Linux drive in a Windows box

[Warren E. Agin]

My firm's linux webserver recently crashed (really and truly gone - wouldn't
boot). Matt Vilates was helpful enough to get me through it and gave me the
useful advice of rebuilding the machine using a new hardrive.

I have the old harddrive, and software for mounting it on a Windows box so I
can examine the file system and try to retreive some non-backed-up items. I
installed the drive as a second drive on another computer and, strangely,
when I boot up the BIOS won't recognize any of the drives (not even the main
drive). I am pretty sure I have the cables set up properly.

Any thoughts.

-Warren Agin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Barrett" <nullpointer at pobox.com>
To: <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 1:17 PM
Subject: cvs + xinetd setgid problem


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Folks,
I'm trying to run a cvs respository on my Gentoo box.  I've got xinetd
running, with the cvspserver config (/etc/xinetd.d/cvspserver) looking like
so:

service cvspserver
{
        disable         = no
        socket_type     = stream
        wait            = no
        user            = cvs
        group           = cvs
        log_type        = FILE /var/log/cvspserver
        protocol        = tcp
        env             = HOME=/var/cvsroot
        log_on_failure  += USERID
        port            = 2401
        server          = /usr/bin/cvs
        server_args     = -f --allow-root=/var/cvsroot pserver
}


Nothing special.  Meanwhile, /etc/xinetd.conf looks like this:

defaults
{
        only_from      = localhost
        instances      = 60
        log_type       = SYSLOG authpriv info
        log_on_success = HOST PID
        log_on_failure = HOST
        cps            = 25 30
}

Great -- everything is locked down just the way I need it.  I can login just
fine using `cvs login`, but when I execute any other command (for instance,
an initial import into the new repository), metalog shows me this:

[cvs] setgid to 100 failed (Operation not permitted): real 1005/415,
effective
1005/415

So cvs is trying to setgid to the "users" group, even though the calling
user
(me) has newgrp'ed to the "coders" group:

uid=500(barretda) gid=411(coders)

According to /etc/xinetd.d/cvspserver, the cvs binary should be running as
user cvs, group cvs.  What am I missing?

Best,
d.
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