Hi Bernd --
You said:
> The current resque disk does not work with my Adaptec 2940 UW. This does
> not surprise me, as none of the Kernels above 2.0.12 (up to 2.0.27)
> I tried did work. An small remark in a README in an otherwise useless
> RedHat stated that Adaptec support is partially broken s
Stan Brown said:
> I am looking for a general puropose conversion program for graphich
> formats. What I would really like would be sonething like xv that could
> be run ono interactivley by the lp interface script.
>
> Ultimetly II need the fiel is PCL3, but I have ghostsc
Me too.
Susan Kleinmann
>
> Every time I post to the debian user mail list I am getting 5-10 error
> messages saying the mail could not be delivered. Although, I do get a
> copy of the mail sent back to me from the list. I am wondering if this
> is related to the problems with the mail list,
> In a lot of man pages, and some of the documentation in /usr/doc there are
> there little squares or cryptic <$%^> thingees. I guess that there's
> something I've missed somewhere...
>
> What have/haven't I done?
On the assumption that you ran into some highlighting or underlining
markup, then
Hi Greg --
You asked:
> Is the 56kb USR upgrade compatible with linux? I tired of 14.4. :)
Almost certainly. I use a 56K ISDN 'pseudo-modem' all the time.
Even though this box isn't internally the same as the real USR modem
you're talking about, the software configuration under Linux would
b
The documentation for cdrecord says it writes to /dev/scg*.
But I can't find anything about scg's in the kernel sources (or even
in a string search at Linux v2 Headquarters). So my questions are:
What is /dev/scg?
How can (or does?) one get a kernel driver?
How can one integrate this into ma
Using the latest versions of libc6, netbase and netstd 2.17-1,
and dnsutils 8.1.1-2, I can't seem to get nslookup working.
The error message is
*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Server failed
When I run 'strace nslookup', I see that the sequence of events leading
up to this is:
Hi Richard --
You asked:
> A new debian installer has asked me to inquire whether anyone has experience
> with the subject cdrom unit - his installation won't recognize it. At this
> writing I have asked him to determine more e.g.
> - is it IDE
> - is it ATAPI
> - what debian ver
Hi Ricardo --
You asked:
> What is the price compared with Adaptec 2940UW?
I got one for $189.00 a couple of months ago at a computer show.
You might check out:
PricePages: http://www.ntek.com/cgi-shl/cgi_ivor.exe/index.data
which lists prices from Usenet postings or
PriceWatch: http://www.p
Hi Leszek --
You asked:
> Can anybody tell me where can i find make-kpkg ??
If you execute
zgrep Contents.gz
in the top of the rex directory on any Debian mirror, you'll see
that make-kpkg comes in the kernel-package package.
Specifically, the answer is to fetch from any Debian mirror
rex
Suddenly exmh seems to be producing zombie processes whenever I try to
reply to a message. Of course, I'm not able to make the reply.
Specifically, when I click on the Reply button (then on Reply to sender),
exmh shows this message:
Starting ASYNC exmh-async xterm -e vi ...
But exmh doesn't s
Hi Pedro --
You said:
> whe I try dvips (or xdvi) I get the following:
>
> [ Text on font metrics generation deleted]
>
> Font metrics written on cmr10.tfm.
> Output written on cmr10.300gf (128 characters, 13184 bytes).
> Transcript written on cmr10.log.
> mkdir: cannot make directory `/var/s
On a relatively recent Debian installation, I keep getting this error:
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory
But when I execute:
# ls -l /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.1/cc1
I get:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rootroot 1153181 Aug 14 15:23 \
/usr/lib/gcc-lib
Hi Stuart --
You asked:
> Did I forget to stick in Replaces: libelf and Conflicts: libelf in
> there somewhere? libelf0 and libelf0-dev are the current versions; libelf
> should be dead. (If I forgot to do the Replaces and Conflicts bit, bug me,
> and I'll fix it. Two minute job, and a good excuse
Hi Johann --
You said:
> Heiko wrote:
> >What does the last line before all this in '/var/adm/messages' say?
>
> I found the following sequence of lines:
>
> -
> Nov 4 07:55:43 Johann syslogd: exiting on signal 15
> Nov 4 09:15:24 Johann
Hi Dale --
You said:
> I have had this same problem on my test partition. It was suggested (I
> think it was Steven Early) that one of the other packages in devel,
> possibly using dpkg diversions has clobbered things. If you look, you will
> find a 2.7.2 directory as well as the 2.7.2.1 directory
Hi Guy --
You suggested:
> "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On a relatively recent Debian installation, I keep getting this error:
> > gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory
> Do you have any packages inst
Hi Dan --
You said:
> On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote:
> > The tapedrive is identified in win95 as a QIC3020.
>
> This is a SCSI tape drive. (I've seen it ONCE as IDE although..)
...
> Open up your case, and see what cable its attached too... Only use FTAPE
> if its hooked up th
Hi Martin --
You asked:
> Do I still need make-kpkg for generating a kernel package?
Well, not absolutely, but it sure is a handy tool.
> If so, where can I find it?
It's in Debian-1.2/binary-all/misc/kernel-package_3.03.deb
You can find out which debian archive file ('.deb' file) contains a ce
Hi Eric --
You said:
> I've been trying to download some of the .debfiles from the sunsite
> ftp, and a few files will download, but most of them come up with an error
> that says:
> "Cannot open Internet Site at whatever whatever, Operation completed
> successfully." And it won't
Hi Joe --
You said:
> I have been reading this list for a few weeks now, and I wonder
> if someone could regularly post and maintain the . I'll
> call it debian FAQ, for lack of a better term. It would be
> very worthwhile to keep a list of unique debian questions and
> answers.
I'm one of t
Hi Chad --
You asked:
>
> Is there a way that I can get cron.daily to start running it's processes
> before 12am? I have a program in there that needs to run before the new
> day starts so that is can get the correct data.
The system crontab uses a file /etc/crontab. This is to be distinguished
Related idea:
I'm thinking about working on the FAQ this weekend, and one thing I'd
like to do is to break it up into at least two parts:
--one which is general, and
--one which focusses only on dselect and dpkg.
Of course, we could break it up further. For example, we could have
--an FAQ on in
Lindsay Haisley said:
> The Debian FAQ lists the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the address to
> which to send corrections and suggestions regarding the FAQ. Mail to this
> address bounces with a "Sorry, no mailbox here by that name" message.
>
> Do the people who maintain the FAQ know this?
Yes.
I didn't have any trouble finger-ing you either at chaph.usc.edu or at
castor.usc.edu. Perhaps you've solved the problem by now. If not,
what site did you have trouble with? Also, what versions of netbase
(which contains tcpd) and netstd (which contains in.fingerd) are you using?
I notice tha
Matt Birkholz said:
> I do not have an /etc/papersize and I do not find it in unstable/Contents
> nor in /var/lib/dpkg/info/* (neither in a package file list nor in an
> installation script). It seems a pity to have gone to the trouble of
> supporting /etc/papersize if it never gets created. Per
Olivier Abad wrote:
> I have problems configuring my Orchid Fahrenheit ProVideo 64 video card.
> Now when I startx, my screen turns black and after a few seconds, my
> monitor turns to power save mode.
>
Unfortunately, exactly the problem you report with this card has also been
observed by ot
The HP Jet Direct network interface prints out a banner page for all jobs
sent to it, whether or not one uses ":sh:" in one's printcap file.
To turn the banner off, one must use a command of the form:
lpr -h [other-flags] filename
I would like to be able to specify the '-h' flag to lpr in my
Derek Lee said:
> ls -l /dev/console
lrwxrwxrwx 1 sgk 10004 May 4 19:31 /dev/console -> tty0
> ls -l /dev/xconsole
prw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Apr 13 09:59 /dev/xconsole
> ls -l /dev/tty0
crw-rw 1 sgk 1000 4, 0 May 10 06:40 /dev/tty0
> My ins
One of the joys of getting X up is that you'll get Netscape
up and then you'll be able to use DejaNews to answer every question under
the Sun!
