ited -- plus nice to newbies. I could name a few people
in particular, especially the Debian developers who monitor the list and
those who helped me dodge the recent libc6 bullet, but 'heck' you're all
great.
Somebody please give my regards to Tia.
Thanks for the help and your patience with,
montefin
P.S. If anyone knows someone in Sunnyvale/Santa Clara/Cupertino/San
Jose, CA with a rental with a yard for a dog please let me know at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Also, it 'appears' enormous, but if you do
du -k /var/log/lastlog
you will see that it's actually quite small.
montefin
Pollywog wrote:
>
> It shows recent logins; when people last logged in to their accounts.
> see 'man lastlog'
>
> --
> An
Gregory,
It was all my fault. I pulled the plug out of the wall when the lamp was
still on.
Regrets,
montefin
"Gregory T. Norris" wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 09:33:55AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > [1] Debian Chaos Events are scheduled on a haphazard basis. We
Why do I feel like I have dodged a thermonuclear woody melt-down?
montefin
Kevin Krafthefer wrote:
>
> Through some amazingly reckless use of dselect, I've managed to remove
> ldconfig from my machine. Now I find myself in a seemingly bootstrap-ish
>
> position:
>
>
Why do I now feel like I dodged a nuclear-tipped woody torpedo?
Thank you _All_ on this list who responded to my 'Paranoid's Question'
post of Tuesday. I'm talking dinner on me in San Jose!
Gratitude coming out the ears,
montefin
Joel Dinel wrote:
>
> I just di
Why do I have this feeling that I just dodged a bullet?
A big _Thank_ You to all who answered my 'Paranoid's Question' post from
yesterday!
montefin
Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> Those who run woody should probably subscribe to the debian-devel list.
> There was a warning ab
woody proceeds too far beyond
me to do a simple 'apt-get upgrade'?
Thanks for any guidance,
montefin
Bryan Walton wrote:
>
> Hi, I have been following this thread today, very closely. Here is my
> question,I did an apt-get -f install dist-upgrade (in unstable) this morni
I loaf this list!
montefin
Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> Hold on tight. There are some strange things happening with today's
> upgrade.
>
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 08:34:54PM -0600, montefin wrote:
> > Colin,
> >
> > montefin fastens his seatbelt.
>
Colin,
montefin fastens his seatbelt.
montefin
Colin Watson wrote:
>
> montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Why hasn't woody done something really bad yet?
> >
> >Have I just been lucky for over two months playing 'apt-get upgrade
> >roul
Why hasn't woody done something really bad yet?
Have I just been lucky for over two months playing 'apt-get upgrade
roulette'? Or, am I in pain and just don't know it?
montefin
most appreciated. You can email me,
off-list, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Thank you for any guidance, and for your patience with,
montefin
erm cursor blink when it is the focus window in fvwm. My fvwm xterm
menu command is currently set as follows:
Exec xterm -ls -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -fn 10x20 -geometry 80x33+33+8 -fg
black -bg white &
And it's perfect for me...almost.
Could some kind soul suggest what to add, please?
Thanks,
montefin
point :)
>
Well I use Red Hat so I can take a higher moral ground over my friends
who use Windows.
And I use Debian so I can take a higher moral ground over my friends who
use Red Hat.
montefin
ee
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
But I thought I would check with the masters before I proceeded.
Thanks for any input,
montefin
--
Apochryphal Fact: 347 paranoids were murdered last year.
Or woman.
montefin (a.k.a. Capt. P.C.)
Shaul Karl wrote:
>
> I believe that their web master might help you to find your man.
>
Btw, you will soon come to be considered a linux god because you chose
Debian, and Potato at that, as your first Linux. Mine was Red Hat 6.0. I
only woke up 4 months ago.
Good luck and remember: Even the hundred petal lotus reveals itself one
petal at a time.
Oh, and welcome aboard.
montefin
Brian Vozza
nd you some firewall HOWTO info that really streamlined
firewalling my Potato box. Unfortunately, I got a 'Returned mail:
Service unavailable' notice from the bellsouth.net postmaster.
