Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-04-22 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 03:36:40PM -0400, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > (I've replied to debian-user instead of debian-devel because this > really belongs on -user) > > Ian Keith Setford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yo- > > > > I would like suggestions and input on how to "sell" Debian in

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-22 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > Yeah! Is there a good reason why xffst is not started in /etc/rc.boot > > (or something)? > I can think of a reason or two...no not really... > there is a problem with trying to stop it (witho

Re: New imap saves all mail to $HOME/mbox ????

1998-04-22 Thread Colin Telmer
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Colin Telmer wrote: > > You are thinking about POP3 ... a completely different protocol. With IMAP > you mail never leaves the server. I don't think so - from fetchmail(1): -k, --keep (Keyword: keep) Keep re

Which emacs to install?

1998-04-22 Thread Bob Hilliard
Can anyone point me to a document that outlines the differences between the various flavors of emacs? Do we expect to have an emacs19 package in time for the 2.0 release? Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAP

Re: KDE Beta-4 with bo?

1998-04-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 04:22:08PM +0200, Heiko R. Selber wrote: > > I heard that the new KDE Beta-4 was released. Unfortunately, it seems that > the .deb packages exist only in hamm. Is that true, or did someone make > new KDE packages for bo? If so, where can I get them? I saw a bo directory on

Re: why?

1998-04-22 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > What? Do they forbid sending e-mail with bogus To: headers? I am once > > again baffled by the stupidity of USA laws regarding electronic > > (1) Why would anyone intentionally want to send email to a bogus header? > to wreak havoc?? ... to bounce spam m

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-22 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > The point is: they can't demand certain restrictions in the license, > even if you signed a contract (which most users even did not). But I'm > not a lawyer, and won't speak as if I knew better than I do...

Re: unpacking debian source archives

1998-04-22 Thread James Troup
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to install the new source-only pine package ... I've got the > .orig.tar.gz, the .dsc, and the .diff.gz, and can't seem to get > patch to install them. How to I go about this? Is there a dpkg > option for it? `man dpkg-source' (hint: `dpkg-source -

unpacking debian source archives

1998-04-22 Thread Will Lowe
I need to install the new source-only pine package ... I've got the .orig.tar.gz, the .dsc, and the .diff.gz, and can't seem to get patch to install them. How to I go about this? Is there a dpkg option for it? thanks...

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-22 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > > > They have no license or the license is ill-formed or very ambiguous. You > > get the idea. > > The gist of any Microsoft licenses I have ever read have been along the > lines of: > > "This software is

gpm stops working

1998-04-22 Thread Paul Miller
the copy/paste functions of gpm stop working after awhile ... instead of pasting, it selects... ? Restarting gpm works... -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-22 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > Remco Blaakmeer writes: > > > You can place the fonts in a subdirectory of /var/ttfonts . You can use > > any name for that subdirectory. Where you get the fonts is another issue. > > It is probably illegal to use the fonts that come with Win

Re: KDE Problem - try beta4

1998-04-22 Thread Colin Telmer
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > I finally decided to give KDE another shot. I got the beta4 .deb files > and installed them and then went to go look at /opt---these isn't one. > The beta4 KDE package is policy-compliant for those who wanted it. > > KDE looked nice--though I will

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-22 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > > Remco Blaakmeer writes: > > > > It is probably illegal to use the fonts that come with Windows. > > > > Why? If you bought a Windows license, you bought a license for the > > Windows components, I think. > > Th

Re: Which emacs to install?

1998-04-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
Can anyone point me to a document that outlines the differences between the various flavors of emacs? Read the NEWS file in emacs20. Invoke emacs20, then type C-h C-n. You could do the same thing in xemacs{19,20}, I assume. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: KDE Problem - try beta4

1998-04-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
I finally decided to give KDE another shot. I got the beta4 .deb files and installed them and then went to go look at /opt---these isn't one. The beta4 KDE package is policy-compliant for those who wanted it. KDE looked nice--though I will spend weeks trying to sort out how to make kwm work witho

Re: ISDNUTILS package, Problem with immediate hangup

1998-04-22 Thread Atte Koivula
I have exactly the same problem, sounds like a bug to me... -AK > > I have a problem with the isdnutils 2.1beta1-20 package. Using the > following script (some phone numbers hidden) I was able to login to my > provider, after a final "route add default ippp0" after connecting > using ping my n

Re: PINE Debian Package

1998-04-22 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 05:46:10PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > I quote from the copyright: > > ... > > Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its > documentation for any purpose and without fee to the University of > Washington is hereby granted, provided that these l

modprobe log entries

1998-04-22 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Does anyone know how to have modprobe display more descriptive log messages when it can't load a module? I've been getting messages in my log like: Apr 22 16:38:52 cush modprobe: can't locate module and I've been trying to track them down, (they appear whenever netscape is started) but it would

Unidentified subject!

