Re: smail problems with smarthost

I think that you still have a problem in that your "Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" will route (at least some) replies and bounced mail messages to someone else. -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad

Re: Question - Hamm, Mgetty, PPP, wtmp - Arrgh!

> By the way, the following is copied from /usr/doc/mgetty/README.debian > High Baud Rates > --- > Linux supports 115200 and 57600 Baud, so does mgetty. But some to ols > (notably rlogin and telnet) crash with a segfault at those high > baudrates. I used ppp as a poor-man's LAN f

Re: Upgrading to hamm

Currently the best way to do what you want to do _IS_ to upgrade as opposed to do a reinstall. You want to use the 'autoup.sh' script file to start the process. Note that the 'mountable' access method might still have some problems intitially when you use dselect (after the autoup.sh has complete

Re: C locale

On 23 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: > > I recently installed Debian 1.3.1 and keep getting the following > > errors concerning the C locale. This first one is given whenever I install > > most debian packages (assumably the ones whose scripts use perl). > > > > perl: warning: Setting locale fa

formatting a floppy

How can I format a 3.5" floppy disk in Linux, either bootable or not? TIA --- R Tonetti -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . (¯`·.¸_¸.·´¯`·.¸_¸.·´¯`·.¸_¸.·´¯`·.¸_¸.·´¯`·.¸_¸.·´¯`·.¸_¸.·´¯`·.¸_

Re: elm-me+ doc Exasperation

Note that you _can_ use Pine with out any mail transport agents (just like with something such as netscape). Pine is quite easy to set up this way but just as with using netscape directly on your ISP you loose a lot of the potential functionality that programs like 'fetchmail', 'procmail', 'exim',

Re: Broken Man pages after uprade!

"Less" 'set it up' (or rather the less package set it up). This is a relatively new scheme for handling utilities that can have more than one version installed but are also used by other programs. Thus, you can have 'more', 'less', 'muchmore', 'xless', and who knows how many others installed and

980223 Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: prospective-packages.html,v 1.2 1998/02/23 23:09:02 johnie Exp $ This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It prov

Re: new hamm nmh breaks header rewriting, isp becomes irate

Daniel Martin wrote: > I'm drawing up a list of how I'd like a mail program to behave in my > environment; so far, these are the requirements: > Local mail is just delivered locally; no fuss or hassle about > forwarding local mail on to one's ISP unless that's very explicitly > requested. > Headers

Re: A need to manualy run /etc/cron.weekly/man-db

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > On a previous posting I said that I needed to run the mentioned cron script > manualy. > Now I found out when I had to run this script manualy. > It turned out that it happaned after a shutdown command when I was logged to > an xterm (and su to root). Prior to the

take a look at http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=58

Can I dowmload the whole Debian-user FAQ (all fom files) in a manner that will enable me to print it nicely (perhaps after formatting it using tex or whatever) ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: BGP

At 20:23 +0100 1998-02-23, Peter Paluch wrote: >I would like to ask - is there any package which enables routing using >BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) ? I know that there is routed, but it >doesn't seem to be able to use BGP. gated, but there is no Debian package for it due to licensing[1] (there w

Re: ls doesn't work with anonymous ftp (wu-ftpd, hamm)

At 12:00 -0700 1998-02-23, Bob Nielsen wrote: >With the hamm version of wu-ftpd (also wu-ftpd-academ), an anonymous user >gets nothing returned with the ls command: [snip] >Am I missing something here? The hamm wu-ftpd and wu-ftpd-academ packages have a script that configures anonymous FTP, this i

Re: Executing a process on another virtual terminal

At 12:19 -0700 1998-02-23, Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: >Is there an easy way to start a process on another virtual terminal? Install the 'open' package. -- Joel "Espy" Klecker Debian GNU/Linux Developer

Re: PAM: where to get the binaries using PAM

At 12:15 +0100 1998-02-23, Florian Helbing wrote: >I am running Debian 1.3.1 and I've written some configuration files >for PAM but unfortunately the login and other programms in the >distribution do not make any use of the PAM libraries. So could someone >please tell me where to find login, ftp, .

