Linux-Misc Digest #809, Volume #23 Fri, 10 Mar 00 20:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Looking for code/libraries to interpret HTML (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: permissions problems while untarring apps? (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: staroffice (Karel Jansens)
Re: Nameserver not working (John Hasler)
Re: Plan9 editor "sam" under Linux? ("kim kubik")
Re: Help me in seeting up NEWS server (Colin Watson)
Re: Do you hate vi? (Bruce Richardson)
Re: Linux NICs (Eric Y. Chang)
Re: No sound with KDE desktop (Glitch)
Re: Telnet to Unix box (Vivek Gupta)
Re: newbie tries patching (Glitch)
Re: No sound with KDE desktop (Patricia)
Re: crazy fdisk output ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Mp3 Player for Car (Andrew Purugganan)
Installing Linux with Web Server on 486 ("Vectorz")
Re: Linux for HP (Jukka Papunen)
Linux Software
Re: New to linux - need firewall/nat ("R. Sean Fulton")
nfs mount problem (Thomas F. Drescher)
Re: Automatic logout due to inactivity (Glitch)
tar and unwanted ownership (peter pilsl)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Looking for code/libraries to interpret HTML
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 23:11:55 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, me wrote:
>hi
>
>i'm looking for any freely distributable code or any libraries i can use
>to interpret HTML documents. Ideally, something where i can pass
>the HTML as input, and have the code generate the output without me
[...]
What code ? HTML *is* the code.
[...]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: permissions problems while untarring apps?
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 23:11:56 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, BjJbMc wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Now and then, while untarring or gunzipping a file of
>type xx_tar.tar, xx_tar.gz and some others, the operation
>will quit and I am informed it's not allowed to e.g. set owner to 0 or
>another high-priority number. "set" means chmod, chown, chgrp. I've seen
>various combos.
[...]
>Is this so, and how can I get around it?
tar --no-same-owner [options]
Ta',
Juergen
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From: jansens_at_ibm_dot_net (Karel Jansens)
Subject: Re: staroffice
Date: 10 Mar 2000 23:15:23 GMT
> > >
> > You obviously have never used OS/2's Workplace Shell, then. It applies
> > those StarOffice tricks to any application.
>
> Actually, I'm an OS/2 user from way back. I switched to linux about 6
> years ago. Where is this available for linux?
>
Nowhere, unfortunately, being the primary reason why Warp is still my
main O/S (Linux being a close second, though).
You might want to look at
http://dfm.linuxbox.com/
It tries to incorporate some of the WPS's elements into Linux (the
server seems to be down right now, but it should be up again RSN).
Karel Jansens
jansens_at_attglobal_dot_net
========================================================
"How to make God laugh?"
"Tell Him your plans."
(paraphrased from "Foundation's Fear" - Gregory Benford)
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Nameserver not working
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:55:36 GMT
Matt G writes:
> Without the "search" line, it won't work very well if at all.
Without the "search" line, it will work quite well. The 'search' directive
merely tells the resolver what to do with hostnames that might not be fully
qualified. It saves your users some typing if they frequently access hosts
not in your domain.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: "kim kubik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Plan9 editor "sam" under Linux?
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:39:38 -0800
James B Crigler wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I've compiled sam and wily under 9libs-1.0 on RedHat Linux 6.0.
Wily
>works pretty well, but samterm dies with libg error. Both work
fine
>(after one small adjustment) under Solaris 2.6.
>
>--
>Jim Crigler | Voice: (770)494-4528
>Lockheed Martin Corp | Fax: (770)494-3886
>D/73-64 Z/0100 |
>86 S. Cobb Dr. |
>Marietta GA 30063 | If Honeywell has a canine, is it a CNI
dog?
=============
Unfortunately I can't help you directly,
but I do know that so few of the people
reading this group are aware of sam/wily
that asking in sam-fans would greatly
increase your chances of getting a useful
response.
- kim
_________________________________________
"We leave it to the reader to speculate
on whether it should be called D or P."
- BSTJ, 1978(Jul/Aug) , v57(n6pt2)p2019.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help me in seeting up NEWS server
Date: 10 Mar 2000 23:34:06 GMT
Kousik Nandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to set up a intranet news server in my machine. In
>this server, no Usenet news will be relayed, but it'll be used only for
>discussions in our intranet. I am using Red Hat 6.1 in a P-II. I am trying
>to use inn 2.2.1 to accomplish this. I installed inn and inn-devel, then
>edited /etc/news/inn.conf as per the man pages, added a few groups, and
>edited /etc/news/nnrp.access where I added a line
>*:Read Post:::*
>to allow everybody in our intranet to grant access (our intranet is beyond
>a firewall).
