Linux-Misc Digest #575, Volume #24 Tue, 23 May 00 23:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Tired of spam! (Jim Buchanan)
realplayer 7 and glibc2.0 (john connolly)
Console messages on virtual terminals (Jim Holcomb)
Re: Will the *Real* kernel version and revision reveal itself? (softrat)
what happened to www.linux.com ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: StarOffice and Red Hat 6.2 (Robert Schweikert)
Re: Reinstall issue ("David ..")
Re: what happened to www.linux.com ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: suse 6.2 /ftp/apache and reboots ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Xterm with transparent background ? (Max Heijndijk)
Re: How much ram does seti need to run (David Efflandt)
backup program (Mail List1)
Re: Zombies - help (John McKown)
Re: TCP/IP programming (David Efflandt)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (David Steuber)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (David Steuber)
Re: virtual console screen saver? (David Efflandt)
Re: Will the *Real* kernel version and revision reveal itself? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: How much ram does seti need to run (Stewart Honsberger)
gnome problem... (Sylvain Louboutin)
Re: sccs in linux (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Will the *Real* kernel version and revision reveal itself? (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Windows by Day, Linux by Night (Paul Kimoto)
Re: suse 6.2 /ftp/apache and reboots (Dances With Crows)
Re: UIDL for pop3 servers under linux (John Wingate)
Re: Announce: Motif release to Open Source Community leads to Open (Duane)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Jim Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tired of spam!
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:57:23 GMT
Bastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 May 2000 15:08:59 -0400, Mark Bratcher wrote:
>>So: warning everyone: I recommend against clicking on the http shown by
>>this person. It will probably record your email address.
>
> How can it do this?
It probably won't, but there is one method that I know of.
One of the images might be served from an anonymous ftp server
instead of an http server, and many users used to have their browsers
set up to supply their email address as an anonymous ftp password,
the spammer then harvests all of these "passwords" and adds them to
the spam list.
--
Jim Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=================== http://www.buchanan1.net/ ==========================
"The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
Expect poison from the standing water." -William Blake
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From: john connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: realplayer 7 and glibc2.0
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 19:52:56 -0500
Has anyone been able to get realplayer 7 to run on a glibc2.0 system?
Thanks,
JWC
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Holcomb)
Subject: Console messages on virtual terminals
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 01:05:13 GMT
How can I change where/if console messages display? I have a RH 6.0
system at work and console messages display on the currently active VT, my
RH 6.1 system only seems to display messages on VT 1.
Jim
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From: softrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Will the *Real* kernel version and revision reveal itself?
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:05:57 -0700
Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 May 2000 16:15:31 -0700, softrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >According to the literature, a Linux kernel version is identified by
> >three numbers, the major version, the minor version, and the patch
> >level. Unfortunately, my kernel (and the kernel of many others) is
> >identified with *four* numbers. For example:
> >
> > 2.2.5-22
> >
> >where (I guess)
> > '2' is the major version
> > '2' is the minor version
> > '5' is the patch level, and
> > '22' is the ???
> >
> >Is '22' the revision level of patch '5'?
>
> More or less. But this is the distro's designation (RH?), and has
> nothing to do with the kernel proper. If you watch what RH does in
> rawhide, they will post a new kernel every week or so. This then gets
> incremented by one. When time for a new RH release, whatever the current
> rawhide kernel, is what is used.
>
> >Also, what happens if I patch this puppy with patch level '6' and '7'?
> >Does it all work or all break or what?
>
> Why not just get a newer kernel that has all those patches already
> integrated (and bugs fixed).
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
Why incremental upgrading? It's easier for me to keep track of what is
going on. I can back a patch level out. Unfortunately I cannot backup my
system: no money and no medium. If I just pop 2.2.15 on top of 2.2.5-22,
God knows what will happen.
--
the softrat
mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS: I am saving money for a backup system. Donations are welcome. sr
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: what happened to www.linux.com
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 01:03:38 GMT
what happened to www.linux.com? it has disappeared...
