exim and UUCP
I need info on exim and UUCP. In slink's exim I found a little snippet about UUCP which allowed me to receive mail. I have no idea about sending mail via UUCP 'though. How should I do this? BTW, which config is best as preparation for a UUCP configuration, the SMTP or the local delivery?
Re: /home/ftp directory question
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 12:36:43PM -0600, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: I missed the first part of this thread, but was wondering... do you have separate /home/ftp/bin and /home/ftp/lib/ and /home/ftp/etc directories? Yes, as I said I followed the man page of ftpd to the letter. I have made sure that all directories exist and set the permissions to the values the manpage said.
Re: /home/ftp directory question
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 01:37:07AM -, Pollywog wrote: I just noticed that I have a /home/ftp directory but no subdirectories (no pub, etc, bin or anything else). Is this normal? It seems to be normal, it's on my Debian systems, too. I think if you follow the ftpd manpage you can setup anonymous ftp access to your machine. Why it isn't setup for you so that you can just drop files into ~ftp/pub is beyond me 'though.
Re: /home/ftp directory question
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 02:41:32PM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote: It seems to be normal, it's on my Debian systems, too. I think if you follow the ftpd manpage you can setup anonymous ftp access to your machine. Why it Sorry, I was wrong. I followed man ftpd to the letter but anon access doesn't work. You can log in, but ls doesn't work although ~ftp/pub is there and not empty. Can anybody help?
how to make SAMBA (hamm) join an NT domain?
I want to make the SAMBA package from hamm join an NT domain. Do I see it right that this is not possible and that I have to manually compile a SAMBA =2.x?
cti-ifhp question on duplex printing
I use cti-ifhp in order to print on an HP4000N network printer. This device has a duplexing unit installed and I wonder if I can use it somehow from Linux?
XFMail 1.2 [p0]
XFMail seg faults quite often here. Is this a system problem or an XFMail problem? A co-student here (Red Hat user) told me it bombs on his system too so I assume the latter. Right?
sysv style init of daemons
Is there an easy to read in-depth description of the sysv style init? I hope the name is right; I mean the way of starting daemons by making links instead of the traditional way of placing a start script into /etc/rc.boot
Apache SSL problem
I installed hamm's Apache-SSL and can connect to it from the server (http[s]://localhost/) w/o problems. But if I try to connect from a different computer all I see is an alert with Document contains no data. What's this?
..de.debian.org
What's up with the ...de.debian.org servers? A DNS problem perhaps?
help me unbreak my box please
Since the installation of my hamm box, something is broken. I want to fix it to make an upgrade to slink as painless as possible but don't know how, i.e. how do I unbreak things here? dselect says: --- Broken Optional packages in section contrib/mail --- U-- Opt contrib/ mailcrypt3.4-4 3.4-4 Emacs lisp interface to P --- Broken Optional packages in section tex --- U-- Opt tex auctex 9.9b-3 9.9b-3 An integrated environment This computer was installed with one of the prepackaged options in hamm, namely Scientific Workstation. After installation, lots of EMacs stuff was broken which I could fix by installing mailcrypt. But now I don't know what else I could try. Thanks a lot, Thomas
Re: help me unbreak my box please
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 03:10:36PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: You should show us the output of dpkg --configure --pending There is no output.
Re: help me unbreak my box please
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 03:50:34PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: You can also try dpkg --configure mailcrypt auctex Thanks, that told me to install PGP and now everything works fine.
Re: Why not as a newsgroup?
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 09:42:13AM -0500, Roger Pittman wrote: Per the source code, the standard (oversimplified) sequence is: Ahhh, yes, what you describe is how it works usually. It's fine if you're sitting at a leased line or pay a flat fee for your phone call to your ISP. But what we were talking about were newsreaders which grab the headers of your selected groups, disconnect and let you mark articles for retrieval at a later time. This is not that usual with Unix newsreaders than it is with Windows and Mac programs, unfortunately.
