RE: DirecPC

1999-09-22 Thread Soul Existance
Hey you super-high-speed-gotta-have-it-now-guys, Here's the issue with DirecPC(tm) See, all it's uploads are still done with a phone line, so for all you guys with a 56k connection and know a thing or two about upload/download speeds, you know that a 56k modem only uploads at 33.6k. that means th

Re: Debian's IPMasq and EverQuest

1999-09-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, September 22, 1999, 4:14:34 PM, Bruce wrote: > Anyone play EverQuest with the ipmasq package? :) The problems are most likely because the server is trying to make a connection with your client machine. Since the IPMasqing doesn't know what to do with that port, it drops is. Th

Debian's IPMasq and EverQuest

1999-09-22 Thread Bruce Z. Lysik
Hi guys. This one is a long shot, but I'll try here: Does anyone here use Debian and the ipmasq package along with playing the online game EverQuest? IPMasquerading is working fine otherwise. Linux and Windows98 machines can telnet/web-browse/ssh/whatever through the gateway machine fine. (The

Re: apt-get problem

1999-09-22 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello On Wed, 22.09.99 06:08 -0500, Jim Ruby wrote: > So why does it want to get 11 mb of stuff again, I do't have anything > marked as I usually use apt-get install package when I want to add > something. Try "apt-get -u dselect-upgrade" and you will see *what* it likes to update. read you,

Re: A GnuPG package for stable?

1999-09-22 Thread Bruce Z. Lysik
> "C" == Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: C> Oh, I don´t feel your message was placed wrongly here. [snip helpful info. Thanks!] C> PS: I see you are using (p)gnus: how would you conveniently C> make detached signatures with GnuPG? Mailcrypt v3.5.4 (which C

Re: sblive chopy audio

1999-09-22 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
You'll probably find it easier to start reading here: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9909/thrd5.html On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Jim Ruby wrote: > Ok, I was dumb and deleted the posts on this subject, could somebody resend > me information about the emu10k1 driver for the sblive? as I'

A fetchmail question

1999-09-22 Thread tf
hey guys, Here's the message: reading message 1 of 1 (1850 octets) . flushed I just did that. Little while ago, I got: .sh: usr/sbin/exim: no such file or directory Fetchmail: MDA exited abnormally or returned non zero status (paraphrased) that one message was actually the first one fetchma

Re: apt-get "the following packages have been kept back"

1999-09-22 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Sep, Seth R Arnold wrote about "apt-get "the following packages have been kept back"" > Hello there. > > Can someone explain to me what this message means? :) > > amidala:/var# apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages ha

Re: A GnuPG package for stable?

1999-09-22 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Bruce Z Lysik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "BZL" == Bruce Z Lysik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BZL> Anyone planning on updating the stable package, or should I BZL> go about trying to make one myself? > Apologies for replying to my own post. I should've poked around a bit > more, first

Still sound problems after kernel recompile

1999-09-22 Thread Charles Lewis
What I've done so far: #cd /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.10 #make menuconfig (enabled sound support as a module for Ensoniq 1371) #make dep #make clean #make bzImage #make modules #make modules_install #cp /usr/src/kernel-sources-2.2.10/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /vmlinuz #cd /sbin #./lilo reboot #cat

sblive chopy audio

1999-09-22 Thread Jim Ruby
Ok, I was dumb and deleted the posts on this subject, could somebody resend me information about the emu10k1 driver for the sblive? as I'm having the same problem.

Re: Installing deb packages on top of UNIX

1999-09-22 Thread David Karlin
There is now a Solaris utility called "lxrun" which allows linux binaries to run on Solaris. (I haven't tried it, though.) HTH, --David On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 12:42:20PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Jaime Silvela wrote: > > > Hi, I've been using Debian 2.0 for over

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1999-09-22 Thread Toby

apt-get "the following packages have been kept back"

1999-09-22 Thread Seth R Arnold
Hello there. Can someone explain to me what this message means? :) amidala:/var# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back gimp1.1 login python-base python-tk shellutils wmaker 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed

Re: direct-pc

1999-09-22 Thread Gary Hennigan
Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Satelites have more latency than other services -- so, ftp would run very > nice and quick and all, but something such as quake would be > painfully slow. Latency is definately a problem (those satellites are a LONG way from you), and remember that the s

pcmcia-problems

1999-09-22 Thread Karen Willbrand
Hallo I am trying to install debian-linux. I am not able to reboot the system. It just stops with the following message: starting PCMCIA services: modules cardmgr I am not able to configure the PCMCIA in the installation program dbootstrap. I can4t select anything and if I type >OK< the computer

Re: A GnuPG package for stable?

