Linux-Misc Digest #811, Volume #24 Wed, 14 Jun 00 08:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: New Linux user needs a better browser (Thomas Zajic)
Re: WINDOWS 98 PROGRAMS IN LINUX ("Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]")
Re: Read Linux partition from Win95 ? (NDQ)
Re: httpd.conf error?? (Akira Yamanita)
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT
Re: Mystery Reboot - Have I been cracked? (" jc")
Checkergcc (=?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= SCHILDKNECHT)
Re: semi-loss of root - what's up?? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= SCHILDKNECHT)
Re: semi-loss of root - what's up?? (Eric)
Re: hlt -instruction hangs boot proces ([och])
Re: WINDOWS 98 PROGRAMS IN LINUX (Thomas Hommel)
Samba problems ("Thomas Winberg")
Re: MS word and linux (David Steuber)
Samba problems ("Thomas Winberg")
bootdisk ("D. Stock")
sound ("D. Stock")
Time sync problem in Cron (Toni)
Detaching users from /etc/passwd (Dirk Freese)
Problem with 2.2.16: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for 3... (Antonio)
Re: Time sync problem in Cron (Kai Plock)
Re: WINDOWS 98 PROGRAMS IN LINUX (Yan Seiner)
Re: Linux Partition: Primary or Logical? (Forrest Gehrke)
Want consolelogin instead of GUI?! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
moving the kernel and modules... ("mrauscher")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: New Linux user needs a better browser
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 07:08:07 GMT
On 13 Jun 2000 20:24:10 GMT, Juergen Sauer wrote:
> [ ... ]
> Excuse me, did you mention Opera/Linux ?
> It's still alpha, not ready yet, but looks nice ...
> http://www.opera.com
Yeah, that beast just screwed up my $HOME ... okay, it didn't exactly
screw it up, but it created a few funny subdirectories with a bunch
of strange high-ASCII characters. ;-)
Thomas
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From: "Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WINDOWS 98 PROGRAMS IN LINUX
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:07:37 +0100
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 02:30:05 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >I really don't want to have to dual boot. I would rather have Linux as my
> >os and be able to run some of my windows programs from within Linux. Is
> >this feasible and/or the best approach? I like to work on this machine as
> >well as play the usual games. System is a NEC Pentium II 233 MMX, 96 megs
> >Ram, 16mg Voodoo 3 PCI video card, ethernet card for cable modem, 56k modem
> >and Sound blaster sound card. I have plenty of Hard disk space.
>
> Buy more RAM and spend $100 on VMWare. This *will* work, and it will take
> the least time and effort on your part. It will cost you money,
> naturally.
>
VMWare is a good solution - however you will find that games performance
is not going to be all that good. I am currently evaluating VMWare on a
PIII 550 with 256M RAM and running MS Office apps is a bit slow but
useable for what I need Windows for - which is a bit of non-power user
Word Processing & the odd Excel spreadsheet (sent as an attachment &
Star Office can't swallow completely intact). Sometimes when the
'paperclip' is doing its thing the mouse gets a bit behind but that
aside I have found it a useful package. You can try it for 30 days for
free from http://www.vmware.com
Your 96M RAM is probably just about OK. The recommendation from VMWare
is that physical RAM should be enough for the Guest OS + Host OS. They
set 48M for Win95 and Linux is OK in 48M unless you have lots of memory
hogs running (Netscape + StarOffice being 2 good examples ;-)).
Basically performance dives if Linux has to swap...
HTH
Regards
Phil Q
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From: NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Read Linux partition from Win95 ?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:33:10 +0200
Reply-To: NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Kristian Orlopp wrote:
>
> NDQ wrote:
>
> > I would like to read (and write if possible) some files on Linux's
> > partition from Win95?
>
> http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
>
> It`s cool!
>
In This site, I see :
"The best way to avoid problems with Windows 95, is use Windows NT. But
then again, if you
want a good OS, you should stay in Linux :-)"
I use Win95, so maybe this program not security ?
--
Nguy�n-�ai Qu�
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: httpd.conf error??
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 07:34:45 GMT
Jeff wrote:
>
> > Read the thread "Apache problem?" in this newsgroup.
