Re: Cannot login to woody box (i386)
you need to boot into single usermode: LILO: linuxkernelname single i think somehow you got sid's libpam modules. anyways, they are fixed so once you are root, update and upgrade again
apt-get won't install package
(please CC me replys if possible) root:~# apt-get install gnome-guile Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: gnome-guile: Depends: libguilegtk0 (= 1.0.1.cvs.19991112-2) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libguilegtk0 (= 1.0.1.cvs.19991112-2) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages
Re: ALSA problems in Debian/unstable
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Deibel) said: Hi, After upgrading to Debian/unstable I want to get sound with ALSA. I install alsa-source and compiled the alsa-driver for Soundblaster 128 PCI (Ensoni1 1371) it using kernel 2.4.3. After installation lsmod shows well, good luck. i have the same card and i gave up alsa a long time ago and started using the kernel sounds modules instead. however, if you want to see what i had to do to get alsa to work a while back, visit: http://members.home.com/tdouglas/alsa.html i don't remember enough about alsa anymore to give you help, sorry.
Re: GUI Email program
Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c'mon, now you KNOW you'll never go back and look at 6000 old messages. what gives? Maybe not directly, but you can index them and search them. I was doing this with freewais-sf before I switch to debian (just haven't gotten around to rebuilding it). i think a better solution would be: - use the debian web site to search them - tell procmail to put them in another directory mutt doesn't read and use grep to search the message files.
Re: Alsa under Debian has me baffled
it would be nice to know the soundcard you are using and the packages/versions you have. i don't use alsa now, but i used to and maybe this page can help but it is old: http://members.home.com/tdouglas/alsa.html i just compile my card into the kernel and i think that is the best way to do it if it is possible for you.
problem installing libsdl1.0-dev from woody
after doing: apt-get update;apt-get install libsdl1.0-dev here is the error i get: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libsdl1.0-dev: Depends: libsdl1.0 (= 1.0.1-4) but 1.0.8-4 is to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages so maybe someone else using woody can confirm.
Re: How I got ALSA sound drivers kind of working
lots of libraries. The ALSA Tutorial by Timmy says you should get esound-alsa and libesd-alsa0, but then adds that the latter conflicts with libesd, and many packages depend on libesd. yep, it is a pain in the butt. sounds like you had a really fun time with that. ;) I think if I was to compile another kernel with that card, i would compile soundblaster and sound support into the kernel and use that. Maybe you can find more info on that at: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/Soundblaster.txt and perhaps this would work if it was compiled as a module: modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=3 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x300 that's all i know!
Re: gs error - i can't view postscript files
Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Timmy Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when i try to open a .ps file with gv or gs, i get this error: Is this with gs or gs-aladdin? gs-aladdin install gs-aladdin-manual-deinstall gs-pdfencrypt install gsfonts install gsfonts-other install ppd-gs install These are my selections. On potato, we have gs-aladdin_5.50-8; progeny, which I'm running now, uses gs-aladdin_6.01-7. Hope this helps -- Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] timmy:~/prgm/tmsg$ dpkg --get-selections |grep gs [snip] gs install gsfonts install [snip]
gs error - i can't view postscript files
when i try to open a .ps file with gv or gs, i get this error: GNU Ghostscript 5.10 (1998-12-17) Copyright (C) 1997 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details. Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/n021003l.pfb... 7094192 5652921 1300092 11208 0 done. Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/n019003l.pfb... 7392136 5896592 1340276 23084 0 done. VFlib: Cannot open the font `min'. Unrecoverable error: unknownerror in kfVFlib Operand stack: min 0 10273 0 10273 c21 Private Unexpected interpreter error -1. Error object: (f80)op(510:kfVFlib)0x80a67c0 Operand stack at 0x81b4360: 0x81bbefc: 0x0d name --S-- 0x0609 0x081fab88 = Private 0x81bbf04: 0x0d name --S-- 0x0d56 0x084eafec = c21 0x81bbf0c: 0x0b int --F-- 0x01f6 0x2821 = 10273 0x81bbf14: 0x0b int --F-- 0x0d2b 0x = 0 0x81bbf1c: 0x0b int --F-- 0x01f6 0x2821 = 10273 0x81bbf24: 0x0b int --F-- 0x0d2b 0x = 0 0x81bbf2c: 0x12 str --Gwrx--- 0x0003 0x085162b3 = min Execution stack at 0x81b43c0: 0x81bd864: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x 0x08077644 = %interp_exit 0x81bd86c: 0x03 file --G-rxe-- 0x0001 0x081c0fd8 0x81bd874: 0x0e null --F---e-- 0x 0x08078e74 0x81bd87c: 0x0b int --F-- 0x 0x0001 = 1 0x81bd884: 0x0b int --F-- 0x 0x0004 = 4 0x81bd88c: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x 0x08078e60 = %oparray_pop 0x81bd894: 0x0e null --F---e-- 0x 0x08078e74 0x81bd89c: 0x0b int --F-- 0x0002 0x0001 = 1 0x81bd8a4: 0x0b int --F-- 0x0002 0x0004 = 4 0x81bd8ac: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x 0x08078e60 = %oparray_pop 0x81bd8b4: 0x0d name --S---e-- 0x02bf 0x081b7aa4 = .runexec2 0x81bd8bc: 0x03 file --G-rx--- 0x0006 0x08387fe0 0x81bd8c4: 0x05 mpry --G-rxe-- 0x0006 0x081c1cfa 0x81bd8cc: 0x0e null --F---e-- 0x0003 0x08080ddc 0x81bd8d4: 0x0e null --F-- 0xbfff 0x4023e650 0x81bd8dc: 0x0b int --F-- 0x0002 0x0002 = 2 0x81bd8e4: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x 0x08080614 = %stopped_push 0x81bd8ec: 0x03 file --G-rxe-- 0x0006 0x08387fe0 0x81bd8f4: 0x0e null --F---e-- 0x 0x08078e74 0x81bd8fc: 0x0b int --F-- 0x0002 0x0001 = 1 0x81bd904: 0x0b int --F-- 0x0001 0x0005 = 5 0x81bd90c: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x 0x08078e60 = %oparray_pop 0x81bd914: 0x0e null --F---e-- 0x 0x08078e74 0x81bd91c: 0x0b int --F-- 0x0002 0x0001 = 1 0x81bd924: 0x0b int --F-- 0x0002 0x0005 = 5 0x81bd92c: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x 0x08078e60 = %oparray_pop 0x81bd934: 0x0d name --S---e-- 0x02bf 0x081b7aa4 = .runexec2 0x81bd93c: 0x03 file --G-rx--- 0x0006 0x08240f38 0x81bd944: 0x05 mpry --G-rxe-- 0x0006 0x081c1cfa 0x81bd94c: 0x0e null --F---e-- 0x0003 0x08080ddc 0x81bd954: 0x0e null --F-- 0xbfff 0x4023e650 0x81bd95c: 0x0b int --F-- 0x0002 0x0002 = 2 0x81bd964: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x 0x08080614 = %stopped_push 0x81bd96c: 0x03 file --G-rxe-- 0x0006 0x08240f38 0x81bd974: 0x04 arry --Gwrxe-- 0x0001 0x084feef0 0x81bd97c: 0x04 arry --Gwrxe-- 0x007b 0x084fead4 0x81bd984: 0x0e null --F---e-- 0x0001 0x0808ae8c 0x81bd98c: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x 0x0808a208 = %finish_show 0x81bd994: 0x0b int --F-- 0x 0x0002 = 2 0x81bd99c: 0x0b int --F-- 0x 0x0009 = 9 0x81bd9a4: 0x0b int --F-- 0x 0x0001 = 1 0x81bd9ac: 0x0b int --F-- 0x 0x = 0 0x81bd9b4: 0x0e null --F-- 0x 0x0009 0x81bd9bc: 0x08 STRC --G-- 0x 0x085a8134 0x81bd9c4: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x 0x0808a8dc = %op_show_continue 0x81bd9cc: 0x04 arry --Gwrxe-- 0x001d 0x08512bf4 0x81bd9d4: 0x05 mpry --G-rxe-- 0x0039 0x081f4aa6 Dictionary stack at 0x81b42c0: 0x81be094: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0xbfff 0x081be1ec 0x81be09c: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0xbfff 0x08201588 0x81be0a4: 0x02 dict --Lwrx--- 0x0804 0x081c51bc 0x81be0ac: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0xbfff 0x081be1ec 0x81be0b4: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0xbfff 0x085000f4 0x81be0bc: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0xbfff 0x084b9d78 0x81be0c4: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x081b 0x085a6438 0x81be0cc: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x081b 0x085a6508 0x81be0d4: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x081b 0x085a66f8 0x81be0dc: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0xbfff 0x08514f54 i tried: upgrading, reinstalling all the packages it depends on, and reinstalling gs itself. i even removed and installed gs again. it doesn't work. i'm using woody. thanks,
Re: Relation(exim,fetchmail,mutt)=?
Debian User [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Can someone explain what's the relation between exim, fetchmail and mutt or any other reader? If fetchmail fetches it, then why the servers have to be defined again for exim or mutt? fetchmail gives received mail to exim exim gives received mail to procmail procmail gives received mail to /var/spool/mail/blah etc. mutt reads /var/spool/mail/blah etc. mutt pipes sent mail to /usr/lib/sendmail etc. /usr/lib/sendmail etc. pipes to exim exim sends mail to another host
Low quality printing
I am using a canon bjc4000 printer with the bj800 driver using apsfilter. it works fine, but the printing goes really slow. when i try to change the lights at the top to make it do less quality, it turns it back on when i try to print. does anyone know how to get this to print fast/lower-quality? lowering the DPI doesn't work---it prints at the same speed but very ugly.
Re: Very strange fetchmail problem
try running fetchmail with verbose options and see if the output tells you any more... i would have suspected the firewall but it seems that you have already connected so i don't know how that would be the problem.
Re: Very strange fetchmail problem
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 01:15:48 +0200 (EET), Martin Fluch [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ /usr/bin/fetchmail -p POP3 -va -t 60 -u fluch rock.helsinki.fi Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fetchmail: 5.5.3 querying rock.helsinki.fi (protocol POP3) at Mon Dec 11 01:11:26 2000 fetchmail: POP3 +OK POP3 rock.helsinki.fi v4.47 server ready fetchmail: POP3 USER fluch fetchmail: POP3 +OK User name accepted, password please fetchmail: POP3 PASS * fetchmail: POP3 +OK Mailbox open, 3 messages fetchmail: POP3 STAT fetchmail: POP3 +OK 3 21819 3 messages for fluch at rock.helsinki.fi (21819 octets). fetchmail: POP3 LIST fetchmail: POP3 +OK Mailbox scan listing follows fetchmail: POP3 1 16420 fetchmail: POP3 2 1401 fetchmail: POP3 3 3998 fetchmail: POP3 . fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3 +OK 16420 octets reading message 1 of 3 (16420 octets) fetchmail: timeout after 60 seconds waiting for listener to respond. fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from rock.helsinki.fi fetchmail: Query status=7 (ERROR) fetchmail: SMTP QUIT fetchmail: normal termination, status 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ hmm..sorry.. i'm not really sure. how many other pop3 servers have you tried?
Re: vanishing mail
On Fri, 08 Dec 2000 15:44:53 -0500, A R [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It now connects fine, the mail is retrieved, or so I believe, at least that is what ius printed to the screen. Now, when I run mutt or mail as tony, it says no mail for tony. Where is it? What should I change in my in my .fetchmailrc? whats wrong? see if running fetchmail -v gives you more clues.
Re: exim doesn't deliver
On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:49:16 -0200 (BRST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello, I am trying to use exim+fetchmail. Fetchmail is fetching emails from my ISP without problems. The problem is with exim, because after fetchmail sends the messages to exim for local delivery, all messages are frozen in /var/spool/exim/input and in /var/spool/msglog appear a lot of messages, all of them saying the following: local_delivery transport deferred: mailbox /var/spool/mail/myaccount has wrong uid (0 != 1000) *** Frozen What should be the correct uid? how can I change it? looks like you made the account as root. make the user own it: chown user.group /var/spool/mail/myaccount
Re: RESOLVED: all mail getting deferred
On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 19:53:01 -0800, Nate Amsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: load at the time was 0.00-0.01 ..the machine is well equipped with a k6-3 400(256k full speed cache) 2MB l3 cache, 256MB ram .. wish sendmail(and other MTAs in general) would give more information ... exim and postfix didn't give any useful errors either:( don't some give the full smtp talk or is that just mine?
Re: exim+fetchmail
From: Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: exim+fetchmail Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 11:31:11 -0500 (EST) Hello! I am configuring the email in a potato box. I am connected to my ISP via modem. I want to use exim+fetchmail+mutt. So far I have some questions, and I wonder if someone in this fantastic list can help me: 4) why the MUAs programs (for example balsa or xfmail) don't need a MTA for retrieve the messages from the ISP (at last with pop3) but they need a MTA for sending the emails (via smtp)? some MUAs can do SMTP and/or POP3. mutt can do pop3 but most people use fetchmail instead to do it.
Re: Who is 'nobody'?
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have seen this message two times now after using apt-get on a dialup-system: Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Nov 30 06:25:03 spyker su[6400]: + ??? root-nobody Nov 30 06:25:03 spyker PAM_unix[6400]: (su) session opened for user nobody by +(uid=0) At this time (06:25:03) I was not online. Who is this nobody? i think it is just a user with like almost no privledges... root would su to it to lose privledges and be less dangerous.
Re: Sound Card
Eileen Orbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could someone tell me what SOUND CARD would be the best to install on a Debian Box? Also the easiest would help.. I use a soundblaster pci 128. the es1371 kernel module works.
Re: gnome without window manager
Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I've just installed helix-gnome in my potato box. The default for the gdm is to boot with helix-gnome running. After typing my username and password I found myself with a helix-gnome desktop without the window manager (sawfish in my case) running! (I cannot take control over any window I open ). But sawfish is already installed and capable of running because if I choose, in the gdm window, the debian boot, I end with a desktop running Window Maker (no gnome running) and from it I can change to sawfish without problems. How can I enable sawfish in the gnome boot? if you have gnome-session in your ~/.xsession you should be able to choose your window manager by running the gnome control panel. if that doesn't work, you can try update-alternatives --config x-window-manager as root.
Re: Emacs shell with ^M's ???
Jonathan D. Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Sorry for the repost, but I realize the original was posted after many of us Yanks we on the road for the Thanksgiving hollidy, so I figured I'd give it one more go. This is a second hand question and the machine in question is not reachable for testing, but... On a fresh install of Slink emacs19 and emacs20 are both producing ^M's in the out put of some (but not all) shell commands. The word I have is: The ^M's I was referring to were in a shell within emacs when I give a shell command like ls -lt. Other commands, like df do not contain ^M's. I'd like to point out that I cannot reproduce these on other Slink or Potato systems, even with the person in question's .emacs file. i think this is because these commands (ls) output return carriages i think. i notice something similar on xemacs21.. maybe you can find more help if you got to channel #emacs on irc.debian.org with an irc client.
Re: Sound Card
Tóth Gábor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I'm a new one, so where can I find an archive of this list? www.debian.org.. click on support, mailing llist, and archives i think. And how do I configure my soundcard? you need to compile a kernel with sound support and with the card you have. or you could get alsa modules, but that might be too much work... It need a kernel module, or just a program? kernel module
Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.
John-Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all I have been battling with exim, fetchmail and mutt now for what seems like eons! I have made progress over the time and am at a situation now where I can receive mal I send to a normal user from root. However when trying to connect receive mail from my remote server fetchmail does not seem to be passing the mail to exim and therefore I am receiving no mail in the jmj mail box. Does nay one have any idea a how I can rectify this problem? Also if fetchmail is not transferring mail to exim where is it putting it? Thanks for all help which is much appreciated. i would start by telling fetchmail to be verbose.. fetchmail -v? maybe you could figure out what it is doing from that. heh.. i think i've seen you before ;)
Re: Sound Card
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Nov 2000 09:19:54 -0600, Timmy Douglas said: And how do I configure my soundcard? you need to compile a kernel with sound support and with the card you have. or you could get alsa modules, but that might be too much work... Too much work, that is why I bought the commercial OSS Linux drivers. I tried the kernel module route and the ALSA drivers but had no success. I will have to buy the drivers again soon, since I believe my 3 years of free upgrades has almost expired. i think the work is a better choice than $20, i was literally about to go to buy it and then alsa started to work for me.. but now there is a kernel module so it is really easy everytime i recompile the kernel. if you know what you are doing, it isn't that hard, if you have debian, i wrote this a while ago: http://members.home.com/tdouglas/alsa.html
Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.
I'm using *basically* the same configuration (MTA: exim, MDA: procmail, MUA: mutt POP3-GET-MY-MAIL-WHEN-I-NEED-IT-APP-:] : fetchmail). Maybe I can help? i would use iptables to block port 25 from all but localhost, @home almost killed me for that. they don't allow any ``servers'' i think in their aup thing. Does nay one have any idea a how I can rectify this problem? Also if fetchmail is not transferring mail to exim where is it putting it? Again, my understanding is that fetchmail does not put mail anywhere; it just makes sure that mail it is grabbing is placed into the SMTP stream for exim to pick up. 6. Do you have procmail set up? Are you using a .procmailrc file? If you use procmail, which many mutt users do for filtering and distributing email, exim will use the rules (procmail calls them recipes) in .procmailrc for handling your mail. 7. Setting up mutt is a whole 'nuther situation...let's get you through retrieving your mail from the server, then we can worry about mutt. you can set up mutt to use pop3 even though the pop3 support isn't great---but it might save you the trouble from getting fetchmail to work.
Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.
Robert A. Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Timmy Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [231100 17:08]: I'm using *basically* the same configuration (MTA: exim, MDA: procmail, MUA: mutt POP3-GET-MY-MAIL-WHEN-I-NEED-IT-APP-:] : fetchmail). Maybe I can help? i would use iptables to block port 25 from all but localhost, @home almost killed me for that. they don't allow any ``servers'' i think in their aup thing. I'm working on it. Just recompiled my kernel the other day to support firewalling but haven't had time to work on the iptables and other configuration issues. @home is way too broad in their description of server. I understand that their intent is to limit bandwidth since it is a shared resource but their one-size-fits-all policy is ridiculous. yep I must have spent the better part of an hour arguing with them and explaining that I wasn't a home business and did not need their @work services but that I had some unusual needs as a programmer -- like wanting to run a webserver on my own machine for use by myself and a small group of others for development only! Before anyone says it, I would have gone DSL but I can't get it where I am... the switches are setup for it yet. Sucks. yeah They would not go for it. They were especially not helpful after I, point blank, told them that their policy only served to conserve bandwidth for use by teenagers pirating software, stolen music and porn. Hmmm...maybe I shouldn't have told them that, huh? :) hey! adults pirate software too! Mutt does have pop3 support, but it isn't very good. I actually found it surprisingly easy to set up fetchmail. I think the issue may be a faulty exim configuration here. so fetchmail -v shows that it is going to the mta? if it is, then it's probably a config error like you said.. right now i'm working on a pop3-queue program for my mta so once i get that done (probably won't take more than a day), i will be able to get rid of fetchmail.. one step closer to elminating all the programs that i didn't make!
Re: Setting up SMTP and POP servers - QMail or what?
Robin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Up till now I've shyed away from implmenting mail on my Linux boxes, it seems so complicated and my nice friendly (!) Windows POP3 clients seem generally far easier to use. However, I've now gone back to an ISP (Demon) which tries to deliver mail using SMTP, the only ISP I've ever had where this is an option. It therefore seems time for me to get to grips with this-here Linux mail stuff. I still need to retain POP3 client access to other mailboxes, so at present I'm thinking that from the vast array of MTAs, MUAs (etc. etc.) these seem to fit the bill for me: 1) QMAIL - 'cos it's also a POP server, meaning I can revert to my Windows clients if I fail to find a Linux one I likt. ok 2) FETCHMAIL - to get my mail from other ISPs. ok As far as I can see QMAIL will receive my Demon mail via SMTP and FETCHMAIL can go off to my other ISPs and get the mail there and wack it into QMAIL, so I have all my mail ready for reading via POP. not exactly Will this work like I think it will? Will QMAIL act as an SMTP server to deliver mail I send out, meaning I won't have to use an ISP's SMTP server? sending: MUA qmail/sendmail [isp smarthost ] other mail smtp server receiving: fetchmail with pop3 server [qmail ] mbox MUA i think []'s are optional steps Sorry if this are naive questions, but even after reading a _lot_ of HOWTOs, READMEs etc. I find the whole area of Linux mail systems pretty much impenetrable :) yep, i learned it sort of by making my own MTA like qmail ;)
Re: The Microsoft tax
Andrew Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All, I'm thinking of buying a new computer and I was looking for information on getting a refund for Windows. Any links, help, tips, success stories, or general M$ bashing would be greatly appreciated. buy one without windows. i got mine at www.gamepc.com
Re: Call for articles, HOW-TOs, and tips
Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * How about something explaining the mail system? Explain MTAs, MUAs, the role of procmail. Or how about giving some explanations for typical setups and how a newbie would configure their system using eximconfig? i might do something like this once my finger stops hurting and i can type with 2 hands again. but doesn't one of the mail-* HOWTOs do it well?
Re: exim and mtt probs continue
John-Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i continue to have problems setting up my email configuration. I have run eximconfig but have had trouble working out how to answer some of the questions I am not sure what is meant by some of the terms i.e. what is my visible mail name. To be honest i have used the default settings to set up exim i have no idea in most cases whether this is correct. I am dialling up to my isp using pon, I can't fine where to set up the isp smtp info re sending mail. Fetchmail seems to be ok but where does it write the emails to. I have installed mutt but when i run it i get the message that there is no /var/spool/mail/jmj directory jmj being my user name. Apparently exim should set this up for me/ I am truly at a loss. Mutt is also supposed to make a file called .muttrc in my home directory but this does not exist, apparently without it i cant specify which MTA i am using. Is there a mutt configuration script. If you have any idea how to proceed. If it would be easier to use another MTA i am happy to do so although i hear that exim is the best. you can get example mutt config files at mutt.org i've been looking for people to help me test out my mta, so i would be willing to help you get it set up. if you have the time, email me and i can send the latest version to you.
Re: Printing problem
Yes, Matt, I found that out and made the change. Actually, I deleted /etc/printcap and rebuilt it via magicfilter and it looks ok now but still doesn't work. here is what i do: - make sure you have parport, parport_pc, and lp in your kernel. - make sure you have all the suggested programs that the filter suggests.. recently magicfilter didn't work to me so now i use apsfilter. i like it more. that's about all i know.
Re: perl and ssmtp
i think that is all you have to do. the only thing that i can think of is that you might have the same option equal to no earlier in the file that might mess it up but i'm not sure... On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 05:01:27PM -0400, phiLLip maDDux II wrote: Unfortunately adding that line to my ssmtp.conf did not work. sSMTP does not run as a process so I assume this file is parsed each time mail is sent... so I should not have to do anything but add the line, save the file, and try it again correct? Timmy Douglas wrote: On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:31:04PM -0400, phiLLip maDDux II wrote: Hello, I have a perl program that makes a call to ssmtp on the system to send out an email. When I send out the email I specify the from: however it does not work, it always makes it look like the email came from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anybody have any suggestions of what I should look for? Do I need to give more info to help determine the problem? Thank you! is this in your /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf? # Set this to never rewrite the From: line (unless not given) and to # use that address in the from line of the envelope. FromLineOverride=YES i think that should work. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: perl and ssmtp
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:31:04PM -0400, phiLLip maDDux II wrote: Hello, I have a perl program that makes a call to ssmtp on the system to send out an email. When I send out the email I specify the from: however it does not work, it always makes it look like the email came from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anybody have any suggestions of what I should look for? Do I need to give more info to help determine the problem? Thank you! is this in your /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf? # Set this to never rewrite the From: line (unless not given) and to # use that address in the from line of the envelope. FromLineOverride=YES i think that should work.
Re: Linux not seeing all of my Ram
use append 128M, then rerun lilo when you are done editing just in case. example (yours might not look like this): timmy:~/prgm/tsmtpd/src$ cat /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/boot/vmlinuz append=mem=255M label=Linux read-only On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 01:41:19PM -0700, Rosa Edwards wrote: Greetings -- Linux only sees 64M ram, when I have 128M installed. What do I do to fix this problem? Bob Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fayetteville, AR Sent from a WebBox - http://www.webbox.com FREE Web based Email, Files, Bookmarks, Calendar, People and Great Ways to Share them with Others! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: gtk pixmap themes don't work
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:02:10PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: Hi, I recently installed debian woody and I just noticed that the gtk pixmap themes don't work in gnome! I have all the latest packages, does anyone know what might cause this? Thanks. -Jeff Suggests: gtk-engines-gtkstep, gtk-engines-metal, gtk-engines-notif, gtk-engines-pixmap, gtk-engines-redmond95, gtk-engines-thinice get gtk-engines-pixmap. i think that is what i had to do to get it to work with control-center
Re: BitchX auto accept DCC
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:53:03PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: By default, BitchX auto accepts DCC transfers. I'm reading the (long) man pages right now, but it doesn't mention anything about DCC settings. How do I disable that ? try: /set option value /set -- will give a list of options i think that is how i did it
Re: A series of newbieite questions
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:37:11PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: ObeseWhale wrote: 1. Debian keeps starting X as soon as I boot into linux. It give me the graphical login screen and everything. This is annoying because I don't seem to be capable of exiting X... Is there any way to stop Debian from running xdm on startup? You can uninstall xdm (apt-get remove xdm). or if you want to keep xdm, insert 'exit 0;' at the top of: /etc/init.d/xdm 2. My ethernet card, a Netgear fa310tx, came with a driver disk. The disk has a linux directory with but one file 'tulip.c', which is clearly the driver... How do I install this to get my ethernet card working? I don't really know... I'd probably try 'gcc -c tulip.c', followed by 'insmod tulip.o'. Isn't there a readme or anything on the disk? there should be compile instructions if you type: tail tulip.c otherwise, you may be able to use the tulip module in the kernel