Re: smail problems with smarthost

Hi, I found my problem after seeing a suggestion about a similar problem on the list. I needed to set the visible_name to mindspring.com for mindspring to accept the mail. This gives garbage headers, but the mail goes through. I am [EMAIL PROTECTED]; someone else is [EMAIL PROTECTED] The heade

Re: dpkg secrets

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 1998 04:28:22 +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote: > > > > > Is there a nice way to determine when I installed a package? > > > > > > Right now I'm manually comparing my /var/lib/dpkg/status* files. >

Re: Modem Problems....

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:16:47 +0400, "Timothy M. Hospedales" wrote: > I was trying to setup debian on another computer: > The serial module only detects /dev/ttyS1. > I tried to get minicom to dial out on /dev/ttyS1, but it doesnt seem to > initialize it, and the modem doesn't make any noise when I

Re: Man does not display tables

On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 11:34:22AM +0100, Jens Ritter wrote: > Niccolo Rigacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I found that the man program don't understand some tags. For example in > > the /usr/man/man4/console_codes.4.gz file I see the following that is > > supposed to be a table: > > This i

Re: MANPATH environment variable

On Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 09:42:59AM -0500, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > > MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/qt/bin /usr/local/qt/man > to /etc/manpath.config is a better solution. > Correct. > To the list: does anyone know if manpath actually examines anything > but the path? The man page claims

Speak-Freely Problems

I am unable to get Speak-Freely to work on my system. The sfspeaker program outputs: opening audio output device: Device or resource busy Repeated several dozen times after attempting to communicate with an echo server. I realize this means that /dev/audio is still being controlled by another p

Re: Beeping the Speaker

> In bash or sh or ksh - > > echo ^g^g Doesn't work for me. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Question - Hamm, Mgetty, PPP, wtmp - Arrgh!

As a test, can you replce the ATZ with a full init command (I use AT&FE0V1&C1&D2S95=47S0=0M0 with my modem) ? By the way, the following is copied from /usr/doc/mgetty/README.debian " High Baud Rates --- Linux supports 115200 and 57600 Baud, so does mgetty. But some to ols (no

Re: xearth

> I try to Install xearth, version 1.0 under Linux but I got an error > > message, which is"ld: cannot open -lXt No such file or directory" > " make: *** [xearth] error 1" I think that the loader is looking for a library that is not found on

Re: A20 GATING FAILED

> A20 GATING FAILED > CAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW TO GET PASSED THIS S.O.S 1) It could be a hardware fault. 2) Perhaps there is a BIOS entry for A20 that you want to change. Is it a new machine ? A new installation ? Does the machine has a working DOS/WINDOWS ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FR

Re: Executing a process on another virtual terminal

Brent, I believe that the 'open' program will do this for you. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote: > > Is there an easy way to start a process on another virtual terminal? > For example, I would like to run the RC5DES client from Distributed.net > on a virtual terminal,

Russian in Debian ?

Hi, All Is there canonical Debian Way to put Russian fonts/kb on debian system? i`m interesting in Emacs russification. i know about cyrillic fonts in X11 section... related question - any idea about Russian in teTeX/LaTeX ? thanks OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail th

Looking for opinions of Initio and Advansys scsi cards

hi, i am building a new system and i would like to get your opinions on these smaller firms products in the linux environment. thanks, allan bart -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Modem Problems....

