Re: default Debian smail-fetchmail

1997-11-02 Thread Roberto Ruiz
On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Cullen wrote: > > However, I made a .fetchmailrc file which was supposed to poll for > mail and it worked. I was looking for some kind of fetchmail log file but > found this file: /var/log/smail/logfile > > which contained information about the mail I had succesfully down

Re: dpkg-source

1997-11-02 Thread James Troup
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./ppp_2.3.1.orig.tar.gz' contains > > object (ppp-2.3.1/) not in expected directory (ppp-2.3.1.orig) > > You need to upgrade your patch package to the one in unstable, I > believe. You also need dpkg-source from dpkg-de

Re: dpkg-source

1997-11-02 Thread Jim Pick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Having a desire to look at the ppp_2.3.1 sources, I went to unstable on > ftp.debian.org and got what I guessed were the appropriate files: > ppp_2.3.1-3.diff.gz, ppp_2.3.1-3.dsc, and ppp_2.3.1.orig.tar.gz. I stuck > these in a directory, and, after perusing the dpkg-

Re: gcc: Signal 7

1997-11-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Can anybody tell me what happened when I was compiling a kernel? >I got this gcc: signal 7 error and it stopped. I was doing a make -j. >make -j5 seems to work flawlessly. I've also received a gcc signal 5 >before, and I don't know what that is, either. > >C

Re: default Debian smail-fetchmail

1997-11-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Cullen wrote: > However, I made a .fetchmailrc file which was supposed to poll for > mail and it worked. I was looking for some kind of fetchmail log file but > found this file: /var/log/smail/logfile > > which contained information about the mail I had succesfully > down

Re: default Debian smail-fetchmail

1997-11-02 Thread Daniel Martin
On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Cullen wrote: > A question about the initial smail configuration for Debian 1.3 > > I have never setup mail with any Linux dist before so I'm trying to > work out what happens whenever. > > I was going to try to setup sendmail with fetchmail to get POP mail > but the defau

Re: Where is Navigator .deb file?

1997-11-02 Thread Will Lowe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- There isn't a .deb of Navigator -- there's a .deb navigator installer. Basically, you download the proper .tar.gz file from netscape's site, download the .deb installer package, and the package installs netscape properly for you, rather than you trying to do i

dpkg-source

1997-11-02 Thread john
Having a desire to look at the ppp_2.3.1 sources, I went to unstable on ftp.debian.org and got what I guessed were the appropriate files: ppp_2.3.1-3.diff.gz, ppp_2.3.1-3.dsc, and ppp_2.3.1.orig.tar.gz. I stuck these in a directory, and, after perusing the dpkg-source man page, issued the command

Year 2000

1997-11-02 Thread Arran Price
Hi all, Is there anyone out there can give me any information regarding linux or more specifically debian in relation to the Y2k problem? We run a couple of debian boxes in production and my manager has been asked to do an audit on how complient these machines are as far as year 2000. Any inf

DNS setup

1997-11-02 Thread Sean Preston
I am trying to setup my Linux machine as a server on a local network. Later on I will be connecting to the Internet by dial-up. At the moment I have set the Linux box up as the gateway and dns server and it is also the server on the network. I am using debian of course (kernel 2.0.30). I wan

Re: Can Debian replace Windows NT Server?

1997-11-02 Thread Toens Bueker
Am Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 10:45:40AM +0100, meinte Christian Leutloff: > > so far as a know the main problem is the not documented communication > between the servers. But on the other hand there should be > authentication against the Samba server possible with the next major > release. > > I'm sea

Re: Recompiled Kernel, now vplay doesn't work

1997-11-02 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hi, Did you check to make sure that vplay is still an executable and not an object (relocatable) file? Running "file /usr/bin/vplay" will give you this information. Only other thing I can think of is that vplay is an a.out binary and you didn't compile a.out support in when you moved to 2.0.31. Th

RE: CGI SCRIPT

1997-11-02 Thread Valerio VALDEZ Paolini
> > I mean to be able to control the URL listed in the location window. > I do JavaScript and I am learning CGI/Perl but I don't know much in it yet. > If you mean "to be able to change something stored by Netscape", I'm quite sure that you can't, because this would be a privacy break: if

gcc: Signal 7

1997-11-02 Thread nels0988
Can anybody tell me what happened when I was compiling a kernel? I got this gcc: signal 7 error and it stopped. I was doing a make -j. make -j5 seems to work flawlessly. I've also received a gcc signal 5 before, and I don't know what that is, either. Can anybody tell me what these are, or where

Re: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

1997-11-02 Thread Mike Orr
On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 01:15:06PM +1100, Dale Harrison wrote: > Until it came to LILO. Installed LILO, booted Linux fine. Added the lines > to boot Win95, it took 2 goes for it to install the new record [it never > complained the first time about failing]. Problem is, it simply doesn't > boot Win9

RE: How do I set LOCALE?

1997-11-02 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 01-Nov-97 skrifar Johann Spies: > > I have been reading the interesting discussion about setting locale. I > could not see, however how do you do it. I have for instance tried "set > LANG='uk'" in bash, and it have no effect on the LOCALE-settings. > There are two locale packages, 'wg15

RE: Where is Navigator .deb file?

1997-11-02 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 02-Nov-97 skrifar Adrian Monk: > > I read somewhere in this group that there is a .deb file of Navigator > 4.03, have hunted high and low at the Debian and Netscape ftp sites, > but can't find it. Can someone give a pointer to where it is? > The debian installer, is under contrib... I th

Re: default Debian smail-fetchmail

1997-11-02 Thread Kevin Traas
-Original Message- From: Cullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, November 02, 1997 11:31 AM Subject: default Debian smail-fetchmail >However, I made a .fetchmailrc file which was supposed to poll for >mail and it worked. I was looking for some kind of

Re: Unrecognized message in /var/log/anacron

1997-11-02 Thread hilliard
Thanks for responding, Bill. This system is 1.2.18 and has popclient, not fetchmail. I have 1.3.1, including fetchmail, installed on another partition, but don't use that partition for mail. Both partitions share the same home directory (/home/bob is a link to /local/bob on another par

Re: Comparison of ultra dma disks vs scsi?

1997-11-02 Thread Tommy Lakofski
>From my experience, the CPU is still too involved in UltraDMA transfers to offer better performance than SCSI. HD manufacturers still make their best drives SCSI-only also AFAIK. UDMA's very cheap though. ;) -TL On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, butch wrote: > From: butch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-

Re: Where is Navigator .deb file?

1997-11-02 Thread Bob Clark
Adrian Monk wrote: > > I read somewhere in this group that there is a .deb file of Navigator > 4.03, have hunted high and low at the Debian and Netscape ftp sites, > but can't find it. Can someone give a pointer to where it is? > > TIA > > Adrian Monk > Download "communicator-v403-export.x86-u

Comparison of ultra dma disks vs scsi?

1997-11-02 Thread butch
Hello, I have been planning to put together my ultimate linux machine and and when i get to the disks system there seems to be a successor to scsi for the ultimate price/performance. has anyone used an ultra drive and how does the actual perfomance compare to uw scsi? thanks, allan -- TO UNSUB

How do I set LOCALE?

1997-11-02 Thread Johann Spies
Please excuse the stupid question. I have been reading the interesting discussion about setting locale. I could not see, however how do you do it. I have for instance tried "set LANG='uk'" in bash, and it have no effect on the LOCALE-settings. The locale-manpage did not help me. I could also

Re: perl and ISO-8859-1

1997-11-02 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 02-Nov-97 skrifar Pere Camps: > > Ok. I've checked and it looks like everything's ok. In fact, after > setting LC_ALL to es_ES, perl doesn't complain any more. > That makes sense, LC_ALL will override your setting of LC_CTYPE. > Now, it's bash. ;) > Try converting to bash

RE: procmail help

1997-11-02 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 02-Nov-97 skrifar Paul Miller: > * All system mail programs should check for netscape's lock file > if [ -L $HOME/.netscape/lock ]; then > and not execute if it exists.. (netscape can't handle another program > modifing the mail boxes). > Are you sure it's Netscape? I've got Communi

Re: idled and other timeout programs

1997-11-02 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sat, 01 Nov 1997 21:48:52 EST Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm looking for a timeout program which will _NOT_ kill my xterm sessions > but will kill my idle telnet sessions. I attempted to do this with idled > by making it ignore users in a 'console' group which the login program

Where is Navigator .deb file?

1997-11-02 Thread Adrian Monk
I read somewhere in this group that there is a .deb file of Navigator 4.03, have hunted high and low at the Debian and Netscape ftp sites, but can't find it. Can someone give a pointer to where it is? TIA Adrian Monk -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [

Re: perl and ISO-8859-1

1997-11-02 Thread Pere Camps
Orn, > It means your en_GB locale data is broken. If you look under the > folder /usr/share/locale/en_GB you should see a file "LC_CTYPE", this > file should hold the information for iso-8859-1, normally. If this > file is damaged, or holds a wrong version of locale data (i.e. the > locale dat

default Debian smail-fetchmail

1997-11-02 Thread Cullen
A question about the initial smail configuration for Debian 1.3 I have never setup mail with any Linux dist before so I'm trying to work out what happens whenever. I was going to try to setup sendmail with fetchmail to get POP mail but the default installation setup smail which is supposed to

default Debian smail-fetchmail

1997-11-02 Thread Cullen
A question about the initial smail configuration for Debian 1.3 I have never setup mail with any Linux dist before so I'm trying to work out what happens whenever. I was going to try to setup sendmail with fetchmail to get POP mail but the default installation setup smail which is supposed to

custom kernel configuration

1997-11-02 Thread Cullen
Well rather than read the docs, I decided to re-compile my kernel using the steps I normally take and all seems well. First. The steps I took were "make mrproper" "make config" "make dep; make clean" "make zImage" "make modules" I then moved my current modules with, "mv /lib/modules/2.0.30 /lib/

Re: printcap filter arguments

1997-11-02 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote: : are are the arguments that are pasted to the print filter? What do you mean? Maybe you should give printcat(5) a try? Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: libc5 vs libc6

1997-11-02 Thread David Puyrear
Phil Nitschke wrote: > > I'm trying to delete older version(s) of tcl and Tk and install Tcl8.0 > and Tk8.0 using dselect (kernel rev. 2.0.30). > > The problem is that Tk8 requires libc6 which conflicts with libc5 > which is required by half the other applications I've got installed. This is kno

Need to find a font

1997-11-02 Thread Chris Lappe
Any ideas where I can find this font? [bitgate]tigger ~ $>loadmeter & [1] 1076 [bitgate]tigger ~ $>Can't load font -schumacher-clean-medium-r-*-*-7-*-*-*-*-*-*-*! [1]+ Exit 1 loadmeter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: How to maintain a network of workstations via dselect?

