Re: neovim and less

2019-11-04 Thread R Ransbottom
happier--if I'm happier maybe I am--no that's just stupid. Ha! Thanks for the suggestions. rir On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 02:01:01PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 02:27:19PM -0400, R Ransbottom wrote: > > Issuing a ex command like > > > >

neovim and less

2019-11-02 Thread R Ransbottom
Hi all, Neovim and/or less are not performing as I would like in one regard: when invoked from nvim ex prompt the pager goes directly to the end of input. Thanks for any help. Details: Issuing a ex command like :! perldoc -f close or :! cat some_file | less brings me directly to

exim4 using remote_smtp not smarthost

2005-12-09 Thread R Ransbottom
I run configure-debian to set up my little mailserver and everything looks fine; but still may mail does not go to my smarthost. Since I am on a dynamic IP this is a problem with some remote hosts. Otherwise mail works fine. In my /var/log/exim4/mainlog I am getting things like T=remote_smtp

Where is CPU/Mem Usage Applet in sarge

2005-11-10 Thread R Ransbottom
In debian 3.0 there was a nice compact CPU/Mem Usage Applet 1.4.0.5 that took very little screen space. Is it, or something much like, available in Sarge? Thanks. Be well, rir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where is CPU/Mem Usage Applet in sarge

2005-11-10 Thread R Ransbottom
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:49:32PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: R Ransbottom wrote: In debian 3.0 there was a nice compact CPU/Mem Usage Applet 1.4.0.5 that took very little screen space. Is it, or something much like, available in Sarge? What desktoip environment are we talking about

Re: backup plan bare metal

2005-10-06 Thread R Ransbottom
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:28:15AM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: Would be interested in seeing what some of you use for a backup plan. Mainly for servers. Tar? Easy/quick way to restore bare metal? Some of the replies you have gotten seem to miss the point of bare metal recovery; which is to

grub and swapping out drive

2005-08-02 Thread R Ransbottom
I want to install grub to (hd1) so that it is ready to be used as (hd0). I have Debian 3.1r0a up. On /dev/hda2 (hd0,1) is my root. On /dev/sda2 (hd1,1) is a cloned root. I want to remove the IDE disk at /dev/hda and boot from /dev/sda2 which will then be (hd0,1). I have no floppy drive. By

cfengine2 Beginner problems.

2005-08-01 Thread R Ransbottom
Hi. I'm trying to set up two Debian Sarge machines as my playground for cfengine. My initial goal is to have a simple edit of my /etc/motd files. I have gotten this working only on one host--the policy server (PS) serves itself. I feel uncertain about the location of files on my PS. There are

Sarge install 82801 ICH5 SATA and ide-cdrom?

2005-07-10 Thread R Ransbottom
I am trying to get Sarge linux26 installed but seem to have driver problems with SATA versus PATA. In completely naive mode there are no drivers found for the cdrom. I found a tip on-line suggesting that I manually load these drivers: piix, ide-generic, and ide-cd before ata-piix gets loaded by

Re: VIA C3 or Eden ESP 5000

2004-05-17 Thread R Ransbottom
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 08:44:58AM -0700, tjm3 wrote: Has anyone installed and run Debian on a system with either one of these VIA processors, the C3 or the Eden ESP 5000? And did you have any problems? Success on Via C3 Shuttle FV25 mini-ITX boxes. I did have a problem with the BIOS and

Re: Paranoid Admin: Keystroke Logger for Debian

2003-10-03 Thread R Ransbottom
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 04:20:33PM -0700, ListDude1 wrote: Hey all, I was just wondering if there is a keystroke logger avaialble for Debian.very secure do not trust chrooting

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-30 Thread R Ransbottom
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:23:13AM +0200, Tobias Reckhard wrote: R Ransbottom wrote: I tried mondoarchive. I ran into a snag were root could not be found. I bailed out because it seems Hugo appears to be working heavily on DVD support at the moment. I'd prefer for LVM support to become

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-29 Thread R Ransbottom
I tried mondoarchive. I ran into a snag were root could not be found. I bailed out because it seems that intermediate iso images are required. Given that I plan to use dvd+rw's for backup this did not appeal. So instead: find, cpio, growisofs, and a tomsrtbt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

X problems with unstable

2003-08-31 Thread R Ransbottom
In installing xserver-common (4.2.1-10) on unstable I get a note: Note: not updating /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config; file does not exist. This is followed by xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-10) noting: Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; file does not exist. Note: not updating /etc/X11/XF86Config-4; file does not

Re: Any project for turning linux into a hd video recorder?

