Linux-Misc Digest #733, Volume #21 Thu, 9 Sep 99 01:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Different types of linux (Big Daddy)
StarOffice and Java (Jim McIntyre)
Re: Yggdrassil (was Re: Made my own "live CD" at last! Works great, too :-)
(William Burrow)
Re: EZ-BIOS and LILO (OldUncleMe)
Re: One must-have program for a newbie (Andrew Purugganan)
KPackage and kiss? ("Todd Krein")
Re: fips or Partition Magic? (Michel Catudal)
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution (Jeffrey C. Dege)
Re: CAD for model railroading? (Robert Heller)
Re: problems with spaces in directory names (Robert Heller)
Re: CAD for model railroading? (Robert Heller)
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution (Aram Iskenderian)
Connection Linux-Microsoft (Marco Fortunato Scienze Fisiche)
Re: Running Q1 on Linux as a process? qwprogs.dat files anyone? (Miguel Angel
Doncel)
Re: problems with spaces in directory names (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: REAL PLAYER Install Problems. (G Saich)
Re: EZ-BIOS and LILO (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Re: What to do when you've been hacked (Bill Unruh)
Re: I've got a PCI Winmodem... (Michel Catudal)
Re: Add Linux to OS/2 boot manager (Michel Catudal)
Anyone try phat linux? ("Jr")
Re: garbage collection (Aaron)
Re: One must-have program for a newbie (rob)
Authentication Failed - Xfree86-3.3.5 (Mike Brown)
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From: Big Daddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Different types of linux
Date: 9 Sep 1999 02:50:39 GMT
Scribbling furiously, Elaan Riycte managed to write....
: I am looking to purchase, and use, linux for the first time, and so I am
: doing my research.
Nooooooo! Download, for free! Or get a friend's copy! ;-)
: I have read cnet's look at Caldera vs. Red Hat, but have found a very cheap
: version called SuSE, and it appears to be a better buy than Red Hat or
: Caldera.
SuSE is pretty good, from what I've heard. Again, don't buy it, if you
can help it. ;-) that's half the beauty of linux. Try
www.cheapbytes.com for s'more good prices.
: Can anyone tell me anything about SuSE, or Mandrake as compared to other
: versions? Any insights to versions of linux are welcome!
I'm running RH 6.0, and have no complaints thus far. It was a pretty easy
install. I've heard basically the same about SuSE. Don't know anything
about Caldera, really. Ah, well, I'm not being much help so much as
blithering. Good luck...
--
Big Daddy
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the
law free.
-- Henry David Thoreau
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From: Jim McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: StarOffice and Java
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 02:25:24 GMT
When I install So 5.1, I get a message stating that no Java Runtime
environment has been found. Some questions:
1. Is there a jre installed with kaffe during rh 6.0 install ?
2. If not, do I need to install the entire java package from
blackdown.org, in order to ensure compatibility across the entire
java package ?
Thankx in advance
Jim McIntyre
Webmaster Program
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: Yggdrassil (was Re: Made my own "live CD" at last! Works great, too :-)
Date: 9 Sep 1999 02:27:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 9 Sep 1999 09:06:38 +0800,
Terry Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 22:53:22 +1000,
>>> >I guess Yggdrasil, should really be the "Redhat" of Linux ?
>>>
>>> Whatever happened to them? I started with Slackware in early 95,
>>> but I had heard of them even then...
>>
>>Yeah my first distribution was Yggdrasil. It was early 1995 and it was
>>set up for me by a friend. Whatever happedn to them?
>>
>They're still around, just not doing distos anymore I think.
A check of their FTP site and web page indicates that there have been no
changes since about March, 1998. Though perhaps the archives were
restored back in July this year. Even arena languishes, though what is
that point of that if nobody uses it anyway.
>I'll buy your latest disto, If you produce one :)))
Try writing the guy at the email address on the web page. Maybe he will
come out of hibernation given enough support.
> My Desktop is powered by GNU-LINUX, and has been
> up 1 week 3 days 14 hours 36 minutes
11:26pm up 23 days, 1:56, 8 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
Golly, its been over three weeks since I meant to reboot and DOS format a
partition on the box, talk about procrastination...at least it is 100%
MS-free. :)
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OldUncleMe)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: EZ-BIOS and LILO
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 02:11:05 GMT
It was: 7 Sep 1999 14:59:57 GMT and with STARTLING insight,
"[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)"
posted "Re: EZ-BIOS and LILO"
to "comp.os.linux.setup" :
-->>Make that 1020 for Microsoft and 3 cylinders for the linux /boot partition.
-->>Then you won't have any lilo problems, provided, of course, that the kernel
-->>file is in the /boot file system instead of in the root file system.
-->The three cylinders for Lilo is a convenience, but not a neccessity.
-->If you're installing Microsoft on cylinders 1-1023,
-->the directory C:\LINUX\LILO is a workable place for bzImage, message, map,
-->chain.b, and boot.b. The lilo installer and the LILO boot loader can
-->find things on an msdos or vfat partition.
-->If you mount C: as vfat, give the files 8+3 character uppercase names.
-->Cameron
Hey, thanks! That sounds like a great deal. I've run into the 1024 cyl
problem too often with today's large/cheap drives. Seems like every Linux
box I've put together is multiboot, too. I'd like to get into multiple
Linux installations on one box, and if this scheme works then I can see
making a chain of hidden/system directories with images from installation,
and my own compiles.
Thing is, how do you go about all this? I mean, I could see mounting the
fat or vfat volume in linux, moving the necessary files, and updating lilo
and rerunning, all in a linux boot. But how do you do it in the first
place? From the installation step I mean. Just go ahead and install to
partition at greater 1024 cyl and then reboot from a boot floppy, perform
the surgery, set lilo, run it, and all goes well from there? Think this
setup would allow mounting a root " / " that is on /dev/hd c or d? What
values are we setting in lilo? (I guess that is apparent fromt the man
lilo and lilo.conf files.... Thanks for more info; have you done it
successfully? /ts
tenox @ home dat com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.kde,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: One must-have program for a newbie
Date: 9 Sep 1999 02:41:26 GMT
dkmallick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: IMHO, the program is well worth its money ($50?).
: Only problem is that Drive Image is a Windoze program (actually it runs in
: DOS). Wish someday we will have a similar program in Linux (or is there one
: already?).
Ever tried contacting the maker and asking them about porting the
software to Linux :-)
--
Andy Purugganan
annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
apurugganan AT amadeuslink DOT com
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From: "Todd Krein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KPackage and kiss?
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 20:40:00 -0700
When I search for a file in KPackage, I get an error that "kiss" and "dpkg"
can't be started.
Where can I find these files?
How could I use RPM to search for the files ina ll the packages?
Thanks,
Todd Krein
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: fips or Partition Magic?
Date: 8 Sep 1999 20:57:04 -0500
Norman Levin wrote:
>
> Leonard Evens wrote:
> >
> > Actually, if you run the Partition Magic Setup and choose only
> > to make a DOS rescue disk, and not to install PM
> > in Windows, it works fine. You can then use that
> > disk to resize the partition. We've done this recently with
> > Windows 98.
> >
> While pm lets you make MANY changes to a disk at once by creating a batch
> file that it runs when you confirm = do NOT do it. Do one step at a time
> and display information - especially on dos partitions. I had pm hose
> a drive and I run with the latest fixes.
>
Are you sure it was actually hozed and not part of your imagination?
It used to that under PM 3.x and before you had to reboot the PC before you could
go on the command line, not anymore.
I installed the dos version (not the recue stuff which is a largely reduced version).
The whole thing will fit on a disk formated with something else than winblows latest
bloated dos. It is all graphic even though you are booting on dos you'd think you're
on windows and it is fast. Since you can get a drdos boot for free of the net, no
reason
not to use it.
I had repartitionned my first drive which has winblows 98, the boot manager and DRDOS.
After repartitioning DRDOS to use the empty 4M or so I exited and when I made a
directory
I saw no file. I thought I would have to reformat the partition thinking that PM had
hosed the partition. What actually happened was that the dos I was on didn't have
the partition table as it read on boot and couldn't find any file. After a reboot
everything
came back. Perhaps you panicked too fast and didn't bother to look to see if the stuff
was actually gone.
I have used PM for a long time and have never had anything trashed and I am very
adventurous.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffrey C. Dege)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 03:03:36 GMT
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 23:10:20 GMT, Aram Iskenderian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 21:17:46 GMT,
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffrey C. Dege) wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 15:54:48 -0500, Paul E. Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>"Jeffrey C. Dege" wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well, on my Win95B (with IE5) system, the shift-right-click bit does
>>>> _not_ bring up a menu with "Open With" as an option.
>>>
>>>By the way, this only works in Windows Explorer, not in an IE window.
>
>Sorry this is incorrect, you have to enable active desktop, and it
>works.
Nobody but an idiot enables active desktop.
--
We can found no scientific discipline, nor a healthy profession on the
technical mistakes of the Department of Defense and IBM.
-- Edsger Dijkstra
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CAD for model railroading?
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 02:14:11 GMT
"John E. Garrott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Tue, 07 Sep 1999 19:52:40 -0700, wrote :
"EG> Any model railroaders out there doing layouts under Linux?
"EG>
"EG> I've tried track layouts with xfig and tgif. Although I use both
"EG> for other purposes, I am not satisfied with either for this purpose.
"EG> Might be my skill level (or lack thereof). I don't no.
"EG>
"EG> From what I've read, LinuxCAD is out. I'm not opposed to commercial
"EG> products per se, but have a retiree's income to purchase software on.
"EG>
"EG> Suggestions, experiences, etc are welcome.
"EG>
"EG> Thanks in advance,
"EG>
"EG> John
"EG>
Finally got on-line:
XTrkCad, http://www.sillub.com/, shareware, US$65 shareware fee.
--
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems with spaces in directory names
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 02:14:02 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan),
In a message on 8 Sep 1999 01:57:44 GMT, wrote :
AP> bruce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
AP> : tar cf <tarball> `find -newer /touchfile -print`
AP>
AP> : This fails on dirs w/ spaces in the name. For example, instead of
AP> : tarring /home/user1/App Data/file1.txt, it logs 2 errors: Could not find
AP> : /home/user1/App & Could not find Data/file1.txt.
AP>
AP> I don't know...double quotes, perhaps? If you can script the dam thang...
This will work:
... `find -newer /touchfile -exec ls -bd {} \;`
('man ls' for more information.)
AP>
AP>
AP> --
AP> Andy Purugganan
AP> annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
AP> apurugganan AT amadeuslink DOT com
AP>
AP>
AP>
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CAD for model railroading?
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 02:14:07 GMT
"John E. Garrott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Tue, 07 Sep 1999 19:52:40 -0700, wrote :
"EG> Any model railroaders out there doing layouts under Linux?
"EG>
"EG> I've tried track layouts with xfig and tgif. Although I use both
"EG> for other purposes, I am not satisfied with either for this purpose.
"EG> Might be my skill level (or lack thereof). I don't no.
"EG>
"EG> From what I've read, LinuxCAD is out. I'm not opposed to commercial
"EG> products per se, but have a retiree's income to purchase software on.
"EG>
"EG> Suggestions, experiences, etc are welcome.
"EG>
"EG> Thanks in advance,
There does exist a freeware/shareware Linux RR CAD program. I can't get
you a website right now -- my ISP is busy (can't go on-line right now).
I *think* the program is xtrakcad or something. It was developed under
Linux and then ported to MS-Windows. I think the Linux version might
still be available somewhere. It uses an 'odd' Widget set that I found
hard to use.
