Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #111
From: Digestifier <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 94 01:14:03 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #111, Volume #2               Tue, 27 Sep 94 01:14:03 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Special Sale On QNX! (Michael S. Scheidell)
  Re: c++ problem with Slackware 2.0 distribution (Mark J. Bobak)
  Re: Want to read boot messagezx (Don Garrett)
  Re: Orchid Kelvin 64 Xfree86 Driver Availability ??? (Raymond Ho)
  Upgrade my Linux - where from? (Jerry Davis)
  mounting Misumi CD on 1.1.49 (David Inwoong Hong)
  Looking for Docs (Benjamin Keene)
  Bootp server (SunSun)
  Tape backup info? (Joel M. Hoffman)
  Re: Laserjet doesn't go online (Joseph P DeCello IIII)
  Re: Mounting my Linux drive from a Sun workstation (Joseph P DeCello IIII)
  Re: How to print out MAN PAGES ??? (Joseph P DeCello IIII)
  Re: Linux as KingGod NFS Server to DOS Slaves (Joseph P DeCello IIII)
  Re: Want to read boot messagezx (Christian Jachmann)
  Probs: PAS16 & 1542B (Christian Jachmann)
  PHILIPS 521 CDROM WRITER (TlingitMan)
  Re: Clean Linux Filesystem (Frerk Meyer)
  Re: Clean shutdown from X (Glen Niebur)
  Re: How to use a host as a router - READ THIS (Jay Ashworth)
  Access problem after changin root password (Greg Colin)

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From: [email-masked] (Michael S. Scheidell)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Special Sale On QNX!
Date: 26 Sep 1994 15:21:33 GMT

[email-masked] wrote:

NO HE DID NOT!
LOOK AT PATHS.  THIS IS A FORGERY!

PLEASE READ THIS.  I DID NOT MAKE THAT POST!

This posting did not come from our office, but we are tracing it.
If you look carefully at headers you will find sites that don't exist, 
and see that it does not trace back to [email-masked].

We have a good idea of who it is and some admins are helping us trace it 
by comparing the posting on their machine to other postings.

If you have the time and ability to help us trace this, we can give you 
info on who is doing it and maybe try to pressure HIS site to drop him.

Again, I did not do this post, and we have taken great pains to avoid 
offending anyone, and to date this is my first flame, even if undeserved.

I thank those who looked at headers and saw it was a forgery, and look 
forward to a solution to this.

---

Michael S. Scheidell                    Florida Datamation, Inc. 
[email-masked]                       (407) 241-2966
Distributers of QNX Real Time OS Products (finger for more info)

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From: [email-masked] (Mark J. Bobak)
Subject: Re: c++ problem with Slackware 2.0 distribution
Date: 26 Sep 1994 21:00:27 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Timothy J. Kordas <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Peter Tieleman ([email-masked]) wrote:
>: An example of what happens:
>: #include <math.h>
>: #include <stdio.h>
>: main(){
>:   float x;
>:   x = cos(3.14);
>:   printf("Hallo");
>: }
>: gcc -o test test.cc
>: /tmp/cca041071.o: Undefined symbol _cos referenced from text segment
>: Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Sun Sep 25 13:40:34
>try:
>gcc -o test test.cc -lm

Also, note that in general, it's probably not wise to call test programs "test",
or if you do, don't forget to type "./test".  Otherwise you'll be running
/bin/test, and then you'll *really* be stumped!! ;-)

Have a good one,

-Mark
-- 
Mark J. Bobak
Application Developer
Truck Operations, Ford Motor Company
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Don Garrett)
Subject: Re: Want to read boot messagezx
Date: 22 Sep 1994 13:35:10 GMT

Greg J. Pryzby ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Where (or are) the messages displayed at boot stored?  Is there a way
: to read the messages that are written to the console at boot?

: Everything scrolls by so fast that I can't read them, but I would like
: too.

: Thanks in advance for the help!

: --
: gregory j pryzby                                          [email-masked]

: herbivores ate well because their food did never run

  There is a command known as dmesg. It shows the contents of the
message buffer for kernel messages. When used right after boot that
means that it shows all of the boot messages.

