Re: kernel-image-2.2.1 package cannot be created with make-kpkg

1999-02-12 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Conrado Badenas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: test -f System.map chmod 644 \ debian/tmp-image/boot/System.map-2.2.1 dpkg-gencontrol -pkernel-image-2.2.1-i586 -Pdebian/tmp-image/ parsechangelog/debian: error: unable to open substvars file

Re: chmod on vfat

1999-02-12 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only root can write to a vfat partition. I suppose because vfat contains no extended attributes for security you cannot simply chmod on a file/directory to allow someone other than root to write to it. Any work arounds to

Re: smail - exim = mail now broken

1999-02-14 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kenneth F. Ryder III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: found out that there is no cron job for exim -bd, (DOH!) it helps to be running your mail daemon. I am not sure why there was no cron job, since Dselect had done one for smail, when I had that installed Errr...

Re: Sound card suggestion

1999-02-14 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'd love to have is some advice on a no-hassle sound card. The card doesn't have to put out great sound -- most any noise will do. By far the highest priority is for the card to mesh seamlessly with Linux. Anyone have

Re: running Exim with inetd / headder rewrite

1999-02-16 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kenneth F. Ryder III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [exim in inetd.conf] smtp stream tcpnowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/exim -bs I've got: smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/exim -bs i.e. I run exim as user mail rather than as

Re: dmesg: What file?

1999-02-16 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sebastian Canagaratna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I was under the impression that the command dmesg just typed out the contents of /var/log/kern.log. This does not seem to be true. What is the file which dmesg is displaying? I believe the kernel keeps a circular

Re: green linux user needs CRON clarification

1999-02-17 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], sawitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, William Schwartz wrote: I guess my question is: what is the difference between the two? and which one should I use? I need a program to run every 5 minutes to do some polling. and I want it to happen 24/7.

Re: Strange 'find' result

1999-02-17 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: In foo.debian-user, you wrote: $ find /cdrom -iname wx* $ find /cdrom -iname wxx* /cdrom/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/wxxt1_1.66d-2.deb Why does the first 'find' query

Re: apt-get install from local directory of Deb files

1999-02-19 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], MacKenzie, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get apt to work installing .deb files from a local directory. I have no packages list and I cannot seem to figure out how to make the FILE: uri stem work. I guess the problem is that they are just sitting

Re: WindowMaker themes - Debian packages

1999-02-19 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Over the weekend, I wrote a script that converts WindowMaker themes to Debian packages automatically. (the themes have to follow wm.t.o's packaging policy). I think it would be useful for other Debian users but I don't

Re: not a plain file - apt install with dselect

1999-02-19 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 95% of the packages installed, however it seems that apt wont install the files its fetched untill it has all of them. I can understand this. However apt is having problems getting a few of the files. See the error

Re: How to make Netscape use Debian mailcap ?

1999-02-24 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lars Steinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anybody know why Netscape does not use /etc/mailcap and /etc/mimetypes ? It is rather annoying that Netscape won't startup gv for .ps files even though we have such a nice mime-type definition for every package. That's

Re: Emacs and vertical split

1999-02-25 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Err, this problem is tricky. In Emacs I splitted the screen vertically, which should work with 132 coloums, I thought. (C-x 3 or C-x Shift-3). Then I tried to display a text in both windows but some lines are wider than 65

Re: Getting X-Windows to recognize Truetype fonts...

1999-02-26 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble getting Netscape and Wordperfect to recognize my TTFs... I've installed xfstt (it's loaded during boot-up), but when I do a xlsfonts | grep ttf I get nothing... I've also done ln -s /dos_c/windows/fonts

Re: Qmail to Exim woes

1999-03-06 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First the date. My local network is mtntop.home, my user name is wtopa (of course), my address for the net should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, you're receving mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or possibly [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Or do you only

Re: Exim configuration

1999-03-06 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In /var/log/exim/mainlog.01 SMTP error from remote mailer after Mail From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=2522: host smtp-gw01.ibm.net Unresolvable domain name What is this error telling me? I think it's saying that

Re: X Font Problem

1999-03-06 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know where the font package that contains Adobe Helvetica is? I used APT for getting blackbox's package from the frozen section. I also grabbed the xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-75dpi packages, along with the basic stuff

Re: Custom headers -- outgoing email

1999-03-07 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aaron Van Couwenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Aaron Van Couwenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have mutt set up to include ~/.muttrc-local for each user. My .muttrc-local has (among other things) the following commands: set hdrs

Re: [exim] Custom headers -- outgoing email

1999-03-09 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you tie a rewrite rule to a particular route? The documentation wasn't very clear on this. It seems that aaron would want it to only rewrite the sender header going through the smarthost route. Mmm... point... It's in

Re: Where is the exim cookbook? Was Re:[exim] Custom headers

1999-03-10 Thread Frozen Rose
On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 07:03:36AM -0500, David B. Teague wrote: Where is the Exim cookbook? It didn't come with a recent stock exim installation. Look on http://www.exim.org/, under either the FAQ or the Documentation section (can't remember which atm I'm afraid). I don't seem to remember it

Re: PLEASE READ! IMPORTANT! ALL THE MEMBERS! PLEASE READ!

1999-03-14 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: groups. I use mutt to read my mail, and it threads email. GNUs also does this. If worst comes to worst, and you _MUST_ use a news reader to read debian-user, use mail2news with a filtering program (exim or procmail) and run

Re: termcap/info help

1999-03-15 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan P Tomer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i frequently login to a remote freebsd system. freebsd uses termcap. is there a way to convert my linux and xterm-debian entries from terminfo to termcap format? tic *claims* to be able to convert terminfo *source* to

Re: exim user

1999-03-17 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Exim runs himself in inetd.conf as user 'exim'. This user doesn't exist in my /etc/passwd, so I've changed it to user 'mail'. Am I doing the right thing? It sounds right. That's what I do, and it works for

Re: /bin/sh

1999-03-17 Thread Frozen Rose
When it comes to having a root shell for emergency use, you may look into sash, which is intended to be used even when libc is broken: Package: sash Priority: optional Section: shells Installed-Size: 299 Maintainer: Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 2.1-5 Size: 131400