Information on Linux

Here is where you will find information about Linux that I have gleaned, figured out, etc. When I fool around with my system, here is probably where you will find a lot of things.

Useful Links on Linux
• www.linux.org
  About as "official" as any linux site can get. Links to just about everything involving Linux.
• The Linux Documentation Project
  'Nuff said.

Good Books on Linux
• Ball, Bill, et al. Using Linux. Indianapolis: Que, 1998
  A good clean beginners book. Touches on a little bit of everything, just enough to get started.
• Pitts, David, et al. Red Hat Linux Unleashed. 2nd Ed. Indianapolis: Sams, 1998
  Covers Red Hat Linux 4.2. CD-ROM included. Big thick book. Haven't ploughed through it yet.

Saturday, April 3, 1999.

Got DOSEMU to work. Quite simple actually, just follow the instructions. Now I just have to see if I can get the CDROM working. Back to the instructions.

I ran the DRDOS hdimage that Caldera Thin Clients is giving out for evaluation. Pick it up at Caldera Thin Clients.

Helpful hint: Program doesn't work out of the box with RPMs? Try getting the source RPMs and recompiling. The source RPMs should move all the stuff into /usr/src/redhat. Just go into /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and type rpm -ba .spec where is, well.., the name of the program. Unless someone was really stupid and named the specfile something crazy... Anyways, this will configure and compile a new RPM which will by in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS that might work because it has all the configuration options set for your computer.

Install-sendmail

Looking for a way to configure your personal Linux system so that you can get your POP mail without using Netscape? Want to setup Sendmail to automatically send your mail when you log on? Don't want to learn everything about Sendmail to do it? Try install-sendmail by Donncha O Caoimh. You can get it at his homepage.

You'll need sendmail-8.9.2 to use it. For RedHat 5.2 users, you can get it at contrib.redhat.com. You'll need the sendmail and sendmail-cf RPMs under the architecture of your choice. (I've only checked the i386.)

If you can't get in at contrib.redhat.com, check the RPM repository on rpmfind.net. It'll have just about everything. Or if you want to compile it yourself, try the Sendmail homepage.

You'll also need fetchmail, and procmail installed.

A few notes:
• If you are using the install-sendmail 2.1 from Freshmeat check your sendmail.cf file after it's created. Make sure that the references to procmail are correct. I spend a whole night wondering where my mail was going, only to find out that sendmail was calling /usr/local/bin/procmail, as opposed to /usr/bin/procmail.
• Change the file permissions of sendmail.cf and sendmail.cw to 644, otherwise sendmail barfs. Type chmod 644 sendmail.cf.
• Make sure that the loopback device in started at boot time. This means to make sure that the right 'network' initscript is in the rc.* directory. Use ntsysv or tksysv on RedHat and making sure that 'network' is started on your run-level. To check whether your loopback device is working, type ifconfig, or ping 127.0.0.1. Things should show up.

Current Problem/Project: Compiling GIMP with all it's plugins.