thread indicator symbols in mutt

2005-05-19 Thread Ron Peterson
My mutt installation isn't displaying the character symbols used in thread mode to show relationships between messages; I'm seeing other special characters instead. What do I do to fix this? TIA. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke

3com 3c90x install

2001-02-21 Thread Ron Peterson
dules/2.2.18pre21/. I inserted this floppy when appropriate during the 'Configure Device Driver Modules' portion of the installation. However, no network interfaces are found. I imagine I need to pass some kernel or insmod parameters for the specified module. Where/How do I do this? -- Ron P

Re: 3com 3c90x install

2001-02-21 Thread Ron Peterson
; module does work with the 3c905c-tx. I used the 3com source driver > with older versions of the 2.2.x kernels, but it is not needed for > 2.2.18pre21. > > John > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:59:40AM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: > > > I'm trying to do a network install

Re: 3com 3c90x install

2001-02-21 Thread Ron Peterson
;s on, but nobody's home. Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > hold yr horses, i would be really sursprised if this card would not work > can't you refer to any error's you get ? > > -Original Message- > From: Ron Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednes

Re: 3com 3c90x install

2001-02-21 Thread Ron Peterson
I can see | ot alloc| eth0: Ca| | This a new computer using a new ASUS motherboard (Asus CUSL2-C). Am I having chipset or bios configuration problems? -Ron- Ron Peterson wrote: > > I'm trying to do a network install of debian on a computer which has a > 3com 3c905

Re: 3com 3c90x install

2001-02-21 Thread Ron Peterson
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:48:13AM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: > > I lied. Well, I didn't look closely enough. It's a 3c905cx-txm. > > Anyway, I tried the 3c59x module first, actually, but it didn't work. > > Now I'm not even

Re: importing gnuplot eps into microsoft word

2001-02-21 Thread Ron Peterson
Mark Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, > > I plot a graph with gnuplot3.7, and have: > set terminal postscript eps > set output "prop.eps" > giving me an eps that I can view with gv. > > However, importing this into ms word gives: > Title: > prop.eps > Creator: > gnuplot... > Preview: EPS not saved with

Re: newbie postgresql question

2001-03-01 Thread Ron Peterson
tation, but debian apparently does things a > little differently. Any suggestions? This is a PostgreSQL issue, not a debian issue. You need to add 'chas' to the PostgreSQL user database. Do 'createuser chas'. See 'man createuser'. -- Ron Peterson Network & Syst

Re: 3c905/network problems

2001-03-02 Thread Ron Peterson
in /etc/network/interfaces. You probably know that, but thought I'd mention it. iface eth0 inet dhcp Also make sure your BIOS setting for Plug-and-Pray OS is turned off. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College GPG and other info at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

2001-03-02 Thread Ron Peterson
> When I start X Windows, using the KDE window manager, I change to root > (with su - ) > for administrative tasks. However I seem unable to run X window > applications. > > Whatever X application I try to run, I inevitably get a message similar > to "... unable to open display". Try this. W

Re: kill: cannot kill some processes

2001-03-02 Thread Ron Peterson
William T Wilson wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, brian moore wrote: > > > > does the process list "Z" under STAT ? if it is the process has gone > > > zombied and i don't think there is much you can do. sometimes zombie'd > > > processes die on their own eventually many times they will not die un

Re: compiling a program

2001-03-02 Thread Ron Peterson
Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > Hi, > > I have simple question concerning compiling a programm > When I compile a program from the sources and it beakes for whatever > reason, how can I get rid of all the files that were created so far or > how can I remove this 'broken' program ? Is there anyt

Re: unresolved symbols in 3dfx.o

2001-03-02 Thread Ron Peterson
Johnny Blade wrote: > > I've been attempting to prepare my machine to play > some quake, but I can't get the 3dfx.o module to work. > I downloaded the device3dfx source using apt-get, ran > the buildpkg script, and then installed the .deb > created. As the deb is trying to update-modules, I > se

Re: [OT] postgresql triggers

2001-03-03 Thread Ron Peterson
will trillich wrote: > when i expand this and try to add a SELECT on other tables, or an > UPDATE to another table or two, postgresql gripes about > > NEW used in non-RULE query... Could you provide an example of what *doesn't* work? -Ron- GPG and other info at: http://www.yellowbank.

Re: shell script experts pls help a lost soul

2001-03-03 Thread Ron Peterson
john smith wrote: > > hi, > > I am having some problems creating some sample scripts...hoping that > somebody can lend a helping hand. > > #!/bin/sh > if test -x $1 > then whoami; > echo $1 > fi > > Yes I know my script sucks but I'm just learning..anyway, my questions are: > > 1. my script do

Re: debian on del poweredge 4200

2001-03-03 Thread Ron Peterson
andy wrote: > > i took the resultant megaraid.o file, stuck it on a floppy in /boot, > then tried to load it at the appropriate point in the install. load failed. I believe the module needs to exist on the floppy in the same folder as in the final install. E.G. - /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/

Re: upgrading libc6 from 2.1 to 2.2 - trouble brewing?

2001-03-04 Thread Ron Peterson
Colin Cashman wrote: > > Tonight I tried to install the latest version of ssh onto my system, but I > wasn't paying close enough attention to the dependencies. Ssh 2.5.1p1 > requires libc-2.2.1-2 or higher, and potato uses libc6-2.1.3-15. > > I have a vague recollection of problems running apps u

Re: Booting past 1024?

2001-03-09 Thread Ron Peterson
x27;d want. Otherwise you'd be overwriting your existing NTFS partition. This might have its advantages, but I'm guessing that's not what you want to do. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College GPG and other info at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso

debian kernel modifications

2001-03-20 Thread Ron Peterson
specific kernel patches to be aware of? -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College GPG and other info at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso

what is 'pool'?

2001-03-22 Thread Ron Peterson
What is 'pool'? The Debian FAQ refers to doc/, project/, tools, etc. but makes no mention of pool/. I've searched the debian-user archive for 'pool', and only found incidental reference to it. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke Colle

duplicate packages found via sources.list

2001-03-28 Thread Ron Peterson
debase. I have URI's to both the debian and kde packages in my sources.list. Ivan's kde packages are more recent, and are the ones I want to use. Do I need to comment out everything but the KDE URI in sources.list? What's the 'proper' way to handle this situation? --

xfree86 and woody

2001-03-28 Thread Ron Peterson
What's the story with xfree86 and woody? I don't see any debs for xfree86 in that tree. There are various .deb's in pool, but the most recent ones don't seem to be associated with any dist, including unstable. I've tried searching the list archives on this, but the search page keeps stalling on

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-28 Thread Ron Peterson
Brendan J Simon wrote: > > I'm considering mirroring Debian for our company. I'd like to know how > much diskspace I would require. Can someone tell me the size of the > following Debian Distros. Is there a webpage with this information ?? > Is it automagically updated ??? I mirror debian, deb

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-29 Thread Ron Peterson
nc setup with > yours. You can view my mirror scripts at http://mill.mtholyoke.edu/mirror/. I'm not going to claim these are the best script in the world, but they seem to work for me. The include/exclude files are there also, they're just not visible in the index. Just explicitl

ssh x11 forwarding on etch

2007-07-17 Thread Ron Peterson
is doesn't appear to be affecting more people. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PAM + LDAP and SSH

2007-07-31 Thread Ron Peterson
to loggin. > If I use this to /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/gdm, the > user can't loggin. It would help others to help you to see what you actually did. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: software suspend and system cloning

2007-08-29 Thread Ron Peterson
2007-08-29_20:50:49-0400 Ron Peterson : > I was cloning a software raid system to a hardware raid system (Dell > 2650 to 2850). I took out the mdadm startup scripts, but apparently > software suspend was somehow trying to restore some kind of state > information about the system

Re: an ssh auth. question++

2006-05-15 Thread Ron Peterson
ike: ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa_tranfer.pub [EMAIL PROTECTED] > /a/local/file Depending on your application, you may want/need to include other options like 'no_pty' in your authorized_keys file (see man page for options). -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College ht

etch/lenny ext3 compatibility

2009-03-19 Thread Ron Peterson
read/write ext3 filesystems created on etch in such a way that I can still use the filesystem on etch? I imagine going the other way would be impossible. ?? -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso facebook: http://tinyurl.com/d63r5c -

Re: etch/lenny ext3 compatibility

2009-03-19 Thread Ron Peterson
two servers I have. > One is in production, running etch. The other is new, and I'd like to > use lenny. Will lenny read/write ext3 filesystems created on etch in > such a way that I can still use the filesystem on etch? I imagine going > the other way would be impossible. -- Ro

Re: etch/lenny ext3 compatibility

2009-03-19 Thread Ron Peterson
d if, on etch, I try to use a 256 byte inode ext3 filesystem created on lenny? I'm thinking ACL's. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso facebook: http://tinyurl.com/d63r5c - I wish my computer would do what I want it t

LVM + multipath

2009-05-21 Thread Ron Peterson
ld be called, but it's aethetically unpleasing at best. Does anyone have any idea what's happening here? Debian Lenny amd64. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso - Mount Holyoke College officials will *NEVER* ask for your password

stability of multipath

2008-01-06 Thread Ron Peterson
ld be nice to have some reassurance that I'm not sticking my neck out too far. TIA -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stability of multipath

2008-01-06 Thread Ron Peterson
2008-01-06_21:12:01-0500 Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:00:00PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: > > Is anyone on this list using multipath and/or multipath-tools in > > production at an enterprise level? I'm considering using multipath > >

Re: stability of multipath

2008-01-07 Thread Ron Peterson
r maybe "Don't even think about it unless you're insane, because I lost my job, my family, and even my dog doing that." That kind of thing. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-19 Thread Ron Peterson
that the distributed kernels are compiled to put config.gz in /proc. That would certainly remove any ambiguity about which config file to look at. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://pks.mtholyoke.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0xB6D365A1&op=vindex -

Re: Ethernet Speed and Duplex

2005-07-11 Thread Ron Peterson
> network/interfaces somewhere on the "auto eth0" line? What kind of card is it? What does 'ethtool eth0' (assuming your interface is eth0) tell you? What duplex/speed does your DSL modem run at? Are you using a crossover cable? -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Man

Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 bug or my own stupidity?

2005-07-11 Thread Ron Peterson
tabase as any user, do ident authentication, and refer to the 'mymap' entries in pg_ident.conf for doing the lookups. So now, logged in as yourusername or root, for example, you can do: psql -U postgres -d template1 -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke Co

Re: first nfs mount in fstab fails

2005-07-11 Thread Ron Peterson
l-server, and I have the relevent nfs kernel stuff statically linked... :( I'm mounting exports from a Tru64 alpha to Debian sarge on a Dell 2800, BTW. I forgot to try making the first nfs mount a different OS at work today, and I don't want to reboot from home (Murphy's

Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 bug or my own stupidity?

2005-07-11 Thread Ron Peterson
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:33:41PM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: > mymap yourusername postgres > mymap postgres postgres > mymap root postgres (I would normally only do this for root and postgres, btw. I don't typically give my us

Re: first nfs mount in fstab fails

2005-07-15 Thread Ron Peterson
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:46:09PM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:16:19PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: > > >I have an fstab, which after the usual local disk entries has nfs > > >entries that look like: > > > > > >aservername:/s

Re: pam userdb auth issue (pam_userdb can't open database) Sarge

2005-07-26 Thread Ron Peterson
(e.g. the user your program runs as) are in the shadow group. Make sure you don't inadvertently expose the shadow password file. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: use knoppix to rerun lilo

2005-07-26 Thread Ron Peterson
. > But when I do this, I get the error: > Fatal: open /dev/hda: Permission denied Try the '-o dev' option to mount. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

control-b in konsole

2005-08-09 Thread Ron Peterson
re's something I'm doing, or a configuration setting that gets activated somehow that turns it on. I can't find it to save my life. I'm dying. Please help. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSU

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-10 Thread Ron Peterson
/.screenrc, as you see fit): escape ^Tt I've been known to use netcat to upload text to cisco devices. Something like: netcat hostname 23 < script.txt where script.txt looks like: password term len 0 sho mac-address-table exit I know I'm not answering your original question; just

Re: Serial comm program

2005-08-10 Thread Ron Peterson
ty bits etc., but it's an interesting approach in any case.. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: samba open share

2005-08-10 Thread Ron Peterson
es >browsable = yes See the 'map to guest' option in the smb.conf man page. You probably want to use the 'Bad User' option. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: control-b in konsole

