swap partition too small

2000-07-12 Thread Tony Laszlo
In trying to conserve the little hard disk space (110M) that I have, I have unfortunately made the swap partition too small when installing Debian. I know I should probably pay penance and do the install all over again, but am wondering if there is a way to carve out a portion of the hard disk

Fw: introduce ourselves to you.

2000-07-12 Thread Ethan Pierce
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introduce ourselves to you.

2000-07-12 Thread Superband
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Re: user space nfsd?

2000-07-12 Thread Ragga Muffin
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > a word of warning, > > current NFS in linux is really bad. dont know if its the kernel or the > tools or both(probably both) but i have experienced severe problems with > it. the last time i tried it i tried to get a debian 2.2 machine with a > s

Re: ProFTPd and NIS problems in Woody [Solved]

2000-07-12 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Ernest Johanson wrote: > > Not sure about woody since I'm not running it, but one thing to check is > whether the proftpd.conf fine contains the PersistentPassword > directive. It needs to be set to off to recognize NIS accounts. > Thank you for the hint. This in fact fixed the problem. I wonder

Success: Potato > LinkSys > SDSL > LAN

2000-07-12 Thread montefin
Success Thanks to This List! Some of you may remember a request for help I posted here back in May, 2000, asking for guidance preparing my Debian 486DX, firewall-to-be, box for an imminent SDSL connection. If interested, the thread starts here in the archives: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives

DBD::mysql vs DBI->data_sources('mysql')

2000-07-12 Thread Will Trillich
i'm not the first to notice this (as i peruse older posts on geocrawler.com) but i've not seen any definitive answers-- until i recently did 'apt-get upgrade', this worked: #!/usr/bin/perl use DBI; my @src = DBI->data_sources( 'mysql' ); now, it returns nothing. blank lis

help

2000-07-12 Thread sehari24jam
___ cogito ergo sum

Re: user space nfsd?

2000-07-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a word of warning, current NFS in linux is really bad. dont know if its the kernel or the tools or both(probably both) but i have experienced severe problems with it. the last time i tried it i tried to get a debian 2.2 machine with a self-built 2.2.15 kernel to mount a nfs drive from a redhat an

Re: IMAP-aware anymail/frm ?

2000-07-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Actually the current imap package doesn't seem to contain it, but I managed to do something similar with fetchmail. The package is called fetchmail, the relevant command is fetchmail -c. Unfortunately this only gives a count of the new messages, maybe I can hack it to give the From: and Subject: h

user space nfsd?

2000-07-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
I'm looking for a way to mount my home directory on a remote machine, on my linux machine at home. I don't have root access on the remote machine. Anyone know if this is possible? Something very similar is surely possible since Emacs does it (ange-ftp), but I'm looking for a command-line solution.

libssl09 vs libssl095a

2000-07-12 Thread Daniel Whelan
I am trying to install libapache-mod-ssl, but am unable to for the following reason: libapache-mod-ssl depends on openssl and libssl09. openssl depends on libssl095a. libssl09 and libssl095a conflict with one another, making the whole thing unresolvable. :( Any ideas on how to get around this, or

Re: Lilo-problem: linux on the 'second' hd

2000-07-12 Thread Tom Pfeifer
You may have to add the table=/dev/hda as shown below. Also be sure that the Win98 partition is set active. You can check/set this with either Linux or Win98 fdisk. It should already be active but... boot=/dev/hda (install Lilo in MBR) compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map prompt timeou

wwwoffle config script

2000-07-12 Thread Moritz Schulte
hi, here's something, i don't understand: /usr/share/doc/wwwoffle/README.Debian says, it's possible to change wwwoffle's language with 'dpkg-reconfigure wwwoffle'. if i type this, i get: gryffindor:~# dpkg-reconfigure wwwoffle Starting HTTP cache proxy server: wwwoffled. WWWOFFLE Now Online gryffi

Re: IMAP-aware anymail/frm ?

2000-07-12 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Is there a command-line tool in the style of anymail or frm or from > which understands IMAP and prints out a very short list of the > new messages in my INBOX or else something like "You have no new mail"? > Oh yeah, it should be faster than running t

Re: potato & netscape - doesnt install?

