Linux-Misc Digest #819, Volume #20 Mon, 28 Jun 99 02:13:10 EDT
Contents:
newbie - linux viruses? (Dionysus)
Re: SuSE 6.1 anyone? (Michel Catudal)
Re: Matrox G200 video driver? (Rich Piotrowski)
Re: Opinions on linux cd-rom vendors? ("Eugene")
Re: Xwindows Manger (Frederic L. W. Meunier)
Re: Docbook? Linuxdoc? Re: Documentation issues. (Christopher B. Browne)
Re: newbie - linux viruses? (jik-)
Re: NT the best web platform? (Alex Lam)
How do I stop Appletalk! (John Garrison)
Re: Xwindows Manger (jik-)
Re: Real Player 5.0 not working! (Ted Sikora)
Re: rvplayer spooky story ("R.K.Aa")
Re: NT the best web platform? (Jason Haar)
Re: Connecting to a WAN ("Lee Sharp")
hdparm patch not working! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ECC on SDRAMS - is it beneficial w/Linux? (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: Advice? - Should I recompile the kernel? (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Re: Netscape crashes on Java (Chuck Cusack)
Re: Connecting to a WAN (David Efflandt)
Re: Xemacs on RH5.2 (Christian Kirsch)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dionysus)
Subject: newbie - linux viruses?
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 03:46:07 GMT
i was just wondering as i had not seen any virus killing products
available for the linux platform whether viruses are proving to be as
prolififerant on the linux platform as they are on windows machines? I
am assuming that viruses are platform-specific, and that if, for
instance, i connected a linux box up to my win95 machine that i could
transfer files between the 2 without having to worry about a win95
virus screwing my linux setup? all knowledge much appreciated :->
-dionysus
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.1 anyone?
Date: 27 Jun 1999 22:46:09 -0500
Jenni G wrote:
>
> Does it contain much in the way of server tools & apps?
>
As RedHat I guess. From what I can see it is RedHat improved.
The version I got comes with kernel 2.2.7. It has Apache, and
most of the server program that are available for Linux.
It also include a Star Office 5.0, IBM DB2, Informix SE, Sybase SE,
Word Perfect.
It has a neat intelligent dialer, wvdial. I've never seen such
a nice dialer on linux before. If you think it is easy with
RedHat to setup the net, think again, under SuSE it's done
almost automatically. You fill out a few lines in a couple of
scripts and you're done. If it has problem doing the first
connection just edit the resolv.conf file yourself. If the line
goes out, you're reconnected within 5 secs. The problems I've
had with RedHat with pppd not trying to connect and telling me
that it failed connecting don't exist with SuSE.
It has a nice installer SaX which can find the AGP graphics
cards without any problem. It setup my Logitech mouse easily.
It does have a limited number of keyboards like it insists on using
that moronic AZERTY keyboard during the install instead of my
QWERTY CF keyboard. The - is where the 6 is and you need to press
on shift to get the numbers (??????) Those European French are
weird!
Despite that the setup of X was easier than it has ever been
with either RedHat or Slackware.
If I had known about SuSE before I wouldn't have bothered with
RedHat or Slackware. I paid $30 at CompUSA and it comes with
a nice book and 5 CDs.
--
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use Linux for safe and quick internet access
use Winblows to test the latest viruses
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From: Rich Piotrowski <rpiotrow*nospammin'*@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Matrox G200 video driver?
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 23:04:18 -0500
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Bill Wooldridge wrote:
>I have just installed RedHat 5.2 on a partition of my hard drive and am
>having the devil's own time getting the video configured to work with
>Xwindows. Is there a driver I can install for the Matrox G200 AGP card with
>8 Meg of RAM. Where can I find it? My monitor is a NEC MultiSync 4FGe. Any
>hints much appreciated.
>
>Thanks for your response
>Bill Wooldridge
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bill,
I think you need a later version of XFree86 or at least a later server.
I've seen this posted before yet, my son is running a Millenium G200 with 8 meg
under RedHat 6.0 with no problems using the SVGA server. (VER 3.3.3.1).
Rich PIotrowski
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From: "Eugene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Opinions on linux cd-rom vendors?
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 04:28:10 GMT
One more good experience with Cheapbytes. I ordered stuff from them 3 times
already, and have been satisfied with the service. They have a nice ordering
system too, unlike linuxmall, linuxcentral, etc.
Geoff Stanbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've decided to order Slackware 4.0 on cdrom from some internet
> vendor, and I'm wondering which vendor I should go with? As in,
> Walnut Creek, Linuxmall, Cheapbytes, etc. Does it make any
> difference? I mean, things cost so much less at Cheapbytes, but are
> their products somehow of worse quality? Thanks for any and all
> opinions.
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From: Frederic L. W. Meunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xwindows Manger
Date: 28 Jun 1999 03:41:59 GMT
Hi everyone,
I've setup my Xwindows Manager and it took a default manager one which is
fvwm95-2. how can I switch to a different manager when I startup my
Xwindows. I wanted to try out all different Xwindows managers that come
with slackware 3.4. Also, would someone show me how to change a
background color of xterm? thanks in advance.
,,,
1- It's XWindow and not XWindowS
2- Type echo "exec x" > ~/.xinitrc x=your WindowManager (startkde,
gnome-session, icewm, afterstep, wmaker...)
3- Run xterm with the -bg option. If you want a black background allways, put
xterm*background: Black in your ~/.Xdefaults
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.text.sgml
Subject: Re: Docbook? Linuxdoc? Re: Documentation issues.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 04:32:21 GMT
On 27 Jun 1999 23:48:33 GMT, Jochem Huhmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne) writes:
>> The difference between SGML and XML is mainly that it's easier to write a
>> parser.
>>
>> Once the document gets turned into a tree of nodes, what you do with it
>> is the SAME whether you're using SGML or XML.
>
>But there are a lot of lightweight parsers for XML. That *does* make a
>difference. There are fine and simple XML-parsers for usage with
>almost every programming language out there. If I have some XML and
>would like to convert it to HTML or LaTeX, I can choose between doing
>it in Java, C, perl, python, tcl - just what I'm most familiar with.
No, it doesn't make much of a difference. The major effort is not the
parser; it is:
a) Establishing a suitable DTD, and
b) Writing the code that does something useful with the parsed results.
The fact that there are lots of XML parsers available and only a few SGML
parsers isn't that significant; I don't happen to need 15 parsers; I only
really need ONE.
>> The real point is that XML is not particularly "more accessible" than
>> full SGML, and certainly not from the perspective of anyone that isn't
>> writing a parser or developing using a parser.
>>
>> [Another "real difference" is that if you are writing an application that
>> needs to work with structured data, it's easier to integrate in an XML
>> parser. That is *almost* the same issue.]
>
>Which makes a huge difference in reality. The available range of
>parsers and applications is wider for XML as for SGML. And because
>they are simpler to write, they are cheaper and more common.
>
>To get back at sgmltools: It's funny enough, that it's entirely based
>on jade and DSSSL. If someone wants to write some other backend (or
>improve one), he has to know not only DocBook, but also jade, C++ and
>DSSSL (and the output-format of course). This is a lot to know
>about.
I'll disagree with the need to know C++; that is not generally needed.
And it's largely {XML|SGML} and DSSSL where knowledge are needed.
This doesn't change very much if you choose XML and pick another
parser; you're still left having to know "some style language,"
probably the implementation language (in which the XML parser is
written), as well as the intimate details of the output rendition
"language."
>Nobody is really satisfied with the print output of jadetex,
>but nobody is inclined to dig into it. It's way too difficult to
>attract developers. If I would have to produce high-quality printouts
>from DocBook, I would use DocBook-XML and map it to high-level LaTeX
>with some straight perl or tcl. Sgmltools used to be *the* tool for
>the Linux Documentation Project, because it produced nice HTML, ASCII
>and LaTex output. Nearly nobody switched to the new DocBook-based
>Sgmltools, because it is hard to install, slow and produces output of
>very limited quality. The Postscript produced by jadetex is a
>typographic nightmare. A lot of people have switched back to writing
>LaTeX in the first place and converting this to HTML, if they want
>both printed and online docs.
