Re: disk backups

1999-10-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
ed partition. -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: Looking for trouble.

1999-04-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
elieve me I've been reading, but most >tutorials/FAQs assume that the system is running smoothly and hardly deal >with problem solving. You want the Debian Tutorial: links from documentation on www.debian.org -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Looking for trouble.

1999-04-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
Bob Hilliard wrote: >"Oliver Elphick" writes: > >> To go to the directory you were in last: >> cd ~- > > What is the purpose of the tilde in this command? In bash and >sh, at least, `cd -' is what I was taught, and it works fine. Do so

Re: /dev/console wrong on upgraded systems (2.0 -> 2.1)

1999-04-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
ink) ships with kernel 2.0.3x, the symlink is correct for it. Perhaps the makedev package should contain something to look at the kernel version and upgrade automatically? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible

1999-04-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
from 0 1024 * 8225280 = 8.2Gb approx What can I do to get the full capacity of the disk recognised? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B

Re: R: 10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible

1999-04-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
appears to suggest that it knows about >8Gb disks. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; ke

Re: df

1999-04-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
; You have to tell fdisk a different geometry: add more cylinders. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 ===

Re: R: 10Gb drive - only 8Gb accessible

1999-04-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
the correct size. I haven't yet tried it with Windows 95; I understand that that may need something called OSR2 which I haven't located yet. Maybe I should go to Win 98... -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Forcing password change for a user

1999-04-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
Arcady Genkin wrote: >Searched info on usermod and passswd and couldn't figure it out. > >How do I force a user to change password the next time he logs in? > If you are using shadow passwords (/etc/shadow exists) look at `man 5 shadow', otherwise look at `man

Re: cut & paste using mouse

1999-05-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
ready like copying, and right clicking will act as pasting. left-button and drag to highlight, middle-button to copy highlighted text It's in a manpage somewhere, but I cannot remember which one. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: swapfile and more ram

1999-05-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
er your upgrade, you will have 64-80Mb available. If you are increasing your memory because you are going to have more programs running simultaneously, there may indeed be a case for increasing your swap space. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of W

Re: basic question on splitting partitions

1999-05-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Can't split extended >partitions. FIPS can not yet split extended DOS partitions." > >What should I do? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Why not just delete the D partition? When you install Debian, it will give you the opportunity to repartition the free space;

Re: lilo problems

1999-05-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
l=Linux-33 append="mem=96m aic7xxx=ultra" read-only # Linux image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34 label=Linux-34 append="mem=96m aic7xxx=ultra" read-only # Windows 95 other=/dev/hda1 label=Win95 After changing /etc/lilo.conf, be sure to run /sbin/lilo before you shut d

Re: ? using "make-kpkg" for modules ?

1999-05-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
ave to do so in the future because the permissions on files created by the last build will be for root only. To change this, and make it possible for user "username" to build the kernel: $ su # cd /usr/src/linux # chmod -R username . # exit $ -- Oliver Elphick

Re: sending email to all users [was Re: mutt+exim not working]

1999-05-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
. In sendmail, the file is /etc/aliases. I don't know whether it's the same in exim. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: posgresql postmaster would not start

1999-05-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
you should have had this problem. If your init file does contain those lines, there is a bug, though I'm not sure what is causing it. Oliver Debian PostgreSQL maintainer -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http:/

Re: 8 Newbie Questions

1999-05-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
dev/sda3 1779366 1471857215537 87% /usr /dev/sdb1 4292072 4003069 66906 98% /usr1 /dev/hda1 352608328224 24384 93% /dosc [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount /dev/hda3 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/sda1 on

Re: The mysterious '2 '

1999-05-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
He might well have been meaning to direct stderr to stdout: `2>&1'; given sufficient confusion of mind or fingers, anything is possible! Try looking at scripts run (not as root) from cron. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Apps For Debian?

