upgrade to exim 3.10+

2000-08-24 Thread davidturetsky
I tried to install exim 3.10 and its dependencies using dpkg over my existing debian os, which I assume is not at issue. However in installing many of the components, a string of warnings were issued. Here is the output from installing libc6_2.1.3-10.deb, which is typical:   ldconfig: warning

Re: Frozen message

2000-08-31 Thread davidturetsky
If your MTA was exim, you would find it in /var/spool/exim/input. Check /var/spool and see if you recognize your mail transport and look further in that directory path. It should be readily readable with any editor David www.richsob.com - Original Message - From: "Fre

charset issues

2000-08-17 Thread davidturetsky
On bouncing mail down from Windows/Outlook Express to debian/exim and back to Windows I find a line has been added and the resultant post no longer displays HTML under Outlook Express I am trying to set up a mailing list send out via debian/exim where some of the recipients will want to view the p

Setting up Debian

2000-02-01 Thread davidturetsky
I'm a newbie to Debian, but an old computer hand... experiencing considerable difficulty in setting up a Debian Linux system on my DELL Pentium III 34gb drive   I set up a 8gb partition using fdisk and formated the lower 24gb with MS format. Then I used Partition Magic 5.0 to set up a 1,000mb

Re: Setting up Debian

2000-02-02 Thread davidturetsky
elcome any help Can't say enought good things about Partition Magic 5.0. An upgrade from earlier version is available inexpensively via download David - Original Message - From: Joe Bouchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Tuesday, Februa

Re: Setting up Debian - II

2000-02-02 Thread davidturetsky
ooked like, I got, "kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel" I also tried to install using Red Hat 6.1 to see if the issue was unique to the Debian installer, but Red Hat also did not see any partition Helllppp! David - Original Message - From: Joe Bouchar

Re: Setting up Debian - III

2000-02-02 Thread davidturetsky
partition fail The extended partition is a logical partition, which was recommended. Is this related to problem? David - Original Message - From: Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian User Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 1:40

Re: Setting up Debian - II

2000-02-02 Thread davidturetsky
provides encouragement and a basis to keep at it David - Original Message - From: David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 8:51 AM Subject: Re: Setting up Debian - II > Quoting davidturetsky ([

Re: Setting up Debian - II

2000-02-02 Thread davidturetsky
much appreciated David - Original Message - From: paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian User Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 8:42 AM Subject: Re: Setting up Debian - II > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: Setting up Debian - III

2000-02-02 Thread davidturetsky
TECTED]> To: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian User Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 9:56 AM Subject: Re: Setting up Debian - III > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:02:01AM -0800, davidturetsky wrote: > > In response to below suggestion, I repartitioned as follows: > &

Re: Setting up Debian - II

2000-02-03 Thread davidturetsky
mbarrassment of riches, eh? Thanks to all my correspondents (and I thought I was living dangerously riding around on my Harley!) David - Original Message - From: aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Debian User ; Sen

Up and Running!

2000-02-03 Thread davidturetsky
What a difference a jumper makes!   After changing the two jumpers to max out my 34GB drive at 32GB, I installed Debian 2.2.99 (?) without further issue. The installation process smoothly led me by the hand   All of the partitions I created with Partition Magic were fully recognized   My sinc

Mount w98 partition

2000-02-03 Thread davidturetsky
I'm trying to mount my Windows98 partition from Linux   Cannot seem to work out the command   I presume the idea is to mount the entire partition and then access the files there through ordinary Linux resources   David

Compiled Emacs

2000-02-04 Thread davidturetsky
I'm using emacs under Linux, mounting ms-dog files and writing html   My attempts to install x-windows fail ( I assume some setting is making the installer unhappy, but I can't take more time to chase it now). I have also not installed browsers on the Linux side, but enjoy using Opera. Not s

Re: Serious problems with the installation.

