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<title>Linux Gazette MailBag Issue #15</title>
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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"</H4>
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<H2><a NAME="mail"><IMG SRC="../gx/mailbox.gif" ALIGN=MIDDLE ALT=" ">
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The Mailbag!</a> </H2>
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Write the Gazette at <A HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com"> gazette@ssc.com</A>
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<H3>Contents:</H3>
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<li><a HREF="./lg_mail15.html#help">Help Wanted -- Article Ideas</a>
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<li><a HREF="./lg_mail15.html#gen">General Mail</a>
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<center><H3> Help Wanted -- Article Ideas </H3></center>
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<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
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Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 22:34:04 -0800 <BR>
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Subject: <B> Copy from xterm to TkDesk </B><BR>
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From: Steve Varadi, <A
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HREF="mailto:svaradi@sprynet.com">svaradi@sprynet.com </A> <BR>
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I have a question maybe someone know simpler solution for this.
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I'm using TkDesk because very easy to use and most of the keystroke same
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as in Win95.
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If I want to copy something from xterm to an editble file I do
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following:
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<ul>
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<li>Select area in xterm
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<li>Open Emacs
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<li>Paste recent selection
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<li>Save file
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<li>Open this file with TkDesk Editor and working with it comfortable
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like in Win95 enviroment.
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</ul>
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Is it any simpler procedure to copy something directly from xterm to
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TkDesk Editor???
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Thanks: <BR>
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Steve
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Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 00:46:33 -0600 <BR>
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Subject: <B> suggestion </B> <BR>
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From: Daniel Strong, <A HREF="mailto:daniels@voyageronline.net">
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daniels@voyageronline.net </A> <BR>
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I would like to see an article on internet games that are
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playable between different OSes... Linux and Win95, Win3.11
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Or just internet games in generall....:)
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thanks..
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Date: Tue, 120dd1 Feb 1997 17:39:52 +0100 <BR>
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Subject: <B> Help formatting a hard disk </B> <BR>
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From: Olivier DALOY, <A HREF="mailto:daloy@cri.ens-cachan.fr">
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daloy@cri.ens-cachan.fr </A> <BR>
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I am desperately trying to install Sparc Linux on a
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1+ box.
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And I wonder how to format a Hard disk drive, from Sun OS, in Ext2FS
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type.
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If you could help me on that point, I would appreciate so much !
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BTW too, congratulations for the job you do, I imagine that it's not so
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easy !!! :-)))
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--
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Olivier DALOY
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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 13:41:05 +0000 (GMT) <BR>
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Subject: Animated Gifs
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From: Andrew Philip Crook, <A HREF="mailto:shu96apc@reading.ac.uk">
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shu96apc@reading.ac.uk </A> <BR>
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I have made some animated gifs for my web page and they should loop.
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However, on Netscape 2.02 + for most unix platforms they stop after one
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cycle.... why!
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.... and how can i make them loop?
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PS. Great Mag <BR>
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Andrew Crook.
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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 01:31:14 -0500 <BR>
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Subject: <B> Computer Telephony Integration </B> <BR>
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From: Charlie Houp, <A HREF="mailto:choup@bellsouth.net">
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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choup@bellsouth.net </A> <BR>
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Is there any interest in Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) in the
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Linux ranks? Has anyone tried working with Dialogic or Rhetorix CTI
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boards on a Linux server? I would be interested in finding information
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on any development of drivers or APIs for these vendors.
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Thanks <BR>
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Charlie
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<center><H3> General Mail </H3></center>
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Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 16:27:02 -0800 <BR>
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Subject: <B> Linux Security </B> <BR>
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From: jtmurphy, <A HREF="mailto:jtmurphy@ecst.csuchico.edu">
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jtmurphy@ecst.csuchico.edu </A> <BR>
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I notice there is a lack of discussion on Linux Security in LG.
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Although you cover many topics that help the average Linux users, you
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fail to see that the security of ones system should be the highest
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priority. It does not matter if one is looking for a easy to convert
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uppercase filenames to lower case filename if they can not keep the bad
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guys out. Please include more discussion on it.
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PS. Check out my Web Page (Address Below). <BR>
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Jason T. Murphy
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The Linux Security Home Page -> http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~jtmurphy
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<blockquote> <I>
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(Actually, I do realize it. In the issue 14 that went up the day you
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wrote is an
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article on basic security by Kelley Spoon called "Linux Security 101" and
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one on Stronghold by James Shelburne called "Stronghold: Undocumented Fun".