1999-05-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
h has a decent GUI interface... though if you don't mind >> buying commercial software, there is at least one... can't quite remember >> it's name now (I'm a big help, aren't I?) >> > >try : >postgres >pgaccess

Re: install help

1999-05-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
found that I got your problem when the LBA option was set in the BIOS. When I specified the disk geometry instead, it worked. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: install help

1999-05-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Oliver Elphick" wrote: > >-13gb HD > > > >this machine also boots to Windows 98, which resides on a 3 GB partition. > > > >I was told that debian would "see" the entire hd, but cfdisk only "saw" a > to >

Re: sticky bit (was: RE: Permissions for /tmp)

1999-05-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
for all, but only olly can alter .exmhaudit.1406. Without the sticky bit on /tmp, all the files could be deleted by anybody, because /tmp has write permission for all. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: mount and permissions

1999-05-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
x 2 root root 512 Jan 3 1992 asw-1410 ... -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 =

Re: still can't resolve...

1999-10-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
ay. One day I >could use DNS, the next I could not. Have you recently upgraded the bind package? The config files have changed location. (I'm talking about potato, here.) -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ ========

Re: no /dev/dsp Continued

1999-10-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
AM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ ============ Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP ke

Re: RAM Problems....

1999-10-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
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Re: reg exp question

1999-10-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
r help. sed -e 's/\\textsc{\(.*\)}/\1/' -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ ======== Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.

Re: Postgresql Beginner

1999-10-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
and testing, but lacking in basic intro kind of >stuff. Start psql, then type \h to get a list of SQL commands \h command gives more details of that command There are also man pages (replace spaces with underscores), e.g. `man create_table'. -- Vo

Re: postgresql install problem solved

1999-10-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
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Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: loonys.net: host not found) (fwd)

1999-10-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
In-reply-to: Message from Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> of Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:40:54 CDT. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 19:27:40 +0100 From: "Oliver Elphick" Vaidhyanathan G Mayilranga

Re: saving X session?

1999-11-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
/xconsole -exitOnFail -geometry 500x80+600+0 & xset m 6 4 xsetroot -cursor_name mouse unclutter & exec fvwm2 >~/fvwm.stdout 2>~/fvwm.stderr #exec /usr/bin/gnome-session -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ ===

Re: Password encryption

1999-11-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
ption seems to be in non-US, so why isn't pas >swd in non-US too ? -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: cvs over network

1999-11-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
dn't find an answear to this in any of the cvs menuals. >The local system is debian >the forain system is the universitys solaris something. -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ ========

Re: Cron jobs

1999-11-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
error, cron will automatically mail it to the user who owns the cron job. So send anything you don't want to see to /dev/null. -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ ======== Oliver Elphick

Re: postgres and php problem in slink

1999-11-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
ide psql. You may have to enclose the user name in double quotes. -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ ==== Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http

Re: Proposal: Source file package format

1999-11-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
tal; and what happens to all the older stuff in stable? Where do those debs go? I'm afraid the management problems would be insuperable. -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ Oliver Elphick

Re: I forget my root password and all password

1998-11-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
IL PROTECTED] < / >dev/null >> >> > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /de >v/null > -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://

Re: Error in reiciving mail

1998-11-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
nd ownership to make sure you are allowed to write to it. Use chmod to change permissions. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key fro

Re: Slink broke after upgrade (Thank's it's working!)

1998-11-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
u might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet dependencies: gobjc: Depends:g++ Depends:egcc libpgsql: Conflicts:gtksql Conflicts:mpsql g++: Depends:libstdc++2.9-dev g77: Depends:g++ bas

Re: Very very very sorry, but please help

1998-11-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
;delete_list Running this on the example above gives this in `delete_list': ===== begin== del listname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = end == If this doesn't work, mail me an extract from the file so I can see exactly what it looks l

Re: Ispell (British English please)

1998-11-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
"C.J.LAWSON" wrote: >Hi, > I am trying to locate a British version of ispell ... does anyone >know where I can find a precompiled version || a premunched british-hash >.. Debian package ibritish -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PR

Re: slink rescue disk

1998-11-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
gt;any ideas? The rescue disk maintainer has now managed to make a version that fits in the standard 1.44Mb floppy. Download that as soon as it arrives on your mirror. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk

Re: slink rescue disk

1998-11-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
>d image of >slink yet? > >Oliver Elphick wrote: >> The rescue disk maintainer has now managed to make a version that fits in >> the standard 1.44Mb floppy. Download that as soon as it arrives on your >> mirror. and Andreas Marienborg wrote: >I can&

Re: Default Win98 with LILO.

1998-11-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
Bret Craw wrote: >How do I set up Win98 as the default in LILO. I have tried putting it above >the Linux in the lilo.config file. That is correct; the first entry is the default. However, you MUST run /sbin/lilo (as superuser), or your changes will not be recognised. -- Oliver E

Re: sprzedam samochod

1998-11-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
er, it would help if our administrators put them on the kill list! -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32

Re: Ifconfig

1998-11-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
ly affects the current state of the machine; it does not write anything to disk. You need to edit the definitions in /etc/init.d/network. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://ww

Re: netscape woes

1998-11-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
It is perfectly possible for you to make packages for local use which could legitimately use /usr/local. You would be aggrieved if dpkg were to override your wishes! -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lf

Re: quicky postgreSQL question

1998-11-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
TO|FROM filename|STDIN|STDOUT [USING DELIMITERS 'delim']; -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public serve

Re: Kernal compiling/Search Archieve and xterm ques

1998-11-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
am using olvwm and when I move from xterm window to xterm window > I have to click on the new window to make it active. How can I set > this up so when my cursor is on the new xterm window, it will > automatically be active. You said two questions! Any way, I don't kn

Re: Kernal compiling/Search Archieve and xterm ques

1998-11-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
but I think it's called kernel-package, and the doc >is /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz. Quite right; /usr/sbin/make-kpkg is the command (contained in kernel-package) that you run to build a new kernel. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wigh

Re: Kernel Won't Recompile

1998-11-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
xt as input to another program. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 "

sendmail check_mail ruleset

1998-11-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
hem. I cannot see how to do either. Can anyone tell me how, please? Versions: sendmail8.9.1-9 fetchmail 4.3.9-1 -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from

Re: About cdrom

1998-11-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
not a directory! ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom ^^^ substituting for hdc as appropriate to your system. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key fro

X won't start - error 111

1998-11-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
I just downgraded my X packages to 3.3.2.2-1 to see if that would get rid of a bug in some commercial software. X now refuses to start on my console: _FontTransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 failed to set default font path 'tcp/localhost:7100,tcp/localhost:7101' (I can give t

Re: More on that error...

1998-12-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
. libdb.so.1 is a symbolic link to libdb.so.1.85.1, which no longer exists on your system. It is unlikely that you have anything that needs it, since it's part of the a.out libraries. Delete libdb.so.1 as well and the whole problem will go away. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Can't boot with new kernel

1998-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
uld fail. Look at the error messages to find out what went wrong. > 2. Is this problem with my trying to use kerneld without fully >understanding it? I don't know. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: ide channel 3 HDD - Linux won't boot

1998-12-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
ng; its job is to tabulate which file systems are to be mounted when the system goes multi-user. The file you need to amend is /etc/lilo.conf; if you don't know how, post the device and partition you want to boot from (/dev/hde1?). Remember to rerun lilo after changing the lil

Re: Understanding /root Re: My solution

1998-12-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
128Mb Make /home a symbolic link to /usr/home (my home directory takes as much space as anything else on my machine, so it needs to go on a large partition). You haven't got room on this disk for all those Windows programs as well as a decent Linux. If you need that, buy an extra disk. --

Re: how to shut pppd in script

1998-12-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
until after the ip-up script has run. Try putting a line in ip-up to test this: ls -l /var/run/ppp0.pid >/tmp/ppp.test 2>&1 and see what you get in /tmp/ppp.test. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www

Re: Dual Booting w/Lilo ?

1998-12-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
l=Win95 If your Linux root partition is not on the same drive as your DOS/Windows C: partition, you must make boot=/dev/hda (1st IDE drive) or /dev/sda (first SCSI drive), whichever holds the C: partition. If they are on the same drive, you can have boot the same as your

Re: Sending out mails.

1998-12-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
cently changed libc6 to a slightly lower version than that, try upgrading it again. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public serv

Re: punctuation marks ?

