Linux-Misc Digest #701, Volume #23 Mon, 28 Feb 00 15:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: logs to floppy + eject for security? (BjJbMc)
2 Questions-SMP / 32 bit on 64 bit machine ("Klaus Dischinger")
Re: Setting ASCII screen colors in Linux? (Dances With Crows)
Re: 2 Questions-SMP / 32 bit on 64 bit machine (Jeff Dillon)
Licq install problem...easy answer (Dave Brown)
Re: uninstall linux
Re: uninstall linux
Re: Here's why linux programs are so insecure ! ("Lange, T. (Thomas)")
16 bpp color depth ("Amedeo Storni")
Re: Netscape Navigator, Adobe Acrobat Reader (Bob Hauck)
Re: compiler can't find linux/errno.h (Greg Goodrich)
Re: Nic config and vtoc on linux (Greg Goodrich)
Re: Pine Config (Bob Hauck)
Re: Setting ASCII screen colors in Linux? (william henry hsu)
Query-by-example? (Art Werschulz)
Re: how to change default shell(bash) to csh (John Hasler)
Which MB for Athlon? (Hemant Shah)
Linus + NTFS ("mina")
Re: Problems with Corel Linux installation (Jim Kelleher)
SuSE 6.1 Problems collecting Email ("Mr Fraser Morris")
getting started data needed (Donald Knudsen)
Re: 16 bpp color depth (Dances With Crows)
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From: BjJbMc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: logs to floppy + eject for security?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:14:33 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> BjJbMc wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Do you think its a good, or a hairbrained idea, to have log files
> > and/or important system info, written to floppy and ejected at some
<snipped>
> hiya...
> ...do you think 1,4MB are enough for logfiles and important system-files
> ?
>
> You could use a boot-cd so none can install backdoors or modifiy your
> config-files but everytime you change something you need to burn a cd =)
>
> cya
> Stefan
Aw, OK. I thought maybe a very small subset, not ALL the files!
Something that would reasonably confirm someone had been trying to mess
around. Being a newbie, I couldn't suggest anything more definite.
Thanx anyway!
james
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From: "Klaus Dischinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2 Questions-SMP / 32 bit on 64 bit machine
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:14:41 +0100
Hello althogether,
1 Question: SMP is it Symetric MultiProcessing or is it Shared-memory
MultiProcessor or is it all the same.
2 Question: Linux is known as a 32 bit operating system (not supporting 64
bit in any way). As far as I know is ULTRASparc or Power PC for example a 64
bit machine (and I guess Linux stays 32 bit OS on these machines). Can Linux
exploit any 64 bit feature like adressing more than 4 GB memory or storage
on these machines? If the instructions for Linux are 32 bits, are there two
at once processed on an 64 bit machine?
best regards :o)
Klaus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Setting ASCII screen colors in Linux?
Date: 28 Feb 2000 13:24:05 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:12:34 GMT, william henry hsu
<<S7xu4.8639$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> Is there a way to remap the default screen colors (just the Linux
>terminal screen colors --- not X colors) in Linux? I'm running RHL 6.1
>on a Linux box in my office, and have TERM set to "linux". I connect
>to it via dialup from my Windows 2000 system at home, using PenguiNet
>for Windows 95/NT/2000. PenguiNet has ssh but (AFAIK) none of the
>screen color customizability features that Windows Telnet or Teraterm
>has, and I'd like to be able to get my good old-fashioned lime-on-black
>green screen.
$ setterm -foreground green -background black
...worth a shot, anyway. What you see will depend on the capabilities of
PenguiNet--not all terminal clients can display all colors, though the
decent ones should be able to manage a "green-screen". HTH,
--
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There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
But only Light too dim for us to see \
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From: Jeff Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2 Questions-SMP / 32 bit on 64 bit machine
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:23:23 -0600
> Can Linux
> exploit any 64 bit feature like adressing more than 4 GB memory or storage
> on these machines? If the instructions for Linux are 32 bits, are there two
> at once processed on an 64 bit machine?
