Linux-Misc Digest #889, Volume #20 Fri, 2 Jul 99 05:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Help with cu & uucp files ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Audio read mode for Panasonic CW-7502 (Anthony Phillips)
Re: internet speed (Silviu Minut)
Re: Can't keep time set... (Silviu Minut)
Re: Modem speed (Bill Unruh)
[Q:] How to make Video CD's
Re: PPP hangs up after 40 seconds (Bill Unruh)
Re: which getty for fixed serial terminal? (Chris Harshman)
Re: Tell me I'm wrong... (Paul Anderson)
Re: Tell me I'm wrong... (Paul Anderson)
Re: Tell me I'm wrong... (HellNo)
Re: Misc. questions : tty, md5sum, make ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Dell Inspiron compatibility? What is best laptop? (Philipp Maier)
Re: Tell me I'm wrong... (HellNo)
Script help - process checking ("Christopher A. Gaul")
Re: Red Hat 6.0 Bugs (TS Fulk)
Re: internet connection with Linux (Frank Waarsenburg)
Re: Backspace in Linux app (William Park)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: (De Messemaeker
Johan)
Changing the "From:" line (David Chalmers)
Re: Need opinions- how's S.u.S.E. 6.1 (Philipp Maier)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Help with cu & uucp files
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 05:49:23 GMT
Anybody have any experience setting up UUCP configuration files? I want
to use "cu," but I don't want to have enter parameters. For example, I
want to be able to do...
cu com5
where com5 is defined as /dev/ttyR0 at a baud rate of 9600.
Under FreeBSD one would configure /etc/remote to setup serial port
parameters. Thus, one can do tip com5. There is no example for Redhat
Linux 6.0, or at least I couldn't find it.
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From: Anthony Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Audio read mode for Panasonic CW-7502
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 05:35:35 GMT
Hey people. Ive got a Panasonic CW-7502 and im trying to read audio
tracks with it. Im using xcdroast 0.96e which in turn uses
cdrecord 1.6.1 and all I get when I play an audio track is
silence. Does anybody know what mode to use when recording
audio with a CW-7502? Im using RedHat linux 6.0 if that
makes a difference *8)
Thanks.
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: internet speed
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 01:39:29 -0400
> Have you seen xisp?
>
> Try installing the intelligent dialer that comes standard with
> SuSE 6.1 --> wvdial
> The best dialer I've seen yet.
> --
> use OS/2 for a crash proof work environment
> use Linux for safe and quick internet access
> use Winblows to test the latest viruses
> http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/
> We have software, food, music, news, search,
> history, electronics and genealogy pages.
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't keep time set...
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 00:36:02 -0400
Do this all over, as follows:
1) Reboot and enter Setup (delete while booting). Disable APM.
2) Set the correct time zone with some configuration tool, or make the
appropriate link. I don't know what Mandrake uses.
Maybe timetool.
3) As root, set the hardware clock in UCT (4 hrs ahead of US Eastern):
hwclock --set --date="MM/DD/YY hh:mm:ss" # IN UTC
hwclock --hctosys --utc # this way you're telling Linux
the CMOS is in UTC
The UTC stuff is not realy necessary, it just takes care automatically of
the daysavings, because UTC doesn't change.
If you set the clock to local time then ignore the --utc option.
At any rate, this should work.
Now, if you do want APM enabled, continue as follows:
4) Reboot, enter setup and enable APM. Let the system idle for 45-60
minutes, until it goes into suspend mode. If the time is not right, make
sure you have APM support compiled into the kernel and that you run it.
5) ps auxwww.
See if you're running apm and if you do, with what options, or what
configuration file. For instance, on my system (RH6.0) apmd reads from
/etc/sysconfig/apmd. If you specified the UTC time, edit the configuration
file by adding the -u flag.
Ken J Braatz wrote:
> I'm having a strange problem with keeping my clock set when in X. Here's
> what I've been able to ascertain so far:
>
> 1) CMOS is correct.
> 2) The clock is always 4 hours slow.
> 3) If is run /sbin/clock, the correct time is reported.
> 4) If I run /sbin/clock -s as root, the time is set.
> 5) It doesn't matter what window manager or what clock applet I use.
> 6) Rebooting does not correct the problem.
> 7) After setting the time, it is off again within an hour.
>
> I'm leaning towards a time zone config problem, but I've got that setup
> correctly as far as I know.
>
> I'm running Mandrake 6 (2.2.9-27)
> I'm in the US Eastern time zone
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Ken Braatz
>
> The "-x" in my address is a spam killer. Remove it to respond via email.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Modem speed
Date: 1 Jul 1999 16:32:41 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Robert J. Schweikert"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>It appears, I am very certain that my connection to my ISP is a whole
>lot slower when using Linux when compared to the Windows NT side of my
>computer. Dis I mess up with the set-up or are there any tricks I should
>be aware of to speed things up?
