[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith) writes:
> I somehow changed the name of my server back copying files from
> another server onto this one. Which files sets the name of the
> server?
It took me a moment to figure out what you were asking. The file
you're looking for is /etc/hostname, which is used in th
Tom Bowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Incidentally it's not just receiving and sending data that is
> slow. There is also a 20-30 second delay between sending the modem
> initialisation (and phone number for that matter) strings and
> getting any response. Could it be something to do with the s
(This is being resent, as I have had to reconfigure my mail program to
get around internic's objection to the debian.org name)
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Aug 12, 1998 at 03:20:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Why you get different behaviour from xdm and start might
(This is being resent because it was mercilessly bounced... :( )
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> *- Damon Muller wrote about "resolv.conf, PPP and multiple providers"
> |
> | However, anyone have any hints on how to set up the resolv.conf file
> | when you have multiple ISPs? I guess I could have an
Doug Thistlethwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I upgraded my bo system to hamm last night. Everything went pretty
> well, though I did have the run the "install" portion of dselect
> several times for it to get through without errors...
Well, I'm impressed - I made a slight error
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
> > I went nuts partitioning the new disk. I was mostly just
> >experimenting. Many will think I have gone needlessly overboard. I won't
> >disagree. The old disk has two partitions, one being swap. The new
Ulisses Alonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all
>
> I would like to know _how to copy_ (not start a new shell, eg: script)
> stdout and stderr _from a shell script_ to a file. Also It is interesting
> for me if there is a way to stop copying stdout and stderr...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
Butch Kemper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1. What is causing the link to yo-yo and how to change the Windows
> boxes to stop the yo-yo from happening.
Doesn't diald come with some sort of monitor program? (use 'dpkg -L
diald' to see what comes with diald) I think it's called '
Mike Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to use xacc in the hamm release (xacc_1.0.17-2.deb), but
> when I try to enter a number in the register window, the cursor blinks
> exceedingly fast and it brings to X server to a near standstill. I
> can still continue, but at a snail's pace,
Yanick MICHOU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
> I would like to know what is the shell command to know what is the
> available, used and free memory on the current partition ?
You mean the available used and free disk space? The command is df -
I believe it stands for something like "disk f
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> "DP" == David Parmet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> DP> who is this pid 109 and what does it want with my life?
>
> pid = Process ID
>
> To check what prozess has ID 109 do a "ps ax|grep 109"
Incidentally, if you have the process id already,
Curt Daugaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I like the design of the Debian menu package, and I'm trying to
> follow the docs to get auto-updating of menus under X, but I seem
> to have hit a roadblock.
>
> I use Fvwm2, and according to the comments in system.fvwm2rc
> and the Fvwm2 docs--in the
jason and jill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It's included in the distribution and available for download from
> www.debian.org.
>
> Can't get much more available than that unless you contract Pam Anderson
> to deliver it to your home. ;)
>
> He may have missed it because it's in non-free rather
Stelios Parnassidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Just had the base system installation of Hamm, and wanted
> to type 'which superformat'. 'h' beeps and beeps ... i have
> to type Ctrl-V h to use it.
>
> I looked into the /etc/terminfo/l/linux via ... (untic)
> could find nothing.
>
> Wha
"Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey all. Why is it that when I reboot or halt my machine, I'm
> automatically switched to the first virtual console? I don't like this at
> all, because all of the messages coming from the rc scripts get sent
> whichever VC I was on when I typed
Benno Overeinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I am using the Fvwm95 window manager and has enabled the infamous
> FvwmTaskBarAutoHide option.
>
> With Debian 1.3, the Fvwm95 taskbar appeared automagically if the
> mouse hits the bottom of a virtual desktop (i.e., generated a certain
> e
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerald V. Livingston lI) writes:
> This isn't debian specific, but what the hey.
>
> How does one find out the format needed to use the -post_data switch
> in LYNX to feed data to a remote CGI using a script?
