Hello all,
Could someone please explain the concept of Non-Free Packages please (i.e. Pine
etc).
It is just that I don't understand why other distributions can include them in
there official releases, where as debain can not.
Also on another note, does anyone knoe if there is a graphical front
Hi all,
Sorry to ask this but what is hamm,
I guess i should know, but I am new to this list, and Debain(after just moving
from RedHat), so if someone could please let me know, I would be grateful,
especially if anyone could give me the URL of any information.
Regards
Graham Lillico
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I think Xinside Accelerated X 4.1 supports the Matrox Series. I thikn it is
overall better than XFree86 since most of the drivers are optimized for the
specific cards.
As far as I know the Millenium II also works with MetroX, and yet again it is
not free but it is a good package, and very
I think you could design a perl script or some kind of script for that if a
icmp/udp/tcp is being done to your system at x amount of time you could use
ipfwadm to block it. ipfwadm is a very powerful tool. I used to be port
scanned daily and icmp attack, use ipfwadm to block it.
Hi,
Hi,
I am currently using hamm and am very happy with it. I will be
installing a new Linux system soon but everyone is telling me to install
RedHat 5. Has anyone any opinions on this? I tend to be partial to
Debian, especially with GNOME being integrated into hamm. However, I've
Hello:
I recently installed Debian 1.3 on a '386, but apparently did not complete
the process correctly. X was not configured (although everything else
that I have tried seems to be).
I cannot find 'xf86config' or 'XF86Setup' on the system.
I made the smae mistake when I first installed
Hi,
Can anyone tell me why debian 1.3.1 uses agetty, instead of something like
mingetty?
I wish to screen to clear after booting my system but using agetty this is not
possible, I have tried using mingetty and this does what I require, but I am
wondering if there is anyreason agetty was chosen
Hello,
I was wondering if the following is possible using either Smail or Sendmail,
What I want to do is to use smail or sendmail mail to deliver my internet
email, The problem I have is that I need one of these packages to deliver any
local mail or network mail to the appropriate user/server,
Hi,
Graham == Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 Graham writes:
Graham Hello, I was wondering if the following is possible using
Graham either Smail or Sendmail,
Simple in sendmail.
Graham What I want to do is to use smail or sendmail mail to deliver
Graham my internet email
I found sendmail easier to setup than smail... others would probably
disagree.
I can belive that but ideally I would like to use smail but if sendmail will do
what i want then i will use that.
I have sendmail set up as :
sendmail -bd -q 15m
same as mine at the moment.
I am using a win95
Is there any way to format a Qic-80 tape on a ftape device? I don't
feel like rebooting to Win95 just to do this. I know I can use mt to
'erase' the tape but that just erases the header on the tape.
As far as I am aware then you can not use Linux to format these tapes, this
may of course
Hello all
I'm still trying to get smail working like I want, but I think I am nearly
there thanks to all your help.
But I have another question.
How can I get my internet mail to my mail server from my isp's pop3 server, so
that my promailrc file will filter all my mail both internet and local,
Hi!
mfrattola localhost mail deliver locally don't rewrite header
mfrattola LAN mail deliver thru eth0 don't rewrite header
mfrattola internet mail deliver thru ppp0 rewrite header
This is possible by
a) defining mailers, and modifying sendmail.cf to add a inexpensive
Hi all,
I friend of mine is running RedHat 5.1 (i have tried to convert him, but
without any luck) and he was telling me that RedHat is now using the Linuxconf
package, and I was wondering how compatiable Linuxconf is with Debian 1.3.1(bo)
and 2.0(hamm)? And is there a .deb package for the
Hi all,
I friend of mine is running RedHat 5.1 (i have tried to convert him, but
without any luck) and he was telling me that RedHat is now using the Linuxconf
package, and I was wondering how compatiable Linuxconf is with Debian 1.3.1(bo)
and 2.0(hamm)? And is there a .deb package for the
Hi,
I have just set up a primary and secondary name servers on my network, and I
have created some A class records for things like ftp, www and news. I would
like to deny access to say the web site if someone used say
http://ftp.bogus.org and just allow access from http://www.bogus.org, I have
Hi All,
I am using Squid as my web cache and I have been playing reound with the
cachemgr script that come with Squid, but I can't seem to get it to work
properly, for some of the functions that can be selected when using this cgi
script it seems to want a password but everyone I try seems to be
Hi all,
I am currently using debian 1.3.1 and I noticed last night that the adduser
script isn't copying files from the /etc/skel directory properly. It just
copies the files but without anythin inside them, i.e. I have set up some
default bash scripts that I want all users to run but after
Hi all,
I am trying to configure my debian 1.3.1 box to allow me to run X programs from
the root account when I am logged in as another user, this is because the root
account is locked so I have to 'su' to root, the problem I am having is that
before I 'su' to root I have to run xhost hostname.
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I have bootet some HPux systems here at the Univiersity and I realy
liked the way they boot:
After the kernel is loaded you get a list of things to be done. All
have a [.] at the end. Now the bootprocedure goes from top to
bottom and fills in what its doing into
Hi all,
Does anyone know if the Martox Millenium G200 is compatiable with XFree? Its a
new AGP card, and I amd asking if it compatiable before I go out and buy it.
If not does anyone know where I could go and find out if it is?
Regards
Graham
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Brandon Mitchell wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Jieyao wrote:
I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console
before t
he login
prompt appears.
if you are using bash as your shell then just create a .bash_logout file in the
users home hirectory and put the
Hi,
I am currently looking at buying Accelerated X from Xi graphics (think thats
correct), as I am looking at buying a Matrox Millenium G200, but I am wondering
how compatiable it is with Debian? i.e. how easy it is to install etc..
Regards
Graham
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What I did was run the smailconfig program and chose option 2. This allows
you to specify the smarthost where all non-local mail is to be transmitted.
When asked for a smarthost I gave the SMTP server that I get from my ISP.
That's what I have at home - is this what you are looking for?
Hi,
Does anyone know why on boot up my Serial ports are displayed as /dev/tty00 and
/dev/tty01?
I have tried running the 0setserial script from /rc.boot/ (i think thats
correct) and that says they are /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 but it also produces
a wierd error, something like;
cannot
Nico De Ranter wrote:
Howdy,
a friend of mine wants to buy a scsi-card. His options are:
Adaptec 2940 UW 300$
Adaptec 2930 (U) 180$
Advansys UW180$
Advansys U 150$
Diamond fireport (UW ?) 180$
The only
Hello,
I have just upgraded my windows 95 system to version 2 and I have used the
FAT32 file system, but I am now unable to mount this partition under Linux, is
this possible at when it was FAT then I just used the vfat module but this does
not seem to work. Any ideas?
Also when I try to
Hi all,
Just a quicky, I have just compiled sound support (as a module) into my kernel
and want to load the sound module everytime I boot, I places 'sound' in the
/etc/modules files , where all the other modules are listed i.e. vfat, ne etc
but when I boot it says it can't find the module sound.
Hi,
Hi,
I am looking at a new computer for my parrents to get me for college... I
looked at the hardware howto but somethings arn't listed so heres
what I am looking at getting.
Tiger K6233 customize it yourself kit.
it contains:
Sounds like a good choice.
a ATX motherboard with
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
:
: Is there a smbclient interface that is something like mc's ftp interface?
Nope, at least not that I'm aware of.
I don't know about mc's interface but if you are using the KDE Desktop (which
is now avaliable in deb format) there is a frontend
Hi all
I was looking at Debian's WWW site today at the package listings, and I noticed
that for the packages the source is avvaliable in three different formats, and
I was wondering if anyone could tell me what the differences are in these three
formats.
they are
.dsc
Hi all,
I would like to use MetroX instead of XFree86 and I was wondering how I should
install it, it comes as an rpm, do I use the Alien Package or is there another
way? I noticed a MetroX deb file in the contrib (i think) directory, and I was
wondering what this was, as it can't be the server
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote:
I would like to use MetroX instead of XFree86 and I was wondering how I
should install it, it comes as an rpm, do I use the Alien Package or is
there another way? I noticed a MetroX deb file in the contrib (i think)
directory
There are kdelibs and kdesupport Debian packages on your site; is there
a kdebase one on the way too?
Check out www.kde.org there ftp site contains .deb packages for the latest
release, and I think the files you are after are there to from what I can
remember.
Regards
Graham
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Hi,
I have a microsoft ps/2 mouse with the wheel and I was wondering if the wheel
could be used as a third button under X? as it can be under Win95. If so what
do I set the mouse up as? I have tried saying that the mouse is three buttons
but It doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?
Regards
Graham
hi everybody,
i have a problem with my pci-bios : it assigns the same interrupt on two
different devices (SCSI and USB) as you can see in the attachment.
i would not really care about it if i had no problems with recording
cd's. my question is if this is normal or an error of the bios ??
Hi all,
I am trying to install KDE beta-3, I have downloaded the .deb files and I am
trying to install them but it is saying that I need libgif2 or greater, Does
anyone know where I can get this from as I can't find it anywhere? And is it
avaliable in .deb format?
Also if you install a .tgz
trying to install KDE beta-3, I have downloaded the .deb files and I am
trying to install them but it is saying that I need libgif2 or greater,
Does
anyone know where I can get this from as I can't find it anywhere? And is
it
avaliable in .deb format?
KDE is sort of a non-Debian
Hi all,
I am trying to use kdm instead of xdm, but when I run it I can not login it
just says 'login failed'. I know the password I am using is correct. I am
wondering if it is because I have shadow passwords installed. Has anyone else
had this problem?
Regards
Graham
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I am trying to use kdm instead of xdm, but when I run it I can not login
it
just says 'login failed'. I know the password I am using is correct. I
am
wondering if it is because I have shadow passwords installed. Has anyone
else
Hi,
I am trying to get fetchmail to get my mail from my isp, exept everytime I use
it (i.e. fetchmail -u mailname hostname), I get an error from fetchmail
saying something about my local user name being different than my isp mail
name, How can i correct this?
Regards
Graham
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to a different
name on my box?
I know that the error is being causes be exim as fetchmail defaults to send the
mail to port 25.
Graham
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to get fetchmail to get my mail from my isp, exept everytime I
use
i was messing with some permission to directory but i think i found a bug
in chmod,i try to run chmod 751 on my home directory (i put the content
of the home directory on another partition because of lack of space on my
root partition),but the permission is still drwxr-x--x,i even tried to run
Hi all,
I am using eximon my 2 debian (bo) hosts, but I cannot seem to be able to send
email between these to hosts, I know this is because the DNS lookup for that
host is failing as I am only running a cacheing nameserver, so is there anyway
to tell exim that if the DNS hostname lookup fails
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As you might already know, freshmeat tries to keep up with
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them. All this work is done by Obituary, feel free to mail him
questions or comments. A change invented with
Hi all,
I am using eximon my 2 debian (bo) hosts, but I cannot seem to be able to
send
email between these to hosts, I know this is because the DNS lookup for
that
host is failing as I am only running a cacheing nameserver, so is there
anyway
to tell exim that if the DNS hostname
I had trouble setting up an EtherlinkII 3com 3509b card with 2.0.32 and
2.0.33 kernel. I configured pnp, compiled the right driver as module, but
the module gives me either initialization failed or symbol not found when
specifying io=0x210 irq=3...
Is it the ISA one (I think there is a PCI
Do you have this in /etc/host.conf?
order hosts,bind
this should tell DNS to look in /etc/hosts before looking into named
(or at least this is what I think it should do :)
Yep that is what is in my /etc/host.conf file. and it still don't work, it
look
to me like exim and
a last question,does it possible in X to be logged on as several user at
once (you see,have 2 xterm logged as root,one as alaint,etc...) after this
is answered,i'll keep my mouth shut except when answering question (i
found that i asked more than enough questions) ??
I do this quite alot, I
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Oz Dror wrote:
I have installed the latest version of kde from hamm
when I type kde
Why are you typeing this, KDE should be started from startx or xinit (maybe
xdm/kdm even).
Graham
I get the following error:
kde: error in loading shared libraries
Hi All.
I have a NE2000 card on my 486DX4 100MHz server, running a hamm
Debian (upgraded whenever possible - something like twice a week... ;)
And, recently, I encountered a problem: the cable that links the NE card
to the HUB (3comm) has been changed from coaxial to UTP and
Hi,
Does anyone know if it is possible to get a micrsoft mouse (the on with the
wheel) to act as a 3 button mouse? As under windows 95/nt the wheel can also
be used as a third button.
Regards
Graham
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Hi all,
I am trying to install diald, as I have a small network, no more than 5
machines, and I want all of them to use the interent via my isp account,
everything else is already configured, apart from my connection which at the
moment has to started and stopped manually. I am looking at using
I've noticed that even when I'm not using it, my hard disk is re-spun a time
or two an hour. THere's a brief slowing, followed by the click bt as
it
restarts.
I originally assumed a looze cable, but I'm reasonably convinced that the
power ribbon cables are firmly in--however,
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