Hello.
Several sources that you can refer to to set up email with dyn ip:
1. PC Quest's Linux Special: http://www.pcquest.com/may98/e-mail.html
2. Project n0vix: http://kgr.home.ml.org/n0vix/
3. There's a offline email HOWTO somewhere, just can't locate it at the moment.
4. Monolith MMD
Hello!
I encountered the following error message when I set my sendmail alias to a
file, with the intention of maintaining an archive of all mail sent to that
alias:
Jun 27 00:43:23 home sendmail[581]: AAA00581:
to=/home/hoeteck/mail/linuxsg-mail, ctladdr=linuxsg-list, delay=00:00:00,
Hello, Matt.
Check out the "ErrorDocument 404" setting in /etc/httpd/conf/srm.conf.
#ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html
Hope that helps.
- hoeteck
On 01-Jul-98 Matt Teagarden wrote:
Is there a way to modify the "ERROR 404 FILE NOT FOUND" and other default
error pages that apache throws out?
Hello!
Do you run Apache? I think it's due to the spawing/forking in apache. Try
decreasing the MinSpareServers, MaxSpareServers and StartServers settings in
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. Hope that helps.
- hoeteck
On 30-Jun-98 Scott wrote:
Greetings -
I have noticed a bunch of process
Hello!
There are several possible reasons why you're not receiving mail. First,
mailbox loopback error, because you didn't configure your sendmail properly (Cw
settings). Second, your system isn't up 24/7. For the second, you'd require
domain mail forwarding facilities, and then you could use
Hello
On 29-Jun-98 Iztok Polanic wrote:
Where can I find a searcher of this mailling list???
http://www.findmail.com/ may be a good start; contains a list of mailing lists,
and archives quite a number too!
- hoeteck
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Hello.
Did anyone manage to get ppp 2.3.5 to compile on kernel 2.0.34? The former
seems to be breaking my kernel .. Can anyone help? Thanx in advance!
- hoeteck
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Hello!
It looks suspiciously like a case of trying to run a binary compiled for libc5
on glibc. I've encountered the same trouble before. libm.so.5 is
otherwise provided by the libc-5.3.12-25 RPM. Try downloading the source
code for rvplayer and recompiling the package, or use the glibc rpm
Hello.
If you'd rather not compile the libs from source, refer to:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/hurricane/i386/qt-1.33-1rh5.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/hurricane/i386/qt-devel-1.33-1rh5.i386.rpm
or any of the ftp.redhat.com mirrors.
The kde beta 4 packages are also
Hello.
Try editting the interface in netcfg, and set the "Allow any user to
(de)activate interface" option on. Alternatively, edit
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ppp0 and set
USERCTL=yes
Thereafter, use the
$ /sbin/ifup ppp0
from command line to activate the interface (the example
Hello.
You might like to give Eudora's qpopper POP3 server a go. As with most POP3
servers, minimal configuration is required unless U require APOP or support for
shadow passwords.
ftp://mudflap.cafes.net/pub/redhat5/qpopper*.i386.rpm
Just make sure that u've got inetd [/etc/inetd.conf] set up
Hello!
Just to share a bit of my experience in configuring PPP in RedHat. It's
essentially different from that for other distro's, as RedHat has created their
own PPP scripts which can be located in the directories
/etc/sysconfig/networking/ and /etc/ppp/. These scripts are best configured
using
Hello, Kevin.
Hmm.. your sendmail woes seem more like fetchmail woes :=)
Just to share some observations from setting up fetchmail mutidrop
configuration. By default, fetchmail identities the intended recipient from the
first Received: line in the mail header, so unless your the first Received:
Hi, hi.
Just some more ideas. I guess it's always possible to back up the configuration
files before installing the new sendmail rpm, though if the rpm had been
properly built, it ought to be able to identify the configuration files and
make a backup of these files instead of overwriting them.
Hello, Richard!
Just some ideas; I haven't tried to compile and install sendmail-8.90 nor
fetchmail-4.4.9 ...
How about downloading the sendmail rpm from ftp.redhat.com at
pub/contrib/grouped/glibc/i386/Networking/Daemons/sendmail-8.9.0-1.i386.rpm
Otherwise, you may wish to telnet localhost
Hello!!
Just some ideas. Try adding the flag -lcrypt to your compiler flags; it's some
RedHat 5 idiosyncrary that caused the trouble, I think. Anyway, why don't you
just download the apache-1.2.6 RPMs (most stable release for 1.2.x) instead from
ftp.redhat.com or its mirrors instead? I also
Hello!
I'd posted a similar question quite recently and was referred to Maximum RPM,
which can be downloaded from www.rpm.org in PS/Latex format. It is indeed a
very valuable reference. For a quick intro, you may wish to refer to the RPM
howto available from the same web-site instead. I've also
Hello.
A quick search on the ftp.redhat.com via http://www.redhat.com/search/ yields
the following diald rpm's on ftp.redhat.com
pub/contrib/grouped/glibc/i386/Networking/Daemons/diald-0.16.5-201.i386.rpm
pub/contrib/grouped/glibc/i386/Networking/Daemons/diald-config-0.16.5-201.i386.r
Hello.
I'm thinking of building a rpm for xfmail 1.3 (final release), but I'm not
ensure how to exactly go about doing it. I've read the RPM HOWTO and man rpm,
but there ain't much examples on the specs settings and other details there. In
particular, I'd like to know:
1. Is it possible to
Hello.
Just to do MetroX some justice .. I managed to get my S3 V to work with MetroX,
except that it will cause some display problems with Netscape 4. Anyway, now
I'm using XFree 3.3.1; haven't had any trouble with it so far except for the
Xserver-wrapper. As for AWE 64, I could only get it to
Hello, David!
You'd have to configure PPP to allow for non-root users to activate the
PPP by changing the line USERCTL=yes in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0
Thereafter, you could activate PPP from the command line by using:
# /sbin/ifup ppp0
Hope that helps. Cheers!!
-
Hello, Fred.
Think that message is created by the imap daemon. It's necessary for users to
download their mail via the imap3 protocol. Hope that helps.
- hoeteck
On 09-Jun-98 Fred Lenk wrote:
Unlike my old rhl3.0.3, this new 5.0 mail keeps one
"read-only" message in every active email
On 06-Jun-98 Andy Lindeman wrote:
Hello Andy.
Could you please elaborate on what your objective is? What do you mean by
aliasing your linux username to your ISP username? Are you trying to have all
the mail on your ISP email account sent to your user account on your linux box?
(This would be
Hello, Zoki.
By default, fetchmail will distribute all the messages downloaded from the
remote host to the localhost at port 25, and they are in turn usually handled by
sendmail. By specifying the mda (mail delivery agent) as procmail, you are
asking fetchmail to relay all messages to procmail
Hello ..
You would have to tell us the error message that you get with using POP3 in
Navigator before we can help. Pine doesn't allow you to receive mail from a
POP3 server; you'd have to use fetchmail to download the mail to your Linux box
first. A good way to check your POP3 server is to do a
Hello.
Add panopticon.club85.com or whatever your hostname is to your
/etc/sendmail.cw. This will tell sendmail to receive email for that domain.
Hope that helps, hoeteck
On 02-Jun-98 Peter Vertes wrote:
Wow !
Thanks for all the super fast replies that I'm getting here. You guys
Hi Patrick.
Just an observation .. it's quite difficult to read your post 'coz it's
punctuated with ''s .. Anyway, are u using the usernet provided by redhat per
se? 'coz there's an updated package from the redhat site usernet-1.0.6-1. Hope
that helps.
-- hoeteck
On 01-Jun-98 Patrick O'Neil
Hi Pete!
I encountered the same problem when I upgraded my fetchmail to 4.4.3 the last
time. Think the rpm for 4.4.3 is buggy. It'll always use the login id
regardless of the user id specified in -u flag. Downgraded back to 4.3.2
thereafter and it's working again !! Hope that helps.
later,
Hello there.
Maybe you'd like to take a look at the PCQuest article at
http://www.pcquest.com/may98/ .. the topic of picking up mail from the pop
account and relaying it to the intended recipients using fetchmail is covered
under the section on email. In fact, the domain in the example there
Hello.
Alright, I suspect that you haven't got the kernel source installed. The
error arises because you don't have a Makefile in the current directory. What
I'd recommend that you do is to download the complete kernel source (eg from
ftp.kernel.org) and recompile your kernel accordingly to the
hello.
I think it's because you don't have ncurses or some other package installed.
Try using either "make config" or start X and run "make xconfig" in xterm. Hope
that helps.
hoeteck
On 26-May-98 GateKeepeR News wrote:
I just ran a make mrproper and then tried a make menuconfig but it gave
Hello.
