Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-17 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:07:35PM -0500, Lou Losee wrote: > * Gruessle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-17 12:21]: > > > > Is there a way I can open man files in a text editor. > > I like to print one but have not configured my printer jet. > > So I will email it to my other pc. > > > Try man xxx |

Re: load key map at boot time

2003-12-17 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:29:02AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > How do I load a file at boot time. /etc/init.d/keymap.sh called via /etc/rcS.d/S05keymap.sh If you wanted to load the map manualy, just do $ /etc/init.d/keymap.sh start > Where is the right place to store boot time files. /etc/cons

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-17 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:55:29PM -0500, Lou Losee wrote: > > > Try man xxx | col -b > text-filename > > > > This actually should not work, you have to tell man(1) it should send the > > formatted manpage to stdout, instead of messing with the pager. > > Replace `foo' with the desired program nam

Re: printer setup

2003-12-17 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:00:31PM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > > My printer man says following. Is there a HOWTO on this? $ apt-get install doc-linux-html $ dpkg -S doc-linux-html | grep -i print > Unix Systems > Follow the traditional configuration procedure on Unix platforms to set > up the Sp

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-17 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:41:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:14:54PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > > Try man xxx | col -b > text-filename > > > > This actually should not work, you have to tell man(1) it should send the > > format

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-17 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:50:54AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:41:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:14:54PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > > Now we want the lines narrower than the default 80 characters (I guess > > &g

Re: apt-get reinstall XXX

2003-12-18 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:43:16AM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > I know this does not work but is there something like that? apt-get install --reinstall -- Jan Minar Had I any humility, I would be perfect. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: man files to text editor

2003-12-18 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:47:35PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 02:14:48AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:50:54AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:41:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > The

Re: 2 NIC's, assigned in wrong order

2003-12-28 Thread Jan Minar
ht thing to do would be to call it from /etc/init.d/networking or /etc/networking/interfaces. Whoopy Xmas. Jan. > I've fiddled with the ether= append line for the kernel, and also the > contents of the interfaces file in /etc/network to no avail. -- Jan Minar Had

Re: 2 NIC's, assigned in wrong order

2003-12-29 Thread Jan Minar
he real naming. > Dec 28 19:11:31 ve6wvc nameif: cannot change name of eth0 to eth1: Device or > resource busy Then, the eth1 is UP (busy). You might want to go to singleuser mode, put the network down, and experiment a bit, just to grasp what's going on. > A typical script

Re: routing gateway question

2003-12-29 Thread Jan Minar
g-Simple-HOWTO)). (2) ``echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward'' -- in Debian, this is done by ``ip_forward=yes'' in `/etc/network/options', then /etc/init.d/networking start. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan MinarChvostny Snovy krok. \/\ Whoopy

Re: 2 NIC's, assigned in wrong order

2003-12-29 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:41:29PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > Dec 28 19:11:31 ve6wvc nameif: cannot change name of eth1 to eth0: File exists > > The `file' here is the network device `eth0' -- ``ifconfig -a'' will > show both eth1 and eth0 are there, waitin

Re: module serial.o loaded

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
point to? What does ``ps -eH'' output? What about other cron jobs, and/or things spawned by inetd (/etc/inetd.conf)? > Can anyone please explain why? It's quite hard to come with an insight given no knowledge of your system ;-) -- Jan MinarChvostny Snov

Re: pcmcia modem - was working then stopped

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
(Look for the string: ``8-bit clean''.) > P.S. I know the ISP is o.k., as I've dialed into it from another > machine. Compare the configurations, then. Asking the ISP usually doesn't work, but maybe you are a lucky one. -- Jan MinarChvostny Snovy krok. \/\ Whoopy Boo Year. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian distro on a floppy

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
l be asked to insert this during the boot process: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/root.bin To get it on the diskette under the crippled OS you've mentioned: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/tools/rawrite1.zip Which to unzip: ftp://ftp.debian.org

Re: ext2/ext3 filesystems

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
r 3, minor 1, i.e. the first partition of the first IDE thing: brw-rw1 root disk 3, 1 Mar 14 2002 /dev/hda1 -- Jan MinarChvostny Snovy krok. \/\ Whoopy Boo Year. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: module serial.o loaded

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
; P.S. Problem shared is problem halfed :-) Yes, but It's treatable, and I'm actually is getting better with every mail I compose ;-) -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: slow booting after installing new hdd

