Re: gtk fonts too big
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 10:44, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm not entirely certain why KDE and Gnome don't > use X resources themselves... Both Qt and GTK+ (the underlying widget sets) are not X-specific, so need a way of theming which is not tied to X. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: IRC Server
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 14:28, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > Can I please have some suggestions on a small, simple, and secure IRC > server. I don't need anything major, but would like some basic > functionality... Secure IRC? Hahahahaha :) Try SILC (silcnet.org). Its not IRC, but it looks like IRC and is very secure. They maintain debs. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: KDE vs. Gnome
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 15:26, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Gnome: > Interface isn't so friendly. 4 virtual desktops which aren't as easy to > manage or configure. Task bar featues are lacking. Too many buttons > (both the task bar and another app bar on the desktop). Excuse me? I have 6 virtual desktops in GNOME 2. Define "features are lacking", and the default panels (task bars) have two menu entries, and only ~2 launchers. I don't see that as being "too many". I suggest you install both, try both, and see what you think. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: No "File -> Save" in gimp
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 12:57, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Regarding people's replies of "how does GIMP know which image you want to > save ?", ask the same question to gedit or any other > multiple-document-interface gtk/gnome app. Logically, it saves the one > you're looking at. Wrong. Example 1: gedit You have multiple documents open. Pressing the Save button saves the currently active document. This depends on MDI mode, I use Tabbed so it saves the displayed document, in windowed mode it will save the active sub-window's document. Example 2: GIMP You have multiple images open. You can say that the "current" image is the currently focused window. You move over to the mythical File -> Save menu entry on the toolbox, but this focuses the toolbox window. The "current" image is now undefined, as the current window is not an image. Is it is previously focused window? I use point to focus so several images might have been focused on my route to the toolbox. > So, hitting CRTL+S works... but how does GIMP know which image to save now > ?? Does using a keyboard shortcut invoke some different logic inside of > GIMP that gives it the ability to suddenly know which image you want saved > ?? Let's be consistent. Control-S saves the currently focused image -- GIMP is perfectly consistent. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ut2003/Games in general woes
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 01:43, karrottop wrote: > OpenGL renderer relies on DXTC/S3TC support. As the release notes for UT2003 say, this error means your graphics card is too old. You need a fairly recent graphics card which supports texture compression (my Geforce2 MX is new enough) for UT to work. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Galeon Mail/News ?
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 11:35, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> I have just installed Galeon
> and I palne to remove the Mozilla stuff now !
> Is there any kind of Galeon Mail/News ?
You don't appear to understand what Galeon is.
Galeon is a browser ("the web, only the web") based upon Mozilla. Galeon
*requires* mozilla-browser to be installed.
There will never be a Galeon browser, the point is that you have the
choice to pick your own mail client. I use Evolution, which I find a
very good email client.
Ross
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Re: ALSA & ESD
On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 23:40, André-Paul Navoizat wrote: > I compiled Alsa Driver on a laptop with Intel 82801CAM sound card. It works >perfectly. But ESD don't want to start... So, I've no multiplexed sound... I install >libalsa-esd package but it don't work... My system is a debian unstable with 2.4.19 >kernel. libesd-alsa uses the old ALSA interfaces, you'll have to use the normal (oss) libesd and make sure you have the ALSA OSS compatibility modules loaded. Then it all works fine, Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome2 + enlightenment
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 07:39, Rob Weir wrote: > I imagine most things would work, since both GNOME 2 and e16 should > comply with the NetWM specification for window managers. Actually GNOME2 (and KDE3) requires an window manager conforming to EWMH (http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/wm-spec/1.2/html/). I can only think of Metacity, Sawfish, and the KDE WM that actually support the spec. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Visual notice for X
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 05:51, Gerald Livingston wrote: > Is there something that can be run in X that will force a "visual" > notice of an event regardless of what window you happen to be looking > at? I am usually in X now and always run apps maximized so changing the > root background with xsetroot won't work (had considered that). Audio is > out because I usually have the volume turned down because I share this > room. Sounds like you want libxosd. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Maintain gtk1.x apps
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 21:43, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > I don't like (not used to) gtk2 looks and feels but seems like they will > gradually take over all the gtk based apps. Correct, GTK+ 1.x is now dead an unmaintained. If you don't like the default look and feel, just install the relevant GTK+ 2 theme. Most of the GTK+ 1 theme engines are available for GTK+ 2. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: missing GTK2 theme in debian
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 22:19, christophe barbe wrote: > I thought it was the RH bluecurve theme but I was misled by > > Package: gtk2-engines-lighthouseblue > Description: LighthouseBlue theme for GTK+ 2.0 > This theme is derived from RedHat's BlueCurve, with many changes as > suggested by the OSNews review of RedHat 8. > > Which I use and is not as polish as the one in the previous screenshot. > > Does the Wonderland theme available at art.gnome.org has the shadow > around the menu as seen on the previous screenshot? The drop-shadow is Iain's evil menu shadow hack -- it will never be part of a released GTK+ but the patch is in GARNOME (a GNOME build system). That engine is BlueCurve, Lighthouseblue is based on an older version and BlueCurve has advanced since. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Gnome2.2 Window Manager
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 03:58, Hamid wrote: > Hi > I am using ICE Windoe Manager and I am not very happy with it. > What is the default window manager for Gnome2.2 ? The official GNOME 2.2 window manager is Metacity. Sawfish will work fine, and is better if you prefer total control over the window manager. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Graphical sftp
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 18:51, Vineet Kumar wrote: > I somewhat recall having heard that nautilus or konqueror (one of those > beasts; I don't remember which) supports sftp:// URLs to display a sort > of "remote folder". Stock Nautilus can handle "ssh://host/path", but that uses shell interaction on the remote host, so it a little flaky. I recently packaged gnome-vfs-sftp, which uses the sftp protocol, and is much faster/safer/better/etc. This gives Nautilus (and all other gnome-vfs applications) support for sftp://host/path. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: What's going on with Gnome in "testing"?
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 03:49, stan wrote: > > I also like The Panel, and never use desktop icons on my Gnome 2.2 > > system. In fact, I disable Nautilus... > > Well of course, that's a given. Nautilus 2 is just sooo much faster, cleaner, leaner and generally better than Nautilus 1 it may be worth you trying it again, unless you don't like graphical file managers in general. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: What's going on with Gnome in "testing"?
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 14:24, stan wrote: > I don't. Nor do I like applications that feel free to cluter my desktop > with icons for _every_ file in my home directory :-) $HOME as desktop isn't the default, so you won't see this unless you turn it on yourself... Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: MP3 to WaveConverter
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 11:28, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 02:22:39PM -0800, suresh kumar sharma wrote: > > does anybody knowof any mp3 to wave converter's > The disk writer plugin in xmms works pretty well for me. Even easier: mpg321 --wav song.wav song.mpg Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Switching to GNOME2
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 08:25, Jeremy Tan wrote: > More GNOME themes are available at http://art.gnome.org. I personally > use the mist engine, available at > http://primates.ximian.com/~dave/mist/. > It comes with both the GTK and GTK2 themes. It makes minor changes > to the way the UI looks instead of just changing the color of the theme. The mist engine is in Sid, btw. > > Thirdly, I plan on using pan as my newsclient and am looking for a > > mailer. Sylpheed looks good, and it will be the one I intend to use if > > no others are found, but it doesn't utilize GTK2. What other options > > do I have? Evolution is IMHO the most capable GTK email client, although currently its still using GTK+ 1 instead of 2. With matching themes you'll never know the difference, and the GTK+ 2 port is going very well apparently. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Will my fonts every look good?
