spammer lurking
This list is definitely being used to harvest e-mail addresses. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are two of the addresses from which I supposedly received mail on this address, which obviously I only used for subscription to this list. I'm not on the list at the moment, if anyone needs to write to me about this I will still get your mail at this address. I hate spam.
using openssh on slink (slightly o-t)
I just grabbed the OpenSSH 1.2.1pre27 sources from the openssh web site. I already had a working installation of OpenSSL (also built from source). For the most part OpenSSH works fine, but I have 3 problems with it -- one of which may be a bug in the Makefile/configure script, but anyway Really I'm just wondering if anyone else has seen these problems. I'd write to the OpenSSH list if it existed, but the only ones I see are for developers and for bug reports and I'm not sure I'm ready to file a bug report just yet. Anyway, here they are: 1) When I send the process a HUP signal, it is unable to restart. I see this message in /var/log/auth.log: sshd[21839]: Received SIGHUP; restarting. sshd[21839]: RESTART FAILED: av0='sshd', error: No such file or directory. Normally I would think that it was just a problem with the daemon's PATH env variable, but even if I use env to run it with a path which includes the binary's dir, I get the same error. Ex: # env PATH=/usr/local/openssh/bin:/usr/local/openssh/sbin:$PATH /usr/local/openssh/sbin/sshd I have looked at the daemon's output under strace and with debug (-d) mode enabeled but I don't see what file it can't find. 2) Though I set the pidfile dir to /usr/local/var/run, it still puts it in /var/run. Here was my configure line: configure --prefix=/usr/local/openssh --enable-gnome-askpass --with-tcp- wrappers --with-md5-passwords --with-pid-dir=/usr/local/var/run Is this a bug? 3) Lastly, when I enable UseLogin in the sshd_config, the daemon boots me out when I try to log in. Here is what I see in auth.log: sshd[22097]: debug: Allocating pty. sshd[22097]: debug: Forking shell. sshd[22097]: debug: Entering interactive session. sshd[22101]: debug: Setting controlling tty using TIOCSCTTY. sshd[22097]: debug: Received SIGCHLD. sshd[22097]: debug: End of interactive session; stdin 0, stdout (read 125, sent 125), stderr 0 bytes. sshd[22097]: debug: Command exited with status 1. sshd[22097]: debug: Received exit confirmation. sshd[22097]: Closing connection to 127.0.0.1 And in sshd's debug output: debug: Attempting authentication for user. Accepted password for user from 127.0.0.1 port 3695 debug: Allocating pty. debug: Forking shell. debug: Entering interactive session. debug: Setting controlling tty using TIOCSCTTY. debug: Received SIGCHLD. debug: End of interactive session; stdin 0, stdout (read 125, sent 125), stderr 0 bytes. debug: Command exited with status 1. debug: Received exit confirmation. Closing connection to 127.0.0.1 While the client sees the following: Warning: Remote host denied X11 forwarding. Environment: SSH_CLIENT=127.0.0.1 3695 2519 SSH_TTY=/dev/ttypf TERM=xterm-debian login: No such file or directory Connection to localhost closed. I can log in with no problem if I don't enable the UseLogin option. Shouldn't sshd be able to find /bin/login if it's in its PATH? Thanks for any help.
Re: Can't find /dev/dsp
cd /dev/ ./MAKEDEV audio should make those devices for you. On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Fredrik Appelberg wrote: Hi all! I've been trying to get my SB Live soundcard working, and after installing a precompiled kernel (2.2.13) and dowloading and compiling the emu10k1 driver code from creative I am at last able to play a cd on my computer. However, when I run mpg123 it complains about not being able to open /dev/dsp. This seems pretty reasonable, since even I can't find a /dev/dsp (or /dev/audio for that matter). So, how do I get these devices installed? Is there any way of doing it without compiling the kernel (I tried that late last night, but the computer hung while booting, I think it's a ecgs 2.95 matter)? Thanks, --Fredrik
problem compiling licq's qt-gui
I just downloaded the source to licq 0.75.1 and compiled it fine, no problems. However, I'm trying to build the qt-gui that it comes with and am getting an error and I might need some help figuring out just what is wrong with my setup. I am pretty certain it doesn't have anything to do with qt, but rather with the libraries installed on my machine. I installed qt-1.44 and 2.0 myself and have compiled many things with them, including this qt-qui (older versions). However, since the last time I did this, I ran into some dependency problems trying to install the y2k-update packages from http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ . The packages are no longer there for obvious reasons. :) But some of them were g++, libstdc++, and libstdc++-dev. I had been downloading the .debs and using dpkg -i to install, and some of them were dependent upon *each other* so it was impossible to install that way. Later I just put the URL into my sources.list and let apt and dselect do it for me and it ended up working. At any rate, here is the error (please bear with me for a minute): gcc -shared adduserdlg.lo authuserdlg.lo awaymsgdlg.lo chatacceptdlg.lo chatdlg.lo editgrp.lo editskin.lo eventdesc.lo ewidgets.lo fileacceptdlg.lo filedlg.lo icqfunctions.lo licqgui.lo mainwin.lo messagebox.lo mledit.lo optionsdlg.lo outputwin.lo passworddlg.lo plugindlg.lo qmultilineeditnew.lo registeruser.lo searchuserdlg.lo securitydlg.lo showawaymsgdlg.lo sigman.lo skin.lo skinbrowser.lo userbox.lo utilitydlg.lo wharf.lo qmultilineeditnew.moc.lo -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/qt/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lqt -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lXext -lXss -lstdc++ -lnsl -lc -Wl,-soname -Wl,licq_qt-gui.so -o .libs/licq_qt-gui.so ld: cannot open -lstdc++: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [licq_qt-gui.la] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jamesb/src/licq-0.75.1/plugins/qt-gui-0.70.1/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jamesb/src/licq-0.75.1/plugins/qt-gui-0.70.1' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 I believe this has something to do with my hack-job attempt at installing those y2k-update packages a little while back. I can't figure out what the heck I am missing though. Here's something that may be related. In dselect (yes I have updated the package list) I see this: --- Removed Required packages in section base --- ** Req base libstdc++2.9 none none But if I run dpkg --status libstdc++2.9 I get the following output: Package: libstdc++2.9 Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base Installed-Size: 552 Maintainer: Debian EGCS maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: egcs (1.1.2-0slink2) Version: 2.91.66-0slink2 Replaces: libstdc++2.9-ss ( 2.91.67) ... etc. My /etc/apt/sources.list has the following lines: deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free How can this be? Something just isn't making any sense. Can anyone assist?
