Linux-Misc Digest #316, Volume #19 Fri, 5 Mar 99 09:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Customising Xdm (Mike Freitas)
Re: Q: mount msdos? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Anti-Virus for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Playstation 2 games to be developed on Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Segmentation fault ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: cmp nt vs linux security links? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: equivalent of edit? ("Hamish McKenzie")
Re: HP690C printer and Soffice5.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Newsreaders and Star Office (D Brown)
Re: Question about ZIP Disks with Linux (Chris in sunny Manitoba)
Re: egcs 1.1.1 i386.rpm where ? (Steve Snyder)
Re: DNS problem (Robert Billing)
Re: Leafnode won't fetch articles/headers (Mike Freitas)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (John Burton)
Re: Public license question (Rick Onanian)
Re: oracle/glibc problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: kernel 2.2.2 panic: hda not found. (Shaw Carruthers)
Re: How I want to configure my office (O'Neill)
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From: Mike Freitas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Customising Xdm
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 09:11:12 -0800
Dave Edick wrote:
>
> James,
>
> How do you change the background on the xdm login screen?
>
> /Dave Edick/
>
> On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:33:19 -0600, John Thompson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> James Porritt wrote:
> >
> > Is there anyway to customise the Xdm login screen without hacking the
> > source? I can get images to appear in the background, but have found no
> > way of altering what gets displayed in the login window.
>
> Change the "xlogin*greeting: " line in
> /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources
>
> I haven't found a way of making it more than one line,
> though.
>
> --
>
> -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> --
> /Dave Edick/ dedick at home dot com.
> or remove the hates.spam part from the header
Check out http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta/unix/xterminal/index.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Q: mount msdos?
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 16:31:38 GMT
On Wed, 03 Mar 1999 14:20:52 +0100, Goran Allerbo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
man mount
look for the options for a dos filesystem. there is a list of options
that you can put in /etc/fstab including makeing the drive/partition
user mountable/read/writeable
have fun.
tng
>Hi,
>
>I've just got me an extra msdos-formatted disk to share data between
>Windows and Linux Suse 5.3. I'd like to mount it as /msdos.
>
>I've updated /etc/fstab but have a problem:
>* I can only delete and write files on /msdos when being 'root',
> I'd like to do it from the group 'users' aswell..
>
>The disk is mounted from fstab with default setting + msdos-type.
>
>Suggestions of a nice line to put in fstab is vastly appreciated.
>
>TIA
>/ga
>
>
>--
>Mr Goran Allerbo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Carmenta AB Tel +46 (0)31 7755700
>Box 31121 Fax +46 (0)31 246379
>S-40032 Goteborg, Sweden http://www.carmenta.se/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Anti-Virus for Linux
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 16:15:15 GMT
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 20:18:40 -0500, "Brian Donovan"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, I was wondering if there is any anti-viral utilities available for
>linux. I'm at college with ethernet and like the biological type computer
>viruses tend to pass rather quick. Thanks for your help,
>
>Brian Donovan
>
>
there was one but was short lived because nobody bought it. In Unix
type systems (including linux) you don't need to worry about viruses
because a viruse only has access to the areas of the system of the
user who executed it. Trojen horses or a more likely situation. a
trojen horse has the same problem and the user who executes it must
use the nohup to keep it running after he logs out and has to have at
least some root privilages to be dangerious. and with source code
avail, any virus/trojen horse is easily defeatable by simply
recompiling the effected programs.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Playstation 2 games to be developed on Linux
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 16:20:12 GMT
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 20:14:46 -0500, "Galley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>According to The Japanese site Gamespot it has been reported that the
>PlayStation 2 will use the operating environment of Linux for development!
>As Linux prepares to host its first huge convention this week at Linux
>World, this is huge news and pits Dreamcast with Windows against PlayStation
>with Linux. Gamespot also revealed that the specs for the CPU have been
>bumped up from the 250Mhz announced at the IEEE conference to 300Mhz. PSX
>Nation will have much more tomorrow and throughout the week
>
>More Playstaion 2 details can be found at http://psx.ign.com
>
maybe the'll do us all a favor and reliese games for linux. games it
the one and only reason I still have dos/win on my computer at home.
tng
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Segmentation fault
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 16:41:29 GMT
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999 08:55:39 -0600, "Jeffrey S. Smith"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can someone tell me precisely under what conditions a segmentation fault can
>occur under Linux?
