On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Tessa Lau wrote:
> Also, does anyone know why Debian makes nslookup a wrapper for host,
> and how I can install a "real" version of nslookup?
the real nslookup is in the bind package. it should probably be
separated from that and either put into an nslookup package or include
Nevermind.. I need to learn to read.
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Does anyone know to which patch the IP-Masq FAQ refers with regard
to that awful VDOLive system?
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I just tried to updrade my system from the stable and unstable
directories. It downloaded a whole mess of things (about half of them
seemed to be libraries). Anyway, it began installing them and, starting
with about the third or fourth package, it starts seg-faulting in all of
the pre-inst scripts
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On 29-Jul-97 Chad D. Zimmerman wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
>> [cut]
>> > ICQ is free in that it doesn't cost any money, however it's not public
>> > license or source code available.
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
> [cut]
> > ICQ is free in that it doesn't cost any money, however it's not public
> > license or source code available. The problem with IRC is that it simply
> [cut]
>
> AND I don't believe that it w
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
[cut]
> ICQ is free in that it doesn't cost any money, however it's not public
> license or source code available. The problem with IRC is that it simply
[cut]
AND I don't believe that it will remain free once it gets out of the beta
testing phase...give it
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just tried to partition my new hdisk (Quantum bigfoot 4.3 Gb) but I faced
> the
> following problem:
> - I created a 2.0 Gb primary partition with fdisk (cylinders 1 to 255)
> - When I created the partition with "mke2fs /dev/hdb1", it failed creati
Hi,
>From what I hear, there's a serious problem with that version of e2fsprogs
(at least fsck) which may be affecting your new file-system. Also, I
believe that 2 Gigs is the limit on a Linux filesystem's size so perhaps
that's causing you problems as well...
J. Goldman
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I just tried to partition my new hdisk (Quantum bigfoot 4.3 Gb) but I faced the
following problem:
- I created a 2.0 Gb primary partition with fdisk (cylinders 1 to 255)
- When I created the partition with "mke2fs /dev/hdb1", it failed creating the
inode table with the following message:
Jul 29 2
On Tue, Jul 29, 1997 at 08:52:47AM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
:
: I use smail. It is a lot easier to get configured than sendmail and there
: have been fewer security problems with it. If you have a small site, run
: it out of inetd and use your hosts.allow and hosts.deny to manage access
: if
On Tue, Jul 29, 1997 at 12:03:15PM -0300, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote:
: So my question is wich is the most used, principally because I want to have
: a good support, anyway. I would take some like "exim" that must to be good,
: but a small people know it.
Sendmail is definitely the most popular/best
On Tue, Jul 29, 1997 at 09:17:06AM -0400, Shawn Caron wrote:
: This is simple question but
: I have setup quotas for user home directories before, but exactly how does
: one put a quota on a user's mail spool file?
So quota /var as well, or /var/spool/mail, if you have a partition
just for mai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clint Adams) writes:
> You could conceivably just write a stripped-down IRC client that would use
> the standard IRC services. But from what I've heard about ICQ, everyone's
> given a unique identifier, while IRC has that nick problem.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is usually reli
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On 29-Jul-97 Clint Adams wrote:
>> I would be verry happy with that. A chat feature whould also be nice. How
>> would you run the server side? Possibly run it off the established IRC
>> networks? Which, by the way, are far from reliable. I think the realy c
You hit the nail on the head !!! Including the complete path for netscape in
the .fvwm2rc95 eliminated the error message and now decryption and encryption
work normally.
Thanks for your kind help.
Victor
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I installed MusixTeX from sunsite and tried to print the documentation.
I get the following error, and the document does not print. (Something goes
to the printer, but nothing actually gets printed.):
$ dvips -A musixdoc.dvi
This is dvipsk 5.58f Copyright 1986, 1994 Radical Eye Software
' TeX
> I would be verry happy with that. A chat feature whould also be nice. How
> would you run the server side? Possibly run it off the established IRC
> networks? Which, by the way, are far from reliable. I think the realy cool
You could conceivably just write a stripped-down IRC client that wo
When I invoke GNUS, it says:
nnspoll() open error:
The active file doesn't exist:/usr/lib/news/active.
But my Debian box hat active file under /var/lib/news, not /usr/lib/news.
When I invoke "CVS Update Directory" with the Menu Tools/VC, XEmacs says it
can't find file /usr/local/bin/cvs. M
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On 29-Jul-97 Clint Adams wrote:
>
>> The only function that can't be replaced with email and talk (or
>> other chat proggie) is the online notification.
>
>So someone just needs to write a free daemon that handles online notification.
I would be verry happy
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Usualy you need to move a file called moz40p3 to your .netscape directory. You
should find it in the directory you installed Netscape in.
But usulay if you do not have this file in the correct place it will also
generate the error message when you start Netscap
Is there a HOWTO on howto upgrade from 1.3.x to unstable with libc6?
I'm the new maintainer for uudeview and now have a machine available to
run as a developement machine. I tried to upgrade to unstable with
dselect, first upgrading dpkg, but just ran into a maze of dependicies
that left my machi
Install the "boot-floppies" package and modify the script that creates
the rescue disk to add the facilities you need.
Bruce
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On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Shawn Caron wrote:
>
> This is simple question but
> I have setup quotas for user home directories before, but exactly how does
> one put a quota on a user's mail spool file?
Turn quota's on for /var where the mail spools are
(/var/spool/mail) That should do it,
Hello everyone
I have made a small (3.5M) Linux installation for DOS users so they can
use the network services of our local community network. (free PPP
limited to an hour per day; not bad for nuthin' huh?)
Anyway, it uses umsdos. I am using a bastardized version of
/etc/init.d/boot and have p
> On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, sca bbs said:
sca> What's the directory '/etc/emacs/site-start.d' for?
sca> When I installed 'calc', I found that the 'calc autoloads'
sca> file '50calc.el' is in '/etc/emacs/site-start.d/';
sca> but emacs doesn't seem to automatically load it.
I think t
> On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, R Chris Ross said:
Chris> [...] I would like to have them set up so that they can FTP
Chris> their data in, both us and them can look at it and off we go.
Chris> It seamed that the easiest way was to set them up as a user
Chris> then symlink the directory that is
Hi,
not really the place to ask, but here it goes:
does anybody have a diamond 3d 2400 4MB running at 1280x1024? If so,
with what refresh-rate? The information on the diamond-site says no
1280x1024, XFree 3.3 says it does. Also, the listed refresh-rates on the
diamond-site are low.
Maarten
On Jul 29, Kevin Traas wrote
> I've successfully set up mirror on my system and have let it run nightly
> for about a week now. Things have settled down a bit; however, I'm
> continuously getting roughly 600 lines of the following (as a brief
> example) in every report.
>
> Any ideas why? And wh
I've successfully set up mirror on my system and have let it run nightly
for about a week now. Things have settled down a bit; however, I'm
continuously getting roughly 600 lines of the following (as a brief
example) in every report.
Any ideas why? And why mirror isn't resolving this issue?
TIA
I use smail. It is a lot easier to get configured than sendmail and there
have been fewer security problems with it. If you have a small site, run
it out of inetd and use your hosts.allow and hosts.deny to manage access
if you are connected to the net full time.
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Bruno O.
If you have one system that is your all-around linux box, I would suggest
that you go with cnews. If you are setting up a dedicated news machine,
use INN and load it with as much RAM as you can afford plus a little more.
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote:
> Hi
> As I asked before,
> The only function that can't be replaced with email and talk (or
> other chat proggie) is the online notification.
So someone just needs to write a free daemon that handles online notification.
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On Jul 29, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote
> >If you're not familiar with any mta it would be a good idea
> >to install one and try to configure it. If you fail, purge
> >it and install the next one. You'll find the mta you like
> >best.
> So my question is wich is the most used, principally because I
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Daniel,
>
> You're not providing us with enough information to work on.
>
> On Jul 28, Daniel J. Mashao wrote
> > Now the Xserver is mixed up
>
> What do you mean? Does it dump core or not? Do you get an image or not? Does
> it only work for some
Hi Joey
>Using Debian GNU/Linux you are able to use some different MTAs.
I know this...
>You shoul depend your decision which one to use on you personal
>experiences and your needs.
You're right.
>The question 'which is the better mta' can't be answered.