When I looked in DejaNews with the query terms "trident xf86config" I got
about 2 dozen hits, which told me:
a) lots of people were offering their XF86Co
> I installed fvwm2 but still get the xterm that comes as the default.
If you start X with 'xinit' or 'startx' and do _not_ have an X startup
script in your home directory, you will be punished by being presented with
an X term that could only be read by people under the age of 20.
You can circum
On one of the computer systems here, I am suddenly unable to use the Debian
installation disks.
Details:
I am using a boot floppy made from a file dated something like May 4.
It boots version 1.3.95.
The boot seems to go OK; i.e., the kernel loads without any obvious problems.
Then I insert the
> What do I have to put in the MemBase line?
Someone with an ATI GX Mach64 2MB - ramdac ati68860 Rev B, and
clock ati18818-1/ICS2595, reported that he used: 8MB Aperature at 0xa000
I think this is supposed to be listed in the XF86Config file as
MemBase 0xa000
This is only an inference,
This bug was in the passwd file from the base package.
It can be fixed by replacing the nobody line in /etc/passwd with this entry:
nobody:*:65534:65534:nobody:/dev/null:
Hope that helps.
Susan Kleinmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I came across a WWW site of potential interest on this topic tonight:
Part 3 of the comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video at
http://www.heartlab.rri.uwo.ca/vidfaq/videofaq.html
In it, they list a number of sites specifically devoted to 3D, among
which are:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~bm/3dcards/3d-card
Robert MacQuarrie asked:
> Will it ask for which drive peramiters to install to.. (or does it
> install directly to C drive)?
It'll begin by asking you which partion you want to initialize (read "format").
Then it'll ask you which drive and which partition you wish to install to.
> Will MSBackup
You asked:
> where is this file kept?
The "Contents" file indicates that lynx.cfg is in /etc.
Susan Kleinmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've used the kernel-source package to build a custom kernel, and then
installed the result with dpkg --[myflags] kernel-image-2.0.0.
Then I copied /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.0 to my dos disk so that I could continue
to boot with loadlin. But I notice that /lib/modules/current still
points to my previous
Ze Ji Li wrote:
>Is there a boot disk that have the ZIP driver in it? If not, how
>can I make a boot disk with the ZIP driver? By the way, the ZIP
>drive is the parallel version. I like to try out debian on the ZIP drive.
>Thank you very much.
I was just looking into this for a revised
Karl Ferguson asked:
> I've compiled SLIP into the kernel (2.0.10), however I get this following
> message in /var/log/daemon.log:
>
> Aug 1 10:30:49 orion /sliplogin[319]: attaching slip unit sl0 for karl
> Aug 1 10:30:49 orion /sliplogin[319]: /etc/slip.login sl0 9600 319
> 203.22.233.3 203.15
Robert MacQuarrie writes:
> anyways i have the xserver_vga16 installed. when i ...login as root with
> the passwd and it just freezes :
Sounds like a problem with your server.
Suggestion:
Install either the xserver-mono_3.1.2-5.deb or xserver-svga_3.1.2-5.deb
Then bring up Netscape.
Then u
Hi Nathan --
You said:
> - 95 will not 'recognize' LILO, and boots right into 95.
If you installed win95 *after* you installed lilo) you have win95's mbr.
To boot Linux now you can either install LILO as the boot manager,
with advice from Randy Jones, or you can retain win95 as the boot
manag
Hi Tim --
I have succeeded in making ipfw going by doing 2 things:
1. Set up ipfw in the kernel.
To do this, I set these networking options (all other networking options
were not set, i.e., their value=n).
---
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
Hi Pieter --
You asked:
> ... sleeping is desirable, but not during long computations
> when it also sleeps and stops the system.
> Any pointers ?
