Linux-Misc Digest #695, Volume #23 Sun, 27 Feb 00 21:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: POPQuizHOTSHOT! Cant find auto at bootup! (Ian Molton)
3Com ISDN Lan modem problems ("Freeman")
Re: LINUX GAME: Circus Linux! initial release (v 0.0.0) (Jim Marshall)
Closing, minimize buttons stop (nldgr)
Re: Is there a trick to starting gnu emacs? ("jeff")
Re: Windows v.s. Linux (nldgr)
Re: Setting Software RAID in Linux (Peter F. Curran)
Re: LS-120 Problem ("Beny Spensieri, Jr.")
Re: what is the ideal video resolution ("Bob")
configure and compile errors (Eric Laffoon)
Re: What is MAGIC COOKIE and why cant I run apps as su? (Eric Laffoon)
Re: xsession MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 problem (Dances With Crows)
pine and dialup with RedHat 6.1 (Ramin Sina)
PIKT, Problem Informant/Killer Tool, v1.9.0 released
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From: Ian Molton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: POPQuizHOTSHOT! Cant find auto at bootup!
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 01:29:00 +0000
John Hasler wrote:
>
> jazz writes:
> > Registered linux user no. 164098-88940
>
> Ian Molton writes:
> > Where did you get the reg. no?
>
> It's in your kernel. Here is a little script that will look it up for you.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> r () {
> f=0
> until [ `expr "$f" : ".*"` -ge $1 ]
> do
> f=`head -c 200 /dev/urandom | tr -dc '[:digit:]' | head -c $1`
> done
> return $f
> }
> r 6; a=$f; r 5; b=$f
> echo "Registered linux user no." $a-$b
hehe :)
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From: "Freeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3Com ISDN Lan modem problems
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:28:23 -0700
Hi All,
I have a 3COM Office Connect Lan Modem connected to my 3COM EtherLink SL
10/100 PCI (3C905C-TX) NIC. In Win98 and Win2K the LanModem runs my small
home network and connects us all to the internet via my ISDN. Everything is
set automatically and the modem connects to ISDN when an Internet request is
made, it also acts as a hub. I'm having a real hard time figuring out how to
get this working.
Any Ideas?
--
Freeman Cooley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Marshall)
Crossposted-To:
rec.games.video.atari,rec.games.video.classic,alt.games.video.classic,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: LINUX GAME: Circus Linux! initial release (v 0.0.0)
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:27:02 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:38:52 GMT, Rodrigo Andrade
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>If these are the types of games I would play if I installed Linux... no
>>thank you. I'll stick with windoze and play Half Life
>
>Chill out, Linux will be dead after Windows 2000 and its consumer-oriented
>counterpart start flying off the shelves. Remember OS/2?
>
>--
>RODRIGO
>
>==================================================================
>
>"One of the worst soloist out there is Kirk Hammet. Don't get me wrong,
>he can play amazingly, his solos are pure gold, but to my ears they sound
>like shit. You see I have perfect pitch, and Kirk doesn't follow scales, and
>he sounds like garbage a lot of the time. People who don't have perfect
>pitch can say he is amazing, but I think he sounds like shit"
>
> -- Yngwie Malmsteen
>
Usenet Rule # 62: People who quote Yngwie Malmsteen (ROFL!!) can
safely be ignored.
--
"That boy ain't playin' guitar."
--Albert King, commenting on Yngwie's froo-froo, pansy-ass noodling.
Slackware 7.0 Linux
6:25pm up 6 days, 17:29, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: nldgr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Closing, minimize buttons stop
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 01:33:45 GMT
After starting an x-windows session, the minimize, maximize, and close
buttons on the various windows work fine; but after a while, they don't
respond.
Also, clicking on the title bars transfers me from one window to
another; but after a while that too ceases to respond.
Reminds me of windows and having to restart to get things going again.
Why? Why? Why?
Gee sus!! I'm going to be an old man by the time I figure this
*!@#$%^^%#@ OS out! (and I'm halfway there already-maybe that's the
problem)
I could have started a business and run it, made a fortune, and sold the
business at a profit with MS Windows by now. What's the gig with
Leenux?
It's suppose to be more stable, yet I have to restart just like windows
to keep things going.
Ya, it's faster if you don't count the time mounting and umounting every
time you want to look at a freaking drive.
More stable? How? On huge international businesses? I only have one
computer.
Good for networking? I'm not setting up a network.
Good for security? What's wrong with Conseal PC Firewall for windows?
