mike polniak wrote:
> I have been using Pan as my newsreader. Its really not bad. Very
> easy to set up and use the gui.But i plan to try Gnus or Slrn.
> Any comments about either in terms of ease of setup/use, features
> and basically is either one worth the effort compared to Pan.
Dale Morris wrote:
> this is an easy one, /var was being filled by apt-cache and cleaned up by
> running apt-get clean
Actually, /var/cache/apt is both filled and cleaned by apt-get. As I
understand it, apt-cache is for querying and manipulating the contents
of /var/lib/apt/lists.
And yes, whoe
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:23:02AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> > ***NEVER*** delete large files on an impacted filesystem, *unless* you
> > first zero them out, *and* insure nothing's accessing them:
>
> Isn't that a flaw in the system then?
No, it's a
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> yeah -- i just figured out that folder names are relative to $HOME, not
> $HOME/Mail.
Actually, folder names are relative to your current working directory. It
just so happens that most people start mutt while they're in $HOME.
> do you happen to know offhand how to
bentley taylor wrote:
> in .muttrc, add a line like:
>
> my_hdr From:
Scott Vaverchak replied:
> I would also suggest to change your reply-to. For me my user name is adeo but
> email is suadeo, so i would suggest changing your reply (if you need to).
>
> my_hdr Reply-To [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why
Glyn Millington wrote:
> /var/log/news says things like
>
> Feb 17 19:02:26 glynthebearded fetchnews[9750]: unable to create article
> /var/spool/news/message.id/658/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: No such file or directory
> Feb 17 19:02:26 glynthebearded fetchnews[9750]: Cannot create directory
> /var/s
This is untested, since naturally I'm not about to hose my system for a
complete stranger. :-)
cd /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives
update-alternatives --auto *
Rich Renomeron wrote:
> Apparently my backup software doesn't handle symlinks across filesystems
> very well, and when I recen
Pollywog wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:21:12 -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball said:
> > Use --force-depends, not --force-conflicts.
> >
> > Or better yet, don't install an out-of-date package that is about to
> > be removed from testing and unstable. If you
Pollywog wrote:
> I am trying to install the netscape4 package, but it complains that
> xpm4g is not installed. The latter package has been replaced by
> another which IS installed, but netscape4 won't hear of it.
>
> I tried 'dpkg --force-conflicts -i netscape4_xyz.i386.deb' but I
> still can't
Grrr. 6 people replying with the same answers is 5 people too many.
Hitler! Hitler! Hitler!
Benjamin Pharr wrote:
> Every once in a while I slip up at cat a binary file to the console. (Or
> just forget to give mkisofs the -o flag.) This causes the console to use
> WEIRD characters, just p
John Foster wrote:
> The mouse should be /dev/gpmdata for it to work inte startup file
> /etc/x11/XF86Config.
For years I've had both gpm and X use /dev/psaux directly with no
problems. Why am I successful when others aren't? Does it depend on
the type of mouse?
"set noflash" in $HOME/.exrc or /etc/vi.exrc if you're using nvi (the
default vi on Debian).
brian
Stan Brown wrote:
> How can I get rid of the anoying flash (visual bell) in vi, on a system
> wide bassis? (potato)
Alex Chamberlain wrote:
> For instance, if I try to select only the packages I want and not select
> netscape-base-476 in dselect, I get the following dependency error
> message:
>
> communicator-spellchk-476 depends on netscape-base-476
> communicator-base-476 depends on netscape-base-47
This is an ancient issue; see bug #25410. Luckily there's been some
talk on -devel about fixing it.
brian
David B. Harris wrote:
> To quote Marcial Zamora III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[...]
> > the man page only takes up half of the width of the
> > terminal..
[...]
> I'm actually curious a
Kent West wrote:
> "tcpdump" doesn't seem to be an available command (yes, as root); nor
> does "locate" return anything for it. Does this indicate that I'm
> perhaps missing a package?
It's not "missing", it's just not installed by default apparently.
Run apt-get install tcpdump.
