I am using a modem and ppp to login to my ISP. What is a good setup for
e-mail??? Currently I use NS4's e-mail but it is a little buggy and
crashes often. I would like to have a nice X front end. I currently
recieve between 250 and 350 e-mails a day and am logged in via modem
sporadically at be
I have the latest dosemu from hamm. I am having a problem using lredir
to mount a directory under dos. I would like to mount /usr/local/dos as
my d:. Having done this I would like to install some dos based games.
when I type 'lredir d: linux\fs\usr/local/dos' at the dosemu prompt I
get a "error
When Niccolo Rigacci wrote, I replied:
I do this regularly. First create a /etc/ppp/chatscript.ispAname,
/etc/ppp/chatscript.ispBname, ... Then create /etc/resolv.ispAname,
/etc/resolv.ispBname ...
Then create $HOME/bin/pon.ispAname which looks like:
#!/usr/bin/perl
if($< != 0) { die "$0: mu
While most of this has been said previously, it has not been brought
together and it has been less than clear at times, so I'm combining
what others and myself have stated into a hopefully complete and
concise summary.
hda5 (or sda5) and above are logical partitions. Logical partitions
cannot
> The netscape mail never download mail at the interval I specified in
> the mail preference window! Is there a way to fix this?
This interval if for a mail _check_, and all it does is set the little
mailbox flag in the bottom right hand corner of the Netscape windows. It
doesn't download your
How does a user deny the information given by the finger command?
More concisely, I want the fingerd daemon running, but I do not want the
"no mail" and .plan et al info shown. I just want to tell the client that
the user is logged on. It would be better if this could be done at
Hi!
How does a user deny the information given by the finger command?
More concisely, I want the fingerd daemon running, but I do not want the
"no mail" and .plan et al info shown. I just want to tell the client that
the user is logged on. It would be better if this could be done at the
pe
Niccolo Rigacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Read on, if you can/want to use X. Otherwise, just go to the next article.
> I successfuly installed Debian 1.3.1.r6 and ran pop, poff to connect to my
> provider. I would like to use a command that let me choose between several
> providers, something l
sendmail seems to ignore the entries in /etc/hosts, relying instead on
doing a DNS lookup for each message. smail does this also. Is there a
way to configure it to look first at /etc/hosts and use the DNS only if
the address cannot be resolved there? I assume it doesn't use
/etc/host.conf, becau
Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > In that case, why to I get "omnic.(none)" ??? Where is this (none) coming
> > from?
> >
IIRC, the glibc (or whatever is used to resolve the name) checks
/etc/hosts.
If your /etc/hostname reads "omnic", then you should have a line like this
in your
I have replaced the link and all is now well.
> Oh, but that's wrong. You're linking to ../init/.., NOT ../init.d/..
> (note init vs init.d)
> Mike.
Sorry for wasting bandwidth.
Alan Davis
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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Paul Rightley wrote:
> I use xfmail to read debian-user. When xfmail lists a folder,
> one column displays the name of the sender of each message.
> However, when I send a message to the list, the column displays
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What am I doing differently
> than ev
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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, iquest wrote:
> I'd like to know if Hamm/ has really been frozen? I just check
> the debian home site and the news did not mention about this.
I would not mind at all if the announcement is made several days after the
real freeze...
h
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Wolfgang Gernot Bauer wrote:
> where can I find the Debian 2.0-installdisks? Those in
> /debian/hamm/main/disks-386 are labled 1.3
I'm pretty sure you were just looking at some outdated docs. The
basecont.txt shows what is on the disk and the
ii libc6 2.0.7pr
On 17-Mar-98 Paul Rightley wrote:
> I use xfmail to read debian-user. When xfmail lists a folder,
> one column displays the name of the sender of each message.
> However, when I send a message to the list, the column displays
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What am I doing differently
> than everyone el
debian-user:
The following was posted to this group by a
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is not exactly a debian topic but it is something to do with the
Linux community that concerns me. My Significant Other today received a
giant spam from Linux Mall that can best be described
Hi, David!
