Linux-Misc Digest #932, Volume #23 Thu, 23 Mar 00 10:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: partitiontable gone ... (Koos Pol)
Are there .WMA (Windows Media Audio) players for Linux?? (Westerlao)
Re: IMAP email client that can do POP-authentication? (Steve D. Perkins)
Getting crap out of Windows Postscript (J Bland)
Re: XFree86 4.0: There are any RMP ? (Anders �quist)
Re: Windows 2000 has 63,000 bugs - Win2k.html [0/1] - Win2k.html [0/1] ("Paul")
Re: Here's why linux programs are so insecure ! ("Lange, T. (Thomas)")
Re: afbackup.deb install on RedHat? ("Bob Cent")
Re: Getting crap out of Windows Postscript (Rod Smith)
Re: Windows 2000 has 63,000 bugs - Win2k.html [0/1] - Win2k.html [0/1] ("Eric
Peterson")
Re: ISDN "NO DIALTONE" (Nick Kew)
Re: IMAP email client that can do POP-authentication? (Ken Kalish)
Re: Getting crap out of Windows Postscript (Christopher Browne)
Is Linux good for Data Centers? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help: Directory list of /usr/local ("Jobath")
HELP! Problems with rebuilt kernel (Michael Clarke)
Re: Do you hate vi? (Matt Chiglinsky)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Koos Pol)
Subject: Re: partitiontable gone ...
Date: 23 Mar 2000 13:11:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 12:31:17 GMT, peter pilsl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
|
| so is it a good idea just to set the part2 to (762,254,63)?
| and how would I do that. I always thought fdisk is capable
| of such things, but there is no command to edit such things
I would think that Norton Disk Editor is very much capable of writing the
correct partition table entries when you give the start location and the
sizeof the particular partition.
Koos Pol
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S.C. Pol - Systems Administrator - Compuware Europe B.V. - Amsterdam
T:+31 20 3116122 F:+31 20 3116200 E:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check my email address when you hit "Reply".
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Westerlao)
Subject: Are there .WMA (Windows Media Audio) players for Linux??
Date: 23 Mar 2000 13:11:07 GMT
Hi!
Forgive me for the question, but it isn't a joke. Is there any "Windows Media
Audio" player for Linux? I heard some months ago Microsoft had plans to
release a port of his Media Player for linux, but I cannot find nothing.
Anyone knows if there are plans to release it or if it exists any
"non-official" player of this .WMA format for Linux?
Lots of thanks ;)
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From: Steve D. Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: IMAP email client that can do POP-authentication?
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:40:42 GMT
You don't have any idea, by chance... how long the authentication
lasts? I assume it works by checking that the userid had a POP
authentication from the same IP address as the SMTP request, within a
certain timeframe. Do you have any idea if this is basically accurate?
Steve
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:24:52 GMT, Steve D. Perkins <stevedperkins@my-
deja.com>
> wrote:
>
> <snip!>
> > What I'm looking for is some kind of email client that can use IMAP
> >for message retrieval... and then a quick POP-authentication (not
> >actually downloading any messages) before sending with SMTP. Anything
> >cross platform, "Linux and MS-Windows" (Java-based?) would be lovely
> >icing on the cake... assuming that such a solution exists in the
first
> >place.
> >
> > Anyone know of an email client that flexible?
>
> nope, but you could write a very simple java client to log into the
pop server,
> then use whatever separate SMTP client you want afterwards.
>
> To pop-authenticate, you'd only need a few lines to:
>
> create a socket to the pop server
> use an input stream to read the greeting
> use an output stream to send two lines: USER and PASS
>
> you'd only need to install the earliest jvm to handle this task on
any machines
> that don't need a jvm for any other reason; or you could look into
using a
> browser and the plugin to get out of the sandbox...
>
> or even use any old telnet client with a script to log in with
> ===
>
> Regards,
>
> Ken Kalish
>
> There is no java cartel.
