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<li><A HREF="#tips.1"
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></a>Re: [LG 84] 2c Tips #2 --or--
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><strong>When LILO lies low and you see LI</strong></a>
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><strong>Learning about mail</strong></a>
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><strong>a new language</strong></a>
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<li><A HREF="#tips.4"
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><strong>Linux Router ISP Network Ip pool Details</strong></a>
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<li><A HREF="#tips.5"
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></a>Why is my connection breaking? --or--
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<br><A HREF="#tips.5"
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><strong>security = obscurity, in this case</strong></a>
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<li><A HREF="#tips.6"
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><strong>Headless Linux</strong></a>
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<li><A HREF="#tips.7"
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></a>Re: [LG 85] help wanted #2 --or--
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><strong>Crashing mystery? Try no DRI</strong></a>
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><strong>imac_X-problems</strong></a>
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><strong>Compiling Kernel and Installing on a new machine</strong></a>
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<li><A HREF="#tips.11"
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<FONT COLOR="navy">When LILO lies low and you see LI</FONT></H3>
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Thu, 28 Nov 2002 09:38:15 -0700
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<BR>Neil Koozer (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=neilkoozer@adelphia.net&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%231">neilkoozer from adelphia.net</a>)
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Adding to the
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<a href="../issue84/lg_tips.html#tips/2">Issue 84 2 cent tip #2</a>
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I wish to clarify what the LI result from lilo means.
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The often quoted segment from the lilo readme is sort of backwards in both
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halves of the sentence. When you get LI and nothing else, the second stage
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loader was NOT loaded. A block of bytes was loaded, but from the wrong
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location. This wrong block of bytes WAS executed, but since it is garbage
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Neil.
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Learning about mail</FONT></H3>
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Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:09:30 -0800
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<BR>Heather Stern (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=jhavilan@attbi.com&cc=star@starshine.org&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%232"><em>Linux Gazette</em> Technical Editor</a>)
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<BR>Question by James M. Haviland, RN (jhavilan from attbi.com)
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A continuation of
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<P><STRONG>
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I have installed RH's 8.0. I'll have to admit I'm in Windows at the moment.
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'sokay, that's fixable :> Or if you get really tricky you can convince
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a good copy of <A HREF="http://www.winehq.com/">WINE</A> to use the Windows setup, and run mswin apps even
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Also the e-mail program that came with 8.0 that isn't connected to a
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browser retrieved my mail, but wouldn't, couldn't send my mail.
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That's probably:
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Fetching mail from another serv explicitly (via POP3) works. (This is
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common. Your ISP did all the work setting up and keeping that POP
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server, your mailer just visits it once in a while.)
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Sending mail outbound, no SMTP server is found to talk to. (There are
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a few browsers which will "speak SMTP" on their own, but they are not
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very good mailers on the average, for other reasons.)
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Adding an SMTP server to your setup is usually quite easy; look for an
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RPM package named any one of sendmail, qmail, or postfix. (but you only
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want one of them.)
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">and I forgot to mention that if your ISP actually gives you the explicit
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address of an SMTP server to use, say, mail.isp.example.com, then you
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could try telling that to your mailer, rather than worrying about
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setting up your own.
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-- Heather</font></blockquote>
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Thank you for your time.
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You're welcome
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<FONT COLOR="navy">a new language</FONT></H3>
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Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:55:29 -0800
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<BR>Rick Moen (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=jackdrook@hotmail.com&cc=rick@linuxmafia.com&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%233">the <em>LG</em> Answer Gang</a>)
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<BR>Question by Jack (jackdrook from hotmail.com)
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">Jack asked us a question that was so general Rick answered it with the
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applicable Linux answer...
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-- Heather</font></blockquote>
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<P><STRONG>
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You lost me on the KPPP Tool and Linux. Linux is an OS, right?
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Indeed. Thus the term "Linux Answer Gang", you see.
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<P><STRONG>
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Now, where did I get your address? I asked some friends about how to
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get my telephone to operate through the PC. One person sent me a
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forward with "The Answer Guy" and the address. I believe it to have
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been a page from an old site that contained pertinent information, but
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not the site itself. Does this help?
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Not nearly as much as it would if you inquired with that person and
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tracked down the "old site" for us. That would be much appreciated, as
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we continue to be deluged with misdirected non-Linux queries.
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<P><STRONG>
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I am self-taught, so do not confuse me with high-altitude techtalk,
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just the facts.
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Self-taught was at one time the only way to learn Linux, back when many
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of us got started with it, so we sympathise, and now attempt to assist
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others while, as we say, "Making Linux just a little more fun".
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<P><STRONG>
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What is my best approach for learning a program language?
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Well, first you'd have to install a Linux distribution, of course.
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">Strictly speaking, most of these languages are available for Windows
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too, but some of the mswin implementations may be less than perfectly
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portable, or the documentation may suggest non-portable over portable
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coding strategies. Go for dual booting, perhaps.
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-- Heather</font></blockquote>
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You'll find that it comes with an amazing variety of programming
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language development kits, from C, C++, and Python through tk/tcl,
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Java, Lisp, and heavens knows what else. I personally maintain a list
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of Integrated Development Environment software for Linux, here:
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<A HREF="http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#idedev"
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>http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#idedev</A> . As you'll see, the list has
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grown to pass 100 entries.
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How you would proceed from there would depend on which type of
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programming language you'd like to use, and what you want to do with it.
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Cheers,
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Rick Moen
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Linux Router ISP Network Ip pool Details</FONT></H3>
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Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:24:43 +0530
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<BR>Jim Dennis and the Gang (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=jeevan@asthatech.com&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%234">the <em>LG</em> Answer Gang</a>)
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<BR>Question by jeevan (jeevan from asthatech.com)
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Is it possible for me to run Routing Protocols(ospf,BGP,rip) on my
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Linux Box connected to an ISP (through cable modem) and obtain all the
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network (including subnetwork ip pool)ip pool range of my ISP.
