Linux-Setup Digest #664, Volume #19 Thu, 21 Sep 00 10:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Getting started ("Jonno")
Re: Can't login! Was I cracked? ("Jake")
Re: Signal 11 from install disk ("Falcon")
ide+scsi raid-1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: exceed and redhat (Bit Twister)
halt reboot for users (Thorsten Gutermuth)
easey peasey questions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: NEW NVIDIA DRIVERS (Warning) ("Stig S�rensen")
Re: Intel Binary Compatability Standard - iBCS (Lew Pitcher)
lilo problem (Brett)
Re: Linux Mandrake 7.0 & 7.1 Install Failure - Is There a Fix? (Bruce LaZerte)
Re: PPP on mandrake 7.0 ("Tony Neville")
Reinstall Question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Reinstall Question (Frank Elsner)
Re: Reinstall Question (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
POP3 & SMTP (Shell Hung)
Re: Modifying RedHat 6.2 install image - problems (Larry Williamson)
Re: RH6.2 PCMCIA Network card (Peter Bloomfield)
Re: Recognizing 3com 3c905c NICs Wtih FloppyFW ("kjbecker")
Re: What's the best Linux MP3 encode ? (Martin Ruckert)
Re: cable modem setup (Kevin Croxen)
Re: POP3 & SMTP (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
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From: "Jonno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Getting started
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:34:58 +0100
I'm running a 1.2gb hard drive, with a pentium 133 and 32mgs of RAM. Can
anyone tell me the best How-to's to look through and what version of linux
would suit if I wanted to dual boot the machine with Windows 98.
Jonno
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From: "Jake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Can't login! Was I cracked?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:59:08 GMT
Bill Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8qca34$ks5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> When the LILO prompt come on at bootup enter
> linux 1
> (ie do not let it boot up by itself)
> Now, you will be dumped into a console as root.
> edit /etc/inittab and change the line
> id:5:initdefault:
> to
> id:3:initdefault:
Check /etc/password for new entries and /root/.bash_history
for unaccounted commands run by root. The root-kits used
by the script kiddies tend to forget about .bash_history
I'm not saying you were rooted but it's a possibility.
Exploits on Bind and WU-FTPD (if unpatched) are all the
rage this past month or two.
Some reading for good measure.
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/host_security_article-1585.html
Not sure what security measure you had taken before the problems.
Jake
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From: "Falcon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Signal 11 from install disk
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:07:30 +0200
For me was a SIMM memory module , look in http://freshmeat.net for a memory
checker.
"Thomas Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi� en el mensaje
news:9G4y5.12703$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Anyone know how to get around a Signal 11 error when booting from the
Redhat
> 6.2 install disk? It is on an Athlon 800 and ASUS mb.
>
> Thanks...
> Thomas
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: ide+scsi raid-1
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:50:19 GMT
hi,
i would like to install rh6.2 with a raid-1 on both hard disks.
(scsi+ide)
scsi 18Gb and ide 20Gb.
i would like to make a bootable raid-1.
how can i make the partitions???
on the raid (scsi and ide)
/boot
/
/usr
/var
/home
swap
just in ide:
/backup
is that ok??
do i need any upgrade the rh6.2 to do that?????
thanks in advance,
marcos
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: exceed and redhat
Reply-To: This_news_group.invalid
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:49:34 GMT
Change "Enable=1" in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
Add exceed host to /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess and /etc/hosts
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:29:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i have exceed 6.1 and redhat 6.2,
>when i set my host in exceed-xdmcp, i try running exceed, but the list
>of hosts don't show up, is there a way to tell whether i can xterm to
>my linux box? are there any daemons that i need to run, etc?
>thanks
>Dean
>
--
The warranty and liability expired as you read this message.
If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
Do a, man command_here or cat command_here, before using it.
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From: Thorsten Gutermuth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: halt reboot for users
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 12:20:39 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
I would like to be able to use halt and other commands as a user. So I had a
look in my suse 6.0 book, but coudn't find anything.
Thanks in advance
Thorsten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: easey peasey questions
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:47:45 GMT
1. what is the best software for mounting my psion revo on my linux OS.
(yes I have read PSION How To)
2. Is there anything that downloads the pictures from my digital
camera (Olympus C420L)
3. Is there any way to get my cheap winmodem (connexant HCF) to work?
4. if Q3 is no, would an AMR modem be any better?
5. Any software out there like Mathcad?
6. any software out there for 3D drafting (I'm a design engineer)?
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Before you buy.
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From: "Stig S�rensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: NEW NVIDIA DRIVERS (Warning)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:25:34 +0200
Hi All!
