fedora-list Digest, Vol 9, Issue 408

[Hans Ottens]

Yes, learning to work with the udev is the answer. The PC-PalmIIIex link
works after every PC reboot (just for experimenting). Thanks.

Hans Ottens

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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Re: Where are we going in the Fedora development?
>       (John Summerfield)
>    2. Re: FC2 and RPM (Rahul Sundaram)
>    3. Re: sshd: it is permit to login with a Empty Password
>       (William Hooper)
>    4. Re: FC3, minimun install and XForwarding (Fernando Gozalo)
>    5. Re: kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2 boot failure where
>       kernel-2.6.9-1.3_FC2	works (John Summerfield)
>    6. Re: FC3 Seems to "Freeze" sometimes (John Summerfield)
>    7. Re: How to block a range of IP's	with
>       system-config-securitylevel-tui? (John Summerfield)
>    8. Re: Serial terminal emulator (fredex)
>    9. Re: FC3 Seems to "Freeze" sometimes (Colin O'Flynn)
>   10. Re: kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2 boot failure where
>       kernel-2.6.9-1.3_FC2  works (William Hooper)
>   11. Anybody got FC3 installed on software raid-1 with Grub
>       (Yusuf Goolamabbas)
>   12. Re: Can't get shockwave viewer to install in FC3 (Kim Lux)
>   13. Re: BOOBY TRAPS? (Rodolfo J. Paiz)
>   14. Re: Palm Pilot and FC3 - Again! (Thomas Zehetbauer)
>   15. Re: Server Tools Don't Prompt for Root Password (Randy Chrismon)
>   16. Re: BOOBY TRAPS? (Arthur Stephens)
>   17. Re: kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2 boot failure where
>       kernel-2.6.9-1.3_FC2	works (Rahul Sundaram)
>   18. Re: BOOBY TRAPS? (Rahul Sundaram)
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 07:14:54 +0800
> From: John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
> Subject: Re: Where are we going in the Fedora development?
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <200411250714.55050.debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> On Thursday 25 November 2004 00:07, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> > Once again I want to share something but don't want to start a rant.
> >
> > I finally got FC3 installed and have serious questions as to where
> > this Fedora Development is going. Are changes being made for good
> > reason or just to be different? Is there good reason to have two
> > panels on the screen (at top and bottom) instead of one, two
> 
> That's Gnome 2.8. Compare with Ubuntu, a Debian-based distro. It's a single-CD 
> install (but essentiall all of Debian downloadable after installation).
> 
> It also does some things better than FC does.
> 
> > essentially equivalent menus under different icons, logout hidden in a
> > different place, etc.
> > My reaction to having changes made in resolv.conf disappear after a
> > reboot was not a positive one. Luckily I had a hint of why this was
> > happening in a previous posting.
> 
> dhcp has done that for ever. pppd has too, but that's configurable.
> 
> 
> >
> > I could go on with changes like udev and /media in place of /mnt but
> /media is LSB compliance. Debian does it too. Previously RH and Debian 
> differed.
> 
> > you get the idea. Are these changes caused by a overwhelming goal that
> > trumps the confusion they cause.
> >
> > In the back of my mind I would like Windows users to switch to Linux seeing
> > it can be presented in as friendly appearance as Windows is to them.
> 
> Windows changes too. Get new Windows, likely you'll need new apps. Sometimes, 
> get new Windows SP & need new apps.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> John
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 04:44:01 +0530
> From: Rahul Sundaram <rahulsundaram at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: FC2 and RPM
> To: dave.woolcock at spamcop.net,	For users of Fedora Core releases
> 	<fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <c79487d6041124151476cb893e at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> 
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:50:01 +0000, dave.woolcock at spamcop.net
> <dave.woolcock at spamcop.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 21:51:47 -0600 (CST), you wrote:
> > 
> > >Oh you mean - install some RPM built for SUSE 8.0 on FC3?
> > 
> > er, yes - I thought you could do that.
