Re: Bug#41407: Please include new profile for spanish users

1999-09-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Adam == Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Martin, is there someone to make a task-es or whatever package, Adam so we can close Bug#41407? Not that I am aware of. I include debian-user-spanish in this reply, so someone interested may take this. --- Hi spanish speaking Debian users,

Re: PPP problem (?)

1997-12-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Liran Zvibel wrote: but when I tried to use lynx, ftp or telnet they told me they couldn't find host. (when I configured XISP I included the two DNS addresses my ISP use). Am I missing something? Hi, You have to use the ip-up and ip-down scripts from the xisp package as

Re: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...

1997-12-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
BTW, the version of PERL I'm trying to install is 5.004.04-2. There is a perl 5.004.04-3 at ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/Incoming/DONE/ Maybe it will solve your problems. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with using a remote xserver

1997-12-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Ronald L. Zerbe Jr. wrote: uncompressed the file? Anyhelp? tired of this win95 Xserver that only gives u 30 minute connections. You should try the xserver from frontiertech called superx. The best thing I found from win32 machines. Usually also the first programm I

Re: IP Aliasing

1997-12-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our upstream provider is forcing us to change our Class C. Now, we need to run two blocks parallel for awhile. We're running Debian Linux (2.0.32) and I was wondering how to set up an IP address alias. i.e. we want our eth0 card to have two

Re: local mail is broken

1997-12-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, David Stern wrote: My $HOME/.forward looks like: --- |IFS=' 'exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #kotsya --- Quote this line using and it should be all right. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...

1997-12-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Neilen Marais wrote: I have upgraded to 5.004.04-3, and the problem still persists! Did you install perl-base 5.004.04-3 and then perl 5.004.04-3 ? There should be a predepends line in perl 5.004.04-3, but I have heard that this restriction doesn't work somehow. Ciao,

Re: Full Root

1997-12-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Anthony Landreneau wrote: My root partition, of 400 megs is full. The partition /usr and that of /var are all on their own partition. I have looked in every directory for a core file, and have scanned for viruses. There is no reason that the root partition should be

Re: displaying text on login

1997-12-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, dpk wrote: Look at the following files: /etc/issue /etc/issue.net /etc/motd There is manpage for issue and motd to help you out if you need it. And also edit /etc/init.d/boot: # Set EDITMOTD to no if you don't want /etc/motd to be editted automatically

Re: smail config for an ISP with PPP+SMTP+POP3 - How to do?

1997-12-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Daniel Gross wrote: I'm connecting to the Internet using an ISP with dynamic IP-adresses, and a SMTP/POP3 mail system. Now I want to send / get my mail with debian, but I'm not sure, which of the five standard smail options I should choose. Option 1, Internet-Site This

Re: PPP is still a disaster. :(. Please Help. :)

1997-12-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
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

Re: Perl dpkg

1997-12-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
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

Re: Grey Screen After Starting XF86

1997-12-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
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

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1997-12-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
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

Re: Offline news access

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Daniel Gross wrote: But, NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! Hey it's not so different at all. Now that my eMail works fine, I also want to access to USENET News. Until now, I could read it online (using tin), but the german Telekom (our phone company) has horrible

Re: paths and su

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Tim Ferrell wrote: Nope, I double checked this to be sure. I have only aliases in my bashrc files (global, user, and root). I am inclined to think that this is being set by a default config file somewhere though, because of the inclusion of /usr/bin/X11 - I always refer

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Wed, 24 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: When I try to dial my ISP using /etc/ppp.chatscript in my ppp.log file I get this message: Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: ATDT7454342(a carrot goes here)M Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: Couldn't match host name or address - please try

Re: Is it possible to start X Windows in multiple V/C .

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Lazar Fleysher wrote: ~/startx -- :1 _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running Fatal server error: Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote: Shouldn't smailconfig automatically assume that hostname=localhost:foo:foo.domain.com should be added in /etc/smail/config? The only way to do this currently is to answer the Is this system known by any other names? question with Yes; localhost

Re: couldn't match host name or address

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: ATDT7454342(a carrot goes here)M Dec 24 09:52:42 speedy chat[827]: Couldn't match host name or address - please try again(carrot goes here)M I think he is using pap, and pap-secrets doesn't match the hostname.

