Re: Woody and default keymap

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
guessing correct, it seems that there has been some kind of upgrade > from kbd to console-tools, and I suspect some of the docs perhaps are > not up to date. Is this correct ? Quite probably. I stumbled through a few things before I got them to work myself. -- Karsten M. Self

Re: Woody and default keymap

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
at under X the keyboard works OK and the > configurarion in XF86Config-4 simply says 'es'. X keymappings are handled separately. See xmodmap. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
you want unstable/testing (which means: usually works, occasionally tweaks), you get it. Choice. All fully up to date. Gee...I guess that means Debian's maintaining three tracks rather than one. > BTW, in case you wouldn't know, even newbies like to be cutting > ed

Re: Netscape as root, sndconfig

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
o get knotted... > > So, any ideas on soundcard configration (it's an elderly SB16, btw) or > am I back to the ol' isapnp method? Read the HOWTOs. SB16 is well supported, I don't know particulars. In general, you'll need the driver, try loading it and p

Re: Debian as a training system.

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
hrottle and the clutch for the cleanest, fasted, smoothest possible shift (note: I drive stick). So there's a high level of engagement with the process, but there's also a support net. I'll note I got my own chops on Unix systems dating back to 1987 (well, the late &#

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:13:22AM -0400, Gilles Pelletier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 19:18 14-08-01 -0700, you wrote: > > "Karsten M. Self" écrivait/wrote: > > Debian/stable is aimed at production systems: servers, embedded > > systems, dedicated-use sy

Re: when procmailrc is wacky, what happens to the mail?

2001-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
AILDIR/INBOX > > It must be something funky with my regexes. Do you have logging enabled? I won't pretend to understand everything procmail dumps to logs, but it certainly helps to have an audit trail. There's also a verbose option. You can also set a DebugBox to which all mai

Re: when procmailrc is wacky, what happens to the mail?

2001-08-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
ng all mail that had reached a certain point in filtering to a single mailbox. I had to go into it and clean things out. You might check your folders for one that's swollen noticeably recently. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't

Re: Question about the GPL

2001-08-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
gnu.misc.discuss, and the FSB (Free Software Business: http://www.cyrnwr.com/fsb/) and license-discuss (http://www.opensource.org/) mailing lists are quite useful resources. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Re: off-topic - creative thinking about worms

2001-08-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
's to say it hasn't happened. Check the Down Jones average lately? -- 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: screen (as in program screen) question

2001-08-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
me? By way of general answer, read the Bash-Prompt HOWTO and think aliases or shell functions. -- 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: Netscape as root, sndconfig

2001-08-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:41:46AM +0100, Adam Bower ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:55:44AM +1000, Tony Bartholomaeus ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I recently installed Netscape Comm

Re: upgrading more then one box by downloading the files once!

2001-08-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 03:09:32AM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:04:49AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:46:59AM +0200, Arno Baier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > hi folks, > > > i h

Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

2001-08-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:27:57PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > > I see. That's why Debian is not in a rush to produce boot diskettes. It's > > not for people like us. > > No. > > Bootdisks aren't available yet because they

Re: upgrading more then one box by downloading the files once!

2001-08-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 07:10:49AM -0700, Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" writes: > > > To create a transparent cache, you'll create a NAT rule for your > > firewall to redirect INTERNAL traffic bound for EXTERNAL sites on PORT

Re: Netscape as root, sndconfig

2001-08-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
o run it as root and fully understands the risks he can explore the system on his own and figure it out. Given the context of his post, I felt the better response was to advise, strongly, against the activity. d-u isn't strictly a "how do I do foo" list. It's also a "try

Re: Suspicious behavior: cracked or just a dying machine?

2001-08-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
hat I seem to get at least once a day: > > Aug 14 17:38:43 nujoma /sbin/rpc.statd[257]: gethostbyname error for > ^X portmapper thing. Drop the packets with a firewall. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understa

exim

2001-08-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
= 0 open("/var/log/exim/paniclog", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND) = 4 fcntl(4, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 write(4, "2001-08-15 20:51:53 IPv6 socket "..., 66) = 66 close(4) = 0 _exit(1)

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
ling lists you are. I'll give *some* allowance on the last point for people who are clearly not native English speakers. I've spent some time in foreign lands (and even parts of New Jersey) where it's damned hard to understand or be understood, and can respect that. But if language is

Re: Perl warning in apt-get operations...

