silly sendmail question
Greetings... I know I'm going to get a lot of responses to the tone of read the how-to or check the archives but I have to post my question anyway, as I have done both and I'm still clueless. My question is this: I do not have a domain of my own, and connect to the net via PPP. I use sendmail when I'm in text mode (which honestly I prefer over X-Windows), and for months I've been trying to figure out how (or if) I can make my sender address stop looking like this: From: my real name here as I set it when adding a user account my user [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Morpheus is, of course, my hostname, or what I named my computer.) It would be nice if sendmail would report me as either my actual email address through my isp, or as the one I use to mail to this list (an iname account). The problem is of course I can't figure out how to change how sendmail reports me as sender, and hell I don't even know if it's possible. If it is, someone please tell me how? I'd appreciate it a great deal. TIA, addiction -- addiction: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thunder.prohosting.com/~delusion/ Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (potato) 2.3.6 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT d--- s-:+ a- C+++ UL+++ P+ L++ E--- W+++ N++ o+ K- w-- O- M- V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R+ tv b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r% x** --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- --
Re: sendmail again -argh!
Please ignore my idiocy on my last post. I was logged in as the wrong user and so, despite my efforts to show off my success, I screwed up. Hopefully this time it worked properly. Cheers, addi
Re: Init error on kernel v2.3.6
umm I had the same problem and I have a Pentium 120... I've been asking around and no one I know had this problem aside from myself. It's mysterious. I'll have to try the 2.3.7 thing and find out if that works for me. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: Raghavendra Bhat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 3:53 AM Subject: Re: Init error on kernel v2.3.6 I had posted previously: As of kernel 2.3.6, I have a total boot freeze and the message echoed on screen is: 'init: error in loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: failed to map segment from shared object: cannot alloacte memory' This problem has been solved by getting the kernel patch v2.3.7 and re-compiling of the kernel. The kernel gets loaded properly at first go. AMD-K6 users are reported to have this problem. Other i386 processors like Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II users do not have this problem and the kernel v2.3.6 worked fine for them. Anybody who can say what was wrong with the AMD processors ?? ragOO, VU2RGU. -- Keeping the Air-Waves FREE.Amateur Radio Keeping the W W W FREE..Debian GNU/Linux -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: gpm troubles on potato? (kbd-related?)
i experienced both mentioned problems. i will try downgrading to the slink gpm. phew, thought it was just me. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lazarus Long [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 8:29 PM Subject: Re: gpm troubles on potato? (kbd-related?) On Sat, 12 Jun 1999 00:19:18 +, you wrote: Has anyone else here been experiencing gpm troubles on potato in recent days? I've tried downgrading gpm and libs to a version which is working on another box, but that hasn't helped. This is a PS/2 style mouse, btw. Syslog reports /usr/sbin/gpm[pid]: Error in protocol whenever I move the mouse, and the keyboard locks up for a while. (I've even gone to a remote machine and remotely rebooted during these periods, not knowing it might resolve itself in time.) I have problems with gpm 1.17.8-1,2,3 not working in mc but did not lock keyboard. I downgraded to the Slink gpm (1.14??) and its library and it works properly. -- Eddie Seymour, WB4MLE E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP KEYS D/H 0xB65DC61A RSA 0x935801A9 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!
i could not possibly agree more with Eric on this one. People are so spoon-fed on GUIs that tell you how to do everything. When you use something like Linux you need basic computer knowledge or you learn the hard way. It isn't easy but it's fun once you get used to it. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: E.L. Meijer (Eric) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 4:07 AM Subject: Re: BE MORE SIMPLE Debian installation manual is not at all the worst one. It is quite good actually. But it definetely isn't easy to find on the website instructions how to get started... This is getting on my nerves... * go to www.debian.org * note the section `Getting Started', which is the second below `What is Debian' * actually _read_ this section (all of both sentences), and discover you need to click on the link Release information in this section. * click * Note the header `New Installations', and the links Install Manual for SPARC Install Manual for Intel x86 Install Manual for Alpha Install Manual for Motorola 680x0 below it. * click on, say `Install Manual for Intel x86' (if that is what you want) * you now find yourself reading the installation manual All this involves *two* clicks from the main debian pages, and reading maybe 30 lines of text. If this `definitely not easy' for someone, I figure this person needs to acquire some more basic computer skills before attempting to install anything at all on their computer. Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!
