One of our Fedora 14 machines has the root user stuck in bash. This would not be a problem as we rarely use root, but some of our processing runs on cronjobs from the root account. Tcsh is installed and up to date. All other users can switch shells except root. I do not know what happened as I was out for a day and came back and the processing was not working.
View 1 Repliesso i installed f12 from a dvd my friend gave me.after the package installation and the system reboot i log in as "root" and typed my root password then [root@localhost ~]# came up now i have no idea what to do next. the installer wont run in graphics just textbase im new to linux and im willing to learn but what do i do next.
View 8 Replies View Relatedi have an asus p5kpl-am se g31 socket 775 mobo with an intel pentium e5300 2.6 ghz cpu.
i think my problem might be with authentication or permissions possibly in pam.d, but i can not login as root, canot su, nor sudoer. i can't even use bash because i can't enter my password because when i enter characters the cursor just blink but doesn't even move.
i've tried re-installing. i've checked the configuration of the keyboard, but i'm limited without root access to some files.
I want to change my default shell to tcsh. I used
Code:
usermod -s /bin/tcsh username
command as given at url
But if I open a new shell, it is still a bash shell.
How do I make my default shell as tcsh?
I need to launch a bash file in Linux from an unprivileged user session, file that will run bash commands as root. But I do not want to create an user with root privileges to do that.
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View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a local computer (local), and remote computer (remote) behind of remote server (server). Also, I have user access to all of these 3 machines. Now, I want mount some directory, located at remote, to my local mount-point via sshfs. How should I setup my local sshfs and what should be done on server to make this mounting?
I'm stuck with ssh tunneling because the default method for tunneling requires root access while WinSCP somehow could do this with only user access (the tunnel server could be configured there in 'tunnel' panel).
Output of my #alias command looks just as normal as one would expect:
Code:
alias +='pushd .'
alias -='popd'
alias ..='cd ..'
alias ...='cd ../..' .....
And still whenever I (as root) type in bash
#ll
which would be short for
#ls- l
i get output of the command
#ls -al
So where aliases for root overwritten? Usually I would expect .bashrc in the /root directory. Or at least .alias file. But there none of those in my current /root. So, my question is where root user gets it's aliases from? This concerns only root user. Normal user has .bashrc and I made up my own aliases in .alias and that's works jut fine. And yes I could make .bashrc file in the /root and .aliases where I would define my own things.
I am trying to write a script that will create a directory, copy files to it, zip them, move the zip file to the desktop and clean up.However, when I run the script, it comes back stating that I do not have permission to make the directory. I wanted to know how to add the permission into the script to allow for access to whoever runs the script to pull the logs, but won't leave the system in the root user?here is what I have for code so far:
#!/bin/bash
host= 'hostname'
mkdir /home/savelogs
[code]....
I am having redhat 5 linux machine running on my windwos x in vmware workstation. Today i was installing oracle software in redhat 5 after editing the bash profile for the oracle user i got the following messages
su - oracle
password:*****
-bash: [oracle: command not found
[code]....
i am using fedora 10 while i login as a normal user its working fine username@hostname while i login as a root user it goes directly into -bash-3.2# if i check pwd it shows /root till now i am not facing any problem as i am using as a normal user but how can i change -bash-3.2# to root@hostname which file and where to edit
View 9 Replies View RelatedAs I login as root, the bash is /sbin/sh. So I have problem to run script under /ect/rc3.d/myScript
So I want to change the bash from /sbin/sh to /bin/bash.
Code:
[liveuser@localhost hd1]$ cat /etc/yum.conf
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
installonly_limit=3
color=never
# installroot=/home/liveuser/hd1
# metadata_expire=90m
# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d
[liveuser@localhost hd1]$ yum list installed bash grep
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Adding en_US to language list
Installed Packages
bash.x86_64 4.1.7-3.fc14 @fedora/$releasever
grep.x86_64 2.7-1.fc14.1 @fedora/$releasever
[liveuser@localhost hd1]$ sudo vi /etc/yum.conf
[liveuser@localhost hd1]$ cat /etc/yum.conf
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
installonly_limit=3
color=never
installroot=/home/liveuser/hd1
# metadata_expire=90m
# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d
[liveuser@localhost hd1]$ yum list installed bash grep
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Adding en_US to language list
Error: No matching Packages to list
Basically when I comment out installroot it says grep and bash are installed but when I change installroot it says grep and bash are not installed?
