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linux installation in a logical partition ?

Posted: 03 Dec 2008 02:33 AM PST

com wrote:
 

Oh no! I may have to delete some distros.
 

I haven't noticed any but since it's said that Linux should always be
installed on primary partitions - - -
 

This goes to question number 1. Since we're stuck with primary
partitions only - it doesn't really matter if there is such a thing as a
logical partition.

TomT (who couldn't resist feeding it)

tcpdump filters for data collection

Posted: 02 Dec 2008 05:36 PM PST

Neil Jones wrote:
 

You could possibly export netflow from your Cisco. This wouldn't include the
content of the packets, just the data about the network flows [ie sockets].
Not sure if that would include HSRP. In what way do you want to map your
network?
 

If you specify what protocols you're interested in and don't capture
everything going across the interface, that will greatly reduce the size of
the capture file, eg:

# tcpdump -i ethN vrrp

will capture only VRRP packets [it may capture HSRP as they're similar but
incompatible]. Or possibly even 'not ip' would suffice. 'man tcpdump' will
explain more. HSRP is not a routing protocol by the way.
 

I would have thought it would be a matter of trial and error; Start off at
say, 100 bytes, review the dump in Wireshark and keep increasing the
capture size until it says it's not truncating packets any more [the ones
you're interested in, anyway].

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Posted: 02 Dec 2008 10:08 AM PST

On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:36:11 +0000, I wrote:
 

Furthermore, perhaps I should add that I have absolutely no
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But I now understand what those apparently superfluous .gif
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Mailing lists and online advertising

Posted: 01 Dec 2008 02:04 AM PST

Neil Jones wrote: 

I use thunderbird. The sig you see at the bottom is added because of an
add-on but as far back as mozilla it simply pointed to a sig file. Make your
ad the sig file.

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invisible mouse

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 11:57 AM PST

On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:17:43 -0500, togo48 <net> wrote:
 

Mistake on my part. The cursor theme is not the same as the icon theme.
In kcontrol, select Peripherals, Mouse, and then on the "Cursor Theme" tab
select an installed cursor theme.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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pxe boot and automatic installation

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 11:20 AM PST

On Dec 1, 3:05pm, "Magnate" <here> wrote: 

thanks for your help, so I'll try to modify the initrd to include the
necessary driver module for my NIC, I should gather more info to do
that.thanks

Fedora 10 upgrade scrolls GRUB over and over during boot

Posted: 28 Nov 2008 06:57 PM PST

Jeff wrote: 
 

My only possible relevant experience is hanging on grub. I powered down and
rebooted. And then got a cup of coffee and eventually grub did its thing.
After that it worked as expected. By cup of coffee I mean five minutes on the
third reboot. I excuse my problem with running it 24/7 and when power drops at
night it cools off and has to warm up again for the hardware to work properly.
I would love grub to tell me what it is doing while it not executing so maybe
I could fix it.

As long as yours booted with windows as expected I presume there is no
relation between my experience and your problem.

If you come up with any other symptoms or fix the problem please post.

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Installing new linux distribution from an already running linux

Posted: 26 Nov 2008 09:33 PM PST

> Explain what you really want to do, and you may get a better answer.

I hope I am not posting something off the topic here.

As mentioned in my original post I was just trying to find why the
installer programs are not made standalone, and made pretty difficult
to access from CD directly. It is quite difficult if the distribution
is new to the user.
 

There is nothing wrong. In many cases installation fail, but will
be easy to fix if the installers were ran from an already running
linux. Also easier if one wants to let the installation go in the
background while the machine is being used.

Thanks.

enforce blowfish encryption for RHEL5

Posted: 26 Nov 2008 01:13 PM PST

1PW wrote: 

The current patch level of RHEL5 supports SHA-256 (sha256 keyword) and
SHA-512 (sha512 keyword) as arguments of pam_unix.so. MD5 in the shadow
file itself is supported for passwords that haven't been changed since
the new keywords went into effect. I've never made any manual changes
to the arguments of pam_unix.so, and the current setting in my
system-auth file is sha512.

MD5 is acceptable as a cryptographic hash only if it's well-implemented,
which UNIX passwords are. Acceptability really just means people
shouldn't panic if their current technology involves properly
implemented MD5. You should really migrate to one of the SHA variants
as soon as possible. (Improperly implemented cryptography is never
recommended, no matter how strong the improperly implemented algorithms
are.)

minimizing disk WRITES - if OS is on CompactFlash

Posted: 26 Nov 2008 02:49 AM PST

Cork Soaker <invalid> wrote in news:chd306-
dyndns.org:
 

it incorporates some algorithms that are aleady in nowadays flash cards or
SSDs... for instance the wear leveling

whats more it has limitations that are unrealistic today like:
number of files: >260.000
max file size: 12MB
max filesystem size: 8GB

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1920x1200 res on an FC6 machine w/ Intel 915

Posted: 24 Nov 2008 12:19 PM PST

Richard Vaughn wrote: 

You probably need to find a copy of 915resolution, install it, and
configure it. Personally, I'd snag the latest source RPM from the F8
release updates and build from that. I had a laptop with a 945 or 965
with a 1280x800 (or something like that - I don't have it any more). I
had to do the same thing. It worked fine. If you're not into building
RPMs, you might be able to find something precompiled in the usual places.

Basically the graphics controller doesn't have a BIOS that supports
1920x1200, so X.org doesn't think it's possible. 915resolution runs
from an init script and patches (sort of) the BIOS so that X.org can
find whatever mode you want it to find.

Beginning with F9, the capabilities of 915resolution are built-in to the
version of X.org that comes with the release, so 915resolution become
unnecessary. Only F7 and F8 ever had it.

