Linux-Misc Digest #507, Volume #21 Sun, 22 Aug 99 16:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: Ready to TRASH SuSE 6.1 (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: X-Windows freezing (Cameron L. Spitzer)
How to customize menus in Gnome or KDE? (K. Eggleston)
Re: Synchronizing cmos clock with timeserver? ("Stefan Monnier "
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
Re: Which distribution to use? ("Johnny")
ALS4000 PCI sound card (Dan Srebnick)
Re: why not C++? (Randall Parker)
Re: Alert: AMD K6-2 350 Mhz processor (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Re: BeOS Question (Charles M)
Linux text editor .. (SkAtAn)
Re: can i use linux operating system (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: Apache User's Directory (WooW)
RedHat Kernel compile - PROBLEM (Emil Cimerman)
Lirc and Kwintv (Berco van Gool)
Re: Linux text editor .. (toby)
Re: Synchronizing cmos clock with timeserver? ("Jeff Grossman")
Kernel 2.2.11 (modules) Compilation Failed Usig gcc-2.95 (Habibi4me)
Re: BeOS Question ("rudolfo")
Re: Which distribution to use? (Jeroen Sluyter)
Re: How to I remove Lilo (Christopher B Stank)
Probelm with Real Player 5.0. No sound (Kevin Jian)
WordPerfect 8 (Jeroen Sluyter)
Re: help needed: Windows 98 and Linux coexistence (Jeroen Sluyter)
Re: some challenging security questions... (Gary Momarison)
Setup problems with "corrupted mount table" ("Jesse F. Hughes")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Ready to TRASH SuSE 6.1
Date: 22 Aug 1999 17:34:46 GMT
Michel Catudal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Gilbert Groehn wrote:
: >
<snip>
i completely understand, Gilbert. Somebody called it 'Geek fatigue'
where you almost exhaust yourself figuring out the bugaboos. You've got
to push away from the computer desk and take a day off away from it. My
personal experience involved getting a couple of $2.00 Linux CDs from
Linux Mall until I figured out which distro I really wanted. THen a
couple of days later figuring out which window manager is the one for me
--
Andy Purugganan
annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
apurugganan AT amadeuslink DOT com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: X-Windows freezing
Date: 22 Aug 1999 17:51:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, muzh wrote:
> I cured the problem by changing
>the addressing mode of hdc (my Linux disk) from LBA back to CHS. This
>of course increased the number of cylinders from 1465 to 23361, so I had
>to make doubly sure my (now small) root partition was within the first
>1024 cylinders.
You don't have to keep your root under 1024 cylinders. That's convenient,
and you have to do it if you're going to let "Disk Druid" set you up.
But you could also create a partition on the first few cylinders just for
booting, and partition the rest of the disk any way that suits your
needs.
Cameron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (K. Eggleston)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: How to customize menus in Gnome or KDE?
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 12:47:44 -0500
Adding, removing, organizing applications in the Windows Start Menu is
easy. From what I gather, however, Gnome and KDE work nothing like this.
How does one work with the application menus in these to set them up how
they want?
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From: "Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Synchronizing cmos clock with timeserver?
Date: 22 Aug 1999 13:58:10 -0400
>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It is not letting me do it. I am putting net time \\ip address of linux box
> /s /y and it comes back with an error saying it can't find the machine.
Forget about brain-dead rdate.
>> > Can I get Linux to broadcast the time on an SNTP port or something?
Yes, of course. Check out www.ntp.org
Stefan
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From: "Johnny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.dev.newbie
Subject: Re: Which distribution to use?
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 18:06:39 GMT
If Linux is to survive as an OS and as an alternative - then EASE of use is
a MUST. WindoZ grew exponentially simply because of this reason - EASE and
aethestics. Having tried Mandrake Linux 6.0 (the .iso image from FTP) - it
was well worth the download! Not only does it take Windows look and ease to
a new level but it also adds the power of command lines, customizations,
etc.! Mandrake is truly among distributions that will permit the general
acceptance of Linux as viable alternative. JUST think - you make it easy on
the general population then they will accept it faster.