Here is an e-mail that I got from Mark Carroll, who runs Debian/SMail/dynamic
IP, and kindly enough shared his configuration files. Well, perhaps it may
give you some more insights... He also mentioned that he welcomes questions
concerning this configuration. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Actually, I got the installation to work with the LS-120 drive.
After installing debian and creating a boot floppy, upon reboot
I get 'Loading...' and then the machine reboots...
Thanks for the suggestions,
Paul
On 10-Mar-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It seems that I did not unde
Hi,
where can I find the Debian 2.0-installdisks? Those in
/debian/hamm/main/disks-386 are labled 1.3
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On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 10:56:38AM -0700, Paul Rightley wrote:
> I use xfmail to read debian-user. When xfmail lists a folder,
> one column displays the name of the sender of each message.
> However, when I send a message to the list, the column displays
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What am I doing d
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 16 Mar, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
> > On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Asher Haig wrote:
> >
> >> I'm told that it's possible to run Windows under DosEmu. What's the truth
> >> in this?
> >
> > The DOSEMU documentation mentions how to run win3 under dosemu;
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Paul Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This morning, I cannot get xfmail to open
>/var/spool/mail/user saying that it cannot lock the file.
>I figure the problem results from the movement of /var.
Make sure /var/spool/mail has the following permissions:
$ ll -d
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Nelson Posse Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've found out that neither portslave nor cistron radiusd are packaged in
>debian format; they are not in debian's ftp and are not packaged on the
>original site. Since the author is a debian developer and the chan
On 16 Mar, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, Asher Haig wrote:
>
>> I'm told that it's possible to run Windows under DosEmu. What's the truth
>> in this?
>
> The DOSEMU documentation mentions how to run win3 under dosemu; there's a
> Brazilian linux user that wrote a mini-HOWTO (in
On 17 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On my system there is *NO* ip-up, or ip-down. Pppd shells out to
> > /etc/ppp/ppp-functions, with the first parameter being a runlevel, and the
> > rest the normal parameters passed to ip-up. Then, ppp-func
In updating apache from bo to hamm, we no longer can view compressed
html files. With the bo version of apache, we were able to view
*.html.gz files as if they were uncompressed. I uderstand that the
"AddEncodeing x-gzip gz" directive in srm.conf was supposed to have
enabled this, but I can't see
Nelson Posse Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The DOSEMU documentation mentions how to run win3 under dosemu; there's a
> Brazilian linux user that wrote a mini-HOWTO (in portuguese...) on running
> win95 under DOSEMU, and others reported success (and failure ;-).
Would there be any changes of g
I use xfmail to read debian-user. When xfmail lists a folder,
one column displays the name of the sender of each message.
However, when I send a message to the list, the column displays
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What am I doing differently
than everyone else? Does this bug people?
Thanks for any a
Out of necessity, I have recently moved /var to another partition.
I tar'ed up the directory and then untar'ed it on the new
partition. This morning, I cannot get xfmail to open
/var/spool/mail/user saying that it cannot lock the file.
I figure the problem results from the movement of /var.
Also,
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> I upgraded my hamm machine yesterday using dpkg-ftp. I now find that the
> following important (at least to me) packages are listed under the 'Removed'
> section -
>
> timezone 7.55-2
This is replaced by timezones. I'm suprised you st
I upgraded my hamm machine yesterday using dpkg-ftp. I now find that the
following important (at least to me) packages are listed under the 'Removed'
section -
timezone7.55-2
libg++27-dev2.7.2.1-8
libgdbm1-dev1.7.3-19
Under 'Avail. ver' nothing is listed. Is this the result of
Hi,
I've found out that neither portslave nor cistron radiusd are packaged in
debian format; they are not in debian's ftp and are not packaged on the
original site. Since the author is a debian developer and the changelog
file is in debian's format, this surprises me. Am I missing something or
sho
Hi!
