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<FONT COLOR="navy">mouse wheel and netscape
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Mon, 03 Apr 2000 14:03:18 -0500
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<BR>From: Greg Walker <<A HREF="mailto:greg.walker@vanderbilt.edu">greg.walker@vanderbilt.edu</A>>
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<P> This configuration may not be immediately obvious to the unseasoned
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Linux user, therefore, I thought it would make a good two cent tip.
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Furthermore, the information does not seem readily available (at
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least I had trouble finding it).
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<P> To enable the mouse wheel, place the following line in XF86Config
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under the pointer section
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ZAxisMapping 4 5
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<P> This will allow emacs, xterm, ... to receive mouse wheel events. For
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netscape, also add the following lines to .Xdefaults (be sure there
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is only a newline after the "\" that ends a line.
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Netscape*globalTranslations: #override \
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Thu, 13 Apr 2000 01:17:07 +0200
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<BR>From: David Pravec <<A HREF="mailto:dave@anapol.cz">dave@anapol.cz</A>>
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<P> Hello,
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For those who are changing HDDs very often, here is small ugly
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but working utility which I wrote.
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It detects filesystem types of all accessible partitions and
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checks/mounts them in folders named after device (hda7,hdb1,hdb3,sd1,...).
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<P> So you will never have to write sequences of fdisk,fsck,mount,df...
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<P> <A HREF="misc/tips/allfilesys.sh.txt">allfilesys</A>
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Traceroute Resources
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Thu, 20 Apr 2000 22:00:27 +0300
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<BR>From: Rafael Stekolshchik <<A HREF="mailto:klivlend@internet-zahav.net">klivlend@internet-zahav.net</A>>
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<P> Hello,
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<P> You maybe interested in checking the site
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"Tracerote Lists by States. Backbone Maps List"
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<A HREF="http://cities.lk.net/trlist.html">http://cities.lk.net/trlist.html</A>
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<P> You can find there many links to the traceroute resources
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sorted by the next items:
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<UL>
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<LI> Traceroute List by States
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<LI> Traceroute against Spam
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<LI> Other Traceroute Lists
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<LI> Traceroute and other tools
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<LI> Traceroute Analysis
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</UL>
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<P> Other thing is the List of Backbone Maps, sorted by Geographical
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Location, also some other info about backbones.
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Tips in the following section are answers to questions printed in the Mail
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">About Linux
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Tue, 4 Apr 2000 10:42:08 +0300 (EET DST)
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<BR>From: Marius ANDREIANA <<A HREF="mailto:rocky@ss.pub.ro">rocky@ss.pub.ro</A>>
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<P> Hi
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P> I would really like to see case studies on switching to Linux form other platforms.
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Recently there was an article in LG, about a big polish hotel which
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did that and pretty happy about it. Check it out.
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<P> We currently use Windows NT Terminal Server Edition. How hard would it be to go to Linux?
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You'll have to learn a little. On NT you click several times, use some
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wizards, reboot from time to time and everyhitng it's fine. If
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it isn't, reinstall and it will be.
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Using Linux means you also know what you are doing. You'll click
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more times, even use the keyboard :), ask on irc/mail list/news about
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something which you can't figure out etc. But you'll have a
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strong, performant, secure platform.
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P> - We have two TSE servers with approximately 30 users each logged in on average. In total, we have about 130 users but
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it is a manufacturing plant and many people share terminals.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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sounds to me like a perfect case for Linux :)
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P> - We use Citrix Metaframe, for Load Balancing and failover. Is there a product for Linux that offers this option?
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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Ah ! The Windows world, with lots of _great_ products, which improve
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performance of your system, maintain it etc etc.
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<P> You don't need these on Linux, because it does it by itself.
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With under 200 users, I don't think you'll need more than one server.
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Sure, that server won't be a Pentium PC. I'm not into hardware,
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can't say too much here, but there are many options.
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<P> - Dependability. I have to reboot my TSE servers once a week. Last week a new HP printer driver caused about 40 blue
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screens of death before we figured out what was going on.
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I've heard that on Windows 2000 presentation by Bill Gates, he outlined
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that there were machines running for even 90 days without a reset.
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WOW ! ( not to mention the _new_ micro$oft _invention_, the
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symbolic link )
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<P> Will Linux be better?
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You bet. See more articles about introduction to Linux etc.
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Once you start using it, you'll love it. Try and see ;)
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<P> Recently we installed ( at <A HREF="http://www.lug.ro">www.lug.ro</A> ) php, postgresql, configured
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the web server (apache) without rebooting and remotely.
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And no wizards, just the shell, from an old university
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text terminal. It took about 15 minutes untill I had it running.
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I'd say that's cool, isn't it ?
