Re: MS WINWORD and WINE problems....

2002-09-19 Thread jeff
don't bother running M$ products under linux unless you're running VWware... you'll just end up making a big un-fun mess.   you might want to take a good look at:   http://www.openoffice.org/ http://www/kde.org/   good luck!   -jeff

Re: running ntpdate as user

2002-09-19 Thread Mike Kuhar
I think a better way to handle this is to forget about running ntpdate as a user. Instead, setup ntpdate, as root, in crontab to run every 12 or 24 hours. -mk On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 18:49, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > > > Anyone know what I need to change in order to run ntpdate as a user > > > wit

Re: unstable, just how unstable is it

2002-09-19 Thread Dominique Dumont
Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, be careful if you are trying to upgrade from testing to unstable. > I tried it last night and got stuck in some kind of conflict between coreutils > and fileutils, where you were somehow going to have to temporarily remove > fileutils because of t

Re: MS WINWORD and WINE problems....

2002-09-19 Thread Dominique Dumont
Irvin Temp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ive been playing with Wine(version in woody) and MS Offcie 2000. I was to configure > > wine manually and using winesetup... I also installed MS Office 2000 and was able > > to launch the MS WORD, EXCEL and POWERPPOINT apps. My problem here > > is whe

Just a tip for you zip100 users

2002-09-19 Thread John Manko
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. I decided to backup to my zip some code I was working on. However, after the "conversion", I couldnt mount the zip under debian, and it was killing me. Until I took

is logrotate able to send emails with attachments?

2002-09-19 Thread Stephan Schmieder
Hello! I'm trying to configure logrotate, that is emails me the rotate logfiles. This works fine, but the logs reside in the body part of the mail I want them as attachment. What do I need to do? Thanks for reading and sorry for my (probably) bad english. -- MfG Stephan Schmieder <[EMAIL P

手机短信发送优惠多多!

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Re: running ntpdate as user

2002-09-19 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 09:38, Mike Kuhar wrote: > I think a better way to handle this is to forget about running ntpdate > as a user. Instead, setup ntpdate, as root, in crontab to run every 12 > or 24 hours. -mk I'd suggest - network connection available (most of the time)? set up ntpd

Re: MS WINWORD and WINE problems....

2002-09-19 Thread Irvin Temp
Thanks Dominique, do you happen to know what was the exact file that you delete? the only app i installed on my linux box is MS OFFICE 2k. If you remember the exact location of the file you deleted that woluld be great... TIA irvin  Dominique Dumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > "The Disk i

Re: Just a tip for you zip100 users

2002-09-19 Thread Preben Randhol
John Manko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 19/09/2002 (10:35) : I also switched to ide-scsi for my internal 250 ZIP and speed increased a lot :-) At home I have a parallell port ZIP so there I didn't get these problems. > Now, maybe someone can help me get Abiword to run, hehe. The debian package

Re: MS WINWORD and WINE problems....

2002-09-19 Thread Kent West
Irvin Temp wrote: > Ive been playing with Wine(version in woody) and MS Offcie 2000. I was > to configure > > wine manually and using winesetup... I also installed MS Office 2000 > and was able > > to launch the MS WORD, EXCEL and POWERPPOINT apps. My problem here > > is when i close the WORD a

Re: Problems upgrading to testing dist...

2002-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:52:53PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 05:53:50AM -0600, Dave Bartmess wrote: > > Removing libdb1-compat ... > > dpkg - warning: while removing libdb1-compat, directory `/usr/share/doc' > > not empty so not removed. > > dpkg - warning: while remov

Re: Need witnesses

2002-09-19 Thread Jeff Maxson
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 07:56:03AM -0700, Michael Cardenas happened to mention: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 07:15:13PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: > > Folks, > > > > Please download > > > > http://www.softwarechoice.org/download_files/Maccrisken.Letter.doc > > Please be prepared to stand as witnes

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

PalmOSEmulator (pose) sync with Jpilot?

2002-09-19 Thread Kent West
I just installed pose (Palm OS Emulator) and used the ROM from my Handspring Visor. Very impressive emulator. If I want to synch it with JPilot running on the same box, how do I set this up? Currently I have both pose and JPilot pointing to /dev/pilot, which doesn't exist. On a real Palm, I kn

Problem is doc corruption

2002-09-19 Thread DSC Siltec
Later versions (after Word 6) of M$ Word have extensive corruption problems. One of the more benign versions of corruption sometimes looks like that message "disk full" that you described. To solve it, select all, then hit "F9" (update fields). Now go through, and look for some dynamically link

Re: MS WINWORD and WINE problems....

