Linux-Misc Digest #515, Volume #24 Thu, 18 May 00 14:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: Any way to fake/spoof MAC address? (Praedor Tempus)
USR/3COM 56K PCI FaxModem Model 5610 config (Robert Lynch)
Re: Redhat6.2 Network bug ?? (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: WYSIWYG web page generator (I R A Darth Aggie)
Re: database application (Parminder Lehal)
Re: [Help] Removing remote printer jobs (Edward Jong)
Re: hosts.deny fills up redundantly (Prasanth Kumar)
Re: XFree86 4.0 rpms (Paul D. Smith)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (George Russell)
Re: Motif release to Open Source Community leads to Open Motif Everywhere (Jonathan
Thornburg)
Hidden Boot. (MG Measures)
Re: booting over 1023rd cylinder (sergio)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Garry Knight)
Maximum Linux (Garry Knight)
Re: hosts.deny fills up redundantly (Praedor Tempus)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (David Steinberg)
eXodus - remote xterm from windows ("Gus Segura")
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Someone)
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From: Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any way to fake/spoof MAC address?
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 10:46:55 -0600
Bob Hauck wrote:
>
> On 17 May 2000 18:02:14 -0500, Dave Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
[...]
> >But I've run into places that "administer" MAC addresses. I'm not sure
> >why.
>
> It would make sense as a way of keeping track of what computers were
> assigned to whom for remote management.
[...]
> >presume there are some network setups that have associated a MAC address
> >with a particular machine, and if that card needs to be replaced,
[...]
I work parttime at a postition in which MAC addresses are
watched/administered
closely. They only permit authorized computers to hook into the
network, which
means they don't, as a rule, permit people to bring in their own
personal laptops
to use. If a "strange" MAC address appears on their network, they get
bent
out of shape.
I intend to use my laptop. My desktop is a piece of crap (slow, runs
windoze and crashes OFTEN). I originally considered having Win98
removed and
NT installed, installing a second NIC and using the NT box with the
authorized
MAC address as server/router for my laptop connected to it, but was told
that
this would not mask my MAC address (by the local network guys).
Then I decided that if I could mimic/copy/duplicate its MAC address on
my
laptop, then I could unplug the piece of crap and use my laptop and use
linux. Since I CAN alter my MAC address, I can now use the same MAC
address as my crappy doze box, disconnect it and use a real computer and
OS. It is also going to work as an educational tool, of sorts, for
some of our network guys (MCSE-"certified") who had/have no idea that
you can alter MAC addresses. They are the ones that originally told me
that I couldn't connect my laptop because it would display a
new/different/
unauthorized MAC address and immediately be targeted for termination (my
turn of phrase). I can now show them that, indeed, I CAN change my MAC
address and remain essentially invisable to that layer of checking on
the
network.
> >(Bob, you didn't mention >why< you changed the MAC addr on your laptop.)
>
> I didn't. The other guy did and he didn't say why either. He originally
> wanted to hide it.
It was in regards to the above that I wondered about hiding/masking my
MAC
address...so that I might connect thru my desktop, switched to NT
(officially,
I can only use 'doze products on the company hardware), and not worry
about my
laptop setting off any bells as a "foreign" MAC address.
I have tried installing Linux (Caldera 2.3 thus far...will try with
Mandrake
next) on the box, regardless of the 'doze rule, so I could have a dual
boot
system and, perhaps, use VMWare when absolutely necessary (it is a slow
machine
no matter how you slice it) but Caldera could not install. It couldn't
even
BEGIN to install for unknown reasons to me. It is an older piece of
crap,
however.
praedor
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Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 09:50:58 -0700
From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: USR/3COM 56K PCI FaxModem Model 5610 config
Hi-
I bought a VALinux system with a "USR/3COM 56K PCI FaxModem Model 5610"
and found that this was config'd by a script called from
/etc/rc.d/rc.local. I'm posting this for anyone searching for this
modem config (I dunno, maybe it's common knowledge, but methinks not :)
---
#!/bin/sh
# 01:08.0 Class 0700: 12b9:1008 (rev 01) (prog-if 02)
# Subsystem: 12b9:00ad
# Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
# I/O ports at dff0
# Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
# A nasty hack to make the USR/3COM pci modem work.
#Scan the pci bus exit if no modem.
