Linux-Setup Digest #321, Volume #19 Fri, 4 Aug 00 12:13:12 EDT
Contents:
New e-mail/web server with minor problems (Buschman)
Re: paging scripts and other Qs (Frank da Cruz)
Re: Exchange Server for Linux?? ("Craig Wiggins")
Re: User and Group Permissions (NetworkGod)
Re: very newbie needs help! PLEASE. ("dale hites")
Re: backup question (RJ)
Re: Help!! apache scripts and setuid (RJ)
RedHat not detecting RAM (Gregory Geller)
Re: network adress translation (NAT) (Buschman)
newbie needs help with file permissions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: paging scripts and other Qs (jtoy)
Re: RedHat not detecting RAM (John Miller)
Re: network adress translation (NAT) (Rod Smith)
Disaster recovery with unlike hardware (Thomas Denier)
driver problem (Buschman)
NIS with passwd and shadow? (Holger Lange)
httpd fails in RH 6.2 (Ron Ng)
PLEASE - Volunteer ?'C' expert? to follow these instructions to get an Ethernet card
supported . ("Ian Turnbui")
Re: New e-mail/web server with minor problems (Tim Haynes)
Re: Linux x86 and Mac HFS filesystems (Michael Schmitz)
Re: driver problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: New e-mail/web server with minor problems
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:11:18 GMT
First off I am very new to the linux setup proccess but have some
experience with unix environments.
I just setup an e-mail/web server. My first concern is getting the
e-mail side of things working flawlessly then attack the web stuff.
1) Ok I can send and receieve mail no problem. My machine is named
typhoon. So when I send out an e-mail it reads
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Iwant it to read as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I get ride of the typhoon? Now people can send to both
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] and both messages go
to the same mail box. But it's when I am send FROM typhoon that it
adds the machine name to the e-mail address.
2) I cannot telnet, ftp, or pop this machine. I installed most every
module and service that I could. So i am assuming it is just a matter
of turning these services on and/or configuring them properly. I want
all three services to run.
3) *simple question alert* I have read the man ls but still am not
quite sure how to search for a particular file not in the current
directory I am in. What do I need to type to search for a certain
file on the entire hard drive. Can you do a search that goes inside
non binary files? Search for words "inside" files?
4) In linuxconf there are all types of accounts, like ppp accounts,
slip accounts, pop accounts, and virtual pop accounts, and a couple
others. What is the difference? Can a user be a member of more than
one? If so, how do I do that?
OK the web stuff. Not as important but if you have helped me this far
you must be a superb individual and maybe I could get your advise on
my other less important issues.
1) I know my URL is working fine cause now when you type it in you get
a generic page linux/apache page. Where is this file that the
internet browser is looking at? I am assuming I need to be the root
or su to mess with these files. Correct?
2) How do I setup up user accounts for web access? Like
www.whatever.net/~mike/index.html. You know what I mean?
Thank you so much for any and all information you can help me out
with.
thanks,
Buschman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank da Cruz)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.shell,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: paging scripts and other Qs
Date: 4 Aug 2000 14:18:40 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jtoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I was wondering if someone could give me an example of a bash script (or
: somethig similar) that would page (via modem of course) me when
: something goes wrong. Excuse my ignorance, but I know very little about
: stuff like AT& ATD and all those other short ascii codes.
:
You don't have to. The sending-a-page part can be done with Kermit:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/pagers.html
which knows all about ATD stuff as well as paging protocols like IXO/TAP.
- Frank
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From: "Craig Wiggins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Exchange Server for Linux??
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:18:28 GMT
Have you considered Lotus Notes with Domino server? Domino has a Linux
build (tested on Redhat and one other, but I've got it running happily on
Slackware 7 as well and it didn't take much deviation from the printed
installation to do so). Notes requires Windows or Mac, but has all the
funtionality of Outlook/Exchange and then some.
Craig W.
--
Cristodyne Associates
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"Timothy H. Schilbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8md9so$8vp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Why not add an NT Exchange server and use SAMBA to connect too it?
>
> --
> Timothy H. Schilbach
> Alpha Omega Design Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 1-877-263-7094
> Visit our website at www.aodinc.com
>
> Highspeed internet connectivity and web hosting services
>
>
> "djmiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:jQ5i5.56750$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Is there anything that functions like an Exchange server for Linux, that
> > will store calendar/contacts/e-mail/etc. and allow MS Outlook to connect
> to
> > it?