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There is also a discussion of security in Jim Dennis' column "The Answer
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Guy". --Editor)
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</I> </blockquote>
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Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 15:14:52 -0500 <BR>
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Subject: <B> Great Magazine </B> <BR>
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From: "Stephen J. Pellicer", <A HREF="mailto:stephen@adata.com">
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stephen@adata.com </A> <BR>
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I just wanted to write to say what a great job The Linux Gazette is
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doing. I've dabbled in Linux for a while, and only recently have I
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started using it extensivly, at work and at home. Like Linux itself
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online information for the OS is a hit or miss affair. Sometimes Linux
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doesn't do exactly what you want to do, how you want to do it. That
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means you have to start digging around and tweaking, researching, and
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figuring out ways to change it. It's nice to see an online publication
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that aids these efforts without adding its own frustrations. Your
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publicaiton is sharp and a service to the Linux community.
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Thanks, <BR>
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Stephens
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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:53:41 -0500 (EST) <BR>
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Subject: <B> TWDT-HTML-14 broken </B> <BR>
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From: Ken Cantwell, <A HREF="mailto:cantwell@afterlife.ncsc.mil">
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cantwell@afterlife.ncsc.mil </A> <BR>
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<P>
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Issue 14's The Whole Damn Thing (HTML) is broken.
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If one saves it as a PostScript file, the first
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page is a lot of stuff overwriting itself,
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and the remaining n-1 pages are blank.
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And n is quite large.
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Ken Cantwell
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<blockquote> <I>
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(Yes, you are right. It is broken. And I didn't have time to fix
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it until late in the month. Very sorry. --Editor)
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Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 18:36:47 CDT <BR>
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Subject: <B> On XV </B> <BR>
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From: "Jarrod Henry", <A HREF="mailto:jarrodh@ASMS3.dsc.k12.ar.us">
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jarrodh@ASMS3.dsc.k12.ar.us </A> <BR>
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Organization: Arkansas School for Math & Science
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Hiya... <BR>
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I was reading LG #14 , and something struck my eye in weekend
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Mechanic. Sure, John Bradley's XV program is INCREDIBLE to say the
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least, but a better alternative for quick and dirty root windowing
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would be to get Xli . Xli allows you to open either -onroot or in a
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window, and the images can be expanded or shrunk to whatever size you
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desire. The XV program (So far as I know) can only tile the objects
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on your root window, while Xli can tile, center, center and tile, add
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borders, etc...
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Xli can be found on sunsite, and thank you for producing such an
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INFORMATIVE and HELPFUL tool to this energetic Linux user :)
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Jarrod Henry
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Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 08:50:05 -0500 <BR>
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Subject: My Vim Article
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From: Jens Wessling, <A HREF="mailto:jwesslin@erim.org">
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mailto:jwesslin@erim.org </A> <BR>
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I should have commented in my article on vim that the auto-commenting
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method I showed should be used carefully. If there is already a
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comment on the line, it will give an error because C does not allow
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embedded comments.
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--Jens Wessling
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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 14:22:44 +0100 (GMT+0100) <BR>
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Subject: <B> beating heart </B> <BR>
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From: Jesper Pedersen, <A HREF="mailto:blackie@imada.ou.dk">
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blackie@imada.ou.dk </A> <BR>
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Your beating haert is very cute, but....It menas that it is possible to
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see if links are within the document hiraki, or outsite, when you move the
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mouse over the link. (which matters
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when one reads it offline). So please reconsider.
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Kind Regards Jesper.
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<blockquote> <I>
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(Okay. Good enough reason for me. We turned it off the first week --
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never meant to leave it on forever anyway. It can be annoying after
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awhile. I only received one letter of complaint about it, but it
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was vehement enough to count for at least 100. I lost it somehow
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or I would have printed it too. --Editor)
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</I> </blockquote>
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 21:07:15 -0800 (PST) <BR>
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Subject: <B> McAfee Discovers First Linux Virus </B> <BR>
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From: "B. James Phillippe, <A HREF="mailto:bryan@Terran.ORG">
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bryan@Terran.ORG </A>
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You know, it never ceases to amaze me how the word "virus" (in computer
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terms) raises such a scare. In reality, the real scare is how careless
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some people are with their superuser account. The following shell script:
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#!/bin/rm -rf /
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causes a hell of a lot more damage then any virus I can think of. Both
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the above shell script and the Bliss virus could be safely avoided if run
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by a regular user (minus that user's home directory). I'm actually in a
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way appreciate of this virus' presence (and the fact that it will safely
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remove itself and is not terribly malicious) because it increases
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Administrator's awareness and brings the over-confidence level closer to
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Earth.
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My point: Virii are bad. So are typos. Think before you su. =]
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# B. James Phillippe # Network/Sys Admin Terran.ORG # <BR>
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# bryan@terran.org# http://w3.terran.org/~bryan # <BR>
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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 00:02:21 -0500 <BR>
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Subject: <B> Linux Journal stuff </B> <BR>
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From: Rick Hohensee, <A HREF="mailto:humbubba@cqi.com">
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humbubba@cqi.com </A> <BR>
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I am NOT an authority on Linux, but those that can do, those that can't
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teach. I have some stuff that may be one half step ahead of some
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readers. Linux is so big that it's hard to come up with a systematic
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means of trying to understand it. It's more a culture than a system.
