Re: unsubscribe

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 13:15:27 -0500 (CDT) Resent-Bcc: Thank you. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Software "piracy" loss numbers are a crock: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/piracy.html pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
ps Again: Again: Multiple multiple desktops desktops? ...or is it that you just really want this feature? ;-) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Windows Refund Day II: f

Re: Anaconda, where's the beef?

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
roach Progeny or Ian Murdoch directly on this. ...and if you find out what the scoop is, please share! Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Remember Ed Curry! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Anaconda, where's the beef?

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 08:00:55PM +0800, David Palmer. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 01:30:12 -0800 > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > on Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:05:59PM -0500, Fraser Campbell > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wr

Swen reporting scripts

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
dummy delivery line and uncomment the true delivery line. Otherwise you just get a report to stdout ;-) - There are several possible modifications suggested as well. - To run on a directory's worth of mail: $ reportSwen * - Direct any support questions to this list, not me.

Cable modem configuration -- DHCP? (was Re: internet)

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
ddresses. You'll need to install a dhcp client -- dhcp-client should work, though there are several others packaged for Debian. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 12:57:46AM -0800, Martin J. Hillyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:16:33AM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:21:45PM +, Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > I'm intrigued.

Re: ssh-agent

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 06:27:40PM +, Geoff Thurman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Saturday 08 November 2003 3:17 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > ssh is highly valuable because it provides a secure, encrypted, > > authenticated, non-spoofable means of issueing commands or d

Re: internet

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
ch as AlltheWeb (http://www.alltheweb.com/) or Google (http://www.google.com/) will help set you on the road to resolving your problems. While others can offer suggestions, guidance, and experience, we cannot see into either your mind or your machine's state. This is very much a case of "you hav

Updated fqdn2domain -- Re: Swen reporting scripts

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:54:25PM +, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 06:03:06AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I've prepared a couple of scripts which I'm using to report swen headers > > and body to originating ISPs. > > > >

Re: OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
TECTED]>,\ > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,\ > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,\ > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,\ > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You don't. You define 'mygroup' in /etc/aliases, and let your MTA handle this. Or you get a mailing list package and deal

Re: how to determine hd partitioning?

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
ble as it sounds. This is also a very good illustration of why you should keep vital system information in a save place (preferably hardcopy and/or a remotely accessible system). I use a script "system-info" to provide this and other data: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Down

Re: how to determine hd partitioning?

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:08:13AM +, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > on Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:30:24PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night, > > and I&#x

Re: Re-configuring after an install

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
I think that introduced > package called netenv. I think that is the one asking question. > > See /usr/share/doc/netenv . Use "mc" command. netenv is IMO a useless package. Lose it. No harm. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kms

Re: xdm error

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
e opened." > > "xdm drror(pid 276): Can't create/lock pid file > /var/run/xdm-pid" > > All I want to do is have x start up by default. > Does anyone have any Idea's? Does /var/run exist? Does /var/run/xdm-pid exist? What permissions? What ow

Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
ed packages as installed, using /usr/share/doc as a # fallback package registry. dpkg --get-selections $( ls /usr/share/doc | grep -v [A-Z] | awk '{print $1 " install"}' ) # Re-register everything. apt-get dist-upgrade Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
. You'll find these are 99.99% identical to a vanilla Debian system. That extra bit of chrome and polish _does_ go a long ways though. It's about choice. If you like what you find here, great. If you don't, happy trails. I _would_ encourage you to understand what it is tha

Re: Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:03:00AM -0500, Travis Crump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > >>Here is a good article about recovering a Debian system without having a > >>backup of /var/lib/dpkg... > >> > >>http://www.linuxworld.co

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
stems, > > or are they just at the "user" (or just above) level? > > Many of the people I've introduced to Debian are new to Linux in > general. ...but are or are not otherwise experienced computer users? There's a *vast* range of experience and expertise levels o

Re: Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
nsisting of all lowercase alpha characters in /usr/share/doc. The fortuitous consequence that you now have a backup representation of package state is useful. It's not an intentional result. Subtle but important point, namely: if policy at some future point dictates that this arrange

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
ty to troubleshoot legacy MS Windows issues based on my GNU/Linux understanding of what's going on. Useful? Perhaps. But not the sort of thing you actually want to *advertise*. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestal

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:26:37PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:51:46AM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > Sho

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
ack ~$100US or so. Codeweaver's Crossover Office (also a proprietary product) is another option. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? At the sound of the toner, boycott Lexmar

Re: Turning off error messages

2003-01-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
at it means, anyway. You'll find this in your /etc/syslog.conf file. There should be an example of logging this to an idle virtual console in the default file. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't

Re: Window Managers

2003-01-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
but how do I run it? Systemwide: # update-alternatives --config x-window-manager For your own use, make the following the last line of ~/.xsession exec afterstep ...and take a look at WindowMaker if you like Afterstep. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmse

plex86, VMWare, & other emulators (was Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX)

2003-01-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 12:59:24AM +0100, Rohan Nicholls ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030125 00:17]: > > on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:54:46AM +1100, Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Rohan Nicholls wrote: > > > >

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
n on running the OS outside VMWare as well. The HW configurations actually are different (VMWare runs with its own set of virtual HW independent of what the devices are on your physical system). I don't know how XP registration affects this, but strongly suspect that it does. Peace. -- Ka

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
vmware, or do i need to re-install everything > > again? > > you should reinstall everything again. VMWare has the ability to run > off a "raw" disk(I think IDE only..) Current versions extend this to SCSI as well. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
URLs to where > this has been discussed in the past. > > I apologize in advance, but I'm not a subscriber of this list. Please > cc me on replies. I don't know about full concensus, but this is what I recommend: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html

Re: ext3 partition recovery

2003-01-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
discussion of repartitioning your system says, preferably in flaming letters three feet (0.90m) tall: BACK UP AND VERIFY YOUR DATA BEFORE REPARTITIONING YOUR DISK. YOU RISK LOSING ALL DATA. PERMANENTLY. Consider this a learning experience. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: changing the root password

2003-01-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
re multiple entries for UID 0? That would be a '0' in the third ':' delimited field. Is your root partition mounted readonly? Is there a value in the second field of either /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow (if you're using shadow passwords, and you should be). Peace. -- Kars

Re: PGP Signatures

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
A (not so) Short Rant / FAQ on the Subject of Signed E-Mail and Public Key Infrastructure By Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You're probably reading this because you either st

Re: XF86Config -> XF86COnfig-4 converter?

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
ou can rerun it with 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86'). It's pretty foolproof. And it doesn't overwrite your existing v3 config file. Version 4 uses /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part o

Re: disk partitioning & partition size allocations

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
790240+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 812 993733792+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 on / type ext3,ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (ro,nosuid,nodev) /dev/hda5 on /

Re: How I partitioned my harddrive

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
ories _in_ the directory you point it at. If you want to keep it on one filesystem, use the '-x' option. IMO your end results are still a bit imbalanced. Not a huge deal, but keep it in mind as you go through this process again. Peace. Notes: 1. One pa

Re: BackOrifice on Linux?

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
TEN 0 2201 701/portsentry > >tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:32771 0.0.0.0:* One of the annoying aspects of portsentry is that it opens the ports it listens on. This can lead to false-positive alerts when scanning your own systems. Sn

Re: if you could have just one dead tree book

2003-02-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
c_, and _U_ are all recommneded. "In the Beginning Was the Command Line" is available online (Google for it). - Temperate-Zone Pomology. After all, Davis *is* an ag school. - A UC Davis Coffeehouse mug. You can't get these just anywhere. For technical books, you can

Re: Books

2003-02-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
rg/doc/ In particular, the _User's Guide_, the _APT HOWTO_, and the _Debian Reference_. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? You can always tell the people that are forging

Re: How I partitioned my harddrive

2003-02-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:54:46PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 2:50 AM > > > on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:32:55AM -0500, Em

Re: Migrate from RedHat to Debian

2003-02-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
stalling Debian as a chroot of your current system. This lets you get the system up and running, and configured, before committing yourself to it completely. You also have full use of your existing distrobution during the process. Further information: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/

Educational software for Linux (was Re: simple (non-technial) software question)

2003-02-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
noppix (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html). This is in process, but should be pretty slick: a disk that you insert in the CD drive of a system, reboot, and you're running a GNU/Linux system with an educational focus. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http

Re: [REPOST] Kernel-Update

2003-02-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
t. Running 'depmod -a' and 'update-modules' should fix this. The messages are generally pretty harmless, FWIW. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The Con

Re: WordPerfect 8 on Woody

2003-02-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
lly complete Wordperfect on GNU/Linux FAQ: http://www.linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/ Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Support the EFF, they support you: http://www.eff.org/ --

Re: When did we get a crosspost with alt.shuttle.columbia.disaster?