The differences there have little to do with SGML-versus-XML; they
have to do with the set of tools that have to be built up to handle
the parsed results, whatever the original markup language might have
been.
--
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
-- Henry Spencer <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - "What have you contributed to free software today?..."
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From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie - linux viruses?
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:28:33 -0700
Dionysus wrote:
>
> i was just wondering as i had not seen any virus killing products
> available for the linux platform whether viruses are proving to be as
> prolififerant on the linux platform as they are on windows machines? I
> am assuming that viruses are platform-specific, and that if, for
> instance, i connected a linux box up to my win95 machine that i could
> transfer files between the 2 without having to worry about a win95
> virus screwing my linux setup? all knowledge much appreciated :->
Trojans and Worms are basically all that can attack Linux. The "virus"
needs root access to do anything deadly...and afaik nothing will or can
attack the hardware.
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From: Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:10:04 -0700
Jason Haar wrote:
>
> On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 18:59:18 -0700, Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But still. Speed is not everything for a server. I 'd choose stability
> > over speed anytime.
>
> PEOPLE!, PEOPLE!!!
>
> The primary (only?) reason IIS outperforms Apache is that IIS agressively
> caches accessed pages in RAM. It has been written to do this (i.e. apache
> running of a ramdisk will still not approach this as it still has to do all
> those fs calls). If you test against an IIS server using "ab", you'll note
> the slowest hit to be WAY slower than the slowest Apache hit - that is
> probably a better indicator of performance :-)
>
> We've found IIS to be too unstable and basically sh*tty to bother with (ever
> tried to get it to acknowlegde you've edited a page - try restarting the
> SERVER...) - Apache on Unix and NT is used here...
>
NT IIS should "out perform" Linux/Apache, considering that how many
millions of dollars have been spent on it.
But pure speed is not the important issue. Sure, the Formula One race
car is super fast and everything... But can you drive a F-1 car
everyday in commute without it breaking down every day, or every
couple hours? ;-)
All is not lost for the Linux community here. As a long time user of
M$ products - since DOS, I am switching over to Linux and FreeBSD.
The tests are NOT going to change my mind.
Tired of rebooting/reinstalling Windblown on a daily/monthly basis.
Alex Lam.
> --
> Cheers
>
> Jason Haar
>
> Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
> Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417
--
*remove all the Xs (upper case X) if reply by e mail.
** no more M$ Windoze.
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From: John Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I stop Appletalk!
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 04:58:44 GMT
I recently installed then uninstall -via rpm -gnome. Gnome rpms
apparently screw with your rc.sysinit file and others because after
removing it my system wouldn't boot. I went in with a rescue disk and
replace rc.sysinit with rc.sysinit.rpmsave and it got further into the
boot process this time but now hangs while trying to setup Appletalk. I
don't even have appletalk installed!
How on earth do I tell it not to try to install appletalk?
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From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xwindows Manger
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:26:27 -0700
"Frederic L. W. Meunier" wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> I've setup my Xwindows Manager and it took a default manager one which is
> fvwm95-2. how can I switch to a different manager when I startup my
> Xwindows. I wanted to try out all different Xwindows managers that come
> with slackware 3.4. Also, would someone show me how to change a
> background color of xterm? thanks in advance.
> ,,,
> 1- It's XWindow and not XWindowS
Its not either if you want to get technical about it.
> 2- Type echo "exec x" > ~/.xinitrc x=your WindowManager (startkde,
> gnome-session, icewm, afterstep, wmaker...)
for windowmaker you run wmaker.inst....editing .xinitrc is only a part
of what has to be done for window maker to run right.
> 3- Run xterm with the -bg option. If you want a black background allways, put
> xterm*background: Black in your ~/.Xdefaults
It would probably be better to do something more like XTerm*background
or *VT100.background...just a little more global.
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From: Ted Sikora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.network
Subject: Re: Real Player 5.0 not working!
