Re: Console Password Manager?

2004-12-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
edited in vim (with some hacks) and accessed via a shell script or bash function. http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IwtNix#Use_vim_to_edit_an_encrypted_fil Crude, but effective. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gest

Re: Console Password Manager?

2004-12-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
ably better for > security anyway. For that, I use a Palm. Note that there's no handy way to coordinate the lists, though. In JPilot, you can access Keyring as a plugin. Not console, but It Works[tm]. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of &q

Re: Console Password Manager?

2004-12-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:04:42AM -0500, Ben Bettin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:10:38 -0800, Karsten M. Self > wrote: > > on Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:56:25AM -0600, Jacob S ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > The only problem I have with it is I can'

Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

2004-12-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
How do I > > obtain such value ? How do I create the required backticks on my laptop > > keyboard (no separate numpad) > > 3) If I use cron to run this everyday, being this a laptop client, will > > the due command be executed if it's natural time has expired ? >

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-12-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
; in the same way that it's necessary to re-run 'lilo' after editing /etc/lilo.conf. Rather, update-grub is editing /boot/grub/menu.lst. GRUB itself does *not* need to be updated, it finds and respects the modifications to its config file. [Deletia of correct and significant GR

Re: Package to block random SSH login attempts?

2004-12-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Download/SpamTools.tar.gz ...which does a lot of the "who are the contacts based on a given IP" logic. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? We're n

Re: Backup-software FTP

2004-12-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
lftp", it can do recursive upload / download (mirror, mirror -R). Can you run that noninteractively? I use lftp but haven't found a good way to script it. Would be useful for a few websites I manage. Otherwise, of course, rsync rocks, but a lot of ISPs haven't caught up with the 20th C

Re: Displayed Image Quality

2004-12-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
f appears to be the best solution for viewing > multiple page TIFF files? Possibly. Online vs. printed appearance can vary greatly. Have you compared printed output? I realize this may not be fully sufficient for your needs. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.c

Re: can't the shell do a better job

2005-01-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
prior match. Very useful that. I'd actually used bash for a few years before having it pointed out to me. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? My nation is silent right now. - Sri

Re: cd burning oddities

2005-01-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
, no Problem, i can burn Data CDs via k3b or the command > Line. But, have i discovered a new debian bug or are there some > workarounds? Check against the BTS (bugtracking system: http://bugs.debian.org/). If you don't see a bug filed, file one. No clue WRT your groisofs bug. FWIW:

Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!

2005-05-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
. Bindered hardcopy is also tres helpful. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Marti wrote: News flash: / Matt Pavlovich does not live / in California. - Haiku Pavlovich signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: group web software

2005-05-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
her forum-oriented CMS. Drupal is both very nice and (for web-based forum/group software) very easy to set up. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? You can quote me if you want. - simonrvn signature.

Re: Network scan

2005-05-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
you've only got IP. I don't know offhand of tools that will query for MAC, though these may exist. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Obviously it's not going to be trivial to run G

Re: html to pdf conversion

2005-05-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
zz. Oooh Unless you RTFM. Neat, I just learned some stuff :-) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Free Software Primer -- concepts you need to understand http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/

Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
tegrated Systems [SiS] 65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter - Current display resolution is set to 1280x960. - Stock Firefox theme. Numerous extensions loaded. System load is ~0.5. Suggestions? Anyone else having similar issues? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self h

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 28, 2005 at 04:33:53PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 12:03:21PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm trying out Firefox again, and am dogged by slow performance, > > particularly on startup and window/tab operation

Re: what is using my swap

2005-06-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
l Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Manners maketh man. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
quot;complete" desktop environments, I've found XFCE4 to be pretty sweet. My _recommendation_ is that you install and try a few WMs. It's trivial to install a WM via aptitude. And you can either run these on their own X session or via Xnest: Xnest :1 1024x768 -displa

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
there for decoration. - Tracking who's saying what in response to whom gets very difficult. Generally there's a total mash of text. My own response is to not participate in lists / groups in which this mode of communications is commonplace. It's too much work, s/n is way low

Re: How can I start from a terminal instead of gdm

2001-03-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
ot disk (of course) so I'm looking for a > solution other than the obvious. See my Disabling [xwgk]dm mini-HOWTO: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you

Re: bind worm

2001-03-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
uary 29, > 2001. Note that Package: bind Version: 1:8.2.3-4 ...is a production (not beta) 8.2 BIND, and is *not* vulnerable to the exploit mentioned in this alert. Run your updates, you should have been covered as of late January if you're keeping current. -- Karsten M. Self

Re: deleting specific files

2001-03-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
uot;script" using the vi shell editing features. '^' indicates control-key (ctrl): $ set -o vi ^k^v # you are now in a full-screen vi editor session # edit script to preferences, including piping in command ouptut. # when done: :wq #

security.debian.org in sources.list (was Re: bind worm)

2001-03-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
urity.debian.org enabled in my sources.list file. Rookie move, but valuable lesson. To others reading, check the latest security announce lists, or add to your /etc/apt/source.list: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home

Re: powerpoint viewer.

2001-03-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
nless you like 'strings' . StarOffice, that bloated stuck pig of an office suite, works pretty well. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.

Re: apt question

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
local debs. There are command-line options to apt-get to temporarily select another archive source if you so chose. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforg

Re: staroffice..

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
ems. Then again I've defined my own WMaker menus, crotchety old fart that I am. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org pgpa4AsTNMIvz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Soundblaster Live Player! Which driver?

2001-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
discussion you're replying to, which almost certainly isn't appropriate. You've done this twice in the current thread. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gest

Re: sis 6326

2001-06-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
been raised several times recently on list. I only find two hits since June, 2000, though list-archive search efficacy has been on the low side of good in recent memory. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Re: unpredictable crashes, lock up, freezes, whatever

2001-06-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:06:35AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" writes: > > > on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 04:51:35PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > > > I&

Re: customize sources.list

2001-06-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
here. It makes keeping your system together a lot of work. Better to track one of the three tracks and use sources or tarballs for the packages you'd prefer keeping more current, IMO. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you und

Re: gdb (non-Debian specific)

2001-06-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
l give you an idea of runtime and load average. See also 'nice' and 'batch'. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://

Re: Installing Debian on a Red Hat system over the Internet?

2001-06-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
ial. You can attempt, and may succeed, at a remote OS install, but you're a long way from a dead box if you fail. Got any friends in Texas? -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http:

Re: locale?

2001-06-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
are supported and installed on your system. > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). > > > what does it mean? How can I fix it? > Thanks in advance! $ su - $ locale-gen $ dpkg-reconfigure fetchmail ...I think. -- Karsten M. Self

Re: Defaulting system to mono display

2001-06-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
tartx invocation: $ startx -- -depth 1 ...which will open a mono session. There's also a monochrome X server (xserver-mono), which can be used to present monochrome displays. Many applications/environments dither rather heavily when run in monochrome mode, results may vary. Cheers. --

Re: Defaulting system to mono display

2001-06-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:04:43AM +0200, Karsten Heymann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:38:43PM -0700 or thereabouts, Karsten M. Self > wrote: > > on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:36:55AM +0200, Karsten Heymann ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [.

Re: Netscape makes X server crash!!!

2001-06-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
er and X sessions, trimmed to start of errors preceeding crash. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Are thes

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
#x27;ve researched this casually a few times over the years but never really found a definitive answer, odd, as it's such a striking example of trademark loss. Loss of a trademark is not altogether straightforward, Adobe appears to be acting overly aggressively in this case. -- Karsten M. Self

Re: wine question

2001-07-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
e.conf file. My experience was that WINE support through MS Office 97 was pretty reasonable. Some things work (Word, Excel), some things don't (Access). Impressive, in the way a dancing dog is. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don&

Re: dpms and X4

2001-07-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
configurations. Because xset configuration can be governed from any number of places, there's little likelihood of coordinating the behavior of the two programs. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Re: xv alternatives

2001-07-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
;display *.jpg' for a large number of files total memory > used keeps increasing until all memory (including swap) is used up. This is a bug. File a bug report. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The

Re: xv alternatives

2001-07-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
gt; > Hmm. > > I'd argue that this is what good coding is for. I'd argue that this is what kernel-level memory-management is for, but that I'm more with Mike than Joey on this one, for a change. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part o

Re: "man" command made easy?

