Linux-Misc Digest #786, Volume #21 Mon, 13 Sep 99 00:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (K. Bjarnason)
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (K. Bjarnason)
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (K. Bjarnason)
Re: SuSE 6.2 US - man tar in German? ("Donald E. Stidwell")
Re: Netscape 4.6 + JAVA -> freezes (John Soltow)
Can only see 8Gb of 13Gb disk. (Web Serf)
Re: Simple C not working... (Ray Kohler)
Seg fault with conftest. (Tom Niesytto)
Re: Can only see 8Gb of 13Gb disk. (Johan Kullstam)
Can't select framebuffer mode (mike)
Sound in 2.0.35 but none in 2.2.x ("Noah Roberts (jik-)")
Re: Recompling kernel help!!! ("Noah Roberts (jik-)")
swap space ever get utilize? (Son Trung Nguyen)
/var/log/messages flooded with mail lookups (Warren Bell)
Re: HOW TO SEE A SHARE DRIVE ON A NETWORK ("Jeff Kloek")
Re: Kernel 2.2.5-22 SMP/ Hang under high traffic load? (Johan Kullstam)
Sound Editor Projects? (Web Serf)
Re: Can only see 8Gb of 13Gb disk. (Web Serf)
win95 --nullmodem--> linux via PPP? (Son Trung Nguyen)
Re: Apache ~ user directories? (Herb Stein)
Re: HOW TO SEE A SHARE DRIVE ON A NETWORK (David Cooley)
Can I set up /dev/floppy to be mounted by non-root? ("Kurt & Amy Johnson")
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: K. Bjarnason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:26:47 -0700
[snips]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> I suspect that questions of efficiency are irrelevant. By its very
> nature a GUI is VERY inefficient. What is the problem with adding
> a fraction more of inefficiency?
GUIs need not be inefficient at all. Oh, sure, if you have to route
everything through 17 layers of networking protocols to get anything
done, they would be.
However, take something such as, oh, running a program via a GUI
shortcut. Said GUI shortcut - or more properly, the container for it -
can jump straight to the kernel's "launch process" API and you're
dealing with about as efficient a mechanism as you can get.
> I would like to know, however, about the limits and risks. I am not
> familiar with these. I have written such a generic wrapper in curses
> that works well for my needs. What limitations and risks am I
> encountering?
The biggest risk, off the top of my head, would be applications which
don't respond quickly - if at all.
I'm envisioning something along these lines:
GUI "shortcut" contains "shell /exec someapp.exe".
Usre clicks shortcut.
Shell launches the application
Then promptly freezes, waiting for the app
The question is, how to detect this, and how to kill the offending app -
still through the GUI. Since you're not launching the app directly,
presumably you don't have a process handle or similar form of direct
access to it, and if in fact the shell is handling things, you have to
differentiate between the various running processes under the shell whn
trying to kill one, without toasting the shell itself.
Nothing insurmountable, but points that need to be pondered.
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From: K. Bjarnason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:26:48 -0700
In article <7rh0co$8lu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >Tell your friend to get a real machine. Since installing Win98 on one
> >box - a heavily used box - I've had to reinstall it once. It's been
> >running now for about 2 years, and has suffered through, among other
> >things, two new CD drives, a second HD, a new motherboard, more - and
> >less - memory, and three video cards.
>
> Bullshit. I've a friend who installed RedHat 6.0 on a machine Win98 crashes
> consistanly on and linux hasn't crashed and burned on him yet. It's *NOT*
> the hardware, it's Windows that's the problem 99% of the time in cases like
> this and have been so for years
Bullshit?
Let's see. Drop one OS with one set of requirements into a box, it
works. Drop a different OS with a different set of requirements into
the box, it doesn't work.
Which part of "different requirements" don't you understand?
When Linux uses exactly the same kernel as Win9x, and exactly the same
drivers, and does it all exactly the same way, we'll compare them.
Comparing apples to oranges is a fool's game - and I see you're just the
person for the job.
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From: K. Bjarnason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:26:45 -0700
[snips]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > Tell your friend to get a real machine.
>
> Is a PII-350 with 96MB RAM not a real machine in your book? His
> family bought a Packard Bell on the assumption that it would at least
> work.
Speed and memory isn't really relevant. Check the video card, network
adapter, BIOS version, etc, etc. A fast machine with lots of RAM can
still be crap; a slow machine with less RAM can be solid.
> Since I switched to Linux and only used Windows for games, I haven't
> needed to reinstall except when I replaced the motherboard. However,
> when I was using it 'heavily', I found a bad CD could crash the system
> resulting in the Windows directory so badly damaged it was reinstall
> time again.
Never had that problem.
> > > You call an x86 based machine a "real machine"?!
> >
> > For a desktop system? Absolutely.
>
> OK then, define "real machine".
One which contains functioning and supported hardware, where said
hardware is known to not itself have problems. "Bleeding edge" hardware
does not fall into this category, nor do $1.99 third-hand video cards
and network cards.
If I were setting up a Linux box, the first thing I'd do is check to see
whether or not my hardware were on the HCL; if not, I'd either replace
it or, if I can't afford that, simply accept that Linux won't work or
won't work well, on that configuration. The same is true of Win*, OS/2,
etc.
And, last but not least, even buying supported hardware doesn't
guarantee anything; even the best vendors occasionally ship a bad board.
> > Now, since we _know_ that Windows crashes regularly on crap hardware,
> > and we can see that you conveniently dodged the issue, we can conclude
> > that the box in question was, in fact, a crap system.
>
> But Win9x is also so buggy and generally unstable that bad hardware
> isn't the only thing that can cause it to go down.
Not the only thing, no - just the major thing. Why is it that most
Win9x users can run their boxes for weeks or months on end with no
problems, no forced reboots, but you can't?
>
> > > And you solve the DLL Hell problem how?
> >
> > Since *nobody* I know has experienced this since Windows 3, I don't see
> > any particular need to solve it.
>
> The last time I was caught by it, it was last year; a conflict between
> Cleansweep and IE4 so bad the OS had to be reinstalled.
Ooh. Scream at whoever sells CleanSweep.
> > Affordable to whom? You? Me? The guy down the street?
> > If the pricetag of Windows isn't worth it to you, fine - don't use it.
> > If it is, then go buy it and quit whining.
>
> If all everybody does is shut up, then we'll never get progress.
Scream about things that matter, and no problem. Buggy driver? Scream
at the vendor. Buggy hardware? Scream at the vendor. GDI bugs?
Scream at the vendor. Don't wanna pay what they charge? Go cry
somewhere else.
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From: "Donald E. Stidwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.2 US - man tar in German?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 01:37:55 GMT
David Orriss Jr wrote:
> I've just gotten SuSE Linux 6.2 running on my new
> PIII-450. When I went to type:
>
> man tar
>
> to find out some information on the tar command I
> had the man page come back in German. Now I
> *know* I installed with English language support
> and the other pages I've tried are in English, so
> I'm assuming it's a goof in the SuSE install.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> --
> DaveO
> http://www.davenet.net/
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
Hmm.. at least you get something. When I do man tar, I get nothing.
Don
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From: John Soltow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,netscape.public.mozilla.java
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.6 + JAVA -> freezes
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 21:38:58 -0400
Troy Carter wrote:
> In addition to the font fix, also make sure you have the following env
> variable set (in your bashrc, for instance):
>
> MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/netscape export MOZILLA_HOME
>
> (replace /usr/local/netscape with your path to your netscape
> installation)
>
Hmmm, I don't have that set and it's working. What does this variable do? Just
wondering what other problems I'm having that I haven't noticed yet.
John
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From: Web Serf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Can only see 8Gb of 13Gb disk.
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 01:05:57 +0000
Hello all, A long time ago I installed RH5.1 on this box and after
trying a few things gave up on the idea of using more than 8GB of my
13Gb disk (I understand the BIOS limitations problem). In a while I'll
be getting a new system and reformatting this one. I have tried adding
'append hda="1647,256,63"' to the lilo.conf file. This didn't work.
Any ideas?
--
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour
to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly
ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate
technology, led them into it in the first place. - Douglas Adams
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From: Ray Kohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Simple C not working...
Date: 13 Sep 1999 00:24:11 GMT
Douglas Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I've written a program to display "Hello" on the screen and compiled it with
: gcc -c and linked it with gcc -o. Now when I run it, nothing happens -- the
: linux prompt just moves to the next line. The commands I've used are printf
: of stdio.h and I also tried cout << of iostream.h, but I get the same
: result...nothing!