>
>But whenever we try to connect to the news server machine through netscape,
>we get a prompt for username & password, and whatever we give there, we get
>an error "authentication error".
Beware ordering in nnrp.access. The last match found is used, so you'll
need to put your line last.
Can't think of much else. You *have* restarted the server, haven't you?
:)
Failing that, post your nnrp.access here (or mail it to me) and I'll
take a look at it?
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"On Usenet, pedantry is not in the service of beauty. It's not even
in the service of truth. It's in the service of EVEN MORE PEDANTRY."
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From: Bruce Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi?
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 23:47:03 GMT
>n 3/8/00, 4:48:13 AM, "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: Do=
=20
you hate vi?:
> You forgot:
> <alt>z
> To end console to file job.
> Best regards,
> Brian
This thread is *still* going?
--=20
Bruce
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Y. Chang)
Subject: Re: Linux NICs
Date: 10 Mar 2000 23:45:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Glitch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Andy9701 wrote:
: >
: > I'm in the market for a new NIC for my Linux box. The card I'm
: > currently looking at is the Netgear FA310TX, and I'm wondering how well
: > it works with Linux. After I setup my ip, gateway, etc., does it
: > always work without a hitch? Or does it "work" with Linux, only after
: > days of playing around with it?
: if u have the right driver then it will work, period. Unless the card
: is not supported it will work when it is suposed to, that is common
: sense. Unless you incorrectly setup your network setup files it will
: also work just like any other card.
: bottom line, as long as u have the right driver and setup the network
: settings correctly it works when it is supposed to.
Not quite. Check out the following scenario.
First try:
Hi. I am the person who posted the message complaining about the 3c505
and the "could not send first PCB" error message. There is a file
called 3c505.txt in the /usr/src/linux/Documentation directory (which
I did read, so don't tell me to RTFM :-) ). It did not say much. I
went over the PCB with a fine toothed comb, but did not find anything
wrong. I checked for slops and holidays and flux spray, but did not
see any problems. Actually, this is a through hole PCB,
so slops and holidays should not be too much of a problem.
Since I did not receive a reply from the newsgroup for awhile, I
decided to hack a little bit. PCB actually does not mean "printed
circuit board". It has something to do with a block of data used to
control the interface. The file in question is 3c505.c in
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net. The error message is generated when the
board does not correctly acknowledge a test block of data that is sent
to it when booting. Looking at the code, it seemed from the comments
that the outer loop probably had a timing problem if there is a lot of
boot/DMA activity. There may be a problem with getting a response.
There is a known problem (known at least to 3com) with busmastering DMA
SCSI cards on the bus. So, I decided to change the outer loop retry
number from 3 to 8 and recompile as a module so it will not try to send
the PCB right after the Buslogic SCSI card is detected and initialized.
It now comes up just fine!
Now just try that with Windows 95! Parenthetically, I should point out
that this kind of problem should be noted in a FAQ, or even better, in
that 3c505.txt file, or even better, there should be a snippet of code
in the driver that senses for and corrects this condition (or tells the
user to either dump the busmastering SCSI or load 3c505.o as a module).
This still did not work.
Second try:
Ref: 0083CEF1
Title: Bus Mastering SCSI Controller Problem with 3C507 and 3C507TP
Adapters
Date: 05/05/92
Copyright 3Com Corporation, 1992. All rights reserved.
An incompatibility has been discovered using the EtherLink 16 (3C507) or
EtherLink16 TP (3C507TP) adapters and bus mastering SCSI hard disk
controllers in an Intel EISA-based PC. A few examples of these
controllers
are the Adaptec 1540 or 1542 and the BusTek SCSI controllers.
Note: Any SCSI device that performs bus mastering will have these
problems, not just devices from Adaptec or BusTek.
Symptoms reported to 3Com Tech Support include timeouts or lockups between
clients and servers during the LOGIN process, and data corruption on
large file transfers to and from the server.
The reason for the incompatibility is that the 3C507 adapter relies heavily
on the PC bus for timing information and when a bus mastering device takes
over the PC bus, it holds onto it for an indefinite period of time, causing
the 3C507 to "go to sleep" waiting for a timing response.
