Linux-Misc Digest #733, Volume #19 Sun, 4 Apr 99 07:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: telnet as mailer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Library types for Newbies ("Elliott Paiken")
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (Jim Richardson)
Re: newsreader for linux (Jim Richardson)
Help - want to add users and passwds not as root. (Nico Zigouras)
Re: Linux 2.2 is very unstable ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Trn and leafnode compatibility (William Adderholdt)
Re: Proposal: "Linux 2000 Platform" (Alan Curry)
Re: Does Linux run the processor HLT command? ("John Fee")
Re: emacs launches internet connection ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Names to call Windows... (Chris Leahy)
Re: Proposal: "Linux 2000 Platform" (Phil Howard)
Tuesday 6 April Meeting of LXNY: Jacob T. Schwartz to address LXNY on SETL and
Keyboardless Programming ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT,Redhat 5.2, X Installation (James Stafford)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (Michael Powe)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (Michael Powe)
$$$$ Make money surfing web for free $$$ (Jin Yeong Yi)
hackers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
limiting su via time?? (Tony Langdon)
Re: Linux as a server (Lew Pitcher)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: telnet as mailer
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 05:10:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Benjamin HERZOG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello ,
> i want to use telnet as a mailbox, but i didn't find the usefull
> commands anywhere.
> i know tha first (user, pass, retr <-- that's all !)
> Can you tell me the most important commands :
> -how to send a mail ?
To send mail you need ot telnet to a mail transport agent and use SMTP on port
25. The commands for SMTP are in RFC 821:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc821.html
> -how to download a mail ?
To recieve mail you need ot telnet to a POP server on port 25. The commands
for POP are in RFC 1081:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc1081.html
Perry
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From: "Elliott Paiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Library types for Newbies
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 03:07:42 -0400
I was just wondering what the difference between the glibc libraries and the
libc5 libraries and what effect does each have on your PC running linux?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: 4 Apr 1999 06:52:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2 Apr 1999 15:24:18 -0500,
Tom Betz, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>Quoth "George Georgakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in
><01be7653$3a3ea620$0101a8c0@george>:
>|Much as I hate to say it, for ease of use and for those of the "just
>|install and use it" crowd, I must agree that Win9* is currently ahead of
>|all flavours of Linux.
>
>Sad, but true.
>
>Little things annoy. For example, there is no common buffer for
>cutting and pasting between apps. You can't do something as simple
>as paste text copied from an xterm session into, say, Netscape.
>There are historical reasons for this, but Linux developers will
>have to address issues like this before Linux can take over the
>desktop.
Say what? I routinely cut and paste text from one app to another, I
take data from XessLite (spreadsheet) and drop it into an Xemacs
buffer, and vice versa all day. Cut text from a news posting and drop in
to an python or tcl console.
(I have heard mention of a tool to allow you to drop a picture
into Xemacs buffer, and have it converted to uuencoded text,
This I would like to get.)
--
Jim Richardson
www.eskimo.com/~warlock
All hail Eris
"Linux, because a cpu is a terrible thing to waste."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: newsreader for linux
Date: 4 Apr 1999 06:52:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 02 Apr 1999 00:00:54 +0200,
Gero H. Marten, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>Daniel Franzen wrote:
>
>> Are there any stable newsreader for linux ? I don't want to use
>> communicator anymore , it crashes to often.
>
>Why and when does NS crash? I use it to manage ca. 25 newsgroups with
>about 1000 new messages a day. It hasn't crashed for weeks.
>
>--
>--
I use slrn, highly recommend it, with slrnpull especially, (haven't tried
leafnode, might later.)
--
Jim Richardson
www.eskimo.com/~warlock
All hail Eris
"Linux, because a cpu is a terrible thing to waste."
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From: Nico Zigouras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help - want to add users and passwds not as root.
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 03:54:50 -0400
Hi all:
I need your help desperately. I am setting up a web site and I want to
have users be able to add themselves to my linux system through a web
page. They should be able to add themselves as a user and set their
passwords.
I have tried many ways but all require that I am logged in as root to do
it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am new to Linux sys admin, so please stay simple.
Ideally I would like a Perl script.
Thanks a lot.
- Nico.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux 2.2 is very unstable
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:26:18 GMT
John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kernel 2.2.1 has been rock-solid stable for me. So much so,
> in fact, that any newer releases are going to have to
> include something I really, really, really need (as opposed
A bugfix for a DoS in versions < 2.2.5 was good enough for me
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Adderholdt)
Subject: Trn and leafnode compatibility
Date: 4 Apr 1999 07:44:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm having a problem getting leafnode and trn to work together on my
system.
The problem is that whenever I finish reading a group and go back to the
group selector, trn will say "Warning! Somebody reset <some other group's
name>--assuming nothing read" and mark all the messages in that group as
unread. Very annoying.
It won't do this if I enter a group and just scan the headers, but only
when I actually read or junk articles. I've tried setting everything in
trn that I would expect to affect this behavior, such as options affecting
the cancelling of Xref's and the updating of .newsrc, but nothing changes
it. I'm not even sure trn is the problem, or whether it might be leafnode.
I remember some discussion of trn and leafnode compatibility on this group
a couple of weeks ago, when David Ashley posted a fix for nntpd.c that
fixed another problem I was having. Has anyone else experienced the
problem I'm describing?
I would really appreciate a fix for this, because the trn/leafnode combo is
just what I've been looking for, and it would be a shame if I couldn't get
it to work.
William Adderholdt
--
Remove the garbage from my domain to reply.
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Subject: Re: Proposal: "Linux 2000 Platform"
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Curry)
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 06:43:38 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeremy Crabtree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I already knew how to get Netscape to do it...the problem
>is being able to take arbitrary bits of text from a
>console and send them to an arbitrary App in X. :(
>
Have an xterm running on your X session.
Highlight the text with gpm.
Type "cat > /dev/ttyp<pty-of-xterm>".
Paste from gpm.
Switch to X, cut and paste from xterm to desired window.
Needless to say, I don't do this often.
[about zsh]
>>It reduces the number of accidental "rm... oops!" instances
>>considerably; I seldom type in a complete filename, but rather start
>>typing, and tab- to tab-complete it. No spelling errors there.
>
>I do that with BASH
If you type "ls -<TAB>", does it show you a list of valid ls options? Does it
complete "gcc -fomi<TAB>" to -fomit-frame-pointer? Does "finger <TAB>"
complete local usernames? Does it know that after "vi" you do not want to
complete filenames ending in ".o"? Have they even made it smart enough yet to
only complete directory names after "cd"?
bash has filename completion but zsh has everything-completion.
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]|bigotries (should| [ | | ] / _> / _>
==============+save some time): | \__/ \__/ \___: \___:
Linux,vim,trn,GPL,zsh,qmail,^H | "Screw you guys, I'm going home" -- Cartman
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From: "John Fee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Linux run the processor HLT command?
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 10:26:29 +0100
Matthias Warkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> It was the Sun, 4 Apr 1999 00:11:38 +0100...
> ..and John Fee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > When I use Linux for the same sort of workload as Win98+CPUIdle my CPU
runs
> > several degrees hotter. I was lead to believe that UNIX based systems
ran
> > the HLT command intrinsically. Anyone know anything about this?
>
> Yes, Linux uses the HLT opcode, and yes, your CPU runs cooler with
> Linux than with (say) Windows.
No. mine runs hotter.
JF
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: emacs launches internet connection
Date: 04 Apr 1999 11:27:40 +0200
Emacs tries to find out the fully qualified domain name upon startup.
Maybe it has to ask your nameserver for it. Consider putting it in
/etc/hosts.
(I don't really have a domain, so I chose frob.org which is probably
wrong -- what should I have done?)
kai
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From: Chris Leahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Names to call Windows...
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 06:53:22 +0000
William Cornett wrote:
> On 02 Apr 1999 08:39:47 +0200, Martin Dieringer wrote:
> : Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> :
> : > 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
> :
> : you forgot the best one: Wintendo
> :
> : m.
