OpenOffice 638
Wow! Ladies and gents, I believe the Windows killer has arrived! In a previous incarnation, I used to spend my days preparing Excel spread sheets for performance data I gathered testing new microcode versions of our companies dasd product. With oo638, I was able to enter raw data arrays, create a chart of performance curves using the built in wizard, and print with no problems. A few of the required functions are not intuitively obvious (modifying the title, adding a new chart series, etc.), but the basic functionality is there. The only drawback that I can see is execution speed, that's why I'm curious to learn results from folks with big hummer machines. -- Collins Richey Denver Area gentoo_rc6 xfce+sylpheed ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
SuSE isos are back
SuSE 7.2 pro isos are back at http://hunley.homeip.net/iso/ discs 1-5 are there now, with 6 and 7 later today. MD5 sums are there also. Please read the README. Thanks! -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OpenOffice 638
Collins Richey wrote: Wow! Ladies and gents, I believe the Windows killer has arrived! In a previous incarnation, I used to spend my days preparing Excel spread sheets for performance data I gathered testing new microcode versions of our companies dasd product. With oo638, I was able to enter raw data arrays, create a chart of performance curves using the built in wizard, and print with no problems. A few of the required functions are not intuitively obvious (modifying the title, adding a new chart series, etc.), but the basic functionality is there. The only drawback that I can see is execution speed, that's why I'm curious to learn results from folks with big hummer machines. Did you install 638c? I can only get mine to work as root. I did 'setup -net' as root, which worked fine. But when I executed 'setup' as a normal user, I get a large white Window that takes up the entire screen, instead of the installation dialog. I'm not sure what's going on with that. I downloaded the StarOffice 6.0 beta to see if that would be any different, but haven't tried it yet (been working on compiling gnucahs from CVS). I'm starting to think I might have permissions issues in my $HOME directory. I changed permissions on it, based on what I read when setting up my webserver, and I think it's causing problems with the install program. I also seem to be having problems with KDE settings that could be related. Currently, my home dir has drwx--x--x permissions. The other users have drwxrwsr-x. I'll chmod 2775 my home dir and see what happens... Regards, Tim ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: SuSE isos are back
Douglas J Hunley wrote: SuSE 7.2 pro isos are back at http://hunley.homeip.net/iso/ discs 1-5 are there now, with 6 and 7 later today. MD5 sums are there also. Please read the README. Thanks! Awesome! I'm d/l'ing the first one right now =) I was going to wait for 7.3 to ship (or at least arrive at my local geek emporium) before booting win2k off this box but now I don't have to. Of course I'm still going to buy 7.3 when it does arrive... Thanks again Doug!! Myles ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
RE: SuSE isos are back
there is no ftp access. please use 'wget -r -c -np -nd http://hunley.homeip.net/iso/' or a browser to download. thanks Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way. ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Fw: UDMA probs with Quantum Fireball
All, I recently lunched a nice Mainboard/AMD T-Bird combo. Heatsink fell off. The harddrive was salvaged though. I purchased a new mainoard/CPU combo. Both boards had the VIA chipset with the 686b southbridge. The lunched board ran the drive at UDMA100. The new one will only run it a 66. Here are the particulars: Original board/cpu: Shuttle AK12 MB with a 900 MHZ Athlon New: Epox EP-8KTA2L with a 900 MHZ Athlon Harddrive: Quantum Fileball P LM20.5. Maxtor claims thatthe drive is UDMA 100 compliant. 80 Pin cable on both. ide0=ATA66 set in boot string /proc/via shows 66MHZ OS: Openlinux 3.1 (Caldera) Ideas? Steve ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Fw: UDMA probs with Quantum Fireball
Quoting Steve Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED]: All, I recently lunched a nice Mainboard/AMD T-Bird combo. Heatsink fell off. The harddrive was salvaged though. Ouch! SNIP 80 Pin cable on both. ide0=ATA66 set in boot string /proc/via shows 66MHZ OS: Openlinux 3.1 (Caldera) Is there any way to confirm at the BIOS level that the HD is being recognized and is configured correctly? ie: messages scrolling by during POST, or right inside the BIOS itself? Perhaps this is a setting in the BIOS that needs to be flipped? Just guesses. -- Linux SxS [http://hal.humberc.on.ca/~mrcn0031/sxs/] ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Am I exiled?
