Linux-Misc Digest #59, Volume #26 Tue, 17 Oct 00 08:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: Slackware vs RedHat - Security (CDM)
Re: GNORPM/Web Find ("D. D. Brierton")
AMD Duron and Linux 2.2.14 and 2.2.12 ("Belmiro Lapa")
Improving fonts (SO 5.2) (Aulne)
Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? (Harry Lewis)
NFS problems with SuSe 7.0 - uid/gid not set correctly (Joerg Reiners)
sound interrupted ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: printer setup problem ("ryan vaughan")
Re: minimum shell for ssh/procmail (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: What is this? (Thomas Zajic)
Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? (Jean-David Beyer)
chmod??? ("Johannes G�tz")
Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: printer setup problem (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? (mlw)
Re: chmod??? (Eric)
Re: Need help with dual boot install Win 98/Red Hat 6.2 (Eric)
WebCam and software (Robert J Carter)
Re: chmod??? ("Johannes G�tz")
Anybody find PCTel modem headers? (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: WebCam and software (Tony Lawrence)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CDM)
Subject: Re: Slackware vs RedHat - Security
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:00:28 +0200
No matter what distribution you may want to check out
http://www.linuxsecurity.com
Useful docs/articles and links to stuff to install...
"Rafael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Which distribution is better regardles security?
>
> Rafael
>
>
Opinions expressed herein are my own and may not represent those of my employer.
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From: "D. D. Brierton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GNORPM/Web Find
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:33:28 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Robert Love" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Everytime I try and start Web Find under Gno RPM I get:
>
> XML-CRITICAL **: Document is empty
>
> XML-CRITICAL **: Start tag expected, '<' not found
Yep. I get the same problems. I don't understand why as 0.95 and 0.95.1
together were bug fix releases in which an absolutely enormous number
of bugs were closed. However, it used to work better before, at least
for me. Perhaps this should be sent in as a bug report.
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D. D. Brierton Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ddb
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From: "Belmiro Lapa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AMD Duron and Linux 2.2.14 and 2.2.12
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:44:37 +0100
Hi.
I'm having troubles installing Linux in my new Duron 700MHz. I'm
experimented 2.2.12 and 2.2.14 Kernels (Red Hat and Suse) and the
installation always crashes.
the motherboard is a Asus A7V
does someone have the same problem?
thanks,
Belmiro
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From: Aulne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Improving fonts (SO 5.2)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:37:33 GMT
Hello all,
This must have been asked several times before. How can I improve the
fonts used by Star Office 5.2 ? I see SO does an excellent job at importing
Word files but seems to be restricted by the fonts. Specific zooming ratios
(eg. 100% with arial font) gives not very good results. Is there a way to
improve this? I am using latest "stock" Mandrake distribution with basic
installation. I also use Win NT in a VMWare window.
Regards,
Alain
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Harry Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 23:06:53 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> In article <8seufm$c7d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, MH wrote:
>
> >Latex is fine. But try to give this to an experienced user of Word and it's
> >not going to happen in this life time.
>
> Wow. Word must be far worse than I had initially thoought if using it
> causes so much brain damage that it renders the user incapable of learning
> simple tasks with even a lifetime to do so.
>
> Learning to use LaTeX is certainly no more difficult than learning to use
> Word. Provided with a set of LaTeX templates, I've seen people with no
> typesetting or programming experience whatsoever producing within a day
> documents that looked like they were professionally typeset. You can spend
> the rest of your life plus most of the next one futzing with Word and will
> never end up with anything that wouldn't make a discerning reader gag.
>
> --
> Grant Edwards grante Yow! My mind is making
> at ashtrays in Dayton...
> visi.com
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
If all you have is a typesetting program, everything looks like a
typesetting problem.
Problem is, everything isn't a typesetting problem. Typesetting is the
business of printers. Word processing is what users do.
Harry
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From: Joerg Reiners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: NFS problems with SuSe 7.0 - uid/gid not set correctly
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:16:05 +0200
Hi,
I just set up a linux fileserver for my company. It is really the
best solution for getting lots of cheap disk space. 3000 bucks for
over 320 GB including PIII 800.
It works fine to serve our Windows workstations using Samba but I also
want to use the server to share files to our Linux boxes and other UNIX
workstations. I was able to share some partitions and mount them
successfully on the client machines. Solaris complained that the server
does not support locking. And here is the problem !!
All files that I create on the shared partitions get uid/gid
nobody/nogroup and this really makes it all unusable. I read something
about it in the man pages. So I guess the reason it that I have
to setup or run a kind of locking daemon ( rpc.lockd ). My problem
is that I cannot find anything like this. I use the package nfsserver
from my Suse Linux 7.0 Prof. installation to share filesystems and
the daemons rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd are running. But there is no
rpc.lockd installed on the system.
What do I have to change or to install to get it working the way I
want it to ? There is a package called knfsd on the installation cds
but I was not able to get it working.
Thanxs,
Mandox
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- I E S -
Integrated Exploration Systems
Bastionsstr. 11-19
D-52428 Juelich, Germany
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http://www.ies.de phone: ++49 2461 9360 33
ftp://ftp.ies.de fax: ++49 2461 9360 90
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: sound interrupted
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:12:13 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wrote a kde program but I don't think the problem is kde related. The
program works fine, sound works fine. As soon as the program plays some
sound and lauches a popup window at the same time, the sound is interrupted
as soon the popup window apeares on the screen. If the popup is not shown,
the sound is played alright. Any hint ?
This is with kernel 2.2.17, kde1.1.2, XFree 4.01, Alsa 0.5.9
-cu
Eggert
--
Eggert Ehmke
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "ryan vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printer setup problem
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 03:14:34 +0700
>> > On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 16:41:49 +0700,
>> > ryan vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>Hello, I have an athlon 600 running RH 6.1, with a Canon BJC-240L
>> >>printer and I'm having trouble setting up the printer. when i use
>> >>printtool i set up the printer fine, detected on /dev/lp0, and when
>> >> i try to print a test page it says it was successfully sent but
> nothing
>> >>
>> >>comes out of the printer. I am at a loss as to what to do. Any help
>> >> would be greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > It's a know problem with RedHat 6.1. Go to:
>> >
>> >
> http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/6.1/gotchas-6.1-6.html#ss6.19
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I tried doing what that page said but it still doesnt print. It still
>> says it spools correctly, but my printer just stares back at me blank
>> as ever. Even if i print the test page directly to the port it still
>> doesnt do anything. When i did /sbin/rmmod lp, it said that the lp
>> module was not loaded...could this be part of the problem? Thanks for
>> trying to help.
>>
>> Ryan Vaughan
>
> Now that you have the alias added, try removing the printtool entry
> and the file /var/spool/lpd/lp. Then re-run printool, starting lpd
> before you test. If this works, give a "thank you" to Dave Cook, who
> originally posted this tip Jan 5, 2000.
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com http://www.help.com/
Well, i tried that too and it still doesn't work. Printtool says it
spools fine but the printer does nothing. Any other ideas?
thanks,
Ryan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: minimum shell for ssh/procmail
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 06:18:43 GMT
peter pilsl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>At the moment I've written a minimal-shell that only reckognizes a exit
>and ignores all the other commands. This is sifficient for ssh-
>portforwarding (to access the mailserver on the server) but not for
>fileaccess or procmail.
Wouldn't a restricted shell be easier? See the manpage for
rbash (aka "bash -r") .
Michael
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Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: What is this?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:30:24 GMT
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 00:01:29 -0700, Jimmy Navarro wrote:
> Subject: What is this?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> [ ... ]
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> --------------25D68E6371F08DDF823D94E4
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> [ ... ]
Looks like a bunch of base64-encoded MIME crap to me ... don't do
this on Usenet, please. Thanks!
Thomas
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 06:32:01 -0400
John Hasler wrote:
> Jean-David Beyer writes:
> > Is this a permanent bug in Netscape?
>
> It's closed source: who knows?
>
> Why are you trying to use a Web browser for news anyway?
> --
> John Hasler
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, WI
I want one tool that works for e-mail, browsing, and
newsgroups. That way, when I am running the browser or the
newsreader, I am automatically notified of incoming e-mail. I
do not normally care to use /bin/mail or elm for e-mail because
they do not render MIME very well (at all). I forget the news
reader I used in the old pre-Netscape days (news?) because it
does not notice incoming e-mail, etc.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 6:25am up 7 days, 12:03, 2 users, load average: 2.06, 2.08, 2.05
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From: "Johannes G�tz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: chmod???
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:39:38 +0200
Hi!
Thanks to EJ for his umask tip!
I still have a problem with the file creation mode mask.
I want every new file to have the r.xr.xr.x attributes set.
Therefore I changed the umask in /etc/profile
to 222. The local umask is not set.
When I type umask -S it gives me
u=rx,g=rx,o=rx
umask gives
222
But when I create a new file only the r-attributes are set.
Does somebody know where the problem is?
Johannes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS:
What meaning do the single digits in the creation mask have?
I thought
1 = r
2 = w
4 = x
3 = rw
5 = rx
6 = wx
7 = rwx
Though it seems that 222 is r.xr.xr.x....
????
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 06:45:16 -0400
Harry Lewis wrote (in part):
> Problem is, everything isn't a typesetting problem. Typesetting is the
> business of printers. Word processing is what users do.
The trouble is, people did not always do word processing. In the nearly
pre-computer days, when I did a project at my employers, I wrote a technical
memorandum (in ball-point pen or pencil), handed it to the secretary, and she
took care of it at a far lower salary that I got. Except for one time when I
wrote a 300-page book, it typically took only a day or two to write such a thing,
and the secretary typically took about half a day to type it up. Photo-offset
printing of typescript was considered acceptable for these reports that were
usually kept inside the company, but occasionally they were circulated
world-wide. We had a technical journal that had world-wide readership. When
something was deemed worthy of publishing that way, the editors, etc., at the
journal saw to it that it was typeset properly.
Since we became heavy users of the UNIX Operating System, starting in the early
1970's, IIRC, the process got to be much more labor intensive, and by higher paid
labor. Instead of writing the memo on paper and handing it to a lower-paid
secretary, the highly paid members of technical staff had to do all the clerical
work of typing the thing in and formatting it. Furthermore, people got carried
away with format instead of content, so a memo underwent five or more revisions
instead of none or one. Highly paid people spent a greater proportion of their
time in clerical work and less on technical work. This seems to be considered
desirable at that company (where I no longer work), though their stock price
continually drops... .
I bet the problem is not confined to my former employer.
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.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 6:35am up 7 days, 12:13, 2 users, load average: 2.07, 2.13, 2.09
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printer setup problem
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 06:47:26 -0400
ryan vaughan wrote:
> >> > On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 16:41:49 +0700,
> >> > ryan vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >>Hello, I have an athlon 600 running RH 6.1, with a Canon BJC-240L
> >> >>printer and I'm having trouble setting up the printer. when i use
> >> >>printtool i set up the printer fine, detected on /dev/lp0, and when
> >> >> i try to print a test page it says it was successfully sent but
> > nothing
> >> >>
> >> >>comes out of the printer. I am at a loss as to what to do. Any help
> >> >> would be greatly appreciated.
> >> >
> >> > It's a know problem with RedHat 6.1. Go to:
> >> >
> >> >
> > http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/6.1/gotchas-6.1-6.html#ss6.19
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> I tried doing what that page said but it still doesnt print. It still
> >> says it spools correctly, but my printer just stares back at me blank
> >> as ever. Even if i print the test page directly to the port it still
> >> doesnt do anything. When i did /sbin/rmmod lp, it said that the lp
> >> module was not loaded...could this be part of the problem? Thanks for
> >> trying to help.
> >>
> >> Ryan Vaughan
> >
> > Now that you have the alias added, try removing the printtool entry
> > and the file /var/spool/lpd/lp. Then re-run printool, starting lpd
> > before you test. If this works, give a "thank you" to Dave Cook, who
> > originally posted this tip Jan 5, 2000.
> >
> > --
> > Posted via CNET Help.com http://www.help.com/
>
> Well, i tried that too and it still doesn't work. Printtool says it
> spools fine but the printer does nothing. Any other ideas?
>
> thanks,
> Ryan
This may be a dumb suggestion, but you never know: Is your printer cable any
good and of exactly the type required by the printer you have?
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 6:45am up 7 days, 12:23, 2 users, load average: 2.02, 2.04, 2.06
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From: mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 07:15:27 -0400
jazz wrote:
>
> I really need a powerful word processor with templates, styles, etc.
>
> What is available for Linux? How about for Powerpoint and Excel?
>
> Thanks ---
> Jazz
You can download Star Office. I used to use Applix, but I got their last
version and it wasn't as good as their previous version. SO 5.2, OTOH is
as good as MS office in that it doesn't crash like MS office, and it
does not take down the OS like MS office.
It has no problems reading MS office files, at least as far as I've
seen.
--
http://www.mohawksoft.com
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: chmod???
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:30:18 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Johannes G�tz wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Thanks to EJ for his umask tip!
>
> I still have a problem with the file creation mode mask.
>
> I want every new file to have the r.xr.xr.x attributes set.
> Therefore I changed the umask in /etc/profile
> to 222. The local umask is not set.
>
> When I type umask -S it gives me
> u=rx,g=rx,o=rx
>
> umask gives
> 222
>
> But when I create a new file only the r-attributes are set.
Why would you want a newly created file have the executable bits set?
Only executables (and directories) will have this bit used
> Does somebody know where the problem is?
>
> Johannes
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> PS:
>
> What meaning do the single digits in the creation mask have?
It's a (not) *mask*
The bits you enable in the mask, will be disabled in the created files.
so umask=222 means that all the write bits are disabled
Eric
>
> I thought
> 1 = r
> 2 = w
> 4 = x
>
> 3 = rw
> 5 = rx
> 6 = wx
> 7 = rwx
>
> Though it seems that 222 is r.xr.xr.x....
> ????
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help with dual boot install Win 98/Red Hat 6.2
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:40:32 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
McKarpan wrote:
>
> Completely new to Linux, just bought a book with RH 6.2. Followed the
> instructions, used FIPs to free up space on my hard drive and then went through
> the graphical install on the CD. Linux works fine after the install, but my
> Windows partition is unaccessable. Even a DOS boot disk does nothing, a blank
> black screen comes up with a flashing curser that does not accept input.
>
> The only way to get back to Windows is to reinstall Linux using the
> "partitionless install" feature. After that Win 98 comes up perfectly. The
> only problem is that I want to have Linux and Windows on seperate partitions.
>
> I have tried reinstalling Linux with and without LILO and using different
> numbers of Linux partitions, the result is always the same, if Linux is
> installed on a seperate partition from Windows I am completely unable to boot
> to Windows, but as soon as I move Linux back to the Windows partition things
> work fine.
>
> It makes no sense to me that I can't even boot from a DOS rescue floppy after
> Linux is installed to a seperate partition (I know the rescue floppy is good
> because if I unplug my hard drive it will boot the machine to DOS, but with the
> hard drive plugged in, I get the same blank screen).
>
> Please Help, this is driving me crazy!
This cannot be true.
Perhaps I do not understand you completely. Have you reinstalled windows
after you were unable to boot it? How do you "move linux back to the
windows partition?"
There are a few things you should post here if you want my help:
1) the result of `fdisk -l /dev/hda` (ie. linux fdisk, NOT dos)
2) the content of the file /etc/lilo.conf
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@oghma.on.ca (Robert J Carter)
Subject: WebCam and software
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:40:18 GMT
I'm thinking about buying a webcam, but I'll be dammed if I'm going to
buy something I have to run winblows to use. Does anybody know what
cameras - if any - can be run under Linux, and with what software?
Any and all pointers would be appreciated. I will post a summary if
anybody is interested.
--
Robert J Carter at Oghma dot on dot ca
Use my lower-case initials to reach me via e-mail
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From: "Johannes G�tz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: chmod???
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:56:56 +0200
Hi!
> Why would you want a newly created file have the executable bits set?
> Only executables (and directories) will have this bit used
I set up a www/ftp server. Directories that are uploaded by the users should
have the x-attributes set to let everybody change into that directory. The x
attribute is not wanted for normal files...
Is it possible to do that with a chmod directly in the ftpconversion-file? I
read the manpage but the options are not explained there so I don�t know
what to do. (I use in.ftpd / ftpd)
> It's a (not) *mask*
> The bits you enable in the mask, will be disabled in the created files.
> so umask=222 means that all the write bits are disabled
>
> Eric
Oh! I understand! I can�t use the mask to *SET* attributes but prevent the
attributes from being set?
Thanks
Johannes G�tz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Anybody find PCTel modem headers?
Date: 17 Oct 2000 11:51:23 GMT
PCTel PCI MicroModem (an HSP modem as far as the docs tell me) can be made
to work, and the source to roll your own has been provided in the super
modem resource on the 'net. But I don't see where the header files and
those much-needed includes are, so the compile crumbles under the weight
of all those undefined variables. Can somebody be kind enough to send them
to me? Have you gotten your modem to work? (THis would then become a
USEFUL modem instead of sitting neglected in my 'PARTS' box)
TIA
--
jazz
Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
--- OUT THERE??
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From: Tony Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WebCam and software
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 07:58:45 -0400
Robert J Carter wrote:
>
> I'm thinking about buying a webcam, but I'll be dammed if I'm going to
> buy something I have to run winblows to use. Does anybody know what
> cameras - if any - can be run under Linux, and with what software?
>
> Any and all pointers would be appreciated. I will post a summary if
> anybody is interested.
There was an article just last month or so in Linux Journal about
the Axis camera. It's on-line at http://www.linuxjournal.com -
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue77/4173.html
These guys, BTW, run their Web Server on NT which I think is a
g.d. stupid thing for a Linux magazine to do. They claim they
need the features (what features?) - I say they either learn to
live without those "features" or get better web architects..
--
Tony Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SCO/Linux articles, help, book reviews, tests,
job listings and more : http://www.pcunix.com
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