Re: /dev/psaux missing when using udev

2004-03-09 Thread Stig Brautaset
Wang WenRui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The new device is /dev/misc/psaux. I'll try that when I get home. Thank you :) Stig -- brautaset.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /dev/psaux missing when using udev

2004-03-09 Thread Stig Brautaset
Matt Kirchhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stig Brautaset brautaset.org> writes: >> It works great, apart from one little niggly thing: I can't find my >> mouse. > > Did you read the documentation? For udev? Yes. For the kernel, no. I didn't think think

/dev/psaux missing when using udev

2004-03-09 Thread Stig Brautaset
Hi, I've installed the udev package from experimental. It works great, apart from one little niggly thing: I can't find my mouse. It used to be /dev/psaux, but I can't find it now. Is that because the driver doesn't register with libsys properly (or whatever it is it needs to do to get recognised

Re: How can I get mutt to dlete an entire thread?

2002-02-06 Thread Stig Brautaset
* stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Still tweaking on my uutt config > > I have it set up so that all threads are compressed when I enter > a folder. folder-hook . push "\eV" > I would like to be able to mark all messages in a given > thread as deleted from the index screen. At present if

Re: The New World Order is Here !

2002-02-03 Thread Stig Brautaset
me=10 # Messages from these domains are often spam. crap_domains="(aol|msn|hotmail|earthlink)" crap_domain_score=9 # These words in the body of the mail is positive. positive_words="(Stig|Brautaset|:-\))" positive_words_score=3 # Char sets different than these are not appreciated. ok_chars

Re: Why do I need all these apt-howto-* files?

2002-02-03 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Davide Inglima - limaCAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > >> Remove apt-howto and the language specific versions you don't want. As I >> understand it, the apt-howto package now only contains dependancies for >> all language variants as opposed to the howto itself. Keeping (as an >> example)

Re: The New World Order is Here !

2002-02-03 Thread Stig Brautaset
* ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Saturday 02 February 2002 08:26 pm, Stig Brautaset wrote: >> * Bruce Burhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: >>> Can you believe this? Does anyone know what those initial characters >>> are? >> >>

Re: Problem with tasksel

2002-02-02 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 02:30:46AM +0000, Stig Brautaset wrote: >> I might be wrong, but I think the problem is that tasksel "Does Not >> Work(tm)(R)" with anything other than potato. I'm guessing that &g

Re: The New World Order is Here !

2002-02-02 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Bruce Burhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Can you believe this? Does anyone know what those initial characters > are? Can you please stop reposting spam to the list? My spamfilter caught the original spam, but there is precious little I can do about followups to spam when (a) the subject

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-02-02 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Karsten M. Self spake thus: > I'll also strongly plug Galeon. If you're not violently allergic to > GNOME libs (and yes, it does suck in a whole mess of them, along with > all of Mozilla), it's an ass-kicking browser. Just out of curiosity: > use (I can easily get over 100 tabs/windows open)

Re: Problem with tasksel

2002-02-02 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Kapil Khosla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hi, > I was installing woody over the network and had some problem so could > not install the base system. After rebooting I configured the problem > with the network but now how to i resume the installation ? > > I just get the prompt and when i r

Re: Coverting elm alliases file for use bu mutt?

2002-02-02 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Sat Feb 2 06:43:06 2002 Stig Brautaset wrote... >> >>* Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: >>> I'm migrating to a new woody mail machine, and switching from elm to >>> mutt in the process

Re: Coverting elm alliases file for use bu mutt?

2002-02-02 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > I'm migrating to a new woody mail machine, and switching from elm to > mutt in the process. I have several hunderd alliases in my elm config. > Has anyone a sugestion as to how to convert these for use by mutt? You won't like this answer, but here it

Re: help

2002-01-31 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Jason Majors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: >> If you'd like assistance with your problem send an email, not a web >> page. :) >> >> __ >> >> I'm pretty sure that was a disguised commercial >> >> Bruce<+> > > Now that you mention it, it looks like the

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-28 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28/01/2002 (17:33) : >> You might want to try www.google.com/linux. Entering the following >> string produced some informative results: >> >> +"easter egg" +wanda >> >> This isn't a flame, just hopefully

Re: Downloading huge files with Mozilla?

