Linux-Setup Digest #775, Volume #19 Fri, 6 Oct 00 09:13:08 EDT
Contents:
HELP: Which PCMCIA ethernet driver do I have? (McManus Leo Root DSP Consultant)
Re: Help! My eyes hurt. ("Latman")
Re: Making the Backspace key work using a remote X server (Thomas Dickey)
Re: Help! My eyes hurt. ("David.L")
Re: Help! My eyes hurt. (Davide Bianchi)
PPP problesms (Jose Juan Iglesias)
LILO on drive a: ("Dusk")
Re: Redhat 7.0 Kernel won't compile? (Bernhard Mogens Ege)
alpha XP1000 and compaq poerstorm 300/350 graphics ("Stephen Ashley")
Help for optimum partitions and mount-points? (Stony777)
Re: Memory Paging issues (Justin Clancy)
Re: LILO on drive a: (Eric)
Rebuilding Kernel (DL)
Re: LILO on drive a: (Andreas Kleer)
Re: alpha XP1000 and compaq poerstorm 300/350 graphics ("JJ")
Re: Rebuilding Kernel ("ne...")
Re: RED HAT 6.2 W/ AMD Thunderbird??? ("ne...")
Re: Mandrake 7.1 CD problems on a GW laptop ("Chris Friedl")
Re: disk partitions ("J. Marquess")
Please help I can't compile anything! (GYULAI Mihaly)
RE: Re: Help! Mail filter program set up? (Will Renkel)
Re: Linux install with hardware conflicts? (Eric)
Re: Linux Mail Server ("David Fulton")
Problem with rsh ("Gary Huntress")
Re: Help! My eyes hurt. (Eric)
Re: Linux Mail Server ("David Fulton")
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From: McManus Leo Root DSP Consultant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: HELP: Which PCMCIA ethernet driver do I have?
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 11:04:09 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a Redhat 6.0 PCMCIA .o file. If I do a strings lnax100.o,
(advised on a previous post), I get the O/P below, would anyone know
what driver this is and where I can get the source as I am running SuSE
6.3. It is a 10/100Tbase Ethernet card.
I got the driver on a disk and have no idea what chip set is on the card
and the company I got it from will not reply to any calls/emails.
Initially, when I put my PCMCIA card in it beeped low then high and had
loaded a memory_cs module. After removing all references to memory
devices, it beeps low when I insert the card, but loads nothing!! Any
suggestions on this? Hoping to get the source and compile it for SuSE
6.3 and hope this helps?
Thanks
Leo
_________________
10base2
10baseT
Auto
<5>pcnet_cs: invalid if_port requested
<5>pcnet_cs: register_netdev() failed
<5>pcnet_cs: unable to read hardware net address
NE2000
<6>%s: NE2000 Compatible: port %#3lx, irq %d,
mem %#5lx,
%s port,
hw_addr
%02X%s
<3>%s: pcnet_reset_8390() did not complete.
<5>%s: transceiver selection not implemented
<6>%s: switched to %s port
<5>%s: DMAing conflict in
dma_block_input.[DMAstat:%1x][irqlock:%1x][intr:%ld]
<5>%s: DMAing conflict in
dma_block_output.[DMAstat:%1x][irqlock:%1x][intr:%ld]
<5>%s: timeout waiting for Tx RDC.
<7>[bo=%d @ %x]
<5>pcnet_cs: Card Services release does not match!
Media Mode:
Auto-Negotiation
User Assigned,
Line Speed 10M
Line Speed 100M
8390.c:v1.10cvs 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
<0>%s: ei_open passed a non-existent device!
<4>%s: xmit on stopped card
lost interrupt?
cable problem?
excess collisions.
<7>%s: Tx timed out, %s TSR=%#2x, ISR=%#2x, t=%d.
<4>%s: Tx request while isr active.
<7>%s: idle transmitter tx2=%d, lasttx=%d, txing=%d.
<7>%s: idle transmitter, tx1=%d, lasttx=%d, txing=%d.
<7>%s: No Tx buffers free! irq=%ld tx1=%d tx2=%d last=%d
net_interrupt(): irq %d for unknown device.
