telnet port 25

1998-06-01 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
Hello all, I try the command to test my email connection 'telnet localhost 25', but it gives me the error: Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused However, I have '127.0.0.1 localhost' entry in my /etc/hosts file. Another problem is that I

Re: troubles after upgrading to 1.3.1r8

1998-06-01 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Cheng Dien Yiu wrote: Hello all, I have great deals troubles after upgrading to 1.3.1r8. I wish I would never do it. First I have troubles sending email using through. When I try to send it, it gives me the error. [Error sending: 421 SMTP connection went away!]

popclient

1998-02-28 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
Hello all, I try to find the popclient package but I cannot find it. It seems that the popclient package has become obsolete. Can someone tell me which package has the popclient program. Thanks in advance! Anthony We have not succeeded in answering all our problems. The answers we have found

SMTP transaction error

1998-02-28 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
Hello all, I have just installed the debian fetchmail package and now I cannot download mail from my server. Before I install debian fetchmail package, I use popclient and it works perfectly. Now I change to fetchmail, it gives me the error: reading message 1 (2561 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP

exit script

1997-11-18 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
Hello all, I would like to execute a few commands when I exit X windows session. Can someone tell me which script file will be excuted when one finishes the X windows session so that I can write my commands on that. Thanks Anthony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Mystique 220

1997-10-04 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
Hello all, I am helping my friend installing debian 1.3.1 from a cdrom. My friend has a Mystique 220. Obviously, the xwindow packages in the cdrom does not work for this card. I want to ask which new packages should I get from one of the ftp sites and what is the correct procedure to install it.

microsoft riff, wave audio data

1997-08-17 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
Hello all, Does anyone know what program in linux can transform the Microsoft riff, wave audio data into .voc file? Thanks Anthony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: microsoft riff, wave audio data

1997-08-17 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
On Sun, 17 Aug 1997 13:59:30 +0800 A.D.Y. Cheng ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anyone know what program in linux can transform the Microsoft riff, wave audio data into .voc file? Sox. In debian package sox. It does not work. When I did sox max.wav max.voc, it gives an error message

job delay problem

1997-06-22 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
Hello all, I have a strange problem. After installing a new Debian system on my friend's system, there is something unusal happenes to his computer. When he types emacs in xterm or one of the six virtual consoles, it just stops and nothing happenes. He cannot kill this job by typing Ctrl-C. But

modem hang up

1997-06-21 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
Hello all, I am running PPP connecting to my ISP. However, after connecting, if I leave the connection idle for about half an hour, the modem will hang up itself which I do not really want. Can somebody point out to me how to turn off this feature? Thanks for help in advance ! Anthony -- TO

dselect problem

1997-06-21 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
Hello all, I am trying to install a Debian 1.3 system on my friend's computer. However, I encountered a serious problem which I do not know how to solve. There is no problem of installation. I setup ppp correctly and able to dail in to ISP. But when I try to upgrade the system using ftp of

maths c library

1997-06-17 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
Hello all, I know my question is not quite appropriate in this mailing list. But hopefully, someone can answer my question. I am looking for a maths C library which has the function which can find the inverse cumulative standard normal disturbtion. It seems that the standard maths.h does not

mgetty ppp

1997-05-28 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
Hello all, I have a problem with mgetty. I have put an entry in /etc/inittab to start mgetty. However, when I start the ppp process, it complains that kernel lacks PPP support which is wrong. I look at the log messages and it saids the device is busy. However, if I start mgetty by hand, I can

Re: mgetty ppp

1997-05-28 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: I have a problem with mgetty. I have put an entry in /etc/inittab to start mgetty. However, when I start the ppp process, it complains that kernel lacks PPP support which is wrong. I look at the log messages and it saids the device is busy.

rxvt

1997-05-01 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
Hello all, I have a strange problem. When I am using xterm, my backspace key acts like Ctrl-H which is fine. However, if I use rxvt, my backspace key gives me rubbish. I do not understand. I thought if one key works in xterm, it should has the same behaviour in rxvt. Can someone tell me how to