Linux-Misc Digest #843, Volume #20 Tue, 29 Jun 99 08:13:14 EDT
Contents:
Performance problem ncr53c810a and SCSI Zip (Christoph Panwinkler)
Re: Virtual Mac OS on Linux, HOW???? (mei)
Re: NT the best web platform? (Jason O'Rourke)
Re: SANE + USB (Linux Kernels 2.3+) (DavidJ)
Re: Advice? - Should I recompile the kernel? (Villy Kruse)
===== GET XXX PASSWORDS LIST FREE CLICK HERE ===== ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
undo password checking (YS LOW)
Re: newbie - linux viruses? (Jon Skeet)
Re: Win98 --> linux box --> modem --> internet (Adrian Hands)
Real Audio Play for RH 6.0 (Ralph Blach)
Win98 --> linux box --> modem --> internet ("ricK")
glibc on cvs where? (F. Heitkamp)
Re: home network with linux box (DarkProphet)
booting linux from NT bootloader...don't work ("Andreas")
Re: Linux jingle (Thomas Zajic)
Re: This is my favorite Linux site (it has everything) ("Max Files")
Re: Linux loses in NT tests (yan seiner)
Re: Documentation issues. (Ketil Z Malde)
Re: editorial: Stupid Linux Tricks ("Max Files")
Re: Xwindows Manger (Lew Pitcher)
Re: can't run executable (Jon Skeet)
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 13:12:18 +0200
From: Christoph Panwinkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Performance problem ncr53c810a and SCSI Zip
I have performance problems with my scsi controller Asus PCI-SC200 Fast
SCSI Card, it is a ncr53c810a controller. If have an external zipdrive
100MB.
Whenever I write from my harddisk to the zipdrive throughput is ok
(about 32mb/sec), but if I read from the zipdrive I have a throughput of
only about 5mb/sec.
I have tried many different options as configuration parameter to insmod
(all scsi-stuff is compiled as a module). I user kernel 2.0.36 with
debian2.1
Is this a problem of my controller, or zip drive or do I miss something
???
Thanks,
Panny
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my favourite OS
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From: mei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Virtual Mac OS on Linux, HOW????
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:55:38 +0200
Reply-To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Bryant C. Charleston" ha scritto:
>
> Can anyone give me any helpful tips on setting up and running a Virtual
> Mac OS on Linux?? I am familiar w/ Windows 3.1/95/98/NT 4, and am now
> studying the various Mas OSs for work-related trouble-shooting. I have
> NOT yet gotten familiar w/Linux, BUT I understand that it CAN be used
> to run virtual OSes.
>
> If so, WHICH version of Linux should I get? WHERE can I obtain the
> Virtual Mac OS software?
All the distribution of linux should be good. There's a program that does what
you require. It's Basilik or Basilisk (I don't remember well). It emulates a 68k
mac and not ppc. You need mac roms too.
Ciao Mei
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason O'Rourke)
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: 29 Jun 1999 01:26:49 -0700
Chad Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Try:
>http://www.support.kayak.hp.com:8000/kayaksupport/level4/262kf003en/262kf003
>en.html
If I really needed NT, I'd try harder. This page doesn't really show any
smoking gun. The point is, I took a high end HP workstation (well, not in
my opinion, but...) and couldn't get a simple NT install plus service
packs. I couldn't even get to the point where I could make it a good
install as opposed to a bad install.
On the other hand, I could install freebsd (which runs nonstop without
reboots until PGE pulls our power to do work) or redhat linux in 10-15
minutes.
The one problem with freebsd is that its netscape binary tends to leak
memory. I do have to kill and restart netscape every few days.
--
Jason O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jor.com
'96 BMW r850R
last dive: June 13th, Pescadero Wash Rocks (Carmel), 46 mins at 64ft max
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From: DavidJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scanners
Subject: Re: SANE + USB (Linux Kernels 2.3+)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:11:39 GMT
> >When will Linux support USB scanners such as the UMAX Astra 1220u?
No drivers is closed to be released, since UMAX does not wish to give
out any informations about the Parallel and USB protocols.
