Where is xserver 3.3.3 or higher

1999-04-17 Thread Ke Huang
Just installed Debian 2.1 from distribution CD. Couldn't find xserver 3.3.3 anywhere (on CD or from debian mirrors). Does anyone know where I can download the debian package for XFree86 3.3.3? Please cc me on the reply, as I am not subscribed to the list. Thanks. -- Ke Huang

Re: New Kernel install (II)

1999-04-17 Thread homega
Thanks everyone, I got lilo dual booting the two kernels. I'm having some trouble since the new kernel does not recognize hdd as a block device, and therefore I can't mount my iomega zip drive. I've checked both /boot/config-2.0.35 and /boot/config-2.0.34, and this might be the cause: # CONFIG_B

SHELL environment variable.

1999-04-17 Thread Jan Muszynski
I was always under the impression that the SHELL envirinment variable was supposed to point to the _current_ shell. In my setup at least, it doesn't. It _always_ points to the login shell (I change to a different shell but the variable remains the same). Bug, feature, user error? Any comments

Printing in Color

1999-04-17 Thread Jan Muszynski
How can I get my printer to print in color? I print a page from Netscape and select lpr as the printer. Everything prints fine, but it prints in B/W. Printer is an Epson Stylus 850. Printcap is set up to refer to 3 magicfilters (ie. 3 printers all pointing to same dev): stylus800-filter (thi

Re: New Kernel install (II)

1999-04-17 Thread Alan Tam
Hi, cd to /etc to edit the file lilo.conf as original lilo.conf === boot=/dev/hdxn where x = hard disk a or b; n = partition number 1, 2, 3 etc (could be boot=/dev/hda if you have written the master boot record (MBR) during your initial install

Re: Diald Problems

1999-04-17 Thread John Hasler
Russell Rademacher writes: > What is the main purpose of slip running in the background? What is it > supposed to be listening so it can detect the network request packet and > then actually start dialing? Diald creates a SLIP interface, makes it the defaultroute, and connects it to a pty. Diald

Modem

1999-04-17 Thread Eber de Castro Diniz
When I'm trying to connect the internet with pon, the plog show me this message: tcgetattr:Input/Output error(5) somebody know what does it mean? I'm using as device the /dev/ttyS1(com2) , and I've already used setserial to configure the irq(3).

Keeping permissions after upgrade

1999-04-17 Thread Shane Wegner
Hi all, I was wondering if there is any mechanism in the Debian system to keep certain permissions on programs even after an apt upgrade. For example, ping is root.root 4755. I edit /etc/suid.conf to make is root.staff 4750 (same with crontab) and whenever the package containing that binary gets

Re: Pine question

1999-04-17 Thread Bruce Sass
Hmmm, Try editing /etc/{passwd,group,shadow,gshadow} manually, (make backups first!) then "cd /home;mv ian iehrenwald", followed by "chown * " (* == iehrenwald | .iehrenwald | iehrenwald.iehrenwald ). Maybe it is simpler to create a new account for iehrenwald on your machine, then use it

Diald Problems

1999-04-17 Thread Russell Rademacher
Hello guys. I am still stuck with this diald problems which is getting nuts. It seems it works fine for everyone else but not here. Basically... I am on the box itself which have diald installed and I have set the local and remote hosts at 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 and set the dial-up

Re: Pine question

1999-04-17 Thread Carlos Carvalho
iehrenwald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 17 April 1999 03:14: >I am using pine to read/send mail. I am also using a dial-up connection >for my Internet access. My login name for my machine is 'ian'. My >account on my ISP is 'iehrenwald'. How do I get pine to send mail from >'[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim? REVISITED

1999-04-17 Thread Arcady Genkin
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > George Bonser writes: > Of course send the mail through the ISP's mail server. When did I say > otherwise? Ahem... That's it! I think I've been sending it directly. Haven't even though of that. Well I surely don't remember ever entering my smtp serve

