Re: Thinkpad 365x

[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Debian User" (!) wrote: > I've tryed the normal resc1440, and also the tecra, safe and tecra safe > version, and all of these failed. and i also tryed many option of the > kernel, as floppy=thinkpad, hd=C,h,s, etc.. but all af these failed and the > computer hang directly a

Re: Setting up XF86Config

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 02:52:05PM +0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > Where am I going wrong? > What other information is needed? > > Cam Have you tried the info at the XFree86 web site ? They have a detailed info per chip family. Just note your xfree version number e.g. 3.3.5 for current potato, and

kernel question

It has been a long time since I have made a kernel the Debian way and I cannot find an answer to this question in the docs. I downloaded the kernel sources, which I put in /usr/src/ and I also have the kernel headers but it seems to me that the sources already include the headers and I don't need

Re: oracle 8.0.5 and glibc2.1 segfaults

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 19:47, Robert Varga wrote: > Due to the problem b: it did not build anything, but make my binaries > vanish (got renamed). After I set these to point to /usr/bin/gcc272 and > /usr/bin/ld I got only messages for error a:, however the binaries built > segfaulted again. Did no

Re: mail ?

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, luis wrote: > how can i send by mail a file, in only one line ? Assume the file you want to send is called "file", use something like: mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] < file -s is for subject (optional) and change the email address and filename to suit your needs ---

Re: (fqdn) hostname resolution when using DHCP

you could add a domain to a DNS in your local network so that works, or what is probably easier is look for the lmhosts file on the windows box (use find) it may be called lmhosts.sam or some shit, add the ip and the names there, it seems to be window's version of /etc/hosts. you may have to renam

Re: ITP: LVM

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 05:16:46PM +, Tom Lees wrote: > Assuming that noone else has already got it (I checked the WNPP webpage > and it wasn't listed), I intend to package LVM, which can be found at > > http://linux.msede.com/lvm What is it? Could you post a short description along with your

Re: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

using rotue add -net in 2.2.x is redundant as 2.2. already adds the route automatically, its nothing to worry about it doesnt hurt anything. nate On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Daniel [iso-8859-1] P?rez P?rez wrote: danito >I use Debian 2.1 and I have changed my Kernel 2.0.36 to 2.2.4 and danito >when

Re: Need advice

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Don Cavaiani wrote: doncma >I went into xf86config (several tries) and tried to configure the doncma >Xserver according to my hardware. I have some unusual hardware and I'm doncma >wondering if I will be able to get it all to work ?? What version of X? if your using debian u

Burning CDs in Linux

I just got the new Yamaha 6x4x16x CD-RW and can't seem to burn a CD. It always error out with what looks like a buffer problem. My machine is all SCSI, and it doesn't seem to matter whether I do a CD to CD burn or make an image and burn that from the HD. It always errors out. I am able to burn

Upgrading slinkr1 --> r4

Hi, I'd really like to upgrade but not with apt-get and my 33.6-Modem. Therefore I downloaded all packages mentioned in "ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/ChangeLog"; at the local Universitiy. (I simply "grepped" all lines starting with "dists" -- please tell me if this is not enough!) Now

Re: Package Phase of Install Fails

On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 06:01:29PM -0800, Hagen Finley wrote: > within dselect. I saw a login take place etc. However, I remain unclear > about what exactly is taking place within dselect. Is dselect installing > packages from the base install or does everything dselect wants live on the > ftp sit

Re: timeout with telnet or ftp

that tends to happen a lot with machines with a broken DNS configuration, install a DNS and/or try commenting out the lines in /etc/hosts.deny. It's best to install a DNS and not rely on another incase that other is not reachable it will take a while to 'time out'. most services try to reverse lo

Re: Linux NAT and stuff.