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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[JimD]
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Look for GNU Zebra: <A HREF="http://www.zebra.org"
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>http://www.zebra.org</A>
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It's considered to be the best available package for Linux, and
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has (I'm told) syntax that's reasonably similar to Cisco's IOS.
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[someone else in the Gang expands]
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Of course you can! This is not your grandpa's operating system, here.
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OSPF v. 2 and BGP4/4+ are both supported by either the gated daemon or
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the GNU zebra daemon, both of which should be standard on your Linux
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distribution. Zebra can also do pretty much every variety of RIP (v.1,
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v.2, and RIPng). The standard old routed (prounounced "route-dee")
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daemon can do RIPv1, and gated can do RIPv2. (gated will also do EGP,
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thrown into the bargain.)
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Thanks for replying. But what I wanted exactly to know is that
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should I need any kind of details from the ISP (like Router ip,ASN...)
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or any permission from the ISP for my LINUX Router to have a OSPF
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session with
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the ISP Router.
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With Regards
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<BR>Jeevan
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<FONT COLOR="navy">security = obscurity, in this case</FONT></H3>
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Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:10:33 -0500
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<BR>Faber Fedor (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=bmike1@vei.net&cc=faber@linuxnj.com&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%235">faber from linuxnj.com</a>)
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<BR>Question by Michael Havens (bmike1 from vei.net)
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When I go to login with my online stockbroker
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I get this:
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<P><STRONG><BLOCKQuote>
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"Connection to host www15.scottsave.com is broken"
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Why do you think that is and what do you think can be done about it?
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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Let me guess, you're using the Konqueor 3.0 web browser, right? Konq is
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broken with respect to SSL sites. I have the same problem and I need to
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find an updated Konq to use or switch to another browser.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">I'm not able to verify this; it could just be the same problem as in
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Konqueror 2.x, where the SSL support is a seperate package
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(kdebase-crypto under Debian; your distro may vary), and Konqueror only
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visits non-encrypted URLs if you don't have that package installed.
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Of course it doesn't bother to <EM>say</EM> so... an error message like
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"https: protocol not supported" would have been a little more useful.
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-- Heather</font></blockquote>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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Galeon and Mozilla will work, but you need to d/l the Personal Security
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Manager (PSM). I've looked at installing it and it looks like a PITA.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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Until I find an updated Konq or install PSM, I use an old version of
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Netscape (4.x) which works fine.
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Headless Linux</FONT></H3>
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Sun, 22 Dec 2002 22:54:45 -0800
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<BR>Dan Wilder (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=admin@bsdfan.cncdsl.com&cc=dan@ssc.com&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%236">SSC sysadmin</a>)
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<BR>Question by Steve B. (admin from bsdfan.cncdsl.com)
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I've been looking around and can't find the info I need. How do I
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configure Linux to run headless with a terminal connected to a serial
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port?
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Not quite headless, with a serial terminal connected. I choose to
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call the condition "nearly headless", after the phantom named
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"Nearly Headless Nick" in the Harry Potter series.
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Take a look at:
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Documentation/serial-console.txt
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</BLOCKQuote></P>
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<P>
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in the kernel source. This won't get you quite everything you'd
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get from a console connected. In particular, you don't have access
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to the BIOS. But if you can get past that, you're pretty much
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there. You can even tell LILO to use the serial port, as described
|
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in the documentation file. No doubt there's also a GRUB option
|
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for serial console, if that's the boot loader you're using.
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</P>
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<P>
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As I understand it, there's at least one card which will even
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make the BIOS available via a serial port.
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</P>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Crashing mystery? Try no DRI</FONT></H3>
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Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:19:37 -0500
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<BR>Drew S (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=linux_man_us@hotmail.com&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%237">linux_man_us from hotmail.com</a>)
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<!-- sig -->
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<!-- sig -->
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<!-- ::
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Crashing mystery? Try no DRI
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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:: -->
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<P>
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Something for rajachemist of
|
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<a href="../issue85/lg_mail/#wanted/2">Issue 85 Help wanted #2</a>
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to try.
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</P>
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<P>
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Though you never mentioned what your video card was, I will respond since I
|
|
was having a similar problem with Mandrake Linux 9.0 on my home-built
|
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machine. I was getting lockups all the time and yet I could ssh into the box
|
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from another machine and see that everything behind the scenes was still
|
|
running fine. Just X froze, but it also meant that I could not kill it with
|
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CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE. I happened to have an ATI Xpert 2000 video card (Rage
|
|
128 chipset). The ONE item that fixed it was that the card does not seem to
|
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handle DRI properly. I commented out the line in my XF86Config file that
|
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said: load "dri", restarted X and I never saw the problem again. Perhaps
|
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your problem is similar.
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</P>
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<P>
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Drew
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</P>
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<P> <A NAME="tips.8"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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<FONT COLOR="navy">imac_X-problems</FONT></H3>
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Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:24:46 -0800
|
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<BR>Rick Moen (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=kuettner@tuebingen.mpg.de&cc=rick@linuxmafia.com&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%238">the <em>LG</em> Answer Gang</a>)
|
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<BR>Question by kuettner (kuettner from tuebingen.mpg.de)
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<!-- sig -->
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<!-- sig -->
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<P><STRONG>
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after using linux for several years now on i-586 I tried to install it
|
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on my imac-g4. the problem: I do not get X to run, because of my
|
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NVIDIA GeForce4 MX. I am using debian woody for ppc and don't find
|
|
any hints in the net. can anybody send me a working XF86Config for
|
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XFree 4.1.0 or any other help.
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</STRONG></P>
|
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<P>
|
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It looks like you'll need XFree86 4.2.0 or later, and will have to use
|
|
the "vesa" driver (not the "nv" driver) in 16-bit mode, which is the
|
|
only one supported thus far.
|
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</P>
|
|
<P>
|
|
As you may know, these things do tend to happen with newly introduced
|
|
video chipsets, and Nvidia have unfortunately been notably uncooperative
|
|
with the XFree86 Project.
|
|
</P>
|
|
|
|
<blockquote><font color="#000066">That they didn't buy into the XFCom release sequence (compatible
|
|
binaries, source eventually committed to the open source X code tree) and
|
|
want to roll their own we can understand; but they have to keep up with
|
|
the Xfree86 codebase or it makes them look slow. And act slow, if one has
|
|
to back down to the generic servers in order to work...
|
|
-- Heather</font></blockquote>
|
|
|
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<P> <A NAME="tips.9"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
|
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Compiling Kernel and Installing on a new machine</FONT></H3>
|
|
Sat, 7 Dec 2002 13:11:07 -0800
|
|
<BR>Jim Dennis (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=Sunil.Kayiti@fmr.com&cc=jimd@starshine.org&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%239">the <em>LG</em> Answer Guy</a>)
|
|
<BR>Question by Sunil Kayili (Sunil.Kayiti from fmr.com)
|
|
|
|
<!-- sig -->
|
|
<!-- sig -->
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
I am in a catch-22 situation. There might be an easy answer for this but I
|
|
am not able to work around this problem. Sending this problem here.
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
Server Configuration:
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
|
|
<blockquote><code><font color="#000033"><br> Chipset 440GX
|
|
<br> Micron NetFrame 3400
|
|
<br> Adaptec 7680 SCSI Adapter (aic7xxx - HBA 6.2.8)
|
|
<br> Mylex Raid - DAC960
|
|
</font></code></blockquote>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
Software:
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
|
|
<blockquote><code><font color="#000033"><br> RedHat 8.0 - Linux Kernel 2.4.18-14
|
|
</font></code></blockquote>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
Problem:
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<P><STRONG><BLOCKQuote>
|
|
With 2.4.18-14 there is a problem in the kernel which loops on aic7xxx
|
|
during boot up, hence it does not boot.
|
|
</BLOCKQuote></STRONG></P>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
Solution:
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<P><STRONG><BLOCKQuote>
|
|
Compile the latest kernel 2.4.18-20rc4
|
|
</BLOCKQuote></STRONG></P>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
Catch-22:
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<P><STRONG><BLOCKQuote>
|
|
I built the latest kernel on my other linux machine and wrote it into a
|
|
CD ROM. Now how do I transfer it into my NetFrame Server.
|
|
</BLOCKQuote></STRONG></P>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
I boot into the rescue mode using the installation CD but once in the
|
|
rescue mode, I am unable to eject the CD. I have tried all possible
|
|
mount points to eject the cd but to no avail.
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
|
|
<p><Strong><ol>
|
|
<LI>Is there a any way to transfer the new kernel image into my NetFrame
|
|
PC? I exhausted all options, i,e network (since it is in rescue mode)
|
|
|
|
<LI>Is there a way to disable linux to take control of the CDROM ejection
|
|
mechanism?
|
|
</ol></Strong></p>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
Your help greatly appreciated.
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
Thanks
|
|
<BR>Sunil
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
Suggestions:
|
|
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
|
|
<blockQuote><ul>
|
|
<LI>Use a Tom's Root/Boot floppy.
|
|
|
|
<LI>Burn a bootable CD with the Tom's Root/Boot "El Torito" boot image
|
|
(and your new kernel, etc. in all that other CD-R space)
|
|
|
|
<LI>Use the ifconfig and route commands (on just about any rescue
|
|
CD or floppy) to manually configure your network, then fetch
|
|
a tarball of the kernel and modules (etc) from any other machine
|
|
on your network (using mount -t nfs, or wget or an FTP client).
|
|
|
|
<LI>Install an extra CD-ROM drive
|
|
<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=";)"
|
|
height="24" width="20" align="middle">.
|
|
|
|
<LI>Configure a system on your network as a bootp/dhcpd server, install
|
|
PXELinux, configure it to transfer a custom network rescue kernel
|
|
and initrd system to your server, then configure the NetFrame to
|
|
boot using PXE, etc).
|
|
</ul></blockQuote>
|
|
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
(Okay, that last one is way too much effort for way too little gain
|
|
and the one before that is just plain silly).
|
|
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
|
|
<!-- end 9 -->
|
|
<!-- .~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~. -->
|
|
<P> <A NAME="tips.10"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
|
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
|
|
<FONT COLOR="navy">Partitioning without setup</FONT></H3>
|
|
Wed, 25 Dec 2002 22:46:15 GMT
|
|
<BR>Dan WIlder and Pradeep Padala (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=bmdean@socket.net&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%2310">the <em>LG</em> Answer Gang</a>)
|
|
<BR>Question by Brandon Dean (bmdean from socket.net)
|
|
|
|
<!-- sig -->
|
|
<!-- sig -->
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
Hello,
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
I would like to know what linux program to get that I could use to repartition
|
|
a hard drive without going through setup.
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
Thank You,
|
|
<BR>Brandon Dean
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
[Dan]
|
|
fdisk
|
|
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
See "man fdisk"
|
|
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
[Pradeep]
|
|
If you want to repartition without losing data, GNU Parted is a great
|
|
tool. Details at:
|
|
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
<BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQuote>
|
|
<A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/parted"
|
|
>http://www.gnu.org/software/parted</A>
|
|
</BLOCKQuote></BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
You can also use fdisk or diskdruid but both will destroy the data after
|
|
repartitioning. These two should be installed by default in most of the
|
|
distributions.
|
|
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
|
|
<blockquote><font color="#000066">Don't forget to make good backups first
|
|
-- Heather</font></blockquote>
|
|
|
|
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|
|
<!-- .~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~. -->
|
|
<P> <A NAME="tips.11"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
|
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
|
|
<FONT COLOR="navy">Red Hat 7.3 Installation</FONT></H3>
|
|
Tue, 24 Dec 2002 13:19:39 -0500
|
|
<BR>Pete Keller (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=dhar_mca@jntu.net&cc=pkeller01@snet.net&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%2311">pkeller01 from snet.net</a>)
|
|
<BR>Question by (dhar_mca from jntu.net)
|
|
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
Friends,
|
|
Last week I posed a question for booting with 3 OSes. Thank U.
