Re: Problema al enviar post a las news

1999-04-10 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
El Thu, Apr 08, 1999, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez... tengo inn+sucks y utilizo slrn para leer y postear. Recibir si recibo los mensages pero a la hora de mandarlos se quedan en mi servidor local, lo se pues los bajo también con Netscape para ir probando. ¿Y estás seguro de que suck no

¿Quién le ha puesto password al usuario news?

1999-04-10 Thread Cosme Perea Cuevas
Hola, si intento hacer `su' al usuario `news', me pide el password. ¿Realmente tiene una clave? ¿Cómo se genera, si es así? En un documento sobre seguridad he leido algo de passwords nulos. ¿Tiene algo que ver? Saludos. -- Cosme

Re: Cliente LPD

1999-04-10 Thread Hypatia
Ximo Nadal wrote: Hola:-) Hola: Aunque tengo instalado Samba y las impresoras me funcionan perfectamente con Debian, necesito un cliente LPD en algunas impresoras que quiero compartir con un SCO. Segun entiendo, hay Samba para SCO, por favor revisa el sitio www.samba.org, o tu mirror de

ldd

1999-04-10 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos... He estado leyendo documentacion sobre ldd, y he visto que lanza una ejecucion del fichero a examinar, por lo que el mensaje que me salia sobre permisos de ejecucion sobre librerias es correcto. He vuelto a lanzar la compilacion de db2.6, y el error es: BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER:

Teclado español en wine

1999-04-10 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos Tengo instalado el wine, y al ejecutar me dice que no encuentra el diseño de mi teclado, y me remite a los fuentes, pero no me entero mucho de que es lo que tendria que agregar para incluirlo. ¿lo habeis hecho alguno? Saludos.

Re: automatizar el correo con /etc/ip.up

1999-04-10 Thread Antonio Calvo Rodriguez
El 05 Apr 1999 a las 11:58AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribio: Hola, en /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ creé un fichero simplemente con el comando `runq -v', y así conseguí que enviara todo el correo en cola cada vez que me conecto, aunque no lo hace en modo verboso; también añadí al mismo fichero

problema tonto con mutt al actualizar a slink

1999-04-10 Thread carlos saldaña
Hola a todos. Como digo en el subject, al actualizar de hamm a slink me he encontrado con un problema de lo más tonto en mutt: resulta que en la línea de comandos tengo que pulsar dos veces la tecla d para que imprima el caracter. ¿A alguien más le ha pasado? ¿Se puede solucionar? La letra e

Re: ¿Quién le ha puesto password al usuario news?

1999-04-10 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hola Cosme, Cosme Perea Cuevas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hola, si intento hacer `su' al usuario `news', me pide el password. ¿Realmente tiene una clave? ¿Cómo se genera, si es así? $ su # su - news si te fijas, la `clave' del usuario news es `*', lo cual quiere

Re: LILO y MBR

1999-04-10 Thread Juanjo Martinez
El Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 12:11:03PM +0200, Oscar Castell Marcos escribió: Hola, Hola tengo un ordenador con el Linux instalado y estoy interesado en transformarlo a Win98, ya que me han traido un ordenador nuevo mas potente con todo para instalar, de manera que el viejo sea Win98 i el nuevo

Re: Configurando modem pnp

1999-04-10 Thread Juanjo Martinez
El Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 12:17:00AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Ante todo, gracias a todos aquellos que me estan ayudando a configurar mi modem. Pues aqui no puedo ayudarte, nunca me he peleado con uno de estos. P.D.: Cuando quiero apagar mi computadora desde linux, que debo hacer?

wish

1999-04-10 Thread Addex
intentoconfigurar el nucleo mediante la orden: cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.3 make xconfig pero se para todo al no encontrar el archivo "wish" ¿alguna idea? gracias!

Re: ¿Quién le ha puesto password al usuario news?

1999-04-10 Thread Carlos Costa Portela
Haz primero un su a root, y ya está :-) Saludos, Carlos. On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Cosme Perea Cuevas wrote: Hola, si intento hacer `su' al usuario `news', me pide el password. ¿Realmente tiene una clave? ¿Cómo se genera, si es así? En un documento sobre seguridad he

Re: automatizar el correo con /etc/ip.up

1999-04-10 Thread Hue-Bond
El viernes 09 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 16:23:43 +0200, Andres Seco Hernandez contaba: #!/bin/sh /etc/init.d/cron stop /usr/sbin/rdate -s black-ice.cc.vt.edu /sbin/hwclock --systohc --utc /etc/init.d/cron start Yo no puse el 'hwclock --systohc' porque hay un script que se encarga

Re: mirroring servers over internet

1999-04-10 Thread Thomas O. Kruse
Hi, Is it possible to sync two servers connected over the internet? I want to sync the home-dirs of my users and there should be a very low What about the coda filesystem? delay to sync files (some seconds or less). It should also be possible to exclude files (on name, user, group,

Re: new mail not visible in mail readers

1999-04-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:26:01PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: I have been having a problem that when I fetch my mail using fetchmail, the new messages do not always appear, at least immediately. Sometimes, I have to run fetchmail a second time, then a few messages appear, and as I

Xfree86 and Hard drive disk space

1999-04-10 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, I have seen a lot of messages lately on this list about the Xfree86 version 3.3.3.1 as being better because it seems to fix a lot of the bug in the previous version. I was wondering if Debian is looking to update their Xfree86 debian package to this newer version, when I looked in

Re: Xfree86 and Hard drive disk space

1999-04-10 Thread Andrei Ivanov
doesn't look like that has been done. Also, is there some kind of utility on Debian that I could use to check my hard drive space? I know about the utilities to check my RAM but haven't been able to find anything about hard drive. Thanks for any help. Shawn man df Andrew

Re: Floppy drive problem

1999-04-10 Thread R. Marx
Hi Tyrus, Remember to use the rawrite (or dd in *nix) when creating these floppies rather than formatting and just coping the file to them. They should fit on a normal high density disk. Hope this helps, Rob

Re: What advantage; gs-aladdin vs. gs?

1999-04-10 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 11:22:50PM +0200, Jan Vroonhof wrote: Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For me it is the addition by the gs-aladdin maintainer of the HP Deskjet driver. But that driver is LGPL so it could also go into the free gs. At least in gs-5.10-1 it is. -- Pedro

Re: Runiing processes. What are these?

1999-04-10 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: I was looking at running processes. Found these: 199 2 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 200 3 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 201 4 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 202 5 S0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 203 6 S0:00

Netscape (Newbie alert)

1999-04-10 Thread Jan Muszynski
I'm trying to install Netscape and have run into a small problem. First what I've accomplished so far: 1: downloaded from Netscape - finally found out that I had to rename package to include glibc as part of name before install would work. 2: First time I tried to run got error - can't load

Re: too big packages?

1999-04-10 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, virtanen wrote: Anyone knows a cheap way to get debian packages, which are too big for a floppy to a computer, which isn't networked and has got only a cdrom driver and a floppy disk driver? Is it possible to 'pkzip' deb-packages in a dos-machine to make them smaller and

Re: pppd problems

1999-04-10 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: Yes, but you shouldn't have to. It's a bug somewhere. The puzzlement is that I have the same version of pppd as Bob does but I don't have the bug. Bob Hilliard writes: I have upgraded my potato partition to 2.3.7-2. It has the same behavior as 2.3.5-2. When I execute pon, it

Re: Xfree86 and Hard drive disk space

1999-04-10 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 01:42:42PM -, Shawn Nguyen wrote: I have seen a lot of messages lately on this list about the Xfree86 version 3.3.3.1 as being better because it seems to fix a lot of the bug in the previous version. I was wondering if Debian is looking to update their Xfree86

Re: too big packages?

