Linux-Misc Digest #632, Volume #21 Wed, 1 Sep 99 17:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: nfs mount doesn't see everything (root)
Re: ATI Rage Pro and XFree86 (Christopher Michael Collins)
RedHat ; Enlightenment Problem ("Andy Somerville")
Re: linux from the basic (Tom Fawcett)
Research (The Great Josh)
modutils-rhcn-2.2.2 pre6 RPMs for Redhat 5.2 and kernel 2.2.11 (James Bourne)
Re: why not C++? (Tristan Wibberley)
Re: Linux has finally crashed ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Writing bash daemon (Chris Mahmood)
Re: help with .deb (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Fonts not displayed properly in Navigator on Sun, Linux ("Alan J. Flavell")
Re: KDE/GNOME comparisons? ("Steve D. Perkins")
ipchains-rhcn-1.3.9 RPMs for Redhat 5.2 and kernel 2.2.11 (James Bourne)
net-tools-rhcn-1.53 RPMs for Redhat 5.2 and kernel 2.2.11 (James Bourne)
proftpd-rhcn-1.2.0pre4 RPMs for Redhat 5.2 and kernel 2.2.11 (James Bourne)
Re: sendmail relaying external mail (bill davidsen)
Re: File change monitor for Unix? (William Burrow)
Re: Sun acquires StarOffice; gives it away for free (Phil Hunt)
Re: Fonts not displayed properly in Navigator on Sun, Linux (Robert Kiesling)
rpm install error (philbert)
Re: Errors running makewhatis -- how can I fix it? (Randy Fiato)
Compaq IJ900 printer (aka Lexmark 5700?) (Dave Brown)
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: nfs mount doesn't see everything
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 17:29:14 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tom Eastep wrote:
> Timpie wrote:
> >
> > Hey there linux hackers,
> >
> > I recently set up linux (Caldera 2.2.5) on a pentium PC.
> > When I try to nfs mount a partition from a Sun Solaris 2.5.1
> > machine the strangest thing happens :
> > I see all directories but some of them are empty (typically the
> > largest 900MB), yet when I go on the nfs server it does contain
> > files !!??
> > Has any of you come accross such a behaviour ?
> >
>
> The directories that appear empty on your NFS client are probably
> separate file systems. The Solaris NFS server (like knfsd on Linux) does
> not allow you to cross server mount points. You will have to mount these
> file systems separately.
>
> -Tom
> --
> Tom Eastep \ Opinions expressed here
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ are my own and not
> Shoreline, Washington USA \ those of my employer
> Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] \________________________
That's a negative !! The excported filesystem on my Solaris is one
filesystem !!
Other servers have no problems (Solaris servers) seeing all of the contents
mounted via nfs ? !! Any other suggestions
Thanks anyway
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Subject: Re: ATI Rage Pro and XFree86
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Michael Collins)
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 19:11:36 GMT
John Vriniotis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>ATI 3D Rage Pro (2mb) built onto the motherboard
>Creative Labs Voodoo2 (8mb) connected to the ATI output
I have a ATI 3D Rage Pro LT.
It was supported in Xfree86 3.3.4 and the new 3.3.5 only
3.3.3.1 didn't work. Check which version you have.
--
--Chris
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From: "Andy Somerville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat ; Enlightenment Problem
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 20:21:59 +0100
Reply-To: "Andy Somerville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Help - I must have been fiddling because all my desktop settings have
disappeared. I can login but there are no icons or stuff.
My KDE and console are fine.
Can anyone offer any clues as to how I can restore Gnome/Enlightenment ?
Thanks for any help.
Andy
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From: Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: linux from the basic
Date: 01 Sep 1999 15:37:29 -0400
Sven Huster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> is there a doc or a helpful person to solve my problem.
>
> i want to setup a linux machine without distribution (redhat etc.)
>
> i got a running linux machine setup from redhat, but want to know how to
> do it myself. so i got two harddisk, one with linux running and one on
> which my new system should boot from.
>
> which libs, with progs, fs layout and so on.
Find the Bootdisk-HOWTO and read Section 4, "Building a Root Filesystem".
Except for the final details about compressing the filesystem, that's the
basic idea. If you want to know about proper filesystem organization, read
the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) document. Both are available from
sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/docs.
Of course, you can just blindly copy files from one partition to another,
but you won't learn anything that way.
Good luck.
-Tom
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From: The Great Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Research
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 14:20:15 -0500
First, I'm sorry about the cross-post, but I wanted as wide of a
coverage as possible.
In my college writing class, we are going to have to write a 2,000-2,500
word informative research paper on an argumentative topic. What that
boils down to is that I must write a 10-page paper on a persuasive topic
without choosing sides. The (broad) topic I have chosen is Linux/Open
Source. What I need is material, or links to material, relevent to
Linux/Open Source. I need recent, relatively unbiased, and respectable
resources for this paper. Replies should be sent to my email address
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) so I can sort through them.
Thank you for your help,
The Great Josh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Bourne)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.announce
Subject: modutils-rhcn-2.2.2 pre6 RPMs for Redhat 5.2 and kernel 2.2.11
Date: 1 Sep 1999 19:54:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have posted the i386.rpm, src.rpm, and patches on our WWW site at
http://www.affinity-systems.ab.ca/software/ for modutils-2.2.2-pre6. These
should work on Red Hat 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2 but were compiled under Red Hat 5.2
and kernel 2.2.11
The Linux kernel allows new kernel pieces to be loaded and old ones to
be unloaded while the kernel continues to run. These loadable piecs
are called modules, and can include device drivers and filesystems among
other things. This package includes program to load and unload programs
both automatically and manually.
Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here is information on the package:
cafe:bash$ rpm -qi modutils-rhcn
Name : modutils-rhcn Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 2.2.2 Vendor: Affinity Systems Inc.
Release : 1 Build Date: Wed Sep 1 12:39:03 1999
Install date: Wed Sep 1 12:40:17 1999 Build Host:cafe.affinity-systems.ab.ca
Group : Utilities/System Source RPM: modutils-rhcn-2.2.2-1.src.rpm
Size : 569616 License: GPL
Packager : Red Hat Contrib|Net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Summary : Module utilities and kerneld
Description :
The Linux kernel allows new kernel pieces to be loaded and old ones to
be unloaded while the kernel continues to run. These loadable piecs
are called modules, and can include device drivers and filesystems among
other things. This package includes program to load and unload programs
both automatically and manually.
and the changelog:
* Wed Sep 01 1999 James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- updated to modutils-2.2.2-pre6
* Tue Feb 02 1999 James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- Problem with kerneld.init sysv style script.
* Mon Feb 01 1999 James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- updated to modutils-2.1.121
- fixed attr flags in spec file to allow non-root build of RPM
* Thu Oct 01 1998 Michael K. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- fix syntax error I introduced when enhancing initscript
* Wed Sep 30 1998 Michael K. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- enhance initscript
Regards,
Jim
--
James Bourne | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Affinity Systems Inc. | WWW: http://www.affinity-systems.ab.ca
Everything Unix | Linux: The choice of a GNU generation
======================================================================
Unix System Administration, System programming, Network Administration
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From: Tristan Wibberley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: why not C++?
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 03:11:16 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tristan Wibberley wrote:
>
> What trigraph would you use for that symbol,
> \\' maybe.
>
> C = A \\'x B;
> C = A \\'. B;
Doh, trigraphs use ? don't they, and ' is already used.
??. then since it's an alternative to using a method.
C = A ??.x B;
C = A ??.. B;
This is really nasty *<:o) - but elegant in it's way. It'll probably
never happen anyway.
--
Tristan Wibberley
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Linux has finally crashed
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 02:11:49 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
George P. Staplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The only irrepairable file system corruption I've had in
>> running linux since 1994 (kernel 1.1.59) is from a hard
>> drive that had physical media errors.
>>
>> >I don't want to install Linux at some site and then get a call to drive
>> >100 miles in the middle of the night because it couldn't reboot after a
>> >power outage. Any way to decrease the likelihood of having to do this
>> >sort of thing after a crash and reboot?
>> >
>> You might consider dos then. No one running it will lose
>> any sleep over a reboot.
>>
>
>
>Last year I moved to a new area that experienced many power outages and my
>extended 2 file system was damaged beyond repair many times. I actually had
>to reformat three times. The Win95 machine that ran at the same time didn't
>have a problem at all.
>
>
Maybe you should edit /etc/fstab so that file systems are mounted
in synchronous mode. It will slow down access, because they aren't cached,
but that's part of the price you pay for more reliability.
--
No statement is wholly true, not even this one.
also: remove "UhUh" and "Spam" to get my real email address -----
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.bash
Subject: Re: Writing bash daemon
Date: 01 Sep 1999 02:44:35 -0700
David Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I've written a bash daemon to monitor printers for problems. Of course,
> the script runs infinitely with pauses between checks.
This sounds like something that's more approp. to run from cron.
Just a suggestion,
-ckm
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help with .deb
Date: 01 Sep 1999 02:48:34 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (gc) writes:
> I have downloaded some software packages which are .deb archives.
I take you aren't on a debian system. Use alien(1) to convert it to a
regular tar file or whatever you want. And please try to do a little
research before posting--this is a asked a couple time a months.
-ckm
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From: "Alan J. Flavell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x
Subject: Re: Fonts not displayed properly in Navigator on Sun, Linux
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 18:35:17 +0200
On 1 Sep 1999, Steven Lee wrote:
> It seems many web pages are designed for Windows.
There's some truth in that, but the point that you are making is a
different one. Many web authors are dissatisfied with the default
presentation of their own browser, but instead of fixing the problem by
selecting a different size in their browser, they want to use HTML
and/or CSS to reconfigure everyone else's browser for them. That's
rude, and not only on Windows.
> For example, www.excite.com, is one of them. The culprit seems to be
> something like this.
>
> <DIV STYLE="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt">very small
> text</DIV>
Oh no, that's not small enough. 7pt would be much more fun.
Seriously: that site is designed for paper, not for screen display.
Proof: the CSS spec says that absolute size units such as this are only
appropriate when you know the characteristics of the display. Now, in
WWW terms, the only kind of display whose characteristics you can be
even loosely sure of (modulo the difference between US Letter and A4) is
a sheet of paper. Q.E.D.
> Are there fonts I could download (particularly on Linux) that can fix
> this?
I'm not sure how that could help, in any genuine sense.
Some fonts are more readable at a given nominal size than others
(MS's Verdana is particularly readable, though it's not going to win any
beauty contests). But that's only scratching at the problem, it isn't
doing anything fundamental about it.
> My last resort is to change my Edit->Preferences so it uses my
> default fonts and overrides the document's fonts.
User stylesheets are the theoretical answer. But maybe not yet
feasible.
--
Note : there are only about CCL years (written in MCMXCVII) until
the Annus MMM AUC, which is itself no great problem; but in the
year MMDCCCLXXXVIII the date field will be longer than ever before.
- John Stockton, http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/miscdate.htm
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE/GNOME comparisons?
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 15:38:05 -0400
> I'm am looking for comparisons of KDE and GNOME, both from the point
> of view of a user, and the point of view a developer who might want to
> do some work on an open source desktop project. Are there any such
> comparisons out on the web?
Ahh... the flamewar that just won't die! Yes, there are probably
hundreds of thousands of "comparisons" out there... do a search on
DejaNews sometime when you have an entire weekend to spare.
As far as my two cents go...
From the point of view of an end-user, there absolutely IS no
comparison. KDE's menu system is better and easier to modify, the
taskbar is more functional and arranged more logically, I find the
presentaion of windows and widgets more visually pleasing, etc, etc, etc.
However, one of the greatest strengths (and WEAKNESSES) of the Linux
community is that almost everyone is a developer... there isn't a sizable
"just a end-user" base to balance things out and drive development
towards the end-users' needs. With that being the case... the
"developer's point of view" always ends up being more critical than the
end-user's, and Gnome seems to have the advantage in this arena.
