Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
emoved the 45Kb metapackage, but not the underlying programs. Is there a flag I missed? Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
Is there one, or if so is it perceptible? For instance, I compiled kde and qt to live in /opt. If I moved /opt to /usr/local/kde31 and made /opt a symlink would this create overhead a human would notice? Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: freeamp problems ?

2003-02-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 17 February 2003 4:26 pm, Dave Selby wrote: >I have run freeamp from xterm, zip new info, just locks, HOWEVER I noticed >that it sometimes freezes at exactly the same time as my modem droppes the >line. Might it be attempting to access a cddb database when the line drops? Je

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
re... Thanks for the responses! Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-18 Thread Jeff Elkins
in the patch died a few times, but I bet it will be trivial to convert it to handle debian. It may well be better to install from a tarball, I ended up with a missing /etc/vmware/location file that I copied over from my wife's redhat pc. No full screen yet, but that's for later. Thanks

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-18 Thread Jeff Elkins
re refuses to recompile its modules. Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-18 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 8:07 pm, Gregory Seidman wrote: >Er, no. I am running VMWare 3.2, unpatched, on a 2.4.20 kernel. It works >just fine, and the vmware-config.pl compiled its modules happily. Sorry, my post was in reference to VMWare 2.0.4. Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-18 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 9:43 pm, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: >Has anybody on the list gotten IE to work under a normal wine install? The only success I've had is by using Crossover Office's wine setup and IE 5.x. Some things don't work (i.e. favorite

Debian on an iMac

2003-02-19 Thread Jeff Elkins
ected to a fast DSL line. Can someone point me to a FAQ so I can get my ducks in a row before next Wednesday, or share any tips? Thanks, Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on an iMac

2003-02-19 Thread Jeff Elkins
I found the ports page and that led me to lots and lots of info. If anyone has some experience with gotchas, I'd appreciate hearing them. Jeff On Wednesday 19 February 2003 5:13 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: >Next week I'll be picking up a iMac/DVD-RAM/256Mb/20GbHD on which I'd

Tripwire

2003-02-21 Thread Jeff Elkins
I just completed moving my elkins.org server from RH7.2 to woody and everything went pretty smoothly, except for tripwire. Apt does not show this as an available package. Is this for license reasons? Is there a comparable package available for debian? Thanks, Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org

Re: Tripwire

2003-02-21 Thread Jeff Elkins
Thanks for the suggestions! Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where to put environment variables?

2003-02-27 Thread Jeff Elkins
programs PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc export USERNAME BASH_ENV PATH = Regards, Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Ogle

2003-02-28 Thread Jeff Elkins
I'm attempting to view some DVDs under Sid and Ogle gives me the following error appended below. I previously had Ogle working fine from RPMs on a RH 7.2 install, so I know it's possible on this box. Thanks for any assistance. Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org === lrwxr

Setting hdparm parameters on boot

2003-02-28 Thread Jeff Elkins
ave to apply it manually for the setting to work. Have I missed something here? Thanks Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting hdparm parameters on boot

2003-02-28 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 28 February 2003 11:29 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: Did you make your "hdparm" script an executable shell script? No, I didn't and do I feel dumb :) Thanks for the heads-up and pointer to hwtools. Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Setting hdparm parameters on boot

2003-02-28 Thread Jeff Elkins
add it. Thank you Stephen! Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /var/cache/apt/archives is big

2003-03-01 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 01 March 2003 1:27 pm, Alan Chandler wrote: >My /var/cache/apt/archives directory seems to have nearly a gig of .deb > files. I notice there is more than one version of each (it looks like its >always 2). >Is there a command to shrink it? apt-get clean works for me.

Re: New To Debian - Couple of Questions

2003-03-01 Thread Jeff Elkins
three boxes, then used 'apt-get dist-upgrade ' to convert them to unstable. Network install is great too, if you have a broadband connection. For an iMac I booted from a 1.44Mb image and installed a base system, then dist-upgrade to move up to Sid. Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org

Re: New Kernel - No Network

2003-03-01 Thread Jeff Elkins
ad a similar problem when I didn't enable socket filtering in the network config section. Not doing so will stop DHCP from working. Try enabling a static IP address. If that works you'll need to recompile your kernel with socket filtering. Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- T

Re: New Kernel - No Network

2003-03-02 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 02 March 2003 3:27 am, Vince Turzo wrote: >what's a quick way to enable a static IP address? Check out the man pages for ifup and interfaces. Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

OT:Cross-compiling

2003-03-05 Thread Jeff Elkins
in/ld:/home/jeff/bglibc/libc.so.lds:114: syntax error collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [/home/jeff/bglibc/libc.so] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jeff/glibc-2.3.2' make: *** [all] Error 2 Any thoughts on what might be casusing the ld error? Thanks Jeff Elkin

Re: OT:Cross-compiling

2003-03-05 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 9:23 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: >I'm running a mixed network of i386 and ppc boxen and have been working on >building cross-compilers. The i386 side is completed and working well. The >ppc side is crashing with the final step...compiling glibc. > >/usr/lo

Re: OT:Cross-compiling

2003-03-05 Thread Jeff Elkins
>On Wednesday 05 March 2003 9:23 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: >I'm running a mixed network of i386 and ppc boxen and have been working on >building cross-compilers. The i386 side is completed and working well. The >ppc side is crashing with the final step...compiling glibc. > >

Re: OT:Cross-compiling

2003-03-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:05 am, Elizabeth Barham wrote: >Jeff writes: >> >/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.2.2/../../../../i386-linux/bin/ld:/ho >> >me / jeff/bglibc/libc.so.lds:114: syntax error > >What does line 114 look like in this file? > >Elizabeth { (114) KEEP (*crtbegin.o(.dtors))

Re: OT:Cross-compiling

2003-03-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Thursday 06 March 2003 12:54 pm, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > It looks like an error when it was making the file (or else it has >error messages embedded in it); specifically, unwind-dw2-fde-glibc.o >references the abort function but it was not resolved. Thanks for the tips! Jeff -- To UNSUBS

Re: where does 'root' mail go ?

2003-03-07 Thread Jeff Elkins
igured here. > >postmaster: root >root: root > >daemon: root >bin: root >sys: root >sync: root > >Dave That 'root:root' means that any system email meant for the adminstrator goes to the account 'root.' What you can do (as root or with sudo) is edit the file /etc/aliases and add an entry 'root: username', after which you issue the command 'newaliases.' Then any email meant for 'root' will instead go to 'username.' Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where does 'root' mail go ?

2003-03-07 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 07 March 2003 3:47 pm, Dave Sherohman wrote: >On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:33:16PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> What you can do (as root or with sudo) is edit the file /etc/aliases and >> add an entry 'root: username', after which you issue the command >

Re: Another Happy Debian User

2003-03-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
es on the same desk... Life is good :) Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kde fonts & stuff ...

2003-03-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
selected "use defaults" and apply, the fonts are now listed as mainly >helvetica 12, however although they have changed back in the controll center >they have not changed back in kde. I have re-booted the system, > >any ideas ? >Dave It's a fontconfig bug. PITA, but fi

Re: kde fonts & stuff ...

2003-03-09 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 09 March 2003 4:42 am, Dave Selby wrote: >On Sunday 09 March 2003 7:05 am, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> On Saturday 08 March 2003 9:05 pm, Dave Selby wrote: >> >I have bought a 15" TFT. I love it, its great. However while >> > experimenting I changed some font

Bash scripting

2003-03-09 Thread Jeff Elkins
cript so it returned a value containing the boxes architecture? 2. As far as comparisons go, if I wanted to determine if a string contained ".xyz" or ".abc" would that be a variant of the fragment above? Thanks for any feedback... Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org --