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 16:19, Jeremy Tan wrote: > The version of mozilla you are using uses freetype to render > anti-aliased fonts. In the latest version of mozilla (1.2.1) there is an > option to use xft to render the fonts. The fonts look much better but > the only downside is that you have to recompile mozilla from source > using the "--enable-xft" flag. If you are running Sid, installing "mozilla-xft" gives you a Xft-based Mozilla. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Disable Anti-aliased fonts
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 12:40, Rob Weir wrote: > You want to edit /etx/X11/XftConfig and change the minimum AA font size, > or disable it completely. Not always true -- some programs are now using Xft2, which uses /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. (some include all GTK+ 2 programs and mozilla) Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: apt-cache problem
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 16:50, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:43:21 -0700 > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I noticed a few days ago that 'apt-cache show' will only display > > information on installed packages. Has anything changed? 'dpkg > > --print-avail' still displays information on packages which are not > > installed. I am running sarge with apt 0.5.4. > > Not seeing this here. I'm running the same versions you list above and > apt-cache is operating just as it always has for me. I don't have the > "mantis" package installed but "apt-cache show" shows information for it > just fine. Me too However, I am seeing this. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: syncronizing two directories
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 13:36, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I need to syncronize a directory which exists in two machines. This > directory is the one I use to do my work, and I have a copy at home and > another at work. I need to syncronize them. Does exist any application > to do this task? Unison (and unison-gtk as a gui frontend) is excellent for this, I use it to sync my laptop and desktop. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla 1.0.1 builds for Woody?
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 13:45, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > I use mozilla-snapshot by adding this to my sources.list: > > > > #testing mozilla > > deb http://pandora.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla ./ > > deb-src http://pandora.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla ./ [snip] > BTW, is this snapshot the same as the one in sid? I guess not... No, those snapshot pacakges are very old... The current snaps in Sid are far newer -- those are dated 2002-04-27 whereas Sid contains2002-09-25. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: galeon and its problems (was: tabbed browsing as 'zilla'sdefault)
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 16:18, Paul Smith wrote: > This all depends on how it's packaged; in Debian it is certainly > possible to include only what Galeon needs without the rest of Mozilla. > Remove all of Mozilla, then run this: > > $ apt-get install mozilla-browser mozilla-psm galeon > > and you'll get just the browser "widget", the PSM (for https support), > and Galeon. That's all you need. Great taste, less filling. Not entirely true. You don't get the Mail/News client, or IRC, but you still get the huge chunk of XUL which is the Mozilla web browser. I have been told in the past that there are complex dependancies inside the code which means the Composer and Gecko (the renderer) cannot be easily seperated, Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: galeon and its problems (was: tabbed browsing as 'zilla'sdefault)
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 16:08, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > (a) dependencies; that i could live with i guess. > I agree with you there -- if you don't use m/any other gnome apts, it > seems a little ludicrous to have all that installed. This is a strange point as Galeon is a GNOME web browser. Might as well ask why I need to install all of KDE just to use Konqurer. > > (b) keyboard control; i am failing to switch to the next tab with > > ctrl-right and ctrl-left, and i can't close tabs with ctrl-w. > > furthermore, i want to make ctrl-n bring up a new tab. > The documentation explains what each of the keybindings are. My > understanding is that you can use gconf to change them... but as I've > never tried, I can't really point out how. You should try searching the > galeon mailing list archives To change keybindings in GTK+ 1 (I presume you are not running the uber-unstable galeon-snapshot) simply hover over the menu item for the action you would like to change, and hit the keys you would like to bind it to. > > (g) in general, it crashes frequently and usually forgets some to > > a lot of the user preferences. that's a pain. > I'm thinking there's something going on with gconf for you. I would > *definitely* check out the galeon mailing list as I've seen a number of > people report issues like this. I've been using galeon since around > version 0.7, and I've never had any issues like these -- it's the most > stable browser I've used, never forgets preferences, and always accepts > changes. Something appears to be misconfigured, and I'm thinking it has > to do with the dependencies, and not Galeon itself. I agree. Have you tried installing gconf2 as well? Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Sid Newbie - some questions
Hi, Today I installed Sid (via Potato) and became a Debian user, after many years as a RedHat/Mandrake user. Because of this I have a number of questions: 1. How can I see what distribution a package came from? Basically, I want to check that all of the packages on my system are from Sid, not Potato. 2. How do I verify the dependancies, i.e. check that no packages should be installed. When I was upgrading to Sid I got a number of errors which I believe I have solved, but would like to check this! 3. I guess to access my Reiserfs home drive I've got to recompile the kernel? 4. Okay - trouble-shooting time. When I start X if works fine for about 2 minutes, then the mouse jerks for a few seconds before locking up. Any idea why this is? 5. As XFree86 initializes I get these errors on the console: Symbol __glXMalloc from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a is unresolved! Symbol __glXFree from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a is unresolved! Symbol __glXLastContext from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a is unresolved! Any ideas how I can resolve this? 6. What mailing list should questions like this go to? Is debian-user for the stable release only, or all releases including Sid? Thanks for any help, Ross
Re: Fw: Re: Sid Newbie - some questions
On 27 Aug 2001 23:34:47 +, Timeboy wrote: [snip] > Use #dselect! It's a great tool! And can also manage the dependancies. I agree - I'd heard of dselect before I installed Debian so was saved by using it. I was just wondering if there was another way of checking the dependancies. I'm glad I've got the correct list! You Debian guys are a lot more friendly than the RedHat/Mandrake posse... :-) Thanks, Ross Burton
Print daemons
Hi, I am about to set up my debian unstable box to print and have a choice of print daemons: * lpr * lpr NG * CUPS I am going to be printing via Samba to a printer on my girlfriends Windows 98 PC. The printer is a Epson Stylus Color 740. What daemons is easy to configure, links with Samba and will allow me to customise the properties of the printer (dpi, color/mono, quality, etc). Thanks for any help, Ross Burton
Nautilus
Hi, In Nautilus 1.0.6 in unstable I only have a choice of 1 smooth font - Helvetica. Why is this? At work under RH62 I have access to all of the scaled fonts X has, so why do I only have one here? I have about 50 TTF fonts installed. Ross
Xmodmap
Hi, I am confused. I had always thought that ~/.Xmodmap if present would be passed to xmodmap when the X server starts. I've got a .Xmodmap file (to swap the Windoze and Alt keys, so that windows == Alt as and alt == Meta as far as X is concerned) but it doesn't seem to get used. Do I have to put "Xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap" in a .xinitrc, or am I doing something wrong? Regards, Ross
pdnsd and dial-up connections
Hi, I want to set up pdnsd (the persistant caching DNS daemon) on my machine, which is connected to the net via a dial-up connection. However, the DNS servers are specified at connection time and I also use several dial-up providers, so I would like to be able to pass the DNS servers aquired from the PPP connection into pdnsd so that it uses the correct servers. Has anyone figured out a way of cleanly telling pdnsd the address of the new servers when a PPP connection starts? Thanks for any help, Ross
Re: Where is /usr/include/gtk?
