Re: OT: emacs + psgml + console = NFG

2010-12-29 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 12/24/10, Alberto Luaces wrote: >> "sgml-element-menu must be bound to an event with parameters" > So it works well with X? Yes, in the console, using keystrokes found here: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~lenst/about_psgml/psgml.html#Edit > What happens if you try to use that command not using

OT: emacs + psgml + console = NFG

2010-12-23 Thread Eric d'Alibut
I need to maintain some docbook-website sites on remote hosts to which I have only console access via ssh (no X). But even on local hosts, running emacs in the console (with '-nw') gives bad results with psgml. I can get to the 'Markup' menu via the keyboard, but if I try to insert an xml element

Re: "*:80 has no VirtualHosts" --- again

2010-08-26 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 8/26/10, Camaleón wrote: > How about your "/etc/apache2/ports.conf" file? Bingo! Remming out the dupeNameVirtualHost line does the trick!: # cat /etc/apache2/ports.conf # If you just change the port or add more ports here, you will likely also # have to change the VirtualHost statement in

"*:80 has no VirtualHosts" --- again

2010-08-26 Thread Eric d'Alibut
I have an up-to-date Lenny running in a linode virtual server (http://linode.com). Here's what I have installed apache2-wise: ii apache2-doc 2.2.9-10+lenny8 Apache HTTP Server documentation ii apache2-mpm-worker 2.2.9-10+lenny8 Apache HTTP Serve

Re: exim listen on one ip to two ports?

2010-05-04 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 5/3/10, Camaleón wrote: > As per "/usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz" (lenny): > If you need to support these, set SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS='-oX 465:25 -oP > var/run/exim4/exim.pid' in /etc/default/exim4 That was it; I needed the -oP option. Thanks. -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, E

exim listen on one ip to two ports?

2010-05-03 Thread Eric d'Alibut
Can exim be made to listen to two ports (587 and 25) on one ip? I put this in /etc/default/exim4: SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS='-oX 587:25' Exim responded by generating a /var/log/exim4/paniclog file containing: "socket bind() to port 25 for address [my local ip] failed: Address already in use: daemon a

Re: ikiwiki + Apache 1.3 =?=> NFG/SNAFU

2009-07-28 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Is there any specific reason why you don't upgrade to Apache2? As noted, task-aversion. SOLUTION FOUND: # apt-get install apache2 :-) > Atrocities committed in Rwanda pervade my mind when I am discussing > mundanities with acquaintances.

Re: ikiwiki + Apache 1.3 =?=> NFG/SNAFU

2009-07-26 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/FAQ-F.html#premature-script-headers Thanks for the link. > Is there any specific reason why you don't upgrade to Apache2? I am task-aversive. Best, -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fi

Re: ikiwiki + Apache 1.3 =?=> NFG/SNAFU

2009-07-25 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Do you have any concrete problems or are you asking in advance? I should have posted the I was having, which concerns running ikiwiki.cgi. I am getting "Premature end of script headers" when this script is called, for example, when I try to

ikiwiki + Apache 1.3 =?=> NFG/SNAFU

2009-07-25 Thread Eric d'Alibut
I notice the ikiwiki docs provide httpd server config hints only for Apache 2 and lighttpd. Should I take this as an implicit hint that my attempt to run ikiwiki (that *is* hard to type!) on the older Apache vintage are foolhardy, extremely ill-advised, a recipe for disaster, paving the road to per

OT mutt config question

2009-07-01 Thread Eric d'Alibut
I want mutt's PGP menu to default to 'sign (inline)'. Does anyone have a hook or muttrc that does this? I can of course set that menu to default to 'sign (PGP/MIME),' but -- contra much advice -- I want the 'inline' option. Best regards, -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's a

Galeon's "myportal" nfg?

2009-03-27 Thread Eric d'Alibut
A recent dist-upgrade to Lenny has broken galeon's neat "myportal" homepage feature. This is version 2.0.6-2.1. 1. Previously, the URL 'myportal:' worked fine. The error message for that is now: "myportal is not a registered protocol". 2. Galeon's help suggests using the URL 'about:myportal'. T

Re: squirrelmail plus g/pgp plugin == ?

2008-11-30 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 1) Is anyone running squirrelmail *and* the g/pgp plugin successfully? >> 2) On debian stable? >> 3) With apache 1.3? > Anyone expects to get some help without providing some actual input? The input was in the form o

squirrelmail plus g/pgp plugin == ?

