Linux-Misc Digest #788, Volume #19 Thu, 8 Apr 99 20:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LOGIN.... HELP!!!! (Paul D. Smith)
Re: LOGIN.... HELP!!!! (Joel Johnson)
Re: Q) disk cp fd0 to fd0 (source to target) (Floyd Davidson)
Re: Cannot solve Kernel Panic (David Pace)
Re: PS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0 (Alexander Viro)
Re: Thanks + (Matthew Bafford)
Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0 (Johan Kullstam)
Re: LOGIN.... HELP!!!! ("The Lone Scribe")
Re: Why can't they all just get along?--libs ("Dominic Leland")
PROBLEMS WITH MY DISPLAY (David Killip)
Re: New Microsoft News (ken brakey)
Re: xscreensaver and redhat 5.2 (Gordon Vrololjak)
Re: fetchmail/exim/procmail (Arcady Genkin)
/dev/audio permissions (Arcady Genkin)
Re: LOGIN.... HELP!!!! ("J�rgen Exner")
Newbie question how do I decompress a .bz2 file ("ian")
Re: Error: kernel: Unable to load interpreter (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: /dev/audio permissions (Hal Sadofsky)
Newbie (I mean REAL NEWBIE) question (Nick Smeltzer)
Re: Recreations of IBM Mainframe like env on linux ?? (John McKown)
Modem speed reeks - tweaks? (Ian Hay)
Re: Running as root? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
X-windows HELP!! (Josh)
vfat program that reads/writes ext2 files ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Newbie (I mean REAL NEWBIE) question ("William H. Pridgen")
CRACKER on my box (#2) (benjamin)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 15:35:03 -0500
Andrew D Matuszak wrote:
> Rick,
> don't do much perl do you?
Nope, I'm an IC design engineer and Perl is just a tool for me. Don't be too hard
on me. I'm a hardware guy and yet I have programmed in C, Pascal, Fortran, Basic
:^),
Icon, Lisp, Scheme, Perl, Prolog, and 6805/08/11/16 and 8080/85/86 assemblies. My
largest program was about 1000 lines of C (small for the average programmer). How
many circuits have you designed? ;^)
Rick
> >
> > chomp? Could you per chance mean chop? That won't work for the problem
> > he gave.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> >
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul D. Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: LOGIN.... HELP!!!!
Date: 08 Apr 1999 16:50:23 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
%% Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
j> If I put root it asks for for a # what do i put?
Uh... that's your shell prompt. It's waiting for you to tell it what to
do. Now you "Use Linux To Do Neat Stuff".
You should probably try to find some docs or books on learning UNIX or
Linux.
Probably the first thing you want to do is make a new user account for
yourself and start using that and _not_ root. Root has permissions to
completely trash your entire system, requiring a reinstall from
scratch. Generally, you never login as root until and unless you need
to perform some kind of system maintenance that requires it (adding
users, setting up networking, printers, etc.)
Everything else should be done as a normal user, so at worst you can
trash all your own files but not the entire system :).
--
===============================================================================
Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Management Development
"Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist
===============================================================================
These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.
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From: Joel Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: LOGIN.... HELP!!!!
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 19:57:36 +0000
> I completly instaled LINUX5.2 succesfully.....but when it asks for the
> LOCALHOST LOGIN: before the password, what do i put?
Login as "root" and use the password you supplied during installation.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson)
Subject: Re: Q) disk cp fd0 to fd0 (source to target)
Date: 8 Apr 1999 16:55:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
mist <new$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>diahedrial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
>>The following will make an exact disk copy of the floppy:
>>dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppyimg.dd
>>dd if=floppyimg.dd of=/dev/fd0
>
>I think to make a bootable floppy, if that is needed, we needed -
>
>>dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppyimg.dd
>mkex2fs (or similar command)
That is not necessary because the dd command copies the entire
disk, including the filesystem. The target disk has to be low
level formatted, but it need not have a file system of any kind
on it. The dd command will put whatever was on the source disk
onto the target disk, and that could be an msdos filesystem, an
ext2 filesystem, or raw tar data with no filesystem, for
example!
