Linux-Misc Digest #791, Volume #26 Fri, 12 Jan 01 15:13:04 EST
Contents:
secure FTP (terry tashiro)
Re: StarOffice Question (Christopher W. Aiken)
Re: Any Linux lover want to defend this? (Grant Edwards)
'AntiTrust' review on Salon.com ("pamela")
Re: What am I missing? (Noname)
Re: Any Linux lover want to defend this? (Grant Edwards)
Re: How to create .dat file for fortune? ("Jan Schaumann")
starting xterm with environment set (Peter Bismuti)
rpm database in db3 format? (Peter Bismuti)
MAKEDEV, mknod can't make /dev/sdXX entries for scsi luns (Barry Babcock)
Linux IDE RAID Cards (Chris Lopeman)
Re: Enter escape charcter in vi or another editor ("Joe (mvjap3) Philbrook III")
Re: Mandrake 7.2 does not shut down properly (Chris Menzel)
Re: LDAP, Palm Pilot, Outlook, Mozilla (Roy Alan Valiant Jr)
Re: PLIP (Barton Milburn)
Re: What am I missing? (Harlan Grove)
Re: updating with rpm(s) (Harlan Grove)
Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux? (Chris Menzel)
Labtec USB speakers/RH 7.0 - no sound (Jon Kvebaek)
Re: Junkbuster + Squid fails to block on some sites ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux? (Yiorgos Adamopoulos)
installing problem ("Martijn")
Re: updating with rpm(s) (Harlan Grove)
Re: RPM and matching (aflinsch)
Re: Any Linux lover want to defend this? (David McKee)
Re: Is Netscape 6 on Linux more stable than previous versions? (Lee Allen)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: terry tashiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: secure FTP
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:59:42 +0000
Hi,
Probably this newsgroup is not appropriate.
But I did not get any response from comp.security.misc so that I thought
Linux people might know something.
I have been looking for secure FTP programs which work like https.
https works with a browserand secure httpd and does not require any
client programs.
I just type sftp://ftp.common.com in a browser and a secure ftp server
will do the rest.
Or there are no such programs?
I know SSH or SSLftp can do in a secure manner, but they require client
programs installed.
Someone else has asked this before, but he did not get any good replies.
Any help will be apprecoiated.
Many thanks
Terry
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher W. Aiken)
Subject: Re: StarOffice Question
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:23:01 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 12:59:13 -0500, Cubic Meter wrote:
->Hello, I was wondering how to keep StarOffice from starting up when I log
->my account in? I mean, it is damned annoying to have it pop up when I don't
->need it. Thanks.
->
->Cubic Meter
->
Are you using KDE desktop? I havent used it in a long time
but If I remember correctly there is a desktop Icon called
AutoStart (boy I wish my memory was better). Any apts you
put in that folder will be run when you login.
--
---
Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Any Linux lover want to defend this?
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:28:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Smith wrote:
>I'm a big fan of Linux and have been following Linux since Version 1.x time.
Newbie. I ran various 0.99.x versions for a long time before
1.0 came out. :) Anybody else remember the Ygddrasil distro?
[regarding netscape:]
>SUCK SUCK SUCK! Anyone like to defend that?
Not particulary.
If you think it sucks that badly, then I'd recommend not using
it.
Feel free to ask for your money back from Netscape.
Feel free to write a better browser.
Netscape has it's problems, but it's often the best choice for
viewing web pages under Linux. I try Opera every so often, but
it's not there yet. I like w3m, but there are a lot of
brain-dead gits who's web pages are nothing but gif files with
not a single ALT tag in the lot. StarOffice is just too big
and slow, and I hate having that damned "deskop" metaphore
shoved at me.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Thousands of days of
at civilians... have produced
visi.com a... feeling for the
aesthetic modules --
------------------------------
From: "pamela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: rec.arts.movies.current-films
Subject: 'AntiTrust' review on Salon.com
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:29:19 -0900
"Jan. 12, 2001 | Since geek glamour is an idea whose time has come, it
shouldn't be impossible to make an intelligent and beguiling thriller about
the open-source software movement. Peter Howitt's "AntiTrust" just isn't
it."
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2001/01/12/antitrust/
------------------------------
From: Noname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What am I missing?
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:23:50 GMT
I think I tried to "locate head" and "locate cut", but couldn't find
those files. Are they Linux files? I reinstalled Linux yesterday and
had a problem with one of the files in the a series. It was called
aaasomething.
In article <93lp1u$ahh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <93ipud$ndg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Noname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I tried to install a couple of packages, one of them is jdk1.3 and
the
> > other is firestarter (firewall) and in both cases I get errors of
files
> > missing. For java:
> > mydir/appletviewer:/usr/bin/head: No such file or directory
> > mydir/appletviewer:/usr/bin/cut: No such file or directory
> > mydir/native_threads/appletviewer:error in loading shared libraries:
>
> I'm not sure whose to blame for this one. The java startup script
> is using the full paths /usr/bin/head and /usr/bin/cut but they're
> in /bin under linux. On Solaris /bin is linked to /usr/bin, so
> either path works and most of the java development happens on
> Solaris. I just got round it by running "ln -s /usr/bin/cut /bin/cut"
> and "ln -s /usr/bin/head /bin/head" as root. Why this wasn't noticed
> in testing, I'm not sure. It may be differant in differant versions
> of linux.
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
>
--
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Any Linux lover want to defend this?
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:31:17 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Smith wrote:
>Opera if u are listening, make it better and make it free. There will be
>lots of Linux user do not mind using Opera instead of Netscape and do not
>mind a little ads box. But we do mind to pay the cost to own it :)
I don't mind.
If it was better than Netscape, I'd be happy to buy a copy.
I tried it a couple months back and there were still a couple
glitches that prevented it from being usable as my main
browser.
I've bought several different commercial products for Linux.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! HOORAY, Ronald!! Now
at YOU can marry LINDA
visi.com RONSTADT too!!
------------------------------
From: "Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to create .dat file for fortune?
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:32:00 -0500
* "Claus Atzenbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a ASCII file with quotes for fortune. How can I create a .dat
> file from this ASCII file to use it with fortune?
man fortune
man strfile
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
If you care, you just get disappointed all the time. If you don't care
nothing matters so you are never upset. -- Calvin
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: starting xterm with environment set
Date: 12 Jan 2001 18:31:08 GMT
I have a script that opens a new xterm
cd $PWD && xterm &
Can I also somehow set the environment variables to be the same as the
shell that calls it?
Thanks!
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: rpm database in db3 format?
Date: 12 Jan 2001 18:38:24 GMT
I'm getting this message:
cannot open Packages index using db3 - Permission denied (13)
--> The rpm database cannot be opened in db3 format.
If you have just upgraded the rpm package you need to convert
your database to db3 format by running "rpm --rebuilddb" as root.
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
I have run "rpm --rebuilddb" and it does not solve the problem. Can anyone
explain what is going on and how to fix it??
Thanks!
------------------------------
From: Barry Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MAKEDEV, mknod can't make /dev/sdXX entries for scsi luns
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:45:26 -0700
Hello fellow Linuxers-
I have a Redhat 6.2 system running on a Dell Poweredge 2450 connected to an EMC 8430
Symmetrix- I need to be able to reference about 30 different luns. I can get the box
to recognize that they are all there, but I can't get block devices above /dev/sdz to
build-- ie, /dev/sdaa, /dev/sdab, etcetera.
I used MAKEDEV to create dev entries for the /dev/sdz luns and below, but I get this
message when I try to make the /dev/sdaa entry:
# ./MAKEDEV /dev/sdaa
./MAKEDEV: Don't know how to make device "/dev/sdaa"
Creating the devices "manually" with mknod and what appear to me to be the appropriate
major and minor device numbers will build a block device file, but it doesn't seem to
map to anything- when I try to "fdisk" the new device I get something like "unable to
open /dev/sdaa"...
Any advice someone could offer me on this problem would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks mucho.
