Re: Creating an initrd

2001-05-08 Thread will trillich
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 08:32:01PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > mkinitrd ... > > or take an existing initrd.gz file...decompress it > into /dev/ram or /dev/loop > > than change the kernel to your version, add your libs/commands > and other stuff you want in the initrd to make your system > b

Re: [users] Re: sslwrap/spop3d

2001-05-08 Thread MaD dUCK
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

IPMasqing NFS

2001-05-08 Thread Krzys Majewski
I would like to NFS-mount a directory on a remote host located behind an ipmasq'ing gateway/firewall. The gateway runs 2.2.17, the remote box runs 2.4.2, the local box runs SunOS-5.8-i386. I tried adding trivial rules to my ipmasq script, copying the ones for sshd and replacing the sshd por

Re: X question

2001-05-08 Thread Steve Cooper
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 09:59:03PM -0700, Karsten M. Self decreed: > on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 06:50:52AM -0400, Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > how do I get Xfree86 to not automatically copy everything that I highlight > > with my cursor? > > That *is* X behavior, by design. I don't

Can't locate Debconf/Log.pm in @INC

2001-05-08 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently installed my own version of Perl. Now, when I attempt to use apt-get (update or install), I get something along the lines of the following: debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't locate Debconf/Log.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/l

Re: sslwrap/spop3d

2001-05-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mad dont know why your sslwrap would die did you compile sslwrap and ipop3d on a compatible box with the same versions of libs that is running on the secure pop3 server ?? thanx alvin http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Mail/secure_pop3.txt On Tue, 8 May 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: >

Difficulty with Dell install

2001-05-08 Thread Sean Conlon
Sorry to trouble you, but I am trying to get my Dell Inspiron 8000 to run Debian. I think it is correctly partitioned. The os has been installed, but when I try to boot from the hard drive it freezes just after "Starting PCMCIA servies: modules cardmgr. Starting internet superserver:inetd.

RE: Creating an initrd

2001-05-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi stefan... mkinitrd ... or take an existing initrd.gz file...decompress it into /dev/ram or /dev/loop than change the kernel to your version, add your libs/commands and other stuff you want in the initrd to make your system bootable and compress that /dev/loop image into your_init

Re: Page-up/Page-down keys and shell history

2001-05-08 Thread Joost van der Lugt
* David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [May 08. 2001 18:41]: > Quoting Lindsay Allen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > On Sat, 5 May 2001, Joost van der Lugt wrote: > > > > > I've been looking into this for a litle bit and am unable to find an > > > answer. This is a feature AFAIK only implemented by SuSE

Re: User-Created Menu Entries

2001-05-08 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 05/07/01 23:33:48 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Depends on your window manager. Well, I was giving BlackBox a whirl, but I just can't get used to it. Not having easy access to a task list makes switching between apps a pain, so I'm heading back to WindowMaker. > I use WindowMaker, and have

Re: ATI Radeon compatibility

2001-05-08 Thread Steve R. Hastings
> I need to know if your product supports the new ATI Radeon chip. To use a Radeon with any sort of Linux you need Xfree86 version 4.0.2 or newer. This is available under Debian; you will need to install Debian, and then install the packages to get the new Xfree86. Packages for the current X

Re: User-Created Menu Entries

2001-05-08 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 05/08/01 00:24:57 -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: [..] > /usr/lib/menu has lots of files you can use as templates > > cp one to /etc/menu, tweak it, run (as root) "update-menus" > > With KDE you may need to force the issue with... > > rm -rf ~/.kde/share/applnk > > to force the DB to be re

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-08 Thread Alan Shutko
"Steve R. Hastings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am aware of the drivers on SourceForge. However, they are not as > good as the ones for Windows. That's surprising. I thought that since they were written by HP, they'd be the same on both platforms. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a

Re: syntax error in backup script

2001-05-08 Thread Jason Pepas
thanks for your help guys. I ran into a couple of good bash scripting tutorials too, which also helped. it seems to be working for the most part, but is a little buggy. for example, i set up tar to only backup files which havent changed since the last full backup. this seems to work for some fi

Re: a printer for Linux

2001-05-08 Thread Steve R. Hastings
Alan Shutko wrote: > I am a huge fan of the HP inkjet printers (and I'm eagerly waiting > for drivers as good as the ones for Windows). http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ I am aware of the drivers on SourceForge. However, they are not as good as the ones for Windows. Specifically, the prin

Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-08 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:03:32AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > [snip] > aha. BUT the key is, how to get VIM to know when you're editing a > MUTT file... and set configs accordingly? > > i'm sure there are several ways -- > > #~/.muttrc > set editor="vim -c tw=64" > > or > >

Re: Page-up/Page-down keys and shell history

2001-05-08 Thread will trillich
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 09:16:15AM +, Joost van der Lugt wrote: > * Lindsay Allen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010506 08:53]: > >Try this in your .~/inputrc :- > >--- > ># set show-all-if-ambiguous On > >"\e[1~": beginning-of-line

[OT] secure script without cron?

2001-05-08 Thread ktb
I've been searching though the archives, HOWTO's and online. Can't seem to find what I'm looking for. Networking on my mail server stopped working the other day. Restarting the network solved the glitch. I've created the script below to automate this in the event it happens again. My questio

Re: [OT] Mutt Threading (was Re: LOGO (with the turtle))

2001-05-08 Thread will trillich
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 12:07:22PM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote: > * Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-05-06 11:19): > > "Karsten M. Self" wrote on 06/05/2001 (11:34) : > > > Note that it's preferable to compose a new message rather than replying > > > to an existing thread when starting a new

Re: Filtering mail w/ procmail

2001-05-08 Thread will trillich
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 08:16:15PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > Instead of the XMailingList Header,You may try the From:, To:, Cc: headers > which will never fail,as I have found. My .procmailrc is managing three > mailing lists without any probs. Look at the headers of the mails you > get fromthe list

(mutt) move old messages, but what to do when none are found?

2001-05-08 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I have a couple lines in my .muttrc: ### ### Old Messages Save/delete ### #Tag old messages folder-hook deleted$ 'push T~r>6m\n' #Tag 'em, and search em, top of list, first tagged, save, next new #If there aren't any tagged msgs, it'll save the first in the list folder-hook !(to-do*|deleted)

Re: Auto alias on reply in mutt?

2001-05-08 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 08:39:53PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > How about a macro? > > macro index r "" > macro pager r "" > > will add an alias with all the default options when you type 'r' for a > reply. > Perfect! Thank you very much. Mike

Re: Auto alias on reply in mutt?

2001-05-08 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:51:16PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > Correct: pressing a when replying to a message prompts for an > attachment. You want to press a earlier than that, e.g. when > you're reading the message you're about to reply to. > Well DUH! Read up in the thread, and you will re

Re: Auto alias on reply in mutt?

2001-05-08 Thread will trillich
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:57:51PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I'm looking for a way to add an alias for every person that I > > send a reply. > > > > I've looked in the documentation quickly, and I can't even find > > a variable that contains the "to" address. > > I *think* that, while you'r

Re: Auto alias on reply in mutt?

2001-05-08 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 08:49:07PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:32:50PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Actually, using the ":" in mutt runtime, ":" gives an error, > > and in that context "a" is "attach". Looking in context help (?), there > > isn't an entry for "alias" in

Re: syntax error in backup script

2001-05-08 Thread Morgan Terry
Jason Pepas wrote: > > i am brewing up a backup script, but i am running into an error which > has me baffled. > > i try to run the script and get a syntax error which look something like > this: > > syntax error near unexpected token 'elif' > > this is the line in question: > > elif [ ! -f "/

PostgreSQL odbc

2001-05-08 Thread Jorge Santos
Hello, I'm trying to use odbc-PostgreSQL with StarOffice but when trying to create a new database with ODBC as a source and trying to select the tables tab I get the following error: Warning! The data registry was not found Or something like that (my version of SO is in spanish). Does anyone h

Re: OT - WindowMaker

2001-05-08 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:17:43AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: 1. i've added mutt in the wm's menus (using wprefs) but whenever i click on it it doesn't do anything Perhaps you need something like xterm -e mutt as the command to execute when you click on mutt. -- Tiarnán Ó Cor

Re: packaging-manual conflicts w/ debian-policy?