2003-02-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
7;s a number of folks (including some otherwise useful contributors) who're going to be added to a lot of killfiles...if they haven't been already. That's a not-so-mild hint. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Ge

Re: Inexplicable crashing

2003-02-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
mory use (though the OOM should peel you off the ceiling if you're running out of memory), and/or install process accounting so you can see what the last run processes were. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Ges

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
abuse of a feature leads to a reduced usefulness of it in cases in which it actually *does* accomplish something helpful. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 Cabal: h

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
xt-mode, mutt & mh. > Get real. Get a clue: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/NixBrowsers > (Well, when Mozilla gets the ability to edit bookmarks as well as > Netscape Communicator 4, then I will upgrade.) Start moving. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: maildir vs. mbox vs. mh ???

2003-02-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
for large directories is vastly superior. I have seen reports that XFS beats both ext3 and reiserfs performance by a huge factor -- recent Linux Journal article on the recent 64-way SGI GNU/Linux server. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part

Re: Windowmaker question

2003-02-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
You can also set "shared application icon" for apps you run many of (e.g.: terminal windows). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Verio webhosting? Guaranteed

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 09:46:32AM -0500, Todd Pytel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 06:36:56 +0100 > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Waddyaknow (not much, you?). PLIP works. Sorta. > > > > I get some long periods of

Re: mutt: thread reconstruction?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:49:55AM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:05:37PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > OK, is there a way to do this in bulk, in a way other than simply > > tagging all messages with a common subject as being t

Re: How stable is SiD ?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
sn't painless. It has its rewards. If you're going to pioneer Debian GNU/Linux at your workplace, you'll have to balance: - Accepting supplied HW and current levels of support. - Risking the slightly less stable world of testing or unstable releases of Debian. - Learning

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:28:33AM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 03:57:23AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:02:24PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I've just been given a copy of the Farnell E

apt-get-listchanges/listbugs (was Re: Which release)

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
of the listchanges/listbugs queries? Hrm. I've also got squid running. Should make that transparent I'm assuming http transport. - How are people using listbugs? With a long enough change report, I sort of go into MEGO. What keywords jump out? '(important|se

Re: Unicode: is it safe to use it ?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
big5 euc-kr gb2312 koi8-r iso-8859-9 iso-2022-jp gb2312 Essentially: if you're communicating with someone who's using a roman characterset, send 'em something they can use. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.h

Re: How stable is SiD ?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 11:08:07PM -0400, Johan Kullstam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1. Report this problem to your video card vendor. I don't care if > > you're CTO of IBM or a one-week-temp and

Re: Script help

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
gt; > Can someone point me in the right direction? sed -e '//d' < ~/.ssh/known_hosts > ~/.ssh/known_hosts.tmp && mv ~/.ssh/known_hosts.tmp ~/.ssh/known_hosts If you have known good state of known_hosts that you want to restore, just copy it in from a

Debian HW/Support vendors (was Re: compatibility)

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
the list for information on how to post a recruiting notice is helpful. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? LNX-BBC: Bootable GNU/Linux -- Don't leave /home without it.

Re: Debian Installation Problem

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
dule libc-udeb failed for unknown reasons. > Aborting. > [Press enter to continue] Looks like you're trying to install modules during install. In general, you _only_ need to install the modules you absolutlely need to use for installation -- e.g.: network card drivers, RAID or SCSI drivers,

Re: keymap

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
appeared in some recent updates, though I don't know the fix, and it may in fact be harmless. What release are you using? Are you using devfs? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you unde

Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?

2003-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
sites whose designers are stupid enough to perform user-agent string discrimination. - Go ahead and install an ancient browser, but realize that you are compromising the security and integrity of your system by doing so. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?

