Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (670 mails)

["Trow, Steven" <steven.trow@xxxxxxxxxx>]

What've you got under /usr/src ?

-----Original Message-----
From: test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 November 2001 15:41
To: Erwin Zierler - stubainet.at
Cc: suse-security@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: FW: [suse-security] Re: SuSE Security Announcement: kernel
(update) (SuSE-SA:2001:039)


maybe i am missing something here but i have nothing like /usr/src/linux
Kenneth

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Erwin Zierler - stubainet.at wrote:

> Eric Romang wrote:
>
>  > Nobody has answer ?
>  >
>
> Well, seems you have to recompile a kernel with quota support.
> I am pretty sure that this list is NOT the right place to ask
> about help with kernel compilation problems though.
>
> To get you started though, consider these steps:
>
> 1. install the kernel sources (you have done that)
> 2. cd /usr/src/linux
> 3. su -
> 4. make config (i.e. make menuconfig, make xconfig)
> 5. go through all the options and select what you need (help is there)
> 6. make dep; make bzlilo; make modules; make modules_install
> 7. check /etc/lilo.conf to make usre you can access and boot
>     your old kernel in case you messed up the new one
> 8. reboot and see if the new kernel works as expected
>
> Make sure you compile things that are needed for booting are compiled
> into the kernel and not loaded as modules (i.e. root fs on reiserfs,
> low level scsi driver, etc.)
>
> Hope this gets you started.
>
>   Erwin
>
> ---
>
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Eric Romang [mailto:eric.romang@xxxxxxxxxx]
> >>Sent: 09 November 2001 16:16
> >>To: suse-security@xxxxxxxx
> >>Subject: RE: [suse-security] Re: SuSE Security Announcement: kernel
> >>(update) (SuSE-SA:2001:039)
> >>
> >>
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I have installed the new kernel as in
> >>the SuSE directive. But yet all my users
> >>quota are away ... How can I recompile the kernel
> >>to have quota activated ?
> >>
> >>Thanks for your help.
> >>
> >>Eric
> >>
> >>
>
> [.....]
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