Linux-Misc Digest #723, Volume #20 Mon, 21 Jun 99 12:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Samba: Popup-Message to USER (not to computer) ("Kerry J. Cox")
Samba: Popup-Message to USER (not to computer) (Charly Schoenfelder)
Virtual FTP directories ("Kerry J. Cox")
Re: Secure network-backup via nfs? (brian moore)
userv (security boundary tool) 0.64.1 BETA released (Ian Jackson)
Re: Kernel modules and varargs (Dan Miner)
Re: Unlimited Kernel updates? (Rick Nelson)
Re: Redhat 6.0 and Gnome: Help to make it look less like windows!!!! (Leonard Evens)
Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be? ("William Edward
Woody")
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From: "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Samba: Popup-Message to USER (not to computer)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 13:53:02 +0000
Try LinPopUp.
http://www.littleigloo.org/
Works great for me.
KJ
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Charly Schoenfelder wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a question concerning Samba's messenger service (under Windows
> known as WinPopup): Under NT you can use the "net send" command to send a
> popup message to another computer. Under Samba that works fine with the
> "smbclient -M" command if you know the computer's name.
>
> But: Windows NT also allows to use the "net send" command with a USER's
> name, i.e. "net send charly" where charly is the login name of a user.
> Then the popup message will be delivered directly to the computer where
> the user is logged in at this moment. If the person is not logged in, you
> get an error message.
> This is a great function because you don't need to know the name of the NT
> Workstation to send a message to a certain person: "net send USER" is able
> to locate the user (if he is logged in under NT).
>
> Is there any similar function in Samba ? The "smbclient -M" command only
> accepts computer names but no user names.
>
> Thanks in advance and please excuse my probably bad english ;-))
>
> Charly.
>
> ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: Charly Schoenfelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Samba: Popup-Message to USER (not to computer)
Date: 21 Jun 1999 12:30:52 GMT
Hi all,
I have a question concerning Samba's messenger service (under Windows
known as WinPopup): Under NT you can use the "net send" command to send a
popup message to another computer. Under Samba that works fine with the
"smbclient -M" command if you know the computer's name.
But: Windows NT also allows to use the "net send" command with a USER's
name, i.e. "net send charly" where charly is the login name of a user.
Then the popup message will be delivered directly to the computer where
the user is logged in at this moment. If the person is not logged in, you
get an error message.
This is a great function because you don't need to know the name of the NT
Workstation to send a message to a certain person: "net send USER" is able
to locate the user (if he is logged in under NT).
Is there any similar function in Samba ? The "smbclient -M" command only
accepts computer names but no user names.
Thanks in advance and please excuse my probably bad english ;-))
Charly.
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From: "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Virtual FTP directories
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 13:51:18 +0000
Okay, I just installed wu_ftpd on a Solaris 2.6 machine. True it's
Solaris,
but I think the same philosphy applies to Linux. Anyway, it runs great
and I am able to ftp into the machine no problem. What I want to do now
is set up virtual ftp directories so that my virtual domains, i.e.
www.bintzsupply.com can do a ftp://ftp.bintzsupply.com/ and ftp stuff
right out of their directories. I did the research and added the
following lines to my /etc/ftpaccess file and it appeared to work just
fine, but then no one else was able to ftp into that server.
Here are the lines I added:
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# a couple of test things...
# passwd-check <none|trivial|rfc822> [<enforce|warn>]
passwd-check rfc822 warn
# path-filter...
path-filter anonymous /etc/pathmsg ^[-A-Za-z0-9_\.]*$ ^\. ^-
#
# This file is read by inetd when it invokes ftpd/wu-ftpd
#
#
# 06-Jan-97 amo Add the Virtual Domain definitions
#
#
==============================================================================
==============
#
# NOTE: It seems that ftp.Virtual_Domain.com only works if it has a
Unique IP as
signed to it
#
# NOTE: the home directory is now ~ftp/Domain_Name/pub instead of
~ftp/pub
#
#
==============================================================================
==============
#
# This is the RealMachine
#
#virtual 206.71.77.7 root /export/home/ftp/
#virtual 206.71.77.7 banner /export/home/ftp/ # welcome.msg
#virtual 206.71.77.7 logfile /var/adm/xferlog
#
# Add bintzsupply.com
#
#virtual 209.186.76.10 root /export/home/ftp/virtual/bintzsupply.com
#virtual 209.186.76.10 banner /export/home/ftp/virtual/bintzsupply.com
# welcome.msg
#virtual 209.186.76.10 logfile /var/adm/xferlog
#
# Add Virt_3.org
#
#virtual 198.147.196.zz root /home/ftp/Virt_3.org
#virtual 198.147.196.zz banner /home/ftp/Virt_3.org/welcome.Virt_3
# welcom
e.msg
#virtual 198.147.196.zz logfile /var/log/xferlog
#
# end of virtual FTP servers
If anyone has had any experience with this or could enlighten me as to
what I did wrong, I would be much appreciative. Thanks. Please also
send me the response via email as I get very busy sometimes and don't
have time to check the newsgroups.
KJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Secure network-backup via nfs?
Date: 21 Jun 1999 15:03:42 GMT
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:27:41 -0500,
Bobby D. Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Frank Sweetser wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > ...
> > > Also I would prefer to initiate the backup from the dat-machine. Would
> > > that be possible using something like:
> > >
> > > ssh remote-host tar /filesystem-name | dd bs=10240 of=/dev/st0
> >
> > yup.
>
> A couple of questions:
>
> 1) What is /dev/st0 ? Is it a port back to the machine you issued the command
> from?
>
> 2) Suppose you want to use cron to do this every night. Since cron presumably
> isn't privy to your ssh-agent login (if you happen to be logged in at all), how
> do you manage the passphrase in a cron job?
Easy: you give it a blank passphrase, and then set it so that key can
only do what you want on the remote system.
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Jackson)
Crossposted-To: gnu.announce,alt.sources.d
Subject: userv (security boundary tool) 0.64.1 BETA released
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 19:23:19 +0100 (BST)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Miner)
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.kernel,linux.sources.kernel
Subject: Re: Kernel modules and varargs
Date: 21 Jun 1999 14:22:51 GMT
Thomas M. Galla ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hello!
: Being not sure whether these are the right newsgroups to post this kind
: of question have my apologies first.
: However I'm having some kind of problem with using varargs within kernel
: module functions. The following code for example does not print anything
: (i.e., copy_to_user() does not work correctly):
There are a couple of places with varargs in the kernel. I believe
I see the problem. Try moving the 'va_list ap' to be the first declaration.
varargs are usually based on stack positions and local variable are on
the stack. So, va_list expect to find the args X bytes away but you've
added Y bytes more between them. :)
[ Check out linux/lib/vsprintf.c, function sprintf(...) .]
Regards,
Dan
: static int xuser_printf(char **user_buf, int len, const char *fmt)
: {
: int ret;
: char buf[MAXLEN*2];
: va_list ap;
: int buflen, copylen;
: va_start(ap, fmt);
: vsprintf(buf, fmt, ap);
: va_end(ap);
: buflen=strlen(buf);
: copylen=(buflen<len) ? buflen : len;
: printk("user_printf: buf=\"%s\"\n", buf);
: printk("user_printf: buflen=%d, len=%d, copylen=%d\n",
: buflen, len, copylen);
: printk("user_printf: *user_buf=%p\n", *user_buf);
: ret=copy_to_user(*user_buf, buf, copylen);
: printk("copy_to_user returned: %d\n", ret);
: return(copylen);
: }
: By the way, I'm using the following switches an arguments for gcc (version
: 2.7.2.3) and ld:
: gcc -O3 -Wall -DCONFIG_KERNELD -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -DLINUX
: ld -s -r
: Does anybody know whether it's no permitted to use varargs within kernel
: modules? Do vararg functions modify the stack in a way that causes
: copy_to_user() to fail?
: Thanks for the help,
: Tom.
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From: Rick Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Unlimited Kernel updates?
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:38:54 -0400
Thanks guys for your help. I'll get RH 6 for $60 from buy.com when I have the
money. I did buy a Linux newbie book, and it came with Caldera OpenLinux
(1.3?), but the documentation is *horrible* so after finally hacking away to
get my X server up, it will still default to 320x200. I can barely fit the
taskbar in my screen! And the kernel is old. I am hoping that RH will have
better documentation on how to set up for my Creative Labs Exxtreme video
card. I'm sure it will.
Since I'll be upgrading, I won't bother this NG by posting my questions for
the version I have now! It's actually good -- now I can hack away and
explore... if I destroy Linux, it's no big deal!
Rick
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.0 and Gnome: Help to make it look less like windows!!!!
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:33:35 -0500
GatonSon wrote:
> Dear Linux Community,
>
> I have Redhat 6.0 with the Gnome/KDE WM. I'm kind of new to Linux so please be
> patient. The problem is it all looks to much like windows!! I want to learn
> how to use linux, not try and make linux like windows. Using Gnome as a WM
> (being it's already installed), I want to clean up the desktop. All I want on
> my screen is one terminal window (I'm beginning to learn to use Bash to run
> startup scripts for other desktop utilities at startup (xclock, emacs, etc). I
> want to change the menus that appear when I click on the desktop with the left,
> middle, and right buttons. Ideally, it would be great to get rid of the start
> menu on the bottom of the screen and be able to get at all my utilities (and
> maybe one submenu somewhere for gnome apps) through the menu on the mouse
> clicks instead of the start menu.
>
> Like I said, I'm more interested in learning Linux/UNIX than trying learn a
> window manager that is just trying to be windows.
