Linux-Setup Digest #654, Volume #19 Tue, 19 Sep 00 22:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux Mail Server (Newsgroup Account)
Re: downgrading the kernel (Bill Hudson)
Re: Linux Mail Server (Newsgroup Account)
Re: tar date format (Bill Hudson)
Re: Win 2000 always find new hardware after using Linux ("Brian")
Re: Best time synch program for "official time" (Mike)
Re: Anonymous ftp help!! (Matthew Leinhos)
Re: downgrading the kernel (Thomas Hamm)
StarOffice and fax configuration ("Aleksander Starczewski")
Re: StarOffice and fax configuration
Re: Helpful Linux Links for Newbies ("Andrew P. Billyard")
Diff b/t Kernel RPM and compiling? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: boot question (KeithM)
Re: Partition Problems (KeithM)
Re: Directory Structure [ and other animals ] (KeithM)
FTP woes (john slimick)
Sharing swap space between windows and linux (JDoe)
Problems to configure sound in Soyo k7 via.... ("Luiz Cl�udio")
Re: downgrading the kernel (Paul Kimoto)
gdm_config_parse : Can't find the gdm group (gdm) Aborting! ("news.primusdsl.net")
Re: New Linux Install (A transfinite number of monkeys)
Increase memory to 128M ("Teck Meng, Liaw")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Newsgroup Account)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Mail Server
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 21:30:29 GMT
With qmail it is possible to set up many users without systems accounts.
See http://www.tibus.net/pgregg/projects/
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Raymond Doetjes wrote:
>Uhhm neither Linux nor FreeBSD or any other Unix system can hold 500.000 mailboxes
>and therefor users.
>The password wile can only handle 64K on users. thats no 500000 users!
>
>Raymond
>
>Phil wrote:
>
>> Dustin Puryear -[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]- spewed forth the following rubbish:
>> >On 28 Aug 2000 13:28:40 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil) wrote:
>> >>
>> >>Not necessarily, I've heard of a guy over in the Netherlands running postfix
>> >>(ok it's FreeBSD so I'm cheating a small bit) on a standalone box with 500,000
>> >>users.
>> >
>> >I assume you mean he is running Postfix on FreeBSD and not that
>> >Postfix only runs on FreeBSD since I have Postfix running quite nicely
>> >on Linux (and SCO OSR5).
>>
>> Yes, considering the guy was talking about Linux, talking about postfix
>> running on FreeBSD is cheating a small bit. I see no reason why Linux couldn't
>> do the same, but anyways, a standalone box for a mail server is probably
>> impractical, especially for that many users
>> Phil.
>
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From: Bill Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: downgrading the kernel
Date: 19 Sep 2000 21:37:29 GMT
The Unforgiven wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I needed to have a linux kernel version 2.0.x for certain work and was
> wondering if I could downgrade the kernel on a RH 6.2 installation and if
> yes how could it be done. Anybody done this kind of thing?
I think you'd be better off installing a prior rev rather than
downgrading the kernel, just so the libraries would match up.
--
Bill Hudson; Information Systems Manager; Robert Mann Packaging
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: (408) 848-5440 Voice-Mail: (800) 549-2265
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Newsgroup Account)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Mail Server
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 21:36:23 GMT
See my earlier post - you do not need systems accounts for 500000 users.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Raymond Doetjes wrote:
>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.
>
>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!
>
>Raymond
>
>Jason Ng wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What's the best mail server for Linux? I would like to support a large
>> population... above 500, 000. Any comments?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jason
>
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From: Bill Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tar date format
Date: 19 Sep 2000 21:42:07 GMT
Dmitry Litvintsev wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> sorry, it is a bit offtopic, but I'm desperate.
> I want to tar files which are newer than DATE. there is an option -
> 'newer'
>
> tar cvfz --newer=200001012359.59 fille.tgz *
>
> fails saying 'invalid date format'. What is the valid DATE format - man
> tar gives
> no clue. Anybody knows it?
>
> regards,
> Dmitry
tar -cvf /tmp/tmp.tar --newer 09/01/2000 *
--
Bill Hudson; Information Systems Manager; Robert Mann Packaging
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: (408) 848-5440 Voice-Mail: (800) 549-2265
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From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Win 2000 always find new hardware after using Linux
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:33:52 -0700
Just brainstorming, but it sounds like a plug and play problem. Maybe
Mandrake is resetting the PnP devices, and then Win2K is detecting them as
new devices because they are now using different resources?
Just a thought. I don't have any handy fix :(
Brian
"Oggie Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have installed Mandrake 7.1, dual booting with Win 2000 Pro. I
> installed Linux for doing some C++ programming for a CS course.
