Re: telnet sucks

2001-10-07 Thread Gustaf Erikson
^^ So? rms does that all the time... ;-) Got to agree about ssh, though. Much better than telnet. Add a non-us source to your sources list and install it today! /g. -- Gustaf Erikson -+- +46 70 444 0726 -+- [http://stureby.net/]

International characters in less (was: Re: international characters in mutt)

2001-10-07 Thread Gustaf Erikson
=less > > > > in your .muttrc? I don't think the built-in pager was meant to be as > > complete as a dedicated pager. > > Thanks for the quick reply, but less does not support the characters in > question either. It does, if you set the LESSCHARSET environment variable to "latin1" /g. -- Gustaf Erikson -+- +46 70 444 0726 -+- [http://stureby.net/]

Re: putting cdrom into sources.list

2001-10-05 Thread Gustaf Erikson
The cdrom scheme allows APT to use a local CDROM drive with media swapping. Use the apt-cdrom(8) program to create cdrom entires in the source list. /g. -- Gustaf Erikson -+- +46 70 444 0726 -+- [http://stureby.net/]

Re: Pure-ftpd -- connection refused

2001-10-02 Thread Gustaf Erikson
-u 100 So, the server starts ok standalone, but I suspect that something is preventing inetd from starting the server. I worked around this by changing the value of the variable "$STANDALONE_OR_INETD" to "standalone" in /etc/default/pure-ftpd, and running the server standalone

Re: Pure-ftpd -- connection refused

2001-10-01 Thread Gustaf Erikson
P Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:57:59PM +0200, Gustaf Erikson wrote: > >Has anyone tinkered with the pure-ftpd package > >(http://pureftpd.sourceforge.net/)? I've installed it using apt-get, > >but when I try to connect to localho

Pure-ftpd -- connection refused

2001-10-01 Thread Gustaf Erikson
g, but I should at least get a prompt for anonymous access... No amount of googling can dispel this mystery. I have now signed up to the mailing list, and I hope I can find information using the Sourceforge list search, which seems on the blink from here at the moment. tia, /g. -- Gustaf Eri

Re: Cannot compile PCMCIA modules

2001-09-18 Thread Gustaf Erikson
Replying to my own post: I never found out what caused this problem. I "solved" it by re-installing the system (ok as long as you are home sick :-) ) and using only "stable" files. /g. Gustaf Erikson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to install a new

Cannot compile PCMCIA modules

2001-09-17 Thread Gustaf Erikson
/modules/pcmcia-cs# = This also occurs if I just do a "make clean && make config && make all" in the pcmcia-cs dir. The same problem occurs w/ an earlier version of pcmcia-source, namely 3.1.22-02potato. I've tried Go

Summary: upgrading bo->hamm with Linuxpress official CD:s

1998-11-16 Thread gustaf . erikson
or the list Archives seriously bad? I can't seem to find anything interesting... -- Gustaf Erikson -- 59*21'N 18*05'E -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I use pen and paper -- like a Christian." -- Patrick O'Brian, on his choice of word processor.

Strange encoding official CD from Linuxpress

1998-11-13 Thread gustaf . erikson
Hi all, I shelled out good money (Swedish) to purchase the official 2.0 distribution from Linuxpress. However, as soon as I mounted the CD to begin the upgrade, strange things appeared when I did this: [root]:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom mount: block device /dev/hdb is write-protected, mou

virus trashing LILO?

1997-11-17 Thread Gustaf Erikson
partition, and handles boot to Win95 from there. Can the MBR be subverted by a virus and wreak havoc on Linux? Regards, /g. -- Gustaf Erikson <---*---> 59*19'N 18*05'E <http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~f92-ger/> Schizophrenic Linux user: Debian on Intel, Redhat on Sparc -- TO

emacs 20.*

1997-10-18 Thread Gustaf Erikson
I've heard a lot about Emacs 20.*. But there doesn't seem to be a Debian package out. How come? And don't tell me to Debiainize it myself. I haven't got that sort of expertise... /g. -- Gustaf Erikson <---*---> 59*19'N 18*05'E <http://w

problem with leafnode and gnus

1997-10-12 Thread Gustaf Erikson
localhost', as per orders. As far as I know, the news server I'm using is standard issue. I can read the news sucked down with the command find /var/spool/news/comp -name '[0-9]*' -exec cat {} \; | more but I find this a little tiring... /g. -- Gustaf Erikson

Re: enlightenment window manager?

1997-10-10 Thread Gustaf Erikson
ing it from source. Don't forget the imlib package. It's a very cool package, but my small monitor doesn't do it justice. According to the developer (http://www.rasterman.com/), the next release will be rewritten. /g. -- Gustaf Erikson <*> 59*21'N 18*05'E