Re: Problems with EURO-ISDN

1998-03-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Pätzold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Please adjust your Mailreader to do wordwrapping and not to send HTML] I installed the Debian Linux Kernel 2.0.33. My problem is, that the HiSax driver tells me, EURO protocol is not supported on my System, although I compiled in the Euro

Re: smail - Is smarthost behavior correct?

1998-03-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have always understood that when I deliver mail to a smarthost, the smarthost is supposed to handle everything transparently to my machine. I have smail configured with my ISP, metrolink.net, as a smarthost for all mail. However, smail seems to

Re: Lee: Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-03-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: This may or may not be justification for refusal, I can't say for sure. My recommendation would be to avoid using potentially problematic fields, of which From (without the colon) seems to definately qualify. He doesn't add a from (without colon)

Re: Thanks :)

1998-03-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: On 1 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: [snip] IIRC, you will see this header real quick if you tell pine to show all headers. Then you could use procmail to remove this header, I believe

Re: SMTP transaction error

1998-03-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
A.D.Y. Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: reading message 1 (2561 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.hkstar.com Add the line smtphost localhost to your .fetchmailrc and also make sure your MTA (smail, sendmail, whatever)

Re: Thanks :)

1998-03-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On an unrelated note, is there any reason why my respond to all recipients in Pine would get a user called [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the Cc list? I only get this when responding to mail from this list. The actual recipients don't seem to have any funky

Re: Nondestructively partition ext2 fs?

1998-02-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there an ext2 equivalent of fips? I have a lot of space on the disk which I am mounting as /usr/local. I want to partition it and use one partition as /opt. Just make a symlink for opt like mkdir /usr/local/opt chmod 755 /usr/local/opt

Re: Port Scanning

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick question regarding port scanning, how do you tell that you have been scanned I assume it shows up in the log files. The package courtney can do this monitoring. It will report to syslog and also mail root about an incident.

Re: 'LaTeX' mode in xemacs

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Paul Huygen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I edit a LaTeX file on this RedHat machine with xemacs, I get a LaTeX menu when I right-click. Also, xemacs has 'command' and 'LaTeX' pull-down menus in this situation. On my hamm machine [..], I get no

Re: Fetchmail Smail Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Deniz Dogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But ftechmail still doesn`t work, It`s a general problem I think, as I wrote in my previous post telneting to the localhost doesn`t work also. Connection is refused. Any ideas? Comment out any rule in /etc/hosts.deny and try again. If this works, then

Re: lean indexed navigation tool for system help

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: My only idea was that something like that might be possible using a search engine (ht-dig), a web-server (apache), and a browser (Lynx or Netscape) setup with mime-types for the various doc formats and locations. However, he would like a leaner,

Re: X Windows 16-bit

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Two things... first, are use sure that you have to recompile? I thought that this was just a change to the fvwm2 config files. This change was made upstream between 2.0.45 and 2.0.46. And it is not a config option,so yes, you have to recompile the fvwm2

Re: Speak-Freely Problems

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: fine for me with a standard soundblaster 16 (ie. definately not a full-duplex card). The soundblaster 16 _is_ a full-duplex card. Mabe you mean that the driver for it is not full-duplex capable? Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: A simple problem with dselect ...

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Richard B. Talley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nebu John Mathai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes this day 25 Feb 98: I tried to remove a package and under Select... selected to remove the package. Then I went to Remove... and dselect removed almost every package I had installed since the beginning

Re: root access and dselect | ftp

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: The other way for someone to access your computer is by the programs you run to access Internet services. For example, if you select a link to a Postscript file and look at it using a viewer that allows file operations, it could try to append the

Re: module configuration

1998-02-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Just for completeness: After installation, you can still alter your choice of modules by running modconf. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: X Windows 16-bit

1998-02-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Peter Paluch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I have another question: in bo, I was able to move windows between screen by simple dragging them. However, in hamm this is not possible. I don't want to have EdgeScroll disabled (in bo this wasn't needed). Why is this, and how to solve it? The

Re: fetchmail quit after upgrading smail

1998-02-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I decided to tackle my fetchmail/smail upgrde today. I am running a hamm system but had put smail on hold because it messed up fetchmail. I have searched the debian user mailing list arhive and tried the various suggetions with no luck.

Re: Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

1998-02-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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.

Re: Fetchmail Smail Problems

1998-02-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Deniz Dogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed Add smtphost localhost to your .fetchmailrc And als oadd localhost to the hostnames in /etc/smail/config Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: anonymous ftp permissions

1998-02-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Paul McDermott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: add some debian stuff to it. The debian is on another drive. There was talk about mounting the drive under the anonymous directory tree. I can't use hardlinks on different drives and/or partitions or filesystems. I was wondering why I can't use

Re: How can I create new dpkg status file?

1998-02-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Patrick Ouellette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My status file got clobbered (ok, it was removed from /var while I was looking for more space to work in). Is there any way to get dpkg to look at my system and update the installed packages list based on what is actually on the system? Your

Re: Problems w/ppp dialup Kerberos

1998-02-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Jesus Duran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: problem. The logs show that after the handshake the host(my school) asks for 4 returns for interactive mode which i'm familiar with from dialing in with ckermit(a dummy term). Should ppp take care of that? Any help is I believe editing

Re: Dialing up....

1998-02-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Jesus Duran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: running. Gimp is wonderful. Ok now on to my last Real project. I need to get a ppp dialup connection up and running. I was trying to start off http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=20 is a good place to start with. Ciao, Martin -- TO

Re: X Windows 16-bit

1998-02-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Corey Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I run X Windows in 16 bpp mode, I can see the grided outlines you mean 8bpp here, right? of windows when I try to move them. However, when I witch to 16 bpp, it stops displaying the outlines when I try to move windows around. Thanks for your

Re: xearth

1998-02-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Abou Anber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I try to Install xearth, version 1.0 under Linux but I got an error message, which isld: cannot open -lXt No such file or directory make: *** [xearth] error 1 Which debianpackage of xearth did

Re: HELP: FATAL SERVER ERROR

1998-02-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Albert Hurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It began with a cd to /tmp and then a rm -r /tmp. I then wanted to cd ~ but did cd ` byy mistake. You removed your /tmp dir. The Xserver (and other programms) save temporary data in it, so you get into problems as you saw by yourself. If you want to

Re: isdnutils error

1998-02-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Florian Attenbergerhphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At boot up, when /etc/init.d/isdnutils start is executed, there comes an error message: isdn_ppp_bind: can't find usable ippp device Do you have /dev/ippp* ? You can do a /dev/MAKEDEV isdn-tty isdn-io isdn-ippp

Re: True Type fonts for X11?

1998-02-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Christopher Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I finally got PPP working and got Navigator 4.04 installed and was shocked to see how ugly the fonts were! They are these tiny little pixelated things that are stressful to the eyes to read. Even as I am typing this I am appalled! Where can I get

Re: trimming wtmp

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Scott McDermott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know how I can go about keeping its size manageable? Say, keep only the last month's worth of data? Without of course zeroing it every month...I'd like it to always have a month of logs to inspect... This is already done that way. Check

Re: Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Timothy M. Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The chap-secrets is in /etc/ppp, and I chmod'ed it to 777 just incase, but it still does the same stuff. pppd is paranoid about its secret files. They have to have 600 permissions. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: eth0: error

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
K.Y.Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Installing module SMC-Ultra. Loading device 'eth0' smc-ultra.c: No SMC Ultra card (i/o=0x280). /lib/modules/2.0.29/net/smc-ultra.0: init_module: Device or resource busy. Did you set the card to io 280 using it's dos setupdisk? (Also check, that the IRQ

Re: can't access /dev/fd0

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory With little knowledge about this problem, I did an rmmod in some modules not being used at the moment and got the floppy accessible again. Today the problem was back, and there isn't

Re: spam mail or mail relay

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the explanation. Now I would like to know how do I stop mail relaying in smail. I heard some people say smail is the biggest culprit and I need to get something like exim or sendmail. Is smail that insecure? And how can I know I am secure?

Re: A better backup (was: Re: Question re: splitting files)

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Martin at cush) writes: Also, a one-bit error can ruin all files recorded after the error - not a great idea. I really am surprised that there's no standard backup method for debian that: 1) backs up across multiple volumes 2) provides checksums for each file, and

Re: Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.

1998-02-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Timothy M. Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x61 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x3442bd5 pcomp] Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x61 auth chap md5] I don't know much about this, but it looks as if the

Re: zip drive

1998-02-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: works wonderfully on my linux side. I added the line: /dev/sda4 /zip msdos defaults0 0 to my /etc/fstab file and the line: /dev/sda4 /zip msdos rw 0 0 to my /etc/mtab file. There is no use in altering the /etc/mtab file.

Re: which init file starts sendmail?

1998-02-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Debian 1.3.1, which init file starts sendmail? [I need to prevent sendmail from starting at boot-time.] You have two options for using sendmail. 1. as a standalone demon. Then there is a file in init.d which start it. Use update-rc.d to remove the calls to it in

Re: Password Encryption

1998-02-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Butch Kemper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know how to propagate the password file to the second machine but the problem I have not solved is how to have both machines use the same seed for encrypting the passwords. Right now, if I add a user to machine A and copy their encrypted password

Re: PPP problems still

1998-02-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Feb 10 21:07:56 charles pppd[100]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Feb 10 21:07:56 charles pppd[100]: tcgetattr: I/O error Feb 10 21:07:56 charles pppd[100]: Exit. Feb 10 21:08:35 charles pppd[116]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Feb 10 21:08:35 charles

Re: nmh configuration

1998-02-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a hamm system running with smail(3.2.0.100-4), exmh(2.0-1), = 450 defer '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', sender address target 'localhost.localdomain' cannot be verified at this time: verify_sender(): BIND server failure: : Connection refused. (Try again

Re: PPP is still a disaster. :(. Please Help. :)

1998-02-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
dA' Phucilage Phactory [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /etc/ppp.options_out is as follows: +ua /etc/ppp/chapchoice defaultroute /dev/modem 115200 persist ^^^ /etc/ppp/chatchoice contains the login/pass info for choice.net, the format is as follows: username password This

Re: No network to me..

1998-02-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Bruno Simoes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, Please help me, i'm going crazy. I'm installing Debian/Linux in a Pentium mmx 233, PnP BIOS, just like a several pc's that i've done before. The Network Card is 3com 3c905-TX PCI (it doesn't matter, because i changed that card - NE2000 - and

Re: StarOffice

1998-02-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I keep seeing posts regarding StarOffice. Where can I get this? You can get staroffice 4 from ftp.stardiv.de, but the server is quite busy. Stardivision has not allowed mirroring, but maybe someone did anyway. Check ftpsearch or ask in #linux on a irc server.

Re: Automating PPP with cron?

1998-02-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to setup my system to do two things. To check periodically to see if my PPP connection has died, and redial my isp if it has. And to disconnect and redial every 6 hours, (my isp doesn't like it if you stay one more than 6 hours

Re: Forwarding mail to news

1998-02-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Tim Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am subscribed to a number of different mailing lists, but find it easier to read using a news reader. Also, I am at different systems that connect to the internet using a dial-up connection. Is there a way to automaticaly post mail from a mailing list

Re: CGI scripts to send and recieve email eg. MUA

1998-02-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
R. Chris Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: based mail would be a good temporary solution. cgiemail may work for sending but receiving and managing an account is a different thing. How about www.emumail.com ? Waht are the exact problems with receiving mails? Any MTA you get with debian does this

Re: reverse video going away in xterm?

1998-02-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Sen Nagata [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when i get a visible bell in a xterm window w/ reverse video, the window loses the 'reverse videoness' -- that is, the window goes back to non-reverse video. has anyone else had this problem? does anyone have any suggestions for changing this

Re: Two semi-simple questions...

1998-02-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 11:24:12AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: Where is the setting which inhibits the addition of the equivalent of 'uname -a' at the start of /etc/motd ?? I have found it before... now I cant. If you're using hamm, edit

Re: ISDN and SMP?

1998-02-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Walter L. Preuninger II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently purchased spellcaster isdn cards, and it seems that Babylon(their isdn4linux, sorta) does not want to run on smp kernels. Does anyone know if isdn4linux runs/works with smp kernels? Don't know, but check out de.alt.comm.isdn4linux

Re: perl5.004_04 bo?

1998-02-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Joergen Haegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would perl 5.004_04 break debian 1.3.1? You mean the package found in bo-unstable? No, don't think so. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: question about wget and proxies

1998-02-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Jens Christian Lisner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And why does netscape-3.01 gunzip all .gz and .tgz files??? (Not fair if you download a orig.tar.gz file!) You download the tar.gz and netscape does a gunzip on the fly, so the file is transfered gziped but it will save it gunzipped. No Problem.