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
Here I again partitioned ... [lots of stuff about prepared system]
|
|
I am trying boot from boot
|
|
disk. It is coming upto "localhost login:" after which GUI screen be
|
|
displayed. It displays the localhost login: prompt for a second or a half
|
|
and then hangs. I thought its a problem with monitor sync values. Mine was
|
|
samsung's samtron 56V model. But in the list specified - no exact match
|
|
for it. So I opted for the default given (unprobed type)and modified the
|
|
sync values with the ones given in my monitor manual. (My friends who have
|
|
already loaded windows, have not even changed the sync values). One of my
|
|
friend got the same problem. But his system didn't hang but it flashes
|
|
between blank screen and the text based localhost prompt.
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
|
|
<blockquote><font color="#000066">His "chooser" - the GUI login, keeps crashing but the system keeps
|
|
trying to put it back up. kdm, gdm, xdm, one of those dm thingies.
|
|
-- Heather</font></blockquote>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
He was able to
|
|
login. He logged into it with root and modified the Xconfigurator and now
|
|
works fine.
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
Plz assist me.
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
[Pete]
|
|
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
|
|
<blockQuote><ol>
|
|
<LI>press control alt and F1 to get a text login.
|
|
|
|
<LI>login as root and run Xconfigurator
|
|
</ol></blockQuote>
|
|
|
|
<blockquote><font color="#000066">If you're hung too hard for that to work, use the boot loader to put
|
|
yourself in sincgle user mode, then fix the boot runlevel (/etc/inittab
|
|
default entry) to stay in text mode. For Red Hat flavors that's
|
|
runlevel 3. Set it back when you'r sure it's fixed, use startx as a
|
|
user to run X explicitly while experimenting.
|
|
-- Heather</font></blockquote>
|
|
|
|
<!-- end 11 -->
|
|
<!-- .~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~. -->
|
|
<P> <A NAME="tips.12"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
|
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
|
|
<FONT COLOR="navy">is this the right place?</FONT></H3>
|
|
Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:41:44 -0800
|
|
<BR>Mike Orr (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=jhavilan@attbi.com&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%2312"><em>Linux Gazette</em> Editor</a>)
|
|
<BR>Question by James M. Haviland, RN (jhavilan from attbi.com)
|
|
|
|
<!-- sig -->
|
|
<!-- sig -->
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
If I may. Is this the news group of ssc.com?
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
|
|
<blockquote><font color="#000066">I'm the Technical Editor; I'm cc'ing the Gang, so everyone can chime in
|
|
if they like.
|
|
-- Heather</font></blockquote>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
Is it better in the future to write <A HREF="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com"
|
|
>linux-questions-only@ssc.com</A>? Will the
|
|
server accept my e-mail
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
TIA
|
|
Jim
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
|
|
<blockquote><font color="#000066">Yes. Linux-questions-only accepts queries from anybody; members of the
|
|
list see all such messages and are expected to answer a few here and there.
|
|
-- Heather</font></blockquote>
|
|
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
Just to be clear, this mailing list (<A HREF="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com"
|
|
>linux-questions-only@ssc.com</A>) is
|
|
owned by Linux Gazette (www.linuxgazette.com), which is published by SSC.
|
|
However, most of LG's contributors and Answer Gang members are independent
|
|
volunteers not related to SSC.
|
|
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
There is no single ssc.com mailing list or news group. SSC hosts many
|
|
mailing lists, some related to our business and others we host as part of our
|
|
general commitment to Linux and to free software.
|
|
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
Questions about Linux should go to <A HREF="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com"
|
|
>linux-questions-only@ssc.com</A>. Questions
|
|
about SSC should go to... well, it depends on the question. Send it to
|
|
<A HREF="mailto:info@ssc.com"
|
|
>info@ssc.com</A> if you're unsure where to direct it.
|
|
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
There is also linux-list, a discussion list about everything Linux (except
|
|
advocacy or flame wars). linux-list is hosted by SSC and has a strong Pacific
|
|
Northwest emphasis, but we do have people from other regions and people who
|
|
have moved away but still want to keep in touch. To subscribe to linux-list or
|
|
to any of SSC's other public lists, go to <A HREF="http://www.ssc.com/mailman/listinfo"
|
|
>http://www.ssc.com/mailman/listinfo</A> .
|
|
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
|
|
<!-- end 12 -->
|
|
<!-- .~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~. -->
|
|
<P> <A NAME="tips.13"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
|
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
|
|
<FONT COLOR="navy">Switchboard</FONT></H3>
|
|
Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:49:35 -0800
|
|
<BR>Ashwin N and Heather Stern (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=JRook78123@aol.com&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%2313">the <em>LG</em> Answer Gang</a>)
|
|
<BR>Question by JRook78123 (JRook78123 from aol.com)
|
|
|
|
<!-- sig -->
|
|
<!-- sig -->
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
Dear Answerguy,
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
[Ashwin]
|
|
Hi Jack,
|
|
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
There is no longer an answer guy here, but a gang of Linux enthusiasts!
|
|
We answer queries on Linux in our free time.
|
|
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
<P><STRONG>
|
|
I used to have an IBM Aptiva system that had in the bundle a switchboard
|
|
supplied by Phoenix.
|
|
I now have an hp pavilion 7850. It has a modem and phone dialer, but I
|
|
cannot use the telephone through my computer as before.
|
|
Is there some way to connect to my telephone line for normal surface
|
|
telephone lines? What would I need to do?