> >
> >
>
>
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From: NetworkGod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: User and Group Permissions
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 09:28:30 -0500
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that just allow the USER "admin"
to use it along with the group "normal_user"... I mean, it certainly
wouldn't allow two groups, right?
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 08:54:20 GMT, Paul Ashby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Mark wrote:
>>
>> This may seem fairly trivial to someone who knows how to do it, but how do I
>> assign more than group to a directory structure or file.
>>
>> Or if this is not possible, the following scenario if effectively what I
>> want to do. I want to allow everyone in the "admin" group to have read write
>> access to a directory structure and have everyone in the "normal_user" group
>> to just have read access whilst everyone else is denied access.
>
>Don't know if this is the best or only way:
>
>set ownership of directory to admin, group normal_user and then set
>permissions to something like
>
>rwxr-x---
>
>ls -al would be something like
>
>drwxr-x--- admin normal_group directory_name
NetworkGod, CCNA
=========================================
ICQ# 2993206 http://www.networkgod.net
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Reply-To: "dale hites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "dale hites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: very newbie needs help! PLEASE.
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 09:23:57 -0500
Ignore the sarcasm. The best books I've found for RH are the Redhat Bible
and Linux, the Complete Reference. Use the bible to get your toes wet, and
the Complete Linux to get in up to your knees. After these, when you're no
longer a newbie, remember how you feel now.
Dale
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From: RJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: backup question
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:30:04 GMT
Craig,
/etc/ is the heart of your system (as far as configuration goes). Make
sure you get all of that. If you've got a master or slave name server
running you'll want to grab the zones out of /var/named/ or
/etc/namedb/ or where ever your named.conf specifies. If your
system is anything like mine you've got a lot of home grown scripts in
/usr/local/bin/ and /usr/local/sbin/. Make sure to tar those as well. If
those directories have lots of binaries you might consider moving
your scripts to some other place to simplify backing them up without
getting the big binaries(if space is tight). You may find tar's --exclude
option particularly helpful if you're want to get some files from a
directory which contains sub directories that have a lot of stuff you
don't want.
Regards,
RJ
Craig A. Lebowitz wrote:
>
>
> I'm writing a little script that backs up (tar, gzip) specified directories
on my fairly new RedHat 6.2 system. I plan on
> backing up to a single ZIP disk. My question - I need to pioritize
because 100MB compressed is my limit. What directories
> should I include?
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> craig
>
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From: RJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Help!! apache scripts and setuid
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:30:06 GMT
Hi Jason,
The key to getting your file written is filesystem permissions. _Don't_
run a CGI script setuid root. It's just bad mojo. On RedHat 6.2
Apache runs as the user "nobody". All you need to do is make a
directory that is writable by "nobody".
mkdir mydir
chown nobody.nobody mydir
Then your script should be able to create and modify files in that
directory.
As for running cron every minute... it isn't a big system drain. I've
seen it done before. It may be more efficient to have a script running
that sleeps for a minute and then loops to check for your file before
sleeping again. In Perl, "sleep 60" would sleep for a minute. And if
you're going to have this script running in the background, you'll
probably want to run it with nohup (man nohup, it's pretty simple).
Hope this helps.
Regards,
RJ
jtoy wrote:
>
>
> I am writing a basic bash CGI script that when executed, makes a
file.
> The script doesn't work if anyone uses it, but I gave it all
> rights(ugo+x) as root. Only I can run it, but I want it to be on the
> webserver.
> How can get around this so that I can create a file when the script is
> run from apache? I also tried having the script modify a line with
sed
> and that didn't work!!?!?!? I'm sure there is a simple way around
> this. Thank you. All I want to do is create a 'flag' that if another
> program sees, it will execute some commands.
> script:
> date >> /some/dir
> echo "<HTML><body>thanks</body></html>"
>
> Than another program will check every minute via cron to see if the
file
> exists. If so it will do some commands. Also, is using cron every
> minute goign to eat too much memory? If so, how would I make
this
> script run as a daeamon or are there other methods? The reason
why I
> need this script to creat a file instead of do the actual commands, is
> because the commands are all root commands. Also, how do you
change
> program permission with setuid? I maned it but got almost no
> information and ther is no actual setuid command on my
box(redhat 6.2),
> but I've heard about it so much. thanks.
>
> --
> Jason Toy
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://toy.eyep.net
>
>
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From: Gregory Geller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat not detecting RAM
Date: 4 Aug 2000 14:33:18 GMT
Hi all,
Running RedHat 6.1 on an Intel platform. The machine has 128M RAM and
detects the full amount in the bios, but Linux only sees 64M.
