Re: [OT] How to add fortune output to terminal

Bob Proulx wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > > Another common practice is to set PS1 in .bash_profile, then call > > .bashrc from .bash_profile. > > if [ ! -z "$PS1" ]; then > > The PS1 is set by default for interactive shells and not set for > non-interactive shells. So the test for $PS1 works witho

Re: Cron job not cooperating

Tom Scrape wrote: > Is there a location (eg. log file) where run-parts activity can be found? Or > is > it rather just hit-and-miss debugging when trying to figure out a problem? Output is normally not generated. It's only generated in case of an error. Since it is executed by cron (<== /etc

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

Mike Hommey wrote: > To be fair, it's not exactly true, because upgrading from firefox to > iceweasel in debian means upgrading from version 1.0 or 1.5 to 2.0, and > there are substancial changes that some people dislike, myself included. > > Which means Piotr is actually probably complaining abou

Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications (was Re: communication structures crumbled)

Karsten M. Self wrote: > > It had to be re-installed. You probably know that since you've read > > the announcement we were able to send out before the machine was taken > > down for reinstallation. > > That announcement wasn't delivered for all users until _after_ murphy > was resurrected. I my

Re: communication structures crumbled

Dan Jacobson wrote: > To us debian users, the most notable thing during this break in or > whatever episode, is how the communication structures crumbled. It had to be re-installed. You probably know that since you've read the announcement we were able to send out before the machine was taken dow

Re: woody update (r1)?

Jens Guenther wrote: > Hi! > > Are there any plans to release an update (r1) to woody? Please refer to http://master.debian.org/~joey/3.0r1/ > Is there going to be a single cd-image that would contain only those > updated packages in addition to the usual cd-image set? There's been such an upd

Re: LinuxFEST Belgrade, call for participation & sponsors

Somebody around in Yogoslavia who would like to go to LinuxFEST and represent Debian? Regards, Joey Boris DRAGOVIC wrote: > > Dear Sir/Madam, > > I am writing to invite you to participate in Linux FEST Yugoslavia in mid > April > 2002. Organized by Open Source Network of Yugoslavia (O

Re: Whats happened to debian/dists/testing/main/binary-i386

Crispin Wellington wrote: > lftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386 > -rw-rw-r--1 1176 1176 5888437 Feb 03 21:11 Packages > -rw-rw-r--1 1176 1176 1619616 Feb 03 21:11 Packages.gz > -rw-rw-r--1 1176 1176 81 Feb 03 21:27 Release >

Debian at FOSDEM (Feb 17th)

[ Please repost this mail on the dutch Debian mailing list, since I don't remember its address. Oh, and sorry for the large crosspost, I'd love to see Debian participate as well. ] Moin! We have been invited to attend this year's Free and Open Source Developers Meeting (FOSDEM) taking place

Debian at FOSDEM 2002

Moin! We have also been invited by FOSDEM to attend this year's Free and Open Source Developers Meeting taking place on February 16th and 17th in Bruxelles. There are a lot of seminar rooms which can be used by all participating projects and developers. If there are people from Debian who would

Re: Don't replace manpages_1.46-1_all.deb (for SPARC)

Yury Lyakh wrote: > > > -- > venus:~# apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Calculating Upgrade... Done > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > 10 packages not fully instal

Re: Connection with SMTP fails

This mail is from: From: "Hostmaster methusalix.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hostmaster methusalix.net wrote: > Hi there, > > since the last days I am examining a strange problem while connecting to a > SMTP server which does not show the banner. At first I thought it is a > problem with exim from t

Re: webalizer

Matt Fair wrote: > Hello, > I am using Debian Stable with Webalizer V1.30-04 (Linux 2.2.12) English. > I have several websites running on my server using Apache/1.3.9 (Unix), > each site with its own config file. I have a cron to run: webalizer -c > each half hour. On October 4th one of my si

Re: modules - can't get ip

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > when i boot up i get the message > modprobe: Note the file etc/modules.conf is more recent than the file > /lib/modules/2.4.9/modules.dep run depmod -a or update-modules, both as root. Regards, Joey -- In the beginning was the word, and the word was content-

