Re: wireless bridge, nic IP addressing

2004-02-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:18:27PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:19:01 +0100 Jan Minar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The `bridge' is your only gateway to the Internet, right? Then the only thing you have to do is: # which ip || apt-get install iproute # ip route

Re: DDs: etiquette of inquring about status of an ITP?

2004-02-26 Thread Jan Minar
Hi, Chris. Not a DD, but... On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 04:01:18PM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: I'm curious what the etiquette is about inquiring into the status of an ITP. On one hand, I'm reluctant to ask because I don't want to seem like I'm prodding the developer who posted the ITP,

Re: Log directory disappeared

2004-02-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:49:01PM +0100, Hagg, Wilhelm wrote: i had the same problem with /var/log, it disappeared suddenly. I boot SuSE, debian and gentoo from my box, however the last time i only used SuSE. My first idea was that the problem could have to do with software suspend package (i

Differentiating fetchmail-pulled accounts (in procmailrc)

2004-02-25 Thread Jan Minar
Hi there. I've been switching ISPs as some of you maybe noticed. Now I don't know how to reliably differentiate between the accounts in .procmailrc. There has been some partial progress, though: (0) I can have two fetchmails running concurrently when I rm ~/.fetchmail.pid manually (1) the

Re: wireless bridge, nic IP addressing

2004-02-25 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:59:12AM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: I just got my wireless internet this morning, and have run into a small problem. The wireless bridge, attached to my nic has been assigned a static IP (for the time being), and to get my nic (eth0) to find it, it was also

Re: Query Re Debian Install Onto LBA Disk with RedHat Partitions

2004-02-25 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:38:44AM +0930, Ben Minton wrote: I have an 80 GB HDD that I wish to install Debian 3r1 onto. As I originally learnt howto Linux via RedHat I do not want to make this an exclusive Debian system (sorry, not yet). No problem. Or rather ... your problem -- see below.

Re: apt-get debian-cd installs openoffice.org!!

2004-02-24 Thread Jan Minar
- resize a partition, whatever. to do that I think I need to create a custom install CD. I don't think you'd need a custom CD, anyway. [...] How do I stop apt-get from trying to install openoffice? Download the .debs, and use dpkg proper. There might be a better way, however. HTH. -- Jan Minar

Re: apt-get debian-cd installs openoffice.org!!

2004-02-24 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:09:30PM -0500, xucaen wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:56:11AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:03:37PM -0500, xucaen wrote: I added a new hard drive but I can't use the drive until I install debian on it. Hi, xucaen. You don't have

Re: creating swap partition

2004-02-24 Thread Jan Minar
quickie.. does each hard drive need it's own swap partition? No, but splitting the load across several disks/controllers might improve the performance. HTH -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:51:26PM -0500, xucaen wrote: hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling fs instead of ext2? Because 3 2. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: apt-get debian-cd installs openoffice.org!!

2004-02-24 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:29:09PM -0500, xucaen wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:38:30AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:09:30PM -0500, xucaen wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:56:11AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:03:37PM -0500, xucaen wrote

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:58:43PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Less likely to suffer catastrophic data loss in the event of a crash. Once upon a time, Jan converted his ext2 partitions to ext3. His understanding of the journalling options was even weaker than it is today. Days passed,

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:19:03AM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: Did Jan forget to change the file system type in /etc/fstab? Why would you think so? -- ``You know those mail clients: MS Outlook, mail(1), or even telnet(1). All of them suck. This one just sucks less.'' pgp0.pgp

Re: Shutdown and reboot doesn't unmount partitions

2004-02-23 Thread Jan Minar
to the fsck at startup. | FSCKFIX=yes HTH -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2004-02-23 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 05:04:13PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:49:20PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: I don't see anything in the Mutt doc that says trailing space(s) get stripped in the pager... and I can't see it being an xterm thing, so what's up? My mutt displays

Re: empty tty's

2004-02-22 Thread Jan Minar
consoles once. HTH -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dcgui problems

2004-02-22 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:55:22PM +, steven noble wrote: im running a mac with dcgui version 0.2.19, and because a mac only has a single click mouse i cannot AFAICT, there MUST be a way to emulate all the 3 mouse buttons. If not, tons of apps would be broken. HTH -- Jan Minar

Re: Cron problem?

