From: Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Kevin Traas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Diald Problems
Date: Monday, January 13, 1997 10:38 AM
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:46:18 PST Kevin Traas ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
So, I'm quite happy in that
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 08:26:14 EST Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On 13 Jan 1997, Tony Robinson wrote:
Whilst trying to upgrade using the ftp method to the latest stable
release (i.e. rex-fixed a.k.a. Debian-1.2.2) I have the following
conflicts:
dungeon depends on libc5 (=
Is there a NFS install site on the net for Debian?
I would like to try it out.
Brian Schramm
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On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 10:43:02 PST Kevin Traas ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Can I ask you a question on how best to set up DNS in this situation, or
should I repost (with different subj) to the list?
Will you be running bind locally or not ? If not, I suggest repeating three
times the
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
The installation should be as complex as it needs be, to be able to take
care of all possible needs of the system, with the systems cababilities in
mind. But CONTEXT RELATIVE... which is not the same as EASY. This means if
you are new to the
Got this too, but for me the errors occur when I start apache with virtual
domains.
Any ideas anyone?
Roger
With the recent upgrade to kernel 2.0.27 and diald 0.14-8 I'm
getting the following messages in /var/log/daemon.log:
Jan 11 15:56:34 gbr modprobe: Can't locate module
I just installed debian in one of my boxes (from slakware) and noticed a
problem. All local mail on the system and all mail from outside address to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is being re-addressed by sendmail to the main MX for
may domain.
I want mail specifically addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luis Francisco Gonzalez) writes:
Hi,
I have just installed a new debian box and I am missing the diferent
colors that ls uses to distinguish the files. This works ok in a
virtual console but not in an xterm. Before there used to be a
color-xterm package that was needed but
The olvwm package in unstable seems to need libc5 (=5.4.17). There should be
libc5 version 5.4.17 in the base section of unstable. If not, then you
probably should check some other mirror site.
I'm using the SVGA X server with 4 MB Matrox Millennium board all the time. It
works quite nice. I'm
Hi All,
Please help.
1) xinetd does not seem to be starting upon boot, I need to manually
start. Any ideas why? Where can I add a line to start it on boot?
2) Sendmail is not working. When I instaleld Debian 1.2 it
auto-installed Smail, I then used dselect to install Sendmail but
Sendmail
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
No, this is wrong. The new user should be provided with copious
documentation and be admonished to print it out and read it.
^^
don't forget _organized_ -- or they'll never find the right information
Daniel
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On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Matt Lawrence wrote:
I'm trying to install Debian 1.2 off of the Dec. InfoMagic CDs. After
typing in cdu31a=0x340 at the boot prompt, the kernel recognizes the CD
drive, but there isn't an entry in /dev. It's easy enough to create one,
but I don't know the appropriate
At 05:08 PM 1/13/97 -0500, Don Prezioso wrote:
I think the /dev entry you want is /dev/sonycd I have the same kind of
drive, and I didn't need to create the device. Off the wall wild guess, I
think the major number was 15. I can't be sure right now since my Debian
machine is down with a dead
From: Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
No, this is wrong. A new user should not have to read long documents prior
to installation. The configure scripts which runs directly after the
installation should make reading docs unnecessary.
I
From: Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Look at Windows... and all the users running it, with its idiot proof=
user interface? You want to make a Debian shot at where Microsoft is fail=
ing
so miserably? All you will ever accomplish is a big bunch of helpless
users, that can't even
From: Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Note: You DEselect what you want to remove. When I first used dselect, I
unselected everything and then selected the packages I wanted to remove.
You can guess the rest...
That probably should be clarified:
You select for removal or purging those
From: Mark W. Blunier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maybe we should start a new mailing list, debian-dumb-questions.
It would cut my traffic down from debian-user.
Should there be a debian-newbie?
(I don't know how much debian-user is new-user questions and how much it's
other stuff.)
Daniel
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From: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=
I figured it out by reading the XF86Config man page and all the
keyboard description files, and working backwards. Perhaps I should
put a mini-HOWTO on my todo list...
=
Sounds
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Casper BodenCummins wrote:
Hamish Moffat wrote:
Good. Any chance you could not send all messages as MIME, either?
Real PITA to read with plain jane elm on a character terminal.
Couldn't you pre-filter your email with procmail and a MIME extraction
program? Maybe
Kevin Traas wrote:
IT WORKS!!!IT WORKS!!!IT WORKS!!!IT WORKS!!!IT WORKS!!!
