Re: (OT) Perl books

2001-06-28 Thread Michael Merten
Franklin Jay, I got really good results from the Perl CD Bookshelf. It's worth every extra penny to have the (fully indexed) resources of 6 perl books available at the click of a browser button. Mike -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] JRTC-IS System Administrator Raytheon Technical Services Co

Re: Sound testing

2000-09-24 Thread Michael Merten
, this is on a new motherboard, not a Soundblaster card, so your results may vary. Any idea which of these is the one to use? Regards Tim HTH, Mike -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Support Engineer Raytheon Technical Services Co. Joint Readiness Training Center Fort Polk, Louisiana

Re: elvis - missing rhs

1999-08-20 Thread Michael Merten
about this, but if you search the elvis help file for rhs, you'll find the term used in their syntax examples for 'right hand side'. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org

Re: strange pppd question

1999-08-17 Thread Michael Merten
-about way would be to write a script that could 'signal' your daemon and put it in the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d directory. I don't think ip-up is run until after pppd has completed the link. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Summary] UPS anyone?

1999-08-17 Thread Michael Merten
equipment. It's much safer to use gel-cells. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug -- The only

Re: Mail-question; Quick One!

1999-08-17 Thread Michael Merten
record for you, then they'll deliver directly to exim with smtp. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug

Problems compiling Citadel/UX

1999-08-16 Thread Michael Merten
? TIA, Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug -- Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom

Re: Problems compiling Citadel/UX

1999-08-16 Thread Michael Merten
flag could be what stops it. Why don't you post the beginning of the base64.c code up to the lines in question (26 27), so a better determination, and possible fix can be suggested. On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 11:03:14PM -0500, Michael Merten wrote: | | [snip] | gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wstrict

Re: Problems compiling Citadel/UX

1999-08-16 Thread Michael Merten
, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug -- When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all. -- Roger

Re: Problems compiling Citadel/UX

1999-08-16 Thread Michael Merten
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 12:49:55AM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 11:43:27PM -0500, Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: static FILE *fi = stdin; /* Input file */ static FILE *fo = stdout; /* Output file */ The problem is in the previous

application in search of a developer

1999-08-12 Thread Michael Merten
PROTECTED] I'm subscribed to debian-user, but not to debian-devel. I don't have any place to put the package that's publicly accessible, but I'll be happy to e-mail a copy to anybody that wants one. TIA, Mike -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http

Re: script to remove blank lines ?

1999-08-10 Thread Michael Merten
, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug -- Driving in Texas is simple. For the first 100 miles you swerve to avoid jackrabbits

Shell scripts

1999-08-09 Thread Michael Merten
welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug -- Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind. -- Rincewind

Re: Shell scripts

1999-08-09 Thread Michael Merten
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 07:10:31PM +0200, Jonas Steverud wrote: Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've written a rather elaborate shell script and was wondering... are there any script guru's out there with the time and the inclination to take a look at it, and possibly give me

Re: Backing up just my personal stuff (was: backing up a complet

1999-08-06 Thread Michael Merten
on your system). I wrote a script to do what he wants. If anybody would be interested in giving it a try, I'd be more than happy to send you a copy. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten --- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA

Re: mirroring a part of the archive

1999-08-06 Thread Michael Merten
that ? Definitely, check out rsync. (If you grab binary-i386 using rsync's -L flag, you won't need binary-all) Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten --- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian

Re: Java 'n' Netscape

1999-08-06 Thread Michael Merten
welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten --- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug -- Any

Re: Backing up just my personal stuff (was: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system)

1999-08-05 Thread Michael Merten
junk there :/) /usr/local is about 760Mb (723Mb of that is a partial mirror of Debian) /var is 65Mb To back them up (excluding my mirror) would take less than 250Mb. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael

Re: Backing up just my personal stuff (was: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system)

1999-08-05 Thread Michael Merten
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 09:52:11PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Michael Merten wrote: /var is 65Mb You will likely want to exclude /var/lock and /var/run and possibly /var/state No need to restore pid and lock files for programs that are no longer running

Re: Backing up just my personal stuff (was: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system)

1999-08-05 Thread Michael Merten
if you want, but I do not guarantee it to work. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten --- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org

Re: bash manual/info lacks examples

1999-08-05 Thread Michael Merten
to CC: me on list replies.] hehe... the random sig hits again! -- Michael Merten --- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2

Re: bash manual/info lacks examples

1999-08-05 Thread Michael Merten
the authentic one-and-only Bourne shell. How many Bourne shell clones do we have floating around here these days? Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten --- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org

Re: bash manual/info lacks examples

1999-08-05 Thread Michael Merten
, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten --- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug -- /earth is 98% full

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-04 Thread Michael Merten
cpio ;/ Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten --- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Michael Merten
quotes like rm 'file' which should prevent shell interpretation of the ~,? and [ characters. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten --- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU

Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...

1999-08-04 Thread Michael Merten
of these somewhere for a linux term? Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten --- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA

Re: Bad Makedevness

1999-08-03 Thread Michael Merten
installed, and am not experiencing problems. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten --- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org

Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)

1999-08-01 Thread Michael Merten
and include a 'clear' command. Check the manpage or texinfo page for your shell to see if it supports something like this. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten --- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org

Re: thank you

1999-07-30 Thread Michael Merten
A. Banza Access Data Consulting 1-888-878-2322 Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten --- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org

Re: Getting Realtek8139 chipset network card to work

1999-07-28 Thread Michael Merten
option should I pick up ? CONFIG_RTL8139=m It's under 'Network Device Support', 'Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)', 'RealTek 8129/8139 (not 8019/8029!) support' when using the 'make menuconfig' option, atleast. HTH, Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten

Re: dselect dconfusion

1999-07-28 Thread Michael Merten
it was when you started dselect, effectively giving you the chance to start over.) HTH, Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org

Re: startx-errors: Where is the log file?

1999-07-27 Thread Michael Merten
: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug -- A little suffering is good for the soul

Re: fetchmail / sendmail problem

1999-07-27 Thread Michael Merten
your ~/.fetchmailrc file look like? (user names and passwords x'd out, of course) Also, if you run fetchmail with the -v (verbose) switch, it will provide you with a lot more information (as per 'man fetchmail'). Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael

Re: Haunting still... (need PPP help)

1999-07-26 Thread Michael Merten
NOT a bind expert :/ Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com

Re: Haunting still... (need PPP help)

1999-07-25 Thread Michael Merten
On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 04:50:20PM -0500, Michael Merten wrote: One pppd setting that I've started using is usepeerdns, which queries the remote end of your ppp link for the dns numbers to use. It takes care of modifying your resolv.conf file for you. Oops, I should have mentioned

Re: Haunting still... (need PPP help)

1999-07-25 Thread Michael Merten
On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 07:03:49AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Michael Merten wrote: One pppd setting that I've started using is usepeerdns, which queries the remote end of your ppp link for the dns numbers to use. It takes care of modifying your resolv.conf file for you. Did you use

Re: [Fwd: Lynx Problems]

1999-07-25 Thread Michael Merten
On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 02:08:01PM -0700, eg wrote: Michael Merten wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 10:36:05AM +1000, Doug Young wrote: now i understand the source of your problem. you are trying to use a copy of lynx found on a distribution copy of linux. just a suggestion

Re: Setting email message width in mutt

1999-07-24 Thread Michael Merten
on (by default) for email messages. HTH, Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder

Re: Haunting still... (need PPP help)

1999-07-24 Thread Michael Merten
. One pppd setting that I've started using is usepeerdns, which queries the remote end of your ppp link for the dns numbers to use. It takes care of modifying your resolv.conf file for you. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Good HTML editor for debian Linux?

1999-07-22 Thread Michael Merten
) which does html syntax hi-lighting. :) Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http

Re: Debian Install woes..

1999-07-22 Thread Michael Merten
right). HTH, Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2

Re: [Fwd: Lynx Problems]

1999-07-22 Thread Michael Merten
' program that he's talking about, but I've never heard of it. As far as 'lynx' goes, this info is bogus. Mike -- [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

1999-07-22 Thread Michael Merten
that... send you a FAQ with the 'you are subscribed' notice. Good idea. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org

Re: X server for crappy Packard Hell machine

1999-07-22 Thread Michael Merten
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Re: Lynx Problems

1999-07-22 Thread Michael Merten
to take it further. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com

dselect help for beginners

1999-07-22 Thread Michael Merten
'look in /usr/doc/dpkg' than to say 'check out http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current'. Any thoughts? Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org

Re: Occasional Error

1999-07-22 Thread Michael Merten
operation. I don't find any exim references in my scripts either. Could it be coming from an exim script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d ?? Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org

Re: Iwill scsi 2935uw

1999-07-21 Thread Michael Merten
.. Please don't send 50K attachments to the list. thanks. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

1999-07-20 Thread Michael Merten
-- [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug

Re: Diald auth problem

1999-07-20 Thread Michael Merten
options to pppd. Like I say, it's been a long time, so you might want to 'man diald' to make sure I got that right. Anyway, that should point you in the right direction. HTH, Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: the dselect debate

1999-07-20 Thread Michael Merten
is the location of the source code. If you have apt installed, then running apt-get source dpkg will fix you right up. I looked at it, but there's not much I can do (not C/C++ programmer). Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-19 Thread Michael Merten
follows from there. (sorry for the rant, but this is getting kinda old) Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org

Re: Setup Issues

1999-07-19 Thread Michael Merten
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Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-19 Thread Michael Merten
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 11:32:04PM +1000, Jason Carley wrote: Michael Merten wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 04:31:16PM +1000, Carley, Jason (Australia) wrote: I think that is a little harsh. I totally agree that everyone should read the docs. However, that does not create an excuse

Re: Bootup logo

1999-07-19 Thread Michael Merten
] Description: Color ANSI Penguin with system information An ANSI Color Penguin Logo with some system information that is I really think for potato, the package should be renamed to debianlogo, since it now displays the swirl. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael

Re: Linux LAN probs - a shaggy dog story?

1999-07-17 Thread Michael Merten
else. But for some reason, although I get a link, no packets go through with anything other than short yellow in the basement and big yellow up here ugh hmmm... what kind of network are you using? Mike [I'm subscribed to the list, no need to CC: me on replys.] -- Michael Merten ([EMAIL

Re: Linux LAN probs - a shaggy dog story?

1999-07-17 Thread Michael Merten
problems. Most store-bought cables I've used are wired incorrectly. HTH, Mike [I'm subscribed to the list, no need to CC: me on replys.] -- Michael Merten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.debian.org

Re: Back Again - CDRom

1999-07-17 Thread Michael Merten
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Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Merten
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 04:20:49PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote: I'm too paranoid to use apt-get upgrade... at least with dselect you actually get so see *which* packages are getting upgraded/removed/etc. I can't see how blindly using apt-get

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Merten
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 04:29:47PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 05:08:47PM -0500, Michael Merten wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 05:15:29PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = = Using 'apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade' appears

Re: M$CHAP with PPP

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Merten
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 12:11:32PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:52:20 -0500 Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The NT server I'm trying to connect to is definitely using the M$CRAP^H^H^HHAP mentioned in one of the doc files included with ppp (it's different

Re: plog and wvdial output

1999-07-16 Thread Michael Merten
be appreciated. If you need any other info, please let me know. Thanks, --David HTH, Mike [I'm subscribed to the list, no need to CC: me on replys.] -- Michael Merten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.debian.org

Re: rsync mirror

1999-07-15 Thread Michael Merten
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 09:41:33AM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: Then share it with us, so that we may all be better off for it. Michael Merten wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 12:19:58AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote: Hi, I'm trying

Re: fw: Fetchmail problems

1999-07-15 Thread Michael Merten
. [I'm subscribed to the list, no need to CC: me on replys.] Mike -- Michael Merten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.debian.org) --- CenLA-LUG Founder (http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug

Re: Potato upgrade and Perl warnings...

1999-07-15 Thread Michael Merten
... was that intentional, or an oversight? Mike [I'm subscribed to the list, no need to CC: me on replys.] -- Michael Merten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.debian.org) --- CenLA-LUG Founder (http://www.angelfire.com/la2

rsync mirror

1999-07-14 Thread Michael Merten
Hi, I'm trying to locate a debian mirror in the US that allows rsync access. Does anybody know of one? TIA, Mike -- Michael Merten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.debian.org) --- CenLA-LUG Founder

Re: rsync mirror

1999-07-14 Thread Michael Merten
On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 10:32:07PM -0500, Michael Merten wrote: Hi, I'm trying to locate a debian mirror in the US that allows rsync access. Does anybody know of one? Uhh, never mind. I got it figured out. ;/ Mike -- Michael Merten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- NRA Life Member

