Linux-Misc Digest #336, Volume #25 Fri, 4 Aug 00 01:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: changing the cursor from underline to block (ASM code talked about) (Peter
Mitchell)
Re: Learn Unix on which Unix Flavour ? (Grant Edwards)
Re: guest ftp user can't see files? (g gilmore)
Re: XVidTune. (N/A)
Re: terminals (David M. Cook)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (blowfish)
Re: rsh and password (brian moore)
Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users. (Kenneth Harrington)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Johan Kullstam)
Re: XVidTune (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Re: when will we see RH6.3? 7.0? (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Re: finding dynamic library files? (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Netscape 4.72 on Suse 6.4: close window aborts instead of closes (Yeoh Yiu)
Re: when will we see RH6.3? 7.0? ("kc")
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From: Peter Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: changing the cursor from underline to block (ASM code talked about)
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 19:49:25 -0700
There is some excellent documentation of the interrupts as
used by BIOS and DOS in a file called MSDOSREF (.ZIP .ARJ,
LHA or whatever).
Below is some stuff I have had lying around for a while. It
is for DOS, though.
Best of luck - Peter
This is a set of 3 small .COM files and the debug script
files to generate them.
CURSOFF turns off the cursor.
CURSUL makes the normal underline cursor.
CURSBL makes a block cursor.
To make CURSxx.COM give the command
DEBUG < CURSxx.SCR.
n cursoff.com
a100
mov ch,08
mov cl,07
mov ah,01
int 10
int 20
rbx
00
rcx
0a
w
q
n cursbl.com
a100
mov ch,00
mov cl,07
mov ah,01
int 10
int 20
rbx
00
rcx
0a
w
q
n cursul.com
a100
mov ch,06
mov cl,07
mov ah,01
int 10
int 20
rbx
00
rcx
0a
w
q
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.solaris.x86,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Learn Unix on which Unix Flavour ?
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 03:14:00 GMT
In article <8mdbkp$2h6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>|>> OS/390 is Unix?! When did that happen?
>|>
>|>IIRC, 1998 or so. It happened when the MVS Unix System Services (USS)
>|>subsystem passed the X/Open conformancy tests. IBM made a big thing of
>|>it at the time; it officially permitted US Govt. purchasers to
>|>purchase MVS under the Posix-compliancy rules.
>|
>|Posix-compliance and the right to use the Unix(tm) are two
>|different things, aren't they?
>
>POSIX compliance is a subset of the standards a system has to meet to
>be officially branded Unix(tm).
So, is OS/390 (or MVS?) a flavor of Unix(tm), or just Posix-<something>
compliant?
There was a very interesting article a few months ago in Linux Journal about
running 4000+ separate copies of Linux on an IBM mainframe (don't remember
if it was a 390 or not). Even low-end IBM machine can run quite a few
copies of Linux -- complete with shared file-systems and virtual networking
between them. You can have one virtual machine be a DNS server, another a
news server, another a mail server, a few user shell login machines, and a a
dozen http servers, and handful of ftp servers. All on one box.
Spending $50,000 on a single computer sounds silly, until you figure out how
much maintenance you save when that single machine replaces 10 or 20 others.
I should look up a URL for that article...
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! My uncle Murray
at conquered Egypt in 53
visi.com B.C. And I can prove
it too!!
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
From: g gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: guest ftp user can't see files?
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 03:22:59 GMT
If you're using RedHat install the anon-ftp rpm.
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Ulrich Roth wrote:
> Hello Devon,
>
>
> > I created a guest ftp user, but upon login, no files or dirs are shown. I
> > created the bin,etc,lib dir with associated files in the /home/guest dir.
> > When I use a normal user, I can see all files.
>
> Such a bug was in SuSE 6.1. You had also to have a dev directory and
> in this a device. But I don't remember which one it was, maybe tty. I
> found the solution for this problem in the SuSE support database (sdb),
> which you can find somewhere under www.suse.de.
> Bye
> Uli
>
>
>
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From: N/A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XVidTune.
