Re: xdm

2000-10-14 Thread Gerald
Hi! I guess editing the /etc/rc.d -directory and removing the link to the xdm service (probably S99xdm -> ../init.d/xdm) will do the trick. The default runlevel can be found in /etc/inittab: --- cut # The default runlevel. id:4:initdefault: --- cut hope it works ;) bye! Ger

Re: Unable to switch to tty5

2000-11-09 Thread Gerald
tty3 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6 --> have a nice day, Gerald.

getting german "umlauts" on potato

2000-11-12 Thread Gerald
much less annoying when the chars are not displayed in octal highlit notation... :) cheers, Gerald. -- >< > nothing like < > Zen < > until < > Zen < > like nothing < ><

Re: getting german "umlauts" on potato

2000-11-12 Thread Gerald
It's so nice to get such an immediate reply to almost any question in this list :) ! There's always somebody who knows... the thing with the /etc/environment worked - but I couldn't find any link to it though. I wonder where it is invoked or better said "sourced"

Re: How do I get the mbr package to do its job quietly?

2020-07-07 Thread Gerald
er: debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org Resent-Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 22:20:34 + (UTC) On Thursday 08 April 2010 10:38:11 pm --Add_By_Label_Mail_Nextpart_001 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:10:49 -0400 (EDT), Gerald wrot

Re: How do I get the mbr package to do its job quietly?

2010-04-08 Thread Gerald
On Thursday 08 April 2010 10:38:11 pm Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:10:49 -0400 (EDT), Gerald wrote: > > Stephen, How about MBRWORK. > > This little program runs from a floppy or pehaps fron a CD. > > I have found it very useful > > Gerald, you replied

Re: Where does $MAIL get set?

2013-01-09 Thread Gerald
e to look > > Thanks! > > --Dave Hi I just typedecho $MAIL And it came back with --/var/spool/mail/username. Hope this helps. I run PCLinuxOS 2012.12 Gerald -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Kmail2

2012-06-30 Thread Gerald
Hi to all, Although I run Debian on my server it does not pick up email. My workstation is yet another Linux distro, I am trying to set up kmail2 and it will not send or receive any email. I was wondering if anyone out in the great blue younder can point me in the right direction for solveing his

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Gerald
ell so long as you have disks of the same size or larger for the reinstall. REDO backup up Linux and Windoze..Very good. Just Google for redo and you should get it. Gerald -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/14077027.2dfaypo...@ws4.sol.home

That time of the year

2011-12-23 Thread Gerald
A very Merry Christmas and a Happy new year to all Debian users. Gerald -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201112241144.48099.gcsgcatl...@bigpond.com

Re: Installing debian, dual boot on 1 TB disk?

2012-02-07 Thread Gerald
ecovery > > > >partitions > > > >> MAY or MAY NOT handle being moved to logical partitions. > >> > >>> Any help and pointers are appreciated. > >>> > >>> Please CC me on your replies as I am not subscribed to debian-user > >>> currently. > > Mika Suomalainen > > > gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 03D41B0D C0151D5C > > gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 8751C396 Hi, It is my understanding that the windows installation requires the entire 1TB disk. Even though windows itself only requires some 60 -70 GB of space. All primary partitions are used to set up this distro. I have a similar problem with my laptop. I have not been able to make windows sit in smaller partitions. (yet!!!) Gerald

Re: Installing debian, dual boot on 1 TB disk?

2012-02-11 Thread Gerald
B drive. How ever after shrinking win7-64 and installing Linux on the now extended partition, windows would not boot On re-installing windows, everythig was set back to "normal" ie no Linux partition just windows. Gerald

Re: Installing debian, dual boot on 1 TB disk?

2012-02-12 Thread Gerald
On Monday, February 13, 2012 10:39:29 AM ACro wrote: > Quoting Gerald : > > Andrew, > > I tried to do as you said, I also have windows in a 1TB drive. > > How ever after shrinking win7-64 and installing Linux on the now > > extended partition, > > windows would

Re: Installing debian, dual boot on 1 TB disk?