Adam Heath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I am thinking of more places to add runlevels. Currently, I am trying to
> eliminate the connect option from pppd's option files. Ppp-functions would be
> called like this: "/etc/ppp/ppp-functions dialparms>," with stdin, stdout, and stderr redirected to
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Niccolo Rigacci wrote:
> I think this is a simple task of writing some scripts, but does Debian
> have something already done?
The ppp on hamm does this. You can say "pon provider". The newest
proposal to ppp on hamm, will (I think) address the second
situation. You way want
> As my subject line says, has any of you been able to access an Iomega
> Zip Plus through a parallel port connection ?
Check out http://www.torque.net/~campbell/
In short: driver for Zip Plus (PP connection) is not yet available.
Alex Y.
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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 04:03:30PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 06:56:30PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
> > > The basic trick for win95 is to create a 64Mb swap partition for linux and
> > > configure DOSEMU to report 64Mb o
Hello,
As my subject line says, has any of you been able to access an Iomega
Zip Plus through a parallel port connection ?
I'm always getting the following error message from the kernel driver
(kernel 2.0.30, driver 0.26):
PPA: Unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2
(yes, the paralle
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
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This document is intended to identify areas that need your
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I successfuly installed Debian 1.3.1.r6 and ran pop, poff to connect to my
provider. I would like to use a command that let me choose between several
providers, something like "pon atslink" or "pon dadanet".
I would like also:
- Users in a selected group (e.g. dip) can do po and poff without being
On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 03:45:15AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 04:03:30PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 06:56:30PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
> > > The basic trick for win95 is to create a 64Mb swap partition for linux and
> > > configure DOS
On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 02:23:12PM +0800, Tan Wee Yeh wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote,
> :: Nuts... how did that evade me?? I had tried as you suggested
> :: and it booted up just fine :)... is there anywhere I can get
> :: the configuration for the Tecra kernel so I can build one
> :: for hamm??
Hi,
I'd like to know if Hamm/ has really been frozen? I just check
the debian home site and the news did not mention about this.
Thanks!
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Hi folks,
Due to the failure on master we lost the mailing list for the alpha
port: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list was already screwed
on the old listserver and so on var, our temporary and backup list
server.
I now have created debian-alpha on the new listserver but had no
chance recovering the di
Greetings Debian Users
Now that Hamm is frozen, I'm thinking I'd like to try it out. Are there any
cd images available yet? I would *much* rather install from cd. We have a
fairly quick net connection at work, and I can burn a cd there, while my home
machine only has a 33.whaterver modem (on a
Hi,
I'd like to know if anyone has experience this problem with NetScape
Communicator (debian version 4.0-5).
The netscape mail never download mail at the interval I specified in
the mail preference window! Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks
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Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> although I don't understand what it is doing, it is working quite good now.
X11 magic cookies are usually generated when a user logs in, XDM
copies them to the ~user/.Xauthority file which is supposed to
be readable only by the user. The server also knows the cookie's
va
Oh, wow... how can you increase throughput on a modem by increasing the
services that put demands on it?
Nils Rennebarth wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 01:20:38AM -0600, Jay D. Winks wrote:
> > O.K. So we've got 3-1/2 for IPMasq and 1-1/2 for squid
> To save bandwidth on the dialup link I sug
On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 01:33:38AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Howdy all.:-)
>
> Can someone please tell me which file contains the information for which
> directory lynx places it's downloaded files in? I checked over lynx.conf
> but there doesn't seem to be any reference, AFAI
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure If my first attempt got through... probly mail server crash
> > did it... *GRIN*
> >
> >
> > In the /etc/issue file you can use the \n.\o sequence to get a copy of
> > your hostname and
On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 04:03:30PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 06:56:30PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
> > The basic trick for win95 is to create a 64Mb swap partition for linux and
> > configure DOSEMU to report 64Mb of expanded/extended memory to
> > applications. Then a
On Sun, Mar 15, 1998 at 04:55:24PM -0600, Asher Haig wrote:
> I'm told that it's possible to run Windows under DosEmu. What's the truth
> in this?
