Unidentified subject!

1998-02-16 Thread Russell Cook
Script started on Mon Feb 16 12:51:17 1998 sh-2.01$ mailx Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help. /var/spool/mail/rcook: 1 message 1 unread U 1 rcook Mon Feb 16 11:06 11/343 test p Held 1 message in /var/spool/mail/rcook sh-2.01$ mail Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for

Mail setup and configuration

1998-02-16 Thread RUSSELL COOK
I have successfully upgraded (I think) from Bo to Hamm. Thanks to all who offered advice and helped me along the way. I now want to configure my system for mail, so I can quit using windows for that utility. I have sendmail, fetchmail, procmail, mail, and mailx on my system. I have a local

FW: Unidentified subject!

1998-02-16 Thread RUSSELL COOK
also am still struggly to get sendmail properly configured. All replies welcome! Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: Russell Cook[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 16, 1998 11:57 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Unidentified subject! Script

sendmail configuration

1998-02-22 Thread RUSSELL COOK
Hello All, I have a small lan at home, ip masquerading, and a dial up ISP. My debian machine is p90.mydomain. My ISP is icon.net. My account on p90.mydomain is rcook. My account with my ISP is russcook. When I try to send mail from my debian machine, it reads from: [EMAIL

sendmail and pine

1998-03-01 Thread Russell Cook
I'm struggling to get sendmail and pine working properly together. I have a dial-up ISP account [EMAIL PROTECTED] My linux account is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to get my mail to deliver locally as coming from rcook, but to go out externally as from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been following

X11 and Matrox Mystique 220

1998-03-01 Thread RUSSELL COOK
Hello All, I just got a new video card, the Matrox Mystique 220. I have been following this list for a while, and have observed that the Mystique is supported now. However, after configuring for my card, and trying startx, my screen goes black, and the computer locks up - I can't

broken lan

1998-03-12 Thread RUSSELL COOK
Hello All, Last night I upgraded a number of packages on my Hamm system. While resolving dependencies, I believe I downloaded and installed dip. I don't think it was previously installed. As a result, I can no longer connect to my ISP. Also, my lan is now broken - I can't ping my

FW: broken lan

1998-03-12 Thread RUSSELL COOK
which looks for /etc/ppp.chatscript and can't find it because it isn't there, and one which uses /etc/chatscripts/provider. Thanks again for any help. Russ -- From: RUSSELL COOK[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 8:21 PM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org

ISP logon problems

1998-07-16 Thread RUSSELL COOK
I have two (unrelated) problems logging on to my ISP. 1) Using pon, I often have to connect 3 to 4 times before I can ping the outside world, although I can ALWAYS ping my ISP. Also, I can ALWAYS use nslookup to find addresses for other hosts. This is extremely annoying. If I can connect, and

Apt vs deselect question

1998-07-26 Thread RUSSELL COOK
Hello All, I have a question regarding the use of apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade to keep my system current. When I issue apt-get upgrade, I get a message that 90 packages were help back, and it fetches nothing. If I then dpkg -l (list) any of the held packages, then

ppp

1998-03-21 Thread RUSSELL COOK
Since upgrading my ppp package to 2.3.3-4 on my Hamm system, I can no longer connect to ISP. I am including my chatscript for examination, and a portion of ppp.log. I have tried to add the 'noauth', as suggested, but am not sure I added it in the right place. It did get rid of the message

ppp problem

1998-03-21 Thread RUSSELL COOK
Hello! I am now able to connect to my ISP. I was placing the 'noauth' option in the wrong file! I finally figured out how to correctly place it in /etc/ppp/peers/provider. Now, the link comes up, but I get this error from pppd - pppd[158]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP.

RE: exim and fetchmail

1998-10-18 Thread RUSSELL COOK
Michael, Thanks for the tip. I tried it as you suggested, but no good. As clarification, I have a local net at home, named mydomain. The host I'm trying to get my main delivered on is p90. So, should qualify_domain be p90 or mydomain? Regardless, exim tries to deliver to [EMAIL

Re: Hrrm, sendmail again...

1998-10-18 Thread Russell Cook
George, Thanks for the help with my exim delivery problem. The problem was /var/spool/mail was group write, as you suggested. I can now receive mail from my ISP on my linux machine instead of having to use my Win95 machine. Now, I'm trying to get header rewrite to work properly, so my ISP will

test Exim header rewrite

1998-10-18 Thread Russell Cook
a test of header rewrite from should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] reply-to should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

potato blight (fwd)

1998-11-28 Thread Russell Cook
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:22:58 -0600 (EST) From: Russell Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: potato blight I tried yesterday to apt-get upgrade for the first time since Slink was frozen. I failed

Problem with Wordperfect8 for Linux

2000-01-18 Thread russell cook
I have wordperfect running ... sort of. The graphics icons are garbled. I have XPM4.7 version 3.4k-5. I don not not have XPM4.7-alt dev installed because I have a conflict. Can someone tell me wahat packages I must have installed on my Potato system for Wordperfect to run properly? If

re: Is potatoe's exim 3.12-1 OK?

2000-01-19 Thread russell cook
Mark, I have the same problem. My messages eventually freeze, and the error is SMTP timeout while connected to ... many bytes weritten written, but message not completed. I would have quoted your earlier post, but I'm mailing this via telnet to port 25 of my ISP, because I can't post out with

re: re: Problem with Wordperfect8 for Linux

2000-01-19 Thread russell cook
To Robert Kerr, You were right. I was running Xwindows in 24 bpp mode, and switching to 16 bpp mode cleaned everything up nicely. Funny the installation docs made no mention of this restriction. Anyway, thanks much, and thanks to all who replied. As others have said, help like this is why I