2000-02-04 Thread davidturetsky
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Opera

2000-02-05 Thread davidturetsky
And Opera? Does it require X to run? David - Original Message - From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Pee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 8:51 AM Subject: Re: SAMBA and X > > Pee wrote: > > > > Do I really need to install X to run Samba? > > TIA-Pee > > No.

email

2000-02-06 Thread davidturetsky
I am new to Linux. Just installed slink after resolving large disk issues. Answered setup questions as best I could and now would like to use email facilities. Setup asks for IP address, but not for telephone numbers for my provider, msn, and seems to behave as though it is directly hooked u

email

2000-02-06 Thread davidturetsky
Well, I went to Network Solutions and got msn's IP number and then fired up pppconfig (which did not again ask me for the DNS)   I used emacs to edit in the IP numbers in /etc/resolv.conf   As far as I can tell, after entering in pon msn, the system never dialed out. That seemed to be confir

Re: email

2000-02-07 Thread davidturetsky
ppp.log: Feb 6 14:28.21 debian pppd[157] pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 blah-blah-blahtcgetattr: Input/output error(5) Exit David - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: email

2000-02-07 Thread davidturetsky
of COM1 when on Linux? David - Original Message - From: Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian-User Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 8:33 PM Subject: Re: email > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > &g

email

2000-02-07 Thread davidturetsky
ConfNak id=0x2 ]Feb  7 12:59:07 debian pppd[905]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 ]Feb  7 12:59:07 debian pppd[905]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x3 ]Feb  7 12:59:07 debian pppd[905]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x69b67faf]Feb  7 12:59:07 debian pppd[905]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="MSN/

Re: email

2000-02-07 Thread davidturetsky
suggestions... had to back off to attend to some deadline stuff, but I will keep trying variants At least we know the other modem ("win" is non-compus-mendus to Linux, so I feel I'm making progress David - Original Message - From: aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: davidturet

Re: email

2000-02-07 Thread davidturetsky
Aha! The plot thickens! Tnx. Will fool with variants on this David - Original Message - From: paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 12:50 PM Subject: Re: email >

Re: Mailbox converter?

2000-02-08 Thread davidturetsky
What a great thought! And is there a script to convert Outlook Express Addressbook too? David - Original Message - From: Marc Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 7:01 AM Subject: Mailbox converter? > Does anyone know of a script or program (for linux > or

x

2000-02-10 Thread davidturetsky
I used xf86config to try to create an x platform, and with the failure of earlier attempts, reduced the screen choices. Lo and behold, when I just boot up, I came up to a screen (somewhat inelegant) with a big fat x toward the middle, but with the mouse and keyboard otherwise apparently froz

Re: Java compiler

2000-02-10 Thread davidturetsky
This may not be quite what you have in mind, but I believe this is now routinely done when locally invoking javac and by the latest browser under the rubric, "Just-In-Time Compiler." I believe the question is addressed at Sun's site, java.sun.com David - Original Message - From: Jozef Sk

Rebuild?

2000-02-10 Thread davidturetsky
I just tried to boot from the floppy after previously finding keyboard and mouse frozen with my stab at installing x   the boot process paused with "/dev/hda was not cleanly unmounted, check forced"   Only Ctl-c got it to continue   The login failed with, "unable to change tty /dev/tt1: Ille

gcc

2000-02-10 Thread davidturetsky
I plan to convert some c/c++ from a Windows/Visual C++ environment to gcc under Linux. I may also use cgicc in some applications   I've glanced through the info files and while helpful, omits a lot of information that would expedite the process   Are there any good books or other documentatio

XFree86 3.3.6 installation problems

2000-02-11 Thread davidturetsky
Following recent posts I got out of my inelegant screen with a Ctl-Alt-F1, logged in, copies over the XFree dowloads to a new directory "x" and proceeded to install it   When I ran sh/x/postinst.sh, I got: line 33: 223 Segmentation fault $RUNDIR/bin/mkfontdir $RUNDIR/lib/X11/fonts/misc   It i

