Re: Exim configuration

1999-03-08 Thread Helge Hafting
What do I need to add to exim.conf to be able to send mail. I have a PPP connection to a provider and use fetchmail to get mail but I cannot send mail except through netscape. In /var/log/exim/mainlog.01 SMTP error from remote mailer after Mail From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=2522: host

I broke my system

1999-03-08 Thread Pollywog
I tried to install Linux kernel 2.0.36 and something went wrong. I can use ppp but not diald and I don't know why, but I have suspicions: What should I have in /etc/modules ? In Debian, does System.map go in / directory and does vmlinuz go in /boot? I went back to 2.0.35 kernel but still no

bitchx (sucks!)

1999-03-08 Thread homega
Sorry about that (), but even if the program itself is damn good, the docs and /help really suck... further more, #bitchx SUCKS. I've been desperately trying to get help around, and even went to #bitchx at irc.chat.org, just to be kicked out every time I try to join it, the reason being spammers,

Re: bitchx (sucks!)

1999-03-08 Thread Lawrence Walton
Try ircII with a script. Or even better irc-EPIC. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: APT: packages held back

1999-03-08 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Maarten Boekhold wrote: [Note: this is a repost, since nobody responded to it, yet I find it hard to believe that nobody knows the answer to my question.] Hi, Yesterday I wondered how much MBs I'd have to download to upgrade my hamm system (plus *some* slink stuff

Re: beowulf clusters?

1999-03-08 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
thanks... I'll check that out NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Norris Preyer wrote: Paul Nathan Puri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do nodes in a beowulf cluster all have to have the same hw

Re: RE: Can Windows95 cause error on my Linux Drive - Other Co-existi ng OS Problems...

1999-03-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Person, Roderick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): This maybe true, but I have noticed that once I mount a DOS floppy in Debian after two or three times It is unreadable by Windows. It seems to me that Linux is Hell on floppies. Even my Debian only floppies seem to have a extremely short life. I

Kernel Image. Where can I Find one?

1999-03-08 Thread Person, Roderick
I have tried and tried to compile a Kernel, for sound... I just can't seem to do it. Does anyone know where I can find a kernel Image with sound compiled in. I'm running 2.0.34 now. So I would like it to be that or higher. Roderick P. Person 'Still Have given me a title, and I'm writing Visual

Running identd through a Debian firewall ?

1999-03-08 Thread Dean . Carpenter
Hmmm. I've recently set up a small Debian system for use as a firewall. The only thing hiccuping is when using irc from another Debian system *behind* the firewall, via the ip_masq_irc module. The irc servers all want identd to be running, and it is running on the firewall, but apparently not

Re: Re: Undersanding bootable media

1999-03-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ries van Twisk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The reply given below tells you plenty about how computers boot, but I thought I'd add a couple of points to the original question (and I don't have the original to reply to). At 11:16 AM 7/3/1999 -0800, you wrote: In my quest to understand

RE: I broke my system

1999-03-08 Thread Pollywog
On 08-Mar-99 Pollywog wrote: I tried to install Linux kernel 2.0.36 and something went wrong. I can use ppp but not diald and I don't know why, but I have suspicions: What should I have in /etc/modules ? In Debian, does System.map go in / directory and does vmlinuz go in /boot? I went

RE: Running identd through a Debian firewall ?

1999-03-08 Thread Shaleh
On 08-Mar-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. I've recently set up a small Debian system for use as a firewall. The only thing hiccuping is when using irc from another Debian system *behind* the firewall, via the ip_masq_irc module. The irc servers all want identd to be running, and it is

modprobe errors

1999-03-08 Thread Pollywog
Here are some errors I am getting. Below I include my /etc/modules. I compiled the modules into the kernel, so do I need /etc/modules at all? Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mar 8 19:31:01 lilypad kernel: registered device ppp0 Mar 8 19:30:31 lilypad modprobe: can't locate

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-08 Thread steven walsh
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, eferen1 wrote: with me. I'm now taking a course in Linux. It's the only way I can learn it. Dos, Windows, Assembler, AppleDos, etc are all self -intuitive. Linux is not. I disagree with this. Linux is no less self-intuitive than DOS or assembler (or any lang).