1998-12-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
ng garbage usage: ps acehjlnrsSuvwx{t|#|O[-]u[-]U..} \ --sort:[-]key1,[-]key2,... --help gives you this message --version prints version information bash-2.01$ -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight h

Re: 2.0.36 compile prob

1998-12-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
Graham Ashton wrote: >make[1]: as86: Command not found Install the package bin86, which contains this program. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public serv

Re: startx ne marche pas

1998-12-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
pond que le fichier XConfi86 >est introuvable. If you run XF86Setup, it should put XF86Config in /etc. If you have not run that, you should do so now. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver

Gnome/sawfish - font problem (sid)

2002-09-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
change things. Also, sawfish's options no longer appear in the Control centre menu. I don't know if this is related, but both happened around the same time. Can anyone give me a clue where to look? The system is running sid, updated daily. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Gnome/sawfish - font problem (sid)

2002-09-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 15:45, W. Paul Mills wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oliver Elphick) writes: > > > > Also, sawfish's options no longer appear in the Control centre menu. I > > don't know if this is related, but both happened around the same time. > > &

Re: Gnome/sawfish - font problem (sid)

2002-09-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 06:00, Philippe Marzouk wrote: > On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 06:21:06PM +0200, Claudio Bley wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 14:50, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > Also, sawfish's options no longer appear in the Control centre menu. I > > > don

Re: Mice can not work in a new kernel 2.4.19

2002-09-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
ment. > > Is it because I miss something when I compile the new kernel? Which modules should I load for this mice? you need CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y in /usr/src/linux/.config If you use make xconfig, it is in Character Devices, Mice. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: postgres: No pg_hba.conf entry for host

2002-09-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
gt; To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3

Re: postgers: how to use both md5 and passwordless access

2002-09-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
hat's what ident authorisation means. Password authorisation is an alternative to ident. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34

Re: Server Questions (fwd)

1998-02-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
lease help! Bruce was trying to start something, but I've heard nothing for a while. I wouldn't want to do telephone support, considering the time difference... -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/ol

Commercial support (was Server Questions (fwd))

1998-02-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
shed doing support for it, there was still at least one problem that I had reported five years before! It will be very satisfying doing support for a product that we can get changed when it needs it! -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: HELP: Newbie needs help with crash

1998-03-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
, and got > >1: no such file or directory. > > >I am now at a standstill. Any help on what to do next would be much >appreciated. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PG

Re: massive fetchmail frustration

1998-03-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
CTED] !ruth # :0E * [EMAIL PROTECTED] !abby :0E * [EMAIL PROTECTED] !abby # :0E * [EMAIL PROTECTED] !hannah :0E * [EMAIL PROTECTED] !hannah # :0E * [EMAIL PROTECTED] !nick :0E * [EMAIL PROTECTED] !nick # :0E * [EMAIL PROTECTED] !tom :0E * [EMAIL PROTECTED] !tom Oliver Elphick

Re: Bitmap files

1998-03-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
ut a scanned image; what matters is the way the image is stored. All three packages support a number of image formats. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key I

Re: Unable to login

1998-03-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
r If billr doesn't own /home/billr, you may not be able to use it even if it exists. That would be down to the permissions. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers

Re: Libc5 vs Libc6: help me, please!

1998-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
Engineering > University of Coimbra > PORTUGAL > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://student.dei.uc.pt/~nemanuel >--- > > > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Problems with apache and postgres (already solved)

1998-03-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
word with the same care as you would the root password. Alternatively, make it a no-login account so that only root can get to it (by `su - postgres'). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP

Re: initdb error while configuring postgresql 6.3-2

1998-03-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
so the path is not getting set correctly. In the next postgresql release, the full path will be set explicitly in the su command. To get round your immediate problem, become the postgres user by logging in directly or by `su - postgres' (no -c ) and run initdb from th

Re: Programming hints.

1998-03-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
me other ones in Plauger's book (I hope that is >the spelling of his name). I missed the beginning of this thread, so this may be right off the point for the original poster: In shell script, use trap to catch a signal and do something before exit (or just ignore it completely). You can

Re: mail and mailer questions

1998-03-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
sed in character windows or outside X. It has the further benefit (to my mind) that it makes each messge a separate file, so that it is easy to find and handle messages with non-mail commands. For example, if someone has mailed a patch: `patch -p1 <~/Mail/postgresql/hackers/28'

Re: Wizard Radio...

