Re: vi in ssh window

2001-01-18 Thread dochawk
> Hi, > When I ssh in to my debian potato system and try to do something like vi, > or dselect, the screen messes up. For example, the vi status line occurs > at the top of the screen, and I can't see the line the cursor is currently > on. In dselect the same type things happen, stuff gets printe

Re: automatically setting "From:" with mh

2001-01-15 Thread dochawk
Robert Rambled, > I´ve simply set it in the components: > [waldner:~/Mail] egrep Waldner *comp* > components:From: Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > distcomps:Resent-From: Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > forwcomps:From: Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > rcvdistcomps:Resent-From: Robert

automatically setting "From:" with mh

2001-01-15 Thread dochawk
After months of on and off poking, I'm still stuck. I've tried reading assorted fm's, but get lost along the way. I need to figure out how to get mh (or nmh) to automatically include a specified From: line whenever it mails from my account (or, even better, to get it to to include this in the t

2.4-pre5 especially susceptible to memory overload?

2000-10-24 Thread dochawk
I have had more system hangs in the last two weeks than in the last four years put together . . . (OK, so that make s 2 :) The first incident was loading (well, attempting to load) an excessively large file into beav (a binary file editor). 1G file, 160Mb memory. It ran out of memory, and even

no valid newsgroups again (inews)

2000-10-13 Thread dochawk
I know I"ve been through this before, but this didn't come up on my install last year (which worked fine). I can read usenet just fine, but when I try to post, I get inews: No valid newsgroups in alt.folklore.computers --which happens to be the group I"m reading. I'm not running a newserve

Unidentified subject!

2000-09-29 Thread dochawk
-- cc: Subject: my .signature is gone in nmh Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I've noticed that my .signature is no longer included, either from the command line or when using exmh. It still seems to be there: fac13pts/0:hawk>ls -l .signature -rwx--

Unidentified subject!

2000-09-27 Thread dochawk
cc: David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, hawk Subject: Re: ppp install failing (loopback?) In-Reply-To: Message from hawk of "Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:06:07 EDT." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plai

Unidentified subject!

2000-09-26 Thread dochawk
ntent-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii john jabbed, > dochawk writes: > > What does "serial line is looped back" mean? > It means that pppd is seeing its own LCP packets coming back. This usually > happens when the host on the other end wants to see more text befo

PPP failure on the startup (serial line is looped back)

2000-09-25 Thread dochawk
Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I've managed once more to get the base distribution onto the kdis machine, and I think that this one was the biggest fight I"ve had in five years of debian . . . Theres' a cute bug that *can* happen, but I'm not sure what cau

Re: kernel 2.4 fixes bad connection with eepro

2000-09-22 Thread dochawk
jessi jumbled, > actually, last time i checked, the 2.4 kernel had the same problem. i am > hoping pre9 fixes them. Typically, with pre8 (AFAIK) if you throw load at > the machine, the eerpro drivers "wig" out. This is from the debian "test-5" version. I can't stay up more than a couple of minu

kernel 2.4 fixes bad connection with eepro

2000-09-22 Thread dochawk
This has come up a couple of times, including by me. I've install 2.4, and it seems to solve the flaky connection problem from the eepro card in my machine (i'd previously needed a keepup script to force-reload the network every few seconds. hawk --

Re: Do you recomend to upgrade to Woody?

2000-09-20 Thread dochawk
> Has anyone used woody for mission critical stuff? I know some people run > woody-based web servers, eg, but I haven't. I used to run the unstable branches. Prior to 1.1, this was kind of necessary :) However, somewhere arround 98, iirc, it became impractical. With regular updated, I coul

Re: Begone, vile emacs!

2000-09-19 Thread dochawk
Ray rote, > I know that when 2.2 installs in is emacs19. But of course you know that > as soon as you remove emacs RMS sends large men to your house to break >your knees. :) I like emacs but it is big. Yes, but in the true emacs anti-unix tradtion, they don't stop at doing one thing well, but i

Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition--disk editor? (fwd)

2000-09-19 Thread dochawk
Oswald opined, > well ... i don't remember their names. i found some of them by searching > freshmeat.net and doing a generic web search for "linux disk editor" *DOH!* Now I feel foolish :) > or > something like that. i did not bookmark them, as they all were not very > satisfactory ... :-(

Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition--disk editor? (fwd)

2000-09-18 Thread dochawk
> > yikes, I can do without the gory details :) does this mean that once I > > find a block of a tar, I can start extracting, even if it wasn't the > > middle? > you mean "even if it wasn't the START?", right? > the answer is yes. just verified this. yes. Thanks. > > And now that I think of

Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition--disk editor?

2000-09-18 Thread dochawk
chris chryed, > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 02:14:56PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > yikes, I can do without the gory details :) does this mean that once I > > find a block of a tar, I can start extracting, even if it wasn't the > > middle? > You want to find the first block of the tar. I

Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition--disk editor? (fwd)

2000-09-16 Thread dochawk
to: du reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition--disk editor? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:28:34 EDT." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PR