Hi,
Can you help me out ... Something so puzzlings come up in one
of the linux systems here that we can't seem to figure it out here .
What has happened is that even as root we are unable to su to
another user account . It says "Cannot run /bin/bash permission denied"!.
which
A suberb puzzle indeed ... and one that cannot be solved until we are
permitted to see all the pieces. Not quite sure what they *all* are, but
here are some questions to get you started:
1. First the basic one: what Linux are you running? Distribution, version,
and kernel version.
2. What is
First, verify that no user accounts are locked (via passwd command).
Next, make sure the correct permissions are set on /etc/passwd and
/etc/shadow:
$ ls -la /etc/passwd /etc/shadow
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 731 May 8 16:05 /etc/passwd
-r 1 root root 691 May 8
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote:
1. First the basic one: what Linux are you running? Distribution, version,
and kernel version.
Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman)
Kernel 2.2.12-20 on an i586
2. What is root's shell? Might it be something different from /bin/bash ?
No that's
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Jason Orlino wrote about, Redhat 6.1 and DSL:
I have a dsl connection from Pacific Bell using the modem they've
provided, an Alcatel. Any suggestions, links, etc. on setting up RH 6.1
to detect and dial out with my dsl connection?
Ray has explained things to you,
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Karthik Vishwanath wrote about, Counting files:
Hi,
Is there any utility which can give me the number of files in a
particular directory?
Lawson used 'find'.
A more simple way is.
ls -al * | wc -l
should return all files in the PWD and its sub dirs.
Thanks,
Hi,
I am using RH6.2 and have (had) a dual boot system using lilo. It worked
fine until recently linux would not boot anymore, only dos into W98. So I
used my boot diskette for getting into linux. Since I seldom use
W98 I decided to try to get the booting back into linux. First I did
/sbin/lilo
hi all,
when i boot my machine, sometimes it displays "/dev/hda5 has reached
maximal mount count, check forced" and a kind of file system check
starts. During this check, some file entries are reported to be set to
6. I noticed those files are quite the same everytime (something in
postfix).
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Twaddle. I would be willing to bet a nickle ($US.05) that someone with
root privilege has done chmod -R a-x /home, and you are getting, for
users trying to log in,
Unable to cd to /home/user
and for root trying to su to user:
bash:
I had a similar problem after someone hacked in with a vunerable NAMED on a
system used as a firewall. I was not even able to login as root from the
console.
Verify that /bin/bash (size and date) are exactly as they are on the
original distribution you installed. Do the same for the login
I have a dual processor system on which I installed RedHat Linux 6.2. What
happens then is that after the system has been running for some time, the
entire system freezes up. Console and X dies and so does any telnet/ftp
session.
There is no kernel panic and nothing on screen indicating what
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, val wrote about, maximal mount count:
hi all,
when i boot my machine, sometimes it displays "/dev/hda5 has reached
maximal mount count, check forced" and a kind of file system check
starts. During this check, some file entries are reported to be set to
6. I noticed
Your DSL connection is on 24-7. You do not dial - it is connectd to your
network card and hub. I would suggest you contact your ISP as you are
going to have to setup your IP numbers.
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Jason Orlino wrote:
I have a dsl connection from Pacific Bell using the modem they've
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, pfheiss wrote:
Hi,
I am using RH6.2 and have (had) a dual boot system using lilo. It worked
fine until recently linux would not boot anymore, only dos into W98. So I
used my boot diskette for getting into linux. Since I seldom use
W98 I decided to try to get the booting
Hi all,
I've got an AHA-1542B SCSI controller with an old MAXTOR ST-8760s HD. I
know that the HD works. When I fire up the computer I get this
Checking for SCSI target 0 lun 0
SCSI Target = lun0 Installed as dr C:
Checkin for SCSI target 1 lun 0
FDC Failure
Press F1 to resume
Can't offer any expertise here, but I'm interested in keeping the
thread alive.
