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modem problem
by author 17 Feb '02

17 Feb '02

Red Hat 7.1 kernel 2.4.2-2 recognized my modem and I had no problems with it. It's an internal ISA GVC 5634 BTS 56K set to PnP. Red Hat 7.2 knows its there. I can see it listed as unknown under hardware. But 7.2 refuses to have anything to do with it. Using minicom, I contacted the modem via ttyS2, but when I try to telephone: minicom -d 9866722 I get a segmentation fault in both xterm and on the command line. I then created a link, ln -s /dev/ttyS2 modem but it made no difference. Duh? Maybe I'll reinstall 7.1 and try to find out what it did that 7.2 is not doing. Anyone got any ideas?

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File system question again
by author 15 Feb '02

15 Feb '02

Just so I get it right, could someone tell me how much disk space to give "/" ? I'm installing Red Hat 7.2 and I've got 14 gigs of extended space on the hard drive. This is the intended plan: /dev/hda7 / space ? hda8 /boot 100 megs hda9 /var 3 gigs hda10 /usr 8 gigs hda11 /home 100 megs hda12 /swap 2 x memory = 768 megs Can I expect any complications from Red Hat 7.1 boot menu? I suspect its taken over the MBR. That's one reason I have not wiped RH 7.1 though its practically useless now. I hope its not holding my Win98 and Slackware7.1 hostage. Any advice would be very welcome. I'd like to get RH7.2 going this weekend.

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Wanna Bid?
by Ian T. 12 Feb '02

12 Feb '02

http://www.bcbid.gov.bc.ca/data/docs/rfp01.doc -- Cheers! Ian.

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Sendmail/multiple domains/aliases/RedHat 7.1
by Raymond J. Henry 09 Feb '02

09 Feb '02

OK, here's the scoop - I've got a system running with a couple of domains on it. RedHat 7.1, sendmail 8.11.2-14, Apache, DNS, et all. Everything is running smoothly. This box has the localhost set to my first domain name, and no localdomain specified. I'm upgrading (replacing) the system, and would like to do this without actually shutting the first system off until the second one is online and ready to go. I should note at this point that I took the easy way out when I set this up in the first place - I'm running an OvisLink router. This make directing traffic to an IP easy, so I can get applications running one at a time.... Now, the second system.... I've set an alias for the localhost, and set the local domain to the domain name (localhost) of the first system. When I first attempted to name the original system whatever.mydomain.com, I lost all communications outside the local network (this is why I used the domain name for the localhost name, it worked). So, now we're down to the issue.... I'm getting ready to start directing the traffic through the router to the IP of the new system, and I already know I'm going to have problems with due to the way I've specified the localhost and localdomain names. I've gone through tons of documentation, and have been unable to find whatever it is that I'm missing. A quick sendmail test results in an error stating that the domain of the sender does not exist. It simply does not like an alias in front of the domain name... What *AM* I missing?

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Microsoft WINS.... at MPI
by Chung, Damian 06 Feb '02

06 Feb '02

Well I've talked to some of you at MUUG Meetings about this issue, but I'm afraid it's a losing battle unless I can manage to show the public how there is NO BENEFIT TO CONVERTING TO WINDOWS! Manitoba Public Insurance is planning to convert our extremely reliable AIX/UNIX environment into a "One vendor, Microsoft Solution". In all of 2001, we only had 9 min of Prime-Time Down Time. Why? The business case is for a thin client, web based application. Why not JAVA? I just sat through a presentation from Gartner Group, where they explained how good JAVA is and how it can run in different environments... but MPI should migrate to a .NET strategy. Hmmmm, just proves you can pay Gartner to skew data, and say anything you want. When questioned on why Gartner believed that mindshare was higher for .NET rather than JAVA, when .NET doesn't even exist, they couldn't answer us. The Cost? Estimated $50 million over 8 years. Plus added day to day electricity/infrastructure costs of supporting 70 Intel boxes compared to 2 IBM p680 RS/6000. This is being pushed by some of the MPI Executive, and almost everyone in IT is against it. But what more can we say? We all still need jobs. EDS is also pushing for microsoft... but I don't understand how you can hand EDS a mulimillion dollar contract without an RFP. So if you want to help fight this battle against "communism", email your MLA, the Public Utilities Board, the President of MPI. If Microsoft does win, where do you think that $50 million is coming from? For now, I'm scheduled to start my MCSE training in a couple months. Anyone need an AIX Administrator? Thanks for reading through my entire rant. Damian resume available

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MUUG Meeting, Feb 12, 7:30PM -- IMP, open-source web-based e-mail
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <a3pp4j$5ah$1(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> ------ From gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux) The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, February 12. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: IMP - A Web-based E-mail Solution Using Open Source Tools Companies are being challenged daily by their employees to provide access to company information from various locations. E-mail is one such source of information and can be accessed using Web-based tools. This presentation will focus on IMP. IMP is the Internet Messaging Program (formerly, among other things, the IMAP webMail Program), a web mail system and a component of the Horde project. IMP offers most of the features users have come to expect from their conventional mail programs, including attachments, spell-check, address books, multiple folders, and multiple-language support. John Schulz, from Pollard Banknote Ltd., is back to present this month's topic. The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ********************************************************************** Please note our new meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15 PM, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30 PM. Don't be late, or you may not get in. Limited parking is available for free on the street, or in a lot across Ellice from IBM, for $1.00 for the evening. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $2.00 for the evening. ********************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Also note that MUUG maintains two mailing lists, called "muug-announce" and "roundtable". If you're not already on these lists, we encourage you to subscribe now: http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/ The "muug-announce" list is used for monthly meeting announcements (such as this one) as well as other important announcements of interest to MUUG members. The "rountable" list is meant to be a forum for follow-ups to topics discussed at the meetings, or for round-table-style discussion on other topics that come up between meetings. Of course, for this to be effective, we need to reach a certain critical mass. So, please subscribe, and stay involved! -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609 ------ End of Forwarded Article

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Partitioning (again)
by Raymond J. Henry 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

OK, I've wandered about the Web, and read what I could find about partitioning. I don't know if I'm too stupid or what, but I still can't decide how to partition my drive. Perhaps someone could be kind enough to at least give me some pointers in "Linux Partitioning For Dummies" format..... :/ I'm going to be running a 20 GIG drive. The system will be used for a Web server. At this time, DNS, mail, and Apache will all be run off the same machine. As time passes and my level of Linux knowledge grows, more machines will be added to distribute load. For now, concern is not running out of room on any one partition. Being new to this, I have no idea how much room anything requires. Right now, I've just got / and the swap partition. I'd like to make multiple partitions, and play with disk quotas. I suspect I'll be supporting about 6 - 8 small domains on this system, with say a dozen mail users on each domain. Here's the goods on the box: Duron 850 20 GIG IDE HD 512 MEGs RAM RedHat 7.1 (with Apache, PHP, MYSQL, sendmail, DNS, etc.). Hopefully someone can give me some ideas that will make a light go on........

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Gnome=Microsoft?
by author 03 Feb '02

03 Feb '02

Thanks for all your replies. Yes I do know there's nothing wrong with making a buck from free software, otherwise there'd be no Red Hat among other distributions, but I draw the line at Microsoft. I don't want anything to do with their stuff, including their ideas on how things should be run, like .Net. Call me paranoid, but I think .Net is just another way for big bill to slither his way around. I don't even like the idea of .Net compatibility. It's too risky. Microsoft doesn't create these ideas for fun and games. I think .Net is a trap and Gnome is walking right into it. But that's just my opinion. Again, thanks for the information.

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Gnome = Microsoft?
by author 02 Feb '02

02 Feb '02

I read that Gnome will now be based on Microsoft .Net software. How can you have an free opensource OS with Microsoft code in it? Gnome used to claim that they were 'cleaner' than KDE because Gnome had nothing to do with any for-profit company. Now Gnome says using MS code is just fine. I don't want any MS code in my Linux box! Can we get Red Hat to kick Gnome out of the distribution? That is, if AOL doesn't buy Red Hat.

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files system & partitions
by author 30 Jan '02

30 Jan '02

Can I have some advice on which part of the file system to install in which partition? For example: Is there any advantage to install /root in its own partition? Would it be more secure? I'm thinking of giving /usr its own partition incase some application gets nasty. /home would get a separate partition and everything else would go into a 4th partition. Does this sound OK? I hope Red Hat 7.2 allows me to do this if I pretend to be an 'expert'. Any advice would be much appreciated.

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