Mutt configuration

1998-07-05 Thread Mike Merten
Hi everyone, I have a problem configuring Mutt. All mail, unless I delete it, is saved in my spoolfile. I'm trying to configure the mbox-hook command to move all read mail to a different folder (mbox) but am unable to get it to work. The spool file is the users default mail file in /var/spool

Re: Mutt configuration

1998-07-06 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 09:27:08AM -0700, Mike Schmitz wrote: > set nohold > set mbox=~/mbox > Mike, Thanks for the info. The 'nohold' variable was unrecognized by Mutt when I added it to the Muttrc file, however, it did point me in the right direction. Another search of the docs turned up a r

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-07 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 09:51:52PM +0200, Shiraz Sayani wrote: > I seem to have been receiving some spam which started after I asked > a question on this list (note the new mung). > > Has anyone else had the same? Am I being paranoid, or is it > possible some spammer is mining the archives of thes

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-07 Thread Mike Merten
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 08:53:28AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Hallo, > > I have also received the beanie-bag spam. I received the followin message > last week and just want to know whether some of you did also receive it: > > >Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 00:13:20 EDT > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To

Re: Making modem talk........................

1998-07-08 Thread Mike Merten
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 02:05:10PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Your modem is most likely Plug-N-Play. In order to initialize Plug-N-Play > devices you > need the isapnp package. Use dselect to install this package. You'll then > need to > customize the /etc/isapnp.conf file. Try to verify w

Re: Repeated messages?

1998-07-09 Thread Mike Merten
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 02:59:05PM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > Is it just me, or am I getting messages from two or three days ago again? > > --Evan, who swears he's seed the dir *. /s msg before... > ---And the Gateway message... and others... > Naw, not just you... I just checked email (last

Mail Loop???

1998-07-09 Thread Mike Merten
Help! I seem to be getting many duplicate messages from debian-user... some are actually triplicates. In case it helps, here's one including all the headers. Mike (Please make it stop, daddy!) = >From ironfoot Wed Jul

Re: Here is a procmail filter for the Repeated Messages

1998-07-10 Thread Mike Merten
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 05:24:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here we go again with the returned messages to the list. The offending > site is sistemia.it. This is the procmail filter that I am using for > I noticed that the last bunch came from (or at least passed through) ns.sistemia.i

Re: Here is a procmail filter for the Repeated Messages

1998-07-10 Thread Mike Merten
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 05:24:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yikes, > > Here we go again with the returned messages to the list. The offending > site is sistemia.it. This is the procmail filter that I am using for > now to divert this stuff. > > # temp fix > :0: > * ^X-Envelope-Sende

Re: Here is a procmail filter for the Repeated Messages

1998-07-10 Thread Mike Merten
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 05:24:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yikes, > > Here we go again with the returned messages to the list. The offending > site is sistemia.it. This is the procmail filter that I am using for > now to divert this stuff. > > # temp fix > :0: > * ^X-Envelope-Sende

Re: Smail Configuration

1998-07-10 Thread Mike Merten
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 12:52:52AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 12:20:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi , > > I have a mail account at my ISP which is SMTP. Can somebody please > > explain to me how to set up smail so that I can send and receive mails > > from

Re: Here is a procmail filter for the Repeated Messages

1998-07-11 Thread Mike Merten
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 08:03:02AM -0700, Mike Schmitz wrote: > > I just used the original send date. > D - Capital d gives a prompt - Delete messages matching: > and I gave it: ~d -07/07/98 > to delete messages older than 08/07/98. > > ~h PATTERN messages which contain PATTERN in the messa

no new messages

1998-07-11 Thread Mike Merten
Just checked mail today and found no messages? Did I get bumped from the lists, or is there just nothing going on? Mike -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: no new messages

1998-07-12 Thread Mike Merten
On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 05:24:12PM -0500, Mike Merten wrote: > > Just checked mail today and found no messages? Did I get bumped > from the lists, or is there just nothing going on? > Uhmmm... never mind. Just found 116 in my box :) (Good thing too... was beginning to exhi

Re: HELP on getting diald to work

1998-07-12 Thread Mike Merten
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 03:31:27PM -0400, Keith Alen Vance wrote: > I am trying to set up diald to connect to my isp automatically. I am > running Debian 1.3 kernel 2.0.33 and I have ip masquerading setup and > working. The problem is that when diald tries to connect it fails here is > the error

Re: Newbie Questions...

1998-07-12 Thread Mike Merten
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 01:35:15PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. What do I need to do POP messages off the ISP mail server? I use Mutt to read from both my local mail spool file and to get non-local mail from my ISP using POP. Alternatively, you can set up Fetchmail to move mail from you

Re: Newbie Questions... One more

1998-07-12 Thread Mike Merten
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 01:39:58PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have one more question. If I reply to the mail from my system, the mail > get returned. I know this is what they discussed in the thread..but what is > MUA ,how to set it... How do I set Reply-TO filed and where... > Well,

Re: the time

1998-07-14 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 04:31:40PM -0400, David Parmet wrote: > > How do i change the date and time? > date MMDDHHMM Mike -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Time Server

1998-07-15 Thread Mike Merten
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 11:45:26AM +0200, Pere Camps wrote: > > Put this in your /etc/cron.daily/set_date > > #!/bin/sh > rdate -s clock.psu.edu > /dev/null > > And your clock will be set every day. :-) > Thanks for that one... I put it in my ip-up.d directory :) Mike -- Unsubscribe? mai

Re: mutt and mbox file?

1998-07-19 Thread Mike Merten
On Sat, Jul 18, 1998 at 12:53:16PM -0400, Seth M. Landsman wrote: > Greets, > So I used mutt for a long time on my system and then redid my > system to use debian when my old disk died. So I installed mutt via > dselect as a .deb package instead of compiling from source. However, now > when

Re: passwords at Debian's FTP site

1998-07-19 Thread Mike Merten
On Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 01:10:08AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > He might not have his FTP client (e.g. Netscape) configured. I know I > leave mine unconfigured to prevent people from putting ftp:// links in > their page and snagging my email address by linking to a 2x2 transparent > gif or som

Re: Zip detection in Kernel2.2.0 Problems

1999-02-09 Thread Mike Merten
ort directly into the kernel. I believe I also had to enable the parport autodetect feature, IIRC. I have the lp support as a module. At boot, the kernel correctly identifies the zip drive but gives an error (no disk), and also correctly identifies the HP printer attached to the drive. I'

autofs question

1999-02-13 Thread Mike Merten
ls -l /mount' and noticed that the directory it created for the filesystem showed a date of December 31, 1969??? I assume this is normal, since everything works, but why doesn't it show the correct creation date? Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Help with lilo.conf and booting

1999-02-14 Thread Mike Merten
is: (I use 'make config') Parallel port support = Y PC-style hardware = Y Plug and Play support = Y Autoprobe for parallel devices = Y SCSI Support = Y SCSI disk support = Y IOMEGA parallel port (ppa) = Y (I set the following options because I'm using a really ancient parallel card for this drive... you probably don't need them) ppa/imm slow (but safe) EPP-16 = Y ppa/imm Assume slow parport control register = Y After I compiled with these options, and rebooted, my zip drive was recognized and worked fine. Hope this helps... Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: dircolors and LS_COLORS

1999-02-14 Thread Mike Merten
\_,_/ /_/\_\ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Try ~/.bashrc Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: slink=frozen still??

1999-02-17 Thread Mike Merten
H... not according to 'Billy'... the latest M$2000 press claims that the reason 2000 isn't out yet is because they dont want to release until ALL the bugs are fixed ;) Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

USER and LOGNAME environment settings

1999-02-19 Thread Mike Merten
Hi, I was wondering what is the difference between the USER and LOGNAME environment variables, and under what situations would they be different? Thanks, Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: USER and LOGNAME environment settings

1999-02-20 Thread Mike Merten
#x27;s all it is, no problem (I've been writing bash shell scripts lately ;) Thanks! Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

SMC EtherEZ PCI card (1211TX)

1999-02-25 Thread Mike Merten
ation: Unknown device 1211 (rev 10) ^ Haven't heard of this one... Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks, Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

SMC EtherEZ PCI 10/100 (1211 TX)

1999-02-26 Thread Mike Merten
ip markings to any of the chipsets listed in the Ethernet-HOWTO. Can anybody help me with this card? At this point, even 'That card is not supported' would help. Thanks, Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Big HD problems - How stuffed am I?

1999-03-01 Thread Mike Merten
s, occasionally, but it doesn't seem to be getting any worse. FYI, the messages I get are: hdb: timeout waiting for DMA hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hdb: DMA disabled ide0: reset: success This is the second of these drives I've owned, a

Re: SMC EtherEZ PCI 10/100 (1211 TX)

1999-03-01 Thread Mike Merten
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 02:59:33PM -0600, Mike Merten wrote: > Hi, > > I have an SMC EtherEZ 10/100 PCI network card and I'm having trouble > getting it to work. I've read the Ethernet-HOWTO and Hardware-HOWTO, > both of which mention several SMC cards, but none that

Re: file creation dates and SAMBA

1999-03-05 Thread Mike Merten
no_root_squash option. If I'm wrong on this, just ignore it ;) Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Maximal Mount Count

1999-03-10 Thread Mike Merten
; Thank you... > Actually, what I did was something more like this: # mount /dev/hda2 /mnt # cp -a /usr/* /mnt # umount /mnt # rm -r /usr/* # mount /dev/hda2 /usr Then edited /etc/fstab to add a line /dev/hda2 /usr ext2 defaults 0 2 Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Maximal Mount Count

1999-03-10 Thread Mike Merten
I believe the lost+found directories need to be in the root of every partition, for use by fsck... if you accidentally delete one, there's a command mklost+found that recreates it for you. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Maximal Mount Count

1999-03-11 Thread Mike Merten
partitions to work with, you're pretty much stuck with symlinking things around, unless your willing to reinstall / repartition. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Help with PAP!

1999-03-11 Thread Mike Merten
account that used PAP and I'll have to say that pppconfig made it ridiculously(sp) easy. Just run through the menus and select PAP instead of CHAT... should take care of everything for you. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: dselect removed (almost) everything

1999-03-11 Thread Mike Merten
apt immediatly. It can repair at least some of > the errors you now have in your setup. Plus it makes installing software by > hand A LOT easier. (You just type "apt-get install somepackage" and it will > download and install somepackage plus all the needed packages in one step.) > Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: ping script for isp autologout

1999-03-14 Thread Mike Merten
You might want to read the fine print of your 'contract' with the ISP, as most of them forbid using programs that periodically send traffic with the intent of keeping your connection alive, and they can use this as grounds for terminating your service. Just a thought... Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

pseudo ttys

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
Hi, I'm running a 2.2.2 kernel with support for the /dev/pty filesystem (UNIX98 pty support) enabled. My question is this... does this obsolete the 64 or so /dev/ptyxx devices, or are they still used for something? Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
;re doing a great job with the X packages. I haven't had any problems at all with any of the upgrades... well... uh.. except for that one time when there was a typo in one of the config files. It was easy enough to fix though. Keep up the good work! Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
; > Mechanical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis > - > -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
y to break if i upgrade to glibc 2.1? will i still be > left with a (mostly) usable system? > > (i'm willing to test it but not if my machine is going to be die) > > craig > > -- > craig sanders > > Well, I just 'took the plunge' and everything SEEMS to be working... Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: fmirror/mirror/lftp ?

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
le binary-i386 packages flattening all the symlinks (but if this is what you want, it works great). Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: pseudo ttys

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 12:56:34PM -0500, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 10:42:48AM -0600, Mike Merten wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running a 2.2.2 kernel with support for the /dev/pty filesystem > > (UNIX98 pty support) enabled. M

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 01:30:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- On 15 Mar, Mike Merten wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows" > > On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 08:53:55AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> As long as you were removing xdm

sendmail broken

1999-03-16 Thread Mike Merten
o I can still follow the lists. -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Subject: Potato, sendmail, glibc 2.1, and libdb2

1999-03-16 Thread Mike Merten
lson > C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\GO C:\PC\CRAWL > > Thanks for that info! I downgraded libdb2 to the slink version and my sendmail is back up and running. (WHEW!) Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: HELP! Can't get connected

1999-03-17 Thread Mike Merten
ppp setup daemon. I tried to > use the rescue disk, but that does not allow any operations with out > complete installation. > Thanks, Woodrow > > Run the pppconfig utility. HTH, Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: win-printer??

1999-03-17 Thread Mike Merten
^Hblessed with a HP 720c and was able to get it printing postscript in b&w using the above mentioned ppa driver and gs. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: [off-topic] auto-replies

1999-03-18 Thread Mike Merten
de mailing-lists from such > responses. > > Yep, I'm getting them too :/ Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: netstd in potato?

1999-03-21 Thread Mike Merten
OTECTED] > Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen > > I noticed the same thing, and LOTS of packages depend on it. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

net-pf-19

1999-03-22 Thread Mike Merten
Which module does net-pf-19 refer to? Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: NIC SMC EZ 1211 10/100 TX

1999-03-24 Thread Mike Merten
Hope this helps > Wojtek Zabolotny > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For the SMC EZ 1211 you'll need to use the Realtek driver (rtl8139). Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Use apt to form a partial local mirror of Slink -- how?

1999-03-24 Thread Mike Merten
script so that it moves the files to my /pub/debian directory instead of deleting them. After I run install, I fire up the laptop and update it from there. The only problem is, the install script gets overwritten after each apt upgrade... :/ Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Use apt to form a partial local mirror of Slink -- how?

1999-03-25 Thread Mike Merten
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:55:47AM -0600, Mike Merten wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:12:37PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I have installed Slink on my desktop using apt. It downloaded a whole > > lot of package files to do this (but dselect, I think, has now d

Re: netstat entry

1999-03-28 Thread Mike Merten
re no entries in syslog with name pavlov, or xferlog, for that > matter. Any ideas where else I can look if my system has been accessed by > an outsider? > Thanks, > Andrew > > I may be mistaken, but I believe pavlov.midco.net is one of the Debian mirrors you access when you

Re: (ana)cron & local time changing ?

1999-03-29 Thread Mike Merten
this script did not run, or > is it a feature? :-) ) > > Thanks for you time, > Antal > > AFAIK, this is a historical "feature" of cron. The fix is to not schedule anything between 2 and 3 AM. If you do, once a year it won&#

kernel 2.2 / Potato

1999-01-26 Thread Mike Merten
t supported yet, sorry." and dies. (no big deal, just thought I'd mention it. Everything else (so far) is working good. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.angelfire.com/la/ironfoot ICQ# 28460680

Drive problems

1999-01-28 Thread Mike Merten
data loss, but it does tend to worry me. TIA for any info on this. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.angelfire.com/la/ironfoot ICQ# 28460680

Re: X woes (potato)

1999-02-03 Thread Mike Merten
.xsession-errors file. It probably indicates a syntax error in the /etc/X11/Xsession file at line 47. I added a line immediately before the 'default)' case containing ';;' and everything started working. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.angelfire.com/la/ironfoot ICQ# 28460680

xfonts-100dpi upgrade

1999-02-08 Thread Mike Merten
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Re: SW under /usr/local/

2000-09-28 Thread Mike Merten
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 11:20:10PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Quick question on administration: > > what exactly is the best way to deal with locally installed software > from source under the /usr/local/ or /opt/ tree? > > I use GNU stow, but never actually saw anyone suggesting this to be >

Re: init 3 does nothing

2000-09-29 Thread Mike Merten
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:59:51AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > No need to define a new runlevel, just use update-rc.d. Debian sets up > runlevels 2-5 as identical to each other with the expectation that users who > want to use them for process/daemon control will customize the runlevels to >

Re: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed : QUEZACO ??

2000-10-20 Thread Mike Merten
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 05:07:26AM -0400, wmwaisse wrote: > > >Sébastien Kalt wrote: > >> Oct 5 14:13:28 kahuna kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for dpkg... > >> Oct 5 14:13:29 kahuna last message repeated 2 times > >> Oct 5 14:13:29 kahuna kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for >

Re: Backspace key

2000-12-09 Thread Mike Merten
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 08:35:42PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:36:37PM +, Glyn Millington wrote: > -| > -|I've been upgrading things from Woody - a foolhardy venture but everythng > -|went well amd works beautifully apart from my backspace key which now > -|