Re: surfin' on cable!

2000-07-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Chris Majewski wrote: Hm, I'm on Rogers in Vancouver and I'm not using dhcp at all. For the record, seems to work fine for a week now. Hm, should I expect imminent disaster? -chris This is probably not wise. Since the DHCP server is

Re: IMAP-aware anymail/frm ?

2000-07-14 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: Actually the current imap package doesn't seem to contain it, I'm sorry are you still on slink? I think I added the utils sometime during potato. but I managed to do something similar with fetchmail. The package is called fetchmail, the relevant

Re: surfin' on cable!

2000-07-14 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 10:44:31AM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote: Hm, I'm on Rogers in Vancouver and I'm not using dhcp at all. For the record, seems to work fine for a week now. Hm, should I expect imminent disaster? -chris Mine (Rogers in Waterloo, ON) has been working without DHCP for around

Re: system lock on boot

2000-07-14 Thread Suresh Kumar. R
Hi, I had the same problem, being unable boot of the cd from some machines where I could successfully install redhat linux. And I am still unable to install debian on them. Suresh On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:43:05PM -0700, e3c wrote: Thank you for your reply, What I thought was Debian

Re: unable to unmount

2000-07-14 Thread Suresh Kumar. R
Hi, What I meant is, even if umount the cdrom drive from the client and then do a shutdown even, I am unable to umount cdrom from the server. This typically happens after my remote installation of debian/redhat linuxes. If I mount a cdrom and nfs mount it on some other machines, even after

Re: Printing Failure

2000-07-14 Thread Suresh Kumar. R
Hi, There is printtool package in potato which could be installed on slink as well. Why dont you just try that too. (It is an RH package basically, I think) Suresh On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 07:07:53AM -0500, Brian S Enyart wrote: I'm running into a problem with the printer lately. Nothing is

Re: unable to unmount

2000-07-14 Thread Suresh Kumar. R
Hi, I have just one more question. This problem wouldnt happen if I just mount the cdrom on the server, use it locally and after sometime I can unmount it. Then also nfsd should be accessing it as /cdrom is there in my exports list and preventing me from umounting? I am confused... Could you

apache-ssl won't render

2000-07-14 Thread Matthew Thompson
Hello, again, all, I'm in the process of setting up imp on my machine. I got it to work just fine with apache, but when I switched over to apache-ssl something odd happened. Httpd won't render .html or .php3 files anymore. Netscape just displays them as plain text files. Also, when I point my

Debian and WordPerfect - Solved!

2000-07-14 Thread bsamuels
Thanks to all those who replied to my e-mail. I had libc5 installed but I couldn't find, in the WordPerfect documentation, what other libraries might be required. Judith gave me the clue! I did have xlib6 but not the libc5 version of xpm. Installing that has solved the problem. Thanks Judith.

Re: XFree86 server for ATI Rage 128 Pro

2000-07-14 Thread Felix Natter
Brian Stults [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had to upgrade to 4.0 you use my card. The debs aren't available yet for reasons that have already been discussed on this list. However, you can get the binaries or source code from xfree86.org. I used the binaries and it was a snap. The driver is

Unidentified subject!

2000-07-14 Thread Touloumtzis, Michael

Re: IMAP-aware anymail/frm ?

2000-07-14 Thread Krzys Majewski
Right you are, they are in potato, thanks. But ifrom prompts me for my username/password, which is a drag, I'm a big fan of cheap and extremely insecure workarounds to this sort of thing, any clues? While we're on the subject, is there a tool to rotate mailboxes (like, say the one I've created

pam vs /etc/environment

2000-07-14 Thread Will Trillich
I've seen these in my system logs (and via logcheck) a lot, and didn't know where to start looking: Jul 14 14:13:17 server login[13066]: PAM pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; . /etc/postgresql/postgresql.env Jul 14 14:13:17 server PAM_unix[13066]: (login) session opened for user will by

Mahogany for Potato

2000-07-14 Thread Preben Randhol
Does somebody have a .deb package of Mahogany 0.60 which works with Mahogany? The package available does not work as it requires an older version of libstdc++ (2.9) Thanks in advance -- Preben Randhol -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ +---+ There was, I think, never any reason

Re: Mahogany for Potato

2000-07-14 Thread Preben Randhol
Preben Randhol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 14/07/2000 (23:14) : Does somebody have a .deb package of Mahogany 0.60 which works with Mahogany? The package available does not work as it requires an older Potato I meant version of libstdc++ (2.9) Thanks in advance -- Preben

Re: IMAP (Netscape?) hiccups in Woody

2000-07-14 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Well, this is bizarre: # ls -l /var/spool/ total 20 ... lrwxrwxrwx1 root root7 May 5 09:59 mail - ../mail ... # ls -l /var/ total 72 ... drwxrwsr-x2 root mail 4096 Jul 14 18:04 mail ... What created this symlink? I didn't. I have quite a lot of

Exim for ISDN systems ?

