Linux-Misc Digest #240, Volume #20 Mon, 17 May 99 16:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: any other way except root setuid? (gus)
sudo (Paul Scheet)
Re: scsi emulation problem (Rod Roark)
Re: WWW: Service available especially for programmers (selious)
Re: internet (Michael Powe)
Re: reinstalling rpms (Frank Sweetser)
Mindcraft study flaw! (Jeff Carlson)
Re: A simple (reliable) browser (Bob Tennent)
Re: car mp3 player ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mount linux drive from seperate linux box (Daniel Ganek)
Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines (bryan)
Re: mount linux drive from seperate linux box (Edwin Chacon)
Re: SECURITY ISSUES: Single user restriction at lilo boot: (Murni & Hamid)
Re: /foo (Bob Tennent)
Re: sudo (Andrew Chung)
Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines (Rod Roark)
Apologies: URL Error (Was: Mindcraft study flaw!) (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG
**)
mount linux drive from seperate linux box (Tom Elsesser)
A simple (reliable) browser (Aamer Nazir)
Re: How do you PRINT SCREEN ? (Roland Latour)
gnome RPMS suck??? + a few questions (pika.pika)
Re: Eudora-like mail program for linux? (With Filters etc) (Steve Lamb)
[Q] My Omnibook 800ct doesn't power off under Linux--help? (Jerome Mrozak)
Re: Diald dials out every 15 minutes (marco tephlant)
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: any other way except root setuid?
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 18:26:55 +0100
I encountered this exact problem *early* this morning.
I have written perl/CGI scripts to dial the modem. Anyone on the
intranet can manually dial the modem from a "PPP Manager" web page (and
get the status / disconnect / etc). pppd has to be run as root (I
think), anyway, I set up sudo so that wwwrun can execute pppd. Since I
have only one ISP, I configured /etc/ppp/options to have *all* the
options including the "connect 'chat -f /etc/ppp/chat.script'", so that
all that is needed to connect is a simple "/usr/sbin/pppd". Thus, sudo
solves my problem so that wwwrun can run pppd only, and there are no
shell scripts involved.
in the perl it looks something like this:
exec ("test (! -f /var/run/ppp0) && /usr/sbin/pppd");
I can not think of another mechanism. Anyone with more experience is
welcome to criticise, I welcome it.
gus
Boris Petrovic wrote:
>
> I have question about root privileges, and ways of
> giving effective root privileges to someone else :
>
> I had to write some CGI scripts for doing some root stuff
> over WWW. I tried to set all CGI scripts to www user which runs
> www server, but of course I couldn't run functions which require root
> privileges, so I have to put root ownership and setuid bit on that
> particular pieces of code.
>
> Now im doing extra check in that pieces of code to be sure that only
> www user runs that code.
>
> Is there other way to do that except root setuid over that files?
>
> thanks
> my regards
> Boris Petrovic
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Paul Scheet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sudo
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 12:21:46 -0500
can anyone point me to a source for a linux version of sudo? or will a
certain unix flavor run on redhat 5.2?
thanks, paul
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http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~pscheet
(319) 335-2009
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scsi emulation problem
Date: 17 May 1999 17:50:17 GMT
William Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm trying to compile in the scsi emulation to get my ide CD-R drive working
>
>I got everything re-built right but when I reboot with the new kernel the
>system hangs right after the lilo prompt goes away like it's not seeing
>the hard drive.
>
>What options do I need to give lilo.conf so that the cd-r is used with
>scsi emulation but my hard drvie isn't
>
>my ide devices are:
>hda = main hard drive
>hdb = data drive
>hdc = cd=r (the one I need the scsi emulation for)
>hdd = cdrom (don'6 need scsi emulation here)
The hanging problem doesn't sound like anything related to SCSI
emulation... something else is messed up. Did you run lilo after
installing the new kernel?
To answer your question, and contrary to some other instructions I have
seen, you want both ATAPI support and SCSI emulation of ATAPI devices.