1999-04-10 Thread Christian Lavoie
I'll see. I think that I've got the docs of pkzip. But can the debain zip-uncompressing program handle the chunks, provided I can make them with dos-pkzip? Since pkware released a version of pkzip, you should be able to use that as a backup resource, if unzip cannot.

Troubles with 2.2.3

1999-04-10 Thread Jaroslaw Berezowski
I have a trouble with 2.2.3 kernel (updated from 2.0.36). During system shutdown when unmounting root filesystem sometimes I get message that it's busy and can't be unmounted. Why? Scripts stop all daemons and other processes are killed. Does somebody else have such problem?

Re: Troubles with 2.2.3

1999-04-10 Thread v . polasek
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Jaroslaw Berezowski wrote: I have a trouble with 2.2.3 kernel (updated from 2.0.36). During system shutdown when unmounting root filesystem sometimes I get message that it's busy and can't be unmounted. Why? Scripts stop all daemons and other processes are killed. Does

Re: new mail not visible in mail readers

1999-04-10 Thread G. Crimp
On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 07:21:14PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:26:01PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: I have been having a problem that when I fetch my mail using fetchmail, the new messages do not always appear, at least immediately. Sometimes, I have to run

Re: too big packages?

1999-04-10 Thread Jim
I used a zip drive to get the base installed and used dselect to log into a debian mirror site for aditional packages. virtanen wrote: Anyone knows a cheap way to get debian packages, which are too big for a floppy to a computer, which isn't networked and has got only a cdrom driver and a

Re: new mail not visible in mail readers

1999-04-10 Thread Pollywog
On 10-Apr-99 G. Crimp wrote: I recently switched to exim. exim starts local delivery right away. The first messages start appearing in mailboxes while more messages are still being popped. I am not a mail expert by any stretch of the imagination. Perhaps the above

Disk error

1999-04-10 Thread Alan Tam
Hi dear debianers; I've installed Slink and worked fine. (hard disk A for Windows; hard disk B for Linux, boot from loadlin or sometimes from floppy.) Now I want to install the kernel-package downloaded from Debian for a kernel compile (kernel-source-2.0.36 downloaded as well).

login/inittab problems

1999-04-10 Thread Chris Brown
Hello all, I recently did a slink install on one of my machines, but now when I log on to my machine on the console it doesn't ask for a root password. The /etc/inittab file looks exactly the same as another machine I have that works properly. Does anybody know where the offending

Re: Netscape (Newbie alert)

1999-04-10 Thread Mark Wagnon
Jan Muszynski wrote: I'm trying to install Netscape and have run into a small problem. First what I've accomplished so far: 1: downloaded from Netscape - finally found out that I had to rename package to include glibc as part of name before install would work. 2: First time I tried to run

Re: new mail not visible in mail readers

1999-04-10 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 07:50:34PM -0700, G. Crimp wrote: I recently switched to exim. exim starts local delivery right away. The first messages start appearing in mailboxes while more messages are still being popped. Exim delivers the first 10 messages in a SMTP connection, and then

Re: Netscape (Newbie alert)

1999-04-10 Thread Mike Werner
Jan Muszynski wrote: edited I'm trying to install Netscape and have run into a small problem. First what I've accomplished so far: 1: downloaded from Netscape - finally found out that I had to rename package to include glibc as part of name before install would work. 2: First time I tried

Re: too big packages?

1999-04-10 Thread Terry Carney
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, virtanen wrote: What about dividing deb-packages into smaller pieces? Which kind of software can handle this from a dos-machine into the debian-machine? I've used tar to successfully span floppies with the '-M' option. Haven't done it in a while so I don't remember the

primenet.com rejects mail from ibm.net

1999-04-10 Thread Branden Robinson
I protest in most strenous possible terms to this treatment. I absolutely DO NOT send unsolicited commercial email. All of my mail headers are RFC 822 complaint. Most spammers put fake or bogus headers in their mails to try and cover their tracks. It is a trivial exercise to reject mails of

Re: PON question. was [Re: Lost PCCard modem]

1999-04-10 Thread John Hasler
Robert Kerr wrote: My laptop used to work just beautifully with my pcmcia modem, it was recognized and dialed just fine--now when I run 'pon' I get: pppd 2.3.5 started by bob tcgetattr: Input/output error(5) Exit. What happens when you run pon as root? What serial port is your modem on?

