Linux-Misc Digest #656, Volume #18 Sun, 17 Jan 99 08:13:16 EST
Contents:
Re: Wierd Apache Problem ("Raymond Doetjes")
Re: searching for fvwm2rc file ("Raymond Doetjes")
Re: Try to install Acrobat Reader ... ("Louis")
Re: searching for fvwm2rc file ("Raymond Doetjes")
Re: Samba Question ("Raymond Doetjes")
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (Mayor Of R'lyeh)
Re: Partitions ("Raymond Doetjes")
Wierd Apache Problem (Scott Gravenhorst (remove _ for reply))
Re: Linux on a 286? ("Raymond Doetjes")
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (John Thompson)
Re: no users (John H Klapp)
Voice AND fax software? ("Jesus M. Salvo Jr.")
Re: Debian 1.3 Includes Stupid "man" ??! (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Bill Perkins)
When I'm online, my hard drive makes noise... (Enno Middelberg)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. ("Joshua Schaeffer")
Re: Making .tar.gz Files Work (Lawrence Sweeney)
Re: 2038 and Linux (Michael Humphries-Dolnick)
Re: securing a linux box (David Augros)
Re: Linux compatiblity with Colorado tape drives. (mlw)
Re: Debian 1.3 Includes Stupid "man" ??! (John Hasler)
Re: Anyone working on a Gimp-like sound app? (Jonathan Turner)
Re: Can one set up RAID with IDE drives?
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From: "Raymond Doetjes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wierd Apache Problem
Date: 17 Jan 1999 12:13:06 GMT
I don't know what kernel version you have.
But first I shoukd upgrade Apache to the newest version. I meant it was
1.3. But it might also be time to get your kernel uprgraded if you are
still using a 2.0.29 or a 2.0.30 kernel.
Raymond
Scott Gravenhorst (remove _ for reply) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in
artikel <36a1d90c.3437261@proximus>...
> Apache 1.1.1 on Caldera Open Linux Lite.
>
> Under certain cercumstances, the http daemon will suddenly consume 95%
> or more of the CPU and then stay that way. If I stop and start the
> daemon, it works perfectly again.
>
> Although it also happens randomly, once every couple of weeks, this
> will happen most certainly if I write self reloading HTML that hits it
> once every few seconds.
>
> This happens on two different boxes, different hardware, but running
> the same version of OS and Apache.
>
> Less than 1% of swap is ever used, even when Apache freaks out. Nice
> goes over 95%, idle around 5%.
>
> Is this an OS or an Apache problem?
>
> I am thinking of buying the full blown Caldera CD. What are the odds
> that this will go away by installing the full version?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Please remove the spam blocking underscore in the reply-to address.
>
> -- Scott Gravenhorst
> -- FatMan Site: www.teklab.com/~chordman
>
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From: "Raymond Doetjes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: searching for fvwm2rc file
Date: 17 Jan 1999 12:14:17 GMT
I think that with RedHat it resides in a users homedir.
But it is a .fvwmrc file. The . makes it invisble with ls, you should use
ls -all then.
Raymond
Upali Bandara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in artikel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Can somebody mail me a sample fvwm2rc file which I'll match to my system
> then?
>
> Thanks, Samuel sixteen year old Linux beginner
>
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From: "Louis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Try to install Acrobat Reader ...
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 19:07:19 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] heeft geschreven in bericht
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:20:18 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>I must admit that I pressed Ctrl-Z to terminate the license agreement. I
guess
>>that killed the install as well. But how to do it correct ?
>
>Ooops... now I realized it was the VI that presented the text.
>:q did the trick ...
>
>-----------------------------------------------------
>Answers please in this newsgroup!
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>-----------------------------------------------------
It is always nice to see people talking to ..... ;-)
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From: "Raymond Doetjes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: searching for fvwm2rc file
Date: 17 Jan 1999 12:15:05 GMT
You can also search for file with mc (A norton commander clone)
or by gooing to the root and typeing
find . |grep -e "part of filename"
Raymond
Upali Bandara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in artikel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Can somebody mail me a sample fvwm2rc file which I'll match to my system
> then?
>
> Thanks, Samuel sixteen year old Linux beginner
>
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From: "Raymond Doetjes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba Question
Date: 17 Jan 1999 12:15:48 GMT
Are both Workgroups the same name???
Raymond
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mayor Of R'lyeh)
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:17:07 GMT
On 17 Jan 1999 10:39:05 +0100, David Kastrup
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> chose to bless us
all with this bit of wisdom:
>Ambassador KosH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> who gives a rat's ass what the public thinks? the majority of the
>> people polled (not necessarily the general public) think clinton
>> shouldn't be removed from office, but he still commited crimes that
>> would get the average joe around 5-15 years or more in jail under
>> federal law. Just because part or most of the public likes the
>> person on trial doesn't mean that the law should overlook the issue
>> because they are popular.
>>
>> Netnerd wrote:
>>
>> > The latest consumer poll shows that 81 percent of consumers think Microsoft
>> > has been good for consumers, and 52 percent think the case was brought to
>> > help Microsoft's rivals.
>> >
>> > The poll also shows that 76 percent of consumers think U.S. District Judge
>> > Thomas Penfield Jackson should find Microsoft not guilty of violating the
>> > Sherman Antitrust Act when the trial concludes sometime in the next two or
>> > three months.
>
>One should be careful about believing polls too much. In this case,
>it turned out from internal Emails that not only Microsoft paid for
>the poll, but that Bill Gates also specified the percentages he would
>like to hear as results of the poll.
>
>It was somewhat embarassing for one of the independent witnesses of
>Microsoft to hear where this results he was citing were coming from.
>They should at least have informed him instead of letting him
>embarrass himself and them in that way.
You have your polls mixed up. The consumer poll was done independently
of Microsoft.
The poll that you are distorting was of developers. It was taken after
a presentation of Microsoft's side. The results weren't dictated by
Mr. Gates as you imply either.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die."
- Abdul Alhazred, Necronomicon
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From: "Raymond Doetjes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitions
Date: 17 Jan 1999 12:18:31 GMT
If you keep your swap partition on the same /dev/ then you do not need to
change anything in your fsstab.
Check your fsstab and write these down and make a emergency repair disk in
case something might go wrong.
If you still want to boot to a DOS partition that is also possible. Then
you can load linux useing linload or loadlin.
Raymond
Mark Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in artikel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I ahve my sys setup like this:
>
> Pri:
> Linux
> Extended:
> DOS
> Swap
>
> Can I boot off the DOS partition? What about using Lilo? Could I delete
> the extended and remake into
>
> Pri:
> Linux
> DOS
> Extended:
> Swap
>
> Would I have change system settings if keep the swap starting on the
> same cyl?
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Gravenhorst (remove _ for reply))
Subject: Wierd Apache Problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 19:04:47 GMT
Apache 1.1.1 on Caldera Open Linux Lite.
Under certain cercumstances, the http daemon will suddenly consume 95%
or more of the CPU and then stay that way. If I stop and start the
daemon, it works perfectly again.
Although it also happens randomly, once every couple of weeks, this
will happen most certainly if I write self reloading HTML that hits it
once every few seconds.
This happens on two different boxes, different hardware, but running
the same version of OS and Apache.
Less than 1% of swap is ever used, even when Apache freaks out. Nice
goes over 95%, idle around 5%.
Is this an OS or an Apache problem?
I am thinking of buying the full blown Caldera CD. What are the odds
that this will go away by installing the full version?
Thanks in advance.
Please remove the spam blocking underscore in the reply-to address.
-- Scott Gravenhorst
-- FatMan Site: www.teklab.com/~chordman
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From: "Raymond Doetjes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a 286?
Date: 17 Jan 1999 12:20:41 GMT
No way, Linux only works with 32 bit CPU's and up. Since 286 is a 16 bit
CPU there is nothing you can do with appart from makeing it a Linux
terminal
Raymond
Michael J. Waddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in artikel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I currently have Red Hat 5.1 running on a pentium -- a friend of mine has
a 286
> that he is willing to give me. I know that the minimum system
requirements for
> red hat are 386 -- is there any way to put linux on a 286? Or if not,
are
> there any other os's that would work on a 286 (such as minix?) that would
> interface well with my linuxboxes (so that I can add it to my linux LAN)?
>
> Thank you for your time
> Mike
>
> --
> Michael J. Waddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> URL = http://www.uwm.edu/~ndell/
> "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is
> invisible to the eye." -Saint-Exupery
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Thompson)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 15:36:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alan Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Now, given that it was a bit more advanced than micros, it could have
>> done something more fancy. However, it wanted to be a lot like CP/M,
>> which was a popular OS for 8 and 16 bit micros at the time; thus there
>I don't think the 16 bit version of CP/M had been developed yet. I know
>the 8086 version had not been created at that time, but I don't recall
>any other versions then either.
Actually, CP/M-86 was IBM's first choice for the operating system
on their then-new PC systems. DR wanted too much for it so IBM
made PC-DOS the default but CP/M-86 was an extra-cost option.
