Argh! I think my last msg sent as HTML...

If it did, I'm really sorry as this is one of my own personal pet peevesbut I'm unfortunatly using Outlook Express 5 on a fresh Win98 install, and I'd forgotten to go in to the options and set to send as plain text. Again, really sorry :( I'm going to re-post the message here, in case anyone g

Re: xinetd & rpc.mountd/rpc.nfsd

On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 06:17:28PM +0200, Pere Camps wrote: > Hi! > > Has anyone got working the re:? If so, would you please send me > your /etc/xinetd.conf. I've tried almost all combinations without any > luck. :-/ > > TIA! Well, I don't have a solution to offer, unfortunatly, tho

RE: X and TNT

Chris, I just went through the same process. You need to install slink and then set up the file /etc/apt/sources.list to include an debian X packages. Then just apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. It downloads the new X packages and installs then. It was very easy. Check the list archives for

Re: Argh! I think my last msg sent as HTML...

Chris Concannon wrote: > AMD K6-III 400 > 96MB RAM both should be fine > RivaTNT AGP vid card need XFree86 v3.3.3.1 (lots of people have asked about this - check the debian-user archives at www.debian.org for details > SoundBlaster AWE64 should be okay > Linksys EtherFast something-or-other

Re: SGML problems

Hi, * Matthew Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ! LaTeX Error: File `linuxdoc-sgml.sty' not found. On the commandline, try `texhash' (needs to be run as root), `kpsewhich linuxdoc-sgml.sty', `locate linuxdoc-sgml.sty'. `texhash' build teTeX´s filename database, `kpsewhich' locates it for y

Adaptec 2940AU

Hi, I have an adaptec 2940AU SCSI card with a seagate hard drive and a toshiba cd rom drive. I am trying to install slink. The rescue disk boots fine and everything is good up until the adaptec card is initialized. (scsi0) found at PCI 19/0 (scsi0)Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs (scsi0)

Re: Argh! I think my last msg sent as HTML...

> Have you checked out the cable modem mini-HOWTO and the Roadrunner section > and links? I thnk it has some tips on how to use this service with Linux. Yep, done both. I've gone to all the links, I've read/asked questions on the alt-os newsgroup for Road Runner, etc. and all they ever say is "

Re: Adaptec 2940AU

I have a set of unofficial slink installation disks with updated aic7xxx support, which will probably correct your problem. You can find them at . On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 09:36:45PM -0400, Michael Konrad wrote: > Hi, > > I have an adaptec 2940

Re: Adaptec 2940AU

Michael Konrad wrote: > Hi, > > I have an adaptec 2940AU SCSI card with a seagate hard drive and a > toshiba cd rom drive. I am trying to install slink. The rescue disk > boots fine and everything is good up until the adaptec card is > initialized. > > (scsi0) found at PCI 19/0 > (scsi0)Narrow Cha

floppyless installation problem

Hi all, hope this is the right list for this problem. I'm trying to do a floppyless instalation of the base linux system from DOS using LoadLin. I've downloaded the following files: resc1440.bin, drv1440.bin, base2_1.tgz, root.bin, linux, install.bat and loadlin.exe. Following the instructions

Re: floppyless installation problem

Chris Dion wrote: > Hi all, hope this is the right list for this problem. > > I'm trying to do a floppyless instalation of the base linux system from > DOS using LoadLin. I've downloaded the following files: > > resc1440.bin, > drv1440.bin, > base2_1.tgz, > root.bin, > linux, > install.bat > and

Re: Argh! I think my last msg sent as HTML...

> Chris, > > Try this page it might be able to solve your problem with RoadRunner. I > haven't tried it yet, but I will be within the next two weeks. > > http://snork.capybara.org/~george/rrlms/ > > Regards, > Michael Ooo, haven't seen this page before. What I'm wondering is will this work with my

Setting up Debian with sound

I have set up hamm on my IBM Aptiva (model 2153-E2U). I would like to get the built-in sound card working, but it appears I will have to recompile the kernel. Since I am a LINUX newbie, this is not a trivial task. My question is basically this - Is there an easier way and if not, has anyone g

Unidentified subject!

