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tclug-list Digest 18 Oct 1999 17:17:22 -0000 Issue 439
Topics (messages 9230 through 9247):
LILO: easier way to choose what OS to boot?
9230 by: Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>
Observations and a non-Linux question
9231 by: Christopher Reid Palmer <reid@pconline.com>
9232 by: Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>
9239 by: Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070@tc.umn.edu>
NIS server under linux
9233 by: "Clayton T. Fandre" <cfandre@maddog.mn-linux.org>
Partitioning Q
9234 by: "Lawrence Crisp" <Lawrence.L.Crisp-1@tc.umn.edu>
9235 by: Yaron <jethro@yaron.org>
9236 by: schewe@tcfreenet.org
9237 by: Yaron <jethro@yaron.org>
9238 by: Mike Hicks <hick0088@umn.edu>
< $50 graphics card
9240 by: "Schoenhofen, Kelly" <KSchoenhofen@Carlson.com>
system colors (was: Undeliverable mail (fwd))
9241 by: "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>
9243 by: "Joel A. Koepp" <jkoepp@atlas.socsci.umn.edu>
Off topic question
9242 by: Troy Johnson <john1536@tc.umn.edu>
Pine 4.20
9244 by: "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>
bash config files on Slackware
9245 by: Chris Kesler <chris@pconline.com>
Glut
9246 by: Chris Kesler <chris@pconline.com>
Wow! I suggested they do a story on this, and they did...
9247 by: Troy Johnson <john1536@tc.umn.edu>
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Message-ID: <380A1B84.2A000E1B@tc.umn.edu>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 13:55:00 -0500
From: Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:9221] LILO: easier way to choose what OS to boot?
Hmm.. I wonder if I'm putting too much effort into solving this problem
;-)
The ideal method would be something like this. There is a master
'switch' (be it a floppy or anything else) that decides which OS should
be the default. Also, this default should be able to be overridden
(some people have SCSI BIOSes and other things that make the pre-boot
sequence pretty time-consuming - no sense forcing them to reboot again).
I have a few ideas:
1. Have two (or more) disks with LILO on them. Each one has a different
default OS. One copy of LILO can reside on the hard disk, all the
others must be on floppies.
The advantage is that you can have a prompt with each different version
of LILO, and can 'back out' if you need to. The disadvantage is that
you have at least two different lilo.conf files to deal with, and all of
them have to be updated whenever you upgrade a kernel or change any
other parameter..
2. Place LILO on the hard drive, with Linux as the default. Copy the
Windows boot sector onto a floppy diskette's boot sector. Whenever you
want Windows, put in the diskette. Otherwise, you get a LILO prompt
from the hard drive.
The advantage: only one lilo.conf. Disadvantage: When booting with the
diskette, you don't get a chance to back out of it. Also, I'm not
really sure if this works or not..
3. Copy the Windows boot sector to a floppy boot sector, or just a file
on the floppy. Install GRUB onto the HD, and have it default to using
the boot sector copy on the floppy. Also, set GRUB to have a fallback
where it will boot Linux. Go into the BIOS and change the boot sequence
to "C:, A:" instead of "A:, C:"
The advantage: You get a menu whenever you boot (even if you have a
floppy in the drive), plus the flexibility of using GRUB. The
disadvantage: GRUB is a differet boot loader than what you may be used
to, and getting it set up in the first place can be quite a hassle..
Anyway, there are quite a few options available.
(Correction to my last message regarding GRUB. It reads BSD FFS
partitions, not Amiga FFS, I guess. Not that I have any experience with
either BSD or Amiga.. Don't you hate acronym collisions?)
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 14:29:52 -0500 (CDT)
From: Christopher Reid Palmer <reid@pconline.com>
To: Twin Cities Linux User Group <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9910171419350.542-100000@localhost.localdomain>
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Subject: Observations and a non-Linux question
Reading about Apple's flakiness about fulfilling G4 orders reminded me
that I can't wait for that ridiculous company to die out. Yes, it's nice
that the boxes are non-beige and, more importantly, that they open up nice
and easy so you can tweak things.
The irony is that the case is otherwise designed to inhibit tweaking:
way too short power cables, IDE cables with only one connector, weirdly
placed drive bays (out of the reach of the stunted power cables). The
first time I opened up a G3 to perform some surgery, I nearly shat: a
Maxtor IDE disk! For $2000 I expect something better than what would go
great in a Packard Bell.
