Linux-Misc Digest #17, Volume #26 Fri, 13 Oct 00 01:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: my /dev/mouse->psaux is corrupt, help!!! ("David ..")
RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix? ("mnip")
Re: PageMaker type program? (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Re: Not allow mount file system ("James T. Dennis")
Re: PageMaker type program? (Robert Love)
Re: What is System.map ? ("Michael")
Re: Maximum swap partition size? ("�ric GARANT")
Re: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix? ("Robert A. Book")
Re: wvdial problems (John Hasler)
RH 7 terminal corruption (Mark Goldberg)
Different download types??? ("Micer")
about sendmail ("Lucas Gamp")
Re: about sendmail (Gwyn Judd)
Re: MS archive extraction tool (Brian Hall)
Re: about sendmail (Logan Shaw)
Re: PageMaker type program? (Prasanth A. Kumar)
RedHat 7 and Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux (Hendra Wijaya)
Re: RedHat 7 and Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Re: about sendmail (Christopher Browne)
Re: Linux from scratch.... ("Michael Westerman")
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: my /dev/mouse->psaux is corrupt, help!!!
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 21:00:57 -0500
Al wrote:
>
> Thanks for replying.
>
> > console ..
> >
> > gpm -m /dev/psaux
> >
>
> I get : gpm: oops() from gpm.c (952)
> and then
>
> /dev/psaux: No such device
>
> Any idea why????
> Thank you much
>
Have you tried to "verify" gpm?
rpm --verify /path/to/gpm-*.rpm
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From: "mnip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix?
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 02:21:07 GMT
I logged in to my RH6.2 mail and web server for the first time in weeks
today, but the telnet login is now inoperable. I get the RH62 message, but
no login prompt. I then went over to the physical machine, and a similar
thing, login: but any input just returns the login: prompt.
I checked webmin, and that still works, as do the web serrvices, everything
seems to be in order except the login daemon, or the shell or something I
don't quite know enough about linux yet to diagnose.
I figured what the heck, the machine hasn't been rebooted in months. I
issued the reboot signal, and the machine comes back with the same malady.
What is going on, and how can I fix it? RH gives a linuxconf option (I did
install the latest linuxconf rpms), but I don't forsee any magic daemon
fixes in that interface.
Please reply with any ideas ASAP. Fortunately, the intended functions seem
to be uninterrupted, but I'm anxious to login all the same...
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Subject: Re: PageMaker type program?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 02:30:57 GMT
"Michael J. Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone have any recommendations for a Linux software
> package closest to PageMaker in functionality?
>
> Namely, 2D page layout with tex/graphics/layers/etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael Sherman
If you want payware, there is Adobe FrameMaker for Linux available in
beta form right now.
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Prasanth Kumar
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From: "James T. Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Not allow mount file system
Date: 13 Oct 2000 02:43:24 GMT
In comp.os.linux.security Beggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> is there any way to not allow the linux partition cannot mount
> by other OS (include linux) except the machine install on it.
> I want to protect my files not being steal by others even he can
> physically access the hardware. Any idea?
> I have heard about "kerneli.org" , but it seems not applicable for
> me.
> Dicky
First a guess at what I think you're asking (attempted
English translation):
Is there a way to configure Linux so my
filesystem can't be mounted on other Linux
systems, even if someone gains possession of
the physical drive?
Kerneli.org is the home of the "international patches" to
Linux. These exist because the U.S. government has had a
shameful and idioti set of export restrictions on cryptographic
software; thus preventing the core kernel developers from
including proper cryptographic extensions and modules in the
mainstream kernel.
Some of the patches available for Linux include the ppdd
(privacy protected disk driver) which is probably what you
want here.
I haven't used ppdd or any of its ilk. (I played with CFS
about five years ago --- it is another alternative that might
be suitable for your use). However, the primary consideration
for using any of these is "where to you keep the key/password?"
and "how do you enter that into the system?"
The obvious approach would be that you'd have to be physically
present whenever your system was rebooted and you'd have to type
in the key/password/passphrase to "unlock" the drive. That
could protect whole filesystems from physical theft. Note that this
won't do ANYTHING to protect your system from runtime threats
(people subverting the system and reading the data while the
drives are mounted).
Runtime threats (subverted root processes) are far more prevalent
and widespread than physical theft (there are millions of potential
culprits all over the Internet in the former case).
