Regarding Re: mailagent and MH ; Susan G. Kleinmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] adds:
Susan $ popclient -3 -P ~/.tiac pop1.tiac.net
Susan QUALCOMM Pop server derived from UCB (version |214r3+TIAC|)
Susan at mailserver1 starting.
Susan 1 messages in folder
Susan reading message
EDWARD == EDWARD FORREST URENDA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
EDWARD I once ftp'ed the pcmcia package from virginia, but then
EDWARD uninstalled it. Where can I find it once more? I really
EDWARD need it. It works really well with my pc card and laptop.
The PCMCIA package is located
I just upgraded to the newest Babel (3.6-4) and it seems to have gotten
screwed. It won't configure because it says it doesn't know how to
generate manfnt.mf, and then it says it can't find manfnt.mf. It then
writes a huge log file to disk, which has crashed my machine already
because it
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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 12:32:17 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ervin D. Walter)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: missing a new gsfonts
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gs was upgraded but a new
Is there a digested version of this mailing list? I'm being overwhelmed by
the amount of traffic here. If there isn't a debian-user-digest, I think it's
high time somebody created it--please.
-Randy
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NOTICE: I DO NOT ACCEPT UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone here on the Debian-L know the secrets of using the ipfwadm
utility to set up masquerading? I've built a kernel with the proper
options but I'm concerned about whether I'm really masquerading, or
just forwarding packets. How do I prove it?
I'm running the unstable tree. If someone else can try '/sbin/clock -r'
and let me know if it seg faults, I'd appreciate it. It does it on
2 systems here... :(
Tim
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A public-opinion poll is no substitute
From: Charles Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am trying to install the 7-14-96 debian release on a machine
with over 500 megabytes on an IDE hard disk.
Well, if LILO will work at all with the default configuration that you get
when you install the package, you are probably safe, since only _one_
What should I try next to get the hard drive to boot
the kernel on the second partition? I may have ruined
it by writing a boot record onto the second partition.
Try re-installing the LILO package, and answer _yes_ to all of the questions
it asks you. This will put Debian's MBR program on
This is best sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], for future reference.
Thanks
Bruce
The first question is this: which device are 16:02 and 16:01 ?
I looked in /dev searching for devices whith major number 16 but
I didn't found any. Shouldn't hda and hdc correspond to major 3 and 22 ?
The message is in hex (which is probably a mistake). It's hdc2 and hdc1.
I've tryed to
My recent ftp debian 1.1 installation was a great success,
except that I appear to have deleted a package needed for
further ftp installations using dselect I don't know
where I went wrong, but was trying to save some disk space
and probably pressed a - when I should have selected an =.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Str|mberg)
Subject: Re: lilo installation on IDE disk 500 megabytes
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Blair)
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 16:28:35 +0200 (MET
Is there a postscript version of the documents.
Thanks,
Shaya
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Shaya Potter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
There is some new documentation that I think is essential for all
prospective Debian developers to read.
The
You may remember that I posted a little while ago about not being able to
print over ethertalk. Well now I can print, but that doesn't do me that
much good because it just keeps on printing. I have tried many things,
but I can't seem to figure out what's going wrong. I could modify a lpr
Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am considering to buy a 2940 Ultra Wide SCSI card. Does anyone
using it? Does the kernel support it yet?
I just started using one with my new machine, and it appears to work
fine. You might need to make sure you have a fairly recent kernel.
I will
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miroslav Ruda) writes:
Is any reason why not to use this schema in Debian too?
Read /usr/doc/libc5/FAQ.gz
--
Rob
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE wrote:
But, this method does not use the descriptions, or dependency lists,
either. I kind of like that information, as it allows me to see if I'm
trying to install something I don't have the extra files for.
It's fairly easy to generate your own
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
Is there a postscript version of the documents
Yes, in the directory ftp://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/users/ian/dpkg-doc/
you'll find various versions of the files, including postscript.
Once again, these are *DRAFT* documents which do *NOT* reflect current
At 09:01 22/08/96 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Fun --
hi Su:)
dpkg --info libgdbm1_1.7.3-11.deb
yields:
...
Depends: libc5 (=5.2.16-1)
...
You quite right, but i have libgdbm1_1.7.3.8 ... thats my other problem, i
cant find lib3-11 ...
I even had a look at ftp.debian.org, i can find this version ...
At 10:33 AM 8/22/96 -0700, you wrote:
Is there a digested version of this mailing list? I'm being overwhelmed by
the amount of traffic here. If there isn't a debian-user-digest, I think it's
high time somebody created it--please.
-Randy
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http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~gobbel/
NOTICE: I DO NOT
Hi,
I'd like to know if there is any document/help info for me
read on how to become debian-ized.
I'm currently run SLACKWARE and thinking about switching.
Please reply directory to my email because I do not believe
I'm in this mailing list.
How do I sign up for the debian mailing
I recently installed Debian 1.1, including termcap.compat. Since then
I've installed a custom version of the kernel (2.0.7) successfully, so
I figure that gcc is reasonably well set up.
However, I tried to compile kermit 5A(190) and the make failed,
complaining that it couldn't find -ltermcap.
