On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 11:43:11PM +0200, Leo Mignemi wrote:
> unsubscribe
>
>
> --
> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Somebody does this about once a day. Is it possible to change the
instruction footer to something less cryptic?
Rob
--
It's later than you
On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 10:53:52AM +1300, lanz wrote:
> Please explain in layman terms ...
> -
> ( I have read all faq's/howto etc)
>
>
> Example
>
>
> A system with a 2 GB hardrive and following partitions.
>
> 1) 25 mb > dos/fat1
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 09:58:02PM -0600, jh wrote:
>
> One other question: I am logged on in root. Can someone give me something
> to type along with a brief description of what it does? I want to see Linux
> in action.
>
I would suggest
16:16 ~ $ cd /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/
16:17 /usr/share/doc
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 01:16:10PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
> I tried that, and it sends to the list and the *recipient* of the message,
> not the sender.
>
> Do you know how to get it to reply to the sender, instead of the
> recipient?
>
>From /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz:
I think I must be missing something incredibly obvious here. My cdrom
won't play audio CDs under the 2.2 series kernel; I get kernel errors
output like the attached. I can mount data CDs just fine. I just
checked my old 2.0.34 kernel, and it played audio and mounted data
both.
I built a 2.2.1
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 11:59:56AM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> I think I must be missing something incredibly obvious here. My cdrom
> won't play audio CDs under the 2.2 series kernel; I get kernel errors
> output like the attached. I can mount data CDs just fine. I just
> chec
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 01:34:44PM -0500, Alec Smith wrote:
> Try downloading the 2.2.13 ide patch from your favorite kernel.org
> mirror. They're under /pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick -- Andre Hedrick is
> the IDE maintainer. You'll want to enable the option that's listed right
> under IDE CD-ROM
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 01:45:35AM +0100, Philip Lehman wrote:
>
> word to a paragraph or deleting some words I miss a convenient way to
> re-justify the whole paragraph, something like hitting ^J in Pico.
>
M-q
--
A well-known friend is a treasure.
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 06:56:35AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> How should I mount a win9* system, so that I can read the full file name
> without the funny ~1 thing?
> I have tried "mount -t msdos ", but this truncates the name to *~1.
Try mount -t vfat .
Rob
--
You know, Callahan's i
One of my friends reminded me that hdparm works on ATAPI drives too.
It turns out that the CD-ROM was going to sleep and not waking up
properly. hdparm -S 0 /dev/cdrom fixed the problem.
Will I break anything by adding this to /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh?
Rob
--
How many priests are needed for a B
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 04:58:41PM -0800, Howard Mann wrote:
>
> This is obviously very frustrating. Is the upgrade
> process in Debian - using apt-get I presume -
> generally easier ?
Holy moly, yes.
>
> I'll move to Debian if accomplishing updates/
> upgrades is simpler and more reliable.
>
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 02:51:42AM +, Keith Harbaugh wrote:
> Can anyone explain the following behavior:
>
> $ tty
> /dev/tty0
> $ script
> Script started, file is typescript
> $ tty
> /dev/pts/0
>
>
> And, what is a good reference to all this pty and pts stuff?
>
Looks like you upgraded t
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 01:36:26PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 01:11:34PM -0500, Ian Stirling wrote:
> > "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" wrote:
> >
> > > I think it is a bad idea to call it `debian gimp'. If you do that you
> > > suggest that debian has a heavily modified, enhanced v
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 09:48:16PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote:
> > ps: just kidding folks. don't take me seriously on this one. Tux (my
> > server) is safe.
>
> Would it be off-topic of me to ask if anyone else has named their Linux
> systems? Mine was called Debby Anne and now I've shortened it
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 07:24:01AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
> I thought it was part of the script's syntax. (hmm.. what an
> enlightenment...)
>
> Oki
18:39 ~ $ which [
/usr/bin/[
18:39 ~ $ type [
[ is a shell builtin
How strange. I can't get dpkg to find what package provides the
binary, either.
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:55:00PM -0600, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I upgraded to licq 0.7.1 on my potato box today. I didn't receive any
> error messages, but licq won't run now.
>
> When I try to run it I get:
>
> "Illegal instruction"
>
> Anyone know what might be wrong?
