Linux-Misc Digest #539, Volume #18 Sat, 9 Jan 99 21:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux (citizen)
Re: Point of Sale (POS) Solutions? (Bill Voight)
Re: StarOffice 50 key? (Rob)
Driver for Win to access Linux (Andreas Jung)
how to install rpm on slackware (William)
Downloading large files, Re: good office package for linux ("Cameron Spitzer")
Re: Can't find modem ("Tesh")
Re: Telnet In, FTP In, Etc (Kenyon Ralph)
Re: Undefined Symbol: __bzero (Fred Flatstone)
Re: PPP: Weird errors logging in to ISP (Sir Hoagy of the Marshlands)
Re: good office package for linux (Krzysztof Kajkowski)
Re: Downloading large files, Re: good office package for linux (Walter Strong)
Re: Linux Commands (Shaygetz)
Re: suid root (Rob)
Re: Logging a user (Rob)
Re: help needed compiling kernel (Enkidu)
Re: Eudora for Linux is a good idea (Victor Wagner)
Re: printer, scanner drivers for linux? (Victor Wagner)
Re: Telnet In, FTP In, Etc (Jeff Kay)
Re: Currupted filesystem: Causes? (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: Linux: Fight for survival or on victory march? (jedi)
Re: sbin directories (Was: Anti-Linux FUD) (Paul Martin)
Re: Linux: Fight for survival or on victory march? (Loren Petrich)
Re: PPP: Weird errors logging in to ISP (Patrik Israelsson)
Re: Telnet In, FTP In, Etc (Jeff Grossman)
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From: citizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux
Crossposted-To: misc.consumers.frugal-living
Date: 9 Jan 1999 16:52:28 +0800
Allen Ashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been involved with computers for about 35 years, and
> have been a linux user for several years. I find linux
> astonishingly powerful, almost poetic in its beauty, but I wouldn't
> recommend it for a casual user. People who use windows are accustomed
> to GPF errors, frequent rebooting, and the occasional re-installation.
> These commonplace events with Microsoft products require an investment
> on the part of the user, but no one seems to care about that. Linux
> requires and investment to become familiar with the much greater
> capability of the system, but most people would not be willing
> to make that investment. While there are many capable applications
> for linux they are not identical to those available for windows and
> some users might be disappointed. Linux can coexist with windows
> if you assign a disk partition for it. A linux utility will even
> allow you to shrink a dos partition so that you can make room
> for linux. I would suggest that anyone interested in experimenting
> with linux consider re-partitioning their drive the next time
> a windows crash causes you to have to re-install windows. You
> have nothing to lose.
You make some valid points. I predict that Linux will evolve to
challenge everything else on these issues. There will be a point
when Linux will offer everything Windows does and much, much more -
to the average user. I personally passed that point 5 years ago
when I started playing with Unix.
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From: Bill Voight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Point of Sale (POS) Solutions?
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 20:02:08 -0500
Jason,
Check out Linux Journal. There's an article on a Linux POS system in one
of the most recent issues- can't remember which.
BV
"Jason P. Stanford" wrote:
> I have been asked to look into whether there is a Linux + Win (or
> possibly just Linux) solution for a small retail business. This store
> currently has one location and will be opening a second one by the end
> of the first quarter. Their current setup includes several Wintel PC's
> running a DOS-based POS system in a DOS window. This has been working
> ok, but it is limited to five stations, does not have an integrated
> general accounting, payroll, etc program. It is only the inventory and
> register functions.
> Because of the second store opening, they are wondering what their
> options are. I am not an expert in these types of integrated systems,
> but I am pretty familiar with both Linux and WinNT. Is there such a
> software system that would allow the second location to connect to a
> server at the first (say via a 56k modem or two, using PPP or SLIP) to
> access it's database, while running the POS/accounting software? Where
> should I begin to look?
> I felt that a Linux solution would serve them best because of its
> reliability, networking, inexpensiveness, and customability. Please
> help! Thanks!
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 00:31:23 +0000
From: Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: StarOffice 50 key?
I think you may have to d/load it again, I had similer problems with
staroffice 5.0 for Solaris 2.6. I had an old key (which I got the day
before) and tried it an it did not work.
To be honist I really found staroffice to be pretty bad and would of
been extremly miffed if I had payed for it. Its got all the features of
Its M$ counterpart, i just could not do any real work on it because it
crashed or locked up every 5 minuetes...May of been because I buggered
up my first installation of it, so may try it again sometime.
Has anyone else had good/bad experiences of it?
Thanks
Rob
Raymond Doetjes wrote:
>
> I have a small problem.
