Linux-Setup Digest #345, Volume #20 Thu, 4 Jan 01 19:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: no shell or login ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: site hosting ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Mnadrake 7.2 and Sound Blaster Live MP3 (Joao Alfredo)
Re: Newbie - cant get eth0 to talk TCP (brocher)
Resizing a Partion (Steven Powell)
50-line text mode? ("Chris Coyle")
Re: Newbie - cant get eth0 to talk TCP ("Chip Piller")
Menu Editor in GNOME ("Oliver T. Nelson")
Re: weird network problem - help? ("Steve Cox")
Re: mounting floppy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
User manager automatically installed??? ("Oliver T. Nelson")
Re: X Window no longer starts (John Todd)
Re: Kernel panic (Anita Lewis)
Kernel Compilation questions / Problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: how to do : Installing RH6.2 and... (Craig Kelley)
Re: Monster MX300? (Linux User)
Re: 50-line text mode? (H.Bruijn)
Re: Please Help! X won't start - new KDE kdm causes respawning too fast (Craig
Kelley)
Re: User manager automatically installed??? (H.Bruijn)
Re: RH 6.2 won't boot (gdm problem) (Craig Kelley)
Re: Wireless LAN (Craig Kelley)
Re: May have removed something unknowingly (Craig Kelley)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: no shell or login
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:16:56 GMT
In article <90r2n3$nk0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I beleive our server has been hacked. The logs have
> been cleared, so I can't get any info from them,
> but we no longer have shell access.
>
> I can't login in to the server thru telnet, nor can
> I login directly from the console. When I type in
> my username on the console, the name disappears,
> and I am immediately returned to the Login prompt.
> It never asks for the password.
>
> I can still Ftp to the server, and the ftp, web and
> mail services are still running.
>
> Is there any way I can get back shell access
> without having to completely reinstall Linux?
Sorry, you MUST reformat and reinstall!
What I would do is boot from a floppy linux distro, not from your
rescue disk. IIRC the RH rescue disk loads the kernel from the /boot
dir, which may have been recompiled by now. I use "Tom's RTBT" (RooT
BooT) floppy available from: http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html
Once booted clean, mount your disk(s) with the "-o nosuid noexec nodev"
options and make a system backup if you want it for later forensics.
You can then copy any scripts or data you need. You can count on most
system binaries being trojans by now, so leave them alone. When I got
rooted I did a fresh install of linux then a selective restore of data
areas and my config scripts from backups. Be sure to inspect any
scripts you recover to make sure they've not been altered (even from
backups)!
> We are using RedHat 6.2.
I would strongly recommend using the Bastille linux hardening
scripts available through the homepage bastille-linux.org or
download directly (~200KB) from:
http://download.sourceforge.net/bastille-linux/Bastille-1.1.1.tgz
The Bastille scripts will activate most of the operating system's
built in security features very effectively. Setup is pretty easy,
with lots of onscreen info about each option.
And version 1.1.1 is optimized for RedHat v6.2!
After you apply the scripts be sure you read the log files often.
Hope this helps!
Bluster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: site hosting
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:18:05 GMT
I know that Webhosting Media registers domains and provides hosting
services for cheap. You may want to go to them. www.webhostingmedia.net
Good Luck!
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Timothy Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello, I want to know if there is a newsgroups or resource I can
go
> to to get information on how to register and host a site. In my
> case I have a machine that runs almost 24/7, but is at the mercy of a
> dhcp server. So I would want a provider to forward all requests for my
> site
> to my ip address. I'm fairly new at this so the more detailed the
> resources, the better.
> I've already tried to register a name, but found that I needed a
1st
> and 2nd nameserver and was not too sure why this was. Thanks in
> advance for any help.
>
> Timothy Washington
>
>
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From: Joao Alfredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mnadrake 7.2 and Sound Blaster Live MP3
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:30:14 -0000
My Motherboard is ASUS-P3V4X.
My sound card is Sound Blaster Live MP3.
Mandrake 7.2 recognizes Live MP3, but of the mistake, doesn't have sound.
I installed Mandrake 7.2 in a motherboard Tekram with VIA KX133
Tekram use North Bridge VT8371 and South Bridge VT82C686A and Live MP3
worked perfectly.
