Linux-Misc Digest #18, Volume #21 Tue, 13 Jul 99 01:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: newbie question: /dev/random (L J Bayuk)
Re: able to play sound files as root only. (redhat 6.0) (in) (Siemel Naran)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (Jason O'Rourke)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (Jason O'Rourke)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (Jason O'Rourke)
Re: access ext2 partition without any login ("Matthew Cromer")
Re: e-mail program and resolution in X (Chris Gushue)
Re: HELP: Kernel panic - Unable to mount root fs (John McKown)
Re: suse, RH...? ("James D")
Re: Dev's won't work??? ("Thierry ANDRIAMIRADO")
StarOffice and Java? Yikes, it doesn't work! (Mark Ricketts)
qmail or fetchmail problem? (Kurt Hindenburg)
mouse isn't working ("Matthew Cromer")
Re: access ext2 partition without any login (Robert Heller)
Mgetty for Hylafax? (Eric Wick)
Re: Umount problem at shutdown... (THIERRY BUCCO)
Re: newbie question: /dev/random (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Dev's won't work??? (Ron Gibson)
Re: HTML Security (Gus Hartmann)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L J Bayuk)
Subject: Re: newbie question: /dev/random
Date: 13 Jul 1999 01:22:39 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Bonjour,
>
>Somebody knows where we can information about the `random' device ?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Jerome
See: man 4 random
Explains everything about /dev/random and /dev/urandom.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Siemel Naran)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: able to play sound files as root only. (redhat 6.0) (in)
Date: 13 Jul 1999 02:02:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:27:11 -0700, Rajeev Ramamurthy
>sndconfig worked fine. my bound blaster 128 card was installed. however i
>am able to play sound files only as root. any help/suggestions will be
>appreciated.
One way is to change the permissions on /dev/audio. For me, it is
[sbnaran@localhost] [/tmp] >> ls -l /dev/audio
crw-rw--w- 1 root sys 14, 4 Apr 25 1995 /dev/audio
The key point is that all users can write to /dev/audio.
But I've noticed that
[sbnaran@localhost] [/tmp] >> ls -l /dev/cua1
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 5, 65 Jul 12 19:56 /dev/cua1
Now /dev/fax is a symbolic link to cua1. I can't write to /dev/fax,
yet I'm still able to send faxes! And /dev/modem is also a symbolic
link to cua1. Yet I'm still able to dial out!
But I've noticed that the dialing program has set uid root. This
means that when you run the dialing program, you become root for
this program. So indeed you do have access to /dev/cua1.
[sbnaran@localhost] [/tmp] >> ls -l /usr/sbin/chat
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 11668 Oct 10 1997 /usr/sbin/chat*
Maybe the fax program has this suid stuff somewhere.
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Siemel B. Naran ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason O'Rourke)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark?
Date: 12 Jul 1999 18:42:23 -0700
Hartmann Schaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Then please explain how all these all these Carribean and South and
>Central American players in professional baseball learned their skills.
>Isn't Cuba the dominating country in amateur baseball? Hasn't Taiwan
>wone some international (mpt World) chamionship lately?
But it should be considered that both countries have a different take on
the concept of 'amateur' than the rest of us. The difference in support
of the Taiwanese little league teams compared to that of those American
ones in the Little League World Series is staggering.
--
Jason O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jor.com
'96 BMW r850R
last dive: July 9th, Whaler's Cove, Pt Lobos. 45 mins at 57ft max
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason O'Rourke)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark?
Date: 12 Jul 1999 18:40:27 -0700
I R A Aggie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>+ Which part of combat+civilian casualties was so hard for you to figure
>+ out.
>
>That wasn't the point. The original, wrong-headed, stated-as-fact
>supposition was that US *combat* casulties exceeded the ENTIRE BRITISH
>POPULATION, CIVILIAN, MILITARY AND ROYALTY.
It did no such thing, you just chose to read it that way. Most managed to
understand it as a comparison of US combat casualties compare to all UK
casulties in the war. That was shown to be false by a factor of 20-25%.
