backup script changes permissions

2008-04-06 Thread Haines Brown
ge: find / -print | egrep -v "^/media|^/proc|^/sys" | cpio -pdmuv /media/mirror/"$dirName" 2>&1 | cat -vT >/home/brownh/.backup.log However, it seems to convert ownership of all files backed up to brownh:brownh. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM

Re: backup script changes permissions

2008-04-06 Thread Haines Brown
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:28:51AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: >> I'be brought up my backup script for discussion before, and folks where >> helpful in solving a problem, but the solution created another. Now all >> files

Re: backup script changes permissions

2008-04-06 Thread Haines Brown
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:28:51AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: >> I'be brought up my backup script for discussion before, and folks where >> helpful in solving a problem, but the solution created another. > > I did not read

Re: backup script changes permissions

2008-04-06 Thread Haines Brown
ot found it as necessary to recover single files as I used to, and doing so does not seem at all difficult with backup2l. I'm giving it a look. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5

2008-04-06 Thread Haines Brown
pen shared object file: No such file or directory The application uses libstdc++6 >= 4.1.0, but the error suggests it is turning instead to libstdc++.so.5. The libg++2.8.1.3-glibc2.2 is not installed. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5

2008-04-07 Thread Haines Brown
"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 04/06/2008 08:45 PM, Haines Brown wrote: >> This a common error message, but a search on line didn't resolve it. >> >> I'm running debian etch. I installed an application, gmfsk, deb, which >> went

Re: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5

2008-04-07 Thread Haines Brown
c++6 installed on your machine? Thanks, raju, that was the answer. I inferred from the package description that it dependend on libstdc++6 and so assumed, incorrectly as it turned out, that it didn't need libstdc++5. I installed the libstdc++5 and all's well. -- Haines Br

Re: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5

2008-04-07 Thread Haines Brown
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 06:48:37AM -0400, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: >> "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Where did you get that copy of gmfsk from? >> >&

missing codecs.conf

2008-04-07 Thread Haines Brown
ed mplayer and then reinstalled it after installing win32codecs? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5

2008-04-07 Thread Haines Brown
ny package whose name or description matched "libstdc++.so.5.0.7" It occurred to me that something else might need libstdc++.so.5, and so decided against removing it, for it does not harm there, even if not needed by this particular application. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: missing codecs.conf

2008-04-07 Thread Haines Brown
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Haines Brown wrote: > libavformat file format detected. >> LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed >> >> Exiting... (End of file) >> >> So I did >> >>$ mplayer -v

Re: missing codecs.conf

2008-04-08 Thread Haines Brown
to hdc, but the defalt mplayer configuration looks for /dev/dvd. I put a line in ~/.mplayer/config that points instead to dvd3, and it now works. Thanks for your patience. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sidux

2008-04-14 Thread Haines Brown
I've installed (not many so far because I started with only a base system), work fine. I don't bother with any desktop manager, but use fluxbox instead. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: proper way to change ip and hostname

2005-07-26 Thread Haines Brown
et, changed /etc/hostname, and rebooted; nothing else. As far as I can make out after a month, this procedure worked beautifully. I can think of ways it could lead to a problem or two, but I don't think that denies the basic soundness of the approach. Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

cross install; cross platforms

2005-07-28 Thread Haines Brown
r system (after changing hostname and fstab appropriately)? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

re-linking synonyms

2005-07-30 Thread Haines Brown
fig and came up with no obvious answer on how to re-link. Googling brought up material mostly about databases. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sarge debootstrap missing resolve.conf

2005-07-30 Thread Haines Brown
vconf directory. Should I just copy over that directory and all its contents? Is the symlink from /etc/resolv.conf still needed? I'm aiming to install kernel 2.6.8-11-2-686 -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: sarge debootstrap missing resolve.conf

2005-07-30 Thread Haines Brown
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Haines Brown writes: > > After running cdebootstrap on a new install of sarge (no kernel yet), I > > found that /etc/resolv.conf was missing. > > A long-standing bug. /etc/resolv.conf should be in basefiles or something >

gnus sources.list: ambivalent results for security updates

2005-08-13 Thread Haines Brown
to which I chroot has a 2.6.8-2-686 kernel, while the booted system has a 2.4.27-2-386 kernel. Is this difference relevant? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

grub-install strange error

2005-08-13 Thread Haines Brown
rub package was originally installed from a running system (kernel 2.4.27-2-386), by mounting the target disk that has kernel 2.6.8-2-686 and installing grub from a chroot prompt. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

resolvconf configuration

2005-08-16 Thread Haines Brown
-up.d/ directory is empty. Also, /etc/network/run --> /dev/shm/ifstate is empty. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

uncompressing .sitx with unstuff

2005-08-17 Thread Haines Brown
what to make of this error statement. Is there a non-proprietary way to decompress .sitx files? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

loopback interface does not come up

2005-08-17 Thread Haines Brown
55 dns-nameserver 192.168.111.1 Postfix installation said to put a dns-nameserver line here, and I put in the address of the firewall. I have in /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.2 -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Can't create .Xauthority for users

2005-08-18 Thread Haines Brown
lines enjoyed by eth1: Link encap: Ethernet HWadd... and the line inet addr: ... Interrupt:NNN Base address:NNN In /etc/network/interfaces I must use "iface eth1 inet dhcp" because the eth0 is down and does not support communications. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To

Can't create .Xauthority for users

2005-08-18 Thread Haines Brown
s I must use "iface eth1 inet dhcp" because the eth0 is down and does not support communications. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't create .Xauthority for users

2005-08-19 Thread Haines Brown
> > On Thursday 18 August 2005 16:26, Haines Brown wrote: > > I'm setting up a new machine with 2.6.8-2-686 kernel on sarge. Things > > seem to be working except for one thing: Users can't start the x > > server (root has no problem). > > > > W

Re: Sarge, kernel 2.4 versus 2.6, issues: random boot, sound, usb

2005-08-24 Thread Haines Brown
On issue 2, I discovered the hard way that if I have USB boot support set up in BIOS, and try to boot with an USB device connected, it gets me into trouble. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

User can't run xmms despite permission setup

2005-08-27 Thread Haines Brown
ev/mixer having 666 permisions. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FIFO stuck

2005-08-28 Thread Haines Brown
checked printer cable, that the printer is seen, the driver loaded. In desperation I temporarily opened /dev/lpr0 permission: $ ls -l /dev/lp0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root lp 6, 0 Jul 31 18:54 /dev/lp0 and put myself into the /etc/group/lp -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUB

Re: Alt+numbers for special characters (e with acute accent, for example)

2005-08-30 Thread Haines Brown
I find it difficult to reply to this query when it is mime encoded (I use a text based MTA: emacs rmail). -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

can't unlock /dev/lp0

2005-09-02 Thread Haines Brown
l/lpd/lp:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ :pl#66:\ :pw#80:\ :pc#150:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: The permission situation: $ ls -l /dev/lp0 crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 0 Jul 31 18:54 /dev/lp0 $ cat /etc/group | grep lp lp:x:7:brownh --

ALSA setup fails for user

2005-09-03 Thread Haines Brown
card, and the onboard sound sc97 chip is disabled in BIOS. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mounting USB drive: "FIFO stuck"

2005-09-03 Thread Haines Brown
at /etc/group | grep disk disk:x:6: -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mounting USB drive: "FIFO stuck"

2005-09-03 Thread Haines Brown
peats itself when fetchmail runs again in half an hour. Again, the parport_pc and parport modules are loaded and being used. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ALSA setup fails for user

2005-09-05 Thread Haines Brown
teface such as /dev/snd/pcmC0D0? It may be simply that the config file needs modification, and after a reboot I'm loosing the custom configuration I create by running alsaconf. I suspect I need /etc/asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc. I'm not sure what to put in them and their syntax. --

Re: ALSA setup fails for user

2005-09-06 Thread Haines Brown
> On 9/5/05, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAIK, the interface being used is ALSA. :) I don't think ALSA > cares about anything in /dev. Interesting. Where would that interface be located? > So if you reboot, sound doesn't work, but if you then reco

Re: ALSA setup fails for user

2005-09-06 Thread Haines Brown
> On 9/5/05, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAIK, the interface being used is ALSA. :) I don't think ALSA > cares about anything in /dev. Interesting. Where would that interface be located? > So if you reboot, sound doesn't work, but if you then reco

can't open lp device

2005-09-06 Thread Haines Brown
he print server to communicate. Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't open lp device

2005-09-08 Thread Haines Brown
> Haines Brown wrote: > > I've returned to this problem after struggling with other > > matters. I'm running kernel 2.6.8-2-686 with sarge. I've > > installed lprng. > > You could try changing in /etc/printcap > > :lp=/dev/lp0:\ > &g

device file permissions the debian way

2005-09-11 Thread Haines Brown
up. I've been warned not to create new groups, and so wonder what I should do. There are no relevant log messages. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

hotplug lacks /etc/hotplug/usermap file

2005-09-12 Thread Haines Brown
etect the camera (Canon Powershot A510). -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

permission of script linked to cron

2007-10-22 Thread Haines Brown
ermission just because it is in user's directory? b) Why does the script snippet above not work? c) How can I do what this script snippet intends without exposing my plain text password? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: permission of script linked to cron

