To Robert Kerr,
You were right. I was running Xwindows in 24 bpp mode, and
switching to 16 bpp mode cleaned everything up nicely. Funny
the installation docs made no mention of this restriction.
Anyway, thanks much, and thanks to all who replied.
As others have said, help like this is why I
Mark,
I have the same problem. My messages eventually freeze, and the
error is SMTP timeout while connected to ...
many bytes weritten written, but message not completed.
I would have quoted your earlier post, but I'm mailing this
via telnet to port 25 of my ISP, because I can't post out
with E
I have wordperfect running ... sort of. The graphics icons are garbled.
I have XPM4.7 version 3.4k-5. I don not not have XPM4.7-alt dev installed
because I have a conflict. Can someone tell me wahat packages I must have
installed on my Potato system for Wordperfect to run properly? If the
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:22:58 -0600 (EST)
From: Russell Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: potato blight
I tried yesterday to "apt-get upgrade" for the first time since
Slink
a test of header rewrite
from should be [EMAIL PROTECTED]
reply-to should be [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Russ
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
George,
Thanks for the help with my exim delivery problem. The problem was
/var/spool/mail was group write, as you suggested.
I can now receive mail from my ISP on my linux machine instead of having
to use my Win95 machine.
Now, I'm trying to get header rewrite to work properly, so my
ISP will let
Michael,
Thanks for the tip. I tried it as you suggested, but no good. As
clarification, I have a local net at home, named mydomain. The host I'm trying
to get my main delivered on is p90. So, should qualify_domain be p90 or
mydomain? Regardless, exim tries to deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello All,
I have a question regarding the use of apt-get upgrade or apt-get
dist-upgrade to keep my system current. When I issue apt-get upgrade, I get a
message that 90 packages were help back, and it fetches nothing.
If I then dpkg -l (list) any of the held packages, then apt-
I have two (unrelated) problems logging on to my ISP.
1) Using pon, I often have to connect 3 to 4 times before I can ping the
outside world, although I can ALWAYS ping my ISP. Also, I can ALWAYS use
nslookup to find addresses for other hosts. This is extremely annoying.
If I can connect, and
Hello!
I am now able to connect to my ISP. I was placing the 'noauth' option in the
wrong file! I finally figured out how to correctly place it in
/etc/ppp/peers/provider. Now, the link comes up, but I get this error from
pppd - pppd[158]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP.
Wh
Since upgrading my ppp package to 2.3.3-4 on my Hamm system, I can no longer
connect to ISP. I am including my chatscript for examination, and a portion of
ppp.log. I have tried to add the 'noauth', as suggested, but am not sure I
added it in the right place. It did get rid of the message "ho
ystem boot which looks for /etc/ppp.chatscript and can't find it because it
isn't there, and one which uses /etc/chatscripts/provider.
Thanks again for any help.
Russ
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From: RUSSELL COOK[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 8:21 PM
Hello All,
Last night I upgraded a number of packages on my Hamm system. While
resolving dependencies, I believe I downloaded and installed dip. I don't
think it was previously installed. As a result, I can no longer connect to my
ISP. Also, my lan is now broken - I can't ping my oth
Hello All,
I just got a new video card, the Matrox Mystique 220. I have been
following this list for a while, and have observed that the Mystique is
supported now. However, after configuring for my card, and trying startx, my
screen goes black, and the computer locks up - I can't ctl-a
I'm struggling to get sendmail and pine working properly together. I have
a dial-up ISP account [EMAIL PROTECTED] My linux account is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to get my mail to deliver locally as
coming from rcook, but to go out externally as from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I
have been following the
Hello All,
I have a small lan at home, ip masquerading, and a dial up ISP. My
debian machine is p90.mydomain. My ISP is icon.net. My account on
p90.mydomain is rcook. My account with my ISP is russcook. When I try to send
mail from my debian machine, it reads from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
urpose. I also am still
struggly to get sendmail properly configured.
All replies welcome!
Russ
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Russell Cook[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 16, 1998 11:57 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:Unidentified subjec
I have successfully upgraded (I think) from Bo to Hamm. Thanks to all who
offered advice and helped me along the way.
I now want to configure my system for mail, so I can quit using windows for
that utility. I have sendmail, fetchmail, procmail, mail, and mailx on my
system. I have a local n
Script started on Mon Feb 16 12:51:17 1998
sh-2.01$ mailx
Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help.
"/var/spool/mail/rcook": 1 message 1 unread
>U 1 rcook Mon Feb 16 11:06 11/343 "test"
& p
Held 1 message in /var/spool/mail/rcook
sh-2.01$ mail
Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? f
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