Linux-Setup Digest #392, Volume #20 Wed, 10 Jan 01 13:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: problem with seeing X Windows on the desktop ("David Allen")
Re: Can't get XFree with nvidia drivers to work (Toby Haynes)
Re: Partitioning For Install (count0)
Re: pppd daemon/eth0 interface ("M.Weber")
Kernel 2.4.0 & modules ("Zayin Krige")
Assembler Error on Compling Kernel 2.4 (Marc-chan)
what is the MAKEDEV command? ("Kurt R. Rahlfs")
pppd daemon dies ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
I need an advice for Zip USB, ("ME")
Re: connect to internet via LAN (Cathy Gramze)
Re: HELP! : mysterious ext2 undeletable directory (aflinsch)
winmodem HSP-56 PC-Tel and LINUX?? (Tiefenbacher)
NFS Kickstart with Solaris7 NFS Server (Scott Ruffner)
Re: what is the MAKEDEV command? (David)
setup News server (Beggar)
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From: "David Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem with seeing X Windows on the desktop
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:18:51 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Garry Reid"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have just recently installed Linux Mandrake 7.2 but have found that the
> KDE desktop that loads up is extremely difficult to work with because when i
> open a window there is little definition of a window to see. I can make out
> the title bar and the scroll bar but the window opens with no background
> color so that the contents of the window are basically superimposed on to
> the desktop and then when i attempt to open another window it again
> superimposes itself on top of the previous window to the point where one
> can't read anything! can somebody help? thanks Garry Reid
Which windows are you opening? It is possible
for terminal windows to have transparent backgrounds
which causes this effect (some people really like it)
If this happens with all windows, something's pretty
messed up. :)
--
David Allen
http://opop.nols.com/
========================================
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and
it holds the universe together ...
- Carl Zwanzig
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From: Toby Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,nl.comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Can't get XFree with nvidia drivers to work
Date: 10 Jan 2001 10:11:42 -0500
On Tue, 09 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> XeCtiC wrote:
>
>> I got the line alias char-major-195 NVdriver @ my conf.modules but when
>> I boot my box NVdriver doesn't show up with lsmod (Maybe this is normal
>> but I don't really know.)
>> So I just load the module with insmod and I don't get any errors or
>> something.
>
> That exact same thing happens to me. I don't know why, either. I might
> just put an insmod command in the startup script, but there should be a
> better way.
>
> Or at least, that did happen to me before I upgraded to 2.4 and the stupid
> driver stopped working. I get "unresolved symbol: tasklet_hi_vec,
> bh_task_vec, __vmalloc, and irq_stat." depmod -a doesn't solve it. I
> wonder
> what I'm missing.
You should build a new driver - there is a 2.4.0 patch on the
www.linuxgames.com site which you need to apply to the source tarballs for
0.9-5.
http://www.linuxgames.com/misc/patch-2.4.0-PR
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
--
Toby Haynes
The views and opinions expressed in this message are my own, and do
not necessarily reflect those of IBM Canada.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (count0)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Partitioning For Install
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:41:26 GMT
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 07:40:14 -0500, "Mike Gratis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I've gotten a lot of input regarding my previous question; but by
>the results I take it there's no definitive answers. Generally, here's what
>was suggested for installing (Caldera) Linux on my 46 GB HD:
>
>/(root) 500MB-10GB
>Swap 128MB-1GB
>/boot 10MB-25MB
>/opt 2-3GB
>/home 2GB-As Big As You Can Make It
>/temp 6GB
>/usr Big
>/var ?
>
>
> Now another question comes to mind: When I install programs, are they
>going to "know" where these directories/partitions are, or am I gonna have
>to "show" them?
They will "know"; the only difference with the way you partitioned it
and just using a single partition is that the folders like /usr are
now mounted on a partition instead of the root drive. It's like
mounting your cdrom to /mnt/cdrom or /tmp/cdrom, you can mount it
whereever you want, it's seemless to the OS, it just treats it like a
normal folder, except it has your cd data in it....
>The same question holds true for uninstalling programs.
>Where are the majority of programs going to install?
Depends on the way you want to install it. If you use a package
management system like rpm or dpkg, you'll have to find out from
there. I usually compile all my stuff from source and install it to
/usr/local, but that's just personal preference
> Oh yeah, and I take it
>that a program only needs to be installed once, and not for each individual
>user?
Correct, as far as I know
> From what I've been reading, this point is somewhat unclear to me....
>Thanks in advance for any input.
>
>
>
>--
>Mike Gratis
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: "M.Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pppd daemon/eth0 interface
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:39:49 +0100
pppd can only connect you too an daiup isp using a modem. the
internetconnection with your laninterface normaly is not made to be a
daiupconnection. i gess you have an adsl-connection to your isp. the
ads-potocoll is a protocoll for standing conections and if your landevice
has connection to an adsl-modem it uses tct/ip to contact the internet. for
dailupcapebillitys on this connection you need a special deamon. i use
pppoet for a connection to t-dsl from the german telecom. if you don't use a
modem to connect to the internet any more you have to make shure that pppd
is not started atomaticly when the system starts, otherwhise you will olways
get errormessages from pppd.
markus
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:93h3uu$6d1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> HI:
> I have my pppd configured and my ethernet card is working.But,I get the
> message pppd daemon has died unexpectedly if I have the eth0 interface
> running also.If I disable the ethernet interface and use pppd I will
> connect with my modem to my ISP without the pppd died error message.Is
> it configuration ?I need an idea of what it could be.
>
> Gary
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: "Zayin Krige" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel 2.4.0 & modules
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:54:48 +0200
when i make modules_install, it puts my modules in directories other than
the normal /lib/modules/2.4.0
also, modprobe is not pick up my parport.o and lp.o
why??
--
/*-------------------------------------------
Zayin Krige
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.redpoint.co.za
Redpoint Solutions (Pty) Ltd
Custom Software Solutions
==========================================*/
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From: Marc-chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Assembler Error on Compling Kernel 2.4
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:52:56 +0800
Hi everyone,
On compiling up to arch/ppc/kernel/head.S, I got a error message:
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/mmu.h: Assembler messages:
/usr/src/linuc/include/asm/mmu.h:10: Error: Unrecognised opcode: `typedef'
Can someone explain why I'm getting this error message??
I understand that *.S is using assembler language but is this normal?
BTW, I'm using gcc 2.95.2 and glibc-2.1.3 for compiling. Hopefully, it's
not gcc at fault, 'cause I really don't think I want to downgrade my gcc
version to use egcs-1.1.2.. Thanks for reading!
--
Marc
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From: "Kurt R. Rahlfs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what is the MAKEDEV command?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:08:55 -0600
Some times I see instructions that the MAKEDEV command apparently
residing in the /dev directory. It appears to be distro specific (from
RH?). It looks like it makes the entries in /dev. Where can I find a
description of this, a man page perhaps?
I tried to checkout the RH site but it is sloooooow.
Thanks, kurtrr
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: pppd daemon dies
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:59:53 GMT
I get the message pppd daemon died unexpectantly when I have my eth0
interace enabled along with my dial up pppd connection.But if I disable
my eth0 interface with turbonetcfg I can connect to my ISP without
the daemon error.Why can't I have both pppo and eth0 working at the
same time.I want to be able to use my ethernet card so I can access
the internet from my notebook with Apache.It must be a configuration
issue?Turbolinux 6.0 Kernel 2.2.13-12 i686,SMC Ultra ethernet card.
The error in the ppd log is something like need a secret password in
order to get an IP when it is attepting to connect.When I disable the
eth0 interface ii connects via PAP.
Gary
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: "ME" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: I need an advice for Zip USB,
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:14:08 GMT
Thanks for reading this,
I am trying to mount (dev/sda4) a Zip 100 USB drive under Kernel 2.2.16
(Suse 7.0). The modules usbcore, usb-ohci and usb-storage are loaded, but
yet the system fails to communicate with the Zip drive. While booting up the
system it finds the Zip drive. The error message is:
sda: Read Capacity failed
sda: status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00
sda: sense not available
sda: block size assumed 512 bytes, disk size 1 GB
sda: scsidisk I/O Error: dev08:00, sector 0
unable to read partition table.
My USB Sony CD/RW drive is also seen but can not be mounted. I think it is a
SCSI issue, which I have tried to remedy with the insertation of module sg,
but that did not help either. Perhaps somebody has an advice for me, any
input is appreciated.
Thanks,
Bruce
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From: Cathy Gramze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: connect to internet via LAN
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:17:03 GMT
In article <93hrdf$a740h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Philipp Leuschner"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would really like to use Linux to use the Internet - I'm running SuSE6.1.
> I've tried hard and often, but I can't get Linux to use our LAN for
> connecting to the internet - the problem is that although eth0 is installed
> (module 3com509) I am unable to ping computers in our LAN.
> Some people told me, it is impossible for Linux to connect through a
> WinNT-LAN, others told me, that I would need special modules for connection
> via LAN (analogon to MS-PC-client)
Am I correct in assuming you mean the Windows Network Logon protocol, i.e. you need to
logon to a Windows NT domain to use the network resource? (the gateway!)
