Re: What is the format of a mailboxfile?

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
se are the ones you'll encounter most often. Mail spool files are virtually always mbox format. For specific information on formats, some of these are defined in section 5 of the GNU/Linux manual (I find only mbox listed there). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: minimal installation

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
ll make a decent console-based system, but little else. Not sure how easily impressed your friends are... Should work for light editing, mail, remote access via SSH. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt&quo

Re: IRC protocol blocked

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
rewall Piercing HOWTO". Note that this information can get you fired or worse. Your best bet is to get access somewhere else. If you can and your site allows ssh access to a remote shell account, you can run a text-mode IRC client such as irssi from this. Peace. -- Kar

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
imits you to 16 RAMdisks of 4096 KiB each, however. The updated romfs actually resizes dynamically if I understand correctly (and probably don't). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you under

Re: Install stalled

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:17:50AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > --- "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi?: > > Size matters less than selection. Any experience installing this to > > disk to bootstrap Debian installation? > >

Re: Howto on one pages

2003-09-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
text format. - They're available in multiple formats from http://www.tldp.org/ - They're available in source DocBook for from TLDP, from which you can render them pretty damned well any way you want: HTML, text, PS, PDF, whatevah. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAI

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

2003-09-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 04:38:50PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 03:40:40 +0100, > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > As I frequently say, the advantage of a chroot instal

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 10:27:51PM +1200, cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Monday 15 September 2003 18:52, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 09:23:47PM +1200, cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > It'd be nice to have a self-contained floppy with just the

Re: Not a speed reader.

2003-09-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
gt; > > are there any tricks for obtaining this? > > I always just use Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q; see further up the thread. No way to direct this, say, to a serial console for logging? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of &qu

Improved responsiveness: Galeon over remote X11

2003-09-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
e near this bad. Anyone else see similar behavior? Is it a network issue, X11 server side, or could there be something I can tune/tweak somewhere? Needless to say, the performance is getting more than a little annoying. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.h

Re: should /usr/bin be so crowded? Is there a better way to maanage?

2003-09-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:20:15PM -0400, Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: To understand why things are the way they are, see Debian Policy. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understa

Re: Improved responsiveness: Galeon over remote X11

2003-09-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:08:21PM -0500, Nathan Poznick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thus spake Karsten M. Self: > > allow use of a slow but quiet and cool PPro 180Mhz 256MB as X > > > The notably exception is Galeon, which...seems...to...freeze...or...lag... > > part

Re: /etc/aliases

2003-09-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
, webmaster, DBA, etc. In this case, you may have local system aliases pointing at these users, rather than strictly root, but the principle is the same. > daemon: root > bin: :root <...> Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.

Re: /etc/aliases

2003-09-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:14:36AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:58:54AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > Here's my list of aliases. Do any processes/applications send to these > > > addresses? > >

Re: Q: Oracle vs Debian?

2003-09-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
ds > promoting the efficient use of the Debian system, and have politely > requested over the years that other posters conform to the standard > previously mentioned. > The standard is there, not just for the purposes of social acceptance, > but also for the efficient cataloguing of

Re: Verisign and spam blocking

2003-09-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
ation time on a P4 1.7 GHz system for 1m records is ~360 minutes. I've posted sample output reachable from the "Verisign" links at the bottom of my homepage (see sig). It might be amusing to investigate the results of serial spidering through addresses generated through such means.

Re: Newbie - upgrade question

2003-09-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
uerybts xlibmesa3' and see if the bug has been reported. - If you've still got a problem, file a grave bug against one or the other indicating the conflicting file. Paste the section above starting from 'Unpacking replacement xlibmesa3'. Peace. -- Karsten M. Se

Re: Installation von testing

2003-09-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
st' or Jigdo installation. > In den Manuals habe ich leider nichts finden k?nnen oder ich habe sie > ganz einfach ?berlesen. Read the installation instructions: > Bitte sendet mir doch die Adresse zu unter [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Danke Bitte. Freide. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Help! FATAL: kernel too old

2003-09-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
x27;s Root Boot are three of the better ones. Boot the system with this disk. If that works, grab and unpack modules for components you need. See if your system's recovered itself. Figure out what's missing. Rinse, wash, repeat. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PRO

