On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> I'm still trying to install CD-RW, an HP IDE version. I've compiled the
> scsi emulation, scsi cd-rom. ./MAKEDEV sg-all, it won't do ./MAKEDEV sr.
> I can't mount /dev/scd0, /dev/sr0, or dev/sg0. I really want to make this
> ide cd writer work. Th
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> Is there a way to get my LaserJet 6L to work?
>
> APSfilter and magicfilter do not have modules/drivers that work. The most
> they have is LaserJet 4L. The problem with this printer is that it is in
> sleep mode all the time, and the driver mus
On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Jason Dawe wrote:
> >Here is the last 15 lines of the error. (Isn't there an easier way than
> >writing it all down?)
>
> If you have a mouse working, either in X or using gpm on the console, you
> can highlight a block of text with the left butt
> Hi, I wanted to get one of these drives for data archival and I had afew
> questions, i'de be glad for any advice:
>
> 2. What is the deal with the buffer underflow thing? I read (on Computers.co
> m) that you should have a fast SCSI interface, because if you cant feed the
> writer data fast eno
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> Mark W. Blunier wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF wrote:
> > >
> > > Has anyone heard from greenbush, I ordered a cd and then when the bad
> > > weather hit up north, have not heard from t
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF wrote:
>
> Has anyone heard from greenbush, I ordered a cd and then when the bad
> weather hit up north, have not heard from them. I hope everyone is ok
> up there in snow land.
Call up your credit card company quick. Otherwise you'll end up the the
When bitchx tries to create a new window under X, it fails
with the message
xterm: Can't execvp /usr/bin/wserv
Is there a package that provides swerv, or should it
have been included with bitchx?
Mark
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I use smail/pine for reading mail. When I send out a
message it can take a couple of minutes before pine
lets me do more reading. Is this normal, or do I have
something misconfigured? I chose option 1 on the smail
config, but do not have a smart host.
Mark
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On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I can't seem to get lredir to work in dosemu.
>
> I am using the dosemu package from hamm. I have an msdos partition
> mounted on /dos. In dosemu I type
>
> lredir d: LINUX\FS/dos
>
> And then get error 3c. And I can't seem to find the m
On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Dennis Drapeau wrote:
> Please help. I can't get my modem to work under linux, but it works
> fine in NT. The settings in NT are:
>
> IRQ 3 and IO 0x2e8 (COM4) .
>
> When booting linux, it sees my serial ports at :
>
> /dev/tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> /dev/
On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, RHS Linux User wrote:
> If when I installed magicfilter it did not ask me what printer I had
> how do I get back to its configuration.
If you have an /etc/printcap file the setup program does not run.
Either delete /etc/printcap before you install magicfilter, or after
you hav
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Carl Nasal wrote:
> My current problem: I want to install a package so I can connect to the
> 'Net (so I can download the packages right on to the Linux machine).
You don't need to install any package, as the minimum you need to
get PPP up is provided with the boot disks is p
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
> I was wondering if you all could tell me the pros and cons of some Mail
> Packages: I was wondering about:
>
> Fetchmail: I want to use this to just grab my mail and deliver it to me.
> (can it do sorting of mail?)
Fetchmail will retrieve mail from a
I am subscribed to a mailing list that only sends out messages
in a digest form. I would like to convert the digest back into
individual messages. I use procmail to seperate out the digest
from the rest of the mail. The format of the digest is
Header stuff
Title of digest
misc info
subjects in
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Jason and Heather wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 1997 at 12:12:32AM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Tim, your comments are inappropriate. Let me assure you that
> > > there is no fraud at all here.
> >
> > I never claimed there was. I was just stating
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Cleto Pescia wrote:
> For now, the only thing I can tell you for sure is that you should *NOT*
> buy the Debian CDs from Greenbush Technologies Corp. (www.greenbush.com).
>
> I ordered the official CD set in September by filling out their
> secure on-line form, they charged m
I've installed suck and inn on my home system. Inn
seems to work, at least on the local.test groups it
started with. Now I want to add some public groups
and fill the news spool and send out messages using
suck. I would like to do this in my ip-up script,
but I haven't figured out how this is do
have one network. A bridge connects two networks together.
Mark W. Blunier
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On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Alan Woo wrote:
> AGH! okay all. i know this sounds terribly stupid, but as you all know,
> i have next to no experience with Unix. Now i installed debian, and
> let's say my partitions are completely messed up, i don't know how the
> file system works etc.
Starting off, unle
Add me to the list. I have the room to test both upgrades and fresh
installs.
Mark
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printer (i don't have manual)?
Install the magicfilter program.
Mark W. Blunier
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/~blunier/homepage.html
Mark W. Blunier
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On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote:
> This is also how I pronounce it. But the question really is, how does the
> guy who made it pronouce it? I guess it hinges on how he says his name.
