Linux-Setup Digest #530, Volume #19 Fri, 1 Sep 00 09:13:10 EDT
Contents:
??too many open files apache not starting ("!!Tonnere de Brest")
Suse-Linux 7.0 on Compaq Proliant 1000 ("Jochen")
Re: MDK 7.1 - 650MB HD enough? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Restaurant Booking System (Richard Horton)
binaries that won't execute (Steve Wright)
Re: Linux Mail Server (Paul Flinders)
MIGRATION: MAC to linux-samba ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Graphic Problems (Torsten Evers)
Re: binaries that won't execute (jan)
Ftp file missing ("Help Desk")
Re: Bios damaged when i tried to install Linux Mandrake on my Laptop (David Efflandt)
Inst. Asus A7V with ATA00-Disks (Walter Egli)
Installing Red Hat 6.2 on GA-6VXE7+ M/B ("Rhett")
Re: How to increase clock limits (David Efflandt)
Re: Yamaha YMF-214/OPL3-SAX in Linux (David Efflandt)
Re: binaries that won't execute (Steve Martin)
best install for 2 HD dual boot? (mark)
Re: best install for 2 HD dual boot? (Black Dragon)
Re: Playing music CDs, No sound ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Fetchmail ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux Mail Server (Chris Stratford)
Re: Installing hdparm utility (and compiling it) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "!!Tonnere de Brest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: ??too many open files apache not starting
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 00:30:43 -0700
Reply-To: sii@bilow
I had this problem before and I increased the limit on open files:
limit openfiles 100000 ; limit descriptors 100000
(this fixed the problem for a while, however now it is not working)
can this be automatically set up at boot time Before any of the daemons start?
currently apache (httpd)is not starting. I am also getting errors like:
Subject:
Cron <root@ns1> /sbin/rmmod -as
Date:
Thu, 31 Aug 2000 18:59:56 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon)
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
/bin/sh: /sbin/rmmod: Too many open files in system
Also, does linuxppc support firewire and hot swappable firewire disks.
Also, are there public ntp servers that one can use to synchronize the time on
a machine attached to the internet.
Thank you very much.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Thanks, Ghaouar Camij Toschian,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], 510 5408013, 2500 Durant # 310, Bk, CA
94704
http://www.domainmart.net/InternetAccess/buildings.htm
http://www.istanbulexpress.com/oldsite/sweetener.html
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Visualize that peoples' civic duties do NOT include having to breathe the
smoke from cigarettes.
Visualize that astrologers, fortune tellers, tarot card readers, psychics and
palm readers are Crooks, Fools or Both.
Visualize using the Metric System.
Visualize that Skepticism is a virtue and that faith is NOT.
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From: "Jochen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Suse-Linux 7.0 on Compaq Proliant 1000
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 09:51:05 +0200
Hello,
I am a Linux newbie and I'm trying to install Sus Linux 7.0 on the above
mentioned machine which has a Compaq Smart-Array Controller on IRQ 14 and an
integrated Fast-SCSI-2 Controller with a Compaq CD-503BCQ CD-rom attached to
it.
Unfortunately Linux doesn't recognize the CD-rom.
Any hints for me??
Thanks in advance
Jochen
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: MDK 7.1 - 650MB HD enough?
Date: 1 Sep 2000 08:29:57 GMT
In alt.os.linux.mandrake Richard F. Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: an older distro of Mandrake may fit or try Red Hat (eww)
: "root b33r" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
: news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
:> Gerardo wrote:
:> > I have a laptop with Win98 SE (1.2 Gig HD) that has about 650 to 700 MB left
:> > in the harddrive. Is that enough for a decent MDK 7.1 installation?
You need to be an expert. A debian install starts at 40MB (and
runs to 3GB). My Slackware 7 is at about 1.2GB all in. My slackware
3.0 on the lil 486 laptop is at 60MB including X and compilers.
I've done a useful workstation setup (networking, plus editor and so
on) in 4MB in the past, and I easily cut down a debian the other day
to 8MB and didn't miss anything from it as a client.