> Would someone please explain in words of less than two syllables > just what steps are required to use "dselect" ?? . I have followed > the instructions in the manual at least 20 times so far but it seems > there must be something more than "+ " and "-" involved in > selecting packages to inst

Re: floppyless installation problem

Kent West wrote: > > Chris Dion wrote: > > > Hi all, hope this is the right list for this problem. > > > > I'm trying to do a floppyless instalation of the base linux system from > > DOS using LoadLin. I've downloaded the following files: > > > > resc1440.bin, > > drv1440.bin, > > base2_1.tgz, >

Kernel Version problems!

Hello, I am trying to build a module.The compilation works fine,but while loading the module I get the message" the kernel versionis 2.2.10 but the module was compiled on 2.2.5". Itried compiling with -I/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.10/.. etc without any useful output. At last I found out

systat & netstat daemon usage

hello all, i found the ff lines from a friends slakware install (/etc/inetd.conf) : systat stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /bin/ps -auwwx netstat stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /bin/netstat-a so tried telnet'ing to his box 1st at port 11 and then at p

Re: Slink, 2.2.10 and printing

you proabably have a parallel port printer, I encountered the same problem with RedHat before, and what I did was when configuring the kernel, in the character device section (if you are doing make xconfig), enable parallel port printer. and then change your printcap's lp1 to lp0 (in most cases tha

Re: Argh! I think my last msg sent as HTML...

> > Linksys EtherFast something-or-other that uses the Tulip netcard driver > > Not sure, maybe someone else knows if this is okay (not my area of > knowledge). > I went through hell to get this one to work..once. After a reboot, it refused to work again. It works fine under Windows, so I guess i

restoring Linux from a tape backup

What is the best way to restore a Linux from a tape backup (ie, if the hard drive crashed and had to be replaced)? This task must be *simple* -- reinstalling Linux is not an option. I'd like it automated as much as possible. The tape backup is a TR-3 drive, which is supported by the kernel. I

Turn off auto screen-blanking?

Can anyone point me to an RTFM page ;-) on how to disable the auto-blanking feature? This is a cmd-line system only, no X. I'm assuming it's a kernel parameter somewhere TIA, Kevin

Re: Argh! I think my last msg sent as HTML...

> I went through hell to get this one to work..once. After a reboot, it > refused to work again. It works fine under Windows, so I guess it > just doesn't like Linux. My advice: Get a D-Link 530TX. It was 24.95 > at CompUSA and it worked flawlessly with the via-rhine driver > the first time I trie

Network setup.

I want to setup a home network of two machines (mick and mack) connected with ethernet cards, mick having a ppp dialup link to the internet as well. I don't want to do masquerading yet, simply mick being able to talk to mack and vice versa, while mick can also go on the Internet via ppp. When I do

Re: Network setup.

Hans van den Boogert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can I safely answer "no" to those two questions and get by with amending the > /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts files? Yes. If you were installing mack and were planning on ip masqing, then 'yes' answers might save you some time, but the system loo

sndconfig.rpm to .deb question

Has any one tried to use the redhat sndconfig utility with Debian? If so did it work and what versions were used? -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173

Re: sndconfig.rpm to .deb question

John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has any one tried to use the redhat sndconfig utility with Debian? If so > did it work and what versions were used? Yes. And I would have been dead without sndconfig. I used alien to create a deb and then installed the deb. The rpm I used was: sndconfig-0

pppconfig

Hi. I'm having some trouble with my ppp. It works, but it kind of locks the applications that are trying to get connected (mozzila, ftp and telnet). I ran pppconfig. I'm using the default provider. I just type pon + enter and it connects to my ISP. When I run mozzila, the window does not appear.

In-home networking

Greets all, I'm looking for some good pointers on how to configure the software for an in-home network. I've managed it before, but I was hoping that now I could find some better resources on the web. Are there any that any of you would recommend? Thanks! Robbie

Problem with postgresql jdbc package examples

Hello, I downloaded the postgresql packages and the jdbc stuff and am trying to get the included examples working. I get the following message when I run the "basic" example in the jdbc package. Connecting to Database URL = jdbc.postgresql://dragonknoll:5432/doug Exception caught. java.sql.SQLEx

Re: sndconfig.rpm to .deb question

Bob Bernstein wrote: > > Yes. And I would have been dead without sndconfig. I used alien to create a > deb and then installed the deb. > > The rpm I used was: sndconfig-0.33-1.i386.rpm. This on a potato level Debian > system... Hi, I was curious, so I dl'd sndconfig and ran alien -d on the rpm.

Re: In-home networking

Robbie Huffman wrote: > > Greets all, > > I'm looking for some good pointers on how to configure the software for > an in-home network. I've managed it before, but I was hoping that now > I could find some better resources on the web. Are there any that any of > you would recommend? Hi Robbie,

Re[2]: sndconfig.rpm to .deb question

Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was curious, so I dl'd sndconfig and ran alien -d on the rpm. I got a > deb package, but I also got an error about a libnewt.so.0.40. However > the version that's in potato is libnewt.so.0.30. Did you get this error? > If so what did you do, or does sndco

Re: Kernel Version problems!

Rehi, I think there are two possibilities: *) Recompiling the kernel with NO_MODVERSIONS (or so), *) Recompiling the module I would prefer the second way ;) Regards, Stefan > Hello, >I am trying to build a module.The compilation works fine,but > while loading the module I get the me

i740 video card drivers

    I recently installed Debian 2.1 R2 to find that it does not support the Intel740. I found drivers but they are for Redhat. I was wondering if it was possible to use those drivers ie if they are compatible. And if not if there will be drivers for Debian. I would really like to use Debian b

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Re: i740 video card drivers

On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Bobby Carter wrote: > I recently installed Debian 2.1 R2 to find that it does not support the > Intel740. I found drivers but they are for Redhat. I was wondering if it was > possible to use those drivers ie if they are compatible. And if not if there > will be drivers

Re:

Doug Young wrote: > > Would someone please explain in words of less than two syllables > just what steps are required to use "dselect" ?? . I have followed > the instructions in the manual at least 20 times so far but it seems > there must be something more than "+ " and "-" involved in > selectin

Partition table change

I will update for slink soon. Just realised that my partition design isn't too good (too small /home.) Is there any way to change the partion table without a complete reinstall? Just wanted to get rid of /usr, /home and /var totally and keep only swap and /. All the rest are unnecessary for me

Re: Adaptec 2940AU

Michael Konrad wrote: > (scsi0) found at PCI 19/0 > (scsi0)Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs > (scsi0)Cable present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 NO) > (scsi0)Downloading swquencer code ... 419 instructions downloaded may be timing problems? is your "pc-bios" set up well? try to "play" with pci-settin

Re: Argh! I think my last msg sent as HTML...

> > Subject: Re: Argh! I think my last msg sent as HTML... > Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 00:24:05 -0400 > From: "Chris Concannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Stephen Pitts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: > > > I went through hell to

Sendmail and Hostname

Hey everyone! I have a problem (Don't we all! ;) ). I installed Sendmail, and when it trys to start, it halts for a long time. The reason being is that it can't seem to find my computer. The log file gives this error: Jul 11 23:56:15 ul sendmail[2344]: My unqualified host name (ul) unknown; sl

Re: Argh! I think my last msg sent as HTML...

On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 12:24:05AM -0400, Chris Concannon wrote: > > I heard that there were various chipsets that the EtherFast is based on, all > using "Tulip", yet one had huge problems while the other two (or one, > forgot) didn't. I'm not sure which mine is though. AFAIK the older Linksys Et

Re: Sendmail and Hostname

Marshal Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, I have > 127.0.0.1ullocalhost Try 127.0.0.1 localhost u1 The format is: ip hostname nickname -- Bob Bernsteinhttp://members.home.net/ruptured-duck at Esmond, Rhode Island, USA --==++*++==-

Re: Slink, 2.2.10 and printing

Subject: Slink, 2.2.10 and printing Date: Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 03:54:04PM -0600 In reply to:Gary L. Hennigan Quoting Gary L. Hennigan([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > So I decided to take the plunge and install a 2.2.x kernel (2.2.10), > under slink. Everything works fine, except for printi

Re: Turn off auto screen-blanking?

Kevin Traas wrote: > > Can anyone point me to an RTFM page ;-) on how to disable the > auto-blanking feature? This is a cmd-line system only, no X. > > I'm assuming it's a kernel parameter somewhere > > TIA, > Kevin "setterm -blank 0" -- Ed C.

Re: How do I setup smail as a gateway for another email program

George Bonser wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Bruce Jackson wrote: > > > messages are allowed in to the Groupwise. I have tried various things > > and have gotten various 5xx error messages on smail. The novell machine > > does not have a fully qualified dns entry. It is on a private class B

Re: xinetd & rpc.mountd/rpc.nfsd

Robert, > Well, I don't have a solution to offer, unfortunatly, though xinetd currently > is my concern, too. I have looked at the FAQ page of http://synack.net/ (the > maintainers of xinetd), and according to what they wrote, your problem seems > to be generally unsolved. Too bad that I can't off

Re: restoring Linux from a tape backup

> "Paul" == Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> What is the best way to restore a Linux from a tape backup Paul> (ie, if the hard drive crashed and had to be replaced)? This Paul> task must be *simple* -- reinstalling Linux is not an option. Paul> I'd like it automated as mu

Re: GMT ntp servers

Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know the ip's of some ntp servers that are on gmt? I'm trying to > get my computer time correctly set to gmt so it will display the correct time. Have a look at the documentation in the xntp3 package. There is a link buried somewhere on a li

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

Joop Stakenborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For instance, if the structure were: > > struct foo { > char text[3]; > int num; > }; > > sizeof would return 6 and not 5. So it's obvious that the compiler is > placing a pad byte between text and num to align num. I want it to > stop! A

Re: Programming question: sizeof struct?

Carl Mummert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >#pragma pack(1) > >struct {}; > >#pragma pack() > > > >Which forces the layout to be as you specified. > > > >Using a command line option is a Bad Idea (tm) as it may corrupt glibc's > >structures > > To test a resonse to the original message, I made th

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1189

Hi, I had a similar problem when I used pppconfig, but i just had to do a 'route del default' before I ran pon and it seemed to fix the problem. Hope this help Graham. >Hi. I'm having some trouble with my ppp. >It works, but it kind of locks the applications that are trying to get connected (

hostname not reading /etc/hostname

I've just noticed that hostname doesn't read /etc/hostname when called with the command "hostname --file /etc/hostname". This may be because I'm using kernel 2.2.10 in slink. I've had to modify /etc/rcS/d/S40hostname.sh to make it work. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Wi

Re: Network setup.

>> I'm afraid to get into routing trouble, where mick doesn't query the ISP's >> DNS server. I had this before: the local network worked fine, but I >> couldn't get mick to route to the internet for addresses other than >> 192.168.01 and 192.168.02. > >Not sure what you mean by that last sentence,

Re: pppconfig

Romeu writes: > I put a # in front of the line 'lock' in /etc/ppp/options. Why? That has nothing to do with your problem. > Can anyone help me? What do you have in /etc/resolv.conf? What is the output of the 'plog' coommand? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill E

Re: Network setup.

Bob Bernstein writes: > Looks like overkill; I _think_ it's not recommended to use both 'search' > and 'domain'. It's overkill to use either in most circumstances. > I would make that look like: > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 192.168.0.1 mick.fleamarket.nl mick > 192.168.0.2 mack.fleamarket.nl mack

Re: Sendmail and Hostname

Marshal writes: > However, I have > 127.0.0.1ullocalhost > in /etc/hosts. You need a fully qualified domain name, i.e., one with a period in it. Just make one up. Here's the first line of my /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 hasler.dhh hasler localhost -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TERM=vt100 for telnet

Patrick: Telnet is (or contains) a "terminal emulator". The terminal that your telnet is emulating (apparently) is the DEC VT-100. A terminal is a physical piece of hardware that consists of a monitor, a keyboard, and a serial port, and not much else. Since your computer also has a monitor, a k

Re: dhcp and dual-homed filtering host

On 08 Jul 1999 01:29:07 +0200, you wrote: >> "Jens" == Jens B Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jens> I have a similar setup. You just need to tell dhcpd which > Jens> ethernet interface you want to serve up IPs for. This can be > Jens> done by editing /etc/init.d/dhcpd. I don't have

Re: TERM=vt100 for telnet

Thanks. I discovered I was using the NT telnet client from work the wrong way. Problem solved now. Patrick - Original Message - From: Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 1:43 PM Subject: Re: TERM=vt100 for telnet > Patrick: > > Telnet is (or contains) a "t

gnome-session/panel error

I've been using Gnome 1.0 and Enlightenment 0.15 from potato for several weeks without any problems. Now, when I try to start panel, I get the following error message: **WARNING**: could not get name service **ERROR**: file goad.c: line 606 (real_goad_server_activate): ASSERTION FAILED: (name se

xdm chooser "choosing" between local and remote

Oops - misspelt the address. The actual mail is in the forwarded attachment...--- Begin Message --- Is it possible to configure xdm to run the chooser by default, but provide "itself" (ie localhost, or its own hostname) as one of the options? The setup I am envisaging is one in which I want to do m

Re: Network setup.

>> Not sure what you mean by that last sentence, since you say you are *not* >> connecting mack to the internet. Off the top of my head I wonder if you >> had 'defaultroute' set as a ppp option? > >He does if he used pppconfig, but he may also have a default route to the >ethernet interface in /et

potato ethernet error

I'm running potato (i386) with the 2.2.10 kernel primarily for samba and netatalk services. It appears that one Mac on the network (a 9500/120 with OS 8.1) causes the same error message to start popping up on the console - eth0: tx interrupt but no status - and file transfers slow to a crawl. /pr

PPP problems

Howdy, I have some problems using PPP. I configured diald, ppp, an others so everything appears to be fine. I dial, ok. Username, password accepted. When I look into the log file it says local IP address is x, remote is y. OK. The problem is that I CANNOT ACCES ANYTHING. Lynx and ftp say they c

Re: Setting up Debian with sound

> I have set up hamm on my IBM Aptiva (model 2153-E2U). I would like to get > the built-in sound card working, but it appears I will have to recompile the > kernel. Since I am a LINUX newbie, this is not a trivial task. Sorry, there is no other way. But compiling your own kernel would be a goo

SCSI device names - no /dev/sg0

Hi all, I am now trying to get my scanner installed under linux and sane. I have loaded the kernel module which promptly finds my scanner. /proc/scsi/scsi reports it found. Only problem, I am used to linking /dev/scanner to /dev/sg0 (for SCSI device 0). There is no /dev/sg* on my slink system.

un-umount-able hd and irqs of pci

Two questions, first something that has been annoying me for ages is that I can't umount my /usr partition, it gives device or resource busy. This happens even when I boot from rescue disk and mount it manually, then try umount ing it. Also, the kernel cannot umount it when it shuts down, and can

Re: i740 video card drivers

James Uther wrote: > i think the source has been handed over to xfree, so the problem will go > away soon anyway (thank god). :-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-) Yipeee(!) I can now try writing optimised drivers for SVGALib, and all those things I wanted to write

fetchmail woes

Hi all, After a heavy couple of hours reading man fetchmail I came up with this .fetchmailrc: set postmaster "patrick" poll pop.dial.pipex.com with proto POP3 user "maxy36" there with password "ngookich" is patrick here options fetchall warnings 3600 But I get this message when I try to r

ipchains redirect oddity

Greetings-- I've been playing around with ipchains with respect to redirect rules; just a basic setup, to redirect a high port to a low one locally. I already have IPmasqing setup, so the forwarding business is taken care of, and I am fairly certain 'transparent proxying' was compiled (this is a h

IPchains oddity

Greetings-- I've been playing around with ipchains with respect to redirect rules; just a basic setup, to redirect a high port to a low one locally. I already have IPmasqing setup, so the forwarding business is taken care of, and I am fairly certain 'transparent proxying' was compiled (this is a h

Re: How to fix Netscape in the interim

On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 04:58:28PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: > To fix netscape, do "apt-get source liburi-perl", then edit > debian/control to depend on perl5 instead of perl. Do a > "debian/rules binary" and install the resulting package. Voila! > Netscape will install Does this not break libu

.fetchmailrc

Hi all, After a heavy couple of hours reading man fetchmail I came up with this .fetchmailrc: set postmaster "patrick" poll pop.dial.pipex.com with proto POP3 user "maxy36" there with password "ngookich" is patrick here options fetchall warnings 3600 But I get this message when I try to

limiting connections for each IP

Hi! Is there anyway to place an upper limit in the number of connections from a machine? Let me explain myself, I want to limit the number of tcp connections from a machine to my server in order to limit possible DoS attacks from a single IP. How can I do that? TIA!

Re: sndconfig.rpm to .deb question

Mark Wagnon wrote: > > Bob Bernstein wrote: > > > > Yes. And I would have been dead without sndconfig. I used alien to create a > > deb and then installed the deb. > > > > The rpm I used was: sndconfig-0.33-1.i386.rpm. This on a potato level Debian > > system... > > Hi, > > I was curious, so I d

my compiler cannot create executables

at least thats the error that i get when i try to install qvwm, whatever shall i do?

printing on a pcl printer is slow!

Hello! I have a Debian box that, among other things, shares an HP LaserJet 5 connected to a parallel (ECP/EPP) port for a mixed win95/linux environment. If I print from win95 everything is fine, but printing from Linux (that involves using GhostScript to convert PostScript to PCL to feed the prin

Understanding apm on an intranet server

Hello! Is there some walkthrough to configure apm to do everything to lower power consumption (i.e. turn off hard drives, set the cpu to low power mode, switch off the monitor, whatever else) even if I'm not using a laptop? It could be interesting to have a server (e.g. a print server, or a local

Re: SCSI device names - no /dev/sg0

On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Jason Carley wrote: > Hi all, > > I am now trying to get my scanner installed under linux and sane. I have > loaded the > kernel module which promptly finds my scanner. /proc/scsi/scsi reports it > found. > Only problem, I am used to linking /dev/scanner to /dev/sg0 (for

Uncompress ".deb" files?

Hello. Does anybody know how i can uncompress the ".deb" files from the installation-CDROM? I must install "sed" before I can install Linux. Greetings, Marco

Re: GMT ntp servers

Hi all, Is there a command I can put in cron to have the time set by a ntp server that is appropriate for the UK? Patrick - Original Message - From: Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 11:18 AM Subject: Re: GMT ntp servers > Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ipchains redirect oddity

> ipchains -A input -p tcp -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 8080 -j REDIRECT > > ipchains: No chain by that name The chain is forward and not redirect I believe. Read the ipchains HOW-TO and that should solve your problems. I believe you need another utility to do port redirection, but I can't get th

Re: fetchmail woes

On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 03:15:57PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > After a heavy couple of hours reading man fetchmail I came up with this > .fetchmailrc: > > set postmaster "patrick" > poll pop.dial.pipex.com with proto POP3 >user "maxy36" there with password "ngookich" is patri

Re: Uncompress ".deb" files?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Nuessgen) writes: > Does anybody know how i can uncompress the ".deb" files from the > installation-CDROM? I must install "sed" before I can install Linux. The *.deb files are simple "ar" archives. You can extract their contents with: ar x file.deb Do a "man ar" for more

Re: GMT ntp servers

On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a command I can put in cron to have the time set by a ntp server > that is appropriate for the UK? With xntp3 you donot need to have a crontab entry. The xntpd daemon will take care of it. P.S.: Please vote against Spam! At

netdate (was Re: GMT ntp servers)

On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a command I can put in cron to have the time set by a ntp server > that is appropriate for the UK? There is another program called netdate provided by netstd. Maybe you want to have a look at this. Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMA

Re: fetchmail woes

The command your looking for is 'chmod 710 /root/.fetchmailrc' NOT chown which changes the owner of the file. Hope that helps Graham. >Hi all, > >After a heavy couple of hours reading man fetchmail I came up with this >.fetchmailrc: > >set postmaster "patrick" >poll pop.dial.pipex.com with prot

Re: fetchmail woes

Thanks. That worked but the darn thing still won't work. Even though "patrick" is my login account I get the following errer rhino:~# fetchmail 3 messages for maxy36 at pop.dial.pipex.com (52287 octets). reading message 1 of 3 (29367 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like rec ipient addr

Re: Uncompress ".deb" files?

On 12 Jul, Marco Nuessgen wrote: > Hello. > Does anybody know how i can uncompress the ".deb" files from the > installation-CDROM? I must install "sed" before I can install Linux. > Greetings, > Marco i don't understand your reason, but here's what you do: ar vx foo.deb tar vzxf data.tar.gz (of

Re: Network setup.

Hans writes: > I'm also not sure about something in pppconfig: it asks you for an IP > address, but strongly advises you not to change the 'noipdefault' . It > furthermore suggests that if you have a local IP (I read in this: the > intranet's IP of your machine, but I could be wrong) You are. By

Re: gnome-session/panel error

Thanks for the reply. I did that, and that does fix the panel problem. I'm still having a problem with gnome-session though. I used to be able to start gnome-session either with xdm or kwm and it would startup the last window manager I was using, and any other programs that were running when I

Re[2]: Sendmail and Hostname

John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, I have > > 127.0.0.1ullocalhost > > > in /etc/hosts. > > You need a fully qualified domain name, i.e., one with a period in it. Ah yes, it's all coming back to me. So this would work for him also: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain l

Re: PPP problems

# netstat -r you should see an entry something like this: default 0.0.0.0 UG 1500 0 0 ppp0 This is assuming that you want to use your ISP as your default route. If the machine is not on another local network, then you definitely do. If you don't see that, then yo

Re: GMT ntp servers

Thanks - another problem solved. xntp3 is in and working . Out of curiosity, how often does the xntpd correct itself? Patrick - Original Message - From: Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 5:07 PM Subject: Re: GMT ntp ser

XDM: root can log in, user can not

Hi, I recently installed debian 2.0. I also upgraded the X package to 3.3.3.1 from the X86Free site. I commented out 'no-start-xdm' and added 'start-xdm' in my /etc/X11/config file so that xdm would start. It starts fine. I can log in as root and it works great. However, if I try to log in as

Re: un-umount-able hd and irqs of pci

On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 02:50:10PM +0100, Peter Allen wrote: > Two questions, [snip] > Second, I cannot remmember how to change the interrupt request of a > pci card. I know I have read how to somewhere, but I can't get it > to work. The problem I am having is that both my graphics card > and my

Re: fetchmail woes

On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 03:15:57PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > After a heavy couple of hours reading man fetchmail I came up with this > .fetchmailrc: > > set postmaster "patrick" > poll pop.dial.pipex.com with proto POP3 >user "maxy36" there with password "ngookich" is patri

Re: .fetchmailrc

Patrick Kirk wrote: >Also, after chown 0710 I get ^ What happened to chmod? >rhino:~# ls -al .fetchmailrc >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 164 Jul 12 15:51 .fetchmailrc chown user.group ~/.fetchmailrc -- Kris For a faster reply, use: smaug [{at}] dufas [{dot}] globalnet.

Re: GMT ntp servers

On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Thanks - another problem solved. > > xntp3 is in and working . > > Out of curiosity, how often does the xntpd correct itself? I don't know. Try to find it out by reading in /usr/doc/xntp3 and the corrosponding man pages or measure it... Jens P.S.: Pl

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