Re: Programing Question

2003-03-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:09:44AM -0600, Harley D. Eades III wrote: > Hello, >This might be off topic, but I hope someone can answer a question > for me. Is there any documentation on parport.h parport_pc.h. I seem to > get err's when I try to use either of them. > Do you have to link to a

Re: [ot] Linux stdio question, howto find fopened files

2003-03-21 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:03:33PM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote: > Well, __iob is reasonably portable because it looks like it's a standard > part of a System V libc. In theory, I think glibc is supposed to support > the System V ABI, but it doesn't seem to have an __iob[]. I don't think > __io

Re: mutt : how do I send multipart/alternative ?

2003-03-21 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:12:17PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to send MIME multipart/alternative mails with mutt. The only > things I find about mutt and multipart/alternative are about how to > display such mails. Is there any documentation on this available > somewhere ? >

Re: [ot] Linux stdio question, howto find fopened files

2003-03-19 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:32:26PM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > please retain the CC to rbutterworth > > > Subject: Linux stdio question. > > On non-linux unix systems, one can reference __iob[] > to find all currently fopen()ed files > (e.g. when forking a new process one would generally > wan

Re: odd compiler behaviour?

2003-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:06:01PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > I stand corrected, then. Although 'info libc' does say that (void) is OK > for main() in ISO C. Correct. Two ISO C forms of main are: int main (void) { ... } /* identical to: int main () { ... } */ or int main (int argc,

Re: odd compiler behaviour?

2003-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 12:40:52PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:56:53PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:00:22PM +, Bruynooghe Floris wrote: > > > > > > int main() > > > > An addition to what everyone else said, this really should be > > > > i

Re: What he heck is FIFO?

2003-03-04 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:23:40PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 04 Mar 2003, Greg Madden wrote: > > > the remote I am asked for an IP and port. Grrr. For the local I am asked > > > for a FIFO. Please tell me what to do to dial. By the way, I am in Gnome. > BTW, install dictd

Re: X Windows has strange color scheme

2003-02-21 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:25:32PM +0100, Robert Ewald wrote: > It might be just a wild guess, but could it be that you hit CTRL-ALT-+ at some > point and switched the color depth to 8? Then strange colors like this, which > turn normal on clicking in the window would be explainable. > just hit

Re: Mozilla & Adobe's SVG viewer

2003-02-19 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:47:12AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I downloaded the Adobe SVG viewer plugin. Currently, I'm using > Sid's Mozilla snapshot. The plugin doesn't work. Question is: is it > really not working for mozilla-snapshot? I'm just want to make sure. Last I knew, th

Re: My cup runneth over!

2003-02-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:11:51PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:46:03PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > > You sure there ain't some way to prevent a slew of xterm windows from > > opening up each time I reboot into gdm? > > > > Earlier today, if there was one, there was

Re: Setting progs at a runlevel

2003-02-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:45:10AM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > As a RH refugee, I'm used to running the 'setup' program to enable/disable > program startups at runtime. For Debian, am I correct in cd'ing to the > /etc/rcX.d dir and moving SXXprogram to KXXprogram to disable it? > > If so, is the

Re: ftpd-ssl

2003-02-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:52:17AM +, mjoyce wrote: > I have ftpd-ssl running, it seems to work very well. > > As far as I can tell it just uses port 22, neat, this seems to make the > problems of ftp, port, firewalls, passive clients etc, go away, just open and > forward port 22. > > Is th

Re: Newbie Installation Problems

2003-02-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:47:04PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Fun fact: Today is Oregon Day. On this day in 1859, Oregon became the > US's 33rd state, the result of the Vote at Champoeg, in which two > Canadians wanted dead or alive tipped the vote from 49/50 to 51/50 in > favor of becoming a U

Re: Console fonts in rxvt

2003-02-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:06:06PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > Hi, another question on the same topic... > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:32:49PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > >What are you using as a font name? You just use any font that X > >recognizes (use xfontsel to get the font-nam

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-09 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 12:30:57AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:24:22AM -0500, Geordie Birch wrote: > > I thought so too, but no bank in Arcata would touch it if I didn't have an > > account. This was in 1995. > > What do you expect? It's a state that's been 0wnz3d by

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:57:29AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >Considering the military accounts for over 40% of government spending, > >I think we found a place to start trimming fat heavily. Especially if > >our politicians are going to keep claiming we're a peace-loving

Re: problem with xlibs?