2008-11-30 Thread Eric d'Alibut
Is anyone running squirrelmail *and* the g/pgp plugin successfully? On debian stable? With apache 1.3? The thing can't encrypt, and it has stopped signing now. I know that sounds weird and New Agey magical, but that's what happened! Any feedback would be appreciated. Best regards, -- No no

Re: favor needed by debian beginner

2008-09-03 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:33 AM, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But this vim editor is cumbersome. No one sitting at a linux (or any unixen) machine should be unfamiliar with vi usage. You *will* need it when you least expect it! So Andrei's link is a must-read: > http://linuxgazett

Re: Debian upgrade breaks djb stuff

2008-07-30 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Michael Sierchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a bug in DJB's code. `man errno` If it were a bug in your brain, your altered neurology would see things differently, and, perhaps, correctly. Do you have a bug in your brain? HEY! Apropos of nothing at all, did

Re: etch upgrade breaks daemontools

2008-07-29 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Mark Neidorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is an errno patch for the djb stuff. There are different patches for > different djb things. I think that is what you need. Had I been smart enough to google the problem before posting here I would have learned th

etch upgrade breaks daemontools

2008-07-29 Thread Eric d'Alibut
As noted, a recent upgrade of etch to grab security updates breaks my djb stuff. Attempting to rebuild against the new libs gives: envdir.o: In function `main': envdir.c:(.text+0x127): undefined reference to `errno' Anyone else hit by this? -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. H

Re: X apps don't launch from Xterm

2008-06-25 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $DISPLAY >>0:0. > That DISPLAY variable is wrong. It should be :0.0 Bingo. You get the Eagle Eye Award! Sure enough, and Lord Only Knows why, I had put an 'export DISPLAY=0:0.' into my .bash

X apps don't launch from Xterm

2008-06-25 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the output of the following two: > echo $DISPLAY As noted: $ echo $DISPLAY 0:0. > xlsclients $ xlsclients xlsclients: unable to open display "0:0." What scripts might be monkeying with xauth? -- No no no,

X apps don't launch from Xterm

2008-06-25 Thread Eric d'Alibut
This is a stable install that has been running, er, with great stability, for well over a year; it was brought up to date with etch no problemo earlier in the year. A recent routine 'apt-get update', 'apt-get upgrade' has left me with some new, and rather disagreeable, behaviour. This box boots to

Re: Balsa's "Gnome editor?"

2008-06-23 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Eric d'Alibut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how to change the "Gnome editor" -- in Xfce4 -- to > something other than mousepad? Thanks to those who replied! What I found in Gnome was the file in my home directory:

Balsa's "Gnome editor?"

2008-06-20 Thread Eric d'Alibut
I have Xfce4 runningl, and I'm trying out Balsa in it. Balsa looks for its external editor in a var described as "the Gnome editor," which, in Xfce4, is evidenctly mousepad. Far be it from I to cast aspersions (as the saying goes) on mousepad, but I would like something more exciting for my exter

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-24 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 9/25/07, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Being super lazy by nature, I count the number of key strokes to achieve the > end result. If you are using knode all it takes is one key stroke - 'r'. > Comparing that to your method counts as a pain in my dictionary :-) And I'm much

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-24 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 9/25/07, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hit reply. If it's a new question, post to a new thread. Your new > question deserves its own thread. If you're replying to an existing > thread, reply ought to do it, barring serious breakage of standeards > by your newsreader. What newsread

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-24 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 9/24/07, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gmail currently does not have a reply-to-list feature so replying (only) to > the list is a bit pain. I just hit 'reply,' delete the poster's email, and then start to type d-e-b and gmail pops up a list in which I select [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: ls sort order: new, bad, behaviour

2007-09-23 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 9/24/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeez, this has been a bad computer day for me. > ls listings are just like Steve's. I'm back to my figment of the imagination idea: this phantom dirs-first ls listing is a delusion produced by too much mc use. -- No no no, my fish's name is

Re: ls sort order: new, bad, behaviour

2007-09-23 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 9/23/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > namely, an 'ls' that sorts directories first, and > > ordinary files afterwards? Do others actually see that behaviour in > > terminals? > Sure. That's how it works for me. > $ locale > LANG= > LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB:en > LC_CTYPE="POSIX" > L

Re: ls sort order: new, bad, behaviour

2007-09-22 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 9/22/07, Benjamin A'Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do 'printenv | grep LC_COLLATE' or 'locale' show the right setting? I am beginning to think I am a victim of my addled pate. Have I been using midnight commander too much? Am I looking for a fig newton of my imagination, namely, an 'ls' that

ls sort order: new, bad, behaviour

2007-09-22 Thread Eric d'Alibut
Last night I installed, and then removed, the ftpd and proftpd debs, in that order. Now I cannot by hook or crook get 'ls' to behave as it did before those ftp experiments. 'ls' now sorts strictly by filename -- including directories -- so that the latter are "mixed in" with regular files in the ou

Needed: spamtrap for...

