Re: suspend / hibernate

2008-08-08 Thread Rob Mahurin
speed. The load average may not mean what it usually does here. I haven't followed the thread closely, apologies if this is duplicate information. Cheers, Rob -- Rob Mahurin Dept. of Physics Astronomy University of Tennessee phone: 865 207 2594 Knoxville, TN 37996 email

Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

2007-10-25 Thread Rob Mahurin
period; those are in the GSL info manual (from which I cribbed most of this program). If you care about those sorts of details, you might follow another poster's advice and consider an existing solution. Nota bene: don't call this program without redirecting stdout :) Rob -- Rob Mahurin Dept

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-04 Thread Rob Mahurin
from find /dev -ls if you don't have another machine to compare against. Rob -- Rob Mahurin Dept. of Physics Astronomy University of Tennessee phone: 865 207 2594 Knoxville, TN 37996email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Random System Crashes

2007-10-03 Thread Rob Mahurin
or twice a month, which is often enough to be really irritating but too infrequent for me to know how to debug. Restarting X remotely does seem to work, if the crash happens while my (laptop) is on a network where I can ssh in. Rob -- Rob Mahurin Dept. of Physics Astronomy University of Tennessee

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:11:31PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Rob Mahurin wrote: I know you've settled on OOo, but it's worth pointing out that TeX is a simple language if you're writing a simple document. In particular you are already writing valid plain TeX in your email. Copy the above

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-26 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:39:55AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: Looking at my copy of 'The Not So Short Introduction To LaTeX,' it's not clear to me what document class I'd use [for a letter]. For some reason that book omits the LaTeX letter class. -- Rob Mahurin Dept. of Physics Astronomy

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Rob Mahurin
the 's) into file.txt; change /'thinking'/ to {\it thinking} and saying to ``saying''; type pdftex file.txt and \end. file.pdf looks like http://sns.phys.utk.edu/~mahurin/du/09-25.pdf, which I think is what you're after. Good luck with your writing. Rob -- Rob Mahurin Dept. of Physics Astronomy

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
, or you get more pathological messages than I do. Rob -- Rob Mahurin Dept. of Physics Astronomy University of Tennessee phone: 865 207 2594 Knoxville, TN 37996email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

xfig: select many objects at once

2005-09-13 Thread Rob Mahurin
; if there's no GUI way to do this I'm not afraid of, say, an awk script. Please CC to me, as I'm not subscribed to the list. Thanks! Rob -- Rob Mahurin Dept. of Physics Astronomyphone: 865.974.8097 (sometimes) University of Tennessee fax:865.974.7843 Knoxville, TN 37996

woody on a Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop

2003-09-10 Thread Rob Mahurin
Hello, I have installed Debian 3.0 on my Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop and have posted some notes at http://web.utk.edu/~rmahurin/inspiron5100. At this point essentially everything that I could want to use works, though it was something of a struggle, especially the networking hardware. If this is

apt too big for its britches

2003-06-03 Thread Rob Mahurin
What, exactly, is running out of room here? I'm fine on memory and disk space. Please copy to me, I'm no longer on the list. Rob 10:43 $ sudo apt-get -u upgrade Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing escputil (NewFileVer1) E: Problem

Re: apt too big for its britches

2003-06-03 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:00:48PM +0200, VEGH Karoly wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:00:57PM +0200, Rob Mahurin wrote: What, exactly, is running out of room here? I'm fine on memory and disk space. 10:43 $ sudo apt-get -u upgrade Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap

Re: a quickie

2002-09-12 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:13:30PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Rob Mahurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-09-11 23:09:08 -0400]: Copy to me, I'm not on the list. Thanks, What's the perl command to convert a text file from DOS or unix newline format to the macintosh newline format? (CR-LF?) You

a quickie

2002-09-11 Thread Rob Mahurin
Hi all, What's the perl command to convert a text file from DOS or unix newline format to the macintosh newline format? (CR-LF?) Copy to me, I'm not on the list. Thanks, Rob -- Dammit Jim, I'm an actor, not a doctor. msg01899/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-02-03 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 06:20:18PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 17:58:06 -0800, Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: [snip] It's not for older/slower boxen though. I'd recommend *NO LESS* than a PII-233, and think you'll be happier with a PIII-600+ CPU. For

