Re: Gnus: alles QP schreiben

2001-05-19 Thread Frederick Page
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) wrote: Nach langen Diskussionen hier habe ich mich überzeugen lassen, dass dies die in de.ALL gern gesehene Variante ist, und deswegen habe ich die Gnus-Maintainer darum gebeten, das (8bit) als Default einzustellen. War das falsch? Nein, das war sicherlich

Re: Gnus: alles QP schreiben

2001-05-19 Thread Frederick Page
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Wiehl) wrote: Ich habe jetzt aber (setq mm-use-ultra-safe-encoding t) in ~/.gnus.el geschrieben, und es scheint zu wirken. Keine Ahnung, ob dadurch etwas anderes kaputt geht -- Benutzung auf eigene Verantwortung. ;-) Scheint auch bei mir zu wirken, hab gerade in eine

Re: Outlook, die Schweinepest des Internets

2001-05-19 Thread Frederick Page
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wilfried Kramer) wrote: Sind doch 4 Zeilen, ohne Kamm gesendet. Wo siehst Du das Problem? Ich scheine seltsamerweise der Einzige zu sein, der Kamm sieht. Das sieht schwer danach aus, als ob das Problem auf meiner Seite läge, bzw. vor'm Bildschirm sitzt :-( Gnus warnt mich

Re: Hitting web site consistently dropped ppp connection?

1999-03-22 Thread Frederick Page
Hi John, you wrote on Sun, Mar 21 1999: Sounds likely, but any modem that does so is defective. The modem should ignore +++ unless it is preceded and followed by a pause. It normally does, but IMHO the pause is not required. Anyway, the default value (US-Robotics/3Com) in Register S02 is 043

Re: apt-get question

1999-03-20 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Shawn, you wrote on Sat, Mar 20 1999: In hamm, it was such a task to install a package in dselect because it rolls through every single package on the dist. Does slink resolve this problem and more specifically, is apt-get the resolution? You may have overlooked it: there was an apt in the

Re: Exim wierdness

1999-02-22 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Jim Foltz, you wrote on Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 09:48:00PM -0500: I am experiencing some wierdness with exim. I run fetchmail and download say 30 messages, but only some of them show up in my mail box. (some filters snipped) You did not specify, what to do with the messages, that *don't* fit

Re: pine mutt

1999-02-22 Thread Frederick Page
Hi John Galt, you wrote on Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 09:13:38PM -0700: I dunno about scoring--I rarely use the function, but I re-migrated back to TRN when I realized that SLRN had no killfiles, what I consider to be an essential tool in USENET. You might want to read /usr/doc/slrn/SCORE_FAQ.gz, I

Re: CRASH: filesystem went read only

1999-02-22 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Richard Harran, you wrote on Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 05:14:30PM +: I just had a huge panic, when my file system 'spontaneously' turned read only! man tune2fs Your device has reached the time between two file-system checks. Wait until the checks are finished, it should become rw again after

Re: pine mutt

1999-02-21 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Steve Lamb, you wrote on Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 09:22:34PM -0800: *WHY!?* Anyone familiar with mutt would know that it was modeled after a newsreader, SLRN! So why contribute to bloat by having those two functions in the same program, especially mutt, when one can have mutt and slrn with

Re: pine mutt

1999-02-20 Thread Frederick Page
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 11:05:56AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: problems using mutt to send mail to a lot of people at once. Pine's way of handling the addressbook and aliases works better for me. It's the other way around here: I used Pine for email and news, was content about the way it handled

Re: Smail - Exim: If smail works, why change?

1999-02-20 Thread Frederick Page
On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 11:54:31AM -0500, Jim Foltz wrote: Hi Jim, Is there any compelling reason to switch from smail to exim? How about this: Ease of configuration with Exim, and Procmail (with it's cryptic recipes) becomes obsolute, because Exim has already very powerful filtering

Cnews: potential minor bug

1999-02-15 Thread Frederick Page
Hi all, experimented a little on which news-server to use: cnews or inn. Finally decided for inn and removed (not purged) cnews via dselect. Only problem was the cron-job (/etc/cron.d/cnews) remained, was not de- activated and caused lots of emails, because the pathes and files were (of

Exim and Mailagent?

