Re: [Q] dselect-mountable install does not find packages

1998-01-30 Thread Andy Mortimer
Kirk Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > grin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The 'mountable' method of dselect is great -- you don't have to wait for > > thousands of packages telling you "it's already installed". > > Ag

Re: DSELECT question

1997-06-11 Thread Andy Mortimer
On Jun 3, Alexander Stavitsky wrote > On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Andy Mortimer wrote: > > > On Jun 3, Fredrik Ax wrote > > > I agree with you that it is a bit irretating that deselect scans for ALL > > > pakages ... I can see that it's done for consistency reasons, B

Re: web documentation

1997-06-11 Thread Andy Mortimer
and I highly recommend it! The only thing you ought to watch out for is that unless Apache is dead before you upgrage, boa won't start. I was running it from inetd anyway, so it was a little more complicated, but you can probably just remove apache before starting boa and it'll all be fine. E

Re: DSELECT question

1997-06-03 Thread Andy Mortimer
going over to use libc6 fairly soon. Neither of these two methods, though, should have any problem with symlinks. &E -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.poboxes.com/andy.mortimer PGP public key available on key servers -- I sing of you in my demented songs. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: EMACS screen weirdness

1997-05-28 Thread Andy Mortimer
On May 28, Kendall P. Bullen wrote > On Mon, 26 May 1997, Andy Mortimer wrote: > > > This is probably not the case, but I thought I'd mention it; you aren't > > by any chance using XEmacs rather than FSF Emacs, are you? ISTR getting > > this problem with 19.14; a

Re: EMACS screen weirdness

1997-05-26 Thread Andy Mortimer
ption] This is probably not the case, but I thought I'd mention it; you aren't by any chance using XEmacs rather than FSF Emacs, are you? ISTR getting this problem with 19.14; although it has been fixed in 19.15 (in Hamm), this version has it's own problems. Sorry I can't

Re: missed cron jobs

1997-05-15 Thread Andy Mortimer
d run them at a later time? Would this > be useful at all? See the `anacron' package, which does just this. It can be run at bootup and from cron, and if it hasn't been run yet that day, executes the scripts. So you can turn your machine on, and go and have breakfast, and come back

Re: binary problems

1997-05-01 Thread Andy Mortimer
I'd recommend), you probably only need to make the modules. I have no idea why it compiled as a.out for you, though ... HTH, &E -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netforward.com/poboxes/?andy.mortimer Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key -- Give me life, give me pain, G

Re: Things I miss from Slackware - Could I implement this in my Debian system?

1997-04-25 Thread Andy Mortimer
on the manpage, ie variables and the like): setterm -ulcolor bright yellow Hope this helps. I find it very useful. &E -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netforward.com/poboxes/?andy.mortimer Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key -- i've been looking so long at these pi

Announce: generic user interfacing tool (was: Re: A Qt alternati

1997-04-04 Thread Andy Mortimer
[ CC to debian-user left in, but I don't read it, so please preserve a CC to me if you respond to it on there ] On 3 Apr 97, Lars Hallberg Micro++ wrote: > What do You think of a Wrapper Class Libary that makes it easy to > write code that runns on diferent widget sets? If it makes it > posab

Re: strange who/wtmp

1997-03-13 Thread Andy Mortimer
now), because it overwrites the utmp file. At least, this appears to be the case. The only way I could find to get around it was to log out and back in again. I suppose I ought to do some more research on this, actually ... HTH, &E -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netforward.com