On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, frans toruan wrote about, Re: swapon and x-auth:
> At 00:05 26/02/00 +0000, you wrote:
> >On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, frans toruan wrote about, swapon and x-auth:
> >> i 've this messages from /var/log/messages :
> >>
> >> Feb 4 14:40:39 linuxf3 swapon: swapon: warning: /dev/hda7 has insecure
> >> permissions 0660, 0600 suggested
> >
> >It means change the permissions of the swap partition.
> >
> >chmod 0600 /dev/hda7
> >
>
> thanks.
> the error message quickly disappears.
> ( i guess this is the reason why i lost my swap partition on my linux box
> at home, forcing me to re-install a few weeks ago. )
> so, thanks again that i don't have to re-install for the same stupid reason
> in the future.
Well it does not take much to force you to reinstall linux i see, i
certanlly would NOT need to reinstall my box just because i lost my swap,
come to that i have never even had a "real reason" to reinstall because of
operator error.
> >> and
> >>
> >> Feb 4 07:41:12 linuxf3 gdm[751]: gdm_auth_secure_display: Could not unlink
> >> /var/gdm/:0.xauth file: No such file or directory
> >>
> >As to the second error,
> >As i see it gdm is trying to remove a file which is non existant upon its
> >closing, now i dont think you need to worry about that all to much.
> >Really, you cant be such a newbie anymore as you have learnt to look for
> >error messages. All you now need to do it distiguish between serious and
> >not so serious error messages. ;-)
> >
> just out of curiousity, why should the display manager be everytime
> interested in an authorization of only the ":0" x-term ( or, is it the
> tty0 ? ) ? can't we stop this futile activity ?
> sorry :-)
auth(entication) is every thing on a multi user system, it seems that when
closing down that file supposed to be a symlink, but gdm cannot find it, i
certanly would not worry one iota about it.
Could it be that gdm is running in the background and not being used and
therefor has no (?lock?-file) and hence the error message.??
> well, thanks again, and please don't get mad at me.
Nope i only get mad at myself normally...
Or my spouse. ;-)
> regards,
>
>
> frans t.
>
>
> >--
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> >Happy New Year
>
> is it not Chinese New Year already ?
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