LILO on hdc (to be hda)

1999-08-04 Thread joost witteveen
So I thought I know how to work with LILO. And I *thought* done this many times before (years ago). But... I want to prepare a harddisk (that should later become the root FS) So I put it in my system (it was found as hdc), and mounted it as /mnt I put in the lilo.conf file: boot=/dev/hdc ro

refocus photo?

1998-08-14 Thread Joost Witteveen
; options in the Gipm, xv, etc, but that's not what I mean). Does anybody know of a programme (within or outside debian, but please let it be free) that can help me? Thanks! joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: refocus photo?

1998-08-16 Thread Joost Witteveen
> On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 10:59:44PM +0200, Joost Witteveen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've got (at least) one photo taken while the camera was moving. > > Only one? :) Well, one that I care about. Much more, actually. > > > I'd really like to

Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-06 Thread Joost Witteveen
Hi, here I am agian. I upgraded my system yesterday (OK to slink, but it appears the same problem is present in hamm), and now my bacspace generates an delete again. (in an xterm that is. Emacs (X11) and VC are OK) I already asked this question once, but I seem to have lost the responce I got the

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-06 Thread Joost Witteveen
> > Does anybody know what I should do to get my beloved backspace back again > > (yes, I want backspace to delete the char left to the curser, as it does > > in the VC's). > > Make sure the following is present in your /etc/X11/Xresources: Thanks. But unfortunately, it _is_ already present! > *

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-09 Thread Joost Witteveen
skribis Gilbert Laycock: > Pete> Does Alt-backspace work for anyone in an xterm (deleting the previous > Pete> word on bash input, for example)? This worked fine in Bo and before. > > What kind of keyboard do you have? On my 104 key ("windows 95") > keyboard, the "windows" key produces Meta and t

ppp, PII/P90, ioctl(SIOCADDRT) device route: Network is down(100)

1998-05-21 Thread Joost Witteveen
Hi, I've got two computers here, both with an (about) 3 weeks old debian-hamm distribution, one P90, and one PII-233. On the P90 I can setup a ppp connection to cistron.nl (posing as provider), but my PII-233 refuses to do the same. The thing is when running "dip -v dip-script", the output on bot

Re: ppp, PII/P90, ioctl(SIOCADDRT) device route: Network is down(100)

1998-05-23 Thread Joost Witteveen
> >> May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x6 >> 00> ] > >> May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: sent [IPCP ConfRej id=0x6 >> 195.64.64.1>] > >> May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x7 >> 195.64.64.1 195.64.69.173> ] > >> May 21 13:15:07 muso pppd[1020]: sent [I

Re: Ethernet Question

1998-07-12 Thread Joost Witteveen
> Hi Everyone, > > I've managed to get tcp/ip networking up and running on my Debian machine. > I have my 3com 3x509 configured to ip address 192.168.0.1, I have one other > machine on my local network(for now) and it is ip 192.168.0.2. > > How can I get my debian machine to see(ping) the othe

Re: hda1 problem

1998-07-12 Thread Joost Witteveen
> Hello: > > I had a nicely working system with > hda1 1 gig / > hda2 48M swap > hda3 1 gig formatted space as /extra > hda4 extended > hda52 gigs formatted space unmounted > > The root partition was getting used up so > I tried to put /usr on hda3 using > 'cp -dpRv * /extra' and it a

debian-user@lists.debian.org

1999-08-25 Thread joost witteveen
If I put in my configure.in: AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(foo(a), bar a) then in the created config.h (or on the gcc commandline) I get: #define foo (a) bar a ^space This doesn't work, I need to have: #define foo(a) bar a At the moment I `solve' this by doing: sed -e 's/ *(/(/' < config.

cpp macros: quotes and spaces (# and ##)

