How to use Netscape mail w/local mail system?

1999-04-11 Thread Jesse Evans
Folks, I've got Netscape 4.5 installed on my slink system. How do I get Netscape Mail to read from my local mail spool? I use a dial-up connection and have fetchmail set to periodically grab mail from my ISP POP account. This ends up putting mail in my system's /var/spool/mail/ directory,

Re: Hitting web site consistently dropped ppp connection?

1999-03-21 Thread Jesse Evans
Heikki, Actually, the triple-plus signal is part of the Hayes modem command protocol. It tells the modem to enter its command state and interpret any subsequent chars as operational commands. Thus, triple-plusATH will cause a hang-up. Any modem adhering to this standard, which includes all

Re: Netscape mail - multiple "profiles"?

1999-03-20 Thread Jesse Evans
Christian, What I've done for my family, who share a single PC, is to give each of them their own user accounts on the system. That way they each get their own custom Netscape profiles, their own set of bookmarks, mail and everything. We run KDE as our desktop environment and they each get

RealPlayer... is there a .deb package?

1999-03-20 Thread Jesse Evans
Folks, What is best recommended for playing sound/video clips from within netscape 4.5? -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse

weird dependency error; please help...

1999-03-10 Thread Jesse Evans
Folks, I'm running KDE 1.1 on a Debian slink system. I recently tried to install kpilot, a very nicely done desktop application for the Palm Pilot PDA. The installation failed, claiming a dependency error: -- dpkg: dependency problems preve

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-09 Thread Jesse Evans
Folks, My 2- cents: I've come from a background of writing dataacq apps for DOS/Windows for product manufacturing. Maybe that gives me a leg up to getting a Linux system running, maybe it doesn't. Still, I found that downloading a dozen or so floppies and installing to a

SOLVED -- Re: problem sending mail...

1999-03-03 Thread Jesse Evans
Folks, Thanks to Daniel J. Brosemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I was able to solve my problem by running smailconf. Thanks to all who offered their help! :-) On Mon, 01 Mar 1999, William Park wrote: >On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 07:03:17PM -0800, Jesse Evans wrote:

problem sending mail...

1999-03-02 Thread Jesse Evans
r 1999 18:41:07 -0800 (PST) From: Jesse Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [To: address snipped] Subject: Re: visiting CA Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:35:01 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.17] Content-Type: text/plain References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version

Re: SOLVED: Re: what is Xconsole and how can I get rid of it...

1999-02-28 Thread Jesse Evans
Alan, Point taken; sorry about coming off so hot at first. :-) Thanks for offering the solution. On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, you wrote: > >I'm sorry that my response upset you, but try not to overreact next time. > >Alan >[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse

Re: what is Xconsole and how can I get rid of it...

1999-02-28 Thread Jesse Evans
Folks, Well, I apologise: it seems I did indeed have the file mentioned. I've changed the entry and it fixed the problem I had. Thanks for the help; even though the reponse was less than friendly it was still useful. On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[adjusted to lo

Re: what is Xconsole and how can I get rid of it...

1999-02-28 Thread Jesse Evans
Alan I'm not sure what you are refering to re: aversion to security, but in any case I seem not to have a xdm.options file. Perhaps you could be less accusatory and more helpful; after all, we're all here to enjoy the benefits of the global knowledgebase, rather than picking on others for

what is Xconsole and how can I get rid of it...

1999-02-28 Thread Jesse Evans
Folks, After this morning's apt-get dist-upgrade, a whole bunch of X windows stuff got replaced. (I'm running slink.) Now, when I start up, I get a console window displaying various system messages. This shows up in the lower right corner of my display when the log-in banner is running and

unable to change desktop wallpaper in 981228-1.1alpha1-1

1999-02-06 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, folks I've recently installed KDE (from the 981228-1.1alpha1-1 files) on my debian system. All seems to work reasonably well except I cannot change the desktop backgrounds. I'm able to apply color schemes, but when I try to add a wallpaper picture, the desktop app just quits. Any ideas as t

Re: What does this mean?

1999-01-31 Thread Jesse Evans
Branden, Cute. Ok, so I can ignore it safely. How can I stop it? On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: >>On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 10:12:49AM -0800, Jesse Evans wrote: >> I get this message every day. What does it mean? >> >> -

What does this mean?

