Linux-Misc Digest #956, Volume #26 Sun, 28 Jan 01 17:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: What is dnetc?? (Daniel Robinson)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else (Grant Edwards)
Re: IDE CD writer (Michel Catudal)
Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors?? (Grant Edwards)
Re: why can't i find any good GUI file managers? ("jim cason")
Re: why can't i find any good GUI file managers? ("jim cason")
Re: PATH for root ("Brian Dellert")
Re: <time.h> clock() function in gcc 2.91.66 on Linux (Simon Saunders)
Virtual consoles and xterminals (Leonardo Giordani)
Re: can't use mkbootdisk (Paul Lew)
Re: KPPP Problems (Bill Unruh)
Re: SUIDed pppd doesn't work under Redhat 7? (Bill Unruh)
Re: Utility for finding absolute path of file? ("Brian Dellert")
Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux? (Andrew Starr)
What ever happened to ALSA? ("Tobias Bengtsson")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Robinson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: What is dnetc??
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:01:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 20 Jan 2001 22:12:39 +0000, Nix <$}xinix{[email protected]>
wrote:
>Nope, this has nothing to do with real-timeness. Even though Linux is
>not a real-time OS (i.e. applications cannot ask for and receive strong
>guarantees of time-to-execute-in), it *could* implement a new scheduling
>class (called, when this has come up on linux-kernel, `SCHED_IDLE')
>which received time only when nothing else did.
I stand corrected.
The only point I was trying to make was that even if a process has a
nice of 19 it will affect other processes a bit.
Sorry for bringing RT into it :-)
Daniel
===============================================
"He who breaks a thing to find out what it is,
has left the path of wisdom" - Gandalf
Web page : http://student.ulb.ac.be/~drobinso
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:00:10 -0500
Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Johan Kullstam wrote:
> > >
> > > "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > "." wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > In comp.os.linux.advocacy Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Finally, as for US politics, better bland/boring politics and a diverse
> > > > > > and vibrant society than the reverse.
> > > > >
> > > > > I think we can all agree that what happened in florida during this past
> > > > > election could be defined at the very least as a highly disorganized and
> > > > > flawed state electoral system.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > No...merely corrupt Demoncrook National Committee people playing
> > > > footsie with corrupt Demoncrook county election officials and even
> > > > more corrupt Demoncrook Florida Supreme Starchamber
> > > > dictat^H^H^H^H^^H^Hjustices.
> > >
> > > the only difference was that the republicrooks owned the higher
> > > court. they are both equally bogus.
> > >
> >
> > What part of "Federal law dictates that the rules of an election
> > can NOT be changed after the voting has started" do you not
> > understand?
>
> what part about vote fraud do you not understand?
I understand vote fraud perfectly...research shows that it has been
standard Democrat party practice for DECADES.
What they're pissed about is the fact that they weren't allowed to
use it like they usually do.
Or are you alleging that Al Gore suspects that Demoncrook voting-officials
in Demoncrook-run counties were committing vote-fraud against him.
IF that were the case, the Al Gore's problems don't lie within the Republican
opposition.
>
> --
> J o h a n K u l l s t a m
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Don't Fear the Penguin!
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:00:51 -0500
Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Johan Kullstam wrote:
> > >
> > > "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > "." wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > In comp.os.linux.advocacy Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Finally, as for US politics, better bland/boring politics and a diverse
> > > > > > and vibrant society than the reverse.
> > > > >
> > > > > I think we can all agree that what happened in florida during this past
> > > > > election could be defined at the very least as a highly disorganized and
> > > > > flawed state electoral system.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > No...merely corrupt Demoncrook National Committee people playing
> > > > footsie with corrupt Demoncrook county election officials and even
> > > > more corrupt Demoncrook Florida Supreme Starchamber
> > > > dictat^H^H^H^H^^H^Hjustices.
> > >
> > > the only difference was that the republicrooks owned the higher
> > > court. they are both equally bogus.
> > >
> >
> > What part of "Federal law dictates that the rules of an election
> > can NOT be changed after the voting has started" do you not
> > understand?
>
> the courts and a law about recounts were in place before the
> election. every citizen has the right to redress in the courts. the
> only unlawful thing i heard about was maybe the busloads of
> repubilican hooligans running riot in dade county to stop any
> counting.
You write like a looser.
Why is that?
>
> --
> J o h a n K u l l s t a m
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Don't Fear the Penguin!
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:01:33 -0500
Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Steve Ackman wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 20:11:37 GMT, J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >John Hasler wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Edward Rosten writes:
> > > >> > Christian morals were also invented by people.
> > > >>
> > > >> And the US was _not_ founded on "Christian beliefs".
> > > >
> > > >You're splitting hairs -
> > > >
> > > >There was a strong deist influence, at the very least.
> > >
> > > Jefferson was a Deist, yet was branded an Atheist by his
> > > Christian detractors. Deism is a far cry from Christianity.
> > >
> >
> > Deism is a belief in the existance of God.
> > Atheism is a belief in the non-existance of God.
> >
> > Obviously, Jefferson's detractors were lying.
>
> or they could have simply been wrong.
Did Jefferson claim to be an atheist?
a) yes
B) NO
Do the math.
>
> --
> J o h a n K u l l s t a m
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Don't Fear the Penguin!
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:06:51 -0500
Mark Bratcher wrote:
>
> Oh, I get it now.
>
> This all falls under the "misc" part of "comp.os.linux.misc". :-)
yes.
>
> Johan Kullstam wrote:
> >
> > "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Johan Kullstam wrote:
> > > >
> > > > "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > "." wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > In comp.os.linux.advocacy Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Finally, as for US politics, better bland/boring politics and a diverse
> > > > > > > and vibrant society than the reverse.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I think we can all agree that what happened in florida during this past
> > > > > > election could be defined at the very least as a highly disorganized and
> > > > > > flawed state electoral system.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > No...merely corrupt Demoncrook National Committee people playing
> > > > > footsie with corrupt Demoncrook county election officials and even
> > > > > more corrupt Demoncrook Florida Supreme Starchamber
> > > > > dictat^H^H^H^H^^H^Hjustices.
> > > >
> > > > the only difference was that the republicrooks owned the higher
> > > > court. they are both equally bogus.
> > > >
> > >
> > > What part of "Federal law dictates that the rules of an election
> > > can NOT be changed after the voting has started" do you not
> > > understand?
> >
> > the courts and a law about recounts were in place before the
> > election. every citizen has the right to redress in the courts. the
> > only unlawful thing i heard about was maybe the busloads of
> > repubilican hooligans running riot in dade county to stop any
> > counting.
> >
> > --
> > J o h a n K u l l s t a m
> > [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Don't Fear the Penguin!
>
> --
> Mark Bratcher
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:59:53 GMT
In article <9516hv$hru$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph T. Adams wrote:
>RMS has nothing to do with "Open Source,"
[...]
>he may have popularized, written, and supported a great deal of
>it [OS Software]
That doesn't sound like having "nothing to do with Open Source"
to me.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Gibble, Gobble, we
at ACCEPT YOU...
visi.com
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE CD writer
Date: 28 Jan 2001 15:14:10 -0600
Bill Unruh a �crit :
>
> PLease, do not recompile your kernel.
With SuSE 7.0 it works like shit until you do compile. You have to
remove support for the IDE cd in the kernel as well. Hopefully SuSE
will fix this bug in 7.1.
--
Tired of Microsoft's rebootive multitasking?
then it's time to upgrade to Linux.
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat
We have all kinds of links
and many SuSE 7.0 Linux RPM packages
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: What - no WYSIWYG HTML editors??
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 17:05:38 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, M. Buchenrieder wrote:
>HTML is "hypertext markup language" - and that's it. There are
>so many different interpretations of the de-facto-W3C standard,
>that it is nowadays virtually impossible to claim that any
>editor was capable of producing HTML-output that would exactly
>work the way the designer meant it to be.
>
>The closest you could get is a compatible GIF with image-maps.
I've run into several web sites that were, in fact, nothing but
huge GIF files and image maps.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Now, let's SEND OUT
at for QUICHE!!
visi.com
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From: "jim cason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: why can't i find any good GUI file managers?
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:00:49 GMT
It is the earlier comments in the thread about several of the Linux GUI file
managers crashing or losing files during large directory copies. I realize
that you can do this with the cp command at the prompt, but the user who
started the thread was looking for a GUI manager. You should be able to do
it both places depending on your orientation (GUI or command prompt). You
can with some of the fm's like GNOME, but others are less stable.
jim
"John Hasler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> jim cason writes:
> > Windows Explorer will allow you to copy these large directories either
by
> > GUI Explorer or by Command Prompt. It seems to me that if Linux is going
> > to be serious in the corporate space (especially at the desktop), then
it
> > has got to improve in these areas, small as they may seem. Thoughts?
