Re: answer to xdm automatically starting

1997-06-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
... > >change /etc/X11/config so that it contains > >#no-start-xdm >start-xfs >start-xdm >xdm-start-server Also check the Xservers file in /etc/X11/xdm. The line describing the local machine's display must be uncommented before xdm will tr

Re: XTerm-color

1997-06-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
uture. The currently defined options are: ... * allow-user-resources If users have a file called .Xresources in their home directory, these resources will be merged with the default resources when they log in. So ensure that this line exists in the file, if you want to use a pr

Re: RFC: Prospective Kernel-Compiling mini-HOWTO

1997-06-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
kernel image=/vmlinuz.old root=/dev/hda3 label=old read-only append="mem=32M then you can reboot your old version without resorting to a rescue disk by interrupting the lilo boot sequence with the control key before the 20 second delay (delay=20) expires and entering 

Re: RFC: Prospective Kernel-Compiling mini-HOWTO

1997-06-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
tition on the first hard drive, the boot parameter should be omitted so that lilo is put in the MBR. It does not explain why. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly In case of connection troubles, t

Re: message problems...

1997-06-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
it? Thanks in advance for >> any help. > >/dev/scd0 If the device does not exist at all, mknod -m 444 /dev/sr0 b 11 0 -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly pgpFS2NQYs9Ha.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Distributer in UK?

1997-06-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
ristian Schwarz at a cost of 91DM (about £35) including postage, and they arrived within 3 days. Furthermore, he cuts a new set each time, so you are as up to date as you can be! See http://www.schwarz-online.com/cs-software/debian-cdrom/index.html -- Oliver Elphick

Re: DOS partition with linux

1997-06-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
ve installed DOS, boot from a DOS floppy and run C:\DOS\FDISK /MBR to install the default DOS master boot record. You will then need to have LOADLIN on the DOS partition in order to be able to start Linux. Alternatively, you may choose to use lilo as the boot loader; look at the user docume

Problem linking with publib library and g++

1997-07-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
s fine: linda:~/cprogs$ gcc main.c -lpub linda:~/cprogs$ I can't work out what has changed and why this no longer works. System: Pentium Pro Kernel: 2.0.30 Debian: 1.3 from unstable gcc:2.7.2.2-4 binutils: 2.8.1-1 publib-dev: 0.26-1 libc6: 2.0.3-4 -- Oliver Elphi

Re: RE-COMPILING the Kernel...

1997-07-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
mlinuz.old; copies zImage (or bzImage) to /vmlinuz; runs lilo to set up /vmlinuz as the new kernel to be booted - this is particularly important, since, without it, the machine will no longer be bootable. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

g++ / ld / publib linking problem

1997-07-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
No-one has attempted an answer to this yet; if you have any ideas, please let me know! --- Repeated Message Date:Fri, 04 Jul 1997 22:21:39 +0100 From:"Oliver Elphick" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Problem linking with publib library and g++ I have a linki

Re: g++ / ld / publib linking problem

1997-07-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writ es: >On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: > >> No-one has attempted an answer to this yet; if you have any ideas, >> please let me know! >> >Don't know what this publib stuff is (just running dpkg -

Re: PPP connection dying out

1997-07-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
dial-up again until I reboot the >machine. ppp.log doesn't seem to show any big error messages > Do you really have to use -9? This is really the last resort. You should just kill (the default is -15) to give processes the chance to clean themse

Re: /etc/ppp/ip-up behavior

1997-07-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
t itself; it merely determines the defaults. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: exmh mail?

1997-07-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
to inbox; the inc command is used to read mail from the system mailbox (/usr/spool/mail/...). exmh has an inc button; it also runs inc automatically when it is started. If you want your mail split into different directories before you read it, you need to use something like procmail. There's a

Re: xdm configuration

1997-07-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
start-xdm start-fs no-xdm-start-server run-xconsole may be the item you are missing? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot.

Re: xdm configuration

1997-07-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
ng a >'debian-not-configured' comment in there before I did the reinstall. >I'm not at my debian system right now, but I'll take a look at this >tonight and see if I can reproduce the problem by tweaking this file. > Yes. When first installed, /etc/X11/xdm/Xs

metafont/dvips problem

1997-07-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
0.720pk Note: overstrike characters may be incorrect. Can anyone tell me what is causing this error and how to cure it? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will b

xemacs20 won't start

1997-08-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
(toolbar-mail-icon . "mail") (toolbar-info-icon . "info-def") (toolbar-compile-icon . "compile") (toolbar-debug-icon . "debug") (toolbar-news-icon . "news"))) init-x-toolbar() init-post-x-win() make-device(x nil) # bind (display) make-x-devic

