Linux-Misc Digest #247, Volume #19 Mon, 1 Mar 99 14:13:11 EST
Contents:
SGI Visual Workstations? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: More bad news for NT (Bogus)
Re: Linux/FreeBSD compatability (Was Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)) (Andrew
Smallshaw)
Re: Automounting DOS floppy? (Pete)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Ryan Cumming)
Re: Making Programs SUID root ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Digital Cameras (Jim Howes)
Re: DSL Firewall? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Craig Kelley)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (David Kastrup)
Help - making Cyrus IMSP? (David Bosso)
Re: Automounting DOS floppy? ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: Printer Accounting (Grant Taylor)
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info (Jose Urena)
Re: Red Hat's sick sense of humor (support) (Thomas B. Quillinan)
Re: More bad news for NT (Harry)
Re: More bad news for NT (Harry)
Re: Automounting DOS floppy? (bklimas)
Re: Microkernels are an abstraction inversion (Barry Margolin)
Re: Leafnode won't fetch articles/headers (Sam Vere)
nmh and RedHat 5.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ncurses displays gibberish for root not for regular users (Ken Plumbly)
GNOME Hits the Bigtime (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sgi.hardware
Subject: SGI Visual Workstations?
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 17:32:40 GMT
I am about to purchase another linux machine, and the SGI VW look great.
Their base price is terrific. But, I do have some big concerns:
* Is there a linux X-windows driver by now? (I know that the kernel 2.2
supports it.)
* SGI has steep non-base prices. So, is RAM user upgradeable? Is adding a
disk internally easy? (SCSI?) Does adding CPUs (especially on the 540) mean
buying just the CPUs, or expensive boards with CPUs sitting on them? (My
experience with DELL is that such boards can add 50% to the price per CPU.)
* Will the 320 come with the Pentium III rather than the Pentium II?
* When will the 540 ship? Really.
Anyone else going through these issues?
Sincerely,
/ivo welch
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bogus)
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:47:20 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In my day, we didn't even have binary. We just had one's. You can
imagine how difficult this was trying to write code on the cave walls
by firelight.
On Mon, 01 Mar 1999 03:45:41 -0500, Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>> Not me. I started with JCL. <
>
>I used to dream of JCL. Started with binary machine code. <
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Smallshaw)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux/FreeBSD compatability (Was Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?))
Date: 1 Mar 1999 17:41:55 GMT
On 26 Feb 99 19:30:47 GMT, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Actually, all the major x86 Unix players (including Sun and SCO) agreed
> >a couple years ago to standardize executables. This is part of why
>
> They did? Never heard of that. I thought most were using ELF now
> because it's what's the default on SVR4 (since most newer commercial
> players are SVR4-based). Others are "still" using COFF (Digital UNIX,
> err "Tru64 UNIX(TM)" and SCO) or variants like XCOFF (AIX I think).
> ELF isn't universal (yet).
Actually, SCO have has ELF support (alongside COFF) since OSR5.0.0, and
UnixWare has had ELF support since the word go.
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Andrew Smallshaw
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From: Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Automounting DOS floppy?
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:56:12 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>How can I set up a very simple to use DOS floppy access for my users in
> RH5.2? It needs to be just a icon click, or better yet, something like
> Solaris's vold automounter. I know Caldera's OpenLinux has something like
> this, but I don't have a copy of that distribution here to see how they do
> it
Different methods available, depending on which window manager you're
on. Using KDE it's a complete doddle, just a question of going into the
templates folder and copying a device link file to the desktop,
configure it to you're /dev/fd0 device and Bob's you're proverbial
uncle.
Alternatively, I don't know much about the other window managers :) The
problem you run into is having to unmount before ejecting, otherwise any
changes you have made are not necessarily written to disk.
But, the other way of doing things is with mtools. These mount and
unmount for you inside the actual function calls. But they don't support
long file names.
Hope that's useful,
Pete
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From: Ryan Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 07:05:57 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Feb 1999 18:48:19 -0600, Richard Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Actually, the GUI in Windows is a separate program executable also (the
> >explorer), and it can be replaced. See LiteStep.
Okay, I used LiteStep for quite a long time (It turned me one to Linux), and what
your saying is bullshit.
A) LiteStep is more of a UI supplement, Explorer must be still running to provide
file browsing functions.
B) Unlike a WM, it doesn't touch Windows look 'n feel. You still can shade
windows or even custimize the UI one bit. Windows real GUI is contianed in
USER.EXE and USER32.DLL (core system components).
> I know this, that's why I said, "Well, according to Microsoft, anyway...".
>
> Windows has always been (with the exception of NT) a seperate, replaceable
> program, no matter what their advertisements or presentation of the OS may
> have one think.
