Linux-Misc Digest #22, Volume #21 Tue, 13 Jul 99 13:13:07 EDT
Contents:
NIS error.... ("Becky")
Re: Web Browser for RedHat Linux V6.0 for Alpha (Jim Chisholm)
Re: Dev's won't work??? (Ron Gibson)
Re: Microsoft =?iso-8859-1?Q?FrontPage=AE?= 2000 Server Extensions for Linux...
(Jonathon Spaeth)
Re: dfe-530tx ethernet card these work in linux?????? (Rod Smith)
Re: access ext2 partition without any login (sunchange lee)
Web server information (Darren Paxton)
Re: CIA assassinations ("Joseph T. Adams")
Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be?
(=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F3n?= Ragnarsson)
Re: Good 400mhz portable ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HELP: Kernel panic - Unable to mount root fs ("Oliver D. Bedford")
Re: mkfs.sysv (sunchange lee)
FWD- Eight way AMD K7 chipset on cards (Alex Lam)
Re: Synchronizing cmos clock with timeserver? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux -> NT (Leonard Evens)
Re: Upgrading to RH6.0 (Leonard Evens)
Re: nfs export of raw device??? (Juergen Hoetzel)
Problem with dip dial-up (Ben Goh Chong Kuan)
Re: My Linux box was hacked! (Leonard Evens)
Re: My Linux box was hacked! (Michal Jaegermann)
Linux+NT4+win98 (liang)
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From: "Becky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NIS error....
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:16:09 +0800
Hi all,
I am running SuSE6.1 and find some problems in setting NIS system.
There are 2 pc running Linux in my network and i try to setup a NIS system.
After starting the ypserver, the user of the server side can login through
the client side. However, error message "YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN:Domain not bound"
occurs frequently in both server and client side. Have anyone meet the same
problem and how can i tackle it?
Thx a lot.....
Newbibe
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From: Jim Chisholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Web Browser for RedHat Linux V6.0 for Alpha
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 13:54:37 +0000
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Mark Seager wrote:
> Does anyone know of a web browser that works on the Compaq Alpha
> platform with RedHat Linux V6.0? Apparently, Netscape is not
> available and I can't seem to find a version of Mozilla that work
> either. Any suggestions? I have looked in the usual places (e.g.,
> digital.com and www.alphalinux.org). Thanx for the help!
> Regards,
> ++Mark
If you have KDE installed about the best you can do is to use
kfm..(actually quite fast but no java support)
Jim
--
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Jim Chisholm
Dalhousie University, Dept. Physics Halifax N.S. Canada
http://electron.phys.dal.ca
Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Service
Lieutenant #2 Bay Road Station 59
http://www.fire-ems.net/firedept/view/HalifaxNSCA
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Mark Seager wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Does anyone know of a web browser that works on the
Compaq Alpha platform with RedHat Linux V6.0? Apparently, Netscape
is not available and I can't seem to find a version of Mozilla that work
either. Any suggestions? I have looked in the usual places
(e.g., digital.com and www.alphalinux.org). Thanx for the help!
<br> Regards,
<br> ++Mark</blockquote>
If you have KDE installed about the best you can do is to use kfm..(actually
quite fast but no java support)
<p>Jim
<pre>--
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Jim
Chisholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dalhousie University, Dept. Physics Halifax N.S.
Canada
<A HREF="http://electron.phys.dal.ca">http://electron.phys.dal.ca</A>
Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Service
Lieutenant #2 Bay Road Station 59
<A
HREF="http://www.fire-ems.net/firedept/view/HalifaxNSCA">http://www.fire-ems.net/firedept/view/HalifaxNSCA</A>
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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 14:30:53 GMT
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 04:19:10, key <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
> You can try the command below, but you may need to have vesa mode enabled
> from within lilo.conf: (see fbdev mini-howto for more detail)
> mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0
Ah, thanks. It's been a while since I've had these kind of headaches
and I've forgotten the little grab bag of commands that are needed.
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathon Spaeth)
Crossposted-To:
microsoft.public.frontpage.extensions.unix,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Microsoft =?iso-8859-1?Q?FrontPage=AE?= 2000 Server Extensions for
Linux...
