RPC: Program not Registered

2003-10-22 Thread Richard Lyons
Nice to be back with a broadband connexion and to be able to re-subscribe to my favourite list (even if only for a few weeks). Not so nice to try to get at the work I've been doing mentime on my laptop by an nfs mount and to get: RPC: Program not Registered Being more or less a dork about

Re: RPC: Program not Registered - SOLVED

2003-10-23 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 11:52, Clive Menzies wrote: [...] so nice to try to get at the work I've been doing mentime on my laptop by an nfs mount and to get: RPC: Program not Registered [...] You might want to look at: file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/NFS-HOWTO.gz Yes, found the

Re: printer icon

2003-10-23 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 23 October 2003 22:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I SIGNED ON TO AOL 9.0 AND LOST MY PRINTER ICON got off lightly, then... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

unstable cups problem

2003-10-26 Thread Richard Lyons
I've just done an update on a system that was originally a Knoppix 2.1 install, and is now mainly unstable (I suppose). Since the update, cups doesn't actually print anything. The jobs appear in the print manager (under KDE) as Processing... and stay there permanently. As cups does not

Re: unstable cups problem

2003-10-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 26 October 2003 11:25, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] Since the update, cups doesn't actually print anything. [...] SORRY - to reply to my own post. Problem solved wondoze-style: reboot. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: problèmes sur bjc 4300

2003-10-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 12:25, scotto di perrotolo jean-pierre wrote: depuis l'installation sur mon PC, de windows XP Pro [...] Dey ave ze dark side aussi en france... zut alors -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

aptitude - finding broken packages

2003-10-28 Thread Richard Lyons
Is there a quicker way of locating the broken packages announced at the head of the screen than scrolling through everything? TIA -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude - finding broken packages

2003-10-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 14:18, JG wrote: Is there a quicker way of locating the broken packages [...] /~b will bring you to the next broken package. l~b will narrow the packages list to only those that are broken. [...] Thanks. I really haven't got used to this apt system yet. The

Re: All pdf attachments defanged by spamassassin

2003-10-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 15:08, Patrick Beard wrote: The 'doc' and jpg emails come through [...] and the pdf is now inline ASCII. [...] Interesting. A manufacturer I work with was having difficulties receiving my drawings in pdf last week. Perhaps his ISP is suffering the same thing.

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 20:30, Monique Y. Herman wrote: [...] Hrm.. Does debian-user not set the reply-to to the list, or is this my [...] Apparently not. I wonder why not. It would surely be a good idea - for those using simpler mail clients. I use kmail and filter lists direct to

Re: Outgoing SMTP ports

2003-10-29 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 14:23, BruceG wrote: [...] (I noticed when replying using Ximian Evolution, it does the to: as the original poster. If I reply to all, it cc:'s the debian-user list. I had to delete the to: and move debian-users from cc: to to: Wonder why that is?) It's because

Re: aptitude - finding broken packages

2003-10-29 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 09:40, Rob Weir wrote: [...lots of good advice snipped...] Thanks! -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Time is runnign too fast

2003-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 30 October 2003 04:18, cr wrote: [...] Definitely a joke. Look at some of the pages it links to: http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/newsburst3.htm http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/windows_no.htm On second thoughts, I have a nasty feeling the second of those links might be

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 30 October 2003 12:30, Haines Brown wrote: [...] For years I didn't loose all that, but could su - root as I needed. I still don't know whether my system's busted or if it is me ;-) That is, is loosing all that a natural occurance or a flaw in my setup? [...] The point is, ou need

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: Incremental CDR backups

2003-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 30 October 2003 15:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] PS: in case anyone is interested, I have written two Perl scripts intended to make full and incremental backups on CD-R more convenient. [...] Yes. Very interested. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: phonetic symbols

2003-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 30 October 2003 16:13, Hoyt Bailey wrote: [...] On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, L.F. wrote: I can't convert the Windows file into pdf in Windows because I don't have the Acrobat Reader program; ---right. In Linux the pdf is free but in Windows it costs 600 euros. I used to use