Re: loss of xauthority

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WHile I'm at it, should I be using something other than xhost? the fm's i rt 'd seem to suggest I should be using magic cookies instead. Yes. Here was a posting about this some time ago. I quote it below. Ciao, Martin From: Christian

Re: .bash_profile and TCP/IP

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Ian Keith Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1:In my .bash_profile I would like to initiate X everytime I login at the console but not when logging in remotely. I experience 2 problems. How about using xdm? It will give a X login at the console. Edit /etc/X11/config to

Re: Smail troubles

1997-12-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # mkaliases and the result is: /usr/sbin/mkaliases: unknown file type, , for /etc/aliases What is going wrong here? Some help, please. mkaliases is not necessary for a plain-text alias file. You caqn get rid of this

Re: HELP: dpkg

1997-12-31 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Albert Hurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried dpkg -i (and cp) on xisp_2_1-1(1).deb and got the following message: syntax error near unexpected token `xisp_2_1-1(1' What gives and how can I install the package. Any help very welcome for this newbie. I believe this is because

Re: activate VFS for kernel with module support - how ?

1997-12-31 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Fleureck) writes: I compiled a new kernel with module-support. It tries to boot and sais: kernel panic VFS: unable to mount fs Seems logical. I didn't activate the VFS-module. lsmod doesn't give it in the list neither. I must load something.o with insmod. But

Re: PPP Connection Works, Can't Surf...

1997-12-31 Thread Martin Bialasinski
G. H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can logon to the Debian box with WIN95, no problems... Debian assigns the WIN95 an IP address, no problems. BUT, the WIN95 machine isn't able to use DNS lookup or ping other computers here in the lab or anywhere. The only thing it CAN do however is

Re: Mail problems

1998-01-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The new drive is divided into 4 partitions. one is unused, one is mounted under /var, the next is mounted under /usr and the last is swap. ERR Error locking your mailbox. And the following error in my /var/log/mail.log file Jan 4 13:51:13 dragon

Re: Changing Netscape Bookmarks file

1998-01-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
G. Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 12:41:48PM -0500, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Now if it were only so easy to set the default home page... [...snip...] Somewhere in this list you will find a page that lets you indicate the URL of the page you wish to use as

Re: Changing Netscape Bookmarks file

1998-01-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I'm trying to do is to have my bookmarks file in the ~/public_html directory. As Netscape rewrites the file completely every time you change a bookmark, I can not have a simlink to the public_html directory. In the other way around, I

Re: I need help, part 2.

1998-01-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Pierre DUPUIS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi everyone, Here is my situation : I have a working X server. I haven't got xtoolplaces, i have dl Ne3.04Gold for Linux Os.. I want't to conect myself on the internet I don't know how to do. Simple situation, simple question ! Simple aswer ?

Re: some problems

1998-01-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Volker Bauer) writes: 2)ISDN - I have a creatix 16.0 card. I wonder how can I load the HiSax driver? With modconf just the telesdriver seems loadable ( what does this mean:teles is old. use HiSax instead? Does this mean Debian uses automaically HiSax instead or that it's up

Re: none

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
dave mallery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: could someone explain where i can find an explanation for the fields in /etc/ppp.options_out? Do a man pppd Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: ppp and ip-up

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: break my script; I haven't checked this out yet. Or is ip-up not run at all for incoming connections? Don't know. Why don't you check it out ? Put something like touch /tmp/ip-up.on.incoming.has.been.executed in ip-up and dial in. Ciao,

Re: a count-down timer?

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Fabio Olive Leite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ) on a specific day but I want to be able to say five minutes from now ) without a lot of hassle. I recall a program named leave that does exactly that. What I do not remember is wether there is a .deb pack for it. There is. hi leave

Re: some problems

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Volker Bauer) writes: On my system I don't find the Hisax modul. So how can I select it? With modconf there is no Hisax selection possible (no hisax.o under modules/ or elsewhere). So I tried to built the hisax.o out of the dummy.o to get Hisax available, but it doesn't

Re: Smail Question.

1998-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin J Poorman) writes: this? has anyone have any idea how to fix it? ... I saw a post earlier on this list about a bug in Smail and inetd and they said to comment out the smail line in inetd (I configured it to run from Inetd) and HUP it ... How do you HUP it...(what is

Re: Debian and setups

1998-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am intereste din a system where I can install thingsthen go through the config files (not some X interface) and read the docs... and configure it There is no X configuration utility in debian (yet), but all packages configure during

Re: Unix qulifications...

1998-01-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why did this message come through into elm and then jed in three horrendously long lines? Was it the sender or receiver? Anything I can do about it? The sender. You can just execute the command for rebreaking the lines (if your mailreader has one).

Re: Debian and Setups

1998-01-08 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: btw... does debian have a logo? (ive always liked RedHat's logo :) ) seeing as I work at the largest WinNT domain in the counbtryid like to put a BIG logo on my cubicle :) There is a fairly new official debian logo, but not the whole debian

Re: new smail pkg (3.2.0.100-1.deb) problems

1998-01-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Damir J. Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, my answers to smailconfig when first installing: 1-internet site (SMTP via TCP/IP) 2-visible name: inforamp.net 3-other visible names: none 4-smarthost: inforamp.net 5-use inforamp.net for all mail that doesn't have to be delivered locally

Re: Question re:Debian and ppp...

1998-01-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jan 9 14:38:04 ariel pppd [291]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Jan 9 14:38:04 ariel pppd [291]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 Jan 9 14:38:04 ariel pppd [291]: Exit Hmmm... ppp1 and ppp0? Oh, 2 different pppd sessions. /dev/ttyp0 is wrong, did

Re: new smail pkg (3.2.0.100-1.deb) problems

1998-01-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Damir J. Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: remote server (it is giving me a feedback with the number of mails), but my machine seems to be refusing the SMTP connection attempt by fetchmail ( error says something about 'SMTP connection refused by my_machine_name'). So, my guess is it has

Re: exmh questions become exmh questions

1998-01-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I saw a suggestion to use someething like @home.net for local users. The MUA's I've seen try to qualify the username and that dummy address might be the thing to use. Please send your suggestions, or I'll post if I get things improved a little more. This was my

Re: ? ON AUTHORIZATION AND DIGEST

1998-01-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Noe' Franco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ARE YOU DEAF OR HAVE A DAMAGED KEYBOARD? Civilised people normaly don't yell. I normaly won't answer, but a small flame will do you good :-) WE'RE USING DEBIAN GNU LINUX 1.3 ON AUTHORIZATION : WHEN DOING THE .htaccess FILE CAN DIGEST BE USED? IS IT

Re: bad disk spot, and more troubles starting xdm

1998-01-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: for /etc/X11/config, and /etc/X11/XF86Config is sufficient that startx works as expected. however, no xdm is started on boot, and /etc/init.d/xdm start merely starts an idle process that does nothing. Check your

Re: Random loss of key bindings in fvwm2

1998-01-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Occasionaly, I seem to lose the key bindings under fvwm2, such as alt arrow to move between areas of a desktop. I really can't pinpoint this to any specific event, nor am I able to remedy the situation without completely quitting X and restarting

Re: Debian 1.3 and Windows NT

1998-01-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Adam Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to run Linux on my computer at work, what we are running normally is Windows 95 OSR on a Ethernet Star configured LAN. The NIC is 3com Etherlink XL 100baseTX (running as 10BaseT). We normally attach to a Windows NT 4.0 server. I

Re: Help w/ PPP please please plase

1998-01-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
jhillma2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pon was the closest, but it kept erroring out. I know the problem is with the way the ppp.chatscript was setup, but I don't know what the format is (e.g., which lines tell it to wait for foo then send bar). Could somebody please tell me the syntax for the

Re: setting up xdm for runlevel 4

1998-01-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to setup xdm so that it s started upon entering runlevel 4 and stopped when dropping back down to runlevel 3. How does debian handle xdm?? It is done with symlinks in the /etc/rcrunlevel.d directories. I recommend the update-rc.d programm for

Re: svgatextmode - how to use

1998-01-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Irmund Thum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've installed svgatextmode with dselect but can't find any file or .conf. How can I use this utility? You can use dpkg -L svgatextmode to list the content of a package. All configuration files go to /etc/. So: dpkg -L svgatextmode [...] /etc

Re: X-win more effiecient than Win95?

