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The Answer Guy: Copyright © 1997-99, James T. Dennis

Index of The Answer Guy

Contents:

1999:	#36 January	#37 February	#38 March	#39 April
	#40 Mid-April	#41 May	#42 June	#43 July
	#44 August	#45 September	#46 October

1998:	#24 January	#25 February	#26 March	#27 April
	#28 May	#29 June	#30 July	#31 August
	#32 September	#33 October	#34 November	#35 December

1997:	#13 January	#14 February	#15 March	#16 April
	#17 May	#18 June	#19 July	#20 August
	#21 September	#22 October	#23 December

Issue 13 was the first Answer Guy column.

Issue #46 October 1999

Greetings From Jim Dennis

Two Network Cards --or--: Routing Revisited
dao
("helpless" in TAG #44))
TCPMUX on Linux --or--: TCPMux Revisited: You'll need a Daemon for it, or a Better inetd
The Mac, Linux, perl, Apache & server --or--: A Staging Server
Another "respawning" question --or--: Id "x" respawning too fast: Murdered Mysteriously
2gig max file size? --or--: Large File Support Under Linux/x86
http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/lg/issue13/answer.html --or--: From the Dim History: EQL Revisited
Bandwidth Load Sharing w/o ISP Support
Modem blues.. --or--: High School Modem
your web --or--: Who is Jim Dennis?
redirection of stdin-stdout --or--: Programming Question about Regaining stdin/stdout
outgoing email using Netscape --or--: Outgoing Mail Problems
How to add fonts to Linux --or--: Adding Fonts

Issue #45 September 1999

Greetings From Jim Dennis

Linux to NT PPP Connection Over Null Modem
Printing --or--: Printing to old "Pin Printer"
Internet Access Control --or--: Limiting Internet Access through Cable Modems
unix question --or--: Quotas on a Sublet Web Server?
Mars NWE --or--: MarS NWE: HOWTO and Docs in English?
java curses library and jxterm? --or--: Old Question Revisited: Java Curses Support
RH6 Virtual Email - POP3 problem --or--: Virtual E-mail Domains
Setting up Windows and Linux --or--: Dual Booting without Re-Partitioning
LINUX File System Standard. --or--: /bin vs /sbin and the FHS Revisited
How to Print 2 pages on 1 sheet --or--: Saving Trees: Laying up Multiple Pages per Printer Sheet
Telnet trouble --or--: More "Can't Telnet Around My LAN" Problems
Getting on the Internet --or--: Getting Access to the Internet
Cash In On ... Spam!

Issue #44 August 1999

Greetings From Jim Dennis

Linux and Windows 95 --or--: Running Win '95 Apps under Linux
PPP disconnect --or--: PPP + minicom Disconnects
WvDial Success
Linux Partition conflicting with Win98 --or--: Makes Windows Explorer Choke
More complex than that, really.
ftpacess and the Incoming Conundrum
IP forwarding and Linux: Turning it off.
IP forward --or--: TCP/IP Port Relaying
This month's "paltry" offerings --or--: Typos
can't help it --or--: Spellcheck Award!
ppp & voicemail
Unsupported Floppy Formats: 'dd' Maybe
minicom --or--: Minicom Calling a Procomm Host
AHA 2940 SCSI timeout errors --or--: was: Plug and Pray SCAM
AHA 2940 SCSI timeout errors --or--: More on: SCSI Resets Due to Command Timeouts
AHA 2940 SCSI timeout errors --or--: SCSI Resets Due to Command Timeouts
Desqview/Linux --or--: Assembly Language Programming for an old DESQview User
DESQView 386 --or--: DESQview/386 Die Hards into the Next Millennia
cdr's --or--: CDR Media: Silver and Gold and Blue, Oh my!
get to know --or--: Downloading a copy of Linux
quick swap Q --or--: And from Radioland....
video timings needed --or--: Video Timings: Configuration Curse
Help ! --or--: Accessing Private Net Addresses from the Public Internet
Linux gazette article, July 1999
Dao --or--: Helpless
linux memory --or--: Free Memory vs. Buffers
Copying boot partitiion
I am a begining Linux user, PLEASE Help! --or--: SiS 6326 and XFree86
ide-cd module --or--: Reading CD Discs on an IDE CDR Drive
LILO problem.. again --or--: Persistent LILO: Won't Start! Won't Go Away!
Question --or--: The Lost Art of Helper Apps
finding Changelogs --or--: Kernel Patches and Change Logs
Installing Win NT 4.0 Workstation and Dual booting Win NT 4.0 Workstation and Win 95 B
pc-mos --or--: 5 1/4" Floppies: Truly Dead
Hdd track 0 bad. --or--: How to Use a Disk with a Bad Track 0
Benchmarks
DosLinux --or--: What part of "Win Modem" Didn't you Understand?
128M Ram question --or--: Seeing only 13M of RAM
A Fair price for CD duplication --or--: CD Duplication Services: Spam?
Proxy server --or--: Proxy Program?

