Linux-Misc Digest #835, Volume #21 Thu, 16 Sep 99 15:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: usr modem & s3 video card configuration (Jim McIntyre)
Caldera 2.3 Install-- Smoooooooth (dancho)
Re: XF86Config problems (trying to set monitor resolutions) (Brad Silliker)
Re: I WANT TO DITCH WINDOZE BUT I CANT!!! (jim)
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (Anthony Ord)
Re: REQ: The fastest Window Manager for a slow Laptop? (Grant Edwards)
Re: ps -ef ? (A Guy Called Tyketto)
faxgetty cannot initialize modem (Mark Dammer)
Thursday 16 September 1999: Linux Kernel Birthday Bash Cancelled ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: cannot find /usr/include/X11 library ??? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Telnet as root ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (Darren Winsper)
Re: plse HELP a poor developer (Mark Hahn)
cannot find /usr/include/X11 library ??? ("Demon")
Re: Exceed & Linux: Configuration Problem (Adrian Hands)
Re: Are tar tapes OS dependent? (Doug DeJulio)
Re: Alert: AMD K6-2 350 Mhz processor (Herve Fache)
Attacks bringing my system down! (Justin Smith)
Re: Absurd Linux mentality ! (Janice Wright)
Thursday 16 September 1999: Linux Kernel Birthday Bash Cancelled ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Jim McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: usr modem & s3 video card configuration
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:51:33 GMT
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a USR PCI 56K pnp modem (not winmodem) which is not
> automatically detected by linux (I'm using a mandrake distribution).
> Under Win it is connected on the com4, adr 0x2e8, irq 10. I runned
> setserial to configure it like that, but when I try minicom the modem
> is always detected online and I cannot type any AT commands. It is the
> same under kppp or other dialers. I don't have any communication's
> program resident. I tried isapnpdump and got one file '.conf' but I
> don't know where to put it, and don't even know if it's usefull in my
> case. Do I really need to change my modem in order to have a phone
> connexion under linux ? :/
>
> Another problem : I'm using an S3 3d video card which is not detected
> by XFsetup, but the only resolution I can get is 640x480x16. I try to
> use the frame buffer with the kernel 2.2.5 but I cannot get better than
> 800*600*16. Is there any solution for that ?
>
> Thank you for all your suggestions.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
I can't help you with your modem problem, but I suggest you go to
Linuxberg , and download the latest S3 server.
Regards.
Jim McIntyre
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi,
<p>I've got a USR PCI 56K pnp modem (not winmodem) which is not
<br>automatically detected by linux (I'm using a mandrake distribution).
<br>Under Win it is connected on the com4, adr 0x2e8, irq 10. I runned
<br>setserial to configure it like that, but when I try minicom the modem
<br>is always detected online and I cannot type any AT commands. It is
the
<br>same under kppp or other dialers. I don't have any communication's
<br>program resident. I tried isapnpdump and got one file '.conf' but I
<br>don't know where to put it, and don't even know if it's usefull in
my
<br>case. Do I really need to change my modem in order to have a phone
<br>connexion under linux ? :/
<p>Another problem : I'm using an S3 3d video card which is not detected
<br>by XFsetup, but the only resolution I can get is 640x480x16. I try
to
<br>use the frame buffer with the kernel 2.2.5 but I cannot get better
than
<br>800*600*16. Is there any solution for that ?
<p>Thank you for all your suggestions.
<p>Sent via Deja.com <a href="http://www.deja.com/">http://www.deja.com/</a>
<br>Share what you know. Learn what you don't.</blockquote>
I can't help you with your modem problem, but I suggest you go to
<br> <a href="http://www.linuxberg.com">Linuxberg</a> , and download
the latest S3 server.
<br>Regards.
<br>Jim McIntyre</html>
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From: dancho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Caldera 2.3 Install-- Smoooooooth
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:49:57 GMT
I plunked down the thirty-five hard earned bucks and installed Caldera
2.3 on my AMD K6-2 450 system. I was pleasantly surprised that the
installation was VERY smooth. Almost trouble-free. I bought a modem,
sound card and video card that I KNEW were Linux compatible-- and
everything worked as advertised. Setting it up was like falling out of
bed, except for the "boot floppy" that reported that "Linux cannot be
installed on this system." Yeah, right. I booted from the CD and THAT
problem went away. It did bother me a little, though. That particular
problem could really throw a newbie for a loop. Other than that,
though, I was extremely impressed. It was kinda spooky, as the Caldera
setup program actually detected and installed the drivers for my
hardware. Is this plug and play or what? I have an Ensoniq 1371
AudioPCI sound card and TNT2 video card. How did it detect them?
