Linux-Setup Digest #338, Volume #19 Mon, 7 Aug 00 03:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: pppd rejects "auth chap MD5" (Bill Unruh)
Re: password shadowing mistake (Mary P)
Re: *very* slow FTP behaviour on Linux ("John Mazza")
NTFS file system support ("Michael Mowbray")
Re: BIG mistake: Root Password forgotten (Zebee Johnstone)
Installation help on Dell Optiplex XL590 (siva)
symbol for parameter irq not found (Manuel Rojas)
total neophyte, dual boot, and lilo (Cybes)
NEWBIE QUESTION.. ("nilesh bhala")
Re: CGI and Apache (Carlos Ramirez)
Re: NTFS file system support (Davide Bianchi)
Re: Linux cd drivers (Davide Bianchi)
Re: Kingston EtheRx VP 10/100 ethernet with RH 6.2 problem? (Doc Shipley)
Re: Creating a boot Partition for Linux ("NoSpam@")
man man shows "lines ?-?/?" (Stannon Yen)
Re: BIG mistake: Root Password forgotten ("Jake")
Re: DPMS in X (David Efflandt)
Re: Partitioning a 15GB Hard drive? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RedHat 6.0: "Permission denied" as root? (David Efflandt)
Which distribution for file server? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: pppd rejects "auth chap MD5"
Date: 7 Aug 2000 03:45:02 GMT
In <8mkgn2$936$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kyler Laird) writes:
]I'm out of town and having trouble connecting with
]AT&T. At home, the POP is an old IBM system. It
]handles SLIP and does PPP with PAP. The system I'm
]trying to use now appears to be something else and
]only wants to do PPP with CHAP MD5.
]I set up my chap-secrets file to be the same as my
]pap-secrets, but when I try to connect, I get
] Aug 6 15:00:32 pia00 pppd[1330]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0>
]<magic 0xb15d85f6> <pcomp> <accomp>]
] Aug 6 15:00:32 pia00 pppd[1330]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0>
]<magic 0xb15d85f6> <pcomp> <accomp>]
] Aug 6 15:00:32 pia00 pppd[1330]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
]<asyncmap0x0> <auth chap MD5> <pcomp> <accomp>]
] Aug 6 15:00:32 pia00 pppd[1330]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <auth chap MD5>]
] Aug 6 15:00:33 pia00 pppd[1330]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
] Aug 6 15:00:33 pia00 pppd[1330]: Modem hangup
]What's up? I read that Linux pppd should be able
]to handle CHAP MD5 without any problems. Am I
]missing something obvious? I've tried using kppp
]and linuxconf in addition to running this manually
]and I don't know why it's refusing to do CHAP MD5.
You either forgot to fill /etc/ppp/chap-secrets with your
username * password *
or you forgot to give pppd the
user username
option.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mary P)
Subject: Re: password shadowing mistake
Date: 7 Aug 2000 03:51:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 01:37:39 GMT, Michael
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>during install I said I didn't want Pword shadowing.
Now I do. How do I
>correct this in newbie terms?
To begin using shadow passwords, use the pwconv
command, which has no flags. When you run
this command, it creates a /etc/shadow file from
your /etc/passwd file. It is one of a little group
of commands that control shadow passwords --
see the man pages, which are quite straightforward,
to start.
man pwconv
Don't forget to keep /etc/shadow readable only
by root. If you edit any of the password files
by hand you should run pwconv again so everything
stays encoded properly.
HTH
MP
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From: "John Mazza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: *very* slow FTP behaviour on Linux
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 03:57:46 GMT
I would also check the cable - it could cause a large packet loss if it is
not paired correctly. Make sure to follow the 10 Base-T crossover pinout.
Here it is below:
RJ45 ---- Color ------- RJ45
1 ----- White/Orange ----- 3
2 ----- Orange/White ----- 6
3 ----- White/Blue -------- 1
6 ----- Blue/White -------- 2
You wouldn't believe how high the crosstalk and attenuation can be on even a
3 ft cable that isn't paired correctly. Sometimes you may get a packet to
squeak through a miswired cable, but it is not consistant and TCP/IP
responds by slowing down its packet rate to compensate.
Eugene Strulyov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> possibly one of the network cards is broken. I've seen this happen
>
>
> Paul King wrote:
>
> > I have two machines that are joined together by a twisted pair.
> > Their networks *appear* to have been set up properly, (ping and
> > telnet work), but FTP is abysmally slow (< 1k/sec) between these
> > two machines.
> >
> > One machine ("A") is hooked up to the Internet, and the other
> > ("B") is hooked up to the first machine. FTP download speed
> > from A to the internet are reasonable, while FTP speeds
> > between A and B are slow.
> >
> > Machine "A" is running RedHat 6.2 (kernel 2.2.14), and "B" is
> > running Corel Linux 1.1 (kernel 2.2.14). I observed that Corel
> > appears to be running a different FTP daemon.
> >
> > Paul King
>
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From: "Michael Mowbray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NTFS file system support
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:58:47 +1000
Distribution: Redhat 6.2, Kernel 2.2.14-5 (or something like that).
I tried to mount a Win2000 NTFS partition (of a dual boot machine) using
mount -t ntfs ... and error message was something along the lines of 'kernel
does not have ntfs support compiled in'. Rather than attempt a kernel
rebuild I went looking for modules and found an NTFS module but it only
provides read-only access. So I reformatted the Win2000 partition as FAT32
and mounted it on Linux as vfat without problems, but now face the usual
issues with vfat mounts in Linux regarding file ownership, permissions etc.
I have also lost the benefits of the NTFS file system in Win2000 (primarily
security).
I'm assuming from the original error message that there is ntfs support that
I can choose during a kernel configuration? Does anyone have any comments
to make about it? Does it preserve security settings/ownership/permissions
between Win2000 & Linux?
TIA. Michael.
(if replying by e-mail please note I've implemented the standard anti-spam
mangling of my reply address).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zebee Johnstone)
Subject: Re: BIG mistake: Root Password forgotten
Date: 7 Aug 2000 03:23:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.os.linux.setup on Mon, 07 Aug 2000 02:36:05 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 06 Aug 2000 23:50:28 GMT, Stephen Biggs
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>This is so secure, no? This means that if anybody has access to your
>>physical box, they can become root with very little trouble? How do you
>>defeat this?
>
>Don't give them physical access.
>
>Or encrypt your box with the requirement that a key be entered at run
>time. Forget that key and you're fucked.
Have to deny physical access anyway.
Else they just have to bring in a linux boot disk and boot it to that.
Mount your root drive as a normal drive, and they have full access as
root to all your files. They trot in and change passwords.
So have to prevent booting from floppy. Set the CMOS to boot from
hard disk only, and require a password to change the boot order.
Zebee
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From: siva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installation help on Dell Optiplex XL590
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 04:30:00 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to Install RH Linux 6.1 on Dell Optiplex XL590. The BIOS
doesnt support CD boot. I booted using a 5.2 boot floppy and after
selecting installation from Selecting from installation CD the system
hangs..
Tried to do the same using RH 5.2, the installation went through , but
failed on many RPMs saying "Unpacking of archive failed on file (null)
3:bad file descriptor".
Tried to load using RH 6.0, and installation failed saying "signal 11".
Could anyone help me to fix this. Have anyone installed Linux on this
machine.
PS: We installed new Acer CD 650P on this system.
Thanks
Siva
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From: Manuel Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: symbol for parameter irq not found
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 04:30:03 GMT
Hi. I am new to Linux, and just Installed Mandrake 7.1. I have a 3Com
3C905B-TX card installed, downloaded the driver and used the patch 2.2.5.
The card gets recognized ( I think ) at boot, but there is a message
stating irq parameter not found. I configured with Drakeconf and manually
edited the alias and options in conf. modules but still I get the same
message and am unable to bring the network up.
Would appretiate the help, please e-mail me
Thanx
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From: Cybes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: total neophyte, dual boot, and lilo
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 12:43:25 +0930
well, we all have to start somewhere, but i feel like a complete
idiot - again.
beos pe went into an older box today, and promptly locked the thing
down so hard i had to reformt the entire box to get any kind of
response at all. so, i started playing... threw be into a corner for
a more up-to-date box to experient with, and tried linux instead.
first install was fubar (my fault). second install *should* have been
a nice version of gnome, but the install locked at about 25% :P after
not reaching 26% after two hours on an estimated total install time of
an hour thirty, i figured 'third time lucky...'
rh linux 6.2 went into it's own nice new partition, courtesy of
'partition magic', and worked beautifully with the default kde
install. only problem was that it booted directly to linux, and never
gave w98se a look in. hmm. broke out 'boot magic' and told it about
the linux partition, reboot, select w98 all is fine - linux...
