Linux-Misc Digest #847, Volume #25 Sat, 23 Sep 00 21:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Easily compiling/moving kernel+modules to another computer (-ljl-)
Re: linux quake2 trouble
Re: "Exact" time measuring under linux (Lou Boyd)
Re: Linux on ZIP Floppy? (Steve Withers)
/boot/message (YY Lee)
Re: Problems with pan (newsgroup reader) (John Todd)
Re: perl - need help with a regexp (Bill Lee)
Re: End-User Alternative to Windows (Jerry L Kreps)
been hacked...have a question (me)
Linux+RAID+Win2k dilemma (Emilio Federici)
Re: Mounting a Windows Millennium partition (David Lanier)
Re: Linux & SCSI tools (Neil Cherry)
Re: Problems with pan (newsgroup reader) ("Jan Schaumann")
Re: been hacked...have a question (Bill Unruh)
BURNING AUDIO AND OR VCD's (Kirk I Reiten)
HTMLized Linux Manual Pages (Man Pages)
Helix Bug/Black Screen of Death, any ideas?? (Bill B)
Re: been hacked...have a question (JDoe)
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Easily compiling/moving kernel+modules to another computer
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 21:57:53 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Douglas Bollinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -ljl- at [EMAIL PROTECTED] says
...
>> Guess you just edit the Makefile. It's OK to be lazy as long as you
>> are not i[n]dolent.
...
> PS. Don't you meant "indolent"
You are absolutely correct: How did I miss that :-)
Regards.
--
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Before you buy.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux quake2 trouble
Date: 23 Sep 2000 22:06:20 GMT
Did that. The intro wont start up without it.
xhost +ablair
Funny that it can find the display to run the intro
and demo and even basic quake2, it just cant find it
for the mods. I've tried several.
This is wierd.
Art.
Thomas Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have you tried to run xhost + localhost from the command line? In order
> for a client process to display on the X server, you have to tell the
> server what hosts are allowed. I've run into RH6.x being weird about that,
> so give it a try.
> Thomas
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I'm running redhat 6.2 and having trouble with quake2 for X.
>> I've installed the quake2 rpm for linux and copied all the required
>> files over from my commercial quake 2 cd. Basic quake2 runs fine
>> but I cant run any mods without hitting the same error: upon typing
>>
>> cd /usr/local/games/quake2
>> ./quake2 +set game rogue (or xatrix or devq2)
>>
>> things start up fine. The demo runs, yada yada, but when I try to
>> start playing it bails out with
>>
>> ==== ShutdownGame ====
>> recursive shutdown
>> Error: VID: Could not open display [unix]
>>
>> I tried changing my DISPLAY variable to :0, ablair:0, localhost:0.
>> It appears to recognize this variable, but it just returns the error
>> Error: VID: Could not open display [ablair]
>>
>> or whatever (ablair is my host name). To even get this far I have to run
>> it as root.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanx,
>> Art.
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Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 22:16:45 +0000
From: Lou Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.robotics.misc
Subject: Re: "Exact" time measuring under linux
Whatever method you use under linux, test it thoroughly to make sure it
does what you think it does. There are too many combinations of
hardware and versions of Linux to be certain. That's true under window
too if your enough of a mashochist to try to write code at system level.
--
Lou Boyd
Floyd Davidson wrote:
>
> Maik Hassel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >Well, how do I do this? Is the resolution platform-dependent?
> >
> >Thanks
> > Maik
>
> The best way is don't. As others have mentioned, use
> the gettimeofday() function. Just be aware that while
> struct timeval has a variable named tv_usec which is
> labeled as "microseconds", the actual granularity may
> be greater than 1 microsecond. But since your request
> was for 1 millisecond resolution, that is apparently
> not a problem.
>
> Floyd
>
> >Paul Jurczak wrote:
> >>
> >> Maik,
> >>
> >> the most accurate way of time measurement on PC
> >> I know of, is to read CPU performance counter,
> >> which has better than 1 microsecond resolution.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Paul Jurczak
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>
> >> Maik Hassel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> > Hi!
> >> >
> >> > Which would be the most accurate way of measuring times down to
> >> 1/1000
> >> > sec in Linux? I can't use realtime-linux!
> >> > Is there a possibility of accessing the timer tics of the
> >> > realtime-clock? Or are there other possibilities?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for help....
> >> > Maik
> >
> >--
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > Maik Hassel for Information Technology
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> --
> Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux on ZIP Floppy?
