Linux-Misc Digest #765, Volume #24 Fri, 9 Jun 00 19:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Serious fragmentation under Linux (Otto Wyss)
Re: Serious fragmentation under Linux (News Reader)
Using Linux as a proxy server? ("Permabec")
Re: Changing desktop resolution in Gnome? (Tom Williams)
Re: Linux with Windows, HELP? (Tom Williams)
Re: MS word and linux (Tom Williams)
problems with dump & cron (Peter Buzanits)
Feature or bug? (David Steuber)
Re: Linux uses lots of memory? (David Steuber)
Re: DELL's Linux price is HIGHER than Win98 (David Steuber)
Is there a free CVS mirroring tool I can use? (David Steuber)
Re: Serious fragmentation under Linux (David Steuber)
Re: Is there a free CVS mirroring tool I can use? (David Steuber)
Re: SOCKS Program for Pirch (Tom Williams)
Re: Linux uses lots of memory? (Scott Kruger)
Pilot-Link error when running ./configure ("Larry")
Default OS when LILO boots ("Larry")
Old NCR AT&T Box... repost, sorry. ("MetL Hed")
Re: Using Linux as a proxy server? (Tom Williams)
Re: Cut and Paste in Linux/KDE.... (The Almighty One)
Re: What distribution is most popular? (Gerald Willmann)
Re: redhat machines appear as NT bdc's ? (Tom Williams)
Re: Using Linux as a proxy server? ("David ..")
FAT and Linux? ("Matt Galisa")
Diskette duplication--exactly ("Lee Tien Huat")
Re: Cut and Paste in Linux/KDE.... (DanH)
Re: help desk software (brian moore)
Re: Default OS when LILO boots ("David ..")
PGP client ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Diskette duplication--exactly (Vilmos Soti)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss)
Subject: Re: Serious fragmentation under Linux
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:21:00 +0200
> You got me wondering. My box is currently having a sleepy day:
>
> 1:03pm up 5 days, 15:04, 0 users, load average: 0.12, 0.20, 0.14
> 90 processes: 83 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 5 stopped
> CPU states: 2.3% user, 1.6% system, 0.0% nice, 96.3% idle
> Mem: 128316K av, 115232K used, 13084K free, 25912K shrd, 26440K buff
> Swap: 258008K av, 8548K used, 249460K free 39208K cached
>
How nice! Could you post the command for this report, so I might know
what's going on on my maschine?
O. Wyss
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (News Reader)
Subject: Re: Serious fragmentation under Linux
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 21:24:56 GMT
The command is
top
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:21:00 +0200, Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You got me wondering. My box is currently having a sleepy day:
>>
>> 1:03pm up 5 days, 15:04, 0 users, load average: 0.12, 0.20, 0.14
>> 90 processes: 83 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 5 stopped
>> CPU states: 2.3% user, 1.6% system, 0.0% nice, 96.3% idle
>> Mem: 128316K av, 115232K used, 13084K free, 25912K shrd, 26440K buff
>> Swap: 258008K av, 8548K used, 249460K free 39208K cached
>>
>How nice! Could you post the command for this report, so I might know
>what's going on on my maschine?
>
>O. Wyss
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From: "Permabec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Using Linux as a proxy server?
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:31:35 -0400
Reply-To: "Permabec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Our company network communicates with Internet through a Windows NT 4 (Srv)
machine that has been set up to work as a proxy server, connected both to
the router and the network hub. It also supports our mail server. It has
been suggested to us that replacing this machine with a Linux-based PC would
improve both performance and security for the corporate network, acting as
some kind of firewall.
Although I have some experience installing Linux, I do not consider myself
to "Linux-savvy" enough to judge if this is true. Could anyone here tell me
if such a solution would be viable, and if there is Proxy and mail server
software readily available, and if, more importatly, such a setup would be
compatible with an NT4-based network. Protocol used is TCP/IP.
Thanks for any suggestion
G Couture
Acting NetAdmin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tom Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Changing desktop resolution in Gnome?
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 21:36:19 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Sebastian Ude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Larry wrote:
>
> > How do I change the desktop resolution in Gnome after the initial
> > configuration?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Larry
>
> Yo can't change the desktop resolution in Gnome or KDE.
> Gnome is only a environment, which means it provides a panel, al lot
of
> useful programs etc..
>
> When you want to change the Resolution, you have to change the
settings
> of your X-Server.
>
> You can do that by typing:
>
> XF86Setup.
