double process?

Hi debians I am wondering why I often see things like this upon connecting to the inet: 2179 ?S 0:00 sh /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/2firewall 2181 ?R 0:00 sh /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/2firewall I mean, why are there two of those processes? The above script should only be started once:

Additional Terminals

Hi debs How does one set up more than the default six terminals on a i386 potato machine? TIA Sven

Outgoing mail in Exim

Hello Is it possible to save a copy of all outgoing mail of some user to some place on the system? I mean similar to the way you can additionally forward someone's mail to another user account with the dot-forward mechanism. This is on a potato box with Exim 3.12. TIA Sven

apt-get dist-upgrade

Hello With a sources.list like the following, will apt-get dist-upgrade cause the system to be upgraded the same way as it would happen with a simple upgrade? (I am running potato now) deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US

Re: Additional Terminals

Read /etc/inittab and insert additional lines referencing getty then execute init q as root to activate the changes. Thanks, it indeed was that simple. Sven

Re: S L O W mailserver

I have a really slow mail server problem. The guy says it shouldn't be slow but it is. I know he is running Red Hat on all his boxes on this ISP and don't know which mailserver he uses for POP3. On the mail server check whether the MTA is started from inetd. If so, change that to deamon. I notice

From:-line in Mutt

Hi In my yet still very empty ~/.muttrc I have the following line: my_hdr From: Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now, this doesn't seem to do what I want: the domain I have here at home is made up and Exim doesn't like this when it's trying to deliver a mail I previously created with mutt

Re: From:-line in Mutt

[snipped your solution] That line is at the very end of my exim.conf - I'm not sure if it's important where in the file that line is, but that's where the original file had something similar. As I looked at the end of exim.conf just now, I saw the following: # This rewriting rule is

reorganizing disks

Hello Debians I want to move a whole debian install from one disk onto another. The second (new disk) is larger than the one debian is on right now: Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 131 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id

Re: Hey

First of all, a bit of etiquette: please wrap your lines at less than 80 characters. Thank you. On this subject: how do you do that in mutt? As I saw, it doesn't do this by default... TIA Sven

Processes

Hello all I am wondering, what it means when a process shows up with brackets around its name when I call ps ax. For example, the sshd here: PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND [snip those procs] 170 ?SW 0:01 [sshd] [snip those procs] And why does apache create so many instances

Re: Hey

On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 12:41:38AM -0700, Bill or Summer wrote: Uh... What's mutt? And... I checked my setup. It's at 76 (by default). mutt is a mail reader / writer that supports PGP keys amongs many other things. I use it right now - have only been using it for a day now :) - and I quite

command substition in .signature

Hi all How can I put the stdout of a command like $(uname -a;echo -e \n;uptime) in my .signature file? When putting that directly into .sig, it obviously doesn't interpret it the right way. I am using mutt/vi with Exim here. TIA Sven -- This is my .signature, like it or don't.

pgp / pgp5i

Hi all I am new to pgp. So far, I did apt-get install pgp. That installed some version of pgp for me. I then saw that I wasnt able to read some ppl's pgp keys in mutt with that version of pgp: - the output of pgp (in mutt) advised me to upgrade to a newer version. So I purged pgp, and

Re: command substition in .signature

set signature= uname -a; echo -e \\n\; uptime | in ~/.muttrc Thanks. I assume the pipe means to pipe the output into the msg? Correct? TIA Sven

Terminal clearing

Hi all I'd like to know why the screen doesn't clear itself when logging out from a terminal (at the machine) as root. For regular users, the terminal clears itself when logging out and so why doesnt it do that for root? I mean, if it should be done, then for root, IMO, or am I missing s/t here?

user in group root

Hello all Is it wise to put a (power-)user into the root-group? TIA Sven -- Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

Re: pgp / pgp5i

On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 05:01:48PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: Now, when I try to send a signed mail, mutt tells me that there is no /bin/pgp. Indeed there is no pgp link / binary installed. In the other version of pgp this wasn't so. Try installing gnupg. Similar to the above (when having

pgp setup

Hello Anyone that's got gnupg / pgp5 installed, could they be so generous as to assist me in setting it up? When I have gnupg installed, mutt says /usr/bin/pgp doesn't exist. Do I need to create a link or so? Now when I have pgp5i installed, mutt tells me there is not /bin/pgp. This is kind of

port scan logger

Hi all From other Linux systems, I know about the port scan-logger scanlogd. It seems that this is not in the debian distro. Are there any (good) alternatives? TIA Sven -- Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

