xemacs and mailcrypt?

1997-08-10 Thread Carl Johnson
I use gnus in xemacs for my mail, so I have tried to run mailcrypt for pgp encoding messages. Every time I try it I get the message Found no signed message in this buffer, but I clearly see there is a signed message with the pgp headers: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- -BEGIN PGP

Problem w/ sh at boot

1997-08-10 Thread rir
I am getting the following at boot and shutdown, with linux 2.0.29. What should I do? Starting system daemon: syslogd klogd Starting kerneld, version 2.1.34 (pid 119) sh: no job control in this shell sh-2.00# _ Stopping periodic command scheduler: cron. sh: no job control in this shel sh-2.00# _

An x question, and a Permisions question

1997-08-10 Thread Kevin J Poorman
Hi, I learned (hard way) not to use root as my normal user. but when I try to start X as ender(my user) I get this error xinit: unexpected error 2. How can I fix this? now for the permisions question in trying to fix the above X question I found that almost my entire /usr directory is in the

Re: An x question, and a Permisions question

1997-08-10 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
iOn Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote: I learned (hard way) not to use root as my normal user. but when I try to start X as ender(my user) I get this error xinit: unexpected error 2. How can I fix this? Not sure what your prob is based on the above description. now for the

Re: magicfilter Espon Stylus Color II

1997-08-10 Thread Paul Wade
I got it to work in color on a friend's redhat system. I forget what it is supposed to be compatible with (IBM, LQ, or deskjet), but I printed a webpage in color from netscape with it. I have a IIs that I primarily use for printing email, but I have a color cartridge for it. If you don't get it

PPP with multiple numbers and getting modem status

1997-08-10 Thread Adrian Johnson
I have a couple of questions regarding the PPP configuration. How should I configure PPP to dial each number in a list until it connects. How can I send the modem an AT command and log the result after ppp disconnects. I wish to send my modem an ATI6 command so I can log the length of the call,

Re: PPP with multiple numbers and getting modem status

1997-08-10 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Adrian Johnson wrote: I have a couple of questions regarding the PPP configuration. How should I configure PPP to dial each number in a list until it connects. I'll let someone else handle this one. It may involve writing a perl script. How can I send the modem an

Re: xemacs and mailcrypt?

1997-08-10 Thread Carey Evans
Carl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Is this an xemacs package problem, or have I missed something in configuring my system? Is anybody else using xemacs with gnus and mailcrypt? I looked through the bug tracking system, but I didn't see any related reports under either xemacs or

Re: magicfilter Espon Stylus Color II

1997-08-10 Thread Dennis J Perkins
Bob Billson wrote: Has anyone already gotten magicfilter to work with the Espon Stylus Color II (ink jet) printer? Is is compatiable with one of the other Espon ink printers? I don't want to write my own configuration file if it has already been done. Thanks. Bob -- Bob

procmail config question

1997-08-10 Thread Steve Hsieh
I have a procmail question that perhaps someone could help me with: Is there a way to add an AND in the string by which procmail filters mail? Right now, I have :0: * ^FROM_MAILER IN.daemon-mail but what I really want is all mail from daemons *except* mail with the Subject

Re: procmail config question

1997-08-10 Thread Clint Adams
:0: * ^FROM_MAILER IN.daemon-mail but what I really want is all mail from daemons *except* mail with the Subject :0: * ^FROM_MAILER * !^Subject: IN.daemon-mail -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

what is the best pop3d?

1997-08-10 Thread Paul Miller
What is the best pop3d? I've heard that qpopper can corrupt mail files under even lightly loaded systems. -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Configuring exim

1997-08-10 Thread Johann Spies
I replaced smail on my system with exim and I have a question or two: After running eximconfig exim complains that the /etc/exim.conf has the wrong owner/permissions. chmod g-w resolves that. Is it a bug? How should I configure exim? My internet address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] The name of my

hello - probs

1997-08-10 Thread Lindsay Allen
Is hello_1-13.deb still current? I am trying to learn the gentle art of package making, but this is what happens with dpkg-source. elm# dpkg-source -x /cdrom/stable/source/misc/hello_1.3-13.dsc dpkg-source: extracting hello in hello-1.3 shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd:

.deb file corruption?

