RE: response from the host command for a private address listed in /etc/hosts

2009-05-14 Thread Aaron Hall
your choice. If you tell your LAN machines to use the router (with dnsmasq) as their DNS server, that should work. Or do I misunderstand? - Aaron -- Aaron Hall :But it's just a mailing list. Don't take ah...@vitaphone.net :full-contact conversation as a perso

Re: pine help

2008-07-25 Thread Aaron Hall
out special characters worked fine. Alpine 1.10 and newer fixes this, although I don't recall if you have to put quotes around the URL token in url-viewers. (Can't get at my Alpine 1.10 setup right now.) If this is it, I could work around it in Alpine 1.0 by hitting &#

Re: apt-get update segmentation fault

2008-06-21 Thread Aaron Hall
backported the newer 2.27 version to Etch because I've got non-Debian machines running that. Backporting on Debian is easier than backporting other systems. ) - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Our little systems have their day; [EMAIL PROTECTED] : They have their

Re: xpdf-utils vs. poppler-utils conflict prevents aptitude safe-upgrade

2008-06-10 Thread Aaron Hall
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:35:18PM -0500, Aaron Hall > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > My sid box has cupsys and xpdf-utils installed (among a bunch of other > > things). When I run "aptitude safe-upg

xpdf-utils vs. poppler-utils conflict prevents aptitude safe-upgrade

2008-06-10 Thread Aaron Hall
nd something here, but I'm not sure what. Not a killer problem, but I'd appreciate the enlightenment. :) - Aaron -- Aaron Hall :"We have to protect our children from [EMAIL PROTECTED] : district attorneys." : -- Georgia state s

Re: alpine question

2008-02-08 Thread Aaron Hall
help for "Inbox Path" and "SMTP Server"), you'll find that Alpine treats a bare server name as an IMAP server. You can append "/POP3" to the end of the hostname to specify POP. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall :The roads of Germany were alive with obscure [EMAI

Re: getaddrinfo broken on amd64 etch system

2007-11-29 Thread Aaron Hall
pite the comment about replacing getipnodebyaddr() at the top of its manpage), getaddrinfo() is not supposed to perform reverse lookups. As near as I can tell, it was a bug that that behavior ever worked. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Advertising may be described as the science of [EMA

Re: Netatalk stopped working on Sid

2007-09-05 Thread Aaron Hall
e netatalk is not running. > Then installed Netatalk 2.3.0-4 from lenny but that didn't help as well. > > Probably it has to something to do with the Berkeley DB but I have no clue > how to find out what is wrong. Sounds like it to me. There's at least a couple of bu

Re: replacement for formmail

2007-08-28 Thread Aaron Hall
The NMS Project has a drop-in compatible replacement (with the option to trade compatibility for more security) for formmail.pl and friends at <http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/>. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I wanna

Re: DST and woody

2007-03-07 Thread Aaron Hall
the middle of last year. See: <http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070110> - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Actually, it's a buck-and-a-quarter quarterstaff. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : But I'm not telling *him* that! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-15 Thread Aaron Hall
al standalone revolver: /usr % If you grew up on tcsh, you might like zsh a lot -- virtually all of the features of tcsh, with Bourne-shell syntax. I learned tcsh first, and then switched to zsh and never looked back. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall :

Re: Thread-aware MUAs

2006-08-26 Thread Aaron Hall
> > > > > > Pine isn't. > > > > after 4.5 it is :-) > > Well, it's still nonfree and thus insignificant. :o) That's about to change. Pine is going to morph into "Alpine", and Alpine will be released under the Apache 2.0 license. Praise be.

Re: netatalk: uams_dhx_pam.so missing?

2006-07-19 Thread Aaron Hall
d. There's a note about this in /usr/share/doc/netatalk/README.Debian on unstable. I rebuilt the packages from the source package. The readme file also points to an unofficial apt repository with unofficial binary packages. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Heavens! Someone has

Re: packages.debian.org status update?

2006-02-04 Thread Aaron Hall
goes into the Debian project and infrastructure, much of which nobody ever really sees. Thanks, everyone! - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Q: What did the blonde Klingon say? [EMAIL PROTECTED] : A: It was a good day to dye. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: where does ifconfig get ppp0 inet addr?

