Re: kabelfoon modem installation

Don't ask my why, but the kabelfoon modem returns a no carrier when a connection has been established. Just remove: ABORT 'NO CARRIER' from /etc/chatscripts/provider and it will work fine with ppp. Good luck, Robert-Jan At 22:54 20-6-01 +0200, you wrote: I just installed Debian version 2.0.38 and

RE: Sudden problem with bind

it as time has been short of late. Ian -Original Message- From: Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 5:04 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Sudden problem with bind Hello, I have got a debian potato firewall / mailserver running

Sudden problem with bind

problems. I have connected my modem to a windoze box directly and it worked without problems. Can anybody tell what could be wrong here please? I have not changed a thing on my debian box before it stopped working correctly. TIA, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven

Re: newbie: 3c905C eth0 card not detected

At 13:49 29-12-00 -0500, you wrote: Both 3Com and RedHat say that the 3c905b card does NOT work with Linux. 3c905b does not work, they say? Take a look at this: /sbin/lspci -v 00:13.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 64) Subsystem: 3Com Corporation: Unknown

Fetchmail doesn't get killed after being run by cron

in the second mailbox as well. What could be the problem here? TIA, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven

Re: Okay who's this H.C.Hsiang hchsiang@tpts4.seed.net.tw?

At 02:58 15-11-00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well it is ok now. But it does teach people not to open attachments that they do not know about espcially when using M$ softwares. And it teaches people to use a good virus scanner with very recent definition files. The virus scanner I use

Re: emails newbie

At 12:04 15-11-00 +, you wrote: Can anyone help me to configure my box to send and receive email i don't know where to start. messed around with exim but seem to have messed it up. I really am starting from scratch. I can connect to the internet using pon but that's all thanks jm You needs

Potato does not run the /etc/ppp/ip-up script

options from pppconfig. Tia, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven

Re: [Thanks] Diald auth problem

I added pppd-options to /etc/diald/diald.options and it works! Thanks, Robert-Jan

Re: [Thanks] Diald auth problem

Doug Young wrote: I haven't had time to peruse postings about diald but maybe someone who has used it could advise me what advantage diald has over wvdial, which I found to be one of the best sorted out utilies ever . it works, its simple, and one doesn't have to read hundreds of

Diald auth problem

Hi, I have a problem with diald. Diald connects and then disconnects with the message: peer refused to authenticate It does work when I remove auth from the /etc/ppp/options file, but the man pages say that I should not do this. Can anyone tell me how to solve this problem? TIA, Robert-Jan

Re: Help setting up mail...sending/recieving

On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 06:13:41PM -0400, Allen B. Riddell wrote: Are there any instructions on how to set up mail for a standard home-desktop user? I.E.: I send my mail via smtp and recieve via pop3? I got fetchmail working -- but it seems that all my messages are frozen -- is some

How to check the amount of free disk space?

Hi, This is probably a very stupid question, but I haven't been able to find the answer to it myself. In DOS it was very easy to check the amount of free disk space, just type dir and the amount of free disk space is shown at the bottom of the list. Now I have installed Debian on a 850 MB disk

Harddisk troubles

Hi all, Yesterday I rebuild my kernel for the first time in my life. Compiling the kernel went very smooth when I rebooted my system it ran perfectly. I was very happy.However, today I booted my system and trouble started. The system gave a message that the filesystem had not been unmounted

Re: Internet connection

On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 12:15:27PM -0500, Ian Keith Setford wrote: I assume you are using pppconfig to set up the dialing. When it asks for a name for the connection give it a name. After everything else is OK type this at a root prompt: pon (where XXX is the name you gave the

Mounting my cdrom

Hello everybody, I have installed slink and am trying to mount my cdrom. To mount the cdrom, I use the following command: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt This returns then following message: mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist What is wrong here? Is /dev/cdrom not the

Preventing xdm from starting

Hi, Since I installed X on my slink dist, xdm starts automaticly when I boot my computer. Normally, this is no problem, but in some circumstances I would like to quit X (ie to rebuild the kernel). My question is: How do I kill xdm, or prevent xdm from starting at boot-time (so I can start X

Re: [Thanks] Preventing xdm from starting

Thanks guys!

Re: Looking for a good book...

