Re: LPI or RHCE?

[nate]

Patrick Law said:
> If I want to go for Linux certification, should I go for LPI or RHCE? Any
> comment for these two exams? Which one is more popular if I using it to
> apply job.

not completely related, but as a linux "expert" whos been lookin
for a new job since late august, I can say that of the 60 or so jobs
I've applied for and of the probably 200-300 that I've seen, not
a single one has mentioned linux certification of any kind. I've applied
to a lot that request linux experience, or unix experience, but none
have asked for certs. Now that I think about it I can't remember seeing
any requests for solaris certs or any other kind of unix system certs.
The only certs I see mentioned on job descriptions are networking certs
(mostly CCNA, CCNP etc). A few of my former co workers got certified
in solaris and they too have not found any jobs.

Maybe your area is different, but if your a linux newbie, I would focus
on what "cert" gives better training, rather then the cert itself. One
of my friends emailed me about a year ago asking about certs, posted
a couple(RHCE included I think), and from my quick overviews I didn't
see anything truely great about what was tested/taught, though I'm sure
it's better then nothing.

nate
(linux user since 1996, experienced with solaris, hpux, irix, tru64,
aix, freebsd, openbsd, Debian, Redhat, slackware, Suse)





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LPI or RHCE?

[Patrick Law]

Hi,

 

I don't have a lot experience in Linux, but I got some experience in Windows 2000 networks. If I want to go for Linux certification, should I go for LPI or RHCE? Any comment for these exams? Which one is more popular?

 

Patrick

Re: mounting CDrom

[Michael A. Peters]

try

mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

If there is no slave to ide0 then it _might_ be /dev/hdc (I'm not
certain).

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 22:49, zahidul islam wrote:
> I am a new user of LINUX and I am having a problem with mounting my
> CDROM in redhat 7.2. the cdrom is connected as slave with ide1, that
> most probly refers to hdd=cdrom, right. Now after I tried to mount it
> in the first place it was saying this is not a valid block device.
> then I thied the following commands
> 
> re /dev/cdrom and then
> 
> ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom
> 
> after that i tried to mount it again and now it is saying
> 
> mount: Special device /dev/cdrom does not exist.
> 
> How can I use my cdrom ? (My cdrom is creative 52x, internal, IDE, and
> connected as secondary slave.)
> 
> Please HELP
> 
> ZAFUR
> 
> 
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LPI or RHCE?

[Patrick Law]

If I want to go for Linux certification, should I go for LPI or RHCE? Any comment for these two exams? Which one is more popular if I using it to apply job.

 

Patrick

Re: mounting CDrom

[marc dobler]

hi Zafur, 

why don't you just write as root in /etc/fstab :
/dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

and then, you need to mount the cd-rom in command line : 
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom



Marc



Le jeu 12/12/2002 à 15:49, zahidul islam a écrit :
> I am a new user of LINUX and I am having a problem with mounting my
> CDROM in redhat 7.2. the cdrom is connected as slave with ide1, that
> most probly refers to hdd=cdrom, right. Now after I tried to mount it
> in the first place it was saying this is not a valid block device.
> then I thied the following commands
> 
> re /dev/cdrom and then
> 
> ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom
> 
> after that i tried to mount it again and now it is saying
> 
> mount: Special device /dev/cdrom does not exist.
> 
> How can I use my cdrom ? (My cdrom is creative 52x, internal, IDE, and
> connected as secondary slave.)
> 
> Please HELP
> 
> ZAFUR
> 
> 
> 
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Re: mounting CDrom

[pilip]

Try doing a hardlink, dont use the '-s' option.

rm -f /dev/cdrom
ln /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom

zahidul islam wrote:

I am a new user of LINUX and I am having a problem with mounting my 
CDROM in redhat 7.2. the cdrom is connected as slave with ide1, that 
most probly refers to hdd=cdrom, right. Now after I tried to mount it in 
the first place it was saying this is not a valid block device. then I 
thied the following commands

re /dev/cdrom and then

ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom

after that i tried to mount it again and now it is saying

mount: Special device /dev/cdrom does not exist.

How can I use my cdrom ? (My cdrom is creative 52x, internal, IDE, and 
connected as secondary slave.)

Please HELP

ZAFUR



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mounting CDrom

[zahidul islam]

I am a new user of LINUX and I am having a problem with mounting my CDROM in redhat 7.2. the cdrom is connected as slave with ide1, that most probly refers to hdd=cdrom, right. Now after I tried to mount it in the first place it was saying this is not a valid block device. then I thied the following commands
re /dev/cdrom and then
ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom
after that i tried to mount it again and now it is saying
mount: Special device /dev/cdrom does not exist.
How can I use my cdrom ? (My cdrom is creative 52x, internal, IDE, and connected as secondary slave.)
Please HELP
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RE: changing user passwords on ldap

[Patrick Nelson]

Gordon Messmer wrote:
-
Are you entering the user's password?
-

Yes.  I'm testing out ldap that I have running on a server that I built
using real users.  The migrate scripts populated the userPassword field and
I want to set all these to a default value while I test.  I have to admit I
really feel like I don't get this.  Tried ldappasswd but get all kinds of
errors so I'm not sure what is going on.  The man page for ldappasswd does
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Possible conflict between multiple kernels and Nvidia driverinstallation

[Alex RENE]

Hi there... again...

I have been trying to install the updated drivers for my nvidia graphics
card, and it seems there might be a conflict during the install... To
summarize what I did:

I run RH8 on a pentium III => kernel-2.4.18-18.8.0 i686

Went to Nvidia website, downloaded an ran NVchooser app, to determine
what GLX rpm and kernel rpm to download => it told me to install 

NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.i386.rpmNVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.src.rpm

Which I atempted to... It seemed to have troubles with multiples RH /
linux kernel present on my machine, which where not deleted after an
up2date or that where additional:

Here is what kernels I had in the boot loader when I first attempted to
install the drivers:

kernel-2.4.18-14 I think => i386
kernel-2.4.18-18.8.0 => i686
kernel-2.4.18-18.8.0debug => i686

When I suspected the conflict was due to Xple kernels, I then removed
the kernel-2.4.18-14/i386. Then I tried to remove the
kernel-2.4.18-18.8.0debug / i686 with [rpm --erase kernel] which
returned that there was no kernel-2.4.18-18.8.0debug installed...

I just ran [rpm -q kernel] and got the same result, only
kernel-2.4.18-18.8.0 => i686 is installed according to RH8... HOWEVER, I
still have the choice between kernel-2.4.18-18.8.0 and
kernel-2.4.18-18.8.0debug in the boot loader...

I am at a loss here, because I am not sure who/which is wrong: the boot
loader or the rpm database...

Also, could it be simply that the nvidia drivers dont support i686 for
the time beeing? I thought recompiling from the source should avoid this
pb...

HE PLEEZE

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Mozilla / netscape 7 conflict. was Re:Re:Total nOOb question

[Alex RENE]

Thanks for the tip! Now, beeing a total nOOb, I got to figure out how to
find the source tree for a given app...

I am actually asking this because I would like to uninstall m,ozilla as
a browser and keep Netscape 7... I know Ntscp is more "commercial" but I
have my reasons to want to keep it... However, I understand that quite a
few other apps run on the mozilla engine and I am a bit worried about
uninstalling Moz, even if Ntscp also includes the Moz engine... 

Any insight anyone???


> Well, most packages allow you to run a make uninstall. This needs to
> be
> run as root. Try going to the source tree of the app and running that.
> 
> Hope this helps!!
> 
> On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 09:27, Alex RENE wrote:
> > Hi all... I know, it's REALLY a nOOb type of question but... How do
> you
> > uninstall stuff you did not install by RPMs like from tar.gz and the
> > likes ... I have WAY too many browsers installed on my machine, and
> I d
> > like to get rid of a few other things too...
> > 
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RE: Only static IPs works, DHCP hangs .....

[Cameron . Davidson]

silly question time, but what are you using?
Is it dhcpcd (and not dhcpd?)
How are you configuring it?

Cameron.

> -Original Message-
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> Subject: Only static IPs works, DHCP hangs .
> 
> 
> I am trying to use DHCP because my ISP requires it. I thought 
> setting up 
> DHCP was easy! Whenever I change the eth1 card to use DHCP, 
> then it fails 
> bringing that nic up on boot up. Do you need dns servers when 
> setting up 
> DHCP? What about routing and gateway IPs?  I have tried all 
> that I can think 
> of. I am at a loss. Please help any way you can. Thanks in advance.
> 
> Mike
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Re: USB HDD on RH8 : comments

[marc dobler]

Hello Edwards, 

thanks for comments ! 

> Is there any way you can compare the sector size etc. on the partitions
> please?
> 

here is what i get using /sbin/parted : 

Information: the OS thinks the geometry on /dev/sda is 14946/255/63. 
Therefore, the cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M.

Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-117246.937 megaoctets
Label type for the disk : msdos
MinorStart   End Type  File.SysFlags
1  0.031  32773.227  primary   FAT
2  32781.072 117239.985  extended  lba
5  32781.103  65554.299  logical   FAT
6  65554.330  98327.526  logical   FAT
7  98327.558 117239.985  logical   FAT


> I know different size drives can be formatted with different sector sizes
> etc.

now, i don't know where to get the information for the block size, 
but as i made the partition using WinXP, 
i chose to take the default block size for FAT32. 
thereafter, i let the program running . 

can this help you ? 
thanks for further comments ! 

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RE: dhcp

[Cameron . Davidson]

sorry, you are right. What I meant was... that is how
I check that the machine has asked for and been granted the address.

I was guessing that the question related to checking which
machines were actually performing the dhcp stuff.

Cameron.


> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Burger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 December 2002 22:48
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: dhcp
> 
> 
> That's not exactly accurate.  If you also assign fixed 
> addresses, you can 
> simply look in /etc/dhcpd.conf.
> 
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > The dhcp.leases file only shows pool addresses.
> > If you also assign fixed addresses,
> > the only way I know to check them is
> > 
> > grep DHCPACK /var/log/messages
> > 
> > but you don't get lease details from this.
> > 
> > Cameron.
> > 
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 11 December 2002 16:56
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: dhcp
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Stand H said:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > How can I view all the ip addresses that my dhcp
> > > > server is leasing to my clients?
> > > 
> > > not sure about redhat, but check in /var/lib/dhcp ?
> > > 
> > > if that doesnt work try
> > > 
> > > find /var -name "*leases"
> > > 
> > > nate
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> > > 
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Only static IPs works, DHCP hangs .....

[Michael Turner]

I am trying to use DHCP because my ISP requires it. I thought setting up 
DHCP was easy! Whenever I change the eth1 card to use DHCP, then it fails 
bringing that nic up on boot up. Do you need dns servers when setting up 
DHCP? What about routing and gateway IPs?  I have tried all that I can think 
of. I am at a loss. Please help any way you can. Thanks in advance.

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Re: mount ntfs?

[pilip]

based on what i know, the default kernel of 8.0 doesn't have ntfs 
support enabled.that means you'll still have to recompile the kernel to 
have ntfs support. Though, you can check out this site:

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html

you no longer need to recompile the kernel to have ntfs support ;)

hope this helps.

Nick Lindsell wrote:
At 08:33 11/12/2002 -0600, you wrote:


I must have contracted a virus 'cause I can no longer boot into Windows
XP.  Ugh.  Thankfully most of my important files are on a separate ext3
formated disk.  However there are still a few things I'd like to
retrieve from that are on my Win XP disk which is formated with NTFS.  I
have the latest Red Hat kernel and I'm running RH 8.  How do I go about
mounting and accessing this partition?  I understand that I couldn't
write to it, I think, but all I need is to read n copy some files and
directories before I re-format and re-install.

Thnx,
~Christopher





mount -t ntfs /dev/hdaX /mnt
should be close

If you're not sure which is the ntfs partion, "fdisk /dev/hda" will show 
you.


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RE: Presario 1500 hangs at Partition Check on RH8 install

[chadd]

For 
future reference I've never had any problems w/ RH on Compaq's business class 
notebooks (armada, EVO).  Presario's do seen to not digest Linux real well 
for some reason.  If anyone is thinking of a notebook for Linux I would 
definitely recommend the evos and stay away from the Presario's. 


  -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Herbert Gregory 
  GregorySent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 7:15 AMTo: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: Presario 1500 hangs at Partition 
  Check on RH8 install
  
  
  Hello Rodolfo,
  I recentlly had your same problem using a 900us laptop purchased from 
  CompUSA.  I took it back because not only did it stop at the 
  partition check when loading redhat 8.0, it also would not let me partition a 
  40 gig hard drive without giving errors.
  I contacted Compaq who indicated to me that this was a custom built 
  laptop.  Which meant it was only meant to run Microsft XP.  I asked 
  them what would  I do with a 40 gig hard drive that I could not 
  partition?  Thats real crazy!! 
   Apparently thats microsft in bed with compaq trying to limit 
  competition again.  I was really pissed.  I wouldn't mind if 
  the sales person had told me this laptop was customized but they never told me 
  the hard drive couldn't be partitioned. 
  Morover, when I contacted the help desk at compacq they indicated that they 
  do not recommend partitioning of this machine as it will cause problems.  
  True to their word I attempted to partition the laptop with patition Majic and 
  was successful, however when I tried to access another partition other than 
  the XP  partition the machine went crazy giving me errors.
  You need to contac Compaq and find out the deal on your laptop. If you 
  recently purchased it they may give you another machine as they did me, 
  however they may require you to pay the difference if the new machine is more 
  expensive.
  I decided not to pay the extra and I'm waiting for CompUSA to send me my 
  money back.  They have a policy that any amount over 250.00 you have to 
  wait for the company to send it back to you which can take up to 10 days. I 
  dont think i'll be buying another Compaq laptop again.  
  My previous laptop was a Presario 1800.  I had little problem with it 
  and had Redhat and Windows 98 running on it before some evil individual put a 
  virus on my Master Boot Record(MBR). someone had previously wrecked by floppy 
  drive.  Apparently someone close to me doen't want me to use my 
  computer.  I took it in for service because I had an extended warrenty 
  and they decided to give me credit for the cost of the machine towards a new 
  machine.  Thats when I brought the 900us that doesn't allow for 
  partitioning.
  sorry to get so winded but as you can see I have had may share of problems 
  with the Presario laptop. However, the extended wanty with costed 250.00 
  servered me well.  I will never purchase a laptop without a an extended 
  warranty.
  Good Luck, hope all works out.
   
  Herb Gregory,
  CCNA, MCSE
   
  
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  >To: RedHat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  >Subject: Re: Presario 1500 hangs at Partition Check on RH8 
  install 
  >Date: 10 Dec 2002 16:55:39 +0100 
  > 
  >El mar, 10-12-2002 a las 16:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  escribió: 
  > > Dear Linux Mentors: 
  > > 
  > > Please help with this issue. Compaq Presario 1516US 
  laptop hangs at Partition 
  > > Check: If anybody in this list have some tips, please 
  help as it is impacting 
  > > my paycheck severely. I need Linux terribly. Help, Help, 
  Help. I have been 
  > > to Linux on Laptop links and other posts. No one seems to 
  have Presario 1500. 
  > > Thank you. 
  > > 
  > > Sincerely 
  > > 
  > > Avran 
  > 
  > 
  >That happened to me in my desktop. It was a question of 
  installing in 
  >text mode. Just try it, maybe it'll work... 
  > 
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Re: Advanced Server 2.1

[Samuel Flory]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Can I donwload RH Advcanced Server 2.1 from a ftp server ??

If not from RedHat  they are playing a M$ role ..
Does anywone have the RH 2.1 AS iso's ??



 Keep in mind that AS is really just  7.1, with a few extra packages, 
and some updates.  What you are really paying for is support, and the 
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Re: This is rich text

[Bret Hughes]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 14:04, Periyasamy, Raj wrote:
> Test
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 

Maybe but it looks like html to me.  Please send test messages to
yourself  THere are probably over a thousand users on this list and it
it takes 30 seconds on  average to wait for download, open it and delete
it, you just sucked 8.3 manhours from the universe that could have been
used some where else.



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Content-Type: text/html;  charset=us-ascii 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable






This is rich text




Test


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Re: superuser permission

[Bret Hughes]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 21:09, Warren Sypteras wrote:
> Well one way to find out is by using the find command to print out files
> that have root execute permission only.  That's gonna be a big list. 
> You could also browse through section 8 of the man pages which typically
> contain admin commands.  It won't list all root commands but it probably
> covers most of what you're looking for.
> 
> Warren

Got me curious.  More than I thought.

I think this does it.

[bhughes@bretsony bhughes]$ su -
Password: 
[root@bretsony root]# find /  -perm +u+x -user root ! -perm -o=x|wc -l
find: /proc/3131/fd/4: No such file or directory
527
[root@bretsony root]# find /  -perm +u+x -user root |wc -l
find: /proc/3133/fd/4: No such file or directory
  22406

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Re: superuser permission

[Bret Hughes]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 13:59, Jianping Zhu wrote:
> Can someone gives some example of superuser command in linux and how i can
> find out all root user command?
> Thanks
> 

Not really.  You could I guess find a list of all commands owned by
root, executable by owner and not executable by others.  This is not the
way most commands are limited in their actions. 

While some commands may be executable by root only (not other) the
primary reason that only roon can SUCCESSFULLY run certain commands is
due to the resources that a particular command uses or alters

I understand that some progs also have code in them that will prohibit
certain operations if the userid is 0 but that has got to be lame as
hell.

The path difference is one I have never really understood since I can,
and do on the systems I administer, add /sbin/ and /usr/sbin to my user
account.

for instance you can run /sbin/ifconfig as a user but since I have not
granted access to a primary network interface I cannot bring it down

[bhughes@bretsony bhughes]$ ifconfig eth0
eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:46:2E:18:32  
  inet addr:10.0.0.50  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:4763 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:4990 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:2 
  RX bytes:730367 (713.2 Kb)  TX bytes:611881 (597.5 Kb)


[bhughes@bretsony bhughes]$ ifconfig eth0 down
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Permission denied

[bhughes@bretsony bhughes]$ which ifconfig
/sbin/ifconfig

[bhughes@bretsony bhughes]$ ls -l /sbin/ifconfig
-rwxr-xr-x1 root root51164 Jul 31  2001 /sbin/ifconfig
[bhughes@bretsony bhughes]$ 

And please don't try the rm -rf / unless you are up for a reinstall :)

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Re: superuser permission

[Randy Franklin]

This is one way to start getting a list, for whatever use it may have:

bash# find / -type f -u root -perm 750 -print

--Randy




On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 10:09  PM, Warren Sypteras wrote:


Well one way to find out is by using the find command to print out 
files
that have root execute permission only.  That's gonna be a big list.
You could also browse through section 8 of the man pages which 
typically
contain admin commands.  It won't list all root commands but it 
probably
covers most of what you're looking for.

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Re: hotmail or postfix

[Mike Burger]

This came up yesterday.

It's Hotmail.  The message is probably bigger than hotmail will accept.

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Simpson, Doug wrote:

> Hello,
> I am having problems sending mail from my internal network to hotmail.
> Below is the rejection from hotmail.  Is it my server or hotmail?
> I did check to see if I was an openRelay but I did not find any thing saying
> I was.  I did not know hotmail was that picky about accepting mail.
> 
> 
> >Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost
> >Arrival-Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:23:16 -0600 (CST)
> 
> >Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Action: failed
> >Status: 5.0.0
> >Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host mx4.hotmail.com[65.54.253.230] said: 554
> Transaction failed
> 
> This is the Postfix program at host localhost.
> > 
> > I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
> > below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.
> > 
> > For further assistance, please send mail to 
> > 
> > If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
> > delete your own text from the message returned below.
> > 
> > The Postfix program
> > 
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host mx4.hotmail.com[65.54.253.230] said: 554
> > Transaction failed
> 
> Thanks,
> Doug
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: Free Partition magic?

[Mike Burger]

parted.

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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> 
> Can some tell me the free alternatives to partition magic?
> 
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> 
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Re: This is rich text

[Mike Burger]

Please...no rich text (which really came over as HTML)...plain text only.

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Periyasamy, Raj wrote:

> Test
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 

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Re: superuser permission

[Mike Burger]

ls /sbin and ls /usr/sbin.

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Jianping Zhu wrote:

> Can someone gives some example of superuser command in linux and how i can
> find out all root user command?
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> Jianping Zhu
> Department of Computer Science
> Univerity of Georgia 
> Athens, GA 30602
> Tel 706 5423900
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: superuser permission

[Warren Sypteras]

Well one way to find out is by using the find command to print out files
that have root execute permission only.  That's gonna be a big list. 
You could also browse through section 8 of the man pages which typically
contain admin commands.  It won't list all root commands but it probably
covers most of what you're looking for.

Warren



John Nichel wrote:
> 
> rm -rf /
> 
> But I don't recomend using that one.
> 
> Jianping Zhu wrote:
> > Can someone gives some example of superuser command in linux and how i can
> > find out all root user command?
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > 
> > Jianping Zhu
> > Department of Computer Science
> > Univerity of Georgia
> > Athens, GA 30602
> > Tel 706 5423900
> > 
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Custom kernel support

[Warren Sypteras]

Folks;

I read that Red Hat no longer supports custom kernels.  I take that to
mean any rebuilt kernel.  My quesiton is: What happens to customers that
have to re-compile to add support for hardware?

Thanks

Warren
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Re: RH7.3 Apache and PHP

[Bret Hughes]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 20:45, John Nichel wrote:
> I don't know what to tell you then man.  Have you tried it in both 
> Netscape and IE?  I've seen a problem like this before, and had 
> something to do with the way Netscape was handling the mime type, but I 
> can't find that answer (it's in a FAQ somewhere).
> 

Late to the thread.  Anything in the logs?

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Re: superuser permission

[John Nichel]

rm -rf /

But I don't recomend using that one.

Jianping Zhu wrote:

Can someone gives some example of superuser command in linux and how i can
find out all root user command?
Thanks



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Department of Computer Science
Univerity of Georgia 
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Re: RH7.3 Apache and PHP

[John Nichel]

I don't know what to tell you then man.  Have you tried it in both 
Netscape and IE?  I've seen a problem like this before, and had 
something to do with the way Netscape was handling the mime type, but I 
can't find that answer (it's in a FAQ somewhere).

Simon Tompkins wrote:
John

I have tried it with and without the Ifdefine and IfModules statements
neither seem to make a difference

Simon

-Original Message-
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Subject: Re: RH7.3 Apache and PHP


Try removing the  and the  wrapper.  It 
should work the way you have it, but this is one sure fire way of 
testing it.

Simon Tompkins wrote:

The Following lines are in the httpd.conf


 LoadModule php4_modulemodules/libphp4.so



 AddModule mod_php4.c



 AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php4 .php3 .phtml
 AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps


And httpd is started with -DHAVE_PHP4

Cheers

Simon

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Make sure you have this line in you httpd.conf file...

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

Simon Tompkins wrote:


I am having problems with RH73 running Apache and PHP.  After
upgrading



from RH7.1, I installed Apache and PHP rpm's from the RH7.3 CD's and 


configured appropriately.  Standard HTML pages are working correctly


but



PHP pages don't work at all, the browse prompts to save the file.

I also have tried building/install from source for both Apache2 and
PHP
4.2.3, also installing a newer version of PHP 4.2.2 from rpm, still no


PHP.



Apache Server-Status reports that PHP Support is configured Server
Version: Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.2.2 
mod_perl/1.26 Server Built: Apr 9 2002 14:56:43

Ideas Anyone?


Simon Tompkins
Senior Computing Officer
Infrastructure Services
University of Lincoln

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Re: Advanced Server 2.1

[nate]

> Can I donwload RH Advcanced Server 2.1 from a ftp server ??
>
> If not from RedHat  they are playing a M$ role ..
> Does anywone have the RH 2.1 AS iso's ??

ISOs are not available but you can download the source rpms
and compile it. Redhat is under no obligation to make their
software easy to install, they only have to provide the software.
I believe if you can write an installer and use their source rpms
to build the packages you could release a distro based on the same
code(though of course you couldn't call it red hat).

SuSE does the same thing last I checked, they don't provide ISOs
of the most current version, only ISOs of a version 2-3-4 revs behind.


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L2TP on Linux?

[Patrick Law]

Anyone has successfully configured L2TP VPN on Linux? Can I get some tip from you guys? Something for me to start on.

 

Thanks first.

 

-Patrick

Re: changing user passwords on ldap

[Gordon Messmer]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 15:14, Patrick Nelson wrote:
> 
> When I (as root) try to change a password of a user using passwd like:
>   passwd 
> I get a prompt like:
>   Enter login(LDAP) password:
> and anything I enter isn't accepted.  Any idea what I'm a doing wrong?

Are you entering the user's password?




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Advanced Server 2.1

[cotty]

Can I donwload RH Advcanced Server 2.1 from a ftp server ??

If not from RedHat  they are playing a M$ role ..
Does anywone have the RH 2.1 AS iso's ??



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anyone seen: krb5kt error after cloning system disk

[craiskin]

I cloned my RedHat 7 system disk with Ghost onto another hdd installed on 
the same system.  After taking the original hdd offline and booting into 
the clone, the system comes up, but now every executable generates the 
following message:

/usr/path/executable: invalid character 58 in exportstr for E:%s\\krb5kt"

The system is functional, but this message is very annoying as it pops 
every time you, or cron, runs an executable or script.  I understand this 
has something to do with Kerberos.
Does anyone know what E:%s\\ points to?

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Re: Novice need help ->How to - load module and check what module the pc had loaded...

[Ryurick M. Hristev]

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Alex Chooi wrote:

> Hi! I'm using Red-hat 6.1. I am 2 weeks new in Linux. Currently, my pc can't
> use for floppy and also USB mouse. Any idea?
> I would appreciate your help. Thanks you

If you are indeed using RedHat 6.1 then consider getting the
latest 8.0 version ASAP.

There has been a tremendous amount of progress since.

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Re: Novice need help ->How to - load module and check what module the pc had loaded...

[nate]

Alex Chooi said:
> Hi! I'm using Red-hat 6.1. I am 2 weeks new in Linux. Currently, my pc
> can't use for floppy and also USB mouse. Any idea?
> I would appreciate your help. Thanks you

you should really upgrade if your a linux newbie, USB support is
much improved in newer distributions and kernels. Redhat 6.1 is probably,
2-3 years old?

and to check what modules are loaded try the command 'lsmod'

to load a module try 'insmod' or 'modprobe'.

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Re: Decent Word / Excel Conversion: Not yet?

[Ryurick M. Hristev]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Ryan wrote:

> I've been somewhat disappointed with the quality of the conversion of 
> Office documents into native *nix documents by most of the decent GUI apps 
> (Kword, Staroffice, Openoffice, etc.).

Are you expecting perfection ? There is no such thing! You want more ?
What have _you_ done to solve your problems ? 

> Is everyone with me on this?  It's a current barrier holding me back from a 
> complete dump of everything M$, and I know each new version of the MS 

Then don't. Is as simple as that! Is nobody's fault that _you_ choose to
keep your docs in an closed and proprietary format. Nobody's forcing
you to "dump of everything M$".

> Office data formats incorporates an even more closed, corrupted, arcane 
> (and unstable!) system to prevent easy translation.

Exactly, AFAIK even Microsoft's own Word had some troubles importing from
one version to another.

> I'm sure M$ doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of Samba, but if RedHat 
> really wants to take over the desktop market share, isn't decent document 
> import one of the first requirements in a sea of nonstop incoming .doc's on 
> email (another issue)?

In other words: "If you want me to come on your side then Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!"

Instead of moaning at what OpenOffice does not, better be amazed at what it _does_!

AFAIK the Microsoft "doc" format is completely closed and there has been a
tremendous effort to reverse engineer it and have what you already see.

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Novice need help ->How to - load module and check what module the pc had loaded...

[Alex Chooi]

Hi! I'm using Red-hat 6.1. I am 2 weeks new in Linux. Currently, my pc can't
use for floppy and also USB mouse. Any idea?
I would appreciate your help. Thanks you

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Re: Fw: SSL on a directory

[nate]

nate said:

> Redirect /webmail(.*)\.*$ https://servername.com/webmail

woops make that RedirectMatch not Redirect

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Re: Fw: SSL on a directory

[nate]

Joe Polk said:
> Okay, I am using apache with mod_ssl. I thought there was a way to force
> ssl  on a directory so that is someone went to servername.com/webmail for
> instance, the directory that refered to would force https no?

you could put something like

Redirect /webmail(.*)\.*$ https://servername.com/webmail

so anything with /webmail in the url will get redirected.

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Re: Fw: SSL on a directory

[Tom Eastep]

--On Wednesday, December 11, 2002 08:23:00 PM -0400 Joe Polk 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Okay, I am using apache with mod_ssl. I thought there was a way to force
ssl  on a directory so that is someone went to servername.com/webmail for
instance, the directory that refered to would force https no?



In my httpd.conf file, I have:

Alias /WebMail "/usr/share/squirrelmail/"


   AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all


And in /usr/share/squirrelmail/.httaccess

SSLRequireSSL

Any attempt to use Squirrelmail with http receives an access denied error.

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Re: Fw: SSL on a directory

[Joe Polk]

Okay, I am using apache with mod_ssl. I thought there was a way to force ssl 
on a directory so that is someone went to servername.com/webmail for 
instance, the directory that refered to would force https no?

<>

-- Original Message ---
From: "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:14:21 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Fw: SSL on a directory

> Joe Polk said:
> >
> > Question:
> > I have a webmail app that's written in perl and I want to secure that
> > entire  directory with SSL so that when a user goes to check their webmail
> > it will  require SSL. What is the best approach? I am fine with a gen'd
> > cert, as I  don't have the traffic to warrant purchasing one. Any ideas?
> 
> I use apache-ssl, but you can use anything else theres 
> apache+mod_ssl, as well as several commerical packages that support 
> ssl. the apache-ssl homepage(www.apache-ssl.org) has an easy to 
> follow guide on how to generate your own cert(the cert is compadible 
> with many different uses including apache+mod_ssl, stunnel, openldap 
> etc). I also use normal apache, and redirect the non-ssl version to 
> the ssl version
> 
> e.g. take my webmail site, webmail.linuxpowered.net, my apache
> config:
> 
> 
> ServerName webmail.linuxpowered.net
> ServerAlias webmail
> RedirectMatch (.*)\.*$  https://webmail.linuxpowered.net
> ErrorDocument 404 http://portal.aphroland.org/errors/404/
> 
> 
> and my apache-ssl config:
> 
> SSLEnable
> SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache-ssl/portal.pem
> ServerName webmail.linuxpowered.net
> DocumentRoot /nfs2/home/squirrel/public_html
> 
> 
> so if someone goes to webmail.linuxpowered.net they are transparently
> redirected to the same site but using SSL. You can do this with 1
> copy of apache-ssl, rather then running seperate daemons but I prefer
> just running both, and besides I'm using mod_php on apache-ssl which
> adds quite a memory footprint to it, not using it under normal apache
> so it is faster for normal requests.
> 
> this particular server runs debian, not redhat but the configuration
> is fully compadible. I use this sort of setup for many many things
> including mailman configuration, ldapexplorer, eZpublish(CMS) to
> name a few, auto redirect http to https
> 
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Advanced Server Network Config

[Al Sparks]

I'm using RH Advanced Server 2.1.  I'm having problems changing the
network.

First, I'm running it on a Dell 2550, and it has 2 network cards.  One
of the cards is a Gig-E, and of course I'm having to download a driver
for it, so at the moment, I don't want eth0 to be active.

So I have, what I think is eth1 plugged in.  So that was what I
configured when I installed the OS.  I may or may not have
specifically said that I didn't want DHCP to configure eth0.

Anyway, I'm used to fooling around (a-la RH 7.2) in
   /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
and
   /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
and editing the variables.

Then at the console, of course, I stop and start networking (the
script is located in /etc/rc.d/init.d in RH7.2, and /etc/init.d in
Advanced Server).

It's not working.  Any changes I make to those network files seems to
affect anything.  Where, in Advanced Server, are the base network
configuration files?

One other thing, Advanced Server does have a GUI for changing system
parameters.  When I attempted to change the network using that, I got
some sort of system error.
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Re: Fw: SSL on a directory

[nate]

Joe Polk said:
>
> Question:
> I have a webmail app that's written in perl and I want to secure that
> entire  directory with SSL so that when a user goes to check their webmail
> it will  require SSL. What is the best approach? I am fine with a gen'd
> cert, as I  don't have the traffic to warrant purchasing one. Any ideas?

I use apache-ssl, but you can use anything else theres apache+mod_ssl, as
well as several commerical packages that support ssl. the apache-ssl
homepage(www.apache-ssl.org) has an easy to follow guide on how to generate
your own cert(the cert is compadible with many different uses including
apache+mod_ssl, stunnel, openldap etc). I also use normal apache, and
redirect the non-ssl version to the ssl version

e.g. take my webmail site, webmail.linuxpowered.net, my apache
config:


ServerName webmail.linuxpowered.net
ServerAlias webmail
RedirectMatch (.*)\.*$  https://webmail.linuxpowered.net
ErrorDocument 404 http://portal.aphroland.org/errors/404/


and my apache-ssl config:

SSLEnable
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache-ssl/portal.pem
ServerName webmail.linuxpowered.net
DocumentRoot /nfs2/home/squirrel/public_html


so if someone goes to webmail.linuxpowered.net they are transparently
redirected to the same site but using SSL. You can do this with 1
copy of apache-ssl, rather then running seperate daemons but I prefer
just running both, and besides I'm using mod_php on apache-ssl which
adds quite a memory footprint to it, not using it under normal apache
so it is faster for normal requests.

this particular server runs debian, not redhat but the configuration
is fully compadible. I use this sort of setup for many many things
including mailman configuration, ldapexplorer, eZpublish(CMS) to
name a few, auto redirect http to https

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Re: hotmail or postfix

[nate]

Simpson, Doug said:
> Hello,
> I am having problems sending mail from my internal network to hotmail.
> Below is the rejection from hotmail.  Is it my server or hotmail?
> I did check to see if I was an openRelay but I did not find any thing
> saying I was.  I did not know hotmail was that picky about accepting mail.

they are only picky it seems when they are overloaded :)

a quick search came up with this

http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20010521/026347.html

"Which just means hotmail's server is (as usual) overloaded and is therefore
 refusing mail with permanent errors.

 All this means is "wait for a hour or two and resend the mail""

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Re: Decent Word / Excel Conversion: Not yet?

