Linux-Misc Digest #399, Volume #21 Sat, 14 Aug 99 12:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Announce: CaclMgr -- a better setuid mechanism (Roger)
Re: Internet access with ASDL (Young4ert)
Re: Seeking Linux UDP broadcast forwarding solution ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sep 1 1999 Linux expo at Paris?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: New Site for the CMI8330 How-To (Ken McCord)
email server and clients for Linux (Stearns25)
Swap , Sound -- Urgent HELp!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: DVD (hac)
Re: Linux security update - newbie questions (hac)
Re: XFree86 : Trident 9750 3DImage. (Bill LeBorgne)
Re: What is Applixware? (Tom Shannon)
Cleaning DOS break chars and text wrapping in FTE? (justame@~.~)
Re: Linux + windows filesystems ("Jonathan Wilson")
screen dies on install (Pat & Susse)
Re: Help! Navigator in Linux... ("Jonathan Wilson")
Re: pppd timeout while logging in to isp ("Jonathan Wilson")
Re: kppp freezed my apps!!!! ("Jonathan Wilson")
Re: linux - cable modem (Rod Smith)
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From: Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Announce: CaclMgr -- a better setuid mechanism
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 20:56:10 +0800
I'm proud to announce CaclMgr version 2.4. For evalutaion purpose, it
can be
freely downloaded from
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/commercial
CaclMgr(TM) is a tool to let administrators/users have a easy way to
grant/
check/revoke their priviledges be used by others when execute
prespecified
commands. For example, it's now very easy and much more secure than
using
other method to grant identity on shell scripts to others. By using
caclMgr
package, the chance to need to develop new setuid programs or have to
turn
on setuid bit on existing commands are greately reduced.
Compared with sudo, caclMgr is more multi-user friendly and every user
has
his/her own database so that there is no need every time to log on as
root
to update the database. With every command in caclMgr package only does
single
task and maintained as simple as possible, there is much less risks to
have
bugs when compared with the becoming more and more complicated sudo.
CaclMgr has versions for SUN Solaris 2.x/Sparc, IBM AIX 4.x, SCO
OpenServer
5.x, Linux X86/2.2.x and HP-UX 10.x.
Package Check Sum:
1737011189 1219067 caclMgr-2.4.Linux.cpio.gz
GONG Wei Zhong
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP: //members.tripod.com/~wzce
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Internet access with ASDL
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 09:06:19 -0400
Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote:
>
> "Robert J. Schweikert" wrote:
> >
> > My ISP may offer ASDL access in the near future, anyone using ASDL out there?
> >
> > Does it work with Linux?
> >
>
> Works for me. My ISP supplied a Cisco 675 router programmed as a DHCP
> server and my SuSE runs a DHCP client. I have tier one service (384Kb)
> and my download speeds vary between 27Kb/sec and 37 Kb/sec, which is
> about 10 times faster than my old 56Kb modem download speed.
That performance of a 37Kb/s (< 5KB/s) is way too slow as compared to a
cable modem which gives an average of 100KB/s. Let's say that you meant
a 37KB/s, it still is slower than a cable modem. May be you need to ask
your ISP to unlock more juice for your connection (it is like a water
pipe that you need to turn the faucet more).
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS> Remove the "4" from e-mail address to respond.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Seeking Linux UDP broadcast forwarding solution
Date: 14 Aug 1999 23:15:05 +1000
In comp.os.linux.networking epadin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Cisco router has a 'udp forward' command whereby you specify the
> UDP port and it will forward all UDP broadcast traffic seen on the
You're probably looking for udprelay, which can be found at
ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/udprelay-0.2.tar.gz
Unfortunately, it doesn't compile on my box (RH6), but the following
patch seems to work (disclaimer: I didn't test it much).
