Re: ICQ

1997-07-30 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Adam Shand wrote: [cut] ICQ is free in that it doesn't cost any money, however it's not public license or source code available. The problem with IRC is that it simply [cut] AND I don't believe that it will

Re: ICQ

1997-07-30 Thread Travis Cole
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 29-Jul-97 Chad D. Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Adam Shand wrote: [cut] ICQ is free in that it doesn't cost any money, however it's not public license or source code available. The problem

dselect wigged out and everything's seg-faulting!

1997-07-30 Thread Joe Emenaker
I just tried to updrade my system from the stable and unstable directories. It downloaded a whole mess of things (about half of them seemed to be libraries). Anyway, it began installing them and, starting with about the third or fourth package, it starts seg-faulting in all of the pre-inst

VDO masquerading

1997-07-30 Thread Clint Adams
Does anyone know to which patch the IP-Masq FAQ refers with regard to that awful VDOLive system? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

VDO

1997-07-30 Thread Clint Adams
Nevermind.. I need to learn to read. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Host/nslookup, sendmail, bash

1997-07-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Tessa Lau wrote: Also, does anyone know why Debian makes nslookup a wrapper for host, and how I can install a real version of nslookup? the real nslookup is in the bind package. it should probably be separated from that and either put into an nslookup package or included

RE: Running Netscape Communicator

1997-07-30 Thread W Paul Mills
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Travis Cole wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Usualy you need to move a file called moz40p3 to your .netscape directory. You This should not be necessary and is somewhat of a kludge. If MOZILLA_HOME is properly set it should find all the files it needs.

idle processes

1997-07-30 Thread Niklas Hoglund
Hi! Anyone know a program that kills users processes if they arent logged on? (It shouldn't kill the users process if the user is specified in a file/in the staff group) //Regards, Niklas . Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Phone: +46-707-543009 . Netmail: 2:206/137.12 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: what's the better mta?

1997-07-30 Thread George Bonser
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote: The problem with smail is that you are vulnerable to being used as a spam relay. Unles you put something like Blackmail ( ftp.bitgate.com) in front of it. With sendmail, qmail or exim, I can turn that off. Here's a sample sendmail .mc

Re: Running Netscape Communicator

1997-07-30 Thread Victor Torrico
W Paul Mills wrote: On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Travis Cole wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Usualy you need to move a file called moz40p3 to your .netscape directory. You This should not be necessary and is somewhat of a kludge. If MOZILLA_HOME is properly set it should find all

Re: Running Netscape Communicator

1997-07-30 Thread W Paul Mills
I just reread your original message and think I see the problem. You are starting X with xdm, right? Your environment variable are not read by X when xdm starts. You can fix this and possible other problems by sourcing .bash_profile or .bashrc in your .xsession file. For this to work, you must

Re: Netscape package won't configure

1997-07-30 Thread Carl Fink
If you have not done so, you need to retrieve the appropriate archive file from ftp.netscape.com. Debian cannot distribute this file because Netscape is not free software. Whoops. I knew Debian couldn't directly package Navigator, but I guess I assumed that since the package was there,

Re: Bugs in 1.3.1 Debian packages

1997-07-30 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: the Debian bug tracking system at http://www.debian.org/bugs. Sorry that should be Bugs not bugs. So http://www.debian.org/Bugs is the correct URL. Thanks. Five bugs reported so far today. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: mke2fs problem

1997-07-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Jesse Goldman wrote: Hi, From what I hear, there's a serious problem with that version of e2fsprogs (at least fsck) which may be affecting your new file-system. Also, I believe that 2 Gigs is the limit on a Linux filesystem's size so perhaps that's causing you problems

Re: mke2fs problem

1997-07-30 Thread Jim Pick
Hi, From what I hear, there's a serious problem with that version of e2fsprogs (at least fsck) which may be affecting your new file-system. Also, I believe that 2 Gigs is the limit on a Linux filesystem's size so perhaps that's causing you problems as well... J. Goldman As someone who

Re: ICQ

1997-07-30 Thread Travis Cole
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 29-Jul-97 Chad D. Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Adam Shand wrote: [cut] ICQ is free in that it doesn't cost any money, however it's not public license or source code available. The problem

Max Process size

1997-07-30 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Can anyone tell me where in the kernel sources are specified any of the following: max size of a process max number of processes I once knew, but alas that was a long time ago...! I have kernel-source-2.0.29-7 installed 8---8 Richard

Re: Libc6 Upgrade Howto?

1997-07-30 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Steve Phillips wrote: Is there a HOWTO on howto upgrade from 1.3.x to unstable with libc6? I'm the new maintainer for uudeview and now have a machine available to run as a developement machine. I tried to upgrade to unstable with

re:Modem config

1997-07-30 Thread Todd Harper
In message Modem config, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the current standard for device files? I have a pcmcia modem. Previously it worked fine with /dev/cua1 under my Slackare Linux. Debian appears to have gone to some other device files or naming system. (I think it tried to put

Re: bind

1997-07-30 Thread Rob MacWilliams
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, dada wrote: I instaled bind pakage to make an DNS server to my local area network (to learn how setup it). Before install it, Netscape works fine. But now,ie: when I open and web page in my hardisk,Netscape don't work fine (it wait too much time and I have to

Re: dselect wigged out and everything's seg-faulting!

1997-07-30 Thread Joe Emenaker
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: [snip] when it tries to run a shell script. At this point, I'd like to motion that the Debian policy be changed so that the shell pointed to by /bin/sh be compiled with *static* libraries?). If I go to the (S)elect screen, I [snip] Well, I

Re: what's the better mta?

1997-07-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: George All that gibberish that you posted concerning rulesets is one George of the main reasons that I trashed sendmail after using for George about a year. George If I had a smtp only site, I would use exim. The relay policy George is very

Re: what's the better mta?

1997-07-30 Thread George Bonser
You sound just like my wife, bless her heart. She advances equally cogent (near identical, in fact) arguments detailing to me exactly why Microsoft operating sytems are so much, much better than the garbage that Unix puts out. Now, now. I was not talking about being brain dead,

Re: dselect wigged out and everything's seg-faulting!

1997-07-30 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Joe Emenaker wrote: [snip] - Broken Required packages - --- Broken Required packages in section base --- RC** Req base ldso 1.9.2-3 1.9.4-1 U** Req base libc55.4.33-5

Re: what's the better mta?

1997-07-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Jason Costomiris writes: On Tue, Jul 29, 1997 at 08:52:47AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: : : I use smail. It is a lot easier to get configured than sendmail and there : have been fewer security problems with it. If you have a small site, run : it out of inetd and use your hosts.allow and

Re: mke2fs problem

1997-07-30 Thread Christophe Andrieu
Jim Pick wrote: --==_Exmh_2089790933P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, From what I hear, there's a serious problem with that version of e2fsprogs (at least fsck) which may be affecting your new file-system. Also, I believe that 2 Gigs is the limit on a Linux

XF_S3 problem. was: Re: XF_S3V

1997-07-30 Thread Britton
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Maarten Boekhold wrote: Hi, not really the place to ask, but here it goes: does anybody have a diamond 3d 2400 4MB running at 1280x1024? If so, with what refresh-rate? The information on the diamond-site says no 1280x1024, XFree 3.3 says it does. Also, the listed

block device name

1997-07-30 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
I began using dselect to install program files, but after choosing the Access option on the main menu the following screen asked for the CD and the block device name. I have no idea what this means. The system recognized my CD during the reboot as hdd 655A ATAPI IDE. What do I have to type in

Re: what's the better mta?

1997-07-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, George == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You sound just like my wife, bless her heart. She advances equally cogent (near identical, in fact) arguments detailing to me exactly why Microsoft operating sytems are so much, much better than the garbage that Unix puts out. George Now,

Netscape Navigator doesn't come up unless -iconic

1997-07-30 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Something happened to my system so that Netscape Navigator will not show on the X screen. If I start netscape a second time, I get a message that it is already running. If I start it as netscape -iconic it establishes an icon, and I can now open. Does this ring any bells? Alan Davis [EMAIL

Re: We should help this guy...

1997-07-30 Thread jdassen
[moved to debian-user, as the question originated there] On Jul 30, Philippe Troin wrote : This was posted to debian-user. We have to help this English magazine ! Don't get me wrong. I'd like to spread the word (and the code), but I think there are quite a few problems with what is requested.

RE: We should help this guy...

1997-07-30 Thread Alec Clews
- -A distribution that made sense in 100MB monthly parcels. (we can only I don't think Debian makes sense this way. It would take six isssues to distribute just the stuff in the binary CD of the official CD set (and it might make sense to distribute as much as possible of contrib, non-free and

Minimizing Mail Packages?

1997-07-30 Thread Victor Torrico
Hello All, Connected intermittantly to internet using PPP to an ISP who uses POP3 for mail. I am attempting to minimize the number of packages needed to run mail. It seems there are many mail packages but not a great deal of information on there interrelationships. Am running on X the

Re: XF_S3V

1997-07-30 Thread Carey Evans
Maarten Boekhold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: does anybody have a diamond 3d 2400 4MB running at 1280x1024? If so, with what refresh-rate? The information on the diamond-site says no 1280x1024, XFree 3.3 says it does. Also, the listed refresh-rates on the diamond-site are low. I have a Diamond

bo and hamm-packages

1997-07-30 Thread Andreas Nolda
Hello, I have installed bo and would like to add some hamm-packages (which not exist in bo) without upgrading to hamm. Is this possible -- provided that there are no dependency problems? Andreas Nolda -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FW: bo and hamm-packages

1997-07-30 Thread Patrick Cole
-FW: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:28:59 +0200 (MEST) From: Andreas Nolda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: bo and hamm-packages Hello, I have installed bo and would like to add some hamm-packages (which not exist in bo) without upgrading

Re: block device name

1997-07-30 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: I began using dselect to install program files, but after choosing the Access option on the main menu the following screen asked for the CD and the block device name. I have no idea what this means. The system recognized my CD during the reboot as

Re: Minimizing Mail Packages?

1997-07-30 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Jul 30, Igor Grobman wrote Now that you mention it, mutt has some POP3 support which I never tried. I assume it's quite inflexible though, so I would recommend leaving fetchmail on your system. Last time I looked, mutt recommended using fetchmail or something like that. I think the

Compressed docs and man pages in Debian packages

1997-07-30 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
I just looked at the new packages in 1.3.1. I tried to installing jdk1.1 and find out that all the documentation provided by Sun (API, demos) are compressed. The same happens for other packages too. The dvi files which are part of teTeX package are compressed too. This makes reading of these

Problems with Smail3.2

1997-07-30 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi there I have a problem with my smail . When it accesses a remote host whose has in its MX entry an IP address, and not a full-qualified name, it return an error message: unknow host. It mean that smail does not recognize a mail relay host by its IP number, instead by its host

xf86Jstk.so missing from 1.3.1

1997-07-30 Thread Brian K Servis
Why is the XF86 v3.3 module xf86Jstk.so not to be found in any of the XF86 packages? All the other modules are present. Is it not part of the upstream distribution even though it is listed in the man pages? Thanks, Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL

Re: Minimizing Mail Packages?

1997-07-30 Thread Buddha Buck
Hello All, Connected intermittantly to internet using PPP to an ISP who uses POP3 for mail. I am attempting to minimize the number of packages needed to run mail. It seems there are many mail packages but not a great deal of information on there interrelationships. Basic

PPP works, but...

1997-07-30 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello first let me thank for all the replies I received, PPP works fine now. But the remaining prob is the thing with the numbers: I'd like to have ppp dial one number after the other if one line is busy and report me when the connection is established. In the

Re: Setting up sendmail for uucp delivery.

1997-07-30 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : When sendmail installed on the server at the shop I told it to : be able to use uucp but I don't see anything in the sendmail.cf that : would allow this. I figure that it should be simple to add a couple : of lines to the sendmail.cf to take care of

Re: dselect wigged out and everything's seg-faulting!