1999-08-27 Thread joost witteveen
I've got a define #define WRAP_STAT __xstat and from the macro WRAP_STAT, I want to define #define NEXT_STAT next___xstat and #define WRAP_STAT_QUOTE "__xstat" To define NEXT_STAT in terms of WRAP_STAT, I tried #define NEXT_STAT next_ ## WRAP_STAT (with the ## to get rid of the space in betwee

Re: cpp macros: quotes and spaces (# and ##)

1999-08-27 Thread joost witteveen
Je 1999/08/27(5)/19:08, joost witteveen montris sian geniecon skribante: > I've got a define > > #define WRAP_STAT __xstat > > and from the macro WRAP_STAT, I want to define > > #define NEXT_STAT next___xstat > and > #define WRAP_STAT_QUOTE "__xstat"

UMAX 1220S, SCSI card (436P?)

1999-04-26 Thread joost witteveen
As the SANE docs told me the UMAX 1220S should work OK, I just bought one of those scanners. The scanner came with it's own ISA SCSI adaptor. The vendor already told me the card was somewhat strange, but well, I went for it. Anyway, I cannot get Linux 2.2.3 to recognise it (Simply turned on all SC

Re: UMAX 1220S, SCSI card (436P?)

1999-04-27 Thread joost witteveen
Je 1999/04/27(2)/ 9:04, H C Pumphrey montris sian geniecon skribante: > On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, joost witteveen wrote: > This sounds as if it could be the same card as is supplied with the Artec > AT12 scanner. Here is the message I sent to SANE-Devel recently about > this. I hav

X, middle mouse,Artec, do see output in /dev/mouse

1999-11-20 Thread joost witteveen
Hi, I've two mice here who's middle mouse button I cannot get to work under X. However, cat-ing /dev/mouse shows that i do get output: left button: muso:/dev# cat mouse |od -x 000 0060 4000 0060 4000 0060 4000 Middle button: muso:/dev# cat mouse |od -x 000 0040 4000 004

Re: procmail

1999-11-21 Thread joost witteveen
Je 1999/11/20(6)/18:11, GECOS montris sian geniecon skribante: > Hi, > I am trying to filter my mail with procmail. > I gues in debian you need a forward file. > Every time I try to use the .forward file all my mail disappears. > > I will attach jmy .forward file with this message. > It is called

Re: X, middle mouse,Artec, do see output in /dev/mouse

1999-11-21 Thread Joost Witteveen
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 11:01:30AM +0100, Colin Marquardt wrote: > * joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've two mice here who's middle mouse button I cannot get to work > > under X. However, cat-ing /dev/mouse shows that i do get output: > [..

presentation graphics

1999-11-24 Thread joost witteveen
> I want to produce some simple bar charts showing the difference between > different products. Gnuplot doesn't seem to be able to do what I want (just > nice clean bars with numbers at the tops and descriptions at the bottom). > Is there a good program to do this easily? Preferrably something I

presentation graphics

1999-11-24 Thread joost witteveen
> I want to produce some simple bar charts showing the difference between > different products. Gnuplot doesn't seem to be able to do what I want (just > nice clean bars with numbers at the tops and descriptions at the bottom). > Is there a good program to do this easily? Preferrably something I

Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-02-27 Thread joost witteveen
ore. Yes, I know gcc currently doesn't do much Pentium optimisations, so at the moment the question between wheter dpkg should say "i586" or "i486" is rather pointless anyway. But when there will be a difference, it's best to make sure that dpkg returns the same on all

Re: Xircom CE10-BC PCMCIA Ethernetadapter

1998-03-01 Thread joost witteveen
and nobody can fix bugs in them. So, really the best thing to do is to replace the XIRCOM card. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different than Debian, but only if he has good reasons to do so. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-m

Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-03-03 Thread joost witteveen
e will eventually be run on. So the whole "intel" architecture should have one type of processor-optimisation). > I wondered why it sees my i586 as a i486. Well, because not everybody has a i586. The i486 was chosen as the porcessor to best represent the intel architecture (note that

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] less with built-in grep ?

