Re: spontaneously changing partition types (GRUB)

2001-03-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 03:53:59PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: ... 2) After installing grub the first time I boot it gives me the menu based interface . Howver the second and subsequent times it drops me into the shell. sorry, overlooked this one. Well, that's to be expected:) Your

Re: error compiling a program

2001-03-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:12:09PM +0100, Philipp Bliedung wrote: Hi, I can't figure out why this is happening. I tried to compile a program (OpenDX 4.1) because there are no binaries for Debian - at least not on the website of OpenDX. Anyway I did ./configure and than make ... and that's

Re: emacs memu bars in linux console

2001-03-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 09:09:01PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: Can we use emacs menu bars on the top of screen in Linux console? Buffers Files Tools Edit Search Mule Help I know these works as menu in X, but what does it do in console??? try Meta-` or F10 and go from there -- groetjes,

Re: ghost for linux?

2001-03-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:36:24PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: also sprach Alvin Oga (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 06:25:31PM -0800): donno...not everybody makes a bootable cdrom for their backups... i think its nuts...to make a cdrom backup... but..oh well... a bootable cdrom is quite hard to make...

Re: ghost for linux?

2001-03-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:12:29PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:52:31PM +0100): Nah, dead simple:) using cdrecord/mkisofs/xcdroast from woody (sources) sure thing, but what about files in /var? what's /? what's from boot to prompt? /var: copy

Re: Mirroring only potato/woody but not sid?

2001-03-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 06:22:03PM +0100, Tibor D. wrote: ... Hmm.. sorry, that won't help me, since the deb-packages are all mixed up in the .../pool/... directory, in the ../sid/.., there are only the Packages files. There isn't any tool that greps the Packages-files and defines, which

Re: ghost for linux?

2001-03-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
should delve into mutt's capacity to filter messages for me, but I've never found how I can have mutt toggle display af read messages, which is easy in any decent newsreader. also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:30:56PM +0100): /var: copy it to /tmp first? or add rescue.bin

Re: Multi-Nics

2001-02-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:04:01PM +0100, Joerg Huber wrote: Hi, What is the full name of the Debian BTS web page, mentioned in the previous message? I was curious too, so I had a look: BTS looks like Buck Tracking System, http://www.debian.org/Bugs. Use the 'packet search' field on that

Re: mkinitrd

2001-02-26 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:50:35PM +0100, Johan Groth wrote: ... What is the Debian way to make an initrd-image? no expertise here, but a google search showed me were to get the Redhad initrd package. Next step downloading it. Used alien to turn it into a deb package, use dpkg to unpack it,

Re: #! syntax

2001-02-26 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:22:34AM -0800, Michael O'Brien wrote: Hola~ Is there any way to have a #! syntax that will conditionally run a interpreter based on a set of fallback locations? For example, we have a perl install in /dir/bin/perl. However, if you are at a non-work machine (ie,

Re: pseudo-OT: curious -- why GPM????

2001-02-25 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 09:10:48AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: Hi all! In the few months that I have been reading the debian user list, I have seen many many posts about the conflicts GPM seems to have with X. I have never used GPM, but I thought it was only something to be used in a text-only

Re: pseudo-OT: curious -- why GPM????

2001-02-25 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:35:57PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: On Sun 25 Feb 01, 9:20 PM, Carel Fellinger said: rant And that's why so many have problems with it, they refuse to RTFM! There is no need whatsoever to have any problems with GPM and X, just follow the examples

Re: pseudo-OT: curious -- why GPM????

2001-02-25 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 09:47:36PM +0100, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: ... I have several computers at home and at work with ps/2 mouse and never, never have had any problem at all with both gpm and X reading directly from the /dev/psaux port. The only time when it didn't work, was when someone

Re: Hidden Partitions and musings NT + Linux ...

