Linux-Misc Digest #127, Volume #24 Wed, 12 Apr 00 13:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Gerald Willmann)
monitoring users ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Newbie gcc question (Andreas Kahari)
Reinstall issue (Brian Hetsko)
Re: help: another LILO problem (Leonard Evens)
rlogin/rdist problems... (Ricky Crow)
Re: monitoring users (Andreas Kahari)
Why Can't root Print? (Howard Arons)
What the heck is linux doing? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: New Dell with a ATA66: any hope? (Michael Kelly)
[FLAME] Re: monitoring users (Andreas Kahari)
Re: Linux Crashed and Can't Get Up (Leonard Evens)
Re: Newbie gcc question (Leonard Evens)
Re: newbie question ("Hemant R. Mohapatra")
gated/routed/f#ckd ("R�M$T@R")
Re: Bootdisks, rdev, and root filesystems...aargh! (bob smith)
Re: Help with bash (Michael Kelly)
Which backup software to use? (Peter Buzanits)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Mats Olsson)
Re: New Dell with a ATA66: any hope? (Michael Kelly)
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:03:34 -0700
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Robert Wiegand wrote:
> Harlan Grove wrote:
> > If one believe Microsoft has acted illegally (we seem to differ), and if
> > one believes Microsoft can't be trusted to check itself from acting in
> > like manner in future (we may differ again), then the only practical
> > recourse would be to eliminate Microsoft's ability to bully OEMs, other
> > software makers, standards organizations, etc. That means ending its
> > network monopoly (again, rant all you want about semantics - I'm now
> > qualifying my use of 'monopoly' so you can't hide behind your dictionary
> > any more). That pretty much requires converting the current Microsoft
> > into multiple, competing companies.
>
> I have to disagree.
> A simple published price list would eliminate the OEM bullying.
perhaps, if we are lucky, but what about bullying others???
And the list is long.
Gerald
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: monitoring users
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:04:05 GMT
Is there any software for linux that will monitor users? I'm not
looking for a filter or firewall. Windows has a program called Spector
(I think) but it's not compatable. Basically, it just takes a snapshot
of the screen and a pre-set time interval. It also logs keystrokes,
internet sites, and programs. It's a remarkable program, but I need it
(or something similar) for linux. It also has a stealth mode, where
the user never knows it's there (no entry in the registry, icon, file,
etc.).
Can anyone help me? I've already checked out Peek from Computron, as
well as searching throughout the net (or as much as one person can).
Tucows wasn't too helpful either.
Thanks in advance.
City
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Before you buy.
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From: Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie gcc question
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:01:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Swami Chandrasekaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I wrote a C program and it all compiled fine. It created an a.out file
> and when I tried a.out on my shell prompt, it gave me an error saying,
> a.out not found. I also compiled with the option
>
> gcc <filename.c> -o <filename>
>
> When I ran <filename> it gave me the same error. Can someone help me
??
>
> //Swami.
>
>
Try prefixing the command with "./" (making it "./a.out"). You don't
have the current directory ('.') in your $PATH, so you have to tell the
OS that the executable command that you're trying to run is in the
current directory.
To add the current directory to your $PATH, add the following to your
"~/.bashrc" file (or the corresponding file for your shell):
export PATH=$PATH:.
Cheers!
/A
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Hetsko)
Subject: Reinstall issue
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:23:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recently my Red Hat Linux 6.0 system went down the crapper.... yes it
does happen.... I am attempting to reinstall from scratch, but
everytime I try to reboot to the boot diskette it just bypasses it and
goes right into LILO and the fsk. I checked my bios and all that to
make sure that A: was first in the boot order and it is. I also tried
with a dos boot disk and the same thing happened. Any advice is
greatly appreciated.
Brian Adam Hetsko Yet each man kills the thing he loves
Class of 2001 By each let this be heard,
Lehigh University Some do it with a bitter look,
Computer Engineering Some with a flattering word.
Delta Sigma Phi The coward does it with a kiss,
Kappa Kappa Psi The brave man with a sword
Drum Major - Marching 97 -O. Wilde
http://www.lehigh.edu/~bah3 "Life is a tragedy for those who feel;
and a comedy for those who think."
