Re: Laptop Network Card and X-windows Issues...

2005-05-26 Thread Matej Cepl
s.mit.edu testing/main Packages 4.1.0-16woody6 0 500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages chelcicky:matej$ (do the same with /etc/init.d/kdm -- that's what starts KDE). Good luck! Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BA

Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients (was: A question about chatting)

2006-07-24 Thread Matej Cepl
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I've been trying many of the above tools. > I confess that it's not clear to me what the advantage should > be in using Jabber with its more or less complicated system > of gateways instead of Gaim or other multi-protocol IM client > that connect "natively" to ICQ or MSN > i

Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients

2006-07-24 Thread Matej Cepl
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > What Jabber client do you use? What the best? I use kopete because of integration to KDE (and decent IRC client), but what's the best is very loaded question. Run apt-cache search jabber client and you will get what's available. Most widely used on Linux are: * Kopete (

Re: Old versions Backports?

2006-07-24 Thread Matej Cepl
> Is there an official web page on the debian site that deals > with backports? First item in google search "Debian backports" ;-) Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-12

Re: install cd for sid

2006-07-24 Thread Matej Cepl
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I usually install sid by dist-upgrading from a sarge install > cd. But that's a pain. This is the place for sid install cd's? Why not to use ISOs for testing -- http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ -- there is not that much difference between the two currentl

Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients

2006-07-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Paul Johnson wrote: > Kopete won't let you do service discovery, Not true with 0.12. > GAIM's just plain annoying (why does it open new windows for what should > be an ignored line in STDERR?) and doesn't have service discovery I said politely that "it is not that strict about Jabber standards"

Re: etch installer on dialup line?

2006-07-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > D-i keeps looking for a network presence. > > Has anybody installed on a dialup line? Do you need really real Debian? This https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ may be interesting alternative if you can survive with (Ku|U)buntu. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3

Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients

2006-07-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Paul Johnson wrote: > That's odd, Debian's 3.5.3 version of Kopete still doesn't do it. 0.12 < > 3.5.3... I said, that it has not been packaged for Debian yet. (3.5.3 is version of KDE, not Kopete which is there in version 0.10). > I don't have a problem with it taking advantage of kparts, it's

JFS stability [Was: Re: If you are running XFS and a 2.6.17(.x) kernel...]

2006-07-25 Thread Matej Cepl
CJ van den Berg wrote: > This bug has caused serious data loss on my systems and no end of > headaches in the last two weeks. I really hope the fix goes into a debian > kernel soon to save others the pain. Just curious -- this is not the first report about crash and loss of data I heard about XFS.

Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients

2006-07-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Paul Johnson wrote: > Hmm, what's the deal with the kopete package version being radically wrong > then? kopete is still just part of kdenetwork package, except that now they decided that they want to make swifter development cycle than KDE itself so they declared independence. Except that KDE-Qt

Re: Debian on i486

2006-07-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Leonid Grinberg wrote: > I am hopefully going to recieve an old i486 machine, and for kicks, I > thought that it would be nice to install Debian. Does anyone know how > I would go about doing this, as well as how much success I should > expect to get? Obviously, Debian no longer supports i486, but

Desktop linux-image

2006-07-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, does anybody know about a repository which would have %subj% (as up-to-date as possible)? I am thinking about things like CONFIG_PREEMPT, SWSUSP2, etc.) Thanks, Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Building deb package?

2006-07-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Bruno Buys wrote: > How do I build a deb package, after successfully compiling from source, > so as dpkg can be aware of it? If anybody have any links or reading > references thatd be great, so i don't feel so lazy. > thanks! apt-cache show maint-guide Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1B

Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients

2006-07-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Paul Johnson wrote: > I meant in general, the whole genre of multi-IM software. This is not fair -- the fact one program is crap (and even commercial one) doesn't mean that similar programs are crap as well. Windows NT is piece of sh..t, so Linux has to be bad as well :-). >> I talked about that

Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients

2006-07-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm not sure the Soviet Union didn't have help. They were plagued by > power-hungry party officials and translators that accidentally > mistranslate morbid but harmless Russian idioms into outward threats. > Had Lenin not seized power and disposed of Marx, Stalin not have eve

Re: Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 - a beginner's query/request