-Daz.
diff -C2 udprelay-0.2.orig/Makefile udprelay-0.2/Makefile
*** udprelay-0.2.orig/Makefile Sat Oct 30 12:40:46 1993
--- udprelay-0.2/Makefile Sat Aug 14 22:54:33 1999
***************
*** 11,16 ****
# for ODT 2.0
CC=gcc
! OPTS=-DSYSV
! LIBS=-lsocket
# for AIX
# OPTS=-DAIX
--- 11,17 ----
# for ODT 2.0
CC=gcc
! OPTS=-DLINUX
! #OPTS=-DSYSV
! #LIBS=-lsocket
# for AIX
# OPTS=-DAIX
diff -C2 udprelay-0.2.orig/udprelay.c udprelay-0.2/udprelay.c
*** udprelay-0.2.orig/udprelay.c Sat Oct 30 12:12:51 1993
--- udprelay-0.2/udprelay.c Sat Aug 14 22:59:46 1999
***************
*** 78,81 ****
--- 78,85 ----
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#endif
+ #ifdef LINUX
+ #include <fcntl.h>
+ #define FIONBIO O_NONBLOCK
+ #endif
#include <pwd.h>
#include "udprelay.h"
--
Darren Tucker. (dtucker at the domain zip dot com dot au)
A programmer is a device for converting caffeine into source code.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sep 1 1999 Linux expo at Paris??
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 13:44:21 GMT
I checked www.linux-expo.com recently.
It says there will be another expo at
Sep 1 1999.
I sent mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No response.
Is this lie or some mistake?
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From: Ken McCord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: New Site for the CMI8330 How-To
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 10:12:59 -0400
Hmmm...now how did that supernews ad get added??? Let's see if this
fixes it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stearns25)
Subject: email server and clients for Linux
Date: 14 Aug 1999 14:28:43 GMT
What email servers and clients are available for Linux? In Windows, there is
Exchange and Outlook/Eudora, for example. What is the equivalent for Linux?
If I set up my Linux (RH 6) box as a mail server, can the users access their
mail using Eudora and/or Outlook?
Any comments is appreciated.
-al
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Swap , Sound -- Urgent HELp!!!
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 14:25:23 GMT
I have some problems with linux , which i had install recently.
I have RH Linux 6 installed on my machine.
Ok , Let me come to the point.
My problems are :
1.) My swap partition is not mounted when Linux starts. It gives the
following error msg when Linux is loaded.
/dev/hda8 has insecure permission 660. 600 suggested.
/dev/hda8 no such device.
I have even tried the "swap -a" command at the terminal. But get the
same error message.
I have a primary partition of 2 GB ( win 98) , 2 GB extended partition
- which again has 2 logical partitions(1 GB each). One of the logical
partitions was the one i chose to install linux. Also, when i use
software like partition magic, it gives msg "Fat coruption"
I have only 32 MB of RAM, so I need to correct this problem very badly.
2.) Is it possible to resize my Linux swap partition ? if yes, pls tell
me some ezy way of doing it.
3.) My Sound card cannot be configured. I have a SV550 PCI Sound card
(Yamaha) SB compatible. But when i try to install using sndconfig, i
get the error msg "device or resouce busy" . the sndconfig utility says
that the sound card is not PnP , But win 9x detects it automatically.
Please help, I am missing the mp3s.
I would be greatful to all of u would could help me.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Arjun Prahbu K
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
athome.users-unix,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: DVD
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 14:21:49 GMT
Mark Connolly wrote:
>
> nope.. at least i dont think so.. it only sees your dvd drive as a cdrom
> drive.. at least thats what redhat did with mine.. and i need windows to
> watch dvd movies
>
> Chris Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8D5t3.2395$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Can someone tell me if DVD drives are supported under Linux? Will I be
> able
> > to watch DVD movies, use DVD software?
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
> >
The people who own the movie rights do not want you to have access to
them in a digital form, since that makes copying easy. And they want to
control which countries the disc may be played in. So the data may be
encrypted on the disc. And either the encryption method or compression
method may be protected by patents. So it is not likely that an open
source software player would be legal in all countries.
However, if the decryption and decompression are done in silicon, the IC
maker pays the royalties. There would be no problem with a documented
interface to such a chip, or open source player software controlling
that chip. As long as you only can get at the analog video signal,
Hollywood is happy. But you really want to dump the movie into the
graphics card's memory in digital form, so Hollywood worries about theft
again.
Have you ever noticed how honest people are less concerned about theft
than dishonest people?
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
athome.users-unix,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux security update - newbie questions
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 14:00:28 GMT
help wrote:
>
> From www.linux-mandrake.com :
>
> >SECURITY UPDATE: kernel 2.2.9
> >2.2.x kernel are all affected by a networking security bug. Please do not
> use your machine in a network >environment until you update with our new
> kernel.
> >Command line for upgrading:
>
> >rpm -ivh kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm
>
> >Important note: please don't forget to modify /etc/lilo.conf after
> upgrading, and re-run /sbin/lilo.
>
> Complete Newbie Questions:
> What do I modify in /etc/lilo.conf?
> Re-run /sbin/lilo = rebooting computer?
>
> Thanks
If your new kernel image has a different filename, than that filename
needs to be in /etc/lilo.conf.
Type "/sbin/lilo" as root, and lilo will rebuild the boot sector to
point to the physical location of your new kernel image. Then you can
reboot.
I advise making a boot floppy, just in case.
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Bill LeBorgne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: XFree86 : Trident 9750 3DImage.
Date: 14 Aug 1999 15:03:08 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Gorka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My graphic card is a "Trident 9750 3DImage" with 4Mb and I can't
> configure X-Windows to work with it. In the list of drivers of the
> installation program this card does not appear and when I choose another
> one, the monitor switches off when running startx ( and I heard an
> extrange noise )...
> Could anyone help me???,
> Thanks Anyway,
> GPA
I have a Jaton card using that chipset, and I just use the generic SVGA driver.
It seems to work fine.
Bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Shannon)
Subject: Re: What is Applixware?
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 09:32:13 -04-59
On 13 Aug 1999 07:22:03 GMT, Brian A <BrianA> wrote:
>In article <7ouq2r$k2n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Forkosh)
>writes:
>
>>: The solution I finally settled on was the real Word and Excel running with
>>: vmware. This works well as long as you don't have to go to really
>>: heavy loads where the vmware performance hit becomes more evident.
>>: This is more likely to happen with very big spreadsheets or documents
>>: with very heavy graphics, say 7 or 8 large figures (half to full page).
>>
(cut)
>>Too bad, but your recommendation sounds like the only way to go at
>>the present time. Thanks again,
>
>Not for me! Star Office 5.1 has no compatability problems with M$ Office
>(up to and including 97) that I have found. It's also free for personal use,
>where vmware certainly isn't. There isn't the same performance degradation,
>either.
>It will cost you NOTHING to try SO 5.1, and I'd strongly suggest you do so.
Quite true. Actually neither solution was really that bad. Most of
the really common and essential stuff certainly worked in a
transparent manner. Allot depends on what you consider serious work
and what your ready to put up with. And Star Office is, indeed, free
which is a good point. But Star Office/Applixware compatibility isn't
and can never be better than using Word or Excel itself.
And what about the clients that are already using Office 2000? Or will
be using Office 2005 (or whatever)? I wouldn't be in the least
surprised if vmware is compatible with these right out of the box
because its a virtual machine as opposed to being something that reads
and interprets formats. No guarentee, of course. Just a hunch.
Speaking of that, is anyone out there using vmware with the Office
2000 stuff, yet?
Tom
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From: justame@~.~
Crossposted-To: comp.editors
Subject: Cleaning DOS break chars and text wrapping in FTE?
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 15:04:08 GMT
When opening a DOS file in emacs, sometimes you'll get those ^M
thingys which can be cleaned with replace-string C-q C-m.
Apparently those same files in FTE (linux) show a little "musical
note" ascii character at the end of a line. Any idea how to clean
these out in FTE? (Yet these same files don't always show an ^M in
emacs)
Also, how do you wrap the text of an existing file in FTE? It has a
"Word wrap" function but this just places line breaks when you reach
the end of the screen while typing. The text of existing files still
goes way off screen. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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From: "Jonathan Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux + windows filesystems
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 15:48:30 GMT
I really have NO experience in this, but I had a thought. Is the Linux
program you're using marking them read only? Almost all but the simplest of
text editors has the ability to do that.
Just tryin' to help,
JW
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From: Pat & Susse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: screen dies on install
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 17:37:27 +0200
I'm trying to install RH 6 from the CD Rom. It boots fine and I come to
the first screen where you choose to install or choose expert mode etc,
etc. It doesn't matter if I <enter> to install or type expert, the light
on my screen goes from green to orange and then nothing happens. My
screen is an Olivetti DSM60-510.
Thanks,
Pat
--
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that
something else is more important than fear.
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From: "Jonathan Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! Navigator in Linux...
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 15:52:45 GMT
You can (must?) also list the DNS in the kppp setup window, and in linuxconf
(open a console window and type linuxconf, that will open the program). Then
you (hopefully) won't have to fiddle with editing text files.
:-)
JW
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From: "Jonathan Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pppd timeout while logging in to isp
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 15:44:14 GMT
I've had the same problem. I just increased the time-out to 90 seconds. I've
noticed that sometimes kppp dials up really quick, and somtimes it's realy
slow.
If that doesn'thelp, open up a debug or loning window, and tell us what it
says.
Happy Linuxing,
JW
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From: "Jonathan Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kppp freezed my apps!!!!
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 16:00:19 GMT
First, to all GNOME users, don't freak out. I'm not against it.
But I have also had trouble with GNOME. It just dosn't seem very stable yet.
Why don't you give KDE a try? I really like it.
And to all you gurus.... I wonder if kppp is clashing with another ppp
program. Is there another way for L'acheteur to dial out AND use netscape?
L'acheteur, open your RPM manager and look through your packages to see if
you have another dial up program to try.
Just tryin' to help,
JW
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: linux - cable modem
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 15:49:52 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <Sdos3.1004$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, I currently have cox@home cable modem service on my windows 98 computer.
> I've installed RH 5.2 on a separate partition so my computer dual boots.
> Now I plan to hook up my cable modem service to my Linux OS. What do I need
> to protect my computer from the internet? And where should I go to find
> documentation on how to go about it?
If you're serious about it, I recommend you pick up a good book on the
subject, like O'Reilly's _Practical UNIX & Internet Security_. If a book
is too much to start with, check the Linux Security HOWTO, which is part
of the usual Linux HOWTO collection that should come with any serious
Linux distribution. As a starting point, disable services you're not
using, both in /etc/inetd.conf and whatever startup scripts you're
using. (I know this advice may be vague for a newbie, but without
writing quite a few pages I can't be more precise -- that's why I
recommend a book or at least the HOWTO.)
> Why don't I need "protection" when
> using windows is also something I'm curious about.
This is an erroneous assumption -- you most definitely **DO** need to take
security precautions with Windows. To the extent that you don't, it's
simply because Windows doesn't set up so many services by default.
You might also want to check out the site
http://www.dslreports.com/r3/dsl/secureme, which has a free security
probe service. The best score is 0, with negative numbers indicating
potential security risks. The current public listing shows scores ranging
from 0 to -157. The -157 machine is running Windows 98, as are all the
ones with 0. (There are, at the moment, no Linux boxes shown, but that
might change by the time you check the site out.) Take these scores with
a grain of salt, though; a machine with a score of 0 could conceivably
still be cracked by a creative cracker, or one with more knowledge than
the person running the scanning service; and a machine with a low score
could still be pretty secure if its administrator knows what s/he is
doing. (The scanning service basically checks for "unnecessary" services
running on the system, each of which is a POTENTIAL security hole if it's
buggy or misconfigured, or if a cracker has obtained a password in some
way.)
--
Rod Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~smithrod
Author of _Special Edition Using Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux_, from Que
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