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Ronald Tin wrote: csthf9 > to change settings there, so I just moved the masquerading job csthf9 > to FW2, and it's working now) ok cool.. csthf9 > csthf9 >2) I cannot connect from any parts of the internal network to the Notes csthf9 > server with the real IP. (I can

Re: Timeline for potato

Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > The timeline is great! But I think it should be continued. As experience > shows, shortly after releasing potato (or even shortly after freezing > potato), > kernel 2.4 and XFree 4.0 will appear. Hopefully they appear *after* the release and not between freeze and rele

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Re: mail ?

try cat filename | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] nate On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, luis wrote: luis >hello luis > luis >a very humble question luis > luis >how can i send by mail a file, in only one line ? luis > luis >i mean, how can send a mail with a file in its body in only one line of the luis >shell, w

Re: apache+mod_ssl under firewall

best thing to do (what id do) is enable kernel firewall logging and turn on logging for your firewall, then examine the logs when you try to connect and see what is going on .. nate On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: mario > mario >Hi, mario > mario > I've set a site for webma

Re: modem problem

add your DNS's to /etc/resolv.conf : nameserver 1.2.3.4 nameserver 5.6.7.8 if you dont know the Domain name servers of your isp its easiest to do a WHOIS on the domain (from a machine that has a working DNS config) and then resolve the names internic gives you and use them. nate On Wed, 29 Dec

syslog and hostname ?

can someone tell me where syslog gets the hostname from? its marking all my logs using the hostname localhost. my $HOSTNAME is still set to 'aphro' my /etc/hosts has a line: 127.0.0.1 localhost aphro and i recently added a domain called 'aphro' to my local DNS so if i 'nslookup aphro' it

Re: ITP: estic (ISTEC ISDN PABX admin program)

W. Borgert wrote: > Hi, > > I already have packaged estic: How did you manage to get it compiled under potato? It failed gracefully for me but run through like a charme on my bo box. If you're at it, could you try to get the keys somewhat more intuitive? I.e. support vi-keys or emacs-keys. Wor

Re: debian-user mangles mails

No, some mail to news gateway is broken and is bouncing ALL debian-devel mails back to debian-user. Notice the Sender and X-Authentication-Warning headers. I have notified [EMAIL PROTECTED] and root/postmaster/[EMAIL PROTECTED] But it is still doing it. I think the solution for now is to make a

Setting up XF86Config

I am not a newbie to computers, but I am to Linux, and so far not so good. Hardware: ASUS SP97-V MB, which has the video built in (SiS 5598 chipset) Monitor is a Sceptre Dragon Eye D54 Though the accompanying information indicates that XFree86 will handle the SiS 5598 chipset, for reasons that I

ncurses 5 (was: Re: Timeline for potato)

At 15:23 +0100 1999-12-28, Matthias Klose wrote: >what did happen to the libncurses5 packages? will they be uploaded for >potato? Asking because I do not want to upload a readline4 before this >is installed ... I had decided not to upload ncurses 5.0 due to the situation with readline. I didn't kn

Re: "recommends" in current potato.

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 08:10:09AM +, Ed Cogburn wrote: > In potato now, there are at least five of those "recommends" > dependencies. What is this function for? The explanation in 'man > deb-control' doesn't provide an example of why this nagging > "recommends" dependency is useful.

Re: Timeline for potato

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 06:55:24PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > The timeline is great! But I think it should be continued. As experience > shows, shortly after releasing potato (or even shortly after freezing > potato), > kernel 2.4 and XFree 4.0 will appear. > > Should there be a potato updat

Re: new "toy story" release names

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 04:23:31PM -0200, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > > > At the rate we are getting releases out, there should be a new "Toy Story" > > > out before we use up these new names... > > > > If there would be more frequent releases we migth be able to keep up to > > phase > > with (virtua

Re: ITP: TIP

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 09:46:14AM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: > Oh. The author just knew about this 2 or 3 days ago, and he is still > pondering about the name change. Should there be any problem for an initial > tip package release, and after change the name? Yes, it's a lot more work for the ar

