Re: Re-send contents of a mail file
Hi! You may want to look at formail; something like $ formail -s sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] oldmailbox I haven't used this myself, but the man page makes it look like it would work. This worked perfectly! Thanks! /Marcus
Re-send contents of a mail file
Hi! I have a pretty huge mail file for a user who want that transfered to his Lotus Notes mail box. Is there any way of re-sending the contents of this mail file to his new mail address? All new mails are of course forwarded to this new account, so that's no problem... Is this something sendmail can do, or is there a tool in Debian for this? Or can I make a script or something... /Marcus
dhcp on potato
Hi! Why isnt CONFIG_FILTER defined in the kernel (2.2.12) distributed with Potato? The DHCP server requires that option, so if you want to use the dhcp package included in Potato, you have to recompile your kernel with that option. Sure, it's easy and fun to recompile a kernel, but I cannot see any reason why this feature is left out of the debian kernel package... Packages that i'm refering to: kernel-image-2.2.12 2.2.12-3 dhcp 2.0-1 /Marcus
Re: Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad
( two occurrences of optionnal changed to optional) and rerunning apt-get update, the file is downloaded again and I am where I started. Try: # apt-get check That might fix the problem, not sure. /Marcus
Debian and Redhat
Hi! We use RedHat on all linux-based servers and clients here at my work, except for my machine which is running Debian 2.1, and I would like to have some hard facts about the differences. I'm responsible for the maintaince of these servers, and with Debian's apt-get it's just so easy to upgrade and install packages, and I can trust that it's done right, it has never failed on my own machine. And beeing able to upgrade the whole distribution with only some keystrokes is amazing! However, there are some software that these servers MUST have, right now it's Legato Networker and the UPS software (not sure which UPS system we will use yet). Both have support for Linux, but only RedHat. I'v made debian packages of Networker from the RPM package, and they works fine. I'll try to do the same with the UPS sw as soon as we recieve it. Can I be sure that binaries compiled against RedHat5.x always runs under Debian 2.1? My common sence says yes, since they are both based on glibc2.0 and the same free software, but... I dont mind some tweaking, but I dont want to spend weeks to get it to work. Guess I have to wait until Debian 2.2 to run RedHat6.x stuff though, I dont want to upgrade any server to potato/unstable until it's considered stable. Are there any other considerations? Thanks. /Marcus
ncftp in potato?
Hi! Why is there no ncftp 3.0.0 (beta) in potato/unstable? In slink there was a 3.0.0 beta14, and as far as I know there is a beta18 out. Sigh, please dont say ncftp gone commercial? /Marcus
gdm in potato
Hi! I'm having problems with gdm in potato. Yesterday I installed a minimal slink system, then upgraded it to the latest potato/unstable with apt-get, then installed the gnome packages, X, windowmaker, etc. Everything seems to work fine, not gdm though. The /etc/init.d/gdm script starts upp the X server (XF86_SVGA, which is configured and works fine with startx), but no gdm window pops up, it's just a blank X screen. Anyone knows what could be wrong? What is the prefered way to do a clean potato install? Update from a fresh installed minimal slink, or what? /Marcus
Y2K
Hi! The y2k page on the debian homepage sais that util-linux v2.7.1-3 has status BAD?. I do not understand what I am supposed to do if I have that version installed. How do I know if there is an updated version? How y2k compliant is the latest debian release? Any help appreciated! --- Marcus Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vanersborg - Sweden
My own DNS with bind
Hi! I have 4 machines at home, and one of them is configured with ip-masq/forward so I can have them all on the big net. And that works like a charm. I've also set up a slave DNS on the ip-masq box, which all my clients use as their primary DNS, and that works too. But where and how do I configure so my own local machines are in that DNS? I dont want to have to edit /etc/hosts on every machine when I add a new machine... /Marcus
Re: SCSI Drive Geometry Question
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I still got an annoying error message from my SCSI BIOS when I boot my machine. I did a low-level format of the drive and all of a sudden it was reporting the correct drive geometry of 555/255/63, which is the same geometry that my original drive always reported. After the low-level format, I installed Debian again, and when I rebooted for the first time after the system installation, I got the error message again. Is the replacement drive damaged or is their some kind of SCSI LBA-mode type of addressing that I need to set somewhere? SCSI Devices are not my specialty :) Hi! I had the same problem. My IBM drive was reported as 1115/255/63 by the SCSI bios when I first installed it, but after Linux was installed I got the same error message as you did. I checked what cfdisk said about my drive, and it reported totally wrong C/H/S information, cant remember the exact figures now. However, you can when you start cfdisk pass some parameters to it, namely the Cylinder, Heads and Sectors information. So a 'cfdisk -c 555 -h 255 -s 63 /dev/what-ever-diskdevice-it-is' will partition your disk with the right information. When you are about to install Debian, just switch to another console before partition your drive, and do it yourself with the above commandline. Then proceed as usual. When you use cfdisk later, the drive will have the correct geometry, and your scsi bios should not complain. My Tekram SCSI board also has a swith in it's bios to disable the warning. /Marcus
Tekram 390u2w scsi
Hi! I'm trying to install Debian 2.1 on my new computer, but after installing the base system and rebooting, it wont boot any linux. Just before it's about to boot, it says LI, nothing more... And it stays like that forever. I have a Tekram DC-390U2W scsi adapter, a IBM U2W 9GB harddisk and dual PIII-450Mhz cpu's... I also have an IDE disk (18GB IBM) which is /dev/hda, maybe that's causing some problems? In the BIOS i've configured that the machine should boot on the SCSI drive. It's a NCR 53C895 scsi chip. /Marcus
rsync for potato
Hi! Is there any way of using rsync to download, and keep up to date, the potato/unstable dist of Debian? /Marcus
Re: sblive,'n debian, one more time...
reboot or anything. then I switched to debain and tried to run the install script again to re-install the sound drivers (after compiling the proper kernel of course). the script thought everything went allright, but xmms (and mtv and anything else that wanted to use sound) thought otherwise. Uh, I was under the impression that the install script is only useful under RedHat, I think you have to do it manually. RedHat and Debian has some differences, not only the rpm/deb package systems. I've not tested the sb-live driver yet, havent bought a card yet, so this is just what i've read in the driver archive. /Marcus
Re: SB live for linux.
Hi! I remember someone saying something about a linux driver for SB live sound card available. http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ This webpage contains a module for the sb-live soundcard. But in the README it states that one must use a non-SMP kernel, and that is not very good news for me who is about to buy a dual-cpu machine with a sb-live card. :( But it may work anyway, who knows. And ofcourse it's not distributed with any source, just three modules for the 2.0.36, 2.2.5 and 2.2.10 kernel. /Marcus
Dual CPU
Hi! We have a HP-UX box with dual cpu's, and the 'top' program shows the status of both cpu's, and even which cpu the processes are running on. Will the top (the GNU variant I guess) distributed with Debian 2.1 show anything like that? If I have dual cpu's that is... Or could I recompile top with support for more cpu's? /Marcus
Re: xfree 3.3.3 for slink
For Slink XFree86 3.3.3.1, use deb http://ftp.netgod.net x/ in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. You'll get X 3.3.3.1 in addition to other updates for Slink. Note: I don't believe the debs are official. The only official stuff for XFree86 3.3.3.1 is in Potato. They seems to work just fine. Anyone know how to test the glx-g200 driver? The mesa-gl screensavers dont seem to be any faster etc... Yes, I do have a Matrox G200 installed :) /Marcus
dselect
Hi! Is there any way of setting some flag to dselect so that the developer package is marked for install automagically? I have lots of diskspace, and it happens sometime that there is include files missing and I have to fire up dselect, find the cd's or download the package(s) and install them. I would rather have the dev package installed toghether with the ordinary package. /Marcus
