Re: getting dma66 support in kernel

2000-08-22 Thread cxpx
Hey that got it to work for me!! I have had problems following other how-to's. Well, the HD speed went from 3 MB to 22 MB. This is still a long way from 66. Is this normal? (I here 66 is almost unattainable) I have a motherboard and a hd that support ata 66 so I'm not sure what the differenc

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Monday, August 21, 2000, 11:05:16 AM, John wrote: > > An accurate description of any attempt to discuss email software with > > Mr. Lamb. > > Only because Unix people have been brainwashed into thinking > there is only one TRUE WAY of doing it. Uh, in

Re: Security - trust etc.. (Was: Reading e-mails on text mode)

2000-08-22 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 03:08:49PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > > You can't. Period. Same goes for source. Same goes for commercial > > binaries. Same goes for any code you haven't read (or had someone you > > thoroughly trust read). > > Agr

Re: xfree86 development package

2000-08-22 Thread John L. Fjellstad
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 12:39:14PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > ~$ dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/include/X11/X.h > xlib6g-dev: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/X.h > > You were just looking in the wrong place. You know what? My bad. You wrote xlib6g-dev, and I read it as xlib6g, which I did have install. Sorry:*( A

GDM no more working on Woody

2000-08-22 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
HI list, since a couple of days GDM is no more working fine on woody... it starts, you can enter user/pass and then it seems to die and restart again asking user/pass... anyone know how to fix it? Thanks Fabio -- -- http://www.seabone.net/ --- F

Re: GDM no more working on Woody

2000-08-22 Thread John Griffiths
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: >HI list, > since a couple of days GDM is no more working fine on woody... >it starts, you can enter user/pass and then it seems to die and restart >again asking user/pass... anyone know how to fix it? this happenned to me when i scragged my /home by accident...

Re: GDM no more working on Woody

2000-08-22 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi John, yes all the other things seems to work fine. I tryed nearly all the services running on those boxes and I think is not an authentication problem... seems like gdm is no more able to startx. John Griffiths wrote: > > Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > >HI list, > > since a coup

Minor problem with dosfsck

2000-08-22 Thread Tim Jump
I've got a minor problem since upgrading to Potato that I've been banging my head against the wall trying to fix to no avail. Hopefully someone here can help (they usually can!). Ever since the upgrade, I've been getting an error telling me there are differences between the boot sector & the back

Re: We need a FAQ. Don't you think we need a FAQ?

2000-08-22 Thread John Reinke
As someone who's been *using* Linux for a few years, but still a newbie at setting up and maintaining my own system, it's hard to remember all the millions of sources of information... The first link below might not be as relevant for newbies, but rather for people considering Debian in the first

Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim

2000-08-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
Andreas Hetzmannseder said: > The following domain(s) will be recognized as referring to this > system: woof Unless your incoming email is addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], exim will not recognize it as being for a user on your system. You need to give exim a valid local domain. -

Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim

2000-08-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
Florian Friesdorf said: > I just switch over from qmail to exim. > my fetchmailrc looks very similar, except I'm not using the "mda" option. > Somehow fetchmail knows how to contact exim. Your MTA (exim, qmail, sendmail, whatever) listens for connections on port 25. fetchmail connects to port 25

Re: automounter & NIS

2000-08-22 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
hi, > I have a debian machine running as a nis client. > I cant get the amd to mount my remote home directory (on a solaris ) > Can you please help me get the automounter (amd or autofs) to work with > the NIS auto.home map. there is a bug in the /etc/init.d/autofs script that prepends a "/etc" t

Re: exim and multiple alias files

2000-08-22 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:14:55PM -0500, Brent Harding wrote > Can exim handle multiple alias files? I tried switching to > sendmail for > this, but whatever I did playing with postfix to see what it was about > before removing it, made everything halt up in mqueue under var/spool,

Re: bad new large hard disk? [chirps]

2000-08-22 Thread Vitux
"Richard E. Hawkins" wrote: > > I sent this earlier, but it doesn't seem to have made it to hte list . . > . > > This weekend, I tried installing the 20G IBM drive I picked up on > vacation, and I think it has serious problem s :( > > It chirps, which seems to come haveter a major (loud) move o