Re: problem compiling licq's qt-gui
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: No it's not. Mutually dependent packages can be installed with dpkg -i if they're both provided in the same commandline. Aha! I thought it was odd to have been dumped into such a quandary. :) Thanks, I'm sure that will prevent much future frustration. gcc -shared Always call g++ to link/compile C++ code, not gcc. OK. It was shipped this way, not sure why. :-\ /usr/lib/libstdc++.so is a symlink to an existing libstdc++*.so* file. That did the trick. Thanks! It compiles now.
Re: ethernet config
You will need to use ifconfig to set up your network adapter. For example: ifconfig eth0 1.2.3.4 You also will also need to add routes depending on what kind of network environment you are in (is this machine a gateway, or does it use another machine as its gateway, etc.). Respond to the list with more details and we can get into specifics if you like. Check the man pages for ifconfig and route while you are at it: man ifconfig man route Once you get everything set up the way you want it, you should edit your /etc/init.d/network script and put the commands there so they will be run when you boot your machine. On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Suresh Kumar.R wrote: Hi Once the debian base system is installed how to config the ethernet card?. I used to call something like netcfg in redhat. I am new to debian and dont know the equivalent in debain Thank you
Re: How to install new Window manager
The correct way to install a new window manager is to use register-window-manager. register-window-manager --add /usr/local/bin/blah or register-window-manager --default /usr/local/bin/blah to make blah your default WM. Basically it just puts it in /etc/X11/window-managers . The first in the list is the default. On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Guyren G Howe wrote: This does nothing. I execute chmod 700 .xsession, and nothing happens. I just get the command prompt back. Besides, shouldn't this tie into startx somehow?
limits in /etc/passwd, and maybe a bug in processing /etc/limits? :)
OK. As a continuation of my previous ramblings on resource limits, I'm running into two more similar issues on my slink machine. According to /etc/login.defs, I should be able to employ resource limits by editing users' passwd entries. I have QUOTAS_ENAB in login.defs: # Enable setting of ulimit, umask, and niceness from passwd gecos field. # QUOTAS_ENAB yes If I look at man 5 passwd, I see the following: The comment field is used by various system utilities, such as finger(1). Three additional values may be present in the comment field. They are pri= - set initial value of nice umask= - set initial value of umask ulimit= - set initial value of ulimit These fields are separated from each other and from any other comment field by a comma. I tried to set the umask to 022 this way with a test account, and I can't get it to do anything at all. I have tried adding extra comment entries by adding commas in /etc/passwd, and I've also tried using the pre-existing comment entries. None of it works. I end up with the default umask of 002 no matter what... and yes I have commented-out the umask field in /etc/profile, and there is none in the test user's .bash_profile, .profile, and .bashrc. :) Anyone know the right way to do it? My second problem... well, it looks like it may be a bug. Note the following text in /etc/limits: # Valid flags are: # A: max address space (KB) # C: max core file size (KB) # D: max data size (KB) ... and so on. But any time I use the A limit, the whole line becomes useless. See the following in man 5 limits: A invalid limits string will be rejected (not considered) by the login program. If I take out the A limit, the rest of the line functions again. So there seems to be some kind of problem reading or enforcing this limit. So a line like this: * L2 D12288 M32768 R2048 S2048 U64 N256 F16384 T60 C0 works fine. But one like this: * A32768 L2 D12288 M32768 R2048 S2048 U64 N256 F16384 T60 C0 breaks the whole line and NO limits are enforced. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong (again)? :)
Re: portmap question
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Mark Wagnon wrote: I read a few solutions to this problem in the archives, and they range from renaming the portmap binary to editing the script in /etc/init.d. I didn't want to resort to these little hacks. Is there a way to keep it from starting in the first place? slink right? I commented out the lines that start it in /etc/init.d/netbase. I think that's as close as you're going to get as a best way to do it, because it unfortunately is crammed in there with the rest of the stuff. Also, why is portmap included in the netbase package anyway? I'm not sure. There was probably a reason for it I guess. It's been split up in potato, it now has its own script which makes it cleaner to deal with.
Re: portmap question
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Mark Wagnon wrote: It seems to be still in the netbase package. I can't find a separate portmap package. Hmmm. Maybe I misunderstood you. Yeah, there are different scripts that separate the networking stuff, but the portmap binary still comes packaged in the netbase deb. Yep, sorry I wasn't too clear on that. I just meant that the scripts are split out, so instead of having to clutter up your netbase script with comments you can keep it clean and just do something with your portmap script. I'll take a look at the portmap script. I thought that the links in the rc*.d directories ran the scripts in /etc/init.d at different run-levels and that renaming one would stop that script from executing. Right? Wrong? You are right. Here's how I deal with it, others may have a better way but this works great for me. I made a directory /etc/init.d/Disabled and whenever I want to disable a startup script, well, I just put it in there. :) The correct way to do it is to use update-rc.d (with args) to remove the /etc/rc#.d symlinks, but I don't do it that way because putting the scripts in a separate directory makes it easier for me to remember what I've disabled. I can just look in that dir and see that I've disabled nfs, sendmail, blah blah blah. If I want to re-enabled them for boot-time, I just put them back into /etc/init.d/.
