Re: Linux 2.4

2001-05-28 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Richard Adams wrote: > On Mon, 28 May 2001, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > Two final thoughts. Remember to read Documentation/Changes in the source > > for the new kernel, several utilities need to be upgraded. Also, making > > kernels in /usr/src/linux can be dangerous - packages

Re: Linux 2.4

2001-05-28 Thread Richard Adams
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Ken Moffat wrote: > Two final thoughts. Remember to read Documentation/Changes in the source > for the new kernel, several utilities need to be upgraded. Also, making > kernels in /usr/src/linux can be dangerous - packages, particularly glibc, > can rely on finding the heade

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2001-05-28 Thread Richard Adams
On Mon, 28 May 2001, nomit kalidhar wrote: > Hello > > I had installed Linux 7.0 kernel 2.2.16-22. > Then i had done the following to upgrade the kernel to 2.4 Firstly, there is no such thing as "linux 7.0" there is however Redhat 7.0. which judgeing by the "2.2.16-22" is what you have. > > >

[Fwd: Re: permissions]

2001-05-28 Thread Script0r
figured I'd forward this to the list there a lot of people who may benifit from the discussion :) Original Message Subject: Re: permissions From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > > I know how to apply group / world permission, > but e.g. can I do a chmod 70

Re: permissions

2001-05-28 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 06:15 PM 5/28/01 +0200, Tom Beer wrote: >Hi, > >I know how to apply group / world permission, >but e.g. can I do a chmod 700 to /etc/passwd ? >and it'll works? I mean what is the underlying >structure of the permissions? Ooph! This is a tough one. The short answer is that there is no easily d

Re: Linux 2.4

2001-05-28 Thread Ray Olszewski
1. "uname -a" usually gives you accurate information on what kernel is running. 2. In my experience, when I compile a new kernel, I find I have to edit /etc/lilo.conf by hand to get it to be the default. This despite the fact that the installation script (I use Debian - there is no "Linux 7.0", a

Re: permissions

2001-05-28 Thread Tom Beer
Hi, I know how to apply group / world permission, but e.g. can I do a chmod 700 to /etc/passwd ? and it'll works? I mean what is the underlying structure of the permissions? THanks Tom > I forgot to mention that the permissions need to be > applied to the mount-point of that file-system. > > In

Re: Linux 2.4

2001-05-28 Thread Script0r
>>cd /usr/src >>tar -zxvf linux-2.4.0-test11.tar.gz >>make dep ; make clean ; make bzlilo you forgot to make modules modules_install I tend to use the make install target to install my kernel instead of bzlilo, you can also do all the compiling all in one step, something like this, # make men

Re: Linux 2.4

2001-05-28 Thread 1stFlight
You're close, but you really should do it this way make xconfig (and make all the changes your system needs here), then make dep, make bzImage, make modules make modules_install And lastly, www.linuxdoc.org has some really good links on how to do it properly. Happy hunting Darryl nomit kal

RE: permissions

2001-05-28 Thread Sanchet Surendra Dighe
I forgot to mention that the permissions need to be applied to the mount-point of that file-system. In addition, see the 'mount' command to mount a file-system as read-only(ro). HTH. Sanchet ~~ -Original Message- ~~ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of ~~

RE: permissions

2001-05-28 Thread Sanchet Surendra Dighe
If you want to allow only certain users to access a particular file-system, make a new group with those users and give the access-permissions to users from that group only, in addition to the owner. Do not give permissions to 'others'. So, the chmod command will look something like -- $ chmod u+r

Re: Linux 2.4

2001-05-28 Thread rjd
nomit kalidhar wrote: > > I had installed Linux 7.0 kernel 2.2.16-22. > Then i had done the following to upgrade the kernel to 2.4 > > >cd /usr/src > >tar -zxvf linux-2.4.0-test11.tar.gz > >make dep ; make clean ; make bzlilo > > then rebooted the machine. All the operations performed above we

Re: Linux 2.4

2001-05-28 Thread Tom Beer
Hi, take a look at the Kernel Howto. Avaible at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html or linuxldp.org Tom > > > > > Hello > > I had installed Linux 7.0 kernel 2.2.16-22. > Then i had done the following to upgrade the kernel to 2.4 > > >cd /usr/src > >tar -zxvf linux-2.4.0-test11.

permissions

2001-05-28 Thread Tom Beer
Hi, does anybody know a guiding line how to set relative strict or even paranoid permissions, so that a "normal" user has limited access on the file system, or a document covering this topic? Thanks Tom - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a m

Linux 2.4

2001-05-28 Thread nomit kalidhar
Hello I had installed Linux 7.0 kernel 2.2.16-22. Then i had done the following to upgrade the kernel to 2.4 >cd /usr/src >tar -zxvf linux-2.4.0-test11.tar.gz >make dep ; make clean ; make bzlilo then rebooted the machine. All the operations performed above were done without showing any er

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2001-05-28 Thread nomit kalidhar
Hello I had installed Linux 7.0 kernel 2.2.16-22. Then i had done the following to upgrade the kernel to 2.4 >cd /usr/src >tar -zxvf linux-2.4.0-test11.tar.gz >make dep ; make clean ; make bzlilo then rebooted the machine. All the operations performed above were done without showing any error