3Com has created a hardware fix for this problem, which requires replacing
the PAL on the 3C507 adapter to lengthen the amount of time the adapter
will wait for a signal from the bus. If you experience the above
symptoms,
call 1-800-876-3COM and select option 2 for the RMA department to have the
adapter retro-fitted with the fix.
This worked.
So your statement does not always apply. Things are not always so simple.
Too bad.
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:03:11 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: No sound with KDE desktop
Ron Gibson wrote:
>
> How do I setup sounds for the KDE desktop. I'm using a sblive and can't
> get a peep out of the desktop system sounds.
setup your sound card with OSS, Alsa, or some other sound configuration
program and KDE should automaticaly start using the sound card then. if
it doesnt make sure KDE has all the right settings wrt the sound card.
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From: Vivek Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Telnet to Unix box
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:55:32 -0800
If backspace key is acting as interupt key then
give 2 command in this seq.
stty intr ^C # This is CTRL-C
stty erase ^H # this is backspace key.
Put these in the .profile or .cshrc or .login etc
Vivek
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Matheus Cunha Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a Slack 7 box and a SCO 5.05 box in the same network. When I
> > telnet from the Linux box to Unix box, the function keys and many
> other
> > keys don't work properly. For example, backspace is the interrupt key.
> > I tried to turn the TERM to ansi after connecting to Unix, but the
> prob
> > continues...
> >
> > Any ideas ???
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Matheus C. Torres.
> >
> >
>
> --
> Keep Honking, I'm Reloading!
>
> Andrew
> MCSE, CCNA, blah, blah, blah
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:14:51 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie tries patching
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 1. Why does the at the URL below end with .gz?
>
> I tried gunzip-ping this patch and it says its not a gzip file.
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.0/patch-2.0.33.gz
it ends with a .gz b/c its the direct link to the file, duh
>
> 2. If I run
>
> patch -p0 < patch-2.0.33.gz
>
> as told in the Kernel-HOWTO, I get an error saying something like
> 'hmm...this appears to be a recursive...(something)'
>
> and basically all my hunks end up failing to patch.
>
> Any advice/place to get tips?
>From the Kernel HOWTO:
do a `zcat patch46.gz | patch -p0' (or `patch -p0 < patch46' if the
patch isn't compressed
since yours was compressed you will have to do the longer version of
this command instead of the version you tried doing (not using zcat to
decompress first)
>
> I'm using Red Hat 5, Linux 2.0.32, and want to patch up to 2.0.35
> so I can use my zip disk. Thanks a lot.
>
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From: Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: No sound with KDE desktop
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 01:13:53 +0100
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Ron Gibson wrote:
>How do I setup sounds for the KDE desktop. I'm using a sblive and can't
>get a peep out of the desktop system sounds.
Ron
If the other sounds work fine
as root
type ln -s /etc/sysconfig/soundcard /etc/sysconfig/sound
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HTH :)
Patricia
http://www.crosswinds.net/~beginnerslinux
Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
Kernel 2.2.5-15
1:14am up 6:49, 2 users, load average: 1.14, 1.22, 1.10
Sat Mar 11 01:14:09 CET 2000
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: crazy fdisk output
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:16:51 -0500
Nico Beuermann wrote in message ...
>Charles Sullivan wrote:
>> Nico Beuermann wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> >Charles Sullivan wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The difference in reported HD geometry is no doubt due to
>> >> your bios having LBA enabled. This is generally a good thing
>> >> and you should go with it.
>> >>
>> >> (With LBA, the manufacturer's HD geometry is remapped so there
>> >> are a greater number of logical heads and fewer logical cylinders -
>> >> the objective being to keep as much of the HD space as possible
>> >> below the 1024 cylinder boundary.)
>> >>
>> >> The version of fdisk you are using is normally able to comprehend
>> >> this. Did you in any way attempt to force the system to use
>> >> the manufacturer's HD geometry - this might confuse the issue.
>> >>
>> >The BIOS settings were changed not always consistently with the plugged
>> HD.
>> >Could this be the reason?
>> >
>> >> I'm unfamiliar with the Suse distributions, but assume your kernel
>> >> version is 2.2.0 or highter.
>> >You�re right. Kernel 2.2.10, glibc2 and so on.
