Linux-Misc Digest #818, Volume #19 Sun, 11 Apr 99 23:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: 2.2.5 w/ 2 Buslogic SCSI adapters won't boot (Charles Roten)
Re: Lilo used for non Linux boot only (Gary Momarison)
Re: RPMs (Gary Momarison)
Setting up an FTP server from behind an ISP's firewall
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
FTP server, Setting up from behind a firewall ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Laser printer, which one will in Linux (Bob Tennent)
Re:Dell Inspiron 7000 with Linux/xfree86 hangs on reboot ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: When did parallel port printing performance go to HELL? (yan seiner)
Getting / Created Test Data for a Database (Justin B Willoughby)
Re: different timestamp on nt/linux !! (Terry Griffin)
Re: Downloading files in Win 98 for use in Linux (J. Peterson)
Networking MS and Linux boxes? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CD-RW and Linux (jik-)
Re: problem with mkisofs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Presentation tool for linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Why does root overwrite write only files? ("David Z. Maze")
Re: Lilo used for non Linux boot only ("Craig G. Andersen")
tunelp /dev/lp0 -i 7 ???? (matt)
Re: Linux mail server sizing (David Efflandt)
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From: Charles Roten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 2.2.5 w/ 2 Buslogic SCSI adapters won't boot
Date: 11 Apr 1999 18:11:13 -0700
Back about an fscking week ago, I wrote ...
> The OS bundle is RedHat 5.2, with all the OS updates from redhat.com.
>
> The hardware is twin PPros on a Tyan S1668 motherboard, and two BusLogic
> SCSI controllers (BT-946C and BT958) which share the same interrupt.
>
> From 'more proc/pci" ...
>
> > Bus 0, device 13, function 0:
> > SCSI storage controller: BusLogic MultiMaster (rev 0).
> > Fast devsel. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=240.
> > I/O at 0x9800.
> > Bus 0, device 12, function 0:
> > SCSI storage controller: BusLogic MultiMaster (rev 8).
> > Fast devsel. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=8.
> > I/O at 0x9400.
> > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe2000000.
>
> The BusLogic support is _not_ modular, but is a kernel builtin, since
> I have no wish to risk the system being unable to read it's boot drive.
> FlashPoint support is disabled, since I own no such cards.
>
> 2.2.5 builds fine, both with and without Plug and Play support enabled.
> The reboot proceeds up to the initialization of the second SCSI
> controller, the 946c, which runs the tape drives. Then the system locks
> into a reset-fail-reset cycle with the second controller, and it's
> time for <ctl><alt><del>.
>
> This _never_ happened with 2.0.x. And the behavior persists, whether
> Plug and Play support is set up in the kernel or not. Upgrading to
> RedHat's 2.2-kernel-support RPMs does not affect matters in the
> slightest.
>
> How do I fix this or work around it ?
>
>
> [Oh, BTW .. does anyone out there know how to un-fsck the bloody IRQ
> allocation in the Tyan S1668 ? The "reset the CMOS, then install the
> boards" " trick I used to use on the old Intel Venus motherboards
> does not work on the Tyan.]
No response after a WEEK ??
Why does this fail to surprise me ??
It has been more than 4 YEARS since I have seen a responsive answer
to a nontrivial technical question I posted to a Usenet newsgroup.
I _seriously_ doubt that I am the only one who has run into the
problem outlined above. What I _no_ _longer_ doubt is one of two
things has happened. Either
(a) no one else here has a clue as to what has gone wrong, or
(b) the folks who _do_ know aren't talking.
My brass goes down on the first possibility.
These fora now appear to be inhabited _only_ by cranks looking for
a soapbox, spammers, college kids with time on their hands, and folks
looking for a backfence over which to exchange gossip. The
_colossal_ waste of time involved in the pursuit of technical data on
Usenet has become increasingly apparent to me over the last couple of
years.
It seems clear, by now, that no data of value can be gleaned here
anymore. The folks who _do_ know anything of value have, more than
likely, packed up in disgust, and moved their discussions off to the
mailing lists.
It has now become apparent that I should do likewise.
I don't think I'll be back anytime soon.
Bye.
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(Charles D. Roten) |
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo used for non Linux boot only
Date: 11 Apr 1999 18:27:57 -0700
"Craig G. Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>]
>
> I have created a lilo configuration file that just has dos and fbsd on
> hda and fbsd on hdc.