I've tried installing, tweaking and otherwise USING many different dists, including redhat and slackware aside from debian... never found one yet that was easier or more convenient, but maybe that's just my opinion. debian was the first dist i ever installed as well as my first linux experience. in fact i had never even partitioned a hard drive before until i tried my hand at debian... read docs at the ftp site, downloaded the appropriate things in the disks area and presto...i was successful and had everything up and running quicker than i ever got windoze working. anyone who thinks debian is too difficult to install... i don't know... i can't see it. read the documentation. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: debian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Craig McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org; John Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 1:25 AM Subject: Re: BE MORE SIMPLE I agree George.. I went from Slackware (used it for 4 years) to using Debian just 7 days ago.. Debian and apt-get rocks. Sorry to advertize another distro on the Debian list : ) but this might not be a bad option if one is just trying out linux and doesn't want to repartition, and personally... it was a pretty natural progression to go from Slackware to Debian... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: ICQ programs for Debian GNU/Linux
personally i prefer either kxicq or licq (for x, anyway). i've had no problems with either losing messages or userlist entrieson meyet. On Sun, 30 May 1999, Timothy Hospedales wrote: I have tried most of the ICQ clones available and I find that micq is the most stable! And does the least weird stuff like loosing messages. The command line thing is quite neat also; I found it unexpectedly good to not have to click to recieve messages - saves lots of time! :). Unfourtunately it doesnt look like micq is debianized; but its compiles easily out of the box so thats okay. I forget the URL; but just search on freshmeat and youll find it! However, since micq doesnt do file xfers; I use gtkicq whenever I have to accept file transfers from people who are too clueless to login to me ftp and send it over:) HTH! Tim Hi, I'd like to know what are the good packages for ICQ people use in Debian. I've been using gtkicq for some time, and though I think it is a nice package, I'm not sure as to how reliable it is... looks like I never get to receive some messages while using it... More than that, it looks like gtkicq is no longer in potato (why?), and I can't upgrade some of my gnome slink stuff to potato, because this would remove my gtkicq. Any comments? -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 30-May-99 Time: 23:42:00 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- add|ct|on [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net Debian 2.1 (potato) Linux 2.3.2
Re: make menuconfig (potato)
i believe you're missing a ncurses dev lib. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: Johan Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, May 29, 1999 4:35 AM Subject: make menuconfig (potato) Hello! I have uppgraded from slink to potato (I now understand the word unstable=) And downloaded kernel 2.2.9. But when I type menuconfig I have got following error mess. rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC=curses.h -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' from what I understand it can not find dialog.h and curses.h! file://thx Johan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: potato - unstable?
i tend to agree with Daniel. my situation of use is quite the same, but my system gets heavy usage and i never have problems i can't take care of. only minor ones so far luckily. i had more problems with slink but who knows why. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: DEBIAN user debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, May 29, 1999 8:45 AM Subject: potato - unstable? Hello! It's me again. For all of you, I apreciatte your concern and for having let me know what really unstable means. Maybe I was being too exciting about potato packages since I like a lot how my debian distro works and how it is made. Well, what I really want to say to those of you who have read me message is that what I mean is, as a user, potato has been as stable to me as slink would have been, since I havent had any problems with those unstable packages, I repeat, I am just a user, my computer does not do anything special, nor ir a server or anything productive. I update my linux system almost everyday. But I really know that for people that are not just simple users like me they can be taking a risk using some unstable packages. Again, I apreciatte your comments, and sorry If I have transmitted a wrong idea to some newbies. Regards to everyone Daniel -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Compiling Pine 4.10
add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null that is calling for libtermcap, which you don't need to use technically. ncurses can do the same thing if you edit the source file to say -lncurses instead of -ltermcap. worked for me anyway. - Original Message - From: Adilson dos Santos Dantas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, May 29, 1999 10:21 AM Subject: Compiling Pine 4.10 Hello Debian users! I´m trying to compile Pine 4.10 in a slink. But I have some problems. When I complile Pine. I found this message: /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -ltermcap: No such file or directory I change the value from termcap to terminfo. But I found the following message: /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lterminfo: No such file or directory What can I do for compiling and installing this version of Pine here? I cannot find any *.deb file in www.debian.org []´s Adilson |-| |Adilson dos Santos Dantas - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil | |e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |URL: http://www.lci.ufrj.br/~adilsond ICQ UIN# : 4542346| | http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7479 | |-| Nasrudin was carrying home a piece of liver and the recipe for liver pie. Suddenly a bird of prey swooped down and snatched the piece of meat from his hand. As the bird flew off, Nasrudin called after it, Foolish bird! You have the liver, but what can you do with it without the recipe? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Sound devices missing
