Re: Unix(LF) files to MSDOS(CRLF) and vice versa

2002-04-09 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, April 9, Daniel Toffetti did write: > > > How can I use rpl (or any other suitable command) to transform the > > > "\n" character between Unix and Msdos formats ?? rpl seems to be > > > the right tool, but I can't figure out how to specify that strings. > > > > In the sysutils pack

Re: Galeon not to be in Woody?

2002-04-10 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, April 10, The Doctor What did write: > I saw Anthony Towns's message about Galeon not being in Woody. > > Is this true even for galeon 1.0? Not sure about this. However, it's pretty straightforward to install Galeon from Sid on top of a Woody system; I've been doing that here

User's perspective on upgrading to kernel 2.4?

2002-04-11 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. I'm happily running woody with kernel 2.2.20, and I'm thinking of upgrading to kernel 2.4.18. Before I do this, though, I'd like to know more about this process -- it's been a long time since I upgraded across minor version numbers. First question: what are the major differences

Re: User's perspective on upgrading to kernel 2.4?

2002-04-12 Thread Richard Cobbe
Wow! Lots of responses. Thanks to all for your comments. Rather than write about 15 separate replys, I'm going to address most of the points in this one mail. Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Two programs that from a user perspective cause workarounds are > xcdroast/cdrecord/mkisofs &

Re: OT: vm vs mutt (was Re: Someone tell me the secret of mutt)

2002-04-12 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, April 12, Craig Duncan did write: > I just recently dumped Netscape mail in favor of vm (in emacs). I'm a > _long_ time emacs user and although i've heard a lot of good things > about mutt, when i was trying to figure out what to replace Netscape > mail with, i decided upon vm beca

Re: upgrade to ext3 ?

2002-04-14 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, April 14, Lars Jensen did write: > Robin, > > How do I place the module on the initrd? On woody, at least, make sure it's listed in /etc/mkinitrd/modules. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug in xfree86-xserver setup?

2002-04-21 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, April 21, Andy Saxena did write: > On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 01:46:31AM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * Sridhar M.A. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Just today when apt-get upgrade installed the new version of > > > xfree86-xserver in testing (4.1.0-16), I

xdvi won't display small caps from postscript fonts

2002-04-28 Thread Richard Cobbe
Evening, all. I just noticed some odd behavior from the xdvi in woody; it doesn't seem to display small caps from postscript fonts correctly. The following LaTeX file demonstrates the problem nicely: % \documentclass{article} \usepackage{palatino} \begin{document} THIS IS ALL

Re: Getting mozilla going...

2002-05-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, May 2, Mike Fontenot did write: > > Actually, the more I look at the advice to patch up > mozilla so that it can handle java applets, the less > I understand the advice: > > "unzip jre.xpi -d $MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME/plugins 'jre-image-i386/*' > ln -s jre-image-i386/plugin/i386/ns60

Re: Two users writing to the same file at the same time.

2002-05-05 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, May 4, AE Roy did write: > I've set up my system with 15 computers and 60 users so that they have a > directory where they all can share files, under /home/staff, I have > them belongign to the group teacher who is the owner of /home/staff, and > the GUID is set on /home/staff. >

Re: Red Hat user shopping around

2002-05-08 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, May 8, Glen Lee Edwards did write: > Hi, > > I've been a loyal Red Hat user for the last 4 or 5 years. Their recent > distributions will no longer install on all my computers because they now > require more than 16 Meg RAM. I have a few questions: > How well does FVWM run o

Re: Netscape Browser Masquerade

2002-05-14 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, May 14, Arthur H. Johnson II did write: > > My bank's online account program only works with netscape classic, but > recently they decided to only allow Red Hat 6.1 machines to access the > program because they can "support" that version of Linux. In other words, > instead of sup

Re: Line wrapping with mutt/emacs (was Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express))

2002-05-16 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, May 16, Cam Ellison did write: > * Gary Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > And, *please*, for the love of God and country, can you wrap your > > lines at 70 characters or so?! > > > > I would love to, but every attempt seems to go nowhere. Not everyone > complains,

Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?]