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<P> About the uptime, here's the output of the uptime command on a
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sever here in ROmania :
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avva:~$ uptime
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10:22am up 435 days, 17:27, 7 users, load average: 1.16, 1.10, 1.02
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avva:~$
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<P> That ain't much, check
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<A HREF="http://www.uptimes.net">www.uptimes.net</A> for better results
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<P> - Office productivity software. If we are used to MS Office, what will it be like going to something like star-office?
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Better :) I use it from time to time to make some charts, short
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paper works etc. If you're really into publishing, LaTeX is the
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answer. And don't forget about the free great database engine,
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PostgreSQL. (you don't keep data in an Excel sheet, don't you ?)
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How about a web/desktop interface for it ? No problem !
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<P> - Anti-virus programs? Is there an antivirus program to scan mail stores (sendmail POP server)?
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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If you use Linux and no windows at all, you won't need that.
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Besides being harder to infect a Linux system because of file perimisions
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and ownership, there's a problem with anti-viruses. The viruses must
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appear first, and _later_ the anti-viruses. I can't afford to wait
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that delta t, both at home and at work, so I use Tripwire, an 'utility'
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which scans your filesystem and based on the rules you define, makes
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a database of their CRCs or something like that. If a file get's modified
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you are notified acording to the rules. There's a free version of it and
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a better commercial one. (see their website for more info). I use it as
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an antivirus, but it's for network security.
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<P> -Security. How good is Linux at keeping users honest? With TSE you can delete or overwrite files in the system
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directories as a user. Can't delete a system file?
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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Linux is Unix-like, which was designed from ground up for network, multi-user,
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multitasking etc. So it's extremly good at it. On my PC at home, I made
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more accounts for my relatives (they didn't know how to use a computer
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initially), and I can happily leave them alone. Besides the graphical
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interface being in my native language (and I'm proud I contribute to that)
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in the worst case they can delete their personal files. They don't have the
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rights for the rest :), not even each other's.
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You can also make groups for different departments. Each user will have
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his/her own account, which could be part of one/more departments.
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<P> As I said, once you get to know Linux better, you'll delete even your
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windows backups :)
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You can always find help in the Linux community (but make sure you
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Read Those Fine Manuals first), or even pay for commercial support.
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<P> See ya around !
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<P> Marius
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<P> --<BR>
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Your mouse has moved. In order for the change to take effect, <BR>
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Windows must be restarted. Reboot now ? [OK]<BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.linuxstart.com/~marius">http://www.linuxstart.com/~marius</A><BR>
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: Pentium-II Xeon and calculation speed
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Sat, 8 Apr 2000 19:00:52 -0600 (MDT)
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<BR>From: Gordon Haverland <<A HREF="mailto:ghaverla@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca">ghaverla@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca</A>>
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<P> Another place to look for speed improvements is
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custom math libraries. A lot of FORTRAN is concerned
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with linear algebra, and for speeding up things like
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LAPACK the place to start is probably getting some kind
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of BLAS. There does exist a couple of had tuned
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BLAS for some Intel-386 family processors running
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Linux, but what looks like the best place to get
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going is something called ATLAS. This is a package
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which tries to calculate an optimal BLAS Level 1, 2
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and 3 library for your machine. It comes pretty
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close to hand tuned BLAS in assembler, and can work
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from C or FORTRAN calling.
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<P> Gord
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Memory greater than 64MB
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Mon, 10 Apr 2000 17:43:53 -0500
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<BR>From: bjones <<A HREF="mailto:wljones@hex.net">wljones@hex.net</A>>
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<P> I used the "free" command on both of my computers, and found that they
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were using only 64 MB of memory in Linux. I had to use the "append"
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addition in LILO to get Linux to see all of it. It appears to be a bios
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problem, and I like this simple solution. As an aside, I never noticed
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a shortage of available memory problem before the fix. Linux worked
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quite well with 64 MB and a 64 MB swap partition. The swap partition
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was never used, to my knowledge, but the manuals threatened death, doom,
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and destruction if I omitted it.
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<P> A quick note: The memory used by the on-board video with the AMD K6-2
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processor cannot be used by Linux. I have 160 MB of memory on that
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computer. Attempting to use all of it caused a kernel panic at boot
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time. I use 8 MB for graphics. Changing the append statement to use
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152 MB worked. I am sure happy about saving that boot floppy.
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<H2>Your Editor wrote:</H2>
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<P> I used to have to use the 'append "mem=8M"' statement, but now I don't
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have to. Which kernel are you using? It may have been something that
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changed in the 2.2 kernels.
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<H2>William replied:</H2>
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<P> Two computers in use:
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(1) 300 MHz K6-2, 160MB memory, S.u.S.E. 6.1, upgraded to 6.3 with a
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giveaway CD-ROM, 1999 Bios that switches to an Adaptec 1520 Bios during
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boot.
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(2) 100MHZ Pentium, 96 MB memory, Sam's version of Red Hat 6.0, 1996
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Bios that switches to an Adaptec 2940 bios during boot.
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<P> I like my computers, and am not concerned about needing an extra tweak
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to reach all the memory. Both machines are Lilo dual boot to Linux and
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M$. They are (ab)used frequently, inside and out. Additional operating
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systems that are now on a bookshelf include OS/2, MS-DOS since 1.0, and
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Coherent 2 through 4. I will probably upgrade Someday Soon, and look
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forward to having "free" see all of my memory without an "append" line
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in Lilo.
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<H2>Your patient Editor asked:</H2>
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<P> Which kernel is it though? "uname -a" will tell you.
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<H2>William responded:</H2>
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<P> 1. K62, 2.2.13 #1 kernel ( remember, this updates S.u.S.E. 6.1, with a
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lower 2.2 kernel)
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<P> 2. 586, 2.2.5-13 kernel
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<H2>Rick Smith <<A HREF="mailto:rsmith13@tampabay.rr.com">rsmith13@tampabay.rr.com</A>> confessed:</H2>
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<P> Sir,
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<P> After chastising Linux Gazette about not needing to put an: append "mem=xxM" statement in lilo.conf, it had to happen! I have been using
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socket seven motherboards for several years and all currently have
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128meg. They all run various versions of Linux: Redhat 5.2, Mandrake 6.1
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and Suse 6.3. I have not had to put an append statement in lilo.conf or
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use a mem= at the Lilo prompt to get all 128meg recognized.
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<P> That is until now! I just bought a FIC SD-11 motherboard, Athlon 700 and
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a new case. I took all the components: memory, drives, nic, video card,
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from one of my socket seven systems and installed them in my new Athlon
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system. (Please note: same drive with Suse 6.3 already installed.)
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Everything seem fine until I ran: free and discovered I only had 64meg
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of memory! So now, I had to put an append statement in lilo.conf to get
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all 128meg recognized. It's definitely a "bios thing".
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<P> BTW: When I upgrade a motherboard, I NEVER need to reinstall Linux but
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almost always need to reinstall Win 9x.
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: Free ISPs for Linux
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Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:53:31 -0400
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<BR>From: John Ruschmeyer <<A HREF="mailto:jruschmeyer@unixpros.com">jruschmeyer@unixpros.com</A>>
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<P> This isn't exactly a burning question but I'd be interested in
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knowing if anyone in the Gazette readership knows of a free ISP
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that supports Linux. All of the ones I've checked out so far
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require Windows and/or Internet Explorer.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P> Check out FreeWWWeb
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(<A HREF="http://www.freewwweb.com">http://www.freewwweb.com</A>). They are the only free
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ISP I'm aware of which uses a stock PPP dialup and has no specific
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browser requirement.
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<P> Although they have a link for downloading software, you want the link
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for signing up if you already have a browser.
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<H2>Paul Garvey <<A HREF="mailto:paul@csn.ul.ie">paul@csn.ul.ie</A>> writes:</H2>
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<P> Try the following link:
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<A HREF="http://www.linux.ie/misc/oceanfree.html">
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http://www.linux.ie/misc/oceanfree.html</A>
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<a name="palm"></a>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: Palm databases and TSVs
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Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:14:38 -0600 (MDT)
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<BR>From: Michael J. Hammel <<A HREF="mailto:mjhammel@graphics-muse.org">mjhammel@graphics-muse.org</A>>
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<P> Thus spoke Nick Bailey <<A HREF="mailto:N.J.Bailey@leeds.ac.uk">N.J.Bailey@leeds.ac.uk</A>>:
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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I have a question about connectivity with/via Linux. I need to pull a
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load of stuff of the Psion, and this is done by getting the files
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converted to tab-separated values by some utilities I've got. I have
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read and (I think) understood how to access a palm database from a
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program running on it, but there's not a lot of stuff on how to get a
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file full of TSVs onto the Palm. I've read the connectivity howto, and
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I also understand how to upload a palm database, but its the format
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conversion between plain text and palm database which looks hard to me.
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There's no obvious tool to do it, and I can't see how in the docs or
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this book I bought. Maybe it will become obvious when I unpack the dev
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tools?
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P> Nah, this is a traditional DB/Spreadsheet conversion issue. You need to go
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from TSV's to CSV's (comma seperated values). The pilot-link software can
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upload some items as long as they are in CSV's. Getting from TSV's to
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CSV's is the hard part. If you're moderately good at regular expression
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handling, you could probably whip up a perl script to do it. The CSV's
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have commas between fields and any fields that have embedded commas are
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enclosed in double quotes. I think you can actually get away with using
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double quotes around all fields, but I'm not sure about that. I only did
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enough work with them to get xnotes working properly (and I use the term
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"properly" very loosely here).
