Linux-Misc Digest #852, Volume #26 Thu, 18 Jan 01 19:13:02 EST
Contents:
Thursday 18 January 2001 UNIGROUP Meeting: Jeffrey Altman, of Kermit, on Security
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kickstart creation (Bill Hudson)
Re: shutdown command (Dwight Tovey)
No sound from MP3, but sound from AU files (Terry Gliedt)
System Groups ("Brian E. Seppanen")
Re: subroutines in bash? (Dwight Tovey)
Re: user created backdoor (David)
Re: partition strategy (David)
Future of Linux ("thomas")
Re: The Future of Corel Linux (John Hasler)
Re: linux 2.4.0 cannot mount root filesystem (Daren Russell)
Re: OK, [CENSOR] MOUSE!
Re: Removing Sound support at startup. ("Cameron Jay Erens")
Re: Reg Exp containing [] (Bob Simon)
cups printing and staroffice (and gv) ("Gerald Pollack")
Re: distribution recommendation? (Creat)
Small Navigation Buttons in Netscape/Mozilla? (Jason Bond)
Re: Small Navigation Buttons in Netscape/Mozilla?
Re: The Future of Corel Linux (Steve Withers)
Re: Time to compile a kernel (Steve Withers)
Re: Time to compile a kernel (Steve Withers)
Re: Time to compile a kernel (Steve Withers)
Re: partition strategy (Steve Withers)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Thursday 18 January 2001 UNIGROUP Meeting: Jeffrey Altman, of Kermit, on
Security
Date: 18 Jan 2001 15:21:59 -0500
UNIGROUP is the senior *n*x Froup in New York City. The sandwiches and
salads at their meetings are just fine, and there's a lot of 'em.
If you are neither a Chase employee nor a member of UNIGROUP there is a fee
to attend.
Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
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UNIGROUP'S JANUARY 2001 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
====================================================
When: Thursday, January 18, 2001
Where: The Chase Manhattan Bank
55 Water Street (enter at Old Slip)
South Tower
13th Floor, Conference Room C
Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
6:30 PM - 6:40 PM Ask the Wizard
6:40 PM - 6:50 PM Unigroup Business
6:50 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation
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Topic: Security Protocols and Technologies
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Speaker: Jeffrey Altman,
Sr. Software Designer,
The Kermit Project at Columbia University
Quick Summary:
Will discuss implementation of Secure Telnet and FTP using
Internet standard protocols for Authentication and Encryption:
Kerberos, SRP, and SSL/TLS.
See http://www.unigroup.org for the full announcement and directions.
-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.unigroup.org
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From: Bill Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kickstart creation
Date: 18 Jan 2001 20:36:31 GMT
bill davidsen wrote:
>
> I have to install a bunch of servers, and for various reasons will be
> using Redhat. I see how to install using a kickstart file, but how do I
> create the kickstart file? There are references to a utility which takes
> the current installation and creates the ks.cfg file based on the
> current install. Obviously there is such a thing, but I sure don't see
> the name of it.
>
> I have several 600+ page Redhat books, but they all want to tell me how
> to use a ks.cfg, not how to create one in some way better than by hand.
>
http://wwwcache.ja.net/dev/kickstart/KickStart-HOWTO.html
--
Bill Hudson
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From: Dwight Tovey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shutdown command
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:32:52 -0700
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, JCA wrote:
>
> According to the doc (under Slackware 7.1) when invoked with -a
> shutdown is supposed to check /etc/shutdown.allow in order to find
> out if the user invoking it is allowed to do a shutdown.
>
> Well, my shutdown doesn't. It seems to ignore /etc/shutdown.allow
> altogether, always saying that only root is allowed to execute such
> command.
I think that you may be mis-reading the doc. On my RH 6.2 system the
man page says that the '-a' argument causes shutdown to check
shutdown.allow for a list of users to compare with the list of users
logged in on a virtual console. What you may be running into is that
there isn't an "allowed" user logged in on a console (I'm pretty sure
an X login doesn't count as a console login). Try logging in (as one
of the 'shutdown.allow'ed users) on one of the virtual consoles and
running the shutdown command from there, or log in on the console,
switch back to X and run shutdown. This may not be the solution you
are looking for, but it will at least explain what is going on. If
Slackware doesn't have it, you might want to look into using PAM to
give you the functionality that you want.