>
> A friend of my downloaded StarOffice about 6 weeks ago. When I got it
> this week, I tried to install it, while running the setup it asks for a
> registration key. My friend forgot to write that down. So I thought to
> be smart and faked a new download so you get a registration key. But
> this registration key doesn't work. Probably due to a small update or a
> date/time check.
>
> Now I'm looking for a original key that you get after registering or a
> key that does work. So I can run it and register my self. Can some one
> suply me with such a key.
>
> Raymond Doetjes
--
Rob Barnes
Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Page : Brother wrecked it, last time I let him use FTP..
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From: Andreas Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Driver for Win to access Linux
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 01:48:11 +0100
Hi
I am looking for a driver either for Win 95 or for Win NT 4 that
gives me access to Linux ext2fs filesystems. Hints on shareware or
commercials are highly appreciated
Regards
a.
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From: William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to install rpm on slackware
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 04:49:07 +0800
Dear Sir,
Could anyone guide me step by step to teach me to install rpm onto
slackware ? After installation, will rpm configuration and packages
affect my original slackware system ? And is it worth to install rpm
onto slackware ?
Please reply me via email and Thank you,
William
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From: "Cameron Spitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Downloading large files, Re: good office package for linux
Date: 9 Jan 1999 21:04:30 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>
>> Michel Catudal wrote:
>> >
>> > There is no way in hell that could be downloaded, the line will go
>> > dead way before it's done. What we need is to be able to get it
>> >
>> I started the FTP under Netscape, taking care to write down the entire
>> URL.
>> When the line dropped, I restarted it by using ftp (by itself -- no
>> netscape). After that, every time the lie dropped, I used a reget
>> instead of a get to resume the download from where it left off.
>> This worked fine.
>
>Thanks for the tip, I'll try that. The problem with these folks is
>that they think that everyone has decent phone lines or is running
When I fetch a large file, I just copy it to my ISP shell account
first. Then split(1) it into 2 MB chunks and download those.
Reassemble with cat(1). Is reget widely supported now? That would
be easier.
Cameron
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From: "Tesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Can't find modem
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 01:06:44 -0000
some modems are only for windows using dial up connection. check on manf
website they may have a driver
Donald Hurst wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have a NewCom 56K Plug 'n Play modem which works just fine under
>Windows 95 on Comm 4. Under RedHat Linux 5.2 I can't seem to get a
>dialtone. I have tried Comm 1 thru Comm 4 using minicom and can't get a
>sound.
>
>The box says for Windows 95 or higher. Is that my problem???
>
>Don
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenyon Ralph)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Telnet In, FTP In, Etc
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 01:18:15 GMT
On Sun, 10 Jan 1999 00:46:52 GMT, Jeff Grossman wrote:
> But how do I get it so I can telnet in, ftp in, etc?
Edit the /etc/inetd.conf file. Then when you are done, save that file, and
do a 'killall -HUP inetd' command. There are helpful comments in the
/etc/inetd.conf file as well.
--
Kenyon Ralph | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://kenyon.ddns.org
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From: Fred Flatstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Undefined Symbol: __bzero
Date: 08 Jan 1999 22:46:03 -0800
As you no doubt know, you've messed up your libraries.
The one time I did this, it wasn't real bad and I was
able to use a rescue disk and fix things. But your
situations sounds too bad for that. If you've got
a spare partition on your disk (which anybody with
today's big disks should have) you could install a
small non-X11 Linux OS on it and then try to fix the
damage from the comfort of a fully capable OS. Or,
at least copy off the good stuff in case you don't
want to mess with the libraries and just re-install
from scratch.
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From: Sir Hoagy of the Marshlands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP: Weird errors logging in to ISP
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 23:38:44 +0000
Don Johnson wrote:
> host: gvsu.edu
> Access Controlled
> Login: [EMAIL PROTECTED](the @gvsu.edu is required)
> Password: **********
Try this instead:
Where it says 'host', replace the 'gvsu.edu' with 'ppp'
I also authenticate through Merit/Michnet.
Western Michigan University is my ISP.
This is my dialup script:
'' ''
'ost:' 'ppp'
'ogin:' '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
'ord:' '********'
'TIMEOUT' '5'
'~--' ''
This should get your PPP session established without any trouble.
>>Matt<<
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Krzysztof Kajkowski)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,pl.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: good office package for linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 23:12:56 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wyskroba�(a):
>Hendrik Boom wrote:
[cut]
It is real problem. But what can we (people who must pay for each
hour about 1,25$) say? I have 33.6 modem speed and when I download
something it is good when I have transfer ca. 2.5kb but when
some prog. is outside my country there is no way to download program
bigger than 2MB - because of telephone bill I have to pay.
