Re: what is the sr_mod module?

it in the kernek configuration > process? It's the SCSI CDROM module. It's somewhere under the SCSI config options. If you don't have any SCSI hardware, then you would also have to enable IDE SCSI emulation. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! Those aren'

Re: .deb archive?

ive and get the corresponding .dsc and .diff.gz file and build the old package by hand. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! Hello... IRON CURTAIN? UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | Send over a SAUSAGE PIZZA! World Seattle, WA, USA| War III?

Re: cyrus and sieve: how to setup?

upstream is at 2). there are also old unresolved bugs on > cyrus - anybody knows what's going on? Is there a problem with new > cyrus? is it being packaged? (sieve is included in newer versions so I > guess it would help me to solve the above) It's very complicated to package

Re: Which mail user agent do you use?

Gnus. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! ...A housewife is wearing a UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | polypyrene jumpsuit!! Seattle, WA, USA| http://www.rudedog.org/ |

Re: apt-get - segmentaton fault

> > Could someone please tell me if they know of a way to fix or at least why > this is happening. I think that I saw this once and it was because the /var/cache/apt/archives/partial directory was missing. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! It's strange, but I

Re: Galeon 0.12 startup error

You need to do this as root: GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=xml::/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \ gconftool --makefile-install-rule /etc/gconf/schemas/galeon.schemas -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! Barbie says, Take quaaludes UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | in gin an

Re: How to run testing and stay sane?

vior, and keeps the old debs around forever. Every so often, run "apt-get autoclean" to lose old .debs that are no longer useful. --dave carrigan

Getting gnome file manager to use acroread instead of xpdf

f". To fix this, bring up the mime-properties editor, blah blah blah... I even tried logging in with a freshly-created account, with no success. Is there somebody out there that can give me a clue as to what's going on? Thanks, Dave Carrigan

Getting gnome file manager to use acroread instead of xpdf

I am having a bear of a time getting the file manager to launch acroread instead of xpdf when I double click on a .pdf file. It insists on running xpdf. I went to the Control Center->File Types and selected the application/pdf mime type. The default action is set to "Open with Application" and I ma

Re: Getting gnome file manager to use acroread instead of xpdf

On Sun, 2001-10-07 at 21:37, Dave Carrigan wrote: > I am having a bear of a time getting the file manager to launch acroread > instead of xpdf when I double click on a .pdf file. It insists on > running xpdf. I went to the Control Center->File Types and selected the > applicatio

Re: ONLINE IMMIGRATION - TRAVEL VISAS - GREEN CARD LOTTERY

thinking that we'd pretty much come full circle. Most telling is that there's no longer the same sense of outrage that C&S provoked. Anybody remember the C&S World Tour tshirts you could get with a partial list of spammed newsgroups on the back? Anyone still have one? -- Dave Carr

Re: ext3 vs xfs

e. I can't say that xfs caused the problem for sure, and I really do like xfs, but at this time, I only use ext3. This is pure anecdotal evidence, so you can take it for whatever you think it's worth. Regards, -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! ..I must be a UNIX-Apac

Re: Is anyone using woody in a production environment?

d to woody. Once the new perl and libc made it into testing, it got much harder to build and install woody packages on potato. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! You mean now I can SHOOT UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | YOU in the back and further BLUR Seattle, W

Re: compose-character in X

ys the compose character. I personally like assigning it to the Windows key, since I don't use it for anything else. I use this: xmodmap -e 'keycode 115 = Multi_key' If your keyboard doesn't use keycode 115 for that keycode, run xev and hit the key inside the xev window to see wh

Re: compose-character in X

Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 23 Jan 2002, Dave Carrigan wrote: > > > I don't think that you can make ctrl-. the compose character, but you > > can make other keys the compose character. I personally like assigning > > it

Re: Quake III

Corey Halpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > God, with wine? That'd be _glacial_. Out of curiosity, why would you say that? Have you had experience running anything under wine? I've never seen any significant performance problems with the software I've been able to r

Re: Quake III

t really seem any slower than running the same app under windows. In fact, other than the fact that some of the wine DLL's probably have extra debugging code in them right now, there isn't really any reason why a windows app should run slower under wine. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: install latest debian 2.4.16 kernelimage has devfs activated, why?

Some people want devfs. Devfs can't be created as a module. Hence, the logical choice is to build the kernel with devfs support. Nothing's forcing you to use devfs, even if your kernel has devfs support, and the overhead is not very much. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: install latest debian 2.4.16 kernelimage has devfs activated, why?

othing magic about the filenames in /dev, which is why devfs can refer to /dev/hda1 as /dev/discs/disc0/part1. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! I'm EMOTIONAL now because I UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | have MERCHANDISING CLOUT!! Seattle, WA, USA| http://www.rudedog.org/ |

Re: Saved mail viewer

csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking for a stand-alone text viewer that filters out the mail > headers in saved mail, basically a prettifier. Is there such an animal? perl -ne 'print if /^$/ .. /^From /' saved_mail_file -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTEC

Re: galeon compile

libglade0-dev - Development files for libglade. Probably some or all of the above, although I don't know exactly which ones. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! Uh-oh!! I forgot to submit UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | to COMPULSORY URINALYSIS! Seattle, WA

Re: searching module Apache-LDAP

I would like to know how I can install apxs or if somebody has already > compile this module, is it possible that you send it to me? apxs is most likely in the apache-dev package. There is also the libapache-auth-ldap module, but that's not the same LDAP module that you want to compil

Re: Emacs browse-url.el and galeon or skipstone browsers?

because I know that galeon will always have been started with that value. This works for me under xemacs. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! An INK-LING? Sure -- TAKE UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | one!! Did you BUY any COMMUNIST Seattle, WA,

Re: Compile vs. Apt-get(was woody+php+php-nuke)

install a .deb using dpkg (atp,dselect,etc.). What are you doing that you feel you need to compile packages that are already in the Debian archives? If you give us some more information, we might be able to point you to the "correct" procedures. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Compile vs. Apt-get(was woody+php+php-nuke)

es.list: deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free After doing an apt-get update, you can now do apt-get source php4 cd php4-x.xx debuild binary You now have a .deb that you can install with dpkg -i, and that will be treated just like any other D

Re: csh [was: Using tar saving Disk-space]

solid shell. I like bash better, but I would still use ksh over csh. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! I always have fun because UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | I'm out of my mind!!! Seattle, WA, USA| http://www.rudedog.org/ |

Re: xdm and gdm

technical reason why multiple display managers cannot run on a single box, I think that the trend to conflict with other display managers in the {x,w,k,g}dm packages is not such a good idea. It hasn't yet irritated me enough to get off my ass and file a bug report though. -- Dave Carr

Re: xdm and gdm

eb packages of gdm? Add a deb-src for unstable or testing to your sources.list, apt-get source gdm, debuild... -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! I just had my entire UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | INTESTINAL TRACT coated with Seattle, WA, USA| TEFLON! http://www.rudedog.org/ |

Re: duplicating a partition

stab and lilo.conf to represent the new root disk. Then, do chroot /mnt lilo to install a new version of lilo. Alter instructions accordingly if you use a different boot loader. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! .. I feel.. JUGULAR.. UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP

Re: Problems with symbolic links under /dev

nnot open SCSI driver. > cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you > are root. > > Can anybody point me towards insight? Do you have SCSI generic support compiled into your kernel (CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG). If it's a module, you have to `modprobe sg&#x

Re: Moving to reiserfs with kernel 2.4.3

ning affected lilo, which makes sense, since the boot partition isn't being moved, it's just being shrunk. If it does affect lilo, then add a step after the parted and before rebooting: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt chroot /mnt lilo -v I honestly can't recall if I had to do tha

Re: dselect, can't do update

org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages and apt did not download a new one on the next dselect update. I think maybe it compares timestamps and does not download a new packages file if the local one is newer. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! The FALAFEL SANDWICH l

Re: Moving to reiserfs with kernel 2.4.3

system now booting with xfs / filesystem on /dev/hda3. If you don't want to keep your disks partitioned, then you could use parted to resize the partitions again, and use the filesystem resizing tools for xfs (or reiserfs). I've never done that. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECT

Re: rescue cd

sic idea. Also, VMWare is awesome for testing boot disks. You still have to burn a physical CD, but it's still better than trying to test on a physical box. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! Hydraulic pizza oven!! UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | Guided missi

Re: Why can't I?

ther tiny gain in security is worth the significant effort and deep understanding needed to do it. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! .. I'm IMAGINING a UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | sensuous GIRAFFE, CAVORTING in Seattle, WA, USA

Re: FTP/User access, was: Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

dable home directories? yes $ dpkg --status adduser | grep -i version Version: 3.37 Cheers, -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! I'll clean your ROOM!! I UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | know some GOOD stories, too!! Seattle, WA, USA

Re: Run script as often as possible

e run file exists, exit. > Is this the best way? Run it from init by putting an entry into your inittab. As soon as it exits, init will respawn it. The upside is that there is no need to do locking or process synchronization. The following inittab entry would work. mysc:2345:respawn:/path/to/myscrip

Re: Run script as often as possible

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 04:49:49PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > That runs the script as root, right? If you wanted to run it with as > another user, would you just stick a bit of sudo in that inittab > entry? Sure: mysc:2345:respawn:su - someuser -c /path/to/myscript -- Dave Carriga

Re: Sound recording in ALSA

pt to > record the sound that's being played through my speakers to a file. Make sure both the line device and the master capture device are enabled and have a non-zero input volume. In kmix for my sound card, the capture device is on the far right. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMA

Re: Ether-what? Where is the coming from?

the size of the resulting files. The biggest file is the culprit. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL Dave is currently listening to The Sugarcubes - Hot Meat

Re: libapache-auth-ldap with SSL not compiling

wouldn't have to patch and recompile the ldap module. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL Dave is currently listening to Tom Robinson Band - All Right All Night (

Re: upgrading KDE

g a desktop system, you might want to consider using unstable rather than testing. > As an alternative, and I hate to even suggest this, is it generally > considered a Bad Thing (tm) to use RPMs in Debian? It will cause you all kinds of grief. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Sarge: nVidia proprietary driver vs. udev

so make sure the nvidia0 device exists in that directory, and add nvidia to your /etc/modules file, and it should load for you at boot time. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreS

Re: AMD 64 build absolutely necessary for install on Athlon 64?

4. IA64 is not AMD64. It's not surprising that it won't boot. You can get the AMD64 installer from alioth or you can just install a 32-bit version. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++

Re: Will debian grow and stay

and that was back in the 20th century. Try doing a little basic research and leave this mailing list for actually discussing issues to users of Debian. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-Pal

Re: amd64 build necessary to get nvidia nforce3 mobo working?

t be more trouble than it's > worth?" I'm running Debian/i386 on a Shuttle SN85G4V2, which is a nForce 3 150. Sound and network work fine. Network did not work fine with the 2.6.7 kernels and below, but I believe the latest sarge installers use 2.6.8. -- Dave Carrigan Seattl

Re: Recommendations on SCSI controller for Debian desktop

be spending a premium to use SCSI. SCSI really shines when multiple devices are contending for the bus. If you want to spend your money making you system faster, buy as much RAM as your system can hold. That being said, pretty much any Adaptec card will work well for you. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle,

Re: mouse-2 and S-ins use different copy buffers

same thing is probably because the PRIMARY selection and the CLIPBOARD are still the same (i.e., nothing new has been selected since the last time CLIPBOARD was updated). -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewa

Re: bash: can I cd from a script

quot; would change directories to foo and list it. If your script is really complicated, alter it a bit so it prints out the directory to change to and you can still do it as a function: mycd() { cd `my-big-script "$*"` } my-big-script: #! /bin/sh # Do lots of stuff echo /the/new/d

Re: batch renaming for filenames with space

s. > Any ideas? > > The files are named "Copy of ..." and I want to drop the Copy of part. > I tried to do > for file in `ls -1`; do > cp $file `echo -n "$file" | sed 's/Copy of \(.*\)/\1/'` > done Assuming you're using bash: for f in *

Re: nfs problem

ng either, thats why I find it strange. There have been some bugs in recent versions of nfs-kernel-server and/or nfs-common. Make sure you're running the most recent ones or else downgrade to 1.0.3-1. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:16166

Re: combining multiple ip's into one variable on iptables script?

t each host variable as a list, and loop over the list: APT_MIRROR_AC_UK="194.83.57.3 194.83.57.7" for host in $APT_MIRROR_AC_UK; do iptables -A block ... -s $host -j ACCEPT done This still would work correctly even if at a later date you changed APT_MIRROR_AC_UK to

Re: nfs problem

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:28:29AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 07:51, Dave Carrigan wrote: > > Make sure you're running the most recent ones or else > > downgrade to 1.0.3-1. > # dpkg -l | grep nfs > ii nfs-common 1.0.3-2 NFS support files

Re: Building a mail server

on an IMAP server. Not even sure what's available for a server-side > filter, and what MTAs it's compatible with. Sendmail is the tried and true > proven system, but from what I understand it doesn't support maildirs, which > makes postfix look good, as postfix also

Re: New Sarge NFS Server Unexporting after certain interval?

forward way for doing that? Go to snapshot.debian.net and find the old .debs. Use the changelog.Debian.gz file to figure out how far back in time you need to go. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DN

Re: nfs problem

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:39:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Thanks. Does sid's 1.0.5-1 work? Yes, seems to be working for me. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-Po

Re: Doesn't MY_ENV=abc printf "${MY_ENV}\n" suppose to print abc?

shell, the expansion results in an empty string. The printf command doesn't even see MY_ENV in its arguments, all it sees is a single argument that looks like ``\n''. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Lin

Re: Doesn't MY_ENV=abc printf "${MY_ENV}\n" suppose to print abc?

$ env | grep FOO FOO=bar $ perl -e 'print $ENV{FOO}, "\n";' bar # Un-set FOO $ unset FOO $ env | grep FOO $ perl -e 'print $ENV{FOO}, "\n";' # Now, use variable assignment notation to set FOO for a subcommand $ FOO=bar env | grep FOO FOO=bar

Re: Doesn't MY_ENV=abc printf "${MY_ENV}\n" suppose to print abc?

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 06:57:44AM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Sat, August 02 at 12:08 PM EDT > Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The "MY_ENV=abc printf" syntax sets the environment variable for the > >printf subprocess. And, in fact, when printf r

Re: [OT] Utility to lookup hosts on an IP address

that Apache's mod_info can tell you all of the virtual hosts on a single IP, but the Apache admin would first have to enable it and second would have to be stupid (or brave) enough to allow access to it on the public internet. (*) This is an exercise left for the reader. -- Dave Carrigan Seat

Re: How long can we avoid using kernel 2.6.x ?

re? I personally don't anticipate upgrading any of my production kernels for 6 months to a year, or even longer. From a security perspective, the 2.4 kernels will continue to be actively maintained, so the only reason to switch is if you need something in the 2.6 kernel that the 2.4 kernel doesn&#x

Re: upgrade to 2.4.27 kills VMWare?

the kernel-headers-2.4.27-1-686 package, then you tell vmware that your kernel headers are in /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.27-1-686/include -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-Postgre

