What did you do to get root? Thanks ... ftp://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/pub/archives/linux/jp-linux/Vine/Vine-2.1.5/ppc/Vine/RPMS/...
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jamy1975
Oct 26, 2004 1:54 am
Well.. I'm about to give up and take the linkstation back and get a Kuro or mini itx system. Taking it back would be unfortunate as I could really use the...
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jamy1975
Oct 26, 2004 2:05 am
Here is a copy of my /etc/passwd root:LpAYzKZlzOgaM:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash bin:*:1:1:bin:/bin: daemon:*:2:2:daemon:/usr/sbin: sys:*:3:3:sys:/dev: ...
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sneed_siding
Oct 26, 2004 3:50 am
I think I just deleted the root password (root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash). This lets you log in with no password. Then use the passwd program to reset the...
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vax2man
Oct 26, 2004 10:11 am
What are you using to edit the passwd file? Linux uses a different end of line character than either Windows or Mac OS. If you are editing the file on a...
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hack_kuro_box
Oct 26, 2004 12:33 pm
Larry, ... with ... It's very easy. 1) Replace 120G hard drive with 250G. 2) Install firmware update. You'll get LinkStation 250G! HKB...
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jamy1975
Oct 26, 2004 4:44 pm
I have been using Vi on my redhat box to edit the file. I then copy the file over to the sahre on the linkstation and then runa script from cgi-bin3 to copy...
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jamy1975
Oct 26, 2004 4:50 pm
I have been using Vi on my redhat box to edit the file. I then copy the file over to the sahre on the linkstation and then runa script from cgi-bin3 to copy...
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Roy M. Silvernail
codewhacker
Oct 26, 2004 5:31 pm
... Yep, that's it. When you try to SSH in as root, the LS tries to fire up a shell named "/bin/bash^M". In vi, the cure is: vi -b passwd ... -- Roy M....
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Rick Flower
nrkkflower
Oct 26, 2004 6:16 pm
In my case (and many others I suspect), they removed the drive and plugged it into another Linux box and mounted the drive that way to update the passwd file....
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jamy1975
Oct 26, 2004 9:54 pm
I am happy to report that getting rid of the ^M at the end of each line solved the problem. Thanks everyone for your help. Jamy ... fire up...
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hkyee2288
Oct 28, 2004 1:27 am
i will try that. thought it was complex. thx. ... <hkyee@h...>...
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jamy1975
Oct 28, 2004 12:24 pm
In installed perl from the Kuro box binaries and tried to run slimserver after decompressing from the tr.gz archive. When I try to run it I get a message...
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Thom Mason
thommason
Oct 29, 2004 12:58 am
I was able to run slimserver from the command line (version 5.3.1 installed from the slimdevices tar.gz file) without any troubles. This was on a Linkstation...
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jamy1975
Oct 29, 2004 2:09 am
Did you put the slimserver files in any particular directory? Thanks...
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jamy1975
Oct 29, 2004 1:28 pm
Where did you untar the perl binaries to? By defualt perl appears to be in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1 , there are just a few modules in there. When I untar, the...
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tad94564
Oct 29, 2004 4:10 pm
... and ... output ... "switchin";). ... if ... After suffering from this problem last night, I found one possible cause of the poor performance. There may be...
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Rick Flower
nrkkflower
Oct 29, 2004 5:13 pm
I've already done this on my updated kernel with no ill effects yet.. Of course, I've not actually tried using the USB yet, so I can't really vouch for whether...
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tad94564
Oct 29, 2004 6:28 pm
It's probably still in there if your kernel is based on the HD-LAN_GPL source. I've recieved word this fix will be in the next firmware release, which is...
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James Ronald
james_j_ronald
Oct 29, 2004 7:25 pm
What does RSN stand for?...
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jamy1975
Oct 29, 2004 8:47 pm
I finally got it to work.. I had been trying to untar the perl binary to /usr/share/perl I finally got it to work by untaring the kuro perl.tar binary to /usr...
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Rick Flower
nrkkflower
Oct 29, 2004 9:02 pm
Unless there was another issue of the same type, that problem should be solved in my kernel.. I went in and removed the kprintf call or whatever it was. As...
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Roy M. Silvernail
codewhacker
Oct 29, 2004 10:22 pm
... Real Soon Now. Not sure of the origin. I think I first saw it in Pournelle's Byte column. -- Roy M. Silvernail is roy@..., and you're not ...
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James Stewart
wartstew
Oct 30, 2004 8:43 pm
I'm finally getting around to attempting to get Debian Linux installed on my Linkstation so that from then on software installs and updates will just be an ...
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James Stewart
wartstew
Oct 30, 2004 10:27 pm
... <jronald@c...> wrote: What does RSN stand for? ... RSN: Acronym for "Real Soon Now" is a historically infamous promise that companies of technical...
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Thom Mason
thommason
Oct 30, 2004 11:49 pm
I moved /usr/share/perl/5.6.1 to /usr/share/perl/old5.6.1 (just in case I screwed something up). I then untar'd the Kuroboc tarball in /opt and copied the...
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James Stewart
wartstew
Oct 31, 2004 2:10 am
Okay, I solved my problem of being locked out of the Web interface: I simply deleted /www/.htpasswd and /www/cgi-bin/.htpasswd...
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James Stewart
wartstew
Oct 31, 2004 2:28 am
Oops, please ignore my last plea for help I had attempted to researve the mac address in my router's DHCP reservation table, but got it wrong. So my router...
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artagesw
Nov 1, 2004 1:05 am
James, I'd love to help out with your Debian project if I can. I've worked with Red Hat and Yellow Dog distributions, but never Debian. I have a hodge-podge...
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rafael_c_trujillo
rafael_c_tru...
Nov 1, 2004 1:29 am
Mmm, I just started having facing this same problem, I'm not able to make the linkstation go through the router, it works just fine inside the LAN, but can get...