2001-07-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
d effort to improve the quality of manpages and is ahead of most other GNU/Linux distros in this regard. Or you could poke around a *BSD system -- they tend to have well crafted manpages. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand

Re: Tape backup software

2001-07-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
o span multiple tapes. See: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html My own recommendation is KISS. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/

Re: Cups, or magicfilter . HP Deskjet 540

2001-07-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
x/attached printer setup. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Are these opinions my employer's? Hah! I don&#

Re: [OT] Free Scheduling/Reminder software for Win32

2001-07-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
Scheduling is one area in which GNU/Linux greatly lags alternative environments, in large part because the alternatives are designed very much as closed, proprietary, systems. If you're looking for a simple system, there are various parts of the 'calendar' program which you may find

Carriage return in email headers, body, possibly Netcom problem

2001-07-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
t the point the switch occured, suspect it could be something outside my system, including possibly my ISP. This appears to be effecting a few of my procmail recipies as well. TIA. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understa

Re: Carriage return in email headers, body, possibly Netcom problem

2001-07-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:03:58PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > I've noticed this since about 5 am, PDT, Sunday, 22 July. > > Mail arriving since this time (and the time demarcation is pretty clean) > has carriage returns (^M) appended to the end of

Re: Carriage return in email headers, body, possibly Netcom problem

2001-07-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 09:44:16AM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:03:58PM -0700, Karsten M. Self > (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > > I've noticed this since about 5 am, PDT, Sunday, 22 July. > > > > Mail arriving

Re: Newbie Tips: Will, you asked.....

2001-07-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
can still ssh in remotely. Running 'chvt 1' gets me console on the box (or confirms the display's hosed). This can also be useful for entertaining yourself at a coworker's expense ;-) Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestal

Re: Thin-X-Client-Laptop

2001-07-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
ng to be pretty secure, it's a point-to-point protocol. I'm not so sure about speed, but am not sure of what parallel port bitrates are compared to serial or ethernet. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you underst

Re: Getting a 'woody' distribution

2001-07-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
s and such. There are no official ISOs of wood, it's testing. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Are thes

Re: remote administration methods

2001-07-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
might suit your needs. Larry McVoy is also pretty keen on distributed processing issues. File permissions and such might also be handled by a secondary script which keeps a list of settings and applies them following updates. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What pa

Re: Display managers

2001-07-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
package upgrades and things like that > will just restore them. I'd prefer not to uninstall the package entirely, > because then I'll lose the task- package that gave it to me in the first > place. Try: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html C

Re: Outlook to GNU/Linux mailbox conversion is possible with exis ting tools

2001-07-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
ian package (whose name escapes) me that provides for pretty straightforward ssh-over-port-80 firewall bypassing. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/

Re: Getting a 'woody' distribution

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
--- Yes, my bad. If the difference isn't clear, that's "testing" rather than "stable" in the sources lines. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There i

Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
attaching a series of related draft documents that are going into it (a bit of insight into the mind of...um, somebody). Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-syst

Re: Unable to upgrade libc6 (solution)

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
is is true, there is a bug, and the current 'unstable' package's installation procedure for libc6_2 needs to be fixed so that it doesn't rely on the '-L' flag, or other issues identified and fixed. At some point, the process will be to upgrade from potato to uns

Re: Static routing

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
ic-routes? Have you looked at /etc/network/interfaces? man (5) interfaces. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Are

Re: netscape 4.76 freezes

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
output. > has anyone of you experienced this also? Hard lockups due to apps are rare. Lockups due to video/X problems are not uncommon. It's also possible that there are other problems you're overlooking, which may become apparent by more careful perusal of system logs (they&#x

Re: laptop and linux: any dangers?

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
imply rocks. My hardware: the Compal 20U OEMed by TuxTops, now available via QLItech (http://www.qlitech.com/) or ChemBook. Aside from a flakey power port, no problems with the unit, and it's an excellent mix of small and light, but still full-featured with a reasonable (1024x768) d

Re: netscape freeze, additional info

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
o tried another browser, namely Opera5.0. It > also freezes (surprise surprise) in the same way that Netscape4.76 > does. I suspect a video problem. Check your X output carefully. I'd also try running the system for a time without running either Netscape or Opera, to see if anything

GUI/Wmaker system shutdown app?