Re: Hard disk forces BIOS upgrade - but can I use it safely before upgrading ?
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Paul J. Keenan wrote: So I've bought a new hard disk (Maxtor DiamondMax VL20 10.2Gb UDMA66), but have discovered that my Award BIOS will only address a maximum of 8.4Mb. snip Can someone tell if it's safe to dive in right now and I can get the extra 1.8Gb at a later date when the new BIOS arrives without losing my data ? Personally I wouldn't worry about it all, and I wouldn't bother getting a BIOS upgrade. :) (Unless there are other compelling reasons to do so.) The Award BIOS on my motherboard (Asus) also only saw 8.4 GB of my Maxtor DiamondMax 17.2 GB disk. Fortunately, LILO didn't care. I had to use Normal in the BIOS setup (not LBA) and then linux [c]fdisk was able to see my whole disk (YMMV on what BIOS modes you need to choose... fiddle with it a bit and I'm sure you'll reach a combination that works). I made my partitions and everything has been fine. Note however that you should make a small /boot partition, maybe about 15 MB, to ensure that all your kernels and other files that the BIOS needs to see when booting are constrained within the first 1024 cylinders of your disk. So make a small /boot partition and then partition the rest how you like. My disk is only ext2, no other OS on here, but it wouldn't matter. Here's how I partitioned it: $ df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda215885614 4272761 10785966 28% / /dev/hda1 146077003 6850 51% /boot /dev/hda3 208349 17705420535 90% /usr/local/squid/cache You will want to choose a different partitioning scheme of course, just make sure you make that small /boot partition and everything should work fine. And of course any questions you have or snags you run into can be posted to the list. :)
Re: iplogger is crashing my computer
I've also heard about those problems. I can't remember the details off-hand, but they can be found on the BUGTRAQ mailing list (www.securityfocus.com has an archive). I've done a bit of searching myself for the ultimate ip logger and I really prefer iplog. http://ojnk.sourceforge.net/ It has options to run as a non-root user which is very nice. Maybe ippl does too, last time I checked them both out (a couple weeks ago) iplog was much cooler in terms of features. (I needed libc5 on my machine to compile it btw.) On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Salman Ahmed wrote: NLM == Noah L Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NLM tcplogd and iplogger are used to log connection attempts to NLM your computer. There are known security problems related to NLM it. What security problems would those be ? -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com
Re: Multiple Boot
LILO will do just fine. See http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+Win95.html On 10 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, Alright so i'm cheap. I need a multi-boot prog, but I want a free one. I have a 5.3 gig hd with win98 on hda1 and linux on hda5 I also need some help either setting it up to boot. Thanks, A.T. Ray *** Free voicemail and email, by phone or Web! Free phone calls too! Get it today at http://www.myTalk.com *** -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: /etc/limits
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: ulimit does not really protect at all against someone malicious since they are perfectly free to un-ulimit themselves, this is where pam_limits is helpful, it enforces the hard limit and it cannot be ulimited past that. Hmmm. How would a user unlimit himself without changing his shell? If he stays in a single bash or csh shell, I don't know how he could do that. $ ulimit -v unlimited $ ulimit -v 32767 $ ulimit -v 32767 $ ulimit -v 32768 bash: ulimit: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted OTOH if you're talking about someone who switches his shell to get around the limits, that's my whole point. I need to know how to set shell-independent limits. Yes you can do that with PAM, but I still don't see a PAM limit on virtual memory. Is there one there?
Re: /etc/limits
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: He can't, true. But shell-based limits aren't particularily good way of setting limits. They are by definition bound to one kind of shell - csh or bash or whatever. In case you, or the user, decideds to change his shell, you loose all the limits. PAM and/or shadow utilities (or lshell) are much better. Correct. But this is the crux of this whole thread. I don't see any way, *other than* shell limits, of setting max Virtual Memory usage. The other resources yes, VMem no
Re: /etc/limits
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: And the pam_limits 'as' + 'rss' + 'data' + 'memlock' + 'stack' parameters? They all give you fine-grained control over the user's memory. OK, you're right. I had tried some of the PAM limits previously (one at a time) and none of them alone was sufficient to restrict an account's memory usage from devouring the machine using a particular exploit I'd gotten hold of. At the same time, restricting the user's virtual memory (ulimit -v) was able to stop the exploit, while none of the other ulimit options did. Therefore I thought I was unable to limit the max vmem using PAM. Thank you for pointing out to me that I can. :) One last thing... the original question also was, how do slackware and RedHat set the max vmem usage without using ulimit, /etc/limits, or PAM? Would you happen to know this off-hand? I thought maybe it was compiled into the login binary but I downloaded the source and their patches and didn't see any reference to it. Friends of mine have a slack 7 and an RH6 box, RH has PAM enabled but no limits configured, while the slackware machine has no /etc/limits, /etc/pam.d, or /etc/security. Yet when I log in, my virtual memory limit is set to 2105343 KB. Is that something imposed by the kernel due to its maximum address space? My kernel (2.2.14) is compiled the same way AFAICT yet my vmem limit is unlimited unless I set it using one of the aforementioned methods. Thanks again.
