let root be root?
by Tom Horsley
On a new fedora 9 install the other day, I was running as root and clicked
on the livna repo rpm link on the livna web pages and when the box came
up, I clicked on "Go ahead and install this sucker".
Then firefox (or someone, anyway) said "Oh no, you don't have permission
to install rpms, I can't do that."
AARGH!
"What do you want for Christmas kid?"
"I want to install a genuine Red Ryder rpm directly from firefox as root!"
"You'll shoot your eye out, kid!"
So just how many idiotic undocumented layers of "helpful" security software
do I have to figure out how to use merely to have root permissions when
running as root?
15 years, 12 months
linux - scientific
by g
anyone using scientificlinux and comments about experience? (other than it
is 'enterprise')
--
tc,hago.
g
.
in a free world without fences, who needs gates.
15 years, 12 months
Re: linux - scientific
by Michael Hannon
We use Scientific Linux a lot at work. It's a recompiled RHEL, similar to CentOS. We use it mostly for servers and have been happy with it. It has very good community support via their mailing lists, and the people that build it (at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and CERN) are very responsive.
Note that Scientific Linux, as with other "enterprise" distributions, typically does NOT include bleeding-edge applications. It places where we need those, we use Fedora. The trade-off here is that a given version of Scientific Linux will typically be supported for three years or more, while Fedora needs to be updated about once a year.
Another thing to note is that Scientific Linux does not meet the same purity-of-essence standard as Fedora: the distribution contains software that is free and useful but not GPL'ed. The University of Washington pine email client used to be the canonical example of this. I guess that "alpine" has now made that particular package moot, but the principle still applies.
-- Mike
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Subject: linux - scientific
anyone using scientificlinux and comments about experience? (other than it
is 'enterprise')
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g
.
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15 years, 12 months
NetworkManager -- and what else??
by Beartooth
The man pages are pretty sparse. But it often fails, at least
here. What are you supposed to do, in order to try again to connect? (Say
you know you *have* a connection; your other machines are doing fine...)
There's a launcher that looks like two monitors on a vertical
pipe; right-click and get its Properties, and it tells you it runs the
command usr/bin/system-config-network. Left-click, give it root's
password, and it shows you all sorts of nice GUI stuff including buttons
to 'activate' or 'deactivate' your ethX. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it
even makes a connection after NM has failed.
Often both fail. Then what?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
15 years, 12 months
Blue Screen
by tony.chamberlain＠lemko.com
We installed Linux and some software for a customer and sent him the machine.
First we made sure everything was OK, rebooted, etc.
But now when he is trying to bring it up it goes through all the initialization stuff,
etc., but then he just gets the blue screen (you know, you usually get a blue
screen but with a login box in the middle?). Anyway all he gets is a blue screen.
Any idea what could be wrong? I know before there was a problem where in /etc/inittab
for runlevel 3, instead of
id:5:initdefault:
I put
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
but I tried this on a machine here. It never gives you the blue screen.
It hangs after the initialization, and never goes into X. Also, I had
him bring up the kernal select and put a " s" for single-user mode,
but the same thing happened.
Any ideas?
15 years, 12 months
Re: Yum/not Yum
by tony.chamberlain＠lemko.com
Just not sure where to get this package from?
-
> 3: yum --enablerepo=pptp-stable install pptpconfig
>
> The RPMs in number 1 are in my package, and I suppose I can locate 2
> (pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm) and get a local
> copy.
>
> But if I want to make it so Internet is not needed to install this I
> have to find a way to do #3 locally (get files and
> place in my installation package rather than use yum). I also have to
> find pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm.
>
> Any ideas on 2 and 3 so I can make a package not requiring internet
> (nor yum)?
Download the packages and use "yum localinstall <package1>
<package2>" (maybe disable the default repos so it doesn't try to check
them on the net), or just use rpm if you're sure there are no dependency
issues.
poc
15 years, 12 months
Drat. How do I restore GRANT privileges
by Dan Thurman
I screwed up! I was cleaning up my privileges
via MySQL administrator and realized I locked
myself out!
So, how can I restore my 'root' privileges?
I tried: GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'root'@'%';
but that was refused.
Thanks!
Dan
15 years, 12 months
Weird iwl3945 wireless problem
by Kevin Cummings
My laptop has an Intel 3945 wireless builtin. Under F9, I've had very
few problems with it connecting. At home, I have a Linksys wrt54g and
connect using WPA security. Work fine (95% of the time). Same at my
mother's house, where I set up a similar router. I'm using NetworkMangler.
This past weekend, I went on vacation to an inn. In the "barn" they
offered free wireless. WEP encrypted, and they gave me the passphrase.
NM found the network right off, and asked me for the passphrase. WHen
it prompted, it asked for the "WEP 128 passphrase". I typed it in.