ASUS P3V4x uses VIA Apollo PRO 133A with VT82C694X and VT82C596B.
The problem should be in some of VTXXXXX.
Shortly we should have solution.
I await a solution.
Help I�m new user of Linux.
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From: brocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Newbie - cant get eth0 to talk TCP
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:39:57 +0000
Victor,
Sounds like a routing problem. As root at a shell prompt type in 'route
-n'..
you should at least see 1, and ideally 2 entries
One for 127.0.0.0 which is the loopback psuedo network and
one for 192.168.1.0 (if you gave your NIC IP 192.168.1.1).
For more details there is a Networking 'HOWTO' (but at the moment I
can't give you the URL as I'm not on my normal PC).
Regards,
John
Victor Antillon wrote:
> I just installed RedHat 7, and used GNOME to do a 'programs -
> system -
> network configurator' to set up a new IP address and host name.
> But when I 'ping' the address, I get 'network not reachable'.
>
> Do I have to do something to add 'eth0' to the '/dev' directory
> or something? How do I tell the system that the card is a 3c509
> adapter? I've tried 'ifconfig' but it doesn't like my parm list.
>
> I am completely new to linux setup and networking, I have no idea
> where to start, and the manuals I have on hand are not helpful.
>
> Any constructive comments would help.
>
> Many thanks....Vic
>
> --
> - -
>
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From: Steven Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Resizing a Partion
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:46:49 -0800
When I started my linux install 9 days ago, I was not sure how much I
would like it and had intended to keep using my win2k install for most of
my computing needs. After a week of playing I've changed my mind.
Originally when I partitioned and installed Debian I put it on a 5 gig
partion on my second hardrive. What I would like to do is is add the
other 5 gig on that hardrive into the partition that is currently my
linux native. Question is there an easy way of doing this? or am I
basically hosed and need to start over. I'm looking for a way of
doing this without doing the following:
rename /usr > usr.backup
mount new 5 gig partion to /usr
and then copy all the info in usr.backup to usr
I know I can add space by mounting into the file system. What I would
like to do is add that 5 gig into the current partition.
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From: "Chris Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 50-line text mode?
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 17:50:19 -0500
Anybody know how to make text-mode linux come up in 50-line text mode?
I'm trying to set up an old laptop which is too small and slow to load X.
The standard 25-line (or is it 24?) mode sucks.
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From: "Chip Piller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Newbie - cant get eth0 to talk TCP
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:01:58 -0500
I have had good luck running RedHat linux on many machines with 3c509 cards.
What kind of install did you do?
Which network configuration tool did you use?
What kind of network are you connected to? Do you know that it is good, do
you have the proper network settings?
Did you reboot the computer, does the command prompt show the proper
hostname?
Did you restart your network service after changing settings?
Do you know if the network card is good?
What kind of 3c509 card do you have, is it a combo card? Maybe your card is
configured to use the wrong port, for example the bnc connector instead of
the bui or the rj45 connector?
What did you do with ifconfig? Try command "/sbin/ifconfig", what output do
you get?
Try command "/sbin/lsmod" to see if you have the network module loaded, if
you are running a modular kernel.
Does your PC find the network card, look at output of "dmesg" command or
look at /proc/interrupts, /proc/ioports, /proc/modules to see if you see
3c509 listed.
Are you running the default RedHat Linux 7.0 kernel? Run command "uname -a"
to see what version you are running.
Have you tried to use Linuxconf to configure your network settings? It
works pretty well, is a graphical admin tool available in Xwindows.
"/sbin/linuxconf" as user root.
Hope this helps,
Chip
"Victor Antillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:932b94$e8g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I just installed RedHat 7, and used GNOME to do a 'programs -
> system -
> network configurator' to set up a new IP address and host name.
> But when I 'ping' the address, I get 'network not reachable'.
>
> Do I have to do something to add 'eth0' to the '/dev' directory
> or something? How do I tell the system that the card is a 3c509
> adapter? I've tried 'ifconfig' but it doesn't like my parm list.
>
> I am completely new to linux setup and networking, I have no idea
> where to start, and the manuals I have on hand are not helpful.
>
> Any constructive comments would help.