> > 
> > Otherwise Linux is worse than Windoze DLL hell
> 
> not really. its just that they are likely to be incompatible which has
> nothing to do with shared libraries
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Rahul Sundaram
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:29:23 -0500 (EST)
> From: "William Hooper" <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: sshd: it is permit to login with a Empty Password
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <1444.192.168.0.254.1101338963.squirrel at whooper.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
> 
> 
> Dario Lesca said:
> > On a standard installation of FC1 and FC2 (and FC3?) is permit to login
> > with a user with a empty password ... is this correct?
> 
> No, it doesn't.
> 
> > [root at igloo root]# man sshd_config
> >
> >> PermitEmptyPasswords
> >> When password authentication is allowed, it specifies whether the
> >> server allows login to accounts with empty password strings.  The default
> >> is no.
> 
> The default is to not allow empty password strings.
> 
> > [root at igloo root]# grep PermitEmptyPasswords /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> > #PermitEmptyPasswords no
> 
> If, for what ever reason I can't conceive, you would want to allow people
> to log in via ssh without a password, uncomment this line and change it to
> "yes".  First, though, make sure your machine is sufficiently isolated
> from any insecure network (like the Internet).
> 
> -- 
> William Hooper
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:32:28 +0100 (CET)
> From: "Fernando Gozalo" <fgozalo0 at alumno.uned.es>
> Subject: Re: FC3, minimun install and XForwarding
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <12959.80.58.4.107.1101339148.squirrel at 80.58.4.107>
> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
> 
> > On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Fernando Gozalo wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have done a FC3 minimun install in a server. I have tried to ssh to
> >> the
> >> server with XForwarding but with no success.
> >>
> >> I've tried several things:
> >> . from a FC2 to this FC3 with "ssh -X server"
> >> . from a FC3 to this FC3 with "ssh -X server" and "ssh -Y server"
> >>
> >> No XForwarding :(
> >>
> >> So, I think I need to install other package/packages, but don't know.
> >>
> >> Any hint?
> >
> > You'll need atleast 'xauth' to have ssh-x11-forwarding working. Try:
> >
> > yum install xorg-x11-xauth
> >
> > Satish
> >
> 
> It works.
> 
> Gracias.
> Fernando.
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 06:51:26 +0800
> From: John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
> Subject: Re: kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2 boot failure where
> 	kernel-2.6.9-1.3_FC2	works
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <200411250651.26683.debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> On Wednesday 24 November 2004 23:01, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> > This doesn't solve the original problems of labels not working. But
> > IMHO, labels were bad idea to begin with, so I can't say I feel sorry
> > for seeing them not working ;-)
> 
> Labels are a good idea implemented poorly. The kernel should whinge loutly 
> when it sees duplicates.
> 
> My background is in IBM mainframes. Even as far back as OS (aka OS/360) 
> storage volumes (disk ^ such and tape) were labelled. OS complained whenever 
> it saw two volumes with the same "volume serial number."
> 
> Back then, disk volumes held no more than one filesystem.
> 
> There was never any confustion about duplicates because they were always 
> announced at the time. During IPL the operator had to choose one; once the 
> system was up the newer one was unmounted.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> John
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 06:30:33 +0800
> From: John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
> Subject: Re: FC3 Seems to "Freeze" sometimes
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <200411250630.33726.debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="utf-8"
> 
> On Wednesday 24 November 2004 22:07, P Jones wrote:
> > In FC2 a problem that sounds like the problem you're having was traced
> > to Klipper,
> 
> That sounds entirely consistent with my observations.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> John
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 06:28:12 +0800
> From: John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
> Subject: Re: How to block a range of IP's	with
> 	system-config-securitylevel-tui?
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <200411250628.12971.debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> On Wednesday 24 November 2004 21:51, Vinicius wrote:
> > I get this URL about shorewall
> > "http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_setup_guide.htm". I will read it soon.
> >
> > Can it be integrated with FC3's netfilter/iptables?
> 
> This and many more questions will be ansered as you read that document.
> 
> >
> > Could you show us a simple configuration about the "cans" and
> > "cannots", please?
> 
> Once you understand the topic it's quite simple but there are several files 
> involved.
> 
> One normally defines z series of zones, and mostly each zone is on a its own 
> interface.