2003-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
was specifically a reason Bruce Perens recommended to HP that they _not_ open source the HP OpenMail product (HP instead spun this off to Samsung). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understa

Re: keymap

2003-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
nsoles in X (Gnome > or KDE). > > Tried to downgrade "console-data", but I get the warning quoted above > when postinst runs. Tried running "dpkg-reconfigure console-data" and > "install-keymap es" from the command line in text mode and X consoles, >

Re: Spam (ex:Re: Unicode: is it safe to use it ?)

2003-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 10:20:38AM +0200, Christophe Courtois ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Le Dimanche 7 Septembre 2003 06:19, Karsten M. Self a d?clam? : > > Well, another risk is people who use a fairly popular set of filters > > which tag as spam anything that's more than a

Re: [OT] Text stream editing problem

2003-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
tely this isn't of universal application. I'm looking > for a solution than can take into account all possible names for > "Dir_Foo". Based on what you've presented: sed -e 's/[ ]\.*\(\/Subdirectory_\)/\1/' Peace. -- Karsten M. Self &

Re: [OT] Text stream editing problem

2003-09-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:56:14PM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At Mon, 8 Sep 2003 01:58:43 +0100, > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > [1 ] > > on Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:33:39AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Let's say I want

Re: Setting system clock to UTC -- how?

2003-09-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
done all of that, I still am seeing the following output: > > # hwclock --show ; date > Mon Sep 8 00:56:48 2003 -0.896805 seconds > Mon Sep 8 00:56:50 PDT 2003 > > I was expecting to have the --show tell me that it was "Mon Sep 8 > 07:56:48 2003" rather than what

Re: [OT] Text stream editing problem

2003-09-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 07:57:28AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:41:17 +0100, > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > What it says is: substitute everything starting with the first > > space or tab, any character, the string (which is preserved) > >

Re: jigdo download failed

2003-09-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
t; entered the URL I get the msg: > > "jigdotemplate/sarge-i386-template ." > > Pls help. Pls by sm vwls Nd pncttn T mks yr psts mch sr t rd. ls rd ths dcmnt: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Jigdo/index.html Pc. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http

Re: advice on using FVWM with Gnome 2.2 backport on woody

2003-09-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
different, GNOME-aware window manager. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Printer malfunction

2003-09-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
. If you want more specific support, please supply more specific information. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://

Re: Debian sunk by Windows format and install.

2003-09-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
nux system, and re-install your bootloader (LILO/GRUB). http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/DebianChrootInstall ...has some details on use of chroot. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you underst

Re: Open-source opportunuity?

2003-09-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
tops and 300 servers - the equivalent of one computer for > each track mile it owns!" And where might Network Rail be? I'm guessing UK: http://www.networkrail.co.uk/ No current GNU/Linux position openings listed. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http:

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 04:07:04AM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 02:17:55AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:28:33AM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 03:57:23AM +0100, Kar

Re: OT -- Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 08:22:57AM -0400, Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 11:07 AM 9/9/2003 +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > >Incidentally, I downloaded some PDFs from their site, which were among > >the worst-displaying I've ever seen. Not sure what they'

Re: Upgrade to 'testing'

2003-09-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
enough space, apt usually aborts with a message indicating this. You can simply run: apt-get -u dist-upgrade ....and cancel the process yourself, to see what the download size/storage requirement will be. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom

Re: Modem config....Type Rockwell

2003-09-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
gle search of the modem make/model, plus the term "Linux", will turn up useful informatino. Also read the Modem HOWTO (available as a Debian package or at http://www.tldp.org/). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part

Re: Modem config....Type Rockwell

2003-09-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
dem in traditional ports ttyS1 and > TTyS0 . Please give me any information about others > possibilities to work this modem... The Aztech AT3100 (note space, this _is_ important) appears to be used on some very cheap, older systems: http://tinyurl.com/msvr Peace. -- Karsten M. Self &

Re: xhost +localhost has no effect

2003-09-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
tely not OK in 2003. Fortunately, Debian's default X config largely obviates it. What you want is: xrdb -merge ~/.xauthority ...or copy contents of that file to a location the second user can access. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netc

Re: Bouncing emails via procmail

2003-09-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
g on my account. However, the FTC does say that they want your spam. I'm willing to give it to 'em. Otherwise: filter your mail, teergrube, and fuggedaboudit. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Strange ownership when mounting a MINIX floppy

2003-09-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
;francesc 232' You're mounting a minix floppy as an ext2 fs? Or you're creating an ext2fs floppy? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Cald

Possible design problem: on install disk wipes disk?