Re: rsyncing via cron

2003-09-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
smeaphore files to indicate the location of the ssh-agent socket. This is a situation well covered in the O'Reilly SSH book. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Hi! I'

Re: sed, bash script

2003-09-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
t the number of input files with 'xargs -n 1' - You could run into problems with filenames containing embeded IFS characters. "-print0 / -0" are useful arguments. Personally, I'd do it as: for f in $( find path -name \*.foo ) do sed -e 'stuff' <

Re: sed, bash script

2003-09-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:44:09PM +0200, Matthias Czapla ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:40:31AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Personally, I'd do it as: > > > > for f in $( find path -name \*.foo ) > > do sed -e 'stuff&

Re: sed, bash script

2003-09-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 04:22:15AM -0700, Ric Otte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:40:31AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:08:26AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Is there anything intrinsically wrong with:

Filesystem I/O performance (was Re: Which FS to use ?)

2003-09-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
a cite now). The values attained are modest by today's standards, but the principles are sound: spread your head movements over as many spindles as possible, keep your channels clean, and use gobs of memory. You'll get good performance. Single-spindle ATA disk access is glacial by compari

Re: [OT] ML rejections

2003-09-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
the list", which would be a legitimate concern. 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: Non-US Packages

2003-09-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
ckages that can't be distributed in the US due to > software patents or use of encryption." The full mirrors include _both_ the non-US and the unrestricted packages. > So, what's the truth? Very expensive. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: xserver crashes on switching to vitual console

2003-09-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
esktop manager like gdm? Actually, I love KDE but arts has > issues with my sound card - Aureal Vortex au8220 and therefore want to kick > start some other wm. $ edit ~/.xinitrc $ update-alternatives x-window-manager > > X server

Re: Creating an diskimage of a debian system

2003-09-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
back it up. There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux system backups you may find useful, at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html Thank you. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don&#x

Mail wrap (was Re: Creating an diskimage of a debian system)

2003-09-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:38:39PM -0700, Carla Schroder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wednesday 17 September 2003 8:57 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: <...> > > Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly > > recommend 72 as a good default. >

Re: Creating an diskimage of a debian system

2003-09-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:38:39PM -0700, Carla Schroder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wednesday 17 September 2003 8:57 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:33:32PM +0200, Jasper Metselaar > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > >

Re: Improved responsiveness: Galeon over remote X11

2003-09-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:08:21PM -0500, Nathan Poznick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thus spake Karsten M. Self: > > allow use of a slow but quiet and cool PPro 180Mhz 256MB as X > > > The notably exception is Galeon, which...seems...to...freeze...or...lag... > > part

Re: Installing Debian with no CD drive and only USB dsl modem.

2003-09-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
to provide networking via the USB modem until you have your Debian system installed. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? KQED FM: The bright spot on the dial: http://www.kqed.org/fm/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Strange output to console

2003-09-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
to print this > information. How can I disable this? That's either kernel output or syslog output. In the former case, it can't (AFAIK) be disabled. In the latter, modify /etc/syslog.conf to suit. I point output to an otherwise unused virtual console, e.g.: /dev/tty12. Peac

Re: Using SpamAssassin (was: Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances)

2003-09-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
0B * ^Content-Type: [A-z][-A-z]*\/[A-z][-A-z]*; name=['"]*[^ ][^ ]*\.$WINDOWS_EXECUTABLE_EXT['"]* { :0c | ! chkmail --header "From|Sender" $WHITELIST :0a { LOG="(Virus!: MSFT executable" # Train sp

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
scripted (manually triggered, not fully automated) response but suspect that it's not advisible until I've got a better idea of the accuracy of headers in the received mail. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt&

Re: /etc/aliases

2003-09-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 12:22:00PM -0600, Bob Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > Here's my list of aliases. Do any processes/applications send to these > > >

Re: Procmail logging

2003-09-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
recipe > > that was triggered by every mail that is being logged? > > ..yep, in your .procmailrc, put: > LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/log-procmail You may also want to play with: ABSTRACT=yes VERBOSE=yes Note that the latter in particular lives up to its name. Peace. -- Ka

OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
net.nl DynaBlock - http://dynablock.easynet.nl/errors.html -- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------ <...> -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The golden

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
ld. The problem at current rates of Swen delivery is that I'd have to check my mail 10-20 times or more daily to avoid mail-over-quota bounces. If Swen is the shape of things to come, it's the end of dial-up POP3 mail accounts. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>ht

