Linux-Setup Digest #456, Volume #19 Wed, 23 Aug 00 09:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Default root password (Shiuh Deh Liew)
Re: ftp daemon on RH6.1 (David Punsalan)
Re: Default root password (Shiuh Deh Liew)
Re: Default root password (Davide Bianchi)
Re: ftp daemon on RH6.1 (Davide Bianchi)
Re: First drive SCSI - not seen as first drive (M. Buchenrieder)
RPM Installations ("Daniel Pfuhl")
RH 6.2 Install hangs (Jon)
Re: Firewall for Linux ("Patrick Lambe")
Re: 2nd NIC failure ("Dave Addison")
Nis client ("TJ O Connor")
Redhat 6.2 and Nis* (Probllem) (Guy-Armand Kamendje)
two SCSI HOSTs; cannot install RH ("J.U")
Re: Master Boot Record ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Master Boot Record (Tom MacIntyre)
Re: SuSE 6.4: yast2 :-) - X :-( ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RPM Installations (Davide Bianchi)
BIOS set up (Thomas Kral)
time zone problem (Chris Green)
Multi location e-mail setup ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Boot Partition too big?? (Mark Weeks)
Dual Processors ("Bon Homme Richard")
Re: ATI RAGE FURY PRO HELP!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RPM Installations ("ne...")
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From: Shiuh Deh Liew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Default root password
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 22:50:18 -1000
Folks,
Is there a default root password for newly installed Red Hat Linux release
6.0?
I have installed Red Hat version 6.0, and it was restarted and displayed
the following message:
Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
Kernel 2.2.5-15 on an i586
login: root
Password:
After typing "root" on the "login" prompt, it prompted "Password:". How to
get into the system?
Thanks.
Shiuh
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From: David Punsalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftp daemon on RH6.1
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 03:10:25 -0500
Nevermind -
I downloaded wu-ftpd-2.6.0 and that installed fine.
Strange ...
- David
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From: Shiuh Deh Liew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Default root password
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 23:03:22 -1000
Folks,
Please ignore my previous posting, as I am able to get into the system
now.
Thanks.
Shiuh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: Default root password
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 08:36:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 22:50:18 -1000, Shiuh Deh Liew
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Folks,
>
>Is there a default root password for newly installed Red Hat Linux release
>6.0?
>
>I have installed Red Hat version 6.0, and it was restarted and displayed
>the following message:
>
>Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
>Kernel 2.2.5-15 on an i586
>login: root
>Password:
>
>After typing "root" on the "login" prompt, it prompted "Password:". How to
>get into the system?
You have selected the root password during the installation process,
if you don't remember that, restart the machine, at the boot, type
linux=1 to go into single-user mode and change the root password
using passwd.
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: ftp daemon on RH6.1
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 08:37:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 03:10:25 -0500, David Punsalan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Nevermind -
>
>I downloaded wu-ftpd-2.6.0 and that installed fine.
>
I installed the same on a RH 6.0, just a couple of week ago,
Very strange...
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: First drive SCSI - not seen as first drive
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 06:23:08 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew) writes:
[...]
>Don't need to. I have linux on the 2nd ide drive with nt4 on the 1st ide
>drive; I got the nearly the same msg "hdb5 is not on the 1st drive".
>Lilo still works as the "warning" is an annoyance.
Yup, but if that happens on a mixed IDE/SCSI system, LILO may not
be installed properly after that. Disconnecting the IDE drives would
be one way to do it; adding the
"disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x80
disk=/dev/hda
bios=0x81"
options to lilo.conf would be even better :-)
Michael
--
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From: "Daniel Pfuhl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPM Installations
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 12:12:11 +0200
Hi
I have downloaded an *.rpm package.
How can I specify the location where the
installation will be made?
Is this possible at all, or will rpm install this
package in a further defined directory?
My problem ist the capacity of my harddrive,
because my first hd is full an the second I have
mounted on another dir.
thanks daniel
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 06:31:48 -0400
From: Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RH 6.2 Install hangs
Once everything is installed this little window pops up
declaring "Performing Post Install Configuration" and then
hangs for ever. Anyone have any idea what may be causing this ?
Jon
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From: "Patrick Lambe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Firewall for Linux
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:44:25 +0100
"Jason Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8nvg72$oiu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I would like to install a firewall on my Linux box. Does anyone have any
> suggestions?
> I am a newbie for this and I want to know which one is good...
You might want to check out the book building linux and openBSD firewalls,
probably tells you more than you want to know right now, but it will make
you think about what you want out of your firewall, which as others have
said is probably the most difficult part of building any firewall.
