Hi,
Where can I get info on the PNG format?
Sorry for the late answer, but it was in a bookmark on a computer that wasn't
put together for a while. Anyway, a pretty good address is:
http://www.wotsit.org/
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WINE or whether this is still not polished enough to impress business users
(I haven't
used it or tracked it to know how slick it's getting to be - anyone?)
I tried to use it about a year ago. Maybe it wasn't the latest release, but I
wasn't impressed. I tried and older MathCad (maybe 6.0),
Hi again,
Just in case somebody else runs into the same problem. So meanwhile I installed
the 3.3.6 XFree, and I also managed to figure out that the test program works
only as root. Now I am compiling Mesa. I hope it will run programs with
non-root privileges, because Lam runs only as normal
Hi,
I need some advice on how to get my sound card running.
If you have a pnp card, you have to do the following:
pnpdump/etc/isapnp.conf
Then you have to edit that file, meaning that you have to uncomment a few lines
(ACT Y) also. Which io, irq and dma you would like to use.
Then you can run
Hi,
Maybe what you should look at is the recovery options that Linux lacks
for when the home/end user messes something up. But again, my concerns
Alright, I have to say this. I have seen my brother suffering with win
installs. Just keep installing a few games, and then deinstalling them, and
you
If not I need to recompile the kernel to enable
a second processor (SMB support) anyway.
Oops, just to be sure you know what you are talking about, and this was just a
typing mistake. For the second processor, you need SMP (symmetric multi
processing). It's different from SMB, what you use for
help. I have been tasked with setting up a vpn solution to connect our
office to our UK office, and need some specific technical advice on what
parts I need to put it together. I already have an idea of how I want it
setup. I just need help on picking the correct hardware. Please e-mail
Hi,
Why
Hi,
How is this message encoded?
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i'm wondering if theres any program or way to cap the bandwidth from a
server. i have a user who keeps trying to set up a mp3 ftp and i need to
cap his usage ASAP..
Shaper. It was discussed on this list a while ago.
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Try looking at proftpd. I've been told that it can do bandwidth
limiting. (This is just heresay though - don't quote me)
Yes, after rethinking your question last night, surely proftpd is the way to go.
Shaper is good for limiting the through-put for a whole interface. Proftpd can
limit
Hi,
by default, in cartman (redhat 6.1), what should be handling incoming
mail? shouldn't I find popd if I look for it?
Try to look for cucipop. I use that for pop3 daemon (It had such a funny name,
that I chose that among others during install, and you Joshua might understand
why). In the
Hi,
Any ideas on how to see what processes are causing the delay?
ctrl+alt+F#, root, ps axuw |more? It should work.
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Thanks, but ps isn't available at that point, even if it might be installed.
Do you have proc filesystem? Probably not though. I only installed debian and
slackware so far. Well, a couple of days ago I assisted during a redhat 6.1
install, but it never waited for anything. The only problem
I already have Perl on my machine?
You almost surely do.
Type perl, and you will see.
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The only people I want using my smtp server are people logged into their
shell account, or people who HAVE shell accounts using a mail client from
a remote network...
This is not gonna work. What you can do with smtp is to control the access from
ip numbers. Of course you have to have
Hi,
Some people need lessons, handholding, mentoring, etc. to loearn
concepts and skills that they might not have a natural affinity
towards...
Yes, I agree with this opinion. Until you reach a level, it's pretty hard to
get used to using linux, especially if all you had to do is click on Heretic
Hi,
Please excuse a "not necessarily linux" question, but who wants to share
opinions/experience on the virtues of mmap ing a file as opposed to opening it
? I'm about to start work on a project where the local custom is to mmap input
files and I'm not so sure that's a good idea (the files and
Hi,
new kernel gets plopped out onto a bootable floppy. This preserves my
normal LILO setup for the 'production' ("stable") kernel. (You should
follow the 'make bzdisk' with a 'make modules' and 'make
modules_install', then reboot with the new kernel if you like).
Why not just maintain more
Alright, so I investigated this question a little bit more:
Test: 102,400,000 Megabytes to IDE disk, with Pentium 166 or something like
that.
So the timings with mmap:
Write: ~28 sec
Reading: ~20 sec
With read/write, the speed-up stronlgly depends on how many bytes you write to
the disk at
PROTO= the protocol number -- 17 = UDP, but I have no idea what 54 is...
probably bogus. Anyone?
