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]. -- <http://ale.cx/> (AIM:troffasky) (cx) 19:35:06 up 17 min, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.14, 0.15 They call me titless because I have no |
Email with a background .gif attached 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 interest in having fancy background to emails - other than sheer curiousity as to which environments provide for it. 8-) But I now understand what those apparently superfluous .gif attachments are in emails... -- /\/\aurice (Replace "nomail.afraid" by "bcs" to reply by email) |
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. -- There is a fantasy that the only problem with the stock market is confidence in the economy. Why should the market be high if there is nothing to be confident it? -- The Iron Webmaster, 4076 http://www.giwersworld.org/holo3/holo-survivors.phtml a3 |
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 -- Change nomail.afraid.org to ody.ca to reply by email. (nomail.afraid.org has been set up specifically for use in usenet. Feel free to use it yourself.) |
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. -- Seems to me the worst was a soldier can fail is to get killed. Seems to me the second worst way is to become a POW. I do not see what that has to do with being president. --The Iron Webmaster, 4075 http://www.giwersworld.org/holo/ a8 |
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 -- Y? |
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. -- Mark Hobley Linux User: #370818 http://markhobley.yi.org/ |
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 -- Change nomail.afraid.org to ody.ca to reply by email. (nomail.afraid.org has been set up specifically for use in usenet. Feel free to use it yourself.) |
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. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Buy local produce. Try to walk or cycle. TRANSPORT CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING. Smash forehead against keyboard to continue... |
hi everyone i need some help Posted: 13 Nov 2008 02:11 PM PST |
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 |
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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. \bye -- Nicolas FRANCOIS | /\ http://nicolas.francois.free.fr | |__| X--/\\ We are the Micro$oft. _\_V Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. darthvader penguin |
/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. [snip] -- Lew Pitcher Master Codewright & JOAT-in-training | Registered Linux User #112576 http://pitcher.digitalfreehold.ca/ | GPG public key available by request ---------- Slackware - Because I know what I'm doing. ------ |
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 -- v4sw5RUYhw2ln3pr5ck0ma2u7Lw3+2Xm0l6/7Gi2e2t3b6AKMen5+7a16s0Sr1p-5.62/-6.56g6OR |
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. -- Freedom? [** America, The Police State **] Rights? http://www.hermes-press.com/police_state.htm http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/08/teen_charged_for_cell_phone_pics/ |
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, Laurenz Albe |
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? |