You'll have to pick out your favorite or useful packages and install
them. I would guess that about 200MB should be plenty.
Peter
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From: Richard Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Restaurant Booking System
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 09:48:32 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 01 Sep 2000 00:44:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher
Browne) wrote:
>Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Ian Briggs would say:
>>Darren Paxton wrote:
>>:I work for a restaurant chain based in Glasgow, Scotland, and we would like
>>:to introduce some form of online restaurant booking system to our website.
>>
>>I have vague memories of seeing some kind of pizza-shop software -- I
>>think at Linuxberg or somewhere like that. I've no idea what it does.
>
>The "Pizza app" was for managing pizza shop _sales_. Probably of
>limited usefulness to what is essentially a scheduling application.
>
>I don't think there's any "generic" web-based booking system for
>restaurants yet, not as free software, anyways.
To be honest wouldn't the best method be a) get a book on Perl and
MySQL (assuming your host supports it) and do it yourself or b) see
how much it would cost to get your host isp to do it if possible.
Sorry about the out of order reply but I can't get back to the
original post since I cleared some space... ack.
--
All opinions are my own and are not in any way meant to represent those of my employer.
Richard Horton.
"Users are like bacteria - each one causing a thousand tiny crises until the host
finally dies..."
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From: Steve Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: binaries that won't execute
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 09:52:47 +0000
Hi,
Why won't linux run this binary?
>Peanut-Linux:/usr/bin# ls wish* -al
>rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 3 2000 wish -> wish8.0
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 441063 Dec 2 1997 wish8.0
>
>Peanut-Linux:/usr/bin# wish
>bash: /usr/bin/wish: No such file or directory
>Peanut-Linux:/usr/bin# wish8.0
>bash: /usr/bin/wish8.0: No such file or directory
>Peanut-Linux:/usr/bin#
>
>Peanut-Linux:~# cat /proc/2/!exe
<cat /proc/2/exec wish "./setup.tk"
>cat: /proc/2/exec: No such file or directory
>cat: wish: No such file or directory
>cat: ./setup.tk: No such file or directory
>Peanut-Linux:~#
tia
Steve
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From: Paul Flinders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Mail Server
Date: 01 Sep 2000 10:08:19 +0100
> Uhhm neither Linux nor FreeBSD or any other Unix system can hold
> 500.000 mailboxes and therefor users.
<sarcasm>so what can, NT perhaps?</sarcasm>
FYI most modern versions of Unix have 32bit UIDs so can support 4
billion accounts, Linux does/will from 2.4 onwards.
In any event that supposes that everyone with a mailbox on the server
needs a Unix account which does not _need_ to be the case.
> The password wile can only handle 64K on users. thats no 500000 users!
You're correct about this at least, you _do_ need to move away from a
flat file with large numbers of users (probably before you have 64,000
of them) but again there are options such as PAM+RADIUS or PAM+MySQL
which allow the user lookups to scale.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: MIGRATION: MAC to linux-samba
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 09:25:25 GMT
MIGRATION: MAC to linux-samba
hello all,
I am running now a mac server file with 15 GO of data.
The name files in MAC server are long and they contain spaces....
something like: "1548754 PLG test 1998".
I would like to transfer all that 15 Go DATA to my new samba server
running mandrake 7.1 without losting something....
I feel that these spaces in file names will cause me a lot of
troubles...Transfering 15 GO of data is another prob (what could be the
better way to do it?)
what could be the right way to do such stuff ( transfering and keeping
the file and their names inaltered during the transfert)
A lot of thanks for your help
vuru
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From: Torsten Evers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Graphic Problems
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 09:54:42 +0200
Reply-To: Torsten Evers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi !
Ignasi Villagrasa schrieb:
>
> I'm running Red Hat Linux 6.2 in a ERA 2000S NetBook. The graphic card
> is C&T 65555. Xconfigurator recognizes it without problems, and I
> configure parameters.
[...]
> I'd be very glad if someone could help me.
>
> Ignasi Villagrasa. GRI S.L.
Try using the sw_cursor option (man XF86_SVGA).