Another point probably worth mentioning is that neither the
source disk nor the target disk need be mounted before the
dd commands are used. Raw disk sector are copied...
>>dd if=floppyimg.dd of=/dev/fd0
Floyd
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UPDATED Mar 20, North Slope images: <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
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From: David Pace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Cannot solve Kernel Panic
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 17:38:29 -0400
Bruno Barberi Gnecco wrote:
> I'm installing kernel 2.2.4, and got this kernel panic when booting:
>
> [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
> [me=0x0,cs=4640,#101,fs=59898,fl=1562984,ds=159559682,de=29806,data=159561596,
> se=35328,ts=1
> ... s). Any ideas?
I had this problem once and I could only fix it by running
make mrproper
and then do the
make menuconfig all over again from scratch.
> Free commodity/stock graphing software
> and Linux links at http://www.daveware.com
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PS
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 17:14:18 +0100
Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> how can I list all the processes on the system, including all the
> demons?
ps ax. You'll probably want to pipe this into less or more...
> 10x
> Dan
>
--
____________________________________________________________________
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | It is not 'who' you are
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | But who you are becoming.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Goethe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro)
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0
Date: 8 Apr 1999 17:07:45 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>not if you're from a commonwealth country - which includes new zealand
>(where is the old zealand btw?). in *english* (as opposed to american
^^^^^^^ - Zeeland.
Gaak... Across the North Sea (looking from England, that is).
Netherlands. Heck, they *really* don't teach history and geography
in schools, or what?
--
"You're one of those condescending Unix computer users!"
"Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer" - Dilbert.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Bafford)
Subject: Re: Thanks +
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 22:05:47 GMT
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:42:14 -0700, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
lucked upon a computer, and thus wrote the following:
) When i enter url into the location area all i get returned is an error
) message that home.netscape.co cannot be located, it does not have a DNS
) entered. I also cannot get it to accept my user name, POP or SMTP server.
) from my previous post i am aware that i must be on line and i am connected
) to my ISP via netcfg when this info is entered. again i get a error message
) that states the server (mail.the-den.com) is not recognized.
I personally can't connect to mail.the-den.com, so you're not alone. First,
try an alternate site -- something safe like www.yahoo.com.
If that doesn't work, try using 204.71.200.75 (one of the many Yahoo sites)
If that works, you've got a DNS problem somewhere
) if i am doing something wrong can someone help or if there is a different
) browser available for LINUX could some one please tell me the name of
) it???????
lynx, arena, (soon) opera, whatever the OS emacs has, and others,
I'm sure.
--matthew
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Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 08 Apr 1999 17:47:23 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >not if you're from a commonwealth country - which includes new zealand
> >(where is the old zealand btw?). in *english* (as opposed to american
> ^^^^^^^ - Zeeland.
>
> Gaak... Across the North Sea (looking from England, that is).
> Netherlands. Heck, they *really* don't teach history and geography
> in schools, or what?
the zealand (sj�lland) i found in my atlas is the english spelling of
the island that supports copenhagen (k�benhavn). but then i didn't
think the danes were very busy in the south pacific.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: "The Lone Scribe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: LOGIN.... HELP!!!!
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 14:12:44 -0700
J�rgen Exner wrote in message <7ej5c7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Where did you get 5.2???
He means RedHat 5.2. He's gnu; cut him some slack!
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From: "Dominic Leland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why can't they all just get along?--libs
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 22:08:58 GMT
Yeah, any time you change something with the libs, you have to run ldconfig.
You may be right about glint/rpm running it, but don't rely on that.
Besides, if glint did run it, It may have just run it on the particular
libraries it was upgrading (I don't know if you can do that with ldconfig).
So just run ldconfig alone, with no options. It may clear everything up.