Re: rsync mirror

1999-07-14 Thread Michael Merten
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 12:19:58AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote: Hi, I'm trying to locate a debian mirror in the US that allows rsync access. Does anybody know of one? Well, give me an email address that works and I can put you in contact

Re: M$CHAP with PPP

1999-07-14 Thread Michael Merten
this to work. Mike -- Michael Merten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.debian.org) --- CenLA-LUG Founder (http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug) -- New Hampshire law forbids you to tap your feet, nod your head

Re: .bash_history

1999-07-14 Thread Michael Merten
and then top? man bash export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups Thanks for that one! Now I'm wondering why that wouldn't be the default case... -- Michael Merten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.debian.org

Re: Wierd subject names in mutt

1999-07-14 Thread Michael Merten
of the original sender. I may be wrong. Mike -- Michael Merten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.debian.org) --- CenLA-LUG Founder (http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug) -- God grant us the serenity

Re: Fetch mail problems

1999-07-14 Thread Michael Merten
for that user to forward the mail to the correct account based on the To: (or some other appropriate) header. HTH, Mike -- Michael Merten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.debian.org) --- CenLA-LUG

Re: un-umount-able hd and irqs of pci

1999-07-12 Thread Michael Merten
setup) tell the BIOS that certain interrupts are not available (used by isa cards). HTH, Mike -- Michael Merten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.debian.org) --- CenLA-LUG Founder (http://www.angelfire.com

Re: fetchmail woes

1999-07-12 Thread Michael Merten
root root 164 Jul 12 15:51 .fetchmailrc What am I doing wrong? Mike -- Michael Merten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.debian.org) --- CenLA-LUG Founder (http://www.angelfire.com/la2

Re: un-umount-able hd and irqs of pci

1999-07-12 Thread Michael Merten
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 07:31:01PM +0100, Peter Allen wrote: Michael Merten wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 02:50:10PM +0100, Peter Allen wrote: Two questions, [snip] Second, I cannot remmember how to change the interrupt request of a pci card. I know I have read how to somewhere

Re: sndconfig.rpm to .deb question

1999-07-12 Thread Michael Merten
of options for generating a proper isapnp.conf file (something like what pppconfig does for ppp). Hopefully, one of those script (or perl) wizards out there will get time to tackle this one day. Mike -- Michael Merten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org

Re: M$CHAP with PPP

1999-07-12 Thread Michael Merten
CONNECT \d\c I'm at a loss to figure out anything else to do. I have logged in using Win dial-up, so I know the username/password/ntdomain are correct. Any ideas? Mike -- Michael Merten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http

M$CHAP with PPP

1999-07-11 Thread Michael Merten
[7055]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x1] Jul 10 19:28:38 casper pppd[7055]: Hangup (SIGHUP) [snip] I normally wouldn't worry about this, but I can access the internet through this server for free, if I can get it working. BTW, I'm using ppp 2.3.8. TIA, Mike -- Michael Merten ([EMAIL PROTECTED

user list

1999-07-09 Thread Michael Merten
Hi, Is there an easy way to get a list of all regular user ( UID 1000 ) accounts on the system? I can't find the userls command I used to use on SCO. Mike -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) -- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http

Re: user list

1999-07-09 Thread Michael Merten
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 07:07:38PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: sure there is! perl -e 'while (@F = getpwent()) {if ($F[2] 1000) { print $F[0], \n; }}' Thanks for that one! (One of these days I'll get around to learning Perl) Mike -- Michael Merten ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: user list

1999-07-09 Thread Michael Merten
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 09:42:58PM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote: Is there an easy way to get a list of all regular user ( UID 1000 ) accounts on the system? I can't find the userls command I used to use on SCO. awk -F ':' '{if ($3 999) print $0}' /etc/passwd Thanks! Mike -- Michael

Re: where do i find crypt ?

1999-07-08 Thread Michael Merten
' can anyone tell me please where/what package do i get the crypt function from ? Isn't that in libc6, folks? -- Andrew I think you need to toss in a -lcrypt (IIRC). Mike -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) -- Debian GNU/Linux Fan

.xsession-errors file

1999-07-07 Thread Michael Merten
??? :) Mike -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) -- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.debian.org) -- CenLA-LUG Member (http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug) -- Whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by close

Re: Exim troubles

1999-07-07 Thread Michael Merten
to user it gets delivered locally, but if you send to user@ispdomain it gets sent to the smarthost. However, I'm not sure how to do that with exim. Hope this helps (in some vague kind of way), Mike -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org

Re: Follow symlinks

1999-07-07 Thread Michael Merten
right out. Also eliminates the need for most (all?) of the exclude_patt specs. It works fine, but I don't know what kind of additional load I'm causing on the mirror site by not using the ls-lR.gz file. Mike -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Michael Merten
WORTHLESS CRAP!'. Just *MY* $.02 Mike -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) -- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.debian.org) -- CenLA-LUG Member (http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug) -- Imagination is more important than knowledge

Re: dselect and vi

1999-07-06 Thread Michael Merten
Hmmm.. is my sig trying to tell me something? -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) -- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.debian.org) -- CenLA-LUG Member (http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug) -- Let a fool hold his tongue and he

Re: dselect and vi

1999-07-06 Thread Michael Merten
software... you might be able to use something a little better, like vt220 or vt320. If you're connecting from another linux or unix box, you might want to check out rlogin instead? Mike -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) -- Debian GNU/Linux Fan

Re: Debian install fails utterly

1999-07-06 Thread Michael Merten
could just get this f**ker installed. -Bitt Mike -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) -- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.debian.org) -- CenLA-LUG Member (http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug) -- No free man shall ever

Re: Fate strikes again

1999-07-06 Thread Michael Merten
. You will then start with a console login. Type startx to start X, and when you 'exit' you'll return to a console prompt. (note: CTRL-ALT-F1 will switch you from X to a console login prompt, and ALT-F7 will get you back to X) Mike -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NRA Life Member

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Michael Merten
log of all output from the install process, maybe in /var/log/dpkg.log or such. Something that you can browse through after a lengthy install to see if you missed anything that needs further configuring. (If this is already done, could somebody point me to it?) Mike -- Michael Merten [EMAIL

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Michael Merten
to more thorough documentation would be acceptable. Mike -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) -- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.debian.org) -- CenLA-LUG Member (http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug) -- A little experience often

Re: How to disable prompt erase downloaded debs

1999-07-05 Thread Michael Merten
hundreds of megs! what can i do?? bb man apt.conf HTH, Mike -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) -- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.debian.org) -- CenLA-LUG Member (http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug) -- Virginia law forbids

Re: Remove funny files

1999-07-05 Thread Michael Merten
stable way to live * - -- Mvh Rolf Edlund Tel:070-3049194 Umm... wouldn't a simple rm '--excude=files.txt' work?? Mike -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) -- Debian GNU/Linux Fan (http://www.debian.org) -- CenLA-LUG

Re: Remove funny files

1999-07-05 Thread Michael Merten
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 07:22:05AM +, Dan wrote: Whats excude? On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote: Umm... wouldn't a simple rm '--excude=files.txt' work?? That was one thing I tryed, but it din't work. rm: unrecognized option `--excude=files.txt' Try `rm

Re: E-mail for dummies - part 2

1999-07-05 Thread Michael Merten
manpage | lpr to print a manpage to your printer. (man man gives more complete details). of a notebook is still in the pipeline, so printing will have to do for now :-) -- Hans Mike -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) -- Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Remove funny files

1999-07-05 Thread Michael Merten
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 08:37:50PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:49:55AM -0500, Michael Merten wrote: Umm... wouldn't a simple rm '--excude=files.txt' work?? No. The problem is rm trying to interpret --exclude as an option, not the shell being clever

Re: X won't start

1999-07-02 Thread Michael Merten
are specifying 1024x768 at 16bpp color depth... are you sure there's enough memory for it? I've got 1024k vidram, and at 16bpp, all I can get is 800x600. Try dropping to 8bpp and see if it finds a mode it can use. Mike -- Michael Merten NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-29 Thread Michael Merten
you get one set up if that's the way you want to go. Like I said, I'm jumping in late here, so you can ignore this post if you're already past this point. HTH, Mike -- Michael Merten NRA Life Member (http://www.nra.org) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux (http

Re: A stylistic question?

1999-06-28 Thread Michael Merten
path in .bash_profile or .bashrc Jack Actually, you can keep your local admin scripts in /usr/local/sbin and the local user scripts in /usr/local/bin. I also use the $HOME/bin directories for any personal scripts. Mike -- Michael Merten NRA Life Member (http

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