1998-04-22 Thread shinway
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Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-22 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Stephen Carpenter writes: > but... What are the chances of Micro$oft using any sort of free > licence for anything? The point is: they can't demand certain restrictions in the license, even if you signed a contract (which most users even did not). But I'm not a lawyer, and won't speak as if I kne

Modem Question.

1998-04-22 Thread Petra
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I am looking for information that will allow me to see the modem conection speed between my modem and the ISP, I have set up pppd to report the conection speed, but when it reports the speed, its the speed between the modem, and my computer... I was told I w

how to switch Xterm resolution without Alt+Ctrl+num(+) ?

1998-04-22 Thread Merlin
> > I :) > > I'm sutch expecting a problem with my num(+) key..i've got such a > belgian keyboard :)) and i can't swith between X resosolution, so i'm > frozen at 640x480 8bpp :,(( > > So i would like to know if someone know how to switch resolution without > this key sequence... > > Help w

Install on compaq presario 1680

1998-04-22 Thread Jesus Duran
Greetings all, I'm trying to install debian and X(if possible) on a compaq 1680 presario laptopi downloaded the newest hamm disksand because of the way all of the software came on one "quik-restore " cd...i had to use fips to create a partition for debian. I left the partition unforma

Re: stuck with only 1 xterm in X

1998-04-22 Thread Alain Toussaint
> Hi, good morning (just waked up) > Looking into /etc/X11/Xsession, I see that it looks into > $HOME/.xsession; sorry for the .xinitrc red herring. Look into > that. Interesting file ;-) interresting indeed,i'll look what's possible to customize here (should keep me busy from now on t

Re: New imap saves all mail to $HOME/mbox ????

1998-04-22 Thread Colin Telmer
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: > It moves the mail from the spool to the inbox upon checking for mail. I > do not think this is considered a problem but is possibly a configuration > item when building that particular imapd implimentation. I have not used imap and fetchmail for some ti

Re: Telnet Proxy anyone?

1998-04-22 Thread Lorens Kockum
In debian-user you wrote: > >One of my internet service providers (well actually, my university) only >allows access to the internet via a proxy server. So I can use netscape >to ftp (and I presume use telnet though I haven't tried this). I'd be surprised if you could! One major advantage of pro

Re: Telnet Proxy anyone?

1998-04-22 Thread Lorens Kockum
In debian-user Adrian Bridgett wrote: > >There is no such thing as telnet-proxy. Sorry for the blatant plug, but at Solsoft we sell NetSecurityMaster, a proxy server with user authentication, which does telnet (and a load of other things). It runs on Linux (and a load of other operating systems (N

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-04-22 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
(I've replied to debian-user instead of debian-devel because this really belongs on -user) Ian Keith Setford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yo- > > I would like suggestions and input on how to "sell" Debian in the sense of > Debian versus RedHat, FreeBSD, or any other distribution. I will attemp

find says it cannot find some directories

1998-04-22 Thread James G. MacKinnon
My Debian 1.3 box has been running with no major problems for many months. Suddenly, a few days ago, the cron job that runs find every morning starting sending root a report saying that many directories did not exist. For example: find: /usr/local/maple/update: No such file or directory find: /usr

Re: Building a network at home

1998-04-22 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 21 Apr, Adalberto da Silva wrote: > > I'm thinking about put all those guys to talk but I don't know where I > > may start. Well, I put an eye on Lars' "System Administrator.." and > > Olaf's "Network Administrators..." but I think my problems

Re: SCSI and Tape Drives

1998-04-22 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > I got (for free) a SCSI controller... > somone bought an internal SCSI Zip drive here at work but already > had a SCSI card so they gave me the new one from the Zip drive... > is this controller worth bothering with or should I spend the $$ to get >

Re: how to start smail on hamm?

1998-04-22 Thread Britton
> > A friend of mine is suffering from similar problems, and suspects it might > > be a problem with smail. You might want to try if using another MDA (e.g. > > exim) works. > > I'm not sure it's that, so much as not having a MTA present (I get the > impression that Britton doesn't have smail ins

Re: AFBACKUP problems

1998-04-22 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I checked my inetd.conf and services files. Both had the correct afbackup entries. The "backuphost" problem seems to be related to the fact that afbackup is looking for "backuphost" instead of "localhost" which is what is configured. If I add "backuphost" as an alias to localhost in /etc/ho

Re: Telnet Proxy anyone?

1998-04-22 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 04:39:23PM +1200, Richard L Shepherd wrote: > > Has anyone heard of a telnet-proxy package (especially for linux > > and Debian of course)? > > > > We have some people who have (and want to keep) their subnet > > blocked for of

Re: AFBACKUP problems

1998-04-22 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I've been trying to get afbackup (the Debian package) working on my > hamm system. Whenever I run the "afclient -q" command to see if the > backup server is running properly I get the following: > > Error: cannot find address of host bac

Re: stuck with only 1 xterm in X

1998-04-22 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Alain Toussaint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a last question,does it possible in X to be logged on as several > user at once (you see,have 2 xterm logged as root,one as > alaint,etc...) after this is answered,i'll keep my mouth shut except > when answering question (i found that i asked more than

ISDNUTILS package, Problem with immediate hangup

1998-04-22 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
I have a problem with the isdnutils 2.1beta1-20 package. Using the following script (some phone numbers hidden) I was able to login to my provider, after a final "route add default ippp0" after connecting using ping my network connections is available and stable: LOCAL_NUMBER="xxx" REMO

Re: New imap saves all mail to $HOME/mbox ????

1998-04-22 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: > > I use fetchmail and I do not think I upgraded it recently, although I > > might be wrong. This happens even if I telnet to port 143 and just check > > how many messages I have. Besides, imap server still counts those in mbox > > as messages. It looks like

Re: New imap saves all mail to $HOME/mbox ????

1998-04-22 Thread Tim Sailer
Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 03:25:53AM -0400, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > > > Since I installed imap 4.1.BETA-1 every time I access my mailbox by IMAP > > > it dissapears. Actually everything is saved in $HOME/mbox and mai

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-22 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > Remco Blaakmeer writes: > > It is probably illegal to use the fonts that come with Windows. > > Why? If you bought a Windows license, you bought a license for the > Windows components, I think. That sounds right to meIt is of course illegal to distribute the

Re: New imap saves all mail to $HOME/mbox ????

1998-04-22 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 03:25:53AM -0400, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > > Since I installed imap 4.1.BETA-1 every time I access my mailbox by IMAP > > it dissapears. Actually everything is saved in $HOME/mbox and mail > > spool file is empty. > What mai

Re: modems

1998-04-22 Thread Paul Huygen
Tom Zelazny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >Please advise how I can get my modem set up(com2irq3) 1) Look at the Serial howto. Although this howto is no longer maintained, it contains a good description of the setserial command that you need. 2) Look at "man setserial" 3) I think you need to g

package sendmail 8.8.8 for debian 1.3 ???

1998-04-22 Thread Nicolas Weinachter
Is there any package sendmail8.8.8 for debian 1.3 ??? -- Nicolas Weinachter -- EXTERN e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-22 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Remco Blaakmeer writes: > You can place the fonts in a subdirectory of /var/ttfonts . You can use > any name for that subdirectory. Where you get the fonts is another issue. > It is probably illegal to use the fonts that come with Windows. Why? If you bought a Windows license, you bought a licen

Re: SCSI and Tape Drives

1998-04-22 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I have had one too many hardware failures which resulted in me | "Loosing everything" lately, and as such would like to get a Tape drive | I have been told that with linux "most IDE Tape drives and All SCSI | tape dirves will work" | I have had a secr

Does someone heard about Interbase on Linux?

1998-04-22 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
I want to test RDBMS for Linux... Does someone knows somethinig about Interbase and Linux? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Linux + Win95 + Win NT on one HD

1998-04-22 Thread Philipp . Kirsch
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Re: Linux + Win95 + Win NT on one HD

1998-04-22 Thread Carroll Kong
I got this setup.. in fact.. I even have FreeBSD to do a quad boot. However... I am not positive if you can directly boot off of a hda6... since for me to successfully implement the quad boot, I had to make 3 primary partitions. Windows 95, FreeBSD, Linux. They all mount different drives..

Re: how to start smail on hamm?

1998-04-22 Thread Marco Anglesio
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 09:53:51AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 11:14:16PM -0800, Britton wrote: > > I have fetchmail working with procmail as my mda, and I can see downloaded > > messages with 'mail', but when I send a message to myself (or I expect > > anyone else),

Linux + Win95 + Win NT on one HD

1998-04-22 Thread Philipp . Kirsch
Hi, I am trying to install three OSs on one HD: Win 95, Win NT and Linux. I was partially succesfull; th eonly problem at the moment is, that I can't boot linux without a boot floppy. Here is what I did: 1. Partition my hard disk ( 3GB) with fdisk (the DOS program): - hda1 Primary Bootable for W

Re: The effects of backspace and delete are reversed in vim

1998-04-22 Thread surak
> An annoying feature of vim is that the effects of backspace and of delete > are reversed compared to any other vi. It is particularly annoying because > backspace will delete existing text, including newlines, when it is in input > mode. > > How can I put these effects back to normal, please? F

UUCP --> login

1998-04-22 Thread Nicolas Weinachter
Hi, I have realized a uucp connection between an aix server and a linux client. It works perfectly except the login. In fact, the server never ask for login ??? help !!! -- Nicolas Weinachter -- EXTERN e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource Temporarily Unavailable

1998-04-22 Thread News Account
I recently upgraded a computer from kernel v 2.0.29 to 2.0.33. It has a Promise UDMA controller card, and the patch is written against 2.0.33. The harddrive now works fine. However, I get the message SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource Temporarily Unavailable when the system tries to set up the network interfac

KDE Beta-4 with bo?

1998-04-22 Thread Heiko R. Selber
I heard that the new KDE Beta-4 was released. Unfortunately, it seems that the .deb packages exist only in hamm. Is that true, or did someone make new KDE packages for bo? If so, where can I get them? TIA, Heiko PS: Cetero censeo Debian-2.0 publicandam esse. ---

Re: New imap saves all mail to $HOME/mbox ????

1998-04-22 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 03:25:53AM -0400, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > Since I installed imap 4.1.BETA-1 every time I access my mailbox by IMAP > it dissapears. Actually everything is saved in $HOME/mbox and mail > spool file is empty. > What mail client are you using? Have you changed it recent

re: background color in XEmacs 2.0

1998-04-22 Thread SEGV
Add the following to your ~/.emacs file: (set-face-background 'default "white") -- SEGV NT can suck on this: http://www.cgocable.net/~mlepage/ http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: The effects of backspace and delete are reversed in vim

1998-04-22 Thread aqy6633
> An annoying feature of vim is that the effects of backspace and of delete > are reversed compared to any other vi. It is particularly annoying because > backspace will delete existing text, including newlines, when it is in input > mode. > > How can I put these effects back to normal, please? H

Re: Telnet Proxy anyone?

1998-04-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Mark Phillips wrote: > One of my internet service providers (well actually, my university) only > allows access to the internet via a proxy server. So I can use netscape > to ftp (and I presume use telnet though I haven't tried this). However I > cannot use normal ftp progra

Re: inconsistent X security?

1998-04-22 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 10:52:15PM -0500, pgarcia wrote: > > I'm currently not using xdm; I'm using startx to start X. > > When I don't have an .xserverrc file, X uses magic cookies. > > When I do have one (that simply says X -bpp 24), the security >

SCSI and Tape Drives

1998-04-22 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I have had one too many hardware failures which resulted in me "Loosing everything" lately, and as such would like to get a Tape drive I have been told that with linux "most IDE Tape drives and All SCSI tape dirves will work" I have had a secret desire (ok..not so secret) to start using SCSI on my

Re: upgrade to libc6 script?

1998-04-22 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Stephen Carpenter wrote: [ on sites containing the autoup.sh script ] > > I can't seem to connect to either of these sites...I tried yesterday and again > today Same here. > The farthest Nutscrape gets is saying "Host contacted waiting for reply" > I am wondering if these sites work for everyon

Re: upgrade to libc6 script?

1998-04-22 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I can't seem to connect to either of these sites...I tried yesterday and again today The farthest Nutscrape gets is saying "Host contacted waiting for reply" I am wondering if these sites work for everyone else? Maybe they don't like hosts whose names don't reverse lookup right? (here at work every

Re: The effects of backspace and delete are reversed in vim

1998-04-22 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 12:57:19PM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote: > An annoying feature of vim is that the effects of backspace and of delete > are reversed compared to any other vi. See help :fixdel > It is particularly annoying because backspace will delete existing text, > including newlines, wh

The effects of backspace and delete are reversed in vim

1998-04-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
An annoying feature of vim is that the effects of backspace and of delete are reversed compared to any other vi. It is particularly annoying because backspace will delete existing text, including newlines, when it is in input mode. How can I put these effects back to normal, please? Should this b

Re: Telnet Proxy anyone?

1998-04-22 Thread Frank Migge
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 10:59:25AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 04:39:23PM +1200, Richard L Shepherd wrote: > > > Has anyone heard of a telnet-proxy package (especially for linux and > > > Debian of course)? > > > > > > We h

Re: Telnet Proxy anyone?

1998-04-22 Thread Mark Phillips
> On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 04:39:23PM +1200, Richard L Shepherd wrote: > > Has anyone heard of a telnet-proxy package (especially for linux and > > Debian of course)? > > > > We have some people who have (and want to keep) their subnet blocked > > for offsite access (so they do all their WWW brows

Re: freshmeat repository

1998-04-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Aria Prima Novianto wrote: > >From freshmeat page: > -- > freshmeat RPM repository > As you might already know, freshmeat tries to keep up with > the latest software releases and builds RPM packages for > them. All this work is done by Obituary, feel free to mail him >

Re: stuck with only 1 xterm in X

1998-04-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
Manoj Srivastava wrote: >Hi, > > Looking into /etc/X11/Xsession, I see that it looks into > $HOME/.xsession; sorry for the .xinitrc red herring. Look into > that. Interesting file ;-) > If you start X `by hand' with startx, it uses .xinitrc; xdm uses .xsession. I have the two fi

Re: upgrade to libc6 script?

1998-04-22 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 09:57:08AM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > The one you link is the old version It is v.23 and I elieve from what > I read this morning .25 was releaces According to the old versiont he > latest version shoul dbe at: http://www.taz.net.au/autoup/autoup/ that url was a typ

Re: Telnet Proxy anyone?

1998-04-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 04:39:23PM +1200, Richard L Shepherd wrote: > > Has anyone heard of a telnet-proxy package (especially for linux and > > Debian of course)? > > > > We have some people who have (and want to keep) their subnet blocked for > > of

Re: stuck with only 1 xterm in X

1998-04-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Looking into /etc/X11/Xsession, I see that it looks into $HOME/.xsession; sorry for the .xinitrc red herring. Look into that. Interesting file ;-) manoj -- In the interests of better foreign relations, "Cheesehead" is presented here in several different languages. Ma

Re: Fetch Mail Problem

1998-04-22 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
>> >> Either make a local account with the same username or make an alias that >> points to your local username. >> I don't really want to create another account if I can help it, but I tried making an alias for tht user in /etc/aliases but that didn't work either. It is just that the mail I re

Re: Fetch Mail Problem

1998-04-22 Thread Britton
You need to make it clear to fethmail who is who where. My account on my home machine is foo, with password xxx, and on my mailserver bar with password yyy, then my .fetchmairc looks like: poll aurora.alaska.edu \ protocol POP3 \ timeout 200 \ user bar there with password yyy is foo here \ mda

Re: how to start smail on hamm?

1998-04-22 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 11:14:16PM -0800, Britton wrote: > I have fetchmail working with procmail as my mda, and I can see downloaded > messages with 'mail', but when I send a message to myself (or I expect > anyone else), I get errors. I expect I need smail running for this to > work? What is th

Re: Mozilla Package?

1998-04-22 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 11:52:25AM -0600, Tres Hofmeister wrote: > Where can I find the latest Mozilla package? In Incoming. (see http://www.debian.org/devel/incoming_mirrors.html) HTH, Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of a

Fetch Mail Problem

1998-04-22 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hi, I am trying to get fetchmail to get my mail from my isp, exept everytime I use it (i.e. fetchmail -u ), I get an error from fetchmail saying something about my local user name being different than my isp mail name, How can i correct this? Regards Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

New imap saves all mail to $HOME/mbox ????

1998-04-22 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
Since I installed imap 4.1.BETA-1 every time I access my mailbox by IMAP it dissapears. Actually everything is saved in $HOME/mbox and mail spool file is empty. Why did it start happening and how to stop it? = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] =

how to start smail on hamm?

1998-04-22 Thread Britton
I have fetchmail working with procmail as my mda, and I can see downloaded messages with 'mail', but when I send a message to myself (or I expect anyone else), I get errors. I expect I need smail running for this to work? What is the preferred way to make smail run on hamm? Should fetchmail be

Re: background color in XEmacs 2.0

1998-04-22 Thread vanco
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Colin Telmer wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I liked the text background color better the way it was set > > before, on grey. I don't like the new white block as much However I > > can't find out how to change it. I've looked through all th

Re: Tape Orientated Backup Bug

1998-04-22 Thread Tim Metz
> I use tob_0.14-2.deb without problems > > I create a dummy directory, copy some dummy files to it, go to it, > become root and (mis)run > > tob check > > It behaves the same as tob without options, all the tob options are > displayed, and the files are there > I ran the same test with tob_

Re: ISDN modem problems

1998-04-22 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
> "Jens" == Jens B Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jens> I use a Zyxel OMNI TA 128U (almost the exact same beast) with a single 64K Jens> channel. It has no problems. My server machine is a P90 overclocked to 100 with Jens> 40MB of memory. Perhaps you're getting buffer overruns on your

Re: Building a network at home

1998-04-22 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 21 Apr, Adalberto da Silva wrote: > Hello! > > I wish my question is only a little bit ou of scope... > > My computer is a dual boot MMX230 with 120 MBytes RAM and three IDE > hard disks (2 Megs for Win95 and 11 Megs for Linux - this is an > indication for my choices. But I do use

Re: [tcsh] disabling autologout?

1998-04-22 Thread Joey Hess
Keith Beattie wrote: > Oh, minor stuff really. The completion stuff mentioned earlier in > this thread, prompt settings (~ when in your home dir, a shorter HH:MM > time format), other little things I can't remember right now. I'm > sure I could get bash to do most of it, if I sat down and figured

AFBACKUP problems

1998-04-22 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I've been trying to get afbackup (the Debian package) working on my hamm system. Whenever I run the "afclient -q" command to see if the backup server is running properly I get the following: Error: cannot find address of host backuphost. My /etc/afbackup/client.config file has "loca

Re: background color in XEmacs 2.0

1998-04-22 Thread Colin Telmer
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I liked the text background color better the way it was set > before, on grey. I don't like the new white block as much However I > can't find out how to change it. I've looked through all the settings and > all the config files, but there's

Building a network at home

1998-04-22 Thread Adalberto da Silva
Hello! I wish my question is only a little bit ou of scope... My computer is a dual boot MMX230 with 120 MBytes RAM and three IDE hard disks (2 Megs for Win95 and 11 Megs for Linux - this is an indication for my choices. But I do use Netscape under W95...). My girlfriend

Re: X: competition for colours

1998-04-22 Thread Chris
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, G. Crimp wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a generic S3 Trio64V+ card. Until recently it had only the > > stock 1 M of memory. With that, if I had, Netscape running and then tried > > to run something else that used a lot

background color in XEmacs 2.0

1998-04-22 Thread vanco
Hi all. I liked the text background color better the way it was set before, on grey. I don't like the new white block as much However I can't find out how to change it. I've looked through all the settings and all the config files, but there's just too much. Any ideas?

Re: Telnet Proxy anyone?

1998-04-22 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 04:39:23PM +1200, Richard L Shepherd wrote: > > Has anyone heard of a telnet-proxy package (especially for linux and > > Debian of course)? > > > > We have some people who have (and want to k

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.

1998-04-22 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > > Well, IE 4 with Active Desktop is a piece of sh*t. I installed it on the > > machine of my girl friend,and she wanted me to remove it instantly. With all > > those circles and orange buttons, you can't find the f

Re: X: competition for colours

1998-04-22 Thread AJT60
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, G. Crimp wrote: > Hi, > > I have a generic S3 Trio64V+ card. Until recently it had only the > stock 1 M of memory. With that, if I had, Netscape running and then tried > to run something else that used a lot of colour, occasionally, the second > app would fail to star