%s: Interrupted while interrupts are masked! isr=%#2x imr=%#2x.
%s: Reentering the interrupt handler! isr=%#2x imr=%#2x.
<7>%s: interrupt(isr=%#2.2x).
<4>%s: interrupt from stopped card
<4>%s: Too much work at interrupt, status %#2.2x
<4>%s: unknown interrupt %#2x
<3>%s: bogus last_tx_buffer %d, tx1=%d.
%s: bogus last_tx_buffer %d, tx2=%d.
<4>%s: unexpected TX-done interrupt, lasttx=%d.
<3>%s: mismatched read page pointers %2x vs %2x.
<7>%s: bogus packet size: %d, status=%#2x nxpg=%#2x.
<7>%s: Couldn't allocate a sk_buff of size %d.
<7>%s: bogus packet: status=%#2x nxpg=%#2x size=%d
%s: next frame inconsistency, %#2x
<7>%s: Receiver overrun.
<6>%s: invalid multicast address length given.
8390.c: header struct mispacked
<3>Hw. address read/write mismap %d
<4>%s: trigger_send() called with the transmitter busy.
lna100
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From: "Latman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! My eyes hurt.
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 10:25:47 +0100
Sorry, but does X = GNOME? When I select run from the menu I type in
XConfigurator and after clicking OK, small box comes up and disappears
really quickly. I am not sure if I did it the right way? Thanks.
"Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Latman wrote:
> >
> > I am a newbie. I have recently installed RedHat 7.0 Workstation and
> > everything looks great, apart from the video res. I think I might have
> > selected the wrong Matrox card cos the screen is much smaller then it is
> > supposed to be and my eyes hurt after about 20 minutes. I have looked at
> > every option in GNOME to change the screen res, but I didn't find
anything.
> > So I am begining to think it is done from the text section. But I have
no
> > idea how to change this. Any help or directions on where I can get some
help
> > would be much appriciated. Thanks.
>
> Run XConfigurator (in X as root)
>
> Eric
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From: Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Making the Backspace key work using a remote X server
Date: 6 Oct 2000 09:38:41 GMT
Peter Mayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've just installed RedHat 7.0. The only niggle so far is the interaction
> between the X server I use on Windows NT (eXcursion), xterm, and the
> Backspace key.
> Using ^H in an xterm does the expected thing of deleting the character to
> the
> left. However, Backspace just beeps. Using showkey(1), it appears that
> Backspace is sending
> ^[[3~
> to the terminal, so "stty erase" won't work.
> How do I make xterm understand Backspace? There seem to be a myriad of
> utilities that do things with key mappings, and I can't figure out which one
> I should be looking at.
probably the XTerm app-defaults file
> Note: Backspace works as expected when using a RedHat 6.x xterm.
afaik, they did the same change in 6.2
The XFree86 xterm supports ANSI color and VT220 emulation
There's an faq at
http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html
ftp://dickey.his.com/xterm
--
Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://dickey.his.com
ftp://dickey.his.com
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From: "David.L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! My eyes hurt.
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 12:50:13 +0300
Latman wrote:
>
> Sorry, but does X = GNOME? When I select run from the menu I type in
> XConfigurator and after clicking OK, small box comes up and disappears
> really quickly. I am not sure if I did it the right way? Thanks.
>
> "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Latman wrote:
> > >
> > > I am a newbie. I have recently installed RedHat 7.0 Workstation and
> > > everything looks great, apart from the video res. I think I might have
> > > selected the wrong Matrox card cos the screen is much smaller then it is
> > > supposed to be and my eyes hurt after about 20 minutes. I have looked at
> > > every option in GNOME to change the screen res, but I didn't find
> anything.
> > > So I am begining to think it is done from the text section. But I have
> no
> > > idea how to change this. Any help or directions on where I can get some
> help
> > > would be much appriciated. Thanks.
> >
> > Run XConfigurator (in X as root)
> >
> > Eric
You must exit X or switch to console with ctrl+alt F1, F2 etc... and
then run XConfigurator
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: Help! My eyes hurt.
