after the suspend your
machine gets back to its normal speed. The "load average" may not
mean what it usually does here.
I haven't followed the thread closely, apologies if this is duplicate
information.
Cheers,
Rob
--
Rob Mahurin
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Un
Nota bene: don't call this program without redirecting stdout :)
Rob
--
Rob Mahurin
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
University of Tennessee phone: 865 207 2594
Knoxville, TN 37996email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#include
#include
gsl_rng * r; /* global generator */
#define
ving to reinstall?
Can you "sudo chmod" to repair your permissions damage? I can send
you an output from "find /dev -ls" if you don't have another machine
to compare against.
Rob
--
Rob Mahurin
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
University of Tennessee phone: 86
bian.org/debian-user/2007/09/msg01265.html
I've been having this problem since upgrading to etch. The crashes
happen once or twice a month, which is often enough to be really
irritating but too infrequent for me to know how to debug.
Restarting X remotely does seem to work, if the crash happ
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:39:55AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> Looking at my copy of 'The Not So Short Introduction To LaTeX,' it's
> not clear to me what document class I'd use [for a letter].
For some reason that book omits the LaTeX "letter" clas
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:11:31PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Rob Mahurin wrote:
> > I know you've settled on OOo, but it's worth pointing out that TeX is
> > a simple language if you're writing a simple document. In particular
> > you are already writing vali
particular
you are already writing valid plain TeX in your email. Copy the above
(without the >'s) into file.txt; change /'thinking'/ to {\it thinking}
and "saying" to ``saying''; type "pdftex file.txt" and "\end".
file.pdf looks like http://sn
df, ... with the [-- Autoview using ... --] header removed.
Maybe I've tried a trick that you haven't, or you get more
pathological messages than I do.
Rob
--
Rob Mahurin
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
University of Tennessee phone: 865 207 2594
Knoxville, TN 37996
of numbers; if there's no
GUI way to do this I'm not afraid of, say, an awk script.
Please CC to me, as I'm not subscribed to the list. Thanks!
Rob
--
Rob Mahurin
Dept. of Physics & Astronomyphone: 865.974.8097 (sometimes)
University of Tennessee fax:
Hello,
I have installed Debian 3.0 on my Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop and have
posted some notes at http://web.utk.edu/~rmahurin/inspiron5100. At
this point essentially everything that I could want to use works,
though it was something of a struggle, especially the networking
hardware.
If this is u
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:00:48PM +0200, VEGH Karoly wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:00:57PM +0200, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> > What, exactly, is running out of room here? I'm fine on memory and
> > disk space.
> >
> > 10:43 $ sudo apt-get -u upgrade
> >
What, exactly, is running out of room here? I'm fine on memory and
disk space.
Please copy to me, I'm no longer on the list.
Rob
10:43 $ sudo apt-get -u upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing escputil (NewFileVer1)
E: Problem wi
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:13:30PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-11 23:09:08 -0400]:
> > Copy to me, I'm not on the list. Thanks,
> > What's the perl command to convert a text file from DOS or unix
> > newline format to t
Hi all,
What's the perl command to convert a text file from DOS or unix
newline format to the macintosh newline format? (CR->LF?)
Copy to me, I'm not on the list. Thanks,
Rob
--
Dammit Jim, I'm an actor, not a doctor.
msg01899/pgp0.pgp
Description: PGP signature
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 03:00:19PM +0200, Kovar Jan wrote:
> Connect the printer to Windows 98.
> Install drivers.
> Test printing.
> Unplug the printer and connect it to your linux box.
> Setup samba to see the printer from Windows 98 on your samba server.
> Go to printer settings in Windows 98
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 08:52:36PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Due to a faulty fan, one CPU overheated and brought the system down. On
> > restart, fsck indicated that some filesystem corruption occured.
> >
> > On startup, gdm would not start.