Ultralinux is a 64 bit os. It uses the 64-bit features of UltraSparc
chips.
http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html
Jeff
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Jeff Dillon http://www.uiuc.edu/~jdillon
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From: Dave Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Licq install problem...easy answer
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:30:08 GMT
When i try installing the licq rpm binary file their are a few dependencie
problems, when i try running the "rpm -i <licq file>" it says:
error: failed dependencies:
qt >= 2.0.2 is needed by licq-0.76-1
libgt.so.2 is needed by licq 0.76-1
Are these files on my mandrake 6.1 disk? if so what is the name of the rpm?
If not were can i find these files, and where should i extract them to (if
tarballed)?
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BTW: Thank you all for helping me setup my modem this place (searchlinux)
is a goldmine for answers =) I'm now on the internet in linux...Its
amazing!
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: uninstall linux
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:30:04 GMT
I had a similar problem trying to install Windows 98 over Red Hat's
Linux. I found some software on a Gateway system recovery disk I had at
work called gwscan.exe. It has a mode that zeros out every bit on a hard
drive, thus giving you an unformatted hard drive. There is probably a
better way. Good luck!
Tony
R wrote:
>
> I have Corel Linux on my laptop. When I installed it I did a full
> install. Now when I go back to reinstall windows 98 I am unable too.
> Linux has renamed my drives. How do I reinstall Windows after linux.
> Need a explantion in dummy form.
>
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: uninstall linux
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:30:05 GMT
I had a similar problem trying to install Windows 98 over Red Hat's
Linux. I found some software on a Gateway system recovery disk I had at
work called gwscan.exe. It has a mode that zeros out every bit on a hard
drive, thus giving you an unformatted hard drive. There is probably a
better way. Good luck!
Tony
R wrote:
>
> I have Corel Linux on my laptop. When I installed it I did a full
> install. Now when I go back to reinstall windows 98 I am unable too.
> Linux has renamed my drives. How do I reinstall Windows after linux.
> Need a explantion in dummy form.
>
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From: "Lange, T. (Thomas)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Here's why linux programs are so insecure !
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:21:30 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Because you dickheads offer the source code of your programs (!!!)
Tsk tsk, already running out of serious points? I found that people who
seek refuge in below-the-belt-language are usually quite under-developed
in the brains department...
>
> There is not better present to potential hackers than to offer your source
> code !
To the contrary, my dear. Ever asked kids which apples taste better -
the ones in the own garden or the ones from the neighbour's ?
>
> Hackers will exploit the bugs to the bone until someone reposts them !!!
>
I doubt that they ever will find the time because there's something much
richer up for grabs - they call it Windows, sometimes...
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Best Regards
:{) Thomas Lange
Tel: +44 (0)24-7620-4169
Fax: +44 (0)24-7620-4953
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have time to get half of it done.
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From: "Amedeo Storni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 16 bpp color depth
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:35:23 +0100
Hi All,
My video card is an old Tseng ET-4000 with 1 Mbyte video RAM; I have a very
good monitor vith freq 35-85, 50-100.
I have been using Windows till now, and I got up to 800x600 in 16 bpp, or
1024x768 interlaced 8 bpp.
Now I use RedHat 6.1. By manually changing the XF86Config I was able to get
a resolution of 1280x1024, 8bpp, that I have never seen under Win, but
couldn't get any resolution at 16 bpp since it was complaining about the
lack of "linear memory".
I have used SVGA server; I also tried some different server but none worked.
Is there a way I can fix it, or I need to change my graphic card ? And if
you answer yes, please suggest me a video card not very expensive that run
perfectely under Linux (and decently under Win, if possible :-) )
Best Regards
Amedeo Storni
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: Netscape Navigator, Adobe Acrobat Reader
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:42:32 GMT
Reply-To: bobh{at}slc{dot}codem{dot}com
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 04:49:00 GMT, ndg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>lpr % s
Try just "lpr".
>> > I can print from the command line, Corel WP7, and Xess; but can't print
>> > in Navigator or Acroread.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| Loose Cannon
-| http://www.bobh.org/
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From: Greg Goodrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: compiler can't find linux/errno.h
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:42:57 -0600
Marcel Gsteiger wrote:
> 2) When I try to 'make bootstrap', I get an error message indicating
> that linux/errno.h ist not found. This comes from
> /usr/include/bits/errno.h (this file contains a directive to include
> linux/errno.h). I think that something very basic (probably kernel
> sources?) is not installed on my system.