Re: Segfaults in seemingly unrelated programs

2002-02-03 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 08:52:36PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Due to a faulty fan, one CPU overheated and brought the system down. On restart, fsck indicated that some filesystem corruption occured. On startup, gdm would not start. After

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-30 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 12:14:35PM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on 30 Jan 2002 at 13:44): On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 11:01:27AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... gnome code bloat ... Like the man said, you have

Re: home network, cant ping box 2

2002-01-27 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 05:53:09AM -0800, Jeff wrote: Shawn Lamson, 2002-Jan-27 05:53 -0800: You have to be kiddin' me; i spent $25 on a 35' cable, and stood there while they made it and tested it... i figured that the cable from NIC to aDSL modem must be crossover too, since the long (35

Re: moving from potato to woody (or sid)

2002-01-27 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:48:13PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to know, as a normal user (as in, not completely new, but no guru either), how hard would it be to move to woody, or sid? Is it not that difficult? giving the fact that i have a fair knowledge of moving

Re: IPmasquerading

2002-01-26 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:40:22AM +0100, Pieter De Troyer wrote: I'm setting up a full nat for the first time. went through the howto and executed the example firewall rules. Alas... the script first checks the availability of the concerned kernel-modules. They are found, but I get errors

Re: run scp in background?

2002-01-26 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 01:28:54PM -0800, Stonelx wrote: Hi, I tried this command: scp /etc/file remotehost:/etc/file but when scp asks for the password, I'm actually back on the command line. (thus the scp command fails) Is there anyway around this? I would love to be able to run scp

Re: Debian, FHS /floppy

2002-01-22 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:04:20PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: True. But passing commandline args and editing fstab is still annoying behavior... ideally, if I had a new disk and reboot, _nothing_ should change with respect to my old disks. In this case, wouldn't you just put the new disk at

Re: Printing problems

2002-01-17 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:11:51AM -0800, Jeff wrote: Rob Mahurin, 2002-Jan-16 08:40 -0500: On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:38:04AM -0800, Jeff wrote: Error: /invalidfont in findfont Operand stack: --nostringval

Re: Printing problems

2002-01-16 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:38:04AM -0800, Jeff wrote: Error: /invalidfont in findfont Operand stack: --nostringval-- basefontdict So, I believe I have a font issue now. If you have some ideas on this,

Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98

2001-06-11 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 06:07:25PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:02:40AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: You are wrong --- WP8 was natively written for Linux. It's WP9, aka WP2000, that's run under wine, and wow is it horrible. Does anybody know how the Corel Office Suite

Re: SendMail died on SIGSEGV signal.

2001-06-11 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:01:30AM -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote: Our SendMail server has been stopping with a SIGSEGV signal (SMTP-MAIL died on a signal 11). This is something that has never happened before. We upgraded about 2 months ago to potato and the server is running

Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98

2001-06-09 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:55:21AM -0500, Rob VanFleet wrote: On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 01:10:01AM -0500, rich wrote: Howdy all, I've had a problem for a while in which my potato sytem seems to perform relatively sluggishly - most noticably on Wordperfect. Example: While WP8 under W98, I

SOLVED (was: [OT] windows networking issue)

2001-06-09 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:40:45AM -0500, ktb wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:02:53PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: what about duplexing? Is your nic set for half or full? There may be another way but I usually nab a utility program from the manufacturer and run a diagnostic on the

multiple copies of mailing list messages

2001-06-08 Thread Rob Mahurin
Has anyone else been receiving multiple copies of some messages (like those attached)? A glance at the headers shows that murphy.debian.org sent this one four times to myrealbox.com. Rob -- If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people? ---BeginMessage--- Hello patrick, Sunday,

Re: [OT] windows networking issue

2001-06-08 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:18:44PM -0400, D-Man wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:09:10AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: | | Here's a tcpdump | grep gow with the static IP, watching gow boot up. | [tcpdump] Apparently I don't have tcpdump on my system. Packet sniffers are quite useful to have

Re: Audio CDs [solved]

2001-06-08 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:05:41PM -0700, David Nusinow wrote: It depends on which environment you're using. KDE: kmix Gnome: gmix Anything else: xmix I don't know of any console based ones, although I know they're out there. aumix? Rob -- Do you like TENDER VITTLES?

