Linux-Misc Digest #772, Volume #19 Wed, 7 Apr 99 12:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Need Bmptogif or Bmptopng Converter (Gregoire Diehl)
Re: Is Linux safe from viruses like Melissa ? (Jarkko Karhunen)
PCCOM intelligen 8 port card (Storath Julius)
Re: Shebang on redhat (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Proposal: "Linux 2000 Platform" (Peter Samuelson)
Re: Redhat 6.0 (Johan Kullstam)
Web server for user's account... ("Sccoaire")
xscreensaver and redhat 5.2 (Gordon Vrdoljak)
Missing alan cox kernel patches in Australian mirror (jmsalvo)
Re: Where did www.freeciv.org go? ("Andy Piper")
Linux/m68k Registration Site (Geert Uytterhoeven)
Re: Emacs; is there a third way? (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregoire Diehl)
Subject: Re: Need Bmptogif or Bmptopng Converter
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:47:00 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb in Nachricht ...
>Gregoire Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> For this i need a program that convert it to gif or png file
>
>xv and probably any other popular image viewer can do this.
I need a programm that convert the file on the commandline,
like
bmptogif -inputfile -outputfile
thanks
Gregoire Diehl
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From: Jarkko Karhunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Linux safe from viruses like Melissa ?
Date: 7 Apr 1999 11:32:44 GMT
Efi Merdler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
->Hi
->I know that Melissa is a macro virus,therefore, it will not run under
->Linux,however ,we all know that sooner or later a virus will attack the
->Linux community, is the OS protected ?
It is remarkably difficult to write a virus on a Unix workalike such as
Linux. We're pretty safe, I think. Not sure about Word-compatible word
processors though...
JK
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Storath Julius)
Subject: PCCOM intelligen 8 port card
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 11:31:16 +0200
Hi,
I wont to get a PCCOM Intelligent 8 Port Card manufacted by
Decision startet.
The card is without documents (lost in .....)
It is from 1992 or 1993 and worked fine in a SCO Server until
several weeks ago.
There is a patch on
Decision PCCOM8 (8 ports)
contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
driver location: ftp://ftp.signum.se/pub/pccom8
but reading the docu of the patch I found that the patch
is to do against kernel 2.0.29
I am using now 2.2.0
Is it possible to do the patch against kern 2.2.0 ?
Is anyone out there who is running this card ?
Or is able to help the card getting started ?
N.B. I m running SuSE 6.0 Linux on 486 AMD System
Greetings from Germany
Julius
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Shebang on redhat
Date: 07 Apr 1999 09:46:36 -0400
"AJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there any one who might have an idea why "#!" (shebang) will not
> work on my Redhat 5.2? it is a pretty recent install, and I just
> noticed this when trying to fool around with some Perl
> (#!/usr/bin/perl). (This is not a path problem.) It will not work on
> shell calls either, #!.bin/sh, /bin/bash., etc .
i have no idea. it works fine for me. is it a permissions thing?
did you chmod the script to be executable by you?
--
johan kullstam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Samuelson)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Proposal: "Linux 2000 Platform"
Date: 7 Apr 1999 04:37:40 -0500
Reply-To: Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[Peter Samuelson]
> > I thought about this some time ago.
[Jeremy Crabtree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> So, I'm not the only crazy person out there to need/want to do this?!
> cool! :)
No, but like I said, I often think of things and then never get around
to implementing them. Also it sometimes happens that I fix a bug or
add some feature bloat to something and when I forward it upstream I
get ignored by the (probably very busy) maintainer. So then I am
temporarily discouraged from doing more of the same....
> > (...Sometimes I think I am the ultimate hacker wannabe.)
> I can identify with that.
(:
> Ah...but what if <dum dum duuum> you use a gpm repeater as your
> pointer in X? How would that affect the problems?
Well, actually, I listed three problems in my message, and using the
gpm repeater should take care of #1. I can handle the other two as
well, having thought a bit more. They were:
- getting xauth permission, which changes whenever xdm resets things
- surviving X session changes
The two are really related, and point out a bug in the original idea.
The current X user would not necessarily *want* gpm to be able to
read/write cut buffers without explicit permission, i.e. running the
helper app or whatever. So this would have to happen on a per-login
basis anyway.
OK, here's how I would code all this if I had the time and/or enough of
the inclination to make the time. (:
gpm creates a socket somewhere (/tmp is good except complicated to
avoid security races), `gpmctl'. It would implement an ioctl-like
interface, where you would open the socket, write an enumerated char
command to it followed by some struct, and (if appropriate) read back a
struct from same socket. One command would be GPM_GETSEL, which would
return a `struct { int len; char str[] }' for the current selection.
Another would be GPM_SETSEL, where you pass in the same thing. A third
would be GPM_NOTIFY or _SELECT or something, and you send in an event
mask for async notify. One of the async notify events would be change
of selection. (Others would be mouse events, I imagine.)
A helper app would run in your .xsession, open an X connection, open
the gpm socket, use GPM_GETSEL to grab the current selection and
immediately post it to the X server. It would also set GPM_NOTIFY to
catch selection updates, and hook the X server to provide the same. (I
don't remember my Xlib very well, so I don't know how this is done.
Would you have to poll it or is there an async mode?) Then it would
just pass selections back and forth as they come in, until you log out.
I'm still not sure how access control should work, since by this scheme
gpm selections would be available to everyone on the system. Bad
stuff. Maybe the helper app would have to be setgid and then try and
make appropriate checks for reasonable use; maybe successfully opening
a local X display would be enough of a check.
--
Peter Samuelson
<sampo.creighton.edu!psamuels>
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.0
Date: 07 Apr 1999 09:44:05 -0400
"Nine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When will Redhat 6.0 be available for download?
real soon now.
--
johan kullstam
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From: "Sccoaire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Web server for user's account...
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:15:44 -0500
In my srm.conf file, i have this line:
UserDir public_html
And in the description above it says that that directive will a make it so
that users can have their web pages under http://domain/~user
It doesn't work for me. First of all, no public_html folder has been created
under the users, is that something that i have to do manually? Even for new
users? I don't quite understand that, can you let me know? Thanks,
Parsec
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From: Gordon Vrdoljak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: ucb.os.linux
Subject: xscreensaver and redhat 5.2
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 08:53:51 -0700
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Hello,
I've installed redhat 5.2 and am trying to set up a screensaver to work
with all the logins as well as the login console window. I've
not had too much luck in sorting through all the files, trying to find
the one that controls the login console and default user accounts.
I downloaded xscreensaver from linuxburg and wanted to use it as the
default screensaver. It works well from a command
line, but I want it loaded automatically.
Could someone please let me know which files I should edit? I am
running redhat 5.2 and using XFree86 with the default
AnotherLevel.
Thank you.
Gordon Vrdoljak.
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Hello,
<BR>I've installed redhat 5.2 and am trying to set up a screensaver to
work with all the logins as well as the login console window. I've
<BR>not had too much luck in sorting through all the files, trying to find
the one that controls the login console and default user accounts.
<BR>I downloaded xscreensaver from linuxburg and wanted to use it as the
default screensaver. It works well from a command
<BR>line, but I want it loaded automatically.
<P>Could someone please let me know which files I should edit? I
am running redhat 5.2 and using XFree86 with the default
<BR>AnotherLevel.
<BR>Thank you.
<BR>Gordon Vrdoljak.
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as well as this newsgroup.
Gordon Vrdoljak.</PRE>
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From: jmsalvo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Missing alan cox kernel patches in Australian mirror
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 10:13:28 GMT
Well, the Australian mirror up to now still does not contain any files in
/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.2 except patch-2.2.3ac2-SMPFIX.diff.
All other ac pathes are simply not there ... so that I have to switch to the
US mirror site.
It has been like this for several days.
John Salvo
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From: "Andy Piper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where did www.freeciv.org go?
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:02:59 +0100
Reply-To: "Andy Piper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It seems to have moved to http://freeciv.ultraviolet.org for some reason...
Andy
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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.m68k
Subject: Linux/m68k Registration Site
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:12:23 +0200
Note from the editor: sorry for the delay...
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popularity of Linux/m68k, cfr. the Linux counter of Harald Tveit
Alvestrand.
LINUX/M68K USAGE
* General statistics
* Linux/m68k users
* Linux/m68k system configurations
* Linux/m68k machines connected to the Internet
MONTHLY OVERVIEW
This is an overview of the Linux/m68k registry. It's posted monthly to
comp.os.linux.m68k, comp.os.linux.misc and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
User statistics
Country Count Percentage
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Australia 43 2.40%
Austria 16 0.89%
Belgium 29 1.62%
Brazil 4 0.22%
Bulgaria 1 0.06%
Canada 63 3.52%
Chile 2 0.11%
Colombia 1 0.06%
Croatia 3 0.17%
Czech Republic 16 0.89%
Denmark 35 1.96%
Finland 65 3.64%
France 129 7.21%
Germany 373 20.86%
Greece 12 0.67%
Greenland 1 0.06%
Hungary 9 0.50%
Ireland 5 0.28%
Italy 74 4.14%
Japan 11 0.62%
Latvia 2 0.11%
Lithuania 1 0.06%
Luxembourg 2 0.11%
Mexico 7 0.39%
Netherlands 70 3.91%
New Zealand 8 0.45%
Norway 41 2.29%
Poland 36 2.01%
Portugal 10 0.56%
Russian Federation 4 0.22%
Singapore 1 0.06%
Slovak Republic 1 0.06%
South Africa 2 0.11%
South Korea 9 0.50%
Spain 30 1.68%
Sweden 106 5.93%
Switzerland 39 2.18%
Trinidad & Tobago 1 0.06%
Turkey 7 0.39%
Ukraine 1 0.06%
United Kingdom 151 8.45%
United States of America 359 20.08%
Yugoslavia 4 0.22%
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Total 1788
System statistics
Platforms
Platform Count Percentage
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Amiga 1241 66.97%
Apollo 2 0.11%
Atari 239 12.90%
Custom 8 0.43%
HP 9000/300 13 0.70%
Macintosh 298 16.08%
NeXT 3 0.16%
Q40 5 0.27%
Sun 3 18 0.97%
VME 26 1.40%
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Total 1853
CPUs
CPU Count Percentage
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MC68020 62 3.35%
MC68030 912 49.22%
MC68040 569 30.71%
MC68060 310 16.73%
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Total 1853
Generic machine statistics
Mean Maximum
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Amount of system RAM (MB) 73 90000
Amount of disk space (MB) 1864 72000
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: Emacs; is there a third way?
Date: 7 Apr 1999 11:29:02 GMT
@worldonline.nl <@worldonline.nl> wrote:
>The distributions of Linux that I have used thus far all claim that the X-
>and non-X versions of emacs can not coexist; you either have the one or the
>other.
On my Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 system, Xemacs 20 (http://www.xemacs.org)
defaults to using X when $DISPLAY is defined, and textmode when it isn't.
I'm not an emacs user myself, so I have no idea whether FSF emacs can be
made to behave the same way.
HTH,
Ray
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