1998-01-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Tim Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A friend of mine asked me if X-win was more efficient than Win95 on the same system? Depends on how you define efficient. I usually use different computers in my department, and the first thing I do is to install a X-Server for Win32, so I can use all the

Re: [Newbie) Thanks

1998-01-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Ian Bambury [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Other lists have keywords to allow people to filter postings. Any takers? This list has keywords as well. They are called subject. If you choose a good subject, the time to scan through a group will decline. I normaly skip messages about PCMCIA for

Re: libc compatibility in Debian 2.0

1998-01-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Martin Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will Debian 2.0 support compiling libc5 applications out of the box? I am curious because Red Hat decided not to support this... Yes. You will need the -altdev packages for libc5 compiling. Then you prepend /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/bin to the path and

Re: Whereis libXpm

1998-01-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So this would mean that i do have libXpm installed. THe problem is that when i try compile something (gnome in this case) it tell's me that it cannot find it ! I would appreciate any help here if that would be possible. Do you have the xpm4-dev or

Re: Problem dialing in w/AutoPPP/PAP! Help!

1998-01-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Rick Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Iannarelli wrote: In pap-secrets I has to adjust the following line. * * This kind of entry would allow everybody access to your system without a password. So Joe down the street who knows a username but doesn't have his

Re: inetd problems!!!

1998-01-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Christopher Jason Morrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok. All of that would be yes. And when I just run inetd by hand, it doesn't say anything, it works perfectly fine. Maybe I should make sure it removes all of its config files when I remove netbase, and then install again. I think that

Re: strange symlinks

1998-01-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Jens Christian Lisner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is that in /usr/include/linux there are only very few files, and /usr/include/asm is empty! So several headers were not able to find their files. These are in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.32... Is it save to make the symlinks point

Re: [Q] 56K US Robotics?

1998-01-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Vladislav Papayan x285 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would anyone know how to verify that I am connecting to Internet at 56K. I run Debian hamm + 2.1.78 kernel. What else do I need to do to get it going at 56K. And may be I am connecting at 56K -- but how do I verify it for sure (my modem is

Re: errors in hamm upgrade

1998-01-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
David Gaudine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: Yes. Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have a dot in them. The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read

Re: syslog and pipe router

1998-01-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Ian Keith Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to configure both my Debian machine and my Pipe 50 router to use syslog. I believe to have the Pipe 50 setup right according to the manual. I think linux isn't getting/accepting/writing the messages though. Syslog won't accept

Re: ethernet question

1998-01-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
G. Kapetanios [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: beacause of high network load and nothing to do with hardware. However I now get it not only in tty8 where syslog messages appear but in my working console . As a matter of fact while I write this message through telenet to my mail sever I get the

Re: date command strange output

1998-01-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Alexander Kushnirenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I type date I get somewhat unusual response: $ date Thu Jan 22 15:31:44 /etc/localtime 1998 What this /etc/localtime addition is all about? Is it normal? No, it is not. ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33

Re: New Smail, how to use offline?

1998-01-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Neilen Marais [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Basically, it seems to do a reverse lookup on the system connecting to it, but I think I sorted that out by putting allow_broken_hello, or something similar for localhost. This should only be neccessary if the mailreader does a broken HELO. Pine is one

Re: New Smail, how to use offline?

1998-01-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Other thing is that it seems to do a DNS lookup on every from address, and since my from contains [EMAIL PROTECTED], this can't be done when I'm offline. So if I can get this fixed I think I can use the newest smail again... Any suggestions

Re: New Smail, how to use offline? *BIG WARNING*

1998-01-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I noticed that fetchmail got slow, but I didn't associate this with smail. But xconsole shows, that during fetchmail my local caching only nameserver learns hostnames. So despite turning of this feature, smail *does* check the DNS. I'll have

Re: New Smail, how to use offline?

1998-01-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: So despite turning of this feature, smail *does* check the DNS. I'll have another look at this and will probably file a bugreport. I don't recall if you said it's a dial-up connection, but I guess

Re: New Smail, how to use offline?

1998-01-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Joost Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 23 Jan 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: So despite turning of this feature, smail *does* check the DNS. I'll have another look at this and will probably file a bugreport. Yes, please do. Do so on my behalf as well. I'm behind a firewall

Re: Installation Problems - modem not responding, large dos files=floppy=linux

1998-01-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Jeff Bisping [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But modem doesn't dial the phone, never get any OK. Had problems with /dev/cua1 not existing but did 'mkmod -m 666 /dev/cua1 c 5 64' to take care of that( don't know if right). Modem is on COM2. I have minicom installed but just does the box and

Re: nslookup: unexpected results

1998-01-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Maurizio Marini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: edu nslookup try to resolve edu (or any othe d1^ level domain) appending your default domain to edu: edu.aaa.bbb.com does not exist So, you have to close edu with a dot: edu. and you will get what you expect to get. No, this is the correct

Re: Again Re: Netscape releasing source code for 5.0

1998-01-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Worst still, linux netscape (and presumably other unix versions) keep resetting permissions on .netscape/bookmarks.html to 600, which means that I can't put symlink .netscape into ~/public_html and read my bookmarks when I travel. Does ln

Re: xdm startup?

1998-01-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wouldn't start. After looking about a bit, I found that /etc/init.d/xdm was empty and that the start up script was in /etc/init.d/xdm.dpkg-dist. Can anyone help me sort out where I went wrong? Or is this a feature that I don't understand? This is

Re: [off topic] PPP over ISDN ???

1998-01-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Serial connection established Using interface ppp0 Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 Serial line is looped back Connection terminated You should add debug to your pppd options and check /var/log/ppp.log for detailed log. In addition, I have ISDN

Re: Permissions, gid, mount?

1998-01-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to mount an msdos partition so that users logged into Linux can create files on it. I only have luck if I set gid=(group for a given user) as an option for the mount command. This is a reasonable way to do it. For instance, users bernie

Re: xdm startup?

1998-01-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin == Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Most likely you told dpkg to keep your old /etc/init.d/xdm file, which was a dummy script. So that dummy script is part of the base installation? Don't know. I just wanted to say

Re: Installing Problems with 3com PCI Bus Master 3C590 Combo Network Card

1998-01-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Tony Curzon Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First of all: I may be wrong, but aren't the vortex and the boomerang cards supported only by kernel = 2.0.32 ? The errors reported are: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again SIOCADDRT:network is unreachable SIOCADDRT:network is unreachable When do this errors

Re: Re[2]: Permissions, gid, mount?

1998-01-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stupid me; what I didn't check is whether files were actually being copied to the target msdos dir (in this case '/opendos/'). They are being copied! But cp gives me a message to the contrary, for instance: bernie$ cp newsgroups /opendos/ cp:

Re: X-Windows questions

1998-01-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Markus Lechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What other Window-Managers are available? Which of them are not beta? Which of them are how stable? If you mean debian packages, just use dselect and check the x11 section. Or go to www.debian.org - Packages. Whats the thing with those color-tables

Re: Turning NumLock on

1998-01-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Markus Lechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I heard that using NumLock on Linux-Systems causes trouble. Is this true? When running X, numlock is a keymodifier like shift or alt. This is a issue if you try to use shortcuts (like alt+F4) for example. But of cause you can configure the wm to issue

Re: Installing Problems with 3com PCI Bus Master 3C590 Combo Network Card

1998-01-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Tony Curzon Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The errors reported are: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again SIOCADDRT:network is unreachable SIOCADDRT:network is unreachable When do this errors occur? I get this error at boot-up, but also as a result of: /sbin/route add -net my IP netmask

Re: Solved, SMTP problem

1998-01-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I finally got it solved, I selected teh ined option for smail but it didn't work, I reran the config script and selected daemon and it works fine. Not sure why the inetd didn't work. Maybe because you installed xinetd. Make sure xinetd is running and that there is a

Re: mailbox error

1998-01-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Kevin Ong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When i use popclient release 2.6b (2/7/96) to get mail from my isp mail server i got this [inbox (file /var/spool/mail/root) is not in valid mailbox format] when trying to run Pine to read the mail. First, you should consider to use fetchmail, popclient's

Re: mount: only root can do that??

1998-01-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But what I want is this: 1 root can mount anything 2 users in group floppy can mount the floppy drive 3 users not in group floppy can not mount the floppy drive Of course, 1 is always true. But I can't get 2 and 3 at the same time. Either mount

Re: Settup Majordomo

1998-01-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Jeffrey Velez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I ONLY SENT THIS EMAIL IN ALL CAPS! THANKS ANYWAY! On 27 Jan 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHY I CAN NOT POST OR UNSUBSCRIBE? Perhaps majordomo is case-sensitive and you are typing everything in all-caps? Good point :-)

Re: Problem with mc

1998-01-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Andreas Mueck \(Stud.93\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What version of mc? Already strace'd it? Version 4.1.24 is installed. I didn't strace it, this package is not installed. Running ldd on mc reports libcrypt.so.1 = /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x4000d000) libgpm.so.1 =

Re: Perl problem

1998-01-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Karl Abrams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed debian 1.3 from CD and then ran dselect. The packages perl 5.003.07-10, perl-suid 5.003.07-10 wg15-locale 2-5 are installed. The error messages are: ~17% perl perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories:

Re: X-Windows questions

1998-01-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Markus Lechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why i want to run many X-Sessions? It's just an old habbit - i loved the Amiga for it's WorkBench and Command-Line Interface. So i want to configure Linux in the same way. Actually i'll need a little more RAM for this. You got the answer before:

Re: dns compilation error

1998-01-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
eugene mendoza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tried using named-bootconf.pl to do conversion. It gave the following error message Cant modify subroutine entry in scalar assignment at /usr/sbin/named-bootconf.pl line 30 near ; the line in question is $new_config = ; You are sure, you use the

Re: Copying CD-ROM's from Linux

1998-01-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Richardson,Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: p.s. There is an article on X-CD-Roast in the Jan. issue of Linux Journal. The author mentions that the next release of the software will use cdrecord to do the actual writing. And the version in hamm does so. From the available file: -

Re: inbound traffic problem with hamm

1998-01-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
justin honold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: in my .fetchmailrc i have poll pop.primary.net protocol pop3 user jhonold password PASSWORD fetchall. running fetchmail -v last night yielded unknown host debian -- you need a . in your hostname). debian is the name of my localhost (not on a network).

Re: Offline Email

1998-01-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I want is the system that I can 'send' email while my machine is off-line and then sometime later when I use a ppp connection, my system will then send the email outside. I have tried both smail and sendmail unfortunately they just write error

Re: HELP: eth0 not recognized

1998-01-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Iannucci) writes: I've got an ISA ethernet card that has E2000 printed on it, and so I've assumed it's an NE2000 compatible. There's a paper note taped on the inside of the machine that says that the ethernet card is IRQ 7, and I've tried booting from LILO with

Re: Home dir Permissions

1998-01-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Tim Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I like to have personal web space turned on (ie http://server/~tim/), so I can easily access files (such as lynx bookmarks - point the bookmark file at /~/HTML/bookmarks.html, I can then pick this up on any remote system). What I want to know is, what

Re: mtools

1998-01-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Jarkko Niemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: chmod 666 /dev/fd0 that maked the trick This is a BAD THING(tm). Especially if you are somehow connected to other computers. Anyone can read and *wipe* the disk ! Try cat /dev/fd0 to read it or cat /dev/zero /dev/fd0 to wipe it. Or the dd command.

Re: ppp problems in Spain

1998-02-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Javier ViƱuales GutiƩrrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ftp ftp.rediris.es no works, linux saids I can't resolve ftp.rediris.es (If I do ftp www.xxx.yyy.zzz things go fine). I've resolv.conf in the form: nameserver www.xxx.yyy.zzz Do you have order hosts,bind multi on in your /etc/host.conf

Re: Dselect

1998-02-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Die Sprache dieser Liste ist englisch. Just as a addition (quote from the debian site): There is a seperate mailing list for the German speaking users of Debian. To subscribe to the list send subscribe debian-user-de your_email_address to [EMAIL

Re: Home dir Permissions

1998-02-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: your home directory can be drwx--x--x and the ~/public_html directory can also be drwx--x--x . Then, no other user will be able to see any files in your home directory, but any user that knows you have a pub_html directory can do get a file listing

Re: Building own packages - how?

1998-02-01 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Sebastian Kaps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any document available which describes step-by-step how one can build own binary packages from self-compiled source code? You should install the developers-reference package from hamm. Then you could also check www.linux-magazin.de for a

Re: procmail and folders

1998-02-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Catalin Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you to everybody answering my question on procmail and smail. I've put the files .forward and .procmailrc, modified the USERNAME to my usernaname (ie cpopescu), but it still does not work. Do I have to create the files where procmail is supposed

Re: Last login by UNKNOWN

1998-02-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Alexander Kushnirenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Last login: Mon Feb 2 09:32:36 CST 1998 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is the reason it doesnot recognise my user name? Is it a problem on my Debian node or remote node I telnet to? Do you have a identd running on the debian box? Usually it is run

Re: HELP: xisp without su

1998-02-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Albert Hurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could anyone tell me how to run xisp without first logging in as su. Check the permissions of pppd. bash-2.01$ ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dialout 84608 Jun 20 1997 /usr/sbin/pppd And make sure, the user who should be able to

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