[nate]

Ed Wilts said:

> What can we say?  When you're right, you're right.  There are no good open
> source translators out there - not even for MS Word.  Every one I've
> tested failed on trivial documents, and I gave up.  Not even
> StarOffice on Windows was anywhere close to usable a couple of months ago
> and I bought Office XP for my home systems.

what can one expect? when MS themselves cannot make their own
shit compadible with their own shit :) I've read lots of stories
about MS word on win32 docs not being able to open on MS office on
mac, or vise versa, a more extreme example, a few months ago a former
co worker was writing his resume in word 2000, About half the people
he sent the resume to could not open it(despite all of them running
word 2000). And this guy was no idiot, he was/is a very smart guy who
has a lot of experience on MS platforms(and other platforms as well. Even a
couple people in the same office(using the same MS office cd to install),
had
problems opening the document! While others, had no problems. In the end he
had to use some $500 software package to export his document to PDF(maybe
there was another way but thats what he chose). Meanwhile I provide my
resume(being unemployed too) in .DOC, .TXT(CRLF & LF), .PDF, .PS, .HTML, .RTF,
and .SXW and never had a problem:) of course it was written in star office
6(though I do admit I had to do some changes to the HTML version to make it
have better formatting, even though it was easily readable it wasn't as
clean). I purchased staroffice 6 to show support for open office, its easier
for me then filing bug reports(and I cannot program).

I agree that compadiblity with MS documents is important, but if the
company who makes it(I'm sure some quick google searches will turn
up hundreds of results like the time I think they released an update
to office 97 so it could write documents readable in office 95)
can't accomplish the task of making a portable document format accross their
very own products, how can anyone else expect to achieve 100% compadibility?

I think longer term, the solution is not to work with them, but
design a good open format. But before we even try to impose this
format on the rest of the world, the open source/free software
suites need to support it fully. Sofar I haven't noticed any
activivies on the parts of openoffice/staroffice, koffice, abiword,
and others to even start on such a format unfortunately. And no
XML by itself isn't good enough, all XML is a buncha tags, it can't
be decoded and displayed right unless everyone knows what all the
tags mean. I mean, Zope can export my websites to XML, fat chance
that I'll be able to load them in openoffice though!

I look forward to that day, if it ever comes!

despite all that though I still love linux and have been MS-free
for more then 4 years, after having used their stuff for more then 8
years.

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hotmail or postfix

[Simpson, Doug]

Hello,
I am having problems sending mail from my internal network to hotmail.
Below is the rejection from hotmail.  Is it my server or hotmail?
I did check to see if I was an openRelay but I did not find any thing saying
I was.  I did not know hotmail was that picky about accepting mail.


>Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost
>Arrival-Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:23:16 -0600 (CST)

>Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Action: failed
>Status: 5.0.0
>Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host mx4.hotmail.com[65.54.253.230] said: 554
Transaction failed

This is the Postfix program at host localhost.
> 
> I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
> below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.
> 
> For further assistance, please send mail to 
> 
> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
> delete your own text from the message returned below.
> 
> The Postfix program
> 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host mx4.hotmail.com[65.54.253.230] said: 554
> Transaction failed

Thanks,
Doug



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changing user passwords on ldap

[Patrick Nelson]

When I (as root) try to change a password of a user using passwd like:

  passwd 

I get a prompt like:

  Enter login(LDAP) password:

and anything I enter isn't accepted.  Any idea what I'm a doing wrong?



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Re: Decent Word / Excel Conversion: Not yet?

[Ed Wilts]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 07:22:17PM +, Ryan wrote:
> I've been somewhat disappointed with the quality of the conversion of 
> Office documents into native *nix documents by most of the decent GUI apps 
> (Kword, Staroffice, Openoffice, etc.).

What can we say?  When you're right, you're right.  There are no good
open source translators out there - not even for MS Word.  Every one
I've tested failed on trivial documents, and I gave up.  Not even
StarOffice on Windows was anywhere close to usable a couple of months
ago and I bought Office XP for my home systems.

> Of course, I don't intend to launch the "why import when you can use open 
> source?" question, because most people don't have a choice: M$ documents 
> are (sadly) not yet extinct.  But maybe a good import filter could help 
> keep their population under control until the old monopoly fades away.

We don't even need to start the war on my not ask your users to save all
their documents in portable formats.  Most don't know how - as far as
they're concerned, the native Microsoft formats are all there are.

.../Ed
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Fw: SSL on a directory

[Joe Polk]

Question:
I have a webmail app that's written in perl and I want to secure that entire 
directory with SSL so that when a user goes to check their webmail it will 
require SSL. What is the best approach? I am fine with a gen'd cert, as I 
don't have the traffic to warrant purchasing one. Any ideas?

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Re: Free Partition magic?

[Jeff Davis]

Yup

Parted worked great for me on my laptop.

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/


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Re: This is plain text

[Cameron Simpson]

On 15:13 11 Dec 2002, Periyasamy, Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Plain text
| Regards,

No, it's HTML.
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Re: launching additional X sessions?

[gregory mott]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 17:07, Bret Hughes wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 04:13, gregory mott wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 16:28, ABrady wrote:
> > > On 09 Dec 2002 15:38:41, gregory mott wrote:
> > > > how do i allow non-root users to launch an additional X session in a
> > > > virtual terminal?  (rh7.3)
> > > > 
> > > > root can do it like so:
> > > > xinit /usr/bin/gnome-session -- :1
> > > > 
> > > > but if any other user tries, she gets:
> > > > Fatal server error:
> > > > PAM authentication failed, cannot start X server.
> > > > Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
> > > 
> > > startx -- :1
> > > Works here.
> > 
> > ah, now i see.
> > root, OR the user already logged in, can do that.
> > OTHER users CAN'T.
> > 
> > and funny enough, it's ANOTHER user i WANT to do it for.
> > 
> > i've looked at a few things like pam_console and console.perms and my
> > eyes quickly go fuzzy.  is any of that near the right track?
> > 
> > is there a simple solution?
> 
> I think I had this issue when wanting to start an xserver
> automatically.  Digging around I found this change to
> /etc/pam.d/xserver:
> 
>  #auth   required /lib/security/pam_console.so
> auth required /lib/security/pam_permit.so
> 
> I wish I remember where I found this two or three years ago.  pam seems
> incredibly flexible but as always with flexibility comes compexity and I
> have never taken the time to wade through the docs uninterupted to try
> to fully get my head around it.
> 
> HTH
> Bret

bingo.
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Re: Free Partition magic?

[Kent Borg]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 04:52:11PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can some tell me the free alternatives to partition magic?

On my Red Hat 7.3 I have parted, a partition editing program.  I have
never used it, however.

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Question about quotas

[Rob Wright]

Greetings,

I am trying to enable quotas for two groups, users and mailbox, on my Linux 
7.3 server. I've been reading the instructions at 
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/admin-primer/s1-storage-quotas.html 
. So far I've edited /etc/fstab and rebooted the machine. I've run 
quotacheck to create aquota.group and aquota.user in my /home directory. 
When I run "edquota -g users" I get this information:
Disk quotas for group users (gid 100):
  Filesystem   blocks   soft   hard inodes 
soft hard
  /dev/sdb6  60808  0  0 2121 
00

I'm confused about the blocks information, it doesn't seem to be right. I 
had thought that edquota would show them in 1k blocks, but I'm obviously 
wrong. What size blocks would these be? The "df" command shows me this for 
the /home directory:
Filesystem   1k-blocks  UsedAvailable Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb6 42236332171912  39918944   1%   /home

I'm wanting to give the group a soft limit of 25MB and a hard limit of 30MB.

Thanks for any help or information,

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Re: Office similar s/w for Linux

[Javier Gostling]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 04:01:11PM -0500, rahul b jain cs student wrote:

> hi,
> 
> I was looking out for a s/w that can open all the microsoft office
> application files like word, powerpoints, excel etc. At the moment I have
> Kword etc, but they dont work well and most of the times the files wont
> open.
> Are there any suggestion for a s/w ?

Have you tried OpenOffice? Check it out at http://www.openoffice.org/.
I've had quite good results with it, to the extent I'm using it to write
my degree thesis now. Since it deals with Open Source technology on the
desktop, I figured I had to write it woth Open source software.  :)

Still, if you are looking for "complete" MS Office compatibility, you
will eventually find some document which does not open quite right. If
(when) this happens, my suggestion is to ask whoever sent you the
document to resend it in a more compatible format, such as RTF, PDF or
HTML. You will find most people are quite willing to cooperate on this
type of issue, specially if approached properly. Try to make a point
that it's good for them to send documents in open formats instead of
propietary formats. Check this page at the FSF for more info on the
subject http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html.

Cheers,
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Free Partition magic?

[medokpayi]

Hello Everyone;

Can some tell me the free alternatives to partition magic?

thanks


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Re: ntp and ntpd

[Emmanuel Seyman]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:05:21AM -0800, Patrick Nelson wrote:
> 
> However, now I realize that what I thought I new about ntp is off a bit.  So
> I plead for anyone to set me straight. How do I check that my clients are
> getting time correctly from .  The config file, ntp.conf is a
> non complex config file.  I had thought that rdate used ntp but that doesn't
> seem to be the case.

rdate and ntp are two different animals.

rdate requests a 32 bit answer from the server. These 32 bits contain the
current date of the server in unix format (number of seconds since 01/01/70).
The clock of the client machine is then set to this date, with no compensation
for network lag, skipping any cron jobs that would have been run between the
old time and the new one.

ntp will set up communication between the server and the client where the clock
of the client machine will speed up or slow down so as to match the clock of
the server machine (after compensation for any network lag). This means that
no cron jobs will be skipped and no significient lag will occur.