Issue #43 July 1999

Greetings From Jim Dennis

Hey answer guy!!!
One more thing. --or--: Null Modems: Connecting MS-DOS to Linux as a Serial Terminal
RedHat 5.2 Kernel 2.0.36 --or--: Upgrade Breaks Several Programs, /proc Problems, BogoMIPS Discrepancies
A visit to "Library Hell"
Floppy/mount Problems: Disk Spins, Lights are on, No one's Home? --or--: Floppy Failure: mdir Works; mount Fails
Found the culprit!
need your help --or--: Incompetance in Parenting
bad clusters --or--: Try Linux ... and Grammar
Duplicating / --or--: Out of Space....or Inodes? All Sparsity Lost?
RAID 1 solutions --or--: Arco Duplidisk: Disk Mirroring
Modem Help --or--: Searching for Days for a Linux Modem: The Daze Continues

Issue #42 June 1999

Greetings From Jim Dennis

Setting up a Loopback Mount --or--: Loopback (localhost) NFS Mounting for FTP
sites for general disk info? --or--: General HD Info and Boot Code
TCP Sockets --or--: SYN, SYN/ACK, ACK, ACK, ACK: TCP Handshaking "Pleased to meet you!"
cvs tree for pam --or--: PAM chroot Wherein Jim rants about PAM
Resizing partitions --or--: Filesystem Management: What must be "resident" at all times?
Hubs --or--: Ethernet Switches vs. Hubs
procmail and saved variables. --or--: MATCH and Replaceable Parameters in procmail
RMA for Video Card
Unix Internal --or--: Inodes Numbering: An Academic Question
One Bad Sector thats gettin on my nerves! --or--: One Bad Sector It Doesn't Ruin the Whole Disk
Server shutdown/restart: 2-key keyboard --or--: Server Shutdown Button
hal91 --or--: HAL91 (Floppy Based Linux Distribution)
ping at a differnt port --or--: Ping a Port: NOT
Hey answer guy!!! --or--: Linux as a Job! Hobbies become fun and profit
New Kernel Loses Ether Driver; Dial on Demand and Masquerading
A grabbag of user questions.
pcmcia install on debian
work-around for gdi printer? --or--: WinPrinter Work-around
Question about 2 GB max? --or--: Maximum Filesize vs. Maximum Filesystem Size
Advanced ipfwadm question. icmp forwarding. --or--: ICMP Masquerading
RedHat 5.2 Kernel 2.0.36 --or--: Upgrade Breaks Several Programs, /proc Problems, BogoMIPS Discrepancies
A visit to "Library Hell"
Pls spare a minute: --or--: Spare a Minute to Provide "Some Info"
HELP!!!!!!!!!! --or--: Data "Losted" (sic)
"Network Neighborhood" --or--: Network Neighborhood: Heterogenous File Sharing
AOL

Issue #41 May 1999

Greetings From Jim Dennis

Here's a shell scripting question for you. --or--: How to Make a Shell Script "Unbreakable"
Best Place to "Download Linux"
How to Build Own Linux Distribution ? --or--: Building a Personal Distribution: Take II
"core" files appearing here and there --or--: Dealing with "core" files
Xterm and "Log to file" --or--: Flexible Logging of Terminal Output to Files: Use 'screen'
file timestamp off Got it !

Issue #40 Mid-April 1999

The Mid-April extra issue did not contain an Answer Guy column.

Issue #39 April 1999

Greetings From Jim Dennis

a small question --or--: Using a 286 as a Serial Terminal
What's wrong with internal modems?
Error starting recompiling process?
How Can I Delete? --or--: Deleting Files and UNIX Permissions
No rule to make target 'config' --or--: Recompiling Kernel to Support CD-ROM
Fvwm95-Wharf --or--: fvwm95-Wharf: xterm comes out black?
Another "No Login" Problem: A little tip
Multilink PPP using Linux --or--: Modem Multi-link PPP: EQL
New Linux Distribution --or--: How to Create a New Linux Distribution: Why?
login source code --or--: Seeing Stars During Login
Personal LAN setup... --or--: Setting up a Personal/Home LAN
Good morning!!! --or--: Essay Quiz
diald dials every hour... --or--: Overactive diald
Modem Problem --or--: Another Lost Soul
Plee for help
security issue, /etc/passwd --or--: Secure Shutdown from the Console
Linux and Y2K
Your approach to Y2K problem --or--: Y2K Cause Arithmetic Failures?

Issue #38 March 1999

Greetings From Jim Dennis

hmm. --or--: FTP Only Access: Trickier than it Seems
Why can I only login as root? --or--: Another "No Login" Problem
A Reader Answers: What is the TCP/IP SACK feature?
Unable to Open Console: After "Custom" Install
"Integrating" Linux/sendmail with MS Exchange
Win 95 computer/NT server environment --or--: Shell Scripting: Getting Host and User Names
Bad Sectors in my HDD --or--: More on: Bad Sectors
Please upgrade your Internet Explorer --or--: The Presumption!
linux --or--: Mysterious Message: Subject: Linux
Diamond Multimedia Modems --or--: Reader Comments: Diamond WinModems:
About a OPL-3 ( Yamaha driver for sound) (sorry for bad english...) --or--: OPL-3 Sound Drivers
Question from an old friend.
[Q]: Winmodem under Linux
how to fix a bad cluster on hd --or--: More Bad Clusters
proxy & router combination --or--: Proxying over PPP
help with partitions --or--: Installing on a Big Drive: More on the 1023 Cylinder Limit
Linux 5.2 Loadlin.exe, where do I get it? --or--: Finding LOADLIN.EXE ... and Linux Loader for Win '9x
help with partitions --or--: Partitioning Mini-HOWTO
True modems
Is it possible to run Debian on 4 MB? --or--: Low Memory Installation
win95->wingate ; linux->? --or--: Drop-in Replacement for "WinGate"
Jim Dennis: Re: Gimp on RH5.1
xntpd --or--: How 'ntpdate' finds IP addresses?
Sportys
souncards
Great Job !!! --or--: Linux as a Loghost (Syslog Server)
Telnetd and pausing

Issue #37 February 1999

Greetings From Jim Dennis

serial port settings --or--: Another Damn WinModem
Simplified Security? --or--: Simple Security Tips
eterm quickie + general commment (linux SUPERGRAN)
nr_files and nr_inodes --or--: Max Open Files and Inodes: Use The Entries under /proc
setting up an ISP to serve email
Getting my new linux box to run the ftp server
setting up an ISP to serve email --or--: Setting up ISP Mail Services
[Fwd: rsh on 2.0.34] --or--: More on: 'rsh' as 'root' Denied
procmail --or--: 'procmail' to Get Mail via POP-3? No. 'fetchmail'
Linux Diagnostic Tool --or--: Hardware Info Under Linux: MSD.EXE Clone?
X terminals via serial links? --or--: X Windows Over a Serial Line (Null Modem)
copy of Microsoft Office --or--: Free Copy of MS Office for Linux? It isn't April Yet!
diald modem settings E71 --or--: Using "odd" modem settings
Further answers to questions? --or--: Sometimes Short of the Question
Steven Hancock: ps to gif --or--: More on: Automated PostScript (ps) to GIF Conversion
"Routing and Subnetting 101" Linux Gazzette 1/1/99 --or--: Re: Routing and Subnetting for Classes
Partitioning my new Linux box... --or--: Disk Partitioning: Review
Curious modem hangup... --or--: PPP Disconnects
ifconfig reports TX errors on v2.1.x kernels --or--: 'ifconfig': TX errors
System clock is too fast... --or--: Ahh ... The Toils of Time
you are the man --or--: The Complaint Department: Typos and Grammatical Errors
modem disconnect problem?
modem problems under linux --or--: X Prevents/Kills Modem Connection
I want my 10 GIGS!!! --or--: Ultra-DMA and the 8.4Gb IDE Disk Limit
LTT submission
Is it possible to run Debian on 4 MB? --or--: Low Memory Installation
Better resolution (laptop LCD) --or--: Higher Resolution X on a Laptop
Dos
Low Level Formatting
Bad Sectors in my HDD --or--: Removing Bad Sectors
Help --or--: Netscape Communicator: "Improper DNS Type"?
Communicator and PGP on Linux --or--: NS Communicator (Mail) and PGP
Uh, where'd my "man" go? --or--: 'fsck' Breaks 'man' Pages?
Custom Install --or--: Unable to Open Console: After "Custom" Install
Securing a modem dial-out line.
Why can I only login as root? --or--: Another "No Login" Problem
RAM
I used gzip in bad way... help! --or--: Accidental Deletion
TCP patch for SACK? (RFC 2018) --or--: TCP/IP SACK Support: When? Now!

