demonizing fetchmail (continued)

1998-03-10 Thread Dave Mallery
i got the /etc/ppp/ip-up procedure to send me mail...which was from root Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 16:09:58 -0700 (MST) From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] so, how do you tell fetchmail and procmail (running as a root daemon) where to find the dotfiles in my home account?? (or do

Re: PS mouse and keyboard lock

1998-03-10 Thread aqy6633
I have two, I think related questions. - How to install a ps/2 mouse. I have a /dev/psaux dev crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 10, 1 If I try to configure gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 it says: no such device Dear ZORO, do you have ps2 mouse suport compiled into kernel or loaded as a module?

XF86Setup

1998-03-10 Thread Taylen
Hey...I've been trying for a few days now to get x windows to work, I tried using XF86Setup to make my configuration file, but the graphics for it were screwed up and unreadable...I then tried to use just XF86Config and created an X configuration filehowever, when I tried to start x, the

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-10 Thread David Stern
On 09 Mar 1998 10:50:15 +0100, wrote: Note that AFAIK all SMTP mailers (well, sendmail at least) will rewrite the addresses in the mail headers. That includes rewriting a CNAME pointer to the canonical name it points to. If this is what ails my smail, then the vast majority of domains have

Re: XF86Setup

1998-03-10 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 09 Mar 1998 19:29:44 EST, Taylen wrote: Hey...I've been trying for a few days now to get x windows to work, I tried using XF86Setup to make my configuration file, but the graphics for it were screwed up and unreadable...I then tried to use just XF86Config and created an X configuration

/etc/passwd comment field

1998-03-10 Thread Norbert Veber
Sorry for posting this again, but I'm not sure if anyone answered me the first time, since ml.org went all screwy right about the time I asked this the first time.. I was reading through the passwd(5) man page, and I noticed something really neat, you can set the priority at which the users

Icons in windows managers

1998-03-10 Thread adavis
For a long time, since two days after I first installed a pre 1.3 debian system, most of the icons in fvwm2 menus stopped working. Until the latest afterstep, only root could get all the icons in afterstep, but the latest afterstep improves this at least to some extent. Is this a permissions

Re: CNAME records (was: Re: dynamic DNS within a non-dynamic domain)

1998-03-10 Thread Rich Puhek
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, David Stern wrote: The correct way to solve this is to not use CNAMEs but to just set up an extra A + MX record. Or perhaps just an MX record if all you're using it for is mail. I don't run sendmail, but what's going on sounds an awful lot like like what I'm

IP Forwarding/Masquerading Built-in?

1998-03-10 Thread jebstar
Do the standard versions of the Debian kernel have IP forwarding and and IP Masquerading compiled in? Is there an easy way to tell what's in the kernel and what isn't? Also is there any easy way to tell the version of the kernel image being used? Thanks, JEB -- E-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: kernel 2.0.33

1998-03-10 Thread Adam Klein
On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 02:44:07PM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Can I use the 2.0.33 deb package from hamm in a bo machine without upgrade the whole system to hamm? Yes. Adam Klein -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Amanda help please.

1998-03-10 Thread Stan Brown
I am trying to upgrade to amanda 2.4.0 on my network. One of the amanda clients is a Debian 1.2 machine. This machine was working relatively happily as an amanda 2.3 client. I compiled amanda with --with-user=amanda --with-group=operator , which is the asm

Re: /etc/passwd comment field

1998-03-10 Thread Emery Dennis
PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE ME FROM YOUR LIST! I HAVE BEEN SPOOFED! I DID NOT SUBSCRIBE TO THIS LIST! THESE MESSAGES ARE UNWELCOME! THANK YOU! At 08:44 PM 3/9/98 -0500, Norbert Veber wrote: Sorry for posting this again, but I'm not sure if anyone answered me the first time, since ml.org went all

Using Linux in a Corporate Environment - Any Developers?

1998-03-10 Thread Jeff Alami
SUMMARY: Has anyone created a business app in Linux/XWin (with something like Tcl/Tk)? Read on for details. Hi, my name is Jeff Alami; I am from Vancouver, Canada. At my workplace we are considering upgrading our current systems and software (mainly because we don't like the outsourced

uname -a question

1998-03-10 Thread Greg Norris
When I run uname -a,I get a line like the following: Linux glitch 2.0.33 #1 Thu Mar 5 17:47:54 CST 1998 i686 unknown I was just curious what the unknown portion refers to. The man/info page seems to indicate that the -a option is equivilent to -snrvm, but when invoked in that fashion I

Deb Testing Group needs test dummies

1998-03-10 Thread Brandon Mitchell
[ REQUEST FOR DEBIAN TESTING GROUP MEMBERS (for those who don't like humor)] Greetings earthings. A few months ago, I posted a request for people interested in the Debian Testing Group. With the hamm freeze nearing, it's time to do that again. - Do you enjoy running cutting edge software? -

Tcl/Tk source ?

1998-03-10 Thread Markus Lechner
Hi all, i'm expieriencing a problem when compiling different packages which use Tcl/Tk. The problem is that make ends up with an error complaining about a missing tcl.h and tk.h. The paths are set accordingly. Do i use the wrong versions (Tcl7.6, Tk4.2, and all the runtime-libs)? So i thought, it

XF

1998-03-10 Thread Abou Anber
At the first point of start Xwindows the Screen like Linux (Bebian ) Login Passward at first time it look big size and I change the resolution by cntl+ alt+ + the resolution become smaller again Cntl+

Re: Tcl/Tk source ?

1998-03-10 Thread David Z. Maze
Markus Lechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ML i'm expieriencing a problem when compiling different packages ML which use Tcl/Tk. The problem is that make ends up with an error ML complaining about a missing tcl.h and tk.h. The paths are set ML accordingly. Do i use the wrong versions (Tcl7.6,

Re: Tcl/Tk source ?

1998-03-10 Thread Markus Lechner
Thanks, this information helps a lot. Note that if you build the source yourself, dpkg won't know that you've installed tcl and will give you lots of dependency errors. This is poor. I wondered if there is a way to 'mimic' install/remove with dpkg? Thanks, Mac -- E-mail the word

dpkg 'mimic' install/remove?

1998-03-10 Thread Markus Lechner
Hi all, is there a way to tell dpkg to 'mimic' an install/remove of a given package. For example, i removed a package by hand and want to tell dpkg that this package can be 'removed'. Mac -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble?

Re: XF

1998-03-10 Thread robert havoc pennington
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Abou Anber wrote: who can I fixed the resoltion of Xwindows at begining? Your preferred resolution should be the first one listed. down you will find my XF86Config. ... Subsection Display Depth 8 # Omit the Modes line for the Generic

I have a question

1998-03-10 Thread Argo Shipping
Could you tell me where I can find drivers for YCL9542 PCI card My addres is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Tcl/Tk source ?

1998-03-10 Thread Rich Puhek
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Markus Lechner wrote: Thanks, this information helps a lot. Note that if you build the source yourself, dpkg won't know that you've installed tcl and will give you lots of dependency errors. This is poor. I wondered if there is a way to 'mimic' install/remove

Re: Tcl/Tk source ?

1998-03-10 Thread Markus Lechner
Rich Puhek wrote: If you go to /var/lib/dpkg, you will find a file called status. This appears to be how dselect keeps track of what's installed/configured/etc. The format is pretty self explanitory, so you should be able to hack the status line of the package in question, fooling dselect

Re: (smail + pine) reply-to?

1998-03-10 Thread dg
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: I have a local lan connected to the Internet through a Pipe 50. The domain I use is real but the domain is NOT routed on the internet right now. I would like to use smail + pine to send messages. This setup is currently working but I would like

ftp via squid proxy

1998-03-10 Thread Lindsay Allen
Is this possible? My ISP does not allow direct ftp any more. Ftp via lynx works if I use his proxy , but I want to use ncftp and mc. Any hints or advice welcomed. Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth,

Re: Help! Binaries link both libc5+libc6!

1998-03-10 Thread jdassen
On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 01:58:29PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 02:01:10PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: I just installed Raima's Velocis Server 2.0 on an up-to-date hamm machine. The binaries do not run (segfault), and when I run ldd I get this: This means that

sendmail local delivery problem

1998-03-10 Thread M K Pai
We are running a LAN. E-mail clients are Win95 Eudora. Mail Server is a Linux box running sendmail 8.8.8. We have a server in USA from where external mail is routed to our linux box. The problem is that even local mail is being routed to the USA server and then coming to the respective mailbox,

Re: uname -a question

1998-03-10 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Norris) writes: When I run uname -a,I get a line like the following: Linux glitch 2.0.33 #1 Thu Mar 5 17:47:54 CST 1998 i686 unknown I was just curious what the unknown portion refers to. The man/info page seems to indicate that the -a option is equivilent to

Hamm on Sunsite

1998-03-10 Thread Arunas Norvaisa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello, fellow Debian users... Does anybody know the reason why Sunsite is not mirroring hamm stuff? It could be so much easier for the world to test unstable versions with Sunsite involved... - -- greetz... Arunas Norvaisa - little guy, The Masses Inc.