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:47:46 GMT
The only real changes the patch makes to apache is that it adds an
extra variable in the request_rec (I think) structure. This is to
hold the execfilename target. Frontpage runs its own cgi that acts as
sort of a suexec and stores the file that that cgi needs to run in the
execfilename. Incidentally, when I tried to compile php as a static
module into apache 1.3.4, apache segfaulted everytime I tried to load
a .php page. There is a different version of the patch written by a
different company. It doesn't mess with the request_rec structure.
It just adds a couple of function calls and a more robust module that
you can turn on or off per VirtualHost. It can be found at
ftp.vr.net.
On 12 Jun 1999 20:58:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
wrote:
>In article <01beb112$d9fdf720$24921e18@obi-wan-kenobi>, test wrote:
>>http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/frontpage/wpp/ is the official website
>>for the extensions...
>
>One of my users asked for Frontpage Extensions to Apache, and I looked at
>the source patch and it was full of comments like "this creates a race
>condition but it doesn't happen very much..." It appears that security
>was not exactly the first concern. I can't afford to compromise security
>so I didn't install the patch.
>
>What do the Frontpage Extensions really *do*? Is there any functionality
>there that can't be had using the normal, trusted Apache modules?
>Is there an independent implementation with better security than
>Microsoft's version?
>
>Conversely, it turned out my user only wanted the "Extensions" because
>he didn't know how to generate plain HTML with Frontpage.
>Apparently, Frontpage (or Frontpage Express...) comes "out of the box"
>wanting to generate this half-baked stuff that the Extensions turn into
>plain HTML when the page is fetched.
>Now I have other users who have no problem generating
>ugly but usuable plain HTML with Frontpage. (Much less crufty than the
>mess Adobe Page Mill generates...) It's just this one guy
>could not find the switch in his version of Frontpage that tells it
>to generate ordinary HTML instead of the Microsoft proprietary stuff.
>He was *not* trying to generate any kind of dynamic content, "webbot,"
>none of that.
>
>Could someone describe that switch for me, in terms of finding it
>in the Microsoft Frontpage user interface? I don't have any PCs with
>Microsoft on them, so I can't try it myself.
>
>TIA
>
>Cameron
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: dfe-530tx ethernet card these work in linux??????
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:42:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <x4eflhhY1X7J-pn2-v5StyRGxCTeg@localhost>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> hi there
>
> i just got one, are they easy to setup?
If you mean a D-Link DFE-530TX, then it uses the VIA Rhine chipset, which
is supported starting with something late in the 2.0.x kernel series. It
should therefore work "out of the box" with any Linux distribution that
uses a 2.2.x-series kernel, but might or might not take some extra effort
with earlier kernels. (Note that the initial Red Hat 6.0 install floppy
was missing the VIA Rhine drivers, so you need to download an updated
floppy image *IF* you're planning on doing an install from a network
device, like NFS or ftp, rather than using a CD or local hard disk.)
--
Rod Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith
NOTE: Remove the "uce" word from my address to mail me
Author of _Special Edition Using WordPerfect for Linux_, from Que
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From: sunchange lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: access ext2 partition without any login
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:03:52 +0000
Matthew Cromer wrote:
>
> 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?
if you installed lilo,just type *linux single" when "LILO boot:" appear,
no floppy needed.then you can login as root without password.
> >
> > 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: Darren Paxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Web server information
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:16:11 GMT
Hi, guys,
Just a quickie, been searching the web and deja.com to try to find the
address of that site that gives information on what kind of machine a
server is running on.
Can anyone send it to me either on news or email??
Cheers guys!
--
Darren Paxton
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "Joseph T. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: 13 Jul 1999 15:14:33 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Richard Kulisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Don't be so sure. After all, we handle psychopathic murderers, don't we?
You're still around, so I guess not.
Joe
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:24:42 +0000
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F3n?= Ragnarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be?
"Odd H. Sandvik" wrote:
>
> In article <e0si3.82$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, William Edward
> Woody says...
> > Odd H. Sandvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message...
> > > The fact that Apple's old customers preferred the clones
> > > ought to tell you something. Apple's machines were not exactly
> > > cutting-edge at the time, and the cloners managed to improve
> > > Apple's dimwit designs and sell for less money. ...