>
> TIA
>
I'm writing a LaTeX document that contains two very similar tables
which I would like to have side-by-side to accent their similarity:
--- ---
| table 1 | | table 2 |
| | | |
--- ---
caption 1
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 11:33:34AM +, Jose Marin wrote:
>
> Just use the minipage environment for each of the tables. Do something
> like this: (for instance)
>
> \begin{minipage}{0.4\textwidth}
> \begin{table}[t]
> \begin{center}
> \begin{tabular}[]{}
> % Table
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:44:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> Debian guarentees that everything in it's main distribution is free, which
> makes preprending -free to package names quite pointless. The gimp package
> suggests gimp-nonfree, which means that if you use dselect or any other
> reasona
That worked quite nicely, thank you. Also, if I put my \label and
\caption between \end{tabular} and \end{center}, I can have separate
captions on the tables, like I wanted. Awesome. Thanks a lot.
Rob
--
"Just the facts, Ma'am"
-- Joe Friday
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 12:11:26AM -0500, Mike Werner wrote:
> I'm not sure what happens if, for instance, one user was to startx from,
> say, VC 1 and then another user, for example root, was to do startx from
> another VC. Would that start another X on VC 8? I think I'll have to try
> that next
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:56:03AM -0800, aphro wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Onno wrote:
>
> ebbin2 >However, the quality differences are only noticeable
> ebbin2 >by -very- high trained professionals or with oscilloscopes.
>
> i cant tell the diff between 96kbps (what i use on my rio) and 128kb
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 10:25:13AM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
>
> just out of curiousity, why are you trying to kill kerneld?
>
> are you trying to set kmod properly?
>
> if yes, could someone provide sample docs/configuration
> for kmod? The only info i was able to find is
> 1K file in kerne
I used to be able to run netscape fine, but recently it's started
giving me an error at startup like:
""
Warning: the following hosts are unknown:
home.netscape.com
home6.netscape.com
internic.net
This means that some or all hosts will be unreaachable.
Perhaps there i
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 04:38:19PM +0100, 952618ae wrote:
> HELLO
>
> I wanted to ask if there was an adress where i could find the man pages
> as tekst
> and other info about how to use the commands like sort,cut,etc.
I think there's a man option that will let you output them in various
formats
On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 11:20:09PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
> Anyone know how to get mutt to automatically delete messages after a
> certain age, preferrably only if the entire thread has been inactive for
> that time (I like to archive active threads).
I have this in my .muttrc. It'
On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 03:09:49AM +0100, luis wrote:
>
> (how) can i power on a remote machine (via internet) using a modem ?
>
Wouldn't the machine have to be on to listen to the modem ring?
You might find (or build) a smart answering-machine kind of device
that could do this.
Let me know
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 03:00:19PM +0200, Kovar Jan wrote:
> Connect the printer to Windows 98.
> Install drivers.
> Test printing.
> Unplug the printer and connect it to your linux box.
> Setup samba to see the printer from Windows 98 on your samba server.
> Go to printer settings in Windows 98
Hi all,
What's the perl command to convert a text file from DOS or unix
newline format to the macintosh newline format? (CR->LF?)
Copy to me, I'm not on the list. Thanks,
Rob
--
Dammit Jim, I'm an actor, not a doctor.
msg01899/pgp0.pgp
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:13:30PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-11 23:09:08 -0400]:
> > Copy to me, I'm not on the list. Thanks,
> > What's the perl command to convert a text file from DOS or unix
> > newline format to t
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:06:29PM -0500, Vadim Kutsyy wrote:
> I have dual boot, and when I tried to login back to Debian, key board
> doesn't respond. I can type selection in Lilo, and work in win2k, but as
> soon as I am getting to gdm screen, I can not type anything, ctr-alt-del and
> ctr-alt-
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:20:40AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote:
> Does anyone know how I can start from a terminal instead of gdm?
Hi Andy,
Boot into single-user mode (linux single at the lilo prompt) and
disable gdm from there.
Rob
--
Zymurgy's Law of Volunteer Labor:
People are alway
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 07:21:46PM -0800, Jason Winters wrote:
> What do I use to open a gz file?
gunzip(1) ?