Re: Mostly fresh start install?

1998-03-10 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, T-SNAKE wrote: I want to mostly start anew with my install, since I think during my software install, I hit some wierd button accidentally and it FLEW through a bunch of prompted questions and I think totally screwed sendmail... so I'm gonna start over. BUT, I'm not sure

Re: Remote Printer Refuses to print

1998-03-10 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Schulte wrote: On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 05:33:18PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: I have set up a printer on a Debian Linux box and I have a tough time # services of this machine. See lpd(8). machinex.where.iam machiney.where.iam Thank you.

autoup.sh

1998-03-10 Thread Henry Hollenberg
After running autoup.sh where do I point dselect to complete the hamm upgrade from 1.3.1. Thanks Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

New mailing list debian-pilot created

1998-03-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, we have created a new list [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is not for people who drive airplanes, but for the 3COM Pilot palmtop. GPL works for it and there is some significant free software that can work with Linux. Subscribtion / Unsubscription - Our lists are served

Possible misuse of our lists

1998-03-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, Yesteday our lists were attacked by some guy or program that or who subscribes someone to 20 of our lists. We have noticed this and taken care of it. It will happen again in the future as we didn't find a mechanism to filter out these requests. Instead we are able to detect them afterwards

Re: Tcl/Tk source ?

1998-03-10 Thread Markus Lechner
Yep, that's it :-) Many thanks. Mac -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Wish To try Debian using DiD

1998-03-10 Thread Ahmed Nelson
Hi, I am a would be convert to the linux fraternity and would like to try my hand at debian. Would you tell me precisely which directory/ies and file I have to down load using ftp to get DiD- Drop in Debian. Also I would appreciate any relevant documentation regarding the same. Regards.

Formating a ftape tape?

1998-03-10 Thread servis
Is there any way to format a Qic-80 tape on a ftape device? I don't feel like rebooting to Win95 just to do this. I know I can use mt to 'erase' the tape but that just erases the header on the tape. Thanks. Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: autoup.sh

1998-03-10 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: After running autoup.sh where do I point dselect to complete the hamm upgrade from 1.3.1. Where you first used stable, contrib and non-free, now use dists/unstable/main, dists/unstable/contrib and dists/unstable/non-free. The rest is the same.

Re: Help! Binaries link both libc5+libc6!

1998-03-10 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Tue, Mar 10, 1998 at 09:32:48AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 01:58:29PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 02:01:10PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: I just installed Raima's Velocis Server 2.0 on an up-to-date hamm machine. The binaries do not

Re: autoup.sh

1998-03-10 Thread Bob Hilliard
Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After running autoup.sh where do I point dselect to complete the hamm upgrade from 1.3.1. This is not really appropriate for the developers list, so I have dropped that list from the address. From the Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO, by

Re: Remote Printer Refuses to print

1998-03-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Schulte wrote: On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 05:33:18PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: I have set up a printer on a Debian Linux box and I have a tough time # services of this machine. See lpd(8).

Re: Wish To try Debian using DiD

1998-03-10 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Ahmed Nelson wrote: Hi, I am a would be convert to the linux fraternity and would like to try my hand at debian. Would you tell me precisely which directory/ies and file I have to down load using ftp to get DiD- Drop in Debian. Also I would appreciate any relevant

installing debian problem

1998-03-10 Thread kaiwei
what is a image file? in the inital boot medium, i use loadlin to boot install from a dos system. i used the command:- loadlin linux root=dev/ram initrd=root.bin but i got a error message of:- not a image file please enter name of kernel image file followed by optional commmand line parametersf

Pine From: address

1998-03-10 Thread Chris
Hi, I am using pine (from the debian distribution), and I would like to know how to set the return address (instead of the standard [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I have an alias on that machine which is the address I use most often, and I would like my email to list that as the from address. Does

Re: Pine From: address

1998-03-10 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Chris wrote: I have an alias on that machine which is the address I use most often, and I would like my email to list that as the from address. Does anyone know how to do this? If your username on the local machine is the same as the username in the email address, then

Re: Mostly fresh start install?

1998-03-10 Thread T-SNAKE
prompted questions and I think totally screwed sendmail... so I'm gonna start over. BUT, I'm not sure what the best way to proceed is. Why not just de-install sendmail and then re-install it again. If you de-install it you may see messages about x,not why not, etc. Ignore those and just

Re: Formating a ftape tape?

1998-03-10 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Is there any way to format a Qic-80 tape on a ftape device? I don't feel like rebooting to Win95 just to do this. I know I can use mt to 'erase' the tape but that just erases the header on the tape. As far as I am aware then you can not use Linux to format these tapes, this may of course

Re: Formating a ftape tape?

1998-03-10 Thread servis
On 10 Mar, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: Is there any way to format a Qic-80 tape on a ftape device? I don't feel like rebooting to Win95 just to do this. I know I can use mt to 'erase' the tape but that just erases the header on the tape. As far as I am aware then you can not

default blanking

1998-03-10 Thread tko
I know that this has been asked before, but please refresh my memory... The default screen blanking is shutting off the X windows display preventing the long term usage of the screen savers. How do I disable the console default blanking so that I can use the screen savers instead? Thanks. -- -=

Re: Deb Testing Group needs test dummies

1998-03-10 Thread Jaakko Niemi
- Do you want to use your computer for world domination? Sorry to tell you, but it will be the penguins that will rule the world through 'puters. :) Woops, forget that last one, I've reserved it for myself. Basically, we try the upgrade and base disk, see if the programs work, and

netscape install

1998-03-10 Thread tko
I am ready to install netscape on my system, but have a problem. The netscape loader is for version 3.01. ftp.netscape.com only has version 3.04 or the newer communicator 4.0x versions. Version 3.01 is not available. My system is a bo (1.3.1) system. What can I do to get netscape installed? --

Re: Formating a ftape tape?

1998-03-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
Ftape-3.04d includes the ftformat command. I have installed it from source, but there is now a .deb package, at least in hamm. The man page indicates it will format QIC-80 tapes, but I haven't done that. Bob On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: Is there any way to

Re: default blanking

1998-03-10 Thread Steve Mayer
tko, setterm -blank 0 Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that this has been asked before, but please refresh my memory... The default screen blanking is shutting off the X windows display preventing the long term usage of the screen savers. How do I disable

Re: Help! Binaries link both libc5+libc6!

1998-03-10 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Mar 10, 1998 at 08:44:33AM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: There is no rpath. This is a message I got back from their tech support people. Can anyone think of a workaround? I hate to go back to bo. -- cut here -- [... However, because libpthread.0.5 and libpthread.0.6 cannot usefully

Re: Mostly fresh start install?

1998-03-10 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, T-SNAKE wrote: prompted questions and I think totally screwed sendmail... so I'm gonna start over. BUT, I'm not sure what the best way to proceed is. Why not just de-install sendmail and then re-install it again. If you de-install it you may see messages about x,not

Re: ftp via squid proxy

1998-03-10 Thread Ian Eure
Find a new ISP :) Lindsay Allen wrote: Is this possible? My ISP does not allow direct ftp any more. Ftp via lynx works if I use his proxy , but I want to use ncftp and mc. Any hints or advice welcomed. Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

modutils is broken?

1998-03-10 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Is the version modutils-2.1.85 broken? I was told, by a technical support guy, that this version had problems removing modules (which I'm having), and he suggested to donwgrade to modutils-2.1.55. -- Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella Product Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pine From: address

1998-03-10 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I am using pine (from the debian distribution), and I would like to know how to set the return address (instead of the standard [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Open Pine, go to Setup---Config and down to customized-headers. Hit A to ADD and entry, the type what you would like your return address(reply-to

missing package emacs19

1998-03-10 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
After struggling to downgrade some packages I needed to fix a situation when I tried to upgrade w3-el, but cannot upgrade emacs to version 20, I found several messages where the package emacs19 is mentioned, as an alternative to emacs20. But I can't seem to find this package anywhere! Is this

Re: netscape install

1998-03-10 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am ready to install netscape on my system, but have a problem. The netscape loader is for version 3.01. ftp.netscape.com only has version 3.04 or the newer communicator 4.0x versions. Version 3.01 is not available. My system is a bo (1.3.1) system. What can I do to

Re: Help! Binaries link both libc5+libc6!

1998-03-10 Thread Jeff Noxon
Thanks for your comments! I was able to fix the problem by installing libpthread.so.5 in a special directory and use LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Jeff -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: missing package emacs19

1998-03-10 Thread Ben Pfaff
After struggling to downgrade some packages I needed to fix a situation when I tried to upgrade w3-el, but cannot upgrade emacs to version 20, I found several messages where the package emacs19 is mentioned, as an alternative to emacs20. But I can't seem to find this package

Re: default blanking

1998-03-10 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tko, setterm -blank 0 Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that this has been asked before, but please refresh my memory... The default screen blanking is shutting off the X windows display preventing the long

Re: Mostly fresh start install?

1998-03-10 Thread Jens Ritter
T-SNAKE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: prompted questions and I think totally screwed sendmail... so I'm gonna start over. BUT, I'm not sure what the best way to proceed is. Why not just de-install sendmail and then re-install it again. If you de-install it you may see messages about x,not

Re: How do you e2defrag?

1998-03-10 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: I have debian installed on a single partition, a partition which I suspect is greatly fragmented (is there an easy way to tell?). I wish to use the program e2defrag to defragment it, but have realized this could be more difficult than I first

web interface

1998-03-10 Thread Paul McDermott
hello everybody, I was wondering if anyone new of a good web interface for the postgres database project. It does not look like Debian has one. Any one have any ideas. Paul -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL

Re: web interface

1998-03-10 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: hello everybody, I was wondering if anyone new of a good web interface for the postgres database project. It does not look like Debian has one. Any one have any ideas. php3 is a good one. version 3.0b6 is in hamm now. the pgsql module is in a

Re: Formating a ftape tape?

1998-03-10 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Mar, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: Is there any way to format a Qic-80 tape on a ftape device? Sorry, I should have checked the HOWTO first, jeez... 4.8. Can I format my tapes under Linux? No! Actually, yes, the latest

Re: New mailing list debian-pilot created

1998-03-10 Thread bruce
GPL works I mean GCC. I'm tired. Bruce -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: JAZ Problems.

1998-03-10 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Corey Miller wrote: I have an iomega JAZ (1GB) drive, using a SCSI card based around the NCR53c406a chipset. I got everything (seemingly) working fine, but I frequently get errors like the following whenever I read or write to the drive. I only have the one disk that

Re: Formating a ftape tape?

1998-03-10 Thread servis
Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Mar, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: Is there any way to format a Qic-80 tape on a ftape device? Sorry, I should have checked the HOWTO first, jeez... 4.8. Can I format my tapes under Linux?

Getting Mail From POP3 Servers

1998-03-10 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hello all I'm still trying to get smail working like I want, but I think I am nearly there thanks to all your help. But I have another question. How can I get my internet mail to my mail server from my isp's pop3 server, so that my promailrc file will filter all my mail both internet and local,

Re: Formating a ftape tape?

1998-03-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Raymond A. Ingles wrote: : : On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : On 10 Mar, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: :Is there any way to format a Qic-80 tape on a ftape device? : : Sorry, I should have checked the HOWTO

19900310 Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1998-03-10 Thread wnpp
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: prospective-packages.html,v 1.5 1998/03/10 17:53:12 johnie Exp $ This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It

Re: Getting Mail From POP3 Servers

1998-03-10 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: How can I get my internet mail to my mail server from my isp's pop3 server, so that my promailrc file will filter all my mail both internet and local, I am currently using fetchmail to do this but it doesn't seem to use procmail so

Re: web interface

1998-03-10 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: hello everybody, I was wondering if anyone new of a good web interface for the postgres database project. It does not look like Debian has one. Any one have any ideas. Paul There is a commercial package that I have used for our departmental web

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-10 Thread mfrattola
Hi, mfrattola == mfrattola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mfrattola Maybe I'm wrong, but doesn't this rewrite 'From' for every mfrattola message, and not only for those 'going out' of his LAN? mfrattola Also, doesn't confDELIVERY_MODE=queue queue all messages mfrattola and wait for runq to

Re: installing debian problem

1998-03-10 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 23:10:10 +0800, kaiwei wrote: what is a image file? It's an image of a disk (each track is copied, even if empty). To use it, you'll need the utility rawrite.exe, which can be found in the /dosutils directory. Read the README file which accompanies it for more info. in

kernel 2.0.33 smbfs bug

1998-03-10 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! there is a bug in kernel 2.0.33 which woes files' timestamp on mounted NT4 shares. There is already a bugfix patch, which seems to slip into 2.0.34. kernel-source-2.0.33-2 didn't include this patch. My questions: -shall I report this as bug or wait till kernel-*-2.0.34? -against what shall

Debian Linux Cross Compiling

1998-03-10 Thread Robert_Floyd
I am new to Debian Linux and I would like to know the following: Does Debian GNU/Linux have all the abilities of the GNU CC utilities to cross compile to a Hitachi SH-1 microprocessor? If so, do I need to jump through some hoops to get my code to the SH-1

Re: Debian Linux Cross Compiling

1998-03-10 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to Debian Linux and I would like to know the following: Does Debian GNU/Linux have all the abilities of the GNU CC utilities to cross compile to a Hitachi SH-1 microprocessor? If so, do I need to jump

Proper X Server...

1998-03-10 Thread Jesus Duran
Greetings, i have recently purchased a Diamond Stealth II S220. i was wondering what x-server to use. I've tried a few from the debian site but to no avail. If it is elsewhere, i would appreciate the site's address. It has 4MB SGRAM and RAMDAC of 170MHz and a Rendition Verite V2100

Cross Compilers Once More

1998-03-10 Thread Robert_Floyd
Scott Responded: Debian does not come with cross-compiling tools, since it is impossible to anticipate the cross-compiling needs of our users. You will have to build a cross-compiling system yourself, the gcc and binutils packages from your favorate gnu mirror

Re: Formating a ftape tape?

1998-03-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I should have checked the HOWTO first, jeez... 4.8. Can I format my tapes under Linux? No! That applies to the version of ftape which is included in the kernel. ftape-3.04d, which is installed as modules, has this capability.

Re: Cross Compilers Once More

1998-03-10 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Responded: Debian does not come with cross-compiling tools, since it is impossible to anticipate the cross-compiling needs of our users. You will have to build a cross-compiling system yourself, the gcc

Re: netscape install

1998-03-10 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am ready to install netscape on my system, but have a problem. The netscape loader is for version 3.01. ftp.netscape.com only has version 3.04 or the newer communicator 4.0x versions. Version 3.01 is not available. My system is a bo (1.3.1)

Re: Getting Mail From POP3 Servers

1998-03-10 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: Hello all I'm still trying to get smail working like I want, but I think I am nearly there thanks to all your help. But I have another question. How can I get my internet mail to my mail server from my isp's pop3 server, so

Re: gcc problem

1998-03-10 Thread Igor Grobman
My hamm system crashed and burned yesterday the problem was related to an accidently installe dpackage not unmounting filesystems properly on reboot in any case today I re-installed. I installed bo then I upgraded to hamm via autoup.sh and the CD I burned on 3-4-98 then of course

possible network attack question

1998-03-10 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, In the last few weeks I have been receiving the following message in syslog with increasing frequency Mar 10 22:19:46 garfield kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffceff! I have been told that this is normal and should not worry me. However, as the

Re: Tcl/Tk source ?

1998-03-10 Thread Igor Grobman
I wondered if there is a way to 'mimic' install/remove with dpkg? Thanks, Mac If you go to /var/lib/dpkg, you will find a file called status. This appears to be how dselect keeps track of what's installed/configured/etc. The format is pretty self explanitory, so

Re: Pine From: address

1998-03-10 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Chris wrote: I am using pine (from the debian distribution), and I would like to know how to set the return address (instead of the standard [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I've had luck putting From: ... in my custom header of my pine config. I believe I had to tell pine I'm

Re: Getting Mail From POP3 Servers

1998-03-10 Thread Mike
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: currently using fetchmail to do this but it doesn't seem to use procmail so You want to get the mail filtering FAQ. From the FAQ: FAQ-launcher-URLs: http://www.jazzie.com/ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

1998-03-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, mfrattola == mfrattola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, mfrattola == mfrattola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mfrattola Am I right in thinking local is used only for localhost mfrattola bound mail? Where does all this magic come from? Do I have mfrattola to hand edit sendmail.conf by hand? (any m4