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Getting crap out of Windows Postscript
Date: 23 Mar 2000 14:00:28 GMT
Hi,
I have a nice little Linux network with some printers hanging off a Linux
server. Unfortunately the eejits in the department still insist on using
Windows now and again, and thus are driving me up the wall.
The problem is the postscript drivers from Windows tend to stick those
annoying few lines at the top of the ps file, thus making some applications
and more importantly, the printing system, recognise it as raw text and not
as Postscript.
On machines I can get my grubby mits on I can use eg the Apple Laserwriter
driver which doesn't do this, but this doesn't prevent postscript mayhem
when people bring in files/spool printjobs from machines that I can't fiddle
with.
Is there an easy way to alter apsfilter or whatever to remove this annoying
shit automatically, slinging the file through a pstops filter or equivalent
does it nicely but I'm wondering if there are already tools available to fix
this properly at the printing subsystem level.
Yours hopefully (one more ream of paper wasted and I shall scream),
JB
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From: Anders �quist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0: There are any RMP ?
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:02:34 GMT
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 12:13:55 GMT, "Fernando Delgado"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote something like:
>Where can be found XFree86 4.0 RMP ?
>
Check on updates to SuSe dist @ www.suse.de
--
Anders �quist
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://webcenter.just.nu
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Reply-To: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 has 63,000 bugs - Win2k.html [0/1] - Win2k.html [0/1]
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:09:03 GMT
Funny, windows runs fine but linux takes 4 hours of setup to get a printer
and a usb mouse working.
Become superior before claiming you are.
----
IBM: Iconoclastic Bilateral Monopoly
"crashed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Just to clarify
> Windows 2000 has potentially 63000 bugs. This number was generated by a
program
> auto-scanning the source code which also included 10000 lines of code that
was not
> used in the final release-
> I am by no means a Microsoft supporter but the distribution of FUD is
> counter-productive.
> Linux will eventually surpass Microsoft in the server market based on it's
own
> merits, not propoganda. The way it should be
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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: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:20:59 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> FUCK YOU BRIAN.
>
> Get a life moron
Hardly a way to behave. You better leave these contributions in
alt.toilet.lang or wherever stuff like that is accepted.
--
Best Regards
:{) Thomas Lange
Tel: +44 (0)24-7620-4169
Fax: +44 (0)24-7620-4953
================================
I *have* to dream big. I only
have time to get half of it done.
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From: "Bob Cent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: afbackup.deb install on RedHat?
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 06:12:48 -0800
Reply-To: "Bob Cent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > The KDE kpackage utility exited without warning while processing
afbackup.
> > I also tried alien (alien -r afbackup_3_1beta1-1_1.deb) and it failed
too
> > and gave this message:
> >
> > alien : rpm --show rc failed
> 1) Install rpm.
> 2) Try to find out *why* alien thinks "rpm --showrc" failed.
> 3) Tell us which versions of alien and rpm you've got.
I was running rpm v3.0.3 and alien v6.18-17. As soon as I upgraded to alien
v6.41-37 the problem went away and I was able to convert deb files to rpm
files without errors. Thanks for the help.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Getting crap out of Windows Postscript
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:26:57 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland) writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have a nice little Linux network with some printers hanging off a Linux
> server. Unfortunately the eejits in the department still insist on using
> Windows now and again, and thus are driving me up the wall.
>
> The problem is the postscript drivers from Windows tend to stick those
> annoying few lines at the top of the ps file, thus making some applications
> and more importantly, the printing system, recognise it as raw text and not
> as Postscript.
I'm sure a script to remove such garbage wouldn't be difficult to write,
but I don't have any references for any ready-made solutions offhand. I do
have two other suggestions, though:
1) If these are PostScript printers (that is, if Ghostscript isn't
involved), then you can export the printer as a "raw" device -- remove
the if=... line in /etc/printcap. Alternatively, you may be able to use
some options in your smb.conf file to fix things. There's an option
called postscript that adds a %! to the top of the file, which forces
the filter to recognize the file as PostScript; the extra gunk then
tends to be ignored. According to my manpage on lpr (which is actually
LPRng), there's an option to lpr (-F -b, if I'm reading it correctly)
that essentially removes the input filter "on the fly." You could use
this option in conjunction with the smb.conf print command option to
set the queue to not use its filter.
2) If these are non-PostScript printers, you could create a "raw" queue
(again, by removing the if=... line in /etc/printcap) and use the
printers' "native" drivers under Windows. It sounds like you don't have
ready access to all the Windows computers, though, so this may not be
a viable option. It would also most likely increase network traffic,
although it would likely reduce the CPU load on the print server.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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From: "Eric Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 has 63,000 bugs - Win2k.html [0/1] - Win2k.html [0/1]
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:28:49 -0800
Nope. You got it backwards.
Windows sets up fine (usually) but then crashes a lot when you try to run
it.
Linux is (still) tough to set up properly, but once it is, it NEVER
crashes.
Which would you prefer? Personally, if everything I wanted to run had a
Linux version, I doubt that I would EVER boot Windows again.
Eric Peterson
Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3ApC4.63209$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Funny, windows runs fine but linux takes 4 hours of setup to get a printer
> and a usb mouse working.
> Become superior before claiming you are.
>
> ----
> IBM: Iconoclastic Bilateral Monopoly
>
> "crashed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Just to clarify
> > Windows 2000 has potentially 63000 bugs. This number was generated by a
> program
> > auto-scanning the source code which also included 10000 lines of code
that
> was not
> > used in the final release-
> > I am by no means a Microsoft supporter but the distribution of FUD is
> > counter-productive.
> > Linux will eventually surpass Microsoft in the server market based on
it's
> own
> > merits, not propoganda. The way it should be
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Kew)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ISDN "NO DIALTONE"
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 12:56:55 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have configured my ISDN BT Speedway (Hi Sax Fritz!) card and all my
> network settings, but on dialling get the message "NO DIALTONE".
Um - what on earth are you doing that expects a dialtone?
--
Nick Kew
We're so advanced here ... our nearest main road is A 386
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Kalish)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: IMAP email client that can do POP-authentication?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:43:06 GMT
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:40:42 GMT, Steve D. Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> You don't have any idea, by chance... how long the authentication
>lasts? I assume it works by checking that the userid had a POP
>authentication from the same IP address as the SMTP request, within a
>certain timeframe. Do you have any idea if this is basically accurate?
>
>Steve
The same IP, yes.
I believe the one I had used had a timeout of five minutes - though each server
would almost certainly be configurable.
>
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:24:52 GMT, Steve D. Perkins <stevedperkins@my-
>deja.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> <snip!>
>> > What I'm looking for is some kind of email client that can use IMAP
>> >for message retrieval... and then a quick POP-authentication (not
>> >actually downloading any messages) before sending with SMTP. Anything
>> >cross platform, "Linux and MS-Windows" (Java-based?) would be lovely
>> >icing on the cake... assuming that such a solution exists in the
>first
>> >place.
>> >
>> > Anyone know of an email client that flexible?
>>
>> nope, but you could write a very simple java client to log into the
>pop server,
>> then use whatever separate SMTP client you want afterwards.
>>
>> To pop-authenticate, you'd only need a few lines to:
>>
>> create a socket to the pop server
>> use an input stream to read the greeting
>> use an output stream to send two lines: USER and PASS
>>
>> you'd only need to install the earliest jvm to handle this task on
>any machines
>> that don't need a jvm for any other reason; or you could look into
>using a
>> browser and the plugin to get out of the sandbox...
>>
>> or even use any old telnet client with a script to log in with
>> ===
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ken Kalish
>>
>> There is no java cartel.
>>
>>
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
===
Regards,
Ken Kalish
There is no java cartel.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Getting crap out of Windows Postscript
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:48:41 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Rod Smith would say:
>[Posted and mailed]
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland) writes:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a nice little Linux network with some printers hanging off a Linux
>> server. Unfortunately the eejits in the department still insist on using
>> Windows now and again, and thus are driving me up the wall.
>>
>> The problem is the postscript drivers from Windows tend to stick those
>> annoying few lines at the top of the ps file, thus making some applications
>> and more importantly, the printing system, recognise it as raw text and not
>> as Postscript.
>
>I'm sure a script to remove such garbage wouldn't be difficult to write,
>but I don't have any references for any ready-made solutions offhand.
This would be a quite beautiful idea; there has been a tendancy to need
to "cruft up" Postscript interpreters to cope with garbage, and it would
be nicer to:
a) Keep the cruft separate;
b) Provide the ability to collect up some of the problem files,
diff against decrufted versions, and thereby have *GOOD DOCUMENTATION*
for the problems in applications/PS-generators that are causing
problems.
It would be pretty cool if a daemon sent Microsoft's bug tracking system
a message every time someone generated a document that was nonconformant
Postscript; that would probably have more effect towards getting the
problems fixed than the article that was in Byte Magazine 8 or 10
years ago...
--
Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - - <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,sg.linux
Subject: Is Linux good for Data Centers?
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 22:49:07 +0800
Hi there,
Anyone out there ever tried using Linux for data centers? Any advice or
issues?
Thanks
Regards
Damon
P.S. - please remove DONT_MASS_WITH_ME to correspond.
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From: "Jobath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help: Directory list of /usr/local
Date: 23 Mar 2000 08:47:38 -0600
Ya, the /usr/local directory was was empty except for a few files which
were created during a compile. I dont really much care for the files in the
directory just the directory structure itself. I just dont want to have to
troubleshoot much the next time I do a compile. So I just need the
directory structure..
"Andreas Kahari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8b87r0$frp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <iCLB4.52095$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Jobath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Help: can someone give me a list of the directories in /usr/local.. I
> > deleted the directory (thinking the directory would be recreated when
> I did
> > a ./configure).
> >
> > I need the list of directory so I can recreate them.. thanks...
> >
> >
>
> The /usr/local/ directory should contain locally installed programs and
> files that does not belong to the GNU/Linux distribution that you use.
> To recreate /usr/local/ you would have to reinstall every "external"
> application that you had (if you're running Debian GNU/Linux that would
> mean everything you've compiled and installed yourself and not gotten
> from conventional deb-packages).
>
> What I'm hinting at here is that your files are gone. Recreating the
> directory structure will not bring them back.
>
> Usually, the /usr/local/ directory contains 'bin', 'lib', 'man' and some
> others, but it differs from machine to machine which is perfectly ok
> since that is the purpose of /usr/local/ (it should be *local* to that
> particular machine).
>
> Rule: Don't do compiling and stuff like that as 'root'. The only step
> where it's nessecary to be 'root' is when you type 'make install'.
>
> /A
>
>
> --
> # Andreas K�h�ri
> # Brought to you from Uppsala, Sweden
> # http://hello.to/andkaha
> # Remember, an e-mail is as secure as a postcard
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 23:06:48 +0800
From: Michael Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HELP! Problems with rebuilt kernel
I'm running RedHat 6.1 (prehaps not the wisest decision) and I've just
rebuilt my kernel. I didn't change anything, just ran the menuconfig
utility, built and installed both kernel and modules. The kernel is
2.2.12.
When I try bttoing with my rebuilt kernel it ends up in a loop with:
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errno=8
requested_module[bin464c]: fork failed, errno=11
Any suggestions on what I need to change in my configuration to get
the boot to work? I'm building as a straight 386 CPU, even though
the system has an Athlon.
The default redhat kernel subsequently booted ok with (I hope) the
modules built from my config.
Mik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Chiglinsky)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi?
Date: 23 Mar 2000 15:08:29 GMT
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 12:24:52 +0100,
Ralf Arens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Matt Chiglinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>[...]
>> Now I'm pretty much out of ideas for things that vi can't do that emacs
>> can do. Oh wait...there's that life animation.
>
>What is "that life animation"? Conway's Game of Life? If yes, see
>below.
>
>> Damn. I guess I'll have to load up emacs to see that. ;)
>
>Why? $VIMRUNTIME/macros/life/life.vim:
LOL! :) Well, I meant vi not vim.
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