Re: [OT]: < 10pt in LaTeX?

2003-02-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 10:31:37PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: ... > that's cool ... i was looking for an option i could just pass to > \documentstyle, i guess, but you can only tell it to be 10, 11, and > 12pt. whatever; this is likely the only thing i'll ever do in \tiny > :) You could try _ex

Re: Bad Debian (L.A.H.)

2003-03-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 09:53:08PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: ... > IMO, you can avoid anything printed by Prentice Hall except stuff > written by W. Richard Stevens. I think that's ill informed advice. Some of the best books on informatics are from them, like: A discipline of programming,

Re: Installing on a FACELESS pc?

2003-01-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:10:54AM -0600, will trillich wrote: ... > headless would be a monitor, keyboard and mouse, with no cpu > box. Not quit. Headless would be without monitor, cpu and memory. Lack of cpu and memory could be called brainless, but lack of cpu alone lacks any resemblance with

Re: Installing on a FACELESS pc?

2003-01-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:40:05PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:33:19PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > To be serious again, what's really lacking to get headless machines > > to fully work is lack of support in most (all?) BIOS'ses to use a &

Re: Initrd diskless boot

2003-01-25 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:55:06PM -0500, Jameson C. Burt wrote: > I re-emphasize the www.ltsp.org approach. ... > I bought a diskless workstation 3 weeks ago from a link on ltsp.org, > a workstation the size of your outstretched hand yet having > audio, USB, parallel, serial, and ethernet ports

Re: Initrd diskless boot

2003-01-27 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:52:16PM -0500, Jameson C. Burt wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:30:32AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > I never could really find the info whether that 15Watt power supply is > > part of the bricks or not and whether it needs any fan itself

Re: Cdrecord and audio cd

2003-01-30 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:47:34PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: ... > The cd does not spin. CD channel is unmuted. I can play other audio > cd's. No, I am not attempting to mount an audio cd. All cd players under > linux gave me the same error. I missed some of your possed and don't feel like going

Re: find a command i have recently used in bash

2003-01-31 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:09:54PM +0100, Ulf Rompe wrote: ... > As an example, another useful (for me) addition to the inputrc is > this one: > > # Ctrl-Left/Right jumps wordwise on cmd line > "\e[D": backward-word > "\e[C": forward-word I fail to see the Control part here, it j

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-02-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:26:26PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... ... > > mount -o remount,rw / > > Well, that didn't work, either. Here's the error: > > EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option 0 > mount: / not mounted already, or bad option I think you us

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-02-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:17:12PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > I have some more info about my problem that might be useful. > > I booted up off of disk 1 of my Woody installation CDROM set. > My root partition is /dev/sda2, so I entered the following at > the "boot:" prompt ... > > rescue root

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-02-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:30:36PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Quoting Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ...more likely your kernel doesn't know about SCSI disks, so > > software. > > I've been booting up and running off of SCSI disks day > in a

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-02-03 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:02:45PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: ... > Well, I guess I'll have to go back to the drawing board to > figure out how to make a usable boot floppy ... or perhaps a > boot CD ... I really don't care which one I have, as long as > I have _some_ source for a boot record besid

Re: saving mutt email headers

2003-02-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:36:43AM +, p wrote: ... > in "v"iew mode, i try to "s"ave > the email into a file. don't go into view mode, but save from the index instead. -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:07:08AM +1200, cr wrote: > This may seem an odd place to ask this, but I'll bet some of the folks on > this list know more about the technicalities of booting Windoze than Windoze > users do ;) I know next to nothing about Windows and prefer to keep it like that:), b

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 11:28:24PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:30:06PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > But nowadays I think that what's really needed is to take care that all > > windows partitions have there first sector(s?) cleaned prior to lettin

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:02:53PM +1200, cr wrote: > On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:30, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > From experience, Win95/98 needs to be on the first drive, needs to be > > in a bootable primary partition which needs to be the only/first primary > > p

Re: Sound capture via fake driver

2003-09-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:40:44PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I remember, sometime last year, using a replacement sound module to capture > streaming audio to a file. It worked quite well. Are you thinking of something like vsound? -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Solved] fetchmail rules for logcheck?