Re: shell scripts.
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 05:52:21AM -0700, Dan Furtney wrote: scripts. On the back of the book it said shell progamming wasn't covered because Pearl would be better for the task. I decided to look into Pearl instead. Good Luck Please don't confuse Pearl with perl. Pearl is a different - if ancient - programming language than perl.
Re: default fonts in NS 4.05 unreadable
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 01:26:09PM +, Mark Brown wrote: Does this happen with all web pages? I haven't used Netscape on a Debian No, some pages displayed fine, but not all. I wasn't able to find a pattern. system (Lynx is your friend), but on other systems I've tried Netscape 4.05 Yes, lynx is nice, in a way. But there are lots of web pages which you can't navigate w/o seeing graphics or frames (and lynx' frames handling sucks IMHO) thus I prefer Netscape. Until I find a Mozilla deb for hamm or figure out how to compile it myself, that is.
Re: default fonts in NS 4.05 unreadable
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 12:35:30AM -0700, Dave Thayer wrote: It was a pretty uneventful installation, but read /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz. Strange, on my hamm box installing xfstt was a pretty eventful job. First, there is no FAQ.gz. Maybe it is in the slink but I can't install that to a hamm box, can I? Then there is a problem with starting xfstt. It looks like there is an error in the start script because if I type '/etc/init.d/xfstt start' I get a line that looks like xfstt telling me how it wants to get invoked. A bit later xdm tries to start but the screen doesn't come up. It's flashing and I have to login from another computer, take down xdm, start xfstt by hand and start xdm again. Then and only then everything works fine and I can view web pages with Netscape without getting eye cancer. :) I haven't even mentioned the fact that the name of the xfstt start script was in fact 'xfstt-dpkg-new' and that I had to browse the net for the line I had to add to the FontPath in XF86Config. unix:/7101 didn't work, whyever. Now I wonder what's broken on this system and do I have to expect something like that on slink, too? In particular there are some details regarding choosing font size for netscape. What I did, in a nutshell, was Regarding font sizes in Netscape: Is it ok that I can't choose the font size for a TTF? I think in Windows this is possible and at the moment I'm using the content of a \WINNT\Fonts directory. Are there free fonts which look as good or even better?
Re: Why not as a newsgroup?
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 01:32:57AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Don't all news-servers provide for this, and all news-readers implement it? The news reader in NS Communicator does the above. I'm sure every news server lets you download headers only. But what good is that if your client isn't able to demand this? Until now I knew about Windows and Mac newsreaders which do this and now you're telling me about NS. Not that I would use NS for news but it's good to know that there is one Linux program offering this facility. [UUCP] Now this is new to me. Thanks. I'll ask about this with my ISP. Do that, once you know it you don't want to miss it again.
Re: Setting Up Newsgroups
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 11:42:50PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: How do I go about setting up newsgroups on my hamm box? I installed the news servers, but I'm unsure of what to do next. I just want to pull maybe 10 groups down to my local box. Your article leaves many open questions: Which newsserver did you install, what do you mean with I installed the news server_s_? You don't need more than one. Can you use UUCP or do you have to use NNTP? With the few groups you want to get, wouldn't slrnpull be an option? If you don't like slrn, then probably not but then maybe leafnode could be used instead of a full blown newsserver? What you have to do next is basically create the groups locally on your system and tell your computer to fetch articles from your ISP's newsserver.
Kernel recompiling w/o losing the defaults
I wanted to recompile the Kernel and leave all the default settings which were used to produce the stock hamm 2.0.34 kernel in. There are some options which I don't use, some which aren't in there and a recompile for my CPU which is not a 386 wouldn't hurt either I thought. So I installed the kernel source tree, made a backup copy of .config and did a make mrproper. Then when I wanted to set the options I put the saved .config file back in place and tried to load it. This never worked, neither in make menuconfig nor in make xconfig. Can anybody tell me what is going on and how I can setup the kernel with the stock hamm kernel settings right in place?
