Linux-Misc Digest #762, Volume #19 Tue, 6 Apr 99 15:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: How do I install/use Ghostscript to print on my unsupported printer? (Grant
Taylor)
Re: VMWARE BEWARE (mist)
Re: slashdot overview grabber for Linux (kinda off-topic) (James Bourne)
Can Sendmail/Fetchmail do what Pegasus does? (Rino Perri)
Re: Unresolved modules (symbols) (Yan Seiner)
Re: ipppd: pinging possible, but no telnet. (Brian McCauley)
Re: mt forward wont work (Rob Komar)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the (Tom Betz)
Re: pam.d rsh hosts.equiv promiscuous option? (Bill Unruh)
2.2.1 kernel problems! HELP!!!!! (Peter Eacmen)
Re: WindowMaker Uninstall (jedi)
Re: Cosmos RH Linux 5.2 -- Boot despair! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Proposal: "Linux 2000 Platform" ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Re: ip-up alternative? (Brian McCauley)
Re: web server question and other (Brian McCauley)
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I install/use Ghostscript to print on my unsupported printer?
Date: 06 Apr 1999 13:45:08 -0400
Roy Malcomess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In the quest to find a printer driver for my Canon BJC-7000 printer,
> I found a reference to a Ghostscript device (Canon BJC-800) which
> supposedly supports my printer.
> I am completely in the dark about how to implement such support. Can
> someone please direct me to a reference which tells me what I have
> to do to install this Ghostscript support for my printer.
The bjc800 driver is in the standard Ghostscript distribution. So it
should be present in any reasonable prepackaged Ghostscript package.
Install the Ghostscript package provided by your distribution.
Alternatively, install a later model Ghostscript package from your
distribution's "non-free" or contrib area. You'll also need an "lpd"
package installed.
For Red Hat, install also "rhs-printfilters" and "printtool". Then
run "printtool" to set things up.
For SuSE, check that ghotscript and apsfilter are installed. I think
apsfilter can be accessed through YaST.
For Debian, install apsfilter or magicfilter. With apsfilter, the
install procedure asks you for your printer info; I assume the
magicfilter one does too...
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VMWARE BEWARE
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:45:39 +0100
Reply-To: mist <new$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Alan Fried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
>Hi
>
>When I saw somebody post on one of the newsgroups concerning
>this new application which is a Windows95 emulator. I got
>very excited.
>
<snip problems>
>
>Anyway does anyone have more positive experiences with vmware?
>
Yes. I've had it running perfectly well under Suse. I think using a
virtual disk is the safest way. Only problems are that you need a lot
of ram and space in /tmp.
--
Mist.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Bourne)
Subject: Re: slashdot overview grabber for Linux (kinda off-topic)
Date: 6 Apr 1999 14:26:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 03 Apr 1999 00:43:51 +0200, Gergo Barany did say with great verbosity:
:> LICENSE and RESTRICTIONS
:> sd-grab has been placed under the GPL, please see the file COPYING for
:> LICENSE restrictions.
:>
:> This software is provided as is, and there is no warrenty. If you like the
:> software tell others, if you don't tell us! Please refer to the EULA.txt
:> file contained in the distribution. You can also find our EULA at
:> http://www.affinity-systems.ab.ca/software/products/EULA.txt
:
:Does this mean that the software is licensed under two different
:licenses? Is that legal (especially with the restrictions in the
:EULA)?
Read the EULA.
"PART 1 - APPLICABLE TERMS WHEN THE SOFTWARE IS ACCOMPANIED BY ITS OWN
LICENSE AGREEMENT"
Part one covers if the software is accompanied with it's own
license agreement (GPL), part 4 covers intelectual property rights, part 5
contains a Limitation of liability clause, and part 6 is a y2k statement.
The GPL is the License agreement which over rides many parts of our EULA,
parts 4 and 5 re-state that this software must be credited to the original
author and there is no warrenty for this free software, and part 6 is
to assure people that we have written the software to be y2k bug free, but,
as we are human and are falable, if it's broken we will accept bug reports
and fix it.
Regards
Jim
:
:Gergo
:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rino Perri)
Subject: Can Sendmail/Fetchmail do what Pegasus does?
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 16:40:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have recently installed slackware 3.6 on my PC and I am eager to
start sending/receiving mail from my linux box (I connect to my ISP
through PPP).
I am used to Win95 mail programs such as Pegasus Mail and Outlook
Express with which I can connect to free e-mail servers (iname.com,
softhome.net, etc.) and easily download my pop3 mail (from my free
account at the server) and send via smtp using the server as relay
host. All it takes is that I click on user's options and set :
1) pop3 server; 2) pop3 username; 3)pop3 password; 4)smtp server for
each account.
I currently have e-mail accounts with 5 different servers, all with
different usernames and all managed from a single installation of
Pegasus Mail.
My question is: can I use my current installations of Mutt (MUA),
Sendmail (MTA), Fetchmail and Procmail to do the tasks that were
previously done with Pegasus?
