Follow symlinks

1999-07-07 Thread Gonzalo Diethelm
Hello, I saw on the Web a discussion about forcing mirror to follow the symlinks and actually download the files they point to (especially useful if you want to, for example, mirror debian/unstable). Alas, I can't get it to work. My package file looks like this: package=debian-unstable

RE: Report: installed hamm from Cheapbytes CD

1998-07-16 Thread Gonzalo Diethelm
On Wednesday, July 15, 1998 6:47 PM, Hamish Moffatt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 11:04:47AM -0700, Gonzalo Diethelm wrote: > > This is a brief report after installing Debian hamm > > from the Cheapbytes CD on my Dell Latitude CPi laptop. > > >

Report: installed hamm from Cheapbytes CD

1998-07-15 Thread Gonzalo Diethelm
se NLS charsets, and the network card; anyone has any suggestions regarding these? If possible, please answer via e-mail as well as to the list, to which I am not subscribed. Thanks a lot, and great job! Gonzalo Diethelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

update-menus failed?

1997-08-29 Thread Gonzalo Diethelm
I installed the netscape package, with the netscape binary file in /tmp, just as the instructions said. The thing installed OK, and was configured OK, but at the end of the process I got the following message: .. - Netscape will not be able to read user mail spool files unless you set the "exter

Re: sendmail/smail and off-line mail

1997-08-28 Thread Gonzalo Diethelm
[This may have been sent twice. Sorry if that is the case.] On Aug 25, 1997, at 12:41, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > Apparently I have found that sendmail is easier to setup, than smail. > I might be wrong but the horrible sendmail setup stories seem to > originate before the use of m4 macros.

Missing /etc/resolv.conf

1997-08-27 Thread Gonzalo Diethelm
I just noticed I don't have a resolv.conf file anywhere in the /etc hierarchy. Is it anywhere else (I doubt it)? Is there a package I'm missing? I just added bind, thinking that would solve the problem, but it didn't. -- Gonzalo A. Diethelm G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILI

Re: sendmail/smail and off-line mail

1997-08-27 Thread Gonzalo Diethelm
On Aug 25, 1997, at 12:41, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > Apparently I have found that sendmail is easier to setup, than smail. > I might be wrong but the horrible sendmail setup stories seem to > originate before the use of m4 macros. I concur. > If you do something standard there are m4 macro