One possible source of system freeze is RAM. The fact that NT manages
to run ok and Linux does not is not necessarily significant. Different
operating systems use RAM differently, and problems could show up with
one
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, James (Jim) Hatridge wrote about, SCSI Error:
Hi all,
I've got an AHA-1542B SCSI controller with an old MAXTOR ST-8760s HD. I
know that the HD works. When I fire up the computer I get this
Checking for SCSI target 0 lun 0
SCSI Target = lun0 Installed as dr C:
Hi -
I am running RH 6.1 and your problem sounds exactly like mine. Usual
culprit is Netscape - the whole system freezes and I too have to do the
*dirty* shutdown. I am not sure if it is a ram thing; I have 64 megs. I
find for simple surfing I am using lynx more and more often - who needs
the
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, hermit wrote about, Re: Linux Hanging Mysteriously:
Hi -
I am running RH 6.1 and your problem sounds exactly like mine. Usual
culprit is Netscape - the whole system freezes and I too have to do the
*dirty* shutdown. I am not sure if it is a ram thing; I have 64
Hi All.
Due to a few requests about PLIP and problems i have tryed it myself, i can
find no problems.
A small howto is to be found as;
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/plip.htm
It is not yet linked to the home page so use the above address or you wont
find it.
That goes for kernel.htm as
I am running RH 6.1 and your problem sounds exactly like mine. Usual
culprit is Netscape - the whole system freezes and I too have to do the
*dirty* shutdown. I am not sure if it is a ram thing; I have 64 megs. I
find for simple surfing I am using lynx more and more often - who needs
the
Output of free:
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:127976 111988 15988 80744 28572 41012
-/+ buffers/cache: 42404 85572
Swap: 345356 12 345344
The system has 128 megs of RAM.
ditesh
-
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, s9813008 wrote about, Re: Linux Hanging Mysteriously:
Output of free:
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:127976 111988 15988 80744 28572 41012
-/+ buffers/cache: 42404 85572
Swap:
FDC = Floppy Disk Controller . Check what the BIOS thinks you have installed
in the way of floppy drives; if it is wrong, correct it. Or see if you have
2 FDCs enabled -- the one on teh m'bd (or the IDE controller) and the one on
the Adaptec -- if so, disable the appropriate one.
At 01:58 PM
At 10:45 PM 6/11/00 +0800, s9813008 wrote:
...
The computer is setup to serve stuff (webpages, samba shares etc) and thus
is usually left at console with no active applications running. And it still
hangs.
OF course there are "active applications" running ... how do you think the
system
Well ... after having asked you for all that information, I'm afraid I
cannot come up with much in the way of possibilities. Sorry. A couple of
things you might check ...
1. You haven't mentioned the ownership and permissions of the directory
/home . Might it not be executable (or readable; I
I'm nearly having wine installed, but I always get a failure that tells:
/sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libwine.so (No such file or
directory), skipping
The libwine.so IS in the /usr/lib dir. But there is an "!" in the front
of it. What does that mean ??.
!libwine.so
Thanks in
Howdy folks
Sorry for the cross-post, I've been working on this for several months
with no solution and need as many brain-pans as possible.
For some time now, I have been completely unable to log users into my RH6
box via telnet. Here are the details along with multiple tries at varying
The system also has NT 4.0 installed on it but I have not encountered the
hanging I find in linux.
Of course the problem may be with NT, disabling faulty hardware do you have
any error logs from NT. I can also assure you that NT will allocate its
memory in little packets so a bit for hard
hermit wrote:
I find for simple surfing I am using lynx more and
more often
Have you tried Links? Or w3m? They are both text
browsers like Lynx but do a much better job of displaying
tables and such.
I too would like to see this thread continue perhaps
leading into a discussion of
Just some info for what it may be worth.
As for the 486 machines being unable to respond to lockups, my lockups
have been on a Pentium Pro.
As for the swap file filling, yes, that does produce very dramatic
consequences. But having experienced that once, I have on my desktop a
little swap
Hi all,
Not sure what's happening here. I've got RH 6.0. When I log in as a
user, Gnome starts up, displays the wallpaper, displays the toolbar, and
then pauses for about 5 seconds. During the pause, the disk drive light
goes on and off about four times. It starts to place icons on the
Hello,
I've seen signatures with "top" output in them. I understand that this
is done by running a cronjob and a bash-script. Could someone direct me
to a resource that's shows one how to do this?
Thanks
Steve
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in
the
33 matches
Mail list logo
