I have recently started using wdm (a variant of xdm) and am finding that
environment variables I put in ~/bash_profile are not picked up. Where
do these variables go?
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ery simple and it works great. Very easy to add future IPs
too.
If you would like me to send other examples please get back to me.
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I regularly update my system using apt-get. Occasionally, however, I
might want to hold back a package (exim, at the moment). Can I do this
other than by using dselect? I have scoured the dpkg and apt-get man
pages and can't see a way to do it.
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Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=>
=> Here's a nice little script. It would be nice to have it added to a
=> package somewhere, but I'm not sure which one it should go into.
Thanks, Jim. Exactly what I needed!
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newpackage will get the newpackage and all
other necessary packages. Painlessly and flawlessly. Brilliant!
In all, Debian is well worth the effort. It will be interesting to see
what Corel do with the install routine.
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sane? This
=> stubborn bastard worked before with same conf file. Any help is
=> greatly
=> appreciated.
I upgraded too and had all sorts of problems. Apparently my eximconfig
file was updated automatically during installation, but there were still
problems. The answer for me was to downgr
fault, and as root it does nothing. Manual changes to
/etc/menu have no effect. It used to work fine.
Is there a bug? I do apologise if the topic has already been mentioned
in the group.
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Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=>
=> You may need to restart windomaker to get it to notice the changes.
=>
Thanks, but that doesn't work either.
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=> On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Cuno Sonnemans wrote:
=>
=> > Hi,
=> >
=> > I've installed efax, but I can only
=> > fax asci text.
Faxing from Linux works very well, but there is a steep learning curve
compared to the Windows apps like WinFAX. After a couple of years using
Linux it has only been a few
does this differ from what I proposed?
I am pleased for you that you found it all so easy.
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you suggest and leave it a few days.
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ur packages held back when I last
upgraded. Thanks for that, too!!! Apt-get is truly remarkable.
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TP/index.html
It also resumes broken downloads.
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you need more help/advice.
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e
only minor differences between distributions. The book I originally
bought came with a distribution by Caldera, I have since moved through
Red Hat, SuSE, Caldera Lite and eventually to Debian.
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few problems getting domains to show correctly, but haven't had to
change a username before.
Thanks for your help.
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kness of apt - once I had lost all networking (ppp) and my ISP
told me my port 25 was closed. Somehow I realised that a recent apt
session had not completed. Can't remember what caused the problem, but I
cleared it and apt started loads of configuration. After that I had my
system back to a functional state.
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le. In
future I shall always do it this way unless the upgrade entails a major
download.
> If you're ever looking for inexpensive Slink CD-ROM's,
> http://www.cheapbytes.com makes a nice Official Debian distro that
> comes
> in at a very low price.
I have used Cheapbytes before when I used RedHat. Excellent company.
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. is that usable yet?
Thinking about it, there are not that many choices available for Windows
either - I was investigating some for use by my students and it appeared
most 'alternatives' were based on IE and just provided a different front
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;
exit 1
fi
for i in $@ ; do
echo "$ihold"
done | dpkg --set-selections
end
AFAIK apt will not attempt to upgrade packages dependent on the package
held back. Perhaps someone else can verify this?
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tar.gz source, compiled
and installed it surely all sorts of dependencies on my system would be
broken?
Any advice would be gratefully received. RTFMs also gratefully received
if they also point to the correct FM!
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Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to connect to BTInternet here in the UK. Apparently they use
> ms-chap. I have been looking at the ppp docs and the advice there is
> to
> compile ppp with ms-chap support.
Sorry to reply to my own post but I manged to
elayed from GMX to my real email
address, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the outside world. I
am using Exim 3-02.5 on my Potato system.
TIA for any help.
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George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote:
>
> > I have made sure I have localhost in the correct place in exim.conf,
> I
> > have checked the fetchmail.FAQ (section T3) but still can't work it
> out.
> >
>
view:"nedit $1"\
quit:""
As you can see, very simple and very neat.
9menu was written as part of the Plan9 window manager, but naturally can
be used alone.