Re: Why not as a newsgroup?
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 05:53:50PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Newsgroups allow you to only download the subject lines of the messages instead of have to download all messages whether you would have read them or not. I'm glad you have a 56k connection, How many Unix newsreaders offer this? but keep in mind there are others with only 33.6 or 28.8 connections. Downloading 400-500 messages at 28.8, or less, still takes awhile. Folks, I can only recommend you to get a UUCP account with your provider or bully them very hard if they don't offer this. I have one and am subscribed to like 20 mailinglists with several hundred messages a day. They get compressed at my provider's system and I download them within one minute. Even without ISDN it wouldn't take me more than two or three minutes. So with UUCP connection time is no issue.
/etc/alternatives
What is /etc/alternatives good for? During installation of packages I can sometimes read that I can do this and that with an update-alternatives but I can't figure it out.
default fonts in NS 4.05 unreadable
On two different hamm computers with different video cards and monitors I installed Netscape 4.05 with the install script. On both of these systems I can hardly read the web pages because the default fonts are too small. On the same computers and monitors, a Windows Netscape displays fine. Why? I already increased the font size by 2 but now the fonts are too large and look ugly. What can I do about it and why do I have to do it at all? Why does it not work out of the box?
Re: HP 4000 N
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 04:07:32PM -0500, Matt Kopishke wrote: I am trying to set up printing on a Linux box (Slink) running lpr. The I use hamm but that doesn't make a difference does it? printer is on a network, and has an IP address, how do I set this up? I tried using the default network setup in the printcap that magicfilter make and pluging in the IP, but it does not work, Now this /etc/printcap is used at work to print to an HP4000N: # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # lp|lj|hplj4000n|HP LaserJet 4000 N:\ # :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4000n:\ :lp=:rm=192.168.10.20:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4000n:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4m-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: This is basically a hack, because I do not know if the LJ4M filter I chose is the best suitable for an HP4000N and because doing things like ls -l|lpr generates a listing with a staircase effect. But because PS files print fine I'll take care of that on one of those days... BTW: I also need to have WordPerfect print, and from what I can see it uses it's own priter setup, how would I set this up? Here I have no clue.
Menu in fvwm2
Whenever I install a program which provides a menu entry I have to do an update-menus from my user account after installing a package. Otherwise there is no menu entry in fvwm2. At work I use Window Maker and there the installation procedure takes care of the menu entry. It's not necessary to issue said command as user. Can anybody out there explain this? Both systems run hamm although the installation method is different: At home I use dpkg-mountable pointing to the cdrom reader and at work I use dpkg-ftp. But somehow I doubt that this could be the reason for the difference.
Re: Why not as a newsgroup?
On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 01:09:59AM -0800, Martin Waller wrote: I for one would no longer to be able to get the list. I access the internet through a firewall. The policy is restricted viewing only of some newsnet news groups. There is no way to either connect to a different news server nor post to usenet. So the newsgroup way would be impossible for me to access. O, pity you... Can't afford a private ISP? Come on, this is the most ridiculous argument I've ever read. If your employer's net access doesn't work properly, get a real ISP account for home.
Re: mail filtering
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 08:46:44PM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: This is my first exposure to smail which seems to be the default in Debian. I had no trouble setting it up. That's what you think. I'd check my From: line if I were you.
Re: rotating log files
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 02:17:06AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: The package anacron provides this functionality. Speaking of anacron: I used one of the preset configuration schemes (Scientific Workstation) on one hamm machine and noticed that it has both cron and anacron running. Isn't this kind of pointless?
Re: very confused
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 08:57:47PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have there been duplicates? I suppose that you first need to move your mailfile /var/spool/mail/my_account to your $HOME and then start formail/procmail as procmail appends the mails while cat reads them again and again?! That's about what happens, the emails are appended to the mail file again and again. Procmail's man page includes a script which filters your mail without this problem. I use it quite often when I fiddle with my recipes and it works great.
I can't connect to my computer
i installed a hamm system (Scientific Workstation) and can't connect to it. Neither ping, telnet nor smtp or something else works. It's like there is no network installed. But it is, I, sitting at the computer, can connect to any other machine, I can browse the web, send email or do other stuff that sends something back to the machine. Can anybody tell me what's going on here? The hostname is kik.informatik.fh-dortmund.de. Feel free to scan it or whatever might lead to an answer. At first I thought about hosts.deny and hosts.allow, but they look innocent: $ cat /etc/hosts.allow # /etc/hosts.allow: list of hosts that are allowed to access the system. # See the manual pages hosts_access(5), hosts_options(5) # and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz # # Example:ALL: LOCAL @some_netgroup # ALL: .foobar.edu EXCEPT terminalserver.foobar.edu # # If you're going to protect the portmapper use the name portmap for the # daemon name. Remember that you can only use the keyword ALL and IP # addresses (NOT host or domain names) for the portmapper. See portmap(8) # and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz for further information. # ALL: ALL $ cat /etc/hosts.deny # /etc/hosts.deny: list of hosts that are _not_ allowed to access the system. # See the manual pages hosts_access(5), hosts_options(5) # and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz # # Example:ALL: some.host.name, .some.domain # ALL EXCEPT in.fingerd: other.host.name, .other.domain # # If you're going to protect the portmapper use the name portmap for the # daemon name. Remember that you can only use the keyword ALL and IP # addresses (NOT host or domain names) for the portmapper. See portmap(8) # and /usr/doc/netbase/portmapper.txt.gz for further information. # # The PARANOID wildcard matches any host whose name does not match its # address. ALL: PARANOID Then I thought maybe there's a firewall installed. But the only references to ipfwadm I could find in the startup files are for preventing IP spoofed connections. Here's my inetd.conf, maybe it defaults to something weird which I don't recognize: $ cat /etc/inetd.conf # /etc/inetd.conf: see inetd(8) for further informations. # # Internet server configuration database # # # Lines starting with #:LABEL: or #off# should not # be changed unless you know what you are doing! # # If you want to disable an entry so it isn't touched during # package updates just comment it out with a single '#' character. # # Packages should modify this file by using update-inetd(8) # # service_name sock_type proto flags user server_path args # #:INTERNAL: Internal services #echo stream tcp nowait rootinternal #echo dgram udp waitrootinternal #chargenstream tcp nowait rootinternal #chargendgram udp waitrootinternal discard stream tcp nowait rootinternal discard dgram udp waitrootinternal daytime stream tcp nowait rootinternal daytime dgram udp waitrootinternal timestream tcp nowait rootinternal timedgram udp waitrootinternal #:STANDARD: These are standard services. ftp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ftpd telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd #:BSD: Shell, login, exec and talk are BSD protocols. shell stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.rshd login stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.rlogind execstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.rexecd ntalk dgram udp waitroot/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd talkdgram udp waitroot/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.talkd #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services. #:INFO: Info services finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.fingerd ident stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/identdidentd -i #:BOOT: Tftp service is provided primarily for booting. Most sites # run this only on machines acting as boot servers. #tftp dgram udp waitnobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /boot #bootps dgram udp waitroot/usr/sbin/bootpdbootpd -i -t 120 #:RPC: RPC based services #mountd/1 dgram rpc/udp waitroot/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd #rstatd/1-3 dgram rpc/udp waitroot/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/rpc.rstatd #rusersd/2-3dgram rpc/udp waitroot/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/rpc.rusersd #walld/1dgram rpc/udp waitroot/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/rpc.rwalld #:HAM-RADIO: amateur-radio services #:OTHER: Other services saftstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/sendfiled
Re: Debian Hamm used for a Linux Cluster and nobody noticed?
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 04:50:22PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heute ist nicht alle Tage, ich komme wieder, keine Frage!!! Toll! Der Maus! (IIRC) Actually, most Germans know this from the Pink Panther cartoon show. I doubt that this was a reference to Der Maus. Hmm, does anybody out there in Germany know Art Spiegelman at all? :)
Re: QUantifiable reasons to use debian instead of redhat...?
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 03:11:52PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: Debian is not motivated by profit, so when a new Debian release cometh, you can be sure it's been tested to a full extent. I think Sorry, but I want to disagree here. After reading debian-devel for a while, I'm under the impression that they have to release a new version until then-and-then. I don't know why because as you said it's not for profit, but they are rushing it if you ask me.
hamm install via NFS
Is there something like a list of machines which I could use for NFS installing a hamm base system? I prefer a system within .de if possible.
Re: surprise! was( USR; dialing wrong number)
On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 08:19:13PM +0400, Eugene Sevinian wrote: April 1. The matter is that during dialing from minicom it performs kind of maping. So 1-9, 2-8, 3-7...9-1, 0-0. The same is under Norton Terminal Emulation. :))) Are you using pulse dialling? Somewhere I read that there are countries (I think Scandinavian countries were mentioned) where numbers are represented with an amount of pulses which differ from the usual amount of pulses for a given number. Check your init string, maybe it switches your modem to such a weird mode of operation. If it's just ATZ then I would do an ATFW and see if it works.
Re: printing from netscape
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 11:54:40AM -0600, Eric Jensen wrote: When you print from netscape, it sends postscript to the printer. Assuming you don't have a Postscript printer, you need to use ghostscript and a print filter (try the magicfilter package). Does anybody know why you don't get the top and bottom lines on your print like in Windows, where Netscape prints the Title, URL, Date and Time? Is it Netscape/Linux', magicfilter's or ghostscript's fault?
Re: Rar for Linux
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 09:54:59AM +1100, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: I have a copy of rar for linux, in the form of the file rarlinux. How do i install or execute this? I have done a chmod (755) on the file What does `file rarlinux` say?
Re: 3COM 3c509B port selection
On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 10:26:24PM -0500, Michael B. Taylor wrote: The cards that I have used (some tulips and some ancient Western Digitals) autosense the media. Are you sure this one doesnt do that too? I own a 3c509 and this one also doesn't autodetect the media type. Here is what I would try if you cant get it to work and nobody who actually knows something about this NIC has a better idea: I downloaded the 3c509 setup program 3c5x9setup.c from the driver's author's homepage and changed the media type to my preference. It should work with the 509B, too.
Re: Standard kernel for IP Masquerading?
At 13:32 Uhr + 31.10.1998, Ian Lynagh wrote: I would like to setup IP Masquerading on my Debian 2.0 box. I would like to know if the default kernel is built with the correct settings of if I have to go and install all the development stuff for rebuilding my own kernel. You will need to compile your own kernel (you should do anyway). Are you sure? I'm running IP masquerading and didn't compile a new kernel. My uname -a says: Linux cat 2.0.34 #2 Thu Jul 9 10:57:48 EST 1998 i386 unknown which is the default kernel.
netatalk printing again
I solved my former netatalk problem. Looks like netatalk and LPRng don't go together unless you put a :pr=| lpr -Pprinter:\ into the papd.conf file. But now that I can print to my DeskJet 520 from my Mac I notice that the margins don't fit. I have yet to see a document that appears on paper the way it was intended to. Can anybody help me there? I use Debian 2.0's magicfilter package and LaserWriter driver 8.5.1 on the Mac. The PPD files are for Apple's LaserWriter II NT.