A good start is always to use the search engine on
http://www.redhat.com/search/ to search the redhat ftp sites. I'm quite sure I
had seen the apache-1.2.6 rpm there. Anyhow, I got my apache-1.3b6 rpm there,
though I'm beginning to have second thots about apache 1.3b6 since it uses more
hello,
think that phenomenon is called forking or spawning, whereby mutiple copies of
httpd are running to cater to the server load. To reduce this figure, check out
the following lines in your httpd.conf:
MinSpareServers 1
# 5
MaxSpareServers 7
# 10
# Number of servers to start --- should be
Hello,
you'd need a POP3 server for that purpose. RedHat 5 comes with imapd which
contains a pop3 server. You could otherwise use qpopper or cucipop, which
should be available from the redhat ftp sites. Try a search on ftp.redhat.com
at www.redhat.com/search/ ? It's not difficult to install a
Hello ..
I'm looking for some documentation/information on how mail forwarding services
like those at Netforward and how web-based email like those at Hotmail work in
general. For the former, is it actually a mass sendmail alias database, or are
there some other ways to handle such services? I
hello, philip.
I'm no guru, but the RH5.0 2.0.31 or 2.0.32 kernel has built-in PPP support. To
find out how to set up PPP on redhat, refer to the PPP-Tips on
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/
cheers, hoeteck
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Hello, Gene.
Try looking for the xforms package instead (xforms-0.88-4) using the RedHat
search engine for the ftp site. Hope that helps.
- hoeteck
On 14-May-98 Gene Wilburn wrote:
Just downloaded the latest Lyx from hurricane/contributions and get this
message when I try to install:
Hello, Sandro.
I managed to get qpopper to work with APOP. In any case, that appears to be a
standard crypt-based problem that often occurs in compiling under RH 5. Try
adding -lcrypt to LIBS in your Makefile. Hope that helps.
LIBS=-lresolv-lcrypt-lgdbm
-
I'm running Xfree86 with RH 5.0 and I'm running into a problem. Got RH
installed fine, ran Xconfigurator and got Xf86 running in root. I exited
Xf86 via the toolbar at the bottom, logged out of root, logged back in as a
normal user, typed 'startx'. Xf86 came up as a grey screen, and never
Hello, Marco.
Just to share some ideas. Would like to know the parameters you used with
fetchmail and if there's a ~/.fetchmailrc. You may like to read man fetchmail
for some additional info. I would usually use:
fetchmail -uusername -pPOP3 mail.isp.com
Anyway, I suppose the SMTP listener
Hello.
did you have a X-link in /etc/X11 pointing to your server?,
as in this ll output:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Apr 23 12:07 X -
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA*
replace XF86_SVGA with your server, if you have not the link
just:
ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_ /etc/X11/X
$ ls -al
Hello.
jdk Also, is it at all possible for ANY clients to utilize more
jdk than one external account, from the same linux account.
XFMail 1.3 onwards allows you to retrieve mail from multiple accounts, be it
POP3, SPOOL or IMAP. http://freshmeat.net will provide you with the
necessary
On 09-May-98 Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
did anyone get my make dep message?
Yes, we did. I suspect your problem lies with an incomplete set of kernel
source/headers. Anyhow, where did you get your kernel source from? Try using
some kernel source from some well-established kernel mirror sites.
How can i set the mounted win96 partitions to be mounted as vfat, as
currently i have no long file names when acessing from rh4.
/dev/hda1 /mnt/dosc vfat noauto,ro 0 0
That's the entry in my /etc/fstab, rick. Now I only have to do "$ mount
/mnt/dosc".
X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- snip! ---
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Hoe Teck Wee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Done a lot of trials with various configuration, but still can't get it to
work. Can someone help me please? Would really appreciate it. Thanx !!
- hoeteck
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Hello, everyone.
I think I got all of these links and permissions right, except that it still
doesn't seem to work. I'm running XFree 3.3.1 and not 3.3.2. Could that be the
problem? Thanx again.
- hoeteck
xserver-wrapper-1.1-1.rpm
$ ls -al /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root
Hello, Alban.
Try checking out the following URL's .. pretty useful info for Linux security
in general.
http://scrye.com/~kevin/lsh/Security-HOWTO.html#toc1
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~jtmurphy/
Hope u'd find these useful.
- hoeteck
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Hello.
I am looking for the following packages:
libcrypt.so.1
libc.so.6
ld-linux.so.2
Check out:
glibc-2.0.6-9
glibc-devel-2.0.5c-10
There may be newer packages available at http://www.redhat.com/errata/
Hope that helps. Cheers
-hoeteck
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Hello, Jill.
However, all mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounces.
It nearly drove my husband nuts today.
The mail comes back with a 550 "we do not relay" followed by 551 "user
unknown"
Appears to be a sendmail configuration problem. Try adding the line
Cwpump.aecom.yu.edu after the
Hello, jdk.
instructions anywhere on what I need to change to make X load a different
window manager than the Fvwm that cam on my RH5.0 CD.
This method will allow u to set a diff wm for each user .. Create a script
named ~/.Xclients as follows:
---
#!/bin/bash
Hello.
On 03-May-98 Ruud de Bruin wrote:
I have problems with installing KDE Beta 4. Whenever I execure KDE with
`startkde`, I receive the error message:
error in loading shared libraries
libg++.so.27: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
Did you install the libg++
Hello there.
regex/libregex.a -lcrypt -ldbm ld: cannot open -ldbm: No such file or
directory make: *** [httpd] Error 1
Could anybody tell me where I'm making the mistake?
I believe RH 5 does not use dbm anymore, it uses gdbm instead. So u'd have to
change the Makefile to amend the flags to
Hello.
I installed the RH5 xserver-wrapper-1.1-1, but didn't manage to get it to work
properly, in spite of having followed the instructions on the erratas page.
Anyhow, I made some changes after that, and can't remember what the original
settings were. Now, the permissions and links for the X
Hello, Jeff.
A general note: you need to provide us with the error messages !!
1. Logging-in to RH 5.0 takes a long time
Err.. does RH stop at sendmail for a long time?
2. Attempting to run XF86's latest with AS causes X11 to crash return
me to the commmand-line (but works under
Hello.
I notice that the screen blanks after a period of time with RH5
Can I adjust the time period?
Can I have something moving on the CRT instead of just blank?
I actually make use of the built-in power saving mode for my VESA monitor by
using the SuspendTime and power_saver options in my
Hello, everyone.
My RH42 is not having a good morning. When I powered up the system, it
appears to start normally; however, when it gets to the "Starting sendmail:
sendmail" in the boot seq, everything stops. If I do a Ctrl-Alt-Del, it
shuts back down and reboots the systemwhich of
Hello everyone.
I'm just a little curious about how most of you get your cron tasks to work,
especially with the recent correspondence on cron tasks. I'm using anacron
myself, 'coz cron doesn't work quite well on non-24/7 systems since the
computer is probably off when the tasks are supposed to
Hello.
I was trying to get qpopper 2.41beta1 to work with APOP support in RedHat. The
following are the amendments I made to the Makefile and popper.h in order to
resolve the char definition conflict errors and the missing gdbm headers
problems.
in Makefile
-
DBM_LIBS=
Hello.
2. The httpd command activated at boot time is not running now at the time
the computer launches. When I try and launch the command manually by
typing httpd it gives the the error
"bind:port already in use
could not bind to port 80"
and I have to type control c to exit.
How can
Hello.
Install the XFree86-devel-3.3.1 RPM. That contains all the necessary headers
for compiling X apps. Took me a while to find that out too! :)
On 22-Apr-98 Al Justrabo wrote:
Hello. While trying to re-build qt-1.33 from the source (rpm -bb
qt-1.33.spec, in RedHat 5.0), it stopped with
Standard answer: Did u check out the PPP Tips on
www.redhat.com/support/docs/RHL/ ??
On 20-Apr-98 Herisanu Nicolae wrote:
I have an ungly ppp problem.
After I'm connected, (got my username passw )
i can't get a ppp conection.
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Hello.
need to setup a nameserver. 1. Using redhat's netcfg tool, under the
section of nameservers would I have to enter the ip of the primary
nameserver only?
Yupe, but as a norm, it is advisable to enter the ip of your secondary
nameserver as well. Do key in your hostname too! All these
hello.
"#make menuconfig" has some trouble on my system due to the ncurses package i
think. I actually do make xconfig instead in an xterm running in X. Hope that
helps :) BTW, the kernel readme has lots of useful info on compiling the kernel.
- hoeteck
Make menuconfig seems to fail on
Hello.
Let me see if I could help ..
The system in question is running RH5.0...
1) I altered my settings for localhost and domain name etc. in
netcfg and now sendmail hangs for ages when I start the box up..
Okie, try the X-based network configuration netcfg or check out
Just an observation. I used to have some trouble along these lines until I
realise that the cause of the problem is actually the Reply-To: address, or the
From: add if you didn't specify a Reply-To: --- make sure that the add is the
same one that you used to subscribe to the list! Hopefully
Hello.
[hoeteck@home /lib]$ rpm -qf /lib/libpwdb.so
pwdb-0.54-6
Hope that helps :)
Before I ask the obvious question, yes I am stupid :). However,
that is beside the point. Where do I easily find pamconfig --- should it
not be part of the pam RPM? also, the library needed -- should
Hello.