2002-10-04 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:08:45PM -0400, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry for the wasted bandwidth, but it had not occurred to me to check Not wasted at all, atleast not for me:) I've postponed looking into this for month now, yet the shere amount of fetchmail blurbs made it harder

Re: USB Mouse problems (Solved)

2002-10-06 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 03:35:15AM -0400, lameth wrote: ... > The previous distrobution of linux that I used was Mandrake 8.0. The > installs always went fine but then after a month or two of using it I > would start seeing messages about non-contiguous data on the hard drive. That's just `fsc

Re: debian emacs policy and configuring mutt

2002-10-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:56:59PM +0200, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote: > On the way trying to convince mutt > to use emacs -nw instead of vi by > editing .muttrc as: > > set editor=emacs -nw There is a space in the command, so you need quotes, try : set editor="emacs -nw" -- groetjes, carel

Re: tiny mouse howto update - console gpm, X and mouse wheel

2002-10-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 06:03:58PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > I am going over ML for the next "Debian Reference" over the mouse > configuration. > > I found a thread with your names quite interesting. In order to refresh > all, I put all participants in TO list. Excuse me. > > I have

Re: tiny mouse howto update - console gpm, X and mouse wheel

2002-10-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:51:09AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 06:03:58PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... > > 2. What do you think of Debian Reference description? > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ > > Chapter 3.3

Re: tiny mouse howto update - console gpm, X and mouse wheel

2002-10-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:39:23AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:51:09AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: .. > > IIRC I had problems with autops and some mice I have, be it a Logitech > > Mouse Man Wheel, or the simpler wheel version. > > It is "a

Re: using locate properly

2002-10-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:15:19PM +0200, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote: ... > rland@MINI:~$ locate [Mm]uttrc > ... no reaction. > > Rereading the info gave me: ...snipped where you found out about metachars and quoting > .so I tried: > > rland@MINI:~$ locate '[Mm]uttrc' > rland@MINI:~$ locate

Re: Why debian sucks.

2002-10-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 11:41:49PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: ... > > Your problem is that, since you have changed your server, your > > unsubscribe message is coming from the wrong address. You will have to > > be removed manually. > > If that is true then you should be able to go to this page an

Re: Why debian sucks.

2002-10-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 07:57:45PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 05:31:54PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work:( > > The otherday I tried to unsubscribe from debian-ipv6 to find out that > > I subscribed un

Re: parted boot CD

2002-11-04 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:19:31PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I'm in a bit of a bind. I need to resize the root partition on one of my > systems that doesn't have a floppy drive. The only thing that I have > that I can boot from is a CD-ROM drive. I found a rescue floppy that had > parted inst

Re: Newbie networking problems; pppd with Woody.

2002-11-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 07:44:29AM -0500, Barry Mathieu wrote: ... > I found a solution to this issue by changing the first line of > resolv.conf file from, "search mindspring.com" to "order hosts,bind". What versions are you running? According to the docs on Debian 3.0 there is no such option fo

Re: power down and power off also?

2002-11-23 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 03:29:46PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:33:19AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... > > Yep, how about reading my "Debian Reference". > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ > > > > For above question, it is detailed > >http://w

Re: /dev/cdrom, /dev/scd0, /dev/sg0 ?

2002-11-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 06:01:33PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: ... > A weird thing came up on #debian today, which maybe someone else can > explain to _me_: a guy was trying to setup CD ripping with ide-scsi > emulation enabled, and had enormous trouble since cdparanoia claimed it > couldn't find a gene

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:59:59PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: ... > I started looking through the HOWTO. I'll need some better > visualization of how it works before I really "get it". Anyways, I > found the "linux-lvm" mailing list, so I think I'll try learning some > stuff there. Mind

Re: ES1869 sound chip driver

2002-11-30 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 06:54:19AM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > Thanks! Xmms has the same problem - repeating portions of the audio > multiple times before moving to the next portion. I checked the system > log with dmesg as suggested and get the following indicators: > > SB 3.01 detected OK (220)

Re: Exim permissions

2002-11-30 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:14:04PM +, Pigeon wrote: > Re time delay: I've just given it over 15 minutes to see what would > happen, and it didn't flush its queue, and doing ps ax every so often > has revealed no trace of exim or any other mail programs running. Not shure you have a real proble

Re: Sounds of silence--I want volume!

2002-12-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:20:38AM +, Chris Owen wrote: > Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: ... > Try running (as root) > chmod ugo+rwx /dev/cdrom I think it's ill advice, not worthy of this list --sory for the rant, it's not personally, it's just that you're not the first to give such nonsensica

Re: Sounds of silence--I want volume!