IT WORKS!!!IT WORKS!!!
Sorry Got carried away grin
Thanks for all of your help, Philippe.
At first, the login failed, but once I increased the timeout for the login
sequence from 5
Stan == Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Stan I am looking for a software package to use to interface am HP
Stan scanner to my Debian system.
If its a HP scanner, you can use hpscanpbm, a command-line based
acquisition tool in the graphics directory. You just need a
Linux-supported SCSI
Hi All,
Please help.
1) xinetd does not seem to be starting upon boot, I need to manually
start. Any ideas why? Where can I add a line to start it on boot?
2) Sendmail is not working. When I instaleld Debian 1.2 it
auto-installed Smail, I then used dselect to install Sendmail but
Sendmail
just testing...
why do some of my emails not get posted?
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hello,
i am looking for the files for the 1.2mb rescue floppy
rescue disk. can anyone tell me where it is?
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im curious, being not so familiar with debian as i am with solaris, if i
somehow edit a file which on reboot, prevents my debian box from
rebooting, is there a way to get back into the box and edit out my
changes?
Well, you just do the same thing you would for Solaris, except that
I'm trying to install Debian 1.2 off of the Dec. InfoMagic CDs. After
typing in cdu31a=0x340 at the boot prompt, the kernel recognizes the CD
drive, but there isn't an entry in /dev. It's easy enough to create one,
but I don't know the appropriate major and minor device numbers. Any
Jan 13 09:23:15 sally diald[9849]: PPP network layer died, but link did
not. Probable configuration error.
I've been getting the same error for quite some time. Everything seems to
work, though.
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Having finally got pppd working, I tried to deselect using ftp to load
up some more goodies (i.e. netscape) but found that the ftp connection
failed. Upon running ftp ftp.debian.org, I got a message to the effect
that the site was unknown to the nameserver. /etc/resolv.conf has lines
of the form
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Brian Schramm wrote:
Hi,
I would like to connect my Linux machine to a HP Jetdirect card. I know
it means setting up bootp and setting up the printercap files special.
I just cannot find any info on how to do that.
Any ideas?
The printing howto docs address this,
I sat down today to do what i have done many times before, setup a debian
box. I started the boot process, got to the partition a hard disk
section and got the error that debian could not detect a hard disk.
Anyway around this?
The machine has a scsi disk with an adaptec controller.
SaHua,
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Whitney Warwick wrote:
But one problem I can't use my cd-rom (Reveal 4x) with it. It is not
supported.
Are you sure? If it's an IDE CD, then I'm sure it's supported.
Reveal does not make their own products, they simply relabel products from
other manufacturers. If it
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My impression has always been that dselect was modeled on inst, which used to
be the only way to install software on Silicon
I'm considering moving up to bo in order to gain extra stability, this
is due to the recent rounds of updates that fix several problems in 1.2.x,
yet have gone straight to bo (especially thinking of apache updates here).
Does this sound like a good/bad idea?
Richard.
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is due to the recent rounds of updates that fix several problems in 1.2.x,
yet have gone straight to bo (especially thinking of apache updates here).
Does this sound like a good/bad idea?
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Does Java support work in Netscape 3.01? It's bus erroring for
me whenever it hits an applent and java_301 is in the right place.
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 08:26:14 EST Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On 13 Jan 1997, Tony Robinson wrote:
Whilst trying to upgrade using the ftp method to the latest stable
release (i.e. rex-fixed a.k.a. Debian-1.2.2) I have the
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Casper BodenCummins wrote:
Hamish Moffat wrote:
Couldn't you pre-filter your email with procmail and a MIME extraction
program? Maybe the packages mime-support (which `can be used to turn
virtually any mail reader program into a multimedia mail reader') or
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 21:28:30 EST Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
On 13 Jan 1997, Tony Robinson wrote:
Whilst trying to upgrade using the ftp method to the latest stable
release (i.e. rex-fixed a.k.a. Debian-1.2.2) I have the
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Brian Schramm wrote:
Is there a NFS install site on the net for Debian?
I would like to try it out.
Here's an announcment from c.o.l.a
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On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote:
From: Mark W. Blunier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maybe we should start a new mailing list, debian-dumb-questions.
It would cut my traffic down from debian-user.
Should there be a debian-newbie?
Maybe debian-setup? debian-help?
