Re: New to Debian -- simple questions

2000-12-07 Thread Chad '^chewie'; Walstrom
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Okay, I recently switched to Debian after using RedHat and > Mandrake-Linux for 2-3 years... Right off the bat, there are two > things I'd like to change. > > 1) Get rid of the login message that displays at the console after > typi

Re: man errors when no man page available

2000-12-07 Thread Chad '^chewie'; Walstrom
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:28:55AM -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote: > Sometimes when I try to view a man page that doesn't exist (try man > nomanpage, or man foo), I get these errors: > man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz is a dangling symlink > man: can't open /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1: No su

Re: Number of processors

2000-12-05 Thread Chad '^chewie'; Walstrom
Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > Does anyone know how to get the number of CPU's that a machine has > using the "C" programming language?Any URL's on the subject? This is specific to the kernel you are talking to. DOS has different API than Linux for retrieving this information. Of course, you

Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

2000-12-04 Thread Chad '^chewie'; Walstrom
I have a correction to the recipe I sent earlier... On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 03:31:09PM -0600, Chad '^chewie' Walstrom wrote: > The recipe I use to launch this is: > > # RECIPE BEGINS -- > MONTH=`date +%Y%m` > &

Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

2000-12-04 Thread Chad '^chewie'; Walstrom
Here's my setup: Software nmh - A set of electronic mail handling programs. mutt - Text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading. fetchmail-ssl - POP2/3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder (with ssl support) sendmail - A powerful mail transport agent. procmail - Versatile

Re: /usr/tmp instead of /tmp

2000-12-04 Thread Chad '^chewie'; Walstrom
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 07:09:27PM +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > -> I'd like to switch /tmp to /usr/tmp because /tmp is to small. For reasons of filesystem integrity, you should not use /usr or / directories for your /tmp directory. Likewise, /usr/src or /usr/local/src should be installed

Re: 5 DLT or SDLT Tapes recorder under Debian

2000-12-04 Thread Chad '^chewie'; Walstrom
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 06:33:15PM +0100, Manuel Segura wrote: > Hello, > > I use Potato 2.2 and I need to by a robot with for example 5 DLT or > SDLT Tapes, to backup all my servers automatically. > > Question 1) What are the conditions a tape recorder must fullfil to > work under Debian ? It m