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 09:59:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000 09:36:58 +0100, "Latman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am a newbie. I have recently installed RedHat 7.0 Workstation and
>everything looks great, apart from the video res. I think I might have
>selected the wrong Matrox card cos the screen is much smaller then it is
>supposed to be and my eyes hurt after about 20 minutes. I have looked at
>every option in GNOME to change the screen res,
Using CTRL ALT + and CTRL ALT - (the + and - of the numeric keypad)
will increase or decrease the screen resolution if the configuration
for your system allow different resolution. Another way, is
tinkering with the XF86Config file to change the "default"
resolution for your video. I suggest you to see the XF86Config-HOWTO.
Davide
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From: Jose Juan Iglesias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP problesms
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 11:52:34 +0200
> Hi all,
>
> I'm almost desperated. After the ppp link to my ISP gets up "correctly"
> I realize that I've got no ip connectivity to the
> outside.
>
> 'ifconfig' shows three interfaces up: lo, eth0 and ppp0. When I try to
> see the routing table with 'route' it takes too long
> in showing the information. Notwithstanding, 'netstat -nr' displays the
> routing table at the moment.
>
> Two lines conform the routing table:
>
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> Iface
> <129.67.1.165> 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0
> 6 ppp0
> 0.0.0.0 <129.67.1.165> 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
> 6298 ppp0
>
> (taken,as a template, from /usr/doc/ppp-2.3.7/README.linux)
>
> lo line doesn't appear!
>
> I can't reach my ISP IP address when I've got it in my routing
> table!!!!????
>
> Thaks in advance. Regards.
>
> --
> Jose Juan Iglesias
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Dusk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat,it.comp.os.linux.iniziare,it.comp.os.linux.software
Subject: LILO on drive a:
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 12:35:55 +0200
Hi,
I must re-install Winzozz98. But maybe he kill my LILO. So I want move LILO
to a floppy and after all, boot from A and recover my RH.
It si that correct and how can I do that?
tnx
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Subject: Re: Redhat 7.0 Kernel won't compile?
From: Bernhard Mogens Ege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 11:03:03 GMT
>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just got and installed RH7 on my box. As has been the case for
> the last 3 installs, when I'm done, my network is broken, because
> it doesn't recognize my Linksys ethernet card. So I grab to tulip.s
> file from last time I went through this (RH6.2 - or was it 6.0?),
> put it in place, and started a kernel build. It gets through about
> 4 files before it craps out, seemingly because of problems with
> SMP definitions. The output of the compile is at:
> http://www.scroom.com/red_hat.txt
> ANybody got any suggestions? I have been poring through to code,
> trying to figure out why the SMP stuff is so whacked. It's kernel
> 2.2.16...
> All help appreciated fully.
Not having looked at the compile log, I still suggest you do a "make
mrproper" as the very first thing. Then "make xconfig", "make dep",
"make bzImage", "make modules", "make install", "make
modules_install" and reboot. This is for the kernel compilation.
The "make mrproper" is the important bit. Forget it, and you have SMP
problems and other wierd problems.
regards,
Bernhard Ege
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From: "Stephen Ashley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: alpha XP1000 and compaq poerstorm 300/350 graphics
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 20:44:27 -0700
Does anyone know if the Compaq Power Storm 300/350 graphic devices have a
Linux driver? I have a XP1000/667Mhz system with these graphics card
installed, and have spare disk that I want to load Linux into. I have
checked the Compaq WWW web Alpha Linux pages and supported devices pages.
But have not seen any support for these cards.
The BIOS startup reports the card as something like :-
Evans and Sutherland Real Image 2100
These card are 3D cards , I have have a 1/2 hearted go with a RedHat 6.2 CD
after using the Compaq Linux Primer CDrom first, to setup the disk.
Regards,
Stephen.
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From: Stony777 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help for optimum partitions and mount-points?
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 13:19:33 +0200
Hey guys,
I hope you don�t flame me for askin� such a question.
I have 3 HD�s:
1 SCSI 2,5 GB
1 IDE 6 GB UDMA
1 IDE 2 GB UDMA
I could need some advice which configuration (paritions and mountpoint)
would be best.
I thought about booting from SCSI and puttin the /opt-things to the
6-GB-HD and /var on the 2 GB.