CU!
--
Cayc0 and cayc0 are registered
trademarks of Cay co.
;)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Strong)
Subject: Re: Downloading large files, Re: good office package for linux
Date: 9 Jan 1999 23:18:29 GMT
Cameron Spitzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >Hendrik Boom wrote:
: >>
: >> Michel Catudal wrote:
: >> >
: >> > There is no way in hell that could be downloaded, the line will go
: >> > dead way before it's done. What we need is to be able to get it
: >> >
: >> I started the FTP under Netscape, taking care to write down the entire
: >> URL.
: >> When the line dropped, I restarted it by using ftp (by itself -- no
: >> netscape). After that, every time the lie dropped, I used a reget
: >> instead of a get to resume the download from where it left off.
: >> This worked fine.
: >
: >Thanks for the tip, I'll try that. The problem with these folks is
: >that they think that everyone has decent phone lines or is running
: When I fetch a large file, I just copy it to my ISP shell account
: first. Then split(1) it into 2 MB chunks and download those.
: Reassemble with cat(1). Is reget widely supported now? That would
: be easier.
: Cameron
Hi. This is off topic (and I can't answer the last question) but...what
do the "(1)"'s refer to aafter "split" and "cat"?
Thanks.
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From: Shaygetz <"s m c q u a l e"@i x.n e t c o m.c o m>
Subject: Re: Linux Commands
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 20:24:56 -0500
RFSP wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Where can I find a site or a book with all linux commands.
>
> thx
Try the O'reilly book, _Linux in a Nutshell_. Twenty bucks.
It is a quick reference, and has commands, shell-related
commands and options, pattern matching, vi & emacs commands,
gawk, and a lot of other command-line and scripting info.
SSC [www.ssc.com] publishes a bunch of _Handy Pocket References_.
Try out their site.
Believe it or not, I am fairly sure there is (or are?) a pocket
reference type of _Idiot's Guide_ publication. You know Linux
has hit the big-time when they start publishing "Idiot Books"
on Linux!
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the spaces in the "Reply to" email address in the header.
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 00:17:59 +0000
From: Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: suid root
> chmod does what you're looking for. See "man chmod" , or any basic UN*X
> instruction book.
I know how to use chmod to an extent (eg chmod 744 file) but i cannot
find a clear example on setting a file to suid to root.
> This does not work that way, since the Linux shells will ignore the
> SUID bit, unless the shell itself is setUID-aware. If you have to do
> it that way (which is bad), use sperl . Otherwise, use "su" or "sudo"
> instead .
Thats k for myself (indeed thats what ive been doing), but i cannot give
normal users root access.
Cheers
--
Rob Barnes
Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Page : Brother wrecked it, last time I let him use FTP..
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 00:23:54 +0000
From: Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Logging a user
The default we are using is C shell. I dont suppose there is a way to
do it no matter what shell they are using?
Cheers
Rob
Raymond Doetjes wrote:
>
> Login as root and go to the HOME dirs
> Make a small script that cat 's the .bash_history file (only when bash
> is defauult shell otherwise .history) in the users home dir. This tracks
> all the user command entries.
>
> Raymond
>
> Rob wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > Is there anyway I can log all of a specific user's movements, such as
> > what commands they have run?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > --
> >
> > Rob Barnes
> > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Web Page : Brother wrecked it, last time I let him use FTP..
--
Rob Barnes
Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Page : Brother wrecked it, last time I let him use FTP..
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From: Enkidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help needed compiling kernel
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:28:13 +1300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter Brookes wrote:
>
> [snip]
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.0.34.SuSE/include -Wall
> -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce
> -pipe -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2
> -DCPU=586 -c -o sb_common.o sb_common.c
> sb_common.c:21: #error You will need to configure the sound driver
> with CONFIG_AUDIO option.
> make[2]: *** [sb_common.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.34.SuSE/drivers/sound'
> make[1]: *** [sub_dirs] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.34.SuSE/drivers'
> make: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 2
Mmm, I guess that you must have missed a config step for the sound
card. I haven't configured a sound card, so I don't know what you
have to do to configure it. However, it seems pretty clear that the
kernel build stops at that point and doesn't finish.
Cliff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor Wagner)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Eudora for Linux is a good idea
Date: 9 Jan 1999 15:58:54 +0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chris Gushue ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Does anyone out there besides me think that Eudora for Linux would be a
: Good Thing? There aren't really any impressive email apps that I have
: found for Linux (Netscape's mail is terrible IMHO). Maybe this has been
: suggested before, I don't know. Maybe a petition can be started up
Oh, nice idea. Seat down and code it yourself. I'm sure that such
featureless mailreader as Eudora Light wouldn't take you more than
couple of thousand lines on Tcl-tk (especially, if you would be clever
enough to invoke mailx in the background to handle all mailbox-hanling
issue and metamail to handle all the MIME..