2002-01-25 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Michael D. Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Is there a way I can download a file with Mozilla in such a way that the > download file, while in progress, is saved in my home directory and not in > /tmp? > > I want to download a 110 MB file via HTTPS off a software vendor's website. >

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-25 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Andreas Leitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 03:03, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> >> On 25-Jan-2002 Michael Jinks wrote: >>> One thing you can do: hold left shift during boot to get a prompt, and >>> at the "LILO:" prompt enter "Linux init=/bin/sh" (possibly replacing

Re: mutt weirdness

2002-01-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:32:19PM +0000, Stig Brautaset wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> can do this with the save-hook commands, and I have even made myself a >> little macro to help me out (this tags the curr

Re: mutt weirdness

2002-01-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:32:19PM +0000, Stig Brautaset wrote: > | Hi list, > | > | I am having trouble with mutt again. I got tired of having to wait for > | so long for mutt to open one of my mailing list folders, > > Not

mutt weirdness

2002-01-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
Hi list, I am having trouble with mutt again. I got tired of having to wait for so long for mutt to open one of my mailing list folders, so now I get my mail all in one inbox, and need to move it to different folders (this way I keep the level of mails in the inbox at an appropriate level). I ca

Re: Are you spam?

2002-01-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Dmitriy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:05:44PM -0500, alex wrote: > [snip] >> >> If an ISP doesn't use a SPAM blocker service, the message passes but >> then a filter that directs the mail to a Debian >> mailbox may instead treat it as general mail, depending on

Re: fetchmail

2002-01-19 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: What is in your ~/.fetchmailrc? >>> I don't have one. From what I understood, if I specify everything I >>> need on the command line, I don't need one. >> Then what was the arguments you used on the command line to run >> fetchmail with? My gues

Re: fetchmail

2002-01-19 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 01:38 , Bob Thibodeau wrote: > > >What is in your ~/.fetchmailrc? > > I don't have one. From what I understood, if I specify everything I > need on the command line, I don't need one. Then what was the argume

Re: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error

2002-01-11 Thread Stig Brautaset
* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:08:22AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: >> While using fetchmail all goes OK until reaching message 91 and then >> >> 'reading message No 91' >> SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error >> fetchmail: socket error while fetchi

Re: mail server

2002-01-09 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Paul A. Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > I would like to put a REALLY small email server up at work using Debian > ( I have a RH box I've put together but I like ... the feel of this list > / what it says about Debian vs what I've encountered with RH ). > I had heard about Sendmail and ha

gatos drivers for rage mobility p (dell latitude)

2002-01-09 Thread Stig Brautaset
Hi guys and gals, I have a Dell Latitude CPx H500GT with (reportedly) a ati rage mobility p in it. I was told I could get hardware scaling with the gatos driver, and wanted to know what people here think before I went on a possibly useless mission to install them manually... Do the driver exist

Re: fetchmail questions

2001-12-15 Thread Stig Brautaset
* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Is it possible to get fetchmail to dump messages from my yahoo > account into, say "~/yahoo", instead of mixing it with the other > mail in "/var/mail/alec". Not that I know of, as fetchmail delivers the mail it fetches from your y

Re: fetchmail questions

2001-12-15 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 14 December 2001 11:59 pm, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > * Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > >> Hi > >> > >> Is it possibl

Re: You have mail in...

2001-12-14 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hi > > How can I turn off the "You have mail in /var/mail/alec" notification in > bash, if that's possible? put the following line in ~/.bashrc: biff n ...or uninstall biff entirely. Stig -- brautaset.org Registered Linux User 107343

Re: fetchmail questions

2001-12-14 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hi > > Is it possible to get fetchmail to dump messages from my yahoo account into, > say "~/yahoo", instead of mixing it with the other mail in "/var/mail/alec". Not that I know of, as fetchmail delivers the mail it fetches from your yahoo account to yo

Re: Homework

2001-12-10 Thread Stig Brautaset
* martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > also sprach Nicolás Conde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.10.0901 -0800]: > > 1. RTFM (Read The Friendly Manual) > > 2. Search the {archives | HOW-TOs} <> > anyway, i think the general feel is that anyone should rather post a > question on this list

Re: Changes in mutt (was Re: Evolution depends libgtkhtml20)

2001-12-09 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Cam Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > * DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> On a side note, when asking a new question, please refrain from >> replying to an already posted message since this screws up threaded >> views in mail clients that support them. It also screws up web >> archive

Re: Newbie comments & queries

2001-12-08 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Karsten M. Self spake thus: > > Could be I just did it wrong. Maybe the > > echo foo > /dev/ttyS0 > > method doesn't have any way to say back "OK". Except for > > lighting up the lights and making beeping noises, of course. > > AFAIK, it doesn't. > > My usual test is to run a test string int

[OT] text floating around pictures using LaTeX

2001-12-06 Thread Stig Brautaset
Hi list, Is there a way to make text flow around (not just above and below) included (eps-)graphics in LaTex? The problem is that I have a fairly tall but thin figure I need to include; it takes up much of the height but little of the width. (Changing the orientation of the figure is not an opti

Re: acroread crashes

2001-12-04 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hi Ben! > > Thanks for your reply! > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, ben wrote: > > > [...] > > i agree. the purpose of a boycott is to disempower. adobe have shown that > > they don't deserve a position of any esteem in the free system that linux > > ex

make mutt open folders with threads collapsed

2001-12-01 Thread Stig Brautaset
Hi there list, Is there a way to make mutt open a folder with the message threads collapsed (a way similar to that of slrn would be nice) and, if possible, not show threads with new messages at all unless I request it? (I know gnus has this behaviur, and I got really addicted to it...) I have sea

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread Stig Brautaset
* nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Craig Dickson said: > > > Your call, of course, for your machines. But in general I've found > > 2.4 to be pretty decent. I had something like two months of uptime > > with 2.4.9 before I decided to upgrade it to 2.4.12-ac3, which in > > turn ran for a few

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread Stig Brautaset
* nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Jeronimo Pellegrini said: > > > > I've seen some people here talking about the new 2.4.15/2.5.0 > > kernel. Please, don't use it. It'll cause some forruption on your > > filesystem when unmounting filesystems. > > problems like this is why i believe 2.4 is

Re: Man pages to PDF or RTF?

2001-11-17 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Rafe B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Is there a windoze util that will convert Linux man pages to RTF or > PDF or Postscript? why would you want a windoze tool to do that? > Specifically, what is the format of man pages? TeX/roff /troff/other > ??? Is there a HOWTO for man-page format (T

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-16 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Paul McHale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > spin at all. and with the near 2 dozen IBM disk drive failures > > ive had in the past 6 months, im even more for never turning > > off the system. > > When I worked PC support contracts at Honeywell, we would always tell people > to leave the CPU

Re: OT: mutt message scoring: body/header?

2001-11-11 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > "Karsten M. Self" writes: > > > I'm playing with mutt message scoring. It's interesting, but not quite > > as powerful as I'd like. > > I haven't played with it yet, but gnus is supposed to have a superior > scoring system. You may want to check

Re: programming

2001-11-04 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Stig Brautaset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > * Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > High, > > > > > > On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: > > > > > hi. Im trying to read a complete line from a text file. > > &g

Re: programming

2001-11-04 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > High, > > > On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: > > > hi. Im trying to read a complete line from a text file. > > I use the fscanf( file, "[^\n]",buffer); butit doesnt work. I reads the > > entire file until overflow of the buffer. > > > >

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-28 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Anders Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > I have installed Debian (with GNOME) for two of my friends, and they > haven't even used MS Windows before. They can't administrate them. > But on the other hand, they can't make a mess out of the machines > either. I'll just visit them at least

Re: keyboard

2001-10-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Patrick L. McGillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hi, > I am looking for the C syntax to check to see if a key was pressed. This > would be non-blocking, as there are other things happening in the > program, besides waiting on user input. Any help or pointers is > appreciated. Hi Patrick, T

Re: Hello everybody

2001-10-21 Thread Stig Brautaset
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hello everybody ,Hello everybody , > > I wanted to share with all of you my desperation to get a hang of Solaris . > > All of you , being votaries of the Open Source Movement , could > perhaps guide me as to how I can have Solaris on my box

Re: maildir : mutt and fetchmail

2001-10-15 Thread Stig Brautaset
* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 07:36:42AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > | * dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.14 19:00:11-0400]: > | > Ok, now I'm using maildir for my folders. For some reason, though, > | > mutt shows most messages as having a size of 0. Why m

Re: Looking for console IRC client with DCC auto-get and auto-accept

2001-10-13 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Morbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hi, > > Could anyone please suggest a good console based IRC client with the > possibility to download files > from mIRC Fserve fileservers, and the possiblility to set auto-accept and > auto-get for DCC transfers. Use the ircclient to end all ircclient d

Re: Software DVD players

2001-10-12 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Patrick Lane wrote: > > > I use MPlayer, it now has a GUI! =] > > www.mplayerhq.hu > > You have to compile it from source, but it's worth it. The best media > > solution around in my opinion. Plays mpegs, avis, divx files as well > > Does it requ

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-11 Thread Stig Brautaset
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:03:46PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > > > > l10n support > > > > If you want to see non-ASCII characters on a Debian system, there's no > > use fiddling with the variable "charset", as described in th

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-10 Thread Stig Brautaset
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 04:39:48PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. ? > > and ?). The strange thing is that they work all fine

Re: Can I convert an ext2 fs to Resierfs?

2001-10-09 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > Its interesting that people don't really seem to think > > much of ext3 but in my experience it is superb. > > I've been using it for about 3 months or so and have no > complaints. The most appealing thing for me was the *simple* > conversion to

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-08 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Volker Schlecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > > Glad someone got something out of my cry for help ;) > > > > Unfortunately, my problem is still unresolved. I might have to join the > > mutt mailinglist or something (*sigh* another one.. just what I need...) > > or seriously STFW (as if

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-08 Thread Stig Brautaset
line from the config file? > > {{Mutt} {eval dsk_exec $tkdesk(cmd,xterm) -geometry 80x73+250+25 -e > 'LANG=de_DE LC_MESSAGES=C mutt'}} > > originally I had: > > {{Mutt} {eval dsk_exec $tkdesk(cmd,xterm) -geometry 80x73+250+25 -e > mutt}} > > which work

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-06 Thread Stig Brautaset
* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 04:39:48PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > | Hi, > | > | I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. ? > | and ?). The strange thing is that they work all fine on the command line, >

international characters in mutt

2001-10-06 Thread Stig Brautaset
Hi, I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. ? and ?). The strange thing is that they work all fine on the command line, and if I use more or less to view the mbox-file, they show up as they are supposed to. It is, in other words, only a problem in mutt. I have read m

Re: In mail, 'From' becomes '>From'

2001-09-27 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Karsten M. Self spake thus: > I've been noticing this on a number of messages both from and to me. > > Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to > say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures. > > I have no idea where this is happening (I run exim, fetchmail

Re: OT: how to deal with old mail

2001-09-26 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Christopher S. Swingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hi! > > I've been happily using mutt for several years now, and I've currently > got 415 mbox files (mutt folders) in my ~/Mail directory, consuming > 40 MB of space. In the past when my Mail directory got too large, > I've gone through

Re: Deleting duplicate messages with formail/procmail

2001-09-24 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Jason Rashaad Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > I'm not sure about what you are doing with formail currently, but I have the > > following at the top of my .procmailrc script and it works great: > > > > # avoid duplicate messages > > :0 Whc: msgid.lock > > | formail -D 1638

Re: mozilla questions

2001-09-23 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Stig Brautaset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > * Martin W?rtele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:28:19PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > > * Tim locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > > > couple of mozilla-rel

Re: mozilla questions

2001-09-23 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Martin W?rtele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:28:19PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > * Tim locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > > couple of mozilla-related question (0.9.4) > > > > > > 1. cannot access hotm

Re: mozilla questions

2001-09-23 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Tim locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > couple of mozilla-related question (0.9.4) > > 1. cannot access hotmail...i.e. when I click on "sign-in" "status bar > just says "done" but nothing happened AFAIK hotmail uses https, a protocol mozilla are not yet supporting. Regards, Stig -- braut

Re: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

2001-09-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
> {URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL} > Dear sir, > > In order to transfer out (USD 126 M) One hundred and twenty six > million United States Dollars) from African Development Bank. I have > the courage to ask you to look for a reliable and honest person who > will be capable for this

Re: tiger reports

2001-09-21 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > > How can anonymous FTP be enabled when I have no FTP server installed? > > > > Is a config file present in /etc? > > What would it be called? There are no files matching the glob "/etc/ftp*". try /etc/*ftp* I have /

Re: Procmail Recipes on old messages?