I have no idea why. Can anyone help?
Greg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman)
Subject: Re: network adress translation (NAT)
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:43:14 GMT
What is the difference between NAT and IP masqerade? Do you have to
have two NIC's for such operations?
Buschman
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 11:46:19 +0200, Nicolas Iselin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>E. Stumpp wrote:
>
>> I search a program which does the network adress translation for me like
>> winroute on PC's.
>
>You really mean NAT and not simply routing ?? If yes, just read through
>
>http://www.linas.org/linux/load.html
>
>It explains what's it all about and leads you to further links. AFAIK, you
>will have to build a custom kernel (applying patches, compiling, installing,
>...)
>to do NAT.
>
>> It is necessary to access computers from the first segment via FTP in the
>> second segment.
>
>This works also with routing, you don't need NAT...
>
>
>Nicolas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: newbie needs help with file permissions
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:35:43 GMT
Hello all,
I'm relatively new to Linux but have been having a good time learning
and playing with it.
I am trying to the set up Netware routing with ipxd so that my
vmware/win98 session can see netware servers. I've been having 'lots of
fun' with this!
Documentation tells me that once enabled, several files in the /proc/net
directory should have information added to them. Specifically the
ipx_route and ipx_interface files. I've just discovered that it appears
that the permissions on these files prevents writing to them, that goes
for all of the files in this directory. I've tried everything I can
think of the grant write access to /proc/net and to those specific files
to no avail.
I'm running Mandrake 7.1
Can anyone offer any suggestions?
Help!!!!
Alex
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: jtoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.shell,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: paging scripts and other Qs
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 11:04:56 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you
Frank da Cruz wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jtoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I was wondering if someone could give me an example of a bash script (or
> : somethig similar) that would page (via modem of course) me when
> : something goes wrong. Excuse my ignorance, but I know very little about
> : stuff like AT& ATD and all those other short ascii codes.
> :
> You don't have to. The sending-a-page part can be done with Kermit:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/pagers.html
>
> which knows all about ATD stuff as well as paging protocols like IXO/TAP.
>
> - Frank
--
Jason Toy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://toy.eyep.net
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From: John Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat not detecting RAM
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 09:54:11 -0500
Some mobos don't properly report the amount of RAM to linux. On boot,
type "linux mem=128m" or add append="mem=128m" to your /etc/lilo.conf
file. Don't forget to re-run lilo to make the changes take effect.
-John
On 4 Aug 2000, Gregory Geller wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Running RedHat 6.1 on an Intel platform. The machine has 128M RAM and
> detects the full amount in the bios, but Linux only sees 64M.
>
> I have no idea why. Can anyone help?
>
> Greg
>
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: network adress translation (NAT)
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:57:35 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman) writes:
>
> What is the difference between NAT and IP masqerade?
In theory, IP masquerading is a subset of NAT. In IP masquerading, one
computer connects to a large network and routes traffic for a small
network "behind" it. The traffic from the small network is changed so
that it all appears to come from the IP masquerading machine, thus
reducing the need for IP addresses and providing some security for the
small network. NAT can do this, and in practice many NAT software
packages are used in precisely this way. NAT can also do more complex
things, like allow some systems on the internal network to pass traffic
to the outside world without having addresses changed, map arbitrary
internal addresses to arbitrary external address (not just one-to-many,
as in IP masquerading, but many-to-many), etc.
> Do you have to have two NIC's for such operations?
In Linux, no, but it's easiest and most secure with two NICs. With only
one NIC, you must set up virtual interfaces (like eth0:1), which you
address much as if they were separate NICs, but they connect to a single
network wire. This means that your internal network's traffic is visible
to whatever external router you use; you must rely on that router to not
pass the internal network's traffic inappropriately.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: Thomas Denier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Disaster recovery with unlike hardware
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 10:57:21 -0400
My employer has a contract with a commercial hot site in case our
machine room suffers a disaster such as a fire or flood. We have
recently started using a Red Hat Linux 6.1 server for applications
critical enough to warrant inclusion in the hot site contract. For
either a disaster recovery test or a real disaster the hot site vendor
will provide us with an Intel architecture server with clock rate,
number of processors, amount of RAM, and amount of disk space greater
than or equal to minimum values specified in the contract. However, the
system provided will probably be different from our own hardware in a
number of ways. It will almost certainly come from a different
manufacturer. The disk space will probably not be made up of the same
number and size of volumes. The SCSI controller, network card or cards,
and video controller will probably be different.
