Re: [SLUG] ncpmount: option problem

2001-06-21 Thread Steve Kowalik

On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 01:32:05PM +1000, Martin uttered:
> 
> ncpmount [ -h ] [ -S server ] [ -U user name ] [ -P password | -n ] [ -C
> ] [ -c client name ] [ -u uid ] [ -g gid ] [ -f file mode ] [ -d dir
> mode ] [ -V volume ] [ -t time_out ] [ -r retry_count ] [ -b ] [ -i
> level ] [ -v ] [ -m ] [ -y iocharset ] [ -p codepage ] mount-point 
> 
> mount.ncp remote-server-and-user mount-point [ -n ] [ -v ] -o
> mount_options 
> 
> anyone else confused... :?
> 
No. NFS mounts are close as well.
The reason the '-o' is saying '-S' bad option is because -o specifies mount
options to send to the server. Ie:
mount -t nfs slinky:/home /home -o vers=2,rw,exec,intr


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Re: [SLUG] Next PCAN Meeting

2001-06-21 Thread Conrad Parker

Hi Matthew,

as PCAN is an active community project using Linux in Sydney, I don't
think it's off-topic for the SLUG list at all. I'm sure there are and
will be SLUGgers in the area who are keen to get involved, and maybe
you can inspire those in other areas to do similar work. So please
feel free to post occasional announcements etc. to the slug list.

cheers,

Conrad.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 12:32:24PM +1000, Matthew Davidson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> PCAN is holding it's next meeting tomorrow.  Exciting project,
> sharing skills, putting GNU/Linux to use, reusing old hardware, yada,
> yada, yada.  This is the last (admittedly slightly OT) posting about
> PCAN I'll make to this list, just to catch anybody who might have
> missed the last one, so no need to flame me about spamming.
> ...
> See http://www.cat.org.au/pcan for more details.


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Re: [SLUG] Multiple Mice in X

2001-06-21 Thread Andre Pang

On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 01:57:14PM +1000, Crossfire wrote:

> > Does anyone have multiple mice set up in X 4.x?
> 
> What you do instead is define two mouse pointers with different names,
> both as "AlwaysCore" pointers.

has anybody got this working with gpm, as well?

at the moment, i'm doing something like

gpm -M -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2 -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -R ms3

and then pointing my XF86Config file to /dev/gpmdata.  works well (even
supports the scroller via Z-Axis 4/5).

unfortunately, there seems to be a race condition or something in gpm.
the very first time you run it (after startup), the multiple mice work --
but only in the console.  switch to X, and your cursor stays there, dead,
no matter what you do.  gpm -k and rerun gpm, and it works perfectly.
very strange.


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[SLUG] CDDB : selective extraction

2001-06-21 Thread Terry Collins

Hello Folks

Does anyone know of any script/apps to extract wanted entries from the
cddb files?

The current tar.gzip version of the FreeCDDB is about 107Mb before
extraction expands enormously. It would be useful if I could extract
just the artist or music that I want.

If there isn't a facility, and someone has time on their hands {:-)

Best case would be a shell script to just extract files from the
tar.gzip referencing an artist/band name, e.g. wagner, beethoven,
mozart, luke, wagner, nakai, AC/DC, etc.

Worst case would be to comb the existing cddb and copy on a similar
basis. I don't really want to know about every pimply faced youth that
claims they are a rapper {:-)

My brain has invoked the POET's clause {:-).

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Re: [SLUG] Sendmail problem

2001-06-21 Thread Crossfire

root was once rumoured to have said:
> RH 7.1
> 
> Server install
> 
> Sendmail is accessible by "telnet localhost 25" but not by
> "telnet "mail.mydomain.com 25" even though localhost and 
> mail.mydomain.com are one and the same machine.

I will point at that you should search the archives in the future.
This problem had come up before and was solved on the list too.

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Re: [SLUG] Multiple Mice in X

2001-06-21 Thread Crossfire

Dean Hamstead was once rumoured to have said:
> Morning,

> Does anyone have multiple mice set up in X 4.x?

BTDT.  You do it via XInput.

> If so would you care to fwd the relevant entries in the config file
> 
> Ive a PS/2 and a USB mouse and i would like to use two. Not two cursors
> (that would be neat though) but the normal "multiple influences" type of
> arrangement.
> 
> Kernel does multiple USB mice for you, but alas, not ps2 as well (maybe
> some one could send a patch to add ps2 mouse to the mice device)

Uh, no - that'd be wrong.  The /dev/input/mice interface is a
simulated stream, /dev/psaux is real, live raw data.

What you do instead is define two mouse pointers with different names,
both as "AlwaysCore" pointers.

XFree86 v4 handles this nicely.

Its a lot messier to config in 3.3, but you still do it via XInput.

I used to use this arrangement with USB mice + a Laptop trackpad.

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Re: [SLUG] ncpmount: option problem

2001-06-21 Thread Martin


> Yep. That just returns the version number and does not even attempt
> to contact the Novel serve.

i found a copy of the ncpmount manual page on the net and reading it it
seems to indicate that when calling it using "ncpmount" that -o isn't
available as an option:

ncpmount [ -h ] [ -S server ] [ -U user name ] [ -P password | -n ] [ -C
] [ -c client name ] [ -u uid ] [ -g gid ] [ -f file mode ] [ -d dir
mode ] [ -V volume ] [ -t time_out ] [ -r retry_count ] [ -b ] [ -i
level ] [ -v ] [ -m ] [ -y iocharset ] [ -p codepage ] mount-point 

ie. there is no -o there...

there is an -o switch in this bit though:

mount.ncp remote-server-and-user mount-point [ -n ] [ -v ] -o
mount_options 

anyone else confused... :?

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Re: [SLUG] ncpmount: option problem

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Lake

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:00:26PM +1000, Martin wrote:
> maybe a thought. have you tried:
> ncpmount -ov -S blah

# /usr/bin/ncpmount -ov -S  etc.
Unknown option `v', ignoring it

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Re: [SLUG] ncpmount: option problem

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Lake

On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:37:48AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > # /usr/bin/ncpmount -ov -S groucho -U mikelake -A 138.xx.xx.xx.xx
> > /web/http/faculty/ /mnt
> 
> i'm still guessing (not having ncpmount on my system)
> but have you tried
> # /usr/bin/ncpmount -v -S groucho -U mikelake -A 

Yep. That just returns the version number and does not even attempt
to contact the Novel serve.

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[SLUG] Next PCAN Meeting

2001-06-21 Thread Matthew Davidson

Hello,

PCAN is holding it's next meeting tomorrow.  Exciting project,
sharing skills, putting GNU/Linux to use, reusing old hardware, yada,
yada, yada.  This is the last (admittedly slightly OT) posting about
PCAN I'll make to this list, just to catch anybody who might have
missed the last one, so no need to flame me about spamming.

Anybody interested in keeping track of this project, send a blank email
to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or keep an eye on the website.

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(Meeting will probably be held in space behind study room 1. Up stairs,
turn left.  Otherwise, ask at enquiries desk.)

At our last meeting we resolved to find potential hosts for our first
"access centre". This meeting we shall be choosing between the
candidates, and setting priorities for getting up and running. Please
come along if you can donate time or know-how, or even if you're just
curious. 

PCAN (pronounced pecan) is a collaborative effort between community
organisations, volunteers, and local government in the Parramatta area.
It exists to provide access to computer technology; supply services,
support, and skill sharing; promote and facilitate computer hardware
re-use; and encourage the growth of employment opportunities within the
community.

See http://www.cat.org.au/pcan for more details.

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RE: [SLUG] Radical Solutions ...

2001-06-21 Thread Steven downing

Adam, 

I think I had similar problems when I went from debian stable to debian
unstable.  My solution was to 'apt-get install x-window-system'  or
something similar (I'll have a look at my notes tonight if you want).  Doing
this a couple of times, and doing a 'dselect --configure-pending' (or something
similar, working off the top of my head here) reinstalled and reconfigured
the x window setup...
A quick explanation is something like this (and DO NOT take this as gospel,
once agin, off the top of my head)
startx sets things up and runs xinit
xinit tries to execute /etc/X11/X which is just a symlink (pointer) to a real
executable Xserver, or it may be another symlink step, i.e from
/usr/X11/bin/XFree86 to /usr/X11/bin/Xfree_SVGA or something.
I can't remember the Debian setup, but it was a pretty logical
way of having a generic symlink pointing to the required
specific Xserver.

And don't worry about wether its X11 or X11R6.  R6 means Release 6 of the
X11 windowing protocol specification, everyone I know runs R6.  Just so
long as they are consistent, which if you have a newly setup Debian
system, then they should be.  If you have mixed in packages from non-
Debian sources (Tempted by a magazine CD, I've done it, and rebuilt
afterwards) then things may have been screwed by that.

HTH


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Re: [SLUG] Sendmail problem: a better .mc file

2001-06-21 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:30:01PM +1000, Del ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> Here is one I use as a basic file to be modified for various
> sites.  It includes various additional security features, fixes
> some problems with the Red Hat and Debian basic versions, etc.
> 
> It involves moving most of your db and config files (like
> userdb, aliases, relay-domains) from /etc to /etc/mail, where
> IMHO they belong.

If I am not mistaken the last versions (>8.10) do so by default.
I can remember that when I moved from 8.9 to 8.10 I had
to move all those files.

And yes, they SHOULD be in /etc/mail.


> divert(-1)

[snip]

> Rfwd: Joke $* $#error $: ${MelissaMessage}

Some nice ideas in your mc file, indeed!


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[SLUG] Multiple Mice in X

2001-06-21 Thread Dean Hamstead

Morning,
Does anyone have multiple mice set up in X 4.x?
If so would you care to fwd the relevant entries in the config file

Ive a PS/2 and a USB mouse and i would like to use two. Not two cursors
(that would be neat though) but the normal "multiple influences" type of
arrangement.

Kernel does multiple USB mice for you, but alas, not ps2 as well (maybe
some one could send a patch to add ps2 mouse to the mice device)

Thanks in advance

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Re: [SLUG] ncpmount: option problem

2001-06-21 Thread marty

> # /usr/bin/ncpmount -ov -S groucho -U mikelake -A 138.xx.xx.xx.xx
> /web/http/faculty/ /mnt

i'm still guessing (not having ncpmount on my system)

but have you tried

# /usr/bin/ncpmount -v -S groucho -U mikelake -A 
138.xx.xx.xx.xx /web/http/faculty/ /mnt

?

marty

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Re: [SLUG] ncpmount: option problem

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Lake

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:00:26PM +1000, Martin wrote:
> maybe a thought. have you tried:
> ncpmount -ov -S blah

No I had not. I just tried:

# /usr/bin/ncpmount -ov -S groucho -U mikelake -A 138.xx.xx.xx.xx /web/http/faculty/ 
/mnt
Unknown option `v', ignoring it
Logging into MACHO as MIKELAKE
Password: 
ncpmount: Invalid argument in mount(2)

# /usr/bin/ncpmount -vo -S groucho -U mikelake -A 138.xx.xx.xx.xx /web/http/faculty/ 
/mnt
Unknown option `-S', ignoring it
usage: /usr/bin/ncpmount [options] mount-point
Try `/usr/bin/ncpmount -h' for more information

So -ov gives Invalid arg and -vo gives Unknown option for -S

a few more combinations.

# /usr/bin/ncpmount -v -o -S groucho etc
Unknown option `-S', ignoring it

# /usr/bin/ncpmount -v o -S groucho etc
ncpfs version 2.2.0.17

and I've tried -o -v also.

Umm..? The man pages says:

"-v Print  ncpfs  version  number.  It  has another meaning
(verbose) if you specify -o on command line. If you are
interested in version, type ncpmount -v without another
options."

So Im lost as to how to get debugging info. 
I am 'apt-get source ncpfd' ing now... :-(

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Re: [SLUG] Kernel Support for Dual Port INTEL Pro100

2001-06-21 Thread Graeme Robinson

I'd be careful - I've found a board with the intel pro integrated that doesn't 
work with the linux driver (the eepro100).  Board was an intel desktop board 
though, an 815 something - don't have access to details. Came with intergrated 
agp, sound also. Found confirmation on the web of another striking trouble with 
it.  The driver sometimes loads but zero packet transmission and 100% 
collisions.

Quoting Ian Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hi All
> 
> How does Linux handle those Dual Port INTEL Pro 100 Network cards?  Can
> they
> be used as two interfaces eth0+eth1 ?
> 
> Anyone used these? Kernel 2.2.19 or 2.4.X ??
> 
> Specifically I am looking at the DELL Poweredge rackmount servers that
> have
> these integrated and only one PCI Slot
> 
> TIA Ian
> 
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[SLUG] Kylix Comments

2001-06-21 Thread Wayne Keyser



Good morning Sluggers

Has anyone had some real development experience with Kylix and if so what are
your thoughts. How does it compare in functionality and depth to say Delphi 5.
Is it as good as the marketing makes out? How easy is it to port delphi
apps...etc

Thanx
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RE: [SLUG] Radical Solutions ...

2001-06-21 Thread Matthew Palmer

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Adam F. Bogacki wrote:

> The piece below should have read
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 15 23:52 /etx/X11/X ->
> ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86

Phew.  I was getting a bit worried that there were bigger issues running
around here.

> It seems I am running 'X11R6' rather than 'X11'  -  whatever that means.

They're the same thing.  The current release of the protocols and whatnot is
R6, of the 11th version of the X Windows system.  XFree86 (better called
XFree, as it's not just for Intel anymore) is an implementation of the
protocol suite.

On a Linux system, it's assumed you're running X11R6 (AKA X11).  The
important distinction is which release of XFree you're running - 3.3 or the
newer and sexier 4.

If you've upgraded, you should have XFree 4.  You can check it by doing

dpkg --list xlib6g

and see what comes up.  If ther version is something in the range 4.0.x,
then you've got XFree 4, and the symlink originally provided is all good. 
If it's 3.3.6 (or similar) then you're still running the older XFree, and
should probably upgrade.

> I thought I had recently upgraded via apt-get . I guess I'll have to
> reboot into the Debian drive and try
> 
> ls -l ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86

Assuming that you do that from the /etc/X11 directory.  Symlinks are
relative to the location they're located.  So doing the command above if
you're in, say, /usr/share/doc/xserver-common will not get you what you
want...


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Re: [SLUG] Meeting details for newbie

2001-06-21 Thread Scott Howard

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:40:25PM +1000, Crossfire wrote:
> > - How long is the drive from UTS to the airport?
> 
> Well, from Town Hall to the Domestic Airport took me 20-30 minutes by
> taxi last time I tried it IIRC.

Central station is only a few mins from where the meetings are held, and
from there the trains to the airport run every 10 mins, take 10 mins, and
cost $10 (quicker and cheaper than a taxi for 1 or 2 ppl).
There are buses from central to the airport too, but they are slower and
less frequent, although cheaper ($6.50 one way). A taxi will take about
20 mins, and cost you about $20-$25 (more if it's after 10pm)

  Scott.

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Re: [SLUG] Kernel Support for Dual Port INTEL Pro100

2001-06-21 Thread Jan Schmidt

You can address them as individual eth0 + eth1 ports.

Alternatively, in 2.4 you can turn on the 'Bonding driver support' and 
turn them into a combined single interface, provided this is supported at 
the other end as well either by another linux box also running Bonding,
or by something like a Cisco switch or a Sun machine running Sun Trunking 
software (which is Sun's name for the same functionality). Cisco call it
Etherchannel.


J.

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:50:30PM +1000, Ian Ward wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> How does Linux handle those Dual Port INTEL Pro 100 Network cards?  Can they
> be used as two interfaces eth0+eth1 ?
> 

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Re: [SLUG] Sendmail problem

2001-06-21 Thread Martin

Del blurted out:
> 
> Install the sendmail-cf package, and look at /usr/share/sendmail-cf/cf/redhat.mc

actually there should be an mc file in the sendmail rpm... have a look in
/etc and /etc/mail for it...

delete the same lines, recreate the cf file, restart sendmail...

later
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Re: [SLUG] Sendmail problem

2001-06-21 Thread Jeffrey Borg

Hi all

Speaking of sendmail and interfaces,

Is there anyway to get sendmail to log on which interface/ip the mail is
received?

Why I am asking, I have a satellite setup here and using the satellite ip
as the lowest MX, then the perm modem is next then a external mail server
as 3rd, I am just curious as to when the satellite fails.

