Linux-Misc Digest #651, Volume #20 Tue, 15 Jun 99 21:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Changing domain name of a machine (DonJr)
Re: Good Linux books (jik-)
Re: nfs & inode question (Gerd Mayer)
Re: Trying a Linux command to a telnet port (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: _.-._PPP SETUP_.-._ (Ben Short)
Diamond Supra EXPRESS are NOT winmodem ("²F!r£w¤rk²")
Re: How do I print manpage? (Floyd Davidson)
Re: Telnet in as root! (Jeld The Dark Elf)
Re: _.-._PPP SETUP_.-._ (Jeld The Dark Elf)
Re: SuSE 6.1 ok to buy ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Virus scanner for Linux? (Chris Lee)
IBCS2 problem- getipdomainname returns null string ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Changing domain name of a machine (Jeld The Dark Elf)
Re: Need reasons for Mandrake over RH (John Pisini)
Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL? (bryan)
Newbie: How to DE-install a program in Linux?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
_.-._PPP SETUP_.-._ (Klea Dzonsons)
Re: Virus scanner for Linux? (Tom Christiansen)
Re: Newbie: How to DE-install a program in Linux?? (Ted Sikora)
Re: A Capitalists view of freedom (Aaron M. Renn)
Re: Bridge (Arnaud Kok)
route uses dns, however it should'nt (Daniel Schaffrath)
Re: Which Databases are available for Linux (Phil Rule)
Redhat 5.1 & Acroread! (Phil Rule)
Re: SuSE 6.1 ok to buy ? (Keith Phillips)
Re: A Capitalists view of freedom (Aaron M. Renn)
Re: Linux jingle (David L. Bilbey)
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From: DonJr <donjr@[127.0.0.1]>
Subject: Re: Changing domain name of a machine
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:21:19 -0400
Parabola wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> I have a Linux web server hosting a few virtual domains. If I want to
> change the domain name of the box from "www.aaa.com" to "www.bbb.com"
> when IP address stays the same (the box is the primary NS of both
> aaa.com and bbb.com), what are the places where I have to make
> changes? I'm working on a check list:
>
> - login prompt
> - dns
> - sendmail
> - /etc/sysconfig/network
>
> What else? Anyone can help?
>
> Cheers!
> :Parabola
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Programming, as in formatting code and composing algorithm,
> is indeed an art by itself.
> Hence, programmer can be considered as some kind of artist.
> Too bad, artist generally are not paid well. =(
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> URL: http://i.am/parabola/
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
To change the NAME only:
/etc/HOSTNAME
/etc/sysconfig/network
The IP address is in:
/etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
Make sure /etc/hosts has a matching entry for the new HOSTNAME {ip
pair}.
Or else your getting the full network information from 'pump' or
whatever.
All of these are by default loaded after 'network'ing subsystem is up
and running. So normally they get there information from the 'network'
subsystem.
- sendmail The default sendmail.cf setup gets it local name from
'/bin/hostname' so changing the above fixes it.
- login Gets it's information for '/bin/hostname' {same} and/or
/etc/issue the later of with usally get set in /etc/rc.d/rc.local .
{ yes login is loaded after the networking subsystem is up}
- dns Gets it base information for '/bin/hostname' {same}.
As for other config-files if you've hardcoded it you have to changes it.
By default most network aware programs are not hardcoded under *nix.
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my Email is jetnick AT erols DOT com
I'll add a witty saying here later.
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From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Good Linux books
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:21:18 -0700
amp wrote:
>
> I've recently installed Red Hat 5.2 on a spare computer at home.
> Problem is, I'm a Linux newbie. I bought _Red_Hat_Linux_Unleashed_.
> It's going to make a nice door-stop. What are some good books for doing
> real-world kinda stuff (e.g. connecting to my ISP).
>
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:10:27 +0000
From: Gerd Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: nfs & inode question
> I wonder if there's a link between nfs inodes and ext2 inodes.
