Re: Exim changes

John Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It could be that mail.infoeng.flinders.edu.au and > adam.ist.flinders.edu.au are the same machine, and it's simply > using the canonical name in your logs. This would be fairly > normal if they are arranging a transition from one to the other: > both would

Re: postfix help

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 06:55:01PM -0500, Dave Bateman wrote: > I saw from earlier postings that quite a few of you are using postfix. > I've been using netscrape for e-mail > and a recent bout with X convinced me that I should set up e-mail > "properly". > I managed to get postfix on my machin

Re: linuxconf for debian

On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 08:26:05PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > is it possible to use linuxconf with debian (2.2) ? Yes, it's packaged, but make sure you read the README.Debian or somesuch file in the /usr/doc/linuxconf dir to see what's currently working and what's broken... I think there are sti

Solved: Need help w/proper syntax for Netscape in .Xdefaults

Thanks everybody, all of the help was very useful! I determined that the real issue was the editor that I was using, as I had already done what most of you had suggested. I switched to CoolEdit and did away with all of the word wrap crap and that solved the problem. I am now on to exploring these n

Re: Exim changes

On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:23:47AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote > My ISP is soon to make changes to its email system, and as a result I > need to change my exim setup. Basically, whereas the host I used to > send out email used to be "adam.ist.flinders.edu.au", it now is > "mail.infoeng.flinders.edu

Re: inn2: innd won't start

I have an answer, just for the record and anyone else who runs into this: On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 08:36:20PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > My problem is that innd is failing to start and failing in such a stunningly > silent fashion that I cannot figure out what the problem is! Not silent at all

Re: postfix help

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 06:55:01PM -0500, Dave Bateman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I managed to get postfix on my machine and exim off, but I > could use a hand configuring postfix. Even though a little config script hasn't been written for postscript (like they have for smail and exim), it'

SSH

Hello All, Ok Im working on logining in with a secure shell. My system is running Potato with kernel 2.2.15. I have installed ssh and tried ssh localhost to make sure everything is working and I have no problems. So I continue to generate a RSA key with ssh-keygen. I save the key into ~/ssh and cop

Re: kernel2.3.99pre3 to pre9

On Jun 12 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > In the ftp directory with the kernels, there's a "4.0" directory. > You need the 4.0-test1 kernel there. That should be: ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.0-test1.gz Not all mirrors carry it, though.

Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux

On Jun 10 2000, John McBride wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > RedHat is a system you install many times (note: biased opinion, but > > based on upgrades 4.2 -> 5.0 -> 5.2). > > > > Debian is a system you install twice (once to learn how, once to get it > > right). > > I tentatively agree

Re: Specify dial string for PPP connection with pppconfig

On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 04:46:29PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > I'm trying to switch off modem sound when connecting to the ppp > service provider, but can't seem to find a place to stick in M0 in the > dial string... Is there a standard way of doing it? After all of the "ABORT " lines in /etc/ch

Re: finding files in .deb packages

Marcin Kurc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 01:23:15PM -0700, John P. Donaldson wrote: >> I'm running slink. How do would I know that >> libdb.so.3 is part of libc6 on slink? I can't find it >> documented. I even downloaded the file you suggested, >> "contents-i386" and did

rsync & apt-get

I don't know much about rsync, so I though I'd ask here. What are the chances of getting debian to have its pakages on rsync and make apt-get use that instead of ftp. Wouldn't this greatly speed up upgrades (especially to us poor souls with only dialup), or is my conception of rsync totally wrong

Re: General Resolution: Removing non-free

>Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:56:49 -0400 >From: Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: General Resolution: Removing non-free > > >On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 06:46:11PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: >> How many times do I have to repeat it. >> >> DEBIAN DOES NOT INLCUDE NON-FREE NOW. > >There's no n

Re: Exim changes

I wrote: > My ISP is soon to make changes to its email system, and as a result I > need to change my exim setup. Basically, whereas the host I used to > send out email used to be "adam.ist.flinders.edu.au", it now is > "mail.infoeng.flinders.edu.au". A quick "grep adam exim.conf" gave > me: >

Re: xterm

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 08:27:09PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > cls--colo spgs wrote: > > > > is there a way make the xterm "box" a "see-through" (to > > the background or to a background image)? (in other > > words, do i have to use the white/gray box in xterm or > > could i use an image or a di

Re: Upgrade Red Hat -> Debian without losing /home?

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 09:16:42PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > Hello, > > I have an old Ultrasparc with Red Hat 6.2 on it, which on this box is at > least as unstable as anything from Microsoft. Networking will > mysteriously stop working every few weeks for no reason. Changing > kernels has no e

Upgrade Red Hat -> Debian without losing /home?

Hello, I have an old Ultrasparc with Red Hat 6.2 on it, which on this box is at least as unstable as anything from Microsoft. Networking will mysteriously stop working every few weeks for no reason. Changing kernels has no effect. Maximized windows cover up the GNOME panel regardless of my sett

Re: Samba and VMWare

"Kelly Corbin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ; Allow several Samba servers on the same machine > > > interfaces = eth* 208.46.58.171#/208.46.58.248/255.255.255.0 > > > bind interfaces only = yes > > > > That interfaces line doesn't look right. Is it really like that, or just the > > messag

Re: xterm

Brian Stults wrote: > > cls--colo spgs wrote: > > > > is there a way make the xterm "box" a "see-through" (to > > the background or to a background image)? (in other > > words, do i have to use the white/gray box in xterm or > > could i use an image or a different color background > > for xterm b

inn2: innd won't start

I am trying to get inn2 to work, if only in the default local groups config that the deb comes set up with. My problem is that innd is failing to start and failing in such a stunningly silent fashion that I cannot figure out what the problem is! I have gone through running news.daily and inncheck

Re: Setting hwclock Time

Michael Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have hwclock running? I will assume you have it but no man pages > yet. > > Basically, you enter a command like: > > hwclock --set --date="9/22/96 16:45:05" > > This sets the bios clock to the correct time. Just change the part in > quotes. Then

Re: xterm

cls--colo spgs wrote: > > is there a way make the xterm "box" a "see-through" (to > the background or to a background image)? (in other > words, do i have to use the white/gray box in xterm or > could i use an image or a different color background > for xterm boxes?) AFAIK, you can't do that wit

Re: pgaccess & Postgresql

Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: >Hi: > I am having problems with pgaccess and Postgresql. I am > using potato. I can run with psql but when I type pgaccess > the window appears I fill in my name, database, password > etc I get the message connectDB() - connect failed. connection >

Re: Daemons that use the serial ports

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > Perhaps lock files in /var/lock/ can help? That's the problem, there's no LCK..ttyS0 or S1 in it. Oki

Re: Exim changes

Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:23:47AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > > #disabled#smtp stream tcp nowait mail/usr/sbin/exim exim > > -bs > > > > which would suggest that exim is disabled through this mechanism > > > > I'm confused. Any hint

emacs20 install problem

I get the following error on a potato system: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want t

Re: postfix help

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Dave Bateman wrote: > ~/.fetchmailrc > > bash-2.04$ cat .fetchmailrc > poll pop.mindsprind.com protocol POP3 username batemand is > dsb password xxx fetchall i Looks ok. > > Is there a configuatorer/magic pill that sets up postfix

Re: Exim changes

On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:23:47AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: > > #disabled#smtp stream tcp nowait mail/usr/sbin/exim exim > -bs > > which would suggest that exim is disabled through this mechanism > > I'm confused. Any hints? Did you tell exim to reload the config fil

postfix help

I saw from earlier postings that quite a few of you are using postfix. I've been using netscrape for e-mail and a recent bout with X convinced me that I should set up e-mail "properly". I managed to get postfix on my machine and exim off, but I could use a hand configuring postfix. My machine i

Exim changes

My ISP is soon to make changes to its email system, and as a result I need to change my exim setup. Basically, whereas the host I used to send out email used to be "adam.ist.flinders.edu.au", it now is "mail.infoeng.flinders.edu.au". A quick "grep adam exim.conf" gave me: route_list = "* adam.i

Re: new Debian user

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:59:36PM +0100, Anthony Durity wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to the Debian fold and I am afraid that I am having trouble > adjusting from my RedHat/Mandrake familiarity. Some of these questions may > not be so Debian related so sorry in advance. > > I am in the process

Re: telnet replacement

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 01:52:31PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > > I don't > know if there is a telnet-ssl client for NT, so you might want to look for > that and if you find one, give telnet-ssl and telnetd-ssl a try. I really > don't know how they work or what's available for NT, though. There'

Re: use second hard drive to boot from?

Joe Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > I use Debian 2.1. I have recently run out of space on my hard drive and am > considering buying an additional one but am unsure if I can install it into > my box to boot from. > > Is it possible to install a second hard drive into something like the floppy > driv

Re: Debian i386 mirror

"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I only mirror the 386 portions of potato, US and non-US, and my > archive is about 2G. I guess you don't do the sources then. > I had a major problem setting up a potato mirror using any type of > ftp-mirroring utility (like "mirror"). When I first s

Re: Signals SIGSTOP

Please break your lines at <76 characters. On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 02:40:16AM +0100, Nuno Almeida wrote: > I would like to know if this is simply a singularity of Debian, or if > it's a bug of mine. > > When I'm programming in C/C++ to other linux distr. and I make a > signal trap I can't, and th

SIGSTOP signal

I would like to know if this is simply a singularity of Debian, or if it's a bug of mine. When I'm programming in C/C++ to other linux distr. and I make a signal trap I can't, and that's absolutly normal, trap the signals 9 and 17, for SIGKILL and SIGSTOP. On Debian I can catch the SIGSTOP signal

Re: Signals SIGSTOP

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 02:40:16AM +0100, Nuno Almeida wrote: > I would like to know if this is simply a singularity of Debian, or if > it's a bug of mine. > > When I'm programming in C/C++ to other linux distr. and I make a > signal trap I can't, and that's absolutly normal, trap the signals 9 >

Re: Samba and VMWare

> I'm assuming you're using a bridged network configuration under VMware. I > suspect your interfaces line in smb.conf is the culprit. > > > ; Allow several Samba servers on the same machine > > interfaces = eth* 208.46.58.171#/208.46.58.248/255.255.255.0 > > bind interfaces only = yes > > Th

Re: setting up multi boot system

I just got home from work, sorry for the late reply. I've only installed Windows and Linux on a single disk once. Maybe someone with a little more experience in this area could step up to the plate? Anyway have you read the installation instructions at -- http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i38

Re: esound (woody) broken?

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 11:46:08AM -0400, Thomas Hood wrote: > > GNOME plays sounds through esd. If esd is not running, > and sound is enabled in GNOME, and an app issues a sound, then > GNOME pauses or hangs up. So one wants esd to be running. i don't use gnome, but i edited /etc/esound/esd.co

Re: Netscape on low-mem system (was Re: X on a 486)

Or, you could check this out: http://arachne.cz/ (Arachne WWW browser for DOS+Linux / Webhosting / MP3streaming) Cheers, Jason. > > besides gzilla (www.gzilla.com ?), there is also > mnemonic (www.mnemonic.org). It requires multi-threading, so you need > to have glibc 2.1.x (potato) > > try

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xterm

debs, in my potato box(es), my window mnager is icewm; my theme, "liquid." is there a way make the xterm "box" a "see-through" (to the background or to a background image)? (in other words, do i have to use the white/gray box in xterm or could i use an image or a different color background for

Re: Need help w/proper syntax for Netscape in .Xdefaults

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 02:35:23AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > netscape*Navagation ToolBar.Shop.isEnabled:false > below is my pieced together file to control netscape. I have found the > all of the colors seem OK but the real reason that I want to get this > correct is to get rid of the Shop butt

Re: telnet replacement

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 01:52:31PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > The US has strange laws which restrict the export of cryptographic code. > The point of SSH is its cryptographic code, and thus cannot be exported from > the US. That doesn't mean it can't be imported _to_ the US, though. That's > w

Potato Hangs Temporarily, Partially -- Causes?

What are the possible causes of a temporary, partial system hang/freeze? Specifically, the system (a web server): * stops responding to most requests for up to one or two minutes, then comes back to life; * hangs only (as far as I can tell) when there is some load on the server; * discont

Re: Signals SIGSTOP

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 02:40:16AM +0100, Nuno Almeida wrote: > I would like to know if this is simply a singularity of Debian, or if it's a > bug of mine. > > When I'm programming in C/C++ to other linux distr. and I make a signal > trap I can't, and that's absolutly normal, trap the signals 9 a

Re: gphoto

Hate to say it, but get the source and compile it. The source is 4.3 and has a number of important fixes. It compiles clean though. Robert Thus spake cls--colo spgs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > debs, > > i'm running potato and would like to use gphoto. the > box has version 0.4.2-1 which gives thi

Re: Netscape on low-mem system (was Re: X on a 486)

kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 06:46:07PM +0200, Atila Nemet wrote: > > AN> Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there > > AN> window manager which is low on system resources so I > > AN> could set up X on this 486? > > > > From, the help I've got, it seem

gphoto

debs, i'm running potato and would like to use gphoto. the box has version 0.4.2-1 which gives this error: gphoto: error in loading shared libraries: libgphoto_konic_qm100.so.0: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory so, i searched for the *qm100.so.0 file at debian.org an

ipchains latency

Hello, Our company LAN is divided into two segments, and I have just finished implementing firewalling rules for the router in between them, to protect the inner network from the outside world. After meticulously designing an installing my ipchains rules, I was dismayed by the perform

Re: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

Peter Allen wrote: > > Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:17:15 +0200 (+), J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:12:06 +0200, Konrad Podloucky wrote: > > > > Yeah, but haven't they removed all patented code recently? (At least the > > > > latest bet

Re: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:17:15 +0200 (+), J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:12:06 +0200, Konrad Podloucky wrote: > > > Yeah, but haven't they removed all patented code recently? (At least the > > > latest beta doesn't contain any Fraunhofer

pgaccess & Postgresql

Hi: I am having problems with pgaccess and Postgresql. I am using potato. I can run with psql but when I type pgaccess the window appears I fill in my name, database, password etc I get the message connectDB() - connect failed. connection refused. Is the postmaster running ( with -i

(slink+0.75)->potato login problem

Hi, I've just upgraded from "slink with a lot of potato" to potato. (apt-get -f dist-upgrade) having rebooted to let everything settle in (everything looked fine on boot), I then tried to login: When I try I can type my username, then it waits three seconds and asks for my username again. (No passw

RE: dependencies rpoblem

On 12-Jun-2000 Chris Mason wrote: > I'm trying to install postfix and remove exim, I am having a problem because > "apt-get remove exim" fails because there are dependent programs. I don't > care, I would like to force the removal and then install postfix but even > "apt-get -f remove exim" fails.

Re: finding files in .deb packages

You are missing my post. I said go to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and search for packages. On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 01:23:15PM -0700, John P. Donaldson wrote: > > > I'm trying to get a program I installed to start, > > but it says it needs > > > libdb.so.3. > > > > /lib/libdb.so.3 is

Re: Best way to copy Linux from one drive to another

aha! Thanks! Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/12/2000 03:18:45 PM To: Mike Heyes/LincolnFP/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Best way to copy Linux from one drive to another On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 08:18:05AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hard disk troubles

Hello folks, Somehow, something is messy in my hard disk and I can't boot into Linux anymore. First, I'll give you a little information that I hope will be useful if you're wishing to help me... Some months ago, I installed FreeBSD into a friends house, in another hard disk he gave me (640 MB), w

Re: help

> Sherry wrote: > > > Hi, Greetings: God bless you. > > A friend installed debian on my PC. l now have a hardware modem > > and would like to install PHP for veiwing. > > My debian has know user interface. Could someone help me. \- "no"? You su

Re: telnet replacement

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 09:27:57AM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > I do this from windows/NT? I did not seen windows/NT provide > the ssh. You can get a no-charge telnet program called Tera Term, and add the ttssh module to it. See A --

Re: finding files in .deb packages

> > I'm trying to get a program I installed to start, > but it says it needs > > libdb.so.3. > > /lib/libdb.so.3 is part of "libc6" in potato. I'm running slink. How do would I know that libdb.so.3 is part of libc6 on slink? I can't find it documented. I even downloaded the file you suggested

Re: Best way to copy Linux from one drive to another

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 08:18:05AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What is the best way to copy my Debian installation from one disk to another? Try the HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Serv

Re: dependencies rpoblem

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 02:33:41PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > I'm trying to install postfix and remove exim, I am having a problem because > "apt-get remove exim" fails because there are dependent programs. I don't > care, I would like to force the removal and then install postfix but even > "apt

Re: dependencies rpoblem

Sven Burgener wrote: > > >I had no problems ditching exim and installing postfix a few months > ago. > > What advantages / plus-points does postfix have over exim? > I have only been using exim for a week now. Ran sendmail before, but as > I wasn't able to configure it to my (simple) needs, I swi

Re: Latex and Foiltex

Mithrandir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I got a simlpe question, does anybody known wheter there is a >Foiltex-Package for Latex as debian package?? I don't find it, and >it would be very important for me. The standard Latex don't seems to >include this package but it exists. The foiltex package h

Re: finding files in .deb packages

go to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:45:44PM -0700, John P. Donaldson wrote: > I'm trying to get a program I installed to start, but > it says it needs libdb.so.3. How do I know what .deb > package to install that will provide that library? > > Thanks, > John

Re: finding files in .deb packages

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:45:44 -0700, John P. Donaldson wrote: > I'm trying to get a program I installed to start, but it says it needs > libdb.so.3. /lib/libdb.so.3 is part of "libc6" in potato. > How do I know what .deb package to install that will provide that library? Check out the variou

Re: Latex and Foiltex

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 14:43:02 -0500, Raja R Harinath wrote: > As for why it is not available as a separate package in Debian -- maybe > there's no one interested enough. For slink, it's part of tetex-nonfree; I don't know what happened to it for potato. Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writ

finding files in .deb packages

I'm trying to get a program I installed to start, but it says it needs libdb.so.3. How do I know what .deb package to install that will provide that library? Thanks, John __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.

Re: Latex and Foiltex

Mithrandir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I got a simlpe question, does anybody known wheter there is a > Foiltex-Package for Latex as debian package?? I don't find it, and > it would be very important for me. The standard Latex don't seems to > include this package but it exists. FoilTeX is not D

help

>    Hi,>    >    A  friend installed debian on my PC. l now have a hardware modem and>    would like to install PHP for veiwing.  My debian has know user>    interface. Could someone help me.>    >    >    >    passion

Re: /var/log/syslog entries

Matthew Thompson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm getting TONS of this: > > Jun 12 06:30:03 doma kernel: Packet log: input REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 > 216.39.146.44:513 216.39.146.255:513 L=88 S=0x00 I=56637 F=0x T=64 > (#5) > Jun 12 06:33:03 doma kernel: Packet log: input REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 > 216.39.146.

Re: Anyone have kernel-source-2.2.14.deb

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:02:05 BST, Colin Watson writes: >Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: >>> winmodem binary, which doesn't (yet work) with 2.2.15. Does >>> anyone have a kernel-source-2.2.14.deb that I could FTP in. >> >>Why do you want a .de

imp with php4

Has anybody been able to run imp with php4 on potato ? I'm getting error about imap_utf7_encode() being undefined and indeed there is no such function in php4-imap module. I'm running on sparc. Sergey.

Re: dependencies rpoblem

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > When I try to run dselect, it wants to uninstall packages that I have > installed myself, so that won't do. You should try to fix that problem. But do run dselect update first, to make sure apt and dselect agree in the package available file... (also, mak

Re: /var/log/syslog entries

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 11:57:32AM -0700, Matthew Thompson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm getting TONS of this: > > Jun 12 06:36:03 doma kernel: Packet log: input REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 > 216.39.146.44:513 216.39.146.255:513 L=88 S=0x00 I=56673 F=0x T=64 > (#5) > Jun 12 06:39:03 doma kernel: Packet lo

Re: dependencies rpoblem

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote: > >I had no problems ditching exim and installing postfix a few months > ago. > > What advantages / plus-points does postfix have over exim? Secure design, using chroot jails (even in Debian's default installation), only the postfix 'master' daemon runs a

disk partitions

When creating a multi-boot system I've read that the root directory must be within the first 1024 cylinders on the hard disk. I'm not exactly sure what a cylinder is in relation to a hard disk, and how do you find out if it will fit or not? Thanks, David __

RE: dependencies rpoblem

When I try to run dselect, it wants to uninstall packages that I have installed myself, so that won't do. I know postfix, but not exim, I have it on another machine, so I would like to use it instead of exim. All my nerd friends recommend postfix. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British

Re: Best way to copy Linux from one drive to another

I changed the new drive's /etc/fstab to point to all the new partitions on the new drive, and they appeared to mount correctly at boot. It really does look like a problem with /var though. I'll check again. I created a boot floppy to try and boot the new disk by booting with the original disk, t

/var/log/syslog entries

Hello, I'm getting TONS of this: Jun 12 06:30:03 doma kernel: Packet log: input REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 216.39.146.44:513 216.39.146.255:513 L=88 S=0x00 I=56637 F=0x T=64 (#5) Jun 12 06:33:03 doma kernel: Packet log: input REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 216.39.146.44:513 216.39.146.255:513 L=88 S=0x00 I=5

Re: dependencies rpoblem

>I had no problems ditching exim and installing postfix a few months ago. What advantages / plus-points does postfix have over exim? I have only been using exim for a week now. Ran sendmail before, but as I wasn't able to configure it to my (simple) needs, I switched to exim. TIA Sven

Re: dependencies rpoblem

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Chris Mason wrote: > I'm trying to install postfix and remove exim, I am having a problem because > "apt-get remove exim" fails because there are dependent programs. I don't > care, I would like to force the removal and then install postfix but even > "apt-get -f remove exim"

Re: Best way to copy Linux from one drive to another

Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am trying to do transfer my current install from a smaller drive to a larger > one. I installed, partitioned and formatted the new drive with the same > partitions as the smaller one. Then, I copied each partition in turn (/, > /root, > /home, /o

dependencies rpoblem

I'm trying to install postfix and remove exim, I am having a problem because "apt-get remove exim" fails because there are dependent programs. I don't care, I would like to force the removal and then install postfix but even "apt-get -f remove exim" fails. Is there a way to forcilble remove exim?

Re: HDA is crashing..How can I duplicate it?

Quoting Kevin Cobb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 3.. 4. execute "find / -xdev | cpio -vdump /mnt" ^ a to reset access time, not u which would be redundant for an empty partition. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 65

Re: Setting hwclock time

Jack, Shaul has replied with reference material, but I had some problems with setting the hw clock. I got many answers =-- new bios, etc. Then someone suggested that I reboot with a dos floppy, set the hw clock to this century and that fixed my problem with two old machines. It is worth a tr

Re: esound (woody) broken?

:: On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 11:46:08 -0400, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > GNOME plays sounds through esd. If esd is not running, > and sound is enabled in GNOME, and an app issues a sound, then > GNOME pauses or hangs up. So one wants esd to be running. Well, I have a different problem. W

Wrong charset in KDE

I friend of mine has problems using KDE in catalán language. Especial symbols are not recognized in menus and $HOME/.xsession-errors shows following message: "KCharset: Wrong charset!" The FAQ of KDE tells about a pair of solutions but none of them seem to work for him. Has anyone solutioned thi

Re: telnet replacement

On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:25:44PM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > I think that I need some document on the ssh. www.openssh.com > I thought ssh and sshd are the client and server that would > replace telnet and telnetd respective. Why is ssh only available > for non-us distribution? Th

Re: Install problem with AHA 2940 SCSI (older PC)

Subject: Re: Install problem with AHA 2940 SCSI (older PC) Date: Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 01:34:08PM +0200 In reply to:Jason Quigley Quoting Jason Quigley([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > IIRC, and this is for all you people who used to run NT Server on the box > and therefore probably had l

Re: telnet replacement

Hi, I think that I need some document on the ssh. I thought ssh and sshd are the client and server that would replace telnet and telnetd respective. Why is ssh only available for non-us distribution? Secondly, I log on to the site below and found: non-free/ ssh-askpass-nonf

Re: How to copy a HDD with all Partitons and Datas?

Thomas Wild wrote: > > Hello, > > I have to install 6 machines with Debian. All the machines have the > same hardware. > So I´m looking for a chance to install it the easiest way. > > Is it possible, that I install it on one machine and copy the HDD to > all other HDDs and then to built in the H

Re: (xterm or rxvt) and VIM

"t.bedlam" wrote: > Is this a KDE problem? Does KDE use termcap and not terminfo? Termcap very > likely does not support color; a termcap.gz is in /usr/share/doc, but Debian > doesn't use it; it's just there for reference. My xterm/rxvt work great, > 2.1 and 2.2. I'm composing this mail in vim 5.

Re: telnet replacement

"Timothy C. Phan" wrote: > > One more question, does Debian offer the sshd and ssh client > in debianized package? I could not seem to find them anywhere. > You have to get it from the non-US section. For example, you could add this line to your sources.list in /etc/apt: deb ftp://non-us.

Getting X to work with a Diamond Viper v770 and slink

Ivan Vukosav wrote: > > How do I get Debian 2.1 to work with a Diamond Viper v770(NOT Ultra) card? Add deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent xfree-update main to /etc/apt/sources.list #apt-get update;apt-get upgrade;XF86Setup Thats how I got my 770 working. jpb -- Joe Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C

RE: telnet replacement

I sue SecureCRT to ssh to my Linux boxes. I tried others but they looked horrible. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetCo

How to copy a HDD with all Partitons and Datas?

Hello, I have to install 6 machines with Debian. All the machines have the same hardware. So I´m looking for a chance to install it the easiest way. Is it possible, that I install it on one machine and copy the HDD to all other HDDs and then to built in the HDDs in the new machines ? Thanks !

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