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Re: [SLUG] RE: MCA Startup problems

2001-06-21 Thread Entropy

I will go and have a look at the irq situation...this is one thing i haven't
even thought about...how dumb...anyway i'll do that now...and yeah i did set
it to "pnp no". I don't think its a stuffed nic since it works fine under
w2k. Its a generic Tekram8139 and otherwise works fine. No packet loss etc.
No scsi devices installed, don't have a scsi card in the deb. box. Yeah I
thought as much as removing the bit from the kernel, the reason why I
mentioned it was mainly because of the "hit any key" and it keeps going
thing. Someone else asked about the system temperature...don't think that
matters at all. It does this from a cold boot as well as otherwise. System
temp. doesn't go over 38 degrees, ever. (Duron800)

thanks for your input.

dan


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Subject: Re: [SLUG] RE: MCA Startup problems


> > My guess is that you do not have a MCA bus in the boxen and are using
> > the default "everything supported" installation.
> > Compile the kernel and remove support for MCA buses/devices.
>
> MCA is in the default debian kernel.
> I think you should look at the part after that rather than worry about
MCA.
> do you have any scsi devices?
>
> the other thing to look at is a hardware conflict. Which might explain why
> your network transfers are a bit stuffed. Network cards are a likely
> candidate for IRQ/IO conflicts. I would also make sure your bios is set to
> reset the config data and PNP OS is set to No
>
> HTH,
>
> Dave
>
>


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[SLUG] Sendmail problem: a better .mc file

2001-06-21 Thread Del


Here is one I use as a basic file to be modified for various
sites.  It includes various additional security features, fixes
some problems with the Red Hat and Debian basic versions, etc.

It involves moving most of your db and config files (like
userdb, aliases, relay-domains) from /etc to /etc/mail, where
IMHO they belong.

I hate to include attachments like this, but there are tabs that
are significant (can't be replaced with spaces) in what I have
attached, notably in the LOCAL_CONFIG part.

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Del

divert(-1)
dnl This is the sendmail macro config file. If you make changes to this file,
dnl you need the sendmail-cf rpm installed and then have to generate a
dnl new /etc/sendmail.cf by running the following command:
dnl
dnlm4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf
dnl
include(`../m4/cf.m4')
VERSIONID(`linux setup for Red Hat Linux')dnl
OSTYPE(`linux')
define(`confDEF_USER_ID',``8:12'')dnl
undefine(`UUCP_RELAY')dnl
undefine(`BITNET_RELAY')dnl
undefine(`DECNET_RELAY')dnl
undefine(`FAX_RELAY')dnl
dnl
define(`confAUTO_REBUILD')dnl
define(`confME_TOO')dnl
define(`confTO_CONNECT', `1m')dnl
define(`confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST',true)dnl
define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES',true)dnl
define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/procmail')dnl
define(`STATUS_FILE', `/var/log/sendmail.st')dnl
define(`UUCP_MAILER_MAX', `200')dnl
define(`confUSERDB_SPEC', `/etc/mail/userdb.db')dnl
define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,novrfy,noexpn,restrictqrun')dnl
define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl
define(`confCW_FILE', `/etc/mail/local-host-names')dnl
dnl
dnl Local changes -- linuxsecuritycentral.com preferences.
dnl
define(`ALIAS_FILE',`/etc/mail/aliases,/etc/mail/majordomo')dnl
define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN', `24h')dnl
define(`confTO_QUEUERETURN', `7d')dnl
define(`confQUEUE_LA', `12')dnl
define(`confREFUSE_LA', `18')dnl
define(`confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG', `$j, Sendmail $v/$Z; $b.  Security monitoring by 
http://www.linuxsecuritycentral.com/  Public port 25! WARNING... abuse, unauthorized 
access, or spam sent to this host constitutes acceptance of civil and or criminal 
liability by the sender!  You have been warned!')dnl
dnl
define(`confCR_FILE', /etc/mail/relay-domains)dnl
dnl
FEATURE(`no_default_msa',`dnl')dnl
FEATURE(`smrsh',`/usr/sbin/smrsh')dnl
FEATURE(`mailertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable')dnl
FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable')dnl
FEATURE(`domaintable',`hash -o /etc/mail/domaintable')dnl
FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -o /etc/mail/access')dnl
FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl
FEATURE(`delay_checks')dnl
dnl
dnl DNS black hole lists.  I have decided just to use the lists from
dnl mail-abuse.org.  ORBS is a bit too fascist for my taste, and some
dnl of the others don't appear to be updated that regularly.  I'm still
dnl unsure about relays.mail-abuse.org but I'll leave it in for the present.
dnl
FEATURE(dnsbl, `blackholes.mail-abuse.org', `Rejected - see  
http://www.mail-abuse.org/rbl/')dnl
FEATURE(dnsbl, `dialups.mail-abuse.org', `Dialup - see 
http://www.mail-abuse.org/dul/')dnl
FEATURE(dnsbl, `relays.mail-abuse.org', `Open spam relay - see 
http://work-rss.mail-abuse.org/')dnl
dnl
dnl Misc features.
dnl
FEATURE(redirect)dnl
FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl
FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl
FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl
FEATURE(local_procmail)dnl
dnl
dnl Masquerading.  You need to change the domain names listed below.
dnl You may prefer not to use this, but to use a domaintable instead.
dnl
FEATURE(allmasquerade)dnl
FEATURE(masquerade_entire_domain)dnl
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
MASQUERADE_AS(babel.com.au)dnl
MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(babel.com.au)dnl
MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(babel.co.nz)dnl
MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(babel.home)dnl
dnl EXPOSED_USER(`root')dnl
dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
MAILER(procmail)dnl
dnl
LOCAL_CONFIG
#
#  Names that won't be allowed in a To: line (local-part and domains)
#
C{RejectToLocalparts}   friend you
C{RejectToDomains}  public.com

LOCAL_RULESETS
HTo: $>CheckTo

SCheckTo
R$={RejectToLocalparts}@$*  $#error $: "553 No spam here please."
R$*@$={RejectToDomains} $#error $: "553 No spam here please."