Good for tracking where the hack is coming from? Can this be done
successfully all the time?
Maybe Linux is good for NASA, but how long did those guys maintaining
over there study computers before they got things going? Did their
families raise them in a computer programming based enviornment?
Maybe if I had taken a class at college in Unix or something first, it
might have been a good idea
Then I hear about grade and high school kids hacking like old pros. Do
they figure all this out on their own? Maybe I'm just too dumb for this
OS.
I really can't see the advantage of spending so much time on learning an
OS. What's the point?
What's the advantage; the gain? Free software? Shoot, if I counted the
hours I spend learning it, the whole show is costing twenty times as
much.
What's wrong with OS2, MacOS, BeOS?
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From: "jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Is there a trick to starting gnu emacs?
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 17:34:19 -0800
Don't know much about RedHat, but have you tried to cd to the emacs
directory, and exec with ./emacs? If even that fails, my guess is that
you're missing a common lib module, or some such - though I thought RPMs
prevented such failures.
Jeff
"Lord Petrosky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:57ju4.81$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hey,
>
> after using redhat's rpm on emacs and emacs-nox and verifying they are
> installed i check whereis emacs and i get a few paths. after exporting
them
> to my PATH typing emacs doesn't give any result except a msg stating no
> command found. i installed another app from rpm just to make sure my
method
> was sound and that one worked. my emacs version is 20.13 release 9 i
> believe. i tried from two separate cd's with the same result.
>
> any ideas?
>
> LP
>
>
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From: nldgr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows v.s. Linux
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 01:39:40 GMT
brian moore wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 20:20:24 GMT,
> JT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you run mostly games, then you are better off with WIndows.
>
> Or a Playstation. :)
>
Or a nice shiny new sandbox with shiny sand.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter F. Curran)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Setting Software RAID in Linux
Date: 27 Feb 2000 23:52:14 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Elder V. Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi. I have read Software RAID mini HowTo but it is fairly old. I'd like
>to know where I could find recent information. For instance, RedHat
>stock kernels come with a RAID patch, but there are RAID0, 1 and 5
>options in the kernel configuration and raid*.o modules are there (I'm
>using kernel 2.2.14). What is the difference between RAID with the
>patches and the kernel's originals?
The new 0.90 Raid is FAR superior to the old. It can
resync completely in the background! You need the new
tools as well as the latest HowTo (see below).
http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO.html
One warning, something changed in the kernel between
2.2.13->2.2.14 which broke some of these patches. Stick
with 2.2.13 if you can. I did get it to work, but it
involved making changes by hand that I wouldn't want
anybody else to depend on....
--
Peter F Curran
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"If you paid for your operating system, you probably
paid too much for your operating system."
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From: "Beny Spensieri, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LS-120 Problem
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:59:15 GMT
I am assuming the LS-120 is an internal IDE device.
Try this, it worked for me, albeit I discovered it by accident:
Keep both devices enabled and set the LS-120 drive to be the boot floppy
in your bios.
The system should see your ls-120 and set it to a hdX assignment. And
your floppy drive should still work.
This worked for me and I'm running redhat 6.1, with whatever kernal it
came with (2.2.12-20 i think).
Hope this helps,
Beny
Draco Ravenloft wrote:
>
> Ok, I've seen a lot of problems with older kernels and LS-120 drives...
> Well, I've got a nice new 2.2.15 kernel, have the ide-floppy.o module
> compiled in and ready to go....... and yet I seem to have this
> interesting little quirk I can't get rid of.
> It seems that if I ACTUALLY have a 1.44 floppy drive linux can't figure
> out what an LS-120 is (except when the Kernel on the install CD loaded),
> disable the Floppy, get back SuperDisk, enable floppy, lose SuperDisk.
> I'd very much like to be able to use both if at all possible. Anyone
> got any ideas?
> I've considered recompiling my bloody kernel, but even if I could
> remember HOW to recompile the kernel it beats the hell outta me as to
> what to change since ls-120 support IS compiled in, albeit a little
> buggy.
>
> Anyone who can help.... I'd greatly appreciate it
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Reply-To: "Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what is the ideal video resolution
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:33:09 -0500
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Where are these changes made in KDE? I can not find it. It is probably off
my screen.. :)
"Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:e7iu4.8237$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "S. Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> > Conventionally, the following resolutions look good enough to me
> > (assuming you have modern(!) graphich controller which can handle a way
> > over the limit of monitors).
>
> > 12" LCD: 800x600
> > 13-14" LCD: 1024x768 (not 748)
> > 14" CRT: 800x600 (due to smaller viewing area)
> > 15" CRT: 1024x768
> > 17" CRT: 1152x864
> > 19" CRT: 1280x1024
> > 21" CRT: 1600x1200
>
> You must have really good eyes. One of my frustrations with Linux/X is
that
> most GUI programs seem to be designed to run at higher resolutions, making
> the fonts hard to read unless you have a really big monitor. It doesn't
> help that X' fonts aren't too crisp, either.
>
> > Herry wrote:
>
> > > Years ago I have read somewhere that 1024x748 may not be the ideal
> > > resolution to use.
>
> Ideally, I'd like to be able to run X/KDE at 800x600 (so I can read
without
> a microscope), but then most programs won't fit on the screen. Windows
open
> too tall, and it's a royal pain to try to resize them, with their tops and
> bottoms getting "stuck" under the panel and taskbar, or off the screen
> altogether. Sometimes they won't fit no matter what you do, as buttons
will
> disappear, etc. (I think this is just plain bad design, but that's
another
> thread.) So, it seems necessary to run at least 1024x768, which *would
be*
> a pretty nice resolution for KDE. For example, I can then run Netscape
big
> enough to hold most pages and see all the buttons, while still having
plenty
> of room for a terminal window, plus a couple of other little things.
> Unfortunately, then the fonts become so small that I'm sitting with my
face
> 6" from the screen, squinting. I can use Windows at this resolution,
> because the fonts are a lot clearer. I guess what I really need for KDE
is
> a 19" monitor! So much for running Linux on an old, "cheap" computer!
>
> > But again it depends on your taste. Try raise or lower the resolution to
> > see which one you like. And if your graphic card is old, the size will
> > affect the color depth, too. 1MB Video RAM will limit to 800x600 for
> > 16bits, but 2MB will allow up to 1024x768 for 24 bits, etc. Over 8MB,
> > usually monitor limits the resolution.
>
> I should be able to run 24 bit color at 1024x768 with 2MB video, but for
> some reason I can't. I was able to before. Mandrake's Xconf, or whatever
> it's called, will only let me run 16 bits. If I had several hours to
waste,
> I could probably get it running like I did before.
>
> Matt O.
>
>
>
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From: Eric Laffoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: configure and compile errors
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 17:50:09 -0800
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Hi all,
any truly guru types who can answer this for me. I'm not a C++
programmer... I go up to Perl and some oo stuff, so I don't really know
what is hapening here except I I have Mandrake 7.0 on a fresh partition
and it seems to fail to compile about half the KDE programs I send it.
Some of these I have compiled in Mandrake 6.1. I suspect it has
something to do with an instruction I can give it regarding a compiler
with the ./configure command, but I'm just in a crap shoot and guessing.
I've done some research and this is as far as I got. I have a definite
problem and I'd like to find an answer that makes me feel secure about
being able to compile any program and advising others with some
comfidence.
Attached is the config.log from karchiveur-0.55
Thanks
Eric Laffoon
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii;
name="config.log"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="config.log"
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
configure:556: checking how to run the C++ preprocessor
configure:574: g++ -E conftest.C >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
configure:601: checking for X
configure:618: g++ -E conftest.C >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
configure:694: g++ -o conftest conftest.C -lXt 1>&5
configure: In function `int main()':
configure:690: implicit declaration of function `int XtMalloc(...)'