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread markm
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:50:18AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Right, and have to stuff them into a single account to get at them with a > single client. That, to me, is inelegant. For good reasons I do /not/ mix my > personal and professional email. Using fetchmail in the prescribed manner

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread Preben Randhol
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 21/08/2000 (17:59) : > Hate to tell you but fetchmail is not more elegant. In fact, I find it > quite archaic. I don't know about you, but there is something about pulling 2 > accounts worth of mail, dumping them into a single local account and then hav

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:46:00PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > .fetchmailrc can have: > [] > user x is mark here > [] > user y is julie here Requires a local account for what really isn't a separate account on the local machine. This is a piss-poor hack. > Alternatively, if you

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:52:08AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > I think it is you that has done something wrong in the setup. No, I refuse to accept a mediocre solution. > I have setup fetchmail on a machine to fetch mail for both users of that > machine from the ISP. One of the users even

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread Preben Randhol
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 22/08/2000 (09:58) : > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:52:08AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > > I think it is you that has done something wrong in the setup. > > No, I refuse to accept a mediocre solution. Would you please explain how you would make the sof

problems setting up apt-proxy

2000-08-22 Thread Mukunda Peter Pasedach
Hi I'm trying to set up apt-proxy. I got it so far that the client machine can speak with the proxy machine, but then it seems that on the proxy machine there are some problems. In the logfile I get many messages like this one: Got line Host: p100: Got line Connection: keep-alive Got line Use

Solved: apt-get -- connecting to localhost ? (slink)

2000-08-22 Thread kmself
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 04:19:11PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:18:52PM -0700, Brett Neely wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:59:51PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Synopsis: apt-get fails with: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:karsten]$ apt-get update

q ad security.debian.org

2000-08-22 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Up till potato was released, I had a working entry deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates in my apt/sources.list. Now I get Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates Packages 404 Not Found Someone willing to clue me up? I´m running all packages, except the kernel and sa

Re: q ad security.debian.org

2000-08-22 Thread Preben Randhol
Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 22/08/2000 (11:20) : > Someone willing to clue me up? I´m running all packages, except the > kernel and samba, updated to potato here, http://www.debian.org/security/ says you should put in your /etc/apt/sources.list : deb http://security.debian.org/ p

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2000-08-22 Thread Dadi Matza
ISDN is there any different between the DTAG and ITU-T in the S/T - interface. I know that in the U- interface there is a difference with the coding method 4B3T - 2B1Q. I need this information that help me to choose a U and S interface transceivers. Dadi Matza Expand Networks Tel Aviv - "Kiriat

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2000-08-22 Thread Dadi Matza
Hi I'm looking for solution to Single ISDN U-interface Transceiver 4B3T as LT or NT. The future applicatios are S/T and U interfaces for both ANSI and DTAG(Germany) as LT & NT. The Main Project is ISDN card for our products. this card will be interfaced with CPU

Re: q ad security.debian.org

2000-08-22 Thread Robert Waldner
>deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free works. Thanks! I´ll have to remember that when woody becomes stable ;-) On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:26:03 +0200, Preben Randhol writes: >Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 22/08/2000 (11:20) : >> Someone willing to clue me

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 12:54:58AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:46:00PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > .fetchmailrc can have: > > [] > > user x is mark here > > [] > > user y is julie here > > Requires a local account for what really isn't a separate accoun

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So far all the Linux clients have taken the Eudora/Lookout!/Pegasus > approach to email. Either everything goes into a single inbox and > you need to filter out from there and set up "personalities" or you

GNU build system: Where are acmkdir, mktxtc?

2000-08-22 Thread Shaul Karl
As far as I know, acmkdir and mktxtc are part of the GNU build system (autoconf, automake and friends). But where are they? [13:03:33 /tmp]$ locate mktxtc [13:22:13 /tmp]$ apropos mktxtc mktxtc: nothing appropriate. [13:22:21 /tmp]$ man -k acmkdir acmkdir: nothing appropriate. [13:22:36 /tmp]$ au

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread markm
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 12:54:58AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:46:00PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > .fetchmailrc can have: > > [] > > user x is mark here > > [] > > user y is julie here > > Requires a local account for what really isn't a separate accou

Re: printing printcap

2000-08-22 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Wayne, On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: printing printcap > Date: Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:35:52PM -0500 > > In reply to:Debian Mail > > Quoting Debian Mail([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hello, > > Debian ghost here... have a question about printing via debian. >