Of course you could use a mixture of ppdd and CFS or other
combinations of crypto/loopback mounting, etc.
However, ultimately you still have to consider the case where
someone compromises your fileserver; installs a trojan; steals
your key and THEN comes back to steal the drive and retrieve
their (now stolen) key.
Basically if you can't physically secure the system(s) than
you have no possible assurance of its integrity. If you can't
trust your client system then you can't trust anything beyond
it. It becomes a very privileged "man in the middle" --- and
if you can't implement the advanced crypto on the wetware side
of your keyboard (which I certainly can NOT) then you'll be
providing keys/passwords/passphrases to a potential attacker.
However, you're welcome to spend a couple of years playing a
mental game of "virtual hacker chess" trying to come up with a
system that overcomes this fundamental limitation. I have.
It's a handy way to while the hours on that long drive to L.A.
that I do with my wife every few months.
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From: Robert Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PageMaker type program?
Date: 12 Oct 2000 21:57:22 -0500
>>>>> "Prasanth" == Prasanth A Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Prasanth> If you want payware, there is Adobe FrameMaker for Linux
Prasanth> available in beta form right now.
Are they charging their usual $800?
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From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: What is System.map ?
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:38:49 +1000
"Steve Wampler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "J.Smith" wrote:
> >
> > The programs that *do* need the existence of system.map, will they be
> > looking for /boot/system.map, or are they able to figure out that
kernel.1 &
> > system.map.1, kernel.2 & system.map.2 belong together? Does it make
sense to
> > change a symlink system.map to the correct system.map every time the
system
> > gets booted? Or are these programs primarly debugging tools that allow
you
> > to specify the correct system.map on the command line?
>
> Rather than symlink, tell the kernel via /etc/lilo.conf, as in:
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz.new
> label=new
> root=/dev/hda1
> append="map=/boot/System.map.new"
> read-only
>
> I suspect that is sufficient on most systems.
Hang on a minute, in the lilo docs it says the map will default to
/boot/map... And we've discussed this file, and I was lead to the
understanding that this file is lilo's map, the the System.map....
Oohhh, head hurts now... = )
See ya
Michael - remove is dead to reply
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> --
> Steve Wampler- SOLIS Project, National Solar Observatory
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From: "�ric GARANT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Maximum swap partition size?
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 03:06:07 GMT
I don't know for your kernel..
but what I know is that with RedHat 6.0 the maximum swap partition size is
127 MB
"Timothy J. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message news:
8s5fr2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> What is the maximum swap partition size of 2.2 kernels? 2.4 kernels?
>
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From: "Robert A. Book" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix?
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 22:08:17 -0500
mnip wrote:
>
> I logged in to my RH6.2 mail and web server for the first time in weeks
> today, but the telnet login is now inoperable. I get the RH62 message, but
> no login prompt. I then went over to the physical machine, and a similar
> thing, login: but any input just returns the login: prompt.
>
> I checked webmin, and that still works, as do the web serrvices, everything
> seems to be in order except the login daemon, or the shell or something I
> don't quite know enough about linux yet to diagnose.
>
> I figured what the heck, the machine hasn't been rebooted in months. I
> issued the reboot signal, and the machine comes back with the same malady.
>
> What is going on, and how can I fix it? RH gives a linuxconf option (I did
> install the latest linuxconf rpms), but I don't forsee any magic daemon
> fixes in that interface.
>
> Please reply with any ideas ASAP. Fortunately, the intended functions seem
> to be uninterrupted, but I'm anxious to login all the same...
Something like that happened to me once (with RH 6.0) and I concluded
(perhaps wrongly?) I'd been hacked. It was on the machine I use all the
time, and I was actually doing some configurations tests and frequent
reboots at the time, so I noticed it the next time I rebooted, and
couldn't login; perhaps I stopped the hack in midstream.
Another newsgroup reader suggesting rebooting in single-user mode (e.g.,
type "linux single" at the LILO prompt, or use a boot floppy). I
discovered that the login program (/bin/login ?) had been altered, and
some of the /etc files also. There's a command option to "rpm" that
checks all the installed packages to see if something's changed (I think
it's "rpm -Va" but don't quote me; I don't have access to my home
machine now... cable internet is down).
*IF* that's the case, the best solution is probably a clean re-install.