If so, Samba should be able to do it. I've only done this on peer-to-peer NT networks,
but it worked there, and Samba does know about NT domain controllers and how to talk
to them.
cathyy
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: HELP! : mysterious ext2 undeletable directory
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:37:00 -0600
Robert Lynch wrote:
>
> Dorin Ioan MARINCA wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I need help for the following problem:
> >
> > Context: RH 6.2 original kernel
> > First symptom: ext2 root filesystem full.
> > I have searched for a big file (+10M).
> > Result: a (mysterious) junkbuster (web browsing filter) log directory:
> > /var/log/junkbuster : size +11M
> > 'drwxr--r-- 2 73 73 11067392 Jan 8 14:04 junkbuster'
> > the directory and not the contents!!!
> > a 'ls' inside blocks...
> > a '# rm -rf /var/log/junkbuster' run in a infinite loop.
> >
> > How can I remove this file?
> >
> > I have tried (forced) fsck without results. No bad blocks also...
> >
> > Thanks for any sugestions...
> >
> > d.i.m.
>
> I had this problem, which I decided was due to junkbuster's
> logrotate being wonky. I filed a bug report at the junkbuster
> site, which was never answered.
>
> When I looked inside the directory (not easy!) I found that it
> was a jungle logrotate .gz's, like:
>
> junkbuster.1.gz.3.gz.1.gz...
I had the same problem, it was about a year ago. I think that the
logrotate entry has been fixed, as I have reinstalled & updated
several times since then and nolonger have the problem
>
> I wish I could give you some hints, but the delete of this
> monster was a nightmare, for example, doing some step on the way
> to delete I hung my system after which I had to boot with a
> recovery disk and my recall of what I did is dim.
>
My favorite method of deleting all entries in a directory (when the
number of entries is very large) is
tar cfv /dev/null /path/of/directory/to/empty --remove-files >
/dev/null
and then just rmdir the directory if required....
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From: Tiefenbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os,linux.x,,comp.os.linux.embedded
Subject: winmodem HSP-56 PC-Tel and LINUX??
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:29:41 +0100
Hi folks
Has anybody by accident come across the problem to use an internal HSP
56 PC-Tel Modem (one of these ugly winmodems?!) under LINUX SUSE 7.0??
The "how to" files and the HSP drivers found on www.linmodem.com still
don�t help solving my problems with recognition of the modem by YasT,
although kernel window tells it recognized a pc-tel modem,
and configuration of connection by kppp, error message: modem is busy.
Anybody �can help??
with regards
stephan
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From: Scott Ruffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NFS Kickstart with Solaris7 NFS Server
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:25:00 -0500
I've run into some difficulty with our kickstart server and RedHat 7 - it
appears that the new bootnet.img tries to use NFSv3 for nfs installs, and
that it is failing when trying to mount from a Solaris box. We have been
using this server for kickstart for both RH6.0 and 6.2. I have no
problems getting an installed RH7.0 box to mount the shares - only the
bootnet.img disk has this problem. Below are tcpdumps of the two
sessions - one for RH7-bootnet.img, and the other for RH6.2-bootnet.img.
Everything else is identical.
RH 7.0 Bootnet.img session:
sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU -> (broadcast) ARP C Who is 128.143.136.11,
colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU ?
sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU -> colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU TCP D=111 S=626 Syn Seq=4122371828
Len=0 Win=16060 Options=<mss 1460,sackOK,tstamp 134579 0,nop,wscale 0>
colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU -> sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU TCP D=626 S=111 Syn Ack=4122371829
Seq=3978963706 Len=0 Win=10136 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 1097473134 134579,nop,wscale
0,nop,nop,sackOK,mss 1460>
sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU -> colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU TCP D=111 S=626 Ack=3978963707
Seq=4122371829 Len=0 Win=16060 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 134579 1097473134>
sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU -> colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU PORTMAP C DUMP
colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU -> sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU TCP D=626 S=111 Ack=4122371873
Seq=3978963707 Len=0 Win=10092 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 1097473134 134579>
colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU -> sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU PORTMAP R DUMP 45 map(s) found
sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU -> colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU TCP D=111 S=626 Ack=3978964639
Seq=4122371873 Len=0 Win=15128 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 134579 1097473135>
colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU -> sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU TCP D=626 S=111 Ack=4122371874
Seq=3978964639 Len=0 Win=10136 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 1097473135 134579>
sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU -> colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU TCP D=111 S=626 Fin Ack=3978964639
Seq=4122371873 Len=0 Win=16060 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 134579 1097473135>
colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU -> sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU TCP D=626 S=111 Fin Ack=4122371874
Seq=3978964639 Len=0 Win=10136 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 1097473135 134579>
sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU -> colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU MOUNT3 C Mount /redhat7/RedHat
sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU -> colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU TCP D=111 S=626 Ack=3978964640
Seq=4122371874 Len=0 Win=16060 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 134579 1097473135>
colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU -> sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU MOUNT3 R Mount OK FH=0082 Auth=unix
sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU -> colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU PORTMAP C GETPORT prog=100003 (NFS)
vers=3 proto=UDP
colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU -> sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU PORTMAP R GETPORT port=2049
RH 6.2 Bootnet.img session:
sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU -> (broadcast) ARP C Who is 128.143.136.11,
colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU ?
sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU -> colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU PORTMAP C GETPORT prog=100005
(MOUNT) vers=1 proto=TCP
colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU -> sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU PORTMAP R GETPORT port=32779
sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU -> colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU TCP D=32779 S=610 Syn Seq=30449544
Len=0 Win=16060 Options=<mss 1460,sackOK,tstamp 2544 0,nop,wscale 0>
colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU -> sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU TCP D=610 S=32779 Syn Ack=30449545
Seq=4003967404 Len=0 Win=10136 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 1097493088 2544,nop,wscale
0,nop,nop,sackOK,mss 1460>
sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU -> colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU TCP D=32779 S=610
Ack=4003967405 Seq=30449545 Len=0 Win=16060 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 2544 1097493088>
sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU -> colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU MOUNT1 C Mount /redhat7/RedHat
colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU -> sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU TCP D=610 S=32779 Ack=30449653
Seq=4003967405 Len=0 Win=10028 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 1097493088 2544>
colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU -> sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU MOUNT1 R Mount OK FH=0082
sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU -> colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU TCP D=32779 S=610
Ack=4003967469 Seq=30449653 Len=0 Win=16060 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 2545 1097493088>
sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU -> colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU PORTMAP C GETPORT prog=100003 (NFS)
vers=2 proto=UDP
colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU -> sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU PORTMAP R GETPORT port=2049
sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU -> colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU TCP D=32779 S=610 Fin
Ack=4003967469 Seq=30449653 Len=0 Win=16060 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 2545 1097493088>
colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU -> sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU TCP D=610 S=32779 Ack=30449654
Seq=4003967469 Len=0 Win=10136 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 1097493088 2545>
colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU -> sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU TCP D=610 S=32779 Fin Ack=30449654
Seq=4003967469 Len=0 Win=10136 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 1097493088 2545>
sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU -> colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU TCP D=32779 S=610
Ack=4003967470 Seq=30449654 Len=0 Win=16060 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 2545 1097493088>
sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU -> colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU NFS C GETATTR2 FH=0082
colossus.cs.Virginia.EDU -> sneezy.cs.Virginia.EDU NFS R GETATTR2 OK
I've already coerced nfsd on the sun to use UDP only, but to no avail.
Any suggestions, short of building a new bootnet.img?
Regards,
Scott
==================================================================
Scott Ruffner
Computer Systems Senior Engineer Computer Science Department
[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Virginia
(804)982-2219 http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~jpr9c
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what is the MAKEDEV command?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:43:58 GMT
"Kurt R. Rahlfs" wrote:
>
> Some times I see instructions that the MAKEDEV command apparently
> residing in the /dev directory. It appears to be distro specific (from
> RH?). It looks like it makes the entries in /dev. Where can I find a
> description of this, a man page perhaps?
>
> I tried to checkout the RH site but it is sloooooow.
>
> Thanks, kurtrr
Name : MAKEDEV
Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 2.5.2
Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release : 1
Build Date: Thu 02 Mar 2000 03:35:22 PM CST
Install date: (not installed)
Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com
Group : System Environment/Base
Source RPM: MAKEDEV-2.5.2-1.src.rpm
Size : 30690
License: none
Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
Summary : A script for creating the device files in /dev.
Description :
This package contains the MAKEDEV script, which makes it easier to
create
and maintain the files in the /dev directory. /dev directory files
correspond to a particular device supported by Linux (serial or printer
ports, scanners, sound cards, tape drives, CD-ROM drives, hard drives,
etc.) and interface with the drivers in the kernel.
You should install the MAKEDEV package because the MAKEDEV utility makes
it easy to manage the /dev directory device files.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 98.992% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: Beggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: setup News server
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 01:44:23 +0800
Hi all,
How can I setup a News without a feeder server? Since when I check the
howto, it always said we need a feeder but my ISP don't have a news
server itself.
please cc reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks~
Hei
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