Re: why do the developers keep changing mail / mailx?

2017-07-12 Thread Larry Fletcher
On 07/12/2017 12:58 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I just spent about an hour with Google trying to fix a bash script that worked last year. The problem was that it stopped sending attachments. In the course of my research I found that mail / mailx over the years has used a variety of flags for attachme

Re: [WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

2017-06-26 Thread Larry Fletcher
On 06/25/2017 05:19 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: This warning advisory is relevant for users of systems with the Intel processors code-named "Skylake" and "Kaby Lake". These are: the 6th and 7th generation Intel Core processors (desktop, embedded, mobile and HEDT), their related server

Re: debian disk is dying

2009-10-18 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article you wrote: > The hardware needs to be returned to the factory for a warranty-covered > replacement. I have an esata docking station and an esata hard drive I > can put this system on though. I'm using the command line and figure I'll > probably end up using cpio to do the backup.

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-20 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I looked at your resolv.conf in your earlier post and I don't see > a problem. What problem do you see? I tried accessing 'myhome.westell.com' over dial-up and it said Server not found, and I didn't think 'nameserver 192.168.1.1' was correct because it'

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-20 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Can you open any browser and type > > in the address bar 192.168.1.1 and click go. This should bring you to the > > connection summary page of the Westell modem. > I have already tried 3 different browsers

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-19 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Larry writes: > > I know there's a problem with the `resolv.conf` but I don't know how to > > fix it. > Try "sudo apt-get remove --purge zeroconf". It's not installed. Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-19 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > On Sat January 19 2008 18:55:27 Larry Fletcher wrote: > > I can't find `route`. > Without 'route' your system may be unable to setup > your default route to the internet. I don't understand > what happened t

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-19 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Hello Larry, I am running debian etch with verizon dsl. I also have the > Westell 6100 dsl modem. I believe that the suggestions you are getting in > regards to dumping everything having to do with pppoe are correct. > Have you gone into the connection

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-19 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > I've been using Debian with dial-up for about 8 years and it's getting > > pretty slow, so I thought I would try DSL. The problem is I have > > absolutely no understanding of how DSL works. If I could get a > > connection I don't even understand how t

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-19 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Larry writes: > > What I'm thinking is maybe Verizon gives people different modems. My > > modem says it's a DSL2+Router, so maybe it would work if it was just a > > DSL2 modem without the Router? > Pppoeconfig will work if the modem is configured for b

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-18 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I have been using pppoeconf with a verizon dsl modem for three years > with no problem whatsoever. I have an old box I use as a firewall - two > ethernet cards and always the current Debian stable distribution. One > ethernet card is connected to the Ve

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-17 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > On Thu January 17 2008 17:51:29 Larry wrote: > > When I run pppoeconf I get: "the Access Concentrator of your provider > > did not respond." I have also tried pppoe-setup. At this point, I > > really wonder if the modem is even connected to the computer

Mutt lock sent

2007-06-21 Thread Larry Fletcher
Since upgrading to Etch I've started receiving the following messages from Anacron: Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on lotek.lafn.org /etc/cron.daily/anacron-sys: Couldn't lock /sent Could not send the message. / I eventually traced this to emails that mutt sends from the

Re: backup/restore

2007-02-16 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian > install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat > is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all > other hardare is unchanged). I saw

Re: Is a kernel upgrade necessary ?

2006-11-09 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Nicolas, > >> - is it worth an upgrade ? > >> > >> - is it as simple as an apt-get install kernel-image-xxx ? > >> > I've just done almost exactly the same thing as you are contemplating > (upgraded to sarge, then from 2.2.20idepci to 2.6.8-3-386).

Re: changing window managers

2005-09-07 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Larry Fletcher on 06/09/05 21:19, wrote: > > Okay. Now I see there is a difference between a session > > manager and a window manager. Apparently some window managers > > have session managers and need them to run properly a

Re: changing window managers

2005-09-06 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:10:11AM -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote: > > After looking around some more I found out the x-session-manager works > > for startx, but it's not updated when new window managers are > > installed

icewm window titles

2005-09-04 Thread Larry Fletcher
I just upgraded to debian sarge which uses icewm 1.2.20+21pre1-3. The problem I'm having with icewm is the window titles switch when the initial application calls another application. For instance, when mutt loads the editor mcedit the title of the window is changed to 'mc - host:/path' and it do

Disk error problem

2003-09-26 Thread Larry Fletcher
Can someone tell me what is causing the following errors? Sep 24 21:53:32 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Sep 24 21:53:32 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=22581489, sector=1825392 Sep 24 21:53:32 loc

Re: Acroread broken?

2001-10-27 Thread Larry Fletcher
On Oct 26, 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:23:57AM +0800, Arne Goetje ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > ok... I will use gv, I think... > > Then I don't need acroread... > > I'd drop acroread based on Adobe's prosecution of Dmitry Sklyarov under > the DMCA. > > I use bot

Re: Loadlin Memory Limit

2001-08-28 Thread Larry Fletcher
On Aug 28, 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:22:02PM -0400, dman wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 02:01:29PM -0400, Robert Mosher wrote: > > | I recently started using Loadlin as my boot manager, and I noticed that > > | Linux only sees 64MB of my 256MB of RAM. Is there a

Re: default browser

2001-08-25 Thread Larry Fletcher
Problem solved! After figuring out how to 'grep' every text file on the system I found that '/etc/mailcap' was full of 'konqueror' entries and running 'update-mime' removed them. Now mutt is back to using lynx to view attachments. On Aug 24, 2001, Lar

default browser

2001-08-24 Thread Larry Fletcher
How do I change the default browser from konqueror back to lynx or netscape? What happened is I installed konqueror to see what it looked like and now when I try to view an attachment in mutt I get an error that says "sh: konqueror: command not found." It seems like the answer would be archived s

Re: Drivers for ASUS K7M onboard audio

2001-02-21 Thread Larry Fletcher
I would like to upgrade from a 486 to Duron based system, but I don't want to have to compile a kernel. After reading the following it looks like the standard kernel would work. Am I right or would I be better off with a Celeron based system? Larry On Feb 21, 2001, studenten wg wrote: > hi

Re: PPPD persist

2001-01-20 Thread Larry Fletcher
It's fixed. For some reason the supplied redialer script didn't work, but I was finally able to write a simple redial script that even I could understand. Larry On Jan 19, 2001, Larry Fletcher wrote: > After upgrading from slink to potato the pppd persist option no > l

PPPD persist

2001-01-19 Thread Larry Fletcher
After upgrading from slink to potato the pppd persist option no longer reruns the scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d after a connection has been broken and then reestablished. Is there some way to configure pppd so the scripts are rerun after persist reconnects? If not, is it possible to change from per

Re: holly crap!

2000-08-05 Thread Larry Fletcher
On Aug 03, 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:13:04PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > > > Help, PLEASE HELP > > > > > > I've done somethig very bad.. I did: > > > > rm * /var/spool/fax/outgoing > > > > I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot

Re: Mail/news software

2000-04-30 Thread Larry Fletcher
I've looked at most of what is available and the closest thing to Yarn is the Tin news reader, they're almost identical. For email the best thing I've found is Mutt. Mutt can be configured with what I call 'tin style cursor keys' so I can go back and forth between readers without getting confused

RE: rdate fails Y2K?

2000-02-12 Thread Larry Fletcher
I searched through all of the old messages on this subject and couldn't find a fix for the problem, except using another time server. My problem is I'm behind a firewall and can only use a local time server that won't work with rdate. Has rdate been fixed yet? If so, is there somewhere can I get

Re: NEW x problem :/

2000-01-19 Thread Larry Fletcher
On Jan 18, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think I discovered my problem, but another came up. Here it is: I was tweaking some of /etc/X11/XF86Config, where it configures the mouse. I modified /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS3 (where my mouse is). X failed. Tried to use /dev/gpmdata (while running gpm -

netscape proxies

2000-01-16 Thread Larry Fletcher
I just installed navigator 4.5-1 (navigator-smotif-45) and there is no place to set proxies. Is there some reason proxies are not allowed in this version? Are proxies only available after registration? When I installed navigator I saved the registration information to a file to send it by email

kern.log errors?

1999-05-23 Thread Larry Fletcher
will be appreciated, Larry Fletcher

Installation - modules?

1999-03-20 Thread Larry Fletcher
diald, slhc might be required for diald and slip even though I'm not going to use slip to connect, and I have no idea what nls_iso8859_1 is for. So what I'm wondering is do I actually need any of these last four modules? And if so, why? Thanks, Larry Fletcher Redondo Beach, CA USA

Re: hamm/pppconfig?

1999-02-22 Thread Larry Fletcher
ld be able to connect with an ordinary >PAP setup. I don't think I'll tempt the hands of fate right now, maybe later. :-) >John Hasler >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) >Dancing Horse Hill >Elmwood, WI Thanks John!!! And thanks to everyone else that replied! Larry Fletcher Redondo Beach, CA USA

Re: hamm/pppconfig?

1999-02-21 Thread Larry Fletcher
ppp/peers and I must have accidentally deleted it. But this is not a problem, because after I deleted all of the pppconfig files reentering my information was easy. I just have no idea why changing the phone number with pppconfig would cause a login failure? When I started using Debian a few months a

Re: hamm/pppconfig?

1999-02-21 Thread Larry Fletcher
>Larry Fletcher wrote: >> The first time I tried pppconfig it worked perfectly, but I just tried >> to change the phone number and now it won't connect. (The only change >> is the phone number, everything else is the same.) >> >> I tried deleting /etc/ppp/pe

hamm/pppconfig?

1999-02-21 Thread Larry Fletcher
The first time I tried pppconfig it worked perfectly, but I just tried to change the phone number and now it won't connect. (The only change is the phone number, everything else is the same.) I tried deleting /etc/ppp/peers/provider in an effort to erase the defaults and start over, but when I ran

Re: Minicom installed and ppp working...at l o n g last

1999-01-31 Thread Larry Fletcher
"Michael E. Touloumtzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 06:56:48PM -0500, Michelle Coelho wrote: >> Now I want to install the bare minimum X11 and a browser (preferably >> netscape), as I'm low on disk space (I've just 72 Mb left). >> Anyone's any suggestions > >Try startin

lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-09 Thread Larry Fletcher
On Oct 06 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to install Debian on my 386 w/ 4Megs of RAM and > hercules video. Using the lowmem.bin image, here is what > happens... I've been trying the same thing. So far I have been able to install Debian Hamm from 1.44 disks using the "Installing D