2001-09-19 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Jason Rashaad Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > OK. I have successfully gotten procmail up and running on my local > host, and it's happily filtering incoming mail. This is great for new > stuff, but what about all the old messages in my spoolfile that have > piled (and piled and piled)

Re: Centralizing apt-get downloads

2001-09-18 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Folks- > > I have a home setup with a DSL line coming in to one debian box, then two > other debian boxen connecting to it via ipmasq. Each box is set up to do > an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade on a periodic basis for security and > up-to-daten

Re: decompress tgz

2001-09-13 Thread Stig Brautaset
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf The .tgz ending is (to my knowledge at least) just a shorthand writing for .tar.gz, so you can use `tar zxfv file.tgz'. Regards, Stig -

Re: how to make exim run queue only when ppp link is up?

2001-08-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Karsten M. Self spake thus: > on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:21:19AM +0100, Stig Brautaset ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Diald keeps bringing up the link on request from exim. I have only had > > this problem since I made a fresh install about a week ago. Earlier, the > &

Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > High, > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > > * dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:02:07PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > > | I have a head- and k

how to make exim run queue only when ppp link is up?

2001-08-21 Thread Stig Brautaset
Diald keeps bringing up the link on request from exim. I have only had this problem since I made a fresh install about a week ago. Earlier, the exim cron-entry that run the queue was controlled by a set of scripts in diald's ip-up.d and ip-down.d directories, but not so now. Why is that? I could of

Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-21 Thread Stig Brautaset
* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:02:07PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > | I have a head- and keyboardless machine running debian potato that I > | used to log into with ssh. Now I have forgotten the password. *blush* > > The easiest way is

forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-21 Thread Stig Brautaset
I have a head- and keyboardless machine running debian potato that I used to log into with ssh. Now I have forgotten the password. *blush* What I want to do, is either; a) make a bootdisk with a script that automaticly starts running that disables the root password, then halts the machine. I

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-20 Thread Stig Brautaset
* allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > hello: > > i have managed to insert a bullet in my poda courtesy of tar and my > ineptness! that is, i did: > > tar -cvIf --remove-files /tmp/foo.tz /opt/tmp > > silly me filled up my current directory with a fi

Re: tabs in xemacs

2001-08-20 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Alan Shutko wrote: > > > > Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Does anyone know how to set xemacs to use 4 spaces when you hit the tab > > > key? > > > > What mode? > > C programming mode. (That's a guess. I don't know anything

Re: diald not installing

2001-08-18 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:52:54PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > I have trouble installing diald. It fails to run the post-installation > > script. > > > > here is some output: > > > > Arwen:~

diald not installing

2001-08-18 Thread Stig Brautaset
Hello people, I have trouble installing diald. It fails to run the post-installation script. here is some output: Arwen:~# dpkg --configure diald Setting up diald (0.99.4-2.1) ... dpkg: error processing diald (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 30 Erro

Re: Silly mutt/debian list question

2001-08-16 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > I've recently changed my email address, and of course I've been playing > with my mutt and exim configurations to get the new address to show up > in the From: header. This seems to be working, but I've noticed a > change: When I look at the debian

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1132

2001-08-15 Thread Stig Brautaset
* John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > On behalf of all the educated Australians, I pray that you do not > > judge us all by the occasional fool. We are not all ignorant. > > I know exactly how you feel. We wonder how do we show the rest of the > world that this jerk is so far from what

Re: XFree 4.1.0

2001-08-15 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Sven Gaerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hi, > > it is planned to provide XFree 4.1.0 debs under woody? Or do I have to > install the potato ones from CP Botha? huh? are there X 4.1 debs for potato? Please please please tell me where :) Stig -- www.brautaset.org

Re: kernel troubles?

