Re: Internet telephony?
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: Is anyone aware of internet telephony software that could run on debian? Preferable but not exclusively open source. In addition, what hardware + services would be needed to get it and keep it running? What kind of capabilites are you looking for? I have used Speak Freely and it has worked well for me. Check out: http://www.fourmilab.ch/ Speak Freely has both Windows and UNIX/Linux versions and offers a number compression methods and even an encryption option for secure conversations. Nick -- Nick Busigin ...Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine... [EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key --
Re: LaTeX book
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, Can anyone recommend a good one of these, please? Mainly for scientific writing... Thanks, Matthew You may want to check out: LaTeX User's Guide Reference Manual by Leslie Lamport, published by Addison Wesley. and The LaTeX Companion by Goossens, Mittlebach and Samarin, also published by Addison Wesley. Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key --
Ham Upgrade Problem with emacs/LaTeX
After upgrading to HAM from BO, I have not been able to get the LaTeX key-bindings to work or even have the LaTeX menu items appear in emacs. I've tried emacs19, emacs20-nomule and xemacs but to no avail. Has anyone else run into this problem and if so, how did you solve it. Thanks in advance! Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key --
Re: Anybody know how to tell for how long has ppp-if been up?
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, [iso-8859-1] Marcelo E. Magallón wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: Cant help jumping in, is there an easy way to add/subtract times from the output of date??? Or do you mean that the time-stamp file would be null length and use its creation time? even then, how can you work out the time since creation? I'm thinking C... use time_t, and add and substract that. strftime is your friend here. From the shell, use date with some funky formating (something like date +%Y%m%d%H%M.%S). You man add and substract that, and convert it to another format. And yes, for what I asked, it would be a null file, and use creation date for reference. I wrote a perl script that calculates ppp usage and breaks it down by user and also classifies it by prime/non-prime time usage. If you like, I can mail it to you. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Email quest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, eugene mendoza wrote: Dear Nick, Read your reply to Daniel Mashao and it was very informative. I too am setting up a e-mail server and have the following question? To have a smtp mail server set up on the linux machine do i need a name server which is authorative for my sub-domain or will a caching only server be good enough to perform the function? In fact is it at all necessary to have dns on my server when the isp has a nameserver of their own? I don't run DNS on the Linux box that I'm using as an email server for myself. So no, it is not necessary. In order for you to be able to use uucp and sendmail for email transfers between you and your Internet Provider, your Internet provider has to set up a DNS MX record for your host that points to his uucp host. He also has to set up his sendmail configuration to use uucp as a mail transfer agent for mail going to your host. It's not a lot of work for your Internet Provider, as long as he/she is familiar with sendmail, DNS and uucp configuration. Best regards, Nick - -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv Comment: Nick Busigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] iQCVAwUBNNO2F6OTonS/KSgFAQGNLQQAppE47mQs9bTuAyszwYdZee12Dog3cghI +rYbJjmW9QdfS8jqPudERkpcUGV/8xMUkd4weeEI8F2Znd6G+L5PGvFDh7faPbtr Duj0V/qqBMx5Xm5VbS6r05E0IQbhnaACHy1dmALhmt+8zuCyduSUZDXbWPxL8kDO yrzyc2t/oFU= =vcRc -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Building own packages - how?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Sebastian Kaps wrote: Is there any document available which describes step-by-step how one can build own binary packages from self-compiled source code? Take a look at the Debian web site http://www.debian.org and it will have a link to information for prospective developers. Also, you can take a look at: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/manuals/ Best regards, Nick - -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv Comment: Nick Busigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] iQCVAwUBNNS3OqOTonS/KSgFAQFvJAP/Tf64z22Hza6kBSOiy/4vwDj1xueBVMxG MeUGPP2227nYltzs3371SjySn48KUDVsvfdEsKc/fN9pwmde0Dzt7+m55sPYkzjF 20QI6QvtkX1+8DSUjpNMYrYbb0Nz90fc7kr4Uyg1G4T/U1RhKdVYdw0Sd8Dx6wlb Z80tux/tRiE= =rjlI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Offline Email
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: Does anybody have an idea of how to best set-up an offline email system? I cannot find suitable information from the man pages etc. Setting up email on a UNIX system can be a challenge as it involves configuring a number of different programs to co-operate with one another. While this may be a bit of work, it provides a great deal of flexibility. What I want is the system that I can 'send' email while my machine is off-line and then sometime later when I use a ppp connection, my system will then send the email outside. I have tried both smail and sendmail unfortunately they just write error messages about the email address not being reachable etc. I can use netscape but I have several users on my machine and it would not be economical to let each person connect separately or for too long. You may want to consider using uucp as a mail transport system between you and your Internet provider. It requires a little more setup at your end and at the end of your Internet Provider, but it has a number of advantages: 1) You can have as many mail user-ids as you want on your system and you don't have to ask your Internet provider to do anything to add/delete mail accounts as you are in charge of this yourself. 2) Mail transfers between your system and your Internet Provider's system are automated. (I have my system check every 15 minutes to see if there is any outgoing email. If there is, it establishes a uucp connection and exchanges email with my Internet Provider. Otherwise, it polls my Internet Provider on an hourly basis to see if there is any incoming email). The connections and transfers are quite short and efficient. 3) You can set up mailing list software such as majordomo or smart list on your Linux box and have it work well with this type of setup. This is possible, because you are the one assigning mail user-ids instead of your Internet Provider. Your Internet Provider just forwards all email that is identified as going to your machine. There are a number of documents/books that you may find useful: a) Sendmail+UUCP mini-HOWTO b) The bat book by Eric Allan (it's the O'Reilly Sendmail book with a bat on the front cover). c) Taylor uucp documentation. The doc's that come with Taylor's uucp are really very good. I believe they are in info format. d) O'Reilly's uucp book is also quite good. e) The BSDi web site had a good document on the nuts and bolts of setting this up from an Internet Provider's standpoint. The URL for this used to be: http://www.bsdi.com/support/faq/BSD_OS-2.1/sendmail-doc.etx but it may have changed, as last time I looked at it was back in July/97. Finally, if you want, I can send you some notes and example uucp and sendmail configuration files to use as a starting point. (I've helped a few people do this before and kept a copy of the stuff I sent them.) Best regards, Nick - -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv Comment: Nick Busigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] iQCVAwUBNNMx6qOTonS/KSgFAQEjqgQAhFnrcmr9g7l7TqXUTAtjLFEfMBLU0G0o vs0U5MGn6Jd5PU5z+ur5dLGneEVlRyI8qTGsg/40UFF7PUJY8frE5OTRLoNSE6Q7 mLIVDCPl/C/UKsxtcKJ6ftrx+OwiYFhkkIScAZy1uc0/cmlX0Bw/Bbt+xNChG2nT 1hZzK6zuwAg= =eLAT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
AWE 64 Troubles despite following FAQ
# showed up, unlike what was shown in the AWE 32/64 HOWTO. I added the # two other entries to try and make it work, but it doesn't either as shown # or with the two additional entries uncommented. (IO 0 (BASE 0x0620)) #(IO 0 (BASE 0x0a20)) #(IO 0 (BASE 0x0e20)) # End dependent functions # Vendor defined tag: 75 01 69 46 35 55 (ACT Y) )) (WAITFORKEY) # End tag... Checksum 0x00 (OK) -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: AWE64 Setup Solution... THANKYOU!!!
On 28 Nov 1997, Erv Walter wrote: THANKYOU! I've been banging my head against the wall trying to get my AWE64 recognized by the sound driver. Number 2 in your note below got my AWE64 working. I did try adding two lines similar to what you had, but mistakenly called them IO 0 instead of IO 1 and IO 2. Your example showed me my error. Best regards, Nick To those trying to get their AWE64 working: 1) Since the 64 is pnp, the card must be initiallized before the kernel tries to initialize the driver. This means you must use something like isapnp to initialize the card and you must build the sound driver as a _module_ so that you can initialize the card BEFORE loading the driver 2) The dump from isapnp does not fully detect everything you need in you isapnp.conf file. Try modifying my config file. Most important is the IO 1 and IO 2 lines at the end. They are not detected by pnpdump. This will allow the kernel to detect the AWE -- # $Id: pnpdump.c,v 1.1.1.1 1997/09/14 15:27:30 fred Exp $ # This is free software, see the sources for details. # This software has NO WARRANTY, use at your OWN RISK # # For details of this file format, see isapnp.conf(5) # # For latest information on isapnp and pnpdump see: # http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/ # # Compiler flags: # # Trying port address 0203 # Board 1 has serial identifier 62 11 36 59 a4 c3 00 8c 0e #(DEBUG) (VERIFYLD N) (READPORT 0x0203) (ISOLATE) #(IDENTIFY *) # Card 1: (serial identifier 62 11 36 59 a4 c3 00 8c 0e) # CTL00c3 Serial No 288774564 [checksum 62] # Version 1.0, Vendor version 1.0 # ANSI string --Creative SB AWE64 PnP-- # Vendor defined tag: 73 02 45 00 # (CONFIGURE CTL00c3/288774564 (LD 0 # ANSI string --Audio-- (INT 0 (IRQ 9 (MODE +E))) (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1)) (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5)) (IO 0 (BASE 0x0220)) (IO 1 (BASE 0x0330)) (IO 2 (BASE 0x0388)) (ACT Y) )) (CONFIGURE CTL00c3/288774564 (LD 1 # Compatible device id PNPb02f # ANSI string --Game-- (IO 0 (BASE 0x0200)) (ACT Y) )) (CONFIGURE CTL00c3/288774564 (LD 2 # ANSI string --WaveTable-- (IO 0 (BASE 0x0620)) (IO 1 (BASE 0x0A20)) (IO 2 (BASE 0x0E20)) (ACT Y) )) (WAITFORKEY) -- -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: AWE 64 Troubles despite following FAQ
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 11:08:31AM -0500, Nick Busigin wrote: I recently purchased an AWE 64 Value and have been pulling my hair out trying to get it to work properly on my Debian system. I have read I hope you can get your hairs back, because I can only try to get your soundcard working ;) Thanks for replying to my request for help! through Sound-HOWTO as well as the fine Soundblaster AWE 32/64 HOWTO by Marcus Brinkman. However, despite all my efforts I am still not able to get the WaveTable portion of the card to be recognized by the sound driver. [...] [...] # Note that when I ran 'pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf' only the 0x0620 entry # showed up, unlike what was shown in the AWE 32/64 HOWTO. I added the # two other entries to try and make it work, but it doesn't either as shown # or with the two additional entries uncommented. (IO 0 (BASE 0x0620)) #(IO 0 (BASE 0x0a20)) #(IO 0 (BASE 0x0e20)) Ouch, this is bad :( However, the lines have not to be commented, so please remake the changes. But it is still not working? I made a mistake in calling all these IO ports the same, ie. IO 0, instead of IO 0, IO 1 and IO 2 . Once I uncommented the two lines you show as bad and one I corrected the naming of the ports I got the driver to recognize my card. Thank you very much for you help!! I hope that this additional information will help. Let's get this beast. We just did. Thanks again, Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where is the Local Guide to Latex?
