Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.70 1998/02/09 23:38:47 johnie Exp $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ . 1.2. Purpose of t

Re: StarOffice & multiuser

> it doesn't seem to be necessary anymore. I used custom install as root to > put > it in /usr/local/share, than ran /usr/local/share/Office40/bin/setup as a > user, ignored the incorrect statement that it was going to use 110MB again > (really 12k or so, i think), then ran it with no problem.

Dial Script

I have a web page that people can use to page me on my numeric pager. It uses a very stupid program (npage) to dial the phone. I was wondering if someone has a better way, maybe perl, chat, a well written C program, etc. to do this. Thanks, Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Problems with new install on old laptop

Tim Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have an old 486 DX2-66 laptop which currently has a 1.1.59-based > Linux installation, and I'm trying to install Debian on it. Booting > with the rescue disk is fine until just after it loads the md driver, at > which point it hangs. I haven't seen this w

Installation XFree86 klappt nicht...

Hallo! Leider stellt sich meine erstes Herantasten an die LINUX-Welt ein wenig schwieriger dar als gedacht. Speziell XFree86 will nicht laufen. Da auf der mir zu Verfuegung stehenden Distribution (Debian 1.3.1) kein X-Server für meine Grafikkarte (Viper V 330 mit Riva 128 Chip)ist habe ich vo

Any command to spin down a *scsi* drive?

I know you can use hdparm to set the spin-down period on an IDE drive, but is there a similar command for SCSI drives? Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsub

Re: StarOffice & multiuser

torsten wrote, > http://www.on-line.de/~michael.hoennig/AutoMultiUserSetupForSO40Linux.tar > might be of interest too (see the message of Paul Seelig some days > ago, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for more details). it doesn't seem to be necessary anymore. I used custom install as root to put it in /usr/

Problems with new install on old laptop

I have an old 486 DX2-66 laptop which currently has a 1.1.59-based Linux installation, and I'm trying to install Debian on it. Booting with the rescue disk is fine until just after it loads the md driver, at which point it hangs. I haven't seen this with any of the other Debian installs, but then

Re: Automating PPP with cron?

Sounds like a dooable crack. I see a cron.daily, weekly & monthly directory in /etc, with scripts in it, which I presume get executed daily weekly and month respectively. I'de like it to run every 6 hours. I tried read the cron & cron tab manpages, but I'm still clueless as to how to do this I

Re: X restarts in different console

> I noticed strictly the sam effect in my "bo" box... :-( Same here with hamm; a solution I've found is to run startx -- vt12 (or whatever VT you want it on). Even better, set up an alias: alias startx="startx -- vt12" -- _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ Luke Chao (xekul) UIN4510570 _/ _/

Re: hdd problems

Well it sounds like LILO is trying to boot from the wrong partition. Or, perhaps the kernel is loading but the "root" device is wrong. I'm guessing this is the case since I wouldn't expect very elaborate messages such as you site below from LILO. When you get to where LILO prints hit scroll-lock to

Re: hdd problems

> I recently removed my Windows drive from a machine that runs Debian 95% > of the time. The previous arrangement was as follows: > /dev/hda Windows (master primary controller) > /dev/hdb Debian (slave primary controller) > /dev/hdc CD-ROM (master secondar

RE: HELP: tkdesk not appearing on desktop

do me a favor and take me off this list serve some lamer put me on a million of them and i can't get off. I get 2000 emails a day thank you -Original Message- From: Albert Hurd [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 1998 2:45 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subje

ddd doesn't do a thing

Hi, Some time ago I upgraded to ddd-2.1.1 with lesstifg-0.82-4, and ever since, ddd doesn't do a dd thing anymore. It starts up, and that's it. I can't even open a menu to open a file, or typw in the console window. Anybody knows how to fix this? I really start to miss my debugger Maar

StarOffice4.0 and Debian

Has anyone installed StarOffice 4.0 on a Debian system yet and were there any problems to watch out for? thanks, -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Problem with python

On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Heine DeJager wrote: > HI Folks, > > I have a problem installing python1.4 (hamm), and here follows the output > from trying to run dpkg --configure python-base. > > Setting up python-base (1.4.0-4) ... > File "/usr/lib/python1.4/compileall.py", line 8 > import os >

Re: xauth for my wife over my xdm X-windows session?

