Linux-Misc Digest #679, Volume #20 Thu, 17 Jun 99 23:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Very new to Redhat.....a few dumb questions (Stewart Honsberger)
changing text and bagkground colors in emacs... (chriostopher rehm)
Re: Suse 6.1 and ftp - connection refused (Ben Short)
Re: making linux go away ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
/dev/sndstat and modules sound-slot-0 and sound-service-0-6 ? (root)
turning the modem speaker off (Fanni Kolchina)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News ("Chad Mulligan")
Modem too loud (can't make changes stick!) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News ("Chad Mulligan")
Re: Linux systems- Poor security (Tim Philip Williams)
Strange problem: Cannot browse linux.com (Ajay Surana)
Re: Linux systems- Poor security (M. Buchenrieder)
gnucash anyone? (Douglas Nichols)
Re: Auto Login and start app (Robert Lynch)
Re: Diald - FTP'ing my dynamic IP to my Web Page? ("Terry Fielder")
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (Mark Evans)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Very new to Redhat.....a few dumb questions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 00:38:23 GMT
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 18:31:43 -0400, Michael Tefft wrote:
>There is no USB support for Linux as yet.
Kernel 2.3.* appears to have "*BETA!!!*" USB support. I couldn't make
2.3.5 compile, and I don't have any USB devices (or connected ports, for
that matter), so I have no idea whether it works or not.
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Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
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Humming along under SuSE Linux 6.0 / OS/2 Warp 4
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From: chriostopher rehm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: changing text and bagkground colors in emacs...
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 20:18:37 -0400
hi all--
how do i change the background color and text color in emacs??-- the
yellow and green is not my thing
thanks
chris rehm
ps please email me direct-- i dont get back to this group often
thanks
chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Short)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Suse 6.1 and ftp - connection refused
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:31:09 +1000
In article <Apaa3.644$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> The ftp on my suse system is out to lunch. While it will accept connections
> from the local host it will not accept connections from remote systems. Have
> installed wu.ftpd, proftpd, and the standard ftpd. Have started each using
> inetd, tcpserver, and as indivdual daemons. Have used same ftpaccess etc.
> files as on working systems. All hosts are listed in DNS and Hosts files.
> Other services connect fine such as Telnet, SMTP, etc. This is not a routing
> or name resolution issue.
>
> Symptoms the same with all configurations. Error always the same "Connection
> Refused"
>
> Symtoms:
> All cases can connect on local host
> Suse2 system: Can connect from a NT workstation
> Suse2 system: Refuses connection from Suse1 system ???
> Suse1 system: Refuses connections from any host
> Suse1 system: Sporadically will accept connection once from remote host.
> Drops connection after running any command such as "ls". Then refuses any
> further remote connections from that point - even after restarting all
> services ????
>
> It acts as though there is no service listening on the FTP port. Any
> suggestions as to what to look at.
>
> Thanks,
> J. Land
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
To me, it sounds like there is some sort of firewall in effect, because
if it were TCP Wrappers, or ftpaccess files, it should connect, check the
IP against the file, and then disconnect.
ust check your firewalling rules :)
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From: [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: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 21:13:42 -0700
I have used the RedHat setup to remove partitions. Just run the install
up to the point where you partiotion the drive After saving the changes,
reboot and you have a clean drive.
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: /dev/sndstat and modules sound-slot-0 and sound-service-0-6 ?
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:02:39 -0400
I am having problems with sound under KDE, although it works with gnome. I
have a SB-PCI128 and am using SuSE 6.0 with kernel 2.2.9 using the ES1370
kernel sound driver. I am able to send .wav files to /dev/dsp and they
play, although at the wrong speed. But I do hear sounds, except under KDE.
When KDE starts, I notice some suspicious messages in /var/log/messages:
modprobe: can't locate module sound-slot-0
modprobe: can't locate module sound-service-0
I looked at /usr/X11R6/bin/kde and traced the problem to the following line
in function startifaudio()
TESTVAR=`grep -A1 "Audio devices" /dev/sndstat | tail -n 1`
in particular, the line
grep -A1 "Audio devices" /dev/sndstat causes the message
modprobe: can't locate module sound-service-0-6
to appear in /var/log/messages
If I attempt to do
more /dev/sndstat
I get both messages in /var/log/messages:
modprobe: can't locate module sound-slot-0
modprobe: can't locate module sound-service-0
If I try:
echo "1" > /dev/sndstat
I get an error message:
bash: /dev/sndstat: Operation not supported by device
and the two messages given above appear in /var/log/messages.
although it works for
cat "1" > /dev/dsp
Does anybody know what or where these modules are? Are they supposed to be
installed as part of kde? Is /dev/sndstat supposed to act this way?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fanni Kolchina)
Subject: turning the modem speaker off
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.linux.slakware,uk.comp.os.linux
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 03:00:58 GMT
Hi,
Could anyone please tell me how I can turn off the modem speaker?
