Re: New Smail, how to use offline?

1998-01-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Other thing is that it seems to do a DNS lookup on every from address, and since my from contains [EMAIL PROTECTED], this can't be done when I'm offline. So if I can get this fixed I think I can use the newest smail again... Any suggestions

Re: New Smail, how to use offline? *BIG WARNING*

1998-01-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I noticed that fetchmail got slow, but I didn't associate this with smail. But xconsole shows, that during fetchmail my local caching only nameserver learns hostnames. So despite turning of this feature, smail *does* check the DNS. I'll have

Re: New Smail, how to use offline?

1998-01-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: So despite turning of this feature, smail *does* check the DNS. I'll have another look at this and will probably file a bugreport. I don't recall if you said it's a dial-up connection, but I guess

Re: ethernet question

1998-01-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
G. Kapetanios [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: beacause of high network load and nothing to do with hardware. However I now get it not only in tty8 where syslog messages appear but in my working console . As a matter of fact while I write this message through telenet to my mail sever I get the

Re: date command strange output

1998-01-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Alexander Kushnirenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I type date I get somewhat unusual response: $ date Thu Jan 22 15:31:44 /etc/localtime 1998 What this /etc/localtime addition is all about? Is it normal? No, it is not. ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33

Re: New Smail, how to use offline?

1998-01-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Neilen Marais [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Basically, it seems to do a reverse lookup on the system connecting to it, but I think I sorted that out by putting allow_broken_hello, or something similar for localhost. This should only be neccessary if the mailreader does a broken HELO. Pine is one

Re: errors in hamm upgrade

1998-01-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
David Gaudine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: Yes. Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have a dot in them. The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read

Re: syslog and pipe router

1998-01-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Ian Keith Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to configure both my Debian machine and my Pipe 50 router to use syslog. I believe to have the Pipe 50 setup right according to the manual. I think linux isn't getting/accepting/writing the messages though. Syslog won't accept

Re: [Q] 56K US Robotics?

1998-01-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Vladislav Papayan x285 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would anyone know how to verify that I am connecting to Internet at 56K. I run Debian hamm + 2.1.78 kernel. What else do I need to do to get it going at 56K. And may be I am connecting at 56K -- but how do I verify it for sure (my modem is

Re: strange symlinks

1998-01-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Jens Christian Lisner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is that in /usr/include/linux there are only very few files, and /usr/include/asm is empty! So several headers were not able to find their files. These are in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32... Is it save to make the symlinks point

Re: inetd problems!!!

1998-01-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Christopher Jason Morrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok. All of that would be yes. And when I just run inetd by hand, it doesn't say anything, it works perfectly fine. Maybe I should make sure it removes all of its config files when I remove netbase, and then install again. I think that

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Iannarelli wrote: In pap-secrets I has to adjust the following line. * * This kind of entry would allow everybody access to your system without a password. So Joe down the street who knows a username but doesn't have his

Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?

1998-01-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Tim Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A friend of mine asked me if X-win was more efficient than Win95 on the same system? Depends on how you define efficient. I usually use different computers in my department, and the first thing I do is to install a X-Server for Win32, so I can use all the

Re: [Newbie) Thanks

1998-01-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Ian Bambury [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Other lists have keywords to allow people to filter postings. Any takers? This list has keywords as well. They are called subject. If you choose a good subject, the time to scan through a group will decline. I normaly skip messages about PCMCIA for

Re: libc compatibility in Debian 2.0

1998-01-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Martin Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will Debian 2.0 support compiling libc5 applications out of the box? I am curious because Red Hat decided not to support this... Yes. You will need the -altdev packages for libc5 compiling. Then you prepend /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/bin to the path and

Re: Whereis libXpm

1998-01-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So this would mean that i do have libXpm installed. THe problem is that when i try compile something (gnome in this case) it tell's me that it cannot find it ! I would appreciate any help here if that would be possible. Do you have the xpm4-dev or

Re: Debian 1.3 and Windows NT

1998-01-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Adam Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to run Linux on my computer at work, what we are running normally is Windows 95 OSR on a Ethernet Star configured LAN. The NIC is 3com Etherlink XL 100baseTX (running as 10BaseT). We normally attach to a Windows NT 4.0 server. I

Re: Help w/ PPP please please plase

1998-01-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
jhillma2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pon was the closest, but it kept erroring out. I know the problem is with the way the ppp.chatscript was setup, but I don't know what the format is (e.g., which lines tell it to wait for foo then send bar). Could somebody please tell me the syntax for the