2003-08-30 Thread R Ransbottom
In installing xserver-common (4.2.1-10) on unstable I get a note: Note: not updating /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config; file does not exist. This is followed by xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-10) noting: Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; file does not exist. Note: not updating /etc/X11/XF86Config-4; file does not

Re: LILO ! framebuffer

2003-08-25 Thread R Ransbottom
Paul M Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On boot, I'm getting the framebuffer, with the little colored Tux in the upper lefthand corner of the screen. I don't want that, I want Had the same problem and the same difficulty finding the answer: In lilo.conf append=video=vga16:off -- To

Re: Hard Drive Going - Need a good backup utility

2003-08-12 Thread R Ransbottom
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 09:47:32PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: if the disk is dying ... doing a full disk backup will probably kill it completely just as easily as it could keep going a few more reads/write mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 tar cvf - /dev/hda1 | ( cd /mnt/hdc1 ; tar xvfp - ) sync ;

dselect apt-get coordination

2003-07-31 Thread R Ransbottom
How do you coordinate apt-get and dselect so that they want the same packages? If I understand the apt-get man page running apt-get dselect-upgrade will set up the system per the setting last made using dselect. Correct? How do you the inverse? That is how do you alter the dselect database to

Re: Anti Open Source Psyops / Mind Tweakers? (they'll never believe we're really aliens dept)

2003-06-03 Thread R Ransbottom
Hush, Karl, hush. Please! We are in hiding. If you keep making noise you will be the one we use for a suicide-diversion mission when they get close enough. Quietly now: Are you prepared to make that sacrifice? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: How to make DNS and DHCP server play nice?

2003-05-30 Thread R Ransbottom
This is great! I put in a wishlist to have dnsmasq read the dhcp lease file out of the box. Then dnsmasq will really be plug and play. Since only one dhcp server should exist on a segment it is a bad idea to have such a package work without, at least, forcing the user to set it up. --

Re: Using VIA C3 and Woody?

2003-02-03 Thread R Ransbottom
Bill Moseley wrote: I want to build a very quiet and stable machine. Anyone using a VIA C3 based system with Woody? If so, what motherboard are you using? Any hardware issues? I'm using Shuttle FV25 Spacewalker boards w/o problems. I've never really gotten into the Microsoft world so I

framebuffer sizing again

2003-01-15 Thread R Ransbottom
I am trying to set the console screen size to 25 x 80 on Debian 3.0. I really don't care whether I am using the framebuffer device or not. I would like an easy generic solution. One that will work on various machines. Preferably without kernel compiles and without knowledge of what video card

Re: smtp of ISP needs passwd,how to setup exim?

2002-12-17 Thread R Ransbottom
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 06:55:28PM +, Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 09:24:36PM +0800, Dai Yuwen wrote: I want to setup exim use my ISP's smtp server as a smart host. But this smtp server needs user name and password. How do I use exim this way? Thank you in advance. I

Virtual packages

2002-12-15 Thread R Ransbottom
Lately I've been using apt. Using dselect to pull stuff off the net. How might I browse for virtual packages and their real counterparts? The thought of installing javascruft ^H^H^H^Hipt and such for browsers lead to this query. -- rir Live the dream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Help! Exim verizon.net

2002-12-12 Thread R Ransbottom
I am trying to set up a debian mail server that sees the world through incoming.verizon.net and outgoing.verizon.net. Fetchmail is set up and recieving mail fine. I have muddled through a few small setups of sendmail, smail and exim over the years. Verizon has authenticated SMTP which is one

VIA tv out encoder

2002-11-25 Thread R Ransbottom
I am setting up some Shuttle SV25, which are shoebox size socket-370 PC systems w/ everything on the motherboard, and taking standard components. They have a VIA TV out encoder on board. The chip is actually labeled: Chrontel CH7006C-T RUC 0206 MC821#A I only have a tiny clue what a video

Re: running rsh and ssh?

2002-11-01 Thread R Ransbottom
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 01:38:38PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: R Ransbottom wrote: My first concern is what to run on win98se that will handle ssl and provide good terminal emulation, and samba. (I don't know much about windows or its culture.) What to run? Do a Google search for PuTTY

running rsh and ssh?

2002-10-31 Thread R Ransbottom
At work we've been running a linux network for the past six years. This is a isolated network. Everything is linux except for three machines. One dual boots win98se to run a payroll program. One mostly runs in win98se to run a credit card processing program. One runs SCO to handle a

Exim configuration

2002-10-23 Thread R Ransbottom
I receive mail with fetchmail which works fine. My system receives mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Local mail works fine. I send mail with exim which works except in my ISP's domain. When I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it is seen as local mail to an unknown user. How should I make this work?

Re: Exim configuration

2002-10-23 Thread R Ransbottom
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 09:11:24PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: R I send mail with exim which works except in my ISP's domain. R When I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it is seen as local R mail to an unknown user. R How should I make this work? My guess is you have

DBD Pg problem

2001-07-06 Thread R Ransbottom
Using woody with unstable DB stuff I get the following error. What file or link am I missing? Thanks for any help. install_driver(Pg) failed: Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so' for module DBD::Pg: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so: undefined

Re: Linux in the company

2001-03-26 Thread R. Ransbottom
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Gregor Kaleta wrote: Does somebody use Linux professional in the company? If yes, which Distribution? Does Debian be used also in the professional area or is the first election RedHat Linux? I have Debian running on every thing and have since 1.1, I think. Occasionally I

Changing to MD5 shadow passwords?

2001-03-19 Thread R. Ransbottom
I would like to convert all of my Debian 2.0 and 2.2 systems to MD5 shadow passwords. If I understand the docs correctly all that needs doing is to add md5 to the apropriate lines in /etc/pam.d/passwd and /etc/pam.d/login. Is this correct? rob Live the dream.

Resetting user's gnome to initial state

2001-02-13 Thread R. Ransbottom
How do I initialize a gnome user to the state of a new user? Is there a skel directory for gnome and for enlightenment? If I delete the ~/.gnome directory will it get rebuilt? Set up another user and copy everything over? Some other approach? Thanks, rir

Official CDs to NFS tree???

2001-01-23 Thread R. Ransbottom
I have Official Debian 2.2r2 Intel Binary CDs. The 4 CDs. I'd like to install from my nfs server. What is the approach to take? Thanks, rir

Re: how to grep without changing timestamps?

2001-01-10 Thread R. Ransbottom
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 02:04:57PM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is it possible to grep a ton of files without modifying their date/timestamps? Currently if I use grep, it changes the access time of all files touched,

Re: [slightly OT] book recomendations?

2001-01-04 Thread R. Ransbottom
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Xucaen wrote: Hi all,, there have been some mentions of books on the list, but nothing definitive... can anyone recomend a good system administration/network administration book? An addition to the other good recommendations you've received. _Unix_Backup__Recovery_ by W.

Help keeping a news spool

2000-09-08 Thread R. Ransbottom
I like to run a local news spool, but I only have newsreader access with my provider. I like to use trn or strn to read from the local spool. What is the best way to do this with Debian? Since Debian 2.0 or earlier I have been using leafnode and trn/strn with a customized Pnews script. Each

Bug in new ext2 ??

2000-05-15 Thread R. Ransbottom
I normally use ext2 filesystems on floppies. After creating a filesystem with mke2fs from e2fsprogs 1.18-3 the program mount from e2fsprogs 1.12-4 fails to mount it with the message: EXT2-FS: 02:00: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features. Fsck from 1.12-4 would find no fault