Linux-Misc Digest #310, Volume #25 Tue, 1 Aug 00 23:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Unexpected daily disk activity... (MH)
Re: Only root can run StarOffice 5.2 (Alex Borodin)
Linux City!!! ("Sam Tang")
Re: Netscape plugin for java? (E J)
Re: complaints (Robert Jones)
Re: Learn Unix on which Unix Flavour ? ("Tim Prince")
Re: Linux on Mac LC III possible? (Tony Mantler)
Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users. (Bill Unruh)
Trouble with HP DDS-2 tape drive on Red Hat Linux 6.0. (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
Re: fwd: SuSE Linux 7.0 released ("jeff")
Re: Dual NICs of same type? (L Slade)
Re: MP3's skip : How I solved it ("IvanWoehr")
Re: unable to determine tty (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Carnivore and Privacy: An Oxymoron? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (blowfish)
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unexpected daily disk activity...
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 18:12:04 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MH wrote:
>
> Every day, at 4:00 AM, I experience a lot of disk activity. I have
> configured a daily backup at 2:00 AM using crontab--but have not
> configured any other scheduled routines. I can find no scripts in
> /ect/cron.daily that would explain this activity. I'm running RH 6.0
> with kernel 2.2.16
>
> The following scripts exist (which I did not create) in /etc/cron.daily:
>
> logrotate.cron
> makewhatis.cron
> slocate.cron.
>
> None of those scripts indicate a time, nor do they seem to be anything
> that would generate several minutes of sustained disk activity.
>
> What is going on? And what are "makewhatis.cron" and "slocate.cron"
> doing?
>
> --
> "For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not
> true.
> In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the
> true;
> it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false."
>
> -- H. L. Mencken
Thanks, everyone! Great responses. I forgot about the "locate"
database. I always use "find", since I've experienced some difficulty
with locate in the past and have become comfortable with "find".
I'm still confused about where the script that's created when you #
crontab -e goes, or what it is named.
--
"For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not
true.
In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the
true;
it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false."
-- H. L. Mencken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Borodin)
Subject: Re: Only root can run StarOffice 5.2
Date: 2 Aug 2000 01:21:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8lrpg6$738$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Fung Wai Keung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I downloaded (from Sun Microsystem) and installed (w/ root
> access) StarOffice 5.2 on my Linux-Mandrake 7.1. However, only root can
> run staroffice. Any other users can't run staroffice. Staroffice always
> complains about "Can't find /apps/office52/user/sofficerc" when any user
> (other than root) run it. But /apps/office52/user/sofficerc indded
> exists! How to solve the problem so that any user can run staroffice?
>
You have not installed it as network version, only as user:
- uninstall it
- install it again with the option "-net"
- you may use a simple startscript for users
( put in: /usr/local/bin )
========snip===========
#!/bin/bash
#startskript für staroffice
if test -f $HOME/Office52/soffice || test -f $HOME/office52/soffice ; then
echo
echo "starting Staroffice ..."
if test -f $HOME/Office52/soffice ; then
OFFICEDIR=$HOME/Office52
elif test -f $HOME/office52/soffice ; then
OFFICEDIR=$HOME/office52
fi
export OFFICEDIR
exec $OFFICEDIR/soffice
echo
exit 0
else echo
echo "Please make a network installation only!"
echo
echo
echo "This will install your personal soffice folders"
echo "into your home directory!"
echo
echo "please accept /$HOME/office52 as "
echo "default folder"
echo
echo " After completion of installation start with soffice"
echo
# exec /opt/office52/program/setup
echo
echo "now start with soffice again!"
echo
fi
----snip------
--
=====================================================================
Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. (Horatz)
http://octopus.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de
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From: "Sam Tang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,alt.nl.comp.os.ms-windows,alt.nl.comp.os.ms-windows.nt,alt.nl.comp.os.netware,alt.uu.comp.os
Subject: Linux City!!!
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 08:52:51 +0800
Linux City!!!
http://compweb.uhome.net
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape plugin for java?
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 18:33:33 -0700
If you need a plugin to run Java 2 applets. Go to www.blackdown.org
Java(TM) Plug-in 1.2.2.px
File name: /opt/netscape/plugins/javaplugin.so
Blackdown Java-Linux Java(TM) Plug-in
Robert Heller wrote:
> X-Newsreader: TkNews 1.0
> Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Mark Sidarous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> In a message on Tue, 1 Aug 2000 08:18:24 -0500, wrote :
>
> MS> Is there a java plugin for Netscape allowing it to run applets?
>
> You don't need one. Java is built into Netscape (since V 3.x I believe).