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help: another LILO problem
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:19:49 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> after I successfully installed linux on my machine, linux runs happily.
> but I can't restart NT which was formerly installed in my machine.
>
> I believe sth is wrong with lilo.conf. I paste it below. please tell me
> what's wrong with it. how I could correct it manually?
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda5
> append="nt"
> read-only
You don't dual boot by adding an append statement to the section
for your Linux boot. Instead you would normally have something
like
other=/dev/hda1
label=nt
but that probably won't work for NT. It appears that the
lilo boot loader usually messes NT up. You should read
the mini HOWTO Linux+NT-loader which gives a method to use
the NT loader to boot both NT and Linux. But you may
have to first fix your master boot record. First
make sure you have a Linux boot floppy which you can create
with
mkbootdisk 2.2.5-15
(Then you will be able to boot Linux from a floppy albeit
perhaps very slowly.) Then run
/sbin/lilo -u
to restore the master boot record.
Then follow the instructions in the mini HOWTO.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Ricky Crow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: rlogin/rdist problems...
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 11:27:33 -0500
I am setting up two Linux machines on a network. I want to keep
password files identical between the two machines. I plan to use rdist
to make this possible, but I am having a problem trying to get rdist to
work. I have set up forward and reverse DNS so that everything resolves
properly, I have set up the .rhosts file to allow connections from the
other machine. I can rlogin to the second machine as a user, with the
.rhosts file set up, but it will not let me run rdist as root (since
it's the password file that I am updating, it needs to be run as root).
When I am logged in as root on the first machine, I can try to rlogin to
the second machine, but it asks me for a password. When I type in the
password, it gives me an invalid login message, which all appears to be
correct, but what is stopping rdist from working? Here is the error
message that I get when I try to run rdist:
bash# rdist -f distribfile
20x.xx.xx.15: updating host 20x.xx.xx.15
20x.xx.xx.15: LOCAL ERROR: Unexpected input from server: "Permission
denied.".
20x.xx.xx.15: updating of 20x.xx.xx.15 finished
I covered up the IP Addresses to protect the guilty. Anyways, if
anybody has some ideas as to why this might be giving me this problem, I
would greatly appreciate any advice you could give.
Ricky
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From: Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: monitoring users
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:16:02 GMT
In article <8d26p9$q1u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there any software for linux that will monitor users? I'm not
> looking for a filter or firewall. Windows has a program called
Spector
> (I think) but it's not compatable. Basically, it just takes a
snapshot
> of the screen and a pre-set time interval. It also logs keystrokes,
> internet sites, and programs. It's a remarkable program, but I need
it
> (or something similar) for linux. It also has a stealth mode, where
> the user never knows it's there (no entry in the registry, icon, file,
> etc.).
>
> Can anyone help me? I've already checked out Peek from Computron, as
> well as searching throughout the net (or as much as one person can).
> Tucows wasn't too helpful either.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> City
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
Hello City
<joke>
Try getting a licence for Echelon. The NSA should be easy to contact...
they know where *you* live.
</joke>
Do people actually *use* those kind of systems? Do people that use
those kind of systems actually *keep* their users? Are those users that
stay stupid or what?
/A
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Arons)
Subject: Why Can't root Print?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:26:46 GMT
If root sends a job to the print queue with 'lpr filename', nothing prints,
there are no error messages and 'lpq' shows that no job has been enqueued.
Yet ordinary users can print without a problem.
Ideas? I thought that root was "immune" to problems with permissions, user
groups, etc.
Howard Arons
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: What the heck is linux doing?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:20:28 GMT
I'm sorry for the bad attitude but I'm really pissed off by this stupid
command "od" on linux, to be specific, redhat6.1. I was working on a java
project in which I wrote a small program to read in the first four bytes
of any binary file and interpret it as an integer(ie. a 32-bit integer).
Ok I tried this on the file "/bin/ls", and I got the number
2135247942, then I used od to verify it, ok "od -t u4 /bin/ls" give me
an integer, 17xxxxxxx(sorry but can't remember the whole thing), which
does not equal to what I got using the java program, "od -t d4 /bin/ls"
yielded the same result as "od -t u4 /bin/ls". So, linux can't be wrong on
this routine issue, it must have been the stupid me, right? That's what
I thought, and it took me almost a whole day fuddling around the numerous
java documentation without finding out what I had done wrong. Only in the
end did I realize, by wrting a simple C routine that does the same job,
that the first four bytes in /bin/ls are: \177, E, L, F, which is exactly
2135247942 when translated into a 32-bit integer. Then what the heck was
the output of "od -t u4 /bin/ls" or "od -t d4 /bin/ls"? I tried this
command on a Solaris system, and yes it gave the _correct_ answer. It only
seems to be a problem of linux implementing this "od" command, and I tried
other options of od on redhat6.1, when outputing as bytes, or characters,
"od" always worked fine, but, when outputing as integers, it gave out this
misterious result that doesn't make sense to me at all. Well maybe that's
not a bug, just that the idiot who wrote "od" for linux decided he/she
would like to present the world a brand new way of representing an integer?
What the heck is linux doing?
PS: For the exact output of od I talked about here, just run
"od -t u4 /bin/ls" or "od -t d4 /bin/ls" on a redhat6.1 system. This
is the system I do my work on, upgraded from redhat6.0, which was again
upgraded from 5.1.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Kelly)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: New Dell with a ATA66: any hope?
Date: 12 Apr 2000 16:40:03 GMT
In article <8d0p25$d32$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Kirk Wythers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What have I gotten myself into? I have a Ultra ATA66 controller card and a
> 30 gig quantum fireball for a hard disk. Seems that no matter how carefully
> you look at the "supported hardware" page, you overlook something. I'd like
> to install linux on a 6 gig partition. Are there any "work arounds" for
> controller card issue?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Kirk
>
>
Hi Kirk. Wayne's HOWTO will get you going so you can install(I used it
on a Gateway with Promise Ata66.) If you have the interface cable and
want to get the full udma support, once you get installed and all, then
download and compile the 2.3.4 kernel. I've been using it for a couple
of weeks now with no problems. bonnie went from showing 6.7 MB/sec to
around 21 MB/sec and hdparm showed buffered sequential reads of about
16 MB/sec! Definitely worth a kernel download and compile! You can
set up your lilo.conf so you can boot either the install kernel or the
new one in case there's a problem.
Good luck. :)
--
Mike
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From: Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [FLAME] Re: monitoring users
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:26:20 GMT
In article <8d27fi$qrt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <8d26p9$q1u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Is there any software for linux that will monitor users? I'm not
> > looking for a filter or firewall. Windows has a program called
> Spector
> > (I think) but it's not compatable. Basically, it just takes a
> snapshot
> > of the screen and a pre-set time interval. It also logs keystrokes,
> > internet sites, and programs. It's a remarkable program, but I need
> it
> > (or something similar) for linux. It also has a stealth mode, where
> > the user never knows it's there (no entry in the registry, icon,
file,
> > etc.).
> >
> > Can anyone help me? I've already checked out Peek from Computron,
as
> > well as searching throughout the net (or as much as one person can).
> > Tucows wasn't too helpful either.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > City
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
> >
>
> Hello City
>
> <joke>
> Try getting a licence for Echelon. The NSA should be easy to
contact...
> they know where *you* live.
> </joke>
>
> Do people actually *use* those kind of systems? Do people that use
> those kind of systems actually *keep* their users? Are those users
that
> stay stupid or what?
>
> /A
>
<flame>
I re-read your post a number of times after posing my reply, and I just
wanted to add this: Could you please go and put your head inside a cow?
</flame>
Sorry, but I got a little bit, you know, angry.
/A
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Crashed and Can't Get Up
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:22:14 -0500
Raul Trujillo wrote:
>
> Hya,
>
> My Linux box gave up on me. Because of some hardware problem (Linux was
> frozen) I was forced to shutdown RedHat 6.1 without the 'shutdown'
> command.
>
> Now, when I tried rebooting, it tells me to press: CTRL+D for a normal
> start up or to give the root password for maintenance. Anyways I type
> the password and type 'fsck' and it responds with "Parallelizing fsck
> version 1.15 (18-Jul-1999). I also tried 'mke2fs /dev/hda1' but tells
> me that 'hda1' is in use. Can someone tell me what I must do to get it
> back up and running?
>
> Thanx...
>
> Raul Trujillo
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fsck /dev/hda1
Then give the default answer to any questions it may ask.
mke2fs /dev/hda1 would have wiped out what was in that partition
and destroyed your system had it worked. Don't use a command
you don't understand!
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie gcc question
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:25:46 -0500
Swami Chandrasekaran wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I wrote a C program and it all compiled fine. It created an a.out file
> and when I tried a.out on my shell prompt, it gave me an error saying,
> a.out not found. I also compiled with the option
>
> gcc <filename.c> -o <filename>
>
> When I ran <filename> it gave me the same error. Can someone help me ??
>
> //Swami.
Let me be the first of several thousand to respond.
Your problem is that the current directory is not in your
path. (This is actually a security feature, but you can
change it by an appropriate statement in /etc/.bash_profile.)
To execute a command, say a.out, in your current path, use
./a.out
the . refers to the current directory, so in effect you are
giving the complete path specification for the program, and
that will always work.
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Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
From: "Hemant R. Mohapatra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie question
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:47:58 GMT
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Arun Keswani wrote:
> suggested. I started out by going into linuxconf. I set up the eth0 adapter
> using the dhcp option and specified tulip as the module. This added a line
> to the conf.modules file in /etc automatically. I then tried ifconfig, but
> nothing
> came up.
try out doing
ifconfig eth0 up
also try netstat -r for checking out the net-traffic on that
interface.
Regards,
Hemant
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From: "R�M$T@R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: gated/routed/f#ckd
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:55:38 +0100
This is the problem: my Linux (Redhat 6.0) box cannot see the internet
world.
This is the setup: Linux client. NT server, and several Win98 clients.
NT is the gateway. The win98 boxes connect to the NT box for the interent.
The linux box can see the NT box.
This is the output of route:
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
192.168.100.8 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.100.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default shark_nt 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
eth0
I can ping back and forth between the NT box and the win98 boxes and Linux,
I've even got samba working so that the win98 boxes can read/write the linux
box - BUT linux *cannot* ping the internet.
The /etc/hosts file has the nt box and the ip, and resolve.conf looks like:
domain 192.168.100.1
nameserver 192.168.100.1
I'm sure that I'm only missing something small, but everywhere I look I
can't see any solution...PLEASE HELP ME!!!!
Many thanks,
Remy.
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system
From: bob smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bootdisks, rdev, and root filesystems...aargh!
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:43:29 -0400
Take a look at this how-to, linux from scratch how-to, found at:
http://www.linuxdocs.org/LDP/LGissue49/misc/beekmans/LFS-HOWTO.html
Really great.
/Ugge
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Michael Westerman wrote:
> hava look at tombst.
>
> a single linux on a disk dist'n it even give instructions on customising it.
> includes kernel and compressed ramdisk image chokablock with utils.
>
> his web sight may help.
>
> Neil Koozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Don Werve wrote:
> > >
> > > Ok. After reading the Bootdisk-HOWTO and rdev manpages, I decided to
> > > start on the path to true geekdom and make my own Linux bootdisk, so
> > > that I could manually build a Linux system from the ground up on one of
> > > my many spare computers. I've been using Linux for about two years now,
> > > but what better way to learn about the guts of the OS than to manually
> > > build a full system?
> > >
> > > Anyways, I made a root filesystem that compressed takes up 900K, and
> > > have a 460K kernel. I used dd to copy the kernel image to the disk, and
> > > then used `rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0 ; rdev -R /dev/fd0 0` to set the disk
> > > as it's own root device. How do you tell the kernel where to look for a
> > > compressed root filesystem, so that it can be uncompressed into a
> > > ramdisk and booted...?
> > >
> > > Ideas? Sorry about the cross-post, but it seemed applicable to each
> > > newsgroup posted to. Please reply via E-Mail, to hari AT iveleague.org
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance! :)
> >
> > This is in the "Setting the ramdisk word" section of the Bootdisk-HOWTO.
> >
> > For a 2-disk boot/root pair, you would use
> > rdev -r /dev/fd0 49152
> > 49152 is 0xc000
> >
> > For a single boot/root disk you would use 0x4000 + the offset to the
> > start of the compressed ramdisk image. The offset is the number of 1k
> > blocks.
> >
> > Neil
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Kelly)
Subject: Re: Help with bash
Date: 12 Apr 2000 16:52:49 GMT
In article <qdtI4.253$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<Bryan Hoyt> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Is there anyone out there who can help me or lead me to someplace to get help
> on the bash script?
>
> - Thanks
For free docs you might try
www.linuxdoc.org
I know there are at least some old copies of Linux Programmer's Guide
and System Administrator's Guide(sag) on the web you can download. Then
the docs that come with bash 2.x should explain any differences(like maybe
array handling or some other sytnax may be updated or new features.)
Of course if you have bucks then just get an animal book at the computer
book store. :)
Most simple Bourne Shell scripts should work too, so you could look
at scripts already on your system that say
#!/bin/sh
on the first line to get an idea.
Good luck.
--
Mike
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From: Peter Buzanits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Which backup software to use?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 19:04:27 +0200
I have a SCSI-DAT drive and look for the optimal software for making backups of
my Linux-Box (SuSE 6.3).
I have figured out that there is amanda, cpio and star. But I'm sure there are
several other free tools out there. Can anyone recommend a special tool?
Performace while backup is not the goal. It is just important to be able to
recover any special file from the tape as quick as possible. And to be able to
store several backups on one tape.
Thanks in advance,
Peter Buzanits
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mats Olsson)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: 12 Apr 2000 17:07:45 GMT
In article <uLyCPuBp$GA.233@cpmsnbbsa03>, Ermine Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>To my knowledge, it has NEVER been necessary. The only possible reason that
>I could see for having something writable would be if you were using that
>directory to hold temporary files ... but not even that is necessary. The
>only reason to have the DLLs writable would be if you are updating them for
>some reason, and if your environment is as you describe, there's really no
>reason requiring them on the local system, so they could be on a network
>share somewhere and the admin could update them in one location as needed.
>
>Now, I admit that I don't know everything about configuring Office, so maybe
>I'm wrong on this, ... maybe. But I sure don't find any knowledge base
>articles stating this need and I don't see any inherent reason for this so
>if you know different, I'd sure like to know.
*Shrug* - I tried to restrict writing in the c:\winnt directory to admin
only (using NTFS, of course). Office stopped working unless you were admin.
It's been a few years, but I belive the culprit was some Office appliction
opening its dll's rw. Probably for no reason at all - after all, who would
want to restrict writing to the system directory? It may have been Office95,
or possibly its precursor. 95-96 timeframe, anyhow.
I noticed that you said it was EASY to lockdown NT. I don't know -
your definition of EASY might be different from mine. Regular lobotomy
(aka ghosting or reinstall) isn't something that I would define as EASY.
/Mats
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Kelly)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: New Dell with a ATA66: any hope?
Date: 12 Apr 2000 16:57:02 GMT
In article <8d28t3$qfa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Kelly) writes:
> In article <8d0p25$d32$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Kirk Wythers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
> If you have the interface cable and
> want to get the full udma support, once you get installed and all, then
> download and compile the 2.3.4 kernel. I've been using it for a couple
> of weeks now with no problems. bonnie went from showing 6.7 MB/sec to
> around 21 MB/sec and hdparm showed buffered sequential reads of about
> 16 MB/sec! Definitely worth a kernel download and compile! You can
> set up your lilo.conf so you can boot either the install kernel or the
> new one in case there's a problem.
>
> Good luck. :)
>
Oops! I should also add, if you compile 2.3.4 kernel make sure
you run make config or make xconfig and enable the pd* drivers
that support the Promise udma interface. They are not enabled
by default. Also see the HOWTOs at www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO for
info on enabling the udma on bootup etc..
--
Mike
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