This doesn't address your specific question, but what about this: I assume that when your wife uses linux, she normally logs in from the console (on one of the text mode consoles), and occasionally then wishes to run a few X applications. If so, then she can just do: startx -- :1 This will give h

Re: proxy environment variable

Florian Attenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > What is the sysntax for the proxy variables: > ftp_proxy="don't know" > http_proxy="don't know" http_proxy=http://localhost:8080/ export http_proxy The same for ftp_proxy. Torsten -- I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on

Re: Forwarding mail to news

Tim Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I am subscribed to a number of different mailing lists, but find it easier > to read using a news reader. Also, I am at different systems that connect > to the internet using a dial-up connection. I just put my mailing lists into such a form. > Is

Re: Installing Debian Linux v1.3.1 from July '97

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Skwar) writes: > Hello ! > Last night I wanted to install Debian v1.3.1 from July '97 with a > Kernel v2.0.29. After I partitioned my hard disk, the install > programm checked my hard disk for errors and got a whole lot of > them.  It repeated printing: > > scsi0: Ta

Re: Numlock in an xterm

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) writes: > I have a script in /etc/init.d that runs /usr/bin/setleds -D > +num to set the numlock on. How can I get the same result in an > xterm? Maybe "xset led" works here. See man xset for instruction on how to use it. Torsten -- I haven

Re: StarOffice

Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Group, > > I keep seeing posts regarding StarOffice. Where can I get this? ftp://ftp.stardiv.de/pub/so4/linux/final http://www.on-line.de/~michael.hoennig/AutoMultiUserSetupForSO40Linux.tar might be of interest too (see the message of Paul Seelig some days a

hdd problems

Yo- I recently removed my Windows drive from a machine that runs Debian 95% of the time. The previous arrangement was as follows: /dev/hdaWindows (master primary controller) /dev/hdbDebian (slave primary controller) /dev/hdcCD-ROM (master seconda

Re: HELP: tkdesk not appearing on desktop

Albert Hurd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After using tkdesk successfully for two months, the following problem > just arose. When I call up tkdesk from an xterm, the initialization > window appears and then, instead of appearing as usual, the tkwindow > is nowhere to be found, even though ps show

AT keyboard & X

I managed to get my hands on a used AT keyboard at the schools surblus sale (for the grand price of $1!) My fingers are now happy :) nice & tactile, the control key's where God meant it to be, and I can reach the Fkeys without leaving the keyboard (though I suppose an alt on the right hand si

Re: How do I convert data e-mailed from a mac?

Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I have been sent files of this sort: > > jpmaster.dvi > This is a application/mac-binhex40 Check out the program "frommac" in the macutils package (which contains all sorts of utilities for converting to/from binhex and macbinary formats). -

Re: Install Help on ThinkPad Wanted

"William V. Vera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I'd be most grateful to anyone who can help me with my installation > of Debian 1.3.1 on an IBM ThinkPad 760C. I was able to complete > the base installation from diskettes where I believe I included the > necessary > drivers to support

Re: Question re: splitting files

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott McDermott) wrote: >I just tar as multi-volumes, set volume size appropriately to fit on a >disk. Do you even need to set the size? I find this works pretty well: % tar cvMf /dev/fd0 * and at the other end: % tar xvMf /dev/fd0 Apart from when a disk goes bad (obviously

Re: HELP: tkdesk not appearing on desktop

On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Albert Hurd wrote: > After using tkdesk successfully for two months, the following problem > just arose. When I call up tkdesk from an xterm, the initialization > window appears and then, instead of appearing as usual, the tkwindow > is nowhere to be found, even though ps show

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

> On Mon, 09 Feb 1998 10:40:18 EST, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > > > > > Hmm... - it appears that xemacs is attempting to do a dns lookup, and > > > that's the connection that's taking so long. If you had a bo machine, > > > I'd ask you what yo

xauth for my wife over my xdm X-windows session?

I leave my xdm X-windows session running 24 hours a day. My wife uses Linux for a few minutes each day. I could give her permissions to run X-windows applications on top of my X-windows session with xhost +localhost but "xauth" is considered more secure and does not receive complaints from

HELP: tkdesk not appearing on desktop

After using tkdesk successfully for two months, the following problem just arose. When I call up tkdesk from an xterm, the initialization window appears and then, instead of appearing as usual, the tkwindow is nowhere to be found, even though ps shows it is active. I have tried to reinstall using d

On the fly compression with ext2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! I would like to know when there will be ext2 on the fly file compression, supported in the kernel, ext2 has already support but kernel seems to not support it yet, nor the 2.1.8x kernels... Does this will be introduced prior 2.2 version? Any commen

Re: SCSI

On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Greg Green wrote: : Hello all: : : I am having problems detecting my scsi drives. I have three drives all : jumpered correctly and I recompiled the kernel for raid5, and also for : my correct scsi controller. I installed the correct raid145 patch, and : raidtools, and the la

SCSI

Hello all: I am having problems detecting my scsi drives. I have three drives all jumpered correctly and I recompiled the kernel for raid5, and also for my correct scsi controller. I installed the correct raid145 patch, and raidtools, and the latest linuxthreads. The problem is that I cannot mkf

Re: How do I convert data e-mailed from a mac?

Dvi is a 'tex' extension I believe. You can convert this to a postscript file with the command 'dvips'. Dennis -- dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Tony wrote: > Hello, > > I h

How do I convert data e-mailed from a mac?

Hello, I have been sent files of this sort: jpmaster.dvi This is a application/mac-binhex40 Is there a utility that will convert these? Is it available in a Debian package? Thank you Tony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Making X a command center

I'm about 2 months into using debian linux so I still use a lot of dos programs. I devised this shell script that allows me to make X a command center that can call and open full consoles with programs already loaded. It supposedly relieves me from having to open the console, remember which one is

modem-netcard X modem+netcard?

I have to decide between an integrated modem and net card (like 3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN+56K) or a us robotics modem card plus a 3com pci net card. Since I am going to use both modem and net card simultaneously (I will be connecting from home using ppp), I would like to know which option would b

Re: www.debian.org trouble

> This happened to me when I was playing with non-IP virtual servers. > Apache's root server appears to become inaccessible as soon as you > add such a virtual server. I had to add a virtual server for what > was originally the root server to get it to work. > That you need a virtual server for th

winhelp file viewer

Hi, Anyone knows of a (if possible, Linux) program which can show me Windows HLP-files? So not winhelp.exe :-) Maybe something that is capable of converting a HLP-file to HTML? I don't have the RTF-documents of the HLP-file. Any ideas? thanks, Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

RE: xfmail 1.2p0-1 seg-faults

I have noticed that this version of xfmail does produce more segfaults than earlier versions. However, I have not had this trouble with new mail (until one time this morning, of course). I have not seen any segfaults from folder changes. I am using hamm. Paul On 08-Feb-98 Stefan Baums wrote: >

Re: Help (my first crash)

Fortunately, the filesystem keeps numerious copies of the superblock on the disk. You just need to find out where they are! Actually, the locations of backup superblocks are printed to the screen when the filesystem is created (not that this helps you now, right). If I remember correctly though, su

Re: Help (my first crash)

Christopher Judd wrote: > > I'm a relative newcomer to linux (used Amiga's for years). I've > been running a bo system for about six months. This morning the system > crashed and will not boot from the hard disk. I booted from the rescue > disk but cannot mount /hda3 (/hda1=w95, /hda2=sw

Re: More that 64 Mb memory

On 29 Dec 1997, Douglas Bates wrote: > I have searched the FAQ's but I still can't find the answer to this > one. I have a new machine with 128 Mb. of memory. When I boot a > standard kernel using the standard lilo configuration from Debian the > kernel reports only 64 Mb of memory. Could someo

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > Gerald Wann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If find particularly interesting any lines in the file where a > > timeout occurs. I have attached a snippet below, which is repeated > > many times in the load process. Could anyone shed light on just w

Help (my first crash)

I'm a relative newcomer to linux (used Amiga's for years). I've been running a bo system for about six months. This morning the system crashed and will not boot from the hard disk. I booted from the rescue disk but cannot mount /hda3 (/hda1=w95, /hda2=swap). e2ckfs reports a bad super

Re: Using mgetty automated callback, and the NO CARRIER message.

On 9 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: > Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > However, with newer ppp's this no longer seems to be sufficient, as > > apparently chat bails out if the DCD signal is gone. I have had to add > > "AT&C0" to the modem init strings, to disable DCD signalling by the

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

Gerald Wann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi- Many thanks to those who have commented thus far on the xemacs > slow load post. > > Being relatively new to Linux, i am still slogging thru the process > of analyzing why the load takes so long on my machine. > > In particular, i have just run an str

[Q] cannot print

Hello, Some how, after installing and configuring debian's hamm snop-shot of December 19's -- I cannot print. I have Okidata with HP emulation and just a simple command like cp text.file /dev/lp0 -- kind of starts the printer -- the printer displays that it is receiving data and then nothing happ

dselect and ftp: Packages file not found

Hi, If I use dselect with ftp access, it complains about a missing Packages[.gz], although I am sure it's there (I checked this manually with ftp). Here are the details: ftpsite=ftp.eunet.be username=anonymous ftpdir=/pub/linux/debian distribs=bo It sais: "Cd to /pub/linux/debian/...

Re: Installproblem Xfree86.