Re: Bash scripting

2003-03-09 Thread Jeff Elkins
Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/sun4u/sparc64/ -e > s/arm.*/arm/ -e s/sa110/arm/ > > I'm working on polishing my meagre shell scripting skills and would > appreciate some feedback on the line above, quoted

Re: KDE: changing PATH for Konsole

2003-03-10 Thread Jeff Elkins
bashrc ] then . $HOME/.bashrc fi Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wtf? (long and frustrated)

2003-03-10 Thread Jeff Elkins
r.net/knoppix/index-en.html It's a Debian-based "live" CD. Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Jeff Elkins
ffer that Debian didn't provide. Our Mac is a wonderful Debian machine. Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
problem that shouldn't be minimized. Many users won't (or can't) take "heroic" steps (spamassassin,mailfilter,etc) but will abandon the list as a resource instead. Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 17 October 2003 4:13 am, klaus imgrund wrote: >On Friday 17 October 2003 06:32, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> On Thursday 16 October 2003 10:58 pm, Roberto Sanchez wrote: >> >Sidney Brooks wrote: >> >> If the former, at >> >> what will it have to conce

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 17 October 2003 8:04 am, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: >Nevertheless, I think some kind of obfuscation of e-mail addresses in >the archives may be a good idea. I'm told that's a dead horse. Beats me as to why, at a minimum, the web archives can't obfuscated. That would close off one avenue for

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 17 October 2003 9:23 am, Colin Watson wrote: >If only this were practical for the volume of spam bugs.debian.org gets >(2Gb caught by spamassassin in the last two weeks). We just don't have >the manpower even to make a dent here. :-( Colin, what kind of help is needed

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 17 October 2003 11:02 am, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: >Yup, and it is easy enough to figure out what level of obfuscation would >be sufficient. Just make a web page with a few differently obfuscated >addresses, and see what gets spam. Use them as spamtraps afterwards. It >has been done, and I

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
rnet how? Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
t scraping web pages for addresses is more prevalent than spammers trolling usenet or listservs for victims. Personally, I don't see web obfuscation as a huge loss or as a violation of debian principles. It would close a gaping hole, and probably harm no one (except spammers). Jeff Elkins

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 17 October 2003 12:21 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 06:07:48PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: >> True, but the question is, can they be bothered? > >Yes. Or they wouldn't know how to unmunge anything in the first >place.

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
n percentage of users might visit the debian web archives and look for individual support via private email. However, to slip into SF geekism, I remember Spock saying to Kirk, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." I think the needs of the many have spelled an end to email add

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
my server that I have not yet taken (I am researching, believe me.) Even so, I don't see the downside in removing my email addresses from the world wide web...which as you say is "only a very small part of the Internet" Regards, Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Elkins
direct their question to the mailing list. Bravo! Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread Jeff Elkins
policies are instituted that attempt to stop it's spread. Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apache 1.3.28-4 on unstable

2003-10-24 Thread Jeff Elkins
e modules are inserted into modules.conf in >reverse order. Ouch, this just bit me too. Editing modules.conf didn't seem to work What's a fix? Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apache 1.3.28-4 on unstable

2003-10-24 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 24 October 2003 9:55 pm, W. Paul Mills wrote: >On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 20:45:46 +, chbaker wrote: >> Ever since upgrading to apache 1.3.28-4 on unstable some strange things >> have happened. Index pages, whether html, shtml, or cgi are no longer >> working unless the page is explicitly li

Re: apache 1.3.28-4 on unstable

2003-10-25 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 25 October 2003 10:05 pm, W. Paul Mills wrote: >>>Well, it is a known bug in the apache package, you should have checked. >>>The basic problem is that the modules are inserted into modules.conf in >>>reverse order. >>> Ouch, this just bit me too. Editing modules.conf didn't seem to

Exim question: open relay?

2003-11-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
I have just started hosting a domain on my server for my granddaughter and the web portion is working perfectly. However, I'd like to offer her email as well. She's 200 miles away...how can I set this up to avoid the ugly open relay problem? TIA Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Exim question: open relay?