It occurred to me the other day that possibly the list isn't quite, just that I'm no longer on it? -- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-i-s.cc/ Linux User #185986 Enterprise Information Systems *Network Consulting, Integration Support *Web Development and E-Business ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Good/bad experiences with Mozilla?
I've been running Mozilla religiously for about 5 months, and have been continuously impressed. I'm running 0.9.5 on all of my boxes, and that's all I use. I don't really use it for email though, so i can't comment on that. --- Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone having any good or bad experiences with Mozilla? I've only got 0.9.4 (waiting for gentoo to release an ebuild for the next step - yes I'm lazy), but I'm really amazed at what I see. The last time I tried Netscape/Mozilla was Netscape 6 on Winblows which really s*cked. The only problem I have with it is that clicking on mailto references always brings up Mozilla mail. I haven't found any parameter yet that would let me invoke sylpheed. Opera, on the contrary, has the necessary parameters to select any mailer. = Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux FAQ Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Am I exiled?
Quoting Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It occurred to me the other day that possibly the list isn't quite, just that I'm no longer on it? Probably not. Catastrphic HD meltdown, much was restored, but not the subscriptions for the lists. Just re-sub, have a poke through the archives, Doug posted a message outlining the new linux.nf hardware and what happened to the old. -- Linux SxS [http://hal.humberc.on.ca/~mrcn0031/sxs/] ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Good/bad experiences with Mozilla?
Previously, Collins Richey chose to write: Anyone having any good or bad experiences with Mozilla? I've only got 0.9.4 (waiting for gentoo to release an ebuild for the next step - yes I'm lazy), but I'm really amazed at what I see. The last time I tried Netscape/Mozilla was Netscape 6 on Winblows which really s*cked. The only problem I have with it is that clicking on mailto references always brings up Mozilla mail. I haven't found any parameter yet that would let me invoke sylpheed. Opera, on the contrary, has the necessary parameters to select any mailer. This is a known issue and there's a bug report on it. This should be it: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11459 I use Mozilla nightlies at work under Winders 2k for eval purposes. I've got Moz 0.9.5 installed at home, but find myself using Konqueror and kmail most of the time. I really like the new tabs feature (you can even open the mail client in a tab, although I'm not sure if I like that) Tim ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Fwd: Flaws in recent Linux kernels
FYI -- Douglas J. Hunley Unix/Linux Admin http://linux.nf The truth is out th- oh, wait, here it is... Hello, There are two bugs present in Linux kernels 2.2.x, x=19 and 2.4.y, y=9. The first vulnerability results in local DoS. The second one, involving ptrace, can be used to gain root privileges locally (in case of default install of most popular distributions). Linux 2.0.x is not vulnerable to the ptrace bug mentioned. I. Local DoS via deep symlinks An attacker can force the kernel to spend almost arbitrary amount of time on dereferencing a single symlink, which prevents other processes from running. The attached script, mklink.sh, takes a single parameter N. The script creates 5 symlinks, each of them containing 2*N+1 path elements. When N=3, the symlinks look this way: $ ls -lG drwxr-xr-x2 nergal 4096 wrz 21 14:46 l lrwxrwxrwx1 nergal 53 wrz 21 14:46 l0 - l1/../l1/../l1/../l/../../../../../../../etc/services lrwxrwxrwx1 nergal 19 wrz 21 14:46 l1 - l2/../l2/../l2/../l lrwxrwxrwx1 nergal 19 wrz 21 14:46 l2 - l3/../l3/../l3/../l lrwxrwxrwx1 nergal 19 wrz 21 14:46 l3 - l4/../l4/../l4/../l lrwxrwxrwx1 nergal 19 wrz 21 14:46 l4 - l5/../l5/../l5/../l drwxr-xr-x2 nergal 4096 wrz 21 14:46 l5 drwxr-xr-x2 rybagowa 4096 lut 27 1999 still_here The amount of time the command head l0 consumes (measured with time(1)) follows: N system time 10: sys 0m0.050s 20: sys 0m1.400s 30: sys 0m10.150s 40: sys 0m41.840s When head l0 is being executed, other processes are not scheduled to run. Thus the possibility of local DoS (in case of SMP you may need to spawn one mklink.sh process per cpu). The time spent on dereferencing l0 is proportional to the number of path elements in normalized l0. So, when N=120, the scheduler should be locked out for about three hours. One can reach N=600, in case of 2.4.9; also in case of 2.4.9, one can create even more (up to eight) levels of symlinks. 2.4.10 fixed this problem, but not completely. Under 2.4.10 head l0 command would not block the scheduler, but it cannot be killed. The problem is fully solved in 2.4.12. II. Root compromise by ptrace(3) In order for this flaw to be exploitable, /usr/bin/newgrp must be setuid root and world-executable. Additionally, newgrp, when run with no arguments, should not prompt for password. This conditions are satisfied in case of most popular Linux distributions (but not Openwall GNU/*/Linux). Suppose the following flow of execution (initially, Process 1 and Process 2 are unprivileged): TimeProcess 1 Process 2 0 ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid of Process 2,...) 1 execve /usr/bin/newgrp 2 execve /any/thing/suid 3 execve default user shell 4 execve ./insert_shellcode The unexpected happens at moment 2. Process 2 is still traced, execve /any/thing/suid succeeds, and the setuid bit is honored ! This is so because 1) the property of having an ptrace-attached child survives the execve 2) at moment 2, the tracer (process 1) has CAP_SYS_PTRACE set (well, has all root privs), therefore it is allowed to trace even execve of setuid binary. In moment 3, newgrp executes a shell, which is an usual behavior. This shell is still able to control the process 2 with ptrace. Therefore, the ./insert_shellcode binary is able to insert arbitrary code into the address space of Process 2. Game over. In order to exploit this kernel vulnerability, one needs a setuid root binary which execs an user-defined binary (or a shell). Newgrp is appropriate on most distributions. On default install of slackware it does not work (the password fields in /etc/group are empty, and newgrp demands a password). However, one can use su on this distribution. su binary is compiled without PAM support on slackware, therefore it execs an user shell. Do you remember the exploit against *BSD procfs, published in January 2000 (http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/archive.pl?id=1mid=43189) ? This one is very similar; a setuid binary is spawned so that the system treats it as a tracing process. Observe that in case of newgrp, only CAP_SYS_SETGID is required (plus probably some reserved egid E to read gshadow; provided that gshadow would be readable by gid E). If the file system supported granting capabilities to programs (not only +s bit), this bug could have been benign. Similarly, su needs only CAP_SYS_SETUID+CAP_SYS_SETGID (and egid shadow). The least privilege rule, strictly applied, can save from a lot of unexpected trouble. This bug seems to be Linux-specific. I have tested FreeBSD, OpenBSD and [older versions of] Irix and Solaris. None of the tested systems honored setuid bit when an executing process was traced, even when the tracer
all suse isos up
1 - 7 are there now.. -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net In a literature class, the students were given an assignment to write a short story involving all the important ingredients - Nobility, Emotion, Sex, Religion and Mystery. One student handed in the following story: My god! cried the duchess. I'm pregnant. Who did it? ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Web stats are back
Usage stats for the StepByStep are functional and back online at http://linux.nf/www/ enjoy! -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net In a literature class, the students were given an assignment to write a short story involving all the important ingredients - Nobility, Emotion, Sex, Religion and Mystery. One student handed in the following story: My god! cried the duchess. I'm pregnant. Who did it? ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Anyone else using OpenOffice638?
Collins Richey babbled on about: I've just put up OpenOffice638 (from binaries) and started to play with it. Boy did the installer ever suck my system dry. No errors, but nothing else would run until it finished! oo638 takes 1 full minute to initialize, but it's reasonably speedy once up and running. Selecting a font is a little sluggish, since I dumped a buch of TT fonts into my X startup, but it prints without any tinkering with the print settings. I'm curious what results someone with a 256Meg machine would get. The few pages I've keyed into the word processor (including tables and images or fancy characters) work without a hitch. Looks like a very professional product. slowly converting the people at work to OpenOffice (windows version). like it a lot! -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net Illiterate? Write for help! ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: SuSE isos are back
Myles Green babbled on about: Erm... I am using a browser - but the d/l speed is like 7.2 K/sec =( several people immediately hit the box with ftp clients. and then they immediately got their packets routed to /dev/null and I got paged. I've capped the bandwidth.. I'd like to be able to still use my machine ;) -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net To ensure privacy and data integrity this message has been encrypted using dual rounds of ROT-13 encryption. ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Fw: UDMA probs with Quantum Fireball
Ian Marchak babbled on about: Perhaps this is a setting in the BIOS that needs to be flipped? Just guesses. which kernel? got correct pin cables? -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code. ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: all suse isos up
Thank you for your efforts here. I hope you don't get /.'ed. :) Please keep these here for a while to allow us to download them. Many thanks, Jim On Thursday October 18, 2001 3:01 pm, Douglas J Hunley wrote: 1 - 7 are there now.. -- 2:42pm up 48 days, 21:42, 2 users, load average: 0.32, 0.26, 0.13 Running Caldera eD2.4 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OpenOffice 638
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:19, you whispered in my pinkie: Wow! Ladies and gents, I believe the Windows killer has arrived! In a previous incarnation, I used to spend my days preparing Excel spread sheets for performance data I gathered testing new microcode versions of our companies dasd product. With oo638, I was able to enter raw data arrays, create a chart of performance curves using the built in wizard, and print with no problems. A few of the required functions are not intuitively obvious (modifying the title, adding a new chart series, etc.), but the basic functionality is there. The only drawback that I can see is execution speed, that's why I'm curious to learn results from folks with big hummer machines. Athlon 1.4 and 500 meg DDR, seems to work at normal speed to me as against say koffice or word as for spreadsheets, shheesh, I cannot understand them. -- - To those who have been in harms way, to those that have made the sacrifice in humanities name. At the going down of the sun and in the morning I shall remember them. - Keith Antoine aka skippy 18 Arkana St The Gap Queensland 4061 Australia PH 16 7 33002161 Retired Geriatric and Sometime Electronics Engineer : Knowall ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: SuSE isos are back
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:53, you whispered in my pinkie: SuSE 7.2 pro isos are back at http://hunley.homeip.net/iso/ discs 1-5 are there now, with 6 and 7 later today. MD5 sums are there also. Please read the README. Thanks! Doug, I have had the use of a new set of 7.2 and cannot get past the checking system. It freezes at 50% going to try the dvd, know anything re this never had a problem with installs before, and 7.1 goes fine. Might try your first disk, but it has installed on another machine ok. -- - To those who have been in harms way, to those that have made the sacrifice in humanities name. At the going down of the sun and in the morning I shall remember them. - Keith Antoine aka skippy 18 Arkana St The Gap Queensland 4061 Australia PH 16 7 33002161 Retired Geriatric and Sometime Electronics Engineer : Knowall ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: all suse isos up
Jim Conner babbled on about: Thank you for your efforts here. I hope you don't get /.'ed. :) Please keep these here for a while to allow us to download them. they will be up until I acquire SuSE 7.3 -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net Why do programmers get Halloween and Christmas mixed up? Because OCT(31) == DEC(25) ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: SuSE isos are back
Keith Antoine babbled on about: On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:53, you whispered in my pinkie: SuSE 7.2 pro isos are back at http://hunley.homeip.net/iso/ discs 1-5 are there now, with 6 and 7 later today. MD5 sums are there also. Please read the README. Thanks! Doug, I have had the use of a new set of 7.2 and cannot get past the checking system. It freezes at 50% going to try the dvd, know anything re this never had a problem with installs before, and 7.1 goes fine. Might try your first disk, but it has installed on another machine ok. no experience here I'm afraid. did you check the SuSE archives per chance? http://lists.suse.com, IIRC.. -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way. ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Samba 2.2.2
I've been running the new samba server these last few days and have not had any problems with it so far. Seems the performance is about the same as the previous version... How has everyone else done with it so far? -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=ensafe=offgroup=linux 6:59pm up 4 days, 22:44, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Samba 2.2.2
Jerry McBride babbled on about: I've been running the new samba server these last few days and have not had any problems with it so far. Seems the performance is about the same as the previous version... How has everyone else done with it so far? good here... still can't get the damn thing to see openssl during the ./configure.. but otherwise... -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net Every nonzero finite dimensional inner product space has an orthonormal basis. ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Anyone else using OpenOffice638?
