Linux-Misc Digest #633, Volume #20 Mon, 14 Jun 99 18:13:09 EDT
Contents:
uninstall LILO from DOS ? ("Itzik S.")
Re: Newbie Question: Killing Infinite Loops without Rebooting ("S.R.F. Materie
Plastiche S.p.A")
Re: Which Window Managers? (was Which GUI?) (Robin Becker)
Re: /etc/termcap question (Floyd Davidson)
Re: Commercially speaking....? (Stuart Brady)
StarOffice on RedHat 6.0 (Shirish Chinchalkar)
Re: mingetty problem (fwd) (Arthur Rinkel)
Re: making linux go away (Luke Scharf)
Re: StarOffice on RedHat 6.0 (Roger Atkinson)
Re: Microsoft FrontPage� 2000 Server Extensions for Linux... (Duncan Simpson)
Re: Newbie: POP account news/mail readers (Duncan Simpson)
Re: Any Mail Application for commercial use (Duncan Simpson)
Re: the last two characters of a dos text file are? (Duncan Simpson)
Re: kernel v2.3 development? (Duncan Simpson)
Re: Which Internet Service Provider is especially Linux-friendly? (Duncan Simpson)
Re: lost+found? (Duncan Simpson)
Re: Vmware+SCSI (David Fox)
Re: putting wordperfect 8 icon on KDE ("Ferdinand V. Mendoza")
Re: uninstall LILO from DOS ? (Zoran Cutura)
Re: New User Stuff (TonyC)
Re: Commercially speaking... (Ashley W Campbell)
Re: 2 newbie questions! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Microsoft =?ISO-8859-1?Q?FrontPage=AE?= 2000 Server Extensions for Linux...
(pangloss)
Re: Performance tuning of FreeBSD and Linux: pointers requested (Mark Hahn)
Redir IO app dosemu <-> linux (Marco Dubbeld)
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From: "Itzik S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: uninstall LILO from DOS ?
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 11:48:58 +0200
Hi,
Is there any way to uninstall LILO, after booting DOS, and not from
Linux ?
10x,
Itzik.
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From: "S.R.F. Materie Plastiche S.p.A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Killing Infinite Loops without Rebooting
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:26:14 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tanya wrote:
>
> Does anyone know the command to use in Linux to break out of an infinite
> loop in a poorly written C++ program without forcing a reboot? I tried
> "esc", "ctrl-esc", "ctrl-alt-backspace".
>
> thanks.
You could press "ctrl-c" or:
1) switch to another terminal (by pressing ALT plus one key from F1 to
F6)
2) login to that tty
3) give the command ps -tYour_locked_tty (where Your_locked_tty is
the number of terminal from where You launched the application to kill)
4) You should see a list of processes for that terminal
5) give the command kill -9 Process_to_be_killed
where Process_to_be_killed is the PID (process identification number) of
the program you want to abort (you see the PID list by giving the ps
command)
Greetings.
Dott. Paolo
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From: Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which Window Managers? (was Which GUI?)
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:34:17 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johan Kullstam
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffan O'Sullivan) writes:
>
>> Lev Babiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> >Actually X is pretty much the only choice for GUI you have
>> >right now. But I guess you're referring to window managers/
>> >graphic environments.
>>
>> I was indeed, sorry to be inaccurate in my wording. My thanks to Lev
>> and Stewart for their input - very valuable.
>>
>> Anyone else have any favorite Window Managers? Or least favorite, and
>> why?
>
>i have been using fvwm1 for about 5 or 6 years now. it is small, fast
>and, not least, extremely stable. the look is not flashy but i find
>it is functional. i like the screen pager which gives me multiple
>desktops.
>
I use fvwm2 and really like it.
--
Robin Becker
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general
Subject: Re: /etc/termcap question
Date: 14 Jun 1999 18:52:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > if it has more than 24 lines it is no longer emulating a vt100.
>>
>> let's not be too pedantic. DEC's vt420 terminal can have page sizes
>> other than 24 lines even when emulating a vt100.
>
>the point being that since the original vt100 only had 24 line mode
>there are no `how many lines have you got?' escape codes for it.
>anything that resize could use would be an extension to the vt100
>codes and therefore not covered under the rubric of vt100.
What you are describing was true in 1979, but 20 years have
gone by since then... and a lot of rubric was stretched.
If DEC extended the rubric of vt100 to cover it, then perhaps
the rest of us can too.
Floyd
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
North Slope images: <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
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From: Stuart Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Commercially speaking....?
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 20:50:13 +0100
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, mlw wrote:
>XFree86 does not need to multitask programs because it run on operating
>systems that naturally have this capability.