>
>I'm trying to find a particularly tricky bug in a C program and haven't been
>able to track it down. I compile the exact same source using M.S. Visual
>C++ 6.0 under Windows NT and gcc (ver 2.7) under Linux (Slackware
>distribution, kernel version 2.0.27). The program runs fine under NT, but
>crashes with a segmentation fault under Linux. Furthermore, it crashes at
>different times in the program and can sometimes take the XTerm in which it
>is running down with it.
>
>The program is completely text (console) based and doesn't use any unusual
>libraries.
>It is fairly complex and includes a lot of allocation/copying/freeing of
>memory and complex array sorting.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>jeff --
>---------
>Jeffrey S. Smith
>Texas A&M University
>
yes this happens in linux too. This happens to me when I have a lib
conflect. for example I have both libc.so.5 and libc.so.6 (glibc2) on
my slakware computer. the gimp crashes, wont even start. If I move
libc 5 or 6 out of the lib dir, it's happy, if they are both in the
lib path gimp dies with a segmentation fault.
any other ideas are welcome I'm sure.
tng
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cmp nt vs linux security links?
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 16:28:14 GMT
On Wed, 03 Mar 1999 06:23:32 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>Hi
>
>
>Can anyone point me to a link, or a faq, or anything
>that compares linux security to nt security?
>
>Thanks
>
>
>Rene
>
>-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
>http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
I think the biggest NT security flaw is you can remotely crash it in
under a minut....
my server
uptime
10:42am up 42 days, 17:49, 2 user, load average: 2.00, 2.46, 1.99
I could never keep Nt up for more than 3 days with this kind of load.
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From: "Hamish McKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: equivalent of edit?
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:52:32 +1000
;-D don't worry dude, I just figured that one out last night after about 2
days of frustration... try vi [filename] or pico [filename].
Also, try typing git. If you have it on, its an x-tree style file manager
thingy... it helps out a bit.
Cheers,
--
Hamish McKenzie
** visit me at: http://members.xoom.com/temporal_ **
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email me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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ErickShun6 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>I know it's kinda a stupid question but what is the equvalent of edit in
linux?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HP690C printer and Soffice5.0
Date: 5 Mar 1999 14:07:13 +0100
Dirk Demuynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> does anyone know how to setup the HP690C printer in Staroffice5.0.He isn't
> mentioned in the printerlist?
Use the generic postscript printer in StarOffice and let ghostscript and
magicfilter (or apsfilter) do the translation for you :-)
Alain Borel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: D Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newsreaders and Star Office
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 13:07:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm new to Linux, but have got everything working (and am very
pleased with the speed) as I want except for news readers. Three
questions:
1 When I try to set up the news reader in Star Office I get an error
message "Connection Failed" when I click on the subscribe tab in the
news properties. So, I can't get the list of newsgroups. I can't see
anything in the options for news, mail or internet that may be causing
this problem. Mail and other news readers are working.
2 Is there an off-line newsreader for linux ?
3 Does anyone know if Virtual Access runs under wine ? If so is it
32bit or 16bit version.
Thanks in advance,
D Brown
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris in sunny Manitoba)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Question about ZIP Disks with Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 17:19:25 GMT
Me newbie. Me hear [EMAIL PROTECTED] say:
>Does anyone know if and when I finally get my ZIP disk drive to work
>with Linux, if I can then access my DOS formatted ZIP disks?
>
>Or will I have to format them with a Unix/Linux Partition thus making
>it non-cross platformable?
>
>Ian
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
My Zip's the scsi version and worked in RH5.2 out of the box... pretty
good way to transfer files, aamof.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Snyder)
Subject: Re: egcs 1.1.1 i386.rpm where ?
Date: 5 Mar 1999 13:15:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Snyder)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jacek M.
Holeczek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi,
>Is there somewhere a place where I can get the egcs 1.1.1 i386.rpm ( I
>can only find egcs-1.1b ) ?
>Thanks in advance,
>Jacek.
Via ftp: rawhide.redhat.com/SRPMS/SRPMS/egcs-1.1.1-7.src.rpm
***** Steve Snyder *****
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From: Robert Billing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: DNS problem
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 11:36:38 +0000
Raj Rijhwani wrote:
> a request is made of the server for external resolution once the gateway
> is down, it seems to lock out and won't answer external addresses even
> when the gate comes back up. Resetting it (with "kill -HUP {pid}") gets
> it up and running again.
I had to comment out this line in
/usr/local/lib/diald/standard.filter.m4 to get DNS to bring the link up.