I didn't send it to the list since I've posted it here before, so let me
know if you'd like it and what addy to email it to, ok?
montefin
Raghavendra,
Great idea. Yes, I just did it, as root, using the following commands:
# cd /var/cache/apt
# mkdir sim-logs
# apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade | cat > sim-logs/apt-sim.txt
then
# less sim-logs/apt-sim.txt
to read it.
Thanks,
montefin
Raghavendra Bhat wrote:
>
> monte
Nate,
Perhaps I am being too user-oriented.
montefin
Nate Amsden wrote:
>
> you can still search the mail archives and packages, i never knew you
> could search the www site in the first place :) never needed to.
>
> if you want to search, you can go to altavista and for
then my mileage always varies.
montefin
Rick Macdonald wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Daniel E. Baumann wrote:
>
> > O.K. Here is a question that I am sure has been asked before, but I could
> > not
> > find a concise enough answer. If I was to upgrade to woody
ng and for your patience with,
montefin
"s. keeling" wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:39:59PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> > s. keeling wrote:
> > > In that spirit, I'd like to suggest that this list needs a FAQ list.
> >
> > You have a faq.
>
five-to-ten years of your
miserable life making newly rich Internet Moguls' vanity license plates.
John, if I were you, when you knock at the prison door, wear nothing but
a smile. But, John, not too big a smile. Ok?
See you in five-to-ten years,
montefin
> John Griffiths wrote:
>
Actually,
Michael has stated the small point I was trying to make, and better than
I did in my original post.
As I said, "It's just a thought."
montefin
> Michalowski Thierry wrote:
>
> I think he simply suggest to call the distributions with less
> pejorat
David,
Precisely the point I was trying to make.
Thank you,
montefin
David Karlin wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:53:58PM +0200, Michalowski Thierry wrote:
> > I think he simply suggest to call the distributions with less pejorative
> > names.
> > Many users a
montefin wrote:
>
> Nathan E Norman wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 11:03:57PM -0400, Adam Scriven wrote:
> >
> > > Linux is a wonderful tool. We all know it. But it IS just that, a
> > > tool. If a distribution, no matter how good it's i
hopefully will soon emerge from its Pre-Release lockdown.
Woody will stay in Development until it locks into Pre-Release.
Just a thought,
montefin
sability, bi-directionality,
whatever, capablilities built into apt-get, dselect and dpkg.
Has anyone actually done or at least attempted this?
Thanks for any light anyone can shed,
montefin
e they already taken?
I know for a fact that 'beaver' is already spoken for. And linx-chicks
are so nick-protective. I think it's because of the Spandex.
'gecko' has a nice ring to it.
montefin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Ethan Ben
x27; is more
than overcome by the debian-users mailing list.
Will I switch the PII from Red Hat to Debian?
Probably. But, I don't feel any pressing need to switch now that Red
Hat's security looseness is tucked in behind a Debian mediated firewall.
Of course, security is relative. But, I'll feel relatively secure as
long as nobody writes back "Don't do Woody on a firewall!"
Still, when friends ask me about 'this thing called Linux', I recommend
they go out and buy the latest Red Hat boxed CD set; try Linux; and, if
they like it and want to get serious, switch to Debian, Slackware or
SuSE.
Sorry for the story format and not a neat list. Hope it helps.
montefin
inced this isn't a bug ... it should at least be
> documented that you have to do this.
>
with which I whole heartedly concur.
IMHO, apt-get is too integral to the viability of Debian among general
computer users to remain 'the left hand that does not know what all the
right hands are d
lease
let both Ross and I know. Ok?
montefin
that order. apt-get seems to just accept the new package. I even do
an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' afterwards sometimes, with the woody lines
_commented out_ and apt-get passes over the woody versions.
Maybe it's overkill. Maybe it's just voodoo. But so far it seems to have
kept me o
r instance, Postgresql 7.
montefin
Ross Boylan wrote:
>
> I'm interested in pulling a package or two out of woody. sources.list
> doesn't seem to allow such fine-grained control.
>
> What's the usual way of doing this?
>
> By the way, I've also taken Hel
n the FlowPoint's support CD to get Debian to communicate
with and 'take control of' the router.
Actually, it was a lot more interesting re-doing the firewall rules and
establishing the ssl, ssh1 and ssh2 protocols to handle the public,
static DSL IP.
Anyway, good luck.
montefi
Well,
I vote for wipe both clean, 'apt-get install' Woody's openssl-0.9.5a and
build openssh-2.1.1p4 from source tomorrow morning.
montefin looks at all the votes.
Er...vote.
H. I won!
Somebody stop me!
montefin
montefin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Just hoping for
Ethan,
Yep.
Even though, by Poetic Law, a sonnet may only have 14 lines.
Lucky it doesn't originate From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
That! would be pushing it.
Love to Tia,
montefin
Ethan Pierce wrote:
>
> Does everyone else get this failure notice whenever they
anks in advance for any help, and for your patience with
montefin
my control, and a lot more to learn.
Hope this helps someone.
And say, I've recently noticed another very popular female on these
lists: [ANN]. Could anyone tell me if [ANN] is related to Tia? Could
they possibly be _twins_?! Be still my heart! :)
Thanks to the debian-user list,
montefin
'ls -l' still won't go away even if you delete
the high UID users, but they should diminish. For instance, on my Red
Hat box where the highest UID is 527, 'ls -l /var/log/lastlog' shows a
153952 filesize and 'du -k /var/log/lastlog' shows actual disk usage
highest _including_ all_the_gaps. And the ls -l command
reports all that air. The du -k command however accurately reports how
much disk space in Kb's /var/log/lastlog actually writes to,
_mit_out_der_gaps.
As I say, this can win you beers and other small wagers.
montefin
Bob Bernstein w
Bob,
It only looks that big.
Do this:
du -k /var/log/lastlog
and tell us what it says.
montefin
PS, you can win bets on this one. I have.
Bob Bernstein wrote:
>
> bash-2.03$ ls -l /var/log/lastlog
> -rw-rw-r--1 root utmp 18523020 Jun 22 16:08 /var/log/lastlog
>
Hear. Hear. I second that emotion.
montefin
Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
>
> The following is a message that I grabbed from the archives of
> developers' list, the ones with the power of vote about this or any
> other resolution. There are ideas here that are worth reading, so I
ce to check before doing an apt-get, a
perl -MCPAN or a wget.
AAMOF, since "pon's" man page is also elegantly tiny and simple, I have
not found if or how it can be activated by an application yet.
Anyone know? Then I could care less about a little light thingie.
montefin
Andrew McRo
John,
I did not get my cut of your purchase price. Please send me a dime.
montefin
John Archuleta wrote:
>
> To Whom It May Concern,
>
> I recently purchased your version of linux, but am having trouble
> installing it. I was hoping you had tech support that could walk
I recall Netscape6 also
took up 41Mb of hard disk space. That was the deciding factor here.
montefin
Atila Nemet wrote:
>
> AN> Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there
> AN> window manager which is low on system resources so I
> AN> could set up X o
But, Pollywog
You have not addressed the main question!
>From where comes the quote "I see everything twice."?
montefin
Pollywog wrote:
>
> On Mon, 22 May 2000, montefin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > How come I'm receiving two of most replies from th
ning
down among Linux folks so I thought a 'different experience' might be
encouraging. Thanks for all your support and your patience with
montefin
--
In Life Timing is everything; in Linux Permissions is everything.
http://www.montefin.com/~montefin/ (up 24/7)
http://finux.com:8080 (our Zope experiment...evenings & weekends)
http://finux.com:8085 (our XML adventures...evenings & weekends)
es from? I must have used that quote a thousand times and no
one anywhere has ever commented on it. Yet, it is the defining
grace-note of one of the most endearing characters from 20th Century
American Literature.
montefin
--
In Life Timing is everything; in Linux Permissions is everyt
nux Permissions is everything.
http://www.montefin.com/~montefin/ (up 24/7)
http://finux.com:8080 (our Zope experiment...evenings & weekends)
http://finux.com:8085 (our XML adventures...evenings & weekends)
Didi Damian wrote:
>
> * montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [21-05-2000 07:42 PM -0600]
> > I'm having an SDSL connection installed the first week of June. I will
> > need to have network cards in both my computers. I am told the installer
> > will take care of th
Wow you guys are great -- and fast!