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 05:15:12 GMT
Kenny Zhu Qili wrote:
>
> Hi, Real Player 5.0 for Linux is not working on my linux box (kernel
> 2.2.10) But it works on earlier kernel. The symptom is the playback
> continues for only 1-2 seconds and the image is severely distorted. The I
> get the error message " General error 1". Any one has simular experience?
> What's the fix? Thanks in advance.
>
Download this:
ftp://24.2.168.186/pub/linux/multimedia/realplayer/rpopen.tar.gz
Put open.so with your other realplayer libs and the rplayer script in
your path. Check the script so that the path matches yours.
--
Ted Sikora
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://tsikora.tiac.net
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From: "R.K.Aa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rvplayer spooky story
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 06:50:20 +0200
"Paul S. Aspinwall" wrote:
>
> rvplayer5.0 was working perfectly for me on my RedHat 5.1 system with
> Ultrasound card.
>
> Then I moved house and plugged my computer back in.
>
> Now when rvplayer is lauched from netscape it gets stuck at the the
> "Buffering 16.0 Kbps clip" point and refuses to go any further. (It will
> play the welcome file directly though.)
This was just covered here:
go to this site and download the file:
http://www.i2k.com/~jeffd/rpopen/
-unpack (tar -zxvf filename)
-Run a simple "make" in the dir you unpacked it
-After the make: copy open.so and rplayer to the dir rvplayer is.
-Edit the file "rplayer" to contain the real path to your rvplayer.
-Then point your browsers association with realaudio to rplayer INSTEAD
of rvplayer (in applications or plugins or whatever you use.)
K.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Haar)
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: 28 Jun 1999 04:13:26 GMT
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 18:59:18 -0700, Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But still. Speed is not everything for a server. I 'd choose stability
> over speed anytime.
PEOPLE!, PEOPLE!!!
The primary (only?) reason IIS outperforms Apache is that IIS agressively
caches accessed pages in RAM. It has been written to do this (i.e. apache
running of a ramdisk will still not approach this as it still has to do all
those fs calls). If you test against an IIS server using "ab", you'll note
the slowest hit to be WAY slower than the slowest Apache hit - that is
probably a better indicator of performance :-)
We've found IIS to be too unstable and basically sh*tty to bother with (ever
tried to get it to acknowlegde you've edited a page - try restarting the
SERVER...) - Apache on Unix and NT is used here...
--
Cheers
Jason Haar
Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417
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From: "Lee Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Connecting to a WAN
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 04:21:31 GMT
Evan Panagiotopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I have 18 W95 machines connected to a Linux computer. That computer
> served me very well as a file, and web server. In my school they have
> begun installing a WAN. Everything is done with a lot of secrecy, and
> no one has any answers to my questions! I would like to connect one
> or more Linux computers to the WAN. What information do I need to
> have? Can I connect the Linux without having an IP address for each
> computer? Technicians install Novell on each client and connect them
> through cat 5 cable to a hub. I can't tell where the other side of the
> hub is going. I looked in Windows 95 Network properties and I didn't
> see any IP addresses.
You have several options. The good thing is that Linux will support all
of them. :-) First, go into one of the Windows machines, and see what
protocol they are running. With Novell, they may be just running IPX/SPX,
and no IP at all. If so, you may want to get a copy of Caldera, as they
have just about the best Netware support, but any Linux can do it.
If they do have IP, they may be using DHCP and WINS. If so, there is a
Linux DHCP client, and SAMBA supports WINS.
As a last resort, you can get something like NMAP, and just hack the
network untill you find what they are useing, and just slide in. Be aware,
that is you are not alloud on this network, that can be a felony, and can
get you in big trouble.
Lee
--
SCSI is *NOT* magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is
necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then. *
Black holes are where God divided by zero. - I am speaking as an
individual, not as a representative of any company, organization or other
entity. I am solely responsible for my words.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: hdparm patch not working!
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 16:58:41 GMT
Hi,
I have some problems making the hdparm patch from
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/ to work (I guess I need it
to configure my WDC AC34300L (UDMA) to work in UDMA mode under Linux.
