Linux-Misc Digest #450, Volume #24 Fri, 12 May 00 19:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: mounting hard drives (Chi Zhang)
Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk (Matthias Warkus)
Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk (Matthias Warkus)
Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk (Matthias Warkus)
Re: From Linux BACK to Win 98SE (darkstar51)
Re: Trident 9750 AGP 4MB on Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (John-Thomas Richards))
Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk (Salvador Peralta)
Re: Debian and RPM question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
GNU tar compress on the fly? (Steve Feil)
Re: GNU tar compress on the fly? (Timothy J. Lee)
Security and small systems (root)
Compiled new kernel and have some problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: vmware: update date/time on suspended virtual machine? ("Chris Ripp")
Re: lilo overwritten (Leonard Evens)
Re: Recommendation for beginner ("Ken White")
Re: FreeBSD and Linux ("John S. Dyson")
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.misc
From: Chi Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting hard drives
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 16:20:32 -0500
If you have no root priviledge, you can't. But you can try to mount the
unix stuff to your computer, if your unix system have samba(if you use
windows), nfs(for unix) installed.
Or a simple method is use "rcp" or "scp" command, if both computers is
unix(linux).
On Fri, 12 May 2000, David Punsalan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At work, I have a unix account and I also have a desktop computer. My
> quota on the unix account is only ~30MB. I constantly have to ftp stuff
> back and forth. Is there a way to mount my hard drive or a directory from
> my hard drive (from my desktop) onto a mount point in my unix home
> directory? I do not have root privileges.
>
> WS FTP works great, but if I could simply "mv" stuff back and forth, that
> would be great.
>
> Thanks
> -David
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 23:30:59 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Fri, 12 May 2000 12:49:30 GMT...
...and John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gunter Bengel writes:
> > And since this is a tax issue they asked at the relevant authority which
> > is the "Finanzamt" (tax office). The statute of a church was refused to
> > them by said tax office, not by the governement,...
>
> The tax office is not part of the government? Bizarre!
There is a difference between the government that governs a country
and the administration that administrates it. Administration officials
don't change when the government changes (except for the highest ones
which are sent into early retirement).
mawa
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 23:29:41 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Fri, 12 May 2000 10:03:17 -0700...
...and Salvador Peralta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > And btw, Scientology's desperate and tasteless propaganda efforts in this
> > > matter seem to underline what critics accuse them of,
>
> What propaganda? The German government apparently won't do business
> with any company that is in any way linked to scientology. That is
> discrimination.
No, that is self-protection, because Scientology's practices clash
with the German constitution.
mawa
--
Brigitte-Leser!
Brillenputzer!
Briefmarkensammler!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 23:34:21 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Fri, 12 May 2000 18:55:51 GMT...
...and JEDIDIAH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 May 2000 17:20:13 +0200, Matthias Warkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >It was the Fri, 12 May 2000 00:35:31 GMT...
> >...and Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >But German politicians have the right to tell their citizens that they
> >> >should not believe in Scientology?
> >>
> >> They appear to regard it as a "cult" rather than as an ordinary
> >> religion. I would tend to agree with that regard.
> >
> >They regard it as a corporation, cloaked as a cult. BTW, it has been
> >decided that the goals of Scientology oppose certain ideas that have
> >been encoded in some constitution (either the federal constitution or
> >a federal state's constitution) and thus, at least in one federal
> >state, Scientology is being observed by constitution protection
> >authorities.
>
> This could be considered consistent with the German practice
> of banning the Nazi party (and wannabes).
Exactly. The same laws apply to all kinds of radicals.
> Will this 'religous defender' also step forward to defend the
> liberties of the Nazis that he alludes to?
Probably not. Which will be a bit schizophrene...
mawa
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From: darkstar51 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: From Linux BACK to Win 98SE
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 21:29:18 GMT
Put your Windows 98SE cd into the drive and reboot. It's that simple.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeff W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I currently have Corel Linux OS on my laptop and I just don't like
the way
> it works, I've had monitor problems, and a whole mess of things. I
want to
> take it off completely and reinstall Win 98SE. Now, I have Win 2000
on my
> terminal and I don't know what kind of startup disk I'll need. Are
there
> any suggestions on how to go back to 98 on the laptop?? Thanks in
advance.
>
> --
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>
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From: theolojin<anti-spam-device>@home.com (John-Thomas Richards)
Subject: Re: Trident 9750 AGP 4MB on Linux
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 21:43:51 GMT
I am running RedHat Linux with a Trident 9750 AGP w/4MB RAM at 1024x768 without a
problem. What steps have you tried to change the resolution?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
theBuddy1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Trident 9750 AGP/PCI 4MB Video Card and i am running red hat
> linux. now, i cant seem to change the resolution from 640X480 to some
> decent higher resolution. can u please suggest what i should do or suggest
> a different version of linux to install so i can get about 800X600 or
> 1024X768(which i am currently running on windows 98).
>
> please, this is the only reason i am not using linux. please help
>
> --
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God. John Calvin
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From: Salvador Peralta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 14:47:43 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matthias Warkus wrote:
>
> It was the Fri, 12 May 2000 10:03:17 -0700...
> ...and Salvador Peralta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > And btw, Scientology's desperate and tasteless propaganda efforts in this
> > > > matter seem to underline what critics accuse them of,
> >
> > What propaganda? The German government apparently won't do business
> > with any company that is in any way linked to scientology. That is
> > discrimination.
>
> No, that is self-protection, because Scientology's practices clash
> with the German constitution.
How?
--
Salvador Peralta
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.la-online.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Debian and RPM question
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 21:45:23 GMT
Yes, man alien for more info.
In article <8fef3u$14a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
$undevil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I read that Debian uses its own package system. But can Debian use RPM
> packages too? sundevil87 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
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> Before you buy.
>
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From: Steve Feil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GNU tar compress on the fly?
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 17:01:33 -0500
I'm working with a script that generated compressed files on the fly
and pipes them to another computer. Using GNU tar can I generate a
compressed file and send it to standard out.
I've tried the following but it just generated a file called
"--to-stdout"
tar -zcvf --to-stdout <file list>
If seams that the flag "--to-stdout" is for decompression only. Is it
possible for GNU tar to do this or will I have to fix the GNU tar
source code to do this .
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Lee)
Subject: Re: GNU tar compress on the fly?
Date: 12 May 2000 22:15:33 GMT
Reply-To: see-signature-for-email-address---junk-not-welcome
Steve Feil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|I'm working with a script that generated compressed files on the fly
|and pipes them to another computer. Using GNU tar can I generate a
|compressed file and send it to standard out.
|
|I've tried the following but it just generated a file called
|"--to-stdout"
|
|tar -zcvf --to-stdout <file list>
|
|If seams that the flag "--to-stdout" is for decompression only. Is it
|possible for GNU tar to do this or will I have to fix the GNU tar
|source code to do this .
Would:
tar cvf - whatever | gzip -c
work?
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From: root@lugh. (root)
Subject: Security and small systems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 22:16:32 GMT
What is the best way to secure a small internet connected site. By small
I mean 1 to 4 nodes. Super high security is not the goal. I would like to
be a good net citizen and prevent my system from being used by neferious
crackers. I know that I could build a box to act as a firewall. That just
seems a little extreme in this case. And I really would prefer not to have to
use up one of my addresses. Any suggestions are welcome
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Compiled new kernel and have some problems
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 22:05:23 GMT
I just downloaded and compiled the 2.2.14 kernel. I have a few problems,
i would appreciate help on:
First off, I am running Red Hat 6.1 on a Compaq 5150, 128RAM, AMD-K6 at
350 MHz.
1. Now, when I reboot my machine, I get two messages that I did not get
before:
a) etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq: no such file or
directory.
b) at some point when the machine is loading all it has to load I
get numerous messages saying that the kernel version in my System.map
file doesn't correspond to the actual kernel version.
At first glance there is nothing wrong with my machine, it works fine
with the new kernel, I just want to know what I should do to fix that. I
have compiled the proc fs into the kernel.
2. I have compiled quite a few things as modules, one of which is
modules. I was wondering if there is anything else I have to do, except
make modules and make modules_install. I notice that in my /boot there
is a file called module-info-2.2.12.20 (which is my old kernel and came
precompiled from Red Hat 6.1). I was wondering if I have to create a new
file for module info, or whether I should edit that one.
3. Finally, I am having problem with my sound card. I compiled sound
into the kernel. When I was making xconfig and read the help associated
with the sound card, it said that I should know the IRQ, I/O and DMA for
my card, because it will aks me later. Well, it never did. And I still
don't have sound compiled. Would that be a problem with my card, or... I
read several times all the HOWTOs on Sound and compiling sound and they
all said that config (or xconfig, or menuconfig) should ask me at the
end questions about my card. Well, it doesn't. The sound cards on the
Compaqs are integrated and mine is ESS1869.
Help will be greatly appreciated.
Peter
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From: "Chris Ripp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: vmware: update date/time on suspended virtual machine?
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 16:27:54 -0500
Don't the VMware tools have an option to sync the guest-OS clock?
They do when the guest-OS is linux....I'm not sure about the Win versions
though.
(The vmware-tools run inside your guest-os...check the docs....)
"Gerald Pollack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
One of the nice improvements in vmware2.0 is the ability to suspend
the virtual machine, and so to avoid long startup times. I use vmware
to run Win95 on a linux host, in part to synch/backup my wince
hand-held (to my knowledge, there is no simple way to do this under
linux). Apparently, when the hand-held is connected to its hosts
(windows) it updates its date/time settings; and this causes all sorts
of problems if the windows host has been resurrected after several
days' hibernation, still with the old date/time settings. Is there an
easy way to tell vmware, or windows, to re-read the date/time from its
linux host?
Thanks,
--
Gerald Pollack, eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
McGill University, Dept. of Biology, H3A 1B1 Montreal
Tel: 514-398-6418, Fax: 514-398-5069
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo overwritten
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 17:15:28 -0500
"Sam E. Trenholme" wrote:
>
> >I accidently installed windows, over linux. i do not know what happened
> >to the linux partition. but i assume the partition to be safe, but lilo
> >boot has been delete, & i also have not made any boot disk.
> >what to do now?
>
> Whip out your Linux CD, boot from the CDROM, and boot in to rescue mode.
> Rerun lilo from your rescue mode.
>
> Another way to handle this is to "upgrade" the RedHat system (if that is
> what you are running) on top of itself. This will keep your Linux files,
> and rerun Lilo for you.
>
> - Sam
> --
> Please post, and not email, questions you have about my answers
> Go to http://samiam.org/cgi-bin/mailme to get my email address
I've given this advice myself on several occasions. But could
someone explain just what lilo does when you run it. In
/etc/lilo.conf, all you do is tell it the root partition. But
suppose there is a separate partition with the kernel and
associated files mounted on /boot as is the usual case in
recent default partitioning. If everything is mounted when
you run lilo, it presumably can determine the absolute location
on the disk of the relevant files, which is what the boot loader
has to know in order to boot the kernel. But suppose one does
it with a rescue disk and only mounts the root partition?
Does it still work? Or does one also have to mount the
boot partition on the tree for the root partition? If not,
how in the world would lilo know where the kernel files are?
I've never had to deal with this myself since my machines don't
have a separate boot partition.
--
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Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Ken White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommendation for beginner
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 22:23:43 +0100
Thanks Folk, I think I'll opt to buy a version of red hat than comes with a
good manual and jump right in . . . ., thanks for the encouragement - I'll
probably be back for more help;-)
Thanks again
Ken
JackStraw <jack.straw@witchita> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Fri, 12 May 2000 08:29:28 +0100, "Ken White"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Hi all, I have a "redundant" Cyrix P200 which I would like to set-up
using
> >Linux. I have never used linux before, which version should I get? I want
to
> >learn how to use linux but do not want to loose the rest of my hair;-).
> >
> >I have experience setting up PCs using DOS -> Win98.
> >
> >Any guidance would be appreciated.
>
> o Get a good book (O'Reilly's _Running Linux_ perhaps)
>
> o Don't re-install. Linux is not like windows, you can
> alwasy recover.
>
> o Don't be chintzy (sp?) when choosing your packages,
> you'll need more libraries than you think.
>
> o Resign yourself to the fact that linux can be dificult,
> and you might end up loosing your hair anyway.
>
>
> --
> JackStraw
> 0x3D561045
>
> This Internet of yours is a wonderful invention."
> --George W. Bush, in an e-mail to Al Gore.
> http://news.excite.com/news/r/000315/18/campaign-bush-text
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From: "John S. Dyson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 18:03:13 -0500
Christopher Browne wrote:
> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when John S. Dyson would say:
> >Christopher Browne wrote:
> >> <http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-project-9911/msg00042.html>
> >> has a discussion thread entitled "Stop Debian/FreeBSD," so evidently
> >> some people aren't thrilled with the idea...
> >
> >That is kind of interesting, because it would be good to have a Linux-style
> >OS with a freely redistributable (in the sense of developer free),
> >non-redistribution
> >encumbered kernel.
>
> I'm sure that's the _exact_ objection in the thread; doubtless the Debian
> developers have, as the most important thing in their minds to ensure that
> there couldn't _possibly_ be a "non-redistribution encumbered kernel."
>
That position is imponderable to me, unless it is a result of a
social-engineering
or paranoid mentality... By allowing innovation in the kernel (as needed), it
allows the
same development freedom in the kernel as in userland.
There are various forms of 'inertia' that will keep people from forking
excessively
(for example, XFree86, FreeBSD), while if needed, the proprietary forking can
happen. More often than not, there is little reason for being fearful of
minor,
proprietary forks -- the only reason that I can ponder is paranoia :-).
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