MANDRAKE for the general mass and Linux geeks!
Albert Ulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> The other question is about partitioning my harddrive. Most of the
> distributions require a partition to be created. But I found that
there is
> this PhatLinux which can be directly launched from your C:\
While the idea of PhatLinux is fascinating, I have not yet heard any
favourable reports about it. I think you would be better off with
something like Caldera 2.2, which includes a graphical repartitioning
tool and Windows-based setup.
> Thanks for your help! (Hoping to have Linux installed in a couple of
days
> :-)
Apart from Caldera, I also like the current SuSE 6.2 for it's easy
installation and the large library of software (6 CDs) it includes.
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From: Dan Srebnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ALS4000 PCI sound card
Date: 22 Aug 1999 12:21:02 -0400
I'm trying to use an ASound Avance ALS4000 chipset PCI sound card with
kernel 2.2.11. Any suggestions on which driver might work?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randall Parker)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: why not C++?
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 11:14:53 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> I've also found it more difficult to debug C++ than C (especially the
> code of other people,) because (operator) overloading can make otherwise
> innocent looking code do much more than you had expected.
I have worked on C++ dev projects where everyone agreed not to do
operator overloading precisely so that the code would stay
comprehensible.
I think the desire to make string classes and then be able to concatenate
strings together with + is the reason most found the idea appealing.
However, I think operator overloading is a bad idea for the most part.
In the words of an old programmer who told me this while I was a
much younger one:
"Code is written once to be read many times"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Crossposted-To: redhat.general,comp.os.linux.x,redhat.x.general
Subject: Re: Alert: AMD K6-2 350 Mhz processor
Date: 22 Aug 1999 17:46:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ryan T. Rhea wrote:
>Rob Mason wrote:
>
>> Has anyone else experienced a system freeze with this processor on RH6.0
My AMD K6-2 350 is solid as a rock running Debian GNU/Linux 2.1.
It's on a generic Taiwanese motherboard with the VIA 503 chip set,
with a 64 MB PC-100 SDRAM stick made locally with Toshiba RAM.
>I have seen across many processor updates - none specific to the K6-2 350.
>Since you just upgraded, I am willing to bet one of two things are the
>culprit. One, perhaps the clock speed/voltage on your motherboard is
>incorrect (overclocked?). Two, your CPU is overheating.
My K6 doesn't get hot. It would probably survive on convection and radiative
cooling. "Overclocking" is a technique used to sell CPUs at a higher clock
rate than their manufacturers warrant. It's fraud when a PC builder sells
you an "overclocked" computer. It's dumb to do it yourself.
Check that first. Then check the RAM.
Cameron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles M)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: BeOS Question
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:04:13 -0500
In article <7ppa7k$b5q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Hi,
>
> Hate to bring this up, but what is BeOS? And why to they claim to be better
> than Linux? They're thinking of giving it a try at my school, and I'm just
> interested in what BeOS really claims to do.
Pros:
Very nice fonts (try bePositive vs netscape on Linux) and overall look of
system
Each desktop can have its own resolution/color depth
Multi- tasking/multi-threaded/multi-you name it.....
A real journeled filesystem - no checks required on hard reboots
Filesystem handles very large partitions AND very large individual files
Mostly complete bash shell
Good API system for programmers
Does have access to a number of ports of some Unix programs
Cons:
Single user
Fewer apps than Linux
Supports less hardware
Not suitable as a server
Mail capabilities sorely lacking
Some User Interface limitations (copying icons between folders: icons
cannot be auto re-arranged, thumbnails are too tiny for images)
Robust, but requires you to have a terminal open if Tracker dies. If not,
reboot required.
CMM
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From: SkAtAn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux text editor ..
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 19:56:46 +0200
I am looking for a text editor under linux (console)
that looks and works like edit.com (microshaft) ..
for example pico ..
SkAtAn/freax
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: can i use linux operating system
Date: 22 Aug 1999 17:37:27 GMT
Gerald Willmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: On 13 Aug 1999, POLESAW wrote:
: > can i use linux operating system on my current computer with my present
: > software?
