Re: hwto play .mpg files
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:02:55AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've got this small question, I downloaded some mpg > files but I don't seem to have the correct prog to run > them. > > I've got mplayer, MPlayer 0.90rc4-2.95.4 but it can't > run them. A thread on debian-user from the past few days might be of interest to you here. Look for `Latest MPlayer'. > What program should I use for that? `apt-cache search mpg | grep [pP]layer'. Or `mpeg' instead of `mpg'. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing the fixed font
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 11:31:54AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > terminals in X usually use the 'fixed' font (correct me if I am > wrong). this is 7x14 over here. how would i go about if i wanted the > fixed font to be 6x9 instead? i know that i could start the terminals > and everything with -fn6x9, but i would prefer a more global solution. My .Xresources has XTerm*font:10x20 in it. Would this fit your required global solution? Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing the fixed font
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 03:47:40PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > but this brings up a different issue. all my Gtk apps use fonts that > are too big, so they run over the buttons and such. where can > i control that? You could try putting a font setting in ~/.gtkrc under `style "default"'. I have fontset="-*-*-medium-r-normal--20-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" I am not well up with gtk so there may be better solutions. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realplayer seg.fault
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:24:00PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: > Hi all, > > I downloaded and ran the realplayer binary: rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin. > It gets thru the installation and registration process, runs for a second, > then seg.faults: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin > Segmentation fault > > I am in the audio group. What sound infrastructure do i need installed? You might be better off getting the rpm version of the binary and installing it using the realplayer deb which you will find at http://marillat.free.fr/ This worked for me when the package was last included in Debian. > Are there any alternatives to play realplayer .ram streaming audio, or > .asx windows media player streaming audio? mplayer does both. You can get it via the previous URL. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realplayer seg.fault
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 05:43:20PM -0800, nate wrote: > what version of debian? Realplayer 8 works fine for me on 2 different > woody machines. > > perhaps its a new glibc/new gcc issue causing the problems... With the new glibc on the testing distribution Realplayer 8 works ok for me so this may not be the problem. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Expunge OpenOffice.org?
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 06:37:14PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: > Sorry, I guess I should add that I am a newbie to Debian systems and > Linux in general, but have some experience with RPM based systems. I > understand some of the basics of the Debian package system, but want to > make sure that all the bits and bobs from OpenOffice.org are removed, so > that there is no hindrance to installing Star Office 6. I don't know if > it is enough to just remove the .deb package. In addition to the suggestions you have already received for purging the system files you could see whether you have a $HOME/.openoffice directory and (if it exists) check the entries in $HOME/.mailcap for entries pertaining to openoffice. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:14:38AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > It is beyond my capability (but only slightly, I feel, and it > should be very easy for lots of people here) to produce a sort of > interactive fetchmail that reads the headers of each message on > the server, presents them to you and asks if you want to fetch > the message or delete it. This is what I would like to have. 1. apt-get install popcheck. 2. Add the following line to your ~/.fetchmailrc: preconnect popcheck "-s pop3server -u pop3user -p pop3password" 3. Run fetchmail. 4. Use 'Q', 'S' or 'D' as appropriate. Not tested extensively but it works, is interactive and gives you the From: header, the subject line and size of the email. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 09:11:44AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > If you add set pop_host=pop.gmx.net, set pop_user=xxx and set pop_pass= > to your .muttrc then mutt -f pop:// > will connect without typeing so much. :-) Additionally, within a running mutt, you could choose to activate a macro and almost completely eliminate typing by adding these lines to ~/.muttrc: macro browser "c pop://pop.gmx.net" macro index"c pop://pop.gmx.net" macro pager"c pop://pop.gmx.net" > This works in version 1.5.4-1 (testing) as well Ditto Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nslookup? What package is it in?
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:36:24AM -0500, stan wrote: > I tried apt-cache search, and the Debian package search page, and I can't > seem to find nslookup. > > I've got it on most of my "testingh" boxes, but the one I'm building at the > moment doesn't have it. For installed packages 'dpkg -S ' gives which package a file belongs to. At least five times quicker is 'dlocate -S ' but you'll need to get the dlocate .deb to benefit from this. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Spam filter recommendation
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:15:26AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:41:57PM +1100, Brendan J Simon said > > > Which are the most accurate at detecting spam? > > This is a good question, and I've never seen a comparison of this. SA + > some simple procmail rules catches basically all my spam. On freshmeat.net there is an article comparing some spam filters but just at present the link serves up a blank page. The author also has it published at http://sam.holden.id.au/writings/. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which package contains 'ripquery' tool?
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:38:22AM +0800, Dasn Cups wrote: > Hi,there > I wanna try the 'ripquery',but I don't know where it is. > I searched somewhere, and found that this tool should be in the 'gated' > package, but Debian has no 'gated' package. > Many thanks! Wherever the 'somewhere' was it cannot have been http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lynx vs xli
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:27:02PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Snip question about XFConfig-4 and modelines] > According to what I've found in Google, bug 4918 has been fixed for > years. But I can't get Lynx to recognize either XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND or > VIEWER to change from ImageMagick to xli as the viewer. I've checked > /etc/mime.types to verify that it's set correctly. I've made sure that > Lynx is reading the correct config file. I don't know what to do next. You should be able to achieve this by altering either /etc/mailcap or $HOME/.mailcap and this is stated in /etc/lynx.cfg. Create .mailcap in your home directory if it does not exist and add to it the line: image/jpeg; xli '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mailfilter bug?
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:26:31AM +0800, csj wrote: > Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I > describe below. > > I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for "^Subject:.*Test" > and ALLOW rules for "marssociety" and "marssocietynewsletter": > > $ grep -Ei 'test|marssociety' ~/.mailfilterrc > DENY=^Subject:.*Test > ALLOW=^To:.*marssocietynewsletter > ALLOW=^Reply-To:.*marssociety > ALLOW=^Subject:.*marssociety > > I found out this morning that an email with the word "Contest" in > the Subject was deleted by mailfilter (according to my log). The > email also had "[marssocietynewsletter]" in the Subject and I > suspect, given the format of previous communications, also > "marssociety" in the Reply-To. The email therefore should have > passed two of my ALLOW rules. > > Shouldn't the ALLOW rule (allow all emails with "marssociety" in > the Subject) take precedence over the DENY rule (delete all > emails containing with the word or word part "test")? This is correct. An ALLOW rule takes absolute precedence over a DENY rule. This is the case even if you had both types of rules with the same regular expression. I've tested this with mailfilter 0.5.2 and the mail was not deleted. Your regular expressions look ok and the spelling is consistent. So is it a bug? The only time I had something like this happen to me it transpired that what was displayed on the screen was not what was in the header because it had been base 64 encoded. If you have previous emails examine them with a pager or text editor to see whether they are what you expect. Otherwise, contact the mailfilter mailing list. The author and others who are familiar with the inner workings of mailfilter are very responsive. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mailfilter bug?
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:21:12PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I don't know much about mailfilter, but it seems as though the > rules are being applied in the order encountered. You may need > to move yoru DENY rule to a position after the ALLOW rules. > Just a thought. It may look that way bu the order of the rules doesn't matter. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mailfilter bug?
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:26:31AM +0800, csj wrote: > Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I > describe below. > > I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for "^Subject:.*Test" > and ALLOW rules for "marssociety" and "marssocietynewsletter": > > $ grep -Ei 'test|marssociety' ~/.mailfilterrc > DENY=^Subject:.*Test > ALLOW=^To:.*marssocietynewsletter > ALLOW=^Reply-To:.*marssociety > ALLOW=^Subject:.*marssociety > > I found out this morning that an email with the word "Contest" in > the Subject was deleted by mailfilter (according to my log). The > email also had "[marssocietynewsletter]" in the Subject and I > suspect, given the format of previous communications, also > "marssociety" in the Reply-To. The email therefore should have > passed two of my ALLOW rules. The log would also give the filter applied to delete the mail. What does it say? Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mailfilter bug?
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:43:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > Since swen, I started using mailfiter with differing degrees of > success. I tried to look at the basic docs and there is no explicit mention of > the way the rules are evaluated. top down, bottom up, allow then deny, > etc. Unless someone knows of docs i've missed, i'd say peek at the > source. man mailfilterrc: ALLOW = expression DENY = expression SCORE value = expression man mailfilterex: Defining Friends If you think there is a lack of clarity in the documentation why not devise changes and propose them to the developers? Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mailfilter bug?
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 08:53:49PM +0800, Brian Walker wrote: > I set up mailfilter in response to swen. I found that the ponly way to > stop them was by limiting size. All other rules set in DENY or ALLOW > seemed to be non-functional. In the end, I unset the size command, put a > local rule for spamassassin in ~./spamassassin/user_preferences/local.cf > for this: > > score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 10 Strange! As an example the rules (amongst others) DENY_CASE=^(FROM|^TO|SUBJECT) DENY_CASE=^(From|FROM):.*(MS) DENY=^From:.*(Microsoft) did an excellent job here. This was with REG_CASE=no and REG_TYPE=extended. > Now then - why were the .mailfilterrc rules unable to screen the crap? You would have to reveal rather more information about what you had in your .mailfilterrc to get a useful answer. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lyx package recommends sgml-tools, but...
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:59:39AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > I just downloaded and installed Lyx using aptitude on a Sarge system. > The package recommends also installing 'sgml-tools' which, from its > name, sounds like a good idea, but the search function in aptitude > cannot find a package of that name. Where might I find it? A small point but Lyx suggests rather than recommends sgml-tools. I'm unfamiliar with aptitude but it is a little surprising it does not give a similar output to `dpkg -l sgml-tools', `apt-cache search sgml-tools' or a package search on Debian's web page. bash-2.05b$ apt-cache search sgml-tools linuxdoc-tools - SGML converters for the LinuxDoc DTD only. sgml-tools - Replaced by linuxdoc-tools (dummy package for upgrade) > Also, I am a beginner at TeX, LaTeX, etc. Please recommend tutorials, > and 'getting started' documentation. /usr/share/doc/tetex-doc/texmf is your rather overwhelming starting point. Diving into latex/general gets you what you want. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lyx package recommends sgml-tools, but...
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 05:14:58PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > pretzalz@Pretzalz:~$ apt-cache search sgml-tools > linuxdoc-tools - SGML converters for the LinuxDoc DTD only. > > > What distro are you using, I can't find the dummy package in either > testing or unstable so presumably it no longer exists. It is probably a > bug against lyx that it suggests a package that doesn't exist. @OP: You > want to install linuxdoc-tools in lieu of sgml-tools, though I am sure > you already figured that out. ;) I'm running testing and you're correct, the dummy package is only in stable. I assume that when this machine went from stable to testing it pulled in linuxdoc-tools but for some reason or other sgml-tools was not completely purged. It was in the database as an obsolete package so that probably accounts for the output I got from apt-cache search. Anyway, I've just purged it and now have the same as your line above. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lyx package recommends sgml-tools, but...
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:07:53PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> Brian Potkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > /usr/share/doc/tetex-doc/texmf is your rather overwhelming starting
> > point. Diving into latex/general gets you what you want.
>
> You can use the 'texdoc' tool to conveniently read a file in this
> tree. For a good beginner's reference, I'd recommend "The Not So
> Short Introduction to LaTeX2e" ('texdoc lshort').
texdoc is fine when the exact file name is known, which would imply a
familiarisation with what is available. Who would guess that `texdoc
user' is what you need to read documentation about the babel package?
Exploring tex's range of documentation is made more convenient with
texdoctk. It is available on Debian but does require X.
Brian.
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Re: eFax tiff viewer?
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:06:18PM -0400, ccn wrote: > eFax service www.efax.com deliveres faxes as email attachments in > multipage tiff format. When I open such an attachment using tifftopnm, > gimp, or gimv I can only see the first page. > > Has anybody figured out what viewer displays all pages of a multipage fax? A lightweight and efficient solution is to use viewfax. It's in the mgetty-viewfax package. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: multi-page tiff splitter? (was Re: eFax tiff viewer?)
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 09:13:06AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:06:18PM -0400, ccn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > eFax service www.efax.com deliveres faxes as email attachments in > > multipage tiff format. When I open such an attachment using tifftopnm, > > gimp, or gimv I can only see the first page. > > > > Has anybody figured out what viewer displays all pages of a multipage fax? > > Related question. > > I'm getting documents in a multi-page tiff format. I'd like to split > these to a single file per page. I haven't found a tool which does this > automatically. Any suggestions? tiffsplit from the libtiff-tools package may be what you want. It is some time since I've used it and there isn't a multi-page tiff around for me to try it on, so to what extent it works I do not know. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is the format of a mailboxfile?
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 06:33:39PM +0200, Jimmy Johansson wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to create a "mailboxfile" in /var/mail/ and I am just > wondering what the format for such a file is and how you create one. I am > not even sure if it is supposed to be a special kind of file or if it is a > special kind of directory. > > I've tried reading a linuxbook, "Running Linux" more precisly, but I could > not find anything in it that I could apply... > > I am running Woody and my MTA is exim. I think exim automatically creates the /var/mail/$user file and handles the permissions on it so there should be no need for you to create it yourself. The file creation takes place when mail arrives for $user. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound capture via fake driver
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:23:15PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 07:57:57AM +0800, csj wrote: > > > Why not try mplayer? > > Because it doesn't work well with streaming stuff in general and > never with RealAudio, on my system. > > > If the url's plain http://, wget. > > Will wget work with rtsp streams? No. http, https and ftp protocols only. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Javascript-enabled text-mode browser
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:03:12PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've ditched X-based browsers for most of my surfing needs. > The only time I find them really useful is when I need > to google for pictures *and* when I must navigate Javascript- > enabled (or should I say disabled) sites. > > The only text-mode browser I could find that can handle or > at least claim to handle Javascript is netrik. But it > doesn't do a particularly good job in rendering HTML ATM. > > So does anybody know of any other text-mode browsers out > there in the wild that can handle Javascript? Having > seen the power of w3m's text-mode tabbed browsing, I > would like to do all of my browsing from the console. > (A text-mode front-end to the Mozilla-rendering engine > would be real neat.) You may be interested in the contents of http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200308/msg01875.html The JavaScript version of links it refers to worked to some extent for me but it didn't handle well parts of some sites I visit. Not knowing much about JavaScript left me undecided as to whether it was the software or the site. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: BT Broadband - which ADSL modem?
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 05:21:51PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > After a couple of years of um-ing and ah-ing, my dad's finally got round > to installing broadband. Specifically, BT broadband (here in the uk). > > He's asked me to slip in a 486 class router/firewall inbetween his > Windows machines and the ADSL modem, so I'd much rather go with a modem > that has RJ45 (ethernet) connections over any USB-type port. I have my doubts whether you'll find anything other than USB or PCI modems. There is also the question of drivers for Linux; apparently they exist for the Alcatel Speedtouch USB but PCI cards do not seem to be particularily Linux friendly. > I'm sure there are some debian users out there who can help me make this > choice - An ADSL router with a builtin hub is, in my opinion, a better choice of equipment as it can be used with any OS, is easy to set up with Linux, works with any ISP and there is often some degree of firewalling in the router. > Which ADSL modem > > o has an ethernet port > o works with BT broadband > o offers most bang per buck > > where bang/buck is measured ... however you want. > > The baseline is "get connected", but I'd be interested to hear any other > pluses that different models provide. > > So - any thoughts? Google will give you much on the topic of routers and modems. Try searching with the terms "uk.comp.os.linux" and "adsl modem" for some good discussions on ADSL in the UK. A decent source for modems/routers can be found at http://www.solwise.co.uk Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: BT Broadband - which ADSL modem?
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:15:35PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > I have combined the modem and firewall by installing a Bewan adsl card, > which has Linux support: > http://www.bewan.com/bewan/products/adsl/bwadslpcist.php There is also enthusiastic support for this card and the opportunity to purchase it at http://www.linuxdsl.co.uk/. I would have some reservations about what would happen it the manufacturer ceased to maintain support for Linux or future kernels caused problems with the module loaded. Also, for about 10 GBP more than the price of the Bewan you can get a very capable modem/router. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: BT Broadband - which ADSL modem?
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:45:16PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:15:35PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > I have combined the modem and firewall by installing a Bewan adsl card, > > which has Linux support: > > http://www.bewan.com/bewan/products/adsl/bwadslpcist.php > > Cheers for that - it looks rather nice. Hope you don't mind if I ask a > couple of questions. > > Are there any issues with it being internal, as with winmodems? > Does it steal much cpu (I hope to put this in a P60)? Have you looked at http://www.linuxdsl.co.uk yet? I can not imagine the card places much load on the cpu although it possibly has more latency than a dedicated router from what I have read. > The PDF techspec says "standard ATM driver" - does this take much > figuring out? Is it a kernel configuration issue? The gentlemen at http://www.linuxdsl.co.uk have what looks like a good installation guide. If you intend going with Debian may I recommend kernel-package as a way to compile the kernel you will require. > What spec PC do you have it in, and how many other NICs are there in it? > Does it provide any other services? How loaded does it get? You have implied that you intend having the machine as a dedicated router/firewall so, as I understand it, security considerations would mean you would not be providing any other services on that machine. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT]: launch a file from mc?
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:31:00AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > anyone know if it's possible to launch an external program from mc? > For instance, I'd like to get mc to launch openoffice when I > double-lick or press on a .sxw file. Is there a way to do this? /etc/mc/mc.ext is the place to look. My copy indicates that mc should do exactly what you want when the key is pressed. Not having OpenOffice on this machine means I can not test it so if it doesn't work for you have a read of man mc and try customising a ~/.mc/bindings file. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mutt with evolution
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:31:01PM +0530, Ashish Ariga wrote: > > Hi, > > Today is the first time I typed the words "mutt". I have been using > Evolution all along. I'm having a hard time reading the manual. I would > like to know if it is possible for mutt to use the mail boxes of > Evolution. Reading the section 'Mailbox Formats' in the mutt manual should help. If you have Evolution using, for example, mbox type mailboxes I would expect mutt to be able to read them. > For a few months I would like to use mutt remotely. But when I get back, > I would like to have all the mails in Evolution. http://www.ximian.com/support or perhaps /usr/share/doc/evolution. > Also, is the "VFolder" feature of Evolution available in mutt ? Not to my knowledge. Try Google with "vfolder" and "mutt". Looks like the Debian package mairix may help. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: simply mutt (Re: Mutt with evolution)
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:50:58AM +0530, Ashish Ariga wrote:
> I am still having some problems getting mutt to work.
>
> 1. Periodic checking for pop mail ("fetch-mail") doesn't work in spite
> of pop_* being set. Should I set spoolfile to pop:// instead ?
Your spool file should be /var/mail/yourusername and mutt looks there by
default. Execute 'echo $MAIL' to check its location. You do not want
to use mutt's spoolfile variable set to anything else. Read section
6.3.240 of the mutt manual.
If you really want to use mutt's fetch-mail function to fetch your mail
and put it in $MAIL it should be sufficient for you to put the following
in your $HOME/.muttrc:
set pop_host="your_pop3_server"
set pop_pass="your_password_on_the_server"
set pop_user="your_username_on_the_server"
Do not forget to restart mutt for these to take effect.
> 2. Specifying filters for incoming mail like
>"if msg body has text XYZ, then delete the msg"
>"if msg is from mailing list ABC, move to folder ABC"
> I'm guessing I need to use "score", but I am not sure how.
For filtering mail you are better off looking at using procmail. While
I'm not certain what 'score' could be used for it doesn't appear to be
suitable for what you want to do.
Brian.
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Re: simply mutt (Re: Mutt with evolution)
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:55:35PM +0530, Ashish Ariga wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:52:40PM +0100, duck wrote: > > > > Alternatively you could bind the f12 key to fetchmail as I have: > > macro index "!fetchmail\n" > > It is already bound to "G" in mutt. I was hoping it would do it periodically... There is little confusion here. You have in mind the fetch-mail function, which is mutt's rudimentary way of collecting mail from a pop3 server, whereas duck is referring to fetchmail, a far more sophisticated program for the same task. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recover ext3 deletion
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:45:40PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: > Dear All, > > Oh my. I cannot believe what I did. > > # rm -rf * > > Whilst in my /home directory - I thought I was in /floppy. > > I've been digging around and stumbled across recover, but seem unable > (?) to get it to work, though I have ext3, not ext2 on the drive. I run > as root: > recover -a > > Scanning devices... > Ext2 devices: > recover: No valid standard devices found; are you a privileged user? > > If your device is not listed, you can still use it > Please enter the partition's device name > > > > Getting inodes (this can take some time)... > debugfs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) > Terminated > > And I'm back at the prompt, with nothing recovered as I can tell. > Please, where am I going wrong? In addition to losing everything (no > back-ups, I know, I know), a 3,000 word essay due in Monday has been lost. As far as I am aware debugfs can cope with an ext3 filesystem so see if this helps. As root type debugfs /dev/hdb7 at the prompt. You should see something like this. debugfs 1.30-WIP (30-Sep-2002) debugfs: Now enter lsdel for a list of deleted inodes, file sizes and deletion times. The output is piped through a pager. You will have to use file size and deletion time as a guide to which file you want to recover. The final step is debugfs: dump /tmp/foo.txt Note the angle brackets. Ideally you should have unmounted the partition immediately so that nothing has been written to it. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recover ext3 deletion
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:14:38AM +, Harvey Kelly wrote: > Nope. I get lots of inodes from July (?), the partition is unmounted, but > not for long - got to get on with it haven't I? Price of an education > and all that. Strange but an advance, it would seem, on what recover gave you. Hope the essay writing goes well. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recover ext3 deletion
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:43:21PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Why doesn't the prompt for root ever include showing the current > directory? That would probably have saved this poor fellow as he may have > seen that he was not in /floppy as he thought. Surely it is relatively easy to change the prompt to whatever is desired. In root's .bashrc on this machine I have export PS1='\h:\w\$ ' which gives what you suggest. The file dates from 1998 so I really cannot recollect whether it came as the default prompt or it was put there by me. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need some help on lynx
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:00:54PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > this is something i have tried to do but could not. > > typically, every day, i go to google. go to google news. switch to text > mode. all this is done by way of links provided on the page. > > once in the text mode news, i type in the same query in the space > provided. > > i wanted to know if i can automate the whole thing or at least the last > typing a query part of it. may be i can store the query in a text file > and be done. there is an 's' option in lynx but i did not understand it > much. 1. Save the html source for http://news.google.com/ to a file. 2. Open the file in a text editor. 3. Locate the line beginning "input type=text name=q ..." 4. Replace value="" with value="my frequent query". 5. Remove unwanted material from the file (optional). 5. Save the file and bookmark it. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GV & full screen
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:10:54PM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi Folk. > I want to use gv with full screen without panel ans menu. > How can I do this? Is it possible? > Does anybody have an idea on how to resolve this little problem? I am not sure that what you want is entirely possible to achieve. Look at the -spartan and screenSize options in man gv and the documentation in /usr/share/doc. > What is there last version of gv on free access? > Thanx. The version I have is 3.5.8 from the testing distribution. Hasn't gv always been free software? Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: binary files
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:09:05AM -0800, David and Dana Evans wrote: > I know now how to install a "whatever.tar.gz" file but how do I install a > "whatever.bin" file? > Please help I've been reading and reading and can't find the answer. > Thanks Dave > [EMAIL PROTECTED] A newsgroup search on Google is always worthwhile. I've just tried one with the keywords "file",".bin" and "linux". The first ten entries look promising. You'll have to look at the remaining 352,990 for yourself. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: binary files
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:09:05AM -0800, David and Dana Evans wrote: > I know now how to install a "whatever.tar.gz" file but how do I install a > "whatever.bin" file? As an alternative to the useful tip you already have on making the file executable you could also try unzip whatever.bin Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Demon's (isp) debian mirror
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:06:07PM +, Jeff Penn wrote: > My closest mirror is my ISP (Demon), but it has taken some time for the > mirror to update since Woody was released. Is it worthwhile changing my > sources now, or are these problems not unusual for this site? I've used www.mirror.ac.uk, which is on the Janet network, for a number of years now. No real problems with this site and it is appears to be updated every day. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any VOIP or something like Netmeeting(tm) or voice applications for debian?
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 10:01:48PM -0400, J F wrote: > > Any VOIP or something like Netmeeting(tm of Microsoft, Inc) or voice applications > for debian? > > I would like to talk to my friend over the internet using > debian. > Any recommended applications? speak-freely is an internet telephone application which I have found to function well. There is also a Windows version should your friend be using that operating system. Note that the Debian package only supports half-duplex operation but you can easily get full-duplex by compiling from the source. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Howto get one (1) file from an rpm ???
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 05:09:45PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > First, I need to know -- for certain -- whether or not the file I am > looking for is inside the RPM's that I have. Midnight Commander can do this quite easily. Highlight the file and press to see its contents. > Second, how can I extract that one (1) file from the RPM? Use . Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bogofilter configuration
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 12:04:31AM -0500, Kevin McKinley wrote: > Until now I've been wearing out the delete key going through my inbox. I > finally decided to do something about it, and installed bogofilter. > > When I looked at /etc/bogofilter.cf, I noticed that every line is commented > out. > > Is this a workable configuration? At the top of /etc/bogofilter.cf it states: `Non-comment lines of bogofilter.cf.example show default settings as used in the bogofilter source code.' Now bogofilter's maintainer has taken bogofilter.cf.example and copied it to /etc/bogofilter.cf, at the same time inserting # at the beginning of each line. I would assume this would have no effect on the default settings (lines commencing with a single #) as they are in the source code and the binary is compiled using them. So you have a workable configuration without having to alter this file. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package names don't match?
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:49:32AM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > I'm trying to install opera but get the following error: [Error messages snipped] > Other than complain to Opera, is there anything I can do to resolve this > dependency? You could purge libqt3c102-mt, which may remove other other packages, and download and install libqt3 and libqt3-mt from stable. Alternatively you may be happy with the suggested static deb for Opera. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: console cursor
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:44:57PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > this should be a really easy question, but i can't find the answer > anywhere. > > how do i turn on the (big block) cursor in console mode? right now > there's nothing, making it really hard to see where i am when i'm > typing :) You can enable this facility in the kernel.Search for `cursor' in Documentation/Configure.help of the kernel source directory. Or install svgatextmode, which has a configuration option to allow a block cursor with a variable size. Or search Google groups with "block""cursor""linux". This gave me the command echo -e '\033[?17;0;64c' which I tested and there is now a nice magenta block cursor on one of my virtual consoles. If in your reading you come across how I could get back to my original underline cursor - please let me know! Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: console cursor
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:41:57PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Brian Potkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030611 16:25]: > > echo -e '\033[?17;0;64c' > > > > which I tested and there is now a nice magenta block cursor on one of my > > virtual consoles. If in your reading you come across how I could get > > back to my original underline cursor - please let me know! > > type 'reset' Thanks. 'reset' had slipped my mind at the time. Which, considering I'd used it recently and it's so much easier to remember than the previous command, is a sign of my deteriorating memory. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux config question: dates don't display year?
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 09:34:49AM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: > OT disclaimer... what controls the standard date abbreviation? On some > Linux systems 'ls -l' displays the year, on others it doesn't. 'finger' > duplicates the behavior, so it appears to be some heinous system-wide > setting. A search of newsgroups using the keywords "ls -l", "date" and "time" will provide better explanations than I can give. Adding "six months" would narrow down the search. > BTW: I've found the --full-time option for ls, but still want to know > how to set default behavior. How about an alias in your .bashrc? alias ls="/bin/ls --full-time". Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get debconf
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:08:56PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote: > Hi, > > just a question, I couldn't find an answer, yet. > > If I use > apt-get install package_name , > is this package automatically configured by debconf. If you're interested in whether a package depends on debconf prior to installing it either of dpkg -s | grep debconf apt-cache show | grep debconf will give you the information. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get debconf
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:43:04PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:29:00PM +0000, Brian Potkin wrote: > > > > dpkg -s | grep debconf > > apt-cache show | grep debconf > > Probably 'dpkg -p' instead; 'dpkg -s' only shows minimal information for > packages that aren't installed yet, not including dependencies. Thanks for the correction. I should really have used the dpkg manual to refresh my memory. (And remembered to have tested the command on an uninstalled package!) Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printing multi-page tiff image
On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 09:10:42PM +, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > Is there an easy to print a multi-page tiff image? > tiff2ps seems only convert the first page. >From man tiff2ps -a Generate output for all IFDs (pages) in the input file. I have just tried $ tiff2ps -a Fax.tif > file and it worked for me when viewing `file' with gv. It also converted a 52k file into 1,900k! Regards, Brian.
Re: print html without netscape
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:05:01AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:09:46AM +0200, Petr Vanek wrote: > > hi all, > > i wont to print html but don't wont to install netscape, i > > mean print rendered html file from command line. is there something > > rendering ps from html in debian? also i use to have a program, which > > was (i guess that also without netscape) able to do it in X window, > > it lookd like gpr, but propably not gpr, since gpr calles netscape... > > > > any ideas? > > # apt-get install html2ps # ? > > It's far from perfect though... > > If only it was possible to add that sort of stuff to > a printer filter instead... It is possible and is available via apsfilter using html2ps. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scripting Manuals
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:47:39PM -0800, shawn wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:15:30PM -0600, Anil Gupte wrote: > > Where can I find some good scripting manuals that will teach me (a newbie) > > to write bash shell scripts? > the advanced bash scripting guide (assumes no previous > scripting experience). > http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html And now a .deb available as 'abs-guide' in testing and unstable. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wps -format?
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:25:05PM +0200, Kristian Niemi wrote: > Hi, > > Got a file in WPS-format, which I'd of course like to open. > I'm not quite sure if it's MS Works -format, or WordPerfect; I'm > assuming it's MS Works. > > Anyway, I've tried digging through the net to find a > converter/filter/progr. that could read the format. > > The 'answer' I've come up with is --- there is none. > > So I'm just checking with you now if this is really the case, or if > anyone has had a similar problem and somehow managed to solve it. > > Sure, I *could* boot up Windows, install MS's Works -> Word converter, > but I don't want to. ;) I've been Windows-free for a while now, and > would like to continue that way. Depends what you mean by 'open'. If it is only the text which is of importance to you then 'strings' (in the binutils package) will more than likely give you that. Interestingly, despite its name and package description, word2x is capable of producing formatted text from a .wps file. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't connect with my new ADSL
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:31:26PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 10 Dec 2003, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > Please reply to the list in future. You type in http://10.0.0.2 where you > > would usually type the website name. (Website names generally can be > > exchanged for IP addresses, if you know the address.) > > > > A > > I tried this but no luck. The support people suggested installing dhcp, > which I have done, and also tried: > >/sbin/ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.2 netmask 255.0.0.0 I think you might be better off with /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up 'up' is needed to activate the interface. >and > > /sbin/route add default gw 10.0.0.1 Now issue this command and ping 10.0.0.1 > (suggestions from uklinux support). > > But still nothing much seems to happen. I still couldn't connect via the > browser. If pinging is successful you should now be able to connect with the browser and use your username and password to set up the ADSL link with BT. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't connect with my new ADSL
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:27:44AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Well, I got this far: pinging 10.0.0.2 worked, but I still could not > connect to it with a browser. "Connection cannot be established." >From a previous post I thought you were having the router as 10.0.0.1, using the 'route add' command, and the interface as 10.0.0.2, using the 'ifconfig up' command. If that is the way you have set it up the above is pinging the interface, not the router. /sbin/ifconfig should have a second line for eth0 starting: inet addr:10.0.0.2 if 10.0.0.2 is the interface IP number. > Should there be an entry in /etc/hosts? But what? Not necessary. As a matter of interest I have 192.168.7.2 localhost copernicus 192.168.7.1 router but that's only because I can do 'telnet router' and not have to remember the address. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't connect with my new ADSL
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:56:13PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Believe it or not, I've actually made some progress. Won't bore everyone > with the details, but it included using a different cable and 10.0.0.1 > to set it up followed by 10.0.0,2 to connect. 10.0.0.1 is the router? 10.0.0.2 the eth0 interface? > However, it doesn't like any graphics browsers I've tried but I can > access it with text browsers like lynx and w3m. The problem now is that > I don't see where you are supposed to insert the username and password > supplied by the ISP. You can change the passwords for both admin and user > but these are presumably for accessing the web pages - or is that the > same thing? So - you have managed to contact the router. Good. The web interfaces for routers differ but in general you have to give a password to alter any essential parameters which relate to connection. The default password should be in the documentation. It is generally something simple like 'adsl' or 'Mentor'. I suspect you'll be unable to progress further without it. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Workbone - With Volume Control - How To Install?
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:24:46AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > i just tried out the workbone CD player that is installable via > apt-get. It's a decent console- based player, except for one problem. > It has no volume control. I agree with your assessment of workbone as a decent console-based cd player but if you see lack of volume control as a problem there is always the option of installing a mixer program. To mention several packages: aumix is said to be a competent utility and mp3blaster can play cd's and comes with nmixer; I use alsamixer. All do rather more than control the sound volume of a cd. > Anyway, I did a bit of snooping around and came across this: > > http://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/derouler/info/workbone/index.html.en > > That is the same player, but with the + and - keys set to provide > volume control. Just tried this. The + key increases the volume but doesn't take the output to a very high level. Your experience may be different. > I downloaded it and uncompressed it, but now, how do I actually > install it? > > The files that are now sitting in my home directory after > uncompressing the tgz file are: > > hardware.c > workbone > workbone.h > struct.h > workbone.c > > So, what does I have to do with these to get a working player? The > site the tgz file was downloaded from has no instructions on how to > install this. Install the file workbone somewhere in your home directory and run it from there. Or you could use /usr/local/bin. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Workbone - With Volume Control - How To Install?
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 02:18:09PM +, Brian Potkin wrote: > To mention several > packages: aumix is said to be a competent utility and mp3blaster > can play cd's and comes with nmixer; Before everyone rushes off to download mp3blaster to play a cd I wish to own up to some unintentional misinformation. mp3blaster is an mp3 and ogg player. However, the package does include nmixer which does control the sound card. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: voice communication - windows w/ masquerade and debian w/ real IP
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:40:06PM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: > Hello! > > I badly need to communicate with a person that is using windows > behind a masquerade of his ISP (which he doesn't control). My > machine has routable IP address so theorhetically such a connection > from windows machine to mine - would be possible. > > But what kind of software could be used for that? Sometime ago I used > the great Gnome Meeting but it requires both sides to have a real IP > or to use some proxies on gateways etc. which is not possible for > the windows machine. [*] > > Any ideas how to get voice communication in such a setup? You could both try Speak Freely which has versions for both Linux and Windows. The Linux version handles NAT but I'm not sure what provision for NAT is made at the Windows end. The project page is at http://speak-freely.sourceforge.net/ This will lead you to http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/ Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smssend does not do anything ?
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:16:52PM +0200, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > > Hi, anyone know smssend? I have just installed it and trying to send sms > but nothing happens. It does not give any error but the message i not > being delivered at the mobile phone. > Im using eurobate and have the latest provider file. > > Trying to send with the following: > smssend eurobate.sms login/*username*/ password /*mypw*/ 4712345678 > "Hi, sending from smssend" Looking at the eurobate.sms script there are five parameters required. You have not used the network code. > it then pause for a few seconds and back to promt, no error. cant find any > logs either. > Any ideas? With fewer than five parameters there should definitely be an error message generated which informs you there are not enough arguments for this provider. However, there is a space between 'password' and '/*mypw*/' which would (if what you have above is what you had on the command line) make five parameters and that is why no error is reported. For a log of the transaction append '-- -d5' to the command. No quotation marks of course. A number of html files are written to disk as well as to the console. See 'SkyUtils-options' in the smssend manual. > > I have an account at eurobyte.com, and also did by some extra sms to see > if it helped. See where you get with: smssend eurobate.sms username password network number "message" Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smssend does not do anything ?
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:57:06PM +0200, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > On Tue, 3 May 2005, Brian Potkin wrote: > > > See where you get with: > > > > smssend eurobate.sms username password network number "message" > > > > Brian. [Sig snipped] > Hi and thanks for reply > > I did a test on a windoze box and it was working. Used the windows scrip > at debian and I was able to send but with errors: By 'working' I assume you mean the recipient got the sms. I find that smssend itself is generally reliable but the quality of the scripts, including any feedback they give, can vary. Providers changing their webpages will often break a script. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ smssend eurobate.sms username password 47 12345678 "new > message" > SmsSend Warning in provider loader : Unknown option : or 92 for Pakistan) > SmsSend Warning in provider loader : Unknown option : to the french > 0612345678 gsm : +33612345678) > Result : Message should be on its way now > [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ > > It did the same with: > 0047 12345678 and > 0047 +4712345678 The lines in eurobate.sms beginning '%Network Convert' and '%Tel Convert' should each be a single line. My guess is that somehow or other both have been broken into two lines. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: deliver text as email (UK)
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 07:59:24PM +0100, Joe Mc Cool wrote: > Please, > > how can I use my woody box to send free text messages to a mobile phone > (in the UK) ? Firstly, you need to obtain an account with a provider who will allow you to send a text message from a web page. In the UK www.o2.co.uk and www.11.co.uk have such a service and are reliable. There are others. Secondly, assuming you want to work from the command line rather than through a browser you require software which will communicate with a provider's web page, login on your behalf and send the text message. smssend does that exactly and does it well. It is a Debian package with responsive upstream and Debian maintainers. > My google searches have come up with nothing. With the search terms "sms", "uk" and "free" you can experience information overload. Adding "linux" will reduce the number of hits but give you some idea of software available. > Surely there has to be a web site somewhere that I can email and it will > forward the text on my behalf to a designated mobile number. > > I have in mind something that I cobble together on the command line. I don't think you really mean you want to email a website. If indeed that is what you want then what is above will probably be of no help to you. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DisplaySize ignored?
Carlos Rodrigues writes:
> I have a test installation of Debian (Sarge) and I wanted to force the
> screen resolution for XFree86 to 96dpi (because the fonts for GTK apps
> are way too big with the calculated default dpi settings), so I set
> "DisplaySize 270 203" in the "Monitor" section of "XF86Config-4", but
> this is completely ignored.i
> What mey be causing this, wasn't "DisplaySize" supposed to override
> the autocalculated values?
The FAQ in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common deals with how to change the
dpi value used by the X server and gives a list of scripts to alter.
Could it be you have not done this correctly and the dpi setting in,
say, /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc is overriding your DisplaySize setting?
Alternatively, you may want to examine whether the GTK apps you use
depend on libgtk1.2 or libgtk2.0. It is my experience that those that
depend on libgtk1.2, for example, dillo and gentoo, ignore the
DisplaySize line in XF86Config-4 whereas firefox and gvim, which depend
on libgtk2.0, do not. Why this is so I have no idea but neither have I
put much effort yet into discovering why.
Actually, what I did to alter the menu and dialogue fonts was to create
the files $HOME/.gtkrc and $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 for libgtk1.2 and libgtk2.0
dependent applications respectively. In the first one I have
style "default"
{
fontset="-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--20-*-*-*-*-*-*"
}
class "*" style "default"
and in the second
gtk-font-name = "Helvetica 14"
Whether this is the best technique I do not know but it works well for
me with the default dpi setting of 100 in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc.
Brian.
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Re: selecting which messages to download based on headers
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 06:04:45PM +0300, ice.dp wrote: > On 5/8/05, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why? What are you trying to do? > I'm cheking my mail via GPRS. It's $1 per Mb in my country. > It's very expencive for me. But i'm subscribed to this list, > and I don't want to download every message on this list. > I want download only messages with subjects that are interesting to me freshmeat.net would be a place to look for software which would delete mail on a POP3 server after examining the headers. I've used poppy. With it the messages are examined one by one. That may not suit you but there is certain to be something else which will. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X resources (was Re: Netscape big menu)
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 08:28:58AM +1100, David Fisher wrote: > > For less ugly Netscape fonts and proper size scaling, > > the best solution I've found is to install the mozilla-fonts > > package at http://fox.mit.edu/skunk/xwin/#mozilla_fonts, > > > > I have installed the rpm for these fonts using alien but when I try to > configure them into Netscape in the fonts preferences they do not > display in the list. > > Is there something further I need to do the enable Netscape to use them? Could it be that the deb package produced by alien does not update the X server's font path? Following the advice in the README file I initially installed the fonts in /usr/local/lib/fonts/Mozilla from the tar ball and used xset fp+ /usr/local/lib/fonts/Mozilla:unscaled to make them available to Netscape. This would have to done each time X is started so a more permanent solution would be to add the line Fontpath ":unscaled" to the "Files" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config. If you are using xfs to serve fonts (which I don't) then you might have to add the font path to /etc/X11/xfs/config. Regards, Brian. --
Re: How to set Xserver resolution
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:57:52AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Debian" == Debian Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Debian> You could set up an alias. HTH > > That doesn't work to well if you are starting X via gdm... > > Yes, you could alter /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, but this often gets > changed upstream (forcing you to merge the changes each time). > > You can change lots of things via XF86Config, including BPP, power > saver mode, etc, so I wonder how you go about changing the DPI > setting. I use startx to bring up X and like you wondered whether a dpi setting in XF86Config is possible. The man page for XF86Config does not appear to have anything relevant but man startx mentions an xserverrc file. So after creating .xserverrc I put in it the line: exec X :0 -dpi 100 This worked for me so maybe it will also be of use when starting X via gdm. Brian. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is nslookup
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:46:36AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> on Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:08:15AM +0100, Robert Waldner ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > A very convenient way to find out what package a given file belongs to
> > is via http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages ("Search Contents of
> > Latest Release").
>
> An even more convenient one is
>
> $ apt-cache search
The convenience of `apt-cache search' saves the cost of a telephone call
but at the cost of accuracy. It searches, I think, only package names
and descriptions.
1. copernicus:~$ apt-cache search ifconfig
frad - Frame Relay Tools for DLCI/SDLA Drivers in 2.0/2.1 kernels.
2. Using http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
sbin/ifconfig base/netbase
usr/doc/pj-9904/pj9904/images/pingifconfig.gif doc/pj-9904
usr/share/man/de/man8/ifconfig.8.gz base/netbase
usr/share/man/es/man8/ifconfig.8.gz doc/manpages-es-extra
usr/share/man/fr/man8/ifconfig.8.gz base/netbase
usr/share/man/hu/man8/ifconfig.8.gz doc/manpages-hu
usr/share/man/it/man8/ifconfig.8.gz doc/manpages-it
usr/share/man/ja/man8/ifconfig.8.gz doc/manpages-ja
usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8.gzbase/netbase
usr/share/man/pl/man8/ifconfig.8.gz doc/manpages-pl
usr/share/man/pt/man8/ifconfig.8.gz base/netbase
Brian.
Re: Woody
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:20:36AM +, john gennard wrote: > I have used Slink and now use Potato. As I seem to be getting > problems installing KDE on Potato and many people say they > are running Woody successfully, I wonder if I shall go to Woody. My feeling is that sorting out your installation of KDE on potato should be your initial thought. There is a thread at present on the list which refers to KDE2 and it could be that purging and reinstalling produces a satisfactory outcome to your problems. Look upon it as point of honour. You have experience of Debian and upgrading all your packages because of a possible difficulty with two or three of them seems an extreme solution. While woody may be performing successfully now there is no guarantee that breakages will not occur in the coming months. This is not to say you will unable to deal with them but you could remain content and untroubled in the secure world of the stable distribution. > Normally, I install from CD but of course there is none for Woody. > I've just realised that I don't know what it is that makes Slink Slink, > Potato Potato or Woody Woody. How then can I go to Woody > and how select what packages to upgrade/install? The UK section of `Debian on CD' on the Debian web pages has at least one link to someone who might produce a CD for woody for you if that is what you wanted. Or change your /etc/apt/sources.list and use apt-get to go to woody. You could obtain individual packages using ftp or http and install them with dpkg -i. I sometimes do this but it pays to look carefully at the dependencies before downloading. > I have a 56K modem and have to pay line charges. Whilst I don't mind > spending a reasonable time downloading, I've no wish to be on line for > many hours ( the tarball of a kernel takes 70 - 80 minutes which is > quite acceptable). I know it depends on your telco but 60p per hour is about you pay for off-peak usage in the UK. This might be cost effective compared with the purchase of CD's if you upgrade. Alternatively, investigate the evening and weekend surftime deal from BT and see if you can use it with Clara. Brian. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Command to determine resolution
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:54:26PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Karsten M Self writes: > KMS> I note that my system is running at 75 dpi. Will 100 dpi give more or > KMS> less resolution, and how do I set resolution anyway? > > That number is basically a measurement of how big fonts are; a bigger > number means you'll have larger fonts. On a 75dpi display, a 72-point > font will be 75 pixels high, but it would be 100 pixels high on a > 100dpi display. (Because it's trying to be "one inch" tall, and > that's its concept of how big "one inch" is.) If I understand you correctly you are saying that using -dpi 75 informs an application which wants to display a 72 point font that it will be allowed 75 pixels whereas with -dpi 100 it will get 100 pixels. Having spent some time in the recent past playing with this setting I have to wonder why it is then that changing it on my system does not alter the font size on the screen at all with the majority of applications I use. There may be others, but only I have found only Lyx, August and Ted to respond to an alteration in the dpi switch. This may not be correct, but the only explanation I can think of to account for this behaviour is that most applications do not use the dpi value sent to the X server. Brian. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Command to determine resolution
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:38:21AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: [Very informative font discussion snipped] > What you probably actually want for "10-point Courier" is > > -*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 > > which will get you a monospaced font from some foundry named 'courier' > using the iso8859-1 encoding, at 10 points. But it's unfortunately > common among programs to either (a) record the full name of the font, > including point size and DPI, so when you change server DPI the font > doesn't follow, or (b) use legacy font names like '6x9', which refer > to character-cell bitmap fonts exactly six pixels wide and nine tall. Thanks. This would explain my observations and is far more specific a reason than the one I proposed. A quick check with a netscape setting in .Xresources shows that the -dpi setting is honoured for the menu fonts when I put Netscape*fontList:-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-0-0-*-*-iso8859-* However, I had to have 0 for xres and yres rather than a * for this to work. Brian. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xdefaults being ignored?
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:09:36PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > Hi, > > I have the weirdest problem: Whatever I enter into my ~/.Xdefaults > seems to be ignored entirely. I tried to make my mouse wheel work > with netscape; pasted the relevant lines from > http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ > to ~/.Xdefaults - nothing. > I edited (for test purposes) ~/.Xdefaults to look like this: > --- > xterm*background: white > xterm*foreground: black > > --- > Xterm is still white text on a black background (I tried different > capitalizations of 'xterm', also). > I really don't understand what's going on. > I am running the latest Woody with XF4.0.1 and gnome/sawfish. > Any ideas, anyone? Try creating the file ~/.Xresources instead. I think this is used by X on Debian rather than ~/.Xdefaults. Brian. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading to potato
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 01:16:37AM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Is there a URL which anyone can recommend to take me through the process > of upgrading to potato from slink? You could have a look at http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/potato/upgrade-i386/ The upgrading process is given in quite some detail. Regards, Brian. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 0161 736 3886
Re: new Debian user
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:59:36PM +0100, Anthony Durity wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to the Debian fold and I am afraid that I am having trouble > adjusting from my RedHat/Mandrake familiarity. Some of these questions may > not be so Debian related so sorry in advance. > > I am in the process of setting up a potato test-cycle 1 system that I > bought from some very nice people at the Linux Conference in London > recently for £7 including source. A good deal I would say :) Can anybody > recommend a Debian specific users guide (for the not so newbie)? Besides the Debian website, try http://www2.newriders.com/debian/html/frames/ and http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/index.html Both books are also available in paperback versions. [Snip hardware questions, praise of Debian and a slur on xf86config :)] Regards, Brian. --
Re: Clarification on setting window manager
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 04:55:09PM -0800, Guyren G Howe wrote: > Okay, > > I asked the question a little while back about how I can set my window > manager. So far I have been advised to edit, in different messages from > different people: > > /etc/X11/window-managers > ~/xinitrc > ~/.xsession The first named window manager in /etc/X11/window-managers which is found on your system is the one which will be started. It is a system wide setting so all users will get this window manager unless they specify otherwise in a ~/.xsession file. The window manager you get is controlled by the action of the Xsession file in /etc/X11. Before reading /etc/X11/window-managers it will invoke .xsession if it exists. Your .xsession should be executable and, as a minimum, contain #!/bin/sh exec As far as I can determine ~/.xinitrc is not required as the display manager (xdm) and startx both use /etc/X11/Xsession by default. The manual page for Xsession is worth reading. > I've also been advised to run register-window-manager --default, but when I > run it, it advises me that it will soon be superceded! I wasn't aware of this program but the man page is informative. One of its uses appears to be to allow the editing of /etc/X11/window-managers. Usefull though this may be the same objective may be achieved using your favourite text editor. > Any or all of these look plausible. None of them actually seem to work (they > currently *all* say kde, but I'm still getting enlightenment). > What is the *real* answer here? Apart from appreciating that KDE is not a window manager but Enlightenment is, I'm not going to be of much help here as neither are on my system. It looks as though the command to start KDE is incorrect. You could try removing ~/initrc and putting exec startkde in ~/xsession, or startkde as the first line of /etc/X11/window-managers. > BTW, enlightenment looks like shit. I get stray lines all over the screen > when I resize windows, most of the little icons don't do anything, and the > right mouse-click on the desktop, which all the enlightenment > "documentation" (which is a generous term) I've been able to find advises me > to do, doesn't do anything. > > Is enlightenment just crap, or am I missing something here? When something does not function as I anticipate it is usually because I have an imperfect understanding of what is involved :). Regards, Brian. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mgetty-fax: Receiving multiple pages.
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:54:03AM +1030, Paul Schulz wrote: > Greetings, > > I managed to set up the mgetty and mgetty-fax packages, at it is both > sending and receiving faxes straight out of the install.. > > 1. Install packages > > 2. To receive faxes, enable mgetty in '/etc/inittab' on the serial >line that the faxmodem is attached to.. > > Sending faxes is with 'faxspool' with 'runfaxq' to send faxes on the > queue. > > Now.. I received a multiple pages fax, but can only see the first page.. Each fax page is received in /var/spool/fax/incoming as a raw g3 data file beginning with either ffa or fna and ending with the page number. The first thing I would do is check that your expected multiple page fax is there as a number of g3 files. > 1. mgetty-fax emails me the fax as a '.png' attachment The /etc/mgetty/new_fax file installed from the mgetty-fax package is set to convert g3 files to png format by default so that bit is fine. However there should be one png for each g3. A way of testing new_fax's conversion of g3 to png and whether it's mailing them correctly is to execute as root /etc/mgetty/new_fax 0 N n g3.01 g3.02 ... where g3.01 etc are the full path names of the fax files. N is the telephone number of the sender and n the number of pages. You can put anything for these (say 12345 for N and 3 for n) but they must be there. Details of fax reception are in info mgetty. > 2. I extract it using 'metamail -w' (need to edit it first though, > which is a problem.) > > This only gives me the first page. My MUA is mutt and attachments are simply saved, so I am not familiar with this use of metamail. Perhaps you are not extracting all the pages. > I would like to know what other people are using, and if they're happy > with their system. I just know my boss will be asking for a web based > front end to this. Brian. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Answering machine software?
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 08:30:52PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: > Sorry, I'll be more clear. :) There's no 'mgetty' in Unstable(Sid). > There is no mgetty-viewfax, there is no mgetty-fax, there is no > mgetty-voice. :) Each and every one of those packages gives: > > Package mgetty has no available version, but exists in the database. > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and > never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents > > of sources.list > > When I try to 'apt-get install' it. I've checked the mirrors, too. > They're not there. They're available for Stable(Potato), but not > Unstable(Sid). mgetty packages which fix a security problem were uploaded a few days ago. Should you want these put deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free in your /etc/apt/sources.list. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Faxes are not delivered by mgetty
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:44:35AM +0100, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > Hi! > > On 10.01.2001 I upgraded mgetty with apt-get. Some days later I > changed my provider and had to change exim.conf. Now I discovered that > incoming faxes are not delivered to me as before. What are the > apropriate variables in exim.conf and/or mgetty relating fax-delivery? > Was there a change in the new mgetty-package. > > I am running stable following security-fixes and proposed-updates. In /etc/mgetty/new_fax I have the line USER="postmaster" so faxes are mailed to that user. In the DIRECTORS CONFIGURATION section of /etc/exim.conf I have system_aliases: driver = aliasfile file_transport = address_file pipe_transport = address_pipe file = /etc/aliases search_type = lsearch* and in /etc/aliases postmaster: brian It is unlikely that upgrading mgetty-fax touches new_fax without your consent and the only recent change to mgetty has been an NMU security fix. Considering you've altered it, exim.conf appears to be a likely place to look. Brian -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Faxes are not delivered by mgetty
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:27:30AM +0100, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > Hallo Brian! > > Am Don, 01 Feb 2001, schrieb Brian Potkin: > > > In /etc/mgetty/new_fax I have the line > > > > USER="postmaster" > > I have no USER in new_fax. Maybe I am using another new_fax-script. I > have an ADMIN set to POSTMASTER. Postmasters mail is sent to root, and > roots mail is sent to me. Debian's default new_fax is written by Ed Doolittle but which one you are using shouldn't matter provided it is executable and the permissions are correct. > > In the DIRECTORS CONFIGURATION section of /etc/exim.conf I have > > > > system_aliases: > > driver = aliasfile > > file_transport = address_file > > pipe_transport = address_pipe > > file = /etc/aliases > > search_type = lsearch* >^ > > I do not have an asterix there. What does it mean? >From /usr/share/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz: If '*' is added to a single-key lookup type (for example, lsearch*), then if the initial lookup fails, the key '*' is looked up in the file to provide a default value. So an entry such as `*: jan' in /etc/aliases would deliver mail not addressed to postmaster or root to user jan. It's not needed and leaving it out shouldn't affect your fax delivery. Brian.
Re: latex docu
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:21:36PM +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to learn LaTex. therefore I wnted to read the Latex docu > under /usr/share/doc/texmf/general/latex2e.dvi.gz. Konqueror can't > open the file and the only way I've been able to read it so far is to > copy it to my home directory, unzip it and read display the .dvi file. > But I don't beleave this is way how to read a documentation. How do I > read it without all that hassle? Some suggestions. Try texdoc /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/general/latex2e It would seem that texdoc latex2e should be sufficient but that doesn't work for me. Note the lack of the .dvi.gz ending. Should you want a man page to consult the stable distribution does not have one so look at http://www.eskimo.com/~c/debian/tetex-manpages/ Searching the debian-user and debian-tetex-maint mailing lists with `dvi' and `xdvi' is informative. Look for a recent thread (March 2001) entitled `gzipped dvi's'. Alternatively, give see /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/general/latex2e.dvi.gz a go. Brian.
Re: new mutt index/thread format
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:01:40PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > with a recent mutt update, my current version 1.3.24 started > displaying messages part of a thread as follows, if the original > (first) message of that thread had been deleted. i find this really > annoying -- visually that is. it took me some time to accept that > Junichi did not reply to Oohara... > > 267 N Dec 22 Oohara Yuuma|1.1K| Re: be my own official primary > 268 N Dec 22 Junichi Uekawa |0.9K| ?-?->Re: Why isn't apt interna > 269 N Dec 22 Junichi Uekawa |0.7K| +->Re: Why isn't apt internati > > can this be changed back to the way it was before through a config > options? This is something I had also intended looking into so your message prompted me to go through my mail backlog. The patch mentioned is, I believe, now available. Brian From: Daniel Eisenbud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mutt Users' List Subject: Re: ?-Char in threading view Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 14:21:47 -0500 User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Setting $hide_missing (which is set by default) will get rid of some of them. I should have a patch to do a more thorough job in a day or two. I'll send it to mutt-users as well as mutt-dev once it's stable, because of popular demand. -Daniel
Re: mutt threading contains * and ?
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:42:45AM -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote: > As for the '?', that represents a gap in the threading from messages > either missing or not being shown in the current limit pattern. A recently introduced feature, I think, and controlled by hide_missing. Not necessarily very well, but that is likely to change. Brian.
Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:38:05PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:42:36PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > > I just deleted something I didn't want to delete; won't hurt my system, > > just destroyed some important records I was keeping. > > > *Immediately* unmount the partition holding this data! With > "*immediately*" i mean *IMMEDIATELY!*, or better put, RIGHT *NOW*! > > An now let's just calm down to be able to think for a minute. A few days ago my fingers typed the command `apt-get clean'. What my brain intended was `apt-get autoclean'. Fortunately, I keep package files on a separate ext2 partition so unmounting it was quick and easy. I realise the deleted data are replaceable but 400M+ takes a long time to download on a modem link so I took the opportunity to have a look at how easy or hard it was to recover the files. If I failed to get them back it wouldn't be disastrous but it was annoying to have made a mistake with a command I was familiar with. > > Is there any way to undelete in ext3fs? > > > Since this is compatible with ext2, ext2 undeletion should be > possible. Now you have the possibility to find out yourself and tell > us whether this worked or not. The man page for Midnight Commander claims that undeletion is possible only with an ext2 file system. Your suggestion to explore whether it would deal with ext3 is reasonable but doesn't mc use debugfs which is designed for an ext2 file system? > There is a comfortable way for undeletion using the GNU Midnight > Commander, "/usr/bin/mc". If you have it installed, then start it up, > press "F9" and choose "Command | Undelete files (ext2fs only)". > > Enter the device file name without the leading "/dev/" of the > (hopefully unmounted!) partition containing the deleted files and > wait a few minutes until the panel contains a listing of deleted > files. Depending on size of the partition in question, this can take > up a considerable amount of time. So please be patient even if this > takes half an hour or even far more. I was aware that Midnight Commander has the facility you describe so I used it. It told me it was `loading deleted files information' and was still going strong after an hour. I went to bed, dreamt of inodes, got up and there it was still churning away. Now that partition only has about 50M of free space so I suspect there is insufficient room to write the undeleted files to it. A way to direct the file listing somewhere else would be useful. > The files in the resulting list don't carry names anymore and the > shown names are probably mere inode numbers(?) or similar. Check > which file(s) might contain the data in question and copy this file > into a directory located on *another* partition. Imagine a lot of .deb files. Imagine having to rename them correctly! The tedium involved, however, is very much offset by the pleasure of recovering them. > And if you've been able to save your data: Rejoice! Eventually I used the recover package from the testing distribution. You can select deleted files by date and time of deletion and dump them to a directory on another partition. It was also quite quick. Having read about the difficulty of undeleting files on unix systems I found the performance of this program impressive. [Snip good advice on backups] Brian.
Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:22:14PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Potkin) writes: > > > The man page for Midnight Commander claims that undeletion is possible > > only with an ext2 file system. Your suggestion to explore whether it > > would deal with ext3 is reasonable but doesn't mc use debugfs which is > > designed for an ext2 file system? > > > Writing from the perspective of an up to date Debian/unstable system > only (i really can't be bothered with this rotten potato anymore): > > debugfs is part of the e2fsprogs package which in turn is ext3-aware. I took what the man page for mc said at face value and didn't dig any further to look in detail at the e2fsprogs documentation. Thanks for the correction; it gives me some incentive to make an ext3 partition and test how debugfs deals with deleted files on it. > > I was aware that Midnight Commander has the facility you describe so I > > used it. It told me it was `loading deleted files information' and was > > still going strong after an hour. I went to bed, dreamt of inodes, got > > up and there it was still churning away. > > > Having become curious after writing my message, i tried this as well > on an ext3 filesystem with similar effect. But i was not patient > enough to stand the procedure for more than an hour... ;-) This behaviour appears to be a bug in mc and has been reported in bug report #121917. > > Now that partition only has > > about 50M of free space so I suspect there is insufficient room to write > > the undeleted files to it. > > > Even if you wanted to, you simply couldn't and you better wouldn't, > even if you could because you wouldn't want to use those unlinked > inodes to be overwritten by "restoring" your files. > > The last time i succesfully undeleted using MC (almost two years ago) > i tried this and the undeletion routine refused writing data onto the > same partition. A couple of hours after making this statement it struck me that writing to an unmounted partition is not likely to succeed. > > A way to direct the file listing somewhere > > else would be useful. > > > What should this be good for? Not much! Basically, I was having difficulty understanding mc's behaviour and not having used it for this purpose before I made the mistake of assuming it was copying the files and required room to write them out somewhere. Brian.
Re: internet filter
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:36:22AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 07:01:28PM -0500, John Patton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My son just turned 10, and I was interested in being able > > to set up some sort of internet filter for him. I don't > > need to tie his hands as far as browsing goes, nor do I > > need something that is childproof or otherwise beyond his > > ability to circumvent. I just want something that would > > prevent him from accidentally stumbling upon certain types > > of questionable sites... you know: have him type in "kids" > > in a search engine only to be confronted with links to > > child porn sites. I've looked into Junkbuster and that's > > a possibility... but that doesn't allow filtering based > > on content, just specific sites. Are there free software > > packages that can filter content? Anybody with experience in > > this? Also, if anybody knows of a child safe search engine, > > that would be greatly appreciated as well. > > > > I know that no solution is perfect... I'm just looking for > > something that would help protect him from the darker sides > > of the internet until he's ready for it. I would be grateful > > for any ideas. Thanks. > > I'd probably turn to another resource. Freshmeat > (http://www.freshmeat.net/) or Google (http://google.com/), for > starters. As it happens, freshmeat had what appears to be a suitable program on its site yesterday. DansGuardian at http://dansguardian.org filters on, among other things, page content. Brian. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Mutt checking files for new mail
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:52:47AM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > I use fetchmail, procmail, and mutt for my E-mail, and I'm having one > little issue with mutt that has been disturbing me for a while: > > Sometimes, new mail in my files does not show up in mutt for a while > (sometimes even a couple hours) after I have received it. > > Does this happen to anyone else? How can I fix it? I haven't been able > to find anything about it in mutt's manual yet (and aside from that, > mutt has one of the best program manuals I've ever seen). Are you using exim as your smtp server? If so it may be worth checking in MAIN CONFIGURATION SETTINGS and looking for # Have exim deliver all mail that's received in a single connection. # Normally it will deliver the first 10 and then queue the rest. smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0 Brian. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMS-Mailing
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:42:41PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hey You!! :-) > > Is there any possibility to install a tool on my HD which i can use to > send SMS'es directly fom my machine by using my ISP? > > If yes please tell me! I use Woody. Is there any package? SMS? Are you referring to sending a text message to a mobile phone? If so neither a special tool nor a Debian package is not required as you generally access a web page providing such a service. You could search for `free SMS' on Google. In the UK I use www.lycos.co.uk. Or have look at www.quios.com. Brian. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sndconfig.deb - Where?
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:43:40AM +0300, Atukunda Martin wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm still trying to set up sound on my debian box. Now nearly in frustration > - Does anyone know where I can locate the sndconfig.deb file? > > Checked around and went in circles :) The direct route is to go to your usual Debian mirror and use the search facilities on the `Debian Packages' page. I assure you your journey will not be wasted. Brian.
Re: eximconfig
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 06:12:40PM -0500, ktb wrote: > You can also cheat and put something similar in your ~/.muttrc - > my_hdr From: ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > kent I would say that the response in your previous email is more appropriate. That method can be used to rewrite the envelope From address which I think is used to form the sender line. The my_hdr From: in .muttrc only touches the from: header within the message body. Brian.
Re: How to upgrade?
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 02:07:32PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > Currently, I am in potato. If I want to upgrade the whole system > to woody or r3, WHat should i put in my sources.list file? > and what options should I give to apt-get? > Also, is woody and 2.2r3 both same? Or, if different, please briefly > explain. woody is the the testing distribution and will eventually become the stable distribution. 2.2r3 is a revision (mainly security fixes) for the present stable distribution, potato. Details are in the `news' section on www.debian.org. To upgrade to 2.2r3 leave your sources.list pointing to potato and do apt-get update apt-get -u dist-upgrade For woody change your sources.list to replace `potato' with `woody' and issue the same apt-get commands. If you simply want the benefits of a more secure, stable system 2.2r3 is the best option. Brian.
Re: vgetty -- answering machine
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 08:05:44PM +0530, omicron wrote: > hello > i'm having a DAX modem and also installed vgetty. how do i > configure a personal answering machine ? If it is the mgetty-voice package you have installed you should also get the mgetty-docs package. /usr/share/doc/mgetty-voice has a directory with information which should help you. The program vocp at http://sourceforge.net/projects/vocp/ might also be of interest to you. Brian.
Re: apt-get problems
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 05:42:11PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > > I am not able to use apt-get. If i run apt-get check or apt-get update, > it exits with error >Unable to parse /var/lib/dpkg/status (1) > The status file could not be opened or parsed. > Help. Some suggestions: Move /var/lib/dpkg/status to somewhere safe and copy each of the back-up files in turn to /var/lib/dpkg/status. Try dselect instead of apt-get Search deja and/or the Debian mail archives for /var/lib/dpkg/status. Brian.
Re: What extra packages do I need for patching the kernel?
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:26:40AM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote: > Hi All, > > I never needed to compile the kernel until now. I have to patch the > kernel, and I would like to know what libraries, packages, programs > I need to have on my machine (except the kernel source an headers) > in order to do this? > > I run potato 2.2r3 stable, and at isnstall time I mostly skipped > development packages, but I do not want to just install loads of C > development packages which i do not need... > > Is there a simple way to prepare myself for this event (in addition > to lots of coffeine)? apt-get -fu --no-act install will tell you which packages will be installed, including the ones on which depends. It does not, however, install recommended or suggested packages or indicate that these are available. This can cause problems. For example, compiling a kernel on an i386 machine requires bin86 but this is a suggested package. One route to prepare yourself would be to read the package descriptions, paying attention to the `Depends:', `Recommends:' and `Suggests:' lines. apt-cache show is a quick way to do this. Brian.
Re: How to allow a user to send a fax with mgetty
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 05:28:11PM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote: > At the moment I need to su in order to send a fax. How do I fix it so > that I can send a fax as a normal user? > > Pertinent info: > > Kernel 2.2.17 > > Mgetty running from Pototao 2.2R3 It is some time since I configured mgetty but adding yourself to group fax is, I think, what you are looking for. adduser fax Brian.
Re: woody
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:13:20PM +, gerard robin wrote: > hello, > I am connected to internet with a modem and to download > a distribution potato or woody spents 130 hours ! > In France potato exists on CD but woody not. This looks like you are downloading the whole distribution. If you have potato already on your machine you could simply move to woody with apt-get. Unless you have an existing large installation the time involved should be a good deal less than 130 hours and it may end up a cheaper method than buying CD's. > Does woody exist on CD in a european country ? > If yes, can someone give me the link. Try Steve McIntyre in the UK. Follow the `Debian on CD' link on your usual Debian site. Brian.
Re: woody
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:31:30PM +, gerard robin wrote:
> Thanks, I have followed your advice and so I have upgraded the soft
> which I needed.
> However now (after upgrade) when I run a perl script I get this warning:
>
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = (unset),
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LANG = "fr_FR.ISO-8859.1"
> are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
[Snip]
> How can I set locale ?
I am no expert here and have little knowledge of setting locales, in the
main because I have never had an obvious problem related to this aspect
of linux.
However, `apropos locale' reveals a man page for perllocale which
discusses your problem in detail. Also, searching debian-user on the
mailing list archives with `locale' looks likely to give you some useful
pointers.
Brian.
Re: mailq
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:02:34PM +1000, Davor Balder wrote: > No, it's not a security risk... for the reasons you mentioned... just > edit permissions in usual manner... There is no need to alter permissions to change this behaviour. Setting queue_list_requires_admin to false in /etc/exim.conf is sufficient. Or I suppose adding a user to group mail would also be a way of seeing queued mail. Brian
Re: mailq
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:29:50AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Greetings. > > mailq is linked to exim, so the mailq command is just a shortcut to do a > queue check. Is it a security risk to permit normal users to check the mailq, > because if I try it as a non-root user, I get "permission denied". Originally I was going to comment that mailq on my system (exim version 3.12) works as described in the manual and gives a list of my outgoing mails. But being a little intrigued I thought the bug reports for exim were worth a look. Basically, this aspect of exim's behaviour was altered in version 3.3 and the message you got is now normal behaviour. See bugs 109394, 107222 and 109619. Brian.
Re: Web banner blocker
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:40:32PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a good web cache/banner remove program for Debian > unstable. Previously I've used Squid + Sleezeball, but Sleezeball > hasn't been updated since November 1999. :-( > > Can anyone recommend a good banner blocker? I don't want entire pages > blocked so SquidGuard is an overkill, but the banner adverts removed. wwwoffle performs well as a caching web proxy and will also allow you to control what pages, images and files etc it fetches. There is copious documentation and the author maintains the program. The `DontGet' section in wwwoffle.conf is what you are looking for to remove banner adverts. Brian.
Re: Web banner blocker
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:10:57AM +0200, Michal Parienti wrote: > Junkbuster works great, except it doesn't support version 1.1 of > the HTTP protocol. > > If we could find the same features, with the support of HTTP 1.1, > in GPL, it would be perfect... The FAQ for wwwoffle says that it has the ability `to control access to WWWOFFLE using the HTTP/1.1 Proxy Authentication method' so this might tempt you to investigate whether it suits your system. Being a Debian package and free software are also added incentives. Comparing the configuration file for junkbuster with wwwoffle.conf there seems little signifcant difference between the functionality of both programs when used to block adverts. Both use a block file, can hide blocked images, manage cookies, control acces to the proxy server and allow some of the headers sent to be altered. One of the differences is that junkbuster can send `wafers' but I am not sure this is a feature of great importance. So maybe perfection is within your grasp! Brian.
Re: Web Filter
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 05:44:21PM -0700, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > I've been following the 'web blocker' thread with some interest and, on a > related note, was wondering what software is available for limiting access > to certain web sites for specific users. I've a couple of elementary > school age kids that are starting to become interested in the web. I think > I need to supervise their activities in this regard for appropriate > content but would like to experiment with some sort of filter to help out. > I'm currently running squid on a firewall machine (Debian 'testing') at > home behind which we have a few other machines. I've just learned about > squidguard, and will probably check it out, but I was wondering about > other software that some of you might recommend. I have no experience with dansguardian but it appears to offer what you require. It claims to filter on page content and can be used in conjunction with squidguard. It is actively maintained but there is no Debian package. Searching freshmeat.net for `web filter' might point you towards other software. Brian.