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 31 October 2003 09:40, cr wrote: [...] GWBasic [...] I suppose I could go all the way back to Edlin. Oh... the cosy, warm nostalgia of it... edlin and assembly language... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 31 October 2003 02:11, Mark Healey wrote: When installing there was no networing setup. [...] How do I get this to work? Asus A7V8X mobo with Broadcom 4400 onboard lan [...] Mark: I just read this thread. I had a similar problem (with a different NIC) a couple of months

Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 01 November 2003 04:43, Kent West wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: Ok Sold. I'm game but I need to get stable stable enough to get PPP working. I wouldn't worry about the stability of unstable - I am a complete newcomer to Debian and my mosty-unstable system is far more stable than any

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

2003-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 01 November 2003 12:03, Kurt Sys wrote: Hello, I have to install a new computer. I install Debian Woody (3.0r1) from boot-CD (CD1 -- NON-US). Everything works fine except for one thing, I can't get my ethernet card to work. I found on the net several people with similar or the

Re: winmodem (was X Windos System will not start)

2003-11-02 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 02 November 2003 12:38, Hoyt Bailey wrote: From: Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 01 November 2003 04:43, Kent West wrote: [..] Chances are you have a so-called soft-modem (aka winmodem). You _might_ get it working, but it'd be a whole lote easier to just put

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-04 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 18:52, Monique Y. Herman wrote: [...] Knoppix's ability to detect stuff is nothing short of amazing to me. [...] And did I mention Knoppix is sweet? Just love that Knoppix CD. Take it everywhere with me... Come to think of it, I never have to use it, so it

Re: Red Hat

2003-11-04 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 12:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How-to Install kickstart (Red Hat) in debian: Como instalar kickstart en debian (English Spanish) (Ingles y Español) I need a machine with red hat for use redhat-config-kickstart? NO !! :-) [...] This is timely. I just got a Dear

Re: Problem with umount/umount2

2003-11-04 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 15:33, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Hi: I am using Debian unstable with the kernel that came with Knoppix 3.3 which uses kernel 2.4.22-xfs. I have mounted /dev/hde6 as /usr, /dev/hde5 as /home and /dev/hde8 as /var. When I shutdown there is always a message

pg database hosed in update - help!

2003-11-07 Thread Richard Lyons
Looks like I've really done it now! From a misplaced sense of neatness, I decided to remove the stable and testing sources from sources list did u and (after some inspection etc) g. It looked easy enough, but I got this error announcement: -start quoted text---

apt cache obese?

2004-02-12 Thread Richard Lyons
Quick question re /var/cache/apt. I couldn't understand why my little thinkpad's hdd got totally full. Now I'm searching around with du and find / var/cache/apt is 1.4GB. Is it always that large, or has mine been eating junk food? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt cache obese?

2004-02-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 12 February 2004 23:56, Mark wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:37:20PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: Quick question re /var/cache/apt. I couldn't understand why my little thinkpad's hdd got totally full. Now I'm searching around with du and find / var/cache/apt is 1.4GB

Re: apt cache obese?

2004-02-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 13 February 2004 00:12, Dave Thorn wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:37:20PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: Quick question re /var/cache/apt. I couldn't understand why my little thinkpad's hdd got totally full. Now I'm searching around with du and find / var/cache/apt is 1.4GB

Re: apt cache obese?

2004-02-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 13 February 2004 00:20, Ray wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 16:37, Richard Lyons wrote: Quick question re /var/cache/apt. I couldn't understand why my little thinkpad's hdd got totally full. Now I'm searching around with du and find / var/cache/apt is 1.4GB. Is it always

Re: apt cache obese?