Did you give ppp a valid modem speed to use? The default is 9600 Bd.
Thus put say 57600 or more probably 115200 into /etc/ppp/options, or on
the pppd command line
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: [Q:] How to make Video CD's
Date: 2 Jul 1999 05:44:37 GMT
Hi all,
I was wondering how to make VCD's under Linux.
I think to use mode2 with cdrecord or mode2 XA.
I'm not quit sure about it.
Now I have only 1 mpeg file. What to do to make a full VCD?
TNX
Viet Yen Nguyen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: PPP hangs up after 40 seconds
Date: 1 Jul 1999 16:34:34 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andrew Fielden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Using pppd v2.2.0
Please, please please, get a new version of pppd. It is now up to 2.3.9
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From: Chris Harshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which getty for fixed serial terminal?
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 13:31:52 +0000
We had DEC VT220 terminals hanging off of serial ports (in this
case, they were 8250 UARTs, so we clocked at 9600bps). 'agetty'
worked well:
s1:3:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 vt100
Georg Schwarz wrote:
>
> I'm thinking of adding a serial terminal (rather a PC with a terminal
> emulation program) to a machine running RedHat 5.2. It should be connected
> at 19200 bps, 8N1, hardware handshaking. Maybe it will be necessary to
> ignore DTR. Which getty do you recommend to do this? agetty? uugetty?
> anything else?
> --
> Georg Schwarz ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP 2.6ui)
> Institut f�r Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254 FAX -21130 IRC kuroi
> Technische Universit�t Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Anderson)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: Re: Tell me I'm wrong...
Date: 2 Jul 1999 01:45:01 -0400
guest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Of
>course if a wannabe hacker wants in there is little you can do to stop
>him/her when there is physical access to the comp.
>
I must point that this is an incorrect use of the term hacker, remember
hacker's don't break into computer systems, crackers do. Therefore, a cracker
would endeavour to do malicious things to the system, whereas a hacker would
not.
Also, I have encountered a machine before that stored the BIOS password in an
NVRAM chip, and pulling the battery DID NOT get rid of the password. Really
irritating, too, since it was a customer's machine and the company he bought
it from put in the password from the shop that only they could work on it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Anderson)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: Re: Tell me I'm wrong...
Date: 2 Jul 1999 01:40:06 -0400
HellNo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Any input is more than welcome.
>
Sure, it's a potential security threat - but if a cracker can get to the
console, you're security's already shot to bits. If said cracker wanted to go
for a 'denial of service' attack, he could pull the case off, and with a
suitable piece of wire run 110 AC into the 5v DC power for hard drives,
motherboard - FRY EVERYTHING. Or, he could be more brute force about it,
simply chopping the drive in half with an axe. He could also set the computer
on fire, or drill holes in the side of the case and through in a lit M-80.
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From: HellNo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: Re: Tell me I'm wrong...
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 07:12:12 GMT
It's getting hard being a newbie... Anyway, I got the point. I'll try
and avoid mails like this one again.
Shame about the'dumb ass' insinuation though. I knew I was missing
something, I just didn't know what.
Anyway, thanks to you all(ish).
In article <7lg94r$jqv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
HellNo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I downloaded a copy of SYSLINUX (linux on a floppy) and ran it of my
> floppy drive...
>
> After loging in as root (*no password*) I had complete access to /root
> after mounting my RH6.0 partition! It seems to have read/write/xecute
> access to all dirs. I even managed to reboot the machine
> using '/mnt/linux/usr/sbin/shutdown -r now' rather than using the
> reboot file that comes with SYSLINUX. Has anyone tried this? Someone
> please tell me I got it all wrong.
>
> Any input is more than welcome.
>
> --
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> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ICQ: 21535717
>
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Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Misc. questions : tty, md5sum, make
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 02 Jul 1999 00:17:29 -0700
Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> (2) Is it possible to get/compute the MD5 checksum of a file through
> a function call ? Are there libraries that do this ?
rfc 1321
>
> (3) I need information in the form of online resources, web sites, etc.
> on make. I need to setup a reasonably non-trivial build system for
> a source tree structured as follows :
>
> src\inc
> \server1
> \server2
> \clientA
> \clientB
> \libs\lib1
> \libs\lib2
> \libs\lib3
> <etc>
http://www.gmonline.demon.co.uk/cscene/CS2/CS2-10.html
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From: Philipp Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron compatibility? What is best laptop?