I think I have pretty much figured out how to rebuild a Linux system
from bare metal up on the same hardware configuration (the sort of thing
one would have to do after replacing a failed hard disk). I have not
figured out how to do the same thing with unlike hardware. I have been
trying to recreate the production Linux server mentioned above on a
retired desktop machine (minus some large file systems containing
databases for the applications). I keep finding more files containing
information dependent on the hardware configuration. Has anyone
developed a systematic procedure for rebuilding a Red Hat Linux system
on unlike hardware? Some of the Web sites I have visited in the course
of this work indicate that Red
Hat has an atypical approach to storing hardware configuration data.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: driver problem
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 15:02:59 GMT
I am unable to start X windows. I get an error reffering to my mouse
driver. How do I alter my mouse driver? I know there is a way to go
through the x windows setup process.
On a possibly related note I get an error trying to run timetool. It
says "No display name and no $DISPLAY environement." Does this mean
my display drivers are also flawed or something else all together?
thanks for your advice,
Buschman
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From: Holger Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: NIS with passwd and shadow?
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 17:13:38 +0200
Hello!
I have got a big problem with my NIS! I get all maps like hosts, amd.home, netgroup,
etc. over my NIS.
Only passwd and group does not work. If I do a ypcat passwd a get an empty list. Is
the Makefile in /var/yp buggy?
regards, Holger
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TU Darmstadt
Numerische Berechnungsverfahren im MB
Petersenstr. 30
D-64287 Darmstadt
Germany
Phone.: +49-6151-16 6743
Fax.: +49-6151-16 4479
In a world without walls and fences
who needs Windows and Gates?
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From: Ron Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: httpd fails in RH 6.2
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 08:25:44 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all.
Well, I decided that I should probably upgrade to the latest and
greatest distribution of Redhat, so I upgraded from RH 6.0 to RH 6.2.
After resolving some strange install issues, I finally got it to boot on
Zoot, RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0. However, looks like my httpd daemon is
failing. I get an error message, and I extracted this from my boot.log
file. Anybody know what the following is telling me?
Aug 4 07:47:52 smurf httpd: In string, @expanded now must be written as
\@expanded at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/Exporter.pm line 133, near
"${pkg}::EXPORT_FAIL cached: @expanded"
Aug 4 07:47:52 smurf httpd: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/Cwd.pm line 68.
Aug 4 07:47:52 smurf httpd: httpd startup failed
httpd in RH 6.0 worked perfectly. I coud type the IP address as the
URL, and I got the standard Apache "It Worked" page. After upgrading to
rh 6.2, no go....no joy in mudville.
Any tips and/or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Ron
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From: "Ian Turnbui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PLEASE - Volunteer ?'C' expert? to follow these instructions to get an
Ethernet card supported .
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 16:35:09 +0100
I could really do with some help folks - any voulunteers? The basic problem
is with a network card that is supposed to be supported IF one can follow
the instructions. It means having /linux and /gcc
and a couple of makes. I'll gladly email the 21KB tar.gz file to tou if you
would like to try it out and then tell me what a pratt I am for missing the
obvious !!!
The problem I have is about a hundred lines of 'C' compile errors.
Basically you gzip and tar this 21KB file and follow the readme file
provided. It requires the latest pcmcia source which I got from
ftp:://sourceforge.org/pcmcia/pcmcia-3.1.19.tar.gz
TIA
Ian Turnbull
0961 931941
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web : www.turnbui.freeserve.co.uk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Haynes)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: New e-mail/web server with minor problems
Date: 04 Aug 2000 16:18:17 +0100
Reply-To: "Tim Haynes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman) writes:
[]
> 1) Ok I can send and receieve mail no problem. My machine is named
> typhoon. So when I send out an e-mail it reads
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iwant it to read as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> How do I get ride of the typhoon? Now people can send to both
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] and both messages go
> to the same mail box. But it's when I am send FROM typhoon that it
> adds the machine name to the e-mail address.
Depends on what MTA you're using. If sendmail, change the `DM' directive in
/etc/sendmail.cf. If exim, there are a raft of `qualify domains' in
/etc/exim.conf. If qmail, you're mad.
> 2) I cannot telnet, ftp, or pop this machine. I installed most every
> module and service that I could. So i am assuming it is just a matter
> of turning these services on and/or configuring them properly. I want
> all three services to run.
No you don't. You want ssh installing - forget telnet and ftp unless you
want to provide an anonymous FTP server (even then, think thrice). You also
really want APOP or something instead of vanilla pop3 if at all possible -
consider solid pop3d for this (as one example amongst a few).