My 2 cents' worth on this one is that my (new) system had full NFS
capability until I installed the netstd package, at which point I got the
above message.
Poking around showed that /etc/init.d/netstd__nfs had all 5 of the _start_
lines commented out. I am a Unix dumbkov but uncommenting the
I suggest that you get procmail or mailagent on your system, and set
it up so that the list is split into a separate file from your personal
mailbox. That's how I read the 30 lists I subscribe to, and there is much
less overwhelm than if I had everything in one mailbox.
Thanks
Guy Maor wrote:
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
Is there a postscript version of the documents
Yes, in the directory ftp://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/users/ian/dpkg-doc/
you'll find various versions of the files, including postscript.
Once again, these are *DRAFT* documents which do
I saw this announcement in c.o.l.a and I am a bit confused.
much deleted
There has been something called NetKit-B-0.07B uploaded to some of
the archive sites. This is an unauthorized release of NetKit-B. It may
be trojanized or
However, I tried to compile kermit 5A(190) and the make failed,
complaining that it couldn't find -ltermcap.
There is definitely a file of the form /lib/libtermcap.so.?, but I
guess gcc is looking for a *.a file.
Are you sure? Perhaps it's looking for /lib/libtermcap.so
(without the '.?'
Hi Timothy --
You asked:
I'd like to know if there is any document/help info for me
read on how to become debian-ized.
Look on http://www.debian.org.
I'm currently run SLACKWARE and thinking about switching.
You'll get the unwelcome advice that you'll need to
(a) save your
--
I've set up a test PC with Debian 1.1 and want to
administer it remotely but am refused a telnet connection
as root ... is there a way around this ? Do I have to give
The way I handle this problem is log in under my account and type
su root
Then
Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For emacs users, my deb-view feature is just what you need to look at
doc files in a .deb file without installing _or_ unpacking the archive!
The file is about 12KB.
http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~macdonal/deb-view.el
Ditto. Some of these dpkg
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Perl uses 'csh' for filename globbing (that is, for *.* sort of
constructs.) Yes, that's strange behavior, and the dependency probably
will eventually be removed, but not anytime soon.
But, but...I thought it was noted, here or in the bug reports,
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
I just upgraded to the newest Babel (3.6-4) and it seems to have gotten
screwed. It won't configure because it says it doesn't know how to
generate manfnt.mf, and then it says it can't find manfnt.mf. It then
writes a huge log file to disk,
James A. Robinson writes:
-
- Can someone point me toward the FAQ or HOWTO that will explain the
- issues with Motif? Why is Motif hard to come by and what is Lesstif?
-
- Motif is a set of proprietary libraries licensed by OSF. So it
- costs money to get them. I've bought them for $99.00
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
What should I try next to get the hard drive to boot
the kernel on the second partition? I may have ruined
it by writing a boot record onto the second partition.
Try re-installing the LILO package, and answer _yes_ to all of the questions
it
Miroslav Ruda wrote:
:
: I think old Slackware idea (/usr/include/{linux,asm,net} are links to
: /usr/src/linux/include/{linux,asm,net}) is more better. I can simly upgrade
: kernel_source and not yet libc5 to have same version of kernel headers.
:
: Is any reason why not to use this schema in
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
Hello Bruce,
This is best sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], for future reference.
Will do so,
Thanks
Steffen
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Steffen R.Mueller __ ___ _ _ email: [EMAIL
Bruce Perens wrote:
I've tryed to e2fsck /dev/hdc2 (thinking that device 16:02 corresponds
to /dev/hdc2) and it found a lot of errors, but it seemed that e2fsck
was able to correct them all; after rebooting similar messages appeared
again after some hours.
Any clue about this?
Any
wilbert writes:
Does anyone of you know how to use the win32gcc package? Did I miss some
documenation or websites? Am I right when I assume that with this package
I can compile and link c++ programs which are runnable on a windows
machine?
You are completely correct. But you need cygwin.dll
Hi!
I've just tried to install Debian 1.1.5 my computer.
I have several problems.
As my boot disk is on a ncr53c810 board, I need a special kernel,
but it seems that they only exists with a 2.0.5 kernel while
the standard kernel is a 2.0.6. But went I choose the installation
of the kernel, I
Hi Brian --
Brian Mays wrote:
Last time I checked, the popclient program simply retrieves each
message from the server and mails it, using the generic `mail'
program, to the user's local account. Then the MTA, such as sendmail
or smail, actually delivers the message, sending it to mailagent
Download the debianised version from www.columbia.edu.
Casper Boden-Cummins.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23 August 1996 01:55
To:debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc:The recipient's address is unknown.
Subject: gcc can't find termcap library
I recently
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996 17:00:07 -0700, Ken Gaugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Ken At 10:33 AM 8/22/96 -0700, you wrote:
Is there a digested version of this mailing list?...
Ken Check out http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/
NOPE! Precisely! Those stop on June 24. Any follow-up out there?
When using dselect to install several upgraded packages today I
suddenly started receiving error messages from perl. Here is part of
the transcript.
...
Preparing to replace ldso (using .../base/ldso_1.8.2-1.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ldso ...
