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sub 2048g/E93FAECE created: 2001-05-07 expires: 2002-06-17
(1) Martin F. Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(2). MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(3) [revoked] Martin F. Krafft (MaD dUCK) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
correct me if i am wrong, but these are all user IDs, rig
also sprach Harry Henry Gebel (on Mon, 18 Jun 2001 02:17:51PM -0400):
> What are the contents of /etc/timezone on each machine?
i think you really want to make sure that /etc/localtime point to the
same file in /usr/share/zoneinfo. but then again, i don't know what's
*right* with timezones...
do
hey all,
we are still failing to establish a connection with wvdial and pppd
(on a potato system). wvdial looks all good, until we get to the
login:
--> Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt.
login:
--> Looks like a login prompt.
--> Sending: heikkin
heikkin
Password:
--> Looks like
also sprach Jeremy (on Tue, 19 Jun 2001 07:42:32PM -0500):
> My knowledge on this is limited, but have you made sure that you
> have the domain and nameserver entries in the /etc/resolv.conf
> file? I got this same sort of message when I was trying to dial
> in with wvdial and I didn't have those
also sprach Kevin Ross (on Tue, 19 Jun 2001 04:46:06PM -0700):
> I browsed through the source code for pppd, and it looks like the
> only way that error can be generated is if you're using kernel
> 2.4.x. So the fact that you're using pppd version 2.3.11 tells me
> you're using potato, but with a
also sprach Kevin Ross (on Tue, 19 Jun 2001 04:50:14PM -0700):
> One more thing. There's a 2.4.0 pppd compiled for potato w/kernel
> 2.4.x at:
>
> http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html
kevin, you rock!!! fixed it...
and thanks to adrian as well!!!
martin; (greetings from the he
so i pulled this old 486-33 machine out of the basement, it's got 8Mb
RAM, a shitty graphics card, and 240Mb of HDD space. it's ISA only,
but i want to try using an AVM FritzCard and a cheap NE2000 compatible
to make it be a masquerading router. it's probably going to fail, but
i want to try anyway
so i finally managed to boot off the floppy disks and am now in the
debian installation menu, just short of installing the operating
system. i have a local debian mirror, so i'd like to install via
network (ftp) -- especially because i don't have the cds. i am using
the "compact" kernel.
i am deal
also sprach Osamu Aoki (on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:38:10AM -0700):
> dd driver disks (3 of them for compact) to Floppy as originally designed
> like boot/root disks. Good luck :-)
well, i understood that, and i have my disks. but in the
installationprogram, there are two options:
- preload modules
also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 03:38:47PM -0500):
> Either kernel should be fine, though you should really get more ram.
> A router in 8 MB ican get ugly :) I've run 16 MB in my router and was
> happier with 32 (my router is a 486/25 old timer with 2 3c509b :) I'm
> running 2.2.
i swear, i read all the readmes and did the websearches, but i don't
arrive. i am still baffled as to what these driver_[1-4].bin images
are supposed to be used for - or more likely, how they are supposed to
be used.
but right now, i am wondering why each of the falvors, vanilla,
compact, idepci,
also sprach Hoeteck Wee (on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 06:03:30PM -0400):
> Here are the network related modules that are provided with driver-1.bin
> in the compact images. The 3c509 might work with your 3c59x card, but I'm
> not too sure about that.
i have looked at, and unpacked the drivers.tgz archive,
also sprach Osamu Aoki (on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 03:53:49PM -0700):
> Are you potato or woody?
potato.
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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i have done this in two different ways. the first is straight forward,
but depending on how many users you have, it might be a pain (and a
security risk). the second works on the assumption that your ISP is
running a sensible MTA (postfix, qmail) and that you will not be down
for longer than 3 days
also sprach nico de haer (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:10:54AM +0200):
> Up until writing this message i've recieved two replies to my erlier posting
> "e-mail. the next level". Erik and Martin think in the same line as i do.
> Carl also contributed some points of interrest. Getting mail is no problem
>
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:40:36AM +0800):
> 1. What if multiple users on my network have set up multiple POP3 accounts in
> the past (before the server was up) and wish to go this way, leaving their
> mail
> OFF their POP3 accounts, but ON the home server? Can this stil
i love debian. seriously, apt is a work of genius and the entire
system is exactly how i want it - unlike SuSE or RedHat. since i do a
fair bit of developing and since i always want to have at least one
machine that's cutting edge, i do a whole lot of kernel compiles.
in the past, i have always us
also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:01:13AM -0500):
> Well, for one thing, you can compile kernels on your 1GHz Athlon
> instead of your old 486 :) Since kernel-package creates a package, it
> can be installed anywhere.
but i usually choose the appropriate kernel architecture duri
also sprach Sean Morgan (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:05:19PM -0400):
> zless /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/Rationale
exaclty what i wanted. thanks!
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:42:37PM -0500):
> I fail to see why you think compiling a kernel on an Athlon, but
> optimising for a 486 cos you're installing on a 486 is a problem.
that's what i am doing btw. and sorry, i wasn't possibly thinking
about multiple .debs, just th
also sprach Bob Nielsen (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:42:23AM -0700):
> True, but you can/should configure and compile separately for each
> destination architecture, optimizing appropriately.
so yes, the argument that my athlon (thunderbird actually) will
outperform the others still holds. but i'd need
also sprach Robert Waldner (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:20:41PM +0200):
> you don´t need to maintain seperate trees of the whole source. just
> `make (menu|x|)config`, then backup the .config-file. that´s where the
> information you entered/chose is kept.
i understand... but when i change the .conf
also sprach Robert Waldner (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:44:51PM +0200):
> now do a `make clean` (just to get rid of the modules, mostly) and
> re-do steps 1-3 for the second machine and the third and...
>
> when you want to re-do for the first machine, just move the appropriate
> .config back, and
also sprach Kevin C. Smith (on Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:39:40AM -0500):
> Changed the NIC months ago, but noted that the /proc/pci continues to
> show the old NIC. Why would this be? How do I correct it?
what does it show? many NICs work atop one of the following chipsets,
so two different NICs may we
hi,
i am in the process of setting up an ISDN router for a network of
three computers, using a 486 and running kernel 2.4.5 (because of the
iptables functionalities). the system has one of the very old AVM A1
(Fritz!Classic) cards, which I can load and talk to with the hisax.o
driver. it's at 0x200
folks,
just now i figured out that the pppd debug option is also present in
ipppd, and i turned it on to see the following in the logs (after a
bunch of packet dumps):
Jun 25 01:13:31 embryo ipppd[3918]: Unsupported protocol 'Van Jacobson
Uncompressed TCP/IP' (0x2f) received
well, that would ex
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sun, 24 Jun 2001 09:42:19PM +0200):
> Debian/GNU Bob
>
> "Now you can put the stark fist of removal at work for YOU!"
hehe,
and when you mistype your password three times, it'll prompt you to
change it. believe it or not, Micro$oft Bob did that.
martin;
i just wanted to add my two pfennige.
see, the reason that debian rocks is that it does not impose
configuration tools on you like suse and redhat. it does provide a
very cool package system, but everything is under the control of the
user and vi. that's the beauty.
now looking at how i frequently
also sprach thomas (on Mon, 25 Jun 2001 01:44:01AM +0200):
> make a new kernel with VJ compression compiled in and/or enable VJ in
> your ipppd.ippp0. i am pretty sure this is a configuration problem.
thanks for the replies! i ended up figuring this out... i was a little
confused that one had to e
also sprach virtanen (on Mon, 25 Jun 2001 04:28:04PM +0300):
> I purchased a new 40 G IBM harddisk.
try setting the jumper called "32Gb clip"
even the LBA enabled BIOSs still can't handle >32Gb, so you'll lose
8Gb, but in my case, the BIOS did detect the drive.
martin; (greetings fro
also sprach Greg Rowe (on Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:52:06AM -0400):
> Would installing bind on your system work for you? You could add all of
> your ISPs DNS servers as forwarders in named.conf and then simply point
> resolve.conf to 127.0.0.1.
0.0.0.0
it's just a little undocumented trick to make loc
also sprach John Hasler (on Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:52:49AM -0500):
> > ...or you should write something for /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}.d.
>
> Pppconfig already installs a something there. Run pppconfig and look at
> Advanced->Nameservers.
i know. but in his case, pppconfig doesn't seem to work.
martin;
also sprach nico de haer (on Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:06:13PM +0200):
> I've tried this '32 Gb clip' and it does allow me to boot using my 40 Gb,
> but i've been unable to get access to the last 8 Gb. I've been experimenting
> with the 'hdx=c,h,s' parameter but all i can get are screens filled with all
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Thu, 28 Jun 2001 01:37:29PM +0200):
> When I sat down with it and took a minute or two to get acquiainted,
> it turned out to be quite a likeable and most of all very helpful
> critter, in fact.
try apt-console, i like it much better since i can't stand the awkward
ha
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:30:54AM -0500):
> Therefore, I need to reconfigure my system for a regular old dialup
> connection. I stupidly neglected to do this while I still had DSL, and now
> am wondering what packages I will need to enable this. At worst I can put
> them
also sprach thomas anderson (on Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:59:03PM +0200):
> I want to try to put a perl script in the /usr/lib/perl directory however I
> don't have permission access...I tried symlinking it but it still won't work.