2001-05-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 07:48:14PM -0400, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm trying to work out a dpkg nightmare. So, man page says "See Debian > > packaging manual". > > > > I install same. > > > > The debian-policy package is removed. > > > > This under Sid.

Re: galeon: forced dependencies -> "unmet" in apt-get

2001-05-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:33:55PM -0500, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self writes: > > Is it possible to directly edit the dependencies information? > > I've done it before. > > > If so, where -- /var/lib/dpkg/status? > > Yes. OK. I think^Whope that worked -- Kars

Re: packaging-manual conflicts w/ debian-policy?

2001-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm trying to work out a dpkg nightmare. So, man page says "See Debian > packaging manual". > > I install same. > > The debian-policy package is removed. > > This under Sid. > > What gives? (Most of) the packaging manual is now in policy. Some remaining scraps are no

Re: syntax error in backup script

2001-05-08 Thread Jason Pepas
unfortunately, I tried adding a 'then' but to no avail. any other ideas? thanks for your time jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "David Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason Pepas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian-user" Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 8:56 AM Subject: Re: s

Re: galeon: forced dependencies -> "unmet" in apt-get

2001-05-08 Thread John Hasler
Karsten M. Self writes: > Is it possible to directly edit the dependencies information? I've done it before. > If so, where -- /var/lib/dpkg/status? Yes. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

RE: packaging-manual conflicts w/ debian-policy?

2001-05-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-May-2001 Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm trying to work out a dpkg nightmare. So, man page says "See Debian > packaging manual". > > I install same. > > The debian-policy package is removed. > > This under Sid. > > What gives? > policy recently absorbed the packaging manual. Follow what

Re: packaging-manual conflicts w/ debian-policy?

2001-05-08 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 04:10:58PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm trying to work out a dpkg nightmare. So, man page says "See Debian > packaging manual". > > I install same. > > The debian-policy package is removed. > > This under Sid. > > What gives? I believe that debian-policy is comp

packaging-manual conflicts w/ debian-policy?

2001-05-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm trying to work out a dpkg nightmare. So, man page says "See Debian packaging manual". I install same. The debian-policy package is removed. This under Sid. What gives? -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5

Re: Creating an initrd

2001-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
Stefan Srdic wrote: > I've compiled the 2.4.3 kernel on my patato box. I'm interrested in > creating my own initial RAM disk (initrd) to speed up my boot process. > > Does anybody know of any good HOW-TO's on initrd's? > > Does anybody have some insight to share? Well there is a package in unsta

rsync source tree

2001-05-08 Thread MaD dUCK
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

galeon: forced dependencies -> "unmet" in apt-get

2001-05-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
Some of you may have noted I'd installed galeon by forcing dependencies yesterday. Today the hens come home to roost: galeon is identified as having unmet deps when doing an apt-get dist-upgrade, and an "apt-get -f install" (the solution recommended by apt-get) prompts to remove galeon: [EM

RE: Creating an initrd

2001-05-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 08-May-2001 Stefan Srdic wrote: > I've compiled the 2.4.3 kernel on my patato box. I'm interrested in > creating my own initial RAM disk (initrd) to speed up my boot process. > > Does anybody know of any good HOW-TO's on initrd's? > > Does anybody have some insight to share? > Fairly easy t

Re: Umount problem!!