2007-08-07 Thread Eric d'Alibut
I'm sure anyone with responsibility for spam filtering has seen messages, many of them, which meet the following criteria: HTML formatted empty body one attachment, which is a pdf file Is there a spamassassin test which would score such messages very highly? Or, does anyone have a maildrop recip

Re: encoding messes?

2007-08-05 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 8/6/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could try experimenting with locales. en_US.UTF-8 would be my first > choice. And a most excellent choice it is! Did the trick. Thank you sir. -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why

encoding messes?

2007-08-05 Thread Eric d'Alibut
When I select and copy text from a browser and paste it into a text editor, all the apostrophes and dashes come out as question marks or weird things like "\u2019". What's the fix for this irritating behavior, please? 'env' shows that 'LANG=en_US'. etch. -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Er

Re: After upgrade to etch/stable:JEdit does not run and others

2007-07-21 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 6/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > today, I updated from etch-pre[?] to etch stable. > Now, the java-based JEdit does not start. You'll get a short mousepointer, > thats all. Look at /usr/bin/jedit and be sure the path to java is correct. I can't tell you what it should be

Re: Where does mailman put...

2007-06-23 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 6/23/07, Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's all in those binary files. Mailman offers you some cli tools to work with them in the mailman/bin directory. Mucho thx. -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I be tarred with

Where does mailman put...

2007-06-22 Thread Eric d'Alibut
...subscriber name and email data. I have an old now-decommisioned mailman install and I've been asked to go through the subscriber list for some info. Can't find it! -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet l

Re: epiphany: how enable pdf output?

2007-06-10 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 6/10/07, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Using cups? Install cups-pdf, then just "print" to printer cups-pdf. Pretty simple. Works for me on etch. I have resorted to that. Is there a way to pass a proper filename to the pdf output? All I get is ~/PDF/__.pdf Firefox's print dialog o

epiphany: how enable pdf output?

2007-06-09 Thread Eric d'Alibut
My epiphany instance (2.14.3-2) appears to offer the option of printing to a pdf, but when that is tried, informs me that such printing is not supported. What do I need to get that option working? Does the package 'epiphany-extensions' do that for me? Its deb page doesn't mention pdf... Best r

OT: Can't we just drop all the OT stuff...

2007-05-10 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 5/10/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After all, I have to "play nice" with everyone now... since my run in with a "hit and run Troll", that I couldn't seem to ignore properly. I'm sorry I missed that. It sounds like all your "friends" around here -- who you are so careful not to

Re: OT: Can't we just drop all the OT stuff...

2007-05-10 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 5/10/07, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I knew this thread would turn into a flame. It always seems to. Threads you join always turn into flamefests? Hmmm What gets me is that Greg started this thread off as a joke, and most people seem to be ignoring that. I read Greg as "jok

Re: OT: Can't we just drop all the OT stuff...

2007-05-09 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 5/9/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Come on, we all come here for "TOPICAL" discussions and bare metal Debian stuff. I mean, I might just have to unsubscribe and find another venue to find my "fix" for Debian only topics. You're completely right Greg, except for the unsubscri

Re: Command line wave player

2007-05-09 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 5/9/07, Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's called wavplay, I just don't see it in the Etch repositories. Googling for 'wavplay' and 'debian', you will find .deb's of it though. Bingo! That's it. It's not exactly leaping off the google pages I have, but aplay is doing its job f

Re: Command line wave player

2007-05-08 Thread Eric d'Alibut
Oops; went off-list by mistake. -- Forwarded message -- From: Eric d'Alibut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 8, 2007 10:38 PM Subject: Re: Command line wave player To: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 5/8/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Command line wave player

2007-05-08 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 5/8/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wicked pissah! Wicked pissah?? Translation: "really excellent." -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut

Re: Command line wave player

2007-05-08 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 5/8/07, Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The "aplay" command from the alsa-utils package will play .wav files. Supah. And, I even have that package already installed! Who knew? Wicked pissah! Thanks, -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am no

Command line wave player

2007-05-08 Thread Eric d'Alibut
I seem to recall a linux command line wave player -- wavp, or waveplay, or something like that? Does that ring any bells with anybody? Alternatively, has anyone tried to build the *bsd audioplay package on linux? Best, -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am n

FOS video streaming server?

