Linux-Misc Digest #410, Volume #19 Thu, 11 Mar 99 07:13:42 EST
Contents:
Re: Direct access via net to root shell (Paul Martin)
g77 anyone? ("Oliver D. Bedford")
Re: Direct access via net to root shell (Neil Youngman)
Running Unix apps on Linux ("Benjamin Sher")
Re: HP Designjet 650C under Ghostscript (Steffen_Grunewald)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Tomasz Korycki)
ANNOUNCE: Kernel Traffic #9 is out ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help: root passwd not accepted ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
WTB/Re: UNIX/Linux book request for SysAdms ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux Video Card -- Simple Question (Michael Proto)
Re: Public license question (Peter Seebach)
Printer under Linux (Dustin Puryear)
Re: If I had the time I know how to make a fortune in unix (John DuBois)
Re: Linux setup (Michael Proto)
You should take look at this...
Linux -- "alpha" and "stable" applications? ("Benjamin Sher")
Re: fs type : iso 9660 not supported by your kernel!!! (Tommy Mogensen)
Re: [Q] How do I change my timezone setting? (Villy Kruse)
Re: Linux Video Card -- Simple Question (Jason Clifford)
Re: MS Explorer 4.0 for Unix (Jason Clifford)
Linux --AztechLabs Sound System ("Benjamin Sher")
Linux -- AztechLabs Sound System ("Benjamin Sher")
problem with an libc5-application on RedHat5.2 (Michael Hammann)
Re: how to mount ftp-connection ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What clock do syslog, crond, and klogd use? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HD BACKUP (Jack Cheng)
How do I stop netscape from popping up "Repost from data?" window when I press
reload???? (sasani)
Re: SuSE 6.0 feelings please. (David Steuber)
Re: SuSE 6.0 feelings please. ("Jacek M. Holeczek")
Grabbing Web servers? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: StarOffice anyone?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: MS Explorer 4.0 for Unix (Michael Proto)
Re: More bad news for NT (Sitaram Chamarty)
Re: More bad news for NT (Sitaram Chamarty)
Re: More bad news for NT (Sitaram Chamarty)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Martin)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Direct access via net to root shell
Date: 11 Mar 1999 02:33:50 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jim Howes wrote:
>I need to provide a means whereby a user can telnet from
>a machine to a service on a linux box that drops them
>straight into a root shell, probably bash.
>I tried running telnetd with "-L /flash/bin/bash" and all
>it does it print usage stuff at me.
I have just knocked together the following little script...
#!/bin/sh
bash --login
Put this in a file, and make it executable. You should then be able to
give this to the -L option of telnetd. I've just tested it.. it worked.
Be aware that this is a HUGE security hole.
--
Paul Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
at home, swap dash to dot to email.
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From: "Oliver D. Bedford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: g77 anyone?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:42:17 +0100
Hello,
does anybody here use fortran on Linux? I�ve compiled a f77 program on
a K6-2 (350 Mhz) and it is slower compared to a SGI Box (R10000 @ 195
Mhz)
by a factor of 3-4.
TIA,
Oliver
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From: Neil Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Direct access via net to root shell
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:31:30 +0000
Jim Howes wrote:
>
> I need to provide a means whereby a user can telnet from
> a machine to a service on a linux box that drops them
> straight into a root shell, probably bash.
This is a specification for an enormous security hole. Anyone who does a
port scan on your network will get total control of your system. I
really recommend _NOT_ doing this. There must be a more secure way of
meeting a requirement for remote management.
If you must do it should be possible to get inetd to kick off a root
shell when you connect to a particular port. Read the inetd man pages
and experiment.
Neil Youngman
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From: "Benjamin Sher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Running Unix apps on Linux
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:43:19 GMT
Dear friends:
Could someone please direct me to an article explaining very briefly how it
is possible to run Unix applications on Linux? Is it easy, more or less
automatic? A one-paragraph answer will be sufficient for the time being.
Very curious.
Thank you.
--
Benjamin Sher
Sher's Russian Web & Index
http://personal.msy.bellsouth.net/msy/s/h/sher07/index.html
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From: Steffen_Grunewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: HP Designjet 650C under Ghostscript
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:44:08 +0100
Yan Seiner wrote:
>
> I am trying to get a HP Designjet 650C (a large format plotter) running
> through GS on a RedHat Linux 5.1 box.
> The behavior I'm seeing is that jobs get sent, but hit the GS filter and
> disappear.