Basically, it all boils down to the libraries upon which the two
systems were built. Gnome uses GTK+, a purely open-source library that
is quickly becoming a standard. KDE, however, was built on QT... a
commercial library that was initally proprietary, and has only recently
become "sorta open-source" (the details of all that are too confusing and
boring for me to bother keeping up with). Although QT seems superior to
me from an "end-user's" view, Linux developers will always reject
anything that isn't completely open source... so that fact has
continuously plagued KDE and kept it from being evaluated on technical
merit alone. There seems to be only two dominant point of view on QT
(those who absolutely hate it, and those that are merely leary of it)...
both views stemming more from its licensing than its actual merits.
I must note that one of the main items on the KDE "wish list" for
future versions is work to make KDE more "Gnome aware", and work more
closely with apps based on GTK+. I certainly hope that this does indeed
pan out... so that developers can do their little GTK thing all day long
with their apps, while I stick to running them on my
much-better-for-the-end-user KDE system!
Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Bourne)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.announce
Subject: ipchains-rhcn-1.3.9 RPMs for Redhat 5.2 and kernel 2.2.11
Date: 1 Sep 1999 19:53:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have posted the i386.rpm, src.rpm, and patches on our WWW site at
http://www.affinity-systems.ab.ca/software/ for ipchains-rhcn-1.3.9. These
should work on Red Hat 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2 but were compiled under Red Hat 5.2
and kernel 2.2.11.
Linux IP Firewalling Chains is an update to (and hopefully an
improvement upon) the normal Linux Firewalling code, for 2.0 and 2.1
kernels. It lets you do things like firewalls, IP masquerading, etc.
Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here is information on the package:
cafe:bash$ rpm -qi ipchains-rhcn
Name : ipchains-rhcn Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 1.3.9 Vendor: Affinity Systems Inc.
Release : 1 Build Date: Wed Sep 1 11:21:11 1999
Install date: Wed Sep 1 11:28:45 1999 Build Host:cafe.affinity-systems.ab.ca
Group : Utilities/System Source RPM: ipchains-rhcn-1.3.9-1.src.rpm
Size : 135256 License: GPL
Packager : Red Hat Contrib|Net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Summary : IP Firewalling Chains
Description :
Linux IP Firewalling Chains is an update to (and hopefully an
improvement upon) the normal Linux Firewalling code, for 2.0 and 2.1
kernels. It lets you do things like firewalls, IP masquerading, etc.
This package replaces ipfwadm from the Linux 2.0 series kernels when
upgrading to Linux 2.2.
and the changelog:
cafe:bash$ rpm -q --changelog ipchains-rhcn
* Wed Sep 01 1999 James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- updated to ipchains-1.3.9, ipchains-scripts-1.1.2, and
ipchains-HOWTOs-1.0.7
* Mon Feb 01 1999 James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- added support for CC=egcs if arch is mipseb, else use gcc
- fixed for rpm to use attr, and modified Makefile to allow non-root build
- Added ipchanges-HOWTOs to distrib
* Tue Nov 17 1998 Preston Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- initial cut.
Regards,
Jim
--
James Bourne | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Affinity Systems Inc. | WWW: http://www.affinity-systems.ab.ca
Everything Unix | Linux: The choice of a GNU generation
======================================================================
Unix System Administration, System programming, Network Administration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Bourne)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.announce
Subject: net-tools-rhcn-1.53 RPMs for Redhat 5.2 and kernel 2.2.11
Date: 1 Sep 1999 19:55:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have posted the i386.rpm, src.rpm, and patches on our WWW site at
http://www.affinity-systems.ab.ca/software/ for net-tools-rhcn-1.53. These
should work on Red Hat 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2 but were compiled under Red Hat 5.2
and kernel 2.2.11
This is a collection of the basic tools necessary for setting up networking
on a Linux machine. It includes ifconfig, route, netstat, rarp, and
some other minor tools.
Please note that the binary package was linked against glibc 2.0.7 and
therefore does not support IPV6. If you need IPV6 support, please contact
us and we may be able to make a package available in a short time.
Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here is information on the package:
Name : net-tools-rhcn Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 1.53 Vendor: Affinity Systems Inc.
Release : 1 Build Date: Wed Sep 1 11:05:07 1999
Install date: Wed Sep 1 11:09:02 1999 Build Host:cafe.affinity-systems.ab.ca
Group : Networking/Admin Source RPM: net-tools-rhcn-1.53-1.src.rpm
Size : 384733 License: GPL
Packager : Red Hat Contrib|Net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
URL : http://www.tazenda.demon.co.uk/phil/net-tools/
Summary : Basic Networking Tools
Description :
This is a collection of the basic tools necessary for setting up networking
on a Linux machine. It includes ifconfig, route, netstat, rarp, and
some other minor tools.
This version only supports IPv4 as it is built against glibc 2.0, if you
want IPv6 support, you will have to upgrade to glibc 2.1.
and the changelog:
cafe:bash$ rpm -q --changelog net-tools-rhcn
* Wed Sep 01 1999 James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- updated to 1.53
* Tue May 18 1999 James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- update to 1.52
- removed now non-existant fr_FR/ipfw.8 man page
- updated config patch
* Fri Mar 19 1999 James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- update to 1.51
* Thu Jan 28 1999 James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- update to 1.50
- removed dependancy and rule for config.h as this should be setup from the
config patch
- re-enabled locale man pages.
- changed makefile
- added documentation from tar distribution
* Wed Sep 02 1998 Jeff Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- update to 1.46
* Thu Jul 09 1998 Jeff Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- build root
- include ethers.5
Regards,
Jim
--
James Bourne | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Affinity Systems Inc. | WWW: http://www.affinity-systems.ab.ca
Everything Unix | Linux: The choice of a GNU generation
======================================================================
Unix System Administration, System programming, Network Administration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Bourne)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.announce
Subject: proftpd-rhcn-1.2.0pre4 RPMs for Redhat 5.2 and kernel 2.2.11
Date: 1 Sep 1999 19:55:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have posted the i386.rpm and src.rpm on our WWW site at
http://www.affinity-systems.ab.ca/software/ for proftpd-1.2.0pre4. These
should work on Red Hat 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2 but were compiled under Red Hat 5.2
and kernel 2.2.11.
ProFTPD is a highly configurable ftp daemon for unix and unix-like
operating systems. It features virtual hosting, default root directories,
and a completely new (not based on other implementations) source tree.
Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here is information on the package:
cafe:bash$ rpm -qi proftpd-rhcn
Name : proftpd-rhcn Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 1.2.0pre4 Vendor: Affinity Systems Inc.
Release : 1 Build Date: Wed Sep 1 10:20:04 1999
Install date: Wed Sep 1 10:22:18 1999 Build Host: cafe.affinity-systems.ab.ca
Group : Networking/Daemons Source RPM: proftpd-rhcn-1.2.0pre4-1.src.rpm
Size : 502615 License: GPL
Packager : Red Hat Contrib|Net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
URL : http://www.proftpd.org/
Summary : Proftpd ftp server
Description :
ProFTPD is a highly configurable ftp daemon for unix and unix-like
operating systems. It features virtual hosting, default root directories,
and a completely new (not based on other implementations) source tree.
and the changelog:
cafe:bash$ rpm -q --changelog proftpd-rhcn
* Wed Sep 01 1999 James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- updated to version 1.2.0pre4 to kill exploit
* Sat Mar 13 1999 James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- updated to version 1.2.0pre3
* Fri Feb 12 1999 James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- Original build
Regards,
Jim
--
James Bourne | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Affinity Systems Inc. | WWW: http://www.affinity-systems.ab.ca
Everything Unix | Linux: The choice of a GNU generation
======================================================================
Unix System Administration, System programming, Network Administration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: sendmail relaying external mail
Date: 31 Aug 1999 20:59:25 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Fabrice Lhomme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > I'm running a Linux (suse) WebServer (apache 1.3.4)
| > with 5 Virtual Domains.
| > Everything works fine !
|
| This is due to a new feature of sendmail to prevent relaying mail from
| spammers. I had the same problem. Preventing relaying is not possible
| when hosting customers web sites (they'd like to send mails to whoever
| they want and me too).
Isn't that what $R is doing... I have a line
FR-o /etc/mail/relay-domains
which sets address for which I relay, and I believe it's bi-directional,
although I don't remember having actually run that test.
May do what you want, and a lot better than trying to maintain a list of
all known spammers on the net.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
"So let it be written, so let it be dumb." Pharaoh Dufus the last...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: File change monitor for Unix?
Date: 1 Sep 1999 16:14:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 05:06:55 GMT,
Lucius Chiaraviglio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a utility for any Linux and/or *BSD (or
>for that matter, any other Unix) which will log all file changes
>(creations, modifications, deletions, and moves/renames) on a system?
Try tripwire. It is ancient and unsupported, unfortunately. Also,
OpenBSD comes with an app that monitors the filesystem regularly, it
seems to be a large shell script.
{snip wish list}
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Hunt)
Subject: Re: Sun acquires StarOffice; gives it away for free
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 99 22:22:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <37cc3c7c$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nada "Tim" writes:
> Runs on Windows, Linux, OS/2, and Solaris SPARC/Intel.
Are they going to do it properly and open source it?
Or will they be using their (IMO inferior) ``Community Source''
licence?
--
Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Kiesling)
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x
Subject: Re: Fonts not displayed properly in Navigator on Sun, Linux
Date: 1 Sep 1999 20:26:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steven Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It seems many web pages are designed for Windows. When I run Netscape
>Navigator on my Sun or Linux, the font is sometimes too small to read.
>For example, www.excite.com, is one of them. The culprit seems to be
>something like this.
>
><DIV STYLE="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 9pt">very small
>text</DIV>
>
>Are there fonts I could download (particularly on Linux) that can fix
>this? My last resort is to change my Edit->Preferences so it uses my
>default fonts and overrides the document's fonts.
If the problem is similar on two different systems, that means the
prob lies with the coding of the web pages. If you have access to
TT fonts, get hold of the xfstt font server program -- it should
be on metalab and the other usual archives. Install the Windoze
fonts on your other system(s) and configure your X server to use
the font server instead of reading fonts directly. It should
work for type 1 fonts, too.
Robert Kiesling
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (philbert)
Subject: rpm install error
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 16:49:54 GMT
I downloaded the 3 rpms needed for my video card
and attempted to install them with
rpm -Uvh *.rpm
This resulted in the error failed dependencies
libNoVersion.so.1 is needed by Glide_V3-2.60-5
I'm running RH5.2 on a P166, 64 M RAM,
the file libNoVersion.so.1 doesn't apprear to be anywhere on
my hard drive or the install disk.
Any ideas? TIA
Vic Oravetz
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.linux
From: Randy Fiato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Errors running makewhatis -- how can I fix it?
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 23:13:02 -0400
In some cases, the file may have a .bz2 extension (or .gz) and actually be
uncompressed. Try reading the man pages with a text editor. Or see
whether they're actually gzipped. I've had some instances where a file
appeared to be compressed due to its extension but really wasn't.
HTH.
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Steve Sanyal wrote:
> After installing Mandrake 6.0, I tried to run the makewhatis command.
> When I do so, in a lot of cases it says that the .bz2 file appears to be
> corrupted (I can verify this by running man on the file). Furthermore,
> a lot of files, such as ghostscript.1.bz2 are not recognized as valid
> bz2 files.
>
> What is the deal with this? Has anyone experienced anything similar?
>
> Any input and advice is appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Compaq IJ900 printer (aka Lexmark 5700?)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 1 Sep 99 20:53:40 GMT
I recently acquired a Compaq IJ900. From the physical
appearance it appears to be a Lexmark printer, probably
a 5700.
It's one of "those"... a Winprinter. But I tried the
stuff on the PPA printing site; alas, no success.
Has anyone gotten this dude to print? (even in B/W?)
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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