2006-01-06 Thread Aaron Hall
/usr/include/net and /usr/include/netinet, among other places. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall :I do quarrel with logic that says, "Stupid people [EMAIL PROTECTED] :are associated with X, therefore X is stupid." :Stupid people are associated

Re: Linux stickers

2005-11-10 Thread Aaron Hall
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Alan Ianson wrote: On Sun November 6 2005 11:04 pm, Aaron Hall wrote: Apropos of which, Copyleft (R.I.P.) used to carry some Debian case badges with the swirl logo and "Debian" lettering. Does anyone still sell something similar? [snip] I'm not familiar wi

Re: Linux stickers

2005-11-06 Thread Aaron Hall
something similar? (I looked at the "make your own" badges on the Scotgold site, but I don't really like the idea -- the old Debian badges were nicely pre-printed.) - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : If UNIX is the heroin of operating systems, [EMAIL PROTECTED] : then.

Re: subtle difference between package managers

2005-07-15 Thread Aaron Hall
ng point. Agreed there. Just not a strict hierarchy, as it stands now. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : "Depression is just anger without enthusiasm. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : It's an empty beer bottle and no one worth

Re: How to use md5 passwords ?

2005-07-15 Thread Aaron Hall
for more on how it works. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : You are the first four contestants on... [EMAIL PROTECTED] : THE PRICE IS RIGHT! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Postfix is denying sending mail to a handful of users

2005-07-14 Thread Aaron Hall
the limit: ~# postconf -d | grep smtpd_recipient_limit smtpd_recipient_limit = 1000 You did reload the postfix config, right? Anyway, I don't think this is the cause, based on the log message above. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Bugs> Rabbit season! [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

Re: xorg in sid

2005-07-14 Thread Aaron Hall
S: I am intrigued as well : just got apt-listbugs, and can't wait till I try it. Good stuff, apt-listbugs is. It and apt-listchanges should be on any unstable or testing system. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Mac OS X: Macintosh on top, Unix underneath. [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

Re: can't the shell do a better job

2005-01-07 Thread Aaron Hall
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 19:54 -0600, Aaron Hall wrote: * bash-style process substitution: diff =(sort file1) =(sort file2) instead of: sort file1 > file1.sorted sort file2 > file2.sorted diff file1 file2 Well that's spiffy... I

Re: Re can't the shell do a better job

2005-01-07 Thread Aaron Hall
ht where you left it. * bash-style process substitution: diff =(sort file1) =(sort file2) instead of: sort file1 > file1.sorted sort file2 > file2.sorted diff file1 file2 - Aaron -- Aaron Hall :Actually, it's a buck-and-a-quarter quarterstaff. [EMAIL P

Re: dodgy sudo upgrade on woody ppc - echos processing

2004-11-24 Thread Aaron Hall
i386. As I write this, it's been reported as bugs #282777, #282778, and #282786. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : If UNIX is the heroin of operating systems, [EMAIL PROTECTED] : then...Windows is filling your sinuses with

Re: Netatalk2

2004-10-22 Thread Aaron Hall
he manpages all reference /etc/netatalk/atalkd.conf, and such. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : I claim this planet in the name of Mars. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Hmmm, isn't that lovely? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netatalk2

2004-10-21 Thread Aaron Hall
cho "." ;; *) # echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2 echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 -- Aaron Hall :I do quarre

Re: converting old style ufs to ext2

2004-10-17 Thread Aaron Hall
rcumstances where it matters). The older Mac filesystem is HFS, which had 32-char filenames and no concept of ownership. FWIW. :) - Aaron -- Aaron Hall :I do quarrel with logic that says, "Stupid people [EMAIL PROTECTED] :are associated with X, therefore X is stupid."

Re: converting old style ufs to ext2

2004-10-17 Thread Aaron Hall
personal experience that 'cp -a' is somewhat more, ahem, foolproof. If only because there's only one invocation to get right. :) - Aaron "yes, I *have* blown up a filesystem with tar, why do you ask?" -- Aaron Hall : "In driving, watch each pe

Re: OT: do any comcast users ever get spam from comcastonline.com?