: well, how about telling us a little more about your current computer.
: Linux will run on almost anything, Xwindows might be a bit more tricky
: depending on your video card. And start looking for a different ISP -
: don't think AOL supports linux.
i think it's the other way around, Linux would rather not support AOL ;-)
--
Andy Purugganan
annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
apurugganan AT amadeuslink DOT com
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From: net_?[EMAIL PROTECTED] (WooW)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Apache User's Directory
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 18:37:18 GMT
Try give access permit to /data/home in apache config.
Good Luck!
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 13:25:00 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack Cheng)
wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have a question about the Apache using symbol link, let's say /home/jack
>was moved to /data/home/jack, and I created a symbol link to the root
>directory with the command :
>
> ln -s /data/home /home
>
>
>So, the user's home directory will point to the new location
>(/data/home/jack).
>
>
>But I get a error messages
>
> jack@localhost>lynx localhost/~jack
>
> HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access /~jack on this server.
>
>How can I fix the problem, or can I use the symbol link in Apache?
>
>BTW, I using the RH6.0 and Apache-1.3.6-7
>
>Best Regard
>Jack Cheng
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From: Emil Cimerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat Kernel compile - PROBLEM
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 20:33:23 +0200
Hi guys
HELP!!!!!!!!!!
I tried to compile the Redhat Kernel 2.2.5, and everything went well,
until
I gave the 'make zImage' command which terminated - after a while!! - in
the way you can see
below.
What is that as86? What is the problem?
bye
-emil-
*********************************************************
...
...
...
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all_targets'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.5/arch/i386/math-emu'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.5/arch/i386/math-emu'
ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext
arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o
init/version.o \
--start-group \
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o
fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o \
fs/filesystems.a \
net/network.a \
drivers/block/block.a drivers/char/char.a drivers/misc/misc.a
drivers/net/net.a drivers/cdrom/cdrom.a drivers/pci/pci.a
drivers/pnp/pnp.a drivers/video/video.a arch/i386/math-emu/math.a \
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/lib/lib.a
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \
--end-group \
-o vmlinux
nm vmlinux | grep -v '\(compiled\)\|\(\.o$\)\|\( [aU]
\)\|\(\.\.ng$\)\|\(LASH[RL]DI\)' | sort > System.map
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.5/arch/i386/boot'
as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s
make[1]: as86:Command not found
make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.5/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [boot] Error 2
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From: Berco van Gool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lirc and Kwintv
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 19:27:08 +0200
Hello,
Since several weeks I have an Irman. I use the Irman Library and the
software from the Lirc project. I have configured Lirc and the test
software from Lirc works (irw) good. But if I want to connect kwintv (a
television program for Linux) to Lirc. It don't workcorrectly.
If I use the Infrared remote control setup from Kwintv and I press some
remote control buttons every button generates the same very long code,
but the button name is generated good.
I can't use a remote control for kwintv. Can you tell me what I have to
do?
Is it a bug or a configuration problem?
I hope you can help me.
Greetings Berco.
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From: toby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux text editor ..
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 14:21:52 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SkAtAn wrote:
> I am looking for a text editor under linux (console)
> that looks and works like edit.com (microshaft) ..
> for example pico ..
>
> SkAtAn/freax
vi
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From: "Jeff Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Synchronizing cmos clock with timeserver?
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 10:28:09 -0700
Okay, that would explain it. I have never got Samba working yet.
Thanks,
Jeff
--
Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Steve Cowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:mERv3.1765$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Jeff,
>
> The "net time" command uses nmb/smb services (Samba) as a transport for
asking
> your linux box to return its current time. I verified this by temporarily
> shutting down samba on my linux box. Then, when I issued "net time", I got
the
> same error message as you. (see below)
>
> Steve Cowles
> SWCowles at gte dot net
>
> ===========================================
> <cut/paste with Samba running>
> C:\>net time \\voyager /s /y
> Current time at \\voyager is 8/22/99 6:49 AM
>
> The command completed successfully.