2007-01-15 Thread Eric d'Alibut
What the options for streaming video (.mov) from a linux (apache) web server? Are there any online resources which address this question? tia! -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet looney merely because I

Re: ls sort order

2006-09-14 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 9/14/06, Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this some utf-8 mutation? Yup. If you want the old behavior, use this: export LC_COLLATE=C Bingo. Thank you sir! -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the

ls sort order

2006-09-14 Thread Eric d'Alibut
I just noticed on a brand new install of testing that ls has begun to sort alphabetically, but mixes uppercase and lowercase together i.e. 'Pearl' comes before 'pearl' but after 'otter'. otter Pearl pearl A stable Debian version I maintain behaves the good old-fashioned way: Pearl otter pearl

Re: regex for top-posting?

2006-07-12 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 7/11/06, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Check out fullquottel. With that and procmail it is probably possible, though I've never used it. Aha! What an interesting package. Thanks. -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I

Re: regex for top-posting?

2006-07-10 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 7/9/06, John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In Gnus, W Y c Interesting. I'm looking more for something on the server side of things. I googled some discussion of how Gmane filters for top-posting, and how evil that was, or something, but I have yet to find how one might do such filt

regex for top-posting?

2006-07-08 Thread Eric d'Alibut
Does anyone have a regex for top-posted list messages? Or some other Mailman hack that can be used to weed out these undesirables? Best regards, -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet looney merely because

Re: Restrict ssh logins

2006-06-26 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 6/26/06, Lothar Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But i don't think you want any of these. You mentioned early that you (the friendly system administrator) should be the only one, who can add authorized keys. That means that you have to create a system-wide authorized_keys file, that is only w

Re: Restrict ssh logins

2006-06-26 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 6/26/06, Lothar Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Let's go: Awesome. bob with home directory /home/bob/ alice with home directory /nfs-share/all-homes/alice/ AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keys in your sshd_config, sshd will look at /home/bob/.ssh/authorized_keys and /nfs-share/

Re: Restrict ssh logins

2006-06-26 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 6/25/06, Lothar Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You should define a global authorized_keys file then. Use AuthorizedKeysFile in your /etc/ssh/sshd_conf to set the path to your file. I note in the sshd_config man page that the AuthorizedKeysFile may make use of tokens ('%h') for things such

Re: Restrict ssh logins

2006-06-25 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 6/25/06, Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I did this recently and there should be some relevant information if you search the archives on my e-mail address. Bingo. That thread did the trick for me. Here's what I came up with, for pertinent sshd_config lines: PasswordAuthentication no Cha

Restrict ssh logins

2006-06-25 Thread Eric d'Alibut
I want to tighten up network logins to a Debian stable machine. I want to turn off ordinary unix password logins. and I want restrict ssh logins to only users with an ssh pub key in their authorized_key files (to be placed there by me, your friendly sysadmin). Any pointers as to how to do this,

Re: fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-06-01 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 6/1/06, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: gqview. It will show thumbnails of correct pictures Sir, Excellent! Danke. Perhaps Mr. Gary Parker will let us know how he's doing with this problem... -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a loone

Re: fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-06-01 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 5/31/06, Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A valuable tool in this case is "file". It can identify loads of different file formats, and can be very effective in conjunction with some shell scripting. There is also tool called "testdisk". I have never used it, but it does seem to have

md5sum?

2006-03-21 Thread Eric d'Alibut
/usr/bin/md5sum belongs to dpkg, not coreutils. The latter's is renamed md5sum.textutils. The two behave differently wrt '-v': the older, dpkg version requires it to see output of the '-c' option, while the newer coreutils version, does not. Why doesn't Debian default to the newer version? Best r

Re: Where is postrotate script? (was: logrotate + mysql = "Help!")

2006-01-15 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 1/14/06, Eric d'Alibut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot by any stretch of the imagination be held responsible for my > behavior this week. [Long near-psychotic rant elided -- mucho apologies!] > I found the postroate script for mysql; it's in /etc/logrotate.d/

Re: Where is postrotate script? (was: logrotate + mysql = "Help!")

2006-01-13 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 1/12/06, Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please don't start a new thread for this. I already replied in the original > thread. Making new threads is a good way to lose the people who are > already trying to help you. I cannot by any stretch of the imagination be held responsible for

Where is postrotate script? (was: logrotate + mysql = "Help!")

2006-01-10 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 1/10/06, Jay Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > um... n/m I had a different error, I meant to reply to an > older > post by someone else who had the same error... > Sorry for the mixup and getting your hopes up Still, who knows, maybe > it'll > work ;) No biggie; A for ef

Re: logrotate + mysql = "Help!"