2000-07-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
But there is only one which is just "navigator" and one which is just "communicator" with nothing else in the name. Installing one of these with dselect or apt-get will cause all the dependencies to be installed, so you will get all the needed files. By themselves, they only contain documentation

Re: XFree86 server for ATI Rage 128 Pro

2000-07-12 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Thanks but the card is a Rage Fury Pro, not a Rage Fury. There is a different chipset and the usual Rage128 drivers which are in the SVGA server of 3.3.6 do not seem to work with this set. Carlo On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, thomas huber wrote: >on suse6.3 you found a special file for this >or take i

Re: newusers command

2000-07-12 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Suresh Kumar. R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does adduser support reading data from a file? For large number > of users like in our case (around 500) interactive entry for each > user is not a desirable option. I don't believe adduser will read from a file, not directly anyway, but it is a perl

potato - afterstep & themes

2000-07-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Since there is no themes submenu in afterstep w/potato how would 1 go about installina theme? everywhere i look seems it depends on this theme menu to change themes .. nate ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:04pm up 33 days, 38 min, 3 users, load averag

Re: random signature

2000-07-12 Thread Sven Burgener
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 10:48:22PM +0200, Christopher Splinter wrote: > * Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is there a way to put some sort of random signature system to > > > > use in mutt? > > I assume mutt isn't able to handle multiple signatures or is > > there a way to rot' t

Re: pacbell DSL

2000-07-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yup i setup a vpn between 2 linux boxes last year over pacbell DSL(384k) in stockton CA. works fine. nate On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, M.J. Inabnit wrote: ke6sls >HELP! ke6sls > ke6sls >Has ANYONE in California (united States Of America) Been able to ke6sls >order and use Pacific Bells Basic DSL servic

Re: Forcing X to use 100dpi fonts?

2000-07-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
great, i'll try that out, thanks!! nate On 12 Jul 2000, David Z Maze wrote: dmaze >Try adding '-dpi 100' to your X command line, either by modifying your dmaze >display manager's configuration file or by tacking it on to the end of dmaze >a startx line (startx :0 -- -dpi 100). Also, make sure

Re: random signature

2000-07-12 Thread Christopher Splinter
* Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a way to put some sort of random signature system to > > > use in mutt? > I assume mutt isn't able to handle multiple signatures or is > there a way to rot' the sigs for every mail I compose? :) ??? The perlscript I posted does nothing bu

Re: potato & netscape - doesnt install?

2000-07-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
there are several packages with navigator in them can u be more specific? can u do something like dpkg -l | grep netscape and paste the output.. nate On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Nate Bargmann wrote: n0nb >Netscape is now included in the dslect archive so you don't have to do n0nb >the .tar.gz downlo

Re: random signature

2000-07-12 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all > > Is there a way to put some sort of random signature system to > > use in mutt? [Useful answers / code from various ppl] Thanks a lot to all who answered. I am now using sigrot in combination with an alias which calles sigrot prior to mutt. I assume mutt isn't able to handle multiple

Re: XFree86 server for ATI Rage 128 Pro

2000-07-12 Thread thomas huber
on suse6.3 you found a special file for this or take it from server read sdb.suse.de/sdb/de/html/cg_rage128_63.html vale On Mit, 12 Jul 2000, Carlo U. Segre wrote: > Hello All: > > Has anyone found a working driver for an ATI Rage 128 Pro AGP card? > I have tried the SVGA and it does not recogni

XFree86 server for ATI Rage 128 Pro

2000-07-12 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello All: Has anyone found a working driver for an ATI Rage 128 Pro AGP card? I have tried the SVGA and it does not recognize the card, but tries to operate it and I get a blank display which can be terminated with Ctl-Alt-Backspace. A dump of the xserver's output is below as is the /proc/pci d

automated data distribution

2000-07-12 Thread Ashley Clark
I'm trying to find some software that will work with Linux to facilitate automatic data distribution across a Win9x/NT network. Does anything like this exist for Linux? Preferably Free (speech, not beer) but I'll take any suggestions. It's for distributing a custom warranty application at a network

Re: standard large memory question

2000-07-12 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 07:02:25PM +0100, Jeff Green wrote: > It did automatically detect until the last couple of kernels (progress?) > what you want is append="mem=160M" somewhere in lilo.conf Actually, the BIOS makers started changing the API again. Reverting to an older BIOS will make it work

IMAP-aware anymail/frm ?

