Mail wrap (was Re: Creating an diskimage of a debian system)

on Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:38:39PM -0700, Carla Schroder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wednesday 17 September 2003 8:57 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: <...> > > Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly > > recommend 72 as a good default. >

Re: Creating an diskimage of a debian system

back it up. There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux system backups you may find useful, at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html Thank you. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don&#x

Re: xserver crashes on switching to vitual console

esktop manager like gdm? Actually, I love KDE but arts has > issues with my sound card - Aureal Vortex au8220 and therefore want to kick > start some other wm. $ edit ~/.xinitrc $ update-alternatives x-window-manager > > X server

Re: Non-US Packages

ckages that can't be distributed in the US due to > software patents or use of encryption." The full mirrors include _both_ the non-US and the unrestricted packages. > So, what's the truth? Very expensive. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [OT] ML rejections

the list", which would be a legitimate concern. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Filesystem I/O performance (was Re: Which FS to use ?)

a cite now). The values attained are modest by today's standards, but the principles are sound: spread your head movements over as many spindles as possible, keep your channels clean, and use gobs of memory. You'll get good performance. Single-spindle ATA disk access is glacial by compari

Re: sed, bash script

on Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 04:22:15AM -0700, Ric Otte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:40:31AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:08:26AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Is there anything intrinsically wrong with:

Re: sed, bash script

on Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:44:09PM +0200, Matthias Czapla ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:40:31AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Personally, I'd do it as: > > > > for f in $( find path -name \*.foo ) > > do sed -e 'stuff&

Re: sed, bash script

t the number of input files with 'xargs -n 1' - You could run into problems with filenames containing embeded IFS characters. "-print0 / -0" are useful arguments. Personally, I'd do it as: for f in $( find path -name \*.foo ) do sed -e 'stuff' <

Re: rsyncing via cron

smeaphore files to indicate the location of the ssh-agent socket. This is a situation well covered in the O'Reilly SSH book. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Hi! I'

Re: Help! FATAL: kernel too old

x27;s Root Boot are three of the better ones. Boot the system with this disk. If that works, grab and unpack modules for components you need. See if your system's recovered itself. Figure out what's missing. Rinse, wash, repeat. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Installation von testing

st' or Jigdo installation. > In den Manuals habe ich leider nichts finden k?nnen oder ich habe sie > ganz einfach ?berlesen. Read the installation instructions: > Bitte sendet mir doch die Adresse zu unter [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Danke Bitte. Freide. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Newbie - upgrade question

uerybts xlibmesa3' and see if the bug has been reported. - If you've still got a problem, file a grave bug against one or the other indicating the conflicting file. Paste the section above starting from 'Unpacking replacement xlibmesa3'. Peace. -- Karsten M. Se

Re: Verisign and spam blocking

ation time on a P4 1.7 GHz system for 1m records is ~360 minutes. I've posted sample output reachable from the "Verisign" links at the bottom of my homepage (see sig). It might be amusing to investigate the results of serial spidering through addresses generated through such means.

Re: Q: Oracle vs Debian?

ds > promoting the efficient use of the Debian system, and have politely > requested over the years that other posters conform to the standard > previously mentioned. > The standard is there, not just for the purposes of social acceptance, > but also for the efficient cataloguing of

Re: /etc/aliases

on Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:14:36AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:58:54AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > Here's my list of aliases. Do any processes/applications send to these > > > addresses? > >

Re: /etc/aliases

, webmaster, DBA, etc. In this case, you may have local system aliases pointing at these users, rather than strictly root, but the principle is the same. > daemon: root > bin: :root <...> Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.