Re: Linux & Zip

1999-04-17 Thread Thomas Ruedas
>>However, I don't know how to mount it (how must I define the file >>system?) Ares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sat, 17 Apr 1999 13:30:15 -0500 (CDT) >The Zip "partition" is in your case /dev/hdc4. make a directory called >/zip, and do a "mount -t vfat /dev/hdc4 /zip" Jelmar Andree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux & Zip

1999-04-17 Thread Jelmar Andree
mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip maybe, where /mnt/zip is your directory you made yourself Thomas Ruedas wrote: > I would like to access my Zip drive under Linux (2.0.34). When booting, > it seems that it is recognized, as I read something about it being > described as /dev/hdc ide-floppy ATAPI

Re: problems w/pppd 2.3.7

1999-04-17 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jeremy writes: > > drwxr-s--- 2 root dip 1024 Apr 12 08:17 /etc/chatscripts > > ... > > Hasn't been modified since I installed. I don't think this is relevant. > > Set group ID on execution on a directory does nothing useful that I > know

Re: Linux & Zip

1999-04-17 Thread Ares
The Zip "partition" is in your case /dev/hdc4. make a directory called /zip, and do a "mount -t vfat /dev/hdc4 /zip". Your Zip disk's contents will apper in /zip. Alternatively, you can use the automounter to handle this. JDM Jason D. Michaelson | Debian GNU/ o http://www.d

Linux & Zip

1999-04-17 Thread Thomas Ruedas
I would like to access my Zip drive under Linux (2.0.34). When booting, it seems that it is recognized, as I read something about it being described as /dev/hdc ide-floppy ATAPI ZIP Drive etc. However, I don't know how to mount it (how must I define the file system?), and I can't access it with mto

Re: smbfs question...

1999-04-17 Thread R. Brock Lynn
Alan Su wrote: > > when i was about 8, i think i used dos. =) mostly just to launch > whatever game it was that i was interested in at the time... > > so, do those work? i'm also not sure how this applies to my > situation. thanks. > "R. Brock Lynn" wrote (Sat, 17 Apr 1999 12:35:29 -0500 ):

Re: Problem recompiling kernel 2.0.36 for Ensoniq AudioPCI sound card

1999-04-17 Thread shaleh
You need the bin86 pacakge. The kernel-package will make it go nicer.

Re: smbfs question...

1999-04-17 Thread shaleh
> > so, now i have a question for the list. i guess i can accept this > behavior, but now i'm curious: what does /bin/mv do when the target > file already exists (and isn't a directory). it must do something > other than unlink the target file and relink the source file to that > name, right? o

Problem recompiling kernel 2.0.36 for Ensoniq AudioPCI sound card

1999-04-17 Thread David Nelson
Help!! I'm getting the following error messages on recompiling the kernel to recognise my Ensoniq AudioPCI sound card: make [1] as86: Command not found make [1]: [bootsect.o] Error 127 make [1]: Leaving directory /usr/kernel-source-2.0.36/arch/i386/boot make [1]: *** [zImage] Error 2 Originally,

Re: Debian 2.1

1999-04-17 Thread Sidney Brooks
Following suggestions, I changed to 16bpp. The display was much improved. However, I still get the following message from netscape: "Visual 0x23 is a 4 bit Psuedo Color visual. This is not a supported visual; images can't be displayed in monocolor". This makes it impossible to do things, e.g. downl

Re: smbfs question...

1999-04-17 Thread shaleh
As I told Alan in private mail, this is a Windows "feature" which prevents users from copying over their own files. smbfs must stick to this.

Re: smbfs question...

1999-04-17 Thread Alan Su
"R. Brock Lynn" wrote (Sat, 17 Apr 1999 12:16:27 -0500 ): |> |>Well here's a simple thing to check: |> |>Do you have write permission on the SMB share? In windows you can have two |>passwords... one for read and one for write. |> Brock- thanks for the idea. actually, i'm quite sure i have the co

Re: smbfs question...

