redhat-digest Digest V98 #2
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redhat-digest Digest Volume 98 : Issue 2
Today's Topics:
Re: UPS Suggestions
Re: NT network virus.
removing the EOL
RE: national ISP
ssh banners
stupid NFS question
Active terminators
Re: Lame WP80 Question
Where Are Libraries?
RE: cracker / nslookup question
Re: Where Are Libraries?
Re: dhcpd lease starts on GMT (not local time)!!
Re: removing the EOL
Re: Hack attempt - was it successful?
RE: cracker / nslookup question
Re: removing the EOL
RE: Re: switching external Iomega drives
Creative Exxtreme 3d AGP and X Windows
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:03:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Ray Curtis <r...@ray.clark.net>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Re: UPS Suggestions
Message-ID: <13953.12389....@picard.ray.clark.net>
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>>>>> "rg" == Ramon Gandia <r...@nook.net> writes:
rg> Raymond Popowich wrote:
>>
>> I would like to get a UPS for my system. I took a look at the UPS
>> How-To, but I still have a few simple questions.
>>
>> Which current UPS's work well for people? I am looking for something
>> that will work nicely with Red Hat, does not require a lot of
>> attention, and can keep my system going for a while before it cuts
>> out in the event of a power failure.
>>
>> What is the the average uptime for a UPS in the event of a power
>> failure? that probably depends on the UPS model and the computer
>> though... any neat comparison charts out there?
>>
>> Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks!
rg> In the past I have used the Tripp-Lite units with the genpowerd
rg> package (libc5 although you can get the source and compile it
rg> with libc6 for RH 5.1 and up).
rg> However, after a year or so, I have to say that I am not too happy
rg> with the TL units. The 1400's have worked, but *all* of the units
rg> below 700 VA have gone bad one way or another.
rg> One would go into battery standby mode and never come back out of
rg> it. It could be depowered and then would go on AC, but after a
rg> few hours or a day would start beeping that it was on battery
rg> again.
rg> Another just went dead. No power out of it. So I put all the
rg> computers on the AC mains, but left the unit plugged in. After
rg> a month or so I visited the site and to my amazement it was
rg> working again. Well, its not trustworthy so I am not using it.
rg> The third... it works, but the "serial" interface to it went
rg> bad. It signals power loss, but you cannot turn it off from
rg> the interface. I determined the optoisolator or phototransistor
rg> in there has a bad LED. It draws no current.
rg> Also, when the units (even the 1400's) switch to battery, there
rg> is a very large transient. Hooking up a 100w light bulb to one
rg> of the sockets, and cutting the power strip or circuit breaker
rg> to the UPS, makes for a very large surge. The bulb gets REALLY
rg> bright for about a second, then tames down. I am guessing
rg> about a 20 or 30 volt overvoltage spike.
rg> Now this has not caused any trouble - yet - but I am scared to
rg> death of it.
rg> On the APC front, there is an Eskimo village about 50 miles
rg> East of here (White Mountain). They use a bunch of APC's
rg> there at the school and in private homes. A few have been
rg> reported to catch on FIRE.
rg> On the other hand, BEST POWER (www.bestpower.com) has some
rg> nice units. The list prices are very high, but the street
rg> prices are competitive. They make and supply a nice set of
rg> Unix/Linux programs for it and release source code. In other
rg> words, this company is truly "Cool-it works with Linux!".
rg> While they make little guys, they also make some units up to
rg> 15 kw and up. My next UPS buy here will be a 4 KW, 1 hour
rg> unit, hardwired to my building for the Net Center. It
rg> will cost a few thousand dollars, but I expect it will
rg> cost a LOT less than the same number of kilowatts made up
rg> from a bunch of smaller units.
rg> They have two lines worth looking at. The Fortress is a
rg> true sine wave unit, and has good switching characteristics.
rg> The FerrUps has a ferro-resonant transformer for the
rg> smoothest and most glitch free power. I think Best is the
rg> only one that offers Ferro-Resonant transformers. This does
rg> a fine job of cleaning not only the UPS power but the
rg> commercial mains as well. You may not need the FerrUps
rg> model, but you should be aware that it exists. Expensive,
rg> but if you need it, there it is.
