Linux-Misc Digest #693, Volume #19 Thu, 1 Apr 99 23:13:15 EST
Contents:
User Authentication & WWW Proxy ("Colin Bendell")
Re: Web-Browser on Sparc-Linux (Craig Morehouse)
Re: C++ Heeeelp!!!! (Frank Sweetser)
Re: dead getty (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (marek jedlinski)
Installing RedHat 5.2 on a Gateway 2000 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer ("David Lloyd-Jones")
Re: hacked /bin/login: can't replace it (NF Stevens)
Re: What is the best Linux to install? (jedi)
Re: I killed my Linux box ("Hadean Dragon")
Re: Names to call Windows... (Michel)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (Ed Young)
batch tiff conversion ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Gatekeeper for Linux??? (yan seiner)
Re: LINUX ALONE OR WITH WINDOWS? (Michel)
Re: PowerQuest BootMagic: Linux + Win98? (Frank Miller)
System freezes on login... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Colin Bendell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: User Authentication & WWW Proxy
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 20:52:22 -0600
I am looking for a software package that can authenticate users on a variety
of platforms when they make any www proxy request. I have used wingate in
the past, but now I am moving over to linux. Wingate provided an
authentication method that used a java client. While the client was logged
in, web pages were accessed, close the client, and teh web becomes
disfunctional.
Squid does not appear to have user authentication capabilities. I am not
looking for distributing rights based on host name, but rather by username.
I have found that CSM does offer this capability, but then again it costs
$700. What are my other options?
Basically I want to be able to track and log user web activity.
Thanks,
Colin
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From: Craig Morehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Web-Browser on Sparc-Linux
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 17:37:39 -0500
Richard Van Fossan wrote:
> If you check out one of the Linux newsgroups, I think you'll find out that
> there is a version of Netscape Navigator that will compile under Linux. I
> don't know if MS's UNIX version of IE will work on Sparc Linux.
>
> Richard van Fossan
> Microsoft Developer Support
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message ...
> >Hi everybody,
> >
> >I'm looking for a Web-Browser that I can use on an Sparc Station 5 that is
> >running on Sparc-Linux (Redhat 5.2).
> >
> >Is here anybody, who can give me a hint, what is the best one to use on
> >such a system?
> >The bad thing is that one can't compile Netscape by himself. :-((
> >
> >
> >Bye
> >
> >Ralf
> >
> >---------------------------------------------------------------
> >Ralf Orlowski voice: +49-2241-405927
> >Im Kirchtal 88 fax: +49-2241-405953
> >53844 Troisdorf E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >PGP 5.0 Key available at www.trustcenter.de
> >
> >
Ralf;
ftp to mirrors.redhat.com/ultra/sparc/RedHat/RPMS and you'll find Navigator
and Communicator 4.5.1 there.
Drove me crazy last week trying to find it myself.
CAM
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: C++ Heeeelp!!!!
Date: 01 Apr 1999 21:34:39 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook) writes:
> On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 21:10:46 GMT, Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Probably reasonably decent generic C++ book would do. Probably any
> >'Teach Yourself C++' would do, even one geared for MS-Windows or MacOS
>
> Most C++ books are crap unfortunately (especially anything written by Herb
> Schildt.) A good place to look for book reviews from people who know what
> they are doing is www.accu.org.
i found the O'Reilly practical C++ book to be excelent (surprise, surprise
;). at least, it was a hell of a lot better than the book the prof
subscribed for the course...
--
Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu fsweetser at blee.net | PGP key available
paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.5 i586 | at public servers
I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use
language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That may
be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We
aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners. --Jeff Stilson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: dead getty
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:20:41 GMT
Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I am having a problem getting getty to run on /dev/tty1-9.
>I've tried mingetty and mgetty; both start and immediately exit. There
>are no error messages; nothing is in the logs; mgetty -x9 does not even
>generate a log file.
[...]
Don't run it from the command line. Gettys have to be called from
out of /etc/inittab.
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (marek jedlinski)
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 23:13:22 GMT
Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>People who come to linux newsgroups complaining about how difficult it
>is to learn to use are, well, simply unimaginative. They can't
>imagine doing anything `not Windows' -- they're like Americans
>studying the French language and complaining that the grammar `just
>isn't natural.'
