Slowing down exim4

2005-12-18 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
(Posted on alt.comp.mail.exim over a month ago with no answers - hope someone here can help me on this...) On my desktop machine (Debian unstable) I have a couple of different programs (fetchyahoo, etc.) that go and get mail and send them to other emails for me. These programs are nice n

Re: Slowing down exim4

2005-12-18 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
Roberto Sanchez wrote: I searched [0], but could not find anything that appeared to be easy to implement. You may just be out of luck. Yea, I've done my fair share of searching as well, and have been luckless thus far. Incidentally, what braindead policy do they have in place? Are you

Re: shell tool OpenOffice2PS?

2005-12-08 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
Robert Michel wrote: Salve! Does anybody knows a tool to convert OOo documents to PS without GUI? On my laptop is not much space and such a converter could be handy to have on a server. And btw, does somebody knows a good overview about converters to make life more easier on workstations

Re: Boot to console

2005-12-08 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
Michael Newlin wrote: I have installed Sarge/RT-Linux with the Desktop Environment option. However, I need to boot to the console, not the gui. I have lilo configured to boot to either linux or rtlinux, however both options boot to a gui, and running the terminal limits rtlinux’s

Re: Controlling volume levels from command line

2005-12-08 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
Justin Gallardo wrote: I have been looking for a way to control the volume on my laptop through the command line for some time now. I use ion3, so I don't have the nice apps one would find in Gnome readily available. Any ideas? Justin alsamixer is an excellent choice Clinton -- To

Re: starting wireless connection on boot

2005-12-08 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
martin jakubik wrote: Hello, I'm a newbie. I've got wireless working on my Debian, but I have to log in as admin to start it. I'd like to know how I can get it to load on bootup. I've got a Linksys WPC54G card. I'm using ndiswrapper to run my driver. ndiswrapper loads up normally on boot.

GUI touchpad application

2005-07-12 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
I'm having a hell of a time finding a thread related to the subject from approximately a month ago. A package was mentioned that contains a touchpad gui setup application, and I'd like to find and use this package. Does anyone remember this thread? (yes, I've used google. no, it hasn't

Re: hardware autodetect

2005-06-23 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
Petri Varsa wrote: Hello, does anybody know how to rerun the hardware autodetect program that is executed when you install sarge? thanks, -petri I'm assuming you mean hotplug and discover: /etc/init.d/hotplug restart /etc/init.d/discover restart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: [OT] splitting files based on keyword

2005-06-21 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I have a large text file (humongous.txt) with the following structure date 1-1-2005 line1 line2 date 1-2-2005 line3 line4 date 1-3-2005 line5 line6 line7 line8 . Is there any tool which will split the above file and give me three smaller files 1-1-2005.txt,

Re: SquashFS

2005-06-19 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
Clinton V. Weiss wrote: Has anyone had any luck mounting a squashfs under Debian? I've got packages squashfs-tools and kernel-patch-squashfs installed, and with neither I can mount. Obviously, the latter requires me to recompile my kernel with a patch - I'd rather not do that - I'm quite

SquashFS

2005-06-17 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
Has anyone had any luck mounting a squashfs under Debian? I've got packages squashfs-tools and kernel-patch-squashfs installed, and with neither I can mount. Obviously, the latter requires me to recompile my kernel with a patch - I'd rather not do that - I'm quite happy using modules. My

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
Matthias Kaeppler wrote: # Skype, Java 5, Real Player, Flash, etc. deb http://archive.unable-to-package.org/debian-utp sarge main contrib non-free restricted Doesn't work. And it looked useful! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Safety issues of cronning apt-get -y upgrade

2005-06-12 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
On a stable Debian machine, would cronning apt-get -y upgrade (with the apt-get -y update of course) on a daily or weekly basis have any fault points? I'm asking since I'd like to ensure that upgrading of a server's packages is safe and secure without the need to SSH into the machine just

Re: Release upgrade from Woody to Sarge failed reboot lilo problem

2005-06-12 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
This topic may be a few days old, but this is apparently exactly what happened to a server I admin remotely. When I upgraded to the new stable packages, I saw nothing that affected the kernel, therefore rerunning LILO didn't occur to me as something that needed to be done. Hopefully someone

Re: Release upgrade from Woody to Sarge failed reboot lilo problem

2005-06-12 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
This topic may be a few days old, but this is apparently exactly what happened to a server I admin remotely. When I upgraded to the new stable packages, I saw nothing that affected the kernel, therefore rerunning LILO didn't occur to me as something that needed to be done. Hopefully someone

Re: Release upgrade from Woody to Sarge failed reboot lilo problem

2005-06-12 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
This topic may be a few days old, but this is apparently exactly what happened to a server I admin remotely. When I upgraded to the new stable packages, I saw nothing that affected the kernel, therefore rerunning LILO didn't occur to me as something that needed to be done. Hopefully someone

Re: apt or aptitude on sarge

2005-06-08 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
michael wrote: I note that it seems that aptitude is recommended over apt for Sarge. I was wondering if it's as str forward as just using aptitude from now on? eg I do not have to rebuild anything the first time i use aptitude (ie it uses the same dpkg info as apt - but in that case why is

Woody to Sarge breaking LILO?

2005-06-08 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
To my frustration, upgrading a server over 200 miles from me remotely has failed. The dist-upgrade worked just fine, and then I decided to reboot it. A few minutes later attempts to contact the machine failed, ping timeouts, ssh timeouts, etc etc. I contacted someone who is at the location

Re: DVORAK

2005-06-06 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
Cam wrote: Hi, So after a few years of hearing of the DVORAK layout (and noticing that it seems like my left hand is doing all the work w/ QWERTY), i'd like to try to make the switch... here's my major concern though (and perhaps this isn't really an issue, i'd like to hear the advice from