error
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> write track data: error after 0 bytes
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 30 08 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x30 Qual 0x08 (cannot write - application code mismatch) F=
ru
> 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 480s
> cdrecord: Errore di input/output. mode select g1: scsi sendcmd: retryab=
le
> error
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 26 00 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x26 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in parameter list) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 40s
> =
> Any help/hint would be appreciated !!
> =
> Thank you .... Bye.
> =
> Federico.
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