I need info on exim and UUCP. In slink's exim I found a little snippet about
UUCP which allowed me to receive mail. I have no idea about sending mail via
UUCP 'though. How should I do this?
BTW, which config is best as preparation for a UUCP configuration, the SMTP
or the local delivery?
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 12:36:43PM -0600, Jesse Jacobsen wrote:
> I missed the first part of this thread, but was wondering... do you have
> separate /home/ftp/bin and /home/ftp/lib/ and /home/ftp/etc directories?
Yes, as I said I followed the man page of ftpd to the letter. I have made
sure that
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 02:41:32PM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote:
> It seems to be normal, it's on my Debian systems, too. I think if you follow
> the ftpd manpage you can setup anonymous ftp access to your machine. Why it
Sorry, I was wrong. I followed man ftpd to the letter but anon acc
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 01:37:07AM -, Pollywog wrote:
> I just noticed that I have a /home/ftp directory but no subdirectories (no
> pub, etc, bin or anything else). Is this normal?
It seems to be normal, it's on my Debian systems, too. I think if you follow
the ftpd manpage you can setup an
I want to make the SAMBA package from hamm join an NT domain. Do I see it
right that this is not possible and that I have to manually compile a SAMBA
>=2.x?
I use cti-ifhp in order to print on an HP4000N network printer. This device
has a duplexing unit installed and I wonder if I can use it somehow from
Linux?
I installed hamm's Apache-SSL and can connect to it from the server
(http[s]://localhost/) w/o problems. But if I try to connect from a different
computer all I see is an alert with "Document contains no data". What's this?
Is there an easy to read in-depth description of the sysv style init? I hope
the name is right; I mean the way of starting daemons by making links instead
of the traditional way of placing a start script into /etc/rc.boot
XFMail seg faults quite often here. Is this a system problem or an XFMail
problem? A co-student here (Red Hat user) told me it bombs on his system too
so I assume the latter. Right?
What's up with the ...de.debian.org servers? A DNS problem perhaps?
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 03:50:34PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> You can also try dpkg --configure mailcrypt auctex
Thanks, that told me to install PGP and now everything works fine.
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 03:10:36PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> You should show us the output of dpkg --configure --pending
There is no output.
Since the installation of my hamm box, something is broken. I want to fix it
to make an upgrade to slink as painless as possible but don't know how, i.e.
how do I unbreak things here?
dselect says:
--- Broken Optional packages in section contrib/mail ---
U-- Opt contrib/
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 09:42:13AM -0500, Roger Pittman wrote:
> Per the source code, the "standard" (oversimplified) sequence is:
Ahhh, yes, what you describe is how it works usually. It's fine if you're
sitting at a leased line or pay a flat fee for your phone call to your ISP.
But what we
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 05:52:21AM -0700, Dan Furtney wrote:
> scripts. On the back of the book it said shell progamming wasn't covered
> because Pearl would be better for the task. I decided to look into Pearl
> instead. Good Luck
Please don't confuse Pearl with perl. Pearl is a different - if a
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 01:32:57AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Don't all news-servers provide for this, and all news-readers
> implement it? The news reader in NS Communicator does the above.
I'm sure every news server lets you download headers only. But what good is
that if your client is
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 01:26:09PM +, Mark Brown wrote:
> Does this happen with all web pages? I haven't used Netscape on a Debian
No, some pages displayed fine, but not all. I wasn't able to find a pattern.
> system (Lynx is your friend), but on other systems I've tried Netscape 4.05
Yes,
On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 12:35:30AM -0700, Dave Thayer wrote:
> It was a pretty uneventful installation, but read /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz.
Strange, on my hamm box installing xfstt was a pretty eventful job. First,
there is no FAQ.gz. Maybe it is in the slink but I can't install that to a
hamm box,
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 11:42:50PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote:
> How do I go about setting up newsgroups on my hamm box? I installed the
> news servers, but I'm unsure of what to do next. I just want to pull
> maybe 10 groups down to my local box.
Your article leaves many open questions: Which ne
I wanted to recompile the Kernel and leave all the default settings which
were used to produce the stock hamm 2.0.34 kernel in. There are some options
which I don't use, some which aren't in there and a recompile for my CPU which
is not a 386 wouldn't hurt either I thought.
So I installed the kern
On two different hamm computers with different video cards and monitors I
installed Netscape 4.05 with the install script.
On both of these systems I can hardly read the web pages because the default
fonts are too small. On the same computers and monitors, a Windows Netscape
displays fine. Why?
What is /etc/alternatives good for? During installation of packages I can
sometimes read that I can do this and that with an update-alternatives but I
can't figure it out.
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 05:53:50PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Newsgroups allow you to only download the subject lines of the
> messages instead of have to download all messages whether you
> would have read them or not. I'm glad you have a 56k connection,
How many Unix newsreaders offer th
Whenever I install a program which provides a menu entry I have to do an
"update-menus" from my user account after installing a package. Otherwise
there is no menu entry in fvwm2.
At work I use Window Maker and there the installation procedure takes care of
the menu entry. It's not necessary to
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 04:07:32PM -0500, Matt Kopishke wrote:
> I am trying to set up printing on a Linux box (Slink) running lpr. The
I use hamm but that doesn't make a difference does it?
> printer is on a network, and has an IP address, how do I set this up? I
> tried using the default net
On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 01:09:59AM -0800, Martin Waller wrote:
> I for one would no longer to be able to get the list. I access the
> internet through a firewall. The policy is restricted viewing only of
> some newsnet news groups.
>
> There is no way to either connect to a different news ser
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 08:46:44PM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote:
> This is my first exposure to smail which seems to be the default in Debian.
> I had no trouble setting it up.
That's what you think. I'd check my From: line if I were you.
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 02:17:06AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> The package "anacron" provides this functionality.
Speaking of anacron: I used one of the preset configuration schemes
(Scientific Workstation) on one hamm machine and noticed that it has both cron
and anacron running. Isn't th
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 08:57:47PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Have there been duplicates? I suppose that you first need to move your
> mailfile /var/spool/mail/my_account to your $HOME and then start
> formail/procmail as procmail appends the mails while cat reads them again
> and again?!
i installed a hamm system (Scientific Workstation) and can't connect to it.
Neither ping, telnet nor smtp or something else works. It's like there is
no network installed. But it is, I, sitting at the computer, can connect to any
other machine, I can browse the web, send email or do other stuff t
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 03:11:52PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote:
> Debian is not motivated by profit, so when a new Debian release
> cometh, you can be sure it's been tested to a full extent. I think
Sorry, but I want to disagree here. After reading debian-devel for a while,
I'm under the impressio
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 04:50:22PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Heute ist nicht alle Tage, ich komme wieder, keine Frage!!!
> Toll! Der Maus! (IIRC)
Actually, most Germans know this from the Pink Panther cartoon show. I doubt
that this was a reference to Der Maus. Hmm, does anybody out th
Is there something like a list of machines which I could use for NFS
installing a hamm base system? I prefer a system within .de if possible.
On Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 08:19:13PM +0400, Eugene Sevinian wrote:
> April 1. The matter is that during dialing from minicom it performs kind
> of maping. So 1->9, 2->8, 3->7...9->1, 0->0. The same is under Norton
> Terminal Emulation. :)))
Are you using pulse dialling? Somewhere I read that there
On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 11:54:40AM -0600, Eric Jensen wrote:
> When you print from netscape, it sends postscript to the printer.
> Assuming you don't have a Postscript printer, you need to use ghostscript
> and a print filter (try the magicfilter package).
Does anybody know why you don't get the
On Fri, Dec 04, 1998 at 09:54:59AM +1100, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote:
> I have a copy of rar for linux, in the form of the file rarlinux. How do i
> install or execute this?
> I have done a chmod (755) on the file
What does `file rarlinux` say?
On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 10:26:24PM -0500, Michael B. Taylor wrote:
> The cards that I have used (some tulips and some ancient Western Digitals)
> autosense the media. Are you sure this one doesnt do that too?
I own a 3c509 and this one also doesn't autodetect the media type.
> Here is what I wo
At 13:32 Uhr + 31.10.1998, Ian Lynagh wrote:
>>I would like to setup IP Masquerading on my Debian 2.0
>>box. I would like to know if the default kernel is
>>built with the correct settings of if I have to go and
>>install all the development stuff for rebuilding my
>>own kernel.
>
>You will ne
I solved my former netatalk problem. Looks like netatalk and LPRng don't go
together unless you put a ":pr=| lpr -Pprinter:\" into the papd.conf file.
But now that I can print to my DeskJet 520 from my Mac I notice that the
margins don't fit. I have yet to see a document that appears on paper the
I want to print from my Mac to a HP DJ 520 which is connected to the Linux
box where magicfilter with the DJ 500 filter is installed.
Can anybody recommend a good PPD file? I tried the HP LJ III (si) so far,
without luck. Because I do not know what to look for I fear I have to check
out every PPD
I installed magicfilter and have a problem with a ps file.
Magicfilter itself sort of works, a "ls | lpr" worked. Then I tried it with
"toc.ps" from the cnews doc. This prints until the line "4 Implementation"
is reached (only the upper half of this line is printed, btw). Then the
page just sits t
At 23:49 Uhr -0700 21.10.1998, George Bonser wrote:
>Exim is a much better choice.
Any chances that this will replace Smail as Debian's de-facto default MTA
in the near future?
At 14:16 Uhr +0100 15.10.1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
>it's an essential admin tool for checking your setup.
This is the reason why it shouldn't be prepackaged. I really can't imagine
anybody concerned about security trusting a prepackaged security scanner.
Personally, I wouldn't. That's perhaps be
Is it possible to get a deb File which provides support for a scanner? I'd
be most interested in support for the Logitech ScanMan32 Mac which is a
handscanner which operates via a little box with a SCSI connector at one
end and the handscanner jack at the other. Shouldn't be too hard to support
thi
I have set up a small LAN at home with my Linux box being a router,
firewall, mail&news server and my MAC being my system for working on.
If I send email from my Mac all is well. The mail software contacts my
Linux box and delivers the email which is later sent to my ISP via UUCP.
But if I send n
Does smail as shipped with Debian 2.0 handle batched and compressed email
(incoming) delivered via UUCP properly?
When I had 1.3.1 installed it did not and I never found a solution to the
problem. Many email batches were lost until I switched to non batched delivery
to my machine. But I really
I run Debian 2.0 versions of cnews and uucp and want to gate my mailing lists
to local newsgroups. So I fetched the mail2news.pl script and tried my luck.
First, I left the INEWS variable set to rnews and changed one of my procmail
recipes to put a "test" group into a local newsgroup which someh
On Sun, Sep 13, 1998 at 06:55:49PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Anyway you can fake this field if you put something like the following
> in your /etc/smail/config file (man smailconf):
> return_path_field="Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
> Caution: This is not tested.
Didn't work. At first I
s the first line in an email's header which looks like:
>From cat.ping.de!tom
.
.
From: Thomas Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
.
.
If my assumption is correct then MacSOUP generates a wrong header because
the first line looks like:
>From pobox.com!tadams
Now I wonder if I can configure SM
On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:17:04PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> Does anyone know of any virtual poohsticks software, or is anyone
> working on some at the moment?
What is a virtual poohstick??
On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 11:41:04AM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> The hardware isn't the problem. This is an area where ISDN is the
> same all over the world (correct me someone if I'm wrong here)
Unfortunately yes. The primary difference between ISDN in different countries
is if the telco prov
On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 04:14:59PM -0400, joseph evan porter wrote:
> I have a 3Com 3c905 ethernet card on a dual processor Dell Workstation.
> I'm using kernel 2.0.35, and occasionally I get a screen full of:
> eth0:error re-entering the interrupt handler
Is it perhaps the 3Com conflicting with
I want to add an additional kernel so that I can switch between them at boot
time depending on which SCSI adapter the hard drive is connected to. How do I
do this? I searched within dpackage for "kernel" but did only find two binary
images without mentioning if and which SCSI stuff they support.
On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 11:43:02AM +0200, Ruud Janssen wrote:
> By adding the install stage in which "task profiles" can be selected,
> the manual package selection using dselect can be avoided because a
> sensible pre-selection of packages has already been made. In this way
> the installation g
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 12:23:44AM +, Nuno Carvalho wrote:
> > I would consider to give the new config a try. It is really
> > nice. Start isdnconfig as root.
> I didn't understood, yet, isdnconfig ! :(( What should I write !?
Just enter the command "isdnconfig". It will ask you some questio
I use Debian 2.0 and am missing pine and tin. I ftped the binary-i386 image
soonafter it was released and those programs aren't on it. After having my
network
stuff up and running I checked the contrib area on debian ftp servers but
didn'tfind them there either. Why is that? Don't those two prog
I want to inquire if other people out there had similar difficulties obtaining
the hamm images.
First I tried the cdimage.debian.org server and learned people outside of the
ukaren't welcome there. Then I checked the mirror site in Germany where I am
located. Once there I saw a message like "use
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