Linux-Misc Digest #712, Volume #23 Tue, 29 Feb 00 18:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: logs to floppy + eject for security? (Vlar Schreidlocke)
MC loads a bunch of icons on top of KDE (Vlar Schreidlocke)
oss sound setup (Il Postino)
Gtk+ errors (Vlar Schreidlocke)
Re: how do I install programs? (Dances With Crows)
Re: linux without xwindows? (Alex Vrenios)
Re: lyons book (Alex Vrenios)
Problems with XCDRoast (Vlar Schreidlocke)
Re: HP Deskjet 695c - slow printing (Richard Goldberg)
Re: Here's why linux programs are so insecure ! (Vlar Schreidlocke)
Re: TNT2 and OpenGL/MESA FAQ???? (Anton Deguet)
what setup of Redhat 6.1 is most similar to WIN95/98? (Donald Parsons MD)
Re: Using DOS and A1 to install Linux (Yves Bellefeuille)
Re: Help - Gnome and enlightenment upgrade question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Any idea why Enlightenment crashes so often? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
mounting win95 partition (adam)
SB Live! Platinum front panel? (Vlar Schreidlocke)
Re: SCSI over IDE/ATAPI (Robert Heller)
Performance counters for Linux? ("Jeff Walzer")
Upgrading a server over the network. (Ian Westcott)
netscape hangs with libs built from source ("John M. Flinchbaugh")
Re: UNIX SHELL SCRIPT (Vlar Schreidlocke)
Re: Ipchains for a newbie (Vlar Schreidlocke)
Re: Newuser defaults (Vlar Schreidlocke)
Re: Linux Vs Win98 ("OOrkis")
Re: lyons book (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Linux Vs Win98 (Jan Schaumann)
RCS or CVS and system config management (Trevor Coghlan)
staroffice printing (or printing) (Alexis Bilodeau)
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From: Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: logs to floppy + eject for security?
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:45:23 -0600
If I had a fixed system where I wasn't adding any new users (ie; a
firewall box) could I burn a bootable CD with system files that didn't
need to be changed? I guess the log files could go on the hard disk
since no one could change the system files. What would be the best way
to do this?
I've also considered the micro distros that fit on a floppy.
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 14:55:57 +0100, Stefan Cyris
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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
>> point during a suspected attack? No hacker can ever get one's ejected
>> floppy to reload itself!
>>
>> Now, I may be really naive, but I thought this might be another neat
>> trick. Or would it result only in a lot of floppy ejection!?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> James.curious guy
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>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
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From: Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MC loads a bunch of icons on top of KDE
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:50:32 -0600
When I start MC in KDE it loads a bunch of the Gnome icons right over
existing KDE icons. How can I set MC so that it just loads by itself
without all the other crap?
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From: Il Postino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: oss sound setup
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:43:33 GMT
hello, I have installed redhat 6.1, and i have a yamaha xfm 744 chip
detected, but NOT SUPPORTED!
I found a demo of a sound driver called OSS on the net, but when I want
to install it says that it isn't compatible with my Kernel!
I thought that the redhat 6.1 kernel was the most up-to-date...
Thanks for your help.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gtk+ errors
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:52:48 -0600
When I exit out of Gnome/Enlightenment there is a screen full of Gtk+
errors. How can I get rid of these? Do I need to update some aspect of
Gtk or Gnome that I have overlooked? I am running RH6.0 on this
particular box.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: how do I install programs?
Date: 29 Feb 2000 16:53:34 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 17:39:50 -0500, Beny Spensieri Jr.
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I have tried to stick with RPMs for as long as possible. Unfortunately,
>not everyone offers their programs in RPM format. That's ok, I'd like
>to learn how to handle tarbals so I can install/uninstall all programs.
(get tarball)
$ tar xvzf tarball.xx.yy.tar.gz (extract tarball)
$ cd tarball.xx.yy
$ less README INSTALL FAQ (read the documentation!)
$ ./configure (check system; create Makefile)
$ make
$ ./tarball-program (got to test it out, of course)
(if it works right and you want to keep it,)
$ su -c 'make install'
>Where can I find documentation regarding doing a 'make'? I have never
>done one so I need something that will practically take me by the hand.
make is a program that makes a dependency tree and then carries out the
actions that will fulfill those dependencies--usually doing a bunch of "cd
subdirectory" and "gcc -FOO -BAR -BAZ -c module1.c" commands. make will
immediately stop and barf when it encounters a fatal error. Fatal errors
are usually the result of a missing library or oddness in the Makefile
that the ./configure script created. Unfortunately, every fatal error
I've seen is different and has a different solution. fatal errors are
somewhat rare, though, in my experience...
--
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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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Vrenios)
Subject: Re: linux without xwindows?
Date: 29 Feb 2000 21:38:41 GMT
I have about 8 old PCs in a network and write distributed
software for school projects. Not only do I not need X,
but the small disks on these systems wouldn't allow it!
Like the guy below said, works fine from the command line.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Where could I find out what you can do in Linux without x windows. What
>> programs can you run, etc.
>
>You can dop pretty much everything from the command-line. You need
>x-windows only to make things look pretty, or if you something that
>*absolutely* requires the mouse. Usually, x windows makes it easier for
>you to do what you're used to, but you can actually do everything (more
>or less) from the command-prompt.
>
>-Jan
>
>--
>Jan Schaumann
>http://jschauma-0.dsl.speakeasy.net/
--
Alex Vrenios
Ph.D. Student
Computer Science Dept.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Vrenios)
Subject: Re: lyons book
Date: 29 Feb 2000 21:36:34 GMT
I believe this is long out of print. I was given a (bad) copy
for a Unix OS Internals course a while back. (Was it SysV R6?)
If you are looking for something LIKE that, don't miss the book
titled "Linux Core Kernel Commentary" by Scott Maxwell. It comes
with a CD and is about $32 on amazon.com.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Faisal Memon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I hear that there is a book by John Lyons which is a source code
>commentary on the original system V R4 unix.
>
>Does anyone have any pointers where I can find the text or buy the
>book?
>
>Thanks,
>faz.
>
>
--
Alex Vrenios
Ph.D. Student
Computer Science Dept.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with XCDRoast
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:59:45 -0600
I have XCDRoast working perfectly except for copying audio CDs.
XCDRoast will read the audio tracks and when I write a copy it will
write the same number of tracks, but when I play the CD I get tracks
of digital static. I have read the readme and changed several of the
settings mentioned, but I have yet to be able to make a usable copy of
an audio CD. Any ideas on this one?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Goldberg)
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 695c - slow printing
Date: 29 Feb 2000 21:48:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Carl S. Isgro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Richard Goldberg wrote:
: >
: > Hi all,
: >
: > I got an HP deskjet 695C a few months back and was able to get it to
: > print using ghostscript 5.50. Everything works, the quality is very
: > good, but it is very slow. A full page ps file takes sevreral minutes to
: > print (in windows on lowest quality it takes just a few seconds).
: >
: > On an old Ebson ink jet I used the -rXxY option to specify lower
: > resolutions and hence faster printing. When I try the same options on
: > the HP it prints a little faster, but the printout is half the size.
: >
: > Has anyone been able high speed printing on this printer?
: >
: > Thanks.
:
: Change your printer port to polling. The reason it is slow is because it
: triggers many interrupts (status of ink etc.) see the 'tunelp' command.
I try to run tunelp /dev/lp0 -i 0 to turn off interrupts but I get
tunelp: ioctl: Invalid argument
/dev/lp0 using IRQ -1
Am I doing something wrong?
The man pages say "If your parallel port does support interrupts,
interrupt-driven printing should be somewhat faster and efficient,
and will probably be desireable." Are you saying that my parport does
not support interrupts, so that's why I need to turn interrupts off?
Thanks
***************************** **************************************
*Rick Goldberg * * *
*Graduate Student * * "I never wanted to be average, *
*Computer Science Dept * * because when you are average you *
*York University * * are just as far from the top as *
*Toronto, Canada * * you are from the bottom." *
*[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * -Stan Cottrell- *
*www.cs.yorku.ca/~rickg * * *
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But winning isn't very exciting."
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From: Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Here's why linux programs are so insecure !
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:12:49 -0600
Exactly! That's why there a so few exploits for Windows systems.
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:46:09 +0100, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Because you dickheads offer the source code of your programs (!!!)
>
>There is not better present to potential hackers than to offer your source
>code !
>
>Hackers will exploit the bugs to the bone until someone reposts them !!!
>
>http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/archive.html
>
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From: Anton Deguet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: TNT2 and OpenGL/MESA FAQ????
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:10:58 GMT
crashed wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Ok, been running Linux for awhile now and i have very few stumbling
> blocks to get over. What i am looking for is a comprehensive FAQ on how
> to setup MESA with a TNT2 based card. (Diamond Viper V770)
> I realize that the drivers on Nvidia's web site are beta but does anyone
> know of any success stories, my last link to Windows is gaming, please
> help me break free :-))
>
> thanks
There are a lot of problems with OpenGL with linux/Xfree86.
- No direct rendering (direct access to memory), comming with xfree 4.0
- Recent GLX, X open gl extension, still in developpement, see utah-glx
and precision insight
- Drivers for each chip ...
Now, the nVidia driver is clearly a huge step, but it is really
instable. You can also add that it doesn't have direct rendering,
therefore, it is way slower than under windows, ... etc. I will wait
for XFree 4.0.
You can continue to play under windoze for a few months ...
Anton
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From: Donald Parsons MD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what setup of Redhat 6.1 is most similar to WIN95/98?
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:40:28 -0500
Some Windows users want to be convinced that they can dispense with
Windows98 and use a setup of linux that will do all of the same things.
If anyone knows if this is possible, please list all the installation
steps.
Thank you
Don Parsons
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yves Bellefeuille)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Using DOS and A1 to install Linux
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:19:09 -0500
Reply-To: Yves Bellefeuille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 29 Feb 2000, Allan Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a 486/33 MHz laptop with 8 MB RAM and a 250 MB hard drive.
> I want to partition the hard drive into a native linux partition,
> a linux swap partition and a DOS partition. Probably the DOS partition
> will be /dev/hda1, the swap will be /dev/hda2 and the native linux
> will be /dev/hda3.
You should create the DOS partition using DOS's FDISK, and the Linux
partitions using Linux's fdisk.
For DOS, create a boot diskette using the command "FORMAT A: /S". Then
copy FDISK, FORMAT and SYS from the C:\DOS directory to the diskette.
Use this diskette to reboot the system and then use the FDISK command to
create the DOS partition.
For Linux, use the Linux installation program to create the Linux
partitions.
> The problem is how to install rhboot as the boot sector of the linux
> partition.
Use the program RAWRITE to copy the diskette images to the diskettes.
This program should be included in your Linux distribution.
> I also posted on this to comp.os.linux.misc.
Cross-posted to comp.os.linux.misc; follow-ups set to
comp.os.linux.setup.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help - Gnome and enlightenment upgrade question
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:30:33 GMT
Thanks
I'll give it a try
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:45:37 -0600, Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Is it advised to uninstall old Gnome and enlightenment before
>> installing newer versions?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Wade Segade
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove the obvious)
>
>If you are doing it with rpm packages, you should just be able
>to use the upgrade (U) option. I've done this many times
>without any problems. In some cases there may be dependencies
>among packages so you have to figure out the proper order, or,
>more simply, upgrade the relevant packages together by making
>them all arguments to one rpm -Uhv command.
>--
>
>Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
>Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
Wade Segade
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove the obvious)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Any idea why Enlightenment crashes so often?
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:32:15 GMT
Thanks for the feedback. I'll upgrade and if that don't work, I'll go
back to Windowmaker!
Wade Segade
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove the obvious)
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From: adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mounting win95 partition
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:31:02 GMT
can somebody tell me the command to mount a win partition to view in LINUX?
I can type: "MOUNT /DEV/HDA1 /MNT", and I get: "success, YOU MUST SELECT
A FILE SYSTEM!". I would realy like to know how to select file systems.
any help would be appritiated.
