Re: awk usage question

2003-05-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
print lines [-n]; use an expression [-e] that > > replaces an arbitrary number of characters followed by the word > > "Message" with nothing, and print the result.) > > Won't this print all lines, and delete the word "Message" where it appears? 1. No. 2. Try

CUPS / HPLJ5: very slow printer processing

2003-05-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
ce. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? KQED FM: The bright spot on the dial: http://www.kqed.org/fm/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: Paul Johnson - direct mail problems

2003-05-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
Your procmail recipies are hanging. My mail to you was bounced. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? "Yes," said Marvin. "Wearily I sit here, pain and mis

Re: strange kernel error ?

2003-05-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
ts or modules settings (/etc/modul* files and subdirectories) for what might be running that. Try it by hand. Look for more copious error output. I suspect a typo as 'modprobess' is not typically a system executable. 'modprobe' is. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROT

Re: leaving computer on 24/7

2003-03-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:31:15PM -0600, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:12:14PM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: <...> > > Additional problem: "stiction" on old drives. I've got a set of SCSIs > > from 1998 which ca

Re: getting rid of flash

2003-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
Downloader Plugin ..." That's what I thought. Hence the stylesheet. > > Mozilla should have some protection against plugins built-in, as it > has for blocking images and scripts opening windows ... > > Well, I'll try that CSS style sheets next. I can assure you it wo

Re: getting rid of flash

2003-03-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
. See: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/UserContentCSS The attached stylesheet kills flash (actually: *all* plugins), and fixes a number of other web annoyances. It's heavily ocmmented. Adapt it to your needs. CSS is pretty powerful -- you can kill banners, fucked-up fonts, , an

Re: Rant (was Re: X Window : Newbie)

2003-03-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
problems. You've heard of chroot installs? You *can* have it both ways: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DebianChrootInstall Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you unde

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
*a* GNU/Linux system set up (or provide materials for it to be installed yourself). If the system works well, it will be its own testament. And if none of that works, float your resume. There *are* GNU/Linux jobs out there, and with time you're likely to land one. Peace. -- Kars

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
e to accomodate them (particularly for specific versions of MSIE after 5.x). For this and other reasons, I consider the browser user-agent string to be harmful. You can join the protest: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/UserAgentString Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: I/O errors - logged?

2003-02-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
es under /var/log modified within the past day (-mtime -1) containing that error string. I'd suspect system or kernel logs. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? A few years ago

Re: Jargon File - where is tuxedo.org?

2003-02-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
first place managed to obstruct transfer to a new host/domain. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Moderator, Free Software Law Discussion mailing list: http://lists.alt.org/ma

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:15:17PM -0600, Keith G. Murphy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >on Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:18:46AM +0100, Jeff Elkins > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >>Is there one, or if so is it perceptible? For instance, I co

Re: Best WWW browser..

2003-02-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
I use 'signify' to randomly select sigs from a rather large set of possibilities). Peace -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? A guide to GNU/Linux browsers: http://twik

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
w I'm butchering this somewhat. Corrections appreciated. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Moderator, Free Software Law Discussion mailing list: http://lists.alt.org/mailman

Re: Certification

2003-02-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
, your own ability to present yourself well in person. Yes, the current US job market is tight, but there are jobs, and some of them are going to qualified candidates. The others will be open again soon enough ;-) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netc

Re: Good C/C++ IDE

2003-02-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
supports C. See: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/applications-ides.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Verio webhosting? Guaranteed downtime: http://www.wired.

Re: Windowmaker question

2003-02-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
You can also set "shared application icon" for apps you run many of (e.g.: terminal windows). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Verio webhosting? Guaranteed

Re: maildir vs. mbox vs. mh ???