>
> Installation went fine, most of the things that I needed are working
> (no complain here). I can connect to the Internet using cable modem
> with NetGear FA310TX. I also have a second NIC card 3com 3c509b that
> works under Win 2000 but not with my Linux. However, I this is not an
> issue since I can connect to the Internet using my NetGear card and I
> don't need to get the 3com card working under Linux since I use it
> only for occasional files/printer sharing and ICS using Win 2000 to my
> laptop.
>
> The problem is every time after I finish using Linux and restart back
> to Win 2000 I can never connect to the Internet on the first reboot.
> Every time I boot back to Win 2000 from Linux, the hard drive works
> really hard and when finished Win 2000 always says that it has
> finished installing new devices and asks me if I want to restart the
> system.
>
> I have to restart Win 2000 before I can connect to the Internet again.
> This is a minor but annoying problem because my Win 2000 takes about 3
> minutes to fully reboot. Therefore, it takes me about 6-7 minutes to
> reboot twice in order to have a "working" Win 2000 system after using
> Linux.
>
> I have not been able to pin point what hardware or software causes
> this problem. Can anybody please point what might be the problem? Is
> it normal? What can I do to eliminate this problem?
>
> In the past, I have tried Corel Linux and Caldera eDesktop 2.4 and all
> caused similar problems with Win 2000 after using Linux. So, I am
> pretty sure the problem is not particular to Mandrake. I also tried
> Armed Linux beta 1.1 that resides on a FAT partition, and I did not
> have this problem. However, Armed Linux doesn't come g++ compiler that
> I need (or did I miss something here?).
>
> The following is my hardware/software configuration:
>
> Hardware:
> - Generic PC with Celeron 366 with 128MB
> - PC Chips M747 motherboard with onboard SIS 6326 video card 8MB
> - Built-in SoundPro 3D chip CIM8330 (disabled with a jumper;
> doesn't work with either Win 2000 and Linux)
> - Sound Blaster 16 ISA (PlugnPlay I guess ??)
> - Netgear FA310TX PCI NIC (connected to the external cable
> modem)
> - 3com 3c509b ISA NIC in PNP mode
> - Generic Lucent 56k PCI Win modem (I don't use this anymore,
> but is properly installed in Win 2000)
> - A Seagate 10GB IDE HD
> - A generic 40X IDE CD-ROM reader
> - HP 7500i CD-RW (IDE)
>
> Software:
> - Win 2000 Prof
> - Mandrake 7.1 Linux
> - Atguard 3.22 (I only use it to get rid ads; I don't use the
> firewall portion)
> - Zone Alarm
> - Nero 5.018 (No Adaptec software installed)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Oggie Lee
>
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From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.best,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best time synch program for "official time"
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:35:46 -0600
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:16:46 -0700, "Howard Williams"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
#Hi
#
#I need to synchronize a few servers on the network. I guess I'll use timed
#for synchronizing off of each other (unless someone can suggest an
#alternative) but I'm mostly curious as to how I can synchronize a "master"
#with the official US time clock, or Grenwich or somewhere. Please let me
#know at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
#Thank you
#
I like NTP. Chrony is also available out there.
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:31:38 -0600
From: Matthew Leinhos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anonymous ftp help!!
You should have a directory like /home/ftp/pub/uploads. This is where you
are supposed to be able to upload things. If you can't do that, then look
in /etc/ftpaccess and make sure the mode on uploads is 1777 (or something
like that).
Matt
On Sep 19, Don wrote: -----------------
Hi,
I've set up anonymous ftp on my RedHat 6.2 server. I can log into the
server no problem as user ftp but when I try to upload a file to
/home/ftp/pub, I get the following error message:
Permission denied on server. (Upload)
I'm sure that this ia a simple configuration problem.
--
WAR IS PEACE | Matthew Leinhos
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH | Colorado State University
--the Party | Computer Science, Mathematics
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Hamm)
Subject: Re: downgrading the kernel
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:42:21 +0000
Hi The!
19 Sep 00 14:50, you wrote to All:
TU> I needed to have a linux kernel version 2.0.x for certain work and was
TU> wondering if I could downgrade the kernel on a RH 6.2 installation and
TU> if yes how could it be done. Anybody done this kind of thing? Thanks,
? get the appropriate kernel source, compile it, then install the image?!
don't fortget to update lilo. straightforward. ;)
! hamm^frozen^tgdt
-+- http://www.frozenproductions.com
--- GoldED/LNX 3.0.1-dam2 - the original.