>
> MS>
> MS> Mark Sidarous
> MS> --
> MS>
> MS>
> MS>
>
>
> --
> \/
> Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
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From: Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: complaints
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 20:38:12 -0500
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 20:29:37 -0500, Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >To each his own. I run a file from autoexec.bat that backs up my Windows
> >registry and some data files each time I boot Windows. As you can see, I
> >don't boot Windows very often any longer.
>
> Depends on your definition of "often", I guess. To a lot of us
> old-time Unix geeks, more than a few times a year is considered
> often. ;)
Old-timer, I ain't (unless you're talking birthdays :-(); geek, I'm certainly
not. Once I got x configured like I wanted it, I quit being a Windows *user*.
> I've got to admit you're doing a lot better than most of the
> Windows users I know. One company where I interviewed about a
> year ago rebooted all their NT fileservers every night because
> that's the only way the could keep them running.
"Where do you wish you could go today?"
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From: "Tim Prince" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.solaris.x86,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Learn Unix on which Unix Flavour ?
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:48:45 -0700
Reply-To: "Tim Prince" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
At the risk of getting blown off the planet, I'll mention that
cygwin/W2K is improving faster, much more attractively priced, and gives
more opportunities for GPL software and portability to invade the
Windows world.
--
Tim Prince
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8m731k$lfb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:XpBh5.3022$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > In article <8m5arc$t85$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > After they changed their name to Interix, I got a demo CD of
> > their Open NT (or whatever the name was of their Posix/Gnu/NT)
> > thing. I never got a chance to install it before it expired,
> > so I don't know how well it worked. It looked like an
> > impressive piece of work based on the literature.
>
> Most products do look impressive, in the literature.
>
>
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From: Tony Mantler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: Re: Linux on Mac LC III possible?
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 01:51:22 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Henry Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
: Tony Mantler wrote:
[...]
: > FPU emulation works just fine. Slow, but fine.
: >
: > If you have experienced a specific bug that's preventing FPUE for
: > working for you, please post to the Linux-Mac68k list with the details.
[...]
: What machine do you have a working linux without an FPU?
C610, with a b0rken LC040 no less. Userspace stuff tends to die when
executing an FPU instruction that lays within a cacheline of the end of
the page, but that's the CPU bug at work.
Other than that, it works just fine. It should work flawlessly on 030
systems, though painfully painfully slowly. (especially with e2fsck,
since it's heavy on both FPU and SCSI)
One of these days I'll wire up a workaround for the LC040 bug, since
iirc it affects A-Traps on earlier LC and full 040s too, and that ain't
good. However, that day is not today, and probably won't be for quite
some time.
Cheers - Tony :)
--
Tony Mantler Renaissance Nerd Extraordinaire [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada http://www.escape.ca/~eek
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users.
Date: 2 Aug 2000 02:00:03 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Andrew N. McGuire "
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]$$
]$$ Subject: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users.
]I generally refer to Mandrake as RH/Mandrake just to clarify much
]of the lineage of Mandrake. Much like many say Linux, and some
]say GNU/Linux to clarify the lineage of most of the tools for the
]OS. If this is a bit confusing, I apologize. Perhaps I should just
]say Mandrake.
No, you should have said "in file, version 3.30"
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Trouble with HP DDS-2 tape drive on Red Hat Linux 6.0.
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 21:59:45 -0400
I have a Hewlett Packard C1559A DDS-2 SCSI DAT drive on its own
SCSI adapter. It has worked just fine since I got this machine
in February or March. I run BRU 15.1 on it to do backups, but
that is probably not the problem. BRU writes files to disk,
pretty much as would find and cpio. It then plays the tape back
to be sure the checksum of every block is correct (and normally,
it is). I do a nearly full backup every morning a little after
1AM. Takes about 2 hours, but I do not care as I am asleep at
the time.
Today it wrote the backup, but complained on playing back that
the checksums failed after a certain point on the tape.
I ran a cleaner tape through the drive and tried again and BRU
complained that either the tape was write-protected, or running
at the wrong density. I ran mt status and it said it was not
write-protected and that it was running ad DDS-2 density. In the
BRU manual, it says it gives this message whenever the first
write to a tape gives an error, since it cannot always be sure
what the cause of the problem is, just that it could not write
the first record to tape.
I tried to read some tapes, and that works just fine. I then
tried just "cat littlefile >dev/st0" as root and it failed with
a write error. Since it will not do even a cat, I assume we can
ignore BRU as part of the problem.
I tried writing on 2 fresh tapes and they all failed the same
way.