NT actually has quite alot of DOS emulation because Windows programs can still
call DOS interrupts. I expect well behaved WinNT programs don't because they are
even slower then they are in real DOS. If DOS is decoupled from the OS DOSismes
will last forever. Ever wonder why DOS boxes use backslashes? DOS 1 used a foward
slash as a parameter switch. DOS 2 was forced to use the backslash when MS
implement directories. DOS 1's mistakes are still showing up in Windows 2000.
> >I don't think your comparison is fair.
>
> Well, tough. I'm comparing what each one _considers_ to be the operating
> system. If I didn't compare the Windows GUI against Linux CLI, _THAT_
> would be unfair. Why?
>
> - Windows CLI doesn't have TCP/IP Networking
> - Windows CLI doesn't have VTs (The GUI, in a sense, can simulate
> this)
> - Windows CLI is mostly USELESS. There are features that are in
> the GUI that I'm comparing to the features in Linux.
> Comparing XFree86 to Windows is completely unfair, because XFree86 is not
> the Operating System, and doesn't provide those functions, Linux is.
While technichally Linux is just the Kernel. GNU tools such as bash provide even
the CLI! Linux ends when your computer says "Init Version 1.74". Just because
our OS isn't one inseperable tangle of undocumented .DLLS and .EXE's you
shouldn't dock us points.
> And, Windows is technically an operating system but it isn't. This is because
> Windows provides the services that are used in the operating system, DOS used
> to, but really doesn't anymore, since Windows is 32-bit, and they claim that
> that is supposed to make everything faster.
>
> - Mike
>
> >
> >--
> > -Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
> > OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris + BeOS +
> > WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + MacOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
> > Is SEX dirty? Only if it is done RIGHT!!!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Making Programs SUID root
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:44:45 GMT
Have you tried chmoding 755 the file, or su as root and chown the file.
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From: Jim Howes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Digital Cameras
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:38:55 +0000
David Fox wrote:
> "The Infernal One" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Does anyone either know or have good source information on
> > which digital cameras support linux? TIA.
>
> Olympus DL-600 works fine using the photopc package. Many other
> models use the exact same chipsets and software. (Sure does eat
> batteries though.)
I have an Olympus D900Z; Works extremely well with photopc
over a serial line. I prefer working from the command line
anyhow. The same code should work with any camera that uses
the Fujitsu chipset, which includes many cameras made by
sanyo, epson, fujitsu and olympus, and probably others.
Most digital cameras eat batteries. I have aquired a single
set of 4xNiMH AA batteries, which last quite well, as well as
a bucketload of NiCd cells.
Regards,
Jim
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DSL Firewall?
Date: 01 Mar 1999 09:26:06 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I should have a DSL line at home in 3 weeks. Is there a website
> with detailed on how to setup a Linux firewall with enough detail to
> be useful for someone who has no previous experience? Will I have
> to dedicate a computer for this, or can that PC be used for other
> purposes at the same time it is being used as a firewall?
try <URL:http://rlz.ne.mediaone.net/>. this is cablemodem-centric,
but he does give firewall scripts for both ipfwadm and ipchains.
you can still use the computer which you connect to the internet.
perhaps it will not be as secure as a dedicated firewall machine can
be. however, if you only have one machine, there's not much else you
can do. it has been secure enough for me.
--
johan kullstam
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Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 01 Mar 1999 09:22:35 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () writes:
> > You don't have that on Windows either. You just have to stumble
> > across it on either system. On Windows (vs. Redhat X) it just
> > happens to be nested less deep.
> >
>
> Bullshit. Run the program that comes with Windows which runs the very
> first time you start Windows (C:\WINDOWS\WELCOME.EXE). This program
> tells you the first time, "Need Help? Check out the Help option under
> the Start Menu." or something similar.
Okay, pretend that you are a new user for 10 minutes. You want to
figure out how to send and receive e-mail from your Windows machine.
Try extracting the *how* from your Windows help system (keep in mind
that you use the INTERNET for email, not an exchange server).
--
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From: David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: 01 Mar 1999 16:23:38 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Vermillion) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> I always call "#" the "number sign" myself.
>
> >in the uk, the shifted three gives the proper pound symbol and what in
> >the us is displayed as # is in the uk shown as the wacky L.
>
> So if you order something and say you want three pounds worth,
> does that mean you want the amount which 3 pounds sterling will
> buy, or do you get 3 pounds by weight - which may cost a lot more
> than 3 pounds sterling. I think lb is perfectly good
> abreviation.
Of course I want something worth three pounds of Sterling silver.
--
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Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49-234-709-4209
Institut f�r Neuroinformatik, Universit�tsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 07:22:44 -0800
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Bosso)
Subject: Help - making Cyrus IMSP?