You could try either or both of these:
a) check out your CMOS setup. Perhaps it is initiating a sleeping mode
you hadn't intended.
b) turn off A
Hi Robert --
> i'm haveing trouble configureing my mouse for use in the
> xf86config. i have a logitech 2 button mouse. in the boot process it saz
> foud PS/2 mouse but nothing more. i have in the xf86config file:
>
> Section "Pointer"
> Protocal "PS/2"
> Device "/dev/mouse"
>
Hi Craig --
You wrote:
> > - nocol Network monitoring package
>
> that sounds interesting. where can i find information on what exactly it
> does?
Try this resource: ftp://ftp.navya.com/pub/vikas/
Cheers,
Susan Kleinmann
Hi --
You asked:
> I am trying to run Debian-1.1 on my Compaq Deskpro 66M and the kernel is
> not regognizing my PS/2 mouse nor can I find "psaux.o" (and related files)
> to load the module. I tried boot disks for kernel version 2.0.0 and 2.0.6.
> Is this an error in the boot disk distribution and
Hi --
You said:
> I too am having trouble with X and my mouse. No matter what I try for the
> mouse device, the X servr fails with the message "Cannot open mouse (no such
> device)". How to I tell what device my mouse is? During boot the BIOS just
> says "Mouse recognized", and the kernel says
[To those who will get this message twice, my apologies; nonetheless, I
think this is worth bringing to the attention of the developers.]
Hi Ricardo --
You said:
> I've actually tried running dselect with ftp, but it didn't work.
> It looks like my version of perl may have some problems as can b
Hi Robert --
Given all the reports regarding bus mice recently, I was motivated to
read the section on mice in the kernel-sources Documentation/devices.txt.
(Should have done that a while ago.)
That indicates that if you have a Logitech bus mouse, you should either
use
Device "/dev/logi
Hi Mike --
You asked:
> ... do I install X11R6 like I do for
> other distributions..or is it in a .deb package?
Debian users can install X11R6 from a series of Debian packages.
They are in section "buzz/binary/x11" or "buzz-fixed/binary/x11"
at any Debian mirror. You need xlib*.deb, xbase*.deb,
Hi Hung-Ta --
You asked:
> I am installing debian linux from CDROM.
> My CDROM is panasonic CR-562 CDROM. I select
> the "sbpcd" module. Is that correct?
The sbpcd driver does support the CR-562 CDROM. You may want to read more
about it thought in the file Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd which come
My system has become increasingly flaky in the last 36 hours, and I
need whatever advice anyone might have to offer quickly!
I wouldn't bring this to the list, except that I believe that whatever
problem I'm having may well affect others.
History:
On Saturday I got carried away with housecleanin
Hi Mark --
You said:
> in response to:
> >Hi Mark --
> >You asked:
> >> because I'd said:
> >> >It would be helpful if you could tell us what version of the packages
> >> >you have installed. For example, if you would run this commands:
> >> >
> >> > dpkg -l *tex*
> >>
> >> I noticed that t
Hi Mark --
You said:
> Very strange. Here is what I did on my system under bash:
>
> (mark, destiny)$ ls
> Maelstromgnuchesscmaelstromxonix
> Maelstrom_sound gnuchessnmirrormagic xp-replay
> acm gnuchessrnethack xpat2
> acms
I hesitate to burden the list with an email that's more reminiscent
of "Days of our Lives" than a bug report, but having suggested a couple of
days ago that there might be problems with Linux's handling of memory or
SCSI interfaces, I thought it might be constructive to report that the
problems I
Hi Mark --
You asked:
> because I'd said:
> >It would be helpful if you could tell us what version of the packages
> >you have installed. For example, if you would run this commands:
> >
> > dpkg -l *tex*
>
> I noticed that this doesn't work under tcsh, but does work under
> bash. Is there
Hi Chris --
You said:
> I tried to post to the linux.debian.user newsgroup without success.
There isn't any newsgroup -- just this mailing list.
> Anyway, I just installed Debian 1.1.2 in late July (my first Debian
> installation), with a few problems. ...