> Actually, I got nfs errors telling me that that inode 556367879 is busy
> and that it points to communicator4.5.
> But on my hard drive, the communicator4.5 's inode is 1701924.
nfs uses a virtuell filesystem that points either to the real-inodes or
to the remote-inodes. Because the physical number (from the ext2-fs)
could be the same one, the virtual-fs uses it's own numbers
Hope it helps
Gerd
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Trying a Linux command to a telnet port
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 23:05:45 GMT
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:35:44 -0700, Steve E. Koon wrote:
>Is there anyway to let a user telnet into a port on my Linux box and execute
>only a single unix command. This command would be a valid unix command and
>executed every time the user telneted to this port?
A friend of mine recently did this exact same thing. He allowed the users
of his BBS to access the WWW by allowing them to telnet to his Linux box,
where a script (on the BBS end) would log them in as "lynx" with a password
of "lynx". The "lynx" user would be directed to lynx, and after they were
done, logged-off.
He accomplished this by editing the .bashrc file in "lynx"'s home directory.
At the end, where it would normally exit, add;
lynx
exit
(Or whatever other command you want. Another popular one is;
startx
exit
for Linux newbies / Linux users' wives / etc..).
If you don't run BASH as your shell, find out what the login script is for
your particular shell, and this should do the trick as well.
--
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Humming along under SuSE Linux 6.0 / OS/2 Warp 4
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Short)
Subject: Re: _.-._PPP SETUP_.-._
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 09:01:08 +1000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Hi,
> Im trying to get my linux box to connect to my ISP, the problem is,
> My ISP uses windozeNT server.I have read all of the relevent HOWTOS and
> FAQs
> on PPP setup but I cant find one that details how to connect to a WIN
> server.
> Any ideas??
> Has anyone had any experience in setting up a Linux--WIN connection??
>
> Thanx in advance,
> Klea Dzonsons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
doesnt matter whether primus uses a win NT server to accept calls or not.
The important thing is that they either use shell, CHAP or PAP
authentication for logins.
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From: "²F!r£w¤rk²" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Diamond Supra EXPRESS are NOT winmodem
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:53:47 -0400
I have one ( Diamond Supra Express 56i Voice V.90 ) ISAand it works
perfectly fine
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson)
Subject: Re: How do I print manpage?
Date: 15 Jun 1999 22:56:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[posted and emailed]
Sergei Gnezdov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I usually print text files with command:
>
> pr -l 62 -f file_name | lpr
>
>How can I print manpage with the same settings?
>
>Currently I do it this way:
>
> man page_name > buf
> pr -l 62 -f buf | lpr
>
>This way I get page formatting for the screen (date, name of the page and so on
>are in the middle of the sheet of paper).
There are several ways to obtain a printable man page, and which
is suitable depends on what you want it to look like (or what
kind of printer you have).
Using the -t option to man will result in PostScript output to
stdout, which can be redirected either directly to a print
spooler or to a file.
man -t page_name | lpr
Assuming your printer/spooling system is capable of handling
PostScript.
To generate a pure ascii text file which can be edited, run the
man output through "col -x",
man page_name | col -x > man_file
And another interesting option to man is -d, which will print
debugging information but does not format and output a man page.
Among the interesting information it produces is exactly the
command that would be used if the -d option had not been
specified. That gives you the groff options, the filters used,
and the exact location of the source code. Then if you have
some specific way you want to execute the command differently
than man does (changing the line length, using -man instead of
-mandoc, or whatever, you can do it.