Bye,
Torsten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jan)
Subject: Re: binaries that won't execute
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:00:06 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Wright wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Why won't linux run this binary?
>
>>Peanut-Linux:/usr/bin# ls wish* -al
>>rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 3 2000 wish -> wish8.0
>>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 441063 Dec 2 1997 wish8.0
>>
>>Peanut-Linux:/usr/bin# wish
>>bash: /usr/bin/wish: No such file or directory
>>Peanut-Linux:/usr/bin# wish8.0
>>bash: /usr/bin/wish8.0: No such file or directory
>>Peanut-Linux:/usr/bin#
erm. I assume you've tried:
Peanut-Linux:/usr/bin# ./wish
jan
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From: "Help Desk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ftp file missing
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 21:44:48 +1000
Hi Group,
I have installed RH 6.1 Linux (about 4 months ago)and everything was working
OK. Installed Apache and Front Page Extensions, these worked OK as well. Was
able to publish my web pages to Linux, use FTP etc.
Sometime in the last month, FTP has stopped running and no longer allows me
to connect from any machine to the Linux box. I checked the inetd.conf
file and it says it will daemon in.ftpd but I cannot locate this file on
my machine. Is in.ftpd indeed required, or is something else causing the
problem.
Regards
Noel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Bios damaged when i tried to install Linux Mandrake on my Laptop
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:50:09 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:21:09 +0200, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Michael Yuan wrote:
>>
>> Tomas:
>> I also think it might be a boot virus, check
>> http://www.avpve.com/viruses/classification/2boot_vi.html for the
>> explanation of boot virus.
>>
>> David:
>> if you put LILO on a partition, will you be able to choose which OS to boot
>> at system power on? thanks
>
>I'm not david but I'll answer it for him ;-)
>Yes, you can, just make that partition the active one, and for the rest
>there are no differences.
>
>Eric
The active boot partition can be set with either Linux fdisk or Windows
FDISK. I typically boot to the partition containing LILO, from which I
can select any OS, but Phoenix BIOS hyberination only works when booting
from the Win98se partition. My MBR is whatever Win98se put there.
For example in the lilo.conf below I can boot to 'windows' from LILO or I
can change the active boot partition to hda1 and boot to Win98 with the
config under the 'winboot' label (I have to use Win FDISK to switch it
back to LILO):
boot=/dev/hda2
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/hda1
label=winboot
table=/dev/hda
change
partition=/dev/hda1
activate
partition=/dev/hda2
deactivate
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
append=""
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdk
label=linux-old
root=/dev/hda5
append=""
read-only
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From: Walter Egli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Inst. Asus A7V with ATA00-Disks
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 12:56:42 +0200
Is there any possibility to install Linux
on a PC with a ASUS A7V Mainboard and
ATA100 Harddisks?
Regards
Walter Egli
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From: "Rhett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Red Hat 6.2 on GA-6VXE7+ M/B
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 20:59:04 +1000
Hello People,
Can anyone tell me why when after Red Hat Linux install is just about
finished files a message comes up mentioning a "Segmentation Fault"
involving "Python"? Everything used to install fine (with the same CD and
everything), but I have upgrade my M/B to a GA-6VXE7+, Celeron 533, and 128
meg of RAM.
After I try to reboot, Instead of getting the LILO prompt, I just get "LI"
Please Help!
~Rhett
PS Could you please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: How to increase clock limits
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:07:05 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:40:18 +0200, Bingfeng Mei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just installed a RedHat6.2 on my Dell GX110, which employ 810e
>motherboad.
>Now there is a problem. I want the XServer run at 1280X1024 X 85 Hz. But
>the system
>always report fatal error, which said the clock frequence (about 157
>MHz) had execeed
>configured limit (128 MHz). My monitor(P790) and graphic card all
>support this resolution
>and refresh rate. But where can I modify this limit (128 MHz)? I spend
>much time to look
>for where this limit is located, but failed. Who can tell me? Thank you.