My point exactly - Microsoft should have put multitasking (and a lot of
the other things that windows does) in DOS, instead of in Windows.
>Remember, all versions of "Windows" (excluding NT and CE) are DOS based.
CE is DOS (and therefore CP/M) based? Yikes... I thought Microsoft might
have had the sense to code everything from scratch this time round...
>As much as MS would have you believe not, DOS device drivers and the DOS
>OS (for lack of a better term) is still available while Windows is
>running. Windows has augmented DOS, not replaced it.
I've always known that Windows sits on top of DOS. I still can't belive
that Microsoft managed to fool anyone with that splash screen, and a
cleverly worded shutdown menu. I didn't think that people could be in
favor of Microsoft 'merging' Windows and DOS, too...
--
Stuart Brady: stuart@wholehog .demon.co.uk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shirish Chinchalkar)
Subject: StarOffice on RedHat 6.0
Date: 11 Jun 1999 04:19:32 GMT
Has anyone successfully installed StarOffice 5.0 on Redhat 6.0? I
have had several problems with it. First off, the shared libraries are
different. SO comes with its own shared libraries, which I tried to
install. It asked me to type the command "gldrinst force", which
tried to rename one of the libraries in /lib causing the entire system
to stop functioning (even commands like cp, mv, ls, stopped working).
I had to use the rescue disk to get the system back to normal.
If I do not do "gldrinst force", then, I get some unresolved
name when installing SO.
Someone who has successfully installed SO 5.0 on RH6.0, please get in touch
with me. I have not tried the more recent SO 5.1, because I have a really
slow network connection and it will take too long to download it.
Thanks.
Shirish.
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From: Arthur Rinkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mingetty problem (fwd)
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 12:03:12 +0200
On 14 Jun 1999, Villy Kruse wrote:
> >I have a weird problem with one of the mingetty processes that is running.
> >So far it's not really disturbing, but I'd like it to run correctly.
> >Sometimes mingetty doesn't handle CR anymore and prints them as ^M. This
> >way I can't login on the terminal in question. I've tried kill the
> >process, but that does help. Anyone knows how to fix this?
>
> That usualy happens (on any unix) if some other process still has the
> tty device open after you log off and the tty device is in raw (ie -icanon)
> mode.
How can I determine if the device is in raw mode? And how can one
determine which processes are in some way 'connected' to a specific (tty)
device?
> There is or used to be some system daemons that opens or keep open the
> /dev/console which could cause this behaviour on /dev/tty1.
Do you know any daemons by name that cause this? The following daemons are
running on my system: kflushd, kswapd, kerneld, syslogd, klogd, crond,
inetd, lpd, sendmail, gpm?, 2x update (bdflush), atd.
> The getty assumes that the tty device will be reset to a default state when
> the last process closes the device. If a daemon has the device open that will
> never happen.
But if a process has the device still open, (min)getty can still be
re-initiated?
And suppose I kill the (min)getty process, wouldn't that cut all the open
'connections' with other processes?
Grtz, Arthur
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From: Luke Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:59:09 -0400
If you have a DOS boot disk with fdisk on it:
1. boot off of it
2. If you have another OS
a. run fdisk
b. Set the active partition to be that of your OS
3. run
"fdisk /mbr" -- this is a nice undocumented feature of fdisk that will
rewrite your master boot record.
Learning Unix is a pain... Better luck next time!
-Luke
John Sowden wrote:
>
> I read the responses, just flames. The problem is you are asking a valid
> question. I also need to know how to remove Linux from a hard drive, as I
> am installing a new copy (caldera) and it doen't discuss in the newbie part
> about installing over an existing linux os.
>
> Can someone please take our requests seriously.
>
> adam howard wrote in message <7iv13k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >talk about a waste of bandwidth....do we really need a few dozen people to
> >give the same answer?
> >
> >
> >> How do I get rid of Linux in the boot sector (I guess that's where it
> >> is) once and for all?
> >
> >
> >
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From: Roger Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: StarOffice on RedHat 6.0
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 13:45:40 -0700
Shirish Chinchalkar wrote:
>
> Has anyone successfully installed StarOffice 5.0 on Redhat 6.0? I
> have had several problems with it. First off, the shared libraries are
> different. SO comes with its own shared libraries, which I tried to
> install. It asked me to type the command "gldrinst force", which
> tried to rename one of the libraries in /lib causing the entire system
> to stop functioning (even commands like cp, mv, ls, stopped working).
> I had to use the rescue disk to get the system back to normal.
>
> If I do not do "gldrinst force", then, I get some unresolved
> name when installing SO.
