SpamAssassin

$ perl -MCPAN -e shell
o conf prerequisites_policy ask
install Mail::SpamAssassin
quit

gnobog (a Gnome Bookmarks Organizer)

gnobog is a nice
little bookmark app. Since it use galeon, mozilla, konqueror and
other random web browsers, this lets me keep my bookmarks in one
central location.

palm pilot integration

Red Hat does not yet set up a link for /dev/pilot which href="http://www.jpilot.org">jpilot, href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/PalmOS-HOWTO/pilotlink.html">pilot-xfer,
etc use by default.

        ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/pilot
        chmod 666 /dev/pilot

more network configuring...

Set the hostname to be something reasonable instead of
localhost.localdomain by using 'neat'.

Also disable starting eth0 on boot -- it takes a while to timeout when
I'm booting in a wireless mode.

GTK.pm/Net::pcap installed

In order to get Wellenreiter v1.3 (a wireless monitoring tool) to run,
it requires GTK.pm installed. Since I no longer trust 'perl -MCPAN -e
shell' not to screw up my perl installation, I downloaded
Gtk-Perl-0.7000.tar.gz and Net-Pcap-0.04 from href="http://www.CPAN.org">CPAN and manually installed it. Note:
Net::Pcap need to be built this way: perl Makefile.PL
INC=-I/usr/include/pcap LIBS='-L/usr/lib/pcap -lpcap'

Setting up printers (home)

Red Hat 7.3 ships with both LPRng and CUPS, the latter has a nice
web-based configuration tool.

• /sbin/service cups start



• Switch to CUPS permanently using the new 'alternatives' method
  (nice bit of borrowing from debian)

  /usr/sbin/alternatives
  --config print




• Use web interface on href="http://127.0.0.1:631">http://127.0.0.1:631

filesystem configuration

Created mount points:

mkdir -p /NT /CD1, /CD2 /ExtraHomes /mnt/xx /mnt/xy /mnt/ontour /mnt/ibgzk
o /mnt/after7

Added:

/dev/hda1               /NT             vfat    uid=500,gid=500,defaults       
 0 0
/dev/hdb1               /CD1                    vfat    uid=500,gid=500,default
s       0 0
/dev/hdb2               /CD2                    vfat    uid=500,gid=500,default
s       0 0
/dev/hdb3               /ExtraHomes     ext2    defaults        0 0
//192.168.123.100/marc  /mnt/mdesktop   smbfs   user,uid=500,gid=500,username=m
arc,password=SECRET,defaults    0 0
//192.168.123.100/xx    /mnt/xx         smbfs   user,uid=500,gid=500,username=x
x,password=SECRET,defaults      0 0
//192.168.123.100/xy    /mnt/xy         smbfs   user,uid=500,gid=500,username=x
y,password=SECRET,defaults      0 0
//ontour.zko.dec.com/public /mnt/ontour smbfs   uid=500,gid=500,auto,user,exec,
rw,username=nozell/americas,password=SECRET 0 0
//ibgzko.zko.dec.com/nozell /mnt/ibgzko smbfs   uid=500,gid=500,auto,user,exec,
rw,username=nozell,password=SECRET 0 0
//16.29.96.110/sharedmedia /mnt/after7 smbfs    auto,ro,username=guest,password
=SECRET 0 0