You didn't name the file "test", did you? "test" is a system binary, and
will execute instead of your "test" program. Either name it something else,
or run your test as ./test
--
Ray Kohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
=====BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK=====
Version: 3.1
GCS d- s:+ a-- C++ UL++++ P+++ L+++ E- W+ N+ o-- K- w--
O- M V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X R !tv b+++ DI D
G e h- r++ y+
======END GEEK CODE BLOCK======
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From: Tom Niesytto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Seg fault with conftest.
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 18:32:58 -0400
Reply-To: woland99@earth*NO-SPAM*link.net
Howdy - I just tried to build kpackage 1.3.8 under RedHat 6.0.
When I try to run configure for kpackage it dies with:
checking for KDE paths... problems
configure: error: configure can not run a little KDE program to test the
environment.
Look at config.log for details. If you are not able to fix this, please
contact
Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
config.log last entry says:
configure:3043: /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link g++ -o conftest -O2 -Wall
-I/usr/include -I/usr/lib/qt/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -s -L/usr/lib
-L/usr/X11R6/lib conftest.C -lkdecore -lqt -lXext -lX11 -rpath
/usr/lib 1>&5
g++ -o conftest -O2 -Wall -I/usr/include -I/usr/lib/qt/include
-I/usr/X11R6/include -s -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib conftest.C -lkdecore
-lqt -lXext -lX11 -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib
I looked up dejanews and there seems to be plenty of questions about the
simillar problem (related to conftest) but no answers.
Thanks for any pointers info,
Tom
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can only see 8Gb of 13Gb disk.
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 12 Sep 1999 22:20:25 -0400
Web Serf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello all, A long time ago I installed RH5.1 on this box and after
> trying a few things gave up on the idea of using more than 8GB of my
> 13Gb disk (I understand the BIOS limitations problem). In a while I'll
> be getting a new system and reformatting this one. I have tried adding
> 'append hda="1647,256,63"' to the lilo.conf file. This didn't work.
> Any ideas?
did you try multiple partitions?
how about
/boot (to avoid bios/lilo trouble - at 10 megs)
[swap] (use 128 megs - i mean you *do* have the disk space!)
/ (everything else - should go up to 12G)
you lose about 1G of 13G to marketing 1G = 1e10
vs computese 1G = 2^30 = 1.073.741.824
you ought to see 12.1 G. if not, get a better fdisk.
if you like what partition you got now, try the latest fdisk and see
if you can't make that last 4G another linux partition.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't select framebuffer mode
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 02:27:54 GMT
Hello,
I've just installed Mandrake 6.0 and am trying to get the framebuffer
working. Works fine except if I put in "VGA = ask" in my lilo.conf, I
get a lilo error "VGA presetting not supported by your kernel". As a
result I can't select any other modes besides 640x480. I have all the
necessary console options compiled into the kernel and have tried this
with 2.2.10,2.2.9 and a precompiled 2.2.9-19mdkfb that came with the
distro. Has anyone seen this before and can help me out?
thanks
Mike
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Subject: Sound in 2.0.35 but none in 2.2.x
From: "Noah Roberts (jik-)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 12 Sep 1999 17:13:32 -0700
I have not been able to get sound to work in 2.2...as I mentioned
before and got no responce. I decided to get it working with the old
kernel a;nd see what was required and do just that in the new. It did
not work and I have no clue why. Same isapnp.conf file, same software
all round, same irq and dma and all that crap, but no sound in 2.2,
period.
Command line to do snd in 2.2 is "modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1
dma16=5" which is the same data as in 2.0. The mixer program I have seems
to start functioning after I mess with sound and not before...but no
sound works and no drivers get loaded.
Here is output of sndstat with both kernels...as you can see I use the
EXACT same numbers but get no results in 2.2...I did used to get sound
with 2.2, this is a new problem which started after a system
reinstall.
2.0.35:
====================================================================
Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Sun Oct 11 20:18:35 CDT 1998 root,
Linux darkstar 2.0.35 #2 Sun Oct 11 03:38:56 CDT 1998 i586 unknown)
Kernel: Linux Ill-Logic 2.0.35 #2 Mon Oct 26 21:26:00 CST 1998 i586
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
Type 2: Sound Blaster
Type 7: SB MPU-401
Card config:
Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1,5
(SB MPU-401 irq 1 drq 0)
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0
Audio devices:
0: Sound Blaster Pro (3.1)
Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL-3
Midi devices:
0: Sound Blaster
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster
==================================================================
2.2.6:
==================================================================
OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux Ill-Logic 2.2.6 #6 Sun Sep 12 15:57:57 PDT 1999 i586
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Card config:
Audio devices:
0: Sound Blaster Pro (8 BIT ONLY) (3.01)
Synth devices:
Midi devices:
0: Sound Blaster
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster
==================================================================
PLEASE help me here....I have tried every fucking thing I can think of
and nothing works.
