Re: [techtalk] bind problem...and a sendmail one, too

1999-11-15 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
> Looks like you might have been hacked. I'd also look for other strange > stuff, ie check your logs for strange things and strange omissions, look > for recently changed files that you dont know anything about, look for > anything unusual in ps, netstat, lsof. > > If you really want to be safe,

Re: [techtalk] Thanks! and PDF files

1999-11-15 Thread Britta Koch
>Now I have a new question. (This one's for my own comp :^) Does anyone > know where I can get a tool to (easily) create PDF files in Linux? (Note: > cheaper is better. ;^) > (I'm running RedHat 6.0, Kernel 2.2.12, Gnome 1.0.53 and Enlightenment 0.15.5) A correctly set up Ghosts

RE: [techtalk] StarOffice and Gnome installation issues

1999-11-15 Thread Cathy James
>How much memory do you have? StarOffice is a real memory hog (I call it >bloatware and you may quote me on that), a quick test gave this: >It eats additional 2MB in the X-Server and forks off 6 copies >of itself, >giving 7 instances running. If Linux didn't do such a good job >in memory >mana

Re: [techtalk] resolution

1999-11-15 Thread Amanda Owens
Actually, it should use the first resolution in the list, not necessarily the smallest one. Unfortunately, Xconfigurator doesn't let you chose what order they're written in the config file in. If you use xf86config, you can choose the order in which they're listed - i.e. a larger one first, bu

Re: [techtalk] Arpwatch

1999-11-15 Thread Norma Ford
Thank you for the information. I appreciate the "Point in the right Direction" -> I'm fairly new to this and maybe trying to do more then is neccessary. I shall try the script to look for duplicates and such. Thank you kindly Norma BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 X-GWTYPE:USER FN:Norma Ford TEL;WORK:2

[techtalk] Free Purify equivalent?

1999-11-15 Thread Cathy James
Is anyone aware of a freeware equivalent of Purify -- that is, a tool to check for array access out of bounds, memory leaks, and so forth? Are there some gcc/gld options I don't know about to handle this? This is such an obvious software development need that I figure someone mus

RE: [techtalk] Free Purify equivalent?

1999-11-15 Thread Gregory Conron
Hi, For the NT version, go to http://www.rational.com/products/purify_nt/tryit/index.jtmpl for Unix versions (Solaris, HP-UX, Irix - no Linux version, sadly), go to http://www.rational.com/products/purify_unix/tryit/index.jtmpl Cheers, GC -Original Message- From: Cathy James [SMTP:[

RE: [techtalk] Free Purify equivalent?

1999-11-15 Thread Cathy James
I think you missed the keyword "free", which was not meant to refer to "free trial version". I meant "free" as in GNU tools. --Cathy >-Original Message- >From: Gregory Conron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 11:21 AM >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >

Re: [techtalk] Free Purify equivalent?

1999-11-15 Thread Simon Britnell
Cathy James wrote: > Is anyone aware of a freeware equivalent of > Purify -- that is, a tool to check for array > access out of bounds, memory leaks, and so forth? Elecrtic Fence is available at http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/ Debauch is available from http://quorum.tamu.edu/jon/gnu/ H

Re: [techtalk] Free Purify equivalent?

1999-11-15 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Cathy James wrote: > > Is anyone aware of a freeware equivalent of > Purify -- that is, a tool to check for array > access out of bounds, memory leaks, and so forth? > Are there some gcc/gld options I don't know > about to handle this? > > This is such an obviou

Re: [techtalk] Thanks! and PDF files

1999-11-15 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Britta Koch wrote: > LaTeX is really really cool!!! I put my signature below this. It's so coll that a single copy of LaTeX is able too deep-freeze all existing copies of so called text-processors so people in the next millenia could watch them in a curiosity museum :-). Ni

RE:[techtalk] StarOffice and Gnome installation issues

1999-11-15 Thread Nils Philippsen
Hi, Karl-Heinz and others, I take this as an invitation to nitpicking :-) On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: > On 11/13/99, 12:37:15 PM, Nils Philippsen erroneously: > > > StarOffice is a real memory hog > > Unfortunately this is true. :-( > We managed it to spend less memory that

RE: [techtalk] StarOffice and Gnome installation issues

1999-11-15 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
On 11/15/99, 1:36:10 PM, Cathy wrote: > Hmm. I have 128M, but I have not gotten around > to setting up any swap partitions. With 128M, > the need was not pressing. :-) Perhaps I'm simply > running out of memory during the install. I'll > have to create a 256M swap partition and try it again.

Re: [techtalk] StarOffice and Gnome installation issues

1999-11-15 Thread Caitlyn Martin
Hi, Karl-Heinz, > > My PC here at home has got no more than 104MB RAM and StarOffice runs > very fine from under Windowmaker or KDE resp.. It runs on my old laptop, a P90 with 40 MB of RAM, with KDE/kwm. It is quite slow loading or starting an app, but otherwise runs fine. > > I do not believe t

Re: [techtalk] StarOffice and Gnome installation issues

1999-11-15 Thread MGreen
I seem to recall that Linux cannot use swap over 128MB. Anything over this is a waste. Can someone back me up? Cathy James wrote: > Perhaps I'm simply running out of memory > during the install. I'll have to create a 256M swap partition > and try it again. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [techtalk] StarOffice and Gnome installation issues

1999-11-15 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
> > My PC here at home has got no more than 104MB RAM and > > StarOffice runs very fine from under Windowmaker or KDE resp.. > It runs on my old laptop, a P90 with 40 MB of RAM, with KDE/kwm. > It is quite slow loading or starting an app, but otherwise runs > fine. Congratulations! I didn't thin

Re: [techtalk] StarOffice and Gnome installation issues

1999-11-15 Thread Caitlyn Martin
Hi, Karl-Heinz, > > Congratulations! > I didn't think it's possible to use StarOffice with 40 MB of RAM. Everyone at our last installfest that wasn't cancelled, back in August, saw it. As I said, loading the program is painfully slow, but actual operation within the program is tolerable. I shou

Re: [techtalk] StarOffice and Gnome installation issues

1999-11-15 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, MGreen wrote: > I seem to recall that Linux cannot use swap over 128MB. Anything over > this is a waste. Can someone back me up? With old kernels (<= 2.0.x), one swap partition couldn't be greater than 128MB, but with newer ones this limitation has vanished (I don't know

[techtalk] undefined reference to __bzero

1999-11-15 Thread Dakota Surmonde
oops. I think I swam out of my depth here. I compiled up glibc 2.1.1 (because I wanted to, no other reason :) ) and that went fine, but now whenever I try to compile up anything else, I get errors that generally read 'undefined reference to __bzero' -- I was able to get around that with the *kern

Re: [techtalk] StarOffice and Gnome installation issues

1999-11-15 Thread Dakota Surmonde
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: > I didn't think it's possible to use StarOffice with 40 MB of RAM. I use it on a k5-133 with 32MB -- it's dog slow and swaps something fierce (127 MB swap partition, yes, I believe in over doing it :) ) but it works (or at least did, before I hosed

[techtalk] a really dumb "make" question

1999-11-15 Thread Julie Meloni
Ok, I've wracked my brain and now I'm just tired. I have compilers out the wazoo, BUT why does "make" (anything) return command not found? Issuing individual gcc commands on *.c files works. (slack 4.0) I can't possibly be this much of a dorkcan I? :) Thanks, Julie /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

Re: [techtalk] a really dumb "make" question

1999-11-15 Thread Vinnie Surmonde
as in the 'make' command is not found, or it can't find the compilers? for the former, install make ;)(I'm so helpful,, no? :P ) for the latter, check paths? Vinnie On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Julie Meloni wrote: > Ok, I've wracked my brain and now I'm just tired. > > I have compilers out the wazo

Re: [techtalk] StarOffice and Gnome installation issues

1999-11-15 Thread jenn
Caitlyn Martin wrote: > > Are you just teasing me or are you really using Netscape and > > StarOffice on your P90 with 40 MB simultaneously? > > Really and truly, as in cutting and pasting between them. The machine in > question is a Toshiba Portégé 610CT running Red Hat Linux 6.0 and KDE 1.1.1

Re: [techtalk] a really dumb "make" question

1999-11-15 Thread Tamara Thompson
Where is make on your box? in /usr/bin? Is /usr/bin in your path? (echo $PATH or printenv) While it's a topic, ...I just configured, make'd, and make install'd gcc 2.95.2. No errors, once I'd installed the GNU make instead of the one I was using here. But now if I type gcc, I get a 'canno

Re: [techtalk] a really dumb "make" question

1999-11-15 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 15-Nov-99 [techtalk] a really dumb "m.. by Julie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have compilers out the wazoo, BUT why does "make" (anything) return > command not found? Issuing individual gcc commands on *.c files works. What's the error message? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [techtalk] a really dumb "make" question

1999-11-15 Thread jenn
Vinnie Surmonde wrote: > > as in the 'make' command is not found, or it can't find the compilers? > > for the former, install make ;)(I'm so helpful,, no? :P ) for the latter, > check paths? > Even for the former, check paths. My copy of make is in /usr/bin. Jenn V. -- Humans are the onl

Re: [techtalk] a really dumb "make" question

1999-11-15 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Julie Meloni wrote: > Ok, I've wracked my brain and now I'm just tired. > > I have compilers out the wazoo, BUT why does "make" (anything) return > command not found? Issuing individual gcc commands on *.c files works. Did you install make? Sorry but you have to be a bit m

Re: [techtalk] a really dumb "make" question

1999-11-15 Thread Tamara Thompson
GNU make is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html. I thought the installation instructions were pretty good, and it went easily. More easily than installing gcc >>> Vinnie Surmonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/15 4:35 PM >>> as in the 'make' command is not found, or it can't f

Re: [techtalk] Free Purify equivalent?

1999-11-15 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 15-Nov-99 Re: [techtalk] Free Purify .. by Nils [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Try memprof (http://people.redhat.com/~otaylor/memprof/), it just checks > for mem leaks (i.e. no array out of bounds etc.). It does this by running And if you want to find the buffer overflow stuff, tak

Re: [techtalk] a really dumb "make" question

1999-11-15 Thread Lyta Alexander
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Nils Philippsen wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Julie Meloni wrote: > > > (slack 4.0) > > Sorry, but I can't remember how to check for specific packages with > Slackware. the list of installed packages is in /var/log/packages there's a program called pkgtool that you can

Re: [techtalk] StarOffice and Gnome installation issues

1999-11-15 Thread Jamie Walker
Dakota Surmonde wrote: > I use it on a k5-133 with 32MB -- it's dog slow and swaps something fierce > (127 MB swap partition, yes, I believe in over doing it :) ) but it works 127mb is anything but overdoing it. I have 240mb swap and sometimes it's been getting a bit close for comfort (machine h

Re: [techtalk] StarOffice and Gnome installation issues

1999-11-15 Thread Jamie Walker
MGreen wrote: > I seem to recall that Linux cannot use swap over 128MB. Anything over > this is a waste. Can someone back me up? This was true prior to 2.2.x (and even with 2.0.x and older you could have multiple swap files to give more than 128mb swap). Nowadays you can have much larger swap