Re: what is the best pop3d?

1997-08-12 Thread Doug Ledford
The URL is ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.tar.Z Also in the /mail directory is a discussion of pop vs imap. It works fine, make sure you have the current one though, the older one asked the right way gives out root shells Even the latest one isn't perfect. The POP3

Re: Samba -- netbios (solution)

1997-08-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: be a-ok). Anyway, I've attached a short perl script which you may use as a replacement for smbmount which will do the NMB lookup itself. This script should be included with smbmount, it's very nice to be able to do this kind of lookup. Jason

128MB of RAM?

1997-08-12 Thread Dan Dooher
Gang, I'm testing the viability of a Debian Linux server and am having trouble with the OS *seeing* all the RAM. The BIOS checks all 128MB of RAM. But when I run dmesg it reports: $ dmesg |grep Memory Memory: 62740k/65536k available (1004k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1408k data) top also

Re: 128MB of RAM?

1997-08-12 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Dan Dooher wrote: Gang, I'm testing the viability of a Debian Linux server and am having trouble with the OS *seeing* all the RAM. The BIOS checks all 128MB of RAM. But when I run dmesg it reports: $ dmesg |grep Memory Memory:

Re: Default caching bind config very slow??

1997-08-12 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Should this be reported as a bug? Or is it a know side-affect of some security fix? Is it in named or who, or something else? ABO Eloy A. Paris wrote: Same here: who takes quite a bit of time to run because it seems to be trying to do a

New Install - CDROM not a block device?

1997-08-12 Thread Alan Jacobs
Hi, I've just installed 1.3.1 but am unable to access the CDrom. Debian says that the CDROM is not a Block device. What do I have to do to get the CD Rom recognised? Base install from floppy to a SCSI disk. CDROM is on Secondary IDE interface ( /dev/hdb reported at boot ) I can mount the CDROM

Subject: Re: IP forwarding in 2.0.30 kernel??

1997-08-12 Thread Donovan Baarda
G'day debianers, I have now tried both kernel-image 2.0.29-7 and 2.0.30-7 in the stable distribution for Debian 1.3.1, and neither have a kernel config file in /boot, and neither seem to support IP forwarding. IP forwarding worked fine with the old Debian 1.2 kernel image 2.0.27. I notice ipx

Re: Default caching bind config very slow??

1997-08-12 Thread Lindsay Allen
I do not have any of these problems with who, but I notice one of my own. w and who give different answers. $ w 10:50am up 5 days, 22:09h, 11 users, load average: 0.13, 0.10, 0.03 USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT root tty14:05pm 1:51 0:05 0:05 -bash allen

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1997-08-12 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
On Aug 11, 1997, at 10:36, Philippe Troin wrote: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.53 1997/08/11 17:26:39 phil Exp $ [BIG snip] 6. Programs that aren't available yet in Debian Programs listed in

where is xmkmf?

1997-08-12 Thread Dany Dionne
Where can i found xmkmf? Dany Dionne -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: where is xmkmf?

1997-08-12 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Where can i found xmkmf? Dany Dionne In xlib6-dev package. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ |

Re: where is xmkmf?

1997-08-12 Thread Paul Miller
it should be in an x develop package... that should be enough to find it.. try xlib6-dev -Paul On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Dany Dionne wrote: Where can i found xmkmf? Dany Dionne -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

pine/procmail

1997-08-12 Thread Paul Miller
How can I setup procmail/pine so that debian mailing lists are in a separate directory? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: pine/procmail

1997-08-12 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
Sure you can. Use a procmail rc file something like this: :0 * ^Subject:.*Digest | formail +1 -ds procmail :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null :0: * ^TO.*debian-user debian -- D. W. Wieboldt - Product Support Engineer . . . . . . . . . 512-248-2766 Eaton SEO Product Support . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: New Install - CDROM not a block device?

