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Re: Linux Il




Your /dev/sda1 is probably the swap partition.

Shachar.

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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