Linux-Misc Digest #66, Volume #28 Sat, 9 Jun 01 09:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Debian install suggestions, anyone? (Jeremy Lunn)
installation vmware (Helge Fobbe)
Re: System.map deleted by mistake ("Anthony DeRobertis")
Re: Debian install suggestions, anyone? (Daniel Franklin)
Re: sendmail POP3 question (Sistem)
Help on NFS ("ThanhVu Nguyen")
Re: Help on NFS (Michael Heiming)
Re: Encryption : What is the easiest secure way to encrypt a file in (Michael
Heiming)
Re: Replicating Linux computers (Federico Bravo)
Red Hat 7.1 VS a nice PS/2 mice ("Giuseppe Ricioppo")
Re: Printing problem: selecting input tray (Pim)
threads (Robert Schweikert)
selective mail forward (Florent Carli)
Re: selective mail forward (Sergey Smirnov)
Re: installation vmware (Thomas Satzinger)
Re: Printing problem: selecting input tray (Pim)
Re: Debian install suggestions, anyone? (Steve Gage)
Re: AC'97 sound chips on board - no sound in RedHat 7.0 (andrea)
Re: installation vmware (Helge Fobbe)
Re: Announce: CNCC -- Color Name Combination Center ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Red Hat 7.1 VS a nice PS/2 mice (Dave Uhring)
cd burn/backup question (Lori Holder-Webb)
Apache ("Multi User")
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,aus.computers.linux,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Lunn)
Subject: Re: Debian install suggestions, anyone?
Date: 9 Jun 2001 16:20:11 +1000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jerome Mrozak wrote:
> The potato installer is rather unforgiving. Type correctly the first
> time, you won't get a chance to backtrack very often, if at all.
No way to backtrack? Well the Debian installer does let you choose
alternatives. Not sure if you can use this to backtrack but I'm pretty
sure you could (before the first reboot).
Another hint for installs. Choose MD5 passwords when it asks you. It
is very unlikely that it'll brake anything since Debian uses pam.
Infact it's very strange that it asks you and defaults to no. MD5
passwords are nearly impossible to crack if you are unfortunate enough
that someone got into your shadow passwords (but then you'd have alot of
other things to worry about!).
--
Jeremy Lunn
ICQ: 19255837
http://jeremy.austux.net/
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From: Helge Fobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installation vmware
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 09:10:33 +0200
Hello,
trying to install vmware under suse 7.2 and have a problem:
vmare ask for version.h and then it says that the version of it (2.4.3)
doesn't match the version of installed kernel (2.4.4 -4GB).
Who knows?
Helge
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From: "Anthony DeRobertis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System.map deleted by mistake
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 03:13:07 -0400
In article <wW4U6.13720$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tom Edelbrok"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I accidentally wiped out my /boot/System.map file, (it was size 196625,
> and dated April 19, 1999). It is for kernel 2.2.5-15 (Redhat 6.0).
Get it from the appropriate kernel RPM.
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,aus.computers.linux,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Franklin)
Subject: Re: Debian install suggestions, anyone?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 9 Jun 2001 16:58:09 +1000
Jeremy Lunn wrote:
>
> Another hint for installs. Choose MD5 passwords when it asks you. It
> is very unlikely that it'll brake anything since Debian uses pam.
> Infact it's very strange that it asks you and defaults to no. MD5
> passwords are nearly impossible to crack if you are unfortunate enough
> that someone got into your shadow passwords (but then you'd have alot of
> other things to worry about!).
The main reason is that MD5 passwords don't work over NIS, which a lot of
people still use. They work find over LDAP though (but LDAP seems slower
than NIS).
- Daniel
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* Daniel Franklin - Postgraduate student in Electrical Engineering
* University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sistem)
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,redhat.config,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: sendmail POP3 question
Date: 9 Jun 2001 00:37:31 -0700
Does the mailing bounce? If so, what is the error.
Sistem
www.usermail.com
Lamar Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> J Sloan wrote:
>
> > Lamar Thomas wrote:
> >
> > > I am running RH 7.1 and sendmail. I have sendmail up and working and an
> > > MX record in DNS with my ISP for my domain. Anyone know how I now turn
> > > my Linux box into a POP3 server? Thanks for any help.
> >
> > enable pop3, again using any one of the elementary
> > run level editors, or even the barebones "chkconfig"
> > command.
> >
> > - assuming you said "yes" to imap during install.
> >
> > Red Hat includes pop servers in the imap server pkg.
> >
> > cu
> >
> > jjs
>
> Hi all,
>
> It looks like I have POP3 and IMAP4 working now. I can use the following
> command from the console of my Linux box and send myself an email: # "mail
> -v
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]". I can then go over to a Windows 98 system using "Outlook
>
> Express" and retrieve my mail via both POP3 and IMAP4.
>
> However, I still can't send myself an email from outside my Linux box (i.e.
> from my hotmail account) The mail just never gets to me. Any ideas? Thanks
> for
> any help.
>
> Lamar
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From: "ThanhVu Nguyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help on NFS
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 03:59:17 -0400
I was able to set 2 of my computer on a network and also able to have
internet sharing btw both of them. But I can't able to let them see each
other's drive. I tried to mount them via nfs but nothing works. I can
ping one machine from another fine.
in C1's /etc/export I have " /mnt/test C2 "
in C2 , I usedthe command " mount C1:/mnt/test /temp/test/
But it gives me RPC: Time Out
Is there anything I miss here ?
Thanks for all inputs .
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Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 10:13:46 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help on NFS
ThanhVu Nguyen wrote:
>
> I was able to set 2 of my computer on a network and also able to have
> internet sharing btw both of them. But I can't able to let them see each
> other's drive. I tried to mount them via nfs but nothing works. I can
> ping one machine from another fine.
>
> in C1's /etc/export I have " /mnt/test C2 "
> in C2 , I usedthe command " mount C1:/mnt/test /temp/test/
>
> But it gives me RPC: Time Out
>
> Is there anything I miss here ?
>
> Thanks for all inputs .
Are nfsd and portmapper running on C1?
Michael Heiming
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Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 10:15:53 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Encryption : What is the easiest secure way to encrypt a file in
Jason LaPenta wrote:
>
> Encryption : What is the easiest secure way to encrypt a file in linux?
>
> thanks in advance
> Jason
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
man pgp
Michael Heiming
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From: Federico Bravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Replicating Linux computers
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 08:25:10 GMT
You might try mkCDrec which makes a bootable copy of one system into one
( or more ) CD(s).
http://mkcdrec.ota.be
I hope this helps.
Federico Bravo.
Uri Van Creveld wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a simple problem:
>
> I have 50 identical PC's on which I want to run Linux.
> I don't want to run the installation on each one,
> And I'm not so keen on using dd because it means opening them all up etc.
>
> What is the best way to do it? Is ghost good for it? something else?
>
> Help would be apreaciated.
>
> Uri Van Creveld
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From: "Giuseppe Ricioppo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat 7.1 VS a nice PS/2 mice
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 08:42:13 GMT
Good morning everybody!
At the first boot, kudzu tell me that my mice must be eliminate.
In X my mice doesn't work. I chose a generic ps/2 with 2 button ( a
Logitech). During X's configuration my mouse was OK! I have the same problem
with Mandrake 8.0. The mouse's section in my XF86conf is...
##########################
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
############################
There is another file called XF86config.old. Its mouse related section is...
############################
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "PS/2"
Device "/dev/psaux"
#.....
#....
Emulate3Buttons
Emulate3Timeout 50
EndSection
##############################
I've already upgraded Xconfigurator and mouseconfig, but my mouse doesn't
work yet.
With MDK 7.0 I didn't had the same problem. Why?
What's happening?
Thank U
Giuseppe.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pim)
Subject: Re: Printing problem: selecting input tray
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 09:34:46 GMT
On 8 Jun 2001 17:43:44 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent) wrote:
>On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 02:04:33 GMT, Pim wrote:
> >
> >I want to be able to print a postscript file, selecting from which
> >sheet feeder of my HP LJ 2100 the paper should come from. Does anyone
> >know how to do this? I know the PCL escape sequence to do this, so if
> >I could get gs to print that sequence it should work, but don't know
> >how to do such a thing.
>
>gs converts Postscript to PCL (or whatever) but you don't have to use gs. Try
>catting your PCL escape sequence directly to the printer device. Or configure a
>PCL printer and lpr it.
>
>Bob T.