So far I have been able to download pop3 mail with fetchmail from one
account (but have no idea as to how I can setup Fetchmail to retrieve
from my other four pop3 accounts and place the retrieved mail in 5
different folders (one per account).
However, the biggest puzzle is Sendmail. I have read all I could find
on its configuration setup in the docs and in the newsgroups, and have
experimented with the sendmail.cf file, but have so far gotten very
poor results (I am still unable to get my mail sent out).
I have added in my sendmail.cf:
#my official domain name
Djwww.bogusname.com
# who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading)
DMmyISP.net
# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSsmtp.oneofmye-mailservers.net
My /etc/resolv.conf file:
search .
nameserver NNN.NN.NNN.NN
nameserver NNN.NN.NNN.N
(where the N's stand for the actual numbers).
My /etc/hosts file: 127.0.0.1 localhost
0.0.0.0 roderick
When I run 'sendmail -q' sendmail fails and I get an e-mail titled
"Mail Delivery S (48) Returned Mail:
Data format error" which states "501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
Sender domain must exist."
How do I do it right, and is it possible to configure Sendmail for
five different relay host accounts?
Would anyone be knowledgeable enough to give me some specific advice
or direct me to some docs that explain in simple terms how to get
things right?
Thank you very much to all who will respond.
Rino Perri
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Unresolved modules (symbols)
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 12:25:40 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Make mrproper basically hoses all changes you had made to the system.
You need to follow that up with a make config ; make modules ; make
modules_install ; make zImage.
It sounds like you left out the make modules or make modules_install
steps.
Yan
"Walter L. Williams" wrote:
>
> Good morning
>
> In the process of trying to get my PPP working on my system, I
> recompiled the kernel to have built in PPP support. I kept having an
> error messages while uncompressing and booting to the new kernel. It
> would say something to the effect that there was nothing more to load
> and die right there and not load any further. I would therefore have to
> boot the old kernel.
>
> So what I did was before configuring and compiling a new kernel was I
> did a " make mrproper " which is said to do a through cleaning job.
> (this is the first time that I tried this command.) I now have a kernel
> that will boot with PPP support but I now have a bunch ( A LOT ) of
> unresolved modules (symbols) indicated during boot up.
>
> How do I solve the unresolved the unresolved modules or symbols?
>
> I am doing this on a 66mhz ,486 ,8mb ram, 1gb hd. I intend to use this
> machine as an E-mail machine for the wife. (running pine)
>
> Many greatful thanks in advance
>
> Walt in Utah
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ipppd: pinging possible, but no telnet.
Date: 06 Apr 1999 18:23:00 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I've been messing around with a specific problem for some time now. I'm
> trying to use my ISDN-adapter (AVM Fritz!Classic) under Linux. I've managed
> to get a connection to the internet, but there's something weird going on. I
> can ping to the outside world, but when I try to telnet to the same machine
> (which does accept telnet) it will hang forever.
> Anyone have an idea what I might be doing wrong?
Could be the classic reverse DNS misconfiguration problem.
In other words if you go to the distant machine and try to to a
gethostbyaddr() on the address of the near machine does it fire DNS
request into a blackhole?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Komar)
Subject: Re: mt forward wont work
Date: 6 Apr 1999 17:35:33 GMT
David Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi, am using a DLT 20/40 for backup and restore, but 'mt forward' won't
: forward to the next archive. What am I doin wrong? using RH5.2
:
Hi,
if there isn't a link from /dev/tape to the actual tape device,
then you have to explicitely tell mt which device to use.
The option for skipping files is `fsf'. So, to skip one file
you would type `mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1' (assuming that you have
the tape on /dev/st0). Make sure that you specify the non-rewinding
device by putting the letter `n' in front of the device name,
or the tape will immediately rewind after skipping the file.
I also noticed a new version of mt in the RedHat contrib area and
a new version of dump in the update area; you should update your
box with them.
Cheers,
Rob Komar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Betz)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Date: 6 Apr 1999 14:25:20 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] in <7e6r9c$pvb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
|Quoth Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
||Matthias Warkus wrote:
||>
||> It was the 2 Apr 1999 15:24:18 -0500...
||> ..and Tom Betz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
||> > Quoth "George Georgakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in
|<01be7653$3a3ea620$0101a8c0@george>:
||> > |Much as I hate to say it, for ease of use and for those of the "just
||> > |install and use it" crowd, I must agree that Win9* is currently ahead of
||> > |all flavours of Linux.
||> >
||> > Sad, but true.
||> >
||> > Little things annoy. For example, there is no common buffer for
||> > cutting and pasting between apps.
||>
||> Sure there is.
||>
||> > You can't do something as simple
||> > as paste text copied from an xterm session into, say, Netscape.
||>
||> Netscape is a screwed-up app, that's why it works with almost
||> everything but Netscape.
||>
||
||Try holding the shift key while highlighting the text and hold shift when pasting. I
|can paste just about
||anywhere with this method.
|
|Thanks to Matthias for explaining to me (a long-time computerist and UNIX
|shell user, but new to Linux and to X) that Netscape is an exception to the
|general rule, and to Christopher for being the only respondent to actually
|offer a possible solution, as opposed to everyone else telling me that
|something works that I know from short and recent personal experience doesn't
|work.
|
|I'll try the shift-third-key approach next time I'm on my experimental box.