2003-11-09 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 09 November 2003 1:45 pm, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:20:09PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 23:44:48 -0500, >> Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > I hav

Debian Newbie: Truetype fonts

2003-02-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
to a hard drive, then apt-get'ed to unstable. Thanks, Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian newbie: Truetype fonts

2003-02-08 Thread Jeff Elkins
Hello List, I'm a total Debian newbie, having used RedHat for years and years. I'm having some difficulty making Debian see my TT fonts. They show up in selection lists, but they look pretty poor whhen compared to RH8. Is there a Debian TT FAQ? I'm using Knoppix, installed to a hard drive, t

Re: Debian newbie: Truetype fonts

2003-02-09 Thread Jeff Elkins
Thanks! On Sunday 09 February 2003 8:51 am, Brian Nelson wrote: > Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hello List, > > > > I'm a total Debian newbie, having used RedHat for years and years. I'm > > having some difficulty making Debian see my

Apt-get problem

2003-02-10 Thread Jeff Elkins
How can I repair this apt-get problem? -f does nothing. Jeff Elkins apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libarts1 libartsc0 The following NEW packages will be

Re: Apt-get problem

2003-02-10 Thread Jeff Elkins
Thanks, Colin. As a Debian newbie I would have figured that out in a year or so :) Jeff Elkins On Monday 10 February 2003 12:27 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 05:56:30AM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > How can I repair this apt-get problem? -f does nothing. &

Re: Apt-get problem

2003-02-10 Thread Jeff Elkins
self-compiled QT/KDE 3.1 on /usr/local, but I'm currently trying to apt-get KDE3.1 w/o much luck. Circular dependancy errors seem as bad as RPM ever was, but it may be self-induced :) Jeff Elkins On Monday 10 February 2003 10:22 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 05:56:30A

Re: Debian Newbie: Truetype fonts

2003-02-11 Thread Jeff Elkins
Careless on my part, thank you Will. Jeff Elkins > (jeff, i noticed that your question above showed up nestled > into the shuttle disaster message thread; you correctly changed > the subject to something meaningful -- good job -- but you > should have remove the "in-reply-t

Re: sounds from the command line (why doesn't play work?)

2003-02-11 Thread Jeff Elkins
o play > sounds from the command line? I ran into that exact problem with KDE 3.1. It turned out that the aRTs sound driver was set to full duplex and never released the sound card for use by other applications. Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Woody, Sarge, SID, WTF?

2003-02-11 Thread Jeff Elkins
nks from a Debian Newbie, Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Woody, Sarge, SID, WTF?

2003-02-11 Thread Jeff Elkins
Thank you, Rick and Vineet. As a newbie, I appreciate your responses. I'm looking forwarding to exploring Debian. Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Woody, Sarge, SID, WTF?

2003-02-12 Thread Jeff Elkins
Thanks for the tips. If something breaks, I can dual-boot back to RH, but I haven't been spending much time there lately... Jeff Elkins On Wednesday 12 February 2003 7:26 am, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:10:03PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > Thank you, R

Re: please help with installation

2003-02-12 Thread Jeff Elkins
oppix, then changed my sources.list to point to unstable; then I did a apt-get dist-upgrade. Wouldn't this eliminate traces of Woody & Sarge? Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SCSI emulation

2003-02-12 Thread Jeff Elkins
luck. I am able to write cds with cdrecord, just can't mount them with this drive. Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Woody, Sarge, SID, WTF?

2003-02-12 Thread Jeff Elkins
three code bases. My understanding (from this list) is that by doing an apt-get dist-upgrade with sources.list pointed to unstable I'm now running Sid. Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCSI emulation

2003-02-12 Thread Jeff Elkins
Fixed. It was a stupid mistake on my part. When recompiling a kernel, I deselected SCSI cdrom support. Thanks for your suggestions. Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about selecting mirrors

2003-02-13 Thread Jeff Elkins
/usr/sbin/apt-setup Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org On Thursday 13 February 2003 5:27 pm, Grega Fajdiga wrote: Good day, During the installation I had an opportunity to easily select Debian GNU/Linux mirrors. Is there a standalone version of this tool available? Thank you, Grega Fajdiga

Re: OT Knoppix installation

2003-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
With Knoppix version 3.1 try: sudo /usr/local/bin/knx-hdinstall Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org On Friday 14 February 2003 5:17 pm, stan wrote: I have a new laptop, and I was planing on istalling Koppix to take advantge of it's _great_ hardware auto detection, then merging back into

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
ach package? Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sid & KDE 3.1

2003-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
Has there been any word on when Sid will have KDE 3.1? Thanks, Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 15 February 2003 12:10 am, Michael P. Soulier wrote: If apt is working properly, you should be able to remove a base package that all of kde depends on. apt-get --purge remove kdebase Thanks Mike! Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sid & KDE 3.1

2003-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
e deb-newbie mistake of thinking I could use those executables under Debian...that didn't work out well. Thus far, QT, arts, kdelibs, kdebase and kdenetworking have compiled w/o error. Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: flash, shockwave, and quicktime; and web browser incompatibilities

2003-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
want to check out the Crossover Plugin, URL: http://www.codeweavers.com - I've used it and Crossover Office for about a year under RedHat and they seem to function fine under Debian. As a side benefit, they do contribute code back to the Wine project. Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -

Locale?

2003-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
Knoppix HD install apparently thinks I'm German. At any rate, ispell wants to use the German dictionary. How can I fix the default locale to be US? Thanks, Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

I will never go back to RH

2003-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
Thanks list, for your help to a greatful deb-newbie. Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Locale?

2003-02-15 Thread Jeff Elkins
Thanks a bunch, Emma. That seems to have done the trick. Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org On Saturday 15 February 2003 5:26 am, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > How can I fix the default locale to be US? I'm not sure if this is an ispell thing or a locale thing; however, this is how I i

Mozilla Debian Package 1.2.1-9

2003-02-15 Thread Jeff Elkins
Regarding this package, is there a way to enlarge the menu font sizes? They are so tiny I'm going blind! I'm at 1024x768, but prior to the upgrade it was much more readable. Thanks, Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Mozilla Debian Package 1.2.1-9

2003-02-15 Thread Jeff Elkins
k! Thanks for the reply though, Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where would I ask...

2003-02-15 Thread Jeff Elkins
important stuff. Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Setting progs at a runlevel

2003-02-15 Thread Jeff Elkins
As a RH refugee, I'm used to running the 'setup' program to enable/disable program startups at runtime. For Debian, am I correct in cd'ing to the /etc/rcX.d dir and moving SXXprogram to KXXprogram to disable it? If so, is there a better way? Thanks, Jeff Elkins http://www

Re: I will never go back to RH

2003-02-15 Thread Jeff Elkins
now I was compiling kdegraphics and it crashed on what appeared to be missing imlib. I did apt-get install imlib-dev, typed make and proceeded on. That's power. Preaching to the converted :) Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Mozilla Debian Package 1.2.1-9

2003-02-16 Thread Jeff Elkins
Thanks Nathan! Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org On Sunday 16 February 2003 7:08 am, Nathan Poznick wrote: >Thus spake Jeff Elkins: >> Regarding this package, is there a way to enlarge the menu font sizes? >> They are so tiny I'm going blind! I'm at 1024x768, but prior

Re: Setting progs at a runlevel

2003-02-16 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 17 February 2003 6:08 am, Raju Kurunkad wrote: >Check out rcconf. I found it quite useful for starting/stopping services >at boot. > >Raju Nice tool, thanks! Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Script help

2003-09-06 Thread Jeff Elkins
x.xxx. I'd like to gen up a script to nuke references in .ssh/known_hosts to the Zaurus. It's trivial to edit known_hosts, but I'd like to eliminate this step. Can someone point me in the right direction? TIA Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Script help

2003-09-07 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 07 September 2003 1:10 am, Dave Carrigan wrote: >On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 10:03:09PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> I'm doing a lot of work with a Sharp Zaurus which requires several >> re-flashes of the box daily - With my initrd.bin, ssh keys on the Z >> regene

Re: DVD recording software?

