Linux-Misc Digest #114, Volume #26 Sun, 22 Oct 00 20:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: crashed X on moving files ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: error msg in syslog (Dances With Crows)
sendmail help! ("Chris MacTavish")
Re: Diabolical plot uncovered... ("James Blanford")
mount/umount LS-120 floppydrive? (Bo Berglund)
Re: GPL questions? (Neil Cherry)
LyX Problem: Was: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux? (Jean-David
Beyer)
Re: Kernel woes (Bob Martin)
Re: End-User Alternative to Windows ("Colin R. Day")
Problem building RPM-4.0 (Buffalo Bill)
Re: System spends too much time in X, but only sometimes...? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: End-User Alternative to Windows ("Colin R. Day")
Re: newbie question on minicom? (Bob Martin)
Re: sendmail help! (Jean-David Beyer)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: crashed X on moving files
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:17:06 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/22/00
at 06:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory Spath) said:
>BTW, as a former OS/2 user, I'd recommend using Windowmaker as a
>windowmanager instead of KDE's kwm. You can then use DFM as a
>filemanager (although KFM works fine too...but DFM actually does
>drag/drop with windowmaker properly where KFM doesn't). DFM is
>designed based on the OS/2 WPS and tries to work just like
>it.
Thanks to you (and to 'Noble Pepper') for some good advice,
especially relating to backups.
Actually, back home in the USA, I haveWindowmaker running on one
of my machines and it seemed fine to me though I'm not yet
experienced enough to tell all the differences. I'm away from
home now, under foreign skies (Germany), but I've built myself a
little system I'm enjoying (keeps me off the streets and out of
trouble), and am using Linux a lot on it (tho' OS/2 on my
laptop).
Anyway, I'm downloading WM now and will install when I get a
chance; it may eradicate my file move problem though I wish I had
a good explanation of what's wrong.
I should have pointed out that the problem does not affect 'root'
or the dummy user I just installed this afternoon to see (and
compare).
Thanks also for the link to the documentation. I've got nothing
here.
F.
===========================================================
Felmon John Davis
Union College / Schenectady, NY
os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: error msg in syslog
Date: 22 Oct 2000 22:21:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:14:27 GMT, OTR Comm wrote:
>Can some one tell me what is causing messages like this in my syslog:
>Oct 22 13:35:23 sec kernel: set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 52 to 5
Not completely sure, but it appears as if your CMOS clock isn't
completely happy. The relevant code is in /usr/src/linux/arch/XXXX/
kernel/time.c about line 300. Do you notice the time as reported by the
CMOS clock drifting far off from the real time, or anything like that?
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: "Chris MacTavish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sendmail help!
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:36:07 -0300
Hey everyone,
I want to configure our linux box to have email. We are using RedHat 6.0 and
i know i need to configure sendmail in order to get our email working. I am
only interested in getting email working locally on our lan. We do not need
to have internet email capabilities. How big of a job is this and is there
any good white pages available giving you step by step instructions?
Thanks
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From: "James Blanford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diabolical plot uncovered...
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 16:45:14 +0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Sheesh... I spent much of the last month trying to get my otherwise
> fine-and-dandy Debian Potato to recognize my serial ports. Along the
> way I... lost sleep, fried a motherboard, doubted my sanity, seriously
> considered writing Linus out of my will, and, in general, fumed and
> pouted. But WAIT! I JUST FOUND THE PROBLEM...
>
> I was trying to use ttys0, and I _should_ have used ttyS0!!!
>
> How has everyone else in the world avoided this diabolical plot?
>
> -jeff
I got a good chuckle out of this one. I can never remember. Is it Suse
SuSe or SuSE? Being case sensitive adds versatility, but most of the
time it ends up causing needless confusion. I just went through a similar
problem with whitespace and the use of brackets in bash, or is it basH?
The principle that applies here is that of minimum surprise. Things are
easier to learn and work with if they present themselves in a familiar
manner. Those of us educated to read when we were young learned that
capital letters came at the beginning of the word. For the rest of our
lives that's where we will expect them to be.
I've noticed that a lot of experienced Linux users resist the idea that
Linux could be made easier to learn and use. They spent years begging
sysadmins for help and memorizing obscure key sequences and more years
figuring out what they meant.
But there are a lot of ways to make things
easier without sacrificing utility and versatility. Please, developers,
if you must use capital letters, put them at
the beginning of the file, command or name. In a list of 500 lib*, libX11
comes before libesd - how annoying.
When you write documentation, make a list of all the obvious features
that everybody knows about and thus there is no reason to mention them.
Then write about them first. Please, include those things that you mentioned
in the mailing lists.
Give people a simple example.
Here's a quote from an example file that SuSE includes with it's
distribution:
This is a worthless, nonrunnable example of a named.conf file that has
* every conceivable syntax element in use. We use it to test the parser.
* It could also be used as a conceptual template for users of new
features
The guy who wrote this did it for a good reason. Whoever included it in
the distribution obviously resents the idea that ordinary people should
ever use Linux.
I uncovered the plot 15 years ago and swore off computers, when my
request to get some basic manuals printed was denied. That was Unix and
the license restrictions were onerous as well. What brought me to Linux
was that it is free and open (mostly). thanKs fOr LIsteniNG tO mY
tirAde. simPliCTY IS worTh tHe efFort.
- jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bo Berglund)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: mount/umount LS-120 floppydrive?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:47:06 GMT
I have installed an LS-120 drive in my Linux box. In order to use a
floppy in the drive I have to type (as root)
mount /mnt/LS-120
I have an entry in /etc/fstab that says:
/dev/hdc4 /mnt/LS-120 vfat noauto 0 0
Then I can read the contents of the disk.
But to get the disk out I have to
umount /mnt/LS-120
After this the disk comes out when I push the eject button.
Fine ... except:
As soon as the disk is out my Linux box starts to click terribly on
the hard disk until I reinsert and mount the disk again.
In the /var/log/messages file I find this (entries are on one line
following the date):
Oct 22 22:41:00 bbfirewall kernel: hdc: The drive reports both
126222336 and 0 bytes as its capacity
Oct 22 22:41:00 bbfirewall kernel: ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc =
0, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0
Oct 22 22:41:00 bbfirewall kernel: ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc =
1b, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0
These three lines are repeated several times per second for the entire
time that the disk is outside the drive!
What is going on here? What have I done wrong? How can it be fixed?
Bo Berglund
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP: My public key is available at the following locations:
Idap://certserver.pgp.com
http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Cherry)
Subject: Re: GPL questions?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 23:07:25 GMT
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:08:50 GMT, John Hasler wrote:
>Neil Cherry writes:
>> I tried the first 2 but they don't clearly state: I need to have these
>> files and put this in the header...
>
>What do you need to know that is not covered by the "How to Apply These
>Terms to Your New Programs" section at the end of the GPL itself?
Actually I found the exact info in the Automake/Autoconfig documents.
I expected to find a section on the www.gnu.org that said the above.
I learned that the exact steps are as follows:
1) Attach a copy of the GNU general public license to the toplevel
directory of your source code in a file called COPYING.
2) Include a legal notice to every file that you want covered by the
GPL. Thye gave the exact wording too.
3) If you have assigned your copyright to an organization, like the
Free Software Foundation, then you should probably fashion a
copyright notice. And they gave a sample.
>> ...and email this person for acceptance or acknowledgment.
>What do you mean by that?
Sorry I haven't been very clear in all this, I've been reading specs
all week and my brain has turned to mud.
What was meant was, if I assign my Copyrights over to the FSF how do
they know that they have them? Don't you have to tell them they have
Copyrights on this code?
I've posted my questions on the gnu.misc.* group. I'll be asking
further questions there as I want to know a little bit more before
assigning copy rights and selecting a License.
--
Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only)
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lightsey/52 (Graphics)
http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LyX Problem: Was: Re: Is there a MS Word (or substitute) for Linux?
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:30:10 -0400
Robert Heller wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne),
> In a message on Sat, 21 Oct 2000 03:55:03 GMT, wrote :
>
> CB> In our last episode (Fri, 20 Oct 2000 22:02:55 -0400),
> CB> the artist formerly known as Jean-David Beyer said:
> CB> >I typed a little letter, using the letter template, with several paragraphs in
> CB> >it. It displays nicely on the screen. I set it up to indent the first line of
> CB> >each paragraph, and it appears just like that on the screen. But when I print
> CB> >it, the paragraphs are all unindented. Am I missing something, or is there a
> CB> >bug?
> CB>
> CB> Hmmmm... This sounds like default LaTeX behaviour whereby there _isn't_ an
> CB> indentation in the output using the default \documentclass{letter}
> CB> I haven't fiddled with it in a while; I don't have a good _answer_ to
> CB> this...
>
> Yep:
>
> From /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/letter.cls:
>
> \setlength\parskip{0.7em}
> \setlength\parindent{0\p@}
>
> The letter class (style) has 0 paragraph indentation. Note: the letter
> class (style) is mostly intended for *formal* [business type] letters.
> It might make sense to create a 'personal' letter style file. Say
> something like:
>
> ---- Begin personal.sty -----
> \setlength\parindent{1em}
> \newcommand{\love}{\closing{Love,}}
> \newcommand{\dear}[1]{\opening{Dear #1,}}
> \name{Uncle Robbie}
> ---- End personal.sty -----
I assume I do not type that directly into LyX. I know I could do that were I writing
into LaTeX. I have just had LyX for a couple of days now, so I have not looked at how
to write my own style file. But if using the Layout->Document information is ignored
by LaTeX (or if LyX has a bug and does not forward the necessary information to
LaTeX), it would not make any difference.
> And then including in the preamble, such as in this letter:
>
> ---------- Begin sample letter to my niece Gemma --------------
> \documentclass[12pt]{letter}
> \usepackage{personal}
> \begin{document}
> \begin{letter}{}
> \dear{Gemma}
>
> How was your birthday party? Did you like the present I sent?
>
> Have you read any of the stories yet? How are things in school?
>
> I heard that your mom took you and your little brother on a ``road
> trip'' to you visit your grandmother, your Aunt Susan and Uncle Chris and
> your cousin Celeste? Did you have fun in Rochester?
>
> \love
> \end{letter}
> \end{document}
> ---------- End sample letter to my niece Gemma --------------
>
> By 'displays nicely on the screen' is this in the editor or with xdvi?
The editor you get when you type /usr/bin/lyx. If you go to Layout->Document, you can
select Indent or Skip. If you select Skip, there is a blank line between each
paragraph and they appear with no leading spaces before the first line of each
paragraph in the "LyX Editor." If I select Indent, there are no blank lines between
each paragraph, but there are leading spaces before the first line of each, in the
"LyX Editor."
OTOH, if I go to File->ViewDvi, it pops up a Xdvi window that shows everything as it
is printed; i.e., no leading spaces for the first line of each paragraph. So the Lyx
Editor does not accurately reflect what LaTeX actually does: it seems to ignore the
Layout->Document setting.
> All formatting of the *source* .tex file is ignored -- that is *manual*
> indentation done in the editor window is totally ignored.
I know that. LyX will not even let me enter the leading blanks by hand (a good thing:
if I wanted a WYSIWGY, I would use Applix words).
> LaTeX is *NOT* WYSIWYG! The display from xdvi *should* match the hard copy
> *exactly*.
It does, but it does not reflect what is on the LyX screen, and therefore it is
ignoring the settings on Layout->Document.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 7:15pm up 13 days, 52 min, 2 users, load average: 3.55, 3.30, 3.15
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel woes
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 18:38:04 -0500
Ninewands wrote:
>
> Okay, I decided to bite the bullet and try building myself a kernel
> customized for my machine. Now, as you can tell from the "full headers"
> view of this message, I am stuck with using Windoze (my box is dual-boot) to
> get to the net because ppp doesn't seem to want to work. The source tree
> that I'm using for this monstrosity is kernel 2.2.17 and I'm building it in
> an otherwise stock RedHat 6.0 environment.
>
> The problem I'm running in to is this:
>
> Initially, I built the kernel with ppp support compiled directly in and with
> Plug 'n Pray support. My modem, which is to be configured as /dev/ttyS2, is
> a Diamond Supra Express 56i, which WAS working fine under the stock Red Hat
> 2.2.5 kernel. When I booted the new kernel, ppp line discipline, etc.
> registered and all was okay and no errors were reported during the boot
> process. I logged in as root and did a
>
> # setserial /dev/ttyS2
>
> to see if the modem was configured properly and got:
>
> /dev/ttyS2: device or resource busy
>
> In the process of poking around for a fix, I tried setting PnP OS to "Yes"
> in my motherboard BIOS (Abit BP6, with 2 Celeron 366s) ... suddenly, it all
> worked okay, but when I tried to connect to the 'net, kppp reported that
> there was no ppp support in the kernel (huh?). Also, when I booted into
> Windoze, very few of my PnP devices worked ... so I set PnP OS back to "No".
> Now everything works in Windoze as well as it did before, but Linux has me
> stuck.
If possible I would take the modem out of plug-n-pray mode and manually
set its IRQ/IO. The problem was reported sometime ago with kppp, it was
using a hole in the kernel to determine if ppp support was compiled in.
Later kernels closed that hole, so kppp give that error message. getting
a new version of kppp should fix that.
--
Bob Martin
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From: "Colin R. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:48:45 -0400
Andy Newman wrote:
> Colin R. Day wrote:
> >Of course, trying to run UNIX on such computers as were used for
> >XENIX would be like trying to drive a Lamborghini in rush-hour
> >traffic.
>
> I used SCO Xenix on a PDP-11. Seemed fine. As fast a V7 on
> similar h/w.
I had read that Microsoft's version of Xenix ran on a computer with a
20-meg hard drive. The article said that the OS could barely get out
of its own way.
Colin Day
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From: Buffalo Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem building RPM-4.0
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 01:50:16 +0200
Hi !
I've experienced a real problem building RPM-4.0
I tried to compile RPM-4.0 from rpm-4.0.tar.gz on Suse-6.4-ppc without
success.
I tried to find out whats the matter, and tried to build rpm-4 on a
RedHat 7.0 from the SRPM using
# rpm -ivh rpm-4.0-4.src.rpm
# rpm -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/rpm.spec
The same error occured.
Here is the error message:
../lib/.libs/librpm.so: undefined reference to `db3Free'
../lib/.libs/librpm.so: undefined reference to `db3New'
After a few investigations i found out that lib/db3.o isn't build.
It seems to me like a broken Makefile.
Any suggestions how to fix that ?
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System spends too much time in X, but only sometimes...?
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:51:11 -0400
Hal Burgiss wrote:
> Ah, another one! It is an SMP issue. I've been chasing this for a year
> now. If there is an answer to this mystery it is buried in some crypt
> somewhere. I also have a G200, but not sure if that is a factor or
> not. Also, not everyone with SMP sees this, so there are other factors
> as well. You will notice some apps are bigger offenders than others:
> realplayer, xmms, rxvt, some of the WindowMaker doc apps.
>
When I notice this, I am running none of those.
> You will
> also notice that this is cyclical, and hits each CPU individually, one
> right after the other.
>
I did not notice, but now that you call my attention to it, it seems to affect
only CPU0. Right now, I have 3 Netscape windows up, but only this compose
window is doing anything, and not much, just keeping up with my typing. On the
screen (I do not know what to call them) to the left of this one is running
top, xosview, and an xterm that is doing a tail -f of a background process. The
machine is quite busy as you will be able to tell from my signature below. But
this does not cause the problem. This background process takes a couple of
hours to run (populating an IBM DB2 database). I could imagine xosview could
keep the windowing stuff pretty busy. If I renice it to nice level 2 or more,
it helps for a short while, but it does not last. Even if I close (terminate)
xosview, it does not help at all.
> I timed it once here, and it was every 3 and
> half minutes or so. Not sure that that is constant though. If you have
> enough apps open, it will actually peg each CPU at 100% briefly.
>
My CPUs peg at 100% most of the time because of the two setiathomes (at nice
19) and my dbms server programs that are kind of busy right now:
7:44pm up 13 days, 1:22, 2 users, load average: 3.16, 3.25, 3.22
83 processes: 79 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 47.7% user, 18.4% system, 33.7% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 516924K av, 508988K used, 7936K free, 193804K shrd, 214496K buff
Swap: 273088K av, 8956K used, 264132K free 171100K cached
Delay between updates: 60
PID USER PRI NI PAGEIN SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM CTIME COMMAND
13155 db2inst1 2 0 254878 22040 21M 19808 R 46.1 4.2 586:59 db2sysc
9589 seti 19 19 583 15664 15M 780 R N 18.2 3.0 133:03 setiathome
5322 seti2 20 19 1086 15576 15M 784 R N 16.0 3.0 340:48 setiathome
10162 root 0 0 832 26236 25M 2016 S 6.7 5.0 9:58 X
10698 jdbeyer 0 0 285 1208 1208 1000 S 5.0 0.2 1:27 xosview
10735 jdbeyer 5 5 700 3132 3132 2464 S N 1.8 0.6 2:18
cpumemusage_app
You can see tht X is running what I call normally right now.
> I
> have had some lengthy conversations on this with a few others. Seems
> to have started around kernel 2.2.10. It has something to do with Unix
> domain sockets. It may be a phantom load, IOW not accurately being
> reported by top et al.
>
> What is your kernel version, X version, and window manager? Here is
> 2.2.18pre15, 3.3.6, and WindowMaker .61.
>
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ uname -r
2.2.14-5.0.14csmp
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$
This seems to be the latest supported SMP kernel from VA Linux systems who
supply my machine. I know there are later versions, but hesitate to try them.
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ rpm -qa | grep XFree
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-3.3.5-1.6.0
XFree86-SVGA-3.3.5-1.6.0
XFree86-xfs-3.3.5-1.6.0
XFree86-libs-3.3.5-1.6.0
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-3.3.5-1.6.0
XFree86-3.3.5-1.6.0
XFree86-doc-3.3.5-1.6.0
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i gnome
gnome-pim-1.0.55-1
gnome-audio-1.0.0-6
gnome-audio-extra-1.0.0-6
gnome-core-1.0.7-2
gnome-games-1.0.2-11
gnome-linuxconf-0.22-1
gnome-media-1.0.1-3
gnome-users-guide-1.0.5-4rh
switchdesk-gnome-1.7.0-1
gnome-utils-1.0.50-1
gnome-libs-1.0.54-1
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i enlightenment
enlightenment-0.15.5-37
enlightenment-conf-0.15-5
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$
I believe these three are the latest from Red Hat.
Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 07:10:37 -0400, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> >I have top running in one pane of my desktop, where I run
> >GNOME/Enlightenment. Normally, X takes only a relatively small amount
> >of CPU time, such as 5 or 6% and sometimes less. But sometimes it goes
> >up to 25% or even a little more. The version I have (pointed to by
> >/etc/X11/X) is
> >
> >Is this normal? I hate to have the CPU time wasted (if it is being
> >wasted) like that, Why does it use so much CPU time sometimes and not
> >other times? 25% of an 1100 MHz machine (I have two 550MHz Pentium IIIs
> >in this machine) seems a lot. Most of the cycles are spent in "System",
> >not "User".
>
> The standard answer is "X does this; don't worry about it." I noticed
> this a *long* time ago; on my machine, the system load spikes up about
> 0.1 every couple of minutes due to X. I *think* that the load spiking
> like that is due to kpm/top/gtop/xosview catching X just as it's writing
> a bunch of data into video RAM. This is fairly processor-intensive, but
> on reasonably modern graphics hardware like the G200/G400/TNT2/Xpert98,
> that operation is extremely fast and happens several times a second.
> Also remember that E is a bit of a pig wrt anything it touches. Sawfish
> will most likely suck up less RAM/CPU.
>
> Do not worry about this unless you're having performance problems, and
> if SETI is that important to you, get rid of X, most of the daemons, all
> but one virtual console, and any interrupt-generating hardware you can
> part with.
Well, SETI is not vital, but it indicates a problem, since I might be running
something important instead of that. I hate 30% of the CPU power going into X
when it is not doing any more than it is at other times when it uses only 5%. I
guess I am glad to not be alone.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 7:35pm up 13 days, 1:12, 2 users, load average: 3.15, 3.20, 3.18
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From: "Colin R. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:50:10 -0400
Grant Edwards wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin R. Day wrote:
>
> >> Microsoft offered a Unix, XENIX, and users stuck to DOS despite Microsoft's
> >> advocacy for XENIX.
> >
> >Of course, trying to run UNIX on such computers as were used for
> >XENIX would be like trying to drive a Lamborghini in rush-hour
> >traffic.
>
> Eh? XENIX _was_ Unix. It was Microsoft's version of AT&T
> System 3 wasn't it?
Yes, it was/is a version of UNIX, but from what I have read,
the hardware was somewhat cramped.
Colin Day
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie question on minicom?
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 18:57:21 -0500
Davis Eric wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have the following newbie questions on minicom.
>
> 1. Due to my ISP, I need to type ppp each time when I want to establish
> a ppp conection. But after I type "ppp", my terminal gave me some weird
> strings. I know that means the ppp conection has been established. My
> question is what should I do at that time in order to continue to
> conection but out of the weird strings? In windows, usually press "F7"
> will work. What should I do to continue it?
>
You need to exit minicom without resetting the modem ( CTL-A Q ). Then
you need to start pppd to establish the network connection. You would
usually only do this with minicom while debugging a connection setup,
normally you would use a chat script to make the connection. This is
described in the isphookup howto.
--
Bob Martin
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sendmail help!
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 20:04:33 -0400
Chris MacTavish wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I want to configure our linux box to have email. We are using RedHat 6.0 and
> i know i need to configure sendmail in order to get our email working. I am
> only interested in getting email working locally on our lan. We do not need
> to have internet email capabilities. How big of a job is this and is there
> any good white pages available giving you step by step instructions?
>
> Thanks
I got a lot of help from someone who participated a lot on this board. He seems
to have withdrawn, perhaps because of the hostility he received from some of
his postings.
It turns out not to be too difficult if you have the patience to read the Bat
Book; i.e., "sendmail" by Costales and Allman (O'Reilly). I have the "2nd
Edition - Revised & Updates". Do not let its over 1000 pages scare you. Read as
much as you can stand, and then turn to chapter 19, page 241 where it shows a
fairly easy way to setup an /etc/sendmail.mc file from which you can generate
the required /etc/sendmail.cf file essentially automatically.
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