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Cultures can sometimes be dissected chronologically, and there seems to
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be a correlation in Linux between the more venerable and illustrative
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commands and short names. Sooo, I did a couple of files for my own use,
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'twofers' and '3fers', which are ascii files of brief descriptions of
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all the 2 letter commands in my path and all the 3 letter commands. If
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you want 'em reply. ( I'm in windog at the moment and can't get at
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them.)
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I also have a directory in ~/ called greppers where I keep a file of all
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the full pathnames of every file on my HD, and the generating script
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file. I grep it frequently.
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In re: programming Linux, pfe, the Portable Forth Environment, looks
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pretty good. It compiles as supplied by InfoMagic, and it's hard to
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crash, and it's quite compliant with the recent ANSI Forth standard, as
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is 'Open Boot'. More on Forth at my web page.
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Rick Hohensee, <A HREF="http://cqi.com/~humbubba">http://cqi.com/~humbubba
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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:32:15 +0000 <BR>
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Subject: <B> Put a date in the Table of Contents </B> <BR>
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From: <A HREF="mailto:sewilco@fieldday.mn.org">
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sewilco@fieldday.mn.org </A> <BR>
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Organization: Ford Motor Company - TCAP
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I suggest the date of each issue be in the LG Table of Contents.
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It makes it easier to estimate how current the articles are,
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particularly past issues. As I'm in February 1997, I know the 1997
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copyright suggests that the most recent issue is not very old but
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if I didn't recently see the announcement of the issue then I
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wouldn't know when it appeared.
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For that matter, putting a date on the header of each article may make
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life easier for people who find a page due to a Web search engine,
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or who print a hardcopy...
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<blockquote> <I>
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(Okay, see what I can do to make this more clear for both TOC and articles.
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It's true the copyright date is the way to tell now. --Editor)
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</I> </blockquote>
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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 12:50:00 +0100 (MEZ) <BR>
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Subject: <B> Linux Gazette </B> <BR>
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From: Alex
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After receiving several complaints about some article I posted it now is
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time to send one myself. The article I talk about is ripped out of its
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context and the header implies something (slightly) different than the
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tip I gave.
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The article: "How to truncate /var/adm/messages" in Issue #12.
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Not mentioned: The messages must be saved. Simply doing
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cat /dev/null > /var/adm/messages was not good enough.
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Intention: Explain how to save **every** message, including the
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few lost if the "cp * *.old; cat /dev/null> *" was used.
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By copying half of the thread it does look entirely different and people
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look at me as if I'm stupid. The poster in Issue #13, gne@ffa.se is just
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an example of stupid, incorrect answers to only half the problem.
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By the way, remind me not to fly swedish plains, suppose their captains
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fly as well as their sysadmins know what they're doing. Ever seen a
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"confused and unhappy" syslogd wandering around by changing a name ?
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Last but certainly not least: <BR>
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I find it "not done" to include (and even copyright!!!) my posting in
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this gazette without asking or even notifying me. I understand that
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it can be very hard to do this on every tip but if the sender is not the
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same as the poster this is simply a requirement.
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Without judging the gazette and what it stands for, it is irresponsible
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the way partial postings are included in it. Incorrect information is
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now on the Internet and it is irreversible. People will be reading it
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for years and years. Thank you very much.
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This mail does need an answer, this would only be fair.
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Alex.
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<blockquote> <I>
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(Number 1, I'm not sure who sent your tip in since you say you did not (and
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I believe you). It's just that I usually print the sender's name as
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well as the answerer's, so I'm a little confused. Looking at it without
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your letter, I would have said you sent it. Unfortunately, the original
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correspondence gets thrown away as I edit it for inclusion in Linux
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Gazette. However, I do not throw any of the tip away -- I print exactly
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what is sent to me.<BR>
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Number 2, I don't have time to trace down every tip that is sent to me
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or for that matter to check their accuracy. That's why LG comes with
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a "no warranty" clause. I usually assume that the the sender has
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permission from the originator if other than himself or that it was
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posted in a public place where permission to pass on the information
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is taken for granted.<BR>
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Number 3, the copyright is for Linux Gazette, not the tips or articles.
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Our copying license clearly states that the copyright belongs to the
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authors. <BR>
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I'm very sorry that this has caused you embarrassment. The purpose of
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Linux Gazette is to encourage people to use Linux and to have fun while
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doing it. Someone thought your tip was a good one or they would not have
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sent it in. I am very sorry that only part of it reached us. --Editor)
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<center>Published in Linux Gazette Issue 15, March 1997</center>
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<h5>This page written and maintained by the Editor of <I>Linux Gazette</I>,
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