2002-12-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 04:13:50AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:20:38AM +, Chris Owen wrote: ... > I knew it:), to access those you need to be in the audio group. > > Haralambos, maybe you should check your system again, and undo all those

Re: Sounds of silence--I want volume!

2002-12-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:29:08AM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > > Hi All & Carel > > who confesses to ranting. > > Please don't. I'm lost, don't do what? confessing or ranting:) > Your fix isn't. You mean that adding youself to the group cdrom, changing back the ownership/access p

Re: Sounds of silence--I want volume!

2002-12-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:51:11PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 04:13:50AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > I think it's ill advice, not worthy of this list --sory for the rant, > > it's not personally, it's just that you're not the first

Re: Sounds of silence--I want volume!

2002-12-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 12:07:25AM +, Chris Owen wrote: > > > > > >Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > >>I think it's ill advice, not worthy of this list --sory for the rant, > >>it's not personally, it's just that you're not the first to giv

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 07:34:55PM -0500, Chip Rose wrote: ... > I've deleted all entries to exim in cron.weekly and cron.daily, the only > places I found any reference to exim, and it still dials in every five > minutes. For now, I'll have to just let it dial away until I find the > answer, but w

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 07:31:26PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Carel Fellinger writes: > > Could it be some DNS query? > > Such as a browser tab loaded with to an auto-updating Web site? Or exim or fetchmail doing some name lookup, or... -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: OT: mutt deletes folder when last message is removed

2002-12-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:48:35AM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: ... > I've recently switched from Pine to mutt on Debian Woody and am now faced > with the problem that as soon as I remove the last message from a folder, > the folder is also deleted. > > Any idea why this could happen and how to avoi

Re: quick shell questions

2002-12-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:00:51PM -0500, Drew Cohan wrote: > 1. How do I combine these two (JPG vs jpg): > > for f in /path/to/*.JPG; do mv "$f" `date +%N`.jpg; done > for f in /path/to/*.jpg; do mv "$f" `date +%N`.jpg; done that's really simple: for f in /path/to/*.[jJ][pP][gG]; do mv "$f"

Re: C-_ on the console

2003-08-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 06:32:38PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > When I hit C-_ ("undo") in an X window, it works fine. If I hit it from > a console window, it does nothing and I have to hit C-- (no shift) for it > to work. I tried "M-x describe-key C-_" but it doesn't even seem to notice > when I

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:12:28AM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > ...Of course, I need something to act as MTA; but, what I am > unclear about is that which exim contributes as LDA that cannot -- > readily -- be accomplished via procmail. What are reasons to continue > to use exim -- or equival

Re: Fetchmail stuck on bad messages

2003-08-19 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:53:24PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:22:33AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > but then the Envelop/Deliverd-TO header got mangled at my IPS and hence > > meaningless:(, and now I've to rely on (incomplete) Received

Re: OT: The Hurd

2003-05-31 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:14:44PM -0500, Kent West wrote: ... > I've wiped the drive and started over, and started a new, much cleaner > document. It can be found at > http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk/A_Beginners_Second_Attempt_to_Install_the_Hurd.html looking at your scribbles, I noticed that one

Re: boot-floppies package

2003-06-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 06:06:08AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: ... > If you do have a running system, then simply have root visit grub's > working directory and copy the two stage files over to an unmounted > floppy: > > # dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 > # dd if=stage2 of=/dev/f

Re: boot-floppies package

2003-06-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 11:14:20AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: ... > > I seriously doubt this is sane:) > > According to the grub.info (node: Images): > > > > While Stage 2 cannot generally be embedded in a fixed area as the > > size is so large, Stage 1.5 can be installed into the area r

Re: boot-floppies package

2003-06-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 04:50:58PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Carel, > > Now I'm really getting worried, and trying to recall were I picked up > the suggestion to create a grub floppy (it wasn't my own idea). I was > from Linux Journal, but I can't seem to pin down the issue. I'm not sure I und

Re: OT: The Hurd

2003-06-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:41:25AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Carel Fellinger wrote: ... snipped all but the strangly important dd line > > # dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 ... > Thanks for the response, Carel; I didn't mean to leave you hanging for >

init=/bin/bash not working with initrd?

2003-06-23 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai, when tonight I tried to boot into my system bypassing init I found to my surprise that "init=/bin/bash" doesn't work anymore. Atleast not with kernel-image.2.4.20 and initrd. It still works with 2.2 kernels without initrd. Googling and searching the deb archives didn't give me any hint why

Re: finding network activity

2002-12-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 12:45:48PM -0700, John Schmidt wrote: > Hi, Hi to you too. Let me warn you first, me head is not working properly so what I say may make no sense, but... > I have demand dialing turned on and would like to determine why ppp is > starting up at 15 minute intervals. I am

Re: /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.exe

2002-12-19 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 01:58:32PM -0800, Expert User wrote: > When the dhcpclient used to be dhcpcd, there was a way to run some > script after the dhcp has run by putting a script in /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.exe. > > Now that I have dhclient, how do I achieve the same result? > > I learned from t

Re: ntpdate tip -- hmm? [NEW TOPIC]

2002-12-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 11:28:26AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: ... > However, the pointer to rtfm is probably too much for most newbies. > It would be great if ntpdate and ntp-simple both offered to do the > very simple configuration of using the existing DNS servers as NTP > servers and having the de

Re: Removed from lists due to email errors.

2003-01-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 12:37:35PM -0800, Xavian-Anderson Macpherson wrote: > "Your mail address, [EMAIL PROTECTED], has been removed > from the following mailing lists, because it generated an > exessive number of bounced mails:" bounced messages are normally not generated by mail clients like Km

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:59:15PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: .. > The current desktop box would become a combination firewall and X > terminal, but it all raises one key question: with the second rack > computer being meant to be rebooted regularly as I switch between > various o/s, how reliable

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:18:58AM -0800, nate wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt said: > > > > a separate machine? I know that Lilo and Grub do have the "serial" option > > for sending the info to another machine (I'm hoping that means that > > Minicom would handle it fine.) Any heads-up of use, given that

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:46:14PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 14:48, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > Here me English is lacking, atleast I can't parse the above. ... > Yeah, I did say something weird there :) > ...sniped the explanation Okee, I see. I

Re: Switching smart relays automatically in Exim...

2003-01-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 07:26:00AM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: ... > My question, is there a way to configure Exim to use my ISP's SMTP > server and my SMTP server at work without having to manually change > settings when I go from one place to the other? There are many ways to achieve this,

security leak in ppp.log file

1999-07-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
Sorry for reposting this question, but somehow my posts to the newsgroup never make it to the list and many posting of others seam to miss too:(, so please reply by email too. thanks ---

security leak in ppp.log file

1999-07-03 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai, thanks for all the (email-) replies, it's fixed now. As one told me it is indeed a flaw in older versions of pppd, dealt with in later versions with an extra flag 'hide-password'. To circumvent it with older versions you simply have to edit /etc/ppp/peers/provider and comment the 'debug' opt

Apt-cdrom and Ham cd's

1999-09-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
tired of multi-cd/dselect's inability to handle debian cd's, I downloaded alt-0.3.3. But elas, apt-cdrom doesn't find the package files on the cd's. what magic want do i have to use to direct apt-cdrom to the proper place so that it can find the package files? And related, were can I find a descrip

Re: E-mail client for POP3?

1999-09-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Which boils down to this: fetching from the server is not a real > good solution for me. Is there a text-based email client that > uses IMAP rather than POP? Alternatively, if fetchmail had an you could consider using Pine. It's IMAP based, though not com

Re: tofrodos

1999-09-21 Thread Carel Fellinger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > does anyone know where i can find the util "tofrodos". it converts text > files between Dos and Unix Formats.. todos - fromdos. never heard of tofrodos, but in HAMM you get: zgrep todos /var/lib/dpkg/Contents-Debian2-hamm.gz /usr/bin/todos

Re: dselect/apt/cdrom

1999-09-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should install the dpkg-multicd package and than choose the multi_cd > access methode in dselect. or you could do as I was advised, get apt-0.3.12, compile it your self and follow the apt-cdrom man page. works swell on debian-hamm. solved all the probl

Re: LILO won't load win95, but no error...??