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P> I'm intending to use gcc to make port over a psion app, Vorg
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http://www.polonius.demon.co.uk/Nick/Psion/software.html (this page
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disappears soon when I change ISP). I'm also wanting to put a CD
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database on the Palm Pilot which has a strange and complex structure, so
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I'll be writing a application to support that. I've already bagged the
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gcc port and XCoPilot; I was wondering what else you would recommend?
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P> To be honest, I don't write apps for the Pilot. It was something I wanted
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to do, but there just wasn't enough time in the day to get seriously
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involved in it. One has to pick certain specialties in todays world - mine
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turned out to be graphics. Ah well. Maybe someday.
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P> Thanks a lot for your help, however short. Even "look at the xnotesplus
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source here" would be a help.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P> Ick - the xnotes source probably wouldn't help much. It's just an ugly
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wrapper around pilot-link tools (yep, a bunch of execv's and the like).
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But I think if you can write your parser to go from TSV's to CSV's you'll
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be on your way.
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<P> <hr> <P>
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<a name="pilot"></a>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Re: help setting up pilot-link
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</FONT> </H3>
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Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:24:00 -0600 (MDT)
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<BR>From: Michael J. Hammel <<A HREF="mailto:mjhammel@graphics-muse.org">mjhammel@graphics-muse.org</A>>
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<P> Thus spoke Jon D. Slater <<A HREF="mailto:JSlater@qualcomm.com">JSlater@qualcomm.com</A>>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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I've successfully downloaded and install pilot-link-0.9.0-8.
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I didn't find much documentation. I'm having trouble communicating w/
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my palm.
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I have both a serial cradle and a USB cradle, and I can't get either one
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to work.
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I'm using RedHat 6.1 on a P-II/333 machine.
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Do you know of a good resource for connecting to my PC?
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P> There is a fair amount online. I know I wrote an article for Linux Journal
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a year or two back about how to connect use the pilot-link software with
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your Pilot's serial cradle. Search the Linux Journal site
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(www.linuxjournal.com) - I know it's online there somewhere. I think they
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had another article on the same subject earlier this year or maybe late
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last year.
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<P> I can't speak for the USB cradle, since I've never tried one of those, but
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the serial cable is pretty straight forward. First make sure you know
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which serial port you're connecting to. Then set a couple of environment
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variables from the command line:
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<PRE>
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% export PILOTPORT=/dev/ttyS0
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% export PILOTRATEW600
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</PRE>
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<P> The first one tells the pilot-link software what serial port to use. The
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second tells it what speed to transfer data at. I think you can set this
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to a higher baud rate. I just happen to use this one because I know it
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works for me.
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<P> Now you can just run the pilot link commands:
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<PRE>
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% pilot-xfer -b /tmp/pilot-backup
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</PRE>
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<P> That would backup your pilot to a directory called "/tmp/pilot-backup". I
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can't remember if it will create the directory for you, so you're better off
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making the directory yourself before hand.
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<P> <hr> <P>
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<a name="pilot"></a>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">Other markup languages (troff)
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</FONT> </H3>
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Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:57:31 +1000 (EST)
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<BR>From: Murray Adelman <<A HREF="mailto:murray@ics.mq.edu.au">murray@ics.mq.edu.au</A>>
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Thanks Matej.
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Here are two troff sites. The first is where to get the original Bell
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documents. The second is a new one and I haven't looked into it much.
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<UL>
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<LI> <A HREF="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/vol2/tbl">
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http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/vol2/tbl</A>
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<LI> <A HREF="http://groff.ffii.org/">http://groff.ffii.org/</A>
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</UL>
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You might also want to look in on the newsgroups comp.text and
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gnu.groff.bug .
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in which troff problems are discussed. The second is devoted to
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problems with groff; but a lot of the discussion applies to any *roff.
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<P> <hr> <P>
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<!--================================================================-->
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<a name="pilot"></a>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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ANSWER: <FONT COLOR="navy">KPPP: Users required to enter root-password?
|
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</FONT> </H3>
|
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Fri, 28 Apr 2000 21:44:20 +1000
|
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<BR>From: "Steve & Dee McInerney" <<A HREF="mailto:stedee@bigpond.com">stedee@bigpond.com</A>>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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I have just installed version 6.1 and set up my modem to dial out to my ISP.
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However, when I log on as a user and press KDE>Internet>kppp a pop-up box
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opens up and wants me to enter the root-password! This does not seem right.
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is there a way to avoid having to enter the root pass word when logged on as
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a non-root user?
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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The way I've solved this one was to modify the /etc/pam.d/kppp file to
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include the line at the beginning of the file:
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<PRE>
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auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_console.so
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</PRE>
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