Linux Expo on the Philippines

Hi, are there some people around who live on the Philippines? I have received an offer for the Debian Project to give a talk about Debian and run a booth to demonstrate the our free operating system at the conference taking place on November 5th. I don't know of any developer we have on the Phil

Superflous Emacs backup files

Hi, I noticed that GNU Emacs seems to create tons of files like .saves-16657-finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE~ in $HOME which don't get removed. What's the way to prevent this? Regards, Joey -- We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- Linus Torvalds Pl

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi list > > As a non-native english speaker, I sometimes find it difficult to figure > out, what some abbreviations mean. It took me rather long to find out, > that "hth" means "Hope This Helps", and so on. > Could some of you explain to me (and, I'm sure, to some others as

Re: debian

[Message forwarded] norton wrote: > > hi, does anyone know where can I get a patch with the glibc fix for kylix to > work? > > -- > norton > = > Lvpvs pilvm mvtat, non animvm -- If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country. -- motd of irc.fune

Re: No sound in Gnome

[repost] Deryk Lister wrote: > Here's an odd one, it's had me tearing my hair out for hours and I still > can't figure it out! > I can't get some gnome apps (specifically, the Gnome Control Center or > Gabber) to make sounds. > > The situation so far: > esound and OSS are both working, I've tes

Re: using RHL 7's rpm in debian 2.2r2

Joey Hess wrote: > Johann Spies wrote: > > Two complications: 1. Potato's alien would not translate RHL 7's rpm's > > to debian. You need one from woody and that will require libc6 2.2 as > > far as I know. > > No version of rpm in debian can handle red hat 7 rpms. Updates to a > version of rpm t

Need Help - Debian Advantages HOWTO

Hi, I have noticed that you had written several mail about why Debian is great and your preferable OS. For quite a while I maintain the Debian Advantages HOWTO I would like to add your comments if I have missed the issues you raised. Howev

Re: Users homepages with Apache

brian moore wrote: > On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 07:55:48PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I wonder if some other Debian user can provide some assistance to an > > Apache problem: > > > > 1. I'm running www.bar.org and www.foo.org via nam

[Answers] On Using and Maintaining

Hi! I've written a small document covering Using and Maintaining Debian systems you may find interesting since it aims at answering a couple of general questions that were asked on this list several times. http://www.infodrom.ffis.de/Debian/doc/maint/ A lot of questions are still left ou

Re: dselect: 1 not upgraded

Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > Hi, recently X crashed while I was in the middle of upgrading some > packages with dselect. Since then whenever I Install things with dselect > it says that 1 package is not being upgraded. What I'm wondering is how > I can find out which package it is that's not being

Users homepages with Apache

Hi, I wonder if some other Debian user can provide some assistance to an Apache problem: 1. I'm running www.bar.org and www.foo.org via named virtual hosts on one server using Apache (from woody) 2. Both addresses http://www.bar.org/~joey/ and http://www.bar.org/~joey/ are valid. How

Debian booth in Belgrad? (15th to 17th December)

Hi, we have received some mail from the organizers of LinuxFEST '00 in Belgrad. Are here users or developer from Yugoslavia who want to help out? If so, please get in touch with me. Regards, Joey -- If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country. -- motd of irc

Re: potato -> woody ==> php error

Martin Schulze wrote: > Does this ring a bell for somebody? > >Warning: Unable to connect to PostgresSQL server: ERROR: MultiByte strings > (MB) must be enabled to use this function in >/var/lib/webspace/service.ffis.de/LinuxTag/index.php3 on line 96 >Unable to con

potato -> woody ==> php error

Does this ring a bell for somebody? Warning: Unable to connect to PostgresSQL server: ERROR: MultiByte strings (MB) must be enabled to use this function in /var/lib/webspace/service.ffis.de/LinuxTag/index.php3 on line 96 Unable to connect to SQL server Line 96 is: $dbh = pg_pconnect