The data format is exactly what's sent to the server, so any refere
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If your password is in pap-secrets it is supposed to remain just that --
> a secret. I never see my password come wizzing by on xconsole and I use
> pap too. So, now we need to figure out why. The \q only works in a
> chatscript.
Do you perhaps have the deb
Matt Kopishke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have X (finally) working on my machine (bo), I am running FVWM2 and was
> wondering what I do to add a pattern or color (prefer pattern) to the
> desktop. I now you edit the fvwm.rc file, but what do I edit, what
> format file do I use for the patt
"Chris R. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm probably missing something obvious here, but I can't seem to get
> libpam0 and libpam-util to install, because aparently they depend on each
> other.
>
> Do I need to use dpkg --force ??
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
Try specifying both on the same dpkg
Nuno Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Debian 1.3.1 and KDE Beta4.
> When I call the xconsole program I could almost activity on my machine
> but I think there's something wrong ...
>
> Sometimes on xconsole I could see my login and password as when I write
> them !
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> After running dselect and trying to upgrade all my old hamm packages
> including libc6, nothing works now it seems the libc6 package is corrupted
> or something, i've tried to mount the file system and run dpkg -i
> --root=/mnt --admindir=/mnt/var/lib libc6xxx.deb b
Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> we have a local mirror of the debian distribution that we use
> to install our Debian PC's. However next week we will have to
> install Debian on a PC which has no access to our network so
> we want to create a CD starting from the current mi
Chip Grandits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've installed Netscape Communicator v4.05 on my bo system running
> Xwindows with the FVWM manager. I don't have any Motif or Motif
> clones. When I attempt to browse to a page which uses Java,
> Netscape just crashes immediately and goes away. (No h
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i tried to figure out while setting up the system whats supposed to go
> under the .xinitrc file and what into .xsession. Because I tried to
> use .xinitrc first to initialise stuff (like chosing window manager)
> but it won't work, so i put the things in
Carlos Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I need to shutdown our main mail server for hardware changes, and I'd
> like that another machine in our department receives the mail and hold
> it until the main server is up again, and then sends the stored mail
> to the server. How can this be done?
"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I too like fvwm2, but I can't configure the menu - I've RTFM and looked at
> the config pages, but I can't add things to sub-groups of the main menu -
> whatever I try just ends up at the bottom of the main menu (i.e. the
> `root' menu that comes up firs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Cool! Thanks alot!
> Can you tell me where is the documentation for this .Xresources file?
> man .xresources, man -k xresources etc don't have anything. :(
>
> Timothy
>
> > Three solutions:
> > 1) decide that the default xterm isn't so ugly after all.
> > 2) Modify
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
I managed to find the old jdk 1.1.3v2 .debs which can be installed on
bo (libc5 systems).
I've put them into my public_html directory on master.debian.org -
note that although I am a debian maintainer, I do not maintain nor
never have maintened the jdk packages.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Anyone know how to get something like,
> "xterm -bg black -cr green -fg white &"
> to be the command that gets spawned from WindowMaker's XShells->Xterm, instead
> of the ugly default xterm?
> Thanks in advance,
> Timothy
Three solutions:
1) decide that the default xte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 02:31:29PM +0200, Waldemar ¯urowski wrote:
> > I switched from Debian 1.3 to Debian 2.0 while I was writing a program for
> > my final exam of my study. I used in many places class String, and class
> > which implements regular expression. When I
Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What you are essentially trying to do here is to upgrade from libc5 to
> libc6 (the JDK was compiled for libc6). This is not a trivial task. It is
> the heart of the difference between Debian 1.3 and 2.0. There is a shell
> script called autoup.sh
"Stefan Gödel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm using VM. Does this really matter? I always felt that reading and
> writing / sending of mail are very distinct from each other (at least in
> xemacs). I'm using the usual mail mode with mime extensions to write
> my mail.