1999-10-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oops - you're quite right. > fdisk /MBR from a dos boot disk...? >>From: Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>This is a guess based on your description of what happens. It almost >>sounds like you may have, at one point, had this line in your lilo.conf >>f

Re: Naming convention invalid (local) domain

2002-09-23 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:16:52AM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: ... > I am using dyndns, and was wondering if I could use my subdomain > from that service as a domain. I only use dyndns to be able to log yes ofcourse (I take it you mean .dyndns.org). You know, a valid domainname doesn't imply t

Re: Naming convention invalid (local) domain

2002-09-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:01:54AM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: ... > I think that would be the address rewriting rule that by default > looks in /etc/email-addresses. I never liked it very much to have > user stuff like that in /etc, but at the time it was the only way I That's because it's her

Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

2002-09-26 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:14:27AM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: ... > With the help of the IPv6 developer list I finally found the real > solution: Woody versions of some Debian packages, like telnet, > and, it seems, exim, *require* IPv6 addresses for your local > machines (including local

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
[ sorry for sending this offlist too, but as you have email problems I'm not sure list trafic will reach you. If it does, pray tell and I wil adjust ] On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 04:47:48PM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: ... > I have Exim set up. I believe it is set up properly as I used the defaults

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:02:00PM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: ... > You say you've used the defaults during exim install/setup. Did you > choose the "Internet site" or "Satellite" or... > > So "Internet" or what was the #1 choice. yep, that's "Internet site". The proper general choice for what

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:05:03AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > user root? Gid? e bit? Are You using maildirs? > I think even for maildirs the owner of /var/mail/userme should be userme Moreover when the owner is root, it's highly unlikely that a mer userme will be able to r

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:45:37PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: ... > One other thing: I noticed the word 'smarthost' in the log file > entries you posted on this. Does you use a smarthost or not? nah, that was an example log snipped from *me*, not from Michael -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUB

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
o know the format of the mail spool. in case it's in mbox format (see test 2), use: $ tail /var/mail/userme on my machie this looks like: $ tail /var/mail/cf id 17wiLZ-yt-00 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 14:11:21 +0200 To:

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 06:09:07AM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: > Good morning Carel, > > Live on the East Coast? nah, I'm living in the Netherlands (Europe), but I've strange sleeping habits:) > Thank you again for your careful attention to this! I have followed your > instructions and the outpu

Re: Email (Solved)...next...POP3 setup

2002-10-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 11:49:31AM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: > Carel, > > OK, I got it. ... great. > ...now...on to POP3 configuration...I am using qpopper. I see the > qpopper.conf in /etc/ but the package installed with no configuration dialog > and the instructions say to configure using .

Re: Headers in this ML

2002-10-03 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:34:09PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > I've just received a message from the list with no reference in the > headers to debian. Since I sort my mail on the basis of headers, the > message went into the wrong box. Has there been some change in how the > list is administ

Re: debootstrap

2003-12-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:56:04AM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the process of trying to convert a leased rack space from RedHat to > Debian. I'm working my way through: > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html > http://trilldev.sourceforge.n

Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)

2000-08-27 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai, On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:19:29PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Aug 16 2000, André Dahlqvist wrote: > > quiet a lot of people who seam to like using Netscape to handle > > their mail, and I think it's nice to give those people that option. ... > BTW, I also notice how much people u

Re: Is the 3COM 3C509B PCI (PCI PCI PCI __not__ ISA) supported?

2000-08-30 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:15:04AM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote: > I bought a 3c509b PCI thinking this would be the easiest and most > reliable thing to get working.. bullshit. > /proc/pci says: > > Bus 0, device 11, function 0: > Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48). So it i

Re: Netscape 4.75: Can't open plain text files

2000-09-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:31:50PM +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: Hi, > with Netscape 4.75 I installed from potato-proposed-updates I can't open > plain text files anymore. If I install 4.75 by the tar.gz archive, > everything works find. If I use the debian package, after loading the > text file (st

Re: parsing existing mbox

2000-09-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 11:23:17AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: ... > you've got a mbox with hundreds of messages > in it, and you've updated your .procmailrc or > exim.conf with new filtering rules, and you > wanna run them on your mbox to split it up > into pieces, perhaps forwarding certain messa

nfs and firewall

2000-09-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai, I'm trying to secure my system, I ran pmfirewall and some tests. It seems that rpc.mountd still listens on port 1024 even on the outgoing ethernet. I am trying hard to read up to this subject, but in the time being I would feel much better if I were able to shut off *all* services from this

Re: nfs and firewall

2000-09-03 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 08:23:08PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > Hai, > > > > I'm trying to secure my system, I ran pmfirewall and some tests. > > It seems that rpc.mountd still listens on port 1024 even on the > > outgoing ethernet