Do they hit the plotter, too ?
Do it in steps. Start with rasterizing the file by hand.
cat file.ps | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=dnj650c -r300
-sPAPERSIZE=whatever -sOutputFile=file.%d.rtl -
(all on one line)
You can alternatively give the geometry using -g instead of -sPAPERSIZE.
For every page of your input file you should now have one
file.(number).rtl file. If not, try to understand what GS
gives you back.
Then try to send the files to the plotter individually (thru
a raw queue or directly to a port, depends on your connection).
Come back afterwards.
Later,
Steffen
--
Steffen Grunewald = steffen(at)gfz-potsdam.de = fax +49-331-288-1266
My opinions are mine. You can rent them. Just ask me for prices :-)
"Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth" - Pablo Picasso
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From: Tomasz Korycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 00:57:38 -0500
Philip Brown wrote:
> You made the mistake of using tabs. which in the world of USENET is a no-no.
> Especially when *your* system doesn't seem to have the nice standard
> 8-char-fixed-width tab to begin with.
>
> SO the diagram is a mess, unfortunately.
Err, sorry!
Applications
Applications
/ | |
Win32 | POSIX OS/2 DOS/Win16 |
======= | ===== ==== ========== |
| | User Mode |
===|=======|=========================================================|=================
| | Kernel Mode
|
======================================================================================
| System Services | | System
Services |
|-------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|---------- Process Management, I/O Mgmt, | |------------|
Process Mgmt, |
| Device | Memory Management,...... | | Device | I/O
Management, |
| Drivers | | | Drivers |
Memory Mgmt, |
--------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
| Harware Abstraction Layer | | Hardware
Abstraction Layer |
|-------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
+++NT+++
+++VMS+++
Hope it's clearer now and I may be forgiven....
;/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Kernel Traffic #9 is out
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 08:06:08 GMT
Check out this week's Kernel Traffic at <http://www.kt.opensrc.org>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help: root passwd not accepted
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 06:33:50 GMT
Hi,
I installed Linux 3 days back. Today suddenly when I tried to login as root,
it says the password is incorrect. What could be problem? How do I get over
it? Please help!!!
Thanks in advance,...
Vijay
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: WTB/Re: UNIX/Linux book request for SysAdms
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 06:34:46 GMT
Where can I find a copy of this that is inexpensive? I don't care if it is
used or not. I want to learn something about administration, how to set up
networks, and how to set up machines. Ken Turner Macon GA [EMAIL PROTECTED] In
article <7c0f50$qfm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The following book is very good:
> UNIX system administration handbook,
> prentice hall.
>
> mihalis.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> : What do you recommend that I purchase as an authorative, concise book about
> : UNIX/Linux System Administration books? I have seen a lot, but does anyone
> : out there who is a UNIX SysAdm have a book that they would recommend?
>
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From: Michael Proto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Video Card -- Simple Question
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 08:38:26 +0000
Benjamin Sher wrote:
>
> Dear friends:
>
> First, my deep thanks to all of you who have been so kind and generous with
> your help. You have been great! I should be getting my Linux early next
> week.
>
> A simple question:
>
> I have an NEC Pentium 166 MMX, 64 meg RAM. ATI video card, AztechLab sound
> system.
>
> Do I need something called an X accelarator (made by X Inside or Metro-Link
> or whoever) or does my system already come with that?
>
> Looking forward to your answer.
>
Chances are, you probably already have one installed-- XFree86. You can
learn more at www.xfree86.org.
--
-] Michael Proto [-
-] MCP: Win95 [-
-] Happy Linux user since 1997 [-
ERROR: REALITY.SYS Corrupted! Reboot universe? (Y/n)
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Public license question
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 05:34:14 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Geoffrey KEATING <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Your 'white noise' is still a translation of the novel, even though
>it's in a language that you can read only with the key. The key,
>though, is not, because you generated it independently of the novel.
>So you can distribute the key but not the ciphertext.
Okay, here's the thing that bugs me about this.
Imagine, for the sake of argument, a 1MB copyrighted work.
Imagine another.
Why are they not mutually in violation of each others' copyright, given the
existance of a key for turning either into the other? :)
-s
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From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Printer under Linux
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 23:37:42 -0600
I have a HP DeskJet 694C that works under Win95. When I boot up Linux I
try to setup the printer, and am getting no results. My first method is
to use Lisa, supplied with OpenLinux. I choose lp0 or lp1, both fail. I
then tried to use printtool. It reports that it can find no devices on
lp0, lp1, or lp2. I have "Parallel Printer" support turned on in the
kernel (tried it in the kernel and as a module).
Here is the information I get from lpq:
Host 'ka.pow' - cannot open connection to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' - Connection
refused
I assume that just means there is no printer attached. Are there any
suggestions or steps I should take to find the problem? This is not
addressed in the HOWTO.
Regards, Dustin
--
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Help Crack Government Encryption: http://www.distributed.net
Microsoft - We put the "backwards" into backwards compatibility.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John DuBois)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: If I had the time I know how to make a fortune in unix
Date: 11 Mar 1999 08:38:16 GMT
In article <RWxF2.25144$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
No Spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Why not just simply break the 8 character barrier on unix login commands for
>a start.
>
>Please help
Because there are zillions of utilities out there written in a manner that
depends on the 8-character limit (and even some leftovers from the preceding
7-character era).
John
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From: Michael Proto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: ibmnet.general,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux setup
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 08:50:05 +0000
Georges Heinesch wrote:
>
> Some Linux networking question ;))
>
> When dialing into IBM, I get a dynamic IP. Hence my computer can be
> addresses with (e.g.) "slip-111-111-111-111.lux.lu.ibm.net". Now, I
> would like to call my computer "foobar", so that I can access it
> without knowing the IP address. The call would be
> "foobar.lux.lu.ibm.net".
>
> I was looking into many books, many man pages, many files
> (/etc/resolv.conf, ...), but didn't get an answer.
>
> Is it possible to configure Linux that way?
>
You may want to do some research on mumble DNS.
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-] Happy Linux user since 1997 [-
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.windows.ms.programmer,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: You should take look at this...
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:42:00 +0100
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From: "Benjamin Sher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux -- "alpha" and "stable" applications?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:25:05 GMT
Dear friends:
I have noticed at the new Linux section of the Tucows web site that Linux
applications are usually listed as "alpha" or "stable."' Having just read
the Intro to Linux Documentation about the "alpha" and "stable" stages, I
am a little confused. Is "stable" a synonym for "Beta"? Usually an
application is offered in two versions "stable version 1.x;new version 2.x"
and so forth. When can one feel confident enough to download a Linux
application?
Thank you.
Benjamin
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Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web & Index
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From: Tommy Mogensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fs type : iso 9660 not supported by your kernel!!!
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:07:50 +0100
"D. Vrabel" wrote:
>
> On 10 Mar 1999, Kishore wrote:
>
> > hi,
> > when try to mount the cdrom it says is9660 is not suported by kernel..
> > and in the /etc/fstab
> > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
> > Actually i wanted to look at the HOWTO files , but this doesn't work.
> > Thanks for the input in advance.
> Recompile the kernel to include iso9660 support.
Or try modprobe isofs.
/tommy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: [Q] How do I change my timezone setting?
Date: 11 Mar 1999 09:58:34 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kevin Yi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone know how I would change the system timezone setting?
Yes, but we need to know what distribution you are running or you'll
get an answer that you can't use.
Villy
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From: Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Video Card -- Simple Question
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:09:05 +0000
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> I have an NEC Pentium 166 MMX, 64 meg RAM. ATI video card, AztechLab sound
> system.
>
> Do I need something called an X accelarator (made by X Inside or Metro-Link
> or whoever) or does my system already come with that?
"X Accelerator" is just a term for an accelerated X server. You get
XFree86 with all Linux distributions (with the exception of the single
floppy ones) which has an accelerated X server for most ATI video cards. X
Inside produce "Accelerated X" which is their own X software to replace
XFree86. It is somewhat faster at a price.
I have only used Metro-X once which was a long time ago so I cannot really
comment.
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/
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From: Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MS Explorer 4.0 for Unix
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:11:29 +0000
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Michael Proto wrote:
> So when is Lynx gonna have ActiveX support?
> </MORESCARASM>
Yeah! And I want "active channels" for my console! ;-)
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/
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From: "Benjamin Sher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux --AztechLabs Sound System
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:06:55 GMT
Dear friends:
Any ideas whether I might have trouble with configuring my AztechLabs Sound
Blaster compatible sound system?
[NEC Pentium 166 MMX, 64 meg RAM, ADSL]
Thank you so much.
--
Benjamin Sher
Sher's Russian Web & Index
http://personal.msy.bellsouth.net/msy/s/h/sher07/index.html
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From: "Benjamin Sher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux -- AztechLabs Sound System
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:07:47 GMT
-- Dear friends:
Any ideas whether I might have trouble with configuring my AztechLabs Sound
Blaster compatible sound system?