Re: none

1998-02-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have installed Debian 1.3.1, but find myself without /dev/cdrom as a block device (at the driver selection stage, nothing fitted my Mitsumi 12x, which I ad run under an iso9660 on my previous slakware distribution). What is a block device, and how to get

Re: boot/mount more info and 2 more questions

1998-02-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
T-SNAKE [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: #1 OK, I got my /etc/fstab file here (mostly): #file systemmount pointtypeoptions dump pass /dev/hda2/ ext2 defaults0 1 /dev/hda3none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda4

Re: locate

1998-02-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
herbert betz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: as a linux newbie I don't know how to fix a problem I have using LOCATE. It worked allright, when I installed it, but after a while UPDATEDB and LOCATE didn't seem to do anything, when I invoked them (except giving back the prompt without any message).

Re: Sending email(smail)

1998-02-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry, but it doesn't. I use Pine, with the smtp host as localhost. Pine comes back as saying it can't be delivered. I believe this is because smail is trying to resolve with dns, can't, and gives up. What version of smail do you use? If you use X, make

Re: why is the digest list all chopped up

1998-02-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to subscribe to the Debian users list in diogest form but it's coming to me all chopped up in a bunch of attachments. Can I get it as one long email like other digests... This format is called MIME (RFC 1341) digest format. Actually it

Re: .forward and .procmailrc

1998-02-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Catalin Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's me again. I looked what's in the logfile of smail in an attempt to see what is wrong with my .forward and .procmailrc files. I cannot figure out what to do next, but it seems to me that it is something wrong _before_ procmail, so procmail does

Re: Sending email(smail) **FIXED**

1998-02-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Smail: 3.2.0.100-4 Pine: 3.96L-2 This is the error message I get: [Mail not sent. Sending error: 450 defer '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', sender] Let me state this again. Sending mail on the cmd line will queue mail for later delivery when not online.

Re: procmail and folders

1998-02-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Catalin Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here they are: my problem is that the _all_my_mail_ disappears and I'm not able to found it. # procmailrc file ### Some of this taken from ### the help G. Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ### posted on the debian-user list.

Re: User manager for X

1998-02-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A while back a friend of mine showed me a Red Hat machine they were running at work.They had X setup, and there was some sort of user manager tool they had up there, which supposedly came with the system. It did all kinds of snappy things like add and remove

Re: LCP, IPCP, and ppp

1998-02-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
J. Ramsay Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The negotiation begins with several LCP ConfReqs. by both sides. Eventually my box agrees and sends a ConfAck. However, I rarely receive [...] We could be more helpfull, if you'd show us the actual logfile. Ciao, Martin -- TO

Re: Sending email(smail)

1998-02-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to have email that I send when offline be queued for later deliver when I connect. How can I do this? You didn't tell us which MTA you use. So I choose smail (if you don't run smail, don't blame me if the following is useless to you). If you

Re: HELP: xisp without su

1998-02-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Albert Hurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could anyone tell me how to run xisp without first logging in as su. Check the permissions of pppd. bash-2.01$ ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dialout 84608 Jun 20 1997 /usr/sbin/pppd And make sure, the user who should be able to

Re: bo - Afterstep - colours

1998-02-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
John Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I only have 1meg video RAM and I run X at 1024x768 with 8bpp. I have a colour problem when I run Afterstep which results in the top 2 wharf icons not displaying and causes Netscape to display in black and white. This colour problem doesn't occur under

Re: PPP problems

1998-02-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: one error to another. I am at a loss as to my latest error that shows up in the ppp.log: Feb 2 21:28:48 charles pppd[343]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid Feb 2 21:28:48 charles pppd[343]: tcgetattr: I/O error Feb 2 21:28:48 charles pppd[343]: Exit If

Re: irqtune

1998-02-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Serge Delorme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Problem is the module irqtune_mod.o won't load. Even when I do an ismod as root I have the same error message: couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for There were some problems with with irqtune because hwtools has (had?) a rather

Re: procmail and folders

1998-02-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Catalin Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you to everybody answering my question on procmail and smail. I've put the files .forward and .procmailrc, modified the USERNAME to my usernaname (ie cpopescu), but it still does not work. Do I have to create the files where procmail is supposed

Re: Last login by UNKNOWN

1998-02-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Alexander Kushnirenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Last login: Mon Feb 2 09:32:36 CST 1998 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is the reason it doesnot recognise my user name? Is it a problem on my Debian node or remote node I telnet to? Do you have a identd running on the debian box? Usually it is run