54 NHRPNBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol
More about this: rfc2332
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What about X? I mean just X should bring up that initial screen. And then xinit.
Actually, looks like a font problem. Try to reinstall them, or look at the
font paths in XF86Config.
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The issue I am having is that I need to change the scan rate
for the res I am running because of the flicker.
Howto:-). And xvidtune
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route del xxx. Read the route man page for all of the switches, etc.
True, but...
Dest Gateway GenMask flags Metric Ref Use iface
127.0.0.1 - 255.0.0.0! 0 - 0 -
This shouldn't be a problem. It's in every linux systems, and
Hi,
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo
It's like this in redhat, as I just checked it out.
However, NET3-4-HOWTO-5 about loopback routes:
root# ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
root# route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo
Hm, two choices. Either the
Is '-l' supposed to work on Linux? It is an invalid option on RedHat 5.2
IS '-l' ...
The orig post was about df -l. Yes, Is looks like ls. Exactly:-). I forgot to
mention though that where df -l worked was a deb slink. Newer than redhat 5.2.
Ferenc
I think he ment the `-l` switch for the df command. `df -l` and `df`
Exactly...
return identical info on my system. I don't have a RH5.2 box to use it
on to see if that is really what he ment. I'm still not sure how `ls -l`
He meant: Is (like a question verb) -l... So this has nothing to do with
mail.local: /var/mail/ccadm: file changed after open
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Just a guess...df?
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206.84.220.64/255.255.255.224.
It was explained to me that the net mask must be a bitstring of contiguous
'1's followed by a bitstring of contiguous '0's (starting at the MSB).
Using that rule, there's no way to construct an address/mask for the range
.65-.94.
I'm still not sure about this,
was thinking about Corel, supposedly very newbie oriented. Any
experience out there with it?
Yes, another local root exploit, besides the one in the installer. Now in some
X configurer. So check out wich packages you install, or try to get the latest
packages.
Ferenc
dselect/apt-get program, or to use Corel's GUI update manager (which would
be Corel's preferred way). A few mouse clicks later you're updated to the
latest stuff.
Yeah, this had one of the sec holes, and somebody here referred to it as
distributed system administration. The other one wasn't a
Soon realaudion 7 for linux...
http://www.realnetworks.com/company/pressroom/pr/2000/rhlinux.html
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firewall? I have an old 486/33 with 24M of RAM running RH6.1 with
Hi,
With an old isa-slot network card? That's pretty slow. With a special network
card people could reach around 2 meg/sec thru ISA, but they built it themselves,
and they didn't use tcp/ip (it's for a beowulf style matrix
someone wanna do me a big favor?
mail me their init.d scripts for Apache? i can't get mine to work at all.
also...how do i make stuff appear in annon FTP dir? you put something in
there and nothing shows under ftp. the server is in.ftpd. and i can't find
any documentation on it.
..
Does anyone know how to log into a MySQL database if the password you though
you set doesn't work ?
A quick search in the bugtraq archiv;-)
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cut down on the amount of time he spends sending out reports. He spends
hours sending them, and it just seems to me a total waste of time.
Besides, it's a great oppertunity to get Linux in the front door for a
change!
What the following does is find users belonging to the given group, and send
Hi,
how do i set up remote x for administration?
Could you please detail this a little more? For system administration though,
you don't want to do this, unless there are no users on the server, and you are
sure no hacker will ever get to the server.
Ferenc
Hi,
Derek Martin wrote:
Hey, I can't help it, that's my title! [At least, it is until Friday,
Nopp, it's not only yours. Somebody else, who wrote the orig message, also has
it sometimes. So don't worry, I didn't manipulate the mail, I just cleared some
more info that would have led to the
Hi again,
But if we are already talking about this topic...I was wondering who can address
herself/himself a Seniour Unix System Administrator? It sounds such a nice title
to me, especially because of that Seniour. Well, anybody can, but when won't
people laugh at him/her.
"The more you know,
http://www.dot-truth.com and see all of the "Truths" about Win2k as
compared to Solaris I love FUD. It cracks me up ;-)
Hype #1:
Windows NT has remote root exploits.
Reality:
Shipped Windows(R) NT(R) has a built-in feauture that protects it from any
remote root exploit. You can activate
snmpset NTSERVER public interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifAdminStatus.1 i 2
If you don't know what this does, your nt sysadmins don't want you to play with
this. All it does is bring the eth0 down on an NT box, but from outside, with
snmp. And since this is the default on an nt install...
Ferenc
Assuming that Win2k by default comes with a SNMP agent that is active
at startup, do they at least make it obvious that you have to change
the community string? Is this easy to do, or do you have to go
stumbling through the registry to do this?
I don't know how you have to config daemons on
Hi everybody,
I set up rules for a masq firewall, but the talk stopped working afterwards
with the ${SUBJECT} nice little message.
I figured out that the problem was that I started out this way:
ipchains -P input DENY
ipchains -P forward DENY
ipchains -P output DENY
If I have both input and
Hi,
So you have users *on* the beowulf cluster that want to talk to other
internal users outside of the clusters firewall?
No, my problem was that I couldn't use talk _on_ the firewall. Not through it,
just both users on the same host, and talk to each other- this would be the
first step.
Hi,
Anyone else experience date skew today? My system thought it was March 1 today
and any attempt to set it using date or timetool failed (until Derek told me
how using the STRING feature of date :).
You should probably get a new file for tzconfig, and set it as a default. Well,
on mine I
on their page... Unfortunately it's in German, so I can't tell you what it
says. (Yeah, babelfish, whatever...)
If you tell me an url, I can try to translate the majority.
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this may actually be an xterm key mapping, I haven't researched it AT ALL,
so I don't know all the specific details.
Must be. It doesn't work with my kvt or whatever the name of the kde term is.
Ferenc
ps: A probably late noise: I want the old method of reply back!:-)
upgraded from SuSE 6.2 to SuSE 6.3(intel) about a month ago and I
have a couple of video issues (which appear to be related to horizontal
sync).
Hi,
I think you should try to upgrade to a newer XFree. I had problems with an AGP
card (some virge maybe, but not sure, but it killed the system
incompatibilities ? Will something else go wrong ? Can I log in as KDEuser
and use one and then log in as GNOMEuser and use the other ?
I haven't tried it yet, but I really doubt you would have any
incompatibilities. This is just not that world. I know for sure that kde stores
all its files
3. How can I use this box as a Fax server?
install hylafax. I haven't used it yet, but that's what people tend to use, at
least what I heard.
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Has anyone gotten multi-monitor support to work under Linux? Either
with the current version of XFree or the pre-4 release?
Don't try with the current release because it doesn't support multihead, and I
haven't tried it with the pre-4, but it is supposed to.
Ferenc
Feel free to email just me rather than the list if you feel I'm taking
this thread down a rat-hole!
I'm also interested in this thread. So either list or cc to me please.:-)
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to figure it out, since I've *never* had the plug-in work under any version of
Unix. Note, this is the *plug-in* she's having problems with, not real player
itself.
What does about:plugins tell you?
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I have a quick question for the list. I would like to setup
an IRC daemon on my firewall machine. I went to freshmeat.net and
Are you absolutely sure you want this? I didn't have the impression about all
these irc things that they are so well-tested against security. Well, I can't
help
Hi Guys,
I've been suffering with this problem for a while, so I though I would ask now.
Does anybody know of any bug concerning recvfrom on UDP sockets in
kernel=2.2.13? It doesn't seem to return the address for me. I found a bug
report, but it was about a problem when the return value of
Hi,
Forget it, the problem was pretty stupid. addresslength=16;
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whats going on with the list?
I guess people are just having a nice weekend:-).
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To be of more help here, we need more details. There's quite a few
scenerios here.
I hope this helps,
Yes, I will look at these questions. I will try to set those flags, and I guess
it will work. At least I hope so:-).
Thanks, Ferenc
Hi,
Can anyone direct me to a newsgroup, usergroup, website, books or offer any
ideas.
Do you have problems setting up your home network (hardware/software part)? If
DNS/DHCP/fileservice/etc. is (should be) running on linux, we can help you,
just try to ask more specific questions. Concerning
Hi Michael,
You can go in two directions. Either 10Base2, or 10BaseT (or 100BaseTX,
gigabit, but let's be realistic now).
10Base2: You use 50 ohm coax cables. It's a cheaper way of cableing, because
you don't need special switches/hubs for it. Just T jacks on all teh network
cards, and the
Hi,
Of course the next step is to run a log checker then you get to see all
Courtney? It's gonna report the portscans, and write a mail to the root.