2003-09-07 Thread Jeff Elkins
n the market for a DVD recorder and I'd like the option of making backups. Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

exim.conf screwed up?

2003-09-12 Thread Jeff Elkins
She who must be obeyed asked me to generate a list of family birthdays, so I whipped up a perl script to read a flat file at the beginning of each month and report via mail on who's up... However, it seems that my exim.conf is not up to snuff. When I enter proper addresses into my script (i.e.

Re: exim.conf screwed up?

2003-09-12 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 12 September 2003 10:31 am, Colin Watson wrote: > >Change "@" to "\@" throughout. Double-quotes trigger interpolation of >variables in their contents, including array variables like @elkins and >@earthlink. If you use the -w switch and 'use strict;', perl will tell >you about such mistake

roving user: X settings

2003-09-16 Thread Jeff Elkins
hrunk :) Any way I can jigger things so the display is correct for whichever machine she happens to using? TIA Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

2003-09-19 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 19 September 2003 1:22 pm, Shri Shrikumar wrote: >On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 16:14, Kirk Strauser wrote: >> At 2003-09-19T03:33:53Z, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> OK, last iteration (I promise). Enough people have found this helpful, or >> at least amusing, that I'm posting

DVDRW: Please help!

2003-09-19 Thread Jeff Elkins
OK, I'm bummed. I'm the new owner of a Plextor DVDRW- PX708A, which I understood to be the top-o-the-line of DVD recorders. I'm running an Athlon 1.5Ghz box with 500Mb of RAM. Sid. The Plextor is on the 2nd IDE channel, by itself as master. I've got both cdrecord-prodvd and a patched version o

Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

2003-09-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 19 September 2003 6:59 pm, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: >You can add a "score" line to your ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file. Scroll >down to the end, there you should find an example. I'm currently using > > score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 5 Thanks. I'm trying that and sa-learn --spam. Over

Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

2003-09-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 20 September 2003 7:31 am, Jeff Elkins wrote: >On Friday 19 September 2003 6:59 pm, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: >>You can add a "score" line to your ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file. Scroll >>down to the end, there you should find an example. I'm cu

Re: DVDRW: Please help!

2003-09-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 20 September 2003 2:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Why not try: "dvd+rw-tools" (debian packaged, reportedly has >> better support for +RW than even cdrecord-prodvd)? > >I use cdrecord-prodvd. >It's definitely not Free software, but damn it it works. I prefer dfsg-compliant, but I

Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
I need to convert a bunch of filenames to uppercase. I tried the script below, which does...nothing. #!/bin/sh for file in $* do if [ -f $file ] then ucfile=`echo $file | tr [a-z] [A-Z]` if [ $file != $ucfile ] then mv -i $file $ucfile fi fi done Any tips? TIA Jeff Elkins

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-21 Thread Jeff Elkins
Thanks for the tips, folks. This will help me avoid a PITA recurring task... Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-22 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Monday 22 September 2003 3:43 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: >My wife uses Linux, but hasn't (yet?) gotten any swen attachments. Nor has mine. But my wife does not do listservs or webforums. Nor does she publish her email, as I have at http://www.lewrockwell.com It's a price you pay for being public.

fetchmail and mailfilter

2003-09-23 Thread Jeff Elkins
I'm curious as to how to integrate mailfilter into my spamassassin/fetchmail scheme. Currently, fetchmail runs every 300 seconds and gathers mail from my pop3 accounts. Would I set up a cronjob for mailfilter or can fetchmail be run in tandem with mailfilter? Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBS

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