2001-08-12 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Hi, > > For some months I have been trying to compile kernels from 2.4.5 to 2.4.8, > but I still get the same errors and they does not seem to be solved in > later versions. Today I build a new config file from scratch, but still > unsuccesfull. The e

Re: Kernel panic, system crash, 01 01 01: help

2001-08-11 Thread Stig Brautaset
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > Yesterday while browsing the ftp.xfree86.org via lynx, via a dialup > connection, > my terminal suddenly started spouting warnings. I wasn't able to capture > them, > but one said, "Unable to mount fs, unable to mount hdb". > > The other vi

Re: dosemu

2001-08-11 Thread Stig Brautaset
* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 10:40:47PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | How do you use 'dosemu' and what is it ? > > It is a DOS emulator that, IIRC, requires DOS to really be installed > on a partition. It is useful if you have some programs that only run

Re: DNS [subtopic: Re: Internet Connection Sharing, was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-03 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Mike McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:06:46PM +0100, Ade Talabi wrote: > > Alvin Oga, > > > > How do you turn on ip forwarding on machin A, which is a WIN 98SE box I'd say use winroute (shareware) if you cannot instead use the linux-box for routing. Stig

Re: PCMCIA Ethernet card in 2.4.6 kernel

2001-07-30 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Aaron Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > tried to download the pcmcia-source package (although it looks like > these directions were meant exclusively for the 2.2 series kernels), > and the make-kpkg modules_image failed. What am I doing wrong? Do I > need to modprobe a module (no modules ar

Re: Removing a sound module?

2001-07-30 Thread Stig Brautaset
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > i've also found on occasion, my sound drivers will get corrupted after > a suspend/resume on my laptop. My laptop's sounddriver can occasionally start spewing out noise (crackling) along with the sound, and usually the sound is also limited t

Re: Your site listed

2001-07-28 Thread Stig Brautaset
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Pages from your web site at http://www.debian.org have been added to > the UK Search Portal, http://www.serenade.co.uk. > > I got your email address from the page > http://www.debian.org/contact, and just wanted to let you know about > your entry, and how to add more p

Re: Carriage return in email headers, body, possibly Netcom problem

2001-07-25 Thread Stig Brautaset
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > I've noticed this since about 5 am, PDT, Sunday, 22 July. > > Mail arriving since this time (and the time demarcation is pretty clean) > has carriage returns (^M) appended to the end of each header line, e.g.: > > Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 08:49:58 -0500^M > Fr

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-13 Thread Stig Brautaset
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ray p wrote: > > > Or better yet get putty. It supports SSH 2 with public key > > authentication. And is small enough that you can put a key the > > client and the scp and sftp (FTP tunnled through SSH) client on ~2 > > floppies It can be run from the flopp

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread Stig Brautaset
Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > happy to hear them. I plan on emphasizing the fact that I disable most > services in inetd. The only servers I run are an ssh server and an ftp > server. I do not allow anonymous ftp, and I tunnel all my ftp transfers > through ssh. I am the only perso

Re: [users] Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Stig Brautaset
"Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Stig Brautaset (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 05:40:53PM +0100): > > dselect is evil, I am sure of it. > > try apt-console. arwen:~# apt-console su: apt-console: command not found arwen:~# apt-get install ap

Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Stig Brautaset
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:07:08PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Is it possible to tell apt-get to hold a package and not upgrade it when > > using dist-upgrade? > > It's called dselect. But it is a secret. If you tell anyone about it, > the cabal

Re: [users] dialup query

2001-06-28 Thread Stig Brautaset
MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > install ppp and pppconfig, taking care to pull ppp off > people.debian.org/~bunk/debian if you have a 2.4.x kernel. Why? I run ppp on a pcmcia-modem with the standard package (unstable). (It is slow to connect, but runs fine after it is connected). Cheers

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

2001-06-28 Thread Stig Brautaset
Nikki Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Smokez wrote: > > Why not give something like progeny or one of the > > other distros which are debian based but aimed at > > easy of use ? > > > > while i personally prefer just debian (woody) > > but i know progeny has so

slow startup of modem-connection

2001-06-27 Thread Stig Brautaset
When I type "pon" there is a 'long' wait before I hear the modem starts dialing. (When I type "poff" however, the connection is instantaneously cut off). I guess it is not "pon" itself that is the trouble, but rather the connect-script. My problem is that I am running a little lan, and we have di

Re: [OT] Software to draw microprocessor schematics

2001-06-27 Thread Stig Brautaset
Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi folks, > > I need to develep a microprocessor for my computer science class and > I'm looking for a tool to draw the schematics. I've looked at > xcircuit and chipmunk-log, but I'm quite frightened by the user > interface. I'm comfortable with x