Linux-Misc Digest #900, Volume #24 Fri, 23 Jun 00 10:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Printerque problem, URGENT. (Chris du Preez)
Re: tool for joining various (text) files, editing and splitting them (Charles Demas)
Gnome using DHCP client and hostname resolver problem using RH 6.2 (Sverre Torjussen)
Re: Printerque problem, URGENT. (Chris du Preez)
strange linux install error (Perlfreak)
How to let Apache_php3 server work well? ("Lu Bingwen")
find files with pattern ("frank iversen")
Re: Upgrade from Mandrake 7.0 (Air) to Mandrake 7.1 (Helium): Painless? (aflinsch)
Re: Upgrade from Mandrake 7.0 (Air) to Mandrake 7.1 (Helium): Painless? (aflinsch)
Re: find files with pattern (Dances With Crows)
Re: POSIX, what the heck...??? (Doc Shipley)
Re: Telnet LINUX (J Bland)
Re: How to let Apache_php3 server work well? (Kim Nielsen)
Re: Viewing Chinese characters in RH Linux ("Lu Bingwen")
Re: tool for joining various (text) files, editing and splitting them (Uwe Brauer)
Re: ifconfig required? ("Ross M. Greenberg")
Re: Redhat upgrade HOW-TO? (Leonard Evens)
Re: Upgrade rh 6.1 kernel to 2.2.16 (Leonard Evens)
Re: RedHat 6.2 POP3 Server Installation Problem (Leonard Evens)
Re: zoom modem (Kevin Croxen)
Setting up a shellaccount server (Philip)
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From: Chris du Preez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Printerque problem, URGENT.
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:18:00 +0200
Change directory to /etc/rc.d/init.d
type then lpd -restart
Jimmy Lantz wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm working for a department at Lund University, Sweden.
> One of our printers stopped, wont print out anymore,
> I myself ain't that good at Linux, but I manage.
> But with this problem, (experienced it before) our regular guy working
> with the servers had to take care of it. Currently in Spain.
>
> I know that he stopped the printerque on the server and restarted it and
> it solved the problem,
> so how do I do that?
> Before we had the GNOME interface on Redhat 5.x or 6.x.
> But now he(the regular ROOT), changed it into Windows manager (or
> something like that).
> So I dont have access to an printer x-interface anymore/cant find it.
>
> Could some please help me out.
> Mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Yours sincerely
> Jimmy Lantz
> Sweden.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.shell
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Demas)
Subject: Re: tool for joining various (text) files, editing and splitting them
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:08:20 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Uwe Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>Hello
>
>I am looking for a simple tool to join various (text) files (which say
>have the same extension, but are located in various directories) to a
>single file, editing them and finally splitt them again.
>
>Does anybocy know about such a tool,
How about an editor, like perhaps ... vi?
Chuck Demas
Needham, Mass.
--
Eat Healthy | _ _ | Nothing would be done at all,
Stay Fit | @ @ | If a man waited to do it so well,
Die Anyway | v | That no one could find fault with it.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | \___/ | http://www.tiac.net/users/demas
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From: Sverre Torjussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gnome using DHCP client and hostname resolver problem using RH 6.2
Date: 23 Jun 2000 14:17:29 +0200
Hi
I have a problem with using a RH 6.2 client running Gnome environment,
and Enlightenment window manager and communicating with a Windows NT
DHCP server. On every login I get a Gnome warning panel saying:
Could not lookup Internet address for <my host>. This will prevent
gnome from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the
problem by adding <my host> to the file: </etc/hosts>
[Try again] [Continue]
However, all network services seems to work as the NIC/eth0 retrieves correct IP.
(print, news, smtp, http etc).
How can I avoid this annoying message without changing the hosts file?
FYI, I have replaced the pump call in the ifup/ifdown network-scripts
for the network service by
1. </etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup>:
# if /sbin/pump $PUMPARGS -i $DEVICE ; then
#changed sverre above to below
if /sbin/dhcpcd -D -H $DEVICE ; then
2. </etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown>:
# pump -r -i ${DEVICE}
/sbin/dhcpcd -k ${DEVICE}
Hence, the dynamically allocated IP address is stored in:
</etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info>
I have tried to update the auth calls in the </usr/bin/X11/startx>
script without any success.
IP_ADDR=`ifconfig eth0|grep "inet addr"|awk '{print $2}'|cut -d : -f 2`
xauth add ${IP_ADDR}${display} . $mcookie
# xauth add `hostname -f`$display . $mcookie
#xauth add `hostname`$display . $mcookie
xinit $clientargs -- $server $display $serverargs
No other documentation or news articles seem to address how to solve
this problem.
%wmosl1wi0305:~ {120} $ hostname -f
hostname: No address associated with name
%wmosl1wi0305:~ {121} $ lpq
Warning: unable to get official name for local machine wmosl1wi0305
no entries
Finally, a couple of other gnome configuration issues:
1) Can the default startup applications that respawns be turned off
(gmc, gmc file manager)
2) Is the verification/confirmation action of the "Log out" action
on the Start menu configurable? (would like to change built-in
action "Quit-Verify" to "QUIT").
Alternatively, can built-in actions be defined as either new main menu
entries or/and as an ICON on the menu bar?
Cheers Sverre
======================================
Sverre Torjussen, senior consultant
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Internet: www.wmdata.no
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From: Chris du Preez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Printerque problem, URGENT.
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:24:13 +0200
Sorry that will not work This will
cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
type ./lpd restart
Chris du Preez wrote:
> Change directory to /etc/rc.d/init.d
> type then lpd -restart
>
> Jimmy Lantz wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm working for a department at Lund University, Sweden.
> > One of our printers stopped, wont print out anymore,
> > I myself ain't that good at Linux, but I manage.
> > But with this problem, (experienced it before) our regular guy working
> > with the servers had to take care of it. Currently in Spain.
> >
> > I know that he stopped the printerque on the server and restarted it and
> > it solved the problem,
> > so how do I do that?
> > Before we had the GNOME interface on Redhat 5.x or 6.x.
> > But now he(the regular ROOT), changed it into Windows manager (or
> > something like that).
> > So I dont have access to an printer x-interface anymore/cant find it.
> >
> > Could some please help me out.
> > Mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Yours sincerely
> > Jimmy Lantz
> > Sweden.
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From: Perlfreak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: strange linux install error
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:11:10 GMT
I am having trouble installing Storm Linux on a Sony Vaio. I keep on
getting this error message right at the end of the install:
warning: device 0x0307 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number 13 too big (1778>1023)
Any help? Needed for development. I could go and get redhat, but I was
wondering if anyone else had had this problem
Thanks
Paul
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Lu Bingwen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat
Subject: How to let Apache_php3 server work well?
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 19:50:52 +0800
I just installed Apache 1.3.12 and Php3/MySQL on to my RedHat Linux
system and set index.php3 as my homepage. The Apache test page is Ok.
However, when I visited my index.php3 homepage, it showed the code source,
not the output. How could I resolve this problem? Any suggestion please send
to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks a lot a lot.
Ben
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From: "frank iversen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: find files with pattern
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:38:16 +0200
Hello,
I want to find files with an pattern in a directory-tree,
per example all header-files with FNM_FL.
In SCO
'find . -name *.h -exec grep FNM_FL {}'
works.
To find the files:
find . -regex .*\\.h -print
is ok.
But the format of exec-command ?
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrade from Mandrake 7.0 (Air) to Mandrake 7.1 (Helium): Painless?
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:23:08 -0500
"D. D. Brierton" wrote:
>
> Also, none of my other window managers have been at all affected by this.
> They still have exactly the same menus as they did before. Well, that's
> not a huge problem for me because I only really use KDE with KWM and GNOME
> with Sawfish. But it seems strange. And I do very occasionally use
same here, but also use Blackbox with kpanel & kfm.