2012-02-13 Thread Gerald
On Monday, February 13, 2012 08:27:10 PM you wrote: > Hi Gerald, > that's fine, hope it works. May I ask what are you downloading; is it a MS > tool? This interests me, in order to have several possible solutions for > this kind of issue. Regards, > Andrew > > > Hi An

Re: [OT] First computer

2010-06-18 Thread Gerald
ry was 8KB and was driven by the CPU and ana a unit I built to work with the dynamic memory. Those were the days when men were men and systems were built by men.! Gerald -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: IDE lost interrupt followed by lock-up

2010-08-01 Thread Gerald
Arthur, try testing your memory with memtest, I have had similar problems and bad memory was the problem. Gerald -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

debian package install problem

2003-09-16 Thread gerald simpkin
I am a new user of Debian. I have the operating system installed but due to some difficulties cannot seem able to install packages. At install when I use apt it starts okay but then I get a configuration error in configuring Binutils . I do not need to tell you how important this feature is. It ret

Debian

2003-09-20 Thread gerald simpkin
I checked to see if I could turn off the html characteristics of the email sent when using free yahoo email. I could not find a configuration tool to send this in plain text so I am sorry in advance about this email. What I am most concerned about is getting help with the Debian problem I describe

Re: dhcp and dnat

2002-10-07 Thread Gerald Livingston
Oops -- sent this directly to Stephen. Forwarding to list. Sorry Stephen. G Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:25:45 -0500 From: Gerald Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: dhcp and dnat On Sun, 6 Oct 2002 18:20:06 -0400

procmail "safety net"

2002-10-07 Thread Gerald Livingston
mix the two mailbox styles and use /var/mail/username as the default "fallthrough" box? G -- gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case (1969 Standard Beetle) LifeSaver (1974 Bay Window Bus) http://www.phorce1.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &

Re: procmail "safety net"

2002-10-07 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:11:18 +0930 Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 0, Gerald Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK -- I got courier IMAP up and running. Now, I'd like procmail to > > sort and deliver to the maildir foldres I've got created. R

Re: How to virus-check cyrus-imap mailboxes

2002-10-08 Thread Gerald Livingston
ii so I'm assuming it is something you can run against the files in a filesystem (maildir). I have courier imap set up here. If cyrus buries its mail in a special format then I don't know if this will work. G -- gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case (1969 Standard Beetle) LifeSave

Email virus scan questions

2002-10-08 Thread Gerald Livingston
some point and is getting hammered. I did an apt-cache search virus and it came back with quite a few choices that seem feasible. Any suggestions as to which may be best suited to my purpose? Thanks, G -- gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case (1969 Standard Beetle) LifeSaver (1974 Bay W

Re: Email virus scan questions

2002-10-08 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 21:54:02 +0200 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Gerald Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.08.2149 > +0200]: > > I did an apt-cache search virus and it came back with quite a few > > choices that seem feasible. Any

Re: Mounting CD-R

2002-10-08 Thread Gerald Livingston
uot;partitioned" try this: mount -t iso9660{or auto} /dev/hdb /cdrom For your fstab entry to work you can either use /dev/hdb /cdrom iso9660 defaults, ro, user, noauto or do a "ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/cdrom" as root would probably be best as many different programs will be looking f

Re: Email virus scan questions

2002-10-09 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:32:09 +0200 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Gerald Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.08.2206 > +0200]: > > I had looked at amavis-exim -- amavis-ng looks better. What about > > sanitizer whose descriptio

amavis-ng + exim setup problems

2002-10-09 Thread Gerald Livingston
# #Specifies how remote addresses are handled # ## #amavis_router: # condition = "${if eq {$received_protocol}{scanned-ok} {0}{1}}" # driver = domainlist # route_list = "*" # transport = amavis Any ideas? G -- gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case

Re: MUA that supports MH-folders?

2002-10-09 Thread Gerald Livingston
ou cannot associate an account to a specific folder. Pegasus mail for Windoze let's you assosciate each from address you have created to a folder so replying from that folder uses the correct address (which can be changed from a drop-down). G -- gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case

Re: ISPs are blocking port 445?

