Re: Mail Q

1999-11-24 Thread Klaus Drews
I am using exim for sending and fetchmail receiving mail. So its easy to compose mail on my machine and exim delivers it. At the same time (to save money) fetchmail is started, when the link to my ISP is up. To see if you can access your telnet-account-machine try telnet 25. That lets your tel

apt-get isn't working properly?

1999-11-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I did apt-get update , apt-get dist-upgrade, after this the Xserver was not working. Complained about fonts not installed, couldn't find them etc. By pure chance I did apt-get install after a while and it fixed the problem. The fonts had not been installed. Wasn't apt-get supposed to handle the ins

telnetd can't get ttys

1999-11-24 Thread Brian White
I installed the new telnetd (v0.14-8) in an upgrade from Slink, but every connection attempt failed until I modified /etc/inetd.conf to say "root.root" instead of "telnetd.telnetd". The user and group telnetd exist, and telnetd belongs to the utmp group. Is there something else that needs to be se

pon script

1999-11-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What could the reason be for the following? I have a serial modem in tty0, now, some times when I do pon it works, some times it does not. I didn't think that a chain of instructions could be moody. Please help.

RE: pon script

1999-11-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-Nov-1999 Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > What could the reason be for the following? I have a serial modem in > tty0, now, some times when I do pon it works, some times it does not. I > didn't think that a chain of instructions could be moody. > Please help. Do you mean ttyS0 ? Could that be th

lpd problem after hamm->potato upgrade

1999-11-24 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello! After finally upgrading to hamm->potato, one small problem remains unsolved (the rest I managed to kill :). While printing works fine when I do 'cat > /dev/', lpd seems to think the printer is offline (lpc claims the daemon is waiting for the printer). What could be the cause of such a p

Re: X server fatal error: can't find fixed font!

1999-11-24 Thread Peter Schuller
> I upgraded my XFree to 3.35 from slink without having installed the > slink one ( I had had to make a reinstallation because of a mistake > while root). Any way, when I started startx after runnig the xf86config, > it couldn't satrt any server, complained about fonts not found, asked to > run mk

Re: pon script

1999-11-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Sorry, is ttyS0, rushed to write. That is not the problem, remember, it works at times Pollywog wrote: > On 24-Nov-1999 Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > What could the reason be for the following? I have a serial modem in > > tty0, now, some times when I do pon it works, some times it does not. I >

Re: email forwarding

1999-11-24 Thread aphro
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Alexander P. Barkey (hypnotic) wrote: a.p.ba >is there any way? echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] >~/.forward where [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the addy u want to forward to nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations

Re: telnetd can't get ttys

1999-11-24 Thread aphro
i had to to the same to get identd working ..not sure why .. let me know what u find out if its not posted to the list nate On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Brian White wrote: bcwhit >I installed the new telnetd (v0.14-8) in an upgrade from Slink, but every bcwhit >connection attempt failed until I modif

Re: X server fatal error: can't find fixed font!

1999-11-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Which probably corresponds to the problem with apt-get reported a while ago. Was it your case? Let me include a copy of the report below * Copy I did apt-get update , apt-get dist-upgrade, after this the Xserver was not working. Complained about fonts not installed, couldn't find them etc.

Re: pon script

1999-11-24 Thread aphro
pppd will log to /var/log/messages include an excerpt from there when you post, if you need to it should tell u exactly wahts goin on nate On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: arodri >What could the reason be for the following? I have a serial modem in arodri >tty0, now, some times whe

Removing all SCSI drivers except mine from potato images

1999-11-24 Thread Bart Szyszka
Hi, I've needed to use the modified set of images for slink that are at: http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/slink/5.1.19/ , which have all the SCSI drivers removed except for the one for Adaptec aic7xxx SCSI cards. Is there anyone here who might be able to help me get something similar done wit

Re: recommend mp3 encoder

1999-11-24 Thread Sean Johnson
Go here: ftp://geek.rcc.se/pub/mp3encoder/lame/ Grab the latest one (3.51 as of 11/24/99). Untar-unzip the .tar.gz file cd lame3.51 make (as root) make install You may need to edit the Makefile, but I did not on my system. Sean Stuart Ballard wrote: > > Dumb question - could anyone giv

Re: Why is /dev/console linked to /dev/tty0?

1999-11-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Okay, I lied when I said that I have a plain slink system: I compiled >2.2.x kernels myself, and not using a Debian package for this. Shame >on me :-) > >Would the Debian kernel package have removed that link and created >

Re: Squid or DNS

1999-11-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I installed DNS and Squid in my server and when a client is browsing the >web, sometimes the following error occurs and the client has to reload the >page two or three times to lo

Re: How do I change which logfiles are rotated when?

1999-11-24 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
HI all, >Look in /etc/cron.daily/ and /etc/cron.weekly/ for the invocation >of syslogd-listfiles, and the rotation frequency. >>Hi, >>The logfile rotation stuff makes use of syslogd-listfiles, which >>claims in its man page to be controlled by /etc/syslog.conf >>Unfortunately, I can't find an

imwheel

1999-11-24 Thread Eric Hagglund
I still am having problems getting my wheel mouse to work in Netscape and other programs. Several weeks ago I downloaded imwheel and added the following code to my ~/.Xdefaults file. This caused the wheel to work like a third button, but it also caused the undesired result of limiting the range of

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