>
> With a boot disk I can't seem to get it to work, it gives me "L 80 80 80
> ..."
>
> If I install all stanzas which includes linux on hda2 and hdc3, it
> doesn't seem to have a problem.
>
> Is it possible to install lilo bootstraps for only non linux os s ?
I've never done it, but I see no reason it shouldn't work.
Remember that the boot record (MBR or boot record of any primary
partition) only contains a bootstrap program. The rest of the LILO
boot-time code is in the /boot/map file (at least). So you'll
need to maintain some of the files in /boot (which could be
on your LILO boot floppy with the proper lilo.conf file, I think).
BTW, your "80" error code means "Disk timeout". Strange.
Find detailed LILO documentation using links in
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/boot-loaders.html
--
Look for Linux info at http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml and in
Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPMs
Date: 11 Apr 1999 18:30:58 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> ---- INFO ----
> [root@earth /root]# rpm -i MySQL-3.22.21-1.i386.rpm
> package MySQL-3.22.21-1 is already installed
> error: MySQL-3.22.21-1.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> [root@earth /root]# rpm -e MySQL-3.22.21-1.i386.rpm
> package MySQL-3.22.21-1.i386.rpm is not installed
Try "rpm -e MySQL". Or maybe "rpm -e mysql".
Then "rpm -Uvh MySQL-3.22.21-1.i386.rpm".
The "-i" is never needed; "-U" works fine for install & upgrade.
--
Look for Linux info at http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml and in
Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Setting up an FTP server from behind an ISP's firewall
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 01:31:27 GMT
I have been trying to set up an FTP server on my ADSL line. My ISP, Telus,
has a firewall and I needed to bypass it as it would not take standard port
connections (ie. 21 for FTP and 20 for FTP data channel). I found the
appropriate services on my linux box and successfully changed the port
addresses. Now my FTP is operating on ports 2121 FTP and 2120 FTP-data.
Everything appeared to be going fine until I asked some of my friends to test
it. My friends with dial-up connections were able to connect on these higher
port connections under active FTP mode (but not passive), but my friends with
cable modems and ADSL lines could login, but could not get a directory
listing to appear under either active or passive FTP modes. This may be due
to an illegal port connection error message which shows up.
I speculate that the problem has to do with the fact that the computers are
trying to connect with IP addresses that are their home computers and not the
Internet's IP address. Another Problem that i noticed was that when a
computer tries to connect over the internet via passive mode it uses the IP
address of my linux box's external interface (the network card that connects
me to my cable modem) and not the Internet IP address that is assigned to me
by Telus (the one people connect to).
How can I get my friends with Cable/ADSL lines to connect? (With linux and
Windows 98)
Sincerely,
Jeff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FTP server, Setting up from behind a firewall
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 01:25:22 GMT
I have been trying to set up an FTP server on my ADSL line. My ISP, Telus,
has a firewall and I needed to bypass it as it would not take standard port
connections (ie. 21 for FTP and 20 for FTP data channel). I found the
appropriate services on my linux box and successfully changed the port
addresses. Now my FTP is operating on ports 2121 FTP and 2120 FTP-data.
Everything appeared to be going fine until I asked some of my friends to test
it. My friends with dial-up connections were able to connect on these higher
port connections under active FTP mode (but not passive), but my friends with
cable modems and ADSL lines could login, but could not get a directory
listing to appear under either active or passive FTP modes. This may be due
to an illegal port connection error message which shows up.
I speculate that the problem has to do with the fact that the computers are
trying to connect with IP addresses that are their home computers and not the
Internet's IP address. Another Problem that i noticed was that when a
computer tries to connect over the internet via passive mode it uses the IP
address of my linux box's external interface (the network card that connects
me to my cable modem) and not the Internet IP address that is assigned to me
by Telus (the one people connect to).
How can I get my friends with Cable/ADSL lines to connect? (With linux and
Windows 98)
Sincerely,
Jeff
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From: r d t@c s.q u e e n s u.c a (Bob Tennent)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: Laser printer, which one will in Linux
Date: 12 Apr 1999 01:30:08 GMT
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:31:05 +1200, henk van der knaap wrote:
>
>I intend to buy a laser printer. The following brands are available here:
>
>Hewlett Packard, Canon, Oki, Brother (These are the main names)
>
>Can anybody, please, advise me which one works particularly well under
>Linux?