I have a Zoltrix 33.6 modem, slackware 3.3 and I use ezppp for
dialup.
Thank you very much,
Fanni.
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From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:09:55 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<7kaeul$83h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>"Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
>
>>>What he would need to find is something that is _not a car_, and yet is
>>>a VW beetle (or _not a Solaris app_, and yet a linux app).
>
>>I think the complete lack of applications for Linux and the repeated
claim,
>>in this forum, that Linux could run Solaris applications, they are
available
>>in x86 format, after all, confused me. Thanks for clearing that up.
>
>You were following-up to a post that said "Linux apps *are* Solaris apps".
>
>But anyway --- can you name 5 apps from the top of your head that are
>available for Solaris/x86 and do not run under IBCS?
>
I did, and that's what triggered jedi's posts to me.
>Bernie
>
>--
>===========================================================================
=
>"It's a magical world, Hobbes ol' buddy...
> ...let's go exploring"
>Calvin's final words, on December 31st, 1995
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Modem too loud (can't make changes stick!)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 01:14:28 GMT
I am using the ppp-on, ppp-on-dialer, and ppp-off scripts for dialing my
ISP. I have set the modem speaker volume through minicom using 'ATL0'
but somewhere it keeps getting reset. Does anyone know where the
initialization string is found (either in the above or in chat)? I would
like to change it if this is the problem.
Thanks in advance
Jeff
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:15:01 -0700
Joseph T. Adams wrote in message <7kagpp$lp0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Chad Mulligan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>:
>: They achieved the 99.8% availability of the site, with a very heavy load.
>:
>: But you can draw your own conclusions.
>
>I certainly will. :)
>
>99.8% availability is abominable, even for a single machine.
>
>That means most of a full day of downtime per calendar year (0.73 days
>to be precise), and this could be all at once or (more likely) spread
>over time. *Planned* downtime in that quantity may not be bad, but
>unplanned downtime in any amount is simply not acceptable to those who
>need to use the system during that downtime.
>
A point that in MS's design is invisible to the customer.
>A busy, important, commercial Web site should have no single point of
>failure and hence no downtime at all, and therefore 100.0000%
>availability. Unplanned downtime should be measured in parts per
>million (i.e., seconds per year). All unplanned downtime, no matter
>how slight, should be diagnosed, and those responsible for repeated
>incidents of the same kind should be directed toward a more suitable
>career, one in which they are not grossly incompetent.
>
Try this, MS has a large site (for our purposes site == server) built of a
large collection of machines. These machines achieve a 99.8% uptime, the
site is there all the time because the machine's are analogous to a raid
array with mirrored hot swap options. A drive can go down but your server
doesn't, in our purposes here a machine can go down the server (== site )
doesn't.
>Maybe Microsoft's customers, who tend to be technically illiterate
>anyway, are wowed by these kinds of stats. Professional Webmasters
>are not. They know that even PC-class hardware can easily achieve
>orders of magnitude better performance than this, although Microsoft's
>site is big enough that it should be using better than PC-class
>harware and operating systems, and would be both more reliable and
>more cost-effective if it did.
>
That's a fairly obtuse statement. Given eBay's recent dependence on such a
"better machine" implementation.
>
>Joe
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From: Tim Philip Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux systems- Poor security
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:48:32 GMT
Klaas Barends wrote:
>
> There is nothing a cracker would enjoy more then a canned setup. Then he
> knows exactly where the holes are.
> A canned security setup is just as bad as no security setup.
>
> --
> mvg. Klaas Barends
> http://bart.nl/~hapkido/
Perhaps a canned security setup wouldn't be so bad if the default Login
prompt didn't tell everybody the distribution and version of the system.
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From: Ajay Surana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Strange problem: Cannot browse linux.com
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 22:15:20 -0400
Hi,
I am running Redhat 6.0, Netscape 4.6. I can browse any other site but
linux.com.
When I type in the URL, it reports connection established. waiting for
response... but
never comes back. I also specified the IP address and port, but that
doesn't work either.
nslookup resolves the domain as:
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: linux.com
Address: 209.81.14.243
The same thing happens with the StarOffice browser and the "wget"
utility.
wget linux.com
--21:59:37-- http://linux.com:80/
=> `index.html'
Connecting to linux.com:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
I have tried this at different times, so it cannot be that the site was
down.
Any ideas. Please email replies too.
Thanks
AJ
suranainc(at)rcn.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Linux systems- Poor security
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:27:21 GMT
"Bezalel Geretz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Just wondering how do you secure a file in UNIX so the administrator cannot
>read it?
[...]
PGP .
Note that in NT you could do that as well, of course. There is,
however, no difference in the fact that on both OSes, the superuser
will be able to read all files, unless you do use some sort of
encryption.
OTOH, if you do have files on your machine(s) that the admin
should not be able to read, then be aware that you will probably
lose your account and/or job doing so, anyways.
Michael
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From: Douglas Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: gnucash anyone?
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:23:05 +0000
Is anyone using this softwaree? I have installed it, along
with the required libs, etc. I start it up but cannot do
anything worth while. It seems to want some file to open at
startup, what this file is I cannot say. I have guessed at
several items but to no avail. It does startup but I cannot
not create accounts, although it lets me think I can, and
pref just bombs.
Thanks for the help.
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Cheers
Douglas Nichols
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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 08:27:00 -0700
From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Auto Login and start app
James Crawford wrote:
>
> I'm fairly new to Linux, running Red Hat 6.0, how do you autologin a
> workstation and start an x app to boot? I have a certian application for a
> pc and that is all it will be used for.
>
> Thanks
> James Crawford
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I made an rpm which incorporates John Kodis' patch to mingetty. Details
of how it works is found in a copy of his Linux Gazette article:
ftp://shell3.ba.best.com/pub/rmlynch/RPMS/kodis.txt
Basically after an install and reconfiguration of /etc/inittab, you are
autologged into a vt, say, vt1. Also, he gives a script to start X,
which could be modified to start your app.
I've been using it myself for some time and it works very well.
The rpms are at:
ftp://shell3.ba.best.com/pub/rmlynch/RPMS/mingetty+autologin-0.9.4-1.i386.rpm
ftp://shell3.ba.best.com/pub/rmlynch/RPMS/mingetty+autologin-0.9.4-1.src.rpm
Only problem with these rpms is that one must force the installation
because it replaces mingetty. One of these days I will figure out how
to fix this.
FWIW.
Bob L.
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http://www.best.com/~rmlynch/
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From: "Terry Fielder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Diald - FTP'ing my dynamic IP to my Web Page?
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:42:00 GMT
I don't have the script done, but I can tell you exactly what you need to
do:
The local script needs to find out what your new ip is, so have it parse the
results from "ifconfig" if your ppp connection shows up there (it should,
else look in the procs, it will be there as well).
eg
iftext = $(ifconfig)
then parse the variable $iftext for the ip address
Now you need to send it to your website. The easiest way (if your isp
allows you cgi access) is to stuff the ip into a field of a form. So you
would need to write a cgi program that reads a form field and does something
with the value, such as stuff it into a web page. The hard part is sending
the value to the web page... This will do the trick:
mynewip = ... (parse your ifconfig results to pluck out just the ppp ip)
cgirequest =
"http://me.myisp.com/cgi-bin/myupdatescript.pl?mynewipfield=$mynewip"
lynx -dump $cgirequest
That should about do it. Now that we have covered the hard part, if you
have any difficulty, let me know, it will only take a bit to whip up
something functional.
Terry Fielder
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS Posting on the web site does not have to prevent the connection from
going down. It is going to depend on why the connection is going down...
If you initiated disconnect or is the ISP kicking you off for idle time...
Are you kicking yourself off for idle time... I can think of solutions for
each of these scenarios... Let me know if you are interested.
Eric Cartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>
>Hello All,
>
>I would like setup diald so that every time it connects, it FTPs the
>dynamically assigned IP number to my web space on my ISP account.
>That way, if I am elsewhere, I can find out where my machine is
>currently connected.
>
>Does anyone already have the scripts that do this?
>
>Also, I would really like it if it could also post on the web site
>right before going down that it is no longer connected. But that is
>probably harder, as that would cause the link to stay up.
>
>Thanks much,
>
>Eric
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From: Mark Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark?
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:11:01 +0100
Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> %% "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> IE ? who cares. THe Solaris version is a POS.
> cm> Couldn't be worse that Netscape.
> Hah hah hah! You _obviously_ have never tried it. I have. Trust me,
> no matter how bad you think Netscape is, IE for Solaris is much, much
> worse. I posted a review of my experience with it last summer.
Apparently it carries a Windows emulator arround witg it.
[snip]
> - It looks and works more like a Windows app than a UNIX/X app. Yuck.
This point also applies to Netscape to some extent, e.g. "global config
file, what's that?"
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St. Peter's CofE High School
Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109
Fax: +44 1392 204763
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