Linux-Misc Digest #400, Volume #24 Mon, 8 May 00 10:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Iomega 250MB zip drive for USB (Franses)
Re: NFS Problem (David Hagood)
Re: I think I have been HACKED!!! (-- Oleg Volkov)
ext2 su CD-ROM (Nicola Attico)
star office launch from ns ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problems with installing KDE on Solaris. (Keith Refson - real email address in
signature)
Re: star office launch from ns (J Bland)
Re: Sendmail: Faster than a speeding bullet? (Floyd Davidson)
Re: S3 Display error with X11 (pastorJohn)
Re: Intel Etherexpress 100 Mbit Ethernet card support (suddenly gone) (Matt)
Re: S3 Display error with X11 ("Peet Grobler")
Horrible colors in konsole, kvt and xterm!! (Dave Rolfe)
Re: How do you mount a second CDROM (CDRW) drive? (root)
Re: Having a problem with tar. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Stange problem with HP DJ 895Cxi (Michael O'Reilly)
IPX Module Problem in RH6.2 (Michael O'Reilly)
Re: Horrible colors in konsole, kvt and xterm!! ("T.E.Dickey")
Saving 'manpages' for non-80 column screen? (William Park)
HD >1024 Cyln (Somsak Limavongphanee)
Re: NFS Problem (Bhupinder Misra)
Re: HELLPPP PLEEEASSSE (Steve)
Re: How do I change screen resolution (Steve)
Re: POP3 Problem (Steve)
Re: Horrible colors in konsole, kvt and xterm!! (Konstantin L Kouptsov)
Re: Iomega 250MB zip drive for USB (aflinsch)
Linux is cool! (was: Wierd SuSE6.4 problem) (phil hunt)
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From: Franses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Iomega 250MB zip drive for USB
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 13:18:39 +0200
Is Iomega 250MB zip drive for USB supported by
RH6.1, and if so does anybody
know where I could get it to work?
==================================
-Franses
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From: David Hagood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: NFS Problem
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 06:27:31 -0500
Peet Grobler wrote:
>
> Hi there.
>
> I've read through the NFS howto, and successfully setup my box for it
> previously. I had to re-install Linux on it, since then I can't get it
> working.
>
> eth0 device : NE2000 Compatible NIC
> rpc.portmap is running.
>
> When I manually type (as root) :
> rpc.mountd --> I get the response :
> "mountd[689]: unable to register (mountd,1,udp)"
>
> Same with rpc.nfsd, I get the following:
> "nfsd[690]: unable to register (nfsd,2,udp)"
Sounds like you done have portmap running. As a result, the NFS daemons
cannot register with portmap. Try "/etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap start"
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Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
From: -- Oleg Volkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I think I have been HACKED!!!
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 11:06:28 GMT
Charles Blackburn wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 23:00:57 +0100, JoeB wrote:
> >gcc -o login bj.c
> >./lkp eth0 &
>
> can I have a copy of bj.c and WTH, is lkp??
> --
> Charles Blackburn -=- Remove NOSPAM to email a reply.
> Summerfield Technology Limited - SuSE Linux Reseller & Birmingham L.U.G sponsor
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 4:14pm up 15:29, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.06, 0.01
I suppose that bj.c IS login.c that write log_file ( do you remember file with all
usernames and passwords ? )
--
Volkov Oleg
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From: Nicola Attico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: ext2 su CD-ROM
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 13:42:06 +0200
Hello everybody,
someone can explain me how can I create a
EXT2 filesystem on a CD-ROM, in the same
way in which I create a ISO9660 filesystem
with mkisofs/cdrecord utilities?
I usually use Linux Red Hat 6.1 and
I masterize in two steps:
1) I create a iso9660 filesystem with:
mkisofs -o File.img Directory
2) I copy the file with the 1:1 copy
of the filesystem image with
cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,1,0 File.img
How can I create a 1:1 copy of a Ext2
filesystem? The mke2fs command exists but it has different
intent apparently, with respect to mkisofs.
A second question. Can I have long file names on a
iso9660 filesystem? It is enough to create the
image with the joilet extension flag?
mkisofs -J -o File.img Directory
Thanks,
Nicola
[sorry for the maybe wild crossposting, but... where is
the right place for a post like that?]
================
Nicola Attico (PhD student)
Dip. Fisica - Piazza Torricelli, 2 - Pisa
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: +39 050 911259
Telefax: +39 050 48277
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: star office launch from ns
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 11:53:59 GMT
You probably noticed that people tend to email MS Word documents instead
of plain ascii for just about anything. As annoying as this may be, at
my work not much can be done about it - we are a government agency :(
so here is the question:
how do you persuade Star Office to launch its text editor upon clicking
on an attached MS Word file in the Netscape mailer?
thanx in advance,
grisa
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith Refson - real email address in signature)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Problems with installing KDE on Solaris.
Date: 08 May 2000 13:04:41 +0100
Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to install KDE on Solaris. I tried to install qt-1.44, but I
> get the following error after a "make solaris-cc-shared" and make :
To compile linux-based utilities, you almost always need to use gcc,
GNU make and in some cases bash.
In this case it might be simpler to install from a package -- see
http://www.freeware4sun.com/ to find a precompliled version of KDE.
Keith Refson
--
Dr Keith Refson, "Paradigm is a word too often used by those who would
Dept of Earth Sciences like to have a new idea but cannot think of one."
Parks Road, -- Mervyn King, Deputy Governor, Bank of England
Oxford OX1 3PR, UK
Keith.Refson@ Tel: 01865 272026
earth.ox.ac.uk Fax: 01865 272072
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: star office launch from ns
Date: 8 May 2000 12:15:22 GMT
>so here is the question:
>how do you persuade Star Office to launch its text editor upon clicking
>on an attached MS Word file in the Netscape mailer?
>
I don't use NS for reading mails but looking at it I would assume it uses
the standard applications setup as for webpages. In the preferences section,
under Navigator->Applications find the reference to Microsoft Word Document
and edit it so that it runs the application "soffice %s" the %s makes
netscape pipe through to soffice the file you clicked on.
HTH,
"Professor" John Frink
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sendmail: Faster than a speeding bullet?
Date: 08 May 2000 03:37:34 -0800
Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Hi, I'm running Redhat 6.0 on a dual PIII 700Mhz 512meg RAM, 9 GIG SCSI
>> h/d.
>>
>> My problem is that I have over 100,000 emails to send each morning and
>> sendmail doesn't quite manage so well.
>>
>> I've currently got a self written daemon that queues the emails and
>> sends them in 5 batches of 50 emails. Meaning that I have up to 5
>> sendmail processes running parallel.
>>
>> What I want to know is - is there any way that I can tweak sendmail to
>> running faster - or is there another program that could send email
>> faster?
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
>> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>> Before you buy.
>
>You failed to mention the speed of you internet link.
He also failed to explain why anyone would want help him spam
100,000 email accounts every morning.
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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From: j*[EMAIL PROTECTED] (pastorJohn)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: S3 Display error with X11
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 12:24:47 GMT
I had the same prob with that chipset. The only X server I saw with
it supported was some $150 US professional system.
My rather inelegant solution was to but an ATI Rage Pro Turbo 8 Meg
card. ATIs are supported like crazy.
Other than that, S3 TRIO won't run above 640x480 2-bit in my
experience.
If you find a solution, please post it.
John Kiehn
pastorJohn
email in header is bogus, please reply here.
On Mon, 8 May 2000 11:43:25 +0200, "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Here's the situation:
>
>I have a S3 Trio3D AGP display card. The S3 X-Server does not support the
>chipset.
>
>Which server should I use, or what should I do?
>I've read through the S3 howto, nothing. Is it because my card is AGP?
>
>I've tried the following:
>S3 Generic
>S3 Trio 32
>S3 Trio 3D
>Super VGA
>VGA 16
>Intel AGP 2D/3D
>
>The only one working is VGA16 in 320x200 mode, but that's ridiculous.
>Anybody has the same problem?
>
>
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From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intel Etherexpress 100 Mbit Ethernet card support (suddenly gone)
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 13:23:13 +0100
Christoph Kukulies wrote:
>
> After rebuilding a kernel with fddi support I suddenly find
> my Intel Etherexpress 100 Mbit card (eth0) no longer supported.
>
> --
> Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You may find you didn't include it in the xconfig/menuconfig/config
script?
re-run the script, and dep. on what flavour of linux/kernel you have
enable the EtherExpressPro/100 as a module or built-in.
Maybe u did this already and I am on the wrong track, but you didn't say
whether you had or not...
Matt.
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: S3 Display error with X11
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 14:33:00 +0200
That can't be!!! I paid a lot for that card, besides, Windoze '95 runs fine
with it, h/w accelleration & all.
pastorJohn wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I had the same prob with that chipset. The only X server I saw with
>it supported was some $150 US professional system.
>
>My rather inelegant solution was to but an ATI Rage Pro Turbo 8 Meg
>card. ATIs are supported like crazy.
>
>Other than that, S3 TRIO won't run above 640x480 2-bit in my
>experience.
>
>If you find a solution, please post it.
>
>John Kiehn
>pastorJohn
>email in header is bogus, please reply here.
>
>On Mon, 8 May 2000 11:43:25 +0200, "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>Here's the situation:
>>
>>I have a S3 Trio3D AGP display card. The S3 X-Server does not support the
>>chipset.
>>
>>Which server should I use, or what should I do?
>>I've read through the S3 howto, nothing. Is it because my card is AGP?
>>
>>I've tried the following:
>>S3 Generic
>>S3 Trio 32
>>S3 Trio 3D
>>Super VGA
>>VGA 16
>>Intel AGP 2D/3D
>>
>>The only one working is VGA16 in 320x200 mode, but that's ridiculous.
>>Anybody has the same problem?
>>
>>
>
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From: Dave Rolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Horrible colors in konsole, kvt and xterm!!
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 08:40:20 -0400
I have been using mandrake 7 for awhile and noticed that the konsole
colors were horrible but was living with it. Now I tried to do a compile
and the error messages are coming out unreadable. (turquoise on white
!!! the person who picked that is clearly not from this planet) And all
the schemes are very bad. I want a 2 color scheme. So I said, I will use
kvt ... same problem! So I went back to xterm .... same Problem!!! So
... How do I turn these colors off! I just want to be able to read the
text ... you know black on white.
Dave
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How do you mount a second CDROM (CDRW) drive?
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 05:49:27 -0700
Thanks, Joe! I typed the line to mount it manually and it said there was no
mount point in /mnt. I created a directory called "cdrom1" and tried again and it
worked.
-David
Joachim Feise wrote:
> David Megnin wrote:
> >
> > I've just installed a SCSI CDRW drive and can't figure out how to mount it.
> >
> > It's a Yamaha 8424 on an Adaptec AHA 2940UW controller. The drive ID
> > is 3. I already have an ATAPI CD-ROM mounted as /mnt/cdrom.
> >
> > I've tried adding a second line to the /etc/fstab file like:
> > /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
> > just a guess more than anything else.
>
> Should be about right.
> Can you mount the drive manually?
> I have the same setup, and I usually do 'mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2'
> without any problems.
>
> -Joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Having a problem with tar.
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 12:52:55 GMT
The command I type is:
tar xf <path to tar file> -C /
or I'll "cd /" and omit the "-C /"
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
YamYam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Christopher, write the tar command that u type when u wanna extract a
tar file.
>
> -YamYam.
>
> kooloholic wrote:
> >
> >
> > This is no doubt an extremely simple problem to fix (I'm probably
> > forgetting something) but I'm stumped.
> >
> > I have a tar file, created by a user, let say "webs", on one linux
box.
> > This tar file then gets FTP'd through several machines (and several
> > firewalls) to a final destination machine. I then try to untar. The
tar
> > file contains relative paths (relative to / on the source machine,
eg.
> > home/webs/somedir/somefile). When I try to untar relative to / on
the
> > destination machine it will not create directories that do not
already
> > exist. For example, take the example above, if "somedir" doesn't
exist,
> > it will not create it... unless I untar as root.
> >
> > Sounds like a permission problem, right? Well, the original source
files
> > were owned by "webs", the tar file is owned by "webs", the directory
> > "home/webs" (in which "somedir" should be created is owned (and
read,
> > write, executable) by "webs". Only / is not read/write/executable by
> > webs, but it shouldn't have to be. If user "webs" manually creates
the
> > directory "somedir", tar if perfectly happy untaring "somefile".
> >
> > I've gotten this to work on other machines. The only difference I've
> > found is that the machine I'm interested in now runs tar version
1.12,
> > where the others are 1.13.x. Is this a version problem, or am I
missing
> > something simpler? Past experience leads me to believe it's the
latter.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Michael O'Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stange problem with HP DJ 895Cxi
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 14:05:50 +0100
Fabio S. wrote:
> Hi,
> I installed that printer and I get a strange behaviour. That is, it works,
> it prints fine, but after the end of the print the "on" led keep on
> blinking, then it stops and the paper led lights on............
>
There is a bug in the driver. My 895 is left with the orange (lower) led
flashing after printing. Pressing the button stops the flashing. It is
possible to continue printing even if the orange light remains on. There is an
updated driver available that cures this problem, but I haven't bothered to
get it yet. See the Swiss "Bonk" web site for further information.
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From: Michael O'Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IPX Module Problem in RH6.2
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 14:07:46 +0100
I have just upgraded from RH6.1 to 6.2 by carrying out a completely new
installation. I wish to use my networked machine to access a Novell file
server, and have attempted to implement IPX support using LinuxConf.
I haven't tried to use IPX before but I think I have set up the IPX
settings correctly i.e. type of card, and frame type etc. However, I
get a socket error message error when I boot up. "Bringing up interface
lo" reports an ipx_configure error. In addition, trying manual means, I
find that lsmod does not show the ipx module to have been installed,
even though it is available. "modprobe ipx.o" reports module not found.
Can anyone suggest what's going on here? It seems to be a module problem
rather than an IPX one.
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Horrible colors in konsole, kvt and xterm!!
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 13:09:59 GMT
Dave Rolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been using mandrake 7 for awhile and noticed that the konsole
> colors were horrible but was living with it. Now I tried to do a compile
> and the error messages are coming out unreadable. (turquoise on white
> !!! the person who picked that is clearly not from this planet) And all
> the schemes are very bad. I want a 2 color scheme. So I said, I will use
> kvt ... same problem! So I went back to xterm .... same Problem!!! So
> ... How do I turn these colors off! I just want to be able to read the
> text ... you know black on white.
xterm -fg black -bg white
(man xterm)
--
Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://dickey.his.com
ftp://dickey.his.com
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From: William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Saving 'manpages' for non-80 column screen?
Date: 8 May 2000 04:52:23 GMT
'man' saves processed manpages to '/var/man/cat?' only for 80-column
screen. How do I save them for 100-column screen? Right now, not only
does 'man' reformat the manpages every time, but it ignores the saved
pages if the screen size if not 80 column.
--William
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From: Somsak Limavongphanee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HD >1024 Cyln
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 20:43:10 -0700
--
What Linux distribution that can be installed in a big Hard disk, exceed
1024 Cylinder? I found 'Best Linux' is the one. I put Linux native above
1024 and it still can be boot from there. Can anyone suggest the
others?
Somsak
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From: Bhupinder Misra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: NFS Problem
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 17:50:16 +0400
just check if mountd & nfsd are running on both the client & server..
Peet Grobler wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> I've read through the NFS howto, and successfully setup my box for it
> previously. I had to re-install Linux on it, since then I can't get it
> working.
>
> eth0 device : NE2000 Compatible NIC
> rpc.portmap is running.
>
> When I manually type (as root) :
> rpc.mountd --> I get the response :
> "mountd[689]: unable to register (mountd,1,udp)"
>
> Same with rpc.nfsd, I get the following:
> "nfsd[690]: unable to register (nfsd,2,udp)"
>
> I can telnet to this machine, ping works, thus, the network is up & running,
> but, I can't get nfs to work. /etc/exports contains the right stuff, what's
> wrong??? Anybody help please!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: HELLPPP PLEEEASSSE
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 8 May 2000 14:43:38 GMT
On Sat, 6 May 2000 12:33:31 -0700, servet wrote:
>I need some help guys,
>PLEASE , PLEASE
>
>All I am trying to do is to write a script(s) to do ;
>
>1- Get the disk space used and then check it 2 hours later and find the
>difference and display it (such as for disk1 it was 550MB and now 580MB ...)
>
>2- Or find the differences in disk space used now and the last time this
>script is used.
>
>3- Also on the command line when I write ;
> df -h
> how can I filter (get rid of) the fifth and/or sixth column (fields).
>
>4- I also need a very simple script to send the result of a command to
>someone in the system or anyone outside the system.
You need Learning Perl published by O'Reilly. You could probably do all
of this stuff in a shell script "man bash".
Happy reading.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
10:36pm up 11 days, 37 min, 3 users, load average: 1.23, 1.17, 1.06
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: How do I change screen resolution
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 8 May 2000 14:43:32 GMT
On Sun, 07 May 2000 12:30:05 GMT, James wrote:
> I recently installed linux Mandrake 7.0 on my computer, and when I
>rebooted it after installation I found that the screen resolution was
>640 x 480 not 800 x 600 as I had specified during the install.
> I have tried using DrakConf and xsetup to change the settings, but
>when I select a different resolution and colour depth and then reboot
>everything still looks the same.
> I also tried to make manual changes to the XF86Config file, but after
>the reeboot they had all been overwritten.
> I have used mandrake 7 on my computer before, and so I know that I
>should be ablt to use a higher resolution.
> Does anyone know a definite way to change screen resolution, and why my
>manual changes are bieng erased?
CTRL-ALT +/- changes the res in X.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
10:36pm up 11 days, 37 min, 3 users, load average: 1.23, 1.17, 1.06
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: POP3 Problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 8 May 2000 14:43:40 GMT
On Sat, 06 May 2000 11:45:52 -0700, Sky Cree wrote:
>Hi, I am using redhat 6.2 on kernel 2.2.12, on an hp ppro 200 system
>with so and so mb memory.
>
>Problem: I installed in.pop3d version 1.005l for my server and didn't
>have any problems for 3 months. All of a sudden I am getting this error
>message: "-ERR being read already /var/spool/mail/user"
>
>I had this problem once before, but only with a single user. I simply
>had to remove the lock file for that account from /var/tmp.
>
>This current problem is affecting all of my users simultaneously and has
>brought down my entire system.
>
>Furthermore I tried to install GNU-POP3d but also had problems. I know
>that sendmail is working, because I can access my mail through pine.
>Gnu-pop3d gave me a similiar error: "-ERR bad login"
>
>If anyone has had similiar problems, or if anyone has any suggestions as
>to what I could do, I would be most appreciative.
As a wild guess I'd say check the permisions on the mail files of
the users.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
10:36pm up 11 days, 37 min, 3 users, load average: 1.23, 1.17, 1.06
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From: Konstantin L Kouptsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Horrible colors in konsole, kvt and xterm!!
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 09:46:39 -0400
> > ... How do I turn these colors off! I just want to be able to read the
> > text ... you know black on white.
>
> xterm -fg black -bg white
>
> (man xterm)
>
Usually I put it in .Xresources or .Xdefaults file:
xterm*background: Black
xterm*foreground: Wheat
xterm*cursorColor: Orchid
xterm*reverseVideo: false
xterm*scrollBar: true
xterm*reverseWrap: true
xterm*font: fixed
xterm*saveLines: 5000
xterm*fullCursor: true
xterm*scrollTtyOutput: off
xterm*scrollKey: on
xterm*VT100.Translations: #override\n\
<KeyPress>Prior : scroll-back(1,page)\n\
<KeyPress>Next : scroll-forw(1,page)
xterm*titleBar: false
xterm*geometry: 150x70+200+10
Nice feature, carried from standard window managers. Unfortunately, KDE does not
support it, does it?
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Iomega 250MB zip drive for USB
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 09:46:04 -0500
Franses wrote:
>
> Is Iomega 250MB zip drive for USB supported by
> RH6.1, and if so does anybody
> know where I could get it to work?
>
For the most part, USB is not yet supported in Linux, and won't be
until the 2.4 kernel is out. If you need your USB zip drive to work
now, about the only option (that does not involve backports to the
2.2.xx kernels) is the Mandrake 7.1Beta distro (see
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hydrobeta.php3 for details).
Personally, I keep my USB zip drive attached to a Win98 machine on the
network and just keep it shared, but I will upgrade to Mandrake 7.1
when it goes final (and gets out of beta status).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (phil hunt)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux is cool! (was: Wierd SuSE6.4 problem)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 15:02:41 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 07 May 2000 01:37:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.misc jb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> As root run crontab -e and comment out whatever these jobs are. I have
>> SuSE 6.2 and I can't recall what some of the cron jobs do (and they may
>> have added others since 6.2). I think one of them rebuilds the locate
>> database every so often but I'm not running Linux now so I can't check.
>> I think you also mentioned that rm itself doesn't work so I would
>> temporarily stop these jobs by commenting them out and then see why rm
>> is broken.
>
>Some that I can think of are...
>
>wwwoffle -purge (wwwoffle web cache purging)
>texpire (leafnode news article expiry)
>/tmp cleanup
>log rotation/deletion
>
>Maybe rm wasn't broken, but he just caught it in mid cron job.
It was broken, I invoked rm from the command line and it did the same thing
(i.e. consumed all spare CPU usage) until I killed it.
I have since rebooted and everything is working now. I don't know what
caused ther problem; it may be due to overheating -- I sometimes put a
pen in the processor fan to stop it making an infernal noise as it runs
(I know, naughty me). Incidently, under Linux the processor suffers
less from overheating than under Windows98 -- proving that Linux really
is cool :-)
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