Re: [expert] mail from CGI scripts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What is the proper syntax to call sendmail (or mail) with to set the From: address? - From man sendmail: -f sender Set the envelope sender address. This is the address where delivery problems are sent to, unless the message contains an Errors-To: message header. -F full_name Set the sender full name. This is used only with messages that have no From: message header. If you want to do it all on the command line, try it like this: sendmail -f"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -F"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" messagefile Note that this assumes your message doesn't have a from header already added to it (seems likely based on the situation you describe. - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOf3IOX3IcJJ+eC/CEQL+4wCgs2R3wzk4M4Q+lNzJP693pGbk3fcAoOFV cOkVedK4GKfmoy3vkjMI3Vs3 =ykfB -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Perl scripts won't work???
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, junkmail wrote: Hey, so I'm having a weird problem maybe someone can help me with. I have a simple perl script named test.cgi that generates html (ie a cgi script) which looks like #!/usr/bin/perl # hello.pl -- my first perl script! print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "EOF"; HTML HEAD TITLEHello, world!/TITLE /HEAD BODY H1Hello, world!/H1 /BODY /HTML EOF If I type "perl test.cgi" (minus the quotes) the perl script runs. If I type "./test.cgi" I got the error "bash: ./test.cgi: No such file or directory" If I remove the #!/usr/bin/perl line from the beginning of the perl script and "./test.cgi" again it runs but gives a lot of file not found errors. Have you tried invoking the script with an explicit path like /home/person/test.cgi? What happens? Type "which perl". It should return /usr/bin/perl. If it doesn't, you need to point your perl script to the correct path for perl. - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOfX1BX3IcJJ+eC/CEQKbBgCg3AMmNvtWpvNka2Q/bUOgpfZ849AAn0W4 AU01mGeprSThLOpUFYUQtuD0 =B3eS -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] ssh problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Praedor Tempus wrote: I am having a problem. I connected from work and wanted to ftp from my home box to site to download files to my home box. I can get into my home system but I cannot get out. If I run "ping IP" I get nothing. If I try to ftp to some site, nothing happens. Looking at my /var/log/messages I see (altered to protect the innocent): Oct 24 10:09:26 localhost sshd[2144]: Could not reverse map address 155.*.*.*. This is from my ping attempt. This is from connecting to your box with ssh -- not from the ping attempt! I think it indicates that your server at home could not resolve the hostname you are connecting from. Is this inability to get out from my home box via ANY method an sshd configuration problem or is it an ISP problem? I cannot even ping the address from which I am connected to my home box. The problem is not an SSH problem, that's for sure. have you tried ping www.yahoo.com? It should work, depending on your setup. - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOfX0GH3IcJJ+eC/CEQIWOgCfYOfU6VvRzfpKrPrYENbspXN0eNsAnjZw zuEDsaOAZ4WJMJ9eM9tOITYp =8zMj -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] logrotate
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote:
Let's assume that you have successfully ignored the patches,
and announcements, and ended up with a system (Mandrake 7.1)
that has over 5 MILLION files on its /var/log/mail and /news directories.
Let's also assume that when you type:
[root@db2 mail]# rm *
you get:
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
any ideas what you can do to save your servers? :)
Use find to delete the files one at a time. This will take a while, but it'll
get the job done. Here is a sample find command that might do the trick for
/var/log/mail:
find /var/log/mail -ctime +3 -exec rm {} \;
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Re: [expert] 7.1 on 486
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, George McConnell wrote: will 7.1 not install on a 486? I think 7.1 will only work on Pentium or better. Try Redhat, Debian, or SuSE if you want a current linux distro that runs on a 486. - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOe8j633IcJJ+eC/CEQLP6QCgrRFRHlJOSZUv7SQYxZD6jjC28y8AoP4m VkrN3k/Orm2QHxUwyTnySkcY =fO7+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] syslog restarts and other wierdness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Mike Rambo wrote: the box refused to start the dhcp server daemon with the error that it couldn't bind to the IP address because it was already in use. There is and was nothing else on the same IP address as the server but the only way I found to resolve that problem was to put the server on a different IP address. That's a wierd one I've never seen before. There was probably another computer on the subnet with the same IP address. Now this morning I'm starting to get more complaints that the access problem has returned to some degree. Only a few computers in the school can access one of the important programs. Start by looking at what's changed since the system last worked. Did you accidentally break something while trying to fix things yesterday? Do all of the clients know the new address of the server? After that, start working on network troubleshooting. Make sure your underlying communications between the server and clients works. Once you are confident of this, look at software specific problems like record locking. - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOe8u9n3IcJJ+eC/CEQI4OQCgyfdSZ5PZVStjA0MWc4zkUYrsGMsAnAoe eUaqhVeCzzFj/022U/mHeeCR =Zwu6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] ssh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: I have openssh-2.2.0p1-6mdk installed and the daemon running. If I try to ssh to my own box, "ssh -l praedor 10.0.0.5", it connects and asks for my password. I enter my entirely correct and valid password but then get the message: "Permission denied, please try again." Connecting from school results in the same thing. I can connect, no problem, with ftp. What am I missing here? right now, you're missing your logs. Try to connect to your server using ssh again, and then show us the results from this command: grep ssh /var/log/messages - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOe294X3IcJJ+eC/CEQJoGwCfVWW1lIMkt99DSgmdbcXPBxmwVccAoIUT Hwm4DWN+fnKGVNvVHqByjlQx =i5DU -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] ssh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, you wrote: Next question: How does one go about doing file transfers/ftp over ssh? man scp - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOe52p33IcJJ+eC/CEQKfagCg1ULnZJD09SIKtGAt0mWEKNhBfCQAoLoi UCQZ+STPxiusIx2wHc3D1l7e =wDEG -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] ssh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Richard Humphrey wrote: I have installed the openssh rpm from Mandrakes site. What I would like to know is what do i need to do to get it working properly. Is there a guide somewhere that can walk me through the configuration process? What do I run first? etc... I have posted this to the ssh list but it doesnt generate much traffic? ssh is a secured communications protocol that functions largely as a drop-in replacement for telnet. You need the client program (ssh) to communicate to the server program (sshd). The client program should work pretty much out of the box without any additional configuration. Just connect to the server you want to work on with a command like this: ssh -l username server.name see man ssh for more details and more tricky things you can do. If ssh works, scp will probably work, too. See man scp for more information. The server program will require some configuration to make sure it's doing what you want. On Mandrake Linux the configuration file is in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Please see man sshd for details on this configuration information because it can get complex. - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOeYCsH3IcJJ+eC/CEQIpXwCcDAGcQyHSGrjaeE92wb9tnOSqieYAoK5f Fa6/UtfiPI4+ylII5YyPJWfX =T9SM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Sending linux box off to camp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Eric Mings wrote: As far as administration, I have installed ssh, webmin, proftp, and vnc server. Mostly I will use ssh and webmin. I will not have the ftp server or vnc server running except when I want to use them. What do you need webmin for? It's another thing running suid that can be attacked. If you *must* run it, I hope you're running it with SSL so that your conversation and password cannot be sniffed. I would also never use ftp. Since it passes passwords in cleartext. If your ssh is working properly, use scp or sftp. - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOeaIOH3IcJJ+eC/CEQJFrQCeLUOBcvLGcv8I4/krEhH1q6pqMVIAoP1M pSkfw8jOEVtmRdBAEFsUM6FM =Ljtu -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Special Permissions for FTP Server.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Daniel Baker wrote: I have an FTP server to configure for use by a range of clients for the company I work for. The foremost concern that has been expressed is that each customer not be able to go down to the parent directory and see the names of the other users. I have played with permissions and owners Etc Etc. Looked through the docs and not fouind anything to this effect, yet I know it is possible because I had it done to me long ago. It's running RedHat 5.1. Any Ideas or Help any body? First: this is a list for discussion of Mandrake Linux. If I had your problem running a current version of mandrake Linux, I'd look into an ftpaccess file. man 5 ftpaccess - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOeNGY33IcJJ+eC/CEQKOHQCeIGAU0ig8PrFyoH8VbFkEcsUUZHYAoP1O k0QNOftlEwIwEvusZr2812Tv =DPJ9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] No space left on device
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Mike Bergen wrote: On a mandrake 7.1 system my apache error_log filled the root file system up. Normally all I do is delete the error log and go on about my day. It is a development server so i don't worry about errors in the apache logs.(maybe now i will) When i did this this morning it went crazy. Today i get a [root@marvin /]# touch /anyfile touch: /anyfile: No space left on device [root@marvin /]# in my boot messages. but when i do a df /dev/sda1 2885780 1215220 1523972 44% / /dev/sdb3 1533776242668 1213196 17% /downloads /dev/sda6 1170048316916793696 29% /home /dev/sdb5 2656388 2257472263976 90% /usr You could be running out of inodes. Try df -i. Also, I would strongly urge you to put your logs in another filesystem than /. - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOeIOcX3IcJJ+eC/CEQKWMQCgjnKBTA84c5mRBe7tYtae3bQZnzsAoKva qg5wIb4PxlWarA8gjh74JswV =8Jws -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] No space left on device
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Mike Bergen wrote: You hit the nail on the head. How do i cure this? Each file you create, regardless of its size, uses an inode up. When a filesystem is created by mkfs a default ratio is used to determine how many inodes should be created. Since you are running out of inodes, you need to get a large number of files off of the full filesystem. The size of the files is hardly important -- just the number. You can delete the files, or move them. Another option is to archive a lot of little files that aren't used into a tar archive and then delete the individual small files. The archive itself will be one bigger file. - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOeIeRH3IcJJ+eC/CEQJaEACeLZp1j/FInSbAwEYqnzgZnCwFOO4AoMcM PmJT4VaVCGpuXJlrm1tUJ2lY =6k4w -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Cannot Telnet - Message 2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, you wrote: Dear Support, I cannot telnet to my system. I have a rtl100a Compex card which seems to work fine (because I can telnet to another system on the network). If I try to telnet to this system from anywhere on the lan (including this system itself) I get: Trying 192.168.1.2 Connected to sunil.javasolutions.org Escape character is '^]' Connection closed by foreign host Check /etc/hosts.allow. For information on its format and contents, try man hosts_access. - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOdgtvX3IcJJ+eC/CEQIA4QCfa69NbyAfyajISuRVCUFmx8eeoRsAn1wt hWuIfedXPXRZ+o/v+MBcs7Le =fPa5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] bind8 program
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Andrew George wrote: BIND = Berkerly Internet Naming Demon Its the first and best DNS :) Not sure I agree with the best comment. Check out djbdns. http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html It divides the different components of a typical "complete" DNS installation into various components. This makes the code simpler and more secure. In a way, you could compare this like sendmail vs. postfix. Mandrake ships postfix installed, why not djbdns? - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOdSrcX3IcJJ+eC/CEQLd/gCeLJQ8RMhPJIAl3Fp6o5+aqYKwws8AoND4 gxFYDaobNOP70fBL/NRtW579 =d3+a -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Terminal for dos windows
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The best free terminal program for Windows I've found is Terra Term. http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html It performs a nice, solid emulation of terminals, has a history function, and macros. It also has an SSH module -- essential in today's world where vanilla telnet is an invitation to be cracked. - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOdS/7n3IcJJ+eC/CEQIl6QCg47RLO7pn9bcPaEdLZy+H+sPPCcUAnjHM VTkQEfoHueboyuE9arFqEih0 =EiXJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Time and Date synchronization..