"EG>
"EG> John
"EG>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aram Iskenderian)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 03:57:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999 03:03:36 GMT,
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffrey C. Dege) wrote:
>On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 23:10:20 GMT, Aram Iskenderian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 21:17:46 GMT,
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffrey C. Dege) wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 15:54:48 -0500, Paul E. Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>"Jeffrey C. Dege" wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, on my Win95B (with IE5) system, the shift-right-click bit does
>>>>> _not_ bring up a menu with "Open With" as an option.
>>>>
>>>>By the way, this only works in Windows Explorer, not in an IE window.
>>
>>Sorry this is incorrect, you have to enable active desktop, and it
>>works.
>
>Nobody but an idiot enables active desktop.
What a technical insight, I'm overwhelmed.
perhaps the honorable gentleman would explain why?
I think that you're confusing ActiveX with Active desktop.
Two entirely different things.
--
Aram Iskenderian.
To email, hit reply, check the email address and add "r" somewhere.
Enjoying the speed of ADSL.
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From: Marco Fortunato Scienze Fisiche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Connection Linux-Microsoft
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 17:40:59 +0200
Hi,
I have 2 PC the 1st Linux, the 2nd Microsoft Win 98. I have config the 2
ethernet card but the telnet, on Win 98, can't find the Linux on other PC
The Linux ver is RED HAT 6.0
thanks write me
Guguy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Miguel Angel Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.games.quake,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,rec.games.computer.quake.quake-c,rec.games.computer.quake.servers
Subject: Re: Running Q1 on Linux as a process? qwprogs.dat files anyone?
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 18:33:24 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
perhaps you can add to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file the line to execute the
server
(cd /usr/local/games/quake; ./qwsv -mem 32) &
timraffety wrote:
> Hello and greetings to all my brother and sister fragaholics and Linux
> users:
>
> Currently I am in need of assistance with a project where by am in the
> process of moving my Quakeworld 1 server off of a quad processor Dell
> PowerEdge server running NT 4 and onto a new system that will fill the
> bill - or I hope. A 333 PII running Red Hat 6. So far real good. I have
> all the maps and everything running well on the bench and it's ready to go.
>
> Now what I need to be able to do is set this game up that I have installed
> in /usr/local/games/quake and it needs to be executed with the ./qwsv -mem32
> on the command line or a terminal. But, there are times where this server
> may need to be bounced and no one will be there to log in and respawn the
> game. How do I run this game as a service to be respawned on it's own?
>
> I have found the /etc/initial file useful as a runlevel 3 and in the profile
> I edited that and added the PATH statement correctly and set the permissions
> as well to this entire mess. But upon rebooting it starts and crashes
> because it can't find several related files that are in this directory. I
> have made sure that all the hard and absolute paths are there - no links
> mind you just as a test the real path to all the files and still no luck.
>
> Also, if anyone can point me in the right direction to finding qwprog.dat
> files with some mods would be a big help as well.
>
> Thank you for taking the time to read my post.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: problems with spaces in directory names
Date: 8 Sep 1999 11:48:38 -0500
In article <7r5v20$1d9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bill Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In <7r4fqo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan) writes:
>
>>bruce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>>: tar cf <tarball> `find -newer /touchfile -print`
>
>>: This fails on dirs w/ spaces in the name. For example, instead of
>>: tarring /home/user1/App Data/file1.txt, it logs 2 errors: Could not find
>>: /home/user1/App & Could not find Data/file1.txt.
>
>Yes, it would. Spaces are special characters to the shell and need to be
>escaped somehow.
Tar has perfectly good options of its own for file selection
(and "--listed incremental filename" is better than find for
incremental backups anyway) It is a bad idea to expose filenames
to the shell parser.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 22:48:21 -0500
From: G Saich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: REAL PLAYER Install Problems.
I'm getting:'
bash$ realplay
realplay: error in loading shared libraries: realplay: undefined symbol:
__eh_pc
bash$
', from the G2. Any idea what that is about?
GS
Mladen Gavrilovic wrote:
>
> Real Player 5 doesn't work with 2.2 systems. Get the G2 alpha from
> http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html.
>
> Gilbert Groehn wrote:
> >
> > I am stumpted on getting Real Player ver 5.0
> > to work with my Linux 2.2 system. The CD player
> > and system sounds work great so I know the sb card
> > is configured properly.
> >
> > I downloaded the file rv50_linux20.tar.gz and unzipped it
> > to a subdirectory of root named rvplayer5.0. All of the files
> > shown in the book "Using Caldera Open Linux" Que Special
> > Edition Page 895 installed correctly and du shows valid files
> > were installed. The above file is the linux version of real player
> > (one of three choices given in the real player download menu).
> >
> > I followed all of the instructions outlined in the Que book and still
> > can not get Real Player to work. Everything else on the system
> > performs to perfection. Netscape blazes along on a 56K v90
> > modem and does everything except play music.
> >
> > Can anyone give me some detailed instructions to get this to
> > work?
> >
> > Any help will be most appreciated.
> >
> > Cordially,
> > Gil Groehn
> > Please cc to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: EZ-BIOS and LILO
Date: 9 Sep 1999 04:10:27 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, OldUncleMe wrote:
>"[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)" :
>-->The three cylinders for Lilo is a convenience, but not a neccessity.
>-->If you're installing Microsoft on cylinders 1-1023,
>-->the directory C:\LINUX\LILO is a workable place for bzImage, message, map,
>-->chain.b, and boot.b. The lilo installer and the LILO boot loader can
>-->find things on an msdos or vfat partition.
>
>Thing is, how do you go about all this? I mean, I could see mounting the
>fat or vfat volume in linux, moving the necessary files, and updating lilo
>and rerunning, all in a linux boot. But how do you do it in the first
>place? From the installation step I mean.
Boot the rescue/install floppy. Ignore the installation program.
Hit Alt-F2 or whatever to get the second console. Get a shell.
Use cfdisk, mkswap, and mke2fs to make the partitions and file systems
you need. I recommend a small root. But /var is usually on root.
So after you have made root and /usr file systems, mount them and make a
directory /usr/var and a symlink /var pointing at it. Let's say
hda2 will be root and hda3 will be /usr :
mke2fs /dev/hda2
mke2fs /dev/hda3
mkdir /h2 /h3
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /h2
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /h3
mkdir /h3/var
ln -s usr/var /h2/var
Next, prepare C:\LINUX\LILO :
mkdir /h2/cdrive
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /h2/cdrive
mkdir -p /h2/cdrive/LINUX/LILO
ln -s cdrive/LINUX/LILO /h2/boot
Now reboot and run your distribution's installation program.
It will find the three partitions and ask you what to do with them.
Tell it to mount /dev/hda1 as /cdrive, and /dev/hda3 as /usr.
Let the install proceed, but of course don't let it run lilo
for you. When you're done, /boot should be a symlink to
/cdrive/LINUX/LILO which should also be visible in MS-Windows
as C:\LINUX\LILO\. And /var should be a symlink to /usr/var.
> Think this
>setup would allow mounting a root " / " that is on /dev/hd c or d?
Why not? Root can be anywhere.
> What
>values are we setting in lilo? (I guess that is apparent fromt the man
>lilo and lilo.conf files.... Thanks for more info; have you done it
>successfully?
yes I have made some funny LILO setups.
Cameron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: What to do when you've been hacked
Date: 9 Sep 1999 03:40:42 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Leon Garde
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>actually Redhat dont post security patches properly.
??? What do youmean? They post them in their updates section and rpm
files are really a nice way of installing them. what to you is
"properly"?
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I've got a PCI Winmodem...
Date: 8 Sep 1999 21:37:01 -0500
Bill Guenthner wrote:
>
> You can buy Quake for Linux and CivII for Linux at CompUSA. And keep in
> mind: Would a intelligent and highly motivated person be working as a sales
> clerk at Best Buy (or CompUSA)? I don't think so.
>
There are a couple of them at the CompUSA in Grand Rapids. Unfortunately there
are more morons. When SuSE 6.2 came out my wife called CompUSA to confirm that
there were arrived. She repeated a few times "Are you sure it's SuSE 6.2 and was
told yes. So we drove to Grand Rapids that Friday night. We found out that it
was SuSE 6.1 that they had and not SuSE 6.2. I was pissed! Grand Rapids is about
75 miles from here and we were back home way past midnight. To make things more
interesting, the exit ramp to North US 131 was closed for reasons of construction.
With darkness and poor visibility missing a turn in an unknown area is an easy
thing and after a couple circles of 10-15 miles + detour one becomes somewhat
irritated. Luckily I missed the deers ... I wasn't in the mood for deer hunting with
the car that night.
My wife found SuSE 6.2 at http://www.chumbo.com for $29.95
I ordered 3 copies and since they wrongly claimed that it was in stock when it
wasn't on they apologized and sent the packages federal express at no additional
cost. I had it the following thursday.
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Add Linux to OS/2 boot manager
Date: 8 Sep 1999 21:47:03 -0500
Howard Brazee wrote:
>
> HPFS? I don't need to reformat first?
>
> I suppose I need to have my partition small enough to hold FAT16, so I
> guess I'll go to Partition Magic and format it anyway to get it the
> largest possible FAT16 I can get.
>
If you have version 3.x of PM you have to partition as hpfs if you want a partition
larger than 2G. Then before you install Linux you toggle the number to native Linux
with Linux fdisk of druid. For swap you make a 128M fat16 partition.
With PM 4.0 you make it ext2 and swap.
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From: "Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anyone try phat linux?
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 19:49:26 -0700
Has anyone tried it. Thinking about buying it and 20 bucks aint bad either.
If anyone has an opinion lemme know.
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From: Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: garbage collection
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 14:14:54 +1000
eh? I dunno abt that coz I've not writen any fork() functions yet. I
dun see any zombie processes. X server slows with time? not a natural
phenomenon right? should've more stamina than Windows. It's been
running over the past 5 days, Windows gets rebellious after going 24hrs
without rest :)
however, my X server does have backgrd errors which I don't have clue
abt :
X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window
parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 62 (X_CopyArea)
Resource id in failed request: 0x2000007
Serial number of failed request: 276
Current serial number in output stream: 279
X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window
parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 62 (X_CopyArea)
Resource id in failed request: 0x180000a
Serial number of failed request: 126
Current serial number in output stream: 138
any idea wat those r? Think they might have some involvement?
thanx for the tips
aaron
Jason Stokes wrote:
>
> You may be leaving some orphaned processes around as you go along that are
> chewing up resources. Also, the X server can become slow and require
> restarting on occasion.
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From: rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.kde,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: One must-have program for a newbie
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 22:17:01 -0600
I have problems with tar. It doesn't get executables
that are currently running. There are always a few
of these, even in single user mode. Of course I don't
want to go to single user mode to do backups, anyway.
Is there an option I'm missing?
rob.
Dudley Brooke wrote:
>
> Why not tar? My server at work gets tarred to tape on a cron job every night,
> never actually had to restore it. I can't understand why your system goes
> belly up so regularly - is there a hardware problem?
>
> Dudley Brooke
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From: Mike Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Authentication Failed - Xfree86-3.3.5
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 21:18:33 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a Redhat 5.2 system (2.0.36) that I have tried to upgrade to the
latest XFree86-3.3.5 from XFree86-3.3.3 The installation of the rpm's
went well but when I try to start X as a normal user (startx) I get the
follow error:
Authentication Failed. Cannot start X server.
Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
I can start it as root and it comes up ok, but as a normal user no go.
I see that it has put an .Xautority file in my root but it is not clear
to me why I can not get XFree86-3.3.5 to start when 3.3.3 had no
problem. Looked through the some docs but haven't seen anything about
this as a normal setup procedure. Any help would greatly be
appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
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