HMessage-Id: $>CheckMessageId

SCheckMessageId
R< $+ @ $+ >$@ OK
R$* $#error $: "553 No spam here please."

HSubject: $>local_check_header
D{MelissaMessage}"553 Your message may contain the Melissa/ILOVEYOU virus.  Please 
email postmaster@$j if you have questions."

Slocal_check_header
RILOVEYOU $*$#error $: ${MelissaMessage}
RImportant Message From $*  $#error $: ${MelissaMessage}
RRe: Important Message From $*  $#error $: ${MelissaMessage}
Rfwd: Joke $*   $#error $: ${MelissaMessage}



Re: [SLUG] Sendmail problem

2001-06-21 Thread Del

root wrote:
> 
> RH 7.1
> 
> Server install
> 
> Sendmail is accessible by "telnet localhost 25" but not by
> "telnet "mail.mydomain.com 25" even though localhost and
> mail.mydomain.com are one and the same machine.
> 
> netstat shows the smtp service as running
> expected it to be running on *:smtp.
> 
> Anyone like to pass me a cluestick?  What have I missed?

Red Hat hate you.

For some fsking reason they have decided that sendmail is
"insecure" when listening across a network, and so the default
sendmail.cf file stops it listening on any address other than
localhost.

Install the sendmail-cf package, and look at /usr/share/sendmail-cf/cf/redhat.mc
Find these lines, from 44 - 47:

dnl This changes sendmail to only listen on the loopback device 127.0.0.1
dnl and not on any other network devices. Comment this out if you want
dnl to accept email over the network.
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')

... and delete them.  Rebuild redhat.cf from redhat.mc, and copy
it to /etc/sendmail.cf.  Restart sendmail.

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RE: [SLUG] Radical Solutions ...

2001-06-21 Thread Adam F. Bogacki

Hmmm... I looked at my notes again and, of course, you were right.
The piece below should have read

Eora:/etc/X11# ls -ltr /etc/X11/X

elicited

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 15 23:52 /etx/X11/X ->
../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86

It seems I am running 'X11R6' rather than 'X11'  -  whatever that means.
I thought I had recently upgraded via apt-get . I guess I'll have to
reboot into the Debian drive and try

ls -l ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86

and see what happens. I'll get back to you later.

Adam.



-Original Message-
From: Matthew Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 21 June, 2001 09:18 PM
To: Adam F. Bogacki
Cc: Slug@Slug. Org. Au
Subject: RE: [SLUG] Radical Solutions ...


On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Adam F. Bogacki wrote:

> Upon advice, I ran, as root,
>
> cd /etc/X11
> ln -s ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 X

Fine for an XFree 4 system.  Assumption made.

> running (as root)
>
> ls -ltr /etc/X11/X
>
> elicited
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27Jun 15 23:52

Are you sure that's what it gave you?  Seems to be missing a filename and
destination, to me.

> How do I  "dereference the symlink and find the solution" ?

Basically it involves finding the real physical bytes that are read when the
system tries to open the file.

ls -l /etc/X11/X

find the name of the file pointed to, and ls -l that, until you get a real
live file.  On this box, f' rinstance:

returned 0
mjp16
inductor:~$ ls -l /etc/X11/X
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root   20 Jan 10 11:05 /etc/X11/X ->
/usr/bin/X11/XFree86
returned 0
mjp16
inductor:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/X11/XFree86
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  root  1496892 May 9 03:12 /usr/bin/X11/XFree86

This means, then, that when the system tries to open /etc/X11/X, it's really
going to get /usr/bin/X11/XFree86, a 1.4MB executable file.

Since symlinks can point to other symlinks multiple times, in some cases you
need to do that process several times.  At the end, you should get a real
file, or a 'no such file or directory'.  If you get that, you've got a
dangling symlink.

In this case, you should get a result very similar to the one I showed
above.  If you don't, you have some interesting issues that need working
out.  Let's see what transcends from this.

Basically, a positive result (sort of) is finding that we have a big hulking
file with execute permissions at the end of your symlinks.  If this is the
case, we go looking at other problems.  If it isn't, you're either not
running XFree 4 or you don't have the appropriate packages installed.


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[SLUG] Sendmail problem

2001-06-21 Thread root

RH 7.1

Server install

Sendmail is accessible by "telnet localhost 25" but not by
"telnet "mail.mydomain.com 25" even though localhost and 
mail.mydomain.com are one and the same machine.

netstat shows the smtp service as running 
expected it to be running on *:smtp.

Anyone like to pass me a cluestick?  What have I missed?

Howard (tearing his remaining hair out)

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Re: [SLUG] ncpmount: option problem

2001-06-21 Thread Martin

maybe a thought. have you tried:

ncpmount -ov -S blah

?

later
marty

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Re: [SLUG] ncpmount: option problem

2001-06-21 Thread Michael Lake

Matthew Clark wrote:
> Just a wild stab in the dark, not knowing anything about ncpmount, 
> maybe use a capital V???

A capital V is an option for mounting a Novel Netware Volume by name 
so they use a lower case v for version.
If there is only a -v it version AND verbose if there is a -vo. 
Yeah yuk
 
> If not, there is always the source code.
Yeah but I need to get some new web material up onto the UTS web which 
is now on a Novel thingo rather than the old BSD that it used to be on.
Most times I don't have the time to look at the source.
Yeah I know it sounds a cop-out but hell I even put my car into a garage 
these days for an oil change.
 
Thanks for the stab anyhow :-)

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Re: [SLUG] Just finished "Just for Fun"..

2001-06-21 Thread Anthony Rumble

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Jamie Honan wrote:

> >Perhaps some of us who were there during Linus's '95 visit should write
> >up something about it, what happened, where he went, what notable things
> >occured, and put it up on say Linux Australia's site, as I am sure there
> >are people interested. Especially in the "Tridge" conspiracy :)
>
> Here's my summary, some of which was reprinted in the Linux Journal.
> Lucy Chubb took some photos, which I think were taken up by some
> US magazines.
>
> The day after, we went for a picnic on Shark Island in the harbour.
> This was also a success, the day was stunning. There were a lot of
> photos taken, perhaps when they're developed some could be put on ftp,
> so those who didn't come can live it vicariously. The harbour was awash
> with spinikered sailing boats.

Some other highlights that came to mind.. after the cruise, we were all
kinda bored, so a few of us including Linus decided to go see some Sydney
sites.. We heard he is fond of Guiness, so we took him to the rocks to get
one ON Tap! After that we took him to Manly to see the spit, as well as
some other Sydney sights. Around dinner time, he told us about his desire
for a steak.. and we found this place in Manly called "Rumps 'n' Ribs"..
He was quite impressed with a menu that ONLY contained meat.

Afterwards (And this is where it gets wierd) we all headed to Kirabili
where there was a party being held to toast Gareth Powel's demise (After
his roasting on Littlemores Media Watch).. (Organised by the
aus.flame.gareth-powell newsgroup regulars)

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Re: [SLUG] Boot problems

2001-06-21 Thread David Kempe

I have had this and I just needed to check over the config options to make
sure i hadnt missed anything and recompile again.
Perhaps you have a bad compile?

Dave


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Subject: [SLUG] Boot problems


Hi everyone,

I am running debian potato 2.2, and I have downloaded and
compiled a 2.4.4 kernel
and when I reboot, it doesn't even get past the"  loading..."
part.
And I have updated lilo and updated debain to be able to run this kernel
but it seems to not want to work,
Any ideas would be very helpful

Thanks in advance Paul


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Re: [SLUG] RE: MCA Startup problems

2001-06-21 Thread David Kempe

> My guess is that you do not have a MCA bus in the boxen and are using
> the default "everything supported" installation.
> Compile the kernel and remove support for MCA buses/devices.

MCA is in the default debian kernel.
I think you should look at the part after that rather than worry about MCA.
do you have any scsi devices?

the other thing to look at is a hardware conflict. Which might explain why
your network transfers are a bit stuffed. Network cards are a likely
candidate for IRQ/IO conflicts. I would also make sure your bios is set to
reset the config data and PNP OS is set to No

HTH,

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Re: [SLUG] RE: MCA Startup problems

2001-06-21 Thread David Kempe

> My guess is that you do not have a MCA bus in the boxen and are using
> the default "everything supported" installation.
> Compile the kernel and remove support for MCA buses/devices.

MCA is in the default debian kernel.
I think you should look at the part after that rather than worry about MCA.
do you have any scsi devices?

the other thing to look at is a hardware conflict. Which might explain why
your network transfers are a bit stuffed. Network cards are a likely
candidate for IRQ/IO conflicts. I would also make sure your bios is set to
reset the config data and PNP OS is set to No

HTH,

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RE: [SLUG] Radical Solutions ...

2001-06-21 Thread Matthew Palmer

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Adam F. Bogacki wrote:

> Upon advice, I ran, as root,
> 
> cd /etc/X11
> ln -s ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 X

Fine for an XFree 4 system.  Assumption made.

> running (as root)
> 
> ls -ltr /etc/X11/X
> 
> elicited
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27Jun 15 23:52

Are you sure that's what it gave you?  Seems to be missing a filename and
destination, to me.

> How do I  "dereference the symlink and find the solution" ?

Basically it involves finding the real physical bytes that are read when the
system tries to open the file.

ls -l /etc/X11/X

find the name of the file pointed to, and ls -l that, until you get a real
live file.  On this box, f' rinstance:

returned 0
mjp16
inductor:~$ ls -l /etc/X11/X
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root   20 Jan 10 11:05 /etc/X11/X -> /usr/bin/X11/XFree86
returned 0
mjp16
inductor:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/X11/XFree86
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  root  1496892 May 9 03:12 /usr/bin/X11/XFree86

This means, then, that when the system tries to open /etc/X11/X, it's really
going to get /usr/bin/X11/XFree86, a 1.4MB executable file.

Since symlinks can point to other symlinks multiple times, in some cases you
need to do that process several times.  At the end, you should get a real
file, or a 'no such file or directory'.  If you get that, you've got a
dangling symlink.

In this case, you should get a result very similar to the one I showed
above.  If you don't, you have some interesting issues that need working
out.  Let's see what transcends from this.

Basically, a positive result (sort of) is finding that we have a big hulking
file with execute permissions at the end of your symlinks.  If this is the
case, we go looking at other problems.  If it isn't, you're either not
running XFree 4 or you don't have the appropriate packages installed.


