Linux-Misc Digest #529, Volume #26 Tue, 12 Dec 00 09:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Replicating a Linux box (Sebastian Hans)
Re: Star Office installation Q. ("Vladimir Florinski")
Mail with shell script ("Jan Huelsberg")
defunct ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Access like database for Linux (Nils Zonneveld)
Mandrake upgrade: terrible (Andrew Brooks)
Re: suggest me one which can handle multiple POP3 email addresses? ("Kousik Nandy")
Re: defunct ("Kousik Nandy")
Re: /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K## scripts DO NOT WORK on RH 6.2 ("Kousik Nandy")
RH6.2 only supports 8.3 Filenames? (Walt, Southern California, USA)
Re: About Starting ONE kernel from WITHIN another? (Bruce Stephens)
Re: lost file on erased partition (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Re: Mail with shell script (Sebastian Hans)
Re: how to know when last accessed..... (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: RH6.2 only supports 8.3 Filenames? (Sebastian Hans)
Re: /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K## scripts DO NOT WORK on RH 6.2 (Kevin Taylor)
Re: RH6.2 only supports 8.3 Filenames? (Johan De Wit)
Re: Is it possible to do? ("Kousik Nandy")
About programming text mode fonts ("Kilian A. Foth")
graphic driver problem ("Torsten Veit")
Re: LILO-Problem after adding a HD ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Preventing ATAPI error logging? (Neil Bird)
Re: Mail with shell script (Jan Wolfgang Huelsberg)
howto verify I'm online??? ("cryofan")
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From: Sebastian Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Replicating a Linux box
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:11:39 +0100
Shawn Smith wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>
> Great advice. I am going to go see if the box has room for another
> drive. What if it doesn't? ftping could work then. I would just copy the
> partition layout and then just ftp it all. Do you know the command for
> me to find out what partitions are mounted on what drives?
mount
without any arguments will show you what's mounted at the moment.
To find out what's mounted at boot time, have a look at /etc/fstab.
It's all in there.
HTH
seb
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From: "Vladimir Florinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Star Office installation Q.
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:47:40 +0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Vladimir Florinski wrote:
>>
>> I just downloaded SO 5.2 from Sun. This comes in 10 files, plus 2 additional
>> files with some extras. Noting this is clearly a multi-part archive, I
>> thought I could just run the first file, the only one with the ELF header,
>> and it'll extract everything for me. No luck: 'Text file busy'. Ok, so it's
>> writing over itself (maybe a sensible thing to do for a self-extractor), but
>> before it's even executed? ldd gives the same result.
>>
>
>
> This is directly from sun's installation directions.
>
> It will be necessary for a chmod command to be executed to set read, write,
> and execute permission.
>
> For example:
>
> % chmod 777 *.bin
>
>
Well, if it were that simple, I wouldn't be posting here. Read my original
message carefully: obviously, permissions are set correctly, otherwize ldd
would not have run on it.
--
Vladimir
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From: "Jan Huelsberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mail with shell script
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:12:34 +0100
Reply-To: "Jan Huelsberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I need to send a mail to 200 persons.
I have to change the first line of each mail to put in the right name.
How am I doing this best?
With a shell script combining two files, the one with the mail the other
with the addresses and names (read line by line) and then sending it with
the mail program?
Jan.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: defunct
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:51:42 GMT
Hi,
My netscape has developed a diehard attitude:
xxxx 1221 1 0 Dec11 ? 00:01:25
/usr/lib/netscape/netscape-commu
xxxx 1244 1221 0 Dec11 ? 00:00:00 [netscape-commun
<defunct>]
xxxx 1245 1221 0 Dec11 ? 00:00:00 [netscape-commun
<defunct>]
xxxx 2300 1 7 11:30 ? 00:00:06
/usr/lib/netscape/netscape-commu
xxxx 2327 2300 0 11:30 ? 00:00:00 [netscape-commun
<defunct>]
Does anybody have any idea how to get rid of <defunct> processes?
BR /Stefan
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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:48:14 +0100
From: Nils Zonneveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Access like database for Linux
Dustin Puryear wrote:
> I doubt you will be able to just move the Access database from Windows to Linux
> since Access uses VB for Access and so has a language all it's own when writing
> applications.
>
Importing the data from MS-Access to for instance PostgreSQL is quite
easily done. With ODBC you can attach the postgreSQL tables in your
access database and read out everything from your MS Access tables into
PostgreSQL from MS Access.
You can then still use MS Access as a front end and at the same time
share your data among other platforms/development environments.
Nils
--
"Misschien is niets geheel waar, en zelfs dat niet"
Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker) - Idee 1
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From: Andrew Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: Mandrake upgrade: terrible
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:04:54 +0000
Hello,
I had a clean installation of Mandrake 7.0 and tried the 7.2 upgrade
yesterday. What a disaster!
The upgrade program is duff in many places. It even got stuck in
a loop during the X configuration, asking me the same questions
over and over again. I had to click Exit Install to stop it.
Now my idea of an upgrade (with experience of Solaris) is that the
OS is upgraded and everything keeps working the same as it did before.
Not so with Mandrake 7.2!
I could give you a big list of problems but I got so annoyed I wasn't
in the mood to write everything down.
First, it broke the sound system which worked fine in 7.0.
Second, the login screen has got worse:
* There are no options for shutdown / restart.
* The only window manager choice is KDE, but it starts IceWM !!!!!!
It seems to have thrown away all my desktop settings. I want KDE
but there's no obvious way of getting it!
Finally, most programs chosen from the applications menu either never
start or I can get them to crash within 30 seconds of use. (Not a
permissions problem, I logged in as root.)
For example, I just started KWord, right clicked in the main window,
and it died instantly!!! Of the programs which actually deigned to
run, I found most crashed very quickly through simple use.
I never thought I would say this since I am a complete unix (Solaris)
fanatic, but the whole system feels so amateurish compared to Windows!
All in all, I am not a happy bunny. I consider my system to be
completely unusable since the upgrade :-(
Andrew.
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From: "Kousik Nandy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: suggest me one which can handle multiple POP3 email addresses?
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 16:30:32 +0530
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have installed RedHat 6. It's working fine. The KDE can handle
> dialup very efficiently. But I need an email client. I have visited
> the site.
>
>
> can anyone suggest me one which can handle multiple POP3 email
> addresses?
Use MOZILLA. Get it here:
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla0.6/
HTH,
Kousik.
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From: "Kousik Nandy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: defunct
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 16:33:25 +0530
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does anybody have any idea how to get rid of <defunct> processes?
Kill its parent.
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From: "Kousik Nandy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K## scripts DO NOT WORK on RH 6.2
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 16:46:26 +0530
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Kevin Taylor"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get a script to run on startup and shutdown....it just
> creates a file on shutdown and deletes it on startup....this shouldn't
> be tough.
>
> However, I'm noticing that the script is NEVER executed on shutdown.
> Redhat just bypasses all those K scripts and runs it's
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt program.
>
> Does anyone know what's going on here?
While executing the KILL scripts, Red Hat does the following
checks (look at /etc/rc.d/rc file):
1. If the script is there (symlink is OK)
2. It isn't a rpmorig or rpmnew script
3. Checks a LOCK at /var/lock/subsys/$subsys (where $subsys is your
service name)
I guess you're not writing a lockfile in /var/lock/subsys/ at startup
and hence being ignored at shutdown.
Hope this gives an idea what to do,
Kousik.
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From: Walt, Southern California, USA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH6.2 only supports 8.3 Filenames?
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:05:03 GMT
On my 2nd HD, I use both Win32 and Linux. I've noticed that at least
on my machine, Linux doesn't support long file names. Everything is
8.3 format (i.e., filename.ext becomes filena~1.ext).
Is this something I need to change in setting up, or is it a config
file somewhere? In other words, do I have a problem, or is this the
way things are supposed to be?
Thanks in advance.
-Walt.
--
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I eat them because I like them.
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Before you buy.
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From: Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: About Starting ONE kernel from WITHIN another?
Date: 12 Dec 2000 11:52:07 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Igor) writes:
[...]
> That would not work, because what if the kernel that I specified as
> default in lilo.conf does not boot? Then I am hosed.
Yes. Those of us with consoles are OK, of course, but if you've got a
rack mounted PC or something, then you really want to have an
automatic fallback---with lilo -R provides, as someone else pointed
out.
<http://slashdot.org/> just recently had an announcement of a kernel
module which does what you originally asked for: it loads a kernel
image into memory, and boots from it. I haven't looked to see how
dangerous it might be.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: lost file on erased partition
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:20:18 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen) wrote:
>I suggest this:
>
>The partition tables are edited to assume a 255 heads setting and
>recover the lost Linux partitions. This is done using a Findpart batch
>file, which I provide.
>
>The PC is rebooted. During reboot BIOS setup is entered, and the disk
>auto detected. It is verified that the translation is now LBA mode
>with 255 heads.
[cut]
Correction:
If the BIOS does support disks larger than 8 GB, it might be better to
manually set the disk to
16320 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors,
and then switch to LBA mode. This is the largest number of cylinders
that will correctly translate into LBA mode for a BIOS that does not
support disks > 8 GB.
--
Svend Olaf
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From: Sebastian Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mail with shell script
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:24:39 +0100
Jan Huelsberg wrote:
>
> I need to send a mail to 200 persons.
> I have to change the first line of each mail to put in the right name.
> How am I doing this best?
> With a shell script combining two files, the one with the mail the other
> with the addresses and names (read line by line) and then sending it with
> the mail program?
Well, this is not exactly a shell script, but a perl script.
It should do anyway.
#!/usr/bin/perl
#spammer
open MAIL,"<mail.file" or die "cannot open mail file";
@mail=<MAIL>;
close MAIL;
open ADDR,"<address.file" or die "cannot open address file";
while (<ADDR>) {
chomp;
($addr,@name)=split / /,$_;
open MTA,"|mail $addr" or die "cannot open mail pipe";
print MTA "To: ",$addr,"\nSubject: ",$ARGV[0],"\n\n";
print MTA "Dear ",@name,", please enjoy the following:\n";
# ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# \- change this to suit your needs
print MTA @mail;
close MTA;
}
#end spammer
This will read the mail (without headers) from mail.file and a list
of addresses and names from address.file.
It must be formatted with exactly one space between address and name
like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] John Doe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ludger Oser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Donald Ummy
Then it uses the 'mail' program to send the mails with a subject given
as the first command line argument.
A sample mail will look like this:
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: What you put there
Dear Ludger Oser, please enjoy the following:
Your text comes here...
when called as: spammer "What you put there"
It's not very good and certainly not fool-proof but it should get you
started.
HTH
seb
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-------------------=====#####OOOOOOOO#####=====----c---c----------
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student of comp sci - technical university of munich \-^-/ ...just RUN
i'm a .signature virus! copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to know when last accessed.....
Date: 12 Dec 2000 13:25:05 +0100
Bulent Sarinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> with pop3
> telnet
> ftp
>
> at all how to know when a user has accessed last time the server with
> any protocol.
>
try 'last'
--
Stefano
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From: Sebastian Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.2 only supports 8.3 Filenames?
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:28:21 +0100
Walt, Southern, California, USA wrote:
>
> On my 2nd HD, I use both Win32 and Linux. I've noticed that at least
> on my machine, Linux doesn't support long file names. Everything is
> 8.3 format (i.e., filename.ext becomes filena~1.ext).
>
> Is this something I need to change in setting up, or is it a config
> file somewhere? In other words, do I have a problem, or is this the
> way things are supposed to be?
Is that when you mount your Windows (FAT formatted) disk?
If so, you probably mounted it as 'msdos' type. Try mounting it as
'vfat'
by typing mount -tvfat /dev/yourdiskdrive /mnt as root or change the
entry in your /etc/fstab from 'msdos' to 'vfat'.
HTH
seb
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-------------------=====#####OOOOOOOO#####=====----c---c----------
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student of comp sci - technical university of munich \-^-/ ...just RUN
i'm a .signature virus! copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread
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From: Kevin Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K## scripts DO NOT WORK on RH 6.2
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 07:36:15 -0500
Kousik Nandy wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Kevin Taylor"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm trying to get a script to run on startup and shutdown....it just
> > creates a file on shutdown and deletes it on startup....this shouldn't
> > be tough.
> >
> > However, I'm noticing that the script is NEVER executed on shutdown.
> > Redhat just bypasses all those K scripts and runs it's
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt program.
> >
> > Does anyone know what's going on here?
>
> While executing the KILL scripts, Red Hat does the following
> checks (look at /etc/rc.d/rc file):
>
> 1. If the script is there (symlink is OK)
> 2. It isn't a rpmorig or rpmnew script
> 3. Checks a LOCK at /var/lock/subsys/$subsys (where $subsys is your
> service name)
>
> I guess you're not writing a lockfile in /var/lock/subsys/ at startup
> and hence being ignored at shutdown.
>
> Hope this gives an idea what to do,
> Kousik.
Interesting. Let me give that a try. The problem is that this program
isn't really a currently running service....it's just a script.
Hopefully we can get around that though.
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From: Johan De Wit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.2 only supports 8.3 Filenames?
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:26:40 GMT
> On my 2nd HD, I use both Win32 and Linux. I've noticed that at least=
> on my machine, Linux doesn't support long file names. Everything is
> 8.3 format (i.e., filename.ext becomes filena~1.ext).
Hi,
Wrong modules loaded !
lsmod should return the module vfat + msdos (fat + msdos is what you wil=
l=20
see).=20
Jo
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From: "Kousik Nandy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to do?
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 16:49:17 +0530
"Denis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, Is it possible to make Linux run xdaliclock on top of the screen
> saver?
Well, xscrennsaver can use xdaliclock as the screensaver itself.
But I don't know whether it'll be able to show xdaliclock and
some other hack together. Ask JWZ.
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From: "Kilian A. Foth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: About programming text mode fonts
Date: 12 Dec 2000 12:49:07 GMT
Hello world,
I want to add a little non-portable eye-candy to a strictly text-mode
only application that would require hacking the text mode fonts. I could
use setfont(5) to change them, but that only takes entire font sets
and adds the overhead of calling an external program. I only want to
change a few characters at a time, and do it fast, so I can make two
dialog box entries scroll into each other[1].
All sources I have seen caution against using ioctl primitives to do
that, saying how undocumented/ephemeral/foot-injury-inducing they are,
and that you should use POSIX functions instead. But I can find no
info on what those functions are -- and indeed setfont itself seems to
use ioctl. So, what could I do so that at least I'll be compatible with
future Linuxen?
[1] Yes, that's the sort of person I am.
--
The opinions of my employers are unimportant and often boring,
so I'm replacing them with my own.
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From: "Torsten Veit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: graphic driver problem
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:55:51 +0100
Hi,
I use Suse6.1 and I configured my System using sax. The graphic-driver for
ELSA-Erazor II is offered by sax. Even my monitor (CTX) is supported by
Suse6.1. But when I start the configuration-test I just see a black screen.
Do I have to use another driver?
Any hints or suggestions?
Thanks, Torsten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: LILO-Problem after adding a HD
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:07:43 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Tauno Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "Stefan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
: The problem lies in the BIOS. When you add a second IDE drive to the system,
: the BIOS does not see the SCSI drives anymore: the BIOS knows of two hard
: disk drives with the internal numbers of 0x80 and 0x81. The BIOS numbers the
: drives so that the IDE drives are first. When the second IDE drive is not in
: the numbers are:
: 0x80 first IDE drive
: 0x81 first SCSI drive.
: When the second IDE drive is put in, the numbers are:
: 0x80 first IDE drive
: 0x81 second IDE drive.
If you want to use the new added hd for Linux only, you can set it
in the BIOS to "not installed".
That way LLLO will work as before, and DOS/Windoze will not know
about it.
Since the kernel does not need the BIOS after booting, the hd will
be usable under Linux with out any problems.
Well -- it *may* fail to correctly autodetect it's parameters.
You may have to tell the kernel about the size and geometry
via the "lilo.conf" file.
Regards
Friedhelm
--
Microsoft is NOT the answer. Microsoft is the Question.
The answer is: "NO!"
===================================================================
Friedhelm Mehnert, Berliner Allee 42, 22850 Norderstedt, Germany
phone + fax: +49-40-5236562 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
===================================================================
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From: Neil Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Preventing ATAPI error logging?
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:15:31 +0000
My ATAPI CD-R insists upon generating 'device not ready' errors when
there's no disc present, and I think that's due to the GNOME CD applet
polling it.
Well, that's fair enough, but what I'm not happy about is the fact that
it causes the kernel to /log/ the error to /var/log/messages every second
(or more frequently than that).
I have the RHG6.2 default amount of logging set to go to /messages (not
much), and I'm loathe to disable it all in case I miss stuff I *do* want.
Any ideas on how to filter out the ATAPI errors? (aside from not running
the applet - which I may have to do)
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From: Jan Wolfgang Huelsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mail with shell script
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 14:45:00 +0100
Thanks a lot for the advice.
I must admit that I still don't have a clue where I set the Subject field.
Is that done in the mail file?
I thought there is only the text.
Jan.
> Well, this is not exactly a shell script, but a perl script.
> It should do anyway.
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> #spammer
> open MAIL,"<mail.file" or die "cannot open mail file";
> @mail=<MAIL>;
> close MAIL;
> open ADDR,"<address.file" or die "cannot open address file";
> while (<ADDR>) {
> chomp;
> ($addr,@name)=split / /,$_;
> open MTA,"|mail $addr" or die "cannot open mail pipe";
> print MTA "To: ",$addr,"\nSubject: ",$ARGV[0],"\n\n";
> print MTA "Dear ",@name,", please enjoy the following:\n";
> # ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> # \- change this to suit your needs
> print MTA @mail;
> close MTA;
> }
> #end spammer
>
>
> This will read the mail (without headers) from mail.file and a list
> of addresses and names from address.file.
> It must be formatted with exactly one space between address and name
> like this:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Doe
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ludger Oser
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Donald Ummy
>
> Then it uses the 'mail' program to send the mails with a subject given
> as the first command line argument.
> A sample mail will look like this:
>
>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: What you put there
>
> Dear Ludger Oser, please enjoy the following:
> Your text comes here...
>
>
> when called as: spammer "What you put there"
>
> It's not very good and certainly not fool-proof but it should get you
> started.
>
> HTH
> seb
>
> --
> -------------------=====#####OOOOOOOO#####=====----c---c----------
> sebastian hans - [EMAIL PROTECTED] `\O/' don't panic
> student of comp sci - technical university of munich \-^-/ ...just RUN
> i'm a .signature virus! copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread
>
Jan Wolfgang Huelsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "cryofan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: howto verify I'm online???
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:01:33 -0600
Well, now I have this old P-120 on debian 2.1, No xwindows, just command
line.
X windows looks like a hassle, and I didn't install linux to get xwindows. I
am a student on semester break and for my senior project I want to qrite web
apps in perl. I don't know much perl or linux.
But I only have so much time.
So I want to concentrate on the Perl as much as possible. So that is why I
didn't try to setup X, also I don't know anything about the video card on
this computer.
So, I was able to seup wvdial. It does dial into my ISP, and seems to be
working. What happens is that it winds up finally outputting a line saying
"running pppd" or something; the modem seems to be connecting, etc.and
before it saying "runnig pppd" it outputs various messages, no errors etc.
And I alt-f2 to anohter virtaul window and try to start Lynx. so that I can
verify I am online. But Lynx won't start. Do I need X to run Lynx?
What can I run while the pppd is running on wvdial in order to verify that I
am online? I assume I need to switch to another virtual window in order to
run another app while wvdial is running?
What I plan on making in perl in Spring are things like web clients, etc.
Also I hope to set up Apache server and write server side stuff, cgi scripts
etc in Perl .Will I eventaully need to set up X windows in order to run
Apache?
TIA
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