Re: G5 Xserver or Sun Blade 1500

2004-01-29 Thread Clint Adams
I have some :)) money for this project (ca.4500 euros) and I am unable to decide myself what would be the best solution: an apple Xserver dual G5 2GHz or an Sun Blade 1500 Worksation. The Xserve will blow the SB1500 out of the water. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: ITP: TIP

1999-12-29 Thread Clint Adams
Tip stands for Tip isn't Pico, and is a GPL'd Pico clone, written from scratch. It's great that there's a free pico clone, but I see namespace confusion and conflicts on systems with the sort of tip that uses /etc/remote, which is not currently in Debian, but should be. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: ITP: TIP

1999-12-29 Thread Clint Adams
Oh. The author just knew about this 2 or 3 days ago, and he is still pondering about the name change. Should there be any problem for an initial tip package release, and after change the name? I have tried to find that other tip around, but I couldn't find it. What is it? DESCRIPTION

Re: exmh configuration.

1998-07-26 Thread Clint Adams
Question: How to change exmh configuration so that it will let smail do what I want ? That is, how to prevent exmh from disturbing smail to set the From: header the way I want it to be ? You want to change this in nmh or MH (whichever you're using), not in EXMH. -- Unsubscribe? mail

Re: fetchmail not fetching

1998-07-26 Thread Clint Adams
fetchmail: 1 message at [EMAIL PROTECTED] reading message 1 (1772 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed See if this gives you better results: fetchmail -S localhost -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: procmail and .forward

1998-07-15 Thread Clint Adams
Before upgrading to hamm, I had to put a .forward file with that known line of redirection in order to get my e-mail filtered by procmail. Now, even without the .forward two users of my system were getting their e-mail filtered by procmail. I double checked and they didn't have the

Re: How can I check package integrity?

1997-09-01 Thread Clint Adams
/usr/local/bin/skipdouble is a shell script that filters out double lines from stdin and echoes the rest on stdout. Obviously, it only works well when its input is sorted. uniq should give you the same effect. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: depmod -a problem

1997-08-28 Thread Clint Adams
gum# depmod -av | less modprobe: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory TYPE /lib/modules/boot TYPE /lib/modules/2.0.29/fs etc etc Try this and attempt depmod again: rm `find /lib/modules -name *_MODULES` -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: depmod -a problem

1997-08-28 Thread Clint Adams
Hmmm, not to my knowledge. Using modutils_2.1.34-5a and tried 2.1.34-5 before that. /etc/conf.modules is substantially the same as the one on my hamm box. Think I'll make a kernel-source-29-deb and let it install itself. You're probably using an older version of kernel-package that

Re: leadership and dissent

1997-08-23 Thread Clint Adams
It's my job to weigh the developers arguments and make a decision when they do not generate a clear consensus on their own. Note that my original proposal was to tell the CD vendor to take a hike, and I was convinced by developer argument to make changes to accomodate the CD vendor. That

Re: Linus

1997-08-23 Thread Clint Adams
pronunication of his name and of Linux when he speaks English! The 'i' like 'eye' and the 'u' like what? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Dave Cinege and Paul Wade

1997-08-23 Thread Clint Adams
My first suggestion for the charter would be that profanity should not be tolerated: no matter whom it comes from. Just English profanities or those of any language? Who's going to maintain the list of forbidden words? Not only is that ridiculous, I find it offensive. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Show me the money Re: Donations to Debian

1997-08-22 Thread Clint Adams
And the people who contribute to it should decide the direction in which it goes. Did I miss the developer vote on the version numbering scheme change? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Show me the money Re: Donations to Debian

1997-08-22 Thread Clint Adams
A while ago we held a vote on the leadership of the project. The developers strongly rejected the idea of a Roman Senate where all decisions would be voted upon. They prefered to have an elected executive and ratified me to As did I. However, I think it's slightly stretching the point to

Re: This ugly policy discussion on debian-user.

1997-08-22 Thread Clint Adams
(3) The change in the revision name system is truly minor. You guys have I wouldn't say that. If it were truly minor there would have been no cause for it. Clearly there was a reason, and it is this reason to which Dave and Paul object, if I interpret correctly. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: procmail config question

1997-08-10 Thread Clint Adams
:0: * ^FROM_MAILER IN.daemon-mail but what I really want is all mail from daemons *except* mail with the Subject :0: * ^FROM_MAILER * !^Subject: IN.daemon-mail -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Clint Adams
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system: bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/ total 269488144 c---r- 8240 8224 8224 32, 48 Aug 2 1995 drafts I can't delete it! You're going to need to use debugfs to get rid of it.

Re: Distributing a procmail filter (was: Re: splitting up the...)