rg> I am on the verge of becoming a BEST customer on my very
rg> next UPS purchase.
rg> An alternative, for the more technically minded, is to
rg> get an inverter from Trace Engineering. They make several
rg> models, and are intended mainly for inverter service in
rg> rural homes, alternative energy sources, etc. Per
rg> kilowatt they are lower priced than BEST, but you need
rg> external batteries. They have 12v, 24v and 48 v models.
rg> Some of the units -- and this is what you want -- would
rg> have Sine Wave output, Fast switching times, regulation
rg> and battery charging.
rg> Be aware that on most UPS's a large percentage of the
rg> price is the battery. Typically they are not very large
rg> and provide 6 minutes to 20 minutes of operation. With
rg> a unit from Trace (and some from BEST), you can use
rg> more and larger batteries to run your system for HOURS.
rg> Again, you may not need this capability but you should
rg> be aware that it exists.
rg> While the Trace does not have computer terminal for
rg> status/control, it does not take a rocket scientist to
rg> rig a couple of relays and switching transistors to do
rg> the job and provide interface to genpowerd. Of course,
rg> if you are not even a "rocket scientist in training"
rg> then you better get a conventional UPS.
rg> I looked this whole situation over and after some
rg> meditation concluded that because of insurance, UL,
rg> codes and other requirements, the BEST ups would be the
rg> choice for me. You pays your money and makes your choice.
rg> BEST makes units down to 200 watts. They are not too
rg> useful to me, but I also wanted to point out that they
rg> have a full lineup like APC, Tripp, etc.
Just an addition to this Ramon, I have used Best products on a
large network of HP, Suns & Alpha's for about 8-10 years now with
much success. Best is very nice to work with and quite willing
to help provide you the best setup for your situation.
My only problem with them has been replacing a few gel cells over
the years which is to be expected.
--
Ray Curtis Unix Programmer/Consultant Curtis Consulting
mailto:r...@ray.clark.net http://www.clark.net/pub/ray
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:08:57 -0500
From: "Pat Collins" <colli...@osu.edu>
To: <redha...@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: NT network virus.
Message-ID: <002201be2e9f$50725320$53da...@icestationzebra.columbus.rr.com>
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Perhaps it is the first computer bacteria.
-----Original Message-----
From: Toby Herring <ther...@syncroflo.com>
To: redha...@redhat.com <redha...@redhat.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 23, 1998 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: NT network virus.
>This is TOTALLY inaccurate.
>
>virii are compact, efficient, and effective.
>--
>Toby Herring
>IS Coordinator
>SyncroFlo, Inc.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Yocum <yo...@fnal.gov>
>To: redha...@redhat.com <redha...@redhat.com>
>Cc: Dan Yocum <yo...@fnal.gov>
>Date: Wednesday, December 23, 1998 8:33 AM
>Subject: Re: NT network virus.
>
>
>>Just a little funny:
>>
>>At the USENIX LISA conference two weeks ago, they were referring to *NT*
as
>a
>>virus.
>>
>>
>>;-)
>>
>>
>>Happy Holidays
>>
>>__________________________________________________________________________
_
>____
>>Dan Yocum | Phone: (630) 840-8525
>>Computing Division OSS/FSS | Fax: (630) 840-6345 .~.
>L
>>Fermi National Accelerator Lab | email: yo...@fnal.gov /V
>I
>>P.O. Box 500 | WWW: www-oss.fnal.gov/~yocum/ // \
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>>Batavia, IL 60510 | "TANSTAAFL"
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 02:09:19 +0800 (MYT)
From: Ronnie Thum <cwt...@network2.cs.usm.my>
To: RedHat Mailing List <redha...@redhat.com>
Subject: removing the EOL
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.98122...@network2.cs.usm.my>
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Hi,
Whenever I copy files from Linux to Windoze, I get those black boxes (EOL)
and all written on one longggg line.
I use Notepad to view those text file, mostly HTML
How can I prevent this ?