2000-07-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Is there a command-line tool in the style of anymail or frm or from which understands IMAP and prints out a very short list of the new messages in my INBOX or else something like "You have no new mail"? Oh yeah, it should be faster than running the anymail command remotely over ssh.. -chris

Re: error messages from dpkg

2000-07-12 Thread Michael Soulier
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 11:22:59AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > Go to /var/lib/dpkg/info and run the script by hand > (it should be called something like "dhcpcd.postinst"). > If it's a sh script (starts with #!/bin/sh) you can put a > set -x > on the line after the #!/bin/sh and then run t

from Gopakumar Regarding Executable-java

2000-07-12 Thread gopa kumar
Hai,, I am Gopakumar from India-Chennai ... I am working in java field ,i have task to convert the java program into executable(exe --file)File.Please Let me know the details about that This exe--file should be platform independent--O/s independent.. Please send the de

Re: standard large memory question

2000-07-12 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
> > So I've used > > mem=160 > > Am I missing something obvious? > Yes. The units i.e. mem=160M ahh. That did it. gee, if it won't run in 160 bytes of ram, the port to the 8051 is doomed :) thanks

Re: standard large memory question

2000-07-12 Thread Jeff Green
It did automatically detect until the last couple of kernels (progress?) what you want is append="mem=160M" somewhere in lilo.conf Jeff "Richard E. Hawkins" wrote: > > Ack. I've seen the answer to this dozens of times, but can't find it > in the archives. > > I *thought* that large memory was

error messages from dpkg

2000-07-12 Thread Michael Soulier
Hey guys. Is there a place where error messages from pre and post install scripts used by dpkg are stored? I have a postinstall script failing for dhcpcd, and it doesn't actually tell me why. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier, 1Z22, SKY Tel: 613-765-4699 (ESN: 39-54699) Optical Networks, Nor

pacbell DSL

2000-07-12 Thread M.J. Inabnit
HELP! Has ANYONE in California (united States Of America) Been able to order and use Pacific Bells Basic DSL service? According to the Web site (http://www.pacbell.com) the only OS's supported are new Macintosh and Windoz. I plan to order ASAP Cuz I am without an ISP and figure the time is righ

Re: standard large memory question

2000-07-12 Thread Debian User
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > Ack. I've seen the answer to this dozens of times, but can't find it > in the archives. > > I *thought* that large memory was now automatically detected, but my > system on a nice fresh frozen is still only finding 64M (out of 160M) > > So

standard large memory question

2000-07-12 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
Ack. I've seen the answer to this dozens of times, but can't find it in the archives. I *thought* that large memory was now automatically detected, but my system on a nice fresh frozen is still only finding 64M (out of 160M) So I've used mem=160 at lilo, but the kernel panics trying to cre

Re: problem with installation of kernel modules

2000-07-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Debian User wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote: > > >try > >mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom > > Why not..open your computer up...find out what it is on (i.e. master, > slave, prim/secon) and then you know WHAT the device is :) Yuck. Easier to try all four devices: #

Re: newusers command

2000-07-12 Thread Suresh Kumar. R
Hi, Does adduser support reading data from a file? For large number of users like in our case (around 500) interactive entry for each user is not a desirable option. Suresh On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 11:40:32AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Suresh Kumar. R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I used n

RE: FTP, MASQ, certian hosts timeout

2000-07-12 Thread Chris Wood
In researching this it looks like the servers that lag 5 minutes were failing to do a reverse lookup for the ftp connection because of a bad DNS setting with ATT (they had a typo). This turned out to be the problem. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Chris Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: problem with installation of kernel modules

2000-07-12 Thread Debian User
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Ricardo Gabriel Herdt wrote: >try >mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom Why not..open your computer up...find out what it is on (i.e. master, slave, prim/secon) and then you know WHAT the device is :) Joe > > but I'm not a indicated person to say how to make this things

Re: Tekram DC310U? Re: Advansys 3940UA Ultra-SCSI controller recommended?