2003-02-03 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:39:20AM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi. > > > I have this when compile some programme: > > > > > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a(XlibInt.o): In function `_XEventsQueued': You're trying the link a *static* library that depends on libpthread. If you link against the shared library,

Re: problem with xlibs?

2003-02-02 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:34:32PM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi folk. > I have this when compile some programme: > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a(XlibInt.o): In function `_XEventsQueued': > XlibInt.o(.text+0x76c): undefined reference to `pthread_equal' > XlibInt.o(.text+0x786): undefined reference to `p

Re: invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31

2003-01-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:32:45AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:36:36PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:59:47PM -0500, Stan Heckman wrote: > >> On my system, date -d returns "invalid date" for dates before 19

Re: invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31

2003-01-27 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:59:47PM -0500, Stan Heckman wrote: > On my system, date -d returns "invalid date" for dates before 1970. It > is possible that this began when I upgraded libc6. Any suggestions? 1970-01-01 is time zero for *nixen. You're asking about what happened before the big bang!

Re: XPDF can't find fonts

2003-01-27 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:58:36AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Sorry for double posting but it seems nobody has > answered on this yet. > > > When I try to read a pdf using xpdf it opens but it > shows junk. I get these messages: > > Error: Couldn't create FreeType font fr

Re: getting time from timeserver on a dial-up

2003-01-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 12:33:45PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, >I'm using Debian 3.0r1 stable on a dialup in the UK. I'm using PAP > authentication that CHAT's to the modem then launches pppd and away we go. > What I'd like is for the machine to check and set (if necessary) the system

Re: OT: functional languages

2003-01-20 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:07:31PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) writes: > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:23:43AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > >> "imperative" and "procedural" are the same thing, and C is a prime > >> example. It is such because the structure

Re: Compiler error: C compiler cannot create executables

2003-01-18 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 12:07:24PM +0100, Achton N. Netherclift wrote: [snip] > According to packages.debian.org, the file that is missing according to > the config.logs (crt1.o) is contained in the libc6-dev package. The file is > missing on my system, so I attempt to install it: AFAIK crt1.o wou

Re: Timing a program run?

2003-01-02 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:31:39AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 02:07:03 -0800 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:57:10AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > > > How the heck do I time how long it takes a certain script to run? > > > >

Re: kernel panic: i have no root and i want to scream

2002-12-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 04:18:37PM +0900, Elijah wrote: > Hello, > > got this error upon booting to debian, here's some details on the boot [snip] > Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to scream > --- > > here's my grub menu.lst > > title Debia

Re: This is incorrect advice (Re: ntpdate from cron -- DON'T DO THAT!)

2002-12-21 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 10:12:56PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Michael D. Schleif writes: > > granted, wherever feasible, ntpd is technically the best . . . > > Do you know of some benchmarks comparing ntp and chrony? I thought chronyd did not implement all of the time protocol RFC and had fewer

Re: Blackbox/Fluxbox, no EXIT command

2002-12-21 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:34:00AM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > Hi all, > > Seems that the Debian default installation of both Blackbox and > Fluxbox doesn't include an "Exit" command. The only way I can get > out of X is to hit ctrl-alt-backspace, which is not very elegant. > Does anyone know wh

Re: vi alternate problem

2002-12-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 08:12:29PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > One day I installed 'vim'. > > Now I have nothing that is recognized as 'vi' > > What do I actually install in order to regain this tidy little editor? nvi maybe? Vim has a compatibility mode (vim -v) to more like the original vi...

