Linux-Misc Digest #152, Volume #19 Tue, 23 Feb 99 12:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: Hard disk duplication?? (Andi Vontobel)
enlightenment themes? ("teknokr@t")
a stable ICQ clone ? (Gilles Lortet)
Re: SoftOSS Installation (Hans Wolters)
PIKT, Problem Informant/Killer Tool, v1.2.1 released (Robert Osterlund)
Re: Best version of Netscape 4.5 (Michel Catudal)
sendmail config ???? ("softalk")
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Jason Clifford)
Re: Should IBM port Visual Age for Java to Linux? ("Richard Payne")
Re: WARNING !!! Don't order the Linux Central Debian 2.0 r3 CDs !!! ("David Z. Maze")
Re: Canon BJ-10EX in epson mode... (Grant Taylor)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Tony Porczyk)
Re: Going from Win 98 and Office 97 to Linux and ???? (Andreas Mohr)
Re: Under Hack Attack! ("Heinieger Marcel")
desktop indepenent xinfo browser (Neil Zanella)
Re: changing shells (Nathan Cuka)
Re: Going from Win 98 and Office 97 to Linux and ???? (Paul)
Booting without a keyboard (Phil Snowdon)
glibc-2.0.7 anywhere?? (Karl Keyte)
Filtering ("Kerry J. Cox")
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From: Andi Vontobel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Hard disk duplication??
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:10:41 +0100
Dion Burger wrote:
>
> Is there a way to duplicate a hardisk image after the linux installation.
> I need to set up multiple linux boxes (assume identical hardware). This will
> save me hours of installation and configuration time.
Whats about dd
Cheers
Andy
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From: "teknokr@t" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x,comp.linux.x
Subject: enlightenment themes?
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 01:26:48 +1300
In my .xinitrc file i use enlightenment-dir/enlightment -theme
theme-dir/theme-name
unfortunately i get an error saying theme-name is a directory and x
quits. if i
use the theme tarball (tar.gz) as theme name i get an error saying
cannot read binary file.
how do i use themes under enlightenment? I did everything that was in
the FAQ.
thanks
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From: Gilles Lortet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: a stable ICQ clone ?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:32:19 +0200
Hi all,
I feel a little bit lonely now that I spend most of my computing time on
Linux, and the reason is that I miss my ICQ chats. I tried to find some
equivalent for Linux, and for the moment only encountered some troubles.
>From my personal experience, gICQ is VERY unstable, and can only be used
when logged as root. It is also so that I installed it as a rpm, but it
is no longer considered as an installed rpm by glint or kpackage.
Otherwise, I am currently using KDE 1.1 and the needed libs for kICQ and
kxICQ are those from KDE 1.0. As a perfect newby, I am still unable to
set down a nice cohabitation between the old and the new libs.
Does anybody have a good idea ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Wolters)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: SoftOSS Installation
Date: 23 Feb 1999 12:43:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Steve Gage wrote:
[snap]
:Hmmm... no, v_midi.o did not get generated. Is there another config
:option I need to select to make that happen? Or should it have been made
:when I selected SoftOSS?
:
:- Steve
Sorry, my mistake. Can't see your kernel version (using slrn as newsreader).
It's in the new 2.2.1 kernel. I've selected it as a module.
Hans
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Osterlund)
Subject: PIKT, Problem Informant/Killer Tool, v1.2.1 released
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 12:46:25 GMT
PIKT, Problem Informant/Killer Tool, version 1.2.1
New developments: Fixed a number of problems relating
to exec wait, possible multiple concurrent program
instances, and lockfiles.
PIKT is an innovative new paradigm for administering heterogeneous networked
workstations. PIKT monitors systems, reports problems, and fixes those
problems automatically whenever possible.
PIKT uses an embedded scripting language that sports an especially clean
syntax and introduces unique features to make your programming easier.
PIKT is also a sophisticated control mechanism for managing all of your
administrative scripts. You can, setting aside the PIKT language, even
use it to version control, install, error log, and schedule programs written
in other languages, as well as to employ macros, meta-comments, and C-like
#if and #include directives in Perl, AWK, etc.
PIKT is distributed under the GNU General Public License. Available now
for Solaris, SunOS, and GNU/Linux. For more info, and complete source code,
documentation, and data files (all 40,000+ lines of it), please visit the
PIKT Web site at:
http://pikt.uchicago.edu/pikt
Robert Osterlund [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.news,linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: Best version of Netscape 4.5
Date: 22 Feb 1999 22:35:09 -0600
Paul Taylor wrote:
>
> Michel Catudal wrote:
> > Paul Taylor wrote:
> > > Since the 128-bit version cannot be legally exported/downloaded to
> > > Australia, that's a moot point. Fortunately, you can patch the export
> > > versions of Netscape using Fortify (www.fortify.net) to get 128-bit
> > > encryption, including the glib2 version. Works great!
> > >
> >
> > Interesting, downloading the 128 bit version is a pain since it's only available
> > thru the web. They finally came up with a glib2 version of the 128 bits version.
>
> The beauty of Fortify is that is contains no encryption algorithms, so
> doesn't have the export restrictions of the 128-bit version (which you
> probably shouldn't have in France. :)
In France? I am a French speaking American and live in Michigan, there are a few
millions of us in this country.
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From: "softalk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sendmail config ????
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:40:14 -0000
Please is it possible to config sendmail to receive all mail at host.domain
and not reject mail that there is no user for ??
Plus I can only receive mail with [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like user@domain
if possible.
I'm using suse 6.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:53:38 +0000
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Martin wrote:
> However, as I have pointed out before in other Linux and FSF discussion areas,
> a very large part of the software development which goes on every year does
> not fall into this category. I and thousands of developers like me spend our
> lives building bespoke software for specific commercial customers. These are
> one-off systems, usually based around a large database and serving financial
> functions such as payroll, pensions, purchasing and stock control.
>
> The FSF model really doesn't apply here - no customer is going to decide that
> they need a system and publish a cry for help on the net hoping that a large
> enough group of competent developers is going to jump in and produce a quality
> result in a finite period of time. Even if that happened, the customer will
> have sunk a significant amount of time and money into the project and will not
> be too pleased at the prospect of having to publish its source for their
> competitors to look at!
However when such a product appears licensed under GPL (as I can guarantee
one will within the next 12 months) they will not hesitate to use it if it
is suitable for their needs.
There are already a couple of projects underway to create a good accounts
system for businesses rather than a personal accounts one.
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/
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From: "Richard Payne" <payner at timken dot com>
Subject: Re: Should IBM port Visual Age for Java to Linux?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:00:59 -0500
Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message ...
>> I have been playing with DB2 on my Linux machine for a while now
>> and I am very impressed with it. I think that it would be really
>> good if IBM could port Visual Age for Java to Linux. If this were
>> to happen, then the Linux community would obtain a sophisticated
>> IDE for JAVA and I also
>
>> think that it would increase the popularity of DB2 on Linux.
>
>> This is my opinion... What do you all think?
>
>Given the number of platforms for which VisualAge for Java is
>available, and its popularity and great press, I'd think it's on its
>way. I use VisualAge and I love it.
>
>Harry
I must admit I'd like to see it. It's the only reason I currently use NT at
work...
There was a voting booth thing setup somewhere so that you could vote for
you favorite app to be ported. Can't remember the URL though....
--
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(Speaking for myself, not my employer)
payner at timken dot com
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From: "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: WARNING !!! Don't order the Linux Central Debian 2.0 r3 CDs !!!
Date: 23 Feb 1999 09:18:04 -0500
Erwann CORVELLEC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
EC> I order the debian 2.0 r3 CDs as mentionned here:
EC> http://linuxcentral.com/products/lccd/
EC>
EC> And I received the Debian 2.0 ones (which I have already ordered
EC> in August 1998) ! :(((( I am still waiting for an explanation from
EC> Linux Central...
For...? You ordered a Debian 2.0 CD set, and you got a Debian 2.0 CD
set. There aren't major changes between 2.0 and 2.0r3, only a couple
of packages that may have been updated for security fixes and the like.
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"Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?"
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Canon BJ-10EX in epson mode...
Date: 22 Feb 1999 13:16:25 -0500
Nigel Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm a bit confused as to why my printer setup works- it's also a
> BJ-10e, set up under printtool. I set up WordPerfect to print
> PassThru Postscript (as it doesn't have a BJ-10e driver), and it
> just worked! Why is that? Is there a HOWTO somewhere which will
> tell me how Linux handles printing?
But of course. URL in .sig.
Printtol configured a queue for you in lpd (the spooling program), and
installed the driver needed to "filter" what you spool, so that you
can just spool the Postscript generated by most Unix-style software
and have the right thing appear on your printer.
With a Canon Bubblejet, the filter uses Ghostscript to interpret the
Postscript and produce the epson-style printer commands needed to
actually drive your printer.
The actual Red Hat packages involved are "lpd", "rhs-printfilters",
"gs", and "printtool".
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Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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Date: 23 Feb 99 12:50:38 GMT
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Porczyk)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro) writes:
> Tony Porczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> As to RMS, long time ago (in pre-Linux days) I had a lengthy email
>> discussion with him. Despite the obvious strength of his convictions
>> and his persuasiveness, he was never less than gentlemanly is his
>> arguments.
> Lets. Not. Go. There.
> DejaNews is available, so if you *really* want to look for RMS rants -
> search and you'll find.
I am sure you didn't mention that originally without reason.
DejaNews is a tool of punishment, and that's pretty much all I use
it for. It remembers way too much...
t.
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From: Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Going from Win 98 and Office 97 to Linux and ????
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:30:08 +0100
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sniper wrote:
>> I'm seriously thinking about going over to Linux, but, every document
>> I produce, must be portable over to office.
>>
>> 1. Is red had 5.2 a good choice for a Toshoba laptop, or will I have
>> problems with drivers, Infra red USB etc.
"Infra red USB" !?
IrDA *or* USB ??
IrDA is already in the 2.2.x kernel -- USB: see below.
> You can forget about the USB, as far as I know the only thing that
> supports it at this time is Windoz 98. Even my NT 4 (service pack 4) box
> doesn't support it.
Please never ever state something you don't know about !
I always hate it when people state something on the newsgroups that obviously
is blatantly wrong.
Linux almost *always* supports almost *anything* to some extent.
So you almost always will be proved wrong with such statements about Linux...
Linux USB support is not in the kernel, but can be had as a separate
package.
(it isn't perfect yet, though, partially due to the fact that many USB devices
are proprietary)
So many devices don't work yet.
Just search on the net for it, it should be well-known...
>> 2. What can I use application wise that's not going to involve a huge
>> leap from Office ? and provide backwards compatibility with Word and
>> Excel 97 ?
You might want to test Wine (www.winehq.com) with Word 97.
It isn't terribly stable at all yet, though... (alpha or at most pre-beta)
But you might get stability that is suitable for work within 6 months.
Word 95 or Word 6.0 are running a lot better.
Good luck ! ;-)
--
Andreas Mohr
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From: "Heinieger Marcel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.admin.isp
Subject: Re: Under Hack Attack!
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:33:09 +0100
SATAN is obsolet and the Project vas stoped and integrated in a new project
SAINT.
more info :
http://www.wwdsi.com/
cu
Marcel Heiniger
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chris William schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hey folks,
>
>My web site has been hacked three times in the last year. My assumption
>is that the holes originate from some poorly written CGI's. What is the
>best way to protect form this happening again? This is killing me!
>
>I've set up a stand alone server and have re-written all CGI's to ensure
>only acceptable characters are allowed. I've checked all permissions,
>disabled every service except httpd and telnet, and I plan on running
>SATAN to sniff out some other possible holes.
>
>Anyone have any good links on security? Does anyone know how someone
>gets into the server through the CGI's??
>
>Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Kafka
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: desktop indepenent xinfo browser
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:25:44 -0330
Hello,
I am looking for a desktop independent graphical info browser for info files
analogous to xman. Is there any such program out there which was not
developed for any particular desktop?
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From: Nathan Cuka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: changing shells
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:02:37 -0600
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:21:47 +0100, Gergo Barany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >"Chris T." wrote:
> >>
> >> Can anyone help me on how to change shells?
> >
> >Change the entry in the /etc/password file.
>
> FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, tell him how to do it *SAFELY*.
>
> As the user in question or as root, use "chsh".
>
Or at least use vipw if you find that it is necessary to modify
/etc/passwd by hand.
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 17:44:23 +0100
From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Going from Win 98 and Office 97 to Linux and ????
Andreas Mohr wrote:
>
> Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > You can forget about the USB, as far as I know the only thing that
> > supports it at this time is Windoz 98. Even my NT 4 (service pack 4) box
> > doesn't support it.
> Please never ever state something you don't know about !
> I always hate it when people state something on the newsgroups that obviously
> is blatantly wrong.
I wouldn't agree with you more if it wasn't for the fact that I said "AS
FAR AS I KNOW", I hate people who flunked Evelyn Wood's Speed Reading
course and then jump in with dumb remarks based on their inability to
fully comprehend a sentence. If you really know so much about Linux and
USB then how about sharing your "Holier than thou" info with everyone
and tell us EXACTLY WHERE this so called "SUPPORTED" software can be
found.
Paul
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From: Phil Snowdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Booting without a keyboard
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 16:42:37 +0000
Hello,
I am trying to use an old 486 as a server/firewall and I want to run
it without a keyboard or monitor. Problem is that when booting Linux
waits after Loading Linux......... line. Plug in the keyboard and it
continues with the Uncompressing Linux ..........
I don't want to have to plug in a keyboard everytime the system is
rebooted. System keyboard entry in bios is disabled. Any Ideas?
Phil
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From: Karl Keyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.gcc.help,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: glibc-2.0.7 anywhere??
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 16:42:48 +0000
I'm trying to find a consistent set of 2.0.7 glibc libraries.
I've found various pre-releases, but can't find a consistent
set. I need the main code, localedata, threads and crypt.
I tried 2.0.7-pre3 with pre4 crypt, but it failed trying to
find the <bits/lib-locks.h>.
Can anyone point me to a consistent set of 2.0.7 set of
sources, or better still, a binary installation?
Please e-mail me directly on [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or reply to
this...).
Thanks,
Karl
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From: "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc
Subject: Filtering
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 16:43:36 +0000
This question might be a bit off topic, but I'm looking for either
Open Source or a commercial filtering product that we can stick on a
proxy box. We have some of our older customers complaining about some
of the mail coming through as well as some of the web sites easily
accessible from off the Internet. Can someone either direct me to some
URLs, give me some recommendations, or offer some of their own
experiences. Money really isn't an object here. Our customers are
willing to pay.
We'd probably run the proxy either off a Linux box or buy a new Sun
box. If push cam e to shove, even a NT box would do if that was all the
software would run on.
Thanks.
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