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Re: [Alug] exim conf request
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 10 Apr '02

10 Apr '02

>> But: I'm not sure whether or not I need to set up a dns server to make >> multidrop work? Seems a bit OTT for my humble home mail. Ricardo wrote: >could you try adding the entries in /etc/hosts? windows also has a hosts file, which is in the same format. I have the ip addresses of the windows computers matched with the computer name in /etc/hosts e.g 192.168.1.101 bascule.jenbass bascule which isn't what I want here - I want fetchmail to know that mail headed to jenny goes to /var/spool/mail/jenny and for rebecca to /var/spool/mail/rebecca, Rebecca then retreives it from bascule when she checks her mail. I'm getting a tad muddled now. Thanks! Jen.

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Unresolved symbol iopl
by Paul 09 Apr '02

09 Apr '02

Hi Folks Just started writing a new driver for an on going project - The user space test program works fine (up to a point). It reads and writes to the correct IO ports as expected, but the user interface is a bit naff. Now the fun begins - Converting this thing to a module, I have all the usual header includes (lifted from an existing driver), and have hacked the basic initialization routines. It compiles without any errors which in it's self might be worrying, but when I load the module, I get an unresolved symbol "iopl" - I thought this thing was a requirement before any IO access could take place. Has anyone come across this before ? Regards, Paul.

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Re: [Alug] exim conf request
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 09 Apr '02

09 Apr '02

Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com <Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com> wrote: > ....mail coming in for $user(a)trx850.uklinux.net all gets > sent to /var/spool/mail/jenny rather than /var/spool/mail/$user. MJRay wrote: >How is the email coming in? I'll send you my config, but it's probably not >what you need. I use fetchmail to grab everything from mail.trx850.uklinux.net. Many thanks for the config file - I've forwarded it home to compare. Jenny

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exim conf request
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 09 Apr '02

09 Apr '02

Hi all, I meant to ask on IRC last night (but was too occupied with talking about food and motorbikes)....is there anyone out there who could send me a copy of their exim.config file, so I can try and see where i am going wrong? I'm trying to set up my home network so that my windows-using family go through my linux box for mail as well as web access.....I've now got as far as windows sending the mail to linux box and it being passed on out of the door correctly, but mail coming in for $user(a)trx850.uklinux.net all gets sent to /var/spool/mail/jenny rather than /var/spool/mail/$user. Which would be fine if I want to sit by my box forwarding mail to the correct owner all day after spying on their conversations, but I don't. I did get my web proxy server to do caching last night - it hadn't hitherto worked because i needed to change the owner of the cache directory to web-user. Simple when you know how, *sigh*. Thanks! Jen.

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Re: [Alug] new kernel install
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 08 Apr '02

08 Apr '02

Many thanks to all for replies to new kernel question: just back at my desk after ten blissful days away. All seems to have gone well, with lilo happy to give me a choice of kernels to boot into....2.4.18 seems ok so far. Let's see if it cures the "do_try_to_free_pages_update" problem! Cheers, all! Jenny.

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 08 Apr '02

08 Apr '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server uk.openprojects.net" or "/server eu.openprojects.net" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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new kernel install
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 08 Apr '02

08 Apr '02

Happy spring, all! I've celebrated by doing my first kernel upgrade. Now, I have gone through all the make stuff, and ended up at make bzimage, with the intention of sticking the image on a floppy for testing. However I've come up with the message "warning: kernel is too large for standalone boot from floppy". How advisable is it to just go ahead and "make install" at this stage? I have copied vmlinz-2.2.18 and config-2.2.18 to vmlinuxOLD and configOLD. Also, is "make bzlilo" like "make install" but also tells lilo about the new kernel image? Thanks! Jen.

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ADMIN: Mailman Upgrade on Tuesday 9th April
by Martyn Drake 07 Apr '02

07 Apr '02

Hi folks, Just a bit of advanced warning that I'll be upgrading the ALUG list manager, Mailman, to version 2.0.9 on Tuesday 9th April at 1pm. There will be a small amount of downtime whilst the archives and the list configs are backup up and the new version installed. Thanks, Martyn -- Martyn Drake | Email : martyn-d(a)moving-picture.com Systems Administrator | Web : http://www.moving-picture.com The Moving Picture Company | Phone : +44 (0)20 7434 3100/ext. 7853

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Would the next iptables expert step forward please.
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 06 Apr '02

06 Apr '02

I meant to post this to the list (which I have now done) but I think that I sent to Mark's address by mistake. MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > I have the recollection that there are modules not obviously related > to > iptables that are required. They are not built automatically > because the > configuration system can't cope with it. Here are relevant options > on this > box. Anything not mentioned is not set or really irrelevant. See > how yours > differ: I religiously set my options to match your list but still got the same unresolved symbols list. So I thought I'd start from scratch. I deleted the kernel source code directory and re-unpacked the source code. Reloaded my saved configuration and re-compiled. Now I'm even more mystified. I get an even longer list which includes some network drivers( 3c59x) which appeared to be ok before: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net/8390.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net/dummy.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_async.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_generic.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/fs/smbfs/smbfs.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_MASQUERADE.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_REJECT.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_filter.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_nat.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/net/ipv6/ipv6.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6table_filter.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/net/netlink/netlink_dev.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.o I can't help feeling that I'm doing (not doing) something very obvious. I have compiled kernels many times in the past and have never had any trouble that wasn't of my own making.

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Re: [Alug] Re: FreeBSD
by MJ Ray 06 Apr '02

06 Apr '02

Ricardo suggested: > Anyone got one of those SUSE live evaluation CD's? I've never used one, > but the concept of playing around in a Linux distro purely off a CD > (without having to play with your HD) makes trying it out a lot easier. Actually, a CD with one of the live Linux demo systems on, a copy of something like zipslack for the Windows/DOS users and copies of network install images for Debian and any others is probably a very good idea for the Install Day. I expect other LUGs participating would like to use such a thing. I'm more than happy to do the artwork and documentation, so who can compile the CD image? Shall we talk about this on IRC on Monday? I expect I can arrange distribution too if required, but hopefully it won't be a full 650Mb (reduce download and burn times... let's not fill the disc with crap just to make up the numbers, but having (for example) key starter docs from the LDP on there is probably a good idea). -- MJR

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