--
Jason O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jor.com
'96 BMW r850R
last dive: July 9th, Whaler's Cove, Pt Lobos. 45 mins at 57ft max
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason O'Rourke)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark?
Date: 12 Jul 1999 18:43:11 -0700
De Messemaeker Johan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>So why aren't you paying your contributions to the UN then ?
Because the UN stopped taking orders.
--
Jason O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jor.com
'96 BMW r850R
last dive: July 9th, Whaler's Cove, Pt Lobos. 45 mins at 57ft max
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From: "Matthew Cromer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: access ext2 partition without any login
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:41:39 -0400
Thanks everyone for the help.
Matthew Cromer
==========
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(William Burrow) wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:27:39 -0400,
> Matthew Cromer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I'm working for a client where the previous developer left on bad terms. He
>>will not turn over any passwords for the development box. I need to access
>>the linux filesystem on this box and get the source code off of it.
>>
>>What is my best approach to do this?
>
> Like the other guys said, either boot of a rescue disk or plug the drive
> into an already functioning Linux box.
>
> I'd avoid booting off the disk itself or using any executables from it,
> in case the developer left some booby traps....
>
> --
> William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
> Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
> ~ ()>()
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From: Chris Gushue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: e-mail program and resolution in X
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:57:30 -02-30
In alt.os.linux duncan corps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: This was written by pico in uk.comp.os.linux...
: |> I am looking for a user friendly e-mail program. Something like kmail.
: I use pine for EMail. Have done for years. I know it's not
: everyone's cup of tea, but I've always found it easy, reliable, capable.
[snip]
Ever give Mutt a try? I have been using Pine for years myself,
occasionally trying other programs and hating them. After constant nagging
from a friend, I gave Mutt another try, and RTFM this time :) The default
setup (IMO) sucks. Now my config has nice colour and keybindings similar
to Pine. Contact me if you want my config to give it a try yourself.
However, I don't think I would recommend Mutt, or any other text mode
email application, to someone that only wants a user-friendly program.
--
Chris Gushue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://home.thezone.net/~seymour
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: HELP: Kernel panic - Unable to mount root fs
Date: 13 Jul 1999 03:19:56 GMT
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:43:24 -0400, Jim Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Mark Tranchant wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Jim Kimball wrote:
>
>>>
>>> hdb: INVALID GEOMETRY: 0 PHYSICAL HEADS?
>>
>>hdb? Your secondary drive on the first IDE channel?
>>
>>There's some strange things going on here. What drives do you have?
>>
>
>
>There are two drives in the computer. The first, /dev/hda, has NT installed
>on it. I am using lilo to dual boot.
>
>Jim
One thing to try that saved my bacon once. When you boot from the floppy,
I assume you get the LILO: prompt? And you probably reply "rescue" or
"linux"? Do you know what the CHS (Cylinder/Head/Sector) for hdb is
supposed to be? If so, at the LILO prompt try entering something like:
rescue hdb=c,h,s
In my case, I used:
linux hdb=620,128,63
What had happened to me is that I upgraded my BIOS with a brand new,
different, BIOS chip. Well, the LBA translation in the new BIOS was
somehow different from the old BIOS. Everything was messed up! But
by using the above, I told LINUX to use the specified CHS instead of
the BIOS.
The only reason that I mention this is due to the message about
0 PHYSICAL HEADS. That indicates, to me, that the partition table
may be corrupt. Putting hdb= on the LILO command line might just
get you up far enough to fix this. You do have a copy of the
old fdisk parameter? I found that having that can be a life saver
as well.
Good luck!
John
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From: "James D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: suse, RH...?
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:37:44 -0700
My SUSe locks up on me repeatedly in Xwindows. At times it won't even
completely boot up. there are times when it just sits idle and a bunch of
hex datra will just show up? Anyone experience this? could it just be a
hardware configuration thing? I thought this OS was supposed to be stable.
The documentation is some of the worst I've ever come across.
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From: "Thierry ANDRIAMIRADO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Dev's won't work???
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 02:34:56 +0200
Ron Gibson a �crit dans le message ...
>just recently down loaded the latest Slackware off Sunsite and when
>trying to get my old data from a previous install archive to tape I
>discovered that several "dev"'s will not work.