2002-10-10 Thread Gerald Livingston
the same time, they decided to be really anal and block port > 25, too. Bah! Time Warner blocked 80 here but they are polite enough to scan 25 for open relays. From the rejected messages in Exim it appears that if they find one they will at least inform you before locking it down. (Messages d

Re: MUA that supports MH-folders?

2002-10-10 Thread Gerald Livingston
On 10 Oct 2002 08:21:59 +0200 Jens Grivolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gerald Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My gripe is that you cannot associate an account to a specific > > folder. > > You can, with the freshly released sylpheed-claws 0.8.

Help with amavis-ng_exim installation?

2002-10-10 Thread Gerald Livingston
### #amavis_router: # condition = "${if eq {$received_protocol}{scanned-ok} {0}{1}}" # driver = domainlist # route_list = "*" # transport = amavis Any ideas? -- gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case (1969 Standard Beetle) LifeSaver (1974 Bay Window Bu

Re: How does apt-get construt package uri?

2002-10-14 Thread Gerald Livingston
ntrib|non-free]/[1st-letter-of-package-name]/[package-name]/[package-name_version-debianrelease_arch.deb] Example: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/3/3dchess/3dchess_0.8.1-9_i386.deb Yes, the wrapping on those two lines will suck. G -- gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case

Re: mail server of a sorts

2002-10-15 Thread Gerald Livingston
removed from your server when read. You migt also want to set up quotas for your users. Mail handling for a small set of users can be done by just about any old machine. You might want to consider buying an old used pentium class machine and sticking a 10G HD in it -- then dedicating it as a ma

Re: p2p programs

2002-10-16 Thread Gerald Livingston
identical file and download a small piece from each server, effectively increasing download speed to the max your inbound pipe can handle. I use qtella right now but even if there are 10 different sources for a file that all match (name/size/etc.) it only downloads from the one source you direct it

Re: gdm, log in as root? - solution and new questions

2002-10-16 Thread Gerald Livingston
> where is it placed? > > -sandip > $gvl2$:locate update-r /usr/sbin/update-rc.d /usr/share/man/fr/man8/update-rc.d.8.gz /usr/share/man/ja/man8/update-rc.d.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/update-rc.d.8.gz G -- gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case (1969 Standard Beetle) LifeS

Re: Spontaneous Rebooting while in X

2002-10-23 Thread Gerald Livingston
fic "bad" spot. If you have the java plugin running in mozilla I've seen it open a *LOT* of instances of java_vm -- if they don't die properly as you move from page to page...well... G -- gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case (1969 Standard Beetle) LifeSaver (1974 Bay

Virus scan again(sid)

2002-10-22 Thread Gerald Livingston
th IMAP but may just dump to /var/spool/mail/username and have them pull with pop3. Thanks, G -- gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case (1969 Standard Beetle) LifeSaver (1974 Bay Window Bus) http://www.phorce1.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: sending email w/perl

2002-10-23 Thread Gerald Livingston
ing (saw that done in a web-email form that used CGI to read the body into $body) How about this?: $file = 'FILE'; # Name the file open(INFO, $file); # Open the file @lines = ;# Read it into an array close(INFO);# Close the file

Re: Fetchmail / exim / courier imap

2002-10-28 Thread Gerald Livingston
IMAP inbox anything not yet sorted :0: ./ I have this .procmailrc file in my /etc/skel directory so it is added for every new user (minus the debian-user stanza). Fetchmail delivers to exim -- exim will automatically pipe through procmail if a ~/.procmailrc is present or send mail to /var/mail/$user

Re: fetchmail or exim - what is failing?