[NEC Pentium 166 MMX, 64 meg RAM, ADSL]
Thank you so much.
--
Benjamin Sher
Sher's Russian Web & Index
http://personal.msy.bellsouth.net/msy/s/h/sher07/index.html
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From: Michael Hammann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem with an libc5-application on RedHat5.2
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:01:42 +0100
Hello,
I am running RedHat 5.2 with Kernel 2.2.3 and have installed all
product-updates I could find on the RedHat-ftp-update-Server. Now
I have a CAD-application (MicroStation95) using libc5 and it was
running well for several weeks on RedHat. But since some days it
don't runs anymore. At startup of the application I hear my HDD
working for a short time, that's it, no errormessage (I can't find
anyone). The same binary is running well started from my parallel
installed SuSE-6.0-Linux.
Is there anyone, who have an idea, how I can solve this problem?
Thanks,
Michael.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: how to mount ftp-connection
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:18:21 GMT
peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried the following entry in /etc/fstab
> ftp.myhost.anywhere:/ /mnt/myhost nfs rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid,rsize=8192 0 0
> mount /mnt/myhost
> I get the following error:
> mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive
> on myhost there is setup anonymous ftp.
nfs != ftp
It just doesn't work this way
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What clock do syslog, crond, and klogd use?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:20:40 GMT
Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My CMOS clock (hardware clock) and system clock are set to the correct
> time, yet my log files are all exactly two hours behind. What's going
Is your timezone set correctly ? What does date +%Z say ?
What does /etc/localtime point at ?
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From: Jack Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HD BACKUP
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:29:31 GMT
Hello, I'm using a 3GB HD with RH 5.2, the HD not enough for me right now, so
I need to change the HD from 3GB to 10GB.
What's the best and simple method I can do it? (I am quit new in Linux)
Thanks a lot
Regard
Jack Cheng
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sasani)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: How do I stop netscape from popping up "Repost from data?" window when I
press reload????
Date: 11 Mar 1999 01:16:10 -0800
WHen I press reload, Netscape gives me this window saying "Repost from data?".
How do I tell Netscape that I don't want this window to pop up?
Thanks.
Si
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.0 feelings please.
Date: 10 Mar 1999 20:33:33 -0500
Keith Davey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-> I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has installed SuSE
-> 6.0. What do you think of the product? How would you compare it to
-> other distros like RedHat 5.2 and so forth.
I had SuSE 5.3 which I thought was pretty good. I only upgraded to
6.0 because I wanted to go to a glibc system and catch any bugfixes in
the 2.0.36 kernel. I must say I am even more delighted with the
system. The boot up messages are much nicer with their green done or
red failed (I fixed the faileds :-).
I have two computers that are networked together. One is an aging
PPro 200, the other is a young, but rapidly being out done by dell,
notebook. I use the PPro as my gateway to the Internet. It has two
NICs in it that didn't like to play well with each other under 5.3.
Now they do, and I can reboot the machine over the network if I need
to and feel secure that in a minute or two, it will be up and on the
network again.
I must admit that I can't compare with RH or any of the others. I
have only experience with SuSE. I am also still fairly new to Linux.
I am happy that it was installable and configurable by someone with my
limited intellect. I wouldn't hesitate to recomend that someone goes
with the SuSE 6.0 distribution.
BTW, YaST and /etc/rc.config are especially nice. I don't want to be
a full time Linux admin, even on my own machines. I've been able to
setup sendmail to know that I have to pay for my Internet connections
with no difficulty simply because of the thoughtfully preconfigured
sendmail.cf file and the SuSEConfig scripts that use rc.config to
tweak the system. Having the wizards at SuSE put the knowledge of
system configuration into the myriad of configuration and setup
scripts, which in turn use rc.config as a central place for settings,
has helped this user setup a usable network with almost no knowlege.
Everything is all laid out quite nicely so that a power user can tweak
the system beyond what was anticipated in rc.config. For example, on
my notebook computer, I grabbed the pcmcia drivers from stanford and
set those up according to the install instructions in the tarball.
They intigrated nicely with the system. I also had no trouble adding
leafnode to the PPro to fetch my news and let me read it with XEmacs
and GNUS. Again, leafnode was built from the source distribution,
although I read somewhere that there is an rpm for it.