Hmmmm....
dancho
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From: Brad Silliker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: XF86Config problems (trying to set monitor resolutions)
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 09:40:51 -0500
I'm also a new linux user. Like you, I utilized xf86config trying to improve on
the resolution and, like you, I received the same "According to
/var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (599) but seems to have been murdered
mysteriously" message. After I saved the file to /etc/X11 I did not reboot,
instead I logged out and attempted to login, this is when the error occurred.
Since then I have reinstalled linux and have created several XF86Config files
however I now reboot rather than logout. I'm curious if this error occurred due
to logging out rather than rebooting.
Soltzer wrote:
> I'm a new linux user (as of this morning). I'm running Redhat 6.0 on a
> P2-333 Dell XPS w/ a Dell D1025HTX 17" monitor and a Diamond FireGL 1000 PRO
> OEM video card w/ 8 megs of memory (using the permedia chipset)
>
> I have both GNOME and KDE installed (both are latest versions)
>
> Browsing through the ng messages I thought I had found an answer as to how
> to change screen resolution through the use of XF86Config ... i ran through
> that, selecting default resolution settings, video card, etc., and, now,
> after a reboot, instead of linux booting back into KDE which i had been
> using, it sits at a "dos-like" screen with a prompt for localhost login:
> before i had mucked about with the xf86config it had gone straight past this
> and into gnome or kde depending which i was using. now however it just sits
> there and the following appears:
>
> "According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (599) but seems to
> have been murdered mysteriously" ... sometimes the message would appear w/ a
> different # in parentheses.
>
> So basically I guess the question is what is it I've done wrong? set
> resolutions, refresh rates, etc that my monitor can't handle? in windows 98
> my monitor (described at top) could run at 1280x1024 w/ 32-bit color
> beautifully so I know it's capable of that...I believe somewhere in the
> course of xf86config i set a default of 1024x780 800x600 640x480 24bit in
> that order...
>
> As you can see I'm quite clueless here, anyone who has experienced a similar
> problem or can contribute any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks very
> much in advance.
>
> --
> Glen McWhorter
> =================================
> I'm so close to Hell I can almost see Vegas!
> =================================
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
From: jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I WANT TO DITCH WINDOZE BUT I CANT!!!
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:49:08 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Paul 'Z' Ewande� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nicolas De Rico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message :
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Windows is like heroine. You have to flush it out of your system. You
>> do that by formating your hard drive and installing Linux. Keep your
> Which kind of drug is Linux [nevermind all the other OSes in existance],
> since you have to switch from one alleged drug [Windows] to the apparently
> another one, which seems to be The One True Way of Computing ?
Melange.
Near-fanatical priesthood, gives you great powers, but if it's taken away
you'll die. Users pitted against a huge and corrupt empire. You can always
tell an addict; it's in the eyes ...
--
jim
--
http://madeira.physiol.ucl.ac.uk/people/jim/ Hold the line -
Love is delayed by essential engineering works.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Ord)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:05:34 GMT
On 14 Sep 1999 20:09:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren Winsper)
wrote:
>On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 09:20:55 -0700, K. Bjarnason
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In article <7rkua4$gg9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>> > User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-19990805 ("Pyanfar") (UNIX) (Linux/2.2.5-15 (i586))
>
>Why do you insist on putting those there?
So no one can claim his messages are fact-free I would guess.
Regards
Anthony
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From: grant@nowhere. (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,de.comp.os.unix.linux.newusers,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: REQ: The fastest Window Manager for a slow Laptop?
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:53:59 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, William Firkser wrote:
>David,
>
>You might want to look into more ram. Linux needs at least 32mb to run
>at a reasonable speed
Nonsense. It depends entirely on what you run.
My main machine at work is a P166 24M Linux machine. It's
quite comfortable though I wouldn't try to run Star Office,
Applix, Gnome, or KDE. But, it works great with fvwm2 as a
window manager. I run X, Netscape, WP8, gcc, DDD, etc. It
swaps a little now and then if I've got two or three memory
hogs running at the same time, but not enough to get annoying.
> - 64mb would make a big difference.
If you're swapping heavily, more RAM will make a big difference.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! There's enough money
at here to buy 5000 cans of
visi.com Noodle-Roni!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A Guy Called Tyketto)
Subject: Re: ps -ef ?
Date: 16 Sep 1999 13:10:20 -0500
R.K.Aa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > why is there no ps -ef on linux ?