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RE: Samba - SWAT

[James Francis]

> -Original Message-
> From: Periyasamy, Raj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 4:11 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Samba - SWAT
> 
> 
> Thanks Jim, Does samba-swat depend on samba-common files. If so, If I
> run the samba-swat from the RH8 distribution CDs, will it give any
> version dependency error ? My samba RPMs are updated from RHN 
> Update. I
> had a problem initially in installing samba from RH8.0 CDs, because
> samba-common files were of latest version compared to samba 
> on RH8 CDs.
You could do an up2date samba-swat to automatically download the rpms for
you.

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Re: File Sizes

[Randy Franklin]

If you have enough RAM and patience, this will work:

bash# find / -type f -size +1024k -print

That will list all files larger than 1MB.  To get a listing of all, 
sorted by size, do this (again, with lots of RAM and patience):

bash# find / -type f -print | xargs -i ls -l {} | awk '{print $5, $9}'  
> file.list

Open file.list and replace every space (i.e. " ") with a tab.  In vi, 
this would be s/ /\t/.

Then, do this

bash # sort -n -k 1,8 file.list > sorted.list

--Randy




On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 04:10  AM, IS Department wrote:

I would like to get a listing of the 100 or 500 or 1000 largest files 
on my system. Does anyone know of a command or script to do this? I 
would want file name/location and size in bytes.
 
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Configuring DHCP(Client)

[Michael Turner]

Hello All,

  I am doing a couple of things. I am trying to network three computers 1 
MAC/1 Linux/1 PC, with the Linux box being the gateway to the Internet. My 
roommate's MAC is currently hooked up and working with the Internet 
connection. I figured that since it was using DHCP it would be as simple as 
copying the necessary settings and clicking DHCP in linuxconf and 
!poof!(minus the IP Masq'ing and firewall) the internet service would work. 
I copied the settings that I saw - Routing ip, subnet mask, and the computer 
name.

  Well as you can surmise by me writing this email that is was not as easy 
as I had originally thought. I am using RH 7.2. I do not know the kernel 
version off-hand. After doing what I thought had to be done(changing the 
mentioned settings and clicking DHCP) I rebooted. Everything comes up except 
eth1(the nic using DHCP). It just hangs there. I changed it back to using a 
static IP and it came up just fine. I know that the NIC work along with the 
Internet connection, because both have been tested. With DHCP, the IP and 
DNS servers fill in automatically right? That's atleast the impression of 
DHCP that I have.

  Are there steps that I have forgotten? What could I be doing wrong? Is 
there any good documentation that would help me troubleshoot this issue? 
Thanks in advance!!

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Re: Office similar s/w for Linux

[Anthony Abby]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 16:01, rahul b jain cs student wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I was looking out for a s/w that can open all the microsoft office
> application files like word, powerpoints, excel etc. At the moment I have
> Kword etc, but they dont work well and most of the times the files wont
> open.
> Are there any suggestion for a s/w ?
> 


Try Open Office (http://www.openoffice.org)

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RE: Office similar s/w for Linux

[sentinel]

There are many available.  My currect favorite is openoffice
(http://openoffice.org).  The KDE guys have one called koffice which isn't
bad (http://koffice.org).  I've used StarOffice in the past but personally I
didn't like that desktop feel it gave.  I just wanted an office suite not a
new desktop to work with :D

I'm sure there are others.  Those are the ones I'm most familiar with.  Did
I mention my favorite was openoffice ;D

Oh, and if you REALLY need MS OFFICE on your linux system then check out
crossover office.  I've been using it for a month and love it.  For those
rare occasions I need to pull email from our exchange server.  Wish they
would upgrade it to exchange 2000.  I'd start using evolution and bad
windows apps entirely.

Regards


___
hi,

I was looking out for a s/w that can open all the microsoft office
application files like word, powerpoints, excel etc. At the moment I have
Kword etc, but they dont work well and most of the times the files wont
open.
Are there any suggestion for a s/w ?

Thanks,
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Re: how to delete a user

[Anthony Abby]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 15:25, Jianping Zhu wrote:
> 
> how to delete a user?
> 


man userdel



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Re: Office similar s/w for Linux

[Mike Davison]

Openoffice (www.openoffice.org) works well on Word, Excel and PowerPoint. 

Mike


On Wednesday 11 December 2002 01:01 pm, rahul b jain cs student wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I was looking out for a s/w that can open all the microsoft office
> application files like word, powerpoints, excel etc. At the moment I have
> Kword etc, but they dont work well and most of the times the files wont
> open.
> Are there any suggestion for a s/w ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rahul.



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Re: Office similar s/w for Linux

[Doug]

OpenOffice.org
StarOffice (from SUN)

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From: "rahul b jain cs student" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 4:01 PM
Subject: Office similar s/w for Linux


> hi,
> 
> I was looking out for a s/w that can open all the microsoft office
> application files like word, powerpoints, excel etc. At the moment I have
> Kword etc, but they dont work well and most of the times the files wont
> open.
> Are there any suggestion for a s/w ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rahul.
> 
> 
> 
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Re: superuser permission

[Anthony Abby]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 14:59, Jianping Zhu wrote:
> Can someone gives some example of superuser command in linux and how i can
> find out all root user command?
> Thanks


There isn't any SuperUser commands per se.  by su'ing you change user to
root, thereby gaining access to the entire system.  You could su
someotheruser also if you wanted to too.

Anthony



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RE: Samba - SWAT

[Periyasamy, Raj]

Thanks Jim, Does samba-swat depend on samba-common files. If so, If I
run the samba-swat from the RH8 distribution CDs, will it give any
version dependency error ? My samba RPMs are updated from RHN Update. I
had a problem initially in installing samba from RH8.0 CDs, because
samba-common files were of latest version compared to samba on RH8 CDs.


Regards,
Raj



-Original Message-
From: James Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 4:02 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Samba - SWAT


> -Original Message-
> From: Periyasamy, Raj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 3:39 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Samba - SWAT
> 
> 
> James,
> Does swat files /usr/sbin/swat get installed automatically along with 
> Samba or do I have install it manually ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Raj
Hey, your message looks good now, plain text.
You need to install the samba-swat rpm.  Mine is samba-swat-2.2.7-2.rpm,
but

yours might be a different version.  rpm -Uvh samba-swat*.rpm should do
it.

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Re: test - can anyone hear me?

[Kent Perrier]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 14:24, Michael Turner wrote:
> Sorry everyone. I wrote an email detailing my problem and it doesn't seem to 
> have gotten on the board. I want to make sure they're going through before I 
> spend time writing another one.
> 

Nope, I can't hear a damn thing over the fans of the Dell server that I
have on my desk right now :)

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File Sizes

[IS Department]

I would like to get a listing of the 100 or 500 or 
1000 largest files on my system. Does anyone know of a command or script to do 
this? I would want file name/location and size in bytes.
 
Thanks

RE: Office similar s/w for Linux

[Periyasamy, Raj]

RH 8.0 comes with Open office suite. It can open all Ms Office files.

Regards,

Raj


-Original Message-
From: rahul b jain cs student [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 4:01 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Office similar s/w for Linux


hi,

I was looking out for a s/w that can open all the microsoft office
application files like word, powerpoints, excel etc. At the moment I
have Kword etc, but they dont work well and most of the times the files
wont open. Are there any suggestion for a s/w ?

Thanks,
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RE: Samba - SWAT

[James Francis]

> -Original Message-
> From: Periyasamy, Raj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 3:39 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Samba - SWAT
> 
> 
> James,
> Does swat files /usr/sbin/swat get installed automatically along with
> Samba or do I have install it manually ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Raj
Hey, your message looks good now, plain text.
You need to install the samba-swat rpm.  Mine is samba-swat-2.2.7-2.rpm, but

yours might be a different version.  rpm -Uvh samba-swat*.rpm should do it.

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Office similar s/w for Linux

[rahul b jain cs student]

hi,

I was looking out for a s/w that can open all the microsoft office
application files like word, powerpoints, excel etc. At the moment I have
Kword etc, but they dont work well and most of the times the files wont
open.
Are there any suggestion for a s/w ?

Thanks,
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Re: test - can anyone hear me?

[Michael Schwendt]

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On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:24:03 -0600, Michael Turner wrote:

> Sorry everyone. I wrote an email detailing my problem and it doesn't
> seem to have gotten on the board. I want to make sure they're going
> through before I spend time writing another one.

Copy the message from your "Sent" folder and resend it instead
of a test message.

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Re: minor bash script issue

[dbrett]

Thanks to everybody for your help and explainations.  I ended up with what
I needed and an explaination of how somethings work.  I also have a
direction on where to learn more

thanks again
david

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, dbrett wrote:
> 
> > Now I am really confused!
> > 
> > This works:
> > #!/bin/bash
> > 
> > if [ -z $1 ]; then
> > echo ''
> > echo "format is $0 'math equation'"
> > echo "i.e. $0 (2+2)*3"
> > echo ''
> > exit
> > fi
> > 
> > echo $1 | /usr/bin/bc -l
> 
> assuming that all you're doing is asking a shell script to run
> "bc" for you, here's a possible solution:
> 
> -
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> function usage {
>   cat <<-EOF
>   Usage: $0 equation.
>   Aborting now.
>   exit
>   EOF
> }
> 
> [[ $# -eq 1 ]] || usage
> 
> echo $1 | /usr/bin/bc -l 2> /dev/null
> 
> -
> 
> notes:
> 
> 1) the usage() function keeps that stuff out of the way, so you can call
>it more than once
> 
> 2) [[ $# -eq 1 ]]   is the recognized way to test the number of
>parameters
> 
> 
>   and if all you're doing is simple arithmetic, this is already
> built into bash with the $(( )) construct, as in:
> 
> $ echo $(((2+3)*10))
> 50
> 
> using this built-in construct, you need not worry about whitespace
> since the construct is an inherent part of the shell.
> 
> rday
> 
> 
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Re: This is plain text

[Vidiot]

Wrong bucko.

MB



>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>
>--_=_NextPart_001_01C2A151.C7F13D6E
>Content-Type: text/plain; 
> charset=us-ascii
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
>Plain text
>
>Regards,
>
>
>
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> charset=us-ascii
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
>
>
>
>charset=3Dus-ascii">
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>This is plain text
>
>
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>
>Plain text
>
>
>Regards,
>
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Re: HP LaserJet 4L

[Manuel Camacho]

I have a 4L that works like a charm with 7.3. Connected at LPT1.

-Manuel.

-Original Message-
From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 09 Dec 2002 11:10:41 -0500
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 4L

> I've had a similar problem with my Okidata OL-810e
> I fixed it by using the "redhat-config-printer-gui"
> tool, selecting the print queue from the list and 
> clicking on the "Edit" toolbar button,
> then selecting the DRIVER OPTIONS tab in the resulting window
> and trying the "send EOT" and "send Form Feed" options.
> 
> I don't remember which combination worked, but there are only 
> 4 possible, and you already tried one, so you get three shots :)
> 
> -Ben.
> 
> On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 00:10, Jared Brick wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > I have a problem with a Hewlett Packard LaserJet 4L, it seems for
> some
> > reason to stall during print jobs and I have to remove the print job
> > before the printer will print again. This happens almost everytime. I
> > have a LaserJet 4 and it never seems to fail, but the 4L can never
> seem
> > to make it to the last page.
> > 
> > Has anyone else experienced this before? The printer is connected
> > through the parallel port of a RH 8.0 system.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jared
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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Re: difference between *nix

[Manuel Camacho]

I am not an IT guy, not even a programmer, but I have been around this 
list for a couple of years, and my opinion is that the best *nix is the 
one you feel comfortable working with. Security and efficiency will just 
be a matter of how much dedication you give to your boxes.

Unfortunately my experience with FreeBSD was frustrating: I bought the 
CDs and I was unable to finish the installation, although I tried in 
about a dozen different boxes.

As I wrote before, I am not an expert, but I would follow experts, and I 
can just think that if IBM is making a 4 billion bet on Linux/OpenSource, 
I would have a better choice going that way (again, just my personal 
opinion).

Best regards,

-Manuel.

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> 
> tia
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
> - -- 
> "Knowledge in a databank,is like food which is in a deepfreeze.
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Re: how to delete a user

[Randy Franklin]

bash# userdel username
bash# rm -rf /home/username

Do the second at your discretion.

--Randy


On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 03:25  PM, Jianping Zhu wrote:



how to delete a user?


Jianping Zhu
Department of Computer Science
Univerity of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
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Shutdown/Reboot problems

[Larry Meyer]

Hi all,

For some reason, when I shut down or reboot my machine, Linux can not
shutdown my USB devices, hence, stalls during shutdown. My USB devices
work well. However, whenever I use them, the system will not shutdown or
reboot. I am using RedHat 8.

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Re: superuser permission

[Randy Franklin]

Look at the differences in the $PATH env variables.

(as non-root user) bash# echo $PATH
(as root user) bash# echo $PATH

Root can execute any command, but use it sparingly.

--Randy



On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 02:59  PM, Jianping Zhu wrote:


Can someone gives some example of superuser command in linux and how i 
can
find out all root user command?
Thanks



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RE: Samba - SWAT

[Periyasamy, Raj]

James,
Does swat files /usr/sbin/swat get installed automatically along with
Samba or do I have install it manually ?

Regards,

Raj



-Original Message-
From: James Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 3:03 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Samba - SWAT


>-Original Message-
>From: Periyasamy, Raj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:32 PM
>To: Redhat List
>Subject: Samba - SWAT
>
>Hello list,
>In order to use Samba - SWAT, do I need to have Apache installed ? 
>I installed Samba , Samba-client and Samba-common. When I tried
>http://127.0.0.1:901 or http://192.168.0.11:901 I get and error message
>which says "No data was found". I don't have Apache running.
>Thanks for any help. 
>Regards, 
>Raj 
First, make sure you turn-off html when posting to the newsgroup.
Second, you shouldn't need apache to run SWAT. Next, check your
/etc/xinetd.d/swat file: It should look something like this: service
swat {
port= 901
socket_type = stream
wait= no
only_from   = 127.0.0.1
only_from   = 192.168.0.11
user= root
server  = /usr/sbin/swat
log_on_failure  += USERID
disable = no
}

Also, make sure swat is turned-on.  Do a chkconfig --list swat.  If it
is not on, do a chkconfig swat on.

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RE: how to delete a user

[Glenn Goodspeed]

At a command prompt, type

userdel [username]

To remove the user and the user's home directory, it's

userdel -r [username].   -Glenn.

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Re: Decent Word / Excel Conversion: Not yet?

[Manuel Camacho]

Well, my best option until now has been using rtf format rather than M$ 
Word format. Still not perfect, and I have some problems with tables of 
content, but it is better than trying to load a native Word format.

-Manuel.

-Original Message-
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:22:17 +
Subject: Decent Word / Excel Conversion: Not yet?

> I've been somewhat disappointed with the quality of the conversion of 
> Office documents into native *nix documents by most of the decent GUI
> apps 
> (Kword, Staroffice, Openoffice, etc.).
> 
> Is everyone with me on this?  It's a current barrier holding me back
> from a 
> complete dump of everything M$, and I know each new version of the MS 
> Office data formats incorporates an even more closed, corrupted, arcane
> (and unstable!) system to prevent easy translation.
> 
> I'm sure M$ doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of Samba, but if RedHat
> really wants to take over the desktop market share, isn't decent
> document 
> import one of the first requirements in a sea of nonstop incoming
> .doc's on 
> email (another issue)?
> 
> If anyone's found an import that can handle all the highly used
> features in 
> MS Word properly (tables, numbering, footnotes, and redline are a
> start), 
> I'd certainly like to be corrected on my appraisal of the problem!
> 
> Of course, I don't intend to launch the "why import when you can use
> open 
> source?" question, because most people don't have a choice: M$
> documents 
> are (sadly) not yet extinct.  But maybe a good import filter could help
> keep their population under control until the old monopoly fades away.
> 
> Ryan
> 
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RE: test - can anyone hear me?

[Douglas, Stuart]

This one worked.  :)

Stuart


-Original Message-
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Sorry everyone. I wrote an email detailing my problem and it doesn't seem to 
have gotten on the board. I want to make sure they're going through before I 
spend time writing another one.

Mike

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test - can anyone hear me?

[Michael Turner]

Sorry everyone. I wrote an email detailing my problem and it doesn't seem to 
have gotten on the board. I want to make sure they're going through before I 
spend time writing another one.

Mike

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how to delete a user

[Jianping Zhu]

how to delete a user?


Jianping Zhu
Department of Computer Science
Univerity of Georgia 
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Re: minor bash script issue

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, dbrett wrote:

> Now I am really confused!
> 
> This works:
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> if [ -z $1 ]; then
> echo ''
> echo "format is $0 'math equation'"
> echo "i.e. $0 (2+2)*3"
> echo ''
> exit
> fi
> 
> echo $1 | /usr/bin/bc -l

assuming that all you're doing is asking a shell script to run
"bc" for you, here's a possible solution:

-

#!/bin/bash

function usage {
cat <<-EOF
Usage: $0 equation.
Aborting now.
exit
EOF
}

[[ $# -eq 1 ]] || usage

echo $1 | /usr/bin/bc -l 2> /dev/null

-

notes:

1) the usage() function keeps that stuff out of the way, so you can call
   it more than once

2) [[ $# -eq 1 ]]   is the recognized way to test the number of
   parameters


  and if all you're doing is simple arithmetic, this is already
built into bash with the $(( )) construct, as in:

$ echo $(((2+3)*10))
50

using this built-in construct, you need not worry about whitespace
since the construct is an inherent part of the shell.

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Re: Up2date question

[Michael Schwendt]

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wrote:

- From your headers:

> In-Reply-To: 

Don't hijack threads by replying to another message from this
mailing-list when instead you want to compose a new message.

> I am relatively new to Linux and ran into a small problem.  My machine
> 
> currently uses Red Hat 7.3 (ext3).  I have been making a point of
> updating the software with up2date regularly.
> 
> Recently, however, up2date failed to install the new packages, and 
> complained that the boot partition was too full.  The partition is 45
> MB and is 98% full at the moment.
> 
> I am unsure of how to free up space in the boot partition; I don't
> know how it became so full and what can be moved or deleted safely. 
> Obviously, I would prefer to resolve this without going through the
> steps necessary to expand the boot partition.
> 
> Any assistance would be appreciated.

Erase some of the older kernel packages as "root" user,
for instance

  # rpm --query kernel

to see what kernel packages are installed. And

  # rpm --erase kernel-2.4.18-5

to erase one.

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Re: ntp and ntpd

[Bret Hughes]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 13:05, Patrick Nelson wrote:
> RH 62, RH72, and RH73 all up to date.
> 
> Have a ntp server which queries internet time serves, this is a RH62 system,
> that serves as a time server to the private network.  I'm upgrading this
> system to RH80 so I am moving services to other servers in the transition. 
> 
> Have a RH72 system and configured the ntp.conf to get its time from the same
> systems that RH62 was getting them from.  ntptrace  reveals
> that it is in fact getting time from one of those internet time servers.
> Seems to be working.
> 
> I tried to do a manual check on a workstation (RH73) using:
> 
>rdate -s 
> 
> But this responded as connection refused.  Hmm... so I check xinetd, which
> has a time and a time-udp config file in /etc/xinetd.d directory.  These
> both were disabled so I enabled them and now the rdate command above works.
> 
> However, now I realize that what I thought I new about ntp is off a bit.  So
> I plead for anyone to set me straight. How do I check that my clients are
> getting time correctly from .  The config file, ntp.conf is a
> non complex config file.  I had thought that rdate used ntp but that doesn't
> seem to be the case.
> 
> 

Two different services as you have dicovered.  ntpq -p hostname will
show you the peer status of a remote machine that is running ntp

the local time server on our lan

[bhughes@bretsony bhughes]$ ntpq -p gateway1
 remote   refid  st t when poll reach   delay   offset 
jitter
==
 LOCAL(0)LOCAL(0)10 l4   64  3770.0000.000 
10.010
 192.168.0.255   0.0.0.0 16 u-   6400.0000.000
16000.0
xsushi.compsci.l navobs1.wustl.e  2 u- 1024  377  285.050  199.085
218.730
*ntp-0.gw.uiuc.e truechimer.cso.  2 u  361  512  377   81.800   12.525 
14.420
+cisco1-mhk.kans navobs1.wustl.e  2 u  460  512  377   55.830   -7.064 
13.340
+ntp3.tamu.edu   ntp1.tamu.edu2 u  381  512  377   64.480   14.615  
1.100


one of the machines synced to it


 [bhughes@bretsony bhughes]$ ntpq -p compaq2 
 remote   refid  st t when poll reach   delay   offset 
jitter
==
 LOCAL(0)LOCAL(0)10 l   94   64  3770.0000.000 
10.010
*gateway1.tulsa. ntp-0.gw.uiuc.e  3 u   64   64  3770.440  96723.7
163.820
[bhughes@bretsony bhughes]$ 


the docs are in /usr/share/docs/ntp*, are in html and very extensive.

HTH

Bret



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Re: Up2date question

[Javier Gostling]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:18:04PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[snip]

> Recently, however, up2date failed to install the new packages, and 
> complained that the boot partition was too full.  The partition is 45 MB 
> and is 98% full at the moment.

You probably updated the kernel, but did not remove the old kernels.
Check with rpm -q kernel. If it shows swveral packages, that's it.

> I am unsure of how to free up space in the boot partition; I don't know 
> how it became so full and what can be moved or deleted safely.  Obviously, 
> I would prefer to resolve this without going through the steps necessary 
> to expand the boot partition.

Remove the old kernel packages with rpm -e kernel- and your
done.

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Regards,

RE: Samba - SWAT

[Periyasamy, Raj]

James,
Thank you for the response. 
I use only rich-text. It is getting converted to HTML in the list.
Anyway, I will use plain text in future.


Regards,

Raj


-Original Message-
From: James Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 3:03 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Samba - SWAT


>-Original Message-
>From: Periyasamy, Raj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:32 PM
>To: Redhat List
>Subject: Samba - SWAT
>
>Hello list,
>In order to use Samba - SWAT, do I need to have Apache installed ? 
>I installed Samba , Samba-client and Samba-common. When I tried
>http://127.0.0.1:901 or http://192.168.0.11:901 I get and error message
>which says "No data was found". I don't have Apache running.
>Thanks for any help. 
>Regards, 
>Raj 
First, make sure you turn-off html when posting to the newsgroup.
Second, you shouldn't need apache to run SWAT. Next, check your
/etc/xinetd.d/swat file: It should look something like this: service
swat {
port= 901
socket_type = stream
wait= no
only_from   = 127.0.0.1
only_from   = 192.168.0.11
user= root
server  = /usr/sbin/swat
log_on_failure  += USERID
disable = no
}

Also, make sure swat is turned-on.  Do a chkconfig --list swat.  If it
is not on, do a chkconfig swat on.

JMF



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[Periyasamy, Raj]

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Test


Regards,

Up2date question

[rothr]

Hello All:

I am relatively new to Linux and ran into a small problem.  My machine 
currently uses Red Hat 7.3 (ext3).  I have been making a point of updating 
the software with up2date regularly.

Recently, however, up2date failed to install the new packages, and 
complained that the boot partition was too full.  The partition is 45 MB 
and is 98% full at the moment.

I am unsure of how to free up space in the boot partition; I don't know 
how it became so full and what can be moved or deleted safely.  Obviously, 
I would prefer to resolve this without going through the steps necessary 
to expand the boot partition.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Ryan Roth




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RE: Samba - SWAT

[James Francis]

>-Original Message-
>From: Periyasamy, Raj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:32 PM
>To: Redhat List
>Subject: Samba - SWAT
>
>Hello list, 
>In order to use Samba - SWAT, do I need to have Apache installed ? 
>I installed Samba , Samba-client and Samba-common. When I tried
>http://127.0.0.1:901 or http://192.168.0.11:901 I get and error message
>which says "No data was found". I don't have Apache running.
>Thanks for any help. 
>Regards, 
>Raj 
First, make sure you turn-off html when posting to the newsgroup.
Second, you shouldn't need apache to run SWAT.
Next, check your /etc/xinetd.d/swat file:
It should look something like this:
service swat
{
port= 901
socket_type = stream
wait= no
only_from   = 127.0.0.1
only_from   = 192.168.0.11
user= root
server  = /usr/sbin/swat
log_on_failure  += USERID
disable = no
}

Also, make sure swat is turned-on.  Do a chkconfig --list swat.  If
it is not on, do a chkconfig swat on.

JMF



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Re: minor bash script issue

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, dbrett wrote:

> Nope, unless I missed what you trying to get at.
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> if [$1 == '']; then
> echo ''
> echo "format is $0 'math equation'"
> echo "i.e. $0 (2+2)*3"
> echo ''
> exit
> fi
> 
> echo $1 | /usr/bin/bc -l  2>&1 /dev/null
> 
> Here is the output
> ./math "2 + 3 *( 5 - 3 )"  <---command
> 
> ./math: [2: command not found
> 8

ok, this is getting just plain silly.  first, if you have a
conditional test in a script, the "[" character *must* be
delimited by white space.  why?  because it's a *command*.
yes, that's right.  if you don't believe me, try

$ type [

this is actually comprehensible if you understand that the
"if" construct in a shell script can test *only* the return
code from commands, and that's it.  hence the rationale for
[ actually being a command.  hence the absolute need for the
surrounding whitespace.

next issue.  () are shell metacharacters -- they are used
to surround one or more commands that are to be run inside
a subshell.  use them sparingly and wisely.

but more to the point, what exactly are you trying to do 
here?  i suspect this can all be done in about two lines.
and i'm pretty sure i can figure out what those two lines
are if i knew what you were after.

rday





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superuser permission

[Jianping Zhu]

Can someone gives some example of superuser command in linux and how i can
find out all root user command?
Thanks



Jianping Zhu
Department of Computer Science
Univerity of Georgia 
Athens, GA 30602
Tel 706 5423900






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