Re: netscape wont show up on X window

1997-08-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x4007e000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4008b000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40096000) libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40134000) libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40137000) -- Oliver

diald and netscape - unwanted connections

1997-08-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
somehow responsible, but it is not running! I cannot find out what process is doing this. Can anyone suggest what it is or how to find out? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot

Re: sed/grep script help

1997-08-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
quot; '/^Good/{printf("Good signature by ")} /^ *"/{print $2}' Example: $ echo 'Good signature made 1997-08-06 15:10 GMT by key: > 1024 bits, Key ID 8C111B46, Created 1997-08-06 >"Paul A. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"'

Re: Outputting tabs with sed

1997-08-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
tab char should work, but it doesn't. I think that bash gets in the way when you do it from the command line. However, it works if you put the sed instruction in a file and use sed -f sedfile -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Outputting tabs with sed

1997-08-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: >"Oliver Elphick" writes: > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: >> > >> > How can I output tabs with sed? >> > >>

Re: sound card as a module and audio CDs

1997-08-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
s. Any >ideas? > This is not limited to sb16. I experience the same problem running with a GUS Extreme and the commercial OSS software. Following Colin Telmer's hint, I found that the card would play CD's if I played a midi file first (with playmidi -g). -- Oliver Elphick

Re: apropos broken in 1.3?

1997-08-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: >Hello-- > >It seems my apropos doesn't work; I've got Debian 1.3.1 and -- according to >apropos -- nothing is ever appropriate. So I did an "apropos -d a" and got Perhaps you need to run mandb to create the

SPAM

1997-08-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
Today there was a SPAM message on debian-changes. Can the list server not be configured to refuse postings from addresses that aren't subscribed to the list the posting is intended for? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of

Apache/Perl segfaults

1997-08-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
rl_startup () #2 0x8065b03 in init_modules () #3 0x8061c35 in standalone_main () #4 0x80621b4 in main () Can anyone offer any suggestions, please? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Ma

Re: man pages?

1997-08-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
do this in your .xsession file or else in the global file. You want something like: MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/man:/usr/local/pgsql/man export MANPATH editing as necessary for any other manpage directories you may have. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PR

Re: PPP ?

1997-08-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
my modem is, should it be >at /dev/tty* or /dev/cua* - what's the difference? I have already >configured the kernel of TCP/IP and PPP - what's the next step? > /dev/cua* is obsolete and should not be used. Use /dev/ttyS*. (ttyS0 = COM1, ttyS1 = COM2 and so on.) -- Oliver E

Re: compilation problems

1997-08-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
e, I often get one or more >of the following errors: > >f77 -I./inc -cpp -g -C -c routine.F -o ./routine.o >./routine.F > routine: >mv: routine.c: I/O error `I/O error' is a hardware problem. It sounds as if there's something wrong with the hard disk. T

Re: [problem][tetex][locate]

1997-08-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
-- >--- > > >-- >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . >Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- Oliver

Re: killing a process

1997-08-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
d have to be to develop some system call to force the process to wake up to be killed. I don't know whether any such call exists, but altering the kill() system call is probably a change with fairly major implications for the kernel. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROT

Re: ppp-script problem,

1997-08-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
o the console and logfiles. You should then be able to see what's happening. > > > >/root/.dunc/chatfile > >"" atdt5813960 CONNECT "" rname:--rname: MY_LOGIN word: MY_PASSWRD "" ppp > > >--

Re: Please help...

1997-08-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
name to run it, or add the appropriate directory to the end of your path (run `export PATH=$PATH:directory'). For example: $ type netscape netscape is hashed (/usr/local/bin/netscape) $ su Password: # type netscape bash: type: netscape: not found # export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin # type n

Re: Dave Cinege and Paul Wade

1997-08-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
ough anything useful? Maybe we could take the job for a week at a time each, so we don't get too wearied by it. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone

Re: Looking for rpc.bootparamd

1997-08-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
e to get dselect to show the files that are > contained within a package? (I flipped through the three > information "choices", but none showed files contained) > Not with dselect. From a command line, use dpkg -S, thus: $ dpkg -S rpc.bootparamd netstd: /us

Re: Knews

1997-08-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
the text and article list into two windows: $knews -nntpServer localhost +separate -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot. -

Re: fsck from cron?

1997-08-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
ecause it should not change the filesystem, it would be a suitable command to run from cron. I can't help you on the other problem (strange error messages). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: Devices?

1997-08-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
mouse using this device? Can someone >make any sense of these? If you have a PS/2 mouse, this line is wrong and will be causing problems. The correct device is /dev/psaux. You have gpm looking at your first serial port for a mouse, which it won't find. -- Oliver Elphick

How can I check package integrity?

1997-08-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
check every package to see whether all its files are present. Is there any tool to do this? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better

Re: Debian libc5 (stable) to libc6 (unstable) Mini-HOWTO (regular posting, updated)

1997-09-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
g. IMPORTANT: If you run the > older libc6-based e2fsck on a 2 GB or greater partition, YOU WILL LOSE > DATA. I had problems with that version of e2fsck, EVEN THOUGH (by my calculations) my partition was less than 2Gb (= 2 * 1024^3) by 67Mb. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: postgresql

2005-01-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
block with ipcrm(1), or just > delete "/var/lib/postgres/data/postmaster.pid". If you run ipcs -m (as root) do you see any blocks owned by postgres? -- Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sarge problems with MySQL and DBI / DBD::mysql

2005-06-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
gt; s main::failed(/home/domain/www.chpresenters.co.uk/web/cgi-bin/ocms-multi/common/cgi-lib.pl:117): If a row is added to the table to be returned by this query, the problem goes away. How can I debug or fix this problem, please? -- Oliver Elphick olly@

Re: dselect and a Recent Experience

2005-06-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
o if you reference stable, a lot of your packages are now regarded as obsolete. You should either reference woody explicitly or do a complete upgrade (recommended!) using the instructions in the release notes at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/index.en.html Olive

Re: Gnome doesn't see user's PATH

2005-06-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 11:49 -0500, Forrest Smith wrote: > Hi all! > > Does anyone know why apps run from the panel aren't aware of > user's environment vars, specifically PATH? > > Example, if Mutt is executed from my panel, I can't execute > commands that are in my PATH. If I run it from a te

How to bounce emails selectively with exim?

2005-06-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
We get a number of spam mails and viruses sent to us with the sender address spoofed to appear to be from our domain. These get bounced for the appropriate reason (unrouteable address, spam, etc) but if the mail got routed through our ISP, the ISP sends the bounce straight back to me because they

Re: GMT to Normal Time

2000-08-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
me. Use tzconfig to set the default for all users. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8

Re: join us!

2000-08-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
R is a non-free Microsoft product.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839

Re: upgrading kernel

2000-09-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
nstall kernel-image > >If you prefer to roll your own: > >$ apt-get install kernel-source You have to add the kernel version number that you want: kernel-image-2.2.17 or kernel-source-2.2.17, for example. Each kernel release is a separate package. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Netscape Bookmarks

2000-09-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
right format. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
ilable to the user who owns it; he has to enter a pass phrase to get access. Files are encrypted before they are written to the filesystem. Even their names are encrypted. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfi

How can I enable network scanning?

2000-09-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
lfix.co.uk I tried running `saned -d 128' on sarah, rather than using inetd, but in that case I cannot connect even with telnet (connection refused) and saned does not appear to see the connection attempt (using strace to monitor it). -- Oliver Elphick

Re: name of howto's in debian potato?

2000-09-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
it. Package: doc-linux-html Pathnames: /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/*-HOWTO*.html -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG:

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

2000-09-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
ail on their servers that they should purge saved mail from time to time; otherwise they may exceed their quotas and be unable to receive new mail. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B

Re: Searching in dselect

2000-09-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >> How can I search for a package in the dselect program? > >'?' brings up a list of keystrokes. > >'/' starts a search. > >'n' finds next instance of pattern. 'n&#x

Re: script doesn't work (renaming files)

2000-09-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
which is ASCII 70 (decimal), 0106 octal: find . -name \*$'\106'\* (The stars need backslashes to protect them from shell expansion and bash translates \ooo to a character if \ooo occurs inside $''.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

Re: Spammer by incompetence, RBL may be an option

2000-09-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
> >Where is the right place? Ask our list admins to unsubscribe these incompetents. Since we are only seeing responses to list postings, that will eliminate the problem. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http

Re: Postgresql-problem

2000-06-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
2. I think you have to install the correct version for your kernel. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12

Re: Postgresql documentation/behavior inconsistency

2000-06-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
release 7.1, but seems to have made its way prematurely into public view. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-07-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
Stefan Nobis wrote: >BTW: In the Build-Depends tcl8.0-dev and tk8.0-dev are listed -- the >newer versions 8.2 will also do. Actually, postgresql specifically requires 8.0, because there are problems with multibyte encoding and later versions of tcl (problem in postgresql not tcl) --

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-07-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
Andre Berger wrote: >I tried to build postgresql_7.0.2-2 on my PPC, but this fails. There >should be some kind of patch, shouldn't it? There is no special patch for PPC builds. Mail me the failing section of your build log and I'll take a look. --

Re: Nouvelle version

2000-07-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
isn't yet ready - perhaps in a month...) [And how do you type accented characters on an English keyboard?] -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
a delusion to think that Linux/Unix viruses are impossible. The more we get clueless users who run everything as root, the more likely we are to see viruses spreading. To make a comparison with human health, good security is like good hygiene, and people who live in filth are likely t

Re: Annoying message

2000-07-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
hority substituting the correct name for `user'. Alternatively, run `xhost +' before becoming root, but this is much less secure. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B

Re: postgresql demond

2001-02-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
ore runing the postmaster. -i allows users to connect over TCP/IP; this is not necessary if they are on the same machine. Have you created usernames in postgresql for these other users? Are they using the right commands to connect? What error messages do they get? -- Oliver Elphick

Re: postgresql demond

2001-02-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
Pap Tibor wrote: >On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Olivier Billet wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:02:51PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> > -i allows users to connect over TCP/IP; this is not necessary if they ar >e >> > on the same machine. >

Re: postgresql upgrade/downgrade -- help!

2001-02-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
do-random sequences designed in here, >and unfortunately don't record anywhere what the breakpoints >are, and recreating them would be impossible. hopefully i can recover >the numerics and not have to explain to the customers that their >server manager is a

Re: postgresql upgrade/downgrade -- help!

2001-02-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
at does not work, I think I have seen a reference on one of the PostgreSQL lists to a tool for extracting tuples from a file. I can't remember where, though. Can anyone point us to it? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: postgresql upgrade/downgrade: the data is BACK! but...

2001-02-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
will trillich wrote: >On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 06:52:01AM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> A pity the dump file got clobbered. > >indeed! > >> I suspect the dump from 6.5 was >> in a form that 7.0 rejected - you had those two failed creates in the

Re: newbie postgresql question

2001-03-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
e new users? (y/n) n CREATE USER postgres $ exit root # exit fred $ createdb fred fred $ psql -d fred -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72

Re: / is suddenly 100% used

2001-03-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
check this, boot in single-user mode and make sure that all other partitions are unmounted and then use `du -s /*' to see where the space is being used. (du is /usr/bin/du, so you will have to copy the binary onto your root partition if you have /usr as a separate partition.) -- Oliver Elphic

Re: Simple c program won't compile

2001-03-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
hick.c >/tmp/ccU9fgSr.o: In function `main': >/tmp/ccU9fgSr.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `sqrt' >collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > >What is wrong? Your problem is in the link stage. sqrt() is part of the maths l

Re: Missing /lib/modules/2.2.17 file

2001-03-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
back? > >Boot floppy doesn't work; it just gets me to the same point. Any >suggestions before I decide to re-install? boot: linux init=/bin/bash This should stop before anything that needs modules is loaded. Don't forget to sync your disk before

Re: Postgresql: What can I do now? Fwd: Cron [ -x /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance ] && /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance -a

2001-03-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
don't say which release of PostgreSQL this is. In release 7.0 the REINDEX command is available: man reindex -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B

Re: isdn question

2001-03-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
ction failed? I think that you need "DIALMODE=on" in /etc/isdn/device.ippp0 -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1

Re: Seeking GUI for Postgresql

2001-03-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
s to work, though it needed a bit of debugging which was unrelated to the version of PHP. As far as I could understand it from the PHP docs, there should be little to no trouble running PHP3 code on PHP4. Am I wrong about that? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Nvidia and source packages

2001-03-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
all those present, you can run debuild or dpkg-buildpackage to build the binaries. Look in the developers' corner in www.debian.org for more information and read the man pages and so on for the various commands. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wig

Re: start-stop-daemon, postgresql, and options

2001-03-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
Aaron Brashears wrote: >My /etc/init.d/posgresql uses start-stop-daemon to launch >/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgresql-startup which handles a lot of the >details of running postgresql. postgresql-startup was specially written for the Debian package of PostgreSQL -- Olive

Re: Can't rescue, read-only filesystem

2001-03-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
into a shell, with no other utilities running. # /sbin/lilo This should reinstall lilo so that you can boot from the hard disk. Then: # sync # reboot -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk

Re: Can't rescue, read-only filesystem

2001-03-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
) and do this # cd /target(or maybe /mnt -- i can't check that at the moment) # ls should show you the contents of your root partition on the hard disk # sbin/lilo -r /target go back to screen 1 and choose reboot -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Can't rescue, read-only filesystem