1997-08-12 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Alan Jacobs wrote: Hi, I've just installed 1.3.1 but am unable to access the CDrom. Debian says that the CDROM is not a Block device. What do I have to do to get the CD Rom recognised? Are you sure you're mounting it as the right filesystem type? Should be mount -t

pine/netscape sharing mail files

1997-08-12 Thread Paul Miller
I looked at the pine and netscape mail files and they appear to be in the same format, except netscape has a summary file for each file. Would it be safe to have procmail deliving mail to a shared mailbox file that netscape and pine are reading (and have netscape or pine open)? -Paul -- TO

Re: Looking for Talk - HOWTO

1997-08-12 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Aug 8, Frank Barknecht wrote Mike Schmitz hat gesagt: // Mike Schmitz wrote: Rewrite your hosts file from /etc/ppp/ip-up, keeping the same name as is set in hostname. Here is an example: I have tried this now, but used an example from the Dynamic-IP-Hacks-mini-HOWTO like another

How to use dip or ppp connect to Win NT

1997-08-12 Thread Deng Hongwei
I'v used dip and ppp connect to a linux dial-up server success,but I can't connect to a windows NT remote access server,because when I dial in, I can't see any prompt that the server send to me ,any thing likes 'Username' or password' etc. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

MLMs comparisons and Linux

1997-08-12 Thread David M
Hi there people, I need to find a good MLM (mailing list manager) for Linux. I wonder if any of you have some pointers to comparison charts for MLMs (features supported, etc.). I have searched the web but did not find anything relevant. I am particularly interested in comparing Listserv,

Blocking spam by IP number

1997-08-12 Thread Bruce Perens
I'm building a spam blocking package for Debian. While that is going on, some of you might find this useful. Look for the SMTP daemon in your /etc/inetd.conf . If it's being started through tcpd, you'll see an invocation of tcpd in the file on the same line just before the invocation of the SMTP

Re: [DEBIAN] Standardization?

1997-08-12 Thread A. M. Varon
On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, George Bonser wrote: One of the points raised was that even though there is a filesystem standard, there is still too much leeway in that some things like system initialization files and how they are arrainged can differ widely from one distribution to the next. It was

Modem doesn't reset anymore

1997-08-12 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, I suddenly am forced to first start win95 and use dial-up networking there to reset my modem before I can use it from Linux. I didn't change a thing on my installation, no new packages, no new kernel (2.0.30 with pentium-memcpy and partial csum), no nothing. It does not reset my modem, and I

Trouble with the TIS Firewall Toolkit

1997-08-12 Thread Paulo Almeida
Hi everybody! I am trying to setup a firewall using the debian package fwtk_1.3-1.deb Everything runs smoothly until I try to create the administrative user record using the command 'authsrv'. When I run it nothing happens. It should prompt me to configure the database but nothing happens, it

Re: Debugging pine sessions

1997-08-12 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: But it will still create those ugly .pine-debug files. I could be wrong, but the only way to disable creation of these files is by not using DEBUG. Pine is a mail-reading client, which is frequently being used to connect to servers over which one

Re: Can't delete a file

1997-08-12 Thread A. M. Varon
On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Mike Miller wrote: I have a file on my machine that I created that begins with a hyphen. How can I delete it. rm -test says can't delete est using option -t (or whatever). How do I tell it not to use the hyphen as a switch? Use Midnight Commander. Type mc to run the

Re: X screen position

1997-08-12 Thread A. M. Varon
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Lawrence wrote: Anyone utility to shift the X screen (permanently?) to the right? Run the utility xvidtune. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated Technical Head

Re: [DEBIAN] Standardization?

1997-08-12 Thread A. M. Varon
On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, George Bonser wrote: This is very refreshing to hear. It seems this would make things extremely portable over not only linux distributions but over the entire i_X86 platform. Is there an emulator which runs solaris 2.5.1 binaries in linux? Have tried iBCS, but it only

Re: Can't delete a file

1997-08-12 Thread Dan Dooher
Andre, Type: rm - -test A -- permits the user to mark explicitly the end of any com- mand line options, allowing rm to recognize file arguments that begin with a -. Regards, Dan A. M. Varon wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Mike Miller wrote: I have a file on my machine that I created

Re: How to use dip or ppp connect to Win NT

1997-08-12 Thread Carey Evans
Deng Hongwei [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'v used dip and ppp connect to a linux dial-up server success,but I can't connect to a windows NT remote access server,because when I dial in, I can't see any prompt that the server send to me ,any thing likes 'Username' or password' etc. Just let pppd

Re: [DEBIAN] Standardization?

1997-08-12 Thread Carey Evans
A. M. Varon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Could we have an equivalent /etc/rc.d/rc.local ? Sure. # cd /etc/init.d # cp skeleton local # update-rc.d local defaults # vi local Or possibly, depending on what you're doing: # vi /etc/rc.boot/local (Maybe there should be dummy files there to

Netscape Replacement?

1997-08-12 Thread Victor Torrico
Hello All, Netscape Communicator is such a memory hog that I've decided to go to separate programs for mail and web browsing. Mail is taken care of by the super!! XCmail progam (not a debian package). The web browser's the rub. I need to check my usage time periodically from my ISP using a

Re: How to use dip or ppp connect to Win NT

1997-08-12 Thread Richard G. Roberto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Deng Hongwei wrote: I'v used dip and ppp connect to a linux dial-up server success,but I can't connect to a windows NT remote access server,because when I dial in, I can't see any prompt that the server send to me ,any thing likes

Re: [DEBIAN] Standardization?

1997-08-12 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: We would not scrap the package system, but I expect between Deity and POSIX we will eventually replace all of its components. Just out of curiosity, why hasn't anyone in the linux community adopted the established sysv pkgadd format? It has a lot of

Re: Default caching bind config very slow??

1997-08-12 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I do not have any of these problems with who, but I notice : one of my own. w and who give different answers. Well, I do not know exactly what you mean with different answers but w and who are different programs: zeus:~$ whatis who who (1)

Re: pine/procmail

1997-08-12 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Someone already took care of the procmail part. Here is the pine part. -.pinerc- incoming-folders=mail/Deb-user, mail/Deb-misc, mail/Deb-devel HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage:

Mitsumi Cdrom

1997-08-12 Thread SeƱor
Running a 486/66/424/20 nothing but Linux. Using a Mitsumi 2x cdrom connected to an Aztec 8 bit sound card. It is a propriatary driver. The setup seems to recognize it with a boot parameter entered because of the IO and IRQ ( linux mcdx=0x320, 11). After getting the base system loaded : Resq

Re: Default caching bind config very slow??

1997-08-12 Thread Donovan Baarda
On 12 Aug 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I do not have any of these problems with who, but I notice : one of my own. w and who give different answers. Well, I do not know exactly what you mean with different answers but w and who are different

Re: Netscape Replacement?

1997-08-12 Thread Paul
Hi, I think mosaic has a package and it is debian. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

kernal-package in stable not including config in /boot

1997-08-12 Thread Donovan Baarda
G'day deb's Someone (Manoj?) mentioned that the new kernel-package creates kernel-image deb's that put the kernel config file in /boot. I just created a kernel-image using the kernel-package that comes in the stable distribution of debian 1.3.1, and it definitely didn't do this. Is this a

Re: Mitsumi Cdrom

1997-08-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Se or Bueno wrote: Using a Mitsumi 2x cdrom connected to an Aztec 8 bit sound card. It is a propriatary driver. The setup seems to recognize it with a boot parameter entered because of the IO and IRQ ( linux mcdx=0x320, 11). After getting the base

Howto run glibc2.0 compiled programs on 1.3.1 system?

1997-08-12 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello sorry, if this has allready been asked on this list: Is there a safe way to install packages from hamm on a 1.3.1 system, that are linked with libc6? There are some (like gimp and gv) versions where only out-of-time versions exist for 1.3.1. Thanks for any

Re: kernal-package in stable not including config in /boot

1997-08-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
As a side question... I don't use this package to compile kernels, I do it by hand the old Slackware way. When I'm done compiling, I simply: cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /zImage-someName Somehow, a `map' file also gets created as /boot/map I then edit lilo.conf, adding an entry

procmail -- 'or'

1997-08-12 Thread Paul Miller
The Linux-Net/Admin mailing lists aren't in the same format as the Debian list.. (they don't use the Resent- lines) Anyhow, without setting up multiple filters, how can I have procmail look through the to:, from:, and cc: fields..? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

heard all the who-haha?

1997-08-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Dear shellutils maintainer, Debian 1.3.1 sports a who which many are saying is slow while others are saying the slowness is due to slow named servers. Were there any notable changes leading up the the /usr/bin/who which came with shellutils 1.16-2? -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO

BadPixmap - X Error

1997-08-12 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I'm having some error, mainly caused by/with xpaint, concerning BadPixmap, as shown by the bellow lines. Does someone know what I can do to correct this? The error occurs when trying to resize the window using mouse. X Error of failed request:

help: lost network connection after upgrading 1.1 to 1.2

1997-08-12 Thread Lazaro Salem
Hi, After upgrading from Debian 1.1 to 1.2 I lost my network connection. I must confess it was not a clean upgrade in the sense that i had to dpkg -i and dpkg -r a few times netbase (now 2.0.9-1)and netstd (now 2.12-1). I thought I just upgraded witohout modifying the configuration files but I

Using procmail to filter and MH to read.