2002-09-19 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 03:34:57AM -0400, jeff wrote: > don't bother running M$ products under linux unless > you're running VWware... you'll just end up making a big un-fun mess. > > you might want to take a good look at: > > http://www.openoffice

Re: running ntpdate as user

2002-09-19 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> I think a better way to handle this is to forget about running ntpdate > as a user. Instead, setup ntpdate, as root, in crontab to run every 12 > or 24 hours. -mk > I remember when I first started using Linux, it was as a internet firewall/connection sharing box using a dial-up connection. I

OT: Re: Need witnesses

2002-09-19 Thread Timothy Coggins
Jeff Maxson wrote: >So for those of us who don't have OO or MSWord, what is the letter >about? Why the exitement? > Nothing really. Try 'strings WordDoc.doc | less' which usually works for me when I want to read bits of a word document. If the whole point of this is to prove that someone else

Ad removing proxies

2002-09-19 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I've decided that I'm bored of waiting for the latest and greatest ad to come down doubleclick's apparently slow link. So I've decided to resolve this problem with a technological solution. I've been looking at proxies, in the debian testing branch: filterproxy - A filtering proxy, which can amon

No X after upgrade Potato -> Woody

2002-09-19 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Dear all - I have just taken the dive and decided to upgrade (my Dell Latitude Cpi 330) to Debian Woody. After the process was completed, I was no longer taken into Gnome after a boot, but ended at the console login prompt without error messages. If I typed 'X' there, I would see error messages

Re: No X after upgrade Potato -> Woody

2002-09-19 Thread Adam Galant
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Dear all - > > I have just taken the dive and decided to upgrade (my Dell Latitude Cpi > 330) to Debian Woody. > > After the process was completed, I was no longer taken into Gnome after > a boot, but ended at the console login prompt without er

Diagonal strips when runing X....

2002-09-19 Thread Zbigniew Perski
Hi, Two weeks ago I decided to move from WinNT to Debian woody. I am new in Linux so I decided first to instal woody as a 2nd system. Installation was correct (bf2.4 on ext3) but problems starts when I tried to turn on X windows. After startx my screen showing me colored screen with scewed desktop

Broken package stopping upgrades

2002-09-19 Thread Dave Bartmess
I have my apt configured to use testing. I tried to upgrade a few packages which caused libc6 to be upgraded, and in the process it tried to install libdb1-compat. libdb1-compat errored out in the install, and now I can't upgrade at all because it errors on the removal too! Everytime I try to u

Re: binaries into deb's [newbie]

2002-09-19 Thread Josep Llauradó Selvas
Hello Kevin, I'm not an expert, but I usually: apt-get the packages debhelper debianutils debconf-utils and compiling tools create a mutt directory in /usr/local/src (for example) and cd into it add deb-src lines in your sources.list apt-get source mutt Then you have in /usr/local/src/mutt/m

exim right choice?

2002-09-19 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i currently use a dual boot win98/debian 3.0. Since i'm having so much fun with debian, i am going to put my Suse 7.2 server on debian too. While i'm doing this, i would like to set up a simple mail retrieving mechanism. I think exim will do the job fine but i want to be sure :-) My network

Re: No X after upgrade Potato -> Woody

2002-09-19 Thread Erik van der Meulen
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 12:39:13PM +0200, Adam Galant wrote: > Try 'startx' instead of 'X'. 'X' runs onlu an X-server with no clients > which will give you exactly what you described. With 'startx' you should > get an X session with a windowmanager you installed (there should be at > least twm).