Re: ps/gs issue ; individual pages look different

2002-12-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
See -sPAPERSIZE=letter (or whatever) and -dFIXEDMEDIA. /usr/share/doc/gs-aladdin/Use.htm (if using gs-aladdin) -- "...the plural of anecdote is [not?] data." - attrib. to George Stigler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: Default fonts for applications?

2002-12-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 04:44:09PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Lloyd Zusman wrote: > > > >Perhaps I didn't make my original question clear. Many X apps, > >including mozilla (which is NOT a gtk app) > > Mozilla has its own widget layer[xul] to allow for easy cross-platform > development, but

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-12-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 09:09:48AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Eric G. Miller wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 08:46:43PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > > > > Yes, but the question is, how usable is it in practice? > > [snip] > > > > People u

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-12-14 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 08:46:43PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Yes, but the question is, how usable is it in practice? [snip] People use "tasks" in Ada on a regular basis. So, it must be usable, neigh? > I have never learned Ada, partly because I've never needed to and > partially because it

Re: Exchange Calendar client?

2002-12-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 07:15:25PM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote: > OK, I have a serious question here. I've heard the same type of comment > before. And I used to work at a company that used Outlook/Exchange > worldwide, including all the shared calendaring and a global address > book with the

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-12-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:11:26PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: [snip] > It really is a cool language; the only one I know of with a really > usable concurrency model. (C/C++ have no concurrency model; Java's > requires programmers to stick the "synchronized" keyword in all the > right places; Haske

Re: gcc complains there is now ada compiler installed

2002-12-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:34:43PM +0100, Martin Hermanowski wrote: > Hello, > I want to compile an ada program, it works if I use `gnatmake', but if > I want to use a Makefile or cook, gcc -c won't compile: > > , > | (22:29:58)(#1,x0)martin@pegasus:~/priv/dev/ada (626)>cook > | /* /home/marti

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:25:51PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Eric G. Miller wrote: > >I've had good luck with dvipdfm. Understands hyperref, no messy > >conversions of eps files (use graphicx), no pdflatex headaches... > > > Looking at the man page on this is e

Re: Compiling gsview

2002-12-10 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 07:31:49AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to run gsview 4.3. When I try opening a ps file, it says > that it cannot find libgs.so. A quick search on debian's packages page > did not yield any package that contained the above mentioned file. > > Is there

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 08:59:43PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Alan Shutko wrote: > > >Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Not sure that's the only cause. Documents created by LaTeX and > >> converted to PDF have the same problem. > > > >True, but the problem with (naively created)

Re: GSview on Debian anybody?

2002-12-10 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:24:18PM +0100, Volodya Mumariv wrote: > Stephen Patterson wrote: > > > >On 9 Dec 2002 12:34:10 -0800, Volodya Mumariv wrote: > >> Did anybody succeed to pack GSview for Debian or install it in any > >> ather way? > > > >Yes, there's a gv package (from the package info) >

Re: How to escape "find" result

2002-11-29 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 08:52:36PM -0500, Try KDE wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to run the following script: > for f in $(find . -name "*.txt"); do cmd1;cmd2;cmd3; done > ,where cmd1, cmd2 and cmd3 are arbiturary commands. The problem is, if > the found file names contain a space , for example "p

Re: Stripping EOL feeds...

2002-11-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:32:14PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: > I'm trying to format the debian install manual (text version) for > printing and I'm trying to save a couple of trees. Is there an easy way > to strip the line breaks so the text will come out unformatted? This > way I can reduce th

Re: (fwd) unsubscribe

2002-11-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 05:31:08PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > On 2002.11.23 16:30 Pigeon wrote: > >>> Is he silly? > >> > >>Another jackass ... is it against the law to hit stupid people? > >> > >>Oliver > > > >See Romans 12:19 > > > Then try Isaiah 45:7 and Psalm 137:9. "Forgive them firs

Re: ld and g2c

2002-11-18 Thread Eric G. Miller
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Re: Setting default width of xman

2002-11-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
the widget hirarchy can be > obtained with man xman You can play with "Editres" ; figuring out valid values for resources is another matter... -- static const char signature[] = "Copyright (c) 2002 Eric G. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: X 4.2 byting more than I can allow it to chew

2002-11-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
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Re: filtering unicode files

2002-11-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
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Re: Modem connection.

2002-11-12 Thread Eric G. Miller
Fix your dang clock already! I'm quite sure this month is November not January ;-) -- static const char signature[] = "Copyright (c) 2002 Eric G. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: GLX and undefined references

2002-11-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:38:14PM +0100, Roman Joost wrote: [snip] > gcc lesson06.c -o lesson06 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGL -lGLU -lXxf86vm You probably need to add -lX11 for any X proggy (and maybe others). -- static const char signature[] = "Copyright (c) 2002 Eric G. Miller

Re: pan from unstable too unstable??

2002-11-05 Thread Eric G. Miller
matter, pan crashes. > I think i've configured everything right. > > is that a known problem? > anybody running pan from unstable and everything(eg posting to > newsgroups via mail) is working stable?? See: /usr/share/doc/pan/README.composer -- static const char signature

Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-03 Thread Eric G. Miller
t of swap, until you reboot. Or the parent calls waitpid(), or the parent exits... OP should look at what the "D" means and see why kill is not working... -- static const char signature[] = "Copyright (c) 2002 Eric G. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"; -- To UNSUB

Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
K, it's mostly free software with some proprietary glue (no idea how well it works...). -- static const char signature[] = "Copyright (c) 2002 Eric G. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] - Interesting politics and the GPL

2002-10-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
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Re: VERY OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:23:01AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Pure crap. Let me give you an example: You haven't paid property tax for > a while. Then your property can be taken away from you. Which means it > was never yours. You just had a licence to say it was yours. As soon as > you

Re: Detecting Net Apps

2002-09-30 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:13:25AM +, Aurelio Turco wrote: > Is there some easy way to detect whether a particular binary > contains code to access the network (as client or server)? $ nm | grep socket Course, having sockets code doesn't necessarily mean network (could be just local UNIX so

Re: Odd Path issue

2002-09-26 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:55:40PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I'm using bash. "echo $PATH" reports: > > ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games s/~/$HOME/ Guessing the ~ expansion in $PATH is a problem... -- begin 664 .signature M

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2002-09-25 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:25:37AM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 22:01, MR REUBEN SAVIMBI wrote: > > My Dear > > > > I am MR REUBEN SAVIMBI one of the favorite sons of Mr. JONAS SAVIMBI (The > > Rebel leader) ... > > [***SNIPPAGE OF SCAMAGE***] > > Treat this with the utm

Re: OT - RMS homepage moved?

2002-09-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:45:40PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Greetings: > > I am looking for RMS's homepage. I am getting "unknown host" when attempting > a connect to http://www.slallman.org. Anyone have any info on a current u

Re: Mesa bug?

2002-09-22 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 04:11:44PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > Hi all, > > This may be a mesa bug or it may be a manifestation of my ignorance of > opengl. If the latter then I apologise for OT posting. > > I am playing with clipping planes in an effort to do some fancy stuff > in 3D graphics. My

Re: hosts.deny a directory???

2002-09-20 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:41:16PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > In today's system upgrade I got the following immediate message: > > ... > Preconfiguring packages ... > egrep: /etc/hosts.deny: Is a directory > fgrep: /etc/hosts.deny: Is a directory > ... > > 'Tis true, and at least one other

Re: Just a tip for you zip100 users

2002-09-19 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 04:11:37AM -0500, John Manko wrote: > I've been running RedHat for a few years now, but decided to change to > Debian > to test myself, :). And I've been learning a lot. [snip] > Do you notice that the zip (hdd) drive is actually partitioned (hdd4)? > so, instead of mou

Re: Writing GIFs

2002-09-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 09:16:02PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-11 10:55:37 -0700]: > > I realize I am a terrible person for wanting to violate Unisys's > > patents, but I'm working on a web site that I think will often be > > visited by people with old bro