2003-02-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
for large directories is vastly superior. I have seen reports that XFS beats both ext3 and reiserfs performance by a huge factor -- recent Linux Journal article on the recent 64-way SGI GNU/Linux server. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
xt-mode, mutt & mh. > Get real. Get a clue: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/NixBrowsers > (Well, when Mozilla gets the ability to edit bookmarks as well as > Netscape Communicator 4, then I will upgrade.) Start moving. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
abuse of a feature leads to a reduced usefulness of it in cases in which it actually *does* accomplish something helpful. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 Cabal: h

Re: Inexplicable crashing

2003-02-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
mory use (though the OOM should peel you off the ceiling if you're running out of memory), and/or install process accounting so you can see what the last run processes were. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Ges

Re: When did we get a crosspost with alt.shuttle.columbia.disaster?

2003-02-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
7;s a number of folks (including some otherwise useful contributors) who're going to be added to a lot of killfiles...if they haven't been already. That's a not-so-mild hint. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Ge

Re: WordPerfect 8 on Woody

2003-02-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
lly complete Wordperfect on GNU/Linux FAQ: http://www.linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/ Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Support the EFF, they support you: http://www.eff.org/ --

Re: [REPOST] Kernel-Update

2003-02-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
t. Running 'depmod -a' and 'update-modules' should fix this. The messages are generally pretty harmless, FWIW. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The Con

Educational software for Linux (was Re: simple (non-technial) software question)

2003-02-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
noppix (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html). This is in process, but should be pretty slick: a disk that you insert in the CD drive of a system, reboot, and you're running a GNU/Linux system with an educational focus. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http

Re: Migrate from RedHat to Debian

2003-02-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
stalling Debian as a chroot of your current system. This lets you get the system up and running, and configured, before committing yourself to it completely. You also have full use of your existing distrobution during the process. Further information: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/

Re: How I partitioned my harddrive

2003-02-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:54:46PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 2:50 AM > > > on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:32:55AM -0500, Em

Re: Books

2003-02-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
rg/doc/ In particular, the _User's Guide_, the _APT HOWTO_, and the _Debian Reference_. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? You can always tell the people that are forging

Re: if you could have just one dead tree book

2003-02-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
get just about anything at Powells: http://www.powells.com/ Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act: Feinste

Re: BackOrifice on Linux?

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
TEN 0 2201 701/portsentry > >tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:32771 0.0.0.0:* One of the annoying aspects of portsentry is that it opens the ports it listens on. This can lead to false-positive alerts when scanning your own systems. Sn

Re: How I partitioned my harddrive

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
ories _in_ the directory you point it at. If you want to keep it on one filesystem, use the '-x' option. IMO your end results are still a bit imbalanced. Not a huge deal, but keep it in mind as you go through this process again. Peace. Notes: 1. One pa

Re: disk partitioning & partition size allocations

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
790240+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 812 993733792+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 on / type ext3,ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (ro,nosuid,nodev) /dev/hda5 on /

Re: XF86Config -> XF86COnfig-4 converter?

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
ou can rerun it with 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86'). It's pretty foolproof. And it doesn't overwrite your existing v3 config file. Version 4 uses /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part o

Re: PGP Signatures

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
A (not so) Short Rant / FAQ on the Subject of Signed E-Mail and Public Key Infrastructure By Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You're probably reading this because you either st

Re: changing the root password

2003-01-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
re multiple entries for UID 0? That would be a '0' in the third ':' delimited field. Is your root partition mounted readonly? Is there a value in the second field of either /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow (if you're using shadow passwords, and you should be). Peace. -- Kars

Re: ext3 partition recovery

2003-01-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
discussion of repartitioning your system says, preferably in flaming letters three feet (0.90m) tall: BACK UP AND VERIFY YOUR DATA BEFORE REPARTITIONING YOUR DISK. YOU RISK LOSING ALL DATA. PERMANENTLY. Consider this a learning experience. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
URLs to where > this has been discussed in the past. > > I apologize in advance, but I'm not a subscriber of this list. Please > cc me on replies. I don't know about full concensus, but this is what I recommend: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
vmware, or do i need to re-install everything > > again? > > you should reinstall everything again. VMWare has the ability to run > off a "raw" disk(I think IDE only..) Current versions extend this to SCSI as well. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
n on running the OS outside VMWare as well. The HW configurations actually are different (VMWare runs with its own set of virtual HW independent of what the devices are on your physical system). I don't know how XP registration affects this, but strongly suspect that it does. Peace. -- Ka

plex86, VMWare, & other emulators (was Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX)

2003-01-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 12:59:24AM +0100, Rohan Nicholls ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030125 00:17]: > > on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:54:46AM +1100, Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Rohan Nicholls wrote: > > > >

Re: Window Managers

2003-01-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
but how do I run it? Systemwide: # update-alternatives --config x-window-manager For your own use, make the following the last line of ~/.xsession exec afterstep ...and take a look at WindowMaker if you like Afterstep. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmse

Re: Turning off error messages

2003-01-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
at it means, anyway. You'll find this in your /etc/syslog.conf file. There should be an example of logging this to an idle virtual console in the default file. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
ack ~$100US or so. Codeweaver's Crossover Office (also a proprietary product) is another option. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? At the sound of the toner, boycott Lexmar

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:26:37PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:51:46AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > Sho

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
ty to troubleshoot legacy MS Windows issues based on my GNU/Linux understanding of what's going on. Useful? Perhaps. But not the sort of thing you actually want to *advertise*. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestal

Re: Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
nsisting of all lowercase alpha characters in /usr/share/doc. The fortuitous consequence that you now have a backup representation of package state is useful. It's not an intentional result. Subtle but important point, namely: if policy at some future point dictates that this arrange

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
stems, > > or are they just at the "user" (or just above) level? > > Many of the people I've introduced to Debian are new to Linux in > general. ...but are or are not otherwise experienced computer users? There's a *vast* range of experience and expertise levels o

Re: Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:03:00AM -0500, Travis Crump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > >>Here is a good article about recovering a Debian system without having a > >>backup of /var/lib/dpkg... > >> > >>http://www.linuxworld.co

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
. You'll find these are 99.99% identical to a vanilla Debian system. That extra bit of chrome and polish _does_ go a long ways though. It's about choice. If you like what you find here, great. If you don't, happy trails. I _would_ encourage you to understand what it is tha

Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
I should try installing Debian under UML and self-inflicting damage, then recovering, and telling me what I got wrong). #!/bin/sh export PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin # Let's be verbose set -v # Create /var directory tree stubs mkdir /var/cache/apt/archi

Re: xdm error

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
e opened." > > "xdm drror(pid 276): Can't create/lock pid file > /var/run/xdm-pid" > > All I want to do is have x start up by default. > Does anyone have any Idea's? Does /var/run exist? Does /var/run/xdm-pid exist? What permissions? What ow

Re: Re-configuring after an install

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
I think that introduced > package called netenv. I think that is the one asking question. > > See /usr/share/doc/netenv . Use "mc" command. netenv is IMO a useless package. Lose it. No harm. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kms

Re: how to determine hd partitioning?

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:08:13AM +, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > on Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:30:24PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night, > > and I&#x

Re: how to determine hd partitioning?

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
ble as it sounds. This is also a very good illustration of why you should keep vital system information in a save place (preferably hardcopy and/or a remotely accessible system). I use a script "system-info" to provide this and other data: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Down

Re: OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
TECTED]>,\ > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,\ > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,\ > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,\ > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You don't. You define 'mygroup' in /etc/aliases, and let your MTA handle this. Or you get a mailing list package and deal

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
e technical considerations for marketing ones, so it doesn't. This is IMO a reflection of the broader lessons of free software. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? At the so

Re: Queue Task Software on Linux ?

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
re looking for. They can be set up across a cluster or a single system, and offer finer-grained control than the traditional cron/at/batch GNU/Linux job schedulers. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don'

Re: Maintaining a mixed system

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
y not recommended. It can be possible, but raises headaches. If you want testing/unstable packages, go to testing/unstable. - Because the delta between testing and unstable is far smaller than that between stable and testing, it's more feasible to pin between testing/uns

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
John Lettice, and Andrew. Shankland's an old Unix admin, though I don't know what he runs these days. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.

Re: opera or other fast browser

2003-01-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
s are buggier'n shit and suck. Opera leaves me cold, though some people like it. More info: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/NixBrowsers Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don'

Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

2003-01-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
t of space: # cd /var; du -sx * | sort -nr | cat -n ...will show you the directories in /var in descending size. You'll want to comb through these to find where you're using excess space. I try to allocate ~1GB for /var on a typical workstation. For server purposes, you may want to carve out

Re: sas fileserver

2003-01-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:34:55PM -0800, Michael West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:45:51AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 06:21:17PM -0800, Michael West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I have been asked to help with gettin

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
; i am looking for a browser that will load quickly, have bookmarking > ability - preferably with folders. Again, my pick on anything remotely resembling modern HW is Galeon. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt&

Re: Command line apt bot

2003-01-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
org #debian. I don't know the answer, staff there might ...though your friendly neighborhood IRC client is one means. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire:

Re: sas fileserver

2003-01-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
or SASWORK, SASSSORT, or other temporary or scratch space, really loads up network traffic. Discourage this if possible. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Keep software fr

Re: Revert Back to Gnome 1.4 from Gnome2

2003-01-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
Several other packages reflect this, though most are development or interpreter packages (e.g.: Perl, Python, etc.). The distinction and interoperability are significant enough that it matters in this case. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.

Re: man pages as user

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
. i've > configured my locales ... and i've seen this recently on debian-user, > so i'll keep googling for that one. First fix should hit this as well. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" d

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
nals in one, and unless you really *need* Tektronix 4014 emulation. The advantage offered by xterm clones such as xvt and rxvt is that they drop this (almost always) useless baggage, while retaining most of the useful aspects. On a less-capable or heavily loaded system, the decreased memory and swa

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:15:08PM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:15 PM > Subject: Re: cannot open disl

Re: Timing a program run?

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
;t include a time builtin function. Or "reseved word" according to the bash manpage. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:52:25AM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:59 PM > Subject: Re: cannot open disl

Re: users and x/gdm

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
) the xserver? In /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config: allowed_users=console You should be able to manage this setting with: # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common man 5 Xwrapper.config for more information. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of &

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:32:20PM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 9:03 PM > Subject: Re: cannot open disl

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
ts to the new mountpoint once you've created it: $ sudo bash # cd / # mv home home-bak # mount /home # cp -pdR home-bak/* /home > i mean, i'm going to go back and initialize it and /tmp just as soon > as i figure out how, but i'm kind of confused. You&#x

Re: Exchange Calendar client?

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
erver software is gratis, at least so long as you take the stock build. Oracle's trying to break into this market. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? How to unwedge / disa

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
s your root session executing? - Are you local or remote on this box? If you are logged in as a nonprivileged user, are 'su'd or 'sudo'd to root, and are attempting to run an X client, try specifying the local display *and* merging xauth records, as root: # export DISPLAY= #

Re: Help needed to steal Knoppix settings, etc

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
teway, Knoppix uses DHCP. For modules, etc., check /proc/modules. Add an additional linespace between your paragraphs, makes reading your posts easier. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you

Re: keyboard problem

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
eral times on the mailing list. I'd suggest searching archives at http://www.debian.org/, or Google. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.

Re: Can only login as root

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
; > > > There is something wrong with autentication. > > > > What can I do to trouble shoot this issue ? > > Whatd does 'ls /etc/nologin*' say? I had this problem once, and it > turned it out to be because of this. Removing them should fix it... Mo

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

2002-12-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
have at least one extended partition, and the remainder are logical partitions within the extended partition(s). In practice, I generally use 3 primary, one extended, and the remainder logical, partitions. > - i *do* need to specifically partition /home as its own partition, > right?

