Linux-Misc Digest #714, Volume #18 Thu, 21 Jan 99 14:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: Netscape Q: How to make it download in Binary (Mime types - arghhhhhhh!)
(Geoffrey Kenneth Holden)
Re: Wardialer War Dialer WARDIALER WARDIAL windows95 windows98 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: egcs 1.1.1 and PII (Barry)
Re: Y2K motherboard clock (Duncan Simpson)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Nic)
Re: FoxPro for SCO UNIX & linux (Graham Nicholls)
Re: securing a linux box (Luca Filipozzi)
Bus error when running netscape (Fung Wai Keung)
Re: Apache (Tamas Piri)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Erik Naggum)
Re: WOW LotusNotes on Linux (Marco Anglesio)
Mysterious backquote key, Invalid Checksum 3E, and Strange Lines!!! (John Groves)
Re: How to read mail/news using Netscape on Redhat 5.2 ???? (lucas)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geoffrey Kenneth Holden)
Subject: Re: Netscape Q: How to make it download in Binary (Mime types - arghhhhhhh!)
Date: 20 Jan 1999 21:58:06 GMT
Jeremy Mathers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: In article <7838s8$4aq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: Geoffrey Kenneth Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >Jeremy Mathers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: >: That said, I want to be able to download RPM's through Netscape and
: >: have it transferred in Binary mode. If I click on a .tar.gz file, it
: >: immediately pops up a file-save dialog and this is good. When I click
: >: on an RPM, it displays binary garbage onscreen. This tells me that
: >: if I try to save the file, the result will be garbage (it will transfer
: >: in ASCII mode).
: >
: >: And, dear God, why can't there be a simple "Download this file in
: >: Binary mode, dammnit!" option like there is in FTP???
: >
: >When you find the link you want, hold shift while you click it. Problem
: >solved.
: But, from a purely practical perspective, did you actually test this?
: Do you know that the file gets downloaded in binary (and is, in fact,
: a valid RPM file) ? Although I didn't go through the motion of saving
: it to disk (i.e., fully testing it) on this occasion, my experience in
: the past has always been that if the browser displays it onscreen by
: default, then when you do a "Save to disk", you will get an ASCII transfer.
: Been bitten by it many a time...
Yes, this saves it right every time because it dosen't display it
onscreen, when you click it'll open up the Save Link As... dialog
(same as if you had right-clicked on it and chose that option,
which also works fine).
--
Geoff/Upsilon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.xoom.com/DeepThought
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.revenge,alt.music.beastie-boys,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Wardialer War Dialer WARDIALER WARDIAL windows95 windows98
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 23:06:05 GMT
In article <785dcj$ra8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> I only have one thing to say - get it!
> http://www.jps.net/toolarge/wardialer/index.htm
>
> Wardialer War Dialer Wardialer Wardial Windows95 Windows98 Open Lines Dial
> Phone Crack Break In Network Security Hack T Wardialer War Dialer WARDIALER
> WARDIAL WINDOWS95 WINDOWS98 OPEN LINES DIAL PHONE CRACK BREAK IN NETWORK
> SECURITY HACK I
>Wardialer War Dialer Wardialer Wardial Windows95 Windows98 Open Lines Dial
> Phone Crack Break In Network Security Hack T Wardialer War Dialer WARDIALER
> WARDIAL WINDOWS95 WINDOWS98 OPEN LINES DIAL PHONE CRACK BREAK IN NETWORK
> SECURITY HACK I Wardialer War Dialer Wardialer Wardial Windows95 Windows98
Open Lines Dial
> Phone Crack Break In Network k Security Hack T Wardialer War Dialer
WARDIALER
> WARDIAL WINDOWS95 WINDOWS98 OPEN LINES DIAL PHONE CRACK BREAK IN NETWORK
> SECURITY HACK I Wardialer h War Dialer Wardialer Wardial Windows95 Windows98
Open Lines Dial
> Phone Crack Break In Network h Security Hack T Wardialer War Dialer WARDIALER
> WARDIAL WINDOWS95 WINDOWS98 OPEN LINES DIAL PHONE CRACK BREAK IN NETWORK
> SECURITY HACK I
> Wardialer War Dialer WARDIALER WARDIAL WINDOWS95 WINDOWS98 OPEN LINES DIAL
> PHONE CRACK BREAK IN NETWORK l SECURITY HACK U R Wardialer War Dialer
> WARDIALER WARDIAL WINDOWS95 WINDOWS98 OPEN LINES DIAL PHONE CRACK BREAK IN
> NETWORK SECURITY HACK Y
>
> Peter
>
> SET CONSOLE DISPLAY WATCHDOG LOGOUTS=ON
>
> at the server console. This will show you whether the Watchdog timer is
> kicking the stations off or not and will help narrow the list of options.
>
> Cheers
> Greg
>
> peter @ DNA.BIO.WARWICK.AC.UK (Peter Selenic)
> 17/06/96 03:01
> To: NOVELL @ LISTSERV.SYR.EDU (Multiple recipients of list NOVELL) @ INTERNET
> cc: (bcc: Greg J Priestley/Technology/Sydney/Australia/PKF)
> Subject: Out Of NIC Resources count
>
> Our workstations are losing network connections. We have 4 hubs joined by
> fiber but the connection loss appears to be randomnly distributed, up to five
> per day over the past two weeksThe Netware System Admin book does not list
> the Custom Stats, neither can I find reference when I searched the previous
> messages on the list,( I have kept all that I considered to be useful for a
> later date, in a series of files)
>
> Monotor shows the following.
> NetWare v3.11 (250 user) - 2/20/91
> NetWare 386 Loadable Module
> File Server Up Time: 24 Days 2 Hours 17 Minutes 3 Seconds
> Utilization: 37
> Packet Receive Buffers: 100
> Original Cache Buffers: 7,617
> Directory Cache Buffers: 286
> Total Cache Buffers: 4,164
> Service Processes: 16
> Dirty Cache Buffers: 44
> Connections In Use: 90
> Current Disk Requests: 0
> Open Files: 867
>
> 3C527
> [slot=2 frame=ETHERNET_II] Version 3.11
> Node Address: 02608C2FCA45
> Protocols: IPX
> Network Address: 00000001
> Generic Statistics:
> Total Packets Sent: 218,076,726
> Total Packets Received: 239,114,903
> No ECB Available Count: 1,704
> Send Packet Too Big Count: Not Supported
> Reserved: Not Supported
> Receive Packet Overflow Count: 0
> Receive Packet Too Big Count: 0
> Receive Packet Too Small Count: Not Supported
> Send Packet Miscellaneous Errors: 406
> Receive Packet Miscellaneous Errors: 245
> Send Packet Retry Count: Not
> Supported Checksum Errors: Not Supported
> Hardware Receive Mismatch Count: 0
>
> Custom Statistics:
> Crc errors 0
> Alignment Errors 0
> Overrun Errors 245
> TooShort Packets 0
> TooLarge Packets 0
> Out Of NIC Resources 226,483
> Number Pattern Discards 0
> Maximum Collisions 404
> Carrier Lost 2
> Underrun Errors 0
> Maximum Collisions 404
> Carrier Lost 2
> Underrun Errors 0
> Clear To Send Lost 0
> Transmit Timeouts
>
> Resets to Adapter due to timeouts 0
> EnqueuedSendsCount 0
>
> Apart from the occasional memory error, or a rogue NLM which hangs the
> server on unloading we have been blessed with a fairly stable system
> for over 4 years.
>
> Would this count point to an error somewhere or is the problem likely
> to be elsewhere.
>
> Thank you for your time
>
> Peter Selenic
> Network Manager
>
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From: Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: egcs 1.1.1 and PII
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:43:58 +0000
Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have a Pentium II 400 running Red Hat 5.2. I've compiled egcs 1.1.1.
> > Is it worth recompiling source using this compiler with the -march=i686
> > option? I noticed that by default it sends -march=pentium.
>
> using -march=pentium is performance death to a ppro and i assume a pii
> as well. i have tried the various -marches (i386, i486, pentium and
> pentiumpro) and found that i486 and pentiumpro were fastest and had no
> noticeable difference, i386 lagged by a few percent, pentium was about
> 20% slower. this is varying the optimization targets and running the
> result on a ppro.
>
> apparently the pentium classic has a strange pipeline system and
> catering to it via -march=pentium really hurts performance when that
> code is run on a ppro/pii.
>
It's interesting that it sends -mpentiumpro and -march=pentium by
default if this is the case. Is this intentional? I've also noticed
that -march=pentiumpro still sends -march=pentium, it seems only
-march=i686 will actually work.
Are all of the ppro's instructions present on a PII?
--
Barry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Subject: Re: Y2K motherboard clock
Date: 21 Jan 1999 16:21:13 GMT
In <01be4337$302efa80$331110ac@warren> "Rick OHair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Everyone claims that linux will run on 386's, but no one can answer my
>question about motherboard clocks and the Y2K problem with older hardware.
>Maybe one of you can help.
>I come from the DOS world, and am relatively new to linux. I know where to
>get a small resident program to load in the autoexec.bat to correct older
>system clocks for Y2K compatability, but I would like to know if there's a
>similar binary or daemon for linux.
In linux, this would be done in the RTC code in the kernel. I think
the kernel has a pivot value already so any year before 19yy<19xx is
treated as 20yy. No exactly sure what xx is but the source knows. If
no such code exists then feel free to send the developers a patch that
adds this feature. (BIOS patches will not work because the kernel
probably never asks the BIOS about the time).
Drivers of the sort you mention do not exist in linux to anything like
the same extent. SVGAlib and various versions of XFree86 may arbugably
such drivers attatched to front ends but it is roughly the only
example. IF linux switches to KGI or the framebuffer devices these
examples will be eliminated too.
Practically all drivers need to be in kernel space and are therefore
either loadable kernel modules or compiled into the kernel. Either way
the code resides in kernel space and runs in supervisor more.
Duncan (-:
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From: Nic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 23:57:03 +0000
Jason O'Rourke wrote:
>
> A linux machine that doesn't get patched as needed is an open doorway for
> intruders. Linux does not work "just fine" without them. (Not to say
> that any other unix can do fine either)
Although this is true, it's quite rare that these are Linux-specific
problems - the only recent one I can think of is the mountd remote-root
exploit. Other things, like IMAPd exploits, will work against any OS.
The real problem is the fact most Linux distributions ship with almost
everything enabled by default, and most users don't know enough to turn
them off (or worry about breaking things if they do). OpenBSD is the
best I've found as regards default services, but when I installed 2.4,
it had telnet and rlogin enabled - I'd personally rather it didn't even
have those.
Regards,
Nic.
-- Nic B. -- email "sky" at "wibble dot net" ------
-- UN*X Programmer, The Internet Group (NZ) Ltd. --
-- #include <stddisclaimer.h> ---------------------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Graham Nicholls)
Subject: Re: FoxPro for SCO UNIX & linux
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:12 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Max
Jerome) wrote:
> Graham,
> I must agree with you here, I tried porting some of my foxpro dos
> programs to flagship with very little success, perhaps when they
> release their next version that is talked about on their website it
> will get better, but I was unable to make it work for me as it stands.
> It is encouraging to here that someone has foxpro running on linux. i
> have been trying to get either foxpro dos working under dosemu or
> foxpro unix running for a few months now. Could you tell me what
> youve got your FOXTERM set to? Are you running it in a multiuser
> environment? Any help you could give me would be appreciated.
>
>
FOXPTERM depends on the terminal. My clients have it running on the
console, and on wyse60s. foxpterm=scoansi works, as does wyse60, IIRC.
The SIGEGV signal somebody reported - I think that's about the iBCS stuff
not being properly set up.
I had very little problems getting FoxPro to run. Do you have access to a
SCO box so that you can test the iBCS stuff with other binaries?
Graham
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luca Filipozzi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: securing a linux box
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:28:42 -0800
In article <787kku$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yan Seiner
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >Thanks for all the advice. My first attempt at security knocked everyone
> >off the network... A real secure system :-o
>
> >I now have a somewhat different problem: I am trying to connect to my
> >network across the internet. I can do so by opening up the netbios ports in
> >the firewall, and relying on tcpd and samba to prevent unauthorized access.
> >This scares me, as any info would flow accross the internet unencrypted.
>
> >I can't prevent access via hosts.deny and allow very well, as one of those
> >who needs to connect is on aol, and allowing .aol.com access to my network
> >gives me the shivers.
>
> It should. Take a look at CIPE and think about tunnelling hte netbios
> stuff thorugh ssh (not looked into exactly how to do this trick). Both
> solutions will encrypt the traffic and provide some sort of limit to
> the hosts that know enough to connect.
>
> In particular ssh can be set up to only accept hosts that can prove
> knowledge of the private keys corresponding to a list of public
> keys. Crackers without a few supercomputers and knowledge to the value
> to crack can not prove this knowledge without stealing it from
> somebody or something that knows already.
>
> >What are my risks with this? Is it something I should forget doing? How
> >can I secure the netbios ports?
>
> My personal opinion is that netbios over WANs of any kind it is a bad
> idea.
>
> Duncan (-:
>
>
>
You could use Micro$oft's PPTP which is encrypted (minimally) and install
the PPTP patches onto your Linux box to allow the PPTP traffic through.
Then you would install RAS and PPTP onto one of your M$ servers.
--
Luca Filipozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fung Wai Keung)
Subject: Bus error when running netscape
Date: 21 Jan 1999 16:14:28 GMT
Hi,
I usually encounter bus error when running netscape. How to avoid this
error?
Thanks in advance.
--
Regards,
Wai Keung, Fung
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, N.T.,
Hong Kong.
Tel: (852)26098470 Fax: (852)26036002
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 19:21:28 +0100
From: Tamas Piri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache
For example RedHat 5.2.
Jim Buchanan wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Is there an RPM for the APACHE web server?
>
> I'm sure there is, but don't be afraid to compile it from source.
>
> The entire procedure:
>
> ./config -PREFIX=/usr/local
> make
> su
> make install
>
> Then edit /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf (you'd have to do this
> with an RPM as well), and run "/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start"
>
> You then have a running web server.
>
> --
> Jim Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ================= http://members.iquest.net/~jbuchana ====================
> "I think one general rule of software design is that you should be
> writing a program that you want to use." -Eric Allman
> ==========================================================================
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From: Erik Naggum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 20 Jan 1999 22:26:00 +0000
* Sven Utcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Although I can't say that I agree with you:
I like that start. thank you.
| a) In English, so few words are capitalised at all, that it makes the
| whole thing rather pointless.
well, we capitalize proper names. German has a wider and different use
of capitalization and I'd argue that it's time for you to drop the
initial capital in all nouns, too. Norwegian used to do that, but it's
like several generations ago.
| b) I believe that having capital letters at the beginning of sentences
| makes for a rather valuable visual guide in reading.
I hope it makes you happy that automatic conversion to sentence-initial
capitals is fairly easy with proper punctuation of sentences, and that I
do this before producing hard-copy, but insist that when people print
something that never was intended for other than electronic text, they
maintain the capitalization rules I use. this way, it is easy to see
that the text originated in the electronic domain.
| But then, this is a free world...
and it will remain so only as long as people are allowed to disagree...
#:Erik
--
SIGTHTBABW: a signal sent from Unix to its programmers at random
intervals to make them remember that There Has To Be A Better Way.
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From: Marco Anglesio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WOW LotusNotes on Linux
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 18:37:02 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:37:02 PDT
Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 20 Jan 1999 03:29:46 GMT, Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>This is for LotusNotes Server. How can I get a LotusNotes client working in
>>Linux? Is the client being ported also (hope, hope, hope)???
> IBM is supporting only Mac and Windows clients for Notes. There's a
> Windows emulator (or possibly non-emulator), wine (see
Actually, for R5, Lotus is only doing windows (and posisbly mac)
*designers* for Notes (they've separated the Notes client and the Notes
development software). A variety of clients will be available.
> comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine), that currently *cannot* run Notes,
> but here's a web page from someone who's still trying:
It seems to actually run everything but replication currently.
marco
--
Marco Anglesio Like Captain Idiot
mpa at the-wire dot com in Astounding Science comics
http://www.the-wire.com/~mpa (The Manchurian Candidate)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Groves)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Mysterious backquote key, Invalid Checksum 3E, and Strange Lines!!!
Date: 21 Jan 1999 18:27:28 GMT
Hello, out there:
If you're wondering how the above issues are related...relax, they
aren't. Except that they are all happening on my desktop. :(
These are 3 separate problems I am experiencing using RedHat Linux 5.2,
KDE 1.0, and XFree86 3.3.2.3. Hopefully someone out there has the
answers.
1) For some reason, a single backquote character (`) will occasionally
appear when I am typing at a window. It can happen in any window,
whether or not X is running. I just backspace over it when it appears,
but it's kind of annoying, and I'd like to find out what is causing it.
Any ideas?
2) My ethernet card is a 3COM 3C905-TX 10/100 Ethernet card. Everytime
the driver is initialized, it reports the following message:
eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xdc80, ***INVALID CHECKSUM 003e***
Other than that, it appears to work fine, but the message is a bit
troubling. Any ideas?
The comment in the driver source code says something like
"Grr...needless compatibility change, 3com", if that's any help.
3) Finally, I occasionally get some annoying lines appearing in my windows.
They only seem to appear in windows where another window is overlapping it,
and they appear in the lowered window where the bottom of the overlapping
window is. I can make the line go away by selecting the area with the X Cursor,
but when I switch virtual desktops and then switch back again, the line returns.
I know that this is a vague description, but hopefully someone has seen this
before and can tell me how to fix this? My video card is an ATI 3D Rage Pro
card, and I'm running the Mach_64 server.
Thanks in advance,
John
=======
email: groves at nortelnetworks dot com
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From: lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to read mail/news using Netscape on Redhat 5.2 ????
Date: 21 Jan 1999 18:29:06 GMT
Thomas Boggs wrote:
> Hi again,
You got in right on the money. I wasn't on line.
Now everything seems to be much better around here.
Thank you so much.
By the way, which version should I download for V4.5 (Rehat 5.2)?
I saw v1.2 and V2.0 on the netscape site for linux.
I'm on a dial-up and hate to go thru the downs to find out it' the wrong
version.
I almost dump linux several times, but I keep finding interesting functions
that can't be done with other os'es. Guess, I'm just a glutton for punishment.
Thanks again,
lucas
>
> > lucas
>
> I ran into a similar problem. I think Netscape tries to resolve the mail
> server's host name as soon as you enter it. Do you already have
> /etc/resolv.conf set up to handle DNS requests? If so, do you have ppp
> running while you're entering your mail host info? Make sure ppp is up and
> verify that you can ping your mail server before entering the server info in
> Netscape.
>
> -thomas
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Thomas Boggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Engineer
> Symmetron, Inc.
> Engineering Services
>
> Thomas Boggs
> Engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Symmetron, Inc. HTML Mail
> Engineering Services
> Fax: (703)591-6337
> Work: (703)591-5559
> Netscape Conference Address
> Netscape Conference DLS Server
> Additional Information:
> Last Name Boggs
> First Name Thomas
> Version 2.1
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