Linux-Misc Digest #580, Volume #20 Thu, 10 Jun 99 20:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Red Hat 6.0 Bugs (Luca Satolli)
WordPerfect as System Freezer! ("Roman Kellner")
Re: Kernel upgrade (Ted Sikora)
Re: Swap file limit? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Swap file limit? (Still not working even with small swap) (Uwe Bonnes)
Name For Distribution ("Lenny grosso")
Re: Can I use RPM in Slackware? (Ted Sikora)
Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH for glib-1.2.1.tar.gz (Ted Sikora)
Re: time nightmare ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 'ls' command: how to show all files in all directories?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mt ... fsf not working (Michael Meissner)
HELLP! Mouse crap. (Fred Kuipers)
Re: 64-bit arithmetic inside kernel (Peter Samuelson)
Add Groups to Groups ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Apache & php3 segfaults... AAAARG!! (Fred Kuipers)
Re: nohup and procmail (Tom Shannon)
Re: LILO and BeOS (Shimpei Yamashita)
Re: Commercially speaking....? (mlw)
Re: Sharing Cable Modem? (Ted Sikora)
Re: RedHat 6 Install Problem! Help... (Villy Kruse)
Re: fetchmail errors (Sitaram Chamarty)
Re: max length of a line in /etc/passwd (Sitaram Chamarty)
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From: Luca Satolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat,linux.redhat.announce,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.development,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Red Hat 6.0 Bugs
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:55:57 +0200
Hi all,
I've installed Red Hat 6.0 about 20 days ago. I was a Red Hat 5.2 Linux.
After 20 days I've compiled a list of bugs or something that I suppose
to be bugs, I would like to know if someone have find this trouble or if
someone have a solution of them.
1. During the installation it crash on Update becouse it don't succeed
in mounting a previous formatted filesystem. I suppose this problem is
solved by new images that u can find at http://www.redhat.com/errata
.....
2. Netscape Communicator 4.51 crash on java applet and have a big bug on
addressbook so tha u can't use it. I've updated it to 4.6 and the
problem are still there!!
3. Somethimes E sound crash, I get this error logging out from a user
and logging in into another. It happens only if the both the users use
Enlightenment.
4. Somethimes Whn I turn on my PC and logging into a user It fails on
logging in, It don't change the login screen (my runlevel is 5).
5. Are missed the data directory in PostgreSQL rpms(Client-Server DB).
So it fails on boot up.
6. Everytime I boot Linux the system clock is moved forward a few odd
hours. Then at middle of boot up it return to the correct value.
That's all. If u have find other "Bugs" let me know.
Thanks a lot and best regards
Luca Satolli
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From: "Roman Kellner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WordPerfect as System Freezer!
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:36:13 +0200
Our system (SUSE 6.1) is freezing(no reaction at all!!! and it's
reproducible) when saving a document (which was previously opened and
converted from Word97) using the RTF format. Has someone a similar
experience or ideas what might cause this ? On the COREL site I didn't find
any hints at all.
Roman
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From: Ted Sikora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Kernel upgrade
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 22:17:29 GMT
"Kerry J. Cox" wrote:
>
> I'm trying to upgrade my monolithic kernel that came with RedHat 6.0 to
> 2.2.9. However, whenever I reboot with the new kernel, I alsways get a
> kernel panic. This is what I do:
>
> Unzip and untar the source in /usr/src/
cd /usr/include
rm -rf asm linux scsi
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi
cd /usr/src/linux
> make mrproper
> make xconfig
> make dep
make dep ; make clean
> make bzImage
> make modules
> make modules_install
cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/System.map
> cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz
> edit /etc/lilo.conf so that I have my monolithic as a backup called
> linux.golden the new one is linux
# Start LILO global Section
boot=/dev/hda
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
vga=normal
read-only
prompt
timeout=50
# End LILO global Section
#
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda1
label = linux
#
image = /boot/vmlinuz.golden
root = /dev/hda1
label = linux.golden
/sbin/lilo
reboot
> Everything looks okaym, the kernel is not too big, but when I reboot
> some of the error messages I get is that it can't find the hard drive
> among other things. I can't remember all the messages since I'm at work
> now and it's been a couple days sinnce I rebooted.
> Does anyone have some simple instructions for upgrading from
Good Luck!
--
Ted Sikora
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://tsikora.tiac.net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Swap file limit?
Date: 9 Jun 1999 15:54:10 GMT
The limit to a Linux swap is 128mb, if you need any more you need to
create more than one swap partition
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From: Uwe Bonnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Swap file limit? (Still not working even with small swap)
Date: 10 Jun 1999 07:44:20 GMT
Kerry J. Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: So now could some one explain to me why even after doing multiple
: low-level formats and setting the swap space to under 100MB and only
: having four partitions each rather small, that I still am unable to have
: DiskDruid and/or fdisk format the swap partition? Even though I have set
: everything quite low, it is still not recognizing the swap partition. I
: have even downloaded the latest boot.img from off the RedHat site and no
: luck.
: Any help would be much appreciated. Though I can reboot the machine, I'd
: like to be able to enable the swap.
: Sie koennen mich entweder auf Deutsch oder auf Englisch antworten, denn
: ich verstehe beides.
Give hard facts:
What commands did you exactly enter and what error messages did you
get exactly.
Bye
Btw: Why did you send this message twice by mail and additional post it?
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Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt
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From: "Lenny grosso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Name For Distribution
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:36:58 -0500
I didn't know where else to post this, and since it is .misc, it seemed
appropriate.
Ok, heres the deal. I have a team of guys that are starting on a linux
distribution, but we need a name for it.
so far, the options are
Genux
Phat Linux
Lunix
Or Artic Linux ("What the penguins use");
Can you guys tell me which you would prefer?
Please email the answers.
thanks
Lenny Grosso
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From: Ted Sikora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can I use RPM in Slackware?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 07:57:41 GMT
Richard Wright wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Beed
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> >Hi
> >
> > I downloaded RPM Software and installed it. everything went
> >fine. but, When I tried to installed a software with RPM extension, I
> >always got a message saying that there file can't be found? anyone has
> >any ideas as to why this is happening? Thank you in advance.
> >
> >
> >Jack
> If the file ends in .o then it's probably a library that is
> needed your system doesn't have.
>
> If not does it say what file anyway.
> --
> Richard Wright
In Slackware you have to link /usr/local/lib/rpm to /var/local/lib/rpm
provided you built rpm using the defaults.
(rpm 3.0 will not work without some reworking so make sure you have
2.5.6 or earlier)
--
Ted Sikora
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://tsikora.tiac.net
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From: Ted Sikora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,comp.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH for glib-1.2.1.tar.gz
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 22:22:29 GMT
hihihi wrote:
>
> Ted Sikora wrote:
>
> > > I need to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH for glib-1.2.1.tar.gz in
> > > /etc/profile
> > > Can anyone tell me exactly what that path should be ??
> >
> > There is no need to unless you put it in an odd place.
> > It should be installed in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib
> > both of which should be in your /etc/ld.so.conf
>
> That was the solution :-)
> /usr/local/lib was NOT in /etc/ld.so.conf
>
> But when i do ./configure for gtk+, i get the message that it had
> found 2 versions of glib.
> Glib version 1.2.1 and 1.2.3.
>
> In the messages is the advice to remove the oldest version, glib
> 1.2.1.
>
> But how do i uninstall a glib ???
>
> And i belief i have found a DOS/WINDOWS habbit of me, that causes
> problems..
>
> In dos/windows i extract a zip file to C:/TEST/
> From there i do C:/TEST/INSTALL
>
> Install in dos/windows makes C:/PROGRAM/ and puts al the needed files
> there..
> Then i do ERASE C:/TEST/*.*
>
> I get the impression that it does not work this wat for linux and
> glib..
>
> Should i extract in to /usr/local/lib directly ???
> And install from there ??
> And not from /home/hihihi/test
>
> Could be that this has been causing a lot of the problems if have..
> I really hope that someone can answer this question.. :-)))
>
> --
> Een paar praktische LINUX Red Hat 5.1 antwoorden
> http://www.casema.net/~hihihi/linux.htm
Just rename the glib-config to glib-config.old same with gtk for the
version you do not want to build with. They are in /usr/local/bin
--
Ted Sikora
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://tsikora.tiac.net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: time nightmare
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 22:19:59 GMT
In article <7jon9k$2h9h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
TwoSheds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Now I'm confused - I can't find my original posting and I can't find the
>original posting of the helpful fella who'd had the same problem. Anyway:
>
That's OK, I'm coming late on this thread
....<snip>...
>
>> >my tips for a modicum of time sanity on a dual boot system:
>> >* set cmos time to gmt.
>> >* configure linux use gmt and display time offsets.
>> >* let nt think it's gmt. microsoft is such a lose. you can't fix it
>> > so just accept it and let it lose.
>> >
>> >it isn't perfect but at least time doesn't jump around all over the
>> >place.
>> >
>
>What do you mean by "let NT think it's GMT". I *want* NT, as well as Linux,
>to both think it's GMT, cos it is where I am.
>Someone mentioned Network Time Servers - could this be the solution. How do
>I tell if this is configured in NT or Linux, and if not, how do I configure
>it.
>I need to be reasonably accurate with time cos I'll be running a web server.
>
>-kev
>
....<snip>...
>> >
>> >> At first I tried 'date -s ' command to set the time in Linux. This
>> >> seemed to work, but the next time I booted Linux, the time was wrong
>> >> again.
>> >
....<snip>...
I think the application you're looking for is clock, usually
found in the /sbin. There's more than one clock application, it's
man page is in section 8, 'man -S 8 clock'. Somewhere in your start
up scripts (usually in a place like /etc/rc.d) there's probably a
script that invokes clock. It should invoke it as '/sbin/clock -u -s'
if you've got your CMOS clock set to GMT time, and without the u if
it is set to local time. (Of course, if local time is GMT, ...hmm, not
sure what the implications might be).
I don't know 'bout NT though.
--
Praeterea censeo Micromolle non esse utendum.
("Moreover, I maintain that Microsoft should not be used." A toned down
adaptation of a sig from Cato the Elder regarding the city of Carthage.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 'ls' command: how to show all files in all directories?
Date: 10 Jun 1999 17:32:13 -0500
Reply-To: "J.L.M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <7jou3l$oft$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>Have a rather large www directory, with god-knows-what subdirectories
>and files from years of additions. Inventory time.
>
>How would you port all listings to a file, ie 'ls > allfiles.txt' in
>one easy step?!?! I have to keep doing this:
find is far more appropriate than ls for this purpose.
find / >allfiles.txt
study the manpage for find, it does a LOT.
--
James
http://ssdd.conservatory.com
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: mt ... fsf not working
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10 Jun 1999 18:47:15 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> andreas,
>
> paul's specified the tape not to rewind /dev/nst0.
> ^
>
> paul,
>
> i came across the same problem. here's one of many solutions:
> dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/nst0
> then you can fire up restore.
Rev'ing mt up to 0.5b (or down to 0.4) will also fix the problem. FWIW, RedHat
5.2 ships 0.5 (ie, the buggy version), and RedHat 6.0 ships 0.5b.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 978-486-9304 fax: 978-692-4482
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From: Fred Kuipers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELLP! Mouse crap.
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 22:10:16 GMT
Ok, here's the deal.. Just installed RH6 on my system, no problems.
However, when the screensaver kicks in or if you use the mouse for the
game XBoing, a big, obnoxious white streak appears on the screen (going
from the mouse position to the bottom of the screen). FYI, I am running
a P-II350, with an ATI 8mb AGP video card using the Mach 32 X server in
1280x1024 @ 32bpp. [breathe...] It is a standard m$ 2 button PS/2 mouse
in question. I'm stumped...
Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. Lemme know if you need
additional info.
FK
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From: Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: 64-bit arithmetic inside kernel
Date: 10 Jun 1999 17:34:17 -0500
[Bill Woessner]
> > Hi. I'm trying to write a kernel module that uses 64 bit
> > arithmetic and am having some problems with it. When I try to
> > insert the module, I get the following errors:
> >
> > longlong.o: unresolved symbol __udivdi3
> > longlong.o: unresolved symbol __umoddi3
[Juergen Heinzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> Since the usual Intel CPU's are not 64 bit long long's are done in
> software, part of libgcc.a. I cannot tell whether you can force gcc
> / egcs to generate inline code here, sorry. If not you're probably
> up to some asm code.
Inline code requires complete implementation in the header files,
which AFAIK isn't there. But ... is there some reason you *couldn't*
use libgcc.a in the kernel? I can't think of a good one, but I know
how much I do not know about kernels, linking, etc. Of course, if
__udivdi3 and __umoddi3 make use of the FPU, you're SOL.
--
Peter Samuelson
<sampo.creighton.edu!psamuels>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Add Groups to Groups
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:08:15 GMT
I am new to linux and attempting to run a netatalk server. Is it
possible to add groups to groups? Or can you assign multiple groups to
a file/dir?
Thanks in Advance
Sean
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Fred Kuipers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Apache & php3 segfaults... AAAARG!!
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 22:24:32 GMT
Hi...
I'm using RH 6 running apache 1.3.6 and php3 3.0.7 as a module.
However, when I do a fopen() command from a php3 script I get a seg
fault from httpd (but the script completes)!! Now you may say, report a
bug. Did that, but I can't get httpd to barf up a core file (not even
by setting ulimit -c unlimited and running httpd -X). So here are my
questions:
Has anybody experienced similar results??
Aside from not using fopen(), what can I do to eliminate this problem??
Failing that, how can I pry a core dump out of httpd??
TIA,
FK
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Shannon)
Subject: Re: nohup and procmail
Date: 10 Jun 1999 23:07:27 GMT
On 10 Jun 1999 16:19:48 GMT, brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 05:43:18 -04-59,
> Tom Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 9 Jun 1999 21:38:45 GMT, brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >On 9 Jun 1999 13:13:57 GMT,
>> > Tom Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'm running a standard Red Hat 6.0 installation with kernel 2.3.3 and
>> >> I'm trying to run procmail in the background with nohup:
>>
>> >
>> >Just what are you trying to accomplish with this?
>> >
(cut of much useful and correct material)
My thanks to all who responded.
Brian is, of course, quite correct. For some reason, I thought that
when using fetchmail I had to start a separate procmail process. It
never occurred to me to actually look and see if SENDMAIL already uses
it. I was completely confused about how procmail works.
My thanks, again, for your patience with my stupidity.
Tom
--
Quote of the day for Thursday, 10 June, 1999:
"The state is never so efficient as when it wants money."
- Anthony Burgess
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From: Shimpei Yamashita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,redhat.general
Subject: Re: LILO and BeOS
Date: 10 Jun 1999 00:09:39 +0100
Aureliano Buendia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>Of course, I didn't... Is there any way to correct the situation? The RH
>5.2 CD I have apparently cannot be used as a rescue disk. Perhaps, there's
>still some way to make a rescue floppy.
IIRC, there are floppy images on the CD. You can use rawrite in DOS to
create boot and rescue floppies from them if necessary. (This, of
course, is assuming you have DOS lying around somewhere.)
--
Shimpei Yamashita <http://www.submm.caltech.edu/%7Eshimpei/>
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From: mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.msdos.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Commercially speaking....?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:31:12 +0000
Robert Zanatta wrote:
>
> John Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > Chad Mulligan wrote:
> >
> > > John Garrison wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > > >Eugene O'Neil wrote:
> > > >
> > > This is only true, in upgrade type installations. installing on a
> blank
> > > hard drive you will not have DOS, you won't even have the option to
> boot to
> > > DOS. Just because the FS used was FAT doesn't make it DOS.
> > >
> >
> > Windows is started from the DOS program Win.com. If it is started from
> another
> > OS then it is not as OS. DOS is in blank hard drive installs. DOS 7.0 is
> new to
>
> Wrong. Once control is passed on to any code, and it takes control of the
> system and it's functionality (memory allocation, I/O, etc.), then it is an
> OS. Just because it can pass control onto something else doesn't mean it
> is not an OS.
Windows does not assume all control over DOS. DOS is still available,
every program executed still has a DOS psp, DOS still handles calls
Windows does not handle. DOS device drivers are still callable. Does
this constitute "taking control" or "augmenting?"
> You know, it never ceases to amaze me that so many people, such as
> yourself, believe that companies such as Microsoft, who do have some degree
> of talent, would put in a lot of extra time and effort to screw you around.
> I think there's a psychological term for people who believe their being
> singled out, but I can't remember what it is...
It is not so much that Microsoft is putting extra time in to screw us,
it is more the opposite. They are selling 15 year old technology as
innovation at a premium price.
--
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Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX, Linux. Applications, drivers, support.
Take a look at the Mohawk Software Mascot at www.mohawksoft.com
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From: Ted Sikora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Sharing Cable Modem?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 22:36:44 GMT
Bill Crocker wrote:
>
> I'm currently running WinNT4.0WS(+SP5), and Artisoft's i.Share, to act as my
> cable modem server, and share my internet resources with my other Win98
> clients. I would like to convert over to Linux. Is there software
> available for Linux, that would allow it to act as a cable modem server, and
> share my internet resources, as I'm doing now? I recall reading something
> about NAT... am I on the right track?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill Crocker
It's called IP-Masquerading under Linux. The kernel needs to be rebuilt
to enable ip-masqing and a script loaded on startup to enable
ipchains(2.2 kernel) or ipfwadm(2.0 kernel). The FAQS are in the usual
places ie; Linux Documentation Project or Woven Goods for Linux. You
will need (2) network cards in the linux machine. One for the cable
modem and the other for the localnet out to the other machines. The
setup is pretty simple. No special software required like in Windows.
Everything is built in just needs configuring.
--
Ted Sikora
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://tsikora.tiac.net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: RedHat 6 Install Problem! Help...
Date: 10 Jun 1999 13:44:26 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Julio De Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Problem: RedHat 6 Installation hangs when creating virtual disk for
>loading the second stage image.
>
>Scenario: Austin Notebook , Pentium 100, 8Mb RAM
> HITACHI 810Mb HD, CirrusLogic PCMCIA and SVGA chipsets
>ESS AudioDrive 16 bit Sound
>MegaHertz 28.8/Ethernet PCMCIA card
>No CD-ROM
8Mb ram not enough for this install method.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sitaram Chamarty)
Subject: Re: fetchmail errors
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:42:12 GMT
On Tue, 08 Jun 1999 22:41:53 -0400, Josh Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have fetchmail 4.7.5+POP2. When retrieving mail from my ISP (POP3
>account), it will retrieve the mail, delete it off the server (if I
>specify of course), but nothing appears in pine (or in
>/var/spool/mail). I get an error:
>
>fetchmail: SMTP error: 250 Reset state
The error is on your side. Fetchmail is trying to deliver to your
(local) SMTP port, and something bad is happening. Either
sendmail (or eqvt SMTP listener) isnt running or it is
mis-configured.
Fetchmail shouldnt actually delete the mail from your POP host in
this case - but maybe it is, who knows?
Two things: first - fix your sendmail setup. If you cant/dont
want to, I believe Fetchmail can be told to deliver without using
local SMTP port. rtm.
Secondly, try fetchmail with "-v" option. May give you more info.
>I'm running SuSE 6.1 with a 2.2.9 kernel. I didn't have any problems
>running my script under RedHat 5.2 with the same kernel. I'm not sure
>what version of fetchmail I had under RedHat since that has gone away.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sitaram Chamarty)
Subject: Re: max length of a line in /etc/passwd
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:42:15 GMT
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 09:39:32 +0100, mbannier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
> I would like to know what is the max length of a line in /etc/passwd
>And I would like to know if it's possible to wrap the line with the next one
>(maybe with a \)
AFAIK there is no limit, and you cant continue with a \
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