Here are two examples, "man -d ls" produced this result when
run from an xterm that had a 100 column screen size:
(cd /usr/man ; (echo ".ll 9.0i"; /usr/bin/zcat \
/usr/man/man1/ls.1.gz) | /usr/bin/gtbl | \
/usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc | /usr/bin/col | less)
When run from an 80 column screen, this was produced:
(cd /usr/man ; /usr/bin/zcat \
/usr/man/man1/ls.1.gz | /usr/bin/gtbl | \
/usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc | /usr/bin/col | less)
And if run with the -t option:
(cd /usr/man ; /usr/bin/zcat \
/usr/man/man1/ls.1.gz | /usr/bin/gtbl | \
/usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc)
Floyd
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From: Jeld The Dark Elf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Telnet in as root!
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:20:22 GMT
Absolutely. There is a file called /etc/securetty that contains a list
of consoles which are considered secure by the system. If you want a
quick hack, rename that file and you will be able to telnet as root. If
you want a nice solution, read documentation on login mingetty and PAM.
In article <7k5trf$q3l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm sure the reason that you can't initially telnet into a linux box
as
> root is for security reasons, but is there anyway to make it where you
> can configure it so you can telnet in as root. (I'd really like to do
> that instead of creating another account and then running su)
>
> Thanks!
>
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From: Jeld The Dark Elf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: _.-._PPP SETUP_.-._
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:28:54 GMT
PPP is standard for any OS there is. You should not have any problems
maintaining a PPP connection whatever box is on that side. The only
problem I know of is with authentication. MS have "developed" their own
version of CHAP called MS-CHAP. If you have problems authenticating
using CHAP ( PAP should work if supported by ISP and terminal login
should definitely work ) then get your pppd sources and read docs there
should be instructions on how to compile MS-CHAP support into it. Note
that after that your pppd will stop understanding regular CHAP. Also if
you use RPM based system consider getting a SRPM and rebuilding from it
instead of plain tar.gz. You will not disturb system consistensy this
way.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Klea Dzonsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Im trying to get my linux box to connect to my ISP, the problem is,
> My ISP uses windozeNT server.I have read all of the relevent HOWTOS
and
> FAQs
> on PPP setup but I cant find one that details how to connect to a WIN
> server.
> Any ideas??
> Has anyone had any experience in setting up a Linux--WIN connection??
>
> Thanx in advance,
> Klea Dzonsons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.1 ok to buy ?
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:29:18 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Raghu Yedatore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am new to the Linux world. When I assembled my PC, I set a 2Gig
> partition
> aside for Linux.
>
> I can buy SuSE 6.1 for $30.00. I missed the thread on the same topic
by
> Dave Brown because
> those articles had expired. RH6.0 costs about 70 bucks.
>
> With SuSE, I'll also get CDs for StarOffice5.0.
>
> Is it ok to use install SuSE ? or Should I go RH6.0 way ?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Raghu
>
>
I'm using SuSE 5.2, 6.0 and 6.1 on different systems. It works fine for
me all the time.
But be carefull: Only buy the full versions. There are also
cd-collections (ftp-mirrors) without handbook. And as long as I know
they aren't well done: missing files, bad organized....
Bye
Pizza
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lee)
Subject: Re: Virus scanner for Linux?
Date: 15 Jun 1999 23:56:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>Hi, all!
>
>==============
>Moscow, Russia, June 11, 1999 -- Kaspersky Lab, a fast-growing
international
>anti-virus software developing company, today released a beta-version of
the
>world's first memory resident anti-virus filter (AVP Daemon) for the Linux
>operating system.
>==============
>
>look at: http://download1.avp.ch/avpfiles/avp30daemon.tgz
This is not really a anti-virus program for Linux. What it is basically is a
anti-virus program for DOS/Windows that runs under Linux.
Great for checking for Windows email and other such things that may be
lurking in a server, not much use otherwise if you're actively using Linux.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: fa.linux.ibcs2,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: IBCS2 problem- getipdomainname returns null string
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:21:57 GMT
Hi mates!
Running SCO binaries on RedHat 5.1 and 5.2 with kernel 2.0.xx
displayed no problems even with very complicated executables which
included also use of /dev/socksys.