=Barry=
------------------------------
From: Chris Lopeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Linux IDE RAID Cards
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:52:24 GMT
Can anyone recommend a good raid IDE controller for Linux. Preferably
ATA 100. We have tried using the Promise controller with limited
success. We probably want to run 2 controllers in the server (for more
speed) with a total of 6 drives. 4 of the drives running raid 1+0 and
the other 2 forming a separate mirror. The 2 in the mirror we also want
to boot off of.
If you can't recommend a good one maybe you can let us know your
experience with the AMI or Escalade cards. We are considering going to
one of these.
Thanks,
Chris Lopeman
Object Link Inc.
------------------------------
From: "Joe (mvjap3) Philbrook III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Enter escape charcter in vi or another editor
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:47:03 -0500
Reply-To: mvjap3 at work <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "Joe (mvjap3) Philbrook III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
>
>
> > On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Scott Alfter wrote:
>
> >> I don't know about vi (I only use it when there's no other editor, as it's
> >> rather cumbersome to use), but it's fairly easy in joe. Press ` and then
>
> > Oh please, don't call my beloved, intuitive, vi editor cumbersome...
>
> But compared to joe, it IS cumbersome.
> Why would I want to have an editor that allows you to type a number of lines
> of text unhindered but then prevents you from going back up to change
> something in a previous line without hitting some obscure key combinations?
Did I not say they improved the classic vi with vim...
which <if and only if it finds a .vimrc> it will let you move around with
the cursor keys without having to esc back to command mode...
> OK, joe might not have all the features touted by VIM, but it's a hell of a
> lot easier to use and has all the festures more people would want.
Easier is, like beauty, in the mind of the beholder <err in this case
keypuncher> As for me, vi is <now> easy... joe isn't <even if my name is
Joe...> But that is probably because I already used vi long enough to
become used to it's not all that obscure key combinations, before I even
found out about the much improved vim... Though I will admit I did
used to have a cheat sheet pasted up next to my keyboard while I was
learning them...
To make vim easy for most people I'd recommend at least the following 3
lines in that .vimrc file
<put the next 3 lines in ~/.vimrc>
:set ai
:set smd
:set textwidth=74
The 1st will set autoindent which makes any new lines start with the same
cursor position as the 1st non-white character of the line the cursor was
just on...
the 2nd will get vim to tell you when you are in insert mode... Which
helps keep from accidentally typing something bad into command mode by
mistake...
the 3rd effectively sets a right margin with word-wrapping on...
Any time these settings get in the way they can be disabled from command
mode via
:set noai
:set nosmd
:set textwidth=0
And as for those "obscure" key combinations... Let me paste in my cheat
sheet file below...
--- ___
<O> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook
^
\___/ < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
:r $snip/vi-help
<oops I typed the :r read file command to read in the file "vi-help" found
in my $snip directory, while still in insert mode... oh well I'll just hit
escape and type it again from command mode... ;) >
The following all assume you are in command mode... if you are in insert
mode you will have to press the escape key once to return to command mode
first, then type the below command...
System vi commands...
to exit vi: ZZ <save changes>
:q <quit if no changes>
:q! <abandon changes>
Basic edit commands:
[ a ] append
[ A ] append end of line
[ i ] insert
[ I ] insert beg of line
[ o ] open new line below
[ O ] open new line above
[ dd ] delete line
[ dw ] delete word
[ dG ] delete to end of doc
[ d3G ] delete btween cursor & beg of line 3
[ x ] del char
[ r ] replace char
[ R ] replace multipal char
[ yy ] copy line
[ p ] paste below/after
[ P ] paste above/before
[ u ] undo
[ U ] multi undo (single line)
[ :e! ] undo everything since last save
file commands:
[ :w ] write changes
[ :w file ] write file
[ :w! file ] overwrite file
[ :w>>file ] append file
[ :w ] !mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail copy of file
[ :e newfile ] edit newfile
[ :e! newfile ] abandon changes edit newfile
[ :r file ] read file into current cursor position
scrolling etc:
[ctrl-D] [ ^d ] down
[ctrl-U] [ ^u ] up
[ctrl-F] [ ^f ] forward
[ctrl-B] [ ^b ] backward
[ctrl-E] [ ^e ] down <cursor stays-screen moves>
[ctrl-Y] [ ^y ] up <cursor stays-screen moves>
in case cursor <arrow keys> don't work... cursor moves:
[ h ] left
[ j ] down
[ k ] up
[ l ] right
other cursor moves:
[ G ] go to end of file
[ g linenumber] go to spec line num
[ w ] word right
[ b ] word back
[ e ] end of word
[ 0 ] beg of line
[ $ ] end of line
search for string
[ / ] search foward
[ ? ] search backwards
[ :set ic ] would ignore case in searches
------------------------------
From: Chris Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 does not shut down properly
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 12:53:19 -0600
Miloslaw Potrykus wrote:
> User "Chris Menzel" wrote...
