sendmail from source [2]

2002-10-01 Thread m.w.chang
ok, disabling smrsh and adding back mailer(procmail) to config.mc fixed my problem. Seems that I couldn't set the folder permissions and ownership properly for smrsh to work. I would skip smrsh for the meantime after I got all the features installed (libmiler, sasl, auth, ...) now, how could

Re: sendmail from source [2]

2002-10-01 Thread m.w.chang
still couldn't get sasl working... root@server: mail /etc/rc.d/init.d/mta start Starting Mail Transfer Agent: sendmailWarning: Option: AuthMechanisms requires SASL support (-DSASL) Warning: Option: AuthOptions requires SASL support (-DSASL) this is the site.config.m4 root@server: Site pwd

Linux v2.5.40 - and a feature freeze reminder

2002-10-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Merges with all the regular suspects - Al's partitioning, Andrew on VM, USB, networking, sparc, net drivers. And Ingo has been working on fixing up the inevitable details in the thread signal stuff, as well as updating the smp-scalable timer code.

glibc and RedHat 8.0

2002-10-01 Thread Tim Wunder
RedHat 8.0 apparently comes with glibc-2.2.93. http://www.gnu.org/software/glibc says the latest glibc is 2.2.5. RedHat 7.3 shipped with glibc-2.2.5. Should I care that RedHat is shipping a non-standard glibc (if that's what they're doing)? Regards, Tim

[Fwd: Red Hat Linux 8.0 now available on Red Hat Network]

2002-10-01 Thread Lee
Original Message Subject: Red Hat Linux 8.0 now available on Red Hat Network Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 06:45:31 -0400 From: Red Hat Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat Linux 8.0 is now available. Get priority access to the Red Hat Linux 8.0 upgrade by

Re: glibc and RedHat 8.0

2002-10-01 Thread Net Llama!
Well it wouldn't be the first time RH has done something like this (think 7.0 and the gcc fiasco). Is there any info anywhere on what this 2.2.93 really is? On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Tim Wunder wrote: RedHat 8.0 apparently comes with glibc-2.2.93. http://www.gnu.org/software/glibc says the latest

Re: [Fwd: Red Hat Linux 8.0 now available on Red Hat Network]

2002-10-01 Thread Net Llama!
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Lee wrote: Original Message Subject: Red Hat Linux 8.0 now available on Red Hat Network Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 06:45:31 -0400 From: Red Hat Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat Linux 8.0 is now available. Get priority access to the

Re: glibc and RedHat 8.0

2002-10-01 Thread Lee
Tim Wunder wrote: RedHat 8.0 apparently comes with glibc-2.2.93. http://www.gnu.org/software/glibc says the latest glibc is 2.2.5. RedHat 7.3 shipped with glibc-2.2.5. Should I care that RedHat is shipping a non-standard glibc (if that's what they're doing)? Regards, Tim Believe they

Re: [Fwd: Red Hat Linux 8.0 now available on Red Hat Network]

2002-10-01 Thread Lee
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 10:52 am, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Lee wrote: Original Message Subject: Red Hat Linux 8.0 now available on Red Hat Network Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 06:45:31 -0400 From: Red Hat Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat

Re: [Fwd: Red Hat Linux 8.0 now available on Red Hat Network]

2002-10-01 Thread Jim Bonnet
Because people working in a data center rarely have the time to be fighting for space on anonymous ftp servers just to keep their systems up to date. If you've got 250 Redhat based servers, $60 is pocket change to keep them all up to date in a timely fashion. No one, is forcing you to pay $60

I Un-subbed from list

2002-10-01 Thread rplummer
I don't know if this will get through as I've already un-subbed. I un-subbed from the list as I am extremely busy with a bunch of other stuff at this time. I am not running any version of Linux right now and probably won't be in the near future. I would like to say that I have enjoyed being

Re: [Fwd: Red Hat Linux 8.0 now available on Red Hat Network]

2002-10-01 Thread Stuart Biggerstaff
How is this an about server sales following a good desktop? This one is more like RH being the dominant server Linux now wanting to take on Mandrake, et. al. on the desktop. Just what Ransome Love was trying to do, except that the economy and his own public relations ineptitude got in the