[OT] windows networking issue

2001-06-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
Hello, Sorry for the non-linux question, but I haven't found an answer elsewhere. I have a functioning network of two Debian boxes, bravo (10.0.0.2) and peon (10.0.0.1). bravo is capable of IP routing, forwarding, and masquerading. peon has a fully-functioning TCP/IP connection with bravo,

Re: [OT] windows networking issue

2001-06-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 05:02:53PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: Hi Rob... I would guess its a hardware issue Either the nic in the win9x box is flaky... or the cable or something Keep troubleshooting... do you have an extra nic or cable...? Hmmm ... I took the card from one of the

Re: [OT] windows networking issue

2001-06-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 09:15:02PM -0600, John Galt wrote: Maybe he's got two HURD boxen? snip Nope, it's a windows question. Rob -- Dr. Livingston? Dr. Livingston I. Presume?

Re: [OT] windows networking issue

2001-06-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:48:45PM -0400, D-Man wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:37:07PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: | Sorry for the non-linux question, but I haven't found an answer | elsewhere. | | I have a functioning network of two Debian boxes, bravo (10.0.0.2) and Two Debian boxes

Re: [OT] windows networking issue

2001-06-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:46:21AM +0200, Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note wrote: just by chance ... did you put the masquerading box as the default gateway for the win98 machine ? I've tried it with and without, although never while the masquerading box was connected to the wider internet

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-06-02 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:15:10PM -0500, will trillich wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:55:37PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: will trillich wrote: BYCMUYJTCP (but you can alaways make up your own, just to confuse people.) And you can alaways make up words too :0) and on a bad

Re: Currency of packages

2001-06-02 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 09:32:53AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: where stable rules. Maintenance then isn't 'tinker reboot', Shouldn't this be 'tinker ; reboot' ? If you use an ampersand your tinkering will be backgrounded and get interrupted by the reboot process. Rob -- The goys

Re: [users] My Dilemma w/ ssh

2001-06-02 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:47:05PM -0500, will trillich wrote: it took me a while to figure out that ssh contains sshd whereas, say, telnet is the client and telnetd is the server. with ssh the package wonk put all pieces into the one package, so you get both client and server in one swell

Re: Currency of packages

2001-06-01 Thread Rob Mahurin
Hi Jenny W, Please set your mailer to wrap long lines at about 70 characters. On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:44:46AM -0700, jennyw wrote: I started using Debian because folks suggested it was easy to maintain (e.g. apt-get). I really like apt -- it certainly makes installing and downloading

Re: apt-get --print-uris in NoLocking mode

2001-06-01 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:59:53PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:42:23PM -0500, will trillich wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:56:23AM +0200, Santi B?jar wrote: I try to get a list of all the .deb to be installed (with --print-uris), but I have to do it like

Re: The use of source cds.

2001-05-31 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:02:38PM -0600, Simmons-Davis wrote: Dear Debian Group, I would like to know exactly what purpose the source cds serve and who would need to use them. I will only be using Debian for things like word processing, email, the internet, etcetera and wouldn't be doing

Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel

2001-05-31 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:27:43PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: Steve R. Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Corel is selling the whole WordPerfect Office suite, which includes WordPerfect and Quattro Pro. Note that last I checked, there's no commitment to ongoing support of this product,

Re: apt-get --print-uris in NoLocking mode

2001-05-31 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:42:23PM -0500, will trillich wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:56:23AM +0200, Santi B?jar wrote: I try to get a list of all the .deb to be installed (with --print-uris), but I have to do it like root. I thought that if I add a -o Debug::NoLocking=yes would

Re: First Debian Install Question

2001-05-31 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:48:59PM -0400, Bill Witherspoon wrote: Can anyone tell me how to re-run the X setup proggy that you get through dselect? I think it's XF86Setup, which is an absolutely stupid name. Rob -- hubub, hubub, HUBUB, hubub, hubub, hubub, HUBUB, hubub, hubub, hubub.

Re: Can't find ssh

2001-05-29 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:54:46PM -0600, ray p wrote: Also I don't know how hard or easy to bring the version of SSH from Woody to Potato but that would give you SSH2. It's very easy, just add an unstable (for sid, or testing for woody) deb-src line as already mentioned in this thread and do

Re: downgrading with apt

2001-05-28 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:50:50PM -0500, John Patton wrote: Is there a way to force apt-get to install downgraded packages? One or two packages are no problem... using dpkg works just fine with them. But how could you downgrade your system from testing to stable, for example? Is it even

cd audio problems under 2.2.19?

2001-05-28 Thread Rob Mahurin
Hello, Under kernel 2.2.16 I can play CD audio normally; however, under 2.2.19 I get 14:58 tty1 $ cdir unknown cd - 64:30 in 6 tracks 10:11.62 1 15:17.00 2 9:59.08 3 8:19.55 4 3:39.12 5 17:01.40 6 14:58 tty1 $ cdplay sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. sr0: CDROM (ioctl)

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 02:39:46PM -0400, Paul Wright wrote: Hi all, Someone's been port-scanning me, checking only some high ports. Here are my relevant log entries: May 26 13:39:30 j001 ippl: port 37397 connection attempt from 216.136.179.238 May 26 13:43:03 j001 ippl: port 37404

Re: apt-get offline

2001-05-23 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:34:20AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: Sorry, I did not express myself clear enough. This sed thing changes every line in the wget-script script. This, I did easily with emacs (while sed is much more elegant). My problem is: I do not want to do hundreds of mv

Re: Firing on all CPUs

2001-05-23 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:27:03PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: I can not tell program name by memory but there are one cpu load program in X (in potato) which display SMP load properly. It's the one with all information shown as horizontal bar graph with red/green/yellow for each cpu

Re: Emacs sends mail, but doesn't show-up in exim.

2001-05-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:58:45PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote: What are the Ds next to some addresses but not others in this mailq output: 0m 2.3K 14wrw8-0003EP-00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] D [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] D [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X question

2001-05-09 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 08:50:53PM -0700, Steve Cooper wrote: The only issue I have with the X behavior is that I can't figure out to efficiently perform a replacement paste. E.g. If you want to paste a URL into a browser in Windoze you'd select the current URL and paste over it. In X once

Re: GDM Broken: the fix

2001-05-09 Thread Rob Mahurin
Hello, On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:14:55PM +0100, John Mylchreest wrote: This communication is private and confidential and is intended solely for the use of the named addressee(s). Access, copying or re-use of the information in it by any other person is not authorised by OCRA. If you

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-08 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:25:37PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:20:51PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: Try | gzip -c testing.gz. That still seems to not work when I sent a mail with Subject: gzip And I know the condition works since if I remove the gzip pipe

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-08 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 03:05:02PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have these variables set at the top of my .procmailrc PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # all mailboxes are in mail/ LOGFILE=/dev/null SHELL=/bin/sh I have /bin in my path. 02:47 $ which date /bin/date

Re: Installing Debian over a Suse system

2001-05-08 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:33:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Suse 7.0, but want to shift to Debian 2.2. I have read installation manuals and FAQs regarding installing Debian, but have not found anything on this item. There was a guy a couple years ago who upgraded a Red

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-08 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:39:30PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: Well, damn, let's just throw them all out there: Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping [...] Emacs Makers Are Crazy Sickos Did I miss any? Gracious, no: u've eliminated most all conceivable selections. Rob -- Old

Re: Setiathome Packet Caching

2001-05-08 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:07:09PM -0500, Benjamin Pharr wrote: I'm looking for a program to cache Setiathome packets, both incoming and outgoing. Does anyone know of any such program for Linux? If so, is it packaged for Debian? Thanks! There are some ways to do this on the Setiathome

Re: install screensaver with setuid root

2001-05-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:33:38PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 12:42:36PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Even if the application itself is free of buffer overflows and such you would be granting root access to wads of unaudited and buggy library code. yeah, I guess you're

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:43:08AM +1000, Brian May wrote: Karsten == Karsten M Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: Karsten Place your response *after* quoted material. Why? Makes it read like a conversation. Question? Answer! makes more sense to read than Answer! Question? I like

Re: Gnome Packages annoyances

2001-05-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:47:32PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: Preben Randhol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/05/2001 (11:50) : Thanks, I'll try it. # apt-get install reportbug [...] Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: reportbug: Depends: python-newt but it is not

Re: install screensaver with setuid root

2001-05-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:15:36PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:12:51AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: You should probably file a bug on the package, if it's not useable without introducing a security risk. Perhaps someone more familiar with the code could seperate out

Re: Cloning your Debian system

2001-05-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
Hello, Viktor. I'm a little mystified as to why you CC'd this to me, but here goes. On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:00:54PM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote: I got a crazy idea: if you want to make 100 % sure that you do not brake your production system, why don't you have an exact copy of that system

Re: Emacs sends mail, but doesn't show-up in exim.

2001-05-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:01:02PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote: I'm still seeing a problem. Have eliminated Emacs, by sending test messages with: $ echo TEST | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] This time I've noticed that an email message will appear in mailq output immediately after using mail,

Re: getting procmail to pipe to a gzipped file

2001-05-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:37:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I had this worked out, but it doesn't seem to work quite how it should. Bascially I want to have mail with a certain subject piped into a .gz file in my ~/mail directory. Here is what I had in .procmailrc: [...] #

Re: Question for gurus of mutt / scripting

2001-05-07 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:54:19AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be really nice to be able to keep the debian-user list a little smaller and up to date on my system. How could I make mutt move old threads that have not had a reply in say 5 days into a gzipped file? This way I could

Re: How to find uptime stats after a reboot

2001-05-05 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:55:11PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I just had a power loss that brought down a Potato server. Is there any way to find out now what the uptime was prior to the unannounced shutdown? I've installed ud: 00:30 $ ud -d - Uptime for peon - Now : 97 day(s), 10:48:07 running

Re: attempted windows install, linux won't boot

2001-05-05 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:20:52PM -0700, Forrest English wrote: 1. i tried to install win98 to play games 2. it decided it wouldn't get through the setup. locked 4 times. 3. so, i put in my debian cd 3. rescue root=/dev/hda5 4. it boots up, all good... 5. login, re-run lilo 6. lilo seems

Re: get number of pages of a PostScript file

2001-05-04 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 03:04:41PM +0200, Iwan Mouwen wrote: * Rob Mahurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010428 23:09]: 10:48 $ psselect -p _1 zeeman.ps /dev/null [8] Wrote 1 pages, 86473 bytes Shouldn't that be psselect -p - file.ps /dev/null instead? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp

Re: Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group

2001-04-29 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:04:18PM +, Victor wrote: Any suggestion? I'm reproposing my previous message. By the way, when it all happened I was either root or sued from a user login. Vittorio -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Dselect chown: root.root: invalid group

Re: mutt's default colors (Potato)

2001-04-28 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:15:51PM -0500, will trillich wrote: what *I* would like to know is -- is there a way to hilite messages in a newsgroup based on a score of some sort? how? Yup, sure is. Interactively, I did :score ~f [EMAIL PROTECTED] 100 :color index white default ~n 100- Surely