/dwight
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Dwight N. Tovey
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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on, what happens?
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From: Terry Gliedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No sound from MP3, but sound from AU files
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:44:32 -0500
I've been trying to get my SB16 card working on a 2.2.18 (??
the 18 is correct) kernel. Following the various Sound*HOWTO*
files I finally got AU and other files to work (as suggested
in the HPWTO) using cat, play (from sox) and wavplay. They
sound as I expect.
So imagine my surprise when I got the latest version of mpg123
and tried to play an MP3 file - appears to work, just no
sound. So I tried with xmms and got the same result.
I'd appreciate a suggestion or two of what areas to look at.
I've not seen anything in the HOWTOs about this and am frankly
stumped what's going on. TIA
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Terry Gliedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hps.com/~tpg/
Biostatistics, Univ of Michigan Personal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Brian E. Seppanen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.security.general,redhat.servers.general
Subject: System Groups
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:57:59 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there any difference between a system group and a regular group. As
far as I can tell a system group is numbered below 500, but is this
numbering special or signify any additional level of priviledge? from
the groupadd manpage the -r flag, -- which creates a system group
account, -- seems to be redhat specific. Can anyone shed any lights on
this. I noticed that there is also an /etc/gshadow that is a shadow of
/etc/groups, but I'm not sure what exactly what the difference is except
possibly permissions?
this is on a redhat 6.2 server.
TIA
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Brian Seppanen
Charter Communications
Regional Data Center 906-228-4226 ext 23
Marquette, MI [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
From: Dwight Tovey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: subroutines in bash?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:19:32 -0700
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Anthony Ewell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know I am being a total mooch here, but
> does anyone know how to correct this (over simplified
> version of my) subroutine so that it runs correctly with
> "find -exec" and "bash"? (I am afraid my modula2
> programming does't help me much with bash!)
>
> #! /bin/bash
> fixit(findvar) {
> echo $fixit","$fixit
> }
> find . -exec fixit {} \;
>
You have a couple of problems here.
The first problem is that the '-exec' flag to 'find' is telling 'find'
to try to run the external command 'fixit'. Since 'fixit' probably
doesn't exist outside of this shell script, it fails.
Second is how you are trying to pass the argument to your function.
Shell functions don't receive args inside the () like C (and possibly
modula2) functions. Args get passed as positional parameters, just
like the main body. (BTW: You also didn't use 'findvar' in the body
of the function, but I'll assume that was the result of your
oversimplification).
Try this instead:
================================8<------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
fixit() {
find . -exec echo {}","{} \;
}
fixit
================================8<------------------------------
Assuming that both instances of '$fixit' in your body was supposed to
be '$findvar', this will print the path for every file from your
current directory on down twice, separated by a comma.
What I suspect that you may have been looking for with parameters and
functions may be something like this:
================================8<------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
fixit() {
findvar=$1
echo "fixit,$findvar"
}
find . -print | while read fn; do
fixit $fn
done
================================8<------------------------------
Hope this helps.
/dwight
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Dwight N. Tovey
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: user created backdoor
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 21:29:15 GMT
David Clark wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a user on my system who I suspect has created a backdoor for
> himself somehow. This server is at a high school and we're still in a
> learning curve with linux. We're running RH7.
>
> I suspected him of some inappropriate activity on the system & changed his
> password yesterday. He still was able to come in without a hitch last
> night. From /var/messages:
>
> Jan 17 20:18:25 xxxxxx PAM_unix[1593]: (system-auth) session opened for
> user xxxx by (uid=0)
>
> (the xxxxs are the server name & user name). I'd like to get a handle
> on what's going on before I confront him as he obviously has more unix
> experience than I do. Any ideas where I should look to figure this out?
>
> Thanks,
You can limit su to specific users by editing /etc/pam.d/su and add
these 2 lines to the top of the file
#%PAM-1.0
auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so debug
auth required /lib/security/pam_wheel.so group=wheel
Then to specify users to allow su privileges to.
usermod -G10 username
To help protect from any one setting up any " /root/.rhosts,
/root/.netrc, /etc/hosts.equiv " files you can.
touch /root/.rhosts /root/.netrc /etc/hosts.equiv
chmod 0 /root/.rhosts /root/.netrc /etc/hosts.equiv
chattr +i /root/.rhosts /root/.netrc /etc/hosts.equiv
If you are using MD5 passwords you can make root and user passwords to
different length.
vi /etc/login.defs
Comment out the existing "PASS_MIN_LEN" line. And add the following
lines directly below it.
if [ `id -un` = root ]; then
PASS_MIN_LEN 15
else
PASS_MIN_LEN 10
fi
You must use MD5 passwords for this to work with passwords over 8
characters in length.
In this example the "root" password would be set at 15 characters and
the "user" password at 10 characters. These are just examples and may be
set to a length you feel would be safe.
Be sure to chmod 600 /etc/login.defs when done so that other users
can't access it and see what length the root password is set to.
Or if you don't want different length passwords you can just increse the
minimum length allowed by changing the /etc/login.defs
PASS_MIN_LEN 5
to: PASS_MIN_LEN 8
You need to use MD5 passwords if you want passwords longer than 8
characters.
Just a couple of ideas but I would find out how he is getting in before
changing the password lengths.
Just $0.02
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: partition strategy
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 21:38:45 GMT
Chip Piller wrote:
>
> Note the 1.2 GB /usr partition which is at 75%. Right now on my RH7.0
> system I have 1445MB under my /usr directory.
>
> In the past I have run out of space in /usr and /home.
>
> When one sets up several partitions there can be benefits in security and
> data integrity and also upgrades might be easier, if this is important to
> you.
>
> Lately however I have reduced the complexity of my partitioning scheme (/,
> /boot, swap) and have not had any problems.
> Chip
>
True but as I said "it works great for what it's used for".
I don't install what I don't need or want just what I use.
--
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From: "thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Future of Linux
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:41:53 +0100
Hello to all,
especially Steve who asking for hotest news about Corels new buisines
strategy. Recently I read that Corel avoids to make a clear announcement
towards finishing the Linux branch in favour for the new Net- strategy of
MS.
But I think the next days things will clear up, i.e. if Linux branch will
be sold to (I have forgotte to whom)
Cheers
Thomas
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The Future of Corel Linux
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:00:48 GMT
Steve J. Planck writes:
> I installed 1.2 yesterday on another machine and I was very impressed
> with everything about it.. I would like to run it fulltime, but I want to
> make sure it isn't going to just be a dead end..
Then upgrade to Debian, of which Corel is a derivative.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daren Russell)
Subject: Re: linux 2.4.0 cannot mount root filesystem
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:13:14 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Connet wrote:
>Hi Daren,
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daren Russell) writes:
>
>> Are you running ext3/reiser? If not and at the risk of sounding like a stuck
>> up prat, did you remove the ext2 filesystem entry or change it to a module?
>
>I am running ext2. I specifically told the xconfig program to compile
>the ext fs into the kernel, NOT as a module. So I'm scratching my head
>on this. Probably something very simply but I cannot figure it out.
>
>I can send my saved kernel.cfg file from the xconfig program. Let's
>see.. I did say 'no' to NFS. I don't have to have that right? Hmmm.
>
OK, the only other thing I can think of is that you have enabled devfs in the
kernel, and enabled it to be run at boot time (though this is not the sort of
thing which can be done too accidently :) This would also require you to
enable support for 'experimental' aspects in the kernel.
I checked the docs for devfs and it _suggests_ the symptons you are getting
are related (see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/devfs/)
If it's not this, I'm somewhat out of ideas!! (I'm still getting to grips
with a lot of this myself :)
HTH
Daren
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OK, [CENSOR] MOUSE!
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:30:06 -0000
ok, i looked at winlinux.net or whatever, i typed that cursor thingy in
Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> : Shan J. Gill wrote:
> :> How is your mouse cursor config'd in the XF86Config file - hardware or
> :> software?
>
> : uh.huh?
> : what or where is xfe8config? sorry, i m alittle new to linux, A TOTAL
>
> He didn't write that. Be very careful with case and content. Since you
> don't know where it (what he DID write) is, look for it, don't ask! As
> you don't know how to look, ask "how do I look for a file" first, or
> better, go to linuxnewbie.org or read the unix and linux faqs and have
> such questions answered for you at a level of your own choosing.
>
> : cant answer that until i know where to look for it.
>
> So ... !
>
> : and by the way, if anyone have time, show me how to set up my modem, or
> : something so i can do some dial up for my internet.
>
> No way! (I.e. Go find out :-). It's all heavily documented, in
> obvious places. You are about to embark on a learning experience. Heh,
> it should take you about two days to figure out the structure of your
> directories. Simply traverse every one, noting what's in it. When you
> find the HOWTOs and FAQs, read them.
>
> Peter
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From: "Cameron Jay Erens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Removing Sound support at startup.
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:44:07 -0500
Also, if you are using RH 7 or later, or Mandrake 7.0 or later, you can use
kudzu to do this for you. Just run kudzu (just type, "kudzu" in the
console), specifying a configuration file that is empty or nonexistant, ex:
/tmp/kuzuconfig. I forget the exact syntax to specify the file, so do a
kuzu --help to see the exact option for specifying a config file.
-Cameron Jay Erens
"Anastasia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello.
>
> Sound is enabled in my starting script. Any way to remove it? Anything
> else (modules, etc.) to remove for a clean slate?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Quoth the penguin, "Pay No More."
>
> a
>
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From: Bob Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Reg Exp containing []
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:56:17 GMT
In article <947aq9$hal$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, you could try reading man regexp(5) if available.
Sorry; you're right. I should have.
> Most regexp
> metacharacters lose their special meanings when they appear within
> character classes, i.e., within square brackets.
Got it. Thanks!
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From: "Gerald Pollack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cups printing and staroffice (and gv)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:14:32 GMT
I've installed CUPS printing (version 1.1.4) on my system, and now I can
only print from some applications. My printer is a deskjet 842c,
parrallel port, and it's installed in CUPS as 'lp'. Printing works fine
from netscape, nedit, and scilab , and command-line printing of text files
is fine ('lp file.name' and 'lpr file.name' both work).
I can print from acroread (version 4.0), but not from gv (3.5.8), nor
from StarOffice (5.2). For the latter, I've run spadmin as root, and
set up the default printer as "Generic Printer in queue lp (/usr/bin/lp -d
lp)" - I've also tried omitting the '-d lp', as well as lpr instead of lp.
At present the only way I can get hardcopy from SO is to print to a file,
convert that to pdf with ps2pdf, and then print from acroread - not very
convenient!
I'd be immensely grateful for any pointers on how to get this working.
Thanks
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Subject: Re: distribution recommendation?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Creat)
Date: 18 Jan 2001 17:46:43 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in <9452mv$klq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>But not the IP Masq w/ VPN (i.e. masquerading VPN traffic), I've
>noticed a patch, but was looking for a distribution that supports that
>along with internet server functions.
>
>
>In article <XP096.222883$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> [Posted and mailed]
>>
>> In article <93vlis$pn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> > Can someone recommend a distribution that can do this:
>> >
>> > firewall
>> > IP Masq w/VPN support
>> > apache webserver
>> > Perl
>>
>> Any regular Linux distribution can do all these things. The only ones
>> that can't are certain specialized things, like single-floppy router
>> distributions or the like (and even they'll do the first two). For my
>> thoughts on several distributions, check:
>>
>> http://www.rodsbooks.com/distribs/
>>
>> --
>> Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> http://www.rodsbooks.com
>> Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
>>
>
>
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>
You may try Debian (www.debian.org)
This is one of the most "professional" distributions. It is optimized for
Server use and the main goal is stability. May be the right one....
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Creat
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Life is Great!
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From: Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Small Navigation Buttons in Netscape/Mozilla?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:46:24 -0800
Is there a way to make the back/forward/etc. navigation buttons in
netscape small (without the text) like one can do in Internet Explorer?
I just haven't seen any option so far that lets you do so. Thanks,
Jason
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Small Navigation Buttons in Netscape/Mozilla?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:52:46 -0500
edit/preferences
Click on "Appearance"
Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Is there a way to make the back/forward/etc. navigation buttons in
> netscape small (without the text) like one can do in Internet Explorer?
> I just haven't seen any option so far that lets you do so. Thanks,
>
> Jason
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The Future of Corel Linux
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:59:35 +1300
"Steve J. Planck" wrote:
>
> Hey everyone,
>
> I heard today that Corel Linux 1.2 was the last release Corel plans to make
> of their Linux distribution. Anyone have any information about whether or
> not this is the case? I installed 1.2 yesterday on another machine and I was
> very impressed with everything about it.. I would like to run it fulltime,
> but I want to make sure it isn't going to just be a dead end..