magicfilter problem
I installed magicfilter and have a problem with a ps file. Magicfilter itself sort of works, a ls | lpr worked. Then I tried it with toc.ps from the cnews doc. This prints until the line 4 Implementation is reached (only the upper half of this line is printed, btw). Then the page just sits there in the printer until I press the Eject button on the printer. Does anybody know the reason for this? My system: Debian 2.0, everything is installed from the 2.0 CD, the printer is a HP DeskJet 520
Netatalk printing, DJ 500
I want to print from my Mac to a HP DJ 520 which is connected to the Linux box where magicfilter with the DJ 500 filter is installed. Can anybody recommend a good PPD file? I tried the HP LJ III (si) so far, without luck. Because I do not know what to look for I fear I have to check out every PPD file available unless I find somebody who suggests a good one for a DeskJet 5xx.
Re: smail config broken?
At 23:49 Uhr -0700 21.10.1998, George Bonser wrote: Exim is a much better choice. Any chances that this will replace Smail as Debian's de-facto default MTA in the near future?
Re: SATAN .deb?
At 14:16 Uhr +0100 15.10.1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: it's an essential admin tool for checking your setup. This is the reason why it shouldn't be prepackaged. I really can't imagine anybody concerned about security trusting a prepackaged security scanner. Personally, I wouldn't. That's perhaps because two vital parts of my Debian 2.0 system were broken the way the *.deb files installed them. (cnews and UUCP) I think I'll steer clear of *.deb files in the future and go the *.tar.gz route. YMMV, though.
debianized Scanner support somewhere?
Is it possible to get a deb File which provides support for a scanner? I'd be most interested in support for the Logitech ScanMan32 Mac which is a handscanner which operates via a little box with a SCSI connector at one end and the handscanner jack at the other. Shouldn't be too hard to support this should it? IF there is no such driver, how would I write one myself? I.E. what should I read, would it be better to disassemble the Mac driver or snoop the SCSI bus or what?
how do I prevent DNS queries?
I have set up a small LAN at home with my Linux box being a router, firewall, mailnews server and my MAC being my system for working on. If I send email from my Mac all is well. The mail software contacts my Linux box and delivers the email which is later sent to my ISP via UUCP. But if I send news articles the brain dead Mac software queries the DNS in order to find out the system's domain name. This is stupid because it costs money (no flat fee here) and it doesn't need to find out the name: I put a domain name in the Mac's equivalent of /etc/hosts and the news package on my Linux box disregards it anyway. It writes the internal IP address into the header. How do I prevent my Mac costing me money? Could I perhaps install bind on my Linux box and forward all queries to my provider except those for a reverse lookup of 192.168.1.2? If this is possible, could anybody help me with configuring bind?
does smail know batched email?
Does smail as shipped with Debian 2.0 handle batched and compressed email (incoming) delivered via UUCP properly? When I had 1.3.1 installed it did not and I never found a solution to the problem. Many email batches were lost until I switched to non batched delivery to my machine. But I really like compressed email batches because they save $$$.
Q: mail2news, uucp, cnews
I run Debian 2.0 versions of cnews and uucp and want to gate my mailing lists to local newsgroups. So I fetched the mail2news.pl script and tried my luck. First, I left the INEWS variable set to rnews and changed one of my procmail recipes to put a test group into a local newsgroup which somehow worked. But unfortunately, every article that was put into local.lists.group also appeared in the cnews togo file which resulted in an outgoing uucp batch with all the mailinglist articles. This shouldn't have happened as I exclude local groups from sending to my uplink with cnews' sys file. The line of my sys file (copied from the Linux NAG): lilly/lilly.ping.de:all/all,!local:f: As I read it this should batch all articles except those from the local hierarchy which were written on my machine for transmission to my provider? But why does it not work? It's like the !local wasn't there. Because I don't really know what I'm doing I changed the INEWS variable in mail2news.pl to inews and thought this could help. But man, was I wrong. After downloading the email this morning my system was busy (top showed a load of ca. 7!) for more than 6 hours. And it still generated a UUCP batch of all incoming mailing list articles. :/ Could anybody _please_ tell me what I am doing wrong? Is there perhaps another approach of doing a mailinglist-newsgroup gate than mail2news.pl? Something perhaps that doesn't delete the headers which could be used for showing the messages as threads would be perfect. I really don't know why mail2news.pl deletes In-Reply-To ...
Re: can smail change the Envelope?
On Sun, Sep 13, 1998 at 06:55:49PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Anyway you can fake this field if you put something like the following in your /etc/smail/config file (man smailconf): return_path_field=Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caution: This is not tested. Didn't work. At first I thought the missing return_path attribute in transports' section smtp was the reason but if I add it, Mac Eudora reports an error while transmitting the message. I can hardly read the error message, but the string return_path appears in it. Pity
can smail change the Envelope?
I usually write email on the Debian box here, for which I installed UUCP and SMail, which works fine. I can change the From: line to whatever I like and my provider still accepts and delivers the emails. So far, so good. But there is a Mac here which communicates with my Linux box via Ethernet and which I would also like to send mail from. I installed Internet Config and MacSOUP and started reading mail. Worked fine. Then I send some email which returned with an error message from my provider's MTA. It told me the return-path of my message was wrong. I assume what it means is the first line in an email's header which looks like: From cat.ping.de!tom . . From: Thomas Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . If my assumption is correct then MacSOUP generates a wrong header because the first line looks like: From pobox.com!tadams Now I wonder if I can configure SMail in such a way that it rewrites the first From line (aka Envelope?) to a format my provider likes? Below is an example error message: From MAILER-DAEMON Mon Sep 7 08:51:14 1998 Return-Path: real-tom Received: by cat.ping.de via rmail from stdin id [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 08:51:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 12284 invoked by uid 10); 6 Sep 1998 22:54:28 - Date: 6 Sep 1998 22:54:28 - Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail failed - invalid return-path Status: RO Content-Length: 1191 Lines: 31 Hi. This is the rmail program at lilly.ping.de. I am afraid I can only accept messages that have a valid return-path (or From_ line) pointing to an address in the .ping.de domain. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. --- Below this line is a copy of the message. From pobox.com!tadams Sun Sep 6 21:50:56 1998 remote from cat Received: from [192.168.1.2] (really [192.168.1.2]) by cat.ping.de via in.smtpd with smtp id [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 21:50:56 +0200 (CEST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xx xx) Subject: x xxx xxx From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Adams) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 21:50:53 +0200 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Organization: none X-Mailer: MacSOUP D-2.3.1 (unregistered)
Re: [Debian] ISDN - Worldwide support
On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 11:41:04AM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote: The hardware isn't the problem. This is an area where ISDN is the same all over the world (correct me someone if I'm wrong here) Unfortunately yes. The primary difference between ISDN in different countries is if the telco provides the NT or not. This leads to devices which either have a built-in NT or not depending on the area they are sold in. The problem is the D-channel protocol which is different everywhere. There is DSSS1 in Europe (with a few subtle differences between the countries), NI-1 and another one in the US and about Japan I don't know. And in Europe there are the national ones too, like 1TR6 in Germany. Well, I once had a Zyxel omni.net which could talk several D-channel protocols but which was available either with or without NT. In Germany it was sold without NT as the telco provides it and the manual stated it was available with an internal NT e.g. in the USA. This is probably what the original poster was wondering about. No, I don't know of a universal ISDN TA that operates everywhere. I don't know of a software that operates everywhere. And this is the part of the original question which I didn't understand. Usually you get an external ISDN device to circumvent any driver problems as they are usually connected to a serial port of the computer. Why would I need special Debian support for brand a, brand b etc?
Re: Virtual Poohsticks
On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:17:04PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: Does anyone know of any virtual poohsticks software, or is anyone working on some at the moment? What is a virtual poohstick??