Re: page up/dn keys unbound

2001-04-28 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:21:38PM +0200, Matthieu Paindavoine wrote: I have noticed today that my page up/dn keys are not responding... In order to backtrace this problem, I would like to know if there exist a utility which echoes the codemap received by the keyboard driver, or any keyboard

Re: Shutting down as a user

2001-04-28 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 12:19:26AM +1000, Mark wrote: What is the KeyboardSignal? Can you change it? Would that be a good idea? 10:41 $ dumpkeys | grep KeyboardSignal alt keycode 103 = KeyboardSignal See dumpkeys(1), loadkeys(1), and keymaps(5). Rob -- The story you are

Re: get number of pages of a PostScript file

2001-04-28 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:41:04PM +0200, Alexander Steinert wrote: What's the fastest way to do this on the command line? I do: 10:48 $ psselect -p _1 zeeman.ps /dev/null [8] Wrote 1 pages, 86473 bytes Rob -- It seems to make an auto driver mad if he misses you.

Re: Shutting down as a user

2001-04-27 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:16:06AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using debian on a stand-alone laptop I usually work as an ordinary user and find somewhat awkward the fact that I have to su in order to shutdown the PC. Is there a way to power my PC off as a user? Use sudo. Someone posted

Re: Timeout for shell script

2001-04-27 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:34:25PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: * Keith O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-26 16:29 +0200: I have a shell script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ that synchronizes the system clock with time servers via rdate. Sometimes the servers can't be reached, and the rest of my

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-27 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:05:53PM -0500, will trillich wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:59:41AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: -*-Mutt: =debian-user [Msgs:6445 New:39 Inc:2 22M]---(threads/date)--(92%)--- c'mon, now you KNOW you'll never go back and look at 6000 old messages. what gives

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-26 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:56:45PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: Since mutt is based on the file system, groups with lots of mail tend to overwhelm it--opening, closing, and sorting the boxes gets sluggish. Eh? -*-Mutt: =debian-user [Msgs:6445 New:39 Inc:2 22M]---(threads/date)--(92%)---

Re: Problem with fetchmail.

2001-04-26 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:06:07AM +0200, Alberto Garc?a wrote: I am not able to download my email with fetchmail. I try to download being root and I configured it with fetchmailconf. It just picks the lists of emails, but fails to download them. What could be the problem. Thanks in advance.

Re: cron: nth weekday of month?

2001-04-26 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:58:28AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: I've got a job I'd like to run once a month, on a set day of the week, say, the first Sunday of the month. Suggestions as to how to do this with cron? My understanding is that I can specify day of month, or weekday, but if

Re: using Xfig with LaTeX

2001-04-26 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:57:15PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: beating around my thesis, i am trying several methods of including Xfig drawings in LaTeX. currently, i am using fig2dev to create .eps file, which I \psfig into the document. nevertheless, while the result is fine, mpage seems unable

Re: Getting package from testing for potato

2001-04-25 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:15:08AM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 04:15:09PM +1000, Mark wrote: I can't seem to figure out what the build-depends are. I tried doing apt-cache show hotplug, but it can't find it because I only have deb-src pointing to testing.

Re: How to remove messages from mbox based on relative date?

2001-04-24 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:05:07PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: Hi, I have a .procmailrc and am filtering, but now I don't want to have to delete my messages when they get old in certain mbox files. Can I run procmail with another conf file and have it send messages with a delivered date

Re: EMAIL PROCESSORS WANTED IMMEDIATLY

2001-04-24 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:02:53AM -0700, paul wrote: EMAIL PROCESSING COMPANY LOOKING FOR EMAIL PROCESSORS IMMEDIATELY, TO SUSTAIN EXPLOSIVE GROWTH. EARN $5,000- $10,000.00 AND MORE MONTHLY. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. SEND AN EMAIL TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] WITH EMAIL PROCESSOR IN THE SUBJECT

Re: OT: command line vs. cron

2001-04-24 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:59:20PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: i've run into a problem i've never seen before. when i execute /usr/bin/tvguide.pl /www/htdocs/tvguide.inc from the commandline, it works perfectly. however, when i put 0,30 * * * * /usr/bin/tvguide.pl

Re: mutt's default colors (Potato)

2001-04-24 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:02:11PM -0700, Steven E. Harris wrote: Where are these default colors defined in the Potato mutt package? I 19:55 $ ls -l /etc/Muttrc -rw-r--r--1 root root 4183 Oct 29 07:13 /etc/Muttrc 19:55 $ grep color /etc/Muttrc # colors color hdrdefault cyan

Re: HOWTO remove a previous wildcard file list?