Re: I thought 2.2.x should detect RAM 64
Actually, shouldn't it be: append=mem=96M On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: Yes, but it doesn't work!!! I added append mem=96M, and the kernel still sees only 64. 8-/ It should be 'append mem=96M ' (without the '). See man lilo.conf
Re: /etc/limits
Should be in your limits man page. If you're running potato then you'd probably want to use PAM and /etc/security/limits.conf instead. Look at the files themselves to see how they are set up. On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Onno Ebbinge wrote: At 06:34 PM 1/9/00 -0500, Jim B wrote: OK another issue I'm having with setting resource limits. How can I [snip] I look in my /etc/limits and see a way to restrict just about all those [snip] Where can I find more info on /etc/limits ? Regards, Onno
Re: Ethernet question
You can put: ifconfig eth0 ip netmask netmask into /etc/init.d/network . You will probably also have to add your route line in there as well. On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Paul M. Foster wrote: Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked fine in Red Hat and appears to work okay in Debian _if_ I issue an ifconfig eth0 command. Naturally, though, I'd like this to happen on boot. I have the appropriate lines in conf.modules, but I have a feeling there is some setting somewhere in the init/rc hierarchy that I need to make to have it automatically load. In addition, it appears that the NIC card is not associating with a real IP address, only 0.0.0.0. Any idea how to fix this as well? Paul M. Foster
Re: Can't boot from a second harddrive (repost)
You did run /sbin/lilo after making *any* edits to your lilo.conf right? Also, how had you booted when you were making those edits? If /dev/hdc1 was not your root partition at the time (for example, if you had booted off a floppy), I wonder if the wrong lilo.conf was read to write your boot sector. If this is the case, try it again but specify the lilo.conf with the -C parameter: lilo -C /mnt/disk2/etc/lilo.conf for example. Not sure how much help this will really be, but here's some stuff from /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.tar.gz: LILO start message - - - - - - - - - When LILO loads itself, it displays the word LILO. Each letter is printed before or after performing some specific action. If LILO fails at some point, the letters printed so far can be used to identify the problem. This is described in more detail in the technical overview. Note that some hex digits may be inserted after the first L if a transient disk problem occurs. Unless LILO stops at that point, generating an endless stream of error codes, such hex digits do not indicate a severe problem. (nothing) No part of LILO has been loaded. LILO either isn't installed or the partition on which its boot sector is located isn't active. L error ... The first stage boot loader has been loaded and started, but it can't load the second stage boot loader. The two-digit error codes indicate the type of problem. (See also section Disk error codes.) This condition usually indicates a media failure or a geometry mismatch (e.g. bad disk parameters, see section Disk geometry). LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. LIL The second stage boot loader has been started, but it can't load the descriptor table from the map file. This is typically caused by a media failure or by a geometry mismatch. LIL? The second stage boot loader has been loaded at an incorrect address. This is typically caused by a subtle geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. LIL- The descriptor table is corrupt. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running the map installer. LILO All parts of LILO have been successfully loaded. On 9 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: I'm having problems booting into a fresh installation of potato in my second harddrive. The installation is on /dev/hdc with root in /dev/hdc1. Lilo displays LI and dies there. I tried adding linear to lilo.conf (that helped me once on another computer), but that didn't help. My setup looks sane to me... I really need some fresh ideas as to what is wrong. I use a third-party multibooter from /dev/hda's MBR. It picks up linux installation in /dev/hdc1, and starts lilo... then lilo stops at LI. I also have a working slink installation in /dev/hda4, so I tried to use its lilo to boot my potato installation. I added , | other = /dev/hdc1 | label = potato ` and got *exactly* the same results as with the multibooter (LI and nothing else). This makes me think that the problem is with lilo config in my potato installation. I need help!!! ;^) Can't boot my custom kernel. I would also appreciate any workaround recipes, such as booting my current kernel from a floppy or booting it from my functional slink installation in /dev/hda4. ,[ lilo.conf ] | boot=/dev/hdc1 | root=/dev/hdc1 | install=/boot/boot.b | map=/boot/map | delay=200 | vga=normal | verbose=5 | | image=/vmlinuz | label=default | read-only | | image = /zImage | label = linux | read-only ` Thanks for any input!
Re: /etc/limits
I asked myself the same question, so I logged into my shell account at a local ISP and took a look at what they use on their FreeBSD machine with 512 MB of RAM: core file size (blocks) unlimited data seg size (kbytes) 22528 file size (blocks) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes) 10240 max memory size (kbytes)30720 open files 64 pipe size (512 bytes) 1 stack size (kbytes) 8192 cpu time (seconds) unlimited max user processes 64 virtual memory (kbytes) 30720 On my machine (96 MB) I am using something between the optional default in /etc/limits, and what I found from the aforementioned machine. The defaults in /etc/limits are: #* L2 D6144 R2048 S2048 U32 N32 F16384 T5 C0 However I set the max CPU time to 60 minutes (T60) and max open files to 64 (N64). I figured that any process spawned by a shell that burned up 60 mins of CPU time (note that CPU time does not accumulate while a process is idle) might be up to no good, but that's on my machine where I only have a few remote users, and an occasional console user, playing around with things. On a true full-time multi-user machine you may want to increase this slightly. I also set (in /etc/profile): ulimit -v 32768 which is apparently more than enough to run X and Netscape (4.6). I originally had tried about 16 MB and X started but Netscape would segfault. Then (in /etc/limits) I set no limits on my own accounts: user - As I only started experimenting with this yesterday, don't take any of my setup without some judgment. :) I'm probably making some unreasonable choices which I will have to fine-tune over time. But they seem to have been decent preliminary defaults. Also: I still don't know of any way to set the Virtual Mem usage of a shell without using ulimit (bash) or limit (csh)! Note that it does not appear to be an option in /etc/limits or in pam's limits.conf. Anyone know how to do it? There must be a way. On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: I have figured out how to set these limits up well enough, but I have a related question, how can i set reasonable limits? what I mean is how can i set reasonable limits for a user that they will never even notice are there unless 1) they are intentionally trying to crash the machine or 2) unintentionally have a process go out of control. sort of analogous to the 5% limit on ext2fs reserved for root. -- Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?