2007-10-22 Thread Haines Brown
Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Haines Brown wrote: > > I have a script, ~/scripts/backup, owned by root, that mounts an > > external UPS drive, creates a directory based on date, and backs up my > > hard disk with the exception of a few directories.

fetchmail authorization failure

2007-10-25 Thread Haines Brown
configuration source at position 4 The problem here is that I don't use a GNOME (or any) desktop, although I run a few GNOME applications. I've no idea what's going on here, but it seems to involve resolving an address. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM

Re: fetchmail authorization failure

2007-10-26 Thread Haines Brown
they alerted me to the change by sending me an HTML message, which I tend not to read because I use a text-based mail reader. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

locales broken

2007-10-26 Thread Haines Brown
quot;en_US" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). locales/etch uptodate 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 I tried to install locales, but couldn't for the same reason. Can I and should I uninstall locales and th

SMTP smart host authentication fails

2007-10-26 Thread Haines Brown
x27;ve been using many months. Could it be that the server does not like the hostname "teufel" in my address? I know that I have to edit messages sent to this newsgroup by removing it from the address on the From: line. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMTP smart host authentication fails

2007-10-27 Thread Haines Brown
TECTED] R=smarthost defer (-1): lookup of host "smtp.hartford-hwp.com" failed in smarthost router 2007-10-27 08:51:05 1Ill85-0002gD-1O => brownh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=local_user T=mail_spool I'm not being authenticated on the SMTP server. -- Haines Brown

Re: SMTP smart host authentication fails

2007-10-27 Thread Haines Brown
7;m using debian Etch)? That is, does reconfiguring Exim also restart inetd, and does restarting inetd also rescan Exim4 configuration? # dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config # /usr/sbin/initd restart -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMTP smart host authentication fails

2007-10-27 Thread Haines Brown
t > > > > There is no such file as /usr/sbin/initd to restart. > > However, there is /etc/init.d/exim4 restart. Ouch. I was led astray here. Running the command didn't have cause feedback, which I took as good news. I'm now using # invoke-rc.d exim4 restart ,

Re: SMTP smart host authentication fails

2007-10-28 Thread Haines Brown
t 587. This may solve my problem. > according to /etc/services that's ssmtp. But who cares? You tell the > firewall what port to open. Your ISP told you what port to use so you > tell the firewall and you tell exim. Tell exim4 the port to use? Where would that be? -- Ha

Re: SMTP smart host authentication fails

2007-10-28 Thread Haines Brown
t's apparently not what I want to do): port = 587 in perhaps /exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp. Perhaps If I had the time I could extract a clearer picture from the book. Thanks for the help. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUB

Re: mouse emulation with X

2007-10-29 Thread Haines Brown
er is moved over a button, typing 5 from the keypad has the effect of clicking the left mouse button. I don't know where the operation of MouseKeys is documented. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: fetchmail authorization failure

2007-10-29 Thread Haines Brown
So, out of the blue, I lost any connection to the POP and SMTP servers. Since then I have aquired the information needed to restore e-mail service. As for K's suggestion, I already planned to migrate from RMAIL to mutt when the opportunity arose. -- Haine

Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-07 Thread Haines Brown
how to do that for a usb-key. Is it usually done with a proprietary low-level format utility? Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-07 Thread Haines Brown
2 sectors/track, 1009 cylinders Units = cylinders of 992 * 512 = 507904 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 11009 500433b W95 FAT32 This looks OK. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Haines Brown
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > n Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:22:54PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > What device are we talking about: What device and what partition on the > device? > > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/sdd bs=512 count=1

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Haines Brown
Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Haines Brown wrote: > > Kiran, > > Thanks for the help. I should emphazie that my promblem is not > > mounting the usb-key drive, but only deleting the files on it. I can > > copy those files, but not delete or

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Haines Brown
# mkdosfs -I /dev/sdd mkdosfs 2.11 (12 Mar 2005): when I mounted it, the files remain. Hoever, for some reason my xterm displays them in green, while files are normally displayed in black. I can add and then delete a test file on the device, which also shows up green. -- Haines Brown

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Haines Brown
C=0x80 ASCQ=0x0ASC=0x80 ASCQ=0x0 Nov 8 16:41:21 teufel kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 109928 Nov 8 16:41:21 teufel kernel: printk: 113 messages suppressed. Nov 8 16:41:21 teufel kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdd, logical block 13741 ... --

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-09 Thread Haines Brown
s. > > Try: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdd # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd [nothing: hang] -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-11 Thread Haines Brown
ounted device: # mkdosfs /dev/sdd1 Mount and check if files can be added, read and removed from the partition. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Locale Problem

2007-11-16 Thread Haines Brown
ve to be removed from the /etc/default/locale list? -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

wget initialization syntax errors

2007-11-25 Thread Haines Brown
uncommented line in ~/.wgetrc other than the line number 12 "--mirror", I get: ~$ wget http://www.USS-Irex.info wget: Syntax error in /home/brownh/.wgetrc at line 13. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

mtab SNAFU

2007-11-25 Thread Haines Brown
boot? Multiple instances of mounting is a common problem, but in all the discussion, I've yet to see a definitive answer. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wget initialization syntax errors

2007-11-25 Thread Haines Brown
"s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I created ~/.wgetrc and put into it simple options such as: > > > >--mirror > You need to man wget and learn what rc file option does what you > want, if

Re: mtab SNAFU

2007-11-25 Thread Haines Brown
"David Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 25 Nov 2007 10:59:25 -0500, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > desperation I deleted the multiple instances from /etc/mtab. I > > should have consulted first, but didn't want to be pain. ... &

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-27 Thread Haines Brown
macs modes from a console, as far as I know, which for me is a big advantage (independent of the X windows system). -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mtab SNAFU

2007-11-27 Thread Haines Brown
Dominique, Thanks for your reply. Yes, I sometimes run into trouble by having too many different USB drives to mount. I got the impression that configuring udev was the answer, but I was intimidated by the coding necessary to do it. > On my side, to be sure that a usb-device is always mounted on

Re: mtab SNAFU

2007-11-27 Thread Haines Brown
> > Interesting. I see the logic by looking at /dev/disk/by-id, and it > > looks simple. But I am a bit nervous about experimenting. Can you > > refer me to a HOWTO, or do I have to play around to see if I can get > > it to work? It seems this use of by-id is actually part of udev. > > It's quite

backup script partly fails when in cron.weekly

2007-12-09 Thread Haines Brown
mode. Dec 9 04:00:01 teufel identd[23056]: started -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup script partly fails when in cron.weekly

2007-12-11 Thread Haines Brown
ys/* --exclude=/mnt/* Benjamin, thanks for the suggestion, but I had a problem with the script: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive I don't understand this error. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: backup script partly fails when in cron.weekly

2007-12-12 Thread Haines Brown
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 08:24:07AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > Benjamin Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > But maybe you should not use this (in my opinion) unusual command "find &

SMTP error: 550 Administrative prohibition

2007-12-24 Thread Haines Brown
ct27: Web.com servers went SSL, and so I had to change smtp server # name to first line, which is a link. Link could be broken, so change to # hanme of link target. I tried but failed to revert from target to link. # dc_smarthost='smtp.hartford-hwp.com' dc_smarthost='mymail.myregistered

Re: SMTP error: 550 Administrative prohibition

2007-12-25 Thread Haines Brown
Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:01:12 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > >> I've lost e-mail, and so in desperation turn to news groups. >> >> In trying to configure my exim4 to use spamassassin, I apparently messed >> up

Re: SMTP error: 550 Administrative prohibition

2007-12-25 Thread Haines Brown
Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:50:01 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > >> There seems to be a problem getting my fetchmail requests being >> authenticated at the mail server. Here's what fetchmail tells me: >> ... >> fet

Re: SMTP error: 550 Administrative prohibition

2007-12-26 Thread Haines Brown
Uwe, I find that if I revert to exim4 monolithic configuration, my e-mail works, and so I've obviously done something to the split configuration file. I'm subscribing to pkg-exim4-users and will try to resolve the issue there. Thanks. -- Haines Bro

xfstt + urxvt + mc causes crash

2008-01-06 Thread Haines Brown
em with two byte garbage characters. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bootloader produces garbage - reconstructing MBR

2005-07-03 Thread Haines Brown
der, which is already the case, are there any particular dangers doing this? Or should I simply overwrite the MBR with a new install of grub, which I assume simply means doing >grub root and >grub setup. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

hostname change

2005-07-04 Thread Haines Brown
e everywhere, would this leave my system in sync with the new hostname without having to reboot it? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hostname change