My variable help gives m
Admaster Communications <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 and I've tried many permutations of
>
>
> tar -zcvf test.tar * --exclude=leave_me_out.txt
>
> The file I ask to be excluded is reliably INcluded!! What is the correct
> syntax???
The problem is that --exclu
"Rev. Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 10:04:38PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> > Make sure you have "allow-user-xsession" in /etc/X11/config, then create
> > the file .xsession in your homedir. It should be something like:
> >
> > xterm & # start a xterm
Mario Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi
>
> Yesterday i (think i) did a mess of my system. I accidently made a strip * on
> a
> lib directory.
>
> Today when i try to compile anything I always get the following :
>
> gcc -O -o poster poster.c -lm
> ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _
Keith Alen Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have recently been screwing up my system and I am about ready to trash
> the whole thing and start over from scratch. I purchased a new video card
> Mystique 220 and I am trying to get it work with Xfree86 and AfterStep. I
> downloaded the files for
Keith Alen Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I recently installed a Matrox Mystique video card and was wondering what
> files I am missinf from my xfree86 and where I can get them. I don't have
> a browser setup on this computer so if you could give me ftp servers that
> would be great. Here is
Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have read the documentation on fvwm95 and on FvwmButtons but I am
> still at a loss to decide how I would override definitions of buttons
> in
> /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc
>
> What I would like to do is to use rclock rather than
Ionut Borcoman at musa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> bash-2.01$ fetchmail
> fetchmail: 1 message for borco at mail.mailbox.ro.
> reading message 1 of 1 (2579 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP error: 501
> <@mail.mailbox.ro
> > : colon expected after route
> fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 : sender address m
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The answer is easy. The new ppp's set auth "on" by default. They did
> not use to do so. Edit the provider script and add "noauth" near the
> end. All will be happy.
To be a bit more explicit - make certain that the keyword "noauth" is
in /etc/ppp/peers/pr
Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know how to have the modprobe in hamm display more
> descriptive log messages when it can't load a module? I've been
> getting messages in my log like:
>
> May 14 13:27:41 cush modprobe: can
Does anyone know how to have the modprobe in hamm display more
descriptive log messages when it can't load a module? I've been
getting messages in my log like:
May 14 13:27:41 cush modprobe: can't locate module
and I've been trying to track them down, (they appear whenever
netscape is started) b
"Jorge Daniel Ruckj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all.
>
> How I do a shutdown if I use xdm?
>
> Thanks
Are you aware that even while using xdm one can press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to
get to a text console? I find a surprising number of linux users
unaware of this fact.
>From the text console, you c
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can someone please help me setup ttysnoop?? I have set up the entry in
> inetd.conf.
>
> /etc/inetd.conf
> telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd
> /usr/sbin/in.telnetd -L/usr/sbin/ttysnoops
>
> /etc/snooptab
> * socket
Alain Toussaint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i was messing with some permission to directory but i think i found a bug
> in chmod,i try to run "chmod 751" on my home directory (i put the content
> of the home directory on another partition because of lack of space on my
> root partition),but the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi!
> I guess this it not a debian related problem, but:
> I am setting up a small Network with a linux server and some linux, win95 and
> nt-workstation clients. The clients shall be able to access the cd-rom and
> zip-drive on the server using autofs. The problem is t
Does anyone know how to have modprobe display more descriptive log
messages when it can't load a module? I've been getting messages in
my log like:
Apr 22 16:38:52 cush modprobe: can't locate module
and I've been trying to track them down, (they appear whenever
netscape is started) but it would
(I've replied to debian-user instead of debian-devel because this
really belongs on -user)
Ian Keith Setford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yo-
>
> I would like suggestions and input on how to "sell" Debian in the sense of
> Debian versus RedHat, FreeBSD, or any other distribution. I will attemp
Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> > I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic :
> >
> > :0
> > * ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > debian
>
> I would not trust the From line.
> Why don't you just use the Resent
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Why would any list accept an email message with the above in the To:
> header?