Speaking of rpms, YaST is also a good package manager. I have felt no
desire to look at any of the graphical front ends to rpm.
--
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From: "Jacek M. Holeczek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.0 feelings please.
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:20:32 +0100
Hi,
Can one intall SuSE 6.0 ( or 5.3 ) on the UMSDOS filesystem ( I mean the
whole Linux on a dos/windows partition in a subdirectory c:\linux\... ).
Thanks in advance,
Jacek.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Grabbing Web servers?
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 20:08:28 GMT
Hi,
I am looking for a decent application for RH 5.1 capable of downloading a
whole web server. I believe there are a few of them but could not find any on
Inet.
Thanks for any reply.
Pavel Hofman.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: StarOffice anyone??
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 20:20:34 GMT
On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 14:26:22 -0500, chips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>For a little more background... I copied the so501_01.tar file to a new directory
>(/root/Star)
>before I decompressed it. During the installation I let it install to it's default
>directory
>(/root) where it created a directory called Office50 and a file called StarOffice
>(which I can't
>figure out anything about...can't exec it..can't read it). I'm running Redhat 5.2
>and in the
>README it said that I already had the libraries needed to install StarOffice. Don't
>know if this
>info will help or not...
>
>Craig
The file "soffice" is NOT executable, it is a script, therefore try
./soffice and it should go ok for you. Then change it to an
executable with chmod. Hope this helps.
Darian
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From: Michael Proto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MS Explorer 4.0 for Unix
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 08:53:42 +0000
Penn Stater wrote:
>
> On 13 Feb 1999, Mike Khalili wrote:
>
> > >>>I'm wondering if Explorer 4.0 that Microsoft offers for download if it
> > >will
> > >>>work under RedHat 5.2 / KDE ? Will it work under Linux?
> > >>
> > >>WHY????? The whole point of using Linux is to get out of the
> > >>MS-Monopoly
> > >
> > >Is there any package for Linux that comes anywhere near the functionality
> > >of IE?
> >
> > Yes. Linux does have web browsers.
>
> You mean like the Netscape Navigator 4.0x that's included with Red Hat?
> Really? Is that a Linux-based web browser?
>
> Nah, you're crazy. Apparently, there is only Internet Exploder for UNIX.
> Get off the guy's case.
>
> </SARCASM>
>
So when is Lynx gonna have ActiveX support?
</MORESCARASM>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sitaram Chamarty)
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:39:13 GMT
On Wed, 03 Mar 1999 11:46:12 -0500, Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How on earth did I end up being Microsoft's apologist in this
>thread? Anyone who knows me knows that I'm no Bill Gates fan. I
I guess you lack the *pure* hatred for N(ice) T(oy) that's needed
to avoid being turned around in these discussions <vbg>.
>guess the virulence and unfairness of the attack on NT makes it
>necessary for me to take its side.
Par for the course, old boy! They can dish it out, you think they
can't take it? Let 'em hang, I say!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sitaram Chamarty)
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:39:11 GMT
On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 04:16:27 -0500, Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Sure, but would you use that Lexus for hauling freight?
>
>No, but I'd not advise you to buy a Lexus for freight! I'd not
>advise using an NT box for file and print serving, where NetWare is
>more efficient. And I'd not advise NT for your coporate DB, which
>should be on a mainframe, Unix system (not Linux, though!), or
>AS/400. I'd certainly not advise you to buy NT for a file server and
>then set about "stripping it down".
Just curious: what exactly *do* you advise using NT for? Taking
out file/print serving and corporate DB seems to take out the bulk
of NT "as a server" installations :-)
IOW, what usage of NT qualifies as a "Lexus" for you?
Your posts in this thread have been pretty knowledgeable (I
certainly didnt know about the "system policy" thing!), so I'm
genuinely interested in your answer to this.
[ oh, and also: why not Linux for a corporate DB? AS/400's are
great - my 2nd favourite O/S for enterprise work, but if you
include "Unix", then why not "Linux"? ]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sitaram Chamarty)
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:39:15 GMT
On 5 Mar 1999 08:30:39 GMT, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Because experience of what it is really like will either lead to you
>>switching to another job or takin on exactly that attitude in order to
>>maintain what is left of your sanity.
>
>Or not. I did help desk for a couple of years, and I still like a lot
>of the folks I supported.
It helps if you knew the people in advance (as can happen to
someone who's been working in an organisation for a while, then
switched to or adds tech support responsibilities.
Total strangers can and do have that effect.
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