2001-05-08 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:54:11PM +0200, Angel Parra wrote: > I think that it can be a sily question .. but I can't remember howto do > it > > If somebody has left a process with an open file on a mount filesystem > or a shell with the pwd on it... how can I (root) discover the process > to get t

Umount problem!!

2001-05-08 Thread Angel Parra
I think that it can be a sily question .. but I can't remember howto do it If somebody has left a process with an open file on a mount filesystem or a shell with the pwd on it... how can I (root) discover the process to get the filesystem unmounted without the "umount: /filesystem: device is busy

Creating an initrd

2001-05-08 Thread Stefan Srdic
I've compiled the 2.4.3 kernel on my patato box. I'm interrested in creating my own initial RAM disk (initrd) to speed up my boot process. Does anybody know of any good HOW-TO's on initrd's? Does anybody have some insight to share? Stef

USB setup problems

2001-05-08 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I'm using 2.2.19(not a custom build), 2.2r3 stable. I'm trying to use a Belkin USB mouse for starters. Here what I did so far. 1. loaded the modules - usb-ohci didn't work so I assume the usb-uhci is correct # lsmod (edited) mousedev3596 0 (unused) hid11

Re: RealPlayer8 plugin and Mozilla0.9

2001-05-08 Thread DvB
Matthew Thompson wrote: Anyone get them to work together? I cp'd rpnp.so and raclass.zip into my mozilla/plugins directory and restarted Mozilla to no effect. Got Java and Flash working ok, but not RP8. Works fine in NS4.77 and Konq2.1.1. Sure would be cool to have a browser that renders espn

RealPlayer8 plugin and Mozilla0.9

2001-05-08 Thread Matthew Thompson
Anyone get them to work together? I cp'd rpnp.so and raclass.zip into my mozilla/plugins directory and restarted Mozilla to no effect. Got Java and Flash working ok, but not RP8. Works fine in NS4.77 and Konq2.1.1. Sure would be cool to have a browser that renders espn.go.com correctly (not the

sslwrap/spop3d

2001-05-08 Thread MaD dUCK
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

Re: Can't parse color "Black"

2001-05-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 09:27:14PM +0200, Philipp Bliedung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Don't reply to an existing thread when starting a new topic. Your message is threaded beneath a discussion on licensing terminology. > Hi > > I installed XFree 4.0.2 and some other packages to my potato box f

Re: Using Samba 2.2 as PDC

2001-05-08 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 07-05-01 at 02:07 Florian Petri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ [...] > > I?m currently thinking about compiling samba on my own, throwing out > everything which doesn?t work like this PAM authentification and hopefully > this will solve my problems. But I would

Re: [users] Re: Blocking spam

2001-05-08 Thread MaD dUCK
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

Sound and/or 3d graphics

2001-05-08 Thread Stefan Deibel
I have installed the alsa-driver for ens1371 (Soundblaster 128 PCI) on Debian/unstable with kernel 2.4.3. Further I use my Elsa Erazor (Riva TNT2) with XFree86-4.0.2, the nvidia driver, and NVIDIA's NVdriver and their GLX module. Whenever I hear music (with xmms) and start an OpenGL application the

Re: libXaw.a

2001-05-08 Thread Steve Gran
Search the debian website - on the packages page, (http://packages.debian.org, I think) there is a search engine that lets you serach for a file by distribution. It's the second (and last) search engine on the page. Good luck, Steve On Tue, 08 May 2001, Imre Vida wrote: > > hi, > > i'am try

Re: Blocking spam

2001-05-08 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
V. Suresh wrote: > I want to delete a mail in my ISP's popserver without downloading it > if it is from a particular person. I use fetchmail, exim on > dialup. How do I do this? You could use popsneaker http://www.ixtools.de/popsneaker/ -- Thomas Weinbrenner