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 03:30:03 GMT
Bob Hauck wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 18:30:05 GMT, N/A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >my display is too big and i think running 'xvidtune' might help this
> >except for the fact i dont know how? do i have to install it and if not
> >how do i run it? (corel linux delux)
>
> Open a terminal window (xterm, kvt, whatever) and type "xvidtune".
> You'll need to do this from within an X session. If that does not
> work, try "/usr/X11R6/bin/xvidtune". If that does not work you may
> need to install it, but it would be pretty weird if it weren't there as
> it is part of the base XFree setup.
>
> Another program that may be useful for tweaking your X setup is
> "XF86Setup". The one I have give me the option to run xvidtune after
> setting everything up. This one should be run from a text console,
> with no X running. Note that Linux is case-sensitive when typing
> program names.
>
> --
> -| Bob Hauck
> -| To Whom You Are Speaking
> -| http://www.haucks.org/
>thank you for your help.
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Subject: Re: terminals
Date: 4 Aug 2000 03:32:01 GMT
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 16:39:58 -0700, Peter Mitchell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I suspected I might need to rebuild the kernal. But in the
>config scripts (menuconfig etc) I have seen no options for
>doing a terminal. What do you change, and how?
Look under "Character Devices" for "Support for console on serial port" and
read the help text there.
Dave Cook
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 20:39:21 -0700
Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Johan Kullstam wrote:
> > >
> > > Bernd Paysan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > We are now in a society that allows proprietary software.
> > >
> > > i would not use the word "allow". the united states (and other)
> > > government *actively* *enforces* copyrights. it's not a question of
> > > letting, say, microsoft keep its software to itself. this is police
> > > breaking down your door and rummaging through your stuff and
> > > potentially depriving you of your freedom in case they find you in
> > > violation of copyright.
> > >
> >
> > You have NO RIGHT to own anything that doesn't belongs to
> > you. Period.
>
> i don't understand your comment. maintaining copyright requires
> vigorous and active enforcement. this enforcement goes beyond what is
> usual for physical items. does pointing this out disturb you?
>
Are there anything that is worth while in life that does not need to be
protected???
No. It does not disturb me at all.
Did you ever read some real news? Did you read that Micro$oft and the
Canadian Mounties
busted a shop up in Canada that's been selling stolen copies of M$
Windoz? Some M$ employees were busted as well, for supplying the
software.
You break the law, you get busted. Pure and simple.
> > > copyright and patents are examples of mercantilism -- trade through
> > > government sanctioned *and enforced* monopoly.
> > >
> > Okay. Let's pretend I agree with you. Okay.
> >
> > Would you like to GNU-GPL your pay check to me forever?
>
> what does pointing out that copyright and patents are mercantilistic
> have to do with your question?
>
The whole world's economy is based on things that are merchantilistic.
The computer that you're typing this with, and your mediaone internet
connection, the food you just ate, the clothes that you're wearing, the
electricity that powers your light, your computer; are all
merchantilistic.
Don't be so naive.
> > Or would you mind to work for me for free forever?
>
> again, relevance?
>
> > > where government use or threat of force in maintaining this monopoly
> > > is removed (e.g., middle and far east), copying is wide-spread.
> > >
> > Think again. In China, they have executed (by firing squad, and even
> > charged their families for the bullets that the govt. executed them
> > with.) some guys who are major counterfeiters. Try to read some
> > international news, instead of drinking your free beer and watching
> > > MTV.
>
> how about the united states until the turn of the century? the US
> ignored european copyrights and patents. in fact the US revolution
> was in large part fought in order to escape these devices.
>
No. Nobody can change history.
Every single nations in the world have done something wrong during its
history.
But as long as they realise the mistakes, and have *learned* how not to
repeat the same mistake. Then... What's wrong with that!?
The important thing is to learn from history. Let's forgive, but not
forget our mistakes that were made in the pass. Learn how to avoid
making the same mistakes again.
> > In the mid-east. The Islamic law will chop off your right hand, if you
> > steal with yoir right hand. And kill you if you are dope dealer.