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:21:15 +1200
Barry OGrady wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:53:54 +1200, Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
> >I have a P-166 with 64MB of RAM.....and a spare IDE ZIP floppy drive
> >(roughly 97MB capacity). I'd like to install a basic Linux sytem on the
> >ZIP floppy that would support my ethernet card and a text-based user
> >interface. I'd actually like to run the command line version of the SETI
> >@ Home client on this wee system.
> >
> >An alternative would be to boot the system from a CD and use the ZIP
> >floppy as writeable storage - perhaps the swap file could go there.
> >
> >Anyone done this?
>
> I've never heard of a Zip floppy. Do you mean the 100 Mb Zip disk?
> ZipSlack is supposed to run on a 100 Mb Zip disk, and it is very easy to install.
Barry
Thanks. I'll check it out.
I have discovered that my P-166 system BIOS thinks the IDE ZIP drive is a
CD-ROM......and
won't boot off it anyway. Maybe Soyo have BIOS upgrades..... :-)
It's the only mobo I have that's too old to boot from whatever......
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From: YY Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /boot/message
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 22:21:45 GMT
I use Mandrake 7.1 in a Pentium III 566 Mhz as dual boot with Windows
98. I 'cat /dev/null/ > /boot/message' which emptied the
'/boot/message' that now says '0 byte' but still showing LILO prompt as:
--
Welcome to LILO the operating system chooser!
To list the possible choices, press <TAB>.
To load one of them, write its name and press <ENTER> or wait 5 seconds
for default boot.
--
while 'typescript' says it's empty:
--
Script started on Sat Sep 23 15:11:25 2000
~ # ls -l /boot | grep message
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 23 15:05 message
~ # exit
exit
Script done on Sat Sep 23 15:11:37 2000
Is there a trick to reset LILO prompt after editing '/boot/message'?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Todd)
Subject: Re: Problems with pan (newsgroup reader)
Date: 23 Sep 2000 21:44:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 11:25:53 -0400, Jan Schaumann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"RedFred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>Pan0.8.1beta5, even though devel, is pertty dammn stable, I might add. And
>has a lot of nifty features not included in 0.8.0. I highly recommend
>using 0.8.1beta5.
>
>-Jan
>
>P.S.: Fup2 colm
>
>--
>Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
>
>"Irrationality is the square root of all evil"
> -- Douglas Hofstadter
>
>
--
Yes, but upgrading gtk can be pretty challenging. Unless you wear
a hair shirt with "Linux" picked out on it in thorns, teach yourself slrn! :)
_____________________
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|<de in RH6
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Lee)
Crossposted-To: alt.perl,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: perl - need help with a regexp
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 22:51:01 GMT
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 19:52:09 -0700, John W. Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> me wrote:
> >
> > hi
>
> Hi ali,
>
> > i have a string similar to the following:
> >
> > <A HREF="http://my.host.com/blah/blah.html" LAST_VISIT="0"
> > LAST_MODIFIED="0">blah blah</A>
> >
> > i want to extract just the web page location, ie.
> > http://my.host.com/blah/blah.html
> >
> > This is the expression i'm using:
> > @URLArray = m/(http:.*")/i;
>
> @URLArray = m/(http:[^"]*?)"/i;
>
> HTH
>
> John
A Little program:
============
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
#Following two lines are actually one line but folded to satisfy my slrn config
$foo = '<A HREF="http://my.host.com/blah/blah.html"
LAST_VISIT="0" LAST_MODIFID="0">blah blah</A>';
$foo =~ m/(http:.*?)"/i;
print "$+ \n"
============
Output is
http://my.host.com/blah/blah.html
Regards,
Bill Lee
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From: Jerry L Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 18:02:35 -0500
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, lyttlec wrote:
>chrisv wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 00:44:05 +0100, Garry Knight
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
>You think that's bad, in my tech school days we programmed the computer
>with "plug boards". Put one end of the blue wire into the green hole and
>the other into the red hole type of thing. We thought it was great when
>we got a computer with tubes instead of relays.
I remember that! As a student at the Barnes School of Business, in Denver, I
learned to wire the IBM 402 Tabulator that way. The 402 weighed several
thousand pounds, which is where the term "heavy iron" came from.
>
>We also walked two miles to school every day bare foot in the snow.
I never walked. I always grabbed a hold of the bumper of a car going my way
and slid to school. Lot's of fun!
