RE: Re: server latency

2024-07-29 Thread Walt E
+0900 제목: Re: server latency Hi,On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 01:23:28PM +, Walt E wrote:> However, some servers, such as by Azure's default security policy, prohibit icmp ping.> So, in this situation, how do I know the local latency to those servers?I pick a port 

Re: Where is the user community? (Was Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package)

2024-07-28 Thread Walt E
July 29, 2024 at 9:09 AM, "Patrick Wiseman" wrote: > > > > I mostly lurk here but I like this forum/format and hope Debian sticks with > > it. IMO Discord pretty much sucks. There's a r/debian subreddit which looks > > quite active and I've found other subreddits helpful. > > Patrick > In

server latency

2024-07-28 Thread Walt E
Hello, When I want to know the approximate latency from local to remote servers, I know I can use icmp ping. However, some servers, such as by Azure's default security policy, prohibit icmp ping. So, in this situation, how do I know the local latency to those servers? Thanks.

Re: Java webstart in amd64

2008-06-09 Thread Walt L. Williams
environment? In particular, I have not had great experiences with gcjava and prefer the sun version of java, but no javaws is available at present for amd64. DOes anyone know of a tutorial on how to get things rolling? thanks :_} Peter -- Best Regards Walt L. Williams http://www.intergate.com

Re: Getting network settings to stick

2008-06-09 Thread Walt L. Williams
Regards Walt L. Williams http://www.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/ On Monday, 09 June 2008 8:54 pm, Kent West wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have put Debian Etch on my laptop. Somewhere during the course of the install the IP address I assigned didn't stick. I have used the ifconfig command

Re: java plugin for Debian testing on an AMD64?

2008-06-02 Thread Walt L. Williams
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Re-configure x

2008-06-01 Thread Walt L. Williams
960 out of a monitor and graphics combo that is capable of closer to 1680 X 1050. My screen is currently kind of grainy and the whole setup is slow. So I don't think the system is using the right driver. Any useful comments will be appreciated. -- Best Regards Walt L. Williams http

Re: text file from Linux to windows.

2008-06-01 Thread Walt L. Williams
. Is there any way in echo and cat commands usage to put windows line break? -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042 -- Best Regards Walt L. Williams http://www.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Re-configure x

2008-06-01 Thread Walt L. Williams
in card that will do the job. -- Best Regards Walt L. Williams http://www.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amd64 and sun-java6-jdk

2008-05-28 Thread Walt L. Williams
the others to be installed first! Sun Java ought be made into one package. I'll bet their worried about the possible legality of thing. Things are getting so paranoid out there. BTY: You will experience the same difficulty when installing Adobe Acrobat Reader for AMD64. -- Best Regards Walt L

A routing question

2008-05-21 Thread Walt L. Williams
to do this on my previous install of Etch. Is there a way to get this to set its self when I start gnome-ppp, or set this up to where it will be permanate. I admit to not being a networking whiz. -- Best Regards Walt L. Williams http://www.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

An Mplayer question

2008-04-07 Thread Walt L. Williams
error: Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device Any suggestions on how to correct this? -- Best Regards Walt L. Williams http://www.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/ . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: sun-java6 dependencies

2008-04-07 Thread Walt L. Williams
-- Best Regards Walt L. Williams http://www.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/ .

Re: An Mplayer question

2008-04-07 Thread Walt L. Williams
Ooops! I forgot to mention which GUI I'm using. --- KDE On Monday, 07 April 2008 11:01 am, Kelly Clowers wrote: On 4/7/08, Walt L. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all I used Mplayer on the SuSE(10) system I used to use to play mpg and avi movies. On my former system I

Re: An Mplayer question

2008-04-07 Thread Walt L. Williams
Okay! Thanks fir the tip. I'll try it. On Monday, 07 April 2008 11:15 am, Mumia W.. wrote: On 04/07/2008 12:42 PM, Walt L. Williams wrote: Greetings all I used Mplayer on the SuSE(10) system I used to use to play mpg and avi movies. On my former system I merely had to do the install

Addons and Iceweasel

2008-03-27 Thread Walt L. Williams
Greetings Possibly a simple question. How can I get my favorite firefox addons to work with iceweasel Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Addons and Iceweasel

2008-03-27 Thread Walt L. Williams
Thank you for the replies I can click on the Tools and Add-ons and it already shows that I have them installed. The only thing is there not (??) active. Maybe I will have to delete what is there and reinstall them. Any thoughts? Best Regards Walt L. Williams On Thursday, 27 March 2008 5:11 am

I would like to give my congradulation

2008-03-27 Thread Walt L. Williams
, as it took a bit of hoop jumping to get the system loaded with KDE.) Overall -- Great job Debian Developers! Keep it going Walt in Boulder, Colorado (I wouldn't mind joining the effort once I get through a few more of my comp science classes.) (Message written with Kmail

Re: I would like to give my congradulation

2008-03-27 Thread Walt L. Williams
On Thursday, 27 March 2008 9:19 am, Bogdan Marian wrote: Netinst sound like its doing it over the internet. I only have dialup (college budget) Thanks for the info. I WILL investigate it for future use. Walt Hello, But you DO have a choice on which GUI to install. It depends on which

Re: I would like to give my congradulation

2008-03-27 Thread Walt L. Williams
. Also I believe there is a way to get Debian to update itself online? Any pointer where to find documentation on this? Walt On Thursday, 27 March 2008 5:20 pm, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Walt L. Williams wrote: (One request though. I prefer KDE and it would be nice to have the option

Re: I would like to give my congradulation

2008-03-27 Thread Walt L. Williams
this form of bad conduct in the schools of business. Walt On Thursday, 27 March 2008 2:29 pm, steve wrote: I second that. I dumped suse last year after the 10.1 fiasco, now i see it has progressively gotten worse. glad to be gone. -- Steve Reilly http://reillyblog.com

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-27 Thread Walt L. Williams
What a curious little debate this has been!! Like feeding trolls. I can't believe I actually wasted my valuable spring break time following it. W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Routing and Gnome PPP

2008-03-24 Thread Walt L. Williams
it manually? Best regards Walt L. Williams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-26 Thread Walt L. Williams
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 06:38:31 am Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Nate Bargmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Coporate IT is driven by sweetheart deals from suppliers to IT management. It is full of fiefdoms and not invented here syndromes. It is a meca to

Re: Trying to get on the web with wvdial.

2008-01-30 Thread Walt L. Williams
it the old fashioned way. Thanks Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Trying to get on the web with wvdial.

2008-01-28 Thread Walt L. Williams
will be helpful. Best Regards Walt L. Williams I have a 1.2 GHZ AMD Athlon, with an external USR V-Everything modem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help needed: Debian Sarge, Postfix/TLS and Magma's mail.

2006-03-14 Thread Walt Sullivan
How do I configure Postfix to authenticate with SASL? Since I replaced my hard disk and installed Debian Sarge, plus Postfix/TLS, I've been unable to send mail through mail.magma.ca (Magma is my ISP). Here's what I get: Mar 12 19:45:59 orbit postfix/pickup[5775]: 263BD49249: uid=1000 from=walt

Re: Forbidding a version of a package in debian

2006-02-25 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:03:42PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 18:48, Walt Mankowski wrote: I'm running debian testing. I ran aptitude dist-upgrade yesterday and it wants to install a version of libfreetype6 that I'm worried will break my window manager (Window

Forbidding a version of a package in debian

2006-02-24 Thread Walt Mankowski
anyone know if Window Maker still works with this version of libfreetype6? Thanks. Walt signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: a2ps printing .ps files?

2005-06-27 Thread Walt Sullivan
Quoting Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anybody out there printing .ps files with a2ps successfully? Yes, both as Interpreted PostScript (the way it's supposed to look on the page): [13:16][walt](0)$ a2ps -o - j1.ps | gv - [j1.ps (ps, delegated to PsNup): 1 page on 1 sheet] [Total: 2

Re: CD malfunction on Sarge testing install Sparc

2004-11-20 Thread Walt L. Williams
Thanks for this bit of instructions. It worked great. Walt On Thursday November 18 2004 5:16 pm, Steve Pacenka wrote: On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 13:56, Walt L. Williams wrote: Greetings This may be a little off topic. I just tried to install Sarge testing for Sparc which I downloaded just

A bit off subject - Some may even give a crap.

2004-11-19 Thread Walt L. Williams
As of this morning if you go looking for SuSE.com you now get novell.com. And holy smokes is there a large selection of enterprise software bing offered. I am betting that SuSE/Novell will move the same direction the Hat did. away from the desk top. I just thought some might find this a

Re: mozilla crashes on loading some sites

2004-11-19 Thread Walt L. Williams
Actually it works fine on my 0.9 version of Firefox. W. On Friday November 19 2004 7:26 pm, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: Hello, Mozilla crashes when trying to load this site (and others, this is an example). http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=41713 I just disappears all of a sudden. No

CD malfunction on Sarge testing install Sparc

2004-11-17 Thread Walt L. Williams
who else to report this to so I posted it here. Could someone please let the appropriate individuals know. Walt Williams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Flash key question.

2004-11-15 Thread Walt L. Williams
system info if necessary. Have a good afternoon one and all Walt L. Williams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Flash key question.

2004-11-15 Thread Walt L. Williams
The 2.6.8 kernel. At least I thing its the .8 edition of the 2.6 version. On Monday November 15 2004 2:56 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:48:05PM -0700, Walt L. Williams wrote: Hopefully this will be a simple question. How can I configure my debian system

Re: Flash key question.

2004-11-15 Thread Walt L. Williams
Oh Cool!! I don't recall seeing this howto before. I supose I should have looked here before I aksed the group. (I supose some saying Ya Aha, see!) On Monday November 15 2004 5:47 pm, Jeremy Turner wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:56:12PM -0700, Walt L. Williams wrote: The 2.6.8 kernel

Re: logging all output at boot?

2004-03-03 Thread Walt Nelson
It is already contained in /var/log/syslog On Wednesday 03 March 2004 03:27 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hello, I have noticed that I see output when I boot that is not in dmesg or messages. How can I log everything that comes to the screen during boot into a file? Lance -- To

Re: kernel 2.6.3, emu10k1, no sound

2004-03-03 Thread Walt Nelson
I had problems with 2.6.2 and .3 if you goto 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 or1 they go away. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.4-rc1/2.6.4-rc1-mm2/ bzip2 -dc /path/patch | patch -p1 Walt On Wednesday 03 March 2004 07:54 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10

Re: upgrade to linux 2.6.3 causing strange behaviour

2004-02-28 Thread Walt Nelson
If you are using KDE 3.2 go into Control Center - Sound Multimedia - Sound System - Hardware and change it to Threaded Open Sound System Automatic causes the error you get. BTW if you use 2.6.3-mm4 you no longer get the error. Walt On Saturday 28 February 2004 10:36 am, Alan Chandler wrote

sound blaster live support

2004-01-27 Thread walt
Any easy way to get a sound blaster live working in debian testing? I am googling right now but would really appreciate any hints. Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

getting Sarge

2004-01-26 Thread walt frampus
I noticed that Sarge has 12 iso's. Do I need to download them all or is it like the stable version where you download just what you need? Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

NVIDIA driver installation

2004-01-24 Thread walt frampus
I just downloaded and tried to install the NVIDIA driver and it failed. I had hit al-ctrl-F1 and went to INIT 3 any ideas? Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Apache 2.0 for woody?

2003-09-19 Thread Walt L. Williams
Hi Is there a .deb for version 2 of Apache? If where is where can I find it? -- Thanks Walt L. Williams Windows is merely a secondary thing with me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

MS mail bombs

2003-09-19 Thread Walt L. Williams
Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming is increasing exponentially. Any suggestions on how to make it stop. -- Thanks Walt L. Williams Windows is merely a secondary

X/KDE startup problem.

2003-09-05 Thread Walt L. Williams
? Is there an error log that I can view and get an idea of what is going on? Any help would be appreciated. -- Thanks Walt L. Williams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Virus Found in message Your application

2003-08-29 Thread Walt Walker
Symantec AntiVirus found a virus in an attachment you ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]) sent to Walt Walker. To ensure the recipient(s) are able to use the files you sent, perform a virus scan on your computer, clean any infected files, then resend this attachment. Attachment

Re: Inventory Databases

2003-07-29 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, You can look at compieer. It uses Oracle which you would need to purchase, but you can evaluate the thing using an evaluation copy of Oracle for Linux. LIa href=http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/;SourceForge: Project Info - Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution/a LIa

Root login

2003-03-19 Thread Johan van der Walt
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Printer configuration

2003-03-19 Thread Johan van der Walt
I just now noticed (and remembered) that during the installation of Woody that I did earlier today, no printers were configured.At the time of installation I was not connected to the local network. I checked on the Gnome control panel but there is no place where I can configure the printcap. The

Re: libc6: did it move from unstable to testing?

2003-03-11 Thread Walt Mankowski
announces various important Debian Development-related things. It's maybe a message a week, so no one has any excuse for not subscribing to it :) Well, maybe not so much if you're running stable, but definitely if you're running testing or unstable. :) Walt pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Missing a PERL module called 'concat'

2003-01-28 Thread Walt Mankowski
. $y; # $z now equals foobar Often you can avoid using the . operator because Perl will expand variables inside double-quoted strings: $w = $x$y; # $w now equals foobar Walt msg27063/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt

2003-01-14 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:49:47PM -0600, Pete Templin wrote: He was referring to MUAs, not MTAs. Sheesh. True, but that's likely the sort of behavior he's seen elsewhere and is trying to duplicate. msg24161/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

FLASH RAM

2003-01-08 Thread Johan van der Walt
Can someone please give me advice on how to access FLASH RAM. I tried to mount it as /dev/sda1 but got the error message saying that sda1 is not a block device. Tried the same on a machine running SuSE and had no problems. I also have a DDS tape drive on my pc which is handled by a SCSI card -

Re: perl 'read only' situation -- bizarre!

2003-01-06 Thread Walt Mankowski
In the spirit of there's more than one way to do it, you could always try: my @c = map {join , map {$_.$_} split //} qw(fc0 066 ffc 600 cff 090 ccc 666 fc9 633 cff 096 c9c 090); which seems a bit more elegant to me than declaring temp vars inside the map. msg22777/pgp0.pgp Description:

Re: Parition mangling tools

2002-12-06 Thread Walt Mankowski
dos tools? If you don't mind spending some money, I had good luck using Partition Magic to repartition my win98 laptop to free up space for debian. The version I have (purchased in 2000) even understands ext2 partitions. Walt msg17558/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: good procmail alternative?

2002-12-06 Thread Walt Mankowski
, the module's author, recently started up a mailing list. See http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/30/0353228mode=flattid=5 for more information. Walt msg17560/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

switch xdm off

2002-11-21 Thread Johan van der Walt
Xdm on my pc comes up with KDE. I would like to change that to, say, Windowmaker. How can I change that? Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Changing display and window managers

2002-11-21 Thread Johan van der Walt
I want to change the display and window managers on my pc. I followed the procedure in section 13.6.3/4 of the users-guide but without success. It seems as if KDE comes up as the default which is not what I want. I simply want xdm as display manager and wmaker window manager. Thanks Johan --

ftp through firewall

2002-11-18 Thread Johan van der Walt
I installed Woody last week and experience problems to ftp through our organization's firewall. Inside the firewall there is no problem at all. Is there anyone who can help? Thanks Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Recieving list mail batched in a daily digest?

2002-11-14 Thread Walt Mankowski
, but you can subscribe to debian-user-digest by sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of subscribe and then following the directions that should be emailed to you. Walt msg12974/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Recieving list mail batched in a daily digest?

2002-11-14 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:57:06PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote: I don't know why it doesn't say it on the web page, but you can subscribe to debian-user-digest by sending mail to I should also point out, having just subscribed to the debian-user-digest this afternoon, that it doesn't cut down

SCSI card DAT tape drive

2002-11-09 Thread Johan van der Walt
on the hard drive as quickly as possible. I followed the normal installation procedure but cannot remember that I have anywhere seen any reference to SCSI devices. What is the easiest way to solve this problem? Thanks Johan van der Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive

2002-11-09 Thread Johan van der Walt
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Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive

2002-11-09 Thread Johan van der Walt
Inspection of /var/log/dmesg suggests that the SCSI card is not seen. How do I add SCSI support to the kernel? Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive

2002-11-09 Thread Johan van der Walt
Thanks, but where do I get the module for the scsi adapter? Adaptec 2940. I looked in /lib/modules but could not find anything there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dist-upgrade

2002-10-24 Thread Johan van der Walt
I tried this morning to upgrade from potato to woody. The procedure I followed was: apt-cdrom add apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade After inserting the appropriate CD, apt-get returned the following the eror message: E: Internal Error: Couldn't configure a pre-depend. Apt-get stopped after

Re: expired gpg keys

2002-10-18 Thread Walt Mankowski
in a cron job and figure that's close enough to real time for most purposes. Walt msg07915/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: resizing root partition

2002-05-30 Thread Walt Mankowski
doesn't, IIRC, you want the latest LinuxCare BBC for reiserfs mods. Alternatively, create your own bootdisk with reiserfs support (but don't ask me how ;-). Er, did you misread resize2fs as reiserfs? :-) Walt pgpfBkcyydFvx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: the dreaded Word attachment

2002-05-30 Thread Walt Mankowski
account, then using their view attachment feature. Works with Excel spreadsheets, too! Walt pgpZ4xVE0Y9K5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: crontab programming. bug?

2002-05-30 Thread Walt Mankowski
* fast typists :-) but it's possible your program is updating it faster than that. Try sleeping for a second before exiting and see if that fixes the problem. Walt pgpKxHUQMdNz1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: regenerating the zsh completion cache

2002-05-22 Thread Walt Mankowski
, but that's too easy. Here is the completions part of my .zshrc: I don't use zsh, but under bash it's hash -r. That also works in zsh, as does rehash. Walt pgpvSnd21HIUA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Apt from behind a firewall

2002-05-02 Thread Johan van der Walt
outside the firewall? (4) What else should I do? (5) Using 2.2r6 Thanks Johan van der Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

netscape3 installation

2002-04-26 Thread Johan van der Walt
I installed Debian 2.2r6 earlier this week. Also wanted to install netscape but got the error message given below. Can anyone please help. Is netscape 4 not available? Thanks Johan van der Walt - Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled

Re: daylight savings time

2002-04-07 Thread Walt Mankowski
the same thing. Or better yet, create a symbolic link to it. Walt pgpoP9PMNL3Mj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: daylight savings time

2002-04-07 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:20:08AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: Walt Mankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or better yet, create a symbolic link to it. I think a symlink would be better as well, but Debian doesn't do it for some reason: $ ls -li /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/US

Why Debian?

2002-03-01 Thread Johan van der Walt
and that comes with Debian which is something I like. However, that certainly cannot be the only reason for using Debian. Someone told me the other day that Debian is the most stable distribution. Is that so and why? Johan van der Walt

Incorrect version number reported for mutt 1.2.5.1

2002-01-02 Thread Walt Mankowski
). Clearly the release date is wrong in both places (which I've already reported to the mutt list). But why don't the version numbers match? How do I know that I'm really running the patched version of mutt? Walt pgp0Ap8dE8oWa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 2.4.15 is out (and so is 2.5.0!)

2001-11-24 Thread Walt Mankowski
/dlkern.html Walt pgpkt0cbIDKsO.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2001-11-16 Thread Walt Mankowski
... :-) Since it wasn't fixed 470 days ago, I think your counter's going to overflow. ;) 470 days sounds like less than a few years. :-) Oh well, I suppose you'll find out soon enough... Walt pgplWVnC7BKrm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: soru?

2001-11-14 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:00:29AM +0100, op wrote: I think that 'merhaba' is 'hello' in turkish. Aha! And we see thorns and barred-D's because we're using the ISO8859-1 characted set, while the author most likely used ISO8859-9. Walt pgplSTV1Gr2hh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: starting netscape without toolbar and addressbar

2001-11-13 Thread Walt Mankowski
window. You might want to take a look at the Linux Kiosk Howto, online at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kiosk-HOWTO.html Walt pgpbb4NEAgWLG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: META QUESTION: how to read a bulk list (and stay happy :-)

2001-08-15 Thread Walt Mankowski
native Maildir support for years. Walt pgpct8knedqFK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: TIME, DATE and CRON... trap for the unwary

2001-07-20 Thread Walt Mankowski
time has been reached again. A quick reboot solves the problem. Wouldn't restarting crond also work? Walt pgpxPt2d8E6Xp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: harsher kill than kill -9 ?

2001-07-12 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:06:57AM -0400, Daniel Patrick Berdine wrote: Is there any way to kill a process that kill -9 pid won't remove without rebooting? No, kill -9 is as harsh as it gets. Have you tried to kill it as root? Walt

Re: New TrueType fonts doc version 1.1

2001-06-28 Thread Walt Mankowski
to allow personal use on Linux. Walt pgpsf06DJF6kk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: how to get list of emacs key descriptions

2001-06-22 Thread Walt Mankowski
assignments. On potato this file is at /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/refcard.ps If you want to know what a particular key sequence is assigned to, you can use describe-key (C-h k) then the key(s) you're interested in. For example, to find out what function TAB is assigned to, enter C-h k TAB Walt

/etc/mailname ?

2001-06-07 Thread walt
After a recent dist-upgrade I started getting empty email messages every day from root, with a domain name the same as in /etc/mailname . I don't remember when /etc/mailname was generated, or by which config program, so I don't recall what purpose the file serves. Any thoughts on what I need to

Re: filtering email via perl?

2001-06-07 Thread Walt Mankowski
-audit.html. (This is pretty much the same article that appeared in The Perl Journal a few issues back.) Walt pgpHmM6RSDcq4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: kppp

2001-05-10 Thread walt
Robin Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have installed KDE successfuly but when I launch kppp, after the connection has bein established, I received this message : dead unexpected of the daemond pppd code returned 1. However pon runs fine. Can someone me some ideas on this

Re: get number of pages of a PostScript file

2001-04-28 Thread Walt Mankowski
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Re: HOWTO remove a previous wildcard file list?

2001-04-22 Thread Walt Mankowski
and fill rest of previous line in, or to step it further you could keep scrolling back in history with uparrow-something combo? Assuming you're running bash, you probably want to use !* : ls A*.pdf rm !* Walt pgpuAZQ9NmAre.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: HOWTO remove a previous wildcard file list?

2001-04-22 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 11:09:23PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote: Thank you Walt! You're welcome. :-) I can't believe I didn't find that! In case anyone else wants to view more info on history expansion with bash... http://www.kashpureff.org/nic/linux/texinfo/bash_6.html or more simply

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-21 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:20:33AM -0500, Michael Marziani wrote: I have looked around for this but I can't find a list of bug fixes/improvements in 2.2.19. Anyone have a link? Thanks! http://www.linux.org.uk/VERSION/relnotes.2219.html pgpUlFykIY6zP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

2001-04-21 Thread Walt Mankowski
to be fixed or not. stable is frozen again so nothing may enter unless an r4 is created. So then what's the recommended way for those of us with laptops running potato to upgrade to 2.2.19? The 2.2.18 pcmcia modules seem to be in the same state. Walt pgpIvOM5V3YUd.pgp Description: PGP

Re: tar + bzip2 option?

2000-12-25 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:23:23AM +1100, Andrew Smith wrote: I am using tar-1.13.18 built from the source code. Some of the other packages that I attempted to build from source failed because they were packed using bzip2 instead of gzip, and the 'tar xIfp' command in rules.unpack failed to

Re: Navigating your drive in text mode

2000-12-24 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 12:45:29PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: To answer the original question, mc is a good text-mode filesystem navigation and management tool. As is dired mode in emacs. pgpr8DBNszlPX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Restarting a debian install

2000-11-24 Thread Walt Mankowski
I'm installing debian on my laptop, and the install exited while I was selecting tasks. Is there anyway I can restart at the select a root password phase? Walt pgpvmkR5S5P2m.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Restarting a debian install

2000-11-24 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 09:05:18PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote: I'm installing debian on my laptop, and the install exited while I was selecting tasks. Is there anyway I can restart at the select a root password phase? Someone on irc.debian.org was able to help me out. The command is dpkg

Bad gpg signatures on debian-security-announce

2000-11-22 Thread Walt Mankowski
confident that the security announcements are authentic. Walt

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