>It's the same as with 'is emacs better
"Chad D. Zimmerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> No, it is much, much more than just a chat line. You can chat if you want
> to, but you can send data back and forth easily, you can conference more
> securely, you can send emails to one another ... it is the poor mans
> replacement for "Novel Gr
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote:
> It seems that when I focus the sattrack graphic window, the zig-zags
> appear. when i focus the sattrack text display, the graphic display clears
> up. If the graphic display is focused, and I focus another window, like
> netscape, the corrupti
Udjat -A MiB wrote:
>
> I have a BitsurfrPro EZ modem (ISDN). I can do single channel connections
> just fine. How ever when I do multi-link PPP (duel channel) I have a LCP
> EchoReq problems:
>
> Jul 28 09:46:18 bitgate pppd[28432]: local IP address 206.163.127.171
> Jul 28 09:46:18 bitgate ppp
Hi.
I just reinstalled Debian. All works well except xdm. I am able to
manually run startx, but when xdm runs at boot, it never displays the
GUI. When I run it manually, I get this:
moe# xdm -debug 9
DisplayManager.errorLogFile/DisplayManager.ErrorLogFile value
/var/log/xdm-errors
DisplayManag
> Just when I thought it was safe to throw away my APC Smart UPS along
> comes apcd. Bravo.
APC is also supported by the Genpower package. It only does dumb signalling,
but can use the Plug-n-Play cable that comes with the APC units these days.
Brian
On Jul 29, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote
> I'm installing a linux box as mail server, and would like to know what is
> the better MTA to use.
> I'm thinking about smail, but I guess sendmail is most popular.
> Anyway, I don't discard another mta, since it's realy good.
> Do you have any sugestion?
Usi
Add this line to your /etc/ppp/options file (or put it on your ppp command
line):
lcp-echo-interval 0
Your ISP does not respond to lcp-echo packets (they are used to detect if
the link has gone down).
Hope this helps,
Al Youngwerth
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Hi
As I asked before, I also would like to know if there's a recomended _news_
server
Regards
Bruno
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I'm installing a linux box as mail server, and would like to know what is
the better MTA to use.
I'm thinking about smail, but I guess sendmail is most popular.
Anyway, I don't discard another mta, since it's realy good.
Do you have any sugestion?
thank you
Bruno
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On 29 Jul 1997, Stefan Berndtsson wrote:
> Travis Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Andy way it is a cool little app. Pretty much what it does is let you make
> > a
> > list of people and then notify you when they are on line. It then lets you
> > find out there IP address, send them mess
Just when I thought it was safe to throw away my APC Smart UPS along
comes apcd. Bravo.
Paul Serice
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Daniel,
You're not providing us with enough information to work on.
On Jul 28, Daniel J. Mashao wrote
> Now the Xserver is mixed up
What do you mean? Does it dump core or not? Do you get an image or not? Does
it only work for some users? Do you get error messages? If so, which? Is
your /etc/X11
This is simple question but
I have setup quotas for user home directories before, but exactly how does
one put a quota on a user's mail spool file?
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"E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip - POVRay manual]
> So it seems that the html pages aren't fully confirming at least (I
> don't know much about html),
Yes. must be followed by a in most cases. I
corrected this with a Perl one-liner:
perl -pi~ -e 's:]*>:$& :g' *.
robert havoc pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
> Hmm. The new problem, doing it this way, is that I can't run
> ssh -f remotehost xbiff
> in any of the fvwm2 startup files, because it tries to run before I can
> type in the pass phrase for ssh-add. I was doing this in .xsession:
> s
Hi Stefan,
>Tabs on friends are called /notify.
>Messages to others... well.. /msg, or /notice if you like..
I know this (well actually I'm not much of an IRC buff, but I could figure
it out quick enough) but that doesn't change the fact that IRC is so vast
and complicated that it loses a LOT of
Built myself a new version of bind from source, and it's working just
fine.
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Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ICQ allows new comers to easily learn to keep tabs on what other friends
> are on line at the same time they are. It allows people like me, with a
> permenant connection, to have friends blast me a message that pops up on my
> screen within a few seconds
>>I had an identical experience setting up my 1.3 system: I chose not to
>>enable xdm until after I had hand-tested my X config. Then when I tried
>>to start it manually, it failed in the manner that you describe.
