Linux-Misc Digest #113, Volume #24 Tue, 11 Apr 00 14:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Update: What the hell...? nmap wont compile (Patrick O'Neil)
help with 'make' (root)
Re: What do I need to be able to "make config" (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Help deleting file (Lew Pitcher)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Robert Wiegand)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PC Beeps 3 times - then dead? (Bob Hauck)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (brian moore)
Re: trouble going to http sites (Bob Hauck)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Andre Kostur)
Re: uninstalling stuff (Nix)
Re: Netscape 6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Summing Up File Sizes ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: repartitioning with FIPS ("Kirk R. Wythers")
Re: Did I kill my monitor?? (Eric Y. Chang)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Patrick O'Neil)
mounting problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Where is ttfmkfdir (scott thomason)
Re: [Q] Decrypt (Robie Basak)
Re: new hdd (Uwe Malzahn)
Re: Autofs does not work as expected (Robie Basak)
Re: NT Zip -- access by root but not by user? (Kenny McCormack)
Apache -- CGI (paul simdars)
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From: Patrick O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Update: What the hell...? nmap wont compile
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:30:07 -0600
Patrick O'Neil wrote:
>
> I have recently run into problems compiling nmap, the
> portscanner tool. Up to nmap-2.30Beta17 all compiled and
> installed fine but since moving up version to, now, Beta20,
> I find I cannot compile nmap.
>
> It is bizarre (to me). I download the src.rpm for nmap
> from http://www.insecure.org and then, as root, do the
> rpm -rebuild routine. It all seems to go fine, with no
> errors until it gets to compiling the nmap-frontend,
> which also starts fine but then compiling just...stops.
> No error messages, no seg fault, no core, nothing. The
> build process stops and I am back at the CLI. This is
> what I have on my screen when it craps out everytime:
>
> [...]
> + cp -pr docs/nmap.deprecated.txt docs/nmap.usage.txt docs/nmap_doc.html
> /var/tmp/nmap-root/usr/doc/nmap-2.30BETA20
> + cp -pr docs/nmap_manpage.html
> /var/tmp/nmap-root/usr/doc/nmap-2.30BETA20
> + exit 0
> Processing files: nmap-frontend-0.2.30BETA20-1
> Finding Provides: (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides)...
> Finding Requires: (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires)...
> Requires: nmap gtk+ ld-linux.so.2 libc.so.6 libdl.so.2 libgdk-1.2.so.0
> libglib-1.2.so.0 libgmodule-1.2.so.0 libgtk-1.2.so.0 libm.so.6
> libX11.so.6 libXext.so.6 libXi.so.6
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
> [root@Tempus i686]#
>
> Not a HINT as to what is wrong. If I download the tarball instead and
> try compiling that - same thing happens just as above.
[...]
The above occurrence where compiling/building stops cold without
error messages is immediately before the creation of the
actual rpm packages into the proper directory. I compiled it
successfully on my laptop which is running ALMOST the exact same
Mandrake 7.0 plus updates install.
Anyone? Any idea what would stop my system cold at actually
creating the rpms for nmap? After getting this failure, I
did an rpm --rebuild of yup-0.6.5-1.src.rpm and it was entirely
successful so it is not a general, build problem.
patrick
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help with 'make'
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:33:53 +0100
Using Redhat v6.1
Hello,
I'm trying to compile some libraries using the 'make' command. I do not
have or cannot find this command.
I downloaded the make-3.78.1 utility but this requires eithet an
existing make command or use of a shell:
' sh ./build.sh' command. when I run this command or another
'./configure' I get 'aclocal..missing
automake...missing autoheader...missing errors also cannot guess host
type.
Does anybody know where I can download a copy of make with some good
docuimentation?
Thankyou
Dave Molloy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: What do I need to be able to "make config"
Date: 11 Apr 2000 12:33:09 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8cvcd8$n44$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob wrote:
> I just installed Redhat6.2 (used to use 6.0) and tried to "make config"
> which I have done many times before using earlier distributions of
> Redhat.