>
> Someone who has successfully installed SO 5.0 on RH6.0, please get in touch
> with me. I have not tried the more recent SO 5.1, because I have a really
> slow network connection and it will take too long to download it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Shirish.
I know it's a big download but you should really get SO 5.1. Even though
it still complains aboaut the glibc versions it gives you the option to
continue anyway. I have had it working for almost a month with no
problems. They even include the Star Office Icon images so you can
create your own Gnome Star Office Start button right on the desktop.
HTH, Roger Atkinson Unix Sys Admin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Microsoft FrontPage� 2000 Server Extensions for Linux...
Date: 8 Jun 1999 14:37:20 GMT
In <01beb0ce$3bea3970$24921e18@obi-wan-kenobi> "test" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/frontpage/wpp/
>ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Products/frontpage/fp40.linux.tar.Z
>ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Products/frontpage/change_server.sh
>ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Products/frontpage/fp_install.sh
>Get those files and you're set...
>USENET support...
>Installing and administering UNIX server extensions for FrontPage:
>news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.frontpage.extensions.unix
This assumes you have a normal environment. Given that front page is
very close to any random cgi, in the hands of the sharp people, this
is not an appropiate environment to install FP. I tried in an
environment paranoid enough to avoid headaches when someone buffer
overruns the FP programs and allow random cgi and failed.
M$ can do a counter vulnerable to buffer overruns, which is not too
suprising given the first version of the launching
program... exploitable by buffer overrun, exec()ing it with no unopen
fds left, setting low limits and just about everything else---shall we
say the *most expoitable* code known to man, roundly beaten into tiny
pieces on bugtraq.
The documentation is insufficient to deal with situations the
installer can not handle (like root is not a powerful user in the
relevant directories, for obvious security benefits). The installer
also wants to modify your httpd.conf file in silly ways---I had made
.exe a magic extension indicating cgi (wrappered into a paranoid
environment) so the fiddling was both pointless and a dire security
breach.
I would suggest FP extensions only on a victim machine specially for
it, with ample warnings so that nobody can complain when FP gets
exploited and they suffer the consequences. The clueful can write
their own perl, php, etc on a properly secured box.
--
Duncan (-:
"software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is
legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Subject: Re: Newbie: POP account news/mail readers
Date: 9 Jun 1999 20:54:22 GMT
In <7jkem9$fco$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffan O'Sullivan) writes:
>I'm considering to switching to linux on my next computer, coming
>shortly. I currently do not have a POP account, because all Windows
>newsreaders and mail programs suck compared to the unix trn and elm I
>get with my shell account. (Been on the net 12 years, had a POP
>account only two of those years, gave it up. Wasn't worth the extra
>money, since I can read Sluggy at work ...)
>What I'm wondering is: if I get linux, can I get a POP account and
>still use trn and elm AND use Netscape to read my daily dose of the
>Sluggy Freelance online comic (www.sluggy.com)?
Yup, fetchmail will get sendmail to deliver it to you on your linux
box. I use it for a few mailing lists like bugtraq, cert-cc, and
various others. I use exmh and not elm.
--
Duncan (-:
"software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is
legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Any Mail Application for commercial use
Date: 9 Jun 1999 21:08:07 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Besides Zmail and Sendmail, is there any mail application suitable for
>commercial use ? As Sendmail seems too complicated for commercial and
>the user interface is not so user-friendly.
There are others like qmail and postfix. If you want an ISP strength
mail transport agent then sendmail is the usual choice. Easier
configuration is avaialable as sendmail pro (sendmail+GUI
configuration tool) from sendmail inc, whose techincal support should
be good (if need be Eric himself is avialable). There are lots of
consultants out there who will install and configure sendmail for you.
Both these options will cost you money, of course.
Things you read and write mail with are a sepereate question. Popular
choices include pine and elm. There are varuious GUI ones too--I like
exmh but it is not for everyone.
--
Duncan (-:
"software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is
legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Subject: Re: the last two characters of a dos text file are?
Date: 9 Jun 1999 12:17:05 GMT
In <01beb1ee$40274200$e701010a@ultra-001> "Matthew D. Melbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>David Vrabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
>> I use tr, perl is a bit over the top for this.
>> tr -d '\r' < old_file > new_file
>> to delete the '\r' character leaving the '\n' intact.
>>
>> David Vrabel
>>
>>
>David...the "tr" command is ok.......as long as you do not have several
>hundred files to go through in a directory. Then you do need a perl
>program since "tr" (at least through my resrearch) does not supprt a
>recursive call to do entire directories. So if you have MANY files to do
>such as my company does on a weekly basis, you need something a little
>better then "tr".
No need for perl to do this. Use a shell loop and find, or of push
comes to shove use find's -exec option. Shell programing will get you
all the way. I did write a C version that handled any mix of /r /n/r
/r/n and /n and converted them all to whatever you liked. Various
names set appropiate defaults and the greastest version allowed what
you wanted including arbitary numbers of \0. This is not something
tr can do.
Duncan (-:
--
Duncan (-:
"software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is
legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: kernel v2.3 development?
Date: 9 Jun 1999 12:11:42 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Johannes Rest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi,
>does anybody know which new key features the new development
>kernel will contain in the future? 2.2 brought a lot of new
>architectural
>changes? Will there be any new architectural features in 2.3.x?
>(I'm asking this with the idea in mind that in the future linux will
>have to
>compete with other os like NT)
The plans probably include
- sending a file straiught form the buffer cache (NT can do this)
- zero copy write() (copy to a buffer if and only if the application
writes to relevant pages and the kernel still wants it). This means
things like zero copy TCP
- faster scheduling (several obvious methods).
- soft real time stuff (above soft you need a real-time kernel, very
unlike linux, NT, etc).
- large journalled filing system (thanks to SGI).
- capabilities support in at least one filesystem
- acls, assuming someone works up enough enthusiasm to implement them.
- more hardware support, if current trends continue
- any other brilliant ideas the developers include.
Patches already exist for a device fs which very cute and works (my system
uses it), ext2 undeletiong and compression (I use the latter) plus a whole
lot more. ext3 may include journaling and capabalities. AS for competing with
NT the $1k+ you save invested in extra computer allow you to blow away NT
already.
--
Duncan (-:
"software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is
legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Subject: Re: Which Internet Service Provider is especially Linux-friendly?
Date: 8 Jun 1999 10:40:12 GMT
>Dxx-Richard_T_Myers(0)0 wrote:
>>
>> I am shopping for an ISP, and will be using several home systems with
>> Linux and Windows installed. I'm interested in newsgroups, PPP, and having
>> a shell account on an ISP system for web-hosting. Reasonable flat rate for
>> normal access much preferred. (I'm in the Denver Colorado area)
As one who knows the other end of the wire better than most getting a
shell account is unlikely. PPP and web space is pretty common but
shell accounts in the hands of sharp crackers are a security problem
no ISP needs. Since there is little need for them chances are you do not
get one, period.
(I have shell access to several machines but I also have *legitimate*
root access too. This means I am one of the people meant to know the root
password).
--
Duncan (-:
"software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is
legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Subject: Re: lost+found?
Date: 10 Jun 1999 17:21:54 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Joe Pelkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Does anyone know what the "lost+found" directory found on newly
>formatted ext2fs partitions is?
Yup it is the orphanage that inodes whose parents have been deleted
get put into by e2fsck when in finds them. This generally happens only
when something bad happens to the filesystem for soem reason (power
cut in a bad moment, hard disc failure, etc).
--
Duncan (-:
"software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is
legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems."
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: Vmware+SCSI
Date: 14 Jun 1999 01:50:01 -0700
Uwe Bonnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> : i own a SCSI CD-RW (Yamaha CRW4260). is there a way to use it inder
> : vmware as i need packet writing which isn't supported by linux?
>
> Yes there is a way:
> Write the support for Linux and VMWare will use it :-)
VMware have said that they have no concrete plans at this time to
support any SCSI at all.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: "Ferdinand V. Mendoza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: putting wordperfect 8 icon on KDE
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:20:08 +0400
Try the File manager. Drag and drop with your mouse
the executable on the desktop and right button click
over the icon. AFAICR, there is property menu when
you right click and you can change the icon of your
choice.
Ferdinand
Sid Boyce wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > How can I make Wordperfect 8 start from an icon on my KDE desktop?
> >
> > Sorry for the newbie question,
> > and thanks for any help...
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
> Right, in one of the folders, e.g under
> /opt/kde/share/applnk/apps/Office, edit a file called Wordperfect.kdelnk
> with the following ....
> # KDE Config File
> [KDE Desktop Entry]
> WmCommand=
> BinaryPattern=
> Name=Wordperfect
> MiniIcon= ### If there is a mini-icon, you can put the name
> here ###
> Protocols=
> MimeType=
> Exec=Wordperfect ### or whatever the binary is called ###
> Icon=Wordperfect.xpm
> TerminalOptions=
> Path=
> DocPath=
> Type=Application
> Terminal=0
> Comment=Wordperfect 8 Office Suite
>
> Copy your Woedperfect icon to /opt/kde/share/icons/ and if there is a
> mini-icon copy it to /opt/kde/share/icons/mini/.
> Do a panel restart and that should do it. There is a mkkdelink util,
> but it doesn't work under the latest kde versions, so you have to do
> hand editing.
> Regards
> --
> ... Sid Boyce...Amdahl(Europe)...44-121 422 0375
> Any opinions expressed above are mine and do not necessarily represent
> the opinions or policies of Amdahl Corporation.
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From: Zoran Cutura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: uninstall LILO from DOS ?
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:17:03 +0000
"Itzik S." wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Is there any way to uninstall LILO, after booting DOS, and not from
> Linux ?
>
> 10x,
> Itzik.
That's a real FAQ (this was allready posted about 5 million times!)
fdisk /mbr
grrrrr! (It is better to uninstall your DOSE than removing lilo!)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TonyC)
Subject: Re: New User Stuff
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 11:04:34 +0100
Ben Short says...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am very new to Linux. I just installed Red Hat. I have a small
> > network set up with a Windows 98 box, a Linux box and 2 printers on my
> > hub.
> >
> > I want to be able to dial from my Windows box through my Linux box
> > onto the net........can I do this?
> >
> Well, you can dial up an ISP from you linux box, then use IP masquerading
> so your windows box can access the internet over the LAN you have set up.
or/and set up a proxy sever on the Linux machine for www stuff.
WWWOFFLE is nice and easy IMO see;
<http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/>
If you want to control the dialing from another machine you could try;
<http://w3.cpwright.com/mserver/index.html>
or just telnet in of course.
>
> > Also, how do I start an FTP deamon on my Linux box so I can send files
> > across?
Isn't it there already?
I had to set up SAMBA anyway so I just use that.
I find it much more convenient.
> >
> > Thanks, I'm very new to this stuff......
Me too..
HTH
TonyC
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From: Ashley W Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Commercially speaking...
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:29:52 -0400
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Matthew Malthouse wrote:
> What will it then do if the resultant 8.3 is not unique in the directory?
>
> Matthew
Why, it will come up with the extremely logical (but dubiously helpful) ~2
extension. I don't know what it does if there are more than 10 (0-9)
semi-unique files in the directory, though.
-Ashley Campbell
awc2-at-andrew.cmu.edu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 2 newbie questions!
Date: 13 Jun 1999 14:33:49 GMT
In his obvious haste, [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled thusly:
: I know it's supposed to go in .bash_profile or .tcshrc, but I couldn't find any
: of those file any where in my linux directory. 'find / -name .bash_profile
: -print' and 'find / -name .tcshrc -print' return nothing.
If they're not there, just create them....
Put whatever config options you want in them.
Problem solved...
As for the apps problem, it does look like you've tried to start X
applications without first starting X with startx.
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From: pangloss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
microsoft.public.frontpage.extensions.unix,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Microsoft =?ISO-8859-1?Q?FrontPage=AE?= 2000 Server Extensions for
Linux...
Date: 13 Jun 1999 18:15:24 +0200
In comp.os.linux.misc Cameron L. Spitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One of my users asked for Frontpage Extensions to Apache, and I looked at
> the source patch and it was full of comments like "this creates a race
> condition but it doesn't happen very much..." It appears that security
> was not exactly the first concern. I can't afford to compromise security
> so I didn't install the patch.
> What do the Frontpage Extensions really *do*? Is there any functionality
> there that can't be had using the normal, trusted Apache modules?
> Is there an independent implementation with better security than
> Microsoft's version?
> Conversely, it turned out my user only wanted the "Extensions"
> because he didn't know how to generate plain HTML with Frontpage.
> Apparently, Frontpage (or Frontpage Express...) comes "out of the
> box" wanting to generate this half-baked stuff that the Extensions
> turn into plain HTML when the page is fetched.
These are the practices M$ is on trial for. So maybe you should
pass this on to the prosecution. Or to Mr. Nader.
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From: Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Performance tuning of FreeBSD and Linux: pointers requested
Date: 14 Jun 1999 00:21:16 GMT
> A single disks gives about 12..13 MB/s, so SW-RAID-0 scales quite good
note that the nature of the disk really does matter. this post must
be using somewhat older disks, since recent ones are faster. in fact,
recent-generation 7200 rpm UDMA disks can actually sustain 15-20 MB/s
(with no more overhead than SCSI, of course.)
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 23:38:07 +0200
From: Marco Dubbeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Redir IO app dosemu <-> linux
What would be my options if I want to redirect IO between an application
written in foxpro for dos running in a dosemu, to a application I am
currently developing in Linux tcl/tk. Can I use expect? Is there an easy
way to share the dosemu IO to linux app. If not what is neat to do??
Many thanks...
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