Re: Network error between linux kernel 2.4.7-10 and Sun solaris 6

2002-09-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:08:21AM +0200, Francois Chenais wrote: > Hello, > > I have a network problem between a rh 7.2 with kernel 2.4.7-10 > and a sun solaris 6. > > I know this error doesn't directly concern debian but it seems a Linux pb. > > Any experience about it ? It would help if yo

Re: Using exim efficiently on a dialup machine

2002-09-09 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 09:49:00AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi List > > Some weeks ago I switched from kmail to mutt/exim. At first I did not > realize that exim did not deliver several e-mails, some to the list, and > some private ones. I saw using "exim -bs -bp", that those mails are > ma

Re: consistant userid:username setup for system accounts?

2002-09-08 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:24:06PM -0700, nate wrote: > hi > > I have ran accross this a few times in the past but was curious > if there was any effort in Debian 3.0 that goes to assigning a > uid number to the system accounts to keep them consistant accross > installations. Many of the accounts

Re: Anyone know how to get *bigger* fonts on the console?

2002-09-07 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 03:08:33PM -0700, Wade Richards wrote: > On approximately Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 06:43:26PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > >> Some of the fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts are quite interesting... > > I've been playing a with those fonts, but they ap

Re: Anyone know how to get *bigger* fonts on the console?

2002-09-06 Thread Eric G. Miller
test out fonts with "consolechars" in the console-tools package. Some of the fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts are quite interesting... -- Eric G. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Screen blanking on logout

2002-09-06 Thread Eric G. Miller
nt it for one local user you could just replace the > above with: > echo 'clear' >> ~/.bash_logout > > .bash_logout is executed when logout is issued. Also, something like linuxlogo resets the console. -- Eric G. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wheel-scrolling in acrobat reader 5.0.5

2002-09-05 Thread Eric G. Miller
zip'ing PDF's is kinda silly as the payload can/should be compressed already. -- Eric G. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: programming in linux

2002-09-04 Thread Eric G. Miller
y may be separate). Instead of asking what libraries there are, ask yourself what you want to do and then find out if there're libraries that meet those needs. -- Eric G. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gnome/sawfish - font problem (sid)

2002-09-04 Thread Eric G. Miller
> > Unfortunately, there aren't any files in sawfish-gnome - it's a dummy > package - and I have it installed already. gnome2 vs. gnome1 ? I've found the gnome2 theme stuff a bit confusing, and it doesn't seem to work right. I've since uninstalled most gnom

Re: export won't work

2002-09-01 Thread Eric G. Miller
e list of environment variables. A process can't change the environment of it's parent. What are you trying to do? -- Eric G. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Logout script

2002-06-30 Thread Eric G. Miller
rtainly don't want to mess with inittab for such functionality... -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ot c++ programming in linux

2002-06-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
> } > how do i write the same program in gcc ? news:comp.os.linux.development.apps can help, as can a few good books. BTW, you want g++ if you really want to do C++... -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stack and heap size documentation

2002-06-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
tart by compiling with warnings turned up and debugging symbols turned on... -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question regarding DL of Debian

2002-06-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
are ramrodded from the top down or a court invalidates the regs. There's apparently a treaty relating to this matter called the "Wassenaar Arrangement" and some Executive Orders thrown in for good measure... -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: allowing telnet for only a few users?

2002-06-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:28:32PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Eric G. Miller wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 10:38:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Does anyone know how to set up telnetd so only a couple of users can use > > > telnet to log in, and the rest must

Re: hdd change

2002-06-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
those... "cp -a". Other "cp" variants maybe don't... -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: man or info?

2002-06-22 Thread Eric G. Miller
alize this?? I have no clue. "info libc" works fine here... (sid). I believe it should be the same in woody, don't recall about potato... -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: allowing telnet for only a few users?

2002-06-21 Thread Eric G. Miller
t for, while disabling it for everyone who can get to a shell. Looks like pam_listfiles can do this... -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using old Adobe post script fonts

2002-06-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
se them. You might want to see some of the Font HOWTO's for details. Briefly: Copy them to some directory. Change to that directory and run "type1inst", make the directory available to X and ghostscript... -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Unix-only analog to WinPopup?

2002-06-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
> > i am not sure how(or if) to send a message using it .. I think xmessage will work over a network via the -display option. Course, you need permission to connect to the remote X server... Missed the original post, so not sure if that's what your looking for... -- Eric G. Miller

Re: appearance of xfce on Debian

2002-06-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
sole session. My guess is your editing it from within an xfce session, and your changes are getting clobbered when you end the session. -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: appearance of xfce on Debian

2002-06-14 Thread Eric G. Miller
't have a manpage, but basically creates an ~/.xsession and some other "dot" files). -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Nasty X + Mozilla bug...

2002-06-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
See http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/25689.html for a nasty X crashing (and possibly machine crashing) bug regarding huge fonts. Guess it's back to links/lynx/w3m or whatever for a little while. -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: ecc, error correcting code insertion

2002-06-12 Thread Eric G. Miller
want a programming library interface? It's just not clear what you're really looking for (CRC32?). -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Swapfile

2002-06-10 Thread Eric G. Miller
ere a better place for it? Put it in /etc/fstab. The reason people tend to use a dedicated partition is it can be a little faster (even better if it's on a lesser used disk). Example fstab entry: # extra swapfile /var/local/swapfile none swap sw,pri=1 0 0 When mountall.sh runs, it&

Re: X nice value

2002-06-09 Thread Eric G. Miller
I force X to use my nice value? Only root can do nice < 0, so I think the nice trick really only works if you run a display manager (or startx as root). Basically, as a luser, nice just allows you to lower the priority of your processes. -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: how to also remove files that were required for some package ?

2002-06-09 Thread Eric G. Miller
ckage require B and C) AFAIK, this isn't possible, or necessarily desirable in the general case. However, have a look at deborphan. -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian GIS

2002-06-08 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 09:58:52PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > On 2002.06.05 23:50 Eric G. Miller wrote: > >GRASS is best > >for folks doing raster analysis/modeling. The vector stuff isn't > >quite > >"there" yet. > > Are there others that d

Re: Force password change on first logon on Debian Box

2002-06-07 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 12:40:10AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to force the users to change their password on first > logon. How can I do this on a Debian Box? $ passwd -e Seems the adduser script doesn't have a way to force this as the default behavior??

Re: utempter.h ?

2002-06-07 Thread Eric G. Miller
ted that out of some mailing list threads that google brought up for "utempter". -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian GIS

2002-06-05 Thread Eric G. Miller
ally be met in woody/unstable. You might want to grab libgeotiff and libgdal from remotesensing.org... It's true, GRASS is somewhat difficult to package (this is changing...). GRASS is best for folks doing raster analysis/modeling. The vector stuff isn't quite "there" yet.

Re: port forwarding

2002-06-03 Thread Eric G. Miller
ction of the mail reader. Mutt shows them inline... -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: onshore-timesheet

2002-05-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
o > the server Haven't used it, but I recognize the port as being the same as PostgreSQL. So, does this package require PostgreSQL, and if so, is it running and listening/accepting TCP/IP connections? -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Color black not defined

2002-05-20 Thread Eric G. Miller
ces? I've found trailing spaces are not tolerated, so check for "black ". This seems to be an X thing. Not sure why xrdb doesn't strip trailing white space (bug?). -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Administrator

2002-05-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:47:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 20:00, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:17:51PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:46:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Th

Re: Character Set trouble

2002-05-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
how to fix this up. Thanks. man locale export LANG=en_US (or something using 8859-1). -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Administrator

2002-05-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
espond > > to you as soon as possible. > > > > Creation Ministries Staff > > Does this mean that we're looking for help "from above" in order to get > woody out the door? Pastor "Chick" is somewhat famous for his simplistic christian cartoo

Re: Why wdm opens a TCP port?

2002-05-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
en a UNIX socket or even pipes could probably meet the need for what it's doing without opening a public port. -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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