1999-02-13 Thread Frederick Page
Hi all, I'm getting email and news from my UUCP-provider, have setup exim, inn and pine, tried to run Mailagent (instead of procmail), set up my ~/.forward according to the mailagent-docs to the following line (including the quotation marks): | exec /usr/lib/mailagent/filter -o

Re: exim and uucp

1999-02-11 Thread Frederick Page
I have exim and uucp working here. In the main configuration settings: Thank you very, very much for your extremely helpful exim-config. What can I say? (Look at my mailer!) IT WORKS !!! I really appreciate your help! Kind regards Frederick

No such site (UUCP-News)

1999-02-10 Thread Frederick Page
Hi all, I'm getting Email and News via UUCP, email works (can read and send), I get news, can also write, but they don't get sent :-( When I do uupoll downtown I get no such site and only receive news. I use uucp, exim, inn and pine, all from the original Debian distribution CD 2.0

Re: apt for hamm

1999-02-07 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Chris, you wrote on: 06 Feb 99 at 19:13 (received 07.02.99) about : _apt for hamm_ Can someone tell me where I can find the version of apt that works for hamm? On the first CD in directory /tools You'll need to install it with dpkg -i Afterwards dselect will have the additional

exim: socket bind () failed

1999-02-05 Thread Frederick Page
Hi all, sorry to bother you again with another exim-question, I already RTFM, also several howtos but could not find anything (/var/logs/exim/mainlog), everything seems to work, but those messages keep popping up: 1999-02-04 23:43:16 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any) failed:

Re: Having Apt save packages in local hierarchy.

1999-02-05 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Christopher, you wrote on: 04 Feb 99 at 15:53 (received 05.02.99) about : _Having Apt save packages in local hierarchy._ Whenever Apt fetches new packages, is there a way for it to save them? Yes, I believe so. Sorry, I don't know the exact syntax, but remember to have read it with

Re: exim: socket bind () failed

1999-02-05 Thread Frederick Page
Hi George, you wrote on: 04 Feb 99 at 17:01 (received 05.02.99) about : _Re: exim: socket bind () failed_ Looks like more than one exim is running or tries to run. Do you happen to have exim running as both a daemon and in inetd? Do you have a cron job that runs the queue that tries to

Re: How to upgrade sendmail ?

1999-02-05 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Ryszard, you wrote on: 05 Feb 99 at 15:26 (received 05.02.99) about : _How to upgrade sendmail ?_ Could anyone explain me, how to upgrade in Debian sendmail ? I'm using Debian 2.0 and I would like to upgrade my sendmail to version 8.9. How can I do that having only sendmail's sources? I

Re: Goodbye, people!

1999-02-04 Thread Frederick Page
Hi kaynjay, you wrote on: 02 Feb 99 at 20:11 (received 03.02.99) about : _Re: Goodbye, people!_ will get there. What I do have is a system that doesn't crash every five seconds, it is fast and very configurable I guess what I'm trying to say is if I can work with this O/S anyone can. It

no permission for rnews

1999-02-04 Thread Frederick Page
Hi all, finally got exim up and running with uucp. Everything seemed to work: I received email, even could send it. But when I got news via uucp, the uupoll gave me error-messages and sent the following emails to root: -- schnipp ---

exim: I get mail but cannot send

1999-02-03 Thread Frederick Page
Hi all, after trying to configure sendmail (pain in the neck) to work with uucp, I gave up on sendmail and (thanks for the exim-thread) tried exim. Now this really went smooth, I also read some of the docs and had it set up quite nicely. Wow, *this* is really a difference. Haven't set up

Re: exim and uucp

1999-02-03 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Carey, you wrote on: 03 Feb 99 at 23:51 (received 03.02.99) about : _Re: exim: I get mail but cannot send_ My responses are located with cryptic names in /var/spool/exim/input, obviously ready to be delivered but don't seem to get transmitted to my uucp provider. /var/log/exim/* should

dpkg-source

1999-02-02 Thread Frederick Page
Hi all, I was wondering about the following. I login as root, then cd /usr/src then dpkg-source -x /mnt/cdrom/(...)/bla.dsc. I customize the source and/ or compiling-options and issue cd bla and debian/rules binary in order to get a package bla.deb in /usr/src. Then dpkg -i bla.deb and

Re: Silly question

1999-02-02 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Daniel, you wrote on: 01 Feb 99 at 04:13 (received 01.02.99) about : _Silly question_ I'm sorry if this is a really silly question, but I was wondering where one goes to get apt-get and the necessary utilities to upgrade a hamm system to slink via ftp? It was already on my distribution

Re: dpkg-source

1999-02-02 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Remco, hi Ben, you wrote on: 02 Feb 99 at 09:22 (received 02.02.99) about : _Re: dpkg-source_ It will upgrade the package. Does apt not respect packages that have been held? It does, so that's indeed a way to enforce your own packages. Thanks for pointing that out :-) Thank you

Re: kernel source

1999-01-29 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Robert, you wrote on: 28 Jan 99 at 15:06 (received 28.01.99) about : _kernel source_ I just installed Debian Linux and can't find the kernel source code anywhere. There is no /usr/src directory on my system. What package do I need to install? Thanks, Enter dselect, press space, then

Re: netscape

1999-01-29 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Brian, you wrote on: 28 Jan 99 at 15:10 (received 28.01.99) about : _netscape_ I've run into this before, but can't remember how to solve it. When I try to run netscape (downloaded from netscape's site - v4.5), I get the following error: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' You can either

Re: netscape

1999-01-29 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Brian, you wrote on: 29 Jan 99 at 10:16 (received 29.01.99) about : _RE: netscape_ The only thing I can find on netscape's ftp site is the linux20_glibc2 version under: ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.5/english/unix/unsupported/ This is the version, which will run without

Re: boot messages/logging

1999-01-25 Thread Frederick Page
Hi tony, you wrote on: 24 Jan 99 at 22:05 (received 25.01.99) about : _boot messages/logging_ I'm at a loss to find the way to get all the boot messages logged to a file. Is there a recommended procedure or configuration file change that I can make? After boot, just type dmesg |

Re: Re-Partition Ext2?

