Re: kernel question

2000-01-06 Thread Brian Servis
; pollywog.1. Since 2.2.14-1 is "(l)ess-(t)han" pollywog.1 it returned without an error code in the second example. The --compare-versions I think was originally ment to be used in package scripts but it can be handy for things like this. Brian Servis -- ---

Re: modem RX rate is considerable slower than RX rate

2000-01-06 Thread Brian Servis
f you have in internal network that uses the modem as its internet gateway then make sure and set mtu of the network port to the same thing. IPMasquerading and other protocols tend to choke if the mtu/mru's of the different links in

Re: Problem with ncurses since 01/02/2000 apt-get dist-upgrade

2000-01-06 Thread Brian Servis
;default' ncurses thus moving libncurses4 to oldlibs. The bash package probably hasn't been uploaded to reflect the change. I just filed a bug report on bash(#54165) for this issue. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engi

Re: Screen black

2000-01-06 Thread Brian Servis
each for more options. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Screen black

2000-01-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 5 Jan, Brian Servis wrote about "Re: Screen black" > *- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about "Screen black" >> >> Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc >> screen to go completely black after 10 minutes??? &g

Re: Screen black

2000-01-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about "Re: Screen black" > > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Brian Servis wrote: > >> *- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about "Screen black" >> > >> > Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can p

Re: Potato Dates...

2000-01-06 Thread Brian Servis
soon, Thanks. > The latest info from the Release Manager is in the following post to debian-devel-announce. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9912/msg00010.html Brian Servis -- Mechanical E

Re: URL of package's website

2000-01-06 Thread Brian Servis
lude this info. I think it was even suggested to place the info in the package control file. I agree that it would be nice to have a link on the Debian Packages page to the upstream source to facilitate finding out more about the package if desired. Brian Servis --

Re: newbie fetchmail problem

2000-01-07 Thread Brian Servis
he option is local_domains and is a colon separated list of machine names that considered local. My local machine is called(fake name on localnet) brian.servis.snet so I have the following: local_domains=localhost:servis.brian.snet:servis.snet:brian This works

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-07 Thread Brian Servis
oppies. Does anybody know the fundemental reasons why the x86 platform has not adopted such a setup? Thanks, Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Pur

Re: cron reports re: suidregister

2000-01-07 Thread Brian Servis
ss you have emacs20 installed and you your system by putting movemail back in place. Then the mode of the file will not be checked for possible root exploits via the permisions. Brian Servis -- Mechanica

Re: cron reports re: suidregister

2000-01-08 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 7 Jan, Mark Wagnon wrote about "Re: cron reports re: suidregister" > On 01/07/00 02:22PM, Brian Servis wrote: >> >> If you have emacs20 installed and movemail is not there then something >> is wrong. Movemail is included in the emacs20 package and should be

Re: fetchmail problem

2000-01-08 Thread Brian Servis
option smt_accept_queue_per_connection to 0 and it will process each mail as it comes in without waiting. The default is 10. Read the exim spec file for more info on this and other smtp_accept_* options. Brian Servis -- Mech

Re: where is the command line options for the X server located?

2000-01-09 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 8 Jan, Joseph de los Santos wrote about "where is the command line options for the X server located?" > Hello!, > > I would like to know where the Xservers file for xdm is located so that I > may change the display resolution in dots per inch. > /etc/X11/x

Re: fetchmail and multiple users in one POP3 box

2000-01-09 Thread Brian Servis
ngs that you do in your scripts. Some people prefer to use su to change the user away from root for these tasks for security reasons. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybo

Re: Adding a superuser

2000-01-10 Thread Brian Servis
' . Ash is a POSIX complient shell and supports all 'sh' functions. I have had sh -> ash for several months now and have not had any problems. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never cr

Re: www.debian.org very slow indeed?

2000-01-10 Thread Brian Servis
ad out over several different sites. # nslookup http.us.debian.org Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 Non-authoritative answer: Name:http.us.debian.org Addresses: 209.249.97.234, 141.213.4.21, 63.209.15.252, 207.69.194.216 24.220.0.13 HTH, Brian Servis -- ---

Re: What is this????

2000-01-10 Thread Brian Servis
lout4, 64 Jun 10 1999 /dev/ttyS0 Acccording to the devices.txt file in the kernel Documentation a character device with major number of 49 is reserved for a 'SDL RISCom serial card'. Where is this file? You didn't list its path. If it is /usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts then I w

Re: memories

2000-01-10 Thread Brian Servis
not logging out of X but just restarting the window manager. It is amazing but I can reclaim 128M/256M of swap by doing this sometimes. Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybo

Re: Fourth button of Logitech MouseMan Wheel?

2000-01-12 Thread Brian Servis
otocol "MouseManPlusPS/2" Device"/dev/psaux" SampleRate 133 Resolution200 Buttons 6 ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection I haven't had time to debug or track it down. So I am not providing a solution here but just

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