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Sarang Lakare wrote: We have lots of 7.0 and 7.1 workstations and a Solaris RAID.. We need to synchronize date and time on all the machines to the RAID.. or all the machines including the RAID to some standard time over the internet. Whats the best way to go about it? ntp. I use the Mandrake rpm (xntp3-5.93-4mdk) and it works great. This is *the* way to synchronize mulitple servers to an authoritative timesource. - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOdTzyH3IcJJ+eC/CEQJEDwCfbQVpQoGydEUR9CIODlfwMaVgAiMAn0+s 7eHttY+OVgvSQ15MmTAhwwAx =6FrS -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Webmin and SSL
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just downloaded and installed the webmin rpm (webmin-0.80-16mdk.noarch.rpm) and it seems to work fine on a testing basis. How do I switch it to use SSL for communications? I have the perl SSL rpm (perl-Net_SSLeay-1.05-4mdk.i586.rpm) installed, too. - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOdUVk33IcJJ+eC/CEQL5MwCgmLWErVK3rLydU5hbTYpplxhHqxsAnRRS jjrqAd8/Bli5EFRSB2uDcL8q =moRS -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Is LESS busted?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed on every Linux box I have here (different versions of Mandrake) that using the command LESS to view the contents of a file always drops one line per page. This happens via telnet, or even if I'm at the console. It appears the status line at the bottom covers up text, and when you hit SPACE for the next screen, that line never gets displayed. I can sort of see it if I use B to go back, but it's definitely weird.If you view a file with only one line, you see nothing!My solution has been to use MORE intead of LESS, but I would think someone would have caught this major problem before. Might I have some config set wrong? Check your environment variables. See if TERM is set to correctly report what kind of terminal you are on. The TERM variable is used by less to figure how many lines are on your screen. If that looks fine, you should check the environment variable LINES. - From the less manpage: LINES Sets the number of lines on the screen. Takes precedence over the number of lines specified by the TERM variable. (But if you have a windowing system which supports TIOCGWINSZ or WIOCGETD, the window system's idea of the screen size takes precedence over the LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.) - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOdUTyH3IcJJ+eC/CEQK2+QCfTRfFa4RmIhIyGLEcaaqvfirh3TEAoIH7 JP+hBq2aa5Yw7Nys9wmoOPbK =+uhv -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Locale problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Vincent Danen wrote: Can you do me a favour? Can you download locales and locales-en from cooker and install them and see if you have the same problem? Others have said that upgrading to locales-2.3-9mdk have fixed the problem. Please try this and let me know because I cannot (no matter how hard I try) recreate this. Upgrading to locales-2.3-9mdk seems to have fixed the problem! Huh? - -- Jim Holthaus (pronunciation: HOLT house) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgpkey.html Learn about PGP at http://www.holthaus.com/jim/pgp.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.1 iQA/AwUBOdUVEX3IcJJ+eC/CEQIP/ACgxZlu62B3T/eBds/wqWGrPyVojd0An2tW pAD9Wn+GU8R5vYk707Rx3ciN =RCVy -END PGP SIGNATURE- Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] Locale problems
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I'm having a problem with my locale setting.
The problem developed after I installed glibc-2.1.3-16mdk. I then installed
locales-2.3-3mdk and locales-en-2.3-3mdk, but the problem persists. This is on
Mandrake 7.0.
Here is a transcript of the errors I get:
$ perl
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en",
LC_ALL = "en",
LANG = "en"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
$ xterm
Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
I can't seem to get the problem to happen in anything else (yet). Any thoughts?
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Re: [expert] Locale problems
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On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, you wrote:
The problem developed after I installed glibc-2.1.3-16mdk. I then installed
locales-2.3-3mdk and locales-en-2.3-3mdk, but the problem persists. This is on
Mandrake 7.0.
So this just happens with perl? Have you updated to the latest perl
from updates as well? Can you tell me what "rpm -qa perl" and "rpm
-qa perl-base" report?
It happens with perl and xterm! One box has the Mandrake perl RPMS as follows:
perl-base-5.00503-10mdk
perl-MIME-tools-4.124-1mdk
perl-Msgcat-1.03-3mdk
perl-IO-stringy-1.207-1mdk
perl-MD5-1.7-9mdk
perl-MailTools-1.13-1mdk
perl-5.00503-10mdk
perl-MIME-Base64-2.11-3mdk
mod_perl-1.21-21mdk
Another box (exhibiting identical problems) has perl built by the CPAN module
to run perl 5.6.0. Both systems have the same problems with perl and xterm.
Here is the transcript again.
$ perl
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en",
LC_ALL = "en",
LANG = "en"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
$ xterm
Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
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