ADAM
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SB Live! Platinum front panel?
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:45:51 -0600
Is there support for the SB Live! Platinum front panel (Live! Drive)?
I have been unable to get this to work even though it is correctly
hooked up to the SB Live! card.
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI over IDE/ATAPI
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:46:55 GMT
Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:01:50 -0600, wrote :
LE> Henrik Becker wrote:
LE> >
LE> > Hi,
LE> >
LE> > why spend more bucks on SCSI? Is it realy woth it? Just wondering ...
LE> >
LE> > Gruss / Regards,
LE> >
LE> > Henrik Becker
LE> >
LE> > --
LE> > Henrik Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.HenrikBecker.de
LE> >
LE> > support FREE SOFTWARE www.KDE.org www.WINDOWMAKER.org www.LINUX.org
LE> >
LE> > dt. J-Pilot Handbuch fertig: http://www.henrikbecker.de/jpilot
LE> SCSI drives have in the past been faster and had other advantages over
LE> IDE drives, but the newer IDE drives do quite well, so this is no
LE> longer a significant advantage. However, haveing a SCSI interface
LE> does allow you to use a wider variety of peripherals. Perhaps when
LE> USB support becomes available with the next generation of kernels,
LE> this may no longer be so relevant.
SCSI disks tend to be built to last longer under 'tougher' conditions.
IDE drives tend to be 'Consumer Grade', with 2 year warranties. SCSI
are more industrial grade with 5 year warranties. And it is also true
that having a SCSI interface does allow you to use a wider variety of
peripherals, some of which I don't see ever showing up as USB devices
(RAID for example).
LE>
LE> --
LE>
LE> Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
LE> Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
LE>
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From: "Jeff Walzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Performance counters for Linux?
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:49:42 -0400
Do the counters exist in Linux that exist in NT for performance monitoring?
For example, if one created a PerfMon for Linux would there be the wealth of
counters to choose from or are the counters for performance monitoring
limited in Linux?
Thanks,
Jeff
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From: Ian Westcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Upgrading a server over the network.
Date: 29 Feb 2000 22:48:30 GMT
I need to remotely upgrade the glibc on several RedHat 6.0 boxes. Now,
I've done successful remote upgrades before, but I know once the
machine ground to a halt in the middle of the glibc upgrade, since
apparently it overwrite the libraries while it was using them (d'oh!
This was one of Red Hat's RPMS too. }:/).
So what I am wondering is... is an rpm upgrade of glibc in full
multiuser mode safe? Can I count on it not crashing the system? :)
The problem is, upgrading personally is not an option, and a crashed
machine would be rather bad...
--
Ian Westcott Rakarra@IRC
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "John M. Flinchbaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: netscape hangs with libs built from source
Date: 29 Feb 2000 22:41:13 GMT
i have a debian 1.3 system which i've pretty such replaced everything
from source code. netscape 4.7x hangs when i try to open preferences.
i've tried various distributions of the netscape bins (128bit, 56bit,
linux2.2, linuxglibc, etc), and they all do this. on stock debian 2.2
machines this does not happen. i'm curious if someone has some hints
on making netscape run more reliably on my configuration. i would
expect that a list of the proper shared libraries would be necessary.
--
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~~Powered by Linux: Reboots are for hardware upgrades only~~
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From: Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UNIX SHELL SCRIPT
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:53:34 -0600
There's some things I'm thinking about doing. I wonder if someone
should help me think of what they might be? I you think of something,
perhaps you could tell someone or something...
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 16:44:34 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>And verily, didst Vlar Schreidlocke hastily scribble thusly:
>> What do you want to do? And please be quite a bit more specific.
>
>Well, it'd be hard for him to be any more vague...
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From: Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ipchains for a newbie
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:56:32 -0600
My setup works fine, but I'm curious: how did you "trick" it into
using another MAC address using ifconfig?