|
|
</STRONG></P>
|
|
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
[Ashwin]
|
|
If you're using Linux, have you tried connecting using the KPPP tool?
|
|
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
[Heather]
|
|
I'm not sure, but if he means that his computer used to handle the voice
|
|
lines in his office (and yes, there are such things, which have some
|
|
cute GUI app to configure them) ... then he may want to play with the
|
|
program Asterisk, and maybe the hardware "LineJack" or "PhoneJack" by
|
|
Quicknet, which are telephony cards you add to a computer.
|
|
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
If he just means that his computer needs to reach the internet, then
|
|
it's true we have a bunch of dialer-helpers (KPPP is one of the better
|
|
ones; xisp and a few others are out there) ... but he will still need
|
|
to know some basic things like his ISP's phone number, the username
|
|
he was assigned, and maybe some connection features like whether they
|
|
use PAP or CHAP to identify him.
|
|
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
These are all things which his ISP can tell him better than we could.
|
|
</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
|
|
<!-- end 13 -->
|
|
<!-- .~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~.~~. -->
|
|
<P> <A NAME="tips.14"><HR WIDTH="75%" ALIGN="center"></A> <P>
|
|
<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
|
|
<FONT COLOR="navy">ThumbDrive</FONT></H3>
|
|
Mon, 2 Dec 2002 01:57:17 +0100
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<BR>Robos (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=linux_lover2003@yahoo.co.in&cc=robos@muon.de&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%2314">the <em>LG</em> Answer Gang</a>)
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<BR>Question by Syborg (linux_lover2003 from yahoo.co.in)
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<P><STRONG>
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Is it possible to install Linux on
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a thumb drive(size 120 MB).
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Or Can I copy selected files from my normal
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linux installation(RH 7.2 on a 40 GB hard disk)
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and make the thumb drive bootable independently.
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What is the best way to do this?
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I thought of copying files from my
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normal linux installation.But i am in doubt whether
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i can boot this drive in this way.
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Looking forward to your suggestions.
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<P><DL><DT>
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Short answer -- try this:
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<DD><A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/projects/runt"
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>http://freshmeat.net/projects/runt</A>
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</DL></P>
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">A Linux distro optimized for a USB gadget. I like it. So, as
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long as your BIOS supports booting from USB devices, you should be
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golden
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-- Heather</font></blockquote>
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<FONT COLOR="navy">ip address from c program</FONT></H3>
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Fri, 06 Dec 2002 17:25:28 -0800
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<BR>George Victor Tereshko (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=daven@web-wise.com&cc=georget@genesyslab.com&cc=mion@neocom.fr&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%2315">georget from genesyslab.com</a>)
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<BR>Question by Dave N. (daven from web-wise.com)
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<br>Answered By Jim Dennis (The <em>LG</em> Answer Guy), Marian ION
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<P>
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In reply to
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<a href="../issue85/lg_mail.html#wanted/3">LG 85, help wanted #3</a>
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</P>
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<blockquote><em><font color="#000033"><br>I need to identify the ip address of the client fron within a c program
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</font></em></blockquote>
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<P><STRONG>
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On Solaris
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</STRONG></P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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[JimD]
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Grump. This is a Linux magazine.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P><STRONG>
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trace the incoming connections and:
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</STRONG></P>
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<p align="center">See attached <tt><a href="misc/tips/solaris.getting-ip-address.c.txt">solaris.getting-ip-address.c.txt</a></tt></p>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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[JimD]
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If I'm reading it correctly this translates roughly to:
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<blockquote><pre>dmesg | tail -1 | grep " from " | sed -e 's/^.* from //' | cut -c '0-6'
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</pre></blockquote>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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... which could be simplified somewhat in PERL, awk, or Python,
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and could probably be munged to perform most of the string handling
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just using bash/Korn parameter substitution magic with something
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vaguely like:
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<blockquote><pre>... | grep " from " | while read line; do
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line=${line//#* from /}; ipaddr=${line:0:6}; ...
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</pre></blockquote>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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Note: I'm just using shell syntax here because I consider it the
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easiest way to express the concept of what you're doing ---
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a psuedo-code to people like me who use shell extensively.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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Unfortunately this code is not close to what the querent was after.
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He actually wants to have his program do something like:
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<blockquote><code><font color="#000033"><br> if my input/output is a tty then:
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<br> if my tty is an inet domain socket then:
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<br> ask the socket for the remote (source) ip address
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</font></code></blockquote>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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... which will involve the isatty(3) library function and the
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getsockname(2) system call (and some other structs and munging).
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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There's an example of the code for this in Wietse Venema's
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TCP Wrappers sources for tcpd. That code is quite portable, well
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testing (running on almost all mainstream Linux boxes for about a
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decade, as well as most BSD systems, and many others.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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Your code relies on details about how a given system might be
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logging connections via syslog/klog or similar externalities, and
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it's inherently a race (other connections may be logged between the
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time the message gets put in the dmesg ring buffer and the time when
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his code is scheduled to run).
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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I'm not much of a C programmer. I've done a little, even having written
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a simple kernel device driver that's in production use. However, I
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rely very heavily on reading examples of similar code.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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In general when looking for how to do something like this (figure out
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the remote system's IP address from one of your file descriptors) I
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try to think about which programs on my system must be doing something
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similar. Sometimes I run the similar program under strace, even ltrace
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for some hints. Then I grab their sources and read up on it. (Usually I
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can use a man -k or two to make a pretty good guess at which library
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functions or system calls are involved, even without an strace).