>
> Many thanks....Vic
>
> --
> - -
>
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From: "Oliver T. Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Menu Editor in GNOME
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 23:05:14 GMT
I can edit the GNOME menus on my system when I login as root, but when I
login as me, I can't edit the menus. It tells me that I don't have the
rights to do this. What do I need to do to allow me to edit the menus
while logged in as myself?
Thanx,
OLIVER
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From: "Steve Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: weird network problem - help?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 23:10:08 +0000
In article <930m2f$1ab$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Chandrashekhar
Shetty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just installed a couple of machines in our lan - hp netserver lpr models
> with redhat 6.2. Let's say machines X and Y. Now ping on X/Y gives no
> response. But I can telnet from X/Y given a fixed IP. DNS and ping is
> not working on X/Y.
>
> From other machines I can ping/telnet to X/Y. Telnet takes a long time.
>
> any idea what is happening? I spent hours trying to figure this one out
> with no luck. Searched on websites and deja for this also.
>
> thanks Chandra email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
the long telnet connection time is often caused by no or incorrect
"reverse lookups" of local DNS servers for those boxes - in an MS
environment, revers IP is often not set up correctly as Wins/broadcast
hides the misconfiguration nad can resolve IP addresses to host names for
it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: mounting floppy
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 23:02:04 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Hung P. Tran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a standard installation (using typical installation)
> of Redhat Linux 6.1. I am having problem mounting floppy
> drive. I tried:
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy <RETURN>
>
> and get the error: the kernel does NOT recognize /dev/fd0 as
> a block device (may be 'insmod driver' ?)
>
> Any idea ? It seems like the regular Redhat installation does
> NOT include the floppy driver.
Redhat 6.1 does include the floppy driver (on my system).
Maybe the drive has failed, have you tested it with a
boot floppy?
>
> Please advice.
Check the file /var/log/dmesg for logs of the floppy drive init
at boot time, that should give you some clue what is broken.
Look right after the logs of hard drive init(s)
My dmesg logs look like this:
<snip>
hda: Seagate Technology ST31276A
hdb: WDC AC2420F
hdc: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
<snip>
Hope this helps
Bluster
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From: "Oliver T. Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: User manager automatically installed???
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 23:11:29 GMT
Running RH7, workstation install. Is there a GUI (or even text based)
user manager system where I can change rights, add users, etc.? Also, I
of course have followed what I've read about not using root except for
items that require it, but what group should I be in so as to have
rights to most things, but not quite superuser rights? IOW, I don't
want to have to su to root all the time to change every little thing,
but I would also like a little protection from my constant fiddling
blowing up my system.
I have already learned about breaking X, and that was in my first week
(got a message coming up about a mysterious murder, which made me laugh
until I really needed to get into X...).
Thanx,
OLIVER
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Todd)
Subject: Re: X Window no longer starts
Date: 4 Jan 2001 22:27:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shouldn't that be /usr/X11R6/etc. ??
On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 21:49:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hi to everyone !
>
>On my system (RedHat 6.0), I have defined 5 accounts, including root. I
>have only one global Xwindow config (with fvwm2), which used to work
>fine
>in any of may accounts. For some reason, this no longer works for one of
>my accounts, and I can't find why. It still works for the other
>accounts.
>Fvwm2 does not start, instead I get TWM, which is not of much use. Upon
>quitting TWM, I can read the following message :
>
>=====================================================================
>/usr/X86R6/bin/RunWM : /home/BD/.FVWM2-errors permission non accord�e.
>
>Warning : you selected Fvwm2 as your window manager, but your
>installation does not appear to be functional. The executable
>/usr/X86R6/bin/fvwm2
>was not found on your system.
>RESUMING with TWM.
>=====================================================================
>
>Now, here is the content of /home/BD/.FVWM2-errors :
>=====================================================================
>Including_decors...
>Including Fvwm95 interface...
>finished decorating...
>Including_complex functions...
>Including_key bindings...
>Including_menus...
>Basic start menu...
>Xlock/Screensaver menus...
>Preferences menu...
>Window-Ops menu...
>Including_fvwm_hostmenus...
>Including_defstyles...
>Including_modules...
>Including forms...
>Including_init...