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John H Klapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: osu.sys.linux
Subject: Re: no users
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 01:04:46 -0500
make sure that the owner of the directory is the user, that the perms on
the directory are 755 or 700, and that the directory name is correct in
/etc/passwd.
The critical commands are chown and chmod to change the owner and group
John Klapp
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Tamas wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I am running RH 5.2 I used su command to change file security modes as
> an ordinary user. After that I could not login as ordinary user ( no
> directory /home/tamas!) . Fortunately I can login as root and I see
> that there is /home/tamas . I created a new user but I got the same
> message (no directory /home/proba )
>
> Should I install the whole system again or there is something I can do?
>
> Thanks,
> Tamas
>
>
>
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From: "Jesus M. Salvo Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Voice AND fax software?
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 23:16:24 +1100
I have been using symantec's WinFaxPro to make my PC act as a voice (via
TalkWorks) and fax answering machine, but I want to do this with linux
so I can use linux more often than I am doing now.
Is anyone aware of such an equivalent in linux? Free?
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Subject: Re: Debian 1.3 Includes Stupid "man" ??!
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 16 Jan 1999 14:27:18 -0500
Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tetchman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I have Debian 1.3 installed on i386, and have been wondering why the supplied
> : "man" program is so stupid as to refuse to go back one screen using "b" (it
> : just beeps at me).
you seem to be getting `more' as your pager. what you want is `less'.
put this in your .bash_profile:
export PAGER=$(type -path less)
a similar yet different stunt will set this up in csh. hope this
helps.
--
Johan Kullstam [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Perkins)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: 17 Jan 1999 12:42:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 06:56:52 GMT, Jim G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>Apparently you haven't been listening. Windows is UNSTABLE. It
>>chrashes and locks up all the time, anytime. You can tweak it all you
>
> Which windows? If you are talking about Win 9x, I would agree with
> you completely. If you are talking about Win NT, I will disagree. The
> technology in Win 9x and win NT is vastly different even though they
> "look" the same.
I was running Windows NT 4.0 Workstation for a few days on a 586 w/32 MB
RAM, left it on over the weekend (just running the screen saver), came
in on Monday morning, and found a message box saying something to the
effect of: "Out of virtual memory- close some applications" or some such
nonsense. After rebooting, NT had forgotten who I was (needed to put
myself in as a user again!) and had forgotten that I really didn't want
Windows Explorer, and all that. Stable? I don't think so....
> Win 9x is based on DOS and Win 3x with improvements ported from
> Win NT. Win NT is a very solid core overlaid with virtual machines
> (something the IBM main frames have had for years).
>
>>want, it's still gonna crash, (unless you have access to the source
>>code and you can tweak the kernel). Usually, when your almost done
>
> It has been my experience that the folks at MS have done a pretty
> good job of optimizing the kernel on Win NT. When folks get in and start
> tweaking the registry (because they know better than the folks at MS), they
> usually screw up the machine.
I don't bother with the registry- applications should know how to tweak
the registry on their own, without making a mess of it. I saw a 1000+
page book that was "all about the registry" for around $60 US. Must be
pretty complicated...
> Although Linux folks seem to think that they are the only experts around,
> the folks at MS are no dummies. MS runs most of their business on
> Win NT. If it doesn't work right, they have to fix it or their own internal
> operations suffer. Just as the phone companies used unix internally
> and greatly improved the code, MS does the same thing for Win NT.
> Not only that, but MS has some very big customers that have paid them
> a lot of money for Win NT - if they scream loud, MS listens - remember
> MS is a commercial company, it doesn't want to make their biggest
> customers unhappy or they might loose their business.
Too true- however, I read somewhere (maybe in this newsgroup) that one of
MS's biggest applications is Oracle running under some form of Unix to track
customers and other internal stuff.
>>with your work, the whole OS, not just the app, will go into a coma
>>from which ONLY a reBOOT in the ass will bring it back, and then it
>>comes back with amnesia and can't remember where or what your data
>>was. A worthy OS should be able to RECOVER from an application crash,
>>not die with it!
A worthy OS wouldn't need to recover- just remove the offending application,
retrieve the memory (put it back into the free pool), flush and close open
files, etc.
> I can not remember ever having an app take out Win NT. I have been using
> Win NT on my production systems since I got an NT 3.0 alpha copy from MS -
> long before it was available publicly.
Must not be doing much in the production end, else you've got apps that
were actually written properly...
> I have nothing against Linux. I think it is a great OS and definitely has
> its place in the spectrum of computing tools available to solve problems.
> I just have a hard time with folks that spread lies about Win NT. Most
> people that use Win NT find it very stable. My son leaves his system on for
> months at a time (I know because I looked at the log file when I added some
> hardware to it over winter break).
Not bad. Wish I had an NT system that would do that...
> Jim G.
>
> Yes, I run win NT systems, but I also use Linux systems where appropriate.
Hear hear! Use the technology that fits the problem at hand! I find Linux is
able to handle everything I do without a hiccup; I use MS products for games
and such...
--
===============================================================================
________ | Bill Perkins
/ "Ship Arriving Too Late to | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/ Save a Drowning Witch" | programmer-at-large
/ /\ F. Zappa | ALL assembly languages done here.
===============================================================================
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From: Enno Middelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: When I'm online, my hard drive makes noise...
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 19:28:56 +0100
Hi,
I've a little problem with Linux and my modem: When I'm online and eg
telnetting to another machine, EACH letter I type makes the hard drive
making some noise. And compared to M$Windows, the harddrive is running
much more during surfing or networking under Linux. Does anybody know
where I can change this???
thanx
Enno Middelberg
Please feel free to mail answers directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as I'm
a rare guest here. Thank you!!!
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Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 16 Jan 1999 14:49:07 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
> >
> >Apparently you haven't been listening. Windows is UNSTABLE.
>
>
> Ok Loose nuts. Maybe windows is less stable, but this is ONLY important
> for the most critical applications of our time !!!!!!!!!!
>
> I really do not see the big deal with rebooting a'la CTRL-ALT-DEL even if
> I have to do once a day! I always save my data automatically. The worst that
> will happen is that I'll lose 5 minutes of work! big deal !!!
you would be really upset if you've got a simulation which takes the
better part of a week to run. during this time you want to write up
documentation and memos supporting the run. your boss is beating on
you to come up with the results but windows keeps going down!
> But look at the other benifits: ease of use, lots of applications, color
> is there (not like X), and many many more.
i don't find windows easy to use. it doesn't multitask worth a damn.
so i'm running the simulation in the background and it's taking twice
as long because ms-word is getting all the cpu. this isn't
multitasking, this sucks!
> I think the crashes things is over sold and is getting old and boring
> to tell you the truth.
if you actually *need* a stable platform, crashes are annoying as hell.
> is there nothing new the Unix/Linux crowds can say other than
> this????????
programming in windows sucks. stray pointers taking down your world
multiple times per day. debugging through system crashes is lots of
fun. linux puts the fun back into coding.
--
Johan Kullstam [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: "Joshua Schaeffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:50:39 -0500
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
>Ok Loose nuts. Maybe windows is less stable, but this is ONLY important
>for the most critical applications of our time !!!!!!!!!!
Not quite. When I'm navigating deep within a hierarchy of hyperlinks in
Internet Explorer under Win95 only to have the machine crash, I have to work
EXTREMELY hard to resist throwing the monitor out the window. I've lost
track of countless pages of important information that way.
>I really do not see the big deal with rebooting a'la CTRL-ALT-DEL even if
>I have to do once a day! I always save my data automatically. The worst
that
>will happen is that I'll lose 5 minutes of work! big deal !!!
It's a VERY big deal depending on which 5 minutes of work you lose. And you
don't get a choice, either.
>I think the crashes things is over sold and is getting old and boring
>to tell you the truth.
>
>is there nothing new the Unix/Linux crowds can say other than this????????
This alone is a very strong argument that can't and won't be ignored. On
these grounds, I don't even consider Win9x a serious platform for ANYONE'S
use. Therefore, I think the Win9x vs. Linux argument is a waste of time,
and that the argument should really be NT vs. Linux, because in a year's use
I haven't had an NT machine crash on me yet.
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From: Lawrence Sweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Making .tar.gz Files Work
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:50:46 +0000
tar -xzf filename.tar.gz
will extract the archive into the current directory
good luck
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Humphries-Dolnick)
Subject: Re: 2038 and Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:17:32 GMT
In article <77h02d$bg6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher
Browne) writes:
> On 08 Jan 1999 18:27:40 -0500, Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >of course, the PPro was supposed to be the last x86 chip. and then the
PII
> >was supposed to be the last x86 chip - until just recently intel seems
to
> >have announced the PIII chips (heard it on slashdot).
> >
> >until winXXXX is ported to merced (or whatever it ends up being called)
i
> >highly doubt they'll stop making more and more expensive versions of
their
> >#1 cash cow.
>
> Until Intel *stops making money* on IA-32 chips, they are unlikely to
> stop making them. Consider that they still manufacture 8 bit
> microcontrollers.
