Linux-Misc Digest #204, Volume #24 Thu, 20 Apr 00 06:13:25 EDT
Contents:
Re: [FLAME] Re: monitoring users (G. Asch)
Re: Email for linux console (G. Asch)
Re: Linux newsgroup -bad experience (G. Asch)
Info about sharing the Internet with Windows 98 clients ("Roland C. Sacramento")
Kernel support for FAT32 ("Roland C. Sacramento")
Re: newbie question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
``pure'' csh for Linux (Bob Nelson)
Re: Axent Defender + PPP (John Hasler)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Re: linux mpeg2 player using SBLive! digital-out ??? ("Dan")
Re: Urgent: Am I attacked, all logs are empty ("Troy M. Turner")
guitar & linux (digs)
Re: Axent Defender + PPP (Christopher Browne)
Re: 'attempt to access beyond end of device' (Krzys Majewski)
Re: Allowing users to shutdown (Ross Boylan)
Re: Kernel support for FAT32 (ajn)
Re: Isn't there a browser which DOES work? (Krzys Majewski)
Mandrake 7, CD-R from creative labs not working. (Maredia)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Andrew Carpenter)
open Xterm in MSWindow ("Eddy")
Re: Sound Recording (Krzys Majewski)
Re: File Size Limitations (Alexander Viro)
Re: how do I email local user on system? (Krzys Majewski)
Re: Netscape font size (Maredia)
Re: Forgot my ROOT PASSWORD... ("Steven J. Hathaway")
password help (Ada)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation ("Erik Funkenbusch")
newbie: etc/rc.d (Andrew Tkachenko)
Re: ``pure'' csh for Linux (Peter T. Breuer)
Re: Kernel support for FAT32 ("Roland C. Sacramento")
Re: Kernel support for FAT32 ("Roland C. Sacramento")
Re: newbie: etc/rc.d ("David ..")
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] Re: monitoring users
Reply-To: G. Asch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: G. Asch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18 Apr 2000 12:24:28 -0400
Eggert Ehmke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
EE> On 15 Apr 2000 12:25:52 -0700, Michael Powe
EE> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This attitude is typical of the small businessman, who frequently
>> exudes this contempt for his employees. Just as he assumes that
>> all his employees are lying thieves, so the employees correctly
>> assume that he is himself a lying thief; one who will cheat them
>> and lie to ...
they use to have that word, 'petit bourgeois'. Maybe it needs a new
lease;-)
Just remember that small businesman did not chose to be small businessman,
they just failed to inherit a large business.
--
_________________________________________________________
Gabriel Asch
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
!!! Note: to foil spammers,
if you reply by email, your message must either contain a
proper Reference header or you must quote !this line!
"in a sense, you are already dead"
J. L. Borges
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Subject: Re: Email for linux console
Reply-To: G. Asch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: G. Asch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18 Apr 2000 12:29:39 -0400
bryhoyt <Bryan> writes:
b> Any advice on what program I should use to download and send email
b> from the linux console? I want something relatively powerful, like
b> Netscape Messenger, but for the console. Thanks
if you want power, I think MH ( nmh-1.0.4 ) reigns
--
_________________________________________________________
Gabriel Asch
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
!!! Note: to foil spammers,
if you reply by email, your message must either contain a
proper Reference header or you must quote !this line!
"in a sense, you are already dead"
J. L. Borges
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Subject: Re: Linux newsgroup -bad experience
Reply-To: G. Asch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: G. Asch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18 Apr 2000 12:38:48 -0400
asage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
a> It's a chicken and egg thing alot of the time. The man pages are
a> often quite obscure. So one goes to the Documentation pages, of
a> which there are hundreds. One may want to do some very simple
a> thing (like get something actually working!!), and is faced with a
a> herculean task of finding out just which doc might be the one that
a> will help.
that is when a RTFM reply can be helpful in showing you where to look for
the info you need. Besides, people do answear simple questions on this
newsgroup. If you want to see a really hard_core RTFM newbies beware ng
try asking something on comp.lang.perl.
