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Re: /var permissions ???

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On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 06:14:45PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently moved /var to the partition windoze used to occupy.
> 
> To do this (after reformatting the partition):
> # mkdir /vartemp
> # mount /dev/hda1 -t ext2 /vartemp
> # cp -R /var/* /vartemp
> 
> I then set up /etc/fstab to mount /dev/hda1 at /var and later wiped the 
> original /var.  It has been a little while so I'm not 100% on exactly what I 
> did.
> 
> The problem is that only root can write to /var or any subdirectories.  So 
> users cannot use `man` and there are other miscellaneous errors.
> 
> I thought this should work:
> drwxr-xr-x  18 root root 1024 May 10 16:21 var
> 
> But it doesn't:
> $ man test
> Reformatting test(1), please wait...
> man: can't create /var/catman/cat1/4071: Permission denied

It looks like you should have cp -a (same as -dpR?) to preserve the
permissions for the subdirectories of /var.  Consider this:

bart:~$ ls -ld /var
drwxr-xr-x  19 root root 1024 May 15 23:24 /var
bart:~$ ls -ld /var/catman
drwxr-sr-x  12 man  root 1024 Jun 13 06:53 /var/catman
bart:~$ 

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Re: A WinNT 4.0 registry editor for Un*x?

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I would like a copy of this file on the registry.
jm

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:

> Ulisses Alonso wrote:
> 
> > Hi all
> >
> > Does such thing exist?
> 
> nothing exists that I know of...however...I do have a file which describes the
> registryit gives byte offsetts...all sorts of
> info
> possibly enough info to write an editor (somebody decided to spend a few
> sleepless
> nights and compile such a file, covers win3.1, win95 and NT)
> It was not written by M$...and I doubt they would give out the info without
> signing some serious NDAs and probably giving them a good amount
> of $$ ..and even then they might not tell you much
> someone asked me to write one..and gave me this file but...
> it is way to complex for meand looks like a PITA to work with...
> I am forrced to wonder if this convoluted system is some brilliant system 
> which
> was
> made purposfully convoluted so that noone else can work with it without help 
> from
> 
> M$ or if it is just one more example of very very poor planning and bad
> programming
> (I am inclined to believe the latter over the former)
> (BTW if you want that file on the regisrtyI think I can find it...)
> -Steve
> 
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Re: Big HD problems - How stuffed am I?

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I had a similar problem with a bad IDE controller once.  If you've upgraded
your kernel recently you might need to look at the kernel docs. related IDE
chipsets and see if yours has any known issues.  You might also want to
check for loose cables, poor cable routing, bad power supply etc.  I doubt
that 2 drives would go bad at the same time but much of the control
electronics for IDE are located on the drive so maybe one bad drive could
cause trouble for another on the same cable.

On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 10:27:43PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Been having some problems with two of the HDs in one of my machines.
> Both are Quantum TMs (a 2.3 and a 3.2, i believe), both on the first IDE
> chanel.
> 
> The drives will pause and make a funny noise (which is never a good
> sign, AFAIK). Then I'll get an error message, like the ones below.
> 
> irq timeout: status=0x80 {Busy}
> 
> hdb: read_intr: status=0xff {Busy}
> 
> ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xd0
> 
> That's not all of them, but as many of them as I managed to copy down.
> 
> For a while they would pause, give the error, and then start up again,
> but lately my computer has completely frozen up a few times, and now it
> refuses to boot at all.
> 
> It seems like both of the drives have the problem, although one was
> getting a little more scrambled than the other. Seems sort of strange
> that they would both die at the same time (they were bought at different
> times from different places)!
> 
> The other IDE channel has a CD-ROM and another HD on it (a 1.2G
> Seagate), and doesn't seem to have any problems that I have seen.
> 
> Anyone have any idea what is causing these probelms? Have both my HDs
> died at once (that sort of hits the hip pocket in a big way!), or is it
> something else that might be contributing to it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> damon
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Re: Internet telephony?

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On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 12:55:29PM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> 
> Is anyone aware of internet telephony software that could run on debian?
> Preferable but not exclusively open source.

Check out Speak Freely .  I did
have some trouble getting it to work with the Alsa sound drivers but it
works fine with the OSS drivers and I really didn't try that hard with Alsa. 
There are also Win16 and Win32 versions available.

> 
> In addition, what hardware + services would be needed to get it and keep
> it running?

Just a sound card, preferably one that supports full duplex under Linux.

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Re: I can't beleive this

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On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 02:40:35PM -0500, Michael Stenner wrote:
> 
> Re: "They are willing to sacrifice fine-grained control for simplicity"
> 
> But it shouldn't be an "exclusive or".  As time has passed, I have come
> to respect the people who view computers as tools.  They don't want to
> have to learn, they don't want to have to configure, and they don't want
> fine-grained control.  They just want to run mathematica, or type some
> documents, etc.