2006-07-26 Thread Matej Cepl
Felix Karpfen wrote: > This posting is an advance-request to include "update from Debian 3.1" > instructions in the proposed release of Debian 4.0. If existing > documentation applies, a relevant URL would suffice. Just stick this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/d

Re: Installation problems

2006-07-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Stephen Cormier wrote: > You can use "apt-cache search linux-image smp" without the quotes and it > should show you the available smp kernels to install I'm sure there is a > way to search this using aptitude but I never have used it. Once you find aptitude search 'linux-image smp' > a suitable o

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-07-27 Thread Matej Cepl
djhack wrote: > Kmail - Configured it, and got test messages in and out then it started > to complain the POP3 was broken. Never got any messages from the list. > Could not get it going again. This is not good attitude -- try to find out what's the problem and make it work. We can help you with it

Re: Step-by-step package guide?

2006-07-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Paul Johnson wrote: > I already looked there first. The "Packaging" section is three sentences > long and basically shoos you off to the dh_make(8) manpage. You haven't looked long enough http://www.us.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/index.en.html is quite big document. Matěj -- GPG Finger

Re: Step-by-step package guide?

2006-07-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Paul Johnson wrote: > I've looked through the Debian reference as mentioned elsethread and > discovered dh-make, but I'm having some difficulty understanding how > dh_make > works from the dh_make manpage. Is there any step-by-step guide to doing > this? Unpack the original tarball. Then if you a

Re: pine

2006-07-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Anton Piatek wrote: > Anyone know if "pine" is in debian? I can't find it... > If you know where it is, let me know! It is not. http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-software.en.html#s-pine Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jab

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Carl Fink wrote: > Should I file a wishlist bug, requesting that xpdf suggest msttcorefonts, > given that PDF creators including the US government assume everyone uses > Windows and has Arial? No, you should read xpdf(5) (that's not xpdf(1)). Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3

Re: Step-by-step package guide?

2006-07-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Magnus Therning wrote: > If you want to package software for Debian then the maintainer's guide > is required reading (IMNSHO). Read the whole thing, then package > something, then read it again :-) Then run it through lintian and linda and you have couple of hours of good works ahead of you ;-).

Re: rsync, ssh, scp: How to send via eth1 or higher ?

2006-07-28 Thread Matej Cepl
Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > is there any way, to send files over a device greater than eth0 ? > > If eth0 is online, ssh, scp and rsync always wants to send over eth0. In > the manpages I found no way to change it. This really doesn't make a sense -- you have to fix your routing tables rather than t

Re: More strange dependencies: vlc

2006-07-28 Thread Matej Cepl
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > === > vlc: > Depends: aalib1 (>= 1.2) Other question comes to mind -- I mean, really. Does anybody use aalib1 (BTW, it should be libaa1) for anything? I knew the original author of aalib, but I always understood that it is more fun than something serious -- to make

Re: Network static howto

2006-07-28 Thread Matej Cepl
Steve Kemp wrote: > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.1.100 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > broadcast 192.168.1.255 > gateway 192.168.1.1 IIRC, netmask and broadcast are not needed when default -- ifup guesses them from C type IP address. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF

Re: Mozilla or firefox package-what is the difference?

2006-07-29 Thread Matej Cepl
Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am working on removing the last vestiges of KDE from my box, which will > eliminate Konqueror, as well. Just curious (really -- no flame intended), why do you switch from KDE and where (Gnome?)? Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http

Re: Mozilla or firefox package-what is the difference?

2006-07-29 Thread Matej Cepl
Marc Shapiro wrote: > Actually, I use fvwm2. I see ... you are one of those ... ;-) Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ 132822213 Home is where ~/.bashrc is.

Re: Sound specialists,help appreciated.

2006-07-30 Thread Matej Cepl
Anthony Renaud wrote: > 3.1 PPC).When I open Audacity,I receive the > following warning: > "There was an error initializing the Audio > I/O layer.You will not be able to record or > play any sound.". Just to be eliminate one simple and obvious potential source of problems -- aren't you by a chance

Re: alsalib

2006-07-30 Thread Matej Cepl
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > This should works for any program using OSS (this covers most unfriendly > ones, like Mozilla plugin, OpenOffice or vmware, ...), or ALSA in > emulation mode (for native mode, alsalib is our friend :-). Meaning that solution provided by native ALSA is better than the one p

Re: Do I need to upgrade my kernel (kernel-image-2.4-k6)?

2006-07-31 Thread Matej Cepl
Robert S wrote: > I am running debian with kernel 2.4.27. I see that the kernel-source > package is listed in the security vulnerabilities (DSA-1097). I do a > weekly "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" but have not been prompted to > upgrade my > kernel. I am using kernel-image-2.4-k6. > > Do

Re: Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 - a beginner's query/request

2006-07-31 Thread Matej Cepl
Jon Dowland wrote: > Please note that you are advised to *not do this*, but to > *always* read the release notes for the relevant you certainly noticed that I had there aptitude upgrade (not dist-upgrade), right? > architecture you are updating to (as per Joey's post). For > example, woody -> sar

Re: Do I need to upgrade my kernel (kernel-image-2.4-k6)?

2006-07-31 Thread Matej Cepl
Robert S wrote: > *** 2.4.27-10sarge1 0 > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > I assume I still have the old version. Yes, you have. > Is this likely to break any dependencies? Usually kernel is actually pretty easy to upgrade -- after everything depends on it, rather then other way around. An

Re: how to post bug via mail ?

2006-08-01 Thread Matej Cepl
Jabka Atu wrote: > im not runnig any mta (couse i don't know how to configure it). > so i can't use the biult in bug reporting tool. > where can i post via web or mail new bugs ? Take a look at reportbug(1) -- parameters smtphost, and if necessary smtpuser and smtppasswd. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 8

Re: Really stupid mutt question

2006-08-02 Thread Matej Cepl
Kevin Coyner wrote: > There are plenty of great email clients out there. But I like mutt > because: Yes, there are -- and just not to let this thread be just mutt propaganda, let me comment as a KMail user (who used mutt for many years, so I know what I am talking about): > 1. It is infinite

Re: How to install Kernel 2.6.17 without /boot/initrd.img-***?

2006-08-02 Thread Matej Cepl
Alex Yakushev wrote: > I experienced some difficulties to run new kernel > 2.6.17. > If I comment initrd.img-2.6.17 line in my > /boot/grub/menu.lst, and start to restart OS, I got > Kernel panic error. > Is this possible to start kernel without > initrd.img-2.6.17? Not this kernel -- ext2fs and e

Re: remove/replace non-ascii characters from file

2006-08-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > I tried > $ grep -v Comment > but that just returns > Binary file darkaa2.dat matches Would grep -a -v Comment help? grep(1) is your friend. :-) Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMA

Re: Do I need to upgrade my kernel (kernel-image-2.4-k6)?

2006-08-03 Thread Matej Cepl
First read http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=netiquette#offlist > Now `apt-cache policy kernel-image-2.4.27-3-k6' shows that > 2.4.27-10sarge3is installed and `apt-cache policy > kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k6' shows that 2.4.27-10sarge1 is > installed. Can you post full output of these co

Xv -- unusable colors with Xv/auto driver & i915GM

2006-08-05 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, when playing any video with kaffeine 0.8.1 (KDE 3.5.3, Xorg 7.0.22, xserver-xorg-video-i810 1.5.1.0-2, Debian/testing) with i915GM video card (Dell Inspiron 2200), I have totally sc.ewed up colors with Xv driver (or auto, which probably uses the same) -- it looks like scientific images with ar

Re: cdrecord wihout SUID

2006-08-06 Thread Matej Cepl
José Alburquerque wrote: > Does anyone know a way for regular users to use cdrecord for CD > writing/blanking without the need for it to setuid? Any pointers would > be greatly appreciated. Thanks! I think you need to have at leas this: chelcicky:~$ ll `which cdrecord` -rwsr-xr-- 1 root cdrom 1

Re: convert rm files to wav files

2006-08-08 Thread Matej Cepl
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > How can I convert a .rm (RealMedia) file to a .wav file so that I curn > burn it in an audio CD? Using Etch/testing. First note about breaking of copyrights (yes, if you are in US, this would break the law) and then the method I use for such purposes (and when I am sur

Re: convert rm files to wav files

2006-08-08 Thread Matej Cepl
John Hasler wrote: > It is not at all clear that what he proposes would be illegal in the US. > Look up the Audio Home Recording Act. I stand corrected then. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 M

Re: Ogg Vorbis 2 for xine or mplayer?

