Re: Silent Cron Jobs

2008-03-27 Thread Patter
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:40:12 +0100, Curt Howland wrote: > I tried to whip up a small cron job, I put a short script > in /etc/cron.daily thinking that this would work. > > Well, yes, it works, but I get mail sent to me by cron explaining that > the job executed successfully. http://www.linuxhelp

Re: how to determine from script if/where X is running

2008-03-27 Thread Patter
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:50:07 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Most programs simply check for the DISPLAY environment variable. This > is not totally reliable as it can be changed at will, but if the user > messes around with that variable, it is considered his fault. And > you're in good company. Th

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-29 Thread Patter
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:00:15 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > "I love the cream swirling into the coffee graphic that was a > bootsplash at some point. Don't know if it's still around, but it sure > captures my image of debian." > > If it doesn't even remotely hint of Java i'll vote for that. I mad

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-06 Thread Patter
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:30:21 +0100, Steve Lamb wrote: > John Hasler wrote: >> s. keeling writes: >>> Mutt handles any standard form of mail box format, including >>> on_some_other_server(don't much care how), aka. imap. > >> Internet Message Access Protocol is a protocol, not a file format. > >

Re: too many mutts

2008-02-04 Thread Patter
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:00:19 +0100, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > Is there a script I could make that I could use to start mutt, and if > mutt were already running, then it could just take me to the already- > running instance of it, instead of starting a new mutt? Hacked up from a little perlish I h

Re: PUPPIES FOR SALE

2008-01-29 Thread Patter
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:50:11 +0100, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I'd be interested in a filter that would work on a message like that.. Not > sure what the difference is between a message about puppies and a message > about ndiswrapper.. Not sure if ndiswrapper is in the dictionary, but puppies > is

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-23 Thread Patter
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:20:21 +0100, Dan H wrote: > Hmmm... I tried that, hoping that this would get me nearer the > infamous mutt. Hey, great, there's even an IMAP section! You can put > in everything... username, password, authentication methods... > except an IMAP server. I mean, c'mon. >From mi

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Patter
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:10:21 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 01/22/08 05:41, Pantor wrote: > [snip] >> It is correct. Because Mutt is written not for humans. >> To configure Mutt for use it is the same as configure mechanical typing >> machine through USB connection for use instead for a keyboard.

Re: GUI programming

2008-01-17 Thread Patter
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:00:24 +0100, Jozef Peterka wrote: > Hi there, > just a short note: there are MANY popular toolkits, mostly qt(KDE), > gtk(GNOME), wx, etc. etc. > But, you are probably asking about multiplatformness of those. So let > see ... look at all the great mozilla software, they are

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-09 Thread Patter
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:10:12 +0100, Qubby wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:41:36 -0500, Chris Howie wrote: > >> Or nobody cares about Ubuntu? He shoots, he scores! > > I might have used Ubuntu but it didn't work on this very old (ne antique) > box. In fact Debian was the only thing I could get to i

X11 not displaying clearly

2008-01-04 Thread Patter
I'm a long-time debian user, running unstable with gdm and collcted programs from gnome & kde. I rebooted my system this morning and the X display has gone weird (there's no better way to put this as you'll see in the screenshot http://patter.mine.nu/screen.jpg ). Fluxbox looks OK with the right f

Re: mutt and utf-8 (was: character encoding)

2008-01-03 Thread Patter
On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:20:10 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 13:50:59 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > [...] > >> I've found that if I generate an utf-8 locale it messes up the little >> arrows in mutt's index. > > Sometimes the locale settings do not get passed on to mutt c

Re: getting a printer published.....

2007-12-17 Thread Patter
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:20:08 +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:31:24AM +0000, Patter wrote: >> You may need to adjust the BrowseAddress option to include the server's > indeed, despite the documentation @LOCAL isn't enough, i had to add > @IF(et

Re: getting a printer published.....

2007-12-17 Thread Patter
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:10:10 +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > i have a network printer on my LAN that uses a peculiar driver, i > configured one machine to be able to talk to it, so far so good, the > printer works properly > > now iwante the other machines to access that printer through my serv

Re: NFS setup

2007-12-12 Thread Patter
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:00:20 +0100, iuri de araujo sampaio wrote: > I have installed nfs to the server via.. > sudo apt-get install nfs-common portmap nfs-kernel-server > > I have installed nfs to the client via.. > sudo apt-get install nfs-common portmap > > > My desktop is the server mach

Re: Apache and perl CGI

2007-12-03 Thread Patter
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:40:16 +0100, Bogart Salzberg wrote: > Perl has a "taint" mode (add switch "-T" to the command line or > shebang line, as in "#!/usr/bin/perl -T"). The taint mode, I think, > prevents user input from being used in unsafe operations until it is > filtered by a regular exp

Re: perl Time::HiRes debian package?

2007-11-30 Thread Patter
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:00:12 +0100, Mark Quitoriano wrote: > is there a deb package for perl Time::HiRes? Its in the core perl package. -- Stephen Patterson :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: B416F0DE :: Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Don't be silly, Minnie. Who'd be walking round

Re: Firestarter

2007-11-30 Thread Patter
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:50:11 +0100, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:30:46AM +, Darko wrote: >> I deinstaled gnome and now I can't start firestarter is exsist a way to >> run it under KDE >> >> > > apt-get install --reinstall firestarter You normally don't need --reinstall,

Re: LDAP - howto get linux to talk to exchange/AD

2007-11-30 Thread Patter
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:10:07 +0100, Bob Goldberg wrote: > I agree - problem is DEFINITELY ldap authentication; forget about exim > > my exchange server is setup to accept clear text, and anonymous OK (even > though I'm not trying to be anon). > > here's the thing - I have no idea what is going

Re: [OT] firefox 3

2007-11-22 Thread Patter
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:20:12 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Very few [OT]'s nowadays. > Anybody try the new firefox 3? Yes, and it works well (official tarball from mozilla). -- Stephen Patterson :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: http://patter.mine.nu/ GPG: B416F0DE :: Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Laptop Firewalling

2007-11-21 Thread Patter
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:40:21 +0100, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > You could create a set of config files for each setup and write a script > that copies the correct set to /etc/shorewall then restarts shorewall. > Have the script start when an interface goes up. Though a decent connection-tracking 'al