Re: windowmaker and gnome

I've never tried to put the panel in autostart, but I put the commands I wants in .xseesion (in your case will be .xinitrc) just before exec wmaker. I even tried the gnome-session and it worked fine, but had the tendency of autoload more than one intances of the same apps. For autpplacing the wind

Re: Mail retrieval problems

If you are using fetchmail and exim I solved the problme adding 127.0.0.1 to the local_domains. graziano On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:04:05AM -0400, Jack Wilkinson wrote: > all of the sudden, my mail can't be deleted off the server... my system was > stalled this morning after doing a dist-upgrade

Help with knfsd

Ciao, I have 4 machines with debian 2.0 on them. One is NFS-serving the /home directory to the others 3. Using the standard nfsd program we got a lot of NFS not responding: only one user loading a page with netscape can get that. So I was going to try the kernel level nfs server. Have anybody su

Re: apmd

Have you checked the BIOS setup of your laptop? As far as I can tell apmd shouldn't suspend arbitrarily your machine: try to run without apmd jsut to check if the laptop goes to sleep. If yes, the problem is in the setup of your BIOS. graziano On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 05:34:43PM -0500, D'jinnie wr

lost "dir" in /usr/info

Hi all, sometimes ago I had a crash and I ended up loosing the dir file in the /usr/info directory. How can I recreate it? thanks graziano

Re: lost "dir" in /usr/info

out any link! I reinstalle twice the libc6-doc, but I can't access the pages! What can I do? thanks graziano On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 07:09:30AM -0400, John Forest wrote: > Obi wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > sometimes ago I had a crash and I ended up loosing the dir file

Re: PCMCIA

On Thu, Apr 02, 1998 at 07:19:05PM -, Asher Haig wrote: > Bill Moran, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 6/1/98 11:41 PM > > >I have just upgraded from bo to hamm on my Toshiba laptop > >(successfully except for a few corrupted files). How do I > >configure to make my ethernet card (HyperEnet) work > > Ins

Re: smail vs sendmail, fetchmail, K6 processor

Ciao, > be sent > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my ISP) which is definitely not what I want. I'm using smail on a hamm system. I configured smail with 1, giving the mail host of my ISP as smart host. I also have a visible name different from the name of my machine (that is the domain name of outgoing mai

[off-topic] Toshiba 780 CDM

Greetings, yesterday I installed Debian (frozen) on my friend's laptop. The machine is a Toshiba 780 CDM, and everything worked out pretty good: we have another debian user :-). The only problem we got is the suspend/resume with X: if he suspend/resume the machine with X on the screen, X is unusa

Re: smail set-up

Hi, I'm using smail on a laptop, and I came from sendmail :-). I'm using hamm. > 1. change the name of any outgoing mail to another username (i.e. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I used the visible_name option in config. Actually you can set it up throught the configuration script (s

portamap messages filling my logfiles

Hi all, once in a while, mostly when new machine are added to the network, I start getting messages from my portmap: sport portmap[3612]: connect from 132.239.9.218 to callit(ypserv): request from unauthorized host and these messages fill my logfile. My machine is the only one in my lab

help with remote modem

Hi all, a friend of mine has a machine with both an ethernet and a modem and he'd like to use it to dial in from home. I tried to help him out but I got problem with the modem and the machine is about 1000 miles away ... I used minicom to talk to the modem. The modem is there but it's weird: it g

mpich in potato?

Hello, I'm running potato on my laptop and I had a weird bahaviour from mpich. I upgraded and everthing went fine but 2 days ago I noticed that man was barfing on some pages. In particular the MPI man pages: it looks like the mpi pages in /usr/man were symlink to man pages in /usr/lib/mpich/man t

Help connecting with earthlink

hello, I'm trying to setup my linux box to connect to earthlink, but with no luck. I've done that quite a few times with different ISPs, but this time I cannot set it up. It works fine under windows98, but under linux no. This is the important part of the log: Mar 17 15:08:08 harp pppd[1139]: Us

ssh problem: stdin is not a tty

Hello, since a couple of weeks I'm having problem ssh or scp to my laptop: I'm getting this error stdin: is not a tty I can ssh to everyother location or scp, but not to my laptop. I'm running potato and kernel 2.2.3. Any ideas on what the problem can be? graziano -- Cu do sc

octave segfaults?