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
ikely headed in this direction though long-term. I do think that WMaker plus GMC (for desktop icons for storage & a file browser) is a pretty good, simple, desktop. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understa

Re: *Could someone please post this to linux.debian.user and linux.dev.debian newsgroups*

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
don't you try http://www.deja.com? They've got their own news > server... In case you've been sleeping, Deja's dead, its archive has been aquired by Google. The page currently redirects to Google's Usenet search page. http://groups.google.com/ will provide search-an

Re: *Could someone please post this to linux.debian.user and linux.dev.debian newsgroups*

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
twork/interfaces has an auto line for each appropriate interface: auto lo auto eth0 There's also a package, netenv, which is supposed to allow you to choose a network configuration at boot time. I've installed it but not yet figured out how to conf

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
the command... ...um, what package you got that in? I can't find a package matching 'x86info', and apt-cache search turns up a blank on the term. Try: $ dpkg -S $( which x86info ) Thanks. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gest

Re: woody became unusable - how to recover

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
lf.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html > Isn't there something like apt-get reinstall-binaries (would be cool) From a given list of packages, you can install/reinstall your packages. You may have to remodify the configuration files. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/

Re: Keyboard Setup

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
s will work in the console (e.g shift-2=@ > instead of "). You want to mess with loadkeys and the keyboard maps under /usr/share/keymaps. X and console keymaps are separate beasts. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you unde

Re: woody became unusable - how to recover

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 04:14:16PM -0300, Miguel Griffa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > At 11:21 a.m. 26/07/01 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > >on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:37:36AM -0300, Miguel Griffa > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > >

Re: woody not upgrading 6 packages

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
es, and why are they not being > upgraded? $ dpkg --get-selections \* | grep hold If that doesn't show it: $ apt-get dist-upgrade -s ...will show (but not execute) the update. Pipe through a pager to read it before it scrolls offscreen. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.ne

Re: install dpkg without dpkg

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
uration by loading the package list, restoring /etc to set system configuration, and finally loading on local/personal data from backups. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-sy

Re: GUI/Wmaker system shutdown app?

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:16:50PM +0200, Philipp Lehman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > >I've set up a GNU/Linux system for my folks to use and am dissatisfied > >with one aspect of it: there's no good, simple way I&#x

Re: Getting CPU model and speed without rebooting

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:46:32PM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:38:46AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 06:29:43AM -0600, Jimmy Richards ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi, > > &

Re: GUI/Wmaker system shutdown app?

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:00:13PM +0100, Wayne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:19:53AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I've set up a GNU/Linux system for my folks to use and am dissatisfied > > with one aspect of it: there's no good, simple

Re: gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
ng 'head' or 'dd' of a few bytes of a file -- output may or may not be messy, but you can see the raw data yourself. $ head -10 file $ dd if=file count=1 bs=1024 Source for ae: $ man apt-get $ apt-get source ae Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself

Re: huge tree of package descriptions in /var/tmp

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
e (eg, libapache-request-perl/libapache-request-perl contains > "Package: libapache-request-perl\n..."). The whole tree takes up > about 50 megs. I found same, dated sometime in May. ~ May 8, IIRC. Was out of space on /var, deleted same last night. No adverse [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: netscape freeze, additional info

2001-07-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:36:55PM -0500, Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Lo, on Thursday, July 26, Karsten M. Self did write: > > > ObligTelnetBashing: don't use telnet. Remove your telnet daemon. Use > > SSH for all remote access. Consider remo

Re: partition table woes

2001-07-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
t-ditch suggestion, and it's crazy, but it might just work > Thanks for any pointers and suggestions. ...print your partition tables next time and shoot a copy of the file to your website. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don&#

Re: Open Source Statistical Packages?

2001-07-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
it's based. I'm one of the instigators behind a project to provide a vaguely SAS-like capability. It's likely to be based around Python, R, and one or more database systems (mysql, postgres, berkleydb,...). Point being largely that there are scripting languages which can add the capabili

Re: partition table woes

2001-07-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 12:13:10PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 12:46:50AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | If you know how you sized your partitions, you can try plugging in the > | appropriate values, and saving the table. Since the partit

Re: Backup strategey? (Was: Preventing windows from scr...)

2001-07-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
ackup strategy, but I'd appreciate software > recommendations. http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourcef

Re: Debian Issues!!

2001-07-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
hink of a way to make > the meathod of getting the iso image easier for non linux users Reading the installation manual is strongly recommended. Posting appropriate questions where you're unclear is the next step. > I would like it if someone would send me a ftp sight I can just > dow

Re: Free x-server for windows 9x, ideas?

