Linux-Misc Digest #410, Volume #26 Mon, 27 Nov 00 21:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Xircom RealPort CardBus RBEM56G ??? (I R A Darth Aggie)
Re: REQ: DreamWeaver like program for Linux (Matt O'Toole)
Re: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: For a Guru: Shutdown Problem (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Netscape 6 (Matt O'Toole)
openmail error -7 problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cross Plstform File Sharing (Robert Heller)
some one please tell me how does it work - half life (linux) ??? (vedanta barooah)
half life (linux) ??? some one please tell me how does it work - (vedanta barooah)
RealPlayer 7 can't open audio device (Brian Goodyear)
mp3 player with Linux support (Ralph Blach)
Re: Where can I get a pre-built POSE for Linux ? (Kelly Price)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I R A Darth Aggie)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Xircom RealPort CardBus RBEM56G ???
Date: 28 Nov 2000 00:06:09 GMT
Reply-To: no-courtesy-copies-please
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 16:41:25 -0600,
Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, in
<eCbTbMMWAHA.250@cpmsnbbsa09> wrote:
+ Can anyone tell me if Linux supports a Xircom RealPort CardBus Ethernet
+ 10/100 + Modem 56 (RBEM56G-100) PCMCIA card? I am mainly interested in
+ using it with Red Hat, and also Mandrake (both are the latest versions).
Yes. I haven't had the inclination to try the modem, but the card is
recognized, and the TCP/IP interface works like a charm.
+ If this card does work under Linux, can you help me with DETAILED
+ instructions on how to configure Linux to use/work with the card, please?
Mandrake should identify it and walk you thru the configuration. It
did that under Mandrake 7.0, and I certainly hope they didn't change
things...
James
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From: Matt O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: REQ: DreamWeaver like program for Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:10:49 GMT
Horses for courses! If you want to run Dreamweaver (the best WYSIWYG HTML
editor out there), quit wasting your time, set up a Windows or Mac machine,
and get to work!
I used to be a heavy Homesite user, and it was one of the few apps that
kept me chained to Windows. But now that Quanta+ is out, it's Linux all
the way for me, baby! Now, the only reason for me to boot to Windows is to
run Quickbooks and Act a couple of times a week.
BTW, Quanta is included with Mandrake 7.2, so you can get it from the
Mandrake mirrors.
Matt O.
Dirk Groeneveld wrote:
> Referring to the problem, what about QuantaPlus (dunno where, but it's
> listed in sourceforge) or Bluefish (dunno where either, it's part of
> suse). OK, they're more like Homesite, but still better than vi.
>
> Dr Aldo Medina wrote:
>
> > David Dorward wrote:
> >
> >> "Stephen J. Thompson" wrote:
> >>
> >>> Does anyone know of the above?
> >>
> >> You might be able to get Dreamweaver itself to run using WINE, I've had
> >> some success with Flash.
> >>
> >> Or you could use <http://www.webmiffinlite.com>
> >>
> >> --
> >> David Dorward
> >> http://www.dorward.co.uk/
> >
> >
> > The host doesn't exist
>
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix?
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:53:32 +0100
In comp.os.linux.setup Moe Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 07:43:13 GMT, "Peter T. Breuer"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>In comp.os.linux.setup Moe Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>: On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 08:52:53 +0800, Robert Masters
>>: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>: No matter how much time you spend, you can *never* be sure to have
>>: really found all changes and backdoors a hacker could have inserted.
>>
>>Oh yes _I_ can. I have an md5 list stored on another machine (as well
>>as 20 other binary identical machines to compare with). It's perfectly
>>possible. And I can count entries in /proc to see how many processes
>>are running, and boot off a new kernel with my choice of shell to
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>give myself a good view. COme to that, I have a copy of the / partition
>>at the other end of every disk ...
> You obviously have not looked into the latest kernel mods
> the friendly blackhat next door uses, yet.
Read my carets.
> Talk about a kernel patch that cloaks its presence (files will not
> show up, /proc will hide stuff), returns content of the previous,
> innocent file(s) on read()-requests (there your md5 goes...) and
> intercepts any attempt to overwrite the kernel binary used by lilo.
Nonsense. I can boot from a floppy whenever I like. The kernel
is not present to prevent me then!
The harddisk kernel images are also on windows fat32 partitions! NT
needs to boot from the first 2GB, and it's easier to keep them down
there. If you have managed to write a driver that writes to fat32,
congrats. I'd like to know how blackhat manages to even find out which
kernel image I boot from in order to nobble it! He'd have to read the
bootsector and decipher the physical offset, then go look. That's too
much trouble.
Further precautions are that root has a restricted shell (this won't
affect buffer overflow attacks, but the attacker has to get IN first).
Syslog logs to off-machine. All logs are analysed and any non-normal
entry is passed to me immediately. There are more traps, but I won't
tell you about them.
Also a pristine copy of the root partition (about 32MB) is maintained
at the other end of the disk, unmounted.
Come to that in some labs the machines use bootproms on the NICs!
> Now, recover from that one using your method.
Seems trivial as well as mundane. Not that I believe you for a second,
since any "blackhat" that would work hard enough and well enough to
achieve your fantasy would realise that all his hard work would be
defeated by the standard admin mantra, 1) boot from floppy with rescue
disk, 2) ...
> I would consider any hacked machine untrusted until it has been wiped
> once or better twice.
You are fantasizing, with delusions of grandeur to boot.
> Ofcourse you can detect modified files but as far as I know the most
> recent utilities implement almost everything at kernel level which is
> pretty hard to deal with.
Uh, fellah, the kernel is a file. It has an md5sum.
Even if you loaded a module into a running kernel that prevents writes
to sector zero of the disks, and does funny stuff in the FS layers (hey,
that's hard .. the module would have to search for symbols that weren't
exported when the kernel was built), it'd be irrelevant. That kernel
would not be booted.
By the way, do you know about the "secure kernel" techniques? Check
out the projects lists!
> So, once your machine has been compromised it usually takes less time
> to do a plain re-install than it would take to find and remove all the
Except that it has taken about 5 years to get the systems to this point
... some naivity is showing. No sysadm would be able to use an
out-of-the box system from a distro aimed principally at home users,
nor would one "re-install". Copy the image back from a mirror, perhaps.
Just two changes are required in that image in order to custimize it.
/etc/hostname and /etc/init.d/network, for hostname and IP address
respectively. Those changes aren't even necessary with dhcp, but
I like to believe the machines can survive without the net.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: For a Guru: Shutdown Problem
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:19:17 GMT
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:53:16 -0200, Leo Cambilargiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>For some reason /usr does not get unmounted because the "device is busy".
>
There probably is more than one explanation, but I fought this for about
six months, assuming it was a bug in something or other. I wound up with
a new drive for my troubles. It turned out to be subtle disk corruption,
that was screwing with some inodes. A WD drive BTW. I hope you get a
better answer.
--
Hal B
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From: Matt O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape 6
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:35:08 GMT
Steve wrote:
> * Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > : Frankly, I wouldn't call this latest version an improvement. It's so
> > : slow at loading. I thought 4.7x was slow. This is slower. I will opt
> > : for IE anytime.
> >
> > Are you sure you tried it? Out of curiousity I dowloaded mozilla build
> > M18 two days ago and the first thing I noticed was how _fast_ it loads
> > compared to netscape 4.75.
> >
> > 4.75 probably takes about 10s to come up on my P2450 with 128MB ram.
> > mozilla M18 is practically instantaneous.
> >
> > 4.75 does some kind of dns search after starting up that takes it a
> > minute (the problem appears to be a netscape bug that means it doesn't
> > know that hostnames without a domain part are "local", so it tries
> > to go to my squid cache for them, even though it shouldn't, etc. etc. ).
> > Mozilla seems to have no such problem.
> >
> > I may try one of the nightly builds.
> >
> > Peter
>
> Hi Peter, I try the nightly builds once a week. The one from this Friday
> seems quite stable, and you're right - it's fast at rendering and also in
> rendering cached pages.
Ditto that... while I've only tried nightly builds a few times with
varying degrees of success, the standard M18 is fine. It's better (more
stable) than Netscape 6, and probably faster than anything else for Linux.
I've had a few crashes, and haven't tried Java or Flash, but it's coming
along. I especially like the way it renders tables first and very quickly.
Though not as snappy as IE5.5/Windows, it probably will be when it's done,
at least for all practical purposes.
Netscape 6 is unusable for Windows and/or Linux. How they can officially
release this junk is beyond me.
I've been using Konquerer, and I really like it except I can't get Java or
Flash to work, and it seems to choke on certain tables (I haven't explored
exactly what). Other than that, I like the UI and the efficient use of
screen space. I really like the font size button, something IE does right
and Netscape/Mozilla completely lacks. I don't like the old-fashioned slow
rendering of tables, but I think a more contemporary computer would help
(currently a P150, 48MB)!
My biggest complaint with Mozilla is that they've merely carried over
Netscape's traditional screen design and UI, which sucks. They started out
on a new tack, but went back to the same old thing.
I could go on all day, but enough for now. I think I'll put up a KDE
impressions/review page one of these days.
Matt O.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: openmail error -7 problem
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:58:32 GMT
I have installed OpenMail 6.0 on RedHat 6.2.
I have sendmail (version 8.9.3) passing mail to the openmail deamon via
the /etc/aliases file.
unfortunatly i can't get it to work. I get the following error message:
buildaddr: unknown mailer openmail: Error -7
my aliases file is set up like this..
johns: smith_john/hgfitt
I have run /opt/openmail/omsendin and it confirms that the openmail
lines are included in the sendmail.cf file.
It seems this problem is common, but im struggling to find answers.
Can anyone give me a hand?
Thanks,
Martin McGregor
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cross Plstform File Sharing
Date: 27 Nov 2000 19:11:51 true
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Mon, 27 Nov 2000 04:30:10 -0000, wrote :
> Is there a way to have Windows 95/98/NT machines log into and use Linux as
> an email, File server, and Firewall Serers??
Yes, all of the above.
Check out:
portsentry, www.linuxrouter.org, samba, sendmail, imapd/popd
>
> If there is please let me know I am most interested in how to do this.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Daniel
>
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From: vedanta barooah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: some one please tell me how does it work - half life (linux) ???
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 01:30:09 -0000
hi,
i downloaded a 35.5 mb tarball of half-life full version from
download.com - i have only a 28k dial-up connection and you can
understand how long it took me :-( . but it does not seem to work ...( or
i am not able to figure out how to put it to work..) i will be greatly
thankfull if someone would show me how to do it. some good url would also
be usefull.
i am writing down the details :
list of files in the package:
./:
total 70064
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 190 Jun 7 02:42 Sierra.inf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 129636 Jul 18 05:19 cached.wad
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 24 10:17 cl_dlls
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1047952 Jul 18 05:19 decals.wad
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11116 Jun 7 02:42 delta.lst
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 24 11:40 dlls
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 506 Jun 7 02:42 game.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 266 Jun 9 22:36 liblist.gam
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 821 Jun 7 02:42 listenserver.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1520 Jul 18 05:26 mapcycle.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 240 Jul 18 05:27 motd.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4085336 Jul 18 05:19 op4ctf.wad
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1471 Jun 7 02:42 op4ctf_credits.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5308820 Jul 18 05:20 opfor.wad
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 61083716 Jul 20 05:27 pak0.pak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6296 Jun 7 02:35 pldecal.wad
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2306 Jul 18 05:21 readme1101.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 604 Jul 20 04:57 server.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11074 Jul 18 05:20 titles.txt
cl_dlls/:
total 392
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 401408 Jul 19 22:49 client.dll
dlls/:
total 3532
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3089566 Jul 19 22:58 opfor_i386.so
thanx in advance.
vedanta
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From: vedanta barooah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: half life (linux) ??? some one please tell me how does it work -
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 01:30:11 -0000
hi,
i downloaded a 35.5 mb tarball of half-life full version from
download.com - i have only a 28k dial-up connection and you can
understand how long it took me :-( . but it does not seem to work ...( or
i am not able to figure out how to put it to work..) i will be greatly
thankfull if someone would show me how to do it. some good url would also
be usefull.
i am writing down the details :
list of files in the package:
./:
total 70064
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 190 Jun 7 02:42 Sierra.inf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 129636 Jul 18 05:19 cached.wad
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 24 10:17 cl_dlls
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1047952 Jul 18 05:19 decals.wad
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11116 Jun 7 02:42 delta.lst
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 24 11:40 dlls
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 506 Jun 7 02:42 game.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 266 Jun 9 22:36 liblist.gam
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 821 Jun 7 02:42 listenserver.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1520 Jul 18 05:26 mapcycle.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 240 Jul 18 05:27 motd.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4085336 Jul 18 05:19 op4ctf.wad
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1471 Jun 7 02:42 op4ctf_credits.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5308820 Jul 18 05:20 opfor.wad
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 61083716 Jul 20 05:27 pak0.pak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6296 Jun 7 02:35 pldecal.wad
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2306 Jul 18 05:21 readme1101.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 604 Jul 20 04:57 server.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11074 Jul 18 05:20 titles.txt
cl_dlls/:
total 392
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 401408 Jul 19 22:49 client.dll
dlls/:
total 3532
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3089566 Jul 19 22:58 opfor_i386.so
thanx in advance.
vedanta
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Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 18:11:56 -0500
From: Brian Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RealPlayer 7 can't open audio device
When I try to load a rm it throws this error "can't open audio device".
My web search says to make sure the permissions for audio* and mixer*
are set so the users can access these devices. I believe I have done
this right.
Is there something else?
Brian
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From: Ralph Blach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: mp3 player with Linux support
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:49:54 -0500
Is there an MP3 player with decent linux support. Ie, I can the files
from linux to
the player easily
--
Ralph "Chip" Blach
KF4WBK
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kelly Price)
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Where can I get a pre-built POSE for Linux ?
Date: 28 Nov 2000 01:46:08 GMT
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