Re: [cobalt-users] Lost web interface w/ raq4

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Dory wrote:

> >It looks like you've added a nic card, and that it's bad.  You might try
> >rebooting the RaQ without that card to see if it resolves anything.
> >
> 
> Nope. The raq is brand new (couple months maybe) and I have not opened
> it up. The nic card in it is working fine for other duties, such as file
> sharing, SWAT, and Webmin.

Okay... then it looks like the second nic included in your RaQ may have
a problem:

 eth1: Invalid EEPROM checksum 0x5c2c, check settings before
 activating this device!
 eth1: Intel PCI EtherExpress Pro100 82559ER, 00:10:E0:03:4C:48,
 I/O at 

Hmmmmm????

> I looked at the first page or two, before all the icon stuff, and they
> were the same. There's also a srm.conf.orig that looks the same. There
> is probably a command or two that compares them and reports differences,
> but I don't know it.

I sure hope you mean srm.conf.master; My RaQ4s don't have an
srm.conf.orig.  The command to compare the two files is:

# conf /etc/httpd/conf/srm.conf /etc/httpd/conf/srm.conf.master

> Well, this could very well be the problem. I've used it to start up DNS
> and to configure DHCP. I'm pretty sure the Cobalt gui was still working
> after these tweaks. I've tried tweaking samba using it as well, though
> it seems like I have better success configuring samba manually. So I
> suppose if I search the archives about conflicts with webmin?

You probably won't find anything.  If all you've done is START DNS then
you're probably okay with DNS; does the gui say DNS is running or not? 
You cannot use webmin to actually DNS if you're also using the gui for
DNS; they're not compatible.

Using it for DHCP and samba are probably okay as well; the gui doesn't
know about either of them.

Basically you can't use webmin to configure anything you can configure
in the gui, unless you're leaving the gui behind.

> No one in the lan would be logging on, only a hacker I was unaware of.
> Will install and run chkrootkit... and the root partition has 567,260k
> used and 176,108k free - how does that sound for normal or not?

Looks reasonable.

> I
> installed webmin, dhcpd, under /home/opt but do they install parts under
> /usr/whatever as well... The only partitions are /, /var, and /home.

Yes, RaQs use a bit less partitions than I would.

> I'll go through your suggestions and see what happens. Thanks a bunch.

Keep us posted.  My dmesg file looks nothing like yours; that's why I'm
suspecting a hardware problem or a hack.

Jeff
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