configure: failed program was:
#line 687 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
int main() {
XtMalloc()
; return 0; }
configure:851: checking host system type
configure:892: checking target system type
configure:932: checking build system type
configure:982: checking for a BSD compatible install
configure:1039: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:1077: checking whether make sets ${MAKE}
configure:1106: checking for ranlib
configure:1167: checking for non-GNU ld
configure:1203: checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld
GNU ld version 2.9.5 (with BFD 2.9.5.0.16)
configure:1219: checking for BSD-compatible nm
configure:1256: checking whether ln -s works
configure:1285: checking for main in -lcompat
configure:1300: cc -o conftest conftest.c -lcompat 1>&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcompat
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
#line 1293 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
int main() {
main()
; return 0; }
configure:1321: checking for main in -lcrypt
configure:1336: cc -o conftest conftest.c -lcrypt 1>&5
configure:1357: checking for the third argument of getsockname
configure:1382: g++ -c conftest.C 1>&5
configure:1439: checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet
configure:1461: g++ -o conftest conftest.C -ldnet 1>&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldnet
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
#line 1447 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. */
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
#endif
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */
char dnet_ntoa();
int main() {
dnet_ntoa()
; return 0; }
configure:1483: checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet_stub
configure:1505: g++ -o conftest conftest.C -ldnet_stub 1>&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldnet_stub
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
#line 1491 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. */
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
#endif
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */
char dnet_ntoa();
int main() {
dnet_ntoa()
; return 0; }
configure:1527: checking for gethostbyname
configure:1559: g++ -o conftest conftest.C 1>&5
configure:1624: checking for connect
configure:1656: g++ -o conftest conftest.C 1>&5
configure:1722: checking for remove
configure:1754: g++ -o conftest conftest.C 1>&5
configure:1821: checking for shmat
configure:1853: g++ -o conftest conftest.C 1>&5
configure:1922: checking for killpg in -lucb
configure:1944: g++ -o conftest conftest.C -lucb 1>&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lucb
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
#line 1930 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. */
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
#endif
/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */
char killpg();
int main() {
killpg()
; return 0; }
configure:2021: checking for Qt
tried /usr/lib/qt/lib
tried /usr/X11R6/lib
configure:2123: g++ -o conftest -I/usr/include/qt -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib
conftest.C -lqt -lXext -lX11 1>&5
configure:2175: checking if Qt compiles without flags
configure:2214: g++ -o conftest -I/usr/include/qt -L/usr/X11R6/lib conftest.C -lqt
-lXext -lX11 1>&5
configure:2267: checking for moc
configure:2305: checking for rpath
configure:2334: checking for bool
configure:2354: g++ -c conftest.C 1>&5
configure:2441: checking for working aclocal
configure:2454: checking for working autoconf
configure:2467: checking for working automake
configure:2480: checking for working autoheader
configure:2493: checking for working makeinfo
configure:2545: checking for a C-Compiler
configure:2551: checking for gcc
configure:2657: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works
configure:2673: gcc -o conftest conftest.c 1>&5
configure:2699: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler
configure:2704: checking whether we are using GNU C
configure:2713: gcc -E conftest.c
configure:2778: checking how to run the C preprocessor
configure:2799: gcc -E conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
configure:2840: checking for a C++-Compiler
configure:2846: checking for g++
configure:2962: checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -s) works
configure:2978: g++ -o conftest -s conftest.C 1>&5
configure:3004: checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -s) is a cross-compiler
configure:3009: checking whether we are using GNU C++
configure:3018: g++ -E conftest.C
configure:3158: checking whether NLS is requested
configure:3186: checking for msgfmt
configure:3220: checking for gmsgfmt
configure:3263: checking for xgettext
configure:3311: checking for KDE
configure:3447: checking for extra includes
configure:3475: checking for extra libs
configure:3602: checking for kde headers installed
configure:3649: g++ -c -O2 -Wall -I/usr/include/kde -I/usr/include/qt
-I/usr/X11R6/include conftest.C
configure:3657: checking for kde libraries installed
configure:3660: /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link g++ -o conftest -O2 -Wall
-I/usr/include/kde -I/usr/include/qt -I/usr/X11R6/include -s -L/usr/lib
-L/usr/X11R6/lib conftest.C -lkdecore -lqt -lXext -lX11 -rpath /usr/lib -rpath
/usr/X11R6/lib 1>&5
g++ -o conftest -O2 -Wall -I/usr/include/kde -I/usr/include/qt -I/usr/X11R6/include -s
-L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib conftest.C -lkdecore -lqt -lXext -lX11 -Wl,--rpath
-Wl,/usr/lib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/X11R6/lib
configure:3669: checking for KDE paths
kde_htmldir="/usr/doc/kde/HTML"
kde_appsdir="/usr/share/applnk"
kde_icondir="/usr/share/icons"
kde_sounddir="/usr/share/sounds"
kde_datadir="/usr/share/apps"
kde_locale="/usr/share/locale"
kde_cgidir="/usr/lib/cgi-bin"
kde_confdir="/usr/share/config"
kde_mimedir="/usr/share/mimelnk"
kde_toolbardir="/usr/share/toolbar"
kde_wallpaperdir="/usr/share/wallpapers"
kde_bindir="/usr/bin"
kde_partsdir="/usr/lib/parts"
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From: Eric Laffoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: What is MAGIC COOKIE and why cant I run apps as su?
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 17:58:00 -0800
A far less technical way to do this is to open kfm as root using kdesu.