>
> it depends upon what you consider property. for example, in turkey
> or syria, you enter a record shop, choose the LP or CD you like. pay
> the guy in store who proceeds to tape it for you. the shop keeps the
> disk. you take the tape home. the turks and syrians seem to have a
> different concept of what is property and what can be possessed.
>
It all depends on your locale.
"In Rome. Do as the Romans do."
> if you can't own it, you can't be stealing it right?
>
Here goes your twisted logic again...
Okay. A just robbed a bank. Then you go and robbed A, took the money
that A robbed from the bank.
You didn't robbed the bank directly, but you're in process of the bank's
money by robbing A.
Does that makes you a lesser criminal??????????????
> > Wake up. You've just sold yourself for the price of a free beer.
>
> i have? what have i done? all i've said is:
>
> 1) copyright and patents are mercanitilism. this is by definition.
> 2) copyright and patents require active and intrusive enforcement by
> government. this is obvious by observation.
>
> do these statements somehow threaten your worldview?
>
No. But reality sure busted a lot of rainbow dreams by bubble heads.
Alex / blowfish.
> --
> J o h a n K u l l s t a m
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Don't Fear the Penguin!
No body fear the Penguin.
--
- Alex / blowfish.
--
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hands,
lives a very dull and unproductive life; so he needs Vi to waste his
time.
But Vi was still too fast. So God created EMACS on the 8th day - which
takes
Eight Months to load, And Counting Still...
KISS rules. That's why I use Easy Edit (ee). Small. Simple and fast.
:-)
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Me3(- A name, I call myself.) FAr4(- A long, long way to run.) Sew5(-A
needle pulling thread.)
lA6(-A note to follow sew.) TeA7(-A drink with jam and bread.) That
will bring us back to DOe-oh-oh-oh...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: rsh and password
Date: 4 Aug 2000 03:59:21 GMT
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 22:58:35 GMT,
Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Icky... Remove the suid bit from ssh. You don't need it.
>
> suid bit is needed to perform authenticated logins because
> in that case ssh uses your host keys instead of user keys.
No, it's needed to perform host-authenticated logins. But allowing that
brings in the whole 'chain of trust' that is a weakness in rlogin:
if your machine gets compromised, any machine that trusts it can be
compromised.
A decent key, ssh-keygen and ssh-agent and you're a lot safer with only
a modicum more trouble.
> If you do not need that, you may remove suid bit.
> However I do not see how that can help the original poster
> with the authentication failure.
I didn't say it would. I just said it was icky.
> > My guess is that your build of ssh is using tcp wrappers (or libwrap,
> > the library version of the same) and hanging up on you when you connect.
>
> That was my guess too, but typically ssh prints something like
> "error code: success" when it conflicts with TCP wrappers
> (because read() returns zero). So... who knows what that guy
> is hitting.
Nope, I just did it on last night's debs for woody:
[gimli:~] 8:53:14pm 454 % ssh -v localhost
SSH Version OpenSSH_2.1.1, protocol versions 1.5/2.0.
Compiled with SSL (0x0090581f).
debug: Reading configuration data /home/bem/.ssh/config
debug: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug: Applying options for localhost
debug: Seeding random number generator
debug: ssh_connect: getuid 1000 geteuid 1000 anon 1
debug: Connecting to localhost [127.0.0.1] port 22.
debug: Connection established.
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
debug: Calling cleanup 0x805cbbc(0x0)
That's what you get when you set up a libwrap'd sshd and tell it to deny
localhost.
That looks EXACTLY like what David's problem was.
It's almost certainly libwrap that is closing the socket.
--
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: Kenneth Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users.
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 21:04:40 -0700
My $.02 here.
I don't think you should have to apologize for your grammar. At least
you can post in a language which is not your native one. Much better
than I can do. :)
Alex wrote:
-- snip --
>
> Please forgive me for grammar mistakes since I am not an native English
> speaker.
>
> Sincerely.