Ferenc
P.S. This new reply to thing really sucks.
Whose idea was it? I didn't follow the thread about this, I thought common
sense would rule.
Here's another inconsistancy between my old working system and my new
fscked up system. Emacs (emacs-nox) does some strange stuff with the
delete and backspace keys when run in an xterm (works fine in virtual
I think
#XkbDisable
in XF86Config will solve this problem.
Ferenc
I'm not sure what you're referring to wrt super-netting. Are you running with
a private class C (192.168.X) subnet? If so, you could just add on another
subnet.
Since the orig question was from an .edu address, it can easily happen.
So what I think you meant is that you had a C type of
Could somebody check out why www.gnhlug.org is down? I was going to check the
archivum, but not at the right time, as I can see:-).
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usa:root [/]$ ifconfig eth0:0 206.183.143.100
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -net 127.0.0.0 lo
[ "${GATEWAY}" ] route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
ifconfig eth0:0 152.66.236.2 up
ifconfig eth0:1 152.66.236.10 up
Maybe this way?
--Ferenc
others comments on this. Like I said I refuse to run IE and support a monopoly but
I'd love to hear others comments. Also, I know that this crowd, by default uses a
Well, I didn't refuse to use it on the first day at my new job. But then I
tried ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com, and it couldn't
grep -l 'unresolved modules' /sbin/depmod
yields no results. There is a mention of 'unresolved symbol(s)', perhaps that
is what the OP meant?
Another one, after thinking more about it: this is a typical message after
trying to insmod something. Eg. insmod sb gives me this message if -for
After playing with the 6.1 and 6.2 releases of Red Hat's Linux release they no longer
have 3Com's 3C905 listed as supported on install, at
least not that I saw.
Could anyone suggest an alternative choice for this NIC?
Vortex/Boomerang. It was running under one of these names too. In the
Hi Everybody,
I was wondering if anybody has used an intel 810 card with X 3.3.6? It says
that I need a kernel module called agp(something).o, and I can't find it. What
is it supposed to come with?
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anyone know a good document on ncp printing ? becuase i cant seem to print to
one of my printers on the novell network. i must have a config error or
something. maybe someone has a sample script i can compare mine too.thanks
My scripts are these, but you can read more about it in the
comment DEREK ;-P ) If anyone can help especially with the DNS and mail
server setup that would be great. At the very least I'll take book
I can help you out with sample DNS files if you need them. Look on the
internet. I found really good DNS-descriptions. The title of one of them was
Hi,
I have been told countless times that I should be using Slackware, I've
Gee, who told you that? Oh, was it like 5 years ago?;-)
RedHat 6.2: Installed. Booted. X would only do 640x480 without major
tweaking. Sorry, that doesn't cut it. I didn't even play with PCMCIA
Hm, why not play with
Hi EVerybody,
Does anybody have experience with StarOffice 5.1's RTF abilities? I'm trying to
read an rtf that was saved by MSOffice whatever, but it always gives an error.
Interestingly, at the end of the file. Is 5.2 somewhat better in this question?
Ferenc
Hi everybody,
I'm trying to download StarOffice 5.2, but it always dies after a while, so
downloading 100 megs on http connection with a modem is pretty much a dream.
But if anybody had it on an ftp site, it would be better because I can always
resume the ftp connection, so it will continue
Postgress (which appears to have no doc whatsoever).
Yeah, it does. Once I uploaded the docs to my homepage, for internal usage,
quite a long time ago, so don't expect this to be an up-to-date version. But
if you are wondering how detailed the docs are:
Hi,
Does anybody know where mailman stores the passwd for a particular mailing list?
I should figure out a password that I haven't used for a year, and I can't seem
to be able to guess.
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Does anybody know where I could find information about connecting to a windows
firewall? I know, this could be a little more detailed description, but I
don't know much else about it. Some guys managed to configure their linux IP
masq machine so that the windows machine on their
Hi Everybody,
I would need a linux solution for finding out the bios password. During moving
the paper I had it on got lost (well, it's in one of the many boxes), and I
can't seem to figure it out. Does anybody know how to do this?
Thanks,
Ferenc
run the bios crack for the bios version found at http://packetstorm.securify.com
Thanks everybody, this will be the solution. It was suggested by Chris.
