Linux-Setup Digest #26, Volume #20 Mon, 13 Nov 00 01:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: help, RH7 missing EATA drivers (Steven G Blanchard)
Re: problem with rebuilding kernel ("pl")
how to use a different /home with nis (Nicolas Bock)
Re: help, RH7 missing EATA drivers (Anthony Ewell)
Re: help, RH7 missing EATA drivers (Anthony Ewell)
Re: simple mail server questions (John Todd)
Re: Windows/Linux : Disk size issue (Michael Rozdoba)
Choice of mail engine ? (John Beardmore)
Re: problem with rebuilding kernel (John Thompson)
Re: Choice of mail engine ? (Colin Watson)
Re: No "MAKE" Command - Help (Colin Watson)
Re: Need a driver "SIS 6326 AGP" video card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Intellimouse Optical (Doug Holland)
.Xauthority file (Jim Gadbaw)
Which distro for old(486SX 6MB) firewall ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HP Deskjet 500 setup question
color in text-based (maher abedib)
loosing my ip address ("Diesel")
Re: Newbie setup probelms ("Paul Hilton")
Re: DNS Hosting ("Diesel")
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From: Steven G Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: help, RH7 missing EATA drivers
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:11:30 -0500
not necessaraly, but you had to make them yourself (it sucked when one
went bad, god help if two did--ask me how i know)
Anthony Ewell wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Yes. But did they come in the distribution or
> did you have to boot up Linux to make them?
> This is just a tiny lack of foresight on Red Hat's
> part. My guess is that they will fix it shortly.
>
> --Tony
>
> Steven G Blanchard wrote:
>
> > Anthony Ewell wrote:
> > >
> > > Can you imagine Microsoft requiring Linux to make a driver floppy
> > > before you can read the Windows 2000 cdrom?
> >
> > last time i checked, it took five floppies to read the win2k cdrom...
> > --
> >
> > \|/ ____ \|/
> > "@'/ ,. \`@" Steven G. Blanchard, Jr
> > /_| \__/ |_\ ~[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > \__U_/
--
\|/ ____ \|/
"@'/ ,. \`@" Steven G. Blanchard, Jr
/_| \__/ |_\ ~[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\__U_/
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From: "pl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem with rebuilding kernel
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 00:15:23 GMT
In article <cVBP5.415331$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Wensheng Chen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I used the source code from RedHat 6.2 to rebuild kernel 2.2.14. Everything
> was fine until I did "make zlilo" or "make bzImage". After compiling for a
> while, both commands returned the same message: "as86: Command not found".
> Indeed I couldn't find "as86" on the machine where I was doing the rebuild.
> Could me anyone tell me which package "as86" belongs to so that I can install
> it? Or rather the problem was caused by something else?
>
as86 should be in the dev86 package.
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From: Nicolas Bock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to use a different /home with nis
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 00:07:07 GMT
Hi,
I have a network of computers, consisting of a file server and a couple
of clients. The /home directory is exported to the clients and account
authentication is done through NIS. I would like to set up a webserver
which binds to the fileserver's NIS but I don't want my user's home
directories to be in /home, but somewhere else, say in /webstuff. I know
that one can change a user's shell using the syntax
+::::::/bin/new_shell
but a
+:::::/webstuff:
doesn't seem to do the trick.
Thanks already,
nick
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 16:30:27 -0800
From: Anthony Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: help, RH7 missing EATA drivers
Hi Steven,
I am afraid to ask.. I still remember when one of
my NT disks got corrupted and the remake utility will not run under
Steven G Blanchard wrote:
> not necessaraly, but you had to make them yourself (it sucked when one
> went bad, god help if two did--ask me how i know)
>
> Anthony Ewell wrote:
> >
> > Hi Steve,
> >
> > Yes. But did they come in the distribution or
> > did you have to boot up Linux to make them?
> > This is just a tiny lack of foresight on Red Hat's
> > part. My guess is that they will fix it shortly.
> >
> > --Tony
> >
> > Steven G Blanchard wrote:
> >
> > > Anthony Ewell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Can you imagine Microsoft requiring Linux to make a driver floppy
> > > > before you can read the Windows 2000 cdrom?
> > >
> > > last time i checked, it took five floppies to read the win2k cdrom...
> > > --
> > >
> > > \|/ ____ \|/
> > > "@'/ ,. \`@" Steven G. Blanchard, Jr
> > > /_| \__/ |_\ ~[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > \__U_/
>
> --
>
> \|/ ____ \|/
> "@'/ ,. \`@" Steven G. Blanchard, Jr
> /_| \__/ |_\ ~[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> \__U_/
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 16:32:28 -0800
From: Anthony Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: help, RH7 missing EATA drivers
Hi Steven,
I am afraid to ask. I still remember when one of
my NT disks got corrupted and the remake utility
not running under NT due to a violated reserved
word (CDROM). It took me hours to figure out
I had to make them up under W95.
Red Hat's install is much, much better thought out!
--Tony
Steven G Blanchard wrote:
> not necessaraly, but you had to make them yourself (it sucked when one
> went bad, god help if two did--ask me how i know)
>
> Anthony Ewell wrote:
> >
> > Hi Steve,
> >
> > Yes. But did they come in the distribution or
> > did you have to boot up Linux to make them?
> > This is just a tiny lack of foresight on Red Hat's
> > part. My guess is that they will fix it shortly.
> >
> > --Tony
> >
> > Steven G Blanchard wrote:
> >
> > > Anthony Ewell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Can you imagine Microsoft requiring Linux to make a driver floppy
> > > > before you can read the Windows 2000 cdrom?
> > >
> > > last time i checked, it took five floppies to read the win2k cdrom...
> > > --
> > >
> > > \|/ ____ \|/
> > > "@'/ ,. \`@" Steven G. Blanchard, Jr
> > > /_| \__/ |_\ ~[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > \__U_/
>
> --
>
> \|/ ____ \|/
> "@'/ ,. \`@" Steven G. Blanchard, Jr
> /_| \__/ |_\ ~[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> \__U_/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Todd)
Subject: Re: simple mail server questions
Date: 12 Nov 2000 23:57:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think if the file /var/spool/mail/username exists,
"you have mail" will be reported.
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 05:04:28 GMT, Diesel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Whenever I log into my box it says I have new mail, but even if I check pine
>it says I have no mail, if I check elm, it says I have 1 message that is
>from Mail System Intern. that I should not delete, because it will be
>recreated. Anyway, that message is really annoying when It is not
>right, where can I change it to check the Right directory to check for new
>mail ?
>
>
>Thanks
>
>Diesel
>
>
--
_____________________
The lap of Linuxury
|<de in RH6
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From: Michael Rozdoba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install,uk.comp.os.linux,uklinux.help.newbies
Subject: Re: Windows/Linux : Disk size issue
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 00:53:12 +0000 (GMT)
In article <8umrt1$fsb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Senior
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> although I'm not sure how much benefit that gives with EIDE?
AIUI worthwhile (as long as one isn't slave to the other).
--
Weirdo
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Choice of mail engine ?
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 00:30:54 +0000
I want to set up a domestic mail server on an Alpha RH 6.2 box.
I had always assumed I'd use sendmail, but I keep seeing references to
'fetchmail'.
I've always understood that sendmail was solid, but a bit of a pain to
configure. I don't know if that's really fair... That was sendmail
ported to OS/2.
What differentiates sendmail and fetchmail ? Are there any other mail
servers I should consider under Linux ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem with rebuilding kernel
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 18:49:39 -0600
Wensheng Chen wrote:
> I used the source code from RedHat 6.2 to rebuild kernel 2.2.14. Everything
> was fine until I did "make zlilo" or "make bzImage". After compiling for a
> while, both commands returned the same message: "as86: Command not found".
> Indeed I couldn't find "as86" on the machine where I was doing the rebuild.
> Could me anyone tell me which package "as86" belongs to so that I can
> install it? Or rather the problem was caused by something else?
On my RH v6.1 system, as86 is part of the "dev86" package; that
is, the real-mode assembler that build the code to start loading
the kernel before it changes to protected mode:
[john@starfleet john]$ locate as86
/var/catman/cat1/as86.1.gz
/usr/bin/as86
/usr/bin/as86_encap
/usr/man/man1/as86.1
[john@starfleet john]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/as86
dev86-0.14.9-1
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Choice of mail engine ?