Re: debian-user mangles mails

On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 03:16:00AM +0800, Kai Henningsen wrote: > Note the second line. I assume something processing debian-user mails > mishandles (that is, drops) continuation lines. Probably the same stuff > that rearranges them (something that also should not happen). I noticed some multi

Re: [RFC] Suggestion for package ordering

>> Is this popularity-contest really necessary. What about a script >> which analyses FTP-servers log-files and counting how often a package >> was downloaded? Running this script on the main mirrors would make >> a reasonable statistic. >I dont think it would. This would only make stats of >how

Re: ITP: TIP

Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Jordi wrote: > > > I asked for comments in debian-mentors about how to make users aware of the > > availability of a free package that replaces a non-free one that they > > already were using. One idea was to make Pine Recommend: tip | pico, and > >

Re: Potato Install from Floppies

Thanks Carl, it was the Perl 5 problem. Now it works as advertised. On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Carl Fink wrote: > Clyde Wilson wrote: > > > Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used > > apt-get or dselect using apt to install other packages? > > Yes. This week, on a ThinkPad.

Re: Need advice

Don Cavaiani wrote: > > Greetings Wise Debian Users, > I went into xf86config (several tries) and tried to configure the > Xserver according to my hardware. I have some unusual hardware and I'm > wondering if I will be able to get it all to work ?? > > When I start up the system in Linux now, I

Re: ITP: TIP

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Jordi wrote: > I asked for comments in debian-mentors about how to make users aware of the > availability of a free package that replaces a non-free one that they > already were using. One idea was to make Pine Recommend: tip | pico, and > that sounds fair enough. Any other?

Re: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo is added automatically by kernel. You don't need to do it again. If you want to overwrite it with some other options - use it with full syntax. goto /usr/src/linux/Documentation On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 03:34:29PM -0500, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Try from the co

Re: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

Try from the command line: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo If this works you can put this in the following file: /etc/init.d/network To be on the safe side copy your original network file. This is what I have on my machine and I don't have any problems. Make sure the rest of

Re: new "toy story" release names

> > At the rate we are getting releases out, there should be a new "Toy Story" > > out before we use up these new names... > > If there would be more frequent releases we migth be able to keep up to phase > with (virtual) reality. No? And if wonder happens and the releases go too fast for the movi

Re: Quake is GPL

How about creating a 'pre compiled' :) defense strategy like: -- proving the Internet is NOT under laws of ANY country and therefore distribution trough Internet regales of geographical location of host and recipient is outside competency of ANY country. (Sorry for my bad english) Note:

Re: Timeline for potato

Rainer Dorsch writes: > The timeline is great! But I think it should be continued. As > experience shows, shortly after releasing potato (or even shortly > after freezing potato), kernel 2.4 and XFree 4.0 will appear. Well, I had been expecting XFree 4.0 in July, so this is good news :) from read

Re: Bad points for debian (was: resetting dpkg)

On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 02:11:31PM +0100, Egbert Bouwman wrote > On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 10:43:05PM +0100, steve doerr wrote: > > Is there a way to change dpkg package remove tags? I ran dselect after > > manually dpkg'ing postgresql and jdk and I somehow got almost everything > > > You are one o

debian on gericom notebooks

hi again any1 here who already installed debian on a gericom (hydrospeed)?? any problems or comments for this combination?? greetings bernd

SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

I use Debian 2.1 and I have changed my Kernel 2.0.36 to 2.2.4 and when I use the command route, for example route add -net 127.0.0.0 I get the message SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument. I use an ethernet SMC ultra and it works fine, even when I get that message. The configuration of the Kernel is OK.

Need advice

Greetings Wise Debian Users, I am having some trouble getting Xserver to work on my PC. I downloaded the base file to my WIN98 partition. I got the basic system to work. I got the modem to work and downloaded the 189MB for the Workstation profile(incl. web, etc.) I installed LILO and I can dua

timeout with telnet or ftp

hi i'm new on this list and would need your help please. im running slink here as a router and it works great. but if i want to telnet or ftp to this pc, it needs some minutes to receive the login. my ftp-client gets a timeout all the time. how can i fix this problem? please help me!! mfg bernd

Re: palm pilot vs visor

On 12/26/99, Michael Perry addressed "palm pilot vs visor": > I am kind of following along with this and am wondering if people are using > jpilot to link their visors? If they are palm compliant, will jpilot see > these and provide true desktop-palmtop integration? I am using now a Casio > E100

ITP FOP (xml->pfd with xsl in java)

Hello, after soring out the version conflicts with lib-xp-java i will package FOP, a XML->PDF Flow Object XSL Engine. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROT

Re: ITP: TIP

Quoting Craig Sanders: > i suggest a name change to Tipo - Tip Isn't Pico, Oh! > > binary could be /usr/bin/tipo I recommend "cipo", as it's an anagram of "pico". It could be pronounced "Chipo" as in "It's a cipoff the old block." Maybe zeppo? -- CrackMonkey.Org - Non-sequitur

Thinkpad 365x

Hi everyone i'm new to this list and my english is not as good as i would like but i'll try to explain my problem. I use debian 2.1 since some time now, and i wanted to use it on a laptop. I buyed an old Thinkpad 365x (Pentium 100) HD:810Mb IDE and 24Mb of RAM, and tryed to boot with a bootd

Debian pre-installed

Aside from Space-time Systems, does anybody know of a place that offers machines with Debian pre-installed? Preferably stateside, preferably online. Also, why is GNU/Hurd called GNU/Hurd? If I'm not mistaken the original purpose of the GNU project was to come up with an entire OS, but there was

debian-user mangles mails

Here's an example: > Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Delivery-date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:42:37 +0100 > Received: from uucp by khms.westfalen.de with local-bsmtp (Exim 3.11 #1) > id 123LFF-CG-01 (Debian); Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:42:37 +0100 > Received: from

Re: /sbin and /usr/sbin be in a normal user's path ?! What about Sudo ?

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 11:46:39AM +0800, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: [...] > -> > > e) our recommended solution wold be to install traceroute in bin (i already > repored that as an error half year ago) > > BUT > > f) our recommended solution would break scripts which use a hardwired > /usr/sbin to t

Re: [RFC] Suggestion for package ordering

Quoting Andreas Tille: > Is this popularity-contest really necessary. What about a script > which analyses FTP-servers log-files and counting how often a > package was downloaded? Running this script on the main mirrors > would make a reasonable statistic. It doesn't just check downloads

ITP: LVM

Assuming that noone else has already got it (I checked the WNPP webpage and it wasn't listed), I intend to package LVM, which can be found at http://linux.msede.com/lvm -- Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> How come financial advisors never seem to be as wealthy as they claim they'll make you? -- To UN

Re: Timeline for potato

On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 02:08:17AM +0800, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > The timeline is great! But I think it should be continued. As experience > shows, shortly after releasing potato (or even shortly after freezing > potato), > kernel 2.4 and XFree 4.0 will appear. > > Should there be a potato up

Re: oracle 8.0.5 and glibc2.1 segfaults

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Remco van 't Veer wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 17:38, Robert Varga wrote: > >1) Change to the directory where you downloaded your patch. > * cd ~/orapatch > >2) Extract the patch. > * tar -xvzf glibcpatch.tgz > >3) Run the script. > * sh gli

Re: oracle 8.0.5 and glibc2.1 segfaults

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 17:38, Robert Varga wrote: > > You need to patch the Oracle binaries to get 8.0.5 running on > > glibc-2.1 based systems. Please follow > > for details. > > It is not clear which packages should I install in debian since it i

[OT} firewall question

Quick question about a slink firewall. Its log files have lots of entries like this (cut to avoid line wrap): Dec 26 02:28:44 leader kernel: Packet log: out DENY lo PROTO=1 xx.xx.xx.xx:3 xx.xx.xx.xx:1 L=101 S=0xC0 I=57427 F=0x T=#255 (8) where, xx.xx.xx.xx is the IP of the Ethernet card goin

Re: Packages referenced but missing from the archive

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 05:45:59PM +0100, Bart Warmerdam wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 02:55:19AM +0100, Ingo Saitz wrote: > > MoiN > > > > On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 12:09:09AM +1100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > > I went and grabbed all the Packages files for all the distributions > > > I k

ITA: pgplot5

Intent to Adopt: pgplot5 I intend to take over pgplot5 from the previous maintainer, John Lapeyre. I have already informed John about my intention. Gopal. -- Gopal Narayanan Ph #: (413) 545 09

Re: slink --> potatoe?

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 09:52:28AM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > When the final CD is released I buy em. Until then, I'd like to try > to upgrade one of my boxes. The CD would really be nice to have, but you still don't need it. After the upgrade, you will still be stuck with Perl 5.004, a

Re: Timeline for potato

The timeline is great! But I think it should be continued. As experience shows, shortly after releasing potato (or even shortly after freezing potato), kernel 2.4 and XFree 4.0 will appear. Should there be a potato update in this case or is Debian seriously wanting to shorten release cycles?

ITP: estic (ISTEC ISDN PABX admin program)

Hi, I already have packaged estic: Section: utils Priority: optional Upstream Author: Ullrich von Bassewitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Recommends: isdnutils Description: Administration program for ISDN PABX ISTEC 1003/1008 This program allows you the administration of the ISDN private automatic branch

Re: Bleh! win modem on my presario 1920

Charles Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are Win modems ever going to be supported? I suppose that is up to the > manufacturers...bleh, how depressing. You might look at www.linmodems.org. I haven't yet, but I will today. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems C

Re: Packages referenced but missing from the archive

*- On 30 Dec, Bart Warmerdam wrote about "Re: Packages referenced but missing from the archive" > On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 02:55:19AM +0100, Ingo Saitz wrote: >> MoiN >> >> On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 12:09:09AM +1100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: >> > I went and grabbed all the Packages files for al

Re: Potato Install from Floppies

Clyde Wilson wrote: > Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used > apt-get or dselect using apt to install other packages? Yes. This week, on a ThinkPad. Once I got IP-Masquerading to work so I could upgrade over the Internet, I only had the incredibly annoying Perl 5 vers

Re: slink --> potatoe?

*- On 29 Dec, William Burrow wrote about "Re: slink --> potatoe?" > On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 11:40:16AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: >> *- On 29 Dec, Robert L. Harris wrote about "slink --> potatoe?" >> > >> > Ok, >> > I have a box on a 33.6K modem I want to up grade to potatoe, either >> > before

Re: Packages referenced but missing from the archive

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 02:55:19AM +0100, Ingo Saitz wrote: > MoiN > > On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 12:09:09AM +1100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > I went and grabbed all the Packages files for all the distributions > > I know of (main, contrib, non-free, non-us/main, non-us/contrib, > > non-us/no

Re: slink --> potatoe?

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 11:40:16AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 29 Dec, Robert L. Harris wrote about "slink --> potatoe?" > > > > Ok, > > I have a box on a 33.6K modem I want to up grade to potatoe, either before > > or after it goes final. Is therre an apt-get command I can run before I

Potato Install from Floppies

Has anyone installed the Potato base from floppies and then used apt-get or dselect using apt to install other packages? I have so far found this to be an impossible task! Guess CD installation has spoiled me...

Re: Y2K fix for emacs19(potato/slink) and emacs20(slink)

On 29 Dec 1999, Takuo KITAME wrote: > I think that emacs19 19.34(potato/slink) and emacs20 20.3(slink) has the y2k > problem in lisp/timezone.el. > Are package maintainer or anybody working for fix this? or already fixed? > > Here is the fixed timezone.el. > http://master.debian.org/~kitame/tmp

Re: slink --> potatoe?

