On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 10:41:17AM +0100, F Zimmermann wrote:
> >
> > I copied it to ~/.fetchmailrc and run the test option in fetchmailconf
> > (after sending a mail to an echo server). everything looks fine. Fetchmail
>
Hi,
I have a strange problem with fetchmail. It worked all fine but I was
wondering why i was not getting any mails in the past weeks. So I sent a
messeage from my account at university and I didn't recieve it. I usually
run fetchmail automatically when I go online with pon. this is my
fetchmail
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, rg2k1 wrote:
> Hi
>
> Have been trying my darndest to download Debian from the net. But evidently I
> don't understand how to do it. And can't find any "How to" references. I go to
> download with FTP/ USA and get the Parent list. ?? I'm a newbi to Linux, with
> a great in
On 7 Sep 2001, Pedro Sanchez wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to test a piece of software under Debian/testing that it's being
> distributed in .srpm format only. Is there any way under debian to
> "unpack" this thing so that I can attempt to compile it?
>
> Thank you,
>
> --
> Pedro
rpm???
Frank
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Timeboy wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I like to write a litte shell script that first makes a connection to my ISP
> and then runs fetchmail. This is no problem for me. But cause it takes some
> seconds till the connection to ISP is done, the script needs to wait for 5 or
> 10 seconds b
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, gerard robin wrote:
> hello,
> I am connected to internet with a modem and to download
> a distribution potato or woody spents 130 hours !
> In France potato exists on CD but woody not.
>
> Does woody exist on CD in a european country ?
> If yes, can someone give me the link.
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, it was written:
> with debian 2.2r0 and kernel 2.2.17 i'm able to mount and use my internal ide
> zip driver without any problems. when i installed 2.4.9 i got some errors.
>
> i've attached my dmesg, .config file, and error message. is there a known
> issue with the 2.4.9
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, LaGuardia, Kristofer S. wrote:
> I tried searching the lists, but couldn't find anything. I want to dual
> boot 2.2r17 with Windows 2000. All of the tutorial I have seen show both
> residing on the same hard drive. Well, I would like them on separate hard
> drives. The hard
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Nicolas Salvagno wrote:
> i have just question
>
> It is possible to recompile the zlib in order to create some gzipped files
> which are bigger than 2 Giga bytes ??
>
> something like that.
>
>
> #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64
> #define _LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> #define
On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Peter Christensen wrote:
> I'm still learning about the basics of Linux, so please excuse a very
> basic question: If I want to access a CD do I need to add a line to
> /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/cdrom /cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide
>
> and then under superuser type:
>
> mou
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, G. Crimp wrote:
>
> That might help you. Also, do NOT run fetchmail 5.3.3 as root.
>
Why not?
Frank
On 31 Aug 2001, charles verbeken wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is regarding a few questions regarding the installationa and the
> compatibility of debian OS. Will I be able to use my former office 98 files
> and other systems previously used i.e. ms paint etc.
>
> Thanks for reading.
Well first it'
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Gary Jones wrote:
> Okay, I'm now nearly ready to make the switch - a full, functional
> backup has been taken.
>
> What I haven't seen anywhere is what happens if one has packages
> which are later than what apt-get knows about. For example, I
> installed X from 2.1r4 but fo
hello a have a little problem. I scanned a DNA sequence and the OCR
software changed colums and rows. So instead of
aa bb cc
aa bb cc
I got this
aa aa
bb bb
cc cc
How can I change them back into the r
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Does anyone know of any free (or at least reasonably cheap) tools to
> assist in translation? I'm explicitly *not* looking for a program that
> attempts to fully translate texts, but rather something to help with some
> of the dirty work as I begin tr
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Martin Rowe wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Anyone know where I might be able to locate such a beast? I've been
> digging around on Google, but most links seem to be out of date -
> hardware firms now consultacy/software only, etc. There seem to be a few
> that sell RedHat[1] but I can
>
> G'day DanSV,
>
>
> I've heard good things about Progeny but haven't used it my self, the
> Progeny web-site says
As long as you are in America or your PC has american hardware e.g.
keyboard and so on. There was a test of differnt Linux Distributions in
the germa LinuxMagazin acouple of month
--
Dr. Frank Zimmermann
School of Bioscineces
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
Tel.: 44-121-414 2508
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On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, John Purser wrote:
> I was trying to download the Woody CD images and can't find them. I saw on
> a po
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, David Frischknecht wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to know how I could get my Zoom 56k PCI modem
> to work in Linux. Thanks a bunch.
>
> =
>
> David A. Frischknecht
Since most PCI modems are so called winmodems you might be unlucky.
Nevertheless a quick search at http://
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Naiara Nozella wrote:
>
> Is there already driver for the modem 3Com USRobotics 56Kbps
> V.90 Winmodem ISA model number 5683 ?
A search for winmodem US Robotics on http://www.google.com/linux will give
you plenty of links that might help you a lot.
>
>
> Na
>
On 21 Aug 2001, Guy Geens wrote:
> > "Peter" == Peter Bartosch wrote:
>
> >> > I've never heard why they come with slice 4 as the active
> >> partition.
>
> Peter> that is/was because of compatiblity-reasons to mac's
>
> No, there are special Mac formatted ZIP disks. I assume they hold a
>
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote:
>Happens now and then - cannot write to floppy. Then
> I try linuxconf (both - in X, in console mode), toggle
> the "read only" (in "File Systems") - nothing happens.
> Then I go: "chmod 777 /dev/fd0 - nothing happens. All
> the above as "root
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Markus Hansen wrote:
Hello Markus,
you want to read this http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren/
> smokez
> it always says fail to start x ...:-(
> when i write startx it has this white black dotted background with a
> hypersensitive or not working mouse at its bottom.
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, James A. Hilsenteger wrote:
> I made the plunge and completely turned my Dell Inspiron 3000 into a Debian
> box.
Good idea. I presume you are running Debian 2.2
>
> After a few false starts I have a working Debian computer using the
> Enlightened desktop. I'm unfortunate
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Roland Hinkley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am slowly getting my Debian System up and running.
>
> I do still have a problem that is driving me mad. Fetchmail works fine
> when I start it as a user. Unfortunately when it tries to start at boot
> I get the message that it has failed.
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Stephen Gran wrote:
>
> Don't know if this is much help, as mine is a USB connection, but I got it to
> work by enabling mass storage on USB, and also by enabling SCSI emulation for
> the device - you may need to do the same - this may be the origin of the
> bizarre
> mess
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Peter Bartosch wrote:
> > I've never heard why they come with slice 4 as the active partition.
>
> that is/was because of compatiblity-reasons to mac's
>
>
>
I thought it's got something to do with MS DOS/Win. There was a discussion
about ZIP drives on this list a couple
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm running potato with the 2.4.8-ac5 kernel (make-kpkg'd from the official
> source). My problems are the following:
>
> * I configured ppp, vfat, sound, etc as modules. On a regular terminal
> (customized to runlevel 2), the module
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