> >> My "/e
Mike wrote:
> SCSI emulation support
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI
> This will provide SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices,
> and will allow you to use a SCSI device driver instead of a native
> ATAPI driver.
>
> This is useful if you have an ATAPI device for which no native
>
Benjamin Pharr wrote:
> It works, for you, but I gave it a shot with no luck.
You mean you tried hdd=scsi?
> What modules do you
> have loaded at boot time?
None. Everything's compiled into the kernel.
Mike wrote:
> > Here's his problem:
> >
> > > > 2. Added append="hdd=ide-scsi" to my /etc/lilo.conf
> >
> > Should just be "hdd=scsi". Search for "=scsi" in
> > linux/Documentation/Configure.help for more info.
>
> Uhh, you sure about that?
Argh, RTFM! I eve
Mike wrote:
> Benjamin Pharr wrote:
> > I'm still having difficulties getting my cd writer to work. Here is what
> > I've done so far:
> >
> > Recompiled my (2.4.0) kernel with scsi-emulation and scsi
> > support. IDE-CDROM support is compiled in statically.
>
Igor Khavkine wrote:
> Hi, I'm running unstable with a custom built linux-2.4.0. I'm trying
> to setup a firewall rule with iptables the following way:
>
> iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p tcp --dport 5865 -j REJECT
>
> The error message I get is:
> ipchains: Protocol not available
>
> If I chage R
Kent West wrote:
> My "/etc/inetd.conf file looks like:
> . . .
> talkdgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd
> /usr/sbin/in.talkd
> ##
> ntalk dgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd
> /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd
> . . .
Is "##" in front of the nt
JC Portlock wrote:
> installer is set up for rp7, but the only version currently available is rp8.
> I could not fool the installer by renaming the app. The filename called for
> is:
> rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_b2_rpm
>
> Is this available anywhere? Or is there some way to slap the installer ar
> on Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 04:15:02PM -0500, David B . Harris ([EMAIL
> PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > To quote Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > # The getty family does this. vgetty is for voice. mgetty is for data,
> > # and so on. Just do a 'apt-get -f install mgetty-voice' you might also
> > # want t
Chris Gray wrote:
> (-print0 is an option for find).
Whoops!
Carel Fellinger wrote:
> As explained recently in an other thread you can't share a ps/2 mouse
> between processes (gpm and X)
For nearly 5 years I've been letting both gpm and X use /dev/psaux. As
long as I don't move the mouse as X is starting everything works fine.
--
belief, n:
Som
Chris Gray wrote:
> I'd rather people didn't use a chainsaw where a butterknife will do
> just as well:
>
> tar tzf $1 | xargs rm
>
> will work for those dumbass tarballs where they don't make a new
> directory to put their files. There might be confusion if there are
> spaces in the filenames,
Eric G . Miller wrote:
> There's no such dependency for apache-common in
> unstable.
Yes there is.
Package: apache-common
Priority: optional
Section: web
Installed-Size: 1948
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Source: apache
Version: 1.3.14-2
Replaces: apache, libap
Brian Frederick Kimball wrote:
> If it's nvi (the default vi on Debian), you want "set wraplen=NN" in
> your $HOME/.exrc. But nvi is pretty slim on features-- it doesn't even
> have multi-level undo. Better to just install vim & vim-rt and put "set
> tex
Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 04:35:03AM +, q wrote:
> > (my apologies...it's on my list of projects. i use vi. the posts i
> > see for this issue seem to be for vim. (anyone know how to line wrap
> > in _vi_?))
>
> Don't know if this is the answer you keep getting, but,
Please wrap your text.
q wrote:
> [...] i've become interested in backing up my /home/foo directory (by:
> tar cvzf .tar.gz *).
>
> i've noticed that such backup does not include my /home/foo/.*
> (hidden) files, like .muttrc
$ man bash
[...]
When a pattern is used for pathname expansion, th
Apparently any address in the "alternates" variable will be removed
from the recipient list when doing a group reply (I don't think this
is explicitly stated in the documentation). Note that the alternates
variable is a regexp so you'll probably want to escape any special
characters (".", etc) and
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