Linux-Misc Digest #672, Volume #23 Fri, 25 Feb 00 11:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: lpr and sound decided to stop working (James W. Sandoz)
Re: Old versions of Slackware (Kevin Croxen)
Re: how to write man page? ("Carlos J. G. Duarte")
Re: vacation program ("Carlos J. G. Duarte")
Re: SoundBlaster PCI128 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
JDK 1.2.2 problems with Corel
Re: Need advice ("m a")
Netscape is mysteriously killed (Tao Yang)
How to set up a Mail-Server for Win95/98 machines ? (wolfgang)
lpr don't remove the finished print job (Tao Yang)
Re: Fetchmail wont work with smail (Andrzej Filip)
Re: term settings for home & end keys (Thomas Zajic)
Re: Has slashdot been slashdotted, or is it my ISP? (Thomas Zajic)
Re: Has slashdot been slashdotted, or is it my ISP? (Thomas Zajic)
DualBoot NT/Linux.. (Was: Re: Boot loader) (James Cornthwaite)
Re: Stopping an Xserver (Otto Wyss)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James W. Sandoz)
Subject: Re: lpr and sound decided to stop working
Date: 25 Feb 2000 09:55:53 -0500
First of all, thanks Marcel and David for responding.
I've run lsmod and gotten the following.
Module Size Used by
ppp 18316 2 (autoclean)
slhc 4328 0 (autoclean) [ppp]
nfsd 150936 8 (autoclean)
lockd 30856 1 (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc 52356 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
parport_probe 2884 0 (autoclean) (unused)
lp 4412 0 (autoclean) (unused)
parport 7092 0 (autoclean) [parport_probe lp]
nls_iso8859-1 2020 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 3548 1 (autoclean)
vfat 11516 1 (autoclean)
fat 25664 1 (autoclean) [vfat]
sound 57208 0 (unused)
soundlow 300 0 [sound]
soundcore 2372 3 [sound]
*Note* parport pc and parport lp aren't there. But lp is.
When I cat /etc/conf.modules I get:
alias eth0 3c59x
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias ppp0 3c59x
alias ppp-compress-21 bsd comp
alias ppp-compress-24 ppp deflate
alias ppp-compress-26 ppp deflate
alias sound cs4232
pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1
alias midi opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options cs4232 io=0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=7
synthirq=-1 synthio=-1
*NOTE* my errorlog states
modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-21
modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-26
modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-24
This suggests to me that conf.modules isn't being read. Is that possible?
Running modprobe lp doesn't solve the problem.
I appreciate the help so far and hope you guys can point me in the right
direction.
Jim Sandoz
--
Mr. James W. Sandoz, Instructor, UMBC Dept of Biol Sciences,
1000 Hilltop Circle
Catonsville, MD 21250
voice: (410) 455-3497; fax: 455-3875; net: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Croxen)
Subject: Re: Old versions of Slackware
Date: 25 Feb 2000 14:38:44 GMT
I've installed Slack 3.1 (2.0.27 kernel) on much lighter hardware than
that (386/33 8 Megs, though I did have a decent 100 Meg HD).
Ran great in character mode. X was a tad slow... The
Slackware home site at ftp.cdrom.com keeps several older versions
of Slack in their ftp archive. A quick glance at the earliest
version they have available, 3.3, indicates that with 9 diskettes
for A and 6 for N, you should be able to install these packages
without difficulty even under your current restricted
disk footprint of 45 Megs. Moreover, this teeny system will
seem blisteringly fast when you've finished, even with 8 Megs
of memory.
Cheers,
--Kevin
In article <Zrmt4.736$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, WME wrote:
>Hi,
>I have a 486DX/2 66 with 8M RAM and 45M HDD. A piece of crap basically and
>I'm interested in putting Linux on it. New versions of Slackware seem to
>require more memory than what I have on my system. Is there a way to get an
>old version of Linux?
>
>I'm interested in installing the 'a' and 'n' series of disks. Nothing fancy.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Ah, by the way the system has Win31 on it and it works fine, so I'm sure
>Linux can **replace** this and still work fine.
>
>
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From: "Carlos J. G. Duarte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to write man page?
Date: 25 Feb 2000 15:26:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 15:59:14 -0000, bentium <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>How can tell me where I can find information about how to write one man
>>page?
I have a few templates to do that, at my home page.
I will leave one of them at bottom, just in case.