I have just installed XFree86-4.0.1 from the RedHat RuffPack RPM's, on top
of a RH6.2 setup (OK, I took the SRC.RPM and compiled my own RPM's to get
rid of problems with me having older Glibc libs 'n' stuff). Installed the
NVIDIA_kernel/glx RPM's and everything is working without flaws (haven't
spotted any yet, knock on wood).
Here is my setup:
Celeron-A 300@450mhz
MSI-6119 Mobo (old, but cool mobo, MicroStar Kicks A.... bigtime!)
128Mb PC100 RAM
Asus V3400TNT, w. 16mb SDRAM
SMC Etherpower II 10/100 NIC
RH6.2
kernel 2.2.17
XFree86-4.0.1
NVIDIA kernel/glx-0.9-5
My only real problem (except from XF86Config beeing "blended" since X-3.3.6
;-)) was that the SDRAM on my Asus TNT was not autodetected, causing X to
freeze the system. Recompiling the kernel RPM with the fix from Nvidias TNT
Readme (Hardcoding SDRAM into the kernel module) fixed the problem.
-Just thought I'd add my experience with Nvidia's drivers to the statistics.
Regards
/Stig
<moonie>; ")" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Stuart Levy wrote:
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>Hate to burst your bubble but its not the drivers themselves, I have VIA
> >>chipset with K6-III/450 running ATA/66 with DMA and all the
optimizations
> >>running with XFree86 4.0, Nvidia .94's on a TNT2U. Same with my friends
C300
> >>with TNT. My sons system doesn't like (locks up on boot up) the
optimizations
> >>(pcchips mobo, going to replace it soon with the 503a like mine) with or
> >>without XFree86 4.0/.94 nvidia.
> >>--
> >>moonie ;)
> >
> >It's hard to see how you can claim that there must be no problem with the
> >drivers themselves, just because they work for you!
> >
> >Of course I wouldn't want to be in NVidia's position trying to support
> >all combinations of motherboard and NVidia-based cards.
> >
> >I was interested to see, in a tomshardware.com review of 3D cards
> >with NV Linux drivers, that he encountered one of the same symptoms I
had:
> >a scrolling text window could freeze, apparently in mid-bitblt
> >(or perhaps after one of several bitblt's needed for scrolling?),
> >only to resume when he touched the mouse! This often happened to me,
> >and when lockups occurred it was usually the immediate precedent.
> >
> > Stuart Levy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> What can I say, I had no trouble from 3 different chipset mobo's (Intel
LX, VIA
> MVP3, TXPro), 3 different manufacurers of processors (Intel C300, AMD
> K6-III/450, Cyrix PR233), 3 different chipset cards (TNT, TNT2U, TNT2
M64),
> and 2 different kernels (2.2.14, 2.4.0-test5). Now I understand that this
> isn't a comprehensive list of all combinations available, but I do believe
it
> is a pretty good cross section of them.
> --
> moonie ;)
>
> Registered Linux User #175104
> http://counter.li.org
>
> KDE2
> Kernel 2.4.0-test5
> XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
> RAID 0 Striped
> Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Intel Binary Compatability Standard - iBCS
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:18 GMT
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:39:04 -0400, Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Stephen Scattergood wrote:
>>
>> I have an app which insists that iBCS be installed so that it can run under
>> Linux.
>> Does anyone know how to tell if this "package" is installed, especially in
>> Mandrake 7.1?
>
>Look in your /lib/modules/*/misc directory for an iBCS.o module.
>Or you can just modprobe iBCS
>Or you can look in /proc/modules for iBCS (to see if it was loaded)
>Or, if you use RPM, you can check for it's install signature (I don't
>use RPM, so I can't tell you _how_ to check RPM)
If you don't have iBCS anywhere on your system, it can be downloaded
from ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/BETA/ibcs2/ibcs-2.1-981105.tar.gz
>> Also, where can I find out more info on just what this standard is?
>
>From the iBCS readme...
> iBCS Emulation for Linux
>
>
> The Intel Binary Compatibility Specification, or iBCS, specifies the
> interfaces between application programs and the surrounding
>operating
> system environment for i386 based systems. There are however several
> flavours of iBCS in use - SVR4, SVR3 plus several vendor specific
> extensions to SVR3 which are slightly different and incompatible.
>The
> iBCS emulator for Linux supports all flavours known so far.
>
>and
>
> REFERENCES
>
> The Intel Binary Compatibility Specification, version 2 is described
>in
> the "McGraw Hill book".
>
> Intel Binary Compatibility Specification
> McGraw-Hill, Inc.