So yesterday I irrevocably abandoned my Mac roots: I overclocked my CPU.
:) It's an AMD K6@200MHz, bumped up to 233MHz.
To make sure it was stable, I did a batch compress of 11 wavs to mp3s.
That took 2:40. Would anyone agree that if the CPU runs overclocked at
100% for 2:40 and doesn't fail, that it's safe to run it overclocked? Are
there any other tests I should perform?
I plan to bump up the multiplier by 0.5 every few days or so until I get
weirdness, then I'll back off. Any bets as to how high I'll get? :)
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'I've been crawling on my belly,
clearing out what could have been'
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 16:49:12 -0500 (CDT)
From: Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>
To: Twin Cities Linux User Group <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.9910171645370.29749-100000@chef.nerp.net>
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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:9231] Observations and a non-Linux question
"Bad Things" can happen at any time, remember, every step up in
overclocking reduces the usable life time of your CPU, because you are
increasing the temperature of the chip, and also you can have other bad
things like electrons jumping across the surface of the silcone.. (i
belive it's called electron drift) best thing you can do is to monitor
the temperatore of your CPU. they sell indoor/outdoor digital temp
sensors at radio shack for < $15. might be a good idea.. (i have been
meening to get one to monitor my hard drives.. it sounds like you have a
slightly older motherbaord, and probably don't have an lmsensors chip
onboard, to monitor fans and temps.
Thank You,
Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)
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On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Christopher Reid Palmer wrote:
> Reading about Apple's flakiness about fulfilling G4 orders reminded me
> that I can't wait for that ridiculous company to die out. Yes, it's nice
> that the boxes are non-beige and, more importantly, that they open up nice
> and easy so you can tweak things.
>
> The irony is that the case is otherwise designed to inhibit tweaking:
> way too short power cables, IDE cables with only one connector, weirdly
> placed drive bays (out of the reach of the stunted power cables). The
> first time I opened up a G3 to perform some surgery, I nearly shat: a
> Maxtor IDE disk! For $2000 I expect something better than what would go
> great in a Packard Bell.
>
> So yesterday I irrevocably abandoned my Mac roots: I overclocked my CPU.
> :) It's an AMD K6@200MHz, bumped up to 233MHz.
>
> To make sure it was stable, I did a batch compress of 11 wavs to mp3s.
> That took 2:40. Would anyone agree that if the CPU runs overclocked at
> 100% for 2:40 and doesn't fail, that it's safe to run it overclocked? Are
> there any other tests I should perform?
>
> I plan to bump up the multiplier by 0.5 every few days or so until I get
> weirdness, then I'll back off. Any bets as to how high I'll get? :)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Christopher Reid Palmer : http://www.innerfireworks.com/
>
> 'I've been crawling on my belly,
> clearing out what could have been'
> -- Tool
>
>
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 23:03:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070@tc.umn.edu>
To: Twin Cities Linux User Group <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Message-Id: <Pine.SOL.4.20.9910172255130.24768-100000@garnet.tc.umn.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:9231] Observations and a non-Linux question
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Christopher Reid Palmer wrote:
> To make sure it was stable, I did a batch compress of 11 wavs to mp3s.
> That took 2:40. Would anyone agree that if the CPU runs overclocked at
> 100% for 2:40 and doesn't fail, that it's safe to run it overclocked?
I bet that you can find someone to agree with you, but I don't think
that's a sufficient test. Your best bet is probably to get the GIMPS
prime number searching software, which has a good processor test. It
takes several hours to burn in, but more importantly, has varied
algorithms (i.e., makes use of the ALU differently) and *knows what
results it should get.* Your test, in particular, is less than desirable
because the mp3 decoding is designed to handle quite a bit of bad data --
so you would probably correct your errors and pass that test even if your
CPU were on it's last legs.
> Are
> there any other tests I should perform?
Something where you can do a bit for bit comparison is a start. The other
thing you can do is play with the heat gun. If the processor stays cool
at your clock speed, even with a heat gun on it, your clock speed probably
isn't causing trouble!