1999-09-22 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: > I have gpg as well as a few other potato packages compiled for slink at > http://www.pobox.com/~epg/debian > > -- > Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric, Be careful about distribution of gpg by anonymous access. The US government stil

Re: Linux (both 2.0.x and 2.2.x), ifconfig, and routing tables.

1999-09-22 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Okay, last time I posted this I had truncated my cut and paste, which hid some (rather important) lines of the output---so I'm reposting it with a more complete example, and running with a 2.2.x kernel on the Linux machine. I've discovered some differences between Linux's handling of the routing t

Re: direct-pc

1999-09-22 Thread Seth R Arnold
Satelites have more latency than other services -- so, ftp would run very nice and quick and all, but something such as quake would be painfully slow. On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 05:30:00AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Has anyone tried using direct-pc with Linux? > (thats the satellite inter-net con

Re: true type fonts and xfstt (again)

1999-09-22 Thread Seth R Arnold
Aaron, there is a bit more involved than just adding it to the config files. here is the relevant section snipped from /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz: 1.1 How do I test it? mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype and put some *ttf fonts there, now run make xfstt && make install xfstt --syn

Re: telnet to my machine (cont)

1999-09-22 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 01:51:34PM +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > I have installed telnetd via "dpkg --install" and, after that, I have > rebooted the machine. Nevertheless, the daemon was not started. [...] > where de daemon "telnetd" does not appear. What else do I have to > configure in ord

Re: VMware+DOS network

1999-09-22 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 01:21:55PM +0200, Benak Istvan wrote: > Seth R Arnold wrote: > > > > You would need some programs with names such as: > > ne2000.exe (or whatever driver is needed for the card vmware emulates) > > lsl.exe > > odi.exe > > > > in addition to the netware client programs. The

Re: What does "mountd" is used for?

1999-09-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: What does "mountd" is used for? Date: Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 09:03:31PM +0200 In reply to:Manuel Arenaz Silva Quoting Manuel Arenaz Silva([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I would like what is the usage of the mountd daemon. man mountd That man command is very useful. -- The day-t

Re: A GnuPG package for stable?

1999-09-22 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
I have gpg as well as a few other potato packages compiled for slink at http://www.pobox.com/~epg/debian -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back, a da

Re: What does "mountd" is used for?

1999-09-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 09:03:31PM +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > I would like what is the usage of the mountd daemon. mountd is part of the NFS server, and is used by clients to check that they will be allowed to access the share. The seperate nfsd program does the actual serving. -- Mar

Re: correct way to move /usr to a new partition..

1999-09-22 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:40:09PM -0500, rich wrote: > > > > That's a good suggestion - my question is: is there a linux utility to > > compare directories / files to see if they are the same? Seems like I've > > heard of one, but can't remember... >

Re: large hard disks (again)

1999-09-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Well the "right" settings (as reported under the 2.2 kernel to fdisk) seem to be the number of cyl's that give the correct capacity with the head and sector numbers maxed out. (Ie 255 and 64). In my case for a 17.2 gb drive this was 2100. However this is NOT the physical geo, which IS reported b

Re: X 3.3.4-2 Blanks screen w/ Trio3D

1999-09-22 Thread Tim Thomson
Well, gave up on that, compiled a new kernel with fbdev support, installed xserver_fbdev, and it goes great! Only runs at one resolution pre reboot afaik. Might getting ggi to work with this, can I change resolutions on the fly with ggi? Cool! Tim. On 22 Sep 1999, Tim Thomson wrote: > Hi, >

Re: .bashrc doesn't work?

1999-09-22 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 10:42:01AM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote: > shell, not for login shell, ie. when you login the config file read is > ~/.bash_profile or /etc/profile Or ~/.profile. I forget the precendence. Rob -- MY income is ALL disposable!

Re: configuration of a printer

1999-09-22 Thread Andreas Piesk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- on Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > Hello, > > I want to install an Epson Stylus Color 850 printer directly attached to > my machine (local printer). I have been looking at the > Printing-HOWTO-6.html that comes with the default installation of Linu

Re: Trying to set up Epson Printer

1999-09-22 Thread Andreas Piesk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- on Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Jason Martin wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to set up an Epson Stylus Color 600 printer on a slink machine > with 2.2.10 (right now). I've tried all combinations of lpr, lprng, > apsfilter, and magicfilter, and none seem to work. Has anyone

Re: Q: X11, two boxes

1999-09-22 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > If I try to run netscape from amidala, after having starting netscape > on sarnold, it does not actually run a second copy locally -- it just > asks for another window from the remotely running netscape. While this > h

Re: Any XFree3.3.5 Packages for slink?

1999-09-22 Thread Brian E. Lavender
Thanks for the answer on the giftopng. I tried using the package and it seg faulted. I downloaded the latest source from ftp://ftp.uu.net and compiled it. It works good. As far as the latest XFree86 packages, I got 3.3.3.1 from http://netgod.net/x/ Then on the developers page, Branden has 3.3.4

Re: Floppy light stays perpetually on.

1999-09-22 Thread Ares
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Kent West wrote: > "Chrisopher D. Judd" wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > > > > [ snip ] > > > > > > : I tried rebooting. The floppy light comes on straight away (and stays > > > : on) and the system tries to boot from the floppy but fails, s

Re: A GnuPG package for stable?

1999-09-22 Thread Bruce Z. Lysik
> "BZL" == Bruce Z Lysik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BZL> Anyone planning on updating the stable package, or should I BZL> go about trying to make one myself? Apologies for replying to my own post. I should've poked around a bit more, first. I've contacted the author, and further q

restricting user logins over telnet

1999-09-22 Thread Herbert Ho
I've tried to look for this information over the net and through the archives of this list, but haven't found anything relavent. forgive me if this is redudant. =) I'm currently trying to setup a machine i admin for a bbs--namely citadel. i want use the telnet port only for bbs access (so when yo

What does "mountd" is used for?

1999-09-22 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
I would like what is the usage of the mountd daemon.

Re: large hard disks (again)

1999-09-22 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 10:15:37AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Exactly what I suspected. Only how to figure out the > geometry in the first place? Anyway I now have that > information for the disk in question. As soon as > potato is release it will be water under the bridge. Possible sources

Readers Choice, Linux Journal

1999-09-22 Thread Carlie Fairchild
Debian has been nominated as a potential 1999 Linux Journal Readers' Choice Award recipient. (Congratulations!) Voting has already begun and will continue through October 15, 1999. Visit http://www.linuxjournal.com/contest/readchoice.html If you would like to involve your web visitors in the voti

configuration of a printer

1999-09-22 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Hello, I want to install an Epson Stylus Color 850 printer directly attached to my machine (local printer). I have been looking at the Printing-HOWTO-6.html that comes with the default installation of Linux Debian 2.1 (slink). After reading the introduction, I have tried to print an ascii text to

Re: Floppy light stays perpetually on.

1999-09-22 Thread Kent West
"Chrisopher D. Judd" wrote: > > > On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > > [ snip ] > > > > : I tried rebooting. The floppy light comes on straight away (and stays > > : on) and the system tries to boot from the floppy but fails, so goes on > > : to the hard drive. > > > > Sounds like

RE: brand spankin new user... part iii

1999-09-22 Thread Soul Existance
...the followup a's: 1. where do i check irq's? 2. i've tried a couple coms, but i'm not sure which one it is. i will be attempting the external modem, so it should work, and i think it's set up on com2. not sure, cuz i dont have windows on that system. 3. i've set up the config for pppconf

Re: true type fonts and xfstt (yet again)

1999-09-22 Thread Mark Wagnon
On Wed 09/22/99 02:45PM, Aaron Stromas wrote: Do you have the xfonts-base package installed? When you comment out the FontPath stuff for the TT fonts, does X start or not? -- ( __ _ Mark Wagnon ) Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vist

Re: About mountd

1999-09-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 08:07:33PM +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > Right now, when I want to read the contents of a CD or a floppy I have > to mount the corresponding directory (/cdrom in my machine) manually. I > would like the system to configure the mount point automatically when I > try to

Re: cmsg cancel <876713hu34.fsf@kristal.wpmills.com>

1999-09-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 10:22:20AM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: > I am canceling my own article. Why such a cruelty??? -- Jean-Yves Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Happiness is a hard disk.

test

1999-09-22 Thread W. Paul Mills
test -- *** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL=

test

1999-09-22 Thread W. Paul Mills
test -- *** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL=

Re: About mountd

1999-09-22 Thread Ian Zimmerman
> "Manuel" == Manuel Arenaz Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Manuel> Hello, Right now, when I want to read the contents of a CD or Manuel> a floppy I have to mount the corresponding directory (/cdrom Manuel> in my machine) manually. I would like the system to configure Manuel> the mount point

Re: Clocking Modem Speed

1999-09-22 Thread John Hasler
Ed Cogburn writes: > REPORT CONNECT " didn't work for me (full potato system). My last line > in the chatscript was " CONNECT '' ". To get this working I had to > change that line to " REPORT CONNECT CONNECT '' ". 'REPORT' is a command to chat. 'CONNECT' is an argument to that command. "REPORT

About mountd

1999-09-22 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Hello, Right now, when I want to read the contents of a CD or a floppy I have to mount the corresponding directory (/cdrom in my machine) manually. I would like the system to configure the mount point automatically when I try to read or write the contents of that directory. I have scanned the fil

Re: .bashrc doesn't work?

1999-09-22 Thread Martyn Pearce
Ron Farrer writes: | J Horacio MG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | | > Not sure whether you already know this, but ~/.bashrc is for | > interactive shell, not for login shell, ie. when you login the | > config file read is ~/.bash_profile or /etc/profile | | Oops! In Rat Hat putting things in your

true type fonts and xfstt (yet again)

1999-09-22 Thread Aaron Stromas
when i posted the note below earlier i forgot to mention that i did indeed ran xfstt --sync (it tells me it found 118 fonts), and the xfstt is indeed started by /etc/init.d/xfstt. a number of people suggested that was the cause of the x server not starting. unfortunately, it's not. -a hi, in an

Re: brand spankin new user... part iv

1999-09-22 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > ok, i figgure instead of using the ppp (which i still cant get to dial) i'll > use my ls-120 and just move it back and forth when i run out of room. now i > notice this... > > files such as : > crossfire-client_0.95.3-1.deb > > turns into this on the disk: > crossf~1.deb > > is this

Re: xfree86 3.3.5 in debian

1999-09-22 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > Phil Brutsche wrote: > > > > It looks suspiciously like you're missing the file .xinitrc in your home > > directory. That's what tells X11 what window manager to use, and so on. > > > I am in that position and the message is that i

A GnuPG package for stable?

1999-09-22 Thread Bruce Z. Lysik
Hi folks. New to Debian, and new to this list. (Not new to Linux, however.) I notice that Gnu Privacy Guard has just recently released a 1.0 version. As I like Debian package management, I scurry to see if there's a deb for GnuPG 1.0. Unfortunately I notice that the stable package for GnuPG is

Re: telnet to my machine (cont)

1999-09-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 01:51:34PM +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > I have installed telnetd via "dpkg --install" and, after that, I have > rebooted the machine. Nevertheless, the daemon was not started. By default telnetd is not run as a standalone server but is instead started from inetd. I

Re: exim configuration

1999-09-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 11:33:38AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > What is the proper way to configure exim for my home system? I > tried eximconf, choosing "using smarthost" option (2) but it refuses my > e-mail, saying that can't relay mail for destination.machine I had the same p

Re: large hard disks (again)

1999-09-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf
--- Jeff Noxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 2.2 kernels will properly detect >1024 > cylinders. For other kernels, > you can put fdisk in "x"pert mode and override its > detection, or you > can also specify the disk geometry on the kernel > command line. > > Regards, > Exactly what I suspec

telnet to my machine (succes)

1999-09-22 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
This is to inform that I have had succes. Next, I intend to install "ssh" so as to improve the security of my machine. Thanks to everyone, Manuel Arenaz

Re: telnet to my machine

1999-09-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 02:16:21AM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > Pardon my ignorance, but how does one "look up ones IP address > in the DNS". Just for future reference. The standard way is to say nslookup The DNS is the system which is used to map text-form machine names (eg, "lists.debia

