Dear All,
I found a little big problem in using LILO as boot-loader.
When I turn on my pc, if (at LILO prompt) I write
label single
(where label is one of the labels defined in my lilo.conf) a minimal
kernel is loaded, the system starts without asking password and I am able
to change the Root
A serious security bug in kernels 2.2.16 was reported two days ago.
When will updated rpms be available?
Bob T.
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On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, marco presi wrote:
of my computer. I would like to know if there is a way to disable this
option or to change the string "label single" so I'm the only one to
knows it.
man lilo.conf The two parameters you're interested in are 'password'
and 'restricted' Restricted
Chris Garrigues wrote:
The prevalence of your attitude is part of why the Internet is as unsecure (I
don't care what my spell checker says, people are "insecure", networks are
"unsecure") as it is today.
Sorry you feel that way; personally, I believe that my attitude is why you
have Linux
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 01:20:06AM +0200, JF Martinez wrote:
This applies if upgrading individually. If I upgrade my entire
distribution the warning will be lost somewhere in the install.log.
Yes _I_ check but can you ensure all RedHat's customers check?
I can't. The problem is that you
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, JF Martinez wrote:
[ speaking for myself here, not my employer and so on ... ]
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, JF Martinez wrote:
I disagree about no "MTA worth his salt," and sendmail certainly DOES
deliver mail to root.
You can always create an alias
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On 10/06/00 at 15:31 marco presi wrote:
Dear All,
I found a little big problem in using LILO as boot-loader.
When I turn on my pc, if (at LILO prompt) I write
label single
(where label is one of the labels defined in my lilo.conf) a minimal
kernel
As a member and officer of our local user group, which supports three
platforms:
Linux
Win et all
Macintosh
I find the new folks asking the same same same questions. However, it is
the same for all groups and support lists. Newbies are the life blood of
any OS. If we do not get more newbies,
Allright, I'd like to start off by saying you were very right that
the most proper way to su is to 'su -', and that I wasn't doing that.
The first machine that I had root access on was configured to use
ENV_SUPATH and override the user's $PATH when su'ing, even without the -.
I'd even seen the
Absolutely 100% agreed - without newbies we'll all go the same way as the
dinosaurs
Let's all do everything we can and show a little patience - we were all
newbies once...
James.
James Feldman | Technical Director | Streamcom
Level 3/2A Cambridge Street
Box Hill, VIC 3128 Australia
Tel
Dear All,
I found a little big problem in using LILO as boot-loader.
When I turn on my pc, if (at LILO prompt) I write
label single
(where label is one of the labels defined in my lilo.conf) a minimal
kernel is loaded, the system starts without asking password and I am able
to change
O
- Hello
- Try using the file command
- so you might issue the following : - "file linuxq3.tar.sh" and it will
work.
n Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Brandon Dorman wrote:
Hi guys,
I just downloaded the demo for Quake 3 for Linux. It is
"linuxq3ademo.tar.sh" What is this
sh extention
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Brandon Dorman wrote:
I just downloaded the demo for Quake 3 for Linux. It is
"linuxq3ademo.tar.sh" What is this sh extention and how do I
unpack it? I couldn't find instructions on the id site. Thanks.
.sh files are usually shell scripts - you want to
chmod
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 11:13:59PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
| On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Kirk Whiting wrote:
| =Im trying to do a backup job to my Jaz Drive with cron and Im having
| =difficulty. The command Im using is:
| =38 08 * * 1 find /home/* -print | cpio -orcvdumB /mnt/jaz
| =I keep getting
Alan Mead wrote:
http://www.moongroup.com/mailhelp.phtml
Chuck Mead has a lot of mail-related stuff on moongroup.com.
-Alan
this is a good stite but chuck is not there anymore. There was a thread about
him taking the cto position somewhere. I forget where.
Bret
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On 10-Jun-2000 Danny wrote:
Have you tried going to XF86Setup -
And I believe on the first option you can configure your mouse
On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
K,
Ever since I change my std ps2 mouse to a logitech marble mouse it has
gotten
very picky on
Hey guys and gals,
Got a question for you. I am building a system with dual promise
Ultra66 Controllers and I am running into some problems with the system
freezing. I am running RH 6.2 with a kernel rpm that has the ultra66
drives compiled in. It appears that when I install both controllers
Good Morning,
I am also just building a new RH 6.1 server. I have a
dual PII 400 machine. How can I tell if
I am using both processors or not? I am really new to
Linux/Unix.
Once that is answered, if I do not have both running how can
that be changed?Steven
Hi all,
Apache was correctly installed on my Redhat box .. and i was able to view
the default manual page from all my machines...
Today while booting httpd failed to start .. i checked the error messages
.. there were syntax errors on Lines 350 and 369 of the httpd.conf file (
an extra " sign
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Steven Pierce wrote:
I am also just building a new RH 6.1 server. I have a dual PII 400
machine. How can I tell if I am using both processors or not? I am
really new to Linux/Unix.
Read /proc/cpuinfo. If it contains information about 2 CPUs, they're both
running.
(And
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Anurag Jalan wrote:
The error message says ' You do not ahve permission to access / on this
server' .. This when i am logged on as root !
This has nothing to do with the user you're currently logged in as (that
would be a major security problem).
Check the permissions on
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Anurag Jalan wrote:
Mikkel and others,
It worked ! Then i tried to add the other machines too ..
First I added to the db.192.168.1
254 IN PTR server.adventus.cxm.
3 IN PTR sc3.adventus.cxm.
etc
when the lookup for
Bernhard,
Thank you for the information. I looked at the file, low and behold both are there.
A Newbie...
Steven
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On 6/10/2000 at 4:47 PM Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Steven Pierce wrote:
I am also just building a new RH 6.1
You'll need to make sure you
have an up-to-date kernel - I recommend 2.3.50. When you compile the
kernel, make SURE you enable Asymmetric Multiprocessing support. The
kernel will let you know about your system processors every time the system
boots up.
If you need help w/ your
kernel, just
1) I have got Xfree86 3.3.5 working but only at 1280X1024 resolutions,
for lesser resolutions I get DISPLAY problems (screen is too large).
At 1280x1024 its hard read, is there a way to increase the font size?
or adjust the resolution without the DISPLAY problem. Any other suggestions
2) To
ACK!!! it is too damn early for HTML encoding.
Please turn it off!
- Original Message -
From: Joel Lansden
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 10:22 AM
Subject: RE: Question?
You'll need to make sure you have an up-to-date kernel - I recommend 2.3.50.
When you compile
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 11:39:50AM -0400, Duncan Hill wrote:
Semi-dumb question, as I've never played with a dual cpu box in
linux. How can I bind one process to a single CPU and leave the
other CPU open for system tasks?
Pretty sure this is not possible. There was talk of including this in
Sorry, maybe I´m asking something stupid...
How can I mount WIN FAT32 partitions in Linux?
(I have Linux 2.0.32)
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I'd like to set up a red hat box in my home as a webserver and I'm
looking for ways to convert the dynamic IP provided by my cable connection
to static. Only place I've found is www.dynip.com which charges $170/year
for their software. Anybody know of a hopefully cheaper solution?
Han
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Ezequiel Pozzo wrote:
Sorry, maybe I´m asking something stupid...
How can I mount WIN FAT32 partitions in Linux?
(I have Linux 2.0.32)
mount -t vfat FAT32 partation mount point
For example:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /dos/Drive_c
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From: "Ezequiel Pozzo" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: FAT32
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 13:20:42 -0300
Sorry, maybe I´m asking something stupid...
How can I mount WIN FAT32
Well, in a real SMP system, the "S" is for "symmetric". Thus it
doesn't really make a lot of sense to bind a process to a processor.
If you're interested in real-time performance, then what you need
to worry about (probably) is interrupt or I/O latency. An SMP system
just tends to lower the
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote:
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 11:39:50AM -0400, Duncan Hill wrote:
linux. How can I bind one process to a single CPU and leave the
other CPU open for system tasks?
Pretty sure this is not possible. There was talk of including this in
a future kernel
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Mike McNally wrote:
Well, in a real SMP system, the "S" is for "symmetric". Thus it
doesn't really make a lot of sense to bind a process to a processor.
If you're interested in real-time performance, then what you need
to worry about (probably) is interrupt or I/O
Running 6.2, 2.2.14 kernel. I've loaded xsane, sane, libraries. I've
got an HP 1100A Printer newly installed, working fine as printer under
Linux, fine as printer/scanner under a legacy o/s ;)
I'm decent in Linux in general but completely new to scanning under
Linux. I'm trying to figure out
I know it's cheesy, but you could use some of that free software that
publishes your dynamic IP address, and put it in one of those free hosting
services w/ a script...
:)
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From: Han Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 11:25 AM
To: [EMAIL
Make sure you have VFAT support compiled directly into your kernel, then
make a directory you want to use as a mount point.
Then,
mount -t vfat /dev/devicename /mountpoint
Joel
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From: Ezequiel Pozzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 11:21 AM
hello! i have problem regarding replying to an email alias. i set-up an
alias to a group of email. problem is evry time they reply, they reply to
the sender instead of the email alias. the result is the sender receives a
multiple copies of reply mail. wat wud i do so that they will reply to the
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Joel Lansden wrote:
I know it's cheesy, but you could use some of that free software that
publishes your dynamic IP address, and put it in one of those free hosting
services w/ a script...
If you have any machine with a static IP, feel free to use the sources
I've
has anyone got php4 php3 running together? php4 is not as backward
compatible as one would like.