Hope this helps. Just grab it and install and see what you think.
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Thanks, guys, for the input. It certainly looks like they don't use
MS-CHAP despite references to it all over the place.
Looking forward to the free access at the weekend :)
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9-08-06 09:02:02 connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] (gsmh) refused
-
1999-08-06 09:03:20 connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] (gsmh) refused
-
There is nothing at all in paniclog.
Thanks again for your help.
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194.217.242.0/24 : \
*"
No idea why it is there, but I remmed it out and now exim works fine
Thanks a lot for all your help, George.
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nary-i386/graphics/sane_0.74-1.deb
Cheers, Paul. I have downloaded and installed the package. Works great!
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d it, I had the same problem.
Don't know exactly what did it, but I started xscanimage as sudo root,
then started Gimp as sudo root, then did 'ln -s /dev/sg0 /dev/sga' and
somewhere along the line it all worked and I can now use the scanner as
a regular user
Worth a try!
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#x27;s like - you fiddle around and
get something going but never know what actually did it. Can you still
not start Gimp as a user?
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dcg/Psion/
The first is a guide to getting the Psion to link with a Linux box so
that would be *very* useful!
Note that my experiences have been with the Series 3 and 3a - I have
never used a Siena so it may be different.
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I am very excited at the ease with which efax installed on my system.
Debian proved itself yet again in configuring my system so that I can,
for the first time, send faxes from my Debian system. I *never* achieved
this with RedHat.
Anyway, what I would like to do is to be able to print directly fr
ty to interrupt
the process to add a 'phone number might be a problem.
Cheers anyway
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software appear?
Thanks.
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gives a GUI interface to rpm. I understand apt will
eventually fill this role, but it does seem a long time coming!
Take care.
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el, like auto
memory recognition, better recognition of the AMD CPUs, and UDMA with
SiS chipsets.
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can give.
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Many thanks to all those who posted replies to my plea for help. I
downloaded the newer libstdc++2.8_2.90.29-2.deb and installed it. Once
this had been done, I was able to install libc6_2.0.7u-7.1.deb without
problems.
Cheers.
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WP. The best one for *colour* is
probably NEC Colormate PS. This will produce a nice colour postscript
document which your usual printing system can process. Don't forget that
the object of the exercise is to simply produce a good ps document - the
actual printer make you select in WP does not
o 400 MHz.
Works great - I have compiled the kernel a few times because,
apparently, this will show up an unstable configuration re. CPU speed
etc..
Just make sure you get a good super socket 7 motherboard and 128 pin
memory which runs at 100 MHz. I have a GigaByte GA-5SG100 with the SiS
chipset.
Take ca
(not even changing
the settings!) and the rate has gone up the next time i have re-booted.
Only ever happened with a RedHat system - don't know why.
What kernel are you using? There are a couple of AMD K6-2 patches
around.
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have used
patches to the 2.0.35 kernel to enable UDMA in the past and noticed only
a *very* small increase in HD transfer speeds.
I for one am thrilled with the new kernel! (Using 2.2.1).
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;username whatever
is someothername on this system' which makes things a lot easier if your
username on your Linux box is not the same as your email name.
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IP's POP3 server is expecting a logon as user scgf, but
all mail collected will be processed by your box as if it were for user
gsmh.
Sorry if I have misunderstood what you needed to know.
Take care.
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anyone has (genuine) motif on their system, I would be happy to pay
you if you could compile it for me if you haven't used it yourself :)
Thanks very much.
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same thing happens. It looks like the
problems is not with Window Maker. Anyone else seen this?
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' is given then my password. *All* mail for that hostname
is then downloaded by fetchmail - the problem is that any mail for other
users appears in *my* mailbox (/var/spool/mail/gsmh).
How can I ensure that mail for another user on my system gets into the
correct mailbox?
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then seen save $home/Mail/School
elif $h_x-mailing-list matches "^"
then seen save $home/Mail/Debian
endif
I have a good few more rules in .forward, but these will suffice for
illustration purposes.