>
> If you like it the classical way, type:
>
> xf86config
>
>
Also, depending on which resolutions are currently configured, you can
use the "Ctrl-Shift-KeyPadPlus" or "Ctrl-Shift-KeyPadMinus" keys to
toggle through screen resolutions until you find the one you want. You
will have to guess as to which resolution you are looking at because
there will be no indication of which resolution is being displayed.
This is an XFree86 "thing".
Peace....
Tom
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From: Tom Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux with Windows, HELP?
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 21:40:51 GMT
In article <Bx905.19675$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Fernando Delgado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I got two computers, one running linux and one running Windows, I got
no
> chance ;( .
>
> I need to use both so I use to telnet the linux from the windoze.
>
> Now I got a evalutation version of an X server for the windoze, it's
ok
> but...
>
> There is any chance to do it the other way arround?
>
> There is any kind of "video driver" that makes virtual screens in the
> windoze that can be accesed from a linux box?
> some thing like a "converter that make windows act like a X client.
>
> I so, VCN but this is for single screen, I need many... could it be
tweaked
> to do several screens?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Fernando.
>
>
Check out VMware (http://www.vmware.com). This will let you run Windows
9x/NT/2000 on Linux in a window! I've personally run Windows 98 *and*
a Windows 2000 beta concurrently in different windows on Slackware
Linux.
Outside of that, the best bet would be using an X Server on Windows and
use XDMCP to access the Linux box. That will give you full access to
the Linux desktop graphically.
I use XDMCP to access Linux, Solaris, and AIX graphically and it works
great! I also use the X-Win32 X Server (http://www.starnet.com).
Good luck!
Peace.....
Tom
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From: Tom Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MS word and linux
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 21:44:20 GMT
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mariusz Pagowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am receiving some e-mail in Word and want to read it in linux
> without going to windows. Is there any software (free/cheap) which
would
> allow me to do that?
> Thanks,
> Mariusz
>
>
You can always try to use "wine" to run Word to access your Word
documents. You can get "wine" at http://www.winehq.com.
I think there are also other Word document readers/converters available.
AbiWord is a word-processor you might also try.
Good luck!
Peace....
Tom
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From: Peter Buzanits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems with dump & cron
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 13:17:31 GMT
I have a cron-job which should schedule a dump.
In /var/log/messages it says that the cronjob has been executed, but the =
dump did not run.
I use SuSE 6.3
root@filez:~/bin > crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.20539 installed on Tue Jun=A0 6 15:17:50 2000)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)=
0 2 * * *=A0 /root/bin/fullbackup
root@filez:~/bin > cat /root/bin/fullbackup
dump -0au -f /dev/st0 /dev/sda3
When I call /root/bin/fullbackup manually, it works great...
Anyone any idea?
Thanks,
Peter
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Feature or bug?
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 19:59:59 GMT
I just terminated a bash shell by cating a pdf file. Is the shell
supposed to execute commands in a file that you cat?
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
All bits are significant. Some bits are more significant than others.
-- Charles Babbage Orwell
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux uses lots of memory?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 04:00:02 GMT
Unused memory is wasted memory.
Unused disk space is wasted disk space.
Unused CPU is wasted CPU.
Windows uses it all and wastes it anyway ;-)
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David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
All bits are significant. Some bits are more significant than others.
-- Charles Babbage Orwell
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DELL's Linux price is HIGHER than Win98
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 04:00:02 GMT
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
' Because Dell figures that people will pay more for Linux. Evidently Dell's
' marketing people have determined that their customers are prepared to pay a
' premium for not having Windows.
That sounds like the IBM cost schedule back in the days when they were
the king. IBM charged for performance, not for the cost of
manufacture + profit.
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David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
All bits are significant. Some bits are more significant than others.
-- Charles Babbage Orwell
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is there a free CVS mirroring tool I can use?
Date: Thr, 8 Jun 2000 00:00:01 GMT
I can't seem to get to freshmeat today. What I would like is to
mirror the anoncvs.kde.org CVS repository on one of my local servers.
How can I do that? I would also like to put other stuff in the same
CVS repository ( in other modules ) so that I have only a single CVS
server to access when I want stuff from CVS.
I hope I wasn't too muddy.
Thanks
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
All bits are significant. Some bits are more significant than others.
-- Charles Babbage Orwell
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serious fragmentation under Linux
Date: Thr, 8 Jun 2000 01:00:00 GMT
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
' I believe it's called "demonization".
'
' "I am not a number" Peter
No. 6, this is Peter. He will demonize you, then you will be stamped,
filed, indexed, pushed, pulled, folded, spindled, stapled, and
mutilated.
kill -HUP 6
The prisoner will never be the same ;-)
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David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
All bits are significant. Some bits are more significant than others.
-- Charles Babbage Orwell
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there a free CVS mirroring tool I can use?
Date: Thr, 8 Jun 2000 17:00:02 GMT
How about CVSUP?
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
All bits are significant. Some bits are more significant than others.
-- Charles Babbage Orwell
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From: Tom Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SOCKS Program for Pirch
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 21:46:01 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Somsak Limavongphanee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Where can I download SOCKS program?
> Does it cache the channel list If I use pirch?
>
> Thank
>
You can find the SOCKS proxy software at http://www.socks.nec.com. I
don't believe it does any caching at all.
Peace....
Tom
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Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 14:57:57 -0700
From: Scott Kruger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Linux uses lots of memory?
We have a dual Pentium system running RedHat 6.2 and we noticed that it
was using 300MB of memory after it had been up for a few days! It was
in init state 3 and ps didn't show anything taking up memory. Has anyone
seen anything like this before? I haven't.
Scott Kruger
Erik Terpstra wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using Redhat 6.2 on a 64MB system. Because my system was swapping
> like hell when I was working under X windows with some apps including
> Netscape Communicator, I decided to recompile a kernel with only the
> bare necessities. I also turned off most daemons. After a fresh boot the
> 'free' command shows:
>
> total used free shared buffers
> cached
> Mem: 63320 23860 39460 5000 1940
> 15688
> -/+ buffers/cache: 6232 57088
> Swap: 72252 0 72252
>
> It uses 23860k already? Can't this be further reduced? I supposed Linux
> was still able to run on 4MB and 8MB machines, can somebody explain
> this?
>
> TIA,
> Erik.
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From: "Larry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Pilot-Link error when running ./configure
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:02:50 -0500
When I run the Pilot-Link configure program I'm getting an error saying =
"host type is not recognizable...must be specified".
Anyone know what I need to do to get Pilot-Link to install correctly? =
I'm running RH 6.0.
Thanks,
Larry
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From: "Larry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Default OS when LILO boots
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:05:08 -0500
I have W2K and RH 6.0 on my machine and have LILO installed in the first =
partition (not the MBR). When it boots it automatically boots Linux by =
default. I tried changing the file /etc/lilo.conf to include the line:
default=3Dw2k
But it still boots Linux as the default. I also moved the w2k =
information in front of the Linux information in the /etc/lilo.conf file =
to no avail. Is LILO looking at another configuration file rather than =
this one?
Thanks,
Larry
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From: "MetL Hed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.os.linux.corel,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.suse,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.sys.ncr,corelsupport.linux.corellinux,core
Subject: Old NCR AT&T Box... repost, sorry.
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:10:32 -0500
The SCSI is an NCR 53C710, the model version is a 3430, serial number
30117245. Is there Linux support for this model? Maybe Windows NT support?
Either would be nice. Is there a way I could get a version of UNIX to run
on this machine?
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From: Tom Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Using Linux as a proxy server?
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 22:12:49 GMT
In article <8hrmum$115h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Permabec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Our company network communicates with Internet through a Windows NT 4
(Srv)
> machine that has been set up to work as a proxy server, connected both
to
> the router and the network hub. It also supports our mail server. It
has
> been suggested to us that replacing this machine with a Linux-based PC
would
> improve both performance and security for the corporate network,
acting as
> some kind of firewall.
>
> Although I have some experience installing Linux, I do not consider
myself
> to "Linux-savvy" enough to judge if this is true. Could anyone here
tell me
> if such a solution would be viable, and if there is Proxy and mail
server
> software readily available, and if, more importatly, such a setup
would be
> compatible with an NT4-based network. Protocol used is TCP/IP.
>
> Thanks for any suggestion
>
> G Couture
> Acting NetAdmin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
We use RedHat 6.0 as our Internet proxy because MS-Proxy was just TOO
expensive!
We use Squid and SOCKS proxies as well as Apache as a proxy/internal web
server. We also use the IPChains firewall to keep the bad folks out.
So far, it's worked VERY well and we've even configured VPN access from
internal Windoze machines to remote Windoze machines over the Internet
through the IPChains firewall.
This is running on a Pentium 166 w/ 128 MB or RAM.
It *is* possbile!
Good luck!
Peace.....
Tom
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From: The Almighty One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,nf.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Cut and Paste in Linux/KDE....
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 22:24:24 GMT
there are only 2 buttons - no center button ... for most users ... again - the
ease of use of M$ global clipboarding ... would be a big thing if Linux GUI's
supported this ... K or G or others ... doesn't matter ... gotta get it in place
so users can start to get familiar with it and make it like M$ which users are
familiar with ... they can overlook/ignore a lot that they are not familiar with
but the basics such as ease of install/configuration/support MUST be addressed or
Linux will never fly ... global things must be immediately included or there will
be difficulties - even amongst IT which KNOWS that Linux is the superioir way to
go ...
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Masoud Pajoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : In article <8hrdgb$sdq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> : "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> :>The Almighty One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> :>: gotta give M$ a brownie point for that : highlight, ctrl-c to copy, click,
> :>: ctrl-v to paste
> :>: global clipboarding ...
> :>This happens automatically in X.
> :>: Tux wrote:
> :>:> Is there some way that I can use cut and paste procedures in KDE...
> :>Just select using the left button (possibly also shift). Paste with the
> :>right button.
> : I have not used KDE very much, I mostly use GNOME.
> : There, text may be copied from a window by highlighting it, then moving
> : to the target location and center clicking(or cording on a two-button
>
> Sorry, I mean center button. For some reason I didn't check before
> writing.
>
> Peter
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What distribution is most popular?
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 15:22:02 -0700
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Rod Smith wrote:
> One further meta-comment: Most modern monitors and video cards support
> two-way communication so that the OS can discover the monitor's
> supported resolutions and set them automatically. I have yet to see any
> evidence that this is supported by XFree86. Has it been added in XFree86
> 4.0, by chance? This is an important area where Linux still lags behind
> Windows.
do you really want to be limited to a few standard resolutions? I prefer
1152x900 Sun resolution on the Apple monitor sitting on top of my PC and
I don't think any self-configuration would give me that. If editing the
XF86Config file after having read the corresponding howto is too demanding
then perhaps you should be using BeOS or Caldera.
Gerald
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From: Tom Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat machines appear as NT bdc's ?
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 22:23:59 GMT
In article <8hp2kn$ms6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mike welch) wrote:
> We recently brought up two redhat machines and both appear in the
server
> manager for out nt domain as backup domain conrollers. There is
evidence that
> they (unsuccessfullly) attempt to authenticate nt users on the same
local
> subnet. We don't want them to function or look like bdc's. Was there
some
> simple setup parm or config item that we overlooked or misunderstood
to cause
> them to assume bdc status ? Thanks for any help references etc
>
> mike welch
>
>
It sounds like Samba is installed and running. Use the "ps ax | grep
mb" command to see if "smbd" or "nmbd" are running. If they are, then
that's the culprit.
Kill those daemons and your RedHat box should be excluded from the
Windows network completely.
You can learn more about Samba here: http://www.samba.org.
SaMBa basically implements the Service Message Block (SMB) protocol on
Unix. We run Samba on Linux, AIX, and Solaris to provide cheap file
access to Windows machines.
Peace.....
Tom
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Using Linux as a proxy server?
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 17:17:02 -0500
Permabec wrote:
>
> Our company network communicates with Internet through a Windows NT 4 (Srv)
> machine that has been set up to work as a proxy server, connected both to
> the router and the network hub. It also supports our mail server. It has
> been suggested to us that replacing this machine with a Linux-based PC would
> improve both performance and security for the corporate network, acting as
> some kind of firewall.
>
> Although I have some experience installing Linux, I do not consider myself
> to "Linux-savvy" enough to judge if this is true. Could anyone here tell me
> if such a solution would be viable, and if there is Proxy and mail server
> software readily available, and if, more importatly, such a setup would be
> compatible with an NT4-based network. Protocol used is TCP/IP.
Yes it is very possible. For a mail server there is sendmail or qmail.
qmail is a modern replacement for sendmail, written by Dan Bernstein,
who also has a web page for qmail. qmail is a secure package. There was
a $1,000.00 prize for anyone who can show otherwise, which went
unclaimed.
http://www.qmail.org/
For a proxy server there is Squid.
Squid is... a full-featured Web proxy cache designed to run on Unix
systems free, open-source software the result of many contributions by
unpaid volunteers funded by the National Science Foundation
Squid supports... proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other URL's
proxying for SSL cache hierarchies ICP, HTCP, CARP, Cache Digests
transparent caching WCCP (Squid v2.3) extensive access controls HTTP
server acceleration SNMP caching of DNS lookups
http://www.squid-cache.org/
For a firewall there is IPChains and T.Rex just to name a couple.
http://linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/firewall/index.html
http://www.opensourcefirewall.com/
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From: "Matt Galisa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FAT and Linux?
