"apt-get -b source libexpat1" -> cp: cannot stat `usr/include'...

When doing a "apt-get -b source libexpat1": Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 369kB of source archives. Get:1 ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main expat 1.95.6-2 (dsc) [693B] Get:2 ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org unstable/main expat 1.95.6-2 (tar) [292kB] Get:3 ft

Re: interesting gnome 2 dependency

On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 16:23:20 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > After sucessfully installing most of gnome 2 from unstable I get: > > joy:/home/paul# apt-get install gnome/unstable [...] > but: > > joy:/home/paul# apt-get install gnome-core/unstable [...] I often get strange error messages when usin

Re: "apt-get -b source libexpat1" -> cp: cannot stat `usr/include'...

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 00:53:32 +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:18:39AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > When doing a "apt-get -b source libexpat1": > > Did you also install it's build dependencies? Yes. Anyway, when something is missing conc

Re: where is libMP3.so

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 23:18:53 +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > Debian contains no MP3 encoders due to patent issues, Not even in non-us? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: - 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig 17, Championnat International des Jeux M

Re: where is libMP3.so

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 14:00:18 +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:30:57PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 23:18:53 +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > > Debian contains no MP3 encoders due to patent issues, > > > > Not even in

Re: floating point hex calc?

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 04:48:56 -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I normally use calctool as a hex calculator, and it's nice when dealing > with integers, but I can't type a raw hexadecimal integer into it and find > out what its floating point equivalent is. > > Is there something like what

Re: floating point hex calc?

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:53:02 -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-03-07T09:48:56Z, "Michael D. Crawford" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there something like what I want for debian, or if not is there > > something I can compile from source? > > `bc' comes with Debian. Start it with t

Re: floating point hex calc?

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 18:21:57 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > But how about output in hexadecimal? > > $ bc -l > > ibase=16 > > obase=16 > > 1.23456 > : 01.03 00 14 21 > > What does this means??? Hmm... it seems that the input base is

Re: C, math.h and globals

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:39:31 +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Isn't this a bug in the C library? I mean, the standard libraries ought > not to be interfering with the variables you choose? Well, y1 doesn't seem to be a reserved identifier in any case. But you can see the C implementation provided by

Re: C, math.h and globals

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:37:42 +, Colin Watson wrote: > You could '#define __STRICT_ANSI__' at the top of the program if you > want the C library to define only what's in bare ISO Standard C, or > '#define _ISOC99_SOURCE' for C99. With either of those y1() won't be > defined. It won't be def

Re: C, math.h and globals

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 14:43:06 +, Colin Watson wrote: > It links fine, but if you link with -lm (not the default) then it seems > you can get segfaults at run-time. I think that if you use #include this generally means that you use some mathematical functions (defined in the C standard)

Re: C, math.h and globals

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 16:05:50 +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > I assume those functions are only available within *nix, since my partner > who uses Borland doesn't have this problem. There are available on RISC OS too. Well, on any system where the same mathematical library can be used. -- Vincent

POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

Is there a POP3 mail fetcher that wouldn't download messages twice when the POP3 connection may sometimes stall (so that the messages couldn't be deleted from the server)? If there is such a fetcher written in Perl based on Mail::POP3Client, this would be a good solution. Thanks in advance for an

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

On 2003-11-03 05:38:44 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Have you tried fetchmail? It is easy to lose mail with fetchmail (and I did lose mail in the past with it). > The messages in /var/log/mail.log seem to indicate that it deletes > each mail after a successful fetch. How does it do that? I've been

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

On 2003-11-03 18:28:57 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 15:52, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2003-11-03 05:38:44 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Have you tried fetchmail? > > > > It is easy to lose mail with fetchmail (and I did lose mail in the

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

On 2003-11-03 21:43:26 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > The very first paragraph in `man fetchmail` says > > fetchmail is a mail-retrieval and forwarding utility; it > fetches mail from remote mailservers and forwards it to > your local (client) machine's del

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

On 2003-11-04 00:28:21 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Btw, is your ppp connection that bad that it can't stay up for 5 > minutes? In general I use ADSL, but sometimes I'm in a place where I only have a dial-up connection, and I often had a connection freeze after 2 or 3 minutes. -- Vincent Lefèvre

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

On 2003-11-04 10:41:10 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > That's because fetchmail didn't lose the mail; the delivery system did. In some sense, yes. But if fetchmail didn't use the delivery system, I wouldn't have lost mail. > You're absolutely right -- a misconfigured MTA is dangerous and can >

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

On 2003-11-04 15:42:40 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 21:54 GMT, Vincent Lefevre penned: > > In some sense, yes. But if fetchmail didn't use the delivery system, I > > wouldn't have lost mail. > > And if I hadn't typed 'rm -

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

ox instead of the terminal (or stderr), but this is another story... Then I switched to getmail and I have never had any lost mail with it. BTW, I installed fetchmail on another system (SuSE) later, and I again had lost mail problems (except that I didn't really lose mail since I had the go

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

On 2003-11-05 19:57:02 +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > This seems to depend at least somewhat on the pop3 daemon on the other > end. My current one (courier) seems to mark messages as "seen", so > fetchmail just deletes them in future, instead of downloading. I don't want to use a server-side flag, sinc

Re: The Unix Philosophy (was Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?)

On 2003-11-05 11:52:37 -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > It's not nonsense. fetchmail's authors can't be held responsible for > you not configuring your MTA correctly. And they certainly shouldn't > try to check for every possible MTA configuration under the sun. > Maybe you wrote your own MTA? How would

Re: The Unix Philosophy (was Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?)

On 2003-11-06 09:31:35 -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > Sounds like what you want is better communication with your sysadmin? > > If the sysadmin knows you're using fetchmail and they're good, they'll > let you know if they're going to break your setup. Or they'll warn you > they're making an MTA cha

Installing packages from source with apt

What is the best way to compile and install packages from source with apt? I don't want to use "dpkg -i" once the packages are built (as suggested in the how-to) since dpkg doesn't check dependencies and may break the system (it did in the past...). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web:

Re: Installing packages from source with apt

On 2003-11-10 11:15:26 -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > dpkg does *check* dependencies, it just doesn't go out of its way to > *correct* them. That is, dpkg shouldn't let you install a package if > its dependencies aren't already installed. If you never use a --force > option and your packages work,

[ssh] KeepAlive

My ssh sessions from my local Debian machine were closed when there was a route problem (or possibly after an ADSL reconnection), so I added the following to my .ssh/config: KeepAlive no This worked for several months, but since a few days, my ssh sessions get closed again (for the last one, I co

Re: [ssh] KeepAlive

On 2003-11-10 13:24:28 -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Have you looking into ClientAliveInterval? ssh v2 has a built-in > keepalive mechanism that dodges some of the problems with regular > TCP keepalive, and you probably need to disable both of them to get > what you want. This option doesn't exist

Re: [ssh] KeepAlive

On 2003-11-10 14:43:22 -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Well, ClientAliveInterval exists in my version of ssh. :) > > ssh 1:3.4p1-1.woody.3 > > I don't remember from your first message; are you running unstable? testing with some packages from unstable. Concerning ssh: Version: 1:3.6.1p2-9 -- V

Re: Installing packages from source with apt

On 2003-11-11 06:55:36 +0800, csj wrote: > You might try creating your own apt archive. An apt archive is just a > directory (or subdirectories) full of debs. To make them visible > to apt you create an index file called Packages (or gzipped to > Packages.gz) using a command like "dpkg-scanpackag

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 14:59:17 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Since some people seem to thing apt pinning can solve all problems with > outdated packages in stable I want to explain why this is wrong: > > apt pinning is good if you are running testing but need a package (e.g. > a security update)

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 13:25:50 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > If I am not mistaken, it is possible to avoid this > worst case scenario by appropriately setting up apt's > preferences. Suppose I set the priorities of distributions > as follows > stable 900 > testing 800 > unstable 700 >

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 13:40:39 -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [snip] > > If I am not mistaken, it is possible to avoid this > > worst case scenario by appropriately setting up apt's > > preferences. Suppose I set the priorities of distributions > >

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 14:59:26 -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > So in that case, what would be the solution? I guess we would have to > know what testing packages have fixes in unstable, and then use the "-t > unstable" option to apt-get ... correct? Yes, but unfortunately, this is not automatical.

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 19:05:49 -0500, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > Are you really sure that setting the priorities of stable, testing and > unstable to 900, 800 and 700, respectively, we would be able to have a > mixed system? IMHO, with this configuration, and entries for stable, > testing and

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:22:29 -0500, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > But before looking at the priority, it looks at the version of the > packages. So, usually the version on unstable is the highest, and its > priority (700) is greater than the currently installed package (100), > allowing the upg

Re: whois not working?

