Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)

Salman Ahmed wrote: > > > (5) Initially, I tried to get the .debs for XFree86-3.3.3.1-2 from the > following site : ftp.netgod.net. Upon instructions from another Debian > user, who has been kind enough to offer email support during my > installation nightmare (Hi Kris!), > I added the following l

"bashrc" for xdm

What is the best way to set up variables when using xdm/wdm. I tried to execute my .bashrc from .xsession or to set the variables in the .xsession, but the X-session refused to start even if an empty ~/.xsession file exist. Marc

ldconfig confusions

Folks, I'm trying to get Blackdown's JDK 1.2 port to work on my Debian box. The port is very sensitive to the version of glibc that's installed. They suggest glibc2.1 (which is not in slink). I tried to update to that library using .debs from the unstable. Now, I seem to have a confusing mess i

Re: apt frustration

*- On 31 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "apt frustration" > Folks, > > I run a little home office network. Most of it is stable, slink at > the moment, but I like to keep some stuff really leading edge (Java, > DocBook/Jade, egcs &c). > > A simple way to do this would SEEM to be to use apt/d

Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)

I finally installed Debian 2.1 after much effort. My Matrox Millennium G200 video card was not recognized by the version of XF86 that comes with Debian 2.1 but I was able to upgrade to the XFree83 3.3.3.1-2 from the unstable packages. Also, my mouse (Logitech MouseMan+ PS/2) was not working at all

Re: .xsession problem: The Next Generation

Eric G. Miller wrote: > gnome-session will remember your window manager, and other programs you > have running. The thing is, according to the Debian page at gnome.org, gnome-session will sometimes lose all your customizations. I actually tried gnome-session once and it worked okay, but that war

Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?

*- On 31 Jul, Daniel Barclay wrote about "Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?" > > >> From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > .. >> That's the choice Debian offers: a rock-solid system with _slightly_ >> out-of-date software (although you're free to upgrade it), or a >> state-of-the-art system with all the

bus error

hi does somebody knows what does "bus error" means and how can i get out of this? it appears when i try to run netscape 4,61 on a 2.2.1 kernel and 3.3.4 xfree86 thanks

Re: majordomo documentation

On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 02:08:32PM -0700, Nate wrote: > Where can I get Howtos on setting up a majordomo list? Install majordomo and follow your nose: $ ls /usr/doc/majordomo/ FAQ.gzREADME.sequencer firewalls-digest.vol FUTURE.gz changelog.Debian.gz

apt frustration

Folks, I run a little home office network. Most of it is stable, slink at the moment, but I like to keep some stuff really leading edge (Java, DocBook/Jade, egcs &c). A simple way to do this would SEEM to be to use apt/deity. It'd be great to be able to say: keep everything stable according to

Re: Netscape crashing - Why do we have to rely on Netscape?

Phillip Deackes wrote: > > What I cannot understand is why we have only Netscape as a *viable* > graphical web browser. I am no programmer so maybe someone could point > out why there aren't several to choose from. I am aware of old ports of > Mosaic and the 'test-bed' Amayana? (sorry, can't remem

potato NIS

I have upgraded to potato with NIS 3.4-1. Everything worked fine with slink NIS package but now I cannot connect to NIS master. For example, ypcat passwd output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc]# ypcat passwd yp_all: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out No such map passwd.byname. Reason: Internal NIS error Does an

Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?

> From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .. > That's the choice Debian offers: a rock-solid system with _slightly_ > out-of-date software (although you're free to upgrade it), or a > state-of-the-art system with all the bugs inherent in the bleeding edge. But why not build the latest-and-greatest versi

Re: Netscape crashing - Why do we have to rely on Netscape?

I have been following the threads about the instability of Netscape with great interest. I too suffer the same symptoms - the ones where Netscape disappears when a certain page is requested, or where it closes/crashes when one window of two/several is closed. What I cannot understand is why we hav

Re: libXpm.so.4

ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/x11/xpm4g-dev_3.4j-0.6.deb In the future, search http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages first--there's two search engines at the bottom that took me a grand total of a minute to use to get the information. On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, erasmo perez wrote

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

> From: egm2@jps.net > > Netscape-smotif-4.08 is the only reliable version I've found. It's not reliable here. I don't seem to have the window-closing problem you all are talking about, but it still hangs (100% CPU, seemingly Java- related) and crashes. (On slink, glibc 2.0.7.) Daniel

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

> From: Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >i was trying to find a pattern among the info people posted but couldn't > > >really see one. did anyone else figure this out? > > > > > >- p2-266 128mb ram > > >- kernel 2.2.9 > > >- glibc 2.1.1-13 > > > > It's the glibc from unstable. > > but

majordomo documentation

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Re: How can I change the host name?