Hi, I'm trying to run octave on my potato machine and it segs faults right away. What am I doing wrong? graziano -- Cu do sceccu ni fa mulu i primu cauci e' u so

latest gnumeric & gnome-print

Hi, I just upgraded the last gnumeric hoping to be able to print (gnome-print is now available) but it doesn't start: it complains it canno find the Times fonts. THere is no much documentations with it: what should I do? graziano

Mutt and NFS (reprise)

Hi all, I know this topic already showed up on the mailing list but the solutions weren't really up to mu case: that is having the file on the local FS!! The situation is /home NFS mounted and mutt refusing to do anything to every file in the home directory because of the dreaded locking mechanis

Re: Mutt and NFS (reprise)

Thanks! It actually works ... only if I mount that directly but it doesn't work if I use amd specifying nolock! I'll figure it out though. Thanks again graziano On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 11:51:28PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >

Re: Mutt and NFS (reprise)

;m having problems with mutt and NFS too. I mount /var/spool/mail by > NFS and cant delete mails. > How to fix this? > Thanks, Paulo Henrique > Quoting Obi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Thanks! It actually works ... only if I mount that directly but it > > d

amd and security

Hi all, some of the debian machines here have been broke into. The sysadm told me that amd is the culprit (I think amq). Have you heard anything about it? How can we secure them? Is the amd version into slink secure? thanks graziano

Re: amd and security

e was quite some public available ftpd exploids. > > On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 04:48:29PM -0700, Obi wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > some of the debian machines here have been broke into. The sysadm told me > > that amd is the culprit (I think amq). Have you heard anything ab

potato's octave?

I keep getting seg faults when I try to run it. Am I the only one? graziano -- Cu do sceccu ni fa mulu i primu cauci e' u so

[OFF-TOPIC] which computer rack?

Sorry for the off topic question, but since it looks like few people on the list had to deal with cluster of PCs I was wondering if I can get any advice on a computer rack. We'll have about 6-8 machines (running Debian of course :)). Thanks! graziano -- Cu do sceccu ni fa mulu i primu cauci e' u

Re: Interesting Problem (PCMCIA ethernet and modem)

Ciao, you shouldn't use /etc/init.d/network with the PCMCIA package but /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. I think you are getting routing problem that is the packages are sent to the wrong interface: what does route -n say? graziano On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 08:30:58PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: > After

smail & fetchmail

Sorry to jump in the discussion so late: what is the problem of smail and fetchmail? I switched some times ago from sendmail to smail (hamm) and I got few problem with fetchmail, but was due to (I believe) my fault and to the fact that smail seems more strict: - the invisible flag of fet

off-topic: Good bug-tracking package?

Hi all, does anyone know of a good bug-tracking software? thanks, graziano -- Nessuna cosa è che più c'inganni che 'l nostro giudizio. Leonardo da Vinci -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

omniorb

Hi all, first of all I'd like to thank all of you that answered to my post about the bug-tracking package. I'm still looking at them ... Now I have problem with the omniorb package: the NameServer (omniNames) segs fault as soon as I start it. The package doesn't even install completely (the post

omniORB & thread

Hi all, after having unsuccesfully tried to install omniORB, since the problem was in the NameService, I tried to get a CORBA client anyway (I don't need to use the NameService anyway). Well I can compile, but I get segmentation fault when I try to run it. Using gdb I found that the problem is i

mutt crashes

Hi, I recently switched from sendmail to smail. Since then, I have problem with my mailers :-(. Mutt crashes when it is time to send a message, wheter is a reply or a new message, while comp (I use nmh) complains that my email address is not legal (actually I believe is smail to complain). The

