Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why?

2020-09-26 Thread Britton Kerin
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 11:49 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:30:15AM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > > Britton Kerin writes: > > > I'm using ssh from a debian box to a rasberry pi (sorta debian also :). > > > > > > For some reason

ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why?

2020-09-21 Thread Britton Kerin
any difference. Is there some other setting somewhere that affects this? Thanks, Britton

looking for a replacement for debian since systemd

2019-12-13 Thread Britton Kerin
I see from below vote that we're working on dumping other init systems now as expected. Luckily I've given up on debian since systemd in the first place and am in long process of finding a replacement. Britton > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything B

Re: make ping executable by normal users?

2016-06-07 Thread Britton Kerin
On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 01:56:08PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: >> On my old debian system I could ping as a normal user. The ping >> binary had the suid bit set. Now I get: >> >> $ ping www.google.com &g

make ping executable by normal users?

2016-06-02 Thread Britton Kerin
understand correctly it might get changed back by an upgrade. Does it use capabilites or something? Thanks, Britton

Re: wireless without network-manager... is it still possible?

2016-05-26 Thread Britton Kerin
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Brian wrote: > On Wed 25 May 2016 at 21:21:14 -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: > >> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Brian wrote: >> > >> > The OP deposited his FUD in -user (twice), completely ignored the >> > invitatio

Re: wireless without network-manager... is it still possible?

2016-05-25 Thread Britton Kerin
s not FUD. I posted a detailed description of the problem there. Go read it and send me something useful instead of more groundless claims that bug reports on network-manager are FUD. > One hopes his transition to there was not > due to anything *I* said and he gets a glimmer of clue, :) It was partly due to you, I'm hoping for more substantive responses there. Britton

Re: wireless without network-manager... is it still possible?

2016-05-22 Thread Britton Kerin
ndicates your incompetence. >> >> >> Folks, I'm out of this thread. >> > > So what ever B says goes? > Please *NO* ! Not a problem, since he didn't actually say anything worth responding to. Britton

Re: wireless without network-manager... is it still possible?

2016-05-22 Thread Britton Kerin
On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 10:44 PM, wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 09:02:15PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: >> somehow network-manager makes it work. But I've had it with gnome, and none >> of the command line tools

wireless without network-manager... is it still possible?

2016-05-21 Thread Britton Kerin
ore it is write protected But as I say somehow network-manager makes it work. I just got a new laptop after 10 years, I didn't realize how bad the situation has become with systemd udev gnome etc. Britton

easiest way to shut down all network services besides ssh?

2014-12-17 Thread Britton Kerin
I have a system that I would like to make accessible only by ssh. No apache telnet ftp anything else. What is the easiest way to achieve this? It came from a vendor with a slew of package of all sorts, so I don't even know everything that I want to remove. Thanks, Britton -- To UNSUBS

how to make gnome SHUT DOWN when I say SHUT DOWN

2014-08-15 Thread Britton Kerin
when I say shutdown, I mean SHUTDOWN NOW, REGARDLESS OF STUPID BROKEN PROCESSES? Thanks, Britton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAC4O

debian install wireless fails on laptop with Ralink RT3290 wireless, what to do?

2014-04-13 Thread Britton Kerin
int in the installation where the installer tries to set it up that seem like it would be best, but maybe it isn't required then if you have one of the big (non-netinst) CDs? Thanks, Britton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

a browser for debian that will play pandora.com?

2013-05-31 Thread Britton Kerin
iceweasel doesn't seem to, I downloaded firefox and ran it but it doesn't seem to either (just hangs forever). Now my GF is saying just use Ubuntu blah blah is there any non-horrible way to get a browser that will play internet radio? Thanks, Britton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

which package has a binary like this sendmail one in exim?

2012-11-28 Thread Britton Kerin
Hi folks, I know exim sometimes contains a sendmail binary because on one system I get this: britt...@brittonkerin.com [~]# sendmail --version Exim version 4.76 #1 built 26-Oct-2012 16:41:54 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2007 Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.7.25: (April 4, 201

manually reset/load network nameser configuration only?

