bootable 2.1 CD question

At what point of booting to the Debian 2.1 CD would I know if my SCSI adapter is supported? The cdrom drive is run off the adapter. It is an Adaptec 2930CU. I can't figure out from the Hardware-HOWTOs whether it is supported or not. It boots and goes into the install process, but at one of the

how to load aic7xxx?

Sorry for sort of asking the same question again, but I am trying to load the Debian 2.1 cdrom but it will not load aic7xxx. I try from the boot prompt and then also from a prompt from within the install, but it says that it can't find aic7xxx, or aic7xxx=.no_. Can anyone help me on this? It's f

Re: how to load aic7xxx?

On Thu, Dec 7, 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 05:37:40PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > > Sorry for sort of asking the same question again, but I am trying to > > load the Debian 2.1 cdrom but it will not load aic7xxx. I try from > > the boot prompt

Re: how to load aic7xxx?

On Thu, Dec 7, 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > This is at the bootable CD or floppy prompt. From the boot how-to, I > > tried 'aic7xxx=extended,no_reset'. So it would be > > 'linux aic7xxx=extended,no_reset'? I'm not sure what image name it > > would want when the OS is not installed. > > I

Re: erase my adress on your list!!!!

On Fri, Dec 8, 2000, Marie-Christine Josso wrote: > Please, PLEASE, erase my adress on your list. > I already ask twice!! > ERASE Is this the same person who said that ssh was evil? :) -Ken ps: Apache is a

Re: problems with netscape

On Fri, Dec 8, 2000, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > I have 2 strange problems with netscape communicator 4.73 > > 1. It renders some web pages 50 to 100 times slower than Internet exploer > on win 98 on the same machine! (I have Pentium-75). I am not sure that > it is configuration problem, I am afr

Re: problems with netscape

On Fri, Dec 8, 2000, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > > Ken writes: > > > I think it sucks, too, that Netscape is the only browser you can use > > > under Linux. I hope I am wrong, but there really is no alternative, is > > > there? > > > > I've got five installed... > > And? "Installed" is not cons

Re: goldstar monitor

On Fri, Dec 8, 2000, Dale Kosan wrote: > Anyone know a good site to find the refresh rates for a Goldstar Studioworks > 78i monitor? http://www.lgeservice.com/78i.html -Ken

pppoe

Anyone here ever get pppoe working? I have a base system installed right now and need to get the packages. I don't even have a compiler or anything. I installed the compact image so it would have support for my 3Com NIC, which it does. ifconfig shows eth0. I have Mindspring for DSL and they ha

Re: pppoe

On Sun, Dec 10, 2000, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > you'll need to hack the config files some, though which ones depends > on how Mindspring is handling authentication and how the package they > provide is configure. > > look at pap-secrets, chap-secrets, options (and if it exists > options,pppoe) u

Re: pppoe

On Sat, Dec 9, 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Ken Weingold writes: > > I know this is not much to go on, but any pointers would help. > > Install the pppoe package. Why did you think that Debian didn't have one? I didn't think that. I just thought that it might be easie

Re: pppoe

On Sat, Dec 9, 2000, Denzil Kelly wrote: > I have mindspring dsl also. I was able to retrieve the > pppoe package with apt-get, however, I wasn't able to > configure it or get it to work. I downloaded the > roaring penguin pppoe package, and I was able to > successfully install and configure it. I

Re: pppoe

On Sat, Dec 9, 2000, Denzil Kelly wrote: > This is probably one of the easiest linux task you can > carryout. The people at roaring penquin have done an > excellent job. I found out about it at > http://www.dslreports.com you will also find some nice > speed tweaks there as well. Great. I think

Re: pppoe

Oh - my - god. Could the Roaring Penguin software have been any easier to set up?!? They have my complete admiration. I don't know why those bozos over at Mindspring don't just point to these guys. Thanks again, Denzil! Now to set up the system -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM

vanilla vs. compact

What are the differences between the vanilla and compact install besides the obvious listed at the Debian site? When I installed with the vanilla method (hard drive floppy-less) the console looked fine. With compact, I have this low-res penguin image on top that won't go away unless I go to anothe

Re: problems with netscape

On Sun, Dec 10, 2000, Randy Edwards wrote: > > IE has simply become a better browser. > >Sad, but probably true. Definitely. I use NT more than anything, and IE is a pleasure next to Netscape. I have played with Mozilla, but as many say, it is slower than Netscape, which is turn is slower t

DOS long filename style - why?