> "Timothy" == Timothy M Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Timothy> I was trying to setup debian on another computer: The Timothy> serial module only detects /dev/ttyS1. I tried to get Timothy> minicom to dial out on /dev/ttyS1, but it doesnt seem to Timothy> initialize i

Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

Carey Evans wrote: > Jameson Burt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I seek to use one computer with two full X-windows users. > > This would be a cheap in time/money approach for my wife and I > > simultaneously > > using Linux. > > It might be worthwhile finding a cheap 386 or 486 with a good gr

Upgrading to hamm

Hello; I am running Debian 1.3.1 currently. I am considering upgrading to hamm (yes I know its still "unstable"). Can anyone recommend, if I should start from scratch (reinstall the whole system) or should I upgrade my current system. If your advice is to do the latter, is there a FAQ/HOWTO av

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

> > Also on another note, does anyone knoe if there is a graphical front end to > > the > > ipfwadm (Firewall) program? If not then I am currently considering writing > > one. The current plan is to produce both a ncurses version, and a HTML > > version. But why reinvent the wheel if there is

RFC1035 and MTA's

Hi, I was wondering if anyone else was feeling constrained in their choice of MTA's on debian because of complaints about RFC1035 and their FQDN. Neither smail or exim will work on my system, because, apparently, my domain name does not comply to RFC1035 (if this is so, neither does 3com.com or 18

Initio and Advansys Cards

hi, i would like to hear about the experinces of users of scsi controller cards from these firms. allan bart -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Offtopic:TXPro-II shared mem chipset/video ???

On 23 Feb 98 at 9:56, Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got quote for so-called shared > mem chipset with SVGA on board - > TXPro-II. With Cyrix 200MMX it should fit > nicely into the budget. > > the $1M question is - does this staff supported > by Linux? Does X work ? > Acco

Re: faster telnet while ftp'ing?

Jim Foltz wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to sorta hold back, or balance out, an ftp connection > so I can telnet to my ISP account while downloading. Right now, telnet is > too slow to use at the same time while ftp'ing. I hope you understand what > I am trying to say here. I am operating

BGP

Hello, friends, === I would like to ask - is there any package which enables routing using BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) ? I know that there is routed, but it doesn't seem to be able to use BGP. Thanks a lot. Peter -- *

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: > Could someone please explain the concept of Non-Free Packages please (i.e. > Pine > etc). Take a look at /usr/doc/debian/FAQ/debian-faq.txt.gz in section 5.6.1 where this is explained. > It is just that I don't understand why other di

Re: Broken Man pages after uprade!

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: > Hi, > I just installed the man-db and manpages packges from hamm. (Before > I was using the old ones from Bo). > Now, whenever I try to man anything, it says: > sh: /usr/bin/pager: No such file or directory > sh: exec: /usr/bin/pager: cannot exec

Executing a process on another virtual terminal

Is there an easy way to start a process on another virtual terminal? For example, I would like to run the RC5DES client from Distributed.net on a virtual terminal, so I can alt-f7 over to it and see how it is doing from time to time. I tried cat rc5des > /dev/tty7, which doesn't work... Thanks,

Strangeness at boot

Recently, I have started getting messages like this at boot and shutdown: trap: illegal number SIGHUP trap: illegal number SIGINT Has anyone any idea what may be causing them? I am worried that it may be related to a bad case of overheating I had the other day when my CPU fan started to die (and

Re: Broken Man pages after uprade!

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: > I just installed the man-db and manpages packges from hamm. (Before > I was using the old ones from Bo). > Now, whenever I try to man anything, it says: > sh: /usr/bin/pager: No such file or directory > sh: exec: /usr/bin/pager: cannot execute: N

Re: What happened to the ps POSIX options

On 23 Feb 1998, Tommi Kaariainen wrote: > I updated procps (+ other stuff) to the newest version(s) in the Debian > mirror I use (sunsite.auc.dk) and found out that the (much more useful) > POSIX-style ps options no longer work. Why were they removed? Debian fell back to use the unmodified upstr

ls doesn't work with anonymous ftp (wu-ftpd, hamm)

With the hamm version of wu-ftpd (also wu-ftpd-academ), an anonymous user gets nothing returned with the ls command: ftp> ls -al 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. 226 Transfer complete. ftp> The installed ftpaccess file is identical to the one on my

