Linux-Misc Digest #962, Volume #24 Wed, 28 Jun 00 09:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Capturing Screen images in Linux Environment ("Charles")
Red Hat*.kdelnk. Where is it? (Kheng-Teong Goh)
Anyone know these programs/utilities...?? (Hendrix)
Re: Connecting Dumb Terminals (Thomas Hommel)
Re: non-root chown system call (Thomas Hommel)
Re: Telnet LINUX (J Bland)
Using the mouse scrollwheel ("Bart van Hest")
Re: Setting console fonts... (Alex Butcher)
Re: stability of culture of helpfulness ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: Using the mouse scrollwheel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD/Linux (Martin Herrman)
tar.gz question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Capturing Screen images in Linux Environment ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: getting software (H H Chau)
Re: linux swap partition? (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: getting software (Chris Orth)
Re: Red Hat*.kdelnk. Where is it? (NEO)
Re: Using the mouse scrollwheel (Olav Fossgaard)
Re: Simple questions: Pronounce, FreeBSD, pico etc....*s* (Fro-Man)
my restore failed, pls help! (Zheng Liu)
Re: insmod failed? (Michael Molson)
Re: Font Colors in 6.2 won't change ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Porblems with my ISDN Card (Joris Maes)
Re: Struggling with postfix (brian moore)
Re: Problems NFS mounting from Solaris to Linux (Linux is server) (Kenny McCormack)
is there a port to windows media player? ("Daniel Klimkowski")
Requirements for writing an operating system... ("-")
Downloadspeed limit with apache ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[JOB] Debian installer needed near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Who is loading the system and why? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Capturing Screen images in Linux Environment
Date: 28 Jun 2000 17:18:48 +0800
1st question :
Does anyone know anyway I can save an screen image in Linux environment for teaching
purposes.
2nd question :
I happen to know there is a software that can emulate Windows in Linux but I have
forgotten the actual name. Can anyone share the name of the product perhaps.
Thank You Very Much.
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From: Kheng-Teong Goh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Red Hat*.kdelnk. Where is it?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:28:28 +0800
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Can somebody tell me where exactly is those icons in Red Hat 6.2? I
deleted it.
I need to know where exactly it is installed so I can remove it with the
kickstart %post.
Please help. Thanks in advance.
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From: Hendrix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Anyone know these programs/utilities...??
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 07:04:17 -0230
Hi guys,
I'm looking for copies of the following files... If anyone can tell me
where to get them, please email... It would save me a lot of trouble,
and I would greatly appreciate it... Thanks...
1. file
2. flex
I'd like to have the site of the group/individual who maintains these
programs...
Sincerely,
--
Trevor Penney,
A+, Network+ Certified
======================
That's alright, I still got my guitar...
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From: Thomas Hommel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Connecting Dumb Terminals
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:49:44 +0200
Hi
If you have a serial terminal, you have to run a getty on your serial
port. Have a look at the Text-Terminal-HOWTO.
Tom
Russell wrote:
>
> I would like to setup a dumb terminal to my linux server, does anyone know
> how to do this, do i need any special software or is there any software that
> needs to be used for connecting server to terminal
>
> I need some ideas
>
> thanx in advanced
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From: Thomas Hommel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: non-root chown system call
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:52:01 +0200
Hi
Try setting it to 0.
All non-zero values evaluate to TRUE, zero evaluates to FALSE.
Tom
"Marc J. Miller" wrote:
>
> I'm writing a program that needs to be able to give a file to someone
> else without being root. System V Unix allows the owner of a file to
> chown it to someone else, but Linux doesn't.
>
> There's a variable _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED which is supposed to control
> this behavior, but I can't figure out how to manipulate it. By default,
> it's declared as "1". I thought I should be able to do
>
> #define _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED -1
>
> to turn off this restriction, but it didn't help.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: Telnet LINUX
Date: 28 Jun 2000 09:56:06 GMT
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 03:09:40 GMT, Herb Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>And that is the ONLY way root should ever get in.
Not if your network connection is insecure in any way. At 'home' it may be
all right, but most of the time you want any connection which has passwords
going down it encrypted. Enter (open)ssh.
Frinky
ps And post /after/ the quoted text, or we get threads jumping around.
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From: "Bart van Hest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Using the mouse scrollwheel
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:59:17 +0200
Is it possible to use the mouse scrollwheel in Linux? Mapping it to PgUp and
PgDn would be sufficient....
--
===========================================================================
Bart van Hest
Software/Hardware engineer
Arcobel ASIC Design Centre
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Personal homepage: http://dabit.trybit.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Butcher)
Subject: Re: Setting console fonts...
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 20:25:31 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 04:02:39 -0230, Hendrix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi guys,
>
>How can I set the font size for my console...!!! I used to do it in DOS
>with the 'mode' command... Any such command, utility, or setting to use
>for linux... Thanks,
SVGAtextmode (or stm as it's commonly abbreviated) is the most flexible.
>--
>Trevor Penney,
>A+, Network+ Certified
>----------------------
>That's alright, I still got my guitar...
Best Regards,
Alex.
--
Alex Butcher Using Linux since '95 - because windows are too easy to break.
Berkshire, UK URLBLAST:slashdot.org:www.freshmeat.net:www.deja.com:lwn.net:
PGP:0x33489FD3 www.tomshardware.com:www.stardiv.de:www.gimp.org:www.google.com
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: stability of culture of helpfulness
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:39:06 GMT
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+ In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006252222390.4371-
+ [EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
+ "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+ > You are a real piece of work. Learn to spell, get an idea of what
+ > you are talking about, then maybe post if you have something useful
+ > to contribute, troll.
+
+ I believe that would make you the troll-ee. Nice spelling flame too!
Not the 'troll-ee', but the *plonker*. :-) Big difference.
anm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Using the mouse scrollwheel
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 12:16:41 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:59:17 +0200, "Bart van Hest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is it possible to use the mouse scrollwheel in Linux? Mapping it to PgUp and
>PgDn would be sufficient....
Get imwheel at
http://jcatki.dhs.org/imwheel/
it can do all mapping you want.
--
Eggert Ehmke
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Herrman)
Subject: OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD/Linux
Date: 28 Jun 2000 10:16:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear reader,
i'm using linux for about one year now and i'm asking myself: is there
something better? Linux is much faster and reliable than Windows Operating
systems, but now i'm reading about the BSD operating systems i would like
to have some information about the differences between them (OpenBSD,
FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux and maybe Solaris (is solaris free?)) at the
following subjects:
1. speed
2. reliability
3. networkingspeed
4. hardware support
5. amount of MB needed for installation
6. availability of desktop applications (netscape, licq, pine, slrn, xanim and
so on)
7. security
I hope someone can tell me more about these other operating systems or can send
me an URL.
much thanks in advance,
Martin
--
Linux Gebruikers Handleiding v1.2 : http://2mypage.cjb.net
Linux RedHat 6.1 Kernel 2.2.14 Toshiba P233 MHz, 32 Mb RAM
12:00pm up 15 days, 4:44, 3 users, load average: 0.03, 0.14, 0.12
Western Civilization, that would be a good idea!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: tar.gz question
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:13:15 GMT
I have downloaded netscape enterprise server from the internet and now
I want to put the files on tape. The files reside on a linux server.
What I need to know is the commands for putting .gz files onto a DAT
tape (/dev/nst0). Can I use tar cvf /dev/nst0?
Also, once the files are on the tape what is the command to extraxt
them as I want to put them on another Linux machine.
Thanks
Pete
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Capturing Screen images in Linux Environment
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 12:26:10 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 28 Jun 2000 17:18:48 +0800, "Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know anyway I can save an screen image in Linux environment for teaching
>purposes.
Get the Gimp. As a side effect, you get an excellent graphic program.
http://www.gimp.org/
It should be with your distribution.
>2nd question :
>I happen to know there is a software that can emulate Windows in Linux but I have
>forgotten the actual name. Can anyone share the name of the product perhaps.
I guess you mean Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator)
It's far from perfect, but some windows programs run nice with it.
http://www.winehq.com/
If you have a fast machine with lot of ram and some spare money, VMWare may be
what you want. It can run a complete Windows installation under Linux.
http://www.vmware.com/
--
Eggert Ehmke
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H H Chau)
Subject: Re: getting software
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:32:09 +0100 (BST)
In alt.os.linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Surprisingly, Pine isn't part of my RH6.2 (I downloaded CD image) -
> "whereis" doesn't find Pine (but finds emacs, e.g.)
I believe it's because of the licence term by University of
Washington prevents distribution of binary or something
similar. In Debian, I need to download the source package,
compile, and install my own .deb package. If my suspicion
is right, I guess you need to do the same with Redhat.
Cheers
Hau Hing
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: linux swap partition?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:30:54 GMT
Keith wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm thinking of installing linux
Very recomendably!