2002-05-17 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, May 18, Hans Ekbrand did write: > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:40:47PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > The reason most people suggest 72 is that traditionally, terminals > > are 80 characters wide, and 72 leaves enough room to be quoted with > > "> " four times. That's one of the r

Re: Blocking 'unsubscribe'

2002-05-19 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, May 19, Michael C Alonzo did write: > Osamu Aoki wrote this message last Sun, May 19, 2002 at 06:17:29AM -0700: > > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 08:56:32PM +0800, Michael C Alonzo wrote: > > # blackhole for autoresponders > > :0 > > * 1^0 ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * 1^0 ^Subject: Auto

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-21 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, May 21, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry did write: Where's the attribution? Who was the OP? > > Why the sam hell is there not, by default, no questions asked, it's > > installed because it's *right*, a statically linked /sbin/sh as > > roots default shell? > because the days of

Re: Emacs and shell variables

2002-05-22 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, May 22, Tom Cook did write: > On 0, Stefan Bellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Felix Natter wrote: > > > Stefan Bellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > When using Emacs to start a compilation (e.g. with C-c C-c from C++ > > > > mode) you get "make -k" as default. The p

Re: Emacs and shell variables

2002-05-22 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, May 22, Stefan Bellon did write: > Dave Carrigan wrote: > > Stefan Bellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [snip] > > > > gdm, but without the rest of GNOME, only gdm. > > > gdm won't evaluate your .bashrc to set the environment variables. The > > idomatic solution is to create

Re: Acroread segfault

2002-05-22 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, May 22, Michael Jinks did write: > Hi, all. I'm mostly looking for tips on where to seek more info, since > at this point I'm completely puzzled and lack the background to really > dig into this issue. > > I've just set up the first of a batch of new Dell Optiplex GX240's, > ru

Re: Acroread segfault

2002-05-25 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, May 23, Michael Jinks did write: > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 06:21:27PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > > I can't tell from the parts of your X log that you included, but what > > color depth are you running on these machines? In my experience, > &

Re: xemacs problems

2002-05-25 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, May 23, Glen Lee Edwards did write: > I installed xemacs 21 from Woody. I run fvwm as my window manager. I'm using > the same configuration files as I did with Red Hat for both. Xemacs is > ignoring > the font information I have in my configuration files, and when it loads in

Upgrading bugzilla to woody?

2002-05-28 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. I've got a server that's currently running Debian/stable. I've also installed bugzilla from source in /usr/local. When woody is released, I'd like to move to the version of bugzilla that's in woody. However, I'd really like to keep my existing bug database intact during the upgr

Question about mail alias for root

2002-06-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. eximconfig, when asking where to route mail for root and postmaster, prints the following warning: Note that postmaster-mail should usually be read on the system it is directed to, rather than being forwarded elsewhere, so (at least one of) the users you choose should

Re: in case you missed this from ponik

2002-06-05 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, June 5, Jeronimo Pellegrini did write: > > > To me, the best solution to this would be to customize the tagline on > > > each outgoing message, so that it would read something like "you are > > > subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED], to remove send a message _from that > > > address_

Re: open ports question

2002-06-06 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, June 5, Paul Johnson did write: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 02:32:00PM -0400, tvn1981 wrote: > > > 9/tcp opendiscard > > Not sure myself... Standard TCP service; routes everything written to that

Re: What is happening to testing/unstable?

2002-06-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, June 20, Colin Watson did write: > If you care about dpkg's available file being up-to-date, you need to > run 'dselect update', which runs 'apt-get update' for you. You don't > need to run 'apt-get update' as well. Pardon the somewhat elementary question, but what is dpkg's avai

Re: ssh difference v3.3 vs. 3.4 ???

2002-06-26 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, June 26, Colin Watson did write: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 03:39:49PM -0400, Reid Gilman wrote: > > 3.4 contains bugfixes for a few problems I don't completely understand > > but I believe that there was a bug that could allow root access. > > If you're running 3.3 with privile

Re: ssh difference v3.3 vs. 3.4 ???

2002-06-26 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, June 26, Colin Watson did write: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 05:25:16PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > Lo, on Wednesday, June 26, Colin Watson did write: > > > If you're running 3.3 with privilege separation enabled (as it is by > > > default),

Re: Problem with ssh

2002-06-28 Thread Richard Cobbe
(Snipped all the cross-posts.) Lo, on Friday, June 28, Sam Varghese did write: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:25:52PM +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I have a problem with my ssh, when i try to connect to our server using >

Re: Problem with ssh

2002-06-29 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, June 29, Sam Varghese did write: [ wrapped to 72 cols ] > On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 05:33:17PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > Not correct. In woody, both packages support both versions. OpenSSH > > defaults to protocol v1; for v2, supply the `-2' switch t

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