I have to use gs, because my printer doesn't talk postscript and the
input _is_ postscript. (Converted HTML by htmldoc) So I editted the
standard redhat printfilter
(/usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/ps-to-printer.fpi), so it would print
the PCL escape sequence for selecting the tray. This didn't work. I
think because the PCL XL code generated by gs (with driver pxlmono)
somehow overruled it, or contains some 'reset' command. (The same
escape sequence followed by some ascii, directly catted to /dev/lp0
_did_ work, so the problem isn't the escape sequence)
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From: Robert Schweikert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: threads
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 06:09:54 -0400
Could someone point me to documentation abouth threads that is
relatively recent. All I can find with google is stuff that's a couple
of years old.
Thanks,
Robert
--
Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU
[EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Florent Carli)
Subject: selective mail forward
Date: 9 Jun 2001 10:15:03 GMT
Hi,
I use an domain name for which my DNS provider forwards any mail addressed
to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to an email account I have on a linux machine
(tha same, whatever "anything" might be).
I would like to forward the mails I receive on this linux machine depending
on the address @mydomain.com it comes from :
ex :
[EMAIL PROTECTED] --> myaccount@mylinuxbox --> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] --> myaccount@mylinuxbox -->
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
etc ...
I only know the basic utilization of .forward with linux.
Anybody had an idea ?
Thanks
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From: Sergey Smirnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: selective mail forward
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 14:18:51 +0400
Try procmail
Florent Carli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use an domain name for which my DNS provider forwards any mail addressed
> to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to an email account I have on a linux machine
> (tha same, whatever "anything" might be).
> I would like to forward the mails I receive on this linux machine depending
> on the address @mydomain.com it comes from :
>
> ex :
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] --> myaccount@mylinuxbox --> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] --> myaccount@mylinuxbox -->
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> etc ...
>
> I only know the basic utilization of .forward with linux.
> Anybody had an idea ?
>
> Thanks
>
>
--
Sergey Smirnov
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From: Thomas Satzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installation vmware
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 12:31:34 +0200
Helge Fobbe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> trying to install vmware under suse 7.2 and have a problem:
>
> vmare ask for version.h and then it says that the version of it (2.4.3)
> doesn't match the version of installed kernel (2.4.4 -4GB).
>
> Who knows?
there is a new version of vmware with official support for kernel 2.4
i think the version is 2.0.4
visit vmware's homepage is a good idea i think
>
> Helge
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pim)
Subject: Re: Printing problem: selecting input tray
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 10:56:27 GMT
On 8 Jun 2001 17:43:44 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent) wrote:
>On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 02:04:33 GMT, Pim wrote:
> >
> >I want to be able to print a postscript file, selecting from which
> >sheet feeder of my HP LJ 2100 the paper should come from. Does anyone
> >know how to do this? I know the PCL escape sequence to do this, so if
> >I could get gs to print that sequence it should work, but don't know
> >how to do such a thing.
>
>gs converts Postscript to PCL (or whatever) but you don't have to use gs. Try
>catting your PCL escape sequence directly to the printer device. Or configure a
>PCL printer and lpr it.
>
>Bob T.
I have to use gs, because my printer doesn't talk postscript and the
input _is_ postscript. (Converted HTML by htmldoc) So I editted the
standard redhat printfilter
(/usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/ps-to-printer.fpi), so it would print
the PCL escape sequence for selecting the tray. This didn't work. I
think because the PCL XL code generated by gs (with driver pxlmono)
somehow overruled it, or contains some 'reset' command. (The same
escape sequence followed by some ascii, directly catted to /dev/lp0
_did_ work, so the problem isn't the escape sequence)
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From: Steve Gage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,aus.computers.linux,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: Debian install suggestions, anyone?
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 10:59:51 GMT
Let me add that there is a good newsgroup specifically for Debian:
linux.debian.user
Plenty of help there for before, during, and after install...
- Steve
Jeremy Lunn wrote:
> In article <5fbU6.3268$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Missy wrote:
>
>>I just ordered a copy of Debian potato to install on my PS/2 77....I would
>>appreciate any help or advice etc. cause I've heard lots of horror stories!
>>Beware, I'm not an expert, but not a total idiot. If it's anything like the
>>LISA install of Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 I'll survive ok. Thank you!
>>
>
> My advice is to choose "Advanced" when it asks you whether you want
> Simple or Advanced. Advanced will give you dselect. Simple will give
> you tasksel.
>
> Why am I suggesting that a newbie use dselect though? well last time I
> tried tasksel it installed too much junk that I didn't need.
>
> And so you selected advanced? well read the dselect builtin
> documentation carefully because the interface is very confusing at
> first. And it is poorly designed in some ways (such as using '\' to
> search again when most programs use 'n'). Once you have learnt how to
> use dselect it is much more worthwhile than using tasksel (which only
> lets you choose groups of packages).
>
> Usually I just search through the list for things like postfix, ssh,
> vim, apache or anything else I need.
>
>
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From: andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,tw.bbs.comp.linux,hk.comp.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: AC'97 sound chips on board - no sound in RedHat 7.0
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 13:04:12 +0200
Giles Morant wrote:
> Wilson Ng ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : Hi,
>
> : My on-board sound chip VIA AC97 audio controller (WDM) works fine with
> : WinME. I tried to run sndconfig to enable the sound in my Linux
> : installation in RedHat 7.0. The program detected that the sound device is
> : VIA82cxxx. After I confirm the autoprobe was done and my system hangs. I
> : rebooted Linux and the startup freeze when starting the sound module.
>
> : Any body can help?
>
> : Thanks, Wilson.
>
> This is a FAQ. Look back through dejanews or google groups. Basically,
> all you need to do in install the ALSA sound drivers from
> http://www.alsa-project.org IIRC. Quite straightforward and my machine
> works perfectly for playing mp3s &c. -- I don't do MIDI or anything
> complicated with it.
>
> Giles Morant
>
> --
> Giles RC Morant
> http://www.morants.demon.co.uk/giles
I've the opposite problem.
My Asus CUV4X has not the AC97 on board (it's optional in my model)
but i see the system trying to hang this module!
What can i do?
(in BIOS i've disabled the audio system already).
Thanks!
Andrea
mail to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Helge Fobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installation vmware
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 13:07:11 +0200
It is the Version 2.0.4.
How can i make new Kernel Headerfiles (version.h, autoconf.h and
modversions.h)?
Helge
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.tcl,comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Announce: CNCC -- Color Name Combination Center
Date: 9 Jun 2001 11:08:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
According to * Tong * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
:> Neat. Also, were you aware that if you do a look up of the Tk man page
:> "colors" in section n, you also get the information?
:
:Thanks. Just that I don't quite understand your suggestion.
:
:man n colors?
Yep - that's what I type. Or one can visit the WWW version at
http://tcl.activestate.com/man/tcl8.3.2/TkCmd/colors.htm ...
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Even if explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.1 VS a nice PS/2 mice
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 07:12:00 -0500
Giuseppe Ricioppo wrote:
> Good morning everybody!
>
> At the first boot, kudzu tell me that my mice must be eliminate.
> In X my mice doesn't work. I chose a generic ps/2 with 2 button ( a
> Logitech). During X's configuration my mouse was OK! I have the same
> problem with Mandrake 8.0. The mouse's section in my XF86conf is...
>
> ##########################
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" <-- You don't have 5 buttons on a 2
button mouse.
> EndSection
> ############################
> There is another file called XF86config.old. Its mouse related section
> is...
>
> ############################
> Section "Pointer"
> Protocol "PS/2"
> Device "/dev/psaux"
> #.....
> #....
> Emulate3Buttons
> Emulate3Timeout 50
> EndSection
> ##############################
>
> I've already upgraded Xconfigurator and mouseconfig, but my mouse doesn't
> work yet.
> With MDK 7.0 I didn't had the same problem. Why?
>
> What's happening?
>
> Thank U
>
> Giuseppe.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Lori Holder-Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cd burn/backup question
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 07:56:16 -0500
I'm having a permissions problem with my backup files. For a variety of
reasons, it is most expedient for me to back my home directory up to
CD. For this I use XCDRoast, which has to be run as root (per the
documentation). The backup goes fine, the CDs are mountable, etc, but
naturally, all of the file and group ownership changes to root.root, and
all of the permissions are set to Read-Only.
This is fine on the CD, but it's a MAJOR pain on the restore.
What I'm looking for is either a way to maintain permissions and
ownership through the burning process (understanding that I can't write
to the media) *or* to quickly and thoroughly restore the permissions and
ownership when I move the directory back to the hard disk.
The files getting backed up/restored are a combination of directories,
executables, read-and-write, and read-onlys. My current method (not
knowing any better) is to point XCDRoast at the /home directory and tell
it to create an image of it, which is then burned.
Thanks for any advice,
Lori
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From: "Multi User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Apache
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 13:05:18 GMT
Does anyone know how to enable directory browsing on an Apache Web server?
I'm running RHL 7.0.
TIA
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