2004-02-22 Thread Jan Minar
in place. Try playing to a null device first. (6) I'd like to have the .wav -- would you please post a link/send it to me offlist, if it's reasonably small (say 300KB)? HTH -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

/proc hidden features documentation [Was: Quasi-(un)deletion question]

2004-02-16 Thread Jan Minar
is quite different from other filesystems in many ways. :) Is it documented? I wasn't able to find anything. Particularly, /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt is moot here. I imagine there are other hidden features... -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed

Re: cdparanoia a song in negative space

2004-02-15 Thread Jan Minar
, and cut the piece of interest in a sound editor (e.g. audacity(1)). HTH. Jan. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: logging stdin stdout

2004-02-15 Thread Jan Minar
. For example program | tee file will log only the stdout, and tee file | program | tee file will log at first the stdin and just after the stdout into the file, so in a separated way. man sh /^REDIRECTION -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Jan Minar
to do is to add a fork at the beginning of the callee code. The parent would continue normally, and the child would copy the deleted_file (on the inherited descriptor) to a recovered_file. HTH. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:03:06PM -0500, Tim Otten wrote: file (because the filesystem was mounted, and the man page doesn't say whether it's safe to edit a live filesystem), but the 'dump' command worked fine in a test that I just did. It's not. You did it the most right way. -- Jan Minar

Re: cdparanoia a song in negative space

2004-02-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:22:53PM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: yeah, ripping the whole cd just doesn't see the negative space. i don't even know how they recorded this, let alone how i can get it off They probably used a microphone? Seriously, this might be yet another

Re: eth0/eth1 which one?

2004-02-13 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:23:22PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 11:46:58AM +0800, Shaddy.Baddah wrote: Finally! Thank you Jan. Some of the suggestions are pretty convenient, like dmesg, which should give you the vendor details, but that would break down if they are the

Re: eth0/eth1 which one?

2004-02-12 Thread Jan Minar
or may not find this useful: | nameif (8) - name network interfaces based on MAC addresses HTH. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: odd errors in dmesg log

2004-02-11 Thread Jan Minar
are configured, whichever is loaded first shall be used. If ACPI can't do for you what APM can, something like acpi=off on the kernel command line should do, or simply don't load the ACPI module(s), and the APM module shall load ok. HTH -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm

Re: keep x session open

2004-02-11 Thread Jan Minar
handle it. But I'm Yes, only you'd have to configure them to accept requests from both users in question. HTH -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gzip segmentation fault on Woody

2004-02-11 Thread Jan Minar
it from the gzip*.deb (don't forget the libraries it depends on). (4) Install the real gzip, from your chosen distribution flavour. (5) Compare the two binaries, find the problem, fail a bug possibly. HTH. Jan. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0

Re: decompress install error

2004-02-11 Thread Jan Minar
65535. I guess the error isn't fatal, and the files untar just fine, only the group ownership is bogus? HTH. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Permissions

2004-02-11 Thread Jan Minar
fragile, and ugly. HTH. Jan. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Permissions

2004-02-11 Thread Jan Minar
. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SSL capable FTP _client_?

2004-02-11 Thread Jan Minar
in fact has a SSL support, possibly disabled at compile-time. HTH, Jan. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sed trouble: \'a to รก etc

2004-02-09 Thread Jan Minar
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Re: alt-right-click in xterm

2004-02-09 Thread Jan Minar
. The windows resizing/moving is the Window Manager business. Consult your twm/fvwm/enlightenment/sawfish/ratpoison/whatever documentation. And btw, did you mean Right-AltLeft-Mouse-Button or rather AltRight-Mouse-Button? HTH. Jan. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm

Re: admin type user

2004-02-03 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:48:27PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: If a user wanted to hide a subdirectory, couldn't they just change the group on it? IIRC, group access only goes one level deep. Have you tried it, monique? ;-) -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm

Re: Grub/Lilo problems

2004-02-03 Thread Jan Minar
-get install grub-doc; info grub). Just to give you something to start with, here is my menu.lst snippet: | title Linux 2.4.24-jan #8 | kernel (hd0,4)/bzImage-2.4.24-jan.build8 root=/dev/hda6 video=neo | boot HTH, Jan. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9

Re: arabic unicode in terminals

2004-02-02 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 03:15:19PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sun, 01 Feb 2004 04:19:36AM +0100, Jan Minar insinuated: On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:32:46PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: which i understand has good UTF-8 support[1]). but i still get all kinds of non-arabic characters

Re: Who uses /etc/email-addresses?

2004-02-02 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 03:07:28PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 04:21:07AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: | On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:12:04PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: | Who uses /etc/email-addresses? | | reportbug(1) does, for example. reportbug does

Re: Saving mice from cats ...

2004-02-02 Thread Jan Minar
, and simply played it on a separate X display, or closed the app when I wanted to do something different. Minimizing helped, too, maybe. I really can't remember quite clearly. HTH -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: admin type user

2004-02-02 Thread Jan Minar
something like ``chroot /home'', but as rootshells go, escaping the jail would be trivial, AFAIK. HTH. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Who uses /etc/email-addresses?

2004-02-02 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 02:39:32AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: tracks of the bugs... #224223: reportbug: Crash when /etc/email-addresses is not readable #224231: reportbug: `' in /etc/passwd gecos field means `User' for any user `user', ... speak for themselves. If you were bold enough, you

Re: Saving mouse from catlike applications

2004-01-31 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 06:28:43PM +0100, David Baron wrote: Yes, some of those games eat the mouse and you can no longer use it outside the game's window. How does one configure to keep the cats off the mice? Perhaps you could be more specific, David? -- Jan Minar Please

Re: [OT] TCP/IP help needed: MTU Discovery

2004-01-31 Thread Jan Minar
Short one: traceroute/ping Long one: RFCs usually won't give you the whole picture. A good intro book on TCP/IP will. [No, I didn't read your mail in lenght... ;-(] -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: aptitude -f oddity

2004-01-31 Thread Jan Minar
these added, and I have removed them already, and have searched for any lingering remnants, and do not see any. Hmm, the aptitude is waay too long for my taste, anyway. Have you tried to run aptitude interactively? HTH. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9

Re: arabic unicode in terminals

2004-01-31 Thread Jan Minar
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Re: Who uses /etc/email-addresses?

2004-01-31 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:12:04PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: Who uses /etc/email-addresses? Hi, Nano! reportbug(1) does, for example. HTH, Jan. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mpalyer -vo problem

2004-01-31 Thread Jan Minar
-vo option... i tried almost every -vo option that i can... and none of them works... So you've tried the invalid ones so far, haven't you? What about trying some of the valid ones? Useful answers require useful questions. Google for ``asking smart questions''. HTH. -- Jan Minar

Re: elinks -dump without tables

2004-01-27 Thread Jan Minar
wrote a decent HTML tables - ASCII art converter. And frames. Text browsers in Debian suck, simply. Some tables just can't be shrinked anymore. It would be hard to fit the following in less than 28 characters, for example: 123456 foobarbaz 67859.34566 -- Jan Minar Please don't

Re: CDparanoia for OSX Panther

2004-01-27 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:03:05AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know if your program will work with Mac OSX 10.3.2? Sure I do! What would you expect? -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: basic tcp ip command (route) acts weirdly!!

2004-01-27 Thread Jan Minar
documentation for all these tools. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: basic tcp ip command (route) acts weirdly!!

2004-01-27 Thread Jan Minar
this route handles the inet (IPv4 friends) family, I believe. However, this could be regarded a --help bug, and you might consider filing a bugreport. To do this, install the reportbug package (apt-get install reportbug) if you haven't installed it already, and issue the reportbug command. Jan. -- Jan

Re: Sound on startup

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 07:30:31PM -0500, Rajesh Menon wrote: [...] not sure where to add these lines. Either among the /etc/rc?.d/* scripts, or as a post-install in /etc/modules.conf (man update-modules). HTH -- Jan Minar Please

Re: Derivative effects.

