Linux-Misc Digest #881, Volume #18 Wed, 3 Feb 99 15:13:17 EST
Contents:
Re: Apache SIMPLE (Security Quest) ("Wael Sedky")
Re: use theramin as input device (Mark Haas)
Re: Pb with Samba passwords or hat ? ("Richard Payne")
Re: Email and Pop3 accounts (Duncan Simpson)
Re: linux help channel (Steve Lamb)
Re: Apache SIMPLE (Security Quest)
Re: ABC Simple scripting question ("Wael Sedky")
Re: Lilo question (Ken Witherow)
Re: Is Microsoft a nasty company ? I'm asking you this question. (SMF User)
lpd won't execute filter script ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to make it run faster? ("Inhibition Computer Systems")
Re: CD-RW as backup alternative (Ben Russo)
I need an email server for linux (Daddy Rabbit)
Re: Linux 2.2.1 doesn't power down system (Michael Powe)
Re: 3com officeconnect sugestions ("Mark Kelly")
Re: How to get rid of these entries on disk? (Ken Roberts)
Re: Linux apps in win2000 port news! (Steven James)
Re: JDK 1.1.7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Suggestions for new Linux Fortran compiler ("Frank T. Sronce")
Re: sendmail (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Future X-Windows Updates (William Burrow)
Re: CD-RW as backup alternative (Ben Russo)
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From: "Wael Sedky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]*>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Apache SIMPLE (Security Quest)
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 13:57:23 -0800
lany wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>So if Apache files are now on your Win95 partition (vfat fs), how are you
planning on setting file/owner perms?
I noticed that the file permissions for /win95 is 755, so I don't think
there should be a problem, what d u think?
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From: Mark Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: use theramin as input device
Date: 03 Feb 1999 13:51:08 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William McBrine) writes:
> In comp.os.linux.development.apps Eric Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : Wouldn't that be making the easy, difficult? Most theramins I've seen
> : are bigger than a mouse and keyboard, and would require two hands to use
> : (unlike a mouse). A novel idea, but just plain silly.
>
> At least you wouldn't get carpal tunnel.
I made one inadvertantly while building an amplifier on a breadboard.
It would begin to oscillate (I could see it on the o-scope) each time
my hand neared the active circuitry!
-- Mark
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From: "Richard Payne" <payner at timken dot com>
Subject: Re: Pb with Samba passwords or hat ?
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 13:25:26 -0500
Which version of Windows are you using?
Start by reading the encryption.txt file that comes with Samba.
--
Rich Payne
(Speaking for myself, not my employer)
payner at timken dot com
Looking for Alpha-Linux info?
http://www.alphalinux.org
Francis Pierot wrote in message <79a2sh$sfg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi, I'm setting an Intranet server on Linux here. My wish is to allow write
>access to the /home/httpd directory on the server only from my own
>computer's IP.
>
>But when I browse to the directory from my Windows machine, it rejects the
>password. Here's what I use in smb.conf :
>
>[crt]
> comment = ...
> path = /home/httpd
> read only = no
> public = no
> allow hosts = (my own IP)
> valid users = (my Windows Network user name, which also exist on my
>Linux server)
>
>Does anybody have an idea to help me ?
>
>My user name ("francis") is the name I connect on Windows, and I have a
>valid user with password on the Linux box. But Samba rejects the password I
>type on my Windows machine.
>
>If anybody knows of an easy way to upload things from a machine onto the
>server (updating the web site, that is) in a confidential way, I would be
>very thankful to hear about it.
>
>Please when and if you reply, Cc: the message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Thanks.
>
>FP.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Subject: Re: Email and Pop3 accounts
Date: 3 Feb 1999 15:32:51 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Last I checked Pegasus was not yet ported to LINUX. As you can see I posted
>this to a Linux newsgroup meaning I am using ONLY Linux. I know Netscape
>has a feature under Windows that will allow different profiles but this does
>not yet exist under Linux unless I become a different user and fire up
>Netscape again.
>Once again, I am looking for an email client that works well under Linux
>that allows for checking of multiple POP3 servers.
>Thanks.
>KJ
I have done this using fetchmail. The local mail transport I used was
appropiately configured sendmail and I even sorted it using
procmail. I used exmh as my email reader.
Duncan (-:
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Duncan (-:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Lamb)
Subject: Re: linux help channel
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2 Feb 1999 20:30:53 +0800
On 29 Jan 1999 20:47:06 GMT, Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My experience with most irc channels is that most people
>get on there and sit and bullshit most of the time and
>DAMNED FEW questions ever get answered. Either that or you
>get treated like a complete embicile, or you get ignored,
>or you get insulted.
OK, let's reconcile this with what is said below...
>I've seen damned few help channels on irc used the way
>they are supposed to be used.
Up there you said "irc channels" where here you said "help channels on
irc." As an ex-AOP of over a year on Dal's #linux, let me tell you the #1
problem we had in that channel. People coming in and thinking it was a help
channel and *EXPECTING* and *DEMANDING* to be helped.
In the time I was on that channel until I left it was a chat channel
first, a help channel a distant, oh, 2nd or 3rd. The same goes for #os2 on
EFNet when I used to frequent it.
If you want help, go to channels that expressly say they are help
channels and not just BS channels that have the name of your OS.
Now, for Linux help, here is where you go: irc.linpeople.org, #linpeople.
That is a server and a channel that is set up FOR THE PURPOSE of helping
people out with Linux. Each time that I have some problem I go there for
help. I may not always get it, but there isn't much BS going on. A few
times while looking for help I've given out some as well.
And now, for those people who don't have a clue about all of this, here
is the cardinal rule about asking for help on irc. If noone answers it is
because noone knows the answer, not because they are ignoring you.
Repeating the request every 40 seconds will get you shunned, slapped around
and booted. People will not say anything if they don't know the answer for
a very good reason. #linpeople, as an example, has ~60 people on it at all
times. If all ~60 people said "Sorry, don't know that" to each of the
requests that came through the channel it would be so spammed by those
messages that no real help can be dispensed.
Cardinal rule number two... Do *NOT* demand help, do *NOT* expect help.
The people there are there on their own free time and giving out advice and
help because they want to, not because they have to. So if you think they
have to help you and demand it, they won't want to help you and, simply
enough, they will not help you.
So all-in-all, will you get the help you need, when you need it on irc?
More often than not, if you're polite about it and realize that sometimes
you won't, you will. Just don't be rude when you don't and you'll be fine.
Just as an aside, #linux on Dal, a BS channel when I was on it, was one
of the few channels I could go to for WinNT help and actually get responses
that were helpful. WinNT help on a Linux channel. Think about it. ;)
--
Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my
http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus | employer's. They hired me for my
ICQ: 5107343 | skills and labor, not my opinions!
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache SIMPLE (Security Quest)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 18:25:10 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc lany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: So if Apache files are now on your Win95 partition (vfat fs), how are you planning
:on setting file/owner perms?
I am not sure. That's probably my dilemma now.
Is there a way arround that? because i have to be able to access my server page from
both OS's, because unfortunately, I still prefer to edit my page with winbloz
so i can check how it looks like in IE.
Check this out
http://www.geocities.com/bourbonstreet/5174/status.html
: Lany
: Wael Sedky wrote:
:>
:> I found an even better solution. It turned out that my directory has to be a
:> descendent of /var/lib/apache/htdocs. So now I renamed my "index.html" soft
:> link to "myweb" (or whatever). Everything is cool. I'm worried about
:> security though, because that's on my win95 partition.
:>
:> Wael Sedky wrote in message ...
:> >
:> >I tricked the system by doing the following. I got rid of there default
:> >index.html file (I renamed it), then I created a symbolic link named
:> >"index.html" to my root directory.
:> >
:> >Do u see anything dangerous here?