> is there I way to do this without becoming root or sudo?
no. user scri
adding to the recent discussion on the 40Gb drive with IBM - i did
what someone suggested, to not tell the BIOS anything about the drive,
but to let linux take care of it. i run 2.4.5, and i know have 41Gb
available :-> (without the 32Gb clip jumper).
martin; (greetings from the heart
also sprach Peter Jay Salzman (on Thu, 28 Jun 2001 04:18:40PM -0700):
> kind of like using rbl, except i'd have my own custom reject file.
>
> i can simulate such a file usign ipchains, but i'd like to know if exim has
> an IP reject file.
the way i have done it is via my bind installation, just
hi guys,
i have one machine - "seamus" - an AMD K6-2 500/160 Mb which is acting
up. sometimes when i ssh into it (like 1/5 times), it gives me the
following:
fishbowl:~> ssh seamus
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
Last login: Fri Jun 29 01:47:06 2001 from fishbowl.madduck.net on pts/1
Linux seamus 2
also sprach Stig Brautaset (on Fri, 29 Jun 2001 02:17:19AM +0100):
> > install ppp and pppconfig, taking care to pull ppp off
> > people.debian.org/~bunk/debian if you have a 2.4.x kernel.
>
> Why? I run ppp on a pcmcia-modem with the standard package
> (unstable). (It is slow to connect, but runs
also sprach John Griffiths (on Fri, 29 Jun 2001 05:49:28PM +):
> I've got an IBM xseries 200 i'm trying to get deb running on
> the onvoard NIC is confounding me
> does anyone know which driver module should i be using?
i don't know, but it will most likely be one of the following:
tulip, rt
folks,
this one leaves me puzzled, so i was wondering if you could help
me out. every day, tripwire reports to me that on one of my
systems (only), the directories /home and /usr/doc have changed:
changed: drwxr-xr-x root 8192 Aug 6 16:18:56 2001 /usr/doc
changed: drwxr-xr-x root
also sprach Roberto Diaz (on Sat, 18 Aug 2001 07:11:26PM +0200):
> > at first, it was only /home, and i thought it had anything to do with
> > the quotae i enabled on that partition, but /usr/doc is (a) not a
> > partition of its own, and (b) /usr doesn't have quotae.
>
> /home could be explained
which kernel are you using, and does it have VJ compression enabled?
the option should be around the configuration item for PPP.
martin
hi,
having installed suidmanager well after all other packages, how can i
make sure that suid.conf is properly configured?
i.e. is there a way to tell every single package installed to
reconfigure itself?
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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also sprach Peter S Galbraith (on Thu, 29 Mar 2001 02:05:43PM -0500):
> # cd /var/lib/dpkg/info
> # egrep "^ +suidregister" *.postinst > /tmp/suidregister-script
awesome. worked like a jiffy. god, i love debian!
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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hey,
i am using qpopper for pop3 access. one of my users hasn't been
reading mail in two weeks, and now her mailbox is 16Mb. that's not a
lot, no. however, she uses microcrap software, which is not succeeding
at downloading whereas a direct POP3 interaction with the server
through netcat revealed t
also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Wed, 04 Apr 2001 03:03:39PM -0500):
> I never had any major problems with cucipop. There are two caveats:
well, for the sake of fixing this promptly, i went ahead and replaced
qpopper with cucipop. however, now there is a 20 second delay between
the user entering t
an addendum... the delay is dependent on the mailbox size. if i POP to
an account with a small mailbox, it works like a jiffy. however, when
connecting to an account with a 16Mb mailbox size, it takes 20 seconds
before cucipop returns the login acknowledgement.
i.e.
fishbowl:~> nc mail 110
+OK Cu
another question about my non-working system...
i finger a user to retrieve the following information:
diamond:~# finger nori
Login: nori Name: Nori
Directory: /home/nori Shell: /bin/bash
Never logged in.
No mail.
No Plan.
diamond:~#
however, the us
hey,
anyone know of a POP3 server capable of serving out of $HOME/Maildir/
and which isn't part of qmail?
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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also sprach Miquel van Smoorenburg (on Wed, 04 Apr 2001 11:48:45PM +):
> The Courier mailsystem comes with an IMAP and POP3 server that do
> Maildir.
> In the unstable distribution there's a 'courier-pop' package
right. and i don't want unstable on this system at this moment, since
it's produc
also sprach Nathan Ollerenshaw (on Thu, 05 Apr 2001 11:45:18AM +0100):
> Yeah, qpopper does that. Try running it in "server" mode (I forget the
> correct switch) or switch to cucipop which doesn't play around with the
> mailbox so much.
tried both, but with no success. so i ended up converting the
also sprach Nathan Ollerenshaw (on Thu, 05 Apr 2001 11:48:14AM +0100):
> Courier-IMAP contains a POP3 server, which works rather well.
yes, however i ended up with spop3d because Courier-POP3 is in
unstable and given that i just don't want to deal with the
implications, i refrain from using anythi
hey,
just installed a new linux system on an HP Pavillon 9680C, which comes
with a Rockwell/Connectix Riptide Modem/Sound combo. Ugh! i hate
combo's!
anyway, i need to get this to run in linux or else the linux community
will lose one of their newest members. any pointers, hints, anything?
i found
hey,
does anyone out there have experience with the HP2100C scanner and
using it in linux? it's USB, but Debian Potato (2.2.18pre21) seems to
be fine with that. at least...:
orange:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by
...
scanner 4228 0 (unused)
usbcore
hi,
trying to use apsfilter to get a Brother HL 730 working on linux.
someone on the linuxSA mailing list said they'd used it with the
LaserJet II emulation, since it (supposedly, acc. to brother.com)
emulates PCL4. however, when i am printing the testpage, it hangs
indefinitely on the Potato (2.2.
also sprach Felix Natter (on Mon, 09 Apr 2001 09:47:46PM +0200):
> > trying to use apsfilter to get a Brother HL 730 working on linux.
> did you try http://www.linuxprinting.org ?
now i did. and it worked. linuxprinting.org is awesome!
thanks,
martin; (greetings from the heart of th
hey,
are there any estimates as to when woody will go stable and replace
potato as the current dist?
please cc me.
thanks,
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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t
hi, i have this pretty straight forward ISA modem, 33.6 and running
off /dev/ttyS3:
orange:~> setserial -a /dev/ttyS3
/dev/ttyS3, Line 3, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000
Flags: spd_normal auto_irq
i am ru
hi guys,
sorry for flooding then, for i in {1..15}; do setserial /dev/modem $i;
minicom; done revealed that it is running not off irq 3, but off irq 2.
weird. when connecting, /proc/interrupts reports the serial driver to
use irq 9. oh well, it works...
thanks though if you spent even a second rea
mh. another problem. so this one computer was running win98 with one
of those crappy winmodem/soundcard combo (conexant riptide) junk
things, but it was playing mp3's through a set of passive speakers at
a loud volume.
after failing to get that piece of crap soundcard to work, i installed
a SB PCI
also sprach Rick Commo (on Sun, 15 Apr 2001 06:42:03PM -0700):
> I went from a SB PCI 16 to an SB PCI 128 with the same effect. It turns out
> that the SB 61 (and presumably your old junker) can drive an 8-ohm load to a
> decent volume. The SB PCI 128 only has a line out (ie 600 ohms). I went
>
also sprach Gl Elad (on Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:30:38PM +0200):
> irq 9 _is_ irq 2. irq 9 - 16 are handled by a secondary interrupt
> controller, that's connected to the primary one at irq 2, so irq 2 is
> actually the first irq on the second controller, which is irq 9.
well, i knew that but setting
peoples, please help me out (yet again)...
i am using mutt with the following settings:
set domain
set hostname = madduck.net
set realname = "MaD dUCK"
and no my_hdr's set.
so whenever i compose email in mutt, it is from [EMAIL PROTECTED],
which is fine.
i need to insta
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 unable to handle the documents and corrupts the
.ps file right around t
thank you all for your responses. considering that every single email
i received suggested to export .eps from Xfig and then to use \epsfig,
i must have not made myself clear enough...
(a) i need a batch method to convert. but anyway, fig2dev is what's
used by Xfig anyway, which is what i have bee
also sprach Nicholas Robbins (on Thu, 26 Apr 2001 02:37:49PM -0400):
> or just
>
> pdflatex file
except pdflatex can't deal with eps files - you'd have to export
Xfig's to pdf's instead, which i never got to work. but
\usepackage{times} in the TeX file and ps2pdf produces output just as
pretty..
also sprach Timeboy (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 01:41:08PM +0200):
> Is there a possibility to do this with a bash script?
#!/bin/bash
cnt=0
while read i; do
var[cnt]=$i
cnt=`expr $cnt + 1`
done
echo "there are $i object(s) in array var[]."
martin; (greetings from the heart of the su
also sprach Bostjan Muller (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 02:47:20PM +0200):
> 1. I cannot ssh/scp to a remote machine, if the user has an shell
> that does not allow interactive login (like if he/she has /bin/false
> for the shell), that is ok for ssh, but scp should still work right?
> sftp does not work e
also sprach David Steinberg (on Thu, 03 May 2001 10:05:44AM -0700):
> When it tries to connect to a mail server, the connection is either
> refused or just hangs and then times out. Just to test, I also tried
> using telnet to connect to port 25 of the same hosts. Same thing: either
> "telnet: Un
also sprach David Steinberg (on Thu, 03 May 2001 11:09:37AM -0700):
> > are you behind a firewall?
> Yes, but I don't think it blocks outgoing 25/tcp connects.
no it doesn't. i saw your connects...
> Could you expand on this? How would a mail server decide which IP
> addresses to block? Why wou
also sprach Hall Stevenson (on Thu, 03 May 2001 02:19:43PM -0400):
> If your IP address has been flagged, this could be a reason.
but the server i made him try uses RBL extensively and did not refuse
him. i think he's suffering more a client side problem... but i am a
postfix expert, no clue about
also sprach William Leese (on Fri, 04 May 2001 01:31:15AM +0200):
> get a bootdisk, boot the comp with it, mount your root partition or the
> partition containing /etc, open /etc/shadow (or passwd depending on your
> configuration) and you'll find a line like:
or just give the command
linux i
also sprach mdevin (on Sat, 05 May 2001 09:20:15PM +1000):
> How do you stop this from happening?
actually, set noautoindent won't cut it if you have smartindent or
cindent set. however, vim has a feature:
:set paste
then paste your text, then
:set nopaste
martin; (greetings from
so i would like to customize the fetchmail build i use - and then make
a package out of it. i successfully 'apt-get source fetchmail'ed and
now i am browsing the fetchmail directory hierarchy, looking at
fetchmail_5.3.3-1.1.dsc and fetchmail-5.3.3/debian/* for information
where I can specify additi
also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Sat, 05 May 2001 11:01:11AM -0700):
> Cool! That I did not know.
> ...now, what's a useful key to bind that to
map ^V :set paste!^M
but that's because i don't need that visual stuff anyway.
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Sat, 05 May 2001 02:34:47PM -0700):
> ...but I'm not aware of a similar bash/korn/bourne feature. Anyone?
if [ "$variable" ]; then ...
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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also sprach Viktor Rosenfeld (on Sun, 06 May 2001 02:47:15AM +0200):
> how come, lame is nowhere in Debian? Not even in sid? Or libmp3lame
> for that matter.
from the lame webpage:
"Personal and commercial use of compiled versions of LAME (or any
other mp3 encoder) requires a patent licens
also sprach mdevin (on Sun, 06 May 2001 10:40:21AM +1000):
> So my question is, should I bother with postfix? Is it easier to
> customise, edit headers etc? Is it more robust? What are some of the
> advantages that made some of you change to postfix?
yes.
why don't you use lsof or netstat -a t
also sprach will trillich (on Sun, 06 May 2001 12:32:04PM -0500):
> gqip
gq}
fewer keystrokes :)
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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i need not suffer in silence
while i can still moan, whimper a
also sprach Sunny Dubey (on Sat, 05 May 2001 06:50:52AM -0400):
> how do I get Xfree86 to not automatically copy everything that I highlight
> with my cursor?
it does that by default, no?
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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also sprach Mike Fedyk (on Sun, 06 May 2001 06:46:41PM -0700):
> Is there a posibility of a source only distribution of certain packages?
of course. check out qmail for instance.
i guess to be fully honest, i *think* this is the reason that lame
isn't part of the package system. why don't you beco
also sprach mdevin (on Wed, 02 May 2001 03:12:19PM +1000):
> Can you explain further how that works to someone who barely know
> that i puts vim in insert mode and esc takes it out? I had a look
> at the manpage and vimtutor and I can't see how gqip works - but it
> did work and it is cool!
i hav
also sprach will trillich (on Mon, 07 May 2001 12:03:32AM -0500):
> official schmofficial.
hehe.