I found O'Reilly's book: Running Linux, written by Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufman a very useful book. It is not a specail debian book. It is about Linux in general. I am also quite new to Linux (my first contact with Linux was in februari of this year) and I have learned a lot from the book. I

Re: sendmail/fetchmail

On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 06:23:13PM -0400, add|ct|on wrote: ok maybe i'm simple-minded but i cannot get fetchmail to fetch my mail from my pop3 server. running fetchmail in -v mode, there were no errors logging into the pop3 server, but once it gets to fetching the messages it just sits

Netscape: document-specified fonts problem

Hello, If I setup netscape to use document-specified fonts, on some (parts of) pages, the font wil be very ugly and almost impossible to read. It looks a bit like a picture in netscape that has not finished loading yet. Please help. TIA, Robert-Jan

Netscape install problem

Hi, I have installed netscape 4.5, but when try to start it I get the following error: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' I have tried to find a library with such name, but I could not find it. Can anybody help me out here, please? Thanks Robert-Jan

Re: Netscape install problem

Thanks for your reply Robert. However, I did use the netscape4 installer. Any ideas? On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 06:01:50PM +0200, Horvath Robert wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: Hi, I have installed netscape 4.5, but when try to start it I get the following

Re: Netscape install problem

Thanks, I have got it working now.

Re: strange mouse behaviour -- gpm

On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 04:26:18PM -0500, Preston Landers wrote: Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven writes: I can't get my mouse configured with gpm (slink). Normally when X starts, the mouse doesn't work at all. Sometimes, when I press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace a couple of times it starts working

strange mouse behaviour -- gpm

? The mouse worked fine in hamm. This was without gpm, but now I have slink and I read that some programs depend on gpm. TIA, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven

[SOLVED:] Sendmail - aliases problem

warning: WARNING: local host name (kuijf) is not qualified: fix $j in config file /etc/aliases: 6 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 86 bytes total Sendmail is very too. All sendmail actions (starting up, sending mail) take about 2 minutes each. All help is appreciated, Robert-Jan

Re: Sendmail - aliases problem

host name (kuijf) is not qualified: fix $j in config file /etc/aliases: 6 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 86 bytes total Sendmail is very too. All sendmail actions (starting up, sending mail) take about 2 minutes each. All help is appreciated, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven -- Jens B

Where does my mail go?

Hi, I have changed from using fetchmail/elm to using fetchmail/mutt, but now can not find the messages fetchmail receives. When I start Mutt, it goes to the /var/spool/mail/username box. Mutt claims this box is empty. When I change to ~/Mail/inbox, mutt also can not find any messages. The

Changing From: in Exim

I have configured Exim. Only one thing does not work the way I want it to. When I send a message, my local username is filled in in the From: line instead of my username at my ISP ([EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Which setting do I have to change? Thanks, Robert-Jan

Configuring Exim

I have installed Exim but I am not able to configure it. I have read a lot of documentation files on Exim, but since I don't know a lot about mail and mailing, I don't realy understand most of it. I just want to configure Exim to sent mail to my ISP's smtp server (smtp.kabelfoon.nl) and to get

KDE Configuration

I have downloaded the KDE-Base using DSelect. However, dselect can't configure KDE because the file qt1g is missing. DSelect can't find the qt1g file in the package file. Where can I get this file? TIA, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven

Which mail system?

, without me having to start X and netscape every time. Thanx, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven

RE: Tex

David Webster wrote: Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for? You don't sound stupid! It a package for word processing. The only thing stupid you can do is NOT to use TeX for your word processing. It is realy great! At school I had a teacher in computer science, who

I always have to log in as root!?

think this is not a good security situation. How can I change this? TIA, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven

RE: I always have to log in as root!?

, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven

RE: DSelect and ftp

Jiri Baum wrote: Ah, you have a cable modem... and if it's not really Hayes-compatible, you'll probably need to adjust the chat script that pon is using (most likely in /etc/chatscripts/ ). IT WORKS! I noticed that the modem returns NO CARRIER quite often in minicom. I removed abort on NO

RE: DSelect and ftp

NO CARRIER. Trying ATZ again will usually work. [to Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven] So, once it fails with that, does trying again help? Does it at least give a different error message? No, it doesn't. However, I did find a way to make a connection. I installed minicom from floppy, using dpkg -i. In minicom

RE: DSelect and ftp

When Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote, I replied: Try the command man minicom to learn about the minicom program for manipulating your modem. I don't have personal experience with it, (when I need to do these things, I write a perl script or something to gain access to the port/modem) but I've

RE: DSelect and ftp

Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven: The problem is that dselect fails to connect. Dselect shows the following message: Connecting to ftp.debian.org Failed to connect The ftp program normally doesn't dial the modem for you, because it doesn't know whether you aren't just intending to use the ethernet

RE: DSelect and ftp

-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van:Helge Hafting [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: dinsdag 9 februari 1999 19:55 Aan:debian-user@lists.debian.org Onderwerp: Re: DSelect and ftp You wrote: Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven: ppp.log: ... send (ATZ^M) expect (OK) ^M

DSelect and ftp

I have formatted a harddisk (to make it 100% microsoft-free) and installed debian linux 2.0 from floppy disks. Then I tried to install packages using dselect with ftp access. The problem is that dselect fails to connect. Dselect shows the following message: Connecting to ftp.debian.org Failed