[ShermanDMonroe@aol.com: cool trick]

Please take care. Regards, Joey -- This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. --- Begin Message --- I am a new Linux user. I have used dual monitors on my old PC (Windows OS) for various utilities. I'd like to try something new with my Linux workstation, bu

Debian booth at European LinuxTag 2000

Hi, we are organinzing a Debian booth at LinuxTag 2000 (June 29th - July 2nd, Stuttgart, Germany). The Debian team has been sponsored a booth in the Free-Software-Pavillon. Organization for it takes place at [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to take part in the organzation, send a mail to [EMAIL PR

Re: Netscape and mp3-files

Johann Spies wrote: > I am trying to download mp3-files from the internet, but netscape > (4.7.1) quits when I try to do that. Although Netscape reports that it > has the plug-ins to play streaming mp3-files, it also refuses to do that. > > Is there any cure to do this? > > I have also tried a b

Re: Mail-Filter

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All ;)) > > Does anybody can tell me a program (perhaps the debianpackage) for a good > mailingfilter, which i can use in combination with mutt or pine? apt-get install procmail Regards, Joey -- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theo

Re: reiserfs support

Sven Garbade wrote: > Hallo, > > does anybody know if the ReiserFs can be installed during the > installation procedure of Debian 2.2? Or must the ext2 replaced after > the installation? You can pause & resume the installation in order to install reiserfs on the system. Regards, Joey

Re: where is rc.local ?

mathieu wrote: > i understand the aim but i don't know how to make a start & stop part, do you > know > where i can find an example of Maybe take a look at the other scripts in /etc/init.d? Just a rough guess, there may be tons of them... Regards, Joey -- A mathematician is a machin

Re: where is rc.local ?

mathieu wrote: > Hello, > i have seen that rc.d like on slackware doesn't exist, and that rc.* > are > directly in /etc. But where must i put my line command to be executed > when the > system boot ?? Like num lock, ipchains and all my stuff... > Thank you for your answer, Move your script to /et

Re: Linux Installation

college pc wrote: > Dear, Sir > How are you ... > I have 4 CD's , 2 Binary & 2 source of Debian Linux 2.1r2 . I try to install > it. > > 1- I ask about applications, are they included in these 3 other cd's or not.? Debian comes with a whole bunch of applications and programs. If you are miss

Re: Package Info

Irish, Jon D wrote: > Is there a comprehensive list somewhere, of all of the available Debian > packages, that describes them in detail? Being new, sometimes I am not too > sure what exactly I need to install to acomplish what I want to do (vague, I > know ;-). The DSELECT program is pretty much ov

Re: Corel Lilo

Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote: > Hello: > > I was trying the Corel Linux, and I got impressed with the boot look. > > Someone had tried the Corel's lilo? Were can I get the source code? I > looked at corel web site, but I couldn't find it. Try the ftp server(s). It's said that a couple of so

Re: Can I install Woody's packages on Slink?

Alex Kwan wrote: > Hi! > > Can I install Woody's packages (eg. kernel-2.2.14, XFree86-3.3.3.6) > on a Slink System (because these packages of Slink is too old)? I doubt, though kernel-image may work, however you may find some things stop working due to modified interfaces. X won't work since it

Re: vi wrap=?

Patrick wrote: > Hi, > > Discovered that nvi is pretty basic and installed vim. Created a .vimrc and > allworks well when I edit files. > > Doesn't work in mutt though. I guess that mutt is still using nvi so better > read man mutt on how to change this. set editor=vim in .muttrc or remove n

Re: vi wrap=?