>Done
>[FVWM][scanForPixmap]: <<WARNING>> Couldn't find pixmap mini-penguin.xpm
>
>[FVWM][scanForPixmap]: <<WARNING>> Couldn't find pixmap mini-penguin.xpm
>
>[FVWM][scanForPixmap]: <<WARNING>> Couldn't find pixmap mini-penguin.xpm
>
>[FVWM][scanForPixmap]: <<WARNING>> Couldn't find pixmap mini-doc1.xpm
>[FVWM][AddToMenu]: <<WARNING>> Hotkey P is reused in menu StartMenu;
>second binding ignored.
>[FVWM][scanForPixmap]: <<WARNING>> Couldn't find pixmap
>mini-shadowman-64.xpm
>[FVWM][scanForPixmap]: <<WARNING>> Couldn't find pixmap mini-pager.xpm
>[FVWM][scanForPixmap]: <<WARNING>> Couldn't find pixmap mini-pager.xpm
>[FVWM][scanForPixmap]: <<WARNING>> Couldn't find pixmap mini-iconify.xpm
>
>[FVWM][scanForPixmap]: <<WARNING>> Couldn't find pixmap mini-stick.xpm
>[FVWM][AddToMenu]: <<WARNING>> Hotkey W is reused in menu Window-Ops;
>second binding ignored.
>[FVWM][AddToMenu]: <<WARNING>> Hotkey L is reused in menu Window-Ops;
>second binding ignored.
>[FVWM][scanForPixmap]: <<WARNING>> Couldn't find pixmap mini-iconify.xpm
>
>*FvwmTaskBar: cannot open console
>ifcfg-lo should not be world writeable
>received SIGPIPE signal: exiting...
>xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Relais bris� (pipe)) or KillClient on X
>server ":0.0"
>
>=====================================================================
>
>Thanks for any hint.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Kernel panic
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 23:24:16 GMT
On Thu, 04 Jan 2001 19:22:06 +0100, H.A.J. van Niekerk wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a strange problem: when I boot the system (Pentium 200 MHz, 64 MB
>RAM, 9 GB Harddisk, RH 6.2, XFree 3.3.6) from floppy (I always do it
>like this) it hangs after 'Entering run lever 5', then it says 'Kernel
>panic'. When I warm boot the system using the reset button, 'kernel
>panic' happens much sooner than that. When I use the reset-button again,
>it checks the disks (they were uncleanly unmounted) and all goed fine.
>The last time it happened, just 2 days ago, I had to run 'fsck
>/dev/sda1' in single user mode. After reboot all was fine again. And now
>this. Can somebody please tell what's happening and why?
>
>
>Thanks.
>
>Huub
It sounds like sda1 is bad again and the kernel can't file it needs to run
the first script in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d. I guess your real question is why the
filesystem is going bad again. I don't know that one.
Anita
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Kernel Compilation questions / Problem
Date: 04 Jan 2001 23:33:35 GMT
Trying to compile the 2.4.prerelease kerenl on a Abit KT7 Motherboard with
a Duron 800 (I mention this becuase of the problem)
Everything compiles fine (using processor type of PIII), the modules build
ok and install ok. My sound card is functioning via module, All updates
included in Changes have been made But My SCSI Card & CDrom fail to load
and the 3com 3c59x driver fails to load. My usb mouse also fails to work.
I am running RedHat 7.0 so at boot kudzu does autodetection and I will get
the Add/Remove dialogs depending whether I boot to 2.2.18 or 2.4.pre.
My question is can anyone explain the problems. or tell me some more
things to try
MY other question is can someone explain to me the files that rh puts in
the /boot dir such as module-info.version and initrd.version? Can I
create these files for my 2.4 kernel? If so how? Also a file called
kernel.h that was already there for 2.4.0 what is that file and is there
anything special I need to do with it?
Thanks in advance, LtFIend
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to do : Installing RH6.2 and...
Date: 04 Jan 2001 16:37:46 -0700
"Greg Collocott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> using more than 1 floppy disk to install device drivers at boot time ???????
>
> how do you do this from expert mode. currently I can only use one floppy
> disk and would like to specify other device drivers from another.
>
> please help anyone.....
