Linux-Misc Digest #147, Volume #26 Thu, 26 Oct 00 14:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Stampede Package Manager ("John E. Garrott Sr")
security patches for 6.1 vs. 6.2 (Kevin Porter)
Compaq Prosignia 150 & Linux & Strange behavior (Miguel Manso)
NTLM masquerading ("rara avis")
Re: (Urgent) Linux-on-PowerPC Assemblers (Joerg Bruehe)
Re: Out of room in /var partition, log file no longer loggin (Vlar Schreidlocke)
Re: Microsoft Linux? (Leonard Evens)
Re: FOR ALL VOTERS - PLS READ ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: FOR ALL VOTERS - PLS READ ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: TV Tuner/Video Capture cards that support Win2K or Linux? (Edward Lee)
Re: (Urgent) Linux-on-PowerPC Assemblers (Tim Haynes)
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From: "John E. Garrott Sr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stampede Package Manager
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 08:22:34 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Could anyone point me to a comprehensive SPM howto? I'm thinking of
> downloading and installing Stampede Linux, but i'm having trouble
> finding command-line options and descriptions of the Stampede Package
> Manager (i know the format is similar to .tgz). Even an outline on
> upgrading, removing and querying commands would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> rinkjustice
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
There used to be a document available at
http://www.stampede.org/ but they are
redoing their web site and it seems to
have gotten lost. You might contact them
for a copy.
Good luck,
John
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From: Kevin Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: security patches for 6.1 vs. 6.2
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 09:58:29 -0600
I'm looking through the security patches on
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/index.html and I see some problems that
affect 6.1 but instead of having a patch for 6.1 and 6.2, or just 6.x, there is
only a patch for 6.2. Should I be loading the 6.2 patch? Or will that break
something else?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miguel Manso)
Subject: Compaq Prosignia 150 & Linux & Strange behavior
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:55:12 GMT
Hi ppl.
I've bought a Compaq Prosignia 150 notebook a while ago and I've decided
to install Linux (Yeah baby, yeah! :) in it.
Everything went ok until I start to work with it.
I don't know why but the mouse have a strange behavior... we move the
finger over it and it performs some jumps while moving. This happens
sometimes and can take you to the suicide :)
It works ok on windows and I'd like to get some answer from anyone who
knows something about this.
Thanks in advance
Miguel.
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From: "rara avis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: NTLM masquerading
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:24:55 -0400
I'm sure this topic has been beaten to death, but screw it. I just want
a nice good answer for once.
My network config:
WinNT Linux
Server <---Internet---> Server <---Intranet---> Win98
I want to run MS Interdev on the Win98 computer and connect to the WinNT
Server. The linux server is masquerading the packets and such for the Win98
computer. Now there has to be some way to masquerade the NTLM authentication
process, so that I can work on projects on the NT server without
compromising security. (i.e. plaintext passwords). Please provide some
information on how I can go about this. I've also heard that using a VPN
over PPTP will work, but I've heard lots of conflicting information...Please
advise!
Thanks,
rara avis
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From: Joerg Bruehe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.development.system,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc,no.it.os.unix.linux.diverse,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: (Urgent) Linux-on-PowerPC Assemblers
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:58:23 +0200
Hi to all readers of newsgroups !
Stack Offset wrote:
>
> Please respond to this by e-mail *only* : I do not ordinarily browse internet
> newsgroups.
>
> I'm seeking SPECIFIC [...]
So we have some anonymous guy who wants to get information
from those who read the groups,
presented to him on a silver platter ?
This is not the style I appreciate ...
Regards,
Joerg Bruehe
--
Joerg Bruehe, SQL Datenbanksysteme GmbH, Berlin, Germany
(speaking only for himself)
mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Out of room in /var partition, log file no longer loggin
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:33:58 GMT
I had iplog running and it was creating LOTS of log entries. I didn't
see anything it created that I couldn't live without so I killed
iplog. This should keep the logs from filling up so quickly. I think
the message logs were filling up so fast that they may have choked
logrotate by filling up the /var partition.
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:59:47 -0400, Jean-David Beyer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Vlar Schreidlocke wrote:
>
>> My machine is on 24/7. Could logrotate have stopped working?
>
>It could have, but I very much doubt it.
>
>> Or is
>> there something else that could have filled up /var?
>
>Why not look in /var and see? As root, do du /var and look at the
>results.
>
>> Can I just delete messages and it will be recreated?
>
>That will probably not work. The reference to messages will disappear,
>but the file will still be there until the klogd or syslogd (I forget
>which one) close it. Better to let logrotate do it. If you run 24/7,
>look for /var/log/messages.[1-4] and their dates. The messages.1 should
>be no more than a week old. Otherwise, that is what is not working.
>
>Here is part of df output for my machine: /dev/sda7
>489833 23853 440680 5% /var
>so maybe, if you use your machine as I do, about 30,000 blocks are
>needed for /var. I give it a lot more, but I have a lot of disk space
>available for that. Most of it is used in /var/lib, especially
>/var/lib/rpm. YMMV.