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Re: [SLUG] fsck

2001-06-21 Thread tgreen

> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> 
> >
> >man fstab shows that its the sixth field in /etc/fstab
> >
> 
> Begging the Captain's pardon, I thought that was the *order* of execution of 
fsck.
> 
> Greater minds than I tell me it's tune2fs I want.

I stand corrected - for years I was under the impression that the field in 
fstab controled it.

I'll get back in my box and be quiet! ;-)

Greeno

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Re: [SLUG] fsck

2001-06-21 Thread David Fisher

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:

>
>man fstab shows that its the sixth field in /etc/fstab
>

Begging the Captain's pardon, I thought that was the *order* of execution of fsck.

Greater minds than I tell me it's tune2fs I want.

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Re: [SLUG] fsck

2001-06-21 Thread tgreen

> Evenin' all,
> 
> Just quickly, could anyone tell me where to find the attribute controlling 
> how many reboots between automatic partition fsck on a Debian woody system?
> 
> Ta,

man fstab shows that its the sixth field in /etc/fstab

HTH

Greeno

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RE: [SLUG] Radical Solutions ...

2001-06-21 Thread Adam F. Bogacki

Well, to answer your question it may be best to start at the beginning.
I can't remember what I initially did but on reboot I found myself in
console mode and could not restart X.

Upon advice, I ran, as root,

cd /etc/X11
ln -s ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 X

then running 'startx' as root elicited

/etc/X11/X is not executable, giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (erno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error

running (as root)

ls -ltr /etc/X11/X

elicited

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27Jun 15 23:52

I hope that answers your questions.

How do I  "dereference the symlink and find the solution" ?

Adam.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Matthew Palmer
Sent: 21 June, 2001 05:28 PM
To: Adam F. Bogacki
Cc: Crossfire; Slug@Slug. Org. Au
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Radical Solutions ...


On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Adam F. Bogacki wrote:

> A..
>
> I'm still getting the Delphic reply
>
> "/etc/X11/X is not executable"

What does /etc/X11/X point to?  And what are it's permissions?

Chances are it's pointing off somewhere odd, or the server it's pointing to
doesn't exist.

> I'm in the mood for radical solutions.
>
> xf86config    or a complete re-install ?

Erk.  Neither.  Just dereference the symlink and find the solution.


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Re: [SLUG] fsck

2001-06-21 Thread Stephen Robert Norris

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 08:55:06PM +1000, David Fisher wrote:
> Evenin' all,
> 
> Just quickly, could anyone tell me where to find the attribute controlling 
> how many reboots between automatic partition fsck on a Debian woody system?
> 
> Ta,
> 
> -- 
> David
> 
> "Some weeks it looks like Redmond feels entitled to capture not just part of
> what we save, but all of it.  That just isn't going to fly with corporate 
> America forever.  When your margins are more sensitive to Bill Gates' pricing
> whims than they are [to] the price of oil, that's an untenable position for a
> large company to be in."  - John Chapman, Sr. Technology Executive, Amoco

tune2fs is the tool you want. -i is the option. See the manual page for
more exciting details.

You have to umount the filesystem before tuning.

Stephen

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Re: [SLUG] fsck

2001-06-21 Thread Matthew Palmer

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, David Fisher wrote:

> Just quickly, could anyone tell me where to find the attribute controlling 
> how many reboots between automatic partition fsck on a Debian woody system?

man tune2fs


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[SLUG] fsck

2001-06-21 Thread David Fisher

Evenin' all,

Just quickly, could anyone tell me where to find the attribute controlling 
how many reboots between automatic partition fsck on a Debian woody system?

Ta,

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what we save, but all of it.  That just isn't going to fly with corporate 
America forever.  When your margins are more sensitive to Bill Gates' pricing
whims than they are [to] the price of oil, that's an untenable position for a
large company to be in."  - John Chapman, Sr. Technology Executive, Amoco




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Re: Mutt oddity (was Re: [SLUG] xterm problem)

2001-06-21 Thread Mary Gardiner

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:51:27PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> 
> > It's following the 'From:' header for 'r' and the 'Mail-Followup-To:' header
> > for 'g' (and 'L' for that matter). But I'm not sure if it *should*.
> 
> L only cares about addresses that you've defined as lists. I could set
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a list in my .muttrc and mutt would obey (being the
> good dog that it is).

I don't have 'paul' defined as a list in my .muttrc.

Mary.

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[SLUG] RE: MCA Startup problems

2001-06-21 Thread Terry Collins


> IBM MCA SCSI: No microchannel -bus support present -> aborting.

My guess is that you do not have a MCA bus in the boxen and are using
the default "everything supported" installation.
Compile the kernel and remove support for MCA buses/devices.


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Re: [SLUG] Startup & HD problems

2001-06-21 Thread tgreen

> Hi, 
> 
> during the startup process of my Debian 2.2 box the below device or
> whatever is trying to load, however, the whole boot process just stops
> up untill I heat any key. Then it'll continue as normal. 
> 
Any particular temperature???The 'Scroll Lock' key for 20 mins at 220 
degrees (less for a fan assisted CPU).

Sorry - couldn't help it.

> Message is as follows:
> 
> IBM MCA SCSI: No microchannel -bus support present -> aborting.

Strange - unless I'm mistaken (has happened in the past) MCA is the old IBM 
standard arch (Model 56 days and before).  Is this box of that era?

> My question is, does anybody know why it just stop/hangs? Normally if
> there is a problem it'll tell me that there is a problem etc. and
> continue booting. 

