Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

2003-01-23 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:59:10AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > That still doesn't work for me ... > > # cat /etc/apt/preferences > Package: mplayer* > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-Priority: 700 > > # Package: ruby* > # Pin: release a=unstable > # Pin-Priority: 700 > > Package:

Re: regexp help

2003-01-23 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:09:28PM -0500, Dave W wrote: > I'm using animail and spamassassin on my mail now, with -some- success > on spam, but need help with animail's ~/.animail/filter file. It can be > filled with regexps for mail blocking, but I'm a regexp newbie and can't > find how the heck

Re: Turning off error messages

2003-01-25 Thread andrej hocevar
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:21:22AM -0600, Ian Melnick wrote: > I was wondering if there was a way to turn off kernel messages from > getting spit out on the active tty. I keep getting this error message; > I have no idea what it means; I don't see any problem (I can still mount > netware drives jus

Re: Bash terminal beep - how to shut it up?

2003-01-29 Thread andrej hocevar
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 09:26:11AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm running Debian 3.0r1 on my laptop. Whenever I'm working in a bash > terminal or the console certain actions cause the terminal to BEEP through > the PC Speaker. This is annoying the hell out of my missus when she's > trying

Re: give cdrom source more priority in apt-get [lost the original]

2003-01-29 Thread andrej hocevar
Unfortunately no one has responded to this by now, I too was waiting. The apt_preferences manpage does mention pinning an origin, but until now I couldn't succeed. My less attractive alternative was to add all packages on my CDs into my preferences file. What I got was an unreasonably long file, p

OT: a new slogan for Debian :)

2002-10-06 Thread andrej hocevar
(In a recent attack of misanthropy, which I regretted just seconds afterwards, I came up with this idea for a slogan -- ) Trying to be cool? Use Debian GNU/Linux instead! andrej :) -- echo ${girl_name} > /etc/dumpdates -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: NVidia Card and Framebuffer Support

2002-10-30 Thread andrej hocevar
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:44:38AM -0800, nate wrote: > you need at least CONFIG_FB compiled into the kernel, chances are > more stuff as well, I don't use framebuffer on my systems but Well, certainly not that much! :) Enabling (almost) all options doesn't seem to be a good solution, or am I wron

Re: NVidia Card and Framebuffer Support

2002-10-30 Thread andrej hocevar
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:39:11AM -0700, Dale K Dicks wrote: > I want to be able to use vga=791 as a kernel option on boot. Currently > if I try to do this I get a black screen so I have to use vga=7. > > I have an NVidia Geforce 3 card. I tried to cat /dev/fb0 but I get: > > cat: /dev/fb0: N

OT: change toolbar colours (in galeon)

2002-10-30 Thread andrej hocevar
Is it possible to change the colour of the (main) toolbar in galeon? I've been using it lately a little more than mozilla but I miss the cool blue theme! Sure, one can get similar buttons, but they're still on a grey background. Is this a more gnome-specific setting? Thanks, andrej -- ec

Problems with routing

2002-11-01 Thread andrej hocevar
There are three computers in this LAN: two with Linux and the other one with Windows. Things got a little complicated when the Windows-box replaced another Linux-system and I had to buy a second ethernet card for the central server. Now the configuration is as follows: 192.168.65.72 [L], 192.168.65

Re: execute command from HTML page

2002-11-12 Thread andrej hocevar
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 08:31:36AM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Tuesday 12 November 2002 12:40 am, sean finney wrote: > > just to chime in on this, you should think of the security implications > > of what you're doing. if you're putting a button on a webpage that > > re-initializes your net c

What's an X2 modem?

2002-11-13 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, recently, someone's gave me an older internal USR V.90 modem, supposed to work at 56k. However, all I got were speeds at about 33k. That was when I noticed the modem uses some X2 technology. Can I make such a modem useful? I've read some sites saying it depends on the ISP -- so does it mea

Re: What's an X2 modem?

2002-11-13 Thread andrej hocevar
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:17:48PM +, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > Hopefully, you can get a flash or firmware update to v.90. Thanks to all of you, I did it! I've found a page with a link to sume Russian's guy flasher for my modem: it's V.90 now and working like a charm. Our little network finally

Re: framebuffer mode?

