Linux-Misc Digest #246, Volume #27 Tue, 27 Feb 01 15:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux as terminal emulator. (Grant Edwards)
Re: Linux as terminal emulator. (Grant Edwards)
red-carpet for redhat ("Ahmad Al-rasheedan")
HELP!!! Installed glibc 2.2.2 (Justin Hibbits)
HELP!!! Installed glibc 2.2.2 (Justin Hibbits)
email - downloader headers only ("Gerald Pollack")
Problem of iptables -- Can't load modules (Carfield Yim)
Your Favourite X or Gnome Software? ("Scot Mc Pherson")
Re: Curly brackets ("MARY GROVE")
Winmodem question (Yu Loong Liew)
Re: Winmodem question ("JASON HOFFOSS")
Re: licence loops ("Christopher R. Carlen")
Looking for free Terminal Emulator ("Paul M. Hanson")
Re: Pentium 4 support? (Markku Kolkka)
Re: Looking for free Terminal Emulator (Ralph Miguel Hansen)
Re: redirect stderr to both screen and logfile at same time? ("J.Smith")
Re: Pentium 4 support? ("Scot Mc Pherson")
Re: X Server questions ("John Gill")
Re: redirect stderr to both screen and logfile at same time? ("J.Smith")
Re: FTP scripting... (Bud Rogers)
Re: Your Favourite X or Gnome Software? ("Unknown")
Re: Call To Action: Help me help others. ("MARY GROVE")
Re: Samba 2.0.7/RH7.0 and W2K ("J.Smith")
Re: Looking for free Terminal Emulator ("Willem Kuhtreiber")
Re: Mounting proc fs to /mnt/root/proc ? (Matej Kenda)
Re: X Server questions (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Looking for free Terminal Emulator (Andreas Machovec)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Linux as terminal emulator.
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:48:04 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>> What modems? I never mentioned modems.
>
>Are you saying that you are using minicom as a terminal to a serial
>line login on a server?
Nope.
>> Huh? It's _supposed_ to set the serial port baud rate. What
>
>Which usually is worth nothing ...
Not in my case.
>>>except as a limit on what the modems will attempt to communicate.
>
>> I'm not using modems.
>Remind me to unbuy a modem. What's the point of connecting two
>computers across a serial line these days, when you could use a
>$5 network card?
1) It's my job. I work for a company that manufactures serial
communications gear.
2) Do you have any idea how much electronic equipment there is
in the world that has serial ports but no slots in which to
plug a network card?
>(that's how much the second hand 3c509b's I just bought cost).
Oddly enough, there's no place in an Allen-Bradly PLC to plug a
3c509.
>> It's some program that's part of minicom.
>
>No, it's no part of minicom. It's the rz/sz suite usually, and/or
>kermit, also usually.
Yes, it is part of minicim.
I'll repeat that:
It is part of minicom.
The ascii transfer program used by minicom is called
ascii-xfer, and it IS PART OF THE MINICOM PACKAGE:
$ rpm -q -l minicom
/etc/X11/applnk/Internet/minicom.desktop
/etc/minicom.users
/usr/bin/ascii-xfr
/usr/bin/minicom
/usr/bin/runscript
/usr/bin/xminicom
[...]
(I'm looking at the sources for minicom 1.83)
The sources are in src/ascii-xfer.c
>> I was trying to send files "raw" using the send program that is
>> part of the minicom package. It's broken.
>
>I've never met or heard of such a thing.
By "raw" I meant unprocessed, using no protocol.
>This is the minicom menu I have:
>
>A zmodem /usr/bin/sz -vv -b Y U N Y
[...]
>G kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y
>H kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y
>I ascii /usr/bin/ascii-xfr -dsv Y U N
That last one "ascii" just ships files out the serial port. It
uses /usr/bin/ascii-xfer which is a) broken, and b) part of
minicom.
>> When I try to change serial ports I get this:
>
>You can't change serial ports. You need the admin to set up a config
>for each serial port that wants to be accessible.