if i'm not mistaken, the proper way to do it is to go into /dev as root and run ./MAKEDEV audio. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: Mark Nellemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, May 29, 1999 4:00 PM Subject: Sound devices missing Hi ! Whenever I install a Debian (slink or potato), it seems that the sound devices (/dev/dsp, /dev/mixer, ..) is missing. So I install the devices with a script from a 2.0.x kernel found in Documentation/sound. Am I wrong or is this the right thing to do ? Regards .. Mark Nellemann -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: upgrade problem
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I have upgraded from slink to potato. But something happend. I could not start X after the upgrade. So I decided to config XF86Config again. When I type XF86Setup I have got following error : _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect- Can't connect : errno = 111. So I tried xf86config but when I type startx : Fatal server error: could not open font 'fixed'! What to do ? //thx Johan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- this happened to me once... i had to reinstall the xfontbase ( i think thats it) package. maybe this will help you. you could also try to locate a font called fixed (i think its in misc in the X11 fonts, or maybe in /usr/share/consolefonts?) and do a mkfontdir in that directory. add|ct|on [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net Debian 2.1 (potato) Linux 2.3.2
Re: Replacement for Netscape
phew what a thread we got going here... my only addition to this is to say that one of the reasons i prefer linux over windows is that you don't NEED excessively fast or modern hardware to run linux efficiently. one of my many complaints about windows in general as an OS is that in order to run it fairly decently you need increasingly more speed in your hardware... more memory, faster processors.. what is the world coming to when a single OS defines what the standard for hardware in a PC should be? personally i never plan on spending tons of money to update my computer simply so i can use windows. i run linux and x on 16 ram and a pentium 120, and i do just fine. some things are a little slow but it is a hell of a lot better than having to reboot every hour or so. grin On Wed, 26 May 1999, Kent West wrote: Lazarus Long wrote: On Wednesday, May 26, 1999 at 15:12:52 -0500, Kent West wrote: M On Wednesday, May 26, 1999 at 15:12:52 -0500, Kent West wrote: Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: 4fd6d8ff3805df00b5ee9a38be13cbf6 Ya know, we really oughtta quit advertising the idea that Linux runs well etc etc... Linux is an affordable workstation, as compared to other OS's. Oh definitely! And I am philosophically in favor of OSS (and opposed particularly to Microsoft), and do not mean to imply that Windows is better (not by a LONG shot). But before I ever downloaded my first base14-1.bin image or read my first HowTo, I had read in several places that Linux works well on older hardware. Not realizing that the authors presumably meant as servers, I was disappointed with my first go-round of Linux as a desktop OS on an old 486 with 16MB RAM. Windows and Netscape were functional on such a machine; Linux was just barely so. It may have been inadequate tuning on my part, but remember, I was brand new to Linux and didn't know an exim.conf file from an XF86Setup program. So in summary, I'm not saying we shouldn't advertise Linux as running well on older slower machines; I am saying that we should qualify that claim to the effect that the average newbie can't expect the same performance they're used to if they try to do the same types of things they've been doing with Windows on an older slower machine. -- add|ct|on [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net Debian 2.1 (potato) Linux 2.3.2
Re: gnome-session + enlightenmet
Allan M. Wind wrote: On 1999-05-22 12:20, Martin Bialasinski wrote: It will start the panel and window manager. You change the windowmanager through the gnome control center. That doesn't seem to work here. /Allan -- Allan M. Wind Phone: 781.938.5272 (home) 687 Main Street, 2nd Floor Fax:781.938.6641 (fax/modem) Woburn, MA 01801Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null according to the gnome user's guide (which you can read on the web somewhere at http://www.gnome.org) you have to set a WINDOW_MANAGER variable in your .bashrc or .bash_profile. something like: export WINDOW_MANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/enlightenment (I believe its WINDOW_MANAGER, if not check the faq and gnome user's guide. i had it working at one time til gnome died on me. my .xinitrc was simply exec gnome-session, and i had the appropriate variable set for the window manager.) hope this helps. -add|ct|on
Re: Environment variables and X
hey.. i don't know much about this, but i do know if you open most kind of terminals in x with the argument -ls (or sometimes -ln, depending on what you use) it forces the reading of the current user's .bash_profile or .bashrc. not sure where you'd set it otherwise... might try /etc/profile, although outside of x a user's own .bash_profile will override these global settings. just some thoughts... add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 9:56 AM Subject: Re: Environment variables and X Look in the wdm man pages for a profile that wdm executes on startup (I would be very surprised if there wasn't one), in that file, source your .profile or .bashrc or both: . $HOME/.profile Put the definition of HTTP_PROXY in .profile or .bashrc. Make sure you export it: export HTTP_PROXY=your.proxy Sorry, I don't have wdm installed and I couldn't find an on-line man page for it, so I can't give you the name of the wdm profile. Marc -- Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- It's such a fine line between clever and stupid. -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/21 1:30 AM Hi all: Where is the proper place to set environment variables, so that they would propagate to X apps? I need to set HTTP_PROXY variable (for Xemacs/W3). I found out that neither ~/.bashrc nor ~/.profile are parsed during login into GUI (I'm using wdm FWIW). I start Xemacs with a shortcut (not from an xterm). Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin = ... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world... (S. Kierkegaard) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
some questions...
hi all... ok this is probably not the place to ask these things, but i will anyway since i've seen the likes of them discussed here before... one, has anyone else had problems with kernel 2.3.3 not reporting the correct kernel version? i noticed in the makefile (after it reported 2.3.2 to me still) that it said 2.3.2 there as well... i tried removing all old kernels, anything you can think of, and of course did make clean, make mr proper, etc, before compiling. no matter what i do, this kernel still reports that it is 2.3.2! if anyone knows why this might be, or has had a similar problem with it, or even knows how to fix it please make mention since i'm stumped. also, i have a very strange email problem. my isp has 4 dialin numbers, and there was one in particular i favored for its speed. for months i could never get fetchmail to fetch my mail (it would get as far as retrieving and then just sit there on the first msg) until one day i happened to change which number i used to connect, then fetchmail fetched flawlessly. i did some experiments and discovered that this particular dialin number is the ONLY one out of the 4 that i can fetch mail with. does anyone, anywhere, have any idea why or how this might be?? i was thinking of asking my isp, but maybe it has something to do with my settings or the speed of the connection vs. my modem, or protocols or something i don't understand. all numbers are 56k compliant, although my modem is only a 28.8 i never had problems with them. however, the # that works with fetchmail is not X2 complaint (the only one that ISN'T) and i wonder if that could somehow effect my ability to fetch mail or not? (note also that on windows i have no problems getting mail with any of the #s, but the 3 that won't fetch on linux at all are slow logging into the email server on windows, too, and take a long time to fetch the first message. also the 3 other bad numbers hang up on me a lot if i'm idle more than 3 minutes (noticed this in my ppp logs) where the good one does not do this. any ideas, thoughts, etc would be greatly appreciated since i'm curious as to this weirdness. thanks! add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null
Re: URGENT to DEBIAN
On Sun, 16 May 1999 08:47:21 Khalid EZZARAOUI wrote: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz is empty. If I do a mistake excuse me. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null i noticed that last night. it had me worried that dselect was screwing up til i checked the ftp site... --add
Re: ESS1868
i have the same sound card and i never could make my sound work properly until i upgraded to a 2.2.x kernel. they have great support for ESS cards. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: budi w [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, May 15, 1999 3:06 PM Subject: ESS1868 i have ESS 1868 soundcard but slink can't detect it . i've tried to recompile my kernel sound modules installed and it still didn' work then i use oss but it's not free :( any one can help me pl? regards budi wibowo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Display issues
i believe .xinitrc is used when you dont use xdm, and the other is for if you do, but i'm not really sure. i use .xinitrc to start my window manager when i do startx. cheers. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-user list debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 10:42 PM Subject: Re: Display issues On 13-May-99 Brant Wells wrote: Howdy :) You need to start up a xterm session after you run startx. Do this by going into your $HOME/.xinitrc file and add a line in there somewhere before your window manager (usually the last line) to the effect of xterm and then try to run those programs after you get into X. I am a little confused by this. I was using an .xinitrc but changed to an .xsession after I had some problems and I found something in the Debian Tutorial which only mentioned .xsession. Does it matter which is used, .xinitrc or .xsession ? -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
yes i was referring to ldso :) add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-user list debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 10:59 PM Subject: Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install? On 13-May-99 add|ct|on wrote: i think its safe to say dont touch your linker if you upgrade slink. a lot of people commented to me that they'd done so when slink broke in an upgrade. quite interesting. What exactly is the linker, ldso ? If you upgrade slink's ldso to potato and *then downgrade it back to slink's ldso* yes, you will break it. I have potato ldso now on my slink, but I did not downgrade it when I removed libc6 2.1.1 -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
i forget which it is, but there IS a wrapper... in either netbase or netstd (potato versions)... it asks you on install if you want to use the wrapper for ipfwadm / ipchains. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian-user list debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 1:52 AM Subject: Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install? On Tue, 11 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: I just thought of something. Maybe Potato works better on the 2.2.x kernels than it does on 2.0.x kernels ?? I cannot upgrade to the newer kernels yet, because I would lose ipfwadm and I am not familiar with ipchains. Isnt there a wrapper for this? Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Drive nail here ( ) to need a new monitor. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: font vga11x19, bitchx
look on ftp.scripts.bitchx.com or ftp.bitchx.com ... its there somewhere. or i can email it to you if you can't find it. personally i think its too damn big.. vga is a better font. cheers. --add add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: Johan Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 3:07 PM Subject: font vga11x19, bitchx Hi! Were can I find font vga11x19 ? -- file://thx Johan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: msysterious /dev/dsp /dev/audio
i'd try doing ./MAKEDEV audio over again. why not. also, which user are you trying to play sounds as? unless of course it's root, is the user in the sound group? in your dmesg are there any errors about the sound init? how about in the messages log? sounds like maybe your user isnt authorized to access the devices... if they're there, i don't see how bash could say they're not unless they're unseeable to that particular user because of permissions or something. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: Pat O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 9:09 PM Subject: msysterious /dev/dsp /dev/audio I am trying to get audio up and running on my laptop - a Toshiba 2535. I have recompiled my kernel ( I've tried 2.2.5,2.2.7 ) for the sound card. dmesg reports finding the card. /dev/sndstat reports the io irq, /proc/devices reports sound, ls -l /dev/audio dsp are there, but when I try to play a sound bash reports that there is no /dev/audio device. And when I try to initialize esound, bash reports that the /dev/dsp device does not exist... I'm puzzledI've got a desktop Debian system up and never had these kind of audio problems pat -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