1997-08-10 Thread Dave Neuer
OK. Does anyone know the answer to this: When I download debian package files onto my PowerMac and try to transfer them via PC-formatted floppy to my Linux box, the files are showing up under linux all starting with ! (i.e. kernel-package_3.28.deb becomes !kernal-package_3.28) and I can't seem

Re: Outputting tabs with sed

1997-08-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: How can I output tabs with sed? I need something like: `s/insert tab here/\t' In theory, sed -e 's/insert tab here//'

Re: hello - probs

1997-08-10 Thread Rob Browning
Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is hello_1-13.deb still current? I am trying to learn the gentle art of package making, but this is what happens with dpkg-source. elm# dpkg-source -x /cdrom/stable/source/misc/hello_1.3-13.dsc You need to be in the same directory where you are doing

Re: .deb file corruption?

1997-08-10 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Neuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I download debian package files onto my PowerMac and try to transfer them via PC-formatted floppy to my Linux box, the files are showing up under linux all starting with ! (i.e. kernel-package_3.28.deb becomes !kernal-package_3.28) and I can't seem

Re: [DEBIAN] Standardization?

1997-08-10 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater \(Andy\)
On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, George Bonser wrote: Is there any REALLY GOOD reason for stuff like this? I know that the next distribution is likely to cause a lot of turmoil with the libc6 thing and a lot of work needs to go into recompliling the world but how about if we have a look at this in some

Re: Where is qcrack and staroffice.deb packages

1997-08-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Paul writes: Hi folks, I want qcrack and staroffice packages any help would be muchly appreciated. I can't find them anywhere. I thought that staroffice was available over in europe. Thanks in advance. StarWriter*.deb is located in non-free/editors Regards Joey -- / Martin

Re: Where is qcrack and staroffice.deb packages

1997-08-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Bob Nielsen writes: You can get StarOffice-3.1 from ftp.gwdg.de in the directory /pub/linux/staroffice. It is NOT a Debian package, however. It is easy to install, but carefully read the installation instructions. Some weeks ago I wrote a Debian installer for it. Please use it, life is

Re: .deb file corruption?

1997-08-10 Thread Carey Evans
Dave Neuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I download debian package files onto my PowerMac and try to transfer them via PC-formatted floppy to my Linux box, the files are showing up under linux all starting with ! (i.e. kernel-package_3.28.deb becomes !kernal-package_3.28) and I can't seem

Re: [DEBIAN] Standardization?

1997-08-10 Thread Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd
On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, George Bonser wrote: I just has a discussion on a mailing list for another distribution and a point was raised that I think deserves some discussion here. The main focus was on linux applications and difficulties in supporting the different distributions and versions as

Re: [DPKG] Integrity checking?

1997-08-10 Thread Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: On Fri, 08 Aug 1997 09:15:06 BST Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is dpkg can do integrity checking based on the MD5 hashes it uses? Our machine has been cracked, and we want to know which binaries have been compromised. There

Re: [DEBIAN] Standardization?

1997-08-10 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Bonser) writes: Uhm, I actually LIKE the idea of putting the different runlevel rc.* directories under rc.d but that is just me, I guess. Keeps /etc a little less cluttered. And it would introduce a major new level of compatibility between RPM and dpkg! I wouldn't

Re: magicfilter Espon Stylus Color II

1997-08-10 Thread adavis
There is a lengthy discussion of the Epson Color Stylus II in /usr/doc/gs/devices.txt.gz. I'm sure it's over my head, but it does seem there has been more support paid to the newer Epsons than to my HP. Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Aug 9, Paul Wade wrote I got it to work in color on a

Re: My own fonts

1997-08-10 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Aug 05, Riku Saikkonen wrote Nikita Imennov wrote: My console vs. X ratio is 50/50 and X has more fonts, while console has only about 50-tops ( and they are all either asian, or arabic (in other words -- not for me =). So, is there a font-sontruction package? I think I heard of a

[LPR] Can't `verify local hostname'

1997-08-10 Thread Adam Klein
I just installed lpr on my system, and when I try to print, it gives me a message that says something like: lpr: cannot verify name of local host It then exits. What's going on. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: [DEBIAN] Standardization?