Re: setting up xdm for runlevel 4

1998-01-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to setup xdm so that it s started upon entering runlevel 4 and stopped when dropping back down to runlevel 3. How does debian handle xdm?? It is done with symlinks in the /etc/rcrunlevel.d directories. I recommend the update-rc.d programm for

Re: svgatextmode - how to use

1998-01-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Irmund Thum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've installed svgatextmode with dselect but can't find any file or .conf. How can I use this utility? You can use dpkg -L svgatextmode to list the content of a package. All configuration files go to /etc/. So: dpkg -L svgatextmode [...] /etc

Re: ? ON AUTHORIZATION AND DIGEST

1998-01-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Noe' Franco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ARE YOU DEAF OR HAVE A DAMAGED KEYBOARD? Civilised people normaly don't yell. I normaly won't answer, but a small flame will do you good :-) WE'RE USING DEBIAN GNU LINUX 1.3 ON AUTHORIZATION : WHEN DOING THE .htaccess FILE CAN DIGEST BE USED? IS IT

Re: bad disk spot, and more troubles starting xdm

1998-01-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: for /etc/X11/config, and /etc/X11/XF86Config is sufficient that startx works as expected. however, no xdm is started on boot, and /etc/init.d/xdm start merely starts an idle process that does nothing. Check your

Re: Random loss of key bindings in fvwm2

1998-01-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Occasionaly, I seem to lose the key bindings under fvwm2, such as alt arrow to move between areas of a desktop. I really can't pinpoint this to any specific event, nor am I able to remedy the situation without completely quitting X and restarting

Re: Question re:Debian and ppp...

1998-01-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jan 9 14:38:04 ariel pppd [291]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Jan 9 14:38:04 ariel pppd [291]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 Jan 9 14:38:04 ariel pppd [291]: Exit Hmmm... ppp1 and ppp0? Oh, 2 different pppd sessions. /dev/ttyp0 is wrong, did

Re: new smail pkg (3.2.0.100-1.deb) problems

1998-01-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Damir J. Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: remote server (it is giving me a feedback with the number of mails), but my machine seems to be refusing the SMTP connection attempt by fetchmail ( error says something about 'SMTP connection refused by my_machine_name'). So, my guess is it has

Re: exmh questions become exmh questions

1998-01-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I saw a suggestion to use someething like @home.net for local users. The MUA's I've seen try to qualify the username and that dummy address might be the thing to use. Please send your suggestions, or I'll post if I get things improved a little more. This was my

Re: new smail pkg (3.2.0.100-1.deb) problems

1998-01-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Damir J. Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, my answers to smailconfig when first installing: 1-internet site (SMTP via TCP/IP) 2-visible name: inforamp.net 3-other visible names: none 4-smarthost: inforamp.net 5-use inforamp.net for all mail that doesn't have to be delivered locally

Re: Debian and Setups

1998-01-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: btw... does debian have a logo? (ive always liked RedHat's logo :) ) seeing as I work at the largest WinNT domain in the counbtryid like to put a BIG logo on my cubicle :) There is a fairly new official debian logo, but not the whole debian

Re: Debian and setups

1998-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am intereste din a system where I can install thingsthen go through the config files (not some X interface) and read the docs... and configure it There is no X configuration utility in debian (yet), but all packages configure during

Re: Unix qulifications...

1998-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why did this message come through into elm and then jed in three horrendously long lines? Was it the sender or receiver? Anything I can do about it? The sender. You can just execute the command for rebreaking the lines (if your mailreader has one).

Re: none

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
dave mallery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: could someone explain where i can find an explanation for the fields in /etc/ppp.options_out? Do a man pppd Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: ppp and ip-up

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: break my script; I haven't checked this out yet. Or is ip-up not run at all for incoming connections? Don't know. Why don't you check it out ? Put something like touch /tmp/ip-up.on.incoming.has.been.executed in ip-up and dial in. Ciao,

Re: a count-down timer?

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Fabio Olive Leite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ) on a specific day but I want to be able to say five minutes from now ) without a lot of hassle. I recall a program named leave that does exactly that. What I do not remember is wether there is a .deb pack for it. There is. hi leave

Re: some problems

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Volker Bauer) writes: On my system I don't find the Hisax modul. So how can I select it? With modconf there is no Hisax selection possible (no hisax.o under modules/ or elsewhere). So I tried to built the hisax.o out of the dummy.o to get Hisax available, but it doesn't

Re: Smail Question.

