Linux-Misc Digest #203, Volume #25 Sat, 22 Jul 00 10:13:04 EDT
Contents:
ICQ-Text-Client ? (Alex Fitterling)
Re: Corrupted PASSWD, SHADOW, GROUP files ("Bruce D. Meyer")
mount hangs - cdrom and floppy (Mike)
DNS-traceroute (Steffen 'Mugge' Chmil)
Re: converting Windows .ICO files to X bitmaps or PNG ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
USB Support - Does Linux provide it yet (Jon)
Pb with 3C509 network card ("News Club-Internet")
Re: Installation nightmare (Madrake & Red Hat) ("nicodemus caine")
3270 emulator (David Shaw)
Can someone recomend a good Linux (not Agent) newsreader for binaries? (David
Steuber)
Re: Can someone recomend a good Linux (not Agent) newsreader for binaries? (Bruce
Stephens)
Re: Can someone recomend a good Linux (not Agent) newsreader for binaries? (Kai
=?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
Re: Networking/Ethernet help, can't ping neighbooring PC (Linux-Addict)
Re: 3270 emulator (Bob Tennent)
Re: Operating systems for personal-computers? (Karl B)
StarOffice =?iso-8859-1?Q?doesn=B4t?= show vfat partition (Karel Jansens)
Best Linux distribution for newbie (Edward R Hartung)
vi wouldn't work after rootdisk boot (Gary Krupa)
Re: Linux & free ISPs (John Hasler)
RealPlayer 7 and Netscape (Neil Zanella)
Re: Can someone recomend a good Linux (not Agent) newsreader for binaries?
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From: Alex Fitterling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ICQ-Text-Client ?
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 11:29:47 +0200
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Alex Fitterling
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From: "Bruce D. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Corrupted PASSWD, SHADOW, GROUP files
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 05:21:06 -0400
Reply-To: "Bruce D. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I appreciate the reply Mark
I'll dig on that. I already fixed the group file manually, it appears the
blasted Red hat 'userconf' thing truncated and inserted stuff where it
shouldn't have. As far as shadow and passwd goes, that's going to be fun.
;-)
"Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> well i'll leave the real work up to you but I have done similare work
> by using a perl script run as root
> @users = <user file>; # or what not
> $root = "/home/";
> $c = 0;
> while ($user($c))
> {
> $garbage = `mkdir $root$users($c)`;
> $garbage = `chown $users($c) group $root$users($c)`;
> ++$C;
> }
> you get the idea
>
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:15:38 GMT, BadBoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I have inherited a web server that has been through about 5 years of
> >trauma. It has several hundred public_html style web sites for users,
> >about 100 Virtual hosts, and several thousand users. (All internet, not
> >used for login or anything, just for authenticating user's ftping)
> >
> >Security is handled by radius on a different machine.
> >
> >My goal is to move everything to a new webserver.
> >
> >Here is my plan (with no solution)
> >
> >PWCK flat out freaks out. Hundreds, if not a thousand or more errors.
> >We don't want all users to have /home/username dirs, but that seems to
> >be a built in requirement.
> >
> >The GROUP file is a mess. Initially all users were a member of the USERS
> >group. Then, about a year and a half ago, each subsequent NEW user
> >would become a member of the username group. (fredflnt would be a member
> >of the fredflint group)
> >
> >For ease of management, I believe I would like everyone to be a member
> >of ONLY the USERS group.
> >
> >I would like to reconcile the PASSWD and SHADOW file with eachother.
> >
> >I do have a valid and completely clean radius USERS file which contains
> >(only) the username, password, and other normal radius info which is
> >uselss for this excercise.
> >
> >I could write a script (perhpas) to match up, and create a new file
> >containing the Real Name to go along with the useranme and passwd.
> >
> >I might even get lucky and figure out how to put the required
> >.home.username/./html portion in their.
> >
> >Has anyone ever heard of a util, script whatver, that will make this a
> >little more manageble and realiztic for me?
> >
> >Pointers towards FAQ's, good books that go more indepth than the man
> >page of PWCK, would be very much appreicated. Links to the utils, or
> >even rough guesses where to search for such a beast would be greatly
> >appreciated.