Re: nfs and firewall

2000-09-03 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 06:01:09AM +0200, Sebastian Ritter wrote: > On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > > Hai, > > > > I'm trying to secure my system, I ran pmfirewall and some tests. > > It seems that rpc.mountd still listens on port 1024 even on t

digest from bounce-debian-user-digest

2000-09-04 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai, since I think sunday I get my debian-user digest from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've temporarilly done stupid things with my proc/fetchmail setup, but corrected it. Do I need to do something to get the digest of the 'bounce'? Or has it nothing to do with my setup and is this again a mysterious c

Re: Netscape mime-types

2000-09-04 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 02:42:22PM -0300, Marcio Rosa da Silva wrote: > Hi all! > > Last week I made an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade and my Netscape > changed from 4.73 to 4.75. upgrade again:) Had the same problems, but the version of today solved it. -- groetjes, carel

Re: digest from bounce-debian-user-digest

2000-09-04 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:39:07AM -0400, Chris Gray wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 03:09:48PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > > > since I think sunday I get my debian-user digest from > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. > This has been around for quite a while n

Re: Netscape mime-types

2000-09-05 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 07:14:08PM -0700, Dale L . Morris wrote: > I just tryed installing 4.75 and had the same problem. I installed it we are talking about 4.75-2, yes? I think that's what fixed it for me. -- groetjes, carel

Python License Headaches

2000-09-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai, Lately the Python language suffered from a change in the license that is deemed incompatible with the GPL by RMS himself! Quoting Guido van Rossum in news:comp.lang.python: > There's one bit of sad news: according to Richard Stallman, this > version is no more compatible with the GPL than v

Netscape and spurious net access

2000-09-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai, thanks to xnetload I noticed that netscape has a lot of net activity on startup and on exit. Even when used to view a local html file (netscape localfile.html) a lot of net activity is going on. I wonder what he is doing. Anyone in the know? -- groetjes, carel

PGP and Mutt

2000-09-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai, I admit upfront, I haven't read all the docs, but I would be chilled if someone could point me to the relevant part of the docs, or maybe even spoils the fun of having to read it all and explains:) I've upgraded from hamm to potato, and decided to try pgp due to all the debian-user mails tha

Re: Netscape and spurious net access

2000-09-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 01:56:29PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > Carel Fellinger wrote: > > thanks to xnetload I noticed that netscape has a lot of net activity > > on startup and on exit. Even when used to view a local html file ... > i suggest loading something like iptraf or net

Re: PGP and Mutt

2000-09-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
Brian and others, thanks for the replys, I guess I can't solve all without reading:) On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 07:09:34PM -0700, brian moore wrote: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 03:21:58AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > now I get the following error message once I open

Re: debian-user-digest down?

2000-09-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 10:19:27AM -0400, Kent Pirkle wrote: > I've not received the debian-user-digest or debian-devl-digest for > the last couple of days. Is anyone else having this problem? Same here:(, so I finally switched to the non-digest -- groetjes, carel

Re: Using RSA authentication with SSH - mini HOWTO

2000-09-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:29:14AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:02:18AM -0400, S . Salman Ahmed ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: clear description snipt but the one typeo... > > Troubleshooting: If Something Breaks > - ... >

Re: OFFTOPIC: Reading data from a parallel port

2000-09-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 11:25:45AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > My problem is, I need to be able to read the data being sent to and from the > device to reverse engineer it. Therefore, I need someway to log the data that > goes across the parallel port. Thus, I'm looking for a windows app

Re: mutt macro syntax

2000-09-19 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 12:22:20PM +0200, Egbert Bouwman wrote: ... > I tried: > >macro pager - delete-thread exit > > but that doesn't work. > Does somebody know the right syntax ? > The manual is not particularly helpful. Indeed the manual is a little sparse on the subject:), but taking

System.map-2.2.17-ide and kernel incompatibility

2000-09-23 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai, the other day I noticed that running ps gives the following warning: $ ps {module_list} {module_list_R__ver_module_list} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.17-ide does not match kernel data. PID TTY TIME CMD ... I'm running kernel 2.2.17-ide. When I switch back to 2.2.17

Re: System.map-2.2.17-ide and kernel incompatibility

2000-09-23 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 02:44:47PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > Hai, > > the other day I noticed that running ps gives the following warning: > >$ ps >{module_list} {module_list_R__ver_module_list} >Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.17-ide does not match kern

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