Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
yeah -- i just figured out that folder names are relative to $HOME, not
$HOME/Mail.
Actually, folder names are relative to your current working directory. It
just so happens that most people start mutt while they're in $HOME.
do you happen to know offhand how to
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:23:02AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
***NEVER*** delete large files on an impacted filesystem, *unless* you
first zero them out, *and* insure nothing's accessing them:
Isn't that a flaw in the system then?
No, it's a
Dale Morris wrote:
this is an easy one, /var was being filled by apt-cache and cleaned up by
running apt-get clean
Actually, /var/cache/apt is both filled and cleaned by apt-get. As I
understand it, apt-cache is for querying and manipulating the contents
of /var/lib/apt/lists.
And yes,
mike polniak wrote:
I have been using Pan as my newsreader. Its really not bad. Very
easy to set up and use the gui.But i plan to try Gnus or Slrn.
Any comments about either in terms of ease of setup/use, features
and basically is either one worth the effort compared to Pan.
I
bentley taylor wrote:
in .muttrc, add a line like:
my_hdr From: put your email addy here
Scott Vaverchak replied:
I would also suggest to change your reply-to. For me my user name is adeo but
email is suadeo, so i would suggest changing your reply (if you need to).
my_hdr Reply-To
Glyn Millington wrote:
/var/log/news says things like
Feb 17 19:02:26 glynthebearded fetchnews[9750]: unable to create article
/var/spool/news/message.id/658/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: No such file or directory
Feb 17 19:02:26 glynthebearded fetchnews[9750]: Cannot create directory
This is untested, since naturally I'm not about to hose my system for a
complete stranger. :-)
cd /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives
update-alternatives --auto *
Rich Renomeron wrote:
Apparently my backup software doesn't handle symlinks across filesystems
very well, and when I
Pollywog wrote:
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:21:12 -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball said:
Use --force-depends, not --force-conflicts.
Or better yet, don't install an out-of-date package that is about to
be removed from testing and unstable. If you want the latest netscape
4 (4.76
Pollywog wrote:
I am trying to install the netscape4 package, but it complains that
xpm4g is not installed. The latter package has been replaced by
another which IS installed, but netscape4 won't hear of it.
I tried 'dpkg --force-conflicts -i netscape4_xyz.i386.deb' but I
still can't get
John Foster wrote:
The mouse should be /dev/gpmdata for it to work inte startup file
/etc/x11/XF86Config.
For years I've had both gpm and X use /dev/psaux directly with no
problems. Why am I successful when others aren't? Does it depend on
the type of mouse?
Grrr. 6 people replying with the same answers is 5 people too many.
Hitler! Hitler! Hitler!
Benjamin Pharr wrote:
Every once in a while I slip up at cat a binary file to the console. (Or
just forget to give mkisofs the -o flag.) This causes the console to use
WEIRD characters, just
set noflash in $HOME/.exrc or /etc/vi.exrc if you're using nvi (the
default vi on Debian).
brian
Stan Brown wrote:
How can I get rid of the anoying flash (visual bell) in vi, on a system
wide bassis? (potato)
Alex Chamberlain wrote:
For instance, if I try to select only the packages I want and not select
netscape-base-476 in dselect, I get the following dependency error
message:
communicator-spellchk-476 depends on netscape-base-476
communicator-base-476 depends on netscape-base-476
This is an ancient issue; see bug #25410. Luckily there's been some
talk on -devel about fixing it.
brian
David B. Harris wrote:
To quote Marcial Zamora III [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[...]
the man page only takes up half of the width of the
terminal..
[...]
I'm actually curious about
Benjamin Pharr wrote:
It works, for you, but I gave it a shot with no luck.
You mean you tried hdd=scsi?
What modules do you
have loaded at boot time?
None. Everything's compiled into the kernel.
Mike wrote:
SCSI emulation support
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI
This will provide SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices,
and will allow you to use a SCSI device driver instead of a native
ATAPI driver.
This is useful if you have an ATAPI device for which no native
driver
Kent West wrote:
tcpdump doesn't seem to be an available command (yes, as root); nor
does locate return anything for it. Does this indicate that I'm
perhaps missing a package?
It's not missing, it's just not installed by default apparently.
Run apt-get install tcpdump.
My
Mike wrote:
Benjamin Pharr wrote:
I'm still having difficulties getting my cd writer to work. Here is what
I've done so far:
Recompiled my (2.4.0) kernel with scsi-emulation and scsi
support. IDE-CDROM support is compiled in statically.
Mike wrote:
Here's his problem:
2. Added append=hdd=ide-scsi to my /etc/lilo.conf
Should just be hdd=scsi. Search for =scsi in
linux/Documentation/Configure.help for more info.
Uhh, you sure about that?
Argh, RTFM! I even told you where to
JC Portlock wrote:
installer is set up for rp7, but the only version currently available is rp8.
I could not fool the installer by renaming the app. The filename called for
is:
rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_b2_rpm
Is this available anywhere? Or is there some way to slap the installer around
Kent West wrote:
My /etc/inetd.conf file looks like:
. . .
talkdgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/sbin/in.talkd
#off#
ntalk dgram udp waitnobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/sbin/in.ntalkd
. . .
Is #off# in front of the ntalk
Igor Khavkine wrote:
Hi, I'm running unstable with a custom built linux-2.4.0. I'm trying
to setup a firewall rule with iptables the following way:
iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p tcp --dport 5865 -j REJECT
The error message I get is:
ipchains: Protocol not available
If I chage REJECT to
on Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 04:15:02PM -0500, David B . Harris ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
To quote Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED],
# The getty family does this. vgetty is for voice. mgetty is for data,
# and so on. Just do a 'apt-get -f install mgetty-voice' you might also
# want to install
Chris Gray wrote:
I'd rather people didn't use a chainsaw where a butterknife will do
just as well:
tar tzf $1 | xargs rm
will work for those dumbass tarballs where they don't make a new
directory to put their files. There might be confusion if there are
spaces in the filenames, in
Carel Fellinger wrote:
As explained recently in an other thread you can't share a ps/2 mouse
between processes (gpm and X)
For nearly 5 years I've been letting both gpm and X use /dev/psaux. As
long as I don't move the mouse as X is starting everything works fine.
--
belief, n:
Chris Gray wrote:
(-print0 is an option for find).
Whoops!
Eric G . Miller wrote:
There's no such dependency for apache-common in
unstable.
Yes there is.
Package: apache-common
Priority: optional
Section: web
Installed-Size: 1948
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Architecture: i386
Source: apache
Version: 1.3.14-2
Replaces: apache,
Please wrap your text.
q wrote:
[...] i've become interested in backing up my /home/foo directory (by:
tar cvzf backup_file_name.tar.gz *).
i've noticed that such backup does not include my /home/foo/.*
(hidden) files, like .muttrc
$ man bash
[...]
When a pattern is used for pathname
Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 04:35:03AM +, q wrote:
(my apologies...it's on my list of projects. i use vi. the posts i
see for this issue seem to be for vim. (anyone know how to line wrap
in _vi_?))
Don't know if this is the answer you keep getting, but, in
Brian Frederick Kimball wrote:
If it's nvi (the default vi on Debian), you want set wraplen=NN in
your $HOME/.exrc. But nvi is pretty slim on features-- it doesn't even
have multi-level undo. Better to just install vim vim-rt and put set
textwidth=NN in your $HOME/.vimrc.
Oh, and if you
Apparently any address in the alternates variable will be removed
from the recipient list when doing a group reply (I don't think this
is explicitly stated in the documentation). Note that the alternates
variable is a regexp so you'll probably want to escape any special
characters (., etc) and
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