> > all the other unixes (ibm, dec, hp, sun) do have it.
> > i suppose, ps ax is close - but why is it different ???
> >
> > i am having a hard time to make shell scrips work on linux due to those
> > nasty little things.
>
> Hmm... ps -ef works fine here (RH6)
> ps -V displays: procps version 2.0.2
The above OSes (AIX, Digital Unix 3.*/4.*, HP/UX, and SOLARIS),
use the System V variant of ps. SunOS, Ultrix, *BSD, and Linux, use the
BSD version of ps. On Digital Unix, DEC uses both versions. ps -ef and
ps aux work, for System V, and BSD, respectfully. For linux, use
ps -aux. that will get you what you're looking for.
BL.
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From: Mark Dammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: faxgetty cannot initialize modem
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:00:49 GMT
The system is overflooding /var/log/messages with the following=20
message and several =84modem wedged..=93 entries after installing and=20=
setting up the Hylafax faxserver and setting up faxgetty:
Sep 16 18:59:16 isrout FaxGetty[2779]: Error parsing "+FTM" query=20
response: "OK"
It looks as the faxgetty is expecting another response from the modem=20=
than the standard =84OK=93. The modem (Elsa Microlink 56k) itself is=20=
working well. I can operate it with minicom and I have reduced the=20
baud rate to 19200.
Any Help welcome,
greetings Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: nyc.seminars,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Thursday 16 September 1999: Linux Kernel Birthday Bash Cancelled
Date: 16 Sep 1999 18:13:04 GMT
The Linux Kernel Birthday Bash of Thursday 16 September 1999 has been
cancelled.
The Bash will take place on another day.
Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
>From the original announcement:
> We will celebrate the 8th birthday of the Linux kernel, the most popular
> free kernel in the world, on Thursday 16 September 1999 at AboveNet,
> second floor of 111 Eighth Avenue, near 16th Street on the Island of
> Manhattan. Full details below in the NYLUG announcement.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: cannot find /usr/include/X11 library ???
Date: 16 Sep 1999 13:09:06 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[posted and e-mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Demon wrote:
> gcc -ansi -o xv -O -DDOJPEG -Ijpeg -DDOPDS -DBSDTYPES -DLINUX xv.o
> xvevent.o xvroot.o xvmisc.o xvimage.o xvcolor.o xvsmooth.o xv24to8.o xvgif.o
> xvpm.o xvinfo.o xvctrl.o xvscrl.o xvalg.o xvgifwr.o xvdir.o xvbutt.o xvpbm.o
> xvxbm.o xvgam.o xvbmp.o xvdial.o xvgraf.o xvsunras.o xvjpeg.o xvps.o
> xvpopup.o xvdflt.o xvtiff.o xvtiffwr.o xvpds.o xvrle.o xviris.o xvgrab.o
> vprintf.o xvbrowse.o xvtext.o xvpcx.o xviff.o xvtarga.o xvxpm.o xvcut.o
> xvxwd.o xvfits.o -l/usr/include/X11 jpeg/libjpeg.a -lm
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -l/usr/include/X11: No such file or directory
You have asked to link with the library /usr/include/X11, but that is not
a library.
> The error seems clear enough, but I unable to make the Makefile to find the
> correct X11 library:
>
> I try the following (in Makefile) to resolve the problem but without
> success:
>
> 1) LIBS -I /usr/include/X11
> 2) LIBS -I /usr/X11R6/include/X11
The "-I" flag is used to tell the compiler (not the linker) where to look
for #include files.
You probably want to link with flags something like "-L/usr/X11R6/lib
-lX11", which means "look for libraries in /usr/X11R6/lib; link with
libX11.so or libX11.a".
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Telnet as root
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:05:50 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Really, you should be using ssh as joe user and only then using su;
> you have to transmit the root password in plaintext when you're
> telnetted in.
> But, yes, using su is preferable to allowing root logins.
I have and use ssh; how can I prevent a telnetter from su'ing to root?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren Winsper)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: 16 Sep 1999 17:02:01 GMT
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:27:39 -0500, Joseph Crowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> FWIW, MacOS has
> proven far more stable than Windows
Hmm...I'm not so sure about that. Do you have any actual evidence of
this? As anyone in COLA will tell you, I despise Win9x, but it at
least has some form of memory protection, and I have a hard time
believing MacOS is more stable.
--
Darren Winsper - http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/darren.winsper
Stellar Legacy project member - http://www.stellarlegacy.tsx.org
"The only thing stopping GDI from plastering Kane to the floor and
making him scream 'I am Solomon's bitch' is that Orca Bombers are a
bit on the expensive side" - Zagadka in alt.games.tiberian-sun
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From: Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: plse HELP a poor developer
Date: 16 Sep 1999 17:19:04 GMT
> 3) is Linux in any form suitable for Real-Time applications ? is there
> a Real-Time kernel ?
there is a hard-RT version of Linux, which AFAIK requires some special work
to use, and is not based on a modern version (eg 2.3) of "real" Linux.
I haven't used it, and am not trying to run it down. why? because
normal, mainstream Linux works GREAT as a soft RT system. I have numerous
programs which do direct port access to fiddle with video retraces,
serial/parallel/speaker/game ports, etc. they all run with the realtime
scheduling class, and thus are not preempted. they use the timestamp
register to obtain microsecond-level timing. I don't even bother to
down their eth0 interface, since the occasional interrupt doesn't cause
significant jitter (which I would probably count as 100 us, since my
application is dealing with slow, electrochemical humans...)
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From: "Demon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cannot find /usr/include/X11 library ???
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:37:06 +0100
Greetings,
I try to compile xv on linux and got the following error :
gcc -ansi -o xv -O -DDOJPEG -Ijpeg -DDOPDS -DBSDTYPES -DLINUX xv.o
xvevent.o xvroot.o xvmisc.o xvimage.o xvcolor.o xvsmooth.o xv24to8.o xvgif.o
xvpm.o xvinfo.o xvctrl.o xvscrl.o xvalg.o xvgifwr.o xvdir.o xvbutt.o xvpbm.o
xvxbm.o xvgam.o xvbmp.o xvdial.o xvgraf.o xvsunras.o xvjpeg.o xvps.o
xvpopup.o xvdflt.o xvtiff.o xvtiffwr.o xvpds.o xvrle.o xviris.o xvgrab.o
vprintf.o xvbrowse.o xvtext.o xvpcx.o xviff.o xvtarga.o xvxpm.o xvcut.o
xvxwd.o xvfits.o -l/usr/include/X11 jpeg/libjpeg.a -lm
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open -l/usr/include/X11: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [xv] Error 1
The error seems clear enough, but I unable to make the Makefile to find the
correct X11 library:
I try the following (in Makefile) to resolve the problem but without
success:
1) LIBS -I /usr/include/X11
2) LIBS -I /usr/X11R6/include/X11
/usr/include/X11 is a link to /usr/X11R6/include/X11. Can someomne tell what
did I miss ?
Thanks in advance
Eric Chin
Please reply to : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Exceed & Linux: Configuration Problem
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 13:43:32 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chris wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I have been stuck on this problem for months!
>
> I got two PCs one running linux, other win98.
>
> On the win98 pc, I got exceed installed and I want to run e.g. xf86 or the
> CDE from the win pc. I start exceed Xstart with command parameter:
>
> xterm -display 192.168.0.1:0.0
>
> I get the xterminal on the win machine with no problems. When I start
> netscape/ghostview etc.. (any application the output is ok and it appears on
> the win98 monitor).
>
> when I type startx, it starts on the Linux PC.
>
> Could someone PLEASE PLEASE help me out with this. I am not sure if the
> problem is from exporting DISPLAY (shouldnt because it works ok with other
> progs). I dont know if its an exceed configuration problem.
>
> Thanks
> Chris
I think there's some other icon you need to click on in exceed.
It will come up with a small dialog box listing hosts "willing to
manage".
Your linux box should be in that list.
Click on it and your xdm/gdm program should display on your windows
screen.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug DeJulio)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Are tar tapes OS dependent?
Date: 16 Sep 1999 11:09:01 -0400
In article <7rkn19$ts4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can tar files made on tapes under one architecture/OS be transported to
>another architecture/OS?
>
>Specifically, if I create some far files to tape on a SunSPARC running
>Solaris, can I read them on an Intel box running Linux?
>
>Both machines have a DDS3 DAT drive.
For the most part this will work.
There can sometimes be slight differences in the tar format, based on
different versions of tar. To eliminate this possibility, you can
take the source code for the tar that comes with Linux and install it
on your Solaris machine.
There can also be slight differences in the capabilities of the
underlying filesystem. For example, if you create a tar file on a
system that permits filenames to be 200 characters long, and unpack it
on a system that only permits filenames to be 20 characters long, you
could run into trouble. This shouldn't be an issue between Solaris
and Linux though.
--
Doug DeJulio | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HKS, Incorporated | http://www.hks.net/~ddj/
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From: Herve Fache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Alert: AMD K6-2 350 Mhz processor
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:30:56 GMT
Ted Berg wrote:
> <Insert history> We have a pair of K6-233s. Running Win95 the heat sink is painfully
> hot to the touch, and these are *not* little heat sinks. One of the computers gets
> up(?)graded to Win98. While playing a game of Total Annihilation (rough on
> processors) that machine crashes, from that point on *no* video game would run on
>that
> machine for more than 2 or 3 minutes. I blew out Win98 and reinstalled 95, same
> thing. Traded processors, and as long as I keep it cool the twitchy one works
> fine.<end history>
>
> FWIW, under Linux the heat sink on the twitchy processor is cool to the touch, unless
> I'm running at capacity. The only thing I can think of is that the load monitor
>under
> 95 doesn't tell the whole story.
>
> I am convinced that the K6 line (not necessarily K62 or the K63) has heat problems.
> Every machine I ever built with them ran hot, and I used to assemble machines for a
> living.
K6 up to 233 MHz used 0.35um technology and used to heat much. I had one of these. I
now
use a K6-2 350 MHz and have no problems at all: 0.25 um technology.
I have to say that I use a CPU cooler program that sends a 'halt' command when it has
nothing to do, because it is not include in Win9x (it is in NT). I dunno if linux
includes such SW coolers though.
Herve'.
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From: Justin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Attacks bringing my system down!
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:58:48 -0400
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I've posted to this group before about how my Redhat 6.0 system
goes down every few days with dire error messages (like "Aiee ! system panic...).
I ran diagnostics on my machine and it passed all tests. At the same time,
our departmental Sun systems (Ultrasparc servers) slow down to a crawl --- and it
turned out that some hackers are attacking our systems with pings and
telnets (a packet sniffer disclosed that our high-speed network is
completely saturated by pings, ftp's and telnets from a few sources.
The question is: how do I prevent these attacks from crashing my Linux system?
(Disconnecting from the network is not an option...). They slow down Solaris
systems (during the attack itself) but don't kill them off. Our system adminstrator
said that the Linux kernel is full of race conditions that cause it to crash under
these circumstances...
Is there some way to reconfigure my system to make it less vulnerable?
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<pre>I've posted to this group before about how my Redhat 6.0 system</pre>
<pre>goes down every few days with dire error messages (like "Aiee ! system
panic...).</pre>
<pre>I ran diagnostics on my machine and it passed all tests. At the same time,</pre>
<pre>our departmental Sun systems (Ultrasparc servers) slow down to a crawl --- and
it</pre>
<pre>turned out that some hackers are attacking our systems with pings and</pre>
<pre>telnets (a packet sniffer disclosed that our high-speed network is</pre>
<pre>completely saturated by pings, ftp's and telnets from a few sources.</pre>
<pre></pre>
<pre>The question is: how do I prevent these attacks from crashing my Linux
system?</pre>
<pre>(Disconnecting from the network is not an option...). They slow down Solaris</pre>
<pre>systems (during the attack itself) but don't kill them off. Our system
adminstrator</pre>
<pre>said that the Linux kernel is full of race conditions that cause it to crash
under these circumstances...</pre>
<pre></pre>
<pre>Is there some way to reconfigure my system to make it less vulnerable?</pre>
<pre></pre>
<pre></pre>
<pre>--
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From: Janice Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Absurd Linux mentality !
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:02:47 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> And when I wrote 'you won't be using cmnd line, learned from the man,
> and practiced to proficiency, like scales on the piano; I don't mean
> cmnd line will not exist, but that YOU will either be dead, or have woken
> up and asked your self "should I waste my human creativity" on remembering
> whether it's Exit, quit or shit !!
For an insight on the relationship between the command line interface
and human creativity from someone who has more than a little knowledge
of both, please go read "In the beginning was the command line" by
Neal Stephenson. http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
regards,
Janice
--
"Why do we have to hide from the police, Daddy?"
"Because we use vi, son. They use Emacs."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: nyc.seminars,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Thursday 16 September 1999: Linux Kernel Birthday Bash Cancelled
Date: 16 Sep 1999 18:13:04 GMT
The Linux Kernel Birthday Bash of Thursday 16 September 1999 has been
cancelled.
The Bash will take place on another day.
Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
>From the original announcement:
> We will celebrate the 8th birthday of the Linux kernel, the most popular
> free kernel in the world, on Thursday 16 September 1999 at AboveNet,
> second floor of 111 Eighth Avenue, near 16th Street on the Island of
> Manhattan.
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