[96031] in RedHat Linux List
Re: 6 short questions from a Redhat newbie
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (timsoftware@liposome.genebee.msu.s)
Fri Oct 23 07:21:34 1998
From: timsoftware@liposome.genebee.msu.su
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:20:10 +0400 (MSD)
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On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Nelson Little wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1) Can I mount a hard disk that has been formated with vfat32 support in
> RH5.0? If so how? (I recently upgraded my kernel to 2.0.35-2)
Yes you can!
Compile your kernel to support vfat32 and then mount it as always:
mount /dev/hdx /anydirectory
I hope that will help, but i'm not sure.
>
> 2) What is the name of the program that brings up that control panel thing
> in x-win in redhat5.0 ?
I don't know its name but you can run it in Xwin from:
Start/blah-blah/administration/Control Panel
>
> 3) How can I view long filenames on my cdrom in RH5.0? If I view the CD
> contents in win95 I see the long filenames but in rehdat I see blah~1.tgz
> etc.. not the long filenames.
Sorryu buddy. But that's the problem of Windows95. I never managed to read
Linux filenames. Ask Bill Gates for HOWTO.
>
> 4) At the moment I am using RH5.0 but can I apply the updates from the
> redhat5.1 directory in the redhat site? Does it make any difference? - and
> how do I actually make my RH5.0 into RH5.1 ?
I don't know it ask another Red Hats.
> 5) When I update something like for example glibc do I need to get all
> these files:
>
> gllibc-2.0.7-19...
> glibc-debug..
> glibc-devel...
> glibc-profile..
>
> or is glibc-2.0.7-19.. all that I really need?
>
> 6) Is there any sort of checklist going around that I can use to see if my
> system is relatively secure and safe from attacks and other exploits?
>
You can use such commands:
last|less - to see who logged in your system
cat /var/log/secure - to see failed password authentification
That's all.
Bye! Good luck in using Linux!
Tim
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