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,
On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, mr anonym wrote:
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 19:00:11 +0100 (CET)
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To: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org
Subject: Help please!
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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 relevant
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From: Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org 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
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 linux
IP
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
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
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From: Alexander Skwar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 09, 1998 11:02 AM
To:
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 like
that in
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
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
- 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:
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 directly,
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 true. When
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.
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 that
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 to
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
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
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 us
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
A01.rtf
Description: application/rtf2
I noticed strictly the sam effect in my bo box... :-(
Wojtek Zabolotny
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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
On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, David Wright wrote:
I have a chatscript to do callback, which looks like this.
ABORTBUSY
ABORTNO CARRIER -
ABORTVOICE
ABORTNO DIALTONE
ATZ
OK ATL1
OK ATDT5551212
ogin:
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 first
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
ATC0 to the modem init strings, to disable DCD signalling by the modem.
% man chat
[...]
HANGUP
The HANGUP
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 this,
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 - * ) | ( cd /mnt;
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. When I try to
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:
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
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
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 occurrence but
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
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 that
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/...
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
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 strace on
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
ATC0 to the modem init strings, to disable DCD signalling by the modem.
%
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
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 what
is
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 someone
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=swap).
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,
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:
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
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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 the
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
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
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
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Dvi is a 'tex' extension I believe. You can convert this to a postscript
file with the command 'dvips'.
Dennis
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On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Tony wrote:
Hello,
I have
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
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
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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
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
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
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 your
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 shows
[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
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 my
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).
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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
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 shows it
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
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
ago,
[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
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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 there
[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: Target 6
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
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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
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
^
Has anyone installed StarOffice 4.0 on a Debian system yet and were
there any problems to watch out for?
thanks,
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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
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
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 secondary
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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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
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 with
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
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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. As
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
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1. General Questions
1.1. Before reading this document
You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/.
1.2. Purpose of
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