2003-09-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
stupid idiots for a while. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What to do with a core dump

2003-09-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
. If not, you can use ulimit to set corefile size to zero (ulimit is a bash builtin): ulimit -c 0 'man bash' for more information. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Galeon 1.2.5 proxy settings not respected consistently

2003-09-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
ripping to the extent they're useless. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Spread the real scoop on Xenu and The Church of Scientology, link http://xenu.net/";;>Scientology on your website. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Evolving Debian from Red Hat

2003-09-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
The difference between this method and the method described in "3.7 Installing Debian GNU/GNU/Linux from a Unix/GNU/Linux System" and my method is use of debootstrap (the Installation Manual method) vs. a Potato base2_2.tar.gz image. Both methods get you to the same

Re: ..chroot-installs onto RAID-1 disks ,was: Evolving Debian from Red Hat

2003-09-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 06:36:34AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:31:38 -0400, > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:31, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > ..has anyone tried us

Followup report (was Re: Galeon 1.2.5 proxy settings not respected consistently)

2003-09-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:01:32PM +0100, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm using Galeon 1.2.5 on testing/unstable. > > My proxy settings aren't being consistently applied. They appear to be > accepted and working properly for some period of time, but then

screen -- won't start on remotely displayed rxvt

2003-09-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
me VersionDescription +++-==-==-=== ii libncurses55.3.20030719-1 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libc6 2.3.2-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libpam0g 0.76-13

Re: priority of find

2003-09-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
7;re using anacron or cron for regularly scheduled tasks. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: howto process attachments out of a procmail script?

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
ne has a suggestion... First stop: check the procmail FAQ: http://rhols66.adsl.netsonic.fi/era/procmail/mini-faq.html Looks like "munpack" is where you want to start looking. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of &qu

Re: Install stalled

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
/knoppix/ http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-old-en.html Another option is a chroot install, which is now documented in the standard Debian installation manual, section 3.7. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Could not load default TOC page

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:48:04PM +0200, .- raroh -. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Help problem : "Could not load default TOC page" What URL? Is this a Debian-related question? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.co

Re: setting the default keyboard layout on boot

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
also got console-tools installed. I never can keep straight which overrides the other (or why both exist). I'd suggest dpkg-reconfigure console-tools. Not sure _what_ owns /etc/console/ Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What

multi-page tiff splitter? (was Re: eFax tiff viewer?)

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
igured out what viewer displays all pages of a multipage fax? Related question. I'm getting documents in a multi-page tiff format. I'd like to split these to a single file per page. I haven't found a tool which does this automatically. Any suggestions? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self &

Re: DriveStatusError BadCRC

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
fix is often elusive. It's also not impossible that you're encountering a batch of bad disks, so check message boards, and post your serial or batch number for comparison. Another possibility is a bad IDE controller. You might try plugging the disk into an IDE cotroller add-

Re: Can't mount cdrom

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
- > Anonymous Web Surfing http://www.snoopblocker.com > Search http://www.teradex.com > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: Can't mount cdrom

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
Thank you. > I had the same issue with the CDROM. Check which HD interface your CDROM > Then run: Nope. The OP's problem was lack of kernel module support. Read the post. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of &q

Re: some tools are running as root only - no network printer access

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on'T start, LPD seems not to start. I'd recommend CUPS. It tends to be quite easy to configure through the web-based interface. Check your system error logs, post more information, or check out IRC support at irc://irc.debian.org/#debian Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Install stalled

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 03:54:10PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:03:54 +0100, > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > on Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 07:11:55AM -0500, Kent W

Re: Can't mount cdrom

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 10:17:49AM +0100, Chris Wilcox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Can't mount cdrom > >Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:53:49 +0100 > > > >Plea

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