* Origin: Frozen Productions (2:2471/1445)
.. im technichen, mathematichen, physikalichen oder im rechnerichen
bereisch
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From: "Aleksander Starczewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: StarOffice and fax configuration
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 01:15:24 +0200
Hi
I want to send faxes from SO, but I don't know how. Could you help me?
Olek
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: StarOffice and fax configuration
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:10:31 GMT
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 01:15:24 +0200, Aleksander Starczewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>I want to send faxes from SO, but I don't know how. Could you help me?
You need separate fax software and an entry in your printcap file
for it.
SO has no fax capability except to generate documents that looks like faxes.
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From: "Andrew P. Billyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Helpful Linux Links for Newbies
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:11:51 GMT
Great idea! Perhaps you should include a link to www.dejanews.com where you
search previous discussions in these newsgroups.
Nisi wrote:
> There seems to be a whole lot of repetitive questions on the Linux
> newsgroups lately. Most deal with networking, installation, or DSL/Cable
> modems....because of this I have started to comprise a list of helpful links
> to sites that supply howto's and other articles.
> http://www.mindlessmayhem.com/links/linuxlinks.html
>
> It is still mainly under construction right now, but should be finished
> shortly.
>
> Nisi
> www.mindlessmayhem.com
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Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Diff b/t Kernel RPM and compiling?
Date: 19 Sep 2000 23:48:38 GMT
What's the difference between installing the RPM of a new kernel
vs. compiling my own from the source? Is it just that I get to choose
what's compiled into the kernel? (ie. I can specify what NOT to compile
in for a smaller/faster kernel?)
--
-T.
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From: KeithM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:53:57 +1000
Win98 overides the mbr (master boot record). This is where you
probably installed lilo.
You need to find a bootdisk and when your in, just run "lilo" again.
Have a hunt around on the net, you should be able to find a bootdisk.
I don't have any links for you, try freshmeat.net
Keith
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:12:23 -0500, "robert zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have both w98 and linux on my pc, now what happens is something went wrong
>with w98 and i had to reinstall it but after that i can't seem to boot into
>linux, the thing is i don't have the boot floppy disk (lost), could anyone
>give me help on that issue?
>
>thanks a lot!
>
>-robert
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From: KeithM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition Problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:57:08 +1000
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:06:42 +0200, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hanno B�ttcher wrote:
>>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> Following scenario:
>>
>> I have one 20 GB Harddisk (dev/hda). I want to install a
>> Multi-OS-System:
>>
>> Win98 (For Playing Games not running under Win2000 or Linux)
>> Win2000 (Playing and using programs only available for Windows)
>> Debian 2.2 (For all important things ;-))
>>
>> I would like to have Lilo as a boot loader in the MBA managing the start
>> process.
>> I need 3 primary system partitions:
>> Win98 (~2GB)
>> Win2000 (~3GB)
>> /boot (~10 MB)
>>
>> +
>>
>> Exchange Partition (Fat32) (~9 GB)
>> Linux Partitions (/, /var, /usr, /root).
>>
>> => I have to make about 8 Partitions, 5 Logical.
>> I tried this several times, but I always get problems with the Lilo. Can
>> anyone explain me the necessary rules for partitioning? It seems I'm to
>> silly to find it out myself :-((((((
>>
>> Thank you very much for helping a Newbie
>>
>> Hanno
>
>What exactly are the problems you're expiriencing with lilo?
>I ask this because of in what you told, I fail to see a problem.
>
>So if what I propose next is the same as you tried, report back with a
>more specified problem.
>
>You're partition-table should look like:
>/dev/hda1 (win98)
>/dev/hda2 (win2000)
>/dev/hda3 (/boot)
>/dev/hda4 (ext'd) -> containing /dev/hda5 (exchange partition)
> /dev/hda6 /
> /dev/hda7 /var
> /dev/hda8 /usr
> /dev/hda9 /root
>
>Oh yeah, I'd create a swap partition too if I were you
>
>And I/m not sure why you insist on having linux in the MBR, it'll be
>fine in /dev/hda3 where it cannot be overwritten by a win98/2000
>reinstall.
>From there you can boot both other OS's too, if you'd like that.
>You may also want to read a howto on partitioning.
and make sure your using the latest version of lilo for support beyond
1280 cylinders.
Keith
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From: KeithM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Directory Structure [ and other animals ]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:05:34 +1000
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 18:08:56 +0100, "Ian Henderson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>A few problems while setting up Linux Red Hat on 2 machines. Hope someone
>can help. both pc's were set up in the same way using an identical startup
>disk and cd with the same choices made.
