Mark W. Blunier wrote:
started with. Now I want to add some public groups
and fill the news spool and send out messages using
suck. I would like to do this in my ip-up script,
but I haven't figured out how this is done.
There's a couple of things you'll need to do. You'll have to add
I recently switched from smail to exim as my MTA in the hopes of getting
something a bit easier to configure and which can more easily handle spam
blocking. However, I've run into some problems getting exim to process my
local, user-to-user mail.
I'm using the bogus domain name of
I recently switched from smail to exim as my MTA in the hopes of getting
something a bit easier to configure and which can more easily handle spam
blocking. However, I've run into some problems getting exim to process my
local, user-to-user mail.
I'm using the bogus domain name of
I'm presently running my system with smail. What I'd like to do is
to convert to an easier to configure and more capable MTA, which I
believe is exim (correct me if I'm wrong:-).
However, I'm in a catch-22. dselect/dpkg won't allow me to remove
smail because so many packages depend on it.
I've got to get a new modem for a Debian machine. My requirements
are that it be one of the Rockwell 56k standard ones, of course, that it
do fax, and I'd like it to be able to handle voice. What I'd really
love is to set up a voice mailbox system on my Debian box.
So I was wondering, is
What techniques do folks use for editting web pages? I use
Netscape's Composer for editting and would like to let a couple of users
edit the files under /var/www.
I've thought about making /var/www group writeable (right now it's
only group read and executable), but I was worried that may
I was wondering what sort of arguments folks would give for selecting
Linux over FreeBSD. This is for a production server in an educational
environment. The arguments used against Linux were that it was buggy
and goes through too many changes. I, of course, countered those to a
degree and my
I'm running Netscape 4.04 with bo and have been having some trouble
getting Netscape's internal mail to work. I've set Netscape's preferences
to use its internal movemail function and have chmod'ed my
/var/spool/mail/redwards subdirectory to 01777 like Netscape recommends.
However, I still
Is there a *.deb package to install the new 4.04/4.0x Netscape
Communicator? The only one I see in bo is for the ancient 3.01 version.
Thanks in advance.
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While running X, Debian blanks my screen just fine. However, what I'd
like to do is to convince Debian to handle the green power-saving
functions of my video system. This functions well under Win95 and OS/2, but
for some reason doesn't seem to work with Debian.
Could someone suggest the
On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
UN*X doesn't use the ^M character at the end of each line. How can I
convert between formats? And is there a way to do it automatically when
a file is copied to/from a dos filesystem?
I don't think there's a way to convert automatically -- thank
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
It's getting kind of loud here. I've been thinking of splitting the
debian-user list into several lists:
I know what you mean. Just this week I turned off a couple of other
general Linux lists I was subscribed to simply because I was dealing with
too
On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
Strange, when I look all I see is an empty directory at
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.02/4.02b7/english/unix
It's only on some ftp servers. I found it on ftp25; others gave me the
same empty directory as what you found.
Regards,
A third idea, make a debian-news. A few debian people put together some
pages each week summarizing the latest with debian.
Couldn't debian-announce be used for this?
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On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
Can dosemu be installed if DOS is not installed?
Yes. I run with nothing but ext2 partitions on this machine and have
dosemu installed. However, as I understand it (read: not sure 'cause I
haven't messed with it much), fdos' redirection of ext2
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Pann McCuaig wrote:
What I'm looking for is the absolute minimum /etc/smb.conf that will
allow me to share a directory, say /tmp, on the Linux box with the
Windows box.
Ahh, another person who despite RTFMing needs a good example -- sounds
like me! :-) BTW, I found my
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, James D. Freels wrote:
do not show up automatically with dselect. Apparently, bo-updates is
not intended to be in the dselect tree unless the user incorporates it
by hand?
I've wondered about what exactly bo-updates is too, along with
if/when/how one should install
I have a question about the bo-updates subdirectory. Now, I know that bo
is supposed to be stable and relatively unchanging, but what is the purpose
of the bo-updates subdirectory?
I take it that it contains updates to the bo packages, but how can one
integrate this into deselect, or even
On 20 Jul 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
Does anyone else use suck+inn to get news offline, in that case I
would be happy if anyone could drop me a hint on how.
