Re: keeping the screen on

2000-12-26 Thread cls/cs
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:36:26PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 10:21:02PM +, q wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:16:14PM +, q wrote: > > > debs, > > > > > > since i use rather nice background images for my > > > potato boxes, i like to keep the screens on even

Re: keeping the screen on

2000-12-26 Thread cls/cs
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:22:48PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:08:27PM +0000, cls/cs wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:36:26PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 10:21:02PM +, q wrote: > > > > On Sat, Dec 2

Re: MKBOOT problems

2001-01-05 Thread cls/cs
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:42:04AM -0800, Tom Schuetz wrote: > Thanks to everyone for the ongoing responses to my newbie dreck. > > Why, when I MKBOOT VMLINUZ-2.2.12, would the system come back to me on three > different BRAND NEW disks with a "write protected or other error"? > > I really doubt

can't make menuconfig

2001-01-06 Thread cls/cs
debs, i'm looking to roll 2.4.0 for my potato box; but i'm getting ncurses issues. (i have libc6-dev, which prevents my having libc5-dev, which, apparently ncurses needs) suggestions? ia, t. bentley taylor. // running: debian gnu/linux (http://www.debian.org) kernel: 2.2.17 Script sta

Re: can't make menuconfig

2001-01-06 Thread cls/cs
aps you missed something? > > Greetz, > Sebastiaan > > > On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, cls/cs wrote: > > > debs, > > > > i'm looking to roll 2.4.0 for my potato box; but i'm > > getting ncurses issues. (i have libc6-dev, which > > preven

2.4.0 and 3com 905c

2001-01-06 Thread cls/cs
debs, i've been using stock kernel 2.2.17 that came with potato. it recognized my 3com nic (as 3com 3c905c) and works wonderfully. i would like to ungrade to kernel 2.4.0 (now that it's stable). after rebooting a custom 2.4.0, i can't seem to get the nic recognized by the kernel. in the reco

not getting all mail

2001-01-08 Thread cls/cs
debs, fetchmail told me that i had 317 new messages; but i think my system shut off at 200. 1. how do i set up exim/fetchmail/mutt to give me all the mail? 2. is there a way for me to get the 117 emails that did not show up in /var/spool/mail/foo? ia, t. bentley taylor. // -- running: deb

Re: not getting all mail--now working

2001-01-08 Thread cls/cs
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:27:55AM +, cls/cs wrote: > debs, > > fetchmail told me that i had 317 new messages; but i > think my system shut off at 200. > > 1. how do i set up exim/fetchmail/mutt to give me all > the mail? > > 2. is there a way for me to get th

Re: not getting all mail

2001-01-08 Thread cls/cs
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:43:17PM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:27:55AM +0000, cls/cs wrote: > > > fetchmail told me that i had 317 new messages; but i > > think my system shut off at 200. > > > > 1. how do i set up exim/fetchmail/mu

Re: Machine/Domain Name

2001-01-12 Thread cls/cs
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:51:17AM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > > My Debian system has a name of "darkstar.localdomain" > When I'm at home I can no longer send email to my office > because of "spam" filters that were setup to reject any > mail from rdsomains that are unresolvable. > > I h

Re: Linux 2.4.0 on Debian 2.2 R2

2001-01-15 Thread cls/cs
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:55:12PM -0800, Michael Madden wrote: > When I used dpkg to install the new modutils package, > it gave me the option of installing a new /etc/modules > file. If you choose yes, it gives you a basic > /etc/modules files just with comments. You'll > need to put in a line

fetchmail nameserver failure

2001-01-17 Thread cls/cs
debs, it seems like once a week, my fetchmail gets stuck with an email address it cannot recognize. (i usually then just download the mail with netscape and keep going.) once the error comes up, fetchmail won't download any other messages. attached is the script. ...suggestions? ia, t.

[pplaw@pcisys.net: fetchmail nameserver failure]

2001-01-17 Thread cls/cs
- Forwarded message from cls/cs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:23:48 + From: cls/cs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: fetchmail nameserver failure Reply-To: cls/cs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Running

am i hacked?

2001-01-25 Thread cls/cs
debs, i just ran uptime on my single-user box connected to the office dsl pipe. it shows 3 users; and there's only one non-root account. 1. how do i find out who are the other 2 users? 2. does this mean that i've be hacked? ia, t. bentley taylor. running: debian gnu/linux ( http://www.d

Re: Microsoft Scroll Mouse

2001-02-01 Thread cls/cs
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:04:31PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > > In /etc/X11/XF86Config > > change the mouse protocol to "MS IM" (or something like that, I'll > check my config once I get back to my computer) and add the line > > ZAxisMapping 4 5 > > to the pointer section. This causes the wheel to

Re: does anyone here use update-menus?

2001-02-01 Thread cls/cs
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:05:55PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all.. > > I've added new menu files to /etc/menu but > update-menus doesn't see them. I got this to > work with one menu file I added, but I've added > three more since and they don't show up. > here's one that I am trying to get to wor

Re: Vids ?

2001-02-02 Thread cls/cs
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:33:31PM -0700, Brandeil macleod wrote: >hi ! > I have been trying to install some packages to run MPEG/AVI etc but with > no luck. Tried xmms plugins and xanim put nothing want to insatll. > > Also tried to install real player according to real.com for the debian > v

ghost /dev/fd0

2001-02-03 Thread cls/cs
debs, i floppy boot potato. if i need to access mount or superformat another floppy, i cannot access /dev/fd0. suggustions? ti,a. bentley taylor. att. // running: debian gnu/linux ( http://www.debian.org ) kernel: 2.2.17 Script started on Sat Feb 3 16:25:01 2001 cls210:/home/bt# superform

Re: How to delete a file called "-gzip"?

2001-02-05 Thread cls/cs
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:29:39PM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Hi, > > this is a completely stupid thing I did. I wanted to make a zipped tar > archive of my complete user home account and write it to MOD. > > Unfortunately I used the following line: > > tar -cvvf -gzip /mod/name-of-a