Apologies if this has already been answered. I just subscribed so I may have missed it if so. Anyways, you can create a file in / named forcefsck if you really want to do this: touch /forcefsck See /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh to see why. :)
Re: restricting logins on tty1
OK thanks for the info... I seem to have /etc/login.access working now. The problem was as you had indicated... the user I was trying to restrict was a member of my root group so unless I restrict him explicitly with his own entry in login.access, he can also log in on tty1. Other users are successfully banned from that terminal though. As for why we're using group root and not wheel, there's a little note from RMS in the su man page... check it out. (Personally I disagree with that thinking on this, but that's where the explanation is.) On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: /etc/login.access I am not sure about, I thought it was obsolete but i could be wrong. as for what your are trying to do not working, I am not sure, I have had problems trying to get access.conf and such to work right as well, either the docs are not quite good enough yet or something is still a bit buggy... one thing that could be causing the wheel group troubles is the ambiguity caused by gid 0 being called `root' just like uid 0, I personally just made a new group called wheel and use that to enforce the BSD style wheel group (only wheel members may su to root) but I did this more because i got tired of fixing packages which install all there files gid 0 writable. (i don't want halfway root permissions to the filesystem unless i actually switched to root) just out of curiosity why did GNU/Linux not follow the BSD semantics on the wheel group? and instead name gid 0 root and have it function as root's private (primary) group?
/etc/limits
OK another issue I'm having with setting resource limits. How can I restrict a user's max virtual memory usage? Not sure if anyone else has seen it, but there's a DoS exploit around (which will actually eat up just about any *nix box AFAICT, if there are no resource limits in effect) which eats up virtual memory. I've noticed that on my friends' slackware 7 and RedHat 6.0 machines, the default resource limits are basically the same as on my slink box *except* they have the virtual memory max at 2105343 while the Debian machine is set to unlimited. Yet, I can't figure out how those distros set the limits. Is it a compile-time option for /bin/login? I look in my /etc/limits and see a way to restrict just about all those resources *except* max virtual memory. How can I enforce this restriction? I know I could use limit in csh and ulimit in bash, but what about for shells that don't have built-in restrictions? Is there any way to do this other than force everyone to use one of those shells?
Re: restricting logins on tty1
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Jim B wrote: As for why we're using group root and not wheel, there's a little note from RMS in the su man page... check it out. (Personally I disagree with that thinking on this, but that's where the explanation is.) Actually it's in the su info page. I thought it was in both but it's apparently not. info su
restricting logins on tty1
Hi, I have a question pertaining to /etc/login.access. I seem to be a little confused about exactly how this file is read by login. The format is straightforward and makes sense but I am trying to restrict tty1 to root logins and I can't seem to get it just right. Here's what I have so far. Most of it is what came stock with the distro. # Restrict tty to root (this is what I'm trying to accomplish): -:ALL EXCEPT ROOT:tty1 # Disallow remote logins for certain users: # Disallow console logins to all but a few accounts. # -:ALL EXCEPT root user1 user2 user3:console # # Disallow non-local logins to privileged accounts (group wheel). # -:root:ALL EXCEPT LOCAL # # Some accounts are not allowed to login from anywhere: # #-:wsbscaro wsbsecr wsbspac wsbsym wscosor wstaiwde:ALL # # All other accounts are allowed to login from anywhere. # However, I can still log in as other users on tty1; the restriction appears to not do anything. BUT, if I restrict a user directly, like so: -:user:tty1 that user IS prevented from logging in on tty1. Why does the first method fail? I should be able to do that, shouldn't I? One other quickie: what's the functional difference between /etc/login.access and /etc/security/access.conf? When I place restrictions in the latter, nothing seems to happen, though the files are in exactly the same format. What then is the purpose of the one in /etc/security? Thanks!!
Re: restricting logins on tty1
Sorry for replying to my own post, but I made a little mistake... I don't have ROOT but rather root :P So it shouldn't be a case-sensitivity issue... that was just a typo in my e-mail to the list. :-\ On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Jim B wrote: # Restrict tty to root (this is what I'm trying to accomplish): -:ALL EXCEPT ROOT:tty1
md5sum of a cd
I just burned some CDs from their ISO images. I have the m5dsums of the images, and now I'd like to compare a hash of the completed CD against the original image... basically I want to make sure the CD was burned ok. I'm concerned because the hard drive I downloaded the ISOs to was bad, and I had a hard time getting one of the images off of the disk (kept getting read failures). I burned 3 of the 4 anyway, and I haven't burned this last one yet. I'd like to verify that the others are all right before I waste another cd, just in case the others are trash. I tried md5sum /dev/hdd (which is my cdrom drive) but I would get an i/o error after a few mins of chugging. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, or if the disc is bad, or if there is a better way for me to check these discs. Thanks.
tailing rotating log files
Hi, I generallly keep some of my log files open ni a terminal via tail -f. For example: tail -f /var/log/messages However, tail does not move to the new messages (or whatever) log file when they are rotated by savelog. So for example, I will still see the last lines from the old messages file and I will have to terminate tail and run it again to force it to move to the new messages file. If the file is moved and a new one put in its place, I'd like to start reading the new file. I don't see any way to do this with tail (I checked in the man/info pages). Is there a program which will do this? Actually come to think of it! Maybe I could just use: watch tail -n 20 /var/log/messages :) Just thought of it. That should work I think, but I'm still curious as to how else one might do it. TIA.
Re: tailing rotating log files
Brad: thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for. The version of tail included with slink does not have this functionality. What would be the recommended means of upgrading? a) obtain gnu source and compile? This would work but would mean I would have to play games with dpkg (perhaps using equivs) in order to make it think I've upgraded the package. b) get potato source deb and make an slink package, which should take care of dpkg's concerns. c) other methods? b sounds like a good idea, but I'm not sure how to do it at the moment, never built a dpkg package before (I will figure it out). BUT -- I can't find any source debs on ftp.us.debian.org. Where should I be looking? I see source tarballs and that's it... is this what I should use to build the package? I always thought there was something like the source rpm concept in .deb format, where the package is all laid out and just needs to be re-compiled and re-packaged. Thanks for all the help. (I love this list.) :) - Original Message - From: Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jim B [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 1:32 PM Subject: Re: tailing rotating log files -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Jim B wrote: Hi, I generallly keep some of my log files open ni a terminal via tail -f. For example: tail -f /var/log/messages However, tail does not move to the new messages (or whatever) log file when they are rotated by savelog. So for example, I will still see the last lines from the old messages file and I will have to terminate tail and run it again to force it to move to the new messages file. If the file is moved and a new one put in its place, I'd like to start reading the new file. I don't see any way to do this with tail (I checked in the man/info pages). Is there a program which will do this? At least with the tail in potato (tail (GNU textutils) 2.0), there is an option to do this. The default option of tail with the -f option is to open the file and follow that file descriptor. If you use --follow=name instead of -f, it will periodically reopen the file to check if the file was moved. For example, i executed the following commands while tailing the file. $ echo line 1 tail.test $ echo line 2 tail.test $ mv tail.test tail.test.1; echo line 3 tail.test Here's the tail output: $ tail --follow=name tail.test line 1 line 2 tail: `tail.test' has been replaced; following end of new file line 3 - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN+UeH77M/9WKZLW5AQHenAQAlMhGO9VIX9WVlKmetyVmRm6Zrjkg5klx i2PT/FjZ0aOxR7q71xLPEA4Yu/lron1PSC1S6aiPE02QHZOPY+Pekz847px91BKj aS7C6LZ9nyWydd5WKnStjLMim6WJPtjhH7oBAzK9tp7cGYzRGrG4jWBfmF1iOXOz ZQlRtNnD6zg= =pYka -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
since we're on the subject of partitioning... :)
This one's a quickie. I had a 1.2 gb which was split with a 64 MB swap and the rest was the primary partition (ext2). Now I have a new disk as hda, a 17 gb, and everything's fine. I set up my old disk as hdb. blah blah blah... However I'd like to reclaim that old 64 MB swap partition and use it as ext2. If I just re-partition it (hdb2) as ext2 and format it, I will not lose the data on the primary partition (hdb1)... correct? Please just let me know whether I'm right or wrong on this. Thanks.
cluster size
What command can I use to find out my drives' cluster size? I know I can specify what I want to use when I [c]fdisk, and that the default is 2 KB I think... but I would still like to know how I can find this information out. There must be some program that will tell me this... no? TIA.
ppp scripting
I'm looking for a way to force my pppd to cycle through the several dial-up numbers I use for my ISP if any of them fails. If one of their lines is down or doesn't answer, I'd like to automatically dial one of their other numbers. I could probably write up a script to do this but I'm wondering whether there's something pre-made that will do this for me, whether it be a script or another program or whatever. (Btw this is for slink, if it matters.) TIA! :)
slink bug(?): /etc/limits permissions
Hi all, please see this excerpt from the man page for /etc/limits: LIMITS(5) LIMITS(5) NAME limits - Resource limits definition DESCRIPTION The limits file (/etc/limits by default or LIMITS_FILE defined config.h) describes the resource limits you wish to impose. It should be owned by root and readable by root account only. However, the current permissions on this file are NOT in accordance with the recommendation in the manual pages: ls -l /etc/limits: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 725 Jul 17 1998 /etc/limits I have not modified this file or its permissions, and Linux was not on this machine on July 1998. :) Isn't this a distribution bug? (FWIW, the same condition exists on my friend's potato machine.)
xinetd access control
This isn't Debian-specific, but I tried another list I'm on and didn't hear anything back Anyone else running xinetd (the inetd replacement)? I'm wondering if there's a way to use wildcards in the access control (no_access). For example, with inetd you could deny: .aol.com and that line would match *.aol.com . Can this be done with xinetd? I wasn't able to find any way to do it in the doc, and I tried several guesses and none of them worked. I've been running xinetd for months under the mistaken assumption that it also read hosts.allow and hosts.deny (just like inetd) but noticed the other day that it does not. Stupid me. Anyway I do prefer xinetd, but this appears to be a serious limitation. Thanks to anyone who can help.
S file permissions
(Sorry for the non-Debian-specific question.) Can someone explain what this execute bit means? IOW, what is the difference between s (suid) and S (?)? I've tried irc and one guy said it was something to do with an old SysV standard. Someone else said it's super-suid or suid without eXecute (but how can you have suid without executing?). Can anyone enlighten me? (It's not in the info or man pages.) TIA.
Re: S file permissions
OK so it's in the ls docs, but it's not in the chmod docs, which is what I was talking about. Anyway, what's the point of this? O'Reilly's Essential System Administration says it sets mandatory file-locking on that file. Any insight into this? - Original Message - From: Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jim B [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 3:11 PM Subject: Re: S file permissions On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Jim B wrote: (Sorry for the non-Debian-specific question.) Can someone explain what this execute bit means? IOW, what is the difference between s (suid) and S (?)? I've tried irc and one guy said it was something to do with an old SysV standard. Someone else said it's super-suid or suid without eXecute (but how can you have suid without executing?). Can anyone enlighten me? (It's not in the info or man pages.) It is in the info page. info ls, then choose the What information is listed link, then scroll down to the -l option. Here's the quote: The permissions listed are similar to symbolic mode specifications (*note Symbolic Modes::.). But `ls' combines multiple bits into the third character of each set of permissions as follows: `s' If the setuid or setgid bit and the corresponding executable bit are both set. `S' If the setuid or setgid bit is set but the corresponding executable bit is not set.
Upgrading to kernel 2.2
Hi, I'm currently running slink on kernel 2.0.37 and am looking into upgrading my kernel to the 2.2.x series. I remember having seen a page on the debian.org site which told of the pitfalls and considerations (i.e., what other software needs to be upgraded to remain compatible) of doing so; however I just poked around on there and I can no longer find it. I know I'll have to move to ipchains (I'm using ipfwadm right now) and I thought I remembered seeing a list of other items on that site. Could anyone point out the URL? TIA.
Re: shell programing
I've found this site to be particularly helpful: http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/unixhelp/ - Original Message - From: Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 11:09 AM Subject: shell programing Is there any good online document for shell programing under unix (linux)? i need bash and cshell. Thanx -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.
That also happened to me a few weeks ago while I was running Netscape. I heard my drive going nuts, and I ran df to check the free space. Well, the free space kept getting lower and lower and ... finally my machine stopped and I got a Kernel Panic. After I rebooted however, fsck found bad sectors on the disk. YMMV. - Original Message - From: Patrick Colbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Barry Kauler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 6:46 AM Subject: RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far. Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4 minutes) and has been fine since. This never happened before in RedHat or with Hamm. Is this a KDE thing perhaps ?. I am running on an AST M series Laptop which has 48Mb ram and a 2GB Linux partition with about 1300MB free and a 92MB swap file. Pat -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.
I ran top while all this was happening. No process appeared to be using any more than its usual allotment of resources (CPU or RAM). There was nothing I could do but just watch my machine croak. =\ - Original Message - From: ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 8:38 AM Subject: Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far. Jim B wrote: That also happened to me a few weeks ago while I was running Netscape. I heard my drive going nuts, and I ran df to check the free space. Well, the free space kept getting lower and lower and ... finally my machine stopped and I got a Kernel Panic. After I rebooted however, fsck found bad sectors on the disk. YMMV. - Original Message - From: Patrick Colbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Barry Kauler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 6:46 AM Subject: RE: I am not impressed with Debian so far. Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4 minutes) and has been fine since. This never happened before in RedHat or with Hamm. Is this a KDE thing perhaps ?. I am running on an AST M series Laptop which has 48Mb ram and a 2GB Linux partition with about 1300MB free and a 92MB swap file. Pat Run a program such as Top that monitors your processes. Find the pid that is sucking the memory and then kill it. Look at man top htht, kent -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Removing a pid
Perhaps you have a left-over .pid file in /var/run/ . - Original Message - From: Johann Spies at Johann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian-poslys debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 5:13 AM Subject: Re: Removing a pid On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Ralph Winslow wrote: When Johann Spies at Johann wrote, I replied: Try ps ax | grep gtt | grep -v grep I have tried that. It shows nothing. I have also removed gnome-utils and reinstalled it, and the same problem occurs. When I try to run gtt(from gnome) I get the message : There seems to be another GtimeTracker running. Please remove the pid if that is not correct. I cannot find a pid for gtt. - - | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | - - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally without finding fault, and it will be given to him. James 1:5 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
seemingly random lock-ups
My machine (Debian 2.1 slink, stock kernel (2.0.36)) has been locking up on me unpredictably. This occurs every several (3-4 on average) days and has been happening ever since I installed Linux on this machine. (There is no other OS on there.) My hardware is an Intel 200 MMX CPU on an Asus PI-P55/T2P4 motherboard. I am using a generic NE-2000-compatible network card, and a dial-up Internet connection with a USR Sportster 33.6 PnP (though jumpered for COM2). Anyway: I have my PPPD logging to syslog every 30 seconds so I can tell exactly when the freeze occurred even if I'm not there. Looking in syslog and messages, nothing unusual seems to happen... just that all of a sudden, the logging and everything else stops suddenly. I want to track this problem down, and I'm going to start swapping hardware to see if I can figure out what's causing this. I've already traded the netword card out for a different NE2K card, but the problem remains. Anyway, my question is: where else (besides syslog and messages) might I look for unusual traces of what might have happened just prior to the lock-up? Are there any other files that might give something away? Where would a kernel dump be (if the kernel did dump... which I doubt, but just in case...)? TIA for any information.
Re: ping duplicate packets
Note that you also could get dupes as a result of the client PC, i.e. the one FROM which you are pinging your Linux machine. I saw this happen a couple times at my old job... a kid was pinging a host from a Win95 PC and was getting dupes... it turned out that he had Client for Microsoft Networks in there twice, and bound to TCP/IP both times... we took out the extra one and he was fine. - Original Message - From: Remco van 't Veer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian List debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 9:03 AM Subject: ping duplicate packets Hi, This is not directly Debian related, sorry. Today I pinged my box over the Internet and the ping util reported it received some duplicated packets. I never saw this before. I am wondering when and why this happens. Who or what is duplicating these packet, my box or some box on the route? I am using a 2.0.36 kernel on a i386 machine. Thanks.. Regards, Remco -- DES BOK POUM ammunition arrangements Ortega mutageen Qaddafi radar Soviet anthrax security thrust alarm CD Echelon VX Roel van Duin Saddam Hussein -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: mail clients
Windows is not Linux. Linux is not Windows. This is not about what OS is for whom, who is what kind of user, or anything like that. The question is: Does a client with these features exist for the Linux platform? If one does not, it would be nice if somebody made one. It doesn't have to be any more complex an issue than that. Until one does exist, I will continue to use Windows for my mail needs since it DOES have a client that fits MY needs (maybe not YOUR needs, but MY needs). And, I will use Linux for everything else. =) - Original Message - From: Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, May 23, 1999 12:42 AM Subject: Re: mail clients Define casual user. People who spend 4+ hours/day on the computer, whether it be for business, or for school, or just for fun, are not casual users. I think that a whole lot more of the market fits that criteria than most people realize. Windows is designed for the causal user. That's great, initially. There is no learning curve, but you are limited in terms of functionality. Get Outlook Express to automatically delete messages two weeks old in three specific folders. Get Windows to automagically backup your database files every day, at exactly 12:00 noon, running the database through a compression program and automagically setting the date. Set it up so you can fix your database if it breaks down when you are halfway across the world. And do it all, day in, day out, without crashing. Instead of complaining about the learning curve, start learning. WOW! Isn't that a scary word? Windows is not Linux. Linux is not Windows. Both have different target audiences, and the Linux audience likes to learn. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
mail clients
Hi all. Is there a good POP3 and/or IMAP4 client (console or GUI, doesn't matter) that supports multiple accounts with easy switching between them... and that can filter based on the account concept rather than just on headers? If I'm not making sense, I'm looking for something for Linux that can do what MS Outlook Express can do. Here's an example: One account is username joe and another account is username tom. Someone sends to joe and the mail is filtered into his mailbox... meanwhile, tom's mail is filtered into his mailbox. BUT, if someone BCCs joe, his username will not appear in the headers... therefore, header-based filtering will be useless. The client needs to be able to filter the mail into the joe mailbox despite the fact that his address is not in the headers. The idea is simple, it just needs to know From what account did I download this message? in order to be able to direct it appropriately, despite what may be in the headers of the message. Anyone know of such a client? Pine's roles don't cut it as a single login cannot access multiple e-mail accounts. Also, procmail doesn't come into the picture because the filtering rules must be client-based so that all these mail accounts can be accessed from a single terminal login session, rather than by logging out and then back into another session. Thanks!!!
