Re: Different root passwords

2004-12-13 Thread Stephen Samuel
Jim C. Brown wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 08:31:46PM +, M?rio Gamito wrote: Hi, Is it possible to have in Linux different root passwords, for the same machine: one for accessing it inside the intranet and another for accessing through the internet ? I suppose one way to do this would be to

Re: 2 questions: 1. ssh permissions to 777 and 2. recursively change all directories/files to 777

2004-12-13 Thread Stephen Samuel
Eve Atley wrote: First question... We have people SSHing into our Linux box from overseas (India to US, company access only). But files that are uploaded from these people become read-only to anyone else accessing them. We *require* that they be readable/writable by this side of the pond (US). How

Re: getting a console prog to run on tty2 at bootup

2004-12-13 Thread Stephen Samuel
Eric Bambach wrote: # Note that on most Debian systems tty7 is used by the X Window System, # so if you want to add more getty's go ahead but skip tty7 if you run X. # 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 4:23:respawn:/sbin/ge

Re: mbr dd'd

2004-12-13 Thread Stephen Samuel
kaushal wrote: hi, My friends' system is in a critical situation. Hdd. is /dev/hdc. CD-WR is /dev/hdd. created a bootable linux iso img. MISTAKE part: dd if=iso.img of=/dev/hdc.Instead of hdd. The problem here is that you stomped on the hard disk partition table (which is

Fw: Re: Create files with specific sizes?

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Garrett
Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:41:19 +0100 From: SVisor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Create files with specific sizes? I have a follow up question. ... >>is there any way (some command) that will allow me to >>create blank files with specific siz

Re: Create files with specific sizes?

2004-12-13 Thread SVisor
I have a follow up question. ... is there any way (some command) that will allow me to create blank files with specific sizes, eg 1MB, 5MB, 10MB etc. ... dd if=/dev/zero of=file1 bs=1k count=1024 I wanted a file of garbage, not zeroes. So I tried: dd if=/dev/random of=file bs=1k count=1024 But to

Re: Create files with specific sizes?

2004-12-13 Thread Khan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Khan wrote: is there any way (some command) that will allow me to create blank files with specific sizes, eg 1MB, 5MB, 10MB etc. dd if=/dev/zero of=file1 bs=1k count=1024 dd if=/dev/zero of=file2 bs=1k count=5120 dd if=/dev/zero of=file3 bs=1k count=10240 -rw-r--r-- 1 ste

hi

2004-12-13 Thread itmncm
any body knows abt the rhce model - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs