Linux-Misc Digest #684, Volume #24 Fri, 2 Jun 00 11:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Pine, Fetchmail help ("William H. Asquith")
Re: HowTo Change Screen
Re: reccommended partitions and sizes ("Steven Thurgood (1X0S)")
Re: Black and white Netscape (Rod Smith)
Re: Pine, Fetchmail help (Phil)
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From: "William H. Asquith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pine, Fetchmail help
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 14:11:25 GMT
All,
I am using RH6.1 (2.2.12) on Notebook. I have been using kmail, but
would like to change to Pine. I used to use Pine at office, and still
want to because it is so fast to use. I think that I need to use
Fetchmail to retrieve mail from my several ISP mailboxes (I want to pick
and choose which mail box at what time) and place mail into a path that
Pine searches. I am totally new at this so I do not know where to turn
for help. I figure that once I understand Fetchmail and any potential
Fetchmail/Pine relation, I would be on my own. Can this be done?
Thank you very much.
-wha
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HowTo Change Screen
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:08:51 -0400
RH 6.0's stock kernel that was installed is perfect. You don't have to
compile anything ( except maybe modules for your hardware like a pci network
card etc...)
Just make sure that you enabled MD5 support when you installed it.
If you are trying to do file sharing, read the SAMBA how-to .
You may have to use encrypted passwords on your Samba system. Since NT with
sp>= 3 uses encrypted passwords.
read the passwords.txt
look in /etc . there is a file called smb.conf this is the configuration
file for samba .
in /etc/rc.d/init.d there is an executable script called "smb" or samba" ,
which is used to start or stop or restart the Samba server on your computer
. To connect to another computer and read it's files you do not need to
start the samba server.
A lot of unnecessary services may be running. NFS for example.
If you are in X , use the run level editor and turn off NFS ( usually gets
you about 2-3MB more ) if you are not using it.
For your info :
I have 6.0 on an old 486 with 8MB
it runs samba.
I connect to it with 98, nt4 SP5 and w2K , and another linux computer.
Works every time.
Passwords & authentication : there are 3 ways that I know of .
1 ) samba can maintain it's own set of username-password list and
authenticate the connection.
you need to create the samba accounts using "smbpasswd" , which is
used to create the username, as well as manage passwords
2) It can refer to a password server for autherntication ( Domain
controller?? )
3) It can use the unix passwords. But then every person who wants to connect
to your linux computer needs to have a unix account ( made with "useradd " .
groups are made with "grooupadd" )
joseph
Jackie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8h7h2b$arg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Dances With Crows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ????? >
> >Ctrl-Alt-F1..F6? Or doing the "make menuconfig" in an xterm within an X
> > session? How did you get as far as compiling your own kernel without
> > knowing about these things, which are in every boxed distro's manual?
>
> My company is using a NT network, and my boss wanted me to add a Linux
> workstation to use the NT's resources (somewhat experimental). So, I was
> suddenly pushed into this Linux world.
>
> I was told that, to use NT server's resources, I need to re-compile the
> kernel with SMB support. So, that's why I'm here.
>
> - Jackie
>
>
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From: "Steven Thurgood (1X0S)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: reccommended partitions and sizes
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 15:11:46 +0100
"Andrew N. McGuire" wrote:
> I did not know what that meant... I really thought nothing of the
> '...'. I apologize for jumping to conclusions then, however you could
> have been more explicit. :-) In the case of /opt I still would not link
> it to anything under /usr. /opt is for the 'installation of additional
> software packages'. /usr is for 'shareable read-only data, and should
> not be written to'. /usr/local is 'for se by the system administrator
> when installing software locally.', this generally means compiled
> source, but is often used for packages as well, even though that is
> what /opt is for. I believe the cause of that is the old BSD vs.
> SVR4 debate.
>
> Regards,
I have read the FHS2 thingy, but A few things could do with
clarification:
shareable data- so anything non-executable?
I think I took it as meaning, /usr/local/bin was for small, local
binaries and apps, wheras opt was for larger applications - ie
staroffice or kde or something?
does this sound about right?
-Steve
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.Triggle
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Black and white Netscape
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 14:13:07 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kahari) writes:
> In article <jLvZ4.154540$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Rod Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>[Posted and mailed]
>>
>>In article <8h5da9$mr0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>> I resently change my XF86Config file so as
>>> to increase the colour depth from 16 to 24.
>>> But in doing so it has made all the icons
>>> that are used by netscape (i.e the home, back
>>> etc.. buttons) black and white)
>>
>>This is a known bug in Netscape. I hear that XFree86 4.0 was supposed to
>>include a workaround, but I've seen no actual reports on this issue, so
>>I don't know if it's really happened. I've also heard that Accelerated-X
>>includes a similar workaround.
>
> Would the X-server include a workaround for a specific application?!
> How absurd!
>
> That's almost like saying "let's build an OS around this browser"...
It's a common problem. I don't recall the details, but the handling of
24-bit displays is a bit peculiar in many ways, and so many applications
do it wrong (or at least, wrong according to the XFree86 web page).
Netscape is just one example. Another is WordPerfect 8 for Linux. Hence
the change to XFree86 (planned, the last I heard anything definite about
it). There's more information (or was, a few months back) on the XFree86
web site (http://www.xfree86.org).
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil)
Subject: Re: Pine, Fetchmail help
Date: 2 Jun 2000 15:22:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
William H. Asquith -[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]- spewed forth the following rubbish:
>All,
>I am using RH6.1 (2.2.12) on Notebook. I have been using kmail, but
>would like to change to Pine. I used to use Pine at office, and still
>want to because it is so fast to use. I think that I need to use
>Fetchmail to retrieve mail from my several ISP mailboxes (I want to pick
>and choose which mail box at what time) and place mail into a path that
>Pine searches. I am totally new at this so I do not know where to turn
>for help. I figure that once I understand Fetchmail and any potential
>Fetchmail/Pine relation, I would be on my own. Can this be done?
Fairly simply. Fetchmail is pretty simple to use, and of course the
configuration depends on the kind of mail server you're intending to connect
to.
For a pop3 server an example configuration would be
poll mailhost.compapp.dcu.ie proto pop3 user preyno.ca1
mailhost.compapp.dcu.ie is my pop3 server
proto pop3 means the protocol I'm using is pop3
user preyno.ca1 is my username
Running fetchmail prompts me to enter my password and doing so it downloads
the mail
I hate to say it but in this case the man pages really are your friend.
Fetchmail is well documented in the man pages, if you're having more trouble,
please give a little more information and I'll try to help you a some more.
Phil.
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