1997-08-10 Thread Alex Yukhimets
I just has a discussion on a mailing list for another distribution and a point was raised that I think deserves some discussion here. The main focus was on linux applications and difficulties in supporting the different distributions and versions as linux is such a quickly moving target.

[HELP] smail stuck from cron?

1997-08-10 Thread Pete Harlan
Hi, ps -axf shows this: 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron 0:00 \_ /USR/SBIN/CRON 0:00 \_ (sh zombie) 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -or0s root The sendmail process (really smail) stays stuck like this forever (afaik). I do have a non-empty

bashrc bash-profile Problem

1997-08-10 Thread ramin
Hello there! I have just switched to Debian 1.3.1 from Suse 3 Days ago and so far i´m quite happy with it. Now i have some trouble with StarOffice: I included the .sd.sh script in my .bash-profile script: # Staroffice source $HOME/.sd.sh this way it worked in the Suse Distibution.

Re: bashrc bash-profile Problem

1997-08-10 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED]; unless Mutt is confused,on Aug 10, you wrote : snip I included the .sd.sh script in my .bash-profile script: # Staroffice source $HOME/.sd.sh this way it worked in the Suse Distibution. But now it only works if i start i.e. swriter from the initial xterm

Re: bashrc bash-profile Problem

1997-08-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Hello there! I have just switched to Debian 1.3.1 from Suse 3 Days ago and so far i´m quite happy with it. Now i have some trouble with StarOffice: I included the .sd.sh script in my .bash-profile script: # Staroffice source $HOME/.sd.sh this way it worked in the Suse

Re: xemacs and mailcrypt?

1997-08-10 Thread Carl Johnson
Carey Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Carl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Is this an xemacs package problem, or have I missed something in configuring my system? Is anybody else using xemacs with gnus and mailcrypt? I looked through the bug tracking system, but I didn't

difficulties with make-kpkg and 2.0.30

1997-08-10 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater \(Andy\)
I've suddenly started having difficulties compiling a kernel. Packages are latest versions from unstable. When I try to make a kernel, it falls over fairly early on with a message about changelog being empty All ideas welcome. Andy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: Problem with exim and fetchmail.

1997-08-10 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Aug 08, Rob Browning wrote I just switched over from sendmail to exim on one of my machines, and I was having a problem getting my mail from any other machine via fetchmail. If I put fetchmail in verbose mode I can see that exim is rejecting the SMTP command because there's no domain

Re: PPP with multiple numbers and getting modem status

1997-08-10 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Adrian Johnson wrote: How should I configure PPP to dial each number in a list until it connects. How can I send the modem an AT command and log the result after ppp disconnects. I wish to send my modem an ATI6 command so I can log the length of the call, connect

Re: what is the best pop3d?

1997-08-10 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Sun, Aug 10, 1997 at 01:20:44AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: : What is the best pop3d? I've heard that qpopper can corrupt mail files : under even lightly loaded systems. I've been seeing very good things from cucipop. It's in non-free. -- Jason Costomiris | Finger for PGP

booting into single user mode

1997-08-10 Thread Sue Campbell
I was in too much of a hurry upgrading some packages from unstable and didn't install ncurses3.4 and my system is messed up. I need to reboot into single user mode and can't remember what to type at the lilo prompt. - Sue -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: booting into single user mode

