Re: A few (stupid?) smail questions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 28 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jhspiesI have installed smail, elm end tkmail. What I want to know is how to get jhspiessmail to read my incoming mail from the Internet Service Provider. popclient -u user host put your ISP hostname here put your username here (on your ISP) and your mail will be poped from your isp folder to your local folder (that ofcourse if you have your smail configured, if not - run `/usr/sbin/smailconfig` ) jhspiesWhat is smtp? Some of the smail-documentation told me to put a line in jhspiesinetd.conf to invoke smptd, but I could not find a file with that name on my jhspiescomputer. smtp - send-mail-transfer-protocol inetd.conf is in /etc dir jhspiesThere was also a suggestion that I could put sendmail -bs in the file jhspies/etc/rc. I could not find such a file either. u don't need it jhspiesDo I need biff if I have a dialup ppp connection? no jhspiesI tried to use rmail, but do not know which address to use in the command jhspiesline. If I use my own email-address, nothing happens. When I press Ctrl-C I jhspiesget the message that some process was interrupted and the mail deleted. jhspiesWhich mail? rmail -s address, write a mail, press cntrl-D for sending ___ Boris Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] For pgp public key, e-mail me with subject get pgp-key. ___ In Linux veritas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia+ Charset: latin1 Comment: Boris Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] iQCVAwUBMk2wygz8DjY6pgpxAQGCRgQAoLNMYqxMOqwwQ/nkgRsapQB3zdxlmG3h oU+2CMApOnrWUMTWBnKJEFqouKuZy4U6rhAiYYOYsuX7PU9u0G4r7/kCz2QP8n48 +9mgJ4WZABM2+D4oBS9SQJNlX8T9OH4hlcrRYqG5jghCNiRfRxibYSsXiudWBe/K qif5oJRXHcE= =A8MZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smbmount (in packge ksmbfs-0.2.4-2.deb) / win-95 problem
On Sat, 28 Sep 1996, Jim Pick wrote: smbmount does not preserve the long filenames of windows 95 is there a way to fix this problem You can compile the kernel to use long file names. This is an experimental feature. One problem though - it doesn't work!! There are some major bugs in the implementation. Basically, it is still under development. So you'll have to live with short filenames until the developer of smbfs fixes it (or someone else). I am using smbmount with Win95 and long filenames without any problems. Just complie into the kernel long filename support. Regards, Andrew =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= andrew stephenPost Office Box 299 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]Gosnells, 6110 Web: http://byteline.com.au Western Australia =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ppp with pap woes....
Hi I am trying to connect to my isp with debian 1.1 and am having some problems. This is where I am at. 1. I read the PPP-howto and the isp-howto. 2. Configed my system. 3. Dialed in using chat by way of typing pppd at the command line. 4. Dials in fine. connects. authenticates. then hangs up. 5. Thats the problem. I didn't tell it to hang up. Also, I never seem to get any proof that the ppp connection is ever stable by way of ifconfig. It only shows the localhost info. I am sure that it is authenticating because my isp checked there log for me and saw me login and then logout many times in a row. Does this sound familer to anyone? If so I would apperciate your help. If you need any more info I will gladly give it out.. TIA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A few (stupid?) smail questions
[sorry for the length, but in writing this i realized that the info might be useful to other people, so i'm sending to the list as well as to johan.] I have succeeded in sending a test message to myself from Elm and by telnetting my ISP I could see that the message arrived. good! that's half the battle! I have installed smail, elm end tkmail. What I want to know is how to get smail to read my incoming mail from the Internet Service Provider. smail doesn't read email from your ISP; it's only for distributing email from your users (ie, you) to other hosts, and *accepting* incoming mail for you from other hosts on the net. the latter might sound like what you need, but if you're connecting via a standard dialup line to a provider who receives your mail for you, what you really want is is a POP (Post Office Protocol) client. this is a small program, run either interactively (via the shell) or automatically (via `cron') that gets any waiting email for you from your ISP's mail host. if you were connected full-time to the net (if your modem is connected to your ISP 24 hours a day, or you have some higher speed connection like frame relay, T1, etc.) and wanted to receive email directly to your computer rather than going through the mail host at your ISP, then it makes sense to run your own mail server (see below for more details). but you probably don't need to do that. there's a POP client in the debian distribution called (guess!) `popclient'. popclient will make a connection to the host where your mail is stored, transfer the messages to your computer, and then remove them from the mail host storage. i found the most recent version of popclient in the debian distribution as: unstable/binary-i386/mail/popclient_3.05-3.deb (unfortunately, the setup of popclient has changed over the last several versions, and it's sometimes hard to keep up with how it works. i'll document what i've gotten to work with the above version.) first, create a file called `.poprc' in your home directory, which contains a line like this: server HOST username USER password PASSWORD protocol pop3 fetchall replace `HOST' with the name of your mail host, `USER' with your username on that host, and `PASSWORD' with your password of your mail account on that host. (don't put the first spaces in (before `server'); that's just indentation for the clarity of this message.) for security reasons, popclient won't run unless the permissions of the file allows only the owner (you) to read and write the file (this is so no one can see your password). to set the file permissions, type (assuming you're in your home directory): % chmod 0600 .poprc then, when you want to check your email, do: % popclient then: % elm What is smtp? `smtp' stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (not send-mail-transport protocol, as someone else said). it's a widely used standard for sending email messages from one computer to another. (if you're interested in the nitty-gritty, you can read the technical specification of the protocol in RFC822, available at: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/rfc/rfc822.html) normally, you shouldn't need to worry about smtp -- it runs behind the scenes. if you use elm to compose and send a message, elm asks smail to deliver the message. smail makes a connection to either your mail host or the host of the recipient of the message (depending on how smail is configured), and transfers the message. for most people who get their net connections via a standard dialup, smtp is used *only* for outgoing email, and a POP client is used for incoming email. if you *are* connected fulltime, *and* your computer has a domain name (not just your mail host, but your actual machine), other mailers on other machines can send mail directly to your machine by making a connection to your smtp server (`smtpd'; `d' is for daemon, basically meaning a system process rather than a user process), and deliver the messages that way. Some of the smail-documentation told me to put a line in inetd.conf to invoke smptd, but I could not find a file with that name on my computer. There was also a suggestion that I could put sendmail -bs in the file /etc/rc. I could not find such a file either. you shouldn't need to do either of these. i'm not certain, but i believe both of these things are trying to do the same thing: configure your computer so it is always running an smtp server. Do I need biff if I have a dialup ppp connection? all biff does is alert you when you have new mail *on your local system*; it doesn't know that new mail arrived on your mail host, and it doesn't care how the mail got to your local machine. if you're running popclient by hand (eg, from the shell), you probably don't need to use biff. but if you run it some other way (via `cron'), biff can be nice because it tells you in some detail (by showing the message headers) when new mail has arrived. and if you *are* connected fulltime
Re: ppp with pap woes....
In your email to me, Christopher L. Cousins, you wrote: Hi I am trying to connect to my isp with debian 1.1 and am having some problems. This is where I am at. 1. I read the PPP-howto and the isp-howto. 2. Configed my system. 3. Dialed in using chat by way of typing pppd at the command line. 4. Dials in fine. connects. authenticates. then hangs up. Do you have static or dynamic addressing? If dynamic, do you have 'noipdefault' in your options? Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps You may be right, I may be crazy Billy Joel ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IP-accounting
At 19:09 26-09-96 +0200, Maarten Boekhold wrote: Hi, I wonder if anybody can help me to some pointers to information about IP-accounting. I found the manpages a bit sparse for an introduction suitable for setting things up. What I'm looking for is a way to determine, on our 'gateway' (a 386dx25 running ppp on 28k8), how many bytes the rest of the computers that are on our network transmit to and recieve from the outside world. Check out the ipfwadm-package. // Remco van de Meent (nParago on IRC) // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://cal052012.student.utwente.nl //Never make any mistaeks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help with diald?
Hello, I'm trying to use diald, but have problems. If I use '/etc/init.d/ppp start' as my connect script (and have no ip-up because ppp will call its own) I see in my log things like diald: connect to x diald: starting pppd but nothing happens really; in addition, why does diald says it starts pppd when the manual page says this is the task of the connect script? So I'd like to get help on setting up diald so that I can reuse most of my existing pppd setting (chat script and ip-up/ip-down scripts). I'd like to know, too, how I can arrange things so that when I mail to someone outside my domain diald does not try to dial. Thanks in advance, Yves. -- Yves Arrouye Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7, avenue Leon BolleeWeb: http://www.fdn.fr/~yarrouye/ 75013 Paris Work: +33 45 95 64 59 France Home: +33 53 61 09 55 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
newsreader problem?