/sbin/lspci -d 12b9:1008 | /bin/grep -q "US Robotics" || exit
#Figure out what resources we need.
ioport=`/sbin/lspci -nvd 12b9:1008 | /bin/grep "I/O ports" | awk '{
print $4 }'`irq=`/sbin/lspci -nvd 12b9:1008 | /bin/grep " IRQ " | awk '{
print $5 }'`
#Use the ttyS3 device, COM 4 under DOS.
serport=/dev/ttyS3
#Bind modem to
device.
/bin/setserial $serport irq $irq port 0x$ioport ^fourport ^auto_irq
skip_test autoconfig spd_vhi
/bin/setserial $serport skip_test autoconfig
#check for symlink /dev/modem
if [ -L /dev/modem ]; then
#if it exists bail out
exit 0
else
#if not set the symlink.
ln -s $serport /dev/modem
fi
#In the unlikely event /dev/modem is not a symlink this will produce an
error.
----
FWIW. Bob L.
--
Robert Lynch-Berkeley CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To: tw.bbs.comp.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Redhat6.2 Network bug ??
Date: 18 May 2000 11:57:40 -0500
In article <8g09hh$ers$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >This rare problem does happens in my Tulip.o network cards.
>> >I tried to reinstall it 4-5 times with my netgear(tulip) NIC and it
>fail
>> >to communicate with other hosts through my new DLINK10/100 Switch
>after
>> >I unplug the RJ45 for 150-200 seconds and replug the RJ45 again.
>> I'm using the VALinux 6.2.1 variation which I think would be
>> identical to RH 6.2 as far at the tulip driver goes. I
>> do have a 'real' DEC chip Netgear (stocked up on the
>> originals when they were still available...). I have had
>> some trouble when the switch was not set to auto-negotiate
>> but it didn't cause complete failure. I have had very
>> few problems with these cards or Intel 10/100's.
>My 3com office connect 10/100 switch is auto-negotiable.
>My Dlink 10/100 switch is a N-way negotiable.
>
>Both of them fail to pick up the packages when using tulip driver (my
>netgears are also with real DEC chip).
>
>I will not do any futher test on the 6.2 anymore. Since I had sent this
>problem to Redhat inc few days ago but they have not reply me yet.
>
>I will use 6.1 and upgrade the kernal instead of using 6.2 until they
>solve the problem.
That sounds backwards to me - I don't see how anything but the
kernel and tulip module could be involved. It is possible that
the VALinux variation includes fixes for that (along with
NFS, etc.). If you have time to test it, you can find their
modified SRPMS at
ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/software/VALinux/6.2.1/SRPM/VALinux/SRPMS/
including one for the kernel, or just grab the whole thing from
under ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/software/VALinux/6.2.1/
(iso images or i386 directory). I haven't had too much trouble
doing mix-n-match with binary rpms from this, stock RedHat, or
Mandrake.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I R A Darth Aggie)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG web page generator
Date: 18 May 2000 16:54:15 GMT
Reply-To: no-courtesy-copies-please
On Thu, 18 May 2000 17:07:15 +0100,
Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+ However, if you're determined to drag in content,
Yes, I am. Admit it: without content, the Web is naught but a
continuous advertisment. I can get that on TV, and that can
be *far* more entertaining.
+ I will admit that I think the Web is more than just content.
+ For that matter, that's true of a book, as well.
Oh, surely you don't read those old text-only oddities?
+ But if I had to choose (not that I or anyone else does
+ have to choose), of course I'd choose content over presentation.
Good presentation can do wonders for adequate content. But like getting
blood from a stone, great presentation can only do so much to lousy
content.
