How would I go about changing my domain name? Thanks for your help.
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Work:
Site: http://www.iconmedia.com
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Site: http://www.iconmedia.com/aaron
Email: [EMAIL
Will Lowe wrote:
If you want a simple, powerful email/news client, I recommend pine.
It's nonfree because you can't redistribute it for profit, but works
good, and runs really well in an xterm ... I use it because it's what we
use at school, and I can run it without X across a dialup link
Hey once again...
For anyone who's looked at my last two mails, I'm still having the same
problem setting up a 3c589a pcmcia ethernet card. I'm using a debian
distrib and have pcmcia services installed and working. The problem is
that I'm not real sure how to go about setting up the card for
Hi, All
is Mycrodine NE2500+ network card asu[3~
supported by Linux ()Debian ?
regards
OK
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Hi,
Is there a How-to on how to set up a mail system for intra system use
only? I want to be able to send myself reminders and soforth ... I also
want to do some experimenting with allowing my system to send me mail
about system events...?
I was also wondering if there was a way to link a data
Scott K. Ellis wrote:
Neither. If you remove libc5, you will break your system and have to
reinstall completely. I repeat, DO NOT FORCE THE REMOVAL OF LIBC5 UNDER
ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Well, although nearly fatal, I didn't have to do a complete
reinstall. I did go ahead and remove libc5 and
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Randy Edwards wrote:
reinstall. I did go ahead and remove libc5 and was surprised at how
many things it broke. It broke things real good. :-) Since I did
Yup. :)
have a spare partition on this machine I went ahead and used an old copy
of Debian 1.2 and installed the
I did get fipsb to work. However , I now keep getting an error
like vfbackup cannot load vfd.vxd, when I try to boot the toy OS .
There are quite a few messages about this in email archives from windows
users. It seems to be quite sticky. The toy OS company has a page on
fixing the
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote:
How would I go about changing my domain name? Thanks for your help.
Assuming you mean just convincing your machine that it's on a different
domain (rather than trying to convince teh rest of the net), you could
try
cd /etc
fgrep oldhostname *
and then
I can print now.
I am not completely sure what I did to fix the problem -- I reran
magicfilterconfig, I reinstalled gs, and I changed the printer defined
by magicfilter from DeskJet 500C to plain DeskJet 500.
I still maintain that the docs for *nix printing are among the worst
I've ever seen . .
usually I have an ethernet link at school, and I use fetchmail to fetch
mail from our pop server.
At the moment, I'm at home, and I have ppp running fine (also did
ifconfig eth0 down to get rid of the ethernet link). But now smail is
giving me all sorts of problems -- fetchmail is fetching
I'm very close to have all of my net functions working. I can ftp,
ping, and browse the web with Netscape. I can get mail from my ISP
with netscape, but I really don't want to be stuck with that as my
mail reader.
I'm trying to configure exim and fetchmail. I've read all the
documentation
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
Xdefer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] reason: (ERR175) host retry file locked
And if I do rm /var/spool/smail/retry/smtp/localhost, I get these in
the msglogs.
Xdefer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] reason: (ERR148) transport smtp: connect:
Connection refused
Ok. I've
Please bear with me, I'm plodding through the installation of a linux
system...
I tried running setserial on ttys1 (my modem on com2), but I get a I/O Error
message all the time. I have checked permissions, but don't know what else
to do. Please help. (BTW: I have checked various faq's and
Hi,
and happy holidays season to all. I'm trying to remote backup a debian machine
and I'm having some trouble, so I'm looking for advice.
Usually I backup using tob, i.e. afio. What I want now is that for the machine
with tape to share it with other machines on the same lan, at least allowing
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 09:30:56PM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote:
Scott K. Ellis wrote:
Neither. If you remove libc5, you will break your system and have to
reinstall completely. I repeat, DO NOT FORCE THE REMOVAL OF LIBC5 UNDER
ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Well, although nearly fatal, I didn't
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
My name is Adam Heath. I am currently attempting to add Linux support for the
H.323 video conferencing protocol, both as masquerading, and a proxy.
I have also rewritten redir, to support ip-aliasing, and to make it function as
a load balancer. However, I
On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 12:14:54AM -0800, Dean Somji wrote:
I tried running setserial on ttys1 (my modem on com2), but I get a I/O Error
message all the time. I have checked permissions, but don't know what else
to do. Please help. (BTW: I have checked various faq's and how-to's with
little
I'm trying to install Debian on my Digital P166, but it's hanging
hard right after the line:
md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4 MAX_REAL=8
I've found a couple other reports of this in Dejanews, but no answers
to the problem...
jason
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On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 02:00:57PM -0600, Asher Haig wrote:
I'm trying to install Debian after having Redhat installed on my system.
I've gone through the install, but I'm confused as to how I can make my
ethernet card work. The card is a PCMCIA 3-com 3c589a. It doesn't seem as
if there's
On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 03:15:38AM -0700, Jason and Heather wrote:
I'm trying to install Debian on my Digital P166, but it's hanging
hard right after the line:
md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4 MAX_REAL=8
I've found a couple other reports of this in Dejanews, but no answers
to the problem...
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mine does this too but onmine if I wait about 5 minutes and let it sit
there, sooner or later it will skip past that portion and go on into
linux..
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I'm trying to install Debian on my Digital P166, but it's hanging
hard right after the line:
Hey
Very often, when compiling programs, I get errors with redefines, like this:
In file included from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:12,
from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:73,
from pthread.h:26,
from pthread.c:24:
/usr/include/linux/wait.h:4: warning:
Thanks to all who replied about this. I haven't tried out the
suggestions yet because my cdrom drive seems to be packing up :(
I'll have a go when I've replaced it.