1999-04-17 Thread R. Brock Lynn
Alan Su wrote: > > hi everyone- > > i have a linux box and a win98 box on a network, with the windows box > exporting a directory via SMB. i use smbmount to mount the share, > which works fine. the problem arises when i try the following > operation: > > 9:27 [28] alsu (alsu):tmp/salishan99/

Re: Pentium bug Q

1999-04-17 Thread R. Brock Lynn
Thomas Ruedas wrote: > > I have recently switched from SuSE Linux to Debian and installed 2.0.34. > When booting I noticed the following message: > Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug > Workaround enabled. > Does somebody know what bug this is and what workaround is implemented. > I have a rather old mac

Re: [Help! Fetchmail broke]

1999-04-17 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 11:28:36PM -0500, Steve Gore wrote: > Steve Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sigh... > > I noticed my old smail configs were still present, and purged them (via > > dselect)... > > Well, just because I was suspicious, I reinstalled smail and purged exim's > configs. Fet

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-04-17 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In a message dated 3/22/99 10:21:50 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > labs.com writes: > > > > Force of habit, I suppose Maybe it's time to remove the man pages for > > > those programs that also have info pages, eh? > > > > Don't remove the

Re: Debian 2.1

1999-04-17 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 17 Apr, Sidney Brooks wrote about "Debian 2.1" > I have just installed Debian 2.1 from an "official" cd and had > problems. > 1. The file "README.multicd" says that when you use dselect, you should > use disk 2 first. Unfortunately, dselect refuses this order. This left > me with a guess as t

Re: exim: FQDN != RFC1035

1999-04-17 Thread John Hasler
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 03:38:25PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Paul Sargent writes: > OK, so my FQDN doesn't match RFC1035 (the 3 at the start of 3Dlabs is > non-compliant), but that is my FQDN and I can't do anything about it. Any > suggestions? I wrote: > a) Figure out how to make exim accept it

Can't load modules [Re: Kernel compile OK]

1999-04-17 Thread homega
The new kernel seems to load ok with a lilo dual bootup, but I get a message saying it can't load some modules... if I run `lsmod' I get the following output homega:~$ lsmod Module PagesUsed by homega:~$ So, does it mean no modules have been loaded? What do I have to do next? TIA H

smbfs question...

1999-04-17 Thread Alan Su
hi everyone- i have a linux box and a win98 box on a network, with the windows box exporting a directory via SMB. i use smbmount to mount the share, which works fine. the problem arises when i try the following operation: 9:27 [28] alsu (alsu):tmp/salishan99/CVS -> ls -l Entries* -rwxr-xr-x

Re: KDE .deb libs problem

1999-04-17 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Damon Muller wrote: > When I try and run some programs, such as kab, I get the following > error: > > Wrong JPEG library version: library is 62, caller expects 61 I don't know what kab is, but I just tried it and I get the same error that you have. :-( ...RickM...

Re: Debian 2.1

1999-04-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Sidney Brooks wrote: > 3. When I downloaded Netscape Communicator, using both the stable and > unstable versions, the colors were unstable. This made it impossible to > download WordPerfect from Corel because I could not read parts of their > web site. Check your XF86Config.

Re: PS/AUX

1999-04-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, John Foster wrote: > Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > Sorry, stupid question, I just decided to change to a PS/2 mouse, but I > > dont have the faintest about how to set it up. kernel recompile? > > > --- > YEP! probably a go

Re: Pine question

1999-04-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, iehrenwald wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am using pine to read/send mail. I am also using a dial-up connection > for my Internet access. My login name for my machine is 'ian'. My > account on my ISP is 'iehrenwald'. How do I get pine to send mail from > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and

Re: KDE .deb libs problem

1999-04-17 Thread Damon Muller
Okay, I've installed the more recent kdelibs2g from the hamm section of the mirror, and that seems to have nicely fixed the __pure_virtual error I have been having. Thanks very much! Now I have a whole new problem. When I try and run some programs, such as kab, I get the following error: Wrong J

Re: installing packages -- alternatives to dselect?