Re: automounter & NIS

2000-08-22 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Is this bug fixed in new versions of autofs from woody? Regards,Paulo Henrique Quoting Thomas Gebhardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > hi, > > > I have a debian machine running as a nis client. > > I cant get the amd to mount my remote home directory (on a solaris ) > > Can

XFree86 3.3.6 configuration in potato (D2.2)

2000-08-22 Thread spectra
Hello ALL! I've just installed in my system a Voodoo3 2000 PCI. My Debian box is the stable potato (Debian 2.2r1). I've made a apt-get install task-x-window-system and the Xfree86 installed is 3.3.6. Then I've done a apt-get install xserver-svga and the system asks for configuration. It invok

XFree86 3.3.6 configuration in potato (D2.2)

2000-08-22 Thread spectra
Hello ALL! I've just installed in my system a Voodoo3 2000 PCI. My Debian box is the stable potato (Debian 2.2r1). I've made a apt-get install task-x-window-system and the Xfree86 installed is 3.3.6. Then I've done a apt-get install xserver-svga and the system asks for configuration. It invok

Re: fetchmail gives me headache (was: Strange things like drwx--S--- with elm...)

2000-08-22 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Morten Liebach wrote: > [...] I don't have any mda defined in my ~/fetchmailrc, > delivering to port 25 on localhost is the default. Does this mean /var/spool/mail/... ? > My fetchmailrc: > > set postmaster "" ...OK... > set bouncemail > set properties "" Fetchmail complained about these two

I am now totally confused about modules

2000-08-22 Thread bsamuels
Debian Potato, kernel 2.2.17pre6, KDE My previous kernel compile was 10th August. On the 14th August I noticed the following in the logs: Aug 14 19:59:29 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tty-ldisc-3 Aug 14 19:59:39 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tty-ldisc-3 The following is an e

Re: Minor problem with dosfsck

2000-08-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:38:17AM +, Tim Jump wrote: > I've got a minor problem since upgrading to Potato that I've > been banging my head against the wall trying to fix to no avail. > Hopefully someone here can help (they usually can!). > > Ever since the upgrade, I've been getting an error

Re: apt-get won't play

2000-08-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: apt-get won't play Date: Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:27:11PM -0700 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > WARNING: Please push yourself back from the monitor for one second. > > AAHHH

Re: getting dma66 support in kernel

2000-08-22 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:37:20PM -0700, cxpx wrote: > Hey that got it to work for me!! I have had problems following > other how-to's. Well, the HD speed went from 3 MB to 22 MB. This > is still a long way from 66. Is this normal? (I here 66 is almost > unattainable) I have a motherboard and

apt-get dist-upgrade = [shellutils on hurd]?!

2000-08-22 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hello, This morning, as always, I come into work and update my Debian OS. I got into the habit a long time ago of typing: work:/home/walton# apt-get update followed by: work:/home/walton# apt-get -f -s dist-upgrade | less before actually updating my distribution. This morning I am a lit

ISP server assigned nameserver addressing - how?

2000-08-22 Thread Phillip Deackes
I have always added my ISP's nameservers address to /etc/resolv.conf and have found that most ISPs tend to specify that you should set up Windows DUN for server assigned DNS addresses. On occasions I have found it very difficult to get hold of actual numeric addresses. Can nameserver addresses be

Re: ISP server assigned nameserver addressing - how?

2000-08-22 Thread John Hasler
Phillip Deackes writes: > Can nameserver addresses be otained dynamically with Linux? Yes. Run pppconfig, go to 'Advanced', go to 'Nameservers', and select 'Dynamic'. > I use ISDN and have upgraded to Woody. I don't know much about ISDN. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmw

autofs

2000-08-22 Thread shashi
Im using autofs in potato with the following files: auto.master /removable /etc/auto.removable --timeout 5 /amnt /etc/auto.amnt auto.removable zip-fstype=auto,defaults,user,exec,nosuid :/dev/sdc1 But when I put the zip disk in, and cd /removable/zip it doesnt work, the error message is

Re: ISP server assigned nameserver addressing - how?