*- On 31 Jul, Tadas wrote about "How can I change the host name?" > Hi, > > When I was using Red Hat, I changed my hostname with linuxconf. How can I > change it manual in Debian? > > Edit /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname, I also have a file /etc/mailname but I don't recall what that is used for.

Re: Corel Wordperfect nightmare

*- On 31 Jul, Paul wrote about "Re: Corel Wordperfect nightmare" > Phil Dyer wrote: >> >> Paul wrote: >> > First I was told that I didn`t have "libm.so.5" so the graphical >> > Installer wouldn`t work, then a load of error messages saying "wp.No >> > such file or directory" Finally it askes m

Denying hosts using their mac address????????

Once again. does anyone know of a way to deny connection from a host or forward packets to a host based solely on their mac address? I have been plaing with routing and was wondering if that was at all possible to do. Thanks Kent

Re: Corel Wordperfect nightmare

Phil Dyer wrote: > > Paul wrote: > > > > > First I was told that I didn`t have "libm.so.5" so the graphical > > Installer wouldn`t work, then a load of error messages saying "wp.No > > such file or directory" Finally it askes me for an installation > > directory so I type in /usr or > > /hom

How can I change the host name?

Hi, When I was using Red Hat, I changed my hostname with linuxconf. How can I change it manual in Debian? Bye, Tadas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DRIVERS

Hi, The driver for your Cirrus Logic card should be XF86_SVGA. See the hardware list at "http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html"; John Henry Miguel Alvarez wrote: > HI DEAR . I LOOK FOR A DRIVERS : CIRRUS > LOGIC CL-GD5440-J-QC-B . WERE I CAN DOWNLOAD THIS > PRODUCT . THIS I

bus error

hallo now i have the libXpm.so.4 in my hd, but when i try to run the netscape, i obtein the following message: bus error what does this mean and how can i fix it? thanks a lot

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 09:25:02AM -0600, John Galt wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 08:25:25PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > > > This would be more of an arguement for a MTA being a priority:required > > > rather than a Depends: on an Extra package. The oth

Re: ProFTPd feature kept me from logging in

On 31 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : It turns out that ProFTPd would not log me in because my login shell was : not listed in /etc/shells . It didn't do anything to _tell_ me that. I'd : suggest it prompt for the login and password and then dump you with a message : as soon as you succeed

OFFTOPIC - (F)lex/yacc(bison) prob. compiling Grass5.0beta

If there are any experts on using lex & yacc out there, maybe you can help me. I'm trying to compile Grass5.0beta2 and I'm getting an error. The other errors I've found, I was able to fix, and send off bug reports. But, since I don't really understand lex/yacc, I'm a little stumped. Here's the o

debian-user@lists.debian.org

Chris-- There's an ftp on my system, and I can connect with "ftp debian.org" or "ftp sunsite.unc.edu" or other sites as well, but entering "ftp netscape.com" results in "Connection refused", while "ftp ftp3.netscape.com" gets "hostname lookup failure." Thanks. -- Max On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 10:20:20

packet schedulers?

Has anyone played with the packet schedulers in the kernel? I'd like to make sure that outgoing HTTP packets have priority over FTP packets. Or, if that doesn't work, is there an FTP daemon that provides bandwidth-limiting? Thanks Bruce

Re: Corel Wordperfect nightmare

On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 02:30:29PM -0400, Phil Dyer wrote: > Paul wrote: > > > > > First I was told that I didn`t have "libm.so.5" so the graphical > > Installer wouldn`t work, then a load of error messages saying "wp.No > > such file or directory" Finally it askes me for an installation > >

Re: libXpm.so.4

Direct from the infobot on irc.debian.org -- channel #debian... [dpkg([EMAIL PROTECTED])] behold, libxpm.so.4 is in these 2 packages: oldlibs/xpm4.7 (/usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4.11) and x11/xpm4g (/usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.11) Also, I did a quick check and the packages

libXpm.so.4

hallo does somebody know where can i download the libXpm.so.4 shared library? thanks

ProFTPd feature kept me from logging in

It turns out that ProFTPd would not log me in because my login shell was not listed in /etc/shells . It didn't do anything to _tell_ me that. I'd suggest it prompt for the login and password and then dump you with a message as soon as you succeed in logging in. Thanks Bruce

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Yes, I do. It reads: smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.smtpd. Before I removed Exim it read the same except: /usr/sbin/exim exim -b There should be an NNTP line as well, but wasn't. I added: #nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/sbin/innd /usr/sbin/in.nnrpd. But