1998-03-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
nk the situation in USA is as you say. The original poster has a New Zealand domain... -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

New postgresql

1998-03-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
Thanks to all those people who have been exercising the initialisation scripts. Postgresql-6.3.1-1 and related packages are just now being uploaded to chiark and should shortly be in Incoming. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Rosegarden users, please respond

1998-03-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
less users. It's a bit frustrating that Rosegarden is not yet up to scratch. I don't know of another Unix composing package. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from p

Re: XDM with Debian 1.3E6

1998-03-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
effectively the same file, as they are on my hamm system). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: exmh and procmail filtering

1998-03-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
TED] sales/. # :0 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] enterprise/. # :0 E *^TO.*postmaster postmaster/. # :0 E *^TO.*usenet root/. # :0 E *^TO.*root root/. # :0 E *^TO.*olly inbox/. # :0 E *^TO.*Oliver inbox/. # :0 E *^TO.* misaddressed/. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wi

Re: XDM with Debian 1.3E6

1998-03-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
rds... and I am looking for a package called xdm, but there d >oes >not seem to be any. Thanks! Try re-installing xbase. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from p

Re: exmh and procmail filtering

1998-03-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Oliver Elphick" wrote: >Erik van der Meulen wrote: > ... > >Could anyone send me an example of a .procmail file for use with exmh? > >This is my ~/.procmailrc: > >MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail >LOCKFILE=$HOME/procmail/lock >LOGFILE=$HOME/procm

Re: What are the "slink" sundirecrories all about?

1998-03-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
slink is the next release after hamm; it should now be `unstable', while hamm is `frozen'. When Debian 2.0 (hamm) is finally released, it will become `stable' and `frozen' will disappear until it is nearly time to release slink. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: More on XDM?

1998-03-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
you amend the right Screen section; there may well be more than one. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stopping pppd redial with persistent connection

1998-03-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
Use dctrl as a front-end to control diald: pick the block option from the pull-down menus -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: mouse problem

1998-03-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
at /dev/ttyS1" doesn't, so i assume the system detects >'something' but it isn't configured well. >Any idea what can be wrong? No, but try using gpmconfig to reconfigure it. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: (hamm) /dev/psaux: "device not supported"

1998-03-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
ill exist? ls -l /dev/psaux crw--- 1 root sys 10, 1 Mar 31 07:50 /dev/psaux apart from the date and time, it should look like that. Where does the error message appear? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Glibc2

1998-04-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
ng to the libc5-libc6 Howto. Use the autoup.sh script to do it. If you don't do things in the right order, you can end up with an unusable system. Once you have libc6 installed correctly, you can run mozilla, or any other libc6-linked program. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: lilo and boot messages

1998-04-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
r keyboard input. If no key is pressed for the specified time, the first image is automatically booted. Similarly, password input is aborted if the user is idle for too long. The default timeout is infinite. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: pgp

1998-04-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
t interested in why there is a difference) > The USA version and the International version use different algorithms in some part to avoid infringing American patents which are not recognised outside America. I don't think there is any functional difference. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Time problem

1998-04-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
o change the time base. Is there a tool or config file that >handles this? hwclock changes the real-time clock -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8

Re: linux debian installation preserving dos

1998-04-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
49737 2408023089 51% / /dev/hda4 96619 6469526935 71% /var /dev/sda12028098 1432949 490327 75% /usr /dev/sdb14292072 1632036 2437939 40% /usr1 /dev/hda1 352608 31329639312 89%

Re: Xlib6g conflicts with X Win 3.3.2?

1998-04-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
ibXmu.so.6 xlib6g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0 xlib6g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6.0 You don't give much information, but I'm guessing that you're trying to run a libc5-linked X program and it needs /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6.0. If that&#x

Re: LibICE and general X install

1998-04-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
d run XF86Setup but it says it's not there despite >instructions in x's doc files. XF86Setup is in xserver-vga16 >Basically x won't install at all. Have you installed all necessary packages? You need at least: xbase xserver-vga16 xserver- xlib6 xfnt

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