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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George, I hope you don't think I'm being hard on you. I realize that
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tech support, particularly trying to help people with programming
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questions, is difficult.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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Dave, I hope this helps. I'm assuming you can figure out the actual
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code on your own. One reason I display my ignorance by telling
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people <EM>how</EM> I discovered whatever I'm suggesting is to "teach the
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world how to fish." I've never written code to use <TT> sockname()</TT> and
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hadn't ever noticed it until I did a man -k socket while writing this
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message.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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[Marian]
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<blockquote><pre>struct sockaddr_in from;
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socklen_t fromlen;
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fromlen = sizeof (struct sockaddr_in);
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getpeername (fdi, (struct sockaddr *)&from, &fromlen);
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printf ("You are %s:%u\n",inet_ntoa (from.sin_addr), (unsigned)ntohs
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(from.sin_port));
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</pre></blockquote>
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Tricky Linux</FONT></H3>
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Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:12:15 -0400
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<BR>Kapil Hari Paranjape, Huibert Alblas (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=Hritesh.Moorjani@zenitel.biz&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%2316">the <em>LG</em> Answer Gang</a>)
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<BR>Question by Hritesh Moorjani (Hritesh.Moorjani from zenitel.biz)
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<P><STRONG>
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Dear Sir,
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</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>
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After soo many years have I waited to use Linux as my principle OS as we
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both know how much problems we have to go through with Microsoft. I've
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waited for years for Linux to be user friendly and finally our prayers have
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been answered. I have over twenty machines in my department and soon if I'm
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able to resolve some of the problems with software compatibility and
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substitutes. I would probably migrate everyone of us to Linux from Windows.
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</STRONG></P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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[Kapil]
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Welcome to the Brave GNU World! But be warned that if you want to
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administer a network of machines in any world you can't depend on
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user-friendly parts but only on the sysadmin-friendly parts!
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P><STRONG>
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My only problem is right now, I have an NT Server running Exchange 5.0 and
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our principle desktop was supposed to be NT workstation with Outlook 97.
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Obviously, as an administrator, I never follow protocols.
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</STRONG></P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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[Kapil]
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Quite a big confession that. Would other sysadmins be as honest and
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own up?!
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P><STRONG>
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I had Windows 2000
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with Outlook 2000 and it worked perfectly. Now that I have installed <A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat</A>
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Linux workstation, I successfully connected to the server via DHCP and I can
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easily surf. But what I can't do is check my email through Ximian Evolution
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Email Service. My domain is MARS and the server name is MAIN. In exchange,
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we have IMAP4 and POP3. In Linux, I tried to configure the Ximian Evolution
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as <TT>IMAP.MAIN.COM</TT> and <TT>POP3.MAIN.COM.</TT> Ofcourse we don't have extranet so we
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can't browse through the Browser. It doesn't work. I even tried my login
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name with the hostname and it still doesn't work. Can you help me ?
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</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>
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Thanks.
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</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>
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Hritesh
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</STRONG></P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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[Kapil]
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Obviously you have confused Win NT domains with DNS domains. To have a
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DNS domain (which you don't seem to need since you have no extranet)
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you need to have an authoritative DNS name server.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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If your entire network is only served through Win NS you should check
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up the documentation on Samba to configure your machine as a Win NS
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client. You can stick with localhost.localdomain for your DNS name
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unless you want to be more imaginative!
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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[Halb]
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Maybe you should look into Ximian Connector, it will enable to use
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Evolution as a complete Exchange client. Ximian will be happy to sell
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you these at $69.00 a piece, but this sholud not be a real problem for a
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company....... if this is the solution to your problem. Maybe Kapil Hari
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Paranjape's answer is more the direction you should be looking at.
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Teething problems with a dual boot system</FONT></H3>
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Tue, 24 Dec 2002 10:21:22 +0000
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<BR>Huibert Alblas, John Karns (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=toddncl@hotmail.com&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%2317">the <em>LG</em> Answer Gang</a>)
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<BR>Question by john todd (toddncl from hotmail.com)
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<P><STRONG>
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Hi there, I was wondering if you could help me out here. I have a dual boot
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system running XP and red hat 8.0. I have just recently installed red hat
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and am finding a few problems whilst setting up the system. My computer has
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2 physical hard disks (primary master, and secondary master) the first
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(hda1) has that nasty windows thingy on it (I left the file system as fat32
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so I could go back to 98se if need b). Hda2 has red hat on. I can mount and
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access hda1 when in Linux, but I cannot access my second (fat32) hard drive
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at all. I have all my operating systems and software on the first hard drive
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and all my work on the second, so this is starting to wind me up a bit now!
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</STRONG></P>
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">It's not entirely clear if he can still see that work drive from
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Windows; if he can, Halb's probably right. John K's hints are good
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before someone starts setting up, so people can have better results.
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It may also be worth noting that hda2 is the second partition on the
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first drive; a second drive on the same IDE chain would be hdb, and
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its partitions also numbered, so maybe he just needs to mount /dev/hdb1
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as well.
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</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">NT filesystem support for Linux, claiming to read all versions:
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<A HREF="http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net"
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>http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net</A>
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-- Heather</font></blockquote>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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[Halb]
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By the look of things I would say you have NTFS on your second
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Harddrive. This is common behaviour on M$ machines becouse FAT23
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partition sizes are artificialy restricted to 32 Gigs ( not that big for
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nowaday harddrives) M$ will automagicly change to NTFS, this might be
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the reason why you are not able to mount it. This presumes that you have
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made all the correct entries in your <TT>/etc/fstab.</TT>
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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[John]
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My guess is that perhaps you lost your fat32 partition on the 2nd hd. How
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did you set up your partition(s) on hda2 when installing RH8? The
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recommended method would be something like:
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<blockQuote><ul>
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<LI>back up the existing partition if it contained anything of interest
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<LI>use a non-destructive method of dividing the 2nd hd into multiple
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partitions (e.g., GNU parted, fips, Partition Magic - there are several
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to choose from).
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<LI>install Linux on a newly-created partition on hd2
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</ul></blockQuote>
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<P><STRONG>
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also when I re-start my computer I need to mount the hda1 each time. Any
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help would be greatly appreciated.