I think you're correct, either the kernel sources are not installed, or
you have a missing symbolic link or erroneous symbolic link pointing to
the kernel source. Go into the standard kernel source directory to
check - /usr/src/linux. There should be an include directory in there.
You can verify that it is there, and that errno.h is in there. If so,
then you'll have to track down the erroneous symbolic link that will be
in /usr/include somewhere.
--
Greg Goodrich
Senior Software Engineer
MediNotes Corp.
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From: Greg Goodrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Nic config and vtoc on linux
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:46:54 -0600
Nikko Odiseos wrote:
> What is the Linux equivalent for vtoc and mnttab on SRV4?
I believe that the file you are looking for is /etc/fstab
> Also, How can I configure my NIC. If I cat /proc/pci, it sees it. I set it
> up with an ip address in linuxconf but then when I run ifconfig, only the lo
> shows up. When I ifconfig eth0, it does not include any ip address. HElp!
Well, depends on the flavor of Linux you are using, but you can try this:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start
also, you may look at this file:
/etc/sysconfig/network
>
> Thanks.
> [email protected]
> Get rid of the $ to reply
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Greg Goodrich
Senior Software Engineer
MediNotes Corp.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: Pine Config
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:47:07 GMT
Reply-To: bobh{at}slc{dot}codem{dot}com
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 04:19:26 -0500, Francisco De La Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anybody know how to setup in a stand alone sys to say my email
>address in the "From" space instead of the usual localhost.locadomail
>bit?
Set a "user-domain" in the Pine config.
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-| Bob Hauck
-| Loose Cannon
-| http://www.bobh.org/
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Subject: Re: Setting ASCII screen colors in Linux?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (william henry hsu)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:06:14 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) writes:
>On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:12:34 GMT, william henry hsu
> <<S7xu4.8639$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>> Is there a way to remap the default screen colors (just the Linux
>>terminal screen colors --- not X colors) in Linux?
...
>$ setterm -foreground green -background black
>...worth a shot, anyway. What you see will depend on the capabilities of
>PenguiNet--not all terminal clients can display all colors, though the
>decent ones should be able to manage a "green-screen". HTH,
Thanks for the suggestion. It works, but only temporarily --- if I
read a man page or start up vi, the color gets reset to the default (grey).
-Bill
>--
>Matt G / Dances With Crows \ In the MS-DOStrix,
>There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
>But only Light too dim for us to see \
> ===== Usenet: ceci n'est pas une guerre des flammes =====
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William H. Hsu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of CIS, Kansas State University
Research Scientist, Automated Learning Group, NCSA
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http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~bhsu ICQ: 28651394
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Subject: Query-by-example?
From: Art Werschulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:54:36 GMT
Hi.
Does anybody know about an implementation of QBE (query-by-example)?
I'm running RedHat 6.1 on an Intel box. AFAICT, rpmfind found
nothing.
Thanks.
--
Art Werschulz (8-{)} "Metaphors be with you." -- bumper sticker
GCS/M (GAT): d? -p+ c++ l u+(-) e--- m* s n+ h f g+ w+ t++ r- y?
Net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <a href="http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/~agw/">WWW</a>
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to change default shell(bash) to csh
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:28:35 GMT
michael writes:
> i have a problem,pls help.i am doing a project on Unix that is running on
> csh.when i tend to get the program to work in my linux(red hat 6.1),i
> discover that the script does not work.linux is running on bash.
bash is the default shell on most Linux systems. You can change that if
you want to, but you don't need to. Add this line at the top of your
script:
#!/bin/csh
and your script will run csh no matter what shell the user is running.
You shouldn't write scripts in csh, though.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: Hemant Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which MB for Athlon?
Date: 28 Feb 2000 19:23:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Folks,
I am looking at buying/building a system around AMD Athlon (sp?) processor.
Which motherboard (200 MHz bus) works best with Linux?
Which SCSI controller should I buy?
