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Re: Linux Il
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Shachar Tal wrote:
>
> Your /dev/sda1 is probably the swap partition.
>
> Shachar.
And if it is, just for the record, it is VERY bad practice to have the
swap partition as the 1st partition.
--Ariel
>
> On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Ben - Nes Michael wrote:
>
> > Well applouse to slackwere rescue disk :-)
> > even if i dont like the vi. (i preffer joe)
> >
> > one of the strange thing was that when i loaded the ramdisk it declared
> > that it found sda HD with partitions sda1, sda2, sda3
> > any way i could not mount sda1 so the question what it probed ?
> > /dev/sda2 233294 175066 46180 79% /
> > /dev/sda3 3811406 3159801 454408 87% /proxy
> >
> > Ira Abramov wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Ben - Nes Michael wrote:
> > >
> > > > > first step: is there an /sbin/tcsh and is it executable? :-)
> > > >
> > > > well this is the problem but i cant change it back to any of the shell
> > > > that sit under /bin
> > > > i tried $su root -c "chsh root -t /bin/tcsh" to fix it
> > > > and now ill try the rescue disk unless u have better idea :-)
> > >
> > > try the rescue disk from VAresearch, it's great...
> > >
> > > to stop such stupid glitches I made myself an extra UID 0 entry in the
> > > password file and called it iasu (the two other root users here do the
> > > same with their initials) and this will let me login with a working shell
> > > (though different password) if anything goes nutty. I must warn you though
> > > that this type of configuration is VERY insecure, may confuse certain
> > > systems' utils, and in general should not be implemented unless you are
> > > behind a firewall and trust your inside net's people too, plus you have to
> > > really know your way about Unix secutiry and enjoy hammer blows to the
> > > head. I would never have set my system that way, but "it was like this
> > > when I got here", so I never argued.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ira Abramov <ira(a)scso.com> whois: IA58 (a linux enthusiast)
> > >
> > > She sells cshs by the cshore. - Rob Malda
> >
>
> Shachar Tal
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- Re: Linux Il
- From: Shachar Tal <shachar@vipe.technion.ac.il>