1999-01-24 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Bob, you wrote on: 23 Jan 99 at 16:24 (received 24.01.99) about : _Re: Re-Partition Ext2?_ Partition Magic 4.0 will do this. I found that after doing so it was necessary to boot from a floppy and run lilo. Thank you very much for this info, although I was hoping for a non- commercial

Re-Partition Ext2?

1999-01-23 Thread Frederick Page
Hi all, sorry for the probably dumb question: is there any tool to re-partition a HD formatted with ext2 and without loosing data? Kind of a fips (DOS-util) or the commercial tool Partition Magic? I just wanted to create another small linux partition for testing. Thanks and kind regards

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-22 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Jean, you wrote on: 20 Jan 99 at 13:14 (received 21.01.99) about : _Re: dualboot linux and NT?_ That's exactly the problem, you need to have a FAT16-partition within the first 1024 cylinders of the first harddrive. The so-called C: (speaking in DOS-/Win-terms). This is clearly not

Re: debian installation

1999-01-22 Thread Frederick Page
Hi rod, you wrote on: 21 Jan 99 at 23:15 (received 22.01.99) about : _debian installation_ my system started blinking every half second. It was locked up so I = rebooted. Same thing. Now, I have selected the packages for home = Try the following: install Debian, after reboot only

Thank you!

1999-01-20 Thread Frederick Page
Hi good fellas, I just wanted to thank everybody who helped me. I now got netscape running just fine, re-compiled the kernel (even successfully) :-) and have a nice and clean system. Kind regards Frederick

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-20 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Tom, you wrote on: 18 Jan 99 at 15:30 (received 19.01.99) about : _Re: dualboot linux and NT?_ WinNT can not boot directly from a slave disk, as far as I know. Well, it *can* boot from any disk and any partition, no matter what. It needs to have it's boot files on the active partition

Re: xconfig, menuconfig

1999-01-19 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Ossama, you wrote on: 17 Jan 99 at 20:17 (received 18.01.99) about : _Re: xconfig, menuconfig_ kernel-package and kernel-source are two different things. Sorry, I confused those :-( Since I'm still working on UUCP with Linux, I'm running NT (sorry) right now. Have copied your

Re: Netscape4.5 cannot find libraries

1999-01-18 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Torsten, you wrote on: 17 Jan 99 at 20:16 (received 17.01.99) about : _Re: Netscape4.5 cannot find libraries_ $ /sbin/ldconfig -p | grep 'libc5.*X' Thank you very much, the problem was the older netscape. I will get the glibc version and try again. Learned a lot from your info

Re: xconfig, menuconfig

1999-01-18 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Ossama, you wrote on: 16 Jan 99 at 22:13 (received 17.01.99) about : _Re: xconfig, menuconfig_ There are no such packages. They are Makefile targets. Go into your Linux source directory and do make xconfig or make menuconfig. It does not work, I still get the message no target. I

Re: Warning on mounting partitions: automate e2fsck?

1999-01-18 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Carl, you wrote on: 16 Jan 99 at 22:33 (received 17.01.99) about : _Warning on mounting partitions: automate e2fsck?_ Why can't the same process (init?) that autochecks the root partition, just automatically check the others instead of warning me? You might want to read man fstab.

Re: Netscape4.5 cannot find libraries

1999-01-17 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Torsten, you wrote on: 16 Jan 99 at 09:28 (received 17.01.99) about : _Re: Netscape4.5 cannot find libraries_ I also have serious trouble with Netscape 4.5 (from ftp.netscape.com, only version available for Linux). I run the kernel 2.0.34 First try installing the xlib6 and xpm4.7

xconfig, menuconfig

1999-01-17 Thread Frederick Page
Hi *.* I'm linux newbie and guess this is kind of a dumb question, but I cannot find menuconfig or xconfig (trying to make the config-files in order to compile my kernel). (Running hamm, 2.0.34) Which package do I need to install? RTFM-answer welcome, but please name the man or howto :-)

Re: xconfig, menuconfig

1999-01-17 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Ossama, you wrote on: 16 Jan 99 at 22:13 (received 17.01.99) about : _Re: xconfig, menuconfig_ There are no such packages. They are Makefile targets. Go into your Linux source directory and do make xconfig or make menuconfig. Thank you very much for your information, I will try so