Umm... slink and potato bug?
The version of lsof that I see in the slink and potato dists is only usable on kernels up to 2.0.35. Yet slink is a 2.0.36 kernel, and potato is a 2.2.x kernel... which means the lsof included with the distro is unusable. Is this a distro bug or am I just missing something?
Re: slink ifconfig broken
ifconfig -a will show aliased interfaces, though. - Original Message - From: George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 6:14 PM Subject: slink ifconfig broken Just a note that ifconfig on slink will not show aliased interfaces. The source for potato backage wouldnt build on slink out of the box, I had to comment out the ipv6 references in the net-tools/lib Makefile and I got the ifconfig binary to build but there were other problems.
Lockup
My Linux box locked up on me this morning. Running the stock Debian 2.1/Linux 2.0.36 kernel... and only two services, telnet (from xinetd) and SSHD1 (current version). It runs all the time over a dial-up PPP connection... but I couldn't log into it when I got to work this morning; I figured maybe the connection was lost for whatever reason (ISP, or whatever)... and the line was busy (I tried calling it to see if the line was open). Later during the day I tried again and it rang, which added to the confusion. Anyway I get home and it's locked up solid on me. Blank screen... couldn't ping it over the LAN, etc.. I looked at the logs (the ones I know about anyway) and couldn't find any indication of any failure. I checked auth.log, daemon.log (written by the SSHD1), debug, kern.log, last, messages, ppp.log, pppupd.log, and syslog... all in the /var/log/ directory. I HAVE been able (by reading my PPP logs) to pinpoint the time of the failure to somewhere between 9:58:10 and 9:58:40... sometime inside of those 30 SECONDS, something happened. Can you guys tell me what other logs I should look at to look for core dumps, evidence of hardware failures, etc.? This is my first lock-up so I would like to know how to track this down. BTW when I left for work this morning, I left one login open from the console... running GNOME, Window Manager, lICQ, and of course XFree86. Could a mem leak cause something like this? (They were not running under my root account, but as a regular user.) Thanks. :-\ - Jim
Re: XDM to KDM
You could run /usr/sbin/switchdm to change your default display manager. Regarding the xdm start-up scripts: you will find them in your /etc/rc#.d/ directories. The easiest way to disable it from boot-up is to run: update-rc.d -f xdm remove Check the man pages on update-rc.d though, before you run that... just so you see what it will do and how it works. - Original Message - From: Greg Scharrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 11:00 PM Subject: XDM to KDM I want to stop running xdm and run kdm instead, but I cannot figure out how to do it. I also hope there is a simple way to switch back if I do not like KDE. I am running Debian 2.1. I searched the archives and there are many mentions of commenting out xdm-start in /etc/X11/config. However, I do not have that file on my system. I read in one response that there is no /etc/X11/config file in slink. The file /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options was referenced for slink. I cannot find any xdm-start in xdm.options or anywhere (I did a grep xdm-start * in /etc/X11 and /etc/X11/xdm with no hits. I also did a grep for start-xdm). I seem to remember finding something like that when I got xdm up in the first place though. My xdm.options file is below. # /etc/X11/xdm.options # # configuration options for xdm # See xdm.options(5) for an explanation of the available options. check-local-xserver no-ignore-nologin no-restart-on-upgrade run-xconsole use-sessreg Thanks for your help. Greg Scharrer -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Mounting my cdrom
mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist Sounds like /dev/cdrom is symlinked to the wrong real device. What device is your CDROM? Probably hdc or hdd? hda = primary master hdb = primary slave hdc = secondary master hdd = secondary slave Try mount /dev/hd? /mnt Once you get it working, re-link your /dev/cdrom to the right device: ln -s /dev/hd? /dev/cdrom - Original Message - From: Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, May 01, 1999 10:02 AM Subject: Mounting my cdrom Hello everybody, I have installed slink and am trying to mount my cdrom. To mount the cdrom, I use the following command: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt This returns then following message: mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist What is wrong here? Is /dev/cdrom not the correct device or is this an installation problem? TIA, Robert-Jan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: checking promiscuous mode
You would see the promiscuous flag in the device configuration when you run ifconfig. If it's not there, it's not running in promiscuous mode. ifconfig -a or ifconfig device - Original Message - From: Eugene Sevinian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, May 01, 1999 3:44 PM Subject: checking promiscuous mode Hi, ppl, Does anybody know how to test whether the network card set to promiscuous mode. It is supposed to run it from cron. Thanks, Eugene Sevinian CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/ Phone: 374-2-344873 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