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 09:45:47 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"David J. Topper" wrote:
[snip]
> I'd love to hear comments / get input from folks. I've already
> contacted the OSS folks about audio support, but have yet to hear. I'm
> of course concerned about support for various components like the 3com
> combo 56k + 10/100 that comes with the Dell. DVD? PCMCIA? Video Card?
I have an Inspirion 3200 and had no problem getting SuSE Linux 6.1 to
work. The soundcard is tricky, but the video card works just fine.
Philipp Maier
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From: HellNo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: Re: Tell me I'm wrong...
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 07:05:53 GMT
I never thought of M$ OS's as secure in the first place.
All that has been written about boot disks is logical in a way, I just
had never thouht of the dangers of phisical access to a server. Now I
know...
Thank you all
PS: Watch me change that BIOS boot sequence and post that guard ;)
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "J�rgen Exner" wrote:
> >
> > HellNo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:7lg94r$jqv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I downloaded a copy of SYSLINUX (linux on a floppy) and ran it of
my
> > > floppy drive...
> > >
> > > After loging in as root (*no password*) I had complete access
to /root
> > > after mounting my RH6.0 partition! It seems to have
read/write/xecute
> > > access to all dirs. I even managed to reboot the machine
> > > using '/mnt/linux/usr/sbin/shutdown -r now' rather than using the
> > > reboot file that comes with SYSLINUX. Has anyone tried this?
Someone
> > > please tell me I got it all wrong.
> >
> > What is your problem?
> > Booting from a floppy (distribution doesn't matter, your SYSLINUX
will work
> > just as well as a RedHat emergency floppy or a Slackware boot/root
disk
> > combo) is the standard way to get access to system, that won't boot
from HD
> > any more.
>
> J�rgen is correct.
>
> As a matter of fact, this is most certainly not unique to Linux.
> There are floppy boot disks for almost every single PC operating
> system.
>
> If you have ever loaded an operating system made by Microsoft
> Corporation, you have probably booted off of floppy at least
> once. Sound familiar?
>
> S.
>
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From: "Christopher A. Gaul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Script help - process checking
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 03:47:04 -0400
I'm trying to write a script that checks for a specific process and
performs an action based on if it is running or not.
For example, if I know that the name of the process I'm checking for is
"myprocess", then how can I check for a value of true in a condition.
Like "If (myprocess=running) then do whatever"
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Christopher A. Gaul
CyberDyne Systems
e-mail response preferred.
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Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 09:45:50 +0200
From: TS Fulk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.0 Bugs
No need to be drastic. Go to the RH www-site, look under support/errata
and read about the Netscape Java problem. You'll have to make sure that
scalable fonts are linked to X.
tak ahoj!
tsfulk
> I have a solution.. I was getting Netscape crashes like mad when ever a java app
>would try to load. Solution (you're
> not going to like it) Re-install RH with EVERYTHING. Now I know this is not the
>fix. But when I recently
> reformatted and re-installed, I decided to go for "The Works". Absolutely
>EVERYTHING on the installation cd.
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From: Frank Waarsenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: internet connection with Linux
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 09:19:04 +0200
Reading the Q's and A's, my conclusion is that you connect to your ISP, get a
(dynamic?) IP address, but then you don't set a route to it. Once the
connection is established, type 'route' and check if there is a route to the
internet. Most likely you have to add a line like "route add default dev
kppp0" to your ip-up.local script.
Frank
Brutus wrote:
> I'm using Open Linux 2.2 with KDE and I'm running kppp to get connected to
>
> my ISP. I'm able to get a connection through kppp but none of my
>
> applications seem to be able to find it. Netscape comes back with an error
>
> saying that the internet server is not found, telnet also can't find a
>
> connection. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> thanks
>
> ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Backspace in Linux app
Date: 2 Jul 1999 07:27:29 GMT
Tuan Quoc Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am having a bit of problem typing on some of the Linux applications
> like wordperfects, staroffice...etc. My backspace acts like my delete
> key. However, it works fine in termail and nedit.
> Is there anyway to make it function as a normal backspace key?
> it is just so annoying.
> Thank for your time before hand.
> --
> Tuan Quoc Nguyen
Play around with
keycode 107 = BackSpace
keycode 22 = Delete
in your ~/.Xmodmap
William
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From: De Messemaeker Johan <[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:
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 10:09:08 +0200
Bob Taylor wrote:
> > True, that happened. But it wasn't always like that. Here in Belgium, there was a
> > concentrationcamp named 'Breendonk'. When the americans arrived, they torchered the
> > germans. That's a historical fact. And there's a lot more. But what do we expect ?
>It was
> > war, with all pleasant and unpleasant stuff ... sort of ...
