-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It would appear that on Jan 24, et did say:
> On Monday 24 January 2005 02:01 pm, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=msec&Find=Fi > >nd listed two likely meanings... "message security", or "multicast > > security"... Though I suspect it's more like "Mandrake security" And would > > probably be what I thought was the firewall settings during the install > > process??? > not firewall, but a script that runs as a cron job to make sure no > permissions > are changed on files where they should not be, among other things... Ohhhh a Mandrake specific security tool that I never learned about... When you say it runs as a cron job, I hope you mean it does so without my having to set it up... Since I multi-boot, this box & since I frequently finish up with the poweroff command, until I'm ready to use it again, I couldn't see much sense in spending my limited learning time getting cozy with cron... Seams like when it would be "time" for cron to do something, I'd like as not be: A) running a different Linux at the time, B) have powered down, or in case of a blue moon, c) I may have disabled the internet connection and loaded some old game on either the win98 or the DrDos partitions... > > If so, then I definitely told the installer to use "standard" > hopefully the standard was msec, did you happen to see the other options, was > one "paranoid" My memory is too spotty to be sure if I only mentally associate higher security settings as "paranoid" levels or if the installer actually used the term for one of the more extreme settings. But it was the only time the installer asked me to select a level of security where standard sounded appropriate for a client side PC that accesses the internet. Does the installer ask about msec???? > how about 'df'? > and 'cat /etc/fstab'? > and 'cat /etc/mtab' > while we are asking for more info... > did you say this was on a box with other linux installs? Well ummm, The particular installation that did this has already been overwritten with an attempt to get a working MDK 10.1 by upgrading a working MDK 8.2 I restored from tar archive... I've already posted some topics to deal with it's boot time errors. IF however, somebody is willing to try to help me debug the problem I experienced when I tried to do a clean install from the powerpack cd set of MDK 10.1, I will cheerfully clear out my live storage archive space on the partition I normally mount at /theBigTmp (I've had temporarily restored linux systems {slackware 8.0, Redhat 9, MDK 8.2} boot and run there before...) Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdc10 15401436 11586784 3032292 80% /theBigTmp And see if a new clean install confined to /dev/hdc10 will duplicate the problem I had when I tried to install it to /dev/hda4... Are you willing?????????????????????? In the mean time: Yeah I almost always have at least 4 linux installations all set up with my preferences, email account access etc... Speaking of which, I can remember that all partition besides the one I mounted as "/" I told the installer to mount (NOAUTO) on non-standard mountpoints reassembling the ones I have in this FC2's fstab :r /etc/fstab # LABEL=/1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 # I do NOT use the LABEL convention as I find it simpler to explicitly # specify which partition I'm currently using... else I'd have named it # theWanderlust (my name for this FC${LatestInstalledCore} installation) /dev/hdc4 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults,devmode=0666 0 0 /dev/hdc11 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 # evidentaly /dev/cdrom is my dvd-rom on /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 # evidentaly /dev/cdrom1 is my cd-rw on /dev/hdb /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user,kudzu 0 0 /dev/fd0 /flop-a vfat user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /flop-ext ext2 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /theWin98 vfat user,noauto 0 0 # theJourney is my name for my FC1 installation /dev/hda3 /theJourney ext2 user,noauto 0 0 # theVoid was originally my name for the SuSE 7.3 this PC came with... # /dev/hda4 /theVoid ext2 user,noauto 0 0 # theWayWard is my name for my MDK 10.1 installation /dev/hda4 /theWayWard ext2 user,noauto 0 0 # win98 calls this E: /dev/hda5 /drv-e vfat user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home/jtwdyp/images ext2 user,noauto 0 0 # win98 sees this as D: yet the DrDos installed there sees it as C: /dev/hdc1 /drv-d msdos user,noauto 0 0 # theVoyage is my name for my MDK 9.1 installation /dev/hdc3 /theVoyage ext2 user,noauto 0 0 # this mail dir is mounted in my .bash_profile on any linux from which I # expect to use to access email... /dev/hdc5 /home/jtwdyp/mail ext2 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdc6 /boot ext2 noauto 0 0 /dev/hdc6 /theHdc6iBoot ext2 user,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdc7 /home/jtwdyp/RoastHere_hdc7 ext2 user,noauto 0 0 # the_j-home is a user storage partition belonging to my primary # non-root account (identical UID on all my linux installations) I keep # personal notes & reminders and several ooffice documents there... /dev/hdc8 /the_j-home ext2 auto 0 0 /dev/hdc9 /theTMP ext2 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdc10 /theBigTmp ext2 user,noauto 0 0 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB+B+5RZ/61mwhY94RAnGhAJ92twwoq7RLBeml8zTLYCUEn3ohzACgpPyI qIlo/S2R1r4EGDvIQy+9inM= =7SHS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ################################################################# # gpg sig for: Joe (theWordy) Philbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (:-0% # # You can find my public gpg key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu/ # ################################################################# -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
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