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Robert Schweikert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: StarOffice and Red Hat 6.2
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 21:10:07 -0400
Ron,
I've got Star Office running on RH6.2 no problem. It was installed before I
upgraded to 6.2 but I fail to see how that would make a difference. I am not
sure where to point you from here. I am running RH6.2 with GNOME and
Enlightenment.
Good luck,
Robert
Ronald Hands wrote:
> Has anyone succeeded in getting the StarOffice 5.1 or 5.1a suite to work
> with Red Hat 6.2?
> Or am I the only one having difficulty?
> In my case, I get an "unrecoverable error" message and then the program
> shuts down. After that, it aborts midway through the startup process.
> This is with the Gnome Desktop on a Pentium 133, 32 meg Ram, lots of
> disk space and lots of swap space.
> A friend runs 5.1 on Red Hat 6.1 and has no problems. I can run the
> Windows version with no problems.
> After I had tried the 5.1 version and encountered these difficulties, I
> sent a message to Sun's support folks and they said 5.1a would cure the
> problem. I downloaded. It didn't make any difference.
> Suggestions?
>
> -- Ron
> Hamilton, ON
>
> --
--
Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU
[EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Reinstall issue
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 20:02:53 -0500
Brian Hetsko wrote:
>
> Recently my Red Hat Linux 6.0 system went down the crapper.... yes it
> does happen.... I am attempting to reinstall from scratch, but
> everytime I try to reboot to the boot diskette it just bypasses it and
> goes right into LILO and the fsk. I checked my bios and all that to
> make sure that A: was first in the boot order and it is.
I noticed you say "reboot" if this is the case try a couple minute power
off, cold boot power on. This will clear all memory and circuits prior
to the power on.
Just a thought.
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: what happened to www.linux.com
Date: 23 May 2000 18:18:15 PST
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> what happened to www.linux.com? it has disappeared...
I just went there and it loaded fine. Maybe you had a
temporary routing problem at your ISP or something like that.
--
Neil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: suse 6.2 /ftp/apache and reboots
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 01:13:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2000 13:49:08 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <<8ge28d$f8r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >I'm running suse 6.2 wuftp and apache.... When ever I ftp a large
file
> >to the server it reboots. I have ftp'd to suse's updates pages and
> >updated wuftp and proftp. However when ever I use a ftp client
> >(bulletproof or Ws) The Dirs show up as files and not dirs. But the
> >server is still rebooting. Any Ideas?
>
> Your machine should not spontaneously reboot, unless there's a power
> failure. If you can make the server reboot itself via methods other
than
> "shutdown -r" or Ctrl-Alt-Del from the server's console, you've got a
big
> problem that's more than likely hardware-related. More information
on the
> hardware would be very useful (motherboard, power supply, processor,
> number of drives, etc.)
>
> If this problem shows up when you do a lot of disk I/O (FTPing a large
> file can do this) then your power supply may be flaky or the power
cords
> may not be connected securely. If your power supply is smaller than
about
> 150W, it's not big enough for any PC that's being used as a server.
If
> you bought an "economy" machine, the motherboard is probably crap and
you
> will get weird errors no matter what you do to the software.
>
> Until you fix this, the problem of directories showing up as files to
the
> client is pretty minor....
>
> --
> Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up
with more
> There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being
stupid?
> But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable.
WinNT
> (Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --
MegaHAL
>
It's a 250WATT power supply. ABIT bh6/ celeron300a (not overclocked)
128MB of ram. 0ne hdd (4GB WD) TNT2 8mb and a 3com 905x 10\100 @ 100.
This use to be parts of my old gaming machine thrown together to make a
web/ftp server.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Max Heijndijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xterm with transparent background ?
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 03:43:01 -0400
Hello there,
How do I run an xterm with transparent background ?
Thanks, M@X.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: How much ram does seti need to run
Date: 24 May 2000 01:47:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 23 May 2000 16:30:07 GMT, Julian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>how much ram does seti need to run on Linux?
About 14 meg. I run it with the -nice 19 switch so I don't even notice it
running. From 'top':
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
1156 efflandt 20 19 13884 13M 220 R N 0 94.7 14.3 1934m setiathome
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 09:40:51 +0800
From: Mail List1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: backup program
Which backup program is the best for LINUX?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Re: Zombies - help
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 20:25:50 -0500
On 24 May 2000 00:10:53 GMT, James Linder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
]>Hi
]>I have a program that does some stuff ... forks ... execvp to run mpg123
]>... and continues processing. When mpg123 finishes it makes a zombie.
]>My book says that the parent process must "wait" for a child, an un-waited
]>for child makes a zombie.
]>Can anybody tell me the proper way to
]>a) run - fork - exec - and continue running
]>b) check if a child process is still running. I am watching the pid in
]>/proc but this does not disappear when the child zombies, so I can't tell
]>when mpg123 is finished
]>
]>Thanks for any help
]>James
Enter "info waitpid". Look at the WNOHANG option. This should get you going.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP programming
Date: 24 May 2000 01:58:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 23 May 2000 10:30:05 GMT, Sagar A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Dear All,
>
>I have a device with digital output.Now I need to transfer this data on a
>TCP/IP network using a microprocessor with ethernet interface.How do I go
>about it ?
Type the following in your console or terminal:
perldoc perlipc
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 01:59:59 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
' >It makes no difference to an end user what the source license is.
'
' It does make a difference when it makes it impossible to use.
'
' >The Regents of University of California, Berkley choose their
' >license. I get to choose mine.
'
' I'm not arguing about your right to do whatever you want, I
' am just saying that I don't understand what motivates you
' to create a situation where I can download code, have it
' on my machine and use it in any way I want, but only in
' cases where I can do the linking myself. If another needed
' component is controlled by someone else with an equal
' right to choose their license, I won't be able to obtain
' and use the combination together.
Ok, now I am really confused. Could you please give me some example
of where you have two pieces of code that you want to use together,
but can't because of license restrictions?
On my machines, I have code with quite a variety of licenses. Those
include GPL, BSD, QPL, Perl's Artistic License, the TCL license, and a
bunch of others. The base system is GNU/Linux. A bunch of libraries
in use are either GPL or LGPL, including libc.
Have I violated someone's license?
I am not trying to create a situation where you or anyone else can't
use code that I write or code that is derived from code that I write.
I am trying to avoid the situation where improvements to my code are
not returned to me or to others. The whole point of FSF style free
software is to advance the state of the art by not shackling code with
proprietary licensing.
If there is a better way to achieve this goal, please tell me about
it.
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
All bits are significant. Some bits are more significant than others.
-- Charles Babbage Orwell
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 02:00:00 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
' In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
' David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
'
' >Then again, InstallSheild, possibly the best installer in Windows
' >land, is even worse. Go figure.
' >
' >Do people really have trouble with ./configure, make, make install?
' >It has _never_ been a problem for me. Maybe I am just lucky. Even
' >though I changed my compiler, libc, and libtools.
'
' Given a thousand packages, how long does it take you to be sure
' you have the latest version of each installed using this
' technique? How long does it take to figure out what is missing
' when the linker can't resolve a symbol?
RPM is no better at telling me that I have the latest version. When I
go get the source, I look for the latest stable release. The README
file generally tells you where to get the latest version. The INSTALL
file generally tells you what you need on your system already.
I've not had any problems yet. Once a core system is in place,
installing some other package is generally hassle free. It is also
not difficult to modify the core system. I've recompiled libc, the
compiler, and the kernel on my system with out any problems. Nothing
stoped working. The machine did not explode.
I don't use a thousand different packages. If I did, perhaps I would
want something better. Then again, the complexity of the system does
not seem to grow much as packages are added. This is because there
are conventions about where files should go that most packages adhere
too.
I'm happy that Linux gives me the choice of using source distributions
or rpms. Some systems don't give you that choice.
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
All bits are significant. Some bits are more significant than others.
-- Charles Babbage Orwell
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: virtual console screen saver?
Date: 24 May 2000 02:02:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 23 May 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What is it that controls the screen saver on
>the virtual consoles? By default, my screen
>goes blank after 10 minutes of inactivity and
>I want to disable it, but I don't know what
>config file to change.
Not sure where it is set during boot, but see 'man setterm'. I use a
setterm command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to enable power saving features of
my monitor when it blanks, but you could just as easily disable blanking
from there.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Will the *Real* kernel version and revision reveal itself?
Date: 23 May 2000 22:09:08 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, softrat wrote:
> Hal Burgiss wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 May 2000 16:15:31 -0700, softrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> 2.2.5-22
>>> Also, what happens if I patch this puppy with patch level '6' and '7'?
>>> Does it all work or all break or what?
You will probably find that Red Hat's 2.2.5-22 is not the same as the
official Torvalds 2.2.5. It may have had parts of the 2.2.6 (or even
later) version already incorporated.
>> Why not just get a newer kernel that has all those patches already
>> integrated (and bugs fixed).
> Why incremental upgrading? It's easier for me to keep track of what is
> going on. I can back a patch level out. Unfortunately I cannot backup my
> system: no money and no medium. If I just pop 2.2.15 on top of 2.2.5-22,
> God knows what will happen.
If you have the official Torvalds source code, you can apply the patches
{6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15} successively, but there is no point to actually
running the system with any of the intervening versions. For all you know,
some later patches may have been issued because earlier ones were
thoroughly broken.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: How much ram does seti need to run
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 02:10:28 GMT
On Tue, 23 May 2000 16:30:07 GMT, Julian wrote:
>how much ram does seti need to run on Linux?
Sorry I can't come up with a definitive answer, but this is what "top"
reports for the Seti@Home process;
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
280 seti 19 19 13804 13M 236 R N 0 80.6 14.2 2636m setiathome
Now that I look at it, it seems to take up quite a bit more memory than I'd
like it to. I'm running with 96M of RAM, currently, and I don't think a
dedicated process, text-only, with its output quelled, should use quite so
much memory.
Perhaps it's something I should e-mail Seti@Home about...
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.2.14
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From: Sylvain Louboutin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gnome problem...
Date: 24 May 2000 01:49:17 GMT
I must have done something wrong, but here are the symptoms:
(Running Gnome and Enlightment on RH 6.1)
when logging in as a user, the GUI takes forever to come up, things
work fine though, but then I cannot log out (the thing hangs there,
after having removed the Gnome panel, but I can open a terminal window;
and I have to su as root and kill gnome-session by hand; there might be
a better way...); when logging in as root, everything works fine and a
lot faster (which is a bit weird I must admit).
Any idea of where I should start looking?
(Note that I really appreciate reading this NG, just lurking
for a while helped me solve a number of problems such as setting up
my PPP connection and getting the printer to work, thanks you guys :-)
--Sylvain
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: sccs in linux
Date: 23 May 2000 22:12:04 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt wrote:
> Hi is there an SCCS in linux ?
>
> I know theres a cvs but I would like to use sccs
> as the command ?
>
> ie sccs get <filename.c>
The GNUish analogue to SCCS is RCS (not CVS, which is built on top of an
RCS infrastructure).
There used to be an effort to clone SCCS, called "CSSC", but I don't
know what has come of it:
http://www.free-lunch.demon.co.uk/CSSC/
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Will the *Real* kernel version and revision reveal itself?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 02:15:57 GMT
On Tue, 23 May 2000 18:05:57 -0700, softrat wrote:
>> Why not just get a newer kernel that has all those patches already
>> integrated (and bugs fixed).
>Why incremental upgrading? It's easier for me to keep track of what is
>going on. I can back a patch level out. Unfortunately I cannot backup my
>system: no money and no medium. If I just pop 2.2.15 on top of 2.2.5-22,
>God knows what will happen.
First of all, I'd never think of removing a working kernel to test an
uncertain kernel. I don't care how often it's been tested, it has to be
tested by ME for atleast two or more months before I'll consider it
worthy. I've always got atleast one revision before my most recent kernel
incarnation.
No backup medium required. Just untar the new kernel into your ~root
directory (for example), re-name it to linux-2.2.15, and move that entire
directory to /usr/src (if they're on the same partition, it should take
about one nano-second to change the inode entry).
It was engraved into my frontal lobe the first time I ever got a new kernel
never, EVER to assume a kernel will work. It may be paranoid, but it's saved
my butt more times than I can count. Like when I somehow modularized support
for the ext2 filesystem...
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.2.14
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Windows by Day, Linux by Night
Date: 23 May 2000 22:17:10 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simone Paddock wrote:
> Nope, we certainly don't intend to spam. Au contraire, the article in
> itself is almost a must-read for anybody working with Linux
Was the original posting trying to start a discussion on the topic (of the
article, not of spam), or trying to drive traffic to some website (and sell
books)? If the latter, look for an .announce newsgroup.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: suse 6.2 /ftp/apache and reboots
Date: 23 May 2000 22:17:15 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 24 May 2000 01:13:58 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[problems with machine spontaneously rebooting when FTPing large amounts
of data to/from it]
>It's a 250WATT power supply. ABIT bh6/ celeron300a (not overclocked)
>128MB of ram. 0ne hdd (4GB WD) TNT2 8mb and a 3com 905x 10\100 @ 100.
>This use to be parts of my old gaming machine thrown together to make a
>web/ftp server.
OK, so it's probably not the power supply. Motherboard? The BH6 is
fairly well-known and not worthless crap, but lots has been written about
the way the BX chipset gets hot... I don't suppose you have any way to
check the case temperature? I know you're not overclocking, but still
it's something to check. Might be good to take the case cover off and
turn the machine on just to make sure the fan(s) are starting up and
running OK if you haven't done that already.
[mode=grasping at straws] Does the problem occur only with FTP, or does a
large HTTP download cause the same symptoms? And does anything show up in
the system logs when the machine reboots? If the bad things happen with
both FTP and HTTP, then the problem is more than likely in the network
card. Consider running the vendor's diagnostic programs on it, and try
moving it to another PCI slot.
Good luck, I had a similar problem 6 months back and solved it by buying a
new motherboard after trying everything else I could think of....
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid?
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: John Wingate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UIDL for pop3 servers under linux
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 02:38:34 GMT
Uwe Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
> Does anybody know about a mail tool under Linux, which
> deals well with the UIDL feature for pop3 or imap servers.
> Emacs VM, fetchmail, fetchpop and kmail either flush the messages or
> keep them and then again receive them, which is not what UIDL should
> do. Why on the other hand does Netscape deal well with those severs?
Fetchmail does what you want with the UIDL feature. I use it, and only
get one copy of mail which is left on the server. You do have to
request it in the .fetchmailrc file (keyword "uidl"--I put it after the
words "protocol pop3") or on the command line ("-U" or "--uidl"). RTFM.
--
John Wingate If there is a God he must have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] an odd sense of humour.
--- Chaim Bermant
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Announce: Motif release to Open Source Community leads to Open
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 19:16:13 -0700
Rod Smith wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> >> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Rod Smith would say:
> >>>[Posted and mailed]
> >
> >> [Please don't mail if you're posting; it is surely likely that I'll see
> >> the post...]
> >
> > And it's BLOODY irritating as well...
> > I tend to read and respond to my e-mail while my news is still downloading,
> > and there's nothing worse than replying to something, and then having to
> > reply again on the newsgroup because someone was being a plonker.
>
> As this was prompted by a reply by me, I'll say that your sentiments,
> although not uncommon, are far from universal. Overall, I've had as many
> people thank me for both e-mailing and replying to groups as have
> complained. My news reader inserts "[Posted and mailed]" when I do this,
> so recipients know the reply comes both ways.
And I'll second that, as I was one of those that was VERY thankful that
Rod Smith does this. I clearly saw the note in his message that
indicated it was both posted and mailed. And as is the case for MANY
people, the nntp server I was using at the time was rather unreliable.
I for one welcome helpful emails, as Rod's generally are. But if it is a
flame, please just post it.
--
My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 02:53:14 GMT
David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If Windows is so great, why do you have to reboot when you change your
> IP address?
You don't.
--
Eric P. McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.
- Ambrose Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_
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