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Subject: Re: Recompling kernel help!!!
From: "Noah Roberts (jik-)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 12 Sep 1999 17:15:22 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> I am not quite sure what SCSI backends mean.
>
> Any help would be most appreciated.
>
> Thanks a lot.
Just make clean and then rebuild the entire kernel and modules.
>
> Ed
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Son Trung Nguyen)
Subject: swap space ever get utilize?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 02:37:47 GMT
I wonder why my swap space never get used? I mean every time I
look it's always 0K used. I know I have lots of free RAM but
isn't the kernel supposed to use swap anyway for code pages
that aren't actively used? Anyone have an explanation?
Mem: 63340K av, 38044K used, 25296K free, 16700K shrd, 17044K buff
Swap: 66556K av, 0K used, 66556K free 10728K cached
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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 03:32:48 +0000
From: Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /var/log/messages flooded with mail lookups
I'm getting a message from identd every time fetchmail polls for mail on
my pop mail accounts from my ISP. This happens every two minutes and is
flooding the messages file. This never happened before I don't think.
At least I don't remember seeing long lists of the same thing.
Any idea why this is happening and how I can fix it?
Thanks,
Warren Bell
================================
Sep 12 19:30:43 linux identd[31852]: Connection from linux
Sep 12 19:30:43 linux identd[31852]: from: 127.0.0.1 ( linux ) for:
2043, 25
Sep 12 19:30:44 linux identd[31855]: Connection from linux
Sep 12 19:30:44 linux identd[31855]: from: 127.0.0.1 ( linux ) for:
2045, 25
Sep 12 19:33:03 linux identd[31874]: Connection from linux
Sep 12 19:33:03 linux identd[31874]: from: 127.0.0.1 ( linux ) for:
2059, 25
Sep 12 19:33:04 linux identd[31877]: Connection from linux
Sep 12 19:33:04 linux identd[31877]: from: 127.0.0.1 ( linux ) for:
2061, 25
Sep 12 19:35:18 linux identd[31889]: Connection from linux
Sep 12 19:35:18 linux identd[31889]: from: 127.0.0.1 ( linux ) for:
2071, 25
Sep 12 19:35:18 linux identd[31892]: Connection from linux
Sep 12 19:35:19 linux identd[31892]: from: 127.0.0.1 ( linux ) for:
2073, 25
Sep 12 19:37:29 linux identd[31895]: Connection from linux
Sep 12 19:37:29 linux identd[31895]: from: 127.0.0.1 ( linux ) for:
2078, 25
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From: "Jeff Kloek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: HOW TO SEE A SHARE DRIVE ON A NETWORK
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 03:36:08 GMT
Sorry - I forgot to mention - the commands I list are using Samba.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.5-22 SMP/ Hang under high traffic load?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 12 Sep 1999 22:50:53 -0400
Bo Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 08:22:56 -0400, John Murtari
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The "hang" has occurred twice in the last three days and
> >it is QUITE a problem. Have see the following message on the
> >console display:
> >
> > "Unable to handle kernel paging request"
> > "Aiee, killing interrupt handler"
> > "Kernel panic: Attempted to kill idle task"
> >
>
> The same thing happens to me, if you get it straightend out, please
> post the soulution to comp.os.linux.misc.
i think this is a memory overcommitment (due to lazy page allocation)
problem. add more swap space and see if it helps.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: Web Serf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.kde,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Sound Editor Projects?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 01:19:14 +0000
I'm interested in getting into some kind of open source sound editor
project. What sort of things are going on now? I looked into AudioTech
but it seems, if not dead, then comatose and unlikely to regain
consciousness. What I'm thinking is a modular oriented project that
will do for sound what the GIMP does for graphics. I'm open to either
KDE or Gnome desktops. Any ideas?
--
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to
lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores
the
fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them
into
it in the first place. - Douglas Adams in Guardian, 25-Aug-95
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From: Web Serf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can only see 8Gb of 13Gb disk.