P. (Considering how frequently I recommend this book, I ought to be on
commission ;o)
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From: "Dave Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: 2nd NIC failure
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:44:53 +0100
Have you (or linuxconf) added an alias entry to /etc/conf.modules to tell
the kernel which module should be loaded for eth1?
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From: "TJ O Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Nis client
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:54:24 +0100
Hi all,
I have a solaris machine as a nis server and i have three other
solaris machines as nis clients. However i have another machine which is a
linux box and i want it to act as nis client from the solaris
machine.
Could anyone suggest to me how i could go about this.
cheers
TJ
--
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Sys Admin. Kinsale Rd., Cork, Ireland.
Comnitel Technologies Ph: +353 21 7305620
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From: Guy-Armand Kamendje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Redhat 6.2 and Nis* (Probllem)
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:01:48 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I have the following problem: I have installed Nis+ on my Redhat 6.2
machine and the connection to the Nis+ Server is quite ok! (Users in the
NIs+) kann logon on my machine. But whenever I try to mount a directory
from the Nis+ server (for example users directories), I get the
following message.
call_verify: server requires stronger authentication
call_verify: unknown auth error 5
I dont really understand what this means. The client credential was
created using DES as security parameter.
How can I resolve this problem?
--
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T-U Graz || www.sbox.tu-graz.ac.at/home/g/gaillard/
I.A.I.K ||www.iaik.at/people/gkamendje/gkamendje.html
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From: "J.U" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: two SCSI HOSTs; cannot install RH
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:05:58 +0200
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I have DELL PE4400
with AIC78xx for SCSI-CD and PERC-RAID 3Di for Hard Disks;
(Dell gives a module driver >percraid.o< for to access HD on Perc
controller)
I start an expert installation, create partitions everything goes fine
but after reboot
the kernel does not see any scsi hosts.
When I look at /boot there is no initrd.img.
How can I force to create initrd.img at the install time (or later from
rescue?)
I found a suggestion to install from the same scsi host to which the HD
is connected but:
- CD do not work on perc-3Di host
- when I try to install from HD (I don't know if I did it right)
a copy of RH6.2-CD to a Win95 partition with long filenames -
then the installation hangs
just after loading the percraid.o module - I get unexpected
signal 11
So what now ?
Janusz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,24hoursupport.helpdesk
Subject: Re: Master Boot Record
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 06:05:25 -0500
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Michael Eager wrote:
> I have an old system which had Linux installed sometime in the past.
> It had LILO installed. I want to install DOS on it now (don't ask
> why). I re-partitioned the disk and installed DOS, but it will not
> boot. Apparently, LILO is looking somewhere other than where it
> should.
>
> I tried to remove LILO by running Fdisk with /MBR. Well, LILO is
> gone, but whatever is in its place doesn't do anything useful -- I get
> garbage printed on the screen.
>
> Anyone have a suggestion about how to either (a) reinstall the DOS
> boot loader correctly, or (b) reinstall LILO so it knows where the DOS
> system is located, or (c) whatever else will make this work
> reasonably.
Did you use the DOS fdisk to make your partition? Did you set the
partition to "active?" Did you format the partition with the /s switch to
transfer system files?
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom MacIntyre)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,24hoursupport.helpdesk
Subject: Re: Master Boot Record
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:20:12 GMT
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 00:18:11 -0700, Michael Eager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I don't have it handy, but there has been a zero-fill debug script
discussed several times on the alt.certification.a-plus newsgroup
which will take care of this. A search of usenet archives will
hopefully find it. I think Partition Magic (commercial) and Ranish
Partition Manager (freeware, and easy to find with a search) will also
take care of this.
Tom
>I have an old system which had Linux installed sometime in the past.
>It had LILO installed. I want to install DOS on it now (don't ask
>why). I re-partitioned the disk and installed DOS, but it will not
>boot. Apparently, LILO is looking somewhere other than where it
>should.
>
>I tried to remove LILO by running Fdisk with /MBR. Well, LILO is
>gone, but whatever is in its place doesn't do anything useful -- I get
>garbage printed on the screen.
>
>Anyone have a suggestion about how to either (a) reinstall the DOS
>boot loader correctly, or (b) reinstall LILO so it knows where the DOS
>system is located, or (c) whatever else will make this work
>reasonably.
>
>Thanks
>
>-- Mike Eager, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Eager Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.eagercon.com
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.4: yast2 :-) - X :-(
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:19:47 GMT
well, you din't get me right: I install SuSE 6.4 via Yast2 (not Yast1)!
There's no way to start/use Yast1 if I insert the CDs. So, Yast2 is
fully _graphical_ (not a coloured text terminal like in Yast1) and this
means that a default X-Server is running. Also my mouse (USB Microsoft
Intelli Explorer) works great within the configuration procedure of
Yast2 ... except when it comes to the X configuration. The problem is,
that Yast2 just says that it now configures X and suddenly the screen
is corrupt. There is no SaX screen first to have the chance to change
something. (Propably it's Sax that is started and get corrupt
itself ...).
If i press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPAEC (to kill the X-Server) X is started again
after a second - with the same/similar corrupted pixel screen ... :-(
if Yast2 wouldn't start at all or gets corrupted in the first place, i
would say that my video card is not supported. but because yast2 starts
and works with my video card, it has to be a bug in Yast2/SuSE Linux...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (MaryP) wrote:
> In article <8ntpho$5b5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > i installed SuSE 6.4 (evaluation version from chip magazine). Yast2
> > started perfektly: it showed colored graphics (propably 640x480) and
> > also detected my USB mouse (Microsoft Intelli Explorer). Everything
> > went smoothly until the end, when Yast2 tried to configure the X-
> > Server: the mouse is not used (mouse cursor doesn't move) and after
a
> > few seconds, the whole screen get corrupt. I also tried to
configure it
> > with yast1 (XFreesetup, xf86setup), but never succeeded.
>
> This is interesting - I just installed an evaluation version of SuSE
6.3
> and the same thing happened to me - the mouse worked during the
install
> but later on did not work and X was all corrupted.
>
> I went through everything several times trying different selections
for
> the mouse (Logitech FirstMouse) and the monitor (off-brand).
Eventually I
> got the mouse working through XF86Setup, IIRC. I don't know why it
was so
> hard, because I have one of the most ubiquitous mice there is and the
> older RH 5.2 recognized it immediately.
>
> Later I used YaST's monitor config tool (SaX) and it was so slick I
> forgave SuSE completely. For the first time since I started playing
with
> Linux I got the exact right settings for my display. SaX just blew me
away
> it was so cool.
>
> If you're willing, keep messing with YaST's config utilities because
once
> you get a feel for them they are quite nice. I like it now that it's
set
> up - in fact I know much more about my hardware than before.
>
> > The question is: if yast2 itself works great (mouse and graphics)
this
> > should mean that X should work with my video card (ELSA Gladiac -
> > GeForce GTS). is this a bug in SuSE 6.4?
>
> I don't think what the mouse and monitor are doing in YaST during that
> part of the install has anything to do with X (somebody correct me if
this
> is wrong). After all, you haven't even set X up at that point. It's
just a
> colorful terminal display with pointer enabled.
>
> I think you just have to finish working out the details of your X
> configuration. Sorry I can't help with that video card, I have a
different
> one. FWIW I had better luck once I left YaST2 (the autoconfig part)
and
> did the details by hand (plain YaST I guess). I felt this was a very
good
> install tool, it's the third one I've tried and it compared favorably
with
> RH and Storm.
>
> (I have not however had any luck getting my Sound Blaster to work in
SuSE.
> The display shows the seconds ticking away on Track 1 of Lyle Lovett,
but
> I can't hear him. Kmixer or something won't open so I can tweak the
> volume, and and is the driver for one of the commonest sound cards
missing
> from this distro? and I reinstalled the ALSA thingy and it
disappeared ...
> oh stop whining ...)
> MP
>
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: RPM Installations
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:32:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 12:12:11 +0200, "Daniel Pfuhl"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have downloaded an *.rpm package.
>How can I specify the location where the
>installation will be made?
>Is this possible at all, or will rpm install this
>package in a further defined directory?
Exactly. If you use the "list" option (or was the
query option???) with rpm, it will tell you WHERE the
various files will be installed, this only if the
rpm is not a SOURCE rpm, in this case the sources will
be installed somwhere under /usr/src.
>My problem ist the capacity of my harddrive,
Consider the opportunity to buy a new harddrive and
give more space to /usr and /var, usually packages
are installed there.
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Kral)
Crossposted-To: fa.linux.kernel
Subject: BIOS set up
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:42:18 +0200
Can anyone suggest a suitable HOWTO covering, general BIOS setup, in
terms of memory parity, memory hole, and the like.
Ta much.
--
_______
SCIENCE Thomas Kral
SYSTEMS http://www.scisys.cz
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Subject: time zone problem
From: Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Aug 2000 08:20:08 -0400
My redhat box seems schizophrenic about it's time zone.
Typing the "date" command will show the correct time in EST.
Typing "echo >test.txt" followed by "ls -l test.txt" will show
a time 4 hours ahead.
Accessing the system from a windows box via samba will produce
file dates which appear correct from the windows side, but 4
hours ahead when viewed from the linux side.
Checking a file into CVS from a windows box will yield log
entries 4 hours in the future as well.
I can't figure out how to get the machine's concept of what
time zone it is to be in sync.
advice?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Multi location e-mail setup
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 12:44:39 GMT
Hi
I have 15 locations all over the country and want to give them e-mail
as in [EMAIL PROTECTED] The setup that we currently have
requires the branches to use long-distance calls to connect to the HQ
where I have a mail server (S-Bridge) running to pick up their mail.
I now want to setup a Linux server which should collect all my incoming
mail and forward mail to branches. The mail for users at my HQ will be
picked up from the Linux server by POP3 e-mail clients.
Is it possible for me to configure one Linux server at each station to
pick up mail from my Linux server at my HQ so that my branches can also
benefit from a unified mail address ?
Once solution that I was offered was to have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - which I am not very happy about.
Please help.
Thanks in advance
Iyer
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From: Mark Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot Partition too big??
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:50:04 +0100
Hello
I am having trouble installing windows 98 and redhat 6.0 on my athlon
700. It has a 20 gb hdd which i am told is the problem. I put windows 98
on the first 10gb partition, and then went to install redhat on the rest
of the disk, so i used disk druid and whenever i created the linux
native partion after making the swap partition, it would'nt allocate the
space for it, saying 'Boot partition is too big'. Now never having had a
dual operating system before i did'nt have a clue. After doing some
searching on some forums, i found the problem was that for it too work
the /boot partition must be in the first 8gb of dick or the first 1024
sectors, because of lilo apparently having this limitation. Some
suggestions where too find the new version of lilo which does'nt have
this problem, but i have not had any luck finding it, or even if it
exists, and also by reformatting the whole hard disk and putting /boot
at the start and then installing win98, and then linux but win 98 just
wipes everything anyway so that is no good, and i cant't afford too buy
partition magic which i am told will sort it out as well. So if anyone
has had this problem, i would appreciate some help of any kind.
Thanks later
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From: "Bon Homme Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dual Processors
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 12:56:32 GMT
I'm going to install 6.2 on my Tyan Tomcat 4, running dual PII 200's. Will
the install program autodetect and configure both processors, or will I have
to recompile an SMP kernel?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.list,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: ATI RAGE FURY PRO HELP!!!
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:08:38 GMT
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 06:04:23 GMT, "jade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have tried using XF86 4.0 and 4.0.1 and they all recognize the card as
>being there but am never able to get it configure correctly. Is their any
>certain distro of linux besides redhat that readily supports this card?
>
>brad
I've had mine working great under SuSE 6.4 and RH 5.2, both with XF4
>
>
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:04:47 -0600, Ben Goble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >I am another that is having a problem with the
>> >ATI Rage Fury Pro 32 Mb which has the Rage 128 chip set.
>> <snip>
>> >>
>> >> I have the same problem with my ATI Rage Fury 32Mb.
>> <snip>
>> >> > Ati Rage Fury Pro (32mb)
>> <snip>
>>
>> All three of these cards are supported under XFree86 4.0 or later.
>>
>>
>> -----
>>
>> After many hours of trying and praying (I converted to 7 different
>religions over the course of an hour. None of them had Linux tech support)
>>
>> --Dru Lee Parsec from a post made on linuxnewbie.org message boards
>
>
----
Book: Portable computer with great battery life, no upgrade capability, and lousy
refresh rates
--Quote taken from a post on Linux.com
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM Installations
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:09:17 GMT
On Aug 23, 2000 at 12:12, Daniel Pfuhl eloquently wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have downloaded an *.rpm package.
>How can I specify the location where the
>installation will be made?
>Is this possible at all, or will rpm install this
>package in a further defined directory?
>My problem ist the capacity of my harddrive,
>because my first hd is full an the second I have
>mounted on another dir.
This is dependent on whether the rpm is relocateable.
Some are, most are not. rpm -qip foobar.rpm will tell
you whether it is relocateable. rpm -qlp foobar.rpm
will tell you where the files in the package will go.
--
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He's dead, Jim.
9:05am up 44 days, 12:07, 9 users, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.02
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