Re: port scan logger

On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 04:55:38PM +, Pollywog wrote: Check it out: http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/scanlogd.html It seems as though it only became part of debian recently as I cannot find it in potato / frozen. Hmm... I actually would quite like to have it on my potato

Re: port scan logger

On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 06:29:27PM +, Pollywog wrote: On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 04:55:38PM +, Pollywog wrote: Check it out: http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/scanlogd.html I just downloaded it and installed it to Potato. Can I do that even although it's under the

folders and mutt

Hello list I wanted to know how to most easily use folders in mutt. It'd be even better if that would include the use of procmail. I am still a mutt beginner. I have used procmail a bit though. TIA Sven -- Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

boot error

Hi all Anyone know why do I get the following error upon bootup: insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.15/misc/unix.o cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/2619212757.ksyms Read Only Filesystem Indeed that file doesn't exist. Should I create it using /dev/null or what? If I should post more infos, please

Re: folders and mutt

On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 11:25:43PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Put all your mail somewhere like a ~/mail directory; then tell procmail (or an exim filter) to put inbox mail in ~/mail/inbox, and your other folders are stored as files in ~/mail. You can subdivide folders into groups by using

rsync and --delete

Hi all If I run rsync and there is a a new folder / file on the sending side, rsync tries to remove that very folder on the receiving side for some weird reason. This makes no sense to me. If I don't use --delete, this doesn't occur, but instead files that don't exist on the sending side anymore,

Netscape passive FTP

Hi all Is it possible to restrict FTP to passive mode in Netscape? It's ruins the nice firewall setup. :( Has anyone got a nice solution for this? TIA Sven (please CC me)

Re: can't install kernel/modules from cd-rom

On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 04:04:37PM -0400, Curt Salada wrote: Hardware: 2 IDE hard drives /dev/hda -- Maxtor 1.5G (1 bootable Linux partition, 1 swap) /dev/hdb -- Samsung 406M (1 Linux partition) CD-ROM Mitsumi IDE It might not help, but have you tried /dev/hd{c,d}? Sven -- Powered by

Re: folders and mutt

On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 06:47:09PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: * man 5 muttrc | spoolfile Thanks, that's precisely what I needed. You can save your procmail logfile into a .procmail directory off your $HOME: Done that, it's now out of the way if you so like. :) You can also do this little

Re: folders and mutt

On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 10:13:18AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: It's also helpful to know that mutt used tab completion for both folders and addresses (something I stumbled on without realizing a couple of Yes, that is neat. As a bash user who makes excessive use of this feature on the

Re: folders and mutt

On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 06:47:09PM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: [snip-snip] :0: * ^X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ^X-Loop: debian-\/[EMAIL PROTECTED] $DEBIAN/$MATCH In the above regex, does the [EMAIL PROTECTED] part match anything not starting with an '@', correct? What follows doesn't matter,

apt-get upgrade

Hi all I have just run update upgrade and am right now dl / upgrading 5megs worth of stuff. What I would like to see though is that apt-get shows me which packages it'll upgrade. Just like apt-get shows me what will be downloaded when doing apt-get install package. -- S. Burgener Powered by

Re: Need some help with procmail

On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 05:18:23PM +0100, Mário Filipe wrote: procmail: Suspicious rcfile /home/mjnf/.procmailrc procmail: Couldn't read /home/mjnf/.procmailrc Sounds like a permissions problem. Check with ls -l. HTH -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

boot floppies

Hi debs I've been booting this system with a boot floppy for some time now. Say I wanted to create new boot disks for any potato machine, how would I most easily do this? Anyone had experience with the package boot-floppies? TIA -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

question on sysvinit

Hi all I wanted to know why that when changing runlevels from say 2 to 3, the KILL links of _3_ and not 2 get executed before starting the START links of 3...? I mean, at that point you're leaving runlevel 2 and it would only make sense to stop those runlevel's services and not the new

Error in syslog

Hi all Can anything be done about the following error? Jun 24 10:22:55 deb pppd[1058]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP TIA -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

Re: question on sysvinit

On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 08:38:55PM -0700, Marshal Wong wrote: Hi all I wanted to know why that when changing runlevels from say 2 to 3, the KILL links of _3_ and not 2 get executed before starting the START links of 3...? I think because K comes before S. So switching run

Re: #%^$Ĺ¥ú¦Ñ¥~ªº¿ú%^%

On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 09:26:19PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://residence.educities.edu.tw/kbt01 Some Taiwanese git bugging us here or what? This stuff is annoying. What can be done about this apart from extending our .procmailrc further? :( -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian

Re: boot error

On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:32:31AM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: But the message comes at bootup. AFAIK, the root FS is always mounted read-only in the first instance, and is then remounted read-write later in the boot sequence. I think this is so. So this looks like a problem in the base

sources.list woody source packages

Hi all I want to have my sources.list set up so that I can get source packages for woody. I am running potato here and my currents sources.list looks as follows: --- sources.list --- #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 _Potato_ - Unofficial i386 Binary-1 (2609)]/ unstable contrib main

Re: question on sysvinit

On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 10:19:10AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: level). Then the S scripts start everything that is needed, again potentially restarting things that were already active on the old level (although Debian avoids that as a matter of optimization). See. Why is it this way?

Re: sources.list woody source packages

On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 09:43:17PM +0200, Jonas Birme´ wrote: Try: deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free Thanks, that did the trick. :) -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

Re: question on sysvinit

On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 08:10:25PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Read /etc/init.d/README and /usr/share/doc/sysvinit/README.runlevels.gz Looks good. Cheers. -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

which libs to install?

Hi debs When trying to fetch and compile the latest sources of leafnode, the following happens: debian:~# apt-get -b source leafnode [snipped] dh_testroot rm -f build-stampmake -i realclean make[1]: Entering directory `/root/leafnode-1.9.14' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `realclean'.

logrotate

Hi debs On the subject of logrotate, how do you guys put that to use? For me, root has a crontab entry for this as follows: # At midday: logrotate 0 12 * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate -v /etc/logrotate.conf My /etc/logrotate.conf looks as follows: (shortened - sorry for it being so long) --

Re: logrotate

On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 08:41:34PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Doesn't the logrotate package install a daily cron by itself ??! It certainly did for me (in potato). In that case, how do I find out all user's crontabs? Are they all under /var/spool/cron/...? TIA -- S. Burgener Powered by

ext3 and availability

Hi debs How far is the development of ext3? Today, at linux-conference.ch some guy from RH said he was using ext3 on his notebook right then. Apparently the main developer of both ext2 and ext3 works also for RH. So, I wanted to know whether anyone knows when ext3 will be widely available /

Re: logrotate

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 06:33:57PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Read the debian policy document. Debian has additional crontabs (apart from user crontabs and the root crontab) in /etc/cron.{d,daily,weekly,monthly} The logrotate thing is (not surprising) in /etc/cron.daily/logrotate. Thanks

Re: rpm2deb

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:34:08AM -0700, S. Champ wrote: does anyone have a URL for rpm2deb ? Why not use alien for this? -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

creating debs

Hi all Given a source tarball, how to best install that into the system? My suggestion would be to create a .deb archive and to then install that using dpkg -i. Now, I have never created my own .deb apart from doing this with make-kpkg and apt-get source -b, so I am not familiar with the

Re: creating debs

On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 07:27:20PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: dpkg-deb is lower-level than you probably want. At this point it looks to be so, yes. :) [snipped steps] Thanks tons for the useful infos. Sven -- Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

inetd.conf entries

Hi list What are each of the following lines for and thus which can be commented out by me? -- inetd.conf snippet -- #echo stream tcp nowait rootinternal #echo dgram udp waitrootinternal #chargenstream tcp nowait rootinternal #chargen

Re: rpm's

On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 05:24:02PM -0500, Pete Chudykowski wrote: 1. For some reason the package didn't contain ftpd. Where can I find a .deb binary? Use apt-get for installing packages on your system. Use it also to keep your system up-to-date. (- man apt-get) To install ftpd, run apt-get

Re: netbios

On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 04:16:24PM +0200, Goeman Stefan wrote: Hello, Hi [snip] I am a little concerned about this last line. From a security course I took last week, I have found out that it is not wise to have the netbios open (to the rest of the world). I my case, it probably can't harm

Re: pgp_encryptself in Mutt 1.2i and pgp5

On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 09:35:02PM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote: Dear list, since I have upgraded Mutt to 1.2i, I get an error when Mutt reads the .muttrc on the command: set pgp_encryptself. Pardon my ignorance, but does pgp_encryptself cause all mails to be encrypted? If I comment it

kernel 2.2.17 boot disk prob!

Hi debs I am unable to create a boot disk for my potato box. I just apt-got kernel-image-2.2.17. :) Then, in the process of installing the kernel-image deb file, I said yes to take /etc/lilo.conf for setting up the boot disk. I also chose to format the boot disk. Here infos of my system: --

Re: kernel 2.2.17 boot disk prob! (HELP!)

Hi all Is there really nobody helping me with this?! :(( I *need* help, so please... TIA Sven On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 11:44:05PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: Hi debs I am unable to create a boot disk for my potato box. I just apt-got kernel-image-2.2.17. :) Then, in the process

Re: kernel-2.2.17-image boot disk prob!

On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 02:25:02PM -0400, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote: I'll take a crack at it. Your lilo.conf files looks a little strange to me, especially boot=/dev/fd0 boot is where the MBR gets written and in my case it's the floppy, as I want a boot disk here... [snipped your lilo.conf]

Re: kernel 2.2.17 boot disk prob! (HELP!)

On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 09:16:04PM +0200, Albrecht Frank wrote: image=/vmlinuz ^^^ to what file does this link point? lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Jul 3 21:52 /vmlinuz - /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 That should be so, right? Regards -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian

Re: kernel 2.2.17 boot disk prob! (HELP!)

On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 03:00:02PM -0400, paul wrote: It may be that no-one who has read this has seen this particular problem before. Quite true. boot=/dev/fd0 Try changing the line boot=/dev/fd0 to boot=/dev/hdb3 in your lilo.conf Done that, but now I get the following (repeating all

Re: kernel 2.2.17 boot disk prob! (HELP!)

On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 02:46:25PM +, ktb wrote: Have you tried -- dd if=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192 to create a boot floppy? That also gives me the messages upon booting: ... AX:0212 BX: CX:5201 DX:. AX:0212 BX: CX:5201 DX:. ... Hmm, dunno what to

Re: kernel 2.2.17 boot disk prob! (HELP!)

What I'm looking for is a way of creating a boot disk like the one I created when installing debian initially. That boot disk says SYSLINUX... when it is started. This type of boot disk works fine with my IDE disk which isn't detected by my ugly BIOS. TIA -- S. Burgener Powered by Debian

Re: Securing telnet

On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 01:23:49PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I'd also look into ssh clients for Windows. I know there are Java clients available. I can recommend TeraTerm with the SSH extension for this. Forgot the link, search on google.com for it. Cheers -- S. Burgener Powered by

Re: kernel 2.2.17 boot disk prob! (HELP!)

Hi all # file /boot/vmlinuz-*; /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.2.15 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) #1 Tue , RO-rootFS, Normal VGA /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.2.17 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) #1 Sun J, RO-rootFS,

Re: kernel 2.2.17 boot disk prob! (HELP!)

is what I said: --- My previously sent mail --- On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 11:44:05PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: [snipped] I *want* kernel-image-2.2.17 to work particularly as I had no success in building my custom 2.2.16 kernel. (The gettys got locked up and I got lots of dumps in the logs

Re: kernel 2.2.17 boot disk prob! (HELP!)

On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 02:41:40PM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: What I'm looking for is a way of creating a boot disk like the one I created when installing debian initially. Do you still have that disk? There is a file on there named linux. Delete it and replace it with a copy of

getting data into mails

Hi all If I wanted to put some lines of text from, say a manual page, into an email that I compose (in mutt/vi), how would I best / most easily do this? I know about vi's :r! command which places the output of a program into the current file. I'm not using X here, just plain console with exim

Re: What to use as an MTA

Hello On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 03:29:16PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: My question is: If I have a machine that's _not_ permanently connected to the internet, ie. if I'm using dial-up, is exim still a good choice, or are there better MTAs for that purpose. I am using the combination Exim /

logrotate rotating too much

Hi all My logrotate contains a section for exim's main log file: /var/log/exim/mainlog { missingok monthly create 0664 mail mail rotate 1 } Why though does it compress exim's other log files, too?! # ls -l /var/log/exim/ total 220 -rw-rw-r--1 mail mail87254 Jul

Re: logrotate rotating too much

On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 10:57:21AM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote: Hi all Hi Hello :) My logrotate contains a section for exim's main log file: Strange... my logrotate doesn't even mention exim, exim does it's log rotation in a cron.daily/exim script here, do you have both? Oops, there ya

file permissions in /var/log

Hi all What should be the permissions of the log files located in /var/log? Where could I find out such a thing if something has changed unexpectedly / unintendedly? I am unsure because I think I *might* have changed some permissions with my logrotate.conf. This is what I have currently: # ls

random signature

Hi all Is there a way to put some sort of random signature system to use in mutt? If not, can any other mail client do this? (I dont want / have X on this box here) TIA Sven -- Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2

Re: random signature

Hi all Is there a way to put some sort of random signature system to use in mutt? [Useful answers / code from various ppl] Thanks a lot to all who answered. I am now using sigrot in combination with an alias which calles sigrot prior to mutt. I assume mutt isn't able to handle multiple

Re: random signature

On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 10:48:22PM +0200, Christopher Splinter wrote: * Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to put some sort of random signature system to use in mutt? I assume mutt isn't able to handle multiple signatures or is there a way to rot' the sigs

Re: How do I get flexible email headers and sigs?

On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 02:55:25PM +, Tony wrote: I have several identities I'd like my mail to go out under - [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my academic work, [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the start-up I sometimes act for, [EMAIL PROTECTED] for personal stuff etc. I'd like the From:, Reply-To: fields

Re: How do I get flexible email headers and sigs?

On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 11:58:59AM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: [snip] One easy way to do this in mutt is have your favourite MDA (maildrop for me, procmail for pretty much everyone else) deliver your emails to different addresses to different mailboxes. This is usually trivially easy. Yes, I

Re: Exim for ISDN systems ?

Hello Preben On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 12:54:43AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: Peter Palfrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 15/07/2000 (00:48) : Hi Preben! exim -qf and/or exim -qff will send all mail from the queue. If I remember they both are blocking, i.e. will only return when all

Re: shell script at boottime

On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 01:55:38PM +0200, Hans wrote: As far as I understood: Scripts run at boottime are located in /etc/init.d You can't say that. All scripts are in there. Things in /etc/rcS.d/ are run at boot time. (See /etc/rcS.d/README for infos) What's also run at boot time are the

executing a command within mutt

When I try to issue an alias (set in ~/.bash_profile) inside mutt, (with '!') it won't recognize the alias. On the shell prompt OTOH, this works as always. Is it that alias'd commands don't get exported to mutt or what? Cheers Sven -- Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law.

Servlets and Apache

Hi guys I am looking for starting pointers on setting up Servlets on Apache. Anyone got some useful links handy for that? From what versions on is Apache servlet-capable? Thanks Sven -- The UNIX Guru's view of sex: unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount sleep

Enlightenment and X

Hello (Pardon my newbie-ness on this topic) 1) I can get into enlightenment fine; after having executed enlightenment.install. I have some basic KDE stuff installed also. Is that necessary? 2) In enlightenment, the screen looks somewhat unclear; it 'flicker' slightly. How to solve that? This

Re: Enlightenment and X

Hello Yet more Qs: 1) How to get the middle mouse working in enlightenment? I had it working under KDE before. (Logitech PS/2 mouse) 2) How do I choose backgrounds from those -theme-whatever packages? They are installed, yet I can't find a way to choose them. It seems I cannot do that in

Re: Enlightenment and X

God, sorry this'll be the last time I post another mail on the same topic without waiting for answers. :) 1) Is there any browser I can use in enlightenment? I dont particularly *like* Netscape, so are there any other options? (not lynx - I *need* / want graphics) 2) Is there any way to

Re: Background mail transfers

On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 07:35:20PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: [snip] You can set up a script /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ZZZ so that it will be executed when any other script has finished, something like #!/bin/sh wall /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/done-message wall will display the contents of

mutt and asking user

Hello What option needs changing / setting when I don't want mutt to always ask me whether I want to Move read messages to /home/$USER/mbox ([n],y)? when I am exiting? I always quit by pressing enter thereby choosing the default, which is no. I wasnt able to find this under /usr/doc/mutt/*,

Re: init.d

On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:03:09AM +0930, John Pearson wrote: Scripts in the Debian init.d directories are run using run-parts. Run-parts ignores scripts that don't conform to certain naming conventions: DESCRIPTION run-parts runs a number of scripts or programs found in a

terminal goes funky

Silly me accidentally cat'ed a binary file, which caused the terminal (tty1) to go all funky. It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead of proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the GNU part of the login prompt. :) I saw someone undoing a situation as

Re: terminal goes funky

On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:05:00PM +0200, Morten Liebach wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:38:07PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: [snip] It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead of proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the GNU part of the login

Re: terminal goes funky

On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:38:32PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: It seems to display things fine, but just with weird characters instead of proper ones. Some characters are fine though, like the GNU part of the login prompt. :) Press ^V then ^O then ENTER at the prompt. The system will echo

Re: terminal goes funky

On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 03:07:23AM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote: [snip] Thanks a lot to all for your help / information. Sven -- Windows does *not* have bugs. It just develops random features.

web server suggestions

Hi all Sorry for this being so highly off-topic, forgive me; I need the infos. (It's just that debian lists are an excellent resort for information) I'd like some infos from people who've had experience with this: What web server software is in your opinion best for running on an NT machine?

upgrading package - configuration file

Hello Can anybody tell me what happens when the config file format of a package changed from one version to the next. I mean, in the process of downloading, unpacking and installing the upgrade, what really happens? Are diffs used for this (config files)? Is this all up to the package

Re: current Redhat user evaluates Debian

On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 07:36:53PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Some drivers probe for their hardware by attempting to access various ports. In a few pathological cases, the probing by one driver will put hardware belonging to another into a state that crashes or locks up the system. This is

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 06:20:29PM -0500, Kent West wrote: [Only HTML] Cut it out, would you please... Sven -- Windows does *not* have bugs. It just develops random features.

Re: find question

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:11:38PM +0400, Alexey Vyskubov wrote: % find `pwd` \( -name *.log -o -name *.aux \) -exec 'rm {}' ';' find: rm /home/shao/report/main.log: No such file or directory [snipped Alexey's solution] It's nice to use xargs together with find. (You probably know this, but

Re: Distribution Download

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 05:51:39PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No I'm not crazy. Just the potato and woody bin for i386. I think I'm almost setting up CuteFtp to bypass the firewall. After all, I have up to 24 Gb of free disk space. If you experience problems with FTP, try the passive

Re: Fetchmail isn't working the way it should.

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:02:19PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently setup Fetchmail as a demon polling 3 mail servers every five minutes when I'm online. Wow, that's quite frequent. It downloads the mail without problems but it doesn't delete it from the servers after

Partition problems

Hi all When running fdisk -l I get the following: box:~ # fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 111 20632+ 83 Linux Partition 1 has different

Re: Partition problems

kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: [snipped my stuff] If I'm doing my math right, your /dev/hda is a 1.5 GB disk. Which seems a bit small for the issue I suspect. But I suck at math. Something in th 6-12 GB range would more likely have these issues. Yes, it is a 1.5 GB disk. The other (hdb) is ~

Questions on Slack / *BSDs

Dear debs Could anyone using (or having used) Slackware please tell me what's (particularly) good about it? - What particular things made you choose Slack? From what I've read, it's probably the distro closest to the roll-your-own type of thing. Correct? Slack's package format is .tgz;

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