--
I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
-- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 11:12:05AM -0700, Douglas Eck wrote:
> First, an easy question. Is there a simple way to get -idle to
> override -persistent. I want to redial until I get connected, but
> if I forget to log off, I want the modem to hang up after 15 minutes.
> This seems like a reasonble thi
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 09:48:25PM -0500, John Dalbec wrote:
> Where does one do this??
> Or does it require a friend with a fast connection and CD burner?
> John
Can't help you with finding one, but there's a caveat: I think the
reason that the potato release date got pushed back was the
install
Is there a program that will lock my text consoles for me if I'm idle
for a while? Something like:
while !KeyboardInterrupt /* nobody's typing */
sleep 5m /* OK, they're really gone forever */
clear
vlock --all
Or something. xlock with the timer but without the X.
Rob
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 05:32:05PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On 7/12/99 Rob Mahurin wrote:
>
> >
> >Is there a program that will lock my text consoles for me if I'm idle
> >for a while? Something like:
> >
> >while !KeyboardInterrupt /* nobody&#x
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 08:22:35PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On 7/12/99 Rob Mahurin wrote:
>
> >vlock' (which is not
> >really useful without the -a).
>
> which is annoying since -a is not very multiuser friendly, granted
> this is often not to big a problem
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 07:41:59AM -0800, aphro wrote:
> I find it useful to just run stuff in screen, then detach & logout when/if
> I need the machine secured. frees up the box for other people to use and
> at the same time keeps my process(s)( running. could leave for a month and
> they'd still
On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 08:06:40AM -0500, Evan Moore wrote:
> i found out why telnet is not working after i upgraded from debian 1.3 ...
> I can't login at all anymore even on a vc. the ttys are not respawning and
> the available logins tell me that they are Unable to determine my tty
> name. i am
On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 08:31:25AM +0100, Wacek Gocki wrote:
> Hi
>
> I want to update my server running with hamm to slink ...
> What's the safest way to do this ?
> I'd prefer not to use dselect, just update necessary
> libraries and installed software.
>
download and install apt, read the
On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 02:47:55PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I've been using RedHat for about eight months, but I'd like to switch
> to Debian. Is there any easy way to do this, or is it going to be a
> painful transition? Also, what's the best way to go about installing
> Debian? I
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 11:46:39AM +0800, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
[...]
> ->
>
> e) our recommended solution wold be to install traceroute in bin (i already
> repored that as an error half year ago)
>
> BUT
>
> f) our recommended solution would break scripts which use a hardwired
> /usr/sbin to t
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 03:56:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 1/7/2000 12:56:05 PM Central Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > while it's a good habit to demand successful umounts before removing
> > media, remember that it IS a cdROM after all. You're cer
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 05:17:36PM -0800, Mike Z. wrote:
>
> All I really need is an ftp server (I like wu for various reasons) on a
> stable system. Why is it that simply upgrading the ftpd would throw my
> setup into an 'unstable' version? Is this likely to be a problem whenever
> I install re
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 06:20:18PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:58:06 -0800, "Karsten M. Self"
> wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > It's not for older/slower boxen though. I'd recommend *NO LESS* than a
> > PII-233, and think you'll be happier with a PIII-600+ CPU. For memory,
> > 1
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 08:52:36PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Due to a faulty fan, one CPU overheated and brought the system down. On
> > restart, fsck indicated that some filesystem corruption occured.
> >
> > On startup, gdm would not start.
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:30:27AM +1100, David Wiener wrote:
> I have a dual-boot system and use MatLAb 5.3 Student version in windows. I
> was unaware of the linux version. Where did you get it from?
My CD has both versions on them & said "Windows and Linux" prominently
on the box. However, I t
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:26:14PM +0200, Patrizia Canton wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to Debian and to Linux,
> after installing it, I mounted many times the cdrom
> with no problems. Today I tried to install apt
> and, when I was requested to select the install source for apt,
> I was not able to cont
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 08:54:44AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> when typing at an xterm, my backspace key works (it rubs out the last
> character) but my left arrow key doesn't (it doesn't move the cursor to the
> left by one).
>
> i know there's a way to fix this, but searching man pages tur
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 12:22:56PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Rick Rezinas writes:
> > For low voltage work (like with static ectricity),...
>
> "Static Electricity" is _high_ voltage.
To quantify: air conducts electricity (draws a spark) when the
electric field is stronger than 3x10^6 volts/me
Hello,
I am trying to set up public-key authentication between a SunOS box
("larry") running ssh2 and a dialup Debian box ("peon") running potato
with OpenSSH 1:2.5.2p2-1 compiled from sid. From larry, the SunOS box,
I can do "ssh peon" without being prompted for a password; however,
running "ssh
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:19:16PM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> On peon I have:
> .ssh/config containing PubkeyAuthentication yes
> and IdentityFile $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa
Answered my own question: I needed to have the line
"Iden
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 08:07:43AM +0200, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> I have a great many text files I have to convert from Linux to DOS
> format. I tries recode by hand once but it took hours. There has to be an
> automatic way.
You should try todos and fromdos in the sysutils package.
> I tried the
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 07:35:54PM +0200, A. L. Meyers wrote:
> So now my libc6 is .17 (should be .13 according to dpkg error message)
> and is trashed. When trying to correct using e. g. "apt-get -f install"
> I only get: "ldconfig missing". The install scripts exit.
Try manually getting the vers
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 12:05:25PM -0800, Jim Richardson wrote:
> > Wait til you type 'shutdown -h now' on the workstation in front of you
> > and nothing happens, then from the other room (where all the servers
> > are...) you hear, "Hey! What the [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> >
> Or do the same thing
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 01:01:08PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> Rob> Hello, I am trying to set up public-key authentication
> Rob> between a SunOS box ("larry") running ssh2 and a dialup
> Rob> Debian box ("peon") running potato with OpenSSH 1:2.5.2p2-1
> Rob> compiled from sid. From
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 11:11:08PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > OK, the names and IP addresses of the other networks/hosts have been
> > changed. mail.foo.com is hop right before reaching my mail server
> > (spider.morgul.net). The thing is, mail.foo.com is the open relay, but
> > exim is on
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 09:39:03PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote:
> I had similar problems with the mouse. I solved it by uninstalling gpm.
Not sure what the original question was, but I'd recommend against
this if possible; you'll want gpm if X ever breaks and you find
yourself needing to cut and pa
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 05:33:42PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
> is it ok when acripts start with #!/bin/bash even if they shouldn't ?
[...]
> echo -ne "blahblah\n"
> to
> echo "blahblah"
>
> (wtf do we need the first?)
It took me a second to see your point here; echo -ne "\n" is pretty s
I bet that your /var/ directory is on /dev/hda, and when something
needs to write to a log file it has to wake that drive up.
/dev/hdc is probably just /home or /usr/local or something else that
doesn't get accessed so often, so it doesn't wake up as frequently.
Try sleeping hdc and then trying t
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:09:14PM +0200, Gary Jones wrote:
> Okay, exim has confused me again. I've just set up procmail, per that
> app's documentation. Now exim says
>
> 2001-04-02 22:13:59 14kAi7-5E-01 ** |exec /usr/bin/procmail
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D=userforward T=address_pipe: "exec"
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:07:12AM -0300, Sergio E . Schvezov wrote:
> well rob, your right, i've got /dev/hda5 mounted on /var.
Score!!
> okay here's what i want to know, is there a way to force it into suspend
> state?
> or not 2 make it write to /var when it's in that mode (suspend)
I played
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:12:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> not quite sure who to blame on this one, x? kernel? star office?
>
> whenever I start up star office installer, machine bombs.
>
> if I export my display from remote host -> troubled box and run star
> office from remote host, t
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:36:00AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:44:02AM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove ([EMAIL
> PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Juergen Fiedler wrote:
> > >
> > > The only time this happened to me was when the partition that contains
> > > /tmp
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:18:10AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote:
> All that an undelete would involve (as I currently see it) is:
>
> 1. Have rm move files to a "waste basket" instead of deleting them
> outright.
>
> 2. After files have been in the waste basket a certain length of time,
> say 5 day
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:16:25PM -0400, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm wrote:
> >= Original Message From "Karsten M. Self" =
> >on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 04:28:45PM -0400, Cyanide Morgoth Calcuterm
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> >> > - OK, you don't have a backup system. Buy a DAT drive
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:05:16AM +0100, Dave Whiteley wrote:
> I presume that this is a one off fix. You need to do it each time you
> su?
>
> On 11-Apr-2001 Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > Instead, as root:
> >
> > $ xauth -merge ~$user/.xauthority
> >
> > ...for appropriate values of $user.
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:05:43AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
> Seems to me that there is a problem for real newcomers with the docs -
> for the very reasons that make them so useful to those who know their way
> around a little. So much variety, so little time.
>
> What might help is a daily p
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:03:01PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> It is titled "The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e, or LaTeX2e in
> 90 minutes". (It appears that the time has changed in various
> editions of the doc)
The number of minutes printed on the cover is actually the number of
pages in the d
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 03:33:13PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> Ditto. The list has enough volume as it is without adding an extra
> mail every day. Sending it to new subscribers (or on-demand) sounds
> like a good idea. I would also recommend making it fairly easy to
> find on the signup/archive web p
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:22:42PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:37:39PM -0500, Tim Kelley wrote:
>
> > Try telnetting directly to the smtp server on localhost and on the
> > ISP and try to send a message, this will help diagnose the problem.
> > If this works, then the p
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 01:16:32AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> I've never been able to figure out how to get the vncserver to act like
> a regular X server, serving both the local display and the remote
> display. Instead, I've only been able to get the regular X server to
> serve the local displa
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:43:49PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote:
> In particular, I
> think Debian is missing a broad introduction, something that would be
> read prior to the installation guide, and a "now what" guide to follow
> the installation.
>
> Some of the things to include in the intro would
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:48:27PM -0400, Shawn D'Alimonte wrote:
> On Friday 13 April 2001 22:23, D-Man wrote:
> > I think my desktop qualifies as "cheap" ($, I only paid ~$400)
> > because I bought some parts and kept some others. It is a Duron 750
> > with 128MB RAM. If I get that drive I will
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 03:35:38PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote:
> Hi All,
> I've been playing around with NIS and NFS and now my system hangs for
> about four minutes on shutdown. It goes along OK until it gets to:
>
> Deconfiguring network interfaces:
>
> then stalls and after four minutes shut
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:55:52AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> Then I sent three test messages: one using xfmail (which is working
> again), one using netscape and one using the mail-command from the
> console.
>
> As user hs I did a mailq with the following result: ...
> As root I did a mailq: .
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:26:11AM +0200, Andrzej Swedrzynski wrote:
> mouse. It works great under gpm, but doesn't want even to move in
> X. I selected PS/2 as a mouse protocol and /dev/psaux for device
> (it works for gpm). What can I do now?
Try reading the repeated data from /dev/gpmdata. Yo
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 12:28:18PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote:
> There wouldn't be a whole lot of original content on this site I was
> thinking of. All the documentation is already out there; it's just so
> scattered around and difficult to find unless you know where to look.
> This site would hop
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 06:23:44PM -, Robert wrote:
> When I
> % mount /cdrom
> the entire system hangs/freezes/crashes and I have to hit the reset button
> to reboot.
I had something like this happen to me when I tried to mount a floppy
that I had ejected without umounting (whoops). Is it al
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:51:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> the point releases don't tend to get annouced, or at least right away
> since they are really quite boring.
That's funny, I got an announcement through the debian-announce
mailing list.
Rob
--
Neglect of duty does not cease, by rep
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 08:48:22PM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote:
> I have an iso image of 2.2r2 binary 1, built using the pseudo-image kit.
>
> Q: Can I loop mount this puppy and use rsync to convert it to 2.2r3
>binary 1?
I converted a 2.2r1 image to 2.2r2 by using rsync on the file
directly, a
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:06:33AM -0700, JC Portlock wrote:
> YOU ARE ROOT!! on jchammin
> /mnt pts/4> chmod 777 floppy
It's a shame that you've solved your problem; now I don't have an
excuse to tell you that this is a great root prompt.
Rob
--
Cynic, n.:
Experienced.