1997-08-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Looking for advice here... Suppose I use procmail as my delivery agent (instead of deliver) and MH (actually mh-e in Emacs) to read mail. What do people do to separate out (filter) the Debian mailing? Do you use a new sendmail ruleset? Or some /etc/procmail or ~/.procmailrc file? Does the

[backup method] tar or dump for backups? (Summary)

1997-08-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I posted about this and received no replies. I thought I'd report back about what I wound up doing... I have a spare 1 GB disk at work which I could use to backup my /home partition (which consists of 1 GB amidst a 4.3 GB disk). (If I decide I can tolerate the 1GB-disk's whining; it's

Q: fwtk squid

1997-08-12 Thread Varga R. Tamas
Hello all! I would like to connect http-gw and squid together, so far with no luck. The scenario is the following: world||public network||private network||client| | with squid ||with http-gw | What I would like to achieve is that the client from the private network

Re: Howto run glibc2.0 compiled programs on 1.3.1 system?

1997-08-12 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Peter Weiss wrote: Is there a safe way to install packages from hamm on a 1.3.1 system, that are linked with libc6? There are some (like gimp and gv) versions where only out-of-time versions exist for 1.3.1. Note that

Re: kernal-package in stable not including config in /boot

1997-08-12 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: I see that the Debian `way' of placing kernels is: /vmlinuz - boot/vmlinuz-2.0.30 /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.30 /boot/psdatabase-2.0.30 /boot/psdatabase - /boot/psdatabase-2.0.30 /boot/System.map-2.0.30 Why does

Re: help: lost network connection after upgrading 1.1 to 1.2

1997-08-12 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Lazaro Salem wrote: After upgrading from Debian 1.1 to 1.2 I lost my network connection. I must confess it was not a clean upgrade in the sense that i had to dpkg -i and dpkg -r a few times netbase (now 2.0.9-1)and netstd (now # ifconfig loLink encap:Local

A Panasonic/Matsushita CD

1997-08-12 Thread Marc Brooks
Hi all, I was finally able to get my CD-ROM up and working. I was confused because the driver that I needed to use was not clear to me. Of course, when I sat down and carefully read the HOWTO files, it became clear. Thanks for all the help. In case you are interested, I ended up using the

Modem doesn't reset anymore

1997-08-12 Thread Gonzalo A. Diethelm
On Aug 12, 1997, at 12:25, Maarten Boekhold wrote: I suddenly am forced to first start win95 and use dial-up networking there to reset my modem before I can use it from Linux. I didn't change a thing on my installation, no new packages, no new kernel (2.0.30 with pentium-memcpy and

What is /etc/default for?

1997-08-12 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
The package base-files installs a directory /etc/default on all my machines. It is always empty. Any ideas what its intended use is? -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Problem with exim and fetchmail.

1997-08-12 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Aug 10, Rob Browning wrote Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe that exim wants a fully qualified address. Try putting this in /etc/exim.conf: qualify_domain = localhost qualify_recipient = localhost I tried this, and it didn't help. Have you got this in

/etc/init.d structure

1997-08-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
There was a discussion about this recently... So I thought I'd mention this: This is posted on cola; looks neat to me: - From: Winfried Truemper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Subject: r2d2 - reading runlevels in 2 dimensions The

Re: Using procmail to filter and MH to read.

1997-08-12 Thread Andy Kahn
Peter S Galbraith wrote: - - Looking for advice here... - - Suppose I use procmail as my delivery agent (instead of deliver) - and MH (actually mh-e in Emacs) to read mail. - - What do people do to separate out (filter) the Debian mailing? - Do you use a new sendmail ruleset? Or some

Networking Config

1997-08-12 Thread Manish Singh
Hi all! I just installed Debian 1.3.1 and so far it works great but I have one question: Currently my box is not connected to any network, so I just skipped over the configuration step asking for IP address, nameserver, etc. But it will be directly connected to a network in a about a week so I

Re: heard all the who-haha?

1997-08-12 Thread Kevin Traas
Debian 1.3.1 sports a who which many are saying is slow while others are saying the slowness is due to slow named servers. Were there any notable changes leading up the the /usr/bin/who which came with shellutils 1.16-2? I've been reading this thread with quite some interest as I have a similar

Re: heard all the who-haha?

1997-08-12 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Have you checked the name server entries in /etc/resolv.conf? DNS problems are often tracked down to this point. Brandon On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: Debian 1.3.1 sports a who which many are saying is slow while others are saying the slowness is due to slow named servers. Were

Re: A quick question

1997-08-12 Thread Anthony Fok
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote: Hi Where do I find libncurses.so.3.2. In my system I have the 3.2 version. Is it in some directory of ftp.debian.org? Thanks in advances. I have the following files on my system: /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 /lib/libncurses.so.3.4 $ dpkg -l

quake + GUS

1997-08-12 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey Does anyknow have sound from his GUS when playing LinuxQuake package? Remco. -- // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://oloon.student.utwente.nl //Never make any mistaeks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: heard all the who-haha?

1997-08-12 Thread Kevin Traas
Have you checked the name server entries in /etc/resolv.conf? DNS problems are often tracked down to this point. Yes, I have. I've got three entries in there. One is the local host entry as I'm running BIND. The other two are DNS Servers of my upstream provider. All here should be okay

SoundBlaster

1997-08-12 Thread Geoff R Deasey
Anyone else having a problem with soundblaster 16 on 220,irq 5,dma 1,16bit dma5 I get messages that it is busy. I am using 1.3.1 with kernel 2.0.30. --Jeff -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: what is the best pop3d?

1997-08-12 Thread Jacques Gelinas
On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: What is the best pop3d? I've heard that qpopper can corrupt mail files under even lightly loaded systems. I know that the standard POP-3 daemon (from BSD, used by slackware) is not creating any session lock. So it is possible for a user to have to pop3d

Re: Problem with exim and fetchmail.

1997-08-12 Thread Rob Browning
Thanks for the reply. It turns out that the problem lies with fetchmail. It's been fixed in an upcoming release. You won't need any hacks in your exim.conf file anymore, nor will you need fetchmail's -mda option. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: heard all the who-haha?

1997-08-12 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: Is this lookup necessary? Is there a way to disable it? Try commenting out the PARANOID:ALL from /etc/hosts.deny (this is from memory, so there may be typos). I'm guessing the dns info is cached(sp?) somewhere after a ping resulting your reported

Re: SoundBlaster

1997-08-12 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Geoff R Deasey wrote: Anyone else having a problem with soundblaster 16 on 220,irq 5,dma 1,16bit dma5 I get messages that it is busy. I am using 1.3.1 with kernel 2.0.30. Check that the settings are ok in the kernel by: cat /dev/sndstat (I think that's it).

common commands not working

1997-08-12 Thread Tim Stevens
As a new debian user I was suprised @ how easy the installation of 1.3 went... not a hitch. However, when I issue the man command to explore the manual pages I get a bad command message. same for apropos. Is this related to the Packages and the dselect utility.Please point me in the right

Re: Using procmail to filter and MH to read.

1997-08-12 Thread Dima
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Looking for advice here... Suppose I use procmail as my delivery agent (instead of deliver) and MH (actually mh-e in Emacs) to read mail. What do people do to separate out (filter) the Debian mailing? Do you use a new sendmail ruleset? Or some /etc/procmail or

Re: heard all the who-haha?

1997-08-12 Thread Kevin Traas
I've made the changes. I'll see how it goes. Thanks for the info. Later, Kevin Traas Baan Business Systems Systems Analyst Langley, BC, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 882-8169 -Original Message- From: Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kevin Traas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Translating debiandoc-sgml documents into tex/latex?

1997-08-12 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
I would like to translate the debiandoc files (such as programmer.sgml) for later printing (on a4 paper) into tex. A debiandoc2xxx command is missing for tex/latex and sgml2tex fails with messages I don't even understand (I never programmed SGML). Do I need any special parameter (such as

Re: libc5/libc6 cohabitat ; locales

1997-08-12 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Michael Bravo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have the stable 1.3.1 installed. However, as I look at unstable on the ftp, I see lots of much more up-to-date and needed packages built with libc6. I have browsed through the mailing list archives, and found bits and pieces concerning

Re: locale

1997-08-12 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey Did anyone get 'locale' to work? I don't see any differences in for example the `ls -l` output, when setting the LANG environment variable to different strings. The problems are the application. Only a few application currently supports

Re: is there tools to....?

1997-08-12 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
dada [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi: is there some tool to add an group in Debian? (I'm locking for something like adduser) addgroup group-name That was easy, wasn't it, Torsten -- What a depressingly stupid machine The Restaurant at the End of the

adduser

1997-08-12 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi all ! Can somebody tell me if there is a bug in adduser? I tried to use it yesterday to add some new users to my system when, to my surprise, iut failed. As a matter of fact, adduser had problems with the NIS entries of the files: /etc/passwd and /etc/group; it didn't

Re: [backup method] - what about TOB?

1997-08-12 Thread Dale Martin
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I posted about this and received no replies. I thought I'd report back about what I wound up doing... What you're doing looks pretty cool. I was looking in to backing up my /home (which isn't too big) onto a Zip disk. I was checking out TOB (tape

Re: common commands not working

1997-08-12 Thread Vern Hamberg
At 02:53 PM 8/12/97 -0400, you wrote: As a new debian user I was suprised @ how easy the installation of 1.3 went... not a hitch. However, when I issue the man command to explore the manual pages I get a bad command message. same for apropos. Is this related to the Packages and the dselect

Re: SoundBlaster

1997-08-12 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Geoff R Deasey wrote: Anyone else having a problem with soundblaster 16 on 220,irq 5,dma 1,16bit dma5 I get messages that it is busy. You may have an IRQ conflict. Alternately, it may be a permission problem. Make sure you're in the group that owns /dev/audio and

sound card as a module and audio CDs

1997-08-12 Thread Colin R. Telmer
I am running debian hamm and have a sbwave32 as a module (no awe stuff, just compiled as sb16). When I unfortunately have to boot to win95 and then return to debian and play a cd using workman, I don't get any sound until I play a sound file through /dev/audio (i.e. it seems to me that something

Re: common commands not working

1997-08-12 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Tim Stevens wrote: As a new debian user I was suprised @ how easy the installation of 1.3 went... not a hitch. However, when I issue the man command to explore the manual pages I get a bad command message. same for apropos. Is this related to the Packages and the dselect

Re: common commands not working

1997-08-12 Thread Marc Brooks
At 03:54 PM 8/12/97 -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: I believe the man pages are part of the standard installation. I had a problem with the configuration file having a strange bit added to the end of it. I simply renamed it, removing the text, and man worked from then on. The text was something

Re: SoundBlaster

1997-08-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Geoff R Deasey wrote: Anyone else having a problem with soundblaster 16 on 220,irq 5,dma 1,16bit dma5 I get messages that it is busy. I am using 1.3.1 with kernel 2.0.30. I have the same setting except irq 7, no problems. Bob Bob Nielsen

Using procmail to filter and MH to read (summary)

1997-08-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: Suppose I use procmail as my delivery agent (instead of deliver) and MH (actually mh-e in Emacs) to read mail. What do people do to separate out (filter) the Debian mailing? Andy Kahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] suggested I redirect to a file using this in ~/.procmailrc :0 f * ^To:

Samba 1.9.17 - any Debian package?

1997-08-12 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, we use Samba very heavyly and are having problem with browsing. Our current version is 1.9.16p11 but 1.9.17 is at the alpha5 stage. The 1.9.17 are supposed to fix several browsing problems so that would our only way out to solve our current problems. Does anyone know if there is a 1.9.17alpha

Re: [backup method] - what about TOB?

1997-08-12 Thread Andy Kahn
- What you're doing looks pretty cool. I was looking in to backing up - my /home (which isn't too big) onto a Zip disk. I was checking out - TOB (tape oriented backup), but there are a couple of things that bug - me about it. - - 1) It tars directly to a device - not to a filesystem. This

Re: hello - probs

1997-08-12 Thread joost witteveen
Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is hello_1-13.deb still current? I am trying to learn the gentle art of package making, but this is what happens with dpkg-source. elm# dpkg-source -x /cdrom/stable/source/misc/hello_1.3-13.dsc You need to be in the same directory where you

Re: [backup method] - what about TOB?

1997-08-12 Thread Behan Webster
Dale Martin wrote: 1) It tars directly to a device - not to a filesystem. This means one backup (full, differential, or incremental) per disk, yes? I haven't looked too hard yet - hacking the script to tar to a filesystem can't be that hard, though. Nope. Tob allows you to put multiple

Re: Q: fwtk squid

1997-08-12 Thread Thomas Baetzler
Varga R. Tamas wrote: I would like to connect http-gw and squid together, so far with no luck. The scenario is the following: world||public network||private network||client| | with squid ||with http-gw | What I would like to achieve is that the client from the

Re: SoundBlaster

1997-08-12 Thread Geoff R Deasey
Anyone else having a problem with soundblaster 16 on 220,irq 5,dma 1,16bit dma5 I get messages that it is busy. You may have an IRQ conflict. Alternately, it may be a permission problem. Make sure you're in the group that owns /dev/audio and /dev/dsp. even tryed root ? No luck