2000-07-14 Thread Preben Randhol
I'm trying to setup exim and spruce (e-mail client) so that I can use it for a dial-up (ISDN) system. What I do now is that all messages are sent from spruce to exim on localhost, and then I want to open the connection to the internet (as the user) and have exim send all the messages before the

Re: Exim for ISDN systems ?

2000-07-14 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Preben! On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Preben Randhol wrote: I'm trying to setup exim and spruce (e-mail client) so that I can use it for a dial-up (ISDN) system. What I do now is that all messages are sent from spruce to exim on localhost, and then I want to open the connection to the internet

Re: Exim for ISDN systems ?

2000-07-14 Thread Preben Randhol
Peter Palfrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 15/07/2000 (00:48) : Hi Preben! exim -qf and/or exim -qff will send all mail from the queue. If I remember they both are blocking, i.e. will only return when all messages got send. Ah I see. The only problem now is to make the user able to run that

Re: Exim for ISDN systems ?

2000-07-14 Thread Moritz Schulte
On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 12:54:43AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: Ah I see. The only problem now is to make the user able to run that command. use sudo. :) have a look at 'man sudo' and 'man sudoers' for information about the config file /etc/sudoers. moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte

Re: Exim for ISDN systems ?

2000-07-14 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Preben! On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Preben Randhol wrote: Peter Palfrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 15/07/2000 (00:48) : exim -qf and/or exim -qff will send all mail from the queue. If I remember they both are blocking, i.e. will only return when all messages got send. Ah I see. The only

how do i get sound working?

2000-07-14 Thread Bob
alright i've read the sound-how-to but it didn't help me. my sound card is a Creative Labs Audio PCI 64V. im not sure what sound driver i should be using or how to set the irq, I/o port, and DMA settings... running pnpdump does nothing.

RE: Some basic unix commanding, more please:

2000-07-14 Thread Frodo Baggins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jaldhar H. Vyas scripsit: Sarcasm? Hardly. I came to perl via Sanskrit. The way perl compresses such a lot of information makes a lot of sense to someone who has studied, say, the Vyakarana sutras. Well, let me say that this will be saved in my

Question about partitioning

2000-07-14 Thread Ed Burke
Hi Gang, I have reconsidered installing linux - now that I have all my ducks in a row. I had NT installed on an ex-corporate machine. So there were a lot of nifty programs but no meat behind them. I opted to discard this and install W 95 instead. I now have it

Re: IMAP (Netscape?) hiccups in Woody

2000-07-14 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: Well, this is bizarre: # ls -l /var/spool/ total 20 ... lrwxrwxrwx1 root root7 May 5 09:59 mail - ../mail ... # ls -l /var/ total 72 ... drwxrwsr-x2 root mail 4096 Jul 14 18:04 mail ...

2gig file

2000-07-14 Thread Brian Schramm
OK. I am dealing with a 2gig file size limit on Linux. I have been reading up on this all day to very little luck as to how to fix it. If I recomend someone to go to debian for an upgrade will this fix it? I am after any fix I can get and at this time changing dist. is just as good for me as

Newbie Mouse Problem

2000-07-14 Thread Kevin Connor
I've just installed Debian 2.0.34 and I can't get my Mouse Systems PS/2 mouse to work. I've spent much of the day today searching the archives but nothing I read there seems to help. Here's the what I've been able to find out about the problem When I look at the login messages in

Re: How do I get flexible email headers and sigs?

2000-07-14 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Sven Burgener, Good question. Is there any way of doing this with mutt? Anyone got a working solution to this? One easy way to do this in mutt is have your favourite MDA (maildrop for me, procmail for pretty much everyone else) deliver your emails to different addresses to different

Re: how do i get sound working?

2000-07-14 Thread Corey Popelier
Do a cat /proc/pci and look for the lines relating to your sound device. If you see things like: Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 (rev 6) Or so forth, then what you need is to compile a kernel with the ES1371 driver from the sound section. Ensoniq ES1371 == Creative PCI64 in a lot of

R version mismatch ?

2000-07-14 Thread K . Arun
Hello, I just happened the install the r-base package (statistical computing package, R) on an up-to-date 'potato' box using the normal 'apt-get install' routine. The version of the package installed was 0.90.1. However, the R site has version 1.10 debs for both 'potato' and 'woody'. Is

apt-get can't find unstable non-us packages

2000-07-14 Thread Chris Majewski
I've replaced stable with unstable in /etc/apt/*sources* but apt-get update won't buy it: 20:36:04/home/krzys# apt-get update Hit http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages Hit

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