What's happening
Howdy,
Here's my two cents worth:
The only dumb question is the one not asked. Maybe a newbie list should be
setup so that these questions won't bother the people that are tired of
answering the same old stuff (which isn't old to the newbie trying
desperately to get his (or her) system running.
daniel, you wrote:
You mean BIGGER documentation for X, is gonna get someone to RTFM? :-)
No, but providing needed information might.
Actually, I find it hard to browse through the manual pages in search of an
item. It's there... somewhere... but it may take some reading getting there
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
My solaris version of procmail is only 249k. munpack and pine
are also _very_ available for solaris.
Yes, but not installed, again. What platform is that binary
from? 250k would be acceptable, I might look into it.
This was on a sparc4, so its
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote:
From: Mark W. Blunier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maybe we should start a new mailing list, debian-dumb-questions.
It would cut my traffic down from debian-user.
Should there be a debian-newbie?
Newbie questions should be asked on debian-user.
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Perry Piplani wrote:
I just installed debian in one of my boxes (from slakware) and noticed a
problem. All local mail on the system and all mail from outside address to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is being re-addressed by sendmail to the main MX for
may domain.
I want mail
From: Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
daniel, you wrote:
You mean BIGGER documentation for X, is gonna get someone to RTFM? :=
-)
No, but providing needed information might.
Actually, I find it hard to browse through the manual pages in search of =
an
item. It's there...
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote:
I sat down today to do what i have done many times before, setup a debian
box. I started the boot process, got to the partition a hard disk
section and got the error that debian could not detect a hard disk.
Anyway around this?
The machine has a
Can anyone give me non-emotional advice on whether Linux would
install much easier on an apple system than on an intel box?
If my goal is to buy a used computer that has the best shot of
getting Linux up in a hurry, what should i get? I realize this could
be a loaded question, but I really
I recently had to REINSTALL everything becouse of a harddrive crash (don't
ask) and befor I had the libc include files, and now I can't find them,
wich means I can't compile anything... any idea what package that would be
in... thanks...
Fizz
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Thanks! Problem solved.
Trying the manual approach didn't work (dselect said the contrib directory
didn't exist), but the soft links did work:
mkdir /install
ln -s /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8 /install/stable
ln -s /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/contrib /install/contrib
Robin
There are two ways I can think of to
Hi. How do I find out what Debian CD-ROM's are available? Is there an
article somewhere that comparitively rates them?
Thanks.
Robin
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At 10:47 PM 1/13/97 -0500, Pete Templin wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Perry Piplani wrote:
I just installed debian in one of my boxes (from slakware) and noticed a
problem. All local mail on the system and all mail from outside address to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is being re-addressed by sendmail to
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote:
From: Mark W. Blunier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maybe we should start a new mailing list, debian-dumb-questions.
It would cut my traffic down from debian-user.
Should there be a debian-newbie?
The problem with such a list would be that fewer
James, thanks for the message. I'll implement the suggested change
tomorrow morning.
I've CC:'d this message to the list because there were quite a few others
who mentioned they also had this problem with Diald.
Guess I'll have to talk to my ISP and tell them to get with the
program. grin
Is there any easy way to tell if IP_FORWARDING is enabled in the running
kernel?
The reason I'm asking is because I've built my own custom kernel on a box
I'm running and have specifically enabled it during make config.
However, now I'm running that kernel and the box still doesn't seem to be
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Brian Schramm wrote:
bschramm Hi,
bschramm
bschramm I would like to connect my Linux machine to a HP Jetdirect card. I
know
bschramm it means setting up bootp and setting up the printercap files
special.
bschramm I just cannot find any info on how to do that.
bschramm
Hmm, I have installed Debian from a machine with both a CDU31A and a CDU33A
(the 33A is functionally identical to the 31A). Neither gave me any problems
with Debian, although RedHat did have some problems.
It really was a major number of 15. Thanks for the help. So far, only the
Slackware
Does Java support work in Netscape 3.01? It's bus erroring for me
whenever it hits an applent and java_301 is in the right place.
It works fine if you install it using the Debian installer package for
netscape. It's in contrib.
Hi,
I just recently saw someone post that he had a Canon BJC 4100, a color
printer in the $200-300 range, but on which he could print postscript
by using apsfilter and ghostview.
Could this person or someone else knowledgeable in this please tell me more
explicitly how this is done,
Note: You DEselect what you want to remove. When I first used dselect, I
unselected everything and then selected the packages I wanted to remove.
You can guess the rest...
That probably should be clarified:
You select for removal or purging those packages you don't want.
You select
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Pete Templin wrote:
2) It doesn't recognize thishost as its host name.