2002-10-29 Thread Gerald Livingston
cal machine is 'deshmukh' (This line defines that:) " user 'deshmukh' there with password 'xxx' is 'deshmukh' here" Everywhere else you refer to yourself as "sandip". Fetchmail is telling exim to put all the mail in /var/mail/deshmukh but there

Re: Segmentation faults in apropos

2002-10-31 Thread Gerald Livingston
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Thanks, Colin. I did look in the bug tracker before posting, > the search mechanism came up empty on open bugs with 'apropos'... > > PM The bugs are probably filed against

Re: recover ext3 deletion

2002-11-08 Thread Gerald Livingston
- Original Message - From: "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 22:16 Subject: Re: recover ext3 deletion On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:58:52PM -0800, nate wrote: >> I too am very bad at backing up my personal data, I do back it up >> but i

Re: restarting all services

2002-11-08 Thread Gerald Livingston
- Original Message - From: "Lance Hoffmeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 23:03 Subject: restarting all services > How can I restart all services without rebooting? > > Lance > I normally 'telinit 2' which restarts everything at the same lev

Re: Restarting X after graphical login

2002-11-09 Thread Gerald Livingston
- Original Message - From: "Chris Lale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well, I can use to run a different terminal session, > login and start a new instance of X with 'startx -- :1'. There are some > problems here: > > 1. X run the KDE desktop (not Gnome). This is not really a problem, but > it is

[Semi-OT] IMAP clients for other OS Plus my broken SID Apache

2002-11-09 Thread Gerald Livingston
I don't know if any of you are stuck in this situation so I'll just ask. I have IMAP set up at home -- but when I'm at work I'm currently stuck using a win-box due to certain required applications. It's not a real healthy winbox as far as RAM and HD space goes or I'd look at setting up VMWare to h

Re: [Semi-OT] IMAP clients for other OS Plus my broken SID Apache

2002-11-10 Thread Gerald Livingston
wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 11:07:19AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > > > > > I'd rather not use mutt because family members do send me funky > > > formatted mail sometimes and I also use multiple "From: " addresses, > > > depending on

Re: [Semi-OT] IMAP clients for other OS Plus my broken SID Apache

2002-11-10 Thread Gerald Livingston
wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 11:07:19AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > > > > > I'd rather not use mutt because family members do send me funky > > > formatted mail sometimes and I also use multiple "From: " addresses, > > > depending on

ssh port forwarding

2002-11-10 Thread Gerald Livingston
OK, got Woody working on the laptop. Now I seem to be having difficulty getting ssh port forwarding from the home machine to the woody laptop. Works fine forwarding port 143 from the home machine to port 143 on this winbox using Putty. On the laptop I'm using the ssh command line: ssh root@home

Re: Knoppix-Piggy and Debian installer

2002-11-10 Thread Gerald Livingston
ks then ask around and see if someone in here with decent bandwidth will host it for you to grab. G -- Configure your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page: http://expita.com/nomime.html gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case (1969 Standard Beetle) LifeSaver (1974 Bay Window Bus

Re: execute command from HTML page

2002-11-11 Thread Gerald Livingston
chgrp modem /dev/ttyS1 adduser hugh modem adduser www-data modem G -- Configure your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page: http://expita.com/nomime.html gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case (1969 Standard Beetle) LifeSaver (1974 Bay Window Bus) http://www.phorce1.com -- To UNS

Re: exim, delivery to /home/user instead of /var/mail/user

2002-11-12 Thread Gerald Livingston
our. Also, please post your fetchmailrc (sanitize the usernames/passwords please) here to this thread so we can see if anything appears out of whack. G -- Configure your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page: http://expita.com/nomime.html gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket

Re: exim, delivery to /home/user instead of /var/mail/user

2002-11-12 Thread Gerald Livingston
is root:mail or mail:mail. Perhaps exim can't write to the spool directory and this is causing the failure. Mine look like this: ls -lA /var ... drwxrwsr-x2 root mail 4096 2002-10-28 03:33 mail ... ls -lA /var/spool ... lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 7 2002-07-05 03:18 m

unstabe to testing [was: Re: woody to testing]

2002-11-12 Thread Gerald Livingston
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Visual notice for X

2002-11-18 Thread Gerald Livingston
s out because I usually have the volume turned down because I share this room. Thanks, G -- Configure your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page: http://expita.com/nomime.html gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case (1969 Standard Beetle) LifeSaver (1974 Bay Window Bus) http://

Re: Visual notice for X

2002-11-18 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:37:36 +0700 Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:51:48PM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > > Is there something that can be run in X that will force a "visual" > > notice of an event regardless of what window you ha

Postscript printer help

2002-11-18 Thread Gerald Livingston
a.com/nomime.html gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case (1969 Standard Beetle) LifeSaver (1974 Bay Window Bus) http://www.phorce1.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Visual notice for X

2002-11-19 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 23:41:01 -0500 Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Gerald Livingston said: > > What I am searching for is a way for my girlfriend to let me know > > she has arrived home from work without having to telephone me. It is &g

Re: Visual notice for X

2002-11-21 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:49:20 +1100 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:04:25AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > > I'm working with osd_cat from the xosd packages right now. But since > > it backgrounds and doesn't open an actual window

Re: Virus Alert - ScanMail for Lotus Notes

2002-11-21 Thread Gerald Livingston
d by list volume I unsubscribe == If I ask a question I don't usually request a CC -- I just go to the archives a few days later and search on my original subject. G -- Configure your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page: http://expita.com/nomime.html gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the

Re: Looking for a backup to CD-R(W) program

2002-11-25 Thread Gerald Livingston
t all. You can read Linus statement about this at <http://search.alphanet.ch/cgi-bin/search.cgi?max_results=10&type=long&; [EMAIL PROTECTED]&do main=ml-linux-kernel> G -- Configure your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page: http://expita.com/nomime.html gv

Re: Postfix server acting as relay !!!!

2002-11-25 Thread Gerald Livingston
etup I allow relaying TO any domain but only FROM machines on the local net or FROM authorized users using SMTP-AUTH (must have a valid user/password on the mail host). G -- Configure your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page: http://expita.com/nomime.html gvl2 (Gerald) AirB

giving access to local X disply in procmail

2002-11-25 Thread Gerald Livingston
can't get it to pop to the displat from procmail. I'll also need to add a "&" on that recipe so procmail won't stop there, right? G -- Configure your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page: http://expita.com/nomime.html gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Ba

[PARTLY SOLVED - NEW QUESTION] Re: giving access to local X disply in procmail

2002-11-25 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:42:36 -0600 Gerald Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've dug through documentation all over the place and no go so far. > > How can I let a procmail recipe pop up a display using xmessage if the > user owning the procmailrc happens to

Re: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server ???

2002-11-28 Thread Gerald Livingston
cipe when I'm logged in but since the XAUTHORITY variable keeps changing I can't set it arbitrarily in the .procmailrc environment lines. For the user who started this thread -- if you have the same problem, you can set up sudo for the user that needs root access. It works without having to

Re: Webmail question

2002-11-29 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 16:00:40 -0500 "David Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks! I'll look into procmail.. > > I'm assuming its an MTA (replacement for exim)? > > - David > - Original Message - > From: "Gerald Livings

Re: What [OT] stands for?

2002-12-08 Thread Gerald Livingston
l to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page: http://expita.com/nomime.html gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case (1969 Standard Beetle) LifeSaver (1974 Bay Window Bus) http://www.phorce1.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help! Exim & verizon.net

2002-12-13 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:44:37 -0500 R Ransbottom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:20:55PM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II > wrote: > > > > R Ransbottom said: > > > > > > > > I am trying to set up a debian mail server that &

Re: Sylpheed and mail client

2002-12-24 Thread Gerald Livingston
once, or maybe twice per day a max size setting for the digest can break up a list such as this one (up to 300 messages daily) into manageable chunks. For those people just set up procmail (or "splitdigest") to break the digests back into individual messages. Then any mailer can handle

[OT] Procmail/metamail assistance

2002-12-25 Thread Gerald Livingston
your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page: http://expita.com/nomime.html gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case (1969 Standard Beetle) LifeSaver (1974 Bay Window Bus) http://www.phorce1.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: computer hypothermia -- help!

2002-12-25 Thread Gerald Livingston
move everything that plugs in (cards, memory, maybe even cpu) then put it all back in. Thermal expansion/contraction has most likely caused a few bad connections. G -- Configure your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page: http://expita.com/nomime.html gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Ro

Re: Booting without a monitor: No Go

2002-12-26 Thread Gerald Livingston
which isn't detected because it isn't there). Try booting with the no video card at all or with an old, cheap, PCI VGA card plugged in. G -- Configure your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page: http://expita.com/nomime.html gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case (

Re: run-parts

2002-12-30 Thread Gerald Livingston
t; > | > Why not use a dynamic DNS service, such as DynDNS.org? > | > | I knew nothing about such a service. > > DDTS (www.ddts.net) is another such service. And also http://www.no-ip.com G -- Configure your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page: http://expita.com/n

AOL "art" files

2002-12-30 Thread Gerald Livingston
n it and choose "view image". Mozilla just doesn't know what to use to view it. Tried gqview and gimp1.3 and that was a no-go. G -- Configure your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page: http://expita.com/nomime.html gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case (1969 St

Re: AOL "art" files

2002-12-31 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:49:35 -0700 Mark Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 05:25:48PM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > > Is there something that can view AOL "art" image files? My GF uses > > AOL and I can't break her of it. > --

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-02 Thread Gerald Livingston
suppose I should go to LVM -- does it allow free space to be concatenated across physical drives? Gotta figure out what the heck is sucking up /var too since I have /var/cache/apt sitting elsewhere. G -- Configure your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page: http://expita.com/nomime.

Timing a program run?

2003-01-02 Thread Gerald Livingston
) and can't find anything. Do I need to write a 'date +%s' in to the beginning and end of the script and do the math when it finishes? Another dumb bash question later if I can't figure it out. G -- Configure your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page: http://expi

Re: Timing a program run?

2003-01-02 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 02:07:03 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:57:10AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > > How the heck do I time how long it takes a certain script to run? > > This isn't shell specific. And you're

[OT] Cleaning up the output of a multiple file rename (bash)

2003-01-02 Thread Gerald Livingston
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Re: Timing a program run?

2003-01-02 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 02:46:19 -0800 "Eric G. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:31:39AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 02:07:03 -0800 > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > &

Re: Renaming files

2003-01-05 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:57:45 -0600 will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:19:59AM -0600, Gerald V. Livingston II > wrote: > > The script:cat ~/bin/names > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > typeset -i a=1 > > > how abo

Interesting X crash

2003-01-06 Thread Gerald Livingston
ty to start from a *DM but segfault from startx? G -- Configure your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page: http://expita.com/nomime.html gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case (1969 Standard Beetle) LifeSaver (1974 Bay Window Bus) http://www.phorce1.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Thanks

1999-07-07 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Max, IMO your problem with the installation CD´s can have one of two causes : 1. There is something in your already installed linux that prevents the install from running again. This should easily be solved by formating the partitions you are installing to during setup ( = create new filesystem

Re: [Kernel 2.2.10] Mount complains about msdos-drive

1999-08-01 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Jonas Steverud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just upgraded to the 2.2.10-kernel (using the > kernel-image-package), I used 2.0.33 before and it worked without any > problem. > > root% mount -t msdos /dev/hda2 /msdos -o noexec,ro,nosuid,blocksize=1024,auto > mount: wrong fs type, bad option,

Re: Installing X

1999-08-01 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Robert Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I do not have a Matrox Millenium, but I believe that card uses the SVGA > xserver. I believe the XFree web page has a list of cards that work with > SVGA. I'm pretty sure the G200 is one of them, as my friend had one and > that's what we used to get i

Re: SSound card

1999-08-13 Thread Gerald . Preissler
GaryG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have trouble making kernel for sound card > any suggestions > Yes. Please be more specific in your message: Which soundcard are you using, which kernel, which selection did you make when you configured your kernel, is there a problem with the compile, what err

Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How can I ensure that mail for another user on my system gets into the > correct mailbox? You could try to fetch it via fetchmail like you already do and then sort it according the To:-header in the recipient´s mailbox via procmail (try ´man procma

Re: KDE question about panel icons

1999-08-25 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone managed to get programs added to their panel > sucessfully (with their specified icons)? If so, please share, > and I'll pass it along to the other two unfortunate souls and the > KDE list. How did you install KDE? I grabed the sources from a m

Re: KDE question about panel icons

1999-08-26 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I figured out a way to get it to work, but it's kind of a PITA. I > have to log in as root, fire up KDE, then use the menu editor to > assign icons for each application that isn't a KDE app, or just > doesn't have an icon associated with it. > Mark, I'm

Re: removing kdm

1999-08-28 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Seems there are some files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/kdm and /etc/X11/kdm that dpkg does not know about. Maybe kdm put them there. Try removing those by hand. bye Jerry -- Just being paranoid does not mean they´re *not* out to get you...

Re: Installing slink with a 2.3 kernel

1999-08-28 Thread Gerald . Preissler
With kernel-package you can create a *.deb from your compiled kernel. Can you install this? bye Jerry -- Just being paranoid does not mean they´re *not* out to get you...

Re: KDE doesn't start after crash

1999-08-29 Thread Gerald . Preissler
I'm not sure about this, but you might get around your problem by deleting or renameing your ~/.kde and ~/.kderc. You will lose the settings for your kde progs, though. bye Jerry -- Just being paranoid does not mean they´re *not* out to get you...

Re: cfdisk doesn't work with Windows 98 Long Disk Support?!

1999-09-01 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Duggan Dieterly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > at this point, i'm considering installing red hat. i have to buddies who > have very similar machines, and they installed red hat with no problem. You could try to use Redhat's fdisk to partition your disk, then install debian. I had similar probl

Fetchmail and Exim config problem

1997-12-28 Thread Gerald Belton
#x27;gbelton' fetchmail: can't even send to calling user! fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.msy.bellsouth.net Help! -- Gerald Belton Photography [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://personal.msy.bellsouth.net/~gbelton -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-ma

libstdc++.so.27

1998-01-01 Thread Gerald Wann
Hi - I'm trying to install the pash shell pkg & it complains about needing libstdc++.so.27. However, i can't seem to locate this package. Any directions much appreciated! TIA Jerry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

double escape

1998-01-03 Thread Gerald Wann
Hi all - When i hit the Esc key twice on my Linux box - it asks "display all 482 options ? y/n" or something similar. When i say yes , it scrolls by a list of what i assume are command options at warp speed and i only catch the bottom screenfull. How can i redirect this output into a text file?

Re: divide the list in beginners and advanced

1998-01-14 Thread Gerald Belton
7;t get flooded every day. Plus I had the advantage of being able to use tin or trn, complete with kill filters and sorting by threads, to read only the messages that interested me. Could this be a possible solution for us here on debian-user? Gerald Belton [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://personal.ms

PnP modem

1998-01-18 Thread Gerald Wann
Hi all- I am installing Linux on a PnP BIOS machine that currently has a modem jumpered for PnP installation. Does Debian Linux require any special modules to use such a setup? Is it even possible? (the PnP BIOS installs the modem as COM2, which is left disabled in the CMOS) Thanks in advance -

isapnptools config

1998-01-18 Thread Gerald Wann
Hi - Might anyone have some advice on how to go about setting up the isapnp.config file? I have run pnpdump and it successfully found my (2) PnP cards (modem & sound). However, there are a number of configuration options for each, and i would like advice on how to decide which one to uncomment in

ppp-on INVISIBLE

1998-01-22 Thread Gerald Wann
Hi all - I am trying to setup my ppp connection as explained in the PPP-HOWTO and have run into a brick wall. I can bring up the connection manually via minicom and pppd command line ande it check out fine. However ... when i try to automate the process using the ppp-on ppp-on-dialer and ppp-off

max mount count?

1998-01-24 Thread Gerald Wann
Hi all - Sometimes when i boot i get the message: /dev/hda3 maximal mount count reached.. check forced. What exactly does this indicate? Tanx Jerry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

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