I'm using suck and inn and things are working pretty well from what I've
seen. I just use the /usr/bin/get-news command as
On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, jr wrote:
why Debian recomend install smail and not sendmail?
I think it's primarily because smail is so much easier to configure. I
originally set up smail and found it quite easy to deal with. Just this
week, however, I had to install sendmail to get a particular
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Curt Howland wrote:
I got the modification of the var/spool/mail directory part,
but not this other thing. Maybe someone will remember what it was.
You can find info like this in /var/lib/dpkg/info. It contains a wealth
of info (fun grepping:-) on everything that's
On 15 Jul 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote:
I am using suck (version 3.3.2-1) to download my news, but I am
not satisfied with the speed this download takes place.
FWIW, I've noticed the same slow transfers via suck over a 28.8k link.
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On 13 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good idea. I also still think that the install script should offer Dial up
an ISP and use dynamic IP as a separate menu item. Selecting this would
bring up a menu in which Would you like to set PPP up like Win95 DUN
would be one of the choices.
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Matthew C. Thompson wrote:
so what's the fix for adduser? it's not working for me at all. i am
running 1.3.1 (installed 1.3 and update on a daily basis with dselect).
As far as I know, the adduser in 1.3.1 hasn't been fixed for some strange
reason. However, if you grab
On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Shaleh wrote:
I am impressed. And most of it was civil help and questions.
Don't worry, the hostile and rude answers are given to you later. grin
One last question -- where is the best and most inexpensive place to get
a Debian CD distribution.
Check out
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Curt Howland wrote:
Downloaded and installed Netscape, excelent install, I commend
the writer of that package.
Anyway, it won't send mail. I get FCC file not found.
Did you catch the little blurb at the end of dselect's Netscape install
which explains what you need to
I've been playing around with masquerading (which has been going
surprisingly smoothly -- great!:-). Well, I've got enough confidence in
this that I want to have it come up whenever the machine is up.
Being the Linux newbie that I am, I was wondering there the most
appropriate place to add
Could someone tell me what process is putting what appears to be the
output of a uname -a at the top of /etc/motd?
I delete that regularly since IMHO it doesn't look very pretty, but try
as I might, Linux seems to have more patience at putting it there then I do
at removing it. :-)
On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
when I type adduser username in Debian 1.3.1, it only copies to first
line of each of the /etc/skel files what is wrong?
This has been acknowledged by others as a bug (but I'm not sure if it's
been officially reported).
Regards,
On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Gerald V. Livingston lI wrote:
I still don't understand the reasoning behind moving hardware
functions into software.
It's simple Gerald, it saves a few pennies on manufacturing costs.
Maybe I'm paranoid (-; but it all seems like a plot to force consumers to
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
how well does Debian upgrade? For example from 1.2 to 1.3, etc?
Well, I only have experience going from 1.2 to 1.3. But as a basic Linux
newbie I didn't have any troubles at all. I was pleasantly shocked at how
smooth it went. I did my upgrade over
Does anyone have fetchmail properly set up in syslog.conf? If so, could
you post the appropriate lines from syslog.conf here please?
I've read the man pages for both syslog.conf and for fetchmail, have
tried the example for fetchmail that is given in its man page, but other
than
Has anyone who is using suck noticed that suck's sucknewsrc file
sometimes gets deleted? I've noticed this happening several times and of
course suck 'breaks' when it finds the file not there.
I've fixed (kludge alert!) this by adding a couple of script lines to
make and restore a backup
On 6 Jul 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
Note that there is an *unofficial* Debian mc-4.0 binary provided by me
available on the regular Midnight Commander FTP sites, which can be
installed within the regular Debian package management.
Paul, for someone who is ignorant of the regular MC ftp sites
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Keith Knipschild wrote:
Also I heard good things about Midnight Commander, Where
can I get a Linux version ?
Midnight Commander is a regular debian package. You should be able to
fire up the dselect program and select it and have it installed. The *.deb
archive of mc
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Alex Fan wrote:
Where can I find a Debian Distribution? Is it avilable on CDs or just
from download?
Both. You can find info for downloading from www.debian.org, you can ftp
it from ftp.debian.org or one of its mirrors, and if you want it on CD,
check out www.lsl.com
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, jim wrote:
I'd like to have a special icon bitmap for when rxvt-xpm is
minimized. Read the man page and nothing. Any ideas??