>
> Alex.
>
> >
> > --
> > The term "popular" is MEANINGLESS in consumer computing. DOS3
> > was more "popular" than contemporary Macintoshes despite the
> > likelihood that someone like you would pay the extra money to
> > not have to deal with DOS3.
> >
> > Network effects are everything in computing.
> > |||
> > / | \
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------
> The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
> http://www.seti.org/
>
> Registered with the Linux Counter. ID# 175126
> http://counter.li.org/index.html
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 04:02:08 GMT
blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Johan Kullstam wrote:
> > what does pointing out that copyright and patents are mercantilistic
> > have to do with your question?
> >
> The whole world's economy is based on things that are merchantilistic.
>
> The computer that you're typing this with, and your mediaone internet
> connection, the food you just ate, the clothes that you're wearing, the
> electricity that powers your light, your computer; are all
> merchantilistic.
>
> Don't be so naive.
do you know the definition of mercantilism and the distiction between
it and other forms of commerce such as capitalism? normally i'd let the
spelling slide but it makes me worried.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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Subject: Re: XVidTune
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 04:03:54 GMT
N/A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> my display is too big and i think running 'xvidtune' might help this
> except for the fact i dont know how? do i have to install it and if not
> how do i run it? (corel linux delux)
Xvidtune is for tweaking a particular resolution so it is centered and
properly sized on the monitor. In your case, this doesn't seem to be
the problem.
By too big, do you mean the resolution is too coarse or does the
whole screen pan around? If it pans around, get rid of the 'Virtual'
line in your XF86Config file (I suggest you back it up before
editing!) and it the resolution is too coarse, bump it up to a higher
resolution your monitor can handle.
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: when will we see RH6.3? 7.0?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 04:10:31 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti) writes:
> When is the next release of RedHat due, anyone know?
The traditionally release the updates twice a year somewhere in early
april and september but it looks like they are ready sooner this time
around. As you may have heard, the next release is 7.0.
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: finding dynamic library files?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 04:33:26 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> installed the gdkpixbuf and gnomecanvaspixbuf library file for gnome, to use
> insted of imlib...
>
> problem: on doing the stand ./configre;make;make install the library is
> installed in /usr/local/lib
>
> question: how do i make the dynamic library loader 'aware' that it should also
> search this directory as opposed to the 'standard' ones. i have come across
> this problem b4, on istalling additional library;s they have been installed to
> the /usr/local/lib directory BUT then programs that require them canNOT find
> them and hence fail.
>
> luke duguid
>
> --
> no signature...yet!
Make sure the path is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf and then run as root
'ldconfig -v' to update the cache. This is normally done once during
bootup and inside of RPM packages I think so normally you don't need
to do this manually. You can also 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<path>' if a
non-root user needs to do it temporarily but that wont work with suid
executables obviously.
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Yeoh Yiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.x
Subject: Netscape 4.72 on Suse 6.4: close window aborts instead of closes
Date: 04 Aug 2000 00:43:53 -0400
I have a fresh install of suse 6.4 linux on a
celeron 433, running KDE.
I'm using the Netscape 4.72 which was installed off the Suse CD. My
usage style of websurfing is to have 12 to 20 different sessions
(i.e., windows) of Netscape running concurrently. These are
instantiated by File->New->Navigator Window or by Right-click->Open
Link in New Window.
When I an done with a particular session, I chose
File->Close or Alt-w. Sometimes this just closes
that particular window, as it should, but other times
it closes *every* window.
So, what can I do to close a particular window without
closing all windwos ?
BTW, I use this 12-20 windows mode so I don't have to
repeatedly log into various web sites, and then navigate
to my particular area of interest, since deep links
are not always supported, and also so I can alt-tab
between various too-slow web sites.
YY
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From: "kc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: when will we see RH6.3? 7.0?
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 00:07:36 -0600
In article <8mcv47$9ov$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
wrote:
> When is the next release of RedHat due, anyone know?
>
Well, there's a 7.0 beta out now if you're up for it.
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