> >
> > The clones cost less than Apple's "dimwit designs" because
> > the clone manufacturers didn't have to pay engineering costs.
> > People prefered the clones because they cost less.
Been inside SJ reality distortion field, have you?
Where are the Dual/Quad PowerMacs? Where are the Motorola CHRP
designs? Faster than Apple own G3's, and where available
OVER A YEAR AGO! (sorry, for the shouting, but ever since the
"Great clone killing" of '98 I just don't like Apple one bit!
Man, just to think about that we could have had a great alternative
to Intel crappy x86 makes me mad!
>
> ...and were better than Apple's offerings. Apple forced the cloners
> to use their sucky designs in order to make MacOS run at all.
> CHRP was supposed to fix all that, but Apple killed that when
> they saw how good the CHRP machines actually were compared to
> their own hardware.
>
> > And the clone manufacturers started screaming bloody murder
> > when Apple sought to raise the 'per machine license fee' to
> > properly reflect Apple's engineering costs.
>
> Bogus. If Apple had gone ahead with the original plan, the
> cloners would have used their own designs instead of Apple's
> inferior offerings. Problem solved. Umax, Power and Motorola
> had all designed CHRP machines inhouse that used none of
> Apple's schematics. They would have buried Apple's hw, that's
> how come Apple got scared and pulled the plug.
>
> > > Only recently has Apple managed to produce machines that
> > > aren't instantly laughable.
> >
> > Compared to what? SGI workstations? You certainly can't
> > be comparing Apple hardware to the PC world, as the designs
> > there are still stuck in the early 80's.
>
> Sure I can compare it to PCs. You may not have noticed, but
> Apple's machines have been coming closer and closer to the
> PC world with every new Mac that has been produced. True,
> Macs use a superior CPU, but the infrastructure is basically
> the same. The PC-architecture has some bits from the eighties,
> but they do not matter in the overall scheme of things. The
> ugliest thing on PCs today is the CPU. ISA is going away soon,
> and with it you've solved the worst of the 80s design.
>
> > > Come on. It's a political decision. If Be wanted to they could do it.
> > > They do not want to because of Apple's hostility, and even mentions
> > > possible lawsuits as an excuse.
> >
> > If a Be rep mentioned a possible lawsuit, he/she's reaching.
> > Or is your definition of "hostility" translates to "choosing
> > to pay a couple of million for NeXT instead of Be?"
>
> A couple of millions ? 450 mill to be exact. Much more than
> it was worth, but I guess anything to get ol' Stevie boy back.
> Indeed, the lawsuit is a bogus excuse. So what ? The end-result
> is still the same. And it's primarily Apple's fault.
Sad, isn't it?
J�n
--
.signature not found. core dumped.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Good 400mhz portable
Date: 13 Jul 1999 11:16:48 -0400
Its been a while since I looked, but I bought an HP Omnibook, the only
downside is that sound won't work after going into suspend mode.
You can also check out of the many Linux notebooks available.
--
Tom Evans
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From: "Oliver D. Bedford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: HELP: Kernel panic - Unable to mount root fs
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:13:14 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Mark -
>
> While I appreciate your attempt to point me in the right direction,
> it has been my experience that X, X Window System, and X Windows are all
> used
> interchangeably.
<offtopic>
The definitive source for this is the X man-page:
The X Consortium requests that the following names be used
when referring to this software:
X
X Window System
X Version 11
X Window System, Version 11
X11
</offtopic>
Oliver
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From: sunchange lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mkfs.sysv
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:48:36 +0000
Ilhoon,Shin wrote:
>
> where can I get mkfs.sysv?
>
> i need the file to mount sysv.
> if you know that, please answer me..
it seems that you'll have to write it yourself.
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From: Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: FWD- Eight way AMD K7 chipset on cards
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 07:54:20 -0700
================FWD=====================
Posted 13/07/99 10:10am by Mike Magee, The Register, London, UK.
Eight way AMD K7 chipset on cards
AMD has licensed Poseidon to produce SMP chipsets for the Athlon K7.
And, at the same time, Poseidon has changed its name to HotRail and
secured funding from aspate of VCs.
HotRail has described a simultaneous switched matrix (SSM) system
that will support multiple K7s with up to eight processors.
AMD has always said it will sell K7s, sorry Athlons, into the server
market but this is the first clear evidence of how that will work.
Our sources indicate that systems are not likely to appear,however,
until next year.
In the meantime, both Compaq and API, the Samsung sub, will seriously
market SMP systems using Slot B and the Alpha processor.
Our reports indicate that Alpha will be the first processor to run at
1GHz without aid of cooling technology. �
source- http://theregister.co.uk/990713-000005.html
======================================================
--
*remove all the Xs (upper case X) if reply by e mail.
** no more M$ Windoze.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Synchronizing cmos clock with timeserver?
Date: 13 Jul 1999 10:45:04 -0500
>> /usr/bin/rdate -s wrzx03.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de
I'm using RedHat 5.1 on a server right now, and wonder how, if I run
this 'rdate' command when the server dials into its ISP to grab mail,
can I get the Windoze boxes on the network to set their time from the
Linux server?
In the past, I've used a Windoze utility called D4 but it's overkill
for what I need (I think).
Can I get Linux to broadcast the time on an SNTP port or something?
Thanks,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux -> NT
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:38:49 -0500
Anders Buch wrote:
> In article <7md1ni$a6f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Nova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Well, I removed all the partitions from my hardrive in order to install NT,
> >Inserted the boot diskette for Nt and continued onward.... The install
> >proceed smoothtly, until.....The restart, Upon the resteart the Letters LI
> >appeared, a ghostlike reminder of the Linux (or rather LILO) that once
> >lived on this machine, after the LI appears it freezes.....
> >I reformatted the drive for Fat, and tried NTFS, I created one single
> >partition for NT, yet the computer continues to give me the LI, and then a
> >freeze...
> >Can you help to alleviate this problem, All help is greatly appreciated,,,
> >Thnx,
>
> Your "problem" is that LILO is still sitting on the master boot record (MBR)
> of your hard disk. For some reason windoze products have the belief that
> only their boot programs can reside there...
>
> If you have an old dos boot floppy, it might work to boot in dos from that
> disk and then give the command
>
> fdisk /mbr
>
> This should overwrite the MBR program with Micro$oft's (old?) version, and
> possibly you can continue from there.
>
> If it works, enjoy your New Troubles!
>
> --
> Anders Skovsted Buch E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 2072 East Hall Phone: (734) 477-9052
> 525 East University Ave
> Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1109
If I remember correctly, NT has a copy of fdisk somewhere. You can
create an NT boot floppy and put fdisk on it and then run
fdisk /mbr
But I think any dos fdisk will do since the form of the master boot record
is quite standard.
Also, if I remember my experience with NT, I think you can choose
during installation to reformat the disk, and then it takes care of
the MBR.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrading to RH6.0
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:49:31 -0500
Adrian Hands wrote:
> "Robert J. Schweikert" wrote:
> >
> > I downloaded all the files from the ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.0/i386
>directory,
> >
> > the question is are these the files to upgrade from RH5.1 to 6.0?
> >
> > Do I just simply install the downloaded RPMS?
> >
> > What can I expect as far as things breaking and do I have to make any changes to
>LILO?
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas, insight into this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > --
> > Robert Schweikert
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Sorry, no.
> The "updates" directory contains .rpms to be applied to RH6.0 - stuff
> that was added AFTER the CDs were made.
>
> If you want to upgrade to RH6.0 for cheap, the easiest thing would be to
> get the cd from linuxmall.com or cheapbytes.com (about $ 2).
> You can download the whole thing from the web, but it's a big download.
To be more explicit, you can do an ftp install from a mirror site, but
it would be impractical using a modem. If you actually want to download
the distribution, you need to use rsync. That way you can make a copy
of the distribution on a local machine, thereby creating your own mirror
site. Trying to do it just by downloading individual files doesn't work.
>
> After you upgrade, you can use the updates/6.0/i386/*.rpm files you just
> downloaded to get RH6.0 up-to-date.
>
> If you DO upgrade to RH6.0...the only hitches I ran into are:
> 1. ipfwadm is now ipchains (only applicable if you're using your linux
> box to firewall your LAN to the internet.)
> 2. samba thinks RH5.0 is sysv instead of bsd, so you have to un-comment
> the bsd line in /etc/smb.conf (only applicable if you're using samba).
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Juergen Hoetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: nfs export of raw device???
Date: 14 Jul 1999 10:13:48 -0400
Sami Tikka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 1. Is there any way to export a raw device such as a serial
> > port or raw disk partition to another client on another machine?
> > The IOCTLs could be done locally.... If it were a disk, I would
> > need random access (i.e., a simple rsh would not work)....
>
> For block devices there is nbd (network block device) in the 2.2.x
> kernels. For other types of device files... I think what you want is
but on the server side you can only export files (which are seen as a block device on
the client).
It is not possible to export a whole block device.
Juergen
perl-is-forgiven-if-you-promise-to-do-better-but-VB-is-a-mortal-sin-lyqy
Emacs is for experts. Joe is for beginners. VI is a disease.
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From: Ben Goh Chong Kuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problem with dip dial-up
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 23:00:43 +0800
Hello, I am using dip to setup my dial-up networking to establish ppp
connection with the ISP in Redhat Linux 6.0, the modem is able to
intialize the call but it does nothing after that, i.e. dial tone with
the corresponding number and nothing happens after that. The modem in
the remote end of the computer does not seem to respond.
Owing to the answering machine that I subscribe to the telecom company,
I usually disable the detection of the dial tone in the Win 95 modem
configuration because my telephone does not give solid dial tone with
the telecom answering machine installed.
Does anybody know exactly what number I should have dialed to bypass the
dial tone detection machanism in Linux?
Thank you,
Ben Goh Chong Kuan
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.security.unix,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: My Linux box was hacked!
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 11:12:13 -0500
Chris Long wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >If I read this well, he's replaced just about every single vital program
> >with a hacked version, right?
>
> That's about the best summary. I'd like to thank everyone for their
> useful responses. Since my Linux box is just for personal use (mostly
> for writing mathematics papers and some related mathematical computations),
> I was surprised that anyone would even bother. It's also not connected
> to the internet very often (only via a university PPP account), and gets
> an unlisted dynamically generated IP address. Thus I felt that I had
> nothing to worry about (does the invisible man worry about getting
> mugged?).
>
> None of my important files were damaged, although I did find a secondary
> bash_history of the hacker, which shows they attempted to format one of
> my hard drives. He doesn't seem to understand unix very well (he even
> tried to use the "format" command!). As that hard drive was mounted and
> in use, his attempts turned out to be futile.
>
> I did a completely fresh install with Red Hat Linux 6.0 (wonderful
> distribution, GNOME/enlightenment is beautiful). It took me only a few
> hours and was well worth the effort. I'm also taking the time to make
> sure it's secure, now, of course!
> --
> Chris Long, Departments of Mathematics & Statistics, Rutgers University
>
> Score: 0, Diff: 1, clong killed by a Harvard Math Team on 1
There are hacker kits out on the internet for hacker wanabes. They
don't need to know very much to get in and they can even hide things
from you which you might not find. E.G., files or directories beginning
..
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michal Jaegermann)
Crossposted-To: comp.security.unix,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: My Linux box was hacked!
Date: 13 Jul 1999 16:03:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chris Long ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I was surprised that anyone would even bother.
Why not? "Ko0l d0odz" have nothing else to do anyway.
: It's also not connected
: to the internet very often (only via a university PPP account), and gets
: an unlisted dynamically generated IP address.
As you found out this is not a great obstacle. :-)
But in a case like yours start from putting a line like
ALL: ALL
in /etc/hosts.deny. This will not close every possible hole but it
will go a long way towards that. And read what 'man 5 hosts_access'
has to say.
--mj
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From: liang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux+NT4+win98
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:40:53 -0400
I just got a new hardrive(13.6GB) and I want to install all
three OSes available to me. Any suggestions about the
partition, installation order etc?
such as: which way is better, use PartitionMagic or fdisk
or fips of Linux to partition the drive?
thanks.
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