But I'm afraid that few capable programmers care about graphical MUA,
where there exist a lot of quite powerful text-based ones - pine, mutt,
mh, emacs.
Of course, for beginners eudora-like program can be of much help.
Again, I'm consider it worth no more than qualification exam after
two-semester course of Tk programming.
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I have tin news and pine mail...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor Wagner)
Subject: Re: printer, scanner drivers for linux?
Date: 9 Jan 1999 16:14:59 +0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I'd like to run linux on my home pc, but I haven't been able to find any
: information on drivers for my printers (Canon LBP 460 laser printer and HP
: LaserJet 1100), and for my Visioneer flatbed scanner. Obviously, I can't
: switch to linux unless I can find drivers for these. Can anyone help?
Linux typically don't require special driver for printer. There is
generic parallel printer driver in the kernel and it's enough for
printing simple thigs. (and complex things too, if your printer has
Postscript in it). Only thing you need is support for your printer in
the Ghostscript program, if your printer doesn't support Postscript
itself. As for HP, I think that ljet4 driver for ghostscrit would work.
I'll reccomend you to get latest Ghostscript for windows, and check if
it works with your printer. If it does (and doesn't uses some
windows-specific drivers) you can be pretty sure than your printer is
supported under Linux.
As for scanner, look to www.mostang.org/sane
It is a home of Linux scanner access project. If it is SCSI scanner
there are much chances that it is supported. If it is parllel, things
probably worse.
: Thanks!
: Amit
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I have tin news and pine mail...
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From: Jeff Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Telnet In, FTP In, Etc
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 01:31:43 +0000
Hi Jeff
I'm assuming tht you already have ppp connections to elsewhere or an
ethernet connection to another computer that you want to telnet in from?
You have a couple files in you /etc dir host.allow ( or .conf ) and
.deny...... these telll the system which computers someone can remote
login to your system from...... the inital setup is I believe to
disallow all remote logins....
Thus you have to put entries in the hosts.allow file for the systems you
wish to login to your system from.....
A quick and dirty way if the computers are in close proximity to each
other is to use the xhosts command
say the computer you wish to login from to your computers address is
pooh.redhat.com... then on your system type
xhost + pooh.redhat.com
done
cheers
> Hello,
>
> I have just set up a Red Hat Linux system. But how do I get it so I
> can telnet in, ftp in, etc?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
> ---
> Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: Currupted filesystem: Causes?
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 23:34:13 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Riffle wrote:
>Yo,
Yoho,
>
>I just had to repair a corrupted filesystem on my server using fsck,
>no big deal. Just a pain in the arse having to go down to the co-lo
>center and type in the root password and answer yes to everything.
Yep ...
>So, what causes the filesystem to be corrupted anyway? Poorly written
>programs? Leaving the server up too long? I'm not really sure how to
>prevent this from happening in the future and what even caused it in
>the first place. Any englightenment would help.
... should not happen at all, so power failures, kernel bugs, FS bugs,
hardware related problems, you did not shutdown your machine in a clean
way but cannot remember ...
>Also, is there a config file I can change to have it not require root
>password and just answer y to all of the questions on boot if the
>filesystem is corrupt?
... just run (e2)fsck with -p ... it will try its best then.
Bye,
Juergen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux: Fight for survival or on victory march?
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:13:49 -0800
On 9 Jan 1999 01:32:28 GMT, Chris Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>says...
>>
>>On Fri, 08 Jan 1999 21:31:13 GMT, John Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>I admit that playing games on Linux is less than exciting.
>>>
>>>I don't now much abt computers but am abt to try
>>>Linux soon.
>>>
>>>I just don't understand why anyone would want to
>>>play a game on ANY operating system tho?? Why not
>>>use a dedicated device like a Sony Playstation??
>>
>> Some games are more usable with a mouse and keyboard.
>> Other computers used to come with better game
>> controllers than what comes with consoles these days.
>
>Do what I did and buy a better game controller for your console. You can get
>them for under $10.00 at your local Walmart/Kmart...
You have no idea what you're talking about. It sounds
like you've never been in either, nevermind their
electronic departments.
--
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Neither will do a thing unless they really want to, or |||
is coerced to the point where it will scratch your eyes out / | \
as soon as your grip slips.
