June 2005 - KCLUG - kclug.org

moving home/second home
by lerninlinux＠comcast.net 15 Jun '05

15 Jun '05

Had a drive that was failing, it was on a system that was dual boot with a screwed up windows registry. I haven't booted windows on it in two years, so I booted into Linux and transfered everything that was needed to be saved to my samba server. There is one big directory that I want to save on multiple machines (all my ripped cd's, I don't want to have to go through that again) and was wondering about adding a second drive and another home partition on it, or do I have to move the whole home partition? TIA Randal

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RE: PHP safe mode on virtual hosts
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

Sounds to me like you should draw yourself a diagram of what each group of files has for permissions, what are all the users and groups involved and their effective permissions. Quite possibly you may just need to add the virtual domain admin users to some group or add user apache to the virtual domain group so the apache process can write. Do the php pages have to write anything to the virtual domain directories? Even if it's just a log file, then that user is denied. Do all of the virtual domains wrote to the database? I didn't understand that part. If so, then for one I wouldn't do it that way. They should each have their own database. Also, if you have this: rw-r--r--, then the group can't write only the specific user, but you may need to add the user you run the database as or the php process in somewhere. Hell, I'm confused now. User Group Apache apache web process and /var/www/html Virtual1 virtual1 Domain1 Virtual2 virtual2 Domain2 Virtual3 virtual3 Domain3 Database database database files Hint: Don't refer to them as one domain or another, use more concrete terms. You've got so much going on, I'm confuse now. Back to my nap. >-----Original Message----- >From: kclug-bounces(a)kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] >On Behalf Of Jack >Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 6:41 PM >To: Jonathan Hutchins; kclug(a)kclug.org >Subject: Re: PHP safe mode on virtual hosts > > >Apache is running as apache. The file permissions are >rw-r--r-- on all the directories accessed by apache or >php. Each virtual webspace has it's own user and the >group is the same as the user. So website-1 has file >ownership of say admin1.admin1 and this is in the >user and group as defined in the chrooted apache >httpd.conf. AS I said, I compared two sites and have >yet to see any configuration difference. In either the >httpd.conf or it's included files or in the php.ini >files. > >--- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins(a)tarcanfel.org> wrote: > >> On Monday 13 June 2005 01:22 pm, Jack wrote: >> >> > ... one site >> > works if the files in the chrooted /var/www/html >> > directory are owned by a authorized admin for the >> > virtual host, the other works only if that >> directory >> > and the files are owned by root. >> >> Who's apache running as? What are the file >> permissions? User? Group?

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PHP safe mode on virtual hosts
by Jack 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Help! I'm working on a website that is on a server with over a dozen other virtual hosts. SAFE mode is turned on in apache. I've diffed two similar sites and can't figure out what the issue is. Google hasn't illuminated me, either. Here's the problem: one site works if the files in the chrooted /var/www/html directory are owned by a authorized admin for the virtual host, the other works only if that directory and the files are owned by root. Both sites make use of a directory in the chrooted /usr/share tree which is owned by root (this is the PEAR database routines). The site that doesn't work gives me a SAFE MODE access error and the other does not. The php.ini files are identical and the apache config files are identical except for the site names and names of the chrooted directories (each is named for it's own set of chrooted directories). If I change the PEAR directories to match the UID of the site that is broken then I get DB errors. I'm at the end of my rope trying to figure this out. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Brian D. __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/

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Re: Somewhat OT: copyright question
by csappenfield＠kc.rr.com 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

----- Original Message ----- From: Jack <quiet_celt(a)yahoo.com> Date: Sunday, June 12, 2005 9:51 am Subject: Re: Somewhat OT: copyright question > Please tell us which case of the hundreds in this > FAQ is the one you are referring to. It's hard to > argue the validity of your argument that unintentional > copyright infringement is prosecutable without knowing > the basis of your argument. While it is true that you > can unintentionally infringe on copyright, there is > also a "safe harbor" provision in the US Copyright act > > that holds people harmless under certain conditions. > > Please refer to the following site for information > about why and how content providers are or are not > liable for copyright infringement. > > http://www.libertolaw.com/2-99.html > That might look like it deals specifically with ISPs, but sec 512 of the DMCA covers all "online service providers", not just ISPs. If you run a mailing list, you are an online service provider, and the DMCA is your friend. Or, at least, the enemy of your enemy.

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KDE install on Gentoo Stage 3
by rsobba 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

How do I keep emerge kdebase from looking for the internet but instead /gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles/? I performed a Stage 3 Gentoo install and now want to install GUI and applications that I have on CD. There is a tremdous amount of information about networkless Gentoo installs but nothing on the rest. Thanks! Rick

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Nice article
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/amissopedx.shtml

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Using Gimp to print part of a page in a .pdf file
by Gary Hildebrand 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Got a tough nut to crack here --- all you power gfx users out there, gather around while I tell you a tale . . . . I had a fellow ham copy an instruction book for me -- and he scanned two pages at once per file page, and I'd like to edit it somehow, and enlarge that part to full page size for printing. The original book was designed for people with microscope vision. Doing a Yahoo search, there's a program for Windows (one moment while I toss my cookies) that converts it to a jpg file. So far, I've tried the pdf to jpg conversion, and all I get is the first page. There has to be some means of advancing through the pages in the pdf file to get the rest. Maybe there's something in the Adobe Reader program that might do that. If not, there should be . . . . . Gary Hildebrand St. Joseph, MO

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RE: Using Gimp to print part of a page in a .pdf file
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Does Xpdf, Open Office or KOffice allow you to open pdf files in edit mode? I was pretty sure that one of these does. I think you still need to have ImageMagick installed because it is used on the backend. Brian >-----Original Message----- >On Behalf Of Jason Clinton >Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 7:04 PM >Subject: Re: Using Gimp to print part of a page in a .pdf file > > >On Wednesday 8 June 2005 18:43, Gary Hildebrand wrote: >> So far, I've tried the pdf to jpg conversion, and all I get >is the first >> page. There has to be some means of advancing through the >pages in the >> pdf file to get the rest. Maybe there's something in the >Adobe Reader >> program that might do that. If not, there should be . . . . . > >Somewhere around 300 DPI should be enough for your purposes >so, make sure >ImageMagick is installed and do a little math: > >300 x 8.5 in = 2550 pixels wide >by 300 x 11 in = 3,300 pixels tall > >$ convert -size 2550x3300 mypdf.pdf mypdf_page%02d.jpg > >And that's it! > >See `man ImageMagick` and `man convert` if you get lost.

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Gentoo Linux and webcams
by James Sissel 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

I've got a Gentoo Linux server at home. It isn't running XWindows but it is running Apache 2. Currently I have a Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000 webcam setup on it running the PWC drivers and palantar software to serve up the cam pages. For a peek at it go to: http://jserver.dnsalias.net/GardenCam/index2.html Or http://jserver.dnsalias.net/GardenCam/index.html for a video feed and watch the grass grow. I'm not happy with the quality of the picture. The colors are off, the picture is washed out and faded, and the resolution is horrible. Is anyone else currently running a webcam? Does anyone have suggestions on something better or someway to improve picture quality?

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OT: Apple and Intel
by Josh Charles 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Guess it's sort of the bombshell of today: Apple is dropping IBM chips and moving to Intel. Live coverage of the Job's keynote is available here: http://live.macobserver.com/article/2005/06/wwdc2005_keynote.shtml He said that they've been able to compile OS X on an intel chip for five years in preparation for this move. Now that's pretty cool Josh

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