1997-07-30 Thread Dima
Joe Emenaker wrote: ... Does anyone know of any other libraries Perl needs or what else could be making it segfault? Downgrading libgdbm1 to the version from stable fixed it for me -- I purged libgdm1 and libgdbmg1 manually first. YMMV. You really can't use dpkg until you fix perl because

Re: Xwindow install failure

1997-07-30 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Renzo wrote: Since getting my CheapBytes cd last week (v1.3.1), I have been trying to install the s3 server (Diamond Sleath 64, Trio64 2meg) with dselect. During the setup and compile process the following error message comes up: ldconfig:warning:can't open

Re: umsdos and df command

1997-07-30 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Jim Foltz wrote: Anyway, it uses umsdos. I am using a bastardized version of /etc/init.d/boot and have prety much left the filesystem checking as it is by default. The umsdos filesystem (root) is mounted and sync'd ok, but the df command does not show that /dev/hda1 was

Re: Minimizing Mail Packages?

1997-07-30 Thread Igor Grobman
HTML I would appreciate it if you lose HTML tags. PHello All, PConnected intermittantly to internet using PPP to an ISP who uses POP3 for mail.nbsp; I am attempting to minimize the number of packages needed to run mail.nbsp; It seems there are many mail packages but not a great deal

Re: X after Deb 1.3.1 (was Re: Disappointment with Debian)

1997-07-30 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: Now the Xserver is mixed up No it does not dup core. It can only work in 800x600 mode and using C-A-Backspace to change mode only works for 640x480 and the monitor cannot display it in higher mode. This is a minor problem for now. My major

Re: Netscape Navigator doesn't come up unless -iconic

1997-07-30 Thread Brian White
Alan Eugene Davis wrote: Something happened to my system so that Netscape Navigator will not show on the X screen. If I start netscape a second time, I get a message that it is already running. If I start it as netscape -iconic it establishes an icon, and I can now open. Does this ring

Re: block device name

1997-07-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: :On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: : : I began using dselect to install program files, but after choosing the : Access option on the main menu the following screen asked for the CD and : the block device name. I have no idea what this

Re: intall hang: 'unknown pci device'

1997-07-30 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, felmon john davis wrote: Greetings! I know this is a classic problem but I don't know how (or if) it can be circumvented. I've bought a nice new laptop and have partitioned it with win95 and OS/2 and thought I'd make a trio and put Linux on it. (Note: I'm not a

fstab/mount security

1997-07-30 Thread Paul Miller
How do limit mounting of a certain partition to a single group (not to the entire system)? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: bash problems

1997-07-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote: :Is there an error in the 2.0x versions of bash on ftp.debian.org? I'm :trying to run a script called makemake in order to compile clisp, and I :get a million errors like these: : :./makemake: command substitution: line 1: missing closing `)' for arithmetic

Re.: Re: Netscape Navigator doesn't come up unless -iconic

1997-07-30 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
Thank you for your response. It is this: Netscape 3.01/export, 20-Oct-96; (c) 1995,1996 Netscape Communications Corp. Alan Brian White writes: Alan Eugene Davis wrote: Something happened to my system so that Netscape Navigator will not show on the X screen. If I start netscape a

FrontPage revisited

1997-07-30 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
A while back I tried install the FrontPage 97 extensions for Linux/Apache and it was not a particularly successful attempt. But I'd still find this very useful so i'm ready to try again. Have rtr improved their support for Linux any? Has anyone been successful in installing it on Debian? If

Need help: Mail Setup

1997-07-30 Thread Joerg Friedrich
Hi! I've got a problem: First: I'm new to Linux! :) I recently installed Debian. My system is connected to the internet via dialup-connection (ppp). I use 3 different Mail-accounts on 2 servers (POP3). I want linux to connect automaticly 4 times a day and download the mails of these account.

Re: Minimizing Mail Packages?

1997-07-30 Thread Dima
Buddha Buck wrote: ... With the exception of qmail instead of exim, your mail packages are identical to mine. I also have procmail installed, but I haven't converted my slocal setup to procmail yet, so I'm not actually -using- procmail. Put | preline procmail in your ~.qmail and

Re: Running Netscape Communicator

1997-07-30 Thread Olaf Weber
W Paul Mills writes: Remember though that if starting X with xdm, your environment variables may not be known to your session. I source my .bash_profile in my .xsession file. This solves various path and environment variable problems for a number of programs. It is worth noting that the

bash problems

1997-07-30 Thread Will Lowe
Is there an error in the 2.0x versions of bash on ftp.debian.org? I'm trying to run a script called makemake in order to compile clisp, and I get a million errors like these: ./makemake: command substitution: line 1: missing closing `)' for arithmetic expression ./makemake: command

which package contains 'md5sum'

1997-07-30 Thread Paul Miller
which deb package contains 'md5sum' ? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

time

1997-07-30 Thread Paul Miller
how do I set the CMOS time from the system time? -- when the system reboots, the time is incorrect and is too far off track that xntp3 won't set it.. -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Running Netscape Communicator

1997-07-30 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Jul 29, Victor Torrico wrote When starting Netscape Communicator 4.01 v6 from xterm, using the Netscape command, there are no error messages generated. All works well including encryption and decryption. When starting it using the Netscape button on the fvwm95 button bar an error

Re: Need help: Mail Setup

1997-07-30 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Joerg Friedrich wrote: I recently installed Debian. My system is connected to the internet via dialup-connection (ppp). I use 3 different Mail-accounts on 2 servers (POP3). I want linux to connect automaticly 4 times a day and download the mails of these account. The

Re: what's the better mta?

1997-07-30 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Jul 29, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote I'm installing a linux box as mail server, and would like to know what is the better MTA to use. I'm thinking about smail, but I guess sendmail is most popular. Anyway, I don't discard another mta, since it's realy good. I use exim and have been happy with

Re: ldso 1.8.11 makes system unusable

1997-07-30 Thread joost witteveen
I tried to upgrade some packages on a 1.1.* installation. Made the system nearly and so I have two questions: is it a known problem (- bug report) Well, I'm not sure your problem exactly is known -- you were appently upgrading from 1.1, but had already installed ldso_1.8.11-1: [EMAIL

Re: Modem config

1997-07-30 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Jul 29, David R. Kohel wrote What is the current standard for device files? I have a pcmcia modem. Previously it worked fine with /dev/cua1 under my Slackare Linux. Debian appears to have gone to some other device files or naming system. (I think it tried to put /dev/modem --

Re: time

1997-07-30 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote: how do I set the CMOS time from the system time? -- when the system reboots, the time is incorrect and is too far off track that xntp3 won't set it.. clock -w (man clock for more info). Actually, I have xntp3 running all the time so to keep the cmos

Re: Compressed docs and man pages in Debian packages

1997-07-30 Thread Jim Pick
I just looked at the new packages in 1.3.1. I tried to installing jdk1.1 and find out that all the documentation provided by Sun (API, demos) are compressed. I did that because that was what the Debian policy called for. I wish I hadn't. For the next release of the JDK (any day now, I

Re: We should help this guy...

1997-07-30 Thread Kevin Traas
- -Does not need RockRidge IIRC, RockRidge only adds Unix filesystems semantics to ISO 9660. There is nothing in the install which depends on this AFAICT. Using RockRidge is the only way to write a Debian CD that I know about. I had a CDR under Win95/NT. The software I used there (Corel

Re: uudecode

1997-07-30 Thread joost witteveen
Hi there On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Siyamala Kasinathan wrote: Hi, I have problem in decoding a binary uuencoded file. I received a mail (not as an attachment)with binary uuencoded message and i don't know what how to decode it. I downloaded a a decoded/encoder 'uudeview' software

Re: fstab/mount security

1997-07-30 Thread Ralph Winslow
Paul Miller wrote: How do limit mounting of a certain partition to a single group (not to the entire system)? I think I'd chgrp partition_users /dev/whatever_slice_your_partition_is_on) then chmod 0770 /dev/what... -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: which package contains 'md5sum'

1997-07-30 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote: which deb package contains 'md5sum' ? dpkg. In the spirit of teaching to fish ... you can find which package a file belongs to by using the --search option of dpkg as in: dpkg --search /usr/bin/md5sum -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: We should help this guy...

1997-07-30 Thread Kevin Traas
Kevin Using RockRidge is the only way to write a Debian CD that I Kevin know about. Not if you just burn the msdos-i386 directory :) It has names for all the packages in 8.3 format. Yeah, I thought of that too - *after* I had already downloaded the whole binary-i386 directory tree

Vacation

1997-07-30 Thread Ralph Winslow
I'm not going to be able to read this list for the next couple of weeks and with the current level of traffic, the mailbox at my ISP will probably fill (and I don't want to wade through 2 weeks worth of posting, besides). I'll send unsubscribe to debian-announce-REQUEST and debian-user-REQUEST

Re: what's the better mta?

1997-07-30 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Jul 29, George Bonser wrote If you have one system that is your all-around linux box, I would suggest that you go with cnews. If you are setting up a dedicated news machine, use INN and load it with as much RAM as you can afford plus a little more. From inn's description: INN is

Re: Quotas Mail Spool file

1997-07-30 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 10:23 AM 29/07/97 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Turn quota's on for /var where the mail spools are (/var/spool/mail) That should do it, since each user owns their own mailbox. Unfortunately this doesn't work for users who install Smail (I've only ever installed Smail because of bugs

XServer prob. solved in Deb 1.3.1

1997-07-30 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
Hi, I just want everyone to know that I have been able to solve most of my problems in 1.3.1 Xserver. It turns out the problem was that the new server defaults to accelaration mode on the Trident card. Just putting Option noaccel solved most of my problems. The only remaining problem is that I

Re: bo and hamm-packages

1997-07-30 Thread Stefan Baums
I have installed bo and would like to add some hamm-packages (which not exist in bo) without upgrading to hamm. Is this possible -- provided that there are no dependency problems? Yes. -- Stefan Baums Universitaet Goettingen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: We should help this guy...

1997-07-30 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Kevin == Kevin Traas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kevin Using RockRidge is the only way to write a Debian CD that I Kevin know about. Not if you just burn the msdos-i386 directory :) It has names for all the packages in 8.3 format. Try that next time! :) -- Brought to you by the letters

Re: Vacation

1997-07-30 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: debian-user-REQUEST @lists.debian.org unless there's some way to suspend service temporarily that you all may suggest. TIA Is it a unix host? Just set up a script to forward all debian mail to /dev/null, and remove it when you get back ...

Re: PPP works, but...

1997-07-30 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 30 Jul, Peter Weiss wrote: Hello first let me thank for all the replies I received, PPP works fine now. But the remaining prob is the thing with the numbers: I'd like to have ppp dial one number after the other if one line is busy and report me when the connection is

Re: ldso 1.8.11 makes system unusable

1997-07-30 Thread Winfried Truemper
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, joost witteveen wrote: So, you were doing something unnatural. I know I'm mad by using Linux. But I'm not so mad to upgrade an production system only because there is a new release of Debian. I guess you've already reboted your computer now. No, fortunatly not. I

Setting up sendmail for uucp delivery.

1997-07-30 Thread Chris Brown
I have a slightly odd configuration that I would like to set up. My system at home is set up so that it is not connected to the net all the time and currently my sendmail at home and at work are set up smtp only. The server here at work just hammers away trying to dump it's queue until

X screen savers

1997-07-30 Thread Paul Miller
How do I setup X Windows to have a screen saver that runs a program (xlock)? I think that 'xset s on' only blacks out the screen.. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: X screen savers

1997-07-30 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Paul == Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul How do I setup X Windows to have a screen saver that runs a Paul program (xlock)? I think that 'xset s on' only blacks out Paul the screen.. The xautolock utility is the program you're looking for. :) -- Brought to you by the

intall hang: 'unknown pci device'

1997-07-30 Thread felmon john davis
Greetings! I know this is a classic problem but I don't know how (or if) it can be circumvented. I've bought a nice new laptop and have partitioned it with win95 and OS/2 and thought I'd make a trio and put Linux on it. (Note: I'm not a _complete_ newbie to Linux - I've recompiled the kernel and

Re: intall hang: 'unknown pci device'

1997-07-30 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, felmon john davis wrote: When I use my trusty bootdisk (which I made months ago for my desktop machine), it _hangs_ on the error: WARNING: UNKNOWN PCI DEVICE (1039:5107). PLEASE READ INCLUDE/LINUX/PCI.H My experience is that that message is just a warning - I get them for

Re: Re.: Re: Netscape Navigator doesn't come up unless -iconic

1997-07-30 Thread Brian White
Thank you for your response. It is this: Netscape 3.01/export, 20-Oct-96; (c) 1995,1996 Netscape Communications Corp. Did you install this with the Debian package? If so, which revision of the package? Brian (

Re: Need help: Mail Setup

1997-07-30 Thread Igor Grobman
Hi! I've got a problem: First: I'm new to Linux! :) Welcome! :) I recently installed Debian. My system is connected to the internet via dialup-connection (ppp). I use 3 different Mail-accounts on 2 servers (POP3). I want linux to connect automaticly 4 times a day and download the

Re: XTerm on XFree86 3.3-3 trouble

1997-07-30 Thread Mark Eichin
I'd have to double check, but I suspect that none of these were ever bugs... just confusion among people as to what the difference between application mode and the default mode is, wrt cursor and keypad keys; there are sequences that change these. I'm pretty sure xbase itself hasn't changed at

Re: time

1997-07-30 Thread Alex Yukhimets
how do I set the CMOS time from the system time? -- when the system reboots, the time is incorrect and is too far off track that xntp3 won't set it.. I myself use the following command sequence as soon as go on-line: /usr/sbin/netdate -b -s 192.43.244.18 /sbin/clock -uw Running

Xwindow install failure

1997-07-30 Thread Renzo
Hello everyone, Since getting my CheapBytes cd last week (v1.3.1), I have been trying to install the s3 server (Diamond Sleath 64, Trio64 2meg) with dselect. During the setup and compile process the following error message comes up: ldconfig:warning:can't open /usr/x11r6/lib/libice.so.6 skip

Re: X screen savers

1997-07-30 Thread Paul Miller
what package is it in? I have xlock installed, but I don't have xautolock.. also, how do I get it to support shadow passwords.. xlock only works with root or with -nolock...? On 30 Jul 1997, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Paul == Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul How do I setup X

Does dhcpd support vendor tags?

1997-07-30 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, I can not find in the docs. that come with the DHCP daemon packaged for Debian (the one from the ISC) any reference to generic vendor tags (Tnn=xx). Does anyone know if this DHCP daemon supports them? Thanks, E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation

Re: what's the better mta?

1997-07-30 Thread jghasler
Manoj Srivastava writes: Hacking sendmail.cf is a mindset. Once you get into it (lord help me, I've been there), there is an elegant simplicity about the rules. Perhaps someone who has gotten into sendmail could write a sendmail.cf generator? I know about m4. It helps, but not enough. --

QPopper Problem

1997-07-30 Thread Kevin Traas
I'm using QPopper on my Linux box. No problems there. However, I'm getting the following in my /var/log/messages file: Jul 30 14:22:17 inetgw in.qpopper[28372]: @training2: -ERR Unknown command: auth. inetgw is the name of my Linux box. training2 is the name of the system running the POP

Re: ICQ

1997-07-30 Thread Riku Saikkonen
Travis Cole wrote: If they are going to charge that much, then I don't really care for an ICQ version for Linux. But I still would like a program that allows me to tell if my freiends are online and then message or chat them. To tell if someone is online: - finger - rwho (but rwhod isn't

Another QPopper Problem....

1997-07-30 Thread Kevin Traas
Oops! Forgot to include another message I'm getting as well: Jul 29 15:31:11 inetgw in.qpopper[20205]: (v2.2) Unable to get canonical name of client, err = 0 Any ideas what this means? TIA, Kevin Traas Baan Business Systems Systems Analyst Langley, BC, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Another QPopper Problem....

1997-07-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
I've seen this one before. It means the client isn't reverse name served, at least not to the address it said it was in the first place. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Voice: (605) 334-4454 Fax: (605) 335-1173 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL

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