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Vitux-- Thanks for the understanding. This crash course in *nix has been a black hole for what little spare time I have. The house is a mess of manuals and print-outs. My girlfriend is making threats. So far, all I have to show for 3 months of lost weekends is a crude e-mail function and borin

wsoundserver segfaults on startup

Well thats it. Since i havent seen anything about that on the list i assume i must have done something wrong, so i would like to know if there is any hidden trick with the installation of wsoundserver? I tried pulling the source of wmsound, then wsoundserver, from the windowmaker website, and had

Re: scripting a potato upgrade

Hi Mark, You're right, I'm spoiled with inexpensive net access. I didn't realize that companies were offering ftp mirror snapshots on CD across the pond because of the high price of connectivity to download files. I've been working for telecommunication companies for almost the last 10 years, s

DRIVERS

HI DEAR  .       I LOOK  FOR A DRIVERS  :  CIRRUS LOGIC   CL-GD5440-J-QC-B .  WERE I CAN DOWNLOAD THIS PRODUCT  . THIS IS FOR MY VIDEO CARD .. EXCUSE ME FOR  MY ANGLAIS  , I SPEAK FRENCHE  THANKS  .  MY BEST REGARD   HENRY.  

Re: Corel Wordperfect nightmare

Paul wrote: > > First I was told that I didn`t have "libm.so.5" so the graphical > Installer wouldn`t work, then a load of error messages saying "wp.No > such file or directory" Finally it askes me for an installation > directory so I type in /usr or > /home and it says "invalid directory" an

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 12:36:03PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > On 31 Jul, Mark Brown wrote: > > For MUAs which send mail by calling sendmail, it is pretty much a > > dependancy. > But you do not *need* the sendmail package installed. exim, for > instance, is almost 100% sendmail compatible

Re: .xsession problem: The Next Generation

On 31 Jul, Carl Fink wrote: Try doing this: 1. Login to Xwindows as you now have it. 2. At the command line, execute 'gnome-name-service &' 3. Then execute, 'gmc &', 'panel &', 'gnome-session &' 4. Now edit your .xsession, to read like: #!/bin/sh exec gnome-session gnome

Re: .xsession problem: The Next Generation

On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 10:11:56AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > And I fixed it. I also modified my .xsession file as suggested at > www.gnome.org, so it looked like this: > > > /usr/bin/gnome-terminal & > /usr/bin/X11/icewm-gnome & > /usr/bin/panel > > Adding either of the other lines (or trying

Re: [Kernel 2.2.10] Mount complains about msdos-drive

> > I've just upgraded to the 2.2.10-kernel (using the > kernel-image-package), I used 2.0.33 before and it worked without any > problem. > > root% mount -t msdos /dev/hda2 /msdos -o noexec,ro,nosuid,blocksize=1024,auto > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, >or

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

On 31 Jul, Mark Brown wrote: > > For MUAs which send mail by calling sendmail, it is pretty much a > dependancy. > But you do not *need* the sendmail package installed. exim, for instance, is almost 100% sendmail compatible and listens to all common sendmail commands. > -- > Mark Brown mailt

Corel Wordperfect nightmare

Today I tried to install the free version of Wordperfect 8. I unzipped and untarred the file as instructed and then typed "./Runme", again as instructed. First I was told that I didn`t have "libm.so.5" so the graphical Installer wouldn`t work, then a load of error messages saying "wp.No such f

Re: xdm on a headless machine

*- On 31 Jul, Bob C. Ruddy wrote about "Re: xdm on a headless machine" > On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Steve Rothanburg wrote: > > ->In /etc/X11/xdm/xservers comment out any line referring to servers that you > really > ->don't want it to start. > > This works but it checks fro a valid XF86Config file wh

Re: Ms Netshow..

You can find it at or use to find an other mirror. It doesn't play the ASF I downloaded it for so I am not sure it actually works.. Please inform me if it is working on you setup. Regards, Re

zope deb?

