On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:56:45PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Since mutt is based on the file system, groups with lots of mail tend
> to overwhelm it--opening, closing, and sorting the boxes gets
> sluggish.
Eh?
-*-Mutt: =debian-user [Msgs:6445 New:39 Inc:2
22M]---(threads/date)--(92%)---
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:06:07AM +0200, Alberto Garc?a wrote:
> I am not able to download my email with fetchmail. I try to download being
> root and I configured it with fetchmailconf. It just picks the lists of
> emails, but fails to download them. What could be the problem.
> Thanks in advan
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:58:28AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> I've got a job I'd like to run once a month, on a set day of the week,
> say, the first Sunday of the month. Suggestions as to how to do this
> with cron?
>
> My understanding is that I can specify day of month, or weekday, but if
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:57:15PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote:
> beating around my thesis, i am trying several methods of including
> Xfig drawings in LaTeX. currently, i am using fig2dev to create .eps
> file, which I \psfig into the document. nevertheless, while the result
> is fine, mpage seems unabl
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:16:06AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Using debian on a stand-alone laptop I usually work as an ordinary user and
> find somewhat awkward the fact that I have to su in order to shutdown the PC.
> Is there a way to power my PC off as a user?
Use sudo.
Someone pos
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:34:25PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote:
> * Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-26 16:29 +0200:
> > > I have a shell script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ that synchronizes the system
> > > clock with time servers via rdate. Sometimes the servers can't be
> > > reached, and the
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:05:53PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:59:41AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> > -*-Mutt: =debian-user [Msgs:6445 New:39 Inc:2
> > 22M]---(threads/date)--(92%)---
>
> c'mon, now you KNOW you'll never go back
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:15:51PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> what *I* would like to know is -- is there a way to hilite
> messages in a newsgroup based on a score of some sort? how?
Yup, sure is. Interactively, I did
:score "~f [EMAIL PROTECTED]" 100
:color index white default "~n 100-"
Sur
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:21:38PM +0200, Matthieu Paindavoine wrote:
> I have noticed today that my page up/dn keys are not responding...
> In order to backtrace this problem, I would like to know if there exist
> a utility which echoes the codemap received by the keyboard driver, or
> any keyboar
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 12:19:26AM +1000, Mark wrote:
>
> What is the "KeyboardSignal"? Can you change it? Would that be a good idea?
10:41 $ dumpkeys | grep KeyboardSignal
alt keycode 103 = KeyboardSignal
See dumpkeys(1), loadkeys(1), and keymaps(5).
Rob
--
The story you are
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:41:04PM +0200, Alexander Steinert wrote:
> What's the fastest way to do this on the command line?
I do:
10:48 $ psselect -p _1 zeeman.ps > /dev/null
[8] Wrote 1 pages, 86473 bytes
Rob
--
It seems to make an auto driver mad if he misses you.
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:04:18PM +, Victor wrote:
> Any suggestion?
> I'm reproposing my previous message.
> By the way, when it all happened I was either root or sued from a user login.
> Vittorio
> -- Forwarded Message --
> Subject: Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:38:04AM -0800, Jeff wrote:
> Error: /invalidfont in findfont
> Operand stack:
> --nostringval--
> basefontdict
>
> So, I believe I have a font issue now. If you have some ideas on
> t
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:11:51AM -0800, Jeff wrote:
> Rob Mahurin, 2002-Jan-16 08:40 -0500:
> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:38:04AM -0800, Jeff wrote:
> > > Error: /invalidfont in findfont
> > > Operand stack:
> > >
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:04:20PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> True. But passing commandline args and editing fstab is still annoying
> behavior... ideally, if I had a new disk and reboot, _nothing_ should
> change with respect to my old disks.
In this case, wouldn't you just put the new disk a
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:40:22AM +0100, Pieter De Troyer wrote:
> I'm setting up a full nat for the first time.
> went through the howto and executed the example firewall rules.
> Alas... the script first checks the availability of the concerned
> kernel-modules. They are found, but I get errors
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 01:28:54PM -0800, Stonelx wrote:
> Hi,
> I tried this command:
>
> scp /etc/file remotehost:/etc/file &
>
> but when scp asks for the password, I'm actually
> back on the command line. (thus the scp command fails)
> Is there anyway around this? I would love
> to be able to
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 05:53:09AM -0800, Jeff wrote:
> Shawn Lamson, 2002-Jan-27 05:53 -0800:
> > You have to be kiddin' me; i spent $25 on a 35' cable, and stood there
> > while they made it and tested it... i figured that the cable from NIC
> > to aDSL modem must be crossover too, since the long
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:48:13PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just wanted to know, as a "normal" user (as in, not completely
> new, but no guru either), how hard would it be to move to woody, or
> sid?
>
> Is it not that difficult? giving the fact that i have a fair knowledge of
> "mov
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 12:14:35PM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on 30 Jan 2002 at 13:44):
>
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 11:01:27AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: >
> > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > >
> > ... gnome code bloat ... > > Like the man sa
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 03:04:41PM +0200, Iwan Mouwen wrote:
> * Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010428 23:09]:
> > 10:48 $ psselect -p _1 zeeman.ps > /dev/null
> > [8] Wrote 1 pages, 86473 bytes
>
> Shouldn't that be
> psselect -p - file.
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:55:11PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> I just had a power loss that brought down a Potato server. Is there any
> way to find out now what the uptime was prior to the unannounced shutdown?
I've installed "ud":
00:30 $ ud -d
- Uptime for peon -
Now : 97 day(s), 10:48:07 runn
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:20:52PM -0700, Forrest English wrote:
>
> 1. i tried to install win98 to play games
> 2. it decided it wouldn't get through the setup. locked 4 times.
> 3. so, i put in my debian cd
> 3. rescue root=/dev/hda5
> 4. it boots up, all good...
> 5. login, re-run lilo
> 6. lil
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:33:38PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote:
> On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 12:42:36PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> > Even if the application itself is free of buffer overflows and such you
> > would be granting root access to wads of unaudited and buggy library code.
>
> yeah, I guess y
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:43:08AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> > "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes:
>
> Karsten> Place your response *after* quoted material.
>
> Why?
Makes it read like a conversation. "Question? Answer!" makes more
sense to read than "Answer! Question?"
> I like to
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:47:32PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote:
> Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/05/2001 (11:50) :
> > Thanks, I'll try it.
>
> # apt-get install reportbug
[...]
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> reportbug: Depends: python-newt but it
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:15:36PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:12:51AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> > You should probably file a bug on the package, if it's not useable
> > without introducing a security risk. Perhaps someone more familiar
>
Hello, Viktor. I'm a little mystified as to why you CC'd this to me,
but here goes.
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:00:54PM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote:
> I got a crazy idea: if you want to make 100 % sure that you do not
> brake your production system, why don't you have an exact copy of
> that system
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:01:02PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote:
>
> I'm still seeing a problem. Have eliminated Emacs, by sending test
> messages with:
> $ echo "TEST" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> This time I've noticed that an email message will appear in mailq
> output immediately after usin
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:37:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I thought I had this worked out, but it doesn't seem to work quite how
> it should. Bascially I want to have mail with a certain subject piped
> into a .gz file in my ~/mail directory.
>
> Here is what I had in .procmailrc:
[...
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:54:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It would be really nice to be able to keep the debian-user list a little
> smaller and up to date on my system. How could I make mutt move old
> threads that have not had a reply in say 5 days into a gzipped file?
> This way I co
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:25:37PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:20:51PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> > Try "| gzip -c >> testing.gz".
>
> That still seems to not work when I sent a mail with Subject: gzip
> And I know the conditio
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 03:05:02PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have these variables set at the top of my .procmailrc
> PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
> MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # all mailboxes are in mail/
> LOGFILE=/dev/null
> SHELL=/bin/sh
I have /bin in my path.
02:47 $ which date
/bin/date
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:33:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have installed Suse 7.0, but want to shift to Debian 2.2. I have read
> installation manuals and FAQs regarding installing Debian, but have not
> found anything on this item.
There was a guy a couple years ago who upgraded a Re
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:39:30PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Well, damn, let's just throw them all out there:
>
> Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
[...]
> Emacs Makers Are Crazy Sickos
>
> Did I miss any?
Gracious, no: u've eliminated most all conceivable selections.
Rob
--
Old pr
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:07:09PM -0500, Benjamin Pharr wrote:
> I'm looking for a program to cache Setiathome packets, both incoming and
> outgoing. Does anyone know of any such program for Linux? If so, is it
> packaged for Debian? Thanks!
There are some ways to do this on the Setiathome s
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 08:50:53PM -0700, Steve Cooper wrote:
> The only issue I have with the X behavior is that I can't
> figure out to efficiently perform a replacement paste. E.g.
> If you want to paste a URL into a browser in Windoze you'd
> select the current URL and paste over it.