You may want to have a look at UMAX Sane page:
http://www.wolfsburg.de/~rauch/sane/sane-umax.html
David
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Advice? - Should I recompile the kernel?
Date: 29 Jun 1999 10:39:31 +0200
In article <7l7bep$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <> wrote:
>I would recompile it, because most of those precompiled kernels are containing
>features that you will never need. This could probably slow down your system.
>Also it is useful to compile a new kernel, when you would like to test your
>hardware. Just take a look at the temperature on your processor, it will increase
>rapidly while your are compiling (about 10 degrees/celsius).
The redhat kernel out of the box has almost every device driver as loadable
modules, so if you don't use it it won't be in ther kernel. It is not
unusual that when people recompile the redhat kernel then thye no longer
can use the ppp or cdrom or fat32 file system, which are all supported as
loadable modules to begin with. Leave it alone.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ===== GET XXX PASSWORDS LIST FREE CLICK HERE =====
Date: 29 Jun 1999 09:39:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://216.33.20.4/ia/ohyes/index.html
http://216.33.20.4/ia/freeyes/index.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (YS LOW)
Subject: undo password checking
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:23:50 GMT
Hi , I am redhat user . When we setting password with some word which
is in the dictationary .
Can I cancel this setting when setting a password next time ?
Regards
>From Jacky Yong
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: newbie - linux viruses?
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:49:29 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Anti Virus Pro have released a Linux virus scanner.
>
> http://avp.com
It's not entirely clear, but I believe this just scans for DOS/Windows
viruses within server-held email etc. I don't *think* it's anything to do
with viruses *within* linux.
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: Win98 --> linux box --> modem --> internet
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 07:43:13 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ricK wrote:
>
> I have been using linux rh5.2 for some time now and have got a simple
> network up and running with one win98 machine and a linux server running
> SAMBA with no problems. I have had a request from a new customer that has
> the following setup in his office.
> One server running win98 and 5 clients also with win98, he wants all his
> pc's to connect to the internet by sharing a single modem on the server. I
> suggested linux for the new server using ip forwarding etc and samba, he has
> no knowledge of linux but was happy with something that will help to
> overthrow the 'evel empire'.
> My question are, does anyone know of some good infomation on how to do this.
> If anyone has had some experience with this type of setup, etc etc.
> Something that will cut down on the head scratching a bit would be great.
>
> Thanks, Rick. Please email me, replace aaaa with acay
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you want a book, Barnes & Noble carries "The Linux Network"
which covers this and Samba and...
I've setup my system to do this.
I also installed "diald" so that when any user on any of the LAN clients
tries to access the internet while the connection is down, my linux box
will automatically dial out and establish a ppp-connection and setup the
routing.
I've included the config I'm using.
It's not necessarily perfect, but it works good for me!
(BTW, I'm using RH6.0)
===========
This is my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file (below).
My NE-2000 compatible nic doesn't get detected at boot,
so I added the depmod and modprobe lines here.
I put "alias eth0 ne io=0x240" to in /etc/conf.modules, but that didn't
seem to fix the problem.
The "ipchains" lines configure forwarding and masquerading with RH6.0.
The "ipfwadm" lines are the old commands that worked with RH5.2.
ipfwadm is *supposed* to work with 6.0 too, but I don't believe it does.
I setup the other PCs with 10.x.x.x addresses.
The "/8" means netmask = 255.0.0.0.
Using redhat's netcfg tool, I clicked on "Network Packet Forwarding
(IPv4)"
set the "default gateway" to be the IP address of the linux box
(10.1.1.130)
set the "default gateway device" to be "ppp0".
and put in a static route: if=eth0 addr=10.0.0.0 mask=255.0.0.0
gw=10.1.1.130
Since my system doesn't seem to pickup the ethernet card at boot,
(I think because it's configured to be at I/O=0x0240 and that's not one
of the addresses that ne.c probes),
I think I have to go into netcfg (as root) and click on
interfaces/eth0/activate at boot.
I'm not sure because I almost NEVER reboot my linux box.
I'm also running a DNS server (bind) on the linux box.
If you want the config files for that, let me know and I'll e-mail those
too.
