Linux-Misc Digest #856, Volume #20 Wed, 30 Jun 99 03:13:21 EDT
Contents:
Re: Kernel v2.3.8 : fs/fat/file.c ("Binesh Bannerjee")
Re: AGP, how? (Sami Yousif)
N. VA Homeless Shelter - Great News! ("Eric Livingston")
DPT Smartraid V support under RedHat (Mandrake) 6.0 (Jeff Groves)
Kernel v2.3.8 : fs/fat/file.c ("Binesh Bannerjee")
Re: NT the best web platform? (Jason O'Rourke)
Re: libc5/6 question... (Gerald Willmann)
suse mailing list (John W Mislan)
Non .rpm install help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kexpress in rpm (Howard Mann)
Re: Screen too big (Adrian Hands)
Re: first/second/third world (Richard Kulisz)
Re: first/second/third world (Rob Hughes)
Re: first/second/third world (Rob Hughes)
Re: first/second/third world (Rob Hughes)
Re: Slackware 2.3 now available! (Robert Komar)
Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - your vote! (Martin Brown)
Re: Where to find IOSTAT and SAR kernel patch? ("Michael Faurot")
Re: Non .rpm install help (Adrian Hands)
Looking for Embedded Linux (Gordon Bader)
Re: AGP, how? (Adrian Hands)
printing with Lynx ("Jeremy C. Reed")
How do I get more fonts for Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: first/second/third world (Richard Hickling)
Re: How do I get more fonts for Linux? (Adrian Hands)
Questions on ports/daemons and security ("Ryan T. Rhea")
Re: Nonexistent means impossible?? Linux viruses (Helge Hafting)
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From: "Binesh Bannerjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel v2.3.8 : fs/fat/file.c
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 03:43:56 GMT
Binesh Bannerjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi,
: in trying to compile Kernel v2.3.8, I got the following
: error:
: file.c:60: `generic_readpage' undeclared here (not in a function).
: Upon further investigation, and a comparison with kernel v2.2.10,
: I found that the definition for generic_readpage used to be in
: include/linux/fs.h, and was removed in the 2.3.8 kernel. I saw
: around the same neighborhood (line 864 in v2.2.10 and line 876
: v2.3.8) a line for block_read_full_page which takes the same args
: as generic_readpage used to... Is this what it should now be?
: Has anyone run into this problem and solved it? What the heck,
: I'm gonna try it. All I have to lose, is a few months of work!
: Hah! Danger is my middle name. Well, I'll post the results, but,
: if someone has any better info, please let me know! Thanks
Well, that made it get through there, but now it complains about
update_vm_cache not existing... Maybe the only solution is to not
have any of the windows filesystem stuff...?
Binesh Bannerjee
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From: Sami Yousif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AGP, how?
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 22:41:22 -0500
Walter wrote:
> Does anyone knows if latest versions of linux accept videocards that
> uses AGP conection?
> how to configure it?
Yes. AGP is just a video PCI bus with a different slot... :-)
No special config needed. The current X server usually support the AGP
version of the cards as well..
The question is... is your chipset supported?
http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/#AGP
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From: "Eric Livingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general
Subject: N. VA Homeless Shelter - Great News!
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 23:10:34 -0400
I posted a message a couple of months ago related to how I was leading a
team of folks at my company in trying to set up a LAN-based pc environment
for the Volunteers of American Woodbridge Homeless Shelter in northern
Virginia (which, at the time, I mistakenly said was in D.C.)
Anyway, things laid low for a couple of months while we awaited news on an
internal grant from our company that would fund some critical components of
this project (such as shipping donated equipment from afar to the shelter),
but we've gotten funding and we're underway again at full steam!
Our project is currently planning on donating 6-10 PCs running Linux,
networked together, for the children at the shelter to use in typing their
academic papers and for very limited Web research (using, I'm hoping,
something like Squid to strongly limit accessible Web content). We're also
going to configure 8 Win98 machines for use in job-related training such as
MS Office (I hate it, of course, but can't deny the business sense of this
type of training...)