2001-08-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
; 'LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1' instead; it might be in your shell startup > scripts or something. I believe that's either incorrect and/or the bug reported is an oldish Perl problem. I remember dealing with something similar myself...lessee...I'd had "en-US" rather than the co

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1151

2001-08-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
the current Debian leader, reachable at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: I've cc:ed Michael directly. -- 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: Can't remove block special file

2001-08-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
assume it's only > in lost+found because fsck put it there. Does it list as open using lsof? -- 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: Suspicious behavior: cracked or just a dying machine?

2001-08-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:01:38PM -0400, Andrew Perrin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:49:12AM -0400, Andrew Perrin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > Folks- > > > > > > I

Palm as serial terminal (was Re: Classic Windoze lockup while in X (Gnome))

2001-08-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
the best of terminals, but it works. For a quick system check and the ability to issue a "shutdown -r", it works. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-s

Re: exim

2001-08-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
p your computer for IPv6 > 2) downgrade to Exim 3.31 > 3) Compile Exim 3.32 without IPv6 support Running exim from /etc/inetd.conf w/o the -bp flag seems to work as well. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you unders

Re: exim

2001-08-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 01:46:04AM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:05:29AM -0500, Phil Brutsche ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > > > Under Sid, exim i

Window managers & destop environments (was: Re: Classic Windoze...)

2001-08-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
e wmaker largely exclusively), but recall it seemed to work pretty well. Have to generall agree that Sawfish makes a good GNOME WM. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal htt

Gtk font-encoding bug (was Re: dot-square font in E after dist-upgrade)

2001-08-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
es fonts. Another possible workaround is to change the collate sequence of fonts, such that the 8859 font is always listed prior to 10646. I'm not sure how to do this, and it appears from the debian-x thread that multiple encodings are coded in a single font specification. Anyone with

Re: Netscape as root, sndconfig

2001-08-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
ns why you > can't run netscape as root by default. At the risk of sounding > "holier than thou," you really don't have a clue what you're doing if > you feel the need to do normal user stuff as root. Consider Karsten's > advice before bitching abou

Re: low power PC

2001-08-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
bigger than the system. For normal ranges of economy, older Intel HW is less power-hungry than newer stuff. For storage, flash or whatever IBM's new 1-2GB disk-on-a-stick things are called. Otherwise, look at tset, xset, hdparm, and apm. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.ho

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
XF86v4), might look through your X server logs as 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.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Fre

Re: X over ssh

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
e server side. Post your SSH invocation and look at your daemon logs for connection attempts on the remote server. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.so

Re: Network keeps going down repeatedly

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
hangs > when the network is down. What may be wrong ? Logs say...? -- 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.kuro5h

Solved: Re: ntp: not synchronized?

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 09:26:02AM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) spake thusly: > ... > > > > Would that be port 123 then? What port am I communicating on locally? > > > > And, if I'm NATting my

Re: X over ssh

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:13:34PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:39:27AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:23:19AM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > | > > | > This isn't really Debian related, but I

Re: X exits into unreadable screen

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:10:37PM -0400, Brian Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:54:21AM -0400, Brian Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > >>Hello, > >> > >>When I drop down to a

Re: Home & End keys not working in xterm

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
have the same effect in emacs shell mode, and if you remap your keyboard properly (swap ), it's quite easy to reach. > (sorry about the msg being sent twice, my MUA was misconfigured) Accepted. We've called off the goon squad. ;-) -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netco

Re: abiword: can't load fontset

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
amically adds the > AbiSuite font directory to your X Window System display server font > path before running the executable. > > I believe I am running the wrapper script... I'm running 'abiword' just > like I always have. Any ideas? FAQ: http://www.abiw

Re: Network keeps going down repeatedly

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 05:17:43AM -0500, BT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:14:30PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 02:52:53AM -0500, BT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am on debian unstable. After the las

Re: Silly mutt/debian list question

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
consist of nothing but the post ID. # Mailbox index default: set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15F (%4l) %s" # ...and sent folder-hook !sent set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%4l) %s" folder-hook sent set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-

Re: Silly mutt/debian list question

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:10:55PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > I've been experimenting with "subscribe" (had previously used "lists"), > and am trying to use folder-hooks to set index_foramt, but the following > settings are generat

Re: How can I make a bootable, Woody, base-only cd?

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
: http://lnxbbc.org/others.html 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 Dmitry! Boy

Re: packages needed for basic X install?

2001-08-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
rk out the rest of the dependencies from the package description itself. You can view this with 'dpkg -s ', or by unarchiving the .deb with 'ar'. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Re: XF86Setup in Woody?

2001-08-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
cards (I found that some cheap SIS sets don't work with the SVGA driver). You'll generally need the SVGA driver, plus any additional X server you intend to use for your card, if any. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't

Re: monitor with alphabetic-soup.

2001-08-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
7;t help, > even had this alphabet-soup in the bios!!! Swap your monitor and/or video cards (both if possible) and isolate the problem to one or the other. Consider the possibility of a bad monitor cable. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of &q

Re: monitor power saving mode?

2001-08-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
gt; like to have the monitor auto-shutoff after some time. > > Does such a thing exist for linux? I've seen packages > for managing UPS's but I'm not sure if I need any of > that... setterm (console) xset (X11) xscreensaver (incorporates DPMS c

Re: fetchmail upgrade problem

2001-08-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
n error code (1) Check the fetchmail preinst and postinst install scripts under /var/lib/dpkg/info. See if you can isolate the lines checking for these files. This may be a packaging bug. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't

Re: adduser/group hanging....

2001-08-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
't work: they hang after saying that they are > performing the job, and never come back. $ strace adduser -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-s

Re: Partition Numbers

2001-08-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
s in partition check > > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 > > hda3: > > so basicly the freebsd and logical numbers get switch. > > I have to use these numbers to mount partitions or format partitions. > > Does anyone know why the partitions number

US/non-US (was Re: Debian)

2001-08-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
s, which allow distributing strong crypto in source form, or in binary form if source is available, are strictly only the current regulatory interpretations of the US Department of Commerce. The rules could be changed on a moments notice by executive action, there's no legislation or law th

Re: Dselect blues (a.k.a. how-to start a riot)

2001-08-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
earch utility at the Debian website). Ask on list if you're stuck trying to find a particular package or resolve some odd issue. In general though, it's a good idea to know what you have (dpkg --show-selections), what you want, and what you don't want. -- Karsten M. Self

Re: Abiword font problem

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
s been reported and there's an open bug #64365. I've also seen related issues with printing -- I'm getting boxes rather than text on all printed output under Abiword 0.9.0-0.1 (on testing). I know the maintainer and am forwarding him a message (it's not Darren, BTW). -- Kar

Re: Strange system lockups.

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
ccounting utility (I'm trying to find it, think it's the 'acct' package) which logs the start of every command executed on the system. I've found this more useful as a debug tool than for accounting per se. You also don't specify your memory and swap co

Re: Dselect blues (a.k.a. how-to start a riot)

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:54:07PM +0200, Sándor Bárány ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > In general though, it's a good idea to know what you have (dpkg > > --show-selections), what you want, and what you don't want. > >

Re: fd0/fd1H1440 "not configured"

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
e device isn't > configured. I've tried removing and remaking fd0 and then making the > symlink again but I get the same result. I can still mount fd0 just > fine, and read/write from it. Does anyone know what the issue might > be? $man MAKEDEV -- Karsten M. Self

Re: Logging

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
To (re)start: $ /etc/init.d/klogd restart $ /etc/init.d/sysklogd restart 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/ ht

Re: Why so big?

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
l rank all files and directories in the current directory by space utilization. Pipe to pager, file, or 'head' if it scrolls off screen. Descend through larger trees for more details. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
rm -f "\\-\\-remove\\-files" > rm -f "\-\-remove\-files" > rm -f '\\-\\-remove\\-files' > rm -f '\-\-remove\-files' > > all with the same lack of success! > > any assist in this would be most appreciated. Yet another solu

Re: Strange system lockups.