--
Carlos Duarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://cgd.teleweb.pt
.\" man-1 -- template for unix section 1 man pages
.\"
.\" $Id$
.\" Carlos Duarte, 980420
.\"
.TH name-uppers 1 "dd long-month yyyy" "source" "Unix User Manual"
.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
.SH NAME
name[, name2] \- short description
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B name
[ \-o ] [ \-f
.I file
] args .\|.\|.
.SH DESCRIPTION
A first general description of the whole thing.
.PP
Details ...
.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-o
what \-o does
.TP
.BI \-f " file"
what \-f does with
.I file.
.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
.SH EXAMPLE
notes about examples, if any
.PP
describe next example:
.RS
.sp
.ft C \" change font to courier if possible
.nf
example line(s)
.fi
.ft R \" restore roman
.RE
.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
.SH FILES
.TP 20
.I /usr/local/share/foo
where data is kept.
.TP 20
.I /usr/local/share/bar
more data.
.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.TP 5
FOOPATH
where to find \fIfoo\fP file.
.TP 5
BARPATH
where to find \fIbar\fP file.
.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR foo (1),
.BR foo (3),
.BR bar (1).
.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
Tell about strange things that may happen.
.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
.SH HISTORY
Where does this came.
.br
Evolution...
.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
.SH BUGS
Know bugs.
.br
Things that are not bugs, but might be better.
.br
.I BAD
(broken as designed) things.
.\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
.SH AUTHOR
First Last <\[EMAIL PROTECTED]\fR>
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From: "Carlos J. G. Duarte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: vacation program
Date: 25 Feb 2000 15:27:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.os.linux.misc H.T. Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have installed vacation on my linux box and
> create a .forward file in my home directory that
> looks like this:
> \myname, "|/usr/bin/vacation myname"
> then I use vacation -i to create the vacation database,
> I also created a .vacation.msg which contains the
> reply messages.
> However, when I did a test sending an email to myself
> on the linux box, I always get a returned mail which says
> something like this
> sh: vacation not available for sendmail programs
> 554 "|/usr/bin/vacation sun"... Service unavailable
> did I do something wrong ? Or sendmail is not configured right ?
you must chdir to /etc/smrsh and place there, or a copy of vacation,
or a symlink to it. example:
cd /etc/smrsh
ln -s /usr/bin/vacation .
c ya.
--
Carlos Duarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://cgd.teleweb.pt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster PCI128
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:23:03 GMT
Hi Gilberto:
These are just a couple of thoughts -- I'm not too comfortable with this
myself yet.
First thing to try: you don't mention whether you "unmuted" the mixer
channels. You may want to run the "amixer" utility that comes in the
alsa-utils package:
amixer
will list all the channels, their setting, and "mute" if each is muted.
I think the important ones are Master and PCM, but you may want to
unmute all of them. If you have a GUI mixer, this will be much easier.
Otherwise, use commands like:
amixer set Master 100 unmute
amixer set PCM 100 unmute
(100 is too high, but that will just set the channel to its maximum
volume.)
Note that you have to do this each time the modules are loaded. If you
get your sound working, you can have the mixer channels load with
settings that you like automatically with instructions from the ALSA FAQ
at http://www.alsa-project.org/~jfulmer/alsa-faq.html. See question
3.5.
Another possibility: after editting the /etc/conf.modules, how many of
the oss-emulation modules did you "modprobe"? I don't know whether all
of these are necessary, or if some of them load themselves because of
dependencies from others, but you may want to try:
modprobe snd-card-ens1371
modprobe snd-mixer-oss
modprobe snd-seq-oss
modprobe snd-pcm-oss
modprobe snd-seq-oss
modprobe snd-pcm-oss
(Actually, the amixer step has to come after the modprobe's -- I was
just assuming you had done the modprobes, at first.)
If this works, you should even be able to just write sound files to the
sound devices, like
cat myfile.au > /dev/audio
cat otherfile.wav > /dev/audio
The osstest.tar.gz utility at the ALSA ftp site is also really good.
If there's anyone reading this posting who does understand more about
which modules have to be in conf.modules, which have to be modprobe'd,
or anything else you see wrong here, please let me know!
Hope this helps,
- Andy
--
Andy Marchewka
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gilberto Alemanni wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<88ubr2$3m8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-981225 ("Volcane") (UNIX) (OSF1/V4.0 (alpha))
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> In article <88ubr2$3m8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
> > I just started to get this working last night on my SB PCI128 (rev
7).
> > Wasn't too obvious to me, either.
>
> > I got alsa 0.5.2 (from http://www.alsa-project.org/). The "Latest
> > News" section on their site says 0.5.3 has updates for ES1370 (and I
> > assume that would include ES1371).
>
> > The INSTALL doc is great. I have a multiprocessor box (Dual Celeron
> > 466), so I ran configure as:
> > ./configure --with-smp=yes
>
> > I added the following lines to my /etc/conf.modules file (replacing
any
> > previous references to sound):
>
> > alias char-major-116 snd
> > options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371
> > options snd-card-ens1371 snd_index=0 snd_id="SB-PCI128"
>
> > alias char-major-14 soundcore
> > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> > alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
>
> > Then ran the modprobe's, and I started to get sound. Now I can play
> > .wav's with xmms.
>
> > Everything's not well yet though -- I can't get anything from the
"KDE
> > system sounds", and a KDE app was complaining about the "sequencer".
I
> > did the:
> > ln -s /etc/sysconfig/soundcard /etc/sysconfig/sound
> > thing for KDE, but it didn't help. I was able to unmute and raise
the
> > volume with the KDE mixer, though. The ALSA page mentions
"sequencer
> > updates" for 0.5.3 too, so maybe I'll try that.
>
> > The commercial OSS site also lists fixes for ES1371
> > (http://www.opensound.com/linux.html), but I really appreciate that
Alsa
> > is doing a great job, for free. I think basic sound card drivers
fit
> > the open-source model pretty well. [OS: free. Basic sound-card
drivers
> > with "necessary options": US$30. (??)]
>
> > Let me know at the email address below if you have any questions, in
> > case I can be of help.
> > Thanks to Bill Bennet (the ComputerHelperGuy), and Jonathan Nicolas
for
> > email pointers.
>
> > - Andy
>
> Hi,
>
> I have also a SB PCI 128 sound card and also have problem
> to configure it. I'm runnning under RedHat 6.1 and I tried
> the solution you proposed. I've modified my /etc/conf.modules
> as you did and after starting the driver, I get:
>
> % lsmod
>
> Module Size Used by
> snd-pcm-oss 18832 0 (autoclean)
> snd-pcm-plugin 13064 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-mixer-oss 4340 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-card-ens1371 2048 0
> snd-ens1371 12316 0 [snd-card-ens1371]
> snd-pcm 35736 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin
snd-ens1371]
> snd-timer 10752 0 [snd-pcm]
> snd-rawmidi 11736 0 [snd-ens1371]
> snd-seq-device 3368 0 [snd-rawmidi]
> snd-ac97-codec 25216 0 [snd-ens1371]
> snd-mixer 33680 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371
snd-ac97-codec]
> snd 41772 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin
snd-mixer-oss
> snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi
snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec
> snd-mixer]
> soundcore 2372 5 [snd]
> 3c59x 19048 1 (autoclean)
> nls_iso8859-1 2020 1 (autoclean)
> nls_cp437 3548 1 (autoclean)
> vfat 9180 1 (autoclean)
> fat 30464 1 (autoclean) [vfat]
> ncr53c8xx 52104 0
>
> Anyway, nothing works !
>
> I tried xmms somefile.wav, cat samefile.au > /dev/audio,
> I tried an audio CD, nothing happened, I didn't heard any
> sound !
>
> Any other solution ?
>
> Regards.
> Gilberto.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: JDK 1.2.2 problems with Corel
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:30:21 GMT
I installed JDK 1.2.2 last night. I decompressed the tar file into my home
directory. When I double click on any of the Sun supplied HTML example
pages, my browser tells me it recognizes the Applet tag but cannot run the
applet. Any suggestions? Thanks!
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: "m a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Need advice
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 07:44:00 -0800
www.debian.org
low-fat low-cal tastes great, less filling, no icecream headaches
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From: Tao Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape is mysteriously killed
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:33:06 -0500
hi, gurus
I am running RedHat 6.1, and netscape communicator 4.61,
it works fine except when I visit some web page, filled
some form, it will be killed mysteriously, or if the webpage
contain some javascript code, it will be "dead" and not
responding. what could be the problem? and what should I do?
Thanks,
Tao
In theory, there is no difference between theory and
practice. But, in practice, there is.
- Jan LA van de Snepscheut
====================================================
Tao Yang Phone: (423)974-6557(o)
7429 Lawford Road
Knoxville, TN 37919 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
U. S. A.
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From: wolfgang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to set up a Mail-Server for Win95/98 machines ?
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:40:28 +0100
Hi,
Please notice: Sorry, my english is not very well, because I'm from
GERMANY !!!
I've got only one question:
How can I set up SuSE Linux 6.3, that I can send and receive E-Mails
under Win 95/98 machines, like an Exchange-Server ?
Thank you for all answers!