On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 10:41, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm trying to compile Jonathan Buzzards toshutils packages. This demands > gtk.h, which used to be in /usr/include/gtk. I thought this would be > supplied by installing libgtk1, but seemngly not. > Does anyone know where these gtk files come from? 1) As you are trying to build a package you'll need the -dev package too 2) /usr/include/gtk is the old location for the header. It is now in /usr/include/gtk-1.2/gtk so that GTK1 and GTK2 can co-exist. However, no Makefile should assume that and should be using the gtk-config script to obtain the correct paths at build time. It looks like you'll need to manually edit the makefile. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF pgpWY3hXPToOJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: evolution and debian
On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 16:00, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > invoking Evolution from the shell I get the same message plus the following: > > "evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on wombat: > (IDL:OAF/GeneralError:1.0)" The normal cause is that bonobo-conf is not installed. Is that is not the case, run "killev" to make sure no evolution components are running and then: * in one terminal run evolution-mail * wait a few seconds and then in another terminal run evolution Hopefully you'll see more debug information in the first terminal which should point towards the problem more accurately. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF pgpyHZ1nBhbft.pgp Description: PGP signature
Changing location of Maildir with Courier
Hi, How can I change the location of the Maildir in Courier-IMAP? By default it goes in ~/Maildir, but I'd like it in ~/.Maildir (they are not exactly human readable, so why see it?) Thanks, Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF
Re: to get https in galeon???
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 07:34, Kent West wrote: > On Saturday 08 December 2001 10:52 pm, Andrew Water Schmeder wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > How can I get galeon to do https again? I swear it used to work... I > > have the openssl packages, etc etc but it gives me no love. btw this > > is debian/sid. > Oh, just had a thought; since Galeon depends on some Mozilla stuff, perhaps > you need mozilla-psm? Exactly. OpenSSL is not used by Galeon/Mozilla. Galeon just uses Mozilla to do the fetch/rendering (Galeon is just a shell) you need the mozilla-psm package installed which are the security libraries for Mozilla (and Evolution, and others). Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF
Missing zip drive devices with devfs
Hi, I am using kernel 2.4.16 and devfs. When I install the ppa module I get a directory structure /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target6/lun0 which represents the zip drive. However, when I insert a zip disk I do not get file in this directory for the disk and the partitions on it. The zip drive works fine as when I reboot into Windoze I can use it. Any ideas? Thanks, Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF
Re: Missing zip drive devices with devfs
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 03:50, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On 10 Dec 2001 22:11:32 +0000, Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am using kernel 2.4.16 and devfs. When I install the ppa module I get > > a directory structure /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target6/lun0 which represents > > the zip drive. However, when I insert a zip disk I do not get file in > > this directory for the disk and the partitions on it. > > > > The zip drive works fine as when I reboot into Windoze I can use it. > > Any ideas? > > Did you try to mount it? Do you have an /etc/fstab entry for it (not > strictly required, but handy). > > $ mount -t vfat /dev/path /mountpoint Yes. What I forgot to mention was that at one point it was working, and then I did a mass upgrade (including new kernel/devfsd) and when I next used the zip drive it stopped working. When it was working the act of putting a disk in the zip drive added the "disk" and "part4" files to the zip drive directory, which I could then mount. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Patititioning hard drive
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 14:11, Kent West wrote: > In my opinion, if it's just a home box, there's not any major advantage to > breaking up such a large drive into multiple partitions (although personally, > I still would, because I tend to think it's the Right Thing to do). If it's a > server machine, I'd definitely break up the partitions. I heavily advocate having two partitions for a home system, one for / and another for /home. This way if the OS is corrupted (say you "rm /bin -fr") you can just reinstall onto / and then remount /home to get all data back. Because of this I have gone from RH62 to Mandrake 7 to Mandrake 8 to Debian Sid without any major hastle regarding my data. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF
Re: Sync WinCE device with Evolution ?
On Sun, 2001-12-16 at 18:01, Wayne Sitton wrote: > The other problem, which I found after doing some research. There is no > way to import(directly) the outlook.pst file. the PST format is > propriatery(spelling?) Which is another reason there is not Sync for us > with WinCE devices. To get your email into Evolution you have to go to > a windows machine and install Mozilla. Mozilla mail(for Windows) has > the ability to convert the PST file to an mbox file or files. I have > not checked wheather or not Mozilla for Linux can do the conversion. Mozilla on Windows can import .pst files as it calls MAPI (the MS Mail API) to read the mails one by one... So no, it is very Windows-only and won't be ported. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF
Re: My nVidia folly :( FIXED ?
On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 13:26, Lance Simmons wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 07:45:48AM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > > > > Seems fixed, of course I did a few things not sure which was the magic > > bullet of if all were required. > > > > * Upgrated the nVidia stuff to 1.0-2313 (from 1.0-1541) > > * removed 'Load "dri"' and 'Load "GLcore"' from XF86Config-4 > > If you're removing dri and GLcore from XF86Config-4, is there still any > hardware acceleration? Yes, there would be as nVidia doesn't support DRI and the new driver provides the GL libraries. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Base floppies for Woody
Hi, I am in the unfortunate situation of attempting to install Debian onto my new IBM laptop (X22 - very nice). I have a base 2.2 CD and 6 CDs of Sid, which I used to install Sid onto my desktop. However, the kernel on the Potato CD is too old to boot on the laptop (it stops after loading the md driver), so I thought I'd use a floppy disk from Woody. I found just what I wanted - a set of floppy images which support XFS so / can be a XFS partition. However, it then demands to read packages from Woody... I can't do a network install as this network card is not very supported yet (IIRC, RH72 is the only distrib to support it out of the box). So, where can I download a set of floppy disk images for Woody so that I can install the base system onto my laptop? Once that is done I'll get out my Sid CDs but I need to bootstrap something capable. I don't care if they are testing images, or beta or whatever. Just as long as they work - I don't want to put RH72 on my laptop! Thanks for any help, Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF
Re: Evolution and spellchecking?
On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 15:11, Matt wrote: > > Is it possible to spell check e-mails in Evolution? The version I have is > > 1.0.2 and the Spellcheck document menu item is always insensitive. > I don't think that Spellcheck has been integrated into the mailer yet.. > at least in the non-cvs debian unstable packages. Gnome-spell is used if it is installed. I believe that a package is being worked on for that, but there are issues to be resolved. I did see an unofficial package of gnome-spell at one point, though I've lost the URL.. :( Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Evolution and spellchecking?
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 10:29, Preben Randhol wrote: > Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 19/12/2001 (11:24) : > > Gnome-spell is used if it is installed. I believe that a package is > > being worked on for that, but there are issues to be resolved. > > Does this use aspell/ispell? I think it uses pspell. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: DRI setup with nVidia GeForce
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 15:47, Andrei Verovski wrote: > Hi, > > > Anyone have any experience setting up DRI (direct rendering > infrastructure) with nVidia GeForce cards on Woody (testing)? It's not possible as far as I know. nVidia will not release the full source to their drivers or hardware spec (as they don't own the IPR to everthing, Microsoft and SGI own parts), but will not write a DRI implementation either. I've not found a need for DRI yet, as the nVidia drivers from their web site are very optimized (Quake 3 for me is faster in Linux than it is in Windows). Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF
Re: apt-get and 'deb file:\'
On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 16:14, Tom Schuetz wrote: > I've also R'd the FM, and now, as a last resort, I appeal to debian-user. > What do I need to do to install a deb that's sitting in my PWD? Ignore apt and use dpkg. dpkg -i foo.deb Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF
Re: OT: Need help from bash experts... humm
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 09:04, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Greg Murphy wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > The following should work: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > sourcedir="/mount/windows/spaced name" > > cp "$sourcedir"/* $target > > i say that the above will barf on windows filenames like > > "tom's proposal.doc" and "2002 Budget: 1st quarter" Both of those filenames _should_ be fine. The double-quotes will allow single quotes inside, and the colon will be fine too (although Windows cannot create a filename with a colon in). Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF
Re: recommendations for portable mp3 player
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 15:44, O Polite wrote: > I'm getting tired of my minidisc, too much skipping, too short battery > life, no good. > Maybe it's time to get a portable mp3. > My sister in law just got an Ipod. Very nice thingy, but I understand > that it still doesn't work with linux. Besides I don't have a firewire > port. > Any suggestions? Battery life is a very important factor to me. I suggest looking again at MiniDisc -- specifically the new Sony NET-MD players. 56 hour battery life, long-play mode (80/160/320 minutes on a disc) and excellent anti-shock (my Sony MD has never skipped). Remember - MP3 is evil! :) Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF
Re: gtk themes
On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 13:31, francisco m neto wrote:
> > So I just got Debian testing up and running on my brand spankin' new Dell
> > Inspiron 8100 (PIII 866-m 256 MB RAM, Geforce2Go 16 MB), and I've almost
> > worked out all the little bugs. One major one left - I can't get GTK
> > themes
> > to work. Several of them actually change the color of things, but that's
> > really about it. I download the themes, untar them to the right place
> > (with
> > the right permissions, and with ownership to root), and then I try to load
> > them and nothing happens. (This is using the gnome control center). I'm
> > running sawfish, if that helps too.