Has anyone got the Cyrus IMSP server running under Linux? I'm getting the
following errors when trying to make cyrus-imspd-v1.5a6 under RedHat Linux
5.1:
prot.c:45: conflicting types for `sys_errlist'
/usr/include/stdio.h:221: previous declaration of `sys_errlist'
prot.c: In function `prot_settimeout':
prot.c:155: warning: passing arg 2 of `signal' from incompatible pointer type
and
imsp_server.c: In function `imsp_set_signals':
imsp_server.c:312: `SIGEMT' undeclared (first use this function)
imsp_server.c:312: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
imsp_server.c:312: for each function it appears in.)
imsp_server.c:316: `SIGSYS' undeclared (first use this function)
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
-David
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Automounting DOS floppy?
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 10:27:02 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<7be7r1$g2q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> How can I set up a very simple to use DOS floppy access for my users in
>RH5.2?
Can't they use the mtools, e.g. mdir, mcopy, mdel?
No need to mount a FAT floppy to use those.
jue
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J�rgen Exner
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system,alt.unix.wizards,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Printer Accounting
Date: 01 Mar 1999 12:52:33 -0500
Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In RedHat 5.1, I tried to setup a print queue with accounting
> so that all users' printing will be logged with no. of pages
> printed. However, the log file won't update itself!
> I added the line
> :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
> in /etc/printcap file;
The printcap 'af' attribute and pac are vestigial remnants of lpd's
line printer heritage. Very few people use them...
Printer accounting is, I believe, the responsibility of the input
filter. Red Hat's filters do not support accounting, and I don't
think that apsfilter or magicfilter, the other two popular filter
packages, do either.
The 'af' filename is passed as one of the arguments to the input
filter at runtime; it's up to the if to count the pages and note who
printed how many in the af file. "Pac" is something you could
reimplement better in Perl in two minutes; I suggest that you do so so
that you can better debug and customize.
The real catch here is that you must somehow determine the number of
pages in what you print. For text, that's straightforward. For
Postscript, that's less so. DSC-conformant postscript will tell you
in a comment, I think, but perfectly legal ad-hoc postscript will not.
Ideally, there would be some way to have Ghostscript tell the if how
many pages got printed; then you'd know for sure. A Postscript wizard
will have to volunteer that information. Or one of the ps tools
packages floating around might have a functional page counter
utility...
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Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: Jose Urena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:38:03 -0500
Static IP addresses might be unique, but MAC addresses are not!
Your MAC address outside of your network segment is not guaranteed to be the
same as your nic MAC ID
and your MAC ID can be changed by software, which further reinforces the fact
that it can not always be unique.
the following are a few, old, summary notes for further reading.
http://idea.sec.dsi.unimi.it/cert-it/firewall-L/9411/0038.html
renner ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Wed, 02 Nov 94 17:14:29 EST
"Re[2]: Concerns about MAC spoofing"
"MAC layer addresses are only valid on your local Ethernet segment.
Once the packet goes through a router, the connection of the orginal
packet at the MAC layer is stripped away. "
[...]
"What this means is that MAC address need only be unique within
segments that share a single router (or bridge). "
http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/alpha-osf-managers/1995/09/msg00087.html
From: "Michael R. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 11:58:10 -0500 (CDT)
FINAL SUMMARY : How to change a MAC address?
"At any rate here's a corrected version of the code which will change
tu1's MAC address to ab:bc:cd:de:ef:fa. I am setting this up so it will
occur after each boot, thus replacing the actual hardware address.
..."
I have no proof of the following, but please consider that:
I have heard that some NIC vendors rotate a finite number of their MAC ids and
hope that no two users will ever have the same MAC ID in the same network
segment. (Probably those under US$20.00 network card)
"David A. Frantz" wrote:
> There are lots of reasons to not buy Intel, but this strikes me as one of
> the worst. Every Network CARD ever installed in a PC has a unique ID and
> no one ever complained about them.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas B. Quillinan)
Subject: Re: Red Hat's sick sense of humor (support)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 15:41:39 GMT
Bryan J. Maloney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sandy Edwards
: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > Yeah, I've had that support :-(
: > You email them and then they email you to check the faq. In fact, I
: Whenever I have to contact ANY support tech from any company for any sort
: of support, be it computer, chemical, sales, or any other field, I have
: learned, over years of having to get various things working while PhDs
: breath down my neck to "make it go", to include the following statements:
: Exactly what happened, STEP BY STEP, down to the most idiotic level.
: Exactly what parts of every manual you consulted, down to direct
: quotations of the parts of the manual that SHOULD have solved your problem
: but didn't, likewise for FAQ.