It's what I did, but that was on my own personal workstation only ab out
two weeks after the original install. I'm most certainly *NOT* an
expert, so don't conclude from what I'm saying that you've necessarily
been hacked or that you necessarily need to re-install, but that might
be the a POSSIBILITY.
In any case, I'm fairly certain that "LILO: linux single" is the way to
get in to see what's going on. I think, however, that your mail and web
servers will not function while you're in this mode, so you may want to
take that into account when deciding if/when to try this.
--Robert Book
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: wvdial problems
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 02:20:39 GMT
patrick writes:
> anyone with any suggestions?
You either have a winmodem or your modem is not on the serial port you
think it is on.
Try connecting to the modem with minicom.
--
John Hasler
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Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: Mark Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 7 terminal corruption
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 20:36:04 -0700
For all users except root, resizing the default gnome-terminal to a
larger size results
in corrupt characters after scrolling. Lines are not cleared, extra
characters litter
the screen, etc. I deleted .screenrc, copied the one from .etc/skel,
changed the command
line to not use the factory stuff. Nothing makes it work correctly. For
root, everything
works fine. There is no .screenrc in /root.
This is an upgrade from RH6.2 to RH 7 with a 2.4.0-test7 kernel.
Any Ideas?
Mark Goldberg
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From: "Micer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Different download types???
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 06:41:28 -0700
I am downloading ipmasqadm and I use Redhat 6.0. So far I have the
following:
ipmasqadm-0.4.2.tar.gz
ipmasqadm-0.4.2-2.glibc2.tar.gz
ipmasqadm-0.4.2-2.i386.rpm
ipmasqadm-0.4.2-3.src.rpm
I am sure there are about 10 other suffixes floating around out there too! I
have used ".tar.gz" files before. I have to do a configure and a build. But
what is "glibc2"? And why is there an "i386.rpm" as well as a ".src.rpm"?
Can anyone elaborate on the many suffixes?
Thanks,
Micer
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From: "Lucas Gamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: about sendmail
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:43:57 +0800
Hi all,
I used to send email in CGI by /usr/sbin/sendmail, but this time
I must send a HTML that contains images, so how should I deal
with the images, how to print to sendmail?
Thanks very very much.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gwyn Judd)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: about sendmail
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 03:50:57 GMT
I was shocked! How could Lucas Gamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
say such a terrible thing:
>Hi all,
>
>I used to send email in CGI by /usr/sbin/sendmail, but this time
>I must send a HTML that contains images, so how should I deal
>with the images, how to print to sendmail?
I would definitely use the MIME::Lite module.
Hope that helps.
--
Gwyn Judd (print `echo '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' | rot13`)
Q: How was Thomas J. Watson buried?
A: 9 edge down.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Hall)
Subject: Re: MS archive extraction tool
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 04:00:17 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
They are winzip-type archives, but you can't extract the Win32 version in
linux for some reason. Just grab the "16bit" version of the archives for
Win3.1, they extract fine under linux. May how to browse their ftp site to
find the win3.1 versions.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, fred smith wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>: On or about Sun, 8 Oct 2000 19:59:37 GMT, fred smith
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scrivened:
>:> Hi!
>
>:> i'm wondering can anyone point me to a Linux tool that can extract files
>:> from these .EXE self-extracting windoze programs MS distributes their
>:> software in. I've downloaded some free fonts from the MS web site and
>:> of course they encode them in that form. They are not zip or lharc files.
>
>:> I vaguely recall seeing a reference to such a program a year or more
>:> ago but now cannot find it.
>
>: I vaguely recall looking for this a while back. I believe the files are
>: in "CAB" (cabinet?) format. There were a fiew low-grade hits regarding
>: unarchive utilities for this format, but nothing particularly promising,
>: as I recall. Is thes the same thing you're looking for?
>
>I don't know if they're CAB files or not, their extension is .EXE and they
>self-extract when run in a Windoze environment. I suppose I could take
>one over to a Windoze box and try the cab extractor utility that is on
>the Win95 install CD just to see if it will recognize them.
>
>Fred
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Logan Shaw)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: about sendmail
Date: 12 Oct 2000 23:02:39 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gwyn Judd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I was shocked! How could Lucas Gamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>say such a terrible thing:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I used to send email in CGI by /usr/sbin/sendmail, but this time
>>I must send a HTML that contains images, so how should I deal
>>with the images, how to print to sendmail?
>
>I would definitely use the MIME::Lite module.
I wouldn't, since the goal is to send "HTML that contains images".
Since this is impossible[1], using MIME::Lite would really be more
effort than necessary.
I say it's impossible because, while HTML can refer to images and while
an e-mail message can contain both images and HTML, HTML is a markup
language, not a way of transferring graphics. Furthermore, as far as I
know, there is no URL type that refers to othre attachments within a
MIME message. If there were, one could send an e-mail with images
attached that were referred to by an HTML file that was also attached,
which would be very close to sending a web page by e-mail.
Of course, in many cases, people *want* to just send links rather than
images in the e-mail, so they can customize the URL for each message
and thereby know that you received it successfully when you try to open
the e-mail, and thereby know that your e-mail address works.
- Logan
[1] It's not really impossible; see http://www.illuminated.co.uk/gif2html/ .
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Subject: Re: PageMaker type program?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 04:08:46 GMT
Robert Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>>>> "Prasanth" == Prasanth A Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Prasanth> If you want payware, there is Adobe FrameMaker for Linux
> Prasanth> available in beta form right now.
>
> Are they charging their usual $800?
<snip>
Not sure since I never used it.
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Prasanth Kumar
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From: Hendra Wijaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 7 and Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 04:10:07 -0000
I just upgarded my Redhat from ver 6.2 to ver 7, thinking of the
improvment I could take advantage of, instead I found more problem than
before.
The First one is that after upgarding to ver 7, Corel WordPerfect 8 won't
install. After running the Runme script, it will start the GUI of
WordPerfect, instead I got a bunch of lines that said it can't start the
GUI and someting with libs.so.c
Anybody know to fix this?
Thanks
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http://www.help.com/
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Subject: Re: RedHat 7 and Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 04:16:29 GMT
Hendra Wijaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just upgarded my Redhat from ver 6.2 to ver 7, thinking of the
> improvment I could take advantage of, instead I found more problem than
> before.
>
> The First one is that after upgarding to ver 7, Corel WordPerfect 8 won't
> install. After running the Runme script, it will start the GUI of
> WordPerfect, instead I got a bunch of lines that said it can't start the
> GUI and someting with libs.so.c
>
> Anybody know to fix this?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
Try installing the libc-5.3.12 RPM from RHL 6.2 possibly. The primary
C library used in Linux now is glibc-2.x but WordPerfect was written
in libc-5.3 back in the old days. RHL 6.x included this library but
was set to depreciate it. This is why it no longer works in RHL 7.0.
--
Prasanth Kumar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: about sendmail
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 04:33:38 GMT
In our last episode (Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:43:57 +0800),
the artist formerly known as Lucas Gamp said:
>I used to send email in CGI by /usr/sbin/sendmail, but this time I must
>send a HTML that contains images, so how should I deal with the images,
>how to print to sendmail?
Simple Answer: You can't.
This is more or like asking how you might use your refrigerator to bake
a pie. I don't use my fridge for that; I use an oven.
Explaining...
-> Suppose your document contains the tag:
<img src="local://myfilename.jpeg">
That represents an image that must _already_ be on a local filesystem
at the destination.
-> Suppose your document contains the tag:
<img src="http://somehost.org/pictures/mypicture.jpeg">
That represents an image that the web browser will try to access
via the HTTP protocol.
Those are basically the two options you have. Sendmail has no way
of indicating that a file be put into "myfilename.jpeg".
And it is a server that uses the SMTP protocol, not the HTTP protocol,
so it can't serve up http://somehost.org/pictures/mypicture.jpeg
This is inherently outside the scope of anything Sendmail might be
used to do. Sendmail is used to send messages. It doesn't
display images, or transfer anything using the HTTP protocol. It is
not a program that is used to print things.
Note that if you use an image URL that references your favorite
web server, someone that is reading their email using a web browser
rather than a mail client will find that their web browser will head
to that web server and pull the image via HTTP. Sendmail won't be
involved in the slightest.
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good with ketchup.
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From: "Michael Westerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux from scratch....
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:06:09 +1000
ok im going to use a small distro in a seperate partition.
will parted or gparted (or the correct name) allow me to recorer the
partition into my LFS partition so i have 1 big 200 M one.
are there beter utils to use for this (i have never needed to do this
before!)
Thanks to all who have responded so far!
Thanks in advance for any answers for the above answers {:-)
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