Linux-Misc Digest #828, Volume #27 Fri, 11 May 01 03:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: What is sendmail? (Dean Thompson)
Re: SuSE Linux 7.1 ISO Download ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What is sendmail? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Ximian Gnome changed Login manager despite telling it not to ("Bill Hartwell")
Re: Where's the setting of refresh rate ? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Ximian Gnome changed Login manager despite telling it not to ("Glitch")
vmware, partition magic and windows me? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux in college & high school (jtnews)
Re: Where to find program libraries ("Bill Hartwell")
Re: Where to find program libraries (Drew Roedersheimer)
NYC RR cable modem in Linux problem ("Andrew Hon")
2.4.4 on Athlon/Duron compiled for Athlon/Duron ("Chris DiPierro")
Re: Ximian Gnome changed Login manager despite telling it not to (LinuxBear)
Re: Ximian Gnome changed Login manager despite telling it not to ("Bill Hartwell")
Re: weird message i've never seen before (cor)
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: What is sendmail?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 13:11:12 +1000
Hi Lamar,
> I am new to Linux and I am coming from the "Windows" world. We are
> thinking about moving our "MS Exchange" e-mail server over to Linux and
> sendmail. Right now with "Exchange 5.5" we can do POP3, SMTP and Web e-mail
> access. Can we do any of this with sendmail? If not, what do we need to
> make it happen? We well be running RedHat 7.1. Thanks for any input.
Sendmail is merely a program which is responsible for receiving mail and
forwarding it to the correct user. It handles incoming mail hosts and the
processing of aliases and so forth.
It isn't a fully integrated solution like MS Exchange. You will also need to
install the "imap" package onto your Redhat box to provide you with imap and
pop mail services (this is a very simple thing to do). As for the real beauty
of Exchage (the Web Mail), you will have to look around for a product which
does it. I know that there are a few out there which are capable of doing the
task, but their names and URL's escape me. However, I would be interested in
any web front ends that you did manage to find.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SuSE Linux 7.1 ISO Download
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 03:13:14 GMT
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Dave Uhring wrote:
> >> In order to be able to maintain this service in the future, as well as
> >> meeting the accompanying wishes of our customers, we are dependent on
> >> sales of our products and services, and must ensure that an adequate cost
> >> structure exists within our company.
>
> > Surprisingly enough, it's to my knowledge only SuSE that actively
> > prevents users from downloading ISOs of their distribution.
> What are you on about? What could the benefit be of having an iso
> image to ftp when you have the ftp archive itself? Install over
> ftp! Save yourself a coaster into the bargain.
I don't have a fast connection; I'd be just as happy to be able to
load this straight from a CD. I _like_ coasters!
The classic comparison:
"Don't underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon barrelling down
El Camino Real Drive, filled with mag tapes."
I suppose that the next technology to hope to see come down in price
is that of recordable DVDs; SuSE and Debian are both so big that a
mere couple of CDs isn't _nearly_ enough.
--
(concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@acm.org")
http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/resume.html
"How can you dream the impossible dream when you can't get any sleep?"
-- Sam Robb
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What is sendmail?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 03:30:16 GMT
"Lamar Thomas" <lamart(NOSPAM)@home.com> writes:
> I am new to Linux and I am coming from the "Windows" world. We are
> thinking about moving our "MS Exchange" e-mail server over to Linux
> and sendmail. Right now with "Exchange 5.5" we can do POP3, SMTP
> and Web e-mail access. Can we do any of this with sendmail? If
> not, what do we need to make it happen? We well be running RedHat
> 7.1. Thanks for any input.
Sendmail is _the_ canonical SMTP server.
It does not provide POP3 service; there are several POP3 servers that
can link to Sendmail, including:
- solid-pop3d
- cyrus-pop3d
- Roxen Challenger web server's POP3 module
You might also want to look at IMAP servers, including:
- cyrus-pop3d [a multipurpose package!]
- courier-imap
- uw-imapd
IMAP is a more sophisticated mail scheme than POP3.
There are probably a bunch of web front ends out there; I've not had
call to look for them. Roxen Challenger's "webmail" module is one.
You may need to compile some of these to get them to run on RH 7.1; if
you're prepared to compile from source code, what distribution you're
on should be utterly irrelevant.
--
(concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@acm.org")
http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/resume.html "How can you dream the
impossible dream when you can't get any sleep?" -- Sam Robb
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From: "Bill Hartwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Ximian Gnome changed Login manager despite telling it not to
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 22:31:28 -0600
In article <3af02bf5$0$62139$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Erik Gillespie"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I installed Ximian Gnome 1.4 this morning and after the install it asked
> if I would like to use the new Login manager or leave my configuration
> as it was. Since I had customized my Login manager, I told it not to
> change anything, but when I restarted X it had been changed anyway. No
> problem except when I modify the gdm.conf and Xsetup_0 files to put in
> my customizations again they don't work anymore! How do I customize my
> login manager with a custom logo and background with this new version of
> Ximian?
The login manager isn't the only thing Ximian changes without warning.
I've discovered I have to go back and reinstall a whole lot of apps that
were installed with RedHat that Ximian casually removed when it was
installed - like all the games, some of the utilities, etc. Needless to
say, I am less than pleased.
If you're going to install Ximian, be prepared to spend a lot of time
reinstalling old stuff or learn to do without.
Ximian even broke my StarOffice installation. That REALLY cheeses me off,
given that I'll have to download it again - over a 26.4k connection, which
means it takes roughly 36 hours to download, if I can keep the connection
going without any breaks for the entire download.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Where's the setting of refresh rate ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 11 May 2001 04:35:43 GMT
On Thu, 10 May 2001 22:45:37 -0400, ThanhVu Nguyen staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>I look in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 but doesn't see any mention about
>the current refresh rate ... where is it set at ?
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Multisync 95"
HorizSync 31.5 - 95.0
VertRefresh 55 - 160
EndSection
This little piece of the XF86Config tells X what your monitor is capable
of. The refresh rate is determined from these values and set to the
highest refresh rate the monitor is capable of doing at the current
monitor resolution. With these numbers, I get 75Hz at 1280x1024, and...
hmm, roughly 120Hz at 640x480.
If the refresh rate on your screen is too low for your liking, run
whatever your distro uses as an X configuration tool and make sure you
enter the right designation for your monitor. There are a *LOT* of
monitors in the monitor databases of newer distros like RedHat 7.1; that
one autodetected that I had a MultiSync95 and filled in all the correct
numbers. If you're not so lucky, look up the Hsync and Vsync ranges in
your monitor's manual and enter those manually during the X
configuration process. HTH,
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ximian Gnome changed Login manager despite telling it not to
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 01:02:26 -0400
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
>
> Ximian even broke my StarOffice installation. That REALLY cheeses me
> off, given that I'll have to download it again - over a 26.4k
> connection, which means it takes roughly 36 hours to download, if I can
> keep the connection going without any breaks for the entire download.
What? 36 hours? I'm on dialup and it only takes me 2.5 hours to download
StarOffice.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: vmware, partition magic and windows me?
Date: 10 May 2001 13:55:11 GMT
Hi, I have two hard drives, with windows me installed on the first drive. I
plan to use the second drive for linux.
My goal is to have a system that is mainly linux-based, but allows me to boot
into windows when I want to play computer games or download pictures from my
digital camera or play with video editing software. I have a top quality
Radeon graphics card that works fairly well in windows me.
I used partition magic to format the windows me partitions, and I started to
create some logical linux partitions, but the logical partitions I created
while in Win ME Partition Magic didn't appear when I tried to start the
install from disk druid. QUESTION: If I create a partition with a label like
/usr, why don't they appear in disk druid?
I bought a vmware license and then realized that the host os must be operated
after the original (linux) o.s. Of course, I had installed in reverse order,
starting with the os i wanted not to use very much. QUESTION: If I have win
me already installed and plan to install linux, is there no way that VMWARE
produce a virtual terminal?
QUESTION: How good are the graphics and sound in windows me? Will it be
indistinguishable from being in the OS? Or will the svga driver be insuffient
or the sound won't work?
It sounds as if I'm going to have to resign myself to dual booting. If so why
is disk druid unable to detect the logical partitions I made in partition
magic? Should I have made everything a primary partition in linux? I had
planned to use 6 or 7?
Any ideas?
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From: jtnews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux in college & high school
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 05:12:54 GMT
I heard Columbia University uses
Linux along with vmware to study
operating systems.
Christopher Corbell wrote:
>
> I'm looking for leads to information, statistics, or just
> individual testimonials about the use of Linux in educational
> settings, particularly in high school, community college,
> university, and grad school settings. Does anyone out there
> know of any general sources of information on the use of
> Linux in these settings? I would especially be interested
> in the use of Linux in math & science education. Also, I'd
> like to know about any advocacy groups, PC 'salvage' groups
> or similar organizations that are active in getting Linux
> used in schools.
>
> Thanks for any info.
> - Christopher
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From: "Bill Hartwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where to find program libraries
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 23:20:40 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter Herrington"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
> When I install or rather,attempt to install various programs onto my
> Redhat 7 system,the most often occurance is that it stops and says there
> is a dependency problem and names some files.
> The last program I tried(WILLOW)I would REALLY like to get working,but
> again missing files.
> The name of 1 was libX.os.v
> I have not been able to find it.
> Can someone please direct me to a site where I will be able to find this
> file and others like it.
>
> Thanx/pete
>
If you have Redhat 7, you have Gnorpm, which has rpmfind included (just
click the webfind button).