(the unpatched version doesn't want to turn the hd in udma via -d1, even
if at bootup the bios shows the drive to be in UDMA mode. I have RedHat
6.0
When I try to apply the patch (3.5i) to the hdparm3.5 found at the same
site, I get
Hunk #1 FAILED at 78.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 112.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 135.
Hunk #4 FAILED at 228.
Hunk #5 FAILED at 266.
Hunk #6 FAILED at 735.
Hunk #7 FAILED at 907.
Hunk #8 FAILED at 923.
Hunk #9 FAILED at 967.
Hunk #10 FAILED at 1071.
10 out of 10 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to hdparm.c.rej
Please help.
Thanks,
Soras
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: ECC on SDRAMS - is it beneficial w/Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 05:00:02 GMT
Jenni G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Good input from each of you -- thanks for the replies.
:
: Here's the question in another form: Is there a mechanism already
: provided by Linux that will detect and/or correct memory errors such
: that the ECC feature is not really beneficial?
No.
There is parity memory, where an extra bit of data is stored with each byte.
The value of this extra bit is generated by hardware so that the entire 9 bits
contains an odd or even number of 1s. Odd or even doesn't matter, as long as
the parts of the system all agree on one or the other. Parity memory will
only help you if on a memory read, an odd number of bits are in error, and
even then, you don't know which bit it was.
Stu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: Advice? - Should I recompile the kernel?
Date: 28 Jun 1999 05:38:10 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Lam wrote:
>
>
>Tracy Johns wrote:
>> shouldn't the kernel be recompiled to match the hardware?
>No, if you're happy with how things run with your current kernel.
>Yes, if you feel like it and have some time to kill. Or need some
>features that're not in the kernel.
Three reasons you might want to make a kernel:
1. Proves you installed the C/C++ compiler correctly and your
CPU and memory are solid. Moving features you use into modules
proves you've got modutils and maybe kerneld installed correctly.
Learn how to do it now so there's less pressure when you add
something and need to do it.
2. Your custom kernel will boot faster because it's not waiting
for devices that aren't there. Some probes are risky, and you
can get rif of them.
3. Waste less RAM on unused kernel features. Kernel RAM doesn't swap.
Cameron
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From: Chuck Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape crashes on Java
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 23:34:01 -0500
==============F4C64B03BECD46B55DF17DE2
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Now java doesn't crash, but it doesn't work either.
I get two error windows. They say:
Java reported the following error on startup:
java.lang.SecurityException: system classes were not signed
and
#Error: The certificate issuer for this server is not recognized by
Netscape: The security certificate may or may not be valid
Netscape refuses to connect to thus server (-8179)
# jar file:/usr/lib/netscape/java/classes/java40.jar
# path: /usr/lib/netscape/java/classes/java40.jar
Why is this happening to me? Why can't anything work "out of the box"?
Every time I get a new version of netscape, things don't work right and I have to
fiddle.
Please help. All I want is a little Java.
Chuck
> I had the same problem & after hrs of searching for an answer other than
> "turn off java", I stumbled across a link in on the RedHat web site with
> the answer to my problem. Here is the link:
>
>
>http://www.redhat.com/cgi-bin/support?solution&11-990511-0082&100-926468988&14-0&15-0&25-&3-&30-
>
> Since I have tried what they suggested Netscape has been running
> smoothly.
>
> VK
>
> Chuck Cusack wrote:
>
> > I have ReadHat 6.0, and netscape 4.6-1.
> > It seems that whenever netscape launched a java applet,
> > an error message comes up, and netscape crashes before I
> > can read the error. I recall hearing there was some problem
> > with the netscape and Redhat 6.0, but can't find any info
> > on it. What sould I do--get an old version of netscape?
> > If so, which one, and from where.
> > A pointer to a site where this is discussed would also be good.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chuck Cusack.
> >
> > Reply to me personally if you wish.
> > My e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED], unless you are a spammer,
> > then it is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Now java doesn't crash, but it doesn't work either.