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure what you are saying - did you change something in
>> your bios HD setup? (My bios automatically recognized my HD
>> by manufacturer and model - I never attempted to change anything.)
>
>Yes I did.
>But now my Bios does that for me automatically, too.
If you partitioned your drive between the time you made manual
changes to your HD bios setup and the time you let it automatically
determine your HD geometry, I suspect that's the reason for your
"crazy fdisk output". I can't say whether or not it's safe to
continue running what you have, but I would personally be very
uncomfortable with it and would repartition and re-intall Linux.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Mp3 Player for Car
Date: 11 Mar 2000 00:08:33 GMT
Guys GUYS Listen up
The issue of Maximum PC on the newsstands has one such article right now,
complete with PICTURES! They even tell you where to get a PC case
specially made for a really low profile (Hah! didn't even know they made
them) RIGHT DOWN to THE LCD DISPLAY!!
Go to the bookstore NOW!!
Brian Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I've done some thoughts myself along the same lines, just haven't gotten to the
: point were I'm going to do it yet..
: a couple of things (ok, so the list grew to more than a couple):
: -probably the biggestest challenge is going to be having clean/reliable power
: (especially if the system tries booting up while your starting your car or
: something?)
: -as far as transfering new files to it, what I would do if toss a cheap
: ($20ish) network car in the system, you can mount a jack for it under one of
: the seats or something, so it's hidden yet easily accesable, and then ftp new
: mp3s to your car (don't have to worry much about security because no-one will
: have access to the machine being in your trunk. or even a network that uses
: radiofrequency, or even IR (if you park in a garage)
: -on mine I also want to be able to hotsync my palm to it.. :)
: -they make car stereo headunits with a small color lcd tvscreen built into
: them, if you use a video-output card (and want to spend $1,000 for the
: headunit) you can actually have a real display for it.. ...mabie someday, but
: that's ALOT of money, unless you get an internet connection from your car as
: well..
: - possibly use an ir-port with a remote control to control it (I've seen
: other people have hacked telephone keypads too...) or mabie something like the
: original gravis gamepad :)
: -SHOCK PROTECT THE HARDDRIVE ("Opps, hit a pothole....hey, why'd the music
: stop, and what's that grinding noise coming from the computer?")
: -why do you need to disable the login?
: -probably want to glue the audio-out cable so it doesn't pop-out.. and
: protect it so if somehow it gets banged it doesn't break (headphone style jacks
: suck, I've gone through a few portable cd players just because the headphone
: jack stopped working)
: -one you've got the computer in the car you can make it do other stuff as
: well.. security system for example.. you could even make it so you "log-in
: to your car" to start the engine, and if you hook-up a keyless entry system as
: well you could totally do without keys (although I'd want to keep the option of
: using keys as well). use some temperature sensors at let it control your heat
: and a/c in the car, and so forth.. might as well do more than just play music
: since the computer will already be there.. of course if your going to do
: stuff that requires the computer to be on all the time your going to want to
: make it draw as little power as possible with powersaving and so-forth, and
: also probably get a bigger, or second car battery, and mabie even buy a
: "battery tender" type charger (not a tricklecharger that'll boil your battery
: dry) so you don't run out of juice.. :)
: let me know what you do for your power supply needs, this is probably the
: biggest thing stopping me from doing this myself.. I already have the spare
: processor/motherboard/soundcard/hard drive/etc....
: hope my wacky ideas helped, and good luck..
: -Brian
: "pentalpha | newtotheinternet.com" wrote:
: > Greetings.
: >
: > I am currently undergoing a project to create my own car mp3 player. I've
: > found similar projects (at sites like http://www.carplayer.com/plans.html),
: > but for experience (and lack of the $20) I have decided to do it myself. If
: > anyone out there is interested in collaborating or helping, or whatever,
: > contact me.
: >
: > So, far the following tasks need to be accomplished:
: >
: > - the box is basically going to be a head-less PC
: > - linux will act as the OS, which means no swap space, mount filesystem read
: > only and prob. use FAT16 on / for simplicity and lack of privledges. I also
: > need some way to disable the login....
: > - the actual mp3 player must be command-line driven and will be called from
: > the bash init scripts. It will always start playing the same playlist file
: > (m3u) randomly. (the player must include command-line parameters to do
: > this)
: > - the sound card will be either a creative sound blaster (one of the first)
: > or whatever is integrated on this Cyrix 6x86MX motherboard I have laying
: > around.
: > - I'd like to eventually add an LCD screen to the parallel port for ID3
: > output (any ideas???)
: > - there has to be some mechanism to upload more songs. By using FAT16, I
: > can just yank out the hard disk and pop it in my Win95 machine, where I keep
: > Napster. Or possibly give the machine a modem and set up a null modem
: > network, but that would make it heavier and more expensive.
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--- OUT THERE??
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From: "Vectorz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Linux with Web Server on 486
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:24:23 GMT
I'm quite new at this.
I wish to install Linux on a dedicated 486 computer which has only 8Mb of
RAM, 250Mb of HD space, a network card, etc. I understand that installing
XWindows would be a problem. I already tried installing Corel Linux and
RedHat 6.1 without success. I have a copy of Slackware (available via LAN)
and an earlier copy of slackware on CD.
The reason I'm installing Linux is to host a web server (Apache) that runs
Perl (and perhaps an SQL server as well) so I can use it for testing
purposes. I want to learn Perl.
Is this all possible? How do I go about doing it?
Any suggestions, tips or comments would be greatly appreciated.
Vectorz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jukka Papunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux for HP
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:33:50 GMT
Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Matthias Honal wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I have two old HP-machines but no operation system for them. Does any
>one know, wether there is a LINUX that works together with HP machines.
>Or where eles can I get a (free) operating system for them except from
>(the very expensive) HP-UX?
>
>Thanks a lot,
>Matthias
The Puffin Group is porting Linux to HP PA-RISC.
They are, however, in an early phase. Take a look
of http://www.thepuffingroup.com/parisc/ for details.
BR,
Jukka
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Software
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:30:07 GMT
I am currently looking for a customer service "Help Desk" program that
will run on Linux. Multiple users will use this software to keep customer
files and history logs. Is there a program like this out there?
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From: "R. Sean Fulton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New to linux - need firewall/nat
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:41:09 GMT
Now that mention it -- Corel is trying to position themselves more for the
desktop. I suggest RedHat for it's maturity and ease of installation. You might
check out Debian as well as some of the smaller distros like LRP
(http://www.linuxrouter.org/) that are stripped down for doing this sort of
thing. Installation and the learning curve may make them a bit prohibitive,
though.
Good Luck
-Sean
Tim Hicks wrote:
> Having read a little on websites and on ng's I was going to go with Corel,
> but I wonder whether it provides the options for not installing "more than I
> need" that you mention.
>
> tim
>
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From: Thomas F. Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: nfs mount problem
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 02:56:50 GMT
Hi,
does somebody know whats the cause of the following messages is?=20
Thanks Thomas
Mar 10 06:10:12 groucho mountd[141]: NFS mount of / attempted from=20
192.168.110.3=20
Mar 10 06:10:12 groucho mountd[141]: NFS client <anon clnt> tried to=20=
access /=20
Mar 10 06:10:12 groucho mountd[141]: Blocked attempt of 192.168.110.3=20=
to mount /=20
Mar 10 06:31:54 groucho mountd[141]: NFS mount of /cdrom attempted=20
from 192.168.110.3=20
Mar 10 06:31:54 groucho mountd[141]: NFS client <anon clnt> tried to=20=
access /cdrom=20
Mar 10 06:31:54 groucho mountd[141]: Blocked attempt of 192.168.110.3=20=
to mount /cdrom=20
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:11:15 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Automatic logout due to inactivity
"H.T. Sun" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> How do I setup my linux box so that it will
>
> automatically log out those users who haven't
>
> been doing anything for a certain period of
>
> time ?
>
> Thanks a lot.
setup a script to periodically parse the output of the 'who' or 'w'
command and depending on the value of the time they have been logged on
let them stay logged in or drop them. how to do the actual script is
beyond my level of knowledge though
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (peter pilsl)
Subject: tar and unwanted ownership
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 01:02:28 GMT
I recentely faced a strange behavior of tar.
whenever I untar a downloaded tarball I get unwanted
ownership of the extracted files.
example:
ls -ld auto*
drwxr-xr-x 3 1002 1002 1024 Oct 19 19:57
autoconf-2.14.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 499816 Feb 23 23:32
autoconf-2.14.2.tar.gz
looks like I get the permissions of the original files on
the packing machine.
I just use the xzvf flags and not the p flag.
whats wrong here ?
peter
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