2001-02-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 06:50:18PM -0800, C. Schanck wrote: A few days ago I posted a question trying to understand why my 2nd windows partition kept getting rendered hidden and invisible to NT, even though I could still use it from linux. Several folks were kind enough to respond, and the

Re: FTP Question

2001-02-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 03:21:30PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Martin Würtele wrote: -On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 01:52:41PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: - - Due to my office firewall and office policies I can not - FTP files to my office PC. However I can

Re: resolv.conf gets modified on boot

2001-02-22 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 09:22:41AM +, Gavin Hamill wrote: On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Lex McPhail wrote: Using DHCP - will try using a static IP and see what happens. Thanks for the info. I can't speak for 'pump' but if you're using dhcpcd, try 'dhcpcd -R' - that'll prevent it from

Re: How to clone packages setup

2001-02-20 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:31:00PM -0800, Robin Rowe wrote: Hi. How do I clone my packages setup? dpkg --get-selections [pattern...] Get list of package selections, and write it to stdout. filter the result, e.g. | grep install and check it.

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

2001-02-20 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:43:13PM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote: Hi, By default the Xserver doesn't listen to the tcp port (for security reasons) and I'll guess thats the reason for your problem. I've added the following few lines to the /root/.bashrc file: if [ ! $LOGNAME = root ] ; then

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-20 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:12:09PM -0800, Steve Cooper wrote: I wrote a set of Python scripts that have been working pretty well for me. Input is a list of directories for each cdr and exclusions specified as regular expressions in config files. Output is a bunch of tarred and gzipped

Re: email server?

2001-02-19 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 11:09:10AM -0500, seg wrote: Hi, I'd like to run a mail server on my firewall/gateway comp. That server would dl the messages from my ISP, sort them into accounts (one for each familly member) and them each comp/user could access its proper account and dl the

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-17 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 07:19:28AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: ... By the way, when you have buggy multi-PC KB switcher, and KB goes crazy, restarting gpm also intialize KB nicely. OK, I'll offer a test. I do have a keyboard I want to try, and I don't want to go through

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:06:03PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: ... You also need to re-boot for some hardware re-initialization. See the recent thread on XFree 4.0.2 and an IntelliMouse-compatible mouse. I doubt it. Any trouble I've had with PS2 mouses not being properly initialized could

Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:30:11PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: To quote Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED], # On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:06:03PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: # ... # You also need to re-boot for some hardware re-initialization. See the # recent thread on XFree 4.0.2

Re: procmail Backup Cache -- not working

2001-02-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 07:40:40AM -0500, John Bacalle wrote: * John Bacalle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20010212 02:48]: The following from man procmail should save the last 200 messages I have received. But it just saves everything instead. My backup cache keeps growing and growing till I manually

Re: forget me not

2001-02-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:07:06PM -0800, jdls wrote: Hi, I noticed there are a lot of people asking about configuring sound, compiling the kernel, etc and there was this one thread that I saw that had a very good link. It had tutorials about those things and some background explanations

Re: rebuilding dpkg db from manual compiled stuff

2001-02-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:05:05PM +0600, Bram Dumolin wrote: ... I know apt, and I love it :) but that wasn't what I meant. I used to install Debian because I liked the install and where it put stuff. Everything on there is compiled by hand until recently when I discovered apt :) so I want

Re: gnome-terminal question

2001-02-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:09:24PM -0500, D-Man wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:19:20PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | hi | | | i was curious what needs to be done to get a remote host | (connected through ssh) to display the hostname and directory | in the titlebar of a

Re: CD-RW trouble

2001-02-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 11:24:06AM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: John, Here is my script: /usr/local/sbin/wipe_writer #!/bin/sh cdrecord dev=0,0,0 blank=all speed=4 eject /dev/scd0 Just wonder if a speed entry will help.. I doubt it, but specifying dev=0,0,0 instead of

Re: IP Chains fire up script

2001-02-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 03:49:22PM -0600, will trillich wrote: ... dhcp-ignoramusfrom what i've seen posted hither and yon, you can just add iface eth0 inet dhcp and you're off to the races./ignoramus would that do? No:) This only brings up your interface with ip etc setup via

Re: tar - explicit spanning

2001-02-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:55:56PM -0600, Adam Blomberg wrote: Good evening, I'm trying to figure out how to use tar (preferrably with gzip) to create a tarball which creates a new file when each .tar (or better yet, each tar.gz) reaches a size of 2.2 Gbytes. ... Interesting problem

Re: Can't samba print to nt-shared printer on NT domain

2001-01-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 08:54:08PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Carel Fellinger wrote: On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:45:18PM -0600, Kent West wrote: ... I have magicfilter installed, and I suspect that if I could feed my printjobs through it these issues would be fixed; however, I don't know

Re: lost access to cdrom

2001-01-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 04:46:14PM -0500, Vinod Kurup wrote: On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 03:47:59PM -0500, serge delorme wrote: As root it's ok but as user I can't access the drive even if: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /dev/scd0 brw-rw2 root cdrom 11, 0 jui 5 2000 /dev/scd0

Re: Can't samba print to nt-shared printer on NT domain

2001-01-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:45:18PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Marcin Kurc wrote: put it in your princap lp|remote-smbprinter:\ :lp=/dev/null:sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :if=/usr/local/samba/bin/smbprint: and modify the attached smbprint

Re: DHCP and DNS address with cable modem service . .

2001-01-27 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:22:55PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: I have a cable modem and use the NTL service in the UK. Recently, NTL changed the DNS servers for cable modem users, but I had manually set up /etc/resolv.conf to contain the original addresses. NTL maintain that using a DHCP

Security upgrade broke inn2!

2001-01-27 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai, the latest security update off inn2/inn2-inews seems to have broken inn2-inews. If I downgrade to the previous versions all is working, but with the latest inews -h some-art gives me: Can't get list of newsgroups, Invalid argument. (Article not posted.) The latest inn2 with the

Re: problem playing audio cd's

2001-01-26 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:53:40PM -0500, Harry Barnes wrote: Hi, I had the same problem as Phillip. I was advised to add the user to audio and disk ... Please change this, noone but root should be in group disk! See a prior post of me how to correct this. Use groups audio and cdrom instead!

Re: problem playing audio cd's

2001-01-26 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 06:26:37PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:53:40PM -0500, Harry Barnes wrote: Hi, I had the same problem as Phillip. I was advised to add the user to audio and disk ... Please change this, noone but root should be in group disk! See

Re: can't access cd-rw after switch to ide-scsi

2001-01-26 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:47:57AM -0500, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: I'm having an access permission problem with my cd-rw drive. I switched it to ide-scsi (added hdc=ide-scsi to boot parameters) and now I can write to the drive with cdrecord, but only as root. Similarly, I can Here the

Re: Mutt, unnoticed new mail and improper access/change times

2001-01-25 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:42:47PM +, David Wright wrote: ... Thanks - I've had to modify it slightly for a Sun because touch isn't so clever, and it becomes either cat $BOX sleep 2 touch -m $BOX or, better locking but much worse looking, cat $BOX env TZ=EST touch -m -t `date

Re: how to forward a mail including attachments AND add comments

2001-01-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:22:50PM +0100, Martin Würtele wrote: hi, how can i forward a mail including attachments to an address and add some comments with mutt hitting f for forward only forwards the text, but allows comments hitting b for bounce doesn't give me a chance to add comments.

Re: minicom

2001-01-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:56:06AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: ... hi. thanks everyone!! minicom is working beautifully - as root. umm.. how again do I give a user account access to ttyS0? (I knew I forgot something.. ;-) # adduser someone dialout -- groetjes, carel

Re: problem playing audio CD's

2001-01-24 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:21:58PM +, Philipp Bliedung wrote: Hi, thanks for your responses! I can now access audio-cd's BUT ONLY AS ROOT! I changed my setting in /dev to this: brw-rw 1 rootdisk 3 Oct 29 00:03 /dev/cdrom -hdc brw-rw 1 rootdisk

Re: minicom

2001-01-23 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 07:14:49AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: No, I did not. what does -s do? I could find any documentation. the obligatory man minicom works here, so what's up? -- groetjes, carel

Re: DHCP questions for dispose5@hotmail.com

2001-01-23 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 01:20:21AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:17:12AM -, Dis Pose ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm not subscribed to the list, so please cc me on any replies. I'm a current dialup user, changing to DSL imminently. I also have a LAN

Mutt, unnoticed new mail and improper access/change times

2001-01-22 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai, lately I've problems with mutt detecting the arrival of new mail. I use procmail to sort my mail in folders, for each list a seperate folder. In order to weed out the empty mailboxes in the c tab-tab window, I've unset save_empty and now mutt doesn't seem to notice the first arrived mail.

Re: Mutt, unnoticed new mail and improper access/change times

2001-01-22 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 07:17:08PM +, David Wright wrote: ... Nice. The problem hadn't worried me enough to look for a workaround, but may I steal that? Yep, that seems to be the tradition in Open Software Circles anyway, so be my guest:) I improved a bit on that recepy (better locking):

Re: path and editor

2001-01-22 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:46:56PM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: firstwhat the heck is the command that lets me see what my command path is.? I know in unix... you type something like: echo $path maybe try: $ echo $PATH I guess I could just less /etc/profilebut there must

Re: installing a burner

2001-01-21 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 10:47:51AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hey people. I just picked up an HP 9150i burner. I currently have an Acer x40 CD-ROM, and it's /dev/hdd. That means that it's the slave of the second IDE controller, yes? The burner is an IDE device as well, and I need to

Re: 2nd NIC seen but ifup fails

2001-01-20 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 08:49:40PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: I have two identical NIC's the both came up fine before reboot. Now ifup eth0 works fine. ifup eth1 says no such interface. cat /proc/pci shows both nics. you'll have to specify the second nic on the `mod-line' see for examples in

Re: 2nd NIC seen but ifup fails

2001-01-20 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:22:38PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 06:23:47PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: :On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 08:49:40PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: : I have two identical NIC's the both came up fine before reboot. Now : ifup eth0 works fine. ifup

Re: mailing list digest splitting

2001-01-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:18:28PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:04:40PM +0530, Rajesh Fowkar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I have new to this mailing list. Subscribed just yesterday. This is my first mail to the list. Planning to install Debian in a

Re: why use Debian?

2001-01-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 03:00:22PM -0700, Monte Milanuk wrote: ... Hey, it's nice to know that at least some of the people I talk to aren't half my age (and able to run circles around me on Linux :( ). Some of these stories get interesting. I'm waiting for someone to pipe up that has been

Re: [WOT] sh script to relace chars in #1 w/ chars in #2?

2001-01-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:46:36AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... Though you ask for a sh script, this problem is easily solved with a higher level scripting language like Perl or Python. As I can't get my mind to grog Perl, I'll go ahead with Python: #/usr/bin/python # expected use cleanup

Re: save msgs to default mailbox in Mutt

2001-01-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 05:59:39PM -0500, mike wrote: Since at least half-this list uses Mutt i thought i would ask my Mutt question here. I'm no mutt guru, but I've learned that Mutt's Fine Manual is extremely accurate in its description of actions and what have you, but terse terse and

Re: save msgs to default mailbox in Mutt

2001-01-12 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:19:48PM -0500, mike wrote: ... OK i'll agree with your fine reading of the terse descriptions, but since Mutt lets me delete as many messages as i want without a prompt, (set delete=yes); you think it would let me save just one message without the prompt if i

lpr / magicfilter packages misbehaving

2001-01-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai, tonight I cleaned up my dselect list and purged lpr as I prefer lprng. To my surprise the printer started to malfunction, missing files:( What happens is that lpr installs and removes /var/log/lp-{acct,errs} but magicfilter creates printcap files *with* those files (af/lf). Magicfilters

Re: (OT) exec nonreadable shell scripts

2001-01-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:31:21PM -0500, D-Man wrote: ... I recall seeing somewhere that with the new interpreter, .pyo files can be executed (by the interpreter, but by calling the file not the interpreter). Maybe not. I wish I could remember where I saw that. It doesn't work here with

Re: new boot disk?

2001-01-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:41:06PM +, john gennard wrote: On Thursday 11 January 2001 5:08 am, James W. Lindenschmidt wrote: Greetings, everyone. I just migrated from RedHat over to Debian potato and I'm thrilled so far. But, I think my boot disk is defective, since it takes 5-7

Re: wacky kernel question

2001-01-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 03:07:14PM +, Cliff Sarginson wrote: I am glad to see I am not the only oldie on the list :) Bring back paper tape and drum storage I say... You had paper tape? You lucky bastard, we had to toggle switches:) -- groetjes, carel

Re: (OT) exec nonreadable shell scripts

2001-01-10 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 04:04:14AM -0500, D-Man wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:27:38AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: | would writing scripts in a compiled language like | C be a solution? | If any binary files can be exec as suid, then I would recommend python. It will have more of the feel

Re: dazed and confused - pop3 port

2001-01-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:32:54PM +1100, Matt Chipman wrote: ... i added pop3stream tcp nowait mail/usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d thinking along the lines of the redhat box, ..but she no work :( The port is now open (i can telnet to it ) but exim doesnt reply. it's not

Re: mail client

2001-01-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:01:22AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: ... note the -USE_SSL :( when i tried to configure mutt to use SSL it failed. i know i could recompile mutt but that would be quite a bit of work for all the machines i work on as i don't know how to make debian packages. also i was

Re: IP spoofing protection

2001-01-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 02:25:38AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... Anyway, I ended up adding several firewall scripts in ipmas style scripts and put them in the /etc/ipmasq/rules directory. You can see my script in www.aokiconsulting.com/pub. doesn't seem to be up now, so I'll try later.

Re: wacky kernel question

2001-01-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:31:04PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: I've been using linux for years and years, but I have never figured this odd little corner out. Perhaps someone here will know. If you type when the kernel is booting up, it echos to the screen. That's normal for linux of course. The

Re: Anyone with a HP Deskjet working from Potato?

2001-01-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 07:43:42PM -0500, David Shepherd wrote: I'm trying to get my Deskjet695C working. I posted earlier under subject Need help setting up parallel printer but didn't get any takers :-( mist that one, besides I know next to nothing of it. But hey, I've got the files and it

Re: When was /dev/gpmdata put into use??

2001-01-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:33:24AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: Martin Bialasinski wrote: mc does use gpm. Unfortunately, the latest security build for r2 left out gpm. I will do a fixed upload to proposed-updates soon. Shame. Some of us found it refreshing it have have to disable

Re: mutt mailbox default

2001-01-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:05:37PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! I want to mutt open looking into a given mailbox file, for example /home/myself/mail/inbox. How can I do it? Just name it on the commandline: $ mutt -f ~/mail/inbox And if that file is part of mutt's default mail

Re: /usr/man vs /usr/share/man

2001-01-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 03:55:14PM -0800, Henry House wrote: Does anyone know why both /usr/man and /usr/share/man both exist in Debian systems (woody and potato) and contain different files? we are in the process of converting from /usr/man to /usr/share/man. man maybe shared between machines,

Re: When was /dev/gpmdata put into use??

2001-01-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:37:49PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: * Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... In X it's clear from the visual context when the mouse is in `cutpaste' mode or in `command' mode. Is it? Not in xterms. You're right, it isn't:( So I think it's wise

IP spoofing protection

2001-01-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
I sent the following to debian-firewall, but noone reacted, so I try here. = Hai and a jolly new year, I'm in the process of switching from pmfirewall to ipmasq. I've read a lot, and now I'm confused:) I thought rp_filter was supposed to prevent ip spoofing, but ipmasq

Re: Packaging Policy.

2001-01-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:55:26PM +0800, Corey Popelier wrote: ... My issue is this, 5.5.3 is actually about 5 or 6 versions behind the times. It was from about Sept last year if I recall. Now I don't know what the status of the maintainer of this package is, but what are the Debian

Re: When was /dev/gpmdata put into use??

2001-01-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:53:36AM -0600, John Foster wrote: I am trying to isolate a problem with my ps2 mouse. The pointer function does not work in console or xterm. It will cut and paste OK. I have checked all of the various configurations and read all of the related docs. I have

Re: When was /dev/gpmdata put into use??

2001-01-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:41:49PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: To quote Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED], ... # is to use /dev/mouse in XF86Setup and have repeat_type=raw in # /etc/gpm.conf and to top this off make sure that /dev/mouse is linked # to /dev/psaux. (look to my prior posts

Re: When was /dev/gpmdata put into use??

2001-01-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:13:43PM -0600, John Foster wrote: ... /dev/mouse is a link to /dev/gpmdata I have selected /dev/gpmdata in Xf86Setup I have selected /dev/psaux in gpm.conf Now the mouse works in All X windows apps including anything run in an xterm window. It will still only

Re: mouse configuration

2001-01-05 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:38:20AM -0500, Mithras wrote: ... Thanks to everyone that replied! The key for me was hearing about gpm. I can't recall all the combinations I tried last night, but I was successful setting up the mouse to work with both X and the console. After configuring gpm

Re: 4 Mouse buttons with gpm?

2001-01-05 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:22:53PM +, Sam Vilain wrote: ...reformatted for ease of reading... Thanks for that, I'm definitely closer now :-). I think I just need to get gpm to talk the equivalent of X's MouseManPlusPS/2, like perhaps the mouse is detecting that it's being accessed in a 3

Re: Upgrading from 2.0

2001-01-05 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:42:28PM +0100, Casper Gielen wrote: I'm upgrading a Debian 2.0 system. According to the manual I downloaded and installed the static versions of dpkg and apt. When I do a apt-get update apt is unable to connect to the download sites. I'm double-checked the

Re: mouse configuration

2001-01-05 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 04:26:42PM -0500, Mithras wrote: My mouse has been working fine, but perhaps something more subtle could be wrong. Learning something new's always valuable. Yes, it is only working because your errors zero'd out:) On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote

Re: 4 Mouse buttons with gpm?

2000-12-31 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 05:41:20PM +, Sam Vilain wrote: Hi, I've got a Logitech 4 button MouseMan (according to the label) mouse, and I can't get gpm to repeat the fourth button; it keeps being repeated as button 2. The configuration that doesn't work properly is: [/etc/gpm.conf]

Re: Help Fetchmail Expected Length error?

2000-12-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:14:52PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: Hi, Trying to fix up several recent errors in getting mail. One I noticed causing the odd socket error is message 1 was not the expected length (2749 actual != 2752 expected) Help appreciated. Note that I'm by no means an

Re: Help Fetchmail Expected Length error?

2000-12-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:16:41PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: Note that I'm by no means an expert on mail, but anyhow... This socket/length error makes me think that something goes wrong in the local smtp connection (don't know, just guessing:). If so you could try to shortcircuit it a

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 10:21:30AM -0600, David A. Rogers wrote: On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: I understand your comment about fakeroot. However, I didn't include any documentation on it for a couple of reasons. First, I've instructed the reader to read the kernel-package

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 08:12:05PM -0600, David A. Rogers wrote: Kernel 150 - Compiling the kernel - is open for enrollment (The Debian University document has been updated to include information on compiling the kernel in the Debian way). Debian University can be found at:

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:05:30PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: ... Hmm, as I understood it, making a /usr/src/linux link is bad, /usr/include, AFAIK, is not the issue. The module I tried to compiled looked for the kernel-includes in /usr/src/linux/include. I'm just wondering why

Re: New course for Debian University

2000-12-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:34:57PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:05:30PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: I think there's confusion between making links in /usr/include and links in /usr/src. The first is bad [0], the second is (afaik) not. Hmm, as I understood

Re: 'sendmail' option -commented- in Muttrc but working??

2000-12-27 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 02:41:48AM +0100, Ignasi Tura wrote: On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 01:44:24AM +0100, Ignasi Tura wrote: Dear colleagues, I am able to send mail correctly with Mutt. I take a look to what happens when I send mail with mutt, and the manual sends it sends a

Re: bash-question

2000-12-26 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:55:13AM +0100, Stephan Kulka wrote: On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 10:21:52AM +0100, Stephan Kulka wrote: That's quite a newbie question, but I don't know what to do. Yesterday I made a new directory for programming, I added this directory with export to my

Re: 'sendmail' option in Muttrc but working??