>
> Shouldn't this crap be on comp.os.linux.advocacy? Most people (myself
> included) come here to learn something useful. There should be a group
> titled comp.os.linux.whiners or comp.os.bsd.freebsd.whiners for youse
> guys.
> --
> Remove the period from my email address to reply.
You must be a wintendo user!
Whiner #1
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Howard)
Subject: Re: Proposal: "Linux 2000 Platform"
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.system
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 06:53:05 GMT
On 1 Apr 1999 13:58:59 -0800 bob@nospam who gave no cryptic e-mail
return address for a personal reply wrote:
| Why not work within LSB project, instead of comming up with yet
| another project? you are making the same mistake that linux is
| making.
Never heard of it. It's not listed on the obvious location where I
read about ongoing projects (www.linux.org). If you know about
another place that has a better list of projects, please pass out
the clue.
And please include a human decryptable e-mail address for personal
replies.
--
Phil Howard KA9WGN
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,nyc.seminars
Subject: Tuesday 6 April Meeting of LXNY: Jacob T. Schwartz to address LXNY on SETL
and Keyboardless Programming
Date: 4 Apr 1999 07:52:54 GMT
LXNY General Meeting
Tuesday 6 April 1999
LXNY will have a general meeting Tuesday 6 April 1999.
This meeting is free and open to the public.
The meeting runs from 6:30 P.M. to 9:00. The talk will be approximately
one hour in length, and will be in the earlier part of the meeting.
Thanks to support of the IBM Corporation, the meeting is at their building
at 590 Madison Avenue at East 57th Street on the Island of Manhattan.
Enter the building at the corner of Madison and 57th and ask at the desk
for the floor and room number.
Speaker: Jacob T. Schwartz
Title: "Keyboardless Programming - a Current Goal for the SETL System"
Professor Jack Schwartz is a computer scientist and mathematician, an
educator, a prolific and wide-ranging author, a popular speaker, an
academician, and a former advisor to the government of the United States.
He founded the NYU Center for Digital Multimedia.
SETL is an elegant and powerful very high-level programming language based
on set theory. Schwartz is one of the principal creators of the language.
Other languages in this class are LISP (built on structured lists), APL
(on matrices), SNOBOL (on strings), and PROLOG (on Horn clauses).
SETL deserves consideration by those interested in the best programming
languages available for the Unix and GNU environments. The new wealth of
memory and processor resources available has led to a revival of better
languages that were less successful in their time partly due to these
physical resource limits. LISP is a frequent LXNY topic; it is hoped
that SETL will also receive renewed interest. [descriptions by Michael
Smith]
General information about SETL:
ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/languages/setl2
http://www-robotics.eecs.lehigh.edu/~bacon/setl-doc.html
An actual SETL program, the "SETL server", running on the net,
with source right on the page:
http://www-robotics.eecs.lehigh.edu/~bacon/setl-server.html
SETL for Linux and other OSes:
ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/languages/setl2/binaries-2.3/
What is the SETL language like?
C++ adds classes and object-orientation to C, so that the language has
much in common with C.
Similarly SETL presents two aspects: it is a conventional programming
language and it is a language for mathematics. Programmers of languages
like Algol and C will find it familiar; they need little mathematical
sophistication to program SETL. The mathematically-minded will use this
conventional notation to program the abstract mathematical objects and
operations that SETL provides. Thus, it is easy to express and manipulate
functions, relations, and sets. Both ordered and unordered sets are
supported.
SETL is an outstanding language for many algorithms. SETL provides rich
assertion and backtracking facilities.
Sets can be of heterogeneous data type. Typing is flexible (objects have
types, not variable names), more akin to shell (scripting, command)
languages than to lower level programming languages. Sets (arrays and
structs are expressed as ordered sets) grow automatically -- the
programmer does not calculate bounds and check (and re-allocate) memory.
So, two of the major burdens of programming are reduced or eliminated. In
support of this position, Larry Wall writes in his article in the April
1999 Communications of the ACM (v42n4), "If you're a mere mortal, two
things drive you nuts: memory allocation and data typing. And everything
from Teco to Java bogs you down in various kinds of arbitrary limits."
