How to get cups printing remotely solved

2006-09-04 Thread mlaks
This letter documents How I set up printing on debian sid remotely ie: from 1 computer running sid to another computer running sid. good articles on cups setup remotely http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Networking/Setting_Up_a_Network_Printer_using_CUPS http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/pr

cups configuration

2006-09-03 Thread mlaks
Dear Friends, I am a long time user of sid. I frequently have trouble setting up cups properly again after an upgrade, particularly lately :). I have a network of computers which all print to a single machine which has the printer installed on it. I am currently able to get the computer with

xfonts-base problem with cursor font xorg wont start

2006-08-22 Thread mlaks
I mentioned that after a yesterday recent install of etch and then apt-get dist-upgrade to sid Xorg wont start. I get an error message in Xorg.log Fatal server error: Could not open default cursor font 'cursor'. I googled and see that this error should be related to the xfont-base package.

xorg not starting. cursor font 'cursor' not found

2006-08-22 Thread mlaks
hi, i just reinstalled etch -> sid, and the machine worked for a while. now on a reboot cannot start X. here is the tail of /var/log/Xorg.0.log (II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/, removing from list! Could not ini

Re: mutt configuration not displaying my name in mailing list threads

2006-06-18 Thread mlaks
On 23:41 Sun 18 Jun , Steve Kemp wrote: . This is because Mutt recognises that *you* sent the mail, so > it shows you that you sent it "To: debian-user". > > For the rest of us it shows up fine. > > > what do i change in my muttrc to get this right? > > You don't need to change an

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-06-18 Thread mlaks
On 22:30 Thu 12 Jan , Dan Martins wrote: > Something to note is this comment in exim4.conf.template: > > # Because AUTH PLAIN and AUTH LOGIN send the password in clear, we > # only allow these mechanisms over encrypted connections by default. > # You can set AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS

mutt configuration not displaying my name in mailing list threads

2006-06-18 Thread mlaks
Hi, I have switched over to mutt as my MUA. It took some work to get exim4 and fetchmail etc working. now i notice that my own posts to debian-user are not listed by "mitchell laks" or mlaks in the mutt index view. instead it says 22104 F Jun 18 To debian-user (1.5K) sid kde pr

Re: sid dist-upgrade emacs fonts boxes Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct

2006-06-18 Thread mlaks
On Sunday 18 June 2006 01:53, mlaks wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ emacs filename > Warning: Cannot convert > string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct > Warning: Cannot convert > string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8

Re: sid kde printing and cups setup

2006-06-18 Thread mlaks
On Sunday 18 June 2006 13:13, Roger Leigh wrote: > mlaks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Up to date SID! > > > > 1) kde printing system will not talk to cups. Any ideas on that? > > It Works For Me. Can you use cups normally from the command-line? > > i.

Re: procmail postprocess directory in Maildir format howto?

2006-06-17 Thread mlaks
On Friday 09 June 2006 07:24, Jon Dowland wrote: > At 1149817191 past the epoch, mlaks wrote: > > How do I run procmail on [a Maildir] to separate out the > > files to other subdirectories. > > ... > > > the crucial line is formail -s procmail <.newmail &&a

sid dist-upgrade emacs fonts boxes Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct

2006-06-17 Thread mlaks
Hi, after my last SID apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade :) emacs fonts are not working. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ emacs filename Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-

sid kde printing and cups setup

2006-06-17 Thread mlaks
Hi Debian team, I run sid. I love to deal with issues! I do: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade Please do not write me "if you want a stable system run stable". I want to have fun and thats why I run sid! Now on to business! Overview: Up to date SID! 1) kde printing system will not talk

procmail postprocess directory in Maildir format howto?

2006-06-08 Thread mlaks
Hi, I am experimenting with procmail to process my mail. So i have a directory called inbox /home/mlaks/Mail/inbox in my ~Mail directory that has subdirectories cur new tmp. How do I run procmail on this directory to separate out the files to other subdirectories. The man page of procmail