Re: Ad removing proxies

2002-09-19 Thread Jason Healy
At 1032452681s since epoch (09/19/02 06:24:41 -0400 UTC), Andrew Pritchard wrote: > I've decided that I'm bored of waiting for the latest and greatest ad to > come down doubleclick's apparently slow link. (snip) > What are people's impressions/evaluations of these [proxies]? Is > there a better

perlapi-5.6.0 for unstable

2002-09-19 Thread Peter van Hove
Hello All, I would like to know if anyone has an idea when the perlapi-5.6.0 package will be released for unstable. I know that there currently working to get Perl 5.8 into unstable but i kind seem te find any information about this. I know that there are package for perlapi-5.6.0 from the Perl

Re: Lyx package

2002-09-19 Thread Josep Llauradó Selvas
There is a lot of development for the upcoming release, because the Lyx people are creating new frontends of the package using Gnome and Kde, that will give us the LyX in the debian main. :-) In the LyX web page you'll found the beta packages, but they aren't usable at the moment (or I'm not abl

Defoma Info Needed

2002-09-19 Thread Donald R. Spoon
I am tracking Debian "testing" with a few packages from "unstable". I run the XFS font-server, and frequently have to manually update various config files after an upgrade to get my fonts back. Most of this seems to revolve around using defoma. I am trying to get a handle on the defoma pack

apache 2

2002-09-19 Thread daniel meier
is there a apache2 package already in debian "sarge"? couldn't find it. if yes, whats the name of the package? regards danile -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Connecting to X remotely w/ssh

2002-09-19 Thread Josep Llauradó Selvas
The only way to run applications over ssh IMHO is using the application remotely, but NOT start the X server with startx. You can make an ssh with X forwarding active adding a -X to the command line (if your SSHD server allow X11Forwarding, that under Debian is deactivated by default). You can c

[OT] Problem with "Too many open files"

2002-09-19 Thread Alex Polite
I'm having problems with a "Too many open files" error. I've increased the /proc/sys/fs/file-max to 10 and the count in /proc/sys/fs/file-nr is no where near that. Further googling tells me that there is also a "open files per process limit". 1) How do I increase the "open files per process

Re: exim right choice?

2002-09-19 Thread Ben Goodstein
On (19 Sep 02 11:15), Benedict Verheyen wrote: > I have 2 mailboxes at my isp, 1 for me and 1 for my wife. So i would like exim to >run on my soon-to-be debian server and check the mailbox from me and my wife at my >isp's site every x minutes and store the mail locally on my server. > > Then

Re: Mac Fonts

2002-09-19 Thread Arun A Tharuvai
In Debian, you might want to try using pfaedit to convert macintosh truetype fonts to Windows. It's primarily a font editor but can also import from and export to a fair number of outline font formats. I personally have had mixed results when importing Macintosh fonts. Arun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wr

RE: Ad removing proxies

2002-09-19 Thread DEFFONTAINES Vincent
I've been using privoxy and I really like it. Its a bit intrusive (sometimes "scrambles" a pic that is not an ad). It is derivated from junkbuster, so it will block cookies, javascript, depending on the way you configure it of course. It also has a "fun" (optional) feature : some regexp replacem

Re: Lyx package

2002-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 01:58:45PM +0200, Josep Llaurad? Selvas wrote: > There is a lot of development for the upcoming release, because the Lyx > people are creating new frontends of the package using Gnome and Kde, that > will give us the LyX in the debian main. :-) We should get it in main rel

Re: Broken package stopping upgrades

2002-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 04:54:35AM -0600, Dave Bartmess wrote: > I have my apt configured to use testing. I tried to upgrade a few > packages which caused libc6 to be upgraded, and in the process it tried > to install libdb1-compat. > > libdb1-compat errored out in the install, and now I can't u

Re: perlapi-5.6.0 for unstable

2002-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 06:34:34PM +0200, Peter van Hove wrote: > I would like to know if anyone has an idea when the perlapi-5.6.0 > package will be released for unstable. It won't. It has been removed. (perlapi-5.6.0 was only ever a virtual package provided by the Perl 5.6 packages anyway.) >

Re: [OT] Problem with "Too many open files"

2002-09-19 Thread Gottfried Szing
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 02:05:44PM +0200, Alex Polite wrote: > I'm having problems with a "Too many open files" error. > > I've increased the /proc/sys/fs/file-max to 10 and the count in > /proc/sys/fs/file-nr is no where near that. > > Further googling tells me that there is also a "open fi

Re: exim right choice?

2002-09-19 Thread Steve Waterman
Just run kmail, let it grab the mail from your isp's server. For local smtp transport (to your smtp server at the isp), ssmtp is a nice, easily configurable replacement for sendmail or exim. No reason to make it complicated than necessary. On Thursday 19 September 2002 06:12, Benedict Verhe

IPv6 DNS Queries

2002-09-19 Thread Ramon Kagan
Hi, I've compiled my kernels (40+ systems) without IPv6 support and I have no desire for IPv6 in any format at this time. However, I see that I am transmitting IPv6 DNS queries, in IPv4 packets. Two things: 1. This is causing my DNS servers to get hammered, almost forcing a DoS. 2. How the

Re: exim right choice?