Now, into my killfile where you belong...
James
--
Consulting Minister for Consultants, DNRC
The Bill of Rights is paid in Responsibilities - Jean McGuire
To cure your perl CGI problems, please look at:
<url:http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html>
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From: Parminder Lehal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: database application
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 12:35:13 -0400
try postgres and perl
or postgres/java combination.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> i need to write a personnel info system/payroll application for my
> friend whose soho (30 staff) is migrating from windows to linux. i
> have no web programming experience (java,perl,etc.), but i did some
> application in ms-access and sap abap/4. what software(s) should i
> use? thanks very much.
>
> adajar
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Edward Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: [Help] Removing remote printer jobs
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 10:00:18 -0700
Login as root
$ su
password: <secret>
# # find out where lprm lives
# which lprm
/usr/bin/lprm
# cd /usr/bin
# # change so only root and you and nobody else can run lprm
# chmod ug+s lprm
# chown your_user_login_name:lp lprm
If you want your group to run lprm
edit the /etc/group file.
# vi /etc/group
your_group_id:x:500:your_group_id,lp
Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez wrote:
> Hi all,
> We've found a problem with remote printer jobs management, we
> haven't been able to solve yet. So we require to your expertise.
> The framework is as follows: We have set up a network of machines
> running different distributions of Linux, mainly Red Hat (6.0, 6.1 and
> 6.2) and Slackware. We also have a printer server running under Red Hat
> 6.2. This server offers remote printing service for clients. Every
> client is able to send printer jobs and get them printer with no
> problems. We can also query the state of the printer queue through lpq.
> So far, so good. But the problem arises when a printer job must be
> killed. Then 'lprm' doesn't do its job. It simply refuses to cancel the
> given job, just replying: "permission denied". The only way to remove
> the job is by issueing 'lprm' as a root in the server machine. This is
> really annoying and unconvenient. We have also tried to run the lpd
> daemon in both machines (server and client) with the -l option to get
> further information, but wasn't able to get anything really helpful.
> We also had this problem with Red Hat linux 6.0, then we upgraded to
> 6.1 and the problem remained. Next upgrade to Red Hat 6.2 haven't solved
> it either.
> Thanks in advance for your kind help.
>
> Greetings!
>
> Jos� Manuel
>
> --
> Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dpto. de Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial
> E.T.S. Ingenieria Informatica
> Universidad de Granada Tel. +34 - 958 - 24 61 43
> 18071 - GRANADA (Spain) Fax: +34 - 958 - 24 33 17
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From: Prasanth Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hosts.deny fills up redundantly
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 17:03:34 GMT
Praedor Tempus wrote:
>
> I am running portsentry on my system. I find that every day entries to
> my hosts.deny increases, which would be fine if the new entries WERE
> always new. Instead, I get a couple new/unique entries added to
> hosts.deny but, by far, the majority of entries are redundant. I end
> up with a file loaded with repeated entries of the same IP address.
>
> Why? Is there a way to prevent duplicate entries from being added?
> Barring that, can someone help me out with a script that I could
> run as a cron job to remove duplicate entries?
>
> Thank you,
>
> praedor
Something like (please test it first!):
#!/bin/sh
cp /etc/hosts.deny /etc/hosts.deny.tmp
sort /etc/hosts.deny.tmp | uniq >/etc/hosts.deny
rm -f /etc/hosts.deny.tmp
killall -HUP inetd
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul D. Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0 rpms
Date: 18 May 2000 12:59:56 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
%% Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
sm> It's not an rpm question.
Well, it really is.
sm> ncurses-4 and 5 have many programs in common, so I can't install
sm> both packages. If I upgrade (rpm -Uvh) the packages depending on
sm> ncurses-4 complain. It seems that one must force ncurses-5.
This seems to me to be a problem of poorly packaging ncurses, then.
It's true that you can have multiple versions of shared libraries
installed at the same time.