1999-01-31 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, folks I get this message every day. What does it mean? -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Output of Anacron job `cron.daily' Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 10:12:04 -0800 (PST) From: root (Anacron) 45375 45375 -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse

apt-get... how to peruse list of packages?

1998-12-23 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, folks Although I think that apt-get does a better job at installing new and maintaining current packages, I find I still need to use dselect to view the list of what's available. (Not a big deal, but I get tired of looking at the help screen everytime.) Is there a simpler meth

Re: upgrade to slink

1998-12-23 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, folks Regarding the upgrade to slink, I used apt-get dist-upgrade and got a whole bunch of new stuff (took me about 3 days at 28.8 :-). All seemed to go well, (except I had to grab xdm manually) but the version number that comes up at boot still says 2.0.34 (which I think is hamm). Is

Re: Communicator installation again

1998-12-23 Thread Jesse Evans
Kent, Here's what worked for me (I recently upgraded to slink; this may not all be available otherwise... AFAIK): I used apt-get to install the following: netscape-base-45 netscape-java-45 communicator-base-45 communicator-smotif-45

Re: can't run editor when su... why?

1998-12-23 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, folks Thanks for the info... so far, the method (for root) described below from TA seems to be the simplest. Now, is there a way to automate this? I tried adding the follwing lines to root's .bashrc: XAUTHORITY=./.Xauthority DISPLAY=:0.0 export XAUTHORITY DISPLAY but

can't use editor when su... why?

1998-12-22 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, folks! I like to use fte as my default editor, however, when I su to modify my system I cannot use it. I get the following messages: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Could not open display: :0.0 However, if I log

how can I access an NT drive?

1998-12-21 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, folks. I have a two-drive system with NT on drive C and Debian linux on D. I've got it set up to boot into Linux by default but I'd like to be able to move files between the two systems. I found an ntfs driver (http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~loewis/ntfs) and was able to read the

can I synchronize local mail w/netscape?

1998-12-20 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, folks, I recently installed Netscape 4.5 and I'd like to know if there is a way to read locally generated mail (such as system messages from anacron via SMPT) in addition to that which is fetched from my ISP POP account by netscape. -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse

can I synchronize local mail w/netscape?

1998-12-20 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, folks, I recently installed Netscape 4.5 and I'd like to know if there is a way to read locally generated mail (such as system messages from anacron via SMPT) in addition to that which is fetched from my ISP POP account by netscape. -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse

Re: kmail stopped working

1998-11-21 Thread Jesse Evans
Folks, Ok, all those files are where you say they should be and I was able to view each of them using KView. So, that's not the problem. What's next? On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 11:20:27PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Thu,

kmail stopped working

1998-11-20 Thread Jesse Evans
Folks, I've only been able to run kmail once. The first time, it came up fine, I went through the setup and was able to receive/send mail just fine. After that one time, however, it simeply won't come up at all. When I click on the Mail Client icon I hear some disk activity and th

where can I find apt?

1998-11-07 Thread Jesse Evans
Folks, Where can I find apt? It doesn't appear in the list I get in dselect. Thanks in advance. 'til next we type HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse

Mail; how to do remote... (was Re: need help getting X server running...)

1998-10-26 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, again Folks!       Well, so far you people have been a big help. I finally managed to get X working; turns out I needed to use the SVGA server. Thanks again for all your advice.       Now, on to the next item... How do I deal with mail? I've got a dial-up connection through an ISP, so I

Re: need help getting X server running...

1998-10-24 Thread Jesse Evans
w to linux and don't know how to make that happen. -Original Message- From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jesse Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Debian User Mail List Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 7:54 AM Subject: Re: need help getting X server running... >At

need help getting X server running...

1998-10-22 Thread Jesse Evans
Folks,     I've recently installed debian on my PC and can't get the X server working. I've run the XF86Setup app and it completed sucessfully, telling me I had established a properly working server, but when I quit, saving the config to XF86Config, and run startx, I get the following:     

Re: Need help getting started...

1998-10-18 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, again! I got it running again! Thanks for the help. 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse -Original Message- From: M.C. Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jesse Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian User Mail List Date: Sunday, October 18, 1998 11:22 AM Subje

Need help getting started...

1998-10-18 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, folks!       I've just downloaded and installed the debian system on my home PC and have gotten myself into a bit of trouble after running dselect. I grabbed all the 'home system' stuff and finally got to the configuration steps, where I was asked if I wished to have my system start up