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Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 01:39:46 +0200
From: me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: been hacked...have a question
hi
someone recently connected to my ftp server and did something (i dont
know what) to nuke me on irc. the thing is, he/she connected to my ftp
server apparently using the IP address of someone else. the IP address
in my log file belongs to someone i know...someone that i know didnt
nuke me. how did the "nuker" fake the ip address?
thanks
ali
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From: Emilio Federici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Linux+RAID+Win2k dilemma
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:18:56 GMT
Hi everybody, I've been happily running for quite a while my PC with
two Quantum Fireballs on a Abit Hot Rod controller with software RAID0
and Windows 98 on the second partitions of the two drives.
I've been using loadlin in order to prevent lilo from complaining about
the RAID0 not supported and/or the fact that the Windows partition is
located two far from the beginning of the HD (I don't remember what
cylinder number is the limit). This is tha partition table of the
booting HD:
Disk /dev/hde: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 19906 cylinders
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 63 263087 131512+ 83 Linux
/dev/hde2 263088 526175 131544 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hde3 526176 10295711 4884768 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hde4 * 10295712 20065247 4884768 c Win95 FAT32
(LBA)
Now I've got my hands on Windows 2000, and since it hasn't got a DOS
mode I can't find a way to run loadlin so I'm considering reverting to
lilo but will it be able to get rid of this messy configuration?
Thanks in advance for your help.
--
Emilio Federici
NUOVO INDIRIZZO-> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- NUOVO INDIRIZZO
ICQ:27013758
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From: David Lanier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting a Windows Millennium partition
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:30:07 -0000
That worked, thanks for the command line.
David
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:30:04 -0000, David Lanier wrote:
> >I use RH 6.2 installed on primary master, and Windows Millennium
installed
> >on secondary master hdd. Before Win Me I had Win 95 and had no problems
> >mounting the drive in Linux as a DOS VFAT drive using Linuxconf.
However,
> >since I have reformatted my win drive for a true FAT32 filesystem, I can
no
> >logner mount it. When booting Linux, the drive is listed in the boot
> >sequence as hdc, but in Linuxconf, it (hdc) doesn't appear at all. I
also
> >have a secondary slave drive that was formatted as a DOS FAT16 partition
> >and it appears as hdd in Linux. I am able to mount it with no problems.
>
> Ain't no thing. FAT32 support has been in Linux for at least 2 years:
>
> mkdir /mnt/lose
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt/lose
>
> Add the following line to /etc/fstab to get it to auto-mount upon system
> boot, but read the man page for mount so you know what's going on!:
> /dev/hdc1 /mnt/lose vfat umask=000 0 0
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to
see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
> http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
> -----------------------------/ --Henry Spencer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Cherry)
Subject: Re: Linux & SCSI tools
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:37:37 GMT
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 21:57:44 GMT, Neil Cherry wrote:
>On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 03:10:04 GMT, Stuart R. Fuller wrote:
>>Neil Cherry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>>: I have 2 Seagate drives and they are acting up on me. The first gets
>>: errors when reading or writting. I honestly think it's shot (barely
>>: used too!). The other is a 9G SCSI2 drive, I keep getting:
>>
>>Despite people's concerns about cables and termination, the problem is
>>indicated in your message: MEDIUM ERROR and Medium format corrupted.
>>
>>Did you just buy those drives from onsale.com or something? They look like
>>the pair that I bought. The instructions accompanying the drives said that
>>they'll need to be formatted, which is what I did.
>>
>>Check your system to see if you have a "scsifmt" package or program. I
>>didn't, but downloaded one from a Redhat contrib mirror.
>
>Thanks Stu, that's what I was looking for! I tried to get a Winders PC
>to format the drive but it wouldn't recognize the SCSI controller
>(@#$%!) and tried a MAC (trouble with jumpers). I will finially find
>out if it's dead (can't low level) or if I now have 9G extra space.
Instead of scsifmt look for scsiformat in the scsi.rpm on rpmfind
(http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/index.html) . I'm currently in the
process of formatting the first of the 2 trouble makers. I think the
9G will work after format but the 2G Baracuda is probably shot (my
guess). I was able to create partitions and mkfs it but it just kept
getting errors. We'll see.
Thanks again.
--
Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only)
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http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)
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From: "Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with pan (newsgroup reader)
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 19:41:06 -0400
"John Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 11:25:53 -0400, Jan Schaumann
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>Pan0.8.1beta5, even though devel, is pertty dammn stable, I might add.
