Linux-Misc Digest #563, Volume #24 Mon, 22 May 00 20:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: better atd (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: Minimal rh6.1 install on old machine ("Ez-Aton")
Re: diskcopy (Chris Majewski)
Re: Having a problem with tar. (Chris Majewski)
ISA modem will not connect ("Kirk Wythers")
4K limit on FIFO node (John Walstra)
Re: can't run X as root ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 4K limit on FIFO node (mike burrell)
Re: Debian and X ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: ISA modem will not connect ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: ls syntax ("Peter T. Breuer")
Unable to mount root fs on 08:34 (Renato)
Re: Weird System.map error during boot ("Ez-Aton")
Re: diskcopy ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Unable to mount root fs on 08:34 ("Peter T. Breuer")
Weaknesses of Red Hat? (Neil)
Re: ls syntax (Chris Majewski)
Re: Weaknesses of Red Hat? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Weaknesses of Red Hat? (Neil)
Re: How to split text file into two files that have ODD and EVEN pages. ("Robert
Wynkoop")
Re: Motif release to Open Source Community leads to Open Motif Everywhere (phil hunt)
Re: assigning IRQs? (Janet)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Eduard Bloch)
Re: How to split text file into two files that have ODD and EVEN pages. ("Robert
Wynkoop")
Re: whereis info on AnotherLevel/FVWM2? Is it Buggy? (Janet)
Re: can't run X as root (Janet)
Re: PDF files (Apple Advertising)
Re: Weaknesses of Red Hat? (David Means)
Re: Debian and X (Carl Fink)
Re: Weaknesses of Red Hat? (Rodney)
Re: How to split text file into two files that have ODD and EVEN pages. (Harlan
Grove)
Linux and FTP ("JNeuffer")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: better atd
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 22:10:03 GMT
News Reader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Is there any thing better than atd in that I can que
: job with precision of seconds NOT minutes like atd?
: Or does anyone know a better way?
I don't know of an alternative to the "at" command.
One workaround might be to put your job in a wrapper that accepts a command
line argument of the number seconds after the minute, and have it sleep for
that long. For example:
#! /bin/sh
#
sleep $1
run-my-real-job
Stu
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From: "Ez-Aton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Minimal rh6.1 install on old machine
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 01:14:31 +0200
F. Michael Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Richard Corfield wrote:
> >
> > Leonard Evens wrote:
> > >
> > > Richard Corfield wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to install RH6.1 on an old p90 with a 400Mb hard drive.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > > Many thanks
> > > >
> > > > Richard Corfield
> > >
> > > I think the installer requires a bit more space than what
> > > your packages add up to. RedHat should do a better job
> > > of warning you if you don't have enough space, but apparently
> > > they haven't improved that much in their recent releases.
> > > (I encountered a similar problem in upgrading from 5.2
> > > to 6.0.)
> > >
> > <snip>
> > > --
> > >
> > > Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> > > Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
> >
> > Thanks for the advice. I have selected even fewer packages (~240mb) and
it's
> > installed OK. I left /usr set to 290mb. It would be interesting to know
what the
> > relationship is between the reported size of the packages to install and
the
> > *actual* drive space required to install them! I can't believe that the
> > difference has to be as much as 50mb!
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Richard
>
> I assume you're installing as a server, since the disk is broken up into
> different filesystems. You _could_ override that, and have one large
> filesystem. I have a 33Mhz 486 with a 480MB HD running RH6.1 as a
> firewall in that fashion, and I had no problems with the install (no X,
> of course, and I build the kernel for it on a different machine, so I
> don't need the kernel source code on it). But I still have over 100MB
> free for firewall logs et al.
>
> --
>
> F. Michael Orr
> Sr. Systems Engineer
> Norfolk Public Schools, Norfolk, VA, USA
I have seen RH 5.2 on a 386 w/ 60MB of HD. It was supposed to be used as fw,
masq server and a dialout server.
Workes great.
Ez.
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From: Chris Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: diskcopy
Date: 22 May 2000 22:18:31 GMT
I've been wondering about this dd thing. Why not just cat /dev/floppy?
-chris
Bastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8 May 2000 13:46:58 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>I have a small linux distribution in a floppy disk.
>>I want to create a disk image from this floppy disk, and then reproduce the linux
>distribution to other floppy disk.
>>
>>How can I do that ?
> man dd
> Bastian
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From: Chris Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Having a problem with tar.
Date: 22 May 2000 22:22:50 GMT
Have you looked at the option that removes leading slashes from files?
Maybe tar is trying to create a directory in / even though from your
description it sounds like it shouldn't have to.
chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We thought about that, but a "tar tvf tarfile.tar" showed all files in
> the tarball as owned by the correct user. It shouldn't matter who owns
> the files inside the tar file, should it? It should really only matter
> who owns the tar file, who's trying to untar it and who has permissions
> for the directory the files are being extracted to, right? And in our
> case, all three are the same user. It just won't create directories if
> they don't already exist. If the same user manually creates the
> directories before extracting the tar file, all is well. Still searching
> for the answer...
> Thanks Charles!
> In article <mN4U4.5243$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Is webs = webs ? I.e., if I create user "webs" on machine A, the
> system
>> assigns a UID corresponding to "webs". If I create user "webs" on
> machine
>> B,
>> is the UID assigned on B the same as that assigned on A? I don't
> believe
>> the header entry for owner stores the character string "webs", only
> the UID,
>> which could correspond to a different user (or no user) on a different
>> machines.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Charles Sullivan
>>
>>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "Kirk Wythers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISA modem will not connect
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 16:24:26 -0500
I've got a 3com / usr fax modem on /dev/ttyS1. The modem makes all the right
sounds but will not connect. Just re-dials. What should I check into. I let
RedHat's modem config set up the user and password for the isp. Bad idea?
Thanks,
Kirk
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From: John Walstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: 4K limit on FIFO node
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 17:27:48 -0500
Hello,
I created a FIFO node with "mknod <filename> p" The size of the buffer
if 4K. Is there anyway to increase the size of the buffer, without
recompiling the kernel. I'm running into the limit which is forcing my
application to sleep.
Thanks,
John
--
John Walstra
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: can't run X as root
Date: 22 May 2000 22:24:23 GMT
Frank Boehme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> xhost +localhost
> Then su to root and run gvim.
Or just take the '-' out of the su command. If you dont change the
envirnoment, root will use your user's .Xauthority.
jeremy
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From: mike burrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 4K limit on FIFO node
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 22:29:22 GMT
In comp.os.linux.help John Walstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I created a FIFO node with "mknod <filename> p" The size of the buffer
> if 4K. Is there anyway to increase the size of the buffer, without
> recompiling the kernel. I'm running into the limit which is forcing my
> application to sleep.
i'm not sure what you mean by 'running into the limit'. if need be, you can
always fflush(), you know.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Debian and X
Date: 22 May 2000 22:15:37 GMT
Ruben Haugan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Is it difficult to configure X and the windowmanagers after installing
: Debian?
No. It's what people normally do.
: If the question is not enough spesific; Is it necessary to configure A LOT
It's too specific. Configuring X has intrinsically nothing to do with
any distro, though a distro may provide you with extra tools to help
you do so.
: before being able to use X? Any tools avail?
?? What would you want to configure except the hostname and the
partition mounts, both of which you should already have done by then.
Just fire away with apt-get ...
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISA modem will not connect
Date: 22 May 2000 22:29:36 GMT
Kirk Wythers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I've got a 3com / usr fax modem on /dev/ttyS1. The modem makes all the right
: sounds but will not connect. Just re-dials. What should I check into. I let
: RedHat's modem config set up the user and password for the isp. Bad idea?
Yep. Follow the serial-HOWTO if it's an external.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ls syntax
Date: 22 May 2000 22:18:46 GMT
Christopher Michael Collins () <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: what is the synatax for an ls command which
: lists only directories and the amount of files
: contained in the directory.
ls -ld * | grep ^d | sort -n -k 2
: I want to list, in order of size, all of my
: directories.
For some definition of size that I don't believe you really meant.
What's an "amount" of files? The cardinality? The total bytes?
Peter
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From: Renato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unable to mount root fs on 08:34
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 22:30:06 GMT
I am trying to update from Read hat 5.02 to 6.02
following are the three last lines before my installation stops:
RAMDISK: compressed image found at block 0
crc errorVFS : Cannot open root devece 08:34
Kernel panic : VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:34
Thanks
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From: "Ez-Aton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Weird System.map error during boot
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 01:30:10 +0200
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Mon, 22 May 2000 01:18:31 +0200, Ez-Aton
> <<newscache$dskxuf$ykn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the
ether:
> >Hi fox.
> ^^^
> I'm sure all the Linux-using females appreciated that ;-)
>
> >After compilling the new kernel, with all the required stages (make
> >menuconfig, make clean, make dep, make modules, make modules_install,
make
> >bzImage).
> >I 'cat bzImage in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot > /boo/vmlinuz.2.2.14'
(An
> >empty one) and copied the /usr/src/linux/System.map to
> >/boot/System.map.2.2.14 (another new one).
> >I created sym link to /boot/vmlinuz and to /boot/System.map.
> >I edited /etc/lilo.conf to use map file /boot/System.map, ran lilo and to
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Ah. So I assume you had a line like
> map=/boot/System.map
> in /etc/lilo.conf? That tripped me up for a while once.
>
> When LILO runs, it creates a "map file" that contains info on the absolute
> addresses of the sectors that contain the kernel image, the boot
>
> parameters, the boot message, and so forth. This map file is usually
> about 18K or so in size, and it is essential that it be under the
> 1024-cylinder limit in older versions of LILO. It's traditional to put
> this file in /boot/map.
>
> Confusingly, the System.map file that contains information on the
> locations of kernel symbols is also called a map file. To fix this
> puzzling behavior, do this:
>
> 0. Edit lilo.conf so the map= line uses /boot/map
> 1. Run lilo.
> 2. Copy /usr/src/linux/System.map to /boot/System.map
>
> HTH...
>
> --
> Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with
more
> There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being
stupid?
> But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
> (Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of
cool. --MegaHAL
Although sarcastic, I appreciate your answer.
I had the chance earlier today to learn that the System.map has little to do
with the map file in /etc/lilo.conf.
Your answer just shade a better light on this issue.
Thanks.
Ez.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: diskcopy
Date: 22 May 2000 22:30:46 GMT
Chris Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I've been wondering about this dd thing. Why not just cat /dev/floppy?
Because you don't get to choose the blocksize, which may result in your
cat taking longer (or shorter :-) than a dd with a bs= of your choice.
Petre
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unable to mount root fs on 08:34
Date: 22 May 2000 22:42:53 GMT
Renato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I am trying to update from Read hat 5.02 to 6.02
: following are the three last lines before my installation stops:
: RAMDISK: compressed image found at block 0
: crc errorVFS : Cannot open root devece 08:34
^^^^^^ memory error
: Kernel panic : VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:34
Remember to insert a hard disk drive. Your scsi disk is missing :-).
brw-r----- 1 root mail 8, 52 Apr 29 1995 /dev/scsi/disk/d/sdd4
Try again. This time with the right root device.
Peter
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From: Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Weaknesses of Red Hat?
Date: 22 May 2000 15:47:31 PST
I have been using Red Hat for some time and like it.
But I have heard people say they have switched away
from Red Hat. What is lacking in Red Hat that would
make someone want to switch?
--
Neil
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From: Chris Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ls syntax
Date: 22 May 2000 22:54:50 GMT
I hope there's an easier way but here's something that works:
#!/bin/sh
(for i in `ls -la |grep '^d' |grep -v '\./$' |awk '{print $NF}'`; do du -s $i; done) |
sort -n
(Put that in a file somewhere in your $PATH and make it executable with
chmod a+x FILE)
-chris
Christopher Michael Collins () <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> what is the synatax for an ls command which
> lists only directories and the amount of files
> contained in the directory.
> I want to list, in order of size, all of my
> directories.
> Thank you.
> --Chris
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Weaknesses of Red Hat?
Date: 22 May 2000 22:51:03 GMT
Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have been using Red Hat for some time and like it.
: But I have heard people say they have switched away
: from Red Hat. What is lacking in Red Hat that would
: make someone want to switch?
Engineering skill and good judgement.
Peter
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From: Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Weaknesses of Red Hat?
Date: 22 May 2000 16:01:04 PST
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Engineering skill and good judgement.
Could you be more specific about what the problems are?
--
Neil
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From: "Robert Wynkoop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to split text file into two files that have ODD and EVEN pages.
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 23:03:33 GMT
I may end up doing this. Right now I don't have a printer that works as a
PostScript printer on my linux box.(Postscript or GhostScript)
I think I may be able to print from Linux to a my Deskjet on my Windoze
machine using SAMBA.(I currently print Windoze --> Linux My okidata 320 in
not supported by RH6.2 as a Ghostscript printer.)
Thanks,
Robert Wynkoop
Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Robert Wynkoop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I would like to print a file on both sides of a piece of paper, but
don't
> > have a duplex printer. How can I use my Redhat 6.2 config to print the
> > ODD pages, then feed the pages back in and print the EVEN pages?
>
> The way I'd do this is to convert the file to Postscript using a2ps, then
> use psselect to select the odd and even pages for printing. Better yet,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (phil hunt)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Motif release to Open Source Community leads to Open Motif Everywhere
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 17:56:42 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 22 May 2000 13:54:02 GMT, Jay Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 22 May 2000 13:41:29 +0100, phil hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>>Is AIX being ported to new platforms? No.
>
>W#rong. Monterey is based on AIX.
Now that's something I didn't know.
When's Monterrey's scheduled release date, and what platforms will it
run on?
--
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Moore's Law: hardware speed doubles every 18 months
Gates' Law: software speed halves every 18 months
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From: Janet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: assigning IRQs?
Date: 22 May 2000 16:04:29 -0700
Robert Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > OK, so I just want to make sure I understand setpci. lspci -v -n returns
> >
> > 00:09.0 Class 0200: 11ad:0002 (rev 20)
> > Subsystem: 2646:f002
> > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
> > I/O ports at e800
> > Memory at eb001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> >
> > 01:05.0 Class 0300: 10de:0101 (rev 10)
> > Subsystem: 107d:2822
> > Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 11
> > Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> > Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
> > Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 1
> > Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0
> >
> > The first is the ethernet card, and the second is the video card. So, if
> > I wanted to change the IRQ of the video card to, say, 10, could I do
> >
> > setpci -d 10de:0101 interrupt_line=0a
> >
> > Would I need to change any other parameters? Oh, and do I need to do this
> > before the video drivers are loaded? Also, is it OK to pick any free IRQ?
> > (Sorry, I know nothing about hardware.)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Janet
>
> I did'nt know the existence of setpci. Seems useful... But I see that
> the I/O ports of both cards are at e800 (mentioned I/O for the net card
> and memory for the vga). And this is also to be changed if at all
> possible. I would even try to change this first, rather than the IRQ...
> But does setpci allow to change this ? (It could be the parameters
> IO_BASE or MEMORY_BASE)
> Probably the author could assit you here : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hrm, OK. So what should I change the I/O port to be? (I mean, I can't
just pick some random number, right? *grin* How do I know what valid port
numbers are?)
Thanks,
Janet
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eduard Bloch)
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: 22 May 2000 22:35:07 GMT
Am Don, 18 Mai 2000 um 19:36 GMT schrieb
Someone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in comp.os.linux.development.apps:
>What I would like is a kde multitrack recording application. I would like
>at least 8 tracks, loops, effects, mixing, bouncing, dehiss using a
Sure, this would be cool. But don't use the f***ing KDE as environment
for such good apps.
Eduard.
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From: "Robert Wynkoop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to split text file into two files that have ODD and EVEN pages.
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 23:12:42 GMT
I was looking for a way to do this as needed. Right now I'm trying to
print some of the Linux How-To's text files this way, but will use it for
other text docs. My main goal was to save paper.
In my DOS/OS2 days I have a program called book.exe(I think.) that did a
good job of splitting a text file.
Thanks,
Robert Wynkoop
Derek Colley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Robert,
>
> Are you looking for a method or a on-off solution? What's in the
file/what
> application are you using to print from?
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From: Janet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: whereis info on AnotherLevel/FVWM2? Is it Buggy?
Date: 22 May 2000 16:14:22 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti) writes:
> Hi, can anyone point me to some documentation, mailing lists,
> or any other useful sources of information to help me configure
> my desktop using AnotherLevel/FVWM2?
Perhaps try the web page at fvwm.org?
> I'm finding that chages I'm making in the config files aren't
> showing up on the screen. For example, the pager geometry setting
> won't take. At one point I changed a color to blue and then it
> started working. And then, mysteriously, it stopped working as
> suddenly as it started.
You generally need to restart the pager module to get things like this to
stick. You might try restarting FVWM (you can do this without quitting
X). If you've done that, maybe you can post your config file or
something.
> Also, where are colors defined? IE grey51, etc, etc.
On my computer, they're defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt
Hope this helps,
Janet
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From: Janet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't run X as root
Date: 22 May 2000 16:10:45 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) writes:
> ...but that's a bit of a security hole, as then anyone who's logged into
> your machine can start 300 copies of xeyes on your display. xauth is a
> more secure method for the most part:
>
> # cp ~me/.Xauthority ~/.Xauthority
> # export DISPLAY=0:0
> # gvim
If you're su'ing in your X session, sometimes it's a bit more convenient
to have you .cshrc automatically set the XAUTHORITY environment
variable. That way, if you su from more than one account, it will work
from all of them, and you won't need to copy .Xauthority files all the
time. I have this in root's .cshrc:
setenv XAUTHORITY `echo ~$USER/.Xauthority`
Janet
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From: Apple Advertising <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PDF files
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 18:21:09 -0500
Don't know about editting previously created PDF files, but you can
print to a PS document, then run ps2pdf to convert them to PDF format.
man ps2pdf
Alternatively, you may be able to run pdf2ps to convert a PDF file to a
.ps file, then edit using a PS program (ghostscript comes to mind)
(don't quote me on these, there's probably better options out there
somewhere <g>)
- Ken
Golan Derazon wrote:
> Hi.
>
> With which application can I read & edit .PDF files ?
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From: David Means <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Weaknesses of Red Hat?
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 19:28:00 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I haven't a clue. I started out using Red Hat, 5.2 then switched to SuSE,
then came back to Red Hat 6.1. I believe it boils down to a matter of taste.
David
Neil wrote:
> I have been using Red Hat for some time and like it.
> But I have heard people say they have switched away
> from Red Hat. What is lacking in Red Hat that would
> make someone want to switch?
>
> --
>
> Neil
--
David Means
Senior Systems Engineer
Oacis Healthcare Systems, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: 678-445-1530
Fax: 678-445-1532
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: Debian and X
Date: 22 May 2000 22:45:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 22 May 2000 23:14:17 +0200 Ruben Haugan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Is it difficult to configure X and the windowmanagers after installing
>Debian?
No. Is it simple? No, not really.
>If the question is not enough spesific; Is it necessary to configure A LOT
>before being able to use X? Any tools avail?
Lots of tools. The problem with Debian is that you have so many
choices, which tool to use is a complex question. I personally used
xf86config, a completely textual tool. Worked.
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From: Rodney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Weaknesses of Red Hat?
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 16:40:43 -0700
Well I've been using Linux for awhile now, Linux 1.3.13 I think first came
out. And have used Slackware, Red Hat, Debian, OpenLinux, Mandrake. And by
for the most stable has been Slackware. I didn't like Debian because it
looks like they are changing the standard around too much. Red Hat and
Mandrake (basically the same) were easy to install, but I ended up having
to recompile alot of programs I use because missed features or buggy
programs that I knew worked great on my slackware versions. OpenLinux was
nice for a time, having alot of commercial programs, but still started to
find programs that I needed to recompile.
If you learn how Linux works Slackware has been by far the most stable and
easy to customize for my needs.
On 22 May 2000, Neil wrote:
> Date: 22 May 2000 15:47:31 PST
> From: Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
> Subject: Weaknesses of Red Hat?
>
>
> I have been using Red Hat for some time and like it.
> But I have heard people say they have switched away
> from Red Hat. What is lacking in Red Hat that would
> make someone want to switch?
>
> --
>
> Neil
>
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From: Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to split text file into two files that have ODD and EVEN pages.
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 16:40:54 -0700
In article <01bfc3a4$2b8ee0a0
$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robert Wynkoop"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I would like to print a file on both sides of a piece of
>paper, but don't have a duplex printer. How can I use my
>Redhat 6.2 config to print the ODD pages, then feed the
>pages back in and print the EVEN pages?
<snip>
A simple awk script would work if there were some reliable
text pattern that marked the end of every page, like "Page
x" where x is a string of consecutive digits appearing in
the middle of otherwise empty lines.
#!/bin/awk -f
FNR == 1 { if (fn[1]) { close(fn[0]); close(fn[1]) }
fn[1] = (FILENAME != "") ? FILENAME : "-"
fn[0] = fn[1] ".even"
fn[1] = fn[1] ".odd"
f = 1 }
{ print > fn[f] }
/^[ \t]*Page [0-9]+[ \t]*$/ {
f = 1 - f }
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From: "JNeuffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and FTP
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 00:04:09 GMT
I have OpenSSH running on my Linux system. I was wondering if anyone could
help me along with how to secure FTP logins. I have the OpenSSL libraries
installed, but the S/MIME function seems to work with OpenBSD only for this
present release of OpenSSL.
Is anyone out there securing FTP logins with Linux? If so would you mind
sharing with me how you did it?
Thanks,
Jeff
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