Actually you can install on/in FAT partition. Slackware has zip files
which contain whole working distro to be unzipped on DOS/Windows file
system.
Those are for "window shopping" as they don't perform optimally, neither
speed nor hardware usage (GUI in basic 640x480 256 colors).
Swap files - lets say that they are a must for newbie, when you become a
super-guru then you decide for yourself.
No recomendations on distros, whichever you chose - learn to administer
it, sounds more scary than it is but once over the steep learning start
things are easy.
> --
> *************************************
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://pages.prodigy.net/mrkeith
> AIM: mrthekeith
> ICQ: 66068365
And quoting SuSE "Have a lot of fun..."
--
******* Stanislaw ********
Monolog - one person talking to himself,
dialog - two people talking to themselves.
-Shaike Ofir-
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From: Chris Orth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: getting software
Date: 28 Jun 2000 12:24:51 GMT
In alt.os.linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Surprisingly, Pine isn't part of my RH6.2 (I downloaded CD image) -
: "whereis" doesn't find Pine (but finds emacs, e.g.)
I find this odd, since it is in the ftp distribution:
ftp.valinux.com (mirror):
/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/redhat-6.2/i386/RedHat/RPMS/pine-4.21-8.i386.rpm
Chris
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From: NEO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Red Hat*.kdelnk. Where is it?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:24:47 +0530
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Kheng-Teong Goh wrote:
>>Can somebody tell me where exactly is those icons in Red Hat 6.2? I
>deleted it.
>
>I need to know where exactly it is installed so I can remove it with the
>kickstart %post.
>
>Please help. Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
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just check in the direcotry "/usr/share/icons "--> i found all the icons there
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From: Olav Fossgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using the mouse scrollwheel
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:26:22 +0200
Bart van Hest wrote:
>
> Is it possible to use the mouse scrollwheel in Linux? Mapping it to PgUp and
> PgDn would be sufficient....
Have a look at
http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
Olav
--
SAINT, n.
A dead sinner revised and edited.
- The Devil's Dictionary
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From: Fro-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Simple questions: Pronounce, FreeBSD, pico etc....*s*
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 08:38:30 -0400
On 28 Jun 2000, Equinox wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 06:12:09 -0230, Hendrix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 1. vi --- Is it spelled out or spoken "Veye"...
> vye
six. Isn't that how its supposed to be called?
# Aaron Day # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # www.csis.gvsu.edu/~daya #
Sixth Commandment:
Thou shalt humor they mother and father.
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From: Zheng Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: my restore failed, pls help!
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:47:09 +0200
hi all,
I have dump a partition with 14GB data by using:
"/sbin/dump 0ubdsf 128 3200 524288 /dev/nst0 /dev/sda3"
on a DDS3-Tape. The dump process seems ok.
(See following Logfile:).
=============================================================
REWINDING THE TAPE...
DUMPING /dev/sda3 in process...
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Jun 26 15:30:14 2000
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/sda3 (/home) to /dev/nst0
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 14958154 tape blocks on -0.08 tape(s).
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
DUMP: 0.97% done, finished in 8:31
......
DUMP: 99.72% done, finished in 0:00
DUMP: DUMP: 14986315 tape blocks on 1 volumes(s)
DUMP: level 0 dump on Mon Jun 26 15:30:14 2000
DUMP: Closing /dev/nst0
DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
DUMPING FINISHED AND REWIND AND EJECT THE TAPE
======================================================
But as i run "/sbin/restore if /dev/st0", I got following
message:
"resync restore, skipped 1 blocks"
"Cannot find file dump list"
and I couldn't get the data on the tape restored. Any idea???
Thanks in advance.
(PS. The DDS3-Tape-Drive is HP C1537A)
-Zheng
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From: Michael Molson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: insmod failed?
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 01:00:43 GMT
are you using RH? you must alias your eth1 to
the 3c509 module in /etc/conf.modules (modules.conf)
file.
ie alias eth1 3c509
mike molson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Devon Harding wrote:
> I'm getting "insmod eth1 failed" during boot-up, but i'm able to manually to
> bring up the ethernet like this:
>
> # insmod 3c509
> # ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.1
>
> How can I enable this through boot-up. The device it a 3Com 509b on eth1
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Devon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Font Colors in 6.2 won't change
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 19:58:29 GMT
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> 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.
True, but blue is a silly colour to choose (low contrast).
I have my directories set up to be shown as brown (dark yellow).
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From: Joris Maes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Porblems with my ISDN Card
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 21:40:18 GMT
Reply-To: Joris Maes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello,
I'm trying to install my isdn card, but i ran into a lot of
problems. My
card wasn't supported by i4l so I got the modules from the manufacturer,
and
placed them into the right directory "/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/misc". The
modules are compiled for the kernel 2.2.12 but they may be loaded with
higher kernels acoording to the manufacturer. BTW, my card is an ASUSCOM
P-IN100-ST-D ( a pci card). There were two modules: isdn.o en hisax.o.
I loaded isdn.o with the command "#insmod -f isdn.o", I got a warning
about the version, but the module was loaded. But when I try to load the
hisax module ("#insmod -f hisax.o") I got the following error
Warning: kernel-module version mismatch
hisax.o was compiled for kernel version 2.2.12
while this kernel is version 2.2.12-20
hisax.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
The problem could be an IRQ conflict, in Winblows I have to disable one
of
serial ports.
I disabled both the serieal ports in BIOS(AWARD) and I disabled
PnP-OS.
Also when I do a depmod -a I get the following errors
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/misc/dss1_divert.o : unresolved symbol(s)
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/misc/pcbit.o : unresolved symbol(s)
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/misc/isdnloop.o : unresolved symbol(s)
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/misc/isdn_bsdcomp.o : unresolved symbol(s)
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/misc/isdn.o : unresolved symbol(s)
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/misc/icn.o : unresolved symbol(s)
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/misc/hisax.o : unresolved symbol(s)
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/misc/capidrv.o : unresolved symbol(s)
I hope you can answer the following questions, or point me the way to a
good HOWTO or FAQ(although i already read a lot of them).
-Is it an IRQ conflict??
-If yes, how do I solve it?
My configuration
RH6.1 with kernel version 2.2.12-20
AMD-K7 500 Mhz, 64MB RAM
NIC: Realtek 8139
SBLive(doesn't work yet in Linux)
Riva TNT2 Ultra M64
Thanks, Joris, If you have any answers responses are welcome at
[EMAIL PROTECTED], or in the newsgroup, don't send to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
P.S. If this is the wrong newsgroup, please excuse me and point me to the
right
one.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Struggling with postfix
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:34:13 GMT
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 04:11:45 GMT,
AlexPGP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> During a recent upgrade from Mandrake 7.0 to 7.1, my postfix
> I-got-it-to-work-somehow config setup got stepped on, leaving me with
> "virgin" config files.
I started playing with postfix finally a couple weeks ago. It's a very
nice package, and Wietse and friends have done an amazingly cool job
with it. The only reason I have sendmail running it all is that I like
per-user filters at the SMTP stage, which, alas, only sendmail is able
to do as far as I can tell.
> I took this opportunity to clean up the naming in my home network, and
> have but one thing (!?) left to figure out before I will let this rest.
>
> The background is this: the machine I work on has no real domain;
> /etc/HOSTNAME is 'twain' and myhostname in main.cf is given as
> 'twain.localdomain'. The 'twain' host connects to the rest of the world
> through another Linux box that does IP masquerading (for this example,
> 'huck.net' with a static IP of 207.1.23.45). When I send mail out to
> the world, I notice that the sendmail part of postfix relays the mail
> through the destination, i.e., if I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the relay
> is through foo.com.
That works but isn't ideal. I did that a number of years ago on a
dialup and found that mailing my parents at AOL was a crap shoot:
sometimes AOL's mail server wouldn't respond in a timely manner when I
was online, so my mail would eventually end up in my mailbox. The
'smarthost' feature is ideal for this sort of thing for that reason.
> My problem is this: receiver machines often look at the header that
> reads, in part (for example):
>
> Received: from twain.localdomain (huck.net [207.1.23.45])
> by receiver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id xxxxxxx
>
> and then decide that since 'twain.localdomain' doesn't resolve, that the
> mail is bogus and the message gets bounced.
>
> My proposed solution is to figure out how I can *force* 'twain' to relay
> through my ISPs mail server, because if I can do that, the problem goes
> away, since my ISP's mail server will accept mail from my static IP
> address.
Well, you should do that anyway (see above for why sending mail from a
box without fulltime connectivity isn't ideal), but it won't fix your
problem.
> Of course, if there's a better way to do this, I'm all ears.
Step 1: configure postfix to use your ISP as a smarthost (ie, have your
box play dumb and send non-local mail to your ISP). This is the
'relayhost' variable.
Step 2: fix your headers so that you have a valid return address (you do
want to get your bounces so that you know when you typo'd an address,
right?). I do this with Mutt and Postfix is happy to believe me.
The 'helo' address (which you show in the received line above) should
be a valid hostname, but anyone using that as a spam check is losing
lots of mail, as it is very often not valid. The check you're failing
in is the return envelope ('MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' in the SMTP
stage).
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny McCormack)
Subject: Re: Problems NFS mounting from Solaris to Linux (Linux is server)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:22:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8j8bo8$2g2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <8j855r$hit$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Kenny McCormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On the Solaris (2.5.1) side (w.x.y.z is IP addr of Linux machine (hard IP,
>>no DNS):
>>
>># mount w.x.y.z:/tmp !$
>>mount w.x.y.z:/tmp /splat
>>nfs mount: w.x.y.z: NFS service not responding
>>nfs mount: retrying: /splat
>>^C# (I hit ^C here to interrupt it)
>>
>>and on the Linux side, in /var/log/messages (fluffy is machine name):
>>
>>Jun 26 12:21:13 fluffy mountd[469]: authenticated mount request from sunmachine:964
>>Jun 26 12:21:13 fluffy kernel: svc: unknown version (3)
>>Jun 26 12:21:13 fluffy mountd[469]: authenticated mount request from sunmachine:964
>>Jun 26 12:21:13 fluffy kernel: svc: unknown version (3)
>>Jun 26 12:21:18 fluffy mountd[469]: authenticated mount request from sunmachine:964
>>Jun 26 12:21:18 fluffy kernel: svc: unknown version (3)
>>Jun 26 12:21:28 fluffy mountd[469]: authenticated mount request from sunmachine:964
>>Jun 26 12:21:28 fluffy kernel: svc: unknown version (3)
>>
>>Any ideas?
>
>Well, on the face of it looks as though the Linux box is advertising NFS
>version 3 support through its portmapper, but that its kernel doesn't actually
>support version 3, so it all comes apart.
>
>Try forcing NFS version 2 at the Solaris end by using
>
> mount -o vers=2 w.x.y.z:/tmp /splat
>
>and see whether that works any better.
Yes! Many, many thanks.
The net works (I.e., post a question - get an answer!)
(Usually, it doesn't work so well, but when it does, it's beautiful...)
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From: "Daniel Klimkowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: is there a port to windows media player?
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:10:10 GMT
I need to know if there is a port of Windows media player to Linux or
anything that emulates it. I'm wanting it so that I can stream audio from
online radio stations and most of them require Windows Media Player.
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From: "-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Requirements for writing an operating system...
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 00:18:24 GMT
Hi There
I am a linux newbie and I am very much fascinated with the Linux Kernel. And
Linus Torvalds is a role model for me because I too want to write my own OS
one day.
I am still in school and I know quite a lot of stuff in computers but I am
just curious about what are the requirements in order to write an OS. Can
anyone out there advise me please? Reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Downloadspeed limit with apache
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:19 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Download limit with apache
How can i set a download speed limit of files on my apache server ?
I want that visitors of my site have a download speed limit of 5
kb/s,
how can i set this in apache ?
Or if it can't with apache, is there an other way to set the download
limit ?
Thanks in advance,
Daans
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Before you buy.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [JOB] Debian installer needed near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:14 GMT
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Andrew E. Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> This is one of the stranger postings I've seen in newsgroups.
Thank you.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Who is loading the system and why?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:19 GMT
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland) writes:
>
> ' >Why do you think it is being loaded?
> '
> ' Because there is roughly an average of 1 process waiting in the
queue, but
> ' the cpu is practically idle. This can be confusing if you
consider LA to be
> ' cpu-based only.
>
> Aye, it is the load average I am concerned about.
>
> ' What is most probably causing it is an IO process of some sort; a
big ftp
> ' job, copying lots of files, that sort of thing, which doesn't use
much cpu
> ' but hammers the various IO devices.
>
> The disk is quiet. The network is quiet.
>
> ' Do a ps aux, and see if there's anything obviously working away
that shifts
> ' data.
>
> david@solo:> uptime
> 12:37pm up 13:09, 3 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
> david@solo:> ps aux
> USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
[snip a bunch of sleepers]
> root 157 0.0 0.3 1124 468 ? D 23:28 0:00
> /usr/sbin/apmd -w 10
this apmd is in the D state. doesn't that mean waiting for data from
some IO device? perhaps this is stuck and causing your load of 1.
this is just a wild guess from the earlier comment about IO. maybe
i have no idea what i am talking about. please correct me if so.
--
johan kullstam l72t00052
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