2001-04-23 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:15:40PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote: Anyone know of a method to easily solve this ... I *sometimes* list the files before deleting them: ls A*.pdf Ensuring I have only listed the ones I wish to delete, I then enter: rm A*.pdf Great, but anyone

Re: why does ps-eps conversion reduce line thickness?

2001-04-23 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:08:30PM +1000, Mark Mackenzie wrote: I do ps-eps conversions using: echo -n '\004' | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=epswrite \ -sOutputFile=box.eps box.ps /dev/null using box.ps below. When box.ps is printed, it comes out as a 1mm thick 1 box (quite dark). When

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-23 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:06:26AM -0500, Rob Zietlow wrote: Hi there, I am looking for suggestions of a GUI email program (sorry i just like them better). That's what I thought, until I tried mutt. Rob -- Cold, adj.: When the politicians walk around with their hands in their own

Re: upgrading with dselect

2001-04-22 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:12:12AM +0200, Hans wrote: I think you shouldn't mix apt-get with dselect, but I'd like to hear some comments on this. Or maybe use deselect to make choices and use upt-get dselect-upgrade, but I haven't tried if this works. Erm ... dselect and apt-get are both

Re: Unsubscribing issues (was Re: no subject)

2001-04-21 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:14:45PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:07:30AM -0700, JC Portlock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Friday 20 April 2001 02:03 am, Felicity wrote: unsubscribe Try again with unsubscribe in the subject line. Nope. Standard

Re: user=halt=halt, user=reboot=halt?

2001-04-21 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:12:58PM -0700, Lang Hurst wrote: I added users to halt and reboot, respectively, by making the formers login shell /sbin/halt and the latter's /sbin/reboot. Neat idea; if I rebooted more often I might try it. If I login as the halt user, the system shuts down and

Re: Backups and the distribution

2001-04-21 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:59:08PM -0700, Alex Swavely wrote: What file(s) would I need to backup to get a complete snapshot of all installed packages from the distribution I'm using in order to be able to recover a system to it's previous state? My nightly backup includes /home /root /etc

Re: any women here?

2001-04-19 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:05:32PM -0600, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote: Not that there aren't some men out there with real lives, of course. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install real-life Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree...

Re: Shell prompts (was Re: floppy permissions)

2001-04-19 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:48:55AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: It's a shame that you've solved your problem; now I don't have an excuse to tell you that this is a great root prompt. Not half bad. My own approach is slightly more subtle, but reasonably effective: Here's mine, while

Re: logcheck

2001-04-19 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:34:05PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have logcheck installed on a few systems. i cleared out most of the things generating the reports but..it still emails me every hour and the only contents of the email are the log entries of it sending the previous

Re: applying _only_ security updates

2001-04-19 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:32:20PM +1000, Price, Tim wrote: Regardless, Is it possible to do? I ask because I am running a potato system with many packages from woody, and some security packages take longer to get into testing then they do to get into stable. I've heard that the more

Re: floppy permissions

2001-04-18 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:06:33AM -0700, JC Portlock wrote: YOU ARE ROOT!! on jchammin /mnt pts/4 chmod 777 floppy It's a shame that you've solved your problem; now I don't have an excuse to tell you that this is a great root prompt. Rob -- Cynic, n.: Experienced.

Re: lists.debian.org: FAQ / tip-of-the-day

2001-04-18 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:19:11PM -0500, will trillich wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:01:24PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:05:43AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: What might help is a daily post to the list with a subject line NEW TO LIST? READ

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