1998-03-07 Thread joost witteveen
stalled/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==-==== ii less332-2

Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?

1998-03-07 Thread joost witteveen
Bill Leach wrote: > Joost Kooij wrote: > > > > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > [A very interesting and informative expose, thanks Joost!] > > > > As it works now (as I understand) the rules makefile effectively tries to > > make t

Re: PLIP question

1998-03-07 Thread joost witteveen
on't edit > # [...] > CONFIG_PLIP=m > CONFIG_PPP=m Doesn't that just mean you've got to insmod plip? Oh, and why do you try to first add the route, and then ifconfig the device? isn't one supposed to first insmod it, and then ifconfig it? -- joost witteveen, [EM

Re: debian menu bug???

1998-03-14 Thread joost witteveen
n my window-manager. > > Is this a bug or my fault I don't know. I assume that you've got menu-1.5-7 installed (a few days ago that was the most recent). Could you try menu-1.5-9, or menu-1.5-10 (to be released later today, 1998/3/14) and mail me if you still have proble

Re: gcc problems

1998-03-21 Thread joost witteveen
at compiling c++ code - There's a new libstdc++ package. That in itslef isn't much of an advantage, but in this case it means it's got a differnt maintainer than the old libg++272 package (me, and I've not had much time to spend on libg++272 lately). Oh, and you

Re: HELP: debian menu bug???

1998-03-21 Thread joost witteveen
other debian packages). Fixes: 13880 15081 17171 17215 17292. -- joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 15 Mar 1998 10:39:08 +0100 menu (1.5-10) unstable; urgency=low * Oh, yes, Aaron Howell, you were right. I did forget to close (free) some files. Fixed that, so this fixes: 172

HP890c supported by gs?

1998-04-23 Thread joost witteveen
Hi, Does anybody have any experience with gs's support for the HP DeskJet 890C? The printer compatibility page from gs says it should be supported with the cdj850 device -- but that device apparently isn't linked in with Debian's gs-aladdin_5.10_7. Anybody know why? Tha

Re: menu in fvwm?

1998-01-02 Thread joost witteveen
1/xterm -T \""\ $title "\" -e " $command "&\n" endsupported startmenu= "PopUp \"" $section "\"\n" endmenu= "EndPopUp\n" submenutitle=" Popup \"" $title cond_surr($icon,"%","%&quo

Re: Wmaker (hamm) and menu pkg.

1998-01-12 Thread joost witteveen
t; -e " $command "\n" Note, that the really new menu-method files will include "menu.h", so that you only need to change the indicated lines in /etc/menu-methods/menu.h, and every sufficiently new window manager will atumatically use rxvt for all "text" entries

Re: Wmaker (hamm) and menu pkg.

1998-01-13 Thread joost witteveen
that's way too long for my memory! It does mean that wmaker's menu-method probably one of the best (it uses the "!include menu.h"). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potentially offensive files, part 5: /dev/random. `head -c 4 /dev/random` may print 4-letter words (once e

Re: why libc6?

1998-01-14 Thread joost witteveen
be when everybody uses our scheme, this re-convincing isn't needed any more. Probably lots more, though. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potentially offensive files, part 5: /dev/random. `head -c 4 /dev/random` may print 4-letter words (once every approx 4e8 tries). -- TO UNSUBS

Re: xfig: Freezes when Text button is pushed

1998-01-15 Thread joost witteveen
r me it was caused by xaw95 (or maybe xaw3d). Eighter uninstalling those, or installing the xaw-wrappers package helped in my case. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potentially offensive files, part 5: /dev/random. `head -c 4 /dev/random` may print 4-letter words (once every approx 4e8 tries)

Re: statically linked ls ???

1998-01-16 Thread joost witteveen
the fileutils source tar) Add "-static" somewhere on on the gcc commandline (the final linking stage) in the Makefile. That's how I generated mine. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potentially offensive files, part 5: /dev/random. `head -c 4 /dev/random` may print 4-letter

Re: superformat having problems allocating memory?

1998-01-25 Thread joost witteveen
errors (read and write) than the DOS one. But then I don't know for sure, as I don't know floppies very much, and DOS even less). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potentially offensive files, part 5: /dev/random. `head -c 4 /dev/random` may print 4-letter words (once every approx 4e8 t

Re: Why is debian "more of a learning curve" than Redhat???

1998-01-25 Thread joost witteveen
o. It's got a lot of options, and it's about the only programme I use daily/weekly, and many with me. I only use dselect when I want to upgrade my whole system (any time now). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potentially offensive files, part 5: /dev/random. `head -c 4 /dev/r

Re: [lesspipe]

1998-01-26 Thread joost witteveen
Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==-======== ii less332-2

Re: error with dpkg

1998-01-26 Thread joost witteveen
ng, or is it maybe referring to perl in /bin? (The first line of /usr/sbin/install-info should read: "#! /usr/bin/perl --", but maybe it reads "#!/bin/perl"). I remember the location of perl being moved recently (how long ago? one year? Don't know), so that may explain i

Fakeroot (hamm) Security Problem

1998-01-30 Thread joost witteveen
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mirror & follow symlinks? (Will be: I feel so stupid now)

1998-02-01 Thread joost witteveen
27;t "follow_local_symlinks", isn't it? I want remote symlinks to be followed, not local ones). Thanks ever so much, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different than Debian, but only if he has good reasons to do so. -- TO UN

Re: root login

1998-02-01 Thread joost witteveen
sswd /etc/shadow /etc/passwd:root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash /etc/shadow:root:u384kf835ishasdf:10063:0:9:7::: ^^^ are you sure that paswd is not empty? (Eighter in etc/passwd, or in /etc/shadow). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Th

Re: printing .pdf files

1998-02-12 Thread joost witteveen
ant: ftp://ftp.fedworld.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf Have you tried "pdf2ps" (available from gs-aladdin, in non-free)? It looks like that one does it better. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different than Debian, but only if he

Re: lchown(), libc6-2.0.7pre1, and 2.1.8x kernels

1998-02-12 Thread joost witteveen
rd "unsubscribe" to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

smail, HELO hostname without dot

1998-02-12 Thread joost witteveen
ne know who is breaking the RFC's? Is it our smail, or the mail clients that do things like "HELO rulcmc"? Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different than Debian, but only if he has good reasons to do so. -- TO UNS

Re: gcc 2.7.2.3-3: Internal compiler error 366 ???

1998-02-12 Thread joost witteveen
or gcc-2.8 packages, in experimental (but they have problems, and apparently need a more recent libg++ -- sorry for that (I'm the libg++ maintainer)) -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different than Debian, but only if he has good

Re: swap usage

1998-02-12 Thread joost witteveen
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > How can I find out which programs are using swap and how much of it? ps -am should be what you want. Or maybe "ps -axmw", what I often use. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTE

Re: device /dev/eth0 is missing

1998-02-13 Thread joost witteveen
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST} Note, that the installscripts should have done this already for you. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different than Debian, but only if he has good reasons to do so. -- TO

Re: spam mail or mail relay

1998-02-13 Thread joost witteveen
he spamdb. There are far too many possible ways of doing it that I feel it should be a local sysadmin policy decision. Whichever way you choose to do it, spamdb can support it. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different than Deb

Re: NFS mounting problem

1998-02-15 Thread joost witteveen
p -i eth0 host miles Might give you some extra info. Other than that, I'm, out of ideas too... (Well, run rpc.nfs in debug mode on the server, but as it seems that the problem is on the client side, I don't think that will give you any more info). Luck, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PRO

Re: faster telnet while ftp'ing?

1998-02-23 Thread joost witteveen
f is connected via a 64k line to the internet? -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different than Debian, but only if he has good reasons to do so. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [

Re: Problems compiling gnuplot---Followup

1997-03-19 Thread joost witteveen
itch '--with-linux-vga', ./configure > doesn't see -lvga. But the debian gnuplot does have the vga stuff compiled in, and is capable of displaying on vga (tried it, few seconds ago). Only thing is, it's not installed setuid root, so you may have to be root to run it (or install a s

Re: compile problem

1997-03-19 Thread joost witteveen
inking, not for compile time linking. > and I have ran ldconfig -v. Run time too. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988)

Re: Ghostscript with debian debian 1.2

1997-03-26 Thread joost witteveen
fonts from the same debian release). -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988)

Re: how to boot single-user

1997-03-27 Thread joost witteveen
gt; > LILO: Linux S > > And that'll boot single user mode (it'll also ask for the root password). Yes, although I usually find that "linux emergency" is really what I want (Single-user still loads quite a few scripts). -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988)

Re: Netscape problem with gs-aladdin

1997-03-27 Thread joost witteveen
turn that into hp500c language for your hp550c? If that is so, (or otherwise), maybe the postscript file itself (you can probably get that by asking netscape to print to a file) gives a clue as to who is wrong (netscape or gs). -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well

Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)

1997-03-30 Thread joost witteveen
now safely switch off the computer (execute "halt"). (assuming all other partions are unmonuted properly). -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988)

Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3)

1997-03-31 Thread joost witteveen
ly what the others suggested. But still, sumetimes I'm unable to kill -KILL those processes, or whatever. But thenagain, your -uvm options are quite nice, and seem to find more process than I'm used to. Thanks -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988)

Re: Dpkg gone haywire?

1997-04-02 Thread joost witteveen
really wrong with /usr/info at that point. Probably not to do with dpkg. You might want to try to reinstall the package that provides /usr/sbin/install-info, dpkg (don't remove that!). Others on the list may have a better understanding of prel to see what excactly is going wrong. joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988)

Re: The ultimate fate of Debian

1997-04-02 Thread joost witteveen
d to that that yesterday was April 1, and I'm sure you'll agree that the world is going to end April 30 (and that Bo, teleported to the comet, will rule Hale-Bopp). -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988)

Re: md5 checksums on binaries

1997-04-10 Thread joost witteveen
nd you can just calculate the individual md5 sums. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: update-menus

1997-04-12 Thread joost witteveen
t list, but that's for you to decide (and if the answer is yes, please add install-info too). Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: Replacing svgalib1 with svgalib-dummy1

1997-04-12 Thread joost witteveen
svgalib1 to run gs, even under X11), and I think svgalib-dummy1 is missing the Replaces: svgalib1 line (this appears making and upgrade from gs to gs-aladding easier). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: update-menus

1997-04-13 Thread joost witteveen
e time, people start to expect menuentries for stuff, and people automatically start fileing bugreports against packages that don't supply menuentries. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: update-menus

1997-04-13 Thread joost witteveen
> to Apps/...). As a long time sysadm that's where I hope to find system > administration stuff. We all like to see the _files_ appear in /etc. But Joey is talking about the location in the menu's (pdmenus, fvwm*, afterstep, whatever). And then, I'll agree with Joey that Apps/System/Admin is a very good place. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: update-menus

1997-04-13 Thread joost witteveen
then echo You are about to run $command, but you'll need $id privileges for that. echo Enter $id password: . (su to $id, and so on). This way, you don't need to run the window manager as root to be able to run the lilo config programme. I'll supply the /usr/sbin/needpriv script with the menu package. Anyone any comments? Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: next release of debian...

1997-04-13 Thread joost witteveen
what should be in the release after 1.3, and people discussing this may say "the next release should have glibc in it", forgetting that, officially, 1.3 hasn't been released yet. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: X related questions

1997-04-16 Thread joost witteveen
l is in /sbin/runlevel). Then, if runlevel says "N 4", you're in level 4, and type cd /etc/rc4.d mv S99xdm K99xdm and you're set. So, what's your second problem? -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: fvwm2 menus burned

1997-04-19 Thread joost witteveen
wm2/system.fvwm2rc -remove the "DestroyMeny\\n" in /etc/menu-methods/fvwm2. Menu-1.0 (to be released shortly) will add "this is a auto-generated file, don't edit" at the top of /etc/x11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook. Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: NOT urgent: 586 assumptions?

1997-04-21 Thread joost witteveen
bly hardware, but it struck > me as something that could possibly be due to a change in libc or > the like... maybe? ideas? help! > > --Zachary > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

log of talk session?

1997-04-28 Thread joost witteveen
). Thanks! -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: log of talk session?

1997-04-28 Thread joost witteveen
en I do : $ TERM=vt100 DISPLAY= ytalk joost Cannot open X display: No such file or directory Why doesn't it just enable the -x option (yeah, when all else fails, read the docs, and -x _is_ in ytalk(1), so it's not that bad). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: one thing latex is better than tetex

1997-04-29 Thread joost witteveen
ning it on). Of cource I could not test it. Still, I think it's a bug in the tetex packages, if true. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: upgrade to debian 1.3

1997-04-29 Thread joost witteveen
it is F_UNLCK). If the lock is held by someone else, this call returns -1 and sets errno to EACCES or EAGAIN. So, probably I should also test for EACCES. (why doesn't dpkg does this?) Anybody know more about this? -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: upgrade to debian 1.3

1997-04-29 Thread joost witteveen
messages above would appear!). > -- the only test I can think of is to poll > with non-blocking open() and see if it makes any difference. So this is not needed. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: Problem when compiling X-Programs

1997-05-17 Thread joost witteveen
ules build". This _should_ do everything correctly, and if not, file a bug report against the Xboard pacakge. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: seyon

1997-05-18 Thread joost witteveen
ian package (if you installed the debian package) is newer, and contains (many) bugs. My version is seyon_2.14c-4, but there may well be much more recent versions out (I don't upgrade non-free packages very often/at all). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: JPEG utilities

1997-05-19 Thread joost witteveen
but I > don't yet and was hoping to avoid writing any C. (cat filename.jpg|djpeg -v -targa>/dev/null) 2>&1|sed -n -e 's/Start Of Frame.*://p' works for me, though probably there are more straigt forward ways! -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: libc6 question

1997-05-19 Thread joost witteveen
rade ldso, it'll itself from the system, and your system will be unusable. But as long as you don't do that, I don't think you'll find problemes. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: Network mounting problems

1997-05-19 Thread joost witteveen
the netstd package) may improve matters. Currently installed on my system (without problems): $ /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd -v Universal NFS Server 2.2beta25 $ dpkg -l netstd ii netstd 2.13-1 Networking binaries and daemons for Linux -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: libc6-dev

1997-05-21 Thread joost witteveen
tall the libc6 compiled other lib*-dev packages. The problem is that currently there aren't many other libc6 dev compiled lib packages. > If I select libc6-dev > in dselect, I get 10 or so conflicts of packages that it wants to > remove before it will allow me to put libc6 on.

Re: debian libc5-dev installation version problem - my crude? fix.

1997-05-22 Thread joost witteveen
the very least, good enough? I think you'd better check the mirror -- it doesn't seem to be up-to-date. My mirror has libc5 version 5.4.23-3 (that's the bo mirror) [deleting other questions, most of which are answered above] -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: Weierd afterstep-1.0-3 problem

1997-05-23 Thread joost witteveen
hat file is missing here? > > The package seems to require ld-linux.so.2 (try "strings > afterstep"). I already reported that one to the maintainer. And (as you probably know) that means you need to install libc6 to get it working (and, ldso-1.9*). (The package needs to depen

Re: core when running C++ programs..

1997-05-27 Thread joost witteveen
an.org. I have tried re-downloading libg++27-dev > and libg++27 and reinstalling it but this didn't fix anything. > -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: GCC Libraries

1997-05-27 Thread joost witteveen
> In my /usr/lib/gcc-lib directory, the only directory entry is for > "i486-linux". My machine is a 386. Do I have to get the GCC sources and > recompile, or will these libs work on my machine? They'll work just fine. You may want to upgrade your machine though! --

Re: root user and nfs mounts

1997-05-27 Thread joost witteveen
;) | dd of=/dev/tape > Is it safe? As long as the AIX people do their job properly, you cannot do anything unsafe. And you cannot do what you want, I think. > And finally, is there > a better way to do it? Cheers, Colin. Depends on tob. (see above). [1] had they not done that,

Re: rwhod

1997-05-28 Thread joost witteveen
s see who's logged on here. (Yeah, I know you're not intereseted in this tragic story about computer abuse by systemadmins, but I'm still traumatised, and just needed to vent this). BTW, the systemadmin that went out of his mind back then has left, so maybe I can try starting rwho on

Re: Had to reset, now in deep kimshee....]

1997-05-28 Thread joost witteveen
the module loads are tried? See above -- should not be needed. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Had to reset, now in deep kimshee....]

1997-05-28 Thread joost witteveen
floppy, and try to mount your root filesystem on /mnt, cd to it and examine what may have gone wrong, possibly correcting it. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: where is xload

1997-05-28 Thread joost witteveen
t; > Where is it gone? $ dpkg -S xload [..] xproc: /usr/X11R6/bin/xload [..] It was moved away from xcontrib to xproc. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe&qu

Re: where is xload

1997-05-29 Thread joost witteveen
> My 'deluser' is lost also. Any hints on that? Use userdel from the passwd package. I believe userdel is better than the deluser that used to come with the adduser package, so deluser was removed. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.a

Re: gzip always gives me error

1997-05-30 Thread joost witteveen
inary-all/graphics$ md5sum povray-manual_3.0.10-3.deb 7643ca13c6e3f0e527fc9ab2015661f3 povray-manual_3.0.10-3.deb > -lars > -- > My sig file is only one line long! But how long are your .debs? -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/

Re: ps, pdf viewer

1997-06-01 Thread joost witteveen
ike ? > > > From reading the descriptions, GV looks better. > > > > Far better. > > > > ...RickM... -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: What happened to seyon and xoj?

1997-06-02 Thread joost witteveen
mply doesn't work, I guess the powers that be decided (wisely) to remove it from bo. In short, there hasn't been a working xoj package for the last 6 or so months (except maybe if you had _very_ old libc5 stuff), and the xoj-..-2 one is the first working one. -- joost witteveen, [E

Re: Is xdm required?

1997-06-04 Thread joost witteveen
Do not send email advertisements to this address. So, how about me selling the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to some mass-mailer crook? Isn't that statement a bit contradictory? -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNS

Re: neXtaw

1997-06-05 Thread joost witteveen
ually configure each program to use a certain library > without using LD_PRELOAD. Link them with the -rpath option, specifying the library you want it to use. > This is for configureing menus in Afterstep. (This part I don't understand). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/pe

Re: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?

1997-06-06 Thread joost witteveen
at isn't "debian-officially" installed, with > ?package(local.mystuff): > Any "package" that starts with "local." is considered installed. > (due to a bug in menu-1.3 this didn't work then). > > If your using old format menuentryfiles sh

Re: libc5 version 5.4.23-6

1997-06-06 Thread joost witteveen
bc6 2.0.3-4 The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files) ii libc6-dbg 2.0.3-4 The GNU C library version 2 (debugging/profi ii libc6-dev 2.0.3-4 The GNU C library version 2 (development fil ii libc6-doc 2.0.3-4 The GNU C library version 2 (documentat

Re: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?

1997-06-07 Thread joost witteveen
now in the source, but haven't tested it yet (and, just now I checked again to see whether I fixed it and I saw I did mess it up slightly, but now it should be OK, I think). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM TH

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