Linuxers July 2001

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Possible virus, can anyone confirm
by noel seq 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

>From: Philip S Tellis <philip.tellis(a)iname.com> >> >I received a file named Book3_26.xls.pif in my mail. I suspect this to >be a virus because of the way the filename is masked to show up as an >excel sheet in default windows installs. >Hi! How are you=3F > >I send you this file in order to have your advice > >See you later=2E Thanks This virus/worm, has infected one of the computers on my LAN and sends an email to everyone in addressbook. The text containing the mail is the same, but the attachment name keeps changing. A Mc Afee scan does not detect it. Noel _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Duplicate mails
by Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

I still get two copies of most mails! SameerDS. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Antialiasing in X
by Q u a s i 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Folks, I have a query. Does the X server do antialiasing? Because whenever I try viewing the ps or pdf files the fonts are horribly rendered. And generally my X looks grubby. Is this a problem with any specific version of X? I have an accelerated (Mach64) server running with 32bit color depth. Also I have seen some GNU/Linux boxes with KDE 2 where the fonts were rendered properly. Is this the doing of KDE? I dont have KDE and run GNOME+Enlightenment/fwm. Also I still havent been able to use the TTF fonts, from the windows partition, in X. thanks, quasi -- postscript -- Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. -- R. Drabek __________________________________________________ \?/ .Quasi. (0-0) ( | ) <quasiabhi(a)yahoo.com> ( v ) yahoo messenger : quasiabhi __| |__ / \ Protect OUR Earth.

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Pls suggest some lightweight desktop
by Nikhil Joshi 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

I like GNOME and KDE but these are memory hungry desktops . Multitasking becomes little difficult due to this . Following is output of free while running XMMS and Kmail The values are in MB total used *free* shared buffers cached Mem: 60 59 1 0 1 29 -/+ buffers/cache: 29 31 Swap: 156 1 155 Notice the drastically low value of free memory. The situation is pretty much the same with GNOME. Please suggest some lightweight desktop environment which doesn't eat so much memory.

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qmail installation
by acharya＠dacafe.com 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Hi everyone I wanted to install qmail. I am reffring to networking computing book as refferece. But having problem with certain commands. I have downloaded the rpm from ftp://moni-msci.memohis.edu Can anyone giude how to install it. priyadarshi _____________________________________________________________ Tired of limited space on Yahoo and Hotmail? Free 100 Meg email account available at http://www.dacafe.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] forwarding in Qmail
by noel seq 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

From: "Tushar Burman" <tb(a)freeos.com> > >Then I have my ~alias/.qmail-default look like this: > >| forward "$LOCAL"@bar.com > >The "$LOCAL" is an environment variable that holds the user part of the >email recipient. > >So in your case, when mail is sent to pqr(a)foo.com, with this setup, it will >be forwarded to pqr(a)bar.com, which is the same as pqr(a)foo.com. This is how >my setups work - 13 so far. No problems. what is this termed as ? mail forwarding ? noel _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] forwarding in Qmail
by noel seq 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

>From: "Tushar Burman" <tb(a)freeos.com> > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "noel seq" <noelseq(a)hotmail.com> > >Then I have my ~alias/.qmail-default look like this: > >| forward "$LOCAL"@bar.com > >The "$LOCAL" is an environment variable that holds the user part of the >email recipient. > My ~alias/.qmail-default looks like this: forward "$LOCAL"@mail.foo.com this was ok since i had only two pop accounts which were not local and could be forwarded from user(a)mail.foo.co to user(a)foo.com >However, now I use a system similar to yours. I have another domain > >pointing to the same IP on my hosted/colocated server, so user(a)foo.com > >is also user(a)bar.com in my setup. This is different from your setup in > >that no manual forwarding has been done. Every POP box on my server >can >recieve mail for every domain hosted on it. abc(a)foo.com == >abc(a)bar.com == >abc(a)xyz.com. Do you create pop accounts for all users which are not local, on bar.com or do the mails synchronise automatically. This is because i have around 100 pop accounts which are not local. Noel _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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[OT] Possible virus, can anyone confirm
by Philip S Tellis 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

I received a file named Book3_26.xls.pif in my mail. I suspect this to be a virus because of the way the filename is masked to show up as an excel sheet in default windows installs. IMPORTANT: This was sent to me by someone who has my address in your addressbook. Anyone using windows, and having my address in your addressbook, please check your system. The virus is probably harmless through mail because of a stupid problem. There's an extra = at the end of the base 64 encoded file, which means it cannot be decoded, at least not by standards compliant decoders. OE may still decode it. Don't know about NSMessenger. A simple inspection of the attachment tells you that. I extracted the file, and ran strings on it. It gave me this: BFD: BFD internal error, aborting at coffcode.h line 763 in styp_to_sec_flags BFD: Please report this bug. This seems to be a problem with strings. (strings on Solaris works) I then did a file on it and found it to be a Win32 executable (surprise!). I then did a less on the file to see what was in it. I found a lot of things, including the following (edited to fit): Content-Disposition: quoted-printable 8bit 7bit octet-stream plain mixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: ; charset= ; boundary=" Content-Type: application mixed _Outlook_Express_message_boundary Outlook Express MIME messages encoding and decoding X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 MIME-Version: 1.0 date: Organization: Subject: To: From: along with three letter abbreviations of days of the week and months of the year and a lot more. Specifically, there are a lot of references to Winsock.dll and common TCP/IP errors, but I have been unable to determine if it just uses the file or tries to replace it. I believe it may be the former, though its size (173KB) seems to suggest it does a lot more than just send email. Towards the fourth quarter of the file, I found actual excel stuff. Now, look at the header of the mail: X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----147B2E70_Outlook_Express_message_boundary" Content-Disposition: Multipart message and the attachment headers: ------147B2E70_Outlook_Express_message_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: message text Hi! How are you=3F I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later=2E Thanks ------147B2E70_Outlook_Express_message_boundary Content-Type: application/mixed; name=Book3_26.xls.pif Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Book3_26.xls.pif Also, the terminating message boundary is identical to the others, instead of having a trailing -- as specified in 822 (I think). Looks pretty suspicious to me. I checked at Symantec, it's been recorded as the W32.Sircam.Worm, last updated this morning. Check http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@mm.html for more details. Philip -- Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982 Visit my webpage at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/ Read my writings at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/writings/ MSN philiptellis Yahoo! philiptellis

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KDE Desktop
by noel seq 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Hi guys, I am using PCQ Linux 7.1 on p3 810 machine with KDE as my desktop (recently installed). The resolution set is too high. If i change the resolution with ctrl-alt-+ then i can see better, however, the desktop screen gets bigger than my monitor. How do i resize it and yet see with the right font size ? I tried configuring the desktop, increasing the font size and increasing the resolution, but the fonts still are small. How do i set it right. Noel _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Compiled Kernel
by noel seq 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Hi guys, I recently downloaded and compiled a new kernel 2.4.4 But, whenever i boot into this kernel, i am not able to use linuxconf, mount, etc since they are broken. When i boot into the old kernel, i still able to. What could be the reason. Will i have to install newer versions or have i done something wrong while compiling. Noel _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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