Re: GIF driver for Gimp ?
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 02:46:35PM +, dave selby wrote: > I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but > it appears not to be supported. > > I have been on the Gimp mailing list, they suggest I may need a .deb > file to enable it because it is supported in standard Gimp. > > Having browsed through aptitude there are a lot of files related to > GIF, and some legal stuff about not being able to compress images. > > Does anyone know which .deb to install to enable .GIF on Gimp, > preferible in compress mode as well as de-compress. gimp1.2-nonfree Description: GIF support for the GNU Image Manipulation Program This package includes GIF support for The GNU Image Manipulation Program. These files are not freely available; their use is disallowed by the UNISYS patent on LZW compression. Use at your own legal risk. -- "The test of tolerance is not so much 'accepting' & 'validating' all cultures different from one's own, but rather living at peace with those with whom one disagrees most vehemently, cooperating with those whose claims we may detest, & defending the rights of those whom we regard as fundamentally wrong." -- James Davison Hunter & Carl Bowman 1994 _Before the Shooting Begins_ Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
'apt-cache search' question
There was recently a question about which .deb added GIF capability to
the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the correct
answer. The man page for apt-cache says:
search search performs a full text search on all available package
files for the regex pattern given. It searchs the package names
and the descriptions for an occurance of the string and prints
out the package name and the short description.
The problem seems to be that the word 'gimp' appears only in the package
name and the word 'gif' appears only in the description.
Shouldn't the search treat the package name and the description as a
single string? Doing so would have given the correct answer for the
above query.
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sounds from the command line (why doesn't play work?)
I'm running debian/testing with gnome. I can use xmms to play sounds but the 'play' command produces nothing. I have to kill it with ctl-c. Do I have something set up wrong or should I use a different command to play sounds from the command line? -- "After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long time continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest." -- Henry David Thoreau Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
am_tool (mgetty-voice) error
The am_tool program (included in the mgetty-voice docs) returns rcmd: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known There is no source, just a binary. Where should this be reported? -- "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." -- Winston Churchill Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vim and french accents
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:07:52PM -0400, Luc Lefebvre wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using vim on woody without any trouble e gives the circonflexe accent on the e for example>. I now also have > Libranet installed on another machine and even though I copied over my > .vimrc and set LANG and LC_ALL to "C" in both cases I can't get all of > the accents to work work as they do on woody>. > > Any clues as to where I should look, typing locale gives the same > result in both cases... For reasons I have not investigated (and seem wrong to me) some of the diagraphs have changed. Use '!' instead of '`' for a grave accent. Use '>' instead of '^' for a circonflex. The others are still sensible. BTW, isn't that (control-k letter accent) rather than (control-k accent letter)? -- "From earliest childhood to extreme old age, life is a long apprenticeship. We learn to walk by repeated falls; we learn by hard and repeated experiences to avoid heat, cold, hunger, thirst, excesses. We complain that experience is a hard teacher; but if it were not, we should never learn anything. The same is true of the moral order. The awful consequences of cruelty, injustice, terror, violence, fraud, and idleness, are what teach us to be kind, just, brave, temperate, honest, and industrious. Experience takes a long time; it will, indeed, always be at work but it is effective. Since such is man's nature, it is impossible not to recognize in responsibility the mainspring of social progress. It is the crucible of experience." -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dict dictionaries
How do I tell dict to use, for example, the english-french or french-english dictionary? -- "Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least." -- Robert Byrne Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lprng won't print
Running debian sid. Using lprngtool I've setup a local printer (/dev/lp0) accessible as client and server. The 'configuration validation' under 'tests' reports no errors. The 'print ascii dircectly to printer port' works correctly. However, both 'print ascii' and 'print postscript' generate this error: Error printing test page to queue lp@tc Error reason: Status Information: sending job 'root@tc+773' to lp@tc connecting to 'tc', attempt 1 connected to 'tc' requesting printer lp@tc job 'root@tc+773' transfer to lp@tc failed error 'NONZERO RFC1179 ERROR CODE FROM SERVER' with ack 'ACK_STOP_Q' sending str '^Blp' to lp@tc error msg: 'no connect permissions' What do I have wrong? -- Our doctrine is founded on justice; communism, on injustice. This is the necessary conclusion from what we have just said. -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bc
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:37:00AM -0500, Oleg wrote: > OK I would like to know how this monstrosity made it into Debian Stable: > > $ whatis bc > bc (1) - An arbitrary precision calculator language > $ bc > bc 1.06 > Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > For details type `warranty'. > 6.2/0.3 > 20 > > I have looked into the man page, and nothing there indicates this kind of > nonsense. I hereby propose renaming the package into "a calculator with a > very arbitrary precision" I found this in the man page: There are two attributes of num- bers, the length and the scale. The length is the total number of sig- nificant decimal digits in a number and the scale is the total number of decimal digits after the decimal point. and The default value of scale is 0. Thus: bc 1.06 Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details type `warranty'. scale=5 6.2/0.3 20.6 -- "Republican politicians give us the equivalent of 1-900 phone sex." --- Jo Jorgensen Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: removing lines from a file
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 02:19:38PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I know this has come up before but what is the best > way to remove lines 5-10 and lines 16-20 from > a file using the console and a batch file? In place? Put the following in a batch script: #!/bin/bash ed $1
strange apt-listchanges behavior
This morning as usual I ran 'dselect update' and then
'apt-get -s upgrade'. There were 22 packages to be upgraded, including
XFree86. I decided to do it in steps so I did:
'apt-get install logtail logcheck-database logcheck ssh alien libdps1
libpam-doc netris sudo phpmyadmin'
When apt-listchanges ran I got info about the new XFree86 even though
I didn't ask for it to be updated yet. There were no ftp lines for
XFree86.
I think I've noticed this happening before but didn't pay much
attention. What's going on?
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apt-get (dpkg) error
This morning's upgrade produces the following error: Preparing to replace xlibs 4.1.0-17 (using .../xlibs_4.2.1-3_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xlibs ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.2.1-3_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in package mixviews -- "Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am appalled by the dullness of that person." -- J. D. Griffin Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mozilla and dns
Does mozilla do it's own name resolution? Or ip caching?
Recently slashdot changed its ip and I wasn't able to connect until I
quit mozilla and restarted it. The same seems to have happened with
newsforge.
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where is my java?
I can compile and run java programs from the command line (java and javac are both in /usr/bin) in addition to running applets in mozilla but when I tried to install openoffice.org it said there was no java environment. Sometime in the past I must have installed java somehow. Where should I look for my java environment? Is there a debian package that will install it where openoffice.org can find it? Where should it be? (Running debian testing.) -- "Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is my java?
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:56:19PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > On 2002.12.03 15:30 Rick Pasotto wrote: > >I can compile and run java programs from the command line (java and > >javac are both in /usr/bin) in addition to running applets in mozilla > >but when I tried to install openoffice.org it said there was no java > >environment. > > > >Sometime in the past I must have installed java somehow. Where should > >I > >look for my java environment? Is there a debian package that will > >install it where openoffice.org can find it? Where should it be? > > > >(Running debian testing.) > > Hey, dude! Check in your /usr/lib/j2se directory (if you have it). Did > you install the Blackdown JDK or are you running one of the other Javas? OK, evidently I've got an old java since all I have in /usr/lib is jdk1.1. My apt/sources line is: deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian testing non-free When I try to install j2sdk1.3 I get: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: j2sdk1.3: Depends: j2re1.3 (= 1.3.1.02b-2) but it is not going to be installed When I try to install j2re1.3 I get: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: j2re1.3: Depends: j2se-common (> 1) but it is not installable since: E: Package j2se-common has no installation candidate What do I do now? -- "[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket." --- H. L. Mencken Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is my java?
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 05:13:06PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > On 2002.12.03 16:57 Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > >My apt/sources line is: > > > >deb > >ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian > >testing non-free > > > >E: Package j2se-common has no installation candidate > > > >What do I do now? > > Put "main" in front of "non-free". That did it. Thanks. -- "Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to rename multiple files
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 11:33:03PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:02:25PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> > "drew" == drew cohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > drew> How do I rename all files in a directory matching the
> > drew> pattern *.JPG to *.jpg in a bash shell script? Thanks to
> > drew> you guys I can check for the existence of jpgs in a
> > drew> directory, but can't seem get 'mv' to rename them for me
> > drew> (always complains that the last argument must be a
> > drew> directory).
> >
> > Still another way:
> >
> > for i in *.JPG
> > do
> > mv $i `basename $i .JPG`.jpg
> > done
>
> Simplest alternative without sub-shell nor special command:
>
> for i in *.JPG
> do
> mv $i ${i%\.JPG}.jpg
> done
>
I've been offline so I haven't seen all the responses but you'd better
put double quotes around the $i or it will fail if the file name has one
or more spaces in it.
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mailman and cron
I've upgraded mailman to the testing version and I can't seem to find any cron entries, specifically the one to send out monthly password reminders. How is this supposed to be handled now? -- The Achilles' heel of authoritarianism is that the leader by the very nature of his position is able to ignore the wisdom of anyone "below" him--that is, anyone who stands between him and the real world. This is what authority means: immunity from competence. -- Philip Slater Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dpkg and locales
I've started getting the following error messages when I
'apt-get install' some package:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_COLLATE = "C",
LC_CTYPE = "en_US.ISO-8859-15",
LANG = "en_US"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
What do I have wrong? The output of 'locale' is:
LANG=en_US
LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_PAPER="en_US"
LC_NAME="en_US"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
LC_ALL=
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nfs-user-server bug?
Is my understanding wrong or should I file a bug? Doesn't nfs-user-server require an entry in inetd.conf? The .deb neither checks for nor adds such an entry. The install simply fails since '/etc/init.d/nfs-user-server start' fails. -- "If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible." -- Henry David Thoreau Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
scsi device for cdrdao
I am trying to create a vcd using cdrdao. I have been happily making
cd's with cdrecord using dev=0,0 but when I try to use '--device 0,0,0'
with cdrdao it says it can't open /dev/sg0. My cd burner is /dev/scd0.
What is the proper incantation?
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Re: Quoting
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 03:18:47PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:29:03 +0200 > Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ..top posting will usually cause considerable irritation, especially > > for people who pay for their bandwidth, when some idiot go "Me too!!!" > > on top of a meg of uselessly formatted quotes, in an non-Wintendo list, > > Actually, as far as irritation is concerned, I find having to scroll down > through large amounts of un-snipped text just to find a "me too" at the > end more irritating than if it had been top-posted on an un-snipped > message. The normal convention only works well when people snip and reply > to the relevant bits underneath. When the 'me too!' is top posted I often overlook it since I'm expecting a 'so-and-so wrote one mm-dd-yyy' line to come first. Also, when quoted text follows a top post, you often *still* scroll to the end to make sure there is no additional new info. > It's non-snipping that's the real problem. It seems virtually to be the > norm in many non-computer usenet groups. True. -- "If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible." -- Henry David Thoreau Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scsi device for cdrdao
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 04:38:47PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Rick Pasotto (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I am trying to create a vcd using cdrdao. I have been happily making > > cd's with cdrecord using dev=0,0 but when I try to use '--device > > 0,0,0' with cdrdao it says it can't open /dev/sg0. My cd burner is > > /dev/scd0. > > Maybe it is a permission problem. On most installations, cdrecord runs > suid root. Maybe cdrdao does not. Check the permissions for cdrdao and > those for /dev/sg*. /dev/sg* device files normally are only > read/writable for root (and in this configuration should be usable with > cdrecord if it is suid root). Maybe you want to change group ownership > from root to cdrom and make them read/writable for group as well. Yes, that was it. Thank you. I did three things: chown root.cdrom /dev/sg0 chown root.cdrom /usr/bin/cdrdao chmod u+s /usr/bin/cdrdao -- "The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave." -- Ayn Rand Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Annoying Port 135 Connection Attempts
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 06:22:52PM -0400, Mark Hammer wrote: > I am getting many connection attempts to my port 135 from outside. > They appear to be coming from other dialin connections to my ISP. > This is the port that micro$loth left open to attack, which the > MSblaster worm has been using. > > I know that my linux box isn't vulnerable, and that I've got > nothing listening to the port. But each of these connection > attempts is triggering my diald to stay connected, so it is major > annoying. > > Is there an obvious way to stop these attempts? Or is there a way > to modify my /etc/diald/diald.defaults filters? Here is what I > have done, which is admittedly simplistic: > > # I commented out the standard.filter include statement above, > # since it was setting timeouts of 30 seconds for DNS lookups > # (udp.domain), and 120 seconds for HTTP (tcp.www). This is too > # short for web browsing, so I blanket changed everything to: > # For any UDP, give 5 more minutes up time. For TCP, 20 minutes. > accept udp 300 any > accept tcp 1200 any This may not help you since I have dsl and I'm connected all the time but it sure helped me: iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 135 -j DROP -- "Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others." -- Edward Abbey Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why ROOT all in uppercase
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:58:15PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:45:31PM +0100, jserrachinha wrote:
> > if i login with ROOT (UPPERCASE in ttyx)
> > and password, the chars are all in uppercase.
> > Is this a feature!?
>
> I think I read somewhere that this is something left over from UNIX.
Once upon a time, long, long ago, there were character terminals that
knew *only* uppercase. They were not able to display lowercase. If there
were no lower case letters in your login, the system assumed that you
were on one of those terminals.
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Re: Script question again
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 07:58:24AM -0500, Reaz Baksh wrote: > Hello > > I saw a script question posted so I hope someone can help me on this > simple, I believe, question. > > I'm writing a script where people have to input a number, is there a way > to keep the curser on the same line as the question? > > I tried using '\c' but that doesn't work. *How* did you try to use '\c'? What was your exact line? Either echo -n "What is your question? " or echo -e "What is your question?\c " ought to work. -- Certain nations seem particularly liable to fall prey to governmental plunder. They are those in which men, lacking faith in their own dignity and capability, would feel themselves lost if they were not governed and administered every step of the way. -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
'apt-get upgrade' error this morning
I've upgraded lots of packages to testing this morning (the libc6/php4 problem evidently got fixed) and finally got the following error. How do I fix whatever went wrong? (Reading database ... 170160 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace ncurses-bin 5.2.20020112a-8 (using .../ncurses-bin_5.3.20021109-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement ncurses-bin ... Setting up ncurses-bin (5.3.20021109-2) ... dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 49824: missing package name E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) tc:/# tc:/# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. -- "... most legislators ... as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God." -- Henry David Thoreau Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT - mozilla 1.3 problems
I install mozilla on my machine by untarring the tar.gz file in my home directory, rename it to mozilla_xxx, and then symlink it to mozilla. This allows me to keep and run older versions. When I run 1.3 the 'privacy & security' preference option no longer expands and the tools->web_development tab no longer contains the DOM Inspector nor the Javascript Debugger (I just installed the Venkman extention from the mozilla site). When I run 1.21 those things all still work. Other than that, 1.3 seems much nicer and faster. Do I need to change something? -- "If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup." -- Turkish proverb Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fwbuilder-doc useless
The fwbuilder-doc package contains nothing remotely resembling any documentation. Why does the package exist? -- "Reality will not be fooled." -- Richard Feynman* Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xfree86 4.2.1-6
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 12:21:19PM -0700, Jeremy Brooks wrote:
> Chris,
> To add a desktop, you'll need to run sawfish-ui, then under the
> Workspaces tab, add a workspace.
No such package shows up when I run "dpkg -l '*sawfish*'".
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apt-get error message
When I 'apt-get install' a package I have been getting the following error message: Retrieving bug reports... Done dpkg-deb: wait for tar failed: No child processes Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 125, in ? (changes, urgency) = apt_listchanges.extract_changelog(deb, fromversion) File "/usr/lib/site-python/apt_listchanges.py", line 62, in extract_changelog binpackage = pkgdata.Package AttributeError: DebianControlStanza instance has no attribute 'Package' Is my system somehow corrupt or is this an actual error in apt-listchanges? -- "I'll take unequal justice to equal injustice any day." Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
php4 and (gdbm and/or db3)
Is there a .deb I can install to give me either gdbm or db3 for my php4
(apt-cache search didn't return any results)? What I currently have on
my machine is ndbm and db2 but the hosting company has only gdbm and
db3.
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codecs for xine
When I get an error message from xine like: demux_avi: unknown avi format XVID what is my best bet for finding whether such a codec exists and where to get it? -- ...He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating. -- Umberto Eco, "The Name of the Rose" Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Webcam
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 06:03:04AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 00:29, Jens Gecius wrote: > > bob parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a usb webcam, it's branded 'Spirit WebCam DSC100' > > > > > > I can take up to 27 320 * 240 px photos at a time. > > > > > > What Linux software can I use to download the images to my hard > > > drive. > > > > > > It came with software to do this in Wonders 98 but it really shits > > > me having to boot that. > > > > Why don't people use the software search facility provided by > > debian.org? > > > > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages2.pl?keywords=webcam > > I did that and I installed the package called webcam, it is a package > for ftp loading a stream of webcam images to a server. It is not for > dowloading still images to the hard drive. > > Why not try out your own advice before giving it to see if it does the > job? I believe the problem started with your incorrect use of the term 'webcam'. You have a digital camera, not a webcam. It helps to use the proper terminology. -- "He who has never hoped can never despair." -- George Bernard Shaw Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, I know I'm too impatient, but...
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hamm ppp questions
This is a fresh install of 2.0 on a new computer.
When I put my static local ip address in pppconfig ppp wouldn't start.
The modem connected, login and password were ok but then after several
ConfReq/ConfAck messages it gave up.
When I changed to noipdefault the connection was established but ppp.log
started getting lots of EchoReq/EchoRep message pairs. What are they and
what's causing them?
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Re: Local network
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 07:11:31AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Local network" > > > > I've got 2 pc's at home. > > 1 win95 and > > 1 Linux / win95 > > > > Working in win-environment on both pc's I have a windows-network with the > > ability to share files. That is: - we share printer, modem and files on the > > hard-drives. > > > > Can I set the win95-pc up to accessing the modem on the linux-pc? > > Can I set the win95-pc up to accessing the printer on the linux-pc? > > Can I access the harddrive and cd-rom on the win95-pc from my linux-pc? > > > > > > Henning > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > This is my exact setup. You will first want to make sure your > network is working correctly between Linux and Win95. See the > Networking-Overview-HOWTO, NET-3-HOWTO and Ethernet-HOWTO. For the > first item you will want to compile the kernel with IP-Masquerading > support, see IP-Masquerade mini-HOWTO. Will he be able to access the modem on the linux-pc using HyperTerm on the win95-pc? -- "What the patent & copyright laws acknowledge is the paramount role of mental effort in the production of material values; these laws protect the mind's contribution in its purest form: the origination of an idea." -- Ayn Rand Rick Pasotto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Card
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 05:48:57PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Collin Rose wrote: > > > How do I configure my sound card in linux? io=220 i=5 > > > > > You have to recompile your kernel, and enable sound support, either as a > module, or built-in. That this is necessary is one thing that will definitely keep linux from being a consumer os. The average user expects sound and doesn't even know what a compiler is. -- "Compromise is always wrong when it means sacrificing a principle." -- John Perkins 1993 _Malice in Wonderland_ pg 146 Rick Pasotto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
boca network card
I'm trying to get a BOCALANcard 2000 card to work. It's an ISA NE2000
compatible card. The bios finds it. isapnp finds and configures it. I've
compiled 2.0.34 with NE2000 builtin but when I boot I don't see any
message that the kernel has found the card.
When I try 'ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1' I get 'SIOCSIFADDR: No such
device'. What else do I need to do?
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Re: newsgroup readers
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 08:51:20PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hei > > I have only ever accessed newsgroups using netscape under windows. > I was wondering whether anyone would be so kind as to give a novice > some advice on what clients are worth looking trying under linux. slrn is a text mode reader that is highly configurable. I read a lot of news and that's what I use in a terminal window under X. Practically every different aspect of an article can be color coded to your liking. > I here that gnus is very powerful but I am a vi man - I suppose > I could learn emacs. > > Saw some screenshots of knews and it looked alright. > > Anyway, I await comments. > > Thanx in advance. > > t.irvine > > p.s I use X, but in an effort to keep things small I don't use > either KDE or GNOME. I am quite comfortable using the command > line. -- "Reality will not be fooled." --- Richard Feynman* Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sound but no sound
Sound is working in that I get gnome desktop sound events but other
programs like xmms or mp3blaster or freeamp just hang.
I'm current on testing (sid). Sound used to work properly so some
upgrade changed something but I have no clue what.
What do I have set wrong? Where do I check?
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Re: sound but no sound
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:46:47AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On Wednesday 02 October 2002 09:38, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > Sound is working in that I get gnome desktop sound events but other > > programs like xmms or mp3blaster or freeamp just hang. > > > > I'm current on testing (sid). Sound used to work properly so some > > upgrade changed something but I have no clue what. > > > > What do I have set wrong? Where do I check? > > GNOME uses esound to allow multiple programs to send audio data. You > need to enable esd support in these other programs. How do I do that? Is that a gnome setting or does each individual program need to be told? I didn't spot 'esd' anywhere in the xmms preferences nor do I see anything in the gnome sound control panel. -- "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." -- Oscar Wilde Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X and text consoles - switching back & forth?
> > I once saw someone (running Red Hat) who had an X session going on one > console, and text sessions (or if he wanted, he could run additional X > sessions) on the others. He switched using Ctrl-Alt-F (1<=n<=6). > Is doing this detrimental to the monitor? For the most part I prefer to use the console, but some things require X, so I'm constantly switching back and forth. Each time I switch I hear a clicking in the monitor (relay?). Will doing this shorten monitor life? Rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: vt100 On a wyse terminal
On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 01:32:01PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote:
> Hi, I am trying to get an old Wyse terminal going on my linux box, all is
> well, but I have not been able to get keys like PageUp, PageDown, Home and
> End to work. The Function Keys were another story, they were comparitively
> easy. strings like {ESC}OP, {ESC}OQ, {ESC}OR etc. The place I found
> these had {ESC}[H for Home and {ESC}[K for End. But they dont work. can
> anybody shine some light on this subject??? I would love to hear from
> you Oh yeah.. Im using vt100 for the terminal.
> BTW: I am not currently on the mailing list so please email me a reply. :)
What model Wyse and what emulation is it running? Your TERM variable
would need to be set to wyse??? if you're running in native mode. The
standard distribution comes with lots of wyse terminfos. Do you have a
manual? Do you know how to get into setup mode?
Rick
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mtools permissions
How should mtools (3.9.9-1) be setup so that regular users can use it?
I haven't used it in a while and never used to have any problem as a
regular user. I'm a member of the 'floppy' group but mtools is not.
I see no reason to restrict mtools usage to root. Was this a policy
change?
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combining mp3s
I have serveral mp3s that really should be a single file. What program should I use to combine them? -- A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -Alexander Pope, poet (1688-1744) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xv
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:29:39AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Friday 17 December 2004 11:15, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > > > I have a simple question: > > Why xv is not any more supported by Debian? > > I have a simple answer: > Because it's shareware. See http://www.trilon.com/xv/pricing.html for > details. > > Basically, there are any number of functionality identical programs > (ie 'display' from ImageMagick) that are Free and available through > the normal Debian channels. They are not functionally *identical*. For example, if I view a picture with 'display' and resize it, 'display' asks if I want to save it. 'Xv' realized that the resizing was for viewing purposes only. Very annoying. -- There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." -John Brunner, science fiction writer (1934-1995) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ia64 available packages
I'm thinking of getting an AMD-64 machine. Is there an easy way to see if all the packages I currently have installed are available in the ia64 distribution? -- If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe. -Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Plain text mail-merge
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:25:00AM +, Frank Copeland wrote: > I'm looking for a tool that can do the equivalent of the mail-merge > feature found in any decent word processor, but with plain text files. > I'm sure there has to be such a beast but I've apt-search'd and > freshmeat'd with various combinations of "mail merge text > substitution" to no avail. I'm sure an hour or so with perl or python > will produce the goods for my specific case but I find it hard to > believe there's no general purpose tool already available. 'groff' will do it with complete formating capabilities. Unfortunately the documentation is not readily available. -- I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
installing sarge to lvm
I'm confused by the sarge installer. I have a single 250g hard drive
that I would like to manage entirely with lvm. The installer wants to
partition the drive *before* configuring lvm but I thought that
partitions existed within the lvm. Have I misunderstood? How should I do
the initial partitioning? Do I setup a small boot and then the rest as
root?
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Re: APM console blanking
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:51:10PM -0700, Brian McGroarty wrote:
> I'm using the stock potato 2.2.19 kernel and I've added apm=on
> to the kernel command line.
>
> How do I enable apm console blanking? I'm not using X on this
> system, and I'd like to power off the display after 5 minutes of
> no mouse/keyboard.
I picked this up a long time ago and have it in /etc/init.d/local:
set_dpms() {
echo -n "Setting DPMS for text console: "
setterm -blank 5 -powersave on
echo -en "\033[9;8]"
echo -en "\033[14;10]"
echo "done."
}
set_dpms
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Re: APM console blanking
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:53:17PM -0700, Brian McGroarty wrote:
> --- Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:51:10PM -0700, Brian McGroarty
> > wrote:
> > > I'm using the stock potato 2.2.19 kernel and I've added
> > apm=on
> > > to the kernel command line.
> > >
> > > How do I enable apm console blanking? I'm not using X on
> > this
> > > system, and I'd like to power off the display after 5
> > minutes of
> > > no mouse/keyboard.
> >
> > I picked this up a long time ago and have it in
> > /etc/init.d/local:
> >
> >
> > set_dpms() {
> > echo -n "Setting DPMS for text console: "
> > setterm -blank 5 -powersave on
> > echo -en "\033[9;8]"
> > echo -en "\033[14;10]"
> > echo "done."
> > }
> >
> > set_dpms
> >
>
> Thanks, setterm sure looks like where it should be, but no good
> so far. And unfortunately, this is a DVI display with no
> workable off switch, so this really needs to work.
>
> No dice on the above or setterm with -powersave powerdown. The
> screen goes blank, but does not shut off - the backlight is
> still burning.
>
> I know from past experience that if I enable APM and console
> display blanking in a custom kernel it works on this machine -
> sure should be possible without that though.
Did you do the two echo's?
I found the original email and it had the following comments:
setterm -blank 5 -powersave on # dpms on
echo -en "\033[9;8]"# suspend after 10 min
echo -en "\033[14;10]" # off after 30 min
I can't find any documentation to explain the values but I remember
playing with them and it's the echo statements that tell the monitor
to go to sleep.
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Re: What kind of attack is this?
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:03:04AM -0400, Eugene Tyurin wrote: > > Hello, > > I've got 868 lines in my syslog with strange binary data (see attached > file) that go on for about 17 minutes. This looks very strange, and I > am not running any services open to the outside world (except through > portsentry). Any ideas/suggestions? I've gotten the same sort of message. It appears in the lpr.log and syslog. I think it's an internal problem and not an attack from outside. -- If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. This is a lesson it has taken you a very long time to learn. When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world. -- Fr?d?ric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: Createing a Crontab for the last day of the month
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 04:26:12PM -0400, Miller, Jim wrote: > Hello guys, > Is there an easy way to run a script the last day of each month using > cron. IE it would handle the 30,31,29/28 issue? In the script that the cron job runs every 28-31 put the line: if [ `date +%m` == `date +%m --date=tomorrow` ]; then exit; fi -- Man makes mistakes. But every act and habit has its consequences. -- Fr?d?ric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: tar on nfs freezes
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 01:05:20PM +0200, Martin Maciaszek wrote: > For copying large abounts of data over the network I suggest > using a netcat tunnel. This works faster than scp and doesn't > need any network file systems. > > 1. On the destination system start netcat listening on an > arbitrary port and piping it's output to tar. (Make sure that > you're in the right directory, since tar will extract into the > current directory. Alternatively you can use the -C option) > e.g.: nc -l -p $PORT | tar -xf - > > 2. On the source system pipe the output of tar to netcat which > sends the data over the network to the destination machine. > e.g.: tar -cf - $DIRECTORY | nc $HOST $PORT > > 3. Just sit back and wait :) What and where is 'nc'? Neither 'man -k' nor 'apt-cache search' finds anything for either 'nc' or 'netcat'. -- If you start with the already absurd assumption that the government is the morally active force and that the nation is passive, are you not putting morals, doctrines, opinions, wealth, everything that makes up the life of the individual at the mercy of the men who one after another come to power? -- Fr?d?ric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: xv alternatives
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:25:29PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Since xv is being removed from the distribution, I would like to find a > new image viewer to use. Why is this happening? Can't we continue to use the current version? -- People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them. -- Fr?d?ric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: xv alternatives
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:16:17PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote: > >>>>> "Noah" == Noah L Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Since xv is being removed from the distribution, I would > > like to find a new image viewer to use. > > I use "display", which is part of the imagemagick package. 'display' seems not to release memory until it exits. If you do 'display *.jpg' for a large number of files total memory used keeps increasing until all memory (including swap) is used up. This does not happen with xv. -- If man were perfect, if he were infallible, society would present a very different kind of harmony from that which we may actually expect it to offer us. Our idea of harmony is not Fourier's. It does not exclude the existence of evil; it leaves room for discord; and yet we shall recognize that harmony nonetheless exists, provided that discord serves to prepare the way and to lead us back to harmony. -- Fr?d?ric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: xv alternatives
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 08:09:52PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> I like xloadimage (xview), although xv is certainly nice.
I tried that and didn't like it. For a series of pictures it destroys
and creates the window for each one instead of just resizing the window.
All that flashing is very annoying. Plus the fact that you have to give
an option to tell it to shutup about what it's doing.
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to depend upon it for their livelihood, and still others depend
upon them, a superstructure is erected that soon comprises a
formidable edifice.
The moment you try to tear it down, everybody protests; and the
point to which I wish to call particular attention here is that
those who protest always appear at first glance to be in the
right, because it is easier to show the disorder that must
accompany reform than the order that should follow it.
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Re: dumb wav->mp3 question
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 06:34:58PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 09:42:31PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > :On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:30:18PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > :> what's the command to convert .wav files to mp3 format? > : > :You want "lame" for that. > > Perhaps that's what I want, but I'm 99% certain I apt-got something > that does this, and lame isn't apt-able (well not from normal sources) > > :Better is to use the ogg format instead of mp3. Ogg is free. > :It is also said to be technically better. Install vorbis-tools. > > I did run across that, where "technically better" == lossless > > For my current streaming purposes I converted the files to realaudio > (even worse than mp3 from a freesoftware perspective), I'll need to > review ogg support in main stream clients before comitting... > > And it hurts my brain that I did this less than two weeks ago and > can't find the tool I used. You may be looking for 'sox'. (I'm often in the same situation of having difficulty remembering the name of the program to do something.) -- But the individual has no right to use force for any other end. I cannot legitimately force my fellow men to be industrious, sober, thrift, generous, learned, or pious; but I can force them to be just. -- Fr?d?ric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
where are include files?
I know this may be a stupid question but where are the standard include files? I've done an apt-get of gcc. I *used* to be able to compile things. But I can't even compile 'hello world' now. It can't find stdio.h. I can't compile a kernel because 'make menuconfig' doesn't work. What have I screwed up? I've got mostly potato with some testing. -- And why do the political parties aspire to take over the direction of education? Because they know the saying of Leibnitz: "Make me the master of Education by governmental power, and I will undertake to change the world". Education by governmental power, then, is education by a political party, by a sect momentarily triumphant; it is education on behalf of one idea, of one system, to the exclusion of all others. -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: a news reader able to extract correctly the stuff of a.b.* groups?
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 05:42:58PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> Hello!
> i am experiencing some problems with my favourite newsreader (trn) to
> extract archives from alt.binary groups.
>
> in fact if the order isn't exactly matched or if by some means another
> archive begiinning crosses the actual decompression process and the
> whole thing vanishes in the void
>
> is there any newsreader out there that is less error-prone and more
> indulgent concerning the extraction of archives? beeing notably be able
> to reorder itself the parts it downloaded?
>
> would be nice if i could select by regexp or everything from a group and
> let it extract without needing to save all to disk and then reorder
> using a mail-client
slrn generally handles this very well. It does require that the parts be
tagged in sequence but the displayed sorting is intelligent so that's
not a problem.
The version in woody (9.7.1) made some changes that in my estimation
broke binary handling in several ways. I complained to the maintainer
and they have been supposedly fixed in 9.7.2, however that version is
not yet in woody. The stable version thinks that (9/15) comes after
(10/15) so you need to be careful tagging mal-formed subject lines but
otherwise has worked fine for me for a very long time.
As long as all the parts are available (and no network problems cause a
gap) 9.7.1 is fine. If you need to save the parts over several sessions
you can do that and then use uudecode (which does its own sorting).
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Man makes mistakes. But every act and habit has its consequences.
-- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: weird messages in syslog
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:09:10PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote:
>
> I have the following in syslog (and in /var/log/messages):
>
> Nov 20 01:18:12 localhost SERVER[21311]: Dispatch_input: bad request
> line
> 'BBÜóÿ¿Ýóÿ¿Þóÿ¿ßóÿ¿XX%.156u%300$n%.21u%301$nsecurity%302$n%.192u%303$n\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220\220
>
> and so on and so on and so on.
I've occasionally been getting something similar. I think I've traced
mine to the printer -- even though (or maybe because) it's turned off.
Check /var/log/lpr.log.
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If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. This is a
lesson it has taken you a very long time to learn.
When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his
individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between
man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and
nation, will no longer trouble the world.
-- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
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where did zless go?
Did a bunch of upgrading to woody yesterday and now find that 'zless' is missing. Which upgrade deleted it and why? -- "Why do we go around killing people who kill people in order to show to the world that it is wrong to kill people?" Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: where did zless go?
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 03:03:48PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
> Rick Pasotto wrote:
>
> >Did a bunch of upgrading to woody yesterday and now find that
> >'zless' is missing. Which upgrade deleted it and why?
> >
> >
>
> It's still in gzip package. Do you have gzip installed?
# apt-get -s install gzip
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, gzip is already the newest version.
I got it back with:
# apt-get --reinstall install gzip
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Start with the idea that society is contrary to Nature; devise
contrivances to which humanity can be subjected; lose sight of the
fact that humanity has its motive force within itself; consider
men as base raw materials; propose to impart to them movement at
will, feeling and life, set oneself up apart, immeasurably above
the human race -- these are the common practices of the social
planners. The plans differ; the planners are all alike...
-- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
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Re: OT - Tool for getting text body of email
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 10:49:46AM -0900, Christopher S. Swingley wrote:
> I need to write a program the extracts the ASCII text portion
> of email messages for insertion into a database. I looked at the
> libmailtools-perl package, but it doesn't look like it can deal with
> the annoying variety of mail that I may need to parse (The silly +'s
> at the end of lines, MIME-attached HTML, vcards, etc.).
>
> What I want is a filter that I pass an email in, and out pops the
> ASCII, 72-line width formatted message. All attachments, HTML mail,
> vcards and strangeness is removed.
>
> Does such a thing exist?
Either of these two programs might do what you want.
I use the first to filter all messages through my mailman lists.
Stripmime can be found at http://www.phred.org/~alex/stripmime.html.
Demime can be found at http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html.
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Every citizen who has produced or acquired a product should have
the option of applying it immediately to his own use or of
transferring it to whoever on the face of the earth agrees to
give him in exchange the object of his desires. To deprive him of
this option . . . solely to satisfy the convenience of another
citizen, is to legitimize an act of plunder and to violate the
law of justice.
-- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
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upgrading woes (xfree and python)
My apt-sources is pointing to woody (upgrading from potato). Problem #1: I did 'apt-get install xfree86-common xserver-common' and now X won't run because it can't find the config file. Where is the configurator program? Problem #2: I'd like to install python 2.2 but apt-get wants to also remove python1.5.2 which I want to retain. How can I have both on the system at the same time? (It also wants to remove fetchmailconf because it wants to remove python-tk!) -- How could men dream of blaming themselves for their woes when they have been persuaded that by nature they are inert, that the source of all action, and consequently of all responsibility, lies outside themselves, in the will of the sovereign and of the lawgiver? -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
dhelp_parse
Recent upgrades using apt-get show many lines of the form: dhelp_parse: no title found for directory misc What is this from and do I need to do something to correct it? -- Our doctrine is based on private property. Communism is based on systematic plunder, since it consists in handing over to one man, without compensation, the labor of another. If it distributed to each one according to his labor, it would, in fact, recognize private property and would no longer be communism. -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
python2.1 and MySQLdb
I just apt-get upgraded my python and the MySQLdb module now gives the following error: Python 2.1.1 (#1, Nov 11 2001, 18:19:24) [GCC 2.95.4 20011006 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from MySQLdb import * Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? AttributeError: 'MySQLdb' module has no attribute 'Date' >>> -- "Why do we go around killing people who kill people in order to show to the world that it is wrong to kill people?" Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
UrlView strangeness
I use mutt which uses urlview to present a list of url's in a message.
Lately, sometimes some of the lines in that list are blank (sometimes
they're *all* blank). If I count the url's in the message and arrow down
to the appropriate blank line it fires up lynx and takes me where I want
to go.
Has anyone else experienced this?
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We recognize the right of every man to perform services for
himself or to serve others according to conditions arrived at
through free bargaining. Communism denies this right, since it
places all services in the hands of an arbitrary, central
authority.
-- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
undo apt-get install
When the installation process returns an error and even 'apt-get -f install' bombs out, how do I tell apt-get to forget that I asked for the packages and to just leave the system as it was? The errors are: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-pty-helper.1.gz', which is also in package libzvt2 and: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-doc.1.gz', which is also in package gnome-bin -- "If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills, that would not be so violent and bloody a measure as it would be to pay them and enable the state to commit violence and shed innocent blood." - Henry David Thoreau Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
ipmasq problem
I'm running a 2.4.16 kernel and the default ipmasq from woody. The
primary machine 192.168.0.1 (with 2 nics) talks to the internet just
fine. The secondary machine 192.168.0.5 (running windows 98) can access
the primary machine but cannot access the internet. I have samba set up
and the Network Neighborhood on the windows box works. My limited
understanding of iptables tells me that ipmasq *should* be allowing me
to access the internet from the windows box.
The FORWARD chain from iptables -L is:
Chain FORWARD (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- localnet/24 anywhere
ACCEPT all -- anywhere localnet/24
LOGall -- anywhere localnet/24LOG level warning
DROP all -- anywhere localnet/24
LOGall -- anywhere anywhere LOG level warning
DROP all -- anywhere anywhere
What could I have set up wrong?
--
If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. This is a
lesson it has taken you a very long time to learn.
When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his
individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between
man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and
nation, will no longer trouble the world.
-- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: ipmasq problem
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 03:05:14PM -0500, Wayne wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 02:29:05PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > I'm running a 2.4.16 kernel and the default ipmasq from woody. The > > primary machine 192.168.0.1 (with 2 nics) talks to the internet just > > fine. The secondary machine 192.168.0.5 (running windows 98) can access > > the primary machine but cannot access the internet. I have samba set up > > and the Network Neighborhood on the windows box works. My limited > > understanding of iptables tells me that ipmasq *should* be allowing me > > to access the internet from the windows box. > > > > What could I have set up wrong? > > > Do you have 192.168.0.1 as the windows box's gateway? Yes. > How about DNS servers? The primary box runs DNS. If I try to ping eg. slashdot.org from the windows box the response shows the correct ip address. If I type the ip address into the browser on the windows box it does not connect. However it does connect to the apache running on the linux box. Running 'iptables -L -v' gives: Chain FORWARD (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out sourcedestination 300 14448 ACCEPT all -- eth1 eth0localnet/24 anywhere 0 0 ACCEPT all -- eth0 eth1anywhere localnet/24 So packets are going out but not returning. Could portsentry be blocking the return packets? Both portsentry.ignore and portsentry.ignore.static have 192.168.0.1/32 (eth1, the internal interface) and the ip for eth0 (the external interface) in them. -- "If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills, that would not be so violent and bloody a measure as it would be to pay them and enable the state to commit violence and shed innocent blood." - Henry David Thoreau Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: ipmasq problem SOLVED
The ipmasq rules files assume a ppp connection. I have a static ip so I need to use SNAT instead of MASQUERADE. On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 03:27:38PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 03:05:14PM -0500, Wayne wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 02:29:05PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > I'm running a 2.4.16 kernel and the default ipmasq from woody. The > > > primary machine 192.168.0.1 (with 2 nics) talks to the internet just > > > fine. The secondary machine 192.168.0.5 (running windows 98) can access > > > the primary machine but cannot access the internet. I have samba set up > > > and the Network Neighborhood on the windows box works. My limited > > > understanding of iptables tells me that ipmasq *should* be allowing me > > > to access the internet from the windows box. > > > > > > What could I have set up wrong? > > > > > Do you have 192.168.0.1 as the windows box's gateway? > > Yes. > > > How about DNS servers? > > The primary box runs DNS. If I try to ping eg. slashdot.org from the > windows box the response shows the correct ip address. If I type the > ip address into the browser on the windows box it does not connect. > However it does connect to the apache running on the linux box. > > Running 'iptables -L -v' gives: > > Chain FORWARD (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes) > pkts bytes target prot opt in out sourcedestination > 300 14448 ACCEPT all -- eth1 eth0localnet/24 anywhere > 0 0 ACCEPT all -- eth0 eth1anywhere localnet/24 > > So packets are going out but not returning. > > Could portsentry be blocking the return packets? Both portsentry.ignore > and portsentry.ignore.static have 192.168.0.1/32 (eth1, the internal > interface) and the ip for eth0 (the external interface) in them. > > -- > "If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills, that would not be so > violent and bloody a measure as it would be to pay them and enable the > state to commit violence and shed innocent blood." - Henry David Thoreau > Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- ...on what basis will the distribution be made? Communism answers: On the basis of equality. What! Equality without reference to any difference in the pains taken? We shall all have an equal share, whether we have worked six hours or twelve, mechanically or intellectually! But of all possible types of inequality this is the most shocking; and furthermore, it means the destruction of all initiative, liberty, dignity, and prudence. You propose to kill competition, but take care; you are on redirecting it. Under present conditions we compete to see who works most and best. Under your regime we shall compete to see who works worst and least. -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
iptables port fowarding?
How do I port forward with iptables? With ipchains the command was: ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $extip $port -R $intip $port -- "Once the principle of government -- judicial monopoly and the power to tax -- is incorrectly accepted as just, any notion of restraining government power and safeguarding individual liberty and property is illusory." -- Hans-Herman Hoppe Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
python-gtk in woody
Any chance of installing python-gtk in woody? It depends on
python-base (>= 1.5) but it is not installable.
--
Our adversaries believe that an activity that is neither
subsidized nor regulated is abolished. We believe the contrary.
Their faith is in the legislator, not in mankind. Ours is in
mankind, not in the legislator.
-- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: python-gtk in woody
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 11:55:42AM -0500, dman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 08:36:37AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > | Any chance of installing python-gtk in woody? It depends on > | python-base (>= 1.5) but it is not installable. > > A snippet of 'apt-cache show python-gtk' : > > Version: 0.6.8-14 > Depends: python (>= 2.1), python (<< 2.2) > > The current versions of python-gtk are for python 2.1, not 1.5.2. I did an 'apt-get update' this morning (pointing to woody). 'apt-get install python-gtk' gives the error message I quoted. Why do 'apt-get install' and 'apt-cache show' give different results? -- "Once the principle of government -- judicial monopoly and the power to tax -- is incorrectly accepted as just, any notion of restraining government power and safeguarding individual liberty and property is illusory." -- Hans-Herman Hoppe Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: python-gtk in woody
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:33:22PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:00:18PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > | On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 11:55:42AM -0500, dman wrote: > | > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 08:36:37AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > | > | Any chance of installing python-gtk in woody? It depends on > | > | python-base (>= 1.5) but it is not installable. > | > > | > A snippet of 'apt-cache show python-gtk' : > | > > | > Version: 0.6.8-14 > | > Depends: python (>= 2.1), python (<< 2.2) > | > > | > The current versions of python-gtk are for python 2.1, not 1.5.2. > | > | I did an 'apt-get update' this morning (pointing to woody). > | > | 'apt-get install python-gtk' gives the error message I quoted. > | > | Why do 'apt-get install' and 'apt-cache show' give different results? > > 'apt-cache show' will show the details of all the available versions. > If you just want to see which versions are available and what you've > set your preferences to, try 'apt-cache policy'. Perhaps you've set > potato at a higher priority than woody, thus you're (unintentionally) > trying to install the potato version. What preferences? In the apt-howto there is a mention of /etc/apt/preferences (which doesn't exist on my system) but all it talks about is downgrading. 'apt-cache policy' shows everything as 500. The only potato entries in my sources.list are to security.debian.org. All the other entries are for 'testing'. -- Within the limits of equity, everything is to be accomplished through the free and perfectible initiative of man; nothing is to be achieved by law or by force save universal justice. -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: iptables port fowarding?
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 03:43:25AM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:37:08AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > How do I port forward with iptables? With ipchains the command was: > > > > ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $extip $port -R $intip $port > > What I have in my firewall rules script built with Firewall > Builder 1.0.0 (fwbuilder) to do port forwarding is: > > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -s -d > --destination-port -j DNAT --to-destination : > > This works very good... In fact all my machines are behind the > firewall and only have what ports are forward'd in available... OK. Here is the rule I used: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -s 64.34.82.201 -d 192.168.0.1 --destination-port 2047 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.0.5:2047 When I activate the program on the windows box (192.168.0.5) tcpdump reports lots of hits on eth0 port 2047 but nothing on eth1 port 2047 and the program doesn't respond like it should. What am I misunderstanding? Does it matter whether the SNAT (to do masquerading) or the DNAT rule comes first? Also, how do you list the nat chains? 'iptables -L' only lists the filter chains. -- If each man has the right to defend, even by force, his person, his liberty, and his property, several men have the right to get together, come to an understanding, and organize a collective force to provide regularly for this defense. -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
upgrading debian 2.1
I've got a machine on my local network that I've installed 2.1 on (I tried to install 2.2 from a cd on which I had burned a d/l iso but this machine can't read the cd. The machine I burned it on has no problem reading it.) Anyway, I installed apt and dpkg from the upgrade directory on the 2.2 cd but when I run 'apt-get update' it can't resolve ftp.debian.org. nslookup resolves it. ftp connects. nsftp connects. Why is apt-get's problem? -- "Once the principle of government -- judicial monopoly and the power to tax -- is incorrectly accepted as just, any notion of restraining government power and safeguarding individual liberty and property is illusory." -- Hans-Herman Hoppe Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: Newbie install help
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 08:18:43PM -, Stephano Mariani wrote: > I have access to a computer with a fast net connection (DSL 2Mbit), > would it be possible for me to download and burn these CDs rather than > buying them? If so, could you please tell me where I could get them? Two possibilities are: www.linuxiso.org ftp.gatech.edu -- "If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills, that would not be so violent and bloody a measure as it would be to pay them and enable the state to commit violence and shed innocent blood." - Henry David Thoreau Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 03:16:39PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote: > Hi, > > This is the output of free: > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem:222788 204144 18644 0 6984 83512 > -/+ buffers/cache: 113648 109140 > Swap: 747012 93416 653596 > > >From this it seems to me that I still have plenty of swap left... > > >On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 14:12:17 +0100, Balazs Javor wrote: > > > >> > >>Any ideas why this happens and how I could solve this? Run 'ps ax | less' and look for something strange. I leave gnomeicu running all the time and my process table get filled with defunct gnomeicu processes. I have to stop/restart gnomeicu to get rid of them. You might have a similar problem. -- "Once the principle of government -- judicial monopoly and the power to tax -- is incorrectly accepted as just, any notion of restraining government power and safeguarding individual liberty and property is illusory." -- Hans-Herman Hoppe Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
logrotate problem?
My system is 99% woody. Yesterday I noticed that no entries were being made to /etc/syslog but instead were being made to /etc/syslog.0. That is still happening today. What has gone wrong? -- "Once the principle of government -- judicial monopoly and the power to tax -- is incorrectly accepted as just, any notion of restraining government power and safeguarding individual liberty and property is illusory." -- Hans-Herman Hoppe Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
apt logfile?
Is there an apt (or dpkg) logfile? Something that would keep a record of what was done when? Just a simple text file with a format of: Does anyone else think this could be very useful? -- We recognize the right of every man to perform services for himself or to serve others according to conditions arrived at through free bargaining. Communism denies this right, since it places all services in the hands of an arbitrary, central authority. -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
galeon deb?
First, is there a deb for galeon?
Second, I downloaded the rpm but alien gives the error message:
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
query of galeon-0.12.5-1.i386.rpm failed
What does this mean? Which is the major number?
--
Shall I speak of the corrupting immorality that seeps into the
veins of the whole body politic when, in principle, the law puts
itself at the service of every spoiliative impulse? Attend a
meeting of the National Assembly when bonuses, subsidies,
bounties, restrictions are on the agenda. See with what shameless
rapacity everyone tries to make sure of his share of the plunder
-- plunder to which he would blush to stoop as a private
individual.
-- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Annoying Mozilla 0.9.5 behavior
I recently upgraded from Mozilla 0.9.2 to 0.9.5 and today I discovered an annoying bug. I normally run junkbuster and it looks like this somehow confuses 0.9.5. What happens is that the wrong page gets loaded. The URL window shows the correct address but the actual page seems to come from somewhere random in the cache. Today I tried to access www.linuxworld.com and got a 'This Page is Under Construction' page. Setting the proxy to 'direct internet connection' solved the problem. -- "Why do we go around killing people who kill people in order to show to the world that it is wrong to kill people?" Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
apache upgrade stops logging
Yesterday I upgraded apache to the testing 1.3.22-2 and entries are no longer being made to the access.log. The other logs (error, agent, and referrer) are still being written to. Doing a diff on the old/new httpd.conf and srm.conf files reveals no changes relating to logging. How do I get my access logging back? -- "Why do we go around killing people who kill people in order to show to the world that it is wrong to kill people?" Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: VIM Behavior Modification
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:27:07PM -0700, Nick Jennings wrote: > I am using vim and am having problems pasting content into a file while > using vim. vim is "auto-indenting" based on the previous line, so the > pasted text is quickly mauled and tabbed out more and more every line > (for large chunks of text, this is completely unmanageable). > > However, when I am programming, I make use of this feature. How can > I selectively turn this feature on and off? :set noai -- If you start with the already absurd assumption that the government is the morally active force and that the nation is passive, are you not putting morals, doctrines, opinions, wealth, everything that makes up the life of the individual at the mercy of the men who one after another come to power? -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: dpkg -l does not report all packages?
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:53:35PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:23:19AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > dpkg and grep-available only report kernel-source packages up to 2.4.5 > > > (which is what I have installed), even though I just did apt-get update: > > > > 'apt-get update' doesn't update dpkg's available file. Use 'dselect > > update' instead, which does 'apt-get update' and then merges it with > > dpkg's records. > > > > Also, 'dpkg -l' looks in dpkg's status file, which doesn't necessarily > > record all uninstalled packages unless you use dselect on a regular > > basis. It'll record installed packages reliably, though. > > thanks for explanation, > > is there any way to have correct info about system (installed and > available packages and their status) without using deselect? After reading the above I ran 'dselect update' and found that it works just like 'apt-get update' and doesn't go into the normal dselect program. -- I am a firm believer in the ideas of Malthus when it comes to bureaucrats. For their expansion in numbers and projects is fixed precisely by Malthus' principle that the size of the population is determined by the amount of available food. If we vote 800 million francs for government services, the bureaucrats will devour 800 million; if we give them two billion, they will immediately expand themselves and their projects up to the full amount. -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: Word-wrapping text editor
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:43:19AM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote:
> >
> i'm curious. why is it that the textwidth has to be set to either 70
> or 72 when the console can display 80? my tw=79 how is my message
> appearing?
It's not that it *has* to be set to 70 or 72. It's that by setting it
there then if the message is replied to and '> ' is added the line still
won't wrap. Not all editors reformat as easily as vim.
--
The proper domain of law and government is justice
-- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: vim 6.0 packages
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 06:34:52PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > vim 6.0 was released yesterday and I just finished the packages for it. > Please note however that if you have been using the prerelease packages > I made this will be a downgrade (unfortunately I made a stupid mistake > in versioning), so you will have to install it manually. > > You can grab it from http://people.debian.org/~wakkerma/vim/, or wait > until it gets installed in the archive (should be later today). > > I know that menu and mime support is currently missing, please don't > bother filing bugreports for that. I'll fix that in the next upload. I just installed this package (vim_6.0-1_i386.deb) and get the following errors from ':help': "help.txt.gz" [readonly][noeol] 8L, 3051C Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for "*.gz": E21: Cannot make changes, 'modifiable' is off E434: Can't find tag pattern The upgrade (from 5.8) removed vim-rt and I kept the old config files. -- When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating. -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: Network Cards
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:27:38PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Weird! Both of you that replied talk of putting eth0 in /etc/modutils/ > > I've never done that at all - I just put in /etc/network/interfaces, > and it gets loaded and works. Do you really need it in aliases? > If so why? Is the driver compiled into the kernel or as a module? -- Within the limits of equity, everything is to be accomplished through the free and perfectible initiative of man; nothing is to be achieved by law or by force save universal justice. -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: international characters in mutt
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 09:20:30PM +0200, Andreas Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using the following setting in my .bashrc-file to have mutt > "speaking" English but showing German characters: > > # German character set for mutt > export LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 I am trying to solve the same problem (except that I use French more than German) so I tried LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 mutt. Recently (Tue, 9 Oct 2001 23:19:52 +0200) there was posted to debian-users a message with an id of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and a subject line of "Le référencement intelligent avec ENGINUS". The subject line correctly displayed the accented characters but the same word in the body did not. The message showed Content-type: text/plain and Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit. When I saved the message to a separate file and looked at it with 'less' all the accents displayed correctly. How do we get the header and the body to be displayed similarly? -- Unhappy country, where the sacred forces that were meant to support each man's rights are perverted to accomplish themselves the violation of these rights! -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: international characters in mutt
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:51:58PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 04:39:48PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. æ > > and ø). The strange thing is that they work all fine on the command line, > > and if I use more or less to view the mbox-file, they show up as they > > are supposed to. It is, in other words, only a problem in mutt. > > > > I have read man muttrc and fiddled with settings a while, but I have not > > managed to crack the problem. Normally the characters come up as > > question marks, but if I put "set charset=iso-8859-1" in my ~/.muttrc I > > get the the special characters coming up as "\345", which is even worse. > > Does anybody have any similar experiences, and a solution to it? > > > > I think I have found a clue about the source of this problem. I > downloaded the mutt source code and looked at the configure options > and found this: > > --enable-locales-fix > on some systems, the result of isprint() can't be used reliably > to decide which characters are printable, even if you set the > LANG environment variable. If you set this option, Mutt will > assume all characters in the ISO-8859-* range are printable. If > you leave it unset, Mutt will attempt to use isprint() if either > of the environment variables LANG, LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE is set, > and will revert to the ISO-8859-* range if they aren't. > > So, i tried building mutt with this configuration option and found that > international characters display properly in the internal pager. I then > built another version without setting this option and the the characters > did not display properly, just like in the current woody mutt package. > > Apparently, the mutt package is not built with this option. I suppose > the question now is whether it should be built with it or if, instead, > the library containing isprint ought to be fixed instead. I downloaded the debian source package and found the following in the README.Debian: l10n support If you want to see non-ASCII characters on a Debian system, there's no use fiddling with the variable "charset", as described in the manual page muttrc(5). Instead, you'll need to have the Debian package "locales" installed on your system and set the LANG or LC_CTYPE environment variable. e.g. US users will want to add "export LC_CTYPE=en_US" to their ~/.bashrc. If you have a /etc/locale.gen file read carefully the comment and do what it says, or it will not work. No, linux does not need --enable-locales-fix or --without-wc-funcs, so don't bother me saying these switches cure your problems. So where does that leave the solution? -- Property is prior to law; the sole function of the law is to safeguard the right to property wherever it exists, wherever it is formed, in whatever manner the worker produces it, whether individually or in association, provided that he respects the rights of others. -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: where did zless go?
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 03:03:48PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > Rick Pasotto wrote: > > >Did a bunch of upgrading to woody yesterday and now find that > >'zless' is missing. Which upgrade deleted it and why? > > It's still in gzip package. Do you have gzip installed? The problem was that it moved from /usr/bin/zless to /bin/zless and one of my console shells still had it hashed to /usr/bin where it no longer was. If this change is mentioned in the changelog, I can't find it. Unless it's included in the cryptic 'update to current policy.' -- Every citizen who has produced or acquired a product should have the option of applying it immediately to his own use or of transferring it to whoever on the face of the earth agrees to give him in exchange the object of his desires. To deprive him of this option . . . solely to satisfy the convenience of another citizen, is to legitimize an act of plunder and to violate the law of justice. -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
ftp.debian.org down?
I haven't been able to connect for at least 12 hours.
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organization of the natural right to legitimate self-defense, it
is the substitution of collective force for individual forces, to
act in the sphere in which they have the right to act, to do what
they have the right to do: to guarantee security of person,
liberty, and property rights, to cause justice to reign over all.
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Re: Python mx.DateTime
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:05:23PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> I have found an annoying 'feature' of the new mx.DateTime module and
> wonder if this is from something I am doing incorrectly. Any comments
> appreciated.
It's printing that because __debug__ is true.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Mail$ python
Python 2.1.1 (#1, Nov 11 2001, 18:19:24)
[GCC 2.95.4 20011006 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print __debug__
1
>>>
Why *that's* so, I don't know.
(Side note: I needed to import from mx.DateTime -- note the period.)
> root-Deb-Woody:~# python
> Python 2.1.1 (#1, Nov 11 2001, 18:19:24)
> [GCC 2.95.4 20011006 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> from mxDateTime import *
> >>> a = 'Thu Dec 20 07:10:30 EST 2001 PPP-UP'
> >>> b = 'Thu Dec 20 07:12:21 EST 2001 PPP-OFF'
> >>> on = DateTimeFrom(a)
> parsed time: '07:10:30 EST' giving: 7 10 30.0 -05:00:00.00
> ('Thu', 'Dec', '20', '2001', None)
> parsed date: 'Thu Dec 20 2001' giving: 2001 12 20
> >>> off = on = DateTimeFrom(b)
> parsed time: '07:12:21 EST' giving: 7 12 21.0 -05:00:00.00
> ('Thu', 'Dec', '20', '2001', None)
> parsed date: 'Thu Dec 20 2001' giving: 2001 12 20
>
>
> In the Old DateTime module, which just got replaced, those parsed time
> and date lines were not there. Is is a new feature of mx.DateTime
> that we have to live with? I have been unable to find any reference
> to this in the Python Docs.
>
> As this is messing up a few of my old python 1.5 programs I would
> appreciate any pointers to a fix. I get the same results in python
> 2.1 and 2.2 so it seems that it is just that module.
>
> TIA
>
> Wayne
>
>
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xscreensaver
Something in my recent upgrades resulted in /usr/lib/xscreensaver no longer being in the search path for xscreensaver so it can no longer find superquadrics. Instead I get a display of the search path. 1) Where is this search path set? At compile time? 2) Where is the list of modules in the gnome control center kept? 3) How is that list updated? 4) Should I link/move the modules in /usr/lib/xscreensaver somewhere else? If so, where would be the best place? The list of dirs currently searched is: /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/bin/X11 /usr/games -- We recognize the right of every man to perform services for himself or to serve others according to conditions arrived at through free bargaining. Communism denies this right, since it places all services in the hands of an arbitrary, central authority. -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
Re: mkisofs USELESS #!@!#@*
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 10:43:51AM +1100, Penguin wrote: > Can't make the damn thing work. Manual is USELESS and only > understandable by PhDs in computer science, and perhaps the author. > (As an example, one example command line I found with Google started > with `mkisofs 1.31' and it complained that it couldn't find `1.31' - > like HTF am I supposed to know not to put that on the command line??? > There was no explanation of what that number was for.) > > Anyone got an example command line for me to use mkisofs and cdrecord > to get an ElTorito boot image thingo on a CD-R? > > Here are the details: > - /root is the directory where my boot image is, and is called > tomsrtbt-1.7.361.ElTorito.288.img > - I will be invoking mkisofs from /root > - mkisofs is located in /usr/bin/ > - The image is an ISO 9660 2.88MB floppy image > - Does it matter if I get a warning that the filesystem is not ISO 9660 > conformant when I write a CD? Will that stop the CD from being bootable? > > Thanks for any help. This is making driving me nuts. Presumably your tomsrtbt-1.7.361.ElTorito.288.img file just needs to be burned onto a cd using cdrecord. mkisofs is for making your own .img file. Here is the 'cheat sheet' I use for dealing with making cds. I just cat this file and then cut-n-paste. Note, the specific file name 'image.raw' can be anything you want. The first cdrecord is for CD-R and the second for CD-RW. You may need to adjust the speed and dev parameters for your system. #burn cd image cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0 /tmp/image.raw cdrecord -v blank=fast speed=8 dev=0,0 /tmp/image.raw # with Rock Ridge extentions (for unix use only) mkisofs -R -o /tmp/image.raw . # with Joliet extentions (for windows use) mkisofs -J -l -o /tmp/image.raw . # mount image for testing (must be done as root) mount /tmp/image.raw -r -t iso9660 -o loop /cdrom # compare mounted image with original (for i in *; do cmp -l "$i" "/cdrom/$i"; echo $? $i; done)|less (for i in */*; do cmp -l "$i" "/cdrom/$i"; echo $? $i; done)|less # all-in-one mkisofs -R /master/tree | cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0 - -- Hence, if anything is self-evident, it is this: law is the organization of the natural right to legitimate self-defense, it is the substitution of collective force for individual forces, to act in the sphere in which they have the right to act, to do what they have the right to do: to guarantee security of person, liberty, and property rights, to cause justice to reign over all. -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
sawfish and sawfish-gnome
Evidently I have both sawfish and sawfish-gnome installed on my system. When I 'apt-get -s install sawfish' it removes sawfish-gnome and when I 'apt-get -s install sawfish-gnome' it removes sawfish. Which should I do? I am running gnome and woody. -- "If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills, that would not be so violent and bloody a measure as it would be to pay them and enable the state to commit violence and shed innocent blood." - Henry David Thoreau Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
removal of XFree3
I have upgraded my system to use XFree-4 and have been sucessfully using
it fora couple of weeks. Time to free up some disk space. What's the
best way of finding the no-longer-needed version 3 packages?
Is there still any need for xfstt? xfs?
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Re: Netscape icon in Gnome
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 11:56:09PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > Hi! > > Previously there was a Netscape icon included somewhere with the Gnome > packages (the Netscape logo mapped onto a cube). It also was > automatically added to the panel on first run. > > Now, however, when I upgraded to the latest testing sources, the icon > disappeared. Do I need to install another package that was not added by > apt-get dist-upgrade, or is the icon lost forever? The only gnome icon that displays correctly for me is the 'Folders' icon. Every other icon is a 'sheet of paper' -- some are blank and some have what looks like a daisy and the word 'desktop'. The files in .gnome-desktop have lines pointing to the correct icon, but they're evidently ignored. It didn't use to be this way. (Running woody and XFree86-4.1.) -- "If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills, that would not be so violent and bloody a measure as it would be to pay them and enable the state to commit violence and shed innocent blood." - Henry David Thoreau Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