When it asks you if you'd like to load additional drivers, say 'yes'
(I believe that 6.2 even asked "do you have a driver disk?")
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From: Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monster MX300?
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:37:52 -0800
Hello,
You might try http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal
Cheers,
Jim H
Danny wrote:
> I just installed LM 7.2 (dual boot with WinME) and it appears it doesn't
> recognise my mx300 sound card... do i have to get linux specific
> drivers? I guess so. Do they exist? I tried linux.aureal.com as it
> mentioned during the install but that site doesn't seem to be around
> anymore.
>
> Any suggestions? (maybe a new sound card...)
>
> Thx,
> Danny.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: 50-line text mode?
Date: 4 Jan 2001 23:38:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 17:50:19 -0500, Chris Coyle allegedly wrote:
>Anybody know how to make text-mode linux come up in 50-line text mode?
>I'm trying to set up an old laptop which is too small and slow to load X.
>The standard 25-line (or is it 24?) mode sucks.
Add a line to /etc/lilo.conf "vga = ask" and run /sbin/lilo -v
The next time one reboots linux will probe your graphics chip and allow
you to select a non-standard console. Last time I checked mine a number
between 0 and 9 allowed for everal combo 25x80 25x140 50x80 50x140. The
fonts vary as well and one is not as easily readable as the other.
Find out which one produces a usefull setting, and then replace the line
"vga = ask" in the file/etc/lilo.conf with the correct number, fi "vga=8"
and rerun /sbin/lilo -v
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please Help! X won't start - new KDE kdm causes respawning too fast
Date: 04 Jan 2001 16:39:41 -0700
"Jason Bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello. I've just upgraded to KDE 2 and realized that it doesn't install
> itself by default to /top/kde so that I've had to change the /etc/inittab
> file to load kdm from elsewhere.
>
> In /etc/inittab/ I believe the line is:
>
> id:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
>
> or something close to that...by this I mean the path to kdm (it does find it
> correctly)...that I changed. When the screen pops up saying:
>
> Red Hat Linux 5.2
> localhost running on 2.2 kernel...
> login:
>
> it then pauses for a second and then says:
>
> INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast. Disabled for 5 minutes
>
> Why is this happening and is there an easy fix? Thanks much in advance,
It means that there is an error of somesuch happening. Startup in
runlevel 3 (no XDM) and run /usr/bin/kdm manually.
I suspect that it should be /usr/X11/bin/kdm or some such.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: User manager automatically installed???
Date: 4 Jan 2001 23:47:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 04 Jan 2001 23:11:29 GMT, Oliver T. Nelson allegedly wrote:
>Running RH7, workstation install. Is there a GUI (or even text based)
>user manager system where I can change rights, add users, etc.? Also, I
>of course have followed what I've read about not using root except for
>items that require it, but what group should I be in so as to have
>rights to most things, but not quite superuser rights? IOW, I don't
>want to have to su to root all the time to change every little thing,
>but I would also like a little protection from my constant fiddling
>blowing up my system.
Redhat uses linuxconf from the commandline to configure your system.
Read the introduction though.
You can use any programme as just your self. You can't change the system
settings, but a lot of programmes can be reconfigured to your liking
with the "hidden" files in your home directory. "ls -a ~/" will show those.
There is no way around logging in as root when you need to make changes
to the system. You could install the sudo programme though. That will
allow you to run a single command as root, without actually having to
log in as root. Second when it asks for a password it requires the
password for the user you are currently logged in as, as opposed to the
root password. You can also restrict the commands that can be run as
root via the sudo programme, fi to allow others to shut down linux
without having to hand out the root password or giving them unrestricted
access.
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The Netherlands website: http://hermanbruijn.com
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 6.2 won't boot (gdm problem)
Date: 04 Jan 2001 16:52:35 -0700
Robert Morelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have RH 6.2 installed on a SCSI based PII 333. During
> the past few boots, the behavior became stranger and
> stranger, and now the system won't boot. When the
> login screen is supposed to load, I get 4 flashes
> of snow on the screen. Then the system reverts to
> a command line and outputs the message:
>
> According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (...),
> but seems to have been murdered mysteriously.