>
> Can you copy and paste it for me because I cannot access the
> newsgroup because my ISP is having problems with its news server.
> If you can thanks
At least one person reported the following to be the source
of the problem. A lot of people don't confirm whether something
helped or not and that annoys me to no end. If this works or
doesn't work, please let us know. There are other possible
causes for the problem you're having but this seems to be
the most likely with RH 6.2.
This is from a post in linux.redhat by Jan Johansson:
======================================================================
Yep, Linuxconf shipped with Rh6.2 is buggy. It destroys httpd.conf on
many systems (although i do not know what the "trigger factor" is for
this bug)
Search httpd.conf for "Files" and you will find the
<Files ... ... ... > header
which is SUPPOSED to look like this
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
if it looks any other way, edit it, restart apache (FULL stop/start,
not restart) and never use linuxconf again. (or at least not until
redhat has declared this a bug)
Or use the "real" linuxconf and not Redhats bastardized version.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT
Date: 14 Jun 2000 07:38:43 GMT
Craig McCluskey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: > I have uploaded to Simtel.Net:
: > http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/commprog/jcom170s.zip
: > ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/commprog/jcom170s.zip 513101 bytes
: Why not put this in comp.os.linux.announce, a newsgroup specifically
: for announcements?
: Craig
I have uploaded to Metalab.unc.edu.
The announcement will put in comp.os.linux.announce.
Huey-Chang Jean
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From: " jc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Mystery Reboot - Have I been cracked?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:07:04 GMT
Hi,
A system reboot doesn't imply a "crack" *unless* your
"strong firewall" shows some sign unusual activity around the
time of your system reboot.
You check for cracks by authenticating your core
system files via some form finger prinmting technique, like
tripwire. This assumes you fingerprint you system
critical files after a fresh install.
www.tripwire.com
JC
blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "L. Bailey" wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I got home tonight and found out that my server had rebooted.
> > Has this ever happened to anyone else?
> >
> > Here is my configuration.
> >
> > SuSE 6.3
> > Kernel 2.2.14 (Mine)
> >
> > Abit BP6
> > 2 Celeron 366's overclocked to 550
> >
> > 384 Megs of RAM
> > Tekram U2W SCSI card
> > 1 each Fujitisu MAE3091LP and MAE3182LP Hard Drives
> >
> > Could it be something funky with the CPU's? This machine has been
> > running for months, and aside from the SMP bug way back in October has
> > been rock solid.
> >
> > I have cable modem and a strong firewall between me and the world at my
> > ISP. Have I been cracked anyway?
>
> Sounds like it's caused by over-clocking.
>
> Over-clocking is not something that you want if you want a
> stable machine.
>
> blowfish.
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= SCHILDKNECHT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Checkergcc
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:04:50 +0200
Hi,
I'm trying to compile checkergcc in order to watch memory in a
program using lesstif...
I've compiled LessTif with checkergcc, but there's a few function
that aren't compiled with checker (such as functions from libpthread),
for which I would like to create the associated stubs.
I can create the stubs, but I don't know how I could do to compile them
and make checker see them.
Could anyone help me ?
S@S
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= SCHILDKNECHT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: semi-loss of root - what's up??
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:10:31 +0200
Spike wrote:
> When I attempted to log on to a third console as root, I was told
> (after being certain that there were no typo's) that the password was
> incorrect. (...) I found that I am able to log in as myself and su to
> root, using the
> correct password, and gain root priv's.
I think it's a security feature...
You can't log directly as root, but as you said, you can do it in two
ways, first log as a simple user, then su...
Personnaly, I've never tried to change that, as I think it's better like
that :-)
S@S
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: semi-loss of root - what's up??
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 07:57:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Spike wrote:
>
> For some unknown reason, root began to refuse to be logged on to my RH
> 5.2 system. I had two connection as root to each of two consoles.
> When I attempted to log on to a third console as root, I was told
> (after being certain that there were no typo's) that the password was
> incorrect. It simply WAS NOT incorrect. After some jacking around, I
> found that I am able to log in as myself and su to root, using the
> correct password, and gain root priv's. However, I am still unable to
> ACTUALLY log on AS root. What the Dickin's is going on? While su'd to
> root, I was able to change the root password (ie: "passwd root , etc.