gcc & X

Hi all, I just installed Debian 1.3, and everything works fine but compiling X programs. I tried to compile bdfresize (I want larger cursor) and I had to use xmkmf, but when I'm doing make, I got some unresolved symbol ... The program works because I could compiled it on a Sun. I believe is mis

gcc & X: reprise

> I could guess, but there are quite a few possibilities. The error message > you recieve during compilation would be helpful. What does it say? > Well, after untar the program I got an Imake file so I do a xmkmf -a and I get this: imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config make Makefiles m

smail & inexistent host

hi all, I just installed Debian 1.3, and I used the suggested mailer, that is smail. It seems working fine until now, but for mail in which the hostname is wrong. Sometimes happens that I received mail to which I reply without even looking at the address. The problem is that smail kept the mai

Re: gcc & X: reprise

Thanks for the help. Now it works. graziano -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Netscape 4.03 & new xlib6?

Hi all, yesterday I tried to upgrade to the unstable xlibc6 (3.3-6) and now netscape dies with a bus error, after having complained about locales not supported by the libraries and about a bunch of keys that it coudln't find. Is there some hope to run netscape & the new lbraries? thanks, graz

Laptop in different places ...

Hi all, this is dirving me nuts. I have a laptop and I'm changing subnet frequently, and my machine has two names, ops, three: - one on subnet A - one on subnet B - one when I'm connecting via phone. The problem is that I have my mail server on the subnet A, and my "norma

fetchmail & multiple hostname (was laptop in different places)

I traced (I think!) down what was (actually is) my problem. The responsible is (my poor administration :-)) and fetchmai trying to forward the fetched mail to port 25 on *two* hosts: host.domainA and localhost. Of course, since I'm not on domain_A, this is a problem because no hosts is going to

mailx_8.1.1-3.1

Am I the only one in trouble with this version? When I try to send a mail as soon as I hit return the mail is gone but no body is actually sent: only the header. Am I missing some dependencies? graziano -- Nessuna cosa è che più c'inganni che 'l nostro giudizio. Leonardo da Vinci -- TO UNSU

Re: parallel zip and scsi-kontroller conflict

Some times ago I used a ZIP drive from my laptop through the parallel port. I followed the instruction contained in the mini-howto and the ZIP drive worked flawlessy ... I don't have it anymore, but I know someone who use it consistently to backup his system. I know I compiled everything as a

talk & ntalk

Hi all, I'm sorry if this is a FAQ, but I couldn't find it ... I have problem with the talk command. From my Debian 1.3 laptop, there is no way to talk to somebody else. I tried on a SunOS, on another Linux box (slackware) but with no luck: the talk sits with a Checking for invitation on a ca

Re: talk & ntalk

> On Jun 18, Obi wrote > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm sorry if this is a FAQ, but I couldn't find it ... I have problem with > > the talk command. From my Debian 1.3 laptop, there is no way to talk to > > somebody else. I tried on a SunOS, on an

TaskBar

I'm using fvwm95 and debian 1.3, and I cannot find the man page for the module TaskBar. What am I missing? Also in /usr/doc there is no reference to TaskBar ... graziano -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL P

TaskBar: a follow-up

Well even if the documentation is still missing, I found something that maybe can interest somebody. I integrated my .fvwm95rc with the Debian menus because I found them nice to have, but since I personilyze my setup I jut added the Apps, Modules and Games ... After that TaskBar didn't work quit

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #528

Hi all, well the subject says everything ... I have 3 boxes and I was wondering how can I set only one of them to hold most of the packages and the other three just to have the bare minimum to work (in case of crash I'd like to still use them as X-server). I would like to keep using the dpkg a

Unidentified subject!

  help! my debian is overwritten by win 2000, and i dont have any boot diskettes to revive it. can anyone out there help me? istvan  Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac