/dev/psaux missing when using udev

2004-03-09 Thread Stig Brautaset
Hi, I've installed the udev package from experimental. It works great, apart from one little niggly thing: I can't find my mouse. It used to be /dev/psaux, but I can't find it now. Is that because the driver doesn't register with libsys properly (or whatever it is it needs to do to get recognised

Re: /dev/psaux missing when using udev

2004-03-09 Thread Stig Brautaset
Matt Kirchhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stig Brautaset stig at brautaset.org writes: It works great, apart from one little niggly thing: I can't find my mouse. Did you read the documentation? For udev? Yes. For the kernel, no. I didn't think think that was relevant since my mouse worked

Re: /dev/psaux missing when using udev

2004-03-09 Thread Stig Brautaset
Wang WenRui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The new device is /dev/misc/psaux. I'll try that when I get home. Thank you :) Stig -- brautaset.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can I get mutt to dlete an entire thread?

2002-02-06 Thread Stig Brautaset
* stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Still tweaking on my uutt config I have it set up so that all threads are compressed when I enter a folder. folder-hook . push \eV I would like to be able to mark all messages in a given thread as deleted from the index screen. At present if I hit d

Re: The New World Order is Here !

2002-02-03 Thread Stig Brautaset
* ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Saturday 02 February 2002 08:26 pm, Stig Brautaset wrote: * Bruce Burhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Can you believe this? Does anyone know what those initial characters are? Can you please stop reposting spam to the list? My spamfilter caught

Re: Why do I need all these apt-howto-* files?

2002-02-03 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Davide Inglima - limaCAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Remove apt-howto and the language specific versions you don't want. As I understand it, the apt-howto package now only contains dependancies for all language variants as opposed to the howto itself. Keeping (as an example)

Re: The New World Order is Here !

2002-02-03 Thread Stig Brautaset
# These words in the body of the mail is positive. positive_words=(Stig|Brautaset|:-\)) positive_words_score=3 # Char sets different than these are not appreciated. ok_charsets=(latin|iso-8859|Windows-1252|us-ascii|utf-8) bad_charset_score=13 # These words in the body counts against it being

Re: Coverting elm alliases file for use bu mutt?

2002-02-02 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I'm migrating to a new woody mail machine, and switching from elm to mutt in the process. I have several hunderd alliases in my elm config. Has anyone a sugestion as to how to convert these for use by mutt? You won't like this answer, but here it

Re: Coverting elm alliases file for use bu mutt?

2002-02-02 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Sat Feb 2 06:43:06 2002 Stig Brautaset wrote... * Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I'm migrating to a new woody mail machine, and switching from elm to mutt in the process. I have several hunderd alliases in my elm config. Has anyone

Re: Problem with tasksel

2002-02-02 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Kapil Khosla [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Hi, I was installing woody over the network and had some problem so could not install the base system. After rebooting I configured the problem with the network but now how to i resume the installation ? I just get the prompt and when i run

Re: What is a good, small, web browser?

2002-02-02 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com spake thus: I'll also strongly plug Galeon. If you're not violently allergic to GNOME libs (and yes, it does suck in a whole mess of them, along with all of Mozilla), it's an ass-kicking browser. Just out of curiosity: use (I can easily get over 100

Re: The New World Order is Here !

2002-02-02 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Bruce Burhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Can you believe this? Does anyone know what those initial characters are? Can you please stop reposting spam to the list? My spamfilter caught the original spam, but there is precious little I can do about followups to spam when (a) the subject

Re: Problem with tasksel

2002-02-02 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 02:30:46AM +, Stig Brautaset wrote: I might be wrong, but I think the problem is that tasksel Does Not Work(tm)(R) with anything other than potato. I'm guessing that nobody have 'defined' or set up the dependencies

Re: help

2002-01-31 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Jason Majors [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: If you'd like assistance with your problem send an email, not a web page. :) __ I'm pretty sure that was a disguised commercial Bruce+ Now that you mention it, it looks like the kind of email address

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-28 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Preben Randhol [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Brian Stults [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 28/01/2002 (17:33) : You might want to try www.google.com/linux. Entering the following string produced some informative results: +easter egg +wanda This isn't a flame, just hopefully a useful tip.

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-25 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Andreas Leitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 03:03, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 25-Jan-2002 Michael Jinks wrote: One thing you can do: hold left shift during boot to get a prompt, and at the LILO: prompt enter Linux init=/bin/sh (possibly replacing Linux with

Re: Are you spam?

2002-01-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Dmitriy [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:05:44PM -0500, alex wrote: [snip] If an ISP doesn't use a SPAM blocker service, the message passes but then a filter that directs the mail to a Debian mailbox may instead treat it as general mail, depending on how the

mutt weirdness

2002-01-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
Hi list, I am having trouble with mutt again. I got tired of having to wait for so long for mutt to open one of my mailing list folders, so now I get my mail all in one inbox, and need to move it to different folders (this way I keep the level of mails in the inbox at an appropriate level). I

Re: mutt weirdness

2002-01-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
* dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:32:19PM +, Stig Brautaset wrote: | Hi list, | | I am having trouble with mutt again. I got tired of having to wait for | so long for mutt to open one of my mailing list folders, Not the answer you were looking for, but I

Re: mutt weirdness

2002-01-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:32:19PM +, Stig Brautaset wrote: Hi list, can do this with the save-hook commands, and I have even made myself a little macro to help me out (this tags the current thread and saves it to the folder specified

Re: fetchmail

2002-01-19 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Ken Weingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 01:38 , Bob Thibodeau wrote: What is in your ~/.fetchmailrc? I don't have one. From what I understood, if I specify everything I need on the command line, I don't need one. Then what was the arguments you

Re: fetchmail

2002-01-19 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: What is in your ~/.fetchmailrc? I don't have one. From what I understood, if I specify everything I need on the command line, I don't need one. Then what was the arguments you used on the command line to run fetchmail with? My guess is that some

Re: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error

2002-01-11 Thread Stig Brautaset
* dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:08:22AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: While using fetchmail all goes OK until reaching message 91 and then 'reading message No 91' SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error fetchmail: socket error while fetching from (my

gatos drivers for rage mobility p (dell latitude)

2002-01-09 Thread Stig Brautaset
Hi guys and gals, I have a Dell Latitude CPx H500GT with (reportedly) a ati rage mobility p in it. I was told I could get hardware scaling with the gatos driver, and wanted to know what people here think before I went on a possibly useless mission to install them manually... Do the driver exist

Re: mail server

2002-01-09 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Paul A. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I would like to put a REALLY small email server up at work using Debian ( I have a RH box I've put together but I like ... the feel of this list / what it says about Debian vs what I've encountered with RH ). I had heard about Sendmail and have

Re: fetchmail questions

2001-12-15 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 December 2001 11:59 pm, Stig Brautaset wrote: * Alec [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Hi Is it possible to get fetchmail to dump messages from my yahoo account into, say ~/yahoo

Re: fetchmail questions

2001-12-15 Thread Stig Brautaset
* dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Is it possible to get fetchmail to dump messages from my yahoo account into, say ~/yahoo, instead of mixing it with the other mail in /var/mail/alec. Not that I know of, as fetchmail delivers the mail it fetches from your yahoo account to your local MTA

Re: fetchmail questions

2001-12-14 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Alec [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Hi Is it possible to get fetchmail to dump messages from my yahoo account into, say ~/yahoo, instead of mixing it with the other mail in /var/mail/alec. Not that I know of, as fetchmail delivers the mail it fetches from your yahoo account to your local

Re: You have mail in...

2001-12-14 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Alec [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Hi How can I turn off the You have mail in /var/mail/alec notification in bash, if that's possible? put the following line in ~/.bashrc: biff n ...or uninstall biff entirely. Stig -- brautaset.org Registered Linux User 107343

Re: Homework

2001-12-10 Thread Stig Brautaset
* martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: also sprach Nicolás Conde [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.12.10.0901 -0800]: 1. RTFM (Read The Friendly Manual) 2. Search the {archives | HOW-TOs} snip anyway, i think the general feel is that anyone should rather post a question on this list than to

Re: Changes in mutt (was Re: Evolution depends libgtkhtml20)

2001-12-09 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Cam Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: * DvB ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On a side note, when asking a new question, please refrain from replying to an already posted message since this screws up threaded views in mail clients that support them. It also screws up web archives that

Re: Newbie comments queries

2001-12-08 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com spake thus: Could be I just did it wrong. Maybe the echo foo /dev/ttyS0 method doesn't have any way to say back OK. Except for lighting up the lights and making beeping noises, of course. AFAIK, it doesn't. My usual test is to run a test

[OT] text floating around pictures using LaTeX

2001-12-06 Thread Stig Brautaset
Hi list, Is there a way to make text flow around (not just above and below) included (eps-)graphics in LaTex? The problem is that I have a fairly tall but thin figure I need to include; it takes up much of the height but little of the width. (Changing the orientation of the figure is not an

Re: acroread crashes

2001-12-04 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Holger Rauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Hi Ben! Thanks for your reply! On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, ben wrote: [...] i agree. the purpose of a boycott is to disempower. adobe have shown that they don't deserve a position of any esteem in the free system that linux exemplifies.

make mutt open folders with threads collapsed

2001-12-01 Thread Stig Brautaset
Hi there list, Is there a way to make mutt open a folder with the message threads collapsed (a way similar to that of slrn would be nice) and, if possible, not show threads with new messages at all unless I request it? (I know gnus has this behaviur, and I got really addicted to it...) I have

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread Stig Brautaset
* nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Jeronimo Pellegrini said: I've seen some people here talking about the new 2.4.15/2.5.0 kernel. Please, don't use it. It'll cause some forruption on your filesystem when unmounting filesystems. problems like this is why i believe 2.4 is not near

Re: Don't use kernel 2.4.15/2.5.0 (fs corruption)

2001-11-24 Thread Stig Brautaset
* nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Craig Dickson said: Your call, of course, for your machines. But in general I've found 2.4 to be pretty decent. I had something like two months of uptime with 2.4.9 before I decided to upgrade it to 2.4.12-ac3, which in turn ran for a few weeks

Re: Man pages to PDF or RTF?

2001-11-17 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Rafe B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Is there a windoze util that will convert Linux man pages to RTF or PDF or Postscript? why would you want a windoze tool to do that? Specifically, what is the format of man pages? TeX/roff /troff/other ??? Is there a HOWTO for man-page format (There

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-16 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Paul McHale [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: spin at all. and with the near 2 dozen IBM disk drive failures ive had in the past 6 months, im even more for never turning off the system. When I worked PC support contracts at Honeywell, we would always tell people to leave the CPU (and HD)

Re: OT: mutt message scoring: body/header?

2001-11-11 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: I'm playing with mutt message scoring. It's interesting, but not quite as powerful as I'd like. I haven't played with it yet, but gnus is supposed to have a superior scoring system. You may want

Re: programming

2001-11-04 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: High, On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: hi. Im trying to read a complete line from a text file. I use the fscanf( file, [^\n],buffer); butit doesnt work. I reads the entire file until overflow of the buffer. Can some one tell

Re: programming

2001-11-04 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Stig Brautaset [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: * Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: High, On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: hi. Im trying to read a complete line from a text file. I use the fscanf( file, [^\n],buffer); butit doesnt work. I reads the entire

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-28 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Anders Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I have installed Debian (with GNOME) for two of my friends, and they haven't even used MS Windows before. They can't administrate them. But on the other hand, they can't make a mess out of the machines either. I'll just visit them at least every

Re: keyboard

2001-10-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Patrick L. McGillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Hi, I am looking for the C syntax to check to see if a key was pressed. This would be non-blocking, as there are other things happening in the program, besides waiting on user input. Any help or pointers is appreciated. Hi Patrick, Try

Re: Hello everybody

2001-10-21 Thread Stig Brautaset
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Hello everybody ,Hello everybody , I wanted to share with all of you my desperation to get a hang of Solaris . All of you , being votaries of the Open Source Movement , could perhaps guide me as to how I can have Solaris on my box [I am

Re: maildir : mutt and fetchmail

2001-10-15 Thread Stig Brautaset
* dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 07:36:42AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: | * dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.10.14 19:00:11-0400]: | Ok, now I'm using maildir for my folders. For some reason, though, | mutt shows most messages as having a size of 0. Why might this

Re: Looking for console IRC client with DCC auto-get and auto-accept

2001-10-13 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Morbo [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Hi, Could anyone please suggest a good console based IRC client with the possibility to download files from mIRC Fserve fileservers, and the possiblility to set auto-accept and auto-get for DCC transfers. Use the ircclient to end all ircclient

Re: Software DVD players

2001-10-12 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Craig Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Patrick Lane wrote: I use MPlayer, it now has a GUI! =] www.mplayerhq.hu You have to compile it from source, but it's worth it. The best media solution around in my opinion. Plays mpegs, avis, divx files as well Does it require Microsoft

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-11 Thread Stig Brautaset
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:03:46PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: cite l10n support If you want to see non-ASCII characters on a Debian system, there's no use fiddling with the variable charset, as described in the manual

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-10 Thread Stig Brautaset
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 04:39:48PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: Hi, I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. ? and ?). The strange thing is that they work all fine on the command line, and if I use more

Re: Can I convert an ext2 fs to Resierfs?

2001-10-09 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Hall Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Its interesting that people don't really seem to think much of ext3 but in my experience it is superb. I've been using it for about 3 months or so and have no complaints. The most appealing thing for me was the *simple* conversion to it -- no

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-08 Thread Stig Brautaset
80x73+250+25 -e 'LANG=de_DE LC_MESSAGES=C mutt'}} originally I had: {{Mutt} {eval dsk_exec $tkdesk(cmd,xterm) -geometry 80x73+250+25 -e mutt}} which worked like the one Stig Brautaset complained of. Unfortunately, so does my new one. I have tried various combinations

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-08 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Volker Schlecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Glad someone got something out of my cry for help ;) Unfortunately, my problem is still unresolved. I might have to join the mutt mailinglist or something (*sigh* another one.. just what I need...) or seriously STFW (as if I haven't

international characters in mutt

2001-10-06 Thread Stig Brautaset
Hi, I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. ? and ?). The strange thing is that they work all fine on the command line, and if I use more or less to view the mbox-file, they show up as they are supposed to. It is, in other words, only a problem in mutt. I have read

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-06 Thread Stig Brautaset
* dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 04:39:48PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: | Hi, | | I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. ? | and ?). The strange thing is that they work all fine on the command line, | and if I use more or less

Re: In mail, 'From' becomes 'From'

2001-09-27 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com spake thus: I've been noticing this on a number of messages both from and to me. Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as 'From'. Needless to say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures. I have no idea where this is happening (I run

Re: OT: how to deal with old mail

2001-09-26 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Christopher S. Swingley [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Hi! I've been happily using mutt for several years now, and I've currently got 415 mbox files (mutt folders) in my ~/Mail directory, consuming 40 MB of space. In the past when my Mail directory got too large, I've gone through and

Re: Deleting duplicate messages with formail/procmail

2001-09-24 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Jason Rashaad Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I'm not sure about what you are doing with formail currently, but I have the following at the top of my .procmailrc script and it works great: # avoid duplicate messages :0 Whc: msgid.lock | formail -D 16384

Re: mozilla questions

2001-09-23 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Tim locke [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: couple of mozilla-related question (0.9.4) 1. cannot access hotmail...i.e. when I click on sign-in status bar just says done but nothing happened AFAIK hotmail uses https, a protocol mozilla are not yet supporting. Regards, Stig -- brautaset.org

Re: mozilla questions

2001-09-23 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Martin W?rtele [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:28:19PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: * Tim locke [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: couple of mozilla-related question (0.9.4) 1. cannot access hotmail...i.e. when I click on sign-in status bar just says done

Re: mozilla questions

2001-09-23 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Stig Brautaset [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: * Martin W?rtele [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 12:28:19PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: * Tim locke [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: couple of mozilla-related question (0.9.4) 1. cannot access hotmail...i.e. when

Re: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

2001-09-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
snip {URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL} Dear sir, In order to transfer out (USD 126 M) One hundred and twenty six million United States Dollars) from African Development Bank. I have the courage to ask you to look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable for this

Re: tiger reports

2001-09-21 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Craig Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Dave Sherohman wrote: How can anonymous FTP be enabled when I have no FTP server installed? Is a config file present in /etc? What would it be called? There are no files matching the glob /etc/ftp*. try /etc/*ftp* I have

Re: Procmail Recipes on old messages?

2001-09-19 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Jason Rashaad Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: OK. I have successfully gotten procmail up and running on my local host, and it's happily filtering incoming mail. This is great for new stuff, but what about all the old messages in my spoolfile that have piled (and piled and piled) up

Re: Centralizing apt-get downloads

2001-09-18 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Folks- I have a home setup with a DSL line coming in to one debian box, then two other debian boxen connecting to it via ipmasq. Each box is set up to do an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade on a periodic basis for security and up-to-dateness

Re: decompress tgz

2001-09-13 Thread Stig Brautaset
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf The .tgz ending is (to my knowledge at least) just a shorthand writing for .tar.gz, so you can use `tar zxfv file.tgz'. Regards, Stig --

Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: High, On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Stig Brautaset wrote: * dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:02:07PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: | I have a head- and keyboardless machine running debian potato that I | used to log

Re: how to make exim run queue only when ppp link is up?

2001-08-22 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com spake thus: on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:21:19AM +0100, Stig Brautaset ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Diald keeps bringing up the link on request from exim. I have only had this problem since I made a fresh install about a week ago. Earlier, the exim cron

forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-21 Thread Stig Brautaset
I have a head- and keyboardless machine running debian potato that I used to log into with ssh. Now I have forgotten the password. *blush* What I want to do, is either; a) make a bootdisk with a script that automaticly starts running that disables the root password, then halts the machine.

Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*

2001-08-21 Thread Stig Brautaset
* dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:02:07PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: | I have a head- and keyboardless machine running debian potato that I | used to log into with ssh. Now I have forgotten the password. *blush* The easiest way is to borrow a head and keyboard

how to make exim run queue only when ppp link is up?

2001-08-21 Thread Stig Brautaset
Diald keeps bringing up the link on request from exim. I have only had this problem since I made a fresh install about a week ago. Earlier, the exim cron-entry that run the queue was controlled by a set of scripts in diald's ip-up.d and ip-down.d directories, but not so now. Why is that? I could

Re: tabs in xemacs

2001-08-20 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Andrew Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Alan Shutko wrote: Andrew Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know how to set xemacs to use 4 spaces when you hit the tab key? What mode? C programming mode. (That's a guess. I don't know anything about xemacs modes

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-20 Thread Stig Brautaset
* allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: hello: i have managed to insert a bullet in my poda courtesy of tar and my ineptness! that is, i did: tar -cvIf --remove-files /tmp/foo.tz /opt/tmp silly me filled up my current directory with a file called

diald not installing

2001-08-18 Thread Stig Brautaset
Hello people, I have trouble installing diald. It fails to run the post-installation script. here is some output: Arwen:~# dpkg --configure diald Setting up diald (0.99.4-2.1) ... dpkg: error processing diald (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 30

Re: diald not installing

2001-08-18 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:52:54PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: I have trouble installing diald. It fails to run the post-installation script. here is some output: Arwen:~# dpkg --configure diald Setting up diald (0.99.4-2.1

Re: Silly mutt/debian list question

2001-08-16 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I've recently changed my email address, and of course I've been playing with my mutt and exim configurations to get the new address to show up in the From: header. This seems to be working, but I've noticed a change: When I look at the debian-user

Re: XFree 4.1.0

2001-08-15 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Sven Gaerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Hi, it is planned to provide XFree 4.1.0 debs under woody? Or do I have to install the potato ones from CP Botha? huh? are there X 4.1 debs for potato? Please please please tell me where :) Stig -- www.brautaset.org

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1132

2001-08-15 Thread Stig Brautaset
* John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On behalf of all the educated Australians, I pray that you do not judge us all by the occasional fool. We are not all ignorant. I know exactly how you feel. We wonder how do we show the rest of the world that this jerk is so far from what 99.99%

Re: kernel troubles?

2001-08-12 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Sebastiaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Hi, For some months I have been trying to compile kernels from 2.4.5 to 2.4.8, but I still get the same errors and they does not seem to be solved in later versions. Today I build a new config file from scratch, but still unsuccesfull. The errors

Re: dosemu

2001-08-11 Thread Stig Brautaset
* dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 10:40:47PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | How do you use 'dosemu' and what is it ? It is a DOS emulator that, IIRC, requires DOS to really be installed on a partition. It is useful if you have some programs that only run under

Re: Kernel panic, system crash, 01 01 01: help

2001-08-11 Thread Stig Brautaset
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Yesterday while browsing the ftp.xfree86.org via lynx, via a dialup connection, my terminal suddenly started spouting warnings. I wasn't able to capture them, but one said, Unable to mount fs, unable to mount hdb. The other virtual

Re: DNS [subtopic: Re: Internet Connection Sharing, was: Re: Ethernet]

2001-08-03 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Mike McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 12:06:46PM +0100, Ade Talabi wrote: Alvin Oga, How do you turn on ip forwarding on machin A, which is a WIN 98SE box I'd say use winroute (shareware) if you cannot instead use the linux-box for routing. Stig

Re: Removing a sound module?

2001-07-30 Thread Stig Brautaset
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: i've also found on occasion, my sound drivers will get corrupted after a suspend/resume on my laptop. My laptop's sounddriver can occasionally start spewing out noise (crackling) along with the sound, and usually the sound is also limited to

Re: PCMCIA Ethernet card in 2.4.6 kernel

2001-07-30 Thread Stig Brautaset
* Aaron Traas [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: tried to download the pcmcia-source package (although it looks like these directions were meant exclusively for the 2.2 series kernels), and the make-kpkg modules_image failed. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to modprobe a module (no modules are

Re: Your site listed

2001-07-28 Thread Stig Brautaset
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pages from your web site at http://www.debian.org have been added to the UK Search Portal, http://www.serenade.co.uk. I got your email address from the page http://www.debian.org/contact, and just wanted to let you know about your entry, and how to add more pages

Re: Carriage return in email headers, body, possibly Netcom problem

2001-07-25 Thread Stig Brautaset
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: I've noticed this since about 5 am, PDT, Sunday, 22 July. Mail arriving since this time (and the time demarcation is pretty clean) has carriage returns (^M) appended to the end of each header line, e.g.: Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 08:49:58

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-13 Thread Stig Brautaset
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ray p wrote: Or better yet get putty. It supports SSH 2 with public key authentication. And is small enough that you can put a key the client and the scp and sftp (FTP tunnled through SSH) client on ~2 floppies It can be run from the floppy and can

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread Stig Brautaset
Brian Stults [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: happy to hear them. I plan on emphasizing the fact that I disable most services in inetd. The only servers I run are an ssh server and an ftp server. I do not allow anonymous ftp, and I tunnel all my ftp transfers through ssh. I am the only person

Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Stig Brautaset
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes: On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:07:08PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Is it possible to tell apt-get to hold a package and not upgrade it when using dist-upgrade? It's called dselect. But it is a secret. If you tell anyone about it, the cabal will

Re: [users] Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Stig Brautaset
Martin F. Krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: also sprach Stig Brautaset (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 05:40:53PM +0100): dselect is evil, I am sure of it. try apt-console. arwen:~# apt-console su: apt-console: command not found arwen:~# apt-get install apt-console Reading Package Lists... Done

Re: Why is setting up X so arcane?

2001-06-28 Thread Stig Brautaset
Nikki Locke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Smokez wrote: Why not give something like progeny or one of the other distros which are debian based but aimed at easy of use ? while i personally prefer just debian (woody) but i know progeny has some pretty good X

Re: [users] dialup query

2001-06-28 Thread Stig Brautaset
MaD dUCK [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: install ppp and pppconfig, taking care to pull ppp off people.debian.org/~bunk/debian if you have a 2.4.x kernel. Why? I run ppp on a pcmcia-modem with the standard package (unstable). (It is slow to connect, but runs fine after it is connected). Cheers,

Re: [OT] Software to draw microprocessor schematics

2001-06-27 Thread Stig Brautaset
Viktor Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folks, I need to develep a microprocessor for my computer science class and I'm looking for a tool to draw the schematics. I've looked at xcircuit and chipmunk-log, but I'm quite frightened by the user interface. I'm comfortable with xfig and

slow startup of modem-connection

2001-06-27 Thread Stig Brautaset
When I type pon there is a 'long' wait before I hear the modem starts dialing. (When I type poff however, the connection is instantaneously cut off). I guess it is not pon itself that is the trouble, but rather the connect-script. My problem is that I am running a little lan, and we have diald