Re: How do I get rid of dummy PPP

1999-04-10 Thread John Hasler
David writes: Could anyone be kind enough to tell this dummy what to do now I'm not sure what you mean by 'dummy ppp', but I suggest that you run pppconfig again. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: ALSA, OSS and kernel drivers - all about sound

1999-04-10 Thread Ed Cogburn
Piotr Domagalski wrote: Hi! I've asked many times about installing YAMAHA-OPL3SA3 (it's still actual, so if anyone did that please give me some info about doing this) but this mail is about something else. What's the difference between ALSA, OSS (comercial) , OSS/Free (and is OSS/Free the

Re: primenet.com rejects mail from ibm.net

1999-04-10 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 08:47:35PM -0700, J. Francois wrote: Take a look at: http://maps.vix.com/dul/ That should answer your question as to how and why your mail was blocked. HTH. I see. Here's a pithy quote from this guy... Loss of connectivity hurts us all. Spam hurts us all even more.

Re: question regarding hardware conflict and linux

1999-04-10 Thread ferret
Um, which PCI-based modems work with Linux? As far as I've been able to tell, none of the PCI modems we have where I work are detected, even the controller-based ones. I'd love to be able to get one to work.. Most of the modems we have are built around the Lucent PCI chipsets, either the software

Laptop Debian Installation

1999-04-10 Thread Ralph J. Spada
To whom may be able to assist me, I am new to Unix and have just downloaded the Debian version of Linux. The disks work on my desktop PII 350, but I am having trouble on my laptop (i386 20MHz with 8MB of RAM). The boot floppy starts, loads the kernel, but right after it recognizes my 60MB hard

Re: question regarding hardware conflict and linux

1999-04-10 Thread Mike Werner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Um, which PCI-based modems work with Linux? As far as I've been able to tell, none of the PCI modems we have where I work are detected, even the controller-based ones. I'd love to be able to get one to work.. Most of the modems we have are built around the Lucent PCI

Re: new mail not visible in mail readers

1999-04-10 Thread Curt Daugaard
I use exim, fetchmail, and mutt, and had a similar problem. Try adding the line 'smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0' (no quotes) in the MAIN CONFIGURATION SETTINGS section of your exim.conf file. (This solution courtesy of another reader on this list.) HTH On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:26:01PM

Re: too big packages?

1999-04-10 Thread Victor B Wagner
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, virtanen wrote: Anyone knows a cheap way to get debian packages, which are too big for a floppy to a computer, which isn't networked and has got only a cdrom driver and a floppy disk driver? Is it possible to 'pkzip' deb-packages in a dos-machine to make them smaller and

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-10 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: then welcome. That is why I am so vehemently opposed to anyone using email for large attachments. That is why I say that as the size of the attachment The commercial world is a far more practical place. You can't take a stand on large email

Re: Permission mismatch

1999-04-10 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Christian Dysthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I keep getting this fiendly email from cron: /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: /usr/sbin/sendmail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 777 changed to root.root 4755 I am using exim so the sendmail refered to is just a symbolic link. But I still

exim local delivery

1999-04-10 Thread Johann Spies
At the moment all local mail gets delivered through my ISP to me because I do not know how to configure exim to do local delivery without refusing mail to other users of my ISP. How can I alter my exim.conf so that all mail going to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or other local users will be delivered

Re: Debian on CD-ROMs

1999-04-10 Thread Doug Dine
At 4/9/99 1:22:00 AM, you wrote: I'd like to get the program on CD. Can anyone advise? I have been buying from CheapBytes. http://www.cheapbytes.com Have gotten excellent service from them. Just ordered Debian 2.1 4 CD set for 12 with shipping. Doug Dine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libstdc++2.9-dev/libc6-dev incompatibility?

1999-04-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 14:11:10 -0700, Maria Lynn Jason Rightley wrote: To use the new kernel within the framework of the stable distribution, I had to upgrade certain specific packages to the unstable, primarily netbase and sysutils. Netbase and sysutils depended on libc6 and libncurses4,

Re: fdformat missing

1999-04-10 Thread Phillip Deackes
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, e2fs is wasteful of disk space. You will have more available disk space in an msdos floppy format. That is exactly why I use the minix filesystem. Maybe that's the compromise you need!! -- Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux v.2.1

Kernel compilation

1999-04-10 Thread XRDLAB
Hello, I am currently using Debian 2.0 with kernel 2.0.34. I downloaded the patch files and patched the kernel source to 2.0.36. No problems encountered during the patching. Even appled the debian patch. Then I used make menuconfig and set up all the options that I needed including kerneld

Re: question regarding hardware conflict and linux

1999-04-10 Thread John Hasler
Um, which PCI-based modems work with Linux? Multitech is said to sell one. I have no personal knowledge of it. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: using FAT floppies- a drawback

1999-04-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
John Hassled, Yes. Just like tape. Note, however, that one bad sector will make the tar unreadable. If you are going to do this you should test the floppies and not use any that aren't perfect. The simplest way to test floppies is to format them. Tarring directly to the device gets you

Re: too big packages?

1999-04-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Anyone knows a cheap way to get debian packages, which are too big for a floppy to a computer, which isn't networked and has got only a cdrom driver and a floppy disk driver? Is it possible to 'pkzip' deb-packages in a dos-machine to make them smaller and 'unzip' them in the debian-machine?

[potato/apache/php3] [notice] child pid 11584 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

1999-04-10 Thread Michael Legart
Hi! I just opgraded my potatosystem, and now php3 support in apache doesn't work. When apache meets a .php3 file i segfaults :P Anyone else with this problem? My apache also segfaults when i enable the mod_perl module.. any ideas what could make this happend? Thanks. -- michael legart, [EMAIL

Registered where?

1999-04-10 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I get this message from cron: File /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver registered but not installed Where is it registered, and how do I unregister it? I do not have xscreensaver installed in /usr/X11R6/bin at all. I uninstalled it using dselect. Instead I have version 3.08 installed in another

Re: Registered where?

1999-04-10 Thread shaleh
Hi, I get this message from cron: File /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver registered but not installed Where is it registered, and how do I unregister it? I do not have xscreensaver installed in /usr/X11R6/bin at all. I uninstalled it using dselect. Instead I have version 3.08 installed in

RE: Registered where?

1999-04-10 Thread Pollywog
On 10-Apr-99 Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I get this message from cron: File /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver registered but not installed Where is it registered, and how do I unregister it? I do not have xscreensaver installed in /usr/X11R6/bin at all. I uninstalled it using dselect.

suidregister

1999-04-10 Thread Pollywog
Here is the problem. Every night, root sends me a message with this in it: File /usr/lib/emacs/19.34/i386-debian-linux/movemail registered but not installed I am not sure what to do about it. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: suidregister

1999-04-10 Thread Adam Klein
On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 04:13:17PM -, Pollywog wrote: Here is the problem. Every night, root sends me a message with this in it: File /usr/lib/emacs/19.34/i386-debian-linux/movemail registered but not installed I am not sure what to do about it. Run 'suidunregister

How do I change ppp window size in Debian?

