Linux-Misc Digest #196, Volume #21 Wed, 28 Jul 99 15:13:15 EDT
Contents:
Re: Shortcomings of Linux? (Christian Brandt)
Re: do these CD-Rs work? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Joystick and SBLive - has anybody got it working? ("dkmallick")
Re: Lilo & EZ-Drive (Krishnan Sridhar)
Re: Disk mirroring with PowerQuest Drive Image Pro (Felix Miata)
Re: 3 redhat 6 annoyances (JM)
Re: drives mount in linux and dos-like OS's (Leonard Evens)
Re: Shortcomings of Linux? (Chris Lee)
kudos to redhat (Milan Gavrilovic)
Re: Shortcomings of Linux?
Re: Shortcomings of Linux?
Re: math.h problem (Holger Petersen)
HELP: Samba with domain authentication? (Sam Nickerson)
Re: 3Com 3c509b ISA NIC and RH 6.0 (Leonard Evens)
Re: 2 Questions about elm and wtmp (Leonard Evens)
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From: Christian Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Shortcomings of Linux?
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:53:56 +0200
Chris Lee wrote:
> >If you don't care then why are you trolling here?!?!?!
> >If you don't care then why are you responding to him?!?!???
> >If you don't care why even have a computer?!!?!?
> >
> >> Just like you it doesn't mean he knows a damn thing about what
> >> the people who don't use the Amiga use to connect to the internet.
> >
> >So someone who shipped one of the best TCP/IP stacks on any platforms
> >doesn't know, and a jackass like you who claims real world experience
> >with no clue knows??!?!?!?
>
> Who says it's the best? Amiga users? Give me a break....
I once used an Amiga (still have it around as a doorstopper :-) and
tried Miami.
It is really impressive and one of the best stacks around period
(or at least the gui was very impressive even comparared with KDE,
Win95 and so on)
and its even more impressive that this stack was mainly done by one or
two guys - not by thousands of voluntary internet-nerds ;-)
I never used it again, coz 90% of its functionality only applies in
dial-up-systems and my amiga is connected by ethernet (or at least it
was a year ago) and nothing tops AmiTCP and a quick and short
ifconfig ariadne 212.14.67.20 netmask 255.255.255.248 broadcast 212.14.67.23
route add default gw 212.14.67.17
Even Miami can`t be set up faster :-)
read you,
Christian
---
Christian Brandt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: do these CD-Rs work?
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:21:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
miiHKali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I'm about to buy a CD-R drive, but I'm unsure which one. Does Linux support
: Mitsumi CR 4802 TE or HP 8100i?
: thanks
Well... Kind of ...
I'm using a Mitsumi CR 4802 TE.
I'm able to successfully burn both data and audio cdrs.
Even multisession cdrs work!
However I had to download the newest alpha versions of
"cdrecord" and "cdrdao" to be able to do so, since the
ones that came with my distribution (SuSE 6.0) did not work.
Both are still alpha versions and there is some trouble
with them."Cdrecord" spits out a couple of scsii errors
everytime it does a fixation. But the disks are fine!
Another thing is that I can not *erase* CDRWs.
Burning them works fine, but erasing causes "cdrecord" to
abord with scssi errors.
In rare cases trying to do so even hangs the machine!
"Cdrdao" works better, but sometimes stops while trying to
read the TOC of an audio cd. Sometimes I have to retry a few
times till it succedes.
I can burn data cdrs with 4x speed, while I can burn audio cds
with only 2x speed, but that might have something to do with
the fact, that I'm using a 486DX66 with a 2.0.66 kernel. :-)
This is *not* meant to scare you away. I will recomment this
drive to anybody. So far I have not even burned one coaster!
Just means that there are some problems with alpha software.
I suspect a few incompatibilities with the scsii command set
of the drive.
Best Regards,
Friedhelm
--
Microsoft is NOT the answer. Microsoft is the Question.
The answer is: "NO!"
===================================================================
Friedhelm Mehnert, Berliner Allee 42, 22850 Norderstedt, Germany
phone + fax: +49-40-5236562 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "dkmallick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Joystick and SBLive - has anybody got it working?
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:03:31 -0500
Has anybody got their joystick wiorking with their Sound Blaster Live card?
I am running kernel 2.2.10 and I have installed the beta 3 version of the
sound card driver provided by Creative for their SBLive sound card. Sound
works just fine.
This new driver is supposed to have joystick support but my joystick
doesn't seem to work. I have a MS Sidewinder Precision Pro. I compiled the
kernel myself with joystick support and support for MS Sidewinder. The
kernel doesnot load the joystick module and the sidewinder.pro module upon
startup. I can 'insmod' the joystick module, but when I try to 'insmod' the
sidewinder.pro module, it gives me the error message that the resource is
busy. I don't see any /dev/js device either. Does that have got anything to
do with IRQs? How do I get around that?
Any help will be graetly appreciated.
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From: Krishnan Sridhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo & EZ-Drive
Date: 28 Jul 1999 17:29:30 GMT
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: Hi,
: I had a Pentium Pro 150 with 2 hard drives and a CD-ROM. I recently
: installed a 13GB western digital HDD (ATA-66). I had to update my bios to be
: able to see it. Even though the bios now sees the full capacity of the
: drive, I had to install EZ-Drive to be able to use it.
: Now, EZ-drive or ez-bios as they call it sits in MBR. If I install lilo
: on the MBR, it will probably delete the "EZ-BIOS" (Am I right?). What other
: options do I have? Other than to ignore Linux. My last resort is to boot
: from a floppy, but I don't want to do that.
: Any help.
: Thank you very much.
: Please post only.
I ran into the same problem when I tried installing linux on my Pentium 90 Mhz
PC that came with a 530 MB hard drive. I added a 4 GB drive to the system
but this required this ez-drive BS. I could NEVER get LILO to work
properly. So, finally, I have set it up so that I can boot into linux via
DOS (It is not too bad - just hit F8 when it says "loading Windows" and you
get a prompt; Select option 6 to boot into DOS. This way, you don't have to wait
for the stupid Windblows to load ....)
Good luck!
--
-- Krishnan Sridhar
email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone : (972) 997-3170
Fax : (972) 997-2234
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From: Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.os2.setup.storage,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: Disk mirroring with PowerQuest Drive Image Pro
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:31:45 -0400
Reply-To: Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ron Gibson wrote:
> Has anyone tried using Powerquest Drive Image Pro. I don't want the
Not me. Partition Magic is good enough.
> extra load of a IDE RAID controller in my machine and prefer to make my
> "backups" when necessary. The thing that has me concerned is that I'd
> like to be able to use a removable rack mount for the HDD and I'm a bit
> confused on how they get around drive letter mapping.
Methinks it's a young art form.
> Since primary partitions are assigned drive letters first and a primary
> partition will be needed on the backup drive for c:\dos then that's
> going to make OS/2 unbootable as it 's drive letter will change when the
> second disk is online or does it? I've used ext2 linux drivers under
> OS/2 and you can control drive letter mapping that way but I want to be
> sure. And since I have several partitions if the first partition on the
> second drive is logical then it's useless as a backup because I'd have
> to delete all the higher partitions and make the first one a primary I
> think.
> Now I have deleted and partition lower on the drive list that was an
> ext2 partition and reformatted it as FAT but I'm not sure you can do
> that and change a logical to a primary partition???
> And if I'm not mistaken it mirrors both FAT and HPFS. Linmux ext2 I'm
> not so sure about.
I'm not sure I understand the question(s), so I'll just explain what I
do, hoping to shed light on your concerns.
Drives have gotten cheap enough that there's little reason not to have
lots. They're usually faster and more reliable than removable media.
Unlike tape, they're DASD. I've bought over a dozen in the past year off
eBay, both new and used, 1/2 Gb up to 8 Gb. Because of cost and cooling
and cabling issues, I use only 8 bit 5400 RPM drives in the bay
cartridges.
Just to keep myself from unnessary grief when performing maintenance
chores, I keep a copy of PMAGICOT.EXE on at least two HPFS logical
partitions, and a copy of PQMAGICT.EXE and/or PMAGICOT.EXE on each
bootable 1st primary partition. Since the PM copy partition selection
won't operate on a drive with open files, care must be exercised in
choosing which copy to start unless running it from floppy (slow) or CD
(pre-upgrade version). (Hmmmm, just thought of a use for VDISK for my
maintenance boots.)
I (virtually) always boot OS/2 (from logical F: normally; from
maintenance alternate C: primary when necessary, like backing up F:)
with a drive in the removable bay. I put a primary on the first cylinder
of every drive, regardless of the drive's purpose. For the rare occasion
that I find it necessary to boot OS/2 from F: without a drive with a
primary partition in the bay, I reserve a cylinder at the start of the
extended partition on the primary drive. Then when that rare occasion
happens, I quickly boot C: and put another drive in that space to
acquire the D: assignment and keep upper letters in their normal
location.
Boot Manager has a quirk that is the reason I always put a primary on
the first cylinder. If you put BM on the first cylinder of a drive, even
if you "delete" it later, but don't put something else in its place,
enough of it will remain to confuse the copy of BM actually controlling
boot. Even if such a drive has an active primary immediately following
BM, the active BM won't take it into account in assigning letters on the
main drive. The result is each of the main drive's upper letters get
shifted down by one; the normal F: gets E: in the BM menu, and one can't
boot OS/2 from an E: that's installed as F:. This quirk can be fixed by
running OS/2 FDISK or PM, but that means the inconvenience of at least
one extra boot each time that drive is loaded into the bay and a non-C:
boot is desired. FDISK is faster, as it only has to be opened and closed
to perform the task.
By always having a primary on the second drive, letter shifting is
avoided. Conversely, by never having a primary on the second drive on
multiboot systems, you can get into trouble with letter shifting by
creating backups of primaries to second disks. Naturally, things can get
more complicated when using more than two drives.
--
He who heeds discipline shows the way to life, but whoever ignores
correction leads others astray. Proverbs 10:17 NKJV
Team OS/2 *** SCSI ONLY since 1990
Felix Miata *** http://www.gate.net/~mrmazda
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From: JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3 redhat 6 annoyances
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 23:48:26 GMT
Chad Cunningham wrote:
> I recently upgraded a staff memebers computer from redhat 5.0 to redhat
> 6.0 and a few things have been causing problems...
>
> 1) Can't start modem
>
> This is the biggie. suexecing /usr/sbin/pppd and then trying it gives an
> error that the user does not have permission to access /dev/ttyS2.
> suexecing /dev/ttyS2 gives an error that the user doesn't have
> permission to use /usr/sbin/pppd. A nice circle, and I can't figure out
> how to break out of it...
>
> 2) Can't shutdown w/o password
ahem.. have seen that in newer kernels 2.2.*, APMD (power managment)
can be set to on, and an option of "Let users shutdown" or so to be
selected,
and I think the default is to prevent normal users from shutting down the
machine.
Maybe your kernel has this enabled.. check this, if you did a custom
kernel...
>
>
> I have been unable to find a way to let a user shutdown the machine
> without entering their password. I've put the user in the root group,
> the wheel group, the shutdown group, and I've enabled all the privilage
> options in linuxconf, all to no avail.
>
> 3) rm no longer asks for confirmation
add
alias rm='rm -i'
to the .profile or .bash_profile in the users home
directory, if he uses bash, or to the corresponding rc files for other
shells.
>
>
> He wants this back, so when he deletes something, it will ask "Are you
> sure you want to delete file" I have no idea how to change it...
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: drives mount in linux and dos-like OS's
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:13:59 -0500
YamYam wrote:
>
> Hi...
