Linux-Misc Digest #504, Volume #18 Thu, 7 Jan 99 16:13:16 EST
Contents:
YIKES BIG TIME LOST INSTALLING INTERNET.... (yisroel)
Re: ghostscript with psfrag under linux (David Carlisle)
Re: How do i configure named properly? (Roger)
Re: How do i configure named properly? (Roger)
Q: Another one on WP8 Linux (Nicolas Trebst)
Re: C compiler problem (James Youngman)
Re: Replacing MBR in Windows NT (David Fox)
Re: Linux: Fight for survival or on victory march? (William Burrow)
run utility as root on boot (Yan Seiner)
Re: C Compiler Internals, Libraries, assembler etc. (Eric Meijer)
Re: PPP/Online with Cwix.com ISP ("Tim Underwood")
Netscape 4.5 - problems deleting mails and problems resolving names on Linux
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: help needed mounting fd0 (Hajo Simons)
Should /sbin:/usr/sbin be in a user's path stupid argument (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: Some GPL financial software I wrote now on my site (Jan Panteltje)
Command string for USR v90 (Bill)
Re: automatic startx under SuSE 5.3? (Martin Beier)
Force pppd to report actual connection speed, instead of local port speed (Chee
Choon Cheng (remove "removethis" to e-mail me))
Re: Single Floppy Linux on HD-less PC ?? (Bob Tennent)
Re: possible show-stopper? (Mark Brown)
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Paul Martin)
Re: N64/Dreamcast port (Daniel Drewes)
Re: help needed mounting fd0 (Gary Momarison)
Oracle8 question for Linux gurus ("David Sisk")
sendmail-rhcn-8.9.2-2 RPM and SRPM for Red Hat 5.1 and 5.2 (James Bourne)
Where is BRU PE? (David Staschover)
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From: ***[EMAIL PROTECTED]*** (yisroel)
Subject: YIKES BIG TIME LOST INSTALLING INTERNET....
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 00:55:50 GMT
i have a usr int. data/fax/voice not winmodem. using Redhat 5.2 .
My modem under windows shows up on com2. my isp is netcom.
i have viewed the dns #s in windows. primary and secondary.
i think i have most or all of the pertinent info. i just don't know
where to enter it. i've looked in linuxconf and netcfg but am unsure
how to enter the info. in linuxconf i entered my user name and
password and the localpop phone # but when i tried the connect button
no action......
any advice would be appreciated........but please be as specific as
possible.
thanks in advance
-yisroel
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From: David Carlisle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.postscript,comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: ghostscript with psfrag under linux
Date: 07 Jan 1999 16:47:27 +0000
> SO: RH Linux 5.0
> gs: 5.10
you missed out the only potentiall important version number:
Which version of psfrag you are using.
However:
\psfrag{a)}{a)}
^
() are postscript syntax for strings, so you need to quote unmatched
ones as in \). Basically what goes in the first argument has to be
what's in the postscript file, which will be something like
(a\)) show
in this case.
David
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From: Roger@localhost (Roger)
Subject: Re: How do i configure named properly?
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 18:13:57 GMT
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999 19:37:17 +0000, mist
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Text files. Okay. .gz files I would say are binaries, even if they only
>contain text.
I agree.
[snip]
> I
>personally would rather see a long text post than a binary of *any* kind
>coming to a newsgroup like this (mail is a different matter.) Start
>relaxing the rules and soon it could be "But it's only a *small*
>program", etc, etc..
I agree.
>As soon as my linux (named) setup works to my satisfaction I'll be
>sticking all the details on my web site.
I shall be looking out for it.
>>One of the problems with email is that the contents are not
>>subject to peer review and possible simplification and/or
>>correction.
>
>Quite true. AAPOI, I've rec'd a few different emails with basically
>conflicting advice....
Now you've got me: AAPOI ?
--
Roger
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From: Roger@localhost (Roger)
Subject: Re: How do i configure named properly?
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 18:13:59 GMT
Thank you for your posting, Juergen. I shall be trying things
out over the weekend.
--
Roger
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From: Nicolas Trebst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q: Another one on WP8 Linux
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 18:51:49 +0100
Hello,
I downloaded WP8 some time ago, the portioned files and a German
localization.
I successfully (?) installed the WP8 on my Linux box. But, if I
doubleclick on
a graphic object in order to change it, I get an error message
"This feature is only available in commercial versions of WP for
Linux"
This feature worked perfectly in the July's Release Candidate. All the
example
files and cliparts packed with the demo are also missing.
Has this happened to anyone else or did I do something wrong during
installation?
Or do I have to buy the $50 WP Personal Edition package to get rid of
that?
TIA
Nicolas
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Nicolas Trebst
* e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*
* *** In a world without fences, who needs Gates? ***
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: C compiler problem
Date: 07 Jan 1999 18:21:58 +0000
Indiana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> --------------DB96228CCA7684291AA925E5
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>
>
> Every time i try to compile an application i get this error message
> although i have all gcc
> packages install on my machine:
> checking wheter the C compiler works................no
> configure error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
> cannot create.
> I also joint a copy of my conifig.log file for more details.
> executables. Any sugestions
> Thanks, Alex
>
Install the development libraries.
--
ACTUALLY reachable as @free-lunch.demon.(whitehouse)co.uk:james+usenet
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: Replacing MBR in Windows NT
Date: 07 Jan 1999 10:26:41 -0800
Neil Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do I replace a master boot record that currently has LILO installed
> in it from Windows NT? NT having no 'fdisk'...
>
> If I boot DOS and do FDISK/MBR will I find the NT partitions ever again?
If I understand you correctly, you can restore the NT boot record
(which LILO clobbers on my system) from Linux before you reboot by
dd-ing the previously saved first 1K (2K?) bytes to the raw device,
e.g. /dev/sda. I would avoid FDISK/MBR.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux: Fight for survival or on victory march?
Date: 7 Jan 1999 18:24:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:55:24 +0100,
Mosl Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh) writes:
>
>>please keep the attributions straight. my point of view is that if
>>microsoft wins vs the DOJ, it may hamper the commercial success of linux,
>>but that the biggest damage it will do the core linux (and various other
>>free software packages) is force everyone to deal with all of the flamewars
>>and threads about how linux/gnu/*BSD is going to die now that microsoft
>>won...
>
>Do You think the judge from DOJ will fix all the bugs from Windows?
What has that got to do with anything said?
>
>M$ can win, because they can proof, that their is competion,
>showing how their NT sales are influenced by Linux.
Ha! What is their proof. People who buy NT don't necessarily care for
Unix in any flavour, let alone Linux.
--
William Burrow, VE9WIL -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: run utility as root on boot
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 11:28:06 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am trying to run a utility (ORL's VNC) as root from the rc.local
script on RH 5.1.
For some reason it won't come up if I just run it from rc.local. Is
there a utility that will trick the program into thinking it's being run
as root?
I can't set the suid bit, as this will leave a gaping hole in my
security system; any user could then run an X server with root
permissions. I need something that will make vnc think it's being run
by root.
Thanks.
Yan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Meijer)
Crossposted-To: gnu.gcc.help,comp.lang.c,gnu.g++.help,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: C Compiler Internals, Libraries, assembler etc.
Date: 7 Jan 1999 14:20:57 GMT
David Wragg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: On the kinds of architectures Linux runs on, absolute addresses can be
: accessed from C very easily. For instance:
: *(int*)0x01234567 = 0x89acbdef;
: (However, outside of the kernel, it is rare to need to touch absolute
: addresses. Look in the kernel source to see examples.)
Really? What happened to virtual memory and memory protection? I used
to think addresses in C program are not hardware/absolute addresses. Am
I missing something?
Just wondering,
Eric Meijer
--
E.L. Meijer
Eindhoven Univ. of Technology
Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem.
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From: "Tim Underwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: PPP/Online with Cwix.com ISP
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 14:03:40 GMT
I am having the same problem. I have run minicom, and the only response you
get after connection is what appears to be a port id.
Something like:
(613456)
If you hit enter, you just get the same string sent back. Seemingly any
other input terminates the connection with "host not found".
Timothy Buckelew wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Draco wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am wondering about my ISP and Linux. My ISP, Cwix.com, formerly
>> MCI2000.com, contains no tech support or anything related to Linux, as
>> do probably most ISPs. When I try to connect through EzPPP in Linux, I
>> can't get on. It never asks for a password or login name. I have tried
>> using the terminal window and it still will not ask for that info. I was
>> wondering if anyone knows anything I should do, or should I just get a
>> new ISP??
>> Thanks.
>> John
>
> I suggest you analyze what the ISP is sending you, using minicom.
>See attached notes.
>Timothy Buckelew
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Netscape 4.5 - problems deleting mails and problems resolving names on Linux
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 13:57:11 GMT
Hi folks.
I recently installed communicator 4.5 on Solaris 2.5.1 and everything seems to
work ok apart from the fact that my delete button on the mail app is disabled.
I'm using IMAP. If I Edit my incoming mail server Properties through:
Edit->Preferences->Mail&Newsgroups->Mail Servers
And in the IMAP Tab select either:
Mark as deleted
or
Remove immediately
The delete button works and a red cross appears on the deleted email when it
gets deleted. When I choose to Compact the folder that the deleted messages
are in they promptly disappear.
However,
if I select the 'Move it to the Trash folder' option my delete button gets
disabled.
Any ideas what's causing this?
Additionally, I also installed the Linux version on my PC at home and
although networking works fine on my machine Netscape 4.5 is somehow unable
to resolv host names. I know that my machine is fine because I tried Netscape
4.0.5 and Lynx and they both work without any problems.
Thanks for any replies.
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From: Hajo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.admin,linux.help
Subject: Re: help needed mounting fd0
Date: 6 Jan 1999 23:09:53 GMT
Matteo Anselmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to mount , as root, my floppy
> # mount -o rw /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy and It works fine while I'm root,
> when I login as user my floppy is read only and I cant write or copy file on
> it.
Add the following line to /etc/fstab:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 rw,noauto,user 0 0
You can now mount the floppy as user by typing:
mount /mnt/floppy
--
Hajo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Should /sbin:/usr/sbin be in a user's path stupid argument
Date: 6 Jan 1999 17:17:44 -0800
> sbin directories don't belong in the PATH variable for normal users
One thing I notice about Linux people is people get in to such horrible
flame wars based on one person's idea of a "should". There really are no
shoulds in Linux--only conventions, some of which are more often followed
than other conventions.
For example, I wasted some bandwidth arguing with someone over whether a
UNIX newbie should reboot a system or send inetd a HUP process to enable a
server placed in /etc/inetd.conf. Both methods worked, but we got all
worked up over which was was the correct "should" way.
These kind of things end up being arbitrary decisions, based on people's
personal preferences, and I wonder wy UNIX people waste so much bandwidth
arguing over what the correct "should"s are. It seems so childish to me.
- Sam (Since you asked, I added "/sbin:/usr/sbin" to my user's paths.
My users like using traceroute [/usr/sbin/traceroute], and
I like using ifconfig as non-root [/sbin/ifconfig])
--
Email address here: http://www.samiam.org/ssi/mailme.shtml
Music I write here: http://www.mp3.com/sam http://www.samiam.org/mp3
Mp3 reviews here: http://www.samiam.org/music
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Panteltje)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Some GPL financial software I wrote now on my site
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 07:22:39 GMT
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jan
>Panteltje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>I have put some financial software I wrote on my site.
>>The first program gets close prices from the net,
>>the other displays these.
>>This last program can do a few more things as well.
>>
>>The acquisition part is set for the dutch AEX files source.
>>
>>At this moment in time I have not had time to write manuals.
>>Neither will I be able to give extensive user support for these programs.
>>I cannot be held responsible for any losses made by the right or
>>wrong use of any of these programs.
>>
>>The location is:
>>http://www.panteltje.demon.nl/financial/
>>
>>J.M. alias Goldfinger
>I tried downloading these using the traditional shift+button in Netscape
>and have got corrupt files.
>--
>Robin Becker
>
Try downloading by just clicking on the link.
If it dumps garbage on your screen, press stop in netscape.
then select 'save as' from the file menu.
That should pop up the little file download window.
Sorry, nothing I can change about this (could be netscape).
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From: Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Command string for USR v90
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 21:01:46 -0500
What AT command string is used to configure a USR 56k v90 modem for max
thruput at v90?
Can anyone provide modem command options or chat script that will allow
the modem to work correctly?
I had it set once for 56k mode, but it became verrrrry sloooooow at
times (8 btyes per sec) but I did experience greater than 40 kbps at
times. I have since lost those settings and defaulted back to 33.6
settings. Is there a firmware revison I need for 56k? I bought the modem
last summer.
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From: Martin Beier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: automatic startx under SuSE 5.3?
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 18:33:14 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
steve mcadams wrote:
> [Snipped for brevity, quoted material marked with ">"]
> On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 03:17:50 -0500, "Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >If you only want to ever run X, then you should use XDM as your login
> >server. Try putting it in as the last thing in your last init script.
> >(/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm)
> >
> >To try it out, just type "xdm" from console. (NOT from within X)
>
> This gives me an X-based login screen. I don't want to run the whole
> system in X, all I want to do (seems simple enough) is automate the
> typing of "startx" in one particular userid. But putting "startx" in
> that user's .profile causes the "X server already running" error
> message. -steve
.profile is not a good choice for a startx because .profile is executed
anytime
you start an xterm when running X! This leeds to the described error!
You can use the <ctrl>+<alt>+<F7> key combination, to switch to the X
screen. If you do not get there, look for a /tmp/.X0-lock file! If it
exists and
X is definitly not running, you may remove it. If you still want to startx
from
the .profile, ensure that the command is executed only if the shell is
started
on a text terminal! You can use something similar like
[ -z "`tty | grep '/dev/tty[1-9]'`" ] || startx
--
Ok, maddel!
=================
[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.narz.de/~maddel/
PGP key fingerprint = 4A E3 3B 9C E5 B9 E2 E4 DA 01 67 43 20 96 B9 1D
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chee Choon Cheng (remove "removethis" to e-mail me))
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Force pppd to report actual connection speed, instead of local port speed
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 01:18:55 GMT
I noticed that pppd reports the local port speed which is set to
115200. May I know how to set it to report the actual line connection
speed? (which is not 115200, my modem is a 56K only)
Thx!
Choon-Cheng Chee
=========================
chee at mail-me dot com
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
=========================
* Watch my return address! Editing required !*
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From: r d t@q u c i s.q u e e n s u.c a (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Single Floppy Linux on HD-less PC ??
Date: 7 Jan 1999 01:58:12 GMT
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 16:52:19 GMT, Douglas I-Hsi Chen wrote:
>
>For you Linux gurus. I'd like to know if there's a tiny distribution of
>Linux which can run happily on a floppy disk(s) on a machine without a HD?
Check out
http://mn.us.mirrors.freshmeat.net/appindex/console/mini-distributions.html
which points you to 7 mini-distributions.
Bob T.
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From: Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: possible show-stopper?
Date: 07 Jan 1999 01:24:44 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve mcadams) writes:
> Perpsective 1: Assumes my library is available GPL and also through a
> proprietary license, also assumes it becomes popular enough that it is
> commonly built as a shared library. Question: Can company M sell a
> product that uses my library. Answer as I read it above: No.
They'd have to either release it under the GPL or get the proprietary
license.
> Perspective 2: Assumes my library uses the "standard" system
> interface and X-interface libraries of Linux. In this case am I not
> in the same situation as company M above with regard to some other GPL
> library?
If you use a GPLed library then your program must be GPLed. However,
most of the important system libraries (including libc and the X
libraries) are under a license such as the LGPL or the X license which
is liberal enough to allow you to link proprietary programs with them.
Check the licenses for the libraries you use.
--
Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/
EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Martin)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Date: 7 Jan 1999 12:26:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
>On 6 Jan 1999, Floyd Davidson wrote:
>> If that were true, how would it make fdformat a candidate for
>> an sbin directory?
>
>Because it would be of no use to anyone but root.
>fdformat performs a similar task to badblocks, which
>gets an sbin mention on redhat, at least.
If you have access to /dev/fdX
$ ls -l /dev/fd0
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Sep 14 13:18 /dev/fd0
$ groups
pm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip
as I have, it's not a super-user only command. Why should you have to su
to root just to format a floppy?
--
Paul Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
at home, swap dash to dot to email.
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From: Daniel Drewes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.linux
Subject: Re: N64/Dreamcast port
Date: 7 Jan 1999 20:06:50 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Matthias Warkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: It was the Mon, 04 Jan 1999 13:46:31 GMT...
: ..and [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> Happy New Year!
:> Does any N64 or Dreamcast port exist? Is someone working on it?
: There is a Playstation port AFAIK.
Err... there was an april fool's joke in a german magazine (i'X)
that some people took too serious.
-daniel
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.admin,linux.help
Subject: Re: help needed mounting fd0
Date: 06 Jan 1999 16:46:11 -0800
"Matteo Anselmi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to mount , as root, my floppy
>
> # mount -o rw /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy and It works fine while I'm root,
>
> when I login as user my floppy is read only and I cant write or copy file on
> it.
You probably have a line somthing like this in /etc/fstab:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/a auto ro,defaults,noauto,user 0 0
Remove the "ro," after using "man /etc/fstab" and "man mount".
A book would be good. Or look for some online help in Gary's Encyclopedia at
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/learning-linux.html
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/shells.html
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From: "David Sisk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Oracle8 question for Linux gurus
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 20:07:17 -0500
Hi unix gurus:
I am trying to automate the startup and shutdown of an Oracle805 instance on
Linux (RH5.1). I've modified the /etc/oratab file by adding the "Y" flag,
I've created the /etc/rc.d/init.d/dbora file per the documentation. I'm
trying to do the necessary linking like so:
(as root)
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/dbora /etc/rc0.d/K10dbora
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/dbora /etc/rc2.d/S99dbora
I get an error message that the destination doesn't exist. Could someone
point me in the right direction?
Another question:
When I do an ls -la rc* (with pwd = /etc), I see that /rc.0 and /rc.2 are
marked as directories. But if I try to cd rc.0 or rc.2, it gives the same
"not found" message. I'm befuddled, can someone explain why this happens
(and even exactly how these and the linking are used)?
If you don't mind, please email as well as posting here!
Thanks and kindest regards,
--
David C. Sisk
The Unofficial ORACLE on NT site
http://www.ipass.net/~davesisk/oont.htm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Bourne)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.announce,linux.admin.isp
Subject: sendmail-rhcn-8.9.2-2 RPM and SRPM for Red Hat 5.1 and 5.2
Date: 7 Jan 1999 20:02:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have posted the i386.rpm, src.rpm, and patches on our WWW site at
http://www.affinity-systems.ab.ca/software/ for sendmail-8.9.2-2. These
should work on Redhat 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2 but were compiled under Redhat 5.1
Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here is information on the package:
bash# rpm -qi sendmail-rhcn
Name : sendmail-rhcn Distribution: Red Hat Contrib|Net
Version : 8.9.2 Vendor: Affinity Systems Inc.
Release : 2 Build Date: Thu Jan 7 11:52:42 1999
Install date: Thu Jan 7 11:55:32 1999 Build Host: cafe.affinity-systems.ab.ca
Group : Daemons Source RPM: sendmail-rhcn-8.9.2-2.src.rpm
Size : 2256323
Packager : Red Hat Contrib|Net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
URL : http://www.affinity-systems.ab.ca/software/
Summary : sendmail mail transport agent
Description :
Sendmail is a Mail Transport Agent, which is the program
that moves mail from one machine to another. Sendmail implements a
general internetwork mail routing facility, featuring aliasing and
forwarding, automatic routing to network gateways, and flexible
configuration.
If you need the ability to send and receive mail via the internet
you'll need sendmail.
and the changelog:
cafe:bash# rpm -q --changelog sendmail-rhcn
* Thu Jan 07 1999 James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- backed out the apache accept patch as accept is handled differently and
(according to the release info) this should fix the DOS attack resulting for
sendmail sleeping for 5 seconds after a bad accept. This release includes
the patch for mime buffer overflows as well. If it still causes problems
due to the accept handling we will merge the apache accept patch back in.
- changed install script of spec file to create /var/spool/mqueue and
.hoststat with mail ownerships and mode 700. This is wanted and needed if
people set the RunAsUser in sendmail.cf to the default mail user (mail
8:12) which is much safer then running sendmail as user root. This should
help with certain security concerns.
- modified the default sendmail.cf to set RunAsUser to mail. Change this if
needed to a different UID. Also changed DefaultUser to an equal number, now
it is 8:12 (these are redhat 5.1 default uid/gid for user mail).
- dropped MaxDaemonChildren down to 40 in the default sendmail.cf. This
should help wee ppp sites like ours as they may not be able to handle 80
children that easily... Bump this value up in the file
/usr/doc/sendmail-8.X.X/cf/cf/asi-redhat.mc and remake with M4 to change it.
- mail spool directory (/var/spool/mail) changed to root.root mode 1777.
This is for local delivery with procmail, and mail pickup with some pop
servers such as cucipop. In these cases, the spool file is locked, copied
to a lock file (for pop), and then read etc all the while running as that
user instead of a privledged account. Mail boxes can then be kept mode 600.
- changed ownership of /etc/aliases to be mail mode 644 as to do
AutoRebuilds this file must be writable by the sendmail daemon running as
user mail.
- tightened permissions on suid files /usr/libexec/mail.local and
/usr/sbin/sendmail to 4511
* Tue Jan 05 1999 James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- Updated to sendmail-8.9.2 and rebuilt RPM.
* Mon Nov 16 1998 James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- Applied sendmail-8.9.1a patch which fixes mime buffer overflows in some
mail clients
* Sun Aug 23 1998 James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- Fixed typos in access file
- Added CW file
- Fixed aliases file
* Fri Jul 10 1998 James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- Added accept patch. This uses the accept errno handling from apache
1.2.6 which I'm told is good.
Regards,
Jim
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From: David Staschover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where is BRU PE?
Date: 7 Jan 1999 20:50:01 GMT
Hi,
I was running Linux Redhat 5.1, and upgraded to 5.2. Can someone tell me
where on either of these distribution CD's I can find Bru PE?
Thanks,
David Staschover
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