When the final CD is released I buy em. Until then, I'd like to try to upgrade one of my boxes. Thus spake Jesse Tilly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Blow the coin and get a CD. It's a good cause and you'll have the CD > for restoration purposes and

RE: slink --> potatoe?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Blow the coin and get a CD. It's a good cause and you'll have the CD for restoration purposes and incase the ISP or modem is down. Otherwise, add the unstable directory entries to your apt configuration. Jesse - -Original Message- From: Rob

Re: slink --> potatoe?

*- On 29 Dec, Robert L. Harris wrote about "slink --> potatoe?" > > Ok, > I have a box on a 33.6K modem I want to up grade to potatoe, either before > or after it goes final. Is therre an apt-get command I can run before I > go to bed that will do it cleanly for me? > Edit /etc/apt/sources.li

Re: oracle 8.0.5 and glibc2.1 segfaults

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Remco van 't Veer wrote: > You need to patch the Oracle binaries to get 8.0.5 running on > glibc-2.1 based systems. Please follow > for details. > > HTH, > Remco It is not clear which packages should I install in debian since

Re: Linux NAT and stuff.

There were actually 2 problems. 1) I cannot connect from the desktop machines to the NATd machine using either the private IP nor the real IP. This I have solved. I guess the problem came from the wrong routing table in the Notes server.. (however I am not allowed to change settings th

A question of location

Hi One of our servers arround here is having a strange behaviour. When it is in it's place it doesn't boot: stops at INIT. When removed from it's location e boot's fine. Any clues? -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf

Re: postal

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 05:58:21PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > I plan to release my Postal SMTP benchmark program on Jan 1. I need some beta > testing ASAP. Please let me know if you're interested in trying it out. nice to hear that... but before i test anything, i would like to have some info

slink --> potatoe?

Ok, I have a box on a 33.6K modem I want to up grade to potatoe, either before or after it goes final. Is therre an apt-get command I can run before I go to bed that will do it cleanly for me? Robert :wq! --- Robert L. H

Re: mail ?

mail -s "subject" [EMAIL PROTECTED] >how can i send by mail a file, in only one line ? > >i mean, how can send a mail with a file in its body in only one line of the >shell, without entering ? > -- - ___ - Robert WaldnerEUnet/AT tech staff // / ___

Re: mail ?

luis said: > how can i send by mail a file, in only one line ? > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null You mean something like the list's autosig? Just replace /dev/null with the file you want to send. -- Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+>+++ L++> E

Re: mail ?

I has used this to send mail from scripts. It uses the mh send command. /usr/bin/mh/send filename The file must contain a To: field with the email address for example here is the file I mail from my backup script. --Beginning of the example file To: procario Subject: Backup done.

Re: Can't remove pgaccess

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 10:50:02AM +1100, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 11:38:53PM -0700, Matt Miller wrote: > > dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute pre-removal script: Exec format error > > dpkg: error processing pgaccess (--remove): > > subprocess pre-removal script returne

mail ?

hello a very humble question how can i send by mail a file, in only one line ? i mean, how can send a mail with a file in its body in only one line of the shell, without entering ? when i try "mail user ." i can not send the email also with "mail user Ctrl-D" i can not get again the shell wit

su, sudo and resource limits

--zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi *, I was just wondering - how one trying to avoid logging as root as much as possible can do his tasks successfully if su and sudo don't reset resource limits when the privileged command is executed? See the below figures: COMMEN

apt-get segfaults

Hi I updated my two potato boxes earlier today (29/12) using apt-get. One succeeded but the other segfaulted after/during configuration of mc, which was the last package to config. Now, whenever I try almost any operation with apt-get, I get a segfault while it is reading the package lists. The o

Re: ITP: TIP

> Oh. The author just knew about this 2 or 3 days ago, and he is still > pondering about the name change. Should there be any problem for an initial > tip package release, and after change the name? > > I have tried to find that other tip around, but I couldn't find it. What is > it? DESCRIPTION

Re: FW: Infiltration by Y2K hoodlums

Alternatively, you could invest in a couple of guns, dig a hole and bunker dowm until this and all the other y2k myths pass. - Original Message - From: "Ben Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jim Wild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 2:05 PM Subject: Re: FW: Infi

Re: FW: Infiltration by Y2K hoodlums

On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 02:28:36AM +1300, Jim Wild wrote: > Typos piss me off - its 2.25am here at the Home of The Americas Cup... > Sorry, here goes again > Jim > > -Original Message- > From: Jim Wild [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 30 December 1999 02:24 > To: [EMAIL PROT

Re: maillinglist news interface down?

Martin Schulze wrote: > Christoph Martin wrote: > > Hi folks. > > > > Does anyone know what happended to the Debian list to news gateway. I > > did not get any knews from linux.debian.devel fro about a week. In > > linux.debian.user there were only a dozen in the last days, which seem > > to be co

ITP: libio-pty-perl

Intending to package: /modules/authors/id/GBARR/IO-Tty-0.02.tar.gz as libio-pty-perl. Provides the IO::Pty module. Licence is GPL for portions of the XS file and Artistic for the remainder. Package: libio-pty-perl Version: 0.02-1 Section: interpreters Priority: optional Architecture:

FW: USERBASE

Oops - another blerry typo!! Here you are then   -Original Message-From: Jim Wild [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 30 December 1999 02:11To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: USERBASE Morning All,   Anyone know if USERBASE (formerly USER-11) can be run on Linux/Debian platfo

FW: Infiltration by Y2K hoodlums

Typos piss me off - its 2.25am here at the Home of The Americas Cup... Sorry, here goes again Jim   -Original Message-From: Jim Wild [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 30 December 1999 02:24To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Infiltration by Y2K hoodlums Question?   Do we nee

Re: Memtest86

Todd Suess wrote: > > Greetings, > > I downloaded and installed hwtools (latest potato version) mainly because > I wanted to use memtest86. I followed the instructions and copied it to a > floppy and tried to reboot using that floppy, but instead of booting it just > passes on to my hard drive b

Re: [RFC] Suggestion for package ordering

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > I dont think it would. This would only make stats of how often packages > are upgraded. If some package changes 5x more often than other it will > reach much better downloads-count, althru isnt used more often Hmmm, you are right. I was ignoring t

Re: upgrading from corel linux to potato

Joey Hess wrote: > Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote: > > Why would you want to upgrade from corel linux to potato ?? > > Well, think ahead to when potato is the stable debian. Then think about all > the corel linux users who might want to update to that.. We should eventually test this before we re

Re: maillinglist news interface down?

Christoph Martin wrote: > Hi folks. > > Does anyone know what happended to the Debian list to news gateway. I > did not get any knews from linux.debian.devel fro about a week. In > linux.debian.user there were only a dozen in the last days, which seem > to be come in over news directly and not via

Re: [RFC] Suggestion for package ordering

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 09:25:13AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Is this popularity-contest really necessary. What about a script > which analyses FTP-servers log-files and counting how often a package > was downloaded? Running this script on the main mirrors would make > a reasonable statistic.

Re: oracle 8.0.5 and glibc2.1 segfaults

You need to patch the Oracle binaries to get 8.0.5 running on glibc-2.1 based systems. Please follow for details. HTH, Remco On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 00:54, Robert Varga wrote: > I have tried to install oracle 8.0.5 on a slink machine upgraded to >

HP Surestore CD-WRITE+.8210i?

Anyone out there who has used the following cd-writer with Debian? HP Surestore CD-WRITE+.8210i Does it work properly? Any problems? What about HP Surestore CD-WRITE+.8100i? hv [EMAIL PROTECTED]

AGFA 1236S

Hi, anyone out there who has used AGFA 1236S Scanner with Debian? Does it work properly? Any problems? hv [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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