I believe this is done in your window manager. I run fvwm2 and
accomplished this by adding a line of:
Style rxvtIcon xterm-linux.xpm
into
I'm running suck and INN in a local news setup off from my ISP. This all
seems to be working fine, with this one exception.
After running suck's get-news command to fetch my news, the following
error message gets repeated over and over for about five minutes:
Malfunction, Unable to post
Odd, I still can't figure this one out. After reinstalling Win95 and
triple checking its setup I'm thinking that the problem must be on Linux's
end. Since it's been a while since I brought this issue up, I'll quote a
lot (my apologies) to refresh your memory.
/etc/init.d/network:
#!
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
installed it on, I've decided to repartition and make seperate partitions
for /, /usr, /tmp, /usr/local, and /var (are there any others it might
be usefull to make seperate partitions out of?).
The FAQ addresses this pretty well. I'd also
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
First, thanks for all your info and help...
So, this table is saying that IP address 192.168.1.3 (your win95 machine?)
is at the machine with ethernet card 00:C0:26:80:1E:73
Yes, 192.168.1.3 (horeb) is the Win95 and that is its ethernet card.
I
I wanted to play around with DuhDraw, an ANSI editor, and got the
complaint that it wanted the library libcurses.so.1 which isn't on my
system. Looking on sunsite and different places I'm unable to locate that
library. Recompiling duhdraw just gives me a segmentation fault and a core
dump.
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Britton wrote:
I have heard that this is a problem with USR
Sportsters and that there is an init string type fix.
This isn't a fix. USR still has the problem, the symptoms of which are
exactly as you describe. The init string fix is more of a kludgy
work-around that
I have mgetty set up and I was wondering if it was possible to log all of
the input that one user enters or if there was a way to tee the data
to/from that terminal to one of the virtual terminals. Is something like
this possible?
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I've been happily running fvwm2 for the past few weeks but one thing
seems a bit strange. I've modified my Xsession file to open up the rxvt
windows and a couple of other things (e.g. xarclock, xbiff, etc.) that I
want opened when X starts.
The problem I have is with the pager. These
I've been working on getting suck and inn to work. Right now things are
going well and I can issue out a get-news command to grab my news
articles.
However, at the end of the process (after it's downloaded the articles) I
get the following error messages:
441 Already got messageid
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Sylvain Briole wrote:
So, xterm does not reload .bash_profile?
I believe if you add a -ls (login shell) parameter to xterm when you
call it your problem will go away and it'll read .bash_profile as you want.
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On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Johannes Martinez wrote:
Uh-oh, I'm on thin ice with some of your mail questions as I've barely
got my system running so I'll let some other chime in with their responses
there (as you can see, you've almost exhausted my puddle-deep pool of mail
knowledge:-).
This i'd
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Johannes Martinez wrote:
from my pop account. How do i get outgoing mail to be delivered when i
dial up?
Run smailconfig as root and tell it that your ISP is your smarthost
when it asks. It'll then route all mail that it doesn't know anything about
to your ISP.
If
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, George Bonser wrote:
If you don't mind a related question George (and to anyone else who
knows:-)...
Note that if you use SMTP, you should use your ISP as your smarthost. This
is because if you have dynamic IP, your claimed hostname might not equal
your reverse DNS
1.2 had popclient. I notice that dselect now shows this as obsolete and
fetchpop is shown on the dselect list.
Just a minor correction Bob, as I've travelled over this same road that
Stan is considering; the fetch mail from a pop site that 1.3 now has is
called fetchmail.
I've played
I've been playing around for a few days trying to get a network up
between my Debian 1.3/2.0.30 box and a Win95 machine. I've read the Net-3
and IP-Masquerade HOWTOs and have set things up to what I think should be
right.
However, I can't even seem to get even a ping across the LAN. Of
How do you make colors appear in a directory and BASH prompt? I played
with the values in dircolors, but nothing happened.
What I did was to create an alias of alias ls=ls -p --color (you
don't need the -p, but I like it:-) and stuck it into my ~/.bash_profile.
If you don't like the
Do what all us poor smucks who have only part-time dial-up connections do:
configure smail with smart_host=main server and queue_only, and
run smail -q from ip-up.
John, I've got a quick question for you. I'm running smail with Debian
1.3 and am using a similar part-time dial-up dynamic
I've got two packages installed which dselect reports are obsolete.
They're xforms 0.81-4 and offix 2.3a1. Does anyone know what they are and
whether it's safe to remove them?
I also have a copy of linuxdoc-sgml 1.5-4 installed which dselects also
reports as obsolete. Does anyone know
I've been thinking about the entire newbie/documentation thing a lot
lately. There has to be a way for newbies to get into the
/usr/doc/*/*gz files before they know about gzip, zcat and zless. And
there has to be a way of saying RTFM without being rude.
I think it's more than simply
(i.e. dosemu) that fdos is recommended, but not available. In fact, a
search of the Debian FTP structure shows that there *is* no fdos
package. What's up?
With the new package of dosemu, fdos comes as part of dosemu and
therefore isn't used as a separate package any more.
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, DANIEL STRINGFIELD wrote:
I'm not personally thrilled with the high volume, but I wouldn't wan't to
make things not specific to debian (other than things like how to on
Redhat or something) to stop being supported. I think the list serves
well as a LINUX mailing list, for
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
Does netscape beta 4.0 installer support preview 5?
It does not work for me. I found a symlink /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape --
.../../lib/netscape, but there is no such file/directory.
Well it mostly works. It installs netscape properly into
I've got a newbie-type question for anyone kind enough to answer. This
morning I got a message from my cron which told me the following (header cut
down a bit for brevity):
From: root (Cron Daemon)
To: root
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
Terminal not
I updated to 1.3 last weekend and just recently ran NetHack. NetHack
-- which ran great before -- now gives a permission error of No write
permission to lock /var/lib/games/nethack/perm!
Has anyone else gotten this or is this unique to me?
What, no Nethack?! Now this is a serious
This was a problem with an earlier version, but was fixed (I thought).
I don't remember which files had wrong permissions, but here
are the perms on the relevant files in /var/lib/games/nethack:
drwxrwxr-x 3 root games1024 Jun 4 11:05 /var/lib/games/nethack/
Thanks Sue. The
I've been trying to get a news setup configured here and was wondering
if someone could give a news newbie some pointers/direction.
I want to get a news setup configured to pull news off from my ISP's
news server (news.together.net) and to eventually put FidoNet mail into
using a
For the record and mailing list archive;
The 128bit versions of Netscape 3.01 and 3.01Gold do work with
the currect Debian install package.
Would you happen to know if the latest beta (communicator-v40b5*) will
work with the *.deb install shell?
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Just a quick note of thanks to all who replied about the Debian cron
setup. I was thrilled with the response and it's greatly appreciated.
Rather than summarize, I'll just say that if anyone has any questions
about the cron setup that Debian uses please do not hesitate to mail this
newly
I know the basics of cron and its crontab file, but have a couple of
questions about the specifics of how Debian implements cron. In other
words, I've never seen cron divided with subdirs for daily, weekly,
monthly, etc. I get the point of doing things daily or weekly, but I
wonder what about
Would someone please suggest which doc to read for ISP connection
for Debian/Linux? Thanks!
Read the ISP-HowTo (or is it ISP-Install-HowTo?!; something like that).
You'll find it in the usual documentation site (check off from
http://www.debian.org). Once you get it from the
I've been trying to compile the FidoNet package ifmail. Ifmail uses
ndbm for its database routines and I have gdbm installed in my 1.3 setup
which I believe satisfies the ndbm requirements (but me knowing little C
and even less about *dbm makes me real shaky:-).
When I try to compile
I've been using fetchpop to grab my mail from my ISP. I recently got
diald up and working and now I want to run fetchpop as a daemon process.
I've set up a script (using apmd as a guide) in /etc/init.d called
fetchpop and it contains the following:
#! /bin/sh
#
# Start or stop fetchpop as a
compared to upgrading Debian 1.2 to 1.3, it sucks. To all the kind
folks who've spent many long nights making Debian Linux a quality
product, thank you.
I have to agree. After switching to Linux I'm constantly impressed
with everything about Debian (I ran SLS and then Slackware before).
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