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:19:11PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:01:24PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:05:43AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
> > > What might help is a daily post to the list with a subject line
> > &
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:05:32PM -0600, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote:
>
> > Not that there aren't some men out there with real lives, of course.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install real-life
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:48:55AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > It's a shame that you've solved your problem; now I don't have an
> > excuse to tell you that this is a great root prompt.
>
> Not half bad. My own approach is slightly more subtle, but reasonably
> effective:
Here's mine, whil
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:34:05PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i have logcheck installed on a few systems. i cleared out most
> of the things generating the reports but..it still emails me
> every hour and the only contents of the email are the log entries
> of it sending the previous email(m
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:32:20PM +1000, Price, Tim wrote:
> Regardless,
>
> Is it possible to do?
>
> I ask because I am running a potato system with many packages from woody,
> and some security packages take longer to get into testing then they do to
> get into stable.
I've heard that the mo
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:14:45PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:07:30AM -0700, JC Portlock ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > On Friday 20 April 2001 02:03 am, Felicity wrote:
> > > unsubscribe
>
> > Try again with "unsubscribe" in the subject line.
>
> Nope.
>
> St
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:12:58PM -0700, Lang Hurst wrote:
> I added users to halt and reboot, respectively, by making the formers login
> shell /sbin/halt and the latter's /sbin/reboot.
Neat idea; if I rebooted more often I might try it.
> If I login as the halt user, the system shuts down and
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:59:08PM -0700, Alex Swavely wrote:
> What file(s) would I need to backup to get a complete snapshot of all
> installed packages from the distribution I'm using in order to be able to
> recover a system to it's previous state?
My nightly backup includes
/home
/root
/etc
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:12:12AM +0200, Hans wrote:
> I think you shouldn't mix apt-get with dselect, but I'd like to hear some
> comments on this. Or maybe use deselect to make choices and use upt-get
> dselect-upgrade, but I haven't tried if this works.
Erm ... dselect and apt-get are both fro
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:15:40PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote:
>
> Anyone know of a method to easily solve this ...
>
> I *sometimes* list the files before deleting them:
>
> ls A*.pdf
>
> Ensuring I have only listed the ones I wish to delete, I then enter:
>
> rm A*.pdf
>
> Great,
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:08:30PM +1000, Mark Mackenzie wrote:
> I do ps->eps conversions using:
>
> echo -n '\004' | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=epswrite \
> -sOutputFile=box.eps box.ps >/dev/null
>
> using box.ps below. When box.ps is printed, it comes out as a 1mm thick
> 1" box (quite dark). Wh
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:06:26AM -0500, Rob Zietlow wrote:
> Hi there, I am looking for suggestions of a GUI email program (sorry i
> just like them better).
That's what I thought, until I tried mutt.
Rob
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:05:07PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a .procmailrc and am filtering, but now I don't want to have to
> delete my messages when they get old in certain mbox files.
>
> Can I run procmail with another conf file and have it send messages with a
> "delivered" d
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:02:53AM -0700, paul wrote:
> EMAIL PROCESSING COMPANY LOOKING FOR EMAIL PROCESSORS IMMEDIATELY,
> TO SUSTAIN EXPLOSIVE GROWTH. EARN $5,000- $10,000.00 AND
> MORE MONTHLY. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. SEND AN EMAIL TO
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] WITH "EMAIL PROCESSOR" IN THE
> SUB
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:59:20PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote:
>
> i've run into a problem i've never seen before. when i execute
>
> /usr/bin/tvguide.pl > /www/htdocs/tvguide.inc
>
> from the commandline, it works perfectly. however, when i put
>
> 0,30 * * * * /usr/bin/tvguide.pl > /ww
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:02:11PM -0700, Steven E. Harris wrote:
> Where are these default colors defined in the Potato mutt package? I
19:55 $ ls -l /etc/Muttrc
-rw-r--r--1 root root 4183 Oct 29 07:13 /etc/Muttrc
19:55 $ grep color /etc/Muttrc
# colors
color hdrdefault cyan defau
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:15:08AM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:15:09PM +1000, Mark wrote:
>
> > I can't seem to figure out what the build-depends are. I tried doing
> > "apt-cache show hotplug", but it can't find it because I only have deb-src
> > pointing to test
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