can anacron run regular user jobs?

Can "anacron" also run jobs for regular users (i.e., not "root"), just like one can with regular cron? It appears not to support this feature directly, but perhaps there's still some relatively clean way of doing it... -- Maciej Kalisiak mac "at" dgp.to

Ctrl+Alt+1 not generated in X11, but Ctrl+Alt+[2-9] is

n setup? (preferably on a setup similar to mine: Debian is setup here on a DELL Inspiron 7000 laptop; even a desktop Pentium II or higher might be still a good point of reference). -- Maciej Kalisiak mac "at" dgp.toronto.edu www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Ctrl+Alt+1 not generated in X11, but Ctrl+Alt+[2-9] is

gged > in! the tech put in his notes, must use factory keyboard. :) Good try, but no, I don't have any external keyboard plugged into the laptop. -- Maciej Kalisiak mac "at" dgp.toronto.edu www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT -- gentle makefile assistance?

imilated? it's gonna be something obvious, i can tell... What event do you want to trigger the fns.sql rule? -- Maciej Kalisiak mac "at" dgp.toronto.edu www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

finding out more info on "SHARE" memory

With "top" you are given the amount of memory that a given process shares with others (the "SHARE" column). Is there a way to find out what these other processes are? Any other info you can find out, like what libraries are being shared? -- Maciej Kalisiak mac

looking inside zip/tar files with nautilus2

install in order to be able to look inside various archives? (i.e., *.zip, *.tar, *.gz, *.bz, etc) Currently, when I click on one of the archives, Nautilus complains that it has no install viewer capable of opening those files. -- Maciej Kalisiak mac "at" dgp.t

changing icon set in 'gmc'

I'm a GNOME newbie, and don't really use it. I occasionally like to use "gmc", but really dislike the color scheme for the icons used for the folders, arrows, etc. Is there some way I can change the icons used? Are there any alternate icon sets available, like they are for n

Re: Parallel port problem - No printing possible

parport0 (or something like that) instead of lp0. I am not able to > print either way though. I think I've ran across this myself before: the problem was that unlike kernel 2.0.x, in 2.2.x the first parallel port, parport0, is mapped to lp1. Try updating your printcap, and see if that helps.

Re: Configuring X

y spec sheet for your laptops display, usually in the manuals. Look for a page entitled monitor/display specifications. Hope this helps. -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0 1E 5D 20 0B 31 3D 37

Re: Who is using up my root partition?

partitions and reserves that space on the / partition. I doubt it, but... -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0 1E 5D 20 0B 31 3D 37 47 D0 67 C7 GE/CS d- s++:+ a- C++(+++) ULAI++ P+++ L+++ E+++ W++ N-

Re: AWE-soundcard problem (potato)

ually generated from /etc/modutils/*, so you put this in a file, say /etc/modutils/stuff_added_by_me) I use the following options: options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 Check documentation on what else you can configure there. -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |

AWE64 making loud noise on bootup

attach one of these mornings... :) -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0 1E 5D 20 0B 31 3D 37 47 D0 67 C7 GE/CS d- s++:+ a- C++(+++) ULAI++ P+++ L+++ E+++ W++ N- o? K? !w--- O- M- V-- PS PE+ Y+ PGP+

Re: AWE64 making loud noise on bootup

er any other problems, I just followed the AWE32/64 FAQ. Mind you that PnP stuff was not pretty... > No, really, congratulations on getting it to work. I gave up and just > got a $20 ensonic. which works like a charm. How is it? It's a wavetable synthesis card too, right? How's

Re: AWE64 making loud noise on bootup

On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 07:06:57AM -0400, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Maciej Kalisiak hat gesagt: // Maciej Kalisiak wrote: > > > Has anyone experienced their AWE64 soundcard making a loud > > clash/crash/explosion noise during bootup? Is there a fix? > > > > I'

Re: AWE64 making loud noise on bootup

maybe. What exactly do you mean by "dropping the midi"? Not loading MIDI support in the kernel? -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0 1E 5D 20 0B 31 3D 37 47 D0 67 C7 GE/CS d- s++:+ a-

Re: AWE64 making loud noise on bootup

ot! I do want to finally stop turning off the machine but 1) I'm still worried my box is not as secure as I would like it to be (I have a cablemodem so it's always hooked up to the net) 2) I don't really run any services that would warrant 24h uptime; and 3) my wife won't l