Preparing to replace modules (using
The following should be self explanitory:
Dillweed# dpkg -i util-linux_2.5-5.deb
(Reading database ... 15590 files and directories currently
installed.)
Preparing to replace util-linux (using util-linux_2.5-5.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement util-linux ...
Setting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I recently installed Debian 1.1, including termcap.compat. Since then
I've installed a custom version of the kernel (2.0.7) successfully, so
I figure that gcc is reasonably well set up.
However, I tried to compile kermit 5A(190) and the make failed,
complaining
On 23 Aug 1996, Ed Donovan wrote:
Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For emacs users, my deb-view feature is just what you need to look at
doc files in a .deb file without installing _or_ unpacking the archive!
http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~macdonal/deb-view.el
Ditto. Some of
From: Carlo U. Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alternatively, boot the system from a floppy and make the second
partition the active one. This will then boot LILO properly without
having to write to the MBR. It works...
I don't think that will work because he wrote LILO on the MBR.
Bruce
Adam Heath writes:
This is all nice and good, but there is a better way.
[bad way deleted]
There is a reason that that /etc/securetty does not contain the pseudo
terminals in the first place. It is very unsecure to allow root to
login directly anywahere except the console or possibly a
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Jean Orloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996 17:00:07 -0700, Ken Gaugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Ken At 10:33 AM 8/22/96 -0700, you wrote:
Is there a digested version of this mailing list?...
Ken Check out http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/
NOPE!
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David J. Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|
| My recent ftp debian 1.1 installation was a great success,
| except that I appear to have deleted a package needed for
| further ftp installations using dselect
You need to reinstall dpkg-ftp.
|
Download the staroffice package into some directory and put the following
script there. Run it as superuser and Staroffice will install without
Motif libraries:
starinst:
#!/bin/sh
# Prepare Star Office for Non Motif installation
mkdir temp
cd temp
# Extract Libraries needed for installation
hiya all,
i've been useing archie for awhile and quite often i get this:
archie failed: Recvfrom failed (dirsend)
not sure what it means any ideas? thanx
-Rob
/-\
| Robert Adrenolin MacQuarrie |
Hello All:
It appears that there is a duplication of gs and gsfonts in the Debian
tree. The 2.62-2 versions of both packages appear in the
/stable/binary/text and /unstable/binary/text directories but the 3.53-3
version of gsfonts and the 4.0-1 version of gs appear in the
/non-free/binary
On Fri, 23 Aug 1996, Luca Maranzano wrote:
Bruce Perens wrote:
I've tryed to e2fsck /dev/hdc2 (thinking that device 16:02 corresponds
to /dev/hdc2) and it found a lot of errors, but it seemed that e2fsck
was able to correct them all; after rebooting similar messages appeared
again
XKEYSYMDB='/usr/local/lib/netscape/XKeysymDB'; export XKEYSYMDB
XNLSPATH='/usr/local/lib/netscape/nls'; export XNLSPATH
Do those XKeysymDB and XNLSPATH really provide something useful or have
you used them only because they are provided ?
The following info has been in the Netscape
Douglas Bates writes:
When using dselect to install several upgraded packages today I
suddenly started receiving error messages from perl. Here is part of
the transcript.
This due to a packaging problem in ldso. It will be fixed in a few
days.
David
--
David Engel
We were just given a Compaq Prosignia 4/66 with 40 MB RAM and a 1.05 GB
SCSI drive to user as a DB Server. Our preference is to run it under
Linux. However, it has a built-in SCSI controller. So far we have
tried
Debian 1.1, 1.1.6, and all of the Debial 2.0.5 alternate boot disks with
no luck
/tmp
Several programs seems to prefer /tmp over /var/tmp. I have a 30MB /
partition, and only about 10MB space free on /tmp. This didn't work very
well while trying to restore a 50MB file from taper. (I've now mounted
100MB on /tmp to avoid the problem.)
I've got several machines
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Reposting message with slight modifications as I haven't got any answer yet.
-
Hi,
Some files under /var and /usr are normally owned by root:systemgroup
were the string systemgroup above can be root, staff, adm , mail, news ...etc
Q:
Hi,
Actually, some of the delay is there by design ;-). You see,
if a flurry of messages comes in (like, when one runs popclient),
then we don't want to spawn as many copies of mailagent as there are
messages (well, perl is a rather large binary). What is done is that
a number of
David,
(Original message quoted below.)
I asked around and got two suggestions:
1) If it's an EISA machine, use the EISA config to find out more about
the controller. In particular, you want to know if there is an
emulation mode. If so, you may want to play with this to see if
there
Hi everbody!
I've just uploaded anacron_1.0-1 to the master server.
Note that I changed to name from `pe' to `anacron' which sounds better
(I think ;-).
If you downloaded the beta from the URL I posted here, I would suggest
that you install anacron, move your old configuration /etc/petab over
I've submitted these two bugs to debian bugs, and got no
response; I submitted them again, and still got no response.
(Has the list address changed recently?) I could try again, but
then I would have to wait again, and so on, so... (In
otherwords, sorry for the offtopic.)
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