>
>> Apparently the author of minicom knows better than I do what
>> users on my computer should be allowed to do. The mode bits on
>
>No. You can allow any and all of them to use the devices. Just set up a
>config for them.
I don't want to have to set up a whole boatload of
configurations. I have anywhere up to 130 serial ports on my
machines (the names of which change from day to day depending
on what devices I have installed). I want to be able to use
whatever port I want without having to stop and setup a
configuration file.
>> They _should_ be admin issues. Unfortunately minicom thinks
>> _it_ is the admin and not me.
>
>No, you are: You tell minicom which are the lock files and devices
>for a particular config. These configs are usually called ttyS0, ttyS1,
>and so on, in reference to the canonical name of the intended serial
>device, but they can be called anything.
Having to set up a config file for each and every serial port I
might ever want to use is a pain. It's much simpler to start
up kermit at type:
set port /dev/ttyR97
than it is to fight with minicom configuration.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! ... I want FORTY-TWO
at TRYNEL FLOATATION SYSTEMS
visi.com installed withinSIX AND A
HALF HOURS!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Linux as terminal emulator.
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:50:12 GMT
In article <97gfh0$nrk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Frank da Cruz wrote:
>
>: [Minicom versus Kermit debate...]
>
>Minicom is great for casual or novice users if it has been set
>up for them in advance -- all its configuration files, etc.
>It's like the "Windows" of communications software. The
>tradeoff is always between ease of use and flexibility. When a
>Windows-like product works, it's great. When it doesn't, it can
>be difficult or impossible for the user to find out why and fix
>or work around the problem.
>
>Kermit is for the non-casual user who knows what they want to
>do, doesn't want anything happening by magic, needs detailed
>control of every facet of the setup and connection, and might
>also want to automate all or parts of the connection.
Thanks, that's an excellent summary.
For the types of things I wnat to do Kermit works better than
Minicom.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! I was in EXCRUCIATING
at PAIN until I started
visi.com reading JACK AND JILL
Magazine!!
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From: "Ahmad Al-rasheedan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: red-carpet for redhat
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:04:45 +0300
Is red-carpet for Debian based distros. only?
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From: Justin Hibbits
Subject: HELP!!! Installed glibc 2.2.2
Date: 27 Feb 2001 16:19:57 GMT
Hello,
Yesterday, I decided to replace my RH7.0 glibc with glibc2.2.2, which compiled
perfectly. However, I decided to puth the root
of the install in /usr, which overwrote everything, even though it did not finish
installing. Now, I am stuck using my old Mandrake
rescue cd, which, luckily, has all the tools I need to repair my system. Now, I need
to know the files to copy, where to copy
them, and what files to edit, and how to edit them. Any help is accepted.
Thanks to anyone who can reply to this message with at least somewhat useful info,
besides "restore your RH7 system and try again"
Justin Hibbits
==================================
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Linux Programmer's Site
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From: Justin Hibbits
Subject: HELP!!! Installed glibc 2.2.2
Date: 27 Feb 2001 16:39:01 GMT
Hello,
Yesterday, I decided to replace my RH7.0 glibc with glibc2.2.2, which compiled
perfectly. However, I decided to puth the root
of the install in /usr, which overwrote everything, even though it did not finish
installing. Now, I am stuck using my old Mandrake
rescue cd, which, luckily, has all the tools I need to repair my system. Now, I need
to know the files to copy, where to copy
them, and what files to edit, and how to edit them. Any help is accepted.
Thanks to anyone who can reply to this message with at least somewhat useful info,
besides "restore your RH7 system and try again"
Justin Hibbits
==================================
Posted via http://nodevice.com
Linux Programmer's Site
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From: "Gerald Pollack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: email - downloader headers only
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:25:09 GMT
Can anyone point me to an email client that can connect to a POP3 server
and download only message headers (with the option to subsequently retrieve
selected entire messages)? Pocket Outlook, on my WinCE machine, can do
this, and it saves a great deal of time; I'd like to be able to do the
same on my linux machine.
Thanks,
Jerry Pollack
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From: Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem of iptables -- Can't load modules
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 01:40:03 +0800
I compile my kernel with iptables as modules, but when I type "modprobe
iptables", it reply: "modprobe: Can't locate module iptables", what
wrong with me?
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From: "Scot Mc Pherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Your Favourite X or Gnome Software?
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:39:40 GMT
What is your favourite software to use for e-mail, usenet and web-browsing?
What is your favourite productivity software for things like documentation,
spreadsheets, presentations?
And finally, how about database software, what are your favourite servers
and front ends?
--
Scot Mc Pherson
http://www.behomet.net
N27° 19' 56"
W82° 30' 39"
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From: "MARY GROVE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Curly brackets
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:43:44 GMT
Federico Bravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>Can you tell me how to insert special-characters when text-editing? I
>mean when I write a C-Language program I would like to be able to put a
>curly bracket after main () but there's none on my Italian keyboard (
>which I mapped with xkeycaps ).
>I'm used to vi ( RH 7.0 ) , but can move to any other editor if
>necessary.
Yet another reason to have K&R at hand - trigraph sequences. The
preprocessor will replace the following 3-character sequences with the
corresponding ASCII characters (from A.12.1):
??= #
??/ \
??' ^
??( [
??) ]
??! |
??< {
??> }
??- ~
So
int main(int argc, char **argv) { return ~0; }
could be written as
int main(int argc, char **argv) ??< return ??- 0; ??>
Still, keyboard mapping would be more efficient as long as it works.
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From: Yu Loong Liew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Winmodem question
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:52:24 -0600
Hi there,
I just got my winmodem working about a week ago. I can dial-up to my isp,
but I couldn't do anything after that! I can't check e-mail, surf the web,
etc. When I opened up netscape (after I connected to my isp), errors
regarding "cannot find server/page/etc" came up!
Any idea of what I can set to get it working? I have RH7 with kernel
2.4.1.
Thanks,
--yu-loong--
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From: "JASON HOFFOSS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Winmodem question
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 10:21:36 -0800
Could be PPP isn't working correctly, or could be a lack of a DNS. There's
a PPP-Howto you might want to check out.
"Yu Loong Liew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi there,
>
> I just got my winmodem working about a week ago. I can dial-up to my isp,
> but I couldn't do anything after that! I can't check e-mail, surf the web,
> etc. When I opened up netscape (after I connected to my isp), errors
> regarding "cannot find server/page/etc" came up!
>
> Any idea of what I can set to get it working? I have RH7 with kernel
> 2.4.1.
>
> Thanks,
> --yu-loong--
>
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From: "Christopher R. Carlen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: licence loops
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 10:27:34 -0800
Stefano Ghirlanda wrote:
>
> Dirk Groeneveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I just tried to download libgif and suddenly found myself threatened
> > by a lawsuit for using the lzw algorithm. That led me to the
> > following idea. Can't I license the concept of a loop in a program
> > and then start suing software companies? The attention the cases
> > would get might be enough to make the government aware of the
> > problem of licensing software.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> Things to patent must be innovations, not only as yet unpatetented.
Like the street light post a block from my home. It has a typical pipe
street light post, with an integrated pushbutton to activate the "Walk"
light.
Profoundly innovative. I couldn't believe it when I saw the patent
number printed on it.
_______________________
Christopher R. Carlen
Sr. Laser/Optical Tech.
Sandia National Labs
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From: "Paul M. Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Looking for free Terminal Emulator
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 18:46:51 GMT
Can anyone please tell me of a free terminal emulator which runs on
Windows 9X and allows login to a Linux machine? It would be a bonus if the
terminal emulator could also properly handle color (like at the linux
console).
Thank you in advance for your suggestions and recommendations.
Scott Navarre
Precision Analytical Labs
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From: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pentium 4 support?
Date: 27 Feb 2001 20:52:44 +0200
Ron Cresswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know whether the 2.4 (or even 2.2.x) kernels can
> take advantage of the SIMD pipeline processor built into the
> Pentium 4 chip? Or even if this is a kernel requirement (in
> other words, does the chip take care of it behind the
> scenes?)