The kids' computers can't be Windows because they (the shelter) would like
to make them available to the children during evening hours when staff won't
be able to supervise them... and today a shelter staff member explained to
me how she recently went to make a phone call, was gone from the computer
room for 10-15 minutes, and in that time a child "accidentally" erased the
entire Windows subdirectory on two machines, rendering them (obviously)
unbootable and trashed... hence the need for strong security and "foolproof"
OS/applications...
In strolls Linux. I'm anticipating the childrens' computers to have a very
stripped down X environment wherein there exists just two icons: Wordperfect
and Netscape Navigator. That's it, no other choices. I've heard you can
password protect Lilo's options (such as "linux single" etc) to protect
against a power reset, etc... and I'd like to figure out how to do that.
The tough part is that now that our funding has arrived, things are
happening at breakneck speed: the entire environment is targeted to be up
and running by the 11th of July (or as much as possible). That's the day
about 16 other people from my company are planning an all-day series of
worksessions with the residents of the shelter that will include sessions on
computer use... so they'll need machines to train on.
Ok, so here's the deal: Many of you have previously offered hardware or time
to me in furthering this project's goals. I'm re-requesting aid in the form
of equipment (old PCs, monitors, cards, network cable, hubs, NICs, printers,
etc) and/or time or expertise in helping to set up and configure these
machines! We've accelerated from lackluster to harried in a day or so, and I
could use whatever help anyone has to offer.
The shelter is located in Woodbridge, Va, a couple of minutes from the
Potomac Mills shopping center, for anyone who may be able to offer on-site
assistence. For others, I'll gladly accept virtual help and guidance. For
anyone local to D.C., I'm still soliciting PCs and equipment for our effort
(and will gladly pick the equipment up), and for those out of town
(especially those who have already offered equipment) I now have the money
available to ship your donations directly to the shelter (I can offer a
FedEx shipping number or similar arrangement). Obviously, receipts are
available to facilitate tax deductions for any donated equipment...
So, if anyone would care to help in any fashion, I'd very much appreciated,
as would the residents and staff of the homeless shelter!
Thank you,
Eric Livingston
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From: Jeff Groves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.config
Subject: DPT Smartraid V support under RedHat (Mandrake) 6.0
Date: 30 Jun 1999 04:30:45 GMT
How can I get my DPT Smartraid V SCSI controller to work under the 2.2
kernel (Mandrake Linux)? It is not shown in the SCSI controller list on the
install diskette.
I have downloaded the driver software from their website (www.dpt.com) and
compiled it, but I cannot figure out how to get it on the install disk.
Actually, I managed to get it on the install disk, but it did not show up
in the list of SCSI controllers and would not recognize the DPT controller.
I have been unable to find any good documentation on adding new drivers and
creating an install disk. I've looked at all the RAID "HOWTOs", but none of
them are very useful.
I've wasted several days on this project and need some help. Is it
difficult to create a new install diskette or am I missing something
obvious?
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From: "Binesh Bannerjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel v2.3.8 : fs/fat/file.c
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 03:17:58 GMT
Hi,
in trying to compile Kernel v2.3.8, I got the following
error:
file.c:60: `generic_readpage' undeclared here (not in a function).
Upon further investigation, and a comparison with kernel v2.2.10,
I found that the definition for generic_readpage used to be in
include/linux/fs.h, and was removed in the 2.3.8 kernel. I saw
around the same neighborhood (line 864 in v2.2.10 and line 876
v2.3.8) a line for block_read_full_page which takes the same args
as generic_readpage used to... Is this what it should now be?
Has anyone run into this problem and solved it? What the heck,
I'm gonna try it. All I have to lose, is a few months of work!
Hah! Danger is my middle name. Well, I'll post the results, but,
if someone has any better info, please let me know! Thanks
Binesh Bannerjee
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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 21:08:08 -0700
Chad Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If you're not interested in solving the problem why complain about it? BTW
>I'd still like to know what errors you got, just for my KB.
It's been too long since my last try - I can only tell you that it went
blue on bootup with a stream of data and "Panic."