Re: What happened to the ps POSIX options

Tommi Kaariainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I updated procps (+ other stuff) to the newest version(s) in the Debian > mirror I use (sunsite.auc.dk) and found out that the (much more useful) > POSIX-style ps options no longer work. Why were they removed? > > /Tommi Kääriäinen/ Aargh, this i

Re: netscape communicator

> Hi > > I installed Netscape Communicator 4.04 on my debian 1.3.1 updated to > libc6 and it just writes that it cannot load libXpm.so.4 > I have installed xpm4g_3.4j-0.6.deb and the library file is there in > /usr/X11R6/lib. > > what might be the problem? > > before updating to libc6, this vers

Re: Deltree command?

David Gaudine wrote: > On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > > > It's not rmdir, but just rm; "rm -r" is what you want - "rm -rf" does > > what you want without asking questions (Just plain "rm -r" will ask > > you about whether or not to delete files you don't have write access > >

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 02:11:44PM +, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: > Could someone please explain the concept of Non-Free Packages please (i.e. > Pine > etc). Please read Debian's Social Contract at http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html Included on that page you'll find the "De

Modem Problems....

I was trying to setup debian on another computer: The serial module only detects /dev/ttyS1. I tried to get minicom to dial out on /dev/ttyS1, but it doesnt seem to initialize it, and the modem doesn't make any noise when I try to dial. Any suggestions as to where I should go from here to try and g

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

Could someone please explain the concept of Non-Free Packages please (i.e. Pine etc). These are well explained at http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html It is just that I don't understand why other distributions can include them in there official releases, where as debain can no

wwwcount from hamm

Hello ! I have installed the wwwcount package but have problem when I want to use it. It seem the wwwcount.cgi is corrupted. When a call is made from html to wwwcount there is nothing , and even the log file is unchanged. When i run the wwwcoint.cgi from command line it messes up all the charac

Re: What happens with "bo" when "hamm" becomes 2.0

Hey, you don't need to send the same messages three times! :-) On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Gunnar Isaksson wrote: > I noticed that the old "rex" release disappeard from the debian ftp site > and it's mirrors soon after "bo" was released. > > Will "bo" also end up in /dev/null ? Not immediately, but

Re: elm-me+ doc Exasperation

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: > Let me rephrase that. I am looking for *configuration* info > for a dialin setup in particular. E.g., should I get fetchmail? > Thanks. Yes, you'll need fetchmail. ELM is simply a mail reader with a set of neat utilities. You will need fetchmai

Re: Problems w/ppp dialup and sending mail

On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, DAVID B. TEAGUE wrote: > I installed Debian 1.1 and for a year things worked quite well. I could > send mail, receive mail via popmail, and use ppp for web access, fpt and > telnet. Except for some problems getting logged in last Christmas, which > seem to have been resolved

Broken Man pages after uprade!

Hi, I just installed the man-db and manpages packges from hamm. (Before I was using the old ones from Bo). Now, whenever I try to man anything, it says: sh: /usr/bin/pager: No such file or directory sh: exec: /usr/bin/pager: cannot execute: No such file or directory. Where can I get this pager thi

Re: How to track hard drive seeks?(more info/questions)

On 23 Feb, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Is there some program that I can use to monitor what programs are >> seeking the hard drive? Some program, system call, or something is >> causing a quick seek to my root partitions hard drive every second or

Offtopic:TXPro-II shared mem chipset/video ???

Hi, All i'm thinking about getting another computer. I've got quote for so-called shared mem chipset with SVGA on board - TXPro-II. With Cyrix 200MMX it should fit nicely into the budget. the $1M question is - does this staff supported by Linux? Does X work ? i suspect that internally it's on

Re: lprng

On 22 Feb, Ralph Winslow wrote: > Thanks for the tip, Corey - I ran checkpc -f and can now print > simple text (the lpd directory was owned by root, rather than > lp & the bj10sx directory which hadn't existed is now in place) > but printing a page from netscape or that page saved to a file > fr

What happened to the ps POSIX options

I updated procps (+ other stuff) to the newest version(s) in the Debian mirror I use (sunsite.auc.dk) and found out that the (much more useful) POSIX-style ps options no longer work. Why were they removed? /Tommi Kääriäinen/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscr

Re: Console resolution (Was Viewing bootup message)

> The 80x50 LILO can give me, also gives me 8x8 pixel characters. > Using SVGATextMode I have 116x51 using 16x9 pixel characters. > Readable characters are enough reason for me. I don't even remember what I am using in lilo but I am quite happy with it (bully for me). > But if you haven't config

Re: Deltree command?

On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > It's not rmdir, but just rm; "rm -r" is what you want - "rm -rf" does > what you want without asking questions (Just plain "rm -r" will ask > you about whether or not to delete files you don't have write access > to). > > I hope I don't need

Re: mutt

On Sun, Feb 22, 1998 at 09:55:06PM -0500, Norbert Veber wrote: > I've just upgraded mutt to version 0.89.1-3 a few days ago, and I noticed > that its no longer in color, in the docs there is a color keyword for the > muttrc that allows one to change the color of certain things in the > program, but

NCR53c406a problems

Hello, I own the Acculogic ISApport 10/P SCSI card, which is built around the NCR53c406a chipset. I am running kernel 2.0.33 with SCSI support, as well as the NCR53c406a driver, built in to the kernel. In my lilo.conf file, I have tried all of the following: append="ncr53c406a=0x140,10,1"

Re: Viewing bootup message

On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On 20 Feb 1998, William R. Ward wrote: > > : Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : > On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > : > > On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:11:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > : > > > How can you view the entire l

Re: Seagate Baraccuda drives and Adapetc AHA1460 controller prob.

Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll try disabling both of these & see how things go. Are either of > these likely to cause intermittent access problems? Given that > running badblocks doesn't produce any kernel error messages, it > occurs to me that this could be a disconnect/reconne

netscape communicator

Hi I installed Netscape Communicator 4.04 on my debian 1.3.1 updated to libc6 and it just writes that it cannot load libXpm.so.4 I have installed xpm4g_3.4j-0.6.deb and the library file is there in /usr/X11R6/lib. what might be the problem? before updating to libc6, this version of netscape work

Customizing TOP...

Hello Debain Users, I am wanting to customize TOP, but I cannot find the system's RC file. The man page says it should be in /etc/toprc. I guess I could also create ~/.toprc, but now that I cannot find the system file, I am curious where these defaults are kept. Thanks --Jay Barbee -- TO

Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

Hello all, Could someone please explain the concept of Non-Free Packages please (i.e. Pine etc). It is just that I don't understand why other distributions can include them in there official releases, where as debain can not. Also on another note, does anyone knoe if there is a graphical front e

Re: Frozen Mouse

On Fri, 20 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Why not just add -R to the gpm configuration and use /dev/gpmdata and > > MouseSystems in XF86Config; then you can have both. > > Doesn't the gpm man page says that what you are suggesting doesn't apply to > serial mice ? If that's the way you u

Re: Kermit: Where is it???

On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Thomas J. Malloy wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, David Wright wrote: > > > The kermit protocol is built into minicom (along with *modem). > > The kermit protocol on most communications programs should not be > confused with the true kermit program from columbia universi

Re: Motif

> > Thanks... , This is my output.. obviously no Motif.. Is it in a particular > > package? and should I have more thaa this output? > > > > Motif is not free. You can buy it from several vendors. Which puts up > a question. What are people's experiences with different kind of motif > distribu

Re: innd & suck (fwd)

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:29:48 +0100 (CET) From: Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Istvan Matyasovszki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: innd & suck -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Istvan Matyasovszki wrote: >I would like to ask you to send me some samples of > c

What will happen to "bo" when "hamm" becomes 2.0 ?