2006-08-12 Thread Matej Cepl
Carl Fink wrote: > I've got an AVI video here that has Ogg Vorbis audio (0x6770) which can't > be played by any of totem, avifile-player, mplayer, or xine-ui. I would > have thought that Free players would support a Free codec. install ffmpeg package (or you may have it already installed) and the

Re: Patching a kernel source --verbose

2006-08-12 Thread Matej Cepl
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I use the symlinks /boot/vmlinuz, /boot/initrd.img, /boot/vmlinuz.old > and /boot/initrd.img.old to point to my current and previous kernels. > These are listed in my menu.lst. Whenever I update the kernel, if > /sbin/update-grub is run, it helpfully replaces those with

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

2006-08-14 Thread Matej Cepl
Thibaut Paumard wrote: > However, in these two tests, the text is copy-and-pastable, as text. So > the problem is not that the PDF is drawn as images. Actually, in the > scribus PDF, I can search a few smaller substrings (like "xt" in my > sample text "test text"). The problem is that original PDF

Re: how can i run flv videos ? (metacafe)

2006-08-14 Thread Matej Cepl
Jabka Atu wrote: > im trying to run flv video ( debian unstable). ffplay from ffmpeg package Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ 132822213 The American Repub

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

2006-08-14 Thread Matej Cepl
martin f krafft wrote: > Run 'strings' on the PS it generates and you'll see that it prints > images rather than text. I am not surprised, Firefox comes to us > from Windows. They don't know how to deal with text over there. This is not fair -- to use W-word on poor Firefox. No, IMHO reasons are s

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

2006-08-14 Thread Matej Cepl
martin f krafft wrote: > lapse:~> dpkg -l xpr\* | grep '^[[:lower:]]' > #[318] > un xprint (no description available) Weird: Package: firefox Depends: fontconfig, psmisc, debianutils (>= 1.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0), libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libcairo2 (>=

Re: chown

2006-08-15 Thread Matej Cepl
Kent West wrote: > No; someone else mentioned it being in this package, but I was just > curious about the info not being in "man chown", so I don't need to go > any further. (And, if it matters, I'm not the OP; I was just making > comment/question and apparently got pegged as the OP somewhere alon

Re: wireless - where to start?

2006-08-16 Thread Matej Cepl
Tyler Smith wrote: > Debian Etch, freshly installed and upgraded > Linksys model no. WPC55AG notebook adapter card > Toshiba Satellite 2410 laptop (I have to wait for my thinkpad...) What's the PCI ID for that particular card (hint -- lspci and lspci -n will tell you) -- the same cards are distrib

Re: two version pythons in my system

2006-08-17 Thread Matej Cepl
Wei Hu wrote: > my system has both pyton2.3 and python2.4. Is it safe to remove > python2.3 using apt-get remove. Just mark in the aptitude as "installed to satisfy dependencies" (M key) and it will go automagically, when the last python package you use switch to 2.4. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF

Re: booting up the system

2006-08-17 Thread Matej Cepl
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > boot with a live cd like knoppix. you can then chroot into your debian > environment and fix it up from there. There is lots of documentation > in the web about this. try some googling. You can use even installation CD from Debian. Before you get into partition busin

LVM2 for root -- initramfs-tools -- etch HOWTO?

2006-08-18 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, can anybody tell me some HOWTO for %subj%? It seems to me that Debian kernels per default initialize LVM only after INIT is run. Does the fact that I have some LVM2 volumes persuade update-initramfs to insert appropriate modules into initramfs? Thanks, Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF

Re: wxWidgets versus gtkmm

2006-08-18 Thread Matej Cepl
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > If you want the "best" cross platform library, then I would argue that > it is wxWidgets. It has bindings for C++, Python, Java, Ruby and > probably other languages as well. It has the advantage of supporting > something like a dozen different GUI toolkits and you get

Re: X -configure failed

2006-08-18 Thread Matej Cepl
Jude DaShiell wrote: > When I did X -configure as root the X command appeared to terminate > normally but still left me with an empty /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. wc just I am afraid that you hit one of the Debian-specific things here (I am learning for LPI exams and I just cannot wonder how difficul

Re: LVM2 for root -- initramfs-tools -- etch HOWTO?