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From: Tao Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lpr don't remove the finished print job
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:43:54 -0500
hi, gurus
I got a strange problem here, I config a remote printer
HP laserjet 4si (its name is RSHP4) like this:
lp|hplj:\
:lp=:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:rm=RSHP4:\
:rp=:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
but each time when I use lpr to print, the finished
printting job always hangs there not be removed,
and block the following printing job so that I have
to remove that 0 byte hanging job manually.
anybody know what is wrong with my config? how to fix it?
Thanks lot,
Tao
In theory, there is no difference between theory and
practice. But, in practice, there is.
- Jan LA van de Snepscheut
====================================================
Tao Yang Phone: (423)974-6557(o)
7429 Lawford Road
Knoxville, TN 37919 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
U. S. A.
====================================================
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From: Andrzej Filip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,vatech.sys.linux
Subject: Re: Fetchmail wont work with smail
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:10:04 +0100
Matthew Miller wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm having trouble getting fetchmail to work while using smail as
> the mta. I get the errors below when running fetchmail. The version
> of smail that I'm using is 3.2.0.111 and my fetchmail version
> is 5.1.2+NLS. I'm not certian where the problem is, though I
> think is it is smail. Fetchmail worked when I had sendmail installed,
> I switched to smail because I couldn't get From: address re-writing
> to work.
>
> I checked out the fetchmail faq, and took the suggestion to add the
> -smtp_hello_verify option to the smail config. But, that made no
> difference. Below is what fetchmail reports when ran:
>
> cuthbert:~$ fetchmail -a
> 11 messages for namille2 at mail.vt.edu (31145 octets).
> reading message 1 of 11 (2279 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect
> to localhost failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.vt.edu
> fetchmail: Query status=3D10
> cuthbert:~$
>
> This is a snippet of the smail log after running fetchmail:
>
> 02/24/2000 17:25:29: [13126] remote connection from localhost[127.0.0.1=
]
> 02/24/2000 17:25:29: [13126] remote EHLO: '' unsupported, from
> localhost127.0.0.1[=84,=AD=FB]. 02/24/2000 17:25:29: [13126] lost conn=
ection
> unexpectedly from (localhost) [127.0.0.1]. 02/24/2000 17:25:29: [13128=
]
> remote connection from localhost[127.0.0.1] 02/24/2000 17:25:30: [13128=
]
> remote HELO: rejected: invalid operand: 'localhost': from (localhost)
> remote HELO: rejected: invalid operand: 'localhost': from (localhost)
> source [127.0.0.1]: hostname must contain a '.'. 02/24/2000 17:25:30:
> [13128] lost connection unexpectedly from (localhost) [127.0.0.1].
>
> And this is my /etc/smail/config file:
>
> visible_name=3Dvt.edu
> -domains
> hostnames=3Dlocalhost:cuthbert
> +lock_by_name
>
> smtp_hello_broken_allow=3Dlocalhost:128.173.*
> -smtp_hello_verify
> -smtp_hello_verify_literal
>
> max_load_ave=3D5
> smtp_accept_max=3D20
> smtp_accept_queue=3D10
> rfc1413_query_timeout=3D15
>
> require_configs
> -second_config_file
> -qualify_file
> -retry_file
> copying_file=3D/usr/doc/smail/copyright
> max_message_size=3D10M
>
> received_field=3D"Received: ${if def:sender_host\
> {from $sender_host${if def:sender_host_addr\
> { (really [$sender_host_addr])}} }\
> else {${if def:sender_host_addr\
> {from [$sender_host_addr] }}}}\
> by $visible_name\n\t\
> ${if def:sender_program\
> {via $sender_program }}\
> ${if def:sender_proto\
> {with $sender_proto}\
> else {from stdin}}\
> ${if def:ident_sender\
> { (ident $ident_sender using $ident_method)}}\n\t\
> id <$message_id@$primary_name> (Debian Smail$version)\n\t\
> ${if def:input_addr\
> {for ${top:input_addr}}\
> else {for <unknown>}}\
> ; $spool_date "
>
> I have successfully used smail (an older version) and fetchmail togethe=
r
> before. I really don't understand what is going wrong. Any ideas or poi=
nters
> are welcome.
Your fetchmail tries to forward retrieved messages to smtp port
on localhost. Smail reject initial EHLO (start Extended SMTP session),
fetchmail tries HELO (start SMTP session) BUT smail does not
like hostname fetchmail uses after HELO (localhost).
QUICK FIX:
use -mda option fetchmail provides and call sendmail (sendmail
look alike provided by smail) directly with no SMTP session.
See "man fetchmail" for details.
--
Andrzej (Andrew) A. Filip - Warsaw, Poland | http://bigfoot.com/~anfi
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Postings: http://deja.com/profile.xp?author=3DAndrzej%20Filip
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: term settings for home & end keys
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:57:28 GMT
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:02:59 GMT, Dan wrote:
> T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [ ... ]
> >
> > iirc, you want the xterm-xf86-v333 entry from the current ncurses
> > http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/ncurses/terminfo.src.gz
>
> BTW, how do I compile this whole source file into the
> terminfo database? Do I just do "infocmp terminfo.src"?
That should be 'tic terminfo.src', AFAIK. 'infocmp' does just the
opposite, ie. it generates a human-readable ASCII file out of the
compiled (binary) terminfo entry.
> [ ... ]
HTH,
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Crossposted-To: alt.geek,alt.hacker,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Has slashdot been slashdotted, or is it my ISP?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:57:29 GMT
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 21:34:03 GMT, Peter Seebach wrote:
> In article <891hc4$m94$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Colin Andrew Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >In comp.arch Peter Seebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> In article <891ctu$isb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >> Colin Andrew Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> /. is now constantly being DDoS'ed by legions of hackers.
> >> No, not by legions of hackers. By legions of script kiddies. Hackers
> >> are not the same as crackers. Yadda yadda.
>
> > I know the difference, and I meant hackers.
>
> How's that figure? DDOS isn't a hack. It's not new. I see no hack here.
>
> Anyway, I doubt there *are* "legions" of hackers. Crackers, sure. People
> who break other people's toys, certainly. Hackers? I don't see this.
He probably meant that "legions of hackers" (in the correct, positive
sense) are reading /., which is, to a certain extent, equivalent to a
DDOS attack. IOW, /. is simply overloaded. ;-)
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Crossposted-To: alt.geek,alt.hacker,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Has slashdot been slashdotted, or is it my ISP?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:57:31 GMT
On 23 Feb 2000 21:01:31 GMT, Jeff Gentry wrote:
> Colin Andrew Percival ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : I know the difference, and I meant hackers.
>
> Then you were wrong.
See my answer to Peter Seebach.
Thomas
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From: James Cornthwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DualBoot NT/Linux.. (Was: Re: Boot loader)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:03:17 -0500
Hi there,
There is a fairly easy way to get linux to boot from the NT Loader
(you can also use this method to get Win9x to boot from the NT
Loader if you install it on, say, hda4 after you've already got
a running NT/Linux system!). This assumes your NT installation
is on the first partition (say, /dev/hda1)
1. After booting into linux (with your boot disk), login as root.
2. Install LILO on your linux root partition (not the MBR)
3. My Linux root partition is on /dev/hda2, so I run the command:
dd if=/dev/hda2 of=boot.lnx bs=512 count=1
The parms are:
- in file = /dev/hda2
- out file = boot.lnx
- block size = 512 bytes
- count = 1
This creates an 512 byte image of the root partition boot sector.
4. Copy this file (boot.lnx) to an msdos floppy (or something that is
readable in NT).
5. Reboot into NT, then login as Adminstrator
6. locate the file c:\boot.ini, and remove the S and R attributes:
attrib -R -S boot.ini
7. Copy the boot.lnx to the C:\ directory
8. Edit boot.ini, so it resembles this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT [VGA.."
C:\boot.lnx="Slackware Linux on /dev/hda2"
9. once you've saved boot.ini, replace the S and R attributes
attrib +S +R boot.ini
10. Fin.
Pretty easy eh? :) I thank linuxdoc.org for this information.
Regards,
James.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss)
Subject: Re: Stopping an Xserver
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:11:05 +0100
> > How do I stop an Xserver? I did configure it to accept
>
> Sounds like you're running xdm (the login window thingy). One way I
> kill this is with Control-r. If that doesn't work you can try
>
> cd /etc/init.d
> ./xdm stop
>
Works perfect, "./xdm start" even starts it again.
> > so that the Xserver isn't started automatically?
>
> cd /etc/init.d
> mv xdm xdm-renamed
>
> (quick-n-dirty way, but you'll get the idea).
>
Well rather quick and rather dirty! I'd like to know how(where) I can
remove xdm from the boot init and use startx instead.
> > And where do I configure the window manager I'd like to have?
>
> In the last line of your ~/.xsession put
>
> exec my-window-manager
>
> (no "&" at the end)
>
> HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs help me a lot (in general). You can get them
> from www.debian.org/Packages/stable/doc or read then on-line somewhere
>
What's the best way to read the HOWTO's, hopefully without first
decompressing.
O. Wyss
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