Then in lilo.conf you include:
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
-- Rod
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From: selious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WWW: Service available especially for programmers
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 19:34:00 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please also send your source code to me !!
Selious
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,jaring.pcbase,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: internet
From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 17 May 1999 10:53:03 -0700
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>>>>> "Saravanan" == Saravanan Govindasamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Saravanan> How do i get connected on the internet thru Linux? I
Saravanan> tried the PPP dialup utility. My modem dials up and
Saravanan> gets connected, a few seconds and then disconnects with
Saravanan> the error message "The pppd daemon died Unexpectedly".
Read the PPP-HOWTO, it almost certainly is on your HD somewhere. Mine
is in /usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs. Then you will need to read the actual
messages transmitted at the point of connection failure. These are
probably in /var/log/messages but your distro may write them somewhere
else. They'll look something like this:
May 17 09:40:40 trollope chat[26544]: CONNECT
May 17 09:40:40 trollope chat[26544]: -- got it
May 17 09:40:40 trollope chat[26544]: send (^M)
May 17 09:40:40 trollope pppd[26541]: Serial connection established.
May 17 09:40:40 trollope pppd[26541]: Using interface ppp0
May 17 09:40:40 trollope pppd[26541]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS2
May 17 09:40:45 trollope pppd[26541]: Remote message: Login ok
May 17 09:40:45 trollope pppd[26541]: local IP address 199.2.212.40
May 17 09:40:45 trollope pppd[26541]: remote IP address 199.2.212.241
Then try to match up the error message against what you've gotten from
the HOWTO.
mp
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: reinstalling rpms
Date: 17 May 1999 12:18:39 -0400
"Nevyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> can anyone help i've killed most of my system....i seem to have accidently
> wrecked a few libraries hat gnome needs and i need to uninstall and
> reinstall them to be able to install gnome properly (this all started
> because i managed to install half of gnome an not notice for a while). I'd
> look at the man file for the commands but the libraries i've damaged are
> needed for that too so i cant...if anyone can tell me the command i'd be
> greatful.... Nevyn
to re-install an rpm to replace damaged files:
rpm -ivh --force foo.rpm
--
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"You afraid of cars?" --Kirk "[No], it's your driving." --Spock
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From: Jeff Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mindcraft study flaw!
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 18:39:41 GMT
I just read on www.slashdot.org that there's a new benchmark relating to
the Mindcraft study that recently was published.
My, my. How interesting. The bottom line is that they find
WINDOWS NT serves BEST out of a myriad of tests.
Harrrumpph
Windoze NT Server serving files over SMB to windoze clients?
Why not benchmark a Windoze NT server serving to NFS clients?
I betcha it wouldn't do too fair then, would it?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: A simple (reliable) browser
Date: 17 May 1999 18:40:29 GMT
Reply-To: rdt(a)cs.queensu.ca
On Fri, 14 May 1999 23:04:24 -0800, Aamer Nazir wrote:
>Can anyone please recommend a simple and reliable browser(under X) ? I am
>currently using Netscape, and it simply takes up a lot of resources(I don't
>know
>why :) ). All I need is a browser with good enough fonts and colors :).
Try netscape-3.04, which is still available. It's smaller and
more reliable than more recent versions.
Bob T.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: car mp3 player
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 16:44:47 GMT
On 13 May 1999 19:06:49 GMT, David L. Bilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> +-----On 13 May 1999 16:04:06 GMT, David L. Bilbey spoke unto us:----------
> | I'm looking into constructing an mp3 player for my car. I've searched the
> | web, but come up with lots of useless (for me) info. Basically, what I'm
> | looking for is a linux mp3 program that I can use for the playing. It
> | should support keypad control, and ideally, output to an LCD screen. Does
> | anyone have any pointers. If not, where can I get info on writing one
> | myself? Thanks.
> --
>
>I've also got another problem. Shutting the car off/shutting down the
>computer. If I mount the file-system read-only, is it okay to just shut it
>off? If not, how would I go about addressing this problem?
why dont u use an batery or a standby funktion like most other
car-cd-changers.
