Linux-Misc Digest #632, Volume #25 Thu, 31 Aug 00 11:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Lilo broken??? (Mark Lucas)
anyone interested in being part of a new website? ("Joerg Battermann")
Re: Samba: Win95 + Win98 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Netscape is the best web brower for Linux? Where is the alternative? (Dan)
Re: Netscape Sucks, I need another option. (Dan)
Re: Redirect EMAIL (Andreas Kahari)
Re: problem with Tyan 1682 (Someone Else)
Re: Netscape and video/x-ms-asf ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What about kfm? (Cyrill Steiner)
Re: Samba: Win95 + Win98 ("Nisi")
Re: HELP! using hdparm (Stephen Cornell)
Setting up ide cd recorder in Mandrake 7.0 (mike)
Re: access database on Linux (Christopher Browne)
Re: Netscape is the best web brower for Linux? Where is the alternative?
(Christopher Browne)
Re: access database on Linux (John Hasler)
Re: Using dd copy image file to make a DOS bootable disk
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to recover damaged tar file (-ljl-)
Re: Netscape Sucks, I need another option. (Ben Ritchie)
Re: why I'm in a bad mood ("Peter T. Breuer")
Networking (Dux)
Re: Setting up ide cd recorder in Mandrake 7.0 (Davide Bianchi)
Re: Redirect EMAIL (Rod Smith)
Re: Networking (tolan)
Offline mailing automation (scripts?) (tolan)
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:18:25 -0400
From: Mark Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Lilo broken???
Boot DOS from floppy. Use the 'fdisk' command with the undocumented '/mbr'
flag:
fdisk /mbr
This should clean out your master boot record.
JoAnn Elliott wrote:
> I was reading the new group.
> What program is this? I had installed linux on my laptop and then decided to
> restore my laptop from CD and now the lilo get to just up to the
> line...."li..." and I removed the whold linux off and now was trying to
> reinstall windows. Even did a fdisk and reformat and still the partial lilo
> on reboot. I need to restore the MBR and get that thing off, please help me
> as I have worked several hours on this project already.
>
> please respond to me personally as well as the group.
>
> JoAnn Elliott
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Joerg Battermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: anyone interested in being part of a new website?
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:19:37 +0200
aloa... i gonna create a new plattform/community dedicated to BSD, linux,
opensource etc etc @ discoverthefuture.com (right now the domain is being
transfered -> http://209.15.45.125 ). we still need people who help us with
the project.
if u are interested, mail me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) , and i will tell u what u
get.. and what we need etc..
ciao
joerg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Samba: Win95 + Win98
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:29:11 GMT
Greg,
Just create a smbpasswd file on the linux box, use smbpasswd to create
an entry in it for the user you are using. There is a man page for
smbpasswd.
Mark.
In article <8okeqr$pg5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Greg F Walz Chojnacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need a little clarification:
>
> I set up samba on Redhat 6.02, and my win 95 machine can use the Linux
> printer, no problem. A Win 98 machine, however, asks for a password,
which I
> can never get right.
>
> This seems to me like a problem with encrypted passwords, which I
suppose
> Win 98 is using, but not Linux or Win 95.
>
> Right?
>
> I'm uncertain, because when I print with the win95 machine, I'm not
even
> asked for a password.
>
> If so, the solution, I gather, is to get win 95 and the Linux Samba
setup to
> use password encryption.
>
> Right?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Greg
>
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414/229-4454
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>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan)
Subject: Re: Netscape is the best web brower for Linux? Where is the alternative?
Date: 31 Aug 2000 12:40:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Desktop Linux in the company has Netscape.
> Netscape is unstable honestly. Netscape often stop or terminated during
> the normal operation without a warning message.
> Well, better than M$ Windows 95. Cause I can restart only netscape.
> I need an web browser is more stable than Netscape. :-)
Lynx and W3M are quite stable. ;) The Linux version of Opera may wind
up being more stable than Netscape. Mozilla/Netscape 6 may even wind
up being more stable than current Netscape, now that they've finally
gotten more or less done adding features and are looking more at fixing
all the bugs. :)
It's a bit of a "stay tuned" situation.
-Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan)
Subject: Re: Netscape Sucks, I need another option.
Date: 31 Aug 2000 12:44:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Christopher Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Paul Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I know you're being sarcastic, but Mozilla's getting pretty stable, very
> >> fast (faster than Netscape is anyway;
> When Mozilla advocates say Mozilla is fast, they generally mean the
> rendering speed. The UI, of course, is slow as a banana slug. Yechh.
This just tells me you have never seen an angry banana slug charging
at you in excess of 100mph. ;)
-Dan (with apologies to Linus and the angry, charging penguin)
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Subject: Re: Redirect EMAIL
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kahari)
Date: 31 Aug 2000 14:06:15 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Gerald Willmann wrote:
>
>> > Ernesto Gianoni wrote:
>> >
>> > > I have a LOT of email in /var/spool/mail/root
>> > >
>> > > HOW CAN I GET THEM with my email client???
>> > >
>> > > Thank you in advance
>>
>> how about redirecting email for root to your normal user
>> account? Depends on your MTA how exactly to do that.
>> Gerald
>
> That's a good idea. I don't like root being the actual receiver. In
>/etc/aliases, point root to whatever
>user you normally are, and HE will get root's mail. After you change it,
...or she.
>invoke newaliases, to make it take effect.
>This is for RH6.2 and sendmail, but, there are ways to do this for all
>MTA's that I know of.
Adding a line "root: someuser" (where 'someuser' is the user name of
the user that should recieve the mail sent to root) in /etc/aliases is
the preferred way in all GNU/Linux distributions. It is common to have
the mail for 'postmaster' and 'webmaster' redirected in the same way.
/A
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From: Someone Else <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem with Tyan 1682
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 14:48:27 +0200
Jean-David Beyer-valinux schrieb:
>
> Do you shut down your system correctly? I got stuff like that the only time
> my windowing system locked up so bad I could not get out of it. I pressed
> the panic button and it made resentful remarks like that when doing the
> fschecks. But if you are shutting down correctly, and not pressing the
> reset button, then perhaps you are having trouble with your hard drive(s),
> or the controller, or something.
>
> Since you get the same problem with Windows, I suspect your hardware is in
> trouble. I did not know the S1832DL would run with EDO-RAM. Tyan say, in
> part,
>
>
thx for ur reply,
I wrote, if I just take all my hardware (without motherboard !) to TYAN 1562
(for dual P-I 200, works on one 200MMX ) board, it works FINE !!!
for hardrive reason I bought a seconhand scsi drive specially ! but problem
still there!
As Linux hags, it becomes unuseable, it reacts nothing !! for that reason I
must always hard-reboot. I heard too, some probelem from rams, I got just for
this reason two 32 MB "EDO" rams! ( the board shows at boot time, whether the
module is EDO, FP or none )
waiting for ur reply
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Netscape and video/x-ms-asf
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:55:05 GMT
I do not have the URL. I got it by doing a search in Yahoo.
I did download the beta version of Media Player so I know it
can be done. Cliff
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:57:29 +0200
From: Cyrill Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What about kfm?
What about the kfm? All you need is the KDE-Desktop, and soon, with KDE
2.0 the new browser Konqueror is anounced to be very powerful, but I
guess it will take another three month or so until the final version of
KDE 2.0 will be released. Keep yourself up to date at http://www.kde.org
Hans wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> The Desktop Linux in the company has Netscape.
> Netscape is unstable honestly. Netscape often stop or terminated during
> the normal operation without a warning message.
> Well, better than M$ Windows 95. Cause I can restart only netscape.
> I need an web browser is more stable than Netscape. :-)
>
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From: "Nisi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba: Win95 + Win98
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:14:42 -0400
Are you logging in to both machines with the same user name and password???
Are you using samba to authorize network activity??? I would suggest you
check your samba config...
Nisi
www.mindlessmayhem.com
Greg F Walz Chojnacki wrote in message <8okeqr$pg5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I need a little clarification:
>
>I set up samba on Redhat 6.02, and my win 95 machine can use the Linux
>printer, no problem. A Win 98 machine, however, asks for a password, which
I
>can never get right.
>
>This seems to me like a problem with encrypted passwords, which I suppose
>Win 98 is using, but not Linux or Win 95.
>
>Right?
>
>I'm uncertain, because when I print with the win95 machine, I'm not even
>asked for a password.
>
>If so, the solution, I gather, is to get win 95 and the Linux Samba setup
to
>use password encryption.
>
>Right?
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>Greg
>
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From: Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP! using hdparm
Date: 31 Aug 2000 14:18:02 +0100
> On 28 Aug 2000 13:51:54 +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote:
> >Can some kind soul help me to use hdparm to tune my hard disks?
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) writes:
> Recompile the kernel with support for your particular IDE chipset, and
> make sure "Use DMA by default" is set to Y in the kernel config. Then
> put the following in /sbin/init.d/boot.local :
> hdparm -c1 -u1 -m16 /dev/hdX
> where X = the letter for the drive you wish to tune.
Thanks for your advice.
Is there any particular reason why one has to have `Use DMA by
default' in the kernel config., rather than simply adding the option
`-d1' to hdparm? Regarding compiling in support for the chipset:
/proc/pci says that my IDE controller is an Intel 82371AB PIIX4, which
(from the kernel documentation) appears to be pretty standard - surely
DMA support for this chip would be in the stock Red Hat kernel? In
any case, `hdparm -d1' seems to switch DMA on, but makes no difference
to the `hdparm -t' tests.
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setting up ide cd recorder in Mandrake 7.0
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:23:19 -0400
Hi,
a few months ago I had set up my mitsumi CR-4804 TE
ide cd recorder in Mandrake 7.0. My hard drive crashed and
I can't figure out how to set it up the cd recorder
again. I was using the program cdrecord and xcdroast.
When I do cdrecord -scanbus, it can not find and device.
I think that the ide-scsi.o module is supposed to set up a
software emulation of a scsi device so that it will be recognized.
I think the device is supposed to be /dev/scd0. When I try
to mount a cdrom in it by doing mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom ,
I get an message:
" the kernel does ont recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device.
If I look in /dev there exists a block device /dev/scd0.
Thanks
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: access database on Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:29:19 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when [EMAIL PROTECTED] would say:
>I have an access database. Can I place it on a Linux server? If not, is
>there anyway I can place the data on an alternative database and make it
>searchable?
Is the plan to have the Linux server provide file services via SAMBA?
That sounds pretty feasible; Access uses file sharing, and shouldn't
much care where the files are.
If you actually wanted a robust relational database, you might select
one of the many that run on Linux, and use Linux to host the DB manager.
You might need to install ODBC drivers for whatever DB you choose.
That option would likely quite substantially improve robustness and
scalability...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Netscape is the best web brower for Linux? Where is the alternative?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:29:26 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Davide Bianchi would say:
>On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:34:31 GMT, Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>The Desktop Linux in the company has Netscape.
>>Netscape is unstable honestly. Netscape often stop or terminated during
>>the normal operation without a warning message.
>>Well, better than M$ Windows 95. Cause I can restart only netscape.
>>I need an web browser is more stable than Netscape. :-)
>
>Try Opera
>http://www.opera.com/download/index.html
Yes, but try it quickly. It tends to crash if you try to have it
run for more than a minute or two...
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: access database on Linux
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:39:42 GMT
Jean-David Beyer-valinux writes:
> The first version I tried could not do indices (i.e., support primary
> keys or other indIces). The other version I tried could do that, but
> could not do views. Its API was not quite SQL and the field-types had
> non-standard names. I could not live with that. I seem to recall that
> they do not support transactions, and I did not like that at all. This
> was in late 1998, I suppose. They may have improved things since then.
They certainly have. Postgresql now has indices, primary and foreign keys,
views, transactions, and accepts most SQL92 data type names.
> I have not tried MySQL, but it is free under some circumstances, and
> presumably works.
No transactions (but reportedly very fast).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Using dd copy image file to make a DOS bootable disk
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:59:24 GMT
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 22:45:44 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>We are downloading from the web to linux an image file that contains
>DOS boot files as well as some other files. We'd like to use dd to
>convert the file to a floppy to make the floppy a DOS bootable disk.
>
>Is this event possible?
>
>dd seems to expand the image file correctly, but the floppy is not
>bootable and cannot be accessed by anything other than linux.
>
>Here's the steps we've taken:
>
>1) mkfs.msdos /dev/fd0
>2) dd if=disk1.img of=/mnt/floppy
>
>An ls on /mnt/floppy shows all of the exploded files but the floppy
>cannot be used to reboot.
>
>OR, is there a way to make a dos bootable disk from linux?
>HELP??!!?
I would use dd to copy a bootable DOS floppy as an image onto a hard
disk. Then I would mount that image file using loopback, copy my
files onto the image, umount the file, and use dd to copy this image
back to a new floppy.
Gord
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to recover damaged tar file
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:05:11 GMT
In article <8oji0m$52k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Y. Tremblay) wrote:
> I have a large tar file that the first few Kb's have been damaged.
> As such, I lost the initial header information and can't untar it
> properly anymore.
>
> However, most of the data is still there. I just can't access it
> normally.
>
> Would anybody point me the the best way to recover the data out of
> such a file.
Check out this URL:
http://ume.med.ucalgary.ca/usenet/Sun/0368.html
year ago I saw some tools to fix tar files but couldn't remember where.
This article mentions two maybe it's them :-)
I would try to make a copy to work on rather than using the original.
That way you will never be worse off than before experimenting.
Good luck.
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From: Ben Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape Sucks, I need another option.
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:57:49 +0100
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I guess our milages vary, then, because
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/in_depth/2000/england_v_west_indies/newsid_904000/904407.stm
isn't displaying correctly as I type this. The images (e.g. "Trescothick
cuts another boundary") are being displayed on top of the text.
Netscape 4.74, Mdk 7.0, 2.2.14-15mdk
Ben.
Jim Chisholm wrote:
> Ben Ritchie wrote:
>
>> Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>> > In article <8ohd1r$3qa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gabe wrote:
>> > >Hi.
>> > >
>> > >I'm a new Linux user. The best thing about Windows is Internet
>> Explorer,
>> > >because frankly, Netscape sucks. It's slow, buggy, and doesn't
>> display pages
>> > >correctly.
>> >
>> > For what values of "correctly?"
>> >
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/ for one - with Netscape 4.74 (and most,
>> probably all
>> previous 4.xx). They may well just be using some IE-specific garbage
>> to display
>> images, but Netscape doesn't manage to display everything correctly.
>>
>> >
>> > >I need another option besides Lynx. Is there another browser I
>> can use in X
>> > >that comes highly recommended?
>> >
>> > lynx
>> >
>> > --
>> > Grant Edwards grante Yow! My
>> BIOLOGICAL ALARM
>> > at CLOCK just went
>> off... It
>> > visi.com has noiseless
>> DOZE FUNCTION
>> > and full
>> kitchen!!
>
> Works fine for me.. netscape 4.74, RH 6.2 2.4.0-test6
>
> --
>
> =======================================================
> Jim Chisholm
> Dalhousie University, Dept. Physics Halifax N.S. Canada
> Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Service
> Captain/Training Officer Bay Road Station 59
> =======================================================
>
>
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<BR>I guess our milages vary, then, because
<P><A
HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/in_depth/2000/england_v_west_indies/newsid_904000/904407.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/in_depth/2000/england_v_west_indies/newsid_904000/904407.stm</A>
<P>isn't displaying correctly as I type this. The images (e.g. "Trescothick
cuts another boundary") are being displayed on top of the text.
<P>Netscape 4.74, Mdk 7.0, 2.2.14-15mdk
<P>Ben.
<P>Jim Chisholm wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>
Ben Ritchie wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>Grant Edwards wrote:
<P>> In article <8ohd1r$3qa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gabe wrote:
<BR>> >Hi.
<BR>> >
<BR>> >I'm a new Linux user. The best thing about Windows is Internet Explorer,
<BR>> >because frankly, Netscape sucks. It's slow, buggy, and doesn't display
pages
<BR>> >correctly.
<BR>>
<BR>> For what values of "correctly?"
<BR>>
<P><A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/">http://news.bbc.co.uk/</A> for one
- with Netscape 4.74 (and most, probably all
<BR>previous 4.xx). They may well just be using some IE-specific garbage
to display
<BR>images, but Netscape doesn't manage to display everything correctly.
<P>>
<BR>> >I need another option besides Lynx. Is there another browser I can
use in X
<BR>> >that comes highly recommended?
<BR>>
<BR>> lynx
<BR>>
<BR>> --
<BR>> Grant
Edwards
grante
Yow! My BIOLOGICAL ALARM
<BR>>
at
CLOCK just went off... It
<BR>>
visi.com
has noiseless DOZE FUNCTION
<BR>>
and full kitchen!!</BLOCKQUOTE>
Works fine for me.. netscape 4.74, RH 6.2 2.4.0-test6
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Chisholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dalhousie University, Dept. Physics Halifax N.S. Canada
Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Service
Captain/Training Officer Bay Road Station 59
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: why I'm in a bad mood
Date: 31 Aug 2000 14:06:00 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: 1) will you please try out the makefiles you ship on some system other
: than your own before you ship them? I'm really getting tired of getting
: halfway through a make, only to find that some program is not available on
: my system or some directory does not exist or your C code is non-standard.
Heartily agreed. There is nothing more infuriating to find the code and
makefiles loaded with parochialisms. Everyone should try their
makefilesunder solaris and all their C code should work fine under
libc5 that was ...
: 2) if you're calling your program an "update", please make it backward
: compatible with the previous version. If it's not backward compatible,
Agreed some more. We ought to form a society.
: call it something else and, for crying out loud, don't overwrite the older
: version.
Peter
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From: Dux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.help
Subject: Networking
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:22:17 +0100
Is it possible to network Linux to win3.11 (don't ask why like).
If there is anyone with any good pointers I would apprieciate it.
Win 3.11 allows for IPX so I thought this would be the way to do it, but
I wouldn't know what to do.
I have used ipx_interface to configure my ethernet card.
Could anyone point me to any tutorials, I already have the HOWTO.
Ta.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: Setting up ide cd recorder in Mandrake 7.0
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:27:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:23:19 -0400, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
> a few months ago I had set up my mitsumi CR-4804 TE
>ide cd recorder in Mandrake 7.0. My hard drive crashed and
>I can't figure out how to set it up the cd recorder
>again. I was using the program cdrecord and xcdroast.
>When I do cdrecord -scanbus, it can not find and device.
>I think that the ide-scsi.o module is supposed to set up a
>software emulation of a scsi device so that it will be recognized.
>I think the device is supposed to be /dev/scd0. When I try
>to mount a cdrom in it by doing mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom ,
>I get an message:
>" the kernel does ont recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device.
>If I look in /dev there exists a block device /dev/scd0.
Probabily your CD is under the IDE driver control.
See the CD-Writing-HOWTO.
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Redirect EMAIL
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:29:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Gerald Willmann wrote:
>
>> > Ernesto Gianoni wrote:
>> >
>> > > I have a LOT of email in /var/spool/mail/root
>> > >
>> > > HOW CAN I GET THEM with my email client???
>> > >
>> > > Thank you in advance
>>
>> how about redirecting email for root to your normal user
>> account? Depends on your MTA how exactly to do that.
>
> That's a good idea. I don't like root being the actual receiver. In
> /etc/aliases, point root to whatever
> user you normally are, and HE will get root's mail.
It's also often possible to create a .forward file in the /root
directory. Put the e-mail address of the user who's to receive root's
e-mail in that file.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: tolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.help
Subject: Re: Networking
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 03:38:45 +0100
Dux wrote:
>
> Is it possible to network Linux to win3.11 (don't ask why like).
> If there is anyone with any good pointers I would apprieciate it.
> Win 3.11 allows for IPX so I thought this would be the way to do it, but
> I wouldn't know what to do.
> I have used ipx_interface to configure my ethernet card.
> Could anyone point me to any tutorials, I already have the HOWTO.
> Ta.
To be honest i'd avoid IPX and use TCP/IP, which, believe it or not does
work with 3.11. You can probably install it from your CD-ROM (disks???)
but if not microsoft still offer it for download (IF you can find it on
the site (but supporting a 7 year old products pretty well behaved,
maybe we misjudged them?))
[I read a magazine article on this the other day, in case you were
wondering]
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From: tolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Offline mailing automation (scripts?)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 03:47:40 +0100
I have a rather complicated set of mailboxs on a variety of servers, ive
managed to get fetchmail, procmail and sendmail to deal with them,
however id know like to automate the mail drops in two ways:
1) get a certain script to be executed on any user initiated dial-up,
and perhaps periodically through out the dial-up. Ideally a different
script depending on which provider im dialing up with (or one script
that determines this and then performs different things (i could ping
myself and then check the IP address for instance)). one difficulty with
this is that i use several 'interfaces' to pppd (wvdial, kppp, yawmppp)
2}have an additional, nightly, maildrop. the difficulty with this isnt
using cron, but in getting the script to close the dial up connection.
i guess im going to use wvdial to connect, this requires a ctrl-C to end
it, how can i send this to wvdial only after the maildrop has run?
im a newbie (month) and and dont want to use dial on demand. ANY ideas,
even vague hints will be appriciated.
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