--
Don Garrett                                                   Louisiana Tech
[email-masked]                                      University
                  http://info.latech.edu/~dgarrett/

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From: [email-masked] (Raymond Ho)
Crossposted-To: git.unix.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Orchid Kelvin 64 Xfree86 Driver Availability ???
Date: 26 Sep 1994 02:29:11 GMT

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (nilsen) writes: 

>
>
>Does anyone know if drivers have been written for this card yet??
>
>I think it uses a cirrus logic 5434 chipset
>
>I would obviously prefer the driver to be public domain
>
>I know that it is supposed to be coming in xfree86 3.1, when is this due
>out???  
>
>Is there any way i can get an advance copy of the driver??
>
>
>And what does accelerated vs. unaccelerated support mean on the linux 
>hardware compatability sheet??
>
>thanx,
>
>-- 
>Robert Windsor Nilsen III     | We make holes in teeth!
>[email-masked] |
>
I would like to know too, I have a Diamond Speedstar 64 PCI which uses the
same Currus Logic 5434 chip.  I've configured it as a clgd5424 for X and it
works fine for all the display modes, except when I exit, then when screen
will just goes into funny characters.  I have tried using the clgd543x driver
but with no luck.

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From: [email-masked] (Jerry Davis)
Subject: Upgrade my Linux - where from?
Date: 26 Sep 1994 21:50:12 GMT

I have a newbie type question.  I have the 1.1.18 kernel version.
I would like to upgrade to a newer version of linux.

I have ftp'd to sunsite.unx.edu in the /pub/Linux directory, and I'm not 
sure where to go from there.

When I upgraded from 1.0.8 I had a CD-ROM that had the kernel sources in 
it.  I just copied 'em down off the CD and make'd the system as usual.

Where are the sources, so I can do the same thing?
And what version (as of today is a stable one) that I should get?

Signed,
Confused

--
======================================================================
| Jerry & Ellen Davis  | If work were like my hobbies, then I would  |
| Wauwatosa, WI        | want to WORK all the time!                  |
======================================================================

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From: [email-masked] (David Inwoong Hong)
Subject: mounting Misumi CD on 1.1.49
Date: 25 Sep 1994 00:21:01 GMT

Hi. Linuxers.

I am having difficulty mounting Mitusmi CD. 
I upgraded the kernel from 1.0.9 to 1.1.49 recently, and now
I don't seem to be able to mount CD.

Whenever I try, mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt

I get an error,

mount -readfile only.

Any ideas.?

I checked ftab, and etc.., but can't figure it out.

Thanks

David

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From: [email-masked] (Benjamin Keene)
Subject: Looking for Docs
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 15:28:45 GMT

 I have just put Linux on my machine, and have no clue how to set
anything up.  Are there any docs that I can get that would help
(esp. installing openwin) Any thing that will help get me started is
greatly appreciated.  (such as how to print files... :-)

        Thanks in advance
        Ben Keene
        [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (SunSun)
Subject: Bootp server
Date: 27 Sep 1994 01:05:28 GMT

Hi !! 
   I meet a problem for install bootp server in Linux

      Hope you can help me , Thank

 My problem is that 

      when I install bootpd-210a in Linux kernel 1.1.50 , or 1.1.51

 , I use Wattcp's TCPINFO to test it

      but my Linux server's syslog will produce error message

   AF=2 PA=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  ( that client's IP , seem have received)
   ioctl(SIOCSARP): Protocol family not supported

but my client machine cannot get any IP messages

   How can I fix it ?????
  
           Thank you !!
======================================================================
                                [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Joel M. Hoffman)
Subject: Tape backup info?
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 15:25:31 GMT

I've finally decided to get a tape backup for my Linux system.  The
problem is I know nothing about tape backups, let alone what might
work under Linux.  I already have 2 floppies, and I seem to recall
that the tape backup devices take the place of one floppy; then again,
that was some years ago.

So, is there a document somewhere where I might find advice as to
which brand to purchase (cheepest, yet one that works with Linux), and
what s/w I need under Linux (I assume just tar, but....).

Or, if you have a tape backup working under Linux, and also have two
floppy drives installed, please e-mail me with specs.  I'll post a
summary.

Thanks!