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 19:43:43 -0500, Ursa_M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I agree with Greg. I got the tip here and now have my Linux box, RedHat 6.1
>upgraded from 5.1, working like a champ with my cable modem. I went to
>www.grc.com to "test" the firewall and it passed with flying colors. FYI,
>depending on how your cable modem provider sets things up you may need to
>fuss with either your host name, the MAC address on your ethernet card or
>both. Post here if you have trouble. The group is very helpful. The cable
>people installed the modem first on my Win98 desktop and I later moved it to
>my Linux box. It appears that the MAC address is cached and I had to trick it
>to match the one in my Win98 machine to get things to work, using ifconfig.
>
>Good luck.
>
>Ursa_M
>
>Greg Goodrich wrote:
>
>> Well, I recommend a package called ipchains-firewall by Ian Hall-Beyer at
>> http://ipchains.nerdherd.org. This is a good starting point. You will
>> still have to use the HOWTO to get some stuff set up properly. Mandrake
>> 6.1 default distribution kernel seems to have everything needed for
>> masquerading builtin. Other distros may also, but I'm not sure, so not
>> listing them. If your distro doesn't, then you'll have to do some
>> reading as to which options to turn on and build into the kernel. You
>> will also have to ensure that /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward file has a 1
>> in it, etc. This should get you started.
>>
>> cyric wrote:
>>
>> > Does anyone know of a good, step by step, set up for ipchains?
>> > I am trying to set up NAT on my Linux box with my one static I.P. and
>> > have been told that ipchains is the best method. unfortunately all of
>> > the HOW-To pages are a bit over my head.
>> > Any help greatly appreciated
>>
>> --
>> Greg Goodrich
>> Senior Software Engineer
>> MediNotes Corp.
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newuser defaults
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:58:06 -0600
Thanks. I think I read that somewhere. Does that go for anything you
put in there? Real Audio settings, Netscape, etc.?
I'll try it.
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:33:22 -0700, Kerry Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Vlar,
> Any programs or default setups should be set in the /etc/skel/
>directory. Whatever is placed here will automatically be copied over to
>the new user's directory when you create it. Hope that helps. If this
>is not the answer you were looking for, sorry.
>KJ
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From: "OOrkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Vs Win98
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:02:50 -0500
> You should really know what your getting into before you try such a
> thing.
Thats why I'm asking :-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: lyons book
Date: 29 Feb 2000 18:02:12 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Faisal Memon wrote:
> Does anyone have any pointers where I can find the text or buy the
> book?
John Lions: _Lions' commentary on UNIX_ (Peer-to-Peer Communications)
ISBN 1573980137.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Vs Win98
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:08:27 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <O$0mp0og$GA.274@cpmsnbbsa03>,
> "OOrkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What are the advantages of having Linux as your OS rather then Windows
> 98 ?
> > I hear people say that the first thing I should do is switch from Win
> to
> > Linux or Unix. Why ?
> > Thanks !
> >
> >
>
> You should really know what your getting into before you try such a
> thing. Linux has many great features and offers high stability,
> however, you may loose a lot of features that your used to using on your
> Win 98 or 95 machine. Check out the FAQ posted weekly in this NG for
> more info.
I have these faq's on my web-site - in case you don't want to wait for
them to be posted again...
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann
http://jschauma-0.dsl.speakeasy.net/
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From: Trevor Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RCS or CVS and system config management
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:08:59 GMT
I recall reading an article a while back about a user who was using
either RCS or CVS as a tool to manage the unique parts of several system
config's.
The machines where all using the same base distribution and CVS / RCS
was being used to manage the changes / different parts of each config
(ie: hosts, route.conf, et al ......)
My recollection is that the article was in either Sys Admin Mag or Linux
Journal. I've searched both of these mags web pages to no avail (the LJ
search engine is not very friendly).
Does anyone recall this and can point me in the right direction to find
the article ?
thx for any help...
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From: Alexis Bilodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: staroffice printing (or printing)
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:09:11 GMT
Hi,
I've installed Mandrake 7.0 a few weeks before, and then I installed
StarOffice to do some word processing. My problem is that I can't print
for my regular user account, only from root. I just want to know wich
permission or option should I choose and on wich file to make printing
available for regular users.
Thanks,
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