Re: AWE64 making loud noise on bootup

t think I'm loading the soundbank (that's the MIDI stuff, right? with 'sfxload'?) Well, I'll trying moving up gom to somewhere earlier in the sequence. How much earlier can I move it up? I suspect it can't be at S00... -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Strange network behavior after reboot

ust updated my netbase package today from woody and lo is still commented out. -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0 1E 5D 20 0B 31 3D 37 47 D0 67 C7 GE/CS d- s++:+ a- C++(+++) ULAI++ P+++ L+++ E+++ W++

Re: acroread

partition they are on depends on your setup. They are probably on "/" (the root partition). -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0 1E 5D 20 0B 31 3D 37 47 D0 67 C7 GE/CS d- s++:+ a- C++(+

Re: dictd cannot access localhost

commented out for some reason. Uncomment the line iface lo inet loopback in /etc/network/interfaces and all should be well (you'll have to do 'ifup -a' after that to get lo to actually come up). -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~m

Re: dictd cannot access localhost

sure 'dictd' is running with something like "ps ax | grep dictd" -- who knows, maybe it just died... -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0 1E 5D 20 0B 31 3D 37 47 D0 67 C7 GE/CS d

Re: dictd cannot access localhost

d > bash-2.01# ps ax | grep dictd > 508 ? S0:00 grep dictd > I tried to reinstall dictd but it did not fix the problem. > Do you know what else I could try? Ahhh, 'dictd' appears to have died. You need to execute "/etc/init.d/dictd restart". -

Re: dictd cannot access localhost

... Check your /var/log/{messages,syslog,...} for any relevant info on why it's exiting/crashing. There's bound to be some info. You also might want to do "ldd `which dictd`" to see whether all the required libraries are there. -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: KDE2 dependence problem

packages and give you a proper KDE setup. You still might have to install some KDE packages you want that it missed, but in general I've gotten the best results that way. -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9

capt & sig11: reproducible bug

capt' dies with: khazad-dum:/home/mac# capt Exit: "Signal Handler (sig11)" -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0 1E 5D 20 0B 31 3D 37 47 D0 67 C7 GE/CS d- s++:+ a- C++(+++) ULAI++ P+++ L+

Re: capt & sig11: reproducible bug

On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 10:50:56PM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak wrote: > I seem to recall someone was talking about how `capt' would randomly die on > them with signal 11. I have found a 100% reproducible case. Whenever I run > `capt' in an xterm under the `icewm' window manag

Re: mpage & PS docs -- 1-up => 2-up fsckups. StarOffice?

psnup". The main difference, other than psnup working *much* better, is that you cannot convert text to PS using psnup; not a big loss, you can always do that with mpage then. -- Maciej Kalisiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac

Re: Opinia

Walcie sie na ryj z > > t± wasz± strychnin±. I zmieñcie nazwê na 'dewiant" (hue hue hue..) Unfortunately the original post was a troll, and a very poor one at that; definitely not worth anyone's time. I have the misfortune of sharing nationality with that luser. -- M

Re: nvidia + GL = X crash

ose apps. Do "ldd `which tuxracer`", and see if all the OpenGL libraries that are loaded are from NVidia. -- Maciej Kalisiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac

Re: Who are the shitheads at Debian?

unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] To the folks flaming (albeit gently) this guy: Somehow I have a hard time believing that a PhD student, especially from a decent university, would write such drivel. I suspect that instead someone has sniffed his password and is having a bit of

Re: Who are the shitheads at Debian?

On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 01:33:30PM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak wrote: > I suspect that instead someone has sniffed his password and is having a bit > of "fun". It could also turn out that this is just a silly psychological experiment to gauge how online communities react to abuse, etc.

not all packages showing up with "dpkg -l"?

ll the desired package. So if this package exists, why isn't it listed in "dpkg -l foo"??? Help. :) -- Maciej Kalisiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac

Re: Which IMAP server to use

pool/mail, > and derivatives), it was written for the specific purpose of providing IMAP > access to Maildirs. Did something change? -- Maciej Kalisiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac

Re: Load crash from speakers at startup

SoundBlaster module loading; I guess it does some output test, and bootup the volume levels are cranked up. I wasn't able to get rid off it, until I went to kernel 2.2.17, and the problem just disappeared... -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [M

how to grep without changing timestamps?

to figure this out). Occasionally I do want to include the mail folders in my greps, so bypassing the "mail" directory is not a solution. -- Maciej Kalisiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac

Re: how to grep without changing timestamps?

ng other things, you check whether modify time > access time. This is because when mail is appended to your spool file, the modify time stamp is updated, but not the access one. The access time stamp is then modified when you actually look at the spool file (with some sort of disk/file "read" operation). -- Maciej Kalisiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac

Re: pdflatex and dvips+ps2pdf

//www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/543e.htm Essentially you're getting bitmap fonts in the PDF, which is what makes it look so ugly. The above link discusses solutions. For more related links have a look at (at the bottom of the page): http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac/dgp/tex_to_pdf.html

what happened to smpeg?

It appears when I search for it on the Debian webpages, but when I go to download it, it cannot be found... -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0 1E 5D 20 0B 31 3D 37 47 D0 67 C7 GE/CS d- s

Re: CVS question

ted]: correct above errors first! I think you'll have to get rid of the sticky bit first. I am attaching a blurb (which I think I found originally on DejaNews) on how to do it "correctly"; it worked for me, YMMV. -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.to

Re: Web Browser

3m' is incredible! I love the funky mouse integration (especially the drag scrolling!). Thank you for pointing this wonderful application out to this poor soul, who's suffered long enough with lynx... -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ

slrn+NNTP help

etc. I've done pretty much all I could think off. Any suggestions? I am using the newest version of slrn (i.e., apt-getted it today). -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0 1E 5D 20 0B 31 3D 37 47

Re: slrn+NNTP help

On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 04:13:04PM -0400, John F. Davis wrote: > I don't know if this will help, but I had to set the read active flag to true. > Otherwise, I never got any groups from my isp. Nope, didn't help. Thanks for the try. -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL

Re: slrn+NNTP help: SOLVED!

I figured out what the problem was: a couple of years ago I did once try slrn, and used it for a bit. Apparently in my .bashrc I still had a leftover alias from way back then: alias slrn = 'slrn"" -C --spool' Dohhhhhhhh! -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[E

perl-base package of wrong version?

ge perl-base" it won't let me, saying this package is essential. Can anyone enlighten me on what's going on? Thanks. Confusedly yours, -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0 1E 5D 20

pthreads man pages?

Are these available in any Debian package? -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0 1E 5D 20 0B 31 3D 37 47 D0 67 C7 GE/CS d- s++:+ a- C++(+++) ULAI++ P+++ L+++ E+++ W++ N- o? K? !w--- O- M- V-- PS P

Re: mutt not y2k compliant???

Not mutt > though - it displays the same entry as: Yes, that version was buggy. You should upgrade to version 1.0, which fixes this bug. -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0 1E 5D 20 0B 31 3D 37 47 D

Re: mutt: mailbox is read only

mally from elm. I had this happen to me a while back, but it might not be the same problem as yours. The problem was that file locking wasn't working properly. But if this was the case on your system I think elm would complain also. See if pine complains. -- Maciej Kalis

Postfix causing ICMP errors (according to 'ippl')

APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder ii ippl 1.4.8-1IP protocols logger Can anyone recommend a strategy for tracking down the source of the problem? -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0

Re: Postfix causing ICMP errors (according to 'ippl')

VersionDescription +++-==-==- pn midentd (no description available) pn oidentd (no description available) ii pidentd3.0.4-2TCP/IP IDENT protocol server. -- Maciej Kalisiak | &

Debian equivalent of RH's rc.local?

is in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, or something similar. -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0 1E 5D 20 0B 31 3D 37 47 D0 67 C7 GE/CS d- s++:+ a- C++(+++) ULAI++ P+++ L+++ E+++ W++ N- o? K? !w--- O- M- V-- PS PE

Re: Batch rename files

ath and make it executable). To do what you want you just give the following command in your shell: $ rename 's{foo-(.)-bar-(..)\.txt}{blah-\1-\2.txt}' *.txt -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5)

"menu" entries always sorted

sion 2.1.5-3 of "menu", and WindowMaker. One other thing. Is the menu optimization code sufficiently stable? It runs fine for me as superuser, but when run as a normal user it dumps all the Game menu entries into the top-level menu (which then has about 100 entries). Anyhow, kudos to

Re: dumb question, sorry in advance

On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 12:20:51AM -0500, dkphoto wrote: > /user/games/nameYourGame You just answered your own question. -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0 1E 5D 20 0B 31 3D 37 47 D0 67 C

dhcp-client trying to configure `lo'(loopback)

ought the interface down). Is this intentional? I just did "apt-get install dhcp-client" this morning, so this is the most recent version of the package. -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ] PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0

ALSA with AWE64: help

kernel I built myself (which does have AWE and sound support, as it works without ALSA), or rather I'm weary of having apt-get mess around with my kernel bits. -- Maciej Kalisiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac

Re: MUAs and timestamps, was Re: how to grep without changing timestamps?

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:45:29PM -0500, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: [-->8-- a very nice'n'quick script ---] Perfect! Thanks to all who replied, all your suggestions were helpful. I'll probably use Erdmut's script as it's so "nice, short and clean" and be