Message from syslogd...

2000-11-04 Thread J.P. Larocque
yptic message mean, if anything at all? Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Info: I'm running Debian 2.2 with bits of unstable packages installed, and according to dpkg, 'sysklogd' is installed as version 1.3-33 -- J.P. Larocque, known online as piranha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fidon

Re: OT: shell prompt tip

2000-09-14 Thread J.P. Larocque
y, "cd ", which would be equivalent of typing "cd ..\..\..\". It could be thought of as going up the directory tree, one dot per level, the first representing the CWD. Is there any practical way I could make bash expand multiple dots like it would wildcards, passing the full

Re: stale/defunt sessions in debian

2000-09-10 Thread J.P. Larocque
s in '...\} 1 '.) So to be nice, give zile a chance to exit cleanly, by issuing 'kill -TERM 7220 1243'. You should put every PID number (second column of 'ps ...' output) on the command-line with 'kill -TERM'. Wait a few seconds, and now issue 'kil

Re: Family proofing a Debian box

2000-09-10 Thread J.P. Larocque
ldn't be so motivated to hack* your box that you would need to secure it like I suggested. And to Jon, if you can bypass the first method of security without damaging the lock, or just simply hacking* the box in a more conventional way, while only using a floppy disk, please share some insig

Re: /tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread J.P. Larocque
more insight on the situation. In summary, if /tmp is deleted, don't sweat it, just make sure to reboot. (Cleanly. =) -- J.P. Larocque, known online as piranha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fidonet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:346/6 (The Garage, 509-326-4609)

Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim

2000-08-25 Thread J.P. Larocque
will be used for the "From:" line. -- J.P. Larocque, known online as piranha [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:01:14AM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote: > using mutt, i can compose and send an email. but the "from" line has the > incorrect sender address (&qu

Code Page 437

2000-08-23 Thread J.P. Larocque
ont but I don't know if the font is part of X--and therefore accessible to xterm--or proprietary to xdos. I should note that I still use slink. It's hard to upgrade when your Internet connection is a 14.4kbps modem. Thanks a lot in advance to anyone who can reply with information. -- J.P. Larocque, known online as piranha [EMAIL PROTECTED]