Re: Newbie boo boo

2000-02-20 Thread Andrew Chung
date-rc.d -f xdm remove" To get things to start when X fires up, put the commands in .xinitrc in your home directory. For example, to get xterm and window maker started, do xterm & exec wmaker -- Don't let your sanity stand in your way Andrew Chung -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://anderoo.dhs.org/~anderoo/

Re: FTP overwrite

2000-02-19 Thread Andrew Chung
e ftp server you use. Both wu-ftpd and proftpd allow you to control this, and how to do this is well documented in the accompanying documentation. Andrew -- Don't let your sanity stand in your way Andrew Chung -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://anderoo.dhs.org/~anderoo/

Re: seg fault

2000-02-19 Thread Andrew Chung
tall an older version of whatever library is needed. Andrew -- Don't let your sanity stand in your way Andrew Chung -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://anderoo.dhs.org/~anderoo/

Re: menu question

2000-01-23 Thread Andrew Chung
> I gather than menu creates entries for all menus where window managers > are found, right? I've also noticed that sometimes menu's choice for > where to put a tool (ie, on which submenu to list a tool) doesn't jibe > with where I would put it, or perhaps misses finding the tool > altogether. Is

Re: c++ problem (gcc)

1999-11-14 Thread Andrew Chung
> i tried to write a small c++ using iostream. > When i compiled it I got a linker error that it couldn't find cout and > relations. Do you have one of the libstdc++ packages installed?

Re: How can I get a listing of ALL installed Packages

1999-11-07 Thread Andrew Chung
> I have some trouble with dpkg because I need > a listing with ALL installed Packages. dpkg --get-selections

Re: make question

1999-11-07 Thread Andrew Chung
> I've found this in a makefile. What does it mean? > > clean: > rm -rf -f *~ \#*\# ; > when invoked with make clean, delete all files/directories that end with a ~, or those that start and end with a # (which is escaped by the \). the second -f is redundant Andrew

Re: PHP3 and Mysql -- Broken Module

1999-05-18 Thread Andrew Chung
> > Does anyone have this combination working, or are the the PHP module > for Mysql broken? I do... but I compiled it myself =). Just grab the sources from debian and build your own package... -- Andrew Chung[EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://anderoo.dhs.org/~anderoo/pgp

Re: Starting programs on local x through telnet

1999-05-16 Thread Andrew Chung
like :0.0 . You might need to set permissions for this with xhost -- Andrew Chung[EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://anderoo.dhs.org/~anderoo/pgp.html for PGP key It's a sin only if you dwell on the what ifs and the but ifs

Re: Display issues

1999-05-13 Thread Andrew Chung
equivalent) or set the DISPLAY env variable. In bash you'll do something like : export DISPLAY=':0.0' This will tell the programs to display to your local xserver. -- Andrew Chung[EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://anderoo.dhs.org/~anderoo/pgp.html for PGP key It

Re: What group does Apache run as?

1999-05-12 Thread Andrew Chung
defaults to www-data. Check the ownership of the dir where you put your html files. Also look in /etc/apache/httpd.conf, under the directives User and Group -- Andrew Chung[EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://anderoo.dhs.org/~anderoo/pgp.html for PGP key It's a sin only if you dwell on the what ifs and the but ifs

Re: programming X

1999-05-12 Thread Andrew Chung
ersion has fits > complaining about undeclared > variables. I suspect I need to include Xfuncproto.h but I'm not certain. Do you have the xlib header files installed? They're in the xlib6g-dev package... > Are there any newgroups I should subscribe to for this sort of > inf

Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2

1999-05-10 Thread Andrew Chung
t it cannot figure out whether the package is installed or not. Try this: dpkg --get-selections|sed -e 's/[ \t]*\\(install\\|hold\\)$//p' | grep "tcd" If it doesn't show anything then something's really wrong.. -- Andrew Chung[EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://anderoo.dhs.org/~anderoo/pgp.html for PGP key It's a sin only if you dwell on the what ifs and the but ifs

Re: Help with Alien

1999-05-10 Thread Andrew Chung
> Can anyone give me a quick tutorial on how to use dpkg to install rpm's > with alien? Thanks... alien -i some-prog.rpm to install alien some-prog.rpm to turn into deb for more info look at man alien -- Andrew Chung[EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://anderoo.dhs.o

RE: Compiling non-debian source

1999-05-09 Thread Andrew Chung
> Hello, Can non-deb source pkgs be compiled and installed with dpkg (like > the kernel sources)?. Check http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/deb-make/ -- Andrew Chung[EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://anderoo.dhs.org/~anderoo/pgp.html for PGP key It's a sin only if you d

Re: [Q] How to compile a deb source pacjage

1999-05-09 Thread Andrew Chung
or more info.... -- Andrew Chung[EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://anderoo.dhs.org/~anderoo/pgp.html for PGP key It's a sin only if you dwell on the what ifs and the but ifs

Re: update-menus

1999-05-09 Thread Andrew Chung
maybe try 'update-menus -d 2> log' and then look through log.. It *should* have a line like Update-menus[13336]: ADDING: command="/usr/bin/tcd" needs="text" section="Apps/Sound" title="tcd" HTH -- Andrew Chung[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: (KLUDGED) Re: home compiled sysutils has broken dependency

1999-05-09 Thread Andrew Chung
bc6 and libncurses4 that I have. > > Any other ideas? 1) Let apt-get's source.list point to stable 2) Download whatever packages you need and install with dpkg -i 3) If you compile packages yourself, change the control file ($SRC/debian/control) so that it doesn't

Re: update-menus, does it work?

1999-05-08 Thread Andrew Chung
owing up in the Users menu. Did you run update-menu as yourself or as root? On my system I have to run it as myself before it will add/remove the entries to/from my menu...even for site-wide menu files. Also note that the name in package() should be the name of the package, otherwise it w