2004-02-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 13 February 2004 05:19, David wrote: [...] that can be put in either ~/.aptitude/config or /etc/apt/apt.conf, Aptitude::AutoClean-After-Update That is useful - I'll give it a try. Thanks -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: [read: i don't know what I'm doing]

2004-02-13 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 13 February 2004 16:13, wrote: 1105 aeo oauau+uu o Moe ue e-mail ae ouo au ae uoauu o ao ae oae: ooeue o 2 - 249$ o 10 - 349$ [read: I'm selling something] oe au eoae oo oe! 1.u ae e!!uo: oe u oe ua: ae 2.e au e!!auae 10u, a oae o 24-48 3.aua oau u

Re: [read: i don't know what I'm doing]

2004-02-13 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 13 February 2004 20:51, Sam Halliday wrote: Richard Lyons wrote: [oh yes: It hadn't occured to me that people here speak english.] why people still get annoyed about this kind of thing is beyond me... I was more amused than annoyed. But I agree

Re: debian sarge notebook

2004-02-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 14 February 2003 15:35, spinella wrote: Non riesco ad installare la distibuzione in oggetto sul mio portatile hp pavilion ze4354ea. In sostanza mi si pianta non appena compare la schermata per la scelta della tastiera. Appena prima che questa schermata apparisse avevo provato ad

Re: CLI (was Re: cdparanoia a song in negative space)

2004-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 17:03, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: Ken Gilmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KG People don't use command line any more? Hmm. I'm more familiar with the KG command line version of all my PCs / servers than i am with a mouse ;) KG She wants my body and you know it.

Re: Not sure whatn I'm looking for (WWW related)

2004-02-18 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 19 February 2004 02:13, Brett Carrington wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:10:18PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: I run a small leased machine for my own web/mail services as well as anything else that strikes my fancy. I do provide a few mail accounts to friends and family and

Re: aptitude marking everything packages held back?

2004-02-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 19 February 2004 20:28, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-19, David Z Maze penned: Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just wondering if anyone else has seen this. On one of my machines, aptitude works like a champ. On the other, as of a week or so ago, every

Re: CLI

2004-02-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 19 February 2004 16:04, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DTG ...and then i'll teach you to turn away. said... DTG % i'll give you a hint. it's numerical binary, not alphabetical. DTG % placement plays a role. DTG How about DTG 0100

Re: Thanks

2004-02-20 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 20 February 2004 04:12, Michael Satterwhite wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 February 2004 19:12, Chris Metzler wrote: A lot of people come to testing that way (in fact, I did the same as you). But yeah, that's not quite right. I did like

Kaddressbook suicide

2004-02-20 Thread Richard Lyons
Anyone else had problems with this lately? I upgraded sid a week or so ago and my whole address book in KDE vanished. I have been unable to work out where on the disk it is supposed to be to look for the old file -- it seems not to be in ~/.kde/share/apps, which is where I thought it might

Re: tar and excluding a directory

2004-02-21 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 21 February 2004 16:07, Patrick Wiseman wrote: [...] (I detest info; I particularly detest the tar info, which requires multiple levels of digging to find anything.) Hear! Hear! -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: X upgrade, Wheel mouse stopped working -fixed

2004-02-21 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 21 February 2004 16:57, Graham Campbell wrote: [...] due to fuzzy thinking and fumble fingers, I no longer have the version that caused the problem, so I cannot guess what the change was that caused the problem. However the Mouse configuration entries were the same between the

Re: X upgrade, Wheel mouse stopped working -fixed

2004-02-21 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 21 February 2004 19:52, Peter Billson wrote: Richard Lyons wrote: Rats! I've never had a wheel working under linux, and I was following this thread sure the solution would be revealed... Richard, To make the wheel work under X change your /etc/X11/XF86Config file so

Re: Stolen debian logo?

2004-02-22 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 22 February 2004 16:50, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:27:56AM -0500, David P James wrote: The Debian project would probably have grounds for copyright infringement since the logo is not being used to refer to the Debian project. Trademark. Sorry, I'm also

Re: Stolen debian logo?

2004-02-22 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 22 February 2004 17:20, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] 1. I would recommend against nitpicking with the missing from the -- above your sig. It invites more of the same ;-) Ok, I withdraw that comment - they are apparently being stripped by the remailer at d-u. -- richard

Re: Stolen debian logo?