Trying to run the same executables on RedHat 6.0 (default kernel and
ibcs2) I get null strings as a result of the "gethostname" syscall.
Looking at the tracefile from ibcs, it looks like the syscall is
"translated" to "getipdomainname" and the routine fails on "bad
address".
Can somebody explain to me this "replacing" mechanism, and what can be
the reason that the SCO "gethostname" which were executed fine on 5.2
does not work on 6.0??
Cheers
Shay Tochner
International Systems Support Specialist
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From: Jeld The Dark Elf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing domain name of a machine
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:32:48 GMT
Depends on what else you are running on that box :)
If your system is configured correctly, you should not care about login
prompt.
DNS records
Web Server config.
/etc/hostname and /etc/sysconfig/network
If there are no more services you should be fine.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I have a Linux web server hosting a few virtual domains. If I want to
> change the domain name of the box from "www.aaa.com" to "www.bbb.com"
> when IP address stays the same (the box is the primary NS of both
> aaa.com and bbb.com), what are the places where I have to make
> changes? I'm working on a check list:
>
> - login prompt
> - dns
> - sendmail
> - /etc/sysconfig/network
>
> What else? Anyone can help?
>
> Cheers!
> :Parabola
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Programming, as in formatting code and composing algorithm,
> is indeed an art by itself.
> Hence, programmer can be considered as some kind of artist.
> Too bad, artist generally are not paid well. =(
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> URL: http://i.am/parabola/
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
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From: John Pisini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Need reasons for Mandrake over RH
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:36:28 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You lucky duck. I'm on the other end of the spectrum, but I've tried both RH
> and Mandrake with the same results - junk.
>
> And I'm running a nice Dell 300MHz and sound and video and zip and camera and
> modem and CDROM and, and, and
> and only one or two things work.
>
> I have to ask did you check the hardware compatibility list before installing?
> I only ask because nobody installs Windows NT without checking, most people
> even checked when 95 and 98 came out I know becuase I upgraded hundreds of
> systems during that time because people knew their hardware wasn't going to
> work. A few years back before I ever heard about Linux I wanted to try NT I
> checked the list and knew I had to change my video card and sound card before I
> installed. When I first heard of Linux I checked luckily because I upgraded for
> NT everything was supported. Why do people just install Linux without checking?
> Your zip will work you need to recompile your kernel. Your cdrom should be ide
> it should also work, wether or not your video card will work unfortunnatly you
> will have to check the list. Your camera probally wont work but I could be
> wrong. Your modem will work providing it is not a winmodem (windows only) you
> need to check the list before you install any OS not just Linux.
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL?
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.lang.java.databases
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 13:37:08 GMT
In comp.os.linux.development.apps Don Baccus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <7k1vru$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: david parsons <o r c @ p e l l . p o r t l a n d . o r . u s> wrote:
: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: >Don Baccus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >>Not necessarily true. If you have several related tables
: >>that need to be logically updated at once, the atomicity of
: >>the transactional model is, well, useful if there's a crash
: >>while records are being inserted or updated.
: > Denormalize, denormalize, denormalize.
: > Yeah, you might bloat your rdb by a factor of 10 to do this,
: > but disk and core is getting cheap these days.
: Denormalization is something sane folks do to increase performance,
: not to avoid the need for a real database engine.
: If you've denormalized checking balances into thirty tables,
: don't have atomicity, and an update dies half-way through
: updating these tables, which balance do you trust?
: Or if another process reads these tables when processing
: an order, which balance should it use if they don't all
: agree?
: I suppose you can start implementing all sorts of cross-checks
: to help you unwind afterwards but...
: Why bother? Why not use a transaction-based db in the first
: place?
simple - cause not all the linux db's HAVE transactions. that's why!
believe me, if I could count on it always being there in code and
always working, fine. but db's are pretty new to linux and beggars
can't be choosers, as they say. so you live within the constraints of
what you DO have.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Newbie: How to DE-install a program in Linux??
