Re: Mail gateway

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?

Re: How to clear screen before login prompt

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

Accelerated X

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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Matrox Millenium G200

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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xhost

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.

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Adduser

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

Squid

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

DNS and Host access.

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

LinuxConf

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

Linuxconf

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

Re: hard disk restarting a couple of times an hour

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,

Using Diald

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

Microsoft Mouse

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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: NE2000

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

Re: Exim Problem

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

Re: Exim Problem

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

Re: setting up ethernet 3com 3509b card

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

Exim Problem

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

Re: freshmeat repository

From freshmeat page: -- freshmeat RPM repository As you might already know, freshmeat tries to keep up with the latest software releases and builds RPM packages for them. All this work is done by Obituary, feel free to mail him questions or comments. A change invented with

Re: chmod not working

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

Fetch Mail Problem

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 -- To

Re: Fetch Mail Problem

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

Re: stuck with only 1 xterm in X

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

Re: KDE Problem

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

kde : using kdm instead of xdm

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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: kde : using kdm instead of xdm

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: 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

Re: equal interrupts

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 ??

KDE Beta-3

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

Re: KDE Beta-3

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

Re: KDE

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 -- Graham

Mouse

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

MetroX

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

Re: MetroX

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

Packages

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

Re: smbclient interface

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

Re: Hardware question.

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

/etc/modules

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.

Win95's FAT32 Linux

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

Serial Ports.

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

Re: What SCSI should I buy?

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

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

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

Re: Formating a ftape tape?

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

Getting Mail From POP3 Servers

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,

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

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

Re: Smail/Sendmail Question

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

Smail/Sendmail Question

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,

Virtual Consoles

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

Re: X install/config query

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

Re: DEBIAN or REDHAT ?

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

Re: Matrox Millenium II again

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

Re: Port Scanning

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.

Sorry This is probably a stupid question.

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 -- TO

Debian Linux and Non-Free Packages.

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