I'm scratching my head over a very simple netcat-based heartbeat monitoring script i wrote.
here we go:
Code:
echo `date --utc "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%SZ"` script started
[code]...
Today I faced a very strange issue while switching to root account in a bash shell.My OS : CentOS-5.1.4
I logged in my system with account name user1 and I open the terminal and below shell opens
[user1@localhost ]$
Now when I type su and want to switch to root account , it fails
[user1@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
su: incorrect password
[user1@localhost ~]$ exit
I know the password is 123 & I m 100% sure .
I have a bash script that I am using for doing tape backups. The meat of the bash script is
sudo tar --totals -H pax -cvf /dev/st0 *
This all works just fine.
But of course tape functions have to be ran as root, therefore sudo, requiring the standard user to enter the root password. I would like to be in a situation where the standard user does not need (does not know) the root password. I think my solution is add that standard user.
User named dog to the sudo list.
I have reviewed the sudo man page and looked at [URL]. I am still fuzzy.
1- Will adding user 'dog' to this sudo list do what I expect meaning I can run:
sudo tar --totals -H pax -cvf /dev/st0 *
and the user is not queried for the root password
2- How do I do that? and do I make a cmd alais for only: "tar --totals -H pax -cvf /dev/st0 *"
My distro is OpenSuse.
I wrote bash script that uses zenity and a choice to install various programs, tested it and it works, but only when I call it from terminal. I wanted to add it in gnome main menu. The script is /home/eee/zenity.sh. In accessories I added an entry with command:
Code:
/home/eee/zenity.sh
, but since there is no terminal it starts zenity, but it does not work. I have also tried
Code:
gksu gnome-terminal -x /home/eee/zenity.sh
[Code].....
I edited the passwd file to modify the default shell for root from bash to tcshnow when I try to login to root it gives me the following error:"su: /bin/tcsh : No such file or directory"
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I was just wondering if it is possible to go to rescue mode using the cd and restore all the appropriate file permissions to root/ users if possible
I've started to get emails that would typically come from [URL] as [URL]. These emails come from services that send out emails (backup programs) directly, or from cronjobs. I've logged in as the non-root account and either sudo su - or su - to root and the restart the service at one point or another. If I login directly as root and bounce the service or cron the emails come across as from root. I don't see anything in my environment variables after I su to indicate what would cause this. I'm not sure where else to look? A pam setting? This seems to have happened between Fedora 10 and 14 (did a bunch of overdue upgrades recently) I've only got Fedora so I don't have anything to compare to. In Fedora 10 I did not have this problem.
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I actually switched to Fedora from Mint because I was having the same problem there and I was unable to find a solution. Restarting the window manager fixes the problem, but it comes back after a little while.
Just when I had everything running so well. Graphics were good and I even had multiple VM's running. Today FC says I have 246 updates. The updates good through fine. I reboot my machine and now it's stuck. ArrrgIt is stuck at the message: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
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I've just wiped clean my hard drive (after backing up to a separate drive), repartitioned it, and have installed F11. There were a few glitches along the way regarding the repartitioning, but they got worked out.Oh, before the install, I also added a new 1TB SATA hard drive to the system.Now that the initial install is done, I'm trying to boot up and complete the process, but the system hangs after checking filesystems. Yes, it already checked and passed the new 1TB drive.I've left the machine at this step for an hour and it has not yet loaded the firstboot screen to complete the install process.
fedora 13.I have ran fedora for a little while now and its quite good, a lot more stable than I was led to believe and add/remove tool has a great variety. So today I was booting up and decided to "type" as fedora was booting. The long and the short of this is that fedora stops at this well the bar fills just before nvidia screen/login dialog pops up and freezes there.
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