2002-11-15 Thread andrej hocevar
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:07:06PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 > fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device > > what is the advantage of this mode? By that you probably mean the advantage of using frame buffers in general, right? Well, I have t

Re: framebuffer mode?

2002-11-16 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 11:45:04AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > could you be more specific here? which file, etc? As I said in my previous response, you use your bootloader for that, since it's an option for the kernel. Thus if you use lilo, stick it to your append="" line in /etc/lilo.conf og

Re: framebuffer mode?

2002-11-16 Thread andrej hocevar
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:33:47PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > With LCDs, you can specify vga=317 with the bf2.4 kernel to get 1024x768 > resolution for the installation. I compile my own kernels. But the problem was that it wasn't sharp. The resolution was no problem, I've tried many different on

Re: framebuffer mode?

2002-11-16 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 04:46:28PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > now, where do i get these different fonts and wehre do i put them? Look for them when you compile your kernel. Using menuconfig, they're in "Console drivers" -> "Frame-buffer support" -> "Select compiled-in fonts" -> "Sparc consol

Re: Windows modem and Debian

2002-11-18 Thread andrej hocevar
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:25:45PM +0800, Barry Cugley wrote: > I have just had Debian V3 installed as a dual boot system along with a > pre-existing Windows 98 OS. Both operating systems work fine. However, > Debian is unable to do anything with the Windows modem on my system and so I > cannot acc

correct gpg/pgp signatures (why reject a .changes file?)

2002-11-22 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, recently, I was trying to upload a package of mine to a server and got this message in return: PGP/GnuPG signature check failed on sumo_1.0-5.2_i386.changes ERROR: Header line added to ASCII armor: "Hash: SHA1" ASCII armor

how to tell which key was pressed to execute a script?

2003-06-06 Thread Andrej Hocevar
Hello, I'd like to be able to call a script with multiple keys in a way that it would know how it was called. The main reason I want to do this is to gain more flexibility and make it a little more elegant: changing the keymaps so that F2, for example, starts mutt is handy, but less elegant than a

Re: how to tell which key was pressed to execute a script?

2003-06-06 Thread Andrej Hocevar
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 12:05:10PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > So use command-line arguments, or write a separate script for each > key. They're cheap. :-) No, that won't go. Suppose you'd want -- as do I -- to press only the F1 key every time you'd like to check your mail. You'd do it with loa

monitoring a file over nfs

2002-12-15 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello. Inspired by "console-log", I've set up a simple script that monitors a log from my local server (in another room :) ) that's mounted over nfs. It gets started from init. The problem is that when switching to the specified console, I see only "Permission denied" messages. So the first time I

what memory?

2002-12-15 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello. I've been thinking about this: "dmesg | grep ^Mem" gives the following: Memory: 127264k/131008k available (k kernel code, 3360k reserved, 345k data, 256k init, 0k highmem) Now what does it all mean? How much is really available to me? "procinfo" says: Memory: Total Mem:

new key bindings?

2002-12-18 Thread andrej hocevar
Is there a way to map the, say, F1 key to some command like poff or whatever else? And how can I change the behaviour of key bindings like C-s? I've added something to my .inputrc but it only affects combinations that have had no function before, like M-s. Can I add function keys to those definiti

Re: need some readline tricks

2002-12-20 Thread andrej hocevar
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:27:42PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > If you mean readline in bash, you can add > > "\M-[A": history-search-backward > > to your .inputrc. > A newly started bash should then handle CURSOR-UP the way you like. But if I add sequences that already have a meaning (like "

Re: killing the penguin (framebuffer)

2002-12-21 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 07:49:23PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > On bootup, I simply want to boot into a text console. I've turned > off gdm, and that gets rid of the graphical login. Unfortunately, > it seems that I boot into a VESA framebuffer. At the console > there is a penguin on the top left

some considerations regarding mail delivery

2002-12-23 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, until recently, I've lived happily with a getmail/postfix combination for gathering and sending mail. It wasn't until the thread here about postfix and open relays that I've started thinking about security issues. Which is good, but it's kind of giving me a headache. :) The problems occurre

problems with mail-filtering/forwarding

2002-12-25 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, I don't seem to be able to get either filter or sortmail working with postfix, if that could cause problems. But I think the problem is in the permissions: both would deliver mail only to files, owned by nobody:nogroup. Isn't this silly? filter won't even read the configuration unless I put

apt -- which method is preferred?

2002-12-26 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello. If there is the same version of a certain package fetchable from different sources, which one is preferred? Right now, I don't have my CDs here so I would like apt to use only ftp. I have both entries in sources.list but apt seems to prefer CDs, no matter what comes first in the list. How co

Re: apt -- which method is preferred?

2002-12-27 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 06:26:25PM -0800, Jeff wrote: > andrej hocevar, 2002-Dec-26 08:49 -0200: > > in sources.list but apt seems to prefer CDs, no matter what comes > > first in the list. How could I change that without removing the As I said ... > > >From 'm

Re: Real Text-Mode

2003-01-06 Thread andrej hocevar
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:30:08AM +0100, Harald Wopenka wrote: > However: It uses 80x50 textmode. - My aim is the 80x25-textmode. I tried to > find a list of possible parameters for "video" in the internet, but didn't > find them. Do you know a source? Use vga= for that. You can try it out with v

OT: RE madness

2003-01-06 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello. I've been playing around with these two REs in Perl with no success. Can anyone tell me what's wrong? This works: !~ /^(?:red|blue)$/ and will match everything except any of the two fixed strings "red" or "blue" or any combination thereof. "black" matches, as does "blu", because it's neith

Re: OT: RE madness

2003-01-08 Thread andrej hocevar
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:55:54AM -0600, will trillich wrote: [...] > slight rewording needed -- "black" comes back as true BECAUSE IT > DOESN'T MATCH, and that's what you're looking for with !~. it > might seem like a small distinction until you realize how easy > it is to be misled! :) Right, so

Re: grubing my debian box

2003-01-09 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:12:33PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: > grub> configfile /boot/grub/menu.1st menu.lst, not "first"!!! :) andrej -- echo ${girl_name} > /etc/dumpdates -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: need some readline tricks [my part is SOLVED!]

2003-01-15 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 03:08:15PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > 20.12.2002 22:26:16, andrej hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Besides, how do I represent function keys? > > I think, they are represented just like cursor keys. > Unfortunatly (to my knowledge, whic

Re: framebuffer sizing again

2003-01-15 Thread andrej hocevar
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 04:57:27PM -0500, R Ransbottom wrote: > I am trying to set the console screen size to 25 x 80 > on Debian 3.0. I really don't care whether I am using > the framebuffer device or not. > > I would like an easy generic solution. One that will work > on various machines. Pre

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote: > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is > why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking > all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so > long that you have

Re: Question relating regexp

2003-01-17 Thread andrej hocevar
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 03:03:33PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > grep '^1[0-9]\{1,\} \{1,\}K' phonelist.txt > or use * and repeat [0-9] and space: > grep '^1[0-9][0-9]* *K' phonelist.txt > > =Why, in the first example, has the author > prefaced the char 'K' with the one or more > times multiplier?

Should I consider making my program part of the distribution?

2002-09-02 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello. I think I need some advice on this: I've written a (small) Perl program and am considering sharing it with other users who might be interested. Thus I thought I could contribute to Debian and make it a part of its distribution. But many things come to my mind. First, is the fact I've writt

how to find out pppd's exit status?

2002-09-03 Thread andrej hocevar
I've noticed that creating a file each time I run pon and deleting it each time I run poff or echoing some information when one of those is issued doesn't always help: whatever information I want to retrieve, I don't know the pppd's exit status. For example, if I try to connect and I get a busy-s

[SOLVED] Re: how to find out pppd's exit status?

2002-09-05 Thread andrej hocevar
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 03:04:31PM -0400, Jason McCarty wrote: > > as I'd find out about pppd's status: if it got a busy-signal or > > anything else, no information would be written to the file. Can I do > > it in a script? Yes, indeed you can! I've found the answer. :) Forgive me for being so ig

fonts for console

2002-09-07 Thread andrej hocevar
I've just found out there's the "grcourier.psf" font available on my system (console-data version 1999.08.29-24) and I really like the sharpness, yet I don't need Greek characters. Normally it's not a problem but now I have some Greek letters instead of arrows in mutt! Does anyone know of a good

Re: [SOLVED] Re: how to find out pppd's exit status?

2002-09-08 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 01:53:11AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > How do you detect pppd's failure to connect because of a busy signal > with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d Take a look, here: > > > > as I'd find out about pppd's status: if it got a busy-signal or > > > > anything else, no information

changing date's output

2001-08-21 Thread andrej hocevar
but i don't know how to do it, since i don't know the format of that very file, so only adding new names results in bad output. can anyone help me here? thanks, andrej hocevar

Re: [changing date's output]

2001-08-21 Thread andrej hocevar
cember and other names in the end and even though changing them modifies the output, it still isn't correct eg. not the whole name is printed and similar. any ideas? On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Ionel Mugurel [iso-8859-2] Ciob?c? wrote: > - Forwarded message from andrej hocevar

in its place

2001-08-24 Thread andrej hocevar
hello not much time has passed since i've joined this list, so not that much mail has arrived to my mailbox before. now, the problem is as follows. i was used to run fetchmail -cv (only checking for new mail, not really downloading it) upon opening my ppp connection to see if there's anything new

it is now. [was: in its place]

2001-08-26 Thread andrej hocevar
well, now i've found the configuration that suits me most by myself. i'd just like to share with anyone having similar problems or doubts: getmail and pine. getmail doesn't return any mistakes plus i could configure it to tell the difference between this mailing list and my personal mail. :)

one more sed q

2002-02-15 Thread andrej hocevar
In file , each section (paragraph?) begins exactly with and ends exactly with . How do I print only those sections that include the string ? Thanks, andrej -- echo $(girl_name) > /etc/dumpdates

Re: ls sort

2001-10-15 Thread andrej hocevar
hi jesper, your reply -- and even more the question you were replying to -- made me curious. i wanted to try it out. even though your command works i wanted to define it myself from scratch -- because it's a good way to learn and second because i don't understand all you've written. my beginner's t

/proc permissions and hsf modems

2001-10-16 Thread andrej hocevar
lately i've inherited my brother's rockwell modem, which is a hsf, meaning, as far as i know, it's a winmodem. so i took a look a http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Conexant+Rockwell-modem-HOWTO/hsf.html the instruction say to change the content of /proc/pci. which is the problem -- i cannot do it as i

Re: /proc permissions

2001-10-17 Thread andrej hocevar
/proc/pci? or do i need to copy the whole /proc/pci plus the new lines? any comments? thanks. On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:01:12PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:19:35PM +, andrej hocevar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > lately i've inherited my brot

Re: /proc permissions

2001-10-18 Thread andrej hocevar
17, 2001 at 06:00:23PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:53:07AM +, andrej hocevar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:01:12PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:19:35PM +, andrej hocevar ([EMAIL

Re: /proc permissions and other things

2001-10-18 Thread andrej hocevar
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:12:07AM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote: > Andrej Hocevar wrote: > > >did you deliberately insult me with your self-boasting remarks or > >was it just me reacting prickly? to me it seems that my question > > It would seem just a little of both. ;) Kar

simple scripts made difficult? :)

2001-09-07 Thread andrej hocevar
hello i'm just begining to write very simple scripts and came along these two problems. i) how do i (re)direct an output to a file and at the same time see it as usual on screen? ii) how do i pass a simple argument from a file or an output to a script that's just testing it, eg. a file has two argu

simple answers

2001-09-11 Thread andrej hocevar
mthanks for all the help, especially yours, oliver. what you've suggested was just what i need. my apologies to those not content with my subject and the awkward question, however, they were both answered. andrej On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Oliver Elphick wrote: > andrej hocevar wrote: &g

console font problems

2001-09-12 Thread andrej hocevar
hey. lately i've been playing a little with different fonts for the console. using the command consolechars and specifying a valid filename (say, /usr/share/consolefonts/GohaClassic-14.psf.gz) i've tried some out and decided i liked this one for purely aestethical reasons. so i put a link into /etc

Re: console font problems

2001-09-12 Thread andrej hocevar
hm, still nothing ... lssuing ls makes all the blue fields dazzled. however, not with a different font (t.psf.gz for a test -- you can easily recognize it). oh, well ... (lep dan, bostjan) :) On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Bostjan Muller wrote: > * On 12-09-01 at 12:15 andrej hocevar ([EMAIL PROTEC

apm, grub

2001-10-01 Thread andrej hocevar
hello lately i've installed grub since some have mentioned it here. the only two things i had in my lilo.conf and that i want to retain were vga=7 and append="apm=on". let chain-load, i've found another way of defining the vga-mode -- vidmode, which works just fine. what about apm? there surely mu

anyone for masqmail?

2001-10-07 Thread andrej hocevar
is anyone here using masqmail? i've installed masqmail on my potato and it works okay as far as delivering mail to myself (localhost) is concerned. it also stores mail that's meant for any outside connections and silently waits for my to intervene. to deliver it, i have to do masqmail -qo[connecti

Re: INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast .....

2002-01-07 Thread andrej hocevar
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:23:32PM +1100, Adam F. Bogacki wrote: > Hi, > I recently installed kernel 2.4.14 on hdb, fixed up a minor LILO > problem - > and for a while it worked. I was impressed with the boot speed and the > number of > drivers... > > Yesterday, however, when I tried

cursor style

2002-01-09 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, how do I change the cursor style in the console, eg. like an underscope vs. a solid block? Thanks, andrej

a question on grub/windows and one on woody upgrade

2002-01-18 Thread andrej hocevar
1) I have to install windows on my computer and I don't want to change more than is really needed to do so (especially concerning my disk organisation). But the problem is that windows want to be installed only on the first partition of the first disk which I don't want to give away. Here comes th

grub problem SOLVED

2002-01-18 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello! I updated grub to 0.9 and it totally amazes me! So many new commands, great! I've also found a document that describes my situation in detail. The solution is to tell grub the first partition be hidden and then boot from a windows floppy. What simplicity. I haven't tried it out yet! :)

filesystem oddities

2002-01-18 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello. Something strange has happened to my file systems: I've resized a partition (ext2) with parted, installed windows on another. On my other disk I have woody which I mostly use. But now parted says /dev/hda1 is ext2, whereas fdisk says it's amoeba. What's wrong?! I can't boot potato anymore! T

Re: grub problem SOLVED

2002-01-19 Thread andrej hocevar
name it, and tell where it can be found. > > David > > > On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, andrej hocevar wrote: > > > Hello! > > I updated grub to 0.9 and it totally amazes me! So many new commands, > > great! I've also found a document that describes my situ

a latex-widths question

2002-01-19 Thread andrej hocevar
I've seen some LaTeX discussions here, so just a quick question: how do I tell LaTeX that a box should have the width of a certain word? (Precisely, I mean a real box; a rectangle of given dimensions.) Thank you, andrej

more on apt -- what preferences?

2002-01-21 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello. Lately I've added some cds (woody from linuxiso.org) to my sources.list. I'm running woody installed from the net; the ftp sources are also in that file. Since quite a few packages I wanted to install were grabbed off the net, I assume that those weren't on my cds -- following some previous

multiple words as single variable in bash?

2002-01-23 Thread andrej hocevar
Quite self-explanatory -- how to make a string of space-separated words act like a single variable, e.g. first argument being the recipient and the second the message or similar? Thank you, andrej

Re: multiple words as single variable in bash?

2002-01-23 Thread andrej hocevar
ing something to IFS? Even if it was a mistake -- is there no other way then quoting? A quick look at some manuals gave me the impression that this problem might not be just a silly mistake of mine, can it? On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:58:04PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 1

a sed question

2002-01-25 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, can someone please tell me how to instruct sed to make an empty line before a certain pattern? For me, the same would be to make a new line every N lines. Thank you. e.g. Package: foo Pin: bar Package: ... etc ...

firefox printouts have added space after special characters, why?

2004-11-15 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, I don't know how to solve this annoying problem: when viewing pages with certain characters, such as s or z with carons, they look fine. But when I print them, those characters are added some space on the right (for at least another character's width). Does anyone know how to solve it? Tha

forcibly unmounting and bash history

2003-07-06 Thread Andrej Hocevar
Hello, it's happened many time to me that I couldn't find a way to forcibly unmount a CD if the fact that it was broken caused my screen to be filled with some "drive-seek" errors or something. Further more, it seemed impossible if, say, mplayer hung because of that. Getting rid of the messages is

[SOLVED] Re: forcibly unmounting and bash history

2003-07-06 Thread Andrej Hocevar
First of all, why didn't post it to the list? Do you think it's too OT? But, on the other hand, both your mails were no help and also misleading. I'd like to elaborate on that. On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 06:51:29AM -0400, Robert August Vincent II wrote: > "history" is a bash built-in. > > Bash runs

OT: how to send a keystroke to another program

2003-08-01 Thread Andrej Hocevar
Hello, I've been trying to figure out if there's a way to do this -- I'd like to write a program that would make another program behave as if a certain key was pressed, e.g. PgD. Thus I could implement something like moving down in a pager when I press a button on my mouse or something. As far as

junk on tty after x crash

2004-08-25 Thread Andrej Hocevar
Hello, this is very disturbing -- when my X server doesn't shut down smoothly, it leaves some junk behind on the tty it was running on. The result is that next time I startx, it doesn't use the same tty anymore. What can I do to get rid of this annoying problem? Thanks, andrej -- echo

Re: junk on tty after x crash

2004-08-25 Thread Andrej Hocevar
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:42:06AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > I'm not sure what the problem is here. If you mean you want to surpress the > output that startx produces, do: > > startx > /dev/null 2>&1 > > If you'd rather keep it for later: > > startx > ~/.startx-output.log 2>&1 > > Or am I not

Re: junk on tty after x crash

2004-08-25 Thread Andrej Hocevar
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:08:27AM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > I would suggest (after X bombs) running: > > ~ %% sudo lsof /dev/tty11 Yes, I've tried that: nothing! I can do "setterm -reset > /dev/tty11" all right, but the problem doesn't go away. I can even switch to that tty and type some cha

Please help me find a font with outline shape

2002-03-09 Thread andrej hocevar
Could anyone tell me which font does have the "outline" shape available for use in latex and where to find it? Please, I need it quickly. The manual (info latex) only says this much: _ `\fontseries{series}' Select font series. Valid series include: [.

Re: Shift+PageUP and DOWN

2002-03-20 Thread andrej hocevar
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:43:28AM +, Marcelo Leal wrote: > ok!!! > the ls i fix it! was a alias to --color option... > but now, the question is: why my Shift+PageUP and PageDOWN don't work??? > thanks again > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscr

simple exim questions

2002-03-25 Thread andrej hocevar
Please, I'm migrating from masqmail to exim and need some help. My computer is on a small local network of three (bibla, antea and liz-christina; the first one is my own) and so I want to be able to send mail to the other two (193.1.1.1, 193.1.1.2 -- If I understand it correctly, I want to deliver

Re: simple exim questions

2002-03-26 Thread andrej hocevar
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:00:59PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > You could run a pop3 server on your main box and then use whatever > mail client to get mail that way > > We run this sort of setup at work - with exim and cucipop. Our various > windoze boxes then just use the linux box as an smtp se

two printcap entries for the same printer?

2002-03-27 Thread andrej hocevar
Can I have more entries in my /etc/printcap for one printer? I wanted to be able to chose which filter to use for a certain job -- so I simply added one more entry with a different spool directory and a different magicfilter. Unfortunately, it didn't work; is it only because I've overlooked a detai

Re: two printcap entries for the same printer?

2002-03-29 Thread andrej hocevar
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 09:37:11AM -0600, dman wrote: > | echo $(girl_name) > /etc/dumpdates > > Two problems here (I think) : > '>' will overwrite the existing file, use '>>' instead > $(...) executes the command '...' in a subshell; don't you mean > ${...}? (:--- A cynical note

trouble unmounting

2002-04-02 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello -- I'm having trouble unmounting a drive. In order to do some administrative work on a newly set up server on a little local network, I had to install some programs from a cd. Since the server doesn't have a cd drive I mounted the cd onto my own computer and then mounted the /cdrom directory

Is there a way to continue a process elsewhere?

2002-04-16 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, suddenly, all my consoles went blank after trying to open a file with bmv (this is not normal behaviour!) but I could still enter X. Since I wasn't using screen at that time, would there be a way of continuing a process in X? Or sending a command to it; whatever, just to avoid going through

how do I enable a plugin for mozilla?

2002-04-21 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, recently mozilla suggested (or rather, a page requested) that I download and install a plugin (jre131_02.xpi for some java). So a page opened and asked me what I wanted to do -- after clicking on "install" or something, I checked for the file's size with lftp -- approximately 15M, so I decid

jigdo-lite and resuming?

2002-04-27 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, I don't really understand the jigdo method yet. In fact, I know nothing about it -- what I'd like to know is about its resume-capabilities. I've started downloading but in the morning my brother will want to boot windows and this connection's not that fast. So how will I be able to resume

how to configure adsl?

2002-05-01 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, I'm helping a friend configure his first Debian/Linux box. He's got adsl access to the internet but I don't really know what it is -- if I'm not mistaken, he needs kernel 2.4 with pppoe support and the pppoe programs (pppoe, pppoeconf, ...). Is there basically anything else? Thank you, andr

Re: how to configure adsl?

2002-05-03 Thread andrej hocevar
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 06:49:56PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > pppoe. I don't think a 2.4 kernel is required (although it is a good > idea in any case). Unfortunately I'm not at my friend's computer right now, but I'd like to prepare a little for the next seance -- the last time, of course, I fai

Re: how to configure adsl?

2002-05-04 Thread andrej hocevar
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:09:51PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Errr, "kernel-pppoe" and "pppoe" (aka rp-pppoe) are completely different > implementations. You do not need kernel 2.4.x for Debian's pppoe. > Thank you, that's what I wanted to know. I suspected it. -- echo ${girl_name} > /etc/

Some windows do and some windows don't (in sawfish)

2002-05-05 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, how do I force some windows (e.g. wmMoonClock and an xterm) to always open without a frame in sawfish? Or, maybe, open them without a frame only the first time? The best would be if there were a way to do it with some option in my .xsession, like xterm --no-frame. :) andrej -- echo ${gir

unreadable xterm :)

2002-05-05 Thread andrej hocevar
Can I start xterm in unreadable mode by default or with a certain option? I mean unreadable as when chosen with ctrl+right click "Unreadable". andrej -- echo ${girl_name} > /etc/dumpdates -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: unreadable xterm :)

2002-05-05 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 03:29:45AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > sure. But it got me interested: Why is this desirable behaviour? Because you get a tiny window, approximately 3 cm long, literally unreadable. But removing any frames the wm normally applies, you get virtually a black square

Re: unreadable xterm :)

2002-05-06 Thread andrej hocevar
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 09:54:30AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > That's all very nice, but, as I read it, that allows you to specify > that 'font 3 = Helvetica Runic 72' or whatever, but what I (and, I > suspect, the OP) am looking for is a way (.Xresources would work for > me, but I suspect the O

Re: HP DeskJet 610C

2002-05-12 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 01:12:52PM +0200, Bj?rn Lindstr?m wrote: > Has anyone got the printer HP DeskJet 610C working in Debian? > > It is not listed by magicfilterconfig, so I have tried some > other DeskJet filters, but none of them work. Yes, I have one, works well with the dj690c filter. Howe

Re: HP DeskJet 610C

2002-05-12 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 08:15:16PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > You could try to use CUPS Could someone tell me why use CUPS instead of lpr/lprng? Based on my experience one can configure and adjust some programs more easily than others -- so you use those you can figure out, right? Unless of c

Re: masqmail problem

2002-05-13 Thread andrej hocevar
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 04:55:49PM -0700, Brian Schramm wrote: > trouble getting my email. So much so that I have set > up the family on yahoo. I decided that I need to get Haven't I heard the rumours yahoo won't support POP3 access anymore? A friend of mine migrated from yahoo mail to something

Re: GRUB question

2002-05-14 Thread andrej hocevar
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:42:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The image goes in /boot/grub and is a ".xpm.gz" file. I didn't know GRUB supported a graphical menu -- if it really does, how do I enable it? andrej -- echo ${girl_name} > /etc/dumpdates -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

How to apt-get upgrade from files only

2002-05-21 Thread andrej hocevar
Some days ago I've apt-get upgraded my system and saved all the downloaded files, ie packages, that were to be upgraded. I saved them in order to give them to a friend with a slow connection -- so, I thought, he can upgrade the packages we have in common. Somehow, we were puzzled: what does one h

help with fb, please

2002-06-04 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, recently I've switched to framebuffers in order to get good results with my new Sony lcd monitor -- and almost everything is fine! I'm using the vesa framebuffer with an ati all-in-wonder card. And here is the first problem: when booting a kernel with aty128fb, I get a blank screen -- but n

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