2004-02-23 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 22 February 2004 17:53, John Hasler wrote: Richard Lyons wrote: I would recommend against nitpicking with the missing from the -- above your sig. ... Ok, I withdraw that comment - they are apparently being stripped by the remailer at d-u. I see no evidence

Re: sig dashes munged at master.d.o or Mutt issue?

2004-02-23 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 23 February 2004 09:26, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:27:42PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Marc Wilson wrote: Hm, more testing... trailing spaces on any line in the pager are stripped, not just on sig dashes. That's annoying. Not that it's happening, but that I

Re: info md5

2004-02-23 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 23 February 2004 17:20, Dionisio Hervatin wrote: Ho scaricato via ftp le immagini dei sette cd in formato iso da ftp://debian.fastweb.it/debian-cd/3.0_r2/i386/ prima di masterizzare volevo fare un controllo con md5 è possibile avere il relativo sum? Grazie della collaborazione e buon

Re: Mail Delivery System

2004-02-23 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 23 February 2004 20:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an autoresponder. I'll never see your message. Thanks, Helen. Just the kind of useful information we all need... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: sig dashes munged at master.d.o or Mutt issue?

2004-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 09:51, Shot wrote: [...trailing spaces...] Well, mine Mutt does draw them. Have you tired Mutt in the Linux console (i.e. without X) and see what does the mouse select there? [...] You have mouse active in console? I haven't seen that since I switched from RedHat.

mutt courier exim4 - configuration help required

2007-05-05 Thread Richard Lyons
I am really beginning to hate squirrelmail. It doesn't thread, it doesn't break lines to 72 (or whatever) chars... But I am stuck with using it unless someone can tell me where to look for my misconfiguration. I have a server (actually a vm with Bytemark) on which I run courier-imap and exim4.

exim4 error?

2007-05-07 Thread Richard Lyons
I got no reponse at all previously -- perhaps too general a question. Does anyone recognise this set of messages on /var/log/exim4/mainlog: 2007-05-05 13:35:42 1HkJUE-000170-0o ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable address 2007-05-05 13:35:42 1HkJUE-000170-0o ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable

yet another bash question

2006-11-07 Thread Richard Lyons
For things like saving photos to hard disk, I tend to use a few bash scripts to rename the files, keeping the numerical part and coding something else in place of the cimg. For example, I might change all the files cimg1234.jpg to cimg1299.jpg to be called foobar234.jpg to foobar299.jpg. I tend

jigdo newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread Richard Lyons
I need a complete etch dvd set for a location that has no inet. I keep hearing about bittorrent and jigdo, so I thought I'd try. Bittorrent wouldn't connect to something; after it had failed for over half an hour, I concluded it wasn't going anywhere and switched to jigdo. I started a download

Re: jigdo-newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:28:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061109 09:00]: I need a complete etch dvd set for a location that has no inet. ^^^ ... for about four hours, then said Aaargh - 288 files could

Re: Cannot access terminals ( ctrl+alt+Fx ) in fluxbox

2006-11-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:19:45PM -0300, piter wrote: I'm using Etch with fluxbox, everything was OK before doing apt-get dist-upgrade a few days ago. After that, i can't access the terminals from tty1 to tty6 (i mean that nothing happens when i press ctrl+alt+Fx). What do you have in

Re: Cannot access terminals ( ctrl+alt+Fx ) in fluxbox

2006-11-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 07:00:12PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Richard Lyons: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:19:45PM -0300, piter wrote: I'm using Etch with fluxbox, everything was OK before doing apt-get dist-upgrade a few days ago. After that, i can't access the terminals from tty1

Re: Cannot access terminals ( ctrl+alt+Fx ) in fluxbox

2006-11-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 06:26:38PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 07:00:12PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Richard Lyons: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:19:45PM -0300, piter wrote: I'm using Etch with fluxbox, everything was OK before doing apt-get dist-upgrade