Re: Improved responsiveness: Galeon over remote X11

on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:08:21PM -0500, Nathan Poznick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thus spake Karsten M. Self: > > allow use of a slow but quiet and cool PPro 180Mhz 256MB as X > > > The notably exception is Galeon, which...seems...to...freeze...or...lag... > > part

Re: should /usr/bin be so crowded? Is there a better way to maanage?

on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:20:15PM -0400, Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: To understand why things are the way they are, see Debian Policy. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understa

Improved responsiveness: Galeon over remote X11

e near this bad. Anyone else see similar behavior? Is it a network issue, X11 server side, or could there be something I can tune/tweak somewhere? Needless to say, the performance is getting more than a little annoying. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.h

Re: Not a speed reader.

gt; > > are there any tricks for obtaining this? > > I always just use Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q; see further up the thread. No way to direct this, say, to a serial console for logging? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of &qu

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 10:27:51PM +1200, cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Monday 15 September 2003 18:52, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 09:23:47PM +1200, cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > It'd be nice to have a self-contained floppy with just the

Re: ..chroot-installs onto RAID-1 disks ,was: Evolving Debian from Red Hat

on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 04:38:50PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 03:40:40 +0100, > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > As I frequently say, the advantage of a chroot instal

Re: Howto on one pages

text format. - They're available in multiple formats from http://www.tldp.org/ - They're available in source DocBook for from TLDP, from which you can render them pretty damned well any way you want: HTML, text, PS, PDF, whatevah. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAI

Re: Install stalled

on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 01:17:50AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > --- "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi?: > > Size matters less than selection. Any experience installing this to > > disk to bootstrap Debian installation? > >

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 09:23:47PM +1200, cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It'd be nice to have a self-contained floppy with just the basic > componenets needed to boot a Linux system, so there's room to add a > few utilties of ones choice.I've done that with my DOS f

Re: IRC protocol blocked

rewall Piercing HOWTO". Note that this information can get you fired or worse. Your best bet is to get access somewhere else. If you can and your site allows ssh access to a remote shell account, you can run a text-mode IRC client such as irssi from this. Peace. -- Kar

Re: minimal installation

ll make a decent console-based system, but little else. Not sure how easily impressed your friends are... Should work for light editing, mail, remote access via SSH. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt&quo

Re: What is the format of a mailboxfile?

se are the ones you'll encounter most often. Mail spool files are virtually always mbox format. For specific information on formats, some of these are defined in section 5 of the GNU/Linux manual (I find only mbox listed there). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Can't mount cdrom

on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 10:17:49AM +0100, Chris Wilcox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Can't mount cdrom > >Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:53:49 +0100 > > > >Plea

Re: Install stalled

on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 03:54:10PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:03:54 +0100, > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > on Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 07:11:55AM -0500, Kent W

Re: some tools are running as root only - no network printer access

on'T start, LPD seems not to start. I'd recommend CUPS. It tends to be quite easy to configure through the web-based interface. Check your system error logs, post more information, or check out IRC support at irc://irc.debian.org/#debian Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Can't mount cdrom

Thank you. > I had the same issue with the CDROM. Check which HD interface your CDROM > Then run: Nope. The OP's problem was lack of kernel module support. Read the post. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of &q

Re: Can't mount cdrom

- > Anonymous Web Surfing http://www.snoopblocker.com > Search http://www.teradex.com > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: DriveStatusError BadCRC

fix is often elusive. It's also not impossible that you're encountering a batch of bad disks, so check message boards, and post your serial or batch number for comparison. Another possibility is a bad IDE controller. You might try plugging the disk into an IDE cotroller add-

multi-page tiff splitter? (was Re: eFax tiff viewer?)

igured out what viewer displays all pages of a multipage fax? Related question. I'm getting documents in a multi-page tiff format. I'd like to split these to a single file per page. I haven't found a tool which does this automatically. Any suggestions? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self &

Re: setting the default keyboard layout on boot

also got console-tools installed. I never can keep straight which overrides the other (or why both exist). I'd suggest dpkg-reconfigure console-tools. Not sure _what_ owns /etc/console/ Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What

Re: Could not load default TOC page

on Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:48:04PM +0200, .- raroh -. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Help problem : "Could not load default TOC page" What URL? Is this a Debian-related question? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.co

Re: Install stalled

/knoppix/ http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-old-en.html Another option is a chroot install, which is now documented in the standard Debian installation manual, section 3.7. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: howto process attachments out of a procmail script?

ne has a suggestion... First stop: check the procmail FAQ: http://rhols66.adsl.netsonic.fi/era/procmail/mini-faq.html Looks like "munpack" is where you want to start looking. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of &qu

Re: priority of find

7;re using anacron or cron for regularly scheduled tasks. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

screen -- won't start on remotely displayed rxvt

me VersionDescription +++-==-==-=== ii libncurses55.3.20030719-1 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libc6 2.3.2-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libpam0g 0.76-13

Followup report (was Re: Galeon 1.2.5 proxy settings not respected consistently)

on Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:01:32PM +0100, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm using Galeon 1.2.5 on testing/unstable. > > My proxy settings aren't being consistently applied. They appear to be > accepted and working properly for some period of time, but then

Re: ..chroot-installs onto RAID-1 disks ,was: Evolving Debian from Red Hat

; > Hi, > > > > > > ..has anyone tried use these methods to intall to boxes with > > > RAID-1 etc disks?: > > ..note to self; heed ESR's advice on asking smart; I ofcourse meant > software RAID but never said so. I assume that's yourself, and not yo

Re: Evolving Debian from Red Hat

The difference between this method and the method described in "3.7 Installing Debian GNU/GNU/Linux from a Unix/GNU/Linux System" and my method is use of debootstrap (the Installation Manual method) vs. a Potato base2_2.tar.gz image. Both methods get you to the same

Galeon 1.2.5 proxy settings not respected consistently

ripping to the extent they're useless. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Spread the real scoop on Xenu and The Church of Scientology, link http://xenu.net/";;>Scientology on your website. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What to do with a core dump

. If not, you can use ulimit to set corefile size to zero (ulimit is a bash builtin): ulimit -c 0 'man bash' for more information. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Possible design problem: on install disk wipes disk?

stupid idiots for a while. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Strange ownership when mounting a MINIX floppy

;francesc 232' You're mounting a minix floppy as an ext2 fs? Or you're creating an ext2fs floppy? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Cald

Re: Bouncing emails via procmail

g on my account. However, the FTC does say that they want your spam. I'm willing to give it to 'em. Otherwise: filter your mail, teergrube, and fuggedaboudit. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: xhost +localhost has no effect

tely not OK in 2003. Fortunately, Debian's default X config largely obviates it. What you want is: xrdb -merge ~/.xauthority ...or copy contents of that file to a location the second user can access. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netc

Re: Modem config....Type Rockwell

dem in traditional ports ttyS1 and > TTyS0 . Please give me any information about others > possibilities to work this modem... The Aztech AT3100 (note space, this _is_ important) appears to be used on some very cheap, older systems: http://tinyurl.com/msvr Peace. -- Karsten M. Self &

Re: Modem config....Type Rockwell

gle search of the modem make/model, plus the term "Linux", will turn up useful informatino. Also read the Modem HOWTO (available as a Debian package or at http://www.tldp.org/). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part

Re: Upgrade to 'testing'

enough space, apt usually aborts with a message indicating this. You can simply run: apt-get -u dist-upgrade ....and cancel the process yourself, to see what the download size/storage requirement will be. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom

Re: OT -- Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

on Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 08:22:57AM -0400, Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 11:07 AM 9/9/2003 +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > >Incidentally, I downloaded some PDFs from their site, which were among > >the worst-displaying I've ever seen. Not sure what they'

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

on Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 04:07:04AM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 02:17:55AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:28:33AM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 03:57:23AM +0100, Kar

Re: Open-source opportunuity?

tops and 300 servers - the equivalent of one computer for > each track mile it owns!" And where might Network Rail be? I'm guessing UK: http://www.networkrail.co.uk/ No current GNU/Linux position openings listed. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http:

Re: Debian sunk by Windows format and install.

nux system, and re-install your bootloader (LILO/GRUB). http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/DebianChrootInstall ...has some details on use of chroot. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you underst

Re: Printer malfunction

. If you want more specific support, please supply more specific information. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://

Re: advice on using FVWM with Gnome 2.2 backport on woody

different, GNOME-aware window manager. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: jigdo download failed

t; entered the URL I get the msg: > > "jigdotemplate/sarge-i386-template ." > > Pls help. Pls by sm vwls Nd pncttn T mks yr psts mch sr t rd. ls rd ths dcmnt: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Jigdo/index.html Pc. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http

Re: [OT] Text stream editing problem

on Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 07:57:28AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:41:17 +0100, > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > What it says is: substitute everything starting with the first > > space or tab, any character, the string (which is preserved) > >

Re: Setting system clock to UTC -- how?

done all of that, I still am seeing the following output: > > # hwclock --show ; date > Mon Sep 8 00:56:48 2003 -0.896805 seconds > Mon Sep 8 00:56:50 PDT 2003 > > I was expecting to have the --show tell me that it was "Mon Sep 8 > 07:56:48 2003" rather than what

Re: [OT] Text stream editing problem

on Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:56:14PM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At Mon, 8 Sep 2003 01:58:43 +0100, > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > [1 ] > > on Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:33:39AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Let's say I want

Re: [OT] Text stream editing problem

tely this isn't of universal application. I'm looking > for a solution than can take into account all possible names for > "Dir_Foo". Based on what you've presented: sed -e 's/[ ]\.*\(\/Subdirectory_\)/\1/' Peace. -- Karsten M. Self &

Re: Spam (ex:Re: Unicode: is it safe to use it ?)

on Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 10:20:38AM +0200, Christophe Courtois ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Le Dimanche 7 Septembre 2003 06:19, Karsten M. Self a d?clam? : > > Well, another risk is people who use a fairly popular set of filters > > which tag as spam anything that's more than a

Re: keymap

nsoles in X (Gnome > or KDE). > > Tried to downgrade "console-data", but I get the warning quoted above > when postinst runs. Tried running "dpkg-reconfigure console-data" and > "install-keymap es" from the command line in text mode and X consoles, >

Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?

was specifically a reason Bruce Perens recommended to HP that they _not_ open source the HP OpenMail product (HP instead spun this off to Samsung). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understa

Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?

sites whose designers are stupid enough to perform user-agent string discrimination. - Go ahead and install an ancient browser, but realize that you are compromising the security and integrity of your system by doing so. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: keymap

appeared in some recent updates, though I don't know the fix, and it may in fact be harmless. What release are you using? Are you using devfs? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you unde

Re: Debian Installation Problem

dule libc-udeb failed for unknown reasons. > Aborting. > [Press enter to continue] Looks like you're trying to install modules during install. In general, you _only_ need to install the modules you absolutlely need to use for installation -- e.g.: network card drivers, RAID or SCSI drivers,

Debian HW/Support vendors (was Re: compatibility)

the list for information on how to post a recruiting notice is helpful. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? LNX-BBC: Bootable GNU/Linux -- Don't leave /home without it.

Re: Script help

gt; > Can someone point me in the right direction? sed -e '//d' < ~/.ssh/known_hosts > ~/.ssh/known_hosts.tmp && mv ~/.ssh/known_hosts.tmp ~/.ssh/known_hosts If you have known good state of known_hosts that you want to restore, just copy it in from a

Re: How stable is SiD ?

on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 11:08:07PM -0400, Johan Kullstam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1. Report this problem to your video card vendor. I don't care if > > you're CTO of IBM or a one-week-temp and

Re: Unicode: is it safe to use it ?

big5 euc-kr gb2312 koi8-r iso-8859-9 iso-2022-jp gb2312 Essentially: if you're communicating with someone who's using a roman characterset, send 'em something they can use. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.h

apt-get-listchanges/listbugs (was Re: Which release)

of the listchanges/listbugs queries? Hrm. I've also got squid running. Should make that transparent I'm assuming http transport. - How are people using listbugs? With a long enough change report, I sort of go into MEGO. What keywords jump out? '(important|se

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

on Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:28:33AM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 03:57:23AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:02:24PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I've just been given a copy of the Farnell E

Re: How stable is SiD ?

sn't painless. It has its rewards. If you're going to pioneer Debian GNU/Linux at your workplace, you'll have to balance: - Accepting supplied HW and current levels of support. - Risking the slightly less stable world of testing or unstable releases of Debian. - Learning

Re: mutt: thread reconstruction?

on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:49:55AM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:05:37PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > OK, is there a way to do this in bulk, in a way other than simply > > tagging all messages with a common subject as being t

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 09:46:32AM -0500, Todd Pytel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 06:36:56 +0100 > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Waddyaknow (not much, you?). PLIP works. Sorta. > > > > I get some long periods of

