On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 06:52:57PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
| * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
| ...
| > This is the sort of Pollyanna Principle thinking that will keep Linux on the
| > sidelines.
|
| Good. I sincerely hope it'll stay there -- the last thing I want
| in
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:08:47PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Hello everybody,
|
| I am having serious trouble with exim and procmail.
| procmail 3.21.20011028
| exim 3.32-2
| Both packages are from testing.
|
| The mail get's passed to exim, and here's what it's got to say. I am
| trying
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:08:19PM +0100, Alex Suzuki wrote:
| > It says that \246/usr/bin/procmail wasn't found. That's the problem.
| > Now the question becomes, why was it looking for that?, what is that
| > \246 character doing? Usually if there is not a preceding '0' the
| > number is decima
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:38:51PM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
| > No, of course not. Different systems do different things well and
| > poorly. For example: Write a "benchmark" that starts and stops 10,000
| > processes and Linux will beat Windows hands-down. Write a "benchmark"
| > that start
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 12:52:52AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Is there a benchmark program [...] to give me an accurate benchmark?
The short answer is No.
You can measure certain things, that you are interested in, but there
is always the problem (as someone mentioned) that once the benchm
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 08:55:12AM -0800, gong zeng wrote:
| Hi,
| I have the following queries:
No problem, but a more informative subject line is a good idea.
| 1. How do I make the gnome panel startup with X
| windows? I can't seem to find such an option.
How do you start X? Do you use [gxk
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 01:53:36PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
| Right,
|
| I have got my 'new' external Microcom 28.8 modem and will be using
| tasksel this weekend to install appropriate packages for email and
| usenet activity.
You want chat, pppd, and minicom. minicom is interactive and usef
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:59:08PM +, Pollywog wrote:
| I have a desktop running Linux and a laptop running Win95 that sends print
| jobs to the printer (printer is connected to desktop) via Samba.
| The laptop prints okay but whenever I print from the laptop, an extra page
| is printed at th
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:53:15PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
| * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
| > I really don't need the preaching. I wanted a straight answer.
|
| Take a bench, a marker, and use the marker put a mark on the
| bench. That's a benchmark.
Hehe. This ga
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 08:36:43AM +0800, a wrote:
| the following 2 packages depends on each other in Debian 2.1 and 2.2:
|
| libstdc++2.9-dev
| g++
|
| i can't install them with "dpkg -i"
yes you can :
dpkg -i libstdc++2.9-dev_rest_of_filename.deb g++_rest_of_filename.deb
you certainly c
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 07:52:48PM -0500, Akintayo Holder wrote:
| Hi,
| I am sure there is an answer to this in the docs some where but I have
| not yet found it.
|
| How do you upgrade a package and its dependencies without bringing
| everything else along for the ride ?
|
| I would lik
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 05:47:03PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| I discourage the practice of mounting system partitions with type
| 'auto'. Specify what you want. If you get it, great, if you don't, fix
| the problem.
Sure, for hard disks. For floppies I like the 'auto' option. Then I
don'
I know this isn't really related to Debian (even though my debian box
is the XDMCP host), but maybe someone can help. The problem is
certainly not with windows itself.
I installed cygwin and xfree86 (4.1.0) on my dad's win98 box. I can
run the X server along with local clients (xterm, twm). I
I have exim running nicely on my debian box, but I want to try out the
filters. To do that I need to install it on the Solaris 8 system at
school where my mail arrives (and is read). What do I need for exim
to run only as an mda? It will be run by sendmail via my .forward
file as procmail is cu
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 07:33:25PM -0700, Robinder Bains wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I just installed an iso of woody, it was one cd, my network card installed
| correctly and I can go online with my cable modem, but I get this error when
| I type startx
|
| /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: /usr/bin/X
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:01:51PM -0600, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
| On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 13:41, Paul E Condon wrote:
| > I am a newbie. I have just done an install of gnome via dselect of
| > potato. Where is gnome control center? I check in dselect and it
| > says it is already installed, but I
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:19:47PM -0700, Robinder Bains wrote:
|
| >
| > Run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 again, and when you get to the
| > section about "Frame Buffer Device" answer "No"
| >
| > Then try to startx again and see if it starts normally.
|
| O.k now I get this...
|
| (WW)
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:02:50PM -0800, Thomas Zimmerman wrote:
| On 03-Dec 01:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| > This I aready know. ...but seeing as I didn't ask "how do I set an
| > environment for my cronjobs" but "how do a set a GLOBAL evironment for
| > the entire system", it doesn't actually
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:36:39PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
| I am Debian newbie. I have a LAN that was running and is now in need of
| reconstruction. On the LAN were two Linux boxes and two Macs. The Linux
| box that provided internet access via ppp has a Netgear fa311 NIC. This
| card is not
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 12:13:50AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
| OK, OK, OK,
|
| I _am_ reading the modem-HOWTO and the wvdial README right now.
|
| I can see this is a complex subject.
|
| I have installed minicom but can only run from root. When run from user
| I get:
|
| minicom cannot open
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:04:40AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 08:53:16PM -0500, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 05:47:03PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| >
| > | I discourage the practice of mounting system partitions with type
|
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 03:27:07PM -0800, Thomas Zimmerman wrote:
...
| And I was under the impression that is what /etc/profile is for. Every shell
| should source /etc/profile. Bash also sources /etc/bashrc and if a user,
| ~/.bashrc and ~/.profile. Am I completely wrong here? This seems to be a
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 04:30:11PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
| dman wrote:
|
| > What Nemo and I are looking for is a way to set the environment for
| > apps run via the panel (that don't have a login shell).
|
| What process starts the panel?
gnome-session
| Isn't the
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:48:54AM +0800, a wrote:
| i can play real media as root but can't play it as a usual user. how to
| assign access to other users?
Is there an error message? Such as "/dev/dsp : permission denied"?
| in Redhat, man pages can be scrolled back. how to do it in Debian 2.1
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 07:56:19PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
| dman wrote:
|
| > I could try /etc/environment for myself, but I don't think it will
| > work. Also I wanted to do this for just my user and let others stick
| > with the default $LANG.
|
| Then the right thing to
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:16:57PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote:
|
| Does anyone know how to write a script to obtain online banking
| information ??
| I'm a C/C++ programmer and know a little python too. I'm thinking about
| Java for this app though it may also be wxpython.
I'm partial to pyt
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 12:11:22AM -0800, ben wrote:
| On Sunday 02 December 2001 11:42 pm, Tran Nam Binh wrote:
| > HELP, PLEASE HELP!!!
| > Hackers have put my user id into
| > multiple redistributing lists of your technical forum.
| > I can't unsubcribe with automated system because
| > my user
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:03:43AM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote:
| Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > IIRC there is a way to make this transparent to applications, check
| > the docs (don't remember which, try how-to's on NAT and related kernel
| > functions, proxy or something like that)
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:13:43AM -0600, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
| On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 03:04, Holger Rauch wrote:
| > On 2 Dec 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
| >
| > > IIRC from the Understanding the Linux Kernel book by O'Reilly, linux
| > > doesn't actually worry about memory until you act
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 09:52:38AM -0800, Greg Wiley wrote:
| On Saturday, December 01, 2001 6:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| > What do I need for exim
| > to run only as an mda? It will be run by sendmail via my .forward
| > file as procmail is currently run.
|
| You will have to set up m
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:51:32PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
| dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 04:30:11PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
| > | dman wrote:
| > |
| > | > What Nemo and I are looking for is a way to set the environment for
| &
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 05:10:24PM -0700, Robinder Bains wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I get this message when I login to gnome.
|
| Desk Guide Alert
| Gnome Desktop Guide (Pager)
|
| You are not running a GNOME
|Compliant Window M
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:27:43AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:
| I think Scott was asking about the Java plugin for Galeon that runs
| application/x-java-vm types.
Yes, and this plugin is part of the 'j2sdk1.3' package available from
the given URL of a blackdown mirror.
If you're not sure gale
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:15:31AM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote:
| Hello,
| My school just switched to a new mail server, and without warning
| began requiring SMTP authentication to send mail off campus. I've
| been using KMail which doesn't seem to support this.
|
| At the moment I have Sylpheed i
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 05:10:11PM +0100, Sven Garbade wrote:
| Hi all,
|
| maybe this is not Debian specific and so OT. I want to mount read/write
| (on my Debian Potato box) a vfat-Filesystem via NFS from a SUSE-Linux
| Box. Mounting is ok (via mount ~/labor), but the owner and group of the
| mo
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:22:01PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:
| dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:27:43AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:
| > | I think Scott was asking about the Java plugin for Galeon that runs
| > | application/x-java-vm types.
| >
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:59:33AM +0100, Jens Luedicke wrote:
| hi ...
|
| CUPS doesn't print german umlauts. Is there a way
| to solve this? (either true umlauts or valid replacements)
What does it do then? THe only potential problem I can think of is if
you are taking a file in iso-8859-2 enc
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:56:26AM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
| dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:51:32PM +0100, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
| >
| > | No, if you are running gdm and GNOME then it's ~/.gnomerc -- this is
| > | the right
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:21:28PM +0100, Coen De Roover wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I'm using a french azerty M$ Natural keyboard of which all keys work fine
| except the numerical keypad. Is there some option to enable it ?
What happens when the number pad doesn't work? If you don't have
"NumLock" on the
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:27:10PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote:
| On Wed, 05 Dec 2001 09:44:42 -0600, you wrote:
|
| >On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:41:34AM -0300, Nicol?s Conde wrote:
| >>I'm new to Linux and I'd like to know how (if possible) to create a
| >> user with uid != 0 but that can do admi
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:33:17AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
| On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, DvB wrote:
| > I'm not running galeon, since it's not in woody yet. However, I went to
|
| It's in unstable (which is Sid, right?).
| But it becomes non-US.
| BTW, how do you set your sources.list to get non-US debs?
|
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:11:24PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
| On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, dman wrote:
| > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian sid/non-US main contrib non-free
|
| Thanks a lot; it's just what I need.
| BTW, what's the magic behind it? There was no example on "sid/non-US&qu
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:20:12PM -0500, Eric Brooks wrote:
| Hi. I use Mutt as my mail client. I am trying to set it up so that
| messages from the lists to which I subscribe get moved from my mail
| spool file to a specific mailbox for storage after reading, filtered out
| from the general ma
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 03:31:30PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
| I have further information: Typing in vim the compose key works, but
| not in bash. I can thus type ëê etc in vim, but not in bash.
|
| Any ideas on how to solve it?
Are you using version 6 of vim? If so, what does
:set enc?
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:49:12PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I normally use Linux to receive mails , not to send any .
| And I use PINE/fetchmail on my Linux box.
| What I have done is I created a login ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) of the same name
as my
| account at my ISP([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ,
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 03:00:32PM +0100, Steffan Baron wrote:
|
| Hi there,
|
| I'm encountering a strange problem in the interaction of a Solaris
| mail server and a file server running potato. Usually, my users can
| forward their mail into a local file by specifying its path in their
| .forw
I've been getting a bunch of spam on a certain list. The latest
message has the following From: line :
From: "Lisa J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(some have a different name, but the same address) I want to
automatically file these in the bit-bucket. Should be
straightforward, right? In my .procma
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 04:51:40PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote:
| * Mark Lanett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| > How do I get mutt to read my maildir? I put "mailboxes Maildir" in my
| > .muttrc and it still wants to create Mail at startup. The docs say that
| > mailbox type is autodetected but
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:01:36PM +, Pollywog wrote:
| On 2001.12.06 20:23 dman wrote:
| >
| > I've been getting a bunch of spam on a certain list. The latest
| > message has the following From: line :
| >
| > From: "Lisa J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| >
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:38:07PM -0500, Tomasz Kosinski wrote:
| I am guessing that this error comes from followed Sun's instructions and
| created the environmental variable:
|
| export NPX_PLUGIN_PATH=/plugin/i386/ns4
|
| I have tried removing the environmental variable with
| env --unset
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 12:43:02AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Hey !
