Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Drew; Did you tell dpkg during the installation to run it as a deamon? inetd _should_ launch exim as the virtual package for mail otherwise. It sounds as though your problem was indeed different than the one that I experienced. I have not tried to use exim on any potato machine except as a da

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Drew; Did you tell dpkg during the installation to run it as a deamon? inetd _should_ launch exim as the virtual package for mail otherwise. It sounds as though your problem was indeed different than the one that I experienced. I have not tried to use exim on any potato machine except as a da

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Drew Parsons
On 26 Oct 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > > That means that nobody lisens to port 25. > > Did you reboot after the update? If you have strange problems like > that, a reboot is allways

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Drew Parsons
On 26 Oct 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > > That means that nobody lisens to port 25. > > Did you reboot after the update? If you have strange problems like > that, a reboot is allways

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Bill Leach
In this case it is most probably NOT a problem with sockets, RPC, inetd, etc. I had two machines that "suffered" from this problem when upgraded. The apparent problem is that there was more than one "common practice" way of configuring the exim-fetchmail relationship in bo, hamm, slink that will n

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Bill Leach
In this case it is most probably NOT a problem with sockets, RPC, inetd, etc. I had two machines that "suffered" from this problem when upgraded. The apparent problem is that there was more than one "common practice" way of configuring the exim-fetchmail relationship in bo, hamm, slink that will n

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Lars Bahner
Drew, > Now the doc's for fetchmail say [Q. R1 in the FAQ] that the first thing I > should check is whether the SMTP mail port (25) on my computer is open, and > that I should fix that first. And sure enough, when I try to telnet into > port 25 on localhost, I get this error: > telnet: Unable

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Lars Bahner
Drew, > Now the doc's for fetchmail say [Q. R1 in the FAQ] that the first thing I > should check is whether the SMTP mail port (25) on my computer is open, and > that I should fix that first. And sure enough, when I try to telnet into > port 25 on localhost, I get this error: > telnet: Unable

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Drew; I have been running potato on the machine that handles mail for a long time now but remember having the problem you described. I wish I was more sure that this is your problem than I am but... In your fetchmailrc file I think you need: set invisible (near the top) and smt

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Bill Leach
Hi Drew; I have been running potato on the machine that handles mail for a long time now but remember having the problem you described. I wish I was more sure that this is your problem than I am but... In your fetchmailrc file I think you need: set invisible (near the top) and smt

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused That means that nobody lisens to port 25. Did you reboot after the update? If you have strange problems like that, a reboot is allways the easiest to check if its a start-stop-deamon problem.

Re: Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused That means that nobody lisens to port 25. Did you reboot after the update? If you have strange problems like that, a reboot is allways the easiest to check if its a start-stop-deamon problem.

Re: Trying to correctly configure X

1999-10-26 Thread Goswin Brederlow
"Bryan K. Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everybody, > I just found out about this list and hope that somebody can help > me. (I have been asking questions on the debian-user list, and have > received much help, but still am having difficultly.) > I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E

Re: Trying to correctly configure X

1999-10-26 Thread Goswin Brederlow
"Bryan K. Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everybody, > I just found out about this list and hope that somebody can help > me. (I have been asking questions on the debian-user list, and have > received much help, but still am having difficultly.) > I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E

Re: Trying to correctly configure X

1999-10-26 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 26 Oct, Clint A. Brubakken wrote about "Re: Trying to correctly configure X" >> You need the XFCom_NeoMagic server from Redhat or Suse. Sorry, I don't >> remember the URL. I am using it with XFree86 3.3.4. I might be in >> 3.3.5 but I haven't seen 3.3.5 Debian packages yet. > > actually

Re: Trying to correctly configure X

1999-10-26 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 26 Oct, Clint A. Brubakken wrote about "Re: Trying to correctly configure X" >> You need the XFCom_NeoMagic server from Redhat or Suse. Sorry, I don't >> remember the URL. I am using it with XFree86 3.3.4. I might be in >> 3.3.5 but I haven't seen 3.3.5 Debian packages yet. > > actually

Re: Trying to correctly configure X

1999-10-26 Thread Sebastien Kalt
At 08:39 26/10/99 -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E in which I have installed Debian >2.1. I am struggling to configure X Windows. This weekend I managed to >get a screen and a GUI interface, but I can't get my resolution any better >than (what appears to be someth

Re: Trying to correctly configure X

1999-10-26 Thread Sebastien Kalt
At 08:39 26/10/99 -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E in which I have installed Debian >2.1. I am struggling to configure X Windows. This weekend I managed to >get a screen and a GUI interface, but I can't get my resolution any better >than (what appears to be someth

Re: Trying to correctly configure X

1999-10-26 Thread Clint A. Brubakken
> You need the XFCom_NeoMagic server from Redhat or Suse. Sorry, I don't > remember the URL. I am using it with XFree86 3.3.4. I might be in > 3.3.5 but I haven't seen 3.3.5 Debian packages yet. actually the Xserver in 3.3.3 and above support NeoMagic, unfortunately the one that comes with slin

Re: Trying to correctly configure X

1999-10-26 Thread Clint A. Brubakken
> You need the XFCom_NeoMagic server from Redhat or Suse. Sorry, I don't > remember the URL. I am using it with XFree86 3.3.4. I might be in > 3.3.5 but I haven't seen 3.3.5 Debian packages yet. actually the Xserver in 3.3.3 and above support NeoMagic, unfortunately the one that comes with slin

Re: Trying to correctly configure X

1999-10-26 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 26 Oct, Bryan K. Walton wrote about "Trying to correctly configure X" > I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E in which I have installed Debian > 2.1. I am struggling to configure X Windows. This weekend I managed to > get a screen and a GUI interface, but I can't get my resolution any better >

Re: Trying to correctly configure X

1999-10-26 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 26 Oct, Bryan K. Walton wrote about "Trying to correctly configure X" > I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E in which I have installed Debian > 2.1. I am struggling to configure X Windows. This weekend I managed to > get a screen and a GUI interface, but I can't get my resolution any better >

Re: Trying to correctly configure X

1999-10-26 Thread vw
Try this one: http://www.spack.org/geek/thinkpad-390.html not sure of it still works, though. This is also a good place to start: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ hth. Vitux --- Let's get back from la-la-land here, 'cause this ain't gonna happen > -Oprindelig meddelelse--

Re: Trying to correctly configure X

1999-10-26 Thread vw
Try this one: http://www.spack.org/geek/thinkpad-390.html not sure of it still works, though. This is also a good place to start: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ hth. Vitux --- Let's get back from la-la-land here, 'cause this ain't gonna happen > -Oprindelig meddelelse--

Trying to correctly configure X

1999-10-26 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi everybody, I just found out about this list and hope that somebody can help me. (I have been asking questions on the debian-user list, and have received much help, but still am having difficultly.) I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E in which I have installed Debian 2.1. I am strugglin

Trying to correctly configure X

1999-10-26 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi everybody, I just found out about this list and hope that somebody can help me. (I have been asking questions on the debian-user list, and have received much help, but still am having difficultly.) I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E in which I have installed Debian 2.1. I am strugglin

Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Drew Parsons
Just when I thought I had my mail system all working properly, I had to go and "upgrade" to potato. Bad move. I'm using exim to distribute my mail, fetching it from my mail server using fetchmail. But now when I run fetchmail, I get the following error: 4 messages for dparsons at purple.ucdav

Help: exim not accepting mail!

1999-10-26 Thread Drew Parsons
Just when I thought I had my mail system all working properly, I had to go and "upgrade" to potato. Bad move. I'm using exim to distribute my mail, fetching it from my mail server using fetchmail. But now when I run fetchmail, I get the following error: 4 messages for dparsons at purple.ucdav

Acer TM313T and save-to-disk partition

1999-10-26 Thread William Brioschi
About save-to-disk partitions... My notebook came preinstalled with W95 and save-to-disk on a file in the FAT partition. This works if and only if you have one partition only. Then I installed Debian and ran the DOS utility to create a "freeze" partition. Of course, it put it _over_ the Linux parti

Acer TM313T and save-to-disk partition

1999-10-26 Thread William Brioschi
About save-to-disk partitions... My notebook came preinstalled with W95 and save-to-disk on a file in the FAT partition. This works if and only if you have one partition only. Then I installed Debian and ran the DOS utility to create a "freeze" partition. Of course, it put it _over_ the Linux parti