Linux-Misc Digest #421, Volume #26 Wed, 29 Nov 00 06:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: how to find out linux version ("David ..")
Re: Where can I get a pre-built POSE for Linux ? ("Arthur Hagen")
COREL LINUX SECOND EDITION (Daniel Bechard)
Re: Newbie: difference between... (Reiner Griess)
Re: simple alias question (Sebastian Hans)
netscape 4.xx (Guy-Armand Kamendje)
"cannot route to sender..." Why?? (GYULAI Mihaly)
Multi_key ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
loggin everything ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can't mount or dd nonstandard floppy (Villy Kruse)
Re: Migrate a running process from machine A to machine B (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: I don't understand my password encoding (Villy Kruse)
Re: Kernel parameters (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: Console fonts have changed to being unreadable :) ("Chris West")
Re: Ok, putting money where my mouth is... (Ketil Z Malde)
Re: Cdrecord. ("Federico Baraldi")
Re: disable right mouse button in X ? (Joerg)
Re: via82cxx (Kevin Hayes)
Packer for Linux and Windows ("David Feller")
Re: How Removing an installed application? (James Blanford)
Re: apache and cgi (Buckaroo Bonzai)
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to find out linux version
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:04:01 -0600
Mohit Aron wrote:
>
> Hi,
> how do I find out what version of Linux I'm running - 'uname -a'
> command only gives the version of the Linux kernel. How do I find out the
> version of RedHat that I have ?
>
> - Mohit
cat /etc/redhat-release
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From: "Arthur Hagen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 05:11:29 GMT
"Peter da Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8vtn36$qfg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Children, children, stop fighting!
>
> Look, the bloke made a mistake, but geeze, why are you all jumping on him
> like a bunch of wannabe Alpha Geeks.
Is that better or worse than a MIPS Geek?
Regards,
--
*Art
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From: Daniel Bechard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: COREL LINUX SECOND EDITION
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:20:21 -0500
I'm new with linux and I need a little help
I install COREL LINUX SECOND EDITION on a partition that I create
during installation, the installation was successfull but when I
reboot I don't have any lilo it going straight to win98
Thank you
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Reiner Griess)
Subject: Re: Newbie: difference between...
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:48:09 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 28 Nov 2000 14:32:43 GMT,
Andrew Purugganan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Reiner Griess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>[ can anybody eplain, what's the differenc between /usr/sbin and
>[ /usr/local/sbin. OK, I see there is a difference, but what should I put into
>[ /usr/local...? /sbin has an historically background, I know. But
>[ /usr/local/sbin?
>
>a lot of RPMs or software packages that you will be downloading may be
>set up in such a way as to put the executables or commands there
>
>You may choose to put your own homegrown stuff in there as well. Helps
>distinguish between software that came 'out-of-the-box' with your distro
>vs. stuff you've d/loaded & installed yourself. Later when you upgrade
>this can either be trashed or saved
>
thanks a lot! has helped.
reiner
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From: Sebastian Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: simple alias question
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:13:42 +0100
Mark Post wrote:
>
> >There is no way for a bash alias to accept command line parameters.
>
> If I'm understanding what you're saying, then I have to disagree with this
> statement. I have a SuSE Linux/390 system at work that has various aliases
> for the 'ls' command. One of them is 'll = ls -l'. I can still do 'll -tr'
> which is the equivalent of 'ls -ltr'. Are these the kind of command line
> parameters you say won't work? Or were you referring to something else?
I forgot to say, this depends on where you want to put the command line
parameters. You can do your "ll -tr" because this expands to
"ls -l -tr". What you cannot do is create an alias like
"grepmytexts = grep /very/complex/path" and expect a "grepmytexts foo"
to grep for foo in your files. I't will expand to
"grep /very/complex/path foo" and, of course, that's not what you
intended. That's when you need functions. You'd do this like this:
function grepmytexts {
grep "$1" /very/complex/path
}
HTH.
seb
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From: Guy-Armand Kamendje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: netscape 4.xx
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:43:28 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have the folowing problem. Netscape 4.61 (libc5) used to work pretty
well on my system (Redhat 6.2) but for some reasons that I don't realy
know, my system started to crash regularly when I tried to access
certain URLs. I then decided to install Netscape 4.62 But this new
version couldn't even start and just crashed with the error message "bus
error" I then tried to install Nestscape 4.76. I was able to start it.
But now I have the problem that when composing a mail message, the
address completion does not work, and when I try to get the address from
the address book, Netscape will crash.
Is there a way to solve this problem?
Thanks
--
G.A. Kamendje || Tel +43 316 873 55 51
T-U Graz || www.sbox.tu-graz.ac.at/home/g/gaillard/
I.A.I.K ||www.iaik.at/people/gkamendje/gkamendje.html
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From: GYULAI Mihaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "cannot route to sender..." Why??
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:31:14 GMT
After I changed my ISP, I can't send messages with SMTP!
I use 'sendmail' and previously it worked.
