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Miscellaneous Questions:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael J. Yanowitz)
Sat Nov 9 15:19:56 1996
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 14:17:17 -0600
From: "Michael J. Yanowitz" <yanowitz@stereotaxis.wustl.edu>
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Here is a long list of miscellaneous questions, which I hope
can be a answered:
1) Is pam needed? I don't need any more security than passwording,
so can I safely remove the pam rpm? Also, pam is missing a man
page.
2) Can I add a new user-defined run level 7? If so, how?
3) I am looking for a fax Tip or HowTo, but I couldn't find any
Is there one available?
a) I tried efax, which I could only run as root. Even when
run as root, it told me that connection could not be
established.
b) I tried mgetty and that responded with
/usr/bin/faxspool: newslock: command not found
when I run sendfax.
c) I tried running hylafax and it kept responding with
fax service not available.
All I want is the ability to send postscript and text files
from my pc to a fax machine. Has anyone else got this to
work? If so how?
4) Can I mount a remote Tape drive and printer that are connected
to a Solaris workstation at my office? If so how?
5) Can a non-root user mount and unmount the cd-rom drive? If so how?
6) If rpm package f1.rpm contains /usr/man/fax.1 and this installed.
If I want to install rpm package f2.rpm which also contains file
/usr/man/fax.1, can I a) diff the two man pages before installing,
and b) can I install (without forcing) only files that are unique?
Or have all duplicate files automatically backed up?
7) Is there a way to get emacs (or xemacs) to follow html links? I
know I can run lynx from a shell, but is there an html mode
built into emacs?
8) How do I get netscape ftp to recognize that file ending in,
say .rpm, is a downloadable file?
9) Is there a way to check to see how many rpms depend on the
existence of a certain file?
10) Is there a way to check the present shell type so that I
can do something like:
if (SHELLTYPE == bash)
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
else if ((SHELLTYPE == csh) || (SHELLTYPE == tcsh))
setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0
else
echo ("Unrecognized shell type %s.\n", SHELLTYPE)
11) Can I give away my old Linux CDs such as?:
RedHat 3.0.3
RedHat 2.1
CND Preview II
Slackware
Linux Monthly's
I don't just want to throw them out, but I would like
to give them away. Do they have any exchange value?
Thanks in advance
Michael J. Yanowitz
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