I have installed the xserver-wrapper-1.1-1 and Xconfigurator-3.26-1 RPM's, but
I still can't get XFree to run properly for a user after removing the suid bit
in XF86_S3V. Presently, /etc/X11/X is a sym link to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3V
(with suid on), and /usr/X11/bin/X is a sym link to
Hello.
Just to offer some ideas based on my own experience. Have U installed the
XFree-Devel package?
[hoeteck@home hoeteck]$ /sbin/ldconfig -p | grep "libX11"
libX11.so.6 (ELF-libc5) = /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libX11.so.6
libX11.so.6 (ELF-libc6) = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
Hello.
I'm not sure if this'd solve the problem, but note the error message .. the
server must be suid root.
[hoeteck@home hoeteck]$ ls -al /usr/X11R6/bin/XF*
-rws--x--x 1 root root 1895996 Nov 5 23:52 /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3V
Try the same command, and check if your server is indeed
Hello.
In fact, I used to face similar problems with S3 Virge / MetroX when I run
Netscape 4.04 too. The problem was solved when I switched over to XFree 3.3.1.
It's apparently a documented bug with the MetroX server for S3 Virge.
- HT
On 01-Apr-98 Paul Fontenot wrote:
I have just
Hello.
I'm still quite new to network operations, but this is as far as I understand
from my own experience.
I actually drafted an introduction to some of the considerations behind
setting up an Internet server on dynamic IP and a non-24/7 connection at
Hello, Pete!
How about just getting an X-based email client such as xfmail
(http://freshmeat.unreal.org/) that supports POP3, IMAP, etc? Or pine? You'd
have to provide us with some details too .. Do you mean download email from
your ISP, or receiving email directly on your Box? For the latter,
Hello.
I'm using a Philips Brilliance 105 which is a VESA-compatible monitor. I've
checked out www.xfree86.org and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/Monitor, but I'm still
unable to obtain modeline settings for the following resolutions:
VESA/75 800 x 600 @ 75 Hz non-interlaced
1152 x 864 non-interfaced
Greetings.
I'm running RedHat 5 and Windows 95 on a 3 GB hard-disk, and in a recent
attempt to resize one of my Win95 partitions with Partition Magic, I obtained a
'overlapping partitions' error message. Appended is the output from fdisk in
linux.
Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 787
For example;
Now I can send mail the below format.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ns is the my machie name.)
But, I can't send mail in the below format.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
so, I was taught that
1. edit sendmail.cf file and
2. locate the line calls "DM" (aligned left) and change it to :
I need a Windows type setup program for my PPP connection to my provider. I
am having problems connecting. I have allready tried ezppp but I still
cannot connect. I can connect with Win95 and NT. I have heard about xisp
How about just using netcfg that came with RedHat 5? Refer to the
You'd have to tell us what are the errors you get. Make sure you've the
necessary libraries installed. May need the updated libc6 or ldconfig listed at
www.redhat.com/errata/ too if you're using redhat 5.0.
A LSM, if i'm not wrong, refers to a linux software map and is merely a
listing of
I don't recall saying anything about POP3 and sendmail affecting each
other, but I do recall stating a fact the exchange is broken in the POP3
department.
Try using qpopper as a POP3 server instead. The imap package provided with RH
5 (which provides the default POP3 server) is apparently a
Well, I tried compiling xfmail 1.2 from source before. Took quite a bit of
effort, but it worked eventually. Am using xfmail 1.3 now. Smaller executable,
a couple more features. Download the rpm from hurricane in contribs at the
redhat ftp mirrors.
On 15-Mar-98 Greg Fall wrote:
Anybody built
Hello.
I am running sendmail 8.8.8 on my linux box and
it just will not accept email from a Microsoft Exchange Server.
Have U tried checking comp.mail.sendmail? That might be more relevant. Read
some postings about Microsoft Exchange (not in any detail), and apparently some
replies mentioned
Can anyone tell me the contents of chat-ppp0?
I have a sample displayed at:
http://home.pacific.net.sg/~slwee/xnovice/ppp-tips/ppptips1.html
with some accompanying notes. Comments are welcome.
Hope you'd find that useful.
- HT
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How would I go about connecting to my ISP w/o opening up netcfg
everytime I want to get online?
I suppose every now and then, we'd get the same questions popping up on the
mailing list ... :=)
Use netcfg to configure the scripts, confg files, etc. Then do
/sbin/ifup ifcfg-ppp0
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