*freeze*. damn. linux boot disk... it now gets to mounting the hdd
and locks :/
does anybody have some words of wisdom for me on how to go about this,
please? i'm at least trying to get out from under the yoke of
macro$loth ;)
btw, if i'm goin to have to redo the entire linux bit yet again,
rather than repairing lilo / bootmagic in some way, does anybody have
a suggested target size for the swap partition?
many thanks in advance.
Evan Couche (a.k.a. Cyberius Teaser)
UIN : 5361099
Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URL : http://www.chariot.net.au/~cyberius/
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From: "nilesh bhala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Subject: NEWBIE QUESTION..
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:25:01 +0530
hello !
i am using RedHat linux 6.1 in my office & i have some user accounts created
on my system with their respective home directories in /home directory.
whenever user logs in to his account , he lands into his home
directory..that's o.k. but what's bad is that after that he is able to
change directory and can go upto root (/) level that he is able to see all
other folders other than his home one.i want to restrict user's to their
respective home folders, how can i do that ?? users should not be able to
browse outside their respective home directories ??
thank's.
regards---nilesh bhala
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From: Carlos Ramirez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CGI and Apache
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 05:30:03 GMT
Probably the best approach is to edit the httpd.conf file.
First define you cgi-bin directory like so:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /path/to/your/cgi/directory
Make sure your directory is world readable and that your scripts
are executable i.e. chmod a+rx script.pl
Then try accessing your script like so:
http://yourserver/cgi-bin/script.pl
Hope this helps
Carlos Ramirez
Mark Gallegos wrote:
>
>
> I installed Red Hat 6.2 (custom installation) with the Apache web server
> (1.3.12). I got everything to work alright -- I got the 'Test Page', I
> added my own pages and everything was fine and dandy.
>
> As I was testing CGI scripts I found that the server wasn't running them.
> So I ran linuxconf and spotted the Server Tasks/Apache Web
Server/Defaults
> window. At the bottom of this window I spotted "May Run CGI" and clicked
> this button to activate this.
>
> Now I get the an error whenever I try to call up a web page from my web
> server. "Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this
server."
> Is it really trying to access the root '/' directory? I changed nothing
> else in linuxconf. The real problem is that this problem persists even
when
> I uncheck the "May Run CGI" box and try to return to the original
> configuration. Can anyone help me out with this problem. Many thanks to
> anyone who can offer help.
>
> Thanks, Mark
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: NTFS file system support
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 06:01:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:58:47 +1000, "Michael Mowbray"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Distribution: Redhat 6.2, Kernel 2.2.14-5 (or something like that).
<ZAP>
>I'm assuming from the original error message that there is ntfs support that
>I can choose during a kernel configuration? Does anyone have any comments
>to make about it? Does it preserve security settings/ownership/permissions
>between Win2000 & Linux?
AFAIK, the NTFS support for linux is a Read-Only support, you can read
the partition, but not modify it.
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: Linux cd drivers
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 06:05:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 05 Aug 2000 15:44:19 GMT, Chris H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello everybody,
>
>I'm looking for a cdrom driver for a MKE (panasonic) Model: CR-563-B.
>I've looked at linhardware.com and panasonic's website and have found
>nothing. Is there an alternative driver that can be used? Or a way to
>copy the install program onto diskettes? I start a Linux admin class in
>a couple of weeks and would really like to get this setup.
If it's an Ide driver, the Mitsumi driver should work fine on it,
it digest almost everything...
Davide
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From: Doc Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Kingston EtheRx VP 10/100 ethernet with RH 6.2 problem?
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 06:26:15 GMT
Frank,
First, _downgrading_ hardware is always bad advice. Especially since a
new ISA 3Com adapter is going to cost more than the Kingston did, in
addition to being more trouble to set up, and being much, much slower.
Second, nearly everything you've stated concerning Tulip hardware and
kernel code just doesn't hold water.
A) Most of the '98-'99 Kingston NICs were Tulip-based.
B) I might not go as far as to say the 21040 series are high-end
ethernet, but at worst they're far above "half-decent". I've installed,
configured, and maintained Linux boxen with SMC tulip-based cards,
Kingston tulips, NetGear tulips, and D-Link tulips. They all work as
well as the PCI 3Com I'm running in this box. They all came up on a
"modprobe" with no trouble at all.
C) I have yet to see a "quirk" that wasn't due to my mistakes. Of
course, obviously, if you buy the $13 CompUSA brand adapter, you can
expect a shoddy card. Whatever the chipset.
You were right about one thing; there have been three DEC-chipset
modules with the Linux v2.x.xx kernels. The EtherPOWER (generic DECchip)
module, which was actually written for DE4x5 chips, and will work with a
few of the DC21040 cards. The "old" tulip module, which doesn't work
with the newer (since last fall) tulip chips. And the new tulip module,
which AFAICT is completely backwards compatible. There's nothing messy
about it, just a progression of compatibility with new hardware. If your
software is set up properly, the kernel modules WILL work.
The clue here is that William's card worked under RH 6.0. That
indicates a configuration problem, not a hardware issue. Most likely,
the "old_tulip.o" module is getting loaded, where the "tulip.o" module
is needed. Whatever the problem, manual insertion of the DEC-based
modules, without having to recompile the kernel, should get the card
recognised and give the necessary info to configure the network scrips.
Modprobe is a wonderful diagnostic tool.
Frank Schaefer wrote:
>
> William Lee wrote:
>
> > I can't seem to get my Kingston EtheRx VP 10/100 ethnet card to work
> > with my RH 6.2 distribution. It seems like the autoprobe doesn't work
> > too well when the machine first started up. I tried running the network
> > script in the /etc/rc.d/... directory (I forgot exactly) and run the
> > "S10network start" (or something like that) and it seems like it fails
> > to recognize my eth0. What can be wrong?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > PS: the kingston card is the one that comes with PacBell ADSL modem, it
> > used to work in RH 6.0 but not in 6.2. Is the tulip.o any difference?
>
> This NIC is based on a tulip chipset? All the Kingston NICs I've known
> were based upon an NE2000 chipset.
>
> If it IS a tulip chipset, here's some things you need to know of the
> chipset. It's a chipset that's reproduced on dozens of standalone and
> onboard NICs, and on each different model, it's slightly different and may
> have its own quirks. Honestly, it's a half-decent stock chipset at best.
>
> The kernel driver(s) for this chipset are messy. There are no less than
> three drivers for this chipset, none of which are guaranteed to work. My
> advice would be to try each one separately, in turn, compiling the driver
> code directly into the kernel (NOT as a module). If you're new to
> compiling the kernel, check the Kernel HOWTO at http://www.linuxdoc.org/;
> it's easier than you might think.
>
> I've seen problems with tulip cards using DHCP under RedHat 6.x; you should
> also try setting the interface to a static IP (although your ADSL ISP may
> not allow it).
>
> If all this fails, you could try getting a cheepo (relatively speaking)
> 3com ISA 10baseT card and seeing if it does any better. If you're
> connecting it direct to an external ADSL modem, there's probably no real
> point to having 100baseTX; DSL can't even saturate 10baseT bandwidth. You
> might want to check your ADSL modem's documentation also to make sure it
> will run fine in that kind of setup.
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Network Stuff
Austin, Earth
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From: "NoSpam@" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creating a boot Partition for Linux
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 06:31:56 GMT
Nuet Lareton wrote:
>
> This is my situation, I have 2 6GB HD, C (hda) with windows 98 and D
> (hdb) with RH Linux 6.2. I am currently using a boot disk to use
> Linux. I'm using the boot disk because I am wary of messing with my
> MBR for any reason. However, the booting process takes forever from
> my floppy and I remember how relatively fast it takes to boot my
> computer at work using LILO on the MBR.
LiLo can boot off a floppy but it will be slow if booting
a floppy-copy of the kernel or fast if booting a HD copy.
The new (21.5) can boot above 1024 cylinders either off hd
or off floppy. A floppy boot can be no more than a second
longer than an off-hd boot and remnains the safest fallback.
> My question is this: can I make a partition on my C drive where I
> could essentially store my boot floppy information and would default
> into windows? All this w/o actually messing with the MBR, where if I
> wanted to go back to the original boot settings I would simply remove
> the partition. (this is a case where I want my cake and eat it as
> well) I thought I had seen something like this done before, however I
> can't remember the specifics. Is this possible? If so, has anyone
> tried this and can give me some feedback as to any problems I can
> expect. TIA.
>
> Neut Lareton
The MBR is a rough place these days so a small boot primary
is STILL a good idea to place a maintenance Linux installation
with LiLo or just Lilo (unless you're very proficient with
reinslalling LiLo). I would make this the default active C and
boot Windows or the/another Linux partition from it. It can
be as little as as a few megs.
No need to remove partitions to have it all YOUR way
whichever way that might be.
http://catamax.com/pub/compuke/dasbot/dasbotte.htm
HTH
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Subject: man man shows "lines ?-?/?"
From: Stannon Yen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 23:29:58 -0700
Hi,
After installing Slackware 7.1, I tried to read some man
pages, but I always get "lines ?-?/?". Here is the dump of
"man -d man", can anyone tell me whats wrong?
Stannon
% man -d man
Reading config file /usr/lib/man.conf
found man directory /usr/man
found man directory /usr/local/man
found man directory /usr/X11R6/man
found man directory /usr/lib/perl5/man
found manpath map /bin --> /usr/man
found manpath map /sbin --> /usr/man
found manpath map /usr/bin --> /usr/man
found manpath map /usr/sbin --> /usr/man
found manpath map /usr/local/bin --> /usr/local/man
found manpath map /usr/local/sbin --> /usr/local/man
found manpath map /usr/X11R6/bin --> /usr/X11R6/man
found manpath map /usr/bin/X11 --> /usr/X11R6/man
found manpath map /usr/bin/mh --> /usr/man
using /usr/bin/less -is as pager
adding /usr/local/man to manpath
adding /usr/man/preformat to manpath
adding /usr/man to manpath
adding /usr/X11R6/man to manpath
adding /usr/openwin/man to manpath
using default preprocessor sequence
found tbl(1) directive
not executing command:
(cd /usr/man ; (echo -e ".pl 11i"; /bin/gunzip -c
/usr/man/man1/man.1.gz) | /u
sr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/groff -S -Tascii -mandoc | /usr/bin/less
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From: "Jake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BIG mistake: Root Password forgotten
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 06:34:21 GMT
Stephen Biggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>This means that if anybody has access to your
> physical box, they can become root with very little trouble?
Basically.
This is why most servers are kept behind locked doors
or the chasis have locking options on them (nothing
a hammer won't defeat though ...). This will deter most
however from going through the trouble.
Jake
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: DPMS in X
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 06:36:01 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 06 Aug 2000, Nicolas Rinaudo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anybody know how to set X to run DPMS? I've tried xset dpms <value>
><value> <value>, and modifying my XF86Config file with Option
>"power_saver" for the devices and StandbyTime <value> for the screens,
>but either it doesn't work or it crashes x... Anybody succeded in that?
>Nicolas Rinaudo
This is how I did it, but you have to make sure that your video card,
monitor and Xserver support DPMS (see 'power_saver in 'man XF86_Accel'):
Section "Device"
Identifier "S3 Trio64 (generic)"
Option "power_saver"
EndSection
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Partitioning a 15GB Hard drive?
Date: 7 Aug 2000 06:38:17 GMT
So I shouldn't have different partitions for:
/usr
/var
etc etc?
E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: The /boot should be a small partition 16MB at the beginning of the hard disk.
: (within the 1024 cylinder)
: The reason is so lilo can boot linux.
: / should be most of the 15 GB.
: swap should be 48MB
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.0: "Permission denied" as root?
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 06:42:27 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 06 Aug 2000 22:01:58 -0400, Andy Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have had a few cases where I tried to run an installation program or
>script while logged in as root, and I got "permission denied." Does
>anyone have an idea why that is? I realize this is a pretty vague
>description of the problem, but I don't even know where to begin
>looking. Any help would be appreciated.
Check if you have execute permission or are the owner of the files.
Sometimes when you untar something it may be in another user ID or may not
have execute permission. Or if it is on CD, maybe the CD was not mounted
with exec permission in the mount parameters (or /etc/fstab). Also if you
run something from the same dir, you may need to use a ./ prefix since the
current dir is not likely in your PATH like it is in DOS.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Which distribution for file server?
Date: 7 Aug 2000 06:44:17 GMT
I'm setting up a file server at home, and this will basically be my first full out
install with Linux in this sort of setup
(I'm never installed Linux for a server before, only on my workstation for fun).
The computer will be a P166MMX, 48MB RAM, 4MB ATI Video Card, 10 or 15GB Hard Drive.
I was thinking about installing Mandrake 7.2 because I have experience installing it.
However I know it comes with KDE loaded
by default.. is this a mistake? I've heard KDE is a memory pig, and I'm not sure how
it will do on 48MB of RAM.
ANy advice appreciated!
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-T.
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