> etc. - all tokens successfully updated") but that didn't help.
> Whatever new password I assign can be used to su to root, but will not
> allow root, proper, to log on. I could sure use some help.
> TIA
> --
> Spike Parker
> Eastex Crude Company
> Newsome, Texas, USA
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
how did you su to root ?
did you try 'su' or 'su -' ?
The latter should not be possible either, I suppose.
If that's true, check what shell root wants to use as login shell
That might be the problem (see /etc/passwd)
Eric
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From: [och] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hlt -instruction hangs boot proces
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:34:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic) wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:15:14 GMT, [och] wrote:
>
> > When booting Linux from disk I get (about) the folllowing msg:
> > (left out some dots here and there)
> >
> > [ ... ]
> > Checking 'hlt' instruction...
> >
> > at this point the computer hangs and I have to reboot
> > the machine. ctrl-alt-del does not invoke a reboot.
> > [ ... ]
> > What are my options?
>
> Try adding the "no-hlt" option at the boot prompt.
I use suse bootdisk which does not give me a boot prompt.
I guess I can try with an old slack
[och]
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Before you buy.
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From: Thomas Hommel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WINDOWS 98 PROGRAMS IN LINUX
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:32:03 +0200
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 02:30:05 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >I really don't want to have to dual boot. I would rather have Linux as my
> >os and be able to run some of my windows programs from within Linux. Is
> >this feasible and/or the best approach? I like to work on this machine as
> >well as play the usual games. System is a NEC Pentium II 233 MMX, 96 megs
> >Ram, 16mg Voodoo 3 PCI video card, ethernet card for cable modem, 56k modem
> >and Sound blaster sound card. I have plenty of Hard disk space.
>
> Buy more RAM and spend $100 on VMWare. This *will* work, and it will take
> the least time and effort on your part. It will cost you money,
> naturally.
>
That�s possibly the best solution, but be careful with games. AFAIK,
vmware doesn�t support directx yet. So, effectively, no (real) game will
run in the virutal machine (If it did, it would be terribly slow)
> Alternatively, check out http://winehq.com/ although this requires a lot
> more tweaking and may not play "the usual games" without much fiddling.
> Try to find Linux equivalents for the "usual Lose9x games"; a lot of them
> are free and those that aren't (Quake 3, Railroad Tycoon, Myth 2) support
> the Linux game-porting effort and give companies reason to port their
> games to Linux when you buy them.
>
> --
> Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
> \----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
> \There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "Online
> But only Light too dim for us to see\ gender bending going too far?" --/me
--
=========================
Thomas Hommel
Beam Enterprise GmbH
=========================
Remove NO SPAM from my address to reply to me.
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From: "Thomas Winberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux
Subject: Samba problems
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:55:55 GMT
Hello!
I tried to get my Samba to change the UNIX password together with the
smbpassword but no luck. I use RH6.0.
Anybody has a tip?
Thomas
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Subject: Re: MS word and linux
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:00:04 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () writes:
' I'm sure they're all drooling at the number of stupid animations they can
' bloat the software with if they move their install media to DVDs.
Not to mention all the Easter Eggs they can lay.
--
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: "Thomas Winberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux
Subject: Samba problems
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:07:23 GMT
Hello!
I tried to get my Samba to change the UNIX password together with the
smbpassword but no luck. I use RH6.0.
Anybody has a tip?
Thomas
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From: "D. Stock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bootdisk
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:00:54 GMT
hi,
i'm trying building a bootdisk....
i 've put lilo and the kernel on it and init in the directory /sbin....
when i'm booting , the kernel starts but it then stops saying it can't
find an initial console....
anybody know why?
bye
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From: "D. Stock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:04:01 GMT
hi,
i 've got rh 6.0...sound in the console works....but doesn't work under
X....
anybody know why?
bye
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From: Toni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Time sync problem in Cron
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 12:19:20 +0200
I am trying to run the netdate command each minute on my system
no matter what user has logged in, to keep my system in sync with my
windows box that runs a time-server.
When I go to /etc/crontab and enter the following line
1 * * * * root netdate 192.168.0.1
it does nothing, why is this.
Is there a better approach to this ?