>
> Oh yea. Does anyone know how I can get rid of the Redhat graphic throughout
> the system (Like on the login screen, etc). I've never been very commercial.
> I don't mind using Redhat, I just don't need graphic everywhere I turn.
>
> Thank you very much for help you may have. I heartly appreciate all your
> efforts.
> Please email responses to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As to your second question, you just have to arrange that you come up
in run level 3 rather than run level 5. You do this by editing the file
/etc/inittab (as root) and changing the 3 in the line that controls the
run level from 3 to 5. Then reboot. You can do this from the initial
window prompt by choosing options. After rebooting, you will get
a dumb terminal screen with a login prompt. To get a window manager
use startx after logging in.
As to your first question, you may prefer the Afterstep Window
manager which is quite a bit simpler. If you are still in run level 5,
you can choose to switch to this via the options menu at the prompt.
There is almost certainly a way to do this with startx or a related
command, but I am not sure what it is. Note however that RH6.0
is really designed for gnome compliant window managers and it
probably works better if you use one. I think you will probably
get used to the enlightenment (default) window manager if you
give it a chance. But several people have suggested the window
maker is more stable and a bit easier to use.
Of course, you can do a lot of things with no window manager
at all, just using the dumb terminal interface. You can switch to
one of six dumb terminals by using Alt Fn where n is 1-6.
You can dop this even if you have a window manager running by
using Ctral-Alt-Fn. To get back to the window manager you
then use Ctrl-Alt-F7.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "William Edward Woody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be?
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 07:58:24 -0700
Lawrence DčOliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message...
> "William Edward Woody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >1) MultiFinder showed up in System 5, not System 6. System 6 is the
> >first version where Multidohicky (as we lovingly refered to it)
> >shows up integrated into the system, rather than as a separate
> >extension.
>
> I could never remember what "System 5" is supposed to refer to.
> MultiFinder 1.0 came (and worked) with System version 4.2, Finder version
> 6.0. I suppose that package could have been called "System Tools 5", or
> 5.something.
I still have the disks, amazingly enough. (Call me a pack rat.)
The disks were labeled "Macintosh System Disk 5.0", and contained
version 4.2 of the System and version 6.0 of the Finder. (It
wasn't until version 6.0 of the OS that we got a unified
version numbering scheme with the Macintosh and Finder disks.)
Further, with the aformentioned system, MultiFinder was shipped
on a separate floppy and installed separately. (With System 6,
MultiFinder was shipped on the same floppy as everything else.)
> >What is particularly galling to me is that Apple did have a
> >solution way back in '87, called A/UX. It would run on an
> >Mac II, and while it was a Unix environment, it did allow
> >multiple Macintosh applications to run in the Unix environment
> >using most of the existing Macintosh API. (Think Carbon, but
> >12 years ago.)
> >
> >But Apple, in it's infinite wisdom, never migrated the OS
> >towards A/UX. Why?
> >
> >I suspect it's because Apple's higher level management
> >did *not* know that preemptive multitasking was the
> >way to go.
>
> I don't think you can blame Apple's management for this--blame the market
> instead. The product was out there, it seemed to be promoted vigorously
> (certainly we at the University kept being told all about it), and they
> kept updating it to track new MacOS versions and encouraging developers to
> support it. But I never saw the point of mixing MacOS and UNIX on one box,
> and I still don't see the point today. ...
At the time I was working for VII (later VIDI, now defunct).
And while Apple would constantly remind us in the promotional
materials about making sure we support A/UX, getting a copy
for testing purposes was like pulling teeth. The problem was
that outside of the university channel A/UX was almost
unknown and damned hard to get ahold of.
As to the point...
Well, that's the $64K question, isn't it?
See, the point is not to have Unix on the Macintosh--after
all, if you are going to use Unix, you may as well use Unix.
But the one part of A/UX which was interesting was it's
ability to run Macintosh applications in a memory-protected
multi-tasking environment. In theory, Apple could have
shipped what we now call Carbon way back in 1987 by
simply stripping out the Unix utilities from the A/UX
environment!
What's important is not Unix. What's important is the
ability to have some of the elements of the Unix OS
(including preemptive multitasking and protected memory)
underlying the Macintosh OS. The ability to execute a
"CLI"-style process (such as 'grep') would also be nice,
as it allows a developer to factor out computational
portions of his/her code into separate, testable modules.
But that's just a bonus.
> >What was interesting about the Thread Manager was not that it
> >provided multithreading services: nearly anyone can do that
> >through the creative use of setjmp/longjmp. What made the
> >Thread Manager interesting was that it's developer figured
> >out how to disable the Macintosh's stack sniffer.
>
> Nothing magical about this. There was a technote or something I read years
> ago that told you how to do this: just set the StkLowPt low-memory global
> to zero. That's all it took.
I didn't know that. Never came across that tech note, and
I remember pondering at the time how they did it.
- Bill Woody
The PandaWave
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