>
> 1. dselect didn't configure lpr c
> On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Mike Taylor wrote:
> Lots of people seem to have problems getting PS2 mice up. My Gateway +
> PS2 worked fine under Slackware 3.0, but I still can't get it to work
> under Debian. I have tried all the stuff that you tried plus
> compiling a custom kernel (with the Debian sou
Hi --
I searched DejaNews for "mbone & linux" and got many "hits".
Rather than repeat all of them here, I think it would be better if you
repeated the search yourself and picked the responses that are most
relevant to you. The upshot seems to be that there were multicast
problems in kernels pre
Hi Paul --
You said:
> My CD is on a SB16 card. I've told the new kernel
> NOT to load modules (N to kerneld) and somehow, what is now
> happening is SB driver loads during boot, and then later in the
> boot process I see loading modules, and you guessed it, it loads
> sbpcd as a module also!
Th
Hi Eric --
You said:
> Problem: sound module insists on looking at IRQ 7 ("sb: Interrupt test
> on IRQ 7 failed - device disabled" or something like that). Need it to
> look at IRQ 5.
>
> Hardware: unknown brand 8-bit Soundblaster-compatible mono... jumper-set
> to IRQ 5 by choice. Port 220, DM
Hi Daniel --
You asked:
> 3. How would I specify to use -o (--colors) as a default option for
> color-ls? (I also
> wish to use color-ls when I use the 'ls' command. So, I would assume I
> would
> do an
>
> mv /bin/ls /usr/lib
> ln -sf /usr/bin/color-ls /usr/bin/ls
> ln -sf /usr/lib/ls /usr/bi
Hi Oz --
You said:
> After a power failure. I cannot fsck one of my IDE partition
> when I type:
> fsck /dev/hda8
>
> I get:
> -- Parallelizing fsck version 1.02 (16-Jan-96)
> e2fsck 1.02, 16-Jan-96 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short re
Hi Jens --
You said:
> Yesterday I tried to install the base-disks from buzz-fixed/binary-i386/disks
> (feivel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de).
>
[snip]
> - The $TERM Environment-Variable is set to "con80x25" on my system which
> caused dselect to print an error-message and exit - no possibility to i
Hi David --
You asked:
> I've been searching all over my system and ftp.debian.org and I
> haven't found the kernel-package package. ...
> Anybody know where to find it?
kernel-package is in rex/binary-all/misc or rex/binary-i386/misc at
any Debian FTP site.
Good luck,
Susan Kleinmann
Hi Ervin --
You said:
> I have had a problem using ghostscript verisons 3.53 up through 4.00
> in the standard distributions.
...
> I have solved the problem personally by downloading gs 4.00 and
> compiling it with no gcc optimizations. However, I have to install
> it in /usr/local/ because
Hi Hubert --
You asked:
> I have tried
> make xconfig
> to generate a new config file for the kernel but it gives an error
>wish not found
> Could somebody tell me what is wish and in which package it is?
To find which package contains a file, try something like this:
# zgrep wish buzz-fi
Hi Eddie --
You can get the Debian pcmcia package from any Debian mirror.
ftp.caldera.com:/pub/mirrors/debian
is close to UCLA.
When you get there (i.e., when you get to pub/mirrors/debian,
which is where Caldera puts the Debian distribution -- this top level
directory is differ
I just noticed that my /var/tmp directory contains:
12784 base-tmp-6491
2 extract-tmp-10628
2 extract-tmp-10702
1 extract-tmp-6127
1 extract-tmp-6208
1 extract-tmp-6289
7676partial-tmp-6491
What creates those directories, and can I erase them?
TIA,
Susan Kleinm
I've been having a lot of problems with my SCSI tape drive in the
past week or so ("Unrecognizable archive", etc.). Another user
also told me in private email that he'd also been having trouble with
his SCSI tape drive. (I have an Exabyte 8505; I do not know what kind of
SCSI tape drive the oth
Hi Charles --
You asked:
> I can't get my logitech serial mouse to work under X on any of the three
> machines where I've attempted to use X.