Re: glibc and RedHat 8.0

2002-10-01 Thread Tim Wunder
Other than it's a snapshot of the development version, currently at 2.2.94, beats me. I cannot find what it will become when it's released. 2.3.0? 2.4.0? Anybody know? I would've thought that the development version of glibc would be 2.3.x, isn't that the way the gnu folks do things? The

Re: [Fwd: Red Hat Linux 8.0 now available on Red Hat Network]

2002-10-01 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 11:25, Stuart Biggerstaff wrote: How is this an about server sales following a good desktop? This one is more like RH being the dominant server Linux now wanting to take on Mandrake, et. al. on the desktop. Just what Ransome Love was trying to do, except that the

Re: glibc and RedHat 8.0

2002-10-01 Thread Net Llama!
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Lee wrote: Tim Wunder wrote: RedHat 8.0 apparently comes with glibc-2.2.93. http://www.gnu.org/software/glibc says the latest glibc is 2.2.5. RedHat 7.3 shipped with glibc-2.2.5. Should I care that RedHat is shipping a non-standard glibc (if that's what they're

My glibc problem...

2002-10-01 Thread Tim Wunder
Some of you may remember that my updating glibc to 2.2.4, then 2.2.5, on my Caldera eWorkstation 3.1 system has caused me a little grief. Most centering around an error involving an undefined reference to atexit when compiling and/or configuring source code. Well, while reading up on WTF

Re: My glibc problem...

2002-10-01 Thread Net Llama!
binutils-2.11.90 seems to work just fine for me. On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Tim Wunder wrote: Some of you may remember that my updating glibc to 2.2.4, then 2.2.5, on my Caldera eWorkstation 3.1 system has caused me a little grief. Most centering around an error involving an undefined reference to

Re: building sendmail from source

2002-10-01 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 m.w.chang spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: I just wanted to have the auth via pam (and later openldap) option working. do I still need the sasl? I don't know.. i never looked into it as for MILTER, if you added the line to

Re: glibc and RedHat 8.0

2002-10-01 Thread Jim Conner
Well, according to: ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/redhat/redhat/8.0/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ If you scroll down you will see gcc-3.2 and glibc 2.2.93. I hope that they didn't use a devel snapshot of glibc. I don't use RH and I'm not on any of the RH mailing lists. Anybody hear anything about

Re: [Fwd: Red Hat Linux 8.0 now available on Red Hat Network]

2002-10-01 Thread Lee
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 11:25 am, you wrote: How is this an about server sales following a good desktop? This one is more like RH being the dominant server Linux now wanting to take on Mandrake, et. al. on the desktop. Just what Ransome Love was trying to do, except that the economy and

Re: glibc and RedHat 8.0

2002-10-01 Thread patrick Kapturkiewicz
Here are details : http://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/8.0/en/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES Patrick --- Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : RedHat 8.0 apparently comes with glibc-2.2.93. http://www.gnu.org/software/glibc says the latest glibc is 2.2.5. RedHat 7.3 shipped with glibc-2.2.5. Should

Re: My glibc problem...

2002-10-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:54:36 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some of you may remember that my updating glibc to 2.2.4, then 2.2.5, ---snip--- Based on the FAQ's answer of Investigate why the linker does not pick up libc_nonshared.a..., I'm thinking now that binutils may be the

Re: glibc and RedHat 8.0

2002-10-01 Thread Net Llama!
Especially notable are these two: The following packages have been deprecated and will be removed in a future release of Red Hat Linux: o LPRng (although it remains the default print spooler for this release) o lilo o sndconfig o RPM will also suggest package(s) that

Re: RH 8.0 download [was: Re: glibc and RedHat 8.0]

2002-10-01 Thread Net Llama!
Zoki News wrote: *** Freekin' hell! There are FIVE CD's for the new RH!! I am sure it is not going to install on a 150Mb partition like RH 5.0 did... RH-5 was a long long time ago. And some of us would prefer to forget that RH5 ever existed :) Anyhoo, i'm sure that at least of the CD's, if

Re: glibc and RedHat 8.0

2002-10-01 Thread Tim Wunder
OK, so RedHat has done with glibc in 8.0 essentially what they did with gcc in 7.0. That is, taken a chunk of the development version and making a RedHat release of it. From the release notes: o The GNU C Library (glibc) has been updated to version 2.3 code base and includes the

Re: glibc and RedHat 8.0

2002-10-01 Thread Net Llama!
I can't say that i'm overly surprised. Redhat's .0 releases have always been notoriously buggy unstable. Tim Wunder wrote: OK, so RedHat has done with glibc in 8.0 essentially what they did with gcc in 7.0. That is, taken a chunk of the development version and making a RedHat release of

Re: RH 8.0 download [was: Re: glibc and RedHat 8.0]

2002-10-01 Thread Gerry Doris
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Net Llama! wrote: Zoki News wrote: *** Freekin' hell! There are FIVE CD's for the new RH!! I am sure it is not going to install on a 150Mb partition like RH 5.0 did... RH-5 was a long long time ago. And some of us would prefer to forget that RH5 ever existed :)

Re: glibc and RedHat 8.0

2002-10-01 Thread kwall
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:32:59AM -0400, Tim Wunder wrote: RedHat 8.0 apparently comes with glibc-2.2.93. http://www.gnu.org/software/glibc says the latest glibc is 2.2.5. RedHat 7.3 shipped with glibc-2.2.5. Should I care that RedHat is shipping a non-standard glibc (if that's what

Re: glibc and RedHat 8.0

2002-10-01 Thread kwall
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 11:24:43AM -0400, Tim Wunder wrote: Other than it's a snapshot of the development version, currently at 2.2.94, beats me. I cannot find what it will become when it's released. 2.3.0? 2.4.0? Anybody know? Just guessing, 2.3.n, as 2.2.5 2.2.94 2.3.0. I would've

Feature Freeze on 2.5 Kernel

2002-10-01 Thread kwall
Seen on LKML from hizzoner Linus hisself: And a small reminder that we're now officially in the last month of features, and since I'm going to be away basically the last week of October, so I actually personally consider Oct 20th to be the drop-date, .. So, we'll have a new kernel RSN. For some

Re: glibc and RedHat 8.0

2002-10-01 Thread Tim Wunder
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 08:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Should you care? I don't know. Remember GCC 2.96? Or, how 'bout good ole glibc 2.0.7? Better question: what does Red Hat 8.0 have than you just have to have? Better still: can you build it yourself without upgrading the rest

Re: Feature Freeze on 2.5 Kernel

2002-10-01 Thread Bob Raymond
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 02:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seen on LKML from hizzoner Linus hisself: And a small reminder that we're now officially in the last month of features, and since I'm going to be away basically the last week of October, so I actually personally consider Oct 20th to be

Re: Feature Freeze on 2.5 Kernel

2002-10-01 Thread kwall
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:26:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, following up my own post. Whatever. On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:12:56PM -0300, Federico Voges wrote: I haven't been following the 2.5 development. Can someone give me (or point me to) a list of the new

Re: Feature Freeze on 2.5 Kernel

2002-10-01 Thread kwall
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:03:33PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seen on LKML from hizzoner Linus hisself: And a small reminder that we're now officially in the last month of features, and since I'm going to be away basically the last week of October, so I actually

Re: Feature Freeze on 2.5 Kernel

2002-10-01 Thread kwall
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:12:56PM -0300, Federico Voges wrote: I haven't been following the 2.5 development. Can someone give me (or point me to) a list of the new features/differences between 2.4 2.5?? http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/ChangeLog-2.5.40 BTW, can I install a 2.5

Re: Feature Freeze on 2.5 Kernel

2002-10-01 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 18:03:33 -0700, Net Llama! wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seen on LKML from hizzoner Linus hisself: And a small reminder that we're now officially in the last month of features, and since I'm going to be away basically the

Re: Feature Freeze on 2.5 Kernel

2002-10-01 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 21:39:45 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:26:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, following up my own post. Whatever. On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:12:56PM -0300, Federico Voges wrote: I

Re: Feature Freeze on 2.5 Kernel

2002-10-01 Thread m.w.chang
so it would *not* be another drastic change like that from 2.2 - 2.4? great...save some money... :) BTW, can I install a 2.5 on COL 3.1.1 or do I need to upgrade other packages as well?? Beats me. You *should* be able to. -- Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. .~. In Linux we trust.

Re: Feature Freeze on 2.5 Kernel

2002-10-01 Thread Net Llama!
Money for what? Sure its going to be a significant change. The architecture is different, it has new features, different bugs. m.w.chang wrote: so it would *not* be another drastic change like that from 2.2 - 2.4? great...save some money... :) BTW, can I install a 2.5 on COL 3.1.1 or do

Re: My glibc problem...

2002-10-01 Thread m.w.chang
are you merely following the steps in the linux-sxs sites? let me walk your steps again to be sure. still using glibc-2.2.1 that came with WS 3.1. so I am a good rat. some (not most or all) of the linux-sxs articles made certain assumptions that's not applicable to amateurs like me. just the

Re: Converting doc (Word documents) to html in batch mode

2002-10-01 Thread m.w.chang
did you try your luck in http://freshmeat.net? search for document convert or microsoft word html Joel Hammer wrote: Is there a command line tool to convert a word document to html? Thanks, Joel -- Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. .~. In Linux we trust. /

Re: Converting doc (Word documents) to html in batch mode

2002-10-01 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 11:55:33PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: I should add, I am converting word documents to html, then using html2ps to get the postscript, and finally ps2pdf to get nice looking pdf documents with a table of contents, thumbnails, and bookmarks. It is really not too hard, once

Re: Converting doc (Word documents) to html in batch mode

2002-10-01 Thread Marvin Dickens
Joel Hammer wrote: Is there a command line tool to convert a word document to html? Thanks, Joel This will do it: http://software.linux.com/projects/word2x/?topic=332,396,335 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Converting doc (Word documents) to html in batch mode

2002-10-01 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks for the pointer. I found a nice program, wv, which seems perfect for my needs. It is amazing what you can do with linux and opensource software. Joel On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 11:12:12AM +0800, m.w.chang wrote: did you try your luck in http://freshmeat.net? search for document convert or

Re: Converting doc (Word documents) to html in batch mode

2002-10-01 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks for the tip. I already got wv from sourceforge, and it works fine, so I am not going to dull my palm with the entertainment of each new hatched, unfledged courage. (Eat your heart out, Barbara!) Joel On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:35:47PM -0400, Marvin Dickens wrote: Joel Hammer wrote:

Re: [Fwd: Red Hat Linux 8.0 now available on Red Hat Network]

2002-10-01 Thread Iraj Medifar
I don't know about suSE, but doesn't Mandrake do the same thing? Seems to me RH has borrowed a page from them. IM On Tuesday 01 October 2002 07:48 am, you wrote: Original Message Subject: Red Hat Linux 8.0 now available on Red Hat Network Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 06:45:31

Re: RH 8.0 download [was: Re: glibc and RedHat 8.0]

2002-10-01 Thread Rick Forrister
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:30:42 -0400 (EDT) Gerry Doris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Net Llama! wrote: Zoki News wrote: *** Freekin' hell! There are FIVE CD's for the new RH!! I am sure it is not going to install on a 150Mb partition like RH 5.0 did... RH-5 was a long

Re: Converting doc (Word documents) to html in batch mode

2002-10-01 Thread Joel Hammer
Do, I haven't. Since wv seems to work fine on the command line, I think my search is over for now. Thanks. Joel Have you looked at antiword? Bill -- ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: Feature Freeze on 2.5 Kernel

2002-10-01 Thread m.w.chang
I bought the WS 3.1 to avoid the huge upgrade gap from COL 2.4 (kernel 2.2.). ... ok, we got gentoo and linux-from-scratch now, but I am not ready for them. Net Llama! wrote: Money for what? Sure its going to be a significant change. The architecture is different, it has new features,

Re: glibc and RedHat 8.0

2002-10-01 Thread Rick Forrister
On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 17:08:28 -0700 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't say that i'm overly surprised. Redhat's .0 releases have always been notoriously buggy unstable. I've found 8.0 to be neither buggy nor unstable in most aspects. Previous releases of Red Hat, Mandrake, and

Re: Converting doc (Word documents) to html in batch mode

2002-10-01 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 00:17, Joel Hammer wrote: Thanks for the tip. I already got wv from sourceforge, and it works fine, The entire wvXxxx library is a hoot! It's an easy compile and it performs as advertised. It does: html, latex, ps, dvi, pdf, mime and text. I've added this one to my

RH 8.0 download [was: Re: glibc and RedHat 8.0]

2002-10-01 Thread Zoki News
*** Freekin' hell! There are FIVE CD's for the new RH!! I am sure it is not going to install on a 150Mb partition like RH 5.0 did... Jim, thanks for the url. Zoran. - Original Message - From: Jim Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 8:58 PM