>
> Another peculiarity is that a newer version of gFTP was installed, and as
> a result it has now vanished from the GNOME menu but is in the KDE menu
> instead! Also, klyx, which is still installed from Mandrake 7.0, used to
> be on the KDE menu, but is now on no menu whatsoever.
>
> I tried to find some documentation regarding this feature and couldn't
> find any whatsoever. And this is my one real disappointment with Mandrake
> 7.1. Some of the most heavily touted and (potentially) useful features
Take a look at the man pages for menufile and update-menus. Basically
what you have to do is create a entry in one of the following
directories (each overrides the one below it), then run update-menus
~/.menu/*
/etc/menu/*
/usr/lib/menu/*
/usr/lib/menu/default/*
>
> Has reiserfs support been installed or not? Is it possible to
> non-destructively convert an ext2fs partition to a reiserfs one?
I have installed it, but have not yet used it. Probably will do so
when I nuke the remaining traces of win98 from the system.
> What does
> one have to do to get the WebConf thingy working?
point your webrowser at http://localhost:10000 I love this feature, it
lets me tinker with my system while at work.
> How can one make all the
> installed window managers start using the new menu system (and is there a
> way to get them to still have their own menus at the same time)? I really
I think that you need to have the newest versions of the window
managers that were inluded on the distro disks, as they all require
the menu packages to be installed now. as for getting them to use both
the new system and their own menus, I haven't a clue yet. Might get a
chance to poke at it over the weekend however.
> am surprised the Mandrake didn't put together a What's New doc for those
> of us upgrading. I wonder if it is worth mailing them to suggest that this
> is something they could improve on?
that's a good idea. mandrake seems to be really open to suggestions
from users right now. Possibly a post on oone of the mandrake mailing
lists could do the trick. They also have set up a website for comments
and improvements at http://linuxpole.com
>
> If you can shed any light on this auto-updating menu business it would be great.
see above about the menu directories and update-menus. The
documentation that was included in /usr/doc/menu* seemed to still be
debian specific and a bit outdated.
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrade from Mandrake 7.0 (Air) to Mandrake 7.1 (Helium): Painless?
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:23:33 -0500
"D. D. Brierton" wrote:
>
> Also, none of my other window managers have been at all affected by this.
> They still have exactly the same menus as they did before. Well, that's
> not a huge problem for me because I only really use KDE with KWM and GNOME
> with Sawfish. But it seems strange. And I do very occasionally use
same here, but also use Blackbox with kpanel & kfm.
>
> Another peculiarity is that a newer version of gFTP was installed, and as
> a result it has now vanished from the GNOME menu but is in the KDE menu
> instead! Also, klyx, which is still installed from Mandrake 7.0, used to
> be on the KDE menu, but is now on no menu whatsoever.
>
> I tried to find some documentation regarding this feature and couldn't
> find any whatsoever. And this is my one real disappointment with Mandrake
> 7.1. Some of the most heavily touted and (potentially) useful features
Take a look at the man pages for menufile and update-menus. Basically
what you have to do is create a entry in one of the following
directories (each overrides the one below it), then run update-menus
~/.menu/*
/etc/menu/*
/usr/lib/menu/*
/usr/lib/menu/default/*
>
> Has reiserfs support been installed or not? Is it possible to
> non-destructively convert an ext2fs partition to a reiserfs one?
I have installed it, but have not yet used it. Probably will do so
when I nuke the remaining traces of win98 from the system.
> What does
> one have to do to get the WebConf thingy working?
point your webrowser at http://localhost:10000 I love this feature, it
lets me tinker with my system while at work.
> How can one make all the
> installed window managers start using the new menu system (and is there a
> way to get them to still have their own menus at the same time)? I really
I think that you need to have the newest versions of the window
managers that were inluded on the distro disks, as they all require
the menu packages to be installed now. as for getting them to use both
the new system and their own menus, I haven't a clue yet. Might get a
chance to poke at it over the weekend however.
> am surprised the Mandrake didn't put together a What's New doc for those
> of us upgrading. I wonder if it is worth mailing them to suggest that this
> is something they could improve on?
that's a good idea. mandrake seems to be really open to suggestions
from users right now. Possibly a post on oone of the mandrake mailing
lists could do the trick. They also have set up a website for comments
and improvements at http://linuxpole.com
>
> If you can shed any light on this auto-updating menu business it would be great.
see above about the menu directories and update-menus. The
documentation that was included in /usr/doc/menu* seemed to still be
debian specific and a bit outdated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: find files with pattern
Date: 23 Jun 2000 08:54:14 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:38:16 +0200, frank iversen
<<8ivldh$tm6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Hello,
>I want to find files with an pattern in a directory-tree,
>per example all header-files with FNM_FL.
>
>In SCO
>'find . -name *.h -exec grep FNM_FL {}'
>works.
>But the format of exec-command ?
Almost exactly the same in Linux.
find . -name \*.h -exec grep -H "FNM_FL" {} \;
The \; at the end signifies the end of the exec statement. The * is
escaped so the shell doesn't try to expand it. HTH,
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: Doc Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: POSIX, what the heck...???
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:05:22 GMT
Bursch wrote:
> =
> Hi Trevor,
> =
> IMO POSIX is nothing else than (one of ;-) the standard shell(s) of
> UNIX-systems....AFAIK HP-UX uses the POSIX-shell as standard....actuall=
y it
> isn=B4t very different from the bash apart from some nuances. Please se=
e "man
> sh"
POSIX is "Portable Operating System Interface" with the X signifying
UniX influence. POSIX is a set of standards for building OS' and
applications, not an application itself. Several Unix shells are POSIX
compliant.
POSIX defines standards for everything from character sets to kernel
threading & queueing. =
-- =
Doc Shipley
Network Stuff
Austin, Earth
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: Telnet LINUX
Date: 23 Jun 2000 13:06:46 GMT
>are you for real?
I'll assume he is...
When you telnet in log in as a standard user (ie *not* the root/superuser).
Once you are logged in via this then you can become root by using the
command:
su
which will ask for the root password.
If you have ssh installed you can use:
ssh -l root address.of.machine
If you don't have ssh or a normal user set up, *do so now*. It's far too
easy to break or crash a system if you run as root all the time.
Frinky
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From: Kim Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: How to let Apache_php3 server work well?
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 15:18:04 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Ben ..
you have to tell apache what kind of file php3 is ..and that is done in
/etc/http/httpd.conf by out commenting the line
LoadModule php3_module modules/libphp3.so
and
AddModule mod_php3.c
but please be aware of the security problem you will get .. php3 is/was
quite easy to get through so look in the /etc/http/php3.ini
best regards
Kim
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From: "Lu Bingwen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Viewing Chinese characters in RH Linux
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 20:48:11 +0800
I have a similar question. Where to get Chinese (Big5) fonts for Netscape
install on RedHat Linux6.2? Any suggestions please send email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks a lot a lot.
Ben
Tan Chee Sin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Is there a way to do it? In Windows, I could just install a viewer like
> NJStar Communicator.
> Is there also a Chinese word processor for Linux?
>
> Chee Sin
>
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From: Uwe Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: tool for joining various (text) files, editing and splitting them
Date: 23 Jun 2000 14:39:01 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Demas) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Uwe Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >Hello
> >
> >I am looking for a simple tool to join various (text) files (which say
> >have the same extension, but are located in various directories) to a
> >single file, editing them and finally splitt them again.
> >
> >Does anybocy know about such a tool,
>
> How about an editor, like perhaps ... vi?
I have to confess you I am sticked to emacs/xemacs and don't see the
charm of vi.
>
>
> Chuck Demas
> Needham, Mass.
>
> --
> Eat Healthy | _ _ | Nothing would be done at all,
> Stay Fit | @ @ | If a man waited to do it so well,
> Die Anyway | v | That no one could find fault with it.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \___/ | http://www.tiac.net/users/demas
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From: "Ross M. Greenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ifconfig required?
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:41:57 -0400
Thanks guys! We're getting closer.
To reiterate, I've gotten Corel to recognize my PnP ISA card. From the
Windows side of the net, no problem. From the Linux side, nothing exists,
and I can't get off-system. Navigator, for example, doesn't appear to even
see eth0. In order for even Windows Network Neighborhood to see anything, I
need to ifconfig manually (I'm sticking that into init.d) and I need to
initialize it though Corel's Control Center | Network.
What I want to have is Network Neighborhood' functionality upon bootup.
Corel support is virtually useless.
Anybody done this?
brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:45:16 -0400,
> Ross M. Greenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Nope. No netcfg: Corel.
>
> Well, on debian slink, which Corel is based on, that's in
> /etc/init.d/network.. should be trivial to change.
>
> > David .. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > "Ross M. Greenberg" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > So, I got my ISA Realtek8019 card working. Sorta. pnpdump
generated an
> > > > almost usable conf file; stealing stuff from the Windows side of
things
> > got
> > > > me a legit IO address and IRQ.
> > > > However, I have to manually do an ifconfig and feed it its IP --
else
> > there
> > > > no eth0. I can certainly stick the needed lines/commands into an rc
> > file,
> > > > but there has to be a better way.
> > >
> > >
> > > As root "netcfg"
> > >
> > > --
> > > Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
> > > ID # 123538
> >
>
>
> --
> Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
> Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be
waiting
> Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
> Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat upgrade HOW-TO?
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:42:09 -0500
"ywk@Redhat" wrote:
>
> Hi Linuxers
> I would like to upgrade my Rhat 6.0 to 6.2 on i686, what packages are
> needed there? And where can I d/l the necessary packages? what
> procedure should i follow?
> I have upgraded my kerneld to 2.2.14, do I need to recomply the whole
> thing again?
> I think I have broken some links on libraries in XFree86, is the upgrade
> help to fix it?
> thanks very much for information
>
> ywk
You can upgrade individual packages as needed. Most important
would be the gnome packages (including gmc, mc, and mcserver).
They were very buggy in RH6.0. Of course if you are not using
gnome, they are irrelevant.
But I would recommend upgrading to 6.2 by getting the 6.2
distribution and using the upgrade option. That is much simpler
than fooling with individual packages. You can download the
iso image and burn a CD if you have access to a fast internet
connection and a rw CD drive. Or you can buy the CD with
had copy documentation for about $30, or you can buy the
same CD from Cheapbytes for $.89 plus shipping. In my experience,
upgrading or installing from the CD is much the easiest option.
I've upgraded numerous systems, and I've yet to encounter a
significant problem.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrade rh 6.1 kernel to 2.2.16
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:45:10 -0500
Francisco De La Cruz wrote:
>
> For the last couple of days I've been trying to bring my kernel
> to 2.2.16. No matter the method i get this error:
> no setup signature found
> Now i know rh 6.1 released rpms for that kernel. I hope that
> does not mean i can't "manually" upgrade. Anyways, the first
> time I tried 'make oldconfig' for as you might remember, use
> my old .config file. That didn't work. So i said, ok let me just
> try 'make xconfig', but after going through the emotions i got
> the same error...What am i'm doing wrong?
> Thanx in advance, Francisco.
I don't know what you are doing wrong, but I would advise
using the rpm packages. They are fairly simple to use
although they do require some care. The process of upgrading
a kernel is described in detail on a RedHat web page devoted
to the process. The most important thing is not to simply
replace the old kernel packages with the new. You need to
keep the old kernel around for a while to make sure you can
boot if something goes wrong. But see the web page.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.2 POP3 Server Installation Problem
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:47:29 -0500
ARMH wrote:
>
> I have freshly installed RH 6.2 and SMTP works fine. But I have problem with
> POP3 Server.
>
> I have enabled POP3 in the inetd.conf file, I can telnet to port 110 but
> strangely it closes rather quickly.
>
> When I use a POP3 client from Windows machine, I get the error message
> saying the POP3 server terminated abruptly may be due to network problem or
> the account must have been not in use for long time.
>
> Can some one please help me.
> Is there is setting need to be done on sendmail.cf or sendmail.cw files.
>
> regards,
> ARMH
I don't really know what is causing your problem, but you do
have to enable relaying for pop mail to work. This is handled
by the file /etc/mail/access. However, it doesn't sound as though
that is causing your problem.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Croxen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: zoom modem
Date: 23 Jun 2000 13:54:47 GMT
The question is what IRQ the modem has landed on. The default
IRQ for com1 and com3 is 4. If your /dev/ttyS2 requires a
different IRQ (likely, if you have something on com1),
this value will need to be set using setserial.
Many Zoom modems allow choosing whether to set
jumpers or rely on PnP. If yours is one of these,
you will of course find life easier if you manually
jumper the modem. If, however, your modem is a
basic nothing-to-be-done-about-it PnP, you may
wish to set your hardware bios for "non-PnP OS", so
that the hardware is responsible for allocating your
PnP peripherals.
A good thing to read would be the serial how-to, which
can be found at:
http://www.linux.org/help/ldp/howto/Serial-HOWTO.html
--Kevin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Eisenberg wrote:
>Hey, I got Corel Linux a few weeks ago and have been trying to get my
>modem to work with it. First I had a US Robotics/3Com Modem which I
>assumed to be a WinModem with all the trouble it gave me. Then I put
>in a old Zoom Modem which Windows Found as a
>Zoom 56K Internal Fax Modem Modem 2812 PNP (COM 3)
>
>Using a Dialup setup in Corel Linux I picked
>/dev/ttyS2/ for COM 3
>
>It says
>Modem Ready
>Then
>Sorry, Modem is not responding
>
>What should I do at this point? Sorry if this a simple question, but
>hopefully someone will take the time. I really am grateful. Take
>Care. Paul
>
>
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From: Philip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Setting up a shellaccount server
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:07:02 GMT
I am going to setup a RedHat 6.2 box as shellaccount server. (No I can't
use another distrubution so don't tell me that I should use another one,
I already know that), However...
There are a few things that I want about the box
* I don't want the shellaccount users to be abel to see the other
directory structure of the system. So when they do cd / they should cd
to their homedir. How do I do this ? I guess using chroot, reading the
man page did not helped me a lot.. So lets say .. from the moment my
user logs in (with ssh, telnet, whatever) I want to make sure that he
can't go out of his own homedir. (I guess thats being done wth chroot
right? well how :)? )
* I want to know which redhat packages should be removed immediatly. I
will probably reinstall most applications like apache using the source
of their latest stable version and a new kernel (2.2.15)
*Somebody told me about fake shells who don't allow the user to run
specific commands or .. I don't know a lot about these.. Maybe somebody
can provide me with more information about these ?! Maybe it doesn't
even exist at all .. whatever then :)
* I want to know about the huge security holes in Redhat :) I know that
redhat provides a few tools that allow normal users to for example
reboot the computer if these users are local users (behind the keyboard
of the hardware). I dislike this so things like these will be
uninstalled immediatly. But are their others like these ?
* A script for new users .. somebody know where I can get examples. I
know a little bit bash scripting and pretty well C so making changes to
this script should be no problem for me .. but an example would be more
then welcome.
* All the things that I forgot :) .. if you have tips for me .. tell me.
Please don't start flamewars about redhat which is probably not good for
shellaccounts and debian which rules or FreeBSD which I MUST MUST MUST
use for this application because I don't care about such posts... I
can't choose the distrubution myself.. my job is to configure the
animal. thats it!
If you want to know which shellaccount provider ..
it's http://www.netbox.nu (not finished at all of course)
--
Philip van Hoof aka freax _ _
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