Re: ppp problems in Spain

1998-02-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ftp ftp.rediris.es no works, linux saids I can't resolve ftp.rediris.es (If I do ftp www.xxx.yyy.zzz things go fine). I've resolv.conf in the form: nameserver www.xxx.yyy.zzz Do you have order hosts,bind multi on in your /etc/host.conf

Re: Dselect

1998-02-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Die Sprache dieser Liste ist englisch. Just as a addition (quote from the debian site): There is a seperate mailing list for the German speaking users of Debian. To subscribe to the list send subscribe debian-user-de your_email_address to [EMAIL

Re: Home dir Permissions

1998-02-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: your home directory can be drwx--x--x and the ~/public_html directory can also be drwx--x--x . Then, no other user will be able to see any files in your home directory, but any user that knows you have a pub_html directory can do get a file listing

Re: Building own packages - how?

1998-02-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Sebastian Kaps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any document available which describes step-by-step how one can build own binary packages from self-compiled source code? You should install the developers-reference package from hamm. Then you could also check www.linux-magazin.de for a

Re: HELP: eth0 not recognized

1998-01-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Iannucci) writes: I've got an ISA ethernet card that has E2000 printed on it, and so I've assumed it's an NE2000 compatible. There's a paper note taped on the inside of the machine that says that the ethernet card is IRQ 7, and I've tried booting from LILO with

Re: Home dir Permissions

1998-01-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Tim Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I like to have personal web space turned on (ie http://server/~tim/), so I can easily access files (such as lynx bookmarks - point the bookmark file at /~/HTML/bookmarks.html, I can then pick this up on any remote system). What I want to know is, what

Re: mtools

1998-01-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Jarkko Niemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: chmod 666 /dev/fd0 that maked the trick This is a BAD THING(tm). Especially if you are somehow connected to other computers. Anyone can read and *wipe* the disk ! Try cat /dev/fd0 to read it or cat /dev/zero /dev/fd0 to wipe it. Or the dd command.

Re: Perl problem

1998-01-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Karl Abrams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed debian 1.3 from CD and then ran dselect. The packages perl 5.003.07-10, perl-suid 5.003.07-10 wg15-locale 2-5 are installed. The error messages are: ~17% perl perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories:

Re: X-Windows questions

1998-01-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Markus Lechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why i want to run many X-Sessions? It's just an old habbit - i loved the Amiga for it's WorkBench and Command-Line Interface. So i want to configure Linux in the same way. Actually i'll need a little more RAM for this. You got the answer before:

Re: dns compilation error

1998-01-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
eugene mendoza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tried using named-bootconf.pl to do conversion. It gave the following error message Cant modify subroutine entry in scalar assignment at /usr/sbin/named-bootconf.pl line 30 near ; the line in question is $new_config = ; You are sure, you use the

Re: Copying CD-ROM's from Linux

1998-01-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Richardson,Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: p.s. There is an article on X-CD-Roast in the Jan. issue of Linux Journal. The author mentions that the next release of the software will use cdrecord to do the actual writing. And the version in hamm does so. From the available file: -

Re: inbound traffic problem with hamm

1998-01-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
justin honold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: in my .fetchmailrc i have poll pop.primary.net protocol pop3 user jhonold password PASSWORD fetchall. running fetchmail -v last night yielded unknown host debian -- you need a . in your hostname). debian is the name of my localhost (not on a network).

Re: Offline Email

1998-01-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I want is the system that I can 'send' email while my machine is off-line and then sometime later when I use a ppp connection, my system will then send the email outside. I have tried both smail and sendmail unfortunately they just write error

Re: Problem with mc

1998-01-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Andreas Mueck \(Stud.93\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What version of mc? Already strace'd it? Version 4.1.24 is installed. I didn't strace it, this package is not installed. Running ldd on mc reports libcrypt.so.1 = /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x4000d000) libgpm.so.1 =

Re: Solved, SMTP problem

1998-01-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I finally got it solved, I selected teh ined option for smail but it didn't work, I reran the config script and selected daemon and it works fine. Not sure why the inetd didn't work. Maybe because you installed xinetd. Make sure xinetd is running and that there is a

Re: mailbox error

1998-01-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Kevin Ong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When i use popclient release 2.6b (2/7/96) to get mail from my isp mail server i got this [inbox (file /var/spool/mail/root) is not in valid mailbox format] when trying to run Pine to read the mail. First, you should consider to use fetchmail, popclient's

Re: mount: only root can do that??