I'm looking to install a zope deb. Anyone know where I can get one? Thanks -- NatePuri ("natedawg") Certified Law Student McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ompages.com PGP: http://www.ompages.com/PGP.html UIN: 43504034 IRC: ompages.com #omp

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 08:25:25PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > > > This would be more of an arguement for a MTA being a priority:required > > rather than a Depends: on an Extra package. The other question that this > > There are a selection of MTAs. No gi

Re: Inport Mouse

On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Terry Page wrote: > I have been trying for weeks now to get my Microsoft Inport Mouse to work > without success. [...] > Is there someone using a Microsoft Inport Mouse who can tell me their setup > either. Oh, cripes. I just destroyed my setup. I reformatted the hard drives

Re: libXpm.so.4

On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, erasmo perez wrote: > when i try to run netscape 4.61 [...] with debian 2.1 [...] I had the same problem. Kernel and XFree version is not important in solving this problem Firstly, I tried to link all the /usr/X11R6/lib/libX* to /usr/lib but executing 'netscape' was displaing

php3 -> mysql.so

On the stable version of debian, I've got php3 module loaded into apache. That part works fine. I am trying to load modules into php though specifically the mysql module. But they are not loading. Here is what is in my /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini file. The two modules listed mysql.so and calendar.so

Re: SoundBlaster AWE 64 and 486DX33?

On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, John Gay wrote: > I recently came across a deal on a SoundBlaster AWE 64 ISA... > [...] but the DOC's for the sound card says it needs at least a Pentium. That's because it's not really a 64-voice soundcard. It's basically an AWE-32 with some hooks for special software. It d

Re: xdm on a headless machine

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Steve Rothanburg wrote: ->In /etc/X11/xdm/xservers comment out any line referring to servers that you really ->don't want it to start. This works but it checks fro a valid XF86Config file which I don't have. Any ideas? Bob

.xsession problem: The Next Generation

Well, I partly solved my previous problem. I had written that my .xsession file wasn't being read. I found out why: some package had screwed up [1] my /etc/X11/Xsession file so that the line $HOME/.xsession wasn't being executed. Okay, once I solved that it was easy to fix, right? And I fixed

Re: scripting a potato upgrade

On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 03:48:35AM -0600, Nathan Duehr wrote: > I don't understand your cost analysis. Potato is not release yet, and as > far as I know, there aren't any commercial outlets for Potato CD's yet. > I don't think Official Potato CD's are available from anyone yet... which > is as i

Re: CD Image...

On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 10:12:42AM +0800, TimeZlicer wrote: > Hi... there are 2 CD images in the cdimage directory... does disk 2 > contains contrib or the source code??? Disk 2 contains yet more binaries from main along with contrib. Disks 3 and 4 contain the source (they are IIRC in a separate

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 08:25:25PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > This would be more of an arguement for a MTA being a priority:required > rather than a Depends: on an Extra package. The other question that this There are a selection of MTAs. No given one of them is required, it's just that you ough

alsa modules

Hello, I have just installed and compiled alsa. In alsa-base there is a script /etc/init.d/alsa which preloads all the sound modules. Doesnt that ruin the purpose of modules, which is after all to save memory when it's not needed (well, at least part of the purpose)? Or is there some issue specifi

Re: scripting a potato upgrade

Nathan Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Phillip, > > I don't understand your cost analysis. Potato is not release yet, and > as > far as I know, there aren't any commercial outlets for Potato CD's > yet. > I don't think Official Potato CD's are available from anyone yet... > which > is as it

Re: scripting a potato upgrade

Phillip, I don't understand your cost analysis. Potato is not release yet, and as far as I know, there aren't any commercial outlets for Potato CD's yet. I don't think Official Potato CD's are available from anyone yet... which is as it should be. So what were you comparing your dialup costs t

Re: scripting a potato upgrade

Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why not use APT? Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list: > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main > non-US/contrib n > on-US/non-free > > To upgrade: "apt-get updat

Re: using AUI port of 3c529 (MCA) network card

At 11:16 PM 7/29/99 -0400, I wrote: >I've been unsuccessful in getting my 3Com 3c529 MCA Ethernet card to >communicate with the network using the AUI port, although the 10baseT >(twisted pair) connection with the card works fine. The 3c529 is the MCA I've now been able to answer my own question,

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Do you have an SMTP line in your /etc/inetd.conf?? On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 02:00:07AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks, but adding a localhost domain by eximconfig is one of the first > things I tried. It's puzzling, because smail is so similar to exim, and > yet the former works for me,

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Hi Max I know the feeling. Take a week or two off from your Linux-box; helps rebuild your energy. I'm doing it to see if I can make it work; sort of a masochistic challenge to myself. Also, I'd really like to get rid of M$ Hang in there man, it's got to be possible. I can't believe all the rest

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On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 23:10:17 -0500 Bryon Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:50:50PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Btw, I've it seems that exim abhors a POP. Even if fetchmail gets >an >> incoming message under POP, exim acts like it didn't get through, >with >

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On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:50:50PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 19:43:57 -0700 (PDT) George Bonser > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> AAarrr This @$#%^!*&@# system is driving me > crazy!!! How doe

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On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:50:50PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Btw, I've it seems that exim abhors a POP. Even if fetchmail gets an > incoming message under POP, exim acts like it didn't get through, with > error messages announcing that the SMTP listener is grievously offended. > This is

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On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 19:43:57 -0700 (PDT) George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> AAarrr This @$#%^!*&@# system is driving me crazy!!! How does anybody ever get it to work? -- Max > >Is it plugged in? Is it turned on? >

RE: Anyone using an S3 Trio3D/2X graphic card ?