> 3) *simple question alert* I have read the man ls but still am not
> quite sure how to search for a particular file not in the current
> directory I am in. What do I need to type to search for a certain file
> on the entire hard drive. Can you do a search that goes inside non
> binary files? Search for words "inside" files?
`man find`. `man grep`.
Then understand this:
$ find ~ -name \*.c | xargs grep -i main
> 4) In linuxconf there are all types of accounts, like ppp accounts,
> slip accounts, pop accounts, and virtual pop accounts, and a couple
> others. What is the difference? Can a user be a member of more than
> one? If so, how do I do that?
Why use linuxconf? It's normal for users to be separate in order to allow
different passwords for different services; if they're going to be incoming
slip/ppp accounts (ie you're a dialup server) then you don't want the ISP
password being the same as the shell password being the same as the pop3
password, do you?
[]
> 1) I know my URL is working fine cause now when you type it in you get
> a generic page linux/apache page. Where is this file that the
> internet browser is looking at? I am assuming I need to be the root
> or su to mess with these files. Correct?
Ddepends on your distro. Check for httpd or `apache' packages installed, do
either an
rpm -ql apache or
rpm -ql httpd or
dpkg -L apache
and see what the list of files in the package actually is. Chances are,
it'll use either /etc/httpd/conf/ or /etc/apache/conf/ as a config-file
directory, and either /home/httpd/index.html or /var/www/index.html or
something. The httpd.conf will have a DocumentRoot in it, anyway.
> 2) How do I setup up user accounts for web access? Like
> www.whatever.net/~mike/index.html. You know what I mean?
Happens by default in apache. ISTR there's a UserDir[ectory] directive that
you can set to 'public_html' giving everybody a mapping from
~mike/public_html/ -> /~mike/ on the webserver.
~Tim
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From: Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux x86 and Mac HFS filesystems
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 17:28:39 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
James Felix Black wrote:
> I'm wondering how best to transfer some large amount of data (35gb)
> from a Mac formatted hard drive (HFS, not HFS+) to an ext2 partition.
> What I've done so far is build a new kernel with support for both Mac
> HFS and the Macintosh partition table format, and on startup the
> system reports all the partitions on the Mac disk. However, none of
> the userland utilities I tried seem to be able to cope with the disk.
mount -t hfs works for me. And please try hfsutils, that also works
nicely (Debian and RedHat here).
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: driver problem
Date: 4 Aug 2000 15:53:15 GMT
You could try going through the one standard install processed (xf86config,
XF86Setup), but I think it would be easier to just edit your XF86Config file
(usually in /etc/X11/).
Find the "Pointer" section. example:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "IMPS/2"
Device "/dev/mouse"
# When using XQUEUE, comment out the above two lines, and uncomment
# the following line.
# Protocol "Xqueue"
# Baudrate and SampleRate are only for some Logitech mice
# BaudRate 9600
# SampleRate 150
# Emulate3Buttons is an option for 2-button Microsoft mice
# Emulate3Timeout is the timeout in milliseconds (default is 50ms)
# Emulate3Buttons
# Emulate3Timeout 50
# ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice
# ChordMiddle
EndSection
Replace the Protocol string and Device to match you system. If you have a
serial mouse, the device should be something like /dev/ttyS0 (for COM1; ttyS1
for COM2 and so on). PS/2 mice use /dev/psaux. You can use a symlink to
/dev/mouse like we did above, too.
The supported protocols are (from "man XF86Config"):
Auto
BusMouse
GlidePoint
GlidePointPS/2
IntelliMouse
IMPS/2
Logitech
Microsoft
MMHitTab
MMSeries
Mouseman
MouseManPlusPS/2
MouseSystems
NetMousePS/2
NetScrollPS/2
OSMouse
PS/2
SysMouse
ThinkingMouse
ThinkingMousePS/2
USB
Wsmouse
Xqueue
The other options commented out in the example are mostly only applicable for
making a 2 button mouse act like a three button mouse.
hope this helps!
Chris
In alt.os.linux Buschman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I am unable to start X windows. I get an error reffering to my mouse
: driver. How do I alter my mouse driver? I know there is a way to go
: through the x windows setup process.
: On a possibly related note I get an error trying to run timetool. It
: says "No display name and no $DISPLAY environement." Does this mean
: my display drivers are also flawed or something else all together?
: thanks for your advice,
: Buschman
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