Your question could be asking one of two different things:
1) Why would the list accept mail with an "obviously bogus" To:
header?
2) Why would the
Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Scott D. Killen wrote:
>
> > What exactly is the hamm release?
>
> hamm is the nickname for the next version of Debian, 2.0. It has been
> frozen for testing since April 1st and most of the problems seem to have
> dissapeared now. It i
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi!
> I have problems installing this version of bash: postinst-script segfaults.
> Other scripts using /bin/sh also get segfaults now and loggin in with the new
> bash isn´t possible :-( .
> I am currently logged in as root with an old (bo) bash, so the system is quite
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Wilderspin) writes:
> On 16 Apr 98 13:17:25 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I keep getting an error message telling me that I can't unmount my CD drive.
>
> The simplest thing this could be is that one of your shells has /cdrom
> as their current directory. You ca
shaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am running fvwm2.
> I want that xclock will stick to the screen while I am moving to a different
> part of the screen (My screen is divided into 3x3 parts). How can I
> accomplish
> it with xclock command line ? How could I learn it without someone telling
Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't believe that is true
> I am using pine under hamm obn my pc here at work
> well..I have it installed...due to problems with firewall issues and DHCP
> I can't seem to get mail working but...
> I downloaded pine as a binary for hamm
> I sa
"Scott D. Killen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I run a server with Debian 1.3.1 installed. This machine is set up as an
> internet gateway to a 3 bit subnet. Diald is installed for automatic
> dialup internet connections. My machine runs a caching name server that
> the machines on the subn
Michael Thigpen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Also, what has happened to tkdesk? It has been my filebrowser and of
> choice and more for over a year now, and I cannot find it either.
tkdesk was orphaned by its maintainer - I've taken it, but since it
was orphaned at the time of the hamm freeze
Jeff Noxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 02:41:34PM -0500, Butch Kemper wrote:
> >
> > I want a script to execute as the Super User. I have tried several things
> > with the "s" attribute but have not been successful.
>
> Linux won't let you create suid shell scripts --
Corey Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> While I was editing my /etc/sudoers file using the visudo command,
> my computer lost power. When I was able to restore power, everything
> seemed to be functioning alright. Except, I tried to run the visudo
> command, and got the following error:
>
Ionut Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
>
> > (If you want an example exim.conf for a dialup system, I can send you
> > mine)
>
> Can you send me the configuration files, please. And some info to
> set up my e-ma
Gabrie van Zanten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I bought Debian 1.3.1 CD-version a few days ago. I have 2 computers:
> Pentium2 with CD player and Win98 / WinNT 5.0 on it and a 486 no CD rom /
> Win95 on it. What I did was copying the whole CD to the harddisk of the 486
> using Win95. Unf
"Gnoh, Chee Seng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
>I recently installed Debian 1.3 and X Window on my machine. I tried
> running AfterStep but it complained about some fonts (Adobe-Helvetica
> ...) not found. I encountered the same font problem with other apps as
> well. I used xinit to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Elliot) writes:
> I've asked a question about mail before and got a little help. I can now
> run fetchmail(thanks to whoever showed me how to setup .fetchmailrc). So I
> can READ my messages. However, I still don't know how to setup smail so I
> can send my mail. I po
"Marc van der Vossen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >Yes... Tell me, what does
> >
> >xlsfonts -fn "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-*"
> >
>
> It says font unmatched
>
> >say? If it says nothing, do as root
> >
> >/var/lib/dpkg/info/xfnt100.postinst
> >
> >and then do "xset fp rehash" (as your re
Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > root's initialization files, or into the system-wide path. (I should
> > qualify this with the statement that I don't completely understand why
> > th
"Marc van der Vossen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> > font "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-*" doesn't exist
> >>
> >> So there is a font missing, where should it be and how should I install
> it.
> >
> >You should install either the xfnt75 or xfnt100 package. I'll try to
> >remember to have the
Julien Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want to include in a debian distrib some programs, configs etc..
