Linux-Misc Digest #315, Volume #25 Wed, 2 Aug 00 10:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: my SMTP server? (Robert Clayton)
Re: Crosswinds.net. is the worst 1803 ("Frederik Tilkin")
Re: Goosing the Mouse (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: Advice on cutting memory usage (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
Re: unable to locate cpp (Bob Martin)
Re: How to install soundcard? (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
Re: LinuxConf
Re: i386 i586 i686 I'm confused??? (Packetgeek)
Apache problem ("Simon H.")
Re: unable to locate cpp (Charles H. Chapman)
Re: at&t lex (Thomas Dickey)
Re: Apache problem (Davide Bianchi)
Allowing IP Range in hosts.allow ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
text files ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Christopher Browne)
GO2CALL and firewall (Laetus)
Re: Windows geek has some linux questions, please advise (Moritz Moeller-Herrmann)
Re: Windows geek has some linux questions, please advise (Moritz Moeller-Herrmann)
Re: Postscript ("Nobby")
Re: Apache problem ("Simon")
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From: Robert Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: my SMTP server?
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 16:50:40 -0400
Your SMTP server is your mail server. If you know the IP or
name, just provide it. If you don't know, your administrator
should. If your firewall is configured to allow SMTP, there
will be no issues (I don't see why you would block out SMTP).
Good Luck,
Robert
Peter Bismuti wrote:
> I'm trying to install a mail program that is asking for my
> SMTP server, how can I find out what it is? Do I just
> provide my IP address? or do I need to provide a port number?
> Are there any firewall issues? (I am behind one).
>
> Thanks!
--
Robert Clayton
Systems Engineer
ACTiXUSA
Tel +1 770-242-3397
http://www.actix-group.com
Providing international services for short-term UNIX projects.
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From: "Frederik Tilkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Crosswinds.net. is the worst 1803
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 11:18:06 GMT
You should read their policy before subscribing. It is mentioned there so
you have no reason to complain.
Extract of http://home.crosswinds.net/sign_up/:
NOTE: Failure to comply with our Guidelines may result in account
termination without notice.
Extract of http://home.crosswinds.net/sign_up/terms.php:
Sound and video files that you own the rights to may be uploaded only after
you are approved.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
news:QUQg5.23668$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hey everyone. Public service announcement here. LOL. I wanted to spare
you some heartache. If you have a website at all DO NOT use Crosswinds.net.
I had a website there for a month and spent hours everyday working on it and
have been getting a thousand hits a day and crosswinds.net just up and
DELETED IT without even so much as a warning. now all my hard work is gone.
I contacted them because I thought maybe they made a mistake and they
informed me Oh well. All because i had a song on my site. I want everyone
to know before anyone ever has to go thru this. Thanks for listening.
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From: DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Goosing the Mouse
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 07:40:37 -0400
"D. C. & M. V. Sessions" wrote:
>
> I hate mouse acceleration. The nonlinearity throws me
> off every time. What I really want is just a mouse with
> adjustable sensitivity, so that moderate mouse movements
> map to a full screen movement.
>
> Yeah, gpm can be set to report a multiplier, but that just
> means that you skip every other pixel or whatever. What I
> want is a more sensitive mouse. Rumor has it that some mice
> can actually be told to increase their sensitivity.
>
> Any suggestions?
I like the optical logitech trackball. The have optical mice,
too. One of the problems with most (cheap) mice is that they depend on
pressure of the rubber ball against a roller, and so have a lot of
"slop" the mouse drivers have to ignor. Especially if you are moving
the mouse in the direction "away" from the roller. Optical
mice/trackballs do not have this slop.
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Advice on cutting memory usage
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 07:50:15 -0400
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
> "Andrew J. Perrin" wrote:
> >
> > Greetings. I've got linux (Debian, kernel 2.0.38) running nicely on an
> > oldish laptop (Toshiba Portege 610CT), details will follow on setup
> > issues, of which there were quite few.
> >
> > My concern is that the system alone consumes most of the poor thing's
> > 16M of RAM:
>
> It's supposed to be this way. Let the kernel grab the memory and do what it
> sees fit with it. This is the way unix works (in general). This is not to
> say that you shouldn't recompile your kernel and make some things in to
> modules, just don't be alarmed that all the "free" memory is used by the
> "system." Free memory is bad -- let the kernel have it and decide what to
> do with it. If a 16mb machine has, say, 10mb free then the kernel isn't
> doing it's job. With only 16mb you should have some swap configured. How
> much depends on what kinds of things you run.