Why? My guess is that most people who have run across Debian (or Linux)
pronounce it based upon how the
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, George Bonser wrote:
> > > 3. Can the downlaoding tool also be used to uplaod mail to my Betcom
> > > account?
> > >
> > No, but smtp will do that for you.
>
> Note that if you use SMTP, you should use your ISP as your smarthost. This
> is because if you have dynami
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Max Stevens wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a way to get the list of email addresses
> that the user account gets sent out to. I'm interested in this partly
> because I've had a few people from the list write me and I can't write
> them back because their email address
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Brian K Servis wrote:
> Jun 3 13:35:39 widget-servis lpd[374]: unable to get official name for local
> machine widget-servis
When my ISP drops my ppp connection I get the same thing. If I do a
hostname localhost
then printing works again.
Mark.
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On Sat, 17 May 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> What did you install so far and how did you install it? To do a complete
> new install by ftp, you probably need to have an ethernet connection to
> the internet. If you have one, great, but if not, cd-rom installation is
> probably the best bet. Or,
On Sat, 17 May 1997, Tj Johnston, N4UYQ wrote:
> I recently installed Debian 1.2 on my 586-100 home machine... no problems
> to speak of, except not knowing what command line options, if any, should
> have been incuded when configuring modules/drivers...
>
> but on to the real question
>
>
0500 (CDT)
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On Mon, 12 May 1997, Colin Telmer wrote:
> > I added the following two lines to my /usr/sbin/dj500-filter to print
> > pdf files:
> >
> > # PDF files added by MWB
> > 0 %PDFpipe/usr/bin/acroread -toPostScript
>
> Would this not just transform the pdf input to ps output? Is
Script
I also had to make another change to ghostscript to get it to
display or print files. I added the following two lines to the
end of /usr/lib/ghostscript/3.33/gs_init.ps:
% next line added by mwb to fix problem with acrobat
/Default currenthalftone /Halftone defineresource pop
Mark W. B
> Joseph> I really do appreciate the
> Joseph> help that incompetents like me can get from more expert
> Joseph> individuals -- but how do we get to be able to fix stuff
> Joseph> for ourselves ???
>
> That's a very interesting question. I've often found myself getting
> despera
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:
> Secondly, how much faster can I see between the 28.8 modem, ISDN,
> T1, T2 , etc. I'd also want to know what should I need from the
> ISP in order to setup the connection between my Debian/Linux box
> to the ISP.
ISDN is 64. T1 is a monster, a
> I was once want to mirror the debian as well but I was told that
> I need to have a very high speed connection to the ISP. Currently
> I can have upto 28.8 via modem from my house. I'd like to know
> how do I go about getting a high speed connection, the cost of
> all this and proce
> How much disk space is required for a Debian ftp mirror?
I am mirroring the rex, rex-updates, buzz-updates, and the non-US
as well as a few other misc. programs on 80% or a 500 meg partition.
Mark
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> I'm a new debian user and currently experiencing some problems
> with the debian 1.2 release. I'm wondering if any tests have
> been performed before each of the debian release. It seemed to
> me that all the problems I've encountered could have been easily
> detected if any test ha
With a large upgrade,
the interaction be less obvious. Also, some of the 'obvious' errors are
less obvious when other errors are concurrent. Hence some of the 'Never
mind, I answered my own stupid question posts'.
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On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Look in /etc/syslogd.conf, and make sure all of the log files are there.
> It's generally a missing news log file.
When innd was deinstalled, it must have left some news lines in
/etc/syslog.conf. Took them out and it worked.
Sorry if you got two of
> Look in /etc/syslogd.conf, and make sure all of the log files are there.
> It's generally a missing news log file.
It was the syslogd.conf. I deinstalled inn, these lines weren't taken
out. Thanks.
Mark
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I've seen the in.Comsat get displayed to the console once, but I don't
remember the context that it occured.
Any Ideas on how to get my system back would be appreciated.
Mark W. Blunier
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ding away on the hard drive, I regained control, and
I could not find anything that looked out of the ordinary in any logs, or
files, or etc. The other couple of times, it was so bad that I tried the
c-a-d, and it didn't work. On the bright side, it hasn't happened since
April. (was 1
sleep 100". when I did a
ps -aux, it shows that 'nobody' owns the process. I guess that
procmail would also be running under 'nobody'. Since nobody does not have
write access to the groups, would this be why mail is disapearing?
Should I change access permission to
> I want to keep a running total of the time I am online, with MY ISP. Is
> there an easy way to do this?
Check out momond at http://slug.ctv.es/~emelero/momond.
Mark W. Blunier
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). You might have to
enter 'unix' at the first login to get to the ppp login. I didn't
look at the script very close, but you seem to be making a connection, but
it is to a shell account instead of ppp.
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I am unable to get procmail to start up from the ~.forward file.
I can get procmail to run from the command line,
formail -s procmail < copy_of_an_inbox
I have setting ~.forward to
"|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #blunier"
or
| /usr/bin/procmail
but neither one works. When the m
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