TIA
Ronnie
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:17:12 -0500
From: "Soffen, Matthew" <mso...@iso-ne.com>
To: "'RedHat List'" <redha...@redhat.com>
Subject: RE: national ISP
Message-ID: <A17D93A46315D1118FF...@msexchange.iso-ne.com>
Have you thought about IBM.NET ? From what I have heard they are
nationwide and in Canada and Europe too.
Matt Soffen
Webmaster - http://www.iso-ne.com/
==============================================
Boss - "My boss says we need some eunuch programmers."
Dilbert - "I think he means UNIX and I already know UNIX."
Boss - "Well, if the company nurse comes by, tell her I said
never mind."
- Dilbert -
==============================================
> ----------
> From: Paul Pettit[SMTP:pa...@ccbnpts.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 1998 11:59 AM
> To: 'David Hartley'
> Cc: 'RedHat List'
> Subject: RE: national ISP
>
> > David Hartley [mailto:gh...@Radix.Net] wrote:
> >
> >
> > I think MSN still has a $4.95 plan if dont plan to use it much.
> > I really like the dialer program. It plugs in pop numbers
> > for any city you designate. No more calling tech support or
> > looking up numbers on web sites.
> >
> >
> OK, but why would you want to use the (M)icro(S)oft (N)etwork? Barring
> the
> low cost doing anything that would inrease MS's control of internet
> access
> runs counter to the reason I'm on this list.
>
> And do they support a Linux setup? I think not! So without knowing
> what
> setup Greg has, MSN may not even work.
>
> Paul Pettit | Opinions and advice expressed are from me
> CTO | and are not my employer's.
>
> Consistent Computer Bargains, Inc.
> http://www.ccbnpts.com
>
> If you had to identify, in one word, the reason the human race has not
> achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would
> be: "meetings." -- Dave Barry
>
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:16:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Raymond Popowich <popo...@acsu.buffalo.edu>
To: Red Hat List <redha...@redhat.com>
Subject: ssh banners
Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.4.05.98122...@xena.acsu.buffalo.edu>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Is there a banners.Makefile that will create a banner for ssh logins?
-----
Raymond Popowich
popo...@acsu.buffalo.edu
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:25:29 -0500
From: "Sean Gallagher" <se...@iwkbaltlab.com>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: stupid NFS question
Message-ID: <36813599...@iwkbaltlab.com>
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I installed the pcnfsd 2 rpm on my RH
5.2 system. The daemon's running, as is
nfs. But when I try to connect from an
NFS client (Reflection on Windows NT) it
tells me that there's no lock daemon
running on the server, so I can't get
write-level access to the drive.
Can anybody point me to an idiot's guide
to configuring NFS/pcnfsd on Linux, esp
RedHat?
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 98 10:22:57 -0800
From: Rasana Atreya <ras...@netcom.com>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Active terminators
Message-Id: <1998122318...@netcom15.netcom.com>
Hi all,
I've been hearing horror stories about badly made active terminators in the
market. Can someone recommend a good brand? Maybe Adaptec?
My SCSI controller is Tekram DC-390F based on Symbios Logic 53C875 chip.
1 50-Pin SCSI-2 Internal, 1 68-Pin Wide SCSI Internal, 1 68-Pin Wide SCSI
External.
I plan to use both a combination of Ultra and Narrow devices.
Thanks much.
Rasana Atreya ras...@netcom.com
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:31:43 -0500 (EST)
From: Ray Curtis <r...@ray.clark.net>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Lame WP80 Question
Message-ID: <13953.14095....@picard.ray.clark.net>
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>>>>> "aeg" == Anthony E Greene <agr...@pobox.com> writes:
aeg> On 23-Dec-1998 19:01, Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahb...@guyana.net.gy> wrote:
>> I managed to download WP80 and gunzip and tar etc. the files...
>>
>> Everything went smoothly....
>>
>> how do I actually start WP80? Where is the executable?
aeg> I put a script file in /usr/local/bin that has a single line:
aeg> /opt/wordperfect/wpbin/xwp &
Probably a better approach to handle command line arguments for this
would be:
/opt/wordperfect/wpbin/xwp "${@-}" &
Of course change the path to wherever you have it installed.
--
Ray Curtis Unix Programmer/Consultant Curtis Consulting
mailto:r...@ray.clark.net http://www.clark.net/pub/ray
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:19:29 -0500
From: Lane Lester <lple...@bellsouth.net>
To: redhat list <redha...@redhat.com>
Subject: Where Are Libraries?
Message-Id: <98122313364502.01580@Desktop>
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I apologize for being a nuisance, but I've wandered around my RH CD
without figuring out where the libraries are that are mentioned in this
error message:
libguile.so.3 is needed by gnucash-1.1.23-4
libXmHTML.so.1.1 is needed by gnucash-1.1.23-4
libXm.so.1 is needed by gnucash-1.1.23-4
And if there's a good way to find such things, I'd love to know what it
is. I'm getting a pretty long list of programs that I'd like to try,
but I lack some library or compiler or something that's needed.
Lane
----
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----
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 10:35:44 -0800
From: "Ed Lazor" <ela...@hcs.state.or.us>
To: <redha...@redhat.com>
Subject: RE: cracker / nslookup question
Message-ID: <NCBBKAHLNJCALPEJD...@hcs.state.or.us>
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Am I doing something wrong when I try to use the whois
command? It doesn't seem to be working for me.
For example, I do nslookup www.linux.org (see listing A)
and then run whois (see listing B) and don't seem to get
any information to come out.
--- Listing A -----------------------------------
> nslookup www.linux.org
Server: ENGR.ORST.EDU
Address: 128.193.54.1
Name: www.linux.org
Address: 198.182.196.55
--- Listing B -----------------------------------
> whois 198.18...@whois.arin.net
No match for mailbox "198.18...@WHOIS.ARIN.NET".
* -- DoD Network Information Center --
* For General User Assistance Call (800) 365-3642 or (703) 821-6266
The DoD Network Information Center contains ONLY
information about the .MIL Domain, IP Address space managed by
the US DoD, and other services provided by the DoD NIC to DoD
subscribers. For information pertaining to non-DoD Domains and IP
address space try one of these associated servers:
American Registry for Internet Numbers whois server - whois.arin.net
European IP Address Allocations whois server - whois.ripe.net
Asia Pacific IP Address Allocations whois server - whois.apnic.net
US Government whois server - whois.nic.gov
--- Original Message ----------------------------
> whois 1.2...@whois.arin.net
> ^
> |replace last digit with 0
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 18:48:22 +0000 ( )
From: Lucid Dream <lu...@unixgeeks.org>
To: redhat list <redha...@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Where Are Libraries?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.98122...@ordeal.unixgeeks.org>
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There is a utility out there called "rpmfind". I can't remember the URL,
but I DO remember that a search on hotbot.com got me where I needed to go.
-----------------
Lucid Dream
www.unixgeeks.org
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Lane Lester wrote:
> I apologize for being a nuisance, but I've wandered around my RH CD
> without figuring out where the libraries are that are mentioned in this
> error message:
>
> libguile.so.3 is needed by gnucash-1.1.23-4
> libXmHTML.so.1.1 is needed by gnucash-1.1.23-4
> libXm.so.1 is needed by gnucash-1.1.23-4
>
> And if there's a good way to find such things, I'd love to know what it
> is. I'm getting a pretty long list of programs that I'd like to try,
> but I lack some library or compiler or something that's needed.
>
> Lane
>
> ----
> Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
> ----
> Brought to you by Red Hat Linux 5.2
>
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 10:50:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Ghens <mic...@spconnect.com>
To: "Hossein S. Zadeh" <hos...@bf.rmit.edu.au>
cc: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Re: dhcpd lease starts on GMT (not local time)!!
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.981223...@merlin.spconnect.com>
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I was currious about this too, since my dhcp server was in UTC (GMT) time.
I have the ISC dhcp v2.?? server on my system.
This is what the man page states:
dhcpd.leases(5) dhcpd.leases(5)
NAME
dhcpd.leases - DHCP client lease database
DESCRIPTION
The Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server keeps a per-
sistent database of leases that it has assigned. This
<snip>
Lease times are specified in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT),
not in the local time zone. Since Greenwich is actually
on Daylight Savings Time part of the year, there is proba-
bly nowhere in the world where the times recorded on a
lease are always the same as wall clock times. On a unix
machine, one can often figure out the current time in GMT
by typing date -u.