--
_________________________________________________________
Gabriel Asch
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
!!! Note: to foil spammers,
if you reply by email, your message must either contain a
proper Reference header or you must quote !this line!
"in a sense, you are already dead"
J. L. Borges
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From: "Roland C. Sacramento" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Info about sharing the Internet with Windows 98 clients
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:36:24 +0800
Can anyone give me some info about sharing my Dial-up account with 6-8
Windows clients. I have successfully installed RH61 and I plan to share
my Internet to 6 clients. I heard that IP masquerading is safer and
better than Proxy servers softwares like WinGate/ NetProxy etc. I also
need to authenticate users before logging in to the network. Does Linux
have a facility similar to the Windows NT domain structure wherein users
must authenticate to the server before they can have access to the
network?
Please help....
Thanks.
N0D
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From: "Roland C. Sacramento" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel support for FAT32
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:44:05 +0800
My RH61 tells me that the FAT32 is not supported by the Kernel. How do I
make my kernel to support FAT32 filesystem. I need to mount it so that I
can use all my previous files (docs and other txts.) from my Win98
system. Also, can you help me out on how to share my dial-up account for
6 clients. Actually I' wanna put up a cybercafe and I want to use my
Linux as a proxy server.
Thanks
N0D
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: newbie question
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 04:47:59 GMT
In article <ezolI2Xq$GA.305@net025s>, "MvW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just a simple question for you, but I have no idee to return to text-mode in
> RH 6.2. While booting I just go to the graphical login screen, how can I
> (incidentally) go to text mode?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Micha van Wijngaarden
>
>
edit, as root, /etc/inittab where it says
id:5:initdefault:
change the 5 to 3
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From: Bob Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ``pure'' csh for Linux
Date: 18 Apr 2000 23:45:29 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not tcsh...no arrow keys wanted, no completion, no ``visual'' command
line editing wanted. (I couldn't find a variable to set in ``tcsh''
to make it conform to classic csh).
Is there a ``bug for bug'', feature-deprived implementation of the
classic csh -- for Linux? The sources for csh provided in FreeBSD
are very specific to that OS and won't compile out of the box.
So...before I start hacking away at the source...does it already
exist?
--
========================================================================
Bob Nelson -- Dallas, Texas, USA ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://www.oldradio.com/archives/nelson/open-computing.html
``Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.''
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Axent Defender + PPP
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 03:51:30 GMT
Christopher Browne writes:
> I'd think Expect to be the Tool de Jour for this purpose; has anybody
> scripted this sort of thing?
Take a look at /usr/doc/ppp/examples/scripts/secure-card.
> I'm uncertain of how precisely to proceed; it would be fairly nice to
> still use CHAT...
It should be possible using chat's new ability to read from a pipe, but I
haven't looked into it in any detail.
If these things become common I'll have to make pppconfig support them.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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Reply-To: <btolder>
From: <btolder>
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:04:01 -0700
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
> "(...) any random surface pattern of relatively light and dark areas
> separated by edges (...)" is the relevant part of the sentence. As far
> as I can see this means a surface that is not of uniform colour and
> texture, on which the "new" Microsoft optical mouse wouldn't work
> either.
The microsoft mouse works on a sheet of perfectly clean glass or a mirror
without problem. I use it on a glass tabletop with my laptop without issue.
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From: "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
ahn.tech.linux,alt.binaries.warez.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: linux mpeg2 player using SBLive! digital-out ???
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:13:39 +1000
Hmm.
As far as I know, you can't play DVD movies in Linux. There are no drivers.
(Correct me if I'm wrong guys).
And Dolby Digital Sound? Do you mean Dolby Surround Sound? You'll only get
Dolby Surround Sound from a source which has been appropriately encoded. I
really don't think MPEG compression supports Dolby Surround Sound - just
good old Stereo. If you want, you can use a plug-in to fudge a Dolby-type
Signal, but only through 2 speakers. I don't think the SB-Live linux drivers
support a 5-speaker set-up just yet. (Correct me if I'm wrong guys).
Dan
Joachim Nolten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8dhmpi$1dtn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I want to play DVD's on linux, wich i should be able to do after
> configuring. I'm also configuring my Sblive! to work under Linux, so that
> should work too.
> My question now is: Is there a linux mpeg2 player that will output Dolby
> Digital Sound through my Sblive digital-out?
>
> I use my pc with a external Dolby Digital decoder for watching dvd's.
>
> Joachim Nolten
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:29:32 -0400
From: "Troy M. Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Urgent: Am I attacked, all logs are empty
There is an article @ www.rootprompt.com about a sysadm who had to track
the files like you have tootles exactly how he/she did it. It may help
you.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (digs)
Subject: guitar & linux
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 05:16:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Folks -
For everyone out there that enjoys both playing guitar and linux:
http://console-newsletter.hypermart.net/xtune/xtune.htm
--
later on,
digs
PGP fingerprint [35 34 DB 68 5A F3 CD 32 F6 27 BC 9F 28 8A FA 2F]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Axent Defender + PPP
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 05:29:24 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when John Hasler would say:
>Christopher Browne writes:
>> I'd think Expect to be the Tool de Jour for this purpose; has anybody
>> scripted this sort of thing?
>
>Take a look at /usr/doc/ppp/examples/scripts/secure-card.
That's moved to /usr/share/doc/ppp/examples/scripts; thanks!
>> I'm uncertain of how precisely to proceed; it would be fairly nice to
>> still use CHAT...
>
>It should be possible using chat's new ability to read from a pipe, but I
>haven't looked into it in any detail.
>
>If these things become common I'll have to make pppconfig support them.
That would be pretty slick; pppconfig provided the cleanest PPP
configuration process that I've had, which goes back to the 1.0.9 days
when I had to patch PPP into the kernel and install chunks of NET3.
[Which I mostly forget, probably my mind rejecting it...]
I suspect that they _will_ get more common.
--
It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally
vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - - <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 'attempt to access beyond end of device'
Date: 18 Apr 2000 22:38:03 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) writes:
I'm running 2.2.1.
The ZIP drive works fine under dos98.
I've got two hard drives on that same SCSI card (and the CD-ROM as
well I think) and they work fine.
The problem appears with both ext2 and msdos filesystems on the ZIP
disk.
-chris
> Which kernel are you using? I got that a few times while using kernel
> 2.2.5 (the kernel that shipped with SuSE 6.1 and RH 6.0) and that kernel
> had problems with ZIP drives. Upgrade your kernel if this is the case;
> data corruption can result if you're unlucky! The latest version is
> 2.2.15-preSomething, but 2.3.99-pre5 (the devel kernel) has been very
> stable for me. YMMV, good luck.
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From: Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Allowing users to shutdown
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 05:30:43 GMT
Hey, I didn't think this was such a bad question, and the links you
provided didn't answer it. Or at least, they don't answer my
interpretation of the question:
In GNOME, is it safe to shutdown now from a terminal window running
under GNOME?
This assumes you have the privileges.
Judging by the console messages I see when I try this, it seems the
answer is no. Yet logging out, then logging in as root, then shutting
down, is really a bit much.
The problem, as I see it, is that you can't su for items on the menu.
I'm running gdm as well, so I get the graphical login screen right away
(Debian potato system).
P.S. I looked at the GNOME FAQ, 3 months of archives on the main GNOME
list, and deja news. Nothing lept out at me.
In article <8d7mhq$ruj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > How can I give myself priviliges to shutdown or restart the system
as
> a
> > non-root user? Everytime I try to halt the machine or restart it
I'm
> > prompted for the root password.
> >
> > I'd like to speed this up, putting in the password is wasting
precious
> > seconds.
> >
> > 8^)
> >
> > In case it helps, I'm using GNOME.
> >
> > Thanks.