> I want to ask about the difference in mount/umount the drivers in
> linux 'is it necessary, if so why?' and the easy one in Dos-like
> OS's 'e.g., Win95, Win98, ...'.
> I found it very complicated for the Dos-like users to switch to linux at
> this point. Is there any suggessions to make easy for that user, such as
> writing a script to mount/umount the floppy and cdrom?
>
> - markhi1.
>
> ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
Under RH6.0, with the gnome desktop environment, you can click
on an icon and do everything you want. First you should use
linuxconf to specify that the floppy is user mountable. Then
any user created after that will have a floppy icon on the desktop.
For an existing user, one can create a link in the gnome desktop
(if one is at the top level in one's home directory) by
cd .gnome-desktop
ln -s /mnt/floppy
The icon will then appear on the desktop. Double clicking it
will mount it and bring up the file manager for the floppy.
One can do exactly the same thing for the cdrom. Or you can
right click and mount/umount it.
If the icon isn't right, right clicking and choosing properties
will allow you to change it.
However, following the above instructions does require a minimum
of Unix/Linux knowledge. Gnome or KDE desktops make a lot of
things simpler, but Linux is not Windows, and one should expect
to put in some effort to learn hou to use it. Windows requires
at least as much effort to learn how to use. What misleads you
is that you started with DOS and worked your way up their
ladder, so you are now familiar with it. I use primarily
Linux, but I do have to use Windows for some purposes. I
find it generally less flexible to use than Linux; sometimes
the only way I can find to do something in my Windows partition
is to look at it from Linux.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lee)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Shortcomings of Linux?
Date: 28 Jul 1999 16:32:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>Chris Lee wrote:
>
>> >If you don't care then why are you trolling here?!?!?!
>> >If you don't care then why are you responding to him?!?!???
>> >If you don't care why even have a computer?!!?!?
>> >
>> >> Just like you it doesn't mean he knows a damn thing about what
>> >> the people who don't use the Amiga use to connect to the internet.
>> >
>> >So someone who shipped one of the best TCP/IP stacks on any platforms
>> >doesn't know, and a jackass like you who claims real world experience
>> >with no clue knows??!?!?!?
>>
>> Who says it's the best? Amiga users? Give me a break....
>
> I once used an Amiga (still have it around as a doorstopper :-) and
>tried Miami.
>
> It is really impressive and one of the best stacks around period
> (or at least the gui was very impressive even comparared with KDE,
>Win95 and so on)
> and its even more impressive that this stack was mainly done by one or
>two guys - not by thousands of voluntary internet-nerds ;-)
>
> I never used it again, coz 90% of its functionality only applies in
>dial-up-systems and my amiga is connected by ethernet (or at least it
>was a year ago) and nothing tops AmiTCP and a quick and short
>
> ifconfig ariadne 212.14.67.20 netmask 255.255.255.248 broadcast
212.14.67.23
> route add default gw 212.14.67.17
>
> Even Miami can`t be set up faster :-)
You can pretty much do the exact same thing under Unix/Linux/BSD. Where did
you think those commands came from?
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From: Milan Gavrilovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kudos to redhat
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:43:34 -0400
I had a problem with my redhat 5.0 system a few weeks ago, so I used my
online support time and sent the problem to redhat support. They were a
little slow to respond, but when they did, they apologized and said that
I'd be receiving some free stuff to make up for it. I thought it'd be
some little trinket, but they actually FedEx-ed me a RedHat 6 boxed set
all the way to Canada! Suh-weeet... It's really rare to see the kind
of integrity in a big corporation that redhat has showed me, so I take
my hat off to the guys and girls in the big red hats for being so cool.
Mladen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Shortcomings of Linux?
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 08:27:03 -0700
On 28 Jul 1999 03:02:51 GMT, Joe Cosby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>** To reply in e-mail, remove "jigtah." from address **
>
> hunched over his computer, typing feverishly;
> thunder crashed, laughed madly, then wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 05:03:31 GMT, Jeffrey D. Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Floyd Davidson wrote:
>> >
>> >> Casper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> >Oh yeah, i've tried PPPD on a linux machine and frankly it is
>> >> >PATHETIC compared to miami Deluxe. The question is that have you
>> >> >tried Miami Deluxe on an Amiga? I seriously doubt it, otherwish you
>> >> >would not continue to make a fool out of yourslelf!
>> >>
>> >> In what way was pppd pathetic compared to maimi deluxe?
>> >
>> > PPPD is pathetic compared to MiamiDx in many ways. For one, PPPD is
>> >JUST PPPD. MiamiDx is TCP/IP, Firewall, IP-NAT, inetd, several built-in
>>
>> All this tells us that Amigans like to throw lots of only
>> marginally related things together. That doesn't actually
>> support the notion that there aren't things that pppd does
>> that Miami does not.
>>
>
>Well it seems fair to say that one finds Miami superior because it
>has desirable features that PPPD does not, which seems to be what
>Webster is saying.
He's certainly not saying it very convincingly.
Many of us don't care that things that are better
off in other executables aren't tied to our ppp
daemon, which some of don't even run anymore.
So far, the best this joker has come up with is
'we put it all in one executable and you didn't'.
--
It helps the car, in terms of end user complexity and engineering,
that a car is not expected to suddenly become wood chipper at some |||
arbitrary point as it's rolling down the road. / | \
Seeking sane PPP Docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Shortcomings of Linux?
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 08:28:32 -0700
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:47:44 +0100, Barry Wickett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <7nlrsr$2j8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joe Cosby
><URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> ** To reply in e-mail, remove "jigtah." from address **
>>
>> hunched over his computer, typing feverishly;
>> thunder crashed, laughed madly, then wrote:
>> > On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 05:03:31 GMT, Jeffrey D. Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > >Floyd Davidson wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Casper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > >> >Oh yeah, i've tried PPPD on a linux machine and frankly it is
>> > >> >PATHETIC compared to miami Deluxe. The question is that have you
>> > >> >tried Miami Deluxe on an Amiga? I seriously doubt it, otherwish you
>> > >> >would not continue to make a fool out of yourslelf!
>> > >>
>> > >> In what way was pppd pathetic compared to maimi deluxe?
>> > >
>> > > PPPD is pathetic compared to MiamiDx in many ways. For one, PPPD is
>> > >JUST PPPD. MiamiDx is TCP/IP, Firewall, IP-NAT, inetd, several built-in
>> >
>> > All this tells us that Amigans like to throw lots of only
>> > marginally related things together. That doesn't actually
>> > support the notion that there aren't things that pppd does
>> > that Miami does not.
>> >
>>
>> Well it seems fair to say that one finds Miami superior because it
>> has desirable features that PPPD does not, which seems to be what
>> Webster is saying.
>>
>> (The thread originated with someone saying that they had tried
>> Miami, and it didn't impress them at all, in comparison
>> (eventually) with PPPD.)
>>
>> So what criteria of comparison should be used?
>>
>Surely you can't simply compare the two directly at all - feature-wise
>anyway.
>
>Miami might have loads built-in, but pppd just sticks to what it is good
>at and allows the user to choose what features they need by using other
>excellent packages in combination.
>
>Isn't this obvious, or am I missing something somewhere?
Certainly. So, the obvious question is: what sorts of things
does Miami do that pppd and friends do not. That bit of info
seems conspicuously missing.
--
It helps the car, in terms of end user complexity and engineering,
that a car is not expected to suddenly become wood chipper at some |||
arbitrary point as it's rolling down the road. / | \
Seeking sane PPP Docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
------------------------------
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.c,gnu.gcc.help
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Holger Petersen)
Subject: Re: math.h problem
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 16:36:11 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kaz Kylheku) writes:
>Look on the bright side; at least it's not as bad as Microsoft.
Why not learn from Microsoft?
They did have a ASM/Fortran/Cobol - Meta-Instruction in their
CP/M-Compilres (before 1980!) to explicitly request a Link-
Library.
Today, this {sh|c}ould be a #define / #pragme (or such) in math.h...
greetings, Holger
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From: Sam Nickerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP: Samba with domain authentication?
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 18:15:53 GMT
I have an NT PDC and a RH6.0 Linux box with Samba 2.03. I created a
share and turned on Domain authentication and all works fine, except
that my users can only log in from machines that are logged into the
domain. In other words, if I attempt to connect to shareX on DomainY as
userZ from a machine that is not a member of the domain I have to
connect as DomainY\userZ. If I do a connect as userZ I get a password
prompt. If I am on a machine logged into the domain i can simply connect
to the share. How can I fix this?
Thnx,
Sam
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3Com 3c509b ISA NIC and RH 6.0
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:29:40 -0500
"F. David del Campo Hill" wrote:
>
> I am trying to make this card work on a fresh installation of
> Red Hat Linux 6.0. After a lot of effort I have managed to make it work
> from the control-panel, but I can't make it run at boot up.
>
> I have deactivated the PnP in the card and selected the
> "Activate interface at boot time" in the edit menu of the Network
> Configurator/Interfaces. When I boot up it just says that the eth0 start
>
> up has failed, but if I activate it manually from the Network
> Configurator/Interfaces, it works!
>
> The user has a dual bootable machine, so leaving it like that is
>
> not an option. Any ideas?
>
> Thank you for your time,
>
> F. David del Campo Hill
The installation script should have detected the card for
you and set up your RH6.0 to use it. I am using a 3COM
nic under RH6.0 without any problems, but I upgraded rather
than installing. Still, I am pretty sure when I installed
RH5.2, it found the ethernet card. If not I was probably
prompted to pick one and I did so since I knew the type of
card I have.
However, I believe support for the card is provided by the
generic kernel and associated modules that come with RH6.0.
In my /etc/conf.modules, I have the line
alias eth0 3c59x
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2 Questions about elm and wtmp
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:53:28 -0500
"David P. Cunningham" wrote:
>
> I have 2 distinct questions about elm and wtmp on a Redhat6.0 system.
>
> Elm:
> How can I set up elm (or Redhat for that matter) to send out with a
> different email address. For example it currently sends out as
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I want it to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that
> when I send email to people that can not see what server I am actually
> coming from. Any ideas?? I know how to change the reply-to but that really
> doesn't do what I want it too.
Edit the line in the file /etc/sendmail.cf which probably now
reads
DM
and change it to
DMvirtualdomain.com
If there is no such line, just add it.
>
> wtmp:
> Does anyone know of a good cron job to clear out the wtmp file?? I have
> tried jsut erasing it, but then at login it doesn't re-create it, it just
> sends a message that logging for this login will not be taken because the
> wtmp file does not exist (or something like that).
>
You can create a cron job which will do
cat /dev/null > /var/log/wtmp
But in principle, your system should be periodically running
a script call logrotate. You can probably find it in
/etc/cron.daily which is a directory containing scripts that
are run by root from the file /etc/crontab. This should save
your wtmp file for backup and create a new one. As it runs
through its cycles backups of various log files `fall off'
the cliff', so to speak, but you have a record of the
most recent ones. Examine logrotate to see exactly what
it does. You can edit it to change its behavior. For some reason
logrotate may have been disabled or never set up on your system.
Or it is possible that you don't have the machine on when
the scripts are scheduled to be run---see /etc/crontab.
You can change the times in /etc/crontab, or you can run
the scripts manually by hand by going into the /etc/cron.daily
directory and just excuting each script that you want to run.
(Of course you have to be root.) You should look at those
scripts and also those in the other /etc/cron.* directories,
if any, to see what you may want to be done periodically.
I would certainly consider running slocate.cron (previously updatedb)
to update the slocate database.
> Thanks for the help or any pointers in the right direction to settle these
> issues.
>
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