Re: Ethernet Lock Up
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 04:14:59PM -0400, joseph evan porter wrote: I have a 3Com 3c905 ethernet card on a dual processor Dell Workstation. I'm using kernel 2.0.35, and occasionally I get a screen full of: eth0:error re-entering the interrupt handler Is it perhaps the 3Com conflicting with a dual processor machine? At work I refrained from installing a 3Com NIC after reading the NT driver file ReadMe which stated that problems can be expected in dual processor machines. Tough luck, so boss has to stick to the NE2k..
how do I add a kernel?
I want to add an additional kernel so that I can switch between them at boot time depending on which SCSI adapter the hard drive is connected to. How do I do this? I searched within dpackage for kernel but did only find two binary images without mentioning if and which SCSI stuff they support. I know I was asked which controller I wanted to support at installation but it doesn't seem possible to reproduce this and then add the appropriate kernel to the harddrive and update lilo, is it?
Re: New to Debian; emacs20 broken after fresh install of Hamm.
On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 11:43:02AM +0200, Ruud Janssen wrote: By adding the install stage in which task profiles can be selected, the manual package selection using dselect can be avoided because a sensible pre-selection of packages has already been made. In this way the installation gets about as easy as RedHat's, and dselect simply becomes a powerful tool (without an equivalent in RedHat) for maintaining the packages instead of the most difficult part of the installation. Shouldn't this be mentioned in the install guide? Are you writing about Debian 2? The task profiles is probably what can be seen while installing a SUSE Linux, but I haven't seen a profile selection option while installing Debian 2. How come?
Re: ISDN script problem !
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 12:23:44AM +, Nuno Carvalho wrote: I would consider to give the new config a try. It is really nice. Start isdnconfig as root. I didn't understood, yet, isdnconfig ! :(( What should I write !? Just enter the command isdnconfig. It will ask you some questions and prepares your config files. After editing them and adding the appropriate line to /etc/ppp/pap-secrets the ISDN subsystem is (apart from the speed) indistinguishable from a LAN connection. If you need a connection, it's there. No need to start any daemon manually. It's like magic :-) --- ipppd +ua /etc/ppp/isdn-auth \ If you insist on using this should it be /etc/ppp/pap-secrets instead of /etc/ppp/isdn-auth? At least in your message you wrote you had entered your info into the former file.
cd image mirror - site owners attitudes
I want to inquire if other people out there had similar difficulties obtaining the hamm images. First I tried the cdimage.debian.org server and learned people outside of the ukaren't welcome there. Then I checked the mirror site in Germany where I am located. Once there I saw a message like use rsync. I write CDRs on an NT box and didn't find an rsync port so I couldn't use the mirror as they didn't let you download the image by means of http. Afterwards I checked out the mirror site in NL and they finally let me download the images. Much to my horror I found out they were corrupt when I checked them with MD5SUM the next morning. Now was the time for some help and I used IRC to ask for a working site and people out there told me about ftp.de.debian.org which was good because it resolved to a german university and we universities are connected with relatively high bandwidth. The problem was their ftp daemon refused my connection attempts. After fiddling with some ftp clients and some computers I came to the conclusion that they block your IP address if a connection doesn't get authorized the right way or something. I.E. mistype user name or password and you're out of business. :-( My last resort was SunSITE UK which finally delivered working images. Now, my question is why is it so hard to get these images? If somebody sets up a mirror site am I wrong to assume that I'm allowed to download it in a hassle free way? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
where are pine and tin? (hamm)
I use Debian 2.0 and am missing pine and tin. I ftped the binary-i386 image soonafter it was released and those programs aren't on it. After having my network stuff up and running I checked the contrib area on debian ftp servers but didn'tfind them there either. Why is that? Don't those two programs fit into Debian's idea of free software or what? It's not as bad as it could be, for I use mutt and slrn now, which I didn't knowbefore but I still like to have tin and pine on my system. Of course, I could compile them on my own but I'd prefer deb files. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