> >
> >Bruce Meyer
> >
> >
> >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> >Before you buy.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike)
Subject: mount hangs - cdrom and floppy
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 22 Jul 2000 03:35:32 -0700
On both cdrom and floppy, my mount hangs. I can play audio cd's and format
disks, yet I cannot use the mount command to get at them. Of course, hard
drives are mounted fine. I'm running RH 6.0, I've tried various kernel
compilations, including these prepackaged RH ones :
vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
I upgraded my mount to mount-2.10f-1
I tried changing the way the devices are internally, moving my cdrom to
primary slave IDE (where another hd sits and works) as well as switching the
cable. It seems to be a definite software issue.
Any insight as to what action to take is greatly appreciated.. I've ran out of
ideas.
Thanks,
--
Mike
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From: Steffen 'Mugge' Chmil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DNS-traceroute
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 12:39:37 +0200
Because of chains of forwarding nameservers i can't resolve this
problem. In such a chain one nameserver hosts bad entries. To find out
this server & correct this problem I'm looking for a tool like
traceroute, but for dns-entries!
Anyone suggestions?
Thx Steffen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: converting Windows .ICO files to X bitmaps or PNG
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:33:30 GMT
In article <8laidc$3jh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe a trivial subject, but are there any software packages that can
> convert Windows icon (.ICO) files into formats usable under X? Can
> Gnome's icon editor do this? Can GIMP do this?
Why you don't try ico2xpm-1.1.tar.gz (36,156 bytes)? Look for it
through Google.
[]'s
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon)
Subject: USB Support - Does Linux provide it yet
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 11:37:59 GMT
Hi,
Does Linux support USB yet or is that still coming in Linux 2.4?
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From: "News Club-Internet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pb with 3C509 network card
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:17:27 +0100
Hi all
I've a problem with a 3C509 Ethernet Card.
I've a little network of 2 PCs one under w98 and the other under Linux
Redhat 6.1
connected througth a Hub.
The problem is that my network card seem to be unable to exchange data.
I've already
have got a pb with this card under this linux dsitribution with redhat 5.2.
I have reinstall
completely the distribution and the pb reapear now :((
All seem to be configurated correctly :
The netmask is 255.255.255.0
The W98 pc has the 192.168.0.2 Ip Adress ans Linux as the 192.168.0.1
My network is recognise by my Linux kernel.
But when I try to ping one machine from the other then the ping fail !!
From the W98 I look for with arp -a to see if it was able to take the
hardware
adress of the card and the hardware address is here ! But the arp -a command
under linux
return me : incomplete adress for the IP requested !
I don't understand why and what to do !!! ANyone has any ideas ??
Very thanks to you !
Jacky Buyck
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From: "nicodemus caine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.madrake,ahn.tech.linux
Subject: Re: Installation nightmare (Madrake & Red Hat)
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 12:10:18 +0200
Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted thusly...
[i'm being crossposted again...i found it in
alt.os.linux.mandrake]
> Most likely, though, the fault lies with the X Font
Server.
> Change to directory /etc/rc.d/init.d and run:
oddly...no, it's not.
that was my reasoning at first as well, but i turned on the
font server and it *still* crashed and then i turned it off
and it continued to do so - technically, the font server is
only used if you want any other machine to access x from
your machine itself...
what it looks like to me [and don't quote me on this,
because i'm not sure] is that the automated programs for
building x configurations [XConfigurator, setup, linuxconf,
etc...] are meant to build the 'unix:-\' metacharacter as a
way of pointing to the fonts in the directory that houses
them [i forget where...] and all of the automated services
*don't* which is why you get the font crash...i don't know
if this is a peculiarity of mandrake 7.02 and it's
configuration tools or not...
either way, it's simple enough to just yank the lines from
the standard XF86Config file and dump them into your custom
set-up...*shrug*
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Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 07:46:50 -0400
From: David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3270 emulator
I have been using Linux for a short time and am very pleased with it. I
work with IBM mainframes and at times have to dial into work remotely to
resolve problems. I was wondering what software would be the best and
easiest to set up for 3270 emulation. Any thoughts or suggestions would
be greatly appreciated. This is all that is keeping me from getting away
from Windows and working with a reliable OS.
Thanks,
Dave
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Crossposted-To: comp.emacs.xemacs
Subject: Can someone recomend a good Linux (not Agent) newsreader for binaries?