>
>
>1] On 1 pc the x-windows and xconfigurator are located & run from
>/usr/X11R6/bin/ and on the other they are located in /usr/X11/bin/ . on
>the latter pc I can run it from ./X11/bin/ and ./X11R6/bin/ . the confusing
>thing is that my book [ Linux for dummies.. say no more ] that I got the cd
>with Linux on states that this should be run from /usr/bin/X11/ . This
>subdirectory does not appear to exist????? Well all I can say is that this
>has completely fox'd me. Any advice out there?
X11 is usually a sym link to X11R6. Symbolic links should be covered
somewhere in your book.
>
>2] I read somewhere [ naturally I cannot find the page on the internet now
>and like a fool I didn't bookmark it ] that my Voodoo 3 3dfx would be
>recognised by xfree86. It gave instructions on doing everything necessary to
>get this working. I think I have done it correctly but can anyone point me
>in the correct direction for the page again?
>
Try www.xfree86.org This probably isn't the page you went to but you
should be able to find the info here or maybe a link. Otherwise do a
search.
>3] [ Oh don't I go on ] i have a Samsung 570B TFT screen and when trying to
>launch X-Windows it goes through the motions and gives me a message on the
>screen that it cannot find a screen. A bit bizaar for a first time Linux
>user but I guess I didnt program it right. have tried a multitude of
>different ways but getting nowhere. HELP!!!!
>
I haven't seen this myself, maybe someone else can answer this one.
>Regards
>
>Ian Henderson
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (john slimick)
Subject: FTP woes
Date: 20 Sep 2000 00:49:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help:
I have a RH 6.2 system (recent upgrade
from RH 6.0) that has this curious
anomaly: ftp outbound from the system
runs at typical speed for our network
(1500 to 2000 Bytes/second), but inbound
ftp is very much slower -- like
a few hundred bytes per second.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
john slimick
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: JDoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.redhat,alt.os.linux
Subject: Sharing swap space between windows and linux
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 01:00:46 GMT
Hi all,
I came across this ancient howto on how to share the swap
partition between windows and linux.
However, this howto is all about the 1.1.x kernel and dos 5 with
win 3.1
I have not been able to find an updated version (if one even exists).
I would like to know if anyone has ever tried this (and got it to
work) or if anyone knows of a newer version of this howto.
Thanks
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From: "Luiz Cl�udio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems to configure sound in Soyo k7 via....
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 22:11:51 -0300
I�m triyng configure the sound onboard (via 8xx pci ) in a sistem with
kernel 2.2.14-19.... the sndconfig found the board but don�t play nothing
:^(
Any one can help me???
Luiz Claudio ( from Brazil )
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: downgrading the kernel
Date: 19 Sep 2000 21:27:15 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Hudson wrote:
> The Unforgiven wrote:
>> I needed to have a linux kernel version 2.0.x for certain work and was
>> wondering if I could downgrade the kernel on a RH 6.2 installation and if
>> yes how could it be done. Anybody done this kind of thing?
> I think you'd be better off installing a prior rev rather than
> downgrading the kernel, just so the libraries would match up.
Which libraries affect the kernel?!
--
Paul Kimoto
This message was originally posted in plain text. Any images,
hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my
consent, and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: "news.primusdsl.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gdm_config_parse : Can't find the gdm group (gdm) Aborting!
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:34:38 -0700
I get this error on the console once the system boots.
AAARGH! X died on me once and asked if I wanted to delete some file (now I
can see it was a critical one!!). Any idea how to recover / what to add /
put back in?
MANY THANKS FOR ANY HELP.
Rich Biby
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A transfinite number of monkeys)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: New Linux Install
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:01:57 GMT
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:51:45 -0400,
James M. Luongo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I plan on installing Linux Mandrake 7.1 for the first time. I need some
: help. How big should the partitions be? And, I heard something about
: LiLo not recognizing a Linux partition after a certain disk cylinder (or
: sector, whatever). I think it was 1023, but I'm not sure. Is this
: true? Help!
Since you're installing Mandrake 7.1, the 1024 cylinder limit is a
non-factor. Why? It uses grub for its bootloader, so no 1024 cylinder
limit..
--
Jason Costomiris <>< | Technologist, geek, human.
jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org | http://www.jasons.org/
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From: "Teck Meng, Liaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Increase memory to 128M
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 18:07:32 +0800
Hi!
I have install RedHat 6.2 with 64M ram, now I have upgrade the server
to128M, how do I change the system configuration to utilize all there 128M?
Any help is appreciate.
Teck Meng, Liaw
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