Issue #36 January 1999

(!) Greetings From Jim Dennis

Routing and Subnetting 101
No STREAMS Error while Installing Netware for Linux
More than 8 loopfs Mounts?
eql dual line ppp --or--: EQL Serial Line "Load Balancing"
who to report gcc bug to? --or--: Where to Report Bugs and Send Patches
RedHat Linux (5.1) and Brand X --or--: How to "get into" an Linux system from a Microsoft client
Linux File System recommendations --or--: Where to Put New and Supplemental Packages
Your book --or--: Book: Linux Systems Administration
FTP Site... --or--: 'ls' Doesn't work for FTP Site
very general process question --or--: An Anthropologist Asks About the Linux "Process"
Locating AV Research --or--: Looking for a Hardware Vendor: In all the Wrong Places
question for answerguy --or--: Letting Those Transfers Run Unattended
where can i find information about LOFS, TFS --or--: Translucent, Overlay, Loop, and Union Filesystems
Modem dial out
PAM & chroot (fwd) --or--: 'chroot()' Jails or Cardboard Boxes
The Linux Swap File --or--: Swap file on a RAM Disk
RedHat Linux (5.1) and Brand X --or--: How to "get into" an Linux system from a Microsoft client
Dynamic IP Address Publishing Hack
Why 40-second delay in sending mail to SMTP server?
how to install two ethernet cards for proxy server for red hat linux --or--: Linux as Router and Proxy Server: HOWTO?
ey answer guy! answer this! --or--: PostScript to GIF
troubleshooting
More on: "Remote Login as root"
Thank You --or--: Kudos
Question --or--: Linux Support for Intel Pentium II Xeon CPU's and Chipsets
isp --or--: Linux Friendly ISP's: SF Bay Area
Hello I need some help --or--: Eight Character login Name Limit
Locked Out of His Mailserver
Changing the color depth for your x-server? --or--: Changing the X Server's Default Color Depth
Num Lock and X apps --or--: NumLock and X Problems
NE2000 "clones" --- not "cloney" enough! --or--: Expansion on NE-2000 Cards: Some PCI models "okay"
MySql --or--: Finding info on MySqL?
read please very important --or--: Spying: (AOL Instant Messenger or ICQ): No Joy!
Tuning monitors for use with X --or--: Fraser Valley LUG's Monitor DB
chattr =u and then what? --or--: ext2fs "Undeletable" Attribute
How to Install Linux on an RS6000?
Real PS Printing --or--: Advanced Printer Support: 800x600 dpi + 11x17" Paper
TAG suggestions
password change --or--: CGI Driven Password Changes
ifconfig reports TX errors on v2.1.x kernels
Trident 9685 tv --or--: Support for Trident Video/Television Adapter
Looking for info on BIOS setup --or--: Plug and Pray Problems
Mount linux drives from win9x/nt? password encryption seems to be a problem... --or--: Sharing/Exporting Linux Directories to Windows '9x/NT
Mail processing
Printing question --or--: Extra Formfeed from Windows '95
Root password --or--: Can't Login in as Root
Alternate root-password recovery option --or--: Alternative Method for Recovering from Root Password Loss
Journal File Support and Tarantella? --or--: SCOldies Bragging Rights
Remote tape access, using local CPU --or--: Application Direct Access to Remote Tape Drive
Mounting CD Drives from SoundCard --or--: Mounting multiple CD's
Re: leafnode-1.7 -- news server for small sites --or--: More on Multi-Feed Netnews (leafnode)
rsh config --or--: Getting 'rsh' to work
update on your answer - netware clients --or--: Linux as a Netware Client
LILO Default
uninstall help --or--: Uninstalling Linux
Compiling kernel --or--: Making a Kernel Requires 'make'
memory usage --or--: Using only 64Mb out of 128Mb Available
Manipulating Clusters on a Floppy ...
Setting up ircd
Sendmail on private net with UUCP link to Internet
Linux in general --or--: Complaint Department:
A Dual Modem configuration... how do I get it to work? --or--: eql Not Working
routing without of any outer routers knowing me as I am a router.. --or--: Proxyarp
HELP: fetchmail dies after RH 5.2 upgrade --or--: Upgrade Kills Name Server
Question (what else?) --or--: MS Applications Support For Linux
Linux as a Home Internet Gateway and Server
lilo --or--: Persistent Boot Sector
preference=20 --or--: Secondary MX Records: How and Why
LPD forks and hangs/Linux --or--: 'lpd' Bug: "restricted service" option; Hangs Printer Daemon
Dual booting NT or Win9x with Linux (Red Hat 5.2) --or--: Dual Boot Configurations
Can you give me a Suggestion?/ --or--: Microtek Scanner Support: Alejandro's Tale
Offer to make available Winmodem interface spec --or--: Modem HOWTO Author Gets Offer RE: WinModems
I do know i am boring (ma windows fa veramente cagare) --or--: Condolences to Another Victim of the "LoseModem" Conspiracy
Kai Makisara: Re: audio-DAT on SCSI streamer? --or--: More on: Reading Audio Tapes using HP-DAT Drive
Just a sugestion... --or--: Best of Answer Guy: A Volunteer?
more on keybindings --or--: termcap/terminfo Oddities to Remotely Run SCO App
Arabic? --or--: Arabic BiDi Support for Linux
Updates: Risks and rewards --or--: Automated Updates
Liam Greenwood: Your XDM question
rsh on 2.0.34 --or--: 'rsh' as 'root' Denied

Issue #35 December 1998

(!) Greetings From Jim Dennis

office server --or--: Linux as a File/Print Server for Window and DOS boxes: Of course!
Suggestions for Linux Users with Ultra Large Disks
Linux question - "out of the Blue" --or--: Listing "Just the Links": It's the only way, Luke
Yamaha OPL3-SA --or--: More on Linux Kernels Sound Support: Alan Cox Responds
X and virtual terms --or--: Some Magic Keys for the Linux Console
Keyboard Problem --or--: No Echo During Password Entry
FTP Login as 'root' --- Don't!
sendmail problem --or--: 'sendmail' on a Private/Disconnected Network
Question about networking with NetWare --or--: Needs to Login to Netware
FS Security using Linux --or--: Crypto Support for Linux
relaying still not correct ...
The state of UNIX in 1998
A newbie question --or--: How Many Ways Can I Boot Thee: Let Me Count Them
Windows file systems across a linux box --or--: Programmer Fights with Subnets
Finding IP address with a script --or--: Using A Dynamically Assigned Address from PPP Startup Script
Setting up Linux to serve CD images through loopback --or--: More than 8 loopfs Mounts?
SV: PPP-question. --or--: Where to find Multi-Router Traffic Grabber
Support for the Microtek SlimScan Parallel Port Scanner
RedHat 5.1 and rpms --or--: RPM Dependencies: HOW?
modutils question
libc5 and libc6
Linux on Dell Systems
How can I find this out? --or--: Remote Login as 'root'

Issue #34 November 1998

(!) Greetings From Jim Dennis

dual /boot partitions --or--: Automated Recovery from System Failures
e-mail quotas --or--: Quotas for Outgoing e-mail
Booting and partitions --or--: Suggestions for Linux Users with Ultra Large Disks
French loadkeys --or--: More on International Keyboard Mappings and Monochrome X
Digi C/X Host W/ C/Con 16 --or--: Linux Support for the DigiBoard C/X Intelligent Serial Ports
Shell File!!!!! --or--: All that Vaunted Support for those Windows Users
apache server --or--: Executing "Normal HTML" Files with Apache
Keeping my RH5.0 system up to date --or--: Updates: Risks and Rewards
Ether Troubles --or--: NE2000 "clones" --- not "cloney" enough!
"Good Times"-email is it a virus? --or--: The Infection and the Cure: (Good Times as a Virus)
Query
... Redhat 4.2/Motif, problem discovered. --or--: Conflict: Num-Lock, X Window Managers, and pppd
Re Script
Here's a doozy --or--: Telnet/xterm: Log to file
RE how to find out the serial connect speed of a modem
HELP!! --or--: Finding Soundcard Support
Problems with backup --or--: Problems with a SCSI Tape Drive
Is there a testsuite for glibc v2.0.x? --or--: Test Suites for GNU and other Open Source (TM) Software
nt 4.0 ras dialin problem --or--: Another Non-Linux Question
Macro Virus?
xdm --or--: Remote X using xdm

Issue #33 October 1998

Greetings From Jim Dennis

AutoCAD for Linux? Not Yet. Sorry.
fd0 --or--: Floppy/mount Problems: Disk Spins, Lights are on, No one's Home?
SCSI drive installation --or--: Partition your HD before you try to use it.
Supressing cc: lines in Emacs' Mail replies
chroot, twist, and other rescue-boot fun --or--: "Virtual Hosting" inetd based services using TCP Wrappers
Linux/Samba as a Primary Domain Controller
ip masquerading --or--: IP and Sendmail Masquerading over a Cablemodem
tty help --or--: Psuedo tty Becomes Unusable
connect script failed --or--: O.K. It's not a Winmodem
[linuxprog] more shuffling experiments --or--: Shuffling Lines in a File
Conditional Execution Based on Host Availability
Desqview --or--: Buying DESQview and/or DESQview/X
Thanks for the pointer to uuencode sources.
Download a Catch 22? --or--: Chicken and Egg (Catch-22) for Linux Download/Install
Important typo in Anti-Windows emulator rant --or--: Will the "Real" freshmeat Please Get Bookmarked?

Issue #32 September 1998

(!) Greetings From Jim Dennis

phreaking
ISP Abandons User in Move to NT
Driving Terminals w/Java --or--: Java Telnet/Terminal
Finding BBS Software for Linux
The Five Flaws of the Unix System
XFree86 Installation in DOSLinux
resume on AS/400 --or--: Resume Spam
Linux Port of SoftWindows
Connecting Linux to Win '95 via Null Modem --or--: A Convert!
MS FrontPage for Linux/Apache
Virtual System Emulator for Linux and Why NOT to Use Them
FoxPlus for Linux ?
More on Distribution Preferences
IP Masquerading/Proxy?
PPP --or--: The "Difficulty" is in Disabling the Services
How to read DVI files?
Bad Super-block on Filesystem
Mulitiple processes sharing one serial port --or--: Multiplexing the Computer -- ISDN Modem Connection
Permission to Set up a Linux Server
Detaching and Re-attaching to Interactive Background Processes
[announce] Cdrdao 1.0 - Disc-at-once writing of audio CD-Rs
High Speed Serial (RS422) under Linux
ANOTHER MODEM PROB Plus, More on Grammar
/usr/bin/open command not found
Tuning X to work with your Monitor
The last Linux C library version 5, 5.4.46, is released. --or--: The End of libc5: A Mini-Interview with H.J Lu
Linux System Administration. --or--: Where to put 'insmod' and 'modprobe' Commands for Start-up
The BIOS Clock, Y2K, Linux and Everything
Online Status Detector --or--: Failover and High Availability for Web Servers : Conditional Execution Based on Host Availability
SysAdmin: User Administration: Disabling Accounts
Thank you --or--: Articles on LILO Saves Life?
Netware NDS Client --or--: NDS (Netware Directory Services) for Linux: Clients and Servers
More 'Win '95 Hesitates After Box Has Run Linux?'
Bad Clusters on Hard Drive --or--: Another Non-Linux Question!
Help with C/C++ Environment Program --or--: Integrated Programming Environments for Linux
Web Server Clustering Project
wu-ftpd guest account on a Linux Box --or--: WU-FTP guestgroup problems

Issue #31 August 1998

Greetings From Jim Dennis

Remote Backups (Yet Again) --or--: Remote Backups: GNU 'tar' through 'rsh'
Assigning UID/GID --or--: UID/GID Synchronization and Management
Assigning UID/GID
How to check your modems connect speed?
win95 slowdown --or--: Win '95 Hesitates After Box Has Run Linux?
win95 slowdown
Bad Cluster
XFree86 on Trident Providia 9685
redhat linux 5.0 and reveal sc400 rev a sound card --or--: Reveal SC400 Sound Card: OSS/Linux and OSS/Free Supported?
Kernel Overview needed....
Printing Solaris -> Linux --or--: Remote lpd Solaris to Linux
Lilo not working on SCSI when IDE drives installed
Yggdrasil: A Breath of Life for the Root of the Linux Distributions? ...and what about OpenLinux Base?
115K Baud from a Modem: In your dreams!
Linux NDS --or--: Linux as a Netware Directory Srvices Printer Client?
What is an RPM?
Stupid question --or--: AnswerGUY? Who is Heather?
'sendmail' requires DNS ... won't use /etc/hosts
Question on Memory Leak --or--: Memory Leaks and the OS that Allows Them
X Window with two monitors...
DAO software for linux?

Issue #30 July 1998

Greetings from Jim Dennis

Linux and SCO Keymap --or--: SCO Compatible Console Keymaps?
linux kernel security --or--: Breakin' Out of the chroot() Jail adding "disabilities" to Linux
Dosemu and virtual terminals? --or--: Clipper/xBase Capacity Problems --- DOSemu as a Solution? "I don't think so."
NT Domain and Linux --or--: Linux as a "Domain Controller" for a WinNT Domain? Not Yet! Linux use of an NT PDC/BDC for authentication?
DAO software for linux? --or--: "DAO" (Disk at Once) CDR? Stump Me!
tn3270 security
readdress COM port to 3 or 4
Lilo won't boot --or--: Installed on a Secondary SCSI HD: Lilo Stops at LI
help on unix --or--: Running Unix/Linux Under Win '9x
winprinters & MTAs: Pointers and Corrections
FoxPlus for Linux? --or--: Dreaming about xBase tools for Linux
auto response for email ?
Connecting Linux to Win '95 via Null Modem
PC lockups --or--: Hardware Lockups due to Graphics Load
gzip from C program --or--: Compression Libraries to Link into a C Program
LOVE THE NEW LOOK!!!!
please, advice about Linux and C500 --or--: Linux PPC on the Umax C500 SuperMac: Not A Good Idea
printing Solaris->Linux --or--: Remote lpd from Solaris to Linux
Help Wanted --or--: User Shell on Virtual Console 1
Memory deallocation problems --or--: Linux Memory Usage vs. Leakage
tv cards and dual monitor

Issue #29 June 1998

Greetings from Jim Dennis

Version-a-go-go and the Tragedy of being "Left Behind"
Removing Lilo from a multi-boot machine
Question on sendmail... --or--: 'sendmail' FEATURE creatures for virtual domain and generic re-write tables
Kernel crashes
Winmodems --or--: More on 'WinModems': How to "lose" Gracefully - Just say No!
Mail on a LAN Linux to NT --or--: Basic e-mail Setup for Linux?
Remote Tape Backups
adduser
Letter to Dell - Linux on Dell Hardware
Hello --or--: Connecting a Dumb Terminal to your Linux System
Why Linux?
Redhat telnet
Network Cards
A little note about "good times" or emailed viruses --or--: "Good Times" are Spread to the "Great Unwashed"
The Answer Guy --or--: Regarding the Column's New Look
TACACS+ client for Linux --or--: TACACS and RADIUS Authentication Models for Linux and/or PAM
Sendmail jam --or--: 'sendmail' Log Jams and Capacity Problems: running extra 'sendmail -q' processes
PPP connection and diald --or--: Co-ordinating diald and Manual PPP
getting ppp-2.3.3 to work
Mail access --or--: Getting at MS-Mail from within Linux: The Myriad Ways to Co-exist with MS Windows
Program for Mailer Daemons --or--: Automated Handling for MAILER-DAEMON Messages: Read The Sources, Luke.

Issue #28 May 1998

Greetings from Jim Dennis

Problems with SCSI-CDROM and Audio CDs --or--: Sinister 'xmcd' Permanently Disables Right Speaker Channel
Email Alpha-Paging software
xdm in 16bpp Mode
Bad cluster in HDD
Complex network and NetBIOS
Lets vote for Linus --or--: Some Thoughts on "The Man of the Century"
How do I setup gateway server? --or--: Linux as a General Purpose SOHO to Internet Gateway
Linux.bat -or--: LOADLIN.EXE, Plug & "Pray" and "Win(Lose)Modems"
'sendmail' Masquerading: What and Why
Tools for converting X output to java
Fwd: Please Be Careful --or--: "Good Times" Are Here Again? NOT!
LinuxGazette Mar 1998: xdm Login doesn't!

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