Don't know that one
> 
> 
> I gather this is a hardware problem, though I am curious since the hd's
> are brand new, including the ram and cpu. I have moved the drives around
> from primary ide to slave etc. but with not much luck. This happens
> under RH and Deb. (other things that I have tried are: flashed the bios,
> cleared cmos, removed the cdrom drive and 2nd hd, but problem persisted
> when copying something from my windows box to the linux box through
> Samba, manually set the jumpers on the drives, reset the bios)

If most of the kit is new - I'm gonna hedge my bets that it's not an old Model 
56 (nice old 486).  I would guess one of two things :

1)  Bad kernel config
2)  Bad hardware

with my money gonig on option 1.  You shouldn't have MCA support in your 
kernel - don't have one here to check if its enabled by default though.  Did 
you build the kernel yourself?

Give us some more info (kernel level etc) and any log errors and we'll see if 
any more light can be shed.

HTH

Greeno

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[SLUG] Startup & HD problems

2001-06-21 Thread Entropy



Hi, 
 
during the startup process of my Debian 2.2 box the 
below device or whatever is trying to load, however, the whole boot process just 
stops up untill I heat any key. Then it'll continue as normal. 
 

Message is as follows:
 
IBM MCA SCSI: No microchannel -bus support present 
-> aborting.
 
 
As you can imagine this is just slightly annoying 
since I am not able to reboot the box remotely, for obvious 
reasons.
 
My question is, does anybody know why it just 
stop/hangs? Normally if there is a problem it'll tell me that there is a problem 
etc. and continue booting. 
 
 
Further, I have noticed that when copying files say 
from hda1 to hda2 I am required to continuesly hit any key, otherwise the copy 
process stops as soon as it has finished copying a file accross. ( am able to 
stream movies and music without any problems, without 
interruptions)
 
It'll then continue copying and stop as soon as it 
is finished with the next file. Again, I hit any key and it'll continue copying. 
This also applies to Samba, in either direction. 
 
I gather this is a hardware problem, though I 
am curious since the hd's are brand new, including the ram and cpu. I have moved 
the drives around from primary ide to slave etc. but with not much luck. This 
happens under RH and Deb. (other things that I have tried are: flashed the bios, 
cleared cmos, removed the cdrom drive and 2nd hd, but problem persisted when 
copying something from my windows box to the linux box through Samba, manually 
set the jumpers on the drives, reset the bios)
 
Anybody able to shed some light?
 
thanks
 
 
Dan
 
 
 
 


Re: [SLUG] Kernel Support for Dual Port INTEL Pro100

2001-06-21 Thread tgreen

> Hi All
> 
> How does Linux handle those Dual Port INTEL Pro 100 Network cards?  Can they
> be used as two interfaces eth0+eth1 ?
> 
> Anyone used these? Kernel 2.2.19 or 2.4.X ??
> 
> Specifically I am looking at the DELL Poweredge rackmount servers that have
> these integrated and only one PCI Slot


I use them with both the 2.[24] tree's and they work fine.  They are addressed 
as eth0 and eth1 and I have had no problems with them.  

Greeno

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[SLUG] Boot problems

2001-06-21 Thread Paul Younis



Hi everyone,
 
        
        I am running debian potato 2.2, and I 
have downloaded and compiled a 2.4.4 kernel
and when I reboot, it doesn't even get past 
the    "  loading..." part. 
And I have updated lilo and updated debain to be 
able to run this kernel 
but it seems to not want to work, 
Any ideas would be very helpful 
 
Thanks in advance Paul


Re: [SLUG] Kernel Support for Dual Port INTEL Pro100

2001-06-21 Thread Matthew Palmer

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Ian Ward wrote:

> How does Linux handle those Dual Port INTEL Pro 100 Network cards?  Can they
> be used as two interfaces eth0+eth1 ?

I haven't used these ones specifically, but I've use the Tulip 4-port ones,
and they look like 4 separate network cards.  The Tulip(s) performed
sufficiently, though I didn't stress them overly much.


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Re: Mutt oddity (was Re: [SLUG] xterm problem)

2001-06-21 Thread Jeff Waugh



> It's following the 'From:' header for 'r' and the 'Mail-Followup-To:' header
> for 'g' (and 'L' for that matter). But I'm not sure if it *should*.

L only cares about addresses that you've defined as lists. I could set
[EMAIL PROTECTED] as a list in my .muttrc and mutt would obey (being the
good dog that it is).

The strangeness is in an incomplete header that a combination of MTAs has
completed for it... You get some interesting results from postfix due to
this (have a read of the postfix address rewriting docs and you'll see why).

- Jeff

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[SLUG] Kernel Support for Dual Port INTEL Pro100

2001-06-21 Thread Ian Ward

Hi All

How does Linux handle those Dual Port INTEL Pro 100 Network cards?  Can they
be used as two interfaces eth0+eth1 ?

Anyone used these? Kernel 2.2.19 or 2.4.X ??

Specifically I am looking at the DELL Poweredge rackmount servers that have
these integrated and only one PCI Slot

TIA Ian


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Re: [SLUG] Radical Solutions ...

2001-06-21 Thread Matthew Palmer

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Adam F. Bogacki wrote:

> A..
> 
> I'm still getting the Delphic reply
> 
> "/etc/X11/X is not executable"

What does /etc/X11/X point to?  And what are it's permissions?

Chances are it's pointing off somewhere odd, or the server it's pointing to
doesn't exist.

> I'm in the mood for radical solutions.
> 
> xf86config    or a complete re-install ?

Erk.  Neither.  Just dereference the symlink and find the solution.


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