Linux-Misc Digest #715, Volume #24 Mon, 5 Jun 00 09:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: partition table lost (Arnaud Kok)
Re: Bastille has rendered my box *too* secure! ("Y. Ohgaki")
large disks - partitions problem with RH 6.1 (Christoph Kukulies)
Re: linux and laptop (Neil)
Re: CAUTION: I am under attack from an incompetent hacker probably in germany
("FellowTraveller")
Fetchmail problem ("Graham Moseley")
Prepare multiple volumes archive in Linux (Fung Wai Keung)
Re: KA7 Linux Lockups ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Random letters all over my screen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: bash shell problem I think (NDQ)
Installing Netscape 6 (Brad)
VFS - dmesg (Daniel Krippner)
Re: Installing Netscape 6 (Neurocrat)
Re: Installing Netscape 6 (Bastian)
Re: bash shell problem I think (Bastian)
Re: Red Hat 6.2 and Old a.out Binaries (Bastian)
Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true???? (Heiko Klein)
RedHat on Sparc 20 (Marcelo Rodrigues)
Re: best video capture card... (Michel Bardiaux)
Re: large disks - partitions problem with RH 6.1 (Eric)
Re: Prepare multiple volumes archive in Linux (Eric)
Re: partition lost (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
FM for Linux survey (Paul Seelig)
Re: CAUTION: I am under attack from an incompetent hacker probably in germany
(Roger Blake)
Re: Fetchmail problem ("Stone")
Re: Tux in ASCII (Dries van Oosten)
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From: Arnaud Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: partition table lost
Date: 5 Jun 2000 09:12:52 GMT
MAP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know the start sector and end sector of each partition, but how can I
> create a partition with the size in sectors??
Run fdisk, press the command m.
You'll see as the forth entry from below:
u change display/entry units
Press u.
Presto.
Grt,
Arnaud.
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From: "Y. Ohgaki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bastille has rendered my box *too* secure!
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:16:19 +0900
If you are using LILO and your image name is "linux", type
linux single
at LILO prompt.
System will boot up as single user mode. So you can edit your rc files.
--
Yasuo Ohgaki
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Rev. James Cort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I ran Bastille Linux on my RedHat 6 box, and now when I start up it
> hangs at "Starting Linuxconf". So now my box won't actually boot, I
> reckon that's as secure as it gets!
>
> Bastille successfully starts immediately before this.
>
> I'm starting up in runlevel 3.
>
> Any ideas what to do to sort this out?
> --
> "Mummy, what's child abuse?"
> "Shut up and keep licking!"
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From: Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: large disks - partitions problem with RH 6.1
Date: 5 Jun 2000 09:44:30 GMT
I have problems installing RH 6.1 on a 40 GB IDE disk.
I installed Win98 first and after trapping into the <1024 cylinders
problem with bootable partitions have to be within I created
a 2 GB / , 16 MB /boot , a 4 GB DOS and a 500 M swap partition.
The rest of 30514 MB were made a /home partition.
I did that all with the GNOME installer booted via a NFS install
disk. (the boot disk was from the redhat site and contained already an
upgrade which as it seems doesn't fix the problem)
--
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux and laptop
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 11:15:07 +0100
On 4 Jun 2000 19:41:56 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt) wrote:
>Try any likely ports with minicom, and if none of them respond to AT codes
>you likely have a brain dead controllerless modem. See
>http://www.linmodems.org/ to see if there is any support for it.
Check its not a winmodem. If it is, it won't work under linux.
If U have KDE installed, kppp is very useful when it comes to setting up dialup.
(/me ducks from purist reactionaries !)
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From: "FellowTraveller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: CAUTION: I am under attack from an incompetent hacker probably in germany
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 07:36:00 -0230
I noticed that you mentioned that Microsofi Internet Exploder isn't
available on platforms other than "Microsoft operating systems". I know
that it is available for Solaris, and the last time I checked, Sun
Microsystems wasn't owned by the great holemaster willy Gates.
Your approach is kinda backward IMHO. HTML, Java and XML formatting has a
place in the new world of the Internet. Just because you support legacy
applications, that doesn't mean that the world has to stop forever... I use
pine to check mail and sometimes use tin and lynx for browsing that thing
them folks call the Internet... and yes it is an inconveniance when
anything but raw text hits them... I also use and have limited respect for
Microsoft products. Of course an x86 box running NT or WIn95/98/2000 will
never have the functionality, performance or uptime of a sparc or alpha with
unix, but thats a discuession for another day... I use every platform
(including your famed Linux) and have uses for them all (AFAIK if you ain't
got UltraSparc, you ain't got shit). Just because of these facts, IE and
Outlook have there place in the "normal" world... Give it time and even my
parents will be using Solaris or BSD instead of Win98, and StarOffice
instead of Office2000 (maybe a few weekends from now, If I get a chance to
flatten their PC and straighten it out). As for me by choice right now, I
am using one of the NT PC's here to post this, as I find Outlook Express
best for news reading... and I do find that Netscape has not been as good
as IE for the past 2 or 3 sub-versions. shoot me for this if you want...
{;-)
As for the transmission of viral payload, check your sister, I heard she
carries a fair share... (yes I agree on the virus issue and several other
points, I like the idea of common formats, I hear that Access 97 & 2000
databases aren't compatible with each other, how can a 3rd party be
compatible with it then??). So when was the last time you edited a
Postscript file? it is actually a neat language, ya dink.
"think before you act"
Rantin' is my way of starting and ending the day...
FT
Paul Sture <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <8gougs$r0e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> > > Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently
scribble:
> > >> Warning, ugly html below (stop posting html please...)!
> > >
> On that subject, see the following, contributed by Nigel Arnot, of Kings
College London.
> Please feel free to adapt to your own needs.
>
> On Word documents:
>
> Dear Webmaster,
>
> re: [URL]
>
> The above URL on your website is a Microsoft .doc file. As a matter of
policy
> I do not view such files because it seems fundamentally impossible to be
> certain that they do not contain a viral payload (which could be a new
> virus that no current virus scanner can recognise, and which could have
> infiltrated your organisation without your knowledge). You might also
> wish to ponder the legal implications with respect to customers less
> cautious than myself!
>
> In addition I should point out that customers viewing your site using
> Linux or any other Unix, VMS, or a mainframe operating system, may not be
in a
> position to view the file.
>
> Might I suggest that you reformulate the file as HTML (which you can do,
> albeit inadequately, using "save as" in the Microsoft product), or if its
> precise format is critically important, as an Adobe .pdf file or a
Postscript
> printer .ps file. (You might wish to offer your customers the choice
between
> all of these as many other web-sites do).
>
> Unless you do so, I shall remain in ignorance of the contents
> of the above URL, and this may of course result in me choosing to do
> business with someone else.
>
> Yours Faithfully
>
> etc.
> ----------------------------------
>
>
> On Web sites:
>
> Dear webmaster,
>
> re:
>
> The above URL on your website is virtually unreadable using the Netscape
4.7
> web browser. I am letting you know, since it may be giving an unfortunate
> impression of your organisation to the many users of non-Microsoft
browsers.
>
> The problem appears to be caused by your use of a Microsoft product to
> prepare the page, that generates HTML that is largely incompatible
> with viewers other than Microsoft's own Internet Explorer. It is alleged
> in the current USG anti-trust action against Microsoft that this is no
> mere accident, but a deliberate anti-competitive act.
>
> I have chosen to remain loyal to Netscape, both for the above reason and
> because I have no confidence that use of Internet explorer is compatible
with
> maintaining my computer free from viruses and other "malware". In
> addition, I should point out that Internet Explorer is not available
> to users of Linux, Unix, VMS and other non-Microsoft operating systems.
>
> Might I suggest that you prepare your web pages using one of numerous
> third-party products which generate standard-conforming HTML that will
> display well on any web-browser rather than favoring a particular one.
>
> Yours Faithfully
>
> etc.
>
> Paul Sture
> Switzerland (2 email addresses closed down today due to spam, and
> it's only 10:30 on a Sunday - who wants to be next?)
>
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From: "Graham Moseley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fetchmail problem
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 10:20:33 GMT
I have got fetchmail working and collecting mail from my ISP but all the
mail goes to the users mailbox who runs the fetchmail command and does not
get routed to the individual users. I can use sendmail to send mail to local
and remote users. Would it help if I started fetchmail in daemon mode.
Graham
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From: Fung Wai Keung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Prepare multiple volumes archive in Linux
Date: 5 Jun 2000 10:44:22 GMT
Hi,
Is there any application in Linux for automatically preparing multiple
volume archive, like an arj clone in linux?
Thanks in advance.
--
Regards,
Wai Keung, Fung
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, N.T.,
Hong Kong.
Tel: (852)26098056 Fax: (852)26036002
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: KA7 Linux Lockups
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 5 Jun 2000 11:10:22 GMT
In alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Have you ran a good RAM diagnostic? I'd suggest MEMTEST86, the latest
>version of which you can always find at:
Thanks, I downloaded the programs. Shortly after I posted the
original message I decided to try slowing the memory from
133MHZ to 100MHZ and Linux has been up ever since. It seems
my Micron 133 stick is not really 133 or else there is some
other problem. Like I said, there has been no crash under
OS/2 and WinNT so far with the higher settings. Could Linux
be tougher or less refined on memory access than the others
if the stick is not bad?
Fred
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Random letters all over my screen
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 11:10:50 GMT
Please someone must know something about this problem.
Its really annoying know.
Oh if it helps the letters nearly always appear on the top left of the
screen.
In article <8h38o6$agm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is a problem I've had for a few weeks.
>
> I think it first came about when I installed the 0.16 release of
> Enlightenment.
>
> The problem occurs when I'm scrolling up or down a window. Randomly a
> line will vanish from the window I'm scrolling in and then appear
> somewhere on the screen.
>
> I hoped the problem would go when I upgraded to RH6.2 and GNOME1.2 but
> the problem still seems to be there.
>
> I'm using SAWFISH at the moment not enlightenment and my graphics card
> is if I remember correctly an ATI RAGE 3D.
>
> I assume the problem is with XFree86, but has anyone seen anything
> similar?
>
> Duncan
>
> p.s The reason I haven't just upgraded to XFree86 4.0 is it was a bit
of
> a hassle getting the graphics card to work in the first place. I
> therefore don't want to go through all that if I can avoid it.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bash shell problem I think
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 13:23:45 +0200
Reply-To: NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Kelly wrote:
>
> I just installed Slackware 7.0 on my laptop.
> When i compile a C++ program there is no problem. The problem is when i
> try to run the exec.
>
> for example the source file is --hello.cpp
> the exec is --hello
> (i can see the exec file when i list the contents of the directory)
>
> when i run hello from the command line i get this...
>
> bash: hello: command not found
try :
$ ./hello
in the dir containing hello
> Any ideas? Thanks Kelly
>
> --
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From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Netscape 6
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 11:30:12 GMT
Am new to linux using Caldera 2.3 and have downloaded Netscape 6 and wish
to install it but now idea how to install a tar.gz file.
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 13:42:57 +0200
From: Daniel Krippner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VFS - dmesg
Hello everyone!
I got a problem: every two or so seconds the message:
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
gets printed by my kernel. It didn't bother me until now - but I need
to write a module, and those messages clutter my logs.
What is the cause for this, how can I fix it?
thanks in advance, cu
Daniel
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Student of Communication Engineering/Computer Networking
Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neurocrat)
Subject: Re: Installing Netscape 6
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 5 Jun 2000 21:44:13 +1000
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000 11:30:12 GMT, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Am new to linux using Caldera 2.3 and have downloaded Netscape 6 and wish
>to install it but now idea how to install a tar.gz file.
Switch to the directory in which you want to unzip it, and:
tar -xvzf yourfilename.tar.gz
The unzipped archive will contain installation instructions.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian)
Subject: Re: Installing Netscape 6
Date: 5 Jun 2000 11:57:15 GMT
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000 11:30:12 GMT, Brad wrote:
>Am new to linux using Caldera 2.3 and have downloaded Netscape 6 and wish
>to install it but now idea how to install a tar.gz file.
>
tar zxvf file.tar.gz (or tar zxvf file.tgz).
The netscape install is pretty crapy, because there's actually no
install program. Just "cd" to the created directory and execute the
binary.
Bastian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian)
Subject: Re: bash shell problem I think
Date: 5 Jun 2000 11:57:15 GMT
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000 08:30:07 GMT, Kelly wrote:
>I just installed Slackware 7.0 on my laptop.
>When i compile a C++ program there is no problem. The problem is when i
>try to run the exec.
>
>for example the source file is --hello.cpp
>the exec is --hello
>(i can see the exec file when i list the contents of the directory)
>
>when i run hello from the command line i get this...
>
>bash: hello: command not found
>
>Any ideas? Thanks Kelly
Looks like you tried to execute "hello", but your executable is named
"--hello". So, either try it with the dashes and/or do what some other
poster suggested.
Bastian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.2 and Old a.out Binaries
Date: 5 Jun 2000 11:57:16 GMT
On 5 Jun 2000 03:20:17 GMT, Jim wrote:
>I just upgraded Red Hat 6.1 to 6.2, and lost the ability to execute ancient
>a.out type binaries. The "6.2" a.out compatibility library package IS
>installed, so that's not the problem. I may have lost the path to it
>somewhere though. As I recall, I had the same problem for awhile with 6.1,
>and finally found how to make the libraries available at run time. But I
>can't locate the notes for that.
>
>Does anyone recall the trick to this, making these libraries available, or
>is this possibly some new problem?
Make sure your kernel has enabled support for "a.out binaries". If the
libs are where they are supposed to be, they don't have to be loaded
or declared additionally.
Bastian
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From: Heiko Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true????
Date: 05 Jun 2000 14:03:52 +0200
Dave Schanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Bill Vermillion wrote:
> >
> >
> > >A friend of mine used a P66 with 96 megs of edo ram and only scsi-2
> > >drives, it outperformed a Cyrix 233 w/ a 64 meg dimm for compiling
> > >nearly the same size Linux kernel.
> >
> > Well it should. The Cyrix chips are really enhance '386 or '486
> > architectures. At identical clock speeds the Pentium (P5
> > architeture) typically ran twice as fast as an indentically clocked
> > '486. P5 (or even better P6) stuff really will outperform many
> > 'clone' chips designed to work well with MS 'stuff'.
>
> Well the P66 was still quite outclassed when running Windows 98 and
> Office and other such ms 'stuff'. The Cyrix line may be of the 486
> design generation but they still are running at a higher frequency than
> old pentiums, and run faster despite pipelining etc. Unless an OS does
> decent pre-emptive multitasking, memory management, disk buffering, etc.
> lots of ram, scsi and a newer generation of chip will lose out to a
> faster clocked chip with less and faster ram when running a single app
> such as ms office, or for games. Beyond the compiling speed I never
> saw the Pentium 66 beat the Cyrix for single application speed, this
> isn't an opinion, it's more a matter of the Cyrix moving at acceptable
> speeds while the P 66 choked, it was obvious which was faster in *most*
> cases.
Two years ago, I switched from a P75 to an Cyrix 200MX running under
Linux. I made some benchmark-tests (nbench2.2) and the Cyrix
outperformed the P75 in every task. It had a FPU performance of the
P133 and a Integer Performance comparable with a P233.
I had the feeling, that it was a good bit faster than the P75,
everything running smoother. (I have to admit, that I changed the
motherboard with the CPU, maybe that had an effect, too) I'm still
running the Cyrix at home, and am glad with it.
Well, to be mean: At work, I have a Enterprise 4000 with 6x166Mhz
procs and 3Gig Ram. Emacs and tex are faster at home! (Well, no
network, no other users, emacs and tex allways in RAM ...)
Heiko Klein
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED](Marcelo Rodrigues)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: RedHat on Sparc 20
Date: 5 Jun 2000 12:11:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED](Marcelo Rodrigues)
Hello,
I have a Sparc 20 that I've been trying to install RedHat 6.1 on
but it dies at the point where you get to make a selection on what
type of installation you want ( Workstation , Server, etc. ) I've also
not been able to install 6.0 on it. I'm starting to believe that the
problem lies in the fact that I have an SX frame buffer ( 8 MB VRAM)
instead of some other more common frame buffer. Any one successful
in installing RedHat on a machine with this frame buffer ?
Thanks,
Marcelo
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From: Michel Bardiaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: best video capture card...
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 12:19:27 GMT
Thierry BUCCO wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> What is the best pci video capture card for linux, (chip, video4linux
> compatible, and good quality).
>
> Without TV reception.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> thierry
I am interested in those *with* built-in tuner too...
--
Michel Bardiaux
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: large disks - partitions problem with RH 6.1
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 11:58:20 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Christoph Kukulies wrote:
>
> I have problems installing RH 6.1 on a 40 GB IDE disk.
>
> I installed Win98 first and after trapping into the <1024 cylinders
> problem with bootable partitions have to be within I created
> a 2 GB / , 16 MB /boot , a 4 GB DOS and a 500 M swap partition.
> The rest of 30514 MB were made a /home partition.
>
> I did that all with the GNOME installer booted via a NFS install
> disk. (the boot disk was from the redhat site and contained already an
> upgrade which as it seems doesn't fix the problem)
>
> --
> Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And exactly what is the problem???
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Prepare multiple volumes archive in Linux
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:00:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fung Wai Keung wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there any application in Linux for automatically preparing multiple
> volume archive, like an arj clone in linux?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> Wai Keung, Fung
>
> Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering,
> The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
> Shatin, N.T.,
> Hong Kong.
>
> Tel: (852)26098056 Fax: (852)26036002
man tar
This may do the job you want
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: partition lost
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 12:32:02 GMT
"MAP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How can I set the partition size in sectors with fdisk??
I saw in another thread that you lost the partition table. If you want
you can do:
findpart all +fat fp.txt
and mail fp.txt to me. Can you mail from the location of the problem
PC?
If Linux fdisk is used for recreating a partition table, then note
that fdisk in normal mode numbers cylinders from 1, while everybody
else, including Findpart, numbers cylinders from 0.
Also note that making entries for extended and logical partitions can
damage data if it is not made correct in first attempt.
--
Svend Olaf
http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm
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From: Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.text.frame,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: FM for Linux survey
Date: 05 Jun 2000 14:19:06 +0200
Maybe others are interested in this too:
============ snip =================
You recently downloaded a Beta of FrameMaker for the Linux platform
from the Adobe website. We are interested in what you think of the
Beta and therefore would like to ask you a few questions. The survey
should only take about 5-7 minutes of your time.
Your responses will be combined with other responses and will be kept
confidential. Your time and cooperation are very much appreciated.
To take the survey, please click on the URL listed below:
http://www.adobe.com/special/framemaker/survey.html
Thanks in advance for your participation,
The Adobe FrameMaker Product Team
============ snip =================
Note the "Followup-To: comp.text.frame".
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Blake)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: CAUTION: I am under attack from an incompetent hacker probably in germany
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 12:55:15 GMT
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 07:36:00 -0230, FellowTraveller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Your approach is kinda backward IMHO. HTML, Java and XML formatting has a
>place in the new world of the Internet. Just because you support legacy
That's a matter of opinion. As far as I'm concerned the Net is a text-only
medium. I have no need for silly cartoons and sound effects with my
information.
--
Roger Blake
(remove second "g" and second "m" from address for email)
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From: "Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fetchmail problem
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 13:57:26 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Graham Moseley"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have got fetchmail working and collecting mail from my ISP but all the
> mail goes to the users mailbox who runs the fetchmail
It would.
> not get routed to the individual users. I can use sendmail to send mail
> to local and remote users.
you can fetchmail to talk to sendmail and have sendmail do the local user routing, or
have
fetchmail pretty much do it all,
it all depends on the kind of mailboxes you are checking, aliased accounts or whatever.
Have you read the fetchmail docs yet?
Without knowing what sort of mail accounts you are polling, or your setup, I will take
a stab
in the dark here...
run fetchmail as root, maybe from cron, maybe when you feel like it or as a daemon
but first PLEASE check the fetchmail docs for use and abuse of multidrop mailboxes
you will probably want a
user fubar with password guber to * here (if its an aliased thing)
or maybe
user fubar with password guber is fluber here
user greebo with password weedo is needo here
etc etc
for individual boxes in your .fetchmailrc
there is a FULL and worth reading set of info on how all this works and what it means
in the fetchmail docs
> Would it help if I started fetchmail in
> daemon mode.
just running in daemon mode would not solve this particular problem, you will need to
stick more stuff in the
.fetchmairc file too
If the docs are no help to you, please post more information next time for a better
answer
-Stone
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From: Dries van Oosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tux in ASCII
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:03:41 +0200
On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Gabberatski wrote:
> I am searching for an ASCII art of TUX, or something that's linux related
I forgot where I say it, but there is one huge ascii drawing of TUX. If
you look really closely, you'll see that the letters used, read the source
code of some kernel version. Really cool.
Groeten,
Dries
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