Um, not necessarily. I have a fresh (and problem-free) installation of RH
5.1. But when I typed my first command and needed to correct it, I tried
the 'delete' key, which surprisingly produced a tilde instead of erasing
the character under cursor. I don't know if it's necessarily unimaginative
to expect that under normal, default CLI environment, keys such as delete,
insert, end and home will perform predictably (to a newbie)? The console
howto told me how to fix the 'delete' problem, but for the moment I don't
know how to change other keys to behave the way I've always seen them
behave in DOS/Win, because I need the key codes and I haven't yet found a
utility which will print the octal codes for me, or convert between decimal
and octal. (I'm sure it's there somewhere, though.)
In pico, which is probably the simpelst editor under unix/Linux, the 'home'
and 'end' keeys produce a nice little beep. Is it unimaginative to expect
they might just, well, move cursor to start and end of line, respectively?
You may say that it's indeed unimaginative. A programmer may bind any odd
feature she wants to a 'delete' key - why not 'save file', for instance, or
'quit without saving'?
I'll risk saying this: while newbies get bashed for complaints such as
mine, above, because they're unimaginative and don't want to learn, very
often what's meant by 'learning' is simply 'memorizing' lots of
counter-intuitive stuff. Like the rpm vs. Setup, or Ctrl-A vs 'home'.
Remembering all the -SwitcHes and unhelpful program names doesn't prove
your knowledge or intelligence, just good memory.
As an aside: look at Perl. I am not a programmer, but I have written
several programs in Perl that are very useful to me under Win95. Of course
I did study the documentation a lot, but it takes under a minute to write
your first 'hello world' in Perl even if you've never written a .bat file
in DOS. You can make progress at a comfortable pace, and there's plenty of
stuff you can figure out even without the docs - that's because Perl *is*
intuitive, in the way that "Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C" somehow ain't.
.marek
--
General Frenetics, Discorporated: http://www.lodz.pdi.net/~eristic/
A child of five could understand this! Fetch me a child of five.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Installing RedHat 5.2 on a Gateway 2000
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 02:49:38 GMT
I have a Gateway 2000 (PII/233MHz, 8.3G HDD, 32MB RAM) which I want to
rid of the Windoze 95 that it came preinstalled with. It's the standard
box that came with all the Gateway stuff that they bundle in it - no new
or changed components.
I want to install RedHat 5.2 on it, but I hear RHL installations frequently
tend to screw themselves up badly on proprietary systems. Some of the things
I've heard are pretty serious - the BIOS doesn't let LILO get loaded,
basically thinking it's a virus! - various components -
including the large 8.3G disk - are either not supported, or if
supported are not correctly recognized by Linux correctly. - X
doesn't work (locks up/hangs the machine) - the stupid little wheel mouse
(isn't it a PS/2 device) driver is screwed up. I think these
limitations are pretty severe. Has anyone out there experienced something
similar? Has anyone - anyone at all - installed Linux (specifically RHL) on
a Gateway 2000 G series machine (I think that's what this one is; I'm not
sure)? What were the problems faced? What are the precautions to take?
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
--
U.V. Ravindra
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From: "David Lloyd-Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:20:19 -0500
<d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)> wrote >
> That's not correct. There are just a few million receptors in your
> eyes,
As against say 768X1024 (is it?) = 3/4ths of a meg pixels on the screen.
> but the resolution is highly concentrated in the center of
your
> field of vision. Eye motion creates the experience of a large area of
> high resolution.
Even if you didn't do-the-pigeon, your concentrated area sitting still would
be bored by a normal screen.
> But you're right about lots of big monitors being cool.
Here we agree.
FWIW, I was asked to be keynote speaker of the National Students Association
Annual Conference a few years ago, and I did it with 24 Carousel projectors,
six movie projectors and about five horsepower of backup sound, with a 50' x
150' screen wrapped around the audience. Nobody complained about being
assaulted, so I take that as being a first approximation of normal
information intake. :-)
-dlj.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: hacked /bin/login: can't replace it
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 22:48:44 GMT
"Chris Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Howdy.
>
>Last week my Linux box was comprimised by the wu ftpd security hole. (It
>figures... the only ports I have open are ftp and ftp-data :)
>
>Luckily I was at the terminal when the lamer broke into the system. I yanked
>the ethernet cable and in doing so prevented all but minor damage.
>
>I have used RedHat's rpm utility to clean up the entire system. All I have
>left to replace is /bin/login. Strangely enough, I can not. When I try to
>perform operations against the file, I receive a "operation not permitted"
>error. Such operations consist of 'mv', 'rm', creating a hard-link to it via
>'ln', editing and trying save it via 'vi', 'chmod' to something other than
>04711, 'cp' the correct login binary over /bin/login, etc.
>
>The error almost sounds like a hardware defect, however, fsck is not
>complaining that there is a problem with the filesystem.
chattr -i -a /bin/login
Norman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: What is the best Linux to install?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:08:23 -0800
On 31 Mar 1999 23:16:38 GMT, bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Graham Daniell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>| RedHat - the boxed set - by far the easiest to install.
>
>Haven't tried Mandrake, have you?
Mandrake ~ Redhat. They say so on their homepage.
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From: "Hadean Dragon" <[email protected] (extra dots to stop spammers)>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux,linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: I killed my Linux box
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:29:28 -0500
I just read your post, and I'd just like to add... For me, when I did
that exact same thing (using RedHat 5.2) my linux box died completely...
I couldn't figure it out, and so I just reformatted and reinstalled
RH... Suffice it to say, I won't be installing StarOffice again... (I'll
just stick with WordPerfect 8... it can read WP and Office 97 documents
excellently, so that's good enough for me)
Nadine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Something went horribly wrong when I tried to install StarOffice 5.0
the
> other day.
>
> I'm running RedHat 5.1 (upgraded here and there) and KDE 1.1.
StarOffice
> needed some glibc libraries that it supposedly couldn't find on my pc.
> Since that glibc .tar file that came with the program was to be
> installed in a StarOffice subdirectory, I thought what the hey,
install
> it anyway.
>
> 1. From an X Windows terminal I run /bin/sh to then run the script
that
> installs the libraries (as is said in the readme).
> 2. The libraries don't install successfully, and the shell stops
> recognizing commands.
> 3. I can't even exit X properly, and when I press ctl-alt-backspace it
> comes back to a command line login instead of kdm.
> 4. Try to shutdown:
> /bin/shutdown: file not found
> 5. I do the forbidden: press the power button.
>
>
> Needless to say, nothing cleared up magically when I rebooted. The
> normal Linux boot messages scroll up the screen, until it gets to
this:
> Partition check
> hda1 hda2 <hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8>
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>
> Then nothing. Blank. You enter commands and there's no reaction, not
> even an error message. I tried to use RedHat's rescue disk and get
> nothing but an error message, too.
>
> So, what do I do? Should I start looking for an upgrade disk? Is all
my
> data loss (well, the stuff that wasn't backed up yet?) Please help me.
>
> Sob. Sob. Boo-hoo.
>
> --
> Nadine
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.dsuper.net/~anacaona
> http://www.chenpeyi.com/tww
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Best damn mammy portrayals this side of the Atlantic!!!
> --- paraphrasing Ms. Watching:
> http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/8119
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From: Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Names to call Windows...
Date: 1 Apr 1999 21:19:01 -0600
Donn Miller wrote:
>
> People who use FreeBSD and Linux have a few clever nicknames for
> Windows. Here are some that I've seen and used (that don't have
> profanity):
>
> Windblows
> Winblows
> Winbloats
> Winslow
> Windoze
> 'Doze
> WinHell --> instead of "Wintel"
> No-Win-dows
>
> Donn
I have some nice ones in French, I even have new logos, check my web site
Chassis 95 de Ti-Mou
Hublot 95 de Ti-Mou
Hublot is a port hole. Ti is short for petit which means small and Mou means soft
I will soon have a Spanish version
Vento�a 98 por Chiquito-Blando
Chiquito means small in Mexican Spanish and Blando means soft
If someone has some other language's interesting translations of windows and
Microsoft feel free to email me.
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From: Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: 1 Apr 1999 00:55:02 GMT
Harry wrote:
>> I use gvim in Linux and WinNT (when I have to be in NT) for
>> the power you say it lacks.
> BTW have a tissue - you're foaming at the mouth -
> it's the NT-o-phobia. It makes it impossible to get pragmatism out
> of anyone in this newsgroup.
I use NT when I have to. Linux when I have a choice. Why pay for
NT when you can get Linux for free? Linux is arguably better, even
NT SysAdmins are switching over according to:
SunSunbelt March99 Survey Results of over 1999 NT users
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/0399_2000.htm
P.T.Barnum had a hypothesis and Bill Gates is proving it...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: batch tiff conversion
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 01:57:26 GMT
Anyone know of a tiff conversion tool whereby I can drop the res of a load of
tiff files.
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From: yan seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gatekeeper for Linux???
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 20:45:18 -0500
SSH w/ tcp wrappers? Do you need secure login to the linux box (like
telnet) or do you need to mount samba shares from Win32 boxes? I have
no idea what ace-server is, but you can get decent security for either
of the above, though a WIn32<->linux VPN does not exist as yet (AFAIK).
Yan
Surfer Netzbetrieb wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I`m looking for a Gatekeeper Software, especially something like the
> ACE-Server from Security Dynamics. I`ve to build a secured Remote-Login
> via Modem.
> Does anybody have a suggestion?
>
> Bye, Christian
>
> Please send Answers direct to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LINUX ALONE OR WITH WINDOWS?
Date: 1 Apr 1999 21:03:01 -0600
Andreas Mohr wrote:
>
> Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is there a way to play the specifically Netshow or WMP "asx" or whatever
> > STREAMING MEDIA video and audio files using a Linux application? Or can it
> > be played on Linux's nearly completed Windows Emulator?
>
> > Will WINE eventually be able to play EVERY Windows program on Linux,
> > including streaming media?
>
> First, I am a Wine developer, but I'm not into those kinds of things,
> so I can't tell you exactly.
> But Wine is already able to play e.g. AVIs (partially) and already has
> a fairly good sound support.
>
> So yes, it might be possible.
>
> Just try it :)
>
> For bug reports (-> documentation/bugreports or tools/bug_report.pl) etc.
> please go to comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
>
> --
> Andreas Mohr
How soon do you think we'll be able to run applications written with Visual Age for
C++?
I have a program that I wrote with Visual Age for C++ 3.5 under winblows NT and it
will not
run either statically compiled or with dlls. With the version with dlls I'm told that
there is a mismatch in file size (?????) The program is well accepted under winblows
95, 98 and NT. As for the statically linked version it complains about non win32s
support,
the program isn't compiled for win32s and wouldn't even run under winblows 3.1 with
win32s
support since it is multithread.
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From: Frank Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PowerQuest BootMagic: Linux + Win98?
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 00:03:48 GMT
Christopher Kolar wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone is successfully running PowerQuest's Boot
> Magic boot manager program with Linux and Windows 98. When I install
> the program (patched to 1.01) I get the following:
> ..|........
> Loading BootMagic ....
> and then it just hangs.
>
> Pertinent information:
> ++ The first primary partition is a 1.5GB FAT32 where Win98 resides.
> This is the default boot partition.
> ++ The second primary partition is a 1 GB ext2 partition with Linux
> (RH 5.2). I am able to successfully run Linux if I boot from the boot
> floppy.
> ++ I did not have Linux write to the MBR, the boot record is on the
> partition.
> ++ After it hangs I can boot from the BM floppy disk and disable the
> manager program. Note: after I disable it I get
> ..|........
> Loading BootMagic ....
> and then it boots successfully into either Win98 or Linux, depending
> on what was set as the default OS when I disabled the control panel.
>
> So, BM can successfully identify and actually boot either of the OSs,
> but it hangs every single time when I try to run it with the
> select-your-os menu enabled.
>
> I have been trying to work with PQ's tech support, but they officially
> gave up on me yesterday and told me that I could mail it in for a
> refund. I would like to give it one more shot as it would be a useful
> alternative to having to keep the boot disk handy.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
> --chris
>
> --
> /////\\\\\/////\\\\\
> Christopher G. Kolar
> Director of Instructional Technology
> Aurora University, Aurora, Illinois
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.aurora.edu
> [Public Key http://certserver.pgp.com:11371/pks/lookup2?op=index&search=0x5B61A799]
Yes, I am currently using it to boot DOS, Windows 95, OS/2, and Redhat Linux. I
installed to the
DOS Partion and all works well. All on the same 6.4 GB WD drive
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: System freezes on login...
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 02:00:52 GMT
Problem: I start up Linux. I enter my username, "root." Then I enter my
password. When I hit ENTER, the cursor drops to the next line, but does not
log me in and take me to the prompt.
It was working fine previously. Two changes occured before I restarted my
system. 1. I added the line: /usr/sbin/./squid & to the end of the
/etc/rc.d/rc.local file. 2. I accidentally wiped out the contents of the
file /etc/rc.d/init.d/network
Does anyone have any ideas as to what may have caused the problem. I don't
have a boot disk unfortunately, so it looks like I may have to reinstall.
I am using TurboLinux 1.0 (kernel 2.0.36)
--Daniel
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