: In other words, PIN THEM TO THE WALL IN YOUR FIRST MESSAGE. Give them so
: much detail that they have no choice but to either give you some help or
: admit that their product is completely inadequate. If they refuse to
: respond at all, then start making phone calls, to supervisors. If there's
: still no response, threaten legal action for breach of contract--but be
: prepared to back it up.
: In defense of support techs, the majority of requests for tech support
: actually do involve things answered in the manuals. Unfortunately, since
: the majority of people who write said manuals appear to have somewhat less
: expository ability than a chimpanzee sans half a cerebrum, using the
: method of writing the original in Gaeilge, translating through Sanskrit,
: then Japanese, finally into English, it can be a bit of a challenge to
: delve through such documents. Unfortunately, we have to take the time to
: demonstrate that we have already done so, since the operant principle in
: all fields is "hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebra".
Yeah, but those of us who speak Gaelige (Irish) think they are fine. btw. the
reason for this is that most of the European localisation is done in Ireland..
<grin>
--
Thomas B. Quillinan
aka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 10:14:11 -0500
> In my day, we didn't even have binary. We just had one's. <
Ones? I used to dream of ones! We had to hard-wire our programs.
Harry
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 10:12:51 -0500
Missing bit from previous message (thank you Compuserve!!!):
Let's see if I got you right - you find it hard to identify
hardware, OS kernel components, utilities, and applications on an NT
system?
Yes, you lack familiarity with NT.
Harry
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From: bklimas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Automounting DOS floppy?
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 18:44:27 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How can I set up a very simple to use DOS floppy access for my users in
> RH5.2? It needs to be just a icon click, or better yet, something like
> Solaris's vold automounter. I know Caldera's OpenLinux has something like
> this, but I don't have a copy of that distribution here to see how they do
> it
>
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My homepage may be of some help:
http://www.magma.ca/~bklimas/FAQ.htm#Where_drives
Read the paragraphs 2.1 - 2.6.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
b.k.
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From: Barry Margolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microkernels are an abstraction inversion
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 18:42:53 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Francois-Rene Rideau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Emile van Bergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Program functions are almost never formally/mathematically
>> 'proven', so I want those protectional barriers so that fail-safety
>> mechanisms are more easily implemented.
>Certainly every single program written in LISP, ML, Perl, Modula-3, Haskell,
>Mercury, Prolog, or otherwise high-level language, is formally proven
>to never ever do an unauthorized memory access,
>[least you explicitly do unsafe operations].
>This is already much more than stupid low-level memory protection
>will *ever* bring to you.
It depends on what you define as "authorized". Although a Lisp program may
not be able to have dangling pointers in the same way as C, you could still
have misuse of global variables, dangling references to objects in resource
pools, etc. High level languages remove some of the ways that applications
can interfere when they share address space, but certainly not all of
them. Separate address spaces with restricted communications remove more
of them.
What we have is a continuum with various dimensions of protection.
--
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GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Burlington, MA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam Vere)
Subject: Re: Leafnode won't fetch articles/headers
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 18:46:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Okay, I think I've traced the problem one link up the chain: Leafnode
(1.7.1) is not creating the initial message, so I can't read it, so it
doesn't download the headers. Great.
Is this an issue I can deal with? Should I (attempt to ) re-compile?
Or will simply creating files named (for instance) uk.comp.os.linux in
the 'interesting.groups' directory work?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: nmh and RedHat 5.2
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 18:35:48 GMT
I'm using RH 5.2, kernel 2.0.36, and nmh-0.27.
I have compiled in POP support, and would like to specify the
POP server and my username with the -host and -username options.
I can do this, however, I'm never prompted for a password. I
get the following error:
inc: -ERR invalid usercode or password, please try again
I have used nmh (version .17) on an IRIX box previously, and
didn't have any trouble using -host and -user, i.e. I was always
prompted for a password.
I've seen some suggestions that the ruserpass() function may be
at fault. If that's true, is there a way to disable it during the
nmh configure or build? If it's not that, what else could be
wrong?
Thanks for any information.
=====
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From: Ken Plumbly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ncurses displays gibberish for root not for regular users
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 09:52:43 -0700
Anyone run accross this one?
Any display which uses ncurses (linuxconfig, etc) prints out the display
plus
gibberish around the edges instead of the proper display characters,
for root, but if a regular user runs the same software, the display is
just fine, (I'm actually not sure if this is ncurses causing this or
not)
I would like to solve this as make menuconfig and linuxconfig are
software I use often and this is driving me nuts.
Thanks
Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **)
Subject: GNOME Hits the Bigtime
Date: 1 Mar 1999 15:58:52 GMT
American frontpage exposure:
http://www.dallasnews.com/
Nice tieins to Linux and OSS as well.
So, Macroslop: how's Win2k (or whatever it is this week) coming along, and
any new lovenotes from Boies or Penfield Jackson lately? :)
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