Setting system time with UTC hardware clock

Posted: 22 Nov 2008 07:14 AM PST

Bill Mar wrote:
 

This is an Arch linux system and TIMEZONE is correct for that distro.

I am thinking to set TZ = TIMEZONE though.
 

The cron starts from /etc/rc.conf which reads a srcipt at /etc/rc.d/crond.

This system uses BSD init instead of System IV.

Building a Linux appliance with Windows security tools

Posted: 22 Nov 2008 05:27 AM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup Neil Jones <yahoo.com> wrote: 

Have you thought about clamav running on Linux? It will detect
Microsoft Windows based virus on the network, and the virus database
updates several times a day.
 

I have seen systems with more than one virus scanner running. It is a
bit silly though.
 

If you use clamav, you will not need this.
 

You won't need these on the appliance. The clamav package will handle
the virus detection.

You may want a "scan on access" antivirus tool on the Microsoft Windows
client machines. I recommend Grisoft AVG at this time, because clamwin
does not yet support "scan on access".
 

Debian will do fine, but you can almost any distribution you like really.

Mark.

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Safe to remove old /usr/src/kernels/... directories.

Posted: 18 Nov 2008 01:16 PM PST

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:59:33 -0500, dboltz <com> wrote:
 

Any directories there that do not have a corresponding kernel module in
/boot are safe to delete.

A quick way to figure out what's safe to delete would be to run
tree /lib/modules|less. Any directory there that only has a few files
in it are left over from uninstalled kernels, and are safe to delete.

The directories would not have been deleted during the kernel uninstall
if any files that were not provided by the package exist, such as third
party kernel modules.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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disk spin down with lots of log files

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 10:57 PM PST

I demand that Jean-David Beyer may or may not have written...

[snip] 

One of mine has been up for over 506 days. I expect to reboot it for a kernel
upgrade or to shut it down due to some hardware failure; however, a
sufficiently long power failure will also cause a shutdown (yes, UPS).
 

Another of mine was last rebooted due to a kernel panic somewhere in the
networking code (2.6.25.* kernel; now running 2.6.27.*). Its uptime is
currently 2½ days.

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hi everyone i need some help

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 02:11 PM PST

Bill wrote: 

Excuse me?

How to analyse and cure dependency problems?

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 02:31 AM PST

Andrew Halliwell schrieb:
 

Right. It seems to me as if the .la files are essential for ld, in
addition to the .so files - correct?

Is above error message always related to shared object libraries, or can
it also mean a missing static library? Which files are required for
linking with a static library?

 

A configure script was not required and not supplied in this case
(FreePascal project). AFAIK even for cross-compilation it's sufficient
to give the desired target OS in the make command, the compiler resolves
the platform dependencies internally.

 

I couldn't find the program in a menu. A "which" from the command line
gave "not found". By now I know why: there exist 2 executable files,
named "lazarus-ide" and "lazbuild". That's why a "laz" input could not
be completed, and a "lazarus" could not be found or invoked. After the
first successful invocation I could find a "Lazarus" application in the
history menu. It's somewhat confusing that an according "Lazarus" on the
command line never would succeed, due to a case mismatch :-(

DoDi

How to setup a rss host/feed mechanism?

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 11:38 AM PST

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GCL ???

Posted: 09 Nov 2008 07:10 AM PST

Le Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:57:53 +0000, Nico Kadel-Garcia a écritÂ:
 

Oups, sorry. I'll try that.

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/lib, /sbin directories

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 02:56 AM PST

On November 6, 2008 06:56, in comp.os.linux.setup, Florian Diesch
(net) wrote:
 

Actually, /etc contains the inittab file, which is the control file
for /sbin/init. It is in /etc/inittab that all the system startup functions
are defined, including the functions to run the SysV init-scripts, if the
system has them.
 

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Not able to boot windows from grub.

Posted: 04 Nov 2008 03:24 AM PST

On 2008-11-04, Magnate <here> wrote: 

Windows does boot from the second from the secondary HD but it has to
put its boot loader on HD1.

-Erik

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weird cdrom problem

Posted: 29 Oct 2008 07:44 AM PDT

> But, it was never needed for reading CDs. The scsi emulation was 

You're right.

I checked lilo.conf. It turns out that the scsi parameter is not set
for windows.

I guess the grub boot loader of the previous linux installation
(Ubuntu 8.04) was corrupted.

Ke

Encrypted partitions - file systems

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 04:23 PM PDT

Baho Utot <invalid> writes:
 


No journaling. That's the way I was taught. Journaling aids in data
recovery - such as someone running forensics on your disk. Of course, if
you don't care about that, then I guess journaling is OK.

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Linked libraries

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 06:55 AM PDT

Kenneth Brun Nielsen <com> wrote: 

[...]
 

Did you link anything or are you trying to get already linked software
to run?

If you replace the shared library that a program expects with a different
shared library, a segmentation fault may well occur.

My advice would be not to "tweak" around with system libraries, particularly
if you do not know much about what is going on.

I guess there was some problem that tempted you to mess with it in the
first place. What was that problem? Maybe it can be addressed in a better
way.

Yours,
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Is there only one freeware hd sd card format recovery tool?

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 05:50 AM PDT

On Sun 26 Oct08 03:48, Donna Ohl <net> wrote in
<news:XNRMk.1356$%ffdc.sbc.com>:
 

Donna, you write "I just realized I'm not sure how to" in one of your
typically smooth follow-throughs.

Nice. Keep at it. Expand the topic! Make it more complicated!

Draw more posters in. How many posters can you get involved?