Re: [users] Re: Blocking spam

2001-05-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya "mad" On Tue, 8 May 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > 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 windoz

libXaw.a

2001-05-08 Thread Imre Vida
hi, i'am trying to compile a program and would need the libXaw.a archive file this should reside in /usr/X11R6/lib but it is not there ;-) or i'd better say :-( libXaw.so is provided by xlib6g and xlib6g-dev provides some other *.a files but not this one dpkg -S knows nothing about this fi

Re: [users] Re: Blocking spam

2001-05-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:38:33PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > - seems silly to disallow ssh into a pop3 server in my book > especially to those that would like to do so to clean > up emails first Well, I wouldn't give the average POP user a shell account at all, but use a DB for P

PPP_FILTER

2001-05-08 Thread crack77
Can I use PPP_FILTER on ppp package ? If the package is in deb format, how can I get that? I have to get source package and compile it ? Can you help me (I have to set package filtering with tcpdump-style _expression_ ma my pppd don't recognize active filter option) Thnk's for service Dan

Re: Setiathome Packet Caching

2001-05-08 Thread Rob Mahurin
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

Re: [users] Re: Blocking spam

2001-05-08 Thread MaD dUCK
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

Can't parse color "Black"

2001-05-08 Thread Philipp Bliedung
Hi I installed XFree 4.0.2 and some other packages to my potato box from woody (mainly because of Gimp 1.2) - but now I get this message when I try to start some programs: Application initialization failed: unknown color name "Black" or this error: Color name "black" is not defined can't parse co

Re: [users] Re: Blocking spam

2001-05-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi if you can telnet into the machine... at port 110, you can probably login on the telnet/ssh port ??? - i think that if one were using insecure pop3, they might as well allow you to telnet/ssh in ( your already have a login account ) - seems silly

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2001-05-08 Thread Brendon

Re: [users] Re: Blocking spam

2001-05-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 08 May 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > figure out which mail it is (i.e. which index), then telnet to port > 110 of your isp and delete it yourself with the following command > sequence (this is POP3): > > %> telnet mail 110 > USER username > PASS password > DELE 35 > QUIT > > you can use RETR 34

Re: install screensaver with setuid root

2001-05-08 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:54:52PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > This is the purpose of "wishlist" bugs. See bug#96677. > Severity: wishlist; Package: xscreensaver; ;Reported by: Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>; dated Mon, 7 May 2001 Hey, thanks for sending that "bug" in! -- Alex Suzuki | [EMA

Re: dpkg - restoring working packages

2001-05-08 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Tomasz Wzietek wrote: > suppose i have a working package. i decide to upgrade it, > so i download the deb and use 'dpkg -i' to install it. > let's say, there are some unsatisfied dependencies that > i don't want to resolve (let's assume that it would require > some further drast

Re: [users] Re: Blocking spam

2001-05-08 Thread MaD dUCK
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

dpkg - restoring working packages

2001-05-08 Thread Tomasz Wzietek
hello, could someone help me figure out the following, please? suppose i have a working package. i decide to upgrade it, so i download the deb and use 'dpkg -i' to install it. let's say, there are some unsatisfied dependencies that i don't want to resolve (let's assume that it would require some

Re: modprobe : Can`t locate module

2001-05-08 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Petr Danek wrote: > Hi list, > i have following problem - during boot system complains about modules: > > Loading modules: /lib/modules/2.0.36/ipv4/ip_masq_ftp.o > modprobe : Can`t locate module /lib/modules/2.0.36/ipv4/ip_masq_ftp.o > > But i am not using kernel 2.0.36 anymore , so from where can

Re: non-linux disk access

2001-05-08 Thread Steve Gran
On Tue, 08 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, May 08, 2001, spider wrote: > > can i have access to non-linux disks (other partitions than linux partition) > > ??? > > > > anyone can tell me, please, how can i do this? > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount --help > Usage: mount [-hV] >

Re: [users] Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-08 Thread MaD dUCK
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

Re: Installing Debian over a Suse system

2001-05-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 04:23:45AM -0400, Rob Mahurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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 n