> I plan to bump up the multiplier by 0.5 every few days or so until I get
> weirdness, then I'll back off. Any bets as to how high I'll get? :)
That depends entirely on how much cooling you have in your system, and how
well it's RF shielded. (I've seen it happen where the system doesn't fail
at the higher clock, but it isn't resonant at the right RF freqs anymore
(due to case / PS / board layout) and wrecks havoc on TV reception, etc!)
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 18:02:17 -0500
From: "Clayton T. Fandre" <cfandre@maddog.mn-linux.org>
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To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:9154] NIS server under linux
Here a little info about securing NIS. I haven't tried it yet but
hopefully will find some free time to play around with it.
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/doug/nis.html
Clay
Peter Lukas wrote:
>
> Shadow and MD5 passwords would not work with NIS since it uses /etc/passwd
> to share information. Shadow+MD5 uses the /etc/shadow file for pw
> authentication and /etc/passwd for user information/identification. It
> will support using a shadow file locally, but by that point, you've
> already rendered NIS useless (at least in terms of user authentication).
> NIS+ should solve the problem although it may be more pain than it's
> worth. Besides, the idea of spewing out user account information to
> anyone who claims to be a memeber of the domain seems rather silly. In
> that case, you may want to just use Samba and WindowsNT password/user
> accounting mechanisms.
>
> Other newtowk-wide account management suites are emerging these days as
> well. OpenLDAP can be used for these purposes (it can be compiled under
> any linux distribution). SRP is another (free for noncommercial use)
> authentication method (it only encrypts the signon though, not the entire
> session) --srp.stanford.edu/srp. Kerberos also may work in your situation
> although it may require a lot of effort to kerberize applications.
>
> Another idea is to whip up some homebrew solution that uses a shadow
> password scheme with SSH or rsync. It can be done with a rather painless
> amount of shell scripting and buys you some secure authentication, no
> unencrypted password spewings across network lines and best of all, it's
> free. Here's how I'd do it:
>
> 1. Manage all user accounds from a central server.
> 2. Maintain all client machines with adequate ssh_host_key,
> ssh_host_key.pub identifiers from the central server.
> 3. Using authorized keys, securely copy a copy of the /etc/passwd,
> /etc/shadow and /etc/group files from the server to the client
> machines.
> 4. Use some clever scripting to enable users to change passwords in the
> traditional manner and the scp the updated /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd and
> /etc/group files out to all client machines.
>
> Benefits:
> o Logon/Authentication is done locally on the client machine.
> o Accounts are centrally managed.
> o The server can be configured to specify which accounts go on which
> clients and which do not.
> o If the server attempts to update a client that has been spoofed, it will
> not since the host keys do not match (unless, of course someone sweizes
> the client box as well as the host keys -- although by that point, why
> not just run crack against /etc/shadow.
> o This can work for a variety of platforms since SSH and shadow are rather
> common nowadays.
>
> Of course, you'll need to highly maintain and monitor your client
> machines and it may take a little while to set up, but in the end, it'll
> be far less work -- and perhaps more secure -- than NIS*.
>
> Peter Lukas
>
> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Bob Tanner wrote:
>
> > Summary: Shadow and MD5 passwords with NIS does not work. What do I need
> > to do in nswitch.con to get this to work? How can I keep encrypted passwords
> > from flying around the network?
> >
> > Details:
> >
> > I am a little confused about NIS servers under linux. Since we run Solaris and
> > NIS+, I do not have that much expirence with NIS. After reading the HOWTOs and
> > such I am even more confused. :-)
> >
> > I activated a NIS server on a Redhat 6.0 box. No shadow, no MD5. Setup the
> > nswitch.conf correctly and played around with ypcat. Things looked great.
> >
> > Install a NIS client on a RH 6.0 box. No shadow, no MD5, nswitch.conf, ypcat,
> > all worked fine.
> >
> > Put my sniffer on the Ethernet segment with these 2 linux boxes, turned
> > monitor on my switch (makes 1 port on the switch receive all traffic on that
> > segment, like a hub) and kringed when I saw the encrypted passwords flying
> > across the wire.
> >
> > Also was concerned that the encrypted password was in /etc/passwd, so being
> > "smart" I actived Shadow and MD5 passwords (authconfig does a great job
> > converting) on both the NIS server and client. Played with ycat and the
> > sniffer some more and was happy to see no encrypted passwords on the wire.
> >
> > Problem, I could not log in either. Read the HOWTO again. It looks like I
> > should be able to put something into nswitch.conf to get this to work. What is
> > it that I put into the nsswitch.conf? I tried the compat option but it does
> > not work.
> >
> > The HOWTO says NOT to use compat because the encrypted passwords get sent out
> > on the wire. So, how do you prevent your encrypted passwords from being sent
> > out on the wire?
> >
> > NIS+ encrypts just about everything, so I did not have to worry.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com> | Phone : (612)943-8700
> > http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (612)943-8500
> > Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9
> >
> >
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From: "Lawrence Crisp" <Lawrence.L.Crisp-1@tc.umn.edu>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 17:55:13
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Subject: Partitioning Q
A Redhat install question:
I was helping a friend install Redhat 6.1 today, and encountered an
interesting problem. When it was time to set up partitions, Disk Druid
would not let me create new partitions on the second hd (hdb). Any new
partitions would be created on hda, regardless of what was selected as
an allowable drive. We could delete partitions on either drive, but
nothing more.
I ran out of ideas, so I now turn to the collective expertise of the list.
Can anyone tell me what causes this? What kind of workaround is there, or
is there a command/keystroke/incantation that I am missing?
Any ideas, suggestions, and words of advice are appreciated.
Thanks,
--Larry
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 19:36:51 -0500 (CDT)
From: Yaron <jethro@yaron.org>
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:9234] Partitioning Q
Hi,
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Lawrence Crisp wrote:
> I ran out of ideas, so I now turn to the collective expertise of the list.
> Can anyone tell me what causes this? What kind of workaround is there, or
> is there a command/keystroke/incantation that I am missing?
You can always go Alt-F2 (or Ctrl-Alt-F2 if in graphic mode) and run fdisk
/dev/hd[ab]. You'll need to first make the devices by using:
mknod /dev/hda b 3 0
mknod /dev/hda1 b 3 1
mknod /dev/hdb b 3 64
mknod /dev/hdb1 b 3 65
..etc. Make your partitions, then reboot, since RH Install won't notice
the changes.
HTH,
-Yaron
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 21:06:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: schewe@tcfreenet.org
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:9234] Partitioning Q
On 17 Oct, Lawrence Crisp wrote:
> A Redhat install question:
> I was helping a friend install Redhat 6.1 today, and encountered an
> interesting problem. When it was time to set up partitions, Disk Druid
> would not let me create new partitions on the second hd (hdb). Any new
> partitions would be created on hda, regardless of what was selected as
> an allowable drive. We could delete partitions on either drive, but
> nothing more.
Just before disk druid starts you should be able to choose fdisk, just
use that.
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 21:57:25 -0500 (CDT)
From: Yaron <jethro@yaron.org>
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.9910172156470.2764-100000@beldaren.yaron.org>
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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:9234] Partitioning Q
Hi,
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 schewe@tcfreenet.org wrote:
> Just before disk druid starts you should be able to choose fdisk, just
> use that.
Not on my copy of Red Hat 6.1... jumps right into disk Druid, even in
text mode.
-Yaron
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 21:58:28 -0500
From: Mike Hicks <hick0088@umn.edu>
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To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:9234] Partitioning Q
> I was helping a friend install Redhat 6.1 today, and encountered an
> interesting problem. When it was time to set up partitions, Disk Druid
> would not let me create new partitions on the second hd (hdb).
You could go make boot & root floppies from Slackware, boot them up, and
use fdisk on there.. :-)
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From: "Schoenhofen, Kelly" <KSchoenhofen@Carlson.com>
To: "'tclug-list@mn-linux.org'" <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 08:59:21 -0500
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Subject: RE: [TCLUG:9217] < $50 graphics card
Honestly, a TNT would be an excellent choice. The PCI ones are floating at
~$50, I picked one up for my brother-in-law just a few weeks ago at Best Buy
for that price. It was 16mb, to boot.
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To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
Subject: [TCLUG:9217] < $50 graphics card
Anyone have a recommendation for an under $50 8MB PCI graphics card? I
currently have a 4 MB card and I'd like to run at 1600x1280 / 16bit
color, so I need to upgrade but I don't want to spend too much. I know
the ATI Xpert 98's run about $50. Any others?
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From: "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 07:20:11 -0700
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:9212] system colors (was: Undeliverable mail (fwd))
>Also, I forgot where I once saw a list of colors available in X, like for
>setting term bg and fg -- you know, "Wheat", and "Slate Grey", and
>whatever. Anyone recall where that might be on most distros?
I belive it's called rgb.txt. it's somewhere in your X11 tree. do a
'locate rgb.txt'
Carl Soderstrom
System Administrator 307 Brighton Ave.
Minnesota DHIA Buffalo, MN
carls@agritech.com (612) 682-1091
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:58:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joel A. Koepp" <jkoepp@atlas.socsci.umn.edu>
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910181058100.8531-100000@sierra.socsci.umn.edu>
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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:9212] system colors (was: Undeliverable mail (fwd))
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> >Also, I forgot where I once saw a list of colors available in X, like for
> >setting term bg and fg -- you know, "Wheat", and "Slate Grey", and
> >whatever. Anyone recall where that might be on most distros?
> I belive it's called rgb.txt. it's somewhere in your X11 tree. do a
> 'locate rgb.txt'
>
That will do it, but so will 'showrgb | less'
Joel
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:24:54 -0500
From: Troy Johnson <john1536@tc.umn.edu>
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To: SCALUG <linux@scalug.org>,
TCLUG <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Subject: Off topic question
Dear Everyone,
Does anyone know anything about TotalNet? Do they have a point of
presence here in the Twin Cities and/or St. Cloud area? Just curious,
Troy
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From: "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:14:22 -0700
Subject: RE: [TCLUG:9167] Pine 4.20
>On my email program wishlist is better ways to manage old messages.
>I keep (don't delete, keep 'forever') a few hundred K of recieved and sent
>messages each month. From time to time I find it useful to look up old
>messages and I find it easier to keep a fairly large number of messages
>than to decided what to keep and what to toss in too much detail.
>I tend to keep things in chronological order but some times it's nice to
>group related messages together.
I personally extract any mail messages I want to save, to text
files. this offers a lot more portability than keeping them as mail
messages. in some ways it's more hasslesome, without a GUI or quasi-GUI text
file browser (like most mailers have); but i've never found it to be a real
drawback (it's pretty unusual for me to go back and look at those old msgs,
so lack of use means lack of need). 'less', 'more', and 'grep' are adequate
for finding stuff. (I have a DOS grep; and a browser called 'list' which
works reasonably well, similar to 'less' in some ways, a bit more extensive
in others).
what tools are there for cataloging/managing large amounts of text files?
I'm sure it's a common problem with way more answers than I really wanted to
know about... :>
Carl Soderstrom
System Administrator 307 Brighton Ave.
Minnesota DHIA Buffalo, MN
carls@agritech.com (612) 682-1091
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 11:40:18 -0500 (CDT)
From: Chris Kesler <chris@pconline.com>
To: The LUG <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:9215] bash config files on Slackware
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Ben Beuchler wrote:
> After having my hand held by RedHat, I figured it was time to jump off
the deep
> end and try Slackware 4.0. It's running quite nicely and it's CERTAINLY
not
> holding my hand!
>
> However, I seem to be having some difficulty with the normal shell
config
> scripts. To start with, ~/.bashrc wouldn't be processed unless I added
it to
> /etc/profile. Isn't that supposed to be run whether /etc/profile exists
or
> not? It certainly wasn't called by /etc/profile in Red Hat.
>
Add a variable to .profile or /etc/profile to set up your ENV variable
ENV=$HOME/.bashrc; export ENV
By default, RedHat's .bash_profile file contains this line
BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc
It's a non-POSIX way to accomplish the same thing.
Check out the man page for bash. It explains ENV and BASH_ENV in detail.
Chris
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 11:41:29 -0500 (CDT)
From: Chris Kesler <chris@pconline.com>
To: The LUG <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:9159] Glut
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Rodney wrote:
> Bob do you know where it is? I have looked all over for this thing and
don't see
> it. Also do you knwo how to get xmkmf to work or where to get it?
>
> Thanks Rodney
>
On a RedHat system, xmkmf is in the XFree86-devel RPM. Otherwise, you can
find it at ftp://ftp.xfree86.org .
Chris
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 12:15:07 -0500
From: Troy Johnson <john1536@tc.umn.edu>
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Subject: Wow! I suggested they do a story on this, and they did...
...it's too bad I don't get mentioned as a tipster. ;-)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/991018-000017.html