No and no. It's up to each application to use the SIMD instruction
set. The SIMD pipeline doesn't do anything "behind the scenes", it
only works for programs specifically written or compiled to use it.
--
Markku Kolkka
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ralph Miguel Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Looking for free Terminal Emulator
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:03:25 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul M. Hanson wrote:
> Can anyone please tell me of a free terminal emulator which runs on
> Windows 9X and allows login to a Linux machine? It would be a bonus if
> the terminal emulator could also properly handle color (like at the linux
> console).
> Thank you in advance for your suggestions and recommendations.
>
> Scott Navarre
> Precision Analytical Labs
>
For serial connections, there is a programm called Hyperterminal shipped
with Win9*. There are a lot of telnet-clients in the net, maybe this link
http://www.arachnoid.com/easyterm/ is useful for you.
Cheers
Ralph Miguel Hansen
Using S.u.S.E. 5.3 and SuSE 7.0
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From: "J.Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.solaris.x86,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: redirect stderr to both screen and logfile at same time?
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:10:07 +0100
Contradictory? Maybe.
But cron mails you the output of the job if it screws up. (That includes
anything that _would_have_gone to stdout and stderr if it would have been
run interactively). Combine this with a mail filter and/or a .forward file,
and certian people/administrators will recieve the output in a mail file if
the job screws up. Combine this with "2>&1 | tee -a logfile" and youve got a
logfile of the job as well.
Hope this clarifies things.
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From: "Scot Mc Pherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pentium 4 support?
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:10:57 GMT
Sure, but Ron wants to know if it will work for him...Sorry Ron I don't know
the answer...
--
Scot Mc Pherson
http://www.behomet.net
N27° 19' 56"
W82° 30' 39"
"Markku Kolkka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ron Cresswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Does anyone know whether the 2.4 (or even 2.2.x) kernels can
> > take advantage of the SIMD pipeline processor built into the
> > Pentium 4 chip? Or even if this is a kernel requirement (in
> > other words, does the chip take care of it behind the
> > scenes?)
>
> No and no. It's up to each application to use the SIMD instruction
> set. The SIMD pipeline doesn't do anything "behind the scenes", it
> only works for programs specifically written or compiled to use it.
>
> --
> Markku Kolkka
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "John Gill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: X Server questions
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:11:26 GMT
Just curious -- any idea what the RAM overhead of an X-Windows system,
including desktop (GNOME, KDE, etc.) is. I have limited available memory,
but need to use a GUI for some setup.
-- JJG
"Wayne Howarth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:97gi47$prb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Could somebody please try and explain to me the basic structure of X
> Windows. I am coming from a Windows background and am slightly confused at
> how the whole 'X' thing fits together. Somehow I just can't get to grips
of
> it being a graphical server???
>
> I am currently assuming that XFree86 is the GNU's implementation of an X
> Server which runs locally. The desktop presumably is an X-Client (e.g.
> Gnome, KDE, etc). Then the window manager acts as an agent which is called
> by the X-Client to 'display' things.
>
> Any clarification/confirmation would be appreciated.
>
> Thankx,
> Wayne.
>
>
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From: "J.Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.solaris.x86,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: redirect stderr to both screen and logfile at same time?
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:19:55 +0100
>
> AIX though comes with all kinds of interesting features (even some useful
> ones like it can be shut down), so I'd not even wonder if it'd insist on
> writing to /dev/tty.
>
> I feel your pain 8)
>
Even though I have to agree with this totally, I guess it actually was me
screwing up this time...
;)
Too emberassed to tell what it actually was that I did wrong, but....
Hey it works now!
;)
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From: Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: FTP scripting...
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:23:10 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Frank da Cruz wrote:
> Probably not. But the new Kermit FTP client:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftpclient.html
>
> can do all this in a very simple, straightforward way that can be
> scripted easily and robustly. See the tutorial here:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftpscript.html
My, my, Kermit has grown up while I wasn't looking. Guess I need to
take a another look.