2005-08-14 Thread Ron Peterson
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:28:51AM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 09:38:13AM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: > > There is a ctrl-b function in konsole that brings up a little dialog > > "Add Bookmark - Konsole". Where it comes from, I don't kn

Re: Apache Sigterm every sunday at 6:25

2005-08-22 Thread Ron Peterson
from? cron. Look at what /etc/crontab runs at that time. > Where will I have to write the "pass phrease" Sounds like your SSL setup uses a cert with a passphrase. Probably the easiest way to avoid manual intervention would be to make a passphraseless cert. -- Ron

first nfs mount in fstab fails

2005-07-08 Thread Ron Peterson
,proto=tcp 0 0 etc. On boot, the first mount consistently fails to mount. It manually mounts fine. If I switch entries around, the same thing happens - the first entry fails to mount. Any ideas? -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpet

what startup scripts attempt to update sendmail config?

2005-08-28 Thread Ron Peterson
Debian Sarge.. On boot, apparently right after the networking init script, and quite some time before the actual sendmail init script, something appears to be attempting to update various sendmail db's in /etc/mail. What's doing this? -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager

Re: offline ?? Re: sendmail trouble

2005-09-07 Thread Ron Peterson
thing you need to remember is to properly modify your access file to set pause to zero for localhost and probably your local subnet. If you do happen to find it's blocking a legitimate sender, it's easy to whitelist them in the access db. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager

Re: Hardware RAID advices needed

2005-09-07 Thread Ron Peterson
own disk and don't know it. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: eth1 (3com905B) question

2005-09-07 Thread Ron Peterson
boot. Comment that out if you want to bring the interface up/down manually, e.g. 'ifup eth1'. There's more here than you need; you'll want to chop the pre-up bit unless you're familiar with how to set up an iptables script, for example. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems

Re: utility for temperature

2005-09-07 Thread Ron Peterson
program which uses that command or something similar... Not answering your question, but on a related note, the hddtemp package is nice for monitoring hard drive temps. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: sendmail trouble

2005-09-08 Thread Ron Peterson
t a mailertable per the simple syntax described here: http://www.sendmail.org/m4/mailertables.html I don't know Postfix or Exim well enough yet to have an opinion about their relative merits. Getting to know them better is on my infinitely long to-do list though... -- Ron Pete

Re: my first raid disaster on reboot :o( update

2005-09-08 Thread Ron Peterson
md7 using /dev/hda,/dev/hdc > /dev/md8 using /dev/hab,/dev/hdd > > both ext3 > > they started, and sync'd > > on reboot, md7 and md8 didn't auto start. If you do 'cfdisk /dev/hda' (and b,c,d...), does it show the partition type set to 'Linux raid a

Re: scp: file download history

2005-09-19 Thread Ron Peterson
ferent email. You might check to see if the scp command is in your command history. In bash, something like: history | grep scp Best. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

runlevel policy

2005-09-19 Thread Ron Peterson
explain why Debian's runlevel policy seems to have strayed so far from traditional System V? Why is xdm/gdm/kdm etc. in runlevel three, for example? -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: runlevel policy

2005-09-19 Thread Ron Peterson
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:40:46AM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: > Can anyone explain why Debian's runlevel policy seems to have strayed > so far from traditional System V? Why is xdm/gdm/kdm etc. in runlevel > three, for example? I realize the concept of 'traditional' Sys

Re: runlevel policy

2005-09-19 Thread Ron Peterson
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 01:45:19PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > > "Paul E Condon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 11:11:55AM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: > >>On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:40:46AM -0400, R

Re: Experiences with LSI / Adaptec cards

2005-09-20 Thread Ron Peterson
getting any error reports. Those two cards seem to be it for the internal Ultra320 RAID market. I wouldn't say either of them 'suck', as you say, but I wouldn't give either one an A+ either. I'd like to spend more time w/ the Adaptec now that the drivers seem to have been fi

Re: quickly partition disk, copy an image, install grub

2005-09-20 Thread Ron Peterson
ress as req'd. This is from memory, so I'm sure I skipped or mistyped some crucial step that will drive you mad. Oh, like the mbr... Maybe something like this to copy the boot record: * ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'dd if=/dev/hda bs=512k count=1' | dd of=/dev/hda -- Ron Peter