Re: number-up=2, openoffice, and cups

> any clues? I install mpage or a2ps, and use it as a filter on the 'lpr' command, using CUPS for printer support: mpage -2 | lpr ...as a print command works in pretty much all apps. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Wha

Re: Which release

ew months. It's old, as we're nearing the end of a release cycle (target for Sarge is December 1, 2003, though I'm told they've left wiggle room by not specifying the calendar). Whatever you do, you can find excellent support here or at irc:irc.debian.org/#debian. Peace

Re: System is a mess where should I start

nent. Oh, and read this: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html And this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Burn all gifs! Use PNG and tell Unisys to go to hell: http://burnallgifs.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:19:33AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm trying to bootstrap an old 486 Thinkpad. It's got two PCMCIA slots, > > and might make a decent gateway. >

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

7;ve used. And why they're restricting themselves to proprietary formats. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://sw

Re: How stable is SiD ?

. Rule of thumb: if you have to ask, don't. You _will_ be required to be self-sufficient (or hire a live-in rescue person for when things break). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you u

Re: [OT] ssh remote command execution without public keys.

urpose user with a restricted shell, maybe; but eww. > > If I were you I'd definitely ask the administrator of (A) to enable > public key authentication. Seconding all of the above. I'd also recommend the O'Reilly SSH book, which covers a number of remote execution scenarios in

Re: spamassassin: whitelist_from_rcvd ?!?!

ight with him on #debian), he mumbled something about not being able to filter TMDA challenge headers for fear of raising hell from TMDA. Not that I care or anything ;-) My suggestion in this case: file a wishlist bug for a user note about the whitelisted domains to appear during install. Pe

Re: mutt: thread reconstruction?

on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:10:54PM -0700, Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030905 14:55]: > > on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:26:14AM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:32:21AM +0100, Kar

Re: mutt: thread reconstruction?

on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:26:14AM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:32:21AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'd like suggestions on how I might go about restoring at least > > pseudo-threading of articles, though I'm also postin

Re: CUPS alt.

ler system. Neat bit about Debian is that you can remove, but not purge, cups. Try out lpr and/or lprng. See if it works. If it doesn't, just reinstall cups and you're cooking with gas (as Peter would say). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.ne

Re: spamassassin: whitelist_from_rcvd ?!?!

explicit data to do so. Fixes with procmail are similarly straightforward. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Dependencies and .deb vs creating .deb's from source code

e Debs that's so crucial to isolate yourself from the mainstream Debian distro, and why you feel you have to do this. > We currently have a blank canvas to work from which is based around > the bf24 kernel install of Debian with only the C++ Development option > installed. Peace

mutt: thread reconstruction?

n/cni-nothread.png Both the Message-ID and References headers are being munged. I'd like suggestions on how I might go about restoring at least pseudo-threading of articles, though I'm also posting to the list on this matter. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://k

OT: Works for hire (was Re: SCO identifies code?)

ain with his employer for a period of time, with benefits accruing, etc. He left this employer in May, moved to California, and is working under far more favorable law, at a better salary, and with a team he enjoys, not to mention a disgustingly brief commute and sweet pad. His former employer

Re: linux(knoppix

French, German, and Danish. Thanks. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Sick of mal-formed websites? A stylesheet to override poor design: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/UserCo

Re: Dependency issue : resolving them, how ?

nfusing as to why newer > versions are obsoleted by older version dependency's. More detail and specifics would be useful. The output of apt-get|aptitude dist-upgrade|install, for example. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What P

Re: OT: RAID Controllers

lakiness. SCSI will be much more robust on both counts. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? We are the unwilling... led by the unqualified... to do the unnecessary... for t

Re: Piping the output of bash completion; command line navigation

ke "CTRL+Left Arrow" move one word > to the left on the command line? And similiarly for right? That would be > so great...IIRC DRDOS had that a long time ago. The win2k shell does > that, too. I don't even know where to start looking for this one. :-) man bas

Re: strace pppd: open("/dev/ttyS1", O_RDWR

log file? Are you trying to run it as root? > > -- > > > > Shaul Karl,shaulk @ actcom . net . il > > nothing in the log file, I suppose at least (I checked many log in > /var/log, the most common). I run pppd as root. grep -l pppd /var/log/* 2>/dev/nul

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