2004-06-30 Thread Aaron Hall
adband, which was subsequently bought by Comcast. So this might now be Comcast address space. It's not enough to convict them by itself, but it suggests the spam is coming from their network (if the headers can be trusted). - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : "Poor soul, very sa

Re: What's creating X-X-Sender header?

2004-05-10 Thread Aaron Hall
eeds to know that. So what's telling them? Exim? How do > I stop it? Pine's putting that there. There's a 'disable-sender' setting in the config to turn it off. For those of us who just find the 'X-X-' prefix too aethestically obnoxious, there'

Re: How can I learn what packages are "new"?

2004-01-23 Thread Aaron Hall
et new" before my next apt-get update, I can't tell > what's new and what's old new. This isn't a direct answer to your question, I don't think, but if you read the Debian Weekly News, there's a listing of new packages added to the archive every week. See: http

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-19 Thread Aaron Hall
hose cases, Cox falls back to ordinary unencrypted transmission. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : I claim this planet in the name of Mars. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Hmmm, isn't that lovely? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: $HOSTNAME is not exported

2003-12-16 Thread Aaron Hall
xport $HOSTNAME manually from something like .profile, I suppose. You might also just use /bin/hostname, or /bin/uname -n. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall :If you can't get something right, then the [EMAIL PROTECTED] :objective should be to do everything wrong

Re: vim + termcaps + colors

2003-10-07 Thread Aaron Hall
tively. All characters are literal; it's should be safe to copy/paste this, and it should work fine in Vim 6. A couple things I do not understand: there are also codes t_AF and t_AB, that seem to have the same purpose as t_Sf and t_Sb. I don't really understand the distinction b

Re: Log of init.d services started....

2003-07-14 Thread Aaron Hall
init scripts after the kernel finishes loading, that means that between dmesg and bootlogd there should be a mostly complete record of everything happening when a Debian machine boots, right? Thanks very much for everything. It sounds way cool. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : If UN

Re: hosts.(allow|deny)

2003-03-10 Thread Aaron Hall
s a bit on a tangent, but there is a version of NiftyTelnet that does SSH (ssh v1 only, though). <http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jonasw/freeware/niftyssh/> It also seems to me that some versions of BetterTelnet do SSH as well, possibly protocol version 2, if memory serves. - Aar

Re: lwresd AND bind/named???? - 'nother Debian newbie question...

2003-02-08 Thread Aaron Hall
#x27;t either, but any Debian packages that require it would probably depend on liblwres1 directly. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : If UNIX is the heroin of operating systems, [EMAIL PROTECTED] : then...Windows is filling your sinuses with

RE: debian on old powerbook?

2003-01-22 Thread Aaron Hall
ctually, no. :) I haven't been a member for a while. I'd imagine the folks on [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be able to point you in the right direction, though. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Sleep, where is thy sting? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: debian on old powerbook?

2003-01-21 Thread Aaron Hall
68K kernel port is http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/, you might ask on their mailing list if those computers are supported. - Aaron (who needs to haul out his SE/30 running potato) -- Aaron Hall : Bugs> Rabbit season! [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Daff

Re: debian on old powerbook?

2003-01-21 Thread Aaron Hall
ook. The PB100 is a machine unto itself. And then there's the Portable, but we won't get into that. :) -- Aaron Hall :Look, Ma! It's only a TWO-LINE .signature! [EMAIL PROTECTED] : -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mail reader for news and mail

2002-11-22 Thread Aaron Hall
e OP. I use pine for mail (as you can see from the headers), but I haven't given up my Mac newsreader. Not yet, anyway; I'm playing around with slrn some... - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I wanna get lost in yo

Re: Converting router from W2K to Debian

2002-11-04 Thread Aaron Hall
sage, but bind9 has something called "views", which return different versions of a zone depending upon who's asking. So you could use your registered domain for everything, but only resolve internal addresses when being queried by internal addresses. [rest snipped] - Aaron -- Aar

Re: DOS on non-x86 systems?