>
> This question has been asked hundreds of times on the linux groups since
> I've been reading them. There's no problem here from what you've described.
> It's normal. Here's part of the 'top' output from a Solaris 2.5.1 machine I
> have here:
>
> 130 processes: 128 sleeping, 1 running, 1 on cpu
> Cpu states: 93.8% idle, 4.0% user, 2.2% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
> Memory: 62M real, 6224K free, 83M swap, 94M free swap
>
> Notice how little "free" memory there is. Let the kernel have it.
Right: buying more memory will not help with that (though it might help reduce
swapping). When I bought this machine, memory was cheap, so I got 512
Megabytes. So, do I have a lot of spare memory? Top says:
7:45am up 1 day, 25 min, 3 users, load average: 1.15, 1.14, 1.09
80 processes: 78 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 3.5% user, 15.8% system, 47.0% nice, 33.5% idle
Mem: 516924K av, 513776K used, 3148K free, 159296K shrd, 87596K buff
Swap: 273088K av, 2296K used, 270792K free 315996K cached
Only 3 MegaBytes left. (Sometimes it gets as high as 65 MegaBytes for a little
while, when the "cached" size goes way down.)
BTW: does anyone know what the difference between "buff" and "cached" is? I
have been unable to find what gets cached in "cached" as contrasted with what
gets buffered in "buff".
--
Jean-David Beyer .~.
Shrewsbury, New Jersey /V\
Registered Linux User 85642. /( )\
Registered Machine 73926. ^^-^^
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unable to locate cpp
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 11:47:15 +0000
Mary Lei wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I installed Mandrake-Linux, but when I tried
> to compile, gcc is unable to find cpp.
> Anyone know if cpp is on red-hat or Mandrake Linux distribution?
> Cant find it on cd. How can I resolve this problem ?
> Thanks.
Depends on what type of install you did. it is not installed by default
but you can install it from the CD.
--
Bob Martin
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to install soundcard?
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 08:05:22 -0400
Juan Eliseo Carrasco D�az wrote:
> If you can't install it with "soundcfg", read the Getting Started Guide,
> there is a simple a good help about this.
>
> Siw Sang Yau wrote:
>
> > Anybody know how to install a soundcard to the Linux? I got a Aztech PCI
> > 288 Q3D II soundcard and using RedHat 6.2.
> >
> > sylvain
I think it is called "sndconfig". At least, it is on my machine.
--
Jean-David Beyer .~.
Shrewsbury, New Jersey /V\
Registered Linux User 85642. /( )\
Registered Machine 73926. ^^-^^
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: LinuxConf
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 12:17:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 10:31:13 GMT, Kwizatz Haderach wrote:
->Does anybody know where I can find Linuxconf for SuSE 6.3?
->
->
Use yast or yast2. Much easier tools to use.
--
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Christopher W. Aiken
chris at cwaiken dot com
www.cwaiken.com
FreeBSD 4.0, SuSE 6.4, RH 6.2
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From: Packetgeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: i386 i586 i686 I'm confused???
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 12:21:09 GMT
Thank you all for your help. It makes updating programs a lot easier
when you know what you're getting. I have posted more than a few
questions to the various C.O.L.* newsgroups and have always received a
quick and extremely helpful set of answers. Take a second to pat
yourselves on the back... I know how hard it can be to get knowledgeable
technical assistance. Thanks Again!
Packetgeek wrote:
>
> I want to update my Apache server. I went to their site and see that
> they have i586 and i686 binaries available. Many of the programs I've
> DL'd before were i386. I'm running RH6.1 on a 233 MHz pentium MMX. Does
> this mean I can use i386 and i586 but not i686??? Any help would be
> appreciated. Thanks
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From: "Simon H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Apache problem
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 13:35:41 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've installed the Apache server a couple of times on RH Linux with no
problem (let's face it, it ain't brain surgery) only this time round I'm
getting a frustrating problem. With any URL beginning http://localhost/
I get a 403 forbidden message.
File permissions are not the issue here - but I don't know what is. I
don't have much more info than that (I haven't changed anything
significant in the conf files) but if someone could suggest a few things
to check I'd be grateful.
Cheers,
Simon H.
--
http://atlas.cs.york.ac.uk/~srh104/
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From: Charles H. Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unable to locate cpp
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 08:46:10 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter Bishop wrote:
> If by 'cpp' you mean the C++ compiler, the GCC compiler is invoked with
> 'g++'. Try:
>
> man gcc, man g++
Nah, cpp has nothing to do with C++. It's the C preprocessor for the C
compiler (the thing that translates macros and other stuff in the source
file before it's handed over to the C compiler). I'm not sure why it
wasn't installed along with the compiler on your system. On the Red Hat
6.2 system I have here, it was in RPM cpp-1.1.2-30.rpm.
Chuck
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From: Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: at&t lex
Date: 2 Aug 2000 12:53:17 GMT
ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, I have tried the "-l" option, it does not make it compatable enough
> though. And yes, Linux does accept the "lex" command, but it is only a
> link to "flex".
what sort of compatibility problems?
(the only ones I've noticed have been bugs in lex - or old versions of flex)
--
Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://dickey.his.com
ftp://dickey.his.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: Apache problem
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 13:21:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 13:35:41 +0100, "Simon H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I've installed the Apache server a couple of times on RH Linux with no
>problem (let's face it, it ain't brain surgery) only this time round I'm
>getting a frustrating problem. With any URL beginning http://localhost/
>I get a 403 forbidden message.
>
>File permissions are not the issue here - but I don't know what is. I
>don't have much more info than that (I haven't changed anything
>significant in the conf files) but if someone could suggest a few things
>to check I'd be grateful.
Into the httpd.conf file:
First, check if the User and Group used by Apache are OK, these
usually are "Nobody" and "Nobody", maybe you have to change it into
something different...
second, check if you have removed by mistake the "allow all" directive
for the directory (directories) used...
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Allowing IP Range in hosts.allow
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 13:13:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm setting up an ldap server with tcp wrapper support, and I want to
enable it only for those users within my given IP range, and deny it
for all others. What is the proper terminology for
the /etc/hosts.allow file. The machine I have it on does not have
access to do DNS lookups, so it needs to be in IP address format and
not expressed as a domain.
right now I have slapd: ALL : ALLOW, but I don't want that.
I'd appreciate any insights.
Thanks,
Brian Seppanen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AREA 54 the secret government disco labs in Provo Utah
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: text files
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 13:30:18 GMT
Can anyone tell me if there is a way to import a text file into the Palm
Pilot? Currently I am cutting and pasting but would like a more direct
route.
I am particularly interested in anyone using JPilot as I perfer not to
boot to windoze if at all possible.
Thanks,
--
Carson R. Wilcox
Senior Architect
DMR Consulting Group
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 13:41:17 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when blowfish would say:
>Christopher Browne wrote:
>> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when John Hasler would say:
>> >How could Debian "exploit" the GPL (or anything else)? Do you understand
>> >what Debian is?
>>
>> Indeed. I'd find it interesting just what systems are supposedly not
>> "exploiting" anything. It's pretty common for comments like this to come
>> from "BSD trolls;" the fact that BSDI bought out Walnut Creek, and
>> IBM bought WhistleJet demonstrate that the "BSD world" is not immune
>> to commercial attempts to "exploit" BSD code either.
>
>I just checked Linuxmall.com. Debian shows up in a box, with a $17.95
>price tag right next to it.
The question is, who is it that's getting the $17.95.
It is _not_ The Debian Project.
>Sure. *BSD are making money too. But they do allow the developers to
>keep their codes proprietary; just a tiny bit more option for the
>contributors- in my fscking opinion. :-)
Since the author retains rights to license his or her own code under
whatever arrangements they wish, I'm not sure what additional option
they _actually_ get.
>> >> ...where you no longer has any rights to.
>> >
>> >Wrong. I still own the copyrights on my stuff and only I can distribute
>> >the software under any license other than the GPL.
>>
>> ... Which is the _fascinating_ thing about the GPL, and also the
>> most-misunderstood...
>>
>Maybe I've misinterputed the GNU-GPL a little, but life is a non-stop
>learning process. Right!?
>
>I'll re-read the GNU-GPL again. Maybe I'll agree with you later, or
>maybe not. It all depends on how you interpute the language written in
>the lisence. Common fools like me read differently than bean-counters,
>or lawyers... Or GNU-GPL gurus...
Read the GPL looking for clauses that indicate that they are binding
on the author.
You won't find any, because if you are the _author_, the GPL _doesn't
bind you._
That is an _essential_ fact that keeps getting missed.
For something like the Linux kernel, that has hundreds if not thousands
of authors, the GPL winds up being pretty binding overall, as people
give Linus Torvalds code that _they_ have released under the GPL, thus
binding him to release it under the GPL.
In contrast, if I am the sole author of GnomoVision, the Ever Cool DVD
Player that runs on Linux, I can simultaneously release it licensed under
the GPL, and, based on my rights as author, simultaneously release it
under the Studly License, where in order to use it, you have to send me
$5000 and a greeting card that says that I'm A Stud, as well as under
a license whereby Be Software pays me $500,000, and then is allowed to
include a GnomoVision DVD in their boxed sets of BeOS.
Some of those options are somewhat silly, but legally viable.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
Culus thinks we should go to trade shows and see how many people we
can kill by throwing debian cds at them
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From: Laetus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GO2CALL and firewall
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 13:37:30 GMT
Quick overview. I'm having a bit of trouble with my WIN2K machine (IP
192.168.1.14 on my home network) to work with GO2CALL (the free
telephone via IP site). I'm behind a Linux firewall running IPCHAINS
to masq the backend of the network. Chain rules:
:input ACCEPT
:forward DENY
:output ACCEPT
-A forward -s 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 -d 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 -j MASQ
I'm also doing portforwarding with the following rules:
/usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L firewall's.incoming.ip.address
\ 2090 -R 192.168.1.14 2090
/usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L firewall's.incoming.ip.address
\ 2091 -R 192.168.1.14 2091
/usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P udp -L firewall's.incoming.ip.address
\ 2090 -R 192.168.1.14 2090
/usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P udp -L firewall's.incoming.ip.address
\ 2091 -R 192.168.1.14 2091
where firewall's.incoming.ip.address is the outside NIC of the firewall
and 192.168.1.14 is the IP of my WIN2K workstation.
/usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -ln reports:
prot localaddr rediraddr lport rport pcnt pref
UDP firewall ip 192.168.1.14 2091 2091 10 10
UDP firewall ip 192.168.1.14 2090 2090 10 10
TCP firewall ip 192.168.1.14 2091 2091 10 10
TCP firewall ip 192.168.1.14 2090 2090 10 10
I've successfully used DIALPAD.COM doing autoforwarding using these
rules which work fine:
/usr/sbin/ipmasqadm autofw -A -v -u -r udp 51200 51201 -c tcp
7175 /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm autofw -A -v -u -r tcp 51210 51210 -c tcp 7175
Anyone got any ideas why GO2CALL.COM won't work? I'd really
appreciated it. Thanks,
-- laetus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Moritz Moeller-Herrmann)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Windows geek has some linux questions, please advise
Date: 2 Aug 2000 13:49:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 15:54:33 -0700, chief <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> thanks guys, that was an amazing response! there was one question about
>what a download manager is...if your modem connection is cut off during a
>download, the manager will reconnect for you and start the download where it
>left off.
I would have a look at lftp (included in SuSE I think). There is a command
called lftpget that autom,atically retrieves any URL (http/ftp) and retreis and
so on. REally have a look at it. Best ftp client ever!!! Includes download
manager and features http support. Command completion, you name it.
Similiar functionality is found in wget and got_it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Moritz Moeller-Herrmann)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Windows geek has some linux questions, please advise
Date: 2 Aug 2000 13:44:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 12:46:38 GMT, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Cihl writes:
>> For an ftp-client, you have the standard 'ftp', or 'ncftp', 'cftp', you
>> name it.
>ncftpget and ncftpput would probably be suitable for his purpose.
And lftp will be even better.
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From: "Nobby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Postscript
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 14:47:36 +0200
"psmerge" didn't help me, as I don't know how to use it. There's no manpage
that can tell me which arguments or options I have to use.
Any ideas?
Thanks once again
Nobby
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From: "Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache problem
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:10:45 +0100
In the httpd.conf
Look for: <Files ~ >
Change to: <Files ~ "^\.ht">
Simon
"Davide Bianchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 13:35:41 +0100, "Simon H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >I've installed the Apache server a couple of times on RH Linux with no
> >problem (let's face it, it ain't brain surgery) only this time round I'm
> >getting a frustrating problem. With any URL beginning http://localhost/
> >I get a 403 forbidden message.
> >
> >File permissions are not the issue here - but I don't know what is. I
> >don't have much more info than that (I haven't changed anything
> >significant in the conf files) but if someone could suggest a few things
> >to check I'd be grateful.
>
> Into the httpd.conf file:
>
> First, check if the User and Group used by Apache are OK, these
> usually are "Nobody" and "Nobody", maybe you have to change it into
> something different...
>
> second, check if you have removed by mistake the "allow all" directive
> for the directory (directories) used...
>
> Davide
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