Fetchmail + cron + dialup

Hello, What is the best way to configure fetchmail to regularly check for new mail on a dialup account? I tried doing it with a simple cron job like "pon && fetchmail && poff" but the last command for some reasons never worked. I also tried running pppd in "on-demand" mode, but somehow this did

Re: KDE kind of hands on Initializing services

Ryan Nowakowski wrote: It's possible that your .kde config files are corrupted. Move your .kde directory out of the way then start kde. I've tried to login to Gnome, but had a kind of similar problem. After the splash screen appears, everything else seems to die. So it seems to be more an X-serv

KDE kind of hands on Initializing services

Hello, Could anybody please help me with such an issue. When I try running KDE (used to do it before already), I get the KDE splash screen showing that KDE is initializing services. After a while, the splash screen disappears and the only thing I see is the wallpaper. No shortcuts or mouse clicks w

Postfix does not start

Hello, I am trying to set up Postfix on a Sarge system. When I start the server, everything seems to go well, but I cannot telnet to port 25. When I checked mail log, I saw this: localhost postfix[...]: fatal: /etc/postfix/postfix-script: Permission denied Could somebody please tell me what is

Re: Failed PPP hangs system

Thomas Hood wrote: Only a buggy driver (or other kernel component) can make the whole system hang. I have tried to reinstall the kernel altogether, but the problem persists. Where else can I dig? What about the loadable modules? Can I try checking something there? How can I do it? I can just add

Re: Failed PPP hangs system

Bill Marcum wrote: Get an external modem. You would be surprised, Bill, but that is exactly what is happening when I connect with an external U.S.Robotics modem. :-) Any other ideas? Perhaps I have to configure some options in the wvdial config? -- -=Robert & Beata Golovniov | Lviv,

Failed PPP hangs system

Hello! I have a very strange problem to deal with. When a ppp connections gets broken, the whole system (Sarge) hangs and I cannot do anything with it - neither through ssh, nor even through the normal keyboard. What might be the root of the problem and how to fight with it? -- -=Ro

Local installation archive

Hello, I would like to use an FTP server on a Windows machine to do a network installation of Debian. So, what is the procedure to make an installation DVD disk into an FTP Debian repository? Any hints would be very much appreciated. -- -=Robert & Beata Golovniov

Installing from ftp

Hello, I am having an old Deskpro 575 and want to try installing Woody on it. I cannot run it off the DVD install edition, so I just copied all the files to another machine on the LAN running an FTP server. How can I instruct Debian install to get the files from there? Is there

S/MIME support in Emai clients

Hello, Could anybody, please, suggest me what is the most efficient mail client under Linux from the viewpoint of handling S/MIME? -- -=Robert & Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukraine=- ~~ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]&B