>
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi?predef=BL
Bob T.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re:Dell Inspiron 7000 with Linux/xfree86 hangs on reboot
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 01:36:17 GMT
G'day all,
It turns out that my problem is a known feature of kernel 2.1
and above (Duh!).
The simple fix is to replace "halt" with "halt -p" in /etc/rc.d/rc0.d
For more detail, visit:
http://www.diku.dk/students/grove/poweroff.html
Actually this only works if I turn off with "shutdown -h now".
It still hangs (i.e. shutdown w/o power off) if I reboot (ctrl-alt-del).
But I can live with that, 'cos this is Linux:
ctrl-alt-del is once in a blue moon!
Peter Ballard
> G'day all, I hope this post is on topic...
>
> I installed Linux (Slackware 3.6) on my Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop.
> But it hangs on reboot for certain Linux kernels:
>
> For kernel 2.0.35 which came with Slackware 3.6, it's fine.
> (And rebooting from win98 it's also fine).
>
> But when I installed xfree86 following the recommended
> procedure in http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/
> (method 2, because it's a 14" screen, which includes
> downloading a pre-complied kernel 2.2.3.ac1),
> It now hangs when I try to reboot.
> (i.e. totally hangs: only way to revive it is to take out
> the battery and power down)
>
> I've seen similar problems described before, but not
> this exact one. Has anyone else seen it?
> I know I can still use the old kernel but I want xfree86!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Peter Ballard
> Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: yan seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: When did parallel port printing performance go to HELL?
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 00:51:30 +0000
Let me know if you fiugre it out. I turned on IRQs, and a 20MB print
job took 8 hours to print. Installing RH 5.2 seems to have improved
performance (it's now polled), but it's still far below what it should
be.
I can't upgrade to 2.2.x as it would break the digiboard driver.
Yan
Jim Hill wrote:
>
> In <eGfeMoEh#GA.187@upnetnews03>,
> ELVIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I remember back in the 1.2.x days printing to the parallel port (and using
> >Linux as as TCP/IP print server) was fast and efficient.
> >
> >What happened?
> >
> >Since 2.0.x it's been dog slow (running 2.0.36).
> >
> >Is 2.2.dejour better?
>
> I'd like to assure you that it is, but in the week since I upgraded from
> 2.0.36 to 2.5.5, I've been wondering what the hell happened to turn my
> 4ppm (stop laughing, dammit!) LaserJet 4L into a 3ppm model.
>
> (Turning on TRUST_IRQ to optimize as suggested by the log suceeded only
> in breaking printing...)
>
> Jim
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.swcp.com/~jimhill/
>
> "People have grown used to thinking of computers as unreliable,
> and it doesn't have to be that way." -- Linus Torvalds
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
Subject: Getting / Created Test Data for a Database
Date: 12 Apr 1999 01:46:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
I have MySQL and would like a lot of test data to play with.
I tried to do a search for "test database data" via infoseek and dejanews
but came up with next to nothing. Is there some where I can get this kind
of test data or perhaps created it.
Could this kind of thing be created with some type of random generator?
Just looking to for some thing to actually make my Linux box work <g> Doing
web, e-mail, compiles, downloads, created graphics with the Gimp, editing
documents with WP80 is not enough... I want to see how MySQL can do
crunching a bunch of data....
Any one with info on getting/created test data... let me know..
(Just some test and numeric fields is what I am looking for, so I can do
some calculations and such....dontno)
- Justin
--
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_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ Justin Willoughby
_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ http://www.nmc.edu/~willouj/
_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ ------ Jesus Is Lord ------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Griffin)
Crossposted-To: linux.samba
Subject: Re: different timestamp on nt/linux !!
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 01:52:34 GMT
When a file is created under Linux (or any UNIX) the time stamp assigned
to the file is in GMT time. When you view the time stamp with "ls -l" it
is converted to local time before being displayed.
Under NT (or any descendent of DOS) the time stamp associated with the file
is assumed to already be in local time, so no conversion to local time
takes place. The value is displayed as-is.
Under Linux try setting your TZ environment variable to "GMT". This
will in effect suppress the GMT-to-local conversion and you can view the
GMT time stamp associated with the file. The should be the same time
value that you see under NT. (The TZ setting overrides /etc/localtime.).
Terry
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 23:12:28 GMT, peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>I mount a nt-share on my linux-machine to /mnt/temp.
>
>then I do the following:
>
>#echo test>`date +%H.%M`.txt
>#ls -l
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5 Apr 11 22:38 22.38.txt
>
>ok thats fine. time 22:38 and file 22.38.txt
>
>but when make dir on the nt-machine, I get:
>
>--a-- 5 Sun Apr 11 20:38:04 1999 22.38.txt
> ^^^^^ ^^^^^^
>
>file 22.38.txt created at 20:38 !!!
>
>this is two hours earlier !!!
>
>linux is running xntpd and nt get its time from the linux-machine.
>I�m sure this is a problem with timezones but both machines seems to have
>the timezones set up properly.
>
>I am located in Austria (GMT+1 and daylightsaving-time)
>
># ls -l /etc/localtime
>... /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Vienna
># date
>Mon Apr 12 23:11:08 CEST 1999
> ^^^^
>is CEST correct for austria/germany ?
>$TZ isnt set ! should this one be set under linux ?
>
>on nt I�ve set the timezone to GMT+1 and automatic changin to daylight-
>saving-time !!
>
>or is it a samba-problem ?
>
>
>anyone can help me !!
>
>
>peter
>
>-----------------
>pilsl@
>ANTISPAM
>goldfisch.atat.at
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http://www.blindchicken.com/~terryg/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Peterson)
Subject: Re: Downloading files in Win 98 for use in Linux
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 01:02:14 GMT
Thanks, I will give it a try.
I assume by mounting the dos hardrive, I can just cd into it just
like a linux directory?
>Linux will read any DOS partition. Simply download the files into the DOS
>partition, and mount the partition using, "mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt"
>then "cd /mnt/directory_with_downloaded_file" or "mv /mnt/downloaded_file"
>Note. long filenames are not preserved with this method. To preserve long
>filenames mount using "mount -t vfat" instead of "mount -t msdos"
>Joseph Tiraco
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Networking MS and Linux boxes?
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 01:46:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey everyone,
I want to network together a group of boxes that are a mix of Win98,
Linux-Mandrake, and RH5.0. Does anyone have any ideas? Also, is it possible?
Thanks and please Email-CC your replys to the email below as I do not
frequently read these boards.
Adam Moore
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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:14:03 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-RW and Linux
I just got a CD-RW and am figuring out how to get it working in linux.
I got it working fine, and made a succesfull test disk (RW media :P) and
know how it appears to work.
But, with my /dev/hdd (cdrw) set up with append="hdd=ide-scsi" I can't
seem to mount anything in that drive....I can only write to it. So,
what is the deal with that??? My other drive is NOT MultiRead capable,
so CD-RW disks cannot be read in it....but I don't want to have to keep
switching to win95 to be able to check out my newest expirement/test. I
really honestly have to have both available to me.
bash$ sudo mount /dev/hdd /cdrom
mount: /dev/hdd is not a valid block device
bash$ sudo modprobe ide-scsi
bash$ sudo mount /dev/hdd /cdrom
/dev/hdd: I/O error
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
bash$ sudo mount /dev/hdd /cdrom -t iso9660
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd,
or too many mounted file systems
bash$ sudo mount /dev/hdc /cdrom
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
bash$
I would love some help on this one....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: problem with mkisofs
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 09:53:39 GMT
In article <7e3ho9$ksi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ned Danieley) wrote:
> I'm trying to use mkisofs to archive data, but it has a 'feature'
> that makes this kind of difficult: it flattens the directory structure.
> for instance, if I have a directory foo with subdirs bar1, bar2, bar3
> and I say
>
> mkisofs -L -l -T -a -r -p ndd -V FOO -o image1 /foo/bar1 /foo/bar2 /foo/bar3
>
> then when I look at the resulting image, I see all the files from
> bar[1-3] at the top-level (instead of just bar1, bar2, bar3). if
> bar[1-3] have subdirs, then they are directories at that top level. this
> is really pretty annoying, since bar[1-3] might have a *lot* of files in
> it. I can't just specify /foo, because there are a lot of other subdirs
> in foo that I'm not interested in (and too many to easily use the '-x'
> option).
