Please remove this email address.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 7:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: redhat-list digest, Vol 1 #7953 - 15 msgs Send redhat-list mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of redhat-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Auto-Download Dependencies (Michael Mansour) 2. Re: under what circumstances should i rebuild initrd.img? (Jesse Jacobs) 3. Re: hotmail mail cleint for linux - It's GOTMAIL (James Pifer) 4. Re: hotmail mail cleint for linux - It's GOTMAIL (Joseph A Nagy Jr) 5. Re: Setting network card speed and duplex (Bill Anderson) 6. Re: Auto-Restart daemon (Bill Anderson) 7. Re: What distribution works well with old computers? (Stephen Kuhn) 8. Re: WinXP->Samba startup probs (Edward Dekkers) 9. sendmail relay a domain (Patrick Nelson) 10. Re: Anyone try Webmin? (Mike Burger) 11. Virtual Directory For Web (Brent L. Cox) 12. Re: Virtual Directory For Web (Kirby Lynx) 13. Re: USB and RedHat (Bret Hughes) 14. Re: What distribution works well with old computers? (Bret Hughes) 15. Re: USB and RedHat (Bo Peng) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 16:45:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Mansour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Auto-Download Dependencies To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can use up2date like: up2date --solvedeps libcrypto.so and that should grab you the package you need. Michael. --- Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does anyone know if there is a tool that I can > install in Red Hat 9 that > when I'm installing something that it will go and > grab the files it > needs?? Something that makes Linux work like > FreeBSDs' package system? > > I'm trying to install Ethereal and it refuses to > install because it > needs me to install other things first. Normally > this isn't such a > problem however, it wants libcrypto.so.0.9.6.1, and > when I Google for > it, I get openssl. I installed openssl-0.9.7b and > Ethereal still says > that it's not installed. > > Anyone have any ideas? > > Thanks in advance!! > > Scott > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com --__--__-- Message: 2 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 20:08:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: under what circumstances should i rebuild initrd.img? From: "Jesse Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Robert, Thanks 4 the clarification. A HUGE thanks for your effort re: the devel. kernel. Looks like 2.6_pre is gonna get out soon. :) (saw a post from Linus May 23) I don't use labels. But it's nice to see the pitfalls prior to stepping in um'. Have u patched your tree with Andrew Morgan's patch set? Thanks again, j Robert P. J. Day said: > On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Jesse Jacobs wrote: > >> Hello Robert, >> >> I have to admit, I'm still inexperienced with all this stuff. >> >> I haven't made an initrd in a while now. >> >> What'd ya think o the new xconfig? Sweet eh! > > yup, especially *my* contribution (he said, ever so smugly). > >> Seriously though, My understanding was that an initrd.img was only >> required if you built as a module the file system on which the "/" and >> subsequently the "/lib/modules/2.5.X" location on. From which >> additional modules could be loaded. > > one difference i recall is that, if you use an initrd.img, the mounting > of the root filesystem is done in userspace with tools that understand > LABEL= entries in your /etc/fstab file. > > if you don't use an initrd.img, the mounting is done by the kernel, > which does *not* understand labels. that's what i got burned by > once upon a time which inspired me to start looking into this a > little more carefully. > > and (also from memory), there's more to it than just that these > days. > > in short, even if you don't need any particular modules to just > mount your root FS, there are other reasons for using an initrd. > > rday > > p.s. some of the intricacies for initrd are in the > Documentation/initrd.txt file in the kernel source tree, but > that file seems fairly out of date (2000). > > any pointers to a newer version somewhere? > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list --__--__-- Message: 3 Subject: Re: hotmail mail cleint for linux - It's GOTMAIL From: James Pifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: RedHat List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 04 Jun 2003 20:10:53 -0400 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those of you using gotmail, I started using it today based on your emails. It's awesome, but for some reason mine bombs on a specific email I get periodically. It's an HTML email. Here's a snipet of the error message. I could attach the whole thing, but it's kind of big. Any ideas what could cause this? I joined the gotmail mailing list but haven't seen any messages or even the one I tried to post. Net::SMTP=GLOB(0x832512c)>>> </td> Net::SMTP=GLOB(0x832512c)>>> </tr> Net::SMTP=GLOB(0x832512c)>>> </table> Net::SMTP=GLOB(0x832512c)>>> </body> Net::SMTP=GLOB(0x832512c)>>> </html> Net::SMTP=GLOB(0x832512c)>>> Net::SMTP=GLOB(0x832512c)>>> Net::SMTP=GLOB(0x832512c)>>> --Boundary.11111111.11111111-- Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x92, with no preceding start byte) in substitution iterator at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Net/Cmd.pm line 409. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x92, with no preceding start byte) in substitution iterator at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Net/Cmd.pm line 409. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x92, with no preceding start byte) in substitution iterator at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Net/Cmd.pm line 409. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x92, with no preceding start byte) in substitution iterator at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Net/Cmd.pm line 409. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x92, with no preceding start byte) in substitution iterator at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Net/Cmd.pm line 409. Thanks, James On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 11:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alle 17:49, martedì 03 giugno 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > > Alle 17:25, martedì 03 giugno 2003, Juan Nin ha scritto: > > > From: "Vij Chau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > I am checking out evolution. But i cannot add a "http" account. > > > > I cannot poll mails from my hotmail account. > > > > Is their anything I am missing?? > > > > > > no, the problem is, as I said before that none of them can check hotmail > > > accounts since it uses http > > > > > > check out an app called getmail (I think that's the name..) > > > > > > regards, > > > > > > Juan > > > > It's gotmail (not getmail). I have it (if you don't find, I remeber I had > > some troubles in finding it). I have this version > > gotmail_0.7.7.tar.gz > > Found it http://www.nongnu.org/gotmail/ > > Achille > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list --__--__-- Message: 4 Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:16:56 -0500 From: Joseph A Nagy Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Joseph A Nagy Jr To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: hotmail mail cleint for linux - It's GOTMAIL Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] James Pifer wrote: > Those of you using gotmail, I started using it today based on your > emails. It's awesome, but for some reason mine bombs on a specific email > I get periodically. It's an HTML email. > > Here's a snipet of the error message. I could attach the whole thing, > but it's kind of big. We thank you for not sending any attachments to the list! :) > > Any ideas what could cause this? I joined the gotmail mailing list but > haven't seen any messages or even the one I tried to post. > > Net::SMTP=GLOB(0x832512c)>>> </td> > Net::SMTP=GLOB(0x832512c)>>> </tr> > Net::SMTP=GLOB(0x832512c)>>> </table> > Net::SMTP=GLOB(0x832512c)>>> </body> > Net::SMTP=GLOB(0x832512c)>>> </html> > Net::SMTP=GLOB(0x832512c)>>> > Net::SMTP=GLOB(0x832512c)>>> > Net::SMTP=GLOB(0x832512c)>>> --Boundary.11111111.11111111-- > Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x92, with no > preceding start byte) in substitution iterator at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Net/Cmd.pm line 409. > Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x92, with no > preceding start byte) in substitution iterator at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Net/Cmd.pm line 409. > Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x92, with no > preceding start byte) in substitution iterator at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Net/Cmd.pm line 409. > Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x92, with no > preceding start byte) in substitution iterator at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Net/Cmd.pm line 409. > Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x92, with no > preceding start byte) in substitution iterator at > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Net/Cmd.pm line 409. > > Thanks, > James <snip> I too have started using it and have no complaints what so ever. I even set it up as a cron job (once an hour it checks). -- Wielder of the mighty +1 LARTsaber of Unsubscribe Instructions At End of Message, the +3 Clue-by-Four of No Attachments to a Mailing List, and the -4 Shield of No Spell Checker --__--__-- Message: 5 Subject: Re: Setting network card speed and duplex From: Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Date: 04 Jun 2003 18:25:28 -0600 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:11, Mike Burger wrote: > Have you tried mii-tool? > Also ethtool for the cards mii-tool does not work on. -- Bill Anderson RHCE #807302597505773 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --__--__-- Message: 6 Subject: Re: Auto-Restart daemon From: Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Date: 04 Jun 2003 18:27:17 -0600 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 11:52, Yanick Quirion wrote: > Hi all, > > There is a way with linux to automatically re-start a process that has > been killed or crashed? I'm using vtund and I want to make sure that is > always started. If for some reason the process stop running it should > restart automatically without my intervention. Is there a script I can > put into the crontab for that? You can use daemontools, by Dan Bernstein. You could get to them from www.qmail.org -- Bill Anderson RHCE #807302597505773 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --__--__-- Message: 7 Subject: Re: What distribution works well with old computers? From: Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Kuhn Media Australia Date: 05 Jun 2003 10:30:33 +1000 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 16:26, Paul Sutcliffe wrote: > i want to run linux in a workstation i have tried with rh7.2 and it run slow also i have tried with mandrake9.1 and it run too slow. > What distribution works well with old computers? like a pentiumMMX > 233MHz > -- > Paul Sutcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Pro Naturaleza Paul, I don't quite know what else you have with that particular system, but I've completed putting together a server/workstation that was an Intel 233mhz w/256mb RAM and a PCI TNT/2 w/32mb of RAM that actually ran like a champ with RH 7.3 (optimised, tweaked and the likes). With the graphics card and the added RAM (along with three hard drives to load balance) I was rather surprised at the "snappiness" of the machine overall - and even though it was GOING to be used primarily as a server, it's being utilised as a workstation as well - does quite nicely for word processing and surfing whilst still being a file server (Samba, mail, intranet). -- Thu Jun 5 10:25:00 EST 2003 10:25:00 up 11:18, 3 users, load average: 0.74, 0.46, 0.22 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Don't assume that every sad-eyed woman has loved and lost -- she may have got him. --__--__-- Message: 8 Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 08:32:13 +0800 From: Edward Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WinXP->Samba startup probs Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've started puttting out WinXP boxes on my network - not through choice, > however I've got a problem with them. > > If I have mapped network drives onto another M$ box everything is fine. > > If I have mapped network drives onto a Samba service (RH7.3+errata) the drives > don't connect, and show in 'My Computer' but with red 'X' agains them. > Double clicking on them then re-connects, but sometimes a password is > requested first. > > Although I think it's a WinXP problem, I was wondering if any Samba users out > there know how to fix it. I noticed you aven't gotten a reply on this yet. My personal experience is that Windows XP PROFESSIONAL (you don't mention which on you are using) does this SOMETIMES, not all the time. (The red X thing I mean). However I've never been asked to re-verify my password when clicking on them, they just re-connect. I've always just put it down to 'one of those Gates things'. Regards, Ed. --__--__-- Message: 9 Subject: sendmail relay a domain From: Patrick Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: RedHat List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: www.neatech.com Date: 04 Jun 2003 18:31:56 -0700 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] have RH72 with sendmail-8.11.6 We get mail for multiple domain names at, say, mailserver1.neatech.com and I would like to send inbound mail destined for one domain, say, thisinbounddomain.com to another sendmail server, say, mailserver2.neatech.com Then mail destined for another domain, say, thatinbounddomain.com to still another sendmail server, say, mailserver3.neatech.com for delivery. It seems that this is what the mailertable is for, but I can't seem to get it working... Anyone understand this better? O'Reily Sendmail is somewhat crytic on an answer. --__--__-- Message: 10 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 20:42:46 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Anyone try Webmin? Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been using it for years. I've got it on all the servers which I administer, and even a few that I don't. <G> On 4 Jun 2003, David Cary Hart wrote: > http://www.webmin.com > > I have been experimenting with this for remote administration but it > works great locally as well. This should be a real plus for someone new > to Linux. The Postfix module is excellent as well. > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a message of: subscribe --__--__-- Message: 11 From: "Brent L. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Virtual Directory For Web To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 21:51:07 -0400 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What entry in the htpd.conf would I have to put in to add a virtual directory to apache like you would do for MS IIS. Example I have a share mount on my linux box from a MS Windows system I would like to add that directory to my web on my linux box how would I do that by editing the htpd.conf file Thanks, Brent --__--__-- Message: 12 From: "Kirby Lynx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Virtual Directory For Web Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 9:55:23 +0800 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can use alias. ---------------------------------- >What entry in the htpd.conf would I have to put in to add >a virtual directory to apache like you would do for MS >IIS. >Example I have a share mount on my linux box from a MS >Windows system I would like to add that directory to my >web on my linux box how would I do that by editing the >htpd.conf file > >Thanks, >Brent > > >-- >redhat-list mailing list >unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ---------------------------------- Kirby Lynx Amid CO.LTD [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------- Kirby wrote this at 09:54:57 2003-06-05 --__--__-- Message: 13 Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 21:35:50 -0500 From: Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: USB and RedHat To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 17:48, Matthew Richards wrote: > Hello All, > > I am wondering if anyone can tell me what the score is with USB and RedHat? > > I am using using 7.3 and am having a little difficulty with USB devices. I have followed the instructions in http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/book1.html with only partial success. I have also fooled around with /sbin/hotplug to no avail. I guess what I am most interested to know is whether or not using USB with RH73 is relatively simple like your average linux task, am I missing something? > > Also, I noticed that USB support is not enabled by default in my configuration (I run RH73 out of the box with only the @web server and @anonymous ftp server packages installed). To enable any sort of USB support I must insmod usbcore.o and usb-uhci.o. Is there a way of turning on USB support, like through the /proc file system? > RedHat 7.3 on Sony viao laptop: I have had very little problem with usb. I use a MS intellimouse and a Dazzle flash reader with no problems . I notice that the following line is in /etc/modules.conf alias usb-controller usb-uhci I think it was done automagically since I don't remember doing it. HTH Bret --__--__-- Message: 14 Subject: Re: What distribution works well with old computers? From: Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 04 Jun 2003 21:38:49 -0500 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:56, Marcos de Souza Trazzini wrote: > WOW !!! or you're too patient, or you really optimize your Linux BOX > running on a Pentium 120... Congratulations.... > Why? here is my firewall at home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bhughes]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 29496 28920 576 0 12936 10192 -/+ buffers/cache: 5792 23704 Swap: 256024 1696 254328 [EMAIL PROTECTED] bhughes]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 5 model : 2 model name : Pentium 75 - 200 stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 89.815 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : yes coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 bogomips : 178.99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] bhughes]$ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) --__--__-- Message: 15 Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 21:32:20 -0500 From: Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: USB and RedHat Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:48:07AM +1000, Matthew Richards wrote: > I am wondering if anyone can tell me what the score is with USB and > RedHat? I am using redhat 9 and have no problem with usb devices. The USB mouse and keyboard are detected and configured automatically. I can mount /dev/sda1 etc immediately after I insert my USB2 mobile harddrive (actually a cheap USB2.0 enclosure + 80G Harddrive). -- Bo Peng --__--__-- __ redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list End of redhat-list Digest -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list