2002-09-19 Thread Quenten Griffith
My ISP only lets me get my mail if I am on their network so what I did was setup fetchmail to go poll my ISP Pop email box and pull it into my Debian box sitting at home and drop it into an IMAP account then I use Kmail or the webmail program I set up to check my mail from work/friends houses

Re: Help with errors in dpkg

2002-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 06:33:20AM -0600, Dave Bartmess wrote: > I believe this libdb1-compat HAS been removed, but how do I get past > this? I can't get anything to upgrade at this point, because it > continually errors out. I've asked you a question to try to narrow things down twice now ... -

Re: Video window still dark....

2002-09-19 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 19:28, Pierre Dupuis wrote: > I have got a ATI radeon 8500, and i'm using the 4.2.1.0-pre1 xfree > server...I'm going to test some over color depth, i will infor you :) It's got nothing to do with color depth, it's the simple fact that XVideo extensions are not ful

Help with errors in dpkg

2002-09-19 Thread Dave Bartmess
I believe this libdb1-compat HAS been removed, but how do I get past this? I can't get anything to upgrade at this point, because it continually errors out. Please help! $ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED

Re: Nvidea-GeForce2ConfigProblem

2002-09-19 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
I've got an athalon system with integrated nvidea geforce2 svga, ethernet, modem, sound card on a single chip (I believe). I found the debian packages for patching the current Woody X systems and kernel to be confusing, I prefer leaving kernel work to myself with straight downloads from kerne

Kernel Modules

2002-09-19 Thread Bob Underwood
Hi all, I've asked related questions in the past without success. So, I'll try one more time. I'm just looking for a pointer to the correct place to resolve the difficulty. I'm using the XFree86 experimental 4.2.1-0pre1v1 debs because my rage pro 128 is not supported by previous editions.

Woody: What's the proper name of the C++ lib?

2002-09-19 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! What's the right lib name to pass to the -l linker flag for compiling C++ progs on Debian 3.0 (Woody)? I tried to use "-lstdc++-libc6.2-2", but that didn't work. Simply using "-lstdc++" leads to a very strange linker error (hope it's not really a linker bug, but only the wrong library name):

Re: Woody: What's the proper name of the C++ lib?

2002-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 02:56:17PM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote: > What's the right lib name to pass to the -l linker flag for compiling C++ > progs on Debian 3.0 (Woody)? Just use g++ rather than gcc ... -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

user infos

2002-09-19 Thread Florian Struck
Hi im just trying to figure out how to change the "from" part of a locally sent email. The domain part i set up when i install exim so no problemo (lets say my.domain.net) but now i have a user lets say he is called "testuser", now when that user sends a message in the "from" part of that mess

Re: Woody: What's the proper name of the C++ lib?

2002-09-19 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi Colin! Thanks again for your really quick reply! On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > [...] > Just use g++ rather than gcc ... That's what I did. Still keep getting the linker error, though. That's the reason why I thought of using of some special C++ lib in order to get rid of the li

Re: Woody: What's the proper name of the C++ lib?

2002-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 03:05:05PM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote: > On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > Just use g++ rather than gcc ... > > That's what I did. Still keep getting the linker error, though. That's the > reason why I thought of using of some special C++ lib in order to get rid

devfs changing group id for device

2002-09-19 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
How do I change the group ID for a device with devfs? Right now my scanner is on: crwx--1 root root 21, 1 Dec 31 1969 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target5/lun0/generic I have to go in and chmod 777 to run the scanner as a user. I would like to set the device up as crwxrwx--- and chan

Re: Ad removing proxies

2002-09-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:24:41AM +0100, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > filterproxy - A filtering proxy, which can among other things remove ads. > privoxy - Privacy enhancing HTTP Proxy > wwwoffle - World Wide Web OFFline Explorer > muffin - A personal a

Re: Woody: What's the proper name of the C++ lib?