Date: 13 Nov 2000 02:10:30 GMT
John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I want to set up a domestic mail server on an Alpha RH 6.2 box.
>
>I had always assumed I'd use sendmail, but I keep seeing references to
>'fetchmail'.
>
>I've always understood that sendmail was solid, but a bit of a pain to
>configure. I don't know if that's really fair... That was sendmail
>ported to OS/2.
Yes - personally, I prefer exim as a mail server.
>What differentiates sendmail and fetchmail ? Are there any other mail
>servers I should consider under Linux ?
sendmail and fetchmail are two separate programs for two separate tasks,
so don't compare them. :)
sendmail is a mail server. It accepts mail, locally or from a remote
system, and delivers it, either directly to a user's mailbox, indirectly
via some kind of mail delivery agent, or by sending it to a remote mail
server.
fetchmail is not a mail server. It pulls mail from a mailbox on e.g.
your ISP's mail server, acting as a mail client, and passes it to your
local mail server for local delivery.
Like I said, I prefer exim to sendmail, partly because it's a lot easier
to configure, partly for its nice filter files, and partly because it
was written in the university I used to attend, so I can easily get
local support if I need it (which hasn't been often). I've heard postfix
is pretty good, too.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Then hast thou joined the ARPANET? / Oh come to me, my bankrupt boy!
Quick, call the NIC! Send RFCs! / He chortled in his joy." - RFC 527
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: No "MAKE" Command - Help
Date: 13 Nov 2000 02:03:04 GMT
D. Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm trying to configure my SBLive soundcard for RedHat 6.1 and apparently I
>have to use a command called "make." When I do, I get an error - something
>like "unknown command." What am I doing wrong?
You haven't installed the 'make' package; see your manual if you don't
know how to install packages.
HTH,
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Racism is generally the last refuge of the unimportant."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Need a driver "SIS 6326 AGP" video card
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 02:31:26 GMT
In <8ul2n6$j1b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Try
>
>http://www.sis.com.tw
>
>-- Gene Wiggins
>-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Darwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I just got a computer and wiped everything out and reinstalled the
>> Operating System.
>> I do not have a driver for the "SIS 6326 AGP" video card and the company
>> that made it is not on the web. I think they went out of business.
>> Can anyone point me to a driver for this card?
>
>> Please email me if you can help!
>
>> Thanks
>
>> Darwin
>
This is a linux newsgroup. I presume you are installing linux, and won't mind
if I assume you will read the group, and also mailing you would useless...
I have this card in a PC at work, and linux detected it flawlessly (SuSE 6.3)
using the SVGA driver at 600 x 800. Some monitors can't display the picture
because theey only can show standard VGA. Of course thr CD in the box
only had drivers for Windows...
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From: Doug Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intellimouse Optical
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 20:06:32 -0700
Bill wrote:
> This mouse, the Microsoft Intellimouse Optical, is supposed to be
> compatible
> with Linux. Before I buy it, however, is there any other manipulation
> I have to do to ensure compatibility other than to use the usb-ps2
> converter?
>
> PS:
> Will the converter change the mouse's performance?
>
>
I'm using an Intellimouse Explorer. Works without a hitch in ps2 mode.
I'm running Red Hat 7, which has USB support. The mouse works great
in USB mode on Linux systems with USB support. Depending on what
version of X you're running and what software and desktop environment
you're using, you may have to do some configuration tweaks to get it to
recognize the mousewheel.
You may wish to check your XF86Config file - under the pointer section,
make sure you have the correct number of buttons (5 for a typical
wheeled mouse) and make sure ZAxisMapping 4 5 is in there somewhere to
tell X that "buttons" 4 and 5 are actually mouse wheel up and mouse
wheel down events.
You also may want to check out imwheel - which catches mouse wheel
events and maps them to different keypress events for different
applications, such as Alt-LeftArrow and Alt-RightArrow for Netscape.
All of this is optional, if none of this is configured, Linux and X
will treat the mouse like a mundane 3 button mouse.
