Linux-Misc Digest #6, Volume #27 Sat, 3 Feb 01 03:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: secure access to company email server (David Efflandt)
Re: sharing a printer (David Efflandt)
Re: NFS broken with 2.4.1? (MH)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Starting KDE as a user (mike)
Re: VNC - SSH || (David Efflandt)
Re: Red Hat 7 (MH)
Re: Convert Word-DOC to PostScript (John Hasler)
Re: Linux Newbie Help!!!! (Isaac Venn)
kernel compiling error on RH7.0 (Lupei Zhu)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else (Charlie Ebert)
Re: smp on pc server 330? (xalaros)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else (Steve Mading)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: secure access to company email server
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 04:14:55 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 15:47:15 GMT, Danny Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, all.
>
>My company has setup a mail server on Linux server with qmail. Usually
>we can access its POP service in company via the intranet. But it also
>denies all access from outside company for security purpose. So I
>cannot get mail at home. What is the solution for such kind of problem?
>Thanks.
Set up a dialin box at work if possible. I can do whatever I want to at
our office, which is connected to a WAN by frame relay (factory, other
offices).
Initially I set up NAT32 (www.nat32.com) on a Win95 box as a dialin
server, but slightly different than they recommend. I used a different
ethernet IP for NAT32 than Win was using, so I was still able to use my
box on the network during any dialin call.
Then I set up an old 386 box w/RH 5 as a dialin server using mgetty.
Then during some network problems with our frame relay, I started reading
the docs for our Cisco router and discovered I could hang up to 8 modems
on it using ppp with pap authentication. This is the only internet access
my boss has from home at this time.
Our factory now has imail (Ipswitch) web based e-mail which I can send
from, but it goes out with our company domain and I have not figured out
how to access received company e-mail there unless I specifically address
to imail's hostname. If I wanted to use it I could put a forward file on
our smtp/pop3/squid server, but fetchmail works from the internet with our
POP3 server.
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David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: sharing a printer
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 04:24:29 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2 Feb 2001 02:00:43 GMT, Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:12:45 +0100, Xavier Houppertz staggered into the
>Black Sun and said:
>>I would like to know how to share a printer on a subnet.
>>I would like to ba able to use lpr -Premoteprinter file.txt where
>>remoteprinter is not local but on another computer.
>
>http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.html has advice. The machine
>that is attached to the printer must be making that printer available to
>the network in some manner--check the HOWTO for details on doing that.
>Once that's set up, you need an entry like this in your /etc/printcap :
>
>lpnet:Remote Printer:\
> :lp=/dev/null:sh:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\
> :rm=hostname.of.printserver:rp=UL8K7:
>
>Then restart lpd and "lpr -Plpnet thingy.ps" to get things going. One
>caveat: The printserver I was using here accepted PostScript input; you
>may have to mess with filters if your printserver doesn't. HTH,
Just so you know rp would be the name of the printer on the remote box,
for the default printer on the server it would be rp=lp
One thing the Printing-HOWTO fails to mention is how to configure
/etc/hosts.lpd on the server. As near as I can tell this is just a simple
list of hosts (or possibly IPs) that are allowed to print.
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David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NFS broken with 2.4.1?
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 20:36:08 +0000
Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Recently installed 2.4.1 kernel on a RH 7.0 box and got the following
> > error message when attempting to mount an NFS share (NFS server services
> > were not compiled into the kernel, as this box will be client only):
>
> > NFS: NFSv3 not supported
> > nfs warning: mount version older than kernel
>
> > Does this mean the new kernel does not support earlier versions of NFS?
>
> No, it means your nfs client does not support v3, only v2.
>
Since my NFS client is a RH 7.0 box (with the 2.4.1 kernel update), and
since my NFS server is a RH 6.0 box with 2.2.17 kernel update (kernel
support for NFS compiled in), I don't understand how this could be. Are
you saying that RH shipped an NFS client with 7.0 that was OLDER than the
NFS server supported by kernel 2.2.17? (nfs-utils-0.1.9.1-7 is installed
on the client box. I assume this package includes the NFS client.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 04:39:51 GMT
Steve Mading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Ian Davey wrote:
>:> You've still not managed to convince me. But perhaps it's just a
>:> matter of semantics, Atheism is a lack of *religious* beliefs
>:> (theism), but not a lack of belief. Does that work better for you?
>:> So an Atheist believes something other than religion.
>: There's an old law of military command:
>
>: Failure to come to a decision is a decision in itself.
>
>: Do the math.
> "Failure to come to a decision is a decision" is self contradictory.
> It fits the patern: X == not(X).
That assumes no entrance of "temporal distortion" :-).