2000-12-26 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 01:44:24AM +0100, Ignasi Tura wrote: Dear colleagues, I am able to send mail correctly with Mutt. I take a look to what happens when I send mail with mutt, and the manual sends it sends a command to sendmail (in this case, aka exim). It seems that it's done

Re: bash-question

2000-12-25 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 10:21:52AM +0100, Stephan Kulka wrote: That's quite a newbie question, but I don't know what to do. Yesterday I made a new directory for programming, I added this directory with export to my PATH. Yesterday everything went fine, but today I always get the error command

Re: Fetchmail and exim ... again

2000-12-23 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:25:24PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: As root, try running eximon and looking at exim's logs in /var/log/exim (as I recall) to see if it reports any activity. The first thing is to figure out if the problem is exim or fetchmail. I use that combination, though I

Re: exim-configuration--relaying mail

2000-12-22 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:30:06PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: If you desire it, I compiled Exim 3.20 for potato over the weeked for my own machines; I've put the .deb on the 'net under ftp://tux.creighton.edu/pub/pbrutsch/ (sorry, no apt-get'table archive yet). It has dependencies on the

Re: Sound record program

2000-12-21 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:27:08AM +0100, Kai Weber wrote: Hi, I am searching for a good sound record program, which can be used from a script/started by a cron job. I tested 'rec' coming from the sox package. With for CD-quality suitable settings rec -c 2 -r 44100 -s w new.wav I get gaps

Re: how to fake from address in an email

2000-12-18 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:21:40AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: ... I'd be glad to send you a copy of my exim.conf but there's absolutely nothing special about my setup. It's just the stock SMTP setup from eximconfig with the addition of that rewrite rule that I posted in my previous response.

Re: exim (probably broken thread)

2000-12-17 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 10:26:41AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: ... Hi, I didn't know taht one could run exim in naything but daemon mode? How can I set it upotherwise and have it work with fetchmail? There are some long winding threads going on on setting up exim and fetchmail, but normally

fetchmail's aka not working?

2000-12-17 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hi, I'm trying to help others with fetchmail to discover that fetchmail doesn't work like the docs tell it should:( running the latest of potato, fetchmail 5.3.3+NTLM+SDPS+NLS. According to the docs: The aka option now matches hostname suffixes, so (for example) saying `aka netaxs.com'

Re: Conflicting reports re: kernel version

2000-12-17 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 02:16:14PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: root ! # grep RELEASE /usr/linux/include/version.h now who put that /usr/linux there? it's not on my machine. #define UTS_RELEASE=2.2.15 root ! # `uname --release` 2.2.17 Any ideas? I guess that you once installed

Re: fetchmail's aka not working?

2000-12-17 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 03:40:35PM +0100, carel wrote: I'm trying to help others with fetchmail to discover that fetchmail doesn't work like the docs tell it should:( running the latest of potato, fetchmail 5.3.3+NTLM+SDPS+NLS. At least the newest fetchmail, 5.6.1, does work as advertised.

Re: exim

2000-12-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hi, i fear this one is behond me:( there are two things that to my knowledge shouldn't be there if you're using the fetchmailrc I think you're using. I'll point to these two point below. I think you have in ~/.procmailrc something like: set postmaster tony set bouncemail set properties

Re: Messaggio

2000-12-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 09:10:51PM -0500, A R wrote: Gerardo wrote: Potrei gentilmente sapere se esiste un sito dove posso scaricare linux in floppy disk.Grazie anticipatamente.Gerardo I don't think you can get it on a floppy. Too big. Yo no creo que quepa en un flopy. Demasiado grande.

Re: how to fake from address in an email

2000-12-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 07:06:07AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... I always wondered how this works. Can you still deliver mail in your local domain, say if you do: mutt -s hallo glhenni /dev/null would you get that mail, or would it first be sent

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