Re: [ilugd]: Sendmail weirdness

2002-07-10 Thread Leo Fernandez
At 10:15 AM 7/11/2002, you wrote: >So, onto the problem. I've enabled Cw in sendmail.mc to my local >machine name (mail.linux-delhi.org) and added that hostname to >/etc/mail/local-host-names, and despite my /etc/nsswitch.conf listing >hosts and dns in that order, sendmail insists on sending all

Re: [ilugd]: (fwd) here it comes!@#$!

2002-08-29 Thread Leo Fernandez
At 04:44 PM 8/27/2002, you wrote: >Please folks, smoking Raj Mathur may seriously injure your health. >Seriously. > >Ha ! Ha ! >That was a good one Hi Folks, I too smoke! And since no one has noticed am going up in flames Will someone put out the fire please and let's talk freedom? Th

Re: [ilugd]: Sendmail Query

2002-04-18 Thread Leo Fernandez
It's been many years since I did UUCP stuff with ERNET. I do remember hard-coding some rewrite rules in sendmail.cf to deal with the problem you mentioned - but that was with much older versions of sendmail. I haven't checked how recent versions of sendmail handle UUCP especially after everyon

Re: [ilugd]: Sendmail Query

2002-04-21 Thread Leo Fernandez
At 09:29 AM 4/19/2002, you wrote: >1. Please find attached the sendmail.mc file that I have used to generate >the sendmail.cf file. George, In your .mc file you need to define MAILER(smtp) before MAILER(uucp). This will generate additional mailers 'uucp-uudom' and 'uucp-dom' in your sendmail

[ilugd]: Restoring Superblocks

2002-04-21 Thread Leo Fernandez
Hi Anyone around who is a super(man/woman) when it comes to superblocks? My primary hard-disk stops at boot time with Kernel Panic and complains :"file system revision too high". So I boot up from an alternate hard-disk and do an fdisk-l on the problem disk. The partition information shows. N

Re: [ilugd]: Restoring Superblocks

2002-04-22 Thread Leo Fernandez
At 10:41 AM 4/22/2002, you wrote: >Use the -b option of e2fsck. Alternate superblocks are usually found >on block 32768, 16843 or 8193 (depending on whether your EXT2 Raj, Already tried that. No go. Have you used the -S option with mke2fs? or the -r option? Any idea what situations these opti

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-04-30 Thread Leo Fernandez
Raj, The write-up on MySQL though a bit dated does raise well-known issues. I have always failed to get any impression that MySQL was designed for high-end, large enterprise-level mission-critical database management applications with potentially hundreds and thousands of simultaneous transa

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread Leo Fernandez
At 08:11 AM 5/1/2002, you wrote: >MySQL is great, for example, for the typical web-hosting provider who >usually needs a small RDBMS which would accomodate a few hundred >databases with a few thousand records each. I can see that it is indeed very popular amongst such providers. And I also agre

Re: [ilugd]: Restoring Superblocks

2002-05-01 Thread Leo Fernandez
To continue the tale of trying to recover ext2 file system: I have not yet come to the point of trying mke2fs with -S option. But I discovered something called R-Linux a free recovery prog available at www.r-tt.com It is part of a commercial product called R-Studio. These are both windows p

RE: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-02 Thread Leo Fernandez
At 01:32 PM 5/2/2002, you wrote: >I don't see where this discussion is headed. The basic difference between >Oracle and mySQL would be in the area of Query Optimization. Probably, this >And probably, that is why Oracle costs money. mySQL is a good database for >small applications. Before using

Re: [ilugd]: Minutes of meeting regarding Linux in Education Awareness Program

2002-05-26 Thread Leo Fernandez
I've received the hard-disk that will go into the server of a school computer lab and am to set up a Linux server on it with remote boot facilities. I plan to do that with LTSP. I need to setup this server in a way that allows the school to follow their syllabus. We have decided to put in R

Re: [ilugd]: Minutes of meeting regarding Linux in Education Awareness Program

2002-05-26 Thread Leo Fernandez
Ajit Kumar, where-ever you may be enjoying a rain-fed holiday, I wonder if you are following this list. Missed you at the Linux for Schools meet we had on Saturday. Hope you will get into the loop when you are back. In the meanwhile, do I have your permission to distribute copies of the GL

[ilugd]: Linux for Schools

2002-05-31 Thread Leo Fernandez
Hi, Am due to start (today/tomorrow - time permitting) installation and configuration of Red Hat Linux on a 40Gb HDD to be used as a server in a school computer Lab. This an attempt to demonstrate to the school that a Linux server could be used in place of the Novell server they intend to