2002-09-11 Thread Aaron Hall
.) On OS 9, it can essentially take over the CPU, and that helps speed-wise. Really, I don't think you'll have any problems with Bochs. Be careful which DOS you run -- FreeDOS had some problems with the (circa 1982) IBM 360 emulator, and I had to run MS-DOS instead. - Aaron -- Aaron H

Re: Spam Bouncer -> Spamassain conversion?

2002-09-08 Thread Aaron Hall
mbouncer.org. I'm now running the "bleeding-edge" version, and it hasn't been giving me any problems. Don't let that dissuade you from installing SpamAssassin -- I haven't yet taken the plunge myself, but I've read that you can run them both in parallel. - Aaron -

Re: Error in my syslog file

2002-06-26 Thread Aaron Hall
before the ".in-addr.arpa") must be the components of the IP address in reverse. If the IP was, say, 192.168.0.1, then the name would be 1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa, not thebox.192.in-addr.arpa. Good luck, Aaron -- Aaron Hall :The Wile E. Coyote Theorem of Di

Re: how to boot debian on a oldwolrd ppc ?

2002-06-20 Thread Aaron Hall
le to find a working rescue.bin image. Despite being a Mac guy, I don't know the specific answer to your question. You'll likely get a better answer on the debian-ppc group, however. You can subscribe and post to it the same was as for debian-user. Good luck. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall

Re: Bind9 problem

2002-06-04 Thread Aaron Hall
messages, and they'll wait until the refresh interval is up before pulling the new zone. That's how it always worked before notifies were invented. > How I can chage it? Get the secondary server to run up-to-date DNS software, if you are able. - Aa

Re: First post

2002-03-20 Thread Aaron Hall
blem. - Aaron (who once had an SE/30 running slink) -- Aaron Hall : C'mon, Netscape! I can whistle the page in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Morse faster than you're fetching it! Macintosh/UNIX Geek, Network Flack, and...eh, whatever.

Sendmail logs rotated twice

2002-02-26 Thread Aaron Hall
ainst? Finally, should I just rip the /var/log/mail stuff out of the logrotate config. That would seem like the cleanest thing to do. Thanks, Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Where's the ka-boom? There was supposed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: be an Earth-shattering ka-boom! Macintosh/UNIX

Re: What's sending "www 02/10/02:19.02 system check" messages

2002-02-11 Thread Aaron Hall
lly does run out of cron; Debian's cron reads files in /etc/cron.d in addition to other crontabs, and logcheck has a file in there that runs it every hour or so. man cron, and see also /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} for other neat tricks. :) - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : C'm

Re: list all packages that are installed

2002-01-13 Thread Aaron Hall
your timezone to Sydney's for the rest of your session. Admittedly, not as nice as the above trick. But I still use tcsh anyway. :p - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Buster, it may come as a complete surprise to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: you to find that _this_ is an animated cartoon. Macintosh/UNIX Geek, Network Flack, and...eh, whatever.

Re: logcheck/testing

2001-12-02 Thread Aaron Hall
ything remotely interesting (i.e., everything but routine sendmail/named transactions), in addition to daemon.log, auth.log, et al. Then I put only /var/log/messages into logcheck.logfiles; so long as everything I'm interested in gets logged to messages as well as wherever else it's goi

Re: Ogg Vorbis (was Re: mp3 encoding)

2001-11-27 Thread Aaron Hall
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote: > Are there any Ogg Vorbis portable players? Or support for Mac OS X? On OS X, Audion (my favorite player) should support Ogg Vorbis, though I've never tried it. http://www.panic.com/audion/ Shareware, but decidedly cool. - Aaron -- Aa

Notes on upgrading potato -> woody

2001-11-15 Thread Aaron Hall
mooth out future upgrades? Thanks, Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Mac OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was [EMAIL PROTECTED]: easier than debugging Windows. (Go Apple!) Macintosh/UNIX Weenie, Network Flack, and...eh, whatever.

Re: Hiding init 1 safely

2001-11-14 Thread Aaron Hall
, they'll be more familiar with those issues. Of course, you may be trying to solve a different problem the wrong way (as opposed to solving *this* problem the wrong way). If so, please ask again, and be a little more specific. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Bug

run-parts and valid filenames

2001-10-26 Thread Aaron Hall
rious: why does run-parts have such a narrow view of a "valid filename". It's there for a reason, else why write the validation code? I'm just curious, but it would be nice to know. Sincerely, Aaron -- Aaron Hall : C'mon, Netscape! I can whistle the page

Re: utility to display syslog on tty8?