>
>David Bilbey
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From: Daniel Ganek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mount linux drive from seperate linux box
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 14:25:00 -0400
Tom Elsesser wrote:
>
> I have 2 linux machines, a RH5.2 named "linux" that serves as a
> mail,ppp, dns, and file server, and a caldera1.3 named "linux2" that I
> am using as a desktop machine. I have a directory called "archived"
> which is /usr2/archived mounted as /dev/hda2 on the RH box that I
> would like to mount on the caldera box. Using the sytax "mount -f ext2
> //linux/dev/hda2 /archived2" barfs back "special device
> //linux/dev/hda2 does not exist". I tried many variations of this,
> with no success. What do I need to make this work?
>
//linux/dev/hda2 ?! (snicker, snicker)
What are you an old Apollo guy?????
Linux and UNIX don't know what a network is.
You have to use that kludge called NFS.
(Unless someone has ported DFS to linux.)
/dan
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 18:30:07 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: According to bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
: > I'll second the celeron idea.
: >
: > if you can get celeron 300a and the right slotket adapters, you can
: > push them to 450 ea.
: Personally, I recomend against over-clocking for serious work.
: Pushing a 300a to 450 puts the chip *very* close to it's tolerances.
really? in theory, I'd agree. but with even modest cooling, my 2
asus systems have been running continuously for months. and a newly
build tyan (also dual celeron) seems stable enough. again, as long as
you have good cooling (heat grease and dual fan heatsink, along with
proper case cooling) you should be fine.
I consider the cel300a to be a stellar exception amongst chips. it
has rules of its own - and they're in OUR favor ;-)
: This may be fine for games where a slipped bit or a lockup doesn't
: really hurt anything, but it is certainly *not* acceptable for
: scientific numerical compulations.
agreed, in general. I guess that if your life/job depends on it, then
go SMP but don't overclock. its a good compromise.
--
Bryan
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From: Edwin Chacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mount linux drive from seperate linux box
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:18:20 -0700
try this...\\\\linux\\dev\\hda2....i heard somewhere..that you have to do some
weird..thing..and use...4-\ for the computer name and 2-\ for dir or share
name...but seems to work here at work..try it..
Tom Elsesser wrote:
> I have 2 linux machines, a RH5.2 named "linux" that serves as a
> mail,ppp, dns, and file server, and a caldera1.3 named "linux2" that I
> am using as a desktop machine. I have a directory called "archived"
> which is /usr2/archived mounted as /dev/hda2 on the RH box that I
> would like to mount on the caldera box. Using the sytax "mount -f ext2
> //linux/dev/hda2 /archived2" barfs back "special device
> //linux/dev/hda2 does not exist". I tried many variations of this,
> with no success. What do I need to make this work?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Tom
> --
> Tom
>
> ****************************************************************************
> "Kill a man, you are a murderer, kill thousands of men, you are a conquerer,
> kill everyone you are a god" - Jean Rostard 1955
> ****************************************************************************
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Murni & Hamid)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SECURITY ISSUES: Single user restriction at lilo boot:
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 01:16:01 +0800
Stephan M. Ott // OKDesign oHG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A better way would be disable the floppy in the bios, then
> password-protect the bios. When doing it this way, the machine will start
> up again and go online, but the system cannot be started from floppy.
A much better way is to change your bootup sequence rather than
disabling the floppy. Instead of reading A: and then C:, do it the
reverse, C: and then A:. Modern BIOS should have this feature. And
surely password protect the BIOS setup. The ultimate way is to install a
diskless X server and let your Linux machine locked inside a secured
room.
--
Murni Mahmud & Family
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: /foo
Date: 17 May 1999 18:38:43 GMT
Reply-To: rdt(a)cs.queensu.ca
On 17 May 1999 12:26:23 -0400, Frank Sweetser wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent) writes:
>
>> It seems my system has been appending start-up messages to /foo since
>> March 11. Does anyone know where this is configured?