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Is anybody around Rochester, NH, who would write debian_potato_rev_2 CDs for
me? Doesn't have to be by Christmas, but the sooner the better.
And another question: I can't recall what's the name of the project that tries
to implement a GPL version of VMware. Does anybody remember? And is it
ksplash: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.3: undefined
symbol: minimumSizeHint__C7QDialog
kdeinit: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3: undefined
symbol: startsWith__C7QStringRC7QString
knotify: error in loading shared libraries:
isn't practical. I'd try Debian, but have not found one with KDE2.
No, they haven't put it into Potato. Maybe they will solve the kde/debian war
after a while, and it will be in the next stable distribution.
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I'm facing a big decision, and I would need some information. So I might go in
two directions:
-DSL from Verizon (which means that I buy a PCI kit from Staples, which I bet
is only for windows) or MV (which in turn uses Verizon AFAIK). This is a little
more expensive than
Hi everybody,
I was wondering what needs to be upgraded (recompiled) if I install 2.4 kernel
on a debian which comes with 2.2.17. I know that ppp has to be, but I'm sure
there are many other things. Anybody thorough experience with this?
Thanks,
Ferenc
Then we had another idea. Create a lockable boot media
(cdrom, jazz, orb, etc) with a minimal install (w/ strict fire
wall rules in place). Once it boots have
it set up a big RAM disk. Then it would run the appropriate
mknod commands to setup /dev and copy all the files to the
Hi everybody,
I'm trying to get everything working under 2.4.10, and for insmod sb, I get the
following:
Using /lib/modules/2.4.10/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o
/lib/modules/2.4.10/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o: unresolved symbol probe_sbmpu_Rddc8ad00
/lib/modules/2.4.10/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o:
You know, I found that Debian still asks you for the root password even
when typing 'linux single'. It's traced down to this line in
/etc/inittab:
# What to do in single-user mode.
~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin
If it does (and a decent distribution really should), you can do something
like
Kenny,
I've been looking for a decent PM program for a while, and the best I could
find was a list of non-commercial/commercial packages, some of them for
different flavors of unix systems too. The url is:
http://www.uni-giessen.de/faq/archiv/proj-plan-faq/msg0.html
Some of the commercial
Tom,
If you're looking for something in the cheaper category, I bought a Pacific
Digital CD Rewritable kit at Staples. It's nothing fancy, it's a
74-minute-drive, can't read DVD, but I really only needed it for backup
purposes. I can't recall the exact price, but it was pretty cheap. You'll
Hi,
I believe a while ago somebody asked about how to tell the ide-scsi module to
leave other IDE devices alone, and scsi-emulate only one of them. I didn't
see any response.
Here is how it works for me:
lilo.conf:
image=/boot/bzImage
label=Linux.new
append=hdc=ide-scsi
Hi everybody,
I'm looking for a company that would do collocation service with linux
servers. It doesn't have to be state of the art service; rather the price is
that counts. I did a quick search; what turned up was a little expensive, but
there has to be cheaper providers.
Anyway, if anybody
apt-get clean
--Ferenc
On Monday 15 April 2002 09:43, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone know if there is any harm in deleteing
/var/cache/apt/archives/* ? All of the pachages that I have ever
installed are in there, and it's currently taking up about 1GB of
space..
TIA,
Well, Suse 8.0 is supposed to be released in a few days (Monday or so). I'm
_hoping_ it will have ghostscript 6.53.
--Ferenc
Neither has SuSE. Note that the Ghostscript folks and the hpijs team depend
on volunteers to create RPMs for various distros. However, IMNSHO, this
doesn't excuse the
There are some packages available. Look for CAD for linux, and you'll very
likely find all of them. Eg. Microstation had a linux version some time ago
(this was probably the best package for linux). There is some package called
cycas, or something similar name.
I tried them, and then reverted
e) /etc/rc.config is supposed to have these (uncommented) entries:
START_PCMCIA = yes (I found this one) and also PCMCIA = i82365 (I
did not find this entry even after searching for those terms using
the pico text editor.
First of all, good luck with pcmcia and suse 7.3.
I believe you'll
Hm, on the top of my head, I'm not sure what type this is. Would this be the seria
known as 43P?
As a starting point, if this is an mca machine, you'll not be able to run
linux on it. On the other hand, not AIX 5.2 either:-). There is a matrix
around on the IBM website, which details which
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