On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:03:42PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Friday 24 February 2006 18:48, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> > I'm running debian testing. I ran "aptitude dist-upgrade" yesterday
> > and it wants to install a version of libfreetype6 that I'm worri
I'm running debian testing. I ran "aptitude dist-upgrade" yesterday
and it wants to install a version of libfreetype6 that I'm worried
will break my window manager (Window Maker). I'd like to put that
version of libfreetype6 on hold until things get sorted out. I read
through the aptitude man pa
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:48:06PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 07:30:11AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote:
> > Sorry for the detailed and probably somewhat obvious question, but I
> > switched over to Debian last summer, and am loving it. But this is the
> > first time I've encounte
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:54:20PM -0600, Keith Steensma wrote:
> I've installed a very minimum Debian 'testing' system.
>
> I trying to run a perl script that uses a 'concat' function. I can't
> find it as a built-in function of the language nor can I find it in the
> Debian packages list.
>
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:49:47PM -0600, Pete Templin wrote:
> He was referring to MUAs, not MTAs. Sheesh.
True, but that's likely the sort of behavior he's seen elsewhere and
is trying to duplicate.
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On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:09:58PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> What were you expecting? The only way you can suppress each recipient
> from knowing who else is recieving something is using BCC...
That's not true. Mailing list managers do it (I don't know the
addresses of everyone subscribed to
In the spirit of "there's more than one way to do it", you could
always try:
my @c = map {join "", map {$_.$_} split //} qw(fc0 066 ffc 600 cff 090 ccc 666 fc9
633 cff 096 c9c 090);
which seems a bit more elegant to me than declaring temp vars inside
the map.
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On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 12:04:20PM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote:
> Duh. Now that I think of it, what is the reason to use MIME anyway?
The person who added that code wanted to do filtering based on MIME
attachments, e.g. disallow attachments, only allow certain types of
attachments, etc. The probl
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 05:23:53AM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote:
> I used Mail::Audit for quite some time, but it probably has a serious
> bug which makes it impossible to verify some signed mails.
Mail::Audit's MIME code has an annoying tendency to reformat message
bodies and thereby break GPG sig
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:06:00AM +, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> hello,
>
> standard storry... have xp installation taking up entire hard disk, want to add
>woody.
>
> Have tried the parition resize tool from zeleps.com but havent had any joy with
> that, any suggestions as to linux tools/altern
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:57:06PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> I don't know why it doesn't say it on the web page, but you can
> subscribe to debian-user-digest by sending mail to
I should also point out, having just subscribed to the
debian-user-digest this afternoon, that it
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 06:01:14PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
>Hello,
>
> Is there a way to receive list mail batched in a daily digest and if so
> how to activate it? I searched http://lists.debian.org but did not find
> anything about it.
I don't know why it doesn't say it on the web page, bu
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:31:01PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> Cool. But this is a rather time-consuming process. Is there a way to
> have it refresh just the keys that are relevant as it verifies
> a signature or decodes a message?
Not that I'm aware of. I just run --refresh-keys every night
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:44:00AM +0200, Tobias Ulbricht wrote:
>
> please cc. to me [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Hi.
>
> I had the stupid idea to set
> EDITOR=my-prog
> and execute
> crontab -e
> to be able to "edit" crontabs in the right way, i.e. without touching the
> crontab-files directly but wi
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 05:27:32PM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> Is this a solitary delusion of mine, or have others experienced
> something like this? Has anyone found a better way of dealing with
> this plague?
Lately I've been bouncing emails with Word docs I want to read to my
Yahoo Mail acco
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 10:34:52AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Wed, May 29, 2002, Joris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > But here comes the catch. None of the root environments I found on
> > floppy had resize2fs on them.
>
> The LNX-BBC and/or LinuxCare BBC do. One of them works, the other
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:09:40PM -0700, Petro wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:47:00PM -0700, Chris Gray wrote:
> > Hi,
> > If I install a new package and it installs a new binary, how do I get
> > zsh to complete the name of the binary when I hit tab. Obviously I
> > could just start a new s
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:20:08AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote:
> Walt Mankowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Or better yet, create a symbolic link to it.
>
> I think a symlink would be better as well, but Debian doesn't do it for
> some reason:
>
&g
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:54:24AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote:
> In general, TZ should get set correctly if the /etc/localtime file
> contains the correct timezone info file. You can copy a file from
> /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime, or use the tzconfig program,
> which does essentially the
I just updated mutt on two of my boxes, one debian potato and one
redhat. On the red hat box I installed from source, and when I run
mutt -v, it reports "Mutt 1.2.5.1i (2000-07-28)". On potato I just
installed the new .deb package. When I run mutt -v on that box, it
says "Mutt 1.2.5i (2000-07-28
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 12:23:12PM -0800, Chris Majewski wrote:
> Is there a mailing list that that will do nothing but notify me of new
> kernel releases?