Sometimes, programs look for specific versions of libraries. Rather than
looking for gtk>1.0, for example, they might look for gtk=1.1, so that if
you have 1.2 you're out of luck. That's why I prefer using static binaries.
They already have everything they need regardless whether you also have 'em
or not.
If running ldconfig alone doesn't clear it up, I'm not sure what would. It
will take the expertise of someone more knowledgable than I, I'm afraid.
Hope I helped.
Dominic Leland
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From: David Killip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PROBLEMS WITH MY DISPLAY
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 18:07:39 -0400
I get the following errors when I try to run the fvwm window manager on linux (RedHat
5.1)
can anybody help
Cheers
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
fvwm: can't open display 127.0.0.1:0
Thanks for looking at this for me
Dave Killip
e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PROBLEMS WITH MY DISPLAY
--
Dave Killip ( Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: ken brakey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: New Microsoft News
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 21:30:53 GMT
>
> > This goes back to this is a *LINUX* newsgroup!!! It is proper
> > netiquette to post relevant information pertaining to the group.
> >
EXCUSE ME! This is posted in THREE(3) linux newsgroups!
ken
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From: Gordon Vrololjak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: ucb.os.linux
Subject: Re: xscreensaver and redhat 5.2
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 15:21:59 -0700
Actually I am using the Default Redhat window manager - AnotherLevel,
not KDE. I couldn't use the technique you suggest as the files don't
exist for me.
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
Gordon Ante Vrdoljak Ecosystem Sciences
ICQ 23243541 http://nature.berkeley.edu/~gvrdolja Hilgard Hall #3110
[EMAIL PROTECTED] UC Berkeley
phone (510) 643-9951 Berkeley CA
fax (510) 643-2940 94720-3110
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> To get xscreensaver to work with kdm (which works mostly the same as xdm,
> which I assume you are running to get graphical logins), I appended
>
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver &
>
> to my /etc/Xsetup_0 file.
>
> My version of xscreensaver (don't recall which) doesn't seem to play nice
> with KDE 1.0, however. Certain display hacks grab the display and don't
> give it back, unless I axe the Xserver (ctrl-alt-backspace). YMMV.
>
> Have fun,
>
> Jonathan Nitschke
>
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Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: fetchmail/exim/procmail
From: Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 22:36:16 GMT
"The Lone Scribe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >RE. Fetchmail - fetchmailconf doesn't work for me because it can't
> >find some library ... In any case I prefere configuring it through the
> >.fetchmailrc file
>
> Writing a new rc file won't get around that limitation, even though you may
> prefer that it did. Just go get the missing lib and install it.
In fact I got it working (I mean fetchmail) w/o need for
fetchmailconf. Really, the latter is just a graphical interface to
edit the .fetchmailrc.
Now if I can only get gnus to read the mail... :)
--
Arcady Genkin
"I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
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Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: /dev/audio permissions
From: Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 22:42:20 GMT
Hi all:
I had a problem x11amp refusing to play and writing "Can't open
audio!".
Today I located that it was caused by permissions for /dev/audio and
/dev/dsp. As an experiment I chown'ed them to my user name, and now
everything works... (they were owned by "root" prior to that)
I understand that this hack is not the right solution for the
problem. Wha should I do abou this?
Thanks!
--
Arcady Genkin
"I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LOGIN.... HELP!!!!
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 15:44:24 -0700
Reply-To: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> If I put root it asks for for a # what do i put?
[cut the NG. this has nothing to do with X or setup]
The "#" sign is the traditional prompt for the super user (aka root) in
Unix.
So, just start to do whatever you want.
I highly recommend you get a book "Unix for beginners".
jue
--
J�rgen Exner
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From: "ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie question how do I decompress a .bz2 file
Date: 08 Apr 1999 21:44:06 GMT
I downloaded the jdk1.2 but now I can't figure out how to decompress the
archive.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: Error: kernel: Unable to load interpreter
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 22:00:32 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I received the error message "kernel: Unable to load interpreter".
: What does this mean and what should I do about it?
It means that the kernel was unable to load the interpreter for something.
"grep"ping in /usr/src/linux/fs for "load interpreter" finds that binelf.c
contains this string.
As for what to do about it, try posting what it was that you were doing when
you got that message.
Stu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Sadofsky)
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: /dev/audio permissions
Date: 8 Apr 1999 15:50:18 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all:
>
>I had a problem x11amp refusing to play and writing "Can't open
>audio!".
>
>Today I located that it was caused by permissions for /dev/audio and
>/dev/dsp. As an experiment I chown'ed them to my user name, and now
>everything works... (they were owned by "root" prior to that)
It is probably a better idea to leave the ownership alone, and to change
the permissions for the file. You might want to do
chmod 666 /dev/audio
(though it seems like you should really only need write permission
there), and something similar for /dev/dsp
Do man chmod, and use "ls -l" to figure out what is going on.
Hal Sadofsky
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From: Nick Smeltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie (I mean REAL NEWBIE) question
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 22:59:57 +0100
Sorry, I'm not a pc idiot, just completely new to linux. I lurked here
for a day or two and didn't see the answer.
Can I run Windows95 in a Linux RedHat 5.2 shell? This would let me play
Linux but still use my favorite apps. I've set it up to dual boot, but I
want to actually run one or two Win95 sessions in Linux itself.
Someone told me it was possible, but in the 4 days of having RedHat on
my system I can't figure it out...
Sorry for the dumb question.
Nick
--
Nick Smeltzer CNE
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (work)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Re: Recreations of IBM Mainframe like env on linux ??
Date: 8 Apr 1999 23:09:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm a sysprog on OS/390. I also use Linux at home. The only UNIX version
of SPF that I have been able to find is call UniSPF. Unfortunately,
it does not run on Linux. I've been looking for one for a time. However,
there is a XEDIT-like editor called SEDIT which does run under Linux.
You can get a "test drive" version from http://www.sedit.com. They
also have a REXX interpreter called SREXX. I did email the company about
a year ago. As I recall, each product costs about $199 <whew>. XEDIT
is the editor of choice on VM. I've used it in a previous job and
I actually like it MORE that the PDF editor!
Wish I had better news,
John
On Thu, 08 Apr 1999 00:18:09 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I was wondering If there are any users of Linux who work on mainframes for a
>living. The reason being that I am a mainframe applications developer and I
>use Linux at home for almost everything and recently I used a program called
>SPFPro at office and I was wondering If there is anything like that in the
>Linux world which mimics the ISPF/PDF environment.
>
>By the way could anybody tell me how I could check if I have the soundblaster
>driver in my system. I had a working sound card on the Linux system and then
>I added a tape drive ever since then my sound card refuses to work while it
>works on Winnt on the same hardware. Would appreciate it if anybody could
>point me in the right direction. I'm using the same irq @ amd dma channel as
>the winnt system.
>
>
>Thanks and regards
>
>Alex...
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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>http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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From: Ian Hay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem speed reeks - tweaks?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 22:07:29 GMT
Hi folks -
I'm trying to tweak my modem stuff to achieve the same sort of speeds I
get from the same modem/system in Win98. Ok, actually I'm not
successfully trying, because I haven't a clue as to how to tweak modems,
ports, etc.
In Windows, my 28.8 modem typically reaches download speeds of 3.2 - 3.6
K/s.
In Linux, this NEVER exceeds 2.1 K/s. Same machine, same modem.
I'm using Red Hat, and therefore the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*
method of invoking pppd. Here's my ifcfg-ppp0 file, with comments. Is
there anything that looks obvious?
PERSIST=yes
DEFROUTE=yes
ONBOOT=no
INITSTRING=ATZ (ANY change to this - including suggested strings - just
results in breaking the ppp interface. Humph.)