I bring it up because of the assertion that NT runs well on good hardware,
and that there is a right way to install it that few know about.
If this is indeed true, it would appear to be even more particular than
freebsd, which supports 1/10th the hardware variety that NT does.
--
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: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: libc5/6 question...
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 21:10:05 -0700
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, ishwar rattan wrote:
> I am running RedHat-5.2 on a dual Pentium PC. Does it fall under
> libc5 or libc6?
libc6
Gerald
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From: John W Mislan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: suse mailing list
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 01:23:12 -0400
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Non .rpm install help
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 04:18:10 GMT
Hey,
I am brand new to Linux, just a warning here. The other day, I wanted
to install a program on Linux. I downloaded the file, un-gziped it, and
then looked at the Install readme file. It said to do a ./configure and
then a make in order to install the program. Well, when I did the
./configure, I received quite a number of errors, which I have listed
here below:
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking for a C-Compiler...
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for xlc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
I believe I might know what is going on, but I still need some help.
When I installed Linux originally (only a week or so ago) I only
installed the packages necessary for Linux to function. I did not
install any developer packages, webserver packages, NFS stuff, etc.
Could this be the reason I am getting these errors? Should I have
installed one of those developer packages? If so, which one?
If anyone out there could help me, I would appreciate it, tremendously!
Thanks in advance.
Andrew
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From: Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kexpress in rpm
Date: 30 Jun 1999 04:31:13 GMT
In article <dHrwdiSIhvwn-pn2-1JR2X3lQJOmM@localhost>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Where can I find the news reader Kexpress in rpm format for Red Hat
> 6.0?
>
>
> Peter
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/network/
Cheers,
--
Howard Mann
http://www.newbielinux.com
(a LINUX website for newbies)
Smart Linuxers search at: http://www.deja.com/home_ps.shtml
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Screen too big
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 01:04:03 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Charles Koerner wrote:
>
> Newbie running RH 6.0 now.
> Still haveing problems with the screen too big. I've used "/xvidtune"
> to find the correct numbers but dont know what to change or where. Need
> detailed path name to change
>
> Help
> Pete Koerner
/etc/X11/XF86Config
You did try hitting Ctrl - Alt - + while in X, right ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kulisz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: first/second/third world
Date: 30 Jun 1999 05:40:38 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>You have your choice of evil or stupidity, but that the right supports
>>militarism, exploitation (in the name of freedom to contract, of course),
>>might makes right, and a whole slew of morally and ethically abhorrent
>>beliefs is objective fact.
>
>Hardly objective fact, you name a nebulous group ("the right") and apply
>to them the same kind of propaganda used by the Inquisition against
>Jews and Pagans...
That is a *very* interesting allegation. Could you expand on it more?
I don't know that much about the Inquisition.
>"Some people are born Albert Einstein"?
We know of at least one instance where that occured so clearly
my statement is correct. :-) And Einstein /was/ a socialist.
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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 01:07:27 -0500
From: Rob Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: first/second/third world
WTF kind of moron are you?
Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:20:22 -0500, Anonymous wrote:
> >Oh that was a good argument. And if you ask most any citizen of Iraq,
> >they'll tell you the US is populated by satan himself. Yeesh...
>
> He didn't mention Iraq. Besides, people oversees are not considerably
> more ignorant than Americans. You really should get out more often.
>
> --
> Donovan
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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 01:10:49 -0500
From: Rob Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: first/second/third world
The US owns those countries now? When did this happen?
Richard Kulisz wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Precisely which of our colonies are we exploiting?
>
> Tahiti; the atrocities committed by the recently ousted regime can
> be directly attributed to the USA since Uncle Sam is the one who all
> but killed Aristide and even now refuses to let Aristide serve out
> the remainder of his term as President. Tahiti has trouble feeding
> its own population and yet it is a net *exporter* of food (one guess
> where the food's going); nuts and such.
>
> Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, and Chile are all prime examples. Does
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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 01:24:09 -0500
From: Rob Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: first/second/third world
And you were born... neither? Just asking. Another interesting point, my
news reader alternates between wanting to replace your last name with
"Clueless" and "Klutz". Just thought I'd mention that last bit...