1997-08-10 Thread Martin Schulze
I was in too much of a hurry upgrading some packages from unstable and didn't install ncurses3.4 and my system is messed up. I need to reboot into single user mode and can't remember what to type at the lilo prompt. Linux single (just add single after your kernel name) Joey --

mv directories to new partition; rm directories

1997-08-10 Thread Gary L. Dolan
I want to move the directories in /usr/local to a new partition (just recovered from an old windows install). I thought I could do the following: 1. copy the directory structure under /usr/local to the new partition 2. remove the old directory structure under /usr/local 3. mount the new

different start-stop-daemon: no such file problem

1997-08-10 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
From: Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] After upgrading to Debian 1.3.1 I encountered a serious start-up-problem. Some of the /etc/init.d/-scripts fail with messages like - /etc/init.d/kerneld: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory - I'm having

fixing a machine without ncurses3.4

1997-08-10 Thread Sue Campbell
I wanted the Gimp so I did some updating from unstable. I missed libncurses3.4 though. My machine was left in an crippled state (couldn't ftp out) so I thought I'd boot into windoze to get the .deb. Unfortunately when booting back into Linux, even in single user mode, I get 'sh: can't load

Debian Newsletter Proposal

1997-08-10 Thread Brandon Mitchell
I've put together some ideas for the debian newsletter I proposed last week. 1) This will be a weekly summary of info from debian-user, debian-devel, and comp.linux.announce. 2) It will probably be posted to a new list called debian-news since people opposed the idea of cluttering up

Re: [DEBIAN] Standardization?

1997-08-10 Thread mdorman
On Aug 10, Paul Seelig wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Bonser) writes: Uhm, I actually LIKE the idea of putting the different runlevel rc.* directories under rc.d but that is just me, I guess. Keeps /etc a little less cluttered. And it would introduce a major new level of compatibility

RFC: Debian Newsletter

1997-08-10 Thread Brandon Mitchell
The following is a request for comments. I put together this sample from news this past week. I really think this should be more than a one person project, so if anyone wants to help out, please drop me a line. _ _

Re: .deb file corruption?

1997-08-10 Thread Dima
Dave Neuer wrote: ... BTW, I can't get the Linux box connected via Ethernet (no drivers) or modem (can't seem to find modem, and can't transfer any communications programs like minicom to the Linux box to test for the modem). By default only 2 serial ports are configured. Edit

Re: mv directories to new partition; rm directories

1997-08-10 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote: In doing a bit of experimenting before the big step, I have copied the directory, including permissions, to the new partition (which is presently mounted at /hdb4). I used (cd /source; tar cf - .) | (cd /dest; tar

Re: different start-stop-daemon: no such file problem

1997-08-10 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
I wrote: From: Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] After upgrading to Debian 1.3.1 I encountered a serious start-up-problem. Some of the /etc/init.d/-scripts fail with messages like - /etc/init.d/kerneld: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory

NEVER MIND: Re: bug?: /etc/init.d/kerneld can't find start-stop-daemon and grep

1997-08-10 Thread Daniel S. Barclay
I wrote: I just upgraded my Debian 1.2 to Debian 1.3, and am having a problem with the scripts that are supposed to start kerneld. The script /etc/init.d/kerneld doesn't start kerneld (when it is run automatically boot time). ... So, have I misinstalled 1.3, or ...

Re: fixing a machine without ncurses3.4

1997-08-10 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Sue Campbell wrote: I wanted the Gimp so I did some updating from unstable. I missed libncurses3.4 though. My machine was left in an crippled state (couldn't ftp out) so I thought I'd boot into windoze to get the .deb. Unfortunately when booting back into Linux, even in

Re: difficulties with make-kpkg and 2.0.30

1997-08-10 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 10 Aug, Andrew Martin Adrian Cater (Andy) wrote: I've suddenly started having difficulties compiling a kernel. Packages are latest versions from unstable. When I try to make a kernel, it falls over fairly early on with a message about changelog being empty All ideas welcome. You

RE: RFC: Debian Newsletter

1997-08-10 Thread David Puryear
On 10-Aug-97 Brandon Mitchell wrote: +--- | Upgrade Notices: How to Safely Go to libc6. Some people have reported unusuable systems after trying to upgrade to libc6. In order to safely upgrade, the following was suggested by: From: Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL