RE: response from the host command for a private address listed in /etc/hosts

2009-05-14 Thread Aaron Hall
I misunderstand? - Aaron -- Aaron Hall :But it's just a mailing list. Don't take ah...@vitaphone.net :full-contact conversation as a personal :attack. : -- John C. Welch

Re: pine help

2008-07-25 Thread Aaron Hall
if you have to put quotes around the URL token in url-viewers. (Can't get at my Alpine 1.10 setup right now.) If this is it, I could work around it in Alpine 1.0 by hitting 'A' for editApp and manually putting quotes around the _URL_ token. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall :But it's just

Re: apt-get update segmentation fault

2008-06-21 Thread Aaron Hall
2.27 version to Etch because I've got non-Debian machines running that. Backporting on Debian is easier than backporting other systems. grin) - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Our little systems have their day; [EMAIL PROTECTED] : They have their day and cease

xpdf-utils vs. poppler-utils conflict prevents aptitude safe-upgrade

2008-06-10 Thread Aaron Hall
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Re: xpdf-utils vs. poppler-utils conflict prevents aptitude safe-upgrade

2008-06-10 Thread Aaron Hall
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:35:18PM -0500, Aaron Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: My sid box has cupsys and xpdf-utils installed (among a bunch of other things). When I run aptitude safe-upgrade, aptitude runs through its normal prep

Re: alpine question

2008-02-08 Thread Aaron Hall
server. You can append /POP3 to the end of the hostname to specify POP. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall :The roads of Germany were alive with obscure [EMAIL PROTECTED] :zealots :-- A History of the Modern World (3rd Ed), p. 71 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: getaddrinfo broken on amd64 etch system

2007-11-29 Thread Aaron Hall
), getaddrinfo() is not supposed to perform reverse lookups. As near as I can tell, it was a bug that that behavior ever worked. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Advertising may be described as the science of [EMAIL PROTECTED] : arresting human intelligence long enough

Re: Netatalk stopped working on Sid

2007-09-05 Thread Aaron Hall
lenny but that didn't help as well. Probably it has to something to do with the Berkeley DB but I have no clue how to find out what is wrong. Sounds like it to me. There's at least a couple of bugs filed against netatalk for this: #421950 and #435210. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall

Re: replacement for formmail

2007-08-28 Thread Aaron Hall
a drop-in compatible replacement (with the option to trade compatibility for more security) for formmail.pl and friends at http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I wanna get lost in your rock

Re: DST and woody

2007-03-07 Thread Aaron Hall
://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070110 - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Actually, it's a buck-and-a-quarter quarterstaff. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : But I'm not telling *him* that! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-15 Thread Aaron Hall
of the features of tcsh, with Bourne-shell syntax. I learned tcsh first, and then switched to zsh and never looked back. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Sleep, where is thy sting? [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Bed, where is thy victory

Re: Thread-aware MUAs

2006-08-26 Thread Aaron Hall
and thus insignificant. :o) That's about to change. Pine is going to morph into Alpine, and Alpine will be released under the Apache 2.0 license. Praise be. g http://www.washington.edu/alpine/ - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : I do quarrel with logic that says, Stupid people [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: netatalk: uams_dhx_pam.so missing?

2006-07-19 Thread Aaron Hall
/doc/netatalk/README.Debian on unstable. I rebuilt the packages from the source package. The readme file also points to an unofficial apt repository with unofficial binary packages. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Heavens! Someone has stolen the Illudium Q-32 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: packages.debian.org status update?

2006-02-04 Thread Aaron Hall
into the Debian project and infrastructure, much of which nobody ever really sees. Thanks, everyone! - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Q: What did the blonde Klingon say? [EMAIL PROTECTED] : A: It was a good day to dye. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: where does ifconfig get ppp0 inet addr?

2006-01-06 Thread Aaron Hall
/include/net and /usr/include/netinet, among other places. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall :I do quarrel with logic that says, Stupid people [EMAIL PROTECTED] :are associated with X, therefore X is stupid. :Stupid people are associated with everything

Re: Linux stickers

2005-11-10 Thread Aaron Hall
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Alan Ianson wrote: On Sun November 6 2005 11:04 pm, Aaron Hall wrote: Apropos of which, Copyleft (R.I.P.) used to carry some Debian case badges with the swirl logo and Debian lettering. Does anyone still sell something similar? [snip] I'm not familiar with those badges

Re: Linux stickers

2005-11-06 Thread Aaron Hall
? (I looked at the make your own badges on the Scotgold site, but I don't really like the idea -- the old Debian badges were nicely pre-printed.) - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : If UNIX is the heroin of operating systems, [EMAIL PROTECTED] : then...Windows is filling your sinuses

Re: How to use md5 passwords ?

2005-07-15 Thread Aaron Hall
. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : You are the first four contestants on... [EMAIL PROTECTED] : THE PRICE IS RIGHT! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: subtle difference between package managers

2005-07-15 Thread Aaron Hall
there. Just not a strict hierarchy, as it stands now. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Depression is just anger without enthusiasm. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : It's an empty beer bottle and no one worth : throwing

Re: xorg in sid

2005-07-14 Thread Aaron Hall
as well : just got apt-listbugs, and can't wait till I try it. Good stuff, apt-listbugs is. It and apt-listchanges should be on any unstable or testing system. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Mac OS X: Macintosh on top, Unix underneath. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : The perfect software

Re: Postfix is denying sending mail to a handful of users

2005-07-14 Thread Aaron Hall
the limit: ~# postconf -d | grep smtpd_recipient_limit smtpd_recipient_limit = 1000 You did reload the postfix config, right? Anyway, I don't think this is the cause, based on the log message above. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Bugs Rabbit season! [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Re can't the shell do a better job

2005-01-07 Thread Aaron Hall
) instead of: sort file1 file1.sorted sort file2 file2.sorted diff file1 file2 - Aaron -- Aaron Hall :Actually, it's a buck-and-a-quarter quarterstaff. [EMAIL PROTECTED] :But I'm not telling *him* that! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: can't the shell do a better job

2005-01-07 Thread Aaron Hall
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 19:54 -0600, Aaron Hall wrote: * bash-style process substitution: diff =(sort file1) =(sort file2) instead of: sort file1 file1.sorted sort file2 file2.sorted diff file1 file2 Well that's spiffy... It'd be more

Re: dodgy sudo upgrade on woody ppc - echos processing

2004-11-24 Thread Aaron Hall
#282777, #282778, and #282786. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : If UNIX is the heroin of operating systems, [EMAIL PROTECTED] : then...Windows is filling your sinuses with : lucite and letting it set

Re: Netatalk2

2004-10-22 Thread Aaron Hall
$PIDFILE /usr/local/sbin/cnid_metad echo . ;; *) # echo Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload} 2 echo Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload} 2 exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 -- Aaron Hall :I do quarrel

Re: Netatalk2

2004-10-22 Thread Aaron Hall
reference /etc/netatalk/atalkd.conf, and such. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : I claim this planet in the name of Mars. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Hmmm, isn't that lovely? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: converting old style ufs to ext2

2004-10-17 Thread Aaron Hall
. If only because there's only one invocation to get right. :) - Aaron yes, I *have* blown up a filesystem with tar, why do you ask? -- Aaron Hall : In driving, watch each pedestrian carefully, [EMAIL PROTECTED] : and expect him to do something foolish

Re: converting old style ufs to ext2

2004-10-17 Thread Aaron Hall
it matters). The older Mac filesystem is HFS, which had 32-char filenames and no concept of ownership. FWIW. :) - Aaron -- Aaron Hall :I do quarrel with logic that says, Stupid people [EMAIL PROTECTED] :are associated with X, therefore X is stupid. :Stupid people

Re: OT: do any comcast users ever get spam from comcastonline.com?

2004-06-30 Thread Aaron Hall
this might now be Comcast address space. It's not enough to convict them by itself, but it suggests the spam is coming from their network (if the headers can be trusted). - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Poor soul, very sad; her late husband, [EMAIL PROTECTED] : you know, a very

Re: What's creating X-X-Sender header?

2004-05-10 Thread Aaron Hall
stop it? Pine's putting that there. There's a 'disable-sender' setting in the config to turn it off. For those of us who just find the 'X-X-' prefix too aethestically obnoxious, there's also a setting that makes Pine use 'Sender:' instead of 'X-X-Sender:'. :) - Aaron -- Aaron Hall

Re: How can I learn what packages are new?

2004-01-23 Thread Aaron Hall
-get update, I can't tell what's new and what's old new. This isn't a direct answer to your question, I don't think, but if you read the Debian Weekly News, there's a listing of new packages added to the archive every week. See: http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/ - Aaron -- Aaron Hall

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-19 Thread Aaron Hall
transmission. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : I claim this planet in the name of Mars. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Hmmm, isn't that lovely? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: $HOSTNAME is not exported

2003-12-16 Thread Aaron Hall
suppose. You might also just use /bin/hostname, or /bin/uname -n. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall :If you can't get something right, then the [EMAIL PROTECTED] :objective should be to do everything wrong :that it is possible to do wrong

Re: vim + termcaps + colors

2003-10-07 Thread Aaron Hall
, that seem to have the same purpose as t_Sf and t_Sb. I don't really understand the distinction between them. termcap(5) didn't help much, I'm afraid. t_Sf and t_Sb work for me, so I use them. [rest snipped] I hope this is somewhat helpful. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Preliminary

Re: Log of init.d services started....

2003-07-14 Thread Aaron Hall
the kernel finishes loading, that means that between dmesg and bootlogd there should be a mostly complete record of everything happening when a Debian machine boots, right? Thanks very much for everything. It sounds way cool. grin - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : If UNIX is the heroin

Re: hosts.(allow|deny)

2003-03-10 Thread Aaron Hall
, but there is a version of NiftyTelnet that does SSH (ssh v1 only, though). http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jonasw/freeware/niftyssh/ It also seems to me that some versions of BetterTelnet do SSH as well, possibly protocol version 2, if memory serves. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Preliminary

Re: lwresd AND bind/named???? - 'nother Debian newbie question...

2003-02-08 Thread Aaron Hall
that require it would probably depend on liblwres1 directly. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : If UNIX is the heroin of operating systems, [EMAIL PROTECTED] : then...Windows is filling your sinuses with : lucite and letting it set

RE: debian on old powerbook?

2003-01-22 Thread Aaron Hall
for a while. I'd imagine the folks on [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be able to point you in the right direction, though. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Sleep, where is thy sting? [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Bed, where is thy victory

Re: debian on old powerbook?

2003-01-21 Thread Aaron Hall
, but we won't get into that. :) -- Aaron Hall :Look, Ma! It's only a TWO-LINE .signature! [EMAIL PROTECTED] : -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: debian on old powerbook?

2003-01-21 Thread Aaron Hall
port is http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/, you might ask on their mailing list if those computers are supported. - Aaron (who needs to haul out his SE/30 running potato) -- Aaron Hall : Bugs Rabbit season! [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Daffy Duck season

Re: mail reader for news and mail

2002-11-22 Thread Aaron Hall
from the headers), but I haven't given up my Mac newsreader. Not yet, anyway; I'm playing around with slrn some... - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I wanna get lost in your rock and roll : And drift

Re: Converting router from W2K to Debian

2002-11-04 Thread Aaron Hall
return different versions of a zone depending upon who's asking. So you could use your registered domain for everything, but only resolve internal addresses when being queried by internal addresses. [rest snipped] - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : C'mon, Netscape! I can whistle the page

Re: DOS on non-x86 systems?

2002-09-11 Thread Aaron Hall
, and that helps speed-wise. Really, I don't think you'll have any problems with Bochs. Be careful which DOS you run -- FreeDOS had some problems with the (circa 1982) IBM 360 emulator, and I had to run MS-DOS instead. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Mac OS X: Macintosh on top, Unix

Re: Error in my syslog file

2002-06-26 Thread Aaron Hall
was, say, 192.168.0.1, then the name would be 1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa, not thebox.192.in-addr.arpa. Good luck, Aaron -- Aaron Hall :The Wile E. Coyote Theorem of Distance: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :No matter how fast you go, you'll never get there. :Unless

Re: how to boot debian on a oldwolrd ppc ?

2002-06-20 Thread Aaron Hall
a Mac guy, I don't know the specific answer to your question. You'll likely get a better answer on the debian-ppc group, however. You can subscribe and post to it the same was as for debian-user. Good luck. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Preliminary operational tests were inconclusive

Re: Bind9 problem

2002-06-04 Thread Aaron Hall
it always worked before notifies were invented. How I can chage it? Get the secondary server to run up-to-date DNS software, if you are able. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall :Bugs Rabbit season! [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Daffy Duck season

Re: First post

2002-03-20 Thread Aaron Hall
slink) -- Aaron Hall : C'mon, Netscape! I can whistle the page in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Morse faster than you're fetching it! Macintosh/UNIX Geek, Network Flack, and...eh, whatever.

Sendmail logs rotated twice

2002-02-26 Thread Aaron Hall
just rip the /var/log/mail stuff out of the logrotate config. That would seem like the cleanest thing to do. Thanks, Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Where's the ka-boom? There was supposed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: be an Earth-shattering ka-boom! Macintosh/UNIX Geek, Network Flack, and...eh

Re: What's sending www 02/10/02:19.02 system check messages

2002-02-11 Thread Aaron Hall
to other crontabs, and logcheck has a file in there that runs it every hour or so. man cron, and see also /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} for other neat tricks. :) - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : C'mon, Netscape! I can whistle the page in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Morse faster than you're

Re: list all packages that are installed

2002-01-13 Thread Aaron Hall
anyway. :p - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Buster, it may come as a complete surprise to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: you to find that _this_ is an animated cartoon. Macintosh/UNIX Geek, Network Flack, and...eh, whatever.

Re: logcheck/testing

2001-12-02 Thread Aaron Hall
sendmail/named transactions), in addition to daemon.log, auth.log, et al. Then I put only /var/log/messages into logcheck.logfiles; so long as everything I'm interested in gets logged to messages as well as wherever else it's going, I only get one copy of alerts. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall

Re: Ogg Vorbis (was Re: mp3 encoding)

2001-11-27 Thread Aaron Hall
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote: Are there any Ogg Vorbis portable players? Or support for Mac OS X? On OS X, Audion (my favorite player) should support Ogg Vorbis, though I've never tried it. http://www.panic.com/audion/ Shareware, but decidedly cool. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall

Notes on upgrading potato - woody

2001-11-15 Thread Aaron Hall
? Thanks, Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Mac OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was [EMAIL PROTECTED]: easier than debugging Windows. (Go Apple!) Macintosh/UNIX Weenie, Network Flack, and...eh, whatever.

Re: Hiding init 1 safely

2001-11-14 Thread Aaron Hall
be trying to solve a different problem the wrong way (as opposed to solving *this* problem the wrong way). If so, please ask again, and be a little more specific. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Bugs Rabbit season! [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Daffy Duck season! : Bugs Rabbit

run-parts and valid filenames

2001-10-26 Thread Aaron Hall
run-parts have such a narrow view of a valid filename. It's there for a reason, else why write the validation code? I'm just curious, but it would be nice to know. Sincerely, Aaron -- Aaron Hall : C'mon, Netscape! I can whistle the page in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Morse faster than

Re: utility to display syslog on tty8?

2001-10-22 Thread Aaron Hall
aesthetic (it looks cool) and practical (easy to spot unusual occurances). I use the colorize script; there are others. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Mac OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was [EMAIL PROTECTED]: easier than debugging Windows. (Go Apple!) Macintosh/UNIX Weenie

Re: utility to display syslog on tty8?

2001-10-22 Thread Aaron Hall
to send the logs to a program which then has to turn around and send them back out to the tty. Instructions for doing so are provided with the colorize package; they'd be applicable to other colorizers to, I'd think. On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Aaron Hall wrote: --I do much the same thing with my logs

Re: ?package with tgetent

2001-10-08 Thread Aaron Hall
to acquire the necessary term library? On my potato system, tgetent() is in the files /usr/include/term.h and /usr/include/termcap.h, both of which are in libncurses5-dev. A quick look at packages.debian.org shows this holds true for testing as well. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Bugs Rabbit

Re: Man

2001-10-06 Thread Aaron Hall
my favorite Unix book of any kind. - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Preliminary operational tests were inconclusive. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (The damn thing blew up.) Macintosh/UNIX Weenie, Network Flack, and...eh, whatever.

Re: Email all users

2001-09-29 Thread Aaron Hall
distributed to everyone. Hope this helps, Aaron -- Aaron Hall : Bugs Rabbit season! [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Daffy Duck season! : Bugs Rabbit season! : Daffy Duck season! FIRE!!! Macintosh/UNIX Weenie, Network Flack, and...eh, whatever.

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-08 Thread Aaron Hall
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Joey Hess wrote: bin: HELP: No files on my system are owned by user or group bin. What good are they? Historically they were probably the owners of binaries in /bin? It is not mentioned in the FHS, debian policy, or the

Re: How to write a man page?

2001-07-17 Thread Aaron Hall
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Colin Watson wrote: snipped above discussion about troff I've had success writing man pages in POD, Perl's psuedo-documentation language. Even if you aren't familiar with Perl, POD may be easier to deal with with troff. Perl includes a program called pod2man which will

Re: Email Server

2001-07-11 Thread Aaron Hall
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Paul Rae wrote: High everyone, bit of a newbie when it comes to it but slowly trying to drag our systems from windows and first main task is mail... so ive got myself a nice server and played around with a few distros and have decided on debian and exmin right here

Re: tty5 Displays Gibberish

2001-07-05 Thread Aaron Hall
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, John Bacalle wrote: Sh_t, man! I like to find the hardest door jam I can typically get a hold of and bang my head on it for a long while before I ask someone on the other side to let me in. But, in this case I should've hollered much earlier. ;+) 'reset' did the trick!

Re: FTP/User access, was: Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Aaron Hall
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, D-Man wrote: Cool. It is already fixed. (a moment later) # dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=text adduser debconf: package adduser is not installed or does not use debconf | $ dpkg --status adduser | grep -i version | Version: 3.37 # dpkg --status adduser | grep -i

Re: line numbers in code

2001-05-26 Thread Aaron Hall
On Fri, 25 May 2001, john gennard wrote: I'm having to look for certain lines in code and have been doing so by laboriously counting down the program. As many error messages make reference to line numbers, I feel sure there must be a simple way to locate say 'line 1267' How do people go about

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac 7600 with G3 upgrade

2001-04-20 Thread Aaron Hall
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: I don't have very much experience with installing Linux on the PPC architecture but I believe that yaboot is the bootloader that you want to use if you have a newworld machine. That being said I have no idea if your is newworld. A 7600 isn't a

Re: OT: Best Mac list info Mac OS X?

2001-03-05 Thread Aaron Hall
Two OS X lists that I subscribe to are: http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/X4U.html and http://www.omnigroup.com/community/mailinglists/macosx-admin/ The last is for system administration. There are more lists at omnigroup.com, and I believe there are some at stepwise.com as well, but I