--
Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr
All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either.
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From: "Unknown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Your Favourite X or Gnome Software?
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:37:46 GMT
In article <wDRm6.225414$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Scot Mc
Pherson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is your favourite software to use for e-mail, usenet and
> web-browsing?
If you're talking gui,
email: spruce, because it has the best support for gpg/pgp that I have
found. I haven't tried anything else for a LOOOONG time, so there may be a
better selection by now.
usenet: pan
browser: opera. I really wish I could say mozilla, but I have never been
able to get it to work properly. It has always had a nasty habit of not
wanting to leave a server when clicking links, bookmarks, etc., and
instead looks for the target file on the current server, resulting in
errors. If I find that this ever gets fixed, I'll switch.
>
> What is your favourite productivity software for things like
> documentation, spreadsheets, presentations?
>
Documentation? Too vague. If you're talking word proccessing, I like
LaTeX, but its not a GUI, although LyX sorta is.
spreadsheets: don't work with them much, but gnumeric has worked just fine
for me.
presentations: I hate to say this, but PowerPoint via VMware.
Presentations that I do must be portable (ie they must work on a windoze
only system) and I am unaware of a linux presentation application that
will write self contained presentations that will run on a windoze box. I
hear that PowerPoint can be run with Wine. I tried not too long ago and
failed. Didn't work at it too hard though since I already purchased
VMware.
> And finally, how about database software, what are your favourite
> servers and front ends?
I don't use a db heavily enough to give my preference any weight.
>
> --
> Scot Mc Pherson http://www.behomet.net N27° 19' 56" W82° 30' 39"
>
>
>
>
>
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From: "MARY GROVE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Call To Action: Help me help others.
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:41:02 GMT
Chris Falch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
...
>Victor Wagner wrote:
>>Type following command at the shell prompt:
>> info -f libc "Process persona"
>>If you have installed libc docs, excellent tutorial on this subject
>>would come up.
>
>Ya' know, when I first started UNIX, I *hated* it. I had just spent a
>year trying to figure out Windows 3.1/DOS, and then got to college and
>had to fool around with a completely different architecture with new
>commands and new ways of processing information. And the worst part was
>that there was no good way to learn, except from word of mouth. When I
>needed information, if it wasn't in the man pages, I was SOL, until I
>found a person that knew how to do what I needed to do.
Welcome to the real world. I've had to learn 4 different mainframe/mini OS's
so far during my working life, mostly using poorly documented, in-house
applications. Word of mouth is the standard way most corporate computer
users learn how to use their companies' systems.
...
>Case in point: I'd heard the 'info' docs were sometimes better than the
>'man' docs, so naturally, when I needed help with setuid, I tried 'man
>setuid' and 'info setuid'. Useless. It told me exactly what I already
>knew, and no more, and further, the 'info' was exactly the same as the
>'man'. Now, as Victor so nonchalantly points out, 'info -f libc "Process
>persona" ' will give me a tutorial on how and why and when you'd want to
>change persona. Geez, if I had that information 2 weeks ago, my life
>would have been a lot easier! And how completely non-intuitivie is it
>for me to have to supply a -f switch and a libc info file (which, by the
>way, I have NO idea where it resides on my system), and provide an index
>called "Process persona". Yikes. Just look at how many tools and
>paradigms are needed to be learned *before* you can start learning the
>stuff ya' need to know.
Victor gave you a shortcut. If you need to use the setuid system call, you
should have read the GLIBC documentation. More generally, if you want to
program in any language on any OS, you need to learn how to use language and
OS documentation effectively. Looking for system call documentation in the C
library documentation on Linux is just one bit of information that should be
prerequisite to attempting to program on Linux.
The GLIBC documentation table of contents would have shown a line reading
26. Users and Groups How users are identified and classified
Following this 'link' would have taken you to the section on Users and
Groups, which would have shown a subsection rading
26.2 The Persona of a Process The user IDs and group IDs of a process
Following this 'link' would have lead you to the place where Victor's
shortcut led you. It seems you would have benefitted from the longer route.