(Of course I changed the appropriate ISP-specific data in sendmail.cf .)
Now I receive the following messages:
"cannot route to sender my_login_name@my_machine_name"
I don't know what it means... :(
Can anyone help?
--
GYULAI Mihaly
http://gyulai.freeyellow.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Multi_key
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:09:40 GMT
Hi,
My keyboard (104 keys) has a "menu key" between Right_Control and
Right_WindowsKey. I want to set up my X server so that this "menu key"
would serve as the Multi_key. I can do it for each session with
xmodmap -e "keysym 0xff67 = Multi_key"
Unfortunately, I have to do it every time I boot up / log in.
How can I make this selection permanent?
Please enlighten me!
Thanks.
Wroot
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: loggin everything
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:12:46 GMT
Hi,
Is there any way to log all (failed and successful) attempts to
connect to my linux box (all ports)?
Thanks in advance!
Wroot
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Can't mount or dd nonstandard floppy
Date: 29 Nov 2000 08:43:59 GMT
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:41:44 GMT,
Martin Gregorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>- number of sides used
>- number of tracks per side (40 or 80)
>- single or double density recording (some OSs used single density for
>track zero and single or double density for the rest depending on the
>drive)
In the past it was not uncommon to have the first track low density
and the rest high density. The idea was that the software could
read the first track with standard density and if some disk lable
says the rest is high density switch to high density for the rest of
the disk unit. MS-DOS and family never did that, but old unix system
often had floppy drivers that could handle these disks.
Villy
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Migrate a running process from machine A to machine B
Date: 29 Nov 2000 09:49:39 +0100
Snoopy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello
> Is it possible to do that?
> This idea is quite simple, we just want to migrate ( hope that
> this is the correct wording) a running process on Linux machine A to
> another Linux machine B.
www.mosix.org
It's a kernel patch enabling exactly what you say. No changes in user
programs required.
--
Stefano
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: I don't understand my password encoding
Date: 29 Nov 2000 08:53:02 GMT
On 29 Nov 2000 02:41:09 GMT, Bill Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>The only place I have seen it is as a module to pam. I have not seen it
>as a standalone subroutine, like you can for crypt(3).
The crypt that comes with glibc2 understands the MD5 style passwords, if
you give it the right salt. The salt is $1$saltvalue$hashed-stuff.
That is, if the salt value starts with $!$ crypt will take the following
bytes until the next $ sign as the salt value and build a crypted password.
Even perl crypt understands this.
$ perl -e ' print crypt q[abc], q[$1$abcdef$];'
$1$abcdef$z8EcRQBF8zSoLrwd4V2Dc1
Villy
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat,linux.sources.kernel
Subject: Re: Kernel parameters
Date: 29 Nov 2000 09:53:38 +0100
"Nils Magnus Eide Englund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to make the boot-up process look as nice
> and "userfriendly" as possible. I'm wondering how I
> can make the kernel send all it's output to /dev/tty12.
You mean that users are disturbed by seeing the messages?
Why should users see the boot messages at all, do they boot the
machine?
If you want to just see the messsages, man dmesg
> I was told I could use the "console" kernel parameter
> when booting and configuring syslogd for sending all
> kernel messages to the same tty, after the system has
> booted.
You can set where the kern.* messages go in syslog.conf, see man
syslogd. No kernel parameters needed.
--
Stefano
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From: "Chris West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Console fonts have changed to being unreadable :)
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:25:03 -0000
tput rmacs
"Tim Banner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
message news:DV8T5.6174$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I did a "cat" on a database file, and for some reason my console fonts
have
> changed to a symbol set. Perhaps now my Linux server is secure from
> internal persons playing with it ;)
>
> Can anybody tell me how to change the fonts back? Or how to reset the
> console without downing the server? I have a few other consoles which are
> still readable if required.
>
> TIA
>
> Tim Banner - admin.bridgec*NOSPAM*@virginnet.co.uk
> Network Administrator - Bridge College
> Please remove the *NOSPAM* from the e-mail address above if you wish to
> reply via e-mail.
>
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Ok, putting money where my mouth is...
From: Ketil Z Malde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:26:05 GMT
"Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I think have a problem with you attitude. Somebody thinks a bunch of
Linux artwork sucks, and offers to improve it. So why do you have to
flame him?
> Does the contents of the splash-screen file effect the system in ANY
> way?
> A) yes
> B) NO!
As you succinctly point out, splash screens (and icon design,
backdrops, etc etc) have little bearing on the technical qualities of
a system, they are only aestethic.
Personally, I really like aesthetics, as long as they don't get in my
way. I don't see why I should have a sucky splash screen if I could
have a nice one. I secretly enjoy my co-worker's envious grunts when
they compare my slick Linux desktop with their crummy windows one.
If you don't want blur's icons or splash screens, fine! But please
quit whining and ranting against people who want to do volunteer work
and contribute it to the community.
-kzm
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From: "Federico Baraldi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,de.comp.periph.cdrom
Subject: Re: Cdrecord.
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:00:41 +0100
"Paul Lew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Did you specify the device (e.g. /dev/scd1) when doing mkisofs?
Well ... actually I tried to burn cd with this command:
cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -isosize /dev/scd1
where /dev/scd1 is my DVD player. So I bypass mkisofs command.
> If you had used cdrecord 1.9, then I found that version required it when I
first
> used it (at least with my system).
Do you think I shold try making a cd iso-image and then triying to burn
from the iso-image and not diretcly from my cd-player ??
Bye.
Federico.
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From: Joerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: disable right mouse button in X ?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:24:00 +0100
Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
> Cannot you achieve what you need by setting the ownership, group
> ownership, etc., on the various directories, placing the users in the
> correct groups, etc.?
>
> When they login, the shell they get is the one application you want
> them to have and no other. That application should be set up to have
> no shell escape.
>
> You could even have that application run in a private directory and do
> a chroot(2) to keep them in that private restricted directory.
>
Yes, I have already set the appropriate Rights so that the users cannot
screw up the system by executing commands from i.e. /sbin. What I want to
achieve with disabling the right mouse button is that the users cannot mess
around with the Gnome Desktop by adding things to the Panel...
I have to investigate wether it is possible to set the gnome-config-Files
read-only, so that no mods are possible.
The Application the Users are restricted to is Netscape Navigator. I already
experimented with setting it as the default shell in /etc/passwd, but
failed. Is it possible at all ?
Regards, Joerg
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Subject: Re: via82cxx
From: Kevin Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 29 Nov 2000 19:55:28 +1000
Doug Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> --------------F472B2CDFC24594A1F75A753
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>
> I have the via82cxx module loaded and can run applications such as
> xmms. Only problem is that no sound
> comes out.
>
> In /etc/conf.modules I have
>
> alias eth0 3c59x
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx
> options sb support=1
>
> and in /proc/modules
>
> lockd 30344 1 (autoclean)
> sunrpc 52132 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
> 3c59x 18980 1 (autoclean)
> via82cxxx 2708 0
> sb 33332 0 [via82cxxx]
> uart401 6224 0 [via82cxxx sb]
> sound 56792 0 [via82cxxx sb uart401]
> soundlow 420 0 [sound]
> soundcore 2628 7 [sb sound]
> raid1 7940 2
>
> Any ideas about what's going on?
>
> --
> Doug Angus
> Department of Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering
> Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
> --------------F472B2CDFC24594A1F75A753
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
> <html>
>
> <br>I have the via82cxx module loaded and can run applications such as
> xmms. Only problem is that no sound
> <br>comes out.
> <p>In /etc/conf.modules I have
> <p>alias eth0 3c59x
> <br>alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> <br>alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx
> <br>options sb support=1
> <p>and in /proc/modules
> <p>lockd
>
> 30344 1 (autoclean)
> <br>sunrpc
>
> 52132 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
> <br>3c59x
>
> 18980 1 (autoclean)
> <br>via82cxxx
>
> 2708 0
> <br>sb
>
> 33332 0 [via82cxxx]
> <br>uart401
>
> 6224 0 [via82cxxx sb]
> <br>sound
>
> 56792 0 [via82cxxx sb uart401]
> <br>soundlow
>
> 420 0 [sound]
> <br>soundcore
>
> 2628 7 [sb sound]
> <br>raid1
>
> 7940 2
> <p>Any ideas about what's going on?
> <pre>--
> Doug Angus
> Department of Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering
> Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]</pre>
> </html>
>
> --------------F472B2CDFC24594A1F75A753--
>
Have you made the devices such as /dev/audio etc needed to use the card...
--
Kevin Hayes
Freshwater, Australia
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From: "David Feller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Packer for Linux and Windows
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:45:29 +0100
Hi,
Does anyone know a good packer that works under Linux and Windows and can be
controlled from the command-line?
Thanks,
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Blanford)
Subject: Re: How Removing an installed application?
Date: 29 Nov 2000 10:25:11 GMT
In article <900vjl$7fi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi,
>
> suppose I had installed an application called something.tar.gz.
> For installing it I created for it a directory:
> /usr/local/src/somthing/
> How I can remove proprely all traces of this application on my system?
>
Go back to /usr/local/src/something/ (if that's where you compiled
something) as root enter:
make uninstall
That will work if the program author made rules for uninstalling.
Some software authors don't bother. In that case look in Makefile,
there will be rules for install that tell where the files were
installed. Sometimes it is hard to sort out the directory names
as they are combinations of environment variables like:
$BIN_DIR=/usr/local/bin.
There may also be dot files in the home directory of the user. You
can delete these as well.
Good Luck,
- jim
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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 05:09:20 +0000
From: Buckaroo Bonzai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: apache and cgi
Chmod the script to be setgid. I believe it something like chmod
2664 <file> or something like that. The first digit "2" will set the
group bit, and just change the remaining three as if the "2" wasn't
there.
Regent Linus wrote:
> How could I force cgi running as a user that own the cgi?
> Thanks
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