> C:\>net time \\192.168.9.17 /s /y
> Current time at \\192.168.9.17 is 8/22/99 6:49 AM
>
> The command completed successfully.
>
> <cut/paste without samba running>
> C:\>net time \\voyager /s /y
> System error 53 has occurred.
>
> The network path was not found.
> C:\>
> C:\>net time \\192.168.9.17 /s /y
> System error 53 has occurred.
>
> The network path was not found.
> C:\>
>
> Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > It is not letting me do it. I am putting net time \\ip address of linux
box
> > /s /y and it comes back with an error saying it can't find the machine.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > --
> > Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >
> >
> > Cowles, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I also use rdate to set my Linux box time using cron. On my Windows
> > machines
> > > I use the following command to set their time against the Linux box.
The
> > > "net" command comes with every version of Windows I'm aware of.
> > >
> > > net time \\linuxbox /s /y
> > >
> > >
> > > Steve Cowles
> > >
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > >> /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: Habibi4me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel 2.2.11 (modules) Compilation Failed Usig gcc-2.95
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 14:48:55 -0400
I just upgraded my SuSE 6.1 Linux distro with GCC-2.95 and am unable to
compile the Linux kernel 2.2.11. The following message was generated in
the process of compiling the modules:
make -C hfmodem modules
make[3]: Entering directory
`/home/local/src/linux/drivers/char/hfmodem'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fno-strength-reduce
-m486
-malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586
-DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS
-include /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h -c -o
refclock.o refclock.c
refclock.c: In function `hfmodem_refclock_current':
refclock.c:136: Invalid `asm' statement:
refclock.c:136: fixed or forbidden register 0 (ax) was spilled for
class AREG.
refclock.c:137: Invalid `asm' statement:
refclock.c:137: fixed or forbidden register 0 (ax) was spilled for
class AREG.
make[3]: *** [refclock.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/local/src/linux/drivers/char/hfmodem'
make[2]: *** [_modsubdir_hfmodem] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/local/src/linux/drivers/char'
make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_char] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/local/src/linux/drivers'
make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
The gcc that came with SuSE-6.1 distro did not catch the above error.
Could this mean either my gcc-2.95 binary package is bad or there is a
bug in the gcc-2.95 distro?
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS. Remove "4m" from e-mail address to enable reply.
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From: "rudolfo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: BeOS Question
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 12:19:03 -0700
Almost a complete re-work of the OS concept as most people know it. Aside
from what other people have already said, it takes a slightly different tack
towards acheiving the original goals of the "CICS" system as it was
envisioned 50 years ago. It treats everything as a bitstream and by creative
use of processor time allows everything to be almost "realtime" in the same
manner that things propogate through an Object Oriented Database.
If your a coder or "hacker" then get the Be developers guide. It explains a
lot.
Or, for lighter reading, there is an archive of news releases at
http://www.be.com/
rudog
Robert F. Scheyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7ppa7k$b5q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> Hate to bring this up, but what is BeOS? And why to they claim to be
better
> than Linux? They're thinking of giving it a try at my school, and I'm
just
> interested in what BeOS really claims to do.
>
> Tschuss!
>
> Robert Scheyder
>
> --
> ===================================================
> Robert F. Scheyder
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> "Life is a Battlefield..."
> -with apologies to Pat Benatar
>
>
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From: Jeroen Sluyter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.dev.newbie
Subject: Re: Which distribution to use?
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 21:12:09 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Varma wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> I want to install Linux on my Wintel m/c & I'm kind of confused by all these
> distributions - Redhat, Caldera, Mandrake, ... How do I choose which one to
> buy? Or is it better to simply download from the net for free?
>
> The other question is about partitioning my harddrive. Most of the
> distributions require a partition to be created. But I found that there is
> this PhatLinux which can be directly launched from your C:\
>
> Has anyone had any experiences in PhatLinux? If so, please send me an
> email -> srv7(at)hotmail(dot)com.
