Linux-Misc Digest #563, Volume #21 Fri, 27 Aug 99 21:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: why not C++? (Phil Hunt)
Re: HELP! unable to load interpeter (Andrei A. Dergatchev)
Help With Procmail ("Jeff Grossman")
Re: Best language for graphical apps? (Phil Hunt)
Re: Best language for graphical apps? (Phil Hunt)
linux in Amiga500 without hd, can I??? How ?? ("Punz")
Re: SCSI tape drive suggestions? (John Bay)
[Q] Creating BOOT/ROOT /dev corrupted at mount (2.2.9-2.2.12) ("wes.kaefer")
Kernel configuration options (Dan Alexander)
Re: Shutdown Problem
Re: --> KDE/GNOME Default Login Preference ? (Bill Anderson)
Re: USR modem won't use COM 2 ("Scott")
how to start many xdm sessions? (siemel naran)
Re: SCSI tape drive suggestions? ("Ben Humphreys")
Re: COMPLETE system LOCKUP Mandrake 6 (Warren Bell)
Re: COMPLETE system LOCKUP Mandrake 6 (Warren Bell)
Re: Bypass Login (Mohd H Misnan)
Re: USR modem won't use COM 2 (Mircea)
Re: MP3 Player (Jan Panteltje)
Re: Can't recall commands after upgrade to RH 6.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Shutdown Problem (David T. Blake)
Re: Linux BIGGEST Problem-Must Read (Rambone)
Re: SCSI tape drive suggestions? (Ron Gibson)
SambA security problem or bug?! (Raymonds Doetjes)
Re: Volume spanning with ext2??? (Raymonds Doetjes)
stopping gpm in a script (Mladen Gavrilovic)
Re: Free Security Suite for Linux (Stephan)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Hunt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: why not C++?
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 99 18:26:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Timo Tossavainen" writes:
> Phil Hunt wrote:
> > BTW, has anyone read Stroustrup's paper where he suggests overloading
> > the whitespace operator? It's quite an elegant idea, for example
> > mathematicians would be able to write:
> >
> > v = a x + b y + c z;
> >
> > instead of the usual:
> >
> > v = a * x + b * y + c * z;
>
> I think that the paper was published on April 1st.
Indeed it was; I realised something was up when I was about halfway
through it.
--
Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei A. Dergatchev)
Subject: Re: HELP! unable to load interpeter
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 22:13:24 GMT
I have had this error running with very small space in root (/)
partition (~24Mb). It may happen when you install a lot of packages
and they take almost all space you defined for root during
partitioning.
So, at first, I'd suggest checking "df".
Rgds,
Andrei
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 13:12:51 -0400, Rick Kennett
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We are baffled by an 'unable to load interpeter' error. This is our
>first Linux box, introduced inspite of consultants that were recommendin
>NT and exchange for our mail. Now management is watching... very
>closley... We are very scared :-)
>
>Any help would be appreciated
>
>Thanks
>The Country Life Linux Underground
>
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From: "Jeff Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail,msn.computingcentral.os.linux
Subject: Help With Procmail
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 13:22:34 -0700
I am having a problem with Procmail. Here is the log message that I am
getting:
procmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from "/usr/bin/dmail"
delivery to /mail/Mailing Lists unsafe: No such file or directory
invalid mailbox name root+mail/Mailing Lists
delivered to /INBOX
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 27 11:28:08 1999
Subject: Amazon grants new COO hefty stock package/Now Linux gets its
own
Folder: /usr/bin/dmail +mail/Mailing Lists
24364
Here is my Procmail recipe file:
VERBOSE=off
MAILDIR=mail
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/procmail.log
INCOMING=mail
DELIVER=/usr/bin/dmail
DROP="$DELIVER +$INCOMING" # Usage: "| $DROP/foldername"
:0:
* ^Subject:.*linux
* !^Subject:.*root@apple
| $DROP/'Mailing Lists'
:0:
* ^From.*[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| $DROP/'Mailing Lists'
:0:
* ^X-Mailing-List:.*procmail
| $DROP/'Mailing Lists'
It says that the message is being delivered to INBOX, but that is not the
case, so I have temporarily removed my .procmailrc file so I do not lose any
mail. My mail files are in $HOME/mail. My Inbox is in $HOME.
Thanks,
Jeff
--
Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Hunt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Best language for graphical apps?
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 99 18:32:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Miles Bader" writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Collin W. Hitchcock) writes:
> > I feel obligated to post my advocacy for the Perl interface since
> > nobody else has yet and I strongly object to the white-space syntax
> > limitations of Tcl and Python on religious grounds.
>
> Sure, python's treatment of white-space sucks, but perl, well... in
> perl, it's the *non-white-space* that sucks.
>
> [I find it quite sad that an otherwise nice language like python has
> such a huge festering blemish. What *was* the author thinking?!?]
When I first tried Python, I was more than a little dubious about
the syntax, but the more I tried it the more I got used to it, and
eventually I liked it.
You might try persevering with Python a bit longer, to see if
the same happens to you.
--
Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Hunt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Best language for graphical apps?
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 99 18:36:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Alex Flinsch" writes:
> > Sure, python's treatment of white-space sucks, but perl, well... in
> > perl, it's the *non-white-space* that sucks.
> >
> > [I find it quite sad that an otherwise nice language like python has
> > such a huge festering blemish. What *was* the author thinking?!?]
>
> I believe the author was thinking about code readability. Python was also
> partially developed as a "teaching" language, one with which to learn the
> basics of programming. In that sense the idea of significant whitespace
> makes a lot of sense.
I dunno about you, but I indent my code whatever language I'm
writing in. C++ isn't a beginner's language, but IMO it is highly
beneficial to indent code written in it.
--
Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Punz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux in Amiga500 without hd, can I??? How ??
Date: 27 Aug 1999 21:42:28 GMT
tnx in advance
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Bay)
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive suggestions?
Date: 27 Aug 1999 22:31:25 GMT
fred smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi!
: Having just installed some new (read: used) SCSI hardware in one of my
: Linux boxen, I'm wondering if someone can point me to some good but
: inexpensive SCSI tape drives. Currently I have no decent backup
: solution and there is a growing number of machines on the in-house
: network needing some kind of backup.
: I need to keep the cost down, but would need someting of AT LEAST
: a 5 gig capacity, the more the better.
: Suggestions please?
If you're willing to settle for a little less, the Aiwa TD-8000 (TR-4, 4 Gig
uncompressed) has been available from onsale.com for under $100. It works
well for me.
--
Thanks,
John Bay
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Reply-To: "wes.kaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "wes.kaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Q] Creating BOOT/ROOT /dev corrupted at mount (2.2.9-2.2.12)
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 22:33:56 GMT
Looking for clues...
Have Scripts which previously created
working boot/root disks (2.0.X).
Now, with 2.2.9+
After creating template volume in /dev/ram,
everything looks ok until boot, then fails
during boot at finding /dev/console or /dev/init.
Subsequent, mount of boot image using
loop device,
(Abbreviated commands)
dd if=/dev/ram of=/tmp/image ...
mount /tmp/image ...
Listing of root directory of image
shows.
?rwxr-xr-x .... /dev dated December 1969
Anyone know what this problem is ??????????
Thanks, to anyone who responds.
Wes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Alexander)
Subject: Kernel configuration options
Date: 27 Aug 1999 22:29:25 GMT
Is there a way to determine the configuration options that have been compiled
into the kernel?
Dan Alexander
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Shutdown Problem
Date: 27 Aug 1999 22:39:21 GMT
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999 17:03:33 -0400, Alan Swartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>stan168 wrote:
>> I was thinking if the user just want to turn off the power without
>> doing a shutdown properly. Is there any way to prevent the checking (fsck)
>> at booting time and data corruption?