What do you experts think?
Thanks.
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From: Justin Clancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory Paging issues
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 12:20:39 +0100
Pippin Barr wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've been attempting to install various linuxes and so far, so bad.
>
> Pretty much every time I do, at some point during the installation I get
> segmentation faults that appear to be cased by the memory paging system
> point at non-existent virtual addresses or something along those line.
>
> I'm at a loss as to how to fix this. I actually got Debian 2.2 *partially*
> installed, but when I try to use dselect to put the rest on it will fall
> over in the manner above.
>
> The only thing I can think of is needing to append="mem=265M" in the LILO
> config... but that seems ridiculous, as it's not like the kernel thinks I
> have *more* memory than I do surely. Also, since it crashes *during* the
> install sometimes, I'm guessing that fiddling with LILO isn't going to
> solve the problem.
>
It sounds like you have a fault in your memory somewhere. Try MemTest86
to check.
Justin.
--
Mail virus? Ha ha haaaa! (A Linux user)
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: LILO on drive a:
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 13:39:05 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dusk wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I must re-install Winzozz98. But maybe he kill my LILO. So I want move LILO
> to a floppy and after all, boot from A and recover my RH.
>
> It si that correct and how can I do that?
>
> tnx
Don't crosspost to so many groups (and set a follow-up)
just put a floppy in the floppy drive, and run mkbootdisk (as root)
Eric
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From: DL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Rebuilding Kernel
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 12:48:04 +0100
Why, when I've built a new kernel, do I get loads of unresolved symbols
next time I reboot, even though I also compiled the modules and done
make modules_install (Redhat 6.2)
Cheers,
Dunc
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From: Andreas Kleer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat,it.comp.os.linux.iniziare,it.comp.os.linux.software
Subject: Re: LILO on drive a:
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 13:40:14 +0200
Hi Dusk,
don't know if it will help you, but I did it with YaST, select
administrate system->kernel &boot configuration-> configer LILO
Andreas
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From: "JJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: alpha XP1000 and compaq poerstorm 300/350 graphics
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 08:06:52 -0400
That is a TGA2 card and is not supported, replace it with an elsa gloria
Synergy..
JJ
Stephen Ashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8rkbgl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Does anyone know if the Compaq Power Storm 300/350 graphic devices have a
> Linux driver? I have a XP1000/667Mhz system with these graphics card
> installed, and have spare disk that I want to load Linux into. I have
> checked the Compaq WWW web Alpha Linux pages and supported devices pages.
> But have not seen any support for these cards.
>
> The BIOS startup reports the card as something like :-
> Evans and Sutherland Real Image 2100
>
> These card are 3D cards , I have have a 1/2 hearted go with a RedHat 6.2
CD
> after using the Compaq Linux Primer CDrom first, to setup the disk.
>
> Regards,
> Stephen.
>
>
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rebuilding Kernel
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 12:18:04 GMT
On Oct 6, 2000 at 12:48, DL eloquently wrote:
>Why, when I've built a new kernel, do I get loads of unresolved symbols
>next time I reboot, even though I also compiled the modules and done
>make modules_install (Redhat 6.2)
Probably because you never moved the olde modules of
of the way......
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
QOTD:
"I'm just a boy named 'su'..."
8:17am up 5 days, 10:04, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RED HAT 6.2 W/ AMD Thunderbird???
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 12:19:27 GMT
On Oct 5, 2000 at 21:47, Anthony Paik eloquently wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Does anybody know if there is a compatibility problem with Red Hat and
>AMD Thunderbird CPU(800MHZ)???
Go to deja and do a search on this. There is one issue and
you will find the solution there.
HINT: A certain Hal posted the solution. And he wasn't
the only one.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
segv /seg'vee/ n.,vi.
Yet another synonym for
segmentation fault (actually, in this case, `segmentation
violation').
8:18am up 5 days, 10:05, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: "Chris Friedl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1 CD problems on a GW laptop
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 12:32:31 GMT
Hi cnm
I tried installing on an old NEC versa and had the same problem. The only
way I could get an installation to complete was to deselect the extension cd
and just go with the main cd. Then I loaded packages from the extension cd
later using kpackage. I hope this helps.
Be Well and Happy Always
Chris
"cnm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I followed the instructions, downladed the ISO files, made the 2 CD's and
> the installation went smoothly through the first CD. However when it
> tells me to put in the second CD in and press OK, I run into trouble...
> first of all the CD drawer won't open..... no probem, I just use the
> paperclip to open it up. I put the second CD in and he laptop won't read
> it. I click OK.. no luck. The CD spools up, but the little CD LCD
> indicator won't indicate the CD activity.
>
> If there were a xterm/command prompt somewhere I could get to, I think I
> would be in business, but in GUI land there I can't find any untried
> options.
>
> (gateway 2500 or so, fixed CD and floppy, pII233, 32MB)
>
> anyone have similar difficulties or ideas?
> thanks.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: "J. Marquess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: disk partitions
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 12:12:23 GMT
Eric wrote:
>
> J. Marquess wrote:
> >
> > could someone please help me.
> >
> > i am having real problems trying to partition my disk. i have 20 Gb and
> > tried to partition with partition magic. i messed around so much so that
> > i have an exteded dos partition with no logical drives present. i also
> > have a working C: partition of around 7Gb. i tried to delete the
> > extended dos partition with p.magic but it would not let me (apparently
> > 'cos i have logical drives present). this is probably the real root of
> > my problem. it will not let me create a logical drive. the result is bad
> > partitioning with about 12Gb going to waste on my hard drive. also, now
> > when i try to run p.magic (ver.4) it shows me a big scary yellow bar
> > saying partition error #116.
> > i am at my wits end and it is distracting me terribly. could some kind
> > hearted soul tell me how to fix it.
>
> I really fail to see what this has to do with linux, but you can put
> your linux installation disk in and run fdisk from there to delete the
> partitions.
> Good luck
>
> Eric
i did that and it worked. i wisely used mandrake 7.1 instead of redhat
6.2. many thanks for the help
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From: GYULAI Mihaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please help I can't compile anything!
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 12:25:07 GMT
I tried to upgrade glibc from 2.0.7 to 2.1.2, and
now at any './configure' I receive the following message:
C compiler cannot create executables.
The glibc upgrade was not successful, at 'make' it said:
undefined reference to __sigalstack, __libc_global_ctors
Please help me, I can't compile anything!
What can I do now?
--
GYULAI Mihaly
http://gyulai.freeyellow.com
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Renkel)
Subject: RE: Re: Help! Mail filter program set up?
Date: 6 Oct 2000 12:20:58 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt) writes:
>On 5 Oct 2000 11:37:22 GMT, Moscito wrote:
>>
>> I used Red Hat Linux 6.2 (dual Celeron 300a clocked at 450, 384MB).
>>
>> I really need a tip. I want to write a rudimentary mail filter.
>>So I fired up userconf and made an alias "kao", which was supposed to do
>>
>> "cat >> /tmp/test.log"
>>
>>and nothing else. Afterwards, the /etc/aliases file has this entry
>>
>> kao: "| cat >> /tmp/test.log"
>>
>>which was fine by me. But when I try to send mail to kao, I run into a
>>problem somehow, can someone point to the catch? Here is the error E.g.
>
>/etc/aliases is for mail aliases, to direct mail for one user to another.
>See 'man procmail' and related man pages. You need to set up a .forward
>file in that user's home dir to run procmail, and configure .procmailrc to
>tell procmail what to do with incoming mail for that user.
>
>>[cut]
>>This is a MIME-encapsulated message
>>
>>--KAA25547.970713075/miranda.math.tku.edu.tw
>>
>>The original message was received at Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:31:15 +0800
>>from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [140.112.50.167]
>>
>> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>>"| cat >> /tmp/test.log"
>> (expanded from: )
>>
>> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>>sh: cannot use > in command
>>554 "| cat >> /tmp/test.log"... Service unavailable
>>
>>[cut]
>
>
>--
>David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
Another option is
create a file, say ~kao/mail.filter
in it put one line, cat >> /tmp/test.log
make it executable
then in /etc/aliases put
kao:|~kao/mail.filter
==============================================================================
Will Renkel - Motorola Engineering Computing - REMEDY Support Team
1501 W. Shure Drive - Arlington Heights, IL 60004
(847) 632-4416 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Golf and bowling are not a matter of life and death ... they transcend such trivial
matters!"
"da little BIG DOG!"
==============================================================================
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux install with hardware conflicts?
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 14:46:43 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pippin Barr wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has some idea of what's going wrong for me
> here:
>
> I've tried to install both Madrake 7.1 and RedHat 7.0... in both cases
> the install would crash in different place each time. This would appear
> to be a hardware conflict to me... I really don't want it to be one...
> any other ideas on what could be causing this problem?
>
> PJ
Well if it is a hardware problem, there's really no wanting whatsoever
that can be of help. How did the install fail? What messages did you
receive? Is your memory still OK (there are memory test-apps out there)?
Eric
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From: "David Fulton" <[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: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 06:46:55 -0600
Hello,
Solaris can handle a Double Long Word of users and while that is
platform independant, it is a large number nonetheless (a lot more than
500,000 or even 5,000,000 users) the limitation is a BSD and Linux
limitation and not really a big problem because if you have that many users,
you should invest in another machine for them anyhow.
"D. C. & M. V. Sessions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[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!
>
> The clients don't have to have accounts on the primary server.
> There are several ways to handle this, including subdomains and
> hash functions on the username, which assign the traffic to
> secondary servers.
>
> Many ISPs get by just fine with far more than 64K users and
> BSD variants.
>
> > 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.
>
> --
> | Engineers solve problems -- it's what we do. |
> | Do you want to be a problem? |
> | D. C. Sessions === [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
>
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Subject: Problem with rsh
From: "Gary Huntress" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 08:33:44 -0400
Hi,
I'm having problems with rsh. Using two very generic user accounts, I
am trying to get accees to account_A from account_B. If I do:
account_B> rsh -l account_A 10.54.14.17
I am prompted for a password and it works fine ( I get a shell prompt). But
if I do:
account_B> rsh -l account_A 10.54.14.17 'echo $PATH'
I get a "permission denied"
I'm sure its something trivial!
Regards,
Gary
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! My eyes hurt.
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 14:51:32 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Latman wrote:
>
> Sorry, but does X = GNOME? When I select run from the menu I type in
> XConfigurator and after clicking OK, small box comes up and disappears
> really quickly. I am not sure if I did it the right way? Thanks.
No X != GNOME
gnome is a library that can be used by gnome apps (like your window
manager eg.), X is the windowing system linux uses.
start a terminal, and at the shell-prompt enter Xconfigurator (sorry, I
misspelled the first time) You will need to be root for this.
Eric
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From: "David Fulton" <[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: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 06:53:24 -0600
On this note, Communigate Pro is one of the best MTA's that I have seen, it
could run that many users (it does not use OS accounts and therefore the
system limit is not an issue.) and it comes with an LDAP server built in
that can also be configured to proxy to a main LDAP environment. Also the
scalability is there because it includes the ability to cluster (of course
you have to pay for it.)
"Stuart Krivis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 21:36:23 GMT, Newsgroup Account
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >See my earlier post - you do not need systems accounts for 500000 users.
>
> I think that this size mail system requires expert assistance to setup.
>
> Yes, you can make sendmail, postfix, and qmail do it. However, you need
> to know what you're doing.
>
> It's probably best to hire someone who already knows how to do it. That
> way you don't start getting phone calls from 500,000 people every time
> the server hiccups.
>
> The other way to do it is with commercial software. Netscape Messaging
> Server and Communigate Pro spring to mind. They are both designed to
> scale in the ways that will be needed. Commercial Sendmail might also be
> worth looking into.
>
> Multiple servers will be a must. You need redundancy. Perhaps a
> dedicated mail routing machine? Separate POP3/IMAP server(s)? LDAP
> server? Storage arrays?
>
> It's not something you can go ahead with based on the advice in a couple
> of Usenet articles, nor will it only take one weekend to setup...
>
> So, hire somebody who knows how to do it. :-)
>
>
>
> --
>
> Stuart Krivis
>
> **remove the "mongo" for e-mail replies
>
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