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 17:07:44 -0500, Seneca wrote: > Take a look at the BTS. In the report for bug #178788, there are some > sources for a version of whois with an updated list. This is not sufficient. See bug #179539: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=179539 -- Vincent Lef

How to add custom sections to a dexconf-generated XF86Config-4 file?

I've read the FAQ, but it deals with only two possibilities: * either the user doesn't add anything (and automatical upgrades of XF86Config-4 are still allowed) * or the user modifies XF86Config-4 and won't get any automatical upgrade. But how do I add custom sections (e.g. "Files" wit

Re: XML editor in debian?

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 17:20:38 -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Lars Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Are any XML editors included in the debian dostribution? If not, are > >> there any good freeware XML editors out there? > > > > emacs + ps

Mozilla and VNC (was: Evolution and VNC)

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:20:05 -0400, Sven Heinicke wrote: > VNC is working great but some programs, Evolution being the main one, > gets a little messed up with fonts. In some text areas there is a box > between every character, making it nearly impossible to read. Could you tell me if VNC wo

Re: locales and terminal

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 15:18:03 +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > Not sure if this helps anything, but 'uxterm', is able to handle various > charactersets, while the ordinary xterm can only handle ASCII chars. s/ASCII/ISO-8859-1/. But uxterm is rather buggy. With Mutt, characters appear at random place

Re: setting up static IP

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 21:49:43 +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > How do I go about telling my router on my home network that I want to use > a fixed IP address on my Debian box? Telnet your router and configure it, but concerning that, this is not related to Debian. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Where to put .Xmodmap ?

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 00:09:00 +0100, John Keniry wrote: > I would like xmodmap .Xmodmap to run every time I startx. I did think > that simply placing the .Xmodmap in my $HOME would be enough but the X > scripts don't use it. I run it from my .xinitrc: [ -e $HOME/.xmodmaprc ] && xmodmap $HOME/.

Re: mouse copying in lynx, aptitude,...

On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 11:47:11 +0100, Rupert wrote: > In lynx and aptitude running in an xterm, the mouse is used for mousy > GUI curses things (point and click) and not for copy/paste any more. Is > there a way to copy/paste using the X clipboard with such programs? Use the Shift key. -- Vin

Re: OT: RXVT keypad mapping in mc

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 06:28:06 +1000, Russell wrote: > I just installed rxvt on debian woody with fvwm2. It runs ok, > except when i open midnight commander in an rxvt window, the > keypad up/down/home/end movement keys don't work as they did > in an xterm. When i press them, i just get character

Re: Where to put .Xmodmap ?

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:13:44 +0100, John Keniry wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:20:32AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > #! /bin/sh > > PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH > > failsafe="xterm -ls -T Failsafe -geometry 80x24-0-0" > > trap "exec $failsafe

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 21:25:28 +1000, Russell wrote: > To activate the Home and End keys (dedicated or keypad ones) in xterm, > press ctrl+button 2 (mouse left+right) to get the xterm "VT Options" > menu, then select "Enable Application Cursor Keys". Alternatively, > type: echo -n "^[[?1h", where

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:10:53 +1000, Russell wrote: > I want to activate them so that my keyboard doesn't have stupid > non-functional keys. Normally, you don't need to activate them. But I've noticed that they don't work with zsh on my Debian machine, whether they are activated or not. On a R

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 18:26:37 +1000, Russell wrote: > Are you using xterm? I'd try comparing your local config files > on both machines, and any relevant global config files in /etc > and in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. Hmm... Finally, it doesn't work with zsh either on the RedHat machine. I do

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 22:57:03 +1000, Russell wrote: > I'm assuming TERM="xterm". I use either TERM=xterm-xfree86 or TERM=xterm-vt220 (but the escape sequences for Home and End keys don't depend on which value I choose). > Type: echo -ne "\e[c" and see what numbers are returned in > both termin

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 23:41:49 +1000, Russell wrote: > After doing echo -ne "\e[?1h", does Home still give ^[[H ? No, ^[OH as expected. > For a bash-specific fix, you could try: set enable-keypad on. > Maybe zsh has a similar setting. No, I think I need to configure that with bindkey. By defa

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 01:29:11 +1000, Russell wrote: > The standard xterm commands are in: > http://cns.georgetown.edu/~ric/howto/Xterm-Title/ctlseqs.txt OK, so Home and End should be CSI 1 ~ and CSI 4 ~. This is also what I get with the Nettle terminal under RISC OS. > BTW, did you use an xt