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin J Poorman) writes: this? has anyone have any idea how to fix it? ... I saw a post earlier on this list about a bug in Smail and inetd and they said to comment out the smail line in inetd (I configured it to run from Inetd) and HUP it ... How do you HUP it...(what is

Re: I need help, part 2.

1998-01-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Pierre DUPUIS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi everyone, Here is my situation : I have a working X server. I haven't got xtoolplaces, i have dl Ne3.04Gold for Linux Os.. I want't to conect myself on the internet I don't know how to do. Simple situation, simple question ! Simple aswer ?

Re: some problems

1998-01-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Volker Bauer) writes: 2)ISDN - I have a creatix 16.0 card. I wonder how can I load the HiSax driver? With modconf just the telesdriver seems loadable ( what does this mean:teles is old. use HiSax instead? Does this mean Debian uses automaically HiSax instead or that it's up

Re: Mail problems

1998-01-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The new drive is divided into 4 partitions. one is unused, one is mounted under /var, the next is mounted under /usr and the last is swap. ERR Error locking your mailbox. And the following error in my /var/log/mail.log file Jan 4 13:51:13 dragon

Re: Changing Netscape Bookmarks file

1998-01-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
G. Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 12:41:48PM -0500, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Now if it were only so easy to set the default home page... [...snip...] Somewhere in this list you will find a page that lets you indicate the URL of the page you wish to use as

Re: Changing Netscape Bookmarks file

1998-01-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I'm trying to do is to have my bookmarks file in the ~/public_html directory. As Netscape rewrites the file completely every time you change a bookmark, I can not have a simlink to the public_html directory. In the other way around, I

Re: HELP: dpkg

1997-12-31 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Albert Hurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried dpkg -i (and cp) on xisp_2_1-1(1).deb and got the following message: syntax error near unexpected token `xisp_2_1-1(1' What gives and how can I install the package. Any help very welcome for this newbie. I believe this is because

Re: activate VFS for kernel with module support - how ?

1997-12-31 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Fleureck) writes: I compiled a new kernel with module-support. It tries to boot and sais: kernel panic VFS: unable to mount fs Seems logical. I didn't activate the VFS-module. lsmod doesn't give it in the list neither. I must load something.o with insmod. But

Re: PPP Connection Works, Can't Surf...

1997-12-31 Thread Martin Bialasinski
G. H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can logon to the Debian box with WIN95, no problems... Debian assigns the WIN95 an IP address, no problems. BUT, the WIN95 machine isn't able to use DNS lookup or ping other computers here in the lab or anywhere. The only thing it CAN do however is

Re: Smail troubles

1997-12-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # mkaliases and the result is: /usr/sbin/mkaliases: unknown file type, , for /etc/aliases What is going wrong here? Some help, please. mkaliases is not necessary for a plain-text alias file. You caqn get rid of this

Re: Offline news access

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Daniel Gross wrote: But, NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! Hey it's not so different at all. Now that my eMail works fine, I also want to access to USENET News. Until now, I could read it online (using tin), but the german Telekom (our phone company) has horrible

Re: paths and su

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Tim Ferrell wrote: Nope, I double checked this to be sure. I have only aliases in my bashrc files (global, user, and root). I am inclined to think that this is being set by a default config file somewhere though, because of the inclusion of /usr/bin/X11 - I always refer

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Wed, 24 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: When I try to dial my ISP using /etc/ppp.chatscript in my ppp.log file I get this message: Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: ATDT7454342(a carrot goes here)M Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: Couldn't match host name or address - please try

Re: Is it possible to start X Windows in multiple V/C .

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Lazar Fleysher wrote: ~/startx -- :1 _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running Fatal server error: Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote: Shouldn't smailconfig automatically assume that hostname=localhost:foo:foo.domain.com should be added in /etc/smail/config? The only way to do this currently is to answer the Is this system known by any other names? question with Yes; localhost

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: ATDT7454342(a carrot goes here)M Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: Couldn't match host name or address - please try again(carrot goes here)M I think he is using pap, and pap-secrets doesn't match the hostname.

