Linux-Setup Digest #846, Volume #19 Tue, 17 Oct 00 12:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Encryption (Paul Wilkinson)
Re: Help: RPM cannot upgrade itself ("ne...")
Re: Help: RPM cannot upgrade itself ("ne...")
I need to slide over 1 gig from / to /usr (John)
RE: HP35480A scsi tape drive config (-ljl-)
Re: Shutdonw problems (Davide Bianchi)
RedHat 6.1 Setup Help (Chris Marquardt)
Re: printing in Slackware 7.1 (Kevin Croxen)
kde ("Martin Schmidt")
Win2000 - Linux ("Chris")
Re: ***How to boot linux without boot disk*** ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Encryption (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Redhat 6.2 : modprobe error after upgrading kernel to 2.2.16
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Redhat 6.2 : modprobe error after upgrading kernel to 2.2.16
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
System performance improved with LILO ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: DHCP on Linux??!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: I need to slide over 1 gig from / to /usr (Eric)
Re: RH Kernel (Bill Pringlemeir)
Re: Xfree86 Problems (Huw Lynes)
Help: Can't Recreate the deleted PPP connection (Eddy S)
Re: Lotus Notes in VMWare on Linux? (Darryl Stauffer id=darrylstauffer)
Re: init.d files (fay aron charles)
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From: Paul Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Encryption
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:24:29 +0100
As far as I am aware, no. It's a one-way function by design, and so
brute force would be the only way to crack it. If you need to recover a
lost password:
Boot from alternate media
Mount your root filesystem
Edit /etc/passwd
---
Paul
Martin Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a program or a c-function that is
> able to get the original password out
> of the encrypted one in /etc/shadow ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Martin
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,alt.os.linux
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help: RPM cannot upgrade itself
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:43:26 GMT
On Oct 17, 2000 at 08:18, Kit-pui Wong eloquently wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I have RPM 3.0.4 on our Redhat box 6.2. When I tried
>to install some packages from Redhat 7.0, it
>failed and saying that this rpm version was unable
>to do that. Then I downloaded the lates rpm.xxx.rpm
>and found that the old version was also unable to
>upgrade this rpm.rpm package.
First off you don't want to install rpms from RH7 unless
you have *ALL* the necessary libraries installed. RH7
uses glibc 2.1.94, RH6.2. uses 2.1.1 or so.
To install rpm 4.x you first have to upgrade to 3.0.5.
Then use this to install 4.x. This is o RH's site.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
The party adjourned to a hot tub, yes. Fully clothed, I might add.
-- IBM employee, testifying in California State Supreme Court
8:26am up 13:13, 10 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,alt.os.linux
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help: RPM cannot upgrade itself
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:43:26 GMT
On Oct 17, 2000 at 08:18, Kit-pui Wong eloquently wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I have RPM 3.0.4 on our Redhat box 6.2. When I tried
>to install some packages from Redhat 7.0, it
>failed and saying that this rpm version was unable
>to do that. Then I downloaded the lates rpm.xxx.rpm
>and found that the old version was also unable to
>upgrade this rpm.rpm package.
First off you don't want to install rpms from RH7 unless
you have *ALL* the necessary libraries installed. RH7
uses glibc 2.1.94, RH6.2. uses 2.1.1 or so.
To install rpm 4.x you first have to upgrade to 3.0.5.
Then use this to install 4.x. This is o RH's site.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
The party adjourned to a hot tub, yes. Fully clothed, I might add.
-- IBM employee, testifying in California State Supreme Court
8:26am up 13:13, 10 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: I need to slide over 1 gig from / to /usr
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:59:26 GMT
Dear Linux gurus,
I assumed that my /usr partition would expand automatically when I
recently reinstalled SuSE 6.3. Silly me. Right now I have ~ 2.44 GB of
free space on / and only 254 MB of room on /usr . I have
tried a symbolic link to and from these two mount points, but the OS
does not allow this. Is there a way I can slide over 1 GB to /usr
from / ? I would hate to reinstall, as everything is working fine.
Thank a lot for any response.
Awaiting wisdom,
John
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: RE: HP35480A scsi tape drive config
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:45:48 GMT
In article <d7PG5.325775$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Guy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, the symptoms changed a bit after I selected a resonable
varitation of
> a scinit.def file. Now the tape drive will not hold onto a tape.
Insert
> the tape, it loads, spins for a few seconds, then ejects.
>
> "mt load" results in an I/O error.
> Attempting a tar results in " Cannot write: No medium found"
>
> So, I'm stumped. Anyone successfuly using a HP35480A that can give me
some
> pointers?
Well, a few years ago, I found some DOS diagnostics for DATs and
used them on mine. Think they came from Seagate and used ASPI.
Your adapter vendor should have shipped ASPI compatable drivers.
Also, could the tape(s) be bad.
--
Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: Shutdonw problems
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:07:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 19:32:15 -0700, "Mick"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Recently I installed RH6.2 and it boots fine. Everytime I shutdown, I always
>get a full screen dump...just after the the "system halted" message..there
>was a full screendump!! something like code<1> unable to handle kernel
>paging request ..
>
>Whats is hapenning?
Probabily some problem with the APMs routines. Try disable APM
management.
Davide
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From: Chris Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 6.1 Setup Help
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 08:12:02 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When installing RH6.1 I create some DOS partitions. It never ask me if I
want them to be Primary or not.
How do I create one of them to be Primary?
Thanks for any help,
Chris Marquardt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Croxen)
Subject: Re: printing in Slackware 7.1
Date: 17 Oct 2000 13:15:01 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Douglas E. Mitton wrote:
<snip>
>
>There are some Gotchas ... the worst one for me was that Win98
enables >encrypted passwords by default, Win95 does not. Samba does not
enable >encrypted passwords by default. My solution on a firewalled local
>system was to modify the Win98 registry to make non-encrypted >passwords
the default.
>
Actually, I think the dividing line is finer than that:
Win95 OSR2 and above supports encrypted passwords (also NT4 SP3 and up),
so with Win95 in the mix the administrator will need to know which version
of 95 is being run in order to decide how best to set up his Samba
passwords.
--Kevin
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From: "Martin Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kde
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 15:49:04 +0200
Hi,
Im using SuSE 7.0 and want to use kde.
If i type startx i get fwm2 although kde is
the standard window manager. If i try to
install with :
kde install
i get the error message :
waiting 2 sec for $HOME/desktop being
created by kfm ...
If i start kde with root all is ok.
Does anybody know what i ve missed ?
Thanks in advance,
Martin
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From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Win2000 - Linux
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 16:05:57 +0200
Hi there,
Win2000 installed, after this Linux installed. I put Linux in BootManager
with the file bootsek.lin and an reference in boot.ini.
After reboot, chosen Linux - black screen. Where can I search the misstake?
Any idea?
-Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ***How to boot linux without boot disk***
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:57:56 GMT
In article <g0OG5.471309$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Learner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have Linux mandrake 5.1 installed and using bootmagic to boot
windows Me
> and Linux. however, when i choose linux in the bootmagic menu, it
doesn't
> boot rather display many "00" in my screen? How come?
> I have to restart my computer and then use the linux bootdisk to start
> linux.
> Help please! Thanks
>
>
Did you install Windows after Linux?
Did you install Linux on a partition and use the boot record on that
partition (rather than using MBR)? If you didn't then I would do it.
The easiest way is to go into lilo.conf and change the boot entry from
someting like /dev/hda to something like /dev/hda3 (whatever the linux
partition is). Then run lilo.
Therefter you need to run Partition Magic and select the Boot
Configurator. It should automatically detect the Linux entry
in /dev/hda3.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Encryption
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:27:08 GMT
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:03:02 +0200, "Martin Schmidt"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>Is there a program or a c-function that is
>able to get the original password out
>of the encrypted one in /etc/shadow ?
Short of a(n unreliable) brute-force dictionary-based crack attempt,
there is no way to get the original password out of the encrypted one
in /etc/shadow
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.2 : modprobe error after upgrading kernel to 2.2.16
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:18:56 GMT
In article <8sh1lc$4ac$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kit-pui Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Linux expert,
>
> I have just downloaded the kernel.2.2.16...rpm from Redhat.
> When I installed it on our Redhat 6.2 box, modprobe couldn't
> run because it searched for /lib/modules/2.2.14... which had
> been patched to /lib/modules/2.2.16... by the kernel...rpm.
>
> Well, I tried to cheat it by making a symobilc link like
> ln -s 2.2.16 2.2.14.
> (a dirty hand, I knew :-). However, it couldn't be
> successful because many objects were still missing
> when running modprobe manually.
>
> May you tell me any hint to get it round.
>
> Many Many thanks in advance !
> KiT
>
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> Before you buy.
>
did you rebuild the dependency database? I can't remember the command,
it's something like dep*
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.2 : modprobe error after upgrading kernel to 2.2.16
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:18:56 GMT
In article <8sh1lc$4ac$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kit-pui Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Linux expert,
>
> I have just downloaded the kernel.2.2.16...rpm from Redhat.
> When I installed it on our Redhat 6.2 box, modprobe couldn't
> run because it searched for /lib/modules/2.2.14... which had
> been patched to /lib/modules/2.2.16... by the kernel...rpm.
>
> Well, I tried to cheat it by making a symobilc link like
> ln -s 2.2.16 2.2.14.
> (a dirty hand, I knew :-). However, it couldn't be
> successful because many objects were still missing
> when running modprobe manually.
>
> May you tell me any hint to get it round.
>
> Many Many thanks in advance !
> KiT
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
did you rebuild the dependency database? I can't remember the command,
it's something like dep*
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: System performance improved with LILO
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 16:35:39 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I must admit, I was never very happy with the performance of my linux system
running kde. All the time, I had been using a different boot loader, chos.
For other reasons, I deinstalled it and installed LILO, version 21.6. To my
surprise the system runs noticeable faster, I guess 20-50% ! How can the
boot loader change the system performance ? I am quite happy, but just want
to know ...
--
Eggert Ehmke
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DHCP on Linux??!!
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:43:27 GMT
Thanks for reply!
The problem is: sometimes the Internet connection doesn't work, but
sometimes it works. Don't know why?
Thnx again.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ujwal Sathyam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <8sf7f6$ike$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hi, there:
> >
> > I got several windows PCs and Linux PCs. Lately I bought a Linksys
> > router (4 ports) to share my DSL connection in my home. It uses
DHCP to
> > assign IP automatically to every PC client.
> >
> > My questions:
> > 1. If I turn off the DHCP feature and assign IP, DNS... to every PC
by
> > myself, the connection performance to Internet will be bad or the
same?
>
> Should work the same.
>
> >
> > 2. If I still use DHCP in this router, how can I config my Linux PC
to
> > work well for Internet connection? Since Linksys assigns IP
> > automatically to PC clients from 192.168.1.100, currently I assign
> > 192.168.1.105 to Linux PC A, 192.168.1.115 to Linux PC B, then
> > sometimes it works fine, but sometimes they don't work(I mean
connect
> > to Internet).
> >
>
> I use the Linksys router with DHCP enabled without any problems. Can
you
> describe yout problem in more detail?
>
> Ujwal
>
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: I need to slide over 1 gig from / to /usr
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 16:56:55 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John wrote:
>
> Dear Linux gurus,
>
> I assumed that my /usr partition would expand automatically when I
> recently reinstalled SuSE 6.3. Silly me. Right now I have ~ 2.44 GB of
> free space on / and only 254 MB of room on /usr . I have
> tried a symbolic link to and from these two mount points, but the OS
> does not allow this.
Sure it does, it doesn't allow hardlinks though
Eric
> Is there a way I can slide over 1 GB to /usr
> from / ? I would hate to reinstall, as everything is working fine.