Patrick wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a file I can set margins to wrap at 65 characters for all vi > sessions, > including those in mutt? .exrc .virc .vimrc .elvisrc .foorc - depending on the variant of vi you're using. beware, usually the margin is counted from the right side, which means that

Re: fresh potato installation

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 07-Mar-2000 Martin Schulze wrote: > > Hmm, on a fresh potato system I still get: > > > > Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm > > line 85. > > Use of uninitialized value

fresh potato installation

Hmm, on a fresh potato system I still get: Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 85. Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/IPC/Open3.pm line 188. What's up with it? Regards, Joey -- The only stupid question is the unasked one. Pl

Problem with 2.2.x and RAID0

I wonder why I can't get RAID0 aka striping work with 2.2.13. It only runs with 2.0.36. # mdadd -ar /dev/sdc2: No such device /dev/sdd2: No such device /dev/sde2: No such device /dev/md0: No such device The appropriate SCSI driver is included, /dev/sda1 can be mounted without a problem. As you

Re: UPS monitoring packages?

Shaul Karl wrote: > Can you point out what UPS monitoring package you are using? > Can you compare it to other alternatives? apcd is one. Regards, Joey -- This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

Re: How to get bo packages?

Tom Kuiper wrote: > > Tom Kuiper wrote: > > > Dear Joey and group, > > > > > > I'm sorry that my original posting was not clear. I did go to > > > ftp://archive.debian.org/ but there is no Packages.gz file there, so > > > dselect won't work. > > > > Maybe I haven't read careful enough, in that

Re: How to get bo packages?

Tom Kuiper wrote: > Dear Joey and group, > > I'm sorry that my original posting was not clear. I did go to > ftp://archive.debian.org/ but there is no Packages.gz file there, so > dselect won't work. Maybe I haven't read careful enough, in that case... oups... update manually. Regards,

Re: How to get bo packages?

Tom Kuiper wrote: > Greetings. > > I'm still running `bo' and I would like to get a few additional packages. > 'dselect' doesn't work anymore because it can't find Packages.gz anyway. > I've poked around myself with ftp and with Netscape, and I can't find > a bo distribution with a Packages.gz fil

Re: Bungled bash

Pete Templin wrote: > > I've got a Debian 1.3 box with a mucked up bash - I get "Segmentation > fault" if I try to run it or any scripts referencing it. Could somebody > per chance mail me a working bash, and/or tell me some quick fixes to get > it working. I tried reinstalling the .deb, but of

Re: how to mark package "hold"

Michael Lyngbøl wrote: > Hello, > > How to I mark an already installed package "hold"? (using some other tool > than dselect) > > Can it be done using dpkg? Play with echo foo hold |dpkg --set-selections Regards, Joey -- GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems, only

Re: [*] rpm to deb

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello everybody: > > i saw a litter form this list, it said there are some tools can conver the > rpm pakage to deb pakage. but > can it work well? and where can i find it? i have some redhat,turbo cds, so i > really have a lot of rpm pakage. > I want to use them, if

Re: Mail & PGP

Sven Gaerner wrote: > Hi, > > does anyone know which mail programm can access imap postoffices and also > encrypt mail with pgp? I've been told that Mutt speaks some dialect of IMAP. Mutt is famous for being able to sign & encrypt mails with gpg and pgp2/pgp5. Regards, Joey -- The go

Re: .gz in Netscape

Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > > > > Hi, All > > > > > > stupid question: what i have to do in order to > > > prevent Netscape from expanding .gz files? > > &

Re: .gz in Netscape

Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > Hi, All > > stupid question: what i have to do in order to > prevent Netscape from expanding .gz files? Simple answer: Don't use Netscape to download .gz files, use wget instead Other answer: Try shift-mousebutton Regards, Joey -- Whenever

Re: what is the difference between frozen, potato, and unstable

joseph de los santos wrote: > hello > > what is the difference between frozen, potato, and unstable. arent they > all the same? frozen=potato, upcoming stable unstable=woody Regards, Joey -- Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Re: InterScan NT Alert

You should not send mail from your »root« account. The »root« is a login that bypasses all security protection on your system. The root account should only be used to perform system administration, and only used for as short a time as possible. You should *not* use the »root« account for daily us

Re: InterScan NT Alert

You should not send mail from your »root« account. The »root« is a login that bypasses all security protection on your system. The root account should only be used to perform system administration, and only used for as short a time as possible. You should *not* use the »root« account for daily us

Re: Slink or Potato

Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a user who are way behind the debian upgrade. I've > recently mirror the slink and plan to upgrade from my > debian 1.3.1 to slink. However, I've just noticed the potato > was recently frozen. I'd like to solicite you all comment > on whether I sho

Re: unzipping *.zip files

Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > just wondering if it was possible to unzip *.zip files with linux. Do I > need to download a utility to do this? Yes. It's called unzip. Regards, Joey -- Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop or in front of a mirror.

Re: sources.list

Rob Hensley wrote: > Hi, I have a quick/simple question. If I plan on staying with potato > (stable) for awhile, should I change all the unstable lines to frozen in > my sources.list, or should I just leave them alone? Thanks for yout rime, Change it to 'potato' since frozen will be removed in 2 m

Re: Where is texi2html package?

Abdul Aziz wrote: > Hi, Can anyone tell in what .deb package texi2html is? I've been looking > for it for ages and can't find it. > Thanks. kuolema!joey(ttyp7):/var> zgrep texi2html /home/ftp/debian/dists/potato/Contents-i386.gz ./usr/share/doc/mailcrypt/texi2html.ext.gz contrib

Re: scsi-device: how deatache?

Gerhard Kroder wrote: > hi, > > it's somewhat known already how to attache a scsi-device to a running > system (echo "add..."> /proc..), and it works well. but what if you > deattache a device. i want to move my external dat-streamer to some > other machien. is there any harm with just plugging i

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

Glenn Remstedt wrote: > hi there, > > my verry first time to boot up an Debian, with floppies ... > > Package: boot-floppies > Version: > ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/2.1.12-1999-12-09/ > Architecture: i386 > memory: 32Mb > scsi: Adaptec AHA-2940/AHA-2940W > >

Re: PGP

Urban Gabor wrote: > Could somebody explain me what PGP is? http://www.pgp.net/, /usr/doc/pgp, /usr/share/pgp/ It's used to encrypt and sign electronically. Regards, Joey -- Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. Please always Cc to me when replying to me

Re: xhost

Blazej Sawionek wrote: > How do I enable a particular user on a given machine to write on my screen, > not just anybody who is logged there? man xauth Basically, you'll create either a cookie for him and send it to him or you simply copy your .Xauthority file to the users home directory, or to

Re: Debian pre-installed

Fish Smith wrote: > > > Also, why is GNU/Hurd called GNU/Hurd? If I'm not > > > > For the same reason it is called GNU/Linux. It's a > > GNU-System > > using the Linux or Hurd respectively kernel. > > Yes, but that's because Linux comes from outside of > the FSF. If I'm not mistaken, Hurd come

Re: ITP: LVM

Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 05:16:46PM +, Tom Lees wrote: > > Assuming that noone else has already got it (I checked the WNPP webpage > > and it wasn't listed), I intend to package LVM, which can be found at > > > > http://linux.msede.com/lvm > > What is it? Could you post

Re: Debian pre-installed

Fish Smith wrote: > Aside from Space-time Systems, does anybody know of a > place that offers machines with Debian pre-installed? > Preferably stateside, preferably online. VA Linux Systems also sell preinstalled Debian boxes. > Also, why is GNU/Hurd called GNU/Hurd? If I'm not For the same re

Re: What is it with very long bug lists?

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > Some packages (for example gnupg and lintian) have bug lists > that go back many many months and in some cases years. > > Are these bugs still open or did someone just forget to close them? Normally they're still open. If you have time to work on them, patches are

Re: Timeline for potato

Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > The timeline is great! But I think it should be continued. As experience > shows, shortly after releasing potato (or even shortly after freezing > potato), > kernel 2.4 and XFree 4.0 will appear. Hopefully they appear *after* the release and not between freeze and rele

Re: ITP: estic (ISTEC ISDN PABX admin program)

W. Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > I already have packaged estic: How did you manage to get it compiled under potato? It failed gracefully for me but run through like a charme on my bo box. If you're at it, could you try to get the keys somewhat more intuitive? I.e. support vi-keys or emacs-keys. Wor

Re: upgrading from corel linux to potato

Joey Hess wrote: > Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > > Why would you want to upgrade from corel linux to potato ?? > > Well, think ahead to when potato is the stable debian. Then think about all > the corel linux users who might want to update to that.. We should eventually test this before we re

Re: maillinglist news interface down?