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 12:45:18 +1100, Russell wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > OK, so Home and End should be CSI 1 ~ and CSI 4 ~. This is also what > > I get with the Nettle terminal under RISC OS. > > I've tried those sequences with: echo -n "^[[1~" >

Re: Home and end keys (was Re: Make Debian better)

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 12:27:17 +0100, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > VL> This is not sufficient: one needs a TERM value that defines color > VL> *and* bce (neither xterm, nor xterm-color does, because they are > VL> too generi

Re: Fonts for ascii characters

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 11:28:35 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have a strange problem with fonts, I would welcome any thoughts of > what is happening here. > > Running in konsole with the "normal" font set > > running pstree, the "|" and "-" characters that make up the tree > vertical and horiz

Re: Fonts for ascii characters

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 12:39:56 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > what to? its set at xterm on both machines. I've found the problem (got it before!): you first need to enable the alternative character set (acs). "tput enacs" to do that. But the program that uses line graphics should have done that.

Re: Fonts for ascii characters

On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 16:30:23 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I've found the problem (got it before!): you first need to enable > the alternative character set (acs). "tput enacs" to do that. But > the program that uses line graphics should have done that. IMHO, it &g

Re: nfs lock problems (I/O error)

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 13:32:48 +0100, Robert Kellner wrote: > I have some problems with file-locking over nfs. > > Not only is mail giving me input/output error when trying to lock > a mailbox, I also have problems using dbm-files with perl (same > thing, input/output errors) > > Does anybody k

Re: any suggestions on mail client?

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 13:07:51 +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > after shifting from windows to linux, i am trying to see which mail > program can i use. i need something that will > > -have facility to have folders: i will like to keep business, > personal mails in different folders Mutt

Re: any suggestions on mail client?

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 14:29:09 +0530, sandip wrote: > is there a mailing list specifically for mutt? Yes, several ones (see the official web site). > > There is no custom fields in Mutt's address book (aliases). But Mutt > > can query external address books. > > any specific applications that

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs [was: locales and terminal]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:47:39 -0500, Matt Price wrote: > -mutt simply WON'T display accented characters properly\. Depending > on whether I set the CHARSET variable (in .muttrc) to UTF-8 or > iso-8859-1, accented characters display as ? or \xxx (a three-digit > numerical dcode). AFAIK, t

Re: any suggestions on mail client?

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 13:35:38 -0500, N. Thomas wrote: > I don't think that mutt has readline-like capabilities, but aliases work > just as well for this purpose. It has completion (on aliases, filenames...) and history support (and the history can be automatically saved, with one of my patches)

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 21:31:09 +0900, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote: > If you want to use emacs on the UTF-8 terminal, put > (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) in your `~/.emacs'. This is really stupid. Could emacs be fixed to use the locales instead? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:36:50 +0900, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote: > Unfortunately, (terminal-coding-system) is nil in Emacs even if > the LANG envionment variable is set to `en_US.UTF-8'. So, the > above configuration is required on the UTF-8 terminal. But what if one uses sometimes ISO-8859-1 and

Re: Better calendar tool?

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 15:38:06 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > I've been using gnomecal, from gnome-pim, but it's too buggy: I've > installed the latest version from unstable and still it can't do the > most trivial things, such as displaying meetings that start at on the > half-hour properly. This b

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 14:39:48 +0900, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote: > If the LANG environment variable is `en_US', Emacs uses > iso-latin-1 for (terminal-coding-system) by default. For UTF-8 > locales, see below. > > -- ~/.emacs -- > ;;(set-language-environment "Latin-1") > ;;(setq default-input-me

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 00:54:05 +0900, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote: > On November 2, 2002 at 2:01PM +0100, > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But even when the terminal coding system is correctly set, Emacs > > still uses the ISO-8859-1 encoding for a UTF

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 00:23:48 +0900, Tatsuya Kinoshita wrote: > I guessed that you are using (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) > on the ISO-8859-1 termianl. You should set > terminal-coding-system appropriately. No, I have no problem on a ISO-8859-1 terminal, only on a UTF-8 terminal: in uxt

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:11:25 -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > terminal-coding-system is only output. You want to use > set-keyboard-coding-system. The problem is that the output (currently ISO-8859-1) doesn't match the input (currently UTF-8). How can I fix that? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:30:16 -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > You can/must set the input and output independantly. C-x C-m k for the > input, C-x C-m t for the output. (Or their equivalents in your > .emacs.) OK, thanks. This now works. Currently emacs generates files encoded in ISO-8859-1. What