>
> Thanks for your help! (Hoping to have Linux installed in a couple of days
> :-)
Hi, Varma
Choosing a distribution is something personal, however some distribtions
are more suitable to beginners and others are more useful to the more
advanced linux-users. I have no experience with PhatLinux but it's
unlikely that you can run a real linux-system from just c:\. A real
linux-system will always run on a separate partition (linux native
partition.) I've used Red Hat, SuSE, Calerda en Debian, and I think SuSE
is best for beginners. It's very complete (5/6 cd's) and it comes with a
good book. You do have to partition you're harddrive but this is really
easy. I recommend that you do not download linux from the net because
although it's free, it's a very difficult process. Cd's aren't that
expensive, and sometimes books about linux come bundled with cd's.
Good Luck!
Greetings
Jeroen
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From: Christopher B Stank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.help,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: How to I remove Lilo
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 14:35:30 -0400
You can use a windows xx boot disk, with the fdisk program on it, and then
run the command fdisk /mbr to rewrite the master boot record. This
removes lilo. If you wish to reinstall lilo at any time in the future you
will nedd a linux boot disk to reinstall it.
Reguards,
Chris
==========================================================================
Christopher B. Stank == [EMAIL PROTECTED] & @rcn.com == Senior CompSci Major
Lockheed Martin SS&TS Unix Systems Administrator == [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, BD wrote:
benny9>I recently installed linux 5.2 and installed lilo. Well today I booted
benny9>up my computer and linux partition and everything else (bar my C: drive
benny9>for windoze) was gone.
benny9>So now im stuck with lilo at bootup. How do I delete it?
benny9>
benny9>
benny9>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Jian)
Subject: Probelm with Real Player 5.0. No sound
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 18:57:30 GMT
Hi,
My Dell PC (OptiPlex 166) is running Redhat 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36.
Recently I downloaded rv50_redhat5xi386.rpm from www.real.com, but
was not able to get it to work. The PC has an integrated Sound
Blaster 16 Vibra card and it works fine with audio CD and "*.au"
files (with the help of "sndconfig").
However, whenever I tried to play "*.ra" or "*.rm" files either
locally or via netscape 4.61, no sound comes out at all. And there
are no error messages either. For instance, if I run
% rvplayer /usr/lib/rvplayer/welcome.rm
I will see the following info on rvplayer window:
Title: Welcome to Real Player 5.0
Author: RealNetworks, Inc
Copyright: 1996 RealNetworks, Inc
Playing 150.0 Kbps local file Mono 00:00:0/00:00:0
The "00:00:0/00:00:0" mark never changes, but the mark of "Playing.."
will change to "Stopped" when I press the "stop" sign.
The problem is not on volume control. The "xmixer" shows that each
volume selection is high enough, and the sound from audio-CD or
"*.au" is very loud.
Please help. Any responses will be highly appreciated. Please also
respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Many Thanks,
Kevin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jeroen Sluyter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WordPerfect 8
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 21:20:15 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Linuxers,
I have a problem with WordPerfect 8. The font just looks awful, I can
hardly read it. Would someone please tell me how to fix this ?
Thanks,
Jeroen
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From: Jeroen Sluyter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help needed: Windows 98 and Linux coexistence
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 21:07:09 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OIT News Server wrote:
>
> Hello...
>
> I have a problem which can be characterized as "Windows recognizing the
> disk-space dedicated to Linux use and attempting to reformat that space...".
> To make the short-story long: here are the details:
>
> I just installed LINUX [RedHat 6.2] on a new DELL machine where the origianl
> OS is MS Windows 98. I have an extra, empty hard-drive [8GB] for LINUX; but
> I have kept a small partition on this extra hard-drive in accessible to
> Windows 98 in MS-DOS FAT36 format. [i.e. the "extra" hard-drive has a
> "Windows" partition which is formatted to use 25% of the hard-drive, whereas
> the rest is left unpartitioned and unformatted for LINUX use]. Before I
> installed LINUX, Windows 98 would not "see" the rest of this hardrive [about
> 6 GB].