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</STRONG></P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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[Halb]
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here you can make an
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entry for <TT>/dev/hda1</TT> like this or whatever your liking is:
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<blockquote><pre>/dev/hda1 /WIN2K vfat defaults,noatime 0 0
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<FONT COLOR="navy">ISO file?</FONT></H3>
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Thu, 28 Nov 2002 16:10:57 +0000 (GMT)
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<BR>Dan Clark, Faber Fedor, Mike Orr (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=lil_p84@yahoo.co.uk&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%2318">the <em>LG</em> Answer Gang</a>)
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<BR>Question by Paul Bailey (lil_p84 from yahoo.co.uk)
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<P>
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What exactly is an ISO file? I downloaded what i thought was a game and
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it is an ISO file. Can you convert this into an EXE file? and do ISO
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files only work on LINUX. Your help will be greatly appreciated thank you.
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</P>
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<P>
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Lil_P
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</P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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[Iron]
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This gets the award for the most frequently-asked question of the month.
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I think it's the third time somebody has asked how to play .iso games.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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ISO9660 is the file format used for CD-ROMs, named after the International
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Standards Organization's standard that defines it. "ISO" is sometimes
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used as an abbreviation. Whether that's the format <EM>your</EM> file is in is
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a different matter; it could be anything. The .iso extension isn't
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universal like .txt, .html, .jpg, etc. What does the "file" command
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say about your file?
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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Assuming the file <EM>is</EM> really an ISO9660 filesystem image, you can write
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it directly to a CD and then either read the CD or boot from it.
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You'd write the image using "cdrecord" on Linux
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or one of its GUI front-ends like KOnCD in <A HREF="http://www.kde.org/">KDE</A>. Skip the first step
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(making an image file from a directory hierarchy) because you already
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have the image.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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[Faber]
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ISO files are binary versions of CDs. If you were to copy a CD byte for
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byte (NOT file for file), you would have an ISO file.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P><STRONG>
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[Dreamgazer]
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and how can I open them without copying to cd
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</STRONG></P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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When I found out how to do this in Linux I was <EM>so</EM> impressed with Linux!
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Let's say you have a directory called <TT>/mnt/my_iso</TT> and your ISO is called
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<TT>/home/Dreamgazer/my_iso_file.</TT> You can mount the ISO
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with the command:
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<blockquote><pre>mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop1 /mnt/my_iso /home/Dreamgazer/my_iso_file
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</pre></blockquote>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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and then you can access any of the files in the ISO by going to the
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<TT>/mnt/my_iso</TT> directory! Cool, eh?!
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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Let's see Windows do <EM>that</EM> !
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">Actually, just saying -o loop is enough; iso9660 defaults to read-only,
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and you don't have to tell it which loop device comes next, it can
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figure it out all alone. I loopback mount CD images a <EM>lot</EM> myself.
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I have to make sure not to run out of loops available.
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-- Heather</font></blockquote>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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[Iron]
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It may fail for many reasons such as loop device busy (choose another
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loop device <TT>/dev/loop*</TT>), your kernel not having loop device support, the
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<TT>/dev/loop*</TT> files not existing, etc. When you've finished inspecting the
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files under <TT>/mnt</TT>, do:
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<blockquote><pre>umount /mnt
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</pre></blockquote>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
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to unmount the image (note the command name has one "n" instead of two).
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See "man mount". A couple details:
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<blockQuote><ol>
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<LI>You may be able to just use "-o ro,loop" instead and let it choose an
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unused loopback device, see the manpage for details.
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<LI>The manual says it's more convenient to mount and unmount loopback
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devices if /etc/mtab is a regular file and not a symbolic link to
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/proc/mounts. That answers another question The Answer Gang was unsure
|
|
about a couple months ago, whether you lose anything by symlinking the
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two together. (What you gain by symlinking them together is that
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/etc/mtab -- and thus what "mount" without options reports -- will
|
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always be up to date.)
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</ol></blockQuote>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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[Dan]
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A free trial of mswin software that will let you open, create, and extract
|
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(we guess this means "view the filesystem inside of") ISO files.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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<A HREF="http://www.undisker.com/download.html"
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>http://www.undisker.com/download.html</A>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Remote X over SSH</FONT></H3>
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Mon, 25 Nov 2002 21:11:17 +0100
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<br>Gürkan Sengün
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(<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=gurkan@linuks.mine.nu&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%2319">gurkan from linuks.mine.nu</a>)
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<P>
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You need a user account for the host you want to login to.
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The server should be accessible over SSH (normally TCP/22), and should have
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X11 forwarding configured.
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</P>
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<blockquote><pre>$ netstat -a |grep ssh
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tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN
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$ grep orwarding /etc/ssh/sshd_config
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X11Forwarding yes
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</pre></blockquote>
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<h4 align="center"><br>X server and SSH client for Windows(r)
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</h4>
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<blockQuote><ul>
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<LI>Putty, SSH client suite
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<A HREF="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty"
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>http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty</A>
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<LI>StarNet's X-Win32 (commercial)
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<A HREF="http://www.starnet.com"
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>http://www.starnet.com</A>
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<LI>MicroImages MI/X for Windows (commercial, but very cheap; free demo.)
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<A HREF="http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix"
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>http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix</A>
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<LI>X server: Cygwin's XFree port to win32 (open source)
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<A HREF="http://www.cygwin.com/xfree"
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>http://www.cygwin.com/xfree</A>
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<LI>Xserver: fwx (a much smaller, dustier project)
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<A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/fwx"
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>http://sourceforge.net/projects/fwx</A>
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%+%
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%-
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<LI>start your Xserver. We'll assume it's called xs.exe
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<LI>start Putty
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<LI>activate X11 forwarding in Putty
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<LI>activate SSH 2 protokoll
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<LI>configure SSH port, normally 22
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<LI>connect to server user@1.2.3.4
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<LI>enter password
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</ul></blockQuote>
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<P>
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On UNIX, BSD or Linux you can use any X server and SSH client you want.
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</P>
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<blockquote><pre>$ ssh -X user@1.2.3.4
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user@1.2.3.4's password:
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</pre></blockquote>
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<h4 align="center"><br>Starting the window manager
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</h4>
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<P>
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This will start the amiwm window manager in the background and display it
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on your X server window (xs.exe).
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</P>
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<blockquote><pre>$ amiwm &
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</pre></blockquote>
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<h4 align="center"><br>Screen in five minutes
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</h4>
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<P>
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We become super-user.
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</P>
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<blockquote><pre>$ su
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Password:
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</pre></blockquote>
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<P>
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We start iptraf as daemon (screen session in detached mode).
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</P>
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<blockquote><pre># screen -dmS iptraf iptraf
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</pre></blockquote>
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<P>
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We list our SockDir.
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</P>
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<blockquote><pre># screen -ls
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There are screens on:
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604.iptraf (Detached)
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1 Socket in /var/run/screen/S-root.
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</pre></blockquote>
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<P>
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We reattach to our detached screen process and detach from it.
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</P>
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<blockquote><pre># screen -r
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&lt;ctrl-a-d&gt;
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[detached]
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</pre></blockquote>
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<blockquote>Gürkan Sengün
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<br><em><font color="#000033"><br>http://www.linuks.mine.nu
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<br>Windoze not found: (C)heer, (P)arty or (D)ance?
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</font></em></blockquote>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Debian User Worldmap</FONT></H3>
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Mon, 25 Nov 2002 21:11:17 +0100
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<br>Gürkan Sengün
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(<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=gurkan@linuks.mine.nu&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%2320">gurkan from linuks.mine.nu</a>)
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<P>
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A fun thing to do; see where fellow <A HREF="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</A> users are, check in.
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I will try to make the page better with time:
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Like click on a place and find friends (a list) nearby,
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show how it's done etc...
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</P>
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<P>
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<A HREF="http://www.linuks.mine.nu/debian-worldmap"
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>http://www.linuks.mine.nu/debian-worldmap</A>
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</P>
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<blockquote>Gürkan Sengün
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<br><em><font color="#000033"><br>http://www.linuks.mine.nu
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<br>Windoze not found: (C)heer, (P)arty or (D)ance?
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</font></em></blockquote>
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<H3><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/lil2cent.gif">
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<FONT COLOR="navy">Remote control of Linux from Windows</FONT></H3>
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Mon, 2 Dec 2002 21:15:36 -0600
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<BR>Thomas Adam (<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com?cc=bmdean@socket.net&cc=thomas_adam16@yahoo.com&subject=%20Re%3A%20%5BLG%2086%5D%202c%20Tips%20%2321">The <em>LG</em> Weekend Mechanic</a>)
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<BR>Question by Brandon M. Dean (bmdean from socket.net)
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<P><STRONG>
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Hello,
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</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>
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I live in LaGrange, Missouri. I have downloaded the iso's for
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</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>
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Mandrake 9.0. I have installed it once. I then took it off to have
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Windows again.
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</STRONG></P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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[Thomas]
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Oh, dear. You do know that, Tux doesn't bite <EM>that</EM>
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hard.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P><STRONG>
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My brother had a Linux Router, and I wanted it to act as
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a server, but he said it wouldn't.
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</STRONG></P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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[Thomas]
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Your brother is deluded
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":-)"
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height="24" width="20" align="middle">
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P><STRONG>
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But I have a second computer in my
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room. I want to add this behind my dad's desk with a 5' network cable,
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instead some more 100' cable to run to my room. I wanted to know a good
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app to run a remote desktop connection on it. I have downloaded one
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program called X-Win 32.
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</STRONG></P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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[Thomas]
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"A good app" -- well that depends on what you want the
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server to do. Your server, once it is up and running
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can support (amongst others): file serving, print
|
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serving, webserver, phpserver, mysql server, mail
|
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serving, etc...................
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">If you find you don't like that one, there arre a few other X servers
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mentioned in
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"(#tips.19)Remote X over ssh"
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above.
|
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-- Heather</font></blockquote>
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<P><STRONG>
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I have Windows XP on my main computer. It has a
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remote desktop built in.
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</STRONG></P>
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">The open source client for that protocol is called rdesktop:
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<A HREF="http://www.rdesktop.org"
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>http://www.rdesktop.org</A>
|
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</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">But I don't know if anything on Linux serves that protocol so the
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windows remote-desktop client can view it.
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</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">VNC is another possibility, and may be needed if you want to share
|
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the desktop with more than one person - here's a KDE remote sharing
|
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project that uses it:
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<A HREF="http://www.tjansen.de/krfb"
|
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>http://www.tjansen.de/krfb</A>
|
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-- Heather</font></blockquote>
|
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<P><STRONG>
|
|
I also wanted to know if it had to have a
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keyboard, mouse, and monitor hooked up to it at all times, even though I
|
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will have some sort of remote desktop app.
|
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</STRONG></P>
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<P><STRONG>
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Thank You,
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|
<BR>Brandon Dean
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</STRONG></P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
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[Thomas]
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Nope, my 486 Server has no monitor, keyboard or mouse,
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since during the odd occassion that I have to log into
|
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the server, it is done via SSH which I can run from
|
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the command-line.
|
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
Although if your using Windows, then I suggest the use
|
|
of "putty.exe".
|
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
|
|
|
|
<blockquote><font color="#000066">This is also mentioned in the
|
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"(#tips.19)remote X over ssh"
|
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tip.
|
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For occasional access over a serial cable, see the
|
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"(#tips.6)headless server"
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tip.
|
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</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote><font color="#000066">As long as your BIOS is happy when you don't have these things,
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Linux doesn't mind at all.
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-- Heather</font></blockquote>
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