(page 40)
Biographical information
Jacob T. Schwartz
Professor, Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
NYU; Ph.D. 1951, M.A. 1949, Yale; B.S. 1949, City College.
Major Interests: robotics and computer vision; computer design;
language design; compiler optimization; non-numerical computation;
operating systems.
[End official bio]
Jack Schwartz has wide interests outside these fields as well.
Books
Includes these:
Schwartz, J.T., R.B.K. Dewar, E. Dubinsky, and E. Schonberg,
PROGRAMMING WITH SETS: An Introduction to SETL, New York:
Springer-Verlag, 1986
Dunford and Schwartz, Linear Operators, in 3 volumes
Schwartz, J.T., Introduction to Matrices and Vectors, McGraw-Hill,
1961, and New York: Dover Publications, 1972
Schwartz, J.T., Relativity with Illustrations, New York: NYU Press,
1962.
Multimedia
A computer CD-ROM version of his book on Relativity.
Founded the NYU Center for Digital Multimedia.
DARPA
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency hired Jack as its
Director of Information Science and Technology, where he decided on
research projects. One of the projects he backed was the development
of the Internet (aka ARPANET).
The NYU Ultracomputer
One of the major supercomputer projects. Schwartz was one of the
principals.
Compilers
Major work on compilers with John Cocke.
The SETL system.
The LITTLE compiler language.
Papers
Numerous technical and popular papers.
Among Jack Schwartz's many papers and series of papers, two of my
favorites are the series on robot motion planning and the series on
complexities of declarative programs in finite set theory. Both series of
papers have several co-authors. [Remark by Jay Sulzberger.]
Mathematics Educators take note!
Jack has a serious interest in the high school mathematics curriculum.
_________________________________________________________________
What is Free Software? See http://www.gnu.org .
We'd like to have as many laptops running a free OS as possible at this
meeting, since there may be people at the meeting who have never
consciously seen a free OS in action.
LXNY will meet regularly the first Tuesday of each month at IBM throughout
1999. LXNY and its supporters thank IBM for the donation of this meeting
space.
Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
LXNY is New York's Free Software Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
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From: James Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT,Redhat 5.2, X Installation
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 03:41:19 -0700
Jason Bright wrote:
> Jas Sandhu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : Hi
> : I am trying to install Redhat 5.2.
> : I have a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT
> : 16Mb SDRAM AGP Card.
> : This card is not supported in the X windows
> : setup (using Xconfigurator).
> : I tried a couple of the other options (the memory
> : only goes upto 8MB max for most of these), but all i get is errors
> : when i try startx and back to the prompt
> : Is there a driver for this card in Redhat 5.2.
> : Does anybody have a solution for this, or am
> : I missing something in the setup.
>
> configure as an unknown card and then use the VGA16 server.
> That'll get you going in basic 640x480. To really use the RIVA
> you need to upgrade to XFree86 3.3.3.1 and use the SVGA server.
> Just did this yesterday... runs quite nicely.
>
> cha cha cha
> j
Make sure you select the Riva128 card when you configure X, that is
after you upgrade X. My Creative TNT runs really great also!
jamess
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: 04 Apr 1999 00:29:58 -0800
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>>>>> "Jeremiah" == Jeremiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jeremiah> In article <7e391i$ksm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeremiah> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Betz) spake thusly:
>> Little things annoy. For example, there is no common buffer
>> for cutting and pasting between apps. You can't do something
>> as simple as paste text copied from an xterm session into, say,
>> Netscape.
Jeremiah> ? Sure you can... I do it all the time... select
Jeremiah> the section with the left button, paste with the middle
Jeremiah> button. It's also a lot faster than the Windows method:
Jeremiah> select with the left button, click Ctrl-C to copy
Jeremiah> (unless you happen to be running a Telnet session from
Jeremiah> IE, then you have to go up to the edit menu and select
Jeremiah> "copy"), then move to where you want to paste, and type
Jeremiah> Ctrl-V.