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: I have finally decided to learn Latex, so I bought Leslie Lamport's book and started reading ... but the first suggestion has been difficult to deal with. He suggests that there is a Local Guide to Latex that I should read to find out how to use the local implimentation, like how to go from a .tex document to the printer. I have the tetex-doc package installed, and there is tons of stuff there, but I can't find anything that looks like it might be the guide. Hi Dale, I recently started using LaTeX too. Once you are past the initial learning curve, you will really like it. You may want to take a look at The LaTeX Companion by Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin. I find it covers a lot of additional ground that Lamport's book only touches on. I look at these two books as the LaTeX bibles. ;-) Another handy place to look is the LaTeX info files. They are a good concise reference. The closest I got to the Local Guide, was the /usr/doc/latex/usrguide.tex file. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mail and News with UUCP over TCP/IP
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Richard Kettlewell wrote: Stefan Walder writes: I want to use my Linux-Box at home to get mail and news. I'm using my Uni-ISP and i want to have several Email-Adresses (my family). And I don't want to use POP, I think uucp is nicer! So I want to use uucp over TCP/IP! Now my questions: Particularly for multiple addresses it has its advantages, yes. I've some experience of setting it up under SVR4... It works, though `nice' is not a word I'd use l-) I currently get my email via uucp. It wasn't too hard to set up once I became familiar with sendmail. Note that I *don't* use uucp over tcp/ip. 1.) Can I use the email-address [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's really a question for your ISP; they will need to take some action to route mail for whatever domain they give you into your UUCP queue, you can't normally expect to just have things work by choosing the right address format. Agreed. Your ISP has to set up a DNS MX resource record for your machine that points to his uucp host (the one that will be forwarding email to you). He also has to configure his sendmail.cf file to use a uucp mailer for your domain. I recommend the uucp-dom mailer as that will allow you to use Internet style email addresses. 2.) What does I need to get and post news? I think I need suck, but is this sufficient? Depends ... there are a variety of programs with names like `slurp' and `suck' which retrieve news from an NNRP server and (e.g.) inject it into your own news server. They're quite easy to write. You'll need NNTP access to feed news that you post back. I'm assume you'll be running a local copy of INN, though this is not the only way to do it. If you want to do the *whole* thing over UUCP that's possible too, your ISP will set up an outgoing UUCP feed and you must do the same to feed news back. Last time I tried to do this it was too hard so I gave up and just fed news back out by NNTP instead - a good thing I've never had to do it without TCP/IP being available... I too found that it was too much of a hassle running news over uucp, primarily because every time I wanted to change my newsgroup subscription I had to ask my ISP to do it. With suck or another similar package, all the administration is done on your own machine. I personally use C-news as my newsfeed is small and I've had no reason to change to INN. Question for Richard: do you have to have a static IP address assigned to you to use UUCP over TCP/IP? Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key --
Re: Mail and News with UUCP over TCP/IP
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, William Chow wrote: On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Stefan Walder wrote: I want to use my Linux-Box at home to get mail and news. I'm using my Uni-ISP and i want to have several Email-Adresses (my family). And I don't want to use POP, I think uucp is nicer! So I want to use uucp over TCP/IP! Now my questions: 1.) Can I use the email-address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless this is some sort of PPP account, that the university has assigned to you, no. The address also has to be static, not dynamic if you want to get mail reliably. (I do not know of any workarounds, perhaps others know of some for dynamic IP). This is covered extensively in the PPP Howto and Net Howtos. The address can by dynamic if you use straight uucp. (Not sure about uucp over tcp/ip). All that is necessary is that your ISP set up a MX record pointing to his uucp host (the one you'll dial up with your machine). As well your ISP has to set up the sendmail.cf file on his uucp host to use the uucp-dom (preferable, but could use other uucp mailers too) mailer to forward email to you. Hope this helps. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key --
Re: Gnu C manual Gdb warning