Re: loss of xauthority

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WHile I'm at it, should I be using something other than xhost? the fm's i rt 'd seem to suggest I should be using magic cookies instead. Yes. Here was a posting about this some time ago. I quote it below. Ciao, Martin From: Christian

Re: .bash_profile and TCP/IP

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Ian Keith Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1:In my .bash_profile I would like to initiate X everytime I login at the console but not when logging in remotely. I experience 2 problems. How about using xdm? It will give a X login at the console. Edit /etc/X11/config to

Re: PPP is still a disaster. :(. Please Help. :)

1997-12-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Thu, 25 Dec 1997, Timothy Hospedales wrote: Now, (having booted off the disk), I check my /etc/ppp/ and am disappointed to find that I have no scripts already there that I can customize. :(. So, I decited to try a program that was recommended to me by The standard way in debian to

Re: Perl dpkg

1997-12-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On 25 Dec 1997, William R Ward wrote: Does anyone have a solution to this? I'd like to install the basic Perl, and am fine with using .deb files for that, but wish to reserve the right to upgrade using perl -MCPAN -e shell and its nifty interface. You could use the equivs package from

Re: Grey Screen After Starting XF86

1997-12-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Krio wrote: I've configured XF86 (correctly I think) but evertime I try to start it with the X command, I get a grey screen and an X cursor. Nothing happens after that. What is wrong here? Is it not reading the config file? If so, how do I tell X where the config

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1997-12-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote: Ok. I've narrowed it down -- smail doesn't like mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- if I tell fetchmail to use procmail as the delivery agent, everything is fine, but otherwise sendmail seems to send itself into infinite loops trying to deliver to

Re: smail config for an ISP with PPP+SMTP+POP3 - How to do?

1997-12-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Daniel Gross wrote: I'm connecting to the Internet using an ISP with dynamic IP-adresses, and a SMTP/POP3 mail system. Now I want to send / get my mail with debian, but I'm not sure, which of the five standard smail options I should choose. Option 1, Internet-Site This

Re: Full Root

1997-12-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Anthony Landreneau wrote: My root partition, of 400 megs is full. The partition /usr and that of /var are all on their own partition. I have looked in every directory for a core file, and have scanned for viruses. There is no reason that the root partition should be

Re: displaying text on login

1997-12-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, dpk wrote: Look at the following files: /etc/issue /etc/issue.net /etc/motd There is manpage for issue and motd to help you out if you need it. And also edit /etc/init.d/boot: # Set EDITMOTD to no if you don't want /etc/motd to be editted automatically

Re: local mail is broken

1997-12-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, David Stern wrote: My $HOME/.forward looks like: --- |IFS=' 'exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #kotsya --- Quote this line using and it should be all right. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...

1997-12-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Neilen Marais wrote: I have upgraded to 5.004.04-3, and the problem still persists! Did you install perl-base 5.004.04-3 and then perl 5.004.04-3 ? There should be a predepends line in perl 5.004.04-3, but I have heard that this restriction doesn't work somehow. Ciao,

Re: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...

1997-12-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
BTW, the version of PERL I'm trying to install is 5.004.04-2. There is a perl 5.004.04-3 at ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/Incoming/DONE/ Maybe it will solve your problems. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with using a remote xserver

1997-12-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Ronald L. Zerbe Jr. wrote: uncompressed the file? Anyhelp? tired of this win95 Xserver that only gives u 30 minute connections. You should try the xserver from frontiertech called superx. The best thing I found from win32 machines. Usually also the first programm I

Re: IP Aliasing

1997-12-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our upstream provider is forcing us to change our Class C. Now, we need to run two blocks parallel for awhile. We're running Debian Linux (2.0.32) and I was wondering how to set up an IP address alias. i.e. we want our eth0 card to have two

Re: PPP problem (?)

1997-12-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Liran Zvibel wrote: but when I tried to use lynx, ftp or telnet they told me they couldn't find host. (when I configured XISP I included the two DNS addresses my ISP use). Am I missing something? Hi, You have to use the ip-up and ip-down scripts from the xisp package as

Re: CGI Error

1997-12-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Paul Miller wrote: Alright, this is really weird. After adding those lines it ran fine and now it runs w/o those lines.. maybe my permissions were wrong, but I'm sure they were 755 root/root. hmm.. Anyhow, now it only runs in the /cgi-bin and not the user's

Re: CONT2:Debian Installation Problem, PLEASE HELP!!!

1997-12-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Liran Zvibel wrote: I tried to configure PPP/SLIP (my ISP is IBM). When I try to use minicom to connect it does make the sound but that is the last thing it does with the modem, I mean that, I see no CONNECT message nor anything else. I don't see any prompt from the

Re: CGI Error

1997-12-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Paul Miller wrote: I can run other cgi scripts, so that can't be the problem... You didn't tell us, if you have accepted our advice to take a look at perl's idiot's guide to solving cgi problems. Anyway, change the script like this: #!/usr/bin/perl open (OUT,

Re: command logging

1997-12-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: As much as possible. Hmmm accountingI'll have to look into that. Is there another way to log the commands AND options ? Maybe you could wrap the users's loginsession into script from the bsdutils package. Ciao, Martin -- TO

Re: Standard header files.

1997-12-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Christopher R. Barry wrote: I've installed gcc and all the packages that dselect recommends to go with it but whenever I try to compile anything, like the kernel, I just get a bunch of error messages about missing *.h header files like stdio.h. Shouldn't gcc come with

Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?

1997-12-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, bleach wrote: Humm, appreciate the suggestion as to the cause. It does look as though it could be related to visualBell. The only problems are that by default the visualbell is off, the xterm menu indicates that it is off, I set the resource off in .Xresources but the

Re: CGI Error

1997-12-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Paul Miller wrote: I didn't write this script and don't know perl, so I don;t know what is wrong... As someone pointed out: the Idiot's Guide To Solving CGI Problems at www.perl.com is great. If you want to use CGI's scripts written in perl, I strongly advice you to read

Re: Mail problem - smail

1997-12-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: Well, my conclusion is that you've done something to the basic smail satellite option - specifically, your /etc/smail/directors file has something in it besides the smartuser director. What you appended of your configuration isn't enough to tell.

Re: Mail problem - smail

1997-12-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: As long as the MX wasn't set up, I got a reply from the mailsystem (DNS lookup failed for internet-treff.uni-koeln.de) if I tried to send mail from the system. The same for mails to the system using the MX address ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?

1997-12-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, bleach wrote: I also use xterm*reverseVideo:yes but there is one thing that happens that really bugs me... If an error occurs in vi when on an xterm the reverse video gets screwed up. Background seems to switch to white while the forground remains white. Makes terminal

Re: PPP and Linux

1997-12-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I have installed Linux, and think that it is really great! There are a couple of things that I would like to do. Firstly, I would like to be able to get my Linux side to answer the phone, and if the user logs in OK, create a PPP connection so

Re: PPP modem connection.

1997-12-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I´ve been trying to connect ppp using XISP and after giving the ppp garbage characters (and clicking on continue) it disconnects the line. I think I have PPP installed correctly, but how can I be sure? (I do connect with the same hardware under

Re: command logging

1997-12-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: Is there a way to log all commands typed by someone ? The programm you need is script. It is in bsdutils.deb . Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

Re: Mail problem - smail

1997-12-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
a line into your .pinerc like customized-hdrs=From: Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Mail problem - smail

1997-12-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Use the option satellite system. No - DON'T. Satellite is useful if and only if all the usernames of any account that will ever receive any mail are either mentioned in /etc/aliases or match the usernames on your smarthost. Among other things, the satellite setup makes using fetchmail

Re: YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain Watkins

1997-12-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Ian Gill Watkins wrote: [ Could you please configure your mailreader to break line at 76 characters, thanks ] I have started receiving this message since installing the remainder / most of the Debian system. The domain on my home net is called watkins (original huh?).

Re: freqs of video mode

1997-12-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Pere Camps wrote: What do I change in order to have a 34 line display at 75 Hz? If I change the vga= at lilo to the 34 line display I get 60 Hz, where I can see some flicker. You need svgatextmode. I run the console in 128x48 @ 75 Hz. You have to specify a

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: We've been having a logo contest for a long time. It failed to generate a consensus on a logo for the project. It got to the point where people were clamoring for me to hire a commercial artist and get the job done. I went over the candidates in the

Re: PPP problems

1997-12-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Ian Gill Watkins wrote: I have been firing up Minicom to dial and log on, then CTRL-AQ to drop out of Minicom without reseting the modem (as described in the PPP- HOWTO) and then entering a command thus: pppd -d -detach /dev/ttyS0 38400 again from the PPP-HOWTO. The

Re: TkRat 1.0.5-1 and packages in general

1997-12-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, John Spence wrote: One of the required dependencies for the program tkrat_1.0.5-1.deb is the much mentioned libc6. Now I know that this isn't a dependancy for nothing but I also know that I had this program running under RH4.2 which doesn't have libc6. I don't know

Re: allow mount to normal user

1997-12-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Adam Klein wrote: i want to allow normal user to use mount for floppy and cdrom. because i dont want to run apps in root account... what should i do. One of the options you can specify to mount is the 'user' option which allows ordinary users to mount a

Re: diald cached webpages

1997-11-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote: David Stern wrote: (byte comparison, and I've looked at the tarballs with tar, .dsc with editor), I've tried changing the directory name, giving the files executable permission, I'm running as root, in /usr/src/.. , and I'm just about out of ideas.

Re: fetchmail problem

1997-11-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Pann McCuaig wrote: Sometimes when I connect to my ISP and run fetchmail, everything appears to be normal, but the downloaded messages are _NOT_ appended to my mail spool, and, fortunately, they are also not deleted from the mail spool on the ISP. I see no error

Re: diald cached webpages

1997-11-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote: Isn't there some kind of cache software, though? I don't know what it's called, but it caches webpages locally, and won't querry the remote server unless the page isn't in the cache? What is it called? Would it work? You want a proxy server.

Re: Various configuration issues

1997-11-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Michael wrote: My first configuration issue is installing Netscape Communicator. On my previous install I used netscape's install script but I'd like to do it via dpkg so the software will be registered with the system. I already have the communicator tar file, I need

Re: diald cached webpages

1997-11-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote: One problem which I'm encountering right now is that wwwoffle wants glibc6, and I've been taking the moderate approach to upgrades, i.e.: the latest stable. So, I'm thinking of running a squid version since wwwoffle requires glibc6, but there's a

Re: fixing an installtion screw-up

1997-11-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Shaleh wrote: When I installed bo I told it I was on a network. I am not. Now lprng will not print becuase it can not find my machine and I get a SIOCARDT error on boot. How do I go back to be a stand alone machine? Hi, look into /etc/init.d/network Simply set a #

Re: yet another ppp problem

1997-11-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On 27 Nov 1997, Larry G. Gariepy Jr. wrote: Thanks again for your help. I did notice one small problem. When I tried to telnet, I could reach one network at school, but not any others. I could reach just about anywhere in the country except the servers at school that I am not dialing

Re: How can I use PPP connection?

1997-11-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Adalberto da Silva wrote: I'm using xisp to dial and set my internet connection under Linux. The internet provider from my university uses dinamic IP assignment and I can easily get a 'socket' for my W95 applications: I run a script that dials, I put my username and

Re: Help! Xload has gone missing...

1997-11-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Adrian Monk wrote: For some strange reason I am suddenly unable to load any window managers. Error messages tell me that the system cannot find Xload. Nor can I, either on my box, or on the distribution disk, or at the Debian ftp site. Any one know what Xload is and where

Re: pop3 problem

1997-11-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Michael Roark wrote: Could not log in to the POP3 server. The server responded: maillock: '/var/spool/pop/username.pop' You did remove the lock, didn't you? And the problem persisted? Did you try: telnet localhost pop-3 user username pass password list retr 1 quit

Re: pop3 problem

1997-11-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: But with your homemade compilation you have different problems now. Maybe you could reinstall qpopper and try again? I was thinking about the qpopper debianpackage of cause. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: [SOLVED] Annoying boot-up messages

1997-11-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Pann McCuaig wrote: Bingo! I had added a custom keymap. Added the appropriate lines to boot.dpkg-new, mv'ed it to boot, rebooted, and Voila! Thanks much. FYI, normaly you only have to change /etc/kbd/default.map. No need to change /etc/init.d/boot. Ciao, Martin

Re: pop3 problem

1997-11-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Michael Roark wrote: ERR- maillock: '/var/spool/pop/user.pop' Is there such a file? If you telnet into a pop server, it will move the mailbox /var/spool/mail/username to /var/spoll/pop/username.pop (and leave a 0 Byte file in /var/spool/mail. After quiting pop, it should

Re: permissions and ownership

1997-11-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
I dug up an old message which might be interesting as well. Ciao, Martin --- On Jun 21, Gernot Bauer wrote Hi, I recently upgraded my Xfree setup to 3.3 from unstable. But now I seem to have some problems.

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