2006-08-18 Thread Matej Cepl
CJ van den Berg wrote: > initramfs-tools in etch has support for lvm built in. It should "just > work" you don't have to do anything at all. You have to use the > /dev/mapper/volgrp--logicalvolume path to the volume though. (as opposed > to the /dev/volgrp/logicalvolume version) Then the initramfs

Re: wxWidgets versus gtkmm

2006-08-19 Thread Matej Cepl
Micha Feigin wrote: > wxwidgets also has extensions for more then just widgets (networks, file > system, etc.) and can work with opengl and there is a driver for plplot > for doing plots. OK, this is getting over being just uninformed partisan to real FUD -- before commenting on Qt get some inform

Re: diacritic characters not displayed in printed output

2006-08-20 Thread Matej Cepl
jo vart wrote: > Why would diacritic characters (like ä) show up perfectly well on screen > but not in printed output. Not even after the document first being > exported from oowriter to a pdf that looks as it should. What fonts do you use? When opening in acrobat/kpdf/evince what fonts are includ

Re: diacritic characters not displayed in printed output

2006-08-20 Thread Matej Cepl
jo vart wrote: > Both acroread and evince report BitstreamVera Serif Roma, TrueType, > embedded subset. And printing from both acroread and evince produces bad output? What happens when you try gs -sDEVICE=x11alpha filename.pdf Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964

Re: diacritic characters not displayed in printed output

2006-08-20 Thread Matej Cepl
jo vart wrote: > dpkg -l | gsfonts returns: > > ii gsfonts 8.14+v8.11+urw-0.2 > ii gsfonts-x11 0.20 Do you have installed package ttf-bitstream-vera or did you install Bitstream Vera fonts yourself? If you DO have it installed, then go and file a bug against that pa

Re: diacritic characters not displayed in printed output

2006-08-21 Thread Matej Cepl
jo vart wrote: > Yes BitstreamVera was installed as the deb for etch ( > ttf-bitstream-vera-1.10-7) Go and make reportbug happy! Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259,

Re: diacritic characters not displayed in printed output

2006-08-22 Thread Matej Cepl
Andrius wrote: > Is it really the right package to report the bug against? OK, then it would be dipping yet another bug report to the endless pool of OpenOffice.org bugs. :-) Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAI

Re: shared libraries

2006-08-22 Thread Matej Cepl
ChadDavis wrote: > I see that there's some application specific subdirectories in those > shared library locations. Should I make a subdirectory, such as > /usr/lib/oracleInstnatClient/, and put the shared objects in there? > And then just dump the executables into /usr/bin? For your own sanity,

Re: Debian in my Packard Bell

2006-08-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Abraham Tena wrote: > All data sheet is here, > http://support.packardbell.com/es/item/?sn=654100590239&g=1400 > I would like some help to install and configure debian, I would apretiate > it a lot. Sorry, there seem to be official drivers (probably from the sf.net tree) on http://www.intel.com/su

Re: Debian in my Packard Bell

2006-08-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Abraham Tena wrote: > All data sheet is here, > http://support.packardbell.com/es/item/?sn=654100590239&g=1400 > I would like some help to install and configure debian, I would apretiate > it a lot. If you need modem, you will probably have to buy (like, for money -- not much, something around $20

Re: Annoying iptables console logging

2006-08-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >> Since that didn't worked i KILLed both syslogd and klogd. I still kept >> getting msgs to console. > > they are not sent by syslog process. They are sent by kernel. Chmm, nazdar Matúši, I thought that "k" in sysklogd means, that sysklogd should manage kernel messa

Re: warnings from kbuildsycoca

2006-08-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > My ~/.xsession-errors is full of warnings from kbuildsycoca > > Some of the warnings are pasted below. Is there any fix available? Just ignore them. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [

Re: Annoying iptables console logging

2006-08-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > those messages are printed by kernel to the current console(s). > 'dmesg -n' configures messages of which level to print to the console(s). > They all are still send to kmsg, where syslogd,syslog-ng or klogd read > them from. Aside from installing syslog-ng how to c

Re: Minimum to start NFS client

2006-08-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > Portmap is running, but mountd isn't part of nfs-common, it's part of > nfs-kernel-server. Since I only want to run the client, should I have to You don't need mountd on client computer. RTFM -- in this case NFS-HOWTO (from doc-linux-nonfree-* package). Matěj -- GPG Fing

Re: Suggestion for offtopic-list

2006-08-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Andrei Popescu wrote: > Why not simply create a debian-offtopic list? I don't see that much off-topic discussion here (IMHO, anything related to Debian user experience is on-topic here and that's pretty wide topic), but the problem of all off-topic lists is that people who don't care enough to not

Re: Program to draw chess boards

2006-08-24 Thread Matej Cepl
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > I need to draw some chess boards, starting let's say from the FEN > description of the board, in an automatic way (something like a > script, good for automating the drawing of many boards). Is there any > program that do that? The best is TeX solution -- not exactly drawin

Re: Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-08-24 Thread Matej Cepl
Paul Johnson wrote: >> IF games are good coded and static compiled they >> are working always and on any locations. > > So what's /usr/games? for games installed from .deb packages (/usr/ should be limited just to whatever was put there by dpkg). Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Michelle Konzack wrote: >> Thunderbird - Copies entire message at reply. Works fine on my box. >> Balsa - Copies entire message at reply. I have tried the suggested "Ctrl >> Kmail - Configured it, and got test messages in and out then it started >> Evolution - Configured it, and got test messages i

Re: stupid dependency on aptitude

2006-08-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Wackojacko wrote: > hopefully kpackage can be made to use aptitude in the future! It is called adept and its not-yet-100%-stable version is already in Debian/{unstable,testing} Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EM

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-26 Thread Matej Cepl
s. keeling wrote: > You have a ridiculously complicated "system" for organizing your mail, > and it's mutt's fault for doing what it does well. No. Sorry for previous flame -- I cannot resist, but I am serious -- mutt is lacking. It is not its mistake, it is by design, which has its advantages, b

Re: OT: Thunderbird-win and .wab

2006-08-26 Thread Matej Cepl
Welly Hartanto wrote: > Why thunderbird-nix* can't import windows addrees book (.wab) file > while thunderbird-win can do it ? Its using Outlook Express (or some of its libraries) to get stuff out. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/mat

Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?

2006-08-26 Thread Matej Cepl
Miles Bader wrote: > Maybe you don't care, and have gobs of disk space to burn, but _lots of > people do care_, and aptitude does an elegant and painless job of Another advantage of aptitude is when you get really weird dependencies problems -- yes, it should never happen, but it does. Then abilit

Re: Applying Patch to Kernel Source

2006-08-27 Thread Matej Cepl
David Baron wrote: > How does one do this correctly? I don't know how to do it correctly, but in unpacked kernel tree doing zcat patch.bz2 | patch -p1 would apply the patch. Then run make-kpkg without any --added-patches stuff and it should work. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Andreas Rippl wrote: > Generally I tink that it boils down to your requirements in a MUA. I Of course there is one thing which has to be admitted to mutt -- its ability to go be used through ssh. I use it sometimes when I need it, and it is by far the best alternative of that (don't start me to co

Re: Applying Patch to Kernel Source

2006-08-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Matej Cepl wrote: > zcat patch.bz2 | patch -p1 sorry, this should be bzcat patch.bz2 ... Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ 132822213 He uses statistics

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Paul Scott wrote: > I do this routinely with Thunderbird. You mean ssh -X? How fast is your connection between the Internet and the ssh server? Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3,

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-29 Thread Matej Cepl
Marc Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 05:39:56PM -0600, djhack wrote: >> Thunderbird - Copies entire message at reply. Works fine on my box. > > For all you thunderbird users... My own TB pet-peeve -- when will TB be able to filter with RegExps? (at least plugin would help) Matěj -- GPG

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-29 Thread Matej Cepl
Marc Wilson wrote: > I'm still trying to figure this one out. You think filtering belongs on > the client, yet you read mail from multiple locations and use IMAP. How > do you reconcile the two? Use offlineimap everywhere? Take a look at imapfilter. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-29 Thread Matej Cepl
Ron Johnson wrote: > maildrop is your friend!! (procmail is your enemy.) > > But of course it presumes an MTA (and usually fetchmail). No, of course, when I need MUT with regexps I have my kmail, but sometimes it could be handy (when Windows happen for example). Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6

Re: Using cups remotely?

2006-08-30 Thread Matej Cepl
Liam O'Toole wrote: > There is no need for the cups daemon on the second machine; in > fact, you only need to install the cupsys-client package. That's correct, except if the client-machine is notebook -- I haven't manage to make cupsys-client to switch between different servers. With local CUPS i

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-30 Thread Matej Cepl
Micha Feigin wrote: > Looks nice, not too heavy, although it also doesn't support hebrew (can't > even see the text not to mention right to left), and it always segfaults > on exit. Aside from top-posting (please, don't), I am not sure what "it" is in your message -- kmail, sylpheed, or mulberry?

