Linux-Misc Digest #654, Volume #24 Tue, 30 May 00 14:13:02 EDT
Contents:
rpm --rebuild problems (Praedor Tempus)
Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true???? (Sak Wathanasin)
Re: Bash vs. Korn shell Problem (Chet Ramey)
Re: UPS for Linux recommendation (sesna)
Re: democracy? (Mark Wilden)
Re: Mandrake Resolution Woes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: fetchmail/qpopper socket error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
corel or redhat for ip sharing (masq?) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true???? (JEDIDIAH)
Re: how to work with minicom? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Finding text within files? ("David E. Fox")
Re: RedHat 6.2 ISO Image (James Stevenson)
Dual Boot S.u.s.e. Linux and NT4.0 (need Help) (bluto)
Re: Mandrake Resolution Woes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Dumb Question (Dances With Crows)
Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true???? (Grant Edwards)
Minicom Access-Problems! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: editor for Linux and IDE (Brian Steele)
Re: Windows98 FAT32 partition ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: Dumb Question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Matlab or MathCad Like Programs ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Mounting Linux partition under Windows (BuDMaN)
Re: fetchmail/qpopper socket error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Connecting two boxes with modems (root)
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From: Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rpm --rebuild problems
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 11:07:16 -0600
I don't understand this one. I have seen it before but cannot
determine where the problem arises from...what package actually
kills the whole deal.
Anyway, I am finding that about half the src.rpms that I try to
build wont. Using "rpm --rebuild <src.rpm>" sortof works, in
that the package is installed, configured, and compiling starts,
usually even completes. What doesn't happen in about 40% of the
cases, is a binary rpm as the end result.
One such package that does this to me is nmap. I downloaded the
latest 2.53-Beta1 src rpm and do a rebuild. It installs and compiles
but no rpm is produced...and there are NO error messages anywhere.
If I go to the build directory and do a "make install" it installs
and runs fine - compilation having gone off without hitch.
What might I do or check to determine where in the process rpm is
dropping the ball? Has anyone else run into this? I am running
Mandrake 7.1 with rpm-3.0.4-4mdk. This problem is not absolute,
as I indicate, it happens about 40% of the time and always on the
same src.rpms. They build fine on another box with rpm-3.0.3-43mdk
so I know the rpms themselves are OK. All the dependencies are
satisfied for rpm-3.0.4 (and to build a couple packages, I had to
upgrade perl, rpm, and so forth in a connected chain of
interdependency).
praedor
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Subject: Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true????
From: Sak Wathanasin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:42:37 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Grant Edwards
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Personally, I'd like to play with an Alpha or G3 system. Too bad Apple
> switched to IDE disks.
There's no need to get so sniffy - they're UDMA66 drives and I get
about 14 MBytes/sec sustained on my G4. LIkewise the Seagate on my
PIII/500 running Linux. I doubt you'd get that kind of performance on
an older SunSparc, at least I don't think my SS20 with a Seagate
Barracuda can manage it (maybe I'll get round to doing some Bonnie
timings).
Sure your high-end enterprise servers with raid farms are going to runs
rings around these, but just remember what you have to pay for them. I
can buy 7200 RPM 20GB UDMA/66 drives for UKP 100 in 1-offs.
--
Sak Wathanasin
Network Analysis Limited
178 Wainbody Ave South, Coventry CV3 6BX, UK
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (+44) 24 76 419996 Fax: (+44) 24 76 690690
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chet Ramey)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Bash vs. Korn shell Problem
Date: 30 May 2000 17:12:20 GMT
In article <1106_959477330@mcfly>, Marty McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ksh is POSIX compatible.
>
> bash claims it.
While these statements are true, they don't say anything. In this particular case,
POSIX.2 specifies the bash behavior and allows the ksh behavior as an extension.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)
Chet Ramey, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
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From: sesna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.config
Subject: Re: UPS for Linux recommendation
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 19:10:53 +0200
try
www.trustix.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am looking for a cheap and reliable UPS solution for a Linux
> server, possibly using it as a master in a mixed OS environment
> including NT and Solaris. I am leaning toward APC using apcd daemon.