Why are the filenames that I access on a mounted DOS partition shortened like you would see from within DOS? I thought it was only something DOS would display since it was incapable of seeing more than 8.3. Thanks. -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

Re: DOS long filename style - why?

On Sun, Dec 10, 2000, Adam Langley wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 02:21:12PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > > Why are the filenames that I access on a mounted DOS partition > > shortened like you would see from within DOS? I thought it was only > > something DOS would

installing new kernel

Sorry for all the questions. Is there any particular reason why I should installed the kernel package rather than just doing it myself from the source from www.kernel.org? I want to rebuld the kernel so it should hopefully fix some stupid problems I am having due to the default kernel put in by t

dselect

I want to go into dselect now and install the system since I only have a very base system. Wasn't there some sort of categories that would install a recommended set of packages so I don't have to manually go through every package in the list? I thought I remembered categories like workstation, de

Re: LAST QUESTION - MINICOM

On Mon, Dec 11, 2000, Estêvão Becker wrote: > Hi, I know that I am disturbing you but this is my last question: When I > connect with the minicom with my internet server, the program tells that I am > connected but I am not, when I try to open a web site on the netscape for > example it tells

Re: dselect

On Sun, Dec 10, 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > Ken Weingold wrote: > > > > I want to go into dselect now and install the system since I only have > > a very base system. Wasn't there some sort of categories that would > > install a recommended set of package

Re: dselect

On Sun, Dec 10, 2000, Nate Amsden wrote: > > Kind of, thanks. But I remember something even more general, like I > > could select Workstation, and it would install a whole bunch of > > packages that one might want, like editors, X, Internet stuff, etc. > > hmm, never heard of anything like that i

thanks to all

Well, thanks so much to all who have helped me out. I have a running 2.2r2 system now. No X yet, but I don't feel like getting into it at this hour. Besides, need to get windowmaker. apt-get is great how it will also download dependencies. dpkg doesn't do that, does it? Really does save time,

Re: dselect

On Mon, Dec 11, 2000, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > * "Ken" == Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ken> Kind of, thanks. But I remember something even more general, > Ken> like I could select Workstation, and it would install a whole > Ken> bun

Re: vanilla vs. compact

On Mon, Dec 11, 2000, C. Falconer wrote: > Yes - the compact kernel image uses the frame buffer options for the > console and gives you the benefit of a 80x30 line console (with the > beer-drinking penguin) Oh, is that what that was? Couldn't tell much in 16 color. :) > Look at the command fbs

Re: MP3 players

On Mon, Dec 11, 2000, Frodo Baggins wrote: > Hi debianers, > This evening I saw the perfect self-gift for Christmas :) A mp3 > portable player equiped with a hard disk og 7Gb... Wonderful, isn't > it? Only problem, they sell it with a interfacing software for M$ and > Mac. Do anyone know if the "

Window Maker

I noticed that the latest is 0.62.1, but the latest stable package is 0.61.1. Anyone have any problems in the 'unstable' 0.62.1 package? -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

Re: problems with netscape

Sorry for the sort of OT, but does Mozilla (or NS6 for that matter) have the stupidly left out Open button from the later Netscape releases? -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

Re: MP3 players

On Mon, Dec 11, 2000, Mike wrote: > Ken Weingold wrote: > > > > Not sure now much it is, but I have something great made by Genica. > > It looks like a discman, but plays audio CDs as well as CDR/CDRW's > > with MP3's, so your limit is 650 megs. Great sea

