Re: multi line regex's in vi ...

2000-05-01 Thread John Forest
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 08:13:21PM -0700, Rick Younie wrote: On Sat, Apr 29, 2000, Adam Shand wrote: A two-liner is %s/^/p/ - add p to the start of each line %s/^p$// - remove any lines that contain only p nope won't work. it'll put a 'p ' at the beginning of every line which

Re: samba questions

1999-10-29 Thread John Forest
Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: Hi all, After reading 1/2 ton of doc, I don't have answers. I'd like to know if its possible to: * setup 2 printers on my server (one //, the other serial) and use them remotely from W$, without special trick to switch from one to the other * Use them

Re: find | egrep

1999-10-11 Thread John Forest
Enrico Zini wrote: On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not a debian question, moreso a generic Unix question.. I need to be able to use find and egrep to scan a directory which has more than 3000 files in it. I read in the manual ie man egrep that the lines are limited to

Re: labels

1999-09-19 Thread John Forest
eric wrote: Greetings: I am running potato with an hpdeskjet 540c installed as my printer. I would like to find out how to print labels under Debian linux. I am a hobbyist bee-keeper and give labeled honey jars to friends. Last year I printed my labels under a windows program but want

Re: weird entry in netstat

1999-09-13 Thread John Forest
Pollywog wrote: I don't have Licq or other ICQ clone running, and I ran 'netstat' and got this: udp0 0 pollywog.sunset.ne:1062 fes-d018.icq.aol.:gicqd ESTABLISHED Anyone know what this is about? thanks -- Andrew I had something similar, also never seen before:

Slink, tkdesk and libc6_2.1

1999-08-31 Thread John Forest
Hope this is the right place to mention this: Did an apt-get update this morning and found package tkdesk in slink/proposed-updates has a new revision which depends on libc6 (=2.1) (dists/proposed-updates/tkdesk_1.1-3_i386.deb) I believe this to be an oversight. Isn't slink; libc6 2.1 ??

Re: sendmail: to queue or not to queue

1999-08-28 Thread John Forest
Remco van de Meent wrote: Hey, I'm looking for a way to have local and remote deliveries in sendmail being scheduled in a different way. I'd like to do this: . if an incoming email is being sent to a local mail address, then try to deliver immediately . if an incoming email is being

Re: Diald

1998-12-21 Thread John Forest
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been able to configure diald to restrict dialing out at certain times (like after I go to bed). However, if I have the connection up when the restriction time comes, it will kill the connection. I'm wondering if it would be possible for diald to prevent

Re: Running two mgetty's on same line

1998-12-21 Thread John Forest
Tim Thomson wrote: Hi, I have mgetty running on my modem from inittab and it answers after 10 rings, but I've set up xringd to dialup the internet and then run mgetty. The second one complains about the first, and won't run. I would take the mgetty out of the inittab, but then when the

Re: help!

1998-11-19 Thread John Forest
nbrown wrote: i am trying to use apt and typing ... in pon..'apt-get' without the ' of course i get msgs about not being able to contact host. It seems to be looking on the web for debian and just is not able to connect can you tell me what is wrong? I'm confused. Are you inserting

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list

1998-11-11 Thread John Forest
Jiri Baum wrote: [ snip ] Well, once you've installed them, you usually don't need them any more. What if this procedure needs to be repeated on a network of debian boxes? Would be redundant to get the packages for each machine, IMO. John.

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-06 Thread John Forest
Hi, While all this cloak and dagger stuff makes for good entertainment, I believe the following link sums up my feeling on this a lot better then I could. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981105.html Got that from http://slashdot.org John.

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-23 Thread John Forest
Anthony Campbell wrote: I thought I'd got apt-get to read my local cdrom but it seems I was wrong. It will update the packages but won't install anything. I have a Cheapbytes cdrom. The entry in my sources.list is as follows: deb file:/cdrom/debian main/binary-i386/ The

Re: Can apt access a local cdrom?

1998-10-10 Thread John Forest
Michael Beattie wrote: easy.. make a small directory tree, (/usr/local/debian) with each Packages.gz within. i.e.: debian/dists/hamm/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz debian/dists/hamm/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz debian/dists/hamm/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz then fill the

Re: IP Masq and debian

1998-10-09 Thread John Forest
Lee Bradshaw wrote: Hi, How am I supposed to use the ipmasq package with ppp? Is it possible? I tried using 0.0.0.0 as the external ip address, but I received a few error messages when booting and I couldn't telnet to the machine anymore. I couldn't find any documentation in /usr/doc/ipmasq

Re: completely strange system time....

1998-10-09 Thread John Forest
Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote: Bruno Boettcher wrote: i recently installed a debian system, and since then have a completely strange system time: my clock reports: 09:13:43 yoda:~$ date Thu Oct 8 09:14:23 MST 1998 and a correctly working host: 16:17:21 erm6:~$ date Thu Oct 8

Re: Suck/get-news problem

1998-10-09 Thread John Forest
Gossamer wrote: My Debian install's -almost- making sense now! Just a few tiny things ... when I run get-news to download Usenet via suck, I get this: [snip] Total articles to download: 929 1836135 Bytes received in 62 mins 54.05 secs, BPS = 486.5 Closed connection to

Re: Can apt access a local cdrom?

1998-10-09 Thread John Forest
Anthony Campbell wrote: No, I already tried this and it doesn't work. It gives unable to state /cdrom/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz The problem seems to be that the file structure on my cdrom is /debian/main/binary-i386/. Stable is a link to /debian/main. This

Re: lost dir in /usr/info

1998-09-30 Thread John Forest
Obi wrote: Well I got a dir from another machine (I didn't have the dir.old either) and I tried to manully add the node I have that wasn't already in there. And now I can't look into the libc nodes. I mean, it shows up in the dir (so if I do info it shows up) but the libc menu page is without

Re: lost dir in /usr/info

1998-09-29 Thread John Forest
Obi wrote: Hi all, sometimes ago I had a crash and I ended up loosing the dir file in the /usr/info directory. How can I recreate it? thanks graziano -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Check for /usr/info/dir.old This might save some time.

Re: X locks at -bpp 16

1998-09-26 Thread John Forest
David Densmore wrote: John Forest wrote: David Densmore wrote: I have a Diamond SpeedStar Pro with CL-GD5426 chip and am running the svga X server. It works fine when I run it at -bpp 8, but at -bpp 16 it starts with a completely black background and the mouse freezes as soon as I

Re: X locks at -bpp 16

1998-09-24 Thread John Forest
Hi David, Perhaps you have more then 16 meg of ram? I had a similar problem with a 5426; it work before a memory upgrade, not after. Although my symptoms were quite different. see: /usr/lib/X11/doc/README.cirrus for more information. John. On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 04:17:04AM -0500, David

Re: Sendmail Problems

1998-09-24 Thread John Forest
On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 08:33:42AM +0530, Saisanthosh B wrote: How do I prevent Sendmail (8.8.8) from doing a DNS lookup when sending an e-mail. The Sendmail FAQ states that : With version 8.8, you change the service switch file to omit DNS and use only NIS, files, and other map