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:07:33PM -0700, Kamil Kisiel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On August 20, 2001 12:54 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:00:53PM -0700, Kamil Kisiel > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Note that caching and high disk use are two sep

Re: trouble with apt-get update

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
source.list??? The message usually means you can't resolve the host. I think you want http.us.debian.org, though I'm not sworn to that. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5

Re: Console dead after update

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
another > machine and was working fine before the update so I know it's not the > keyboard. What's in /etc/rc2.d/ ? -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5

Proxies, transparent and otherwise, ports to use. (was Re: upgrading more than one box...)

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:02:22AM +0200, "Jürgen A. Erhard" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>>>> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: > >>>>> "Dave" == Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dave> Al

Re: got galeon downloaded but...

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
and now I cannot even get 'startx' to work. > > At one point in the install, it mentioned something about locale.gen > concerning fonts. Run (as root) /usr/sbin/locale-gen Log output of startx and post it to list. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/

Re: menu_update vs. .twmrc

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
for raising and lowering > windows, etc. They're under your middle mouse button. Button two, mouse wheel, or chorded L&R buttons on a two-button mouse. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand

Re: trouble with apt-get update

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 08:44:45PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 01:00:42AM -0700, hilsy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm getting the following error message (repeated many times) when > > trying to run apt-get updat

Re: potato - can't save to floppy, no matter what I try

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
tab floppy line is what? Post output of following. $ grep fd0 /etc/fstab $ mount | grep fd0 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.sourcefor

Re: Console dead after update

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:34:25PM +1000, Darren Marsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > >on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:10:49PM +1000, Darren Marsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >wrote: > > > >>I updated from the testing tree 2 days ago and after all

Re: Console dead after update

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:01:33PM +1000, Darren Marsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > >on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:34:25PM +1000, Darren Marsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >wrote: > > <...> > >>The only way I can think of to fix this i

Junkbuster proxy/website content (was Re: upgrading more then one box by downloading the files once!)

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 08:52:03AM -0500, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:02:22AM +0200, "J?rgen A. Erhard" wrote: > > >>>>> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: > > >>>>> "Dave" ==

Re: got galeon downloaded but...

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
ients Is the package installed? Is /usr/X11R6/bin and/or /usr/bin/X11 on your PATH? -- 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/ ht

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
16 kernel-source-2.2.17: 13768 17 libc6: 12564 18 abiword: 11601 19 xserver-xfree86: 11372 20 xlibs-dev: 11248 I'd suggest *not* posting your entire package selection to list in future. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of &

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:58:00PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:16PM +0100, P Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > My apologies for sending an attachemnt but it is only 4.1 k. This is my > > installed list. >

Re: XDM

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
Thanks a bunch. http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.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.sourceforge.net/ http://

Re: Upgrade

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 04:23:06PM -0400, GECOS ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there any way to upgrade to a higher version of debian ? I always get > lost in `dselect' or `apt-get' . Greg man sources.list -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
27;m seeing this one all the way throughshould work this time. The script takes a few minutes (5-10) to run. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt

Re: Mounting MS-DOS on bootup.

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
th this? Thanks. Add them to your /etc/fstab with 'auto' mount options. -- 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: Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:52:54AM +0200, Johnny Morano ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wednesday 22 August 2001 00:18, Karsten M. Self wrote: > (-) > $ dpkg --get-selections | > (-) > grep ' install' | > (-) ^^^ > (-) This should

Re: ssh refuses connections

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
m similar to this one once and IIRC, that fixed it. Postfix response, please. > I don't have that in there. In hosts.deny it's ALL:ALL, and in > hosts.allow it's > ALL: 192.168.1.*. sshd respects /etc/hosts.(allow|deny) directives, even though it's n

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:17:32AM +1000, Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>>>> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: > > Karsten> $ find . -type f -name '--remove-files' -exec rm -f > Karsten> {} \; > > If it wer

Re: loading Galeon seems to have killed X

2001-08-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
1R6/bin and usr/bin/X11 and startx is not even shown. Please stop posting HTML to this list. Is the package xbase-clients installed? startx is part of this package. Check with: dpkg -s xbase-clients ...if it *is* installed, you've managed to lose files, which is not a good thing. -- K

Re: how to make exim run queue only when ppp link is up?