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 06:20:18PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:58:06 -0800, "Karsten M. Self"
> wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > It's not for older/slower boxen though. I'd recommend *NO LESS* than a
> > PII-233, and think you'll be happier with a PIII-600+ CPU. For memory,
> > 1
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 12:14:35PM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on 30 Jan 2002 at 13:44):
>
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 11:01:27AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: >
> > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > >
> > ... gnome code bloat ... > > Like the man sa
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:48:13PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just wanted to know, as a "normal" user (as in, not completely
> new, but no guru either), how hard would it be to move to woody, or
> sid?
>
> Is it not that difficult? giving the fact that i have a fair knowledge of
> "mov
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 05:53:09AM -0800, Jeff wrote:
> Shawn Lamson, 2002-Jan-27 05:53 -0800:
> > You have to be kiddin' me; i spent $25 on a 35' cable, and stood there
> > while they made it and tested it... i figured that the cable from NIC
> > to aDSL modem must be crossover too, since the long
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 01:28:54PM -0800, Stonelx wrote:
> Hi,
> I tried this command:
>
> scp /etc/file remotehost:/etc/file &
>
> but when scp asks for the password, I'm actually
> back on the command line. (thus the scp command fails)
> Is there anyway around this? I would love
> to be able to
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:40:22AM +0100, Pieter De Troyer wrote:
> I'm setting up a full nat for the first time.
> went through the howto and executed the example firewall rules.
> Alas... the script first checks the availability of the concerned
> kernel-modules. They are found, but I get errors
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:04:20PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> True. But passing commandline args and editing fstab is still annoying
> behavior... ideally, if I had a new disk and reboot, _nothing_ should
> change with respect to my old disks.
In this case, wouldn't you just put the new disk a
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:11:51AM -0800, Jeff wrote:
> Rob Mahurin, 2002-Jan-16 08:40 -0500:
> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:38:04AM -0800, Jeff wrote:
> > > Error: /invalidfont in findfont
> > > Operand stack:
> > >
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:38:04AM -0800, Jeff wrote:
> Error: /invalidfont in findfont
> Operand stack:
> --nostringval--
> basefontdict
>
> So, I believe I have a font issue now. If you have some ideas on
> t
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:01:30AM -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote:
>
> Our SendMail server has been stopping with a SIGSEGV signal (SMTP-MAIL
> died on a signal 11). This is something that has never happened before. We
> upgraded about 2 months ago to potato and the server is running 8
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 06:07:25PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:02:40AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> > You are wrong --- WP8 was natively written for Linux. It's WP9, aka
> > WP2000, that's run under wine, and wow is it horrible.
>
>
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:40:45AM -0500, ktb wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:02:53PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> > > what about duplexing? Is your nic set for half or full?
>
> There may be another way but I usually nab a utility program from the
> manufacturer and run a diagnostic on t
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:55:21AM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:10:01AM -0500, rich wrote:
> > Howdy all,
> >
> > I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform
> > relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While
> > WP8 un
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:05:41PM -0700, David Nusinow wrote:
> It depends on which environment you're using.
> KDE: kmix
> Gnome: gmix
> Anything else: xmix
> I don't know of any console based ones, although I know they're out there.
aumix?
Rob
--
Do you like "TENDER VITTLE
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:18:44PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:09:10AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> |
> | Here's a tcpdump | grep gow with the static IP, watching gow boot up.
> | [tcpdump]
>
> Apparently I don't have tcpdump on my system.
Packet
Has anyone else been receiving multiple copies of some messages (like
those attached)? A glance at the headers shows that murphy.debian.org
sent this one four times to myrealbox.com.
Rob
--
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?
--- Begin Message ---
Hello patrick,
Sunday,
Hello,
Sorry for the non-linux question, but I haven't found an answer
elsewhere.
I have a functioning network of two Debian boxes, bravo (10.0.0.2) and
peon (10.0.0.1). bravo is capable of IP routing, forwarding, and
masquerading. peon has a fully-functioning TCP/IP connection with
bravo, an
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:02:53PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> Hi Rob...
> I would guess its a hardware issue
> Either the nic in the win9x box is flaky... or the cable or something
> Keep troubleshooting... do you have an extra nic or cable...?
Hmmm ... I took the card from one of the
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:46:21AM +0200, Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note wrote:
> just by chance ...
> did you put the masquerading box as the default gateway for the win98 machine
> ?
I've tried it with and without, although never while the masquerading
box was connected to the wider internet (m
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:48:45PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:37:07PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> | Sorry for the non-linux question, but I haven't found an answer
> | elsewhere.
> |
> | I have a functioning network of two Debian boxes, bravo (10.0.0.2)
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 09:15:02PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
>
> Maybe he's got two HURD boxen?
>
Nope, it's a windows question.
Rob
--
Dr. Livingston?
Dr. Livingston I. Presume?
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:47:05PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> it took me a while to figure out that "ssh" contains "sshd"
> whereas, say, "telnet" is the client and "telnetd" is the
> server. with "ssh" the package wonk put all pieces into the one
> package, so you get both client and server in
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:32:53AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
>
> where stable rules. Maintenance then isn't 'tinker & reboot',
Shouldn't this be 'tinker ; reboot' ? If you use an ampersand your
tinkering will be backgrounded and get interrupted by the reboot
process.
Rob
--
The goys
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:15:10PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:55:37PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote:
> > will trillich wrote:
> > >
> > > BYCMUYJTCP
> > > (but you can alaways make up your own, just to confuse people.)
> >
> > And you can alaways make up words too :0)
>
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:59:53PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:42:23PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:56:23AM +0200, Santi B?jar wrote:
> > >I try to get a list of all the .deb to be installed (with
> > >--pr
Hi Jenny W,
Please set your mailer to wrap long lines at about 70 characters.
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:44:46AM -0700, jennyw wrote:
> I started using Debian because folks suggested it was easy to
> maintain (e.g. apt-get). I really like apt -- it certainly makes
> installing and downloading th
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:48:59PM -0400, Bill Witherspoon wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to re-run the X setup proggy that
> you get through dselect?
I think it's "XF86Setup", which is an absolutely stupid name.
Rob
--
hubub, hubub, HUBUB, hubub, hubub, hubub, HUBUB, hubub, hubub, hubub.
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:42:23PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:56:23AM +0200, Santi B?jar wrote:
> >I try to get a list of all the .deb to be installed (with
> >--print-uris), but I have to do it like root. I thought that if I add
> > a "-o Debug::NoLocking=yes"
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:02:38PM -0600, Simmons-Davis wrote:
> Dear Debian Group,
>
> I would like to know exactly what purpose the source cds serve and who would
> need to use them. I will only be using Debian for things like word
> processing, email, the internet, etcetera and wouldn't be doin
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:27:43PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> "Steve R. Hastings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Corel is selling the whole WordPerfect Office suite, which includes
> > WordPerfect and Quattro Pro.
>
> Note that last I checked, there's no commitment to ongoing support of
> thi
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:54:46PM -0600, ray p wrote:
> Also I don't know
> how hard or easy to bring the version of SSH from Woody to Potato
> but that would give you SSH2.
It's very easy, just add an unstable (for sid, or testing for woody)
deb-src line as already mentioned in this thread and d
Hello,
Under kernel 2.2.16 I can play CD audio normally; however, under
2.2.19 I get
14:58 tty1 $ cdir
unknown cd - 64:30 in 6 tracks
10:11.62 1
15:17.00 2
9:59.08 3
8:19.55 4
3:39.12 5
17:01.40 6
14:58 tty1 $ cdplay
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) re
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:50:50PM -0500, John Patton wrote:
> Is there a way to force apt-get to install downgraded
> packages? One or two packages are no problem... using dpkg
> works just fine with them. But how could you downgrade
> your system from testing to stable, for example? Is it
> even
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 02:39:46PM -0400, Paul Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Someone's been port-scanning me, checking only some high ports. Here are
> my relevant log entries:
>
>
> May 26 13:39:30 j001 ippl: port 37397 connection attempt from 216.136.179.238
> May 26 13:43:03 j001 ippl: port 37
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:27:03PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> I can not tell program name by memory but there are one cpu load program
> in X (in potato) which display SMP load properly. It's the one with all
> information shown as horizontal bar graph with red/green/yellow for each
> cpu load/mem
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:34:20AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> Sorry, I did not express myself clear enough. This sed thing changes
> every line in the "wget-script" script. This, I did easily with emacs
> (while sed is much more elegant). My problem is: I do not want to do
> hundreds of
> mv p
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:58:45PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote:
> What are the "D"s next to some addresses but not others in this mailq
> output:
> 0m 2.3K 14wrw8-0003EP-00 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> D [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [...]