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From: Jim Gadbaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: .Xauthority file
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 03:57:33 GMT
What is the .Xauthority file that shows up in my /home and /root
directory? It contains something to the effect :
localhost.localdomainOMIT-MAGIC_COOKIE ----- I deleted it and on reboot
it shows up again. My /var/log/messages contains a line stating Ignoring
suspiciously looking cookie.....
Any thoughts as to what this is/ what is going on/ is this a normal
thing?
Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Which distro for old(486SX 6MB) firewall
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 04:11:52 GMT
Hi everybody. I recently purchased an old PC for use as a linux
firewall/IP forwarding. Here are the specs:
Processor: 486SX
Memory: 6MB
Hard Drive: 130MB
NIC: 3COM ISA Etherlink III
NO CD-ROM
I was wondering which distribution would be easiest to install with this
setup? I want as minimal a setup as I can possibly get (ONLY
firewalling/IP forwarding). Is this even feasible with this hardware?
I could not get a RedHat 6.1 boot floppy to boot. I was able to get a
Redhat 5.1 floppy to boot, but I want a newer setup than this. I was
thinking of trying to temporarily install my DVD-ROM (from my current
desktop) into this machine to install from, but was unsure if a machine
this old would recognize it as a CD-ROM. Suggestions anyone?
Thanks in advance!
Scott
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: HP Deskjet 500 setup question
Date: 13 Nov 2000 04:41:02 GMT
I am trying to set up the perfect generic
Linux printer, an old HP DJ 500, on a
RH system that uses printtool. Printtool
found the printer at /dev/lp1. I accepted
all other setup defaults.
When I tried to print an ASCII test page,
I got the following error:
"Error printing test page to queue lp"
"Error reason: lpr: cannect: connection
refused
Jobs queued, but cannot start daemon"
What does it want?
setserial /dev/lp1 replies: Device or resource
busy.
Returning to a console from printtool in X,
I found my command line going:
"lp1 reported invalid error status (on fire, eh?)"
(just like that) over and over. Finally I got it
to quit by distracting it some way.
Meanwhile, the printer is doing just what it
did since I turned it on: the lights are all
flashing. I can't get it to prime itself or
to respond to anything I do with its buttons.
Turning it on and off does not change anything.
The 16 dip switch things are all set to the
down position. I have no manual, but there
is a map of what the switches control printed
inside the cover of the computer if that
would help any.
Now, I paid $9.99 for this printer at Goodwill
so if it doesn't work there could be a good
reason, but it looks like new and even has
a cartridge full of ink, so I'd like to get the
thing running if anybody can give me some
guidance. I want to print system documentation
with it.
Thanks for anyone's assistance.
MP
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From: maher abedib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: color in text-based
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 12:56:21 +0800
hi,
As usual in redhat,in text-based mode there is a font color with white
and the background is black.
I would like to know, where can I change (or it's available the change)
the font color in text-based mode (init 3) not in x-windows system.
As far as I know, we can use the ls --color=always ..What I wanted to do
is to change the whole font color in test based mode (maybe in green)
thank you.
maher
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From: "Diesel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: loosing my ip address
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 05:24:51 GMT
Problem:
After running my linux box for 24 hours I loose my ip address and can't
browse the net, or do anything.
Other Info:
1. I run RedHat 7.0 and have cable internet.
2. My isp uses dhcp servers.
3. There servers Renew ip address every 24 hours
4. I haven't timed it exactly yet, but the problem seems to happen excactly
24 hours after my last reboot
I know when I first noticed it, I was playing around with setting my own ip
instead of using dhcp and also pulling more then one ip address for my nic
from my isp. I believe everything I set back to normal settings. Any help
on where else to trouble shoot would be great!
Thanks
Diesel
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From: "Paul Hilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie setup probelms
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 05:41:51 GMT
cfish,
Thanks for the reply, on the advice of someone else I downloaded Red Hat
6.2, and have now managed to install it OK. This has solved some of the
problems without my really knowing why.
linuxconf &
now works fine, a new window opens OK.
I am still left with the question about how to 'attach' meaning redirect
stdin & stdout (&stderr?) for a given process, to a console, such as a
terminal window.
PPPoE now works OK, including DNS, I struggled here a bit, I think the
problem was in the NIC interface (it would ping any directly connected
address only on the first attempt, but then fail every time, which made DNS
impossible). I messed with it quite a lot and I'm not sure quite what fixed
it.
Sound worked fine 'right out of the box' with 6.2
> RTFM
TFM seems to require a command to lookup in order to get info on that
command,
apropos is something I haven't got working yet. I read 'Learning Red Hat
Linux by Bill McCarty, I have now got 'Linux The Complete Reference' Edited
by John Purcell now. The first is easy reading, but it is difficult to
remember everything in it, and it only obliquely touches on the boot, login
and startx operations.
The only init I could find is in /etc/sysconfig, and doesn't do all that
much. /etc/inittab seems to run at boot, not login, but does a lot more
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit seems quite significant. I am surprised to find that
there is not one standard master script at boot which calls everything else.
It seems that a login is not a particularly significant event for the
system, and is handled by minigetty? or something like that.
startx was a lot clearer, this seems to call everything needed to get X
started except something to do with fonts.
I am amazed to discover that recompiling the Kernel is regarded as such a
routine thing in order to get some devices working (e.g. CD Burner), I
suppose I will have to learn to do it.
Thanks,
Paul Hilton
"cfish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 16:37:55 GMT, "Paul Hilton"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I've decided to try to learn about Linux, because it has a reputation for
> >being reliable, and is truly multitasking.
> >I am having what must be usual Newbie type problems, and not
understanding
> >some things, I'm here looking for help.
> >I'm using Red Hat Linux 6.0
> >
> >A few of my more intractable problems:
> >
> >1) When I call linuxconf from Gnome it gives me the character type
interface
> >in the terminal, if I try "linuxconf &" it starts a new process with the
> >character type interface, not attached to anything (Can I attach a
terminal
> >to an existing process?) so I have to kill it. I found a reference to the
> >DISPLAY environment variable, which is set to ":0", I can't find what
sets
> >it, startx seems to set display to :0 (lower case) but display isn't set
to
> >anything.
>
> i don't understand what you are talking about here. what's attach?
> what's the lower case of :0 ? how do you know if display is not set to
> anything?
>
> you should set the environment variable DISPLAY to your_ip:0
>
>
> >2) I have installed roaringpenguin PPPoE for my Verizon DSL connection,
and
> >got it working to the extent that it logs in using adsl-start, and
verifies
> >with adsl-status, it even logs in during boot, however Netscape (in
Gnome)
> >will not find any connection to the internet, and often hangs. I can't
find
> >any options to tell it what interface to use to access the internet. The
DNS
> >references are the same as when I'm in Windoze. (I'm having to use
Windoze
> >to write this message).
> >
> >3)Sound. It correctly identifies the sound system as a Yamaha OPL3-SAx
(It's
> >on the motherboard of my DELL Dimension XPS), however it doesn't probe
> >right, and sometimes when it try's to play the sample sound the whole
system
> >hangs. In Windoze it says the sound system uses 220-22F 530-537 388-38B
> >330-331(mpu-401) 370-371 IRQ5 and DMAs 0 and 1. The options I get to try
to
> >set it to manually don't include all this lot, and it tries to allocate
too
> >much at 370.
>
> you prolly need to edit /etc/modules.conf
>
> >
> >4)General lack of understanding. What scripts are run:
> RTFM
> >a) when the system boots
>
> init
> (depends on distro what happens next)
> >b) when a user logs in (I think /etc/inittab, but I don't know what else)
>
> depends on the shell
>
> >c) when X Window is started (startx, is this all?)
>
> read man page for startx
>
> >
> >I would appreciate any comments or (civil) suggestions.
> >
> >Paul Hilton
> >
> >p.s. I love the Gnames that all these Linux things have.
> >
>
>
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From: "Diesel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DNS Hosting
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 05:56:18 GMT
If you read the howto on dns at linux.com/howot
it will give you really good examples of how to setup dns
Diesel
"Woody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8umsql$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> I'm setting up an internet server and I understand that I would need to
set
> up the MX and NS records; I already have a fixed IP and a domain.
> Where is that done and once set, how do I check their functionality?
> TIS,
> Emilio
>
>
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