>>And has a lot of nifty features not included in 0.8.0. I highly
>>recommend using 0.8.1beta5.
>>
>>-Jan
> Yes, but upgrading gtk can be pretty challenging. Unless you wear a hair
> shirt with "Linux" picked out on it in thorns, teach yourself slrn! :)
Well, I found upgrading the gtk/gnome stuff insanely easy using the
helix-installer. Just one command, two or three clicks and the let it sit
there and do the whole thing for you.
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
I'll burn my books.
-- Christopher Marlowe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: been hacked...have a question
Date: 23 Sep 2000 23:53:17 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>someone recently connected to my ftp server and did something (i dont
>know what) to nuke me on irc. the thing is, he/she connected to my ftp
>server apparently using the IP address of someone else. the IP address
>in my log file belongs to someone i know...someone that i know didnt
>nuke me. how did the "nuker" fake the ip address?
Easily. a) He broke into your friends machine, found your machine listed
there and then broke into yours. ( and fromyours into other people's).
b) He spoofed the address.-- easy to do.
Take your machine offline. Backup all your stuff that you need to keep.
Wipe the / and /usr partitions.
Reinstall.
Install all of the security updates for your distro.
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From: Kirk I Reiten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BURNING AUDIO AND OR VCD's
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:31:50 GMT
Hi,
I've been trying to burn audio and video CDs...... They burn OK,,,,, I
can play the burnt audio CDs on computer CD Drives using xplaycd and
even Windows boxs work.......... However, when I try to play them on
a "real" CD player, they don't work.....
The same thing happens when I try to burn VCDs
Any ideas????
Thanks
Kirk
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Subject: HTMLized Linux Manual Pages
From: Man Pages <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Sep 2000 07:09:20 -0500
If you prefer to read manual pages via a web browser instead of your pager, there's an
online archive located at
http://www.man-pages.net/linux/
Bookmark and enjoy :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill B)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Helix Bug/Black Screen of Death, any ideas??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:43:24 GMT
Hi All,.
Hope someone has an idea as to how to resolve this, my Red Hat 6.2 system is
completely hosed thanks to Helix, I'm pretty sure anyway. I really need
help I am writing this from my other Windows NT, system (ugh!!).
I installed helix gnome a couple days ago, and managed to get it working, a
little bit flaky but not too bad. Did shut the machine down using shutdown,
came back up ok. Did a Helix update uisng the update manager last night
that seemed to go OK....this morning a pest sprayer that came in to the
building turned my machines off without my being there/or asking. I know
you are not supposed to poweroff a linux system without a shutdown, usually
though most buffers should have been flushed right???
Anyways now I can't get a gui logon screen or one of the non gui
screens(ctrl-alt-shift 1-7 nothing comes up).
Out of desperation, I've shut it off a couple of times...once in a great
while I will get a weird little window in the upper left had corner that is
flickering at the edges(like the refresh rate has some home been cranked
high? I didn't do that I know I didn't maybe helix did?). Usually though,
the monitor refuses to display anything though (and I know the monitor is
good since it's working on my windows system right now.).
How can I fix this? Or if that isn't possible how can I force linux to boot
into a non graphical mode for login, even if I can't see the screen as it is
now? I really don't want to have to reinstall 6.2, I have some files on
there that I did not have a chance to back up.
Any help or suggestions are much appreciated!
Thanks
Bill Baker
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From: JDoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: been hacked...have a question
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:54:09 GMT
I guess a better question would be how to prevent this from happening
again.
Coz if someone can spoof a trusted IP, then what can we do? Deny all
access even to those we want to grant access to?
Me being a practical newbie at server administration, some insight
into this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
On 23 Sep 2000 23:53:17 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh) wrote:
>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>someone recently connected to my ftp server and did something (i dont
>>know what) to nuke me on irc. the thing is, he/she connected to my ftp
>>server apparently using the IP address of someone else. the IP address
>>in my log file belongs to someone i know...someone that i know didnt
>>nuke me. how did the "nuker" fake the ip address?
>
>Easily. a) He broke into your friends machine, found your machine listed
>there and then broke into yours. ( and fromyours into other people's).
>b) He spoofed the address.-- easy to do.
>
>Take your machine offline. Backup all your stuff that you need to keep.
>Wipe the / and /usr partitions.
>Reinstall.
>Install all of the security updates for your distro.
>
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