>
> In X
Hello,
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:14:55PM +0100, John Mylchreest wrote:
> This communication is private and confidential and
> is intended solely for the use of the named
> addressee(s). Access, copying or re-use of the
> information in it by any other person is not
> authorised by OCRA. If yo
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:58:45PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote:
> What are the "D"s next to some addresses but not others in this mailq
> output:
> 0m 2.3K 14wrw8-0003EP-00 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> D [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [...]
> D [EMAIL PROTECT
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:34:20AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> Sorry, I did not express myself clear enough. This sed thing changes
> every line in the "wget-script" script. This, I did easily with emacs
> (while sed is much more elegant). My problem is: I do not want to do
> hundreds of
> mv p
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:27:03PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> I can not tell program name by memory but there are one cpu load program
> in X (in potato) which display SMP load properly. It's the one with all
> information shown as horizontal bar graph with red/green/yellow for each
> cpu load/mem
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 02:39:46PM -0400, Paul Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Someone's been port-scanning me, checking only some high ports. Here are
> my relevant log entries:
>
>
> May 26 13:39:30 j001 ippl: port 37397 connection attempt from 216.136.179.238
> May 26 13:43:03 j001 ippl: port 37
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:50:50PM -0500, John Patton wrote:
> Is there a way to force apt-get to install downgraded
> packages? One or two packages are no problem... using dpkg
> works just fine with them. But how could you downgrade
> your system from testing to stable, for example? Is it
> even
Hello,
Under kernel 2.2.16 I can play CD audio normally; however, under
2.2.19 I get
14:58 tty1 $ cdir
unknown cd - 64:30 in 6 tracks
10:11.62 1
15:17.00 2
9:59.08 3
8:19.55 4
3:39.12 5
17:01.40 6
14:58 tty1 $ cdplay
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) re
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:54:46PM -0600, ray p wrote:
> Also I don't know
> how hard or easy to bring the version of SSH from Woody to Potato
> but that would give you SSH2.
It's very easy, just add an unstable (for sid, or testing for woody)
deb-src line as already mentioned in this thread and d
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:02:38PM -0600, Simmons-Davis wrote:
> Dear Debian Group,
>
> I would like to know exactly what purpose the source cds serve and who would
> need to use them. I will only be using Debian for things like word
> processing, email, the internet, etcetera and wouldn't be doin
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:27:43PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> "Steve R. Hastings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Corel is selling the whole WordPerfect Office suite, which includes
> > WordPerfect and Quattro Pro.
>
> Note that last I checked, there's no commitment to ongoing support of
> thi
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:42:23PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:56:23AM +0200, Santi B?jar wrote:
> >I try to get a list of all the .deb to be installed (with
> >--print-uris), but I have to do it like root. I thought that if I add
> > a "-o Debug::NoLocking=yes"
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:48:59PM -0400, Bill Witherspoon wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to re-run the X setup proggy that
> you get through dselect?
I think it's "XF86Setup", which is an absolutely stupid name.
Rob
--
hubub, hubub, HUBUB, hubub, hubub, hubub, HUBUB, hubub, hubub, hubub.
Hi Jenny W,
Please set your mailer to wrap long lines at about 70 characters.
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:44:46AM -0700, jennyw wrote:
> I started using Debian because folks suggested it was easy to
> maintain (e.g. apt-get). I really like apt -- it certainly makes
> installing and downloading th
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:59:53PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:42:23PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:56:23AM +0200, Santi B?jar wrote:
> > >I try to get a list of all the .deb to be installed (with
> > >--pr
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:15:10PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:55:37PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote:
> > will trillich wrote:
> > >
> > > BYCMUYJTCP
> > > (but you can alaways make up your own, just to confuse people.)
> >
> > And you can alaways make up words too :0)
>
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:32:53AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
>
> where stable rules. Maintenance then isn't 'tinker & reboot',
Shouldn't this be 'tinker ; reboot' ? If you use an ampersand your
tinkering will be backgrounded and get interrupted by the reboot
process.
Rob
--
The goys
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:47:05PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> it took me a while to figure out that "ssh" contains "sshd"
> whereas, say, "telnet" is the client and "telnetd" is the
> server. with "ssh" the package wonk put all pieces into the one
> package, so you get both client and server in
Hello,
Sorry for the non-linux question, but I haven't found an answer
elsewhere.
I have a functioning network of two Debian boxes, bravo (10.0.0.2) and
peon (10.0.0.1). bravo is capable of IP routing, forwarding, and
masquerading. peon has a fully-functioning TCP/IP connection with
bravo, an
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:02:53PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> Hi Rob...
> I would guess its a hardware issue
> Either the nic in the win9x box is flaky... or the cable or something
> Keep troubleshooting... do you have an extra nic or cable...?
Hmmm ... I took the card from one of the
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 09:15:02PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
>
> Maybe he's got two HURD boxen?
>
Nope, it's a windows question.
Rob
--
Dr. Livingston?
Dr. Livingston I. Presume?
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:48:45PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:37:07PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> | Sorry for the non-linux question, but I haven't found an answer
> | elsewhere.
> |
> | I have a functioning network of two Debian boxes, bravo (10.0.0.2)
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:46:21AM +0200, Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note wrote:
> just by chance ...
> did you put the masquerading box as the default gateway for the win98 machine
> ?
I've tried it with and without, although never while the masquerading
box was connected to the wider internet (m
Has anyone else been receiving multiple copies of some messages (like
those attached)? A glance at the headers shows that murphy.debian.org
sent this one four times to myrealbox.com.
Rob
--
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?
--- Begin Message ---
Hello patrick,
Sunday,
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:18:44PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:09:10AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> |
> | Here's a tcpdump | grep gow with the static IP, watching gow boot up.
> | [tcpdump]
>
> Apparently I don't have tcpdump on my system.
Packet
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:05:41PM -0700, David Nusinow wrote:
> It depends on which environment you're using.
> KDE: kmix
> Gnome: gmix
> Anything else: xmix
> I don't know of any console based ones, although I know they're out there.
aumix?
Rob
--
Do you like "TENDER VITTLE
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:55:21AM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:10:01AM -0500, rich wrote:
> > Howdy all,
> >
> > I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform
> > relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While
> > WP8 un
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:40:45AM -0500, ktb wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:02:53PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> > > what about duplexing? Is your nic set for half or full?
>
> There may be another way but I usually nab a utility program from the
> manufacturer and run a diagnostic on t
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 06:07:25PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:02:40AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> > You are wrong --- WP8 was natively written for Linux. It's WP9, aka
> > WP2000, that's run under wine, and wow is it horrible.
>
>
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:01:30AM -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote:
>
> Our SendMail server has been stopping with a SIGSEGV signal (SMTP-MAIL
> died on a signal 11). This is something that has never happened before. We
> upgraded about 2 months ago to potato and the server is running 8
df, ... with the [-- Autoview using ... --] header removed.
Maybe I've tried a trick that you haven't, or you get more
pathological messages than I do.
Rob
--
Rob Mahurin
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
University of Tennessee phone: 865 207 2594
Knoxville, TN 37996
particular
you are already writing valid plain TeX in your email. Copy the above
(without the >'s) into file.txt; change /'thinking'/ to {\it thinking}
and "saying" to ``saying''; type "pdftex file.txt" and "\end".
file.pdf looks like http://sn
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:11:31PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Rob Mahurin wrote:
> > I know you've settled on OOo, but it's worth pointing out that TeX is
> > a simple language if you're writing a simple document. In particular
> > you are already writing vali
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:39:55AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> Looking at my copy of 'The Not So Short Introduction To LaTeX,' it's
> not clear to me what document class I'd use [for a letter].
For some reason that book omits the LaTeX "letter" clas
bian.org/debian-user/2007/09/msg01265.html
I've been having this problem since upgrading to etch. The crashes
happen once or twice a month, which is often enough to be really
irritating but too infrequent for me to know how to debug.
Restarting X remotely does seem to work, if the crash happ
ving to reinstall?
Can you "sudo chmod" to repair your permissions damage? I can send
you an output from "find /dev -ls" if you don't have another machine
to compare against.
Rob
--
Rob Mahurin
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
University of Tennessee phone: 86
Nota bene: don't call this program without redirecting stdout :)
Rob
--
Rob Mahurin
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
University of Tennessee phone: 865 207 2594
Knoxville, TN 37996email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#include
#include
gsl_rng * r; /* global generator */
#define
after the suspend your
machine gets back to its normal speed. The "load average" may not
mean what it usually does here.
I haven't followed the thread closely, apologies if this is duplicate
information.
Cheers,
Rob
--
Rob Mahurin
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Un
of numbers; if there's no
GUI way to do this I'm not afraid of, say, an awk script.
Please CC to me, as I'm not subscribed to the list. Thanks!
Rob
--
Rob Mahurin
Dept. of Physics & Astronomyphone: 865.974.8097 (sometimes)
University of Tennessee fax:
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