For many themes, it's easier to untar then into ~/.themes. That way you
know it's not a permissions thing (that is what the Install Theme button
does in the control center).
What themes don't work? Read any readmes to see if they requires
engines that you do not have - ThinIce for example is a seperate package
but I'm not sure if Xenophobia is packaged at all. What the console
from where you started X to see if any error messages are produced when
switching themes - this will say if you are missing a theme engine
("cannot load libthinice.so" means ThinIce is missing).
Ross Burton
Software DVD players
Hi, Does anyone know of a good software DVD player for Debian unstable? I am willing to build from source if I have to but would prefer something packaged. Thanks for any help, Ross Burton
Re: Software DVD players
On Fri, 2001-10-12 at 11:39, Ross Burton wrote: > Does anyone know of a good software DVD player for Debian unstable? I > am willing to build from source if I have to but would prefer something > packaged. I'll reply to myself and say that I have just found vlc in the Debian packages. Is this any good? If I get libcss and build it myself, will I be able to watch encrypted DVDs? Ross
Re: linuxworld: shutting down application when window closes
> The DA's Office Goes Digital > At the Queens County District Attorney's Office, keeping track of all the > documents associated with the 50,000 criminal cases it processes each year > is a family affair. There, necessity is the mother of invention, funding is > the father, and the prodigal child turns out to be a penguin. > > "One of the very few technical problems that arose with the Linux OS and the > custom interface stemmed from Linux's tendency to leave an application > running even when the application's window is closed. In Windows, closing > the window usually shuts down the application," said a much-enlightened > Kevin Hansen, ImageWork's president. Until ImageWork discovered and fixed > this quirk, users inadvertently launched multiple copies of the Linux > database and experienced some odd results. " I'd guess this is not a Linux problem, but the programmers not using the GUI toolkit correctly (as Linux does not have a GUI, it's a kernel). I know this happpens in Java using AWT or Swing - in the basic GUI Hello World program you can make a window appear. Pressing the close button closes the window but the program continues running, as the programmer did not catch the window closing event and quit the application. Code has to be written so that the programmer can close connections and open files, write data to disk, etc, before the application closes. Ross Burton
Re: Software DVD players
> Excuse my ignorance, but what's the attraction of watching DVD movies on a
> computer? It seems I'm better off in my comfy recliner chair or on the
> couch watching my 29 inch Panasonic GAOO then sitting at my desk in the
> den.
As I asked the original question I should reply here too...
I actually do have a DVD player (a nice Sony) and a 21" television.
However, what if my girlfriend is watching a program she wants to watch
(e.g. EastEnders ) - I normally just read my email or something.
But now I'll be able to watch those DVDs which I've not got around to
watching as she is not interested - e.g. 2001 ("boring") and Reservoir Dogs
("gory").
Well, thats my excuse for having 2 DVD players in one house...
Ross
Re: how to get Skipstone
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > skipstone: Depends: libstdc++3 (>= 1:3.0.2-0pre010908) but it is not installable > Depends: libmozilla > Depends: libnspr4 (>= 2:0.9.1-0.1) but it is not going to be installed > Depends: mozilla-mailnews (>= 2:0.9.1-0.1) but it is not going to be installed > E: Sorry, broken packages Try running apt-get install libstdc++3 and seeing why that cannot be installed. Ross
Is the SonicFury supported?
Hi, Is anyone out there running Debian (unstable) with the VideoLogic SonicFury? It's a PCI sound card based around the CS4630 chip. I've seen reports that it is a) not supported, b) supported and c) supported but bad sound quality. Anyone got one? Thanks, Ross Burton
Building modules with make-kpkg
Hi, (apologies if this is a re-post - my mail client eat the first mail) I've build a custom kernel using make-kpkg, but I'm now getting a new sound card so I need to build a module. Would it be possible to build a package which just contains the new module from the source tree, or do I have to rebuild an entire kernel package just to get a new module? Thanks for any help, Ross Burton
Re: Dell 2550 wont install network card
On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 13:07, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > I want to install a Dell PowerEdge 2550 Rack Server that comes with 2 > 10/100 Mbps/ network cards and 1 1 Gbp/s network card. > I'm in lost to get those 10/100 network cards to run. > Are they Intel Ethernet Express 100? What driver can I use? If I remember correctly you can use the eepro100 module. Ross
Building modules with make-kpkg
Hi, I've build a custom kernel using make-kpkg, but I'm now getting a new sound card so I need to build a module. Would it be possible to build a package which just contains the new module from the source tree, or do I have to rebuild an entire kernel package just to get a new module? Thanks for any help, Ross Burton
Re: nvidia-kernel + 2.4.12...
