Linux-Setup Digest #322, Volume #19 Fri, 4 Aug 00 14:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Framebuffer... LET ME ADD: YES!!! ("Fredericv")
Querying file system attributes (Thomas Denier)
exceed client for linux (sylvain hutchison)
Install disk as rescue disk (Thomas Denier)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (brian moore)
more than 10 scsi cdroms (Tobias Gasser)
Re: User and Group Permissions ("Sean")
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (John Hasler)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (news)
Fetchmail in ETRN mode ("Mick Pollard")
Re: Help!! apache scripts and setuid (Akira Yamanita)
Re: User and Group Permissions (Akira Yamanita)
new LILO? burning Linux? (Zachary Uram)
Re: New e-mail/web server with minor problems (Buschman)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (phil hunt)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Phillip Lord)
Internal Zip drive ("Steven P. Frysinger")
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From: "Fredericv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Framebuffer... LET ME ADD: YES!!!
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 15:54:34 GMT
It works...
I had to compile the kernel (never done before) for framebuffer support,
I downloaded the 2.2.17, compiled it w/framebuffer permedia2 support
and it looks really great. For the people still messing w/SVGATextMode
I'd say try framebuffer... It's easier to set up and you get to see
the little Tux on startup...
Really nice, a 1024x768-75 console.
Thanks guys,
Frederic
++++++++++++++
"The charm of knowledge would be small, were it not that
so much shame has to be overcome on the way to it..."
'Friedrich Nietzsche'
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"Fredericv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:_ovi5.140707$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a matrox G400, an S3 virge, a neomagic (laptop)
> and a permedia2 card.
> There is the Permedia- & matrox framebuffer driver available, but
> I don't really know about the others. For the moment the most
> important is the permedia2.
> How can I check if I need to recompile my kernel?
> On the box with the perm2 I use Mandrake7.1 out of the box.
> (I'm not much of a compiler, yet...)
>
> Thanks,
> Frederic
>
> "Michael Meissner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > "Fredericv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Does anyone have experience with framebuffer?
> > > Is it possible to use framebuffer to enhance the console look,
> > > but use the normal xserver to work in X?
> > > Or doesn't framebuffer really slow down X graphically?
> >
> > It may depend on which video card you have. On my Matrox video cards,
it
> works
> > fine to use the Matrox framebuffer device and the 3.3.6 and 4.0 X
servers.
> > Similarly, my NeoMagic & TNT-1 X servers and the VESA framebuffer. I
have
> > heard some X servers and framebuffer combinations don't play well
> together, but
> > off hand I'm not sure which ones these are.
> >
> > --
> > Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc.
> > PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
> > Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
> > Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
>
>
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From: Thomas Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Querying file system attributes
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 11:52:45 -0400
I am attempting to write a script that will collect information about
partitions and file systems and sent the information to another system.
The information would be used when and if it was necessary to rebuild
the system after a disk failure or other disaster. The df command will
report file system sizes and inode counts, but not the other attributes
that can be specified when creating a file system, such as the block
size, the percentage of reserved blocks, the fragment size, and the
sparse superblock flag. Are there query commands for these attributes?
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From: sylvain hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: exceed client for linux
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 12:01:07 -0700
Hi, I need to find out if any of you know how what the command line is
for setting up an exceed client for linux is!!
Instead of operating on a Solaris server, I need to operate on a linux
server.
I have absolutely no idea, and I have to get this done as soon as
possible. My start method is REXEC (TCP/IP), and the program type is X
Windows, dunno if that helps. Thank you for any help, I gladly
appreciate it!!!
Sly.