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Jonathan Lawson wrote: Script started on Thu Feb 20 10:36:52 1997 Hi, Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the GNU C Manual? I would really like to take a look at it . Secondly, I get the following (underlisted) error from Gdb, I wonder if anyone knows of a way to set things right. If you are interested in getting printed documentation for GNU CC, the GNU C Library Reference Manual and Debugging with GDB, I highly recommend that you visit the http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu site to obtain the order form and prices for these manuals. Then phone up FSF and place your order. I did this and received some very professional manuals and also had the satisfaction of providing some monetary support for the FSF organization in the process. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free space on Linux Drive
On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, John wrote: I think this a simple enough question, but even my Unix teacher can't answer it. I just installed Debian on my 586 Windoze machine, with a 200mb partition. The first time I installed it on 100 megs but I ran out of room. My question is how can I check how much space is left on my Linux partition. I DOS, I can use chkdsk, is there a similiar function in Linux? Some UNIX teacher! ;-) Try the df command. Here's an example: $ df / Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda3 940462 748805 143069 84% / Hint for the future: try the apropos utility. If you ran the following: $ apropos disk You would have gotten a long listing, but the following would have been part of it: df (1) - summarize free disk space When you're stumped, the apropos command is a good place to start. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best Debian CD?
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Richard G. Roberto wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Robin Rowe wrote: Hi. How do I find out what Debian CD-ROM's are available? Is there an article somewhere that comparitively rates them? This is a good question. I'm looking for a 1.2.x cd as well, but I need it to look decent. It can't be disk 26 of the 43 cd internet bonanza!! and it can't be a gold CDR with Debian scribbled on it in black marker. I need to be able to show it to other people (like my boss) ;-) Does anyone know of a CD for sale that looks presentable (i.e. has an actual screened or printed face)? Actually, I prefer a gold CD with black marker written on it. It's more likely to be up to date than one of the more commercial offerings from a more established CD vendor. Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTML in messages to the list
//grouch mode (sort of) on Lately, I've noticed a (small) number of messages on this list that are using html formatting (see below). This format looks pretty ugly with mail readers that don't display html documents. Helpful hint: don't use html formatting in your email messages. //grouch mode (sort of) off Thanks! Nick Appended example of offending html email post follows my .signature -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- HTMLBODY DTnbsp;Hi to all,/DT DTnbsp;/DT DTI want to buy a SCSI external zipdrive. I have an aha2940 SCSI controller. Is there any support for a zipdrive under debian?? How do I have to compile the kernel for zipdrive support. What do I need (in the kernel), if I want to use a parallel port zipdrive?? A stupid question: How will I format the zipmedia under Linux?? Thanx for any suggestions!!nbsp;/DT DTnbsp;/DT DTGreetings/DT DTnbsp;/DT -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Taking down PPP at a certain hour of the day
On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Matthew Stone wrote: I am wondering.. how I can do this.. I would like to create a script that run in the background and check the time.. if it is 8am it do a wall announcement saying the system is going down, kill all the incoming telnet connections, and disconnect my PPP connection.. if it's not then it will just keep on running until is.. Anywhere on how I would attempt to do this.. I don't know how to shell program so I wouldn't know where to start.. Hello Matthew, A shell command that you can use to kill pppd is: kill -HUP `cat /var/run/ppp0.pid` The back-tics will replace the cat command with its output which is the pid that is contained in the file /var/run/ppp0.pid. (You may want to check that this is indeed the filename used on your system by taking a look in the /var/run directory when pppd is running). Note that you will have to be root for this command to work. As far as running a command to warn your users that pppd is going down, I'm not quite sure what will work there. I know that for people that are on your system via a terminal session, you can use wall. I don't think that will work for a user that is visiting your site via netscape or ftp. Perhaps someone else can advise you on this. Finally, to run programs at specific times, be they shell commands or otherwise you can use the cron facility. Cron's man page is quite well written and has a number of illustrative examples. Hope this helps. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: virtual mail domains... long-winded response
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Carl Greco wrote: I have set up a couple of Linux based e-mail servers with uucp. The main advantages of uucp are low cost and local control of e-mail accounts. Exactly the reason why I like it. The latest system (a 386SX-16MHz 4MB PC) uses Debian 1.1 with smail and qpopper (pop3) to distribute e-mail to a LAN comprised of WfWg PC's running Eudora Light clients. The major disadvantage is the addressing currently required, i.e., [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suspect that the proper MX record at the ISP would fix this. I don't use smail, so I can't comment there, but with sendmail you can choose the type of uucp addressing to use. I use Taylor's uucp which is smart enough to understand domain based addressing so on my mail machine I specify the uucp-dom mailer and my Internet provider does the same. Hope this helps. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does the list send the sender a copy?
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Martin Stromberg wrote: I have recently sent a number of messages to the debian-user mailing list and have not seen a copy of my message sent back to me by the list software. Does the list software exclude the original sender when it reflects the messages out to the list members? Or have my recent posts been rejected by the spam filter or is there another explanation for this behavior. What are typical bounds (time) on message redistribution to these lists? I always receice a copy from debian-user. Normally within ten minutes, I think. Ouch! I just realized that the reason why I haven't been getting messages lately is because I made a bonehead error in my latest .procmailrc edit. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: virtual mail domains... long-winded response
On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Al Youngwerth wrote: I'd sure like to hear from other ISPs and linux masquerading/diald users out there and how they handle virtual domains. Using linux with masquerading and diald is becoming a very popular way to connect small LANs to businesses so I think its something that ISPs should support well. More ideas and comments? Hello Al, What do you think of using MX records to a uucp host and using uucp and sendmail's uucp-dom mailer? You can use uucp over a TCP/IP connection, so it should work with well with diald. Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pppd only works once per reboot
I have run into a strange problem with a Debian machine I am setting up in my workplace. pppd only works once after a re-boot and then subsequent attempts to run pppd result in chat timing out and exiting on an alarm. What's strange, is that I can run chat from the bash shell's command line (redirecting its i/o to the serial port) and it dials up my Internet provider with no trouble at all. It's just when chat is invoked by pppd that it doesn't work (except for 1 time after a re-boot). Minicom also works with no problems at all. Strange. As far as debugging goes... I've enabled debugging on both pppd and chat. The only thing that the log files show is that chat doesn't appear to be getting any response from the modem (except when run the 1st time after a reboot by pppd, or anytime from the command line). FWIW, I'm running Debian 1.1.1, kernel version 2.0.0 and ppp version ppp_2.2.0f. I have ppp running successfully on my Debian machine at home with no problems and I thought I duplicated my home machine's setup on the work machine. Maybe I've missed something. Thanks in advance for your help. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spam filter - ENOUGH MAIL PLEASE STOP!
On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: I had no idea how enthusiastic a following the Spam Filter has. I think I have a large enough sample now. Bruce, Are you planning on publishing your spam filter? I for one would like to implement it on mailing lists I run on one of my machines. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pppd only works once per reboot
I sent this message last night around mid-night but it doesn't seem to have made it to the list as of this morning. So, I'm resending it. My appologies if two of these messages suddenly show up on the list. Nick -- Forwarded message -- Subject: pppd only works once per reboot I have run into a strange problem with a Debian machine I am setting up in my workplace. pppd only works once after a re-boot and then subsequent attempts to run pppd result in chat timing out and exiting on an alarm. What's strange, is that I can run chat from the bash shell's command line (redirecting its i/o to the serial port) and it dials up my Internet provider with no trouble at all. It's just when chat is invoked by pppd that it doesn't work (except for 1 time after a re-boot). Minicom also works with no problems at all. Strange. As far as debugging goes... I've enabled debugging on both pppd and chat. The only thing that the log files show is that chat doesn't appear to be getting any response from the modem (except when run the 1st time after a reboot by pppd, or anytime from the command line). FWIW, I'm running Debian 1.1.1, kernel version 2.0.0 and ppp version ppp_2.2.0f. I have ppp running successfully on my Debian machine at home with no problems and I thought I duplicated my home machine's setup on the work machine. Maybe I've missed something. Thanks in advance for your help. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does the list send the sender a copy?
I have recently sent a number of messages to the debian-user mailing list and have not seen a copy of my message sent back to me by the list software. Does the list software exclude the original sender when it reflects the messages out to the list members? Or have my recent posts been rejected by the spam filter or is there another explanation for this behavior. What are typical bounds (time) on message redistribution to these lists? Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mounting a file as a filesystem
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Paul Seelig wrote: I think Debian distributions normally provide FIPS but not the most recent version with all (minor) bugfixes included. I regularily use FIPS for splitting harddisk partitions (20 times so far) and never managed to get data destroyed on any up to now. FIPS is a very secure tool and makes it possible to undo a partiton splitting without doing harm to the data on it. Works well with Win95 vfat file systems. Just out of curiousity... does fips work with an NT file system as well? Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reading news offline
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Boris D. Beletsky wrote: Nick Actually, for a small newsfeed I prefer CNews with the nntp Nick package to inn (but that's a personal preference). If you have Nick inn up and running properly, don't bother changing it. i would advice using leafnode - doesn't require any news feed acts as a reader to remote news server, small, runs from [x]inetd take a look at it http://www.troll.no/freebies/leafnode.html or http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue9/newsserver.html Zdrastvuy Tavarischt! Thanks for the tip. I probably won't change because I've already got CNews, NNTP and suck working quite nicely. I will take a look at leafnode for some other installations I've got to do in the near future. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reading news offline
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Johann Spies wrote: Date: Tue, 5 Nov 96 15:35 SAT From: Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Reading news offline Resent-Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 11:40:15 -0500 (EST) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org I have a dial-up connection to my ISP. I want to be able to read the usergroups offline. I have downloaded suck, inn and inews and also trn. After I have read their documentation and also the News-HOWTO, I still do not know how to do it. Actually, for a small newsfeed I prefer CNews with the nntp package to inn (but that's a personal preference). If you have inn up and running properly, don't bother changing it. I can read news with trn and gnus, but only while I am connected to the ISP. Have you installed and configured your news server properly. ie. While connected to your isp, are you connecting with the isp's news server or your own? You can find this out by running the netstat command to see which news server you are connected to. For example, I am currently reading news on my system using tin and downloading newsbatches from my isp using suck. Here's the (partial) output of the netstat command: $ netstat Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 00 xwing.xwing.org:nntpxwing.xwing.org:1649 ESTABLISHED tcp 00 xwing.xwing.org:1649xwing.xwing.org:nntp ESTABLISHED tcp 00 p2.radium.sentex.c:1648 flint.sentex.net:nntp ESTABLISHED My newshost is xwing.xwing.org and my isp's newshost is flint.sentex.net. The nntp connection to xwing.xwing.org is tin connecting to my system's news server. The nntp connection to flint.sentex.net is suck's connection to my isp's news server. If you are indeed connected to your own news server, then your problem is just one of ip routing and loading the dummy module will let you connect to your own news server even when you are not connected to your isp. (That's what I do on my system). I tried out suck. It made contact with the ISP's NNTP-server and did nothing further but complaining about not finding a history-file. When I use the -H (or is -h) option it stopped complaining but still did nothing. Make sure you have configured suck properly. That means configuring files in the /etc/suck directory and also possibly changing some paths in the get-news script before it will work properly. I recommend that you instrument the get-news script by sticking in some echo statements to print out the paths that the get-news program is using so you can ensure they are correct. I also had to adjust the filtering done by the put-news script in order to be able to feed news batches back to my isp's news server. How can I download the newsgroups I want to subscribe and read them on my own system in my own time? You are on the right path. You need to set up a news server and also suck. You also have to have your IP routing set up properly too. It was a straight forward thing when I used Windows (even without reading a single bit of documentation). After a few hours of reading and experimenting in Linux, I had no success and I do not even know which road to travel. A few hours is a very small investment in time. Don't forget that when you use Windows, you are using client software. By using Linux and trying to set up INN or CNews on your system, you are setting up a UNIX system running news (and other) server software. You are effectively setting up a mini isp yourself and that is bound to require a greater investment of your time. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Tex,Latex, etc.