2002-09-19 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi Colin! Thanks for your quick reply! Some further info on this topic: I was able to build the same app successfully on a SuSE 7.0 system (glibc 2.1.3 based) with the following version of ld: GNU ld version 2.9.5 (with BFD 2.9.5.0.24) So it *seems* to me it's really a Debian Woody specific ld

Type1 font in LaTeX

2002-09-19 Thread Ole Sebastian Stein
I am running Debian/woody and have installed the freefonts package. Now, I would like to use the Baskerville font that comes with it in LaTeX. How? I have these files: $ locate baskv /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/baskvl.pfb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/baskvlb.pfb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/T

Re: Kernel Modules

2002-09-19 Thread Volker Cordes
Bob Underwood wrote: >Hi all, > >I've asked related questions in the past without success. So, I'll >try one more time. I'm just looking for a pointer to the correct >place to resolve the difficulty. > >I'm using the XFree86 experimental 4.2.1-0pre1v1 debs because my rage >pro 128 is not sup

Re: Woody: What's the proper name of the C++ lib?

2002-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 03:39:50PM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote: > Some further info on this topic: I was able to build the same app > successfully on a SuSE 7.0 system (glibc 2.1.3 based) with the following > version of ld: > > GNU ld version 2.9.5 (with BFD 2.9.5.0.24) > > So it *seems* to me it'

Re: DocBook: Need Example Files and Scripts

2002-09-19 Thread Gleef
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 09:34:11PM -0400, Abdul Latip wrote: > Greetings: > > I am not sure if this belongs to debian-doc or debian-user; so I > send it to this list. May I know, where and how to get the SGML > source of Debian Documents? Sure, http://www.debian.org/doc/cvs > Or, could someone

Re: exim right choice?

2002-09-19 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19-09-2002 13:15]: > Is a combo of kmail / exim able to do this without to much trouble? Generally what you want is very doable. Kmail is a good choice, I am sure, but it is irrelevant in the rest of the setup. What you need is: - fetchmail: which

Spawning at Login

2002-09-19 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi, I find that I get 48 'xdaliclocks' and 14 'xvidtunes' opening up when I start a session in Gnome 1.4 ... at first it was amusing but I have not been able to stop this either by using the 'kill' or 'close' commands in task manager, or by closing each window individually. At

Configuring w3m for Mozilla

2002-09-19 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi, Mutt goes into w3m when I open a HTML attachment, but when I hit 'M' to launch Mozilla, GKrellm shows the CPU operating at 99% ... but no Mozilla. I hit 'o' for the option menu and replaced the external viewer option with '/home/adam/.mozilla' ... where is the error ? Adam B

Re: Kernel Modules

2002-09-19 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 19 September 2002 09:44, Volker Cordes wrote: > Bob Underwood wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I've asked related questions in the past without success. So, > > I'll try one more time. I'm just looking for a pointer to the > > correct place to resolve the difficulty. > > > >I'm using the XFr

Re: apache 2

2002-09-19 Thread Gleef
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 02:04:04PM +0200, daniel meier wrote: > > is there a apache2 package already in debian "sarge"? couldn't find > it. if yes, whats the name of the package? Nope, but it looks like it's in sid. $ apt-cache search apache2 apache2-common - Next generation, scalable, extendabl

Re: Woody: What's the proper name of the C++ lib?

2002-09-19 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi Colin! Thanks again for quick reply! On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > [...] > Just strip it down as far as you can by experiment. If all else fails, I > imagine the maintainers would be happy enough if you ran a sample source > file through the preprocessor and gave them the output

Re: Configuring w3m for Mozilla

2002-09-19 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
--Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 20 September 2002, 12:04 AM +1000): > Mutt goes into w3m when I open a HTML attachment, > but when I hit 'M' to launch Mozilla, GKrellm shows the CPU > operating at 99% ... but no Mozilla. > > I hit 'o' for the option menu and repla

Re: Configuring w3m for Mozilla

2002-09-19 Thread DvB
Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > Mutt goes into w3m when I open a HTML attachment, > but when I hit 'M' to launch Mozilla, GKrellm shows the CPU > operating at 99% ... but no Mozilla. > > I hit 'o' for the option menu and replaced the > external viewer option with '/h

apt-get

2002-09-19 Thread Nikodim Nikodimov
Is there a possible way to tell apt-get to install all Development packages?   NN  

Re: Woody: What's the proper name of the C++ lib?

2002-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 04:11:46PM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote: > On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > Just strip it down as far as you can by experiment. If all else fails, I > > imagine the maintainers would be happy enough if you ran a sample source > > file through the preprocessor and g

Re: Xselection

2002-09-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 09:41:52AM -0700, Michael Montagne wrote: > I'm trying to figure out a way to pass the xselection to my browser. > But without gnome-terminal or klipper. I want to use rox-session and > rxvt. I found reference to a tool called Xselection that might help. > But I can't fin

Galeon - java

2002-09-19 Thread Ramon Kagan
HI, I run mozilla and netscape and have no problems with java. However, if I run galeon, all I get is "you need to install the plugin". Seeing that galeon uses mozilla, how does one get galeon to recognize that the java requirements are actually there? Ramon Kagan York University, Computing a

mouse hotspot drifts by 1/2 an inch

2002-09-19 Thread thomas kral
Dear list, I have been using woody and I am quite happy with this Debian release. Recently I have noticed a strange behaviour of the mouse pointer. Its hotspot sometimes drifts away by roughly half an inch to the left, and reboot is the only remedy. I cannot reach the left edge of the monitor

Re: user infos

2002-09-19 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Florian Struck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19-09-2002 15:07]: > Hi im just trying to figure out how to change the "from" part of a locally > sent email. Not sure if this is what you need, but have a look at /etc/email-addresses. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: PalmOSEmulator (pose) sync with Jpilot?

2002-09-19 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 03:01, Kent West wrote: > I just installed pose (Palm OS Emulator) and used the ROM from my > Handspring Visor. Very impressive emulator. > > If I want to synch it with JPilot running on the same box, how do I set > this up? Currently I have both pose and JPilot pointing t

console beep, mutt, removing compiled stuff

2002-09-19 Thread jeff
howdy folks! few questions... 1) what makes the console beep (tab-completion, hitting backspace) and how do you shut it off - permanently... setterm? 2) anyone know of a nice mutt tutorial out there? i'm starting to dump most of the gui programs in favor of text mode stuff... ala irssi/micq...

Re: Configuring w3m for Mozilla

2002-09-19 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19-09-2002 16:22]: > try running "which mozilla," minus the quotes and the comma from the > command line. Why did you put the comma there in the first place. Is it some kind of notation I have never seen before? Now it looks like: type "which mozilla have a nice day" w

Re: Spawning at Login

2002-09-19 Thread Preben Randhol
Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 19/09/2002 (16:05) : > > Hi, > I find that I get 48 'xdaliclocks' and 14 'xvidtunes' > opening up when I start a session in Gnome 1.4 ... at first > it was amusing but I have not been able to stop this either > by using the 'kill' or 'close' comman

Re: devfs changing group id for device

2002-09-19 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 06:23, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > How do I change the group ID for a device with devfs? > Right now my scanner is on: > crwx--1 root root 21, 1 Dec 31 1969 >/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target5/lun0/generic > > I have to go in and chmod 777 to run the scanner as a

Re: Galeon - java

2002-09-19 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Ramon Kagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19-09-2002 16:45]: > I run mozilla and netscape and have no problems with java. However, if I > run galeon, all I get is "you need to install the plugin". Seeing that galeon > uses mozilla, how does one get galeon to recognize that the java > requirements are a

Re: console beep, mutt, removing compiled stuff

2002-09-19 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
--jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 19 September 2002, 10:58 AM -0400): > 1) what makes the console beep (tab-completion, > hitting backspace) and how do you shut it off - > permanently... setterm? You need to add the following line to your ~/.inputrc set bell-style visible > 2) an

Re: user infos

2002-09-19 Thread Florian Struck
On Thursday 19 September 2002 16:49, Robert Ian Smit wrote: -snip- > > Not sure if this is what you need, but have a look at > /etc/email-addresses. > -snip- Yep lol as i said too easy to remember. Thanx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

RE: apt-get

2002-09-19 Thread DEFFONTAINES Vincent
apt-cache search dev | grep "\-dev" | awk '{print $1}' | grep "\-dev" | xargs apt-get install   should do it in a very dirty way ;-)     Vincent -Original Message-From: Nikodim Nikodimov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday 19 September 2002 16:36To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subje

Re: procmail locking problem

2002-09-19 Thread Kenneth Stephen
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > message should be for /var/mail/y2kmvs.lock and not /var/spool/mail. > > I like to peek into the binary to make sure of what I am getting. > Therefore I ran 'strings' on /usr/bin/procmail and see this. > > strings /usr/bin/procmail |grep /var >

Re: help with dual-head OpenGL?