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:08:06 -0500
Hi, I have a Linux driver for my modem on a FAT disk. I was wondering if I
could use that disk with Linux. (RedHat Linux 6.2.) Also on that disk is a
KDE theme and instructions on setting up a PPP connection.
All help would be appreciated,
Matt
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From: "Lee Tien Huat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Diskette duplication--exactly
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 17:53:24 +0800
Dear Sir/Madam,
How to duplicate a diskette exactly--including everything--disk format,
timpstamps, file, label ...
Someone suggest using dd. But I want to know do I need to format the target
diskette so it has the same format as source diskette. Or dd just copy
everthing, even the disk format.
Thank you.
Best regards,
Lee Tien Huat
==============
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From: DanH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Cut and Paste in Linux/KDE....
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 18:43:47 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, The Almighty One
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> there are only 2 buttons - no center button ... for most users ... again
> - the ease of use of M$ global clipboarding ... would be a big thing if
> Linux GUI's supported this ... K or G or others ... doesn't matter ...
> gotta get it in place so users can start to get familiar with it and
> make it like M$ which users are familiar with ... they can
> overlook/ignore a lot that they are not familiar with but the basics
> such as ease of install/configuration/support MUST be addressed or Linux
> will never fly ... global things must be immediately included or there
> will be difficulties - even amongst IT which KNOWS that Linux is the
> superioir way to go ...
What have you been smoking? Linux GUI, X (Gnome and KDE are
window managers, not the GUI) supports global cut-n-paste. X has
supported that since the '80s as far as I can tell.
Highlight your text by dragging with left mouse button, go to the window
you want to paste to and push both buttons at the same time or use the
third button (that's what 'emulate 3 buttons' means)
Two button mouse uses both buttons as the third button. Have you ever
used X? Have you ever used Linux? Or are you just going off old data
and not bothering to look it up yourself (like Ray)?
Please do not assume you know what's going on. Obviously you do not.
I'm beginning to think you're Ray. Same attitude, same way of spouting
that which is wrong as if you know what you're talking about.
Oh well, as long as people see what is correct in spite of your postings,
it really doesn't matter. We can always say, "See, do you want to look
like that? That is a WIN user."
DanH
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UNIX - Not just for vestal virgins anymore
Linux - Choice of a GNU generation
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: linux.apps,linux.help,linux.misc
Subject: Re: help desk software
Date: 9 Jun 2000 22:47:36 GMT
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 12:19:43 GMT,
Tom Verzele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi...
>
> I'm looking for help desk software for Linux , released under the GPL.
> I searched the Web & I found some solutions which are very good , but
> unfortunately cost big $$ .
>
> Functionalities I'm looking for:
>
> - trouble ticket system
> - history
> - knowledgebase
> - reports
> - webbrowser support
> - ...
>
> Any help appreciated ....
Did you check freshmeat.net? There are several that look interesting
(we're still using my custom hackery at the moment, something I
superglued together in one day, but it works... we still need something
more functional, but don't have the machine to run it on...)
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Default OS when LILO boots
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 17:35:28 -0500
Larry wrote:
>
> I have W2K and RH 6.0 on my machine and have LILO installed in the first partition
>(not the MBR). When it boots it automatically boots Linux by default. I tried
>changing the file /etc/lilo.conf to include the line:
>
> default=w2k
>
> But it still boots Linux as the default. I also moved the w2k information in front
>of the Linux information in the /etc/lilo.conf file to no avail. Is LILO looking at
>another configuration file rather than this one?
>
> Thanks,
> Larry
Did you add these lines to the end of your "lilo.conf" file.
other=/dev/hdaX
label=w2k
Where the hdaX would be the partition w2k is on.
Then run the command /sbin/lilo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PGP client
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 22:43:58 GMT
I need a pgp enabled client for linux (IMAP), anyone know were I can get
one, free or NOT?????
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Subject: Re: Diskette duplication--exactly
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 22:50:45 GMT
"Lee Tien Huat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How to duplicate a diskette exactly--including everything--disk format,
> timpstamps, file, label ...
>
> Someone suggest using dd. But I want to know do I need to format the target
> diskette so it has the same format as source diskette. Or dd just copy
> everthing, even the disk format.
Yes. dd works below the filesystem level. With dd you can copy a whole
partition or an image. The command is
dd if=/def/fd0 of=floppy.image
However, you can also use
cat /dev/fd0 > floppy.image
and the copy the image to a floppy by
cat floppy.image > /dev/fd0
Vilmos
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