You can try to run gdm manually, from the console and see what error
message it's generating. /var/run keeps a list of pids that processes
are using; so if gdm quite "unexpectedly" then you'll get a stale file
sitting there (just like stale registry entries in Windows).
Sounds like, barring some wierd hardware error, you need to upgrade
GNOME to a more recent version; it's as easy as:
lynx -source http://go-gnome.org | sh
(as the root user)
> The only thing that's changed recently is that I put
> a new IDE in the machine (which boots off a SCSI drive).
> However, I did not format the drive or even try to
> get Linux to recognize it.
Shouldn't have an effect, unless, of course, it's a hardare conflict
of some sort (which can happen -- x86 hardware is cheap and flaky).
> I get the same result even if I boot from my rescue
> floppy.
>
> At this point, my main concern is not restoring the
> system to operation, but simply getting access to my
> data.
Your data can be accessed by booting into runlevel 1
LILO: linux 1
> Since this sort of weirdness has been the norm
> during my attempts to use Linux, I am currently
> undecided whether I have the time to continue attempting
> to run this OS.
>
> I'd appreciate any advice on either a) the issue of getting
> access to my data, or b) whether it's worth my time to
> continue this very long and frustrating quest to get Linux
> to work.
I have (and do) run linux on all these:
386/25 4MB RAM
486/66 16 MB RAM
P5/133 Packard Bell
P5/133 laptop
PII/266 256MB RAM (~20GB space SCSI)
CelronA/400 192MB RAM (my workstation)
Athlon/700 128MB RAM (~30GB space IDE)
Dual Pentium III/550 512MB RAM (~60GB SCSI)
Dual Pentium II/300 1GB RAM (~100GB SCSI RAID)
Dual P5/166 [no mmx :)] 64MB RAM (~9GB SCSI)
PII/400 laptop 128MB RAM
PowerMac 7500 64MB RAM
And on many more like these -- I've installed many distributions, but
RedHat seems to be the most stable (at least, looking over the last 5
years it has been for us). I currently run RedHat 6.x on our
production machines and 7.0 on the desktops -- I do have a Debian and
a FreeBSD box as well.
I've had some problems with it, but none like I used to have with
Windows. I never *ever* use unsupported hardware on machines that
must work; I do have a Nvidia TNT2 Ultra in my desktop machine, which
is probably the only "experimental" piece of hardware that I use (and
XScreensaver can crash the X11 server with GL saves).
In short, I rarely (ie, practically never) have problems with it.
It's different than Windows NT. It's been well worth my time, and my
company's time. It just keeps getting better and better.
You should have seen the days of Slackware and FVWM.
--
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wireless LAN
Date: 04 Jan 2001 16:57:08 -0700
"ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Jan 4, 2001 at 11:57, Vince Ungaro eloquently wrote:
>
> >Recently my work enable encryption on our wireless lan and now my Caldera
> >linux (2.2.14) laptop no longer works but all the RH 7 ones still do. I used
> >the all the same drivers on both OS's. Anyone know and caveats with Caldera
> >vs. RH 7? Thanks!
> >
> >Note: The Red Hat laptops did not require any reconfiguring whatsoever.
>
> Well you need to find out from your admin what kind of
> encryption is in use. Most likey, ssh is in use. Find
> out what version and what protocol is being used for
> encryption and you have a starting point.
I believe he's talking about 802.11 wireless encryption.
It's in the device driver parameters -- usually in
/etc/pcmcia/wireles.opts (or wavelan, depending on what you have).
You'll probably be able to copy this file from the RedHat box to the
Caldera box and it should work (unless the Caldera system's pcmcia
drivers are too old).
man wavelan
man wavelan_cs
And, you can check out the pcmcia pages on sourceforge.net. I use
802.11 here, if you have any questions.
--
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: May have removed something unknowingly
Date: 04 Jan 2001 16:59:28 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Me) writes:
> I can no longer compile anything that requires glibconfig.h. This started the
> minute I uninstalled an rpm that, I thought, was totally independent of all
> other packages. Anyway, is this something I can get from an RPM? How do I
> know which one to get?
>
> Yes, I have egg on my face. Sometimes I think it looks good there.
$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h
glib-devel-1.2.8-4_helix_1
Looks like you need to re-install glib-devel.
--
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