1999-04-17 Thread Pat Greenwood
Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Pat Greenwood wrote: > > > IIci system 7.5.3 20/1G 600M Linux partition 60M swap 68030 33.6 dial-up > > stand-alone w/ slink 2.1 installed 3/9/99. > > I have just the basic system installed. > > > > Dselect shows I have selected 105 packages to get. dse

Debian 2.1

1999-04-17 Thread Sidney Brooks
I have just installed Debian 2.1 from an "official" cd and had problems. 1. The file "README.multicd" says that when you use dselect, you should use disk 2 first. Unfortunately, dselect refuses this order. This left me with a guess as to how to install. I ran the first disk through Configure and th

Re: PS/AUX

1999-04-17 Thread William R Pentney
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, John Foster wrote: > Michael Beattie wrote: > > > > Sorry, stupid question, I just decided to change to a PS/2 mouse, but I > > dont have the faintest about how to set it up. kernel recompile? > > > --- > YEP! probably a go

Re: How to format a Debian System?

1999-04-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "CW" == Carsten Wagenseil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CW> install the system and the packages, but there is nowhere CW> mentioned how to format or clean the system. Maybe because you usually never do this? My Debian system was install more then 2 years ago, was upgraded and changed hardware (

How to format a Debian System?

1999-04-17 Thread Carsten.Wagenseil
I just started using Debian Linux in rev 2.0. I got the System in a special issue of the german "CHIP". There was enough info about how to install the system and the packages, but there is nowhere mentioned how to format or clean the system. I want to make new installation and it is a very difficul

Re: Fetchmail: Try -vv to look for segfaults

1999-04-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "CM" == Carl Mummert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CM> When I run (less naively) fetchmail -vv -b5 -B5 -p POP3 -u blah CM> servername CM> On this command, when fetchmail in slink began to download the CM> first message, it would fail with 'realloc failed'. I upgraded to CM> the potato version,

Network problems with Vortex Adapter

1999-04-17 Thread Karl Gordon
Hi I'm running Hamm on a Micron Millenia XKU 333 with a 3Com Etherlink 905B PCI installed. The kernel is configured with the correct Vortex driver but the adapter does not connect with or even see the other machines on the network. It has the correct IP address and can 'ping' itself but no other

Fetchmail: Try -vv to look for segfaults

1999-04-17 Thread Carl Mummert
I get some similar troubles with fetchmail; I had given up on it. I am using fetchmail to connect to a VAX/VMS server. When I run fetchmail -u blah servername I get no output, no delivered mail messages, nothing at all. When I run (less naively) fetchmail -vv -b5 -B5 -p POP3 -u blah serverna

Re: Having trouble with fetchmail...

1999-04-17 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Having trouble with fetchmail... Date: Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 05:11:10AM +0100 In reply to:Jonathan Lupa Quoting Jonathan Lupa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Greetings, > > > -Jonathan Lupa > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > /ETC/EXIM.CONF > === > lo

Re: compiling kernel

1999-04-17 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Ralph Winslow wrote: > Could not read key from file '/root/.pgp/secring.pgp'. > Signature error > > # ls -l /root/.pgp/secring.pgp > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 588 Apr 16 21:53 > /root/.pgp/secring.pgp > > so I don't understand why I get "Could not read key from file > '/root/.pgp/secri

Re: New Kernel install (II)

1999-04-17 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: New Kernel install (II) Date: Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 02:15:55PM +0200 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I believe it's possible to maintain both kernel and have a dual boot (eg. one > for kernel-2.0.34 and another for kernel-2.0.

RE: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-17 Thread Mike Barton
-Original Message- From: David Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 9:06 AM To: Mike Barton; debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: David Wright Subject: Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD Quoting Mike Barton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I suppose you "just forgot" to post an even minor s

Re: Current kernel configuration?