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:48:50 GMT
Hi there!
Please tell me: what is the best way to DE-install a program. I'm using
SuSE-Linux and I've used Slackware. Installing a program isn't hard,
just untar and compile it (make install etc. - if it work). BUT I don't
know what a program needs to exist and what I should remove if I wish to
delete it.
When I install a rpm-package it seems to be very easy to deinstall it.
But what if I like to manually deinstall a programm or just a part of a
rpm-package? Which libs and header-files should I remove? Is this a
problem similar to the registry in Windows??
Thanks
YYY
.sorry for bad english.
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From: Klea Dzonsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: _.-._PPP SETUP_.-._
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:19:41 +0930
Hi,
Im trying to get my linux box to connect to my ISP, the problem is,
My ISP uses windozeNT server.I have read all of the relevent HOWTOS and
FAQs
on PPP setup but I cant find one that details how to connect to a WIN
server.
Any ideas??
Has anyone had any experience in setting up a Linux--WIN connection??
Thanx in advance,
Klea Dzonsons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Virus scanner for Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Christiansen)
Date: 15 Jun 1999 18:33:33 -0700
I always thought that installing Unix was ipso facto
the ultimate anti-virus measure! :-)
--tom
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From: Ted Sikora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie: How to DE-install a program in Linux??
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 23:46:27 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>
> Please tell me: what is the best way to DE-install a program. I'm using
> SuSE-Linux and I've used Slackware. Installing a program isn't hard,
> just untar and compile it (make install etc. - if it work). BUT I don't
> know what a program needs to exist and what I should remove if I wish to
> delete it.
>
> When I install a rpm-package it seems to be very easy to deinstall it.
> But what if I like to manually deinstall a programm or just a part of a
> rpm-package? Which libs and header-files should I remove? Is this a
> problem similar to the registry in Windows??
>
> Thanks
>
> YYY
>
> .sorry for bad english.
>
> -> Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (without the P's in the ad.)
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
In SuSE start YaST and pick the Choose/Install packages
and then delete packages. A list will appear that shows
all installed rpm packages. Highlight what you want removed
and that's that. Slackware is just as easy. Start setup
and/or pkgtool go to delete packages, a list appears, pick what you want
and that's it. Couldn't be simpler.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron M. Renn)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: A Capitalists view of freedom
Date: 15 Jun 1999 17:41:22 GMT
On 15 Jun 1999 19:27:01 +0200, Jonathan Thornburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>An interesting question to ponder: Does that particular law also give
>US citizens the right to bear (their own privately-obtained) *nuclear*
>(or biological or chemical) arms? Should the NRA extend its slogan to
>"Atomic bombs don't kill people, people do"? (Or perhaps in the wake of
>the Tokyo subway attack, "Sarin doesn't kill people, people do".)
Can you say "strawman"?
>Note that the NRA _does_ advocate that private US citizens should be
>permitted to own machine guns. I believe they also extend this to
US citizens are allowed to own machine guns in most states.
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From: Arnaud Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bridge
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 15:02:36 +0200
On 14 Jun 1999, Jedi Master Yoda wrote:
> Does anyone know of a decent Bridge game for Linux/X? Actually, it
> doesn't even have to be decent. I can't find anything of the sort. I
> refuse to believe that _no-one_ has had a go at it.
>
There is a commercial bridge game available. It's called GIB and is
shipped with linux executables. Look at http://www.gibware.com
Arnaud.
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From: Daniel Schaffrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: route uses dns, however it should'nt
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 13:19:46 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Guys,
nsswitch reads to translate hostnames just by "files". host.conf too....
but
"route add -host anyhost dev anydev"
wants to talk to the name server..... I straced it... and it really
queries bind for anyhost and nothing more..... although libnss_files
gets loaded, afterwards libns_dns gets loaded.