Check this for info on supported cards for X 3.3.3: http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.3/README3.html or for 3.3.4: http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.4/README3.html I think that at one time (6 weeks ago?) I tried to get this card working for a friend, but I read the docs for the current (at the time) X version

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 08:59:08PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I don't feel strongly enough about this topic to reply to each of your > > points. I agree that some MUAs (specifically pine and netscape) are > > operable without a local MTA. I do not se

Unidentified subject!

exeptions - new operator - c++ I was wondering if all implementations of the new operator under c++ use exeptions when out of memory, and if not how do i know if the specific implementation does. Mainly, I need to know about linux and bsdunix (the reson why iask here) Thanx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get

Anybody want to make a virtual package "man" which depends on man-db and all manpages (asr and funny as well? ) ? This might not be a bad idea... On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Gwen Elizabeth Thomas wrote: > > I'm trying to install package man. > > I assume you mean you want the package that gives you t

Re: apt-get

try man-db--of course manpages is a good thing to install as well :) On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Paul Nesbit wrote: > I'm trying to install package man. > > When I `apt-get install man` I get a message that states "E: package man > has no installation candidate." What does this mean? > > -- > Paul

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I don't feel strongly enough about this topic to reply to each of your > points. I agree that some MUAs (specifically pine and netscape) are > operable without a local MTA. I do not see that this warrants any > action ie modification of packages. For mo

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

I don't feel strongly enough about this topic to reply to each of your points. I agree that some MUAs (specifically pine and netscape) are operable without a local MTA. I do not see that this warrants any action ie modification of packages. For most users, an MTA is required. I would consider a UN

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

This would be more of an arguement for a MTA being a priority:required rather than a Depends: on an Extra package. The other question that this begs is: Do these other packages that call sendmail depend on a MTA? Not RECOMMEND, but DEPEND--if not, why the disparity? BTW you're right that a MTA i

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 10:22:07AM -0600, John Galt wrote: > > to check my POPmail until I rebuilt the system :( ). As for a MUA that > > doesn't require a MTA not being a useful solution for many users, look at > > the popularity of fetchmail, a MTA t

CD Image...

Hi... there are 2 CD images in the cdimage directory... does disk 2 contains contrib or the source code??? Thank you TimeZlicer

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On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 08:51:04PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > AAarrr This @$#%^!*&@# system is driving me > crazy!!! How does anybody ever get it to work? -- Max In order to assist you in your problem, we need you to follow a simple proceedure: 1) Calm Down! 2)

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

On 30 Jul, Carl Mummert wrote: | This is correct. There are lots of programs/scripts that call either | /usr/lib/sendmail or /usr/bin/mail when they want to send an email message. | Several programs come to mind. For instance, cron! -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http:/

Re: IpcMemoryCreate: shmget failed

I believe that particular error is caused by not running the postmaster with the '-i' option. It's come up before, and I know it's a configuration issue. Just not remembering exactly what configuration is needed to get past that. But: Have you first initialized a database location with initlocati

Re: sblive,'n debian, one more time...

* Marcus Johansson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990730 04:27]: > > > reboot or anything. then I switched to debain and tried to run the > > install script again to re-install the sound drivers (after compiling > > the proper kernel of course). the script thought everything went > > allright, but xmms (a

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AAarrr This @$#%^!*&@# system is driving me crazy!!! How does anybody ever get it to work? -- Max ___ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a mon

Smbprint

Hello! My name is Fernando, I'm from Brazil and I'm working with Samba v2.0.3. I'm working with Unixware 2.1.2 - SCO. My problem is the smbprint. It is possible to compress characters with the command smbprint? (Similar to the command lp -d -o cpi=17.1 of Unix) How I can make? I will be

Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA

>What's the harm in having an MTA installed even if you don't use it? It >doesn't interfere. Actually, a few system tasks depend on having an MTA; >cron will email you the text output (if any) of your cron jobs, for >example. I think a unix system without an MTA would be broken. > This is correct

Re: Potato

Hmmm... Good point. The default .deb that contains /etc/apt/sources.list in the next version of releases should probably come with the line added for the security.debian.org stuff. Actually, I just checked my potato system and it appears that there's already a line in that sources.list file for