<br>I get two error windows. They say:
<p>Java reported the following error on startup:
<br>java.lang.SecurityException: system classes were not signed
<p>and
<p>#Error: The certificate issuer for this server is not recognized by
<br>Netscape: The security certificate may or may not be valid
<p>Netscape refuses to connect to thus server (-8179)
<br># jar <A
HREF="file:/usr/lib/netscape/java/classes/java40.jar">file:/usr/lib/netscape/java/classes/java40.jar</A>
<br># path: /usr/lib/netscape/java/classes/java40.jar
<p>Why is this happening to me? Why can't anything work "out of the
box"?
<br>Every time I get a new version of netscape, things don't work right
and I have to
<br>fiddle.
<p>Please help. All I want is a little Java.
<p>Chuck
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I had the same problem & after hrs of searching
for an answer other than
<br>"turn off java", I stumbled across a link in on the RedHat web site
with
<br>the answer to my problem. Here is the link:
<p><a
href="http://www.redhat.com/cgi-bin/support?solution&11-990511-0082&100-926468988&14-0&15-0&25-&3-&30">http://www.redhat.com/cgi-bin/support?solution&11-990511-0082&100-926468988&14-0&15-0&25-&3-&30</a>-
<p>Since I have tried what they suggested Netscape has been running
<br>smoothly.
<p>VK
<p>Chuck Cusack wrote:
<p>> I have ReadHat 6.0, and netscape 4.6-1.
<br>> It seems that whenever netscape launched a java applet,
<br>> an error message comes up, and netscape crashes before I
<br>> can read the error. I recall hearing there was some problem
<br>> with the netscape and Redhat 6.0, but can't find any info
<br>> on it. What sould I do--get an old version of netscape?
<br>> If so, which one, and from where.
<br>> A pointer to a site where this is discussed would also be good.
<br>>
<br>> Thanks,
<br>> Chuck Cusack.
<br>>
<br>> Reply to me personally if you wish.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Connecting to a WAN
Date: 28 Jun 1999 05:59:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 01:22:32 -0400, Evan Panagiotopoulos
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format. << PLEASE use text NOT html
>
>I have 18 W95 machines connected to a Linux computer. That computer
>served me very well as a file, and web server. In my school they have
>begun installing a WAN. Everything is done with a lot of secrecy, and
>no one has any answers to my questions! I would like to connect one
>or more Linux computers to the WAN. What information do I need to
>have? Can I connect the Linux without having an IP address for each
>computer? Technicians install Novell on each client and connect them
>through cat 5 cable to a hub. I can't tell where the other side of the
>hub is going. I looked in Windows 95 Network properties and I didn't
>see any IP addresses.
It most likely uses DHCP. You can probably connect the Linux boxes by
installing dhcpcd (the client, not dhcpd) and setting up your eth0 for it
(that is easy with the netconfig tool in X).
A machine will attempt to get the same IP every time it boots (it has a
lease on it for a given time period, but if the machine is offline for
more than a few days, that IP may be assigned to a different machine. As
long as you keep your Linux boxes up all the time, they may be able to
hang onto their IP.
If you want to find out what IP range they use and what to use for a
gateway (router) run winipcfg.exe on the Win boxes.
>HELP.....
>
>Evan P...
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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 19:07:50 +0200
From: Christian Kirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs.xemacs,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Xemacs on RH5.2
Dan Eaton wrote:
>
> I am trying to install xemacs and I am running RH5.2 on a P400. The
> install seemed to go fine with no errors. I used rpm as follows to do
> the install:
>
> rpm-Uvh
> ftp://sunsite.org.uk/Mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/powertools/5.2/SRPMS/
> -
> xemacs-20.4-2.src.rpm
>
> As I stated, the above command completed with no errors (about 2hrs
> later). However, it did not
> install anything in my /usr/bin directory or my /usr/lib directories as
> expected.
Of course not - you're installing the SOURCE package there.
The three letters "src" are actually a tiny little hint in
that direction ;-)
Get the package *without* the src-Part and you are set.
Regards
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