Linux-Misc Digest #885, Volume #26 Mon, 22 Jan 01 01:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: HELP : Adaptec AHA1505 SCSI-card ("jacob childress")
Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm ("mmnnoo")
Re: What's wrong with BTTV driver in 2.2.18 ? ("Vladimir Florinski")
Re: RPM newbie query | uninstall (Hugh Lawson)
Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm ("Frank Hale")
multicast setting on Linux machine (nui)
Re: RPM newbie query | uninstall (David)
Re: instrumentation displays (question) (Vincent Zweije)
Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors?? ("mmnnoo")
Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm (David)
Re: Good Intro on rsync & personal crontab? (bpc)
Re: finding text within files query (Brad Bailey)
Re: Lexmark printer "drivers" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best way to replicate Linux partition? (MH)
Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm (John Hasler)
Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm (Chris Ahlstrom)
remote sound? (Flounder)
Re: Lexmark printer "drivers" (Steve Ackman)
Re: soundcard setup (Steve Ackman)
RHCE details needed ("Chakravarthy K Sannedhi")
" No Transport Provider..." error messages ("Greg")
Unpacking ISO-images without a CD burner ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux compatible of Quicken ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "jacob childress" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: HELP : Adaptec AHA1505 SCSI-card
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 03:58:53 GMT
"Rik Lambrichts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Normally the Adaptec Scsi-card AHA1505 is installed
> at boot-time by giving bootparameters trough LILO.
> I'm using a bootfloppy with the kernel on it to boot
> my multihomed system directly and I would like to keep
> it that way.
> Is there a way to use that card without using LILO and
> bootparameters ?
Hi,
I believe that you should be able to add the parameters you need to
lilo.conf in an "append=" line. Try looking at the man page for lilo.conf.
Good luck,
jacob
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From: "mmnnoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 04:16:53 GMT
I am sorry to hear what happened to you, but might I suggest
using a firewall unless you really want to offer nfs to the world.
Also, next time you upgrade or if you're thinking of reinstalling
your system software so you can trust it again, consider using
debian or FreeBSD as you can automatically update all the
software on your system with one or two easy commands
that can be run automatically.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "E J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Install the nfs, wu for RH6.2 and LPR for RH7.0 Now.
>
> Commands to update and effectively close these
> vulnerabilities on Redhat Linux 6.2 server:
> rpm -Uvh
> ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/nfs-utils-0.1.9.1-1.i386.rpm
> rpm -Uvh
> ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/wu-ftpd-2.6.0-14.6x.i386.rpm
>
> Commands to update and effectively close these
> vulnerabilities on Redhat Linux 7.0 server:
> rpm -Uvh
> ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/LPRng-3.6.24-2.i386.rpm
>
> I did not do any installation of updates on RH7.0 because it was freshly
> installed. I got hacked this morning. I was wondering why my hard disk
> was whirling. I ran 'top' and found 'find' was running. I turn netscape
> to
> 'http://localhost' and sure enough I was hacked by the Ramen worm. My
> printer does not print anymore because they exploited lpr. I check my
> security logs and found the offending computer who launched the attack.
> When I turned my netscape to "http://xxx.yyy.zzz.www" and looked at
> their website, it came with the Ramen worm webpage. I sent an email to
> CERT notifying about the hack on my computer. To repair the damage, I
> went to http://www.whitehats.com/library/worms/ramen/ and followed their
> instruction. It wiped out all of my index.html with the Ramen worm
> webpage. I had to do an upgrade of all the RH7.0 packages I installed.
> (2 hours of work) I had to get all personal index.html from my quite
> recent backup. I wrote to www.digitaldesk.com because they said it was a
> beneficial worm in their news story. What a shitty story!!! The Ramen
> work causes too much damage to my computer.
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From: "Vladimir Florinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: What's wrong with BTTV driver in 2.2.18 ?
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:42:34 +0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Emmanuel Beranger"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I can run kwintv from kernel 2.2.17, but neither of my 2.2.18 kernels : it
> starts, and I can see a couple of images and hear the sound, and it
> immediately seg faults ...
>
I can only confirm that I had a similar problems with 2.2.18 and I had to
switch back to 2.2.12. Here are a couple of suggestions that may help you:
** The bttv driver in 2.2.18 is quit old (5.23, I think and it hasn't been
significantly updated since 2.2.12). The current version is 7.54. It may make
sense to upgrade just the driver, although I would upgrade to the 2.4 kernel
instead.