>
>I'm curious: Why would you want to do that?
One reason is to protect against power failures.
If we have /usr /usr/bin /sbin and the other read-only stuff on one partition,
then we can mount this partition read-only and in the event of a power
failure won't mess up these partitions. To be honest, I haven't yet tried
this idea. But I think it is a good idea.
On my system, I have /tmp in its own partition, /var in its own, /home in
its own, / in its own, /usr in its own. So maybe I should give it a shot.
--
Siemel Naran
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From: Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.config
Subject: Re: --> KDE/GNOME Default Login Preference ?
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 02:06:35 -0600
vultan wrote:
>
> Any idea on how to change the default login from Gnome to KDE ?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
root@locutus in /root $ cd /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions
root@locutus in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions $ ls -l
total 7
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 56 Apr 5 13:53 AnotherLevel
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43 Aug 3 17:35 Default
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 59 Jun 22 20:00 Enlightenment
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 61 Jun 22 20:00 Enlightenment16
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 52 Aug 3 17:35 Failsafe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 51 May 19 01:16 Gnome
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 47 Apr 19 21:33 KDE
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 16 12:39 default ->
Enlightenment1
6
root@locutus in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions $ rm default && ln -s KDE default
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From: "Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USR modem won't use COM 2
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:54:20 -0400
I've done this and when I sign onto Linux, ttyS1 doesn't seem to point to
anything. In fact, when I turn on minicom it immediately goes "on line"
before I dial. When I try to dial it says I need to hang up. When I hang
up it goes right back on again. It's almost like it pointing at an address
being used by something else.
Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Well duh, of course you have to disable the motherboard's com2 if you
> want the modem to install there. The modem brings its own com port, and
> you can't install it over the other, can you? So, if you want the modem
> on com2, the best thing to do is go in your system's BIOS and disable
> com2 there; you shouldn't have any more trouble after that.
>
> MST
>
>
>
> Scott wrote:
> >
> > Could someone explain why this modem refuses to install on COM 2, IRQ 3
like
> > it's supposed to?????
> >
> > This is a PNP modem, but unless I disable COM 2 on Win95, and manually
set
> > the IRQ and port address, the modem installs at COM 5 at the COM 2
address.
> > It does the same thing in Linux. It will not install on COM 2. Nothing
> > else is on COM 2 or IRQ 3 except COM2, which seems to confuse this modem
in
> > Windows and Linux.
> (..)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (siemel naran)
Subject: how to start many xdm sessions?
Date: 27 Aug 1999 22:45:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to start many xdm sessions at run time?
I looked at the man page, but couldn't figure it out.
Conceptually what I want to do is:
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon -display :0
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon -display :1
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon -display :2
--
============
siemel naran
============
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From: "Ben Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive suggestions?
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 08:39:24 +1000
I have a SCSI Seagate Travan TR4. Cost me in OEM packaging (not retail)
about $400 australian. I'd say they should go for around US$300.
Capacity is 4Gb uncompressed, they don't have hardware compression but 'tar
zcvf' should fix that! The only downside is that the tapes are a bit
expensive.
--
Regards,
Ben Humphreys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:03:14 +0000
From: Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: COMPLETE system LOCKUP Mandrake 6
Alex Flinsch wrote:
>
> Warren Bell wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > I do have some unmached memory- 2-72pin 32M EDO and 1-168pin 128M SDRAM,
> > I don't know if that has anything to do with it but it's done it before
> > on me with just the EDO ram.
>
> Possibly, but since it did it with just the EDO, unlikely.
>
> > Can anyone shed some light on this? I just don't get it. It seems like
> > a netscape problem but it locks the whole system.
> >
>
> Check the Mandrake update page at
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fupdates.php3
> it mentions upgrading from netscape 6.0 to 6.1stable. This might be the
> cause of your problem.
I already did all the upgrades on the page, so I've got the stable
netscape. This happened to me with Redhat 5.2 a few times also, with an
older netscape but the same problem. It seems to happen when I'm
downloading with NS or opening up the news reader, if it's a netscape
problem.
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:17:21 +0000
From: Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: COMPLETE system LOCKUP Mandrake 6
Ben Gunter wrote:
>
> Warren Bell wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >This is my second post on this, I appologize, but I've had a new install
> >of Mandrake Linux for three days and had two system lockups! What
> >gives? They both happened with netscape open and when it locks, it
> >locks hard. No mouse, no keyboard, magic sysrq doesn't even attempt to
> >work, can't telnet in from another machine, nothing.
> >
> >I've seen other people post on this but haven't found any answers. Is
> >there any settings I should check in my bios? Something that might be
> >conflicting with Linux?
> >
> >I do have some unmached memory- 2-72pin 32M EDO and 1-168pin 128M SDRAM,
> >I don't know if that has anything to do with it but it's done it before
> >on me with just the EDO ram.
> >
> >As far as my hardware, it's pretty basic. Adaptec SCSI controller,
> >Seagate Barracuda SCSI HD, Matrox Millennium 2 video and average sound
> >card.
> >
> >Can anyone shed some light on this? I just don't get it. It seems like
> >a netscape problem but it locks the whole system.
> >
> >Thanks
> >Warren Bell
>
> I've had this same problem a few times while running RedHat 5.2. I never
> figured out for sure what caused it, but judging by the nature of it, I
> figured it must have been hardware-related. Nothing worked. Numlock
> wouldn't change states, CTRL+ALT+BKSP wouldn't kill the X-server, couldn't
> get to a text console, nothing.
>
> The odd thing is that I have none of the hardware you described, and I'm
> only using DIMMs. What type of motherboard/CPU are you using? I have a
> Matsonic 6260S motherboard, ALi PCI chipset, onboard sound card, AMD K6-2
> 300 MHz. Any of that sound familiar?
Well, I have an AMD K6-2 300 with a Soyo SY-5EMA motherboard. And to be
honest I had it overclocked a bit to 333. (90MHz bus x 3.5) Could that
be the cause of it? Since I posted this I dropped it back to it's
original 300MHz. Also, I'm not sure about the bus speed and how it
works with Linux. I have two choices- 100MHz bus x 3.0 or 66MHz bus x
4.5.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd H Misnan)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,de.comp.os.linux,jaring.os.linux
Subject: Re: Bypass Login
Date: 27 Aug 1999 02:58:35 GMT
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:44:55 +0800, stan168 wrote:
>Thanks for everybody help.
>
>I can do it with set the run level to 1 which is single-user mode in Redhat
>6.0.
Single user mode mean that the user you're intended for should know what she/he
is doing since single user => root access = plain old Lose9X!
--
|Mohd Hamid Misnan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
|iMac/233RevB/MacOS 8.6 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
|AMDK6-2/300/Linux2.2.12 | http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/3319/ |
-All computers wait at the same speed.
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USR modem won't use COM 2
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 08:45:21 -0400
Well duh, of course you have to disable the motherboard's com2 if you
want the modem to install there. The modem brings its own com port, and
you can't install it over the other, can you? So, if you want the modem
on com2, the best thing to do is go in your system's BIOS and disable
com2 there; you shouldn't have any more trouble after that.
MST
Scott wrote:
>
> Could someone explain why this modem refuses to install on COM 2, IRQ 3 like
> it's supposed to?????
>
> This is a PNP modem, but unless I disable COM 2 on Win95, and manually set
> the IRQ and port address, the modem installs at COM 5 at the COM 2 address.
> It does the same thing in Linux. It will not install on COM 2. Nothing
> else is on COM 2 or IRQ 3 except COM2, which seems to confuse this modem in
> Windows and Linux.
(..)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Panteltje)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: MP3 Player
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 99 23:55:00 GMT
>Using Red Hat 6.0
> AMD K6 233
> 96 MB of ram
>
>Trying to find some way to play my mp3's and nothing is working does anyone
>have any suggestions on getting them to work?
>
>Thank you in advance
>
>Thad
>
>------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
>
mpg123
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can't recall commands after upgrade to RH 6.0
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:58:01 GMT
In article <7onqat$puu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yeah, it's a pain isn't it? Try deleting or commenting out all lines
> in:
> /etc/inputrc
>
> Then 'set -o vi' will regain its former effectiveness...
>
Many thanks, your solution works for me also. I have been fighting this
nasty little problem on a RH 6.0 installation for several days.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David T. Blake)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Shutdown Problem
Date: 27 Aug 1999 23:03:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [stan168 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> > I was thinking if the user just want to turn off the power without
> > doing a shutdown properly. Is there any way to prevent the checking
> > (fsck) at booting time and data corruption?
>
> Mount all your local filesystems read-only.
You can do a shutdown -rf now command to avoid fsck
for some time.
But in the case of an unprepared for shutdown you are
asking for big trouble if you don't do an fsck.
You might try backing the system up, and re-creating the
ext2 filesystem with a larger block size to speed up
the e2fsck dramatically. I am somewhat PO'd that redhat
does not allow blocksize specification in their install
procedure to allow different block sizes.
--
Dave Blake
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Rambone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux BIGGEST Problem-Must Read
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 17:18:10 -0700
Labtops in general are much harder to configure then a regular desktop. In
general. I've been installing winblowz on labtops for years. There is an order in
which to installl things, and you need to have your driver disk handy. This would
be true of any operating system. bottom line, you have to know what you are
doing. Installing 20 times is rediculous.
Sudhakar Govindarajan wrote:
> Bob Martin wrote:
>
> > Leonard Evens wrote:
> > >
> > > Jeremiah wrote:
> > > >
> > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MattCero) spake thusly:
> > > > > The best way for Linux to be on everyones PC is to make it installable.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Here! Here!
> > >
> > > If you've ever had to install Windows on a strange machine
> > > and get all the device drivers which Windows doesn't know about
> > > installed, you would be aware that naive users would have
> > > even less of a chance of using Windows if they had to install
> > > it themselves.
> >
> > Absolutely, windoze installs easy only if it can find everthing it
> > expects. I've had NT BSOD during intstalls many time, usually because it
> > picks the wrong drivers, even though the correct ones were available.
>
> I installed Windoze '98 on my laptop and beleive me, I got it right after
> installing it 20 times.. (absolutely no exaggeration here). And the worst part
> was, I did'nt do a thing extra to get it right finally. I was just running
> "setup" 20 times.. Windoze installation is not as easy as it claims to be!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Gibson)
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive suggestions?
Date: 28 Aug 1999 00:16:14 GMT
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999 22:39:24, "Ben Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I have a SCSI Seagate Travan TR4. Cost me in OEM packaging (not retail)
> about $400 australian. I'd say they should go for around US$300.
>
> Capacity is 4Gb uncompressed, they don't have hardware compression but 'tar
> zcvf' should fix that! The only downside is that the tapes are a bit
> expensive.
I found two sites that specializes in refurbished drives with warranties
whose prices rival that you can find on taking a risk on ebay.
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Raymonds Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: SambA security problem or bug?!
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:06:47 +0200
I have a huge securtiy problem with SambA!
This is th eproblem,
I have defined a service called sybase. This service uses:
comment = Sybase development tools
path = /opt/sybase
write list = @sybase
read list = @sybase
oplocks = true
force group = sybase
I have also made a Unix group called sybase with the sybase developers
in it.
When I try to access the sybase dir /opt/sybase in a bash shell with a
none sybase group user I get Permision Denied. Wich is good.
Now when I login in to a Windows machine and use network neighbourhood
and browse to the service sybase, this user wich is not in the sybase
group will see all the files and can even read them!!!!
In my opinion he should'nt even be granted access to this directory
while he has no access to the directory via a linux-shell so he
should'nt get access with a SMB client either.
How can I change this?! Or is this indeed a serious security bug!?
Raymond
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From: Raymonds Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Volume spanning with ext2???
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 02:36:48 +0200
Well the problem here is that we need extra space on the complete /
volume
and this can be solved by adding a extra harddrive and adding that
freespace to the / mountpoint. This is called spanning
Since we son't feel like creating extra mount points and symlinking every
possible dirctory to the new partition. (You don't know whats going to
grow). And thats why spanning is the solution
Raymond
Jayan M wrote:
> I don't know about adding freespace to ext2 partition but,
> you can just create another volume with the freespace and
> assign (mount) one of your directories on it, for example:
> mount your new partition (say hdb7) on /usr and add an fstab entry to
> mount it on the next reboot. Of course you will have to mount
> this partition elsewhere and move (cp and then remove) all
> stuff from /usr on to this new partition before you mount it there..
>
> alternately, you could just add a line to fstab to mount the new
> partition as say /newspace, and mkdir /newspace. Things would work
> just as if / were a bigger volume, and just a new directory is added
> there..
>
> so if I outline a series of steps for the first plan:
>
> - create a new ext2 partition on your new space..
> mke2fs /dev/hda7 (that's my example partition)
> - mount /dev/hda7 /mnt
> - cp -Rd /usr/* /mnt
> - rm -Rf /usr
> - mkdir /usr
> - umount /mnt
> - mount /dev/hda7 /usr
>
> or for the second plan:
>
> - mke2fs /dev/hda7
> - mkdir /newspace
> - mount /dev/hda7 /mnt
>
> and for the fstab
>
> /dev/hda7 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
> or
> /dev/hda7 /newspace ext2 defaults 1 2
>
> And of course this would be best done booting from a rescue floppy.
> Make sure thou hath one before you try any of these..
>
> Have fun..
>
> Jayan
>
> Raymonds Doetjes wrote:
>
> > I want to add some extra free diskspace to my / mountpoint.
> > I know that there is a possibility to add free space to a mountpoint
> > with ext2 but how do I do that and wich tools do I need for that?
> >
> > Raymond
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From: Mladen Gavrilovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: stopping gpm in a script
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 17:31:36 -0400
Hi all,
Is there a way to stop gpm from a script? I tried it, and I made the
script setuid root, but it didn't work, it gave me the same message as
when I try to shut it down as a normal user.
Regards,
Mladen
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From: Stephan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Free Security Suite for Linux
Date: 27 Aug 1999 12:56:49 GMT
Here's the correct address:
http://mitglied.tripod.de/georgz/security.html
(Found it in another newsgroup)
Stephan
-ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <7q60vt$fes$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>In article <7q455u$das$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Georg Zetzsche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi all!
>> We wrote a little Security Suite for linux.
>> It consists of the following components:
>> - a program to hide/unhide data in a GIF-Picture
>> - an encryption program
>> - an automatic key generator
>> - a program to delete files safely
>> - an userinterface (of course you can use each module seperately via
>the
>> command line)
>>
>> With the Steganography program you can hide data in a monochrom
>picture.
>> After hiding the data you can't see any differences with the naked
>eye. In a
>> picture with x pixels you can hide x/2 bytes of data. With the
>userinterface
>> you can first generate a key (keylength unlimited), compress the
>plaintext
>> and then encrypt it with RC4 or simple XOR and, finally, hide it in
>the GIF.
>> For example, you can attach the picture to an outgoing e-mail.
>>
>> The license of the suite is the GPL.
>>
>> You can download the program from
>> http://mitglied.tripod/georgz/security.html
>
>This URL doesn't work for me.
>
>--
>Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
>
>
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>
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