> Any recommendation on a particular model and software would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
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From: Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: democracy?
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 18:18:29 +0100
"Andrew N. McGuire" wrote:
>
> + However, my point was that this issue is simply not important enough for
> + most people to worry about strict accuracy. And why should they? The
> + rollover to 2000 is much more interesting to them.
>
> I suppose, I for the life of me do not see why though.
Here's the thing. To me and to most people, the year 2000 is a really
big deal. 2001 doesn't even come close (except to rabid Kubrick fans).
There aren't many of us who haven't watched our car's odometer roll over
another 10,000 miles. It's fun. And only a tiny fraction of the people
who've ever walked the earth have ever seen a new x000 pop up on their
calendars. A new x001 is about as meaningful to us as a new x943.
This is why they (and I, frankly) ignore the 'fact' that the new
millenium (by the arithmetic definition) doesn't start until 2001. It
wouldn't be _fun_ not to recognise 2000 as a much more important thing.
And limiting fun is not an intelligent thing to do, no matter how
logical it may be. :)
> + I did, although I compiled sound card support as a module.
>
> There are alternative drivers, also if your kernel supports module
> loading, you should have just been able to compile the module, I
> believe.
Compile the module, compile the kernel. It really amounts to the same
thing in the context we were speaking.
>It depends, there are many people who will swear up and down that
> it (Windows) is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I'll have to take your word for it, since I haven't met any. My mom, for
example, thinks Windows is 'fine' (when I asked her), but she'd never
say it was the best OS around, since she's never used another one.
> My point is that if people only 'stick to what they know' and do
> no investigation on their own as to what is actually best, then
> they should not complain if they do not get the best.
They should complain if it makes them happier (I'm a big believer in
happiness as the greatest good, if you haven't gathered). Especially if
that takes less effort than becoming a 'computer person' which most
people don't have time for.
> + with Windows, not from the number of people who think Windows is 'the
> + best OS ever', as you averred.
>
> But you put forth the argument that that is all they know, and wish
> to know of nothing else. You can't have it both ways.
I'm not sure what two ways you mean. I will agree that most Windows
users think Windows is 'fine', 'OK', and meets their current needs in
the way, say, their car does. I disagreed that they think it's the best
OS on earth. I just can't imagine a real person saying that.
> + If it were _proven_ to be better, yes. There are other issues involved
> + than the technical quality of the OS, such as the availability of
> + software and help.
>
> True, however if you have ever called _any_ major companies support
> lines, you know how bad it is..
Oh yeah. I didn't mean the companies themselves. I was thinking more
along the lines of the "Dummies" books, and their neighbor Fred.
(Hmmm...not sure that helps my case! :)
> I do not think individuals are idiots, I think the conglomeration of
> them is idiotic. There is a difference, a definite tendency towards
> 'mob mentality' in many cases. People, left to their own devices are
> on average, quite intelligent. People in a crowd, well that is another
> matter.
I'm not sure what the original statement about 'idiots' really was, or
if you even said it. I thought it implied that the average person was
indeed an idiot.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mandrake Resolution Woes
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 17:07:49 GMT
In article <8sOY4.8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Andrew J Fortune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A few days ago, I installed Mandrake Linux v7.0 for the first time. When the
> installation had finished, it re-booted me to a graphical login, and when I
> logged in, I discovered I was in 640x480 mode.
>
> For the past few days, I have been trying in vain to re-set the resolution
> to 1024x768. It has been an absolute nightmare, and no matter what I try to
> do, it point-blank refuses to go to 1024x768.
>
You could try a couple of things (get used to these shortcuts)
Ctl/Alt/NumericPad+ and Ctl/Alt/NumericPad-
These key combos change resolutions higher or lower
Try editing XF86Config by hand (using your favorite editor vi)
but only if you understand what the comments there say.
Make a copy of it first, so that you have a fallback in case things go wrong.
THis is the same file that is created by the X setup process
--
Don't e-mail your response
Post it right here, but if you must, I'm also at
annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: fetchmail/qpopper socket error
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 17:13:57 GMT
At little extra information, if I telnet to qpopper, I can log-on to
port 110, view my emails, delete them, whatever, but as soon as I issue
the STAT command, the connection drops. This has me beaten. :-(
FM
In article <8h0kvc$bov$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have qpopper 3.0.2 running on a machine here (RH6.2), but when I try
> to connect using fetchmail, I get part of the way into the
> download-session and then the following occurs:-
<snip>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: corel or redhat for ip sharing (masq?)
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 17:12:06 GMT
Hi! I'm new to Linux but am pretty familiar with Windows and Macs. I
have a cable modem and would like to use 2 computers, one with Windows
98 and/or NT, and one with Linux. The cable company (Roadrunner)
assigns IPs dynamically. I would like to use the Linux box (pentium
100, 64 mb ram) as a server and firewall and also eventually host a
website. The Windows PC is a graphics workstation but I'd like to be
able to browse web pages and use ICQ and/or Yahoo Messenger, FTP and
telnet from it.
The big question is this: For a beginner, what's the easiest to figure
out and set up? Redhat 6.2, or Corel 1.1? I loaded Corel on yesterday
and got it connected to the Internet, but have no idea how to share the
IP connection with the Windows PC. Also, I have a hub and extra network
cards if that matters.
Or would I be better off upgrading the server enough to run NT 2000
server?
Any tips would be appreciated!
Thanks
Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true????
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 17:21:12 GMT
On Tue, 30 May 2000 10:42:37 +0100, Sak Wathanasin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Grant Edwards
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Personally, I'd like to play with an Alpha or G3 system. Too bad Apple
>> switched to IDE disks.
>
>There's no need to get so sniffy - they're UDMA66 drives and I get
>about 14 MBytes/sec sustained on my G4. LIkewise the Seagate on my
>PIII/500 running Linux. I doubt you'd get that kind of performance on
>an older SunSparc, at least I don't think my SS20 with a Seagate
>Barracuda can manage it (maybe I'll get round to doing some Bonnie
>timings).
My employer's older P6 SCSI based workstations with SCSI disks
~ 2-4 years old still manage to outperform newer systems running
UDMA/66 disks running on machines with more RAM and faster CPU's.
>
>Sure your high-end enterprise servers with raid farms are going to runs
>rings around these, but just remember what you have to pay for them. I
>can buy 7200 RPM 20GB UDMA/66 drives for UKP 100 in 1-offs.
--
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a document? --Les Mikesell / | \
Need sane PPP docs? Try penguin.lvcm.com.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: how to work with minicom?
Date: 30 May 2000 10:26:25 -0700
kai wierzoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> it is possible to use minicom with normal user-rights?
>
> I can use minicom as root. When I try it with a normal user, I get the
> Error-Message No rights to access....
>
>
> Please help.
>
>
> Regards Kai
>
> --
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> http://www.help.com/
It's been awhile since I used minicom. I think you have to set up the
configuration as root, but you can run it as an ordinary user. Better
make sure your modem has write permissions (/dev/ttyS1 or /dev/cua0 or
whatever. On many configurations /dev/modem is a symbolic link to
one of these.) It creates a local database for each user as a file in
the user's home directory .dialdir with selected phone nrs and settings
and so on, but this is not an ASCII file.
Hope this helps.
(remove "UhUh" and "Spam" for my real you know what.)
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From: "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Finding text within files?
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:19:57 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Browne
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know how to find filenames using 'find' and 'locate', but how do I
> find text or text-string within files? Suppose I wanted to search my
> whole disc for the word 'Mendocino'... how?
# cd /
# find . | xargs grep "Mendocino"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Stevenson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.2 ISO Image
Date: 30 May 2000 12:28:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
if you were reading it in windows it
will not pick up the rock ridge extensions have you
tried under linux yet ?
you seem to be posting from a windows machine :)
cya
James
On Mon, 29 May 2000 23:10:50 +0300, Shimon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>hi,
>i downloaded the redhat linux 6.2 ISO image from
>ftp.linux.tucows.com, and burnt it onto a CD, but
>i wanted to know if *I* made some strange mistake,
>or someone else did.
>
>the CD i now have has all file names in pure 8.3 format,
>so all the manuals in the DOC directory are unusable.
>the HTML links are to long file names, but my files are
>both shortened to 8.3, and most have become duplicate
>file names, and lost the .htm extension. all the duplicate
>files got extensions like .001, .002, etc.
>
>Can someone tell me what i might have done wrong?
>
>thanks,
>Shimon
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From: bluto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Dual Boot S.u.s.e. Linux and NT4.0 (need Help)
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 17:27:30 GMT
over the weekend installed a new motherboard (ASUS p3v133)
I have two seperate harddrives
1 18.0G with 9G used for S.u.s.e Linux
1 4.3G already setup with NT4.0
Linux boots flawlessly
when I try to boot NT it hangs andthe only error is:
"could not load NTLDR"
My questions are:
Is there something special needed to be done in order to load the NT?
Will Lilo be able to start the NT or will I have to use the NT
bootloader?
Linux is my primary system i just want to learn a little bit about NT
to expand my horizon..
any help is appreciated or point me to a site.
thanks
bluto
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mandrake Resolution Woes
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 17:19:23 GMT
In article <8sOY4.8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Andrew J Fortune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am at my wits end with this one. Surely it can't be this hard to re-set
> the screen resolution in Linux ?!?!?!?
>
BTW, I forgot to mention that www.mandrakeuser.org offers a LOT of help for
us Mandraker users -- Don't e-mail your response Post it right here, but if
you must, I'm also at annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Dumb Question
Date: 30 May 2000 13:40:15 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 30 May 2000 16:10:40 GMT, Sam
<<8h0p5f$f36$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>To expand on changing the init level that Andreas was referring to,
>you can make your system boot in different "runlevels." Usually, the
>default runlevel for LInux is 3. This loads normal services, such as
>I believe 5 is the runlevel that also loads X by default; in other
Except that isn't true for all distros.
Runlevel Distro What
S All Single-user mode
1 All Console-only, no network
2 SuSE Console-only, network
3 SuSE X with network
Redhat Console-only, network
4 All User-definable
5 Redhat X with network
6 All reboot
0 All shutdown
ISTR that Debian does things a bit differently from either, but most
distros use either 3 or 5 as the runlevel in which X is started
automatically.
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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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true????
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 17:41:44 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sak Wathanasin wrote:
>
>> Personally, I'd like to play with an Alpha or G3 system. Too bad Apple
>> switched to IDE disks.
>
>There's no need to get so sniffy - they're UDMA66 drives and I get
>about 14 MBytes/sec sustained on my G4. LIkewise the Seagate on my
>PIII/500 running Linux. I doubt you'd get that kind of performance on
>an older SunSparc, at least I don't think my SS20 with a Seagate
>Barracuda can manage it (maybe I'll get round to doing some Bonnie
>timings).
I've always had far better luck with campatibility issues using
SCSI than with IDE. I've also had far better luck connecting 5
or 6 peripherals using SCSI. I'm sure peak throughput on
UDMA66 drives is quite impressive. Last time I checked, they
still didn't have tagged queueing or other high level features
that allows SCSI to perform better under heavy system loads.
>Sure your high-end enterprise servers with raid farms are going to runs
>rings around these, but just remember what you have to pay for them. I
>can buy 7200 RPM 20GB UDMA/66 drives for UKP 100 in 1-offs.
I admit that SCSI costs more, but I think it's worth it.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! ... I think I'm
at having an overnight
visi.com sensation right now!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Minicom Access-Problems!
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 19:20:40 +0200
Hello,
I have problmes to use Minicom with normal User-Rights. I allways get
the Message:
"Cannot Create lockfile. Sorry"
Can sombody help me?
Regards Kai
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From: Brian Steele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: editor for Linux and IDE
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 17:14:23 GMT
"Davide Sanna - Tiscali S.p.A." wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> is there an X-editor with syntax hilight and other
> features (like UltraEdit for windoze ?) available
> for Linux ? (free, GPL, OpenSource)...
>
> Or, how to make syntax-hiliting for gIDE for
> java sources ? (gIDE = gnome-IDE)
>
> Is there an IDE for java (NOT WRITTEN IN JAVA)
> available for Linux ? (free,GPL,OpenSource).
<snip>
I've found Code Crusader to be pretty good- haven't tried the integration
with Code Medic, but I hear that it is also worth looking at.
While we're on the subject of editors, does anyone know of an editor like
those listed (something with a customizable colorizer, menus and macros)
that is available for linux, solaris, and dozer and not dependent on the
jre?
The problem I have run into is that getting something for linux and solaris
is easy, but when you throw in windoze, you run into compatibility problems
with the windowing environment.
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows98 FAT32 partition
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 13:58:03 -0400
> > Is there a way to mount a FAT32 partition and maintain the long file names?
>
> File type should be vfat, not umsdos
Unfortunately what you then give up is the ability to set file
permissions. I'm not sure why, but apparently there's not yet a FAT
file system type that allows both long file names and file permissions.
If there were one I'd be glad to use it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dumb Question
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 20:00:29 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 30 May 2000 15:50:34 +0100, "TJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm new to Linux and having installed the SUSE version it only boots to a
>command line prompt
>
>Dumb question is : Can I launch it into a GUI from the command line or do I
>need to reinstall it differently ?
You need a window manager like window maker or Gnome or KDE. After you have
installed one, you can use Yast to install a graphical logon: Administration /
Login configuration. You don't need a reinstall. All the needed packages are on
the SuSE CD's, and on their web server.
Good Luck !
Eggert
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Matlab or MathCad Like Programs
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 14:00:30 -0400
> > > Matlab itself runs in linux (www.mathworks.com).
> >
> > Yes, for $1,900 for a single-user license.
>
> a high price tag is very matlab like. how much more like matlab do
> you want?
Matlab is, in my opinion, a superb piece of software at a very high
price.
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From: BuDMaN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mounting Linux partition under Windows
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 17:46:50 GMT
Hey all,
I know I can mount Windows partition on Linux using VFAT filesystem but
I want to do the opposite now. How can I do that? I want to mount it on
the same machine so I guess I can't use Samba for that, right?
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: fetchmail/qpopper socket error
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 17:53:34 GMT
Scratch this, folks, I recompiled with ./configure --enable-debugging,
and now it works! (??) Maybe I hosed it, earlier.
FM
In article <8h0ss5$i7m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At little extra information, if I telnet to qpopper, I can log-on to
> port 110, view my emails, delete them, whatever, but as soon as I
issue
> the STAT command, the connection drops. This has me beaten. :-(
>
> FM
> In article <8h0kvc$bov$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I have qpopper 3.0.2 running on a machine here (RH6.2), but when I
try
> > to connect using fetchmail, I get part of the way into the
> > download-session and then the following occurs:-
> <snip>
>
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>
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Connecting two boxes with modems
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 19:55:40 +0100
I am looking for recommendations.
I wish to exchange files between two linux boxes via modem and phone lines.
Each box is a stand alone machine that uses the modem to connect to the
internet via an ISP.
I would like to be able to log onto one box from the other while they are not
connected up to the internet. The purpose being mainly to retrieve some files,
edit them and put them back. I have been using floppies and zip discs but
would like to try the modem.
Looking through the howtos, I see several options
(a) comms programs
Minicom
Kermit
(b) UUCP Taylor
(c) mgetty
Which is the easiest to set up that will serve my needs?
Any other *helpful* suggestions :-)
Thanks for your time.
Adrian
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