Linux-Misc Digest #941, Volume #24 Mon, 26 Jun 00 12:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: WordPerfect 8: icons mangled ("Gerald Pollack")
clustering/raid (Michal Kolesar)
Re: GnomeICU: incompatible widget ("Anthony")
Re: connecting to ISP with linux (John Hasler)
Re: Weird email to FETCHMAIL-DAEMON (long) (David Steuber)
Re: connecting to ISP with linux (acepea)
Re: No data displayed by ntop 1.3.1. (Jason Bassford)
Re: Font Colors in 6.2 won't change (Dances With Crows)
Re: linux as a client :-( ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Gnutella fans, READ THIS! (Francois Labreque)
Re: Who is loading the system and why? (David Steuber)
Re: Who is loading the system and why? (David Steuber)
Re: Who is loading the system and why? (J Bland)
Binary <> Free Borland C Compiler (Binary)
Re: linux as a client :-( (Rod Smith)
Re: democracy? (Bob Hauck)
Re: linux as a client :-(
Re: Font Colors in 6.2 won't change (Philip Chapman)
fetchmail hangs on first run (Mur)
Re: ssh/rsh ("Chuck Swiger")
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From: "Gerald Pollack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8: icons mangled
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:12:04 GMT
In article <Btt55.215293$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith) wrote:
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <C8r55.6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "G Pollack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I've installed WP8.0, personal (free) version. Both during
>> installation, and when running the program after installation, the
>> graphic icons are garbled and illegible. This is true both with the
>> version of WP that comes with Mandrake 6.5, and with the version
>> downloaded from Corel. My system: Mandrake 7.1, gnome 1.2, sawfish.
>
> This problem is common with 24-bit displays, and occasionally with
> 32-bit displays. Try switching X to use a 16-bit display and see if it
> goes away. (BTW, several other programs, including Netscape, suffer from
> the same problem.)
>
> Rumor had it that XFree86 4.0 would include a workaround for this
> problem. I was under the impression that Mandrake 7.1 shipped with
> XFree86 4.0. If so, and if that's what you're using, then obviously this
> fix didn't arrive, which is unfortunate. If you're running XFree86
> 3.3.x and need a 24-bit display, though, you might consider upgrading
> to XFree86 4.0.
>
Thanks: switching to 32-bit fixed it.
--
G. Pollack
Dept. of Biology, McGill Univ.
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From: Michal Kolesar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: cz.comp.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: clustering/raid
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:18:57 +0200
Hi all,
where can I get informations about clustering/raid on linux?
Thank You!
--
Preji prijemny zbytek dne.
Michal Kolesar
===========================================================
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mobil: +420-608-225025
ICQ: 27403872 home : +420-2-7860326
http://egarden.cz work : +420-2-61710034,6
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From: "Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: GnomeICU: incompatible widget
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 21:34:08 +0800
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, S P
Arif Sahari Wibowo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I tried the newest GnomeICU, version 0.93. Since I have RedHat 6.0, I
> use the RPM version gnomeicu-0.93-1.i386.rpm. However, on installation
> it gave this error:
>
> Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_signal_connect(): could not find signal
> "change_pixel_size" in the `AppletWidget' class ancestry
> gnomeicu: error in loading shared libraries: gnomeicu: undefined symbol:
> applet_widget_get_panel_pixel_size
>
> If I am not wrong, this was because I still use the gnome-core 1.0, not
> the development version, right?
>
> BTW, the last version for gnome-core 1.0, gnomeicu-0.92-2.i386.rpm gave
> this error on 'Add Contact':
>
> gnomeicu: error in loading shared libraries: gnomeicu: undefined symbol:
> gnome_druid_new
This problem is documented in the gnomeicu page.
I suggest getting gnome-core and gnome-devel 1.0.53 at least. Or if
your distro is current enough (e.g. rh 6.1, Mandrake 7, SuSe 6.4),
download the helix gnome packages.
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: connecting to ISP with linux
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:33:21 GMT
Nicholas John Murison writes:
> The automatic configuration of DNS does not occur under PPP handshaking
> under Linux.
That is what pppd's 'usepeerdns' option is for.
> As far as I can remember this is because the automatic DNS configuration
> is a M$ extension of the PPP protocol.
Not true.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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Subject: Re: Weird email to FETCHMAIL-DAEMON (long)
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:00:00 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith) writes:
' As I said in my previous message, I don't think the messages identifying
' the e-mail as spam originate with BA. The only line in which the word
' "spam" appears in the example you posted matches EXACTLY a string found
' in the Fetchmail binary. That says to me that Fetchmail has
' (mis-)identified the message as spam, probably because Sendmail has
' bounced it. Perhaps Sendmail thinks it's spam, or perhaps Sendmail has
' bounced the message for some unrelated reason, but the refusal code
' matches one that Fetchmail associates with spam.
Oh, right. Reading too quick again.
I've been running fetchmail with -v -v. It displays the entire
conversation it makes with both the POP3 servers and the local SMTP
server. So when this happens again, I should see why. Or at least
what.
' Also, do you really think BA is monitoring your e-mail closely enough to
' notice a bounced message (that bounces back to you) with one line
' claiming it's spam? I think they've got better things to do.
Just because you're paranoid... ;-)
' I don't think the problem is the To: address on the incoming mail; I
' think it's something else in the headers, or possibly the format of the
' mail. For instance, some MTAs can get picky about carriage returns
' (although I don't believe Sendmail is one of them). You might also be
' running into trouble with Fetchmail's rewrite rules. According to
' Fetchmail's manpage, it rewrites headers in some situations. It might
' be rewriting these headers in such a way that Sendmail gets confused
' and bounces the message. The rewriting might even make tracing the
' problem more difficult. (Search for "norewrite" in the Fetchmail
' manpage for more details.)
The norewrite option has been turned on the entire time. I just wish
set nobouncemail worked. Documented but not implemented. I wonder if
that is a SuSE thing.
' As to sendmail.cf, don't even try to edit it. I'm foggy on the details,
' but most systems use some other configuration files that can be compiled
' into the sendmail.cf file.
SuSE maintains a template file and generates the sendmail.cf file from
settings that are kept in rc.config. Once you mess with sendmail.cf
directly, SuSEConfig knows about it and won't touch it anymore.
--
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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Subject: Re: connecting to ISP with linux
From: acepea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 07:04:53 -0700
>Nicholas John Murison writes:
>> The automatic configuration of DNS does not occur under PPP
handshaking under Linux.
>
>That is what pppd's 'usepeerdns' option is for.
>
any idea on how to set this pppd's 'usepeerdns' option? It'd be
really neat if the connection would autoconfigure itself.
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Subject: Re: No data displayed by ntop 1.3.1.
From: Jason Bassford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 07:18:56 -0700
NTOP PROBLEM RESOLVED!!
I DID finally get ntop 1.3.1 to work. I ended ripping out all
libpcap and tcpdump RPMs that I'd installed, and then compiling
and installing the latest tarballs from tcpdump.org. In doing so
I discovered that there was a directory structure that did not
exist which libpcap needed in order to function properly. (I
guess the RPMs didn't create it, nor did they give an error
message.) Once I created the structure '/usr/local/include/net')
and ran 'make install-incl' again (as per the source INSTALL
file), it finished properly. Re-installing ntop afterwards
solved all problems.
Jason.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Font Colors in 6.2 won't change
Date: 26 Jun 2000 10:23:13 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:32:02 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<8j7ig2$nn5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I'm running RH 6.2 with Gnome My problem is this.
>when I bring up any terminal and so a ls -la I my
>directories are showing up in a blurry blue font.
>Even though I can go into settings----colors---
>and change the background and foreground colors
>of my font (which do change) my directories
>still stay blue. How can I go about changing this?
Most people *want* ls to be aliased to "ls --color=tty" because the
colors convey information more easily than putting / or * on the end of
filenames. Just "unalias ls" in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile.
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: linux as a client :-(
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:28:04 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 07:01:48 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>
> >>2. Fonts are still a problem. I installed Mandrake 7.1, with
> >> XFree86 4.0, and Netscape fonts still can't compete with Internet
> >> Explorer on Windows. Is there some linux distribution that has
> >
> > Stop trying to use the fonts that Windows-centric sites want
> > to force on you and this problem disappears.
>
> install xfstt and add its the fonts in servers to your font path
using xset -
> man xset or read the README with xfstt for info. Its a 5 miinute job.
>
>
Isn't XFree86 4.0 supposed to fix all that so that xfstt is not needed
any more?
I thought that one of the biggest advantages of XFree86 4.0 was
supposed to be its great support for true type fonts.
-Adnan
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 10:40:14 -0400
From: Francois Labreque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Gnutella fans, READ THIS!
Rick wrote:
>
> Jim Hill wrote:
> >
> > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Kracked Up <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >At last, we have a resouce that's not been commercialized and
> > >exploited...yet...
> >
> > Your protest would be a lot more tolerable if you weren't using a news
> > server which pisses into the world's spools with every post by tacking
> > an ad onto your own content:
> >
> > >Got questions? Get answers over the phone at Keen.com.
> > >Up to 100 minutes free!
> > >http://www.keen.com
> >
> > Jim
>
> Yeah.. that's at least as bad as redirecting music searches to porn
> sites... sheesh. Get a grip.
Hmm... one poster feels cheated that his morally questionable activities
(stealing music) are being hampered by another company's questionable
morals (spamming porn). The second poster complains about the
questionable morals of a third company (spamming their services).
Which is worse? You be the judge.
--
Francois Labreque | Rimmer: "Let's go to red alert!"
flabreq | Kryten: "Are you sure, Sir? You realize it
@ | actually means changing the bulb!"
attglobal.net
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Subject: Re: Who is loading the system and why?
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:00:02 GMT
Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
' Solo has X11 up (looks like KDE), interloper does not. The X server has
' a loop (as does most of the X11 clients), that is periodically checking
' to see if the silly user has moved the mouse, clicked a button, or typed
' a key on the keyboard. These loops are not *individually* cpu bound, but
' there is some cumulatively cpu and I/O usage. So, 10 processes using
' 1/10 of the system resources == a load average of 1. Or 10 processes
' using 1/100 of the system 10 times each during some 'period' also equals
' a load average of 1. Your system is working, but is doing many *brief*
' little things every few milisecs or so. A load average of 1 is not a
' big deal, unless you have a '386 at 20mhz or something. I just counted:
' 12 X11 clients, plus the X server. Note: you are running kdm on solo,
' but not on interloper. What happens is you do this:
'
' Log out of your X session.
' do a CTRL-ALT-F2
' login to the console there.
' do:
'
' telinit 3
'
' NOW wait a minute or so and do a top now.
'
' Watch as the load average drifts down to about 0.
X + KDE had never run the load up before. This is new. That is why I
am asking about it. But I will give it a shot. I can't do it right
now.
--
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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Subject: Re: Who is loading the system and why?
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:00:03 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland) writes:
' Tracking down stuff like this can be a bit of a bugger. I know someone's
' machine that sometimes gets LAs of 5 or more while doing nothing, simply
' because her nfsed laptop has been taken off the network.
Funky. This is definatly driving me nuts. Oh, sure, system
performance does not appear to be affected, but it still bothers me.
' LA 1 means average of 1 process, whatever is on there may not be doing
' anything more than waiting for IO to come in that never does.
Is there a way to determin if a process is blocked? I see SW under
the stat colum for some processes. Can a process that has a stat of S
or SW cause the load to go up?
' Can't think of anything clever to try, so shutdown your X and WM, drop to a
' virtual console. Check LA. If it's still up, start stopping/killing
' non-essential processes until you find the one that's causing it. Once we
' know which one it is it may be something trivial.
I went through a complete reboot, and the problem didn't go away.
What's really weird... Wait a minute... Could changing the
parameters to /sbin/update in my init scripts cause this problem?
When the machine isn't busy doing any real work, I'll try reverting
the init script ( /sbin/init.d/boot ) back to its original state.
That is the only thing I think I have changed before this problem
showed up.
--
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] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: Who is loading the system and why?
Date: 26 Jun 2000 15:04:14 GMT
>I went through a complete reboot, and the problem didn't go away.
>What's really weird... Wait a minute... Could changing the
>parameters to /sbin/update in my init scripts cause this problem?
>
>When the machine isn't busy doing any real work, I'll try reverting
>the init script ( /sbin/init.d/boot ) back to its original state.
>That is the only thing I think I have changed before this problem
>showed up.
Unless someone knows a way of listing things in the IO queue I think the
best way of tracking something like this down is just to kill things off one
by one until you find the culprit, although an educated guess can speeden it
up.
Frinky
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From: Binary <.@.>
Subject: Binary <> Free Borland C Compiler
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 17:14:02 +0200
Hello,
Can anybody post the exact link of the program to download it and
avoid the web registration?
Thanks ins advance.
Binary
Binary "at" wol "dot" es
| at =3D "@" | dot =3D "." |
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: linux as a client :-(
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:17:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Sorry for using the wrong language. You just rephased my comments. RH has
> enough customizations to make RPM packages useless on non-redhat systems. I
> had a hard time installing Sybase (rpm only) on Debian some times ago.
Your comments are WAY too broad. I've used MANY Red Hat packages on
non-Red Hat systems. Sure, some don't work, but most of those are
daemons, and the only reason they don't work "out of the RPM" is
because of differences in startup scripts. These problems are unique to
neither Red Hat nor RPM.
> Have you tried installing "standard" drivers on RH systems? I had to
> install standard modules, then base modules and finally the entire kernel and
> modules to make things work.
The vast majority of Linux drivers are part of the kernel. If you need
to install something that doesn't come with the kernel, then by
definition it's non-standard.
That said, my personal preference is to compile kernels from source
obtained from a tarball. This has simply caused me fewer problems,
especially when I want to use a non-standard driver. I do this on *ALL*
my systems -- Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE, Debian, whatever.
>> > Sorry, your arguments don't make sense. You certainly have a right to
>> > dislike Red Hat, and I'm not going to argue that Red Hat is without
>> > flaws, but you're accusing Red Hat of things they do not -- and legally
>> > may not -- do. Please be more precise in your arguments against Red Hat.
>
> I am not accusing RH of anything. I am just stating my problems with driver
> modules and RPM packages. You might not have any problem, but many (include
> myself) have encountered them.
I never said I didn't have any problems with Red Hat; in fact, I stated
quite clearly "I'm not going to argue that Red Hat is without flaws."
You, however, did make inaccurate and overly-broad claims:
> Blame RH for proprietary extensions
and
> RPM may be GPL, but many programs in RPM are not.
and
> RH has enough customizations to make RPM packages useless on
> non-redhat systems.
None of these claims is entirely accurate (the second is in certain
contexts, but not the one from which it was drawn). As I said, it's fine
if you don't like Red Hat, but it's important when discussing such
matters that you express yourself with at least a modicum of precision.
If you'd said "I don't like Red Hat because some RPM packages don't
install easily on non-Red Hat systems," you wouldn't be getting as much
argument. Of course, as others have pointed out, ALL distributions
include customized versions of programs, so it's not really clear that
Red Hat is any worse in this respect than others. From what I can
gather, your problem is that many packages are available in RPM format,
and some of these assume they'll be installed on a Red Hat system, but
that's not the distribution you're running. You'd have similar problems
if Sybase had been packaged for Debian and you were using SuSE, or if it
had been packaged for Caldera and you were using Corel, etc.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: democracy?
Reply-To: hauck[at]codem{dot}com
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:24:29 GMT
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:32:19 GMT, Desmond Coughlan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It's slightly off-topic for this newsgroup, but I'm not entirely conv-
>inced that democracy is a Good Thing. The average voter has the
>intelligence of a dormouse,
What is the intelligence of the average despot?
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| Codem Systems, Inc.
-| http://www.codem.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: linux as a client :-(
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:33:51 GMT
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:36:25 +0100, Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 07:01:48 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>
>>>2. Fonts are still a problem. I installed Mandrake 7.1, with
>>> XFree86 4.0, and Netscape fonts still can't compete with Internet
>>> Explorer on Windows. Is there some linux distribution that has
>>
>> Stop trying to use the fonts that Windows-centric sites want
>> to force on you and this problem disappears.
>
>install xfstt and add its the fonts in servers to your font path using xset -
>man xset or read the README with xfstt for info. Its a 5 miinute job.
Nah, TT fonts will still be horribly blocky. They're expecting to
be able to exploit greyscale anti-aliasing & X only sees fonts in
one bitplane.
A good Adobe Type 1 font will serve you much better. Merely telling
your browser to override the fonts specified by a webpage will also
do quite a bit to de-uglify Netscrape.
Edit->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts
--
|||
/ | \
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From: Philip Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Font Colors in 6.2 won't change
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:36:38 GMT
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:32:02 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <<8j7ig2$nn5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >I'm running RH 6.2 with Gnome My problem is this.
> >when I bring up any terminal and so a ls -la I my
> >directories are showing up in a blurry blue font.
> >Even though I can go into settings----colors---
> >and change the background and foreground colors
> >of my font (which do change) my directories
> >still stay blue. How can I go about changing this?
>
> Most people *want* ls to be aliased to "ls --color=tty" because the
> colors convey information more easily than putting / or * on the end of
> filenames. Just "unalias ls" in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile.
>
unaliasing ls will only cause everything to be output in the same
color. If you want to change the color of a specific file type
(directory) take a look at the colour-ls mini-howto
http://www.armed.net/how/pg000078.htm
It will give you instruction on how to go about it.
--
Philip A. Chapman
IT Manager for Alliance TeleSolutions
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Subject: fetchmail hangs on first run
From: Mur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 08:46:00 -0700
I've configured fetchmail to run via cron job throughout the day
while I'm at work, fetching mail from the corporate server and my
personal ISP (the latter mail is downloaded but left on the
server so I can grab it from home later). For some reason, while
fetchmail works just fine throughout the day, the very *first*
invocation hangs. I have to kill it when I arrive, and then if I
run it manually it works fine (and then continues to work
properly via cron for the rest of the day). My workstation
remains booted up overnight, so it doesn't appear to be something
related to the workstation's "state" in the morning.
My fetchmail config file looks like this (security-filtered):
poll pop.***.net protocol pop3 timeout 60
username **** there has password "****"
is "****" here and wants keep and mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
poll ***.***.***.*** protocol pop3 timeout 60
username **** there has password "****"
is "****" here and wants nokeep and mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d
%T"
The cron entry looks like this:
*/6 8-17 * * mon-fri fetchmail --verbose >~/fetchmail.log
Jeff Boes//ICQ=3394914//Yahoo!=jeffboes//AOL IM=jboes
[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Chuck Swiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ssh/rsh
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:59:57 GMT
In comp.os.linux.networking Thorsten Jungeblut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1. Is there a way to tell rsh the time for trying to get the connection,
> until it aborts?
Use the ssh-provided replacement for rsh.
> 2. I want to use encrypted connections using ssh, because rsh
> connections will be disabled soon.
> Is there a way to use ssh in the same way as rsh, where f.e. the
> connections from the nis-master are allowed to all hosts (as root)
If you configure /etc/sshd_config to permit root login, sure.
> 3. Is there a way to pass ssh(2) the right password automatically
> (perhaps already encrypted), so that I don't allow even the nis-master
> to connect as root to the other hosts without a given password???
Yes, although a better way is to propogate root's identity.pub to
authorized_keys for all of the machines (see 'man ssh-keygen' & RSA
authentication).
-Chuck
Chuck 'Sisyphus' Swiger | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Bad cop! No Donut.
------------------------+-------------------+--------------------
I know that you are an optimist if you think I am a pessimist....
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