> [far to long sig cut]
>
> This is taken from a post dated 3/27 this year. Please search for
> answers yourself before asking 1000+ people.
>
> Some answers:
>
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/LG/issue28/lg_tips28.html#shut
> http://www.linuxvoodoo.org/howto/all/00000059.html
> http://frf.hypermart.net/linux-newbie/FAQ2.htm#shutdown_as_user
>
> /A
>
> --
> # Andreas K�h�ri, <URL:http://hello.to/andkaha/>.
> # All junk email is reported to the appropriate authorities.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: ajn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel support for FAT32
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:43:52 +1000
"Roland C. Sacramento" wrote:
>
> My RH61 tells me that the FAT32 is not supported by the Kernel. How do I
> make my kernel to support FAT32 filesystem. I need to mount it so that I
> can use all my previous files (docs and other txts.) from my Win98
> system. Also, can you help me out on how to share my dial-up account for
> 6 clients. Actually I' wanna put up a cybercafe and I want to use my
> Linux as a proxy server.
>
> Thanks
>
> N0D
recompile the kernel with vfat support in it - or load the module if you
elected to have support in module form when you compiled it last time.
ajn
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From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Isn't there a browser which DOES work?
Date: 18 Apr 2000 22:51:46 -0700
Older versions of netscape required a workaround to prevent
crashes. I've got the HTML file here ("The linux help page of Theofilu
Andreas"), e-mail majewski at cs.ubc.ca if you want it. I'm using
navigator 4.x now and it doesn't require the workaround. It crashes
rarely. -chris
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From: Maredia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 7, CD-R from creative labs not working.
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 05:53:23 GMT
I have a CD-R (creative labs). It worked fine in red-hat 6.1 and suse 6.3. Last
week I insalled mandrake 7. Now that I have installed linux I can't mount my
cdrom or my floppy. mount /mnt/cdrom gives me a "input/output error".
mount /dev/scdo gives me an error too "mount: can't find /dev/scdo in /etc/fstab
or /etc/mtab". I want to listen to CDs and can't do it. I couldn't install star
office ..... Help ..... please.....
by the way I tired a clean install 2 times .....
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From: Andrew Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 05:56:47 +0930
btolder wrote:
>
> > "(...) any random surface pattern of relatively light and dark areas
> > separated by edges (...)" is the relevant part of the sentence. As far
> > as I can see this means a surface that is not of uniform colour and
> > texture, on which the "new" Microsoft optical mouse wouldn't work
> > either.
>
> The microsoft mouse works on a sheet of perfectly clean glass or a mirror
> without problem. I use it on a glass tabletop with my laptop without issue.
So how do you think the Microsoft mouse works out where it is, if not by
boundary detection?
I think it's just a case of scale... the sensor probably scans at a high
enough resolution to pick up the flaws in the surface of the glass, and
at a fast enough rate to get at least two frames with overlapping
detail. I don't think you'll find too many (any?) surfaces that are
flawless much beyond the human-visible scale.
If your mirror *was* perfect, then the Microsoft mouse logically
*couldn't* work -- all it would see was its own reflection in the same
position!
Andrew
[ opinions are my own ]
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From: "Eddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: open Xterm in MSWindow
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:56:19 +0800
Is there any tools I can use to open Xterm in Windows Platform ?
Eddy
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From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Recording
Date: 18 Apr 2000 23:00:47 -0700
Found this URL in my bookmarks:
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/
Hopefully still there
-chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: File Size Limitations
Date: 19 Apr 2000 01:59:45 -0400
In article <Fx8L4.885$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>False. ext2 is designed with a file size limit of 2TB. It enforces a
>2GB limit on 32 bit platforms in that the APIs don't happily support
>more than 2GB.
>
>And VFS (I suspect Alexander Viro can speak to this more
>authoritatively) has only been providing a 32 bit interface on IA-32.
>_THAT_ is a vastly more critical limit.
Actually it's a question to Ingo and Matti - they've done the work on large
files. Anyway:
1) 2.2 is limited (in VFS) to MAXINT bytes per file. For ext2, reiserfs,
whatever. On 32bit architectures it's 2Gb, on 64bit for all practical
purposes it's infinity.
2) 2.3 is limited (in VFS) to MAXINT pages per file. On x86 it's
8Tb (2G pages, 4Kb each).
3) Ext2 layout also adds some limits. They depend on the block size.
With the 4Kb blocks the limit on file size is slightly above 4Tb (it's 4Tb +
4Gb + 4Mb + 12*4Kb).
--
"You're one of those condescending Unix computer users!"
"Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer" - Dilbert.
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From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how do I email local user on system?
Date: 18 Apr 2000 23:07:12 -0700
Not sure I understand your question but you probably will need to use
internet e-mail. Along with a client like pine you will likely need
to install sendmail or some variant. You can then send mail to "bob"
(no @ symbol, no domain) and user "bob" will get the mail.
chris
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From: Maredia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape font size
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 06:09:39 GMT
I am tired of the ugly fonts of netscape under linux too .... any solutions
guys !!
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Hawk82 wrote:
>Hey all!
>I have Mandrake 7.02 and Netscape Communicator 4.7.
>
>I need to know how to increase the font size in Netscape so it is more
>readable.
>
>I have my resolution at 1024 x 768 w/ 32 bit color.
>When I put the resolution down to 800 x 600, it does not help too much.
>
>The font increase setting in Netscape is greyed out (can't use) under the
>View command.
>
>Please help.
>
>Hawk82
>
>--
>Posted via CNET Help.com
>http://www.help.com/
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:47:30 -0700
From: "Steven J. Hathaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Forgot my ROOT PASSWORD...
I usually recover from lost root passwords by booting the Linux distrubution
floppies
(ie. Slackware) that requires no root password, and the "ramdisk" is the
file-system
root. You then mount your original root disk to /mnt and edit the file
/mnt/etc/shadow
to fix the problem (removing the contents of the second field). This allows
root
to login without a password. Then you use the "passwd" command to assign a
new password after you have rebooted your computer from your hard disk.
- Steve Hathaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Regarding this problem, I have a corrupt file that no longer recognizes my
> password. I have used the same procedure you recomment, but vi tells me the
> file is 'read only', so that when I try to change it I only get the message
> 'you don't exist - go away'. How do I get over this hurdle?
>
> �Thanks,
>
> Mark Braham
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Tux wrote:
> >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > Do I have to reinstall Linux if I forgot my root password, or is there
> > > some way to get back into the system without doing this...???
> > >
> > > Thanks..
> >
> > Tux,
> >
> > I hope this would solve your problem...At the linux LILO prompt keyin
> > 'linux single'. This will start your linux on a single user mode, you
> > will now get a root shell access.
> > Through this access you can gain access to the file /etc/shadow. Edit the
> > file /etc/shadow using vi editor. Delete from the second field of the
> > root id (those set of characters stands for your encyrpted password)..
> > The field is similar to the one below.
> >
> > root:Ai745$djf:11062:0:999999:7
> >
> > 1)Delete all the set of characters from the second field ( next to the
> > 'root:'). Save then exit the shadow file.
> > 2) then type the command 'password' from the bash..
> > 3) you will be now asked for a new password.
> > 4) key in your password
> > 5) you now have the new password for your linux....
> >
> >
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Ada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: password help
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 18:08:13 +1200
I have just installed LINUX REDHAT 5.2 APOLLO.
This is my first install and I am a newbie.
When I installed I am sure I remembered my password 9 wrote it down in
fact) but cannot remember being asked for a login name.
Now when I run LINUX it asks for a login name and password. I cannot get
in on the options I have tried. I know the password is correct bu unsure
of log-in name.
Any way around this without re-installing the damn thing???