I was fortunate enough to be able to reboot the machine and that
fixed the problem, but I do not feel I should have had to do
that. Is there a way to get the driver of the SCSI or the DDS-2
tape drive to restart that is not as drastic as rebooting the
machine? Is there a better way to handle this problem? Is this
even the right newsgroup to ask this?
--
Jean-David Beyer .~.
Shrewsbury, New Jersey /V\
Registered Linux User 85642. /( )\
Registered Machine 73926. ^^-^^
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From: "jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: fwd: SuSE Linux 7.0 released
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:02:17 -0700
"Jerry L Kreps" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> ...
> While SuSE 7.0 may not be worth an upgrade from 6.3 or 6.4, it still is a
good
> distro for those trying Linux or SuSE for the first time. Prior to 7.0,
SuSE
> distros came on 6 CDs plus a 480+ page printed manual. That combination
is now
> being packaged as the PRO version, while a 3 CD version is 'personal'
version.
> The PRO is about $80 and the Personal is about $30. The net effect of the
7.0
> release is to double the price of the 6 CD set and offer a cheaper
version.
<sigh> SuSE got me trhough those awkward newbie days, but Debian keeps
looking like a better and better long-term alternative. And Potato's due
any day now...
-jeff
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From: L Slade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Dual NICs of same type?
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 02:12:24 GMT
Thanks,
When I type ifconfig as you said I get no messages.
Both nics are working because I can ping them.
The TCP tab I was talking about was in
"Control Center"->"Network"->"TCP/IP"
This brings up 3 tabs:
"Identification", "IP_address", "DNS_Server"
This could be Corel Linux specific and still doesn't recognize my second
card.
Next step: sound card.
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 11:36:07 GMT, L Slade wrote:
> >I do have PNP OS set to NO in BIOS. One other thing-I have "IRQ3 used by
> >ISA" set up to YES since I disabled one of my com ports in BIOS and used
> >IRQ3 for an internal hardware modem. This worked for windows but I don't
> >know if it will work for Linux.
> >The problem is that one of the nics is getting set up with the same irq
> >as my video card-irq 11. The nic's support irq sharing but things are
> >not functioning right because in kde control center TCP tab I can only
> >set up one of the cards eth0-the other does not appear.
>
> Where is this "TCP tab" in the KDE Control Center? I'm using KDE 1.1.2,
> and there's nothing like that anywhere. Also, the video card does not
> require an IRQ--there should be an option somewhere in the BIOS to
> disable its getting an IRQ if you're worried about that. Windoze
> doesn't even complain if the video card doesn't get an IRQ.
>
> Can you do an "ifconfig eth1 192.168.111.12 up" and get something
> besides an error message? If so, your card is OK.
>
> >A second problem is probably debian specific. When I edit
> >/etc/modutils/aliases with:
> >alias eth0 3c59x
> >alias eth1 3c59x
> >then run 'update-modules' my conf.modules gets rebuilt like this:
> >alias eth0 3c59x
> >alias eth1 3c59xpath[boot]=/lib/modules
>
> Just edit /etc/conf.modules directly and don't bother with
> "update-modules".
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
> http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
> -----------------------------/ --Charles Peguy
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From: "IvanWoehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: MP3's skip : How I solved it
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 20:12:52 -0600
Gordon, just wanted to let you know that I get 24/MB per sec on my HD with a
very new system (intel 810e flexATX motherboard Celeron 500).
ACtually upgading to a newer motherboard would help you, not an older
system.:)
No Idea how to fix your kde thing though. It seems it has taken a while for
you to get going. Couldn't you now just backup what you have or copy it to
another partition and then reinstall? Back up things like /etc so you can
compare yor configuration etc.
That's what I would suggest -- seems the quickest way to get you back. Yah I
know, its the Micorosft way, but oh well, whatever works.:)
Gordon Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Stewart Honsberger wrote:
>
> > Most drives work well with these features,
> > but a few drive/controller combinations are not 100% com-
> > patible. Filesystem corruption may result. Backup every-
> > thing before experimenting!
>
> I guarantee it has nothing to do with the drive and controller (i.e.
> Ultra 33 and Ultra 66 work fine in Windows). It has everything to do
> with Linux being an average of 2-3 years behind Windows in terms of
> hardware support. It simply doesn't support DMA or UDMA transfers
> using a Promise Ultra 66 controller (apparently). It's only too bad
> that you have to tinker with it to find that out explicitly.
> Mandrake 7.1 added support for the Promise Ultra 66 controller, but
> I guess it was only PIO support, which defeats the entire purpose of
> having an Ultra66 controller. Of course that'll change, eventually.