For #2, double check that /etc/hostname is the same as a reverse DNS lokup
on the IP address of the machine.
Errr, what if somebody isn't running DNS??? (like me???) Won't
defining Dwmyhost and
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
At 07:24 PM 1/13/97 -0500, Ralph Winslow wrote:
Having finally got pppd working, I tried to deselect using ftp to load
up some more goodies (i.e. netscape) but found that the ftp connection
failed. Upon running ftp ftp.debian.org, I got a message to the effect
that the site was unknown to the
At 10:04 PM 1/13/97 -0800, Kevin Traas wrote:
Is there any easy way to tell if IP_FORWARDING is enabled in the running
kernel?
The reason I'm asking is because I've built my own custom kernel on a box
I'm running and have specifically enabled it during make config.
However, now I'm running that
At 08:02 PM 1/13/97 -0500, Darren Klein wrote:
1) xinetd does not seem to be starting upon boot, I need to manually
start. Any ideas why? Where can I add a line to start it on boot?
Edit /etc/init.d-directory, or look in /etc/rc.boot. There should be an
entry for xinetd somewhere, and if
From: Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Casper BodenCummins wrote:
Hamish Moffat wrote:
Good. Any chance you could not send all messages as MIME, either?
Real PITA to read with plain jane elm on a character terminal.
Couldn't you pre-filter your email
Hi,
I m a new user of debian linux. I ve installed debian with a cdrom. There
was the package gpm for the mouse. That works very good. But after, I ve
installed Xwindows and when I mdo startx' the computer complains about
device mouse busy. My mouse is on /dev/cua0. If I remove gpm, startx works.
Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a NFS install site on the net for Debian?
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/README.mirrors lists some sites providing
NFS access to their Debian FTP mirror.
Sven
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On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote:
Having finally got pppd working, I tried to deselect using ftp to load
up some more goodies (i.e. netscape) but found that the ftp connection
failed. Upon running ftp ftp.debian.org, I got a message to the effect
that the site was unknown to the
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On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Robert Nicholson wrote:
Does Java support work in Netscape 3.01? It's bus erroring for me
whenever it hits an applent and java_301 is in the right place.
See : http://www.blackdown.org/Howto/Howto-4.html
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Hi All,
I installed X-window and tried to add fvwm2 window manager in it.
I used dselect for the installation and it completed successfully.
When I excute startx, my PC starts to run X server but all the
sudden the screen will go back to Text mode. To understand what's
going on, I run xinit
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Robert Nicholson wrote:
Does Java support work in Netscape 3.01? It's bus erroring for me
whenever it hits an applent and java_301 is in the right place.
The current netscape version is buggy, and only works with an older libc
You either have to reinstall the netscape
Greetings,
This is a fairly common problem. There seems to be a small need for the
1.2MB disks and therefore support is 'on demand.' However, I'm in the
same boat.
Bruce is off-line cleaning out from the California flood. Perhaps Dwarf
or Sven will make another resq/root combo. You'll use
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?
You can find the list of debian CD manufacturers on teh web page
(www.debian.org). They all, basically have the same thing, so there is
Hi,
I am puzzled by the following:
I am trying to prevent metamail to launch an xterm everytime it finds an
iso-8859-1 message.
(from shownonascii's manual page)
If the MM_CHARSET environment variable is set and matches
the character set named in the first argument, a new xterm
I use the option ftp as access in dselect.
Sudenly this option has disappaered!
I tried to reget the pakage where is dselect but this does no work.
Can somebode explain who can I reget this option?
Jose
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Luis Francisco Gonzalez writes:
$ shownonascii `echo $MM_CHARSET` iso-8859-1.msg
Your font path appears to be correctly set.
Running xterm to display text in iso-8859-1, please wait...
From shownonascii's source:
if test $1 = -e
then
shift
CMD=$*
RIGHTTERMCMD=$*
else
Ok, I'm hearing that somebody has applied the a20 gate patch to the
latest boot disk set is that right?
Can we now expect to be able to install 1.2 on 700 series Tecras with
this new disk set?
NOTE: for those who have been following this issue closely. Although
_somehow_ I was able to get Linux
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
If they work correctly with the older library, then there was no reason to
build them with a non-release library in the first place!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Doesn't this suggest that the current scheme used in dpkg-shlibdeps
for version
Hello,
I am tring to instal Debian 1.2 in a laptop, everythins goes ok
until I try to load the module of my PCMCIA card (the 3c589_cs).
