Re: dosemu without dos being installed?

> > Can dosemu be installed if DOS is not installed? DOS does not have to be installed on the hard-drive for dosemu to be installed. Some version of DOS must be available for dosemu to be able to "boot" thou It does *not* have to be MS-DOS. I've been running DR-DOS for years under dosemu. Calde

Re: X-windows/Trio64/16 bit colours

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: # > # > > > Please, is there someone here that has an Debian box, whith X-Windows # > > > (Xfree 3.3) and an Trio 64 video card, runing whith 16 bit colours? # > > Yes... 800x600 at 16bpp with the svga server (trident TGUI9440 1M) and 1024x768 at 16bp

Re: fetchmail problem?

On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > Do you have an entry in /etc/inetd.conf like:- > > > > > smtpstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd > > /usr/sbin/in.smtpd > > > > [snip] > > >

xdm configuration

I chose not to start xdm at the initial configuration because my laptop has an unsupported (by XFree86) video card (Neomagic), and I needed to set up Xinside's (= Xi Graphics now) server. Now I try to run xdm and it doesn't start. I have a xdm-start line in my /etc/X11/config and on boot it re

Re: FAX?

Jason Costomiris wrote: >On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > >> I didn't see any how-to's on configuring Linux to send/receive fax.. >> where can I start? -- programs, info, etc? > >Start by installing the efax package. Or mgetty+sendfax. Efax will occupy the modem so that you can't have an

Re: Host/nslookup, sendmail, bash

On Sunday, Steve Hsieh mumbled: > I don't know the answer to this...but did you try removing your domain > entry from your resolv.conf file to see if that made a difference (so that > there are only nameserver lines and a search line)? I don't have a domain entry in my resolv.conf: search cs.wash

Host/nslookup, sendmail, bash

I'm having problems configuring sendmail to deliver mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've configured my domain as "cs.washington.edu", with a search path (in resolv.conf) of cs.washington.edu, washington.edu, and edu. However, sendmail doesn't appear to try other entries in the search path because it bo

newsx -- not with inn?

According to dselect, newsx works only with cnews, not with inn (which I'm running). Is this correct? I'd hate to go ahead and install it, just to uninstall it again after reading the docs. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum

Re: fetchmail problem?

On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > Do you have an entry in /etc/inetd.conf like:- > > > > smtpstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd > > > > /usr/sbin/in.smtpd > > [snip] > > > After reading the previous res

Re: Can you talk to a enet device with just the hardware address?

Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a (LexMark) black box print server I picked up surplus (cheap), > and it has an ethernet interface, a serial interface (for a printer), > and two parallel interfaces (for more printers). It supports telnet, > ping, etc. > > It has the LAN hardwar

Re: NSLOOKUP don't work

Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Before that, I would recommend to change 127.0.0.1 to the address of > some different nameserver though. You shoud not run your own NS without > real need. Depends. If you're running over a slow link, bind's DNS lookup caching can help speed up networ

inn upgrade kills innd!

I tried tonight to upgrade various packages with my Debian 1.3.1 CD-ROM. Mostly it went well, but innd now fails to load! I purged the package and reinstalled the original inn package, but they both fail with variations of this message: Jul 26 23:54:06 carlf innd: /var/lib/news/history cant dbm

Re: Memory problems

-> I had problems too adding 2*16MB (32MB) and my solution was to -> take out the two 16MB cards. -> I set a little cron job to run memtest at 5 minutes, and every -> time I got a disk problem (could'nt get a free inode, or smthg like) I -> also got a memory error. -> It's now 4 day

INFERNO & Debian?

Hi Today I read an article in a spanish programing magazine called "Inferno: goodbye to Java" that impact me. To people that don't know it, INFERNO is an S.O created by Bell Labs (where work Dennish Ritchie) that mybe supose the "revolution in network S.O." and kill Java supremacy. This syste

Re: Host/nslookup, sendmail, bash

On 27 Jul, Tessa Lau wrote: > search cs.washington.edu washington.edu edu > nameserver 128.95.1.4 > order hosts, bind > Shouldn't the last line be in host.conf ? Mine is reading: order hosts,bind multi on Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Sendmail broken (Debian 1.3)

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, D. W. Wieboldt wrote: > WARNING: local host name (shiloh_a) is not qualified; fix $j in config file It is illegal to use '_' in hostnames, and newest dns servers are enforce this limitation AFAIK. Use '-' instead. --- GNU GPL: csak tiszta forrásból -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM TH

ICQ

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I hope this is an appropriate posting for this list. I have used the ICQ program from Mirabilis LTD http://www.mirabilis.com In Windows 95 and I would love to be able to use this great software with Linux. But unfortunately as far as I know Mirabilis has no pla

Re: Signal 11... Its Back

You may want to look at http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: > > I recently recieved my i-Connect Debian 1.3 cd (binary only), and > recieved > the signal 11 internal error in cc1. > gcc is 2.7.2.1-8 > kernel source is 2.0.30 > > This happens on a P166 with 48M and a P10

Re: device access (specifically ttySx)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 26-Jul-97 Paul Miller wrote: >George Bonser wrote: >> >> Onw way is to have those ports owned by certain groups. You then >> place >> the users that you want to allow access into the group for that port. >> >how do you do that? mc won't make any changes..

Re: Mail loop

In your email to me, Bob Nielsen, you wrote: > > I tried sending mail to myself by smtp from another system. It was > received, but keeps trying to send to itself, until finally being rejected > for excessive loops: [clip] > > ad infinitum (the last in the string showed the mail being receive

nmh and mail spool permissions

I installed the "nmh" program, and almost everything seems to work now, except that the program "inc" hangs, or at least hangs around for a while and then dies. After looking at the "strace" I see it is trying to create lockfiles in /var/spool/mail/ which is forbidden by the permission bits. It

Samba allows only one connection

I installed Samba 1.9.16p11-3 with a default configuration but only one client can see it at a time... I get the message: bind failed on port 139 socket_addr=0 (Address already in use) in the smb logfile when I try to connect from the 2d client. Is there something wrong with the default s

Re: Host/nslookup, sendmail, bash

First, check to see that your mail program is not adding the domain. Second, assuming that you used a .mc file to build the sendmail.cf you might try: making sure that there is NO FEATURE(always_add_domain) statement making sure there IS a FEATURE(nocanonfiy) statement. On Sun, 27 Jul 1997,

Re: fetchmail problem?

In your email to me, Adrian Bridgett, you wrote: > > On %M %N, Victor Torrico wrote ^ I bet you are using mutt out of hamm, right? This seems to be a bug.. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "Management decisions have no effec

Re: fetchmail problem?

On 27 Jul, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > >> reading message 1 (2857 bytes) >> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Unknown error >> 18446744073709551615 >> fetchmail: POP3> QUIT >> fetchmail: POP3< -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> fetchmail: SM

Re: why kernel 2.0.29 in Debian 1.3.1?

On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > > why Debian 1.3.1 includes kernel 2.0.29 and not 2.0.30 (that is in this > > Debian 1.3.1 but don't is preselect the first time that I install the > > system).? > > > > Is there any problem whith 2.0.30 kernel? > > Apparently, there was some of the 2.1.

Re: 2.1 Kernels

Alex Monaghan wrote: > Does the 1.3.1 Debian release come with any of the 2.1 kernels and updated > compilers needed to compile them ? Downloaded 2.1.X kernels trees from archive sites (http://www.linuxhq.com/). Then check out /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes which tells you what versions o

Re: Sendmail broken (Debian 1.3)

Good suggestion. I think it is indeed timing out for want of a good lookup. Have host name in /etc/hosts but that doesn't help. Now howto hack sendmail into submission! Does anybody know the simple fix to the .cf file to make it run? Thanks all! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . . . . . . . THIS com

Re: fetchmail problem?

On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: [snip] > > > Do you have an entry in /etc/inetd.conf like:- > > > smtpstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.smtpd [snip] > After reading the previous response, I noticed that my /etc/inetd.conf > did NOT have smtp defined. Add

Re: samba newbie help request

> I've installed 1.3.1 on a machine at work. It's on a (physical) network > with a bunch of Windows boxes running NT, Win95 and WFW3.x. I've added ... > Samba from bo is installed (with no problems) on the Linux box. > > What I'm looking for is the absolute minimum /etc/smb.conf that will > allow

Re: Mailers

Hi, I use Emacs VM for personal mail, and GNUS for mailing lists and newsgroups (using the mailagent system for filtering, separating, vacation, and simple remote command execution). Works wonderfully for me. manoj -- "If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going

shutdown doesn't umount properly one of my partitions

Hi, I have debian 1.3.1, kernel 2.0.30 and SysVinit 2.71-2 I have 3 partitiond: hda1 --> swap 50 megs hda2 --> root 1.1 gigs hdc1 --> users 3.2 gigs The partition hdc1 is never cleanly umount i.e. on every boot process, the filesystem of hdc1 is checked and this took a lot of time... This appen wh

Re: Host/nslookup, sendmail, bash

On Sunday, George Bonser mumbled: > making sure that there is NO FEATURE(always_add_domain) statement > making sure there IS a FEATURE(nocanonfiy) statement. This worked, thanks! --Tessa [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Apache + CGI

Jakob Borg wrote: > I got the impression that IncludesNOEXEC was the feature I needed and > solved my problem. I (my users) can still use the #include virtual="" to > user "legitimate" CGIs. Is that not so? The mod_include documentation says this: include This command inserts the t

Re: Bugs in 1.3.1 Debian packages

On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Carl Fink wrote: > I send a letter to this list earlier, complaining about a problem after > upgrading inn. I have now figured out the problem. > > Consulting the inn FAQ, I find that the error I saw is caused by a > corrupt history.dir file. Theoretically running makehisto

Re: compiling apache 1.2.1 - where is -lcrypt??

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Amos Shapira wrote: > I'm trying to build Apache 1.2.1 as a debian package based on > the .diff.gz found in project/experimental, and the compilation > process ("./debian/rules build" as root) bombs because the loader > can't find a library

"From:" Field in Mutt and (Ex)mh

Hi all, I'm connected to the Internet by a PPP modem line, and depend on a POP3 host "stud.uni-goettingen.de" for getting my mail. So far, I handled my mail with Netscape, which directly contacted this host for sending and receiving my mail, so Smail configuration was really of no concern. Now I

Re: Host/nslookup, sendmail, bash

>>Tessa Lau wrote: >On Sunday, Steve Hsieh mumbled: >> I don't know the answer to this...but did you try removing your domain >> entry from your resolv.conf file to see if that made a difference (so that >> there are only nameserver lines and a search line)? > >I don't have a domain entry in

/usr/bin/pon

Hi due an mistake I delete the "/usr/bin/pon" file. Please, could someone send me a copy of this file whith no modifications (as is when you install Debian 1.3.1)? Is there any way of recover an file deleted?...I think remember that there is an utility to do something about. bye and thanks.

device access (specifically ttySx)

how do I allow/deny access to device files (such as /dev/ttyS1)? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Sendmail broken (Debian 1.3)

> > > > This happens to me a lot. You have two options: put your hostname and > > IP address in /etc/hosts, or convince sendmail that it really doesn't > > need to do a DNS lookup. The second I don't remember how to do, but I > > think you can manage it from the M4 stuff (which is good; .cf file

educational software on Debian

Hi, I'm looking for educational software for Linux, specially for Debian, for children aging 8-14. Does somebody know something? The idea is to set a computer teaching linux lab for children. I would like to do this with linux. Does somebody have some experience w

Re: KDE install for Debian

Miguel A. Figueroa wrote: > Well first let me start by saying I love what I see so far (so much > that I am trying to figure out ways in contributing, ie Mirror > Site, codeing as soon as I learn more about Qt etc.). I have two > identical machines. One with Redhat linux and the other with Debia

ramdisks

I was trying to make a boot disk and when I unmounted the ramdisk is disappeared! .. I have ramdisk support compiled as a module.. does it have to be built in to work or is there another way to make a boot/ramdisk? _Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: INFERNO & Debian?

I have experimented with the Inferno emulator on a Win95 machine. As of yet there are no native "compilers", everythong must be "compiled" in the native OS. It is still a little flaky from my experience. No path, things like that. It is a little awkward moving around. A neat play toy though.

Re: X-windows/Trio64/16 bit colours

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > Hi there > > > > Please, is there someone here that has an Debian box, whith X-Windows > > (Xfree 3.3) and an Trio 64 video card, runing whith 16 bit colours? > > yes, i am > > works just fine in 16bpp, 1024x768. > > > > > I ask becouse I have

xtacacs...

Hi, I'm really sorry if this is off-topic... I would like to configure xtacacsd-conf to allow only users at say, only from 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. Anybody has done that? how? We are running xtacacs(version 3.5) running on a Debian linux 2.0.30. The router is a cisco 2511. TIA,

modem solution

Just a followup on the modem install: I had problems configuring my modem (dynalink 1428VQH on COM3/ttyS2, a dumb multiport modem), which was trying to share IRQ4 with COM1. The problem was that it was /sort of/ working, but very slow to respond under minicom (about twenty seconds to ATDT) and d

Re: How do I recompile the kernel?

David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I recompile the kernel? Alternatively: Does anyone know a URL for > some better instructions? Install the kernel-package package, and then read /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz. This will give you a pretty painless method to compile any kerne

Re: /etc/ppp/ip-up behavior

"Oliver Elphick" writes: > In your script, simply say > > echo message >/dev/console You could also try logger. See "man logger". -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: fetchmail problem?

Lindsay Allen wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > Do you have an entry in /etc/inetd.conf like:- > > > > smtpstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/in.smtpd > > [snip] > > > After reading the previous response, I noticed that my /etc/inetd.

Re: fetchmail problem?

On Sun, 27 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 27 Jul, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > > On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > > > >> reading message 1 (2857 bytes) > >> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Unknown error > >> 18446744073709551615 > >> fetchmail: POP3> QUIT > >> fetc

Re: Home directories

On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Harald Helfgott wrote: > How do I set the home directories to /usr/local instead of /home ? /usr/local is not the right place for home directories. They just don't belong in /usr. But if you want to change the default location, look into /etc/adduser.conf. Vadik. -- Vadi

Re: question on bo-updates: found on ldso security update

Todd Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : I would say that bo-updates is a holding tank for packages intended : to become part of Debian-1.3.2 when it gets released. Consider it : the "unstable" part of "stable" until the testing group gives those : packages its blessing. If you need/want any o

Re: Mail loop

Bob Nielsen writes: > > . What does smail -d 30 -bv [EMAIL PROTECTED] tell? > > After doing the above, I get > > [nielsen:nielsen]$ sudo smail -d 30 -bv [EMAIL PROTECTED] > director user matched user nielsen > nielsen ... deliverable > 30 ... not deliverable: unknown user > > > > That shoul

Re: fetchmail problem?

On %M %N, Victor Torrico wrote > Hello all, > Am using fetchmail to move mail from my ISP's POP3 server to my > machine. Cannot move POP3 mail, using fetchmail, from the ISP server > to my client machine. Here's the error message when executing the > fetchmail command in an xterm either as a us

Re: Host/nslookup, sendmail, bash

Tessa Lau wrote: > ---[ snip ]- > > One more question: bash 2.0 doesn't appear to understand a command > line > which worked in bash 1.14: > > % /bin/bash -c '((xli foo.gif); echo bar) &' > /bin/bash: -c: line 1: missing closing `)' for arithmetic expression > /bin/ba

Re: X-windows/Trio64/16 bit colours

Hi there > > Please, is there someone here that has an Debian box, whith X-Windows > (Xfree 3.3) and an Trio 64 video card, runing whith 16 bit colours? yes, i am works just fine in 16bpp, 1024x768. > > I ask becouse I have problems to work whith that configuration (in eight > bit colours I h

Re: shutdown doesn't umount properly one of my partitions

Dany Dionne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone know how to fix the problem? When this happens, it means that some program still has a file open on the drive in question at the time the unmounting is supposed to take place. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscrib

fetchmail problem?

Hello all, I'm completely green behind the ears when it comes to email setup. Trying to get an exmh mail sytem established on my machine. I've installed the following debian GNU/Linux packages on an i586 machine: exim, eximon, fetchmail, metamail, mime-support, mh, and exmh. Only connected t

Re: Bugs in 1.3.1 Debian packages

On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > the Debian bug tracking system at http://www.debian.org/bugs. Sorry that should be Bugs not bugs. So http://www.debian.org/Bugs is the correct URL. -- Jaldhar -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL P

Re: device access (specifically ttySx)

Paul Miller wrote: > > George Bonser wrote: > > > > Onw way is to have those ports owned by certain groups. You then > > place > > the users that you want to allow access into the group for that port. > > > how do you do that? mc won't make any changes.. should I just use > chown/grp/mod? Try t

Re: exmh mail?

: Francis Swasey wrote: : : > If you choose to use mh, you need to run (Oh rats, brain : > failure--begins : > with the letter "f" and replaces the popclient program) to pull the : > mail : > from your ISP into your /var/spool/mail/USERID mailbox. Once the mail : > is : > there, mh/exmh can read

Re: Sendmail broken (Debian 1.3)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- "D. W. Wieboldt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just built a new Debian 1.3 system from cdrom. Lots of things are running > just fine, but somehow sendmail doesn't work. I want sendmail on this one > so I can build a beeper gateway :-) Does anybody have any

2.1 Kernels

Does the 1.3.1 Debian release come with any of the 2.1 kernels and updated compilers needed to compile them ? -- -- Alex Monaghan Network Support Analyst, Royal Mail Anglia London Rd, Stevenage, SG1 1AA

Re: Apache + CGI

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Glynn Clements wrote: > Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 14:26:23 +0100 > From: Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jakob Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Apache + CGI > > > Jakob Borg wrote: > > > I want to

Re: exmh mail?

Francis Swasey wrote: > If you choose to use mh, you need to run (Oh rats, brain > failure--begins > with the letter "f" and replaces the popclient program) to pull the > mail > from your ISP into your /var/spool/mail/USERID mailbox. Once the mail > is > there, mh/exmh can read it into your perso

Re: exmh mail?

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > Francis Swasey wrote: > > Hello, > > Do you think it is the debian package "fetchmail" that you refer to > above? Yes, fetchmail it is. Frank -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble

exmh mail?

Hello All, I'm using the debian package exmh. Only connected to an ISP with pop3 mail using PPP. Do not get incoming mail into the ~/Mail/inbox directory. Haven't tried outgoing mail. Mail works fine using Netscape Communicator but I would like to switch to exmh. Read the docs but there's so

Re: "From:" Field in Mutt and (Ex)mh

On Jul 28, Alexander Koch wrote > Quoting Stefan Baums ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > You surely want to put something like > > > my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Baums) > > > in your ~/.muttrc - internally Mutt will do the "Name <>" change. > > Nope. No effect. (I tried "localsite stud.uni-goett

Re: X-windows/Trio64/16 bit colours

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > Please, is there someone here that has an Debian box, whith X-Windows > > (Xfree 3.3) and an Trio 64 video card, runing whith 16 bit colours? > > yes, i am > > works just fine in 16bpp, 1024x768. > > > > > I ask becouse I have problems to work wh

home directories

My largest partition is at /usr/local. That's why. --Harald -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: device access (specifically ttySx)

Onw way is to have those ports owned by certain groups. You then place the users that you want to allow access into the group for that port. On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > how do I allow/deny access to device files (such as /dev/ttyS1)? > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: KDE install for Debian

Joey Hess wrote: > > Miguel A. Figueroa wrote: > > least the kwm, kpanel etc) either freeze or completely die. Does > What versions of kde are you using on the debian and red hat machines? > > I am the kde maintainer for debian, and I try to keep the package > reasonably > up to date, though it'

Re: X Windows

Are you sure it's X trying to access /dev/dsp and not your window manager (e.g. FvwmAudio module)? Regards, Randy Jason Gunthorpe writes: > Hi, > > Why does X windows try to open /dev/dsp when it loads? I don't have my > sound module configured right so this causes a kernel message.. > > Also,

Bugs in 1.3.1 Debian packages

I send a letter to this list earlier, complaining about a problem after upgrading inn. I have now figured out the problem. Consulting the inn FAQ, I find that the error I saw is caused by a corrupt history.dir file. Theoretically running makehistory as I did should have cleared this, but it didn

FAT32 support

What is the status of FAT32 support in Linux (Debian)?? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Buying CD writer - any suggestions

Hello all... I in the market for buying a CDROM writer for archival of data. At this time Im thinking of buying a YAMAHA CDR400TX (which come with some windows package called CD Pro). But this machine will be used on my debian box - and obviously I need to know if it works well... any comments

Problems with the digest mailing & CC:Mail

Hello all ... I read the digest version of this groups mailings through cc:Mail and often I get too many messages within a digest mailing. CC:Mail will not permit me to read the last few notes within a given digest. Does any body else out there have this problem. PLEASE - Could al

ftpd(netstd2.09-2): File permission defaults for ftp uploads?

This is an old problem I have suffered from since the beginning, but never cared to talk about. Still it is annoying. I'm running the ftp daemon that comes with netstd 2.09-2. The problem is that independently of the client, a file uploaded on this server is not readable by others. You have to iss

Re: Where is Netscape Communicator?

On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to download the latest beta of Communicator (b6 I believe) > but I can't find it in any of the ftp[12..].netscape.com sites (actually > it seems I can't find any unix version at all!). Can anybody tell me > where is it? > > --

Mail loop

I tried sending mail to myself by smtp from another system. It was received, but keeps trying to send to itself, until finally being rejected for excessive loops: Received: from nielsen(really [198.68.42.82]) by nielsen via in.smtpd with esmtp id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <

Re: home directories

Hi, Just make /home a soft link to /usr/local/home. as root: (with nobody logged in!) copy /home to /usr/local/home: cd / tar cf - /home | ( cd /usr/local; tar xpf - ) check that it copied okay: ls -l /usr/local/home remove and relink: rm -rf /home ln -s /usr/local/home /home that's all, S

Re: "From:" Field in Mutt and (Ex)mh

Alexander Koch wrote: > You surely want to put something like > > my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Baums) > > in your ~/.muttrc - internally Mutt will do the "Name <>" change. Nope. No effect. (I tried "localsite stud.uni-goettingen.de": no effect either.) -- Stefan Baums Universitaet Go

Re: X-windows/Trio64/16 bit colours

Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd wrote: > > > On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > > > > Please, is there someone here that has an Debian box, whith X-Windows > > > > (Xfree 3.3) and an Trio 64 video card, runing whith 16 bit colours? > > >

Re: educational software on Debian

On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for educational software for Linux, specially > for Debian, for children aging 8-14. > Does somebody know something? > The idea is to set a computer teaching linux lab for > children. > I would

Re: FAT32 support

Shaleh wrote: > > What is the status of FAT32 support in Linux (Debian)?? go to www.linuxhq.com and there is a patch for 2.0.29/30 Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: fetchmail problem?

On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: [snip] > vtorrico$ fetchmail -v -u vtorrico -a -p pop3 milo.cfw.com > Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > fetchmail: 3.9.6 querying milo.cfw.com (protocol POP3) at Sun Jul 27 > 06:51:48 1997 > fetchmail: POP3< +OK QUALCOMM Pop server derived from UCB

Re: dosemu without dos being installed?

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > Can dosemu be installed if DOS is not installed? Yes. I run with nothing but ext2 partitions on this machine and have dosemu installed. However, as I understand it (read: not sure 'cause I haven't messed with it much), fdos' redirection of ext2

Re: X-capable mail reader

Hi folks - couldn't find Stephen's original message in my folder, so pardon the indirect reply. [EMAIL PROTECTED] sez: : Stephen> Currently I'm using xmh and it's just not cutting the 200+ : Stephen> emails I see a day. I like the MH features, I just need : Stephen> multiple inboxes, which it

lilo/boot disk

How do I create my own boot disk? The one that I created during the installation doesn't have 2.0.30 nor my scsi parameters... I tried running lilo with 'boot=/dev/fd0' in the lilo.conf and it errored out.. -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: Host/nslookup, sendmail, bash

> I'm having problems configuring sendmail to deliver mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I've configured my domain as "cs.washington.edu", with a search path (in > resolv.conf) of cs.washington.edu, washington.edu, and edu. However, > sendmail doesn't appear to try other entries in the search path becaus

Re: Mail loop

Bob Nielsen writes: > I tried sending mail to myself by smtp from another system. It was > received, but keeps trying to send to itself, until finally being rejected > for excessive loops: This excerpt doesn't show enough configuration: . How is your local system called? . Does Smail know tha

Re: The Gimp?

On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Another option is to get the .tar.gz file from the source distribution and > compile Gimp your self. I did, using just libc5 (with LinuxThreads > installed). I did so but without LinuxThreads installed. I hadn't any trouble so far. It is possible th

Re: Mail loop

On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: > Bob Nielsen writes: > > I tried sending mail to myself by smtp from another system. It was > > received, but keeps trying to send to itself, until finally being rejected > > for excessive loops: > > This excerpt doesn't show enough configuration: > >

Re: The Gimp?

On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Andreas Tille wrote: : On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: : : > Another option is to get the .tar.gz file from the source distribution and : > compile Gimp your self. I did, using just libc5 (with LinuxThreads : > installed). : I did so but without LinuxThre

Re: home directories

> My largest partition is at /usr/local. That's why. Make /home a symbolic link to somewhere on that partition then. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Mail loop

Add nielsen.tus.primenet.com to your more_hostnames: line in /etc/smail/config more_hostnames=nielsen.tus.primenet.com > Received: from nielsen(really [198.68.42.82]) by nielsen > via in.smtpd with esmtp > id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 12

Re: gzipped fonts..

They were previously compressed (*.Z). Now the XFree group uses the gnu compression tool (gzip/*.gz). The compress algorithm has some copyright/distribution problems--gzip doesn't. The choice is made by the XFree foundation, not debian, though it makes better sense for debian, too. Yes this

Re: newsx -- not with inn?

On %M %N, Carl Fink wrote > According to dselect, newsx works only with cnews, not with inn (which > I'm running). Is this correct? I have installed version 0.8 (not packaged) and the man page says: -c, --cnews Set to C News mode as opposed to INN. Controls

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