Humm... I think I have to complain to my news
maintener... (I don't have this group on my
news server though I have most of the linux
groups... Is it a "regional" group?)
Fab.
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From: Bernd Eckenfels[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 1996 5:30 PM
To: Ninoles, Fabien
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
> How could I use filter to filter the mail from mailing lists (such as
> this one) into different folders. The only thing, I could think of is if
> there would be a way to do it based on the CC: line, but I didn't see an
> option in there to do filter
With not making a forward script who check you're
mail to see if it's "crony" and let you know it.
Something like the so-called "vacancy demon".
Fab.
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From: Al Youngwerth[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 1996 8:41 AM
To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
Subject: RE:
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Is there an environment variable that I can set to 24
> (or even smaller) that will make joe and lynx handle the screen correctly?
The variable is LINES. resize(1x) will output code to set LINES and
ROWS correctly. I use it like this (this is a bash fu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a Data General "dumb" terminal hooked up to my linux box through a
>hard wired serial port. The terminal seems to provide 24 lines on the
>screen. Pine handles this fine, but joe and lynx behave as though there
>were o
Shaya Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Not everyone's news server carries the linux.* hierachy, such as mine.
> Would it be possible to instead of having linux.debian.*, have
> comp.os.linux.debian.*.
Just ask your system admin or ISP to add the linux hierarchy.
That's what I did, and
Mike Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> bring the system down to single user mode and mirror/copy(how?) the
> entire system onto the new partitions
There are many ways, but I'd suggest (assuming that you have the new
partition mounted on /mnt, and assuming that you want the entire old
drive on th
>
> Hello, I am running a mailserver for our network on a Debain 1.1
> system. I now need to upgrade the hard drive. Is there a way I can do this
> quick and painless? Perhaps down the server and intsall the new drive.
> Bring the server back up and fdisk and format the new drive, bring
I'm want to use Linux on a Compaq 486/25SL notebook. I'm stuck on
the following issues and would appreciate any pointers.
1 I believe the video ROM is being shadowed. The BIOS setup
has options to shadow the video ROM at two different addresses,
but none to turn it off.
2 Some memory is reserv
> On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
>
> > > A good thing to see is some news mecanism. Aren't time to put
> > > Debian list on news groups?
> >
> > linux.debian.users. Go and get the Linux Hierachy.
> >
Where would one be able to get a feed for the Linux Hierarchy?
Shaya Potter:
>
> Not everyone's news server carries the linux.* hierachy, such as mine.
You could talk your news admin into arranging a special feed for it.
(I think one of the FAQ's or HOWTO's has contact information. If not,
I vaguely remember that Yggdrasil may be involved.)
> Would it be
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996 10:20:41 EDT Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Two things I would like to see in the Debian Mailing Lists:
> First... An added [Debian:] tag before the suggest for those
> like me who receive from mush than one list.
Why ? Use procmail or mh or whatever to s
Brian C. White writes:
>I'm trying to set up majordomo on our server, but have run into the
>following problem.
>
>Any mail sent to the "majordomo" alias and gets piped into the majordomo
>command via "wrapper" causes majordomo to just spin its wheels, chewing
>cpu cycles and allocating more and mo
I have a Data General "dumb" terminal hooked up to my linux box through a
hard wired serial port. The terminal seems to provide 24 lines on the
screen. Pine handles this fine, but joe and lynx behave as though there
were one more line than there actually is. The behavior is that as you
cursor down
> This symptom with majordomo usually indicates a problem with access rights.
Yup. All the directories were owned by admin.qmail or something similar.
Removing and re-installing majordomo fixed all that.
Thanks!
Hi,
I have managed to trash the partition table in my hard disk. It is a portable
computer and uses a special partition for suspension (ACER 760iCx). I would
like to know if there is some way to mount my ext2 partition because there are
some valuable data thaill loose otherwise. The DOS partition i
Hello, I am running a mailserver for our network on a Debain 1.1
system. I now need to upgrade the hard drive. Is there a way I can do this
quick and painless? Perhaps down the server and intsall the new drive.
Bring the server back up and fdisk and format the new drive, bring the
system
Not everyone's news server carries the linux.* hierachy, such as mine.
Would it be possible to instead of having linux.debian.*, have
comp.os.linux.debian.*.
Just wondering,
Shaya Potter
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Shaya Potter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> > A good thing to see
Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE:
> First... An added [Debian:] tag before the suggest for those
> like me who receive from mush than one list.
The mailing list software adds the following header to all
messages on this list:
Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org
This is good enough to
> A good thing to see is some news mecanism. Aren't time to put
> Debian list on news groups?
linux.debian.users. Go and get the Linux Hierachy.
Greetings
Bernd
Bill Wohler writes:
> Package: util-linux
> Version: 2.5-5
>
> "clock -w" is screwing up the CMOS clock. See:
> ...
> Is there anything here I'm missing (e.g., related
> programs/packages/settings)? The segmentation violation and hanging
> of clock -r is worth a bug report to be sure,
Bill Wohler writes:
> Package: util-linux
> Version: 2.5-5
>
> "clock -w" is screwing up the CMOS clock. See:
>
You are not alone. clock has not worked for me at all with this
release. I had the same symptoms and I had do downgrade to 2.5-4.
Erv
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On 27 Aug 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Please read the documentation provided. (man mgetty and look into
> /usr/doc/mgetty!)
I have no /usr/doc/mgetty, that was my first problem.
"dpkg --contents mgetty_0.99.deb" and "dpkg --search mgetty" both can't
find it. There is only /usr/doc/copyrig
Two things I would like to see in the Debian Mailing Lists:
First... An added [Debian:] tag before the suggest for those
like me who receive from mush than one list.
A good thing to see is some news mecanism. Aren't time to put
Debian list on news groups? They aren't enought users? I think
that w
I know about the problems with filter, and that is why I am using
procmail on my linux box. However, I don't wan't to be e-mailed directly
to it, because it is not always here. On the machine I get my
mail, the only filtering tool they have is filter. Therefore, I had hoped
that since filte
I think you need the xcompat package because dosemu is still an aout
package. However, you might also have another problem in acessing the
floppy drive, once you get the previous problem fixed. If you do ( which
you will be able to tell, by it saying can't access floppy not a good day
to die
At 11:31 PM 8/27/96 -0400, Brian C. White wrote:
>
>Any mail sent to the "majordomo" alias and gets piped into the majordomo
>command via "wrapper" causes majordomo to just spin its wheels, chewing
>cpu cycles and allocating more and more memory. If I run the command
>manually ("wrapper majordomo
Package: util-linux
Version: 2.5-5
"clock -w" is screwing up the CMOS clock. See:
# cat /etc/timezone
US/Pacific
# clock -r
Wed Aug 28 00:52:27 1996
# date
Wed Aug 28 00:51:54 PDT 1996
# clock -w
# clock -r
Mon Aug 11 00
> Just at a guess (and I don't know ppp internals that well), it
> might be PPP escaping the zero as a control character. If the
> software had to handle the escape sequence for "N thousand"
> nulls, it might bog it down a bit, and those escape sequences
> might themselves take up more space, as t
Brian C. White wrote:
>I'm trying to set up majordomo on our server, but have run into the
>following problem.
>
>Any mail sent to the "majordomo" alias and gets piped into the majordomo
>command via "wrapper" causes majordomo to just spin its wheels, chewing
>cpu cycles and allocating more and m
Christian Hudon wrote:
>
> We're trying to automount home directories exported from a Solaris 2.5
> server onto a set of Debian boxes... And we're having problems.
>
> We got the amd maps set up correctly (I checked from another site which is
> also using amd to automount home dirs). But when I s
John D. Amidon wrote:
>
> Anyone know how to make Debain's `restore' command correctly read a DAT tape
> written on on a Sun? The backup was made with the following command:
>
> dump 0bdsf 126 54000 6000 /dev/rst1 /home
>
> I've tried various things, I even read the SCSI-HOWTO and still no joy.
We're trying to automount home directories exported from a Solaris 2.5
server onto a set of Debian boxes... And we're having problems.
We got the amd maps set up correctly (I checked from another site which is
also using amd to automount home dirs). But when I start amd and try to cd
to a home dir
Anyone know how to make Debain's `restore' command correctly read a DAT tape
written on on a Sun? The backup was made with the following command:
dump 0bdsf 126 54000 6000 /dev/rst1 /home
I've tried various things, I even read the SCSI-HOWTO and still no joy. I
believe the drive is working fin
I'm trying to set up majordomo on our server, but have run into the
following problem.
Any mail sent to the "majordomo" alias and gets piped into the majordomo
command via "wrapper" causes majordomo to just spin its wheels, chewing
cpu cycles and allocating more and more memory. If I run the comm
Sorry, I overlooked the obvious. The reason it was happenning to both
machines was due to an MX record (that I PUT there. heh) Other than that, I
guess someone's mailer/route is hosed and they can send, but not recieve
packets from my partuclar chunk of the net. Thanks anyway for any help t
Hey, I was wondering if anyone had ever experienced these errors with
sendmail (debian, 1.1)
Aug 27 22:27:30 extacy sendmail[25143]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): getrequests:
accept: No route to host
Aug 27 22:28:00 extacy last message repeated 2 times
Aug 27 22:32:25 extacy sendmail[25143]: NOQUE
On Tue, 27 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I finally decided to buy a book on LinuX and guess what? There are so
> many, I am at a loss for which one to choose (and some are pricey too). Could
> anyone out there point me to what is considered the 'defacto' definitive guide
>
Please read the documentation provided. (man mgetty and look into
/usr/doc/mgetty!)
Have no idea why it did not install the configuration files. Worked on my system
when tested before being released.
Your Slackware frustration is understandable! Getting used to consistent file
location
also took
Shaya -
I hate to badmouth, (can that be used intransitively?) but, since the
mail filtering faq's been mentioned, I'll quote it on the topic of
filter:
"IMPORTANT NOTE
==
If your system has both procmail and filter installed then you should
use procmail which is *much* more robust
> > - How do you manage updates?
> > I've copied the debian distribution to CD. How to perform any updates,
> > when you cannot change the files on CD. Is it possible use a second
> > distribution on the harddisk, where I put only the files I want to
> > upgrade?
> Sure. I use the mirror progra
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