>
> Nevertheles, now, that I have installed LINUX [Red-Hat 6.2] on this machine;
> once I give LILO the option of starting DOS; Windows 98 would start
> screaming about being impropertly shut down previously and running SCANDISK
> on the Linux Partion. After completion of the Scandisk - I noticed that the
> LINUX parition had become visible to Windows 98 and the MS OS would come up
> with
> suggestions to reformat this "unsed" space...
>
> I would greatly appreciate any hints as to getting rid of this problem and
> making the LINUX partition invisible to Windows again...
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> Kristaps
>
> --
> Kristaps Licis
> Finance PhD Student - Isenberg School of Management
> Research Associate - CISDM
> University of Massachusetts
> Amherst, MA 01003
> tel. (413) 545-3180; fax. (413) 577-1350
Hi Kristaps,
Are you sure that you formatted the partition as ext2 (linux native)
when installing Red-hat? You can see what type of file-system you have
in with the mount command.
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Subject: Re: some challenging security questions...
From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22 Aug 1999 12:26:48 -0700
"Ryan T. Rhea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am running a machine that is shared among several users. The only
> network connection is an outbound dial-up ppp connection for standard
> internet access (usually for ftp and www only). I have Manrake 6.0
> installed with a custom 2.2.10 kernel.
>
> I do not want any outside (non-local) users to have access to the
> machine under any circumstances. I realize
> the chances of this are slim anyway because the machine isn't always
> connected and the ip address is dynamic. However, the tightest security
> possible is my goal. I have commented out everything in
> /etc/inetd.conf. The only services I have left running (according to a
> portscan) are 'SunRPC' and 'lpd'.
Not all services are related to /etc/inetd.conf; check boot scripts.
>
> First of all, do I have any need for SunRPC on this non-networked
> machine? If so, how can I be sure that it is
> secure enough to be left up?
I don't know. IIRC, some commonly-used software needs it. I thought
it was a kernel build option, but I don't see it in my 2.2.10 info.
Shut it down and see what breaks.
> Finally, how can I determine which files really need the suid (4000)
> set? I have made a list of all such files with
> 'find / * -perm -4000 > suids.list'. There are 47 of them, and I don't
> know what all of them do, much less which ones must have the suid set.
I've asked that question too. No answers. I read an article that
tried to address the problem, but it wasn't much help. You can get
some idea of what unknown programs are for (on RPM systems) by using
"rpm -qif /the_dir/the_program". If it's really important to you,
you can change the permissions and see what breaks, keeping record
of what you're doing, of course.
>
> Any tips or pointers to more information would be helpful here.
You can enable internet packet filtering using ipfwadm or ipchains
for which there are HOWTOs. It's fairly easy to do, but could be
better documented.
There's a "Xinetd" which is said (Linux Today article of about
21 Aug 99) to be better than inetd/TPC_Wrappers which is probably
what you have.
I've gathered lots of links to security articles and sites at
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/security.html
--
Look for Linux info at http://www.deja.com/home_ps.shtml and
Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: "Jesse F. Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setup problems with "corrupted mount table"
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 14:26:02 -0400
Hey ho.
I am running Linux 2.2.10 with the latest slackware distribution.
Whenever I try to run "setup", I get the message
Mount table corrupt. Reboot machine and run setup again.
Now, I am using ide-scsi for a CDRW, and often setup gives me the
following odd messages:
scsi1: SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices.
scsi: 2 hosts.
scsi: 1 host.
I get that several times and then I get the mount table message. So, I
compiled a new kernel and changed the rc.d files so that I didn't use
ide-scsi. I still get the mount table message, so that must be a red
herring.
Here's the output from mount:
/dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda2 on /home type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hdc on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro)
(Looks okay to me -- my CDRW is hdd, not hdc. It's not currently
mounted.)
Has anyone seen this? If there's documentation about this problem, just
point me in the right direction, please.
Please send a courtesy copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] My newsgroup access is a
bit screwy at the moment.
Thanks.
Jesse
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