March 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] /dev/{random,urandom}
by keith＠HaggleWare.com 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

Hello all. Silly question, not SuSE specific but I'm sure one of yas knows the answer. What's the difference between /dev/random && /dev/urandom? Thank yas! /* ** Keith Warno ** Make Us An Offer, Inc. ** Real-Time Online Haggling ** http://www.HaggleWare.com/ */ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Helix on 6.4 ?
by deem＠wdm.com 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

Will SuSE 6.4 have this ? http://www.helixcode.com/desktop/packages.php3?distribution=suse&mirror=140… Just a thought. W.D.McKinney (Dee) deem(a)wdm.com "The trouble with doing nothing is it's hard to tell if you are finished." -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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RE: [SLE] Can't explode TrueType rpm
by tduggan＠dekaresearch.com 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

To quote Lenz from a while ago: "You can us the Midnight Commander (mc) to extract single files from an RPM." Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: George Zeigler [SMTP:genz1968@mtu-net.ru] > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 2:43 PM > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: [SLE] Can't explode TrueType rpm > > Hello, > I found a TrueType rpm at > http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/contrib/noarch/noarch/webfonts-1-3.noarch > .html > But the rpm won't install because it needs for me to install the > program > chkfontpath. Well I don't want to install this program. I just need > the > fonts. > I tried > rpm --nodeps * > '*' since if was the only file in the directory. This did not > work. > Is there a way to explode this rpm, even though I do not have depency > programs > installed. Just want the fonts. I read the man. The --nodeps did > not work. > > MicroSoft's site no longer offers Times NewRoman, Arial, and Courier > in > Win3.1 format, in case someone directs me there. > > Thanks > George > > -- > To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com > > Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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RE: [SLE] can't mount floppy from 6.3 with RH 5.0
by tduggan＠dekaresearch.com 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

Hi, The problem has to be in how he is trying to mount it. How is he doing it? Is he leaving out the type option? It should look like this mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /(preferred mount point) Can you provide more info? Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: joe lerch [SMTP:joelerch@earthlink.net] > Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 9:45 PM > > I tried two times to take a floppy to work with wvdial on it. Both > times the > fellow says his RedHat 5.0 system will not read the floppy. My son's > system with SuSE 6.3 reads the floppy with no problem. I formated the > floppy to the 1440, ran mke2fs and copied the files to it. > > He told me his system says he needs some kind of parameter, but I > don't know > what is wrong. Can someone explain to me why his RedHat 5.0 system > won't mount a floppy made by my SuSE 6.3 system, and what I must do > to format a floppy that he can read with his RedHat system. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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RE: [SLE] Making yourself have root permissions
by RYagatich＠csn1.com 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

FIRST AND FOREMOST: SORRY, i think my mind was wandering a little beyond the original point of the thread to begin with. your real question was: why shouldn't i be logged on as root to go on internet.... (brief but to the point) as a summary of what everybody else has said, and then some more input on my own, you have to look at how important your system is to you, and how much you are willing to risk getting hacked. there are a lot of little script-kiddies out there who search around the internet looking for guest accounts, test accounts etc. if they find ANY account on a system, and are able to break into it they then attempt to get root (obviously). some things can be done, including reading of im-properly setting log file permissions. ex: say user test has permissions to read and write to your log file, then they can see that the user root logs in a lot, they delete the entry of them logging in. This of course can also be done with finger as well (at least to see when login was last performed) They then replace a common file masked by it's original contents so you run it (like ls, more, less, adduser, YaST, startx)... the command allows them to be added to the root group! they now have access to the machine and are ready to cause total system failure, which as you probably know, or could've guessed loss in business transactions, cost in repairs, you know the drill. now of course there are countermeasures to take as well, like typing in full path commands ( like /bin/ls -l -a ./) instead of just ls. that however gets tedious. The best thing to do with power is to leave it alone. ryan --since all my writing is just a jumble of words jotted down in a new window, it's now your job to organize these thoughts and hope that you can make some logical sense out of the matter. Why? Because I can't!-- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] some kind of java rad tool for linux???
by maqish＠wish.net 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

Hey ya'll is there some kind of java rad tool for linux, besides Netbeans an Some borland products?? greetinx Maqish <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hey ya'll is there some kind of java rad tool for linux, besides Netbeans an Some borland products??</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>greetinx </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Maqish</FONT></DIV></BODY>

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[SLE] suse database question
by rlyons＠faithdesign.com 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

I have been acked to put together a database for my job the will track the flow of grants through the organization. This system is to record grant request and to track grants that are pending payment by our org. Because My job thinks the M$ is great they requested that I develop the database application using M$ Access. My question is this..Is there any other tool that I can use to do this project in linux. I would prefer to do something that I could control and create outside of X Windows. One of the tricky parts about this is that it 1 - must run on a windows platform and 2 - must be able to be eventually ported to a web application. If I have to use Access I will, but any help would be great. Thanks, Robert -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] netscape and network
by waterman＠interlog.com 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

Hi, I'm wondering whether this is quite a common problem on private LAN, with ppp dial up account and Netscape lock up. What happens is that when off line Netscape freezes and sometimes crashes X's. I'm wondering if this is related to netscape forcing DNS lookup?. However when off line and I log as root, Netscape works off line with no problems. Other than that my network works fine. For any suggestions in that regard I would be thankful. cheers, Peter. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Date format in syslog files: can they be set to iso8601?
by e.maryniak＠pobox.com 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

Helo syslog guru's ;) Current entries in syslogd files like /var/log/{messages,warn} etc. look like: Mar 6 18:15:30 yourhost somed[pid]: bla from somed. However, I would like to have the date in ISO 8601 format, which is CCYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS ref: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html (strictly speaking this is not true; there are several formats, but the so-called extended format looks like: CCYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS, note the "T" conjunctor). But anyways, I would like to have something like: 2000-03-06 18:15:30 yourhost somed[pid]: bla from somed. because I find it has better sorting characteristics and lends itself better to unified processing (note that more and more programs, like Samba and gpg are already using this format). I could not find, however, how to influence this format (well, other than recompiling syslogd ;-), as can be done with some other programs where you can influence a LogFormat strftime(3)-wise like %{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}t ? (I looked in the man pages of syslog, syslogd and syslog.conf and looked in /etc/syslog.conf). Or should I set some LOCALE that supports this date format and is used by programs such as syslogd? Bye-bye, Eric Maryniak -- Eric Maryniak <e.maryniak(a)pobox.com> Home page: http://pobox.com/~e.maryniak/ University of Amsterdam, Department of Psychology. Tel/Fax: +31 20 5256853/6391656. Internet: http://www.neuromod.org/ My software never has bugs. It just develops random featur zero division: core dumped. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Cu-See-Me Client
by molnarc＠nebsllc.com 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

Does anyone know of a Cu-See-Me client (that works) for Linux or a java web client? I maintain a mirror site and am being forced to run a windows based client to monitor and this really sucks! I spend more time re-booting windows than looking at the reflector. Any ideas? Chris -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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