>
>For instance invoking commands such as "ftape" or "fd0" I get a no such
>device message. However when viewing the directory with MC the devices
>and or links are there and they have been made.
I'm having the same problem. I updated my RedHat 5.2 to RH6 so my printer
doesn't work anymore!!
I discovered that my /dev/lp symbolink link disapeared and I re-created it!
But it doesn't work anymore! any idea?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mark Ricketts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: StarOffice and Java? Yikes, it doesn't work!
Reply-To: Mark Ricketts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 03:18:41 GMT
Hi I'm new to Linux, am using SuSE 6.1 and am having some problems=20
with StarOffice 5.1 and Java support when I'm trying to load certain=20
web pages. I get a message telling me that Java support is not=20
available. Now I've installed Javarunt or Java v1.1.7 that came with=20
my Linux distribution but I still get these errors.
I've looked at the settings by following menu choices=20
"Tools.....Options........Browser......Other". In the "Other" dialog=20
it is showing that all of my Java support is enabled, but there is=20
nothing in the box that is asking for the classpath. What should I be=20
looking in terms of a path to put in the Java Classpath? Is StarOffice=20
looking for Java's include files or what? Could someone help me out=20
with this? Thanks in advance.
Mark: [EMAIL PROTECTED]=20
Please email me with a solution.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kurt Hindenburg)
Subject: qmail or fetchmail problem?
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 03:21:35 GMT
Hello,
I just installed qmail, fetchmail, and mutt...
I got the TEST.* to work correctly with qmail so I'm kinda sure that
I've got qmail's aliases working...however, when I try to get mail
with fetchmail I get the following text...
fetchmail -k -v
fetchmail: 5.0.5 querying mail.gte.net (protocol POP3) at Mon, 12 Jul
1999 09:34:01 -0400 (EDT)
fetchmail: POP3< +OK InterMail POP3 server ready.
fetchmail: POP3> USER khindenb
fetchmail: POP3< +OK please send PASS command
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK khindenb is welcome here
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2 5787
fetchmail: POP3> LAST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0
2 messages for khindenb at mail.gte.net (5787 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2 messages
fetchmail: POP3< 1 3681
fetchmail: POP3< 2 2106
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 3681 octets
reading message 1 of 2 (3681 octets)
As this points, it locks up til I get a time-out error.
According to a few fetchmail howtos, I think I have it set up right.
Is this a qmail or fetchmail problem? Any ideas?
Kurt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Matthew Cromer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mouse isn't working
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:48:40 -0400
Hi again!
I've inherited a box from a developer who was invited to leave. The box has
linux and Win95 partitions.
The mouse doesn't work under linux (Red Hat 5.2). Probably because it is a
Microsoft Intellimouse.
I do see a message about at PS/2 mouse being detected during the boot
process.
I've looked at the docs and it looks like I need to run mouseconfig and then
XConfigurator. Unfortunately, this box boots directly to an Xwindows login.
I can log in but then can't figure out how to navigate to a console window
without use of the mouse. And there is a console window RIGHT THERE, I just
can't get the focus to it.
Can someone suggest a good approach to getting to a console to try running
mouseconfig and XConfigurator, or some other good approach to getting el
mouse to work?
Thanks,
Matthew Cromer
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: access ext2 partition without any login
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 03:34:45 GMT
"Matthew Cromer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:27:39 -0400, wrote :
"C> Hi.
"C>
"C> I'm working for a client where the previous developer left on bad terms. He
"C> will not turn over any passwords for the development box. I need to access
"C> the linux filesystem on this box and get the source code off of it.
"C>
"C> What is my best approach to do this?
The *easiest* way is with a boot/rescue (floppy) disk set (or a
Slackware boot/root floppy set). Either way all you need on the
boot/rescue (boot/root) is a statically linked version of sed. Boot up
the boot/rescue (or boot/root), mount the root filesystem:
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt
(assumes that the root file system is /dev/hda1)
and edit /mnt/etc/passwd to null out root's password with a command
like
sed -e 's%root:[^:]*:%root::%g' </mnt/etc/passwd >/mnt/etc/passwd.new
then after checking that /mnt/etc/passwd.new is sane, doing a
mv /mnt/etc/passwd.new /mnt/etc/passwd
Then pop out the floppies and boot normally. At the
login: prompt type root. It won't even ask for a password. You should
NOT do this while the box is on the 'net unless you *promptly* reset
root's password to the password *you* select. Once root has a password
you've selected, you can then use the passwd command to set any other
user password to whatever you want.