> 1221 Avenue of the Americas
> New York, NY 10020
> ISBN 0-07-031219-2
>
>
>> Thanks in advance
>
>--
>Lew Pitcher
>
>Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lilo problem
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 07:55:58 -0400
I had mandrake 7.1 installed alongside win2k. I was using grub as a
bootmanager (On the install it asked if I would like to place it in a
file or in the mbr, and I said in a file) I removed mandrake and
installed RH6.2. Now whenever I try to boot it says 'stage1' like it's
booting from grub, then hangs. If I boot to rh using a boot disk and
then run lilo and restart I get the same problem. Do you know where
grub is or how I can get rid of it?
thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce LaZerte)
Subject: Re: Linux Mandrake 7.0 & 7.1 Install Failure - Is There a Fix?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:53:59 GMT
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 03:27:51, Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > The Mandrake web site has a patch for V7.1 install failures.
> > Maybe it will help...
>
> No help. "Basic package missing" seems to be the most commonly repeated
> message.
Hmmmm... that's strange. Perhaps the Mandrake "Expert" mail list can help.
And of course if you bought the dist. from Mandrake there's installation
support for a certain time period.
======================
Bruce LaZerte
Muskoka,Ontario,Canada
mail at fwr dot on dot ca
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From: "Tony Neville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP on mandrake 7.0
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 00:26:10 +1200
"Zhihui Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Pine.GSO.BU-L4.10.10009162010040.7722-100000@bingsun2...
>
> I try to configure PPP on Mandrake 7.0 on Dell Inspiron 5000 portable. It
> gives me the following information:
>
> Sep 16 19:38:14 localhost ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/modem at
> 115200
> Sep 16 19:38:14 localhost modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108
I extracted the following from "/usr/doc/ppp*/README.linux" on my
RedHat 6.2 installation. It just looks relevant to the problem you're
having.
" To talk to the new driver, pppd needs to be able to open /dev/ppp,
character device (108,0). If the special file node /dev/ppp is not
present, pppd will create it. However, if you are running with /dev
on a read-only filesystem, pppd will not be able to create /dev/ppp.
In that instance you should manually create /dev/ppp using the command
`mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0'."
That would be 'mknod /dev/ppp0 c 108 0' in your case.
Incidently; from GNOME I use 'RH Dialer' to connect to my
intenet provider. RH Dialer uses ppp, and the pppd was
certainly up and running, yet I found no /dev/ppp* listed.
Maybe pppd for mandrake does things a little differently.
Cheers,
Tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Reinstall Question
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 12:46:23 GMT
Hi, I am thinking of reinstalling Windows 98 SE on my dual boot machine
and I was wondering if anybody knows if it will write over the boot
sector and make my Linux unbootable. If it does that, does anybody know
what I should do to put LILO back there without having to reinstall the
Linux all over again, I've got Red Hat 6.1 on a 350Mhz Amd-K6 Compaq.
Thanks
Peter
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Before you buy.
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From: Frank Elsner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Reinstall Question
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:31:50 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I am thinking of reinstalling Windows 98 SE on my dual boot machine
> and I was wondering if anybody knows if it will write over the boot
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yes, definitly.
> sector and make my Linux unbootable. If it does that, does anybody know
> what I should do to put LILO back there without having to reinstall the
> Linux all over again, I've got Red Hat 6.1 on a 350Mhz Amd-K6 Compaq.
Create a boot floppy for Linux. Install Windows. Use boot floppy to boot Linux.
Then you may modify lilo.conf to select operating system on boot.
Dont't forget to run lilo1
> Thanks
> Peter
-Frank Elsner
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Reinstall Question
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:35:08 +0200
Yep. It is gonna overwrite the boot sector.
One way to work around this problem:
1) Create a bootdisk (using mkbootdisk)
2) Verify, that the bootdisk works
3) Install Windows
4) boot to linux with the bootdisk
5) login as root
6) run /sbin/lilo
And it should work now.
Rasmus B�g Hansen
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I am thinking of reinstalling Windows 98 SE on my dual boot machine
> and I was wondering if anybody knows if it will write over the boot
> sector and make my Linux unbootable. If it does that, does anybody know
> what I should do to put LILO back there without having to reinstall the
> Linux all over again, I've got Red Hat 6.1 on a 350Mhz Amd-K6 Compaq.
> Thanks
> Peter
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
---
N�h ja for fa'en
- det er jo mig, der skal starte
-- Ole Fick
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From: Shell Hung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: POP3 & SMTP
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:32:14 +0800
Hi all,
I want to find any information that allow me to setup POP3 and
SMTP with SSL connection, would anyone pleased point me some reference,
can I && how can I && what I need to . do so ?
--
Best Regards,
Shell Hung
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From: Larry Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modifying RedHat 6.2 install image - problems
Date: 21 Sep 2000 09:12:53 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Williamson wrote:
> >
> >I would like to install a modified 6.2 system. I want to include a
> >number of the security and bug updates and put them on our kickstart
> >server in the RedHat/RPMS directory so that the kickstart install will
> >pick up the new packages automatically.
