On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 07:38:29 +0100, Sunnanvind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>The load average that top shows was round 0,60 0,90 0,90 etc... the
>passwd file list a user that seems suspicious: "nobody".
"nobody" is not particularily suspicious.
Kelly
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:29:41 -0500, Caitlyn Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I think I need to point out that Adobe is one of the companies
>funding the lobbying in favor of UCITA. I don't often agree with
>RMS, but he is 100% correct when he calls UCITA the greatest threat
>to Free / Open Sour
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 23:18:32 -0600, Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I'm not sure I agree with the FSF's opinion on UCITA. I thought the
>GPL was just another instance of a shrink-wrap license.
Pretty much. If UCITA passes, the GPL will probably be easier to
enforce because the law
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:00:22 -0500, Phil Savoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Hi All, A friend (no, really) has forgotten his RH6.1 root passwd.
>In Solaris I know how to fix this (boot cdrom -s) but how in RH6.1?
>Any info would be greatly appreciated.
If you have lilo, do boot init=/bin/sh. You'
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:45:26 +, Rik Hemsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Reboot. At LILO prompt, enter 'linux init=/bin/bash' When you hit
>the bash prompt, change the password (type 'passwd')
If you boot with init=/bin/bash, the root file system is mounted
read-only. You must remount it rea
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:32:30 -0600, Snarfblat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Actually, its the DCMA that prohibits certain reverse engineering.
DMCA only prohibits the reverse-engineering of a "copyright license
management system". Generally, reverse engineering is neither
permitted nor forbidden b
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:02:25 -0600, Snarfblat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Yes. So now anything that is encrypted for security reasons.
>Anything at all, a book, CD's, DVD's etc. Are under the exclusive
>rights of the copyright holder. Not just the content, but how, when,
>and where you can even
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 17:52:13 -0500, Subba Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Are there any command line search agents/bots/crawlers for Linux? I
>want to search a few engines at the same time for some key topics.
If you do perl, check out the LWP module. It includes a relatively
easy to customize ge
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 16:58:14 +1100, "Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but 'you don't know of any Lisp
>documentation besides what's in the Emacs distribution'? Are those
>the missing adjectives?
There are _lots_ of good books on LISP out there. The Little LISPer
is a
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:06:38 +, Telsa Gwynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>It really really was confusing a lot of people. At the time, SuSE was
>apparently a version ahead of Red Hat, (as ever :) I think it was
>then SuSE 6.1 and Red Hat 6.0), and yet everyone kept talking about
>2.2/2.3/2.4 to
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 09:02:59 -0500 (EST), Amanda Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>They actually have Linux at Meijer's? Wow, I'm impressed.
They have it at Wal-Mart now, too.
Kelly
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On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 14:34:33 -0500 (EST), Cat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>What?!? When did they do that? I've always known myself as a
>Michigander by birth -- who am I now?
I was told once that a woman from Michigan was a "Michigoose."
Kelly
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:08:09 -0800, "Amanda Lenay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I fell into the same routine that you are in now: cleaning, cooking,
>shopping, laundry, etc... and felt strangely inadequate if I fell
>behind in any of my "duties".
I ended up drawing the housework straw in my relat
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:41:40 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Is this normal? I -think- this is just place-holder, but I don't
>really know what is going on here or if it is a good thing or a bad
>thing. Any information would be appreciated! Root is not logged in at
>the time of this ps.
agetty is
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:25:01 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Hey Snarf, If that a ref. to pinky/brain, right on!
Actually, "snarfblat" is probably a reference to The Little Mermaid.
Kelly
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:02:34 -0500 (EST), "Becky L. Norum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Hey--- I need to purchase a modem, preferably 56K. I don't need
>anything fancy, just something that will work on Win and Linux. I
>was very suprised in shopping at the local computer superstores that
>externa
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 10:08:29 -0600 (CST), Darren Osadchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>At one point a message came up in Pine that said that "Address book
>directory (/home/darren) is read only", and I can't write anything to
>that directory. I have no idea how or why that would have
>happened. All
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 13:09:43 -0600 (CST), Eric Baudais
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Thirdly do $ls -al and see if the permissions are correct for "." and
>".." Also make sure the directory is owned by darren and it has the
>correct group.
BTW, the "-d" option to ls is useful when checking permis
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 09:47:08 +0100, Rik Hemsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Um, you ran Gnome ? It's buggy.
Please refrain from gratuitous flaming of free software packages.
Thank you.
Kelly
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On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 13:21:53 -0500, "Caitlyn M. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Gratuitous flaming? In my experience, he is absolutely correct, at
>least for Gnome and E run together. Crashes and core dumps and seg
>faults are why I now run KDE and kwm. Gnome/E was, and so far as I
>know, s
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:52:48 -0700 (PDT), Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Does that mean I need to get an update of gnorpm? And what does the
>'indent' and 'windowmanager' mean? (Should I include a listing of
>the files I got, too?)
Welcome to the wonderful world
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 11:33:49 -0400 (EDT), Beverly Guillermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>What you can do is install the files using the --nodeps option for
>rpm. But then you could probably break some sort of important
>dependency... it's why I dislike the rpm system entirely sometimes
>and the do
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 20:42:57 +0100, Rik Hemsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>What about --justdb ? If you want to pretend you've installed
>something, that works quite nicely.
Kinda stupid to have to download the whole RPM just so you can skip
installing it.
Kelly
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 00:34:28 -0400, "Wendt,Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>With IDE devices, only one of the master/slave can talk to your
>computer at a time, on each channel. But your computer is able to
>talk to a device on the primary channel at the same time as it talks
>to a device on th
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:57:32 -0500, Jeramia Ory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>One cause of a performance hit is when you swap memory in and out
>of the partition. In a single drive system, even thought the swap is
>on a separate partition, it can't access two partitions on the same
>drive at th
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:40:25 -0500 (CDT), Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>For #2, I take it to basically mean that /boot must be on a primary
>drive. (I have no idea what would happen if somebody had one hard
>drive and nothing else on the primary chain, and a second hard drive
>on the second
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 00:59:27 -0400, Andy Davidoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Under Linux, multiple swap partitions are automagically striped,
This is not true, at least not under 2.2.12:
[kelly@poverty ca]$ cat /proc/swaps
FilenameTypeSizeUsedPriority
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 16:16:07 -0400, Andy Davidoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>You are correct, of course, my fault. :-) This is apparently
>distribution-specific.
More accurately, it's dependent on being properly configured. I've
reconfigured my swaps to both have priority 1, and the kernel does
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:31:41 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>The short form is: root cannot be denied /anything/.
Well, not entirely. UID 0 merely bypasses all permission checks, and
can execute certain privileged system calls. Root still cannot do the
impossible. :)
Kelly
On Tue, 23 May 2000 21:36:27 -0400 (EDT), Beverly Guillermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Here's my scenario -- I start my linux box and check my available
>memory space with 'free' and get the following:
>-
> total
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