1999-04-17 Thread David B.Teague
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Robbie Huffman wrote: > Subject: Re: Current kernel configuration? > On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 Wayne Topa wrote: > >[...] to get a SoundBlaster working 'with-out' > > compiling it into the kernel is to purchase the OSS commercial > > Sound package for $20. [...] > How about pos

Re: New Kernel install

1999-04-17 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It seems I've finally succeeded into compiling the kernel successfully (cross > fingers). Now, for installation, I have to: > > # cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.35 > # cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/System.map-2.0.35 --

Re: compiling kernel

1999-04-17 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Hamish Moffatt wrote, I replied: I've encountered a puzzling problem during kernel compilation that I hope some one can elucidate for me. My make-kpkg buildpackage run ends with: signfile kernel-source-2.2.1_1.0.dsc Pretty Good Privacy(tm) 2.6.3a - Public-key encryption for the masses. (c)

Re: Having trouble with fetchmail...

1999-04-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 05:11:10AM +0100, Jonathan Lupa wrote: > -- When I run fetchmail (as jjlupa) it just sort of hangs there. I didn't > see any messages to the terminal, to /var/log/messages or to > /var/log/syslog. Run with the -v option and fetchmail will tell you what it's doing (and IIR

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

1999-04-17 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 08:48:01PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Same here. Bizarre, isn't it? What the hell is the point in verifying the > domain if they are going to believe whatever you tell them? A reasonable number of mail clients will manage to set the Return-Path: for users, and quite a f

OFF TOPIC! Problem: Floating multipage longtables in LaTeX

1999-04-17 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All! Sorry, I know that this list is not dedicated to LaTeX, but anyway it is one of the best places to find help even in this subject :-). I have to place a long multi-page table in my documentation. Of course I've used the longtable package to do it, but there are some problems with it. When

New Kernel install (II)

1999-04-17 Thread homega
I believe it's possible to maintain both kernel and have a dual boot (eg. one for kernel-2.0.34 and another for kernel-2.0.35)... how do I go about this with lilo? TIAYA Horacio -- Claves - GnuPG/PGP - Keys : http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver o/or Envía un mensaje vacío a [EMAIL PROTECTED] co

New Kernel install

1999-04-17 Thread homega
It seems I've finally succeeded into compiling the kernel successfully (cross fingers). Now, for installation, I have to: # cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.35 # cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/System.map-2.0.35 # cp /usr/src/linux/.config /boot/config-2.0.35 Next, r

Re: printer problem not solved anymore

1999-04-17 Thread Richard Harran
The error indicates that lpd is not running. Have you tried doing the lpr filename !after! having done as root: lpd It looks like lpd has not been started properly. I guess you could try installing lpr again. You could also try looking at the output of kmesg to see if there is a

Re: oddness from getgrnam()

1999-04-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was testing a program and to see how it handled an invalid group I did: > >gr = getgrnam("bob"); > >Now obviously this failed. However the string from perror() states: > >"Could not find file or directory" > The manual page for

printer problem not solved anymore

1999-04-17 Thread Mans Joling
Hi I have running into a new problem. Yesterday I uncomment the lastline in dj500-filter and I add a line default cat and so on. Then the printer works fine. Today when I say (as normal user) lpr filename (normal text) lpr: connect:No such file or directory jobs queued, but cannot start deamon. W

Re: utmp wierdness

1999-04-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >when I attempt to run 'login' from the prompt, I see: >'No utmp entry. You must exec "login" from the lowest level "sh" ' Use "exec /bin/login" instead. >This is strange because I vividly remember running login before. >What have I don

Re: g++

1999-04-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 11:52:19 +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lstdc++: No such file or directory > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > just checking my libs dir... no libstdc++.so.0 : > > /usr/lib/libstdc++-2-libc6.0-1-2.9.0.a Erm, the only link that matters to the

YARD users list??

1999-04-17 Thread Ted Harding
Does anyone know of a mailing list for users of the YARD RDBMS? ( http://www.yard.de in case anyone's wondering what it is). With thanks, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 17-Apr-99

Re: Nvi saved the file .fetchmailrc ?

1999-04-17 Thread ivan
> Somewhat confusingly, this only started working in slink but files were > saved from much earlier. Yesterday was the first time one of my systems > was rebooted since installing slink, and I got messages about files > saved from 1996! > I hope you remember whether or not to keep the changes I

Re: trouble with LILO

1999-04-17 Thread Shao Zhang
Have you tried the linear option?? On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 06:51:30PM -0400, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: > > I had similar problem (actually also on 486 33 MHz.) I've solved it by > overwriting master boot record. I.e. put in /etc/lilo.conf > boot=/dev/hda instead of boot=/dev/hda1 > and run

Re: SIOCADDRT error on boot

1999-04-17 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: > hi Vaidhy, > i also got the same error as u guys did, that is, i got it after i > upgraded from 2.0.36 to 2.2.4. do u think that same fix'll still work for > me ? i dont feel too comfortable removing some lines from my init.d/network > because thou

Re: file system vfat

1999-04-17 Thread Jelmar Andree
Alan Tam wrote: > Hi, > > The kernel comes with Debian was not configured with vfat support. > During > boot time mount is processed before kerneld, therefore you can't mount vfat > file > systems before kerneld is processed. After login (before login, kerneld is > processed) then you

Re: Debian vs. RedHat

1999-04-17 Thread David Nelson
Well, I just recently installed Debian for the first time, via FTP via a LAN. I'd say I was a "reasonably-experienced end user" but no computer expert. I found that provided you take the time to think about things logically, the Debian installation script was quite OK and that Dselect provides a p

Re: Pine question

1999-04-17 Thread Robert Maynard Rhyu
Hello Ian, If you don't mind using Sendmail as a MTA, check out the 'Sendmail Address Rewriting mini-HOW-TO' available at Sunsite and its mirrors: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Sendmail-Address-Rewrite.html Good luck! RR Robert M. Rhyu [EMAIL PROTECTED] On S

Re: Pine question

1999-04-17 Thread John Foster
iehrenwald wrote: > > Hi everyone, > I am using pine to read/send mail. I am also using a dial-up connection > for my Internet access. My login name for my machine is 'ian'. My > account on my ISP is 'iehrenwald'. How do I get pine to send mail from > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and not '[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: linux usage by well known sites

1999-04-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 12:00:53AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > Our recent surveys of co-lo service providers show that about 70% of their > recent customers with web servers are running Linux/Apache. Which is interesting, because at the site where I'm co-located, everybody else runs FreeBSD or S

Re: Citrix ICA and Debian Linux 2.0

1999-04-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 04:59:41PM +0200, Peter Niessink wrote: > I'm a novice linux user, coming the spoiled-brat world of M$ ;-) > Has anyone gotten Citrix ICA (as avaliable from http://www.citrix.xom) for > Linux running succesfully on Debian 2.0 ? So far i'm getting problems > installing it bec

Re: compiling kernel

1999-04-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 06:45:40AM -0600, John Galt wrote: > Actually, no--there's also a make-kpkg target for module installation, > then the .deb kernel image already does the copying and the reinitializing > lilo just like the pre-rolled images on ftp.debian.org. The following > steps are make-

Re: exim: FQDN != RFC1035

1999-04-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 03:38:25PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Paul Sargent writes: > > OK, so my FQDN doesn't match RFC1035 (the 3 at the start of 3Dlabs is > > non-compliant), but that is my FQDN and I can't do anything about it. Any > > suggestions? > > a) Figure out how to make exim accept it

Re: Nvi saved the file .fetchmailrc ?