Hope this helps.
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o responded). Your suggestion is closest to
the solution - see my other message in the thread.
Thanks again.
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t too quick to point the finger at
others who they believe have not read the documntation.
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o make-kpkg kernel-image
. . . I have successfully created dozens of kernel images this way,
including the latest 2.2.12
Having said that, I am concerned I am not using a necessary command.
What effect would me not using it have?
Cheers.
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Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> *- On 27 Aug, Phillip Deackes wrote about "Re: make-kpkg and 2.2.12"
>
> > Oh, I didn't realise you needed make-kpkg clean -
> > What effect would me not using it have?
> >
>
> On a prestine source it
oned
out such problems a long time ago.
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d throw up some errors. It works OK, so what the heck!
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Debian lists:
if $h_x-mailing-list matches "^"
then seen save $home/Mail/Debian
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* since I compiled and installed kernel 2.2.12
Any ideas?
Thanks very much.
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all of the above to root.root?
Thanks again.
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then deliver pedro
elif $header_to: contains "luiz"
then deliver luiz
endif
If you are not using exim, you can add something to your .fetchmailrc,
but I am not sure what. In my case I do not need to run fetchmail as
root, just as my normal self.
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with SMTP id QAA13856
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:31:46 +0100 (BST)
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Pamela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Pamela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Phillip Deackes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Recently I have noticed I am getting a question mark instead of an
apostrophe on web pages. The apostrophe works fine everywhere else (')
Any ideas what is wrong?
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George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Also, e2fs is wasteful of disk space. You will have more available
> disk
> space in an msdos floppy format.
That is exactly why I use the minix filesystem. Maybe that's the
compromise you need!!
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.
After bringing up your PPP connection, try adjusting the TCP window for
that interface. If I remember correctly, on Redhat 5.2 (at least) you
do that through an ifconfig option (ifconfig ppp0 window 8000?).
Try setting it to 8000.
=========
Cheers
y routing table for
AF.
Address_families: inet,inet6,ddp,ipx,netrom,ax25
specify AF: -A af1,af2.. or --af1 --af2 or af_route
I do not have the technical expertise to work out what I am supposed to
do now.
Many thanks for your help.
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ed to send mail with Exmh and Debian? If so, please tell me
how to do it.
Many thanks.
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here in the /etc/cron.daily/cracklib
file do I put > /dev/null?
This is the first I have heard about the problem, though I have noticed
a lot of mail on my system for root originating from the cracklib cron
entry.
Many thanks.
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"Damir J. Naden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> My choice is efax, which requires very small part of the HD, and it
> does send
> faxes OK. It is a command line based, but I can send my faxes directly
> from
> within lyx with it. Don't know about other modems, but for me it works
> well
> with int
*ages* and it has always performed
flawlessly. I am using version 24b-2 and junkbuster 2.0-7 -- both Debian
packages.
Thanks for any help you guys can give me!
Cheers.
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rt with I had
problems connecting to the correct port at all, then I decided to
downgrade from the unstable version of Junkbuster I had been trying to
use to the stable version (2.0-4) and this worked. I then added the line
you suggested to /etc/junkbuster/forwardfile and wwwoffle kicked in too.
fore I
upgraded to the 2.2 kernel, oh hell!!!
Incidently I booted into Windows 98 and the scanner worked perfectly
well.
Any help would be *very* much appreciated.
Take care.
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e?
Many thanks.
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that the group has the ability to write to
the files and directories involved.
The programmers out there will see all this as incredibly clumsy, but
as a non-programmer I am just pleased it all works so well!!
Take care.
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Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It is a really simple matter then of having an executable script for
> each provider which copies the files around. Here is an example for
> one
> IP, eidosnet:
>
> cp /etc/resolv.conf.eidosnet /etc/resolv
'\' symbols.
Sean has had a lot of problem reports about the Moneydance installer -
it is patently not working on many boxes regardless of distribution.
Hope this helps.