You *can* run Win3.1 under Dosemu, and there is a lot of documenattion in
/usr/doc/dosemu about it, BUT: You need Windows and Os/2 license.
Better to
On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 12:31:56PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alain Toussaint) writes:
>
> > i'm writing because when i visit web pages in lynx and when i press on a
> > link who's not working,lynx patiently wait for the server to answer (witch
> > can take a very long time som
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, James Dietrich wrote:
>
> The subject fairly sums up the problem:
> Below is a snip of the messages that are displayed upon booting.
>
> [snip]
> Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd.
> /etc/rc2.d/S89cron: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
> /etc/rc2.d/S8
On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> I'm not sure If my first attempt got through... probly mail server crash
> did it... *GRIN*
>
>
> In the /etc/issue file you can use the \n.\o sequence to get a copy of
> your hostname and domain name right?
>
> In that case, why to I get "omnic.(non
On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 01:20:38AM -0600, Jay D. Winks wrote:
> O.K. So we've got 3-1/2 for IPMasq and 1-1/2 for squid
To save bandwidth on the dialup link I suggest to use both. They do
not conflict. To make it even more tranparent for the users, you
should consider trans-proxy too.
Nils
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Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On my system there is *NO* ip-up, or ip-down. Pppd shells out to
> /etc/ppp/ppp-functions, with the first parameter being a runlevel, and the
> rest the normal parameters passed to ip-up. Then, ppp-functions sets up some
> variables, and runs "/etc/ppp/rc
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, it was written:
> > > /dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it)
> > > /dev/hda5 Logical Linux
> > > /dev/hda6 Logical Linux Swap
> >
> > From the numbering above, I can surmise that you installed linux into an
> > Extended DOS partit
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can someone please tell me which file contains the information for which
> directory lynx places it's downloaded files in? I checked over lynx.conf
> but there doesn't seem to be any reference, AFAIK, regarding the download
> di
Howdy all.:-)
Can someone please tell me which file contains the information for which
directory lynx places it's downloaded files in? I checked over lynx.conf
but there doesn't seem to be any reference, AFAIK, regarding the download
directory in this file.
Funny thing is, I use
To all that replied to my LILO, Win95 and Linux problem..thanks very
much for responding to my plea for help. Much appreciated! :-)
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> > /dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it)
> > /dev/hda5 Logical Linux
> > /dev/hda6 Logical Linux Swap
>
> From the numbering above, I can surmise that you installed li
On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 01:21:26PM -0500, Thomas Lakofski wrote:
> One of my debian boxes is becoming increasingly unstable, with general
> protection faults and segfaults almost every day now.
Check out http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ for documentation on hardware
problems causing segfaults.
HTH,
Ian Perry wrote:
>
> I have used socks, and ipmasq and transproxy (just to toss another one into
> the pile)
>
> If you wish to use IRC Chat programs, or ICQ and the like... Masquerading
> is the way to go. As far as I am aware a proxy can't handle them.
>
SOCKS5 is capable handle IRC (I dont
The message I am getting comes from /usr/sbin/update-rc.d, which is called by
the kbd.postinst script.
if (($linkdst ne "../init.d/$bn") && ($linkdst ne "../init.d/$bn")) {
print STDERR "update-rc.d: warning: $fn is not a link to
../init.d/$bn\n";
return 0;
Trying to avoid a problem discussed on the developers' list, I snarfed the
latest sysvinit and kbd off Incoming of a mirror this morning, and installed
over what was probably the offending pair. The new packages are:
kbd_0.95-6_i386.deb
and
sysvinit_2.74-2_i386.deb
U
I can't seem to get my mouse to work with XFree86 3.3.2. In my
previous version of XFree86 (3.2) I was able to get the mouse to work
using device /dev/psaux and protocol PS/2, but the server didn't run
for other reasons unrelated to the mouse, and someone suggested I
upgrade the server. With XFre
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote,
:: Nuts... how did that evade me?? I had tried as you suggested
:: and it booted up just fine :)... is there anywhere I can get
:: the configuration for the Tecra kernel so I can build one
:: for hamm??