Re: How to deal cron(tab)

2003-09-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
r something running with a specification of: */20 * * * * 8,20,40, * * * * * 4/20 * * * * * ...or similar. That would be: a job running every 20 minutes or at a specified set of intervals. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part o

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:44:57AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At Mon, 22 Sep 2003 06:26:05 +0100, > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > If Swen is the shape of things to come, it's the end of dial-up > > POP3 mail accounts. > > There's a simple sol

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:42:37AM -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 00:26, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -07

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
will simply apply a quota, if I use over 10 gig in the past thirty > days my calbe modem gets capped to a 15kb/s downstream limit. While I don't currently have broadband, if my ISP caps my ass for *its* inability to keep *known crud* off *my line*, I'll see 'em in court. End of

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
by another name. http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/challenge-response.html ...also discussed at some length in d-u last month. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? At the sound of

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
In general, targeted allow, deny, accept provisionally email policies are where I'm headed. The key is making them very specific. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? At the

Re: apt-proxy without internet

2003-09-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
; downloaded, serve the packages in an apt-proxy fashion. > I don't want to create a complete mirror as it is a waste of resources > really. apt-zip Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't yo

Re: unsubscribe

2003-09-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
OTECTED] Resent-Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 13:15:27 -0500 (CDT) Resent-Bcc: Thank you. Note that I usually post this off-list only but there's already a reply on this thread. The text above is from the rant-o-matic: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/rant-o-matic.tar.gz 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/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:20:34PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Karsten M. Self said: > > on Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:03:47PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've received far more invalid, than valid, C-R challenges

Re: OT: rfc-ignorant RBL

2003-09-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
ile I wouldn't recommend this for a general-traffic, common-carrier site, its the sort of policy which might work well on a domain for which standards compliance is a high priority. The issue is, after all, correctable. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://km

Re: Adding a user with a dot (.) in his name: How?

2003-09-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
r "--force-badname". The '.' character is used as a delimiter between username and group. I'd recommend you not do this. There are means of creating conformance mappings between userids on various systems, I'd suggestion you look into these. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMA

Re: Little Help Please

2003-09-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
PROTECTED] Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Office Despot: Office Depot embraces Microsoft XP logo requirement. http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit030.html http

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
lutely *ZERO RIGHT* to > the net. How are you parsing it for this? I'm looking at some combination of rule / reporting tool to do this either on mail as it comes in, or on messages sitting in a spool. Seems like about the only way we're going to get a reasonable handle on this

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:11:16PM -0400, Mike Mueller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tuesday 30 September 2003 02:05, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Seems > > like about the only way we're going to get a reasonable handle on this > > barring ISPs refusing to carry e

Re: Filesystem Choice

2003-09-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
his is for backup > purposes so it will be all media types There are some tools for doing near-live-time mirroring to network backup. Google is your friend. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
ilable. GNU/Linux absolutely *can* be used as a primary user desktop. It shouldn't be pitched as a legacy MS Windows replacement because it's not -- there are some things it doesn't do as well, and there are a large number of things it does far better. View it for its strengths, be realistic about its weaknesses. 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. http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:20:25PM -0500, Michael D Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:01:00:53:46+0100] scribed: > > on Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:11:16PM -0400, Mike Mueller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Tuesda

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-10-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
ly by the balls, I'll find that far easier to believe than any myth of "market driven" decisionmaking. Your bluff is called. Mind, your efforts to correct this situation are gratefully appreciated, and there *are* now sources for GNU/Linux-preload or naked laptops.

Boot Knoppix (was Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?)

2003-10-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
g it. Additionally: the 'system-info' script found at the URL below will give you a useful catalog of the configuration and capabilities of the system, run it and save output. http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/LinuxSystemInfoScript There is a similar tool packaged for Debian

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-10-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:39:25AM -0500, Michael D Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:01:07:17:43+0100] scribed: > > For the current task of restricting transmission of viral mail load by > > agarware such as

Re: Is the list working????

2003-10-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
g. This can be determined by following archives, or Usenet peered groups (*eg: linux.debian.user). Note that not all news gateways are bidirectional (in fact most aren't). There have been recent posts concerning delays and traffic backups on the Debian mailservers, in part due

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-10-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
Insider jobs will always be a leading cause of system compromise, particularly targeted compromises as in the case of the GNU Project. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? What doesn't kill you makes you stranger. -- Karsten M. Self, misreading as usual, San Marcos Pass Rd., 1988 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Do we really need to worry about viruses (was Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?)

2003-10-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
illa to run as root, why X11 TCP connections are disabled by default, and why SSH is strongly recommended. Yes, it's possible to override or ignore these settings, but that's not information I share, particularly not with newbies, on the simple principle that learning how to sh

Re: gv segfaulting

2003-10-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
ch superclass's to override > internalWidth > Segmentation fault > > Has anyone else noticed this? Any suggestion to get it working again. It's bug in libxaw3dg. Install libxaw3dg from unstable. querybts gv for details. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Adding a user with a dot (.) in his name: How?

2003-10-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:58:55AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 00:48:41 +0100, > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:58:38PM +0200,

Harvesting list members for direct sales pitches

2003-10-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
ceptable. This is just to let anyone _else_ on list who's had a similar experience know that they're not the only one. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounde

Re: Debian on cobalt RaQ2

2003-10-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on a Qube2 or Raq2: http://devel.alal.com/pipermail/cobalt-22/2002-July/000298.html And there are some list posts: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2001/debian-mips-200108/msg4.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2001/debian-mips-200108/msg00021.html Peace. -- Kars

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-10-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 06:21:05AM -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 19:06, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:43:51PM -0400, Dan Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [big snippage] > > Few if any of these are self-propoga

Re: Do we really need to worry about viruses (was Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?)

2003-10-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:25:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:42:28AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > E.g.: there are _good_, _solid_ reasons Debian doesn't allow Mozilla to > > run as root, why X11 TCP connections are disa

Re: Spamassassin thinking i'm a spammer

2003-10-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
uot;whitelist_from menem.mine.nu" in /etc/spamassassin/local.cf or > ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs This will, however, whitelist incoming mail as well. A common tactic for spammer is to forge/spoof an address in your own domain. Wouldn't the right thing to do be having separate (not s

Disable / override meta-refresh?

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
e knowing where current Mozilla / Galeon / Firebird development is headed -- this information is also appreciated. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The revolution will not

Re: Looking for backup solutions

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
ggestions? Tape and tar. There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux system backups you may find useful, at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't yo

Re: mailing list

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
ounce. Not true in all cases. If your list mail is being relayed to you from somewhere, your own mailbox bouncing messages *won't* unsubscribe you from the Debian listslargely because you weren't subscribed in the first place. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
ign murphey, you might have cause to allow mail from the list to be passed as reliably scanned, and trusted on the basis of your own GPG WoT. Not entirely useless. Useful in its own context. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
re there are > a few, but those are by far the exception. My gripe is that the RH install leaves you with 8,000 packages (stock 8/9 install) to worry about. With the Debian install, you've just got the stuff you've put on the box. Less shit == less shit to go wrong. St. Ex

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
own distro you have that many less packages > to install. Bingo. 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. ht

spamarchive.org (was Re: I want spam!)

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
.spamarchive.org/ Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est. SCO vs IBM Linux lawsuit info: http://sco.iwethey.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: mailing list

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:44:03PM +1000, Pascal Hakim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:58:40AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Not true in all cases. If your list mail is being relayed to you from > > somewhere, your own mailbox bouncing messages *won

Dyslexic demime autoresponses

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
address for the time being. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? A guide to GNU/Linux backups: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian-based distros ??

2003-10-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
nable, fairly complete desktop system. It succeeds relatively well at this. Installing to HD is possible, but the mix of stable, unstable, testing, and other sources is somewhat ungodly. I'd pick straight Debian myself. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.

Re: Disable / override meta-refresh?

2003-10-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:51:39PM -0400, Travis Crump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >I'm looking for information on blocking or disabling the meta refresh > >tag: > > > > > > >I'm using (usually) Galeon 1.2.5, with a squid

Re: SWEN isn't slowing down

2003-10-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
;s *not*. It's extending *your* perimiter of control -- remember that I'd said first "If _you_ control your SMTP server...". In this case you have the control. If you're relying on an ISP, you don't, which is specifically what we're trying to change. Peace.