> 
> In this particular case, there was only one interface but I wanted different 
> access rules for each of three groups of addresses.
> 
> 
> It seems in any event I can't send any of the config to the list; the box 
> seems to be down atm.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> John
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:41:38 -0500
> From: fredex <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
> Subject: Re: Serial terminal emulator
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <20041124234138.GA11651 at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:07:56PM +0100, Jakub Roguski wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I very often have to configure devices, which use serial port and null-modem 
> > cable for communication. I'm looking for the most comfortable solution of 
> > VT100 terminal emulator running over serial port on FC3. I tried minicom, but 
> > would like something easier to use. Any idea? Maybe a way to use linux 
> > terminal together with serial port? Or simple VT100 emulator using serial?
> 
> I seemto recall having found that PUTTY has a linux version. But whether
> that is true or not, the linux console is more or less a superset of
> vt100 (as long as you don't want the keys to work like vt100 keys),
> and the xterm also works reasonably in lieu of vt100.
> 
> Fred
> 
> -- 
> ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -----------------------------
>                     The Lord detests the way of the wicked 
>                   but he loves those who pursue righteousness.
> ----------------------------- Proverbs 15:9 (niv) -----------------------------
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> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:45:12 -0400
> From: "Colin O'Flynn" <coflynn at newae.com>
> Subject: Re: FC3 Seems to "Freeze" sometimes
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <200411241945.12449.coflynn at newae.com>
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> 
> Okay - I want to try disabling the acrobat plugin in Firefox. However I can't 
> seem to do that...
> 
> I don't know what I've done wrong, I can't find any reference to acrobat or a 
> file with a name pdf in it as I am supposed to in the /usr/lib/firefox-1.0/ 
> directory. Nor can I find mention of it in any of the preference files to the 
> best of my knowledge...
> 
> Anyone got some hints? I don't fully remember how I installed Acrobat - it was 
> with the provided script I think.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>  -Colin
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 10
> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:45:59 -0500 (EST)
> From: "William Hooper" <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2 boot failure where
> 	kernel-2.6.9-1.3_FC2  works
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <1518.192.168.0.254.1101339959.squirrel at whooper.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
> 
> 
> John Summerfield said:
> > On Wednesday 24 November 2004 23:01, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> >
> >> This doesn't solve the original problems of labels not working.  But
> >> IMHO, labels were bad idea to begin with, so I can't say I feel sorry
> >> for seeing them not working ;-)
> >
> > Labels are a good idea implemented poorly. The kernel should whinge
> > loutly when it sees duplicates.
> 
> IIUC the kernel knows nothing of labels.  They are a purely a userland
> concept (which is why you must use an initrd if you wish to use them).
> 
> -- 
> William Hooper
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 11
> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 07:49:16 +0800
> From: Yusuf Goolamabbas <yusufg at outblaze.com>
> Subject: Anybody got FC3 installed on software raid-1 with Grub
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <20041124234916.GA11958 at outblaze.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> Hi, There seems to be a number of bugs relating to Grub not installing
> well on software raid-1 config. The symptoms seem to be that after a
> install, the system just hangs on boot 
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/6t2vz
> 
> expands to a bugzilla query of 'grub raid'. 
> If someone has successfully installed FC3 on a software raid-1 system
> (without LVM) then I would appreciate info regarding their hardware
> config and steps they took (if they were different from standard
> install)
> 
> There is a workaround of updating the MBR in rescue mode but that
> doesn't work in all cases 
> 
> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=26912
> 
> Regards, Yusuf
> -- 
> Yusuf Goolamabbas
> yusufg at outblaze.com
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 12
> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:03:00 -0700
> From: Kim Lux <lux at diesel-research.com>
> Subject: Re: Can't get shockwave viewer to install in FC3
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <1101340980.3719.12.camel at zd7280.localdomain>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> 
> 
> Thanks for the link to the flashviewer rpm.
> 
> It installed fine, ie without errors on my FC3, but doesn't install
> flash for konqueror.  Firefox used flash fine. 
> 
> rpm returns this (plus messages about NOID !)
