Op 19-10-2023 om 21:50 schreef Greg Wooledge:
Once the spam stops coming from your system, then you can try to get your
IP address removed from all of the DNS spammer lists. Usually there's a
web form you can fill out. Or the listing may expire after a while.
I've seen many postings over the
Op 20-10-2023 om 05:10 schreef David Wright:
On Thu 19 Oct 2023 at 13:30:53 (+0200), Gertjan Klein wrote:
I don't intend to send mail from this machine myself, I want mail from
the system (e.g. unattended-upgrades) delivered to my personal
mailbox.
I wouldn't expect /then/ to see m
Op 19-10-2023 om 15:00 schreef Greg Wooledge:
Traditional Unix terminal- or command-line-based MUAs inject new messages
into the outgoing mail queue by piping them to /usr/sbin/sendmail.
That means, as I believe Stefan pointed out, that they leave
authorization to this single program, for all
Op 18-10-2023 om 18:30 schreef David Wright:
On Tue 17 Oct 2023 at 19:41:43 (+0200), Gertjan Klein wrote:
gklein@parvos:~$ cat /etc/passwd | grep gklein
gklein:x:1000:1000:Gertjan Klein,,,:/home/gklein:/bin/bash
On my (bullseye) system, that field is what is used to get my full
name.
It&#
Op 17-10-2023 om 23:20 schreef Greg Wooledge:
On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 09:50:13PM +0200, Gertjan Klein wrote:
I do appreciate it. If I switch to bsd-mailx I have something that should
work. Although I'm concerned by the statement (on the Debian package page)
that it doesn't speak SMT
Op 17-10-2023 om 20:40 schreef Greg Wooledge:
On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 05:43:55PM +0200, Gertjan Klein wrote:
While this is more an annoyance than a showstopper for me, I would like
the From address to look like "My name ". Does anyone here
know which program to persuade, and how to p
Op 17-10-2023 om 19:10 schreef Geert Stappers:
On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 05:43:55PM +0200, Gertjan Klein wrote:
I am configuring a new VPS, and decided to try nullmailer to send mail.
I don't want to receive mail on the VPS, I just want the mail the system
generates to end up in my ma
I am configuring a new VPS, and decided to try nullmailer to send mail.
I don't want to receive mail on the VPS, I just want the mail the system
generates to end up in my mailbox elsewhere. This works, but the mail
from address looks like this: "gklein ". This irks me.
My account has my full name
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:42:57 +0800, Hans van den Boogert
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Now I find that the hard drive is constantly "accessed and reset." I mean
>that it seems the disk is being accessed for a second, then goes back to
>inactivity with an almost crackling noise.
This most likely i
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 08:12:07 -0400, Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>doesn't detect it, either. I also notice that the HDD light on my
>generic (Kenitec) case stays constantly lit when the new drive is
>installed. I don't know what to do about it, though.
There's not much point in tr
(without altering the partition table). It does not help
restoring LILO.
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sy and reliable this could be different, of course, but
I don't know of any program that does this.)
Meanwhile, I think the most logical place to put your personal source
code would be /usr/local/src/.
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w to boot from it.
TIA,
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x27;t need all the time moved to modules. Dpkg makes it easy to make
a debian package of the custom kernel and modules, to install on the
low-mem machine. My 4M 386 now has 3260K available memory, and
functions without problems as an IP-masqerading host.
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somewhere on the filesystem itself. Yes, this worked - thanks very
much! On with the next problem (Samba - I'll struggle with the
documentation some more before bothering the list with it ;-)
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to want an extra filesystem automounted
owned by root:disk, so certain users can access it? ("Certain users" in
this case merely means me, as this is for my home system, but I don't
want to have to be root all the time in order to access the partition.)
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ext2. I really don't understand why mount removes the permissions I set
on the directory I want to mount on. What else could I do?
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ppens
with autofs mounted filesystems.
What can I do to fix this?
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squerading Internet
gateway for my local network, without any problems. Beat that, W9x or
NT!)
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lly), it should probably do so with loud noises, bells, and
messages that _don't_ scroll out of view before you've got a chance to
read them (or Control-C out of the whole thing to do a clean first).
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On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:28:54 -0500 (CDT), Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote:
>
>> Interesting to see that this works for W9x. Just out of curiousity: if
>> you go to Control Panel -> System and press the device tab, does it s
that?
Weird. You may want to try installing LILO in the MBR of the first
harddisk, so you can choose before W98 even start and won't need
loadlin.
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Control Panel -> System and press the device tab, does it say
the File System is 32-bit?
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upport being booted from a second harddisk.
I've got it to work for DOS once, but it required patching the DOS
partition bootsector, and I don't know how to do that for W9x (the
bootsector is different).
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a problem, as
the harddisk won't _have_ cylinders over 1024 then. (An exception is
harddisks over 8 GB.) Nevertheless, your suggestion works just as well.
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kg will do for you) to keep things working (the same goes for the
stable partition, of course).
HTH,
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d somewhere: "Trust programmers to abbreviate the
year-2000 problem to Y2K. It is this attitude that got us into this mess
in the first place!" ;-)
Gertjan (programmer, in case anyone was wondering ;-)
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querading
>before I start asking any stupid questions. If there isn't any should we
>consider writing some?
I got it working solely with the mini-howto, and I don't have that
file on my system...
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ely bogus", "intolerant and
demanding", "a lame and inefficient user".
I don't think this was justified, and I don't want to be dragged into
a flame war, so I won't respond other than saying that my mail, although
bearing critisism, was intended constructive, whi
e universal, and apply to
interacting with Linux as well. A sample chapter is available online at
amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/book-excerpt/0672316498/vbtechniques/002-1455712-0642063
It is a really interesting read; it wouldn't hurt if the die-hards
read it ;-)
Gertjan.
active without clearing the mark on the others,
it is broken. At most one partition should be marked active; the active
flag signals the MBR code to boot this partition, and you can't boot
more than one partition at the same time.
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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 10:06:33 -0500 (CDT), Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote:
>
>> The only thing that needs to be below the 1024th cylinder is the
>> kernel (vmlinuz) and LILO's second stage boot loader
>
>Yes, but th
tp://www.linuxapps.com/browse.html?category=util-boot
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not doing Linux or yourself any favors by displaying your
ignorance about other operating systems. More importantly, you are
doing the poster of the question you responded to a serious disservice.
See my reply to his question for a more accurate answer.
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d, just the MBR software
(wiping out LILO instead).
>3. Reboot using my Linux boot disk. Now create a copy of the old (backed
>up) bootsector (file A).
>4. do 'dd if=/dev/hda of=/boot/B bs=446 count=1'
>5. do 'dd if=/boot/B of=/boot/A bs=446 count=1'
All this is
his machine? It has
plenty of disk space I could use for virtual memory, if only it booted
into Linux...
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ed. I still use that one heavily, though.
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efore the system can actually use a partition, a filesystem must be
created with e.g. mke2fs.
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times then, because it doesn't do that here. I'll try
to run that command more often, on more machines, to see if I can
duplicate that. I've often heard people complaining about fdisk, but
I've never actually encountered one myself.
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hrough the MBR of the second HD
(as the default DOS MBR software can only boot partitions on the first
drive). I have done this, and it works.)
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> Is it possible to boot 95 from a logical partition? On a seperate note, is
> it possible to *install* (from CD) 95 onto a logical HD.
To my knowledge, no - but I've never actually tried it.
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indead*
kilu:~$ > "Filename with spaces"
kilu:~$ ls
Filename with spaces
I assume you are now going to tell me that the Linux "design" is
completely braindead too? Or perhaps different rules apply to operating
systems you like than to operating systems you don&#
the harddisk, so it's
unlikely this has something to do with the BIOS. I don't know what
could be the cause, though.
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Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Gertjan Klein wrote:
> Obviously
> these are judgement calls and opinions but when the original hard disk code
> was written decisions were made concerning such things as sizes for device
> storage parameters.
ble of the MBR of any subsequent extended MBRs), then Linux
won't be able to find the partition it is installed to anymore and can't
boot. This could theoretically be fixed by booting from a recue floppy
and restoring the partition structure to it's original state.
manager program such as LILO was installed in the MBR, it will of
course be removed (in fact, this is one thing the command is often used
for).
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the very thing you claim to be impossible running on my system (and
on quite a few others, I might add)? Why do you combine lack of
experience with such strong opinions?
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and then change (with a disk editor) the type to
whatever I wanted it to be.
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hat it creates a list of the physical locations of sectors to load
when booting.
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[*] Actually, the real reason extended partitions were created was as a
quick fix for the (then) MS-DOS limitation of not being able to access
disks that were larger than 32 MB. They removed this limit
on host judy) on host kilu solved the problem. Thanks a lot!
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nds, or
start up the PCs).
Does anyone have any idea what could be the problem? What does "RPC:
Program not registered" mean?
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en font "9x15B", trying "fixed"
$ exit
Script done on Sat Dec 6 18:17:19 1997
Does someone have an idea what could cause this?
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hand, and I also don't feel like creating wrapper scripts around all
mtools commands. I just don't use it anymore.
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t two harddisks,
LILO is trying to warn you here that you may not be able to access this
disk at boot time. If you are sure you can, you can safely ignore this
message. BTW, are you certain it is /dev/hdc, not /dev/hdb?
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(see sig). Although the installation program
is an MS-DOS executable, it installs an MBR that doesn't depend on any
particular OS, and (unlike LILO) doesn't use any other disk space. It
allows you to boot the primary partitions and rewrites itself to disk.
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ng *to* an MS-DOS
file system, it writes long filename entries to the directory.
Apparently it assumes that everyone using DOS filesystems is using
Windows '95. This is not just the default; you can't turn it off (at
least, I found no way to do so - if anyone knows how please let me
know).
the original poster may want to
try something like:
apropos -r '*' | awk '$2 ~ (1) {print}' | less
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not present.
Other than the above, I found your script very useful, and I'll save
it here - it may be useful to check Simtel, sunsite, etc. mirrors too
;-)
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Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Gertjan Klein wrote:
[Upgrading mc]
>> Why? My current version works for me - are the later versions so much
>> better?
> Yes. 3.5.17-1 has real troubles - in particular it is slow and the screen
CD-ROM, especially the /usr/doc parts of
them.
> Better yet is to get an unofficial later version.
Why? My current version works for me - are the later versions so much
better?
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seem to
support .deb packages by default, and neither the .ar files that they
really are (just .tar files).
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ed. I guess I should try to
figure out how to file a bug report, as the absent line in Xservers
seems a bug to me.
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an assumption.
> And here's a copy of the ~/.inputrc I have been using; I think I
> obtained it under similar circumstances. :-)
Why did you send it? It does not do what I wanted.
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may make me switch to that shell.
> I have read that this is fixed
> in bash 2.0, at last, but did not try it yet.
Me neither, and I'm a bit afraid to as messages on the list suggest
that it breaks a lot of existing scripts.
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get the previous command. If you've already typed something, you get
whatever previous command starts with that. This combines the two
functions that bash uses (and needs two keys for) into one. I wish I
could convince bash to work like this!
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ater versions are recognised by
Linux, and then it will take over the translation, but older versions
had problems.
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this, I need all partitioning
information (use the Debian rescue disk to run cfdisk). Don't expect
results very soon, though, as it is quite a bit of work (and I can't
guarantee success...)
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cratch so I can reformat the whole disk.
Turn on LBA or Large mode in your BIOS setup. Linux understands and
supports this, and it gets rid of the 1024 cylinder problem for all
operating systems you mention. You can then partition your HD any way
you like.
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place and run Linux there. This way, I don't need a special
boot floppy, or files on his harddisk. I just insert the ZIP disk and
get Linux. This is only possible using umsdos. (I am a bit surprised,
actually, that Debian doesn't support installation to umsdos).
Thanks for your help,
Ger
t; W95 will overwrite your
MBR, but BC is easy to reinstall.
Your lilo.conf looks OK to me - and from the above messages, LILO
itself appears to be working fine (it's the kernel uncompression code
that complains).
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Jan 1997 15:42:27 +0100 Gertjan Klein ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
>> One of my most serious criticisms is the fact that in spite of the
>> dependencies being known, packages
bes the boot process a bit better.
You'd still need LILO, but you could then install it to the Linux
partition's boot sector (i.e., change the above boot=/dev/hda to
boot=/dev/hda1).
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ding ;-) and tell us what s/he
thinks about the suggestions and problem reports so far.
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[PS - please don't Cc me in your messages directly - I'll get it via the
mailing list, thank you]
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nce!) so users can do this themselves.
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ow dselect should be improved,
> and then to actually implement those improvements.
With the disclaimer that I'm not exactly a *nix guru, I'd like to
contribute to such a group.
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S from a floppy and type
'fdisk /mbr'. Lilo can boot any partition you like; check it's man page.
If you don't like the lilo interface, you may want to check the page in
my .sig; Boot Control provides alternative MBRs that give an (IMHO)
nicer user interface.
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