i think its safe to say dont touch your linker if you upgrade slink. a lot of people commented to me that they'd done so when slink broke in an upgrade. quite interesting. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 7:11 PM Subject: Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install? Rob, I'm curious-- did you upgrade the linker as well? when i upgraded that in slink, i think that is what broke my system somehow. it happened to me twice. that is why i ended up giving up and going all the way with potato... was sick of having to manually re-link 30 or 40 .so files. no problems now, i'm just curious. ciao. I beleive I did, yes. Pretty much everything relating to libc was upgraded (compiler, linker, libs, headers, also g++ stuff). Rob. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
- Original Message - From: Robert Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 12:19 AM Subject: Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install? Do not upgrade only libc6. It will break your system if you do. If you want to upgrade to libc6, upgrade all the way to potato. Actually .. it won't. I can't remember exactly what I installed, but I know I installed the libc6 libs, headers, and gcc all from potato onto my hamm system, and it's since worked without so much as a whimper. Rob. Rob, I'm curious-- did you upgrade the linker as well? when i upgraded that in slink, i think that is what broke my system somehow. it happened to me twice. that is why i ended up giving up and going all the way with potato... was sick of having to manually re-link 30 or 40 .so files. no problems now, i'm just curious. ciao. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null
Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: J Horacio MG [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dan Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian List debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 8:07 AM Subject: Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install? So, what's the list of what should be upgraded? I would imagine that the first thing to do is to compile and run a 2.2.x kernel, the entire potato base directory... what else? I've also seen on this thread someone saying about the need to upgrade the X system... to xfree 3.3.3? Horacio. here's my input...depends on how potato-ish you want to be... but if you want to run a 2.2.x (or even 2.3.0!) kernel you will most likely need to upgrade more than just libc6. check out the Changes file in any 2.2.x kernel and it will tell you what you need to change/ upgrade for THAT (very good listing, well done i might add, and easy to follow). the documentation is fantastic. it tells you everything that might go wrong and how to avoid it. most people have problems because they do not read the kernel docs. i am running potato now, and installed it as a base, but at one time i DID successfully upgrade from slink to potato and a 2.2.x kernel. i did it like this (i have endless free time smile): upgraded via apt everything the changes file said i needed for the new kernel (if you do that, incidentally, on my system anyhow i had to upgrade my libc anyway because other things were dependant on it -- don't know how it will work for you, but i couldn't upgrade my netbase or anything without also upgrading my libc. (the potato net packages will not work with kernel 2.0.36, to the best of my knowledge, or i couldnt get them to anyway, so if you care about interenet connectivity like i do be sure to have the new kernel handy on the system to make after) after that, i compiled and installed the kernel without rebooting inbetween. of course you can reboot, i just didn't want to bother with it... i heard someone say rebooting an ugraded system with a 2.0.36 kernel can make all hell break loose, but again i don't really know, so i didn't take any chances. good luck to you!
KDE -- please help!
i sent this msg yesterday and got no replies, but i managed to fix the sound problem. it still crashes so i was wrong i guess i'm still getting that mysterious error message in my xsession-errors files: Could not read '/tmp//kfm-cache-0/index.txt does anyone know what that is??? please help. thanks. - Original Message - From: add|ct|on To: Debian-user Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 1:47 PM Subject: KDE's untimely death i am having a strange problem with kde... whenever it runs, and i try to open a program, it crashes, I.E. xdm (or kdm, to more precise) stops and x exits. i went through a lot of analysis and i came to the odd conclusion by trial and error that, if i log into it with users which don't have sound priveleges, it doesn't die. spotting this strangeness for what it was, i looked in my xsession errors files for the users with which kde stopped running - lo and behold, errors! and here it is:stretchPixmap 24x4 to 24x128Could not read '/tmp//kfm-cache-0/index.txt'kpanel: waiting for windowmanagerkaudioserver: Catching fatal X IO Error. Cleaning up. (ignorethis part, i fixed it) ok so, then i logged in as one of my users without sound priveleges again, and in the console as root i did a ps x... kaudioserver does not run. it used to run in the background if i'm not mistaken (if i am please correct me, but on my system anyhow it was running all the time during kde sessions). i'm new to kde and i have no clue as to a) what happened to my kaudioserver, b) what the heck is that "Could not read '/tmp//kfm-cache-0/index.txt'" nonsense??, or c) how to even begin to fix any of this without uninstalling it all and starting over again. if anyone can help, or even give me some clues as to what to look for and where, i'd be most appreciative. thanks. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null
Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
i run potato with glib6-2.1.1 and kernel 2.2.7. and i have no problems to speak of, although i did with the first release of potato. i also haven't noticed any significant problems with any packages. if you want an opinion, here's mine: my system is much faster, more useful, and just as stable now as it was when i was using slink. in fact, i daresay i have LESS problems with it since i can do what i want to do without having to upgrade a zillion things to accomplish this. cheers! --add --- I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Debian List debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 11:07 AM Subject: Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install? This kind of strikes at something I've been wondering of late. Slink, back when Hamm was the stable dist, was pretty stable I thought. I realize that Potato started out hideously broken, mostly because of the libc6 2.1.1, but that was a while back, and I'm now wondering if anyone has any comments on how stable the unstable distribution is in general. Sean J Horacio MG wrote: ~ I have some packages which require version 2.1.1 from libc6 (which I ~ expect it can be found in potato). My question is, do I have to expect ~ any problems if I install it in slink, or is it just as straight forward ~ as upgrading any other package? ~ ~ If you upgrade a slink installation to libc6 2.1.1, you will probably have ~ some problems. I know I did, and I went back to libc6 2.07 ~ ~ I suppose you could upgrade to potato and avoid the problems. ~ ~ If you try it on a slink system, do not go back from the potato version of ~ ld.so to the slink version or you will break the system; I just kept the newer ~ ld.so when I went back to the older libc6. That sounds as if upgrading to libc6 2.1.1 is not a good idea, at least not if it's just for a couple of packages. But, does it mean libc6 2.1.1 is not stable, or it means it's stable but not fit to use with a system packed with (and for) a previous version? If I finally decided to do an upgrade, which other packages/libraries should I also upgrade for sanity sake? TIA Horacio -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- He who hesitates is last. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
KDE's untimely death
i am having a strange problem with kde... whenever it runs, and i try to open a program, it crashes, IE xdm (or kdm, if i try with that) stops and x exits. i went through a lot of analysis and i came to the odd conclusion by trial and error that, if i log into it with users which don't have sound priveleges, it doesn't die. spotting this strangeness for what it was, i looked in my xsession errors files for the users with which kde stopped running - lo and behold, errors! and here it is:stretchPixmap 24x4 to 24x128Could not read '/tmp//kfm-cache-0/index.txt'kpanel: waiting for windowmanagerkaudioserver: Catching fatal X IO Error. Cleaning up. ok so, then i logged in as one of my users without sound priveleges again, and in the console as root i did a ps x... kaudioserver does not run. it used to run in the background if i'm not mistaken (if i am please correct me, but on my system anyhow it was running all the time during kde sessions). i'm new to kde and i have no clue as to a) what happened to my kaudioserver, b) what the heck is that "Could not read '/tmp//kfm-cache-0/index.txt'" nonsense??, or c) how to even begin to fix any of this without uninstalling it all and starting over again. if anyone can help, or even give me some clues as to what to look for and where, i'd be most appreciative. thanks.
Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
- Original Message - From: Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-user list debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 1:44 PM Subject: Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install? I just thought of something. Maybe Potato works better on the 2.2.x kernels than it does on 2.0.x kernels ?? I cannot upgrade to the newer kernels yet, because I would lose ipfwadm and I am not familiar with ipchains. -- Andrew yes, you're right on the kernel issue, i believe. i have tried to upgrade to potato on a few systems and i wouldn't recommend it to anyone. i've tried it with 2.0.36 kernels (base, and custom) and every one of the 2.2.X series of kernels. i think i can say that trying to upgrade to potato from slink is much more turmoil than it's worth...with dependencies and all, you end up having to get many more packages than are listed, plus some of the newer items (the new net stuff per se) do not work with kernel 2.0.36 to the best of my knowledge. after trying many times to upgrade people's slink systems, i gave up and made the recommendation that if they want potato, back up anything important and reinstall the entire system with a potato base. too much trouble? compared to dealing with endless dependency problems, not really. cheers again!
Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
- Original Message - From: John T. Croteau [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 2:12 PM Subject: Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install? I am going to stick with 2.0.7 until gnu makes 2.1 available again. I just love political issues. - JT tis true, it seems to be a huge issue though i can't see why. what i don't get is why, if someone insists on using packages made for an entirely different system (potato packages on slink, for instance), they would complain that things break? i haven't had any packages break, but that is because i am using potato and the proper packages and libs for it. mix and match doesn't work for me. if someone is happy with slink, it's my opinion that if they wanted to be safe they'd stick with slink dists, or go all the way like i did in the other direction. upgrading slink to potato? bah! more trouble than it's worth. as i keep saying, easier to just reinstall the entire system than to deal with THAT mess. grin after all, if you're going to use something unstable, you might as well start out with it in its best possible state, yes? perhaps i'm just a perfectionist
Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
- Original Message - From: Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-user list debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 3:52 PM Subject: Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install? I will give a specific instance. I need gtk 1.2 but when I try to install the libgtk 1.2 deb, it complains that it needs libc6 2.1.1. I was unable to install this gtk from source because during 'make install' it complains that the deb is already installed. I tried removing the deb for gtk, but then dpkg complains that it is required for other packages I installed. In order to install libc6 2.11 I need to also upgrade to the potato version of ld.so and some other things. I tried this and it broke my timezones. I was fortunate to have been able to go back to the older libc6 with only small breakages which I fixed. I just have to wait until Potato is stable, and if it will run on 2.0.x kernels, I will upgrade, or else, learn to set up ipchains and upgrade the kernel too. -- Andrew yeah this is typical. let's hope it changes soon.
Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?
- Original Message - From: Stuart Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 4:58 PM Subject: Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install? Phillip Deackes wrote: Well I decided to go ahead and upgrade to glibc2.1 when I found all the new packages in unstable were compiled with it. It meant I couldn't get, for instance, the new Gnome stuff. I had three problems. The first, JAVA, has now been resolved. What was the problem and how did you resolve it? I think I am being bitten by this, and I would very much like to know how to fix it... Thanks, Stuart. i'd like to know myself. x is a tad slow loading, but on my machine i can't tell the difference (always was slow). now if i could just fix my kde problem i'd be problem free. (i love tinkering too. such a challenge the unstable releases are and i love it.)
Re: Windows won't boot
boot with a boot disk and run fdisk and tell me what the partition table says. which partition is marked as active, and what types it thinks they all are. when you use the floppy, does it give any messages? how do you boot from the floppy EXACTLY? do you have to type anything, etc, or just type win? is the slave disk fat16 or fat32, and how did you move the files you moved? is large disk support enabled (in fdisk youll see it ask that, if you got the same version i do anyway)? (but then, i suppose if it was linux wouldnt boot and it does, correct?) --- quote o' the day: I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: Greg Scharrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 11:29 PM Subject: Windows won't boot I have a 6.4Gb drive that has a 1.6Gb primary partition and a 4.8Gb extended partition. The extended partition has 3 logical partitions, each 1.6Gb. Linux is on a separate 1Gb drive on the primary IDE slave. I want to move linux to the 6.4Gb drive. I cleared the files from the last logical partition (Windows drive f:). Then I used fdisk (DOS version) to delete the last logical partition (f:) in the extended partition. Fdisk said to reboot to make the changes take effect. When I rebooted, the computer hung on the BIOS setup after the message Verifying DMI pool data. I have to use the Windows boot floppy to get the machine up. Then I use loadlin to boot linux (lilo is not configured). What must I do to get Windows to boot again? What did I do to make the system not boot? Thanks for your help. Greg Scharrer -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Time Keeps A changin'
as i said i had the same problems with slink. as i replied privately to roddie, this time problem i had in slink coincided with the breaking of my linker. i really don't know WHAT caused it, but every time i used apt to try to upgrade to potato it broke my linker and my time was messed up. in the end i gave up and installed a potato base, and both broke again in the same exact manner when i upgraded my linker with apt. i concluded that if i start with potato and don't upgrade anything having to do with ldso or the linker in any way, it stops that problem. still i can't figure out what a linker would have to do with time! perhaps its something in libc6 that was clashing with the potato packages. no dependency problems were reported and everything went smoothly but it broke on me over and over in the end i gave up on slink. potato is working great for me, even with libc6.1. in fact it seems more stable than my slink was. maybe i'm just lucky? or maybe there was a faulty .deb package at the time i was using apt to try to upgrade? its an interesting dilemma for sure...and stranger still, the breaking of my slink system seemed to be caused by apt.. if i didnt use apt to install anything, it was fine. shrug anyone else with an odd time problem, or who has experienced it, please give input. thanks! - Original Message - From: Damir J. Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, May 08, 1999 12:18 AM Subject: Re: Time Keeps A changin' Hi roddie; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I've done all that. I'm running 2.2.5 kernel, so that rules out the kernel problem. But, this did happen to me before, maybe if I reinstall the kernel it will fix it. Today, the time was off by 23 hours? Even the time difference isn't consistent from day to day. The funny thing is I did set date and while I was working it drifted back 24 hours. I had to do a ldconfig, maybe that did something. HMMM? let you know if I figure this one out! Rod Well, I thought it was just my computer...I'm running slink, but my times are often off- even if I do a netdate, and adjust the hwclock. Since I haven't noticed this before I installed enightenment_0.15.4 (w/o gnome!), I thought it was E or some lib of it doing it, but I have since purged all of the E pkgs, using only windowmaker, and the clock is still off. I'm using pretty much all slink system, with libc6 and _not_ libc6.1, and 2.0.36 kernel. Hope this helps some of you pinpoint the problem, damir -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Unidentified subject!
what i do to find specific files in packages is go to http://www.debian.org, packages area, and near the bottom there's 2 searches. first is for packages, second one you can look for specific files IN dists. works for me. quote o' the day: I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, May 08, 1999 1:30 AM Subject: Unidentified subject! in what package can i find ieee854.h ?? thanks -- --No Regrets-- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Time Keeps A changin'
- Original Message - From: Person, Roderick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 12:12 PM Subject: Time Keeps A changin' Then my time got screwed. I reinstalled timezones and set the date a time and everything seemed fine. Except that when I need to reboot, the time gets hosed again!!! when you installed (initally) you chose local time didn't you? SAME thing happened to me. in fact it happened to me TWICE (got a new hard drive so i had to reinstall, and it did it again!). i also run potato. supposedly i was using local time but something kept adjusting my clock. it was a base system so no i did not install anything that screwed it. which kernel are you using? oddly enough, when i made and started using a 2.2.X kernel, my time problems stopped. (of course i'm not suggesting this, i'm simply wondering if perhaps this time problem is associated somehow with potato and 2.0.36 kernels). i have no idea how to fix it... mine went away on its own, as i said. i'd like to know myself!