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: I'm new to Tex and Latex and would like to install it to learn more about it. However, after getting my machine configured, I tried to do an ftp install. This worked for the most part, except for a few packages that were in the Packages file but not on ftp.debian.org or ftp.caldera.com. What really bit the dust was texbin and latex. First, texbin choked on its postinstall script. I checked and it wasn't even doing anything! It gave an error 139. But when I ran it by hand, everything worked fine. So, I changed the post-inst to just echo I did this by hand, and dpkg --configure texbin worked fine. I'm not sure this was a good idea though. Hmmm... I ran into similar problems, although I didn't do an ftp install. Installing all the latest packages that texbin depends on solved the above problem for me. It looks like that worked for you too. The next thing to install was latex. This started going fine, but quickly filled up my disk with the latex.log file. This was growing larger than 400mb! I had to CTL-C out of it. I wound up uninstalling latex and all related components (dselect kicks ass). I ran into the same problem with the packages out of the stable area. What solved the problem for me was *not* including the cfg hyphenation rules during the installation and configuration of the texlib package. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: inn / suck - help me!
post articles
${RNEWS} ${LOCAL_HOST} ${BATCHFILE}
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo Posted Articles Locally
rm -rf ${MSGDIR}
rm ${BATCHFILE}
fi
fi
fi
4) I also had to change the filter program /usr/sbin/put-news to filter
out the Xref header line instead of the NNTP-Posting-Host line
because the remote INN program complained about not being able to
set the Xref header.
Here' the contents of it:
#!/bin/sh
# this is just a simple script to run the one line sed
# command to strip off the NNTP Posting Header that
# my ISP's newsfeed doesn't like.
# this could be written as a one liner
# sed -e CMD $1 $2
#set -x
if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
echo
echo Usage `basename $0` infile outfile RETURN
echo
exit -1
fi
#SEDCMD=/^NNTP-Posting-Host/d
SEDCMD=/^Xref/d
OUTFILE=$2
INFILE=$1
if [ -f ${INFILE} ]; then
sed -e ${SEDCMD} ${INFILE} ${OUTFILE}
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo Error
exit -1
fi
else
echo $1 does not exist
exit -1
fi
Well, that's about it. Your situation may be different, but if you
instrument your get-news script as I did and pay careful attention to any
error messages, you should be able to get things working.
Hope this helps a bit.
Best regards,
Nick
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Re: Trying to install TeX
On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, David Wright wrote: So the next package is texbin (3.1415-5), and the error message I get is: Setting up texbin (3.1415-5) ... dpkg: error processing texbin (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Error were encountered while processing: texbin DPKG ERROR I have no idea how to proceed. a) Should I be typing dpkg --foo bar, and if so, what exactly? b) Can I watch dpkg --foo bar do its work so I can see where it fails? I ran into the same problem myself. Are you working off a CD or from files that you have ftp'd recently from ftp.debian.org ? I recommend that you get the latest tex files from Debian's ftp site and then make sure that you do *not* install the cfg hyphenation rules when you install the texlib package. That's what worked for me. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fixed! (Re: mgetty isn't answering the phone (ioctl problem))
On 26 Oct 1996, John Henders wrote: Maybe Debian should take the bold step of not creating /dev/cua* and making sure all Debian packages work correctly with /dev/ttyS*. This would mean making mgetty the only serial line getty, but much as I used to like uugetty, the fact that it has had no active maintainer for the last two years and that someone seems to decide to change how the linux console works every 6 months, makes uugetty's uugetty and normal console getty both pretty useless no anyway. Hello John, Does mgetty support the ring-back feature that uugetty has? That one is quite important to me as I have an answering machine and a modem on the same line. Nick -- Nick Busigin[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
latex_2e-7.deb almost ate my disk
I ran into some trials and tribulations when I tried to install the latex_2e-7.deb package... it almost used up all the space on my hard drive. Here's a copy of my installation notes that describe the problem: Running 'dpkg -i latex_2e-7.deb' produced the following error: Unpacking latex (from latex_2e-7.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex: latex depends on mflib (= 1.0-8); however: Version of mflib on system is 1.0-5. So... - installed newer version of mflib and mfbin and tried again... - it's taking a **long** time on the Rebuilding Latex' format ... section. - I had to kill the programs spawned by these processes as my disk space was being eaten up. After a little investigation, I discovered that it created a *huge* error file in directory /usr/lib/texmf/ini called latex.log that was 225775616 bytes in size!!! As I only had about 2% disk space left on my 1 gig drive, I didn't want to try looking at the file using less or more in case these files would try to create a large temporary file that would exhaust my disk space, so I examined the head and tail of the latex.log file with the following results: output of head command -- # head -n 20 latex.log This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1) (INITEX) 12 OCT 1996 13:14 **latex.initex (latex.initex (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/config/texsys.cfg) ./texsys.aux found *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] set to: ./. *** *** Assuming \openin and \input have the same search path. *** *** Defining UNIX/DOS style filename parser. *** catcodes, registers, \maxdimen=\dimen10 \hideskip=\skip10 -end of output of head command -- output of tail command --- # tail -n 20 latex.log R to run without stopping, Q to run quietly, I to insert something, E to edit your