1997-08-05 Thread Clint Adams
at the same time. Incidentally, I think the second example should be a pipe, e.g.: formail +1 -ds | procmail The pipe is unnecessary. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

VDO masquerading

1997-07-30 Thread Clint Adams
Does anyone know to which patch the IP-Masq FAQ refers with regard to that awful VDOLive system? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

VDO

1997-07-30 Thread Clint Adams
Nevermind.. I need to learn to read. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ICQ

1997-07-29 Thread Clint Adams
The only function that can't be replaced with email and talk (or other chat proggie) is the online notification. So someone just needs to write a free daemon that handles online notification. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ICQ

1997-07-29 Thread Clint Adams
I would be verry happy with that. A chat feature whould also be nice. How would you run the server side? Possibly run it off the established IRC networks? Which, by the way, are far from reliable. I think the realy cool You could conceivably just write a stripped-down IRC client that

Re: home directories

1997-07-28 Thread Clint Adams
My largest partition is at /usr/local. That's why. Make /home a symbolic link to somewhere on that partition then. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: help with exmh

1997-07-03 Thread Clint Adams
Now that I've decided pine was quite sufficient for me, does anyone know how to convert my inbox back? I couldn't see how from the man pages or the FAQ - and just concatenating the files in ~/Mail didn't work. Investigate the MH (or nmh) command packf. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: X-capable mail reader

1997-07-03 Thread Clint Adams
Currently I'm using xmh and it's just not cutting the 200+ emails I see a day. I like the MH features, I just need multiple inboxes, which it doesn't do :( EXMH is much better. The latest unstable version is 2.0delta. I don't know if it's in /debian/project/experimental yet. I would

Re: help with exmh

1997-07-03 Thread Clint Adams
Packf doesn't handle the old UUCP-style mbox format (used by SendMail). To pack messages into this format, use the script /usr/lib/mh/packmbox. IIRC, the nmh version does mbox by default instead of mmdf. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: questions about new releases

1997-07-02 Thread Clint Adams
I was curious if, after pgcc (pentium optimized gcc) comes out there will be Hasn't pgcc been out for years? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Debian got slammed

1997-06-27 Thread Clint Adams
sometimes it's useful to listen to the silly ones just to see what they're saying. Perhaps derogating this guy's views as stupid or silly serves no constructive purpose, especially when there is some validity there. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: Debian got slammed

1997-06-27 Thread Clint Adams
Compaining about deficiencies is a valid, good thing. Saying Slackware is in any real way preferable to Debian is damn stupid. There were three points when I contemplated switching to Debian before I actually did, and each time I decided not to do so until Debian got its act together.

Re: XTerm-color

1997-06-21 Thread Clint Adams
#ifdef COLOR *customization: -color #endif Does it do the same thing without the #ifdef and #endif lines? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: fetchmail, procmail, mail reading, Gnus, XEmacs

1997-06-20 Thread Clint Adams
Bob poll pop.primenet.com proto pop3 user USERNAME pass PASSWORD Try adding an `mda' line to it. Here's what I use: A different solution that will use your mail daemon is to put smtphost localhost in your .fetchmailrc defaults -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: Netscape and bash 2.0

1997-06-20 Thread Clint Adams
Since I don't use helper apps much, I never ran across this. Does anyone have a solution? Use the netscape installer package in contrib. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Netscape and bash 2.0

1997-06-20 Thread Clint Adams
It was initially installed with the installer package. Does it have to be purged and re-installed? Yes. There seems to be no mechanism for upgraded versions to compensate for the absence of the patch in previous ones. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: Debian 1.3 install enters a reboot cycle

1997-06-20 Thread Clint Adams
None worked. Any idea how to get passed this hurdle? Try 'linux'--you can probably find out for sure by hitting TAB. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Long time to login prompt: telnet and ftp

1997-06-19 Thread Clint Adams
The net cards in both machines are NE-2000 clones. I had the same problem. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: sendmail, procmail, slocal, mh folders

1997-06-10 Thread Clint Adams
Well, I've been playing with exmh and really like it so I decided to go wild and convert all my mailbox folders to mh folders. I've been using procmail (installed in sendmail as the local delivery agent) to do my filtering and presorting. Worked great with mailbox format folders, but less

Re: making 16bpp the default in X

1997-06-08 Thread Clint Adams
Luke Bussanmas, Rob Browining, Brian White, and Gary Dolan (others? if so accept my apology!) have tried with varying degrees of success in helping me get Netscape running on my 1MB TVGA 9400 CXi card and KFC 15 monitor with X11R6, Debina 1.1 (with some upgrades). I am grateful to all

Re: Problems configuring fetchmail

1997-05-26 Thread Clint Adams
reading message 4 (1753 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed I experience this and other problems when using dynamic IPs. Using '-S localhost' on the commandline solves it for me. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: gpm and X or not?

1997-05-25 Thread Clint Adams
Everything I have read has always said to be sure to DISABLE gpm before using X. Both are running right now, and I'm having no problems. I even tried the mouse-in-motion trick while switching between X and console. This applies to both a Microsoft mouse and a PS/2 glidepad. -- TO

Re: .wav recording software?

1997-05-16 Thread Clint Adams
I've got a SoundBlaster 32 on my Debian system, and I'd like to be able to record sounds for it. In dselect, I didn't come across any packages that seem to do recording. Does anyone know of a package (or just software somewhere) that can record to a .wav? Thanks. sox, nas, and bplay are

depmod error reading ELF header

1997-04-29 Thread Clint Adams
When I attempt to run depmod (modutils 2.1.34) for kernel v2.0.30, I receive a modprobe: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory Any ideas? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: depmod error reading ELF header

1997-04-29 Thread Clint Adams
modprobe: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory The problem was avoided by removing the *_MODULES files. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: depmod error reading ELF header

1997-04-29 Thread Clint Adams
Didn't work here. What version of kernel/ld.so/(what else?) are you using? Did you remove misc/NET_MISC_MODULES or whatever it is? I'm using kernel 2.0.30 modutils 2.1.34 ldso 1.9.2 (though I was using something like 1.8.10 at the time). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: STL

1997-04-28 Thread Clint Adams
I couldn't find any include files... where are they? (I know nothing about stl). They're in /usr/include/g++ For container classes, you'll need to use /usr/bin/genclass See the Info documentation for libg++. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: STL

1997-04-28 Thread Clint Adams
#include map #include vector etc. Isn't this HP's STL rather than GNU's? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: STL

1997-04-28 Thread Clint Adams
// -*- C++ -*- forwarding header. // This file is part of the GNU ANSI C++ Library. #ifndef __VECTOR__ #define __VECTOR__ #include vector.h #endif Yes, but the copyright at the top of vector.h is HP's. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: STL

1997-04-28 Thread Clint Adams
Well, the version in Debian is the only g++ STL I know of. It's quite possible that GNU based it on the HP code. I consider the genclass prototypes as an STL even though the compiler isn't responsible for the templating. Anyway, I suppose it's not really relevant. I'm reading about SGI's STL

Re: Amiga Filesystem mounting bother.

1997-04-28 Thread Clint Adams
'M'odule. But the answer is probably that floppies do have another kind of filesystem and you won't see any appendix to this message with it works inside. From the kernel documentation: Amiga floppies however cannot be read with this driver due to an incompatibility of the floppy

Re: log of talk session?

1997-04-28 Thread Clint Adams
Does anyone know how to get a log of a talk session? It doesn't have to be perfect (showing YTalk has a logging function. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: modutils

1997-04-16 Thread Clint Adams
I'm trying to upgrade modules to modutils but dpkg says: Kernel was compiled with module support Modules package cannot be removed Ideas? I'm in the field at the moment. What I did was to edit the modules.prerm file in /var/lib/dpkg/info and delete the check described above. Then the

Re: Matrox Millinium

1997-04-11 Thread Clint Adams
Which xserver should I use to get the most out of a Matrox Millinium card (presently I use xserver-svga) The best option is replacing the XF86_SVGA binary from xserver-svga with one from XFree86 3.2A -- it has less problems and also supports modes with more colors than 8bpp.

Re: perplexing procmail problem

1997-04-09 Thread Clint Adams
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lose the period after TO.

Re: How to modify subject of incoming emails using procmail

1997-04-07 Thread Clint Adams
So the question is, is there an easy way to make a substitution on *only* the 'Subject:' line of the *header* of the mail, either using procmail or something else? Set up a procmail recipe to identify the appropriate messages and then pipe them through formail which can redo the subject.

Re: Sox - no more play?

1997-04-05 Thread Clint Adams
The sound tool, sox, used to have a 'play' symlink that no longer works. So.. how on earth do we get sox 12.12 to play (.au) files? Simply cat'ing them to /dev/dsp sounds terrible! :-) You could do something like this: sox -t au sound.au -t sbdsp /dev/dsp

Re: what do they mean ???

1997-04-04 Thread Clint Adams
someone could tell me what characters ( eg. ^[[2J^[[0;0H ) means ?? what I know is, when I run it, two blue bands with the text wrote in red in middle appeared... I believe these are ansi codes. Somewhere there exists documentation for it but I don't have some handy. You might want to

Re: tset?

1997-03-31 Thread Clint Adams
doing things sometimes. Your way works, though it leaves LINES and ROWS set to the old values. No problem of course. Is there some elegant test I can do to see if I am connect to a ttyx or a ttypx I wonder? Then I could automate the thing. You could do something like: if (expr $TTY :

Re: PGP signing in Exmh locks X

1997-03-30 Thread Clint Adams
That was one of the first things I tried. Got me, then. Sorry.

Re: tset?

1997-03-30 Thread Clint Adams
As I sometimes use the first box in local mode I want the screen size to depend on how I access it and I want it to stick when I su to root. I generally put something like this in login files (as well as aliasing it to 'rs'): eval `resize` stty cols $COLUMNS rows $LINES You may find it

Re: PGP signing in Exmh locks X

1997-03-29 Thread Clint Adams
Try typing your passphrase and hitting Enter. You may be experiencing a problem with the visibility of the dialog window (it may be off the edge of the screen).

Re: Matrox Millenium

1997-03-07 Thread Clint Adams
Does anyone out there know right off hand which chipset to choose when configuring X for the first time with a Matrox Millenium card? mga2064, but the SVGA server will detect it automatically.

Re: Procmail recipe.

1997-03-03 Thread Clint Adams
:0 E * ^TO.*debian-user $MAIL/Lists/debian/user/incoming :0 E * ^FROM.*debian-user $MAIL/Lists/debian/user/incoming You can OR them like so: * ^(TO|From.*)debian-user