2005-07-04 Thread Haines Brown
know how to do that? Unfortunately, nntp server may not like it. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-08 Thread Haines Brown
; control character from a plain ASCII character? Also, the "=3D" hex notation. My browser, when confronted with it does not interpret it properly as "=", but literally as "=3D". I suspect this markup is intended solely for Internet Explorer (in order to promote Billy

Second time on hostname

2005-07-09 Thread Haines Brown
urns from the hostname command: $ hostname teufel.hartford-hwp.com $ hostname -a localhost $ hostname -d [nothing is returned] $ hostname -f localhost $ hostname -s localhost None of these seem right. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Second time on hostname

2005-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
> Haines Brown wrote: > > I'm having some difficulties (From: line missing in header of > > outgoing newsgroup mesaages) and worry their cause might be due to > > what I put into /etc/hostname when I installed. =20 > > I think you need to look at your news s

Re: Second time on hostname

2005-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
if there's any anomalies (gmane gateway for this list didn't like my header originally). My /etc/postfix/main.cf configuration is much like your own, except that I have "myhostname = teufel" in order to match the return from $ hostname -- my simple local host name. I believe thi

Re: Second time on hostname

2005-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
u say is interesting. I'll leave it in for a while, and then remove it, for I do need eventually to install and run some non-debian software (Eagle). -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SBC DSL Service

2005-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
27;t be any "linux windows gui" as far as I can make out. If you mean accessing SBC website for administering your site, no problem. Perhaps the Windows CD that comes with the service includes a setup gui utility, but that would not be your concern. Trash it. -- Haines Brown

Re: Browsers get stuck on some websites.

2005-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
It loaded quickly on galeon, and then I tried firefox. The first time I tried it wouldn't load, but I had two sessions of firefox running, and when I closed one of them and tried it on the other, it loaded without problem. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBS

Re: SBC DSL Service

2005-07-12 Thread Haines Brown
2.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 Take everything I say with a grain of salt: I'm a learner as well. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

utility to grab a web site

2006-01-22 Thread Haines Brown
I have a need to recursively capture the entire contents of a large web site that uses frames. What utility would accomplish this and automatically reproduce the directory structure and populate the directories with the files and images from the site? Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Using setenv DISPLAY

2006-03-06 Thread Haines Brown
t must have it, as in my examples above? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using setenv DISPLAY

2006-03-12 Thread Haines Brown
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:30:06PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > As others have pointed out, sudo does not by default preserve its > > > environment when starting privileged processes. To get X worki

Viewing ASP files

2006-05-19 Thread Haines Brown
Sorry for the naive question, but I occasionally acquire files with the .asp (active server pages) extension. What is the simplest way to view such files or convert them into a more convenient format (even plain ASCII)? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1(SS) U.S.S. Irex 482

Re: Viewing ASP files

2006-05-19 Thread Haines Brown
mind was that it was a perl file or PDF of some kind. -- Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1(SS) U.S.S. Irex 482 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HPFS: Bad Magic

2006-06-18 Thread Haines Brown
ng used? Any suggestions about how to proceed? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1(SS) U.S.S. Irex 482 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Root can't run scanner

2006-07-02 Thread Haines Brown
# scanimage -L No scanners were identified. ... I don't find any .usermap for scanning in /etc/hotplug/usb/, nor is there any usb.usermap file. Not sure there should be. The closest is /etc/hotplug/usb.handmap, but it has no entry for a scanner. I assume that hotplug is irrelevant here. -

What is "semantic"?

2006-07-08 Thread Haines Brown
els? Why do some directories have a cache file, but not others? Why do I need the semantic.cache files? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1(SS) U.S.S. Irex SS-482 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

"forgot password" workarounds not working

2006-07-10 Thread Haines Brown
if I can delete it. Any suggestions? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1(SS) U.S.S. Irex SS-482 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "forgot password" workarounds not working

2006-07-10 Thread Haines Brown
> Haines Brown wrote: > > I have sarge I installed on a new hard disk, and I can log in OK, but > > I decided to see if I could log in without a password. I tried two > > methods: > > > > 1. I booted knoppix and opened a terminal. In it I tried to do: > >

~/.xsession crashes xserver

2006-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
t; 0' failed". I needed the .xsession file to hold the lines: xset s off xset -dpms On my current machine, I have no problems with an .xsession file being present, although I'm not using any desktop manager (just IceWM). -- Haines Brown KB1GRM

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