You must run xbase-configure after you modify the config file,
reinstalling ever
Hi,
What's the directory '/etc/emacs/site-start.d' for?
When I installed 'calc', I found that the 'calc autoloads'
file '50calc.el' is in '/etc/emacs/site-start.d/';
but emacs doesn't seem to automatically load it.
'/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50calc.el'
looks like those file such as
'
>So, basically, it's about what irc (on a network with services) can do
>for you?
>Seems like an incredible breakthrough getting something we've had for
>several years on a lot more platforms.
I don't think (I could be wrong) ICQ does anything that can't be done via
IRC... HOWEVER it does do wit
When starting Netscape Communicator 4.01 v6 from xterm, using the "Netscape &"
command, there are no error messages generated. All works well including
encryption and decryption.
When starting it using the "Netscape" button on the fvwm95 button bar an error
message appears and everything works
I tried to upgrade some packages on a 1.1.* installation. Made the system
nearly and so I have two questions: is it a known problem (-> bug
report) and how do I fix it? -Winfried
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/winni> dpkg -i ldso_1.8.11-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 19925 files and directories curre
The UK Unix Group want to promote Linux on the front cover CD of PC
magazines. We think the following would be useful
-A distribution that made sense in 100MB monthly parcels. (we can only
squeeze a small amount of space from the huge amount of Windows SW that
gets put on)
-Does not need RockRidge
Hi everyone,
I sure am happy to see tha my favorite raytracer, povray has been
included in debian 1.3. It was also nice to see that it now has html
documentation. I have some problems however reading it. I have tried
to do this at home with the lynx 2.7.1-1 package and the slang 0.99.38-2
packa
I just answered a question I had about X fonts. XFree86 3.2 fonts
are compressed, while XFree86 3.3 are gzipped. To convert between
compression formats it is not sufficient to change only the
compression of the fonts, but also the fonts.dir file in each font
directory, which list
font_type.p
What is the current standard for device files? I have a pcmcia
modem. Previously it worked fine with /dev/cua1 under my Slackare
Linux. Debian appears to have gone to some other device files or
naming system. (I think it tried to put /dev/modem --> /dev/ttyS0
which didn't work for me.)
Anyw
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
W Paul Mills writes:
>On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
>
>> >
>> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes:
>> > ...
>> > >Now I try to run xdm and it doesn't start. I have a xdm-start
>> > >line in my /etc/X11/config and on boot it
Hi, I am having the following problem after having gotten and installed
the updated version of bind from bo-updates (the one showed is after
downgrading back to see if it would fix the problem - errors are the same)
(from /var/adm/daemon.log)
Jul 29 01:52:15 www modprobe: can't locate module binf
Thanks for the responses. Yes, run-xconsole is unnecessary (I also
comment it out), but the xdm-start-server was missing. Note: not
no-xdm-start-server (or perhaps this is this an option?)
As someone else pointed out, the line
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X
needed to be inserted in /etc/X11/xdm/X
Travis Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Andy way it is a cool little app. Pretty much what it does is let you make a
> list of people and then notify you when they are on line. It then lets you
> find out there IP address, send them messages, chat, send files and all that
> fun stuff. These o
Hi,
I have problem in decoding a binary uuencoded file. I received a mail
(not as an attachment)with binary uuencoded message and i don't know
what how to decode it.
I downloaded a a decoded/encoder 'uudeview' software from the internet
. I cut & paste the section of encoded message which begins
Hi there
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Siyamala Kasinathan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have problem in decoding a binary uuencoded file. I received a mail
> (not as an attachment)with binary uuencoded message and i don't know
> what how to decode it.
> I downloaded a a decoded/encoder 'uudeview' software from th
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
[edited]
> robert havoc pennington wrote:
> > I want to run a program when I log out of my X session (specifically,
> > "kill $SSH_AGENT_PID") and I can't figure out how.
> Then make your ~/.xsession as:
> #!/bin/bash
> exec /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/X11
Hi,
I have problem in decoding a binary uuencoded file. I received a mail
(not as an attachment)with binary uuencoded message and i don't know
what how to decode it.
I downloaded a a decoded/encoder 'uudeview' software from the internet
. I cut & paste the section of encoded message which begins
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On 28 Jul 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> just for curiosity: in Debian versions prior to 1.3 there was not
> at daemon (atd). After I upgraded to 1.3 there is an atd process
> hanging around. Does anyone know why? I guess at processing was done
> by crond in previ
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Carl Fink wrote:
> Okay, I finally got X working, so I decided to Install the Netscape 3
> package that comes with 1.3.1. When I get to the "configure" stage of
> dselect, I get the following:
>
> ==
> running dpkg
I am looking at a similar question. There is a company that is
supposed to be laying out web pages for my company. I would like to have
them set up so that they can FTP their data in, both us and them can look
at it and off we go. It seamed that the easiest way was to set them up as
a us
I'm quite certain this is a new feature in Sendmail 8.8.5. I can't
remember the details but we run 8.8.5 on our BSDI boxes and it allows
you to set up aliases for entire domains, certain addresses within a
domain, or both. If you do alias a domain, all addresses in that domain
must be aliased, eit
It seems that when I focus the sattrack graphic window, the zig-zags
appear. when i focus the sattrack text display, the graphic display clears
up. If the graphic display is focused, and I focus another window, like
netscape, the corruption remains.
I am beginning to believe that the problem is mo
I have upgraded to Debian 1.3.1 and now sattrack runs, and the display
opens, but the lower 3/4 of the screen is corrupted. Its hard to describe
what the problem is, but here goes...
There are several zig-zag 'lines' running vertically down the screen. I
have remade sattrack, thinking the new libs
I have a BitsurfrPro EZ modem (ISDN). I can do single channel connections
just fine. How ever when I do multi-link PPP (duel channel) I have a LCP
EchoReq problems:
Jul 28 09:46:18 bitgate pppd[28432]: local IP address 206.163.127.171
Jul 28 09:46:18 bitgate pppd[28432]: remote IP address 206.16
Okay, I finally got X working, so I decided to Install the Netscape 3
package that comes with 1.3.1. When I get to the "configure" stage of
dselect, I get the following:
==
running dpkg --pending --configure ...
Setting up netscape (3.01
> I am a little bit confused how to format the new drive.
Assuming you want to format it as an ext2fs partition, you need
to use the "mke2fs" program to do that. As far as I know, you
can only do this from Linux. The Debian installation disks can
format your partition as one of the install ste
On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Carl Fink wrote:
:I send a letter to this list earlier, complaining about a problem after
:upgrading inn. I have now figured out the problem.
:
:Consulting the inn FAQ, I find that the error I saw is caused by a
:corrupt history.dir file. Theoretically running makehistory as
Hi
I've just finished repartition my hard drive using FIPS and have confirmed
that the partition was done, but the new partition doesn't seem to be
formatted. I am a little bit confused how to format the new drive. Do I:
(a) - Format the new drive first in DOS then boot Linux from t
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I don't use Win95 either, but I used to so that is how I know what it is and
why I want a Linux version.
Andy way it is a cool little app. Pretty much what it does is let you make a
list of people and then notify you when they are on line. It then lets you
fin
Hi,
What's the directory '/etc/emacs/site-start.d' for?
When I installed 'calc', I found that the 'calc autoloads'
file '50calc.el' is in '/etc/emacs/site-start.d/';
but emacs doesn't seem to automatically load it.
'/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50calc.el'
looks like those file such as
'
dpk wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Shaleh wrote:
>
> Does anyone know > if the cheapbytes CD is bootable?
> Someone else will have to help you here, because I always install via ftp.
>
> Regards,
> Dennis
Using CheapBytes's cd here, it will boot fine from dos mode (win95),
though you will find
Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> Well as you can see - that fixes it :-) Where is the %b bit documented,
In the changelog, I saw:
- [patch-0.76.ld.locales.1] changed date handling in _mutt_make_string() to
use %{...} and %[...] as escapes to strftime() for UTC and local time,
respectively. Also add
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Kevin Traas wrote:
> I'd like to know how my ISP dumps all e-mail destined for one domain into
> one e-mail account. Is this just an aliasing issue? A DNS issue? An MTA
> issue?
>
If they are using mailertables one easy way is:
domain.dom local:username
That place
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