> But using 6.2 I get the following error message(I use bash and do it
> from the correct directory):
> make: *** No rule to make target 'config'. Stop.
If you are in the correct directory, then you have not installed the kernel
source code.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Help deleting file
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:35:27 GMT
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:01:01 GMT, Rex00 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I was doing a tar today and made a mistake with the --exclude option.
>
>Now I've got an 80mb --exclude file that I can't get rid of.
cd /directory
rm ./--exclude
or
rm /directory/--exclude
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant
Toronto Dominion Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Robert Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:21:36 -0500
Christopher Smith wrote:
> And I'm sure the easy availability of a cheap OS that would run on any of
> those clones had absolutely nothing to do with it.....
CP/M would have worked just as well, it just wasn't the first one
available an lost the market.
--
Regards,
Bob Wiegand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:05:49 -0500
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, David Steuber wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> ' and since Microsoft has not been able to kill linux, nor mandate it's
> ' pricing, it follows that they do not have a monopoly.
>
> No, it doesn't. The monopoly is having such a huge share of the
> desktop OS market. Microsoft does indeed have a monopoly.
uh...no. Having a "huge" share is not a monopoly. A monopoly is having
100% share. Citing various legal ruling doesn't change the basic
definitions of words.
> It is not the monopoly that is bad. It is the fact that Microsoft
> leverages their monopoly power to gain a monopoly in other product
> categories. They do this by denying entry of competitive products, or
> makeing the cost of entry much higher than it should be. That is
> restraint of trade.
So, in which product catagory does Microsoft have a monopoly? We know
it's not word processors. We know it's not web browsers. We know it's
not email programs or news readers. We know it's not spreadsheets or
database programs. Help me out here. Tell me which product catagory has
been monopolized by Microsoft.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: PC Beeps 3 times - then dead?
Reply-To: hauck[at]codem{dot}com
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:49:39 GMT
On 11 Apr 2000 15:27:56 GMT, termite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>have to wonder if Caldera Openlinux is going to run on a mere 4 megs of
>memory.
COL 1.3 would run in that little, in text mode. Haven't tried it with
2.x.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| Codem Systems, Inc.
-| http://www.codem.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: 11 Apr 2000 16:51:30 GMT
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 02:28:16 GMT,
Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> IBM doesn't have to sell PCs pre-loaded with Windows. They made a business
> decision to join the rest of the OEM. Basically MS said if you do this, then
> you can have Windows for this price. IBM took the bait and made lot of money
> on the deal, just like the other OEMs did. Is that Microsoft's fault only?
> Should there be some of the blame directed toward the OEMs?
> It takes two to tango.....
IBM pays slightly under retail for Windows. They got their copy of
Windows95 thirty minutes before any fool could buy it at Circuit City.
ie, they are getting a -worse- deal than virtually anyone. You could
probably get a copy of Windows mail order for less than what IBM pays.
Why? Lots of reasons: OS/2 and Lotus are the major ones.
You slept through IBM's testimony if you think they're making a "lot of
money on the deal".
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: trouble going to http sites
Reply-To: hauck[at]codem{dot}com
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:54:40 GMT
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:19:26 -0500, John Scudder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The ethernet card configuration seems to have gone all right. I can
>ping and ftp addresses from the console or Xterm with no problem. I can
>access the simplest of http sites (no graphics) with a kfm window. But
>as soon as I try to go to a site with the least bit of graphics or
>complexity, the desktop slows to a crawl and finally freezes.
COL 2.3 had an installation bug where sometimes the swap partition wasn't
enabled even though you told it to create one. With 32 MB and KDE, that's
a Bad Thing. Do a "free" and verify that it shows swap > 0. If not, add
this to your /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda2 none swap defaults 0 0
Substitute the proper swap partition of course.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| Codem Systems, Inc.
-| http://www.codem.com/
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Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre Kostur)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:58:15 GMT
btolder wrote in <OPOqKt4o$GA.351@cpmsnbbsa04>:
>1) Cleartype. Yes, I've seen the web page claiming it to be an old
>invention. However, I've seen cleartype in action and if that is a 20
>year old technology, then someone should be shot for not using it on
>LCDs because it is that fantastic. The fact that it is that fantastic
>and the fact that is hasn't ever been used on LCDs says to me it is 100%
>new.
? Haven't heard of it.... I'm behind the times :(
>2) Total abstraction of a wide range of underlying hardware, including a
>wide range of audio and display technologies (and hardware
>accellerators).
X-Window? (Ancient technology by computer terms...) Not too sure about the
Audio end of things.
>3) Optical mouse. Doesn't need a special mouse pad and never needs
>cleaning.
Sun has had these for at least 7 years (at least that's when I remember
using one on the Sun boxes at the University)
>4) Windows CE. Kernel as small as 300K, killer development tools, wide
>range of CPUs supported, great story for debugging on remote targets
>over a serial port.
Curious... do these "killer development tools" run on WinCE? Last I saw,
WinCE only supported two CPUs... MIPS and ARM.
>5) Games. Windows is the first generic OS to make a really compelling
>game platform. The DirectSound, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, etc. APIs kick
>ass.
No idea.
>6) Palm-size PC. MAME game emulator in the pocket. MP3 player in the
>pocket. DOOM in the pocket. All my mail available via my cellphone in
>the pocket. Too cool.
?
>7) Making computers easy and cheap. Mac did beat M$ to making them easy.
>Others might have been cheaper. Microsoft made them easy and cheap at
>the same time, which was crucial to mass market acceptance. Nobody else
>was doing that in 1992.
Well, I wouldn't attribute this to Microsoft, but more to Intel. Apple
didn't allow clones, Intel did (OK, 'allow' may be a little strong...)
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From: Nix <$}xinix{[email protected]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: uninstalling stuff
Date: 11 Apr 2000 14:25:32 +0100
"Tim Haynes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If anyone thinks I'm going to install ssh, netscape, gpg, pgp, my own
> versions of pine & pico, a modified wvdial, Star Orifice 5.1a, XFree86 v 4
> and vmware all straight into /usr/local/{bin,man,lib} then they can take
> said "FHS" and combine pain & pleasure therewith. :8]
That's what /usr/local/stow is for, on Debian.
Don't tell me you point the PATH through ten million package-specific
directories, and require everyone to log out and in again whenever you
install something, so that they can see it?
--
`ndbm on Linux is an emulation, not the original. It comes in several
flavours; `slightly broken', `moderately broken', and `totally and
utterly broken'.' --- Nick Kew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Netscape 6
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:05:22 GMT
David .. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> Matt O'Toole wrote:
>>
>> Yes! IE3 had nice, small buttons. Netscape not only has big buttons, it
>> also insists on waving two other toolbars in front of you. You can't really
>> make them go all the way away. Gotta wave those partner links in front of
>> everyone!
> I never did use IE but I have noticed the same thing about the partner
> links. Like the "Shop" button in 4.72, what a waste of space since you
> can find things cheaper at other sites than the one they stick in your
> face.
Is that the personal toolbar? If so, you can configure that how you want.
Mine doesn't have "members", etc. It has "slashdot", "Freshmeat", "Dilbert",
"userfriendly" and "world of spectrum".
You can just delete items from the toolbar by editing your bookmarks.
--
______________________________________________________________________________
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
| Andrew Halliwell BSc | "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't |
| in | suck is probably the day they start making |
| Computer science | vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge |
==============================================================================
|GCv3.12 GCS>$ d-(dpu) s+/- a C++ US++ P L/L+ E-- W+ N++ o+ K PS+ w-- M+/++ |
|PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ X+/X++ R+ tv+ b+ DI+ D+ G e++ h/h+ !r!| Space for hire |
==============================================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:55:10 GMT
Thank you for your help. The problem was solved after disabling of DMA
by "hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc".
> I had a similiar problem, try typing sync at the prompt to flush
the
> buffers. If that fails, ie. the prompt doesn't return then try
reinstalling.
