procmail / smail problem
It has been quite a chore getting procmail to run at all here. No success at all with the .forward hack; any time it is run, the mail goes to nobody. Anyway I managed to get procmail running after finding a clue and hacking /etc/smail/transports like this: # This is the Smail transports file, which gives details of how ... # It was originally generated by `smailconfig', part of the Smail package # distributed with Debian, but it may edited by the mail system administrator. # Hacked 5 May 97: redid local local: from, local, inet, return_path, driver=pipe; user=root, cmd=/usr/bin/procmail -d $($user$) smtp: uux:pipe: file: (all unchanged) At this point the hope is that I replaced my local delivery agent with procmail. Therefore, according to TFM, it should run if the user has a .procmailrc file. Those look like this: #Set on when debugging VERBOSE=off #Replace 'mail' with your mail dir MAILDIR=$HOME/mail #directory for storing procmail log and rc files PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.filter Now that is well and good, but it does not run! Mail gets forwarded by procmail to the user's account just fine, but the user's recipie does not get executed. Additionally, any attempt to run procmail with -m (filter mode) simply hangs up and does not run. I suspect more smail hacking is in order. Does anybody have a clue? TIA! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . . . . . . . This computer is RUNNING Linux!! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Debian on a ThinkPad
From: Matthew Tebbens[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 07 May, 1997 23:34 PM To:debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc:The recipient's address is unknown. Subject: Debian on a ThinkPad Is anyone here running Debian on a ThinkPad ? I would like to install Debian on my ThinkPad 755cx. Thanks, Matthew Sure! Have it running on a 760L. I think I have seen reports of it running on various other stinkpads too. Regular stuff, networking, apm, pcmcia cards, sound, and X all run. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . kc5xh . . . . . My other computer runs Linux! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: improving pine speed when using remote smtp server
From: Douglas L Stewart[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 01 April, 1997 2:27 AM [chop] What I'd _like_ to do is to set up smail on my laptop where it'll forward the mail to the mailhost. This isn't really a problem, and there seems to be an option to do this when the smail package isn't configured. No problem; just run smailconfig to set it up. Make your selection, such as send all external mail to smart host and put in the name of that host. You want smail to be running all the time. When you send the mail, smail gets it. It waits in the queue. Given sufficient time, the daemon will send you a message about not being able to deliver. That's ok; what you want to do is after you connect to your ISP, issue runq -v to send off all of your queued messages. Taking this a step further, you can use popclient of perhaps fetch mail to retrieve your messages. In this manner, you basicly work offline, and when you go online, you send (runq) and receive (popclent). Aahhh, almost forgot! You will also need to change pine to talk to your own box instead of to a remote one. HTH! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . kc5xh . . . . . My other computer runs Linux!
RE: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32?
Yes! Put your windoze partitition in your /etc/fstab file. Something like this /dev/hda1 /mnt/windoze vfat defaults 1 1 Note that I may not have this syntax exactly correct, so check it before you write it. Also you need to create /mnt/windoze before attempting to mount it. Ah, yes, your kernel needs to have the appropriate fs support for this to run. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . kc5xh . . . . . My other computer runs Linux! -- From: Alex Lobkovsky[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 27 February, 1997 15:17 PM To:debian user list Subject: can Linux r/w Windoze FAT32? Hi, Having benefited greatly from this list before, I do not doubt for a moment that someone will know the answer to this: Does Linux read/write to the new Win95 Fat32 filesystem? thanks in advance. -alex
RE: pdf files
This isn't debian specific, but what does it take to read/print pdf files in linux? Thanks -lars -- My sig file is only one line long! Wow I have an answer! Your choices are two: 1) xpdf or 2) Adobe acrobat. If you just want to read single .pdf files, I would go for xpdf. If you have a tree full of pdf files, then you will need Acrobat. I think I have seen xpdf in the Debian tree, or perhaps on Sunsite. You can also run a search and find the home page for its author. Acrobat can be retrieved from the Adobe site. I do not think there is a Debian package for it, but I have installed and run it her just fine. ciao! -- D. W. Wieboldt -. . My other computer runs Linux! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Laptop and PCMCIA
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 19 November, 1996 22:15 PM To:Debian Users mailling list Subject: Laptop and PCMCIA I'm trying slowy to get my whole office over to Debian g, and the next machine I'm going to tackle is the TI-Extensa 560CD laptop. Is there a page/FAQ for Debian on laptops? Also I'm using a Xircom Creditcard Ethernet/28.8 pcmcia card, has anyone had any experience with this card? I'd love for it to be recognized just after boot time so I could dftp the whole system. TIA, mike... Sure it will recognize the Xircom just fine, give you its name, and declare that it is an unsupported card! I found a nice surplus Thomas Conrad (now a Compaq subsidiary) card that reports itself as an IBM (!) PCMCIA ethernet card, and it works just fine. See also http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ for lots of good stuff! Ciao! DaveW -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?
I would prefer a much improved dselect. Todays dselect is not convinient to be used. It is like emacs to the novice. (cryptic, non-standard interface, funny keyboard accel keys, no menues...) Hmmm - I got on well with dselect from the beginning, without reading any documentation about it, and I find it a convenient, useful tool. grin Am I in a minority of one, I wonder? I'd be very interested to learn what people's specific gripes are. -- Mark Suggest deselect could benefit from a line worth of useful keystrokes on screen at all times. Pine provides an example, something like this. I also find it annoying that each time you mark a package that requires dependency work, you wind up reading the help stuff, and have to exit the help. Just take me to it and show me where the help is and howto exit. Just my 2 cents... Ciao! DaveW -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