-Joel
([email-masked])

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__|~| 16 Million DEAD.           and the diameter of its destruction, about 7
                                meters, and in it four killed and 11 wounded. 
 cnc  Bosnia, Europe. 1993.     And around these, in a larger circle of  pain
 cnc  HOW MANY MORE?          and time,  are scattered two  hospitals and one
                          cemetery.   But the young woman who was  buried  in
                    the place from where she came, at a distance of more than
             than 100 kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably.   And the 
      lonely man who is mourning her death in a distant  country incorporates
into the circle the whole world.  And I won't speak of the cry of the orphans
that reaches God's chair and from there makes the circle endless and godless."
=============================================================================
     Tell Clinton to stop the genocide:  [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Joseph P DeCello IIII)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Laserjet doesn't go online
Date: 27 Sep 1994 03:12:08 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Thomas Quinot <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Le Prostetnic Vogon Maxim Spivak écrit :
> 
>> I have a HP LaserJet II connected to my Linux box. If I turn on my 
>> printer at computer start-up, before the Linux kernel loads, everything 
>> is fine: lpr prints, ghostscript does its job, etc. However, if I turn on 
>> my printer when Linux is already running, it doesn't go online. It's as 
>
>
>This is no real solution, but you may try to kill lpd and restart it after
>you've powered your printer up. Works here, anyway (I suspect lpd fails to
>work correctly if the printer is not online when it starts up, but I've
>had no time to find out the problem precisely. It seems that /tmp/.printer
>sometimes disappears, but I'm not sure...)
>
>Hope this helps :-)
>-- 
>Thomas QUINOT                       |  "Un roi sans divertissement est un
><[email-masked]>      |             homme plein de misère."
>Linux - choice of a GNU generation  |                          Jean GIONO

you may just be able to do an:
        lpc start lp
or
        lpc enable lp

to see if it will bring the queue up withough killing lpd and restarting.

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=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Joseph P. DeCello III   ***Computer Asst.***   Phone: (517)355-9582
Michigan State University, Computer Laboratory, [email-masked]
   Campus Park and Planning   MTuWF 1p-5p

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From: [email-masked] (Joseph P DeCello IIII)
Subject: Re: Mounting my Linux drive from a Sun workstation
Date: 27 Sep 1994 03:13:41 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Lance Holmes <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>I've been trying to mount my PC's linux partition from my Sun workstation.
>I obviously have been unsuccessful or I wouldn't be posting this message.
>
>I made a change to my "etc/exports" file.
>I added the following line
>
>/          workstation(rw)
>
>where workstation is the name of my sun workstation and its IP address 
>is in my hosts file.
>
>After making the change I wasn't sure what I sould do to make it take 
>affect.  I assumed that either mountd  or rebooting the machine would 
>do it.
>
>On my workstation it just times out trying > server not responding: RPC:
>Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out
>
>any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>---
>Lance Holmes

you need to edit /etc/rc.d/inet2.rc (maybe I misspelled it) but anyhow:

uncomment the rpc.mountd and other relevent entries for these services,
then reboot.

I'm running Slackware 1.2, and this worked for me.

--
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Joseph P. DeCello III   ***Computer Asst.***   Phone: (517)355-9582
Michigan State University, Computer Laboratory, [email-masked]
   Campus Park and Planning   MTuWF 1p-5p

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From: [email-masked] (Joseph P DeCello IIII)
Subject: Re: How to print out MAN PAGES ???
Date: 27 Sep 1994 03:15:31 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Mitchum DSouza <[email-masked]> wrote:
>In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Peter Dalgaard SFE) writes:
>|> In <[email-masked]> [email-masked]
>|> (Christian Jachmann) writes:
>|> 
>|> >NISCHELWITZER Alexander Kurt ([email-masked]) wrote:
>|> >: Hello,
>|> 
>|> >: I want to print out online manpages
>|> >: (e.g. man cd | lpr -Pxxx ) but I have
>|> >: problems because I get always ugly
>|> >: control characters , , etc.).
>|> 
>|> >: How can I use nroff (groff, troff, etc.)
>|> >: and the man-macros to avoid these control
>|> >: characters and my 
>|> >: GREATEST PROBLEM: how can I print
>|> >: out preformated man pages without
>|> >: these ugly control characters on my printer?
>|> 
>|> >If u've got a Postscript-Printer, try to get a2ps. It converts ASCII to 
>|> >PostScript, prints 2 or more pages on one converts all control characters.
>|> 
>|> Actually, it is a bit of a "verschlimmbesserung" that the
>|> distribution tend to carry the formatted man pages only.
>|> Granted, you get faster lookup times, but you lose the ability
>|> to pretty-print them with 'man -t'. For some of the larger
>|> "pages", this can actually be the difference between readable
>|> and not. The slackware contrib directory has a rather extensive
>|> set of manual sources.
>|> 
>|> BTW: Can you have the *sources* in compressed form and still
>|> have 'man' working?
>
>Depends on what "man" you have. For definite (I use it) man-1.4b lets you
>compress (gzip) everthing. This includes sources and preformatted man pages.
>
>Mitch

Try cd'ing to the directory where the manpage resides, then
        nroff -man page.x |lpr

This should work

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=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Joseph P. DeCello III   ***Computer Asst.***   Phone: (517)355-9582
Michigan State University, Computer Laboratory, [email-masked]
   Campus Park and Planning   MTuWF 1p-5p

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From: [email-masked] (Joseph P DeCello IIII)
Subject: Re: Linux as KingGod NFS Server to DOS Slaves
Date: 27 Sep 1994 03:20:12 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Jason Asbahr <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>Ok, maybe the subject line is a bit overdone...  :-)
>
>I'd like to use a Linux box as the central fileserver for a
>set of DOS boxes (and other unix-ish boxes, but that's no
>problem).  
>
>I've used Lantastic and the Lantastic TCP/IP extensions with
>disappointment in the past.  
>
>Can anyone recommend DOS-based NFS solutions that will allow
>command-line level remote file access as well as Windows remote
>access?  I don't need to netboot, I just need to share files.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Jason Asbahr                           116 E. Edgebrook #603
>Reactive Systems / C.R.A.S.H.          Houston, Texas  77034
>Consulting and Development             (713) 946-2732  voice
>NeXT / Newton / Virtual Reality        [email-masked] (NeXTmail)
>
>--
>Jason Asbahr                           116 E. Edgebrook #603
>Reactive Systems / C.R.A.S.H.          Houston, Texas  77034
>Consulting and Development             (713) 946-2732  voice
>NeXT / Newton / Virtual Reality        [email-masked] (NeXTmail)

I'm not yet completely satisfied with performance (just started this
and need some fine tuning), but I'm mounting a directory from my Linux
box to several PCs using FTP's PC/TCP V2.31, which comes with interdrive.

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=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Joseph P. DeCello III   ***Computer Asst.***   Phone: (517)355-9582
Michigan State University, Computer Laboratory, [email-masked]
   Campus Park and Planning   MTuWF 1p-5p

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From: [email-masked] (Christian Jachmann)
Subject: Re: Want to read boot messagezx
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 20:07:29 GMT

Greg J. Pryzby ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Where (or are) the messages displayed at boot stored?  Is there a way
: to read the messages that are written to the console at boot?

Use dmesg.
-- 
-cj

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From: [email-masked] (Christian Jachmann)
Subject: Probs: PAS16 & 1542B
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 20:19:19 GMT

Hi!
I've got some probs with my PAS16 and 1542B:
If I try to play a MOD-File, following msg is displayed:  
  -> Sound: DMA timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?

My Configuration:

PAS16: IRQ 10  / DRQ 3 / BASE 0x388
1542B: IRQ 11  / DMA 5 / BASE 0x330     

System: 486dx50 / 8MB Ram + 16MB Swap /  Linux 1.1.49

Hopefully somebody could help.

Thanks in advance.
-- 
-cj

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From: [email-masked] (TlingitMan)
Subject: PHILIPS 521 CDROM WRITER
Date: 26 Sep 1994 23:28:06 -0400

I have installed, compiled, and tried the `mkisofs' and `cdwrite' software
which makes a CDROM partition image and copies it onto a CD-R media.

I am running Linux-1.1.18-UMSDOS kernel with an ADAPTEC 1542CF SCSI card.

`mkisofs' works great - as well as the mucho-bucks YM solution. I wrote an
ISO9660 partition into a blank partition and mounted it without incident.

`cdwrite' takes some setup.  To date, I have been unable to get it to work
because I can't build a `GENERIC SCSI SUPPORT' kernel for it which will
allow the device to show up as a device, though the `Inquiry' feature
finds the `IMS device ...' string upon kernel installation at boottime.

