On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 03:45:56PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> Is there a utility to eliminate locales other than the native locale from
> my machine? Or can I just delete the unneeded directories from the tree?
apt-localepurge
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On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:44:24AM -0400, User zos wrote:
> I'm sorry...its been a super crazy night (and I mean ULTRA) and this has
> been bothering me for a while. Is there a specific benefit to not deleting
> this stuff after I have decided that I no longer want something installed
> on my box?
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 05:00:49PM +, Pollywog wrote:
> I need the man page for regexp but can't seem to locate it.
> Anyone know where I can obtain it? I searched the Packages page but could
> not find it there.
I'm late in the thread, so maybe someone's answered you already: it
isn't regex
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 11:58:39PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> surely there's a utility out there somewhere--
macutils
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On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 10:38:55PM -0500, Steve Taylor wrote:
> How can I restore the cdrom driver?
you can mount the cdrom as /dev/scd0, or you can modprobe
-r ide-scsi and try again.
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On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:53:56PM -0500, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> This worked great, but they said they needed to be able to do remote
> admin. I installed ssh, but they wanted to have X, not the console, and
> they had to be able to do it from windoze. I decided VNC was my answer,
> so I came u
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 10:08:14AM +, Mário Henrique Cruz Tôrres wrote:
> Good morning everyone. I wan't know if can I delete the first 200
> files ( in alphabetical order ) in a directory wich have
> 300 files ?
> I'm using bash shell.
you can use xargs (as you've been told already),
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 10:41:07AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Do let the FAQ maintainer know, then. According to the feedback section,
> his address is Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
I'll wait for 2.4.7 :/
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:13:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>In newer kernels this message reads lp1 reported invalid error status
>(on fire, eh?).
that should read 'older newer kernels' or something. It means
2.2.x. (in 2.4.x people returned to sanity and put it back)
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:32:46PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running Debian testing with a custom compiled 2.4.5 kernel. Since I've
> enabling logging with my iptables rules (at info and warn levels) every
> single log is being output to the current console.
set your debug level
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:47:01AM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote:
> hi
> When I try to run mathematica on debian (potato with kernel 2.2.19) I get an
> error stating that mathematica fonts are not properly installed. I have
> added the mathematica font directory (i.e. subdirectories of
> /usr/local/m
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 05:29:26PM +, Vittorio wrote:
> 2) Is that possible to configure emacs to wrap lines at, say, 72 char?
I don't know how you'd put it in your .emacs, but C-x f is
set-fill-column, so C-u 72 C-x f would do that for you.
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 12:37:03PM +0200, vester wrote:
>
> i foolishly deleted /etc/init.d/gdm -- could anyone send me that script
> or tell me how to re-install it?
apt-get install --reinstall gdm
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On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:25:26AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> okay. procmail and i are getting a divorce. we just don't
> see eye-to-eye any more.
>
> i've seen people post actual perl code here, which somehow
> filters their email. is that "mailagent"? (i don't want to
> give command-lin
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:41:58AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> 1) is the exim filtering mechanism uncharacteristically
> lethargic? seems like processing takes heap long time forever.
> maybe i missed an option or feature...?
perhaps your exim is launched from inetd, and your load
deliver_load_m
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:33:43PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:55:56AM -0300, John R Lenton wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:41:58AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> > > 3) anybody got some high-power, dual-exhaust, chrome-plated,
> > > tw
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:04:02PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> query:
>
> does
> seen save ...
>
> stop processing as if you'd said "finish"?
yes, and they're both redundant: "save ..." would be sufficient.
If you're really paranoid, you'd use "seen save ..." *and*
"finish" :)
Actually,
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 10:46:38AM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> How do I stop telnet sessions coming IN?
don't run telnetd.
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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 07:43:49AM +, Richard Skinner wrote:
> I've been searching for info on how to do this for a couple
> of days, but now it's time to beg for help...
>
> I use a Debian box at home which I regularly update from
> the 'unstable' archive on ftp.debian.org - at the moment
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:55:14PM -0600, Stefan Srdic wrote:
> I know that SPICE3 is BSD software, and that it comes with the same
> license as BSD, but I want to build a SPICE3 deb package so that I can
> use it with Oregano from the unstable.
let me know when you do -- I could use it myself.
-
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:20:53AM -0400, John Willey wrote:
> Yes, /usr/src is EMPTY.
You said it. :)
I append the debian-lovin-kernel-buildin-HOWTO, (c) apt the
#debian bot (not really, but someone on #debian). Enjoy.
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On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 05:30:14PM -0400, Chris Story wrote:
> remove me
send Tony and Vito here your address and a photo, they'll be glad
to "remove" you. Nothing personal, it's their job.
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On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 01:17:46PM +0200, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote:
> Hello Alexander,
>
> * Alexander Steinert wrote:
>
> > What's the fastest way to do this on the command line?
>
> I think there are more than thousand solutions ;-)
> grep ^%%Pages file.ps|awk '{ print $2 }'
any idea why this
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:24:30AM +0200, Andre Berger wrote:
> I have a shell script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ that synchronizes the system
> clock with time servers via rdate. Sometimes the servers can't be
> reached, and the rest of my scripts are blocked. Is there a way to say:
> "You have at most 1
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:10:37AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> I am so sick of spending hours crawling over HOWTOs from LinuxDoc just to
> find out that the documentation is wrong! Worse, tons of people know it's
> wrong, and no one, not the document maintainer, or anyone who's already g
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:37:39AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> How do I deal with the situation where glob("*") is used and where there
> are files that contain spaces in their file names?
what "situation"?
$ touch a\ b c\ d
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-rw-r--1 john john
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:32:43AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> [ ... about fiddling with mutt to get fancy signatures ...]
What I'd really like (and implement if I had the time) is for
mutt to have an option to check on startup if .signature is a
pipe, and if so to write into it the header of th
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:27:51AM +1000, Mark wrote:
> Currently I am using Netscape for my emails. I know that Mutt will
> handle gnupg signitures and encryption etc which Netscape doesn't seem
> to. But will Mutt allow me to open .jpg, pdf and word files. Currently
> I have Netscape set up to
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 08:20:07PM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote:
> Is there a simple open source Linux database program
> available that can access Dbase IV file types. I have
> many Dbase IV files with personal and scientific
> information such as a CD library, address file,
> medical information, 3
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:28:40PM -0500, Stephen Boulet wrote:
>
> Thanks! You called it right. I had the cable going to my cdrom on /dev/sr1
> and not the cdrw on /dev/sr0.
xmms has this wonderful plugin that reads music CDs via the data
cable á la cdparanoia, xmms-cdread. In unstable, at leas
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 03:23:16PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>
> I'm running ReiserFS under 2.2.18 with no problems. I've also heard
> persistant rumors of "not there yet" under 2.4, including from several
> kernel hackers, and have no plans to migrate until I hear differently.
> I haven't ta
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:27:34AM +0200, Marcel Lanz wrote:
>
> at the moment I parse huge logfiles like /var/log/messages and I am
> suprised that the date string doesn't include the year in the timestamp.
The idea I guess is that if you actually keep the logs for more
than a year you're probab
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:49:09PM +0200, Mateusz Mazur wrote:
> Hi.
>
> It wasn't good idea to put all questions in one letter. So know I post
> it single. I will be very great ful fot any help.
>
> Q:
> How should I configure exim to relay mails. People from my office want
> send mails to anywh
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 01:29:58PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> mailx was made no longer setgid mail in a potato security update because
> it was too riddled with security holes, and hence it doesn't have write
> permissions to the /var/mail directory. You can still use it for sending
> mail, bu
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:08:39PM -0400, Roderick Cummings wrote:
> I'm getting an error when checking my mail with mail. After reading the
> mail, and exiting, it does not delete the mail, it prints out:
>
> Unable to lock mailbox: Permission denied
>
> Now if I use mutt, I can delete the mess
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:24:34PM -0500, hanasaki wrote:
> I tried adding an imap server to NS and using netscape to copy all my
> folders. Ns bombed! even when copying one folder at a time.
perl. bash, even. Copy the NS folder over to a unix/linux box and
just move it in.
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On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:52:07PM -0500, Bradley James Reid wrote:
> i've got a problem at boot.
> my debian system crashes. it's using kernel 2.0.36.
> the error follows the check of the hardware.
> and the error is:
> unable to open initial console
You compiled your own kernel? you've probab
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:06:53PM -0500, Jason Pepas wrote:
> i seem to remember reading that you have to use tar in order to get a
> complete copy of a filesystem. unfortunately i dont remember the
> details.
GNU cp has the "-a" option. I've copied my hd several times now using
cp -vax / /
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:11:14PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote:
> In theory, this is fine. But on my system (512 MB RAM) it's not always like
> that. After a few hours of work with a lot of opening apps and documents and
> images, it dips into swap, and it does that even when I close most apps. So
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:58:02AM +, fr ml wrote:
> Sorry to insist, but does somebody reading this mailing
> list have any ideas of the way to resolv this problem.
> Or can you give me links or else to help me !
>
> It a project on with I had to figth for Linux to be
> considered as an alter
Hello all.
I'm looking for an archive (á la archive.debian.org) of the
non-us part of bo. So far I've found dregs of one at wuarchive,
but AFAICT pieces are missing: the Packages file lists
apache-common apache-ssl bzip cfs crypt++el des-solnet mutt-i
pgp-i pgp-us rsaref sambades ssh ssle
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