Adrian
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From: "Erik Funkenbusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:59:51 -0500
Andrew Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> btolder wrote:
> >
> > > "(...) any random surface pattern of relatively light and dark areas
> > > separated by edges (...)" is the relevant part of the sentence. As far
> > > as I can see this means a surface that is not of uniform colour and
> > > texture, on which the "new" Microsoft optical mouse wouldn't work
> > > either.
> >
> > The microsoft mouse works on a sheet of perfectly clean glass or a
mirror
> > without problem. I use it on a glass tabletop with my laptop without
issue.
>
> So how do you think the Microsoft mouse works out where it is, if not by
> boundary detection?
Clearly it doesn't work with edges, which implies a line. Since a glass
surface has no lines in it.
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From: Andrew Tkachenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newbie: etc/rc.d
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:49:24 +0000
What is the best way to include/exclude some services, started during
booting?
if I don't want to start, for example, 'amd' daemon at boot time, so
should i just 'rm' it's link from /etc/rc.d/rc?.d. But if i want to
start it atomatically later, how should i do it - i mean how to choose
link's name?
--
===========================================
Buing a Pentium III you can reboot faster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter T. Breuer)
Subject: Re: ``pure'' csh for Linux
Date: 19 Apr 2000 08:59:12 +0100
Bob Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Not tcsh...no arrow keys wanted, no completion, no ``visual'' command
: line editing wanted. (I couldn't find a variable to set in ``tcsh''
: to make it conform to classic csh).
It should behave exactly like csh if you call it as "csh". I.e. use a
symbolic link.
: Is there a ``bug for bug'', feature-deprived implementation of the
: classic csh -- for Linux? The sources for csh provided in FreeBSD
: are very specific to that OS and won't compile out of the box.
Peter
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From: "Roland C. Sacramento" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel support for FAT32
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:06:57 +0800
thanks....btw what is the name of the module for supporting FAT32.
: - )
ajn wrote:
> "Roland C. Sacramento" wrote:
> >
> > My RH61 tells me that the FAT32 is not supported by the Kernel. How do I
> > make my kernel to support FAT32 filesystem. I need to mount it so that I
> > can use all my previous files (docs and other txts.) from my Win98
> > system. Also, can you help me out on how to share my dial-up account for
> > 6 clients. Actually I' wanna put up a cybercafe and I want to use my
> > Linux as a proxy server.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > N0D
>
> recompile the kernel with vfat support in it - or load the module if you
> elected to have support in module form when you compiled it last time.
>
> ajn
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From: "Roland C. Sacramento" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel support for FAT32
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:08:13 +0800
thanks
what is the name of the module??? can you give me some detailed procedures on
how to do this?
; - )
ajn wrote:
> "Roland C. Sacramento" wrote:
> >
> > My RH61 tells me that the FAT32 is not supported by the Kernel. How do I
> > make my kernel to support FAT32 filesystem. I need to mount it so that I
> > can use all my previous files (docs and other txts.) from my Win98
> > system. Also, can you help me out on how to share my dial-up account for
> > 6 clients. Actually I' wanna put up a cybercafe and I want to use my
> > Linux as a proxy server.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > N0D
>
> recompile the kernel with vfat support in it - or load the module if you
> elected to have support in module form when you compiled it last time.
>
> ajn
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie: etc/rc.d
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 02:04:16 -0500
Andrew Tkachenko wrote:
>
> What is the best way to include/exclude some services, started during
> booting?
> if I don't want to start, for example, 'amd' daemon at boot time, so
> should i just 'rm' it's link from /etc/rc.d/rc?.d. But if i want to
> start it atomatically later, how should i do it - i mean how to choose
> link's name?
> --
> ===========================================
> Buing a Pentium III you can reboot faster
/usr/sbin/setup
Choose System services and remove the asterisk from infront of the
services you don't want to start at boot time. Then stop the services
you don't want running by replacing service in the command below with
the service you want to stop.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/service stop
You don't need to reboot to stop the services but the next time you do,
the services you removed the asterisk from in front of will not start at
boot time.
Hope this helps.
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
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