2012-11-05 Thread Britton Kerin
to specify the nameserver to user and reset that part of the network infrastructure? In effect override whatever strange problem NetWork manager sometimes has? Thanks, Britton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: looking for the 'lockfile' program

2012-10-02 Thread Britton Kerin
Ok, its part of procmail apparently. On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Britton Kerin wrote: > I'm trying to determine if the 'lockfile' program is still available > or has been obsoleted for some reason. > > I'm not looking for lockfile_create or friends, nor fl

looking for the 'lockfile' program

2012-10-02 Thread Britton Kerin
I'm trying to determine if the 'lockfile' program is still available or has been obsoleted for some reason. I'm not looking for lockfile_create or friends, nor flock, but the program described here: http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_lockfile.htm Than

difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

2012-07-19 Thread Britton Kerin
Hi everyone, I keep trying to download a big pile of packages and most of them keep failing. Internet is working and I can ping things, but most of the packages always fail. I'm wondering if ftp.us.debian.org is really overloaded or something? Thanks, Britton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

how to do something automatically at boot?

2011-12-29 Thread Britton Kerin
never show up, and the at job isn't queued. The script works fine when run from the command line. Is there something I'm missing in this process? Is there somewhere particular to look for diagnostic output for things that are supposed to be done on boot? Thanks, Britton -- To UNSUB

nvidia xserver makes fonts big and icky

2009-09-19 Thread Britton Kerin
? Thanks, Britton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: permissions problems when using libusb

2007-09-11 Thread Britton Kerin
Unfortunately someone on #debian on IRC said that the instructions in that file are incorrect when then udev-created device is involved. Or something like that. Sorry, I should have mentioned that originally. Britton On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:45:58 -0500, "Michael Shuler" <[EM

permissions problems when using libusb

2007-09-10 Thread Britton Kerin
sending control message: Operation not permitted" avrdude: usbdev_open(): error setting configuration 1: could not set config 1: Operation not permitted I didn't see a usb group in /etc/group or anything like that. Can anyone tell me the preferred way to let users run programs that use

getting debian fully working on System76 computers

2007-09-05 Thread Britton Kerin
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:59:16 -0400, "Michael Pobega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:07:08AM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: > > > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:00:55 -0400, "

upgrading ubuntu to debian

2007-08-30 Thread Britton Kerin
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disableing gnome destop background?

2006-04-07 Thread Britton Kerin
window. I couldn't figure out how to do this, can anyone tell me? Thanks, Britton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-01 Thread Britton Kerin
tried with linuxcertified but the system she got was broken in a variety of ways. I'd really appreciate it if anyone has any reccomentations of a model that they know from personnal experience will work. Thanks, Britton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

perl based web site in a can type reccomendations?

2006-01-22 Thread Britton Kerin
or others. Anyone have a recommendation? Thanks, Britton -- Britton Kerin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cordless mice with USB connected base units

2006-01-20 Thread Britton Kerin
mouse, but I'm a bit scared of it. If it needs weird drivers its probably not worth the hassle. Thanks, Britton -- Britton Kerin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: two head x server

2006-01-19 Thread Britton Kerin
ng things in, but, well, it works. For me. As long as I don't upgrade my kernel too much. *sigh* Britton > > -- > igor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > pletisan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

pthread function in testing print weird messages to stderr

2006-01-07 Thread Britton Kerin
rn: 42 1598: binding file /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 to /lib/tls/libc.so.6: normal symbol `__cxa_finalize' [GLIBC_2.1.3] 1598: binding file /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 to /lib/tls/libc.so.6: normal symbol `__cxa_finalize' [GLIBC_2.1.3] Any clues as to what is going

Re: Synching deeply nested directories Debian Server - Win XP

2005-12-08 Thread Britton Kerin
lable on Windows and Debian), but had to give > up because of the "long path name bug" in unison (or probably in OCAML). Im surprised that unison would die on long file names. The unison people say they still bug fix support unison, have you reported the problems to them? Britton --

dynamic linking of lib that uses other libs how?

