[96139] in RedHat Linux List
Re: 6 short questions from a Redhat newbie
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Sat Oct 24 14:32:10 1998
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 14:18:54 -0400
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
To: timsoftware@liposome.genebee.msu.su
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timsoftware@liposome.genebee.msu.su wrote:
> 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.
You don't need to recompile!
Kernel 2.0.35-2 already supports FAT32.
FAT32 support lives in the 'vfat' module that kernel-2.0.35-2.i386.rpm
installs, along with the kernel itself.
If you run kerneld, the vfat module loads automatically when
you mount a filesystem using mount -t vfat.
You can still compile, if you need the exercise but it's not necessary
if you just want FAT32 support.
>
>
> >
> > 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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