Re: Cyrus IMAP and exim

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I will be very greatful if someone could help me. I have install Cyrus IMPA server. It works fine but I can't check my email because exim put mail in /var/spool/mail/$user not in cyrus folder. How should I configure exim to deliver mail to cyrus mbox (it is

2.4.0 and NFS

Hi! I recently started using th 2.4.0 series of kernels: test11, test12, prerelease and 2.4.0 on a woody system. With all of them, as well as with 2.2.18, I have problems accessing our SGI NFS server. 2.2.17 seems to work flawlessly. Every now and then, usually when attempting an NFS

Re: Virusscan / Exim

Dirk Allard wrote: Hi, does anybody know of a automated virusscan (like amavis) working with exim? I do. It's called amavis ;-) I had to tweak amavis a bit to change the parameters it accepts and I had to reconfigure exim. If you are interested I can send you my setup. maybe you can help

Jserv segfault on Debian

Hi! Has anyone got Jserv running on Debian? I installed all the required packages for Jserv, but when I run it it immediately segfaults. Any ideas? feri.

Apache DBI problems

Hi! I have a very recent poptato installation on a new server and I am supposed to migrate all my web applications from the old server to this new one. However as soon as I load the Apache::DBI or the DBI perl module form httpd.conf or from my startup perl script, Apache dies without

mod-roaming for apache 1.3.6

Hi! Does anyone have a mod-roaming deb package, that will let itself be installed along with apache 1.3.6 from potato? If I try installing apache 1.3.6, apt wants to remove mod-roaming. How can I otherwise force mod roaming to work with 1.3.6? I don't want to install the new apache

do I need inetd?

Hi! I have a debian firewall with inetd still running the only services it offers are the internal ones: time, daytime and discard. Do I need them? Do any apps rely on them? Can I simply remove inetd altogether? feri.

ssh problem on potato

Hi! I have a fresh potato install and I cannot log in to the machine from a remote host using ssh. I get an error message like this: Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty. What can be worng? feri.

IRQ of NICs

Hi! I have a Debian machine with two network kards installed that use the same driver (3c59x). They both use the same interrupt (11). Is that ok/wrong/the way it must be? How do I set the IRQ of one of the card to something else. I know how to do thes, when the cards use different

majordomo problem unsubscribing

Hi! I'm running a potato system with majordomo installed. The mailing lists work ok, but when I try to unsubscribe (by sending an appropriate e-mail), I get this in the log file: ABORT chown(0, 31, /var/lib/majordomo/lists/risiko.new): Operation not permitted feri.

no route for lo interface!!

Hi! I've just upgraded my kernel to 2.2.1. Now I cannot add a route for the loopback interface: fire:~# route add -net 127.0.0.0 dev lo SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument As a matter of fact, I cannot add a route for any interface (same error). Inspite of this I do have routes for the two

The Gimp and gif

HI! I can load gifs into The Gimp but I can't save them. What am I missing? I thought I only need the gimp-nonfree package installed for saving gifs to work. feri.

voice modem

Hi! Lightning killed my modem, so now I need a new one. I'd like a modem, with voice capabilities that can be used under Debian. Does anybody have a working setup and if so, with what modem. feri.

creating CD images

Hi! I want to create my own non-official Debian CD set using the debian-cd package. I have an intact mirror, including contrib , non-US and non-free. Is there an easy way to include ALL the non-free packages on the images, the hard way being listing each package separately in the

missing packages

Hi! I'm using apt to upgrade my debian slink systems. But all to often in hapens that files are missing on the mirrors ftp.??.debian.org. Is this something we just have to live with, or should this be reported to someone? This makes installing and upgrading debian not so much fun. I know

printing large formats

Hi! Does anyone know of a way to print to large-format printers like the HP Design Jet 750C+ under Debian. Does linux support any printers that can handle a0 size paper? feri

deleted files

Hello! A friend of mine was a bit too brave using `rm -r` and lost about 50M of important files. When he noticed what he had done he turned the computer off and now we have that computer's disk in a different computer. I was hoping I could use lde to restore at least some of the lost

changing group IDs

Hi! Would anything brake if I changed the ID of group 'disk' to 8 and the ID of group 'mail' to 6. Of course, I would make sure all the files get their ID's changed as well. I already posted this question once, but got no answer. Should I be asking questions like this on a different

compiling autofs

Hi! I'm trying to compile the hamm version of autofs on my bo system (since there does'nt seem to be a debian package for bo). This is what I get: ... gcc -shared -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -I../include -fpic -DAUTOFS_LIB_DIR=\/usr/lib/autofs\ -o lookup_yp.so lookup_yp.c

compiling autofs under bo

Hi! I'm trying to recompile the autofs package, from the hamm distribution, so I can run it on my bo system. I patched the sources and ran the 'rules' script and this is what I get instead of a nice debian package: Leeloo:~/leeloo/tmp/autofs-0.3.14$ debian/rules test -f

changing gids

Hi! I am considering exchanging GIDs for groups mail and disk on some Debian systems. I would need this to be able to mount a remote /var/mail directory from a HP-UX system and use the same mailboxes on the Debian system. Would there be any unwanted side effects? Is there another

Re: Email only users, and Bulk User Adds/Removes

Hi! Is there a way to establish an email only account? Also is there a way One thing you can do is give the user /bin/false insted of a shell. to add or remove a large amount of those accounts (if they can exist)? You will have to write a little script to do that for you. I'm

Re: teTeX packages

Hi! I can't seem to get Debian's teTeX to work at all (can't find default format file from tex). But when I downloaded it direct from sunsite, it worked fine. Has anyone had a similar experience? I suppose I could include more (or any, actually) details if requested. I had this

Re: X startup problems

Hi! Hey, while I'm thinking about it and since I can't try it right now, would adding a line like :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X allow me to use VT08 for another login, or do I have to do something else? Not quite what you propose, but a line like this would do the trick: :1 local

Re: Tear-Drop (ip_fragment bug) anyone apply the patch?

Hi! There has been a severe bug discovered in all implementations of Linux kernels up to 2.0.31 and 2.1.62 (development) which can be used to remotely crash or reboot your Linux system. http://www.linux.efnet.ca/ip_fragment.shtml. also info at: www.linux.org I'm about to apply

amd mounting local filesystem

Hi! Lately I am having (not so much) fun with amd. I am trying to get it to mount a local filesystem on a mount point of *my* choice. First I tried this and int works fine: /etc/amd/amd.master -r -a /amd /home /etc/amd/amd.home

Re: 2.1.30 and 3c900 module: Transmitter access conflict

The subject says it all: I am installing a Debian 1.3.1 system on a brand new PC with a 3c900 Combo board. Since I have a Buslogic Flashpoint SCSI card, I used the disks under the special/ directory, which use 2.1.30. Loading the 3c59x module seems to work, because the module correctly

public news servers

Hi! This is sligtly off topic, but... Are there any public news servers on this planet that would feed news (at least linux related newsgrups) to my news server? thanks, feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Can Debian replace Windows NT Server?

Hi! I know this is a FAQ, and the answer is no in principle, because the Samba team won't do any development regarding authentication services (with a justified reason), but I'd like to know if Debian can replace NTS -- obviating the lack of authentication. I hadn't heard

[no subject]

Hi! Someone asked where the xload program is. It's in the xproc package. feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

shared /usr

Hi! I have two linux boxes here, sharing the /usr filesystem via NFS. It all works well, more or less, trouble starts when I want to upgrade the software on both machines. I would very much appreciate your suggestions on how to handle this situation. feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Advice printing on a network Laserjet 4L

HI! I have read all the man pages and HOWTO but I still have a problem printing on a novel network laserjet. I have finally found a way to print postscript documents but I cannot print plain text or dvi format. Any ideas? Convert anything you want to print to PostScript first, then