>
>> On 25 Oct 2000 00:01:10 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mpulliam) wrotd:
>>
>> >On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:54:24 -0400,
>> >Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>Vlar Schreidlocke wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> My /var partition is apparently
>> >full and I don't have any new log
>> >>> entries in /var/log/messages
>> >since the partition filled up.
>> >>
>> >>Do you leave your machine up 24/7?
>> >If so, most distributions (Red Hat,
>> >>for sure) automatically keep
>> >/var/log cleaned up by running a daemon
>> >>process (logrotate) every night at around 4AM.
>> >
>> >Note: this happens by default
>> >around 4 am GMT (if you have your
>> >system set to GMT). Translate that to your local time to
>> >find out what time the daemon runs on your machine.
>> >You may simply be able to leave the computer running
>> >for a few hours one or two days a week, not 24/7,
>> >with no editing to logrotate at all.
>> >
>> >Mine runs at 11 pm local time and it's easy to
>> >have the system turned on at that hour, but shut
>> >it down afterward so I do not waste power running
>> >it all night while I am sleeping.
>> >
>> >In the interest of keeping it simple,
>> >MP
>> >
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Linux?
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:44:58 -0500
John Hasler wrote:
>
> Leonard Evens writes:
> > If Linux is a system used by a small community of hobbyists and
> > experimenters and can't get any serious work done because it can't
> > communicate with the rest of the computer world, it won't go anywhere.
>
> Since none of that is true, however...
> --
> John Hasler
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, Wisconsin
It is not now true in the large, but there are some limitations on
what we can do. I've encountered several web sites where I had problems
because netscape couldn't deal with the version of javascript those
sites were using. I don't know the source of that problem, but
I suspect it has to do with the sites adopting Microsoft "improvements"
to javascript.
What I was trying to emphasize is that Linux cannot go it alone in
a world with "elephants" like Microsoft tramping the greenery.
Microsofts strategy has always been to destroy competitors by
methods which don't rely on technical superiority. One such
method is to embrace an open standard and then "improve" it so
that the "improvements" only work with Microsoft products.
Also, now that Microsoft has discovered that it can get it way
by paying off politicians who support it, its capacity to dominate
the marketplace will have no bounds.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FOR ALL VOTERS - PLS READ
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.admin
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:30:42 +0100
Block Iron & Supply Co - CIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
>> Didn't they offer the GUI first?
> Macs 1984, Lisa 1983? I believe Apple stole from Xenix.
Apple were shown around Xerox. The company were terrified by the idea of a
paperless office (as most of their business came from copiers, and where not
going to do anything with the research they'd accumulated.
Apple took the ideas they saw at Xerox and made a mainstream GUI usable by
the general public.
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| Computer Science | -The BOOK, Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy.|
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FOR ALL VOTERS - PLS READ
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.admin
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:23:02 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] did eloquently scribble:
> Might I suggest that you talk to a typical user: They think Windows is
> great.
Only because their only point of reference is previous microsoft products.
ANYONE who's used ANY other operating system sees windows for what it is.
> These are the very same people who snap up upgrades as soon as
> released. Don't ask your fellow Linuxer what he thinks about Microsoft,
> that is a known.
Not just Linuxers, but OS2ers, QLers, Archimedes-ers, etc.
> Remember: Apple has been around about 24 year and offers a non
> Microsoft/Intel alternative. Didn't they offer the GUI first?
One which M$ copied badly, yes.
--
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|Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't |
| in | suck is probably the day they start making |
| Computer science | vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge |
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: rec.video.desktop,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: TV Tuner/Video Capture cards that support Win2K or Linux?
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:13:01 -0800
Nicholas Yue wrote:
> Igor wrote:
> >
> > If you know of any decent TV/Video Capture card that supports EITHER
> > Win2k or Linux, please let me know. (I expect that most people would not
> > know a card that supports both just because they do not deal with the
> > two operating systems. So please let me know the cards that support
> > one of them).
>
> You might also want to have a look at FlyVideo'98.
>
> http://www.lifeview.com
>
> They have W2K support and also URL links to Linux.
>
I did not find anyting on Linux. Can you post the url? Thanks.
> The application software that comes with it is quite buggy (overlay
> display problem). The drivers works fine.
>
> I use AVI_IO (http://www.nct.ch/multimedia/avi_io/) instead.
>
> The card uses the Conexant (formerly BrookTree) chip BT878
> (http://www.lifeview.com/DOWNLOAD/Main.htm)
>
> Cheers
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From: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.development.system,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc,no.it.os.unix.linux.diverse,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: (Urgent) Linux-on-PowerPC Assemblers
Date: 26 Oct 2000 18:10:24 +0100
Reply-To: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Joerg Bruehe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi to all readers of newsgroups !
Good point. Let's stop spamming all these groups with responses to such
crap. And while I'm at it, if you assert a Followup-To: header, have the
decency to announce it in the article.
~Tim
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Talking in defence | http://piglet.is.dreaming.org
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