> Thank a lot for any response.
>
> Awaiting wisdom,
>
> John
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Subject: Re: RH Kernel
From: Bill Pringlemeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 15:08:21 GMT
>>>>> "Mick" == Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mick> How do I find out what version is my kernel? On the kernel.org
Mick> archives site, there are lots of kernel binaries ...
Mick> kernel.2.4.xxx-test-1 .... test-2...test-3....test-99 do I have
Mick> to download all test gz's in order to upgrade from my RH6.2 CD
Mick> version?
`cat /proc/version' may give you the information that you wish. Why
do you want to upgrade your kernel? If you need a new feature then,
it makes sense. You should get the source and recompile, because you
can enable features that are specific to your machine.
Any canned distribution would cater to the lowest common denominator.
You may only get code that is optimized for a 386 and not have the
best possible DMA controllers, etc. I don't think it is an extremely
easy thing to do though. You should keep a backup of your current
kernel and become familiar with lilo commands. You may have to tell
lilo all kinds of things to get your system running. Having a second
linux machine that you can swap the hard drive to is also helpful.
hth,
Bill
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From: Huw Lynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xfree86 Problems
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:59:11 GMT
In article <8shdaj$49l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Went to xfree.org site and got extremely confused - the readme says to
> download Xinstall.sh and then run "sh Xinstall -check" but it does
not work.
>
> I also had to rename Xinstall.sh to Xinstall to get it to run.
otherwise I
> get sh: Xinstall.sh: Command not found....
I'm assuming this is a fairly standard setup and so you are using bash
as your shell. Also assuming you actually typed "sh Xinstall -check".
I would try putting things back how they were and trying;
./Xinstall.sh -check
or
./Xinstall -check
I'm not an expert so I may be barking up the wrong tree. HTH anway.
Huw Lynes
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From: Eddy S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Help: Can't Recreate the deleted PPP connection
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 23:25:57 +0800
Hi,
I had a PPP account, which I configured using the "Dialup Configuration
Tool", the account name was "StarISP". But then I deleted this account.
Now, I'm trying to recreate the account. But the Dialup Configuration
Tool keeps on telling that I already have an account with the name
"StarISP" and asked me to enter a different name for the connection. But
I've deleted this account earlier.
It seems to me that the configuration tools some how remember the
account created in the pass. Is there anyway to make it "forget"? I've
checked the manuals, reference and HOWTOs, but none mentioned about this
behaviour, which I suspect maybe a bug.
TIA.
Eddy S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Darryl Stauffer id=darrylstauffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lotus Notes in VMWare on Linux?
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:30:43 -0400
One of the guy in the office using Win4Lin for Office 97 and Lotus notes
and it works great. I have know idea about VM Ware.
Steve Withers wrote:
>
> The only thing keeping my work laptop on Windows is Lotus Notes.
>
> Anyonegot Notes client running on VM Ware on RedHat 6.x / 7. Linux?
>
> I have the Notes 5.02b (int'l English - not US) win32 client CD....then
> I add increments/updates to get it to 5.04a (which is a global unified
> english version - and faster than any Notes I've ever seen before).
>
> My laptop is a Dell Latitude CPx-J with the PIII-750 upgrade and 256MB
> of RAM.
>
> Anyone done this?????
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Steve Withers
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: init.d files
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (fay aron charles)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 15:55:04 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes:
>fay aron charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Yesterday, I plugged another network card into my computer, and
>>it now takes approx 30min to boot. It gets stuck on setting up
>>sendmail.
>>
>>I want to make it skip the sendmail section, but can't find the
>>correct rc file for this. What file do I change so that sendmail
>>won't start during the bootstrap?
>This has already been answered, but check that your DNS isn't broken.
>This is the usual reason for sendmail taking a long time to start.
Yes, changing the name of the rc3.d files worked great. Now I know
enough to change it back when I get the computer hooked up to an
internet connection 24/7.
-aron
>--
>Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>"Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy."
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