2001-10-22 Thread Aaron Hall
is actually quite a bit more complex; syslogd has to send the logs to a program which then has to turn around and send them back out to the tty. Instructions for doing so are provided with the colorize package; they'd be applicable to other colorizers to, I'd think. > On Mon, 22 Oct 2001,

Re: utility to display syslog on tty8?

2001-10-22 Thread Aaron Hall
output, which adds value both aesthetic (it looks cool) and practical (easy to spot unusual occurances). I use the colorize script; there are others. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Mac OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was [EMAIL PROTECTED]: easier than debugging Windows. (Go Apple!

Re: ?package with tgetent

2001-10-08 Thread Aaron Hall
nstall to acquire the > necessary term library? On my potato system, tgetent() is in the files /usr/include/term.h and /usr/include/termcap.h, both of which are in libncurses5-dev. A quick look at packages.debian.org shows this holds true for testing as well. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Bugs

Re: Man

2001-10-06 Thread Aaron Hall
y, from "Unix Power Tools", 2nd Edition, O'Reilly and Associates. Far and away my favorite Unix book of any kind. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Preliminary operational tests were inconclusive. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (The damn thing blew up.) Macintosh/UNIX Weenie, Network Flack, and...eh, whatever.

Re: Email all users

2001-09-29 Thread Aaron Hall
IL PROTECTED] and it gets distributed to everyone. Hope this helps, Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Bugs> Rabbit season! [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Daffy> Duck season! : Bugs> Rabbit season! : Daffy> Duck season! FIRE!!! Macintosh

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-08 Thread Aaron Hall
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > bin: > > HELP: No files on my system are owned by user or group bin. What > good are they? Historically they were probably the owners of > binaries in /bin? It is not mentioned in the FHS, debian > policy, or the chan

Re: How to write a man page?

2001-07-17 Thread Aaron Hall
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > I've had success writing man pages in POD, Perl's psuedo-documentation language. Even if you aren't familiar with Perl, POD may be easier to deal with with troff. Perl includes a program called pod2man which will convert the POD to troff for you. On top

Re: Email Server

2001-07-11 Thread Aaron Hall
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Paul Rae wrote: > High everyone, bit of a newbie when it comes to it but slowly trying to drag > our systems from windows and first main task is mail... > > so ive got myself a nice server and played around with a few distros and > have decided on debian and exmin > > right he

Re: tty5 Displays Gibberish

2001-07-05 Thread Aaron Hall
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, John Bacalle wrote: > Sh_t, man! I like to find the hardest door jam I can typically get a > hold of and bang my head on it for a long while before I ask someone on > the other side to let me in. But, in this case I should've hollered much > earlier. ;+) 'reset' did the trick!

Re: FTP/User access, was: Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Aaron Hall
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, D-Man wrote: > Cool. It is already fixed. > > (a moment later) > # dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=text adduser > debconf: package "adduser" is not installed or does not use debconf > > | $ dpkg --status adduser | grep -i version > | Version: 3.37 > > # dpkg --status adduser |

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-26 Thread Aaron Hall
On Fri, 25 May 2001, john gennard wrote: > I'm having to look for certain lines in code and have been doing so > by laboriously counting down the program. As many error messages > make reference to line numbers, I feel sure there must be a simple > way to locate say 'line 1267' How do people go ab

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac 7600 with G3 upgrade

2001-04-20 Thread Aaron Hall
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > I don't have very much experience with installing Linux on the PPC > architecture but I believe that "yaboot" is the bootloader that you > want to use if you have a "newworld" machine. That being said I have > no idea if your is newworld. A 7600 isn't

Re: OT: Best Mac list info Mac OS X?

2001-03-05 Thread Aaron Hall
Two OS X lists that I subscribe to are: http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/X4U.html and http://www.omnigroup.com/community/mailinglists/macosx-admin/ The last is for system administration. There are more lists at omnigroup.com, and I believe there are some at stepwise.com as well, but I don't