> D [EMAIL PROTECT
Hello,
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:14:55PM +0100, John Mylchreest wrote:
> This communication is private and confidential and
> is intended solely for the use of the named
> addressee(s). Access, copying or re-use of the
> information in it by any other person is not
> authorised by OCRA. If yo
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 08:50:53PM -0700, Steve Cooper wrote:
> The only issue I have with the X behavior is that I can't
> figure out to efficiently perform a replacement paste. E.g.
> If you want to paste a URL into a browser in Windoze you'd
> select the current URL and paste over it.
>
> In X
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:07:09PM -0500, Benjamin Pharr wrote:
> I'm looking for a program to cache Setiathome packets, both incoming and
> outgoing. Does anyone know of any such program for Linux? If so, is it
> packaged for Debian? Thanks!
There are some ways to do this on the Setiathome s
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:39:30PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Well, damn, let's just throw them all out there:
>
> Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
[...]
> Emacs Makers Are Crazy Sickos
>
> Did I miss any?
Gracious, no: u've eliminated most all conceivable selections.
Rob
--
Old pr
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:33:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have installed Suse 7.0, but want to shift to Debian 2.2. I have read
> installation manuals and FAQs regarding installing Debian, but have not
> found anything on this item.
There was a guy a couple years ago who upgraded a Re
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 03:05:02PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have these variables set at the top of my .procmailrc
> PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
> MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # all mailboxes are in mail/
> LOGFILE=/dev/null
> SHELL=/bin/sh
I have /bin in my path.
02:47 $ which date
/bin/date
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:25:37PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:20:51PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> > Try "| gzip -c >> testing.gz".
>
> That still seems to not work when I sent a mail with Subject: gzip
> And I know the conditio
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:54:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It would be really nice to be able to keep the debian-user list a little
> smaller and up to date on my system. How could I make mutt move old
> threads that have not had a reply in say 5 days into a gzipped file?
> This way I co
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:37:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I thought I had this worked out, but it doesn't seem to work quite how
> it should. Bascially I want to have mail with a certain subject piped
> into a .gz file in my ~/mail directory.
>
> Here is what I had in .procmailrc:
[...
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:01:02PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote:
>
> I'm still seeing a problem. Have eliminated Emacs, by sending test
> messages with:
> $ echo "TEST" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> This time I've noticed that an email message will appear in mailq
> output immediately after usin
Hello, Viktor. I'm a little mystified as to why you CC'd this to me,
but here goes.
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:00:54PM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote:
> I got a crazy idea: if you want to make 100 % sure that you do not
> brake your production system, why don't you have an exact copy of
> that system
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:15:36PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:12:51AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> > You should probably file a bug on the package, if it's not useable
> > without introducing a security risk. Perhaps someone more familiar
>
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:47:32PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote:
> Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/05/2001 (11:50) :
> > Thanks, I'll try it.
>
> # apt-get install reportbug
[...]
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> reportbug: Depends: python-newt but it
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:43:08AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> > "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes:
>
> Karsten> Place your response *after* quoted material.
>
> Why?
Makes it read like a conversation. "Question? Answer!" makes more
sense to read than "Answer! Question?"
> I like to
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:33:38PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote:
> On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 12:42:36PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> > Even if the application itself is free of buffer overflows and such you
> > would be granting root access to wads of unaudited and buggy library code.
>
> yeah, I guess y
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:20:52PM -0700, Forrest English wrote:
>
> 1. i tried to install win98 to play games
> 2. it decided it wouldn't get through the setup. locked 4 times.
> 3. so, i put in my debian cd
> 3. rescue root=/dev/hda5
> 4. it boots up, all good...
> 5. login, re-run lilo
> 6. lil
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:55:11PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> I just had a power loss that brought down a Potato server. Is there any
> way to find out now what the uptime was prior to the unannounced shutdown?
I've installed "ud":
00:30 $ ud -d
- Uptime for peon -
Now : 97 day(s), 10:48:07 runn
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 03:04:41PM +0200, Iwan Mouwen wrote:
> * Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010428 23:09]:
> > 10:48 $ psselect -p _1 zeeman.ps > /dev/null
> > [8] Wrote 1 pages, 86473 bytes
>
> Shouldn't that be
> psselect -p - file.
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:04:18PM +, Victor wrote:
> Any suggestion?
> I'm reproposing my previous message.
> By the way, when it all happened I was either root or sued from a user login.
> Vittorio
> -- Forwarded Message --
> Subject: Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:41:04PM +0200, Alexander Steinert wrote:
> What's the fastest way to do this on the command line?
I do:
10:48 $ psselect -p _1 zeeman.ps > /dev/null
[8] Wrote 1 pages, 86473 bytes
Rob
--
It seems to make an auto driver mad if he misses you.
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 12:19:26AM +1000, Mark wrote:
>
> What is the "KeyboardSignal"? Can you change it? Would that be a good idea?
10:41 $ dumpkeys | grep KeyboardSignal
alt keycode 103 = KeyboardSignal
See dumpkeys(1), loadkeys(1), and keymaps(5).
Rob
--
The story you are
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:21:38PM +0200, Matthieu Paindavoine wrote:
> I have noticed today that my page up/dn keys are not responding...
> In order to backtrace this problem, I would like to know if there exist
> a utility which echoes the codemap received by the keyboard driver, or
> any keyboar
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:15:51PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> what *I* would like to know is -- is there a way to hilite
> messages in a newsgroup based on a score of some sort? how?
Yup, sure is. Interactively, I did
:score "~f [EMAIL PROTECTED]" 100
:color index white default "~n 100-"
Sur
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:05:53PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:59:41AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> > -*-Mutt: =debian-user [Msgs:6445 New:39 Inc:2
> > 22M]---(threads/date)--(92%)---
>
> c'mon, now you KNOW you'll never go back
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:34:25PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote:
> * Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-26 16:29 +0200:
> > > 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
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:16:06AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Using debian on a stand-alone laptop I usually work as an ordinary user and
> find somewhat awkward the fact that I have to su in order to shutdown the PC.
> Is there a way to power my PC off as a user?
Use sudo.
Someone pos
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:57:15PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote:
> beating around my thesis, i am trying several methods of including
> Xfig drawings in LaTeX. currently, i am using fig2dev to create .eps
> file, which I \psfig into the document. nevertheless, while the result
> is fine, mpage seems unabl
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:58:28AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> I've got a job I'd like to run once a month, on a set day of the week,
> say, the first Sunday of the month. Suggestions as to how to do this
> with cron?
>
> My understanding is that I can specify day of month, or weekday, but if
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:06:07AM +0200, Alberto Garc?a wrote:
> I am not able to download my email with fetchmail. I try to download being
> root and I configured it with fetchmailconf. It just picks the lists of
> emails, but fails to download them. What could be the problem.
> Thanks in advan
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:56:45PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Since mutt is based on the file system, groups with lots of mail tend
> to overwhelm it--opening, closing, and sorting the boxes gets
> sluggish.
Eh?
-*-Mutt: =debian-user [Msgs:6445 New:39 Inc:2
22M]---(threads/date)--(92%)---
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:15:08AM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:15:09PM +1000, Mark wrote:
>
> > I can't seem to figure out what the build-depends are. I tried doing
> > "apt-cache show hotplug", but it can't find it because I only have deb-src
> > pointing to test
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:02:11PM -0700, Steven E. Harris wrote:
> Where are these default colors defined in the Potato mutt package? I
19:55 $ ls -l /etc/Muttrc
-rw-r--r--1 root root 4183 Oct 29 07:13 /etc/Muttrc
19:55 $ grep color /etc/Muttrc
# colors
color hdrdefault cyan defau
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:59:20PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote:
>
> i've run into a problem i've never seen before. when i execute
>
> /usr/bin/tvguide.pl > /www/htdocs/tvguide.inc
>
> from the commandline, it works perfectly. however, when i put
>
> 0,30 * * * * /usr/bin/tvguide.pl > /ww
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:02:53AM -0700, paul wrote:
> EMAIL PROCESSING COMPANY LOOKING FOR EMAIL PROCESSORS IMMEDIATELY,
> TO SUSTAIN EXPLOSIVE GROWTH. EARN $5,000- $10,000.00 AND
> MORE MONTHLY. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. SEND AN EMAIL TO
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] WITH "EMAIL PROCESSOR" IN THE
> SUB
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:05:07PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a .procmailrc and am filtering, but now I don't want to have to
> delete my messages when they get old in certain mbox files.
>
> Can I run procmail with another conf file and have it send messages with a
> "delivered" d
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:06:26AM -0500, Rob Zietlow wrote:
> Hi there, I am looking for suggestions of a GUI email program (sorry i
> just like them better).
That's what I thought, until I tried mutt.
Rob
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When the politicians walk around with their hands in their own
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:08:30PM +1000, Mark Mackenzie wrote:
> I do ps->eps conversions using:
>
> echo -n '\004' | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=epswrite \
> -sOutputFile=box.eps box.ps >/dev/null
>
> using box.ps below. When box.ps is printed, it comes out as a 1mm thick
> 1" box (quite dark). Wh
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:15:40PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote:
>
> Anyone know of a method to easily solve this ...
>
> I *sometimes* list the files before deleting them:
>
> ls A*.pdf
>
> Ensuring I have only listed the ones I wish to delete, I then enter:
>
> rm A*.pdf
>
> Great,
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:12:12AM +0200, Hans wrote:
> I think you shouldn't mix apt-get with dselect, but I'd like to hear some
> comments on this. Or maybe use deselect to make choices and use upt-get
> dselect-upgrade, but I haven't tried if this works.
Erm ... dselect and apt-get are both fro
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:59:08PM -0700, Alex Swavely wrote:
> What file(s) would I need to backup to get a complete snapshot of all
> installed packages from the distribution I'm using in order to be able to
> recover a system to it's previous state?
My nightly backup includes
/home
/root
/etc
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:12:58PM -0700, Lang Hurst wrote:
> I added users to halt and reboot, respectively, by making the formers login
> shell /sbin/halt and the latter's /sbin/reboot.
Neat idea; if I rebooted more often I might try it.
> If I login as the halt user, the system shuts down and
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:14:45PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:07:30AM -0700, JC Portlock ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > On Friday 20 April 2001 02:03 am, Felicity wrote:
> > > unsubscribe
>
> > Try again with "unsubscribe" in the subject line.
>
> Nope.
>
> St
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:32:20PM +1000, Price, Tim wrote:
> Regardless,
>
> Is it possible to do?
>
> I ask because I am running a potato system with many packages from woody,
> and some security packages take longer to get into testing then they do to
> get into stable.
I've heard that the mo
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:34:05PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i have logcheck installed on a few systems. i cleared out most
> of the things generating the reports but..it still emails me
> every hour and the only contents of the email are the log entries
> of it sending the previous email(m
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:48:55AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > It's a shame that you've solved your problem; now I don't have an
> > excuse to tell you that this is a great root prompt.
>
> Not half bad. My own approach is slightly more subtle, but reasonably
> effective:
Here's mine, whil
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:05:32PM -0600, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote:
>
> > Not that there aren't some men out there with real lives, of course.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install real-life
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:19:11PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:01:24PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:05:43AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
> > > What might help is a daily post to the list with a subject line
> > &
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