** The driver needs i2c, as you mentioned and it may need the new i2c drivers,
from the lm_sensors project. I patched my kernel with the latest i2c (2.5.4)
but it still doesn't work. But I forgot to enable I2C bit-banging interfaces in
kernel config which produces the i2c-algo-bit module, perhaps that is the
problem.
--
Vladimir
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hugh Lawson)
Subject: Re: RPM newbie query | uninstall
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 04:07:06 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
[snip]
>> rpm -e tripwire-2.3.47
[snip]
>> However, when I do this, I get an error message saying that
>> tripwire-2.3.47 is NOT installed.
[snip}
>> In other words, why isn't the 'uninstall' working? Any suggestions?
try:
rpm -e tripwire
--
Hugh Lawson
Greensboro, North Carolina
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Frank Hale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:30:50 -0500
> Why do they not update their isos? Who knows.
Just take a look at that masterpiece they released called RHL 7, and that
should tell you. I was a long time RH user, I even bought 7, when I
installed it and actually tried to use it I completely went crazy. Now I am
moving to something else. Bye bye RedHat nice going with 7, you lost a very
faithful customer.
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From: nui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: multicast setting on Linux machine
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 04:28:02 GMT
I'm extremely new to Linux and currently just have Red Hat 6.2 setup.
I'm interested in setup my Linux box as a Mrouter. How do I check if my
box is ready and where would I find information on how to set up one.
Really thanks in advance :)
Nui
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM newbie query | uninstall
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 04:43:07 GMT
Hugh Lawson wrote:
>
> try:
>
> rpm -e tripwire
I overlooked that one!?! :o/
--
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Completed more W/U's than 99.015% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: Vincent Zweije <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: instrumentation displays (question)
Date: 20 Jan 2001 14:22:02 +0100
** Followups to comp.os.linux.security and comp.os.linux.x
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Allen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|| This is a question that is the reverse of the usual -- how do I *decrease*
|| the XWindow security?
||
|| I have a half-dozen machines with RH6.2/GNOME installed, and set to boot
|| to an XWindow login. A separate system runs a program that is to put a
|| display up on these machines.
When users are logged in or not?
If you want it while the login widget is displayed, use the Xsetup
script. Xdm runs this script before it puts up the login widget; you
can put up other windows as well.
If you want it no matter who is logged in, the first reaction is:
don't. Let the user decide for himself (and run the program if he wants
to). If you insist, you can probably make use of the xauth cookie stored
under /var/lib/xdm/. See you xdm manual for the exact location (look
for the "authDir" resource).
|| What I want is to have the display be presented on the RH systems without
|| having to log in to them. What do I need to do to accomplish this? In
|| the same vein, what is the best way to turn off the screensaver for these
|| systems? (While the app is running would be best, but an all-the-time
|| shutoff would be acceptable; we can just turn the displays off.)
Isn't the screensaver just a process you can kill? That would take care
of it.
Ciao. Vincent.
--
Vincent Zweije <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "If you're flamed in a group you
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/> | don't read, does anybody get burnt?"
[Xhost should be taken out and shot] | -- Paul Tomblin on a.s.r.
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From: "mmnnoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors??
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 04:47:26 GMT
In article <s4sa6.42497$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> "Lloyd Llewellyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> A fascinating and entirely predictable rant against WYSIWYG HTML
>> editors
>> - but I'm looking for a decent WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux.
>
> Entirely predictable seeing as how the notion of combining WYSIWYG and
> HTML is inherently contradictory, especially in the wake of modern
> developments.
<snip>
LOL
That sure reminds me of when I used to work doing web design - low end
web design I should say - and I was working directly with consumers (website
owners).
What I found was that if somebody asked for something nonsensical - I
mean, not just impractical but logically inconsistent - I could explain
to them exacly why it could not be done as they wanted, and they would
say ok. Then the next day they'd call back and say, "I decided to go
ahead with the [nonsense] idea."
So what I learned was to make everyone happy and do the best
I could to approximate people's wishes even when they were nonsensical. The
resulting product was broken, but under the client's set of assumptions it
worked as expected. When the innevitable problems cropped up, I let
them proprose an ad hoc solution and slapped in on, again and again.