On Sun, 2001-10-14 at 15:14, Michael C. Alonzo wrote: > im having problems with nvidia-*-1541*. i compiled 2.4.12 then > dpkg -i nvidia-kernel-2.4.12*.deb nvidia-glx-*1541*.deb. I started X, > works but when i exit out of X, after xserver shutdown, it won't display > any prompt anymore that's why i have to resort in rebooting, but it > won't reboot. it hangs should i file a bug? Are you using the nvidia framebuffer console driver (for good quality text-mode)? The module is rivafb, in case that helps. If so, I believe that you cannot use both drivers at the same time, so disable the framebuffer console module. Ross
fam & imon
Hi, I am interested in getting fam & imon working on my Debian unstable box, so that Nautilus can be notified when files change. Are there packaged anywhere? Thanks, Ross Burton
Re: fam & imon
On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 13:42, Danie Roux wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:23:11PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am interested in getting fam & imon working on my Debian unstable box, > > so that Nautilus can be notified when files change. Are there packaged > > anywhere? > > There is an ITP for it. Been there for a long time. I was looking at > packaging it myself, but thesa are the problems: > > - Linus did not accept the imon patch > - The guy who worked on libfam at sgi does not work there anymore, or on > libfam. > > If you still want it packaged, I will do it. libfam is still useful, > even if it has to use polling. libfam would be very nice. I've heard that a RedHat developer has been working on imon, as to use it with Nautilus 1.0.5 correctly you need a special version. I'll ask on the mailing list about that and get back to you. Regards, Ross
Re: fam & imon
On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 13:42, Danie Roux wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:23:11PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am interested in getting fam & imon working on my Debian unstable box, > > so that Nautilus can be notified when files change. Are there packaged > > anywhere? > > There is an ITP for it. Been there for a long time. I was looking at > packaging it myself, but thesa are the problems: > > - Linus did not accept the imon patch > - The guy who worked on libfam at sgi does not work there anymore, or on > libfam. > > If you still want it packaged, I will do it. libfam is still useful, > even if it has to use polling. Okay. I've been told: "imon is dead on Linux. Linux 2.4 provides dentry notification, for which Alex Larsson hacked support into fam. You need: Alex's version of fam and a 2.4 kernel to take advantage of this at optimal performance." The patch is at http://people.redhat.com/alexl/files/fam_dnotify.patch If fam is build with this patch applied everything Should Just Work. Regards, Ross Burton
Re: using /home with potato & woody
On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 15:12, Adam Warner wrote: > On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 02:37, Vittorio wrote: > > In my laptop I've three partitions > > hda1= Debian Potato all directories but /home > > hda2= /home currently referring to Potato > > hda3= Woody all in this partition > > > > Now I'd like to refer both potato and woody to the same /home > > partition (hda2) and of course to the same user victor (that's me!). > > > > Is that possible? I have Mandrake Cooker on hda1 and Debian Unstable on hda2, my /home is another partition hda3 and I just mount it on /home in both operating systems. As long as the programs you use are compatible (i.e. no major changes in file formats etc) everything works fine. Ross -- Ross Burton Software Engineer OneEighty Software Ltd Tel: +44 20 8680 8712 Cygnet HouseFax: +44 20 8680 8453 12-14 Sydenham Road [EMAIL PROTECTED] Croydon, Surrey CR9 2ET, UK http://www.180sw.com./ Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act 2000 together with any and all Regulations in force pursuant to the Act OneEighty Software Ltd reserves the right to monitor any or all incoming or outgoing communications as provided for under the Act pgphVt0TyZLAw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Being cracked? (need help on apache log files)
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 15:55, Ole Sebastian Stein wrote: > We just got our ADSL and now have a server running Apache on a potato box > at home. DynDNS provides us with dynamic dns. > > Today I found these lines in my acces.log: > > 213.133.35.205 - - [29/Oct/2001:12:54:40 +0100] "GET /scripts/root.exe?/c+dir > HT > TP/1.0" 404 210 > 213.133.35.205 - - [29/Oct/2001:12:54:41 +0100] "GET /MSADC/root.exe?/c+dir > HTTP > /1.0" 404 208 > 213.133.35.205 - - [29/Oct/2001:12:54:41 +0100] "GET > /c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/ > c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 218 > 213.133.35.205 - - [29/Oct/2001:12:54:41 +0100] "GET > /d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/ > c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 218 > 213.133.35.205 - - [29/Oct/2001:12:54:41 +0100] "GET > /scripts/..%255c../winnt/sy > stem32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 232 > 213.133.35.205 - - [29/Oct/2001:12:54:41 +0100] "GET > /_vti_bin/..%255c../..%255c > .../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 249 > 213.133.35.205 - - [29/Oct/2001:12:54:41 +0100] "GET > /_mem_bin/..%255c../..%255c > .../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 249 > > and so on. To me it looks as if 213.145.168.244 is trying > to execute some file giving him root access. Are someone trying to > crack my machine? What should I do? That's the good old CodeRed worm and varients. Don't worry - it only attacks Microsoft IIS 4+5. Ross
libdetect/kudzu/etc?
Hi, RedHat and Mandrake have a wonderful program called Kudzu which does a quick hardware check on bootup for new hardware and attempts to configure it. Very handy! Does anything like this exist for Debian unstable? I have a quick hunt around packages.debian.org and found libdetect, which is the library I believe kudzu uses. But is Kudzu or something similar available? I'd love to try apt-cache search hardware, but my linux machine appears to be slowly dying... ;-( Ross
Re: changing to Debian from Mandrake
On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 18:50, Michael Kaminsky wrote: > I'm been using Mandrake for the past couple of years, and now I'm > considering switching to Debian; but, I have some concerns. I > consider myself a fairly experienced Linux user and use Linux for all > my computing needs (devel, digital camera stuff, laptop stuff ,text > processing, networking, etc.). I would like input on the following: I am a few months down the line from where are you now. I 've been through Slackware, then RH52, RH62, MDK7.0, MDK8, Mandrake Cooker and finally Debian unstable. I finally stopped booting into Mandrake two months ago, and am not going back... > * One reason I moved to Mandrake from Redhat (from Slackware) is that >the packages are extremely up-to-date. Even the unstable version of >Debian seems sorely lacking. Mandrake seems to put out RPMs within >1-2 days of the upstream developers. There are still no Debian >packages for software I use regularly that's been out for > 1 month >(according to the debian web page package search form). >Example: gnucash. That is the only example of a package which is not the latest release in unstable I can think of. Personally I don't know why it is so delayed, maybe the maintainer is on a break and no-one else has bothered to release it, or there are issues with it. I've found that there are far more programs available in unstable than there are in Mandrake Cooker or RedHat. > * Apt + dselect seem very powerful, efficient if you use them together >correctly. From the mailing lists, though, "correctly" seems to be >a matter of confusion (or perhaps just preference). RPMs don't cut >it for bleeding edge multiple-dependency upgrades (as you all know >well). This reason is key to my wanting to change over. Have the >people who wrote these systems outlined their correct usage in a >FAQ/manpage/etc.? "apt-get update" updates the local package list. "apt-get upgrade" upgrades all installed packages to the latest release "apt-get dist-upgrade" is more clever and is normally only used if you a) are upgrade across distributions (stable -> testing, testing->unstable, etc), or b) if you are running unstable and major changes have taken place. >Also, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to upgrade to testing or >unstable once you install. From the mailing lists, it seems like >magic one-line commands such as "apt-get dist-upgrade" leave much >manually fixing left to do. Apparently one can live mostly in >testing but grab select packages from unstable by configuring >"pins" in an apt_preferences file. Are there simple instructions >for doing so? Again, people on the mailing lists seem confused >and/or have varied opinions on how the mechanism is supposed to >work. I've found unstable to be very reliable. Before you upgrade have a quick look at #debian on irc.debian.org or check the debian-devel mailing list. If everything is okay, just run the dist-upgrade and everything is fine! If a config file changes format or something, you are offered choices about what to do and all existing files are backed up. As far as I recall, I've never been left with a system broken due to config files after a dist-upgrade. Rarely a package is updated which turns out to be broken (this happened to PAM recently, which broken logins!), but these issues are fixed quickly and APT will cache old packages so if everything really does break, just reboot in single-user mode and reinstall the working versions. > * Mandrake has very decent system configuration tools. I spent many >years editing scripts and config files to setup up Linux machines, >but it just takes longer when it comes to simple, basic tasks >(adding a network interface, changing the runlevel configuration >for daemons, etc.). Does Debian provide such tools (even if >clearly they don't work for all situations)? Many packages supply config tools when the install. exim, the default mailer, is a good example. Basically there is a wizard which asks a few questions and builds a config file which does the job. However, I believe LinuxConf has been ported to Debian... Regards, Ross
Re: some questions (after a HD crash)
On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 15:12, Anthony Liu wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 07:29:17PM +0100, Fredrik Jagenheim wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 10:05:44AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > GTX (?) disks are widely reported to have quality issues, as previously > > > noted. > > IBM 75GXP is the model. I know, since I'm running one on my > > workstation as of now and are just waiting for it to give up. :( > > > > Something about using glass-platters I think someone pinpointed the > > problem to. > > This is not comfortingmine is IC35L040AVER07-0 which someone said > it is the oem version, 3 months old. I actually think of getting a > Seagate to back up live data. I've only just come into this thread (the sequence 75GXP caught my eye), but I've just checked and the serial number IC35L040AVER07-0 resolves to a IBM 60GXP which I've heard are safe from the problem the 75's had. At least that's what I've heard and I hope it's right, you have the 40gig model of my 20gig drive... Ross Burton
Re: imap server
On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 15:43, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > I need to throw up an IMAP server for my mother in law. I'm looking for > a package (sid compatable) that'll take 2 mins to configure and 0 > maintenance. > > Any thoughts on a preference? Yes I can go look up all the servers but > I'm looking for opinions on whats fast/easy and 0 maint. the simpliest has to be UoW IMAP. There is no config files, no tools, just install and it works. Ross
Slow ETerms
Hi, Is anyone else seeing this? On my Debian unstable system when I start an Eterm there is a pause of 2 or so seconds before the window is usable. At work under RH62 and a machine of similar speed an Eterm pops up in 1/2 second. I ran strace on Eterm and found that Eterm spent most of its time waiting for information from the font server. Does anyone know how I can speed this up? Thanks in advance, Ross Burton
Re: Slow ETerms
On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 15:21, DvB wrote:
> > Is anyone else seeing this? On my Debian unstable system when I start
> > an Eterm there is a pause of 2 or so seconds before the window is
> > usable. At work under RH62 and a machine of similar speed an Eterm pops
> > up in 1/2 second. I ran strace on Eterm and found that Eterm spent most
> > of its time waiting for information from the font server.
> AFAIK, you don't have to run the font server with X4.1 (not sure about
> 4.0) so you might try disabling it (not sure how you'd do that
> exactly... try searching google for a howto or something).
I am not running the external X font server, I am using the core X4
modules.
I have recreated the strace file and dug around:
socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3
connect(3, {sin_family=AF_UNIX, path="/tmp/.X11-unix/X0"}, 19) = 0
...
A few pages later there are hundreds (well, maybe not quite that many,
but lots) of readv(3, ...) calls which return "-1 EAGAIN (Resource
temporarily unavailable)". I this this is what is causing the
slowdown. Does anyone know why this is? I guess that socket is used to
talk to the X server. However, the protocol appears to be binary not
textual (fair enough) so I have no idea what exactly is causing the
slowdown. Is there a way I can profile the server end of the
connection. or any other way of determining the problem?
Thanks for any help,
Ross Burton
Re: Stable IM client in debian
On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 17:44, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > My real question should be, if I use gabber for my icq stuff, will my > message be delivered reliably. If not, any other alternative? thanx. > your help was/is appreciated =) Sadely no. It looks like ICQ is also doing the same as AOL to Jabber. It used to work so I believe, now its really unreliable. I hope this is a temporary problem but I've yet to find anyone who can say for sure. Ross
Re: Stable IM client in debian
Apologies for the quoting style, I'm stuck in Outlook at the moment... jabber.com run a status page on support.jabber.com. AIM: AOL have explicity blocked all clients except their own most recent. This way the get to advertise in your client. ICQ: There appears to be issues when connecting to the ICQ servers. The status page for ICQ (http://support.jabber.com/public-server/icqstatus.html) is very diplomatic (see the AOL page for the non-diplomatic approach) which indicates that this is an issue which should be resolved. I sure hope so. Ross - Original Message - > Sadely no. It looks like ICQ is also doing the same as AOL to Jabber. > It used to work so I believe, now its really unreliable. I hope this is > a temporary problem but I've yet to find anyone who can say for sure. So, at the moment, is ICQ supposed to work through Jabber? I tried gabber about a month ago, and it worked fine. However, with the recent troubles with ICQ message sending, I tried playing with gabber again. However, I can no longer register with icq.jabber.org. It fails with "Error attempting to register with agent." Ditto for AIM, though MSN Messenger works.
Re: Intel(R) Fortran Compiler
On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 12:44, Daniel Faller wrote: > Hi, > > has someone tried and/or managed to install the > Intel(R) Fortran Compiler on a debian (potato/unstable) system ? > > Intel only offers .rpm files, alien does not seem to be able to convert them > correctly. > - > >dh_shlibdeps: command returned error code > >make: [binary-arch] Error 1 (ignored) > >dpkg-gencontrol: error: current build architecture i386 does not appear in > >package's list (ia64) > - >From that error message it appears that you are trying to convert the IA64 package, which will not run on a Pentium. Ross pgplMvzlHEYDf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: GNome without esd
On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 17:52, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > I took out esd and now there are no sounds in gnome. My wm is sawfish. > Is there a way to get sound in gnome on woody without esd? Not as far as I know, GNOME is tied into ESD. I believe there is a module for aRTs (the KDE sound manager) which can pretent to be ESD if you want to use that instead. Ross pgpANklNk5MOn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Backup systems
Hi,
I am looking for a cheap backup system for my machine. A recent scare
regarding my hard drive ("is it a 75GXP?") forced me to think about
backup policy.
I'd love to own a Jaz drive but at the moment I can't afford one.
However, I do have a CD-RW in my machine.
This is what I want to do in an ideal work:
I have a script I run every month. It will examine every _user_ file
(not system) and see what has changed since the last backup. These
files will be written to an ISO image which I can burn onto a CD, and
the index of files=>locations updated. Every few months I'll do a
completely new set of CDs and throw away the old ones. Basically, I
want an incremental backup procedure which generates ISO images and will
generate an index for me. If I want to retrieve a single file it can
tell me what CD its on. If I want to do an entire restore I can just
give it every CD and it will extract the lot.
Anyone seen anything like this? For the moment I'll make do with taring
up ~/ and putting that on CDs.
Which brings me to my next question. I'm not up on CD filesystems. Is
there a filesystem for CDs which supports all of the unix features, i.e.
long file names, permissions, owner/group etc. Can I burn a ext2 image
onto a CD if I will only access it in Linux?
Thanks for any help,
Ross
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Re: Galeon hangs
On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 12:45, Jonathan David Wheelhouse wrote: > I fixed it! I fixed it! > > Some time ago I removed mozilla-mailnews; I thought tonight - it can't > be that removal that caused galeon to stop working. Anyhow, I > succumbed to this final apparently stupid idea to reinstall > mozilla-mailnews and now galeon works. > > Well, I know galeon depends on mozilla but they're both browsers. Why > would the galeon browser require mozilla-mailnews when not even the > mozilla browser requires it? Weird. I use Galeon in unstable and I don't have mozilla-mailnews installed... Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF pgpDzDmdtQQ0S.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: RedHat vs Debian?