This attitude is probably the biggest reason why the computer industry is in
it's current deplorable state.  Go into just about any computer store and
have a look around.  The vast majority of the products on the shelves are
complete junk.  The sales people don't know anything about the products they
sell and the writers for most computer magazines know less than your
average 15 year old.  Most of the Pentium based machines in people's homes
today don't even have any L2 cache (this isn't an issue with P2).  We're
talking about a feature that costs the manufacturer maybe $15 and adds 30%
or more to the system's performance.  Most newer systems are using a
motherboard/case design that is completely incompatable with aftermarket
motherboards in order to keep people from upgrading.  Most of the bundled
printers can't even hold both their color and black ink cartridges at the
same time.  No one who had even half a clue would buy such a thing and yet
these are the most common.  Need more examples, how about Win-modems,
Win-printers, Win95 etc.

Frankly, I don't think the average consumer is qualified to buy a computer
in todays market and they sure as hell are not qualified to choose an OS.

>   Now, if we decide that we are not interested in those types of
> users, that's fine.  With a limited amount of resources, we might just
> decide that we'd rather put the time into other things.

Even now Linux makes a pretty nice pre-installed, pre-configured, remotely
maintained workstation.  We still need to grow a bit more to encourage
hardware and software vendors to support us but that's already happening. 
I think the best that we can do for now is to continue to build a solid yet
flexable base that appeals to the best and brightest from those other OS
camps.

>   It is neither fair nor reasonable, though, to dismiss them as
> lazy.  It is just not worth the time for some people to read docs or
> tweek config files when they don't have to.  (And they don't with RedHat
> and Windows... at least, not as much)

Windows has become a big, complicated, unstable, unmaintainable mess.  I
have yet to see a Win95 system that was more 6 months old and still working
properly.  Sure people still manage to get stuff done but they also spend a
lot of time dealing with crashing programs, corrupt registries, "lost"
devices, and new programs breaking old ones.  

The great thing about Linux is that it is so flexible that it can be used
to create very customized simplified systems (from the end user point of
view) using whatever harware makes sense for their particular application.

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Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

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On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 02:40:30AM +0100, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote:
> > 
> > 2) Edit /etc/init.d/xdm and insert an 'exit 0' at the top of the file.
> >Xdm will not even start or listen with this option.
> >  
> Thanks for these suggestions. I'll get an eye on these possibilities ASAP.

Or just do:
chmod -x /etc/init.d/xdm

turning xdm back on would be:
chmod +x /etc/init.d/xdm

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Re: Best hardware?

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On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 12:42:17PM -0400, Bart Szyszka wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can anyone recommend some sites with good reviews of hardware for
> Linux? I'm looking for something like www.computers.com , except
> that they'd recommend the best graphics cards, monitors, etc. for
> Linux instead of for Windows.

For the most part, good hardware is good hardware reguardless of the OS.  If
you look at the Windows NT or OS/2 newsgroups you'll find that the hardware
recomendations are surprisingly similar.   Stuff that only works on Win9x
is generally a PITA even there.  If you are looking for something specific
then your best off finding people/sites dealing with that particular topic. 
For example if you are looking for a scanner, have a look at the SANE
mailing list and web site and find out what those people are using.

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Re: Best hardware?

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On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 09:58:25PM -0400, Bart Szyszka wrote:
> 
> Well see, that's what I mean. There's hardware that is great on Windows, but
> there just aren't any drivers for it in Linux.

Well, like I said the vast majority of Win9X only hardware works very poorly
even in Win9x and the majority of hardware that works well under NT (which
most reviewers will at least mention) also works well under Linux.

> the drivers are more complete. I'm looking for a site that specifically seeks
> out the best hardware for Linux just like CNet's Computers.com attempts to
> seek out the best hardware for Windows.

I've never been very impressed with those types of sites and certainly
wouldn't take their recomendataions too seriously even if I were only
interested in Windows.   


> I'd rather not have to sign up to a
> mailing list for each type of hardware just to find out what my best buying
> options are.

No need to sign up for anything, virtually all mailing lists are archived
and in many cases the big search engines such as deja will carry them as
well.  While your over at deja you can check out both the Linux news groups
as well as groups specific to the hardware you are looking for.  I guarentee
the folks over in alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit know far more about the
latest Abit motherboard (for example) than any reviewer Cnet has to offer.

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 Of course it's very possible that I'm just dreaming and such a
> site doesn't exist yet.
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Re: Best hardware?

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On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 05:14:39PM -0400, Bart Szyszka wrote:
> > Well, like I said the vast majority of Win9X only hardware works very poorly
> > even in Win9x
> Not from my experiences. Printers generally work well.

Win-printers normally share the following problems in Windows:

1. Completely worthless without the manufacurer supplied driver.
2. Printer must be turned on before the computer boots and must not be
turned off unless you want to re-boot.
3. Can only handle one ink cartridge at a time so you have to constantly
swap cartriges.
4. Difficult to trouble shoot because you never really know if the problem
is with the printer hardware or the driver.
5. Break with even minor Windows upgrades.
6. Lock you in to a particular version of Windows since there is no
guarentee that the manufacturor will make drivers for the next version of
Windows and won't work without the driver.

Printers that work with other OSs (even NT) rarely have the above problems
and of course don't limit your choice of OS.

> Monitors generally work well.

I've never seen a Win9x only monitor so I'm not sure what you are comparing.

> Mice/keyboards generally work well.

I've never seen a windows only keyboard or mouse but the special drivers
that come with those "Internet Keyboards" sometimes cause trouble as do some
mouse drivers/utilities (especially when used together).

> Now I need to know how they
> work on the Linux end. I love trackballs and Logitech's Trackman Marble FX
> is just perfect for me, but unfortunately there isn't much support for it on 
> Linux
> besides left/right click and using one of the two extra buttons as a "third" 
> button.
> It wouldn't make sense for me to buy that trackball specifically for a Linux
> desktop when I can't even have the benefits of its four buttons. That's why 
> it'd
> be nice to see a site with a general overview of this type of stuff so I know 
> what
> my options are in terms of multi-button trackballs with configurable extra 
> buttons
> along with the same type of thing for printers, scanners, etc.

I'm sure that situation will improve with the increased popularity of Linux
but in the mean time deja and google can provide the same info.  


> 
> > latest Abit motherboard (for example) than any reviewer Cnet has to offer.
> I'm sure someone reviewing Linux hardware would be much less superficial
> than people like CNet's reviewers who do Windows hardware.

I hope you're right. 

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Re: Middle mouse button behavior changed?

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I use debian testing on two computers.

On both USB mouses still work OK. PS/2 mouses have changed their behavior.
The scrolling direction was reversed as if "natural scrolling" was
set in mouse configuration.

Testing. AutomaticLogin. Switching users

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I haven't used this feature for more than a month, so I don't know
when it was changed in testing distribution.

Previously all was easy. There was text console under Alt-F1 to Alt-F6
and X-window session under Alt-F7.

Now, when AutomaticLogin is not set in gdm3 config, text consoles are
Alt-F3 to Alt-F6, X-windows is under Alt-F2, and under Alt-F1 stays login
screen ready to use. When you login as other user, his session is placed
under Alt-F4 and you can switch between both users. When you try to use
gnome "switch user" it does not work - there is no login screen after it,
only password query for current user.

When AutomaticLogin is set it looks differrent. X-windows session is under
Alt-F1 and text consoles under Alt-F2 to Alt-F6. Gnome "switch user" does not
work and there is no login screen anywhere.

Do anybody know, how can I switch users and use AutomaticLogin at the
same time?

PS1. Yes, I must use Ctrl-Alt-Fn and not Alt-Fn when in X.

PS2. I know, my English is not perfect ;)

Re: networking

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On Fri, 26 Aug 2016, Pol Hallen wrote:

> I suggests him to separate each networks:
> 
> floor1 - 192.168.1.0/24
> floor2 - 192.168.2.0/24
> floor3 - 192.168.3.0/24
> floor4 - 192.168.4.0/24

Why do you want to separate it?
And if you really need separation then why just on floor
borders? Is your organisation divided into floors or
into sections, divisions etc...?
If you really need to separate your organisation sections
use managed switches and VLANs, not subnetworks.

Jerzy

Re: networking

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On Fri, 26 Aug 2016, Pol Hallen wrote:

> >Why do you want to separate it?
> 
> try to discover a network problem when there're many many devices 
> online... if you separate is become "easy" audit network

You divide number of computers affected by a problem by 4 and
add many new problems caused by routing.

> 
> >Is your organisation divided into floors or
> >into sections, divisions etc...?
> 
> this scenario by floors. Is it strange? :-|
> 

The most important reason to add separation to network is
security. And when you need security dividing network into floors
is strange.
We do not know what is your network purpose. What applications,
what servers do you use.
If you need just internet access or access to external servers
for 100-200 computers and have no security constrains then
scenario "by floors" may be the best.
But if it is a typical internal network with few internal servers,
windows applications, shared folders, guests with notebooks looking
for internet access and financial or personal data flying everywhere
then better divide it by organisational units.