2001-03-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
>ference Next step # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/target/lib sbin/lilo.real -r /target >Today at work I will get new rescue/root disks. Is there a >woody/testing set, or should I use the stable set? All you need is a kernel that will boot long enough to let you run lilo, if the above

Emacs initialisation query

2001-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
cro "ESC x mark- whole- buffer RET ESC x eif- indent- region RET")) (global-set-key 'eif-indent-buffer) What should I put for ? I've tried "f9", , "", () and it doesn't like any of them. I can't see anything about it in the docs either. -- Oliver

Re: Emacs initialisation query

2001-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Richard C. Cobbe" wrote: >Lo, on Thursday, March 22, Oliver Elphick did write: > >> (If it matters, I'm using xemacs 21). >> >> I want to define a function key to run a macro. >> >> I can do it within a session: >>

Re: ISDN question

2000-10-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
ys l >ike to >understand the "why", so please excuse my asking again. If you're using an external ISDN modem, you don't need isdnutils or any other ISDN tools, because your computer has no direct contact with the ISDN line. Isdnutils is

Re: pg_log (PostgreSQL)

2000-10-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
t a log file. DO NOT touch it! It records the state of every transaction in your database; if you lose pg_log you lose your data! I'm copying this to the users list to ensure wider coverage for this information. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of

Re: Fw: Boot-time Usenet warning on cvalle

2000-10-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
> >Carol > > >- Original Message - >From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 9:47 AM >Subject: Boot-time Usenet warning on cvalle > > >> Old .new

PCMCIA serial/modem problem

2000-11-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
en (/dev/ttyS1): No such device cu: open (/dev/ttyS1): No such device cu: ttyS1: Line in use -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C

Re: DEBIAN 2.2: LOCAL PRINTER INSTALLATION

2000-11-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
ss concerning the printer. I certainly >missed something but I don't know what. Does any one can help me ? If you are using the supplied kernel you need to choose to install parallel port and printer kernel modules. That done, you also need to install a spooler package such as L

Re: "non-US/main" section

2000-11-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
us to export from USA or to supply for use in USA. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: C

Re: problems with XSERVER after UPGRADE

2000-11-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
gic NM256 et cetera) is not in the >list any more. If you have upgraded woody, you have now moved to X version 4. You need to generate a new XF86Config-4 file, by using dexter, which is included in xserver-common. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: need help locating a file

2000-11-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
>what package they are from. The font that I remember was called "neep", and >the foundry was "jmk". Can anyone tell me which package it's in? xfonts-jmk -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Couple of questions from a recent convert

2000-11-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
e of weeks. I haven't made a potato version, since I don't have a pure potato machine. I hope we will be able to provide a potato package soon, but if you can't wait, download the source and build it yourself. (apt-get source postgresql) -- Oliver Elphick

Re: scp from stdin

2000-11-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
.tgz" (You put the remote command in quotes so that its redirection doesn't get handled by your local shell.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3

Re: isdnutils does not start ipppd

2000-11-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
use that to get started so that you can load the package. (Speaking from experience, here...) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C

Re: Terminals/dim screens = use bold everywhere but dselect is...dim

2000-12-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
a floppy) > >Any assistance would be appreciated. Components may degrade over time; take it to a repair shop. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28

Re: Postgres Port Problem (and other port issues)

2000-12-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
> >Any ideas on why this might be happening? If you supply a hostname, it uses a TCP/IP connection; if you don't, it uses a Unix socket. I suspect your postgresql packages aren't all up to date (see my previous mail about location of the Unix socket). -- Oliv

Re: multiple pages fax

2000-12-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
or something like that. >In fact I am interested in a package which can do the job in the batch >mode. I use Hylafax, and exmh as a mail client. For me, faxes with multiple pages end up as a single file which I can display or print with a single mouse-click. I did not have to do an

Re: OT:postgres user to beging using PostgreSQL?

2000-12-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
t is user postgres. Should I be >logged in with user postgres to be able to create users? How do I know it's >password? Yes, you have to be user postgres to create other users. Become postgres thus: $ su # su - postgres Or give it a password (su -c "passwd postgres"

Re: Three Stupid X Questions...

2000-12-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
thority in your .xsession or .xinitrc file. (It must be exported, or it won't propogate into your su session.) Since root can read any file, it will be able to read your .Xauthority and use it to gain access. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Hello first time - I have a problem with mounting cdrom

2000-12-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
s somewhere else, you will have to link the appropriate device to /dev/cdrom or use the appropriate device directly in your mount command. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1:

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