However, this is a fix. I can't do it on my slackware box & I
couldn't do it on my Really Horrible box, either. I'm sure there's a
way to hack it into place, but it's far from being the universal
default.
mp
powered by GNU/linux since Sept 1997
- --
Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
"Would John the Baptist have lost his head if his name was Steve?"
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From: Michael Powe <[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: 04 Apr 1999 00:24:42 -0800
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>>>>> "Harry" == Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Is it unimaginative to expect they might just, well, move
>> cursor to start and end of line, respectively?
Harry> I think you've hit the nail on the head, but the answer
Harry> is not a technical or historical one. The answer is
Harry> "polymorphism". In programming, polymorphism means that
Unfortunately, your comment has nothing to do with his comment. He
didn't hit the nail on the head and you issued a non sequitur in
response.
mp
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powered by GNU/linux since Sept 1997
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Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
"Would John the Baptist have lost his head if his name was Steve?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jin Yeong Yi)
Subject: $$$$ Make money surfing web for free $$$
Date: 4 Apr 1999 08:52:58 GMT
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it's free and you'll get paid while you surf the Web.
you'll get paid $0.50 cents / hour.
all you have to do is join for free, use internet as much as you can and
get paid for that hour, simple as that.
check it out for yourself.
http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=AQL009
You have nothing to lose.
~
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: kingston.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: hackers
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 05:14:32 +0000
I'm not much of a hacker but I do use Linux. I'm running
RedHat5.2 and I'm on a LAN connected though cablemodem by
an old 486 with Slackware96. I'm up late working and I
notice things are getting slow. I run top and I see that
user:nobody is running find with PRI 20!!! All of a
sudden there's another process running "make whatis". I
killed that and some other processes including an instance
of gawk, I then literrally pulled the plug on my
cablemodem. I looked in /var/log but I can't find
anything. What, if anything,can I do to trace this
hacker?
--
Boyd Thomson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://welcome.to/boydt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Langdon)
Date: 04 Apr 99 03:38:23
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.admin.isp
Subject: limiting su via time??
It's 03 Apr 99 18:10:23,
We'll return to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and All's
discussion of limiting su via time??
gm> Is ther a way to limit when a user(s) can use su??? Basicly there too
gm> many damn people at night (1am -4am) screwing up the system. So I want
gm> a time limit on when they can su..
Question 1: If they're screwing up the system, do you trust them enough
to have access to su? If not, changing permissions on su and changing
the root password will solve your problem. :-)
Assuming these users _must_ have su access, try the following:
Create a group (say admins) which are allowed to run su, and place all
su users into this group.
Write 2 scripts which manipulate the permissions of the su binary. One
to allow anyone in the admins group to run the binary, the other to
disallow the group execution.
Set up 2 cron jobs, one to run the disable script at night, the other to
run the enable script in the morning.
Won't stop people from compiling their own binary, but might slow them
down a little. It would be better to remove access to untrusted people
altogether. If these people are employees, this problem may be better
dealt with by company policy (unauthorised access will result in
warnings and/or termination). If these people are users or "helpers",
it could be written into your AUP that anyone messing with the system
will be locked out and possibly reported to the authorities if the
offence is repeated.
.. New Opcode #3: ROC - Randomize OpCodes
--
|Fidonet: Tony Langdon 3:633/284.18
|Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own.
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux as a server
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 03:22:25 -0400
David L. Courtney wrote:
>
> This may be a silly question, but here goes: I just read at linux.org
> that Linux can perform as a "netware/NCP" server OR as a "native
> windows/SMB" server. Does this mean that my win95 workstations could
> be used with Linux installed on the server, just like they are with
> Netware 3.x/4.x and "MS client for Netware (or Microsoft) networks?
> Comments appreciated.
> David C.
Yes, and Yes.
For Netware server, get a package called (IIRC) Mars-NWE
For LANMAN server (MS Networks), get a package called Samba
Linux can also be a client to either/both NOS...
For Netware client, compile NCPFS support into your kernel
and get the NCPFS package
For LANMAN client (MS Networks), compile SMBFS support into
your kernel and get the SMBFS package (may come with Samba).
--
Lew Pitcher | If everyone has an angle, why
JOAT-in-training | are most of them so obtuse?
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