Linux-Misc Digest #775, Volume #19 Wed, 7 Apr 99 17:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: Need Bmptogif or Bmptopng Converter (Gerd Mayer)
news server confusion ("Mark Swope")
Re: lpd not running (Yoram Benchetrit)
Best Free X Windows Server for Win95/98 Box on Samba/Linux Network? (Cyrus Mehta)
Re: Wheel Mouse support under Linux/XFree86/KDM or Gnome? (Andrew D Matuszak)
Re: PST -> PDT OK, time still one hr behind [was Re: timezone and (Yan Seiner)
Re: [wm-user] WordPerfect: WP8 new window creation? (Tom Rini)
free computer8 (webmaster)
Re: 4 button mouse (Gary Momarison)
Re: How to enable VCD support in 2.0.36? (Kang Ch'ang-su)
Re: Need Bmptogif or Bmptopng Converter (Gregoire Diehl)
mounting a cd in linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: about GNOME (Matthias Warkus)
Execution at boot time (AMAE)
Re: Web server for user's account... (David Martin)
Re: conio for Linux? (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Re: Access other than root???? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 4 button mouse (Duncan Simpson)
Re: key values (Gary Momarison)
Re: Is Linux safe from viruses like Melissa ? (mist)
Re: Is Linux safe from viruses like Melissa ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Is Linux safe from viruses like Melissa ? (Frank Sweetser)
Re: MS-DOS/Linux (William Wueppelmann)
Re: Is Linux safe from viruses like Melissa ? (Gerald Willmann)
automatic filesys type recognition (Rainer Krienke)
Re: Best Cheapbytes CDRom ("Glenn Ward")
Problem: Adding a new user ("ioj")
Re: ftp and telnet on redhat 5.2 (mist)
Re: Web server for user's account... (mist)
Re: HELP!; Intellimouse locks desktop (Niall Gaffney)
RPM -a and Redhat5.2 ("[...M...]")
Re: Is Linux safe from viruses like Melissa ? (Frank Sweetser)
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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 16:14:51 +0200
From: Gerd Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need Bmptogif or Bmptopng Converter
> I need a programm that convert the file on the commandline,
> like
>
> bmptogif -inputfile -outputfile
>
There are this two programms:
bmptoppm
ppmtogif
so if it is okay, to do this in two steps (all formats are without any
lose by compression or similar, so it should make no different).
Gerd
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From: "Mark Swope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: news server confusion
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:01:21 -0500
Hi - I'm a bit confused about how to set up a small
news server for my 3 computer LAN.
What I want to do is have my LINUX server automagically
dial to my ISP via PPPand get several newsgroups for me.
I would like this to happen unattended, say at 3am.
Someone has suggested sn to be my local news server.
However, do I need diald to do the periodic dialing? Is
this a cron job? Do I need INN or suck?
After I get the newsgroups downloaded, I understand that
I should be able to use newsreaders on my two other Win98
machines to read the newsgroups.
I know that lots of people have done this. I guess I understand
a lot of the pieces, but not how to put them together.
thanks,
mas
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From: yoramb@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Yoram Benchetrit)
Subject: Re: lpd not running
Date: 7 Apr 1999 13:46:11 GMT
Pavel Greenfield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm running Slackware 3.6;
> It seems that lpd is not running on my machine.
> Simptoms
> 1. ps -a shows no lpd.
> 2. lpq complains "warning: no daemon present"
> 3. lpc says everything's ok except "no daemon present"
> 4. When I try to run "lpd" I get the prompt right back and nothing
> happens.
> At the same time dmesg tells me that the port (/dev/lp1) is recognized
> fine.
> As a matter of fact "echo Hello World > /dev/lp1" works.
> How do I get lpd to work, please!
> Thanks a lot in advance!
> Pavel
Hi,
Have you tried to start it by hand on the command line ?
If this works, I would try to add the appropriate line
in /etc/rc.**** to start it when machine boot ...
hope this can help
Yoram
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From: Cyrus Mehta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Best Free X Windows Server for Win95/98 Box on Samba/Linux Network?
Date: 2 Apr 1999 06:30:37 GMT
Hi,
I am creating a dual Windows/Linux environment using Samba for file serving
on a standard Ethernet network. I was wondering what kind of X server software
for the Windows side I could use to run some X windows apps off of the LInux Box.
Reliability is the most important factor, windows will crash often enough without
the help of the X server.
Any ideas?
CKM
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From: Andrew D Matuszak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wheel Mouse support under Linux/XFree86/KDM or Gnome?
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:47:22 -0400
I heard that the kensington Mouse-in-a-box scroll does not work with X.
Has anyone been able to get it to work properly?
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, jason wrote:
>
> There is such a beast, I use it. :-) You need a later X server
> (3.3.3.x works, I believe), and in your /etc/X11/XF86Config you'll
> need the following for your mouse:
>
> Section "Pointer"
> Protocol "IMPS/2"
> Device "/dev/mouse" # or whatever your mouse device is
> ZAxisMapping 4 5 # lets you use your middle button
> EndSection
>
>
> As for scrolling Netscape windows and such, check out imwheel
> (http://solaris1.mysolution.com/~jcatki/imwheel/). I've found that
> the best way to run this is once at boot time, in your
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> file, like so:
>
> echo "starting imwheel..."
> /usr/local/bin/imwheel -k > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> Make sure to grab their sample .imwheelrc files that define what mouse
> scrolls do
> for various programs. One neat feature of imwheel is that you can
> scroll by lines,
> several lines, or full pages (at least in Netscape) depending on whether
> you're
> holding down ctrl, shift, or neither.
>
> Feel free to contact me for more info. Good luck!
>
> -jason
>
> Niall Gaffney wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Well the subject about says it all. Is there such a beast? I have an
> > Intellimouse with the wheel on my Redhat 5.2 box and want to be able to
> > scroll down in Netscape and Xterms with the wheel like a do on my
> > Windows machine at home. Is there a driver for the mouse that will talk
> > to XFree86 (or the window manager...my understanding of who handles
> > these sort of events is poor) to slide the scroll bars up and down?
> >
> > Niall Gaffney
>
>
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PST -> PDT OK, time still one hr behind [was Re: timezone and
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 07:26:20 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So... How do I change it to the "right" way?
I've changed the /etc/sysconfig/clock to UTC=true ; now how do I get the
system clock to use it?
TIA,
Yan
Brian McCauley wrote:
> There are two ways Linux can operate:
>
> 1) The "right" way. The harware clock is in UCT no matter where in
> the world you are and what time of year it is. Everything will
> work fine in Linux but some other OSs will fail.
>
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From: Tom Rini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [wm-user] WordPerfect: WP8 new window creation?
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 15:18:05 -0400
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Tom Rini wrote:
> >
> > Try:
> >
> > /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib
> > /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib
> > /usr/lib
> > /usr/local/lib
> > /lib
> > /usr/X11R6/lib
> > /opt/kde/lib
> > /usr/local/RealNetworks/rvplayer5.0
>
> Tried it, this doesn't work.
>
> $ cat /etc/ld.so.conf
> /lib
> /usr/lib
> /usr/local/lib
> /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib
> /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib
> /usr/X11R6/lib
> /opt/kde/lib
> /usr/local/RealNetworks/rvplayer5.0
Order in ld.so.conf matters, iirc. So try the way I posted.
---
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://dobbstown.yeti.edu/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (webmaster)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.vms,comp.periphs.printers,comp.software.year-2000,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: free computer8
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 4 button mouse
Date: 07 Apr 1999 11:28:27 -0700
Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all:
>
> I'm using a Logitech trackball on PS/2. It has 4 buttons. Can I make
> use of the fourth one? XF86Setup allows me to specify 4 or 5 buttons,
> but clicking my fourth one doesn't produce any effect.
A "imwheel" SW announcement mentioned 4 button mouses. Find in
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/pointing-devices.html
--
Look for Linux info at http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml and in
Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: Kang Ch'ang-su <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to enable VCD support in 2.0.36?
Date: 07 Apr 1999 23:46:21 +0900
Reply-To: Kang Ch'ang-su <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The patch for VCD is already done In kernel 2.0.36.
--
E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
'95, Industrial Engineering, Korea University.
Republic of Korea
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregoire Diehl)
Subject: Re: Need Bmptogif or Bmptopng Converter
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 16:41:38 +0200
Gerd Mayer schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>There are this two programms:
>
>bmptoppm
>ppmtogif
>
>so if it is okay, to do this in two steps (all formats are without any
>lose by compression or similar, so it should make no different).
>Gerd
yes that perfekt, but have you a URL for me, were i can get this progs or
the sourcen???
bye Gregoire
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mounting a cd in linux
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 19:44:21 GMT
How do you mount a CD in linux ?
Eric Headley
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: about GNOME
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 13:34:02 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Tue, 06 Apr 1999 20:42:14 -0600...
..and hj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> Is GNOME useful?
Yes.
> Is it neccessary if I'm using windowmaker as my window
> manager?
Necessary not. But cool.
> I know many ppl use it in Enlightment. Does it really help when it's
> installed in WindowMaker?
The Gnome suite (it's really only a couple of applications) cooperates
perfectly with Window Maker, but don't run it in 256 colour mode or
it'll make you go blind.
mawa
--
Why do we always have to talk about love? Because our parents were
sickos, and we're starved for it.
-- Laurie Moore, Starving Again, in: Like Life
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AMAE)
Subject: Execution at boot time
Date: 7 Apr 1999 14:09:53 GMT
Hi,
I have a program running on my linux machine. What I want to see is this:
When I boot up my machine, I want the code to execute automatically. That
is, I don't want to type to the shell after logging on the program name,
rather I want to logon to the system and then execute the code
automatecally at boot time.
Any ideas?
Thanks
--
Ayman Elsaedi
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Martin)
Subject: Re: Web server for user's account...
Date: 7 Apr 1999 14:52:44 GMT
In article <OMJO2.9133$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Sccoaire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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,
yes.
You need to create a directory ~username/public_html (or whatever you change
public_html to in the config file),
change the permissons to allow world reading that directory and similarly for
the files in there.
This will appear as the URL http://my.site.node/~username/
If a user then wants docs on the web she can put them in their public_html
directory and they can be accessed (assuming the appropriate permissions are
set on the fiel and directory)
..d
>
> Parsec
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: conio for Linux?
Date: 7 Apr 1999 13:36:37 GMT
Erwin Waterlander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does there exist a Linux port of Borland's conio?
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/ui/linux-conio*
HTH,
Ray
--
POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened
yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow.
- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.dial-up,alt.comp.linux.isp,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Access other than root????
Date: 7 Apr 1999 20:00:33 GMT
In alt.os.linux.dial-up Richard M. Rajchel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
RMR>I have read all entries having to do with this to no avail....I've also
RMR>read the pppd man pages.
RMR>I use X-ISP to dial in and when I am not the root user I get the error
RMR>pppd returned 1;
RMR>then it stops. HELP PLEASE! I know I shouldn't be using root to dial
RMR>into my ISP but I can't seem to use any other accounts.
You're sort of in a bind here. You don't want to use 'root' when not
necessary, but pppd needs root privs to work. One thing you can try to do
is make pppd a SUID program (chmod u+s `which pppd`). That will allow
normal users to run pppd, but it will run with root pivilages.
If you need more help, e-mail me.
-KW
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 4 button mouse
Date: 7 Apr 1999 15:02:58 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi all:
>I'm using a Logitech trackball on PS/2. It has 4 buttons. Can I make
>use of the fourth one? XF86Setup allows me to specify 4 or 5 buttons,
>but clicking my fourth one doesn't produce any effect.
>BTW, I'm using MouseManPS/2 (or whatever the correct name is) driver.
AFAIK X supports uo to 5 buttons. If you want the 4th of 5th button to
do anything useful you will need to use non-default configurations of
your software (via actions in X defaults file, window manager config
files, etc). SUN mice have 3 buttons.
Duncan (-:
--
Duncan (-:
"software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is
legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems."
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: key values
Date: 07 Apr 1999 11:39:47 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> We have a program working under Unix that uses <CTRL>-N and <CTRL>-P. We are
> currently accessing the program via serial connections to the server. We would
> like to be able to access the program via telnet over TCP/IP.
>
> Unfortunately, we have been unable to successfully use these two keys under
> telnet. We have tried CRT, TeraTerm, and Windows telnet, all to no success.
> We are emulating a wyse50, but have tried vt200, ansi, and other combinations
> as well. How do I setup telnet to use these keys? We are limited by our
> dependence on these two keys to expand the number of terminals since we can't
> use telnet (really!). Any suggestions?
You might try investingating your PPP configuration. Do "man pppd" and
read about the "asyncmap" and "escape" options. It might be filtering
those control characters. I think the default filters some things.
I wish I understood why.
An even more wild shot in the dark would be to investigate the
"Telnet 98" program at ftp://quasimodo.stanford.edu/pub/telnet/
--
Look for Linux info at http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml and in
Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Linux safe from viruses like Melissa ?
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:22:17 +0100
Reply-To: mist <new$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
**Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
>In any case, Melissa actually did very little damage worldwide, except
>to the reputation (such as it is) of computer "journalists" who hyped it
>way beyond its importance. We have 1400 machines here with MS Office,
>we get 10000 Internet E-mails a week, and so far we haven't seen a
>single copy.
>
I wonder if anyone has actually *seen* a copy, rather than just hearing
about it and panicing. More likely it was a big April fools joke. 8-)
--
Mist.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Is Linux safe from viruses like Melissa ?
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 15:05:03 -0500
Tom Emerson wrote:
> mist wrote in message ...
> >**Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
> >>In any case, Melissa actually did very little damage worldwide, except
> >>to the reputation (such as it is) of computer "journalists" who hyped it
> >>way beyond its importance. We have 1400 machines here with MS Office,
> >>we get 10000 Internet E-mails a week, and so far we haven't seen a
> >>single copy.
> >>
> >
> >I wonder if anyone has actually *seen* a copy, rather than just hearing
> >about it and panicing. More likely it was a big April fools joke. 8-)
I have a friend who works in R&D at SWBell designing communications
equipment. He came into my WT class on the Friday before it hit the news
and told us about a virus which had crashed their network. He said it was
a macro virus which overloaded their email system by emailing porno web
site addresses to everyone and their brother. Monday morning, Melissa
was on CNN.
Rick
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Linux safe from viruses like Melissa ?
Date: 07 Apr 1999 09:53:21 -0400
"Efi Merdler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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 ?
go to www.dejanews.com, search for the 'bliss virus', and see for yourself
=)
--
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
"Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES!"
--Winston Zeddmore (Ghostbusters)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Wueppelmann)
Subject: Re: MS-DOS/Linux
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 14:59:06 GMT
In our last episode (Mon, 05 Apr 1999 21:23:11 GMT),
the artist formerly known as [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>I have a question that I hope is easy. Is there a way to achieve compatibility
>of text documents between MS systems and Linux ie: When i write a document under
>windows, i don't want the "M" when i try to view it in linux. And the otherway
>around, when I make a document in Linux i don't want those funny characters
>when i read it under windows.
If you FTP the file in ASCII mode, the file will be corrected for linefeed
differences. Also, some Linux editors (such as vim) can be set to edit DOS
ASCII text (so it doesn't show ^M as a printing character). Lastly, you
could make a little sed or perl script to convert from one line break style
to the other.
There shouldn't be a problem viewing a text file with Unix newlines in
WinDOS, unless you are using Notepad, which doesn't seem to be able to
understand. But if you use WordPad or (better yet) gvim or emacs, or pretty
much anything else, you should be alright.
--
It is pitch black.
You are likely to be spammed by a grue.
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Linux safe from viruses like Melissa ?
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:08:58 -0700
> I have a friend who works in R&D at SWBell designing communications
> equipment. He came into my WT class on the Friday before it hit the news
> and told us about a virus which had crashed their network. He said it was
> a macro virus which overloaded their email system by emailing porno web
> site addresses to everyone and their brother. Monday morning, Melissa
> was on CNN.
>
does this have anything to do with linux ???
Gerald
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rainer Krienke)
Subject: automatic filesys type recognition
Date: 7 Apr 1999 15:54:00 +0200
Hello,
we are running some zip drives connected to a linux machine. The problem
is that different people like different filesystems on their disks. The
best would be to automaticlly recognize the correct type. In order to do
this we created an entry like
/dev/hdc4 /zip/p4 auto noauto,user 0 0
in /etc/fstab. The problem is that eg if someone has a zip medium
with vfat on it linux recognizes it as umsdos. This has the undesired
effect that eg long filenames are not available by default.
What I would like to specify is that Linux should try to automatically
determine the correct filesystem out of a list I can give with a fixed
order say "vfat, msdos, ext2 ...". Any idea how to do this?
Thanks Rainer
--
=====================================================================
Rainer Krienke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Universitaet Koblenz, http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke
Rechenzentrum, Voice: +49 261 287 - 1312
Rheinau 1, 56075 Koblenz, Germany Fax: +49 261 287 - 1355
=====================================================================
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From: "Glenn Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best Cheapbytes CDRom
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:46:25 -0500
Do they include window managers as well, like enlight./windowmaker?
Is anything else included on the cd's? I've seen some disti's (Caldera?)
with lots of extras on the cd - quicktime viewers, realaudio, etc.
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From: "ioj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem: Adding a new user
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:10:46 +0200
I hope that I haven't posted this into the wrong list, but here goes....
I'm new to LINUX. I have been given the task of running the mail server
here and as such need to add user mail accounts. When I try to adduser, the
system comes back and says:
Sorry, it seems that you are using some form of shadow password utilities
instead of a normal password file which contains the actual unencrypted
password. You should use 'useradd' or equivalent user addition utility to
make sure the new user is added correctly.
Could anyone out there help me?
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From: mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftp and telnet on redhat 5.2
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 16:08:58 +0100
Reply-To: mist <new$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
>I am used to slackware system, but have just set up redhat 5.2. With this
>machine I can't ftp in or out.
>
>ftp to the machine from outside:
>421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
>
The FTP daemon is either not running, or configured not to accept remote
connections. Check /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/ftpaccess (or similar).
Also I believe there is a security update for wu-ftpd that you should
get.
>ftp from the machine to get filename from outside:
>connection gets established, but when try to get filename,
>local: filename: permission denied
>
IIRC, it means that you're trying to *save* the file you are retrieving
into a space that you do not have permission to use. It's (effectively)
nothing to do with the FTP service as such, more to do with what user
you are ftp-ing as from wherever. Type "lcd" from the ftp prompt and it
will tell you where it is trying to save the files. Check that you have
rights to write to that directory.
>I take it RedHat is more secure than slackware. Please tell me what needs
>to be changed so I can ftp files between the machines (all in same
>domain).
>
HTH
--
Mist.
http://www.misthaven.demon.co.uk/prof/
Short FAQ on Demon and HTML.
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From: mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Web server for user's account...
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 16:13:38 +0100
Reply-To: mist <new$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sccoaire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
>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.
If you use http://localhost/~username make sure you add a trailing
slash - as in - http://localhost/~username/ - this is important if you
have a dial-up account with limited DNS, as it will prevent the server
trying to look up the proper domain name. Irrelevant to your question,
though. 8-)
> First of all, no public_html folder has been created
>under the users, is that something that i have to do manually?
Yes.
> Even for new users?
Yes.
> I don't quite understand that, can you let me know? Thanks,
>
[As user username]
cd /home/username
mkdir public_html
chmod 755 public_html
--
Mist.
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From: Niall Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP!; Intellimouse locks desktop
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 09:08:25 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ivo,
Have you run the XF86Setup program and selected the Intellimouse as the
mouse you are using. Note this is not a regular PS2 mouse. On my
machine (a dell with the same mouse you describe) any motion of the
mouse under X using the PS2 driver would do exactly what you describe:
sending the cursor to the upper right hand corner of the screen and
locking everything else up.
The way out is to run the XF86Setup program from the console as root.
Then *do not touch the mouse* as the program will probably come up
assuming its a regular PS2 mouse. Use the keyboard to get to the mouse
selection screen and then select the IntelliMouse driver and apply the
changes. The mouse should then work fine and you can use it to finish
setting everything up.
Hope this helps,
Niall Gaffney
Ivo Naninck wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> Today I bought a MicroSoft IntelliMouse 1.1A PS/2 Compatible mouse.
> However, after changing everything I think needs to be changed,
> my desktop locks. Let me explain 'locks': the X-server (XFree-3.3.3.1)
> starts, but the mouse-pointer doesn't react and my keyboard is
> completeley locked. The only way to get access to the box again is
> through a telnet-session from another machine and kill the
> Window-manager,
> which is 'kwm', as in KDE-1.1
Snip.
>
> Thanks for your time!
> --
> Best regards, and don't let the bits byte!
> Ivo Naninck.
> ~
> ~
> :wq!
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From: "[...M...]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPM -a and Redhat5.2
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:08:55 -0500
I am using redhat v5.2. How can I list the packages that are
installed using rpm?
If i type "rpm -a", it just gives me an error of "unexpected query source".
Thanks,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Linux safe from viruses like Melissa ?
Date: 07 Apr 1999 10:52:30 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr Paul Kinsler) writes:
> Jarkko Karhunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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...
>
> I was wondering the otherday about the metamail/mime stuff
> that can get fired up when people send you mails in wierd
> fonts or with encoded data -- presumably any holes there
> could be exploited to do bad stuff when mails are read.
yup. in fact, if you go through the recent bugtraq archives, you'll see a
few updates to various mailers for exactly this.
--
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
In the GNU Project, discrimination against proprietary software is not
just a policy--it's the principle and the purpose.
- rms
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