Re: seeking advice on free dns

2007-10-08 Thread Michael Acklin
Sorry about that. My mail program picked up on your email address instead of the Debian Users list. Won't happen again... Mike Mihira Fernando wrote: Provided, your IP is static, simply set port forwarding in your Router so that ports for web/email/etc. will be forwarded to your server (at

Re: seeking advice on free dns

2007-10-06 Thread Michael Acklin
Mihira Fernando wrote: I use afraid.org for 6 domains and have been using their service since 2001. Excellent service. Recommend it to anyone who wishes to use free or cheap DNS services. Mihira. Hi Mihira and all, I was very intrigued when I saw your message. I am in the process of se

Help with RAID and Formating Disks

2007-10-04 Thread Michael Acklin
Hello all. I am very new at what I am attempting to do. I have run Debian in the past and just recently installed it on a new built system that I am setting up. So please take it easy on the Newbie. First I built the system with the ASUS Motherboard and AMD-64x2 5800+. Added 3 - 500gig drives

Re: Motherboard Recommendation

2007-10-04 Thread Michael Acklin
Bob wrote: Eric Estes wrote: Can anyone recommend a good AMD (socket A2 - Athlon 64 X2) motherboard that has good Linux support? I'm sending back my Shuttle to newegg and need a replacement asap. I've been looking into MBs and really like the look of. Sapphire Pure CrossFire 3200 Adv. ht

Re: AFIO usage...

1998-06-19 Thread Michael Acklin
Jay, I just picked up a package called KBackup and it uses AFIO. I had never heard of AFIO until I installed KBackup. I is somewhat like Taper, but a lot more in depth. It will allow you to define INCLUDES and EXCLUDES in the configuration. Very simple to set up and real easy to

Debian Linux TV System Card

1998-06-18 Thread Michael Acklin
Some one was asking about getting a TV Card to work on their Debian System, last week, I think. Anyway ran accross this from Freshmeat and thought I would share it with the list and maybe the person asking about getting the TV to work on Debian =

Apache

1998-06-10 Thread Michael Acklin
Hello, I have just installed Apache Web Server and keep getting the same message I try to start the server. What do I need to do get the server working. Here is the error.log [Wed Jun 10 13:59:35 1998] [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname("debian") [Wed Jun 10 14:08:11 1998] [

Re: plog not working in hamm.

1998-06-02 Thread Michael Acklin
At 12:06 AM 6/3/98 +0930, you wrote: > > No it doesn't.  I've added it in now though.  Can I activate this without > rebooting? > > Cheers, > > Mark. Oops, That last message should have been the syslogd instead of the inetd. Sorry but the same Idea. Mike _

Re: plog not working in hamm.

1998-06-02 Thread Michael Acklin
At 12:06 AM 6/3/98 +0930, you wrote: >On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >No it doesn't. I've added it in now though. Can I activate this without >rebooting? > >Cheers, > >Mark. > Mark, You don't need to reboot to get the deamon to restart. Luckily on this list, I found out

Re: backup s/w suggestions

1998-06-01 Thread Michael Acklin
At 11:18 PM 5/29/98 -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: > I just got ahold of a Seagate TapeStor 8 GB IDE tape backup that >I'm eager to use with my hamm system. > > I noticed that dselect lists out several different tape backup >programs. I was wondering if someone could give me a recommendation. >I'

Cut and Paste/ Xirc?

1998-05-28 Thread Michael Acklin
Hello everyone, I know this has been asked before, but just a quick browse of the archives, I wasn't able to find. Wished there was a grep button on the mailing list archves.:) Ok, here's my question. What are the keys or commands to use cut and paste in Xwindows? I know in WinBl

Re: mutt not in color

1998-05-28 Thread Michael Acklin
At 02:02 AM 5/28/98 +, you wrote: >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hello: > >I just installed mutt on my computer and it is not in color. Here is >an output of "mutt -v": > >Notice I compiled with slang. Also, I have a recent terminfo database >(Debian 1.3.1 installed). My $TERM is set

Re: Where I can find KDE

1998-05-22 Thread Michael Acklin
At 01:24 PM 5/22/98 +0200, Mauro Mazzieri wrote: >As you can understand reading the subject of this letter, my question is: where >I can find a KDE distribuition, better if in .deb format? I prefer CDs, but any >help is useful... > I just did a search of the packages at http://www.debian.

Re: Netscape 4.05 configuration

1998-05-20 Thread Michael Acklin
At 07:38 PM 5/20/98 +, you wrote: >HI, >I am new in DEBIAN LINUX. So I have some Problems by configuration my >system. >Is there somebody who can help me with my NETSCAPE 4.05??? >I took the netscape.tar.gz package from Netscape's home. I had done the >unpacking and running the installation sc

Re: crt1.o problem

1998-05-05 Thread Michael Acklin
At 09:31 AM 5/5/98 -0400, Bill Leach wrote: >I show crt1.o in '/usr/lib' and in '/usr/i486-linuxlibc/'. >and: >bash-2.01$ dpkg -S crt1.o >libc5-altdev: /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/crt1.o >libc6-dev: /usr/lib/crt1.o >(deleted lines where 'crt1.o' was a substring) > Thanks Bill, That is exactly

crt1.o problem

1998-05-05 Thread Michael Acklin
Hello, I am having a problem compiling some of my programs and they all complain about not finding crt1.o. I have done a "find . -name crt1.o -print" on my system and can not find that file. I had a crash last week and did a full restore of my system from a backup the day prior to the cra

Re: Cpu

1998-05-04 Thread Michael Acklin
At 07:58 PM 5/4/98 +0200, you wrote: >Hi! >Can somebody tell which low price CPU is for (made) Linux. I was thinking on Cyrix but I heard it is bugy, very uncompatible. So it looks that Intel is my only hope. >If somebody knows something interesting then please share it with me. Bye. > Matej

Re: how to make shell scripts executable -- and NTFS driver

1998-05-04 Thread Michael Acklin
At 03:19 PM 5/4/98 +0100, you wrote: >chgmod +x > >so I typed in > >chgmod +x ntfs-long-version-number > >and it told me that chgmod didn't exist. I tried man chgmod and sure enough, >there's no entry. > >What is the command if this isn't it? > >Is this the right thing to do to get the NTFS drive

Telnet Timeouts

1998-05-04 Thread Michael Acklin
Hello everyone, I know I have seen this question posted before, but for the life of me I cannot find it in the List Archives. I have looked for Time, Timeout, Telnet, and have not found it. Anyway, how do I set the interactive time out for Telnet Sessions? I do alot of accessing

Re: Network Problem

1998-05-01 Thread Michael Acklin
Thanks for your info, I thought it might be something like that. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Is there some file I need to change to transmit the correct lookup. Again thanks for your help Mike At 11:32 AM 5/1/98 -0400, you wrote: >This is due to tcp wra

Network Problem

1998-05-01 Thread Michael Acklin
Hello, Well I got the basic hamm from disks working fine last night. But when i started to download the rest of the packages from ftp.debian.org, I got a "Connection Refused" message or something similar. I really believe this is being caused by a reverse lookup or lookup from ftp

Re: Debian 2.0 Question

1998-04-30 Thread Michael Acklin
At 10:58 AM 4/30/98 -0400, you wrote: > >I hate crashes/...had one too many myself > I did want to clear one thing up. It wasn't Debian that crashed. I had a power off/on that caused the crash. Apparently, sendmail was delivering a message right in the middle of the power spike and to

Debian 2.0 Question

1998-04-30 Thread Michael Acklin
Hello Everyone, I have been using Debian 1.31 for some time now, but had a bad crash last Monday and was going to go ahead and upgrade to Debian 2.0 from the Frozen Distribution. I know I am pre-mature but, thought this was a good time, seeing how my system is hosed as it is. I do have ba

Outgoing Message Error

1998-04-09 Thread Michael Acklin
Hello, I have just installed majordomo version 1.94.1 on my Linux (debian) system, version 1.3.1, kernel 2.029. I am using smail version 3.2.3. All programs, majordomo and smail were compiled for debian linux version 1.31. I was wondering if anyone has seen this problem and if so

Mail Problems, Again

1998-04-08 Thread Michael Acklin
Hello, I have been trying to fix my smail program to be able to receive mail from others using my static ip/monolith address. These questions are based on my home machine and I have read over DNS/SMAIL/NETWORK, etc. manpages and HOWTO's. I came accross some messages between George Bonser

Re: modem

1998-03-26 Thread Michael Acklin
At 02:18 PM 3/26/98 -0500, you wrote: >I tried using my modem, but discovered that I have no /dev/modem or >/dev/cua*. A look through the kernel config options didn't turn up >anything obviously related to modems, so I'm a bit confused. >I'm runing Debian 1.3, and have a Xircom Ethernet+Modem PCMC

Re: Exim/Fetchmail (Re:Was Unidentified subject!)

1998-03-26 Thread Michael Acklin
At 11:38 AM 3/26/98 -0500, you wrote: > >1. I hope I am not out in left field, but have you configured Pine? I no > longer use it but recall having a simular problem until I did the > 'Setup-Config' in Pine. > >2. Do you have the line '127.0.0.1 localhost' in /etc/hosts? > >3. Do yo

Re: Dselect Question

1998-03-24 Thread Michael Acklin
At 10:09 AM 3/24/98 -0700, you wrote: > >Relative to /debian, when asked "Enter space seperated list of >distributions to get", you should respond: > >stable non-free contrib > >HTH, > >Bob Bob, Thanks, that's the one's I needed. I kept trying to put the full path name and kept getting e

Re: Dselect Question

1998-03-24 Thread Michael Acklin
At 09:27 AM 3/24/98 -0700, you wrote: > >Do you have dselect set up to get the Packages files for non-free? They >are both included there. > >Bob > At 09:27 AM 3/24/98 -0700, you wrote: > > >Do you have dselect set up to get the Packages files for non-free? They >are both included there. > >Bob

Re: Dselect Question

1998-03-24 Thread Michael Acklin
At 10:20 AM 3/24/98 -0600, you wrote: > >Download the .deb packages you want from the web (i.e. Pine and Pico) and >type (as root): "dpkg -i (your .deb file goes here)" > >This should unpack and install any package you want. > >-Ian Ian, Thanks for the info. Will try it tonight. Appreciat

Dselect Question

1998-03-24 Thread Michael Acklin
Last night I tried to install some files from the FTP site via dselect. I updated the package file and then when I tried to select the package, the program was not available. I used the / search and could not find the program name at all. The particular program I was looking for

Re: On Debian, currently.

1998-03-20 Thread Michael Acklin
At 09:24 AM 3/20/98 -0500, James D. Freels wrote: > >This is coming from an end-user of Debian: > >I wish I had the ability and time to contribute more directly to >Debian. However, I can contribute this response to some of the >concerns I have seen on this mailing list. > >Debian by far is the mo