It remains to be proven to me that the separation of informational content and
formatting will ever happen. If the Internet's standards bodies don't
cater to people's simplistic wishes, they'll scan in magazine ads and do
the whole website with .gifs if they must to get the exact look
they want. (Of course what really happens is somebody will pander to
this crowd giving them the <SPACER> tag and so forth...) Of course the
resulting Web won't be as good as it could have been, but if the
alternative is that only a select group of highly trained technicians are
allowed to make web pages, I prefer the way it is now.
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 04:59:23 GMT
Frank Hale wrote:
>
> > Why do they not update their isos? Who knows.
>
> Just take a look at that masterpiece they released called RHL 7, and that
> should tell you. I was a long time RH user, I even bought 7, when I
> installed it and actually tried to use it I completely went crazy. Now I am
> moving to something else. Bye bye RedHat nice going with 7, you lost a very
> faithful customer.
I have found in the past that the x.0 releases (5.0 & 6.0) were not
ready for release so I decided ride out the 7.0 release and wait for the
7.1 or 7.2 release (VERY Glad I did). I will wait to see if those are
worth the upgrade when they are released. I am guessing that 7.1 will be
better but will wait to see what kind of problems it has and will
probably wait for 7.2 to be released. A couple more "Redmond 7.0"
releases and I will probably be switching too.
One thing I have found is that even though they are not bug free the x.2
versions have been by far the most stable & reliable.
--
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Completed more W/U's than 99.015% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: bpc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Good Intro on rsync & personal crontab?
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 04:54:17 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
* Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm now trying to setup my personal crontab. The first task I want
> to do is to rsync all my useful files to another local disk and
> remote nfs.
>
> I've searched through linux-how to but didn't find any document
> covering it. I know that if I search for 'tutorial rsync & personal
> crontab' on internet search engines I will get tons of hits. So I
> want to ask here first, do you know and web pages that give a pretty
> good coverage of rsync or crontab? thanks
For rsync, http://rsync.samba.org/rsync/documentation.html should have
everything you need.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad Bailey)
Subject: Re: finding text within files query
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:07:30 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phil Hodgson wrote:
:I would like a command line to search through all files of type .xyz
:looking for text 'abc123' within those files. ( to get the file names
:back)
:
:I know find will do the first part but how to pipe each file to
:something like grep I don't know.
rgrep -R "*.xyz" "abc123" /dir/to/search
...or...
rgrep -r -x "xyz" "abc123" /dir/to/search
Add in a -l if you only want to see the names of the files containing
your search string.
Regards, Brad.
--
"I mustn't use the throttle, I must not rung the bell, But let this
damn thing jump the track, And see who catches Hell."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Lexmark printer "drivers"
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:16:28 GMT
Dirk =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F6rner?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I intend to buy one of thoes Lexmark Printers for which Lexmark
> provides Linux "drivers" (e.g. Z32, Z 52). Is there anybody who has
> experience with one of these printers running under Linux?
Hum? "Linux drivers"???
The only kind of support for printers in the Linux kernel has to do
with supporting things like parallel port interfaces to printers.
Are you perhaps instead talking about a Ghostscript driver, which
hasn't the _slightest_ thing to do with Linux, seeing as how
Ghostscript runs quite happily on a whole variety of platforms,
including Windows, VMS, MS-DOS, and others...
--
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http://vip.hex.net/~cbbrowne/printing.html
"The entire structure of the antitrust statutes in this country is a
jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is the product: (a)
of a gross misinterpretation of history; and (b) of rather naive, and
certainly unrealistic, economic theories."
-- Alan Greenspan
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best way to replicate Linux partition?
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:20:33 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I want to migrate to a new hard drive that I have bought but do not want
> to lose any of the additions/customizations I have in my current
> installation. What is the best way to do this. I currently am running
> Red Hat 6.2. Would dd or cpio be the best way?
>
Assuming your new HDD is as large or larger than your existing HDD:
1) Install new HDD
2) cp /dev/hda /dev/hdb (assuming hda is current HDD and hdb is new HDD)
3) physically swap HDDs
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 04:21:47 GMT
Bill Unruh writes:
> Redhat or Mandrake or whoever do NOT keep their iso packages up to date.
Debian does, but the ISO can never be quite as up to date as the archive.
> You MUST do security updates immediately after you install the OS.
Yes. Do 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' (if you are running Debian).
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: Chris Ahlstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Protect yourself! I got hacked by the Ramen worm
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:26:08 GMT
Frank Hale wrote:
>
> > Why do they not update their isos? Who knows.
>
> Just take a look at that masterpiece they released called RHL 7, and that
> should tell you. I was a long time RH user, I even bought 7, when I
> installed it and actually tried to use it I completely went crazy. Now I am
> moving to something else. Bye bye RedHat nice going with 7, you lost a very
> faithful customer.
What did you do wrong? Have wu-ftp running and rpc.statd running without a
firewall? Don't use them. Use ssh. If you must run rpc.statd. because you
must have nfs, then dedicate a firewall to the task. Don't even need to buy
a computer. If you already have a hub, $120 will buy a nice NAT/firewall
router.
Chris
--
Flipping the Bozo bit at 400 MHz
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From: Flounder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: remote sound?
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:29:43 -0600
I am using X and running X applications from one linux computer on
another that works great and is so cool, but what is the best way to do
remote sound so that sound that is suppose to play on the other computer
plays on the local one instead. I saw a thing called network audio
server and it say it is kind of like x but for sound. Is it any good or
is there something better.
Thanks
--
Flounder
>+++++++[<++++++++++>-]<++++.---------.+.++++.++.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Ackman)
Subject: Re: Lexmark printer "drivers"
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 00:08:45 -0500
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:37:39 +0100, Dirk L�rner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I intend to buy one of thoes Lexmark Printers for which Lexmark provides
>Linux "drivers" (e.g. Z32, Z 52). Is there anybody who has experience
>with one of these printers running under Linux?
>Dirk
A friend has the Z52 running under Mandrake 7.2.
He absolutely loves it.
--
Steve Ackman
http://twovoyagers.com
Registered Linux User #79430
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Ackman)
Subject: Re: soundcard setup
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 00:12:24 -0500
On 21 Jan 2001 16:49:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i can play sounds without any problem, but cannot record or do any input from
>the mike. everything sent from the mike comes straight out of the speakers,
>what's wrong with that? suggestions please.
For basic input, do 'cat /dev/audio > filename.au'
Then to playback, do the opposite, 'cat filename.au > /dev/audio'
Other than that, you need to be more specific as to what app
you're using, at the very least.
--
Steve Ackman
http://twovoyagers.com
Registered Linux User #79430
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From: "Chakravarthy K Sannedhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RHCE details needed
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 23:34:31 -0600
I am masters student at UAB. I have got good hands on experience for the
past 6 months, as i have used linux machine for my work and for doing my
masters project extensively. I am thinking about giving RHCE 253 pretty
soon. I wonder whether i can give RHCE 253 without giving any prior test.
Which textbooks to follow? what will be the course material for that?
because what i could find whether it is regarding course material or text
books they are all oriented towards RHCE 300 which i can't give directly
now. any further details appreciated.
TIA
Chakravarthy K Sannedhi
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From: "Greg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,microsoft.public.outlook97.configuration,microsoft.public.outlook98
Subject: " No Transport Provider..." error messages
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:10:09 +0930
Hi,
We have just set up a Linux box with [recent versions of] QPopper and
PostFix (Mandrake 7.2)
Can send mail out through SMTP directly from Linux console or via a PC with
Outlook Express, but cannot send out with Outlook 2000. We are getting the
message "No Transport Provider Was Available for Delivery to This Recipient"
If we choose an alternative SMTP server (our main ISP), all works fine.
Can anybody shed some light on this problem please?
Greg Hains
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Unpacking ISO-images without a CD burner
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:39:03 GMT
I try to download and install Linux on my computer, but I haven't got a CD
burner.
The only download methods I can find on the net is iso-images or all the
individual files from FTP, which would take me days to download.
So I'm wondering if there's any way to unpack or convert the ISO-images to
individual files without having to burn a CD.
Or if anyone know of a site to download SuSE Linux 7 as a ZIP or similar
archive file.
All help appreciated, and please no answers like "buy a CD burner".
Audun
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux compatible of Quicken ?
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 06:07:03 GMT
Sinner from the Prairy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Arctic Storm wrote:
> > I've been a Quicken user for many years, and I have a large file with
> > personal accounts.
> > Is there an equalent of Quicken in Linux? Something that's capable of
> > reading the Quicken files.
> Last time that I checked, "gnucash" was able to work,at least
> partialy, with Quicken. http://www.gnucash.org/
Incompatibilities are considered bugs, and various such bugs have
gotten stomped over the last few months.
It is a nontrivial thing to ensure compatibility with all the
variations of the "QIF format" that different software has produced
over the years, so there will doubtless continue to be some issues...
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