Re: MP3 players

On Mon, Dec 11, 2000, brian moore wrote: > Radio Shit has one advertised in their current catalog (supposedly 'RCA" > made, but who -really- makes it is another question -- even the old > 'minimus11' speakers, the only decent thing R/S has ever made now are > supposedly made by RCA). Grab a CueCat

X problems

Sorry if this is obvious or in a FAQ somewhere, and if it is, please feel free to point me to it. I am asking here because I have a sort of working X system. It is running Window Maker. First of all, the keyboard is messed up. When I exit X, I see why I guess. It is looking for xkbcomp in /u

Re: Window Maker

On Mon, Dec 11, 2000, Marc Wilson wrote: > And it brings you the "sunken window session autosave sig11" bug that hasn't > been caught yet. See bug #78089. > > If you're going to do it, pull sources and build it under Potato. The Woody > package has dependencies on XF4 and libc6 that you can't sa

Re: Genica (was: Re: MP3 players)

On Tue, Dec 12, 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote: > Wow, I'd love to get one of those toys, but I still have some > questions which I'd be very grateful if you could answer: > > 1 - How does it deal with directories? Does it have any > navigation mode? And how about files that

how can I get back to console?

It is really irritating the state the keyboard is right now in X and I want to get back to the console. The machine has the X login screen on boot, and when I close Window Maker or hit CTRL-ALT-+, it goes right back to the login screen. Thanks. -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: Scopus

Re: how can I get back to console?

On Wed, Dec 13, 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:23:37PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > > It is really irritating the state the keyboard is right now in X and I > > want to get back to the console. The machine has the X login screen > > on boot, an

X or Window Maker?

The mouse in X is REALLY slow. The mouse properties in the Window Maker preferences don't seem to do anything. Is this a problem of X in general or Window Maker? Mouse focus changes do work. Thanks. -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

Re: X or Window Maker?

On Wed, Dec 13, 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 13-Dec-2000 Ken Weingold wrote: > > The mouse in X is REALLY slow. The mouse properties in the Window > > Maker preferences don't seem to do anything. Is this a problem of X > > in general or Win

Re: X or Window Maker?

On Wed, Dec 13, 2000, Chris Gray wrote: > >>>>> Ken Weingold writes: > > kw> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >>> > >>> On 13-Dec-2000 Ken Weingold wrote: > >>>> The mouse in X is R

Re: How to configure mutt

On Thu, Dec 14, 2000, Max Moritz Sievers wrote: > Hello, > I read the man-page but didn't find it. When I start KMail I can > configure a pop3-account and a smtp-server. How can I do this for mutt? Go to www.mutt.org. The manual is online and has all the information you need. -Ken -- [EMAIL

uninstalling X

I have totally lost patience with the numerous problems running X, though I have set it up numerous times in the past. I installed X through tasksel, so it installed EVERYTHING. Can I reverse that? I want to totally start again. Maybe from the source like I always did in the past. On a side no

gtk-config and glib-config?

I am trying to install gaim, but configure can't seem to find gtk-config and glib-config. What packages do these come with? I am wondering if I don't have them. Thanks. -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

Re: partitionmagic

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000, Andy Bastien wrote: > Pending further investigation, we now allege that Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hi! > > I am curious about how does Partition Magic work under Debian ext2 > > filesystem. > > > > It works very well, in my experience. PM doesn't work _in_ linux, but >

OT - web browsers

Sorry for the OT, but the only browser I have used in X is Netscape, up to 4.7x. I really pisses me off that they seem to have eliminated the Open button. Does Mozilla, Netscape 6, Konqueror, or any of the other liked browsers have it? Also, anyone know why it was taken away in the first place?

Re: OT - web browsers

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > Ken Weingold wrote: > > > > Sorry for the OT, but the only browser I have used in X is Netscape, > > up to 4.7x. I really pisses me off that they seem to have eliminated > > the Open button. Does Mozilla, Netscape 6, Konquer

Re: OT - web browsers

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > > - middle click on link opens link in new window (in netscape browser, > email, newsgroups) > > - clicking on wheel (leftmost) button on the status bar > sort-of-toolbar opens new netscape window > > the second one might be what you want. or am I

Netscape open button

FYI: here it is from 3.02 for the Mac. The buttons were the same on all versions. -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

Re: The better ftp server for Debian...

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > Could you recommend the best ftp server for my Linux-Debian box? I like NcFTPd a lot. Used it for a while now. -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

Re: The better ftp server for Debian...

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000, Björn Elwhagen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:49:05AM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: > > > Could you recommend the best ftp server for my Linux-Debian box? > > > > I like NcFTPd a

Re: crontab

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000, Ari Sigurðsson wrote: > how do I get crontab -e to use my favorite editor? >From man crontab: The -e option is used to edit the current crontab using the editor specified by the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables. After you exit from the editor, the modified crontab(5)

backups

I am going to be setting up Linux server at work for something and want to do backups, weekly I guess. Any suggestions on software to do this? I am not familiar with unix backups. Thanks. -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

Re: how to reply to messages

On Thu, Dec 21, 2000, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all... just a curious question: whenever I > reply to a message, I have to manually enter the > debian-user@lists.debian.org address. (well, I > cut and paste) I was just wondering why the > list's "reply to" address isn't set > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I for

Re: how to reply to messages

On Thu, Dec 21, 2000, David Wright wrote: > If you dislike two copies, then I don't understand why you have > included Mail-Followup-To: Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > in your headers. That is inserted automatically by mutt I thought specifically to avoid this. I jus

Re: how to reply to messages

On Thu, Dec 21, 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:59:45PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > > I forget where, but there is a page explaining why list reply-to's are > > bad. > > The title of the document is "Reply-To Munging Considered Harmful&quo

what does menuconfig require?

Anything in general that 'make menuconfig' needs? I just did a new install, and when I type it at the console, I get an error when it is in lxdialog. Thanks. -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

Re: what does menuconfig require?

On Tue, Jan 16, 2001, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # Anything in general that 'make menuconfig' needs? I just did a new > # install, and when I type it at the console, I get an error when it is > # in lxdialog. > > I kno

bin86

The debian.org site says that bin86 "a complete 8086 assembler and loader which can make 32-bit code for the 386+ processors (under Linux it's used only to create the 16-bit bootsector and setup binaries)." It is not installed in the initial Debian install. Both times I have done new installs of 2

Re: Why choose Debian?

I have to second this. I started using Linux in I think 1996 with Slackware and kernel 1.2.13. People always told me that if you want to really learn UN*X, get Slackware because it's usually broken and really forces you to do stuff manually. I then started using Red Hat since I heard great thing

Re: Why choose Debian?

On Fri, Jan 19, 2001, Jesse wrote: > I got very frustrated trying to make everything work, read to many > reviews saying Linux wasn't ready for mainstream, and scraped it. I am really impressed with Debian, but still think that X has a LONG way. It actually pisses me off how it is still pretty

Re: php4 will not handle *.php3 files? (potato)

I think the problem is a simple MIME type problem. Add 'php3' to the application/x-httpd-php type. -Ken On Fri, Jan 19, 2001, Jameson C. Burt wrote: > Shouldn't the Debian package php4_4.0.3pl1-0potato1.deb > handle *.php3 files? > Through netscape http://localhost/test-jameson.php, >

term question

Sorry if this is not the most appropriate forum for this, but I have a question about terminal setting on my Debian system. Default term setting was vt100. Everything was fine, but in top, when I would hit 'u' to limit the user processes, the user prompt would look like this: $<5>$<3>$<2>$<2>Whi

Re: Driver for DSL Modem

On Sun, Jan 21, 2001, Bob Hilliard wrote: > My local telephone company (BellSouth)is offering an attractive > deal on DSL service. They will supply a "3COM HOMECONNECT ADSL MODEM > PCI" (I think it is model 3CP3617), but they only support Windoze > ("support" means they supply a driver). > >

Re: Driver for DSL Modem

On Sun, Jan 21, 2001, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # AFAIK, all Linux would need to support is the NIC. Does BellSouth use > # pppoe? If so, Roaring Penguin's pppoe for Linux is AWESOME. Painless > # install. > > If indeed

Re: vi - wraplen found

On Sun, Jan 21, 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > *shrug* Depends what you like. I have to use all sorts of random vi > clones at work. The ones on the various commercial Unices are pretty > much original vi, and while I can use them well enough for simple tasks > like configuration file editing they'd d

Re: /etc/alternatives/vi

On Sun, Jan 21, 2001, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > Can anyone tell me which package owns the /etc/alternatives/vi file? Thanks! /etc/alternatives/vi -> /usr/bin/nvi Looks like nvi. Is this what you are asking? -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

mem management between Debian and Red Hat?

I am setting up the WebTrends Enterprise Reporting Server on my Debian box here. It's for work and the only think this machine will be running. They say that the Linux version is for Red Hat. I don't buy that and am running Debian. There is a problem that they haven't seen there before and

logrotate source?

This looks like an interesting tool and I would like to check it out on our OpenBSD box. Does anyone know about a source tarball for it? This may sound stupid, but I am not sure what to do with the tarball available from the Debian site. :-/ I looked at the Makefile and it looked okay to me, so I

memory problem

I have played around and it seems to be more of an issue with the system itself. I am running 2.2r2 with kernel 2.2.18. This is a failrly newly installed system, and what happens is that applications don't release memory when they are done. I thought it was specific to Webtrends Enterprise Repor

more on memory problem

If it helps, here is the top readout. There really is not much running: 6:13pm up 20 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 27 processes: 26 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.1% system, 0.0% nice, 99.6% idle Mem: 517500K av, 49412K used, 468088K fr

Re: more on memory problem

On Tue, Jan 23, 2001, brian moore wrote: > > 6:13pm up 20 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > 27 processes: 26 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > > CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.1% system, 0.0% nice, 99.6% idle > > Mem: 517500K av, 49412K used, 468088K free, 14644K shrd,

my maxed out memory - still ok?

Here you go. Does this still look okay? This is with Webtrends running a lot of profiles. 6:56pm up 1 day, 1:02, 2 users, load average: 0.22, 0.30, 0.21 56 processes: 52 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.1% user, 8.7% system, 74.6% nice, 16.4% idle Mem: 517500K av

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done so > far is: > 1. installed dos > 2. changed the fs type for fat16 to xenix, and windows then installs fine > since it doesn't find dos. > 3. installed linux. > 4. now, i can boot e

Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > where can i get system commander? is it free? saqib No, but it's worth it. Check out http://www.systemcommander.com . -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest

reluctant farewell

Very reluctantly I am unsubscribing from the list. I have sincerely appreciated all the info and help from you guys, but the Debian server I set up at work is now wiped. The reason I had to set it up was for the Webtrends Enterprise Reporting Server, which is technically for Red Hat. I was havin

Re: reluctant farewell

On Sat, Jan 27, 2001, staf wagemakers wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:15:59PM -0800, Mark Koopman wrote: > > better yet, why use a log file analyzer at all? they can't truly measure > > web > > surfer behaviour > > anyways, only web server behaviour. > > customers ask for it :) EXACTLY. Pe

Re: reluctant farewell

On Sat, Jan 27, 2001, Mark Koopman wrote: > excuse me, did you say WebTrends is 'real-time' > > that it most certainly isn't. take a site like yahoo for example. i've heard > their estimates of nearly 500 million page views a day. webtrends is not > even close to real-time in this situation, th

Re: reluctant farewell

On Sat, Jan 27, 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > So configuring apache to log to an sql database and writing scripts to > build graphs on the fly would do the same thing, right? I'm > interested in working on something like this; my former employer > wanted stats updated weekly so I wrote a little p

setting up mail server

I am trying to be able to allow mutt to send and receive mail from my 2.2r2 system here with DSL. I decided to install exim since it seems to be easier to configure than sendmail. It seems to be working sending to yahoo.com (surprise), but when I tested to a mindspring.com address, it bounced

Re: setting up mail server

Thanks for the reply about setting up smarthost. I reconfigured exim for that and It works.But now All mail sent out from the machine gets bounced, saying: Remote host said: 550 relaying to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited by administrator Any ideas? Sorry if this is out of the scope of

fetchmail

Is anyone here using fetchmail? I ran it to get my mail from a POP server to use with mutt, and I did see them all come in when it was running, but I don't see them with mutt. Anyone know where they could be? Thanks. -Ken

Re: fetchmail

On Friday, January 18, 2002, at 11:18 , ben wrote: On Friday 18 January 2002 08:13 pm, Ken Weingold wrote: Is anyone here using fetchmail? I ran it to get my mail from a POP server to use with mutt, and I did see them all come in when it was running, but I don't see them with mutt. A

Re: fetchmail

On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 12:12 , Adam Majer wrote: How did you configure it? I just used linuxconf and it works perfectly. You might want to set the options of forwarding to postmaster if unknown recipient instead of rejecting. and specify the postster. What does it say in the logs? [ma

Re: fetchmail

On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 12:54 , ben wrote: if you use x, you should try fetchmailconf. run it as a user, not as root. it has a gui interface that is pretty easy to understand, and it also lets you test the configuration, and returns decent enough feedback. before you run it, you ne

Re: fetchmail

On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 01:23 , Adam Majer wrote: Did you configure fetchmail? What does it say when you run it? [Pasting all output might help] Honestly all I did was install and run it. This is the output: fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting to connect to server mail.hel

Re: fetchmail

On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 01:38 , Bob Thibodeau wrote: What is in your ~/.fetchmailrc? I don't have one. From what I understood, if I specify everything I need on the command line, I don't need one. -Ken

Re: fetchmail

On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 05:53 , Bob Thibodeau wrote: Well, then this may or may not be usefull to you. Here are my samples (with obvious security holes patched). Thanks, Bob. What I really need to know right now is where the mail went, since it showed it getting every single one o

Re: fetchmail

On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 06:13 , Dougie Nisbet wrote: On Saturday 19 January 2002 10:21 am, Ken Weingold wrote: I don't have one. From what I understood, if I specify everything I need on the command line, I don't need one. Most people probably run it using a control

Re: fetchmail

On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 07:08 , Dougie Nisbet wrote: I could be wrong, but I think fetchmail can have a config file that over-rides parameters on the command line. Do you have an /etc/default/fetchmail file? Is there anything in there that conflicts with your command line? I have

Re: fetchmail

On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 12:20 , dman wrote: fetchmail does not deliver mail. It hands it off to some other MTA/MDA for delivery. If you specify an MDA, then it pipes the message to it. If not it tries to connect to port 25 on localhost and give it to the MTA running on your local m

another exim question

Please excuse this if it should be obvious, but I have been playing around so much that I can't find this. Is there one simple setting in exim.conf that will allow me to receive mail for all my addresses from different domains? I can only receive for one right now. All the others get bounced

Re: another exim question

On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 12:17 , Alan Chandler wrote: local_domains = localhost:*.home:home:chandlerfamily.org.uk:libdebate.org is mine - you could - if there are lots put them in a file one per line and do local_domains = /path/to/file Thanks, Alan. When I change local_domains to

Re: another exim question

Oh, btw, I don't need fetchmail if I can get all mail to any domain (aliased/forwarded to my local address) to get to this machine. -Ken

Re: another exim question

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002, Alan Chandler wrote: > Like it says I think you have DNS problems. I did a quick lookup on your > domain name (hellrot.org) and it told me the mail server for your domain is > at mail2.your-site.com. I assume this is a domain name hosting company and > they are holding yo