>
> Should I "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse" if my serial mouse is connected to
> the first serial port?
That ought to work.
I also have a Logitech seria
Bruce Perens wrote:
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (renald loignon)
> > May I ask, in all seriousness, and without a trace of sarcasm, where in the
> > world (BUT preferably in the Debian installation instructions) one is
> > expected to find this information? I was used to the old
> > "cdu31a=0xPORT,I
I have just begun using mailagent, and am hoping for some enlightenment
regarding its behaviour.
I fetch mail from my ISP using a line like:
popclient -3 -P ~/.my_password_file my_ISPs_mailhost
This mail is processed by my ~/.rules file, and messages which aren't
automatically refiled as a resul
Hi Michael --
You said:
> ... is it not true that by using mailagent wisely one should be able
> to avoid the use of inc altogether?
I've been tip-toeing my way forward with mailagent. My ~/.rules file
currently disposes of only a few of the mailing lists I'm on,
and only those for which I don'
Hi Pedro --
> I need to buy and install an 8mm tape system for our debian systems.
> If you happen to have one up and running, could you drop me a note
> telling me things like:
>
> - Tape system brand name,
I have an Exabyte 8505.
> - Connection type (serial/parallel port, internal
A couple of days ago, I wrote:
>
> I fetch mail from my ISP using a line like:
> popclient -3 -P ~/.my_password_file my_ISPs_mailhost
>
> This mail is processed by my ~/.rules file, and messages which aren't
> automatically refiled as a result of matching one of the rules are then
> stored in t
I discovered (more or less) what was happening, by a fluke experience!
I have another account at another ISP on which I had never previously
checked my mail til today. My user name at the other ISP is just "susan".
Now, the likelihood that they've had (in the past) another user named susan
is
Hi Larry --
You said (ages ago, sorry):
>
> Trying to install libtiff3-gif says it depends on libtiff3, but the
> dependency listing says libtiff3 doesn't appear to be available.
> What's the deal here and how can I fix it?
This means that the list of available packages in dselect's memory does
Hi Christian --
Your pe package sounds very interesting.
You asked:
>It would be nice if someone can give me some hints about how it can be
>included in the main distrib. Yes, I read all the FAQs/HOWTOs but they
>seem pretty old and I didn't find any information.
If you get any version of dpkg
Hi Hamish --
You asked:
> Will dselect still work with nothing but a local directory,
Sure. Just specify the local directory with option 1, Access method.
> or should I just use dpkg by hand?
That would work too.
Regards,
Susan Kleinmann
Hi Eddie --
You asked:
> is there a record of pcmcia packages that use 2.0.6 kernel. the new one
> expects the 2.0.7 kernel and I need the older one.
>
I'm not sure, but the general answer is:
> should I just upgrade my kernel?
Yes.
>is this hard to to?
No.
Go to any Linux FTP archive.
Hi Todd --
You said:
> why does 'libc-dev' have a conflicting dependency with 'libc5' ?? It won't
> let him install libc5-dev for some odd reasion.
dpkg --info libc5-dev_5.2.18-9.deb
yields
.
.
.
DEPENDS: libc5 (=5.2.18-9)
CONFLICTS: libc (<<4.6.27-11), libc-dev, pthreads-dev
PROVIDES: libc-de
Hi Bill --
You said:
> One thing to think about is the blocksize. If you've run "mt -f
> /dev/st0 setblk 0" (which is good for reading tapes written by SunOS
> and AIX I have found) you won't be able read tapes written with the
> default block size (whatever that is) and vice-versa.
>
Hi Fun --
You said:
> Hi i just grabbed the "unstable" apache package. I tried to install it
> and it wouldnt because it need libc5 and libdbgm1 (?). I grabbed these
> packages installed libc5 and then tried installing libdbgm1, guess what,
> libdbgm1 wont intsall because it wants version lib
Hi Charles --
>I tried creating a subdirectory c:\linux in DOS, then from linux:
>
> mkdir ./dos
> mount /dev/hda1/linux ./dos
> cp /boot ./dos
>
Your mount command (as given above) is making a DOS file system accessible
under a Linux directory. That seems unusual.
