Message from syslogd...

2000-11-04 Thread J.P. Larocque
message mean, if anything at all? Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Info: I'm running Debian 2.2 with bits of unstable packages installed, and according to dpkg, 'sysklogd' is installed as version 1.3-33 -- J.P. Larocque, known online as piranha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fidonet: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OT: shell prompt tip

2000-09-15 Thread J.P. Larocque
, passing the full expanded form onto the program being called, without hacking up the source to bash? -- J.P. Larocque, known online as piranha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fidonet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:346/6 (The Garage, 509-326-4609) ... Why buy her a Diamond when SHE doesn't last forever?

Re: Family proofing a Debian box

2000-09-10 Thread J.P. Larocque
that you would need to secure it like I suggested. And to Jon, if you can bypass the first method of security without damaging the lock, or just simply hacking* the box in a more conventional way, while only using a floppy disk, please share some insight. =) -- J.P. Larocque, known online

Re: stale/defunt sessions in debian

2000-09-10 Thread J.P. Larocque
) on the command-line with 'kill -TERM'. Wait a few seconds, and now issue 'kill -KILL 7220', since 7220 is the login shell (it starts with a hyphen). Now the user should be logged out. You can perform the above steps as the named user, or root, of course. -- J.P. Larocque, known online

Re: /tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread J.P. Larocque
, if /tmp is deleted, don't sweat it, just make sure to reboot. (Cleanly. =) -- J.P. Larocque, known online as piranha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fidonet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:346/6 (The Garage, 509-326-4609)

Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim

2000-08-25 Thread J.P. Larocque
for the From: line. -- J.P. Larocque, known online as piranha [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:01:14AM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote: using mutt, i can compose and send an email. but the from line has the incorrect sender address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).btw, bt is my non-root user

Code Page 437

2000-08-24 Thread J.P. Larocque
accessible to xterm--or proprietary to xdos. I should note that I still use slink. It's hard to upgrade when your Internet connection is a 14.4kbps modem. Thanks a lot in advance to anyone who can reply with information. -- J.P. Larocque, known online as piranha [EMAIL PROTECTED]