>
> I figured out a hack that will force mkisofs to keep those dirs intact,
> but it ends up not generating a TRANS.TBL at the top level, and since I
> don't really know what I'm doing, I'm afraid to use it.
>
> is there any way to keep mkisofs from getting rid of the top level
> of directories? the foo/bar=../foo/bar thing doesn't seem to help...
Try:
mkisofs -o image1 [...] /bar1/=/foo/bar1 /bar2/=/foo/bar2 /bar3/=/foo/bar3
and the directories bar[1-3] will be at the top level of the CD.
The first source directory given on the command line *should* be your root CD
directory (i.e. without a '='), but the above should work OK. If not, create
an empty directory and put this as the first source directory e.g.:
mkisofs -o image1 [...] /tmp/empty /bar1/=/foo/bar1 ...
James Pearson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Presentation tool for linux?
Date: 12 Apr 1999 02:23:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.os.linux.x Kenny Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any Linux applications for presentation purpose just like MS
> Power Point? Note I don't have KDE or other fancy window managers. I'm
Why not print your powerpoint files out in PostScript and use GhostView or
GhostScript to display them?
It doesn't have all the nifty transitions between slides, (its just a
print-file previewer) (PgUp, PgDn) but it works perfectly, its free, and it
can read Post-Script or PDF files. So, it can display output from any
application capable of creating PostScript or PDF output.
--Chris
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From: "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why does root overwrite write only files?
Date: 11 Apr 1999 22:41:54 -0400
Harry Rarig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Harry> I am running linux 2.0.36 with both the Slackware 3.5 and
Harry> RedHat 5.2 distributions. In both distributions, if the file
Harry> permissions of a file owned by root are changed to "read-only",
Harry> root can still write to the file without the OS complaining.
Harry> Is there another shell parameter which must be set to prevent
Harry> root from writing to a read-only file?
Well, you can mark individual files as "immutable"; see chattr(1).
Definitionally, though, root can read and write any file.
Harry> I would like to use this capablility to prevent a shell script
Harry> running with root privilege from inadvertantly clobbering my
Harry> write protected files.
Shell scripts can't run suid root without doing special magic. If you
can't make root not trash your system if you're not willing to be
careful. If you're not going to be careful, or you're a real person
and make mistakes occasionally, you really want to spend most of your
time as a real user. Real users (with uid != 0) can't overwrite
write-protected files.
--
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"Hey, Doug, do you mind if I push the Emergency Booth Self-Destruct Button?"
"Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?"
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From: "Craig G. Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo used for non Linux boot only
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 20:02:09 -0500
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I found my own answer, there is that 2nd stage boot loader on linux
partition under
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From: matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tunelp /dev/lp0 -i 7 ????
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 01:56:03 +0000
I'm on kernel 2.2.5 ( upgraded from redhat 2.5 ). Every time I run
"tunelp /dev/lp0 -i 7"
I get error message:
"tunelp: ioctl: Invalid argument
/dev/lp0 using IRQ -1"
anyone know what I am doing wrong? I've searched for an upgrade of
tunelp and as far as I can tell from the doc's I'm doing this right....
Thanks,
Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux mail server sizing
Date: 12 Apr 1999 03:00:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 09 Apr 1999 17:33:42 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I was wondering if anyone out there has any information regarding the amount
>of system resources a Linux-based mail server would required, per user.
>We're looking to implement an IMAP/POP3/Sendmail server to service about 250
>users, and I'm trying to find a ballpark spec for this machine. We're a busy
>company, with lots of mail traffic, so we don't want to undersize this fella,
>but on the other hand, why spend more than we need to?
>
>Any advice from folks out there who have done something similar?
Linux is pretty efficient (compared to NT) when it comes to background
programs like mail, so it doesn't take an all powerful machine to do that.
Our factory uses a 133 MHz with 32 meg RAM to do SMTP/POP3 and squid web
browsing. Our speed bog is our 56K frame relay connection to our factory
and the factory's PPP connection to the internet, which bogs down squid if
too many people are browsing when they should be working or if you try to
send or receive e-mail with a multimeg video file. I am not sure how many
e-mail acounts we have, but it might only be 100-150. Regular e-mail
comes and goes swiftly.
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David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.xnet.com/~efflandt/
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