Note: it is not necessary for the boot/rescue or boot/root to match the
installation actually on the system, except you can't (for example) use
RedHat's install floppy if you have SCSI disks. You can make a
*compatable* boot floppy by installing Linux on *another* machine with
the same SCSI (or driver compatable) card (eg if your dev box has a
AHA-2940W controller, a boot floppy made on a machine with a AHA-2940A
controller will work, etc.).
The reason for a Slackware boot/root floppy set is that Slackware has a
real low-level install hack. Unlike RedHat, the boot/root install set
does not jump right into the (colorful) install procedure, it just boots
up to a plain old login: prompt and has a /etc/password file with root
having no password. And Slackware has a batch of boot floppies that
have various driver sets for various hardware types (bare, various
CD-ROMs, various SCSI, various EtherNet, etc.). (I believe Debian and
SuSE use install hacks that are much like RedHat.)
"C>
"C> Thanks,
"C>
"C> Matthew Cromer
"C> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"C>
--
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Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Wick)
Subject: Mgetty for Hylafax?
Date: 12 Jul 1999 14:35:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
is it possible to set up the mgetty to the hylafax-package? I want use the
faxmodem on the server for remote-login too. Originally the hylafax uses a
faxgetty that seems not to give me much options.
Ciao
Eric
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From: THIERRY BUCCO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Umount problem at shutdown...
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:05:33 +0200
Mark Tranchant wrote:
> You do want to unmount /usr. Something is using it even after all
> processes have been killed. Suggestions:
>
> 1) You've moved umount to /usr/something.
> 2) You've just upgraded to glibc2, following the HOWTO, which leaves the
> main C library, used by umount, on /usr.
> 3) You have some bizarre unkillable process.
>
> My guess is one of the first two. Try "which umount" as root, and check
> it's not in a subdirectory of /usr. Then try "ldd umount" and make sure
> none of its libraries is in a subdirectory of /usr.
>
> That should solve your problem.
>
> Mark.
>
> THIERRY BUCCO wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > when i shutdown my computer, it write :
> >
> > umount /usr
> > Unable to unmount /usr : device is busy.
> >
> > So i don't want umount /usr. How can i avoid this ?
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
All it's Ok, but the problem still alive. In fact i have made a copy of my
hard disk.
I have mounted my second disk into /dd (first disk), /dev/hdb6 in /dd,
(usr), and after the copy is done, i have restarted my computer, i believe
that i have forgot to umount partition... And now linux want umount /usr,
is it possible ?
Thanks a lot
Where linux keep this info to automaticaly umount partition ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: newbie question: /dev/random
Date: 13 Jul 1999 00:25:04 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <7me4cv$6nf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, L J Bayuk wrote:
> See: man 4 random
> Explains everything about /dev/random and /dev/urandom.
And the comments in /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/random.c explain,
well, everything that's left over.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Gibson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Dev's won't work???
Date: 13 Jul 1999 04:08:21 GMT
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:48:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) wrote:
> > For instance invoking commands such as "ftape" or "fd0" I get a no such
> > device message. However when viewing the directory with MC the devices
> > and or links are there and they have been made.
>
> Those are not commands, they are devices.
>
> Just what would you expect executing /dev/fd0 to do?
Oh brother. I made a typo. That should read "invoking commands that
includes a dev such as ftape or fd0"
Clear now?
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gus Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HTML Security
Date: 13 Jul 1999 04:44:36 GMT
Gerald Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do we limit access to an html page and it's contents to our users
> only. We are an ISP...
This doesn't really belong in comp.os.linux.misc, but here goes.
Limiting access to a web page would depend on a number of factors,
including but not limited to which operating system and web server are
being used. Without more specifics, not a lot can be done to help you.
--
Gus
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