Re: texlive vs, tetex

2006-08-30 Thread Matej Cepl
Micha Feigin wrote: > What is the difference between the two latex implementations available > under debian? tetex is older, abandoned upstream (and upstream author suggests its user to switch to texlive), and slightly smaller. TeXLive is community maintained (by different TUG groups), much bigger

Re: mv files by date

2006-08-31 Thread Matej Cepl
Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Can someone tell me the correct command line for moving a bunch of > files between directories that are, say, older than yesterday while > preserving their time stamps? find . \ while read FILE ; do mv $FILE other-directory/$(basename $FILE) done Read fi

Re: mv files by date

2006-08-31 Thread Matej Cepl
Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Should I do this? > > find ./ -type f ! -mtime -2 -exec ls -al {} \; | xargs mv ../ You can but you are doing it too much complicated -- find by default prints on stdout found filename. And concerning xargs -- I don't use it that much (it always confuses me to no end), but

Re: aptitude vs. debfoster

2006-08-31 Thread Matej Cepl
T wrote: > What? All the apache2-common, apache2-mpm-worker, & apache2-utils that get > automatically installed are not touched: It is weird -- works for me. Can you go to aptitude and check these packages which should be removed, whether they have A to the left of the name of the package? Somethi

Re: mv files by date

2006-08-31 Thread Matej Cepl
T wrote: > Why not something like (please test before use): > > find ./ -type f ! -mtime -2 -exec mv {} ../ \; Of course, that's the best. Silly me. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St

Re: How do I replace lilo with grub?

2006-08-31 Thread Matej Cepl
Mathias Brodala wrote: > Before you do that you should backup the config file from lilo (never used > it so don’t ask me which one it is) and after the installing you should /etc/lilo.conf > check grub’s menu.lst to make sure that all entries were migrated > correctly. Just to be sure, run also

Re: detect shell script language

2006-09-01 Thread Matej Cepl
Ron Johnson wrote: > IOW, "wish" is a Tcl script? wish is Tcl runtime (the same as /usr/bin/perl for Perl programs). Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ 1328222

Re: mv files by date

2006-09-01 Thread Matej Cepl
Ron Johnson wrote: > Shift key? That's what Caps Lock is for. It has been remapped to couple of months ago ;-). Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ 132822213

Re: How do I replace lilo with grub?

2006-09-01 Thread Matej Cepl
Paul Johnson wrote: > # dpkg --purge lilo Don't purge it! Just --remove -- at least you would have working /etc/lilo.conf if you would like to return back. > # apt-get install grub > > Double check /boot/grub/menu.lst *before* you reboot. Sure. > Personally, I would stick with lilo if it works

Re: detect shell script language

2006-09-01 Thread Matej Cepl
Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > OK, so the line "exec ..." can be used as an heuristic for detecting the > actual scripting language, right? I have no idea why they use this construct (something similar is used in some perl scripts when they try to be cross-platform between Unix and Windows, which appare

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread Matej Cepl
Martin Möller wrote: > * very powerful > * very flexible Actually, most probably overkill for whatever you need (people who need advantages sendmail has over any competing MTAs usually don't need to ask questions ;-)). > Cons: > * attacked frequently > (either because of design weakness

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-01 Thread Matej Cepl
martin f krafft wrote: > Without trying to be religious or anything of that sort, I can > recommend postfix without restrictions to most anyone -- it has an > excellent security track record, a large support community, great > documentation, and it's really not that complex (even though it can > be

Re: detect shell script language

2006-09-01 Thread Matej Cepl
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> I need to detect the language of the script in order to highlight it >> accordingly (GNU source-highlight >> http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite) >> > See Emacs manual "How Major Modes are Chosen". It says > >You can specify which major mode should be used for

Re: detect shell script language

2006-09-01 Thread Matej Cepl
Miles Bader wrote: > Nonetheless, if such a cookie is present, it's a great thing to use for > this purpose, as it's unambiguous. Sure, but still I would begin with parsing shebang (with some additions -- like Tcl), and then I would see how many scripts are ambiguous. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF

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