Re: Off Topic: Translating upcase filenames to lowercase filenames

1998-10-08 Thread Bill Wohler
(@ARGV); } for (@ARGV) { $was = $_; eval $op; die $@ if $@; rename($was, $_) unless $was eq $_; } -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're

Bill Wohler: Linux security tips

1998-07-27 Thread Bill Wohler
. Has this already been folded into the kernel? If not, perhaps it should be considered. --- Forwarded Message To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Linux security tips From:Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Tue, 02 Jun 1998 07:57:36 -0700 To prevent Linux from forwarding any packets

Incorrect behavior with close-on-exec and dup?

1998-07-27 Thread Bill Wohler
in this case violates the POSIX standard. -- hesh Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

mh: Help for creating Debian bug reports

1997-09-09 Thread Bill Wohler
-template) (goto-char (point-min)) (search-forward-regexp ^$) (forward-char 1))) ...) Debian GNU/Linux: 1.3 Linux kernel: 2.0.30 Gcc: libc.so.5.4.33 Perl: 5.003.07-10 Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh

Re: Increasing DOS partition

1997-09-08 Thread Bill Wohler
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Bill Wohler wrote: Any tips as to how I can format (or whatever) the DOS partition so that the OSs recognize the entire partition? And hopefully do this is it a 12-bit FAT partition or 16-bit FAT partition? 16 bit. (ooo

Increasing DOS partition

1997-09-07 Thread Bill Wohler
) the DOS partition so that the OSs recognize the entire partition? And hopefully do this without destroying all my work on the other partitions. Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong

Re: Another Netscape Question

1997-05-10 Thread Bill Wohler
, for example. (The folks at netscape haven't answered my questions about that.) netscape -help produces: -xrm resource-spec to set a specific X resource. Does anyone have a list of the available resources? Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh

Re: mailcap 'view' type conflicts

1997-05-09 Thread Bill Wohler
faster if they could just get along! Also, when setting the priority, the package should use the current order in the mailcap file as the default. Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're

Van Jacobson: pathchar - a new tool for characterizing Internet paths

1997-04-21 Thread Bill Wohler
I would be interested in such a Debian package when the software described below becomes available. Perhaps it could be added to its brethren in netstd? --- Forwarded Message Subject: pathchar - a new tool for characterizing Internet paths From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Van Jacobson)

net-pf

1997-01-13 Thread Bill Wohler
alias net-pf-4 off alias net-pf-5 off to /etc/conf.modules, but this seems that it only cures the symptom rather than the cause. Was this a reasonable thing to do, or do I have something incorrectly configured, or is there a bug? Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415

kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb corrupted?

1996-12-05 Thread Bill Wohler
: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: debian/Debian-1.1-fixed/binary-i386/base/kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb DPKG ERROR Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh

Changelogs available?

1996-10-26 Thread Bill Wohler
Are ChangeLogs for the packages available? Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

dselect sort by section

1996-10-02 Thread Bill Wohler
it to your todo list, if it isn't there already. Thanks, mate! Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Trashed disk

1996-09-24 Thread Bill Wohler
Folks, I've just noticed that I've been getting the following messages for the last couple of weeks. Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel: scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 2, lun 0, CDB: 0x03 00 00 00 10 00 Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel: Current error sr08:11: sns = f0 3 Sep 24 00:00:28 gbr kernel:

Re: time to split the list?

1996-09-06 Thread Bill Wohler
much of the same traffic. (Isn't there already a list for the debian developers for discussion of packaging and releases and such that wouldn't be of interest to the general public?) Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer

Re: libwww-perl installation incomplete

1996-08-29 Thread Bill Wohler
)--not the Debian source--and simply followed the directions (pretty much just make as I recall). Could be the Debian source package needs to be updated? Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn

Linux and NT HOWTO

1996-08-28 Thread Bill Wohler
of an IDE disk is fatal, so don't do it. b) fdisk /mbr (you've obviously already created a DOS boot disk that contains fdisk). c) delete NT partition and create it again in NT install. d) continue with NT install. Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say

clock -w writes bogus date

1996-08-28 Thread Bill Wohler
. Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

Re: mailing list

1996-08-28 Thread Bill Wohler
ISP was happy to do so. I agree, we should propose that the linux hierarchy be moved to comp.os.linux hierarchy. Any Usenet heads want to take up the torch and CFD? Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh

Re: /etc/passwd migration between systems

1996-08-27 Thread Bill Wohler
fine in 1.1. Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

Making filesystems at installation time

1996-08-26 Thread Bill Wohler
that take a while. This also goes for dpkg -GROEB --configure--all the packages that require user intervention for setup should be postponed until last. Thanks. Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh

Re: /etc/passwd migration between systems

1996-08-26 Thread Bill Wohler
Jim, My binary of Crack v4.1f that I compiled a couple of years ago (with ufc-crypt I believe) works fine under Debian 1.1. I haven't tried to recompile it though. I'd be happy to ship the binary to you in a pinch if you trust me (MH viamail or ftp preferred). Bill Wohler [EMAIL

Re: heads-up about SCSI tape drives

1996-08-22 Thread Bill Wohler
. I haven't done any performance tests to compare the effects of different block sizes but would be interested to hear from others who have (I use tar for backups). Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you think you're getting your money's worth, vote for Dole or Clinton--it doesn't matter. If you

libwww-perl installation incomplete

1996-08-17 Thread Bill Wohler
dying from an internal bug--sigh). Is anyone out there familiar with checkbot? Or do you use a better link-checker? Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right

NT and Linux

1996-08-17 Thread Bill Wohler
install. d) continue with NT install. Other details: Debian Linux 1.1, Linux 2.0.0, HP Vectra XU 6/150, Adaptec AIC 7880 Ultra (BIOS 1.2S-HP), Quantum Fireball 1080S, Phoenix compatibility BIOS GG.06.02. NT 3.5.1. Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say

Re: unreliable service of I-Connect

1996-08-07 Thread Bill Wohler
immediately. Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

Hard versus extended partitions

1996-06-05 Thread Bill Wohler
Folks, Is there a performance hit for using extended partitions, or should one be unconcerned about creating them willy-nilly? Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed

Re: new boot floppies

1996-06-04 Thread Bill Wohler
Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dselect's FTP method Does this imply that dftp (or the functionality thereof) has been merged into dselect? That would be good. Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh

Re: xterm subtleties

1996-05-30 Thread Bill Wohler
entries. If it uses terminfo, you'll need to use infocmp on /usr/lib/terminfo/x/xterm to get an ASCII version. Then you'll remove the smcup and rmcup entries and rebuild the terminfo database with tic. The details are left as an exercise for the reader. Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph

Re: xterm subtleties

1996-05-30 Thread Bill Wohler
recognize the relatively new titeInhibit. Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

Emacs loadkeys map and 8-bit stuff

1996-05-23 Thread Bill Wohler
, right control key for that (you would change the enclosed keymap file to do that). Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. keycode

Re: which..

1996-05-17 Thread Bill Wohler
. Very useful. Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

Re: Changing display mode in X

1996-05-17 Thread Bill Wohler
mode to be 640x480, I'd do this: Modes 640x480 1024x768 800x600 Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

Mixing and matching ELF and a.out

1996-05-17 Thread Bill Wohler
the mailing list archives were searchable as this is sure to be there... Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

Re: Unidentified subject!

1996-05-16 Thread Bill Wohler
are rather hard on the equipment. Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

Re: Dselect proposed interface.

1996-05-14 Thread Bill Wohler
of my GNU system is in /, it would be nice to display that on the main screen, and display the subordinate filesystems on a separate screen. However, it should also be possible to select other filesystems to display on the main screen. Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax

Re: Dselect proposed interface (was Re: 1.1 installation notes.)

1996-05-13 Thread Bill Wohler
, dselect and dftp should be merged. The hearts of these tools are awesome. It's just the details that need to be worked out. Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed

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