Re: Backspace key

2000-12-09 Thread Mike Merten
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 08:35:42PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:36:37PM +, Glyn Millington wrote: -| -|I've been upgrading things from Woody - a foolhardy venture but everythng -|went well amd works beautifully apart from my backspace key which now

Re: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed : QUEZACO ??

2000-10-20 Thread Mike Merten
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 05:07:26AM -0400, wmwaisse wrote: Sébastien Kalt wrote: Oct 5 14:13:28 kahuna kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for dpkg... Oct 5 14:13:29 kahuna last message repeated 2 times Oct 5 14:13:29 kahuna kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kupdate...

Re: init 3 does nothing

2000-09-29 Thread Mike Merten
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:59:51AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: No need to define a new runlevel, just use update-rc.d. Debian sets up runlevels 2-5 as identical to each other with the expectation that users who want to use them for process/daemon control will customize the runlevels to

Re: SW under /usr/local/

2000-09-28 Thread Mike Merten
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 11:20:10PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: Quick question on administration: what exactly is the best way to deal with locally installed software from source under the /usr/local/ or /opt/ tree? I use GNU stow, but never actually saw anyone suggesting this to be *the*

Re: (ana)cron local time changing ?

1999-03-29 Thread Mike Merten
time, Antal AFAIK, this is a historical feature of cron. The fix is to not schedule anything between 2 and 3 AM. If you do, once a year it won't get run, and once a year it may well get run twice. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: netstat entry

1999-03-28 Thread Mike Merten
pavlov, or xferlog, for that matter. Any ideas where else I can look if my system has been accessed by an outsider? Thanks, Andrew I may be mistaken, but I believe pavlov.midco.net is one of the Debian mirrors you access when you use http.us.debian.org. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Use apt to form a partial local mirror of Slink -- how?

1999-03-25 Thread Mike Merten
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:55:47AM -0600, Mike Merten wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 11:12:37PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: I have installed Slink on my desktop using apt. It downloaded a whole lot of package files to do this (but dselect, I think, has now deleted them). Now I have

Re: NIC SMC EZ 1211 10/100 TX

1999-03-24 Thread Mike Merten
PROTECTED] For the SMC EZ 1211 you'll need to use the Realtek driver (rtl8139). Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Use apt to form a partial local mirror of Slink -- how?

1999-03-24 Thread Mike Merten
and update it from there. The only problem is, the install script gets overwritten after each apt upgrade... :/ Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

net-pf-19

1999-03-22 Thread Mike Merten
Which module does net-pf-19 refer to? Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: netstd in potato?

1999-03-21 Thread Mike Merten
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen I noticed the same thing, and LOTS of packages depend on it. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: [off-topic] auto-replies

1999-03-18 Thread Mike Merten
such responses. Yep, I'm getting them too :/ Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: HELP! Can't get connected

1999-03-17 Thread Mike Merten
not allow any operations with out complete installation. Thanks, Woodrow Run the pppconfig utility. HTH, Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: win-printer??

1999-03-17 Thread Mike Merten
very happy with on the dos/w95 side of my box. http://www.rpi.edu/~normat/technical/ppa/index.html OK Hi, I'm curs^H^H^H^Hblessed with a HP 720c and was able to get it printing postscript in bw using the above mentioned ppa driver and gs. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ

sendmail broken

1999-03-16 Thread Mike Merten
the lists. -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Subject: Potato, sendmail, glibc 2.1, and libdb2

1999-03-16 Thread Mike Merten
. (WHEW!) Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

pseudo ttys

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
Hi, I'm running a 2.2.2 kernel with support for the /dev/pty filesystem (UNIX98 pty support) enabled. My question is this... does this obsolete the 64 or so /dev/ptyxx devices, or are they still used for something? Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
! Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
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Re: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
? will i still be left with a (mostly) usable system? (i'm willing to test it but not if my machine is going to be die) craig -- craig sanders Well, I just 'took the plunge' and everything SEEMS to be working... Mike with fingers crossed -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ

Re: fmirror/mirror/lftp ?

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
disconnect=true # compress_patt=Packages(-Master)? # max_delete_files=100% do_deletes=true As I said, this only gets unstable binary-i386 packages flattening all the symlinks (but if this is what you want, it works great). Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL

Re: pseudo ttys

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 12:56:34PM -0500, Alexander Stavitsky wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 10:42:48AM -0600, Mike Merten wrote: Hi, I'm running a 2.2.2 kernel with support for the /dev/pty filesystem (UNIX98 pty support) enabled. My question is this... does this obsolete the 64

Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows

1999-03-15 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 01:30:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *- On 15 Mar, Mike Merten wrote about Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 08:53:55AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as you were removing xdm with --purge or( _ in dselect). The My problem

Re: ping script for isp autologout

1999-03-14 Thread Mike Merten
with the intent of keeping your connection alive, and they can use this as grounds for terminating your service. Just a thought... Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Maximal Mount Count

1999-03-11 Thread Mike Merten
around, unless your willing to reinstall / repartition. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Help with PAP!

1999-03-11 Thread Mike Merten
of CHAT... should take care of everything for you. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: dselect removed (almost) everything

1999-03-11 Thread Mike Merten
and it will download and install somepackage plus all the needed packages in one step.) Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Maximal Mount Count

1999-03-10 Thread Mike Merten
was something more like this: # mount /dev/hda2 /mnt # cp -a /usr/* /mnt # umount /mnt # rm -r /usr/* # mount /dev/hda2 /usr Then edited /etc/fstab to add a line /dev/hda2 /usr ext2 defaults 0 2 Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Maximal Mount Count

1999-03-10 Thread Mike Merten
need to be in the root of every partition, for use by fsck... if you accidentally delete one, there's a command mklost+found that recreates it for you. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: file creation dates and SAMBA

1999-03-05 Thread Mike Merten
wrong on this, just ignore it ;) Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Big HD problems - How stuffed am I?

1999-03-01 Thread Mike Merten
timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hdb: DMA disabled ide0: reset: success This is the second of these drives I've owned, and the second that's given me problems like this. I've just about decided to stay clear of Quantums. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SMC EtherEZ PCI 10/100 (1211 TX)

1999-03-01 Thread Mike Merten
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 02:59:33PM -0600, Mike Merten wrote: Hi, I have an SMC EtherEZ 10/100 PCI network card and I'm having trouble getting it to work. I've read the Ethernet-HOWTO and Hardware-HOWTO, both of which mention several SMC cards, but none that match this one. It's a brand new

SMC EtherEZ PCI 10/100 (1211 TX)

1999-02-26 Thread Mike Merten
of the chipsets listed in the Ethernet-HOWTO. Can anybody help me with this card? At this point, even 'That card is not supported' would help. Thanks, Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

SMC EtherEZ PCI card (1211TX)

1999-02-25 Thread Mike Merten
: Unknown device 1211 (rev 10) ^ Haven't heard of this one... Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks, Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: USER and LOGNAME environment settings

1999-02-20 Thread Mike Merten
been writing bash shell scripts lately ;) Thanks! Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

USER and LOGNAME environment settings

1999-02-19 Thread Mike Merten
Hi, I was wondering what is the difference between the USER and LOGNAME environment variables, and under what situations would they be different? Thanks, Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: slink=frozen still??

1999-02-17 Thread Mike Merten
2000 isn't out yet is because they dont want to release until ALL the bugs are fixed ;) Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Help with lilo.conf and booting

1999-02-14 Thread Mike Merten
, and rebooted, my zip drive was recognized and worked fine. Hope this helps... Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: dircolors and LS_COLORS

1999-02-14 Thread Mike Merten
PROTECTED] /dev/null Try ~/.bashrc Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

autofs question

1999-02-13 Thread Mike Merten
/mount' and noticed that the directory it created for the filesystem showed a date of December 31, 1969??? I assume this is normal, since everything works, but why doesn't it show the correct creation date? Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

Re: Zip detection in Kernel2.2.0 Problems

1999-02-09 Thread Mike Merten
drive but gives an error (no disk), and also correctly identifies the HP printer attached to the drive. I'm using kernel boot params of 'parport=0x378,7 parport=0x278,5 lp=aut0' specified in lilo.conf with the append= command. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680

xfonts-100dpi upgrade

1999-02-08 Thread Mike Merten
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Re: X woes (potato)

1999-02-03 Thread Mike Merten
/X11/Xsession file at line 47. I added a line immediately before the 'default)' case containing ';;' and everything started working. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.angelfire.com/la/ironfoot ICQ# 28460680

Drive problems

1999-01-28 Thread Mike Merten
loss, but it does tend to worry me. TIA for any info on this. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.angelfire.com/la/ironfoot ICQ# 28460680

kernel 2.2 / Potato

1999-01-26 Thread Mike Merten
, sorry. and dies. (no big deal, just thought I'd mention it. Everything else (so far) is working good. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.angelfire.com/la/ironfoot ICQ# 28460680

Re: mutt and mbox file?

1998-07-19 Thread Mike Merten
On Sat, Jul 18, 1998 at 12:53:16PM -0400, Seth M. Landsman wrote: Greets, So I used mutt for a long time on my system and then redid my system to use debian when my old disk died. So I installed mutt via dselect as a .deb package instead of compiling from source. However, now when I

Re: passwords at Debian's FTP site

1998-07-19 Thread Mike Merten
On Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 01:10:08AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: He might not have his FTP client (e.g. Netscape) configured. I know I leave mine unconfigured to prevent people from putting ftp:// links in their page and snagging my email address by linking to a 2x2 transparent gif or

Re: Time Server

1998-07-15 Thread Mike Merten
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 11:45:26AM +0200, Pere Camps wrote: Put this in your /etc/cron.daily/set_date #!/bin/sh rdate -s clock.psu.edu /dev/null And your clock will be set every day. :-) Thanks for that one... I put it in my ip-up.d directory :) Mike -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: the time

1998-07-14 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 04:31:40PM -0400, David Parmet wrote: How do i change the date and time? date MMDDHHMM Mike -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: no new messages

1998-07-12 Thread Mike Merten
On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 05:24:12PM -0500, Mike Merten wrote: Just checked mail today and found no messages? Did I get bumped from the lists, or is there just nothing going on? Uhmmm... never mind. Just found 116 in my box :) (Good thing too... was beginning to exhibit signs

Re: HELP on getting diald to work

1998-07-12 Thread Mike Merten
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 03:31:27PM -0400, Keith Alen Vance wrote: I am trying to set up diald to connect to my isp automatically. I am running Debian 1.3 kernel 2.0.33 and I have ip masquerading setup and working. The problem is that when diald tries to connect it fails here is the error

Re: Newbie Questions...

1998-07-12 Thread Mike Merten
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 01:35:15PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. What do I need to do POP messages off the ISP mail server? I use Mutt to read from both my local mail spool file and to get non-local mail from my ISP using POP. Alternatively, you can set up Fetchmail to move mail from

Re: Newbie Questions... One more

1998-07-12 Thread Mike Merten
On Sun, Jul 12, 1998 at 01:39:58PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one more question. If I reply to the mail from my system, the mail get returned. I know this is what they discussed in the thread..but what is MUA ,how to set it... How do I set Reply-TO filed and where... Well,

Re: Here is a procmail filter for the Repeated Messages

1998-07-11 Thread Mike Merten
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 08:03:02AM -0700, Mike Schmitz wrote: I just used the original send date. D - Capital d gives a prompt - Delete messages matching: and I gave it: ~d -07/07/98 to delete messages older than 08/07/98. ~h PATTERN messages which contain PATTERN in the message

no new messages

1998-07-11 Thread Mike Merten
Just checked mail today and found no messages? Did I get bumped from the lists, or is there just nothing going on? Mike -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Here is a procmail filter for the Repeated Messages

1998-07-10 Thread Mike Merten
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 05:24:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here we go again with the returned messages to the list. The offending site is sistemia.it. This is the procmail filter that I am using for I noticed that the last bunch came from (or at least passed through)

Re: Here is a procmail filter for the Repeated Messages

1998-07-10 Thread Mike Merten
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 05:24:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yikes, Here we go again with the returned messages to the list. The offending site is sistemia.it. This is the procmail filter that I am using for now to divert this stuff. # temp fix :0: * ^X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL

Re: Here is a procmail filter for the Repeated Messages

1998-07-10 Thread Mike Merten
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 05:24:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yikes, Here we go again with the returned messages to the list. The offending site is sistemia.it. This is the procmail filter that I am using for now to divert this stuff. # temp fix :0: * ^X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL

Re: Smail Configuration

1998-07-10 Thread Mike Merten
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 12:52:52AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 12:20:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi , I have a mail account at my ISP which is SMTP. Can somebody please explain to me how to set up smail so that I can send and receive mails from my

Re: Repeated messages?

1998-07-09 Thread Mike Merten
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 02:59:05PM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Is it just me, or am I getting messages from two or three days ago again? --Evan, who swears he's seed the dir *.ext /s msg before... ---And the Gateway message... and others... Naw, not just you... I just checked email (last

Mail Loop???

1998-07-09 Thread Mike Merten
Help! I seem to be getting many duplicate messages from debian-user... some are actually triplicates. In case it helps, here's one including all the headers. Mike (Please make it stop, daddy!) = From ironfoot Wed Jul

Re: Making modem talk........................

1998-07-08 Thread Mike Merten
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 02:05:10PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Your modem is most likely Plug-N-Play. In order to initialize Plug-N-Play devices you need the isapnp package. Use dselect to install this package. You'll then need to customize the /etc/isapnp.conf file. Try to verify

Re: Mutt configuration

1998-07-07 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 09:27:08AM -0700, Mike Schmitz wrote: set nohold set mbox=~/mbox Mike, Thanks for the info. The 'nohold' variable was unrecognized by Mutt when I added it to the Muttrc file, however, it did point me in the right direction. Another search of the docs turned up a

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-07 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 09:51:52PM +0200, Shiraz Sayani wrote: I seem to have been receiving some spam which started after I asked a question on this list (note the new mung). Has anyone else had the same? Am I being paranoid, or is it possible some spammer is mining the archives of these

Re: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

1998-07-07 Thread Mike Merten
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 08:53:28AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: Hallo, I have also received the beanie-bag spam. I received the followin message last week and just want to know whether some of you did also receive it: Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 00:13:20 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Mutt configuration

1998-07-05 Thread Mike Merten
Hi everyone, I have a problem configuring Mutt. All mail, unless I delete it, is saved in my spoolfile. I'm trying to configure the mbox-hook command to move all read mail to a different folder (mbox) but am unable to get it to work. The spool file is the users default mail file in