Just installed binaries on Libranet (debian). Starts in about 5 or 6 seconds on my Athlon1.4 with 256Megs ddr ram. Very impressive. Of course I haven't done anything with it yet... Go Mariners! On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:26:34 -0400 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey babbled on about: I've just put up OpenOffice638 (from binaries) and started to play with it. Boy did the installer ever suck my system dry. No errors, but nothing else would run until it finished! oo638 takes 1 full minute to initialize, but it's reasonably speedy once up and running. Selecting a font is a little sluggish, since I dumped a buch of TT fonts into my X startup, but it prints without any tinkering with the print settings. I'm curious what results someone with a 256Meg machine would get. The few pages I've keyed into the word processor (including tables and images or fancy characters) work without a hitch. Looks like a very professional product. slowly converting the people at work to OpenOffice (windows version). like it a lot! -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nfAdmin: http://hunley.homeip.net Illiterate? Write for help! ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Good/bad experiences with Mozilla?
0.9.5 still didn't implement one feaure: go to message button in search message widnow. It made the life of following thread a hell. they said they would add it back in 0.9.6. Once they add the mummy button back and that the messenger proved to be reliable in handling large mailbase, I would move over from 4.78. I got over 20 MB of KB grade of articles kept in 4.78. I cannot lose them... Tim Wunder wrote: This is a known issue and there's a bug report on it. This should be it: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11459 _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Weird OpenOffice 638c problem
Hi folks, I'm trying to get OpenOffice 638c to work for me, but am having a real wierd-ass problem. When root, I can run 'setup -net' and everything appears to work OK. All the dialogs are drawn correctly and the install finishes properly. When I try to execute setup as a normal user, it doesn't work right. I get the OpenOffice splash screen OK, then a large blank window appears and the installer stops. I don't get any error messages, just a large blank window. I can click on the X n the top right to close the window and I'm presented with a small dialog box with buttons drawn, but no text. I can click the buttons, and if I choose the correct one, I can cancel the setup. Now for the wierd part. I logged into my PC from work via ssh and was able to run the setup program as a normal user. When I got home, I could start soffice, but none of the menu text displayed. I got icons, but no menu text. I did not have this problem when logged in remotely, everything worked. Anybody have any idea what could possibly cause this? Has anybody seen anything like this before? In the meanwhile, I'm gonna remove OpenOffice, re-read the install docs and try again. Thanks, Tim ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Fwd: Flaws in recent Linux kernels
just when I plan on to install ew 3.1... maybe I should stay with 2.2.20 for a bit more time first... DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote: FYI _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: More Steps Updates etc.
I am not going to miss Mr. Parker's article on ppp. I did persuade him to submit it in caldera users list. Ian Marchak wrote: October 17 PPP - PPP Server (updated) (Bill Parker) Anti-Virus (updated) (Bill Parker) _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OpenOffice 638
[ snips ] On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:28:19 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey wrote: Wow! Ladies and gents, I believe the Windows killer has arrived! Did you install 638c? I can only get mine to work as root. I did 'setup -net' as root, which worked fine. But when I executed 'setup' as a normal user, I get a large white Window that takes up the entire screen, instead of the installation dialog. I only installed as a normal user (no net option), and it works perfectly. After install I setup a symlink so that I could just enter soffice. -- Collins Richey Denver Area gentoo_rc6 xfce+sylpheed ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OpenOffice 638
Previously, Collins Richey chose to write: [ snips ] On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:28:19 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey wrote: Wow! Ladies and gents, I believe the Windows killer has arrived! Did you install 638c? I can only get mine to work as root. I did 'setup -net' as root, which worked fine. But when I executed 'setup' as a normal user, I get a large white Window that takes up the entire screen, instead of the installation dialog. I only installed as a normal user (no net option), and it works perfectly. After install I setup a symlink so that I could just enter soffice. Hmmm. Guess you're the only user on that PC? I've since installed the StarOffice 6.0beta and it installed properly. I've no clue why the SO6.0beta works and the OpenOffice638c tanks. I'm having trouble reading some Word files, but I think it's a font issue. I'm re-installing my Windows TrueType fonts to linux and I'll see how that goes... Regards, Tim ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Anyone else using OpenOffice638?
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 16:26:34 -0400 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey babbled on about: I've just put up OpenOffice638 (from binaries) and started to play with it. Boy did the installer ever suck my system dry. No errors, but nothing else would run until it finished! oo638 takes 1 full minute to initialize, but it's reasonably speedy once up and running. Selecting a font is a little sluggish, since I dumped a buch of TT fonts into my X startup, but it prints without any tinkering with the print settings. I'm curious what results someone with a 256Meg machine would get. The few pages I've keyed into the word processor (including tables and images or fancy characters) work without a hitch. Looks like a very professional product. slowly converting the people at work to OpenOffice (windows version). like it a lot! Is the windows version as big a memory hog as the linux version? -- Collins Richey Denver Area gentoo_rc6 xfce+sylpheed ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Adding linux machines to nis domain
Hi All, At work, we have a nis domain for our solaris users. Some developers are now using linux machines and want to be able to access some nfs mounts and a sablime database. The SA's wont let them join the nis domain because they dont want them to have root privileges. Is there any way to restrict root privilege to the nis domain and keep local root priviledges? Thanks in Advance for your help. -- registered user #206562 ..Leslie... ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Weird OpenOffice 638c problem
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:46:13 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I'm trying to get OpenOffice 638c to work for me, but am having a real wierd-ass problem. When root, I can run 'setup -net' and everything appears to work OK. All the dialogs are drawn correctly and the install finishes properly. When I try to execute setup as a normal user, it doesn't work right. I get the OpenOffice splash screen OK, then a large blank window appears and the installer stops. I don't get any error messages, just a large blank window. I can click on the X n the top right to close the window and I'm presented with a small dialog box with buttons drawn, but no text. I can click the buttons, and if I choose the correct one, I can cancel the setup. Now for the wierd part. I logged into my PC from work via ssh and was able to run the setup program as a normal user. When I got home, I could start soffice, but none of the menu text displayed. I got icons, but no menu text. I did not have this problem when logged in remotely, everything worked. Anybody have any idea what could possibly cause this? Has anybody seen anything like this before? In the meanwhile, I'm gonna remove OpenOffice, re-read the install docs and try again. As I mentioned in my previous post, no problems installing as normal user (no su or anything) to a directory in /home/collins. Back in the earlier days, all my attempts to install soffice with net options resulted in similar behaviour as you describe, except that it locked my pc up tighter than a drum. -- Collins Richey Denver Area gentoo_rc6 xfce+sylpheed ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Anyone else using OpenOffice638?
Collins Richey babbled on about: Is the windows version as big a memory hog as the linux version? runs as well as ms office does on mt NT 4 workstation w/ 96Mb ram -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net In a literature class, the students were given an assignment to write a short story involving all the important ingredients - Nobility, Emotion, Sex, Religion and Mystery. One student handed in the following story: My god! cried the duchess. I'm pregnant. Who did it? ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Fwd: Flaws in recent Linux kernels
Chang babbled on about: just when I plan on to install ew 3.1... maybe I should stay with 2.2.20 for a bit more time first... there are issues w/ 2.2.20 as well. it needs 2 patches, IIRC -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net In 1665 Issac Newton became discouraged when he fell up a flight of stairs. ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Weird OpenOffice 638c problem
Previously, Ken Moffat chose to write: On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:12:38 -0600 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I mentioned in my previous post, no problems installing as normal user (no su or anything) to a directory in /home/collins. This is what I did, also, and it runs great. No -net, just one user. Well, the -net install works for the StarOffice 6.0beta. If I don't do a -net install, then it installs the whole ball of wax into the home directory of the user who installs it. To install it for the four users who use this PC would result in a LARGE waste of disk space. Although I do happen to have plenty at the moment, I do hate to waste what I have. Regards, Tim ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Why on earth isn't printing working?
A while back my epson stylus color 400 printer died and since then I've been trying to setup printer off a printer shared from a local winbox. I used printerdrake (or whatever the mandrake printer tool is called) to try to setup the printer. Its an Apollo P-2250 (cheap piece of winprinter junk). The closest printer which mandrake seems to support is an Apollo P-2200 (the printer under windows does use P-2200 drivers and thus I think would under linux as well) which www.linuxprinting.org lists as mostly supported. Whenever I try to print though I get not a peek from the printer. The only thing that really comes to mind is that no password is specified for the share (yes it's password-protected) in the cups printer file. I did input a password in printerdrake so I'm guessing its just stored elsewhere. Accessing any of the other shares using smbclient works fine. I don't know if it's required when cups is used but /etc/printcap looks kinda weird (ie. close to empty). Is that the cause of the trouble? David Aikema Contents of /etc/cups/printers.conf: --- DefaultPrinter apollo_normal Location Office DeviceURI smb://AIKEMA/compname/APOLLO State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none /Printer Printer epson_normal DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0 State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none /Printer --- /etc/printcap --- apollo_normal: epson_normal: --- ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