The attempt timed out after 45 seconds, prompting for me to re-enter the
passphrase, but this time, its a "WEP 40/128 Hexadecimal" and passphrase
its trying to use is different from what I originally typed in, though I
might believe it is the passphrase encrypted for the network its trying
to connect to. Subsequent attempts to connect fail, whether I use what
it presents back to me, or I re-select WEP-128 Passphrase and re-type in
the passphrase.
Now, here's the funny part. When I retired to my room (which is
supposedly out of range of the inn's wireless, since that network no
longer appears in the network list), it connected right away to a nearby
non-secured network.
So, NM works for me with WPA and with no security, but not with WEP?
(Size of test sets: 2, 1, 1)
So, can someone tell me, please, if NM is broken (and I should file a
bug), or if I was doing something wrong, and what I should have done in
order to connect to the inn's network.
I'm including a cut/paste of my /var/log/messages for one of NM's
connection attempts. It looks to me like NM found the network, and
tried to connect, but died during DHCP lookup (ie, never got a response
from the serving router).
> Jun 20 14:49:58 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
> Jun 20 14:49:58 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
> Jun 20 14:49:58 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): device state change: 6 -> 4
> Jun 20 14:49:58 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
> Jun 20 14:49:58 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
> Jun 20 14:49:58 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
> Jun 20 14:49:58 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): device state change: 4 -> 5
> Jun 20 14:49:58 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1/wireless): connection 'Auto Lake Shore Farm' has security, and secrets exist. No new secrets needed.
> Jun 20 14:49:58 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'ssid' value 'Lake Shore Farm'
> Jun 20 14:49:58 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'scan_ssid' value '1'
> Jun 20 14:49:58 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'key_mgmt' value 'NONE'
> Jun 20 14:49:58 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'auth_alg' value 'OPEN'
> Jun 20 14:49:58 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'wep_key0' value '<omitted>'
> Jun 20 14:49:58 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'wep_tx_keyidx' value '0'
> Jun 20 14:49:58 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
> Jun 20 14:49:58 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state change: 7 -> 0
> Jun 20 14:49:58 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Config: set interface ap_scan to 1
> Jun 20 14:49:58 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state change: 0 -> 2
> Jun 20 14:50:02 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state change: 2 -> 3
> Jun 20 14:50:02 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state change: 3 -> 0
> Jun 20 14:50:03 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state change: 0 -> 4
> Jun 20 14:50:03 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state change: 4 -> 7
> Jun 20 14:50:03 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1/wireless) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) successful. Connected to wireless network 'Lake Shore Farm'.
> Jun 20 14:50:03 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) scheduled.
> Jun 20 14:50:03 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) started...
> Jun 20 14:50:03 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): device state change: 5 -> 7
> Jun 20 14:50:03 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Beginning DHCP transaction.
> Jun 20 14:50:03 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> dhclient started with pid 8502
> Jun 20 14:50:03 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) complete.
> Jun 20 14:50:03 kjclap dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.0.0
> Jun 20 14:50:03 kjclap dhclient: Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
> Jun 20 14:50:03 kjclap dhclient: All rights reserved.
> Jun 20 14:50:03 kjclap dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
> Jun 20 14:50:03 kjclap dhclient:
> Jun 20 14:50:03 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> DHCP: device eth1 state changed normal exit -> preinit
> Jun 20 14:50:03 kjclap dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth1/00:19:d2:5f:41:ae
> Jun 20 14:50:03 kjclap dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth1/00:19:d2:5f:41:ae
> Jun 20 14:50:03 kjclap dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback
> Jun 20 14:50:03 kjclap dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> Jun 20 14:50:07 kjclap dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
> Jun 20 14:50:18 kjclap dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
> Jun 20 14:50:32 kjclap dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
> Jun 20 14:50:46 kjclap dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
> Jun 20 14:50:48 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Device 'eth1' DHCP transaction took too long (>45s), stopping it.
> Jun 20 14:50:48 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> eth1: canceled DHCP transaction, dhclient pid 8502
> Jun 20 14:50:48 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure Timeout) scheduled...
> Jun 20 14:50:48 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure Timeout) started...
> Jun 20 14:50:48 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1/wireless): could not get IP configuration for connection 'Auto Lake Shore Farm'.
> Jun 20 14:50:48 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): device state change: 7 -> 6
> Jun 20 14:50:48 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1/wireless): asking for new secrets
> Jun 20 14:50:48 kjclap NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure Timeout) complete.
[I did have fun with kismet on the drive home, looking at *all* the
802.11 networks sniffable from the road. Quite a few linksys routers
still in factory setup! Wow!]
--
Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome(a)rcn.com
cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net
cummings(a)kjc386.framingham.ma.us
Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
15 years, 12 months
Drat. How do I restore GRANT privileges
by Dan Thurman
I screwed up! I was cleaning up my privileges via MySQL administrator
and realized I locked myself out.
So, how can I restore my 'root' privileges?
I tried: GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'root'@'%';
but that was refused.
Thanks!
Dan
15 years, 12 months
