Incorrect reply address

1999-10-05 Thread Tim Burgess
Hi fellow Debianers, I have recently moved to a new state and thus, ended up with a new email address. Using Netscape Messenger as a client, it sets the "sender" field in the mail header using my username & my domain name. As this is someone else's address, this guy received all the replies to my

HELP: possible to have answering machine over ISDN?

1999-10-05 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i am evaluating to pass over from standard phone to ISDN-line but a thought that hjit me... i want to use the computer as an answering machine (using vgetty) is t possible to make this also over a ISDN line? (How?) -- ciao bboett ===

Re: HELP: getting rid of replace kernel-image-2.2.12 conflict...

1999-10-05 Thread lexchive
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:46:22PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > hello, > > i compile my kernel myself and would like to get rid of dselect trying to > replace my custom kernle with standard one > > what options do i have and how to achieve this? Set its status to hold, you can do this fro

Re: ipchains ip-masquerading configutation

1999-10-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:12:51AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 > locatio

Re: Incorrect reply address

1999-10-05 Thread lexchive
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:20:18AM -1000, Tim Burgess wrote: > The fix was to add the following to the preferences.js file > user_pref("mail.suppress_sender_header", true); > I believe there is a menu in the preferences to change your email address as well, but I am not sure of what exactly you'r

RE: HELP: possible to have answering machine over ISDN?

1999-10-05 Thread Paul McHale
I assume your current method uses the analog phone line... If it does, ISDN has two B channels which can be used for voice or data. Each is 64Kb. I use one for dedicated access. The other stays data until a voice call comes in and then converts to voice. On the back of the ISDN device there ar

Re: Motif Software

1999-10-05 Thread lexchive
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 01:58:36PM -0700, Rik Burt wrote: > Where can I find the Motif software. I am aware that it is a commercial > > product but I don't know where to look for it. I am interested because > the Netscape pkg that dselect has requires it for certain versions of > netscape. > Y

Re: HELP: possible to have answering machine over ISDN?

1999-10-05 Thread Bruno Boettcher
> I assume your current method uses the analog phone line... If it does, ISDN exact! > has two B channels which can be used for voice or data. Each is 64Kb. I > use one for dedicated access. The other stays data until a voice call comes > in and then converts to voice. On the back of the ISDN

DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-05 Thread Adam Heath
I just did an upgrade. The menu pkg ate memory like no tomorrow. I have a dual-330, 256m ram, 384m swap. Update-menus calls install-menu, and I saw that eating 280m of memory. root 19580 21.6 83.3 282784 215152 pts/8 R15:51 0:13 install-menu /etc/menu-methods//enlightenment-nosound -

Re: Serial conn. to WIN (success!!!!):thanks

1999-10-05 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Thanks a lot for all your help. Now, I have finally succeeded and I'm running samba as server and client. I've only still got some minor problems, but I think I'll be able solve them. Thanks again to all who helped, and especially to Phil. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger P.S.: The De

So whos going to ALS

1999-10-05 Thread Johnie Ingram
... and would be willing to help at the Debian booth (#503, community pavillion, check it out), or who knows good places to stay at in Atlanta? Or who wants to planepool with the Novare team from Dallas? netgod Oh, and my /proc/kcore is over 50MB -- can I remove it and get

Re: HELP: getting rid of replace kernel-image-2.2.12 conflict...

1999-10-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:46:22PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > hello, > > i compile my kernel myself and would like to get rid of dselect trying to > replace my custom kernle with standard one > > what options do i have and how to achieve this? > -- Instead of traditionnal compilation,

Re: auto-change filenames

1999-10-05 Thread lexchive
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 03:01:42PM +, Brian J. Stults wrote: > Could someone give me a sample script (perhaps bash or sed) to change a > group of filenames from their original name to the same name preceeded > by an exclamation point. > for i in *; do mv $i \!$i; done -Lex pgpV1HB2FZu2D.p

RE: So whos going to ALS

1999-10-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Oct-99 Johnie Ingram wrote: > > ... and would be willing to help at the Debian booth (#503, community > pavillion, check it out), or who knows good places to stay at in > Atlanta? Or who wants to planepool with the Novare team from Dallas? > > Joey Hess and myself are going. We have on

Re: HELP: getting rid of replace kernel-image-2.2.12 conflict...

1999-10-05 Thread Bruno Boettcher
> Instead of traditionnal compilation, use 'make-kpkg', which will build > a package from your new kernel; install this package, dselect should > not complain any more. that's what i am doing ... :( and it complains that even the reason why it complains, on another system i installed the kernel

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-05 Thread Ben Lutgens
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 03:58:10PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > I just did an upgrade. The menu pkg ate memory like no tomorrow. I have a > dual-330, 256m ram, 384m swap. Update-menus calls install-menu, and I saw > that eating 280m of memory. Just don't install the new menu package. It's fscked

Need Dedicated Server with Debian

1999-10-05 Thread Joe Stewart
Hello, This forum should be good for this request as well. I need a new dedicated server and of course would like the service to be using Debian. For a few reasons, I need a dedicated server and not a colocated box. If you are a principle in a firm, reply directly to me instead of the list so w

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-05 Thread David Coe
> "Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> I just did an upgrade. The menu pkg ate memory like no Adam> tomorrow. [...] Adam> Cease and desist at all costs. Adam> I have just been informed on irc that a fixed menu is in Adam> incoming. So, it should all b

Re: So whos going to ALS

1999-10-05 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
If you can't find a place, you are welcome to stay at mine.I got space for threeif you can sleep in couch, more if you can sleep in a sleeping bag :) Regards, Vaidhy On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 04:55:12PM -0400, Johnie Ingram wrote: > > ... and would be willing to help at the Debian booth (#503, co

Re: mgetty password trouble.

1999-10-05 Thread aphro
that worked great! thanks..took me a few mins to get pap-secrets goin for clients to log into the server but i figured it out nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Servi

Re: HELP: getting rid of replace kernel-image-2.2.12 conflict...

1999-10-05 Thread lexchive
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 11:06:16PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:46:22PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > Instead of traditionnal compilation, use 'make-kpkg', which will build > a package from your new kernel; install this package, dselect should > not complain any

Re: HP J3171 PCI Lan Adapter under Debian 2.1

1999-10-05 Thread Markus Jaekel
On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, Gary Young wrote: > I have installed debian 2.1 on an HP Vectra Xu > platform with the "HP 10/100 Mbps Network Interface". > When I try to configure the kernel module driver, > hp100.o, in the installation or later with 'modconf' > I get "Device or resource busy". > > Does an

RE: HELP: possible to have answering machine over ISDN?

1999-10-05 Thread Paul McHale
You wrote: yep... but i wanted to get rid of the modems isn't it possible to use the ISDN card? Reply: Not sure you want to. You Wrote: Or is it possible to deflect the incoming call from the ISDNcard to the modem when voice is detected? Reply: Yes it is, provided you have an analog port on

Re: HELP: getting rid of replace kernel-image-2.2.12 conflict...

1999-10-05 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > i compile my kernel myself and would like to get rid of dselect trying to > replace my custom kernle with standard one > > what options do i have and how to achieve this? Have you read the recent thread titled "

Re: Clock is loosing time

1999-10-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 04:17:18PM +0200, Stephan Engelke wrote: > Hi David, > > On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 09:07:02AM -0500, David Kanter wrote: > > > Is there a way to sync the time with a server when I start a PPP, so I > > won't have to worry about this in the future? I vaguely remember a ment

Re: Read-only file system on /dev/fd0?

1999-10-05 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 12:59:06PM -0400, Yifang Dai wrote: > I hit this strange problem today, on my potato machine: > > /boot# dd if=bzImage-2.2.12 of=/dev/fd0 > dd: /dev/fd0: Read-only file system > > Here is the permission for /dev/fd0 > > /boot# ls -l /dev/fd0 > brw-rw-r-- 1 root flop

Re: XF86_NONEV

1999-10-05 Thread Adam Shand
> 2. How can I prevent anybody from changing virtual consoles and >killing my X session when I am away and locked it with xlock? it's actually easier then that, all the need to do is hit ctrl-alt-backspace and they'll be dumped back to the virtual console which you started it on. run startx.

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