On 22-Jan-2000 David J. Kanter wrote:
> Yes an no. Netscape, I think, has its own transport agent; it's an MTA and
> MUA all balled into one. So I would think that if you only use Netscape for
> mail/news, you wouldn't have to worry about a real MTA.
I don't believe Netscape is an MTA.
>
>> Ret
Hi there,
> Hey,
>
> I'm am so freaking confused about configuring my kernel, it's not even
> funny. I was reading the sound HOWTO, when it told me to read the
> kernel HOWTO. I began reading that, and it told me to go to
> /usr/src/linux. I don't have a directory called /usr/src/linux. I
wen
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 01:51:47PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> In view of this, is exim the right choice in such a setting? What is the
> alternative?
Exim works fine for me. I had used smail before, but everyone here said to
use exim.
> Setting up mail on debian seems very complicated compared
Hi Ross,
I'm sure you'll get other replies, with other
configurations to try (there are many). I use fetchmail
to get my mail from my ISP. I use Pine to read my mail
once it is fetched, and also to compose my mail. I use
Exim as my mail transport agent, which sends my mail to
other user
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 02:28:06PM +, Big Gaute wrote:
>
> I've decided that I like my emacs to have nice green letters on dark
> background. To this end, I looked in the emacs manual and created a
> file ~/.Xdefaults with the following incantations:
>
> emacs.background: Black
> emacs.foreg
I just upgraded to potato and xf86 didn't get upgraded I don't think,
and maybe more too.
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 01:51:47PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> With all that I decided maybe I should take a closer look at the manuals.
> The 3.10 manual (direct from exim.org), chapter 41, p. 212 says
> Exim was designed for use on permanently connected hosts, and so is not
> particularly
In previous installs (Debian 2.0, 2.1 and potato) I've puzzled over how to
set up exim. I notice there have been a bunch of questions here about how
to set it up, particularly for people who dial-up to an ISP. I'm
particularly interested in that, and would like to thank the person who
posted a su
Big Gaute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On 22/1/2000 Big Gaute wrote:
> >
> > >to my ~/.xsession. However this only has an effect if I start emacs
> > >from the xterm started in my .xsession; if I launch emacs from the
> > >fvwm2 menus it does not
sono un semplice utilizzatore di windows ma vorrei mettere linux su una
parte del mio disco fisso:
come devo fare ?
dove compro e quanto costa il Vs linux ?
quali applicazioni trovo e dove?
Attendo un cenno.
saluti
meuccio
I've taken the liberty of forwarding this solution to the two bug reports
(48866 and 53808) that seem to concern this same time zone problem (in
potato). The solution Michael gives is different from the one proposed in
earlier discussion of these bugs. The earlier solutions either did not fix
the
I have problems with this: Conex7.5 on the DOS-side of the null-modem cabel
and getty 38400 vt220 in /etc/inittab
The problem is that ascii characters in the 160-255 range is displayed
alright, but I can't type them from the terminal(emulator). I don't think
conex is the problem, but everything wo
On 01/22/00, Don Cavaiani addressed "Very frustrating":
> Does anyone have a "document" or paragraph that they can cut and paste
> and mail to me so that I will know what happens when Debian Linux starts
> up ??
Look in /usr/share/doc/sysvinit/
> For example, I have NO IDEA where to go to set the
> With some window managers, yes. Not sure if icewm supports that.
AFAIK this is not possible, but you can put you favorite programms in
the taskbar. The file you have to edit is either /etc/X11/icewm/toolbar
for the system-wide configuration or $HOME/.icewm/toolbar for your
private config.
The fo
Hey,
I'm am so freaking confused about configuring my kernel, it's not even
funny. I was reading the sound HOWTO, when it told me to read the
kernel HOWTO. I began reading that, and it told me to go to
/usr/src/linux. I don't have a directory called /usr/src/linux. I went
to /usr/src, and all
I was very pleased when I saw that the Woody root disk now supports the
Mylex block device driver (/dev/rd/*). This was to mean no more RH or
Slackware for me.
However, I have run into a slight problem with the Debian install script
and looking for suggestions or wondering if it should be submi
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 12:55:48PM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak wrote:
> How does one add commands to be executed after the machine boot is complete?
> When my box starts up, the sound levels are maxed out, and I'd like to be able
> to have the boot up process invoke a utility to bring them down to more
Don Cavaiani wrote:
>
> Does anyone have a "document" or paragraph that they can cut and paste
> and mail to me so that I will know what happens when Debian Linux starts
> up ??
>
> I am looking for the SEQUENCE of the start up, the PROGRAMS that are
> executed, and the EXACT names of the configu
> I reinstalled Debian and want to go with Gnome instead of KDE, but
> am having trouble apt-getting it. All the Gnome stuff seems to be
> missing or broken on the frozen and potato and unstable trees of
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian (I've tried all three). Whenever I try to
> install any of t
Someone posted that Netscape no longer works after an upgrade he did
today. I had deleted the message before I found that I too had the same
problem.
Downgrade plugger to 3.0.3.1 and you will find netscape works OK again.
Haven't gone into it any more deeply than this . .
--
Phillip Deackes
Deb
Tapio Lehtonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Help, please. I'm running kernel 2.2.14 i386, compiled with kernel
> autofs and nfs support. When I try to start nfs-kernel-server, I get
>
> dilbert# /etc/rc2.d/S20nfs-kernel-server start
> Starting NFS kernel daemon: export nfsd nfssvc: F
How does one add commands to be executed after the machine boot is complete?
When my box starts up, the sound levels are maxed out, and I'd like to be able
to have the boot up process invoke a utility to bring them down to more
reasonable levels. In RedHat I remember I placed stuff like this in
/e
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 22/1/2000 Big Gaute wrote:
>
> >to my ~/.xsession. However this only has an effect if I start emacs
> >from the xterm started in my .xsession; if I launch emacs from the
> >fvwm2 menus it does not work.
> >
> >What should I do?
>
> mv ~/.Xdefaults ~
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 09:28:29AM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Don Cavaiani wrote:
>
> > Finally, is it possible to put a new icon on the window desktop so that
> > I can start a favorite program with just a click?
>
> With some window managers, yes. Not sure if icewm suppo
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Wakko Warner wrote:
>I just have one problem with xmms. I can't find the skin from x11amp which
>is what's keeping me from upgrading the one copy I have on my machine (I
>don't like the default skin and I've yet to find one I like other than the
>x11amp one). Does anyone happ
I'm using the version of ppp that comes with slink, 2.3.5-2, and I log
in using a chat script to start up slirp at my ISP. (They make
available login scripts -- for windows and macintosh users -- to start
slirp, but they don't have any direct ppp login for reasons that are a
mystery to me.) The I
I tried as you suggested, with export TERM=xterm and now mc
works as normal. interesting. Should a bug report be filed
against something?
Thanks!
Todd
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> * "Todd" == Todd Suess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Todd> Already running 5.0-4. This i
Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think this is a glitch with Debian slink or something because this is
> completely insane. While installing Debian, it asks you about your
> hardware clock being set to GMT or local. The question asks if it's
> OK to set the clock to GMT. The last
* rich said:
> I have also seen some messages about /dev/dsp being gone, and xwave
> says:
>
> cannot access audio device...
>
> Any ideas?
Are you using ALSA?
pgpqLlyeCNLmq.pgp
Description: PGP signature
I just have one problem with xmms. I can't find the skin from x11amp which
is what's keeping me from upgrading the one copy I have on my machine (I
don't like the default skin and I've yet to find one I like other than the
x11amp one). Does anyone happen have it or know anyone who has it? I'd lov
Hi,
I reinstalled Debian and want to go with Gnome instead of KDE, but
am having trouble apt-getting it. All the Gnome stuff seems to be
missing or broken on the frozen and potato and unstable trees of
http://http.us.debian.org/debian (I've tried all three). Whenever I try to
install any of the pa
Same here. MC still works in console mode, though.
John
Todd Suess wrote:
> I have not used my mc for about a week or so, but needed to use it tonight for
> something and this is what I get when I run it.
>
> tsuess:~# mc
>
> name_trunc: too bigname_trunc: too bigname_trunc: too bigname_trunc: t
> Hello,
> I am not sure exactly where to ask this question, but the
> README.Debian file for sgml-tools says that version 1 is orphaned
> upstream. I take that to mean that I might not get help from the
> upstream authors.
Not sure, but I think that even the sgmltools2 is orphaned by now.
Is there a way to determine which libraries are no longer needed? I have
tons listed by dselect, and I have a feeling that many are no longer
being used...
Rich
Howdy,
After upgrading, I cannot turn on my audio mixer anymore:
wmmixer : Unable to open mixer device '/dev/mixer'.
wmmixer : Sorry, no supported channels found.
I have also seen some messages about /dev/dsp being gone, and xwave
says:
cannot access audio device...
Any ideas?
Thanks
> I am trying to install Debian 2.1r2 on an x86 machine. I made a Rescue
> Floppy from the image provided and was able to boot, but then the
> system freezes when apparently doing SCSI stuff. It appears to
> correctly detect my SCSI card--Adaptec AHA-2940--but then outputs a
> line like this:
> (sc
rich wrote:
>
> Is it OK to remove all of the packages that dselect calls "obsolete"
> after potato upgrade?
-
I would be careful about that. Some of your custom installed software
may need some of the so called "obsolete" package
Does anyone have a "document" or paragraph that they can cut and paste
and mail to me so that I will know what happens when Debian Linux starts
up ??
I am looking for the SEQUENCE of the start up, the PROGRAMS that are
executed, and the EXACT names of the configuration files (whether HIDDEN
or not
> > I've been having problems with Debconf on my 2 weeks old potato system. It
> > won't install.
> > Dpkg gives me the following message:
> >
> > Setting up debconf (0.2.79) ...
> > Can't locate Data/Dumper.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
>
> Looks like you need either perl-5.005, or the data-dumper
Hi All,
One of my debian boxes works additionally as a print server for a few
Win98 and Linux machines. The problem is however, that sometimes users
send something in the wrong format, or Windows programs crashes in the middle
of the print job, producing the corrupted output. I would like to provi
On 22/1/2000 Big Gaute wrote:
to my ~/.xsession. However this only has an effect if I start emacs
from the xterm started in my .xsession; if I launch emacs from the
fvwm2 menus it does not work.
What should I do?
mv ~/.Xdefaults ~/.Xresources
coming from Redhat?
--
Ethan Benson
To obtain
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 02:13:15PM +0100, Peter Schuller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been having problems with Debconf on my 2 weeks old potato system. It
> won't install.
> Dpkg gives me the following message:
>
> Setting up debconf (0.2.79) ...
> Can't locate Data/Dumper.pm in @INC (@INC contains
I've decided that I like my emacs to have nice green letters on dark
background. To this end, I looked in the emacs manual and created a
file ~/.Xdefaults with the following incantations:
emacs.background: Black
emacs.foreground: LimeGreen
However this seems to have no effect. I got a tip from
Hello,
I've been having problems with Debconf on my 2 weeks old potato system. It
won't install.
Dpkg gives me the following message:
Setting up debconf (0.2.79) ...
Can't locate Data/Dumper.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.004/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.004
/usr/local/lib/site_perl/
Friedemann Schorer hat gesagt: // Friedemann Schorer wrote:
> Palnning to install Debian, I'd like to know if slink or potato are
> capable of using an ISDN card (AVM Fritz! Classic) type of easily
> or if it is quite hard to get that running ?
No, it isn't. Just check that your kernel has supp
Art Lemasters wrote:
> Netscape Communicator 4.7 (smotif) was running fine until I upgraded
> potato (one week since the last upgrade) tonight. Now, Communicator
> dies with a "bus error" before it appears. I don't know how to get
> more error message output for Netscape, because there is n
On 22 Jan 2000, Brian May wrote:
> > "Olexiy" == Olexiy Ye Tykhomyrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Olexiy> 1. While shutdown, unmount writes: "device is busy", so
> Olexiy> nfsd on the server does not rid off the corresponding
> Olexiy> enters from /etc/rmtab that is not good i
Gerhard Kroder wrote:
> hi,
>
> it's somewhat known already how to attache a scsi-device to a running
> system (echo "add..."> /proc..), and it works well. but what if you
> deattache a device. i want to move my external dat-streamer to some
> other machien. is there any harm with just plugging i
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 08:01:18PM +0100, mek wrote:
> > dear debbie's,
> >
> > since yesterday i have problems setting up my internet-connection.
> > did with pppconfig, did everything as written in my book, but it didnt work
> > at
> > all.
> > now today i saw
Hi everybody :-)
Palnning to install Debian, I'd like to know if slink or potato are
capable of using an ISDN card (AVM Fritz! Classic) type of easily
or if it is quite hard to get that running ?
Thanks in advance,
Friedemann
--
Hi,
I am trying to install Debian 2.1r2 on an x86 machine. I made a Rescue
Floppy from the image provided and was able to boot, but then the
system freezes when apparently doing SCSI stuff. It appears to
correctly detect my SCSI card--Adaptec AHA-2940--but then outputs a
line like this:
(scsi0) D
Oh well learned another thing about ftp :).
I tried commanline ftp and found as follows.
The reason mirror was not fetching files pointed to be symlinks seems to
be a case of the remote server not responding to "ls -L" by not
unwrapping (???) symlinks ( -L option to ls ).
Bugger !! my local NZ m
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 10:59:41AM -0600, Tom Warfield wrote:
> Can I run Dual Video cards? I have one that is internal and im thinking of
> adding another to a PCI slot and running two monitors. This way i can so
> my research on one monitor and my implimentation on the other. So basicaly
>
Netscape Communicator 4.7 (smotif) was running fine until I upgraded
potato (one week since the last upgrade) tonight. Now, Communicator
dies with a "bus error" before it appears. I don't know how to get
more error message output for Netscape, because there is no documentation
for it in eith
aphro wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, paul wrote:
>
> paul.w >
> paul.w >FUDO2:/home/guest# sendmail -v paul
> paul.w >hello
> paul.w >.
> paul.w >paul... Connecting to local...
> paul.w >paul... Sent
> paul.w >
>
> chances are that the system just used the local delivery agent(in most
> cases procm
I'm planning to install Debian on a computer and since potato is frozen I
thought I'd just install the frozen dist right away and just update it until
the release. But I was wondering about the boot disks in frozen. I've heard a
lot of talk about them being broken. Are they now? and would I be
My kernel, 2.2.13, was not compiled with sound support because my card had
no drivers. Now it apparently does: the Aureal Vortex 2 chipset at
linux.aureal.com. Do I need to (re-download and) re-compile the kernel to
enable sound support, or is there something simpler I can do? The "drivers"
are app
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 12:43:31AM -0500, George Bonser wrote:
> Just a gues but the mailer might be trying to do an ident connection and
> you might not be running an ident deamon. Is an identd running?
I believe so. My inetd.conf contains:
ident stream tcp waitidentd /usr/s
I am in need of a networking solution that fulfills the following
requirements. Keep in mind I know next to nothing about wireless
networking.
1) Must be able to function over a distance of 50 to 100 feet (15 to 30
meters) indoors (this means transmitting through walls and one or two
floors).
2)
210 Mira Vista Drive
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
> James Sun wrote:
>
> also, mom needs your mailing address
I have not used my mc for about a week or so, but needed to use it tonight for
something and this is what I get when I run it.
tsuess:~# mc
name_trunc: too bigname_trunc: too bigname_trunc: too bigname_trunc: too
bigSegmentation fault
tsuess:~#
It worked fine the last time I ran it, it is the c
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Todd Suess wrote:
> I did an apt-get update tonight, and then tried to do apt-get dist-upgrade.
> This is what I get.
Little disk space issue there.. The mirror is rerunning now.
Jason
I did an apt-get update tonight, and then tried to do apt-get dist-upgrade.
This is what I get.
tsuess:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back
cbb mutt
33 packages upgraded, 0 n
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 07:48:55PM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak wrote:
> I had this happen to me a while back, but it might not be the same problem as
> yours. The problem was that file locking wasn't working properly.
In this case, the problem was that mutt wasn't properly set up after
apt-get upgrade
> This is a known bug in the current potato boot-floppies. I and others have
> reported it. It seems to be a little harder than expected to stamp it out.
Hmm... I haven't used any potato boot-floppies, though. I installed
slink by putting in an slink Rescue disk and then having it get the rest fr
This is a known bug in the current potato boot-floppies. I and others have
reported it. It seems to be a little harder than expected to stamp it out.
Potato is still bleeding edge..
Hello all,
Ever since I installed 'ippl', which is about a couple of weeks ago, I get the
following stuff in my syslog almost every time 'fetchmail' connects to port 25:
Jan 21 23:06:55 khazad-dum ippl: smtp connection attempt from khazad-dum
[127.0.0.1]
Jan 21 23:06:56 khazad-dum ippl: ICMP mes
"Joseph A. Martin" wrote:
There is an
> /etc/dhcpcd/resolv.conf that gets updated each time the network is
> inserted or removed, but the system resolv.conf file does not get
> updated.
I noticed this too, and I solved it by symlinking /etc/resolv.conf to
/etc/dhcpcd/resolv.conf
It is an ugly klu
> I think this is a glitch with Debian slink or something because this is
> completely insane.
Some thing I forgot to mention is that I install Debian slink, but then
upgrade to potato. After the whole process of installing and then upgrading
is finished, I have been getting the time difference g
Hi,
I think this is a glitch with Debian slink or something because this is
completely insane. While installing Debian, it asks you about your
hardware clock being set to GMT or local. The question asks if it's
OK to set the clock to GMT. The last time I did this I picked 'No' for
absolutely sure
> I am a little confused here. I only have potato sources (not "unstable") in
> my sources.list but when I ran apt-get I got these errors:
I've been getting similar errors here for the past hour or so while trying
to get Gnome packages. Hopefully they'll be fixed ASAP. I have it set to
potato too
What do I need to edit to upgrade from Slink to Potato? I've attached a
co[y of my sources.list# Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits
# your mirror contains.
# deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free
# See sources.list(5) for more information, espe
I just bought a Dell Dimension XPS T600 with a Maxtor 13.6GB IDE hard disk.
I wanted to install Linux so I repartitioned the drive to leave 6GB free.
Windows works fine on its 7GB. The Linux boot disk (I've tried both Debian
and RedHat) tells me I don't have a hard drive. I read that the boot
parti
I am a little confused here. I only have potato sources (not "unstable") in
my sources.list but when I ran apt-get I got these errors:
Fetched 4954kB in 24m20s (3393B/s)
Failed to fetch
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/x11/gnom
> "Olexiy" == Olexiy Ye Tykhomyrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Olexiy> 1. While shutdown, unmount writes: "device is busy", so
Olexiy> nfsd on the server does not rid off the corresponding
Olexiy> enters from /etc/rmtab that is not good in common;
I think I have the similar proble
Did you select the correct serial port for your modem? Is it external or
internal? If external, is the power on? are the cables okay? If
internal, is it a dreaded PCI modem? Also, you might want to try talking
to your modem with minicom.
--
++
|
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 05:01:44PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote:
> I think Wouter meant to download one package at a time, then install
> it, then go fetch the next and so on. This way you could do with _a
> lot_ less free space for keeping the debs before installing them...
I think a wrapper scrip
Hi, All
moved to potato icewm-1.0 and found strange problems:
i cannot swith to another workplace!
Any keyboard (Ctrl-Alt--> etc) or mouse command
will swith to next workplace but icewm immediately
switch it back to workplace "1".
i run mostly potato stuff on intel.
A
The version of roxen now in potato (1.3.122-0.3) is unusable for me
since the add modules screen doesn't work (cf. bug #52053). Has anyone
gotten around this bug? Are there any other ways to add a module? Or
should I just downgrade?
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, paul wrote:
paul.w >
paul.w >FUDO2:/home/guest# sendmail -v paul
paul.w >hello
paul.w >.
paul.w >paul... Connecting to local...
paul.w >paul... Sent
paul.w >
chances are that the system just used the local delivery agent(in most
cases procmail) to deliver the mail..
paul.w >
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:00:47PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> For no discernable reason, mutt now tells me that "Mailbox is read
> only" whenever I try to modify it. It's a standard mail file sitting
> in /var/spool/mail, and its permissions are rw -- I can use it
> normally from elm.
I had this h
This is too late to help you, but when I encountered problems with the
Boxed Debian CD install, switching to one of the other virtual
consoles (CONTROL-ALT-F) gave me a screen that showed error
output (I think it was F3). I believe I got the same error that you
originally mailed about when the ins
I recently installed Debian on the machine of a colleague of mine.
It's mostly slink with some packages upgraded to potato (frozen).
The machine has no fixed IP address but relies on the DHCP client
(dhcpcd) for net connectivity. Exim is the MTA.
When we first set it up, fetchmail worked fine an
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 04:19:20PM -0500, Brian May wrote:
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ NameVersionDes
On 00-01-20 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Farrer) wrote:
> >Does anyone have a diff that I could use to make a deb of pine 4.21?
> >I've got the source tarball all unpacked and ready to go, but I'd rather
> >not have to create all of the debian files needed to mak
Hi, I recently install x using the xserver-vga16 server, and everytime I
run startx I get this:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: /etc/X11/Xsession: No such file or
directory
waiting for X server to shutdown FreeFontPath: FPE
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should
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