/etc/X11/XF86Config under Section "Monitor" something like:
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-180
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Yamaha YMF-214/OPL3-SAX in Linux
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:25:31 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:28:58 -0400, Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to use a noname sound card that has the Yamaha DS-XG chip
>on board with RedHat 6.2. When I run sndconfig, it finds it as a yamaha
>YMF-214 or something like that, and then says that the card isn't
>supported. Does anyone know how I can find a driver for this thing or
>talk sndconfig into letting me keep it but select a different driver
>that will work with it?
>
>Thanks,
>Kevin
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.alsa-project.org/ free
http://www.opensound.com/ easier for a fee
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: binaries that won't execute
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 11:29:45 GMT
jan wrote:
> >Why won't linux run this binary?
> >
> >>Peanut-Linux:/usr/bin# ls wish* -al
> >>rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 3 2000 wish -> wish8.0
> >>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 441063 Dec 2 1997 wish8.0
> erm. I assume you've tried:
>
> Peanut-Linux:/usr/bin# ./wish
I notice that you're logged in as "root" or have su'd to superuser
status (the "#" prompt). Most Linux distros I've encountered do
not include the current directory (".") in the PATH. That means
that you explicitly have to indicate (as shown above) the current
path when logged in as root. Try running wish as a regular user.
/usr/bin/ is normally in the path for regular users; you can confirm
that by typing "echo $PATH".
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From: mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: best install for 2 HD dual boot?
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 11:29:04 GMT
My situation: I maintain a 600 page web site and need to learn the unix
system to improve it's functionality (procmail, mySQL, etc.). I have
purchased RedHat6.2 and a 6G-HD for my Pentium-Pro PC. What is the best way
to install Redhat so that I can switch (fairly easy) between WIN98 and
RedHat? (keeping in mind that my experimenting may cause accidents that
better not effect the WIN98 side)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: best install for 2 HD dual boot?
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 11:43:41 GMT
On Fri, 01 Sep 2000 11:29:04 GMT in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `mark' said:
>My situation: I maintain a 600 page web site and need to learn the unix
>system to improve it's functionality (procmail, mySQL, etc.). I have
>purchased RedHat6.2 and a 6G-HD for my Pentium-Pro PC. What is the best way
>to install Redhat so that I can switch (fairly easy) between WIN98 and
>RedHat?
I was going to answer this. . .
>(keeping in mind that my experimenting may cause accidents that
>better not effect the WIN98 side)
but I do not like your attitude.
--
Black Dragon
"Resist militant `normality' -- A mind is a terrible thing to erase."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Playing music CDs, No sound
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 12:13:17 GMT
Alright, I've checked this now. The "loopback" option is off.
The only channels I have ON are:
Master Volume
PCM
PC Speaker
CD
Video
Playing WAV/mpeg3 files works fine with these five channels (it
works also with just the first two alone).
All other channels are off. Channels like Line,Input Gain, Phone, Mic
etc don't affect the music playing.
There's still no sound from the CD.
I've noticed the CD icon doesn't appear on the desktop when there's
a music CD in the drive. And if I change directory to /mnt/cdrom
and do an ls, nothing shows up.
If I try mount /dev/cdrom I get
mount: Wrong medium type
I don't know if this has anything to do with the problem.
However, both XMMS and the Gnome CD player are able to see
the CD tracks, and seem to be playing them even though there's
no sound.
T.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Rankin <au.zipworld.com@{no.spam}rankinc> wrote:
>
> Be careful when turning *everything* on; mine had a "loopback" option
> which effectively silenced the sound-chip when enabled. Make sure that
> you can still play WAV files before you try playing CDs.
>
> Chris
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fetchmail
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 12:21:47 GMT
After upgrading from Debian slink to potato I have a strange problem
with fetchmail: it connects very fast to the pop server of my provider but
it stops for about a minute when it try to connect to the mail server of
my computer (Exim): I don't know if the problem is caused by exim or
fetchmail, but it's very annoying.
After connecting to exim fetchmail go on very fast download my mail
This is the output of fetchmail -vvv
[CUT]
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
reading message 1 of 7 (3542 octets)
*************** STOP FOR ABOUT 1 MINUTE ***************
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 <my_computer_name> ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Sat, 26
Aug 2000 18:55:38 +0200
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-<my_computer_name> Hello root at localhost
[127.0.0.1]
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP
fetchmail: forwarding to localhost
[CUT]
and this is the output of strace
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}, NULL) = 0
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={300, 0}}, NULL) =
0
socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 5
connect(5, {sin_family=AF_UNIX, path="
/var/run/.nscd_socket"}, 110) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused)
close(5) = 0
open("/etc/hosts", O_RDONLY) = 5
fcntl(5, F_GETFD) = 0
fcntl(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
fstat(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=152, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x4001a000
read(5, "127.0.0.1\tlocalhost\n127.0.0.1\tli"..., 4096) = 152
close(5) = 0
munmap(0x4001a000, 4096) = 0
socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 5
connect(5, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(25),
sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}}, 16) = 0
recv(5,
***************** STOP FOR ABOUT 1 MINUTE ********************
"220 <my_computer_name> ESMT"..., 8190, MSG_PEEK) = 80
read(5, "220 <my_computer_name> ESMT"..., 80) = 80
write(1, "fetchmail: SMTP< 220 <my_compu"..., 96fetchmail: SMTP< 220
<my_computer_name> ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:25:59
+0200
) = 96
write(5, "EHLO localhost\r\n", 16) = 16
then it's download mail (very fast)
if I do "telnet localhost 25", exim answer me very fast.
I cannot figure where is the problem.
Any idea?
thanks
PS: <my_computer_name> stands for the name of my computer :)
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C.d.L in ingegneria elettronica |it's better when it's free
Universita' di Trieste |Linux. The Internet operating system
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Stratford)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Mail Server
Date: 1 Sep 2000 12:55:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am completly ammused by people pointing to sever SMTP MTA's without
> seeing the big picture (except for the last person).
>
> 500000 user accounts is almost impossible (specially on linux it stops ad
> user account 65535).
> Imagine the amount of diskspace you need and teh ammount of INodes.
The original poster just said he wanted to support a large
population. He never said anything about them being particularly
active users. If you have 500,000 accounts but the user-base doesn't
send or receive much mail, one machine is quite possible (although
having been through this sort of problem in the past I'd not want to
run it on anything less than 10 machines - and even that might be a
bit tricky to work reliably.)
> I think you are way out of your league with Linux. Now you are only
> talking about SMTP what about pop3 which is a real resource hog when it
> comes to collecting mail! 1 systems is not enough!
Again, we don't know what his requirements are, so POP3 may not come
into the equation (but if it does, you're quite correct.)
On the MTA front, I'd go for either Sendmail or Postfix. Sendmail's
big and cumbersome, but it will do pretty much everything you'd need.
postfix is much smaller and easier to use, but more limiting with what
you can do with it. I'd avoid Qmail if at all possible - it has
definite problems when things get that large.
Chris.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installing hdparm utility (and compiling it)
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 12:48:46 GMT
Colin, Thank you for your help. The best thing I should do could be to
find some ".DEB" packages (at debian.org I think) and try to use them
with the integrated tool "COREL Update" (under KDE), provided by COREL.
To answer to your first question, COREL doesn't seem to provide any
MAKE or hdparm or things like that.
Have a nice week end
Damien
In article <8omhj6$stc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I'w working on COREL LINUX 2.2.12
> >
> >In order to use hdparm utility (to increase transfert speed on my
hard
> >disk) I've downloaded that tool (from sun site).
>
> Corel is based on Debian, and Debian has a package of hdparm. Does
Corel
> not have this?
>
> >I've made the "tar" and it created me a complete directory
> >(/usr/src/hdparm-3.9) with hdparm.c, hdparm.8, Makefile, etc ...
> >After that I should process a "make" order but I don't succeed in
doing
> >it (because there seems to be no "make" on my PC).
>
> So a reasonable thing to assume would be that you'll need to install
> one. Install the make package. You'll also need at least gcc and
> libc6-dev. You really will need a reasonable number of the development
> packages in Corel if you plan to compile your own software.
>
> --
> Colin Watson
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> "And after the fire there came a still small voice ..."
>
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