What I would like is a system that not only resolves dependencies, but
automatically fetches the necessary packages to fulfill them. It's
incredibly frustrating to try installing a package and have an unresolved
dependency warning, and then be unable to find a package to solve the
problem - like when I try to install a package and get a dependency on
"libguile.so.6" and can not find anything by searching on that name
anywhere. A nice standardized naming scheme, or at least a catalog that
lists what packages contain what files, would go a long way toward
helping. A system that automatically adds the required files to an
installation would be even better.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drew Roedersheimer)
Subject: Re: Where to find program libraries
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 05:38:08 GMT
On Thu, 10 May 2001 23:20:40 -0600, Bill Hartwell wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter Herrington"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
>
>
<snip>
>
>What I would like is a system that not only resolves dependencies, but
>automatically fetches the necessary packages to fulfill them. It's
>incredibly frustrating to try installing a package and have an unresolved
>dependency warning, and then be unable to find a package to solve the
>problem - like when I try to install a package and get a dependency on
>"libguile.so.6" and can not find anything by searching on that name
>anywhere. A nice standardized naming scheme, or at least a catalog that
>lists what packages contain what files, would go a long way toward
>helping. A system that automatically adds the required files to an
>installation would be even better.
Your ideal package manager sounds alot like the Debian package
management system to me...
</shameless plug>
-DR
--
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo
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From: "Andrew Hon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: NYC RR cable modem in Linux problem
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 05:45:03 GMT
I have the NYC Road Runner Cable modem service running in my Win98 box,
but I like to setup the service over on my Linux box. However, I just
couldn't get it to work. I followed exactly what
"http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Cable-Modem/index.html"; suggested,
but I just couldn't get it to work.
Can anyone who is using Time Warner NYC cable modem service give me some
hint on configureing my Linux box?
After modifying /sbin/ifup script as the HOW-TO mention, I saw the system
couldn't bring up eth0 and eth1 interface. When I tried to issue the
command "/sbin/ifup eth1", it instantly tells "failed".
If anyone can help, please send me information to my
email: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
Thanks in advance
andrew
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From: "Chris DiPierro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2.4.4 on Athlon/Duron compiled for Athlon/Duron
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 02:02:41 -0400
I've recently setup a RedHat 7.1 install on a Duron system. I'm trying to
get 2.4.4 up and running, but if I compile it for Athlon/Duron CPU type,
it'll kernel panic on boot. This is on a VIA KT133A chipset (Epox 8KTA3
board)
There are some references to this on deja.com, but they all seem to say that
ithis problem was fixed in 2.4.4, so I'm a little confused as to what's
going on.
Anyone have more info?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LinuxBear)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Ximian Gnome changed Login manager despite telling it not to
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 06:35:48 GMT
On Thu, 10 May 2001 22:31:28 -0600, Bill Hartwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <3af02bf5$0$62139$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Erik Gillespie"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I installed Ximian Gnome 1.4 this morning and after the install it asked
>> if I would like to use the new Login manager or leave my configuration
>> as it was. Since I had customized my Login manager, I told it not to
>> change anything, but when I restarted X it had been changed anyway. No
>> problem except when I modify the gdm.conf and Xsetup_0 files to put in
>> my customizations again they don't work anymore! How do I customize my
>> login manager with a custom logo and background with this new version of
>> Ximian?
>
> The login manager isn't the only thing Ximian changes without warning.
> I've discovered I have to go back and reinstall a whole lot of apps that
> were installed with RedHat that Ximian casually removed when it was
> installed - like all the games, some of the utilities, etc. Needless to
> say, I am less than pleased.
>
> If you're going to install Ximian, be prepared to spend a lot of time
> reinstalling old stuff or learn to do without.
>
> Ximian even broke my StarOffice installation. That REALLY cheeses me off,
> given that I'll have to download it again - over a 26.4k connection, which
> means it takes roughly 36 hours to download, if I can keep the connection
> going without any breaks for the entire download.
wget it, so you wont have to start over if you lose connection
--
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
Arthur C. Clarke
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
LinuxBear
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From: "Bill Hartwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Ximian Gnome changed Login manager despite telling it not to
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 00:43:58 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Glitch"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Ximian even broke my StarOffice installation. That REALLY cheeses me
>> off, given that I'll have to download it again - over a 26.4k
>> connection, which means it takes roughly 36 hours to download, if I can
>> keep the connection going without any breaks for the entire download.
>
> What? 36 hours? I'm on dialup and it only takes me 2.5 hours to download
> StarOffice.
Yup. Last time I downloaded it, it took 36 hours of actual download time
(something like 3 days of connection time). My transfer rates average
between 800 and 1500bps.
Part of the problem is that the phone line is so bad I get between 36 and
95 percent packet loss, depending on the time of day, the weather,
whether the landlord has watered the lawn, etc.
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From: cor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: weird message i've never seen before
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 01:06:32 +0200
Glitch wrote:
>
> This message took up 30000 lines in my /var/log/messages file (it was
> repeated). Can anyone tell me what it means?
>
> May 4 18:35:14 bigblue kernel: __alloc_pages: 3-order allocation failed.
Seen the same thing several days - came and went several 100 lines each
time. Interspersed were lines which had the same text except it was
2-order. Would also like to know what gives.
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