Christoph Martin wrote: > Hi folks. > > Does anyone know what happended to the Debian list to news gateway. I > did not get any knews from linux.debian.devel fro about a week. In > linux.debian.user there were only a dozen in the last days, which seem > to be come in over news directly and not via

Re: web mirroring

Filip Van Raemdonck wrote: > I'm looking for a good web mirroring tool, and I wondered which is used > in the Debian web site mirrors. Anon-rsync is used, iirc. Check out http://www.debian.org/mirror/ Regards, Joey -- The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose

Re: Is is legal to have duplicate package names? (We got two)

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > At the moment there are two in the archive. > > One is xgmod, which is in both contrib and main, with > the main one being newer. Looks like the package was moved > but not deleted out of old area. Accident probably. > > The other is ircii, which exists in both mai

Re: Packages referenced but missing from the archive

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > I went and grabbed all the Packages files for all the distributions > I know of (main, contrib, non-free, non-us/main, non-us/contrib, > non-us/non-free), and went and checked wether all the dependencies > can be satisfied. As it turns out, there are many packages r

Re: Restarting Daemons on package install/upgrade.

Greg Stark wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 10:07:38AM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > Well this works for people that use the "old" init-style with links in > > > /etc/rc* and won't work for people like me that use file-rc. Please > > > provide first a solution for both cases. Then we can sen

Re: Mailing list headers [Was Re: ssh vs telnet - which is faster?]

Kenneth Stephen wrote: > On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Friday, December 10, 1999, 4:04:47 AM, RAVIKANT wrote: > > > * DO NOT BOTHER CC-ING THE MAIL REPLY , BECAUSE I AM ALREADY SUBSCRIBED TO > > > ALL THE LISTS - ILUGC , LINUX-INDIA , LINUX-NEWBIE , DEBIAN-USER * > > > > Might

Re: How do I change which logfiles are rotated when?

Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > I basically commented out the little if/then loop that uses the > sysklogd-listfiles command to see which log files to rotate.. it doens't > work too well because you can only specify either --all, --auth, > or --weekly. > > If you need more control (like i did) then yo

Re: your mail

LiveAngel wrote: > I have problems in installing debian 2.1. > Everything is wonderfull untill de packages selection. > Before dselect i make a profile choice, then in dselect i make the > update,.., and finally the installation. When i choose to install the > system tells me that needs one package

Re: debian-security: another new mailing list

Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Keith Harbaugh wrote: > > This is to announce the establishment of a new debian mailing list: > > > > debian-security, > > > > for the discussion of all aspects of security > > significant to the Debian system, including cryptography. > > How can it happe

Re: Using ssh with fetchmail?

Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > I know I've seen a procedure for doing this before. However, browsing > fetchmail's docs, I can think of no way. Can someone that's doing this send > me an example fetchmailrc? Thanks. http://www.infodrom.north.de/linx/ look for fetchmail Regards, Joey --

Hardware working with Linux

Good morning fans, I have noticed that several HOWTO's are way out-dated. For example the Hardware-HOWTO is from July 1998. Same goes for the Ethernet-HOWTO etc. Thus they doesn't cover hardware which is supported by Linux 2.2.x and newer. However, there is a new service which has been opened

ange-ftp with ssh-tunnel?