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
ssion, but preserves all state on the remote host, and allows moving the session (or sharing it) among workstations. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.s

pseudo-image method & .list files (was Re: Debian Issues!!)

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:18:03PM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > >on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:51:14PM -0700, Jaimos F. Skriletz > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> > >> First I will like to say that your meath

Re: abiword testing on stable system

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
end stable for servers, you'll probably find the other tracks more than acceptable for personal use. This is far preferable than trying to track both stable and unstable for different packages, though tools to do so are now emerging. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.n

Re: pdf editor

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
w keys, and means you don't have to specify a '--keyserver' option on the command-line. Keyservers peer keys automajickally. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://g

Re: testing: xf86cfg 3D Rage Pro: X dies

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
as root or normal user brings up graphics screen for one half second > then exits. Check /var/log/XFree86.*.log or your X session output. To capture: $ startx -- 1> startx.log 2>&1 ...and view startx.log. Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com

Re: Root/User Priveleges

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
R BE ROOT! NEVER BE ROT!!" philosophy is > bit odd-- seeing as you have to SU to root to change system settings and > there's just as much risk doing that. man sudo -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't y

RFC 2015 (PGP/MIME) MTA compliance (was Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?)

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
ly ASCII text, the encoded form of the data remains largely recognizable by humans. A body which is entirely ASCII may also be encoded in Quoted-Printable to ensure the integrity of the data should the message pass through a character-translating, and/or line-wrapping gateway. ...so,

Re: Linux Sources

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
lrwxrwxrwx [...] /usr/src/linux -> kernel-source-2.2.17 Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmi

SirCam spam procmail recipie (was Re: Fwd: Your site listed)

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
at I > occasionally hear from debian users who are stuck in windows for some > reason and I'd hate to blanket reject their mail. A passfile (allowed users) followed by a reject ruleset (broken mailers) might be a way around this. Lars Wirzenius's procmail filter rules ('spamfilter&#

Re: apt error: not a valid DEB package

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
base ... 39702 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking powershell (from .../powershell_0.80.2000.04.21-3_i386.deb) ... > Setting up powershell (0.80.2000.04.21-3) ... You can look at the .deb itself under /var/cache/apt/archives to see what's up with it. -- Karst

Re: RFC 2015 (PGP/MIME) MTA compliance (was Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?)

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 11:46:42PM +0200, Joost Kooij ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 01:16:50PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > ...so, arguably, at worst a mail client should display the body of the > > message but treat the signature as an attachment.

Re: RFC 2015 (PGP/MIME) MTA compliance (was Re: Off Topic: Mailing Agents?)

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 05:09:47PM -0500, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:50:45PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 11:46:42PM +0200, Joost Kooij ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 0

Re: (newbie from RH) How can i create a .deb package, or compile a source .deb package ?

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
ics.html#s-sourcebuild Note you can retrieve sources with, for package 'foo': $ apt-get source foo Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourc

Galeon & GNOME URL handlers: PDF, PS, Flash, RealPlayer

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
r "%s" http-show=galeon "%s" https-show=galeon "%s" news-show=pan "%s" info-show=gnome-help-browser "%s" mailto-show=rxvt -e mutt "%s" telnet-show=rxvt -e telnet "%s" man

Re: ext2 -> reiserfs

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
ition. It's called the reiserfs shuffle. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry!! Boycott

Re: KDE2 X display security

2001-07-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
p; as > root works. Don't do that. $ xauth merge ~/.Xauthority ...if you run that a bunch, alias it to something handy. emacs also runs in a non-X mode, though damned if I can remember the arguments. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt"

Re: How to stop some system services?

2001-07-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 12:52:46PM +0800, Tao Liu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How can I stop the system services I dont want them to run? > Forexample, I don't want zope to run, but is starts when I turn on my > cumputer. > In redhat, I use "ntsysv" . > How can I do in debian? To stop a service:

Re: ext2 -> reiserfs

2001-07-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 08:45:47AM +0200, Sven Hoexter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 02:27:04PM +0800, Tao Liu wrote: > > On Sunday 29 July 2001 09:51, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:58:24PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar > > (

Re: why procmail?

2001-07-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
like procmail (and it can get ugly), there are alternatives. If you decide to switch mailers, you can take your rules with you. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gesta

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