Turns out that y'all were right -- the third key works in Netscape.
The problem was that third-key-EMULATION works unreliably. I had to chord
three times before one paste happened -- but then all three pastes happened
all at once. In pre-post attempts, I never mashed the chorded keys three
times in a row.
I'll git me a three-button mouse ASAP.
--
|We have tried ignorance | Tom Betz, Generalist |
|for a very long time, and | Want to send me email? FIRST, READ THIS PAGE: |
|it's time we tried education. | <http://www.panix.com/~tbetz/mailterms.shtml> |
|<http://www.pobox.com/~tbetz> | YO! MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS HEAVILY SPAM-ARMORED! |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: pam.d rsh hosts.equiv promiscuous option?
Date: 6 Apr 1999 18:26:01 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Martin Tullier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]This should allow the /etc/hosts.equiv file and .rhosts file
]to use "+" as a wild card for all hosts and/or all users.
]# cat /etc/hosts.equiv
]#
]+ +
]_______________________
]# cat .rhosts
]#
]+ +
]I have not found this to work with 2.0.33 (Caldera 1.2) and
]pam 0.58
???? I hope it does not allow this! This allows anyone in the world to
log onto your systems. Anyone. from anywhere. Why would you want to allow this?
Just list all of the machines and usernames you want to allow in the
files. It is not hard. You can do it once and then copy that file to all
of the machines. But + + is just too horrible to contremplate.
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From: Peter Eacmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2.2.1 kernel problems! HELP!!!!!
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 13:55:35 -0400
After I compiled the 2.2.1 kernel when LILO boots is says somthing like
this:
loading linux.........................................OK
uncompressing kernel..........................OK
Ran out of input data
--System halted
What causes this? I am running a network server so I would like it
working again. I have an alternate kernel image through LILO but I need
a driver in 2.2.1. I have RH 5.2.
-Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.windows.x.kde,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: WindowMaker Uninstall
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 08:29:43 -0700
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 06:21:56 -0400, Jay <ayadi@~earthlink~.net> wrote:
>How do I uninstall Window Maker on a RH 5.2 system?
From the user end, just put another window manager
at the end of /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc or ~/.xinitrc.
--
"I was not elected to watch my people suffer and die |||
while you discuss this a invasion in committe." / | \
In search of sane PPP docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cosmos RH Linux 5.2 -- Boot despair!
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 17:16:20 GMT
What the hell are you talking about? From looking at the "Cosmos" web site
it looks like "Linux on a Disk" is a hard drive with Linux on it. Where does
the "floppy disk" and the "CD" come in? Why didn't you just remove your old
hard drive, replace it with the new one, and see if your machine would boot
up? If it did, then you could put the old drive back in. At that point you
would know that the "Linux on a Disk" was working, by itself, and the Windows
disk was working, by itself. Then you would have some work to do getting
both drives to boot properly using Lilo installed to the master boot record
of the master hard drive. Of course, the "work" I am referring to is part of
a normal installation of RedHat Linux, where you indicate where you want to
install lilo and what should boot up. It sounds like you have outsmarted
yourself. If you had just bought a new harddrive and a copy of RedHat Linux
in a box, this whole thing would have been simpler. Getting "Linux on a
Disk" just added complication.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(snip)
> Benjamin Sher
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sher's Russian Web
> http://www.websher.net
>
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Proposal: "Linux 2000 Platform"
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 15:43:55 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kendall Bennett wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
[deleted]
> Optional components:
> . Need more suggestions here!
I suggest the incredibly silly "2000" suffix be dropped from any software
version or platform name.
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ip-up alternative?
Date: 06 Apr 1999 18:27:44 +0100
oak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anyone know of an ip-up alternative? Things put in ip-up are not getting done
> so I was wondering if there was another way to execute things when a ppp
> connection is complete. All I want to put there is something like:
>
> xterm -e mycommand &
Which X-server do you want this to appear on?
What user do you what it to run as?
Remember that ip-up runs as root and does not inherit the environment
that calls pppd.
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: web server question and other
Date: 06 Apr 1999 18:31:04 +0100
Linda Sue Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've successfully got Apache serving web pages from the specified root
> directory (/home/httpd/html). I've tried to set up "user" accounts
> underneath this level (such as /home/httpd/html/linda), and even given
> them read and execute access for all, to the directories and the files.
> I still get 403 forbidden errors when I try to view them. Any tips on
> what I've not done?
Please show us the directives that you have used to configure Apache
in this way.
Are you trying to access these as http://server/linda/ or
http://server/~linda/ ?
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