>
> What is it that you want that cp won't do?
> --
> John Hasler
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: "jim cason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: why can't i find any good GUI file managers?
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:02:01 GMT
Look higher in the thread for some of the examples that other linux users
give.
jim
"Mark Bratcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> jim cason wrote:
> >
> > I have been playing with Linux since the early 90's, so I am not
knocking it
> > at all. I make my living from M$ technology, but enjoy seeing Linux
flurish
> > and would love to see it make some real competition for M$. However, why
is
> > this the case? Windows Explorer will allow you to copy these large
> > directories either by GUI Explorer or by Command Prompt. It seems to me
that
> > if Linux is going to be serious in the corporate space (especially at
the
> > desktop), then it has got to improve in these areas, small as they may
seem.
> > Thoughts?
> >
>
> I don't see what you're lacking in the Linux GUIs.
>
> I use just the Gnome file manager program. I can copy entire folders
> with it or just files just fine. What file managers and/or GUIs have you
> attempted to use?
>
> From the command line, you can use the cp command. If you use "cp -r"
> you can copy entire directories recursively. If you want to preserve all
> the attributes, you can use "cp -a". Have you looked at "man cp"?
>
> The only thing I can think of off hand that my Linux GUI is missing
> that's in, say, Windows 98, is the dumb little dog that pops up in the
> corner and gives useless help. :-)
>
> --
> Mark Bratcher
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: "Brian Dellert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PATH for root
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:26:01 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> When I'm logged in as a normal user and going into super user mode (su)
> the PATH for root isn't set. For every command it is necessary to type
> in the full path (/sbin/route par example).
>
> How can I correct this?
Use the - parameter when you run su, eg
su -
This executes root's .bash_profile (or .profile) file when you switch to
root, where the PATH is probably set. See the su man page FFI.
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From: Simon Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.c++.moderated
Subject: Re: <time.h> clock() function in gcc 2.91.66 on Linux
Date: 28 Jan 2001 16:27:42 -0500
Use CLOCKS_PER_SEC instead of CLK_TCK (the latter name is obsolete). See
"man 3 clock".
[ Send an empty e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for info ]
[ about comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: do this! ]
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From: Leonardo Giordani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Virtual consoles and xterminals
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:30:53 GMT
Hi,
I currently work on PostgreSQL and I have to run the server "postmaster"
under a virtual console, becouse in a Xterm (Eterm) I cannot login with the
right username and password. Why there is this difference between vc and a
simply Xterminal? How can I fix this problem? I need this so that I can
look at the transactions without pressing 10e6 times
Ctrl-Alt-F1/Ctrl-Alt-F7.
Thanks,
Leo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Subject: Re: can't use mkbootdisk
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:32:01 GMT
I'm using linux 6.3 and do a "make bzdisk" from the /usr/src/linux-kernel
directory. Looks like it goes thru a compile and stuff then writes to the
diskette; need to make sure that a diskette is in the floppy drive.
This works every time even if it takes longer. See if the option is available
on your linux distribution.
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks for the replies. I reinstalled linux with EVERYTHING and now all
>the stuff that was missing is there. Must have been a bogus install.
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>
> David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> > I am new to linux. I have redhat v7. I am trying to make a
>bootable
>> > floppy. I read about mkbootdisk so I tried. The thing is, my
>system
>> > can't find it. I tried to install the rpm from the CD but it says
>> > it's
>> > already on my system so it won't install it. I can't use it.
>HELP!!
>>
>> /sbin/mkbootdisk
>>
>> --
>> David Hart
>>
>>
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com
>http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: KPPP Problems
Date: 28 Jan 2001 21:33:51 GMT
In <94uthg$fh4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Meron Lavie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]I am a Linux/RH7 newbire, who is experiencing 2 problems with PPP:
]I can use the _Redhat Linux_ dialup tool within KDE, with no problem
]whatsoever, however with KPPP:
Well, use the redhat one.
]1) I can successfully dialup when I'm root, but from without root I'm always
]asked for the root password. Why shouldn't everyone be allowed to use the
]modem? How can I enable modem usage for all accounts?
chmod a+rx /usr/sbin/{pppd,chat}
chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd
chmod a+rx /dev/ttyS?
]2) After dialing and succesfully connecting, no applications can be brought
]up - clicking on their icon/menu item does nothing. On the other hand, if I
]already have a console/shell window open, I can execute commands such as
]ping, ftp, etc., so I know I have a network connection. However, being able
]to use my browser would be nice...
Give your machine a name, or uncheck the kppp box which tells it rename your
machine. It was always a stupid button to have in the first place.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: SUIDed pppd doesn't work under Redhat 7?
Date: 28 Jan 2001 21:39:16 GMT
In <951dm0$qvq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Superstar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]Since I upgraded to Redhat 7, I can't start a ppp connection as my
]user account. Yes, I have done "chmod u+s pppd", and it is set
]properly. Despite that, I still recieve the "/usr/sbin/pppd: using
]the name option requires root privilege" message. This worked fine
]under Redhat 6.2; has anyone else had this problem with 7? Or is
]there something else that I'm missing?
It has never worked as you describe it. name is a priviledged option and has been at
least throughout the 2.x series of pppd.
Read man pppd
Anyway, do not use the name option, use the user option instead
user username
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From: "Brian Dellert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Utility for finding absolute path of file?
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:50:29 GMT
In article <94ss8j$hcu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Harlan Grove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> In article <9ilc6.10983$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Brian Dellert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Is there a utility for finding the absolute path of a file? For example:
>>
>> abspath somefile
>>
>>would output
>>
>> /home/brian/somefile
>>
>>(or whatever the absolute path is)
>
> Simple enough with a korn shell script.
>
> $ cat abspath
> #!/bin/ksh
> {
> for f in "$@" do
> if [[ "${f#/}" = "$f" ]]; then echo ${PWD}/$f; else echo $f; fi
> done
> } | sed 's;/[^/][^/]*/\.\./;/;g'
> unset f
> $
>
Thanks -- clever. I found a couple problems. Here's a modification I made
to deal with a command like "abspath ./foo.txt", so it gets rid of the dot
in the path.
$ cat abspath
#!/bin/ksh
{
for f in "$@" do
if [[ "${f#/}" = "$f" ]]; then echo ${PWD}/$f; else echo $f; fi
done
} |
sed '
s;/[^/][^/]*/\.\./;/;g
s;/\./;/;g
'
$
BTW -- is it necessary to "unset f" as the last line of abspath? I checked
and, once abspath is run, the f variable doesn't seem to show up in my
shell.
Here's the problem I haven't been able to fix. Assuming I'm in
/home/brian, this:
abspath ../../somefile
produces this output:
/home/../somefile
Any ideas?
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From: Andrew Starr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc,alt.os.linux.suse,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux?
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 15:05:51 -0600
[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see
the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dick Wisan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <93q23j$hjt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> says...
> >
> >
> >Linux Format magazine recommended Mahogany as a GUI client, or Mutt as a
> >text-based client.
> >
> >www.wxwindows.org/Mahogany/
> >www.mutt.org/
>
>
> Alas:
>
> Not Found
>
> The requested URL /Mahogany/ was not found on this server.
http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
--
Andrew Starr
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From: "Tobias Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What ever happened to ALSA?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 22:51:29 +0100
Hi!
Up until recently, I was running the 2.2r0 Potato release. The day
before yesterday, I upgraded to one of the Woody releases and since then
the system hasn't been the same. I'm thinking that this can be a problem
generated by the fact that I didn't download the Woody upgrades
directly, but I used some packages that I had on a few cd's here. At any
rate, ever since the upgrade my soundcard has refused to have anything
to do with anyone except root.
Since I've got a Soundblaster PCI128, I decided to use the ALSA drivers
to get it up and running. No problems there, I downloaded the alsa
packages (driver, libs, utils) and compiled just fine. Then I installed
and off i went, everything was working great until I upgraded to Woody.
Now the ALSA drivers simply won't be available to the ordinary user,
when I try to do "amixer" with my usual account I get the following;
tjolle@willow:~$ amixer The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this
system.
Although, I do the same thing just after running su;
tjolle@willow:~$ su Password: willow:/home/tjolle# amixer Group 'Input
Gain',0
Capabilities: volume mute jointly-mute Channels: Front-Left
Front-Right
[..snip..]
Also, I though I would include what it looks like when I try to run
"gamix";
tjolle@willow:~$ gamix probe.c 31: No ALSA device. main.c 29: Can not
make mixer.
Now, all I want to know is; what gives? I mean, why the heck are my ALSA
drivers hiding from everyone except root? Could I mistakenly have
installed the ALSA debs when I upgraded the system? I had problems with
the included ALSA debs earlier, that's why I decided to compile them on
my own.
Thanks in advance,
Tobias Bengtsson
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