Thanks in advance
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From: Dirk Freese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Detaching users from /etc/passwd
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 12:40:22 +0200
Hi,
I'm running a POP and FTP server with about 50 users. Until now I keep
their login and passwords in the /etc/passwd file.
As the amount of pop/ftp-users grows the /etc/passwd file becomes more
and more unreadable, so I would like to keep authorization information
in a seperate file.
I'm running SuSE linux 6.3 with qpopper as POP-Server and WU-FTP.
Does anyone hav a hint?
Thanks in advance,
Dirk
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From: Antonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with 2.2.16: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for 3...
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 11:49:11 +0100
I've been working with Linux 2.2.15 since the very same day it was
released, without any problem at all. Yesterday I compiled and installed
the new 2.2.16. Then, while playing an MP3 song with mpg123, the system
started to issue these error messages:
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for 3...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for 3...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for 3...
VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for 3...
So I immediately switched back to 2.2.15 without thinking twice.
Any ideas or suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Plock)
Subject: Re: Time sync problem in Cron
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 11:15:39 GMT
Hi
start netdate with full path!!!
Regards
Kai
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 12:19:20 +0200, Toni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to run the netdate command each minute on my system
>no matter what user has logged in, to keep my system in sync with my
>windows box that runs a time-server.
>
>When I go to /etc/crontab and enter the following line
>1 * * * * root netdate 192.168.0.1
>it does nothing, why is this.
>Is there a better approach to this ?
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WINDOWS 98 PROGRAMS IN LINUX
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 06:50:26 -0400
I use win4lin from trelos. It works, it runs Win98 as fast as booting
it, it's stable. Great fro what I'm doing - office apps.
Win4lin does not currently support sound and directx. So games are out
for the moment. They are working on that; betas may be available.
--Yan
Ad Koster wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 02:30:05 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >>I really don't want to have to dual boot. I would rather have Linux as
> >>my os and be able to run some of my windows programs from within Linux.
> >>Is this feasible and/or the best approach? I like to work on this
> >>machine as well as play the usual games. System is a NEC Pentium II 233
> >>MMX, 96 megs Ram, 16mg Voodoo 3 PCI video card, ethernet card for cable
> >>modem, 56k modem and Sound blaster sound card. I have plenty of Hard
> >>disk space.
> >
> > Buy more RAM and spend $100 on VMWare. This *will* work, and it will
> > take the least time and effort on your part. It will cost you money,
> > naturally.
> >
> > Alternatively, check out http://winehq.com/ although this requires a lot
> > more tweaking and may not play "the usual games" without much fiddling.
> > Try to find Linux equivalents for the "usual Lose9x games"; a lot of
> > them are free and those that aren't (Quake 3, Railroad Tycoon, Myth 2)
> > support the Linux game-porting effort and give companies reason to port
> > their games to Linux when you buy them.
> >
>
> Another alternative is Win4Lin.
>
> Http://www.trelos.com
>
> I just installed it and it works really great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Greetings
>
> Ad Koster
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From: Forrest Gehrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux Partition: Primary or Logical?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 12:00:07 GMT
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> The boot loader needs to be on the MBR of the disk, which has nothing to do
> with partitions and the like.
>
What must I do to ensure that the boot loader is on the MBR of the disk?
//
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Want consolelogin instead of GUI?!
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 11:45:19 GMT
When I installed RedHat 6.2 I choose Autostart of login window (Gnome).
Anyone knows how to disable it so when I boot up the computer, I will
login, in the console-window instead of the GUI-window?!?
I tested to disable perfdm (or what it was called?!?) then it stops in
the command window when starting up, but got error messages after a
while.Something about: respawn error... disable for 5min
Think that xfm trying to restart after disconnection or
something.....??!?!
Any help would be nice! :)
/H
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "mrauscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: moving the kernel and modules...
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 00:06:43 -0700
I'm wanting to compile a fresh kernel and modules on one machine, then move
them to another. I've been unable to find documentation on how to do this,
nor can I untangle the makefiles. Can someone give me some tips on how to do
this, or point me to someplace where it's documented?
I guess what I'm looking for is an explanation of what #make modules_install
and #make install do.
Thanx for any help...
Michael Rauscher
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