#ignore udp udp.dest=udp.domain,udp.source=udp.domain
--
I am Robert Billing, Christian, inventor, traveller, cook and animal
lover, I live near 0:46W 51:22N. http://www.tnglwood.demon.co.uk/
"Bother," said Pooh, "Eeyore, ready two photon torpedoes and lock
phasers on the Heffalump, Piglet, meet me in transporter room three"
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From: Mike Freitas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Leafnode won't fetch articles/headers
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 09:39:23 -0800
Peter Caffin wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [...]
> > Sam Vere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> You're meant to use a Usenet client (slrn, tin, nn, Free Agent, etc) to
> connect to your Leafnode NNTPD. Then have a look in a group. You'll find
> one message telling you about Leafnode and letting you know that it will
> be getting that newsgroup's messages when fetch is next run.
>
Assuming you followed the install instructions and that you set your
news server in /usr/lib/leafnode/config to who you normally read news
from, run 'ftech -lvvvvf', then 'tin -r' (export
NNTPSERVER=your.pc.name), then 'fetch -lvvvvf' again.
Exporting the nntpserver variable should be set in /etc/profile or
/etc/nntpserver.
Make sure you enter each newsgroup and read the entries for fetch to
work.
Hope this helps...
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From: John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 13:25:24 GMT
Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > There are multiple reasons for and against going with an Alpha or PPC
> > vs. Intel... on of which is *all* the other hardware is Intel x86 based
> > and having *binary* compatibility is important.
>
> who cares about binary compatibility? just recompile!
Ummm...try providing support to multiple scientists developing code on
their personal workstations (x86 based), running multiple jobs on
multiple machines, writing data to the same location (typically a
partition on their personal workstation), using the generated (binary)
data as input to other jobs on other machines...add to that the problems
of maintaining some type of version control over the software being
developed...so now add to that simply *recompiling* *all* the code that
has been developed, and make sure that the version of code (and
compilers, and libraries and utilities, and...) are the same on both the
x86 *and* the alpha / ppc machines... And on top of all that, the data
produce MUST BE CORRECT!
So, while in concept having an alpha or ppc machine on the LAN with x86
machines is good idea, in practice there are a lot of minor problems and
it introduces a lot of places for bugs to enter the processing setup...
>
> if it's some proprietary offering, chances are it would never be
> offered in 32+32 bit large mode. even if linux were to support it,
> it'd be a bitch to port.
>
Like I said, I don't care about the 36 bit address space, just the
bandwidth issue (described below) and getting the most bang for the
buck...
> > That said, I too am interersted in this topic for the simple reason
> > that the 450NX chipset motherboards can support 4 way interleaving
> > of memory, plus the use of alternate (4 32bit PCI buses, 2 64bit PCI
> > buses or 2 32bit & 1 64bit PCI buses) bus structure, up to 8 Xeon
> > CPUs (with cluster controller)... I'm not as interested in the size
> > of the address space as much as the size of the memory bandwidth and
> > I/O bus structure...
>
> sgi, sun, the former dec all make *much* better high end machines.
>
> --
> J o h a n K u l l s t a m
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Don't Fear the Penguin!
John
--
John Burton, Ph.D.
Senior Associate GATS, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11864 Canon Blvd - Suite 101
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) Newport News, VA 23606
(757) 873-5920 (voice) (757) 873-5920 (fax)
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From: Rick Onanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Public license question
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 14:39:39 -0500
brian moore wrote:
>
> The only ambiguity is what you're contriving.
>
> Hint: Linux is just a kernel. Are you changing the kernel? Are you
> writing just another userland program?
>
> If the first, you must release your changes.
>
> If the second, you only need to release your code if it is based on
> GPL code.
I believe his major worry was not involving copying lines of code from
GPL'd source, but rather, referring to it with include statements and
calls to libraries and what not. It seems that the point is actually
moot, as a result of the fact that such libraries are mostly LGPL'd,
which seems to be for just this reason.
> Please learn some copyright law.
Isn't that what this thread is about? The question WAS very closely
related to copyright law, and assumed nothing.
People, the guy asked. Don't chop off his head for it, he doesn't
sound at all malicious, even if he isn't planning to make any major
contribution to Linux.
Just my four cents worth (That's $.02 inflation adjusted)
> --
> Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
> Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
> Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
> Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
--
rick - a guy in search of raw (ISO) cd images of SuSE and Slackware
===============
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represent anyone, not even myself, and especially not my employer.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: oracle/glibc problems
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 17:41:05 GMT
Never mind.. I figured it out.. leave the -lnsl stuff in...
