Re: Fwd: Is it possible to unsubscribe from the debian-users list?
Josip Rodin wrote: On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 08:18:25PM +, Siward de Groot wrote: Hi, i saw this on debian-user; forwarding to people that can do something about it. The listmaster -- To reach a human being answering your mail you may contact the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] We will process your request as soon as we can. This is the fourth try. does debian have a contingency-plan for if lists break ? Yes, the plan goes something like wait for one of the people in the listmaster team to go through three dozen help requests before yours and then fix yours shrug They are working through the backlog, though, I just had a mail from mid-April answered today. For what that's worth :) Bill -- temporary solution would be to ditch all mails from the mailing list you wish to be unsubscribed using procmail or some similar tool, on your email server. If your server allows for such things, that is... Welcome to the Hotel California. :-) The web interface is usually less frustrating than email, http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/unsubscribe A common problem is you are subscribed from a different address than you think you are. There is a query that isn't obvious. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: foo which [EMAIL PROTECTED] will return the lists I'm subscribed to. You can try other likely addresses with which. I think one of From: or Reply-To: has to be the same as the which address. Rick -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: missing debian-user-digest list??
Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed wrote: Does anybody have any idea what has happened to this list? I haven't received a single message from this list in over 2 weeks...does anyone have any clue? I did notice a post on this subject last week or so, but haven't heard any responses from anyone. I have even tried re-subscribing under a new account, using a different machine, to eliminate any phantom procmail configurations or such If you too are experiencing this, could you let this be known? It stopped here near the start of the month. I'm having many and varied problems with the cableco right now though so I just bailed and went non-digest. Someone mentioned problems with devel-digest on that list as well. You can find which lists you're subbed to with To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: foo which [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wish list - My personal Debian User Manual Generator
Matthias Wieser wrote: I was looking for a information to setup my whole computer but I could only find parts of it all all. That is why I looked how there could be a way how user can share important information, without getting some questions asked 1 times only because there is no real Nr 1. place that is easily to use. now my idea is, that there should be place, where you can just enter your system parts, and it will return a user manual just covering the parts your really need. It's a great idea. At a minimum someone new to Debian wants to have sound and printing working or they won't stay long. I did an outline of my experience moving to ALSA with my awe64. It might need tweaking and I've done my semi-annual reboot so I don't think I'm going to get back to it but it might be useful for anyone who's stuck. people.debian.org/~younie/alsa.txt Rick --
Re: AWE64 making loud noise on bootup
Maciej wrote: Has anyone experienced their AWE64 soundcard making a loud clash/crash/explosion noise during bootup? Is there a fix? I'm using a mix of potato/woody, with a hand-rolled 2.2.16 kernel. The problem was also present with previous kernels I think. Help! It's going to give me a heart attach one of these mornings... :) I use gom to set the volume at boot time. It's been a couple years so I don't remember the details but I think there was a problem with the out of the box setup. gom has to run before you load the soundbank in your awe64 so you might need to tweak /etc/init.d/* with update-rc.d HTH, Rick --
Re: AWE64 making loud noise on bootup
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000, Maciej Kalisiak wrote: I use gom to set the volume at boot time. I do too, but it comes way after the noise. It's been a couple years so I don't remember the details but I think there was a problem with the out of the box setup. out of box setup of gom? How so? This is what I have. I'm sure this isn't the proper way to do it. I've been meaning to go back and stockify my sound setup for a long time but unfortunately I've never had a problem with it so it stays on the list. Your problem is the sound of symphony orchestra blowing full on, volume at 11, right? This used to happen here, but only sometimes. $ cat /etc/init.d/fixsb #!/bin/sh # mute sound a little so no explosion /usr/bin/gom -d/dev/mixer -l20 # config and install awe32 stuff modprobe -a awe_wave /usr/bin/sfxload /usr/lib/awe/sfbank/synthgs.sbk This is S70fixsb. gom is only in rcS.d/ as S99gom and has -d/dev/mixer --mute-all in its default config file. And TkMixer gets loaded with X, but that's later. If you can't shut the thing up, maybe post the relevant part of your dmesg output. HTH, Rick
Re: mailing list
maxine wrote: Morning-If anyone could tell me how to unsubscribe to this maling list I would greatly appreciate it. It just generates too much mail for me. I tried to unsubscribe the same way I subscribed, sent the confimation back but I did not get removed. http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/unsubscribe is pretty much bullet-proof. You can unsubscribe any address, not just the one you're posting from. But if you got the confirmation request then you're unsubbing the right address. Mail dribbles in for a while after you confirm, might be what you're seeing.
Mailing list search
I'm working on a rexx script to send search requests to the Debian mailing lists search engine and display the results in lynx. The advantage over the web page form is that you can search more than one list at a time and it sorts the hits a little better. It's at http://loki.dhs.org/~rick/downloads/searchdeb.gz . You'll need rxsock from woody/devel. 'searchdeb -h' for usage. Thanks, Rick --
Re: multi line regex's in vi ...
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000, Adam Shand wrote: A two-liner is %s/^/p/ - add p to the start of each line %s/^p$// - remove any lines that contain only p nope won't work. it'll put a 'p ' at the beginning of every line which has text in it. thus this: Ah. Don't know how to do that with regex's but you can get it done with record/playback with Vim and Elvis. You probably already know this. qa - start recording to register a /^$ - go to first blank line cursor down insert and type P esc q - stop recording [EMAIL PROTECTED] - repeats the recorded keystrokes a bunch of times If you have multiple adjacent blank lines you'll need to squash them to one, :g/^$/,/./-j Gotta be an easier way though. Maybe one of the vi pros will drop in. Rick --
Re: multi line regex's in vi ...
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: is there a way to match a pattern over more then one line in vi (i normally use vim)? i'm html formatting text documents and what i'd like to do is replace something like the below paragraphs: __ the first line of text, this is really boring, blah lah blh why do i care. html formatting text is really boring and vi saves me. the is a second line of text. __ with something like this __ p the first line of text, this is really boring, blah lah blh why do i care. html formatting text is really boring and vi saves me. p the is a second line of text. __ So add p to any non-blank line? I'd like to know a one-liner for this too. You've got blank line with ^$ but how do you negate that? A two-liner is %s/^/p/ - add p to the start of each line %s/^p$// - remove any lines that contain only p
Re: HELP: Repair of tar.gz files??
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Rick Younie wrote: If the file was corrupted by being transferred in ascii mode instead of binary, you can fix it. There's a program in the window's world called NOCRLF that will do it. Or if you have a language or a good hex editor, replace the carriage return/line feed pairs with a linefeed and that will fix. No, generally you can't fix binary files downloaded in ASCII mode. The CR - CR/LF transformation is irreversible for binary files. That is, there may have been some (valid) CR/LF's in the binary file at first, which will then be converted into CR's by the reverse transformation. If you're lucky it might work, though. Yeah, when the tech on my ISP posted this I emailed him directly rather than posting to the newsgroup so as not to embarrass him. We've probably all heard 'irretrievably corrupted' many times over the years; it's common knowledge. But it works. I've done it and it never fails if this is the cause of the corruption. As he patiently explained to me, it works because any legal cr/lf's are converted to cr/cr/lf and you convert them back to cr/lf. If you were doing this recursively, that would be a problem. Best, Rick
Re: Sound drivers, kernel modules etc...
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Person, Rod wrote: ... What kernel modules need to be installed for sound? Where do I get the drivers? I have a soundblaster 16. I have seen drivers for SB AWE, but nothing for mine? The drivers are included in the kernel source, but if they are not in the stock Debian kernel, as I suspect, you will have to compile. I usually include sound in the kernel, rather than as a module. I'm having some trouble getting a Media Vision 3-D Premium card to work properly -- got everything but the mixer. It seems to be non-standard and not supported. I've been using sound as a module, stepping through 'make config' to the sound section, then changing a few options and recompiling the while kernel. Is there a way to just recompile sound.o or even just the drivers each time? Rick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tfn.net/~ricknie
Re: How to send files over uucp
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I am currently fetching mail over an established uucp link. It works great! I would like to send file over this link as well. Afer reading the uucp man page it appeared simple but something is not right. uucp local_file remote_uucp_node_name!user_name!remote_filename bash: !user_name!remote_filename: event not found I use this to tranfer files to panam. --mail sends me mail about the job, nouucico queues the job for later transfer instead of doing it right now. /usr/bin/uucp --mail --nouucico localfile panam\!~/remotefile This makes a copy of the file in /var/spool/uucp/panam/D. and a control file in panam/C. : S /tmp/keep/local/rexx/localfile ~/remotefile rick -Cdm D.003H 0755 You can also add a switch so that just a pointer to the file is used instead of a copy. You might want to do this if the file is large or is likely not to be there when the transfer takes place. I think ~/ is uucppublic on the remote machine. You might run into permission problems with ~user. rick -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PINE Debian Package
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], John C. Ellingboe wrote: Hello to the list I must stand by the Pine package maintainer on this issue. The maintainer should not be expected to put himself in a bad legal position for anyone just so they can have a convenient installation package. Not being a package maintainer, I have not read the Policy manual in detail but it upholds a legal and moral standard that is lacking in most commercial companies today. I would also like to see the Debian distribution install almost hands off like other lesser systems, but I would rather see the organization maintain the high standards that caused me to select Debian Linux over other Linux distributions/operating systems. ... Total agreement, although I didn't agree a little while ago when elvis was (temporarily) removed. I just wanted an elvis deb and forget about the fiddly bits such as distribution wording. Because of this thread, I better understand that these fiddly bits are, in fact, the basis of Debian. Thanks to everyone in the thread (George, Marcus, Remco, ...) for remaining civil and actually discussing the issue instead of taking the easy way out. Rick -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Threading list subjects?
On 9 Apr 1998, Mike Miller wrote: Is Gnus able to use the References: line in mail messages to thread? Yes, Gnus uses the Reference: header(s) to build threads. If references aren't available, it does what it can using Subject: headers. It can also use fuzzy matching of subjects - sort of a noise filter to make guesses about what might be related to what. I've put off learning Emacs for too long. Sounds like I'm just re-inventing the wheel with the mail to news thing. I still do this with debian-user-digest, splitting the digest and adding a dummy Message-ID and some other fields to keep the news system happy. The debian-user-digest that I get already has Message-ID's. Yeah, mine too. The only digests I have to dummy up a msg-id for are the vger lists, like kernel-digest. I wonder if not snipping the References line would be useful to anybody else? I think that would be handy. rick -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dosemu
A fellow posted a couple weeks ago about problems making a larger hdimage for dosemu. If t hat's you and you're still having problems, I just got dosemu working properly -- larger hdimage and accessing a linux subdirectory. Lotsa fiddly bits. Be glad to help if you write. Rick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