1998-01-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But what I want is this: 1 root can mount anything 2 users in group floppy can mount the floppy drive 3 users not in group floppy can not mount the floppy drive Of course, 1 is always true. But I can't get 2 and 3 at the same time. Either mount

Re: Settup Majordomo

1998-01-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Jeffrey Velez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I ONLY SENT THIS EMAIL IN ALL CAPS! THANKS ANYWAY! On 27 Jan 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHY I CAN NOT POST OR UNSUBSCRIBE? Perhaps majordomo is case-sensitive and you are typing everything in all-caps? Good point :-)

Re: X-Windows questions

1998-01-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Markus Lechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What other Window-Managers are available? Which of them are not beta? Which of them are how stable? If you mean debian packages, just use dselect and check the x11 section. Or go to www.debian.org - Packages. Whats the thing with those color-tables

Re: Turning NumLock on

1998-01-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Markus Lechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I heard that using NumLock on Linux-Systems causes trouble. Is this true? When running X, numlock is a keymodifier like shift or alt. This is a issue if you try to use shortcuts (like alt+F4) for example. But of cause you can configure the wm to issue

Re: Installing Problems with 3com PCI Bus Master 3C590 Combo Network Card

1998-01-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Tony Curzon Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The errors reported are: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again SIOCADDRT:network is unreachable SIOCADDRT:network is unreachable When do this errors occur? I get this error at boot-up, but also as a result of: /sbin/route add -net my IP netmask

Re: [off topic] PPP over ISDN ???

1998-01-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Serial connection established Using interface ppp0 Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 Serial line is looped back Connection terminated You should add debug to your pppd options and check /var/log/ppp.log for detailed log. In addition, I have ISDN

Re: Permissions, gid, mount?

1998-01-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to mount an msdos partition so that users logged into Linux can create files on it. I only have luck if I set gid=(group for a given user) as an option for the mount command. This is a reasonable way to do it. For instance, users bernie

Re: xdm startup?

1998-01-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin == Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Most likely you told dpkg to keep your old /etc/init.d/xdm file, which was a dummy script. So that dummy script is part of the base installation? Don't know. I just wanted to say

Re: Installing Problems with 3com PCI Bus Master 3C590 Combo Network Card

1998-01-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Tony Curzon Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First of all: I may be wrong, but aren't the vortex and the boomerang cards supported only by kernel = 2.0.32 ? The errors reported are: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again SIOCADDRT:network is unreachable SIOCADDRT:network is unreachable When do this errors

Re: Re[2]: Permissions, gid, mount?

1998-01-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stupid me; what I didn't check is whether files were actually being copied to the target msdos dir (in this case '/opendos/'). They are being copied! But cp gives me a message to the contrary, for instance: bernie$ cp newsgroups /opendos/ cp:

Re: New Smail, how to use offline?

1998-01-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Joost Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: So despite turning of this feature, smail *does* check the DNS. I'll have another look at this and will probably file a bugreport. Yes, please do. Do so on my behalf as well. I'm behind a firewall

Re: Installation Problems - modem not responding, large dos files=floppy=linux

1998-01-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Jeff Bisping [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But modem doesn't dial the phone, never get any OK. Had problems with /dev/cua1 not existing but did 'mkmod -m 666 /dev/cua1 c 5 64' to take care of that( don't know if right). Modem is on COM2. I have minicom installed but just does the box and

Re: nslookup: unexpected results

1998-01-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Maurizio Marini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: edu nslookup try to resolve edu (or any othe d1^ level domain) appending your default domain to edu: edu.aaa.bbb.com does not exist So, you have to close edu with a dot: edu. and you will get what you expect to get. No, this is the correct

Re: Again Re: Netscape releasing source code for 5.0

1998-01-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Worst still, linux netscape (and presumably other unix versions) keep resetting permissions on .netscape/bookmarks.html to 600, which means that I can't put symlink .netscape into ~/public_html and read my bookmarks when I travel. Does ln

Re: xdm startup?

1998-01-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wouldn't start. After looking about a bit, I found that /etc/init.d/xdm was empty and that the start up script was in /etc/init.d/xdm.dpkg-dist. Can anyone help me sort out where I went wrong? Or is this a feature that I don't understand? This is

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