Re: Mutt and From: line in mail

1999-10-15 Thread markzimm
There must be something I misunderstand, then. I put the following into .muttrc: my_hdr From: Mark Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So that my real name would show up as well as my address. If you look at the headers in this message, my real name is gone. This has annoyed me for a while now. -- M

Re: Mutt and From: line in mail

1999-10-14 Thread markzimm
> I can't find anything in my muttrc that would account for this. I also > somehow doubt that qmail is rewriting a MUA-generated line (but I could > be wrong). > If you set the MAILUSER and MAILHOST environment variables, qmail rewrites the from line as [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is usually a good th

papd (netatalk) broken in potato upgrade

1999-10-10 Thread markzimm
Greetings: Last night, I completed my upgrade to potato with an 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. The only breakage I haven't been able to fix is in papd, or something related. When I try to print through the Debian system from a Macintosh, the file goes into the print queue but the print queue stops. I ge

netatalk dependencies

1999-10-09 Thread markzimm
I am upgrading to potato a few pieces at a time. I just tried to update netatalk (with apt-get install netatalk) and it seemed to update it ok but the daemons won't start now. Here is the problem: Starting AppleTalk daemons (this will take a while):AppleTalk not up! Child died . atalkdbind: Canno

Re: Framebuffer console 'Invalid Mode'

1999-10-09 Thread markzimm
Wouter, My setup is similar. Is that the only video line in your lilo.conf? Also, where did you put it? (in case it matters). -- Mark On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 11:43:20AM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 07:10:00PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a matrox g400 ca

Framebuffer console 'Invalid Mode'

1999-10-09 Thread markzimm
Greetings: Is there a trick to getting the framebuffer console working in Debian? I followed the instructions in the Framebuffer-HOWTO but at boot time, I get a message saying something like: "You passed an invalid mode, press to see the valid modes" Of course, it shows only vga text modes in t

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-06 Thread markzimm
> > That was supposed to be the point of my message -- In my experience, > upgrading from glibc 2.0 to 2.1 is *trivial*, and needs no special > consideration, migration guides, hand-holding sessions, or support > groups. > > Stop whining and just do it. > > -Miles > > p.s. The `stop whining' b

Re: Clock is loosing time

1999-10-05 Thread markzimm
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:35:13AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Stephan Engelke said: > > Check xntp and ntpdate. I believe there is a .deb-package called xntp. > > Next place a call to "ntpdate " in your ip-up.d. > > Not to steal another Dave's question, but... > > Where can one find a list o

ipchains ip-masquerading configutation

1999-10-05 Thread markzimm
Greetings: I would like to know if there is a standard place to put the ipchains commands for ip masquerading so they get executed at boot time. For now, I stuck them in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh but if there is a more customary location for them I want to put them there so that they don't accidenta

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-02 Thread markzimm
Based on some advice in this thread, I decided to try upgrading a few non-critical packages to see how it would go. After getting a few things upgraded without a hitch, I decided to give samba a try. It broke. After downgrading samba (also easy) so it would keep working, I looked for the problem i

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-01 Thread markzimm
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 03:52:47PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > I've been slowly upgrading my packages from slink to potato, and > frankly, have never had a single problem. I was nervous about upgrading > perl, because I've seen all sorts of veiled references to possible > hosage (although I've nev

Tripp Lite UPS

1999-09-27 Thread markzimm
Greetings: I have a Tripp Lite Internet Office 500 UPS and I want to set up a power monitoring daemon. Tripp Lite has an rpm package (no source) for this but it requires a tweak to the kernel to get it working. Before I do this, I wanted to find out if anyone has tried setting up power monitoring

Re: startx (after upgrade) dials modem before running X (fixed)

1999-09-20 Thread markzimm
In case anyone os interested, the problem turned out to be some spurious entries in my .Xauthority file. While poking around looking for the cause of the dialout, I did a 'xauth list' and got back about a dozen lines of stuff, including some entries for 192.168.0.1, which doesn't exist on my netwo

startx (after upgrade) dials modem before running X

1999-09-19 Thread markzimm
Greetings: After upgrading some X-window packages last night I cannot start X without waiting for the modem to dial out and connect. It seems to be doing a name lookup since, if I get back out of X and hang up the modem and then do a startx immediately, there is no dial-out since the name lookup i

apt messed up after source package install

1999-08-30 Thread markzimm
I installed qmail from the debian source package (successfully) but now I can't do an 'apt-get update'. Here's what I get: owl:~# apt-get update Hit http://ftp.netgod.net x/ Packages Hit http://ftp.netgod.net x/ Release Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Malformed Priority line E: Error occured w

Re: Matrox G400

1999-08-30 Thread markzimm
I'm using one now and it works great. You need the 3.3.4 SVGA server. I am running slink so I updated X to the 3.3.3 debian packages at netgod.net and the 3.3.4 SVGA server direct from xfree86.org. -- Mark On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 05:25:58PM -0400, B. Szyszka wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to get a n

Re: How to install a source package?

1999-08-27 Thread markzimm
Thanks for the kick-start; I have gotten this to work. For the benefit of the other side discussions that this question started, let me give a little background. I wanted to install qmail which is only available in source form. Since it provides 'mail-user-agent', I wanted to do this by the book s

Re: Modem/PPP Problems

1999-08-21 Thread markzimm
If you are seeing something like this: Aug 12 21:03:05 owl pppd[982]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 Aug 12 21:03:05 owl pppd[982]: Using interface ppp0 Aug 12 21:03:05 owl pppd[982]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1 Aug 12 21:03:09 owl pppd[982]: not replacing existing default route to sl0 [0.0.

keymap help: how to use a real Meta key?

1999-08-19 Thread markzimm
I just got a new Happy Hacking keyboard with the escape and control keys in the right place and a real Meta key instead of the windows key. However, the default key map doesn't make use of the meta key; it is using an 'alt is meta' binding. I would like to set it up so that the Alt key is Alt and t

Bleeding edge video (Matrox G400)

1999-08-13 Thread markzimm
I am in the market for a new computer and I've been looking at Advanced System Laboratories (www.aslab.com) as a possible source. They include the Matrox G400 card in all of their systems (along with AcceleratedX). Xfree86 supports the G400 card in version 3.3.4. but it appears that potato is only

Re: [Debian: KDE] How to change the screen resolution

1999-08-12 Thread markzimm
Michelle: This is controlled in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. Within a block that looks like: Section "Screen" Subsection "Display" Depth 32 Modes "1280x1024" ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Check the Modes line for the resolution. You can

Re: Qmail

1999-08-05 Thread markzimm
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 11:51:57PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > > > what about exim?? I am very happy with exim and its lisencing is better than > qmail. Great! Stay with it. Learning a new MTA is enough of a pain that I would never tell someone to drop one they like just because I prefer somethin

Re: Problem getting EtherLink card to work

1999-08-03 Thread markzimm
Thanks to everyone who responded to this. As it turned out, the linux end and the null cable were fine all along. My problem is with the mac. Actually it is a Power Computing machine and I suspect that when I went to MacOS 8.x that I lost some proprietary ethernet device drivers. The hazards of c

Problem getting EtherLink card to work

1999-08-01 Thread markzimm
I just installed a new 3com EtherLink III card and I am unable to ping another machine. First, a quick overview: I am trying to connect my linux box (with the new card) to a mac with a null cable. I've never used the ethernet on the mac before so I can't be certain it works. Also, the null cable i