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 12:00:03 GMT
My current setup, which I am quite content with for discussion groups,
is GNUS in XEmacs 21.1.10 and leafnode. I run XEmacs on my laptop,
and Leafnode on another computer that is also a router for my DSL
connection.
What I would like to do is monitor binary groups served up by my ISP
(Bell Atlantic) with a different news reader so that I don't go
sucking down all the messages in groups I look at. Leafnode doese not
have enough disk space available to it for all the spool files! ;-)
So the news reader I use will directly log on to the BA news server
the same way leafnode does, but it will have a seperate file for
keeping track of the groups I subscribe too and which messages I have
already seen.
If someone knows a way I can have GNUS keep track of a seperate news
server, I would be happy to use it. There should be a way to switch
between leafnode and whatever BA uses and maintain a seperate
server-x.eld file for that server.
I don't want to cache binaries locally.
BTW, I do *not* know elisp :-(. But if there is a section in the GNUS
info file I should pay particular attention too or if someone has a
emaxical incantation to allow seperate servers to be used by one user
with seperate server-x.eld files, I would love to have them.
Thanks.
If I appear totaly incoherant it is because coffee is really not good
at keeping the brain working right. It is good at keeping you from
getting any damn sleep if you drink it too late in the day. Damn I'm
tired! Why can't I fall asleep? Should I start setting X-No-Archive:
yes in my headers?
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NRA Member | a hoploholic.
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--- Devon Miller
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From: Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs.xemacs
Subject: Re: Can someone recomend a good Linux (not Agent) newsreader for binaries?
Date: 22 Jul 2000 13:22:28 +0100
David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> If someone knows a way I can have GNUS keep track of a seperate news
> server, I would be happy to use it. There should be a way to switch
> between leafnode and whatever BA uses and maintain a seperate
> server-x.eld file for that server.
Gnus allows you to read from many different news servers. From the
*Groups* buffer, use B to browse this new server, and subscribe to the
desired groups.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs.xemacs
Subject: Re: Can someone recomend a good Linux (not Agent) newsreader for binaries?
Date: 22 Jul 2000 12:30:33 GMT
It is quite possible to use several news servers from one instance of
Gnus, and you can explicitly tell the Agent which news servers should
be covered by the Agent and which should not be covered.
Try typing `B' in the Group buffer, then follow the prompts. You can
go back to the new server by typing `^' in the Group buffer, then
hitting `RET' on the right server. Use `u' to subscribe to the groups
you like.
If you don't add the new server to the agent, it will not be covered
by the agent. That's what you want, right?
kai
--
I like BOTH kinds of music.
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From: Linux-Addict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Networking/Ethernet help, can't ping neighbooring PC
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 12:29:53 GMT
Do you have in your /etc/modules.conf alias etho,eth1
and for ISA nics you have a "options" line after each alias.
options being your port and irq for each nic.
In article <964250010.2890@sj-nntpcache-3>,
"Brian Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm try to get networking running properly over my 3c509B Ethernet
cards. I
> have two of them, both in this Linux system.
>
> When I started the Mandrake 7.1 install, eth0 was already physically
> installed. I have since then put in a eth1, and plan to do some IP
Masq. I
> told Mandrake to configure networking, but that didn't seem to do
anything.
>
> I am having some problems with eth1. Acutally, I don't know if eth0
works,
> because my cable modem is down and I can't test.
>
> eth1 if for my internal network. When I set eth1 up, I do the
following:
>
> ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
>
> However, when I do a netstat -rn I get the following output (with the
> loopback interface left out):
>
> Dest: 192.168.1.0 GW: 0.0.0.0 Genmask: 255.255.255.0 Flags: U Iface:
eth1
>
> I then try to ping 192.168.1.2 (another PC connected to the same hub
as the
> Linux box in question) and I get no response. That GW in the routing
table
> doesn't look right to me. Shouldn't it be 192.168.1.1? The flags
don't
> look good either, shouldn't they have a G in there? It is auto
configured
> by the system when I do the ifconfig command, and I can't seem to get
rid of
> or change it.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Brian
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: 3270 emulator
Date: 22 Jul 2000 12:47:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000 07:46:50 -0400, David Shaw wrote:
>I have been using Linux for a short time and am very pleased with it. I
>work with IBM mainframes and at times have to dial into work remotely to
>resolve problems. I was wondering what software would be the best and
>easiest to set up for 3270 emulation.
x3270 opens a telnet connection to an IBM host in an X window. The
window created by x3270 can use its own font for displaying charac�
ters, so it is a fairly accurate representation of an IBM 3278 or
3279.
Bob T.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl B)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.lynx,comp.os.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.psion.misc
Subject: Re: Operating systems for personal-computers?
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 14:52:29 +0200
Kelly and Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There's the Macintosh (MacOS) Next computer I get will be a Mac.
MacOS X will be real great!
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:54:52 +0200
From: Karel Jansens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: StarOffice =?iso-8859-1?Q?doesn=B4t?= show vfat partition
Like it says basically: StarOffice 5.1 doesn't recognize my vfat
partition.
The /etc/fstab line says: /dev/hda2 /mnt/DOS_hda2 vfat
user,exec,conv=auto 0 0
StarOffice is the only program that has problems with this. It's not a
big problem, just a minor nuisance; the vfat partition houses a
minimalist win95 installation that caters for some games and the file
transfer software for a parallel port scanner and a digital camera: I
can simply copy the files needed to my ext2fs partition. It is kinda
funky though...
I run Mandrake 7 with GNOME.
Someone in this group suggested I should mount with
mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/DOS_hda2 -o umask=002,uid=0,gid=users
but that doesn't seem to work.
--
Karel Jansens
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From: Edward R Hartung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Best Linux distribution for newbie
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:30:19 GMT
Hello to all!!! I'm looking to make a career change into computers (I
hope!!) and in addition trying to teach myself HTML and Visual Basic 6,
I've been looking into Linux so I can really learn about what an operating
system is all about and take a break from Windows. I was wondering which
would be the best Linux distribution for someone like myself who is
looking to use it both as a WIN98 replacement for my desktop needs and as
a way to really learn about an operating system? Any help would be
greatly appreciated. I'm presently reading "Running Linux" but after a
few chapters realized it's time to "do" as I'm reading. I've also ordered
a beginning Unix book figuring it might fill in some gaps. Thanks in
advance. BTW, I'm familiar with computers as an enduser, but not really
versed in the real "nitty-gritty" of software and hardware. However I'm
very eager to learn as much as I can. Computers have always been
interesting to me, but I've never really gotten into the workings "under
the hood" and I'd really like to now. Thanks in advance. ERH
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
From: Gary Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: vi wouldn't work after rootdisk boot
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:46:55 GMT
I made a mistake editing rc.inet2, and the system wouldn't boot. I used the
bootdisk / rootdisk combination to access the system, but found that I
couldn't use either vi or ed on the hard disk to edit the file. For vi,
there was a message saying, "can't find libtermcap.so.2". So I gave up
trying to edit the file, and finally succeeded in running ed after booting
from the installation cd-rom. Vi still wouldn't work after booting from the
cd.
Why couldn't I use vi (and many other commands), even after I mounted the
hard disk after booting from both the ramdisk and the cd-rom?
Does this have to do with starting init from the floppy, and if so,
how would I go about doing that?
Gary Krupa
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux & free ISPs
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 12:54:29 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think that we should move and ask juno free access to linux (with ot
> without banners).
How do you propose that they pay their bills?
> If juno cuts free access to linux users, it means cutting connection to
> freedom. IMHO, we should do something, fight for freedom. Let us make a
> choice.
Freedom is not about getting service without paying for it.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RealPlayer 7 and Netscape
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 11:21:35 -0230
Hello,
Does anyone know how to configure RealPlayer 7 for Netscape
on Linux so that clicking on a file that requires RealPlayer
will pop up the application? I tried adding the line:
RealAudio: /usr/local/lRealPlayer7/realplay %s
In my Netscape preferences and then restrted Netscape but it did
not work for some reason.
Thanks,
Neil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can someone recomend a good Linux (not Agent) newsreader for binaries?
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs.xemacs
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:28:28 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So the news reader I use will directly log on to the BA news server
> the same way leafnode does, but it will have a seperate file for
> keeping track of the groups I subscribe too and which messages I have
> already seen.
You can do this with tin. You just use
tin -g <news.server.com>
(replacing that with your actual newsserver of course.)
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