Anthony
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On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 01:18:41AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 03:15:38AM -0700, Jason and Heather wrote:
I'm trying to install Debian on my Digital P166, but it's hanging
hard right after the line:
md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4 MAX_REAL=8
I've found a
On Thu, Dec 25, 1997 at 06:34:02PM +, Timothy Hospedales wrote:
Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
Dec 25
17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: Using interface ppp0
Dec 25 17:59:23 jade
pppd[192]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0
Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]:
sent [LCP
Gerald Belton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm very close to have all of my net functions working. I can ftp,
ping, and browse the web with Netscape. I can get mail from my ISP
with netscape, but I really don't want to be stuck with that as my
mail reader.
I'm trying to configure exim
Hi all.
A brief question, which I suspect may require a verbose answer... Is there
a way to install debain using ftp on a dial-up connection?
I suspect one may have to install ppp support from an alternate console
before dselect will work, but is there a recognised way of doing this?
Thanks
I asked about this before, but I don't think it got through because I
didn't receive the message from the list... What command line options
would I use to start X with 24bit color, 1024X size desktop, 75hz refresh
rate, and open look window manager?
thanx,
Timothy.
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IS there a dpkg option to list all the installed packages? I looked in
the
man pages but didn't see anything that [obviously] did that If not,
since it keeps track of what is installed, I presume there must be some
file somewhere which has them listed in it, anyone happen to know
On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 07:41:12PM +, Timothy Hospedales wrote:
I asked about this before, but I don't think it got through because I
didn't receive the message from the list... What command line options
would I use to start X with 24bit color, 1024X size desktop, 75hz refresh
rate,
On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 07:45:25PM +, Timothy Hospedales wrote:
IS there a dpkg option to list all the installed packages? I looked in
the
man pages but didn't see anything that [obviously] did that If not,
since it keeps track of what is installed, I presume there must be some
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997 21:59:23 EST, wrote:
I can print now.
Congratulations. :-)
I am not completely sure what I did to fix the problem -- I reran
magicfilterconfig, I reinstalled gs, and I changed the printer defined
by magicfilter from DeskJet 500C to plain DeskJet 500.
Even though it
On Thu, 25 Dec 1997, Timothy Hospedales wrote:
Now, (having booted off the disk), I check my /etc/ppp/ and am
disappointed to find that I have no scripts already there that I can
customize. :(. So, I decited to try a program that was recommended to me by
The standard way in debian to
On 25 Dec 1997, William R Ward wrote:
Does anyone have a solution to this? I'd like to install the basic
Perl, and am fine with using .deb files for that, but wish to reserve
the right to upgrade using perl -MCPAN -e shell and its nifty
interface.
You could use the equivs package from
I get the following message when I log on as 'su'.
configuration error - unknown item 'ISSUE_FILE' (notify administrator)
I cleared this out in the login.defs file (per help on this list) for
a normal login by setting up a null /etc/issue file. I can login now
as a normal user without the
When I start Elm as root is works fine but when I start Elm as my user
name, amwalker, is says:
What's this? The temp folder already exists??
Then this disappears after a second then it says:
Ahhh... I give up.
This also works with other users besides root. Another problem...
When I open up
This fledgling user would like help. I fired up TkDesk in my new install of
Debian 1.3.1 and loved it.
Then I decided to add one new command to the Command list drop-down menu,
following the instructions in configuration. I typed in the new command in
Commands config and hit F5 to save and return
Hi,
I am giving up with linux, for now, mainly due to lack of sucess and hd
space.
I will try again when i get a second hd. (and maybe a book or two!)
Thanks to all who have helped in someway.
Rick
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Newbie Question:
I've configured XF86 (correctly I think) but evertime I try to start it
with the X command, I get a grey screen and an X cursor. Nothing
happens after that.
I've got the right card and monitor settings. I'm running the VGA16
server.
What is wrong here? Is it not reading the
On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Krio wrote:
I've configured XF86 (correctly I think) but evertime I try to start it
with the X command, I get a grey screen and an X cursor. Nothing
happens after that.
What is wrong here? Is it not reading the config file? If so, how do I
tell X where the config
On my system, this line results in a 10 second freeze up, and then
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
It then continues to boot normally. Perhaps you didn't wait long enough.
Or, maybe you have a device that doesn't want to be probed (I solve this
by opening the case, unplugging
Newbie Question:
I've configured XF86 (correctly I think) but evertime I try to start it
with the X command, I get a grey screen and an X cursor. Nothing
happens after that.
Try startx command instead of plain X.
Alex Y.
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On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 10:26:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On my system, this line results in a 10 second freeze up, and then
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
Thanks for the info. I don't have a SCSI card in my computer, so I'm not
too surprised it isn't working.
It
Even though it takes longer, I've gotten to the point where I want to
isolate individual issues whenever possible. This aids me in learning,
maintaining and troubleshooting. Of course, when things are fubar,
that's another story.
In principle, I agree. When I'm really, really frustrated
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
Ok. I've narrowed it down -- smail doesn't like mail addressed to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- if I tell fetchmail to use procmail as the delivery
agent, everything is fine, but otherwise sendmail seems to send itself
into infinite loops trying to deliver to
Hello,
I'm experiencing a strange problem with my ALS100-based SB16-compatible
PnP sound card: Although isapnp is detecting and configuring the card
correctly, and the sound module loads as expected (i.e. cat /proc/sndstat
reports the expected configuration), I can only play MIDI files right
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