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From: Thomas Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Install disk as rescue disk
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 12:13:29 -0400
I have been testing system recovery procedures for Red Hat Linux 6.1 on
an Intel system. Page 65 of the "Reference Guide" for the distribution
states that "the boot disk created during installation of Red Hat Linux
6.1 may be used as part of a rescue disk set". Our current disaster
recovery arrangements do not provide for getting replacement Intel
systems identical to the current production systems. Given this, I would
like a rescue disk that will work on any Intel system. An installation
disk is presumably more portable than a boot disk customized to suit our
current hardware. My attempts to use an installation disk as a rescue
disk have failed. If I boot from the disk and type "rescue" at the
initial prompt, as the "Reference Guide" suggests, I get a message
telling me that the loader could not find a kernel image named "rescue".
If I type "linux rescue", as the screen displayed above the initial
prompt suggests, the boot process completes but puts me in the graphical
installer rather than prompting for the second diskette and starting a
shell. Has anyone gotten an installation boot disk to function as the
first member of a rescue disk set?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 4 Aug 2000 16:17:28 GMT
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 12:20:05 GMT,
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> the copyright is justified in the first place as being an incentive to
> creativity. the retroactive feature implies that perhaps all is not
> over despite death. immagine, if you will, disinterring the remains
> of william shakespear, re-animating the corpse and allowing the
> zombie-shakespear to write more plays!
Didn't they do that?
I mean where -did- Neil Simon come from?
(And, yes, I think Shakespeare was the Neil Simon of the Renaissance...
deal with it. :))
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 18:28:26 +0200
From: Tobias Gasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: more than 10 scsi cdroms
i've 2 scsi-adapters with a total of 8 cd-roms, 2 dvd
and 2 pioneer 6x changers.
mknod scd10 b 11 10 (up to 24) worked fine
trying to mount any device > 10 reports an error:
minor or major number not valid!
i searched in the kernel sources but couldn't find
anything usefull to me.
thanks
tobs
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From: "Sean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: User and Group Permissions
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 16:29:42 GMT
A user can belong to more than one group. So a user can be assigned to
groups admin and normal_user.
The directory and files within could have rw for user and group with no
permissions for anyone else.
You can use userconf to easily assign additional groups to a user.
Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:nnui5.1372$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> This may seem fairly trivial to someone who knows how to do it, but how do
I
> assign more than group to a directory structure or file.
>
> Or if this is not possible, the following scenario if effectively what I
> want to do. I want to allow everyone in the "admin" group to have read
write
> access to a directory structure and have everyone in the "normal_user"
group
> to just have read access whilst everyone else is denied access.
>
> Thankyou. Regards,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
>
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:33:37 GMT
Phillip Lord writes:
> The free market can not exist where there is not a limited supply. So for
> instance (to a broad approximation) there is no market for air, because
> everyone can get it, and limiting its supply is not practical.
But there is a limited supply of tangible embodiments of original works:
Cheap Bytes competes with LSL in the market for CD's full of free software.
> The existence of copyright allows restriction on words and hence creates
> a market place where otherwise there would not have been one, i.e. for
> words.
That market is free only to the extent that a magazine editor desperate to
fill his next issue considers one 5,000 word item as good as another.
> You are correct that it suppresses the free market in copies of the work
> though.
And that is what counts.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (news)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 15:02:03 GMT
From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 04 Aug 2000 10:01:58 -0500
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Phillip Lord writes:
> If capitalism is so wonderful why then is it investing in a massively
> repressive regime?
"Capitalism" doesn't invest in anything. Businessmen do, each for his own
reasons.
> And why does the indispensable nation which is so totally committed to
> freedom give it preferred trading status.
Not preferred status, normal status (which used to be called, rather
confusingly, "most favored nation status"). And the reason, of course, is
expediency.
> Or is it just that global capitalism could not really care less about
> freedom.
Capitalism, global or otherwise, does not care about freedom or anything
else. It's an economic theory, not a political movement.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: "Mick Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fetchmail in ETRN mode
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 17:02:53 GMT
I have been told that to do multidrop mail properly (with a dialup
connection) I should use fetchmail in ETRN mode
Anyone with some help on how or maybe point me in the direction of some
documentation.
