Re: multi line regex's in vi ...

2000-05-01 Thread John Forest
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 08:13:21PM -0700, Rick Younie wrote: > On Sat, Apr 29, 2000, Adam Shand wrote: > > > > > A two-liner is > > > %s/^// - add to the start of each line > > > %s/^$// - remove any lines that contain only > > > > nope won't work. it'll put a ' ' at the beginning of every

Re: samba questions

1999-10-29 Thread John Forest
Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Hi all, > > After reading 1/2 ton of doc, I don't have answers. > > I'd like to know if its possible to: > > * setup 2 printers on my server (one //, the other serial) > and use them remotely from W$, without special trick > to switch from one to the other > > *

Re: find | egrep

1999-10-11 Thread John Forest
Enrico Zini wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Not a debian question, moreso a generic Unix question.. I need to be able > > to use find and egrep to scan a directory which has more than 3000 files in > > it. I read in the manual ie "man egrep" that the lines are limi

Re: labels

1999-09-19 Thread John Forest
eric wrote: > Greetings: > > I am running potato with an hpdeskjet 540c installed as my printer. > > I would like to find out how to print labels under Debian linux. > > I am a hobbyist bee-keeper and give labeled honey jars to friends. > Last year I printed my labels under a windows program b

Re: weird entry in netstat

1999-09-12 Thread John Forest
Pollywog wrote: > I don't have Licq or other ICQ clone running, and I ran 'netstat' and got > this: > > udp0 0 pollywog.sunset.ne:1062 fes-d018.icq.aol.:gicqd > ESTABLISHED > > > Anyone know what this is about? > > > thanks > > -- > Andrew > I had something similar, also never

Slink, tkdesk and libc6_2.1

1999-08-31 Thread John Forest
Hope this is the right place to mention this: Did an apt-get update this morning and found package tkdesk in slink/proposed-updates has a new revision which depends on libc6 (>=2.1) (dists/proposed-updates/tkdesk_1.1-3_i386.deb) I believe this to be an oversight. Isn't slink; libc6 < 2.1 ?? Ne

Re: sendmail: to queue or not to queue

1999-08-27 Thread John Forest
Remco van de Meent wrote: > Hey, > > I'm looking for a way to have local and remote deliveries in sendmail being > scheduled in a different way. I'd like to do this: > > . if an incoming email is being sent to a local mail address, then try to >deliver immediately > . if an incoming email i

Re: Running two mgetty's on same line

1998-12-21 Thread John Forest
Tim Thomson wrote: > Hi, > > I have mgetty running on my modem from inittab and it answers after 10 > rings, but I've set up xringd to dialup the internet and then run mgetty. > The second one complains about the first, and won't run. > > I would take the mgetty out of the inittab, but then when

Re: Diald

1998-12-21 Thread John Forest
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been able to configure diald to restrict dialing out at certain > times (like after I go to bed). However, if I have the connection up > when the restriction time comes, it will kill the connection. I'm > wondering if it would be possible for diald to prevent dia

Re: help!

1998-11-19 Thread John Forest
nbrown wrote: > i am trying to use apt and typing ... in pon..'apt-get' without the > ' of course > i get msgs about not being able to contact host. It seems to be looking > on the web for debian and just is not able to connect can you tell me > what is wrong? I'm confused. Are you inserting '

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list

1998-11-11 Thread John Forest
Jiri Baum wrote: > [ snip ] > > > Well, once you've installed them, you usually don't need them any more. > What if this procedure needs to be repeated on a network of debian boxes? Would be redundant to get the packages for each machine, IMO. John.

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-06 Thread John Forest
Hi, While all this cloak and dagger stuff makes for good entertainment, I believe the following link sums up my feeling on this a lot better then I could. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981105.html Got that from http://slashdot.org John.

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-23 Thread John Forest
Anthony Campbell wrote: > I thought I'd got apt-get to read my local cdrom but it seems I was wrong. It > will update the packages but won't install anything. I have a Cheapbytes > cdrom. > > The entry in my sources.list is as follows: > > > deb file:/cdrom/debian main/binary-i386/

Re: Can apt access a local cdrom?

1998-10-10 Thread John Forest
Michael Beattie wrote: > > easy.. make a small directory tree, (/usr/local/debian) with each > Packages.gz within. i.e.: > > debian/dists/hamm/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz > debian/dists/hamm/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz > debian/dists/hamm/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz > > then fill the r

Re: Can apt access a local cdrom?

1998-10-09 Thread John Forest
Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > No, I already tried this and it doesn't work. It gives "unable to state > /cdrom/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz" > > The problem seems to be that the file structure on my cdrom is > /debian/main/binary-i386/. Stable is a link to /debian/main. Th

Re: Suck/get-news problem

1998-10-09 Thread John Forest
Gossamer wrote: > > My Debian install's -almost- making sense now! > > Just a few tiny things ... when I run get-news to download > Usenet via suck, I get this: > > [snip] > Total articles to download: 929 > 1836135 Bytes received in 62 mins 54.05 secs, BPS = 486.5 > Closed connection to news.me

Re: completely strange system time....

1998-10-09 Thread John Forest
Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote: > Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > i recently installed a debian system, and since then have a completely > > strange > > system time: my clock reports: > > 09:13:43 yoda:~$ date > > Thu Oct 8 09:14:23 MST 1998 > > and a correctly working host: > > 16:17:21 erm6:~$ date > >

Re: IP Masq and debian

1998-10-09 Thread John Forest
Lee Bradshaw wrote: > Hi, > > How am I supposed to use the ipmasq package with ppp? Is it possible? > I tried using 0.0.0.0 as the external ip address, but I received a > few error messages when booting and I couldn't telnet to the machine > anymore. I couldn't find any documentation in /usr/doc/i

Re: lost "dir" in /usr/info

1998-09-30 Thread John Forest
Obi wrote: > Well I got a dir from another machine (I didn't have the dir.old either) and I > tried to manully add the node I have that wasn't already in there. And now I > can't look into the libc nodes. I mean, it shows up in the dir (so if I do > info it shows up) but the libc menu page is with

Re: lost "dir" in /usr/info

1998-09-29 Thread John Forest
Obi wrote: > Hi all, > > sometimes ago I had a crash and I ended up loosing the dir file in the > /usr/info directory. How can I recreate it? > > thanks > graziano > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > Check for /usr/info/dir.old This might save some

Re: X locks at -bpp 16

1998-09-26 Thread John Forest
David Densmore wrote: > John Forest wrote: > > >David Densmore wrote: > > > >>I have a Diamond SpeedStar Pro with CL-GD5426 chip and am running > >>the svga X server. > >> > >>It works fine when I run it at -bpp 8, but at -bpp 16 it start

Re: Sendmail Problems

1998-09-24 Thread John Forest
On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 08:33:42AM +0530, Saisanthosh B wrote: > How do I prevent Sendmail (8.8.8) from doing a DNS lookup when sending an > e-mail. The Sendmail FAQ states that : > > With version 8.8, you change the service switch file to omit > "DNS" and use only NIS, files, and other m

Re: X locks at -bpp 16

1998-09-24 Thread John Forest
Hi David, Perhaps you have more then 16 meg of ram? I had a similar problem with a 5426; it work before a memory upgrade, not after. Although my symptoms were quite different. see: /usr/lib/X11/doc/README.cirrus for more information. John. On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 04:17:04AM -0500, David Densmo