It should be possible to install the ncurses4 shared libs and the
ncurses5 shared libs at the same time. If the RPM packages don't allow
this because the package contains other programs which conflict, then
that means the RPM package wasn't designed correctly. Perhaps there
should be two separate packages: one for the shared library and another
for the conflicting programs, so you can install both shared libraries
at the same time, while still keeping only one set of conflicting
programs, and you'd have no errors.
This isn't an issue with Linux, it's shared library scheme, the dynamic
loader, etc. It's _purely_ a packaging issue.
--
===============================================================================
Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Management Development
"Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist
===============================================================================
These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Russell)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 17:08:33 GMT
On 18 May 2000 11:36:53 GMT, Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What most people don't like about KDE is that if you port your
>commercial program to Linux, you'll have to pay for a Qt license.
Proprietary program.... be accurate. Most KDE critics are hypocrites in this
way - critiscise closed apps, and cristicise a toolkit that makes them pay.
>Now that in itself is not so bad, but it's not fair. KDE is built
>on the kernel, X, gcc, you name it - all free. Yet you have to pay
>for this tiny Qt component. I'd rather pay Linus a few bucks for the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
How many man years? How many thousand lines of code? More importantly, how
many supplied features and capabilities? How much time and money saved by its
use? How often do you get cross windowing system portability built in?
Excellent support? Comprehensive docs?
There are 100209 lines of code in .cpp and .h in Qt 2.1's src/kernel directory -
this misses out 3rd party stuff, the moc program, tools, dialogs, utils and
widgets, extensions (OpenGL support, Image formats, Xt widgets, NSPlugin), the
tutorial, includes, and examples...
Quite a lot, I feel.
As a user, I've benefited from Qt's existance ever since the release of EzPPP
using Qt. Since then, through the rise of KDE, and its Office suite and tools,
I habe continued to benefit and expect to benefit more.
I am grateful for Troll Techs liberal licensing terms.
George Russell
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Thornburg)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Motif release to Open Source Community leads to Open Motif Everywhere
Date: 18 May 2000 19:08:52 +0200
[I _think_ the nested quoting here hasn't buffer-overrun my brain's
stack. But if I've misattributed anyone's words to someone else, my
apologies.]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
phil hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
PH> Of course, the distinction is rapidly becoming almost irrelevant: the only
PH> closed-source Unix which is likely to remain around is Solaris.
On Thu, 18 May 2000 12:28:11 GMT, Jay Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
replied
JM> While this may be true for IRIX, I'm not so sure about HP-UX, and not at all
JM> sure about AIX, and pretty certain that Tru64 Unix is not going to be
JM> abandoned any time soon.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phil Hunt then
responded
> Not formally abandoned.
While this might well be a nice thing -- Irix seems to be high on
most people's list of Unix flavors which cause wierd problems in porting
-- I'm afraid I don't see Irix going away any time soon.
SGI and its customers have a lot of money invested in SGI's Origin 2000
supercomputer-cluster line, which currently goes up to around 512 precessors
with a _single_system_image_ and a _single_address_space_. SGI has
announced a followon for next year (?), but I don't know the details of
it.
At any rate, I'm afraid Linux doesn't have that degree of kernel
parallelization (multithreading) yet, and likely won't have without a
lot more kernel-hacking work. Linux is ok for low-N SMP, but I've never
heard of anyone using it on a large-N shared-memory tightly-coupled
cluster like an o2K. (Beowulfs are another story, basically any decent
OS will work fine for them.)
The supercomputer arena also has a number of other proprietory OSes
which are (alas) probably going to hang around for a long time... eg
I haven't seen any serious suggestions that the soon-to-be-released
Cray SV1 (= next-generation "classic vector supercomputer") will run
Linux. UNICOS is much more likely. Similarly, I haven't seen Hitachi
or NEC making any noises about migrating their supercomputer lines
to Linux (or any other free OS).
>(b) customer familiarity. More customers have used Linux than AIX.
This depends heavily on the market segment. Very few supercomputer
customers have used Linux (or any other free OS) on (non-Beowulf)
supercomputers.
--
-- Jonathan Thornburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.thp.univie.ac.at/~jthorn/home.html
Universitaet Wien (Vienna, Austria) / Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
"This is *seriously* brain-damaged. I've given up expecting good software
design design from Microsoft [[...]] but this goes above and beyond the
call of duty." -- Steve Bellovin describing Microsoft Windows 2000 IPsec
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From: MG Measures <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hidden Boot.
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 16:48:39 GMT
Hi All,
I want to make linux boot up showing no kernel messages or information
about deamons that are starting. Is there a simple ways to do this ???
So far I've had the idea of starting in graphics console mode using the
frame buffer device and changing the penguin which is present in distros
such as mandrake with my own larger logo. I think this would works to a
point but seems rather messy.
If anyone has done this or knows how then I'd really like to know....
Cheers in advance,
Michael
- Michael G. Measures - 3rd Year CSE MEng Bristol University -
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From: sergio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: booting over 1023rd cylinder
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 18:14:11 +0100
I understand that there is now an updated version of LILO that will get
around the 1024 cylinder problem, but I haven't tried it so I cannot
comment on it.
Also while trying to sort this out for myself, I came accross some info
buried deep in the Lilo docs that suggested using a file held on an
alien partition such as MSDOS to hold the boot image and pointing LILO
at that rather than an image in the Linux partition. The only real
caveat was that you had to be carefull that the alien OS did not move
the image about (e.g. while defragmenting its partition).
I have successfully used NUNI to get round the 1024 cylinder problem.
goto http://www.freshmeat.net and search for LILO and NUNI from there.
Regards
Sergio Masci
http://www.xcprod.com/titan/XEBOT
Visual programming that really kicks ass.
Anakin Skywalker wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I have a SuSE 6.4 Linux-system that is completely located above the 1023rd
> cylinder on the harddisk (IBM 20GB - from 16th to 20th GB). Dont blame me
> for having Windows ME on the first 15 GBs. It disables the use of Loadlin.
> At least I didnt succeed. How can I boot this system without using the
> Installation-CD from SuSE?
> I tried to make two bootdiskettes on a normal disk in a LS-120 drive using
> the following way:
> 1.
> dd if=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/bzImage of=/dev/hdc bs=18k
> rdev /dev/hdc /dev/hda7 # hda7 is my root part.
> rdev -R /dev/hdc 1
>
> 2.
> /sbin/mkfs.minix -c /dev/hdc 1440 # its SuSE
> mount /floppy
> cp /boot/boot.b /floppy
> cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/bzImage /floppy
> touch /floppy/lilo.conf
> ----
> lilo.conf:
> boot=/dev/hdc
> install=/floppy/boot.b
> map=/floppy/map
> prompt
> vga=normal
> image=/floppy/bzImage
> root=/dev/hda7
> ----
> lilo -C /floppy/lilo.conf
> -> I get a message 1024 exceeded
> but then it says * linux added
>
> Booting
> 1. HangUp
> 2. Windows ME starts
>
> ??????????????????
>
> help me please.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Garry Knight)
Subject: Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 18:25:31 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mongoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says
> Hello,
> I am attempting to start a college project and have two of my
> ideas already being worked on. So I wanted to know what other people
> had for suggestions for linux projects? I was thinking of something
> along the lines of a project that would help promote the use of linux.
> What is something that most people could use? Something that could
> make a good 1 year R&D project?
There are large numbers of people looking to switch to Linux from using
Windows. Anything that makes Linux easier to use, and thus more
approachable, would certainly help promote the use of Linux to these
people.
One thing I'd very much like to see (and I believe quite a few others
would too) is an X-based Personal Information Management system, that
included the most useful features from MS Outlook, Lotus Notes, Lotus
Organiser and the like.
Features could include some or more of the following:
o vCard-compatible contacts database
o phone dialling
o calendar with appointments, events, meetings, resource scheduling
o task list with reminders
o phone call todo list
o notebook and/or "sticky" notes
o basic file management (list, copy, move, delete, link, etc)
o e-mail client (POP3 and MAPI, at least)
o Usenet client
o jounalling of activities involving any of the above items
and of use of any selected files on the system
Having all (or many) of these available through a single user interface
would make things a lot easier, especially if that interface afforded
the ability to, for example, select a contact then:
- list phone calls I need to make to them and allow me to select one
- dial them and make notes during the phone call
- make one or more calendar entries relating to this contact
- e-mail this contact
- journal all of the above as it was happening
Don't want much, do I? :o)
--
Garry Knight
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Garry Knight)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Maximum Linux
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 18:25:34 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anybody know of a retail outlet in or near London that sells the US
magazine Maximum Linux?
--
Garry Knight
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hosts.deny fills up redundantly
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 11:25:14 -0600
Prasanth Kumar wrote:
>
> Praedor Tempus wrote:
[...]
> > Why? Is there a way to prevent duplicate entries from being added?
> > Barring that, can someone help me out with a script that I could
> > run as a cron job to remove duplicate entries?
> Something like (please test it first!):
>
> #!/bin/sh
> cp /etc/hosts.deny /etc/hosts.deny.tmp
> sort /etc/hosts.deny.tmp | uniq >/etc/hosts.deny
> rm -f /etc/hosts.deny.tmp
> killall -HUP inetd
Thank you. That script works nicely.
praedor
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Steinberg)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux
Date: 18 May 2000 17:27:44 GMT
Peter T. Breuer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I use slackware and debian, and have no problems with either. I'd never
: touch redhat with a bargepole, since it's as nonstandard as hell. But
It seems to me like EVERY distribution is "non-standard"; they all seem to
put the same things in different places. /usr or /usr/local? /usr or
/opt? /etc or /sbin? Is there even a standard? I'm really surprised
that this hasn't been fixed yet. I can't imagine what benefit one gets
from putting stuff in a different plcae in the tree, other than the nice
feeling that his choice is more "logical." However, the benefits for
having a common directory structure would be large. In particular, people
wouldn't need to make 3 different rpm packages, for 3 different
distributions, and people would be much better able to share between rpm
and deb. I must say that trying to fix this whole business with symlinks
from /opt to /usr is my biggest pet peeve.
What is the best way to fix this? Should I just be helping repackage for
different distributions? It seems futile since there are so many
packages appearing every day, and new distributions even pop up from time
to time. Why can't RedHat, Debian, SuSE, Caldera, Slackware, and all just
get together and standardize this? Has there ever been an effort to try?
(Sorry for drifting so far off-topic on such a massively cross-posted
thread)
--
David Steinberg -o)
Computer Engineering Undergrad, UBC / \
[EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v
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From: "Gus Segura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: eXodus - remote xterm from windows
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 10:29:30 -0700
Hi,
Trying to run a remote Xterm using eXodus. Know that eXodus works great!
but can't seem to get a remote server connection. RedHat 6.2 runs up the
GNOME
just fine from the server - able to log in and do work, but it doesn't seem
to answer
my request for an XDM login remotely. Have tried running XDM manually after
boot but
still does not respond to login request.
Any Ideas?
Thanks,
-G
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From: Someone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 13:36:25 -0400
What I would like is a kde multitrack recording application. I would like
at least 8 tracks, loops, effects, mixing, bouncing, dehiss using a
sample, multiple sound cards, and the ability to output directly to cd
with named tracks.
Mongoose wrote:
> Hello,
> I am attempting to start a college project and have two of my
> ideas already being worked on. So I wanted to know what other people
> had for suggestions for linux projects? I was thinking of something
> along the lines of a project that would help promote the use of linux.
> What is something that most people could use? Something that could
> make a good 1 year R&D project?
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