Joakim Burman wrote: >Hello Debian-users! > >Can someone help me with some "Newbie" questions.. > >1. When I try to install Xfree86 whith gzip I got (I think) an errormessage >like "Broken Pipe". What does that mean? It probably means that gzip tried to pipe its output to a command

Re: Emacs Menu/Scrollbar Color

On Sun, 08 Feb 1998 11:53:08 +0100 (CET), you wrote: >Hi all, > >I'd like to use GNU Emacs under X with a black background and white foreground. >The problem is, this should be true of the menubar as well, but Xresources >background & foreground don't do the job. (It's possible, though: I saw a >s

Re: Using mgetty automated callback, and \q

David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: > > Take out the trailing \q.. that turns the echo back on. > > I see. Yes, I think I need the second \q before the ata to resume logging > real strings. > However, using just a single \q suppresses the first occurr

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load (follow up)

Hi - I just started up xemacs while connected to my ISP and it came up in under 3 seconds! The timeouts (there are 225 of them) i reported previously are apparently related to unsuccessful attempts to connect to my ISP while i am offline! Is there a way to instruct xemacs not to try and connect

Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load

Hi- Many thanks to those who have commented thus far on the xemacs slow load post. Being relatively new to Linux, i am still slogging thru the process of analyzing why the load takes so long on my machine. In particular, i have just run an strace on the program as it loads, and it gives me about

Re: Procmail, qmail and file locking

Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues writes: > David Maslen writes: > > I'm a bit unsure if it's safe to use procmail with qmail. > > qmail only uses flock as a locking mechanism (no dotlocking). If your > procmail binary also uses flock, there should be no problem. Try 'procmail > -v' to check:

Re: Installproblem Xfree86.

Please use the debian packages of X, not the tarballs distributed by XFree86. See http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=21 for instructions. > On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, "JB" == Joakim Burman wrote: JB> Hello Debian-users! JB> Can someone help me with some "Newbie" questions.. JB> 1. Whe

Re: file system copying nightmare

On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I'm having a nightmare trying to copy my root file system to its new > > home. If I mount the original as / and the new one as /mnt, both > > > > cp -ax /* /mnt > > > > and > > > > ( cd /; tar clvf - *

Re: www.debian.org trouble

On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 09:54:25PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 12:45:47PM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: > > Somehow, the the Debian web site has been pointed at the > > Berlin Project's web site, and theirs ahs been pointed > > at www.us.debian.org. Has anyone else noticed th

Re: Using mgetty automated callback, and the NO CARRIER message.

Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, with newer ppp's this no longer seems to be sufficient, as > apparently chat bails out if the DCD signal is gone. I have had to add > "AT&C0" to the modem init strings, to disable DCD signalling by the modem. % man chat [...] HANGUP The

Installproblem Xfree86.

Hello Debian-users! Can someone help me with some "Newbie" questions.. 1. When I try to install Xfree86 whith gzip I got (I think) an errormessage like "Broken Pipe". What does that mean? 2. How do you run "shell script"? In Howto:s for Xfree86 they say you want to run the shellscript preinst.sh

Re: Using mgetty automated callback, and the NO CARRIER message.

On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, David Wright wrote: > I have a chatscript to do callback, which looks like this. > > ABORTBUSY > ABORT"NO CARRIER" <- > ABORTVOICE > ABORT"NO DIALTONE" > "" ATZ > OK ATL1 > OK ATDT5551212 > ogin:

Re: X restarts in different console

I noticed strictly the sam effect in my "bo" box... :-( Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, mwb wrote: > > I normally run X under vt7, however I have had a couple > instanced where when I exited X, by ctl-alt-bac

Installationsproblem mit CD-ROM bei Debian.Linux

A01.rtf Description: application/rtf2

Re: Automating PPP with cron?

Hi, On this topic, why not try diald? Instead of keeping my ppp on all the time, I have made t so that I never need know whether I am connected or not. I just send mail, start a ftp session, or lynx, or query dns -- and the connection is brought up seemlessly. I go to the other

Re: Automating PPP with cron?

On Sun, Feb 08, 1998 at 11:43:15PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > Pardon me for being on a soap box. I work for an ISP. It costs us $30 > for one phone line, not counting our T or anything else. Our customers > pay anywhere between 10 and 18 dollars a month. Every one of them that > hogs a line makes u

Re: teTeX and \noindent

Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The teTeX version I have (re)installed is 0.4. The latest versions just out of hamm that I have are: % dpkg -l 'tetex*' ii tetex-base 0.4pl8-7 teTeX library files ii tetex-bin 0.4pl8-4 teTeX binary files ii tetex-dev 0.4pl8-4

Re: Installation problem

Hello, I found this message may be what I was looking for, but not sure. Will this slow down the output to my screen during boot-up? I am having trouble reading all that is being displayed, and cant get a complete log of what is occuring at boot time. There is an error that I am concerned about d

Re: Procmail, qmail and file locking

perhaps you will find: http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man1/preline.html useful...(also searching for 'procmail' at http://www.qmail.org/ may be helpful) -sen at some point around 8 Feb 1998 16:20:26 - David Maslen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned: > I'm a bit unsure if it's safe t

Re: file system copying nightmare

At 09:03 + 1998-02-08, David Maslen wrote: >In the past I used a rescue disk, called I think rescue that I got from >the linux archives at sunsite. It's probably a boit out of date by now. >I really should learn how to make my own rescue disk, but it would >be nice if there was a debian one tha

Re: Automating PPP with cron?

Pardon me for being on a soap box. I work for an ISP. It costs us $30 for one phone line, not counting our T or anything else. Our customers pay anywhere between 10 and 18 dollars a month. Every one of them that hogs a line makes us lose money, gives everyone busy signals, and eats our T's. If

Re: "Hard Install"

On 02/09/98 at 03:20 PM, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 09:36:06PM +, George R wrote: >> That was easier than OS/2; about the same as DOS; tons easier than Win95. >> What is the fuss about? >I agree with your sentiments but I don't think this is really tru

Re: single user mode

On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 08:20:32PM +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >If this doesn't work, I don't think you have a choice. > > Ofcourse you can always boot into maintenance mode instead of single > use mode (boot with "linux maintenance" or "linux -b"). It will get > you a root shell direct

Problem with python

- Forwarded message from root - HI Folks, I have a problem installing python1.4 (hamm), and here follows the output from trying to run dpkg --configure python-base. Setting up python-base (1.4.0-4) ... File "/usr/lib/python1.4/compileall.py", line 8 import os ^ SyntaxError: in

Re: "Hard Install"

On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 09:36:06PM +, George R wrote: > Total time(ftp, making disks from images, formating hard disk, scaning > disk, and install) under 1.5 hrs. One problem, I set up myself with the > wrong user id. > > Now I have 2 users. How do I kill one user? Yes, I know RTM and the >

Re: Problems with dual boot NT/linux

On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 10:44:41AM +, Abdelrazak YOUNES wrote: > Well, I tried to use bootpart and it says me that it has restore the NT > boot sector but when I reboot, the problem remains. I guess that the > problem is not only due to the boot sector because dos fdisk says that > he couldn't

Re: kernel v2.0.32 make

Carey Evans wrote: > > Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've recently had to replace my hard disk and re-load bo. I'm > > working once again, but when I tried to build a new kernel I got > > the message attached. > > Is it possible you've gotten a file named "-y.o" or something l

RE: Installing Debian Linux v1.3.1 from July '97

I'm not sure, but I would run some HDD diagnostics on your Quantum drive. I seems like there may be a problem with your HDD. Michael Barker Technician ATL Systems > -Original Message- > From: Alexander Skwar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 09, 1998 11:02 AM > To: debia

Re: Procmail, qmail and file locking

David Maslen writes: > I'm a bit unsure if it's safe to use procmail with qmail. qmail only uses flock as a locking mechanism (no dotlocking). If your procmail binary also uses flock, there should be no problem. Try 'procmail -v' to check: Locking strategies: dotlocking, flock() > If I use

Re: Checking mail from several ISPs

Install fetchmail, and look over its manpage. It can do everything you want. > On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, "IP" == Ian Perry wrote: IP> Hi all, IP> I have set up a Debian system to allow several computers to utilise the IP> one internet modem line using IP masquerade, and would like to get l

Re: Automating PPP with cron?

-Original Message- From: Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, 9 February 1998 6:59 am Subject: Re: Automating PPP with cron? >> Hi, >> I would like to setup my system to do two things. >> To check per

Re: Checking mail from several ISPs

On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Ian Perry wrote: > Hi all, > > I have set up a Debian system to allow several computers to utilise the one > internet modem line using IP masquerade, and would like to get linux to > check several email accounts at different ISPs, and route them to a > mailbox, for the releva

Re: Help please!

On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, mr anonym wrote: > Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 19:00:11 +0100 (CET) > From: mr anonym <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Subject: Help please! > Resent-Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 18:00:51 + > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Resent-cc: recipient list

Checking mail from several ISPs

Hi all, I have set up a Debian system to allow several computers to utilise the one internet modem line using IP masquerade, and would like to get linux to check several email accounts at different ISPs, and route them to a mailbox, for the relevant win95 desktop to pick them up automatically, at