Linux-Misc Digest #134, Volume #24 Thu, 13 Apr 00 01:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Caldera Open Linux 2.3 ("Scott Bate")
Windows speaks - gently ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: trouble going to http sites (John Scudder)
Re: Help : Disable the BEEP. (s. keeling)
pthreads for linux (newbie) (GuinessIsGoodForYou)
FIXED [Re: HELP: Lost my GNOME panels] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Restoring files from tape with afio ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (JTK)
boot size (asage)
Something better than xanim (Harry Putnam)
boot size (asage)
RPM problem (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Smith)
Re: RedHat 6.0 and 17Gb hard disk (wayne rattz)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Mike Jones)
Re: Which backup software to use? ("Rev. Don Kool")
Re: Help, Please ("Don")
Re: Please help me ("Michael Westerman")
encrypted password?? ("Calvin")
Re: [Q] Decrypt ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: monitoring users
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From: "Scott Bate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Caldera Open Linux 2.3
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:13:54 +1000
Does anyone know how to start Caldera Open Linux 2.3 installation in text
mode.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Windows speaks - gently
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:46:08 -0400 (EDT)
In Japan, Sony Vaio Machines have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful
Microsoft Windows error messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry,
each only 17 syllables.
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A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
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The Web site you seek
Can not be located but
Countless more exist.
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Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
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ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask way too much.
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Windows 98 crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
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Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
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First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
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With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
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The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.
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Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
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A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
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Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
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You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
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Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
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Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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From: John Scudder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: trouble going to http sites
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:08:45 -0500
Bob,
That was the problem. Thanks again.
John
> 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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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (s. keeling)
Subject: Re: Help : Disable the BEEP.
Date: 12 Apr 2000 20:52:13 -0600
Gorka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[stuff about disabling beep snipped]
/home/keeling_ grep vis .Xresources
XTerm.vt100.visualBell: true
*Rxvt.visualBell: true
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen) TopQuark Software & Serv. Enquire within.
[sed 's/NO@SPAM./@/g'] Contract programmer, server bum.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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From: GuinessIsGoodForYou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: pthreads for linux (newbie)
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 23:08:38 -0400
I have used pthreads on Solaris and HP-UX and would like to use them
on Linux.
Where can I get a pthread implementation for Linux?
I have the Mandrake 7 distribution. Is it on the CD-ROM?
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FIXED [Re: HELP: Lost my GNOME panels]
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 23:00:33 -0400
Please disregard, I fixed it!
Sorry for bothering everyone.
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\___\ / / Great one of the grey matter,
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I'm actually much greater than I think I am..."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Restoring files from tape with afio
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 02:56:24 GMT
Hello there,
I have a travan SCSI tape drive under /dev/tape.
I have a script that uses mt and afio and backups well.
I tried kbackup but cannot seem to get it to work, so I am relying on
simple scripts and afio commands to backup and restore. afbackup is
total overkill for me, too, since I just need to backup nightly and
restore occasionaly from /dev/tape to the host machine - nothing else.
My questions are these:
1. How do I restore an individual file from the tape to the hard drive
using afio? (I can restore the whole archive using afio -ivz /dev/tape,
but cannot figure out how to restore one file)
2. How do I restore one file to an alternate location using afio?
Thanks!
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: JTK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:13:26 -0500
fungus wrote:
>
> Ermine Todd wrote:
> >
> > Innovation does NOT equate to de novo invention.
> >
>
> No, but I'd want a pretty big evolutionary leap in order
> to call it true "innovation". If they'd reduced the mouse
> to a little ring I can wear on my finger or something
> then I'd accept innovation.
Bull-shit fungus. Anything that has the MS stamp on it to you is
automatically 'not innovative', and you not only know it, you *pride*
yourself on it! God, do you have *no* shame at all?
> As it is, they just improved
> combined some existing ideas.
>
BAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHAAAA!!!
Yeah, just a minor step from running on a special mouse pad to running
on DAMN NEAR ANY SURFACE.
> Considering that Microsoft has an entire division devoted
> to pure research ( http://www.research.microsoft.com/ )
> they don't seem to be inventing much.
>
Nothing 'innovative' certainly.
> > there is little, if any, pure invention.
>
> No, but there is *some* pure invention.
Who's doing it fungus? Example.
> All we want
> is a single example of a Microsoft invention.
>
The aforementioned mouse.
Squiggly-underline spellchecking.
Squiggly-underline grammar checking.
All I want is a single example of non-Microsoft invention (cotton gin
doesn't count).
> From the way Bill Gates adds the word "innovation" to every
> sentence he utters in public these days,
You say it more than he does. I agree it has become a sickening word.
> you'd expect
> Microsoft supporters to be able to come up with reams and
> reams of the things, but so far it all seems to be more
> rhetoric for those among the population who can be fooled
> all of the time...
>
Do cooperative efforts count? If so, USB's in that ream.
> --
> <\___/>
> / O O \
> \_____/ FTB.
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From: asage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: boot size
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 23:15:33 -0400
Hi,
While trying to install a couple of different kernel builds, I've gotten
the message that the boot is too big. I figured that I had to use
bzImage, which I have done, once successfully, but not this time. I'm
not sure what this message means; I suppose it's because the boot is 704
and the boot sector is 514. I've configured the kernel as bare as
possible, and using modules as often as possible, but I'm not getting
anywhere. I'd guess that I'm not getting something here, but I don't
know what! <g>
Is there a way to make the boot sector bigger? Or is there a way to
make the boot even smaller? Thanks for any help.
Allison
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From: Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Something better than xanim
Date: 12 Apr 2000 19:35:50 -0700
What apps are available for viewing .mpg or .avi files that works
better than xanim?
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From: asage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: boot size
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 23:19:11 -0400
Hi,
While trying to install a couple of different kernel builds, I've gotten
the message that the boot is too big. I figured that I had to use
bzImage, which I have done, once successfully, but not this time. I'm
not sure what this message means; I suppose it's because the boot is 704
and the boot sector is 514. I've configured the kernel as bare as
possible, and using modules as often as possible, but I'm not getting
anywhere. I'd guess that I'm not getting something here, but I don't
know what! <g>
Is there a way to make the boot sector bigger? Or is there a way to
make the boot even smaller? Thanks for any help.
I should add that the drive that the boot sector is on is only 8 gigs,
and it has 3 equal partitions, aside from the boot partition. The Linux
partition is on a separate hd.
thanks
Allison
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPM problem
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:52:45 -0100
Greetings,
I use Slackware 7.0. I recently tried to install RPM packages, but then
I received the 'failed dependencies' Message Of Fate... yet some of the
concerned libraries are present in my system (directories: /lib,
/usr/lib, /usr/X11R6/lib) ! Could someone explain the reason for this ?
Thanks in advance for any answer.
--
Beno�t Smith
Just A Rhyme Without A Reason
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From: wayne rattz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.0 and 17Gb hard disk
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 03:30:19 GMT
HELLO:Linux can see the dos drive as a whole.Just mount the drive itself
in linux. My site http://www.geocities.com/wrattz/linux1.html can tell you
how to mount drives in a simple fashion.Just click on the howto's(right
side of page)good luck wayne!
inferno2000 wrote:
>
>
> I have a 17Gb hard disk in FAT32 format. Is there an update to Linux to
> enable it to see the 17Gb partition as a whole? Where can I get such a
> thing?
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: Mike Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 03:45:47 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Robert Barry wrote:
>
> > To use your book example:
> >
> > I would say Windows, IE, MS Office, etc are all separate books. They are
> > not chapters of the same book.
> > So MS is saying to buy the windows book you must buy all our other books and
> > put them up on your bookshelf.
> >
> > I don't think that is legal. In my opinion that is tying one separate
> > product to another.
>
> You can go out and buy a Chevy engine from a junk yard. That, ipso facto,
> shows that it is a separate product. However, you're not going to be able
> to buy it from General Motors. They're going to insist you buy the rest
> of the car too. And most of the things they sell you will only work on
> their products. So should GM be busted up into a bunch of separate
> companies that only make engine blocks, carborators, or axles?
If you go to your friendly neighborhood Chevy dealer, you'll find that you *can*
buy all the parts you need to assemble an engine. You may even be able to buy them
as an assembled package. And they *don't* manufacture many of those parts; they
obtain them from third parties and assemble them. Your knowledge of the automobile
industry easily matches your knowledge of the law, the software industry, and
economics. That is, you can't make a local call to a clue about any of them.
--
Mike Jones
Of all the Thompson gunners, Roland was the best....
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From: "Rev. Don Kool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Which backup software to use?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 03:59:15 GMT
Peter Buzanits wrote:
>
> 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.
BudTool works well but I think it only runs under UNIX systems. I
don't know if there is a LINTEL version.
Hope this helps,
Don
--
********************** You a bounty hunter?
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* Baltimore, MD * Dying ain't much of a living, boy.
********************** "Outlaw Josey Wales"
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From: "Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help, Please
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:01:51 -0700
Tom, Thanks for reply.
My /etc/resolv.conf file says:
nameserver 149.174.211.5
nameserver 149.174.213.5
And that's all. Do you think it's complete?
Don Cain
"Tom Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Us7J4.1203$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> The Netscape problem sounds like a nameserver issue. Do you still have an
> intact /etc/resolv.conf file that specifies your search domain and
> namesever IP addresses?
>
> In article <8d2dmn$5d6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Don"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > My Red Hat 6.0 has been working fine using Gnome. All of a sudden I now
> > cannot access Compuserve - I can dial up and after the log on nothing
> > happens - It was working. When I start Netscape, I get a message that it
> > cannot find: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net
> > "This means that some or all hosts will be unreachable."
> >
> > Also my printer stopped working. When I try to print nothing happens.
> > When I run printer tests from the printtool only "Print ASCII directly
> > to port" works. When I try print ASCII test page and print postscript
> > test page I get the message: error printing to queue lp error reason :
> > lpr : connect : connection refused jobs queued, but cannot start
> > daemon. Has my Gnome gone crazy or is it me? What could I have done to
> > have caused this? Any help would be appreaciated.
> >
> > Don [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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From: "Michael Westerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please help me
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:20:29 +1000
use fdisk in linux to set an active partition.
John P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:%76J4.12$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi People
> I installed Redhat 5.2 on my pentuim 200. It will not boot from the
> HDD, I can on;ly use a boot disk. It is a single OS machine. When I try
to
> boot from the HDD reports "no [ACTIVE PARTITION] found insert system disk
> and press enter" I use the boot disk and it boots into LILO fine. LILO is
> installed in the MBR. Please rspond by e-mail as it is easier to read.
>
> Thanx Heaps
> John P
>
>
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From: "Calvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: encrypted password??
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:30:33 +0800
Hi,
I am configurating apache to protect some files in one of my directory.
Then i add the following lines in the .htaccess file.
AuthName someuser
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /somewhere/passwd
require valid-user
As the file /somewhere/passwd need a user name and a encrypted password
separated by a ':'. I just don't know how to get the encrypted password. If
i just type in the password straight forward into the file, it doesn't work.
Best regards
Calvin
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Q] Decrypt
Date: 13 Apr 2000 04:40:43 GMT
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Bill Unruh writes:
:> There has never been any evidence that two plaintexts hash to the same
:> crypted password under crypt(3).
: The fact that information is lost guarantees that it is possible.
Oh, yes (you mean the function is many-1). But nobody has managed
to find an example.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: monitoring users
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 04:54:56 GMT
In article <8d26p9$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
>
>
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>Before you buy.
Turn on process accounting.
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