The program ansewers:
Can't locate module 3c589_cs
The same happend for any PCMCIA module.
In order to solve this problem I opened an other sehel an I
Hi, ALL.
I know that there are two main printing softwares: magicfilter
and apsfilter. I'd like to know what are the differences
between them. What are the main advantages of one and of
the other? I'm now using apsfilter, but would be some
advantage in using magicfilter?
Thanks
Alexander Gieg
I recently had to REINSTALL everything becouse of a harddrive crash
(don't
ask) and befor I had the libc include files, and now I can't find them,
wich means I can't compile anything... any idea what package that would
be
in... thanks...
Install libc5-dev_*.deb in .../devel
Alexander Gieg
I m a new user of debian linux. I ve installed debian with a cdrom. There
was the package gpm for the mouse. That works very good. But after, I ve
installed Xwindows and when I mdo startx' the computer complains about
device mouse busy. My mouse is on /dev/cua0. If I remove gpm, startx
works.
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
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?
There is a list on the web page: www.debian.org
Luck,
Dwarf
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I think the problem has to do with the device you are using. As far as I
know, the cuax-devices can normally be used by one process only at a
given time. E. g. if gpm uses device /dev/cua0, as in your case, and
then the X-Server is started it can't use the mouse because device
Hi,
I know this has been dealt with before
We're running cron 3.0pl1-32 on a debian 1.1 installation. Ocasionally
cron dies which is rather annoying.
I seem to remember a couple people posting that a different version of cron
fixes this (Dylan's cron maybe?).
I have just upgraded to the
I am using US Robotics modem and I don't know why the modem is
always disconnected after 10~20 mins. Anyone knows how to fix it.
Pls reply by mail,
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On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Richard G. Roberto wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Pete Templin wrote:
2) It doesn't recognize thishost as its host name.
For #2, double check that /etc/hostname is the same as a reverse DNS lokup
on the IP address of the machine.
Errr, what if somebody isn't running
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote:
2) Sendmail is not working. When I instaleld Debian 1.2 it
auto-installed Smail, I then used dselect to install Sendmail but
Sendmail doesn't work.
Very often, sendmail is running as a daemon, and smail is running from
inetd. Maybe that's
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Patrice LE LOUREC - STAGIAIRE A FT.CNET/LAB/FCI/PIH wrote:
I m a new user of debian linux. I ve installed debian with a cdrom. There
was the package gpm for the mouse. That works very good. But after, I ve
installed Xwindows and when I mdo startx' the computer complains
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Brian Schramm wrote:
I would like to connect my Linux machine to a HP Jetdirect card. I know
it means setting up bootp and setting up the printercap files special.
I just cannot find any info on how to do that.
Some time ago I had to handle a card which claimed to be an
Well, RTFM ;-).
Ok, the package provides documentation in /usr/doc/amd and there are
examples in /usr/doc/examples/amd. There are things both in doc and in
examples that refer specially to auto-mounting removable media. There is
even a program that umounts and ejects cd's. The new maintainer
Ralph Winslow wrote:
Having finally got pppd working, I tried to deselect using ftp to load
up some more goodies (i.e. netscape) but found that the ftp connection
failed. Upon running ftp ftp.debian.org, I got a message to the effect
that the site was unknown to the nameserver.
At 10:51 AM 1/14/97 -0500, Darren Klein wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote:
2) Sendmail is not working. When I instaleld Debian 1.2 it
auto-installed Smail, I then used dselect to install Sendmail but
Sendmail doesn't work.
Very often, sendmail is running as a daemon,
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
You're really losing the point here... what is in your mind, an EASY
installation? A brain dead program, that does all your thinking for you?
Come on!!! All I was saying was that it is not CONSISTENT of dselect to
start a XF86Setup during the config
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, * ESGER * wrote:
I've got the following problem: I wrote the debian installation files
(stable etc.) to a CDR. I wrote them to a second session (my cdr is a HP
4020i, I wrote the cd under W95). The second session (and the first) is
readable under dos/W95 but not
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote:
Yeps. You haven't configured sendmail properly. Try to run 'sendmailconfig'.
Hmm. When I installed it with dpkg it asked me a few questions, and I
believe I answered them correctly. I guess not. :(
I got it working now.
Only problem remaining,
I've installed smail and would like it to change the return-path of any
non-local message to have the reply address set to my email address
(listed below). Anyone have an idea how I can accomplish this ?
--
..Jano
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