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
architecture is what you call for ;-) apt-get -y kernel-image-2.6.1-v850 crashme echo \ $'#!/bin/sh\n/usr/bin/crashme' /etc/rc2.d/S99crashme reboot # ;-)) -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: shell script question

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 02:26:49PM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: There's no need for a script. Just use wget - man wget. Or ncftp. HTH. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: logs rapidly fill /var partition

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
- not just when using rm. If you recompile your kernel (or perhaps just the module), I'm guessing you see these extra messages disappear from your logs. Recompilation shouldn't be a needed -- man syslog.conf for details. HTH. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed

Re: kernel update

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
are quite verbose, it's rather a ``wizard'' ;-) -- even a complete newbie shouldn't feel lost, doing such a wizardy thing as a kernel installation. If you run GRUB for example, as I do, however, you'll have to edit the bootloader's configs yourself. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me

Re: changing pcmcia device interfaces

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 08:51:29AM -0600, matt zagrabelny wrote: Is nameif(8) what you want? filename:/lib/modules/2.4.21/pcmcia/pcmf502r.o Oops: Don't you have your kernel patched? At least 2 local root exploits were reported since 2.4.21 that I _know_ about. -- Jan Minar

Re: booting problem with tpconfig after removing it

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
/init.d xyz start and discovered that /etc/init.d/tpconfig hangs. In the shell I could kill it with Ctrl-C, but during boot up there was no chance to kill it. Hi, Jan (heh! :-) You haven't file a bugreport, have you? Please do ``reportbug tpconfig''. Jan. -- Jan Minar Please

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
7.3 123.29 | U K 4.7 60 78.33 | USA 12.9290.3 44.44 As any person capable of reading can see, The US *are* the worst! -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Unable to disable IDE DMA on boot

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
then. But when you need a module to access the disk, then you should be able to obtain a rootshell _before_ the module is loaded, and/or issue the hdparm command. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: elinks -dump without tables

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
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Re: how to config ethernet

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
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Re: iptables generates unwanted output

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
the LOG entries (iptables-{sav,restor}e(8)) might be of some help, here), if the cadence is unbearable. HTH. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: strange libvorbis0 problem

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
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Re: Derivative effects.

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
. dict -djargon unix ;-) -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cron - stop console logging

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
-/var/log/syslog | #cron.* /var/log/cron.log | daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log snip Or have you uncommented it yourself, and forgot to mention it in your post? -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9

Re: demangling text columns

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
) ;-) Are there tools for that? Surprise, surprite: cut(1) ;-) -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cron - stop console logging

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
games with your fs. Raise your awareness. So, maybe /sbin/syslogd was somehow disappeared? Can I reinstall this package without removing it (along with packages dependent on it) and installing it again from scratch? AFAIK, ``apt-get install --reinstall sysklogd'' should do. HTH, Jan. -- Jan

Re: getting Sarge

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
access, and install the rest off the network. The more CDs you have, the more convenience you'll get when the network is down/slow/f up. HTH -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
enemies, and we tend to kill people before burying them! -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 06:59:04PM -0600, Colin Keefe wrote: * Paul M Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-26 19:00 -0500]: On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 04:49:26AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 05:01:17PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: Here's another view of that data: What

Re: Derivative effects.

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
expect Linux to work. After all, it was just a DOS. This is not to start a flamewar, but rather to inform the reader the real meaning of the words sometimes isn't the obvious one. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Boot to execute lilo

2004-01-23 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:37:05AM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 07:18:55PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:04:49PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote: At the boot: prompt, try linux single root=/dev/hda2 (replace hd2 with the correct partition for your

Re: mutt and Return-path

2004-01-23 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:07:05PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:40:02PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:41:30AM -0500, Mike Mueller wrote: Is there significance to the Return-path value? Basically, it tells the addressee ``Don't reply

Skipping the X when switching through the vt's

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
Hi. What is the simplest/most ellegant way to skip the console upon which X runs, when switching through the consoles using Alt-LeftArrow or Alt-RightArrow respectively? Would that be simpler than hacking the kernel code? -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9

Re: mutt and Return-path

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
/rfc/rfc822 Is this what you asked for? Jan. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problem installing Debian 3.0 r1 on Promise Ultra100 TX2 Controller

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
the Function-keys switchable helpscreens--just append ``acpi=off'' to the kernel commandline there. HTH -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FileSystems, Partition sizes, LARGE files??

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
a sense, maybe. Separating the system is probably a good idea anyway, should a fs corruption occur. HTH. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ddt-client error ld.so: Incorrectly built binary

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
, and will probably not work with a standard-compliant C library apart from certain versions of glibc. The support for this type of code might get dropped in the future. Bugreport the maintainers or fix the code yourself. HTH. Jan. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9

Re: Debugging network problems

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
:[decent OS + decent HW]:eth1: - [DSL] You should be able to use the fax email feature, and sniff with tcpdump on either of the eth[01] interfaces. HTH, Jan. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: batch modify user config files

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
: exec/exit statement, if-clause spanning whole the file, etc. (2) break the syntax -- maybe, I cannot come up an example (3) the file might not exist, and maybe some (fixed) header should be prepended then? HTH -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed

Re: partitions

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
with this. HTH, Jan. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ssh stopped working

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
not the server, but the client where the problem lies? (5) Debugging both sshd ssh with strace(1), you can get a really detailed picture of what's going on; combine with (3). HTH, Jan. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ddt-client error ld.so: Incorrectly built binary

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:47:07AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: - Original Message - From: Jan Minar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 12:55 AM Subject: Re: ddt-client error ld.so: Incorrectly built binary snip The workaround would

Re: X windows

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
in the Linus' tree in the 2.4.18 times, but is a part of it now. Go get the 2.4.24. And it's a window system called ``X'', not a system called ``X Windows'', by the way. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Programs with colourful, moving, images???

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:09:33PM +0100, Alex Bartok wrote: From: Jan Minar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] xmms(1) visualization plugins. Whoa, those give even me the creeps sometimes, that's gotta work ;) You could even hook a microphone and/or a mechanical movement to electrical potential

OT: TV ruines our life [Was: Programs with colourful, moving, images???]

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
Nonono! Not another OT thread! Not this week... OK, why not ;-) On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:47:47PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:09:47PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:15:49PM +0100, Iwan van der Kleyn wrote: My three month old daughter

Re: Boot to execute lilo

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
. Especially the part in the parentheses. /dev/hda2 is the first IDE harddisk, 2nd primary partition. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[SOLVED] Re: Boot to execute lilo

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
/mnt (corresponds to /dev/hda2) .) chroot /mnt .) lilo (it complains that it can't find /proc/partions but nevertheless it's working) ``mount proc -t proc /proc'' beforehead would do. .) exit .) umount /mnt .) reboot -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm

Re: Console mode (80x25) in Debian Woody

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
resolutions out of a PC video hardware (not only VGA/SVGA, IIRC). Why do you want 80x25 anyway, I wonder? -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Framebuffer help

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:21:45AM -0800, Ralph Bacolod wrote: Hi! I have a knoppix hd installed on a laptop. I want to view images in the console. I can view images as root. How can i do it as an ordinary user? I already added myself to group tty. Which program do you use? -- Jan Minar

Re: Modem

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:42:27PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: Check the file permissions. Are you in the dialout group? pppd tends to reset the permissions, so I have to chmod g+w /dev/ttyS1 each time I want to switch from pppd to minicom. HTH, YMMW. -- Jan Minar Please

Re: Programs with colourful, moving, images???

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
-- or is this just another urban legend? colourful wheels seem to attrect her attention like a magnet. So therefore my question. Are there any other programs, demos like glxgears, which display some sort of big, animated figures?? xmms(1) visualization plugins. -- Jan Minar

Re: Modem

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:50:30PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Jan Minar writes: pppd tends to reset the permissions, so I have to chmod g+w /dev/ttyS1 each time I want to switch from pppd to minicom. Pppd should restore the permissions unless you kill -9 it. Exactly what I did

Re: Automatically setiting mtu

2004-01-19 Thread Jan Minar
eth0 mtu 6969 where `6969' is the desired new MTU, in octets. You can set this in /etc/network/interfaces as a pre-up command, at least. HTH. Jan. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: root pass

2004-01-19 Thread Jan Minar
physical access, and/or setting up bootup/bootloader passwords is a necessity when security is an issue. HTH, Jan. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Login

2004-01-19 Thread Jan Minar
is a security disaster. Use ssh instead. IIRC, securetty(5) is what you should read; do ``tty'' at the command prompt, to get the name of a tty you are currently working on. Also, some people prefer sudo to su; it fits some tasks better. HTH, YMMW, HAND. Jan. -- Jan Minar

Re: Boot to execute lilo

2004-01-19 Thread Jan Minar
just to run lilo and then reboot regularly. Maybe you'd be even able to use this; I tend to use the Debian Binary-1 CD. HTH, YMMW. Jan. -- Jan Minar Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Login

2004-01-19 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:37:36AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:24:34PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: Just be aware that telnet is a security disaster. Use ssh instead. Not if you're using IPSec. Ah, yes. I have to look into IPSec at last ;-) -- Jan Minar

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