Which video card works best with XFree 86?
I want to run vmware on it so that I can run Linux and win98(or NT)
simultaneously.
Thanks.
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From: "mina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linus + NTFS
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:25:21 +0200
Hello !
Is it possible to get read-write access to NTFS disk via RH6.1?
Thank you !
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From: Jim Kelleher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with Corel Linux installation
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:30:30 GMT
laerox1 wrote:
>
> I have a pentium III 667 with 256 MB Ram and win98 installed. When I
> installed corel linux (which i downloaded and burned on to cd), i
selected
> the choice to install on top of win/dos partition (third choice in
> installation dialog). I made my own 5 GB partition, (d drive), to
install
> linux upon. After the installation, i restart the computer, and it
boots
> me back to win98 again!! how am i supposed to get linux up and
running??
> Help would be appreciated.
>
Hello,
My spousal unit has a double machine like that and she bought one of the
commercial partitioning software, Partition Commander I think.
It is set up kwo that the system comes up with a choice, of which os to
boot.
You might want to look into that.
LILO can be set up to boot either also but it has a problem over 8 Gig. :(
(Had that problem:))
The danger of LILO is you would have to install it inot the MBR.
And I don't know how Windoze will like that. The spousal unit's system's
'98 is cranky at best crashing often.
I hop ethi shelps.
Have Fun!
Jim
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From: "Mr Fraser Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSE 6.1 Problems collecting Email
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:07:15 -0800
We have a SuSE 6.1 machine set-up as a router/mail server.
It is set-up to dial our ISP every � hour and collect any email. The users
are running Windows 95/98, with either Outlook or Eudora depending on the
users preference.
The problem we have is when large attachments are received, we are unable to
collect the message from the Linux box. This seems to happen if the
mailbox gets any bigger than 1.5 meg.
Does anyone have any idea's??? Your help would be appreciated!
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From: Donald Knudsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: getting started data needed
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:05:21 GMT
I want to add Linux to my PC. I want to repartition my hard drive
without losing some Windows (sorry!) data I have, then be able to dual-
boot Linux or Windows (and eventually maybe Windows under Linux using
VMWare). I'm trying to figure out which of the commercial (or free)
packages will let me do this easily. After several hours of perusing
FAQs, catalogs, and commercial web sites, I've found that (most likely)
Macmillan Complete Linux 6.5 would let me do this, probably Corel Linux
OS, Storm Linux 2000, and Caldera OpenLinux 5.1, also. I don't know
about RedHat, TurboLinux, or SuSE, and I don't know which ones have
the best installation interfaces. (I don't have a high-speed network
connection.)
If there is a FAQ somewhere that would answer my questions, just point
me at it and please accept my apologies.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: 16 bpp color depth
Date: 28 Feb 2000 15:05:45 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:35:23 +0100, Amedeo Storni
<<89ef5f$29tvo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>My video card is an old Tseng ET-4000 with 1 Mbyte video RAM; I have a very
>good monitor vith freq 35-85, 50-100.
>I have been using Windows till now, and I got up to 800x600 in 16 bpp, or
>1024x768 interlaced 8 bpp.
>Now I use RedHat 6.1. By manually changing the XF86Config I was able to get
>a resolution of 1280x1024, 8bpp, that I have never seen under Win, but
>couldn't get any resolution at 16 bpp since it was complaining about the
>lack of "linear memory".
>I have used SVGA server; I also tried some different server but none worked.
It would be a good idea to take a look at this URL:
http://www.xfree86.org/X.Y.Z/tseng.html
replace X.Y.Z with the version number of your Xfree86. I think all you'll
have to do is put the line
Option "linear"
in your XF86Config to get 16bpp. I could be wrong.
>you answer yes, please suggest me a video card not very expensive that run
>perfectely under Linux (and decently under Win, if possible :-) )
Support for the lower-end ATi cards is pretty good. If you can find an
ATi Rage Pro or Rage Pro II, those are about $50 U.S. or so--maybe less if
you only get 4M/RAM. (I'd upgrade at some point if I were you--24bpp is
nice.)
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There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
But only Light too dim for us to see \
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