Re: Blocking spam

2001-05-08 Thread V.Suresh
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 it in the server, without retrieving it, how doyou do that? Once up

Re: non-linux disk access

2001-05-08 Thread V.Suresh
That is child's play. Just mount the file system on some directory, with mount -t Ex: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /c (The ubiquitious) Hope this helps. Once upon a time, spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard. And typed: >can i have access to non-

Re: non-linux disk access

2001-05-08 Thread freedman
On Tue, May 08, 2001, spider wrote: > can i have access to non-linux disks (other partitions than linux partition) > ??? > > anyone can tell me, please, how can i do this? > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount --help Usage: mount [-hV] mount -a [-nfFrsvw] [-t vfstypes] mount [-nfrsvw] [-o o

Setiathome Packet Caching

2001-05-08 Thread Benjamin Pharr
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! Ben Pharr

non-linux disk access

2001-05-08 Thread spider
can i have access to non-linux disks (other partitions than linux partition) ??? anyone can tell me, please, how can i do this?

Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-08 Thread Frank Barknecht
MaD dUCK hat gesagt: // MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach will trillich (on Sun, 06 May 2001 12:32:04PM -0500): > > gqip > > gq} > > fewer keystrokes :) Duh, watch this: :map Q gq -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \

Python 2.1 debs?

2001-05-08 Thread Johann Spies
Are there any debian packages somewhere for Python 2.1? Johann -- J.H. Spies - Tel. 082 782 0336. Posbus 4668, Tygervallei 7536 "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath. For it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefo

Re: Blocking spam

2001-05-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I want to delete a mail in my ISP's popserver without downloading it if it > is from a particular person. I use fetchmail, exim on dialup. How do I > do this? you should use ~/.procmailrc to filter your mail as follows: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null :0: * ^from.*sex /dev/null you utilize p

Blocking spam

2001-05-08 Thread V.Suresh
I want to delete a mail in my ISP's popserver without downloading it if it is from a particular person. I use fetchmail, exim on dialup. How do I do this? -- --V.Suresh. sureshvuserssourceforgenet http://www16.brinkster.com/vsuresh. --Powered by Debian--

Re: booting 2.4.4

2001-05-08 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:42:20PM +0200, Daniel Faller wrote: > Hi, > > I was using kernel 2.4.3 without any problems, but kernel 2.4.4 refuses to > boot. FWIW I have 2.4.4 booting like a charm here. I didn't change my lilo.conf either. > But no success, it refuses to boot and basically tells

Sun Ray 1

2001-05-08 Thread Matt Fair
Has anyone been able to get a sun ray 1 to work with a linux server? Or is the only way to run them are to install solaris :( Isn't it just the sun server software that needs to be running (currently it is available for solaris 7 and 8). Is there a port? Would there be a way to install solar

Configuring Mutzilla

2001-05-08 Thread Jeroen Valcke
Hello, For browsing I mostly use Mozilla and for email mutt. I read that it is possible to use mutt as emailclient in Mozilla by means of the mutzilla application. I'm thinking of giving this a shot. I noticed that this is a package in Debian too. However, I can't find any information about config

Re: Help Please With HP Travan Scsi Tape Drive

2001-05-08 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Stephen Broadbridge wrote: > > Hi All > > I cannot get my HP Travan T4000S Scsi tape drive to work. I have gathered > all the information I can find about the problem into the rest of this email. > Am I missing something obvious? Thanks in anticipation of any assistance > given. > > This i

Re: xmms and audio cd playing

2001-05-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:20:16PM -0300, francisco m . neto wrote: > Play directory should be able to do it. Be sure that you > select the mount point of your cdrom drive. More accurately, you need to select the directory specified in the "Directory:" box in the CD audio plugin's configurat

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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: > > PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/

Re: syntax error in backup script

2001-05-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jason Pepas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > syntax error near unexpected token 'elif' > > this is the line in question: > > elif [ ! -f "/backup/current/*fullbackup.tar.gz" ] elif needs "then" just like if does. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 1

Re: device3dfx

2001-05-08 Thread Michael Soulier
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:45:51AM -0700, Steve Gran wrote: > > You might just try make update-modversions. That (I believe) updates > versions.h, and might save you a little headache. If that shortcut doesn't > do it, make dep updates versions.h at the end of its run. If all else > fails, you

Re: Page-up/Page-down keys and shell history

2001-05-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Lindsay Allen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Sat, 5 May 2001, Joost van der Lugt wrote: > > > I've been looking into this for a litle bit and am unable to find an > > answer. This is a feature AFAIK only implemented by SuSE: > > > > At a prompt type one or more characters then use Page Up/P

Re: device3dfx

2001-05-08 Thread Steve Gran
On Fri, 04 May 2001, Greg Steele wrote: > > I was hoping that it would be something simpler than that. > You might just try make update-modversions. That (I believe) updates versions.h, and might save you a little headache. If that shortcut doesn't do it, make dep updates versions.h at the

Re: booting 2.4.4

2001-05-08 Thread mdevin
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 02:00:10PM +0200, Daniel Faller wrote: > On Tuesday 08 May 2001 13:54, you wrote: > > --- Daniel Faller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Check the name you have for initrd in lilo.conf > > > > mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-2.4.4-686 /lib/modules/2.4.4 > >

Re: Auto alias on reply in mutt?

2001-05-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:23:32PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > > Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > I'm looking for a way to add an alias for every person that I send a > > > reply. > > > > > > I've looked in the documentation quickly, and I can't even find a varia

Re: Dialup script question

2001-05-08 Thread John Hasler
JC Portlock writes: > I don't know that fetchmail will wait for the connection under these > circumstances... It will work fine. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: DDS backups

2001-05-08 Thread francisco m . neto
» Alvin Oga disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > heheheheearkeia was the "mistake"... if its not portable ?? I guess so... ^_^ > dont know why people wanna pay $$$ for backup programs when tar is free I think so, but I got here and already found the system set up this way, so I di

Re: Can't Connect to ISP

2001-05-08 Thread John Hasler
hammack writes: > This looks like a chat session ? It does. Run pppconfig, select Chat authentication, go to "Advanced", select "Post-Login', replace the default strings there with Enter\d ppp and finish up with ppp. You should now be able to connect with pon and disconnect with poff. If you

Re: step by step kernel recompile

2001-05-08 Thread Eileen Orbell
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/index-kernel-pkg.html At 11:04 AM 5/8/2001 +0200, you wrote: There was a thread recently on this list about a new step by step kernel compile guide, seach the archive! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: X question

2001-05-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com): > > on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 06:50:52AM -0400, Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > hi, > > > > how do I get Xfree86 to not automatically copy everything that I highlight > > with my cursor? > > That *is* X behavior, by design. I don't kn

ez-ipupdate problems

2001-05-08 Thread Jorge Sousa
hi I'm using ez-ipupdate with dyns.net. The ip address gets update but ez-ipupdate is not creating the supposed cache-file and every 10 minutes tries to update the dyns DNS. I tried to run ez-ipupdate as different users and tried different cache-file paths but this file is never created. here is

Re: booting 2.4.4

2001-05-08 Thread Daniel Faller
On Tuesday 08 May 2001 13:54, you wrote: > --- Daniel Faller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check the name you have for initrd in lilo.conf > > mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-2.4.4-686 /lib/modules/2.4.4 > > does not match below > > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.4 in "/etc/lil

Debian for kids ...

2001-05-08 Thread Lambrecht, Joris
Really, debian has a project to make debian accessible to kids ... i hope they advise them to to go outside and have fun on sunny days, computers consume your life more then enough later on ... i knw http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/ <> Debian GNU-Linux -- Debian Jr. Project.url Des

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