1997-11-02 Thread Steve Hsieh
I don't think there is a way to do both simultaenously, but what you can do is first setup one system the way you want. Then use 'dpkg --get-selections > file' and save the output to a file. Then on the other machine, use 'dpkg --set-selections < file' to set all the same packages installed on th

procmail help

1997-11-02 Thread Paul Miller
I have an idea for netscape <-> system mail sharing.. * Netscape should setup to use it's movemail application * Netscape should be setup to use it's regular mail dirs & filter the mail * Pine, etc should use the same mail directory * All system mail programs should check for netscape's lock file

Re: Package elf-x11r6lib is not installed. --Help?

1997-11-02 Thread Paul Miller
just ignore this message.. I believe libc6 replaced this package and it is no longer needed. For the packages which currently depend on elf-x11r6lib, you can run 'dpkg --force-depends --configure {package}' and you probably should send a bug report to debian (www.debian.org/bugs). -Paul On Sat,

Re: unable to start PCMCIA service

1997-11-02 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Holger Brandhorst) writes: > I've tried it - but the the only change I've seen is the addition of a > "cryptical" alphanumeric part to the error-messages: > so I've got: > > pcmcia_core.o unresolved symbol apm_register_callback_R4e72ac41 > pcmcia_core.o unresolved symbol apm_un

Re: libc5 vs libc6

1997-11-02 Thread Ben Pfaff
Phil Nitschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to delete older version(s) of tcl and Tk and install Tcl8.0 > and Tk8.0 using dselect (kernel rev. 2.0.30). > > The problem is that Tk8 requires libc6 which conflicts with libc5 > which is required by half the other applications I've got insta

libc5 vs libc6

1997-11-02 Thread Phil Nitschke
I'm trying to delete older version(s) of tcl and Tk and install Tcl8.0 and Tk8.0 using dselect (kernel rev. 2.0.30). The problem is that Tk8 requires libc6 which conflicts with libc5 which is required by half the other applications I've got installed. Any hints? -- Phil -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Package elf-x11r6lib is not installed. --Help?

1997-11-02 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
Where do I find this mysterious package? Thanks! running dpkg --pending --configure ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xview-dev: xview-dev depends on elf-x11r6lib; however: Package elf-x11r6lib is not installed. dpkg: error processing xview-dev (--configure): dependency

Re: problems with Jaz partitioning

1997-11-02 Thread Bruce Perens
Jaz seems to work well here using the Adaptec AIC7850 chip on my motherboard, and the aic7xxx driver. No partitioning problems like you describe. Try changing the termination settings from auto to manual-on or manual-off. If you are terminating the SCSI bus use an active terminator. I have had trou

Re: How to maintain a network of workstations via dselect?

1997-11-02 Thread Bruce Perens
There are flags to dpkg to make it export the list of selected packages and then re-import it. Try "dpkg --get-selections > selection_list", and then "dpkg --set-selections < selection_list" on another workstation. This will do your package selection, but will _not_ install the packages or answer i

Recompiled Kernel, now vplay doesn't work

1997-11-02 Thread David Densmore
I just complied kernel 2.0.31 with Gordon Chaffee's FAT32 patch: http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/ It works great, now I can mount my FAT32 partition with ease. The only problem is that now my favorite sound app, vplay won't run. When I try I now get this error message: bash: /usr/bin/vp

idled and other timeout programs

1997-11-02 Thread Paul Miller
I'm looking for a timeout program which will _NOT_ kill my xterm sessions but will kill my idle telnet sessions. I attempted to do this with idled by making it ignore users in a 'console' group which the login program added to the user's groups. The only problem is XDM doesn't add users to any gr

Re: printcap filter arguments

1997-11-02 Thread WHTK2
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problems with Jaz partitioning

1997-11-02 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Hi. I just put new SCSI adapter (SIIG i540) and external Jaz drive on my machine and I am having ome problems with them. First of all, if I commpile SCSI suport for my adpater (AdvanSys chipset) as modules, every single operation with drive is very flacky and system crashes after 2 minutes of usin

Re: How to maintain a network of workstations via dselect?

1997-11-02 Thread Adam Shand
> I have a bunch of PC's (actually two :-)) running Debian > Linux. However, I want them to be exactly the same but dont want to > run dselect on both machines, but would rather have any > installations/removals/configs/etc affect both machines simultaneously. I believe that there is a debian pack