1999-04-10 Thread Phillip Deackes
Hi. I have a problem with my ISP's POP3 server. There is a pause between each message as I am downloading them. Since I subscribe to quite a few mailing lists thsi creates a lot of additional time on-line. My ISP's support desk has emailed the following to me, though I am note sure how to do the

Re: Laptop Debian Installation

1999-04-10 Thread dan ilan
To whom may be able to assist me, I am new to Unix and have just downloaded the Debian version of Linux. The disks work on my desktop PII 350, but I am having trouble on my laptop (i386 20MHz with 8MB of RAM). The boot floppy starts, loads the kernel, but right after it recognizes my 60MB

Re: primenet.com rejects mail from ibm.net

1999-04-10 Thread Prof. Feedlebom
First of all, why are you sending this to the Debian list? *shrug* It seems a bit off-topic. I protest in most strenous possible terms to this treatment. You apparently don't understand the entire context of the error message. Please, read on. I absolutely DO NOT send unsolicited commercial

Problem with /root disk

1999-04-10 Thread dan ilan
Hi, can anyone help me with this one? I'm having problems creating a dual boot and root floppies. I use syslinux to create the /boot diskette, and it loads fine. The problem is that when i insert the /root diskette with a compressed file image, i get a VFS Error: can't mount root I use a

Mail system all f*cked up

1999-04-10 Thread Chris Hoover
Well, after doing a clean install of Slink from cd's, it appears that the mail system is not working. Last night, I did a clean install of slink, and setup fetchmail and exim and tested them. Fetchmail pulled down my mail, and eventually exim delivered it (over an hour later). Well, today I

Rebooting

1999-04-10 Thread Chris Brown
Hi everyone, We have Debian 2.1 system here that seems to be rebooting a lot, and it seems to be doing it on its own. Sometimes, according to syslog it will reboot multiple times in a row. Unfortunately, none of the logs have any documented reason for a reboot. The system is a backup

RE: Mail system all fouled up

1999-04-10 Thread Pollywog
On 10-Apr-99 Chris Hoover wrote: Well, after doing a clean install of Slink from cd's, it appears that the mail system is not working. Last night, I did a clean install of slink, and setup fetchmail and exim and tested them. Fetchmail pulled down my mail, and eventually exim delivered it

Help for error: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument.

1999-04-10 Thread Norbert Nemec
Hi out there, I've been trying to compile kernel 2.2.1 for several machines in our small network. Now, some computers bring the message above during bootup at the command: route add -net 127.0.0.0 (in /etc/init.d/network) After that, the IP-network is not working fully. (Parts, like nfs

Re: Rebooting

1999-04-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 13:57:58 +, Chris Brown wrote: We have Debian 2.1 system here that seems to be rebooting a lot, and it seems to be doing it on its own. Sometimes, according to syslog it will reboot multiple times in a row. Unfortunately, none of the logs have any documented

RE: Mail system all fouled up

1999-04-10 Thread Pollywog
Have you tried the command 'exim -bt -M mail-id-number' ? To get these numbers, do a 'exim -bp' Also, do 'ps ax' and find out from the exim entry how often Exim is delivering mail. Also check relay_domains and localdomains in your config file. I could not read the one you sent -- Andrew

Re: How do I change ppp window size in Debian?

1999-04-10 Thread John Hasler
Phillip Deackes writes: My ISP's support desk has emailed the following to me, though I am note sure how to do the same thing with Debian - the command he suggests does not work. And quotes: After bringing up your PPP connection, try adjusting the TCP window for that interface. If I remember

Newbie networking

1999-04-10 Thread damaged justice
As a relatively veteran user of other distributions (Redhat mainly, but also many of the single-floppy ones), I feel astoundingly stupid for presenting this problem, but here goes. Just installed Debian 2.1 base, and everything is working fine except for one glaring exception. The module for NIC

Re: Help for error: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument.

1999-04-10 Thread James Mastros
On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 07:58:40PM +0200, Norbert Nemec wrote: I've been trying to compile kernel 2.2.1 for several machines in our small network. Now, some computers bring the message above during bootup at the command: route add -net 127.0.0.0 (in /etc/init.d/network) The simple fix

Re:RE: Mail system all fouled up

1999-04-10 Thread Chris Hoover
exim is running from inet.d and is being ran as exim -bs. Chris At Sat, 10 Apr 1999 18:02:40 - (UTC), you wrote: On 10-Apr-99 Chris Hoover wrote: Well, after doing a clean install of Slink from cd's, it appears that the mail system is not working. Last night, I did a clean install of

Re:RE: Mail system all fouled up

1999-04-10 Thread Pollywog
On 10-Apr-99 Chris Hoover wrote: exim is running from inet.d and is being ran as exim -bs. I have never run it from inetd, but what do the logs say? (mainlog and paniclog) what happens if you do 'exim -qf' ? -- Andrew [PGP5.0 KeyID 0x5EE61C37] [ICQ#175285]

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-10 Thread fockface dickmeat
The technology is there to send large files easily. Embed a URL into an email message and most email clients will automatically launch either the FTP client to get the file, or the browser which has FTP capabilities to get the file. That's fine if you have a nice little linux box, with a

Re: new mail not visible in mail readers

1999-04-10 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I am using smail. This behavior has not been noticed until the past few months. Even now it is not consistent. Thanks then; at least I know the general nature of the problem. Alan Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 02:50:26AM -0500, Curt Daugaard wrote: I use exim, fetchmail, and mutt, and had a

Re:RE: Mail system all fouled up

1999-04-10 Thread Chris Hoover
Andrew, Here is the exim.conf file. Please take a look and let me know if you see anything out of the ordinary. Thanks for the help,] chris # This is the main exim configuration file. # It was originally generated by `eximconfig', part of the exim package # distributed with Debian, but it

Re:RE: Mail system all fouled up

1999-04-10 Thread Pollywog
On 10-Apr-99 Chris Hoover wrote: sender_host_reject_relay = * Bingo!! unset that guy. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 KeyID 0x5EE61C37] [ICQ#175285]

Bizaree IPaliasing problems

1999-04-10 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hi all, hurd.sel.cam.ac.uk (kenel 2.2.2) is IPaliasing for pick.sel.cam.ac.uk, but things don't seem to be working quite right: If I dialup from home, and ping (undre DOS) pick.sel.cam.ac.uk, I get request timed out. If I then poing hurd.sel.cam.ac.uk,m it respondes OK. If I then ping

Re: Need: Linux Xserver for Trident 9750 AGP

1999-04-10 Thread Michele Bini
On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 11:15:33AM +0530, Mohsin_Ahmed wrote: Hi, I need a Xserver for Trident 9750 AGP, even the plain VGA16 or SVGA servers don't work with this card on Celetron Intel CPU, 64Mb Ram, Linux/Redhat 5.2 CD. I have that card. I use the XF86_SVGA server version 3.3.3 (lower

PPP/Modem prob

1999-04-10 Thread JD
I'm attempting a switch to Debian after about a year of RH, and I've run into an odd problem getting the 'pon' script to work. I run pppconfig, using the defaults on everything but name and pw, but for some reason it just won't dial my modem. Init is set to ATZ, and ATDT for dialing, but

RE: Mail system all f*cked up

1999-04-10 Thread Pollywog
Looks like your machine bounced my messages to you, so I am sending this via the list. Try something like this too: # allows virtual domains listed to relay through this machine. sender_address_relay = partial-lsearch;/local/mail/relay/relay.allow # accepts relaying from friendly hosts.

RE: Laptop Debian Installation

1999-04-10 Thread Ralph J. Spada
Okay, I've now tried the normal rescue disk, the tecra boot disk, the low mem bootdisk, and some tomsrtbt disk. this last one was the most successful, allowing me to load up 'something' enough to make the boot disk(which works in other computers), but which still crashes my laptop. They all

RE: Mail system all fouled up

1999-04-10 Thread Pollywog
On 10-Apr-99 Pollywog wrote: Looks like your machine bounced my messages to you, so I am sending this via the list. Try something like this too: # allows virtual domains listed to relay through this machine. sender_address_relay = partial-lsearch;/local/mail/relay/relay.allow #

Re: How do I change ppp window size in Debian?

1999-04-10 Thread Marc Haber
On 10 Apr 1999 12:19:59 -0500, you wrote: Phillip Deackes writes: My ISP's support desk has emailed the following to me, though I am note sure how to do the same thing with Debian - the command he suggests does not work. And quotes: After bringing up your PPP connection, try adjusting the TCP

Re: [Debian] XFree86 3.3.3.1 ?

1999-04-10 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote: link is so slow that I can't download it. Besides since there is only http access and no ftp access, the only way to get it is by clicking an item, coming back half an hour later to click the next item... In such a case I would use wget if I were

Re: PPP/Modem prob

1999-04-10 Thread John Hasler
I run pppconfig, using the defaults on everything but name and pw, but for some reason it just won't dial my modem. Init is set to ATZ, and ATDT for dialing, but nothing. However, if I load minicom, and use the exact same strings, then I can connect no problem. Any idea's what might be

Online Metafont graphics?

1999-04-10 Thread Stefan Baums
Hi all! I'm trying to teach myself Metafont (using Debian 2.1, tetex from unstable; same problem with stable tetex, though). According to the documentation, mf can do online graphics when compiled --with-x; I checked the debian/rules in the source package, and it is indeed compiled this way.

vi GUI for X ?

1999-04-10 Thread homega
Hi there, I'm just starting with vi, and am wondering whether there's an X front end for vi (or nvi, or vim), or any X specific vi editor. Also, is CR the only way to avoid broken words at the end of a line? TIA Horacio -- Claves - GnuPG/PGP - Keys : http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver o/or

Re: RE: Mail system all fouled up

1999-04-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re:RE: Mail system all fouled up Date: Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 03:58:09PM -0400 In reply to:Chris Hoover Quoting Chris Hoover([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Andrew, Here is the exim.conf file. Please take a look and let me know if you see anything out of the ordinary.

Re: vi GUI for X ?

1999-04-10 Thread shaleh
Hi there, I'm just starting with vi, and am wondering whether there's an X front end for vi (or nvi, or vim), or any X specific vi editor. Also, is CR the only way to avoid broken words at the end of a line? gvim is a GUI vim. And yes, hitting enter is the only way.

Re: Newbie networking

1999-04-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Newbie networking Date: Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 02:40:57PM -0400 In reply to:damaged justice Quoting damaged justice([EMAIL PROTECTED]): As a relatively veteran user of other distributions (Redhat mainly, but also many of the single-floppy ones), I feel astoundingly

Re: vi GUI for X ?

1999-04-10 Thread Adam Klein
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 12:03:26AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I'm just starting with vi, and am wondering whether there's an X front end for vi (or nvi, or vim), or any X specific vi editor. Yes, vim has something called gvim. Adam

Re: RE: Mail system all fouled up

1999-04-10 Thread Pollywog
qualify_domain = bellsouth.net Wrong! Should be your boxes name Oops I assumed that was his machine's domain name. local_domains = bellsouth.net:localhost Wrong again just localhost I have both shadypond.com and localhost

Re: primenet.com rejects mail from ibm.net

1999-04-10 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 10:24:00AM -0700, Prof. Feedlebom wrote: First of all, why are you sending this to the Debian list? *shrug* It seems a bit off-topic. I was furious, and I was attempting to bring to other Debian users' attention the possibility that perhaps they, too, live in a ghetto

/dev/audio and /dev/dsp

1999-04-10 Thread Igor Helman
Hey there, I just installed slink, and was trying to get the kernel to work with my sound card (SB16, plug-and-play). The problem is that while everything compiles and is recognized, the sound fails, because there's no /dev/audio and /dev/dsp. I had them on my Slackware system, but it was a

Re: vi GUI for X ?

1999-04-10 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 12:03:26AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just starting with vi, and am wondering whether there's an X front end for vi (or nvi, or vim), or any X specific vi editor. There's an X version of vim called gvim. You could also try using one of the vi modes under

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