2001-08-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
eouts. I've looked at diald from time to time but never actually configured it. -- 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:

vnc, wdm, xinetd, and pam: can't log in

2001-08-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
pam_unix.so -------- -- 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 A

Re: Mounting MS-DOS on bootup.

2001-08-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:31:31PM -0700, Andrew Agno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self writes: > > Add them to your /etc/fstab with 'auto' mount options. > > Which might catch the msdos file system instead of the vfat (Win95/98) > filesystem module.

Re: how to make exim run queue only when ppp link is up?

2001-08-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:51:41AM +0100, Stig Brautaset ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self spake thus: > > on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:21:19AM +0100, Stig Brautaset ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Diald keeps bringing up the link on request from exim. I

Re: How to get a list of minimal Potato packages

2001-08-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
| grep '^Package:' | awk '{print $2}' | sort -u What's your specific need or goal? There *are* micro-GNU/Linux distributions out there fitting various goals. Tom's Root/Boot and the new LNX-BBC project are probably two of the best and best known. -

Re: How to get a list of minimal Potato packages

2001-08-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
p if: - Something you need is removed via dependencies (cancel the action, you'll be safe). - Something breaks -- in which case, don't remove that. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Re: modems and linux

2001-08-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
, model number, and/or chipset. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3804681864.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.sourceforge.net/ h

Re: Multiple X servers?

2001-08-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
o be the first server argument: $ startx -- : - You can also set up lines in the Xservers file of your X display manager -- [xwgk]dm. Hmm...I'm finding that startx doesn't respect my server specification. but xinit does. Odd. Investigate this (I'm using testing here), may b

Re: How to set default home for all users of Mozilla?

2001-08-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
hentication. -- 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 Adobe! Repeal the DMCA!http:/

Re: using different mailfolders in mutt

2001-08-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
> > or exim filters, if you're averse to klingonese -- That's *NOT* klingonese, it's Vogon. Poetry, that is. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://ge

Re: apt-get galeon q

2001-08-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
n't a bad pick for a desktop system. Yes, it breaks from time to time, but usually gets fixed in short order. Oh. And Galeon rocks ;-) -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There

Re: HP and Linux

2001-08-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
a distinct lack being impressed. Why? -- 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 Adobe

Re: Multiple X servers?

2001-08-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:49:36AM -0500, Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Lo, on Friday, August 24, Karsten M. Self did write: > > > --kunpHVz1op/+13PW > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Disposition: inline > > Content-Trans

Re: sid images

2001-08-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
ces.list files, and do a dist-upgrade. -- 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 Ad

Re: File Manager for wmaker

2001-08-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
ou want the WinodwMaker look'n'feel. I usually just use the shell, sometimes mc. -- 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: adding multiple users, newuser? and vim

2001-08-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
) } Save that as newusers.awk and make it executable. Invoke with: $ ./newusers.awk < userlist ...where userlist is as you specify. If you provide passwords as a third field, you can modify the script to genera

Re: default browser

2001-08-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
o view inline links in mutt. The programs utilized are specified in /etc/urlview/url_handler.sh, in the section marked "Configurable Section". -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no

Re: Problem with the installaion of debian locking up

2001-08-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
t; 52X CD-ROM (it works fine booting the CD's for Debian) > Debian Linux 2.2.19pre17, kernel-image-2.2.19pre17_2.2.19pre17-1 > D-Link DFE-530 TX PCI fast ethernet adapter > Epson 777 printer, new (uses USB port or parallel, but it doesn't > matter > if it is plugged in or not,

Re: apt-get download size

2001-08-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
seen it quite often. Possibly: you're updating a package. There are 24MBs to download, but after replacing the existing package version, there's only a 1.5MB delta. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Re: Remounting / read-only

2001-08-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
w can I check on this? $ cat /proc/mounts The data used by mount to show currently mounted partitions and status comes from /etc/fstab, which can't be updated when / is readonly ;-) -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don

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