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim,

2003-10-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
27;ve created a "spam-learn" folder, over which "sa-learn --spam --dir" is run via cronjob every 30 minutes. False negatives get tossed there. Filtering is now *very* good. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: Over a billion Whoppers served. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
ssues. Though I'm not endorsing any of the above, they may be able to assist you directly or point you toward experienced counsel. IANAL, TINLA, YADA. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't

Re: Illegal Instructions

2003-10-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
roduces: Try: dpkg --configure --pending dpkg --configure -a If these fail Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? A guide to GNU/Linux backups: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: A ? for all you old time linux users

2002-10-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
s can be extracted by other techniques). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? TWikIWeThey: Technology, free software, GNU/Linux, and a little bit of everything else: http://t

Mutt/locale question: charset=unknown-8bit causing problems for some MUAs?

2002-10-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
SIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX&qu

Re: Permissions for a FAT partition

2002-10-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
nd umask for my Samba-mounted shares at work: uid=1000,auto,gid=smbuser,fmask=0640,dmask=075 ...the arguments for vfat are similar, though may differ. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you

Re: Backup Script

2002-10-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 21, 2002, Auke Jilderda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 12:19:11PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > Read the following page, then modify the associated script to your > > system. It's geared toward tape. For drive-to-drive, I'

Re: Galeon Mail/News ?

2002-10-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 21, 2002, Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:21:31PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Evolution & Sylpheed are good GUI mail clients. I use mutt, a > > console/curses client. > > I use mutt too; and what email client can I use to

Re: Debian way for adding 3rd party fonts?

2002-10-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
and earlier: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-Debian.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? TWikIWeThey: An experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever. http

Re: How to pronounce "Debian"?

2002-10-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
n't 'telephone' pronounced tel-EFF-on-ee? My favorites: Montague Fatigue > this is what happens when you have a language designed by > committee. and not even an elected committee, at that. No, no, no. It's the lack of policy ;-) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL

Re: Send a remote command?

2002-11-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
ing my X11 process. It's not. It's just that running 'ssh-agent windowmanager' is a convenient way to ensure that all child processes of your window manager can access the ssh-agent. For more on this, see: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SshAgent Pe

segfaults w/ apropos

2002-11-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
= 0x806e000 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ The last file opened appears to be /var/cache/man/index.bt. Permissions: [karsten@ego:karsten]$ ll /var/cache/man/index.bt -rw-r--r-- 1 man root 1048576 2002-11-07 08:01 /var/cac

Re: signature in mutt

2002-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
ux-elitists/messages/20020429085757.GO16139@;ix.netcom.com.rfc822 Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? ARM Computer: Customer Service Hell On Earth http://lists.svlug.org/pipermail/svlu

Re: /dev/hda gone missing with kernel 2.4.19 when CMD680 detected?

2002-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
here to get out of this pickle? Are you using devfs? You'll have to include an /etc/fstab line for it. Did you include IDE support in your kernel? It would help to post error output, probably from /var/log/dmesg or /var/log/syslog. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Howto add a crontab job ?

2002-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
only for root) 9 Kernel routines [Non standard] Note that file formats are in section 5. You'll also find a reference to section crontab(5) at the end of crontab(1). To see a page for a particular section: $ man E.g.: $ man 5 crontab Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[

Re: Howto add a crontab job ?

2002-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
| day of the month (1-31) > #|| | month of the year (1-12) > #|| | | day of the week (0-6 with 0=Sunday) > #|| | | | commands > > It is at the top and then my cron jobs are lined up under it. I've long done similarly. Good

Re: WordPerfect 8.0 or WordPerfect Office 2000

2002-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
What binary packages these libs and dynamic loader will occupy differs between distributions. If in doubt, documents linked from http://linux-sxs.org/edit.html may give details for your distribution. Under Debian, the appropriate oldlibs packages may provide joy. Peace. -- Karsten M. Sel

Re: RFC: Caps Lock

2002-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
addLock= Caps_Lock Caps_Lock addControl = Control_L ! Euro: keycode 26 = e E EuroSign ------------ -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't

Re: What absolutely must stay on the physical root partition?

2002-11-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
arate filesystem, though you can leave it as part of / if you want. Mounting filesystems occurs at /etc/rcS.d/S35mountall.sh -- before anything but kernel and root filesystem checks are done. Any processes needing to _use_ /tmp are started after mountall.sh. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL

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