Thanks
Michael
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At 12:25 PM 6/10/00 -0400, Han Liu wrote:
I'd like to set up a red hat box in my home as a webserver and I'm
looking for ways to convert the dynamic IP provided by my cable connection
to static. Only place I've found is www.dynip.com which charges $170/year
for their software. Anybody
How can I mount WIN FAT32 partitions in Linux?
mount -t vfat /dev/hdaX /cdrive
If that is the case, then why would the installer not automatically mount
them and when I used FAT16 then it is recognized and mounted? Even after I
install RH 6.0 then I still could not mount them? Now I have RH6.2
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 11:29:55AM -0700, Michael Ghens wrote:
: has anyone got php4 php3 running together? php4 is not as backward
: compatible as one would like.
You can't run both together. php4 is almost totally backward compatible.
http://www.php.net/version4/incompatibilities.php
The
At 12:05 PM 6/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
How can I mount WIN FAT32 partitions in Linux?
mount -t vfat /dev/hdaX /cdrive
If that is the case, then why would the installer not automatically mount
them and when I used FAT16 then it is recognized and mounted? Even after I
install RH 6.0 then I still
Hello,
I have a couple of questions.
1) Is RH 6.2 the Kernel 2.2.16? How do I know that when I got to RH
download site that I am downloading the correct Kernel?
2) I would like to install RH on my laptop and would like to know the
minimum suggested disk space that I will need. I'm not really
I'm getting an error at startup that I'm guesing is the problem with me
playing audio CDs. I ran dmesg and found this:
ATAPI device hdb
ERROR: Illegal request --(SenseKey=0x05)
Parameter list length error -(asa=0x1a)(asa=0x00)
The failed "mode sense" packet command was:
5a 00 2a
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From: "Kevsurf" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I have a couple of questions.
1) Is RH 6.2 the Kernel 2.2.16? How do I know that when I got to RH
download site that I am downloading the correct Kernel?
6.2 doesn't
Rather than just blindly installing an SMP kernel,
I'd grab the source from kernel.org and install it,
then compile. Why wait for every possible module to
compile (stock redhat) when you don't need to.
Plus you can be confident that any patched you apply will
patch cleanly.
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On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Edward Schernau wrote:
Rather than just blindly installing an SMP kernel,
I'd grab the source from kernel.org and install it,
then compile. Why wait for every possible module to
compile (stock redhat) when you don't need to.
We provide an SMP kernel in binary form, so
Hi all,
I´ve recompiled the kernel version 2.2.14 and after that the serial
mouse don´t work. KDE works fine but I can´t use the mouse.
What could be the cause?
Thank you very much in advance.
Luis Pablo Gasparotto
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Thanks guys for your advice. I succesfully did what you said and installed Quake 3
Arena Demo!
However, upon running I was discouraged to notice I could hardly use it. Moving the
mouse became a
game of time delay! I switched to Voodoo mode with no effect. I have an NVidia Riva
TNT and
Title: RE: sh file type
Thanks guys for your advice. I succesfully did what you said
and installed Quake 3 Arena Demo!
However, upon running I was discouraged to notice I could
hardly use it. Moving the mouse became a
game of time delay! I switched to Voodoo mode with no
just a test. sorry.
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I'm trying to use ssh to log into my home computer from work. I have
sshd configured and working and can log in from some other sites, but I
just haven't been able to do it from any of the computers at work. This
is what happens when I try to run it from a work system.
% ssh -v gmc.tzo.net
SSH
I just bought a Valinux startx sp2 machine and noticed the following line
when booting up:
Start service autofs apmd[286] Charge : *** (-1% unknown)
What does that mean? I do not understand why I need apmd with a desktop.
The man page refers to batteries and suspend mode, more appropirate for a
At 09:42 PM 6/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
I'm trying to use ssh to log into my home computer from work. I have
sshd configured and working and can log in from some other sites, but I
just haven't been able to do it from any of the computers at work. This
is what happens when I try to run it from a
O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum, wie grun sind seine Blute ;-)
Think about it. Our government broke up a monopoly called ATT way back
when, and since then there has been fierce competition amonst the telephony
firms. Now think about how that affected the growth of the internet. If
ATT was not
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
It looks like reverse DNS is failing. The place you work doesn't have
reverse DNS set up, or is set up wrong for 208.49.230.99. At least I
can't get any info in 208.49.230.99 from here. Dig times out. But I
can get info on 208.49.230. I do not think you could
Charles Galpin wrote:
He's still there (it's his company still). I doubt much will change
regarding the resources he has been providing.
But yes, he is now the CTO of LinuxMall.com.
charles
I stand corrected, thanks.
Bret
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I'm trying to use ssh to log into my home computer from work. I have
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I just haven't been able to do it from any of the computers at work.
This is what happens when I try to run it from a work
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