A failure to decide to take action in a dynamic environment is
indistinguishable from the decision to Do Nothing.
If a rock is rolling down the hill, and I fail to decide to do
anything about it, that is indistinguishable from choosing to let it
keep rolling. The rock rolls on, regardless.
Mind you, supposing you're standing in its path, and fail to come to a
decision, that may amount to an implicit decision to try to stop it
using your body mass :-).
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"Like I've always said, if you don't have anything nice to say, come
sit by me." -- Steel Magnolias
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Starting KDE as a user
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 04:41:23 GMT
Hi,
my friend has SuSE 7.0 and wanted to run KDE as a user and
for some reason couldn't. He said that he could run it as root.
He also tried to start it from the command line and couldn't.
What is the way or ways that this can be accomplished?
Thanks
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: VNC - SSH ||
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 04:43:22 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 09:17:42 -0800, Sergiy Zhenochin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I did not quite ask what I wanted to: how to tunnel the NT-Linux connection
>through SSH ?
You might check out Putty. I know it works for ssh, but I had to have it
generate its own key because I did not know how to use my Linux generated
key with it. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
It has Pagent which is supposed to be able to do forwarding, but the docs
for "Using agent forwarding" are apparently not composed or posted yet.
>Thanks
>
>"Sergiy P. Zhenochin" wrote:
>
>> I would like to access Linux box from NT using vnc. Does anyone know how to
>> do it? It seems that explanations in the documentation apply to the client
>> running on Linux, not on NT.
>> Thanks,
>> Sergiy.
>
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 20:53:37 +0000
Jeff wrote:
> I see a fair bit of bashing of Red Hat 7 on this newsgroup....
>
> As someone who is setting up a new server for development in our company,
> I was going to go with RH7.
>
> Is there any reason not to at this point? The server will be running a
> test platform to migrate our existing POS environment from SCO to Linux on
> many servers. Also considering Suse7
>
> I guess my question is this : Is RH7 stable? What are the problems? Are
> they working them out?
>
> Thanks
>
>
The bashing is mostly the result of RH installing a new compiler that is
not considered acceptable by many users. As I understand it, it's fine for
everything but the kernel (assuming you aren't developing apps). For
kernel compilation you need to use "kgcc" instead of "gcc" and this can be
done by editing the "Makefile" prior to compilation.
I've been using RH 7.0 for some time on my workstation and am very happy
with it. I also have a test server running RH 7.0 which I recently updated
to kernel 2.4.1. No problems compiling, but I am having a problem with the
NFS client (RH 7.0) not wanting to speak to my older NFS server (RH
6.0/2.2.17).
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Convert Word-DOC to PostScript
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 04:12:30 GMT
Bob Hauck writes:
> The easy way is to load the file into StarOffice, select a PS printer,
> and print to a file.
You left out the four days of continuous downloading to get StarOffice.
> You can even do this in Windows with Word if you have a PS printer
> installed.
If you have Windows installed.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 23:22:29 -0600
From: Isaac Venn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Newbie Help!!!!
Mandrake has a nice selection of linux's for sparc. Check their iso
section for a distro. I installed 7.1 on my sparc 20 and it worked
quite well for a long time. Easy to install and supported all the
hardware including sound.
-Isaac
Gerry wrote:
> I have a SparcStation 10 on which I would like to install Linux. It is
> aclean system with no OS and a 1Gig HD.
> I've tried in vain here in Toronto to locate a copy of Linux for Sparc that
> I could use. These things are either nonexistent or unavailable here. I have
> Linux RedHat 5.4 (Manhatten) and Open Linux 2.3 (Caldera). Both of these
> appear to be i-3/486 packages.
>
> Can anyone please tell me how to get either one of my above editions loaded
> into a Sparc OR can they help me with locating one of these mysterious Linux
> for Sparc varieties?
>
> Gerry
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From: Lupei Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel compiling error on RH7.0
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 22:59:08 -0800
Hi,
I am having problem compiling kernel 2.2.16 on my dell 4000 running
RH7.0
here are what I did:
1) put the linux source tree on /usr/src from the binary rpm on the
RH7.0 CD.
2) cp kernel-2.2.16-i686.config .config
3) make xconfig, but didn't change anything.
4) make dep clean, so far so good
5) make bzImage, failed with error message attached below.
I heared that RH7.0 is buggy (but it's been updated using those rpm on
redhat),
do someone with the same system have the same problem?
any help will be highly appreciated.
Lupei
error message from make bzImage:
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o
scripts/split-include scripts/split-include.c
scripts/split-include include/linux/autoconf.h include/config
kgcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fno-strength-reduce
-m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686 -c
-o init/main.o init/main.ckgcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include
-Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing
-pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2
-malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686 -DUTS_MACHINE='"i386"' -c -o
init/version.o init/version.c
make -C kernel
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/kernel'
make all_targets
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/kernel'
kgcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fno-strength-reduce
-m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686
-DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c signal.c
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h:50,
from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/module.h:19,
from signal.c:10:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:6: warning:
`cpu_data' redefined
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/processor.h:96: warning: this is the location
of the previous definition
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:28: warning:
`smp_num_cpus' redefined
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/smp.h:77: warning: this is the location of
the previous definition
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:118: warning:
`smp_call_function' redefined
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/smp.h:83: warning: this is the location of
the previous definition
kgcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fno-strength-reduce
-m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686
-DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c ksyms.c
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h:50,
from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/module.h:19,
from ksyms.c:14:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:6: warning:
`cpu_data' redefined
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/processor.h:96: warning: this is the location
of the previous definition
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:28: warning:
`smp_num_cpus' redefined
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/smp.h:77: warning: this is the location of
the previous definition
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:118: warning:
`smp_call_function' redefined
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/smp.h:83: warning: this is the location of
the previous definition
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h:51,
from ksyms.c:21:
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/hardirq.h:23: warning: `synchronize_irq'
redefined
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:138: warning: this
is the location of the previous definition
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h:52,
from ksyms.c:21:
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/softirq.h:75: warning: `synchronize_bh'
redefined
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:142: warning: this
is the location of the previous definition
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel_stat.h: In function `kstat_irqs':
In file included from ksyms.c:17:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel_stat.h:47: `smp_num_cpus' undeclared
(first use in this function)
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel_stat.h:47: (Each undeclared
identifier is reported only once
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/kernel_stat.h:47: for each function it
appears in.)make[2]: *** [ksyms.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/kernel'
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16/kernel'
make: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Ebert)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Reply-To: Charlie Ebert:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 07:05:39 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Bunn wrote:
>On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, Nick Condon wrote:
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron R. Kulkis) wrote in
>>
>>>However, this has NOTHING to do with Microsoft. They have NEVER been
>>>*granted* a government-sanctioned monopoly.
>>
>>All copyrights and patents are government granted monopolies. Microsoft
>>holds many.
>
>Nick, I hope you don't mind this. In the interest of better communication, I'd
>like to clarify what you've been saying.
>
>Copyrights and patents are, indeed, government-granted monopolies. This is from
>the strict definition of "monopoly" to an economist, narrowly defined. IOW,
>MicroSoft has a monopoly, sanctioned by the government, on sale of the Windows*
>operating systems.
>
>This does not mean that their *effective* monopoly on *all* PC operating
>systems is government sanctioned, as Aaron seems to think you are saying. It
>is, rather, a result of MS use of "market power" (another piece of economist
>jargon that means more exactly what most people think momopoly means) to stifle
^^^^^^^^
Last time I saw this term, I was wearing a grass skirt and
drinking from a glass with an umbrella in it while swinging
my hips. That's what momopoly is to me.
>competition.
>
>I hope this clarifies the issue a little for everybody.
>
>--
>Robert Bunn
>
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From: xalaros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: smp on pc server 330?
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 09:09:26 +0200
M Osborne wrote:
> I'm trying to get smp support to work with linux on an IBM PC Server 330.
> This server has 2 PPro 200's.
>
> When I install the RPM for Redhat 7 and change the lilo.conf to point to the
> new smp kernel, I get a kernel panic on reboot (at the VFS part where it's
> trying to mount root).
>
> I tried Mandrake too, but it does not automatically load the smp support for
> my machine. Is there something special I'm supposed to do at install time?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
If you have scsi hd then you must compile the new kernel with built-in
support for your drive and not as module.
J.N.A
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From: Steve Mading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: 3 Feb 2001 07:38:37 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Steve Mading wrote:
:>
:> In comp.os.linux.advocacy Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> : Ian Davey wrote:
:> :>
:> :> You've still not managed to convince me. But perhaps it's just a matter of
:> :> semantics, Atheism is a lack of *religious* beliefs (theism), but not a lack
:> :> of belief. Does that work better for you? So an Atheist believes something
:> :> other than religion.
:>
:> : There's an old law of military command:
:>
:> : Failure to come to a decision is a decision in itself.
:>
:> : Do the math.
:>
:> "Failure to come to a decision is a decision" is self
:> contradictory. It fits the patern: X == not(X).
: Stop being pedantic, and try understanding the MEANING of the statement.
I do understand the meaning of the words you used. If you meant them
to mean something totally different, that's not my miscommunication,
it's yours. Implicit metaphor has no place in a logical discussion.
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