(OT) EFF call for help against restrictive patents

2006-11-15 Thread Richard Lyons
EFF is trying to bust some more patents. In brief one is a patent on virtual domains, I think more or less as implemented by Apache for I don't know how long. Details are here: http://www.eff.org/patent/wanted/prior.php?p=ideaflood and more on the Patent Busting Project is here:

spam filter easy install

2006-11-19 Thread Richard Lyons
Can anybody point me to a reliable way to install basic spam filtering on a fresh etch install? I have again tried spamassassin, using the notes at http://www.spencerstirling.com/computergeek/email.html to help with the installation, but have had to purge spamassassin and clamav and all

Re: spam filter easy install

2006-11-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 05:05:21PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: On (19/11/06 13:14), Richard Lyons wrote: Can anybody point me to a reliable way to install basic spam filtering on a fresh etch install? [...] I put up some notes on a mail server with a section on sa-exim/clamav setup

ipod mount and udev

2007-08-24 Thread Richard Lyons
I'm sure someone here knows how to do this. Two days of trawling google have given me many examples to crib but none have worked. I recently acquired an ipod nano (2nd gen.) 4GB. With grip and gpod, or just with lame and a lot of painful manual renaming and gpod, I can put tracks from CDs on it.

Re: ipod mount and udev

2007-08-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, August 24, 2007 11:50, Wackojacko wrote: [...] The problem is, of course, that it doesn't always appear at /dev/sdb2, as it did at first. I have tried adding a file /etc/udev/rules.d/060-ipod.rules containing BUS=usb, SYSFS{product}=iPod, KERNEL=sd*, NAME=%k, SYMLINK+=ipod The

Re: ipod mount error

2007-08-25 Thread Richard Lyons
OT and hijacking my own thread... Does anybody understand the error I am getting from gpod: Failed to remove watch SOunds like a text message from a pickpocket to me. But it seems to indicate a problem that prevents unmounting/ejecting the ipod. I suppose, therefore that I am risking

big brother yahoo

2007-08-25 Thread Richard Lyons
It is amusing -- or not, depending on your viewpoint -- that clicking on a video clip at yahoo.com from a standard etch install is met with a page of error messages, starting: We have checked your operating system: It does not meet our minimum requirements If you are having

using a remote IMAP server and smarthost

2007-08-25 Thread Richard Lyons
I've been trying to solve this for about three years now. Every few months, when I have a moment, I try again. It is not a specifically debian issue, but someone here must have a similar setup. I have an IMAP server on a remote vm. I access it with mutt because it sucks least. But when I want

Re: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost

2007-08-25 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, August 25, 2007 18:56, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 17:30:12 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] I have an IMAP server on a remote vm. I access it with mutt because it sucks least. But when I want to send mail, I have to open a webmail [...] Can you log in on the vm

what is /command directory?

2007-08-25 Thread Richard Lyons
I just noticed with a sinking feeling that my root partition is 96% full. I do wish I hadn't let the installer use LVM and choose its own sizes. Now I am stuck trying to work round its choices. I also notice a number of directories I've never heard of before under root: command, package,

Re: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost

2007-08-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, August 25, 2007 23:27, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] In the following I will assume that your ~/.ssh/config is set up such that you can use ssh myvm to log in on the vm. (This allows me to keep the command syntax simple and in any case I think it is a good approach in practice.) I would

Re: what is /command directory?

2007-08-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, August 26, 2007 01:13, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/25/07 18:52, Richard Lyons wrote: I just noticed with a sinking feeling that my root partition is 96% full. [...] If /var is not in it's own partition, then apt-get autoclean will free up a lot of space. Yes, thanks, I have done

Re: LVM partition full (was:what is /command directory?)

2007-08-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, August 26, 2007 02:24, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 12:52:30AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: I just noticed with a sinking feeling that my root partition is 96% full. [...] I also notice a number of directories I've never heard of before under root: command

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, August 25, 2007 19:57, David Brodbeck wrote: On Aug 25, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: [...] I think the ultimate point is that we shouldn't have to emulate some other software to browse the web. Ultimately the problem is there's no way to easily distinguish between

Re: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost

2007-08-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, August 26, 2007 15:27, Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 11:06:14AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: On Sat, August 25, 2007 23:27, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] Mutt (or any other MUA) on the local computer can now simply be configured to use localhost, port 2525 as its smtp

Re: LVM partition full (was:what is /command directory?)

2007-08-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, August 26, 2007 14:35, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 12:25:30PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: On Sun, August 26, 2007 02:24, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 12:52:30AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] $ df -h Filesystem Dimens. Usati Disp. Uso

linux on ipod nano?

2007-08-26 Thread Richard Lyons
Sorry to repeat, but I stupidly tagged this question on to another thread, and I guess nobody noticed. So I'll put it differently: Does anybody understand the error I am getting from gpod: Failed to remove watch Sounds to me like a text message from a pickpocket. But it seems to indicate

Re: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost

2007-08-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, August 26, 2007 17:42, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] I vaguely remember that I had difficulties in the past when I tried to get exim4 to work over a forwarded port. The most straightforward approach is to run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config and select local delivery only (for system mails

Re: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost

2007-08-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, August 26, 2007 17:42, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] or you can install the msmtp package which provides a sendmail work-alike that is very easy to configure. Here is an example configuration file (~/.msmtprc): #- tls on host localhost port 2525 from [EMAIL

Re: LVM partition full (was:what is /command directory?)

2007-08-27 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, August 27, 2007 01:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 05:38:27PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] I've just read the lvm howto and other stuff on 'Changing the Size of the LVM-Partitions' -- and I don't like the sound of it a bit. Lots of talk of if something goes

Re: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost

2007-08-27 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, August 26, 2007 22:53, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] Maybe the smarthost does not use TLS (an encryption wrapper) because it is only dealing with internal connections from trusted VMs. I would start simple on the VM, with this ~/.msmtprc: #- tls off host

Re: linux on ipod nano?

2007-08-27 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, August 27, 2007 12:18, koffiejunkie wrote: Richard Lyons wrote: Sorry to repeat, but I stupidly tagged this question on to another thread, and I guess nobody noticed. So I'll put it differently: Does anybody understand the error I am getting from gpod: Failed to remove watch

Re: smtp to bytemark.co.uk smarthost (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

2007-08-27 Thread Richard Lyons
-- thanks Florian. On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 08:41:36 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: How do I get to see the envelope msmtp is trying to send? Adding logfile ~/.msmtp.log to .msmtprc should give you more information. Here is the log that resulted: Aug 27 15:18:11 host=smtp.bytemark.co.uk tls

Re: LVM partition full (was:what is /command directory?)

2007-08-27 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, August 27, 2007 13:30, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 07:34:15AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: On Mon, August 27, 2007 01:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Here there be dragons. Remember that your initrd will be set up to start your LVM system so that it can find the root

Re: smtp to bytemark.co.uk smarthost (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

2007-08-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, August 27, 2007 21:12, Steve Kemp wrote: On Mon Aug 27, 2007 at 15:27:55 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: It might be time to contact bytemark's technical support. You are probably right. I'll give them a call. Agreed. Call us, or drop us a mail (!) I did that, and here

Re: smtp to bytemark.co.uk smarthost (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

2007-08-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, August 27, 2007 10:44, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 08:41:36 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: On Sun, August 26, 2007 22:53, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] #- tls off host FULLY_QUALIFIED_DOMAIN_NAME_OR_IP_OF_SMARTHOST from YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS

SOLVED: Re: smtp to bytemark.co.uk smarthost (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

2007-08-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 10:03:36AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: On Tue, 2007.08.28 13:41, Richard Lyons wrote: On Mon, August 27, 2007 10:44, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 08:41:36 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: Done that. Sending from the VM, now I get msmtp

ssh-agent (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

2007-08-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 12:27:32AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] Method 2: - You can set up mutt's sendmail command to use a short script which invokes ssh to run sendmail on myvm directly. This requires that sendmail works on myvm, though. The advantage is that you don't have

Re: linux on ipod nano?

2007-08-29 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:29:00PM +0100, koffiejunkie wrote: Richard Lyons wrote: My nano is vfat. It mounts just fine. It is unmounting that is the problem. I missed the beginning of the thread, so forgive me if my reply isn't much help. Supposing your ipod comes up as /dev/sda1

Re: Editing a text file with sed

2007-08-29 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 06:33:54PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: On Wednesday 29 August 2007 17:36:38 Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:17:46PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: begin 1.txt This is a test file, what I am trying to do is get the lines to join. It isn't a

Re: what is /command directory?

2007-08-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 05:58:13AM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: On Saturday 25 August 2007 07:52 pm, Richard Lyons wrote: I just noticed with a sinking feeling that my root partition is 96% full. I do wish I hadn't let the installer use LVM and choose its own sizes. Now I am stuck trying

Re: ssh-agent (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

2007-08-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 01:00:44AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 20:09:03 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 12:27:32AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: # activated by this option in ~/.muttrc: # set sendmail=/path/to/sendmail-via-ssh.sh cat

Re: ssh-agent (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

2007-08-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 05:58:11PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] I don't think you need port forwarding if you have the remote execution of msmtp working, no matter where you are. Just add your laptop's id_*.pub identities to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the vm. Of course. It is amazing

a LaTeX question

2007-09-01 Thread Richard Lyons
Does anyone here use LaTeX. Not a Debian question at all, but isn't it possible to define a quantity, say a cash amount \def\yearly {12000} and then have latex calculate from it to enter another figure, say \monthly=\yearly / 12 hoping to get the figure '1000' printed in the document by

Re: Shut down or leave on?

2007-09-02 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 08:34:56PM -0500, Cousin Stanley wrote: My previous server used 100 Watts on average. If left on 24/7, that's 61,320 hours a year, or 6,132,000 Watt-hours or 6,132 kWh. Adam The number of hours per year that you used in your calculation

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-02 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:08:11AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070901 06:21]: Does anyone here use LaTeX. Not a Debian question at all, but isn't it possible to define a quantity, say a cash amount \def\yearly {12000} and then have latex

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-02 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 09:34:00AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:10:15PM +0100, Ari Constancio wrote: On 9/2/07, Ari Constancio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose I'll have to get a copy. This is not the first time I have seen that recommendation. It is

Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-09-02 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 03:31:53PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 21.07.07 10:46, Rodolfo Medina wrote: If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not correctly read: the line

Re: Shut down or leave on?

2007-09-05 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:56:03PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: G.W. Haywood wrote: ~$ echo 24 * 365.25 | bc 8766.00 but I only did this to illustrate the more compact use of some system tools, in this case 'echo', 'bc' and a pipe. :) While I am a long time bc user and won't knock it I

Re: linux on ipod nano?

2007-09-05 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:37:45AM -0700, Michael M. wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 15:08 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] Gtkpod has two strange charactistics, but seems to be ususally workable. The oddities are - if you create an extra copy of the ipod by mistake (or when trying

another script query (perl?)

2007-09-07 Thread Richard Lyons
Hi, all you script wizards. I thought this would be easy, but I haven't found anything to crib from... I need a script to read a text file (actually tex) and parse lines of a table that may or may not span newline characters in the file. Basically, there are lines of the form {some text}

Re: another script query (perl?)

2007-09-07 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 07:19:17AM -0700, tabris wrote: Richard Lyons wrote: Hi, all you script wizards. I thought this would be easy, but I haven't found anything to crib from... I need a script to read a text file (actually tex) and parse lines of a table that may or may not span

Re: another script query (perl?)

2007-09-07 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 08:26:50AM -0700, tabris wrote: Richard Lyons wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 07:19:17AM -0700, tabris wrote: Richard Lyons wrote: [...] {some text} {some more text} {text c} {text d} \\ where the braces are only for clarity and do not occur

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