Anybody got any ideas?  Can anybody mail me a FAQ? a HOWTO? 

Thanks enormously!

[email-masked] 

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From: [email-masked] (Frerk Meyer)
Subject: Re: Clean Linux Filesystem
Date: 26 Sep 1994 15:00:09 GMT

I have a strange problem with NFS and filesystem checking.
Since I started to mount my home directory it started.

NFS Client: Kernel is 1.1.8, Slackware 2.0, e2fsck 0.5a, sysVinit,
NFS Server: Kernel is 1.1.45, Slackware 2.0

NFS Server, /etc/exports:
/home clientmachine (rw)

NFS Client, /etc/fstab
host:/home/user /home/user nfs defaults

All works fine except
while accidently having my home directory mounted,
I pressed CTRL&ALT&DEL to shutdown which does a

shutdown -t3 -rf now

according to initab.
Last action is a

umount -a

in rc.0 which complained and threw
me in single user mode with a prompt.

Anytime I want to shutdown now,
I login as root,

umount -a -t nfs,
shutdown -t3 -r now,

and after killing all processes
Linux on the client machine complains with:

wired, clean, and not updateable buffer in list 0
wired, clean, and not updateable buffer in list 0
wired, clean, and not updateable buffer in list 0
wired, clean, and not updateable buffer in list 0
wired, clean, and not updateable buffer in list 0
wired, clean, and not updateable buffer in list 0
wired, clean, and not updateable buffer in list 0
wired, clean, and not updateable buffer in list 0

QUESTION: What should I do to avoid this error message?

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From: [email-masked] (Glen Niebur)
Subject: Re: Clean shutdown from X
Date: 26 Sep 1994 20:45:54 GMT

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Nora E. Etukudo) writes:

>   in article <[email-masked]>,
>   from Mon, 19 Sep 1994 16:18:02 UNDEFINED,
>   [email-masked] also known as "Tim Brailsford",
>   wrote [shortend]:
>[...]
>> I am having a problem shutting down a Linux system from X (Linux 1.0.9,
>> XFree86 2.1.1).

>I'm running  xdm also (Slackware-2.0, Linux-1.1.50,  XFree86-2.1.1) and I
>shut down with

>     1. switching to console (Ctrl-Alt-F1)
>     2. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del.

>The system goes correctly down, with no errors on next boot.

>But, I hope there is a better way, isn't it?

>> Any ideas would be gratefully recieved.

I just become root in one of my Xterms, and do

        # /sbin/shutdown now

Never any problems, never any complaints.

Glen

--
Glen Niebur           | A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys
Mayo Clinic           | Painted wings and Giants rings make way for other toys.
Biomechanics Lab      |       
[email-masked] |            ~from Puff the Magic Dragon

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From: [email-masked] (Jay Ashworth)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: How to use a host as a router - READ THIS
Date: 26 Sep 1994 12:13:08 -0400

[email-masked] (Frank van Maarseveen) writes:
>I saw a posting in comp.os.solaris recently about assigning multiple
>IP addresses to the same adapter! (on a SparcStation with Solaris 2.x)

I'll reply to this, since the original posting was mine, I guess...

>This was done in order to route something across the same physical network
>without the need for an extra adapter. The second "virtual" adapter was
>referred to as le0:1, the ":1" part appended to the original adapter name.
>Though a bit unusual, there's nothing wrong with this I think.
>I suppose there are no plans yet for implementing this feature in linux.

This is, of course, the opposite of the situation we were originally
talking about, the same address on two different interfaces.  This one
here is useful for running one machine with multiple names as well.

I've been asked to condense my postings about using Linux as a router for
the Networking HOWTO by it's editor; I'll be scribbling today.

Cheers,
-- jra
-- 
Jay R. Ashworth        High Technology Systems Comsulting             Ashworth
Designer              Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation       & Associates
ka1fjx/4                                                  
[email-masked]   "Hey! Do any of you guys know how to Madison?"  813 790 7592

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From: [email-masked] (Greg Colin)
Subject: Access problem after changin root password
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 03:04:39 GMT

After installing Linux 0.99.15g I changed the root password and now 
cannot log in as root either with the password I set, or with the default 
(blank) password. 

Obviously, I have to reinstall Linux, but want to avoid this problem. Can 
someone email a clue to this poor newbie?

Thankx     :)
GReg

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