2000-08-22 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:40:11 BST, Phillip Deackes writes: >I have always added my ISP's nameservers address to /etc/resolv.conf and >have found that most ISPs tend to specify that you should set up Windows >DUN for server assigned DNS addresses. On occasions I have found it very >difficult to get h

re-compilation Trouble

2000-08-22 Thread Carlos Stephen
I configured to accommodate IP Masqarading the Fernel and saved it in a different file. I was able to execute the following commands. Make def: Make clean: Make zimage: make modules: But when I executed make modules_install I was presented with the following error message. Make:***[_di

Video for Linux

2000-08-22 Thread Patrik Magnusson
How do I get it to work? The helpfile tells me to edit the driver/Makefile and change the values of CARD and TUNER. As far as I can tell there are no Makefiles or .h-files containing either word. Do I need anything besides the kernel-source? Has anyone got it to work with a Zoltrix TV-Max? /Pat

Configuring two of same network card + keyboard not working in X

2000-08-22 Thread hogan
Debian unstable Kernel 2.2.17 Two SMC-ULTRA cards, configured for IRQs 10 and 11 (can't remember IO bases off hand - not near machine right now). How do I get both cards recognised? I tried two lines in /etc/modules quoting IRQs and IOs (as it wouldn't autodetect them).. Only first card is loade

Re: xfstt gives only one true type font size

2000-08-22 Thread mike
I have set up xfstt and am able to use true type fonts but when i choose a font , e.g. in Netscape i get only one font size to choose from (listed as size 0). When i set up true type fonts in Linux/Mandrake I also created a fonts.dir and fonts.scale in the truetype directory and

Intel PRO/100 VM

2000-08-22 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Can anybody tell me what driver to use to get the "re" NIC working? Thanks! -- p.

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade = [shellutils on hurd]?!

2000-08-22 Thread Bryan K. Walton
OK, sorry for the last email. Found my problem: I mistakenly had my sources.list file set for unstable. Glad I didn't do the dist-upgrade and move to unstable by accident. However, still perplexed by the [shellutils on hurd]. Anyone know what this means? Thanks, Bryan On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Br

gnome panel + sawfish

2000-08-22 Thread Richard Black
Hi all, I have my gnome panel set to auto-hide, which would be great except that when I go to raise it, it raises _under_ other windows (making it a bit tricky to actually use it :-)). Does anyone know how to set it so that it raises on top? I am using sawfish as my window manager, but there doe

Re: FW: Dell PowerEdge 2450 RAID

2000-08-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Currently the only source for these drivers I know of is the binary ones supplied by dell. Dell has binary modules and also a kernel with support for this controller compiled into it. In order to get these you need to use the RedHat 6.2 disks which can be downloaded from the dell support site. In

Re: Video for Linux

2000-08-22 Thread Brian Stults
Patrik Magnusson wrote: > > How do I get it to work? > > The helpfile tells me to edit the driver/Makefile and change > the values of CARD and TUNER. As far as I can tell there are no > Makefiles or .h-files containing either word. > > Do I need anything besides the kernel-source? > > Has anyon

Mapping keys to console

2000-08-22 Thread Dave A
Hi, Can anyone help with this problem. I need to map keys to mean different things depending on which console I am on. For example, I need to have a menu screen on one session and an POS order taker on the other. Each has to have keys setup to mean different things. So far it appears that linux on

[Fwd: Configuring two of same network card + keyboard not working in X]

2000-08-22 Thread Vitux
Vitux wrote: > > hogan wrote: > > > > Debian unstable > > Kernel 2.2.17 > > > > > When using XF86Setup I can get keyboard going, but it complains about no > > setup > > for display etc. > > When using xf86config I can get display going (at least it gives no errors) > > but then it complains abou

Re: gnome panel + sawfish

2000-08-22 Thread Phillip Deackes
Richard Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have my gnome panel set to auto-hide, which would be great except > that > when I go to raise it, it raises _under_ other windows (making it a > bit > tricky to actually use it :-)). > > Does anyone know how to set it so that it raises on t

Laserjet IIP (not postscript) and ghostscript?

2000-08-22 Thread hawk
I have in my office, at least for the moment, a LaserJet IIP. This is from before the P meant postscript on these; I think it meant "personal." It is *not* the same printer as a regular II. I've found ghostscriptt and magicilter information starting at about the laserjet III. Does anyone kn

Re: gnome panel + sawfish

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Schiltz
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Richard Black wrote: Using woody/helix/sawfish: Settings:Desktop:Panel:Miscellaneous: Unselect: Keep panel below windows > I have my gnome panel set to auto-hide, which would be great except that > when I go to raise it, it raises _under_ other windows (making it a bit > tr

Re: Netscape 4.75 packages? With 128-bit encryption?

2000-08-22 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:57:00PM -0500, Brad wrote: > In case anyone would find it useful, it's not very difficult to package > the subject. I must assume a i386 libc6 system, since i have no others > to test the instructions. If anyone else would, post an addendum. You'll > need the approrpiate

Kernel compile error

2000-08-22 Thread JP Sartre
Hi guys.. I got a strange error when attempting to recompile my kernel today. I was able to compile it yesterday, so I'm not sure why it is choking today. Anyhow, here's the output: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17/include/linux/kernel_stat.h:47: for each function it appears in.) make[2]: *** [ksy

Re: I am now totally confused about modules

2000-08-22 Thread David Z Maze
bsamuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BS> I have also noticed the follow errors in the log when I play a CD: BS> BS> Aug 22 10:45:56 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 BS> Aug 22 10:45:56 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3 Hmm, that's odd. (Those messages

Re: gnome panel + sawfish

2000-08-22 Thread Brian Stults
Richard Black wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have my gnome panel set to auto-hide, which would be great except that > when I go to raise it, it raises _under_ other windows (making it a bit > tricky to actually use it :-)). > > Does anyone know how to set it so that it raises on top? I am using > saw

Problems installing

2000-08-22 Thread Ray Percival
I'm trying to install 2.2 off of a set of CDs from cheapbytes. It is the official image. I get to where it wants to install the kernel. I tell it to install off of the cd it mounts the cd. I have checked that it is mounted in the other terminal I have also mounted it by hand and used the mounted

RE: bad new large hard disk? [chirps]

2000-08-22 Thread Stephenson, Paul
Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > This weekend, I tried installing the 20G IBM drive I picked up on > vacation, and I think it has serious problem s :( > > It chirps, which seems to come haveter a major (loud) move of the > heads. The bios can find the drive about half the time, and reports > possibl

Re: We need a FAQ. Don't you think we need a FAQ?

2000-08-22 Thread Aaron Maxwell
> You have a faq. > http://www.debian.org/fom/1.html > [This faq] allows anyone to submit questions and answers. How? I tried last night and again just now to submit an answer to the "How do I... ?" section. After creating a new login, I went to the section, clicked "Show Edit Commands", then "N

Re: We need a FAQ. Don't you think we need a FAQ?

2000-08-22 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, John Reinke wrote: > More attention should be drawn to [the FAQs], and there should probably > be a link to it placed in the footer of the debian-user list. Great idea. Another way we can all help is to be familiar with the contents of the FAQ (or even part of it); and whe

getting rid of ide-scsi-emulation

2000-08-22 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! Until recently I had an IDE-cd-recorder, so I used ide-scsi-emulation to get it running, compiled it into the kernel and put it into lilo append="ether=5,0x360,eth1 hda=49585,16,63 hdc=ide-scsi max_scsi_luns=1" Now that I have a SCSI one, I want to get rid of the emulation, but don´t w

Exim question concerning spam

2000-08-22 Thread Pollywog
I am having a problem with a spammer on digital.net's network, and they apparently won't terminate the spammer account. The spammer forged my e-mail on his spams and large numbers are bouncing back to me. Is there a way for me to bounce the bounces to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using an exim filter rule o

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread Brendan Cully
Of course you could also use fetchmail's "mda" option to make an account be delivered to an arbitrary file. But you probably don't care about that. What I've learned from this long and silly thread is there are plenty of ways to receive mail from several accounts and keep them separated, but none

Re: We need a FAQ. Don't you think we need a FAQ?

2000-08-22 Thread Krzys Majewski
I'll second that. I just unsubscribed from the list because I don't like sifting through a couple hundred messages. Maybe someone could invent a system whereby first-time posters are placed on "probation", which is some moderated antechamber to the debian-user list. After three kosher

Xcdroast & hair loss

2000-08-22 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, Have installed Xcdroast and can copy cd's etc. But I want to make a new cd containing data I've stored in one of my directories - in this case 10 mp3's. I am using a cd-rw cd. after I burn it, verify it - my CD-ROM can see and play it but no windoz box can see it - in fact they act as i

Re: apt-get won't play

2000-08-22 Thread Nick Cook
FWIW, I fixed my apt-get problem by following the old adage: when in doubt, blow it out. I purged apt from my system, manually ftp'ed (if that's a verb!) apt from the slink/admin directory, and re-installed via dpkg. Apt-get now goes online, gets the potato stable lists with no problem, and star

Re: Emacs meta-key

2000-08-22 Thread Richard Klinda
Hoi Nick! Nick> I installed potato on another machine (without going through slink). The Nick> alt-key won't function as meta in Emacs on this one. I've used xev to Nick> check. Sure enough alt is there, but not for Emacs. Load xkeycaps and set one of your alts modifier to Mod4 (which is me

Re: XFree86 3.3.6 configuration in potato (D2.2)

2000-08-22 Thread spectra
> Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > I failed to compile because the system didn't located the modversions.h > > (which I don't have!!!). I've already search for it, but my > > kernel-2.2.16.tar.gz> misses it. Anyway, I don't know if this driver is > > needed, I just> want to play Quake in fulls

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 11:41:17AM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote: > But you probably don't care about that. What I've learned from this > long and silly thread is there are plenty of ways to receive mail from > several accounts and keep them separated, but none that you like. Too > bad. Great att

Re: SendMail Problem

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:54:07PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > I have Sendmail running as a MX'ed mailserver. I had a problem with Why are you using sendmail and not something else? It is generally regarded as being hard to configure and understand (which is why it's not the default MTA for Debian

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 03:51:42PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > I don't see it that way. Why should they be forced to create a whole new > account to access mail on a different server in a completely different > fashion. No other client/server setup requires the user to do that, why sould Gen

dependency problem (gedit & gdk-imlib1 in woody)

2000-08-22 Thread Alessandro Ghigi
I don't understand if the following is my fault or is due to something wrong in dselect. I have just upgraded from potato to woody, and dselect insists that gedit has unmet dependencies, regarding gdk-imlib1, which is not the right version. I haven't found the requested version in the Debian ftp s

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 07:21:38PM +0930, John Pearson wrote: > .forward file allows you to filter your mail into any number of > separate mailfolders at delivery time, based on a wide range of > criteria including the contents of the headers. Now take it a step further, what do you do on the

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 05:14:24PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > Generally, you should just be able to tell your mail client to use a > different configuration. Hack. The mail client should be able to do that internally. > As far as I'm aware all the MUAs with non-trivial support for IMAP can

Re: Hardware Modems

2000-08-22 Thread d1temp
On 18 Aug, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Saturday, 19 August 2000 at 11:34, Jack Morgan wrote: >> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Cliff Wise wrote: >> >An oxymoron is an element in classical rhetoric in which opposites are >> >combined to sharpen a point, not to contradict it. An example would be *His >> >impass

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread Matthew Sackman
> Monday, August 21, 2000, 11:35:05 AM, Mark wrote: > > I am somewhat tempted to ask why if you want to keep two sets of mail > > separate sets of mail you find it imperative to handle them both with > > one instance of a program. > > Convenience. There is no good reason not to, really. Why s

slow inetd

2000-08-22 Thread Mike
Greetings: I've got potato on a network with some windows machines. Potato has wuftpd installed and configured in inetd.conf. sshd is also started when it boots. When I try to ftp from windows to potato (using the local ip address of potato) it takes 2-3 MINUTES before I get a response fro

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread Mark Schiltz
Steve, After hashing through all your comments, I believe I know what you want. An email client that has a folder for [EMAIL PROTECTED] & [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. (but dosn't call it a folder) with sub-folders for inbox,outbox,etc. (its ok to call these folders) for each of the above non-folders.

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread Matthew Sackman
> > Monday, August 21, 2000, 11:35:05 AM, Mark wrote: > > > I am somewhat tempted to ask why if you want to keep two sets of mail > > > separate sets of mail you find it imperative to handle them both with > > > one instance of a program. > > > > Convenience. There is no good reason not to, r

Re: slow inetd

2000-08-22 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:06:12AM -0700, Mike wrote: > Greetings: > > I've got potato on a network with some windows machines. Potato has wuftpd > installed and configured in inetd.conf. sshd is also started when it boots. > > When I try to ftp from windows to potato (using the local ip addre

Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim

2000-08-22 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 02:32:49AM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: > > [...] > > My ~/.fetchmailrc looks like this: > > > > poll pop.netway.at > > proto pop3 > > user my-remote-username > > password my-password > > is andy he

Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim

2000-08-22 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Dave Sherohman wrote: > > Andreas Hetzmannseder said: > > The following domain(s) will be recognized as referring to this > > system: woof > > Unless your incoming email is addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], exim will not > recognize > it as being for a user on your system. You nee

Re: slow inetd

2000-08-22 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:06:12AM -0700, Mike wrote: > Greetings: > > I've got potato on a network with some windows machines. Potato has wuftpd > installed and configured in inetd.conf. sshd is also started when it boots. > > When I try to ftp from windows to potato (using the local ip addre

Re: Mapping keys to console

2000-08-22 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:47:01PM +0800, Dave A wrote: > Hi, > Can anyone help with this problem. I need to map keys to mean different > things depending on which console I am on. For example, I need to have > a menu screen on one session and an POS order taker on the other. > > Each has to have

Re: slow inetd

2000-08-22 Thread Mike
At 07:23 PM 8/22/00 +0200, you wrote: It seems classic resolver problem (register your win-machine in DNS or at least add to /etc/hosts file) :) Mirek It seems like a resolver problem to me as well but I'm not running a DNS locally and I do have the local ip address of the windows machine in

Re: Problems installing

2000-08-22 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:17:44AM -0600, Ray Percival wrote: > I'm trying to install 2.2 off of a set of CDs from cheapbytes. It is > the official image. I get to where it wants to install the kernel. I > tell it to install off of the cd it mounts the cd. I have checked that > it is mounted in the

Why does debian (potato) start in the runlevel 2?

2000-08-22 Thread Nelson Castillo
Hi. I just installed debian (totato) from FTP. I have a minimal instalation with BIND and IMAP. Well, i removed exim and installed qmail. My question is: im new with debian, and other distributions start in the runlevel 3. Why does this one run in the rinlevel 2 by default? Best regards, nels

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 03:34:04PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > I think that it is slightly unreasonable to expect to be able to keep two > email accounts separate on your local machine and yet demand to be able to > access both through a single instance of your MUA. Why? That is exactly

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 12:02:00PM -0500, Mark Schiltz wrote: > An email client that has a folder for [EMAIL PROTECTED] & [EMAIL PROTECTED], > etc. (but dosn't call it a folder) with sub-folders for inbox,outbox,etc. (its > ok to call these folders) for each of the above non-folders. Does that abou

nocol package for Debian

2000-08-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have been unable to find a Debian package for the nocol monitoring system. Searching for it on Google reveals some WNPP reports from '98 indicating that somebody was working on packages. There's nothing since then, though, and no package exists in stable or u

Re: slow inetd

2000-08-22 Thread Mike
Thanks, Rick. At 01:47 PM 8/22/00 -0400, you wrote: I missed the first part of this, but is the slow service perchanced wrapped by tcpwrappers? (ie: /usr/sbin/tcpd). It is. If so, check /etc/hosts.deny for the paranoid option: # # The PARANOID wildcard matches any host whose name does not m

Re: Xcdroast & hair loss - resolved :(

2000-08-22 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Returning . . . I have learned that many CDRW will not read in cdroms. I have 2 boxes, one with older cdrom and one with new 32x cdrom - both windoz boxes, neither would see the CDRW disk. It would appear that CDRW are not globablly readable which can be a real bother. At any rate, the image

Re: nocol package for Debian

2000-08-22 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
I'm interested in this too. Quoting Noah L. Meyerhans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > I have been unable to find a Debian package for the nocol monitoring > system. Searching for it on Google reveals some WNPP reports from '98 > indicating that somebody was w

Re: slow inetd

2000-08-22 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 11:01:03AM -0700, Mike wrote: > Thanks, Rick. > > At 01:47 PM 8/22/00 -0400, you wrote: > > >I missed the first part of this, but is the slow service perchanced > >wrapped by tcpwrappers? (ie: /usr/sbin/tcpd). > > It is. > > >If so, check /etc/hosts.deny for the paranoid

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