file, 1 or ... or 9 to ignore the next 1 to 9 tokens of input, H for help, X to quit. ? y Type return to proceed, S to scroll future error messages, R to run without stopping, Q to run quietly, I to insert something, E to edit your file, 1 or ... or 9 to ignore the next 1 to 9 tokens of input, H for help, X to quit. ? y Type return to proceed, S to scroll future error messages, R to run without stopping, Q to run quietly, I to insert something, E to edit your file, 1 or ... or 9 to ignore the next 1 to 9 tokens of input, H for help, X to quit. ? y Type return to proceed, S to scroll future error messages, R to run without stopping, Q to run quietly, I to insert somethin -- end of output of tail command --- So, it looks like there was a repeating error that the yes utility was triggering over and over again. Good thing that I killed the programs spawned by the installation program or I would have filled up my disk. So, I tried to purge the latex package with the following results: # dpkg --purge latex (Reading database ... 33252 files and directories currently installed.) Removing latex ... Removing latex format(s) using install-fmt-base(8) Removed latex format/base and related files dpkg - warning: while removing latex, directory /etc/texmf' not empty so not removed. Purging configuration files for latex ... Note that this did remove the offending *huge* latex.log file. Something appears to be amiss with the installation procedure for this package, or perhaps I inadvertently screwed something up. I'd appreciate some advice on where to go from here, as I really would like to get this package installed. Thanks in advance, Nick -- Nick Busigin[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: netscape
On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, besnard wrote: I selected netscape package in dselect and put netscape-v30tar.gz. But it still doesn't work!! I decompressed manually but when i type netscape in the directory, it does not find the application whereas it is in. Any suggestion? It worked for me! I used netscape_3.0-1.deb with netscape-v30-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz in the /tmp directory and it worked like a charm. Perhaps you didn't have the netscape tar.gz file in /tmp ? Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
texbin install problem
I am having difficulty in installing the texbin package: Here's a transcript of my installation effort via dpkg: dpkg -i texbin_3.1415-5.deb (Reading database ... 33461 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace texbin (using texbin_3.1415-5.deb) ... Unpacking replacement texbin ... Setting up texbin (3.1415-5) ... dpkg: error processing texbin (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: texbin I made sure that I had texlib (1.0-3), metafont, kpathsea, libc5 (=5.2.18-1) installed prior to trying the above (depends for texbin). If anyone could give me a pointer on how to correct this situation, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Nick -- Nick Busigin[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: using filter
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: How could I use filter to filter the mail from mailing lists (such as this one) into different folders. The only thing, I could think of is if there would be a way to do it based on the CC: line, but I didn't see an option in there to do filter based on the CC: line. Also, I was wondering if it is possible to filter the mail, and forward it to anoter computer. i.e. I want it stored on one machine, but also sent to the machine I read my mail on, just in case something happens to my machine. Why not look at using procmail as a mail filter. It can do everything that you have mentioned above. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: MIDI Debian?
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: Last night I installed kernel 2.0.12 and now I have sound! Well, I can use auplay to play a .wav file anyway. I have no idea how to test the rest of my board's functionality. Does anybody know of a digital audio package for Debian that will let me record digital audio? How about a MIDI package that will let me at least play MIDI files? Richard, Take a look at the Linux Sound HOWTO document that can be found in comp.os.linux.answers as well as other places. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: unreliable service of I-Connect
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Daniel ANDRE wrote: I am to in this situation: waiting for the CD for 4 weeks. I can't have any response from Simon Shapiro (I-Connect) on my order since 2 weeks so I am considering to ftp the files and master a CD for my use. For what it's worth, I'm in Canada and it took about 2 weeks to receive my CD from Simon. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: sendmail up and running or not
On Wed, 8 May 1996, Rob Leslie wrote: To receive mail directly from the outside, you need to have a host or domain name for which mail will be routed to your machine. Sometimes this involves an MX record pointing to your machine. It assumes your machine is always connected to the net. If this isn't the case, or if you don't have a static host or domain name, you probably can't use this kind of mail configuration; you might want to look into a POP setup instead using `popclient'. Another approach worth considering is the use of uucp for email (and news) transfers. That's what I use at my site and it works like a charm. Note that as mentioned above, your upstream provider must set up an MX record for your machine or domain, and also set up a uucp account for your system. Using POP to obtain email from your upstream provider is o.k., but is too limiting and just darned inconvenient. Using uucp as a transport mechanism automates sending and receiving of email (and news). It also has the benefit allowing you can set up as many email accounts as you want. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: uugetty?
On Sat, 4 May 1996, Fundamental wrote: what package does uugetty come with? I don't think that uugetty is available as a Debian package yet. I installed mine after downloading it from sunsite. Best regards, Nick -- Nick Busigin[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