My ISP uses postfix with ESMPT available. Do I need to ask my ISP to do
anything ???
Thanx in advance for any help ??
Lunix
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.caldera,linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help!! apache scripts and setuid
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 17:05:29 GMT
jtoy wrote:
>
> I forgot to write the sed script I wrote:
> #!/bin/bash
> /bin/sed s/1stword/2ndword/ /some/file
> echo "thank You"
In addition to what RJ said about requiring a file or directory
to which the user nobody has access to, you'll get a "Premature
end of script headers" error if that's all your script consists
of.
#!/bin/bash
echo "Content-type: text/plain"
echo
/bin/sed s/1stword/2ndword/ /some/file
echo "thank You"
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: User and Group Permissions
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 17:13:55 GMT
NetworkGod wrote:
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that just allow the USER "admin"
> to use it along with the group "normal_user"... I mean, it certainly
> wouldn't allow two groups, right?
You're right. Linux doesn't use access control lists. I've heard
of some extensions that will allow it though. A search on
http://google.com/linux for "access control lists" found this near
the top.
http://linux-patches.rock-projects.com/v2.2-f/pxacl.html
http://acl.bestbits.at/
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From: Zachary Uram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: new LILO? burning Linux?
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 13:07:20 -0400
Hi, I read some months ago that a new version of LILO was under
development which would allow for an install past 1024th cylinder
on disk. I had installed Mandrake 6.x in dual boot environment
(Win98,SE) and ran into LILO problems which I think was because
Win98 had been installed first and occupied space past the 1024th
cylinder of my disk. Is this new LILO version done and does
anyone know what Linux distrubtions currently come with this
version? Also I wanted to download different Linux distributions
off the net at high speed connection (10MB/s ethernet) at work
and try them at home. We have a CD-RW but I don't know what's
involved in setup for downloading and buring a Linux distribution
onto the CD(s). Thanks!
SDG,
Zach
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"Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have faith." - John 20:29
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: New e-mail/web server with minor problems
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 17:37:00 GMT
>
>Depends on what MTA you're using. If sendmail, change the `DM' directive in
>/etc/sendmail.cf. If exim, there are a raft of `qualify domains' in
>/etc/exim.conf. If qmail, you're mad.
Not sure what MTA stands for, but I am using sendmail and was able to
edit sendmail.cf to fix problem #1. Which was an important one to me.
>
>> 2) I cannot telnet, ftp, or pop this machine. I installed most every
>> module and service that I could. So i am assuming it is just a matter
>> of turning these services on and/or configuring them properly. I want
>> all three services to run.
>
>No you don't. You want ssh installing - forget telnet and ftp unless you
>want to provide an anonymous FTP server (even then, think thrice). You also
>really want APOP or something instead of vanilla pop3 if at all possible -
>consider solid pop3d for this (as one example amongst a few).
>
I have heard this before. Are you basing this strictly on security
issues? What problems am I looking at with these protocals? The
reason I asked about telent, ftp, andpop are that these are the
protocals I am familiar with and I know I can do what I need to do
using them. I will use this machine to host my, as well as other
persons, websites. More impotantly I need a personal e-mail server
that I can acccess my mail from any machine. Web e-mail services are
not going to work. Now with ssh aren't I limiting my ability to
access my mail? Can Microsoft Outlook use APOP? I need to pop this
machine from my windows machine at home.
>> 3) *simple question alert* I have read the man ls but still am not
>> quite sure how to search for a particular file not in the current
>> directory I am in. What do I need to type to search for a certain file
>> on the entire hard drive. Can you do a search that goes inside non
>> binary files? Search for words "inside" files?
>
>`man find`. `man grep`.
>
>Then understand this:
>
>$ find ~ -name \*.c | xargs grep -i main
>
Gracias
>> 4) In linuxconf there are all types of accounts, like ppp accounts,
>> slip accounts, pop accounts, and virtual pop accounts, and a couple
>> others. What is the difference? Can a user be a member of more than
>> one? If so, how do I do that?
>
>Why use linuxconf? It's normal for users to be separate in order to allow
>different passwords for different services; if they're going to be incoming
>slip/ppp accounts (ie you're a dialup server) then you don't want the ISP
>password being the same as the shell password being the same as the pop3
>password, do you?
>
I don't need dialup services at all. All users will have e-mail and
web services and thats it. Granted they will need to pop in from the
outside. Which account is appropriate, POP right?
Thanks for your much needed advice Tim. It is much appreciated.
Buschman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (phil hunt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 13:39:57 +0100
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 17:21:38 -0700, blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Robert Krawitz wrote:
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jay Maynard) writes:
>>
>> > I take particular offense at this, as I consider myself a Southerner. Once
>> > again, you ignore basic facts and human rights, just as with your leftist
>> > gun-grabbing position: selling your children into slavery harms them, but
>> > the original software is now, and will forever be, free, NO MATTER WHAT
>> > ANYONE ELSE DOES WITH IT. You seek to deny me the right to control my own
>> > work merely because it is an improvement on your work. This is not freedom.
>> > It is communism.
>>
>> It's every bit as communistic as the fact that you are not allowed to
>> control a work that you write that is a derivative of e. g. a Star
>> Trek episode.
>>
>> Now, as it happens I do believe that copyright is anti-free-market in
>> the sense that the government intervenes to protect a private monopoly
>> from competition (that's not usually called "communism"; it's more
>> like mercantilism). I would personally be quite happy to give up the
>> GPL in exchange for the complete abolition of copyright.
>>
>
> No. You're incorrect.
>
>Copyright does not interfers with free market. In fact, copy rights
>support free market. Because the copyrights owner can sell his/her work
>any which ways s/he wants.
Yes, and other people can't. So it isn't free. A free market implies lots
of independent buyers asnd sellers. The *whole* point of copyright is to
give someone an artificial monopoly in a good.
>But copyright is anti *free loaders*
>
>Absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Whether it is right or wrong is orthogonal with whether it is a free
market.
--
*****[ Phil Hunt ]*****
** The RIAA want to ban Napster -- so boycott the music industry! **
** Don't buy CDs during August; see http://boycott-riaa.com/ **
** Spread the word: Put this message in your sig. **
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From: Phillip Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 04 Aug 2000 18:54:15 +0100
>>>>> "news" == news <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> And why does the indispensable nation which is so totally
>> committed to freedom give it preferred trading status.
news> Not preferred status, normal status (which used to be called,
news> rather confusingly, "most favored nation status"). And the
news> reason, of course, is expediency.
I believe that I am accurate in my reflection of the
terminology used by the US government.
>> Or is it just that global capitalism could not really care less
>> about freedom.
news> Capitalism, global or otherwise, does not care about freedom
news> or anything else. It's an economic theory, not a political
news> movement.
I have already expressed my opinion that the idea that
you can separate society into economics and politics silly. When Shell
Oil encouraged the Nigerian government to execute Ken Saro Wiwa were
they being economical or political? When Suharto of Indonesia invaded
E. Timor, and has 1/3 of the population massacred over the next 6 years,
with US and UK made weapons, funded by money from Australian oil
companies who extracted the oil that E.Timor sat on top of, was this a
political act or an economic one? What about Philip Morris' and BAT
attempts to sabotage the WHO anti-smoking campaign? Or M$'s attempts
to side step the US governments attentions using several political
organisations as a front, if I understood the story correctly?
Phil
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Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:11:47 -0400
From: "Steven P. Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Internal Zip drive
Maybe I've missed it in the docs somewhere, but I haven't seen how to
setup and mount my internal zip drive. I'm assuming it's a relatively
simple mount sequence (or am I too optimistic?).
Any clues?
Steve
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