Linux-Misc Digest #480, Volume #26 Wed, 6 Dec 00 15:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: Problems running ./configure ("D. Stimits")
Re: Linux telnet windows (Black Dragon)
Re: removing strange dir ~ ("D. Stimits")
console error on bootup (Brad Barfield)
Re: Disaster recovery info ("D. Stimits")
Re: Parser generator ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Re: Kernel for 4Mb RAM 386 (Andreas Schweitzer)
Re: removing strange dir ~ (Bit Twister)
Another Sendmail Question ("Lamar Thomas")
Windows emulator... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: removing strange dir ~ (John Hunter)
Re: "/usr" versus "/usr/local" (Grant Edwards)
help w/ setting an environment var (John Hunter)
updating rpm ("Y2J")
Re: Disaster recovery info (Grant Edwards)
Re: Newbie Boot problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Another Sendmail Question ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Another Sendmail Question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Another Sendmail Question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How do I install ANYTHING in Linux???? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How do I install ANYTHING in Linux???? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Video ("mu6sys")
Audio ("mu6sys")
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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 11:03:18 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problems running ./configure
Andy wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm bored with trying things now...
>
> I am trying to compile some software which needed the libpcap package. I
> installed libpcap-0.4-29.i386.rpm and tried again.
> The configure script nearly ran all the way through until:
>
> checking for pcap_dump in -lpcap... yes
> checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... yes
> checking for pcap.h... no
> configure: error: Test for pcap.h failed.
>
> Oh!
> but I've just installed the libpcap package which provides pcap.h and even
> run ldconfig to make sure.
> Ok so I'll try:
>
> locate pcap.h
> /usr/include/pcap/pcap.h
>
> I'ts there!
> what's going on?
>
> Can anybody help me please...
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Andy.
Possibly it is looking for pcap.h in the wrong place. If you view the
configure script, e.g., while in the proper directory:
less < configure
You could then search for pcap.h:
/pcap[.]h
Hitting the "n" key will scroll to the next occurrence of the search.
Try to find out where it wants pcap.h. What will be difficult is if the
configure script runs some second script that does the actual search.
Assuming you find where it wants it, make a symbolic link from there to
the real pcap.h.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux telnet windows
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 18:02:49 GMT
On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 17:43:39 GMT in alt.os.linux,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' said:
: The mouse is exactly what is causing the problems.
:
: As soon as I click in the other window, I now have selected
: something else. I have to go back and reselect.
: So, I end up concentrating on hand eye
: coordination, instead of what I am working on.
: I could never have done this when I injured my hand.
:
: Are there any telnet windows with the Edit menu, and the
: Cut and Paste commands?
:
: Thanks
X's copy and paste is far superior to 'doze, once you get the hang of it.
You do not need to click in the window into which you are pasting if you
have the focus set to mouse over. If you don't have the focus set to mouse
over, click on the _edge_ (border) of the window to get focus, then just
hold the cursor over the window, *don't click in it*, then middle click to
paste. That's much more efficient than using menus, and yeah, I know, old
habits are hard to break, so give yourself a chance to get accustomed to it.
Practice makes perfect. :-)
--
Black Dragon
Sign The Linux Driver Petition:
http://www.libralinux.com/petition.english.html
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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 11:09:09 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: removing strange dir ~
Someone else gave some good ideas; another idea is that you can name an
absolute path, and if you ever find something with interpretted stuff in
it, you can quote the name and stop interpretation. Probably what you
need (assuming the directory you are in is /home/hunter, adjust as
needed) is:
rm -Rf /home/hunter/~
The first thing to note is that absolute paths are used. If it still
doesn't like this, depending on which shell you use, you can quote it,
e.g.:
rm -Rf "/home/hunter/~"
John Hunter wrote:
>
> In a subdirectory of my home directory, the '~' shows up on an ls. I
> would like to get rid o it, but I cannot, for example, do 'rm -rf ~'
> lest I delete my home dir. Any thoughts on how to remove this pesky
> entry?
>
> I have no idea how it got there.
>
> I'm using RHL6.2. Some ls output below.
>
> Thanks,
> John Hunter
>
> video:~/Perl> ls
> Bin lib perl-examples perlmagick-ques ~
> Scripts password-problem perl-help perlmove.tar.gz
> books perl-configs perl-notes src
> examples perl-configs-sun perl.tar.gz test
> video:~/Perl>
>
> video:~/Perl> ls -l
> total 774
> drwxr-xr-x 7 jdhunter 120 4096 Dec 6 10:55 Bin
> drwxrwxr-x 4 jdhunter 120 512 Sep 22 1999 Scripts
> drwxr-xr-x 4 jdhunter 120 512 Dec 6 11:11 books
> drwxr-xr-x 2 jdhunter 120 512 Dec 6 10:56 examples
> drwxr-xr-x 4 jdhunter 120 512 Dec 6 11:10 lib
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jdhunter 120 602 Apr 23 1999 password-problem
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 jdhunter 120 10552 Jun 28 1999 perl-configs
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 jdhunter 120 796 Feb 17 1999 perl-configs-sun
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jdhunter 120 8659 Dec 3 12:31 perl-examples
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 jdhunter 120 46 Sep 8 1998 perl-help
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 jdhunter 120 406 Sep 8 1998 perl-notes
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jdhunter 120 686608 Dec 6 11:11 perl.tar.gz
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 jdhunter 120 1318 Oct 16 1998 perlmagick-ques
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jdhunter 120 57631 Dec 6 11:09 perlmove.tar.gz
> drwxrwxr-x 2 jdhunter 120 512 Apr 18 2000 src
> drwxr-xr-x 2 jdhunter 120 512 Dec 6 11:10 test
> drwxrwxr-x 3 jdhunter 120 512 Nov 23 1998 ~
> video:~/Perl>
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From: Brad Barfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: console error on bootup
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 13:13:38 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone seen an error message on bootup like:
"Warning: could not open intial console"
"Panic: init not found"
We are installing the 2.4.0-test9 kernel and are seeing this message on
bootup. The 2.2.14 kernel works fine.
--
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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 11:15:26 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Disaster recovery info
Neil Montgomery wrote:
>
> My computer at home dual boots Windows95 (family members think they
> need MSOffice) and GNU/Linux. Windows95 has been behaving very badly
> of late, so I decided to reinstall it. I was somewhat aware that doing
> so would probably affect the ability for the two operating systems to
> cooperate, so I made what I believed were the necessary preparations
> to do the reinstall.
>
> What I did not do is record the details of the partition table, which
> is unfortunate, since the Windows95 reinstallation helpfully removed
> it for me.
More likely it changed the master boot record (MBR), and not the rest of
the partition table (although it is possible it messed that up too). But
one can never trust a windows automatic installer, as I'm sure you now
know.
>
> I am somewhat resigned to the fact that I may have to start the Linux
> side over again from scratch, unless there is anyone who can point me
> to resources that might help me recover from this problem.
>
> All I can do at the moment is, using a floppy and CD provided with my
> SuSE 6.1 distribution, run Linux in a "rescue mode".
Then you can run lilo again and probably it will work correctly. You'd
have to name the lilo.conf explicitly since it wouldn't be the /etc/ of
the floppy/rescue, but instead the one on the hard drive. You can mount
the original partition just like any other, and name
/somePath/etc/lilo.conf for the right one.
>
> What I can't do, of course, is mount any of the old filesystems, since
> they no longer exist.
If the filesystems themselves were removed, you are out of luck. If it
is just the boot record, you can fix it.
>
> I would imagine that the data on the hard drive is still there. I
> would like to see if there is any damage recovery I can undertake,
> just as much to learn how as anything else.
>
> \begin{humility} Although I realize my preparations for any kind of
> disaster were woefully inadequate \end{humility}, \begin{rant} my
> utter disdain for that oozing, smelly, pus-like growth masquerading as
> an operating system cannot be expressed strongly enough! \end{rant}
>
> Regards,
> Neil Montgomery
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Parser generator
Date: 06 Dec 2000 10:28:36 -0800
"Flej Ling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bison is described in man pages as "a parser generator that replaces yacc".
> What is a parser generator and what is it good for?
>
> Flej Ling
YACC is an acronym for "Yet Another Compiler Compiler", and is a
program that has been around the Unix world since the early 80s at
least. It (and Bison) take a table written to describe a grammar for
a language and generate a program that recognizes expressions in that
grammar, you can also include your own software actions when an
expression is recognized, so this is a stage in writing a language
compiler. Before parsing there is a stage called lexical analysis and
there is a program called Lex to help do that, which takes a stream of
characters and creates tokens (like identifier, number, equals sign,
etc) which are passed as a stream of tokens to the parser, which might
have a grammer that recognizes something like "identifier equals sign
number semicolon" as a statement in the language.
That's all from memory as I used to have a job where I had to write
parsers (but not full compilers) back in the 80s. However, on my
slackware 7.1 distro linux, I can type "man yacc" and it gives some
info, plus there are books on writing compilers. The YACC type
compiler generates tables for a LALR (which I think stands for "Look
Ahead Left Right" type grammers, rather powerful and table driven,
but there are other kinds of parsers, like the recursive descent, etc.
Well, probably told you more than you wanted to know, but there ya go.
--- Oh, for my real email address, it's at rahul.net, not ragwind.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Schweitzer)
Subject: Re: Re: Kernel for 4Mb RAM 386
Date: 6 Dec 2000 18:29:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, The Phoenix wrote:
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, The Phoenix wrote:
>> >
>> > Im planning to install Linux in my old 386 with 4Mb RAM.
>> > .. I recompiled the 2.2.12 kernel ... the kernel would hardly run
>> > in the 386 ( the disk was allways in activity,
>>
>> But your problem also sounds like there is too much other stuff
>> running. Try cutting down dameons etc. There are comments on that
>> in the Small-Memory HOWTO above.
>>
>
> Yes I have already red all that HOWTO's but deamons and
> other programs are not the problem, the kernel is.
Thes sizes of 600kB and ~450kB you mentioned. Are these the
bzImages or the uncompressed images ? If it is the bzImage,
then this will of course expand too much.
BTW, try compiling an uncompressed image (simply make - without
zImage or bzImage - will put a vmlinux some place).
This will safe you another little piece of code.
And one more thing : there was once a patch that would enable
to tell the kernel directly the swap device, so it would not
have to wait until the init process turns on swap.
Generally, I would try to get a version as old
as feasable to run on a low end machine. The newer the
kernel version that larger the kernel tends to get.
But I guess, that's all I have ;-)
Andreas
P.S.: try to format your lines to ~72 columns, it's hard
to read.
--
Andreas Schweitzer
http://dilbert.physast.uga.edu/~andy/
This post is brought to you by VIM, slrn and FreeBSD
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: removing strange dir ~
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 18:37:59 GMT
Sorry, did not see the comment about
> but I cannot, for example, do 'rm -rf ~' >lest I delete my home dir.
D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gives some very good advice.
Any time I'am worried about how rm will parse the wildcards
I will do a ls instead of rm to see what is selected.
On 06 Dec 2000 11:12:35 -0600, John Hunter
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In a subdirectory of my home directory, the '~' shows up on an ls. I
>would like to get rid o it, but I cannot, for example, do 'rm -rf ~'
>lest I delete my home dir. Any thoughts on how to remove this pesky
>entry?
>
>I have no idea how it got there.
>
>I'm using RHL6.2. Some ls output below.
>
>Thanks,
>John Hunter
>
>video:~/Perl> ls
>Bin lib perl-examples perlmagick-ques ~
>Scripts password-problem perl-help perlmove.tar.gz
>books perl-configs perl-notes src
>examples perl-configs-sun perl.tar.gz test
>video:~/Perl>
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From: "Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Another Sendmail Question
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 10:39:17 -0800
I installed RH Linux 6.2 at home a few weeks ago (I am new to Linux) and
Sendmail was working right out of the box! I could send AND receive e-mail.
Then I wanted to re-install Linux just for the fun of it. So I re-formatted
my drive and started again. I took the same options, however this time
Sendmail didn't work (I could SEND mail out but I could not receive mail). I
re-formatted two more times with the same results. Sendmail loads fine with
no errors [OK]. It just will not receive e-mail. Any ideas? Thanks for any
help.
Lamar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Windows emulator...
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 18:53:43 GMT
Hi,
I need Windows for the following tasks:
-Compile C++ OpenGL programs
-Optionnal: Run these OpenGL programs (with acceleration if possible)
-Use explorer (set up with ethernet)
That's about it...
I know only of VMWare that could do this job, but it's pretty fucked up (it
fucked my LAN...)
I also know of wine, but nerver got it to work...
Can you suggest me something?
Thanks,
Simon
--
+-------------------------+----------------------------------+
| Simon Lemieux | Website : http://www.666Mhz.net |
| Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | POV-Ray, OpenGL, C++ and more... |
+-------------------------+----------------------------------+
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Subject: Re: removing strange dir ~
From: John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 06 Dec 2000 13:01:36 -0600
>>>>> "D" == D Stimits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
D> Someone else gave some good ideas; another idea is that you can
D> name an absolute path, and if you ever find something with
D> interpretted stuff in it, you can quote the name and stop
D> interpretation. Probably what you need (assuming the directory
D> you are in is /home/hunter, adjust as needed) is: rm -Rf
D> /home/hunter/~
Interesting; I did not know about the full path trick. It worked!
Thanks,
John Hunter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: "/usr" versus "/usr/local"
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 19:08:28 GMT
In article <90ls1v$bos$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Unruh wrote:
>]Is this normal or have I configured things wrong? Does Redhat use only the
>]"/usr", only the "/usr/local", or both?
>
>By tradition /usr/local is the place to put things which you compile and
>place on your system, while /usr is the place for things which come with the
>operating system. If /usr/local is placed on a different partition, then
>when you reinstall the OS all of your special programs are left unaffected
>and do not need to be reinstalled.
I highly recommend keeping /usr/local and home directories on
non-system partitions (different than / or /usr). That way you
can re-install from scratch without loosing stuff...
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! The FALAFEL SANDWICH
at lands on my HEAD and I
visi.com become a VEGETARIAN...
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Subject: help w/ setting an environment var
From: John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 06 Dec 2000 13:07:45 -0600
I have a system wide environment var set and exported in
/etc/profile. I want to take the value of that var and prepend my own
values to it in my .tcshrc file.
setenv PERL5LIB $PERLHOME/lib:$PERL5LIB
The problem is, during my first logon, apparently the .tcshrc file is
loaded before the exports from /etc/profile are available to me. So
the tcshrc load crashes with an unknown variable on the PERL5LIB
part (the problem is not with $PERLHOME).
If I comment out the line above, the /etc/profile vars are available
to me by the time my shell is loaded. How and where should I define
my PERL5LIB var so that the /etc/profile definition is available to me
when I try to define it.
Incidentally, other environment vars such as $HOME *are* available to
me in the .tcshrc at first load.
Thanks,
John Hunter
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From: "Y2J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: updating rpm
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 19:19:15 GMT
I've updated the rpm 3.0 on my pc with redhat 6.2 with the new 4.0 and now
programs like kpackage or gnorpm don't work any more, when I try to install
some rpm packages by typing rpm -i .... I receive the following msg from the
shell:
--> An rpm database in db1 format exists in /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm.