Gunnar Isaksson wrote: I noticed that the old "rex" release disappeard from the debian ftp site and it's mirrors soon after "bo" was released. Will "bo" also end up in /dev/null ? Personally I would like to continue with "bo" until debian 2.1 get's released but if there is no ftp site that carr

partition table

Hi ! I have two harddisks: /dev/hda is for Win95. /dev/hdc (4.3 GB) is partitioned: 1) swap for linux (64K) 2) linux (1GB) 3) primary DOS (2GB) 4) another DOS (4-part, 250 MB each) Linux works fine, but Win95 (which boots from the first drive /dev/hda) doesn't recognize the partitions of /dev/hdc

PAM: where to get the binaries using PAM

Hi, I am running Debian 1.3.1 and I've written some configuration files for PAM but unfortunately the login and other programms in the distribution do not make any use of the PAM libraries. So could someone please tell me where to find login, ftp, ... etc. which use the PAM authentification libra

Re: AOL IM

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello, > > AOL IM just seg faults in hamm and leaves a core file. How do I use the > core file? It is for debugging isn't it? I am not sure how to start tra >cking down the problem so any hekp would be appreciated. A core file is not much use for deb

What happends with "bo" when "hamm" becomes 2.0 ?

I noticed that the old "rex" release disappeard from the debian ftp site and it's mirrors soon after "bo" was released. Will "bo" also end up in /dev/null ? Personally I would like to continue with "bo" until debian 2.1 get's released but if there is no ftp site that carries updates on "bo" packa

What happens with "bo" when "hamm" becomes 2.0

I noticed that the old "rex" release disappeard from the debian ftp site and it's mirrors soon after "bo" was released. Will "bo" also end up in /dev/null ? Personally I would like to continue with "bo" until debian 2.1 get's released but if there is no ftp site that carries updates on "bo" packa

elm-me+ doc Exasperation

Let me rephrase that. I am looking for *configuration* info for a dialin setup in particular. E.g., should I get fetchmail? Thanks. --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Does good documentation for elm-me+ for dialin users exist on the Web? I also noticed that "dungeon, or php, or pj96

elm-me+ doc Exasperation

Does good documentation for elm-me+ for dialin users exist on the Web? I also noticed that "dungeon, or php, or pj96n06" are listed as "required" at http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/mail/elm-me+.html and no MTA or POP program is mentioned. Thanks to anyone who can help. Art Lemasters --

Re: SMC EtherPower II 10/100

Thank you very much for your information. Your last comment, however, makes me a little bit confused. I have been using the SMC 10Mbps Tulips base card and they work very well. In the 100Base-TX market, what do you suggest is the more reliable card? Among manufactures like 3Com, SMC and Intel

Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

Jameson Burt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I seek to use one computer with two full X-windows users. > This would be a cheap in time/money approach for my wife and I simultaneously > using Linux. It might be worthwhile finding a cheap 386 or 486 with a good graphics card. Install a minimum of p

Re: How to track hard drive seeks?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is there some program that I can use to monitor what programs are > seeking the hard drive? Some program, system call, or something is > causing a quick seek to my root partitions hard drive every second or > two. Try using strace to see what all the daemons are doing

Re: Xdm, utmp, who and finger

Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Users who are logged onto my machine in X on the console (running xdm) > don't have a utmp (or wtmp?) entry -- they don't show up in "who" listings [snip] > Is this normal? Yes. You can try adding a line "use-sessreg" to /etc/X11/config, which the /etc/X11

Re: New Linux user

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: > Your cdrom may also need to be set for the position on the cable > (master or slave), so read your cdrom manual or look at the switches or > jumpers on it if they exist. Anways, when you're done with all that, > see if the install program finds your cd

Re: ipx_configure: socket: Invalid argument ?

Luke Kendall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > However, I guess Debian's module configuration is not tied to > the options chosen for the kernel link (via make xconfig), so > now it's complaining about various modules that are no longer > found (like ipx, ne, arp, ...). I can run modprobe I g

Re: C locale

Corey Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently installed Debian 1.3.1 and keep getting the following > errors concerning the C locale. This first one is given whenever I install > most debian packages (assumably the ones whose scripts use perl). > > perl: warning: Setting locale fail

Re: Motif

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes: > Thanks... , This is my output.. obviously no Motif.. Is it in a particular > package? and should I have more thaa this output? The other way you'd know you had Motif is that your wallet would be feeling a bit lighter. :-( It's not at all free, and d

Re: Motif

> > Thanks... , This is my output.. obviously no Motif.. Is it in a particular > package? and should I have more thaa this output? > Motif is not free. You can buy it from several vendors. Which puts up a question. What are people's experiences with different kind of motif distributions in co

Re: new hamm nmh breaks header rewriting, isp becomes irate

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Daniel Martin writes: > > You may also want to ensure that the visible_name used is something other > > than "localhost", which is what it appears to be set to. Unfortunately, > > the only way I've found to do that (without having a name registered with > > .dyn.ml.org

Re: dpkg secrets

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998 04:28:22 +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote: > > > Is there a nice way to determine when I installed a package? > > > > Right now I'm manually comparing my /var/lib/dpkg/status* files. > > One way to see when you last installed or upgrade

Re: New Linux user

On Sun, 22 Feb 1998 21:57:32 EST, wrote: > Hello, I just received and installed Debian Linux, and I've gotten up to the > DSELECT part. I have the files it wants on CD, but I can't get Linux to > recognize my CDrom drive, which is a Matshita CD-ROM CR-581. It keeps saying > something about ISO 96

Re: Connecting up of a dumb terminal.

On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Alistair Phillips wrote: : I have managed to get my Linux side up and running. Boy is linux sure : great! I have an old 286 here that I would like to use as a dumb terminal. : I know that I would have to connect the two computers up via a serial : cable and run a termin

two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

I seek to use one computer with two full X-windows users. This would be a cheap in time/money approach for my wife and I simultaneously using Linux. I believe I could get a dummy terminal working through the serial port, then display on a second monitor (though I don't know any approach for a sec

RE: Exim gone from Hamm?

I must have caught the site while they were moving thigs around. I see exim is back and is at a higher revision. On 22-Feb-98 George Bonser wrote: > > I just updated a local mirror of Debian and I noticed that while it did not > grab any new packages, it removed a few ... including Exim. Is ex

Q: Sendmail outgoing From: mapping

Hello, I'm having a bit of difficulty using the /etc/userdb.db method to map usernames. I think the problem is coming in with this step: -- from sendmail faq -- First, create your input file. This should have lines like: loginname:mailname DifferentName DifferentName:m

Re: New Linux user

On 22 Feb 98 at 21:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can't get Linux > to recognize my CDrom drive, which is a Matshita CD-ROM CR-581. It keeps > saying something about ISO 9660, I don't remember if that was the file > system or what. CR-581 is a standard IDE/ATAPI drive. It's often bundled with

Re: lprng

Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but printing a page from netscape or that page saved to a file > from the command line still fails. Running lpstat shows: > > printer [EMAIL PROTECTED] online. enabled since 13:57:55. available > RankOwner/ID Class Job Files > erro

Re: Seagate Baraccuda drives and Adapetc AHA1460 controller prob.

> "Bill" == Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bill> I am 'just clutching at straws here' but in the past there Bill> have been some drives that 'lie' to the SCSI bus about their Bill> capability during the scsi inquire. Some of these things Bill> typically 'hang' the scsi

Re: New Linux user

Hello CDALEDAVE, I hope you have more success than I did getting information from this bunch. I had similar problems with my CDRom and left messages for help and never got anything back from any of them. It sounds like you have a proprietary CDRom and those seems to have a little problem being

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