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I use icqnix ans can easily get it to start up when logging on to my IP.
I do not know how to get it to close when I log off however. Can anyone
help, please?
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it so that icqnix will always
terminate when I log off whithout having to find out what pid it is
using before I can kill it. If I do that I might as well close it
myself. 'terminate' does not exist on my system, according to locate.
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.
I have only tested it so far with Moneydance, and this works fine.
Hope this helps someone.
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said that, I enjoy tinkering so
am not too bothered at attempting to get broken apps working - but apart
from the apps mentioned above all is well.
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dselect before. Everything is
working as it should.
Just though someone might be interested!
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e fix makes the previous fix of adding a spurious directory to the
config file
in /opt/applix/axdata/fontmetrics/gallium/fs/ unnecessary.
Hope this helps someone.
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sometimes duplicated on two items)
and the Gnome or KDE apps get categorised. I *hate* that! You could, of
course, change that manually.
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ckage was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, or that it is an obsolete package.
E: Package mutt has no installation candidate
Whatever package I try, I get the same response. If I access the hensa
site manually via Netscape, all the packages are there and accessible.
Any ideas?
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(20 US Dollars). I have printed
absolutely loads of things - much more than I could with an inkjet
cratridge costing nearly twice as much.
At the end of the day, do you *really* need colour?
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d a backup of my /etc directory which was pre-potato
and a few weeks old, so I reinstated it then went to
/var/cache/apt/archive and did dpkg -i *.deb. Not very elegant, but
after a few blips and tinkering I got a working /etc directory with
everything where it should be.
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in the Linux community will take on board the source code and do
something with it. Unfortuantely my programming skills are non-existant
or I would have done it.
The file you need to download is less than 1.5 MB and works great here.
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ail is available.
What is even better is that it is now free. H&L are folding and are
inviting applications for the source code.
Let me know how you get on with it!
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main of my machine) as a local domain? That will be unique
to me.
Many thanks. Sorry if I have not given enough info. You can probably
tell more from my headers than I can give!
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is scgf, my email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am a little confused now. The above mail went out via smtp and so far,
it hasn't come back to me.
Any further ideas?
Cheers.
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im.conf:
queue_remote = true
I removed queue_only = true, of course.
Excellent. It all works very well indeed now.
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nyone point me to an appropriate document, FAQ, whatever which
would explain what I would have to do to set it all up?
Many thanks.
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inippets, like one filter rule, but I was't sure how
to put the whole file together. I didn't realise that each filter
statement starts with elif (if for the first) and the whole lot
ends with endif. Now that shows the lack of programmer in me!!!
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! Mail is getting sent and
received (using fetchmail ==> exim) from my IP's POP server.
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George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 30 May 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote:
>
> Looks to me like you are trying to start an exim daemon when one
> already
> exists.
Thanks George. I looked in /etc/init.d and found the expected 'exim'
file which starts th
ving
lesstif and not motif.
Oh well, it would have been nice to have a glibc2 version!
Does the Motif license allow someone else to compile a dynamic or static
version of a Motif app to redistribute to others?
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u are a member of that
group. Check that the permissions look like this: rwxr-x - in other
words, dip has read access to the directory and files therein.
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a lot of permission
changes etc..
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find the older
version.
Any idea how this can happen? Surely if a file depends on another file,
and that other file is not available, apt would not attempt to fetch and
install it?
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e a look at
whether you are using Ultra DMA and try disabling it.
I have had few problems with drives bought in the last year - my current
drive, a Quantum Fireball EX 6.4 GB, has behaved flawlessly. Maybe it is
the interaction between motherboard and hard drive?
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. OK, I
will have to pay for it, but it will worth it to say goodbye to
Netscape.
BTW, I have tried Navigator and Communicator as Debian packages, as a
tar.gz using the Debian installer and without. Pants however I install
it.
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tient. You will not automatically get a menu
entry created - at least I didn't. Easy enough to do manually, though.
I must say that the 5.1a version of StarOffice is a lot better than 5.0
- faster and more stable.
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