Re: bitchx (sucks!)

1999-03-08 Thread steven walsh
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BitchX suffers from it's own unique form of feature creep. Use IRCII with a nice script (one you are comfortable with and hopefully has no nasty backdoors like the ircN script that mIRC had *snicker*). I hear EPIC is a nice client as

Re: CDROM

1999-03-08 Thread Kent West
At 01:56 PM 3/7/1999 -0600, Gordon von Miller wrote: Hello, I tried to install Debian 2.0.2, and it would not recognize my cdrom which is a Nec cd-rom drive:260 ATAPI. Debian says that it is either a cdrom or a floppy, probably a floppy. The cdrom works in Dos and in a previous version of

Re: Apt 0.3 lost ftp-method ???

1999-03-08 Thread servis
*- On 8 Mar, Andy Spiegl wrote about Apt 0.3 lost ftp-method ??? Hi, after installing gnome-apt (with the necessary packages from potato) onto my hamm system, apt seems to have lost the ftp method. When I try apt-get update I get: E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp could not be

RE: I broke my system

1999-03-08 Thread Pollywog
On 08-Mar-99 George Bonser wrote: On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Pollywog wrote: In Debian, does System.map go in / directory and does vmlinuz go in /boot? I went back to 2.0.35 kernel but still no diald. I think the problem is /etc/modules I got things working again by going back to a new

Re: uploading a website (reverse mirror)?

1999-03-08 Thread Frankie
oneiros wrote: Thus spake Frankie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have a slow modem. My website is ~9MB. When I change files in it, I don't want to have to a) upload the whole site or b) remember which files I've changed, and upload them manually. mirrordir works very nicely for this purpose,

Re: Is Linux addictive?

1999-03-08 Thread franck . legall
-UIDL: d0ef71e79836bc686c3e4e52c6a925eb On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Matthew Cocker wrote: Linux should have to be distributed with a surgeon generals warning about the possible addictive nature of Linux. What do you mean? I can quit any time I want... I just don't want to :) It is the same

more modprobe errors

1999-03-08 Thread Pollywog
I am still getting these modprobe errors (diald is working). I am using 2.0.35 kernel on Hamm. thanks -- Andrew Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mar 8 19:55:49 lilypad modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5 Mar 8 19:58:49 lilypad modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5 Mar 8

virtual private network?

1999-03-08 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Hi, I need some software to allow laptop users to connect to machines on our private network (192.168.x.x) from anywhere on the internet. Has anyone used FreeS/WAN, Mobile IP or similar programs to set up a virtual private network on debian? Does anyone know the development status? Some of the

RE: virtual private network?

1999-03-08 Thread Shaleh
On 08-Mar-99 Lee Bradshaw wrote: Hi, I need some software to allow laptop users to connect to machines on our private network (192.168.x.x) from anywhere on the internet. Has anyone used FreeS/WAN, Mobile IP or similar programs to set up a virtual private network on debian? Does anyone

Re: Hamm--Slink, now fetchmail/exim behaves strangely

1999-03-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Hamm--Slink, now fetchmail/exim behaves strangely Date: Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 07:21:36PM +0100 In reply to:Helge Hafting Quoting Helge Hafting([EMAIL PROTECTED]): you wrote: Graham Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 02 March, Mark Phillips wrote:

Re: bitchx (sucks!)

1999-03-08 Thread homega
Thanks Lawrence and Stephen, I downloaded ircii and it looks better documented than bitchx. I still don't know how to deal with the scripts, but they look promising and fun, and I even found a mailing list for ircii. Horacio

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-08 Thread Michael Stenner
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: I can't really find any criticisms that were mentioned that reading through the docs, or asking on this list wouldn't solve. First off, I agree with you. However, people don't want to have to read through the docs, or rather, hunt through the docs. People

Kernel Compile Attemp #2

1999-03-08 Thread Doug Dine
Well, in my second attempt now to compile my kernel for sound support here is the error message after make config. make [1]: as86: Command not found make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot make: *** [zImage] Error 2 I

Re: Kernel Compile Attemp #2

1999-03-08 Thread Scott J. Geertgens
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Doug Dine wrote: Well, in my second attempt now to compile my kernel for sound support here is the error message after make config. make [1]: as86: Command not found make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory

RE: Kernel Compile Attemp #2

1999-03-08 Thread Shaleh
On 08-Mar-99 Doug Dine wrote: Well, in my second attempt now to compile my kernel for sound support here is the error message after make config. make [1]: as86: Command not found make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot

Re: Kernel Compile Attemp #2

1999-03-08 Thread Doug Dine
At 3/8/99 1:52:00 PM, you wrote: On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Doug Dine wrote: Well, in my second attempt now to compile my kernel for sound support here is the error message after make zImage. make [1]: as86: Command not found make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory

Re: Kernel Compile Attemp #2

1999-03-08 Thread Seth M. Landsman
On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 01:34:21PM -0700, Doug Dine wrote: Well, in my second attempt now to compile my kernel for sound support here is the error message after make config. make [1]: as86: Command not found make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-08 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 09:52:46 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: I think these criticisms are overstated in many cases. Ever try to get ppp running on Solaris? I have installed many distributions. The initial install is only a portion of the problem. The

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-08 Thread Lawrence Walton
Well I have to say that setting up ppp in debian was the easyist, of all the Linux distros and any other OS I have installed. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-08 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 11:15:02 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, this article was written for the person who is new to Linux, and I agree - for the newbie - be afraid. It can be done, but it takes HOURS of work and HOURS of reading. Most new users

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-08 Thread mike shupp
On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Frankie wrote: True. I agree with you about electricity. It has made a HUGE impact on our lives. So, I nominate gallileo, because (if I'm wrong, subsitute some ridiculously ancient bod that experimented with electricity) he messed about with electricity and frogs legs. This

Re: bitchx (sucks!)

1999-03-08 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 19:53:26 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about that (), but even if the program itself is damn good, the docs and /help really suck... further more, #bitchx SUCKS. /bhelp, not /help. /help is the ircII help files, not

ImageMagick

1999-03-08 Thread Egon Schmid
Where is ImageMagick on Debian? I installed now the source but cannot compile it. Have someone tried to compile version 4.2.1? -Egon

Re: I broke my system

1999-03-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
Pollywog wrote: I tried to install Linux kernel 2.0.36 and something went wrong. I can use ppp but not diald and I don't know why, but I have suspicions: What exactly went wrong? Show us the error messages please, otherwise we have no idea how to help. What should I have in

what is module net-pf-5 ?

1999-03-08 Thread Pollywog
What is module net-pf-5 ? I keep getting modprobe errors about this module. I am using Debian 2.0 (Hamm) and kernel 2.0.35 thanks -- Andrew -- PGP Key ID 0x5EE61C37 PGP5.0 --

AcceleratedX

1999-03-08 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I would like to put debian on my laptop but my chipset is not supported by Xfree in the accelerated mode. Will Accelerated X Laptop Server work with debian?? Thanks Rick Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://woodstock.csrlink.net/~bknebel

RE: ImageMagick

1999-03-08 Thread Shaleh
On 08-Mar-99 Egon Schmid wrote: Where is ImageMagick on Debian? I installed now the source but cannot compile it. Have someone tried to compile version 4.2.1? Pop up dselect and click the '/' key. Then type in image. Should take you right to image magick. The '\' ketyy repeats a search.

RE: what is module net-pf-5 ?

1999-03-08 Thread Shaleh
On 08-Mar-99 Pollywog wrote: What is module net-pf-5 ? I keep getting modprobe errors about this module. I am using Debian 2.0 (Hamm) and kernel 2.0.35 Net pf 5 is apple talk, you can a) ignore the error, b) put alias net-pf-5 off in your conf.modules.