Richard Kulisz wrote:
> Some people are born socialists, just like some people are born
> Albert Einstein.
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From: Robert Komar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Slackware 2.3 now available!
Date: 30 Jun 1999 06:21:02 GMT
John Girash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: No, this isn't a post that's been lost in etherspace for 5 years.
: For kicks, and inspired by a couple recent requests for parts of an
: old 1.2-based distro, I've grabbed Slackware 2.3 off tape and put it
: on my wwwsite: http://skyron.harvard.edu/slacky23/ . All the disksets
: are there, plus bootdisk & "color144" rootdisk images, fips & rawrite.
: For completeness I've also put the VGA16 and SVGA versions of the ancient
: (but small!) tinyX distribution of X11R3, and old g77 and lynx. All aout!
: enjoy.
Nice, but do I have to click on 300 links to get the whole distribution?
Is it okay to use something like wget to grab all the files automatically?
Cheers,
Rob Komar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Brown)
Subject: Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - your vote!
Date: 29 Jun 1999 23:17:12 -0700
In article <R1ge3.3842$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Binesh Bannerjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: Don't be silly. If you're going to be serious, be serious.
>: Otherwise, Linux is obviously pronounced "smeg".
>
>No, no no... It's pronounced "Vindaloo".
>
>Binesh Bannerjee
^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^
pronounced: Mike Smith
:)
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From: "Michael Faurot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Where to find IOSTAT and SAR kernel patch?
Date: 30 Jun 1999 05:02:42 GMT
In comp.os.linux.development.system Gopal Santhanam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
: Hi,
: The subject says it all. I'm looking for iostat and the SAR kernel
: patch for Linux. I've only see reference to these two at the _Linux
: Performance Tuning_ website, http://www.nl.linux.org/linuxperf/.
: Any help would be appreciated.
Although this doesn't answer your question, you might want to look at
atsar. It was announced about two weeks ago in c.o.l.a. I've no idea
if it's any good or not, but it looks to be a clone of SAR.
You can get a copy here:
ftp://ftp.atcomputing.nl/pub/tools/linux/atsar_linux-1.4.tar.gz
--
==============================================================================
Michael | mfaurot | Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
Faurot | atww.org | -- John Heywood
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Non .rpm install help
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 00:52:11 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(snip)
> I believe I might know what is going on, but I still need some help.
> When I installed Linux originally (only a week or so ago) I only
> installed the packages necessary for Linux to function. I did not
> install any developer packages, webserver packages, NFS stuff, etc.
> Could this be the reason I am getting these errors? Should I have
> installed one of those developer packages? If so, which one?
Install the egcs and make packages.
If you have an RPM based distro (e.g. RedHat) you can install like this:
$ su
# mount /mnt/cdrom
# rpm -Uhv /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/egcs*.rpm
# rpm -Uhv /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/make*.rpm
#
To check to see if you've already successfully installed these:
$ rpm -q egcs
egcs-1.1.2-12
$ rpm -q make
make-3.77-6
$
To install from across the internet:
# rpm -Uhv
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/redhat/current/i386/RedHat/RPMS/egcs*.rpm
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From: Gordon Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Looking for Embedded Linux
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 06:19:46 GMT
Hi, I am looking for a version of Linux that would support a small data
acquisition application. Would like to run a 104 board with 1MB sram
and 1MB of flash, or at least the smallest amount of memory possible.
Does anyone know of a port with such a small footprint that has a TCP/IP
stack. Not looking to run X or anything large, just a small remote
application set from afar.....
Thanks in advance,
Gordon
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AGP, how?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 00:29:54 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Walter wrote:
>
> Does anyone knows if latest versions of linux accept videocards that
> uses AGP conection?
> how to configure it?
>
> please answer
> to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AGP supposedly works with XFree86 v3.3.2 and up. RedHat 6.0 ships with
3.3.2, but I'd recommend installing the 3.3.3 rpm upgrade from their
website (or a mirror).
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From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printing with Lynx
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 21:46:29 -0700
How can I get documents to print to my printer (not my console) with Lynx?
I chose "Print out on a printer attached to your vt100 terminal" but it
just prints to the screen.
How do I attach a printer to my vt100 terminal?
(Lynx is running under bash and in rxvt.)
I can print from The Gimp and the command line with lpr perfectly.
Thanks
Jeremy C. Reed
============================================================
http://www.toprecruits.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How do I get more fonts for Linux?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 04:46:40 GMT
Hey,
Got another question here (I am extremely new to Linux, be nice, k?).
I just installed Linux last weekend (RedHat 6.0) and really haven't got
much stuff on it beyond what it came with. Well, sitting here using the
Netscape that came with it, all the words I see are really small and
damn hard to read. I looked in the little text editor that comes with
the thing, and I have a font list of, oh, about a dozen. On my MS
Windows (sorry, sorry, don't mean to utter profanities in this
newsgroup) setup, I have about 2 or 3 hundred fonts. How/Where do I get
more fonts for Linux? And after that, how do I install them? Will this
help my browsing experience, or is there something else I need to do to
get Netscape to see fonts correctly?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Andrew
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From: Richard Hickling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: first/second/third world
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 08:37:21 +0200
> Tahiti; the atrocities committed by the recently ousted regime can
> be directly attributed to the USA since Uncle Sam is the one who all
> but killed Aristide and even now refuses to let Aristide serve out
Aristide? Tahiti?
You mean Haiti, surely.
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I get more fonts for Linux?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 01:13:10 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> Got another question here (I am extremely new to Linux, be nice, k?).
>
> I just installed Linux last weekend (RedHat 6.0) and really haven't got
> much stuff on it beyond what it came with. Well, sitting here using the
> Netscape that came with it, all the words I see are really small and
> damn hard to read. I looked in the little text editor that comes with
> the thing, and I have a font list of, oh, about a dozen. On my MS
> Windows (sorry, sorry, don't mean to utter profanities in this
> newsgroup) setup, I have about 2 or 3 hundred fonts. How/Where do I get
> more fonts for Linux? And after that, how do I install them? Will this
> help my browsing experience, or is there something else I need to do to
> get Netscape to see fonts correctly?
Copy your .ttf files from /mnt/dosc/windows/...whatever to
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/
Make sure you've got xfstt installed ($ rpm -q xfstt).
If you don't, install it and then start it:
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfstt start
(Normally, it will start when you boot linux).
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From: "Ryan T. Rhea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Questions on ports/daemons and security
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 00:35:29 -0400
I have a linux server on the internet that has drawn the attention of
many unwanted visitors. I have tcpd running to log all attempts to
access the major inetd services (telnet, ftp, finger). I still have
many open ports that I either don't need open at all, or I don't know if
I need open. I have looked at /etc/services and at an RFC document on
the standard ports. Some of my ports don't seem to match the ones
listed (take 541).
How can I find out what daemons are running on what ports to determine
If I need them open?
How do you turn off a port in general? Can I log the other unknown
ports?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Please send a courtesy copy of any
replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks in advance,
Ryan T. Rhea
p.s. I realize this was more appropriate for comp.os.linux.security, but
my isp's news server doesn't carry it :)
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From: Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Nonexistent means impossible?? Linux viruses
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 08:32:12 +0200
Conway Yee wrote:
> Properly written
> worms can also infect *nix systems. I can not think of a theoretical
> reason why virii can not also infect *nix systems. Its propagation is
> simply more difficult.
Sure - and because it is difficult they don't bother. Your typical
virus writer is lazy, wants to see his creation spread without
much effort. They'll have no fun putting a lot more effort
than usual into writing a linux virus, only to have a security
fix kill it permanently the next week.
A really talented programmer can be dangerous of course, but that kind
can easily get recognition by working on the kernel or one of the
major linux apps instead. They can get a lot more (and more lasting)
respect and recognition this way. So the motive for writing a linux
virus isn't really there.
Helge Hafting
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