Re: XF86Setup trouble

Hi! (**) MONO: Graphics device ID: Primary Card (**) MONO: Monitor ID: Primary Monitor It looks to me like your X-server is trying to use the Screen section for the mono driver for some reason. In that section you do *NOT* have a 8 bit depth subsection (of course). So, for starters

mc colors

Hi! This may be a stupid question, but is it possible to convince colorize MC in a xterm? I don't use MC I'm just curious. feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

RE: [Q][Thanks] How to Print in DEBIAN

Hi! If I remember correctly, you said you installed magicfilter. So delete or rename your printcap file and run /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig as root, to create a new /etc/printcap file. I think magicfilterconfig copies a filter into your /usr/sbin directory, so all you have to do is tweak

Re: Starting out...

Hi! Quantum Bigfoot 4.3GB IDE HD, Teac 1.44MB HD, soon to be getting a Seagate [Conner] 800MB Tape Drive) and am tweaking Windows95 into submission. ^ I thought you didn't want to quote: line Bill Gates'

CorelDraw on Linux

Hi! Has anyone got CorelDraw running on a Debian system? feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: CorelDraw on Linux

Hi! Has anyone got CorelDraw running on a Debian system? No. But Caldera sells it (version 3.5) on CD. It should be possible to install it on Debian, I would think. Yes, I know that ... What I was really wondering is how did (would) someone go about it. Caldera requires, as far

Re: DHCP Server

Hi! A DHCP server provides an IP address to a DHCP client when the DHCP client boots (and requests) and address. This happens before a login screen ever appears. Win95 provides no authentication by itself. It needs to belong to an NT Domain or NDS for this. So, without third

Re: root and .rhosts file

Hi! Now I've installed Debian 1.3.1 on another PC, and I can't get this new machine to accept root rsh requests from our primary server (running SunOS), or any other machine, for that matter. Both Debian machines have the same .rhosts file in the root homedir, but the 1.3.1 host gives

Re: ppp connection a little too slow...

Hi! I think my ppp conection is a little too slow ... I have a 33.6 modem (but only a 8250 uart) and when I access a webpage from Linux, it . Does someone know how to boost the speed a little ? Have I made som settings wrong ? No way. Not with that UART. To operate your

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config Performance

Hi! Should we be identifying ourselves as Linux when on non Linux platforms ? I don't think anyone will ask what platform you are running the clients on. The only thing that matters is the group id ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and that we win. Although we still have a lot of catching up to do.

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge Config Performance

Hi! Tan Wee Yeh wrote, :Indeed it does but we have a lot of catching up to do... Apple's :rate is currently 6 time that of ours... pls refer to: : http://rc5stats.distributed.net/emtop100.idc :I'm pumping in 1 alpha500 + 2 PPro 200 + 1 P200mmx. Bad

Re: kernel source?

Hi! #1 Where is this source? Its in /usr/src/ #2 Do I still compile using the make config like before? You can stil configure you kernel just as before. Bu for compiling it's much more elegant to use the 'make-kpkg' program. With one command you can build a Debian package for

Re: samba doesn't load on boot???

Hi! On Sun, Aug 31, 1997 at 09:48:43AM +0400, Pawel S. Veselov wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: For some reason or another samba doesn't load when I reboot. I can load it manually by 'smbd;nmbd' without problems. here is my configuration: samba-des

Re: X newreader

Anyone know of a good X based news reader? Does not have to be a Debian package. How about knews? I don't know if it's good, but it comes as a Debian package. feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

Re: Netscape ?

Hi! Please use the netscape installer package from Debian. It will integrate netscape in your Debian GNU/Linux Box. Erhm... where do I get that package ? As far as I can see, isn't it uncludet in the distribution. Actually it is, though perhaps not on CDs, under: Optional

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] RC5 challenge and linux

Hi! This is just to encourage more Linux users to join the effort: I have just set up 4 machines to help crack the RC5 challenge, three of which are permanently on the Internet and one is occasionally connected via a PPP link. Lets beat those rotten apples. feri. -- TO