1999-04-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 05:55:09PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 09:50:30AM +0100, Shaun Lipscombe wrote: > > > > how does the system know this? I mean what script or program notices > > and sends a mail report? > > > >From what I can see the script /etc/rcS.d/S70nvib

Pine question

1999-04-17 Thread iehrenwald
Hi everyone, I am using pine to read/send mail. I am also using a dial-up connection for my Internet access. My login name for my machine is 'ian'. My account on my ISP is 'iehrenwald'. How do I get pine to send mail from '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and not '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or whatever it is at now?

Re: Help! Fetchmail broke

1999-04-17 Thread Fabio Olive leite
Hi! ] I checked /var/spool/mail and all folders are either root/mail or srgore/mail ] with rwx rw rw. The last rw allows any user to read and write to the files (mailboxes), what makes it a horrible security hole. Quickly run chmod 1770 /var/spool/mail/* to get things back to normal. HTH Fabio

Re: PS/AUX

1999-04-17 Thread John Foster
Michael Beattie wrote: > > Sorry, stupid question, I just decided to change to a PS/2 mouse, but I > dont have the faintest about how to set it up. kernel recompile? > --- YEP! probably a good time to upgrade to 2.2.5 :-)begin:vcard n:Foster;Jo

Re: looking for correct 'insmod de4x5' args

1999-04-17 Thread Wolfgang Gernot Bauer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 13-Apr-99 MJ Watson wrote: > > Been working a while on getting a DEC 21142 card up on a 2.0 install > > but apparently haven't hit on the right parms. The system is a DEC > > Celebris 6200, Intel 233. > > > > The network is 10Mb, half-duplex. Attempts have included:

PS/AUX

1999-04-17 Thread Michael Beattie
Sorry, stupid question, I just decided to change to a PS/2 mouse, but I dont have the faintest about how to set it up. kernel recompile? Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject.

Re: Having trouble with fetchmail...

1999-04-17 Thread Arcady Genkin
Jonathan Lupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings, > > In the tradition of a long line of questions that are inherently obvious to > someone with the most basic of skills, I figured I'd send my message > directly to the experts, thus forgoing my first rule of thumb (never post > until you rea

Having trouble with fetchmail...

1999-04-17 Thread Jonathan Lupa
Greetings, In the tradition of a long line of questions that are inherently obvious to someone with the most basic of skills, I figured I'd send my message directly to the experts, thus forgoing my first rule of thumb (never post until you read all the doc). Unfortunately, I have found that with *

Re: [Help! Fetchmail broke]

1999-04-17 Thread Steve Gore
Steve Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sigh... > I noticed my old smail configs were still present, and purged them (via > dselect)... Well, just because I was suspicious, I reinstalled smail and purged exim's configs. Fetchmail worked. Then I reinstalled exim (but left smail's configs in place

Re: Debian vs. RedHat

1999-04-17 Thread Arcady Genkin
"Jae W. Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, dselect isn't perfect. It doesn't have the most intuitive UI but... An ode to dselect/apt: I clean installed Slink via ftp with dselect/apt. Just rigged the whole thing for download and went to bed. In the morning I only had to press Enter a cou

Help! Fetchmail broke

1999-04-17 Thread Steve Gore
Sigh...just got Knews configured, and now I've somehow broke fetchmail. I'm running slink/potato w/exim. The only thing I can point my finger at is between the last succesful fetchmail attempt and the first unsuccesful attempt I noticed my old smail configs were still present, and purged them (vi

Re: SIOCADDRT error on boot

1999-04-17 Thread dyer
Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: > Just comment the route -add default gw statement alone.. My guess is moving > to IPCHAINS made the statement unnecessary.. If that solves the problem, > then it is great :) > 2.2.x kernels need this done. There's a bunch of stuff in the archives for debian-us

Re: qt1g_1.42-1.deb

1999-04-17 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 04:39:26AM +0200, Daniel González Gasull wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 02:16:06PM +0200, > Ivan Litovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Is there, and where can I download stable > >qt1g_1.42-1.deb. > > I had the same problem. I found it with http://ftpsear

Re: SIOCADDRT error on boot

1999-04-17 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Just comment the route -add default gw statement alone.. My guess is moving to IPCHAINS made the statement unnecessary.. If that solves the problem, then it is great :) Regards, Vaidhy On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 11:20:01AM +0800, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: > hi Vaidhy, > i also got the same error as u

Re: SIOCADDRT error on boot

1999-04-17 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hi Vaidhy, i also got the same error as u guys did, that is, i got it after i upgraded from 2.0.36 to 2.2.4. do u think that same fix'll still work for me ? i dont feel too comfortable removing some lines from my init.d/network because though i get those error messages, my box is still working

Re: qt1g_1.42-1.deb

1999-04-17 Thread Daniel González Gasull
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 02:16:06PM +0200, Ivan Litovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there, and where can I download stable >qt1g_1.42-1.deb. I had the same problem. I found it with http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no <--- Tattoo this URL in your arm ;-) Good luck! -- Daniel González Gasul

Re: Switching pine to mutt - but...

1999-04-17 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > Thank you very much for your wonderfull Pine-muttrc. Now, I am really > into mutt > instead of pine. You are welcome :-) > By the way, does mutt have anything similar to the pine's addressbook?? I > know > the alias command c

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

1999-04-17 Thread Marsh Ray
Maybe you have a ppp connection like me? I run qmail from home, and I have a file in the ip-up directory like this: This sets the 'HELO' response to the correct reverse lookup is for my IP. You may want to try something similar/different for your MTA. --begin '/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/6_set_qmail_

Re: installing packages -- alternatives to dselect?

1999-04-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Pat Greenwood wrote: > IIci system 7.5.3 20/1G 600M Linux partition 60M swap 68030 33.6 dial-up > stand-alone w/ slink 2.1 installed 3/9/99. > I have just the basic system installed. > > Dselect shows I have selected 105 packages to get. dselect Install shows > I have to get

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

1999-04-17 Thread John Hasler
Dano writes: > Are you trying to deliver mail yourself or using the smtp1.sympatico.ca > as a smarthost? I'd reccomend the latter as it saves you bandwidth and > is easier to configure. It sounds like you're doing the former. If he is, he will run into several problems. Some servers will do a l

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

1999-04-17 Thread John Hasler
Dan Brosemer writes: > But first of all, the exact nature of the problem is, as I believe you > both guessed, that smtp1.sympatico.ca verifies the domain that is sent in > the MAIL FROM: line. Note that it doesn't care about you being inside > the sympatico.ca domain. Same here. Bizarre, isn't i

Re: Dell Poweredge 1300 can't boot kernel 2.0.36

1999-04-17 Thread Ossama Othman
On 16 Apr, Pete Templin wrote: > Although I can't stand the filesystem disorganization of RedHat, I almost > want to get my hands on a RedHat CD and try it on my server. I really > hope RedHat _can't_ boot it without a customized boot disk or something, > just to prove that they have a problem

installing packages -- alternatives to dselect?

1999-04-17 Thread Pat Greenwood
IIci system 7.5.3 20/1G 600M Linux partition 60M swap 68030 33.6 dial-up stand-alone w/ slink 2.1 installed 3/9/99. I have just the basic system installed. Dselect shows I have selected 105 packages to get. dselect Install shows I have to get 526k of 29M left to get. 'looks like wmakerconf-data (s

Re: SIOCADDRT error on boot

1999-04-17 Thread Alec Smith
Got the same error... The cure is to remove the route -add parameters in /etc/init.d/network for eth0, lo, and any other adapters... It is not necessary to remove the route -add default gw parameter if you have a gateway. On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: > Hi Chris, > >

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1999-04-17 Thread enigma

Re: SIOCADDRT error on boot

1999-04-17 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Hi Chris, I generally get the message during network initialization when something is missing or wrong.. Can you post the relevant boot message. (Use dmesg). Regards, Vaidhy On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 09:15:37PM -0400, Chris Brown wrote: > Greetings, > I'm cleaning up the boot messages of a sy

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