Linux-Misc Digest #987, Volume #20 Sat, 10 Jul 99 06:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Good 400mhz portable (Chris Mahmood)
Re: how to comment /etc/passwd (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Q: where to get base linux source (Chris Mahmood)
Re: KDE Defaukt WM on RH 6.0 (Big Daddy)
Re: postfix and fetchmail (Linux-Mandrake) (John Beppu)
Re: DNS Problems (Adam Przybyla)
installation problem red hat 6 (todas)
Borland posts Linux Development Survey! (Cbuilder67)
Re: Where To Find Non-X Based Linux Apps? ("Ricky J. Sethi")
Re: Hard disk troubles (Matthew W. Roberts)
Re: embedded Linux and I2O... (Stefan Ehlen)
Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - dirty Yank cant pronounce (Christopher B. Browne)
Re: CIA assassinations (Richard Kulisz)
Re: Amiga announces Linux kernel is new Amiga kernal - Opinions? (Stefan Ehlen)
Re: Default permissions/ownership (David Fouts)
Re: X Windows (Chaotic Thought)
Re: Problems getting sendmail to masquerade (Villy Kruse)
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Good 400mhz portable
Date: 09 Jul 1999 20:17:06 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
check the VAR list at www.linux.org -- there are a lot of companies
selling Linux/No OS laptops.
-ckm
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to comment /etc/passwd
Date: 09 Jul 1999 20:20:12 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
man 5 passwd doesn't mention comments...I'm not sure that you can.
Why would you want to?
-ckm
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q: where to get base linux source
Date: 09 Jul 1999 20:09:09 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
there's not much, if any, "Linux" in /sbin, /bin, /lib (except the
modules), etc. Linux is the kernel, the rest of the stuff is GNU.
-ckm
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From: Big Daddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE Defaukt WM on RH 6.0
Date: 10 Jul 1999 06:49:26 GMT
Al was talking... AGAIN...
: How do I make KDE my default window manager in my Red Hat 6.0 system.
see thread "kde log in" by John E. Hagensieker.
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Big Daddy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Beppu)
Subject: Re: postfix and fetchmail (Linux-Mandrake)
Date: 10 Jul 1999 07:24:05 GMT
In article <Gt2h3.6594$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Greg H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
> By default, Linux-Mandrake enables postfix. Mail
>sent _from_ a local user _to_ a local user (e.g. gregh
>to root) works just fine. However, when I use fetchmail
>to get mail from my ISP's POP server, it seems to get
>deferred and never delivered to the queue (specifically,
>/var/spool/mail/gregh). I've tried to figure this problem
>out on my own, but have met it with no success. The
>changes I made to the "RECEIVING MAIL" section of the
>main.cf file in /etc/postfix haven't done the trick.
>Could someone tell me what I need to do or where I should
>look to solve the problem. Oh, sending mail to addresses
>outside of the localhost works.
I'm not going to pretend to know anything about
sendmail, but I may have had the same problem
you did. I just installed Mandrake 6.0 (coming
from Redhat 4.1 (I'm slow to upgrade)). I tried
running fetchmail, and it pproceeded to download
the mail, but then muttered:
SMTP ERROR: 451 Sender domain must resolve
I suppose that's an anti-spam measure, but it
fscked me up, because nothing resolved the first
time I ran fetchmail. So I had a lot of shit
sitting in /var/spool/mqueue that couldn't be
delivered to me.
Strangely enough, the next day, fetchmail seemed to
work OK. I can't say I know why.
I guess this was mostly a DNS problem... I did play
around with resolv.conf a little....
I do have a real sendmail problem, though.
it seems that procmail isn't running. I don't know
what to do, because this has never happened to me.
I could give it the simplest procmail recipes and
nothing happens. I could put total shit in my
.procmailrc and nothing happens. .forward seems
to work, though. This is troubling.
someone help me?
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From: Adam Przybyla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DNS Problems
Date: 10 Jul 1999 07:12:34 GMT
Steven L. Dahlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am unable to solve a problem with DNS. I have tried and tried and
> no matter what I do my telnet session from a Windows NT PC cannot
> see my nameserver. It can see the IP address fine but not my name-
> servers DNS name.
> I have used the O'Reilly book 'DNS and BIND' to setup everything.
> 'NSLookup' with respond back with the proper information about oracle1
> but from what I have read NSLookup does not use 'named' to lookup
> info so it is not a true test.
> My configuration is as follows:
try:
ps aux |grep named
look at /var/log/messages and send this to comp.os.linux.misc
Regards
Adam Przybyla
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From: todas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.general
Subject: installation problem red hat 6
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 07:30:56 GMT
i had red hat 5.2 working fine, then i upraded to 6.0 now during the
installation i get this message when configring my mouse, timezone etc...
"error loading shared libraries libc.so.6, execution of script failed"
and when i check the install.log
"unpacking of archive failed: cpio. bad
magic" (installing glibc)
are they related ?
any workarounds, suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks...Salamat.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cbuilder67)
Subject: Borland posts Linux Development Survey!
Date: 10 Jul 1999 07:55:25 GMT
Yes!!!
http://www.borland.com/linux
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From: "Ricky J. Sethi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where To Find Non-X Based Linux Apps?
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 00:58:21 -0700
John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Jason Earl wrote:
>
> > Or maybe I can save you some time. Emacs does EVERYTHING :).
>
> For me, emacs washed the dishes but didn't dry them. And no
> matter how I try, I simply can't get emac's lisp to fold the
> laundry properly. Needless to say, I'm looking for a
> different editor.
>
Yes, I had the same problem so I came up with the following solution:
(add-hook 'sh-mode-hook
(defun do-my-laundry()
(sh-set-laundry "Call-Mom-Now")))
So everytime you go into a shell, your laundry gets done! Moral of the
story: stick with that Emacs... it really does do EVERYTHING.
Welcome back to the fold,
Rick "Bad Pun Intended" Sethi.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew W. Roberts)
Subject: Re: Hard disk troubles
Date: 10 Jul 1999 03:13:19 -0500
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that now when I first start the
system I get the following error:
Warning... fsck.ext2 for device /dev/hda1 exited with signal 11
fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note
that the file system is currently mounted read-only. ...
Give root password for maintenance. ...
Matt
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Matthew Roberts http://matt.tamu.edu
Texas A&M University [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Examine the contents, not the bottle.
-- The Talmud
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Ehlen)
Subject: Re: embedded Linux and I2O...
Date: 10 Jul 1999 08:29:13 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
William Ryder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know of work being done to port Linux as a RTOS in an
> embedded, I2O environment. That is, is there a Linux that will run on
> embedded processors, complete with I2O API wrappers? If so, may I
> request appropriate websites and or e-mail addresses for the developers?
Don't know a word about I2O, but www.uclinux.org migth be useful - they are
porting linux to systems without MMU, e.g. the palm pilot
CU
Stefan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Subject: Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - dirty Yank cant pronounce
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 07:52:33 GMT
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999 02:36:46 GMT, Stewart Honsberger
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>On 07 Jul 1999 20:49:46 -0700, Chris Mahmood wrote:
>>if English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for you...
>
>Even for a religious zealot, you're ignorant.
This assumes that he's:
a) Religious,
b) A zealot, and
c) Ignorant.
It is more likely that he was exercising *irony.*
Irony, in this case, is entirely likely to suck in ignorant *anti*-religious
zealots, going along with their prejudices just far enough to encourage them
to emit statements at least as dumb as what he said.
--
All extremists should be taken out and shot.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/spiritual.html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kulisz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: 10 Jul 1999 08:59:51 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 9 Jul 1999 08:59:01 GMT, Richard Kulisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> their property
>>being expropriated so it can be given to poor peasants,
>
>>right quick that you can't have Evil Communism, you can't steal
>>from the rich to give to the poor.
>
>This is the reason your beloved communism has never worked.
>The people you are stealing from and killing because of their
>intelligence and inovative thinking are the very people who
>are responsible for the computer you type on, the car you drive,
Computers are a result of Department of Defense funding. For the
past 4 decades, the Pentagon has consistently funded about half
of the *world*'s research and development in computers. The rest
is funded by monopolies like IBM, Siemens-Phillips and consortiums
of Japanese corporations.
I don't drive a car. Ever heard of car pollution and global warming?
>and all the other modern conveniences you take so much for
>granted.
>
>You may hate the freedom the US has but you are a direct
>beneficiary of the inovations of all those Evil rich people
>you hate so much.
<choke> The USA has no freedom except in the sense that teh USA
has the freedom to rape other nations and its billionaires have
the freedom to fuck over poor people.
>Look at the failures around the world of the countries who have
>tried to institute communist, totalitarian regimes. Russia, Cuba
>China, Central America, Nazi Germany, they are all failures.
Nazi Germany was never communist or socialist. While you /could/
say that Russia and China are communist, they are so only in the
sense that the USA is communist (ie, production is collectivized).
Certainly, neither China nor Russia were socialist or Marxist
except for a narrow period from 1917 to 1920 for Russia. Russia
(1917-1920) and Central America's socialist governments collapsed
only after repeated invasion by their neighbours; the USA had far
more than a helping hand in the latter.
>And by the way all of these wonderful countries are responsible for
>murderous atrocities on their own people. Russia killed over 20 million of
As a direct result of the collapse of socialism and the rise of state-
capitalism in post 1920 Russia.
>it's own citizens as dissidents, Nazi Germany over 6 million, China
The nazis weren't socialist by any stretch of the imagination. To say
such a thing, you can't know anything about the word.
>murdered it's own citizens for wanting freedom. Anyone who thinks
>communism is a panacea for mankind is a total fucking moron. All you
>have to do is look at the history of communism to see that only those who
>want total domination of their fellow man could want communism.
>Sick mother fuckers, all of them.
Anyone who thinks capitalism is a panacea for manking is a total fucking
moron. All you have to do is look at the history of capitalism to see
that only those who want total domination of their fellow man could want
capitalism. Sick mother fuckers, all of them.
The difference is that if capitalist ideologists (as opposed to power-
mongers) win their internal fight, then the world is still fucked up
while if communist ideologists win their internal fight, that isn't so.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Ehlen)
Subject: Re: Amiga announces Linux kernel is new Amiga kernal - Opinions?
Date: 10 Jul 1999 08:41:52 GMT
In article <qpxh3.15266$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne) writes:
> On Fri, 09 Jul 1999 22:39:07 GMT, Donald E. Stidwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> Today it was announced that the Linux kernal will be used in the new Amigas.
>>>
>>> Any opinions on this development?
>>>
>>> Wade Segade
>>>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove the obvious)
>>
>>Where did you see this announcement? Man, I loved my Amiga - used an Amiga for
>>over 7 years. If they put Linux on it, I'd go back to an Amiga in a heartbeat.
>
> There are mixed reports; dunno which of these two are the "most
> authoritative."
>
> <http://www.qnx.com/amiga/> Delivering on Our Promise to the Amiga
> Community
>
> <http://www.amiga.com/diary/executive/linux-e.html> Amiga Executive
> Update - Amiga to use Linux
It's the second one:
<begin quote>
I am pressed to communicate the Linux decision before the technology brief
because of information released by QNX in the last few days. This
information had not been reviewed or approved for release by Amiga.
<end quote>
CU
Stefan
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From: David Fouts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Default permissions/ownership
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 02:41:14 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After reading your post I thought you might be able to answer a question
for me, I want to lock folks in their login directory so they can copy
etc. from that directory only.. I thought I could use chroot but I have
been unable to figure out exactly how to use it to "jail" them into the
directory... I have downloaded proFTP which says it has a built in
directive but I really don't need the rest of the stuff and it's a large
offering.... any ideas, I believe that my Redhat came with wu-ftp and I've
found no docs that talk about the chroot being used in that way... of
course it does it automatically for anonymous users but that's it.
Thanks ..sorry to get off course of your message but it sounds like it
also may be useful info.
-Dave-
YouDontKnowWho wrote:
> I don't know exactly what the setup you want is, but here is mine and
> it sounds like what you want:
>
> 1. Anonymous users can upload to /home/ftp/incoming, but not download
> from it.
>
> 2. Anonymous users can download from /home/ftp/pub, but not upload to
> it.
>
> 3. Via FTP, native users (people with accounts on the system) cannot
> upload to /home/ftp/incoming, but can download from it.
>
> 4. Via FTP, native users can upload and download to/from
> /home/ftp/pub.
>
> 5. Logged on the system, native users can copy files from
> /home/ftp/incoming, but not copy files to it.
>
> 6. Logged on the system, native users can copy files to/from
> /home/ftp/pub.
>
> Here's how I did it:
>
> 1. /home/ftp permissions
>
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root ftp 1.0k Jul 9 18:35 incoming
> dr-xr-xrwx 2 root ftp 1.0k Jul 9 18:42 pub
>
> 2. Pertinent section in /etc/ftpaccess
>
> upload /home/ftp * no
> upload /home/ftp /incoming yes ftp users 066 nodirs
>
> 3. Pertinent secion in /etc/inet.conf
>
> ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd
> in.ftpd -l -a -t300 -T600 -u022
>
> (Please note the -u parameter above...)
>
> What this allows me to do is have anonymous drop files for my users in
> /home/ftp/incoming, without risk of other anonymous users getting the
> file, but allowing anyone on the system to pick them up.
>
> It also allows my users to drop files into the /home/ftp/pub
> subdirectory for others on the system, any anonymous user out there,
> or themselves to pick up.
>
> Sorry for the long post. I thought the level of detail was necessary.
>
> --
> Principle of Minimum Access: "That which is not explicitly permitted
> is denied."
>
> And now we return to our regularly scheduled,
> uncommonly entertaining thread...
>
> Brett Stime (steamer25 at hotmail dot com) wrote in message
> <378568ed@sushi>...
> >Okay I've figured out how to use the umask command... Is there some
> way to
> >get *new* files to inherit ownership/permissions from the directory
> they are
> >created in? I have a secure FTP server and need to allow a group to
> access
> >all files uploaded from various clients without allowing the clients
> to
> >access eachother's files... The above would is currently the easiest
> >solution.
> >
> >Thanks!
> >Brett
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
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Dave Fouts
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From: Chaotic Thought <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: X Windows
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 09:17:10 GMT
I know why it does that -- I'm just trying to find out if there's any
way to DISABLE it? (While also having the virtual desktop larger than
the screen)
Peter Rivera Jr wrote:
>
> You probably have your virtaul screen size set larger than your actuall
> screen resolution just goto your XFree86Config file and change the virtual
> desktop to match your regular resolution
>
> On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Chaotic Thought wrote:
>
> > Using XFree86, whenever I switch to a lower resolution via the
> > Ctrl-Alt-(-) key combo -- My screen scrolls whenever the mouse hits the
> > borders of the screen.
> >
> > Is there any way to disable this?
> > Also, is there any way besides Ctrl-Alt-(+/-) to change resolutions in
> > XFree86 (e.g. by running a pgm)..?
> >
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: demon.tech.unix
Subject: Re: Problems getting sendmail to masquerade
Date: 10 Jul 1999 11:28:53 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steven Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Have you got the following in your .mc file?
>
>MASQUERADE_AS(`whatever.co.uk')
>FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')
>FEATURE(`allmasquerade')
>
>
The reason you should do it this way is that in addition to making the DM
definition you also need to enable some additional rules, and the m4
configuration script will take care of that.
Villy
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