>
> It seems highly improbable that Intel will even start to "stop caring"
> about IA-32 sales until 2002 or 2003 at the *earliest.*
I think that Intel is going to keep aggressively pushing each tier of
their IA32 platform until it's milked out. They have to start R&D for the
future, hence Merced. But first, there's a tidy little battle shaping up
between Intel and AMD on the Pentium III / K7 line, and it includes lots
of little twists and turns of it's own (e.g. "Slot A" vs. "Slot 2", Super
7 support of a future low-end K7, etc.) that will keep everyone busy
(debating, but more importantly spending MONEY) for some time to come.
--
Michael Humphries-Dolnick
"If opinions are expressed in this communication,
those opinions may not represent those of
my employer."
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From: David Augros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: securing a linux box
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 15:07:20 -0500
The first thing you should do is take a look at /etc/inetd.conf, and hash out
everything you don't need (read USE on a regular basis). Then do a 'killall
-HUP inetd'. Also, do a 'netstat -aeo' to see what you have running. If you
have X or xdm listening for connections (telltale sign is a listen on port 177)
then you should definitely disable that unless you run Xapps remotely. NFS is
another whore you can do without. You should also consider replacing telnet
with ssh. Cops and (cough) SATAN are good tools that look for common security
holes, run them against yourself to see if you are vulnerable. Also, Crack5 is
a great tool for checking your system for weak passwords. Basically, don't run
services that you don't need, and keep an eye on the logs for the services that
you do run, and many security breaches will not happen, but if they do, you will
know about it reasonably soon so that you can do something about it. If you run
only the latest Apache and ssh, and read /var/log/httpd regularly, you should be
fairly safe.
dave
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From: mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.abbs,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux compatiblity with Colorado tape drives.
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:54:53 +0000
Patrick D. Rockwell wrote:
>
> I'm planning to set up a multi platform system with Dos 6.22, Windows
> 95, OS2 Warp, and Linux. I
> have a T1000 tape drive, but I'm planning to get a Colorado 4/8 Gb tape
> drive (part number C4386B). I
> know that Dos and Windows 95 work with it. What about Linux? Is there a
> Linux driver which will
> work with the tape drive that I'm planning to get? Is there a drive
> which will work with all four OS's?
>
> In particular, I'm planning to get Redhat Linux, but if there is another
> better Linux out there which will
> work with the Colorado 4/8 Gb tape drive, please let me know.
>
"Working with" is a subjective term. If the drive is a scsi tape
driver, easy it will work. If it is a floppy controller tape drive it
should work with the "ftape" driver. I doubt very much if you will be
able to read tapes created with one OS on another.
--
Mohawk Software
Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX, Linux. Applications, drivers, support.
Visit the Mohawk Software website: www.mohawksoft.com
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Debian 1.3 Includes Stupid "man" ??!
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 18:38:51 GMT
Tetchman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have Debian 1.3 installed on i386, and have been wondering why the supplied
> "man" program is so stupid as to refuse to go back one screen using "b" (it
> just beeps at me).
Works on Debian 2.0 with man 2.3.10-17. So do 'Page-Up' and 'Page-Down'.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: Jonathan Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: Anyone working on a Gimp-like sound app?
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 20:08:54 GMT
ROCK ON! Finally.
Yes, I'm trying to work on something like that. That is exactly what I'm
working on.
Jonathan
Gregory Propf wrote:
> I have looked in vain for a good sound editor for linux. Some of them
> are at least stable but all are fairly limited and non-modular in
> design. I was wondering if anyone was working on a Gimp type sound
> system for Linux? Something where you could create sound effects as
> plug-ins (hopefully NOT using scheme as the extension language).
>
> --
>
> -- homepage: http://members.home.net/gregp/ --
>
> "I wanted plutonium, not Beanie Babies..."
> - Sadaam Hussein, in a letter to Santa Claus.
--
Jonathan
"If you are not able to do the least, why are you anxious for the rest?"
--Luke 12:26
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can one set up RAID with IDE drives?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: 16 Jan 1999 21:09:51 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc David S Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got two 6Gb drives and would like to mirror them using RAID1. Does
> anyone know if there are IDE RAID controllers out there and if so who
> makes them? I am running RedHat5.2
> thanks
> dave
> --
Software solution could be done using /usr/doc/howto/mini/Software-RAID.gz
howto for guide lines.
Good luck. Soon I'll have to do nearly same.
--
Andrey Nikolaev Ulm university,
Department of Biophysics. Germany.
Email: Andrey.Nikolaev@!get-lost-spammer!.uni-ulm.de
Substitute physik instead of !*! .
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