Re: Locales, Mutt, OpenOffice, Emacs

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:50:07 -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > C-x C-m f, or check the Recognize Coding node of the Emacs manual. OK, thanks to all of you. I've updated my .emacs to be able to easily switch between latin-1 and utf-8. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web:

Address rewriting and FQDN

For the moment, /etc/mailname is set to "ay" on my machine. But the message-id generated by the "bug" utility doesn't have a FQDN. I tried to set it to "ay.vinc17.org", but address rewriting doesn't work any longer (vinc17.org is a domain I own, but ay.vinc17.org doesn't correspond to any machine r

Locale for ISO-8601 date format?

What locale (LC_TIME) should I use to get dates in the ISO-8601 format? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: - 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig 17, Championnat International des Jeux Mathématiques et Logiques, TETRHEX, etc. Work: CR INRIA - comp

Locale to have the ISO 8601 date format?

What locale should I use to have the ISO 8601 date format? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: - 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig 17, Championnat International des Jeux Mathématiques et Logiques, TETRHEX, etc. Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmet

Re: Locale to have the ISO 8601 date format?

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 20:32:50 -0500, David P James wrote: > However I did get an answer eventually and it turns out to be contained > in a locale created as a bit of a joke - en_DK - English Denmark! I've juste generated it with localedef -c -i en_DK /usr/share/locale/en_DK (I hope this is

Re: Locale to have the ISO 8601 date format?

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 20:56:06 -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > dpkg-reconfigure locales, select the local you want, and try it again. > Set LC_TIME to that locale, and it should work. Thanks, this works. BTW, how about an iso8601 alias for en_DK or something like that? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL

Re: setting HOME in shell script

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:36:39 -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I have a script located in ~/bin/map/ that runs fine when > start it manually but when I set it up in a cron job it > wants to run from "~" so that a couple of things don't > work because they are in ~/bin/map and not in ~. > Can I "s

[xine] No NAV button

With xine, I don't have a NAV button, though I think I've installed all the necessary packages: ii libdvdcss2 1.2.1-1A portable abstraction library for DVD decry ii libdvdnav1 0.1.3-1The DVD navigation library ii libdvdread20.9.3-2Simple foundation for readin

Re: [xine] No NAV button

On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 22:23:29 -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > xine-dvdnav 0.9.8 isn't compatible with xine 0.9.13. If you look at the > messages that spew out when you start xine you will notice it complain > about an input plugin api mismatch. Upgrade xine-dvdnav to the unstable > version(0.9

Re: Xterm question.....

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:10:41 +0100, Urban Gabor wrote: > may be, this question is quite newbie. My xterm uses > xterm-debian setting, and I can't use backspace. How can I > solve this? It depends where. Type "cat > /dev/null" and return, then type some text, then the backspace key. What do

Re: Alt vs Meta key in Emacs

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:28:25 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: > I currently would like to have the and keys > act as keys in emacs These keys should be the mod1 modifiers. The modifiers are given by "xmodmap -pme". You can set them with: keycode xxx = Alt_L keycode yyy = Alt_R clear mod1 add mod1 =

Re: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:16:13 -0800, nate wrote: > Cameron Hutchison said: > > The authors of XFS seem to think that because it is a journalling > > filesystem, a filesystem repair tool is not necessary. > > yes this is true, I forgot about it. a few years ago I was replacing > a drive on a SGI

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jörg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For my documents, I have to use both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. Me too. > The problem I have is, pdflatex does not (at least per default) > understand .eps and .ps files. So I have to convert my .eps figures > from gnuplot

Re: two different netenvs (work and home)

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 17:15:02 +0100, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > Netenv cannot deal with my adsl connection, so I would like to disable > it and make a script that calls dhcp (work) or calls my pptp script. Keep netenv and configure /etc/network/interfaces to use different configurations. For ins

Re: mozilla 1.2 and commandline

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:31:49 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > With mozilla 1.1 and earlier, running mozilla from the commandline with an > URL when mozilla was already open would open a new window with that URL. > Now it launches and asks which profile to use (and refuses to use the > profile cu

Re: mozilla 1.2 and commandline

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 12:46:20 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 05/12/02 Vincent Lefevre did speaketh: > > > This is because you must not start a new mozilla with the same > > profile, to avoid its corruption. > > Corruption? They've never heard of file l

Re: mozilla 1.2 and commandline

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 12:22:24 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Why did it change between 1.1 & 1.2? > Is it "just" a bug that was finally fixed in 1.2? I don't remember. You should look at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122698 -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web:

Re: [OT]: TLA ARCH or Subversion ?

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 23:12:29 +0200, Xavier Maillard wrote: > I found out 2 possible replacements to it: subversion and tla. > > I just wanted to have feedback on the use of each other by some of you. I've been using Subversion for personal use for almost two months, and it works very well (an

Re: pdf readers

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 13:10:21 -0400, MJM wrote: > If anyone else has ghostview vs xpdf vs acrobat vs ??? stories or > comments I'd like to read them. I use xpdf on my PPC laptop since gv renders some PDF documents very badly and acrobat doesn't exist here. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 22:45:24 +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > I do, for a few things. I only discovered it after I'd been using > Subversion for a while, so perhaps I can provide some contrast to > the numerous svn-only users above. Thanks for your message. Very instructive (I'm a Subversion user only

Re: vncserver not sourcing .xinitrc

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:45:04 -0400, Johann Koenig wrote: > However, now when I start vncserver with: > vncserver :1 -geometry 800x600 -alwaysshared > it does not source my .xinitrc > > All I get is a blank X desktop, not even an xterm. Is there a way to > specify commands to run when I start i

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 01:43:00 +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > [tla] > > > Another, perhaps less useful feature is symlink versioning. > > > Subversion (and CVS) don't have this, and it's not targeted for > > > pre-1.0, either. > > > > Does it also support hardlinks (i.e. a file that has several > >

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 17:45:36 +1000, Rob Weir wrote: [...] > Another option would be to create a branch for your home dir and a > branch for your web server. Only have the files you want in each one, > and merge your changes between them. This lets you decide how in sync > you want to keep the

Re: leaving computer on 24/7

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:26:31 +0100, Koen Dejonghe wrote: > I installed debian woody on an ordinary pc and was wondering if I can leave > the machine on 24/7 without damaging it. No problem. > Are there options in linux where I can turn of the hard disks after x > minutes? I don't know, but

Re: ssh X11 forwarding

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 13:46:36 -0800, Michael West wrote: > I have "X11Forwarding yes" in sshd_config and login with `ssh -X > hostname` but `echo $DISPLAY` gives '0.0' after successful login. Look at all the scripts (either in your $HOME or in /etc) that can be run by the shell at startup. Perh

Re: Euro-sign

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 16:51:38 +0200, daniel huhardeaux wrote: > Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > >Is there a possibility to use the euro-sign? Of yes -> what do I have to > >install? > > > ISO-8859-15 Or UTF-8, if one also needs characters that are in ISO-8859-1 but not in ISO-8859-15. -- Vincent L

Problem with setuid script starting pppd

I have written a setuid/setgid-root Perl script that does the following: #!/usr/bin/suidperl -T use strict; use warnings; $ENV{'PATH'} = '/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin'; @ARGV == 1 and my ($isp) = $ARGV[0] =~ /^([-0-9A-Za-z_]+)$/ or die "Usage: ppp-on \n"; $< = $>; # set real to effective u

Re: Problem with setuid script starting pppd

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 15:27:16 +0100, Ben Kal wrote: > I too do not immediately understand that. It looks like the 'and die' part > of the statement > system '/usr/sbin/pppd', 'call', $isp and die; > is executed regardless of the real success or failure of the pppd call > when the script runs t

Re: ntpdate from cron -- DON'T DO THAT!

On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 18:51:24 -0500, N. Thomas wrote: > If you want to keep your clock in sync use ntpd -- that's what it was > designed for. This is what is used on the machines at my lab, but the daemon sometimes dies. So, I wouldn't say that this is a good solution, unless there is a way to

Re: ntpdate from cron -- DON'T DO THAT!

On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 19:50:39 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Vincent writes: > > This is what is used on the machines at my lab, but the daemon sometimes > > dies. > > Shouldn't happen. Have you filed a bug report? I'm not the administrator of the machines at my lab, so I couldn't report any use

Re: ext3 kernel bug, was: Compiling a kernel on an UltraSparc?

On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 18:46:07 -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 07:28:21PM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote: [data=journal, etc] > > Where might I find more info on the types/benefits of these options? > > 'man mount' tells you what the options _are_ ... finding out what the > opt

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