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
da9 hda10 hda11 > > hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 > Using ``hdparm -d0'' to disable DMA will be a meantime workaround. But not using DMA is slower than using it (when it works). There is something like dma=off kernel parameter, can't remember exactly. Have you tried to f

Re: slow booting after installing new hdd

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
ule, don't you? > if so, why doesn't it happen till I put hdd on? > I can't stop wondering why? Buggy chipsets workarounds. These ain't logical, these are buggy. -- Jan Minar Don't CC me, I'm subscribed. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mounting loopback as non-root user

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:09:37PM -0600, Rob Benton wrote: > I guess I've never payed much attention to this until today but you have > to be root to mount with the -o loop option. At least on my machine I > do. Mount has the suid bit set. Is there some way I can allow non-root > users to mount

Re: mounting loopback as non-root user

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
c. It's just mount(8) will not accept `-o' switch from a non-root user. And don't think it's of no use: Anywhere superuser can use the loop device (encryption, fs-images, games, simulation, ...) mere users would use it, too. It's even cumbersome sometimes to do t

Re: unsubscribe

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
as Debian and/or Linux get more acknowledged among the rest of them. Let the filtering be done now. To those masochists who would argue it's in the headers/footer: So what? Should the whole list be punished because someone does not read all the headers and footers? -- Jan Minar

Re: mplayer and audio

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
he NAS or whatever you'd like it to use. I'm not quite familiar with NAS, but looking at its configs and/or /proc/`pidof nas`/fd/ should give you an idea about which devices does your NAS use. Try to relogin, and assure mplayer and those other apps use the NAS output. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:41:05PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > And yes, it's a hack (to get around limited space in the boot sector), but > it works OK. It shouldn't go unnoticed, that the boot sector is a hack, too. Not to mention BIOS, which is the thing why the MBR _has_ to be

Re: df -h returns invalid result

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
ine the free space in hda6 ? Try du(1). The e2fstools or similar for other filesystems would be of some use, too. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:49:47AM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > I'll shoot you. Some of them: (a) The unsubscribers are dispersed all around the world (c) The traffic speed is not sufficient to get there in time (b) They will tend to run away -- Jan Minar

Re: Bug Report-Deb Install says insert cd2 but doesn't eject cd1

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
gth. > Asking users switching to Debian to tell you which package > before they can make a bug report is another way to keep > Debian as one of the least frequently used distros. Maybe you're wrong, but still: We are proud of it !-) Peace. Jan. -- Jan Minar

Re: woody: devpts, pppd, and kernel-2.6: failed connection to /dev/pts/0

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
Hi, Mario. This thread boils down to: I've installed a new kernel and it doesn't work. Please help. Notice there is no info that could actually be used to figure out what went wrong. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscr

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
no longer does an > inquiry to the router to get an address. The dhcp on bootup is used only if you want to mount the root filesystem over network. See the kernel docs for details. The userspace configuration is done in /etc/init.d/network, and /etc/network/*. Look for dhcp in interface

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 11:06:45AM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > Jan Minar wrote: > >(c) The traffic speed is not sufficient to get there in time > > Oh, it isn't `traffic' in English, is it?: Aeroplanes, automob

Re: help needed- linux

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
re a better way to do this Then OpenOffice.org would be a way, I guess. Learn to use google.com, anyway--that is probably the answer to your question. Happy new whatever! Jan. P.S.: Why do you ask precisely on this list? -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I&#x

Re: NB package screw up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
dit the pre-removal & post-installation scripts by hand. dpkg -D2 --remove will show you the filenames. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DRIVER

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
roper dans la Makefile dans la meme directorie. Si vous voulez un driver pour un kernel harbre plus vielle, vous doit installer les modules ALSA (2.6 a ceci integre). Cherchez un package avec `alsa-modules' ou `alsa' dans sa nome. > mon email est : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nous savons: `F

Re: dpkg segfaults

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
ug report then. But as many people do install perl without problems, it would be very useful if you traced the bug. At least, have the core dumped and save it (``ulimit -c 99'' to enable core dumping). -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'

Re: Woody - lpd terminates after printing one file

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
correctly? > I have since figured out that I should really use CUPS with an automatic > installation package, but I'd like to understand this lpd problem before > I give up on the older system! Go get it. It's trivial, surely much more trivial than lp*. -- Jan Minar

Re: boot errors with new debian kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
ll kinds of err messages. Spell out. The Debian way of editing /etc/modules.conf is modconf(8), AFAIUI. But maybe I'm wrong, really. > P.S. As a side question, how do I tell if I have the matching kernel source > that is correlated to say the 2.4.18-1-686 image? Is kernel-source-2.4.18 > always "in-sync" witht the latest similar (2.4.18) kernel? The docs should tell you. If they don't, it's a bug :-) -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Could you give an example iptables script? (Help... I want to learn this stuff)

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
iptables -t nat -F > > ought to do it. This won't clear out user-defined changes, but without any It will. -F will flush everything but the policy, the -P will set the policy. The result will be the same as the bootup default. Jan. -- Jan Minar "Pleas

Re: woody: devpts, pppd, and kernel-2.6: failed connection to /dev/pts/0

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:19:43PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 18:13, Jan Minar wrote: > > > Notice there is no info that could actually be used to figure out what > > went wrong. > > > That's a correct observation. This is because there

Re: DRIVER

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
tools og > http://babelfish.org/ meeeget gode tips, om man er i tvil > om man behersker fremmende spr?k som engelsk, som > vi alts? vanligvis bruker her. ;-) > > ..http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french/ fins ogs?. ;-) Sarcastic but still undertandable--de

Re: Problem with upgrading

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
w about. IIRC, aptitude logs the packages it installs in something like /var/log/aptitude. Or just do grep -drecurse aptitude /var/log as root, or any user having a read access to /var/log files. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: modprobe says not found - insmod ok ????

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
noone dares to respond, maybe. What Debian version do you run? What does ``modinfo usbmouse'' output? I suppose you've tried ``depmod'' without any arguments--does it say anything? Same about ``update-modules''. What about ``grep -drecurse -e usbmouse /etc/moduti

Re: font positive size

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
r, I usually consider such errors normal (e.g., I always have errors of missing locales, gnome-gv(1) complains about some scanlines or what, etc.). Just a way a complex and not really mature application (Gnome) in a not so bulletproof packaging (Debian) lives on. Cheers, Jan. -

Re: Unresolve symbols, running kernel

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
provides. If everything is done correctly, other modules, or the core kernel, can use the new functions now. The module may requires some functions to be present, too. And this is your situation. input.o provides some functions wacom.o uses. You have to insmod the input.o module, in order to

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
the high rate of typos in their messages), they apparently can type. So I wouldn't be *that* optimistic. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:30:39PM +, Pigeon wrote: > debug1: Connection established. It's not a NAT problem you've got through. You may find nc(1) and nmap(1) useful in debugging. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x

Re: Problem

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
n your washing mashine. Then, everything should be just fine. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NB package screw up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:09:04PM -0500, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > On 04-01-01 18:52 +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:29:46AM -0700, Tony TJ Previte wrote: > > > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 > > > subprocess post-i

Re: NB package screw up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:52:00PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:29:46AM -0700, Tony TJ Previte wrote: > > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 > > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > H

Re: libc6-dev depends from linux-kernel-headers ?

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
eaders 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP | kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-k6 - Headers for Linux kernel version 2.4.18 on AMD K6/K6-II/K6-III | kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-k7 - Headers for Linux kernel version 2.4.18 on AMD K7 | kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 - Headers for Linux kern

Re: Problem

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 03:36:10PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 20:57:10 +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:43:46PM +0300, Haytham AL Samkari wrote: > >> Additional Information: The type of the printer is Ink-Jet > >

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
his is a ``security by obscurity''; a naive approach that works by giving you a warm fuzzy feeling that you've done your homework, which lessens your alertness, so you won't ever notice the intruders. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NB package screw up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 10:00:12PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:11:56PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > There ain't any. > > There certainly are (see 'dpkg --force-help'), but none of them apply to > the case when a maintainer script fails.

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
g tcpdump(8). Punch your firewall properly. That's what I'd do. And please post the useful bits verbatim (e.g. that interfaces entry--who says it's not malformed?). The error messages are dmesg(8), ip(8)/ifconfig(8), tcpdump(8). -- Jan Minar "Please do

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 06:06:34PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Thursday January 1 at 11:47pm > Jan Minar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:42:09PM +, Adam Barton wrote: > > > At least then a script kiddy won't simply f

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
Sun Tzu for details. Now the wisdom: Some 101% of the bragging about computer security is just that: bragging. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device`

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
they reside in. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device`

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 08:04:47PM -0800, Steven Yap wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 19:28, Jan Minar wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:32:45PM -0800, Steven Yap wrote: > > > /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to hdc. Is your CDROM drive really on hdc? > > > Try us

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
et through the socket. Linux Socket | Filtering works on all socket types except TCP for now. See the | text file for more | information. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 6 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-01 Thread Jan Minar
% ip a % ip r And: what was the dhclient's commandline? (Read: Was it correct?) And tcpdump's. Post _with_ invocations. So again: # dhclient -d eth0 # tcpdump -i eth0 -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 6 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Minar
he script kiddies, you would be cracked only 1-2 times a day. Hopefully the first one to get in will move sshd back to 22/tcp and patch the binary. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ssh to NATed box fails

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 08:50:23AM +, Adam Barton wrote: > Jan Minar wrote: > > >Now the wisdom: Some 101% of the bragging about computer security is > >just that: bragging. Including this thread, of course. -- Jan Minar "Please don't

Re: Where is "append" command

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Minar
language" [syn: {add on}, {supplement}, {affix}] Yes, use your favorite editor. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Where is "append" command

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Minar
> A nice one :-)) It's not a command, it a verb: Oops! Wrong! Check the correct explanation in another reply. Didn't remember LILO uses such a thing, used LILO three times for approximately 1 hour and escaped back to grub(8) every time. -- Jan Minar "

Re: Problem: kernel 2.4.23 - rootfs mounted read-only

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Minar
t. The short term $0.01 is to reboot singleuser, run badblocks, and adjust the /etc/fstab line to `errors=continue'. This is what I did few weeks ago. There are surely better ways but this kinda works. Don't trust the disk much from now on--if you have valuable data, r

Re: modprobe says not found - insmod ok ????

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Minar
description "Horizontal screen resolution" | parm:yres int, description "Vertical screen resolution" I'm not going to dig any further into this, but you can find what ImPS/2 is, and whether the alias stanza is reasonable, and possibly file a bug. Cheers, Ja

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:40:42AM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: > >Thanks for your patience. This is really a response the way you > >requested. I understand the > > Oops. I meant NOT. not WHAT? -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'

Re: growisofs ejects when finished

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Minar
ts DVD-RW also.) What about www.google.com? -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Base system is installed (I think), now what?

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
> of Debian (potato, woody, sarge, I think) and which is suited for what? Read http://www.debian.org/releases/ Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fetchmail: lock creation failed

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
or to your home directory, or both. > How can I fix this? rm ~/.fetchmail.pid, and check your permissions wrt your home directory. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Setting system-wide ulimits (esp. # of open files)

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
r the particular task, or set the limits in the configs of gates to the system, i.e. xdm, login, sshd, &c. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: having trouble with abcde

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
/cdrom symlink points to? If not adding the user to the group `audio' should do. HTH -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
77545 You can see you have two completely different disks. You might use hdparm(8) to see what the disk report themselves to be, really. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
ting them to this thread. Does anybody wants to add anything before I do so? Jan. On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 07:15:37AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:23:06AM +1300, Edward Murrell wrote: > > Check your /var/log/messages file. The most likely error is that you > > didn

Re: ls nitpick

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
x27;s not the same, ...or even both. My favorite is: $ cat ~/.bashrc ls(){ ls --color=auto --classify "$@"; } Equivalents in shells' other startup script. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-05 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:19:22AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 04:22:22 +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > Definitively. That's why I quoted it, to expose Edward's advise as a > > b***CENSORED*** (see bellow). It wasn't apparently. I'll file

Re: Env-locale problems

2004-01-05 Thread Jan Minar
l characters. They are treated equally by the C library routines. I poke around the manpages, but was unable to verify this. Am I wrong, Colin? -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device

2004-01-05 Thread Jan Minar
sure to understand the advises before reporting further problems the next time :-( HTH. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device

2004-01-05 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:21:23AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > Please make sure to understand the advises before reporting further > problems the next time :-( Maybe I've gone too far; withdrawing this and apologizing. Peace. Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-05 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:22:22AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 07:04:08PM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: > > Problem solved. Recompiling with CONFIG_FILTER set lets dhcp work. I > > think they ought to change the recommendation in menuconfig; it kind of &g

Re: wireless setup

2004-01-05 Thread Jan Minar
act, D-Link is a crap. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: apm powershutown not working in 2.4.20-bf2.4

2004-01-05 Thread Jan Minar
g or the output from dmesg Yes, dmesg(8) is your friend. Go and peruse it. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problem running foomatic-filters postinst script

2004-01-05 Thread Jan Minar
d Carl, Look through the headers of any message on this list for a word `archive'. Or use google for that matter. Yours, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fetchmail: lock creation failed

2004-01-05 Thread Jan Minar
uggestions? Yes: strace(1). Look especially for the open(), and anything from the stat() family (man 2 stat). HTH. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: delete file based on content

2004-01-06 Thread Jan Minar
ossibly be worth noticing. Given sufficient number of executions, such a message will appear--and we would miss it. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fetchmail: lock creation failed

2004-01-06 Thread Jan Minar
e id(1), ls -ld, and friends, so we know what exactly is going on. Last but not least, not that my .signature growed again ;-/ -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 8 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: wireless setup

2004-01-06 Thread Jan Minar
e and router, the OS is not important since > it can all be run from a browser? Maybe. Just check the browser interface is mature/secure/compatible enough. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 8 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problem running foomatic-filters postinst script

2004-01-06 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:54:08PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:35:14PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > > Look through the headers of any message on this list for a word > > `archive'. Or use google for that matter. > > I'm not sure if that

Re: web subscribe form appears to be broken

2004-01-07 Thread Jan Minar
ee above in the headers, submitted the form, and I received a confirmation request some time afterwards. I was using one of the text browsers in Debian (lynx/links (ugh, ugly.)/w3m), probably, or just mmmaybe, the Galeon. I was subscribing just few days ago. Cheers, Jan. --

Re: exit usage

2004-01-07 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:44:38AM +0100, Florian Ernst wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:13:44PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > >I have a situation where I login as the root user, > >then 'su ' to a user with limited rights, > >and run a short script as this user. > >* > >My question is: > >In

Re: exit usage

2004-01-08 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:33:10AM +0100, Florian Ernst wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:17:37AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > >... definitively; but if you really wanted to know how to do it the > >Wrong Way: -- translated in the plain English: Yes, this solves the problem, a

Re: OT: How to match a substring?

2004-01-14 Thread Jan Minar
as Solaris." ;; *) echo "Hi, I don't know who I am & I can't even spell \`\`potato''." ;; esac Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

OT: It's legal to download [Was: Re: [Fwd: Preliminary investigation were started]]

2004-01-14 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:41:25PM +, Joseph Jones wrote: > Downloading of Movies, MP3s and Software is illegal and punishable by law. Actually, it is not. Not even when the thing is copyrighted. Maybe in your jurisdiction, but definitively not in mine. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Mi

Re: OT: How to match a substring?

2004-01-14 Thread Jan Minar
Heh, yet I have something better :-) : case "$OSTYPE" in ... esac Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: lost configuration after reboot

2004-01-14 Thread Jan Minar
lled "X", not a system called "X Windows". > up as the default and i cannot seem to prevent this from happening. apt-get install kdm; maybe apt-get remove xdm -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Unable to get past kernel boot

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Minar
st the network connection--i.e. try to ping/listen on ports, writing in some log at the same time. HTH Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: problem with network configurations

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Minar
ng the interfaces, ``ifup eth0'' should work. If you want this to be done automatically @ bootup, add ``auto eth0'' stanza above the ``iface eth0...'' line (maybe below it would be fine, too, just for sure). HTH, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: My system has Flashbacks?

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Minar
has security bearings. I heard that in the old days when PCs were young, it was sometimes necessary to leave the comp switched off for few tens of seconds, in order for the video RAM to forget what was in there, or the video wouldn't boot. But you couldn't be sure whether all the bits

Re: My system has Flashbacks?

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Minar
It's a feature. The ATX PCs are mostly on, even when ``off'' (think standby), too. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ieee1394 ethernet

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Minar
files) > faster than my 10baseT network. I assume this can be done somehow, but am > not sure what next to do. scp (apt-get install ssh) HTH, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[SOLVED] Re: lost configuration after reboot

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:54:50AM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > At Thursday, 15 January 2004, Jan Minar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 05:49:46PM -0500, Debian User wrote: > >> packets were not being forwarded from the 192.168.

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