Then you can show your desktop as /home/user/desktop or go to
edit-applications to show your kmenu apps.
Rick wrote:
> When I try to run apps from a terminal window, after issuing the su
> command i get the following error:
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xliib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
>
> WHat is this and how do I fix things so I can run apps as su?
>
> Any and all help appreciated.
>
> --
> To reply by email remove NOSPAM from my address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: xsession MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 problem
Date: 27 Feb 2000 21:06:09 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:30:28 GMT, Caddis <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>amply segregated from my Linux setup, but I can mount my Win drive from
>Linux as long as the file that I am looking for is not in a directory that
>has a space in the name (ie. Program Files). I haven't seen the latest
$ mount /mnt/win
$ cd /mnt/win/Program\ Files
or
$ cd "/mnt/win/Program Files"
or
$ cd /mnt/win/Progr<TAB>
or use kfm, tkrat, xfm, fvwm2, or any of a bazillion GUI file managers. I
hope this hasn't been causing you huge problems.
>version of Partition Magic, but I had lots of problems with my MBR and my
>partition tables when they were on the same disk. If you have little
>experience, with either OS, I would recommend that you read up on which one
>suites your needs and pick one, instead of trying to learn both on top of
>fooling around with the dual boot stuff.
The best way to learn computer stuff is to try to do it, f**k it up
righteously, and spend a while trying to fix it. After a bit of randomly
flailing about, you'll begin to get an instinctive feel for the system. I
learned an enormous amount by having a flaky motherboard and thinking
software upgrades/kernel recompiles/library upgrades would stop the
constant random crashing.
Dual-booting is not as hard as you make it out to be, even with both OSes
on the same HD. One thing that trips people up is that DOS/Win get
confused if there's more than one primary DOS/Win partition on the drive.
Doesn't seem to care about extended partitions or non DOS/Win primary
partitions. And if you partition sanely, there's no need to overwrite the
DOS/Win MBR either... hda1->C:, hda2->/boot, hda3->extended, hda5->D:,
hda6,7,8->/, /usr, /home.... put LILO in the bootsector of hda2, use
fdisk to mark hda2 active, bingo. (See HOWTOs for more info)
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From: Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pine and dialup with RedHat 6.1
Date: 27 Feb 2000 21:08:33 EST
Hi everyone.
I use dialup to connect to my ISP. So I have given a hostname to my
linux machine but I have no domain name. Since pine wants a domain name
to send mail (otherwise won't send mail) , in the Settings I gave my ISP
domain name. But my user ID on my local machine is different from my
userID on my ISP. So the mail is sent from the wrong email address.
How can I fix this?
Thanks,
Ramin Sina, Red Hat 6.1
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Subject: PIKT, Problem Informant/Killer Tool, v1.9.0 released
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 02:06:56 GMT
PIKT, Problem Informant/Killer Tool, version 1.9.0
HIGHLIGHTS: Ported to OpenBSD. Implemented macro arguments. Added
a new alert timing parameter, "drift", for random scheduling around a
central time (or times). Speeded up piktc preprocessing. Made
adjustments to accommodate "standard library" config files written to
support all operating systems. Fixed a bug where, for some piktc
operations, duplicate file names with different file paths were not
being handled properly. Fixed a bug where, for FreeBSD, fork()'ed
piktds would hang on _exit(). Fixed a script parser bug. Made many
other code improvements.
"This is by far one of the most interesting/powerful tools I have
seen for Linux administration... an extremely interesting tool."
--Kurt Seifried, Linux Administrators Security Guide
(https://www.seifried.org/lasg)
PIKT, an innovative new paradigm for administering heterogeneous networked
workstations, is a multi-functional tool for monitoring systems, reporting
and fixing problems, and managing system configurations. PIKT is quickly
gathering potential as a serious security management system. PIKT comprises
an embedded scripting language with unique, labor-saving features; a
sophisticated script (and system config file) preprocessor, scheduler, and
installer; and other useful tools. Like a Swiss Army Knife, PIKT is a
category buster with many, many different uses limited only by your
ingenuity and imagination.
PIKT is distributed under the GNU General Public License. Available now
for GNU/Linux, AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, OpenBSD, Solaris, and SunOS. For
more info, and complete source code, documentation, and data files, please
visit the PIKT Web site at:
http://pikt.uchicago.edu/pikt
--
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Robert Osterlund, Unix Systems Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Grad School of Business, U of Chicago phone: 773/702-8898
1101 E. 58th Street, #309, Chicago, IL 60637, USA fax: 773/702-0233
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