On Thu, 2001-08-30 at 17:09, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > hmm, Ok, give me a list of stability: > > potato most stable > sid (unstable) next most stable > woody (testing) "least" stable > > Problem is manage ment doesn't understand "shortly after" they want > an "average # of hours/days" etc. Wrong order, unstable is less stable than testing. Testing is packages being tested for stable. Ross
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Fri, 2001-08-31 at 11:59, F Zimmermann wrote: > > On 31 Aug 2001, charles verbeken wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > This is regarding a few questions regarding the installationa and the > > compatibility of debian OS. Will I be able to use my former office 98 files > > and other systems previously used i.e. ms paint etc. > > > > Thanks for reading. > > Well first it's NOT the OS that is compatible with the files it's the > applications running on that OS. MS Office files, yes there are > applications you can use: StarOffice, highly compatible to MS Office; then > there are some command line tools to rip off the chunk from Office files > and use them as text files. MS Paint no idea; if they are using a non > standard format (very very likely; why using standards?) then you might be > unlucky. MS Paint uses Windows BMP files which can be opened by The GIMP (Photoshop for Linux) or converted using ImageMagick. Ross
Offline APT
Hi, At home I run Debian Sid, but only have a dial-up connection (56k). At work, however, I run RedHat 6.2 but have a leased line. I followed the instructions in the offline document (/usr/share/doc/apt/offline.html) to get a package list from apt which can be retrieved via wget. So now I have a directory with 140 meg of .deb files in. The document says that: $ apt-get -o Dir::Cache::archives=/mnt/debian/unstable update Should update my system using the packages I downloaded. However, apt ignores that directory and starts downloading the files from the ftp servers again. Help! Why is apt doing this! Any suggestions? Thanks for any help, Ross Burton
Re: Offline APT
I got this reply off-list: On Sat, 2001-09-01 at 12:40, Thomas Bleicher wrote: > However, I'm in the same situation and I wrote a small python-script to > split the file with all the needed packages for an upgrade into > zip-sized wget-scripts (and show me some statistics I'm interestet in). > > I do: > > apt-get -qq --print-uris [upgrade | install ] > urls > > and then run my script on the file urls. > > When I come back with the filled zips, i just copy all the downloaded > files to /var/cache/apt/archives/. Then I can run "apt-get upgrade" and > when the archive is scanned, all packages are found and installed, > provided all have been downloaded successfully. If not, apt tells me > what is still missing and I can start again ;) This is what I did in the end without the Python script. I didn't want to copy 200 meg of debs into archives/ and as the option to specify the archive directory didn't work for me, I tried symlinking the entire directory of downloaded debs into the archives. That also didn't work. :-( In the end I had to copy it but I'd prefer to have a directory on my spare disk which Apt used as the cache. Thomas, could you email me that script? It sounds like what I want to do, especially if I could get Dir::Cache::archive working. Regards, Ross Burton
Re: What is kapm-idled?
On Mon, 2001-09-03 at 22:34, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:07:47AM +0800, csj wrote: > > What is kapm-idled and why is it consuming up to 80% CPU? It's most > > malevolent when my computer is doing nothing useful. What's the graceful > > way to disable or shut it down (assuming that doing so would not harm my > > system)? > > > > apropos kapm > > kapm: nothing appropriate > > AFAIK, kapm-idled has something to do with apm management on newer > kernels. That 80% CPU usage is apparently something of a lie, since > when this process is switched in, it isn't doing anything (e.g. 80% > idled, or some such). I'm still running in 2.2.x land, so maybe someone > else can give a better explanation... That's right. kapm-idled is the idle time daemon in kernel 2.4.x. It runs when the processor is not doing anything and calls the idle/call instructions to cool the processor/slow the processor/save battery. Ross Burton
XFree86 4.10-4 and huge fonts
Hi, I'm running Sid at home, previously X fonts were a normal size (at 100dpi) where a 10pt font was roughly the same size as a 10pixel font. This looks about right on my monitor. However, last night I upgraded to X4 4.10-4 and suddenly the fonts are huge! A 10pt font is about 20 pixels high! (still at 100dpi). I can change the GTK+ font to half cure this problem, but at any time an application requests a specific font it looks terrible again. Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks for any help, Ross Burton
Kernel upgrading
Hi, I'm running Sid and am trying to upgrade to kernel 2.4.x from 2.2.x. However, I am also running Mandrake Cooker, from which I configure and install lilo. Are there any documents on installing a debian kernel-image but not installing the bootloader with debian? I tried copying the kernel image to my mandrake /boot file and re-running lilo, but the kernel will not boot. (Once apt-get upgrade has finished running I'll try booting again and I'll post the exact error message I get) Thanks for any help, Ross Burton
Re: Good mail management techniques?
On Thu, 2001-09-06 at 10:01, Ailbhe Leamy wrote: > > The main problem I have is that each mailbox/folder/whatever you > > want to call it, grows without bounds. I wouldn't mind something to > > automatically shoved mail in a folder for each month or something like > > that, but I don't think that IMAP/Pine etc support multilevel folders, > > or do they? > > :0: > * ^TO_.*debian-user.* > Lists/Debian/user`date +%Y%m` > > Then I have a script that extracts all the probable mailbox names from > my .procmailrc, and puts them in my mutt mailboxes file. No idea > whether pine will let you do the same, but it might. Pine will treat any folder under the mail root (~/mail for me) as a folder. Ross Burton
Kernel 2.4.x woes
Hi,
After noticing (thanks!) that kernel 2.4.x uses an initrd image I
managed to make it boot my Sid systems.
1. Why does it wait for 5 seconds? ("wait 5 seconds or press enter for a
shell")?
2. I got an error about an incorrect cramfs magic number, is this
critial?
3. How do I get devfsd to work? I installed it but when I tried
mounting my zip drive I was told the device was /dev/scsi/... which
didn't exist. I moved /dev to /olddev and created /dev/.devfsd and
started devfsd but it still didn't work. Is there a document on
installing devfsd on sid?
Thanks for any help,
Ross Burton
ne driver in kernel 2.2
Hi, Okay, until I get kernel 2.4.x working to my satisfaction I've got to live with kernel 2.2.x with it's poor non-autodetecting ne driver. Maybe I've got slack with Mandrake 8 and it's wizzy kudzu (why doesn't Debian use that?), but I'm used to "modprobe ne". $ modprobe ne device not found $ modprobe ne io=0x260 no card found It's there! Mandrake told me so! $ modprobe ne io=0x260 irq=5 no card found Argh! :( Does anyone have any tips to getting a no-name ISA NE?000 clone working with Sid? I does work fine as I rebooted to Mandrake and used it... Thanks for any help, Ross Burton
Re: ne driver in kernel 2.2
> >Does anyone have any tips to getting a no-name ISA NE?000 clone working > >with Sid? I does work fine as I rebooted to Mandrake and used it... > Is it a PNP card? If so you need to use the isapnp tools. Otherwise the > card should have jumpers on it and you can set them to whatever IO and IRQ > you want and ignore everything below. Thanks to everyone who pointed out I have probably failed to run isapnp. I miss kudzu.. :) I'll try again tonight and hopefully it will work! Regards, Ross Burton
kernel 2.4.x and unstable
Yes, it's me again. Once this is sorted I'll stop bugging you, I promise! Does the kernel-image for 2.4.x from unstable come with devfsd on? I tried mounting a zip disk (external ppa) and the device was /dev/scsi/0/... not /dev/sda4 where it normally sits. I tried installing devfsd and it didn't work out-of-the-box. I had a read of /etc/init.d/devfsd and it quits if it can't find /dev/.devfsd. I created that and rebooted, but then when devfsd starts it sits on "Creating symlinks" and hangs. I tried moving /dev to /olddev and creating an empty /dev with just .devfsd in, and this really broke the boot sequence! Can anyone who has devfsd/kernel 2.4 working give me a hand? Thanks for any help, Ross Burton
Re: kernel 2.4.x and unstable
On Sat, 2001-09-08 at 15:59, dman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 10:05:33AM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > | Yes, it's me again. > | > | Once this is sorted I'll stop bugging you, I promise! > | > | Does the kernel-image for 2.4.x from unstable come with devfsd on? I >^ > devfsd and devfs are two different things. devfsd is a user-space > daemon that registers itself with a devfs-enabled kernel to provide > various naming and partition adjustments when devfs events occur. Sorry, I knew that. Typo... > No, the stock kernels don't have devfs enabled by default. You can > either recompile your kernel and enable devfs and auto-mount it at > boot time OR you can add "devfs=mount" to your kernel command line. Okay. > | I had a read of /etc/init.d/devfsd and it quits if it can't find > | /dev/.devfsd. I created that and rebooted, but then when devfsd starts > | it sits on "Creating symlinks" and hangs. I tried moving /dev to > | /olddev and creating an empty /dev with just .devfsd in, and this really > | broke the boot sequence! > > Yes, I would expect this. If you read the devfs FAQ/Howto by Richard > Gooch it explains that the magic file /dev/.devfsd is created by the > kernel when devfs is used. Programs that wish to know whether or not > devfs is being used should check for the presence of that file. By > creating that file by hand you have just lied to devfsd to make it > think devfs is currently being used, but it isn't which is why it > fails. Ah. Thankyou for that. Explains a lot really! I'll see how it goes when I reboot... Thanks, Ross
Re: kernel 2.4.x and unstable
On Sat, 2001-09-08 at 15:59, dman wrote: > Add 'devfs=mount' to your kernel command line and try again. Use the > old-dev name for the root= argument though. I'm getting there... devfsd starts and hangs on "Creating extra device nodes...". Looking at the script: for i in `sed -e '/^#/d' $DEVFILES 2>/dev/null`; do And playing with sed revels that at that moment in time $DEVFILES is empty, as I have no /etc/devfs/devices.list. That file in generated from the contents of /etc/devfs/devices.d, which is empty on my machine. I tried creating a null file (just a comment) but that gets stripped out by the code which populated $DEVFILES. :-( Does anyone have a sample file which I can drop into /etc/devfs/devices.d? Thanks, Ross Burton
Web banner blocker
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. Thanks, Ross Burton
Re: Web banner blocker
Hi, Against all of the cries of "use Junkbuster" I went with ad-zap as it does exactly what I want - hooks into Squid (which I had already installed) and is small/fast/light, as is HTTP/1.1 compliant. I'll dig out the URL when I get home if anyone is interested. Regards, Ross
Re: Evolution
On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 21:24, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > Is anyone working with Evolution and IMAP? I'm trying to get mine > working with an exchange server. Windows admin says IMAP is up and on > but I'm not having much luck. I say to check mail, it asks for a pass > but doesn't show me my inbox. I'm not getting any errors either. Evolution and IMAP works very well for me, connecting to my local IMAP server, my ISP IMAP server and the work IMAP server. The problem is Exchange... :( It's version of IMAP is... interesting? and some releases of Evolution are broken when connecting to MS servers. And the recent snapshots have been broken, period. I suggest you pop over to #evolution on irc.gimp.net and ask in there, most of the developers appears during the EST day and are willing to answer questions. Ross Burton
Re: Galeon problem solved!
On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 14:18, Richard Cobbe wrote: > 1) Galeon tends to be quite sensitive to your Mozilla install. Upgrading >mozilla will likely break Galeon, requiring at the least a rebuild. Correction - Galeon is extremely sensitive to Mozilla versions. Mozilla change the embed API frequently which breaks the source, and two C++ modules which link (galeon -> mozilla) must both be compiled wit the same C++ compiler which complicates matters more. > 3) Galeon versions 0.12 and (presumably) later use the gconf system to >manage configuration details. Unfortunately, the documentation doesn't >explain how to set up the necessary config file hierarchy to allow >Galeon to start the first time. Interesting. I've found the default "make install" rules to work fine, but then again I do have GConf in /usr. May I suggest trying the galeon packages from unstable? They work very well for me. Ross
Re: Tar's won't untar ever now in potatoe
On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 03:43, Eric Whitestone wrote: > I've been downloading lots of tar files with ncftp and mozilla (which > im trying to get rid of by downloading netscape), but when i try to untar > /gzip them, it tells me : > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Type "file [filename]" to see what sort of file it is. I guess that the FTP/web client has un-gzipped the file when it saved it. In that case, simply remove the z from the tar options. Ross
Re: how to uninstall compiled programs from src?
> > just wondering "howto" do the 'proper' way to uninstall useless programs > > compiled from source... IF you still have the source and IF it uses autoconf/automake and IF you can remember how you configured it: configure all-of-the-options-you-gave-it [as root] make uninstall Ross Burton
Re: CDROM with device file system.
On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 16:39, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > My ATAPI CDROM drive /dev/hdc is fine, > provided the devfsd daemon is not implemented during bootup. > If /dev/hdc mounting is attempted AFTER devfsd is called, > the mount fails. Insights? Under devfsd the mount point will be /dev/ide/... Ross Burton
Courier IMAP, Maildirs and exim
Hi, I am running unstable using exim as the MTA. I have just installed courier-imap, but am wondering how I can make exim deliver messages to ~/Maildir instead of /var/spool/mail/ross. Any ideas? Thanks, Ross Burton
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1495
On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 23:24, Dmitriy wrote: > WTF is "application/ms-tnef" ??? > > [-- Attachment #2: winmail.dat --] > [-- Type: application/ms-tnef, Encoding: base64, Size: 3.7K --] > > [-- application/ms-tnef is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --] It's a custom binary encoding of ASCII which Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook alone sends. Nice, eh? Ross Burton
Re: Follow-up Question: Serving web pages for local use only
On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 15:56, Steve Dondley wrote: > Thanks to all who helped with my earlier post. I got everything working but > I'm still having a problem. > > Background: > I installed apache on my Linux box. I am able to retrieve web pages with IE > using my Windows machine. Everything is cool there. > > Problem: > But when using NN, it pulls up the page, but only pulls up the raw HTML > code. It doesn't render it on the screen. I'm guessing the Content-Type > header is not getting added to the page by Apache. Am I correct on this? > > Question: > How do I fix this? I looked through the documentation but as total apache > newbie didn't have any luck figuring this out. Thanks. At a guess, your file does not have a .html or .htm extension. Remember that Apache is case-sensitive and .HTML is not valid. If this is true, rename the files to .html or (if you must use another extension) add them to the MIME types mapping file. The issue is that IE tries to be clever when reading pages (which is a bad idea, as it breaks many other sites) whereas Netscape believes what it is told (good idea). Apache is server files with an extension it doesn't recognize so it simply saying "text" instead of "HTML". IE looks at the content and guesses it is HTML even though it was told to display it as text. Ross Burton
Re: # terminals
On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 14:33, Hans Gubitz wrote: > How can I change the number of terminals in textmode? If you mean the number of virtual consoles available via alt-f1 etc, then edit /etc/inittab. Ross Burton
Courier IMAP and Ximian Evolution
Hi, I've installed Courier-IMAP and Evolution from unstable, but am having problems with folders... I have read that the correct structure for a folder tree of: INBOX |- Lists \- Debian User Is this on disk: ~/Maildir |-cur |-new |-tmp |-.Lists | |-cur | |-new | |-tmp | |-.Debian User | | |-cur | | |-new | | \-tmp However, I'm getting: ~/Maildir |-cur |-new |-tmp |-.INBOX.Lists | |-cur | |-new | \-tmp |-.INBOX.Lists.Debian User | |-cur | |-new | \-tmp Which looks rather odd to me. Is this usual? Or is this a bug in Evolution, which I am using to create the folders? I am using the default namespace, but I have also tried using "INBOX." as the namespace and the same problem occurs. Thanks for any help, Ross