Hi all, I've problem with Netscape3.0 newsreader in Linux. When I do 'Show All Newsgroup', I don't get the complete(which I get when I do this in Windoz) list. I tried knews and had same problem. I don't use much of Windoz, so I would really like to make this work. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ppp with pap woes....
I've gotten the exact same problem on my machine since I installed Debian 1.1. I managed to trace it to some sort of security problem. If you look in the /var/log directory after trying to connect with pppd at the log file that just got updated, you'll notice that it states that you don't have permission to execute some command (sorry can't remember the exacts right now). Unfortunately, I haven't really had the time to sort out this problem yet, but to work around it, I simply do a 'su root' to run pppd and then go back to my normal account. If you don't have access to the root account on your system, then I don't have any suggestions. Sorry. Shawn Packwood -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: Christopher L. Cousins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: ppp with pap woes Date: Saturday, September 28, 1996 5:06 PM Hi I am trying to connect to my isp with debian 1.1 and am having some problems. This is where I am at. 1. I read the PPP-howto and the isp-howto. 2. Configed my system. 3. Dialed in using chat by way of typing pppd at the command line. 4. Dials in fine. connects. authenticates. then hangs up. 5. Thats the problem. I didn't tell it to hang up. Also, I never seem to get any proof that the ppp connection is ever stable by way of ifconfig. It only shows the localhost info. I am sure that it is authenticating because my isp checked there log for me and saw me login and then logout many times in a row. Does this sound familer to anyone? If so I would apperciate your help. If you need any more info I will gladly give it out.. TIA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with diald?
Hello, I'm trying to use diald, but have problems. If I use '/etc/init.d/ppp start' ^ Don't do that, /etc/init.d/ppp starts pppd as a daemon, whereas diald wants to start pppd itself after the connect script exits, iff it returns 0. as my connect script (and have no ip-up because ppp will call its own) I see in my log things like diald: connect to x diald: starting pppd but nothing happens really; in addition, why does diald says it starts pppd when the manual page says this is the task of the connect script? To quote the man page: connect p Use the executable or shell script p to set up the serial line. This normally dials the modem and starts up the remote SLIP or PPP session. The com ^^ It says connect starts the _remote_ ppp session, it then exits and lets diald start the local pppd. So I'd like to get help on setting up diald so that I can reuse most of my existing pppd setting (chat script and ip-up/ip-down scripts). You need to be careful not to give any options to pppd that you can specify via diald, since diald passes them on for you anyway. Your /etc/ppp/options file is likely to end up with nothing in it. I'd like to know, too, how I can arrange things so that when I mail to someone outside my domain diald does not try to dial. If you're using sendmail, create a file called that reads as follows: --start of /etc/service.switch-- aliases files hosts files --end of /etc/service.switch-- This tells sendmail to use file lookups for hosts and aliases, thus avoiding the DNS lookup that is bringing the line up. You also need to tell it not to attempt immediate delivery, by setting the delivery mode to queue (look for ``DeliveryMode'' in /usr/doc/sendmail/op.txt.gz) Thanks in advance, Yves. Cheers, Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newsreader problem?
Hi David -- You asked: I've problem with Netscape3.0 newsreader in Linux. When I do 'Show All Newsgroup', I don't get the complete(which I get when I do this in Windoz) list. I tried knews and had same problem. Have you set up a value for NNTPSERVER? For example, have you set export NNTPSERVER=my_news_server.market1.com (or whatever is appropriate), before you called Netscape? Or, better yet, did you do that in your login script? If you're setting up a news server on your own machine, you'd probably set the value for nntpserver in the /etc/nntpserver file, which would (I imagine) be read at boot-up time. I'm not too sure about this; I haven't been running a news server on my machine for a while. You might take a look in your ~/.netscape/preferences file. In particular, if you execute grep -i news ~/.netscape/preferences you can see what NEWS variables are set in it. HTH, Susan Kleinmann -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: g77 and gcc-2.7.2.1
As I think I mentioned elsewhere, if anyone admits to *using* the gnat package, I'll deal with it. (please send me mail directly...) Short term, I will (1) upgrade to the latest upstream release (3.05) and (2) change it to supply it's own adagcc or gnatcc instead of diverting gcc. Long term, when gcc 2.8 comes out, it should have the patches already in it (though I suppose I'll have to keep supporting whatever name I choose above.) Also, gnat-3.07 is due out soon. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing emacs 19.34---is this a bug?
could you be more specific about what you're actually seeing? The postinst script does not, in fact, delete anything... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