Please convert to db3 format by running "rpm --rebuilddb" as root.
error: cannot open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
But even after doing rpm --rebuild...., the error msg just continue. How can
I solve this problem?
thank you in advance
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Disaster recovery info
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 19:26:00 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Neil Montgomery wrote:
>What I did not do is record the details of the partition table, which
>is unfortunate, since the Windows95 reinstallation helpfully removed
>it for me.
I've never hand Win9x actually remove any non-DOS partitions
when I did installs. If it really did, then you've run across
a particularly virulent strain of the Win9x desease.
>I am somewhat resigned to the fact that I may have to start the
>Linux side over again from scratch, unless there is anyone who
>can point me to resources that might help me recover from this
>problem.
>
>All I can do at the moment is, using a floppy and CD provided
>with my SuSE 6.1 distribution, run Linux in a "rescue mode".
>
>What I can't do, of course, is mount any of the old
>filesystems, since they no longer exist.
The partitions are, in fact gone, then you're probably SOL.
What I've always observed is that Win9x overwrites LILO in the
MBR, so you can't boot Linux, but the Linux partitions are all
still there. If that's the case, you should be able to
reinstall LILO and be back in business.
If you boot from the rescue disk and run fdisk, are the Linux
partions really not there? If they are, then there's hope that
you can create a boot floppy and get going again.
Before you installed 95, what you probably should have done was
create a boot floppy that allowed you to boot your Linux system
off a floppy rather than using LILO in the MBR. That way, as
long as the partitions were still there, you could boot from
the floppy, run LILO, and Bob's your uncle.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Let's climb to the
at TOP of that MOUNTAIN and
visi.com think about STRIP MINING!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie Boot problems
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 19:25:46 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
> I think you have two problems. You probably are having a problem
> with the dual processors. You need to be using the right kernel
> and have everything set up properly for booting it. I'm not
> sure exactly what to tell you about that, but perhaps someone else
> will.
>
> Secondly, it is not unusual for configuration of X to fail during
> installation. Try running Xconfigurator and experiment some with
> the choice of monitor. Also, try custom for moniitor and pick
> one of the generic choices that comes up if no monitor choice works.
> In addition, someone with a similar graphics and monitor configuration
> may be able to give you more information. In extreme cases it may
> be necessary to edit the file XF86Config in /etc/X11.
> --
>
> Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
>
Hi Leonard,
Thanks for the help. I'm guessing that, if an Xconfig failure is not an
uncommon problem, then its most likely the dual processors that are
causing the system to hang. Now all I have to do is figure out how to
upgrade the kernel!! (Anyone know of any "Recompiling Kernels For
Dummies" books available??!!)
Thanks again,
Phil Harvey
I'd also just like to mention that, for someone like me, who finds
switching to a brand new platform a little daunting and overwhelming at
times, its a great relief to know there are so many knowledgeable
people willing to take the time to help you out -- it makes the
transition a whole lot easier, and I for one really appreciate it. You
are all doing a great service out here and deserve to be commended. I
only hope that in a few years, I'll be able to offer advice -- until
then, I'll eagerly take it!!
Cheers,
Phil Harvey
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Another Sendmail Question
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 20:34:57 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Lamar Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> re-formatted two more times with the same results. Sendmail loads fine with
> no errors [OK]. It just will not receive e-mail. Any ideas? Thanks for any
Configure it. It needs at least to know your host name and domainname
as well as to BE RUNNING. If you do not understand what those two words
mean, I strongly suggest you ask yourself before you ask me!
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Another Sendmail Question
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 19:39:22 GMT
You should try to use install-sendmail. I had a number of issues that
it fixed
In article <3a2e85fc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I installed RH Linux 6.2 at home a few weeks ago (I am new to Linux)
and
> Sendmail was working right out of the box! I could send AND receive e-
mail.
> Then I wanted to re-install Linux just for the fun of it. So I re-
formatted
> my drive and started again. I took the same options, however this time
> Sendmail didn't work (I could SEND mail out but I could not receive
mail). I
> re-formatted two more times with the same results. Sendmail loads
fine with
> no errors [OK]. It just will not receive e-mail. Any ideas? Thanks
for any
> help.
>
> Lamar
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Another Sendmail Question
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 19:42:58 GMT
You should try to use install-sendmail. I had a number of issues that
it fixed
In article <3a2e85fc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I installed RH Linux 6.2 at home a few weeks ago (I am new to Linux)
and
> Sendmail was working right out of the box! I could send AND receive e-
mail.
> Then I wanted to re-install Linux just for the fun of it. So I re-
formatted
> my drive and started again. I took the same options, however this time
> Sendmail didn't work (I could SEND mail out but I could not receive
mail). I
> re-formatted two more times with the same results. Sendmail loads
fine with
> no errors [OK]. It just will not receive e-mail. Any ideas? Thanks
for any
> help.
>
> Lamar
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How do I install ANYTHING in Linux????
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 19:42:27 GMT
Thanks to all of you for the advice! I'll look around for stuff that is
in the RPM format and start with that software only for a while until I
get this figured out some more. I was just using the MySQL and PHP as
an example of some of the missing stuff I have come across. I have
played around with Apache and have been successful at setting up a web
server here in the office internal network that seems to be working
fine. I would like to play around with web servers on the internet with
linux, but I just have to wait until I can get a good internet
connection at home (Arrggghh!!! Lack of DSL and cable modem are driving
me nuts!).
Mainly what I am trying to do is just download different software from
the internet to play around with, but just end up getting myself into
trouble!
I am sending this message from a Linux 7.1 computer right now, I was
using Internet Explorer on my main work computer here at the office
until IE blew up. I got frustrated and went back to the Linux
computer. :-)
Thanks again, the people in these newsgroups are always very helpful!
Tom
--Seattle, WA
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Ok, I'm just about completely frustrated. I'm trying to convert
myself
> > from the evil blue screen world of windows, and trying to learn to
use
> > Linux. I have been playing with several different types and find
that
> > I like the Mandrake 7.x versions the best.
> > My problem:
> > I try downloading software from the internet to install and try out
on
> > Linux, but I can NEVER figure out how to install anything and make
it
> > work! I keep getting errors saying I need to have QT, PHP,
> > MySQL...etc..etc...installed. When I try to install the needed
stuff,
> > it never works either or I just do something dumb.
> > I have the tar -zxvf thing figured out, but from there nothing
works. I
> > try 'make', 'make install', 'make clean', './configure' and all
those
> > different variations of compiling and installing software, but just
have
> > no luck - EVER!
> > What is the trick to simply downloading and installing software on
this
> > operating system?
> > I'm just getting completely frustrated with this whole thing.
> > Anyone out there that can give a newbie some advice??
>
> Hi Tom: at the beginning it's probably a good idea to stick with
> rpms. Take a look at http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ to see what's
> available for your distro. Often even proprietary stuff is offered
> as rpm packages, eg applixware, realplayer, ... On that website you
> can also easily check dependencies.
> When you try compiling something it will usually complain about some
> library missing which you can then easily install using rpm - don't
> forget to install the respective development library, too.
>
> hope this helps, Gerald
>
> PS: personally, I started with RH4.0 more then three years back and
there
> were some ups and downs - especially when rpms were no longer
offered
> en masse for libc5 systems. This summer I replaced my upgraded
RH4.0
> with Suse 6.4 on my home machine (mainly b/c it supports German
dsl)
> and on my machine at work I run Debian 2.2 which I like more and
> more.
>
>
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Subject: Re: How do I install ANYTHING in Linux????
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 19:44:52 GMT
...oh, I might also add that I am a computer tech, and you know how much
us techie guys read manuals. Ha!
Although, in many cases that just gets me into trouble.
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Subject: Video
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:49:44 +0200
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From: "mu6sys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Audio
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:58:15 +0200
I need program that can play to device starting from any place within the
mpeg file with provided SDK(or sources) , interface to TCL and volume
control.
If anyone can give any information please reply me.
Thanks,
Elena
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