In search of sane PPP docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Martin)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: sbin directories (Was: Anti-Linux FUD)
Date: 10 Jan 1999 01:41:36 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
>Floppy formatting is a hardware task. Granted, it's controlled by
>software, but that is not relevant. Users are not allowed to use
>the formatting ioctl(), so a program which has as its sole purpose
>the controlled use of that very same ioctl() is pretty useless to
>non-root users.
Eh? That's odd:
$ ls -l /usr/bin/superformat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 49692 Sep 8 12:03 /usr/bin/superformat
$ superformat /dev/fd0
Formatting cylinder 59, head 1
Notice that superformat (fdformat is now old) is not suid, and I'm not
running as superuser.
--
Paul Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
at home, swap dash to dot to email.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Loren Petrich)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux: Fight for survival or on victory march?
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 19:07:59 GMT
In article <77204j$qc8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "93"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris Lee wrote in message <76ukii$os5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >I could care less about AOL,and haven't bought a single game for my PC
> since >I got my Sony PlayStation a couple of years ago......
> Quite. Consoles are still the better choice for games, even if they have
> been "technically surpassed". At least with a Console, you know the game is
> going to work - non of this conventional memory lark, no "will it cause my
> modem to clash with my mouse?", no "will my graphics card *really* work even
> though it says it will on the side?".
I have a Macintosh, and the MacOS is almost as good as a Playstation in
that respect.
The only game that's ever caused me memory problems is Unreal, and
that's because I've had to give it a gigantic partition.
Quake RAVE does not quite work right (it's GLQuake hacked to work with
QuickDraw 3D RAVE), but at least software rendering is OK. Tomb Raider 2
and Myth 2 work perfectly with my ATI Xclaim 3D card -- which is
recognized as a plain-vanilla card by both the MacOS and the BeOS in the
absence of 3D-acceleration drivers.
That Xclaim 3D card is also free from sync-on-green, something that my
IMS Twin Turbo had had (one has to switch it off every time one reboots),
which makes my Sony monitor look greenish in some monitor resolutions.
--
Loren Petrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Happiness is a fast Macintosh
And a fast train
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From: Patrik Israelsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP: Weird errors logging in to ISP
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 01:08:37 +0100
Don Johnson wrote:
> Good afternoon,
> for some reason, when I dial my isp(merit.edu, a contract ppp server for my
> school, gvsu.edu(grand valley state university)), It displays the following:
>
> host: gvsu.edu
> Access Controlled
> Login: [EMAIL PROTECTED](the @gvsu.edu is required)
> Password: **********
>
> ...and after i put in my password, it gives an error:
> ****Host Currently Unavailable****
> , and this ONLY happens in Linux. Win95 connects fine.
> after the error, it will go back to the host: prompt, and does the same.
>
> Has anybody ever seen this happen or know what kind of server I might be
> dealing with for the access? Any replies are greatly appreciated.
Probably, it works in Win95 because Win95 uses PAP authentication (not a
well-known fact amongst Win95 users for some reason ;) ) while your Linux PPP
tries to connect to a server which uses UNIX authentication (dunno what exactly
it's called). Probably, they haven't configured that server (those BASTARDS!)
What PPP tool are you using? I'm using EzPPP, it's great IMHO...I guess you'll
want to try PAP authentication after this; EzPPP includes full documentation on
setting up PAP rather easy. Highly recommended.
/ Patrik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Grossman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Telnet In, FTP In, Etc
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 01:58:32 GMT
Okay, I tried that just to make a quick connection to see if I could
make it work. But it did not. I typed in
xhost + 192.168.168.1
and it gave me the error,
xhosts: Unable to open display ""
That ip address is of the machine that I am using to telnet into. The
Linux machine is using ip 192.168.168.100.
Thanks,
Jeff
Jeff Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi Jeff
>
>I'm assuming tht you already have ppp connections to elsewhere or an
>ethernet connection to another computer that you want to telnet in from?
>
>You have a couple files in you /etc dir host.allow ( or .conf ) and
>.deny...... these telll the system which computers someone can remote
>login to your system from...... the inital setup is I believe to
>disallow all remote logins....
>
>Thus you have to put entries in the hosts.allow file for the systems you
>wish to login to your system from.....
>
>A quick and dirty way if the computers are in close proximity to each
>other is to use the xhosts command
>
>say the computer you wish to login from to your computers address is
>pooh.redhat.com... then on your system type
>
>xhost + pooh.redhat.com
>
>done
>
>cheers
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have just set up a Red Hat Linux system. But how do I get it so I
>> can telnet in, ftp in, etc?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
>> ---
>> Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
---
Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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