Re: wmaker and docked remote apps

1999-09-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
Brad said: > WindowMaker will do that. But, if you dock the new appicon that was > created when you ran it with the ssh -f ... command, it should work ok > then. Got it! As I was responding to this, it occurred to me that the -f may be what's causing the problem. When I drag over the appicon, th

Re: Permissions for non-root user to use ppp

1999-09-22 Thread Andrew L. Gould
It worked. Thanks, Brian! - Andrew Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 21 Sep, Andrew L. Gould wrote about "Permissions for non-root user to > use ppp" > > Hi all! > > > > As of last night, I have debian running on a stand-alone Pentium II > > machine at home. As root, I can connect to the ISP and ac

Re: Bug in XEmacs-20.4 ?

1999-09-22 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just noticed sth odd with XEmacs-20.4 on slink. > Occasionally, things freeze up in XEmacs. It doesn't > matter what I am doing. Everything freezes. However, > if I hit Ctrl+, its normal. Any keystrokes that > I might have made while it was frozen seem

Re: [Linux: CD] How to make ???

1999-09-22 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh yes, I like to make preselect the deselect for the packages so new > users should choose 'Complete installation' and thats all. [...] > And then, I have the 4-CD-Set of Debian 2.1 Slink and the girls in my > group are gone confused with all t

Re: xfree86 3.3.5 in debian

1999-09-22 Thread Greg Vence
Phil Brutsche wrote: > > It looks suspiciously like you're missing the file .xinitrc in your home > directory. That's what tells X11 what window manager to use, and so on. > I am in that position and the message is that it cant find an .Xsession file in the user home directory. I've not neithe

brand spankin new user... part iv

1999-09-22 Thread Soul Existance
( i use that tag so it's easy to see me)   ok, i figgure instead of using the ppp (which i still cant get to dial) i'll use my ls-120 and just move it back and forth when i run out of room. now i notice this...   files such as :     crossfire-client_0.95.3-1.deb   turns into this on the d

Re: true type fonts and xfstt (again)

1999-09-22 Thread M. K. Honeycutt
Aaron Stromas wrote: > > hi, > > in an attempt to use the true type fonts i installed the xfstt, copied > the fonts from a windows machine and added "FontPath "unix/:7101" to > my XF86Config. unfortunately, my X server will not start. it quits > with "could not open default font 'fixed'". > > i

Re: .bashrc doesn't work?

1999-09-22 Thread Ron Farrer
J Horacio MG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Not sure whether you already know this, but ~/.bashrc is for interactive > shell, not for login shell, ie. when you login the config file read is > ~/.bash_profile or /etc/profile Oops! In Rat Hat putting things in your .bashrc worked... I guess I have a

Re: direct-pc

1999-09-22 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Has anyone tried using direct-pc with Linux? > (thats the satellite inter-net connection. see > http://www.pdmnet.com/direcpdm.htm) They say you need > windows 95 (but so do alot of isp's that work with > linux) I can't get cable modem, or asdl where

Re: Floppy light stays perpetually on.

1999-09-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Chrisopher D. Judd wrote: : > On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: : > : > [ snip ] : > : > : I tried rebooting. The floppy light comes on straight away (and stays : > : on) and the system tries to boot from the floppy but fails, so goes on : > : to the hard

Re: Using ssh with fetchmail?

1999-09-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 08:22:32 -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > I know I've seen a procedure for doing this before. However, browsing > fetchmail's docs, I can think of no way. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.html#K3 HTH, Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR

Re: Using ssh with fetchmail?

1999-09-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > I know I've seen a procedure for doing this before. However, browsing > fetchmail's docs, I can think of no way. Can someone that's doing this send > me an example fetchmailrc? Thanks. http://www.infodrom.north.de/linx/ look for fetchmail Regards, Joey --

Exim. How correct sender that has no domain

1999-09-22 Thread David Warnock
Hi, When I send messages from Netscape to exim there is a Sender: header field that is my user name but without the domain. ie Sender: david when it should be Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This only seems to happen with Netscape communicator clients. I think I ought to be able to use an exim re-

cmsg cancel <876713hu34.fsf@kristal.wpmills.com>

1999-09-22 Thread W. Paul Mills
I am canceling my own article.

Using ssh with fetchmail?

1999-09-22 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
I know I've seen a procedure for doing this before. However, browsing fetchmail's docs, I can think of no way. Can someone that's doing this send me an example fetchmailrc? Thanks. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin

Re: large hard disks (again)

1999-09-22 Thread Jeff Noxon
The 2.2 kernels will properly detect >1024 cylinders. For other kernels, you can put fdisk in "x"pert mode and override its detection, or you can also specify the disk geometry on the kernel command line. Regards, Jeff On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 05:14:25AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I have pos

Segmentation Fault

1999-09-22 Thread Menno Scholten
Hello again, just a 2 quick questions... I had kernel 2.2.9 installed properly and ipchains was working. However I had to compile the kernel again because of an option I needed. Now when I try to run ipchains, all I get is a segmentation fault. Why is this ? As said the Kernel version is 2.2.9 an

exim configuration

1999-09-22 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, What is the proper way to configure exim for my home system? I tried eximconf, choosing "using smarthost" option (2) but it refuses my e-mail, saying that can't relay mail for destination.machine I would like to use any MUA (mutt, tkmail, tkrat, StarOffice, pine, ...) sending

Re: Floppy light stays perpetually on.

1999-09-22 Thread Chrisopher D. Judd
> On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > > [ snip ] > > : I tried rebooting. The floppy light comes on straight away (and stays > : on) and the system tries to boot from the floppy but fails, so goes on > : to the hard drive. > > Sounds like the cable is reversed. Flip it over at the d

Re: telnet to my machine (cont)

1999-09-22 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > > Jim McCloskey wrote: > > > Hello, Manuel: > > > > [1] If you simply install the telnetd package, the daemon, I believe, > > will start running. If you reboot, it certainly will. So install > > it with: > > > > dpkg --install > > > > or: > > > > a

Re: rm strange file/device

1999-09-22 Thread Mark Buda
> "Daniel" == Daniel Faller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> I found the following file: Daniel> c---rw---x 1 8240 12641 105, 101 Jul 22 2034 Daniel> cache36876DC80351532.class Daniel> I do not know how to get rid of it. Daniel> I have no idea how this file was created

Problems using the jdk-1.1 jdb java debugger

1999-09-22 Thread Pontus Lidman
Hello, I can't seem to get 'jdb' working (latest potato java packages). I start jdb, and it says "Initializing jdb..." and stops. -verbose gives a bit more information; it stops after the following: [Loaded java/net/Socket.class from /usr/lib/jdk1.1/lib/classes.zip] [Initializing java/net/Socket]

Re: direct-pc

1999-09-22 Thread David Teague
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Has anyone tried using direct-pc with Linux? > (thats the satellite inter-net connection. see > http://www.pdmnet.com/direcpdm.htm) They say you need > windows 95 (but so do alot of isp's that work with > linux) I can't get cable modem, or asdl where

Re: apt-get problem

1999-09-22 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Sep, Jim Ruby wrote about "apt-get problem" > today I was going to use apt-get to grab some packages, so I thaught well > lets update incase packages were updated, so I did. > > apt-get update > apt-get dselect-upgrade > > Now it says it wants to get 11 mb of packages and after this is u

Y2K

1999-09-22 Thread Marcus Johansson
Hi! The y2k page on the debian homepage sais that util-linux v2.7.1-3 has status "BAD?". I do not understand what I am supposed to do if I have that version installed. How do I know if there is an updated version? How y2k compliant is the latest debian release? Any help appreciated! --- Marcus

Re: Floppy light stays perpetually on.

1999-09-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: [ snip ] : I tried rebooting. The floppy light comes on straight away (and stays : on) and the system tries to boot from the floppy but fails, so goes on : to the hard drive. Sounds like the cable is reversed. Flip it over at the drive, and/or at th

rm strange file/device

1999-09-22 Thread Daniel Faller
Hi ! In the Netscape cache directory I found the following file: c---rw---x 1 8240 12641105, 101 Jul 22 2034 cache36876DC80351532.class I do not know how to get rid of it. I tried rm -f and chattr -i but I only get Operation not supported by device / Operation not permitted if I

Re: direct-pc

1999-09-22 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Has anyone tried using direct-pc with Linux? > (thats the satellite inter-net connection. see > http://www.pdmnet.com/direcpdm.htm) They say you need > windows 95 (but so do alot of isp's that work with > linux) I can't get cable modem

direct-pc

1999-09-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Has anyone tried using direct-pc with Linux? (thats the satellite inter-net connection. see http://www.pdmnet.com/direcpdm.htm) They say you need windows 95 (but so do alot of isp's that work with linux) I can't get cable modem, or asdl where I live, and this service is in the same price ballpark

Re: man pages for gif2png

1999-09-22 Thread Martin Fluch
There is no man or info page in the gif2png package. Martin On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Brian E. Lavender wrote: > I just used dselect to install gif2png > After installing it, I found no man pages. > > $ man gif2png > > Is there no man page for gif2png or is it in info format. I tried > > $ info g

Re: xfree86 3.3.5 in debian

1999-09-22 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > Hi all, > > although I'm not so familiar with such things I've dowlnloaded the recent > xfree86 version 3.3.5 from xfree86 org pages because of the voodoo banshee > support in that version. I followed their download and installati

large hard disks (again)

1999-09-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I have posted this before, how to fdisk a > 8.4gb drive. Problem was that with slink fdisk saw only 1024 cy, 255h, 63s for a total of 8.4gb. If I booted a RedHat 6.0 or Mandrake 6.0 CD (also stormix) their partition utilities (fdisk, disk druid, etc) would report the correct number of cyl's (2100

Re: page layout app

1999-09-22 Thread Peter Mickle
Andrew Hately [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Seth R Arnold wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 10:52:50PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > > On Wed 09/22/99 01:39AM, Peter Mickle wrote: > > > > does anyone have any recommendations for a page layout/type formatting, > ... thanks for replying and for t

Re: Clocking Modem Speed

1999-09-22 Thread Ed Cogburn
Shao Zhang wrote: > > This is what I get in /var/log/messages: > > And the line speed there would be 45333. Maybe we have some settings > different. > > Sep 22 20:16:59 localhost chat[242]: CONNECT > Sep 22 20:16:59 localhost chat[242]: -- got it > Sep 22 20:16:59 localhost chat[242]: send (^M)

xfree86 3.3.5 in debian

1999-09-22 Thread wolfgang . schwoerer
Hi all, although I'm not so familiar with such things I've dowlnloaded the recent xfree86 version 3.3.5 from xfree86 org pages because of the voodoo banshee support in that version. I followed their download and installation instructions and managed the first errors and problems - but at the end

true type fonts and xfstt (again)

1999-09-22 Thread Aaron Stromas
hi, in an attempt to use the true type fonts i installed the xfstt, copied the fonts from a windows machine and added "FontPath "unix/:7101" to my XF86Config. unfortunately, my X server will not start. it quits with "could not open default font 'fixed'". i have also tried this: 1) commented out t

telnet to my machine (cont)

1999-09-22 Thread Manuel Arenaz Silva
Jim McCloskey wrote: > Hello, Manuel: > > [1] If you simply install the telnetd package, the daemon, I believe, > will start running. If you reboot, it certainly will. So install > it with: > > dpkg --install > > or: > > apt-get install telnetd > > and you should be fine. >

Re: GoZilla for Linux

1999-09-22 Thread Ingo Reimann
Christian Wendt wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 04:58:05PM +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Does anyone knows I there is an ftp client for Linux Debian with, more > > or less, the same functionality as GoZilla for Windows? > For the Gnome Desktop Enviroment a programm "gtm" (G

Re: VMware+DOS network

1999-09-22 Thread Benak Istvan
Seth R Arnold wrote: > > You would need some programs with names such as: > ne2000.exe (or whatever driver is needed for the card vmware emulates) > lsl.exe > odi.exe > > in addition to the netware client programs. The only way to legally get the > netware client programs is from novell, if you h

apt-get problem

1999-09-22 Thread Jim Ruby
today I was going to use apt-get to grab some packages, so I thaught well lets update incase packages were updated, so I did. apt-get update apt-get dselect-upgrade Now it says it wants to get 11 mb of packages and after this is unpacked 2260 will be freed. So why does it want to get 11 mb of st

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