Ray Olszewski wrote [in part]:
>
> At 07:42 PM 5/21/00 -0600, montefin wrote [in part]:
> ...
> >I'm having an SDSL connection installed the first week of June. I will
> >need to have network cards in both my computers. I am told
but will use it now if there's considerable
advantage in a faster firewall?
I know, I shoulda named my site 'cheapskate.com', but that name was
already taken.
Opinions? Debian/Linux support issues? Experiences? Pitfalls? Gotchas?
All are welcome and needed.
Thank you for all th
Colin,
A perfect answer. Clear. To the point. Actionable.
Thank you,
montefin
Colin Watson wrote:
>
> montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Does dpkg need all that status history? And if not, must I monitor it
> >myself, or does dpkg have a self-cleansing me
above and let the pieces fall where they may?
Thanks for whatever guidance you may send my way, and for your patience
with
montefin
*You never really know what somebody's saying until after they use the
word 'but'.
esitate to write a cron job to trim these status files on new
processes I'm still in the early stages of learning.
Thanks for whatever guidance you can give, and for your patience.
montefin
Holy Canarsie, Miquel!
You are absolutely right, 'du /var/log/lastlog' does show the file to be
miniscule. Whew!
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>
> montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Has anyone else encountered this situation?
>
> Yes, almost everyone.
>
uld that have any bearing on its huge size?
Even so, is there some command I can issue to flush the log so I can
keep it in proportion? Or will some regular process eventually reduce
the size of /var/log/lastlog and free up that disk space?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
montefin
mine below. Write one in your home directory
(~/signature.txt) and point your mail app to it, _but_ only 4 lines,
Avinash, or you're gonna get back more mail than you care to read :)
ALTHILTM,
montefin
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
>
> Graeme Mathieson wrote:
>
> > OK, I'm n
space.
It was wrenching. I cannot say, however, that I would go back and change
the choice I had to make.
If no one else has _had_ to make this choice, then please let this
thread die here. It just keeps bringing up sad memories I'd rather leave
buried with a great text editor.
montefin
-ro, locale-ru, etc.) are not installed.
Thanks,
montefin
intended to see the light of
day thereafter.
montefin
or or at debian.org (which AFAICT is currntly between
search engines).
Eric, if you're watching, could you post your reply to Oki here and
maybe clue me in about libtcpwrapGK.so.1.0 also? Or anyone else?
Thanks,
montefin
> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Bob,
np.
I intended to use -r. Below your post is a response to the same question
from another list member. All I can say is it seems to work for me. Next
time I'll try it again without the -r. I'm sure I'll have occasion to.
montefin
"Robert D. Hilliard" wro
aded _and_ 30 of them
Removed? Or, is there some capability built into apt that can
choreograph all that?
Thanks for the good advice already, hoping for more,
montefin
ost count. I'm surprised to encounter it in Debian. AND it may
be different here, so if anyone thinks he shouldn't try this, please
speak up NOW.
Good Luck,
montefin
Philip Lehman wrote:
>
> My potato workstation suffered from a power failure and it seems
> like the partit
, also flatten my learning curve as much as possible before 'show
time'.
Any and all suggestions would be very welcome, even if it's
overwhelmingly "Stick with Slink!" I apologize for the length and I'm
sure some unavoidable ignorances in my request.
By the way, who's this girl Tia? She seems very popular and I'd really
like to meet her.
Thanks (in advance :),
montefin
ker with it.
I use it to manage and mediate one of the entryways
into my websites.
Take a peek at it. I'm sure it's grown vastly,
but my initial install just keeps doing what I want
it to do that I haven't even looked at it in over
six months.
Regards,
montefin
Maury Merkin wrote:
>
p would be appreciated. I
like Debian very much so far.
Thanks,
montefin
SYSTEM: 486DX 66, 24Mb RAM, 814Mb HDD
[ / = 50Mb, /usr = 514Mb, /home = 150Mb, /var = 50Mb, swap = 50Mb]
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