Linux-Misc Digest #165, Volume #20 Wed, 12 May 99 07:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: Retaining values from /proc/sys? ("Peter Caffin")
Netscape: can't resolve symbol (Jim Jackson)
Re: Programming crashes my system (Michael Powe)
Re: Is Unix a single user operating system? (was: Wanted: Database/Contact mgr with
backend on Linux/FreeBSD, web frontend) (Kenneth P. Turvey)
Re: Netscape trouble (Jim Jackson)
Re: Redhat Sparc wants 150M Smaller needed! (Darren Greer)
EPS Help (Miguel Lastra)
Re: Retaining values from /proc/sys? (Mark Tranchant)
Re: PCMCIA modem won't work (David Steuber)
Re: KDE very slow (David Steuber)
Re: rotating signature (David Steuber)
Re: Shadow Passwords (KDE Screen savers need suid) (David Steuber)
Re: How to low-level format a SCSI (Swietanowski Artur)
Re: Web email system Re: MS Exchange and Linux (Dave Edick)
Re: LILO, can't boot from 2nd SCSI drive. (Robin)
Re: Tape Backup software (IEEE Project)
Re: Knews Config Question (Quickie) (Craig Yuen)
Re: Display X on TV? ("Oliver D. Bedford")
Re: I am on a quest... (brian moore)
Re: HOSTNAME: I don;t get it (not_here)
Using dump on linux. (Predrag Vrankovic)
Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage (Tesla Coil)
Re: making linux go away (Robert W. Curry)
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From: "Peter Caffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Retaining values from /proc/sys?
Date: 12 May 1999 08:53:43 GMT
Jon Skeet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I did the changes by just writing to the file
> (eg echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max) but on rebooting, the values were
> back to their original states.
> I thought they were supposed to stay as I'd set them across reboots?
Nope. It doesn't happen.
> If not, could someone tell me how I *can* change them permanently?
Create a script called something like /etc/rc.boot/0echo-to-proc which
contains:
#!/bin/sh
echo -n "Echoing 16384 to /proc/sys/fs/file-max: "
echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
echo "done."
Add whatever else you want to add in a similar style. Make the script
executable. Viola! Settings are done automagically at boot time. Hope that
helps.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Jackson)
Subject: Netscape: can't resolve symbol
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 17:01:43 GMT
I've been running Netscape 4.51 for some time now.
I recently installed some software or revised some library
or other, and now when I attempt to start Netscape 4.51, 1
get the message: "can't resolve symbol '__fxstat'"
I can continue to run Netscape 4.0x.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux-redhat
Subject: Re: Programming crashes my system
From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 12 May 1999 01:34:52 -0700
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>>>>> "look" == look <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
look> In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst Iczer One
look> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently scribe: :>
look> :> from sys import*;from string
look> import*;a=argv;[s,p,q]=filter(lambda x:x[:1]!= :>
look> '-',a);d='-d'in a;e,n=atol(p,16),
look> atol(q,16);l=(len(q)+1)/2;o,inb=l-d,l-1+d :> while
look> s:s=stdin.read(inb);s and map(stdout.write,map(lambda
look> i,b=pow(reduce( :> lambda x,y:(x<<8L) +y, map(ord,s)),e,n):
look> chr(b>>8*i&255),range(o-1,-1,-1))) :>
: Normally I dont Question About Someone's Sig,but this is a
differant case. : Exactally what is the Above?
look> As it has a US export restriction, I imagine it's part of an
look> encryption program that goes beyond the legal 48bit
look> limit. PGP perhaps?
No, it's an implementation of the RSA encryption algorithm. It is
considered "strong" encryption, meaning that it's not breakable by
John Law. It's illegal to export "strong" encryption software from
the United States without special export licenses from the US gov't.
Posting it in an international forum might be considered such an
illegal export. At one time, you could buy T-shirts with this
algorithm printed on them -- presumably, in order to border-hop while
wearing them. That's more of a joke, though; as the absurdity of the
law was such that you could print the source code out on paper & carry
it across the border legally (I believe this was how PGP originally
was "exported" from the US); but carrying it across the border in text
files on floopy disks ("machine-readable" form) was considered a
violation.
You can visit Cryptome at http://www.jya.com to keep up-to-date on
current affairs in the crypto-world.
mp
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth P. Turvey)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is Unix a single user operating system? (was: Wanted: Database/Contact
mgr with backend on Linux/FreeBSD, web frontend)
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 07:27:02 -0500
On 11 May 1999 03:00:44 GMT, Frank Crary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[Snip]
>You might want to go back and read some of the things Brian Kernighan and
>others have written about the development of Unix. Support for multiple
>(real) users was what Unix was designed for. Various processes and
>daemons now use different accounts, but I'm fairly sure that wasn't
>true of AT&T version 1. A multi-user environment was a goal from the
>start, and the fact that certain system processes can take advantage of
>this was a later development.
This isn't correct. Multics was always intended to be a multi user
operating system. The name Unix was selected for its relationship to
Multics, Unix had one user and Multics had many. Allowing more
than one user was an afterthought. It wasn't one of the original goals
of Unix.
--
Kenneth P. Turvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly
enforced.
-- Frank Zappa
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Jackson)
Subject: Re: Netscape trouble
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 17:00:27 GMT
I had this problem. Turned out Netscape was refreshing all of my
newsgroups which it had subscribed me to, some 6000+.
Once I flushed the .newsrc file in my home directory, and subscribed
only to the ones I was interested in, this went away
Saqr Binghalib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
> I have Red Hat linux ver 5.2 and use the netscape that came with the
>O/S
>
> The problem I am facing now is that when I try to open netscape it take
>a long time.. almost 2 mins before it opens ( 2 mins after I execute the
>command )
>
> So I was wondering if anyone had any ideas or suggestions to this.
>
> Thanks,
> Saqr
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren Greer)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Redhat Sparc wants 150M Smaller needed!
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 02:22:35 GMT
Well....The debian base install is something like 6 or 7 disks (1.44),
and can be downloaded from the net at www.debian.org (follow download
and install links). I personally like Debian better anyway. So, I
would suggest going that way.
Darren
On 12 May 1999 00:48:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh) wrote:
-->In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren Greer) writes:
-->
-->]Do an "expert" install and manually tell it which packages to install.
-->]It should tell you after you pick each package how much MB of disk
-->]space it will require.
-->
-->Yes, I tried that and the lowest I could get it to was 130MB
-->glibc was 27MB all on its own! (That is absurd)
-->
-->
-->]On 11 May 1999 23:17:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh) wrote:
-->
-->]-->I just tried to install Redhat 6 on a Sparc machine and it told it it
-->]-->wants 150M of disk space > This is huge! I have a 100M disk on it. How
-->]-->do I get it down to say 60M (with X) Will be using a sparc II as an
-->]-->Xterminal mainly.
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From: Miguel Lastra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EPS Help
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:35:19 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I have some figures generated with MS Powerpoint and printed to a file
in EPS format. The problem is that every figure includes all the blank
space of the page.
I played around with the Bounding Box and could see the image with the
disired size with ghostview, but when I include that image in my tex
file something happens and the figure overlaps part of the text when
viewed with xdvi and when printed to a ps file.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance
Miguel
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Retaining values from /proc/sys?
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:34:08 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jon Skeet wrote:
>
> I've been tuning my system so it can cope more easily with the heavy (and
> specific) loads I'm placing on it. This involved increasing
> /proc/sys/fs/file-max and /proc/sys/net/tcp_max_syn_backlog, and
> decreasing /proc/sys/net/tcp_fin_timeout.
>
> I did the changes by just writing to the file
> (eg echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max) but on rebooting, the values were
> back to their original states.
>
> I thought they were supposed to stay as I'd set them across reboots? If
> not, could someone tell me how I *can* change them permanently?
The /proc filesystem is "virtual" - it does not use the hard drive. If
you want to permanently set those values, put the echo line into one of
your startup scripts (I'd put it in rc.local on my ex-Slackware system).
Mark.
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: PCMCIA modem won't work
Date: 11 May 1999 11:35:52 -0400
When I see 'v.90' in a PCMCIA modem, I get the fear that it may be a
Winmodem. If this is the case, you are screwed.
Cardmanager will send the ID string for the modem to
/var/log/messages. If you are root, or if you compiled PCMCIA-CS as
trusted and hace xforms, you can open up Cardmanager and see if it
recognized.
--
David Steuber | s/trashcan/david/ if you wish to reply by mail
When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him -- that's where the
money is.
-- Robespierre
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE very slow
Date: 11 May 1999 11:27:52 -0400
Sounds to me like you are slamming into the swap. KDE+KWM use a lot
of memory. This is all on top of X.
Add RAM. I run 128MB, and KDE flies. I am also using hardware
acceleration for X. I also have a PII 233. CPU is not the problem.
--
David Steuber | s/trashcan/david/ if you wish to reply by mail
Bureaucrat, n.:
A person who cuts red tape sideways.
-- J. McCabe
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rotating signature
Date: 11 May 1999 11:37:48 -0400
I whiped up my own in Python. You can make a shorter one in Perl or a
really short one in sh.
It is quite trivial.
--
David Steuber | s/trashcan/david/ if you wish to reply by mail
No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether
she will or will not be a mother.
-- Margaret H. Sanger
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Shadow Passwords (KDE Screen savers need suid)
Date: 11 May 1999 12:01:16 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge) writes:
-> What version of KDE is that? In version 1.1 all screen savers use a
-> small suid helper program called kcheckpass to read /etc/shadow.
-> Only that one needs to be suid root.
I am still running 1.0. The problem is solved.
--
David Steuber | s/trashcan/david/ if you wish to reply by mail
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange
protein -- it rejects it.
-- P. Medawar
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From: Swietanowski Artur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How to low-level format a SCSI
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:00:31 +0200
Villy Kruse wrote:
> BTW, why has the word 'format' now become synonymous to 'make
> filesystem'.
The reason is called DOS (for Dirty Operating System, short form of
QDOS, or Quick and D.O.S., later renamed Disk O.S. as Dirty wouldn't
sell to well). The command to make a filesystem there is, of course,
'format'.
This terminology breach gave rise to neverending confusion...
Regards,
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Institut f�r Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfahren,
Universit�t Wien, Universit�tsstr. 5, A-1010 Wien, Austria
tel. +43 (1) 427 738 620 fax +43 (1) 427 738 629
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Edick)
Subject: Re: Web email system Re: MS Exchange and Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:12:15 GMT
I have a list of a number of web mail systems on
http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/ITS/dedick. Scroll down to the web mail clients
section.
On Tue, 11 May 1999 02:12:58 GMT, Timothy J. Lee wrote:
>"Tim Wise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>|BTW: Anyone know a good Web based email system using Apache and Qmail?
>
>What does Microsoft Network Hotmail use?
>
>--
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Timothy J. Lee timlee@
>Unsolicited bulk or commercial email is not welcome. netcom.com
>No warranty of any kind is provided with this message.
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 22:17:21 +1200
From: Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: LILO, can't boot from 2nd SCSI drive.
Don't you just love the spontainously helpful dudes out there in never never
land.......
"it's well documented in the howto's" sheeeeeeeeeeeeesh get a life!!
Any way had the same problem myself could not solve it at all for RH5.1
In the end deleted RH5.1 and tried Turbo linux 3.4.0 whamo.... first time
boots up off the 4th HDD (Scsi Disk 2) in my system from a menu on a
bootmanager
on first primary (OS/2's from Partition magic 3.0).
And it is USING LILO........
Go here www.pht.com
Not affiliated in any way with Turbo linux people .
regards Robin
Spotillius Maximus aka \"Spot\" wrote:
> LILO hangs on the letter L when it tries to boot. My first drive (sd0) is a
> 9 gig Cheetah LVD and is using Win98 while the second drive (sd1) is running
> a Linux partition. The SCSI controller is an on board AIC-7890 Adaptec that
> is set to boot SCSI device "0". Is my problem stemming from the fact that I
> need to partition the first drive to get this to dual boot? I would prefer
> to not partition the first drive and keep Linux on the second drive. Is
> this possible? LILO is configured to run in the linear mode, also. I'm at
> a loss.
>
> BTW>I can't get my SCSI CDROM to work, it is recognized at boot-up and when
> linux loads, but I can't mount it. At load time Linux names it "sr0". I
> can't find sr0 in the /dev directory. Thanks.
>
> Ed
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (IEEE Project)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,hk.comp.os.linux,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Tape Backup software
Date: 12 May 1999 09:49:10 GMT
You may also consider cpio which is a standard Unix command.
To write to tape,
cd /
find . -print | cpio -ocv >(tape device file) 2>error.log
To write to tape with data compression,
find . -print | gzip | cpio -ocv >(tape device file) 2>error.log
To read from the tape,
cpio -icv <(tape device file) 2>error.log
or gzip -d <(tape device file) | cpio -icv 2>error.log
To list the content in the tape,
cpio -itcv <(tape device file) 2>error.log
You can also use no-rewind tape device file if you want to write multiple
sessions in a single tape.
Wolfgang Ganzert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: For the KDE window environment there is the kdat program. It allows
: multiple tars on a single tape and has a GUI which is easy to use. On my
: systems it does not run stable but maybe this is because I'm using KDE
: 1.0. Maybe with 1.1 the problem is fixed, I don't known.
: Wolfgang
: Ron Flory wrote:
: > > I'm looking for a very easy & good DAT tape backup software.
: > > Any idea?
: >
: > depends how fancy it needs to be. 'cat file.tar.gz > /dev/st0' works
: > fine for me.
: >
: > ron
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Yuen)
Subject: Re: Knews Config Question (Quickie)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:38:45 GMT
In article <7hb98d$30j$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keven R. Pittsinger) writes:
> OK, I've got a weirdie for yas.
>
> I had my Knews editor automatically put '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' as my
> From: when posting from Knews 1.0B1. I forgot how I did it. I ended up
> changing providers recently to Earthlink. After fighting with the system
> here at home, I finally got my email just about squared away, but my Knews
> still tries putting '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the From: line. How can I
> change this? What needs working on?
>
> Thanxx.
>
> Keven
try modifying the "*fullName:" field in the ~/.knews/config-news file.
hope this helps.
craig
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From: "Oliver D. Bedford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Display X on TV?
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:40:24 +0200
Ray wrote:
[Graphic card for tv]
> Check to see if it enables the tv-output automatically or if it requires a
> special utility to turn it on. I've used both the Canopus and Elsa cards
> based on the same chipset (riva 128) as the Stingray.
According to Hercules the Stingray has a "3Dfx Voodoo Rush 3D Arcade
Chip".
Oliver
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.slackware.linux
Subject: Re: I am on a quest...
Date: 11 May 1999 20:50:03 GMT
On 11 May 1999 17:10:35 GMT,
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10 May 1999 17:44:09 GMT, brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I wouldn't want to use any "real" MUA that insisted on dumping mail from
> >a variety of mailboxes all together.
>
> Neither would I. That is why every time someone tells me about mutt I
> point out that it does not treat each account as a seperate entity. Neither
> does fetchmail.
>
> Let's compare.
Yawn.
> Mutt/Fetchmail/Procmail: Pull all the mail from multiple servers, dump
> into a single inbox where filters move it out from there. IMAP is treated as
> a glorified POP, single outbox (Unless you really *LIKE* FCCs).
Really? I seem to be able to change to '{mailserver}INBOX', and treat
it like a local box (within the limitations of IMAP, anyway).
I have no idea what you mean about a 'single outbox'. Depending on what
mailbox I'm reading, my outbox changes.
> PMMail98: Pull all the mail from multiple servers. Each account has its
> own inbox, filters, outbox, signatures, preferences, canned replies, PGP
> options. No need to filter them out from a common inbox, there *IS* no common
> inbox. Unfortunately, no IMAP, yet.
Again: you haven't tried with Mutt, which does all the above.
Each of my mailboxes is handled differently, with different filters,
outbox, signatores, coloring schemes, PGP keys, etc. I don't believe in
canned replies, but it's trivial to set them up so that they are
seperately handled, though that's not a MUA issue at all (for a clue as
to why, think about how well 'vacation' would work if it was part of an
MUA).
> >If you want it to automatically change your froms, you'll have to add a
> >folder hook for that:
> ^^^^
>
> s/hook/hack/;
Um, whatever.
It certainly works to change my from depending on what mailbox I'm
reading from.
That you find it a 'hack' is interesting, but more telling is that you
seem to imply that a 'hack' is bad.
> >it would be wrong for Mutt to just guess and would lead to wrong address like
> >Eudora often does, leaving your address as [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead
> >of [EMAIL PROTECTED], or even, perhaps, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Which is why I dislike Eudora, Outlook Express, Mutt, etc when it comes to
> multiple accounts. They assume that an individual wants everything to be
> lumped together, filtered out from there, and then have to fight the MUA to
> get the right address.
But, again, my mail isn't all lumped together.
I don't fight mutt to get the right address: it knows where things are
saved locally, and that things in one mailbox mean to use a different
set of features than things in another.... it even knows that things
under the 'Lists/' directory get handled differently still.
> That is why I use PMMail98. Each account is unique. Mail in to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] is never mixed with mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I reply to mail in
> the [EMAIL PROTECTED] account, that is the address used because that is the account
> I'm in. If I want to to reply from [EMAIL PROTECTED], drag it to that account,
> reply.
Nor is mine.
You seem to keep missing this.
You don't have to have all your mail lumped together, you know.
Hint: if you want -completely- seperate handling of mail, just have
different procmailrc's for each mailbox. You do know that you can
specify procmail as the 'mda' for fetchmail, and even pass it an rcfille
to use?
> >There isn't a one-to-one relationship between mailboxes and return addresses.
> >Any mail client that forces such a thing is broken.
>
> But there is a one to one relationship between accounts and, well,
> accounts. Something that most MUAs haven't grasped yet, mutt being no
> exception.
'account' has nothing to do with mail -- I have mailboxes without
accounts, and accounts without mailboxes.... and accounts with multiple
mailboxes, and accounts with one mailbox.
An 'account' is a billing thing and completely irrelevant.
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: not_here <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HOSTNAME: I don;t get it
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 19:43:04 -0500
brian moore wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 May 1999 21:49:00 -0500,
> not_here <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have the following in a rh52 w/k 2.2.5 and all updates:
> > In /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit an entry like:
>
> > HOSTNAME=candle.linux.org
>
> Wow... you got a machine located at linux.org?
>
> Or are you just making up a name?
>
> Beware: if you just make up a name, you can expect problems. For one,
> your mail will look like it's from some address at a machine owned by
> linux.org. That's almost certainly not what you want, since you won't
> be able to get mail at that address, nor will you be able to send mail
> to sites that check to see if your hostname is valid.
>
> > I can ping, ftp, telnet, etc... localhost, candle, or my dynamic ip...
> >
> > but if I try to type at the prompt:
> >
> > mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > the mail gets bounced... with a "server domain must exist," or "service
> > unavailable."
>
> Probably because you haven't defined what 'linux.org' is, have you?
>
> > candle = username
> > linux.org = my domain
>
> No, it's not your domain. You don't own 'linux.org'. I'd suggest you
> don't use that.
>
> Besides, you've named your system 'candle.linux.org', not 'linux.org'.
>
> > Also when I use the gnome-panel... it complaints about not being able to
> > locate candle.linux.org and it stops only when i add :
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost candle
> > in /etc/hosts
>
> That's where you should put it.
>
> Just leave out the other one. You don't have the IP number 0.0.0.0
> either (and it won't work anyway).
>
> > Could someone also please post his/her sections I mentioned for:
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
> > /etc/sysconfig/network
> > /etc/HOSTNAME
> > /etc/hosts
> > for a dial up connection
>
> No changes made from stock RH. Just ran linuxconf and told it to do
> ppp.
>
> You're making this much harder than it really is.
>
> --
> Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
> Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
> Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
> Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
Thanks for your response...
My fault... I should have said that I was using linux.org as an
example...
My only problem is that sendmail(?) doesn't mail allow me to mail myself
at my email address w/my isp... e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Predrag Vrankovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Using dump on linux.
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:36:51 +0930
Just wondering if there is somebody out there who could help me with a
problem I am having with the dump command on linux.
When doing backups I have become used to using the dump command. On
Solaris, the dump command is able to determine for itself the type and
size of the tape that I am using. Now I am trying to backup a linux
box, using its built in dump command, and when I try to backup a
partition which is 900MB in size, it tells me that I will need 5 tapes,
even though the tape I am using is a DDS2 tape drive (WangDat 3400DX).
Obviously, its not smart enough to be able to figure out the size of the
tape drive.
Does anybody know what parameters need to be passed to the dump command,
and exactly how these parameters are to be calculated ?.
If the dump command is not the best backup utility to use on linux, can
anybody recommend any other backup utilities that I could perhaps use.
Thanks
Predrag
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From: Tesla Coil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 15:37:03 -0500
On 8 May 1999, Andrew Comech wrote:
> As to reselling CPUs, again, this does not happen often (on the average,
> _at most_ once a year, right?), while THE BIG GUYS will notice the
> change in the ownership the same business day, and will reassign the
> PSN to someone else's driver's license. (It is not that they will certainly
> do this, but this is _easy_.)
I've changed the CPU on *this* machine two times in the past year.
Whereas someone else would throw their mad money at software,
I run Linux and throw it at hardware. I have a few friends who cycle
through machines at a higher velocity. They also pop up a terminal
window to type in their logons, so any of us will dial up our account
at whomever's place we happen to be working on equipment today.
We're just hobbyists; we won't be changing our lifestyle to suit any
PSN identification bogosity.
.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert W. Curry)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:09:53 GMT
All you need to do is boot with a "DOS" disk and then enter the
command " fdisk /mbr"
This will write the DOS boot loader over the Lilo one.
Good luck, Bob
On Wed, 12 May 1999 10:11:46 +0200, "JP Mestres"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>THEVENIN a �crit dans le message
>>>
>>> Using FDISK to blow away the partitions though doesn't seem to do the
>>> trick. The LILO boot still comes up. If I disconnect the drive and put
>>> another one there even, then the machine just keeps asking me to reboot
>>> over and over.
>>>
>>> How do I get rid of Linux in the boot sector (I guess that's where it
>>> is) once and for all?
>
>you have to use delpart.exe to remove linux (and any other partition)
>then fdisk/mbr
>then formar..
>
>sincerely
>
--
Robert W. Curry KC1IB [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MCP / MCSE http://www.thcs.com
PGP RSA key ID:0x7E4A9793
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