2000-07-12 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Peter: > Hi again, > > I can get a Tekram DC310U PCI Ultra-SCSI controller (based on the > Symbios Logic SYM53C860 SCSI-3 Chip) for the same price as > the Advansys 3940UA. It uses the sym53c8xx.o driver. > > Should I go for that instead? > > Thanks! > -- > Peter Galbraith, research scientist

Re: problem with installation of kernel modules

2000-07-12 Thread Ricardo Gabriel Herdt
try mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom but I'm not a indicated person to say how to make this things for you, I'm a bit new in Linux. Ricardo Gabriel Herdt Em qua, 12 jul 2000, you wrote: > At 13:12 12.07.00 -0300, you wrote: > > Hi Christian, > > Hi to

Re: ProFTPd and NIS problems in Woody

2000-07-12 Thread Ernest Johanson
Not sure about woody since I'm not running it, but one thing to check is whether the proftpd.conf fine contains the PersistentPassword directive. It needs to be set to off to recognize NIS accounts. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Pedro

Re: problem with installation of kernel modules

2000-07-12 Thread Ricardo Gabriel Herdt
Hi Christian, try to open another shell by pressing ALT + F2 and mount the cdrom by yourself. Just an idea. Ricardo Gabriel Herdt Em qua, 12 jul 2000, Christian Mathes escreveu: > Hi all, > > I currently install Debian 2.1 from an ATAPI (IDE) CD-ROM drive. > I have pr

Pb installing Mozilla

2000-07-12 Thread Benoit NOSS
Hello, I have a debian 2.1 (stable version) In the stable tree of the debian ftp server, I haven't found mozilla, so I decided to download it from unstable tree. I had to update lots of libraries to make it work, and I'm not sure I did all well because ./mozilla-installer send me an error about lib

Re: Installation of .tgz files

2000-07-12 Thread Christopher Splinter
* "Suresh Kumar. R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When we install some package using .tgz files, the debian > package mechanism is not aware that the particular package is > installed. For ex. I installed postfix*.tgz but apt is unaware > of it. Therefore, when I use apt-get for installilng somethi

Re: random signature

2000-07-12 Thread Christopher Splinter
* Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to put some sort of random signature system to > use in mutt? Untested: #!/usr/bin/perl # Version: let's call it 0.9.9, date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 21:03:36 +0200 # Version: 0.9.9a, date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 17:54:44 +0200 # Written by Eduard B

Re: Forcing X to use 100dpi fonts?

2000-07-12 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nate> anyone know how to force X to use 100dpi ? Try adding '-dpi 100' to your X command line, either by modifying your display manager's configuration file or by tacking it on to the end of a startx line (startx :0 -- -dpi 100). Also, make sure

problem with installation of kernel modules

2000-07-12 Thread Christian Mathes
Hi all, I currently install Debian 2.1 from an ATAPI (IDE) CD-ROM drive. I have problems to execute the step "install kernel modules". The setup software refuses to mount my CD-ROM drive. I get a list with entries from /dev/hda/ to /dev/hdh/. I tried all alternatives but in all cases I recieved th

Re: dselect and Packages.gz

2000-07-12 Thread Debian User
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Tony Laszlo wrote: > I have installed Debian 2.0 (kernel 2.0.34) from > floppies and have booted from the hard disk > after installing all the base.tgz. Do I need > to install the rest of the packages from the > old 2.0 archives, or from the current files? > I searched

dselect and Packages.gz

2000-07-12 Thread Tony Laszlo
I have installed Debian 2.0 (kernel 2.0.34) from floppies and have booted from the hard disk after installing all the base.tgz. Do I need to install the rest of the packages from the old 2.0 archives, or from the current files? I searched for 2.0 files and found the following. ftp.debian.org

Sorry for the incovience

2000-07-12 Thread Walter_L._Williams
I have changed E-mail addresses so I can better manage my E-mail. I was having difficulty sorting out the important job related stuff. So I unscribed and re-subscribed under a new address. I realized I did it wrong the first time. Again, sorry for the inconvience. -- Thanks Walt in Beautifu

Potato install won't let me set root password.

2000-07-12 Thread Stephen Starling
Had to use potato because I have an Athlon (tried slink, it hangs, did research here and found that the kernal was too old). So Potato installs fine up to and including "The Moment of Truth" Then it asks to set MD5? then Shadow? then root password? That's where I set it, it asks to confirm by re

ThinkPad 600, kernel 2.2.17pre6, and hibernation

2000-07-12 Thread Thomas Hood
This is just to inform ThinkPad 600 users that I have tested the latest kernel, 2.2.17pre6, and can report that SFAICT the hibernation problem has been solved. With kernel 2.2.15, when one would request hibernation the machine would hang up for a few seconds, beep, and then hibernate. But the pro

Re: potato & netscape - doesnt install?

2000-07-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 01:11:13AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > BUT i cant get netscape to install. in the past i downloaded the netscape > tar.gz file to /tmp and did an apt-get install netscape4 which then > scanned /tmp and tried to find a valid archive to install from, this > doesn't h

Re: How to print? (Xerox DocuPrint C15)

2000-07-12 Thread Bjoern Brill
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Horacio MG wrote: > > Personally, I prefer magicfilter, but the important question is not > > taste but whether one of the packages contains a filter that will > > translate into a language your Xerox DocuPrint knows. Have a look at > > both. > > I just tried apsfilter, went

Re: smbmount

2000-07-12 Thread Debian User
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > thanx for the replies, it is all working now... > > > > it is weird how a redhat Samba rpm package would have smbmount/smbclient > > included whereas a Debian Samba package doesn't. > > > Not everyone who uses samb

Re: smbmount

2000-07-12 Thread Keith G. Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > thanx for the replies, it is all working now... > > it is weird how a redhat Samba rpm package would have smbmount/smbclient > included whereas a Debian Samba package doesn't. > Not everyone who uses samba needs both of those. For instance, I use samba, and smbmount

Re: Stopping Portmap

2000-07-12 Thread mcclosk
|> 1. run /etc/init.d/portmapper stop |> 2. put "exit 0" (without quotes) as the first uncommented line in |> /etc/init.d/portmapper |> 3. If apt/dselect/dpkg every ask you to update that script, keep |> the one you modified (the new one will be |> /etc/init.d/portmapper.dpkg-dist) This will w

DVD-ROM suggestions

2000-07-12 Thread Dan Hutchinson
I was hoping to get a DVD-ROM for Debian Potato. Does anyone on this list have a good suggest of which DVD and decoder card I should get? Does DVD work with Linux yet? I want it primary for DVD movies and as a CDROM/CD-R reader. Dan _

Re: apt files to CD?

2000-07-12 Thread Debian User
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Pat Mahoney wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 09:41:00AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello Users, > > Is there a way to download all the apt files, burn them to CD and install > > off of that? > > I have a fast connection at work to d/l the files, but only a modem at

Re: Toshiba Satellite T1910CS notebook - preferred version?

2000-07-12 Thread Debian User
On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Tony Laszlo wrote: > > I am trying to install Debian on a Toshiba > Satellite T1910CS, 486, 110M HD, 8MB ram . > I won't be running X and will just need to > use: vim, pine (+fetchmail/sendmail), > lynx, ftp, telnet and pcmcia and parallel > port modules. > > Have gon

Help with installing unstable packages?

2000-07-12 Thread Romulo Velasquez
I have found some debian packages on debian's ftp site that I would like to install. I tried to install it and it had some dependency problems. I did not have the other debian packages to satisfy the dependencies so the package didn't install correctly. The package that I wanted to install was a

Re: exim bewilderment

2000-07-12 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/12/00 08:12:43 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > exim bewilderment > > hey, > > it was with mild suprise that I realized that I have *no clue* > how to use exim especially with regard to .forward files. I > used exim, too, before I upgraded (tho without .forward) > > can someone direct me

Re: Our Information We offer PE-AL (plastic-aluminum)composite pipe from China

2000-07-12 Thread Jason Wong
Dear Sir, We are glad to have learned your e-mail address from the http://www.untpdc.org BBS and we are writing to you with the hope of establishing a long-term relations. We, Foshan Rifeng Enterprise Co., Ltd. are a new & Hi-tech enterprise in Guangdong Province, China. With production te

apt-get problems

2000-07-12 Thread Jens Luedicke
Hi there ... I messed up some files on my system and needed to reinstall everything again. When I was finished with all my packages I wanted to run "apt-get update". apt-get fetched all the lists but when it was reading/parsing the lists, I got an error message: E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!

Re: Lilo-problem

2000-07-12 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 06:33:59PM -0400, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > Johann Spies wrote: > > > Thanks Tom and others who replied. I am learning (although sometimes > > the hard way) ;) > > > > I have now also installed NT booting from /dev/hda. Can I still use > > Lilo or is it saver to use NT's boot

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exim bewilderment

2000-07-12 Thread balayo
exim bewilderment hey, it was with mild suprise that I realized that I have *no clue* how to use exim especially with regard to .forward files. I used exim, too, before I upgraded (tho without .forward) can someone direct me to good info, and/or fill me in on how exim forwards mail from differe

Re: dhcpcd segfault

2000-07-12 Thread Michael Soulier
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 09:08:47PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > Now, I have to boot into single user mode, because otherwise the boot > > process stops after segfaulting dhcpcd, doing a little more, and then > > hangs on trying to bring up sendmail. The segfault looks like: > > Sendmail 'hangs

Re: imp

2000-07-12 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi Matthew, On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Matthew Thompson wrote: > > The only thing I'm wondering about now is whether to switch from qpopper > over to an IMAP-based mail system. Part of the reason for this is that > IMP still wants to display IMAP as the default Server, even though I > changed the

Re: random signature

2000-07-12 Thread Richard Klinda
Hoi Sven! Sven> Is there a way to put some sort of random signature system to use in Sven> mutt? If not, can any other mail client do this? (I dont want / have X Sven> on this box here) Yes, check out signify it can do everything with your signature(s) you can imagine! :) (You can use it w/

Re: random signature

2000-07-12 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 09:30:50PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Is there a way to put some sort of random signature system to use in > mutt? If not, can any other mail client do this? (I dont want / have X > on this box here) yes, you can do it with mutt. if you set the signature like this: s

Re: Lilo-problem: linux on the 'second' hd

2000-07-12 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, virtanen wrote: > I did it according to Your advice. It worked fine. > So I can recommend this lilo.conf file to the others who have got > dos on the 'first' (=C in dos) hardisk > and > linux on the 'second' harddisk. ___ -->> Comm

IMAP (Netscape?) hiccups in Woody

2000-07-12 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I upgraded from Potato to Woody and now I'm experiencing problems (non fatal fortunately) with the IMAP server when using the Netscape mail client: 1. 9 out of 10 times, when I try to delete a message from the INBOX I get an error window saying something like "IMAP message copy failed." I

ProFTPd and NIS problems in Woody

2000-07-12 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, ProFTPd doesn't recognize NIS accounts and says "(Login failed): Can't find user" in the log file. It works fine with local (non NIS) accounts. This has been reported as bug #62197 which is over 90 days old already. Does anyone know of a workaround (other than scraping ProFTpd which is what

Exim and Cyrus IMAP...

2000-07-12 Thread Jason Quigley
Hi! Has anybody managed to get exim to work with Cyrus IMAP server? I have added the following to exim.conf but messages still go to my system inbox: local_delivery: driver = pipe command = "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver ${local_part}" return_path_add return_output pre

Exim and Cyrus IMAP...

2000-07-12 Thread Jason Quigley
Hi! Has anybody managed to get exim to work with Cyrus IMAP server? I have added the following to exim.conf but messages still go to my system inbox: local_delivery: driver = pipe command = "/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver ${local_part}" return_path_add return_output pref

Re: potato & netscape - doesnt install?

2000-07-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
Think you want the netscape4 package (which is an installer for 4.x series netscape that you've downloaded). On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 01:11:13AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have many potato machines, all of which are slink machines that were > apt-get'd upgraded to potato, all work fine. i

Re: some basic unix commands and mswordview?

2000-07-12 Thread virtanen
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > about twenty word documents starting with 'a'. > > And I wanted to get them each into html, if possible with a single > > command. > > What to do? > > (Some people who know linux/unix well will surely know an easy answer how > > to do it.) > > I'm su

Re: Stopping Portmap

2000-07-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 12:41:24AM -0700, Chris Cameron wrote: > I'm hoping that someone will be able to help me stop the portmapping > services on my computer. I was going through the Security Focus' > Securing Linux article, and it's reference to how to stop the > portmapping service was all for

potato & netscape - doesnt install?

2000-07-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have many potato machines, all of which are slink machines that were apt-get'd upgraded to potato, all work fine. i finally found and downloaded and burned a copy of potato test cycle 2 from ftp.debian.org(all 3 cds) and installed it today. must say im impressed with the new installer full dhcp

Forcing X to use 100dpi fonts?

2000-07-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
anyone know how to force X to use 100dpi ? i got a new monitor and am using 1600x1200 (as opposed to 1024x768 before) and the fonts are kinda small, i took the 75dpi font paths out but seems they are still bein used..would i have to recompile the fonts database(?) via mkfontdir or somethin? nate

Re: Stopping Portmap

2000-07-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
what i do is rename /sbin/portmap to something else, that prevents it from starting, be sure other things start up though i use xinetd and it fails to start w/o 1) having portmap start 2) modifying the xinetd startup script to have it ignore portmap(what i do) nate On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Chris Ca

Re: some basic unix commands and mswordview?

2000-07-12 Thread Matthew Dalton
virtanen wrote: > For example I've got: > __ > > asiakirja1.doc > asiak2.doc > asia.doc > etc > about twenty word documents starting with 'a'. > > _ > > And I wanted to get them each into html, if possible with a single > command. > > I've tri

some basic unix commands and mswordview?

2000-07-12 Thread virtanen
Hi, I started using mswordview just today. (My system is Debian/GNU linux 'slink'.) It works fine and good. (I've used latex2html as well to make good html-documents earlier, but when starting from msword docs it is too much trouble to convert them first to latex and then to html...) Mswordvi

Re: Lilo-problem: linux on the 'second' hd

2000-07-12 Thread virtanen
Hi, I did it according to Your advice. It worked fine. So I can recommend this lilo.conf file to the others who have got dos on the 'first' (=C in dos) hardisk and linux on the 'second' harddisk. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Tom Pfe

Stopping Portmap

2000-07-12 Thread Chris Cameron
I'm hoping that someone will be able to help me stop the portmapping services on my computer. I was going through the Security Focus' Securing Linux article, and it's reference to how to stop the portmapping service was all for Slackware. Thanks for any help, Chris

Building PHP 4.0.1pl2(woody) on potato

2000-07-12 Thread Shane Wegner
Hi, As the subject suggests, I am attempting to build the php 4.0.1pl2 from woody on a potato system. After satisfying all build-depends, "debian/rules binary" failed with a strange error. All supporting libraries are taken from potato and therefore may be older than those in woody and that coul

Ouch, no kerneld for message

2000-07-12 Thread Madarasz Karoly
Hello all! What is Ouch, no kerneld for message 2147418946 in syslog? The story: I configured my first linux server to provide ppp connections via modems, and samba services. Now everithing work fine, but in few days the system is overloaded and finally die for the users. The server itself is wor

Re: Mutt and IMAP - Specifying server

2000-07-12 Thread Brian May
> "Damon" == Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Damon> One was in which to specify an imap server is to use `c' Damon> (change folder) and tell it to change folder to: Damon> {your.imap.server}INBOX Damon> (or whatever). While that works well, I've never worked out