> ap "a paragraph", select [count] paragraphs (see
> ip "inner paragraph", select [count] paragraphs
> (see
ah. learn new things day in, day out
also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Sun, 06 May 2001 10:10:56PM -0700):
> > set nowrap
> > set nolinebreak
> > set textwidth=0
> > set wrapmargin=10
>
> set textwidth=72
don't ask me why, i tried both and for whatever reason ended up
prefering the way i chose. but hey, don't know why i had
> > set w
also sprach will trillich (on Mon, 07 May 2001 12:01:30PM -0500):
> hey, i just found out (foldoc/jargon dict) that emacs evolved
> from (removing hat from head) Teco, so we may be soon taking
> exceptions to emacs-dissing... :)
well then... let me through this last one out:
(E)ight (M)egabytes (
a concise answer to the "why lame can't be packaged" question may be
found here: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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"if beethoven's seventh symphony
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hey guys,
sorry to be posting this absolutely off-topic... reason is that I am
desperate (this is academic research, but I ain't cheatin' by asking
you) and of all my mailing lists, you guys are simply the smartest.
i am looking for a Markov Model of the selective-repeat ARQ used in
TCP. but i can
also sprach Alvin Oga (on Mon, 07 May 2001 06:29:07PM -0700):
> try alltheweb.com gazillion stuff to read if thats
> what you're looking for
looks like just another web search engine. didn't return any more
information than google...
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Tue, 08 May 2001 11:37:19AM +1000):
> Now if I generate mail with Subject: gzip
> it doesn't seem to work. I can see a testing.gz file that has been
> created in ~/mail but it is empty.
gzip does write to stdout by default. i think you might want to try to
'i' fl
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Tue, 08 May 2001 01:25:37PM +1000):
> > Try "| gzip -c >> testing.gz".
> That still seems to not work when I sent a mail with Subject: gzip
> And I know the condition works since if I remove the gzip pipe and just
> place a filename there then it does append to it
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Tue, 08 May 2001 07:24:41PM +1000):
> You are totally right. (Bangs head against wall in frustration!) Thank
> you, now everything works as it should. I was beginning to think I had
> gremlins in my system. I hadn't even thought that gzip and date weren't
> in
also sprach V.Suresh (on Tue, 08 May 2001 10:51:54PM +0600):
> I do use procmail, and if i am right, procmail will start work only
> after the whole mail has been downloaded by fetchmail, am I right?
> Suppose a mail of 200 KB resides in your inbox on a pop3server,
> and you want to delete i
also sprach Alvin Oga (on Tue, 08 May 2001 12:38:33PM -0700):
> if you can telnet into the machine...
> at port 110, you can probably login on the telnet/ssh port ???
do what? think about this again. what if your POP3 server is a windoze
machine???
> - i think that if one were using insecur
also sprach Alvin Oga (on Tue, 08 May 2001 01:06:12PM -0700):
> i dont use or allow pop3 ftp/telnet is NOT allowed either
all the users allowed to do port 110 POP3 have /bin/false shells on my
systems. i allow anonymous ftp only and all HTTP auth is handled by
SSL channels. if you have ssh you
hi,
i use sslwrap to provide pop3 service over ssl, using spop3d
(http://solidpop3d.pld.org.pl/) locally. sslwrap also wraps a
courier-imapd install. recently, the sslwrap instance for POP3 dies
once a die between the hours of 12:00 and 16:00. the IMAP instance
survives without a problem, and resta
yo,
before installing debian on some 35 clients here, i would like to
mirror it locally so as to, you know, spare our backbone... the
clients don't have cdrom's, so bootdisk/ftp is the installation medium
of choice (anyway).
question is: where's the rsync source i should plug in to to obtain
it al
also sprach Alvin Oga (on Tue, 08 May 2001 08:38:10PM -0700):
> dont know why your sslwrap would die
well thanks for the reply then...
>did you compile sslwrap and ipop3d on a compatible box
>with the same versions of libs that is running on the
>secure pop3 server ??
do you know
also sprach Alvin Oga (on Tue, 08 May 2001 10:05:56PM -0700):
> question still standsdid you compile sslwrap on the
> server you are using it on that is also your pop3 server
> that you're wrapping its services ??
yes. this has nothing to do with it though. think about it! do you
know how sslw
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