What I did is I went into /lib and found libnsl-2.0.7.so
and made a symbolic link called libnsl.so to it.
Then it complained of a missing library file so I copied
it off the CD into the $ORACLE_HOME/lib dir...
it was: libclntsh.so.1.0
After that all the linking worked.. but it gave a warning
about nsl linking to glibc possibly conflicting with libc5..
when I run svrmgrl it segfaults :( I'm going to reinstall
the whole thing now and see if it works... Might have to
change the lines with cc=gcc to cc=gcc (with arguments to
ignore libc5)...
Anyway...
-Michael Kohn
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.inlink.com/~naken/
http://www.inlink.com/~naken/asp2php/
In article <7bmaft$hnp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I had the same problem on Slackware... If you go into
> $ORACLE_BASE/lib
>
> there is a file called sysliblist. you can remove the -lnsl
> from there and it will get a lot further... however it will
> then have problem with unresolved function calls.. I did an
> nm on the glibc library file and didn't find any of the calls
> in it... :( If i get further on the install, i'll let you know..
>
> -Michael Kohn
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.inlink.com/~naken/
> http://www.inlink.com/~naken/asp2php/
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Chris Poultney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm trying to install oracle 8.0.5 on my Slackware linux 2.0.30. I will
> > need to upgrade to at least 2.0.34 before the final install; however, I
> > was hoping to do a trial install before upgrading. I downloaded and
> > installed the glibc 2.0.7 runtime package (not the beta compilation
> > package) from metalab, and the installation went smoothly until it
> > attempted to run the linker. Each step which required the nsl library
> > failed. Has anyone else had similar experiences? Could this be because
> > I haven't upgraded to 2.0.34 yet? Where can I find a glibc 2.0.7 nsl
> > library? Etc, etc. Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Chris P.
> >
> >
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shaw Carruthers)
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.2 panic: hda not found.
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 17:50:03 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Olivier Hislaire) wrote:
># CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK is not set
Is your answer, should be Y.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (O'Neill)
Subject: Re: How I want to configure my office
Date: 05 Mar 1999 05:38:15 PST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 5 Mar 1999 03:41:35 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn) wrote:
>On 03 Mar 1999 10:40:52 PST, O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I have a small office providing professional services. Currently, we
>>have five desktop computers linked on an ethernet (bnp) network. All
>>of the machines run windows something, and a couple of the machines
>>are dual boot (linux/windows).
>>
>>It is my ambition to eliminate windows from the workplace to the
>>extent possible, but I have concluded that it is not possible to
>>eradicate altogether it for a number of reasons, including
>>availability of software and the need to keep using certain windows
>>based programs.
>>
>>Windows is a disaster in a network environment, and therefore I would
>>like to have linux handle as much of the networking as possible. The
>>principals functions I would like it to handle are printing and file
>>serving.
>>
>>I have a couple of old Pentium 60s that I am thinking of replacing.
>>The machines work just fine, however, and I'm wondering if these boxes
>>won't serve as linux based servers, handling the printing and file
>>serving functions. Well, actually, I'm not wondering all the much, as
>>I'm pretty sure there's no reason they couldn't.
>>
>>I have been tinkering with Linux for 6 months now, and although I
>>really like it, I don't have the time or the expertise (or the time to
>>acquire the expertise) needed to revamp the office's computers and
>>network. On the other hand, I don't want to add new computers and get
>>further and further into the windows trap.
>>
>>I am willing to pay someone to set up my computers and networks. Does
>>anyone know of anyone reputable in New York City, and what should I
>>expect to pay for services of this type?
>>
>>Thanks for any ideas or assistance.
>>
>At one time, the people who publish Linux Journal, had a place where
>User Groups could register or something like that. Maybe you could
>track down such a group in your area and see if someone would be
>willing to do what you want.
>
>Here are a couple of web addresses to try and see if you can find any
>information:
>
>http://www.ssc.com
>http://linuxjournal.com
>
>If you have the networking part down, I would think you are the biggest
>part of the way there.
I agree, and that's what I need help with. the windows machines are
all networked, but I don't have much functionality with the network
when I'm in linux. Not only that, but I haven't even begun to figure
out how to drive my printers. From what I've seen so far, printing is
just downright baffling, though I'm sure that with 10 or 15 hours of
work I would understand it, etc. The thing is that the time is hard
to find.
I also want to set up internal email and other such things. Maybe
even an intranet? Anyway, I appreciate your response and ideas.
Frankly, I kinda thought I would get more replies, but I'll try the
links you suggested.
Thanks again.
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