> But for now, I'm stuck with 3MB/sec when I Should be getting more
> like 20. Heck, my new Maxtor drive (that Win98 is using) is rated
> at 43MB/sec! How fast does Linux access it? You guessed it.
> 3MB/sec!
>
> > As you can see, they told you explicitly that there is no guarantee,
> > and that you should backup your data before fiddling. What you were
>
> What does this have to do with getting my KDM login working again?
> I see a lot of "you should have backed up" responses, but nothing
> helpful in fixing my problem. Yes, you can rub that salt in all you
> want, but it accomplishes nothing for the problem at hand.
>
> > toying with, what seemed like a "good idea" was something that modified
> > how any and all data (right down to the binary level) was written to/
> > read from your hard drive(s). It's something that can be taken as a life
> > lesson, as it should be. You should know why DMA wasn't enabled in the
>
> Yes, and the lesson learned is that Linux sucks when it comes to
> modern HD support. You either put up with the lousy 3MB/sec
> transfers or you try to improve them by changing a parameter in
> hdparm. There is no other choice.
>
> > first place, know any caveats of your hardware, and know the
consequences
> > before you go playing with something you obviously don't understand.
>
> What don't I understand Master Yoda? I don't need to understand the
> source code of hdparm to *use* it. I read the man page. It wasn't
> all that helpful (like most man pages). I took the risk. I hate
> slow hard drive performance. Linux screwed my hard drive over a
> bit. End of story. I still have slow hard drive performance and
> always will until I decide to buy a machine that is completely Linux
> friendly (i.e. 3 year old hardware) or until Linux catches up (at
> which time I'll probably have even newer hardware).
>
> > For the record, BTW, Linux systems aren't the only ones that can fail
> > to activate DMA on 'capable' equipment and bomb miserably when it's
forced.
>
> The difference is that Windows enables it when it's supported. This
> is because the manufacturer includes drivers for Windows. Linux
> doesn't enable it half the time when it IS supported. So, you can't
> trust it. You end up trying hdparm anyways. The man pages for
> hdparm are hopelessly outdated (there's no *current* list of
> supported hard drive controllers in the man pages). Oddly enough, I
> can get 6MB/sec using hdparm with the -c3 option. Well, at least
> that's an improvement. But if I don't mess with "things I clearly
> don't understand" I'll never get 6MB/sec. I'll get 3.
>
> The funny thing is that Promise did write a driver for Linux. I
> guess it didn't include DMA support either.
>
> > I've done it to my share of Windoze systems in past, and they sure
didn't
> > like the results to the point where a format was in order.
>
> Oh, well you clearly didn't understand what you were doing, then, I
> guess. :P
>
> > >Not everyone has a backup solution for their hard drives.
> >
> > Not neccesarily for your hard drives, but for your important data. If
this
> > becomes a situation where you have to re-install, take this as a lesson.
> > Keep your user data and config files seperate. I've almost always had my
> > /home partition kept seperate from /, so that I could re-install without
> > losing it and so that I could more easily back up all my user data. I
have
> > a script running on a cron job every Sunday night around 5 AM that backs
> > my /home partition into a gzip2'ed tarball which I move to a ZIP drive.
>
> I already said I had previously backed up all my downloads and my
> home directory. There are configuration files scattered about the
> system though (i.e. to get Glide to work, to get other apps global
> configs to work, to set up global configs for window managers, etc.
> etc.)
>
> > >I have a CD-RW drive,
> >
> > Then you have 6.5 times more backup storage space than I have. You can
> > make backups of static data to CDR's, and backups of other data to
CDRW's.
>
> I wouldn't put static data on CDRs for the reason that most linux
> software isn't really static. Some software gets updated as often
> as once a day. That would waste CDrs. And before I can put backups
> on my CDRW drive, I have to get my CDRW drive working properly under
> Linux. I guess I'll have to play with CDRecord because the
> frontends for it suck. But that's the problem with Linux. You end
> up doing most things in the shell because there are no better/easier
> tools to do it with. Sure people can tout how POWERFUL the shell
> is. That may be true, but most of the time that's just offered to
> cover up the fact that most Linux software isn't user friendly.
> Where I can just copy files over to the CD-RW drive using explorer
> in Win98, I have to use CDRecord from the command line in Linux. I
> like having the CHOICE of using the shell. But I shouldn't *have*
> to use it to get something done. Linux has a way to go in this
> area. Even if I liked doing it that way, I guarantee most of the
> general public won't. And if you ever want mainstream software
> support for Linux, driver support, etc., then Linux has to be
> acceptable to the mainstream, like it or not.