...
>My organization is just getting the gears churning on the linux
>movement. In the next year, I expect many people like myself wasting a
>lot more time than is probably need, just finding out how to find
>answers to their questions, so here's my challenge: Submit the most
>powerful tools you know of to find information about UNIX/Linux specific
>questions. For instance, what can I use in place of 'libc' in the
>command at the beginning of this post? Are there any special tricks
>with the 'man' command, or is it just for looking up already-known-of
>commands? Any other resources?
...
It helps to know how to look things up, and at times I believe I'm from the
last generation that learned how to do this with hardcopy and without the
'benefit' of hypertext and search engines (and thereby learned how to do
this efficiently). If you don't know how to use an index or table of
contents, then using and programming Linux (and most other serious OS's)
will be a painful experience.
While it's generally not SOP under Windows, under Linux is necessary to get
used to RTFM sometimes from the top. If you don't know where to find the
documentation on your system, you should read a tutorial on Linux (or just
navigate through the /usr file system - it's hard to miss /usr/doc,
/usr/info and /usr/man and their /usr/local and /usr/share counterparts).
Then read 'info info' to see the hows and whys of Victor's info command.
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From: "J.Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Re: Samba 2.0.7/RH7.0 and W2K
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:45:22 +0100
>
> 1. Did you enable Plain text passwords in windows 2k? (similar to the way
> you would do it in windows 98). In windows 2k you have to open the
regeistry
> editor
>
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanworkstation\param
> eters
>
What ?
Why not enable the encrypted password option on the samba server? Which
actually is the best solution security-wise. Why would anyone want to enable
clear text passwords???? Bad, BAD, BAAADDD solution.....
Shame on you for offering that as a 'solution'
;)
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Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
From: "Willem Kuhtreiber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for free Terminal Emulator
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:45:33 GMT
Try PuTTY.
It does an excellent job at translating Linux keybindings.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Wiel
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Paul M. Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:vCSm6.101$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can anyone please tell me of a free terminal emulator which runs on
> Windows 9X and allows login to a Linux machine? It would be a bonus if
the
> terminal emulator could also properly handle color (like at the linux
> console).
> Thank you in advance for your suggestions and recommendations.
>
> Scott Navarre
> Precision Analytical Labs
>
>
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From: Matej Kenda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.devel,linux.dev.misc
Subject: Re: Mounting proc fs to /mnt/root/proc ?
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:52:56 +0100
Thank you, Francis, it works on RH 7.0 w/ 2.4, too.
Regards,
Matej
Francis Litterio wrote:
>
> # mkdir /mnt/root
> # mount -t proc proc /mnt/root
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: X Server questions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:52:13 GMT
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:11:26 GMT, "John Gill"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Just curious -- any idea what the RAM overhead of an X-Windows system,
>including desktop (GNOME, KDE, etc.) is. I have limited available memory,
>but need to use a GUI for some setup.
RAM requirements can be very big. However, if you don't use a desktop
manager, and use a lightweight window manager, X will run easily in
16Mb or less. I _used_ to run Netscape 4.7 in WMX on a 486DX4-80 in
16Mb and get decent speed and rendering.
>
>-- JJG
>
>"Wayne Howarth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:97gi47$prb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Could somebody please try and explain to me the basic structure of X
>> Windows. I am coming from a Windows background and am slightly confused at
>> how the whole 'X' thing fits together. Somehow I just can't get to grips
>of
>> it being a graphical server???
>>
>> I am currently assuming that XFree86 is the GNU's implementation of an X
>> Server which runs locally. The desktop presumably is an X-Client (e.g.
>> Gnome, KDE, etc). Then the window manager acts as an agent which is called
>> by the X-Client to 'display' things.
>>
>> Any clarification/confirmation would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thankx,
>> Wayne.
>>
>>
>
>
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Andreas Machovec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Looking for free Terminal Emulator
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:56:46 +0100
I use putty. It has an xterm Emulation, which can handle the colors like
the local linux console
You can find it at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Andi
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