Hi, since I don't like passwords be transmitted in plain text I'd like the ange-ftp facility of Emacs I'd like to use an ssh tunnel for the command connection of FTP. Has somebody gotten this to work? Regards, Joey -- Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop or in front of a m

Re: Packages

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a new user, and i'm pretty unfamiliar with debian. I'm trying to install > programs on my other computer using floppy disks. I used dselect to choose > my access method, but dselect won't recognize anything i put on floppy. I > got the "packages" file off of the

Re: diald question

John Hasler wrote: > Pollywog writes: > > Do I need *both* a diald.conf and a diald.options? > > "diald.conf"? I don't have one, nor does the diald man page mention it. But it's included in /usr/doc/diald/examples which seems to be misleading. But apparently you're not the maintainer. Why do I

Re: diald and ip address

First of all: Learn how to split up lines, please! Chris Hoover wrote: > I was wondering what file I should modify so that diald will email > me my ip address when it goes on line? I've tried adding it to the > /etc/diald/ip-up file (I believe that is where it is, but I'm not at > my machine righ

Re: Diald Installation and Setup

I wrote: > For some reason there is one file missing in /etc/diald/ which is > diald.conf. But: There is a proper example in /usr/doc/diald/examples. This should read diald.options, it's late already... Regards, Joey -- Never trust an operating system you don't have source for! Pleas

Re: Diald Problems

John Hasler wrote: > Russell Rademacher writes: > > What is the main purpose of slip running in the background? What is it > > supposed to be listening so it can detect the network request packet and > > then actually start dialing? > > Diald creates a SLIP interface, makes it the defaultroute, a

Re: Diald Installation and Setup

Russell Rademacher wrote: > It seems it is little frustrating here on getting good answers on > trying to get the diald working. So... how about someone giving me a step by > step on their setup to get the diald working and the copies of the files > related to it so I can just edit the pho

Re: Sendmail

Shaikh Abdul Tahir wrote: > Where i can find sendmail listserver or somebody have that link please > sendme > > Tahnx -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.

Debian on HP Netserver with AIC 7770 SCSI Adapter

Hi, I wonder if Linux runs on a HP NetServer with EISA AIC 7770 SCSI Adapter. Booting the slink or hamm rescue disk ends in an error. The adapter gets recognized but then the kernel can't cope with it after downloading its instructions. Do I need to build a custom kernel to get it done? Regards

Re: Detailed query from an interested person. (fwd)

Can somebody of you please answer him. Thanks, Joey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I own the following (I don't actually *UNDERSTAND* most of this stuff, I've > just copied it off the manual and the Acer web site.): > > Acer 1242M desktop system. > The details: > > Processor/System Memo

Emacs and vertical split

Err, this problem is tricky. In Emacs I splitted the screen vertically, which should work with 132 coloums, I thought. (C-x 3 or C-x Shift-3). Then I tried to display a text in both windows but some lines are wider than 65 characters. I don't seem to be able to view what is hidden on the right

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > This is silly. You are ruling out a hell lot of possibilities without > technical reasons. I think both is possible, a logo without "Debian" and a > logo that plays with the letters "Debian". My examples may be bad but one of the requirements (not made by me) was that the

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > Well, that a difficult task for these reasons : > - We probably have different ideas of what symbolize debian Which is good. If people would draw what they think Debian is and it fits the logo rules we would be able to choose from a large set of possible logos. Wonder

Re: question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am interested in downloading Debian Linux, but I am confused in which > file > I should download. The download site has many files, none of them say "Debian > 2.0." What do I download, is it a single file or a series of files? Debian 2.0 is a directory containin

Re: can't boot recover disk on grid 1755

[EMAIL PROTECTED] asks: > I'm trying to install debian linux on a grid 1755 laptop (486sx 25 4meg ram, > 80meg HD). It makes it to loading the kernal then alot of stuff goes past > real quick, the last thing I see is probing something(goes by to fast to > read). Then the computer > reboots. Doe

Re: Debian Logo *Idea* Contest! (Delay for painting contest required)

E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > First Andreas Tille writes: > > > Once more: let us delay the painting work. Its time for thinking > > first. If we could cope with this (or any better idea) then we > > have one aim -- as well as we have one aim in developing the > > operating system. > > Next he say

[RfS] Request for Submissions: Upcoming Debian Logo

I'd like *everybody* think about a possible logo. Please notice the following simple rules: . The logo must NOT be linux-centric. Thus a penguin in any form is inacceptable. We have Debian GNU/Hurd and people are working on something similar to Debian Solaris. Please accept that. .

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