Re: X Background

1998-09-07 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 12:45:43PM +, David Warnock wrote: I am using XFree86 with icewm. The desktop background is a distracting pattern. So far I clear this (which has sort of difraction patterns at high res) by using the fishtank application. I am quite a boring person and wondered how

Re: directory tree and .deb's

1998-06-08 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
G. Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I determine the destination directory of a package from the Packages file. My objective is to calculate the disk storage requirement for all (or a preselected subset of) packages by destination directory. Where can I find this information without

Re: checking package integrity

1998-05-14 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 05:28:42PM -0300, Otavio Exel wrote: hi all, is there a way to check package intgrity in a given .deb file? I'm using debian 1.3 (bo); beers TIA! -- Otavio Exel /\oo/\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps this is not elegant, but it will give you a basic sanity check:

Re: booting from dos

1998-04-10 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 04:30:19PM +0100, Joop wrote: Hie, At work, I've got a HP venturis FX2 with 1.2 Go hard disk with windows 3.11 and connected to a novel (HP3000) network. I am not allowed to partition or reformat the harddisk but I would like to run linux on it. Is it

Re: Debian on Thinkpad 560x...

1998-03-17 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
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??

Re: SCSI controller

1998-03-04 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 09:36:47AM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I'm thinking of buying a SCSI for my computer. However, I have no experience in this field. I'd like to buy some that works well with Linux. What do you think of Adaptec and Western Digital? Only BusLogic (Mylex) is guranteed

fetchmail 4.3.6 vs. m$ exchange

1998-02-03 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
I am trying to run fetchmail in imap mode with a m$ exchange server. With fetchmail 4.3.6-1, I get: fetchmail: IMAP a0006 OK FETCH completed. fetchmail: IMAP a0007 FETCH 1 RFC822.TEXT.PEEK fetchmail: IMAP a0007 BAD Protocol Error: Invalid FETCH_ITEM in FETCH command fetchmail: IMAP a0008 LOGOUT

Nedit hangs system

1998-01-28 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
Has anybody seen this? I have reasonably up to date hamm on a stinkpad 560. Installed nedit_5.0-3.deb. Invoking nedit works fine but then nothing works! Clearly un-acceptable. Just like using windoze; the only recourse is to hit the power switch! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . . . . . My other

Re: Qmail

1998-01-27 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
On Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 09:44:42PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Nathan E Norman wrote: What is the Right Way to install qmail on a (production) hamm system? Install the qmail-src package. It has a build-qmail script that does all the work, and generates a qmail.deb. -- see shy jo Well I

Re: Pager utility or script?

1997-12-16 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
Sure! In hamm/hamm/binary/../net you will find the qpage package. We use it to send text to a beeper. It works via pager central which is a POP that the beeper company has to receive IXO/TAP protocol messages. Ciao! davew kc5xh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . . . . . My other computer runs

BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER

1997-12-08 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
Sorry for the caps, but that is the message! More specifically, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uudeview BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dynamic-link.h: 53: elf_get_dynamic_info: Assertion `! bad dynamic tag' failed! Problem: All of a sudden, uudeview is broken and yields this message. I have re-loaded

Re: ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu ? Other ftpmail servers (debian) ?

1997-11-10 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
Last time I tried it, sunsite ftpmail was un-responsive. Instead you might try [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note, a good ftpmail server will fetch from any valid site; it is not Debian or Linux specific. Good luck! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . . . . . My other computer runs Linux! On Sun, 9 Nov 1997,

Re: pine/procmail

1997-08-12 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
Sure you can. Use a procmail rc file something like this: :0 * ^Subject:.*Digest | formail +1 -ds procmail :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null :0: * ^TO.*debian-user debian -- D. W. Wieboldt - Product Support Engineer . . . . . . . . . 512-248-2766 Eaton SEO Product Support

Re: Sendmail broken (Debian 1.3)

1997-07-28 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
] . . . . . . . . . THIS computer is running Linux!! Linux ... unleash the workstation in your PC! Capitol Area Central Texas UNIX Society cactus.org On 26 Jul 1997, Graham Hughes wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- D. W. Wieboldt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just built a new Debian 1.3

Sendmail broken (Debian 1.3)

1997-07-28 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
I just built a new Debian 1.3 system from cdrom. Lots of things are running just fine, but somehow sendmail doesn't work. I want sendmail on this one so I can build a beeper gateway :-) Does anybody have any clues about what I should be looking for? Upon startup, sendmail hangs for a couple

file system problem

1997-05-20 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
anyone have some clues, like what FM to read? TIA! -- D. W. Wieboldt . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . My other computer runs Linux! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .