> -Original Message-
> From: Phillip Deackes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, 30 April 2000 11:13 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Mail/news software
>
> > I am very sorry if I offend, but I find emacs/xemacs about the most
> off-putting thing in Linux. Show a
Go to --
http://www.debian.org/
There is a link to "installation instructions" you might want to take a
look at the 'documentation" section also. If you have any further
questions feel free to ask:)
hth,
kent
> aerret wrote:
>
> I want something that is much faster than what I have. How do
i was wondering if anyone had any idea what this error means. i never had
any problem with mail retreival until recently (nothing has been changed on
this end).
Unable to process From lines (envelopes), change recognition modes. <-- what
exactly does that mean?
here's the error message/s:
fetch
I want something that is much faster
than what I have. How do I download
Debian?
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 04:20:52PM -0500, w trillich wrote:
> could this be a result of the perl5.004* vs. 5.005* situation?
> if not, then--what?
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use Net::Ping;
>
> my $ip = "208.33.90.84";
> my $wait = 5;
>
> $p = Net::Ping->new();
> print "$ip is alive.\n" if $p->p
> "itz" == itz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
itz> I am a longtime Gnus user and I am _sure_ you don't need the
itz> separate Gnus package. Gnus is part of Emacs20. I think the
itz> Gnus package is just for use with Emacs19.
itz> You may have shot yourself in the foot by insta
> "Christophe" == Christophe TROESTLER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Christophe> On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, "Kovacs Istvan"
Christophe> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What mail and news software do you recommend? The ideal
>> software would be able to handle both mail and news in an
> "Adam" == Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Thanks for tracking this down! Hopefully, it will be fixed in
>> courier soon, but in the meantime, your patch works great! I've
>> gone back to using courier again.
Adam> just fyi there was a patch to courier imap to fix t
I've posted parts of this problem before, and thanks to the folks who
have made suggestions. However, I'm still stuck.
I'm a relative newbie with Linux trying to set up a gateway box with
three NICs so I can masquerade the ip addresses of a DMZ and Internal
network similar to the description in th
Juan Camilo Rozo wrote:
>
> Hi. Im using Corel Linux, and I havent been able to make it work with my
> sound card. My sound card is integrated into my mother board, and supposedly
> its Sound Blaster Compatible. Can anyone please help me how I may try to
> configure it with Linux, or where can
You can do a search for packages at --
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
Doesn't look like it. If someone is working on it they will probably
let you know.
hth,
kent
Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
>
> Is there any mupad deb available?
could this be a result of the perl5.004* vs. 5.005* situation?
if not, then--what?
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::Ping;
my $ip = "208.33.90.84";
my $wait = 5;
$p = Net::Ping->new();
print "$ip is alive.\n" if $p->ping($ip);
$p->close();
__END__
Bad arg length for Socket::unpack_sockaddr_in, lengt
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 11:30:44AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am totally frustrated. Trying to do a dist-upgrade, first through dselect
> and now out at the cmd. line. Have DL'd all packages, but things screech to
> a halt when ucbmpeg-play (which I unsuccessfully tried to remove before)
Hi,
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[ snipped ... ]
> Simply stated, anything which requires Emacs to run
> is instantly lower than something that requires Windows to run because at
> least it /IS/ an OS and not an editor that is a wannabe script interpreter
> and OS rolled into one.
Has
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 08:48:17AM -0500, ktb wrote:
> I've looked in the archives and the documentation for lynx. I was
> wondering if lynx can be set up to use squid on my firewall? I see
> there is a way to set up lynx in /etc/lynx.cfg to use an isp's proxy but
> I haven't been able to get lyn
Is there any mupad deb available?
Hi. Im using Corel Linux, and I havent been able to make it work with my sound
card. My sound card is integrated into my mother board, and supposedly its
Sound Blaster Compatible. Can anyone please help me how I may try to configure
it with Linux, or where can I find how to do that?
please Help
Monday, May 01, 2000, 11:59:24 AM, Richard wrote:
> Emacs is far more useful than that... It's still the best
> mailer/newsreader/text based office program in existence.
That is highly debated, esp. for people who prefer not to have huge
bloated pigs in memory, don't want to learn a speech i
Hi. Im using Corel Linux, and I havent been able to make it work with my sound
card. My sound card is integrated into my mother board, and supposedly its
Sound Blaster Compatible. Can anyone please help me how I may try to configure
it with Linux, or where can I find how to do that?
please Help
> "Chris" == Chris Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello, I'm looking for good free (as in speech) 3d modeling
> tools.
Geomview is packaged for Debian.
http://www.geom.umn.edu/software/download/geomview.html
Look in /usr/local/lib/lynx.cfg for configuration for lynx (thats
slackware's location do a `locate lynx.cfg`)
Find lines like
#http_proxy:http://some.server.dom:port/
#https_proxy:http://some.server.dom:port/
#ftp_proxy:http://some.server.dom:port/
and change them to
http_proxy:http://mypr
"Kovacs Istvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(snip)
> Emacs, vi, development tools are fine for developers (I also decided
to
> learn Emacs and vi -- not at the wizard level, but to be able to use
> them when needed), and it's reasonable not to expect the masses to use
> them, but it's not the same c
sorry.. here's a file of the readouts I get with this problem with dpkg...
Kenward
Package: ucbmpeg-play
Priority: extra
Section: non-free/graphics
Installed-Size: 248
Maintainer: Malc Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.3p-9
Replaces: ucbmpeg_play
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), x
I am totally frustrated. Trying to do a dist-upgrade, first through dselect
and now out at the cmd. line. Have DL'd all packages, but things screech to
a halt when ucbmpeg-play (which I unsuccessfully tried to remove before)
throws a wrench into the process.
I've tried to use
dpkg -p(r) --force-
Hi,
I have enlightenment 0.16.4-1 on a woody system; I'm using an old
SoundBlaster 16 (remember those which came with an IDE interface so
you could plug the CD-ROM drive?).
I had no sound problems until an upgrade I did yesterday: for some
reason (I'm not sure if I did select addition
Hello!
As some of my modules still won't load on demand, yesterday evening
(CET) I visited the IRC channel #debianhelp. There, someone told me
that not all modules are supposed to load on demand. Sure enough, the
drivers for my SCSI card, NIC, SB AWE32 won't load on demand, but work
fine with modp
I have all my procmail rules converted to exim .forward rules,
except one, and i don't think it can be done with exim.
This is the rule:
:0
* !^Content-Type: message/
* !^Content-Type: multipart/
* !^Content-Type: application/pgp
{
:0 fBw
* ^-BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-
Benjamin Reed wrote:
>
> I've turned off PerlSendHeader, but no matter what I do, it seems that I'm
> already getting headers before I ever print anything.
>
> I have the following in my httpd.conf:
>
> ---(snip!)---
> Alias /perl/ /home/httpd/perl/
>
> SetHandler perl-script
> PerlHandler Ap
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 19:35:31 -0400, Rob Lilley wrote:
>Different Strokes for different folks.
>
>Emacs - "Show a newbie that and you will see the dust as he turns
>and runs back to the Windows camp" . Emacs and Linux/Unix
>for that matter is not for everybody - its there because of and
>for the
Adam Shand wrote:
>
> > clever solution. wish i'd come up with that one.
>
> ain't that always the way ... :)
>
> > here's the lo-down:
> >
> > :g <- globally--i.e. thru every line in the file
>
> how is that different from :s/find/replace/g ?
ex is a LINE editor. if your line looks like t
I'd like to set up printing, but I don't have a printer. What I would like to
do, is have things that are printed get sent out to a Postscript file. Under
Windows I could accomplish this by setting up my default printer to an Aple
LaserWriter, and configuring the LaserWriter to print to a postscr
See, it did it again! This letter escaped from my last email :-)
r
John
--
Powered by the Penguin
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 02:31:12PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >is there a way to build a specific module from kernel source and install
> >it? without haveing to build a new kernel and do a make modules and such?
>
> Yes. Do a 'make modules' in the kernel tree,
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 05:58:46PM +, John Carline wrote:
> > >
> > > > ( what is olwm and many other apprev...I done no!!)?
> >
> > Missed this question. Olwm is a windows manager not a xserver. You can
> > load one windows manager or several and then switch betw
Hello Dan,
On Mon, 1 May 2000, Dan Hutchinson wrote:
> I have loaded my home PC with the base system from debian download.
> I try to connect to the web to download the debian packages from the
> web.
> When I run dselect it trys to connect through the NIC card I have.
> I have a PC with a NIC a
Dan Hutchinson wrote:
>
> I have loaded my home PC with the base system from debian download.
> I try to connect to the web to download the debian packages from the
> web. I installed the potato version.
> My problem is as follows:
> When I run dselect it trys to connect through the NIC card I hav
I have loaded my home PC with the base system from debian download.
I try to connect to the web to download the debian packages from the
web. I installed the potato version.
My problem is as follows:
When I run dselect it trys to connect through the NIC card I have.
I have a PC with a NIC and a P
I've looked in the archives and the documentation for lynx. I was
wondering if lynx can be set up to use squid on my firewall? I see
there is a way to set up lynx in /etc/lynx.cfg to use an isp's proxy but
I haven't been able to get lynx to work with mine. I have also tried to
sign in on my fire
jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>is there a way to build a specific module from kernel source and install
>it? without haveing to build a new kernel and do a make modules and such?
Yes. Do a 'make modules' in the kernel tree, then just copy the sound
module (something.o) from wherever it gets bui
On 30-Apr-00 Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Phillip Deackes wrote:
>
>> I disagree and am continually posting info about an excellent email app
>> called Ishmail. It was a commercial offerring but the source code has
>> now been released. It is available on www.ishmail.com
>>
>
>
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 01:21:15AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
[ snip ]
> experimental - This is a special distribution for packages the maintainer
> feels shouldn't even go into unstable. For this reason it is not
> apt-gettable. It can be found at ftp.debian.org (or a mirror) in
> /pub/debian
On Mon, 01 May 2000 03:54:21 PDT, John Bagdanoff writes:
>On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 05:04:39PM +1000, Douglas M. Hespe wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 02:55:32PM +0200, Kent Nyberg wrote (inter alia):
>>
>> > Just set the right dma and irq stuff, and it will work.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to fi
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 01:32:17PM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote:
> When selecting the device driver module for lp (line printer) in potato I
> get this error:
>
> /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 06:24:34PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote:
> I just installed Potato using the Potato boot disks, and found there's no
> more /etc/init.d/network for setting things up. As it stands now, the
> machine is using DHCP to get settings. It appears this also overwrites
> custom change
Hello, I have just installed debian GNU/Linux. I selected the
Workstation_Comp or something like that so I could get some packages
installed and not have to use the [S]elect step in dselect. I thought it
would install everything I need for X Window, but I guess not... I can't
run it.
I allrea
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 05:04:39PM +1000, Douglas M. Hespe wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 02:55:32PM +0200, Kent Nyberg wrote (inter alia):
>
> > Just set the right dma and irq stuff, and it will work.
>
> Does anyone know how to find out these things without resort to MSD,
> the Micro$oft Diag
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 05:38:17PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > I've just compiled and installed a new kernel (version 2.2.15) on a
> > friend's Toshiba laptop. He has emailed me today complaining about
> > keyboard freezes. Actually, I'm not sure from his comments, whether
> > it is just the
> I've just compiled and installed a new kernel (version 2.2.15) on a
> friend's Toshiba laptop. He has emailed me today complaining about
> keyboard freezes. Actually, I'm not sure from his comments, whether
> it is just the keyboard that freezes or the whole computer.
An update on the problem.
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 05:58:46PM +, John Carline wrote:
> >
> > > ( what is olwm and many other apprev...I done no!!)?
>
> Missed this question. Olwm is a windows manager not a xserver. You can
> load one windows manager or several and then switch between them. Windows
> managers are what yo
Ok scrap that idea. That's what I get for posting without thinking. Plan
(b), note I might be entirely wrong again, is that installing the .deb for
2.0.33 is a rather bad idea, you should be compiling the support in using
the 2.0.38 kernel source. I would have thought that NTFS support would be
an
I would suggest going to http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/dists
and look for a ntfs2.0.38*.deb somewhere in the hamm section there,
possibly under binary-i386/main.
I am trying to verify this myself, but my netlink from work sucks ass.
Cheers,
Corey Popelier
http://members.dingoblue.net
> >>"Mark" == Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Mark> I think this is the problem. I shouldn't have to do the configuring
> Mark> myself because make-kpkg should do it for me. For some reason it
> Mark> seems that it doesn't. It sounds like a bug with make-kpkg.
>
>No, t
there are docs that tell what all the fields are spozed to be
in an /etc/bind/* file, sure, but where's the docs that tell me
why my configuration generates all this griping from named?
# ndc restart
/var/log/syslog reports that...
named[26622]: starting. named 8.2.2-P5-NOESW Tue Apr 11 14:22:53
hello everybody
i want to mount ntfs, so i install ntfs2.0.33_971218-4.deb,
i use
# insmod -f ntfs.o
and it tell me this ntfs.o is for kernel 2.0.33, and im using
kernel 2.0.38
what shall i do?
many thanks!
**
zhang xiaolei
Well I, for one, sure would have appreciated such an addition to the message
tag (or
monthly notice)
I've been using Linux since late 1994 so, if I'm not a guru [and I'm certainly
not],
I do have some fairly rich general skills/knowledge. But I started with
Slackware
and then, somewhere along
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 02:55:32PM +0200, Kent Nyberg wrote (inter alia):
> Just set the right dma and irq stuff, and it will work.
Does anyone know how to find out these things without resort to MSD,
the Micro$oft Diagnostics. My machine is pure Debian 2.1r4 and,
although I could probably borr
>>"Mark" == Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mark> I think this is the problem. I shouldn't have to do the configuring
Mark> myself because make-kpkg should do it for me. For some reason it
Mark> seems that it doesn't. It sounds like a bug with make-kpkg.
No, this is pilot e
> Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Anyone knows what this and $HOME/.popbull are for?
>
> Read the manual page of qpopper, and read the docs in
> /usr/doc/qpopper/ ... it's all documented.
it *is* usually documented, but going from the filename
(.popbull) to the name of the manpage (
John Pearson wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 04:23:50PM -0500, w trillich wrote
> > but what i was referring to was the console-happy curses-based gizmo
> > that ran only on the FIRST BOOT after installing bare-bones kernel
> > stuff from cd. blue screen, white selector bars, and TAB to rotate
I have recently put together a Atrend ATC6260 Dual
PII 400 w/ 128 SDRAM and installed frozen on it using
dselect's apt option. The default uni-kernel I soon
replaced w/ make-kpkg of the 2.2.14-5 (debian aquired)
variety and it is perfect EXCEPT that upon boot klogd
will monopolize 50% of the ke
Mowie nie po polsku. Czy ty mowisz po angielsku?
Stach wrote:
>
> Dla mnie jest super, że jest strona o Debianie, mały problem po co ona jest
> skoro i tak najważniejsze rzeczy są w języku angielskim, po co marnować
> miejsce na serwerze. Może da się coś z tym zrobić?
>
> [POLBO
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 03:57:37PM +0300, Sahap Kayhan wrote:
> I am using Windows98. I want to learn and try Linux system. What can
> I do? I am waiting for your explanation messages. Thanks.
Along with other suggestions, I'd strongly recommend you either find
local training/education in Linux (o
Hi,
I have potato on a smallish HDD. I need to trim every meg possible.
/usr/share/locale is using about 24Mb for various foreign language
LC_MESSAGES.
Can I remove some of the language directories there by hand without
hurting anything? dselect, dpkg and apt-get say packages (locale-zh,
locale-
> "Istvan" == Kovacs Istvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Istvan> Hello! I tried gnus, recommended by several people (thanks to
Istvan> all who responded!), and it froze my emacs20. Here's what I
Istvan> wrote to John Hasler, one of the people trying to help: --- I
Istvan> installed gnus (gnus_
> Sahap Kayhan wrote:
>
> I am using Windows98. I want to learn and try Linux system. What can
> I do? I am waiting for your explanation messages. Thanks.
buy a CD (www.linuxmall.com is one place you can get them
for Really Really Cheap--around $2.00 [u.s.] per distribution)
and install it on a P
is there a way to build a specific module from kernel source and install
it? without haveing to build a new kernel and do a make modules and such?
ie .. i don't feel like screwing witht he kernel that came w/ slink but i
want to add a sound module.. after finals i'll do it the right way..
thanks
Suresh Kumar posts:
> I have never seen load averages going above 2
> earlier with redhat installation.
>
On a similar setup while running Netscape ? Please
install libc5 and libg++272 found in /oldlibs of the
Debian 'slink' CD.
ragOO, VU2RGU. Kochi, INDIA.
Keeping the Air-Wa
> Thanks for tracking this down! Hopefully, it will be fixed in courier
> soon, but in the meantime, your patch works great! I've gone back to
> using courier again.
just fyi there was a patch to courier imap to fix this problem (and one with
gnus) announced on freshmeat today.
adam.
> I'm no pro, but the following, without squashing works. And yes, I know
> that at the end of the file it might give an error.
> :g/^ *$/+1 s/^ *[^ ]/&/
that does indeed do the trick! now i just have to decipher the regex so i
understand it.
thanks!
adam.
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 06:02:07PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> I've installed, and managed to get working, XFree86 4.0. The only big
> problem remaining is that all of the terminal colors are really weird.
> I now get pink on magenta and other generally unreadable color
> combinations when I r
Hi,
If you check out http://kde.tdyc.com you will find all the information you need
to get kde working
on debian. Worked great for me, I'm using woody. They have packages for
slink too. You can also find lines for /etc/apt/sources.list
you will also want to use the following line to change the wi
I've installed, and managed to get working, XFree86 4.0. The only big
problem remaining is that all of the terminal colors are really weird.
I now get pink on magenta and other generally unreadable color
combinations when I run mutt, slrn, etc. I've been trying to figure
out where these colors go
that's useful, thanks. i've never used macro's in vi, i'll play with it. i
need to check out wml as well as someone else suggested ;)
adam.
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Rick Younie wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2000, Adam Shand wrote:
> >
> > > A two-liner is
> > > %s/^// - add to the start of each li
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 08:13:21PM -0700, Rick Younie wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2000, Adam Shand wrote:
> >
> > > A two-liner is
> > > %s/^// - add to the start of each line
> > > %s/^$// - remove any lines that contain only
> >
> > nope won't work. it'll put a ' ' at the beginning of every
> Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I am trying to use make-kpkg to make a pcmcia-modules package for a
> > laptop. It quits giving the following error:
> >
> > /usr/src/linux/include/linux/module.h:19: linux/modversions.h: No such
> > file or directory
> >
> > and sure enough, I
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