Also, as for RH5.1, it was a symlinke from /etc/localtime to
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific
RH part of the problem for people who upgrade, was that there is no longer
a Pacific (new).
Michael
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Michael Ghens Small Planet Connections
Internet: mic...@spconnect.com Santa Barbara, CA
http://www.spconnect.com/~michael
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unix is user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Hossein S. Zadeh wrote:
> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 18:34:49 +1100 (EST)
> From: Hossein S. Zadeh <hos...@bf.rmit.edu.au>
> Reply-To: redha...@redhat.com
> To: redha...@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: dhcpd lease starts on GMT (not local time)!!
> Resent-Date: 23 Dec 1998 07:47:27 -0000
> Resent-From: redha...@redhat.com
> Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ;
>
> On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Steve Borho wrote:
>
> > Go look at the errata page for redhat 5.1. There was a missing symlink
> > that is possibly causing your problem.
>
> Steve,
> Care to tell me where on the errata? Looked and looked, but didn't find
> anything even remotely related to dhcp.
>
> cheers,
> Hossein
>
> ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------,
> | ...Mary had a little ram and Windows was so slow... |
> |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:56:28 -0500
From: Tom Burke <to...@erols.com>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Re: removing the EOL
Message-ID: <36813CDC...@erols.com>
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THere's (I think) a UNIX2DOS & DOS2UNIX command (or something to that effect)
that will fix that. If the cpy is actually an ftp, then change from binary
mode to ascii (or vice versa)
Ronnie Thum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Whenever I copy files from Linux to Windoze, I get those black boxes (EOL)
> and all written on one longggg line.
> I use Notepad to view those text file, mostly HTML
>
> How can I prevent this ?
>
> TIA
>
> Ronnie
>
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 18:52:51 +0000
From: Fred Whipple <fwwh...@syr.edu>
To: randy...@adelphia.net, redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Hack attempt - was it successful?
Message-ID: <36813C03...@syr.edu>
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Randy et all,
I have my RPM database on physically locked media (Zip disk) and
verified all (most, probably) root-kit affected RPM's. All set on that
front.
I've checked the process list for anything fishey, and it looks okay (as
far as one can see with the process list).
I did install the latest version of imapd, however, on a different host
when someone tried to hack in the daemon reported "hack attempt" in the
syslog. Not so this time. This worries me. That the log didn't say
anything about whether or not the user is authenticated worries me as
well.
As far as devices go, I found the following things not owned by a any
package:
file /dev/cdrom is not owned by any package
file /dev/mouse is not owned by any package
file /dev/ptyp is not owned by any package
file /dev/ptyq is not owned by any package
file /dev/ptyr is not owned by any package
file /dev/ptys is not owned by any package
file /dev/tape is not owned by any package
I double check each sym. link I made myself, inc. cdrom, mouse, and
tape, but I can't account for the other devices -- what are they?
/dev]# ls -l ptyp ptyq ptyr ptys
-rw------- 1 root root 74 Sep 7 1997 ptyp
-rw------- 1 root root 68 Jan 22 1998 ptyq
-rw------- 1 root root 87 Aug 28 12:58 ptyr
-rw------- 1 root root 61 Aug 28 12:58 ptys
Should I be worried yet?
Thanks.
-Fred
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:54:25 -0500 (EST)
From: David Kramer <da...@kramer.ne.mediaone.net>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: RE: cracker / nslookup question
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.98122...@kramer.ne.mediaone.net>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Ed Lazor wrote:
>
> Am I doing something wrong when I try to use the whois
> command? It doesn't seem to be working for me.
>
> For example, I do nslookup www.linux.org (see listing A)
> and then run whois (see listing B) and don't seem to get
> any information to come out.
>
>
> --- Listing A -----------------------------------
> > nslookup www.linux.org
> Server: ENGR.ORST.EDU
> Address: 128.193.54.1
>
> Name: www.linux.org
> Address: 198.182.196.55
>
> --- Listing B -----------------------------------
>
> > whois 198.18...@whois.arin.net
> No match for mailbox "198.18...@WHOIS.ARIN.NET".
>
> * -- DoD Network Information Center --
> * For General User Assistance Call (800) 365-3642 or (703) 821-6266
>
> The DoD Network Information Center contains ONLY
> information about the .MIL Domain, IP Address space managed by
> the US DoD, and other services provided by the DoD NIC to DoD
> subscribers. For information pertaining to non-DoD Domains and IP
> address space try one of these associated servers:
> American Registry for Internet Numbers whois server - whois.arin.net
> European IP Address Allocations whois server - whois.ripe.net
> Asia Pacific IP Address Allocations whois server - whois.apnic.net
> US Government whois server - whois.nic.gov
Offhand, I would say the problem is that the whois server you are querying
claims to handle only .mil addresses. Although linux includes
encryption that some would claim constitutes munitions, I belive they
have not yet been made part of the military. Try using another whois
server.
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:56:02 +0100
From: "Anthony E. Greene" <agr...@pobox.com>
To: <redha...@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: removing the EOL
Message-Id: <1998122318...@fmol.5sigcmd.army.mil>
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Ronnie Thum <cwt...@network2.cs.usm.my> wrote:
>
>Whenever I copy files from Linux to Windoze, I get those black boxes (EOL)
>and all written on one longggg line.
>I use Notepad to view those text file, mostly HTML
>
>How can I prevent this ?
First you can get a text editor like Programmer's File Editor
<http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/> that understands different EOL
formats. PFE is freeware, freely redistributable, and very powerful. It has
a toolbar, editable macros, extensive help, programmable keys, and lots of
other customization.
Alternatively, you could stick with Notepad and just use unix2dos to
convert. The RPM is available at Red Hat and it's mirrors, probably in the
contrib section.
--
Anthony E. Greene <agr...@pobox.com>
Home Page & PGP KEy <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/>
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 12:45:05 -0600
From: "Walter B Kulecz, PhD" <wa...@wahine.jsc.nasa.gov>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: RE: Re: switching external Iomega drives
Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.1998122...@wahine.jsc.nasa.gov>
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>> I've got an Iomega ZIP and a Ditto tape drive, both external parallel
>> port models, but I haven't used the Ditto yet. Wondering if I can swap
>> them without shutting down. I guess the idea is something like
>>
>> 1. Unmount ZIP
>> 2. turn off ZIP
>> 3. unplug parallel cable
>> 4. plug parallel cable into Ditto
>> 5. turn on Ditto
>> 6. mount Ditto
>>
>> Lacking any other assurances, I have to assume this is a bad idea, but
>> it's such a chore to have to restart all the time...
>
>The hardware aspect of this is that the parallel port lines are
>unterminated.
>Thus, static charge or a transient could blow something on the port. A
>pity if it was on your motherboard.
>
>My suggestions:
>
>(1) Get a parallel port card and use that. If you blow it, at least the
>MB is safe.
>
How so? I've seen plenty of fried MBs that went along with the modem card
that was plugged into an ISA slot.
The parallel port supplies no power and is designed for TTL compatible I/O,
its about as robust as anything. Powering down printers and plugging in a
different one without shutting off the computer has never caused us any
hardware troubles.
I don't know if the ZIP and Ditto are probed and configured at boot or not
since I have neither, but if you can compile their support as a module then
you could load and unload it dynamically and everything should work.
Doesn't the ZIP have a parallel pass-thru? Have you tried the Ditto
plugged into it?
A pox on all these parallel port devices anyhow. SCSI was designed for
this kind of thing. If people were't pennywise and pound foolish, SCSI
volumes would be up to where these stupid parallel and IDE interfaces
offered no savings.
--wally.
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 00:27:41 +0530
From: "Binoj.R" <bi...@vsnl.com>
To: redha...@redhat.com
Subject: Creative Exxtreme 3d AGP and X Windows
Message-ID: <36813D25...@vsnl.com>
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Hello,
I am running RH 5.1 on an IBM 6x86MX300 64Mb
How can I configure X windows to run on Creative Exxtreme 3d AGP (
4mb) ?
Are there any specific X Servers for it?
I have tried using XConfigurator. But the screen goes blank when I
try to start X windows.
Can anyone help ?
Thanks in advance.
Binoj
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