apt-get download rate limiting SOLVED

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] I'd like to run 'apt-get -d upgrade' and limit the download rate to half the 130 KB/sec capacity of my DSL line, so it doesn't get in the way. I tried adding a file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/76download containing this Acquire { http {

Re: Waiting for root file system problem

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] This is becoming a FAQ. There is a problem with udev. Before udev, there was a strong association between device names and devices. With udev, that association is much weaker. There's new randomness in how partitions are named during

Re: [OT] mslinux

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Baron wrote: On Tuesday 01 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i was browsing around and ran into the following http://www.mslinux.org/ I do not know what this is about but it would be, of course

Re: compatibility problems

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don Harwood wrote: hello world I'm a new convert to the debian linux world however I'm starting to get cold feet with compatibility issues, i just purchased a CNC mill that is run by a amd64 box with

Re: Anyone using Debian on notebook?

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Pobega wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 04:21:06PM +, Andr=E9 C=E9sar de S=E1 wrote: I've been using Debian on my Dell Latitude D520. =20 Everything is working almost properly.. I'm just having

Re: Installation help

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aumnayan D'Letti wrote: I am installing the latest stable version of Debian (40rl) and am having an issue with how it's seeing my primary HD. It's set up as the master on the primary IDE chain, which to me

Re: OT: clicky keyboards

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Sackville-West wrote: If you need that amazingly insightful gift for someone (yourself?) this year, check out www.clickykeyboards.com for real IBM keyboards. Mine just arrived and I'm in heaven.=20

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

seen it by now. Let's try an experiment with Debian boxes truffula (local) and oobleck (remote). truffula$ cat | ssh oobleck cat foo.bar this is a line ~. this is another line control-D You have new mail in /home/cls/.mbox truffula$ truffula$ ssh oobleck grep -n '' foo.bar 1:this is a line 2

Re: exim - what is it? (how does it run)

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bob Goldberg wrote: i've spent DAYS trying to get exim to work to no avail. In that case, don't use Exim. I'm not being sarcastic. It's not a put-down. Exim isn't as arcane as Sendmail, but I found it much

Re: Mailman and postfix (debian etch)

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: Hi, Now I have the mail server using debian etch with postfix. This same server have installed mailman and I have noticed that many times the mailman take long to deliver

Re: vi issue in etch

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Fox wrote: On 11/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to use the equivs package to inform Etch that my custom vim provides vi, and link it to the /etc/alternatives/vi, but I got

Re: vi issue in etch

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] [use vim, not [n]vi] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joseph L. Casale wrote: Well, therein lies my lack of experience! I didn't even know there was a difference, vim is what I meant to use but didn't know I wasn't, hence the apt-get

Re: Cannot mount root file system with vanilla kernel 2.6.24-rc3

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Micha Feigin wrote: I'm trying to compile vanilla kernel 2.6.24-rc3 due to some patches I need. When I try to boot the new kernel I get the error: vfs: Cannot open root device sda3 or unknown-block(0,0)

Re: need help with BIND9

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Shuler wrote: On 11/14/2007 02:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need help setting up nameservers for my own domain. The IPs and domains have been changed for privacy

Re: why does the shell show commands foolishly when I press UP key?

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Serena Cantor wrote: I often use UP key to get commands entered previously. The shell show some commands again and again, just because I have used them several times. Can the shell be more smart? This is

Re: how to read http mails in mutt mail reader (vim)?

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], s. keeling wrote: hce [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've just installed mutt in Debian, one problem is there are some mails from news lists with HTTP format, it was fine when I use Mozilla mail reader, but with

Re: Waiting for root file system... hang solved

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [snip upgrade instructions] Thanks for posting your experience! I am sure it will be useful to others. You could have a debate about whether this is

Mouse + curses (+ vim), was Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nate Duehr wrote: On Oct 29, 2007, at 9:49 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: I occasionally notice people writing that they just discovered aptitude's curses interface after using it for ages, so I know that

Re: Help with Debian Install

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ed wrote: Hi, I downloaded an image called debian-40r1-i386-netinst.iso. The install went fine until I got to the step to 'Configure the Package Manager'. When I do this step, it asks if I want to use a

Re: SAMBA ground-up tutorial?

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Sorry to hear that you are having a lot of trouble. I don't have that much experience in setting up samba but when I had to set up a small samba shared drive I read this document.

SAMBA ground-up tutorial?

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] I've got a Debian bastion host at a small nonprofit. Mix of Windoze and Macs on the LAN behind it. Some of the Windoze boxes have those low-end printers (Minolta-QMS 1100L etc) that do their imaging in the driver and will never work on

Re: Install help on Zonbu

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mikael Rudberg wrote: I forgot to add that i told grub to install into /deb/sda as well On 9/11/07, Mikael Rudberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Im clutching at straws here, i just purchased an Zonbu

Re: why sarge is so noisy

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Serena Cantor wrote: I have sarge, I use it all the time (it's server) The machine is my bedroom and scsi disk make noise from time to time (it's read/writing) which script cause reading/writing? Let's

Re: upgrading ubuntu to debian

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/30/07 14:37, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] While it's just a small, niggling detail and may be just semantics, there is a true root account on Ubuntu that can be used the same as a

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Baron wrote: Can also be the power supply! I had to (temporarily) disconnect one of the CD drives to reduce the load. Not a single WD click-clack or DMA timeout since. Second that. I had a customer

Re: SATA vs PATA

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:05:42PM +0200, Dan H wrote: Should I go Serial-ATA or good ol' Parallel-ATA? How do the two compare in terms of data throughput and Linux kernel support?

Re: how to keep eth0 etch0 and not change

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Kerwin wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0026_01C7E5A6.73D59EE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am

Re: How to create like-official CD from list of packages

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Owen Heisler wrote: On Tue, 2007.08.21 10:00, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Thanks for reply, But there is no answer for my questions, I fomulate it in another way: Suppose you have a thounsand packages (

Re: Iceweasel file associations

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 10:14:20PM +, Steven wrote: =20 How can I change this behavior to Just show me the $#%*'in file as plain= =20 text in a browser tab? This was discussed

SMTP AUTH, TLS, simplest way?

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] I've got Postfix with amavis-new and Spamassassin, and my LAN users access email via Dovecot's IMAP/S. All working well, using the Etch packages. Now I'll need to support a couple of mobile users. They'll be connecting at insecure wi-fi

Iceape chokes on PDFs

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] After I dist-upgraded sarge to etch, I switched from the Mozilla binary Seamonkey to Etch's Iceape. When Seamonkey got a PDF, it would open a dialog to open with Kpdf or save. Iceape just displays an empty page. The title bar says

vim crash #289188 etch to be fixed?

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] The bug described at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=289188 makes vim practically unusable. The bug says fixed in 1:7.0-164+1 The version in etch is 1:7.0-122+1etch2 and it's broken. The upstream version is 7.1 and its

limiting monthly network traffic

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] I'm moving my colocated Debian server to a place with high overage charges. My network link will carry about 200x my bandwidth allocation for the month. The new bandwidth allocation is about 8x what I've been using. But if I get

Re: I don't understand the new aptitude

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan H wrote: (...and I just noticed I had to copy that by hand because aptitude --and only aptitude!-- seems to disallow copying text from the xterm it's running in! What kind of sadism is that?) Some

Re: Newbie help how to enlarge root partition

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] John Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked at fdisk and parted, but I need help. Do I need to start over copying my 40GB HDD to a properly-partitioned 160GB HDD, or can someone give me detailed instructions to expand my 40GB

Re: GRUB launch a CD?

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roby wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to be able to test and demonstrate live CDs. Is there a way to tell GRUB to boot a CD? Cameron Yes there is! Look here:

GRUB launch a CD?

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] I've got an old Compaq laptop. It can boot from hard drive or floppy but not from CD. I installed Etch by moving its hard drive to another machine temporarily. The CD drive is fine. The BIOS is just too stupid to boot from it. I'd

SEGV and ABRT with vim in mailx

I still use mailx as my main mail user agent, with vim as VISUAL (v and ~v commands) editor. It's efficient, with helpers like metamail, and multiple xterms. I use vim's set mouse=a feature. vim catches mouse input, unless shift is down, where the xterm gets it as usual. Since upgrading Sarge

Re: udev trouble solved, device names, udev exonerated

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] I've revved four machines from Sarge to Etch now, following the release notes and letting it replace devfs with udev. All

udev trouble

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] I've revved four machines from Sarge to Etch now, following the release notes and letting it replace devfs with udev. All worked fine. The fifth machine was a mess. It's got two PATA drives, on the first PATA channel on a motherboard

chmod 777 / -R

Bonjour, j'ai une Debian Sarge j'ai fait en root chmod 777 / -R au lieu de chmod 777 . -R (c'est vraiment stupide... je sais !) j'ai donc cassé toutes les permissions de mon système. j'ai déjà réparé su via chmod u+s /bin/su (parce que je ne pouvais même plus me logguer en root !!!)

DSL+PPPoE with Efficient Networks LANL card (legacy SBC)?

[This message has also been posted.] A friend of mine has residential DSL service from SBC. I can move him from MSFT to Debian if I can get his DSL service going. Apparently he was an early adopter, and let the telco install and configure his service, and it took them nine house calls to get it

Re: Knoppix question [HD install inflexibility]

about how to do it from the Knoppix.net forums. (How do you make a working Knoppix installation with /usr on its own partition?) If you want a Debian system that will be easy to maintain and configure, install official Debian. See http://gandhi.greens.org/~cls/knoppixsheet.pdf and http

Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Nelson wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:02:52AM -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: Is there a secure, solid and stable e-mail client built for linux? No. Every mail client in existence is utter crap,

Re: BIG mail box...

[This message has also been posted.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Grant wrote: Hey!. I setup qmail and courier imap last night... i also installed squirrelmail... which works fine! IF i have small mail boxes... Ps - there is abount 4000 mails in the box... Do you expect large mailboxes

Re: Debian WiFi card recomendations please

with the same chip, too. Cameron http://web.greens.org/~cls/linux/knoppixoffer.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian dedicated hosting

[This message has also been posted.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Setu, Prem wrote: Hi I am tring to know how reliable this is. Does anyone know ? http://www.serverbeach.com/catalog/bargain.php?os=debian Please look at http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings.lasso?isp=serverbeach.com SMTP

Re: Comment on HP printer working on Debian 3.0

[This message has also been posted.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, I am looking for an economical printer for printing documents. The printer shall work on Debian 3.0 OS. Some shops recommend HP Deskjet 3550 with USB plug. Any folk has experience on the

Re: man files to text editor

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lou Losee wrote: * Gruessle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-17 12:21]: Is there a way I can open man files in a text editor. I like to print one but have not configured my printer jet. So I will email it to my

Re: Query

[This message has also been posted.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], dhiraj kiran wrote: Hello, I have a query pertaining to Debian Linux installation. For the complete installation of Debian Linux(on line installation), is it a must that I have a LAN internet connection? The installation

Re: splitting mbox files

For a screwy format like mbox, use a program designed to deal with the screwy format. Try something like this. mkdir tmp cat bigfatmboxfile | formail -s sh -c 'cat tmp/$FILENO' Formail is one of those programs that keep getting more versatile as you learn more about them. It's in the

Re: Any tool for access NTFS partition of damaged hard drive

Iago Sineiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. I have a hard drive that is damaged and the BIOS can't recognize it. Could I access using some tool of Linux? Haioken wrote: Not if the bios can't recognize it. There is very few pieces of software in existance that

Re: Holy Spam!

I read this list via Newsguy.com. I subscribed, to get posting rights, but the address forwards to /dev/null. Newsguy filters out all the spam. I have a large spam blocking list, http://www.greens.org/about/r.txt (tcprules format) and yesterday I blocked a big chunk of Global Crossing, because

patents, Re: Multi-user Debian

csj wrote: Just because something's obvious doesn't mean it can't be patented. That's true today, but only because the USPTO is broken. Long ago, when they were doing their job, the rules were: 1. No prior art 2. Not obvious to anyone skilled in the art 3. Useful and valuable. #2 meant you

Re: Internet Access for Linux?

[NetZero] say Windows or Mac are required. Then boycott them for being Linux-unfriendly. There *are* MS-Windows-only ISPs. They are the ones using unmaintained remote access boxes that are compatible with Microsoft's broken PPP but not with standard PPP. It's got nothing to do with whether they

Re: Recommended free secondary DNS?

. If you register with them you get free secondary DNS. Ob-Debian: If you're running Debian's bind9, don't forget to change the rndc authentication string. -- Cameron http://greens.org/~cls/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: font fix found, but how to make it stick?

I think I have a related problem. Invoking acroread on my (woody) laptop, I get an error message Warning: charset of fontList (ISO10646-1) does not match locale (ISO8859-1). Acroread displays little dotted boxes instead of characters in its menu bar. But if I use ssh -X to log into the laptop

Re: Solved, Re: Hawking Fast Ethernet Cardbus 10/100 Woody

I wrote: # cardctl ident Socket 1: product info: CardBus, Fast Ethernet, V1.0, manfid: 0x13d1, 0xab02 function: 6 (network) Works with 2.4.21 kernel drivers mii and tulip, but you need the hotplug package to get it recognized. Jesse Meyer wrote: [I've got the same card,] FCC

Re: screens

Cees wrote: after I installed [Woody] I get the error message No screens found Don't worry about it. In my experience the X Window System installed by Woody does that about half the time. That's one reason they're writing a new installer. Can anyone tell me wath I dit wrong? You did nothing

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

Suppose Debian was installed on hda with only two partitions, swap and / and you have accumulated much data in /home. Later, you add another hard drive, hdb, and decided to place swap and a separate /home partition on this new drive while keeping / on the original hda. # Get a root shell.

Hawking Fast Ethernet Cardbus 10/100 Woody ?

I've got a Cardbus 10/100 NIC from Hawking. # cardctl ident Socket 0: product info: 3Com, Megahertz 3CCFEM556, LAN + 56k Modem, manfid: 0x0101, 0x0556 function: 0 (multifunction) Socket 1: product info: CardBus, Fast Ethernet, V1.0, manfid: 0x13d1, 0xab02 function: 6 (network)

Solved, Re: Hawking Fast Ethernet Cardbus 10/100 Woody

I wrote: # cardctl ident Socket 1: product info: CardBus, Fast Ethernet, V1.0, manfid: 0x13d1, 0xab02 function: 6 (network) Jesse Meyer wrote: [I've got the same card,] FCC ID of MQ4C2K5MX [...] under the 2.4 debian kernel, I have got the card to work, but only using the 2.4 boot

Re: Doubling 100MBit ethernet by splitting the cable -- bad idea

On Tue, 27 May 2003 05:40:06 +0200, J F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Splitting the cable I've seen a network set up with most of the cables were doubled up to carry 2 10/100 connections over one wire. I don't think any of the computers in the office were connecting at 100mb and the network had major

Re: How to delete a file called -gzip?

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:29:39PM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: Hi, this is a completely stupid thing I did. I wanted to make a zipped tar archive of my complete user home account and write it to MOD. Unfortunately I used the following line: tar -cvvf -gzip /mod/name-of-archive

ghost /dev/fd0

debs, i floppy boot potato. if i need to access mount or superformat another floppy, i cannot access /dev/fd0. suggustions? ti,a. bentley taylor. att. // running: debian gnu/linux ( http://www.debian.org ) kernel: 2.2.17 Script started on Sat Feb 3 16:25:01 2001 cls210:/home/bt#

Re: Vids ?

On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:33:31PM -0700, Brandeil macleod wrote: hi ! I have been trying to install some packages to run MPEG/AVI etc but with no luck. Tried xmms plugins and xanim put nothing want to insatll. Also tried to install real player according to real.com for the debian

Re: Microsoft Scroll Mouse

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:04:31PM -0500, D-Man wrote: In /etc/X11/XF86Config change the mouse protocol to MS IM (or something like that, I'll check my config once I get back to my computer) and add the line ZAxisMapping 4 5 to the pointer section. This causes the wheel to be

Re: does anyone here use update-menus?

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:05:55PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: Hi all.. I've added new menu files to /etc/menu but update-menus doesn't see them. I got this to work with one menu file I added, but I've added three more since and they don't show up. here's one that I am trying to get to work,

am i hacked?

debs, i just ran uptime on my single-user box connected to the office dsl pipe. it shows 3 users; and there's only one non-root account. 1. how do i find out who are the other 2 users? 2. does this mean that i've be hacked? ia, t. bentley taylor. running: debian gnu/linux (

fetchmail nameserver failure

debs, it seems like once a week, my fetchmail gets stuck with an email address it cannot recognize. (i usually then just download the mail with netscape and keep going.) once the error comes up, fetchmail won't download any other messages. attached is the script. ...suggestions? ia,

[pplaw@pcisys.net: fetchmail nameserver failure]

- Forwarded message from cls/cs [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:23:48 + From: cls/cs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: fetchmail nameserver failure Reply-To: cls/cs [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Running: debian gnu/linux, version 2.2

Re: Linux 2.4.0 on Debian 2.2 R2

On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:55:12PM -0800, Michael Madden wrote: When I used dpkg to install the new modutils package, it gave me the option of installing a new /etc/modules file. If you choose yes, it gives you a basic /etc/modules files just with comments. You'll need to put in a line for

Re: Machine/Domain Name

what you wanted?) hth bentley taylor. // -- || || |||bentley taylor||| cls-c/s || | 617 s nevada ave | || colo spgs, co

not getting all mail

debs, fetchmail told me that i had 317 new messages; but i think my system shut off at 200. 1. how do i set up exim/fetchmail/mutt to give me all the mail? 2. is there a way for me to get the 117 emails that did not show up in /var/spool/mail/foo? ia, t. bentley taylor. // -- running:

Re: not getting all mail--now working

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:27:55AM +, cls/cs wrote: debs, fetchmail told me that i had 317 new messages; but i think my system shut off at 200. 1. how do i set up exim/fetchmail/mutt to give me all the mail? 2. is there a way for me to get the 117 emails that did not show up

Re: not getting all mail

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:43:17PM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:27:55AM +, cls/cs wrote: fetchmail told me that i had 317 new messages; but i think my system shut off at 200. 1. how do i set up exim/fetchmail/mutt to give me all the mail? Are you

can't make menuconfig

debs, i'm looking to roll 2.4.0 for my potato box; but i'm getting ncurses issues. (i have libc6-dev, which prevents my having libc5-dev, which, apparently ncurses needs) suggestions? ia, t. bentley taylor. // running: debian gnu/linux (http://www.debian.org) kernel: 2.2.17 Script

Re: can't make menuconfig

, Sebastiaan On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, cls/cs wrote: debs, i'm looking to roll 2.4.0 for my potato box; but i'm getting ncurses issues. (i have libc6-dev, which prevents my having libc5-dev, which, apparently ncurses needs) suggestions? ia, t. bentley taylor

2.4.0 and 3com 905c

debs, i've been using stock kernel 2.2.17 that came with potato. it recognized my 3com nic (as 3com 3c905c) and works wonderfully. i would like to ungrade to kernel 2.4.0 (now that it's stable). after rebooting a custom 2.4.0, i can't seem to get the nic recognized by the kernel. in the

Re: MKBOOT problems

On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:42:04AM -0800, Tom Schuetz wrote: Thanks to everyone for the ongoing responses to my newbie dreck. Why, when I MKBOOT VMLINUZ-2.2.12, would the system come back to me on three different BRAND NEW disks with a write protected or other error? I really doubt it's

Re: keeping the screen on

On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:36:26PM -0600, will trillich wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 10:21:02PM +, q wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:16:14PM +, q wrote: debs, since i use rather nice background images for my potato boxes, i like to keep the screens on even though, i

Re: keeping the screen on

On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:22:48PM -0600, will trillich wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:08:27PM +, cls/cs wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:36:26PM -0600, will trillich wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 10:21:02PM +, q wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:16:14PM +, q wrote

external cd install

debs, i'm trying to install potato on a 486 box (to be used as a firewall). i want to install via cd from an external cdrom. i get to the point where it needs to install operating system kernel and modules. i tell the box that i'm using mounted as the medium used to install the system, as

Re: exim

On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:03:24AM -0500, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello! with the help of people in this list finally I have a exim+fetchmail+mutt configuration working. The problem is that after dialing to my ISP and invoking fetchmail at the prompt, it reports the number of emails in

Re: Netscape

On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 07:31:26PM +, Timothy Bedding wrote: Is anyone using version 4.6 of Netscape? yesbeen using for a month or two.. I get a crash when downloading http://www.ishipress.com/chess.htm Do anyone else get that? If so, can you email me with your version of

what is ?

debs, in bash, i sometimes hit ' at the end of a command and i then get on the next line. what does do? ia, t. bentley taylor. // Script started on Fri Dec 1 19:34:51 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ top' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ exit Script done on Fri Dec 1 19:35:07 2000

mutt 1.2.5-4

--no-verbose --batch --with-colons --list-keys %r set pgp_list_secring_command=gpg --no-verbose --batch --with-colons --list-secret-keys %r set pgp_getkeys_command= my_hdr From: cls-c/s [EMAIL PROTECTED] my_hdr Reply-to: cls-c/s [EMAIL PROTECTED] cls411:/home/bt# exit Script done on Fri Nov 17 17

Re: mutt 1.2.5-4

On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 11:59:32AM +1100, Bek Oberin wrote: cls-c/s wrote: i upgraded mutt to v1.2.5-4, and in so doing, my /etc/Muttrc changed to where: 1. i don't know where to specify my signature file; and 2. i don't know where to specify that i want a copy of my sent messages

Re: wm

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Re: smtp error

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 06:20:33PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 06:43:09PM -0700, cls-colo spgs wrote: debs, one of my potatoes has a smtp error: $ fetchmail fetchmail: imap connection to mail.pcisys.net failed: connection refused 25 messages for username

smtp error

debs, one of my potatoes has a smtp error: $ fetchmail fetchmail: imap connection to mail.pcisys.net failed: connection refused 25 messages for username at mail.pcisys.net (86395 octets). reading message 1 of 25 (3349 octets)..fetchmail: smtp connect t localhost failed fetchmail: smtp

Re: installing Star Office 5.2

On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 08:43:40PM -0600, Bob Edwards wrote: Can anyone tell me how to install Star Office 5.2 ? I have downloaded the file which is a .bin file, and put it in a seperate directory. what is next ? I know how to install .tar files and .gz files, but not .bin files. I

i think i need a mailbox

debs, ...trying to wean myself from the netscape email client (hopefully with fetchmail/exim/mutt). i've got mutt running to compose/send my email. now, i'm trying to get my email. here is my sample fetchmail result: $ fetchmail 1 message for pplaw at mail.pcisys.net (804 octets). reading

saving sent (mutt) messages

debs, now that my email trifecta (fetchmail/exim/mutt) is working out, i wonder if there's a way to save a copy of the new messages i send (other than adding my own email addy on the to: line). as always, ia, t. bentley taylor (potato on 2.2.17) //

fetchmail

debs, where do i tell fetchmail my username? (background: my isp username is pplaw, and my non-root account is bt. when i run fetchmail, i get, [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead of, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ia, t. bentley taylor (potato on 2.2.17) // u

domain in mutt

debs, this is the error message i get when trying to send an email using mutt: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unknown local-part: pplaw in domain pcisys.net ...suggestions? ia, t. bentley taylor (potato on 2.2.17) //

Re: Installing kernel sources

S.Salman Ahmed wrote: RP == Ray Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RP Does anyone out there have a step by step to install kernel RP sources on 2.2. Thanks very much RP Installing kernel sources is as easy as 1, 2! 1) Download source for the current stable kernel (2.2.17)

Re: Installing kernel sources

cls--colo spgs wrote: S.Salman Ahmed wrote: RP == Ray Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RP Does anyone out there have a step by step to install kernel RP sources on 2.2. Thanks very much RP Installing kernel sources is as easy as 1, 2! 1) Download source

Re: Two Completley unrelated questioins

Joshua Kruck wrote: #1 does anyone other than me have a problem where star office 5.2 takes about a year and a half to load. It takes almost two minuets to laod on my thunderbird 700 with 96 megs of ram. Is this normal? if its not is there anything i can do to speed this up? I dont really

Re: Two Completley unrelated questioins

cls--colo spgs wrote: Joshua Kruck wrote: #1 does anyone other than me have a problem where star office 5.2 takes about a year and a half to load. It takes almost two minuets to laod on my thunderbird 700 with 96 megs of ram. Is this normal? if its not is there anything i can do

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