> 
> Registering flashplayer as a XPCOM component in
> /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.3
> 
> Registering flashplayer as a XPCOM component in
> /usr/lib/firefox-1.0
> Setup is complete.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 15:56 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> > Not only did it not take the install path properly, but it started some
> > sort of rogue process on my machine !  My laptop fan went nuts and I did
> > a top and found a macromedia process running !  What is up with that ?  
> > 
> > I very much dislike installing third party closed source software that
> > comes from the Internet.  I killed the macromedia process.  A few
> > minutes later my fan went nuts again.  This time top showed the process
> > "top" running at 98% cpu usage.  I rebooted and now the process list
> > looks OK. 
> > 
> > I need shockwave to view a website.  Anyone else had this
> > experience ?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 15:43 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> > > 
> > > #./flashplayer-installer
> > > 
> > > Copyright(C) 2002-2003 Macromedia, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> > > 
> > > Macromedia Flash Player 7 for Linux
> > > 
> > > Macromedia Flash Player 7 will be installed on this machine.
> > > 
> > > You are running the Macromedia Flash Player installer as the "root"
> > > user.
> > > Macromedia Flash Player 7 will be installed system-wide.
> > > 
> > > Support is available at http://www.macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/
> > > 
> > > To install Macromedia Flash Player 7 now, press ENTER.
> > > 
> > > To cancel the installation at any time, press Control-C.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > NOTE: Macromedia Flash Player requires two font packages
> > >       to be installed, ttfonts and urw-fonts.
> > > 
> > > Press ENTER to continue...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > NOTE: Please exit any browsers you may have running.
> > > 
> > > Press ENTER to continue...
> > > 
> > > Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, Netscape,
> > > or Opera browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla): /usr/lib
> > > 
> > > WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path.
> > > 
> > > Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, Netscape,
> > > or Opera browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla): /usr/lib/mozilla
> > > 
> > > WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path.
> > > 
> > > Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, Netscape,
> > > or Opera browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla): /usr/bin
> > > 
> > > WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path.
> > > 
> > > Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, Netscape,
> > > or Opera browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla):                    
> > > 
> > > 
> > > # find / -name konqueror
> > > /usr/bin/konqueror
> > > /usr/share/apps/konqueror
> > > /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/konqueror
> > > /home/krlux/.kde/share/apps/konqueror
> > > /home/sheri/.kde/share/apps/konqueror
> > > /root/.kde/share/apps/konqueror
> > > 
> > > # find / -name mozilla
> > > /usr/lib/mozilla
> > > /usr/bin/mozilla
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> -- 
> Kim Lux (Mr.)  Diesel Research Inc
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 13
> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:13:56 -0600
> From: "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
> Subject: Re: BOOBY TRAPS?
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1101341636.3668.59.camel at rodolfo.gt.factorrent.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> 
> On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 14:57 -0800, Arthur Stephens wrote:
> > Doing a server new install yesterday.
> > Came in this morning and there was this message on the console of my
> > fedora3 box
> > 
> > BOOBY TRAPS
> > INIT: version 2.85 reloading
> > 
> 
> You may safely disregard the "INIT" line. It comes up now and again but
> is entirely harmless. The "booby traps" line I have never seen, but it
> sure as hell does not sound good.
> 
> Is this box connected to a network or the Internet? Is it firewalled?
> Did you check the logs? Is it even remotely possible that it has been
> cracked?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 14
> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:15:14 +0100
> From: Thomas Zehetbauer <thomasz at hostmaster.org>
> Subject: Re: Palm Pilot and FC3 - Again!
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <1101341714.4260.5.camel at hostmaster.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
> Manual symlinks in /dev do not work with udev, add the following line
> to /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules:
> KERNEL="ttyUSB1",SYMLINK="pilot"
> 
> Permissions on /dev/pilot are given to every user logging on locally,
> this is specified in /etc/security/console.perms and processed upon
> login and when udev creates entries device entries.
> 
> Tom
> 
> -- 
>   T h o m a s   Z e h e t b a u e r   ( TZ251 )
>   PGP encrypted mail preferred - KeyID 96FFCB89
>       finger thomasz at hostmaster.org for key
> 
> Attempting to apply the OSI layers model to a real network is just like
> attempting to represent seven dimensions in four dimensional reality.
> 
> 
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> Message: 15
> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:20:06 -0500
> From: Randy Chrismon <rchrismon at patmedia.net>
> Subject: Re: Server Tools Don't Prompt for Root Password
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <41A52536.4090000 at patmedia.net>
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> 
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 08:54:45PM -0500, Randy Chrismon wrote:
> >  
> >
> >> <snip>
> >
> >
> >>From the 'rpm' man page -- the "M" means the 'mode' (a.k.a. file
> >permissions) have changed. And, as the first error message above indicates,
> >this binary needs to be setuid root -- that is, owned by root and have the
> >setuid file permission.
> >
> >
> >Have you run any scripts to "secure" your system? An overzealous [1]
> >security sweep could very easily choose to remove that bit....
> >
> >
> >(The "G" is also a little bit disturbing -- it means the group ownership has
> >changed, and on my system, it's in group "root". Odd for that to change.)
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Mea culpa! Mea maxima culpa!
> Two lessons: 1. I don't know what I'm doing, generally, and particularly 
> with file permissions and user rights. 2. Don't do things when you don't 
> know what you're doing.
> A few days before I noticed the problem, I did a chown on one of the 
> /usr subdirectories (I don't even remember which one, now) so I could 
> execute an executable of some sort. That's probably where things got 
> messed up. Don't ask me what I was thinking because I probably wasn't.
> 
> Anyway, I've changed the user:group back to root:root. Now, I don't even 
> get the insufficient privileges message box. Whatever system setting app 
> now just refuses to start. OTOH, now I know what I did wrong, where I 
> did it, and what man pages to look at. Thanks for all the help; I 
> wouldn't have made it this far, otherwise.
> Randy
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 16
> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:30:30 -0800
> From: "Arthur Stephens" <astephens at ptera.net>
> Subject: Re: BOOBY TRAPS?
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> Brand new install on 11/22/04. Connected on our local 192.168.0.x network
> on 11/23/04
> It was firewalled before being connected.
> Could not find anything unusual in the logs.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 4:13 PM
> Subject: Re: BOOBY TRAPS?
> 
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 14:57 -0800, Arthur Stephens wrote:
> > > Doing a server new install yesterday.
> > > Came in this morning and there was this message on the console of my
> > > fedora3 box
> > >
> > > BOOBY TRAPS
> > > INIT: version 2.85 reloading
> > >
> >
> > You may safely disregard the "INIT" line. It comes up now and again but
> > is entirely harmless. The "booby traps" line I have never seen, but it
> > sure as hell does not sound good.
> >
> > Is this box connected to a network or the Internet? Is it firewalled?
> > Did you check the logs? Is it even remotely possible that it has been
> > cracked?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > -- 
> > Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
> >
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> 
> Message: 17
> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 06:01:05 +0530
> From: Rahul Sundaram <rahulsundaram at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2 boot failure where
> 	kernel-2.6.9-1.3_FC2	works
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> 
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 06:51:26 +0800, John Summerfield
> <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 November 2004 23:01, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> > > This doesn't solve the original problems of labels not working.  But
> > > IMHO, labels were bad idea to begin with, so I can't say I feel sorry
> > > for seeing them not working ;-)
> > 
> > Labels are a good idea implemented poorly. The kernel should whinge loutly
> > when it sees duplicates.
> 
> officially devlabel is depreciated in favor of udev. so i guess your
> problem should go away soon
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Rahul Sundaram
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Message: 18
> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 06:02:37 +0530
> From: Rahul Sundaram <rahulsundaram at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: BOOBY TRAPS?
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> 
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:57:30 -0800, Arthur Stephens <astephens at ptera.net> wrote:
> >  
> > Doing a server new install yesterday. 
> > Came in this morning and there was this message on the console of my
> > fedora3 box
> > 
> > BOOBY TRAPS
> > INIT: version 2.85 reloading
> > 
> 
> 
> suggestion: download the kernel source code and grep it. If this line
> is not in the kernel your machine is probably cracked
> 
> download chkroot and rkhunter and make sure its not trojaned
> 
>