Re: DWWW & its requirements

2013-09-18 Thread Jochen Spieker
John W. Foster: > > I want to use DWWW as my onboard help system. I have done so for years. > Now I want to use nginx as my web server and DWWW will not install > without apache. I dont want to install 2 webservers so how do I get > around this. The package dwww depends on apac

DWWW & its requirements

2013-09-18 Thread John W. Foster
I want to use DWWW as my onboard help system. I have done so for years. Now I want to use nginx as my web server and DWWW will not install without apache. I dont want to install 2 webservers so how do I get around this. There are several applications that seem to have this same issue. Some help

Re: dwww can't read some files

2012-04-27 Thread Indulekha
Prad wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> dwww: can't access postgresql-8.1 page for alter_table >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=399366 >> >> Explanation on the why (although I'm not sure if that still remains true) >> at comment #10. &

Re: dwww can't read some files

2012-04-27 Thread prad
Camaleón writes: > dwww: can't access postgresql-8.1 page for alter_table > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=399366 > > Explanation on the why (although I'm not sure if that still remains true) > at comment #10. > fantastic, camaleon! thanks very mu

Re: dwww can't read some files

2012-04-27 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:01:12 -0700, prad wrote: > once in a while i get > dwww will not allow you to read the file > > for instance, when i look for clusterdb by searching for postgresql and > choosing the clusterdb link the error message is > > Access denied > dwww wi

dwww can't read some files

2012-04-26 Thread prad
once in a while i get dwww will not allow you to read the file for instance, when i look for clusterdb by searching for postgresql and choosing the clusterdb link the error message is Access denied dwww will not allow you to read the file /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/man/man1/clusterdb.1.gz the

dwww problem

2008-04-23 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
Hi! Is there a way to make dwww open the man page for my requested indata? As it is now, "dwww ls" for example opens a page with the title "Documentation related to ls" , which surely contains a link to the ls stuff, but isn't exactly what I want. It requires me to cli

Debian Package DWWW

2006-03-31 Thread Ernest
Unable to resist the compulsion to tinker with my working Debian system, I've gone and screwed up my DWWW installation. http://packages.debian.org/stable/doc/dwww When it was working, the ability to search for, and read Debian system documention via a web browser made learning things

Re: cron.daily dwww error

2005-10-13 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:52:45AM +0800, Xiaoyang Gu wrote: > hi, Hi, > I am using debian sid. There is a problem about dwww. > After running /etc/cron.daily/dwww, i get a mail from Anacron as > followed: > > /etc/cron.daily/dwww: > configuration error - unknown item

cron.daily dwww error

2005-10-10 Thread Xiaoyang Gu
hi, I am using debian sid. There is a problem about dwww. After running /etc/cron.daily/dwww, i get a mail from Anacron as followed: /etc/cron.daily/dwww: configuration error - unknown item 'QUOTAS_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'NOLOGIN_STR' (

dwww (was Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird)

2005-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson
> > There's a package everyone should have installed- it's > called dwww. It gathers up all the system docs and makes > them very much available via web browser: > http://localhost/dwww This wants me to install apache. Would one of the smaller servers do as well? -- To

Desktop document search DWWW

2005-09-05 Thread Thomas
On Debian systems there is a packaged named "dwww" http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/dwww that permits searching your installed documents via a web browser similar to a Google search. I have grown so accustomed to it that I would like to have it on my Fedora FC4 system. Or better

gawk manual in dwww/ doccentral

2003-09-29 Thread Zenaan Harkness
The gawk manual does not show up in the info index (eg. running [p]info in a shell and searching for "gawk" - not found), or the dwww search index (from the dwww front page) or from the doccentral search box. What gives? Is this a bug I should report against. At some point I found the

dwww don't find some man pages

2003-03-09 Thread Ruediger Noack
Hi From readme of dwww: ---snip--- dwww is a web interface to all on-line documentation on a ^^^ Debian system. ---snip--- But I have trouble with some man pages. Example socket. In the bash man socket works fine, but with dwww: ---snip--- Search results Documentation

dwww gets confused by the apache muti-language documents?

2002-10-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Hi, I installed dwww to help users browse the documentation on a Debian machine. It works really nicely for the most part, but I find I cannot browse the Apache documents in /usr/share/doc/apache/manual using dwww. For one thing, going to this location via dwww gives me a directory listing

Re: dwww man page display

2002-10-16 Thread Bob George
Colin Watson wrote: > [...] > Check that /etc/groff/man.local and /etc/groff/mdoc.local are in sync on > the two machines. You want the versions that look like this: That was it. I must've missed an update to man.local during an upgrade. man.local.dpkg-dist was there, and I just copied it to ma

Re: dwww man page display

2002-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:06:16AM -0700, Bob George wrote: > I have two systems running dwww with apache. On one, man pages display > nicely, but on the other I get what appear to be ANSI codes for bold and > other formatting. On the system with the broken display, I also > instal

dwww man page display

2002-10-16 Thread Bob George
I have two systems running dwww with apache. On one, man pages display nicely, but on the other I get what appear to be ANSI codes for bold and other formatting. On the system with the broken display, I also installed man2html, and pages appear properly there. I've gone through and inst

dwww question

2001-04-30 Thread Ilya Martynov
Hi, I wonder if anybody know why dwww pages 'List of HTML documents' (and 'List of HTML documents, with descriptions' also) can be always empty? I only can see something like: Dwww list of documentation (short) To the long index Short list of documentation The

dwww rebuilding the menus daily!

2000-11-03 Thread Francois Gouget
I'm using tripwire and every day it would tell me that all the menus of my window managers have been modified. I suspected a cron script and finally found some time to track it down. It turns out that /etc/cron.daily/dwww is the guilty party. More precisely it, invokes /usr/sbin

Re: dwww errors

2000-08-08 Thread Jean-Philippe Guérard
Le 2000-08-04 21:44:03 +0200, Neilen Marais écrivait : > For instance, on the debian document menu, a number of choices result > in not found messages, or other arb errors. If I manually browse the > same location in netscape useing file:///whatever (by looking at the > URL dwww gener

dwww errors

2000-08-04 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi. I'm running potato, and my dwww seems to be not quite right. For instance, on the debian document menu, a number of choices result in not found messages, or other arb errors. If I manually browse the same location in netscape useing file:///whatever (by looking at the URL dwww gene

Lots of foreign dwww files

2000-04-02 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
(Potato) I'm getting a lot of these when installing/updating packages: warning: skipping foreign dwww file /usr/lib/menu/doc-base-gentoo at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 276. Something's wrong, but I don't know what! -- Jesse Jacobsen, Pastor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grace

Re: dwww

2000-01-13 Thread Bradley Bell
dwww seems to need a _lot_ of work. dhelp, on the other hand, will do most of what you need. -brad On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Evan Moore wrote: > is any1 else having a very hard time trying to get dwww to work on > potato. Everything but the info pages will not work. After hacking the > th

dwww

2000-01-12 Thread Evan Moore
is any1 else having a very hard time trying to get dwww to work on potato. Everything but the info pages will not work. After hacking the the scripts i was able to get the man pages to convert to html, but I am sure that it was a waste of time. any ideas where i have gone wrong? thanks evan

Re: teTeX and DWWW

1999-08-26 Thread Marc Haber
On 25 Aug 1999 14:35:49 +0200, you wrote: >Does > >http://torres.gf1.internal/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/mnt/main8/usr/doc/texmf/tetex/teTeX-FAQ.gz > >work? Yes. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please

Re: teTeX and DWWW

1999-08-25 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Marc Haber wrote: > When I use DWWW to access the teTeX-Documentation, I can get through > fine to > http://torres.gf1.internal/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/mnt/main8/usr/doc > /texmf > while torres.gf1.internal is my Debian box. However, none of the links > on t

Re: teTeX and DWWW

1999-08-25 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Haber) writes: > Hi! > > When I use DWWW to access the teTeX-Documentation, I can get through > fine to > http://torres.gf1.internal/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/mnt/main8/usr/doc/texmf > while torres.gf1.internal is my Debian box. However, none

teTeX and DWWW

1999-08-25 Thread Marc Haber
Hi! When I use DWWW to access the teTeX-Documentation, I can get through fine to http://torres.gf1.internal/cgi-bin/dwww?type=file&location=/mnt/main8/usr/doc/texmf while torres.gf1.internal is my Debian box. However, none of the links on that page work (Example: http://torres.gf1.internal

Re: Sed complains (in dh_make and dwww-build) after upgrading to glibc2.1

1999-04-26 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
to make, 12 of the following > lines are printed: > sed: -e expression #1, char 16: Unterminated `s' command [snip] I've filled a bug against dh-make for this. Please see bug 36605 for more information on this. [snip] > Then this morning I received a (long) error output

Sed complains (in dh_make and dwww-build) after upgrading to glibc2.1

1999-04-26 Thread James Dietrich
thing is fine. And I've substituted slashes for the ampersands in the problem line and still it doesn't help. Then this morning I received a (long) error output from /etc/cron.daily/dwww Apparently it is related, because there are many of the following lines sed: -e expression #1, char 29:

dwww: how to include /usr/local/doc

1998-12-21 Thread Marc Haber
Is this so hard to solve that nobody has an idea how to do it? Hi! I think dwww is a good thing especially for those of us who don't have X running on their Linux router in the closet. Accessing documentation via the WWW browser running on the local desktop machine is quite convenient. I

Re: dwww: how to include /usr/local/doc

1998-12-13 Thread Marc Haber
ite some documentation that I'd like to >MH> include into dwww. > >Could you clearify a bit? > >Do you want to be able to use the "File listings" thing or the "Debian >Documentation Menu" one? I would be happy if I could search for exim and get a list

Re: dwww: how to include /usr/local/doc

1998-12-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MH" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MH> I have compiled some programs myself, such as a testing release of MH> exim. These programs went into /usr/local, so I have a MH> /usr/local/doc with quite some documentation that I'd like to MH> inclu

dwww: how to include /usr/local/doc

1998-12-12 Thread Marc Haber
Hi! I think dwww is a good thing especially for those of us who don't have X running on their Linux router in the closet. Accessing documentation via the WWW browser running on the local desktop machine is quite convenient. I have compiled some programs myself, such as a testing release of

Re: dwww and apache

1998-08-05 Thread joost
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just installed dwww and apache web server. I need to set up my system > as a host. How do I do it? I know I have to edit resolv.conf. My > resolv.conf has just the entries for my ISP nameserver. So how do I give > my system a IP addre

dwww and apache

1998-08-05 Thread vaidhy
Hi All, I just installed dwww and apache web server. I need to set up my system as a host. How do I do it? I know I have to edit resolv.conf. My resolv.conf has just the entries for my ISP nameserver. So how do I give my system a IP address..? Thanks, Vaidhy -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: [Debian]: dwww/apache im Offline Betrieb

1998-07-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
allerdings bricht apache, daß ich für dwww verwendei, beim Start mit obiger Medlung ab. Der Name des Rechners, also rayman, steht natürlich in der /etc/hostname. Marc Um sich aus der Liste auszutragen schicken Sie bitte eine E-Mail an [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: dwww and dhttpd??

1998-03-16 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good small server to use with dwww for viewing > the debian documentation? I'm the maintainer of wn so ... I would recommend wn. Small, efficient, can be run from inetd. Only issue is that it is significantly mo

dwww and dhttpd??

1998-03-16 Thread Lee Bradshaw
I installed dwww and dhttpd with dselect. I didn't have any problems with the installation, but I haven't been able to do anything useful. When I first started dwww, I got an message related to lynx. I don't know why this didn't show up in the dependency checks, but I downl

Re: Does dwww support compressed files?

1997-04-10 Thread Jim Pick
> I'm just about finished with the repackaging of wn and have two > questions on dwww: > >* Does it support compressed files, especially man pages? > > It doesn't appear to. Is there a special configuration > option to set? Viewing compressed

Does dwww support compressed files?

1997-04-10 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
I'm just about finished with the repackaging of wn and have two questions on dwww: * Does it support compressed files, especially man pages? It doesn't appear to. Is there a special configuration option to set? * Is there any support for cgi programs? Agai

Problems with dwww.

1997-01-16 Thread J. Ramos Goncalves
Hi! I'm trying to use dwww to read the Debian documentation but the following error message appears when I access some of the links: The requested URL /cgi-bin/dwww was not found on this server. The links done automatically by dwww seem to be fine. I suspect that perhaps the apache s

Re: missing dwww-build script?

1996-11-25 Thread Jim Pick
> I've been getting an error message from dwww-build (as run by cron.daily) for > about the last week and a half. I've removed dwww and reinstalled it, and I > still get the same error. Am I missing a script, or have I just got dwww > configured improperly? > &g

missing dwww-build script?

1996-11-25 Thread Lamar Folsom
I've been getting an error message from dwww-build (as run by cron.daily) for about the last week and a half. I've removed dwww and reinstalled it, and I still get the same error. Am I missing a script, or have I just got dwww configured improperly? Thanks, Lamar --- Forward

Re: info2www, dwww install problem

1996-10-06 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Craig Sanders: > The bug is actually a typo. In the apache section of your .postinst > scripts you had "foundhttp=yes" instead of "foundhttpd=yes". I.E. you > missed the final "d". That was part of the problem. 1.1.1-5 also moves the ServerRoot and cgi-

Re: info2www, dwww install problem

1996-10-06 Thread Lars Wirzenius
I wrote: > The names of the Apache server executable file and the default > locations of the server's HTML directory and cgi-bin directory > changed with 1.1.1. The Debian package I have (1.1.1-5) does > not install cleanly and does not work, and I haven't been able > to t

Re: info2www, dwww install problem

1996-10-06 Thread Servo
Lars Wirzenius wrote: > changed with 1.1.1. The Debian package I have (1.1.1-5) does > not install cleanly and does not work, and I haven't been able > to test my fixes for dwww and info2www. I'm working on it. I have 1.1.1-5 and it works and installed fine. -- Daniel ==

Re: info2www, dwww install problem

1996-10-06 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Lawrence Chim: > > when install info2www and dwww, they said that they cannot > > find the httpd. I think it is because I am using apache > > and http daemon name is apache rather than httpd. > > > > Is is a i

Re: info2www, dwww install problem

1996-10-05 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Lawrence Chim: > when install info2www and dwww, they said that they cannot > find the httpd. I think it is because I am using apache > and http daemon name is apache rather than httpd. > > Is is a install script problem? or a file dependancy problem? The names of the Apache se

info2www, dwww install problem

1996-10-04 Thread Lawrence Chim
when install info2www and dwww, they said that they cannot find the httpd. I think it is because I am using apache and http daemon name is apache rather than httpd. Is is a install script problem? or a file dependancy problem? lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the