|
| Does anyone knows when the rest of the zope stuff will be includet in
| "unstable"/"sid".
|
| Since weeks I can´t update my system because nearly all zope packages will
| be deinstalled.
| At first the most importan
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 05:32:48PM -0600, shock wrote:
| On 2001.12.06 20:23 dman wrote:
| >
| > I've been getting a bunch of spam on a certain list. The latest
| > message has the following From: line :
|
| i had the same problem with a different spammer. no matter what i d
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:22:14PM -0400, cmasters wrote:
...
| I'm trying to set up aliases for the majority of addresses to which I
| correspond with. I assigned these using the 'a' (create alias) command,
| which then popped those entries in my alias file. This is explicitly sources
| in muttrc
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 05:28:02PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
| dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
...
| > I've been thinking of making a similar thing, just so I can list each
| > spammer on one line instead of 4.
|
| You do know that you can use a logical "OR&quo
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:17:30PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
| dman wrote:
...
| > :0
| > * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| > /dev/null
| >
| > However the messages keep getting past these recipes and to my
| > list-matching recipe.
|
| Those look like they ought to work. One thing, t
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:37:56PM -0700, robinder bains wrote:
|
| I'm using debian woody...
|
| 1. How do I get sound to work in gnome? I have AC'97 sound chip and I
| get an error when I try to play mp3's in XMMS
What's the error?
| 2. How do I stop gpm from loading at start up? When I ki
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 07:23:44PM -0700, robinder bains wrote:
| On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 18:47, dman wrote:
| > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:37:56PM -0700, robinder bains wrote:
| > |
| > | I'm using debian woody...
| > |
| > | 1. How do I get sound to work in gnome? I have AC
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:21:41PM -0500, Alec wrote:
| Hi
|
| I have a program that produces output to STDOUT and will probably take
| several days to run. I already figured that it's better to run it using "at"
| utility and collect the results by email. This way the program will not be
| bou
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:15:53PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
| On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:35:13AM -0500, dman wrote:
| > Are you using version 6 of vim? If so, what does
| > :set enc?
| > :lang
|
| Yes it is version 6.
|
| :set enc - latin1
| :lang - C
|
| > output
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:11:30PM -0500, dman wrote:
| On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 07:23:44PM -0700, robinder bains wrote:
| | When I click on an email link in galeon, I wan't it to open evolution,
| | I've seen this work in mandrake 8.1. When I click on an email link now,
| | I get
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 12:20:29AM +, Pollywog wrote:
| On 2001.12.06 22:18 dman wrote:
| > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:01:36PM +, Pollywog wrote:
|
| > | Maybe Procmail is in a different place than you set in your
| > | procmailrc.
| >
| > What do you mean by this? I a
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:08:11AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
| Hi, all,
|
| I have received airmail my copy of the GNU/Debian Linux Bible.
|
| I think thios will be a great help. It provides a good 'howto' overview
| of all the maim poits and processes and is suitable for a relative linux
| be
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 12:11:55PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
| I have a stupid problem and would appreciate any help.
|
| My canonical e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] But since incoming
| address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], pine and exim don't like to send mail
| out as From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:31:26PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
| I'm unclear about pipes! I frequently wish to pipe the contents of a
| message I'm reading in mutt into vim, edit the contents to a saved file
| and then return to mutt.
|
| I have simplistically tried from mutt "|" then "vim"
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:26:33PM +, Phillip Deackes wrote:
| On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 10:43:32 +0530
| Raghavendra Bhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
| > Get yourselves the razor, dman. It is very good at catching and
| > reporting spam.
| >
| > apt-get install raz
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 12:43:11PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote:
| I've seen a few coming back from the dead, but in the last couple hours,
| it seems to have gotten worse.
I'm not seeing them --
:0
* ^X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/dev/null
someone messed up their config
-D
--
A)bort
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:52:48PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
| Is there a simple way of get a list of each of the libraries and
| programs on my machine?
dpkg -l \* | grep "^ii"
| While it is simple to extract the package versions from dpkg, its
| the versions of some of the programs tha
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 02:40:59PM -0500, Alec wrote:
| On Friday 07 December 2001 02:05 pm, Craig Dickson wrote:
|
| > The following procmail recipe can keep your inbox clear of it:
| > :0
| >
| > * ^X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| > /dev/null
|
| Craig, can't you do it on the server side
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:21:57AM -0900, Christopher S. Swingley wrote:
| > I've been thinking of making a similar thing, just so I can list each
| > spammer on one line instead of 4.
|
| FYI, if you do something like this in your procmail recipe file:
|
| SPAM=SPAM
| SPAMMERS=$HOME/proc
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:07:52AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
| I am running mutt (what does that stand for?) as suggested by Brenda.
Mutt is a "mutt" -- a mix of other mailers. Really it is a separate
code base, but it borrows much of its interface (keybindings at least)
from elm and features an
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:41:48PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
| XMMS is a great program, but it is interface is hopelessly bad when it
| comes to user friendlyness for people that are not used to computers. i
| use it. But I need a program for my father and sister who have just
| started to use c
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 09:05:31AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
...
| This last weekend it took over a minute to download even one email
| and I had to give up with over 400 waiting in the queue. I cannot
| read all of these messages en-masse and so filter out and delete
| anyhing other than those w
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 08:01:18AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
| dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/12/2001 (07:56) :
| > Have they ever used WinAMP? Most people I know (who have/use
| > computers) use winamp (well, most of them have windows) and don't have
| > trouble wit
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:44:30PM -0800, George Dancheff wrote:
| --- Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > After compiling and installing 2.4.16 things seemed to work nice
| > until i looked at the computer again a bit later and saw that my
| > screensaver had stopped (I had the GL text s
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:23:29AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| on Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 07:38:39PM +1100, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
| > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:18:53PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| > > My problem with numerous GNOME apps (goats comes to mind) is t
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 02:46:10AM +0100, der der wrote:
| the differences between the different window managers...
Karsten menitoned GNOME and KDE. I'd like to point out that GNOME and
KDE are not window managers, but rather desktop environments. You
still need a window manager to go with it to
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 10:48:38AM -0500, Guy Durand wrote:
| what does it mean when you get a crc error after the lilo prompt and the
| kernel start uncompressing. It happened with my laptop and I am able to
| boot the original kernel bot not the new kernels I had compiled after.
It means the fi
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:05:00AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
| Is there a program to remove libraries which were pulled in by apt-get
| as prerequisites, but are no longer needed by anything? For example, my
| system has libgtkhtml17, 18, 19, and 20. The three former versions are
| not requi
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:23:03AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
...
| deborphan combined with cruft (another package) can lead to a very clean
| system.
Is cruft useful for you? When I tried it on my system, it listed much
of the system as probable cruft, but it wasn't. About the only hel
The Solaris boxes at school default to /bin/csh as the shell, and this
can't be changed. In my .cshrc I have lines like
if ( "$TERM" == "linux" ) then
setenv TERM vt100
exec bash
endif
if ( "$TERM" == "PuTTY" ) then
setenv TERM xterm
exec bash
endif
(yeah, they have crappy term
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 01:15:56AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
| * Alec ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011209 00:57]:
| > On Saturday 08 December 2001 07:56 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| > >
| > > ...but I take it back. Galeon Kicks Ass?.
| > >
| >
| > Is it apt-gettable from woody? no? I'm not interested
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 02:56:04AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
| Eric Smith wrote:
| >
| > How do I get unabridged filenames viz project_one.doc insead of
| > projec~1.doc on floppies where files have been saved in windows.
|
| mount it as vfat (mount -t vfat)?
The easiest way is to edit /etc/fi
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 10:05:17AM -0700, Mike Fontenot wrote:
|
| In a response to a question that I asked several
| months ago, someone referred to a construction
| that can be used in a google search to restrict
| the search to a particular web site. I had
| never seen that construction before
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:03:31PM -0500, Alec wrote:
| I have 2 HDs, and I just had Win98 installed on the slave HD.
