In that case you have used up pretty much all of the resource. Your complaint is like demanding that the glass stop overflowing as liquid is added beyond capacity. The solution to your problem is to; reduce amount of applications running; increase amount of physical ram on the system; or increase the size of your swap space. You can even add swap on the fly if necessary as Linux supports swap files. It is done as follows; 'dd if=/dev/zero of=foo-swap-file bs=1024 n=ramsize' Then as root 'mkswap foo-swap-file' 'swapon foo-swap-file' and bingo! you have more "ram" to use. It has been done on a system with only 8M ram and more was needed when building some libraries.
Wrongo. You do not have to be root to install software. The only time it is essential to be root is if you are installing system libraries or packages. In fact you can add your own libraries and applications as a user to define your environment. When installing locally:- ./configure --prefix=$HOME (or whatever) make make install When done make sure that your path definitions incorporate the new libraries and executables, and all is well. That way you can do your own development and/or run your own applications without interfering with the integrity of the system. For example you could within user space define a libc5 development/execution environment without ever installing the libraries and include files as root. Of course you need to have the space available.
It's about time that you checked out the qmail website http://www.qmail.org thoroughly. Qmail matches sendmail feature to feature. It has long had support for Real Time Blackhole list. The thing about qmail is that it is modular in design, so it is necessary to search for the required component. And each component can be used independent of qmail. If you want Real Time Blackhole list then just grab the rblsmtp daemon. As well there are some very useful independent packages at the qmail such as tcpserver which is a complete replacement for inetd and cyclog which is suggested as a replacement for syslog under heavy loads. Qmail was remarkably easy to set up and in fact I've done the deed for my ISP who have been running it happily for quite a whil.
Sorry for the spelling comment, but the word you should us is prescribe. Proscribe is equivalent to prohibit. Another thing, it's a fine line between 'real' medicine and wrong medicine. For instance there has been recent discussion in medical circles about removing thalidomide from the proscribed list as it is reported to be effective in treating leperosy.
That was the point I was trying to make. That the whole thing about the evils of marijuana was a ruse by Randolph Hearst to destroy the Hemp industry. There was no real problem with marijuana except through the perception as generated by the movie 'Reefer Madness' and columns in Hearst's papers. I was amused to hear a politician in Australia recently describe hemp as an untried product. I suppose 400+ years of use doesn't count. In otherwords a simple ruse of perceived evil was used to destroy an established industry.
No, paranoia is unjustified. There are precedents for such as you have described. The destruction of the hemp industry was the result of such tactics. I'm talking about the fibre that was used for nearly 400 years up until the 1920's for rope and sail cloth. In fact IIRC the US army has/had a special dispensation to use hemp for rope. The story is that Randolf Hearst the infamous media magnate had interests in wood pulp for his news paper and he was directly threatened by the much cheaper (at the time) hemp. Hence he ran articles about 'reefer madness' and it is alleged managed to convince some 'friendly' senators to include hemp in the bill covering the prohibition of marijuana.
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In that case you have used up pretty much all of the resource. Your complaint is like demanding that the glass stop overflowing as liquid is added beyond capacity.
The solution to your problem is to; reduce amount of applications running; increase amount of physical ram on the system; or increase the size of your swap space.
You can even add swap on the fly if necessary as Linux supports swap files. It is done as follows;
'dd if=/dev/zero of=foo-swap-file bs=1024 n=ramsize'
Then as root
'mkswap foo-swap-file'
'swapon foo-swap-file'
and bingo! you have more "ram" to use. It has been done on a system with only 8M ram and more was needed when building some libraries.
Wrongo. You do not have to be root to install software. The only time it is essential to be root is if you are installing system libraries or packages. In fact you can add your own libraries and applications as a user to define your environment.
When installing locally:-
./configure --prefix=$HOME (or whatever)
make
make install
When done make sure that your path definitions incorporate the new libraries and executables, and all is well. That way you can do your own development and/or run your own applications without interfering with the integrity of the system.
For example you could within user space define a libc5 development/execution environment without ever installing the libraries and include files as root. Of course you need to have the space available.
It's about time that you checked out the qmail website http://www.qmail.org thoroughly. Qmail matches sendmail feature to feature. It has long had support for Real Time Blackhole list.
The thing about qmail is that it is modular in design, so it is necessary to search for the required component. And each component can be used independent of qmail. If you want Real Time Blackhole list then just grab the rblsmtp daemon.
As well there are some very useful independent packages at the qmail such as tcpserver which is a complete replacement for inetd and cyclog which is suggested as a replacement for syslog under heavy loads.
Qmail was remarkably easy to set up and in fact I've done the deed for my ISP who have been running it happily for quite a whil.
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Sorry for the spelling comment, but the word you should us is prescribe. Proscribe is equivalent to prohibit.
Another thing, it's a fine line between 'real' medicine and wrong medicine.
For instance there has been recent discussion in medical circles about removing thalidomide from the proscribed list as it is reported to be effective in treating leperosy.
Try http://www.turing.org.uk for a possible source of pictures of (and information about) Alan Turing.
That was the point I was trying to make. That the whole thing about the evils of marijuana was a ruse by Randolph Hearst to destroy the Hemp industry. There was no real problem with marijuana except through the perception as generated by the movie 'Reefer Madness' and columns in Hearst's papers. I was amused to hear a politician in Australia recently describe hemp as an untried product. I suppose 400+ years of use doesn't count.
In otherwords a simple ruse of perceived evil was used to destroy an established industry.
No, paranoia is unjustified. There are precedents for such as you have described. The destruction of the hemp industry was the result of such tactics. I'm talking about the fibre that was used for nearly 400 years up until the 1920's for rope and sail cloth. In fact IIRC the US army has/had a special dispensation to use hemp for rope.
The story is that Randolf Hearst the infamous media magnate had interests in wood pulp for his news paper and he was directly threatened by the much cheaper (at the time) hemp.
Hence he ran articles about 'reefer madness' and it is alleged managed to convince some 'friendly' senators to include hemp in the bill covering the prohibition of marijuana.
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