It's not quite what you're asking for, but you might want to take a
look at Darxus' dlkern, available at
http://www.ChaosReigns.com/code/dlke
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:25:41AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:18:33AM +0100, Pietro Cagnoni wrote:
> > > i believe that bug was fixed in linux a few years ago.
> > >
> > > theres no longer a 497 day limit ..
> >
> > could someone please tell me for sure? i'm at 470 ri
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:00:29AM +0100, op wrote:
> I think that 'merhaba' is 'hello' in turkish.
Aha! And we see thorns and barred-D's because we're using the
ISO8859-1 characted set, while the author most likely used ISO8859-9.
Walt
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 04:51:57PM +0100, Thomas Halahan wrote:
> I have a role account on my network where users logging on
> will have netscape started for them directed to the
> intranet. I think I can get netscape to boot up ok on
> login but don't know how to start it without the addressba
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:09:43PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote:
> I suppose I could try that. Problem is, I'm really an elm guy for text
> mail reader (not too surprising to see a :x at the bottom of my Windows
> emails). Of course, now I switched to Maildir/ format, so I'm back to
> pine.
Mutt has ha
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:15:00AM +1000, Ian Perry wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just came across a point about Time and Date and CRON which could cause a
> problem for those who are unaware.
>
> If you have CRON running and you set back the Date or Time backwards, CRON
> will not run until at least the
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:06:57AM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote:
> Is there any way to kill a process that kill -9 won't remove without
> rebooting?
No, kill -9 is as harsh as it gets. Have you tried to kill it as
root?
Walt
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:38:06PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> I uploaded version 1.1 of my TrueType fonts for XFree 4.x on Debian
> document.
>
> This version discusses more explicitly how to install TrueType fonts
> that are not packaged for Debian (for example, ones you copy from your
> Micro
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 02:54:42PM -0800, Britton wrote:
> I know for example that meta x is described as "\M-x". How is tab
> described, or how can I find out for a general key. I'm not seeing it in
> the docs.
Emacs ships with a postscript reference card which lists most of the
default key ass
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:25:26AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> how can i use perl to break emails into various mailfolders?
Take a look at Mail::Audit, available on CPAN. The author, Simon
Cozens, has written an introduction that's available online at
http://simon-cozens.org/writings/mail-audit
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 07:15:37PM -0300, John R Lenton wrote:
> > grep ^%%Pages file.ps|awk '{ print $2 }'
>
> any idea why this is 2x as fast as the equivalent
>awk '/^%%Pages/ { print $2 }' file.ps
Because grep, being a compiled program, can do file I/O faster than
awk, which is interprete
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:09:23PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote:
> Thank you Walt!
You're welcome. :-)
> I can't believe I didn't find that! In case anyone else wants to view
> more info on "history expansion" with bash...
>
> http://www.kashpureff.org/nic/linux/texinfo/bash_6.html
>
> or more
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 Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 05:35:20AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:05:25PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote:
> > Ethan Benson wrote:
> > >
> > > install the 2.2.19 version of pcmcia modules. i don't know the exact
> > > package name, i have no hardware with pcmcia.
> >
> > Th
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:20:33AM -0500, Michael Marziani wrote:
> I have looked around for this but I can't find a list of bug
> fixes/improvements in 2.2.19. Anyone have a link? Thanks!
http://www.linux.org.uk/VERSION/relnotes.2219.html
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On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:23:23AM +1100, Andrew Smith wrote:
>
> I am using tar-1.13.18 built from the source code. Some of the other
> packages that I attempted to build from source failed because they
> were packed using bzip2 instead of gzip, and the 'tar xIfp' command
> in rules.unpack failed
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 12:45:29PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> To answer the original question, mc is a good text-mode filesystem
> navigation and management tool.
As is dired mode in emacs.
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On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 09:05:18PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> I'm installing debian on my laptop, and the install exited while I was
> selecting tasks. Is there anyway I can restart at the "select a root
> password" phase?
Someone on irc.debian.org was able to help
I'm installing debian on my laptop, and the install exited while I was
selecting tasks. Is there anyway I can restart at the "select a root
password" phase?
Walt
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Lately I've been noticing a number of messages on the
debian-security-announce list with bad gpg signatures. I compared
these messages to the same ones posted to the web archives and
discovered that they were not identical. Interestingly, the messages
in the archives had GOOD signatures, while th
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 04:09:35AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> I suspect that there is a problem with the perl installation as
> packaged with Potato. I'm trying to install pilotmanager program
> (http://www.moshpit.org/pilotmgr/), and am getting the following
> error:
>
> Configuring PilotMana
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