2005-10-15 Thread Britton Kerin
: what is the best way to package a dynamicly linked C library for client consumption without causing trouble for the clients? Any advice or pointers to information greatly appreciated, Britton -- Britton Kerin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Britton
Its not that I don't still write first drafts of many codes in perl, its just that now I budget time to rewrite them in C if I need to (its still usually faster overall to prototype first in perl, even if you know you are doomed speed-wise). I don't know if perl and cobol have the same r

best way to disable journaling on ext3?

2003-02-02 Thread Britton
drive, and my bios giives me an update ESCD successful (or something like that) on every bootup. Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cloning my debian install onto my new hard disk?

2003-01-12 Thread Britton
greatly appreciated. Thanks, Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

good procmail alternative?

2002-12-06 Thread Britton
s and will serve as a front end from which to call spamassassin? Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

best traffic shaper solution for modem line?

2002-12-04 Thread Britton
I'm going to touch it. Seriously though, any advice which way is best to go would be greaty appreciated. Britton Kerin -- GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how to gpg sign attachments?

2002-05-09 Thread Britton
Is it possible to use gpg to sign all of a mail message, including the attachments? I have found with mh-e and mailcrypt that after doing mh-edit-mhn to incorporate the attachments, mailcrypt-sign fails. Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." -- To U

Re: OT: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-15 Thread Britton
ajor argument. There are far too few companies controlling distribution and as a result consumers still pay far more than they should and produces get paid far less than they deserve. Britton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

making gnome2 packages from unstable install

2002-03-14 Thread Britton
Is there a way to do this without breaking all the existing gnome packages? I thought the point of packages having names like gnome2 was to allow things to coexist somehow... Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-28 Thread Britton
city to prevent the populace from going insane. (note that I don't especially recommend this mediocre book). Britton On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Preben Randhol wrote: > Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28/01/2002 (17:33) : > > You might want to try www.google.com/linux. En

elisp question: how to override minor mode key maps?

2001-12-04 Thread Britton
ow-buffer-names, and we always just want to bury the *Help* ; buffer on quit. So we go and twiddle the non-public variable ; view-mode-map. (Britton Kerin, Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:24:29 -0900) (add-hook 'view-mode-hook (lambda () (when (equal (buffer-name) "*Help*&q

HP CD Writer 7200 broken since kernel 2.4

2001-10-30 Thread Britton
a problem like this? Britton __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."

Re: [slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-25 Thread Britton
e new shell (eshell) is especially nice. > > > > > > > I agree, this new emacs is great. Maybe by version 22 they will just make > > EmacsOS! > > Does the new version of GNU emacs support *console mode* syntax > highlighting (I guess it's called "font locking" in emacs-speak). Of course :) Britton

looking for a game of hunt

2001-08-31 Thread Britton
Does anyone play hunt (from bsdgames package) anymore? I really got a craving for a taste of this classic today but was unable to locate any information on where the players are. Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."

Re: Can't print after kernel compile

2001-08-16 Thread Britton
d shows 2 copies running. I can kill one but > problem remains. One of those may have been the grep process itself. > Any ideas? Could I have set up something incorrectly in kernel? Just the one above. Good luck. Britton

ssh2 passwordless login does not work with ssh-keygen -t rsa?

2001-08-02 Thread Britton
e did not send a packet, disable method debug3: authmethod_lookup password debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive debug3: authmethod_is_enabled password debug1: next auth method to try is password [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: ... Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."

how to get list of emacs key descriptions

2001-06-22 Thread Britton
I know for example that meta x is described as "\M-x". How is tab described, or how can I find out for a general key. I'm not seeing it in the docs. Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."

another strange bootup message: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument

2001-06-19 Thread Britton
Oddly, this one does't show up in dmesg. It happens a couple of times during bootup and thats it. Ideas what is going on would be mose welcome. Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."

how do I find out which device this bit of dmesg refers to?

2001-06-19 Thread Britton
I get a message like this is dmesg: PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0f.0. Please try using pci=biosirq. I think this first showed up around kernel version 2.4.4. Anyone know what might be causing it or how you figure out which device is 00:0f.0? Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL

Re: CD Paranoia problem

2001-06-07 Thread Britton
. It sounds like cdparanoia may be needing one of those. You might try checking to be sure they exist and are accessible to you/your group. Britton > [/Shell] > > So I thought about check the permissions related to /dev/cdrom and /dev/scd0 > and > what group my user was in:

making completion work the same in emacs shell mode as from xterm

2001-05-23 Thread Britton
emacs completion seems to behave differently than it does from an xterm. Aliases are ignored, and command lines apps completion works differently. Is there a way to emacs to let the ordinary bash completion happen, or come as close as possible to this? Thanks, Britton

which C types to use for computing off_t sizes with LFS?

2001-03-06 Thread Britton
a why this works though. Examining the headers, off64_t looks like it is really a structure consisting of a single array of two long integers, is the compiler responsible for making this multiplication make sense, or what? Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."

command substitution in a crontab with SHELL=/bin/bash

2001-02-23 Thread Britton
+%s) command substitution works perfectly. An identical command executed on the command line works perfectly. Anyone have any guesses as to what might be going on here? Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."

Re: postgresSQL: howto start the machinery

2001-01-29 Thread Britton
You have to be user postgres to create postgreSQL users. As root, you can become any username you want like this: su username Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Olivier Billet wrote: > Hi everyone, > > i'd li

popularity-contest results viewable?

2001-01-10 Thread Britton
Is there any way to view the statistics turned in by the popularity-contest package? Thanks. Britton

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Opinions on the O'Reilly book: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/

2001-01-03 Thread Britton
O'Reilly kernel book is pretty good, definately much better than Linux Internals. __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Ray Percival wrote: > I assume you mean the O'Reilly Debian book. It is worth reading online > th

Re: newbieDoc: Debian runlevels intro

2001-01-02 Thread Britton
Are these docs going to be included somewhere in the distro when complete, or live permanently on the web? They look handy. Britton Kerin On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, will trillich wrote: > i've got another newbieDoc that scratches the surface of > Debian runlevels... > > http:

Re: Sound record program

2000-12-22 Thread Britton
t. If you want it in, for example wav format, you can get sox as well and do something like: rawrec -t secs | sox -t sw -r 44100 -c 2 - soundfile.wav good luck, Britton

Re: playing sounds from command line

2000-12-22 Thread Britton
y raw audio with good buffering. I use it with sox to record and play back different sound file formats. \end{shameless_plug} Britton

does there exist a lib for userspace producer/consumer?

2000-12-12 Thread Britton
transforming functions. Does anyone know if anything like this exists? Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."

rsync

2000-10-29 Thread Britton
stty: standard input: Invalid argument Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."

OT: subscribing to linux-kernel

2000-09-15 Thread Britton
nd it since they redid their site. Thanks, Britton

setting up ssh so that ssh'ing to a system doesn't require password

2000-06-20 Thread Britton
file (which I havn't been able to find in the docs). Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."

anyone have apsfilter working with a networked ps printer?

2000-05-18 Thread Britton
If you do, and you could mail me a copy of your config files, (/etc/printcap and /etc/apsfilterrc in particular) I would greatly appreciate it. Configuring apsfilter to work for remote printers seems to be somewhat tricky (as advertised). Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be wit

remapping M$ windows key to act as meta under console emacs (like X)

2000-05-15 Thread Britton
pending on where is is run. Anyone know the best way to make things consistent? Should this perhaps be changed in the package? Britton Kerin

color syntax highlighting in emacs without X?

2000-05-15 Thread Britton
Is there some way to do this? It seems it should be possible but I havn't been able to find any reference to it in the emacs docs. list-colors-display just produces an empty, colorless list. Any info appreciated. Britton Kerin

problem with latest X release

2000-03-24 Thread Britton
With the latest frozen software, I get Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' when I try to run X. Is this a known problem? Anyone have an idea what I should try first? Thanks. Britton Kerin

Re: pthreads man pages?

2000-02-04 Thread Britton
Yes, they must be, since I have them on my system. Unfortunately, I'm not sure which of the (stable) packages I have installed is providing them. Perhaps someone can tell me how to check which package is providing a given file on my system? Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source wi

dropping libc 2.1 into stable for some development work possible?

2000-01-20 Thread Britton
ny strange compilation options or both I will probably just brave unstable. Thanks for any advice you can offer me. Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."

system fubar after attempted upgrade to unstable, what now?

1999-11-05 Thread Britton
0. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/dkpg//methods/ftp/install line 10. Installation script returned error exit status 2. which I suppose means my perl is screwed up. What should I do first to try to fix my system? Britton

thread _POSIX_THREAD_PRIO_INHERIT support under linux?

1999-10-28 Thread Britton
POSIX_THREAD_PRIO_CEILING not supported\n"); #endif } _POSIX_THREAD_PRIO_INHERIT not supported _POSIX_THREAD_PRIO_CEILING not supported Am I missing an important include or something? Is support better in kernel version 2.2? Any help or advice greatly appriciated. __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin

how to read MIME from nmh? is tm packaged?

1999-10-23 Thread Britton
.emacs. If anyone sees any problems with the above I would appreciate advice on them also. __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin

no way to make bookmark into info page in emacs?

1999-08-24 Thread Britton Leo Kerin
When I do C-x r m and type bison and return, I don't get anything (neither error messages nor other stuff), but when I try to jump to the bookmark I get bison nonexistent. Relocate "bison"? (y or n) If I choose to relocate it into the info page again, the problem persists. Is there any way to

is there a library to convert -u timeopt to struct tm?

1999-08-22 Thread Britton Leo Kerin
Does anyone know of such a library? I tried to look at the 'at' program for some functions to borrow, but the actual date parser appears to be done with bison or some such beast which I don't know, and I can't figure out what I would need from it exactly. Any ideas greatly appreciated. Britton

mlockall() and pthreads together?

1999-08-17 Thread Britton Leo Kerin
I assume if I execute mlockall and then later create a bunch of threads, they come into existance without their memory locked into RAM? Anyone know for sure? Britton

Problem with Mutt and Exim

1999-08-14 Thread Britton
en able to mail anything at all with this exim.conf, though I swear I used to be able to. I know I havn't changed the above conciously, and I suspect if I accidently added junk it was elsewhere, as the above looks correct. Good luck. __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin

Re: please someone send me their working exim.conf for ppp?

1999-08-14 Thread Britton
re wanting to rewrite one of them, I think the envelope one. exim can indeed do this, but all I can tell you at the moment is that you might want to search for the word 'envelope' in spec.txt (which is the main exim documentation. But be warned, this file is about 30,000 lines. Good luck, Britton

please someone send me their working exim.conf for ppp?

1999-08-12 Thread Britton
. I would really appreciate it if someone could send me a copy of their exim.conf from their working system so I could poke through and compare. Thanks in advance for any assistance, Britton Kerin

Re: record from line in

1999-08-12 Thread Britton
What is your input gain value? Is esound mixer and recorder all rolled into one? __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin On 10 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [NON-Text Body part not included]

exim as MTA for a ppp machine how?

1999-08-06 Thread Britton
guration file. # This is an example of a useful rewriting rule---it looks up the real # address of all local users in a file [EMAIL PROTECTED]${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\ {$value}fail} bcfrF # End of Exim configuration file Any help or advice greatly appreciated. __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin

Re: two problems

1999-04-13 Thread Britton Kerin
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Sidney Brooks wrote: > I recently had to replace my hard disk which meant reloading > everything. I now have two problems. > 1. Although I had no trouble with Word Perfect before, when I > downloaded it again, I could not use it because it can't locate libX.. > . I had this

Re: email threat

1999-04-06 Thread Britton Kerin
er than to assume that anything you say will remain private for long. You both have movie star status in software circles: more people know your names than don't. I suggest to both of you that you refrain from writing *anything* as inflammatory as either of the messages in your latest exchange, public or private. Britton

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-06 Thread Britton
randi of want --> voluntary unselfish colaboration --> result without any other waste involved has proven remarkably and hearteningly succesful. > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Britton Kerin

semop() SEMMSL constant gone?

1999-02-26 Thread Britton
#include #include #include Any ideas or suggestions greatly appreciated. __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin

Re: Totally OFFTOPIC: tournament scheduler program

1999-02-26 Thread Britton
Hmm, mayby octave. Sounds like it could be getting to be an interesting combinatorical problem :) __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry to bug you with this, it is totally off

OFF TOPIC: is this abuse of mmap()?

1999-02-05 Thread Britton Kerin
I have been trying to read() audio data into an mmap()ed region (from a file just created and empty before the mmap call. I know that read() normally puts the data in a buffer and not a file, but with mmap() you get back a caddr_t pointer which I am hoping read() can use. Here is the relevant c

OFF TOPIC: mh-e MIME inclusion == pine attachment?

1999-01-01 Thread Britton
Are these the same thing? If not, is there any way to do simple attachments with mh-e? __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin

Re: Can't send mail from my machine:

1999-01-01 Thread Britton
it rewrite local mail on my machine with the wrong address. I havn't managed to ferret a solution to this out of the docs though :) __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin On Thu, 31 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 1

Re: AWE 64 setup ?

1998-12-28 Thread Britton
dea what's going on with isapnp and the AWE card into the boot. Good luck. __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin On 28 Dec 1998, Didier Verna wrote: > > Hi! > > Is there a simple way to setup my SoundBlaster AWE

Re: Can't send mail from my machine:

1998-12-28 Thread Britton
connected machine :) __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Matt Miller wrote: > The following attempt to contact the outside world fails: > > mail -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > I immediately receive a mes

Re: ftping StarOffice in small doses

1998-12-14 Thread Britton
You want ncftp. Use the get -C command. __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, tracheotomy bob wrote: > Hi all, > I want to download StarOffice but with it being 70Mb I don't fancy > having an > open line

incorrect username on 'From:' line of outgoing messages

1998-12-13 Thread Britton
when asked by smailconfig for my systems visable address, but it doesn't allow this. Is there any way to change this behavior so my outgoin messages have '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the 'From:' field, or do I just need to use a 'Reply-to:' field. Any help or advice greatly

Re: PPP as normal user

1998-09-29 Thread Britton
I have problems starting ppp as a normal user also that I have not been able to cure by mucking with permissiont in /etc and elsewhere. Mind firing off a quick ls -l /etc/ppp*? I'd really appreciate it. __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin On 27 A

debian program to list junk in filesystem?

1998-06-05 Thread Britton
y, so perhaps it already exists somewhere? :) Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Nethack save files: was: angband save problems

1998-05-28 Thread Britton Leo Kerin
Nethack seems to have the same sort of problem. Is this perhaps a systematic error in debian's arrangement for games and other things that have to save data of this sort, or is there something we're missing? I seem to remember a big argument about where to keep certain kinds of 'variable-config-

Re: how do I delete not empty directories

1998-05-10 Thread Britton
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > On Sun, 10 May 1998, Keith wrote: > > > I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing > > a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am > > logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something

ppp, nethack problems in hamm

1998-05-07 Thread Britton
e had these problems? found solutions? __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [off-topic] Distributed computing, stellar computation

1998-04-29 Thread Britton
everything, which I guess makes it enough of a computing job that the network can keep up (but they must have a pretty flashy central server). __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." Britton Kerin On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Kiyan Azarbar wrote: > The following is a part of a m

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