>
> > Or, you could use an automated script to put everything into a tarball
> > in the middle of the night and back it up once a week.
>
> I don't leave my system running 24/7. Cron isn't much use when you
> aren't running Linux at regular intervals. I don't use that sort of
> thing in Windows either. Sorry, but I have no need to leave my
> computer running, especially when the Linux bootup is faster than
> Windows. If Linux is ever to be a successful home operating system,
> programs need to realize it's isn't always going to be running,
> especially on dual or triple boot systems. I boot into Windows a
> lot. Automated scripts are also one of those user unfriendly
> processes.
>
> > It took me all of 20 lines, comments included, to have my /home
directory
> > backed up and a reminder mailed to me each week. Every time you find
> > something else you need/want backed up, add a line or two.
>
> A graphical frontend could make this much simpler.
>
> > The Bash scripting language is extremely powerful. Learn it. Love it.
>
> Ah, now we get to the punch. Linux will never become mainstream
> with this kind of attitude. Sorry; it just won't. I shouldn't have
> to learn a scripting language to backup a few files. This is not to
> say *I* won't, but rather to say that the mainstream public
> definitely will NOT. When Linux learns this lesson once and for
> all, it might become mainstream.
>
> > >Telling me "I got what I deserved" is not constructive and is little
more
> > >than a "ha ha" spit in the face response, IMO.
> >
> > Then you're not looking at it in the right light. What you're looking
for
> > appears to be a response of "You took fate into your hands, screwed up,
> > but if you type xxx, everything will be back to normal". Sorry, but
you're
> > not going to get that. Instead, you got a lesson telling you not to play
>
> Is that because you don't have a clue how to fix it? Just say so.
> Stop telling me what I should have done. I can't timetravel back and
> tell myself, "Hey that's going to corrupt KDM. Don't do it!"
> That'd be nice, but the only way to find out whether or not the DMA
> flag would work in Linux was to try it or find someone else that has
> the same drive and controller and kernel and report to me whether it
> worked or not.
>
> > with things you don't understand.
>
> No, *YOU* are the one telling me that. I understand hdparm just
> fine. Use at your own risk. What else is there to understand Mr.
> Wizard? Truly, what I don't understand is what you're getting at.
> You're giving me a huge lecture about how ignorant I am, but that
> really only amounts to, "You should have backed up first." You're
> forgetting one thing. *I didn't lose any data!* I should have
> backed up my configuration files? I didn't lose them! I already
> did back up my downloads. The *ONLY* thing that's wrong is that KDM
> doesn't work. Now either you know how to fix that or you don't.
> Geeze. It's like talking to a brick wall.
>
> > Stop thinking of Linux as a toy might be a good start.
>
> Give me a break. I said I was using Linux as a learning tool to
> learn Linux. Is that making it a TOY? (shrug) I'm done wasting my
> time here.
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Subject: Re: unable to determine tty
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 02:15:55 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I am trying to telnet to a Redhat 6.1 box and
> get "unable to determine tty name".
>
> The local keyboard is not working which I assume
> is the same tty problem.
>
> Does anyone know how to get around this/fix this?
<snip>
This is kind of a guess (since I don't run a telnet server...)
but verify that your /etc/fstab has something like:
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Carnivore and Privacy: An Oxymoron?
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 02:12:16 GMT
Check out <a
href="http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/feature_story-63.html">thi
s</a>
Here is a quote from the article:
"When one really thinks about it, the main reason for computer security
is data privacy. People protect their systems so that unwanted people
can't see data they're not authorized to see. Well, what if there was no
way to protect your privacy because all incoming and outgoing data was
being viewed by a third party. This is the potential power that the FBI
wields."
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Before you buy.
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 19:25:49 -0700
John Hasler wrote:
>
> blowfish writes:
> > Red Hat, Debian et al are ALL selling the GNU-GPL stuff for money.
>
> Wrong. Debian sells nothing.
>
http://linuxmall.com/shop/01496?cat=ROOT&sort=2&vid=&search=debian&SID=90de0b724faa8352f505f5269a3dc28b&Start=
It shows a $17.95 price tag there. ;-)
> > I know exactly what free software are. But my reason of using "free
> > software" is not because they're free I always BUY the "official CDs/DVD
> > releases,
>
> Then you don't know what free software is. It's free as in free speech,
> not as in free beer.
No, I *NEVER* care about beer. Free or not free. :-)
But Free Speech is what I like, and treasure.
But I also want to support those who contribute to the good stuff. ;-)
Alex / blowfish.
> --
> John Hasler
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, Wisconsin
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