"ping anyhost" does NOT behave like this... it just uses files as it
should.
Does anyone know why route always uses dns!? Is this a bug perhaps, or a
bug in the resolver.... this behavior appears only with route of SuSE
Linux -gt 6.0.
thank you so much in advance,
Dan
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From: Phil Rule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which Databases are available for Linux
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:01:35 +0100
Informix has ported the latest version of their database, and tools, to
Linux for a nominal cost (99 dollars).
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Phil Rule, Tel: + 353 21 511744 (direct)
Motorola Ireland Ltd., Fax: + 353 21 357635
Mahon Industrial Estate, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Blackrock, Cork.
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From: Phil Rule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 5.1 & Acroread!
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:21:15 +0100
Hi all,
I have RH 5.1, and have downloaded from the Adobe web site both
available versions (3 and 4.0) of their PDF reader, acroread. Both
versions install fine, giving no errors, but neither will read PDF files
properly, not even the help files shipped with Acroread.
Both display any graphics on a page correctly, but all text is
overwritten. It creates such a mess it's hard to tell whether it's the
same text, but offset, or different text. Also it reports being unable
to open a page, 'Segmentation Violation caught' (?).
Any ideas anyone?
TIA
Phil Rule
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith Phillips)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.1 ok to buy ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 16 Jun 1999 11:08:38 GMT
Definitely go with SuSE. I used RH until 6.0, then decided
it wasn't worth the price increase (I'd toyed with the idea
of changing distros anyway.)
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:29:11 -0700,
Raghu Yedatore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke unto us, saying:
>I am new to the Linux world. When I assembled my PC, I set a 2Gig
>partition
>aside for Linux.
>
>I can buy SuSE 6.1 for $30.00. I missed the thread on the same topic by
>Dave Brown because
>those articles had expired. RH6.0 costs about 70 bucks.
>
>With SuSE, I'll also get CDs for StarOffice5.0.
>
>Is it ok to use install SuSE ? or Should I go RH6.0 way ?
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| Keith Phillips User: "Um, I can't find my files..." |
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Admin: "Files? What files?" |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron M. Renn)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: A Capitalists view of freedom
Date: 15 Jun 1999 17:44:20 GMT
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:46:26 +0200, Richard Hickling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This is what it always comes down to: entrenched immovable laws. Some aspects of
>the US legislative system are now out-of-date and have fallen behind more
>progressive and versatile systems overseas. Time for a spring cleaning.
It's a good thing the US has entrenched and immovable laws about freedom.
Given Europe's abysmal track record for the last 1500 years (including
the present century) I don't think that the Europeans are in any position
to be lecturing the US about the way governments ought to behave.
--
Aaron M. Renn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/
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From: David L. Bilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux jingle
Date: 15 Jun 1999 17:37:37 GMT
+-----On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:50:20 -0400, Drew M. Mooney spoke unto us:----------
| How about just asking:
| "where did you THINK you wanted to go today?"
| James Beard wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
| >Hi all.
| >
| >Is there is a Linux jingle? A catchy little tune?
| >
| >Our sysadmin was installing NT yesterday and having heaps of problems.
| >I thought of how sweet it would have been if I could have been standing
| >beside him, whistling the Linux theme.
| >
| >We have the penguin, and the slogans. What we need now is a tune.
| >Either an original or a rehash of an existing piece. Any budding
| >composers out there?
How about something that is not a rip-off or a parody? Let's show the
world how Linux is a stable, full-featured, multi-tasking OS; not just the
OS that is better than Windows.
The problem is it is hard to fit
"Linux, the stable, full-featured, multi-tasking OS. It's not just the OS
that is better than Windows."
into a nice catchy jingle, but I'll keep working on it. ;)
bilbey
--
"In the first castles, I bet a common mistake was putting the torture room
next to the master bedroom. Boy, you're just not going to get the good
sleep that way." --Jack Handey
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