Re: Junk flags in firefox

-specific. Some servers allow the client to define new keyword flags, but it is not a requirement for a server. See section 2.3.2 of RFC 3501. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS

Re: APIC: what is it good for? Can I switch it off?

be the cause of your problems. Disabling APIC may help with your system instability and won't cause you any issues on a fileserver. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL Dav

Re: GCC

ecall, and gcc at that time was not good enough, but it was not 2.95. Regards, -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: cyrus fun

n if you're running stable, I'm pretty sure you can find a backport. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: IMAP problems

LOGOUT How is your sasl config set up in imapd.conf? I have: sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sasl_auto_transition: no Then in /etc/default/saslauthd, I have START=yes MECHANISMS=shadow After changing /etc/default/saslauthd, make sure you (re)start it. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAI

Re: cyrus fun

ing unless you're ready to upgrade a *lot* of stuff. Actually, you shouldn't run testing at all; stick to stable or unstable. However, Henrique (the Debian cyrus maintainer) has backports for woody, so you shouldn't need to upgrade. Just add this deb http://people.debian.org/~hmh/w

Re: IMAP server to fit this bill?

gt;From escape is another ugly hack); it's dangerous (better hope everything accessing the mbox is using - and honoring - the same locking scheme). Did I mention that it's slow yet? -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-

Re: IMAP server to fit this bill?

#x27;m mistaken in that mutt and elmo > can access Cyrus' DBs directly? :P I'm using mutt and I'm using cyrus, so I'm not sure what this means. If you're implying that you can't read your mail without an imap client, then I'll concede that. Big deal. For me

Re: IMAP server to fit this bill?

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 11:22:47AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Dave Carrigan wrote: > >As for putting extra headers into a message, I'm not sure why you think > >this is a problem. That's what headers are for -- to convey > >meta-information about a message. > &g

Re: [OT] How big are Logitech's balls?

ll and let me know? It's 40mm. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL Dave is currently listening to Big Country - One In A Million (Why The Long Face) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [OT] How big are Logitech's balls?

roblems, and the linux kernel recognizes it specifically... I like the Kensington Export Mouse, which is a 4-button optical trackball (USB) with a nice big ball, plus a spinning disc around the ball that acts like the wheel in a wheel mouse. It's also symmetrical. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, U

Re: .deb dependancy hell

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:56:24AM -0500, Richard Hoskins wrote: > On unstable, i386. > > Kind of reminds me of RPM: ...snip dpkg -r lossage Why aren't you just using apt-get remove libgphoto2-2 Dpkg was never designed to handle dependencies; apt was. -- Dave Carrigan Se

Re: script to list installed packages

" in its name and is in a non-installed state. Also, this will miss held packages. Better would be dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2 ~ "install|hold" {print $1}' -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Per

Re: Alternative to VMware?

ithout > rebooting into a seperate partition. > > What do other people use? VMWare is the only game in town. win4lin is windows only. Bochs has potential, but is nowhere near there. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache

Re: What's the easiest way to move some files in a directory tree?

ou do -pdml instead of -pdm, because it'll just create hard links instead of copying the file contents, and it won't use any significant extra space between step 1 and 2. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Fir

Re: GCC

dards committee decided that the most straightforward approach would be to eliminate the extension altogether. Not also that if you want to include C headers (e.g., stdlib.h), the correct include is #include NOT #include -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.ru

Re: GCC

hey want. For example, boost uses .hpp. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: GCC

her C++, because their iostream.h (if it even exists) may or may not behave like your iostream.h. Conversely, their *will* behave like yours, or else one of the vendors has a bug with their implementation. Bugs like this are still a common and sad fact, but the situation would be much worse if none of your vendors followed a standard at all. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: GCC

. If you want more information, you should look at items 28 and 49 in Meyers' _Effective C++_, or take it up with the C++ gurus in comp.lang.C++{,.moderated}. As a final note, namespaces are here to stay whether you like it or not, so you may want to spend your time finding another windmill

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

before my upgrades. I also know how to downgrade stuff from snapshot.debian.net, and have done so on many occasions when an update from unstable has broken something. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

ALSA > Lexmark Z13 Not well supported under linux, but see http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Lexmark-Z13 > Canon i560 Dunno. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-

Re: repetitive apt-get upgrade

ttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=366438 -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL-Postfix Dave is currently listening to Jason Ringenberg - Bible And A Gun (All Over Crea

Re: Flatbed Scanner

h luck with scanning negatives (although I haven't tried lately, so maybe the scanning software has improved). -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL-Postfix Dave is currently li

Re: OT: Some advice on perl: read byte to hex string

#get the low nibble > $str2 = hec($c2); #convert to hex $str2 = sprintf("%02x", ord($c) & 0x0f); -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-Pal

Re: find by year

r /tmp/start -a ! -newer /tmp/end - -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudeog.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFI76bf1psBSgxx0sRAvyMAKCXpcWlb37WYRsAtw+GtiTf4hpOSwCfVDif kDbRso6N1T0OnLdj5H8ZnbY= =AgJn -END PGP SIGNATU

Re: md5sum lots of files

r find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum > /tmp/source.sums cd /dest/dir find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum > /tmp/dest.sums diff -u /tmp/source.sums /tmp/dest.sums -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudeog.org PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: md5sum lots of files

print0 is not line-oriented. Instead, you should sort the output: find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | sort -k 2 > /tmp/source.sums -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudeog.org PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: sony clie 320 with gnome-pilot

a Clié; 0.9 seems to have a lot of problems with communicating with the Clié. Alternatively, you could just use Coldsync. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! Where's my SOCIAL WORKER? UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | Seattle, WA, USA| http://www.rudedog.org/ |

Re: daylight savings time

t set correctly if the /etc/localtime file contains the correct timezone info file. You can copy a file from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime, or use the tzconfig program, which does essentially the same thing. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! I once decorated my UNIX-

Re: daylight savings time

1017 Mar 31 10:27 /etc/localtime 38530 -rw-r--r--4 root root 1017 Mar 24 08:59 /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific $ diff /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! Alright, you!! Imitate a UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewa

Re: HAS Galeon UI changed?

s really hard when the title of the galeon icon is just the title the last web page you were viewing (i.e., just about anything). It was much better when I could have a title of 'Galeon - Web Page Title'. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! .. the HIGHWAY is made out UNI

Re: linux vs. windows in the sound arena

ettings, and rebooting, rebooting, rebooting, and I still don't have a working Win98 box, unless you consider 8-bit 640x480 on a 21" monitor "working". -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! Am I in Milwaukee? UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | Seattle,

Re: .ape files

andle it at http://www.rarewares.org/. I would recommend decoding them and re-encoding them in something that is free. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL-Postfix signature.asc Desc

Re: IMAP Server Requirement

r needs, cyrus is probably good because it doesn't require local user accounts. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL-Postfix Dave is currently listening to Camper Van Beethov

Re: virtual machine

y beefy machine (mine is an a64 with 2G of memory), you will find the performance of the virtual machine to be more than adequate without adversely affecting the performance of the host machine. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Fir

Re: default group ownership of a file

, which is nearly identical to the basic su command, but for groups. The id command will tell you what your uid and gid is, and also what groups you are a member of. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS

Apt keeps wanting to upgrade mailman

ng dependency tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded: mailman 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Inst mailman [2.1.8-1] (0:2.1.8-1 Debian:unstable) Conf mailman (0:2.1.8-1 Debian:unstable) It's getting very annoying. -- Dave Carrigan Seattl

Re: What filesystems does LVM (lvm2?) support?

e to unmount it to do so. Reiserfs can grow and shrink, but again it has to be unmounted to do so. All that is mostly from memory so YMMV. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL-

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