2002-09-19 Thread Mike Pfleger
First; let me say thanks for the support! I figured this would be a difficult one, after the lack of results searching in google, etc. I'm going to have to spend some time scouring the XFree archives a little more thoroughly, I think. * Ignacio Solis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I haven't tri

[OT] punctuation (was Re: Configuring w3m for Mozilla)

2002-09-19 Thread DvB
Robert Ian Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19-09-2002 16:22]: > > try running "which mozilla," minus the quotes and the comma from the > > command line. > > Why did you put the comma there in the first place. Is it some kind > of notation I have never seen before?

Re: IP datagram analyzer

2002-09-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:57:23AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > I'm new to Debian and only a 1 yr vet of Linux, but 100% in the Penguin > camp now, and looking for a GUI type of program that does IP datagram > analyzing. Can anyone make any suggestions? The equivalent that ran on > Windows was S

IP datagram analyzer

2002-09-19 Thread Kevin Coyner
I'm new to Debian and only a 1 yr vet of Linux, but 100% in the Penguin camp now, and looking for a GUI type of program that does IP datagram analyzing. Can anyone make any suggestions? The equivalent that ran on Windows was Shomiti, which let you look at a datagram broken down by words and bit

Re: [OT] punctuation (was Re: Configuring w3m for Mozilla)

2002-09-19 Thread Bob Proulx
DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-19 10:50:34 -0500]: > > > try running "which mozilla," minus the quotes and the comma from the > > > command line. > I was merely following commonly accepted punctuation rules for American > English which state that, when a comma (or period) follows a quoted Ah,

Re: apache 2

2002-09-19 Thread Wayne Topa
daniel meier([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > is there a apache2 package already in debian "sarge"? couldn't find it. if > yes, whats the name of the package? > Not in sarge. Its in unstable. The names's are: apache2-common - Next generation, scalable, extendable web server apac

Re: [OT] punctuation (was Re: Configuring w3m for Mozilla)

2002-09-19 Thread DvB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-19 10:50:34 -0500]: > > > > try running "which mozilla," minus the quotes and the comma from the > > > > command line. > > > I was merely following commonly accepted punctuation rules for American > > English which state t

Re: apt-build and Athlon question

2002-09-19 Thread Travis Crump
Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi everybody > > I just installed apt-build and gcc3.2 to get some packages recompiled > Athlon-optimized. In the installation screen, it promts me for the processor > I am going to optimize for: > athlon > athlon-tbird > athlon-4 > athlon-xp > athlon-mp > > How do I fi

Re: No X after upgrade Potato -> Woody

2002-09-19 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Erik van der Meulen said: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 12:39:13PM +0200, Adam Galant wrote: > > > Try 'startx' instead of 'X'. 'X' runs onlu an X-server with no > > clients which will give you exactly what you described. With > > 'startx' you should get an X session with

Re: dselect fails to install mozilla-browser after upgrade to woody

2002-09-19 Thread Levi Waldron
On September 18, 2002 07:57 pm, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:17:31PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: > > IOn September 17, 2002 08:41 pm, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:39:03PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: [snip] > This list of depends should read: > Depend

using kernel-image-2.4.18-686, how to get rid of 5 seconds to enter shell at boot message?

2002-09-19 Thread Walter Tautz
just curious since it allows anyone to get a root shell with getting prompted for a root passwd. Also if one hits enter and then exit it fails to mount the root fs, VFS error occurs. NOTE this does not happen if the kernel is allowed to boot normally. walter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Ad removing proxies

2002-09-19 Thread Art
I've been using privoxy for some time with good success. I can't comment on the others. Art -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Woody: What's the proper name of the C++ lib?

2002-09-19 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi Colin! On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > [...] > I was assuming that it was possible to trigger the error with a single > file. I did some further investigation and it is finally possible for me to reproduce the error with only two C++ file which are however linked against various

Re: Just a tip for you zip100 users

2002-09-19 Thread John Manko
> > >>Now, maybe someone can help me get Abiword to run, hehe. >> >> No, it did not work. I'm working on it though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-build and Athlon question

2002-09-19 Thread Johannes Jörg
Thanks, Travis. I can't look at anything written, I would have to take down the cooler and reassemble my computer... better not. I don't want to destroy my processor. joerg T.C. wrote > > That is identical to my /proc/cpuinfo and I have an athlon-tbird. I > know this by looking at the invoice

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