...
| But when I try to boot into Windows, it says "Loading Windows" and gets stuck.
| The only way I can boot into Windows is by again physically disconnecting the
| master HD. W
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:31:46PM -0500, Alec wrote:
| On Sunday 09 December 2001 03:12 pm, dman wrote:
| > On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 03:03:31PM -0500, Alec wrote:
...
| > | Could it be that the Windows boot loader gets confused somehow?
| >
| > Yes, very. Windows will only boot if
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 06:35:41PM -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote:
| Thus spake Adam Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
|
| > Since you want the latest software you might want to consider
| > `unstable'. Being an experienced user you'll be able to deal with
| > problems (e.g. if you need to downgrade a pa
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 09:24:43PM -0800, Dave Steinberg wrote:
|
| I have been tracking testing for the longest time, but I would like to be
| able to get up-to-date mozilla and galeon packages from unstable.
|
| As I understand it, /etc/apt/preferences can help me with this. I can add
| entrie
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:26:07AM +0100, Eric Smith wrote:
| oops - now I get this:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] 2 $ cp Samenwerkingsovereenkomst.doc /floppy&&ls /floppy
| projec~1.dot samenwer.doc samenw~1.doc
|
|
| which I prefer to the ~1 type but it still aint what I
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 10:06:40PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| The default order comes from /proc/filesystems. There, msdos precedes
| msdos.
. Obviously a typo :-). Amusing to consider that possibility
though.
| > > You can specify a preferred order in /etc/filesystems and have it
| > >
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:51:08AM -0800, ben wrote:
| 2. the purpose of a mailing-list is to provide a place where even stupid
| questions can be asked.
The purpose of a maililng list is to provide a channel of
communication between a distributed group of people. It is not
necessarily appropr
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 01:41:53PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
| Suggestions on which IRC server to use?
irc.debian.org
irc.openprojects.net (same thing, DNS alias or somesuch)
this is given on www.debian.org
-D
--
The Lord detests all the proud of heart.
Be sure of this: They will not
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:32:37PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
| I've had about a dozen people from this mailing list tell me that their
| spam filters catch my messages. Does anyone know why? Is there a
| standard spam filtering package for Debian that is prone to false
| positives?
Commonly
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:57:39PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
| I make my own kernel packages.
|
| I have one question.
|
| How do I remove the obsolete ones from the dselect tree? I think I just
| did the dselect equivelant of dpkg -r kernel-image and it totally
| messed up my lilo.
In w
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:28:34PM -0600, shock wrote:
| when i run /sbin/lilo, i get the following message:
|
| Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
| head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80
|
| anybody know what this means? should i be concerned about it?
I know
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:38:06PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
| We found this this morning:
|
| In bash type Ctrl-v Ctrl-. "e and then get ë.
Do you have bash (readline) in "vi" mode or "emacs" mode? In vim I
can type ^V to escape the next character (allows entering in control
characters direct
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:19:33PM -0800, Anthony Lau wrote:
...
| I guess, both Linux and Windows likes to have their boot drive as
| drive 1 (0x80).
What you are doing is fiddling with the partition type in the
partition table. If you make your linux partition a "hidden"
partition, then window
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:17:30PM -0500, David Teague wrote:
|
|
| If you put more RAM in a computer system than the caching system
| will suppport, the system will run more slowly than it would with
| less RAM. IF I understand correctly, the amount of RAM depends on
| the amount of tag RAM.
|
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:52:14AM -0800, Alec wrote:
| Hi
|
| IRC, on Potato there was a program that would
| configure mail on your workstation. You could pick
| among several options of mail delivery. I think it was
| launched with dpkg-reconfigure , where
| was exim, if I'm not mistaken. How
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 05:05:24PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
| dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:17:30PM -0500, David Teague wrote:
| > |
| > |
| > | If you put more RAM in a computer system than the caching system
| > | will suppport, the
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:46:19PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
| I've just installed wood on a machine with an ATI Radeon LE video card. The
| I built a new kernel (2.4.16) using kernel-package.
|
| First I tried enabling the framebuffer Radeon support in the kernel, but
| the results were not so goo
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