Linuxers January 2003

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[OT] Is your PC legal?
by Nikhil Joshi 22 Apr '03

22 Apr '03

Hi! I've observed that somehow people advocating Linux bring morality into picture. They argue about illegal (pirated) Windows and how bad it is (morally) to use one. Here is a checklist for all those paranoid about having their PC legal: (Please add to this list something that I might have missed ) 1. Is your PC or some part of it ( RAM,HDD,graphics card ) bought from grey market ? If yes you can safely assume that it is illegal. The required taxes have been evaded. 2. Do you have Mp3z on your Hard-Disk? Linux or Windows , they are completely illegal ( Why are you making MP3z if you own the CD ? If for giving it to friends then thats illegal too !). Its illegal even if you have burnt them on your CD instead of keeping them on your HDD 3. Do you have DivX/MPEG files of latest movies ? It is illegal. 4. Does your homepage/HDD have gif's. Arguably they are illegal too. (Some compression patent problems I believe) Here's my PC's status: 1. Bought from grey market. I lose the battle in first step itself ;) 2. Yep not a single mp3 on my HDD. 3. not a single MPEG/DivX 4. Dont have a homepage so no gif's created by me that are on the HDD My point: Windows user is on equal moral grounds (regarding legality of his/her PC) if a Linux user satisfies any of the criteria. There cannot be something less illegal. Either it is legal or it is not. P.S. (While I may be sounding Windows advocate let me tell you that I have only two OS'es on my PC : Linux and Dos (the command.com from the rescue disk of Windows 98, which is licensed, but not mine. I guess that's legal too as Microsoft, I guess, does not say that you must possess a legal copy of Windows 98 to use the command.com , Anywayz I use command interpreter of FreeDos) Nikhil

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Garbled text solution
by Amish Munshi 18 Mar '03

18 Mar '03

Greetins, I had posted a few days back asking help for the Garbled text in RH 8.0, I have found that by following these two simple things the quality of the output of the console can be incresed. 1. Setting LANG="en_US" in /etc/sysconfig/i18n (Defaults to en_US.UTF-8). 2. Using frame buffer mode for the console. I used vga=789 as a parameter to my kernel to accomplish this. Bye. -- Amish K. Munshi In GNU we trust.

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could not delete directory
by Hiten Desai 04 Mar '03

04 Mar '03

Hi! I am trying to delete directory with the following name --(a)app.7 (which is autogenerated by amavis) but when I am trying to delete it with rm -rf command it gives me error : rm: unrecognized option '--(a)app.7' how to delete this directory ?? Please help. Hiten. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com

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PHP and apache 2.0
by Amish Munshi 09 Feb '03

09 Feb '03

Hi, I am working on RH8.0. I configured php and apache, but the post or get are not working. Any data sent by the form is not being received by the php page. This is the content of my index.html <html> <body> <form action="trial.php" method="get"> <input type="text" name="amish"> <input type="submit"> </form> </body> </html> And here is my trial.php <html> <body> <?php echo("$amish"); ?> </body> </html> But the output is a blank page, the phpinfo() page is working absolutely fine. The output of the rpm command is as shown below. [root@munshi html]# rpm -qa | grep php php-imap-4.2.2-8.0.5 php-mysql-4.2.2-8.0.5 php-dbg-server-2.10pl3-6 php-dbg-client-2.10-6 php-pgsql-4.2.2-8.0.5 php-ldap-4.2.2-8.0.5 php-manual-4.2.2-8.0.5 php-dbg-base-2.10-4 php-4.2.2-8.0.5 php-odbc-4.2.2-8.0.5 [root@munshi html]# [root@munshi html]# rpm -qa | grep httpd httpd-manual-2.0.40-8 httpd-2.0.40-8 redhat-config-httpd-1.0.1-13 [root@munshi html]# Where should I start hunting for the solutions. Bye. -- Amish K. Munshi In GNU we trust.

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deleting oversized messages without fetching them
by Abhir Joshi 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

When using fetchmail, how do I delete oversized messages from the server without actually fetching them? The man page of fetchmail doesn't help. I want fetchmail to issue "dele #n" command to the server for each oversized message. If fetchmail is unable to do it, is there any other way? -- Abhir Joshi http://education.vsnl.com/abhir/

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Help
by OSP 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

Hi A,ll, We are using Postgres as a database server.We ahave some backend functions which are used for triggers. We frequently get following error since the trigger fails to execute. Error: fmgr info: Cache lookup failed function 'some number'(e.g 5009879). Please guide us, Thanking in Advance, OSP

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email servers at multiple locations- same domain name
by Ashok Iyer 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

Hi, I have the following setup. I have a client who has 10 offices across Mumbai. Each office has approximately 50 people on the LAN. All offices have a linux server that connects to a central office RAS via dial up. LAN users can then access servers located at the central office for nightly database updates etc.. All IPs used are RFC 1918 non-routable type. I want to install mail services for the client. A mail server will be placed at the central location. This mail server will be connected to the internet and receive all mails destined for the organisation - say fooabc.org. There will be mail servers at each branch office also which will handle intraoffice mail - i.e. mails within a single office. I want to know if we can use the same domain name say fooabc.org at each branch location. Essentially, when each branch mail server receives a mail for userA(a)fooabc.org, it should look up a table(or whatever) to find out if userA exists locally in that branch office. If userA exists then it should keep the mail locally. In case userA is at some other location, then the mail should be forwarded to the central mail server. I have a faint idea that LOTUS DOMINO does something like this. I want to do this setup with qmail, I am pretty conversant with qmail and have a few installations also. Can this be done? If not, then how can the same be achieved? Please suggest. Regards, Ashok

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disabling linux single
by Harsh R Busa 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

plz enlighten me about disabling linux single feature of lilo in most redhat systems thanx harsh

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2 minor problems after kernel recompilation..
by Apurva Mehta 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Hi, This is my first post to this mailing list although I have been lurking for a couple of months... I am facing 2 problems with my GNU/Linux box (Redhat 7.2, Kernel 2.4.19) since I installed the 2.4.19 kernel a couple of months ago.. 1) My system does not turn off automatically after issuing the powerdown command.. I have to turn it of manually. Earlier, with the RH 7.2 default kernel (2.4.7-10), the power would switch off automatically. Here are the how the relevant variables are set : CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_APM=m # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y # CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS=y # CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set I got these settings from linuxnewbie.org a couple of months ago. They do not work for me, nor can I explain why they are the way they are. They seem to work for others with a similar problem though. 2) I cannot mount audio cd's anymore. I can play them through gtcd, I just cannot rip them.. The mount command tells me that I got a bad fs type or there are too many mounted filesystems. I can mount normal data cd's easily enough.. Also, what is a good strategy to follow while compiling a kernel? Is it better to make as many modules as possible or the other way round? Are there any particular features which would be better off as part of the kernel image rather than as modules? Currently, I have compiled very few features as modules. Thanks for your time.. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Apurva Mehta PGP Public Key: http://www.geocities.com/theprancinghorse/pgp_public_key.txt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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suse mail server
by kishor bhagwat 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Hi guys, Any idea where i can get the Suse Mail Server?and for how much? regds, Kishor __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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