> Sorry I can't help more, I never found out what was wrong, but after
> reinstalling the system works (it only locks up if I leave it on
overnight,
> but I'll save my rant about that annoyance for later!)
> I suspect that something got corrupted, probably the kernel
during the
> install and so the buffer system was gagging on itself.
>
> -John
>
> In article <8ct7jn$h2k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >Hi,
> >
> >When i mount CD the system always halts and not responds. After that
i
> >can only press Reset button, nothing else helps. During startup the
CD
> >drive detects correctly. Please give me any hits. Thanks.
> >
> > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> >hda: IBM-DJAA-31700, ATA DISK drive
> >hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST4.3A, ATA DISK drive
> >hdc: BCD E520C, ATAPI CDROM drive
> >ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> >ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> >hda: IBM-DJAA-31700, 1628MB w/96kB Cache, CHS=827/64/63, DMA
> >hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST4.3A, 4110MB w/81kB Cache, CHS=524/255/63,
UDMA
> >hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
> >Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
> >
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Before you buy.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Summing Up File Sizes
Date: 11 Apr 2000 17:04:57 GMT
Jeff Susanj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: know how many blocks of storage or even better how many Kbytes they consume.
: We want to do this fairly often. 'ls' will give me the information for a
: single file but it will not provide a summary like the DOS 'dir' command
just count their bytes!
wc -c *
: would. Is there a way to do this that is not too complicated, i.e. that can
: be done in one command line?
Peter
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From: "Kirk R. Wythers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: repartitioning with FIPS
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 12:18:37 -0500
I think you're on the right track here. The machine is a new Dell... At this
point I've got the disk split in to 22 gigs of FAT and 6 gigs unpartitioned
free space. FDISK reports the correct value, but windows98 explorer seems to
see only 11 gigs of FAT. I ran scan disk to no avail. So I ordered a copy of
Partition Magic and Norton Utilities a few minutes ago. Thanks for your
thoughts.
Kirk
Leonard Evens wrote:
> GreyCloud wrote:
> >
> > I've used fips2.0 on Win98 partion. Doesn't work unfortunately.
> > Windows 98 does a nasty thing to your hard disk by putting a marker at the
> > very end of the hard disk space.. the defraging utility will show a marker
> > at the very end.
>
> Some people appear to have used fips successfully to resize
> a Windows 98 partition. So it is likely that this is not a
> feature of Windows 98 but rather something your computer vendor
> did. I know that Dell and other vendors put unmovable files
> at the end of the Windows partition.
>
> But the isssue is moot for you anyway. So reinstalling Windows
> after repartitioning was a sensible approach for you. The only
> problem with that is that it can sometimes be a big hassle
> resinstalling the various device drivers. These are usually
> provided on a separate CD by your vendor, but Windows is particularly
> dense about being able to find them.
>
> Partition Magic is certainly one way out of this dilemma.
> --
>
> Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
--
Kirk R. Wythers University of Minnesota
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Forest Resources
Tel: 612.625.22611530 Cleveland Ave. N.
Fax: 612 625.5212 Saint Paul, MN 55108
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Y. Chang)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Did I kill my monitor??
Date: 11 Apr 2000 17:14:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chetan Ahuja ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi,
...
: of weeks and before that have been running at other high
: resolutions for months with the exact same hardware software
^^^^^^^^^^
Monitor wore out
: Anybody has any idea what might have happened.... Its a pretty good
: monitor and I would hate to lose it. Anybody had similar
: experience...?? Anybody had experience with Panasonic with regard to
: monitor repair... Is there any hope of repairing it or should I just
: give it up as a lost cause???
There exists some folklore about Linux burning out monitors. Actually,
it is not folklore, Linux can and does burn out monitors, or more
precisely, the configuration of X does.
I had this problem with an NEC 15" monitor. Turns out that one of
the modelines was mistimed (something having to do with the front
porch). It was putting too much stress on the HOT in the flyback
circuit. A temporary fix was to string up a fan to keep it cool.
Even after I fixed the modeline, and the monitor ran cool without
the fan, it would still burn out every few months. The frequency
was OK, and I verified this with a signal generator and a homemade
Colpitts oscillator. Sam Goldwasser was stumped, and I ended up
contacting someone who designed these circuits. He said that the
yoke was intermittent, so I painted it with coil dope.
The monitor has worked fine for years. If you haven't heard of
Sam, check the sci.electronics.repair FAQ. Otherwise, throw in
the towel.
Eric
c
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From: Patrick O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:28:11 -0600
fungus wrote:
[...]
> Any DOJ remedy should center around taking this
> proprietry stuff (file formats, network protocols,
> etc.) out of Microsoft's hands. Anything else is a
> waste of time in the long term.
I STRONGLY encourage you to write to the DOJ (their
website has an email address specifically for people
to submit messages regarding the Microsoft trial).
Give them your ideas, if you haven't already. I just
submitted a message requesting essentially what you
espouse. STOP M$ from perverting (hell, stop everyone)
standards. The internet is not Microsoft's. There
are protocol bodies that determine the standards for
everyone to ensure that communication is open and
clear. If M$ wants to "innovate" by altering a
standard protocol, they should be REQUIRED to go thru
the standards bodies to get the change folded into
the general standard OR nixed. OR they should be
required to simply release the FULL specs on any change
they make so that they are available to everyone. No
more propriatory internet protocols, no more useless
perversions to office file formats (Isn't it funny
that Corel can make a good office suite with the
wordprocessor remaining compatible with EVERY version
of WordPerfect that has come before it? It doesn't
make a good office product to break the format between
every new version that comes out).
patrick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mounting problem
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:19:08 GMT
Hi,
I can mount floppy and cdrom in linux 6.0, but when reboot it fail to
mount again. i got the message at the boottime is "fd0 invalid block
device"
my fstab is : /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat defaults 00
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults 00
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
I have two hard drives with win98 and rh6.0. I can mount win98 drives
successfully, but not cdrom and floppy. Please help.
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (scott thomason)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Where is ttfmkfdir
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:30:27 GMT
I think I've hosed up my xfs server. I'm trying to install some new
truetype fonts on RedHat 6.2. In the past, I've used the utility
"ttfmkfdir" to generate the fonts.scale file for xfs (actually, it's
xfsft). The RedHat /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs file references it, too, but I
can't find it on my new system anywhere. I've scoured the net, I've
searched rpmfind.net, and I still can't find it. Can somebody tell me
where it is? If you are root on your system, you can do a:
rpm -qif `which ttfmkdir`
to tell you what package contains your binary.
Thanks in advance,
Scott Thomason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: [Q] Decrypt
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 11 Apr 2000 17:36:40 GMT
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 04:32:46 GMT, Christopher Browne said:
>Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Robie Basak would say:
>>On 10 Apr 2000 11:32:16 +0200, JF Bosc said:
>>>
>>>I'm using SuSE Linux 6.3, and I have to decrypt a file which was encrypted
>>>with the "standard" UNIX "crypt" command. However this command is not provided
>>>in the SuSE distribution. Is there a replacement, or can I download the
>>>command somewhere ?
>>
>>You can't decrypt a UNIX 'crypt'ed plaintext; it's one way (unless you
>>have massive computing power at your disposal).
>
>Um. Are you actually familiar with crypt(1)?
Oops. I stand down. I was thinking of crypt(3), which is for
/etc/passwd.
Robie.
>
>crypt(1) User Commands crypt(1)
>
>NAME
> crypt - encode or decode a file
>
>SYNOPSIS
> crypt [ password ]
>
>AVAILABILITY
> SUNWcsu
>
>DESCRIPTION
> crypt encrypts and decrypts the contents of a file. crypt
> reads from the standard input and writes on the standard
> output. The password is a key that selects a particular
> transformation. If no password is given, crypt demands a
> key from the terminal and turns off printing while the key
> is being typed in. crypt encrypts and decrypts with the
> same key:
>
> example% crypt key <clear.file>encrypted.file
> example% crypt key <encrypted.file| pr
>
> will print the contents of clear.file.
>
>ahrdeb01:hd1adm:/tmp> cat > sample.out
>Now is the time for all good men.
>ahrdeb01:hd1adm:/tmp> crypt key < sample.out > sample.encrypted
>ahrdeb01:hd1adm:/tmp> crypt key < sample.encrypted
>Now is the time for all good men.
>
>Sure seems like a symmetric cipher to me...
>
>Note thus:
> crypt implements a one-rotor machine designed along the
> lines of the German Enigma, but with a 256-element rotor.
> Methods of attack on such machines are widely known, thus
> crypt provides minimal security.
>
>There isn't an "official GNU equivalent" to crypt, but the gentle user
>might wish to avail themself of a reasonable alternative such as
><http://mcrypt.hellug.gr/>, or, in RPM form,
><http://eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at/rpm2html/contrib/libc6/i386/\
>enigma-1.2-6.i386.html>.
>--
>"It's a pretty rare beginner who isn't clueless. If beginners weren't
>clueless, the infamous Unix learning cliff wouldn't be a problem."
>-- david parsons
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/crypto.html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Malzahn)
Subject: Re: new hdd
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 21:15:46 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arash) writes:
> Hello,
> i have just installed my new hdd in my running linux
> box and have the problem that i dont know how to go on.
> I cannot read/write/mount the new disk which is called /dev/hdc1.
>
> I think that i have successfully formated it using mke2fs. But i can
> not mount it, ErrMsg: mount: mount point /new-hdd does not exist.
> What have i to do beside those steps? Adding a new hdd shouldnt
> be that difficult.
>
Reading error messages isn't difficult either. If the mount point dosn't
exist, how about creating one?
mkdir /new-hdd
should help.
Cheers
Uwe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: Autofs does not work as expected
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 11 Apr 2000 17:40:15 GMT
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:55:22 +0200, Otto Wyss said:
>> > /zip /etc/auto.zip
>> ^^^^ Here is your problem (misunderstanding). You told autofs to create
>> the (auto)mount point in /zip.
>>
>> >
>> > and the following auto.zip file:
>> > ------------------------------------------------
>> > zip -fstype=vfat :/dev/sda4
>>
>> And you told autofs to create a mount point zip (in /zip) .
>>
>
>You are right :-(
>
>How do I configure autofs so I can access anything on my zip drive under
>mountpoint "/zip" ?
Set it to do /mnt/autofs/zip or something, then create a symbolic link:
ln -s /mnt/autofs/zip /zip
Robie.
>
>O. Wyss
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny McCormack)
Subject: Re: NT Zip -- access by root but not by user?
Date: 11 Apr 2000 12:40:34 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8cvhta$5fn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ken Yasuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Whenever I try to mount a NT zip disk, I find I can access it as root
>but that I can't as a user. The zip drive is mounted by the user. Has
>anybody seen this before? The user has no problem reading zip disks
>mounted under a linux format.
What is an NT zip disk?
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 12:47:22 -0500
From: paul simdars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Apache -- CGI
I wanted to do some web development on my linux box (RH6.1). I have
installed Apache and it created the httpd dir with the html and cgi-bin
directories under it. I remember reading that you put your html file
in the html directory and the cgi files in the cgi-bin directory and
away you go.
I downloaded a couple of tutorials but I found them to be less than
helpful when it comes to actually running the program. For perl scripts
I type 'perl filename' and it runs fine. In the one tutorial that
seemed to explain it very well, I should be able to take their sample
cgi page, save it as first.cgi, copy it into my cgi-bin directory and
then open it in the browser (netscape). But, Netscape prints out
everything in the script. Here is a copy of the file:
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print "<html><head><title>Test Page</title></head>\n";
print "<body>\n";
print "<h2>Hello, world!</h2>\n";
print "</body></html>\n";
I guess it is not executing it as a script but opening it as a file. I
did 'chmod 777' to make sure all bases were covered. Maybe my
assumption that the cgi-bin directory is set up to run cgi scripts is
wrong. Any guidence from any gurus would be appreciated.
You can also email me at : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks
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