If you j
Guy Maor wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
>
> > Is there a postscript version of the documents
>
> Yes, in the directory ftp://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/users/ian/dpkg-doc/
> you'll find various versions of the files, including postscript.
>
> Once again, these are *DRAFT* documents
Hi Timothy --
You asked:
> I'd like to know if there is any document/help info for me
> read on how to become debian-ized.
Look on http://www.debian.org.
> I'm currently run SLACKWARE and thinking about switching.
You'll get the unwelcome advice that you'll need to
(a) save your configurat
Hi Brian --
Brian Mays wrote:
> Last time I checked, the popclient program simply retrieves each
> message from the server and mails it, using the generic `mail'
> program, to the user's local account. Then the MTA, such as sendmail
> or smail, actually delivers the message, sending it to mailage
Hi Miro --
(I'm not sure of these answers, but see if any of them help.)
You asked:
> 1. After I recompiled the kernel, NAS loads fine at boot,
> but auplay et all tell me that they can't connect to audio server.
> Can anybody help??
I think that the error here may be that the kernel provided wi
Hi Philippe --
You wrote:
>
> On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:14:10 PDT Philippe Troin (phil) wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:23:16 EDT renald loignon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> > > Could someone knowledgeable in low-level kernel matters take a look at th
e
> > > following? I looked at the W
Hi Steve --
You asked:
>Can someone point me to info for the quickest, easiest way to use procmail
>with Emacs RMAIL to separate, say, the debian list into a separate folder?
Below I'm forwarding a big hint on this topic given by Dirk Eddelbuettel
to someone else a few weeks ago. I found it quit
Hi ReWt --
You asked:
> Whats wrong with the cron script to produce this error?
>
> Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts /etc/cron.daily
>
> cfengine:/etc/cfengine/cfengine.conf:23: parse error
> cfengine::23: Warning: actionsequence is empty
> cfengine::Execution terminated after parsing
Hi Ken --
You wrote:
> I am having difficulty getting the xconsole to work running in
> fvwm (or any window manager). I use a .xsession file in my home
> directory. Here is that file:
>
> - begin .xsession file -
> #!/bin/bash
>
[snip]
> xconsole -exitOnFail -g 490x
Hi Hakan --
You asked:
> I have latex 2e-7 installed, but I can't find a4.sty a4wide.sty, in which
> package are they?
I think the Latex-2e approach is not to use .sty files, but to use .cls
(class) files. Support for a4 letter paper is built into the article.cls
file, for example, but the opt
Hi Hakan --
You said:
> I tested to install procps 1.01a-1, but after that all I get out of ps is:
>
> ps: can't load library 'libproc.so.1.01a'
>
> The libriry I have is libproc.so.0.99, which package contains the new version
,
> and shouldn't the dependency infomation in procps have told me th
Hi Walter --
You asked:
> Has everyone been able to install x-windows with little pain? I have
> been trying to install x-windows for the last 3 weeks. Whenever I
> dselect xserver, etc, etc and select install it follows the entire setup
> procedure when it has completed all the steps it says
Does anyone else get repeated messages from
"Manager, AlisaMail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
regarding "Undeliverable Mail"?
As far as I can tell, the only person whose address comes close to
"lockheed.com" who has written to the list is
Mark Rahner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
I've gotten about half a
Hi Daniel --
You asked:
> Just one question...
>
> Does taper implicitly call 'mt'?
Well, no. In fact, taper does its own ioctl calls, which is why it
is behind the other general-purpose utilities in supporting a broad array
of hardware. I spent a long time studying both taper and tob, and I'm
Hi Marcus --
You asked:
> My root login, well I don't have one. When I boot from LILO I go
> straight to linux without going into a login and password prompt. I am
> the user root.
It's hard to see how this happened. In any case, if even root isn't
asked to log in, then add this line to /etc/pa
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