:> >
:> >P.S. It works
:> >
:> >
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From: "Wael Sedky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]*>
Subject: Re: ABC Simple scripting question
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 14:00:56 -0800
I forgot to mention that when I go to
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/5174/status.html
when I'm online, I can access everything and all the images in /images with
no problem. But if i try this from outside (at univ) I can't access anything
outside my server root directory.
One thing I should not though is that I noticed that the permissions r 755
and as i mentioned, i added all the directories in
<Location,,,>
allow from all
</Location>
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From: Ken Witherow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo question
Date: 3 Feb 1999 04:38:45 GMT
David Ricardo wrote:
>
> I have Win95 and the linux in my HD. The current default boot system is
> linux( when the system starts this message: "LILO Boot :" shows up, and if I
> press Enter key the linux starts running). My question is :
> What's the lilo.conf modification I have to do if I want to start the dos
> partition (Win95) by default (Whenever press Enter key, I want to start the
> win95)?
> Thanks. From Brazil.
from man lilo.conf
default=imagename
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From: SMF User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.conspiracy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.x,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Is Microsoft a nasty company ? I'm asking you this question.
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 12:27:51 -0600
And how many "normal users would you really expect to buy these machines???
Really, most users on this world don't even know what an OS is. All they want is
a word processor and something to get them on the internet easily. Hence AOL's
success. Realizing this, higher level computer users will need to know have
Windows OS to produce and distribute software that will be completely compatable
with Windows, otherwise, all these low level users will never buy it.
John Doe wrote:
> I think that the OEMs should rebel and refuse to pay the high prices and
> start bundling BeOS and Linux as the default OS's for a year or 2 and
> make people have to install Windows as a second OS from off the shelf.
> Let's see how many people flock to it because it is the "superior"
> choice. Only idiots like scott nudds would. People like him would get a
> second morgage so that they could try to increase microsoft's
> marketshare again after it would plumit
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: lpd won't execute filter script
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 18:49:23 GMT
What would keep lpd from executing a filter script on certain jobs or from a
certain host? I have the following entry in /etc/printcap (Redhat 5.0, kernel
2.0.33):
FSB3709E|LCPS1_FSB3709E|lcps1_fsb3709e:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/FSB3709E:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-err:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/FSB3709E/print:\
:lp=/dev/null:
the filter script is exceedingly simple (for testing):
#!/bin/sh
/bin/cat - > /tmp/lpdout.$$
If I send a job with lpr at the prompt of the local machine, the script is
executed. I have tested from other unix machines and even from a windows
machine and the script executes. There is one host that sends jobs, and lpd
accepts the job (confirmed with tcpdump), does not give any error to the log
file, but DOES NOT execute the script. The host is listed in hosts.lpd. If I
don't try to use an if= line, but just redirect to a printer with rm= and rp=
entries, then the job is processed.
The host that will not work is a mainframe over which I have no control, so I
must make my end work.
What could cause lpd to not execute the if= script for a particular host?? Is
this a bug?
Any ideas appreciated.
Doug Kite
Lenoir County MIS
Kinston, NC USA
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From: "Inhibition Computer Systems" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: How to make it run faster?
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 23:40:10 -0500
Howdy,
I'm running Linux off of a 586/100 machine w/ 64mb memory, and it's probably
not running much faster ... any way you look at it, a full install of Linux,
especially with the X-Win system up, is going to be slow on an older
machine. About the only thing I can think of is to reduce the amount of
software. The 65mb swap won't do you much good if your CPU and memory don't
work quickly enough to use it. My advise would be to either put up with the
slowness, do a slight upgrade, or try to do things in text, not GUI. Luck
Chris Bergeron, Inhibition Computer Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RAZOR wrote in message <7987g2$klq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hey guys :-)
>I have my second puter that is 486/66mhz ,16 mb ram with Redhat 5.1
>installed. My swap partition is 65 mb, and I'm running AnotherLevel
>X-Windows (w95 look). So X-Windows is running kinda slow. Even programs in
>control panel are running slow(or any other basic programs).Although I read
>everywhere that Linux is bringing back to life all that old machines, even
>freaking Winblows is running faster on this puter.
>What is the way to increase performance? I mean without hardware upgrades
>and increasing swap partition (I don't have any more space). I have Redhat
>5.0, 5.1, 5.2 releases, may be I should install v5.0? Or may be another
>windows manager?
>Dudes, ANY, ANY tips are appreciated, especially from dudes who have the
>same puter. :-)
>Thanx in advance
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: CD-RW as backup alternative
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 14:18:45 -0500
"Kerry J. Cox" wrote:
> Howdy,
> I was wondering what the feasibility would be to install a CD-RW on my
> Linux box and have it be used to backup all my Solaris machines here at
> work? How would I go about backing up critical files from off the Sun
> Solaris machines then onto a CD-RW? Would you recommend using ufsdump
> or tarring them up or setting up a selective process to back up certain
> files?
> Any input would be apprciated.
> Thanks.
> KJ
Not enough capacity, it would take 3 CD's to back up every 2Gig disk.
Network latency would kill your CDwrites, so you would have to copy
an entire disks contents to the writer system, then build the CD image,
then write it. Way too slow. Works ok for backing up a source tree on
major version numbers or for backing up log files once a month. But
definitely
not a nightly or weekly solution for lot's of boxes.
Also, you won't find any archive software solutions that work off of CD's.
Get a good tape drive or if you have enough machines, a good tape jukebox
you can then do automated backup's over the network at
non-peak hours. Look into "AMANDA" or one of the commercial backup
software suites. You will want a tape archive management software setup
that
does incremental backups and keeps database of file info. It should also
have
the ability to recover from problems.
For some of our systems (about 30) we use a 64 DLT 80GB per tape
jukebox with a Legato software setup. Very nice, but fairly expensive.
We had to set up a private 100MB LAN on a reserved subnet to handle the
load, and the Legato licenses are charged per backup client!
I haven't used it, but AMANDA probably has about the same functionality
and is Free of Charge.
-Ben.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daddy Rabbit)
Subject: I need an email server for linux
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 19:21:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm setting up a linux box to be hosted by my ISP. I have a sql
database on it so that people can request information etc. but only if
they will give me an email address. What I would like to do is send an
automatic email to people base on what item they requested info on.
Does anyone have experience with this type of situation?
I would appreciate your input.
TIA
Jim
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.1 doesn't power down system
Date: 03 Feb 1999 10:31:20 -0800
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>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mike> Kent Robotti wrote:
>> Add -p to the halt command.
>> halt -p
Mike> I have the same problem - tries "halt -p" but is just says
Mike> "invalid parameter" - anyone know what the version of halt
Mike> required is, and what package contains it ?
Hmm.
HALT(8) Linux System Administrator's Manual HALT(8)
NAME
halt, reboot, poweroff - stop the system.
SYNOPSIS
/sbin/halt [-n] [-w] [-d] [-f] [-i] [-p]
/sbin/reboot [-n] [-w] [-d] [-f] [-i]
/sbin/poweroff [-n] [-w] [-d] [-f] [-i]
DESCRIPTION
Halt notes that the system is being brought down in the
file /var/log/wtmp, and then either tells the kernel to
halt, reboot or poweroff the system. If halt or reboot is
called when the system is not in runlevel 0 or 6, shut-
down(8) will be invoked instead (with the flag -h or -r).
OPTIONS
[ ... ]
-p When halting the system, do a poweroff. This is the
default when halt is called as poweroff.
[ ... ]
NOTES
Under previous sysvinit releases, reboot and halt should
never be called directly. From this release on halt and
reboot invoke shutdown(8) if the system is in runlevel
1-5.
AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SEE ALSO
shutdown(8), init(1)
Sep 24, 1997 1
mp
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#! /usr/bin/perl # if you are [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Another Luser):
while ($line = <>){ if ($line =~ m/^\s*$/ ){ last; }
if ($line =~ m/^From: (\S+) \(([^()]*)\)/){ $from_address = $1; } }
if ($from_address =~ m/\S+NOSPAM\S+/){ $x = index($from_address, NOSPAM);
substr($from_address, $x, 6+1) = ""; printf("The real address is %s\n",
$from_address);}else { printf("No munge, just plain %s\n",$from_address);}
printf("\nBrought to you by the Truth In Mail Headers Foundation\n");
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- --
Michael Powe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
Portland, Oregon USA
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From: "Mark Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: 3com officeconnect sugestions
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 23:46:34 -0500
I agree the office connect products are very good and very relialble.
Another product line to consider is the Bay Networks. I have had very good
success with their Hubs and cards also. The ISDN router/modem is very
comparable to 3coms, but it has a few extra features which make it a little
more appealing in my mind. I have used it in several small businesses in my
area where more that 10 machines need an internet connection and the 3com
won't do more than 10 machines. The Bay Network also has a robust feature
for allowing users to call into the network also.
Either product is great, I have used both lines and I recommend both of
them.
Mark Kelly
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From: Ken Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get rid of these entries on disk?
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 19:22:05 -0600
Jan-Jaap van der Heijden wrote:
> As the result of a media error on a hard disk (which I have corrected),
> I now have these garbage enties on my filesystem:
>
> l--S-----T 1 29887 1952 4256164358 Nov 5 1931 seq
>
> d---rw-r-x 2 3177 54632 10240 Nov 1 1969 winadvapi.h
>
> How can I remove these? root gets "permission denied"
>
> TIA,
> JanJaap
Try
mv <space> "1931 seq" <space> 1931 <enter>
chmod <space> 1931 <space> winadvapi.h<enter>
rm <space> -r <space> 1931 <space> winadvapi.h <enter>
- Ken
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From: Steven James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux apps in win2000 port news!
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 11:23:29 -0500
M Sweger wrote:
>
> Hmmm! if you can't get the Unix software vendors to port their stuf from Unix
> to Window Nt, then make the Unix apps run within NT! In this way you can
> say that your OS is a engineering workstation.
That's just funny!
I looked at their prices etc. Let's see, I can pay thousands of dollars
to run my linux apps on flaky NT,
or I can just BUY a second PC (with all options), and run my Linux apps
on stable Linux for the same or less money...hmm, real tough choice
there! :->
G'day,
sjames
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: JDK 1.1.7
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 18:52:15 GMT
to compile a hello.java program into a hello.class file type 'javac
hello.java'. u'll get a hello.class file u can run it by saying something
like 'java hello' also make shure u have the CLASSPATH variale set. type
'set' at shell and check it ..
> under X, java says "Java Class not found" or something like that. What
> am I doing wrong? Thanks! BTW, can you give me a pointer to a good
> Java programming on Linux resource?
>
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From: "Frank T. Sronce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Suggestions for new Linux Fortran compiler
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 19:21:07 +0000
Well, I'm administering a fairly new Redhat Linux 5.2 machine and it
looks like we need to get a commercial Fortran compiler for it. I've
been using g77/fort77 for most things, but I need to port over code that
was designed for the Sun F77 compiler, which implements a superset of
F77 Fortran. The code won't compile on our Linux box, apparently
because of those additional features (like the Format (q) statment, and
allowing Implicit None to appear in the middle of declarations).
So, I'm looking for a new compiler which has more capabilities and which
will compile this code (and hopefully any future code we have similar
problems with). Has anyone got any recommendations on what compiler to
get? Or pointers to where I could find useful info?
Frank Sronce
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: sendmail
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 03 Feb 1999 00:01:22 -0500
Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Some friends and I are working on a project that will promote, encourage
> and assist with Linux project development. We are currently trying to
> configure sendmail and encountering alot of problems. Do you know
> anyone or know of any sites that might assist us with this task? Thanks
> in advance.
do you *have* to use sendmail? there are plenty of other mail
transport agents which do not require an 800 page batbook for
configuration. sending e-mail shouldn't be this hard.
i am using qmail. go to <URL:http://www.qmail.org/>. perhaps it can
be configured do what you want. the readmes and faqs supplied with
the qmail source cover a lot of ground.
there are also exim, smail, zmailer &c but i do not have personal
experience with them. but they all have to be easier to configure
than sendmail.
--
Johan Kullstam [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: Future X-Windows Updates
Date: 3 Feb 1999 04:35:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 04:50:35 +0000,
Steve D. Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have noticed that there really isn't all that much co-operation
>between applications running under X as there is in other GUI's (such as
>Windows or MacOS). I find it very frustrating that I am unable to just
>cut-and-paste text between any application I choose... it is oftentimes
>impossible to do so even within the same application! I suppose that
>I've gotten a little spoiled by having the right-mouse-button-commands
>available to me everywhere within Windows.
Wipe with the Left Mouse Button, then paste with the Middle Mouse Button.
Can it be any easier? The only app this doesn't work on in some way that
I've run across is some version of vim, where you have to hold down the
shift key when clicking the MMB, because the app uses that button press
for something else.
Netscape is bizarre in that you can paste a URL from a text frame into
the viewing section of Netscape, but you can't cut and paste a URL from
that same section to itself, if you follow.
> I am also a little taken aback by fonts and printing. Basically, it
>seems that the fonts built into X suck... most applications that look
Buy get/new ones. Type 1 fonts or True Type if you have FreeType installed.
Look for it.
>"Passthrough-Postscript" driver, that feeds the documents straight to
>Ghostscript). This entire situation reminds me of the old DOS days...
>when you had to have seperate fonts and printer drivers for WordPerfect
>5.1, Lotus 1-2-3, etc...
Always use PostScript. It is the Unix defacto printer standard.
To bad users didn't insist on a standard conforming printer 10 years ago...
though I guess PCL caught on in the low end for awhile.
> Does anyone know if future implementations of X plan to feature
>tighter integration along these lines?
X doesn't care about printers. Cut and paste is standardized and drag-n-drop
is slowly coming to X, painfully slowly.
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: CD-RW as backup alternative
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 14:34:56 -0500
"Kerry J. Cox" wrote:
> Howdy,
> I was wondering what the feasibility would be to install a CD-RW on my
> Linux box and have it be used to backup all my Solaris machines here at
> work? How would I go about backing up critical files from off the Sun
> Solaris machines then onto a CD-RW? Would you recommend using ufsdump
> or tarring them up or setting up a selective process to back up certain
> files?
> Any input would be apprciated.
> Thanks.
> KJ
Not enough capacity, it would take 3 CD's to back up every 2Gig disk.
Network latency would kill your CDwrites, so you would have to copy
an entire disks contents to the writer system, then build the CD image,
then write it. Way too slow.
CD's work ok for backing up a source tree on
major version number or for backing up log files once a month. But
definitely
not a nightly or weekly solution for lot's of boxes.
Also, you won't find any archive software solutions that work off of CD's.
Unless you want to write your own.
Get a good tape drive or if you have enough machines, a good tape jukebox
you can then do automated backup's over the network at
non-peak hours. Look into "AMANDA" or one of the commercial backup
software suites. You will want a tape archive management software setup
that
does incremental backups and keeps database of file info. It should also
have
the ability to recover from problems.
For some of our DataBase servers (about 30) we use a 64 DLT 80GB per tape
jukebox with a Legato software setup. Very nice, but fairly expensive.
We had to set up a private 100MB LAN on a reserved subnet to handle the
load, and the Legato licenses are charged per backup client!
But then, losing the Data and not having a recovery plan could cost
BILLIONS!
That is why we tested this backup and recovery procedure for each OS.
I haven't used it, but AMANDA probably has about the same functionality
and is Free of Charge, but there is no 24x7 support if you are sick and
the
server crashes what happens to the company? Legato will send out a
specialist
technician who could figure out our systems with the DBA's and users and
then
restore the servers if I was gone.
-Ben.
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