>
> Thanks in advance for any information..
No Linux is ever a dead end. You can upgrade almost any distribution as
much as you like as long as you are prepared to understand the
differences between your system's layout (directories, any utility
scripts) as compared to another you might want to settle on as a
benchmark.
Corel is based on Debian. OK....so watch where Debian goes. When an
application that runs on Debian catches up with your Corel
equivalent....move to it. You can evolve your system into being closer
to a surviving distribution if you want to make that effort.
Kernel upgrades and library upgrades may break your Corel-authored
software eventually...but that is true of any version of Linux - or any
OS for that matter.
It's a shame that Corel v1.0 insisted on using the entire disk with no
alternative....I might still be using it. That file manager / network
browser was way out in front. Plus Corel wrote apps for the
platform....but not ones people wanted to buy. They had already settled
on Star Office or MS Office running via Win4Lin / WINE / VMware.
It was always a gamble for Corel. It's shame it didn't pay off. I think
they were ahead of their time rather than having gone a (software)
bridge too far.
At the same time, many Linux users have to realise that if the creators
can't make SOME money....they won't create. Not true for everyone....but
certainly true for professionals.
Steve
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Time to compile a kernel
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:01:37 +1300
Eric Ho wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am still using a K6-2 450 with 128M EDO Ram, running kernel 2.4.0.
> It takes me about 9.5 minutes to compile the kernel :(
> Could some of you running fast machines (Thunderbird, P-III, P-4)
> tell me how long it takes you to compile your kernel ?
>
> By the way, will changing the cpu to K6-2+ 500 or K63+ 450/500
> improve the performance a lot ?
>
> Best Regards,
> Eric Ho
PIII-750 with 256M of RAM.....it took me about 3-4 minutes to compile
the 2.4.0 kernel.
I didn't time it....but I did make a cup of tea while it was
compiling....which takes 3-4 minutes.
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Time to compile a kernel
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:03:06 +1300
Eggert Ehmke wrote:
>
> On 18 Jan 2001 06:18:50 GMT, Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I am still using a K6-2 450 with 128M EDO Ram, running kernel 2.4.0.
> >It takes me about 9.5 minutes to compile the kernel :(
> >Could some of you running fast machines (Thunderbird, P-III, P-4)
> >tell me how long it takes you to compile your kernel ?
>
> What do you expect ? Faster machines will compile faster. On my old P120 it
> took one hour. On my PIII860 a few minutes.
I used to compile kernels overnight on my 386DX/40 with 16MB of RAM.
It took just over 4 hours to compile a much smaller 0.99 kernel.
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Time to compile a kernel
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:04:37 +1300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Did you have all the text output to the console ?
>
> redirect them to a file, and it should speed up things.
>
> Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:9461sa$mdq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am still using a K6-2 450 with 128M EDO Ram, running kernel 2.4.0.
> > It takes me about 9.5 minutes to compile the kernel :(
> > Could some of you running fast machines (Thunderbird, P-III, P-4)
> > tell me how long it takes you to compile your kernel ?
> >
> > By the way, will changing the cpu to K6-2+ 500 or K63+ 450/500
> > improve the performance a lot ?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Eric Ho
and "make bzImage > compile.log" would do that?
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: partition strategy
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:09:23 +1300
Jean-Yves Simon wrote:
>
> Having bought a new computer, I want to install linux. Unlike
> my other computer where I installed Linux on a single partition,
> I was told it is better to create several partitions . So, what
> is the "best" strategy to install Linux on multiple partitions.
> I have 6Gb to dedicate to Linux.
>
Different partitions on different disks would improve performance by
reducing seek time as you could access several fimes at once - each on a
different disk with its own actuator.
But I don't see any real value in having separate partitions on a
single-disk system. You might do it to avoid losing the entire system if
your ext2 file system on one partition is corrupted. But ext2 isn't that
flakey....at least in my experience. It doesn't make any difference to
backup....and you should backup your key config files regularly. It's a
great way to learn what they are! :-)
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Regards,
Steve Withers
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