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 03:01:51 +0000
Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> Web Serf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hello all, A long time ago I installed RH5.1 on this box and after
> > trying a few things gave up on the idea of using more than 8GB of my
> > 13Gb disk (I understand the BIOS limitations problem). In a while I'll
> > be getting a new system and reformatting this one. I have tried adding
> > 'append hda="1647,256,63"' to the lilo.conf file. This didn't work.
> > Any ideas?
>
> did you try multiple partitions?
This is the problem. Fdisk just doesn't see the whole disk. According
to fdisk the whole disk is in use and there is nothing left to
partition.
--
"How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and
Microsoft?" --Al Gore on Y2K
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Son Trung Nguyen)
Subject: win95 --nullmodem--> linux via PPP?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 02:43:35 GMT
Anyone know if this is possible? connect a win95 {eek!} box
to a linux box {yeah!} via nullmodem and PPP ? It must
be possible right ? after all you can do this via
two linux box?
please email,thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herb Stein)
Subject: Re: Apache ~ user directories?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 03:53:38 GMT
Upgrade to Apache 1.3.6 and it's all in httpd.conf. You don't need srm.conf or
access.conf.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Actually you will find that line in the srm.conf, _not_ the httpd.conf. At
>least that's the way it is in my two systems.
>
>....Edwin
>
>On Thu, 09 Sep 1999 22:59:14 -0400, Allin Cottrell
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Gina wrote:
>>
>>> What's the term for having user directory web pages. I'd like to enable this
>>> on my httpd Apache server (under linux). Ie:
>>> http://www.binarycity.net/~tgreen/
>>
>>"locate httpd.conf"
>>"grep public-html httpd.conf"
>>
>>change "public-html" (if you wish) to some other name,
>>corresponding to the sub-directory of /home/tgreen that you
>>want to be made available over the web.
>>
>>--
>>Allin Cottrell
>>Department of Economics
>>Wake Forest University, NC
>
>
--
Herb Stein
The Herb Stein Group
www.herbstein.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
314 215-3584
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From: David Cooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: HOW TO SEE A SHARE DRIVE ON A NETWORK
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 23:51:47 -0400
OK..
I'm running 2.0.5a under RH6.0 on a sparc...
created 2 users, set their passwords, can login with both accounts via
the net.
modified my smb.conf file so both entries are the same for both
PC's...(except the proper account names are set for each one). home
directories exist, owner, group and chmod are identical. One machine,
when going into Network neighborhood and clicking on the SAMBA server
asks for a password for the \\BIGDADDY\N5XMT share. I enter the
password and all is fine. Can mount it as a drive, comms just fine.
The other machine, it comes up with it's proper share, but regardless of
the password, it says it's the wrong password. I loaded the registry
patch for plain text passwords on it and that made no difference.
Any ideas???
John McKown wrote:
>
> On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:15:32 GMT, Joao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Joao Pinto
>
> What you want is Samba. try http://samba.org . The latest release is 2.0.5a.
> What Samba does is allow your Linux system to appear to be a Windows NT
> file and print server. Neat! I have only just started working with Samba
> and am not really good at it yet. You might want to see if you can buy
> a book. I got one entitled "Teach Yourself SAMBA in 24 hours"
> published by SAMS. ISBN is 0-672-31609-9. It comes with a CD containing
> Samba 2.0.3. I ordered it from http://fatbrain.com . It appears from
> your address that you are in Portugal (.pt). I don't know if you can
> get this locally.
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From: "Kurt & Amy Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: Can I set up /dev/floppy to be mounted by non-root?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:50:24 -0500
Using RH6.0 and I like KDE best.
Can I (and should I, for that matter) set permissions for /dev/floppy to
allow all users to mount it?
What is the level of permissions that I should use?
T I A,
Kurt
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 03:54:20 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
K. Bjarnason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snips]
>
> In article <7rc0nk$2n8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> > X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Sep 10 22:29:21 1999 GMT
> > X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (WinNT; I)
> > X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x29.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client
209.241.102.24
> > X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDcbass2112
> >
>
> > "It's your car. It's your fuel injection system. But don't you
> > *dare* attempt to [install] it yourself, UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT THE
> > F*CK YOU'RE DOING."
> >
>
> > see what I emphasized with THREE ASTERISKS????
>
> Yes. "Dare" "fuck". No thanks, you're not my type.
Another jerk who doesn't understand English . . .
Curtis
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