ncurses or xterm problems in potato

Is anyone else having xterm problems when logging in to a potato system from another system? I'm actually not sure where the problem lies, xterm, ncurses or somewhere else, but whenever I log in to my Debian laptop from my workstation (SGI using ssh in an xterm) the terminal properties seem to be m

Re: debconf error (no man page)

I was having a simalar problem. The first time I installed debconf I saw GTK and said WoW that looks rad. The problem with using gtk for me was that I forget to export my display and stuff when I su to do a package upgrade. For the longest time I was looking for a way to edit some config file fo

Re: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects

on 05 Jan 100, Howard Mann wrote... > > >> 2. For some time now when booting, I get the message >> 'SIOCADDRT - invalid argument'. It appears to cause >> no problem - nevertheless, I'd like to understand exactly >> what is referred to and make any correction needed. >> So far I've

Re: Y2K (Re: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects)

on 06 Jan, Oliver Elphick wrote... > I have only just seen your message. The error is in the email program made available to me by my ISP when I signed on some 20 months ago. I had noted the problem with incoming mail, but did not think it would affect outgoing mail onto other machines. If I've

Re: debconf error

Neil Booth wrote: > I'm running the latest potato, but if upgrade something to the latest > and greatest, I tend to get the following error: > > debconf: failed to initialize Dialog frontend > debconf: falling back to Text frontend > > How can I fix this? Well, do you have dialog and/or whiptail

Re: Logging out of X Windows

Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > I am sorry for asking so many questions, but I am only fifteen, so I don't > > have any sort of large income to spend on books. > > > > I was just wondering if I am logging out of X Windows

Re: Logging out of X Windows

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I am sorry for asking so many questions, but I am only fifteen, so I don't > have any sort of large income to spend on books. > > I was just wondering if I am logging out of X Windows correctly. When I am > at the log-in screen, I am pres

Re: Logging out of X Windows

On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 02:59:16PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > I am sorry for asking so many questions, but I am only fifteen, so I don't > have any sort of large income to spend on books. No problem. That's what this list is for. On the other hand, a very quick ckeck of Deja or the maili

Logging out of X Windows

Hey, I am sorry for asking so many questions, but I am only fifteen, so I don't have any sort of large income to spend on books. I was just wondering if I am logging out of X Windows correctly. When I am at the log-in screen, I am pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, and then Ctrl+Alt+Delete. This clea

Help with X Windows

Hey everybody! Now that I have gotten my scripts and executables to work (thanks to your help) I was wondering if I could customize the menus in X Windows so that my games would show up in the menu (I looked for a config file for something like that, but I couldn't find anything. The window manag

gethostbyname() cannot find host

I keep getting emails in my inbox, (addressed to root but arriving in my inbox because I have set this up in my aliases file) with the subject: *** SECURITY information for scgf *** The body of the message is: scgf : Jan 6 21:46:15 : gsmh : gethostbyname() cannot find host scgf Irritating bec

Re: Exim: more than 10 messages received in one connection

Joe Bouchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 07:26:29PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > ...snip... > > Does anyone know the line I need to add to my exim.conf file? > > smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0 > > works well for me. This will dump them all as soon as it comes in

debconf error

I'm running the latest potato, but if upgrade something to the latest and greatest, I tend to get the following error: debconf: failed to initialize Dialog frontend debconf: falling back to Text frontend How can I fix this? Neil.

Re: Test

I suppose the best place to start is the debian website http://www.debian.org/ There you will find links to detailed information about what is required to install debian GNU/linux. Good luck !!! At 14:24 6.1.2000 -0600, you wrote: >First post: test. > >Can someone advise on which files to downl

permission problems on /dev/ttyS1

Something, it seems that efax is the culprit, keeps changing the permissions on /dev/ttyS1. The following illustrates the problem (alias l="ls -la --color=tty"): - $groups jhspies adm mail news dialout fax floppy audio dip cdskrywers jhspies-22:45:24-~$l /de

Re: Running X on a Diamond Stealth II S220

On 4 Jan 2000 22:58:33 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I've got the above card on my PC at the office, and have a need to run X on >it. Evidently, it isn't supported directly. (I'm using slink, by the way). >I checked on X11.org and it doesn't appear to be supported by the XFree86 >servers

Test

First post: test. Can someone advise on which files to download for Linux 'slink'? I assume this is best release for novice. Suggestions? Thanks Nick Chirikos Project Engineer SITA Airport Services

Re: LAN access fails after 5 seconds

Thanks for the tips. The nasa search found the same tulip.c source code, but that's a useful search technique to know about. I finally got the source for tulip.c to compile by adding a -I option to the gcc line--and that fixed the problem! BUT-- Does anyone know what include files gcc uses by d

Re: SCSI CD, reported by kernel, isn't there.

I have had a very similar problem too... Its almost certainly the termination if you can see all your drives listed during boot. (if a drive is missing there, you'd want to look for a SCSI ID conflict) If you still have problems after termination is 100% correct, it could be a bad SCSI cable.

Re: SCSI CD, reported by kernel, isn't there.

Le Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 09:28:13AM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis a dit: > Now I am having some trouble with the SCSI CD. The kernel reports the > SCSI adapter and the CD during boot up messages. But when I try >mount -tios9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom > or to use a cd player, nothing---this is not known

Re: URL of package's website

*- On 6 Jan, Peter S Galbraith wrote about "Re: URL of package's website " > > "Bart Szyszka" wrote: > >> If there's a better place to suggest this, let me know, > > debian-devel, or perhaps even debian-policy. >> but something I think >>

Re: LAN access fails after 5 seconds

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... [snip familiar problems with tulip-based cards] > I should mention the exact same hardware works fine under Windoze 98. Under > Linux, "ifconfig" shows the card using the same irq and memory as it did > under Windoze. I expected as much.

Re: URL of package's website

"Bart Szyszka" wrote: > If there's a better place to suggest this, let me know, debian-devel, or perhaps even debian-policy. > but something I think > the Debian package site is missing is a spot for each of the package's own > websites.

Re: Potato Dates...

*- On 6 Jan, Rob Hensley wrote about "Potato Dates..." > Hi, sorry for this mail, but I was just wondering when potato was going to > be stable. I know you've all talked about this before in "Potato > Timeline", but I can't remember the date. Please repond soon, Thanks. > The latest info from th

Re: console and screen blanking

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lance Hoffmeyer) wrote: >How do I shut off the screen blanking in a console? Screen blanking used to >work fine but I installed a new motherboard (Can't remember brand (SOYO?) >but now when the screen blanks and stays blanked over night it locks up my >computer and I have to

Re: Potato Dates...

There's a nice little summary at : http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/48/mail#2 -Doug On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Rob Hensley wrote: > Hi, sorry for this mail, but I was just wondering when potato was going to > be stable. I know you've all talked about this before in "Potato > Timeline", but I can

Potato Dates...

Hi, sorry for this mail, but I was just wondering when potato was going to be stable. I know you've all talked about this before in "Potato Timeline", but I can't remember the date. Please repond soon, Thanks. Rob Hensley

Re: printer config tool?

> Is there a printer config tool or script to configure a printer in > Debian? Or shall I just manually edit the /etc/printcap file? If you have magicfilter installed, magicfilterconfig. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum

diald setup

I have two machines running potato, they're connected and I'd like to use diald for dialling up on demand and masquerading. It works until diald actually tries to establish the link. It dials, and upon connect it starts pppd, which sends some LCP requests. That's all. After some time, (supposedl

printer config tool?

Hi, Is there a printer config tool or script to configure a printer in Debian? Or shall I just manually edit the /etc/printcap file? -- David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "In theory, theory and practice are

Re: Wvdial configuration for installing xrage driver

trying to connect via wvdial to download xrage 1.3-1 i386.deb (to install ATI 128 video card). when i bring up wvdial, pppd dies. i'm trying to figure out how to reconfigure wvdial to insure correct config. input. > -vi /etc//wvdial.conf system responds permission denied. >var/log/messages sys aga

A flaw in /dev/std{in,out,err} or /dev/fd/ or su

Hello! I would like to know if this is standard behaviour for /dev/stderr: marvin:~# su enrico [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root$ echo hello, world > /dev/stdout bash: /dev/stdout: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root$ ls -la /dev/stdout lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 apr 12 1999 /dev/std

Re: Can't get scripts to work

On 06-Jan-2000 Dave Sherohman wrote: > Wayne Topa said: >> All of these worked : #!/bin/sh, # !/bin/sh, #! /bin/sh and >> the script even worked _without_ any #! line _at all_!!! I have no >> idea why it worked, but it does? > > I suspect that it's because you're running it from bash, so b

Re: Can't get scripts to work

Wayne Topa said: > All of these worked : #!/bin/sh, # !/bin/sh, #! /bin/sh and > the script even worked _without_ any #! line _at all_!!! I have no > idea why it worked, but it does? I suspect that it's because you're running it from bash, so bash gets to interpret it if nobody else is spec

Re: SCSI CD, reported by kernel, isn't there.

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: : something i forgot to ask : : in kernel config did u enable support for scsi cdrom *and* vendor specific : extensions for scsi cdrom (99% of the scsi cdroms need this for whatever : reason) its in the scsi menu in kernel config. Huh? Where did you get thi

Re: Screen black

Subject: Re: Screen black Date: Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 11:59:25AM +0100 In reply to:Ron Rademaker Quoting Ron Rademaker([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| >| >| On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Brian Servis wrote: >| >| > *- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about "Screen black" >| > > >| > > Does anyone

Re: Screen black

*- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about "Re: Screen black" > > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Brian Servis wrote: > >> *- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about "Screen black" >> > >> > Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc >> > screen to go completely black after 10 minut

Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Mihaly Gyulai wrote: > I am a newbie to Debian, I've used RedHat 5 for 2 yrs. > > At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is recommended' > because the mounting of partitions happened too many times. > > How can I set to run 'e2fsck' after a given number of days ?

How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?

I am a newbie to Debian, I've used RedHat 5 for 2 yrs. At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is recommended' because the mounting of partitions happened too many times. How can I set to run 'e2fsck' after a given number of days ? Mihaly Gyulai --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja

Re: Y2K (Re: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects)

Quoting Nico De Ranter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > The original sender uses a broken mail program. It's not on your side. > > Nico > > On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > This message to debian-user shows an invalid date; (year 100). I have > > seen a couple of others like this on a

Re: Can't get scripts to work

On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 11:29:44PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > (Why does this work, by the way? > > Is /bin/sh the default interpreter?) > > I also thought this (Colin's comment), was the problem so I changed > some of my bash scripts to test it. At least on my slink box, that > isn't the answer

Corellinux and Sun/Blackdown JDK1.2.2's -- needs libc6-2.1.2

Hi, I'm trying to get a JDK working with CorelLinux. CorelLinux has libc_2.0.7.19981211_6.deb. JDK needs libc2.1.2. I tried CorelUpdating/dpkg with libc6_2.1.2-11.deb, but it complains about a dependency problem between libc6 and something else. It may be because it can't take the jump from 20

Re: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects

John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. I found and installed a program, Vera 1.4a-1, which is > stated to list acronyms. There was no problem with > dselect and 'dpkg -l' shows it as installed, however, I > am neither able to locate any file of that name nor to > access the list. An

Re: Screen black

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about "Screen black" > > > > Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc > > screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? > > > > On the consoles: seterm -blank 0 > > In X: xset

Re: SCSI CD, reported by kernel, isn't there.

something i forgot to ask in kernel config did u enable support for scsi cdrom *and* vendor specific extensions for scsi cdrom (99% of the scsi cdroms need this for whatever reason) its in the scsi menu in kernel config. if not, enable it ,recompile and it should work if it is..im not sure what

Re: a simple question regarding directories

there are 2 common ways to install netscape in debian 1) download your favorite version of netscape4 into /tmp 2) run 'apt-get install netscape4' or download your favorite version of netscape4 wherever you want(suggest /tmp too) untar it, and cd to the directory it untars to, and run the ns-inst

Re: LAN access fails after 5 seconds

what is the full output of ifconfig? it shows packets sent/recieved dropped, errors collisions etc. i have a tulip card as well(2.0.36 kernel though) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:30:FF:19 inet addr:208.222.179.31 Bcast:208.222.179.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP

Re: Can't get scripts to work

Subject: Re: Can't get scripts to work Date: Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 02:54:20AM + In reply to:Colin Watson Quoting Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Matheson) wrote: >| >I can't get any of my scripts to work. I'm just trying to start simple, by >| >

Re: modem RX rate is considerable slower than RX rate

Hello Shao, I do not know, what your ISP has for a connection, how big he is and which services he is running. But here in Strasbourg there is a ISP, which limit the Up-Load-Speed to 50% of the connection speed. Why ??? This ISP is very small (like me) and he has a 2 MBit line only. He has re

Emacs with neXtaw?

I'm trying to compile emacs against neXtaw (an Xaw replacement based on NextStep), but I can't get it to work. First I tried with the emacs20 that comes with slink, but it didn't work, so I downloaded 20.5a from potato and tried to compile that. Still no luck. I first tried to do what the instruct

Re: SCSI CD, reported by kernel, isn't there.

I have three kernels in my lilo configuration. The original debian 2.2.13 kernel seems to deal with this ok. The other two kernels are 2.2.13 and 2.3.35, both without sound devices, but with sound turned on, so I can install the creative sound blaster live module.The two kernels I compiled bo

a simple question regarding directories

I just recently downloaded the netscape browser and I am confused which directory should I untar it to? right now it is in the directory /tmp but when I try to use the help contents in the browser, it tells me thatnetscape cannot find the file help.hpf that should be in the /usr/local/lib/nets

LAN access fails after 5 seconds

I have just installed Debian 2.2.12 on my Pentium 150 and have spent an entire day trying to get my LAN card working for longer than 5 seconds. It is a Kingston KNE100TX, using a DS21143 chip manufactured by Intel. Several documents say the tulip driver should work although Greg Siekas mentions o

Re: Y2K (Re: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects)

The original sender uses a broken mail program. It's not on your side. Nico On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > This message to debian-user shows an invalid date; (year 100). I have > seen a couple of others like this on a non-debian list, where another > subscriber did not see the er

Y2K (Re: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects)

This message to debian-user shows an invalid date; (year 100). I have seen a couple of others like this on a non-debian list, where another subscriber did not see the error. I want to establish whether the error is on my machine or on the original poster's. John wrote: > Received: from murphy.de

Re: early potato upgrade error->no confmodule ??

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just dl'd packages for a dist-upgrade, then started the actual processing > run (I always get the packages first), but got an immediate error... > > Need to get 0B/150MB of archives. After unpacking 8489kB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > 100% [Scannin

Re: early potato upgrade error->no confmodule ??

On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 10:30:26PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just dl'd packages for a dist-upgrade, then started the actual processing > run (I always get the packages first), but got an immediate error... ... > Configuring packages.. > /tmp/fileAsdL1s: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No suc

Re: console and screen blanking

APM is buggy at times, you can compile a new kernel and disable APM and also turn off APM in the bios. i stopped trusting APM when i lost 3 drives due to spin down and several crashes(in many different OSs) due tot he machine not being able to wakeup after going to sleep. nate On Thu, 6 Jan 200

Re: X problems HELPPPP

what i would do (can't say if its the best way but it works) 1) boot off the cd 2) mount the root file system 3) delete the file /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm off the newly mounted file systme 4) umount the file system 5) reboot 6) logon to the 'net 7) add deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main

Re: modem RX rate is considerable slower than RX rate

try to disable the V90 protocol on the modem, the way v90 works is it connects at the best speed it can, then after its connected if the line is noisy it dynamically drops the speed without dropping the connection, the speed can go back up after..but yeah sounds like it could be a compadiblity issu

Re: SCSI CD, reported by kernel, isn't there.

did you try /dev/scd1 or /dev/scd2 ? it may be a long shot, but it might work, also what does /proc/scsi/scsi show? do you have multiple cdroms? (a cdr and a cdrom maybe?) are there any other scsi devices on the same chain? can you access them? if no to either one make sure there is no conflicts

early potato upgrade error->no confmodule ??

Just dl'd packages for a dist-upgrade, then started the actual processing run (I always get the packages first), but got an immediate error... Need to get 0B/150MB of archives. After unpacking 8489kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 100% [Scanning packages] Configuring packages.. /tmp

Re: modem RX rate is considerable slower than RX rate

* Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > *- On 6 Jan, Shao Zhang wrote about "Re: modem RX rate is considerable > slower than RX rate" >> What does not make sense is that, the TX rate is so much slower >> than RX rate. >> > I have the same problems. Try playing around with your mtu and mr

SCSI detection problem

Suddenly, when I am adding hardware to the system, the SCSI CDROM is giving problems. Of late, when the kernel boots, at the point where it is detecting my SCSI CDROM, this is the message sequence I see: > Jan 4 09:46:22 synapse kernel: (scsi0)SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 9/0 > Jan 4 09:

Re: exim problem

On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 11:29:33AM -0800, Mark Symonds wrote > Hello, > > I have 118 msgs sitting in /var/spool/exim/input That are frozen, all with > the same error: > > 11oG5a-0006tw-00 > :: > 1999-11-17 17:10:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: lookuphost router deferred: > lowest numbered MX

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Re: Setting up 20 equal linux boxes

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Konrad Mierendorff wrote: > To allow flexible usage the home direcories of all users should be > stored on the fileserver and should be mounted when users log into the > clients. The User-Database could be an LDAP-Server. It is very easy to setup the machines to use the same h

Re: Screen black

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Rademaker) wrote: >Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc >screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? Try putting 'setterm -blank 0' in your .bash_profile file. (Bah, I think I might write a decent man page for setterm. I could cer

Re: URL of package's website

On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 10:35:26PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > If there's a better place to suggest this, let me know, but something I think > the Debian package site is missing is a spot for each of the package's own > websites. There are very few that actually mention the URL, so I'm always > go

Re: console and screen blanking

On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 09:12:15PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > How do I shut off the screen blanking in a console? Screen blanking used to > work fine but I installed a new motherboard (Can't remember brand (SOYO?) > but now when the screen blanks and stays blanked over night it locks up my

URL of package's website

Hello, If there's a better place to suggest this, let me know, but something I think the Debian package site is missing is a spot for each of the package's own websites. There are very few that actually mention the URL, so I'm always going to search engines and hunting down a program's website to

console and screen blanking

How do I shut off the screen blanking in a console? Screen blanking used to work fine but I installed a new motherboard (Can't remember brand (SOYO?) but now when the screen blanks and stays blanked over night it locks up my computer and I have to turn the power off and reboot. I want to turn

Re: Can't get scripts to work

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Matheson) wrote: >I can't get any of my scripts to work. I'm just trying to start simple, by >making a script to delete all my FreeCiv save files. I use 'vi' and type >the following: > > # !/bin/sh > rm civgame* > clear > pwd >

Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 09:23:03PM +0100, Jens Günther wrote: > > Therefore I suggest to either bring debhelper and packages it depends on to > a state in which they can be used in a slink environment (maybe putting > these packages in proposed-updates) or to prevent them from being used on > slin

Re: Setting up 20 equal linux boxes

Konrad Mierendorff wrote: We operate a 28 node network here. As your network, there is one file server to export home directories for NFS mounting. The autofs package and Kernel level automounting are used to mount the file server when a user logs in. As for defining a user-database. This needs to

Re: PPP, CDROM, and Floppy Questions

On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 12:22:26PM -0800, AU,SCOTT CHUONG wrote: > I've finally managed to install Debian 2.1 from floppy disks using images > downloaded from the Debian Website. Being a newbie to Linux, I have some > problems I cannot seem to resolve. I've gone through the any help files I > cou

Re: X problems HELPPPP

Steve Winston wrote: > > I am having terrible troubles with X in Debian, and > worse, I can't escape from the X server so that I > can get into the command line and fix things. > When I boot up, linux goes straight into a graphic log-in > screen that is too large for my 17-inch monitor. > When I

Re: PPP, CDROM, and Floppy Questions

On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 12:22:26PM -0800, AU,SCOTT CHUONG wrote: ...snip... > 1. PPP > After running pppconfig to setup a connection to my ISP, I noticed I can > initiate the modem to dial but consequently it simply hangs up. I went to > my 2nd virtual console and issued: cat /dev/ttyS2 (my modem)

Re: Screen black

Ron Rademaker wrote: > > Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc > screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? > > Thanks, > > Ron Try using this command: setterm -blank 0 Then put it in ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession. ( I _think_ the latter should work)

Re: Screen black

On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 02:41:48AM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc > screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? In X, or at a virtual terminal? In X, at any xterm or rxvt or whatever prompt, type xset x no

Re: Screen black

*- On 5 Jan, Brian Servis wrote about "Re: Screen black" > *- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about "Screen black" >> >> Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc >> screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? >> > > On the consoles: seterm -blank 0

Re: Exim: more than 10 messages received in one connection

On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 07:26:29PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I am trying to get Exim 2.05 working correctly on my system. Everything > seems to be OK, so far, except that when I get more than 10 messages the > remaining messages are queued and the Exim log files report: > > no immediate deli

Re: Screen black

> "Ron" == Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ron> Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc Ron> screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? You don't give much in the way of details, but if you use X, then try xset s noblank or xset

RE: LILO and Multiple Disks

I tried setting hdd from 0x82 and from 0x83 but to no avail. Any other ideas? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Tom Pfeifer > Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2000 9:50 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: LILO and Multiple Disks

Re: Screen black

*- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about "Screen black" > > Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc > screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? > On the consoles: seterm -blank 0 In X: xset s noblank See the man page for each for more options. Br

Re: Exim: more than 10 messages received in one connection

On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 07:26:29PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: ...snip... > Does anyone know the line I need to add to my exim.conf file? smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0 works well for me. This will dump them all as soon as it comes in. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU

Screen black

Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? Thanks, Ron

Re: Problem with ncurses since 01/02/2000 apt-get dist-upgrade

*- On 5 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: Problem with ncurses since 01/02/2000 apt-get dist-upgrade" > > BTW, WTH does bash depend on the ncurses in `oldlibs'? > I suspect because the libncurses5 package was just added to the archive and was made the 'default' ncurses thus moving libncu

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Re: Xwindow hassles, helphelp

On Mon, Feb 11, 2036 at 11:47:40PM -0800, Steve Winston wrote: > I am having a terrible problem with Xwindows in Debian. > Alt-ctl-backspace has no effect. >From the way you're saying this, it sounds like you're pressing Right-Alt (Alt Gr) Right-Ctrl Backspace. This doesn't work - it needs to be L

Xwindow hassles, helphelp

I am having a terrible problem with Xwindows in Debian. Last night, I configured it for a voodoo3 card. Now, it boots straight to a graphic log-in screen and from that to a blank green win95color screen. THere are no icons. No combination of mouse key strokes makes any difference. Alt-ctl-backspac

Re: X problems HELPPPP

On Mon, Feb 11, 2036 at 11:38:31PM -0800, Steve Winston wrote: > I am having terrible troubles with X in Debian, and worse, I can't > escape from the X server so that I can get into the command line and > fix things. When I boot up, linux goes straight into a graphic > log-in screen that is too la

X problems HELPPPP

I am having terrible troubles with X in Debian, and worse, I can't escape from the X server so that I can get into the command line and fix things. When I boot up, linux goes straight into a graphic log-in screen that is too large for my 17-inch monitor. When I log in, I get a blank, green scre

Re: modem RX rate is considerable slower than RX rate

*- On 6 Jan, Shao Zhang wrote about "Re: modem RX rate is considerable slower than RX rate" > > I think it is the modem's problem. I have a US Robotics V90 > modem, which I think the remote isp does not support it. > > In the chat script, if I use the initialise command ATZ, I

Re: kernel question

*- On 6 Jan, Pollywog wrote about "Re: kernel question" >> >> Basically anything with a letter will be fine, something like >> pollywog.1. Use dpkg to check it if you are not sure. >> >>#dpkg --compare-versions 2.2.14-1 ge pollywog.1 ; echo $? >> 1 >>#dpkg --compare-versions 2.2.14-1 lt pollyw

Re: Can't get scripts to work

On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 05:15:48PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > By default, the current directory (.) is not on your path. You can add it, > but it opens up some security holes. (I can put a program named "cd" in a > random directory and the next time you go there, it gets executed when you >

Re: Riva ZX

I used to run quake2/3 on 128 and 128zx with xfree 3.3.5 with hw acceleration. Chanop On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 04:34:28PM +0100, Sylwester Zelazko wrote: > Hi. > > Did someone run quake/xracer or any other 3d game on riva zx with > hardware acceleration ? > -- ,---

Re: modem RX rate is considerable slower than RX rate

aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the subject is a little misleading :) sorry... > > is the server you are testing from a local server? within your ISP's > network? Neither. > what speed do you connect at(see /var/log/messages) and what kind > of file are you trying to transfe

Re: kernel question

On 05-Jan-2000 Brian Servis wrote: > Just do it! Just use make-kpkg with a revision name that will be > greater than 2.2.14-1(this will be the version number of the > kernel-image once it is released) and you will be fine. > > make-kpkg --revision=pollywog.1 kernel_image I did it this way for