Re: Kernel Compile Attemp #2

1999-03-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
Doug Dine wrote: At 3/8/99 1:52:00 PM, you wrote: On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Doug Dine wrote: Well, in my second attempt now to compile my kernel for sound support here is the error message after make zImage. make [1]: as86: Command not found make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] Error 127

Booting Linux with lilo

1999-03-08 Thread Johan Groth
Hi, second try with my problem. I have a dual boot Linux/Win95 system where Linux is a RedHat 5.2 (Win95 is in my system for the sole reason I like to play games from time to time). The setup look like this: Device ContentsSCSI id /dev/sda1 Win95 C: lilo 0 /dev/sdb1

Re: what is module net-pf-5 ?

1999-03-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
Shaleh wrote: On 08-Mar-99 Pollywog wrote: What is module net-pf-5 ? I keep getting modprobe errors about this module. I am using Debian 2.0 (Hamm) and kernel 2.0.35 Net pf 5 is apple talk, you can a) ignore the error, b) put alias net-pf-5 off in your conf.modules. Or

RE: what is module net-pf-5 ?

1999-03-08 Thread Pollywog
On 08-Mar-99 Shaleh wrote: On 08-Mar-99 Pollywog wrote: What is module net-pf-5 ? I keep getting modprobe errors about this module. I am using Debian 2.0 (Hamm) and kernel 2.0.35 Net pf 5 is apple talk, you can a) ignore the error, b) put alias net-pf-5 off in your conf.modules.

RE: what is module net-pf-5 ?

1999-03-08 Thread Shaleh
On 08-Mar-99 Pollywog wrote: On 08-Mar-99 Shaleh wrote: On 08-Mar-99 Pollywog wrote: What is module net-pf-5 ? I keep getting modprobe errors about this module. I am using Debian 2.0 (Hamm) and kernel 2.0.35 Net pf 5 is apple talk, you can a) ignore the error, b) put alias

Re: [Systalk] what is module net-pf-5 ?

1999-03-08 Thread Pollywog
On 08-Mar-99 George Bonser wrote: Because you probably built a new kernel that had different stuff built-in than the Debian kernel you started with and you did not build these into the new kernel yet the stuff in modconf is trying to still load them. net-pf-5 is that appletalk module. In

symbol table has incorrect version

1999-03-08 Thread Pollywog
I found this in my syslog: Mar 8 21:59:47 lilypad kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map Mar 8 21:59:47 lilypad kernel: Symbol table has incorrect version number. Mar 8 21:59:47 lilypad kernel: Inspecting /System.map Mar 8 21:59:47 lilypad kernel: Loaded 3911 symbols from /System.map. Mar 8

RE: Booting Linux with lilo

1999-03-08 Thread Shaleh
On 08-Mar-99 Johan Groth wrote: Hi, second try with my problem. I have a dual boot Linux/Win95 system where Linux is a RedHat 5.2 (Win95 is in my system for the sole reason I like to play games from time to time). The setup look like this: Lilo should be able to boot off of any

RE: what is module net-pf-5 ?

1999-03-08 Thread Pollywog
On 08-Mar-99 Shaleh wrote: conf.modules. and it is not your fault. Everything is on by default. This has changed in slink and beyond. Thanks. I fixed that one. It's just odd that I never saw that error before even though I already recompiled the kernel twice since installing Debian. I

/etc/modutils/ not used? (was Re: what is module net-pf-5 ?

1999-03-08 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Mon, 08 Mar 1999 16:58:55 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: [...] Or modules.conf, or etc/modutils/aliases. conf.modules and modules.conf are allegedly going away, but my system isn't reading anything in /etc/modutils/ so I have to keep modules.conf anyway. You have to invoke update-modules in

lprng from slink (Debian 2.1) so secure can't use it!!!

1999-03-08 Thread James D. Freels
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to linux.debian.user as well. I just upgraded from hamm to slink. I have found one problem with the upgrade in the lprng package. I downgraded to the hamm version until such time as it gets fixed. Basically after

make-kpkg on SMP platform

1999-03-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
Hi, Am I incorrect in assuming that you need to pass the -j 2 option to make to fully realise the benefits of compiling on an SMP platform? If so, how do I get make-kpkg to use this option? If this is a rtfm type thing which fm should I r? I suspect the solution involves environment variables

Re: CDROM

1999-03-08 Thread Gordon von Miller
Thanks. I have tried hdc=cdrom to no avail. It worked on Suse but not on Debian. If I copy files from the cdrom to the hard drive, the installation says that I can install from the hard drive. Right? Thanks. Gordon Net-Tamer V 1.10.1 - Test Drive

Re: /etc/modutils/ not used? (was Re: what is module net-pf-5 ?

1999-03-08 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: On Mon, 08 Mar 1999 16:58:55 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: [...] Or modules.conf, or etc/modutils/aliases. conf.modules and modules.conf are allegedly going away, but my system isn't reading anything in /etc/modutils/ so I have to keep modules.conf anyway.

Problems with X locale.

1999-03-08 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Hello, I`ve done an upgrade to X 3.3.2.3a-11, using apt. I am using a mix of slink and hamm and a touch of potato. Now, some applications like window-maker (0.51.0-3) and gnome (1.0.1) gives the following warning: Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Everything works well

Re: Kernel Image. Where can I Find one?

1999-03-08 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I have tried and tried to compile a Kernel, for sound... I just can't seem to do it. What you mean you cant seem to do it? Do you get errors when compiling, do you not know how to do it at all, or what is the problem? Does anyone know where I can find a kernel Image with sound compiled in.

Re: I broke my system

1999-03-08 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
Make sure you have SLIP support in your kernel. Diald uses SLIP to fake a connection when the PPP link is down. On 03/08/99 at 18:47:49, Pollywog wrote concerning I broke my system: I tried to install Linux kernel 2.0.36 and something went wrong. I can use ppp but not diald and I don't know

wabi

1999-03-08 Thread Craig T. Hancock
Does anyone use wabi and if so please is it better than wine

xdm question from a newbie

1999-03-08 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hello Debian-user, I now have Debian with X running smoothly and I want to add xdm login. I have tried to find information about xdm, but I can not find much (maybe I am blind?). The little I have found is very...ummm...cryptic :) What I want is for xdm to start my X sessions like

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-08 Thread Roberto Rosario
I sense another inminent Holy war comming :( Richard Harran wrote: Oh, goodie! A religious discussion! Kent West wrote: At 04:13 PM 3/5/1999 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Traas schrieb: Hey, Linus Torvalds isn't even in the top 20! Let's change that! ;-) Time

Mail File Question

1999-03-08 Thread BOHICA
Does anyone know of a utility that will convert a Microsoft *.pst file to a generic mail file? I have about five years worth of saved correspondence c that I would like to be able to access from either Pine or Messenger, problem being that MS only allows export as tab or comma separated files if

RE: wabi

1999-03-08 Thread Shaleh
On 08-Mar-99 Craig T. Hancock wrote: Does anyone use wabi and if so please is it better than wine wabi was win 3.x only. It required a windows license (simialr to sheep shaver for the macs). It is now officially a dead program.

RE: xdm question from a newbie

1999-03-08 Thread Shaleh
On 09-Mar-99 Christian Dysthe wrote: Hello Debian-user, I now have Debian with X running smoothly and I want to add xdm login. I have tried to find information about xdm, but I can not find much (maybe I am blind?). The little I have found is very...ummm...cryptic :) What I

Re: bitchx (sucks!)

1999-03-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: bitchx (sucks!) Date: Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 01:30:33PM -0800 In reply to:Steve Lamb Quoting Steve Lamb([EMAIL PROTECTED]): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 19:53:26 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about that (), but even

Re: what is module net-pf-5 ?

1999-03-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: RE: what is module net-pf-5 ? Date: Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 09:48:39PM - In reply to:Pollywog Quoting Pollywog([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On 08-Mar-99 Shaleh wrote: On 08-Mar-99 Pollywog wrote: What is module net-pf-5 ? I keep getting modprobe errors about this

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-08 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 03/08/99 at 10:21:55, eferen1 wrote concerning Re: I can't believe this: it. Dos, Windows, Assembler, AppleDos, etc are all self -intuitive. Linux is not. Absolutely not. Dos, Windows, etc. etc. are not self-intuitive. They each assume certain proficiencies, and someone who lacks them

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