2006-01-09 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 1/7/06, Eric d'Alibut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Done. I await the next cron run. Not much enlightenment from the verbosity: running shared postrotate script error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/mysql.log I wonder: what script is this referring to? -

Re: logrotate + mysql = "Help!"

2006-01-07 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 1/5/06, Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe if you add the verbose switch there, next time it runs it > will give you more detail (though perhaps more than you want). Done. I await the next cron run. Thanks, -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am

logrotate + mysql = "Help!"

2006-01-03 Thread Eric d'Alibut
I have a Debian stable install that runs smoothly; uptime is seventy three days. Just lately I am getting these system emails: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/mysql.log /var/log/mysql/mysql.log /var/log/mysql.err /var/log/mysql/mysql.err /var/l

Re: META: Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-31 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:20:22 +0100, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So much easier to just ban abusing list members, after suitable warning. One could ask for no clearer demonstration of the animus that fuels the fervor of the so-called "Open" and "Free" (source, software, whatever) crow

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-27 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 20:50:40 +1100, Sam Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this thread is ridiculous, unworthy of further comment. Discussions of the politics of computing are hardly thought "ridiculous" by most serious people. I don't have any idea what Shuttleworth's politics are, but he obvi

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-27 Thread Eric d'Alibut
Mr. Ballard is dead-on target, and is to be commended for his courage: On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 02:38:12 -0500, William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was a bit put off when I went to www.ubuntu.org and found a bunch of > pro-Palestinian and anti-American propaganda, but I gathered that both >

Re: recover date after rm -rf

2004-11-13 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:10:51 +0200, bing yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > where to find docs to recover my data if there is a way go get my data > back. and is the process too hard to master by newbie like me? I have done it on ext2 file systems, but never 1 gig's worth of stuff. Ignore the morons

Re: vote: best webmail !

2004-11-04 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 13:50:04 +0800 (CST), ms linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > squirrelmail ? openwebmail ? or ... Hands down, no contest, category-killer, industrial strength, don't try this at home kids: IMP http://www.horde.org/imp/ -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's

Re: How to start NTPD?

2004-09-21 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 19:17:36 -0400, JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In installed the NTP, as well as the ntp-docs, and for the life of me I can't > figure out how to start ntpd. There does not even appear to be an 'ntpd' > anywhere... ntpd is provided by the packages ntp-refclock and ntp-sim

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

2002-04-17 Thread Eric d'Alibut
} > }; > hello(); Programmable script! Um... Scripted programming! Um...Um I see no one has commented on your example, which I take as proof positive that this entire thread belongs in a museum somewhere, perhaps next to the 'How many angels can dance on the head of a pin' sc

Re: Archiving of big mailboxes

2002-04-14 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 21:46, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > Sounds like he wants to keep the old mail, which is what I do. This is a nice tool that I have used for some time now: http://digilander.iol.it/yellowjester/archmbox/archmbox.html -- Eric d'Alibut I am not a looney! Why sho

Re: Anyone know of a good debian mailing list?

2002-04-14 Thread Eric d'Alibut
generosity of our self-appointed moralists? As for Debian-related questions, just direct them squarely at Karsten, who seems of late to have too much time on his hands! -- Eric d'Alibut I am not a looney! Why should I be attired with the epithet looney merely because I have a p

Re: Linux on Walmart's systemless computers

2002-04-12 Thread Eric d'Alibut
ent size (state-side, that is) will have a clone shoppe or two or three that can put together what you want. -- Eric d'Alibut I am not a looney! Why should I be attired with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut? I've heard tell that Marcel Proust had

Re: Newbie Install Problems

2002-04-12 Thread Eric d'Alibut
ng? For instance, can you at least ping a remote host?: $ ping debian.org (If this succeeds, Ctrl-C to stop the pinging...) -- Eric d'Alibut I am not a looney! Why should I be attired with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut? I've heard tell that Marcel

Re: How does 'compact' do it?

2002-04-10 Thread Eric d'Alibut
will take another run at building a custom kernel, but since we are now in initrd territory, if I have problems, they won't be of the 'built-in vs. module' variety. (I should file that last claim under "Famous Last Words," no?) -- Eric d'Alibut I am not a looney!

How does 'compact' do it?

2002-04-09 Thread Eric d'Alibut
drive when all of my custom ones, even those that consist for the most part of compact's .config itself, fail. I'm getting ready to go the initrd route, but that shouldn't be necessary, should it? -- Eric d'Alibut I am not a looney! Why should I be attired with the epithe