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

2002-12-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
ve to use them all, but it's a hell of a lot easier than repartitioning later), slightly larger /tmp, and you've got the right idea for /home. Note too that you'll need extended partitions to fill this out. Details: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html Peace

Re: surfraw

2002-12-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
something like 'w3m -dump', though ... That doesn't work, I tried with 'lynx -dump'. Surfraw doesn't take options to the browser command. Looking at /etc/surfraw.conf, though, I note that there is a line: def SURFRAW_text_browser_args none ...which is awfull

Re: surfraw

2002-12-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on your path with the following content: #!/bin/sh export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin lynx -dump $@ ...and make it executable. Should work, does for me. Frankly, I'd far prefer using w3m as my surfraw browser, as it's then possible to follow links, etc. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[E

Re: How to pass in a password to the ssh command line client?

2002-12-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
to the forced command option of ssh. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: potato -> woody: E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend

2002-12-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
xserver-mach64_3.3.6-44_i386.deb xutils_4.1.0-16_i386.deb Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? CARP smells fishy -- keep Internet Radio alive: http://doc.weblogs.com/2002/03/11

potato -> woody: E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend

2002-12-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
hange: Please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20020718)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend -

Re: OT: duplex entry in printcap

2002-12-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
re currently > doing by hand. a2ps includes switches to embed the duplex flags into a document. My own preferred setting is duplex, 2-up. Uses 1/4 the paper of full-sheet single-sided, and binders well. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself

Re: Printer Recommendations?

2002-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
h as DMCA Anti-circumvention for enforcement. Anyone have experiences / further information on this? And note that I may be half-remembering or rumormongering here.... Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt&quo

Re: Printer Recommendations?

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:57:50PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:10:14PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > | On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 17:37, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | > on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 04:01:24PM -0600, Alex Malinovi

Re: Runaway vim on SSH disconnect

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
that can become disconnected from the > process. > | Does anyone know a workaround (other than a script that seeks and > | kills runaway vim sessions...)? Use 'screen' for remote sessions. Article in this month's LJ, or apt-get install screen. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self &l

gnome 1.4 rather than 2 w/ unstable?

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
major systems, a'la Perl, Python, glibc, etc.? TIA. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Safe Sex Shell + Condom = Total Protection ??????+??????=??????????

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 02:21:16PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "George Lin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Safe Sex Shell + Condom = Total Protection > > sssh? sssh -ctp -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http

Re: Printer Recommendations?

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
er than inkjet ($40/cartridge or so). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Suggestions for faxing under Debian?

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm considering switching to CUPS. If anyone's got stories/configs for fax setups to share, I'm interested. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Moderator, Free S

Re: Not getting the letter I press

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
"us" > Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" > > How can I make it produce the ? character, which is adiaeresis on my > system? Where does the error lie? xkeycap may reveal what's going on. Look into it. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PRO

Re: install program cannot detect swap partition

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
a3, for the second partition of your first IDE drive, or 3rd partition of your first SCSI drive. will be, eg: hda for an IDE drive, sda for a SCSI drive. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't

Re: Once in a while 'pon' just hangs without connecting

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
uld like to > resolve this matter. Try using / setting 'poff -a' as your modem disconnect setting. This should clear any other pppd sessions which are running. May or may not help with your problems. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>h

OT: any Debian users near Collegeville / St. Cloud, MN?

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
ur contact information. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian hotswap and 5 9's

2002-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
flood, power outage, earthquake, hurricane, severe wind, civil unrest, internal sabotage or compromise) _might_ make a credible basis for claims. Note that with the emerging significance of highly modular redundant x86 form factors (eg: "blade" servers with 300+ nodes per standard

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