MODEMPORT=/dev/modem (linked to /dev/ttyS1, as opposed to cuax)
LINESPEED=115200 (changing to lower doesn't help)
ESCAPECHARS=no
DEFABORT=yes
HARDFLOWCTL=yes
DEVICE=ppp0
PPPOPTIONS=
DEBUG=yes
PAPNAME=xxxxxxx
REMIP=
IPADDR=
BOOTPROTO=none
MTU=
MRU=
DISCONNECTTIMEOUT=
RETRYTIMEOUT=
USERCTL=yes
Are there any changes I can make on my port itself? (Unfortunately, I
haven't a clue what setserial does - suggestions would be helpful, if
it's related.).
Another problem - I can't get pppd or chat to tell me what speed I'm
connecting at, even with debug. If I connect using minicom, I get the
"CONNECT 28800" message, but in /var/log/message, I only get "CONNECT".
Any suggestions?
Thanks for any time you can spend on this,
I.
--
========================================================
Ian R. Hay <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Toronto, Canada <http://www3.sympatico.ca/ian.hay/>
Linuxing about since June 21, 1998 <Redhat 5.1 - 2.0.35>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Running as root?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 22:07:13 GMT
According to Walter Tice USG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> It's true, but being an impatient sort, I really like to run long
> commands (find, grep, etc.) scripts (perl), and apps (Netscape)
> with the 'nice' turned way up, to like -15 or -20. As far as I
> know I can only do this as root. Anybody got a way for me to
> give this ability to myself as a non root user?
Root can arbitrarily set the nice value of any process on the system
at any time. In fact, if you run 'top' as root you can do this
interactively.
Are you really sure that you want to _increase_ the priority of the
commands you describe? In most circumstances, you will want to run
these with a lower priority (higher nice value.)
-p.
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From: Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: X-windows HELP!!
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 19:32:09 -0400
After typing startx i get this message:
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Cant connect: errno=111
giving up.
Xinit: connection refused(errno111): unable to connect to X server
Xinit: No such process(errno111): server error
What should I do??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: vfat program that reads/writes ext2 files
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 14:55:05 GMT
Hi,
I dont know if this is the appropriate group to post this question.
I would like to convert my data partitions and 640MB MO disks to ext2 system for
its reliablilty compared to fat. Any dos/windows program that can reads/writes
ext2 format? If so, what is the URL or ftp path. Thanks for any help.
Also, does anyone happen to know or use and php code generation program so I
dont have to write ascii code line by line like html 3 years ago. I have found
asp to php utility. But it would be better to do php inside Unix/Linux. Thanks
again.
Jon
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From: "William H. Pridgen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie (I mean REAL NEWBIE) question
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 18:59:36 -0500
Nick Smeltzer wrote:
>
> Sorry, I'm not a pc idiot, just completely new to linux. I lurked here
> for a day or two and didn't see the answer.
>
> Can I run Windows95 in a Linux RedHat 5.2 shell? This would let me play
> Linux but still use my favorite apps. I've set it up to dual boot, but I
> want to actually run one or two Win95 sessions in Linux itself.
>
> Someone told me it was possible, but in the 4 days of having RedHat on
> my system I can't figure it out...
>
> Sorry for the dumb question.
>
> Nick
There are programs that allow you to run some Windows apps under Linux.
One of these is called WINE. Another is called WABI. One cannot run
Windows 95 itself from a terminal.
--
Bill Pridgen
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CRACKER on my box (#2)
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 01:59:54 +0200
Hello ,
so a cracker managed to log as root on my box. i now almost know how.
The guy created two new users (how did he do that ?!?)
1) a user 'system' uid=0 ; gid=0 ; password=empty
2) a user 'startx' uid=500 ; gid=500 ; password=empty
I did a telnet on myself, and managed to connect as 'startx' without any
password !
I saw there: Last login from my_cracker !!!!
I know from my logs that he did a telnet, and probably a finger (not
sure).
How did he manage to do that ?!?
What do i have to close so that it becomes impossible in the future ?
How do i check the changes ?
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