>
>/etc/syslog.conf more than likely.
>
No. /foo has just the start-up messages, not all the system messages.
I've just noticed that all the /var/log/boot.log.* files are empty;
is this where start-up messages are usually logged?
Bob T.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Chung)
Subject: Re: sudo
Date: 17 May 1999 19:14:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>can anyone point me to a source for a linux version of sudo? or will a
>certain unix flavor run on redhat 5.2?
Try ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/sudo/ , or get it from
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/admin/
sudo_1.5.9p1.orig.tar.gz
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines
Date: 17 May 1999 18:46:22 GMT
bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>: According to bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>: > I'll second the celeron idea.
>: >
>: > if you can get celeron 300a and the right slotket adapters, you can
>: > push them to 450 ea.
>: Personally, I recomend against over-clocking for serious work.
>: Pushing a 300a to 450 puts the chip *very* close to it's tolerances.
>really? in theory, I'd agree. but with even modest cooling, my 2
>asus systems have been running continuously for months. and a newly
>build tyan (also dual celeron) seems stable enough. again, as long as
>you have good cooling (heat grease and dual fan heatsink, along with
>proper case cooling) you should be fine.
It depends on the specific CPU more than special cooling. Usually
they work fine with a bit of voltage tweaking, but some don't. Just
because mine works great doesn't mean yours will.
What you want to do is overclock just a bit *over* 100 Mhz, run a few
kernel compiles, and see if it still works. If it does, you can back
down to 100 Mhz and feel good about it. If it works at 100 but not
103 or 105 or whatever, then keep it away from mission critical
applications.
-- Rod
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Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **)
Subject: Apologies: URL Error (Was: Mindcraft study flaw!)
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 19:15:17 GMT
Apologies for that 2nd InfoWorld URL as it gave some folks trouble.
I pulled them up using the InfoWorld "Search" and
+mindcraft +nt +linux
Sorry for the blooper on my part.
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4. I detest UCE/UBE. I support CAUCE; http://www.cauce.org HR 1748.
Standard Disclaimer: My opinions, and not Raytheon Systems Company.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Elsesser)
Subject: mount linux drive from seperate linux box
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 18:08:48 GMT
I have 2 linux machines, a RH5.2 named "linux" that serves as a
mail,ppp, dns, and file server, and a caldera1.3 named "linux2" that I
am using as a desktop machine. I have a directory called "archived"
which is /usr2/archived mounted as /dev/hda2 on the RH box that I
would like to mount on the caldera box. Using the sytax "mount -f ext2
//linux/dev/hda2 /archived2" barfs back "special device
//linux/dev/hda2 does not exist". I tried many variations of this,
with no success. What do I need to make this work?
Thanks,
--
Tom
--
Tom
****************************************************************************
"Kill a man, you are a murderer, kill thousands of men, you are a conquerer,
kill everyone you are a god" - Jean Rostard 1955
****************************************************************************
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From: Aamer Nazir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A simple (reliable) browser
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 23:04:24 -0800
Hi,
Can anyone please recommend a simple and reliable browser(under X) ? I am
currently using Netscape, and it simply takes up a lot of resources(I don't
know
why :) ). All I need is a browser with good enough fonts and colors :).
Please
help!
Thanks,
Aamer Nazir
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From: Roland Latour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do you PRINT SCREEN ?
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:58:39 -0700
Bob Sprenger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 5/17:
>
> Recently installed redhat 5.2 on Pentium IBM clone. Printer works
> fine with lpr. Cant figure out how to print individual screens when
> displaying text files with less or vi. Any help will be much
> appreciated.
In vi, you could colon-bang-cat-minus piped to lpr,
then cut-and-paste the entire window. But I can't
figure out why you'd want to do this. If you intend to
paginate a file, use 'pr' or 'mpage'.
--
Retired Tech Support Engineer http://home.cdsnet.net/~rolandl
No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats --
approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.
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From: pika.pika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gnome RPMS suck??? + a few questions
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 19:01:19 GMT
I Installed redhat6 a week ago and fell in love with gnome.
I got the latest and greatest from gnome.org only to find that
they dont compile due to missing config files and sh files.
Had to install everything from the top of the gnome installation
tree (glib). Do rpms clean up after itself or does it just put the
binaries somewhere and forget about it... where are the missing files?
so question 1:
by compiling the sources with prefix=/usr which redhat seems to use, am
i overwriting the RPMed files redhat put there?
This would be good cuz I dont gotta worry about conflicts... but not
sure wat happens in the lib directory...
If not then do I have to uninstall all the offending RPMs first b4 I
compile?
question 2:
wat does ldconfig do?
question 3:
is there anyway to install RPMs with those missing files?
grrr.......
question 4:
wat are all those warnings during compiles?... like
warning, attempted redefinition of something something
dont the developers see those warnings themselves?
anyway... if u got this far, i give u a smooch!!! and f u can answer
any these quesstions then ill give u a bigger one!!! hehe
thx in advance!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Lamb)
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Eudora-like mail program for linux? (With Filters etc)
Date: 17 May 1999 18:40:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 16 May 1999 01:46:34 -0700, Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve> On 13 May 1999 00:52:54 -0700, Michael Powe
> Steve> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Use procmail to sort your mail. That's what it's for & it's
> >> already installed.
>
> Steve> Wow, gotta love assumptions. I love them, don't you?
>Yeah, well, I've set up three different versions of linux and all
>three of them have had procmail installed. In fact, it was the local
>mailer on all three.
{morpheus@teleute:~} dpkg -s procmail
Package: procmail
Status: purge ok not-installed
Priority: standard
Section: mail
>How is it you don't have it on yours? And how does that fact
>invalidate what I wrote?
It is not a required package by any means. To make the assumption that it
is there as a be all answer for someone is incorrect. Especially if the
person...
{morpheus@teleute:~} dpkg -s exim
Package: exim
Status: install ok installed
Priority: important
Section: mail
Uses something else which provides filtering...
It invalidates what you wrote because you said, "That's what it's for &
it's already installed." The fact is, no, it is not already installed. If
you had answered, "procmail filters mail" or "exim has filters" and left it at
that, fine. But making base assuptions about what is and is not installed on
anyone's particular Linux is, IMHO, rude, unwarrented, and can only lead to
confusion for the person asking the question since, if it is not installed,
their question isn't really answered, now is it? It also comes off as
pretentious and trite. "Everyone who's *ANY*one uses *procmail*.
Uh-huh..uh-huh... I say, Buffy, care for more tea?"
How did it come that it is not on my system? I chose not to have it on my
system. Why have procmail when I have exim doing the filtering?
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
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From: Jerome Mrozak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.sys.laptops
Subject: [Q] My Omnibook 800ct doesn't power off under Linux--help?
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:14:49 -0500
My HP Omnibook 800ct has SuSE 6.1 (kernel 2.2.5) installed, and I
recompiled the kernel to support APM. The system loads apmd on boot,
and apm and xapm both report reasonable results.
I'd like the Linux system to turn the power off at shutdown. I'm led to
believe that "halt -p" or "poweroff" would do this, but the power
doesn't get turned off by them on my machine/configuration.
My Win95 partition does turn the power off, so this is an achieveable
feat.
My APM settings were: everything on (yes) except (IGNORE_SUSPEND = no)
and (APM screen blanking = no).
Thanks for help,
Jerome.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (marco tephlant)
Subject: Re: Diald dials out every 15 minutes
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 19:21:52 +0100
In article <7hp65e$4s9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Do you have Printer/Filesharing enabled on the W98 box? Windows will send
> out netbios requests every 15 minutes or so....causing diald to connect.
> You'll either want to add a rule to your ipfwadm to deny all traffic on
> ports 137-139 or you can add it to your diald config. rules.
>
Ah! that sounds like a likely candidate. I will check with all windows
boxes switched off and see if it still dials out.
Thanks,
--
Marco
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