$ rpm -q ipchains
ipchains-1.3.8-3
$
/etc/rc.d/rc.local:
#!/bin/sh
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ]; then
R=$(cat /etc/redhat-release)
arch=$(uname -m)
a="a"
case "_$arch" in
_a*) a="an";;
_i*) a="an";;
esac
# This will overwrite /etc/issue at every boot. So, make any
changes you
# want to make to /etc/issue here or you will lose them when you
reboot.
echo "" > /etc/issue
echo "$R" >> /etc/issue
echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $(uname -m)" >> /etc/issue
cp -f /etc/issue /etc/issue.net
echo >> /etc/issue
fi
#echo "Building module dependencies..."
#depmod -a
#echo "Loading module for NIC card (NE2000 at 0x3a0)..."
# modprobe ne io=0x3a0
#modprobe ne io=0x240
echo "Enabling IP maquerading and configuring the firewall..."
modprobe ip_masq_ftp
#ipfwadm -Fp deny
ipchains -P forward DENY
#ipfwadm -Fa m -S10.0.0.0/8
ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 10.0.0.0/8
echo "Starting diald..."
if [ -x /usr/sbin/diald ]
then
# starting diald
echo "Starting diald daemon to SpryNet ..."
# (cd /usr/lib/ppp && /usr/lib/ppp/diald.sprynet)
/usr/sbin/diald /dev/modem \
lock \
debug 20 \
mode ppp \
local 127.0.0.2 \
remote 127.0.0.3 \
defaultroute \
modem \
crtscts \
connect "chat -v -f /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0" \
dynamic \
-- debug noipdefault
fi
echo "rc.local done."
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From: Ralph Blach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Real Audio Play for RH 6.0
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 03:33:04 -0400
Hi,
is there a real audio player for Redhat 6.0 yet?
Chip
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From: "ricK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Win98 --> linux box --> modem --> internet
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 22:48:13 +1000
I have been using linux rh5.2 for some time now and have got a simple
network up and running with one win98 machine and a linux server running
SAMBA with no problems. I have had a request from a new customer that has
the following setup in his office.
One server running win98 and 5 clients also with win98, he wants all his
pc's to connect to the internet by sharing a single modem on the server. I
suggested linux for the new server using ip forwarding etc and samba, he has
no knowledge of linux but was happy with something that will help to
overthrow the 'evel empire'.
My question are, does anyone know of some good infomation on how to do this.
If anyone has had some experience with this type of setup, etc etc.
Something that will cut down on the head scratching a bit would be great.
Thanks, Rick. Please email me, replace aaaa with acay
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (F. Heitkamp)
Subject: glibc on cvs where?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 29 Jun 1999 11:41:12 GMT
I've read that a person could get glibc development
via CVS. Where? Also is there a list of bugs in
glibc available?
Fred
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From: DarkProphet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: home network with linux box
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 05:39:46 -0500
Hugh wrote:
> Is it possible to network a couple win95 boxes to a linux box and use the
> linux box to connect to my ISP. Then both pc's could work online
> simultaneously. I have never done this. Both of the win95 boxes have linux
> installed as well, and I'm sure I could network that scenario, but not sure
> on the other. Any information would be helpful.
>
> Thanks,
> Hugh
Yep, I have the same setup (except with one Linux box and a Win98 box)
If you're really lazy, or just plain don't want to deal with IP Masquerading,
you could just set up your Linux box as a proxy server (you can even use a
CGI script for this)
As long as you're only on a dialup connection, this will work fine. You
wouldn't want to use this on a permanent connection, because you'd want full
communication between your Linux gateway and your Windoze boxes (your windoze
boxes could be HTTP servers or whatnot)... you'd need to actually setup IP
Masquerading for THAT to work.
But, if for some reason, you DO want your Windoze boxes to be HTTP servers or
whatever (or if you want to use some clients, like ICQ), you'd definately have
to set up Masquerading
--DP
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From: "Andreas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: booting linux from NT bootloader...don't work
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 13:44:22 +0200
hi,
i just installed redhat 60 on my pc
i have two harddisk first is /dev/sda contains winNT on a FAT partition and
two NTFS formatted partitions (1gb, 2x1.5gb)
second (primary on ide) is /dev/hda with small FAT (200mb) hda1 conatins
win95 and hda2 (200mb) with the linux root partition
(therefore its within the first 1024 sectors, right)
both as primary partitions an extended contains a swap part. and /usr as
well as another two FAT partions (2x2gb)
NT boots win95 fine and i now added the linux entry to boot.ini after
copying the linux bootsector to sda1 (the one nt boots from)
(dd if=/dev/hda2 of=bootsect.lin bs=512 count=1
boot.ini:
c:\bootsect.lin=linux)
when trying to boot it brings me several numbers to the screen which
actually don't stop .....
from bootdisk everything is just fine.
anybody has an idea what's going wrong?
...the question is NOT why i want to have that much of windows running on my
pc!
thanks
Andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux jingle
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:42:00 GMT
On 22 Jun 1999 20:03:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
> [ ... ]
> "Linux: when you absolutely, positively have to be up overnight!"
> [With all due apologies to the appropriate shipping company.]
Shipping company? Personally, this reminds me of the Quake manual ...
from MANUAL.TXT:
VI. Your New Environment
A. Firepower
You are blessed with eight different Means o' Mass Destruction. Each has
its place in a balanced diet.
[ ... ]
Rocket Launcher
For when a grenade positively, absolutely, has to be there on time.
;-)
Thomas
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=-- "It is not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw." M.C. --=
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From: "Max Files" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: This is my favorite Linux site (it has everything)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 06:48:56 -0500
I hate to rain on the parade, but this is just a thinly
disguised load of BS. The link below will only redirect
you to a site for JDEdwards and I doubt it is the actual
JDEdwards investment firm who sponsored this. In any case
I didn't see anything on Linux here. Just somebody's vain
attempt to get hit counts... so they can unfairly charge the
sponsors...
P.T. Barnum was right, there is a sucker born every minute.
Brad Smith wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>This is my favorite Linux site (it has everything) Http:\\209.35.64.222
>check it out as soon as you can. Lots of downloads.
>
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From: yan seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux loses in NT tests
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:35:58 +0000
You must have pissed off the RedHat guardian gods or something. :-)
I've installed RH on all sorts of hardware, and never once did it fail
to install properly (including a dual p5/166 MOBO, cobbled up out of
leftover pieces-parts from other computers).
I've found it to be very, very stable and solid. I do wish, though,
that RH would settle on a GUI, quit moving things around from one
release to the next, and develop a decent KB on their website.
But that's the beauty of linux - there's enough distros to go around.
If you don't like one, another might work. Much better than the MS one
size fits all distro.
Yan
Alex Lam wrote:
> No, RH never even allowed me to finish a single installation in 5
> different boxes.
> It keep crashing and freezing, with both GUI and text modes... At one
> time, I did managed to get to the point to reboot from Lilo... During
> boot up, got a kernel panic
> and the whole thing crashed and hosed itself out. I thought it's M$
> BLUES all over again.
>
> Then, I tried other distro. All were able to install smoothly with a
> SINGLE pass. With the same hardware.
>
> Maybe RH just don't like me.
>
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.text.sgml,comp.text.xml
Subject: Re: Documentation issues.
From: Ketil Z Malde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:52:46 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne) writes:
> The problem that I see with SGML (that is equally true for XML) is that
> it introduces two additional languages (e.g. - the DTD and the
> application-specific markup language) without diminishing the need to
> understand at least two others, namely:
Yes, it's complex. But you only need to understand all of it if
you're designing a complete publishing system.
> For instance, supposing you need to change the page size, is this
> handled in:
> a) The document?
> b) The DTD?
> c) The rendering language? or
> d) The destination format?
I'd say different page sizes should simply use different style sheets
(step c), in the general case. Of course, it depends on what the
document is, is it a layout-description language?
> different kinds of language syntax, as
> (and (eq? (syntax 'document-markup) (syntax 'dtd-markup))
> (eq? (syntax 'dtd-markup) (syntax 'rendering-language)
> (eq? (syntax 'rendering-language) (syntax 'output-language)))
>
> is false.
I suspect your next argument is in favor of recent XML efforts like
XSL and XSchema, where style sheets and document type definitions are
written with the XML syntax.
I would argue this is focusing on the wrong part of the problem.
Style sheets don't automatically become any clearer and easier to work
with, just because they're written in XML. Ditto for DTDs, and I'd
contend that XSL and in particular XSchemas are pretty ugly and
cumbersome.
XSchema example:
<!element foo (bar,quz*)>
in ye olde DTD becomes something like
<ElementType name="foo" content="eltOnly" order="seq">
<element type="bar" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1">
<element type="quz" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="*">
</ElementType>
So, you gained relief from DTD syntax, at the price of considerable
verbosity, and IMHO confusion and obfuscation. Is it so much harder
to learn that "baz*" means zero or more bazes, that declaring separate
attributes "minOccurs" and "maxOccurs" are warranted? And you still
have to learn the special meaning of the asterisk!
Frankly, I don't see the point. And I note that "XML in action" by
W. Pardi spends more pages explaining the Schema than the DTD, even if
the DTD chapter covers more ground, and is presented as introductory
in the beginning of the book.
-kzm
--
If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants
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From: "Max Files" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: editorial: Stupid Linux Tricks
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 06:52:57 -0500
The mouse was actually first invented back in the mid 1960's,
so where did Xerox steal it from...?
George Genovezos wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Yeah and Mac copied the gui, networking, mouse... from Xerox.
>
>Kevin Flanagan wrote:
>
>> In comp.os.linux.x Fran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > How's the quote go?
>> > "Great programmers borrow great code"
>>
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article
<7k8afh$kqc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> >> Except for the fact that Bill Gates didn't even write DOS. He bought
one
>> >> form someone else. The story of Gates and Microsoft, since they can't
>> >> inovate, buy it, steal it or copy it. That's why M$'s stuff sucks so
>> >> bad. They didn't write half the products they release! They just hack
up
>> >> the stuff the buy, and steal, the stuff the copy they haven't got a
clue
>> >> on how to write in the first place!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> In article <7k628a$avv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> >> "ajr-5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> > <snip>
>> >> > >
>> >> > > If we all smart as Bill Gates, he wouldn't be as rich as tody.
Just
>> >> > > because he noticed PC will have feuture before IBM did. So we got
>> >> > > windows today.
>> >> >
>> >> > Actually, IBM hired Billy Gates to build them DOS, so actually, IBM
>> >> thought
>> >> > the PC had a future as well. And furthermore Windowz was copied from
>> >> Mac so
>> >> > don't give Gates too much credit. If Macs didn't have a GUI who
knows
>> >> what
>> >> > we would have today...
>> >> >
>> >> > BTW: I'm not defending Macs, that's just the way it is (was)...
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>> >> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>> >>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Xwindows Manger
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:55:43 GMT
On 28 Jun 1999 15:29:15 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry) 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.
Take a look in the /var/X11R6/lib/xinit directory
the xinitrc.* files there can be copied to or linked to
~/.xsession (one at a time, please).
>
>In your $HOME directory make the file .xinitrc and put the window managers
>you want in it. Such as:
>
>xsetroot -solid black
>xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
>#blackbox
>#fvwm
>#twm
>#enlightenment
>#blackbox
>#startkde
>wmaker
>
>just un-comment the one you want to run like I did windowmaker.
>
>
>to change the foreground and background in xterms start it with the
>following:
>
>xterm -bg black -fg cyan
>
>Read the xterm man page. The options can also be put into the .Xdefaults
>file. Read the man pages for X, startx, xterm and so on for more info.
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
Toronto Dominion Bank
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: can't run executable
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 13:00:43 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> well, the command I gave would put ./ as the last entry in the path. I don't
> think most of us would have to worry about seeing this kind of scenario,
> either.
> A hacker with any sense would at least replace the original ls binary with
> a "patched" version. Putting a "patched" ls in /tmp and hoping someone will
> have ./ in their path, etc, to run it would be *really* lame.
However, the point is that a normal user can put files in /tmp whereas
(unless your security is *really* broken!) normal users can't replace the
original ls binary.
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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