> > Since upgrading to Mandrake 7.2, shutdown is not able to shutdown.
> ...
> Look for /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/S01halt and /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/S01reboot files.
Yes, they were missing; that was exactly the problem. shutdown now
announces that it has sent a KILL to all processes, and umount starts to
unmount filesystems. Unfortunately, a difficulty remains -- while my
/root and /var filesystems are now umounting, /usr is not. For some
reason, despite the fact that a KILL has been sent to all processes, umount
thinks that the device harboring my /usr partition is busy, and hence the
shutdown process is still hanging at that point. This looks like the last
hurdle. Any ideas? (And what's up at Mandrake that they'd leave out these
symlinks?)
Chris Menzel
------------------------------
From: Roy Alan Valiant Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LDAP, Palm Pilot, Outlook, Mozilla
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:57:06 GMT
In article <93eg77$66n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I would like a way to synchronize my address book with Palm, Outlook
> and Mozilla.
>
> I use Outlook at my work (because I have to) and right now I am
> synchronizing my address book with my palm pilot and outlook.
>
> At home, I use Mozilla (on RH7) as my e-mail client and I use IMAP to
> connect to my mail server. I would like to synchronize my address book
> on my palm with my Mozilla address book. Does anybody know if this is
> possible? It looks like Netscape used to have some Palm synchronizing
> software but this was not carried on to Mozilla (maybe in the future?).
>
> One option I was considering was using LDAP. I think there are tools
> that synch between palmpilot and LDAP. And maybe, I can point Mozilla
> to get address from my LDAP server. However, this looks like a pretty
> complex approach. Is anybody using a setup like this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> S.r.
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
>
I do not know about the Palm Pilot, but one approach you could try is to
export your addresses from Outlook using the Tab Delimited feature and
then importing it into Mozilla. If I get a few minutes this afternoon, I
will actually try it for myself, but it appears as if it will work.
Roy Alan
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
------------------------------
From: Barton Milburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PLIP
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:16:34 -0500
rupa wrote:
Did you enable ip_forwarding on the desktop??
I'm not sure how with Slackware???
Bart
>
> Hello...
>
> I have a PLIP connection working.
> Slackware 7.1 on the desktop side. SuSe 7.0 on the laptop side.
> Telnet, FTP, NFS, everything's fine ...
> between those 2 boxes...
>
> the rest of the network is unrechable from the laptop side and the laptop
> is unreachable from the rest of the network .
>
> I did a route add default gw <IP desktop> plip0. As recomended in the plip
> minihowto...
>
> Any advice how to induce the Slackware box to forward the IP Packages?
>
> Thanks in advance for any hint...
------------------------------
From: Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What am I missing?
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 19:07:57 GMT
In article <93ni3b$pql$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Noname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I think I tried to "locate head" and "locate cut", but couldn't find
>those files. Are they Linux files? I reinstalled Linux yesterday and
>had a problem with one of the files in the a series. It was called
>aaasomething.
>
>In article <93lp1u$ahh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>In article <93ipud$ndg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Noname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>I tried to install a couple of packages, one of them is jdk1.3 and
>>>the other is firestarter (firewall) and in both cases I get errors
>>>of files missing. For java:
>>>mydir/appletviewer:/usr/bin/head: No such file or directory
>>>mydir/appletviewer:/usr/bin/cut: No such file or directory
>>>mydir/native_threads/appletviewer:error in loading shared libraries:
>>
>>I'm not sure whose to blame for this one. The java startup script
>>is using the full paths /usr/bin/head and /usr/bin/cut but they're
>>in /bin under linux. On Solaris /bin is linked to /usr/bin, so
>>either path works and most of the java development happens on
>>Solaris. I just got round it by running "ln -s /usr/bin/cut /bin/cut"
>>and "ln -s /usr/bin/head /bin/head" as root. Why this wasn't noticed
>>in testing, I'm not sure. It may be differant in differant versions
>>of linux.
Maybe this is a distro-specific thing, but Red Hat 6.0's textutils
package puts head and cut into /usr/bin. Since head and cut are
standard POSIX commands, it strikes me as very unlikely that their
location isn't specified by POSIX.
If you don't have either head or cut on your system, it's likely you
don't have other textutils binaries, e.g., comm, tac, wc. Note: both
the util-linux and textutils packages include binaries
named /usr/bin/tsort, so if you're using RPMs to manually install
packages, you'll have conflict problems trying to install testutils
after util-linux.
To all: this has been a very minor irritation for me. Is there any
difference between /usr/bin/tsort in textutils and util-linux?
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
------------------------------
From: Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: updating with rpm(s)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 19:12:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dances With Cows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Why mess with it? I paid $7 for a redhat 7.0 cd and then upgraded
>the gnorpm and up2date rpm to the Dec 00 version. Now, all my updates
>are automated. The gnome update program logs in and checks if redhat
>has any new updates and then downloads and installs them
>automatically.
>
>Give it a try and you will love it.
Unless you need to build binaries from C/C++ source. The gcc packages
that come with RH7 cause weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
------------------------------
From: Chris Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux?
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:25:28 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm seeking recommendations for a POP-mail client that has the features
> of kmail -- multiple mbox files ("folders") into which I can move a set
> of selected messages from inbox with only a few key- or mouse-strokes,
> address book, spam filters, multiple sort modes, attachment and MIME
> capability, and compatibility with KDE 1.
mutt (www.mutt.org) + fetchmail + procmail! This combination does all of
the above and more (e.g., regular expression pattern matching, fully
threaded sorting). It is also faster and much more powerful.
Chris Menzel
------------------------------
Subject: Labtec USB speakers/RH 7.0 - no sound
From: Jon Kvebaek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 19:23:22 GMT
Hi, I'm wonderingif anyone has got a set of Labtec USB speakers
working with RH 7.0 (2.2 Kernel).
After boot, The following modules are loaded on my machine:
lockd 31176 1 (autoclean)
sunrpc 52964 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
3c59x 19844 1 (autoclean)
3c509 5996 1 (autoclean)
agpgart 18600 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 19052 0 (unused)
usbcore 42088 1 [usb-uhci]
I have tried 'modprobe audio', which results in this:
ide-cd 23628 0 (autoclean)
audio 36192 0 (unused)
soundcore 2596 2 [audio]
lockd 31176 1 (autoclean)
sunrpc 52964 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
3c59x 19844 1 (autoclean)
3c509 5996 1 (autoclean)
agpgart 18600 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 19052 0 (unused)
usbcore 42088 1 [audio usb-uhci]
but no sound.
If anyone has a working setup, I would like to see what they are
doing.
--
"No man is ever old enough to know better."
-Holbrook Jackson, "Ladies' Home Journal", January 1950
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Junkbuster + Squid fails to block on some sites
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 19:17:15 GMT
I don't know squid, here's a guess.
The config looks good. When junkbuster asks squid for the page, does
squid go ahead and download all of the page's sub-pages into the
browser's cache? If so, the browser will never ask junkbuster for the
ad sub-page since it's already cached. The browser will just display it.
If squid is "helping" like above. Try chaining browser->squid-
>junkbuster.
In article <8s_66.1113$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Lloyd Llewellyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I use Junkbuster alone, it properly blocks the banner ad atop
> www.drudgereport.com (there are others, but this is an example).
<deleted>
>
> Thanks
>
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yiorgos Adamopoulos)
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux?
Date: 12 Jan 2001 19:32:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Menzel wrote:
>mutt (www.mutt.org) + fetchmail + procmail! This combination does all of
Just to note that mutt also supports POP natively.
--
Yiorgos Adamopoulos, http://www.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr/~george/
------------------------------
From: "Martijn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing problem
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:33:19 +0100
Hi I am a newbie to Linux I'm trying to install Redhat 7.0 on an old P-75
with 8 mb ram and an ide 1GB harddisk I created a boot disk with the rawrite
utility that works just fine but when I try to install Linux it gives a
error message signal 9??
and then it aborts the installation I tried it with no Partitions and with a
FAT-16 Partition the only mode that works is the rescue mode I tried using
Fdisk there to make a Linux Partition but I don't know how it works can
please anybody help me and e-mail me.
------------------------------
From: Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: updating with rpm(s)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 19:27:26 GMT
In article <93md0m$qve$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a bunch of update rpms for RH 6.1 and would like to
>install them. Earlier attempts to do this gave me a lot of
>errors that packages were missing or already installed or
>dependent of others etc etc.
...
Others have already mentioned how to handle dependencies by intalling a
bunch of RPMs all at once rather than one at a time.
I'm on a different tack. Many of the RPMs you're installing are now
rather old/outdated Gnome ones. If you have the bandwidth/time,
download the Helix Gnome RPMs and install them instead. I had no
problem installing them right after a Red Hat 6.0 install, so there
should be no problem installing them on a Red Hat 6.1 machine.
Also, don't screw around with the RH6.1 updates to rpm itself. Get the
RH6.2 rpm packages and install them. You may need a bzip2 update, but
you'll be happier with the most up-to-date rpm-3.
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
------------------------------
From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM and matching
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:29:35 -0600
Neil Zanella wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Suppose I want to know the names of all installed RPM packages on my
> system whose name starts in foo. Is there an rpm command to do this?
>
rpm -qa | grep foo
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David McKee)
Subject: Re: Any Linux lover want to defend this?
Date: 12 Jan 2001 19:36:36 GMT
Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:24:27 +0800, John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >Somehow, there just isn't a robust enough browser for Linux.
: >(Linux = Internet??? where's the browser?)
:
: Links, lynx, Opera, Konquerer... *plonk?*
No one has mentioned Amaya.
Doen't have all the whiz-bangs that people have to come to expect
from a browser yet, but is uses the WWWC's refrence impelementation
of a HTML renderer. See <http://www.w3c.org>.
--
-- David McKee
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- (757) 269-7492 (Office)
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Allen)
Subject: Re: Is Netscape 6 on Linux more stable than previous versions?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 19:51:21 GMT
That was a fun read.
Obviously no one at Netscape actually USES their Linux implementation.
-Lee Allen
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 07:05:39 -0600, John Thompson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Lee Allen wrote:
>
>> I have run a couple versions of Netscape under Linux, and ended up
>> throwing it out because it was just too buggy. Does anyone have any
>> experienc on Netscape 6 on Linux?
>
>I haven't found it to be any more or less reliable than v4.x, but
>it is... "different." The new interface has grown on me since I
>first installed it and the rendering seems faster. My biggest
>complaints are that I can't seem to configure it so it keeps all
>my preferences from one session to the next. Eg, I don't want
>the "sidebar" thing, so I go to "View...Sidebar" and click it
>off. Next time I fire up NS6 the friggin' thing is back again.
>Same with the "taskbar." Don't want it, don't need it so I turn
>it off. Close NS6, reopen it some arbitrary time later and there
>it is leering at me again, with it's friend the "sidebar."
>Grrr.
>
>And what's with this splash screen that tries (and inevitably
>fails) to load "activation.netscape.com" every freakin' time I
>open NS6? Online, offine: doesn't matter. It tries to load,
>fails and then sits there until I close it manually. If it
>weren't for these and other minor annoyances I'd probably be
>using NS6 more.
>
>--
>
>
>-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list by posting to comp.os.linux.misc.
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Misc Digest
******************************