>
> You may find some useful information at
> http://imsb.au.dk/~mok/linux/doc/RedHat-CD.html
Indeed, this is an interesting document. I wish I had seen it a few
days ago!
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From: Peter Bloomfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: RH6.2 PCMCIA Network card
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:25:39 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [snip] I just had a problem with my laptop. Make sure the PCMCIA
> service is
> starting before the Network service. If PCMCIA starts after Network,
> you will get a error 'Delaying eth0 initialization', or something like
> that. I used DHCP and reserved an IP for Linuxbox let the DHCP server
> do its magic. badda boom
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>From http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.5:
At boot time, when the Red Hat network subsystem starts up, it may say
``Delaying eth0 initialization'' and ``[FAILED]''. This is actually not a
failure: it means that this network interface will not be initialized
until after the PCMCIA network device is configured.
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From: "kjbecker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recognizing 3com 3c905c NICs Wtih FloppyFW
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:51:08 GMT
Bluster,
Thank you for the helpful comments. My problem seems to be
selecting the wrong hardware. Good to know that FloppyFW
works well with the 3c509 NICs though. Not sure where to
go from here. Do not wish to spend more money on cards.
Take care.
Ken Becker
"bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:%W9y5.252$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I just got the new version of FloppyFW and it included support for 3c509
> I just gave it my IP info and it booted fine, ID'd both my 3c509's without
a
> problem :-) I got the image from:
> http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/download/floppyfw-1.1.1.img
> hope it works for you!
> bluster
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Ruckert)
Subject: Re: What's the best Linux MP3 encode ?
Date: 21 Sep 2000 13:54:02 GMT
lame !
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Croxen)
Subject: Re: cable modem setup
Date: 21 Sep 2000 13:48:56 GMT
Under RR, the service is bound to the MAC address of your card. If you
have loaded the correct driver and your card inititializes properly, then
just run Slack's netconfig. Indicate that the IP is assigned from DHCP
(not static), use the gateway address and the nameserver address that the
RR people said were to be used when they did their presumably Windows
installation, and indicate (for sendmail purposes) that the connection is
smtp+bind (otherwise fetchmail, et al. won't work properly) Shutdown,
reboot, and if you get a dhcp address at boot, then you're in business
--you're connected. If you don't get a dhcp address, upgrade to the
current version of dhcpcd and give it another go.
--Kevin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Brewer wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Martin Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > I have been working on setting up my cable modem under Slackware. I
>> have
>> > the card setup with a module being loaded into the kernel. I'm kinda
>> > of stumped of what to do next?
>> >
>> > I have looked over all of the how-to's pertaining to net setup, but
>> > still can't figure what the next step is to do? And what about DHCP?
>> Is
>> > this neccesary to have, or is the another work around.
>> >
>> > What files should I be looking for to modifiy?
>> > thanks in advance,
>> > martinbr
>>
>> You may want to try looking through the following site.
>> http://www.cablemodeminfo.com/LinuxCableModem.html
>>
>> Because I am an @home user with an SMCEtherEZ card I used the following
>> link: http://members.home.net/djl56/linux_at_home_with_etherez/
>>
>> My NIC card was detected (though plug and play had to be shut off in
>> my bios for the card to get and irq) so I didn't have to go through
>> the whole thing, only the network configuration:
>> http://members.home.net/djl56/linux_at_home_with_etherez/linux_at_home.n
>> etconfig.html
>>
>> You also need to know whether your ISP is using static or Dynamic IP
>> addressing. @home where I live uses static so I had to fill all my
>> values in manually--run winipcfg to get your values in Windows. Good
>> luck.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>> Before you buy.
>
>Most of these files are pretty much useless since most of the how-to's are
>pertaining to the popular Red Hat distributions. The only one that I found
>informational was the DHCP how-to.
>
>I finally got my answer where I should have went to in the first place,
>which is the Slackware homepage forum section. This is where I found out
>about the netconfig command which fixed the mistakes that I was making in
>configuring the rc.inet1 and the resolv.conf files.
>
>It's funny after all the searching and numerous questions that I have left
>in the NG'S, nobody suggested that. ...
>martinbr
>
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: POP3 & SMTP
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:09:21 +0200
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Shell Hung wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I want to find any information that allow me to setup POP3 and
> SMTP with SSL connection, would anyone pleased point me some reference,
> can I && how can I && what I need to . do so ?
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Shell Hung
>
Try to look at http://www.openssl.org for general SSL support. The SSL
tunneling can be done with stunnel (http://www.stunnel.org).
Rasmus B�g Hansen
---
He has his own opinions
- just like the others.
-- Burnin' Red Ivanhoe
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