:I believe the part that makes them work on Thinkpads is the fact they
Strange things have happened after my upgrade from unstable, after the
freeze. apache does not want to load, something about permission denied on
/var/log/apache/access.log(error.log).
And when I popclient -a mail off my isp's server... sendmail sends it to
procmail, but it takes forever to be del
I was not quite subscribed to this list when I originally posted this:
===
I have fallen WAY behind on the latest with Netscape Communicator, so
forgive me if this has been answered... I checked on the debian
faq-o-matic and support pages first.
I am running Communicator 4.04 just recently upgra
On 16 Mar 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>If a package wants to be run when pppd is on, then include a file
>"/etc/ppp/scripts.d/." In the postinst, run the command
>ppp-update.d.
>
> And in the prerm, presumably?
Yes, I assumed the developers would get that bit.
> I like the proposal, by
I have used socks, and ipmasq and transproxy (just to toss another one into
the pile)
If you are only after ftp or http proxying then squid or transproxy or
socks is possibly the way to go, although if you are connecting through a
modem from the linux box to your ISP, you may be better off setting
If a package wants to be run when pppd is on, then include a file
"/etc/ppp/scripts.d/." In the postinst, run the command
ppp-update.d.
And in the prerm, presumably?
I like the proposal, by the way. My only possible concern is that it
is perhaps a little too complicated, but sometimes
I have never liked the idea of having to edit either ip-up, or ip-down each
time I want to add a script into the ppp chain. This is also hard for
separate packages to do automatically, without errors.
So here it comes. Sit down for this one.
On my system there is *NO* ip-up, or ip-down. Pppd s
Good night folks,
I wonder why you're still awake, too. :-)
Since some minutes our mainling lists are processed on its own
machine. Murphy.novare.net alias lists.debian.org is another machine
that was donated by Novare International (http://www.novare.net/).
Due to a server crash we had to mov
On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 05:45:27PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> > "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hamish> I'm having big problems using an xterm running on X11R6.3
> Hamish> on Solaris 5.6 to work on a Debian hamm box. The terminal
> Hamish> does not draw
> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hamish> I'm having big problems using an xterm running on X11R6.3
Hamish> on Solaris 5.6 to work on a Debian hamm box. The terminal
Hamish> does not draw properly in curses programs like ncftp and
Hamish> vi is practicall
I'm having big problems using an xterm running on X11R6.3 on Solaris 5.6
to work on a Debian hamm box. The terminal does not draw properly in
curses programs like ncftp and vi is practically unusable -- as seen as I
hit enter to move down a line it clears the screen!
The terminfo definitions (dump
I ran into the following error while trying to compile an Empire server.
As you can see, the Makefile is supposed to support a whole slew of
systems. I don't know what crtbegin.o is, or where to find it, but it
looks like the problem might possibly be due to a buggy libc6
installation. Any ideas
Hi,
I have experienced some problems with locking and NFS,
and finally gave up and added "nolock" to the client options. Now
I wonder... what does it do? Does it trap the the fcntl calls and
ignores them?
Marcelo
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On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Chuck Peters wrote:
:
: What is a good way to solve the ftp problem that our Windoze LAN users
: experience?
:
: I half heartily tried setting up an IP tunnel without success and that
: isn't a good solution anyway because I am running a static IP dialup
: account and it r
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What is a "map file" ?
>
>
As was already stated on this mailing list, it's a text file that contains
memory addresses of kernel symbols. That's it. Here's a small sample
from mine:
0010 T _stext
0010 T stext
0010 t startup_32
001000
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