Re: how do i get past install.bat file
quote o' the day: I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: pplaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 10:20 PM Subject: how do i get past install.bat file hi, i'm trying to install, boot, and configure debian linux. onto my hard drive (partitioned into c: and d:) i've downloaded the required files (resc1440.bin,drv1440.bin, base2_1.tgz, root.bin, linux, install.bat, and loadlin.exe). i type install. when prompted for the name of the kernel image file, i type @file. the computer goes through several screens of information, resting with my dos/cpu configuration and then a c:\ prompt. (what has it done at this point?) i assume you're planning on installing debian on drive d?? safe assumption i suppose... i find installing from a dos partition to be extremely easy. i guess my next step is to boot the install? if so, how is that done? if not, what do i do next. (if i hard/soft boot the computer, it just boots into dos.) make sure all the installing files are in the same location (same folder, same drive obviously). boot to plain old dos and cd:\whatever to thedir you put the files in and just type install.bat. (to make it easier i stick all the files just in c:) i dont recall being asked for a kernel name...but i think if i was i would just hit enter. if you don't specify a kernel name lilo will use whatever kernel it finds on the same drive. (i think!) any suggestions are appreciated. thx. bentley. // -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: how do i get past install.bat file
i forgot something... do you even have lilo??
Re: How to check the amount of free disk space?
quote o' the day: I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 11:48 AM Subject: How to check the amount of free disk space? try the command df Hi, This is probably a very stupid question, but I haven't been able to find the answer to it myself. In DOS it was very easy to check the amount of free disk space, just type dir and the amount of free disk space is shown at the bottom of the list. Now I have installed Debian on a 850 MB disk and I realy have no idea of how much free disk space I have. What command do I need to use to find out how much free disk space I have left? TIA, Robert-Jan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Kernel Source Installation Probs...
Brant Wells wrote: Howdy All: How are ya? Last night, I was working on installing the Kernel 2.2.3 Sources. I unpack them and then run 'make menuconfig' and this is what I get... rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC=curses.h -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:22: sys/types.h: No such file or directory dialog.h:23: fcntl.h: No such file or directory dialog.h:24: unistd.h: No such file or directory dialog.h:25: ctype.h: No such file or directory dialog.h:26: stdlib.h: No such file or directory dialog.h:27: string.h: No such file or directory dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory lxdialog.c:53: locale.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 Helllp! TIA, Brant -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null looks to me like there's something wrong with your ncurses lib? (libncurses4??)... maybe? --add
[Fwd: swapfile and more ram]
David B.Teague wrote: On Sat, 1 May 1999, add|ct|on wrote: my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have 16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with partitions again? i'm a relative newbie to this so if you reply please speak in simple terms g. thanks! Hi I refer you to Oliver Elphick's response about disk repartitioning for more swap. If you *need* more swap space, you can create a swap file. It will be slower than a swap partition (you are running things through the file system) but it works. It got me out of the woods. Actually, man mkwap will tell you all you need to know. Write me back if you need to. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I'm hoping this is all of the above!) thank you for your help, david. it's appreciated, and was by for the most useful response i received. if the man confuses me i'll be sure to drop another line, thanks.
swapfile and more ram
my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have 16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with partitions again? i'm a relative newbie to this so if you reply please speak in simple terms g. thanks!
re: sendmail/fetchmail yet again
the .fetchmailrc is, simply, as follows: poll pop.myserver.net protocol pop3 username myusername password mypasswd
re: sendmail/fetchmail yet again
the .fetchmailrc is, simply, as follows: poll pop.myserver.net protocol pop3 username myusername password mypasswd
sendmail/fetchmail
ok maybe i'm simple-minded but i cannot get fetchmail to fetch my mail from my pop3 server. running fetchmail in -v mode, there were no errors logging into the pop3 server, but once it gets to fetching the messages it just sits there on the first one and does nothing. to test my setup, i tried getting mail from a different pop3 account, on another server (friend's account), and it supposedly fetched (did not hang that time at all, completed without errors or incident), BUT, stranger still, i have no idea WHERE it put the mail if it really did fetch it. i ran fetchmail as root, and root had no mail. i was unable to locate this supposedly fetched mail anywhere on my system. another odd tidbit is this: sendmail runs on boot, of course, but if i check with ps x a while later its mysteriously GONE. i restart it, and check, and its there, but again check later and its gone AGAIN. someone please tell me why it keeps disappearing on me and i'll be very thankful. if i can manage to keep sendmail running for a bit, i can send email without problems. THAT works fine, at least, without incident. g info about my system (in case its important) are as follows: i'm running potato with kernel 2.2.6. and the potato versions of fetchmail and sendmail. (prepackaged .debs, if that matters also). i'm new at email on linux systems and i have no idea what i'm doing, to be honest. in fact, i'm not very experienced with any of this. it's probably some small bit i have misconfigured, and i have read docs and mans but i can't find anything wrong...had an experienced friend telnet in as well and he couldn't find any config problems either. any help would be highly appreciated. need any more info, feel free to email me. gracias!