Re: NO MOUSE

2000-02-12 Thread davidturetsky
I had the same problem. Consider whether all of your devices are supported... I had a frozen kb and mouse... both of these devices on my system are Microsoft's "intelligent" versions   I'm trying the route of using XFree86 as my x platform. Nothing helpful to report so far   David - Or

Segmentation fault

2000-02-13 Thread davidturetsky
I am executing a Linear Program program I wrote and compiled. It terminates without generating output (but creates the output file) with a "Segmentation fault"   I'm trying to convert programs to run under g++ which I previously developed using Visual c 5.0 and would appreciate any help in s

Re: Segmentation fault

2000-02-13 Thread davidturetsky
west release. I've posted this to their developers Is there a separate users group for gcc? David - Original Message - From: Peter Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: davidturetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 11:05 PM Subject: Re: Segmentation fault

Re: Segmentation fault

2000-02-13 Thread davidturetsky
convert my work to Linux/gcc/x/ppp... and why some gentle assists from the list are so useful in helping me get started David - Original Message - From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 2:54 AM Subject: Re: Segmentation fault > [EMAIL PROTECTE

Iomega drives

2000-02-13 Thread davidturetsky
Where is accessing IOmega 100mb floppies documented?   David

Re: Newbie's experience Installing Debian

2000-02-14 Thread davidturetsky
Check http://www.debian.org/distrib/vendors I crashed my disk repartitioning it for Debian Linux so I don't have all the details, but I believe I paid $19.95 plus shipping. I ordered online and the order fulfillment was provided by Brandon Carter, 714-505-8915, Loki Entertainment Software, 250 El

gcc OK

2000-02-14 Thread davidturetsky
To my gcc correspondents and all   I've been trying to port some code from Visual c to gcc with the usual newbie difficulties   I rewrote some code to deal with library routines not provided by glibc and converted the c style i/o to c++ stream i/o but still ran into difficulties getting a cle

Re: Segmentation fault

2000-02-14 Thread davidturetsky
David - Original Message - From: Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 9:56 PM Subject: Re: Segmentation fault > On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 03:45:55 -0800, "davidturetsky" <[EMAIL PR

Re: Segmentation fault

2000-02-16 Thread davidturetsky
000 at 11:08:21PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:43:25 -0800, "davidturetsky" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was crying out from somewhere about: Re: > > Segmentation fault > > > > davidturetsky> I believe this is the code > &

Re: Modem doesn't respond

2000-02-16 Thread davidturetsky
I had the same problem. It turned out I was trying to use a "Win" modem which is apparently generally not supported in Linux   My problem went away when I installed a second USR "non-Win" modem. While I still have some configuring to do, it's clear I now get dial tone and dial out to my prov

Re: Your notice in Internet.

2000-02-17 Thread davidturetsky
Would this be of any help in my coding? David - Original Message - From: Zygmunt Orlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 11:21 AM Subject: Your notice in Internet. > You drive a car very often. Sometimes you must brake this car. > Ha

c references

2000-02-17 Thread davidturetsky
I have found anything by Herbert Schildt to be quite excellent and unusually comprehensible   C: The Complete Reference   C++: The Complete Reference   both by Osborne/McGraw Hill   David

Reading files from corrupted disk

2000-02-25 Thread davidturetsky
I have a bunch of Windows95 files stranded on my old hard drives, not accessible from windows because the directory (I believe) has been corrupted   How can I access them directly and copy them off onto the 34gb drive that came with my new system?   If not readily accessible from simple scrip

Re: pause page

2000-02-29 Thread davidturetsky
man somesubject | more   Press the spacebar when you want the next page. Press q to exit   David - Original Message - From: Beavis To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 8:49 PM Subject: pause page sometimes i try to read the help files

Re: fips won't move hidden

2000-03-09 Thread davidturetsky
I noticed something similar... I don't recall precisely how I dealt with it... check for options... perhaps it was Partition Magic which moved the upper files down to allow you to resize the partition in question David - Original Message - From: Constantin Vernicos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: