Linux-Misc Digest #791, Volume #21 Mon, 13 Sep 99 13:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Linux Manual (Bas van Nunen)
Re: KDE/GNOME (Mal)
Any advice on alternate character set over telnet? (Andrey Zmievski)
Re: Creating a ppp dial in server to my network (Clifford Kite)
Advice needed. ("johan")
Re: Device Permissions Quandry (Leonard Evens)
Re: Backup Software Needed (Leonard Evens)
Q: Dialup-Networking (Henrik Becker)
Linux Unleashed Third Edition book with cds on Ebay (Ted)
Re: URGENT - tar question (Stephen Waite)
Re: STUPID C question (Barry-John Theobald)
Need to reset root console account? help... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Need info --I have a one shot deal. (Jimmy Bianco)
Re: Linux/Macintosh (Athos)
Re: How can I disable su? (Thomas Zajic)
libdb.so.2 (John Pruce)
Best Linux-friendly scanner available? ("Kerry J. Cox")
Re: Help: Linux Netscape can't do DNS lookups using ADSL ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: gnome-config: command not found... (Timothy Ong)
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From: Bas van Nunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Manual
Date: 12 Sep 1999 17:17:45 GMT
Hi, I've been updating my on-line manual at:
http://stuwww.kub.nl/people/b.vannunen/linux-man.php3
You can also send me e-mail, with the subject: 'subscribe linux'
and I will notify you of any changes to the manual.....
regards,
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From: Mal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: KDE/GNOME
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:31:18 GMT
If you log in as root, and configure the login details - you have a option
to login graphically or through a Linux prompt screen. If you select the
graphics screen, the next time you log on, you should have the option to
select which environment you want to run.
Later
Mark Timmings wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes
> >I have selected the AFTERSTEP setup on Red Hat v6, how can I revert
back
> >to KDE or GNOME. I have tried but the option I had when i had a
GNOME/KDE
> >desktop to switch desktops is nopt available in AFTERSTEP. Does
somebody
> >know how to revert from AFTERSTEP to either KDE/GNOME. Your help would
be
> >much appreciated.
>
> I've got Mandrake Linux v6.0 and tried to load gnome (Enlightenment) on
> my machine. For some reason it never got passed the loading 100%
> Enlightenment graphic. I've tried all the methods listed here and been
> unable to get back to KDE - were you able to get Red Hat back with any
> methods ? Or has anyone any other ideas as I want to try and get gnome
> to work to have a proper look at it ?
>
> Mark
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From: Andrey Zmievski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any advice on alternate character set over telnet?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 15:00:21 GMT
My workstation is Linux running RedHat 6.0. To read my mail I telnet to
a Solaris workstation where I run Zmail which uses alternate character
set to draw the dialog boxes and such. When I was sitting directly on
Solaris box, it worked fine. However, over telnet alternate character
set doesn't work and all I see are 'p' and 's' letters. After I telnet
in TERM is set to 'xterm'.
Now, I know this is all related to TERM env variable and
termcap/terminfo database. But, which machine should be adjusted,
Solaris one or my Linux workstation? And also, how should I go about
figuring out how to fix this alternate character set problem?
-Andrey
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Creating a ppp dial in server to my network
Date: 13 Sep 1999 09:44:09 -0500
Oliver Batchelor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I would like to be able to create a dial in server to my network via the
> modem on my linux machine. I would like windows machines to dial in and
> allow them to access the ip numbers on my network(192.168.0.x) and to
> assign them an ip address like that.
Here is a URL that might be useful:
http://www.swcp.com/~jgentry/dialin2.html
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From: "johan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Advice needed.
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:56:43 +0200
i'm kinda new 2 linux, i got redhat 5. i want my Xwindows 2 look alot better
than it does and take away
that awful win9x feel, which is the best windows manager 2 use...
--saken
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Device Permissions Quandry
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 08:36:21 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Something strange seems to be happening to /dev/mixer and /dev/hdc (my
> dvd dirve). Their permissions change depending on who logs in. For
> example, if user gcleaves logs in, 'ls -l /dev/hdc' looks like this:
>
> brw------- 1 gcleaves disk 22, 0 May 5 1998
>
> When user csolari logs in after user gcleaves, she can't use /dev/hdc.
> Not unless user gcleaves logs out, in which case user csolari becomes
> the owner of /dev/hdc.
>
> A permission change 'chmod 666 /dev/hdc' executed by user root only
> lasts until somebody else logs in. When, say, user jsmith logs in after
> the permission change, user jsmith becomes the owner of /dev/hdc and all
> other users lose all privileges.
>
> I just noticed this behavior and I think it just started, though I can't
> be sure. I am a newbie, is this normal? It can't be. /dev/hda (my
> only hard dirve) does not display this behavior.
>
> I am running RH6.0 on a computer that is not connected to the Internet
> save some ocasional dial-ups. I doubt I have been cracked. Any
> suggestions?
>
> Geoff
>
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This is normal behavior in the sense that it can be set in
the file /etc/security/console.perms. You can read about this
by doing
man console.perms
or you can just look at the file. This is something new in
RH6.0 I believe. Probably the devices you mention have entries
in this file. You can change them if you want, but unless there
is a problem, you are probably better off leaving well
enough alone.
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Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Backup Software Needed
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 08:44:16 -0500
ELMasson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I run a machine using SuSE Linux 6.2 and an internal Iomega Ditto Easy 3200.
> The machine is not on a network. I wish to set up my machine so I can use
> the tape drive and the same tape for backups of both Linux and Windows 98.
> After reading a bit of the ftape documentation I find it too complicated and
> unclear to proceed with it. I would be willing to compromise on complexity on
> other matters, but not with backups. Forgive me if I am sounding harsh on
> ftape.
> I admire the effort the authors have put into it. Furthermore, it appears the
> distribution I own carries ftape 3.04 instead of 4.02 and part of my discomfort
> has
> to do with having to do this substitution.
>
> Does anyone know of a simple to use program with few options that can
> blindly do backups for a non-networked machine ? Commercial or not, does
> not matter. I've seen the add for "arkeia" by Knox software (www.arkeia.com)
> in the Linux Journal but that is way beyond the scope of what I need.
>
> Your assistance is appreciated,
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
Assuming that Linux sees your ditto drive, I think you should
be able to use simple tar commands.
tar cvzf /dev/Your_ditto_device directories
But you probably won't be able to put both Windows and Linux
backups on the same tape.
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Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Henrik Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q: Dialup-Networking
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 15:47:21 +0200
Hi,
gotta question and don�t know where to look for an answer:
Once I start up my box the network on my Suse 6.1 (ISDN Dialup, sendmail,
fetchmail, leafnode) is set to offline (if I understand that correctly).
As soon as I log on to my provider (University of Cologne) and ippp0 hangs
up afterwards, the system does not go back into that state. That means that
mails are not deliverd to sendmail quickly but take about 1 minute or so
until I get the message "mail sent to .." from elm or KMail.
I don�t know exactly what that is, but I guess the isdn-network does not set
back into offline-mode once I hang up. I come to that conclusion because
before the first log-on "of the day" mails are delivered directly into the
sendmail queue. I thought about an DNS-Lookup problem ...
So, does anybody have a hint? What could be the problem? What information do
you guys need to have, where can I check for a solution?
Thanx alot everyone!
Henrik Becker
Cologne, Germany
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted)
Subject: Linux Unleashed Third Edition book with cds on Ebay
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 15:21:13 GMT
Check it at:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=163795909
Please remove "NOSPAM" from my address to email me.
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From: Stephen Waite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: URGENT - tar question
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:45:25 -0400
I ended up using Ontrack to recover the data from the broken hard disk. It seems
the AIWA tape erases everything but the latest write operation.
Thanks for the help.
Stephen Waite wrote:
> The tape drive is a AIWA GD-E8000.
>
> Unfortunately the tape drive can not move past the EOD mark.
>
> For example, the first tar file on the tape (which should have been the last
> one) goes from block 1 to block 860. The EOD mark is at 861. I am not able
> to get past this position on the tape. I am trying John Nichols suggestion to
> dd to the tape to overwrite the EOD mark and then turn the drive off so it
> doesn't leave another mark. He thinks I should then be able to get to the
> other tar files.
>
> "Art S. Kagel" wrote:
>
> > Try:
> >
> > mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf #Forward space file
> >
> > to move the tape to the second tape file. Then you can either use tar to
> > extract the archive or dd to copy it to disk.
> >
> > (Note: BSD used to put two EOF markers at the end of a tape file requiring
> > one to use mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 2 instead, but, IMS, I do not think that
> > Linux does that, FWIW.)
> >
> > Art S. Kagel
> >
> > Stephen Waite wrote:
> > >
> > > I am running RH 5.1 on an Intel system.
> > >
> > > There were many tar files on a scsi tape, however a small tar file was
> > > written over the beginning of the tape thus corrupting a large tar file
> > > that should have been the first tar file on the tape. I do not need to
> > > recover this large tar file but I would like to have access to the rest
> > > of the tar files on the tape.
> > >
> > > The problem was created by these commands in a script:
> > >
> > > cd dir1
> > > tar cv file1 file2 .... > /dev/nst0
> > >
> > > cd dir2
> > > tar cv file1 file2 .... > /dev/nst0
> > >
> > > .
> > > .
> > > .
> > >
> > > cd dir25
> > > tar cv file1 file2 .... > /dev/st0 <-------- NOTE the mistake here
> > >
> > > cd dir26
> > > tar cv file1 file2 .... > /dev/st0
> > >
> > > Thank you for your time.
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From: Barry-John Theobald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: STUPID C question
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:55:21 +0100
Should the problem line not read
fgets(&buffer,80,fp2);
It has been a while since I have done C but I think you need to do this.
Barry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Need to reset root console account? help...
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:12:07 GMT
Can you kindly share your experience with me?
The root console account is locked, how can it be reset?
On day the server DEC UNIX server crashed in my company and someone
tried to login as root at the console. They didn't know the correct
password and as a result, UNIX security locked the root console account.
Beacuse I have superuser priviledges on the system, I can still telnet
to my account and invoke the SU command.
Typically, when a customer encounters this problem, its because they
tried to telnet to their account unsuccessully a number of times. That
is exactly what happend to the root console login.
Whenever accounts get locked, I typically do the following:
# cd /tcb/files/auth/[first letter of UserID]
# cp customer_userid customer_userid.bak
emacs customer_userid
Delete the unsuccessful login attempts field, "u_numunsuclog".
The root account, however, has additional fields in its auth file
compared to a normal unpriviledged user. If the above procedure is
followed, I still can't unlock the root console account.
The old sysadmin quit and I am a newbie sysadmin trying to fill his
shoes at the company. Any tips, suggestions or comments are welcome.
Please advise. Thank you.
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From: Jimmy Bianco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need info --I have a one shot deal.
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:23:57 -0400
I will be leaving the country--US-- for several months. While
gone I would like to learn Linux. I need ONE book I can take that will
include a CD with the operating system and teach how not only to setup
but to use linux. Dosen't have to make me a pro, just get me started.
Once gone it will be very difficult to find a book in English. Can
anyone help me out. A book called Linux:The Complete Reference, third
ed. looks good but may be too advanced or not. don't know. Linux from
Red Hat comes with some type of book but don't know if that is
detailed enough to learn once setup is completed. I also have a book
called teach yourself Unix in a week but don't know if this would be
good for learning Linux...and so on and so on....<G> Any
recommendations? I know NOTHING about Unix or Linux.
Thanks
Jimmy
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From: Athos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux/Macintosh
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 08:35:41 -0700
Try comp.os.linux.powerpc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: How can I disable su?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:04:37 GMT
On 13 Sep 1999 08:58:41 -0500, John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can I allow only certain users to have access to su?
> I have seen this works on an acount I have access to and
> I would like to do it on linux box.
man su, man suauth
HTH,
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Pruce)
Subject: libdb.so.2
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:47:00 GMT
Hi,
I am currently using SuSE 5.3 and upgraded transfig using rpm which
said I need libdb.so.2, which I cannot find at the SuSE ftp site. Dose
anyone know which rpm package contains libdb.so.2?
Thank for you help, John
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From: "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Best Linux-friendly scanner available?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 07:41:18 -0600
I'm looking for a low-cost, Linux-friendly scanner. What is the best
one available for under $100. Any recommendations?
Thanks.
KJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.xdsl,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Help: Linux Netscape can't do DNS lookups using ADSL
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:55:16 GMT
In article <WzdC3.40413$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miguel Cruz) wrote:
> In article <7rbbhr$i9h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Also, I notice this in the README:
> Asynchronous DNS host lookup
>
> Netscape Navigator 4.5 has the ability to do asynchronous DNS
> host lookups. This feature is on by default and nothing needs to
> be done to configure it. If you experience DNS lookup problems,
> you can turn this feature off by setting the environment variable
> MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS to True:
>
> csh, tcsh:
> setenv MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS True
>
> sh, bash, ksh:
> MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True
> export MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS
This worked! Thanks a lot for making the effort to read the README.
I wish that I had thought to do that.
Sean
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From: Timothy Ong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gnome-config: command not found...
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 00:15:13 +1000
> > I was trying to './configure' pan-0.4.9 (newsreader) when I got this
> > message. I'm running RH6.... Any ideas on how to fix it? Thanks......
>
> You need to install the gnome-libs-devel package (or is it
> gnome-core-devel? install both :) ).
I've installed the latest versions of both from Red Hat's ftp site and still
get this message:
'./configure: gnome-config: command not found
Error: You need gnome 1.0.x or hihger to install pan'
Any help with this would really be appreciated.... :)
Tim
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