>
> If by "torchered" you mean forced to tour the concentration camps, then
> I will agree. Otherwise, this is another vicious attack with no
> foundation in truth. Historical fact my tired ass!
You are taking this too personal :-)
There are reports of americans who 'misbehaved'. And that's a FACT. There are records
of it.
The soldiers in question were punished by the US Army. Again, here are records of it.
But it's
not me to make judgements. There were some bastards but most of them managed to do
allright
given the circumstances.
I'm saying this again : It's not up to me to make judgements ! It was war, everything
was
different. But we were liberated and that was the main thing.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Chalmers)
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Changing the "From:" line
Date: 2 Jul 1999 07:56:26 GMT
I am setting up a new Linux system (with Red Hat 6.0). It has an
awful domain name, and I'd like to use something simpler as my e-mail
address. I've set things up so that incoming mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] will forward to the new system. But I need to
set things up so that my outgoing mail is seen by recipients as being
from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (so the awful name is more or less
transparent). Presumably this means setting up my mailer so that it
automatically changes the "From:" line on my outgoing messages.
Someone local told me how to do this with pine, elm, or Netscape mail,
but they didn't know how to do it with standard Berkeley mail, which
is what I use, and I couldn't find the answer in the obvious places.
Question: How do I do this with Berkeley mail?
--David Chalmers.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (for now)
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From: Philipp Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need opinions- how's S.u.S.E. 6.1
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 10:05:14 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adrian Hands wrote:
>
> Gerald Willmann wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Warren Bell wrote:
> >
> > > I've been running RedHat 5.2 and am wondering how SuSE Linux is. It
> > > seems to have a lot of the same features and RPM format. Is it just as
> > > good as RH? Better?
> > > I just want to make sure SuSE is a good OS and works well. It seems to
> > > be packed with features and apps for about half the price of RH 6.0.
[snip]
> I'll go ahead and make some comments and invite and expect SuSE people
> to correct my mistakes!
I'll do my best.
> It took a couple of tries to get X going, but that's to be expected - I
> may have been hindered by my RH experience here because SuSE has it's
> own XF86 config tool (SaX - I guess mixed-case commands is kind of a
> SuSE trademark ?) that's said to be really good, and I was screwing
> around with XF86Setup / XF86Config instead.
SaX is really simple to use. Even on my notebook setting up X was just a
matter of minutes. Moreover, you can use XFree86 should be prefer that.
> Configuring X seems to be a frustrating ordeal for many Linux newbies.
> An easier X install would be a great asset to the Linux community.
> Maybe SaX is the answer ?
Yes, I think so :-)
> It would be interesting to see if Linux
> newbies have greater success with installing through SaX.
Once again, I think so. Especially in the beginning I found SaX much
easier than XFree86....
> The full version includes about six CDs.
Five CD, to be precise. An overview what is included can be found on...
http://www.suse.de/lx61/Pakete/gesamt.html
... is the German URL, I believe there must be a similar overview on the
english SuSE website www.suse.com?! (For some unknown reason I can't
reach www.suse.com at the moment :-( ...).
> I think when I ran YaST it checked the first CD and gave me
> an index of all the packages on all the CDs so I didn't have to dig
> through the CDs to find what I was after.
Yep, and you can also easily search for specific packages.
> SuSE does include both Yast and RPM, but it looks to me like if I didn't
> install a given package with RPM, rpm won't know about that package. I
> suppose this would be the case with RH too, but since RH doesn't have
> yast...
> The result is, for example, I can't do things like "rpm -q emacs" to
> find out what version of emacs I have installed.
YaST is based on RPM and in most cases installing RPMs originally made
for RH works fine.
> YaST is curses based as opposed to RPM's command line-interface.
> I don't know if yast also has a command-line interface - I didn't find a
> yast man page.
True - but the manual explains Yast in every detail :-)
> The box says it includes StarOffice (Personal Edition) and WordPerfect
> 8, but the manual makes no mention of these. StarOffice sells Personal
> Edition for about $ 30 with the manuals - no SO manual include with
> SuSE. A friend of mine who bought SuSE said he thinks he got a "trial"
> eddition of soffice, but that might not be right...
Yes, both packages are supplied (series pay, I believe?).
Additionally: Installing SuSE Linux works smooth and is faster than any
Windows system I've ever installed or re-installed (and unwantingly I've
had quite some training in re-installing Windows...). SuSE comes with a
very extensive and readable manual and has hundreds of software packages
that are configured and work as one would expect.
For those who have not already guessed it, I quite a fan of SuSE
Linux... Some more information about SuSE Linux is given on my HP.
Philipp Maier
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