> If i can do that i would like to make an CD to install this version on
> my computers.
> Do you have HOWTOs, URLs or other that can explain me how to do ?
Well, I suggest you look at w
Gabrie van Zanten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Can I telnet and ftp to my own computer? I tried pinging 192.168.1.1 (which
> is this computer) but a ftp will not log me in, and a telnet either ?
>
> Do I have to start a special demon ? And how should I do that ?
No, you just need to al
Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Gabrie van Zanten wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sometimes I see a program (I think) but I can't run it, even though I'm
> > using root. Like this one:
> > -rwxr-xr-x XF86_S3V 2043768
> >
> > I thought I could at least run it and get an
shaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there any Debianized Netscape for Debian 1.3.1 except for the probably
> obsolete (and also problematic) Netscape 3.01 (Navigator) ?
Well, first off, there is no .deb package of netscape itself, period.
What there are are .deb installer packages - these are
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi. I just installed xemacs20 (I had xemacs19 before).
>
> Any idea on how to fix this, or any other way to get it to syntax
> highlighting?
Well, I don't know why registerring the file with version control
would give you syntax highlighting, but you problem may come
"M.C. Bezemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi!
>
> Just in case you didn't yet notice, it seems that the spam mail
> on the debian-user list is coming from only ONE sender.
Well, all the spam that came from aol.
I notice that no one seems at all upset about the obviously commercial
spam (even
"Tristan Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After loads of problems with LSL ( after 2 weeks they wrote back to me
> saying my credit card was out of date because 1/10/98 in England means 1st
> October and over in America it's 10th Jan, and I wrote back correcting them
> but they said that I have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Elliot) writes:
> the hostname, but won't let me get mail. I changed my computer name to
> mail.inxpress.net(my mail servers provider), and used fetchmail... I told
> it to send my root mail to my main user(alfor). When it downloaded it, it
> appeared to delete the mess
Ian Lynagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On the release of Hamm I will be taking Win'95 off my 486 and replacing
> it with Linux (BTW, does 40 meg swap partition sound about right for
> 8 megs of RAM (total HD size=340MB)?).
It sounds much too big. I would definitely NOT have swap space more
tha
"Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You comment is very precise, but isolating the names of the packages,
> and running dpkg to see if they both (or at least one of them, because
> of some weird upgrade cases) conflict with the other would not take
> more than 5 lines of perl,
Liran Zvibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Now that I know that I should type and not name.calss ( I
> couldn't have thought about it myself) I can start working.
> Does anyone of you has an addition to .emacs or another emacs file that
> colors java sources (Like there is for C\C++
gunfried geiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dear Linux Experts,
>
> what might be the reason for the following behaviour of FTP when trying to
> log into my Linux device: the client shows 'connected to 134.2.4.8'
> but after specifying the user and the CORRECT password, it shows:
> '530 Login i
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> OK, I had to do it. Radio shack had $15 joysticks with a $15 rebate, and I
> took one for the kids machine at home, which runs the darkside
>...
> So now I want to connect it to my machine. But looking through the kernel
> build, i see no
Here's what I'd do - install the ash from hamm, then do:
ln -sf ash /bin/sh
Then, edit your /etc/passwd file (with vi, probably) and change the
top line so that it contains '/bin/ash' instead of '/bin/bash' - root
should now be able to log in, at least.
Damir Naden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> *
Otavio Exel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hi all,
>
> I'm using Debian 1.3 bo with a 2.0.29 kernel; my smail installation is
> preety standard; I have a permanent connection to the internet; smail is
> working fine for most everything here;
>
> ..but I still have some questions.. see if you can
Bujtar Janos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello !
>
>
> Today my debian hamm started to fail when i want to see a man page
>
> Every time i want to see man pages (any!!!) the result is core dumped.
>
> Stracing the man the last message is " Updating index cache for path.."
>
>
> Any ideas?
Alexey Vyskubov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there a way to grab root window without such sophisticated procedure?
xwd -root > file.xwd
This format is a bit ... obscure, but it can be converted to ppm with
xwdtopnm (in the netpbm package), and you can look at a captured image
with xwud. I
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> sendmail seems to ignore the entries in /etc/hosts, relying instead on
> doing a DNS lookup for each message. smail does this also. Is there a
> way to configure it to look first at /etc/hosts and use the DNS only if
> the address cannot be resolved ther
Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I often make a script called my.reset that simply echo's ^O (letter o).
> If this attachment worked right, then you should be able to use it without
> any problem. Fyi, ^O puts the terminal back into text mode which is the
> only problem I've ever ha
cleto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I need to install Bash 2.01 on a Debian 1.3.1 bo-based system.
> How safe is it to use bash-2.01 from bo-unstable? Does anyone have had
> problems with that?
>
> Thanks for any tip!
>
> Cleto
I used essentially that same bash 2.01 on my bo box for
Adrian Monk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am having the problem that some mail (only the occasional message) is
> getting stuck in /var/spool/mail/input. Running mailq gives:
>
> ABCDEFG-HJKLMNO From: atheris (in var/spool/smail/imput)
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 22:35:35 + (Loc
"M. Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Status: Stage 2: Further along, running into DNS issues
>
> Thanks for the suggestions thus far:
> I had a shell script which didn't have the correct 'executable'
> permissions. Something like rw-rw-rw instead of chmod 777
> /etc/ppp/.
>
> Here is how f
"C.J.LAWSON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>I was just wondering if anyone knew of a package for editing scanned in
> images.
The gimp (non-free in bo; free in hamm) is almost certainly what you
want.
DANIEL MARTIN
p.s. why non-free and then free? The gimp people stopped using Motif
an
Vladislav Papayan x285 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
> When installing debian I was suggested by the installation program to
> use XDM to start X windows.
> I now understand that I do not want that. However I can only use startx
> command (what I was using
> before the new installation) if
"Tristan Day " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Being *completely* new to Linux, I thought the Windows-like environment
> would be part of the Debian Installation.
> I guess what I was after was Xwindow/Xfree or something.
>
> I looked all over the site and searched for both, but can only find
> ref
"Maximiano C. Francisco III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do you enable X to run at say 16 bpp? I know you can tell X to run
> at 16bpp by running X as:
> X -bpp 16
> But how do you make sure that everytime I log on it goes to this
> resolution automatically?
>
> Also, I
Steve Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> tko,
>
> setterm -blank 0
>
> Steve Mayer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I know that this has been asked before, but please refresh my
> > memory... The default screen blanking is shutting off the X
> > windows display preve
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Florian Attenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I´m connected to my isp via isdn.
> > Every 20 minutes my computer dials out and in dont know why.
>
> Looks like your MTA. If you use smail, check the crontab in /etc/smail.
If you determine
Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if the following is possible using either Smail or Sendmail,
>
> What I want to do is to use smail or sendmail mail to deliver my internet
> email, The problem I have is that I need one of these packages to
"Russ Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have numerous packages installed on my system. In the case of the
> xserver-svga package, the version number of the Bo package was higher than
> that of the Hamm package, and it was not apparent to me that I needed to
> reinstall it. Is there a script
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Fernando Tadeu C Brandt wrote:
>
> > Netscape is showing the following error box when I try to open
> > postscripts, sound file, etc:
> >
> > sh: -c line 1: missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression
> > sh: -c line 1: syntax erro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes:
> Okay... over the last 2-3 months I have been subscribed to this list, I
> have noticed a predominant percentage of messages are about smail, and
> it's configuration.
>
> Obviously, I have a question. What I would like to know is what are
> peoples op
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) writes:
> Well thanks to help from Art, Carey, Daniel, and Martin I think we have
> the problem narrowed down to the envelope sender (MAIL FROM: in the
> SMTP dialog). If I connect to the mail server with telnet as Carey
> suggested, everything is fine. Netscape
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