smail: either wait or run runq manually

I upgraded libc6_2.1, libwraster1, xlib6g from potato so I could upgrade to wmaker_0.60. While I was at it I upgraded gnome to the latest in potato. After that, I ran fetchmail, then tried to get my mail using Netscape. Netscape told me I didn't have any new messages. After 5 or 10 minutes, the ma

window maker configuration

I'm new to Debian, formerly using SuSE and Red Hat, and am still trying to find my way around. I downloaded a theme from themes.org for WindowMaker but I'm having problems with the configuration. I don't have a Pixmaps directory in the background menu selection, so I added one and added a path to t

could not autodetect X server: *discover* not found

Does anybody know where is "discover" or did anybody experience a similar error message in the latest xfree-xserver-update in unstable? MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01CA 0B56 B518 id: 1024

Re: gnupg & gnus

appy with this combination, so far...) So, Ctrl-c Ctrl-m s p and HTH MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01CA 0B56 B518 id: 1024D/0B56B518 key: http://www.seitung.net/key pgpCuSLPJ1A3G.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 2.2 -> 2.2.2r

Vi scribis: > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > UNSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE > UNSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE > UNSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE UN

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

psfilter or magicfilter. Start the configtool (e.g. magicfilterconfig), and here you are. HTH MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01CA 0B56 B518 key: http://www.seitung.net/key pgprMxDuojEEv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Undefined symbol in libXaw.so.7.0

ith xemacs; but nevertheless maybe there is some purely technical antidote(!?), permitting continuous promiscuity. MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01CA 0B56 B518 key: http://www.seitu

Re: CD-ROM ...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Kiyomi! I couldn't follow too closely your posting; but it's really fantastic to see charset="ISO-2022-JP" in action! Mule is a marvelous toy. The only thing I'm missing is to learn Japanese to get the maximal fruition out of it ;-). - -- (Dr.)

Re: Xemacs won't run

stable and there was an X-library related problem (already solved) that affected xemacs this week. HTH MH PD: text/plain preferred   - -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01CA 0B56 B518 key: http:/

Internal error installing recompiled kernel 2.2.14

I've recompiled and installed kernels before and haven't had this problem. I downloaded the kernel source and headers debs for 2.2.14, rebuilt and recompiled the kernel source without any errors, then did a make dep. Next, found the *Custom* kernel in /usr/src, and tried to install it with make-kpk

Re: Whole net of scriptkiddiez and wannabes

could you explain shortly, how do you forward ports with ssh and, especially, how do you use then fetchmail over that secured connection? Thanks in advance MH -- Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fprint= 93E1 AB93 C1EB BD1B D96F 96CE 302A D438 F678 3958 pgpO4KPynlHjB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: problems with fetchmail eand exim

RUNNING* MTU:3924 ... in ifconfig lo Have a look at /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/init.d/network ... MH -- Michael Hummel Wollzeile 23/10 A-1010 WIEN mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint= 93E1 AB93 C1EB BD1B D96F 96CE 302A D438 F678 3958 key: http://212.17.72.17/key pgpLoJizkgi4J.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to start Gnome

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 " What will I need to put in /etc/X11/window-managers or ~/.xinitrc " to load gnome when I use 'startx'? " " " -- " Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null " " A simple approach would be to put "exec gnome-session" in you

Re: How to start Gnome

Hi Eric! \begin{pedantic} Just a question about ".xsession": Isn't it a "rc"-file like ".xinitrc", and therefore there is no need for a shell-script, neither for an executable-bit? \end{pedantic} bye, MH " Procedure: " " 1. Open a text

Re: How to start Gnome

c/X11/Xsession deals with both possibilities), so in Debian xinit - e.g. through startx - looks for ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession and the display-managers (xdm and ?) only for .xsession, is this right? Thanks in advance, MH -- Michael Hummel Wollzeile 23/10 A-1010 WIEN mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint=

Re: Kmail stopped working, "Unexpected response from POP3 server"

eport, then a line that says "Unexpected response from POP3 Bart> server". It keeps on doing this on the second message, no Bart> matter what the message is. Everywhere else, including Outlook Bart> Express, I can retrieve my mail just fine. Any ideas? You should get

Re: Problems Opening text programs in X . . .

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "bryan" == bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] bryan> A few days ago, I installed wterm and removed xterm. No bryan> problem, everything was working fine. But then, I bryan> reinstalled xterm and removed wterm, and this is whe

Re: Setting console keybindings

amp; Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO at www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html HTH MH - -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01CA 0B56 B518 id: 1024D/0B56B518 key: http://www.seitung.net/key -BE

Re: Setting console keybindings

adkeys, keymap, dumpkeys, etc. etc. Paul> Any hints? dpkg -S loadkeys console-tools: /usr/share/man/man1/loadkeys.1.gz console-tools: /bin/loadkeys Should be console-tools, then ... HTH MH - -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- fprin

Re: Emacs Esc- key (off topic)

> "Dale" == Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> My apologies for posting off topic. I want to bind the Alt Dale> key to the Meta key in Emacs. Is there a simple 'newbie' way Dale> to do that? OT is no problem... But you could have been more specific ... I suppose you a

Re: Howto (re)enable dead keys?

he keyboard with XF86Setup (3.xx) or dexter (4.xx) or the like. Another interesting tool might be setxkbmap ... and on a higher level keymap-applets (for kde or gnome), that makes it possible to switch keymaps on the fly if you are writing in several languages ... HTH MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto

Re: Problem with spanish characters in terminal

AGER=/usr/bin/less LESSCHARSET=latin1 export PAGER LESSCHARSET in your shells startup file ( like ~/.bash_profile or .zshenv or the like ). That should convince less ... HTH MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D51

Re: switching to maildir from mbox

last procmail-rule: :0w |safecat $HOME/Maildir/tmp $HOME/Maildir/new => http://www.nb.net/~lbudney/linux/software/safecat.html HTH, MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01CA 0B56 B518 id: 1024D

Re: qmail-src

screwed up? Have a look at dpkg --force-help . (dpkg --force-conflicts -i qmail... should be your friend ... and then remove/purge exim) Iirc, I had to force things to install qmail on my box, too. (And, be careful not to lose mail due to the mailserver change, qmail accomplishes some tasks

Re: qmail-src

So if you do it with masochistic intents don't let disturb you by vile attempts of advice ... HTH, MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01CA 0B56 B518 id: 1024D/0B56B518 key: http://www.seitung.net/key pgpAdeiJoyazC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: qmail-src

ifetime ... dsr> It's my primary mail server. OK, dsr, this one was directed to Tom. Sorry for the bad attribution ... And, by the way it's mine too, but don't have to deal with 10.000.000 deliveries/day, so actually no need for qmail ;-) dsr> -dsr- MH -- (Dr.

Re: to get https in galeon???

debian/sid. Did you install mozilla-psm ? HTH, MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01CA 0B56 B518 id: 1024D/0B56B518 key: http://www.seitung.net/key pgp3MxrhP7aIU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Dual Processor machine

d one yourself. -> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SMP-HOWTO.html HTH, MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01CA 0B56 B518 id: 1024D/0B56B518 key: http://www.seitung.net/key pgpvDexX3f54C.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: I give up. I need help!!

> "John" == Klaus, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi John! Long posting ... John> Dear Sir, I have tried and tried, did I say I tried, to get John> Debian 2.1 installed and configured with Gnome on just one John> machine at home. I find this to be a most impossible task. OK, f

Re: I give up. I need help!!

hn> You have to tell gnome what windowmanager you John> want. John> How do I do this?? Through the gnome control center (gnomecc) HTH, MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01C

Re: init.d: writing custom init-scripts

/group as all the other ones from sid and my one is the Timo> only one that does not work. You got update-rc.d for this. HTH, MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01CA 0B56 B518 id: 1024D/0B56B518 key: http

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

> "Jeremy" == Jeremy L Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeremy> Who gives a fuck what everybody on the list is like? You Jeremy> have hundreds, probably thousands of people on this list Jeremy> so chances are good all aspects of covered. This crap is Jeremy> sooo far off-to

Re: man v. info

ce idea: to have Imre> examples in man pages. There are some manpages with examples Imre> but most of them are without although they are really Imre> helpful. That's a good point. Having examples in manuals should be nearly mandatory. It speeds up understanding and usabil

Re: ReiserFS, ext3 (was: 'praise to the debian gods')

. *My* experience Ext3 nearly toasted my ide-hd and "tidied up" about every second directory on the /var partition on a __smp__ machine ... The hd is still alive running now reiserfs without a problem so far. I'll wait for xfs to become stable... YMMV, MH -- (Dr.) Michae

Re: ReiserFS, ext3 (was: 'praise to the debian gods')

>>>>> "Emil" == Emil Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Emil> MH wrote: >> >>>>> "Craig" == Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Craig> But quite stable at this point. I&#x

Re: Problems with insmod of modules at startup

the Lukas> boot.local file ? Or does it have an alternate file with Lukas> the same function ? See /etc/init.d/ (bootmisc.sh for example) in Debian and if you add a script: man update-rc.d , but this is not the place for the above mentioned problem. HTH, MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel

Re: How can I install galeon?

n apt-get -u install galeon. I haven't had any Brian> problems what so ever. Brian> Just be sure to change your sources.list back to testing Brian> when you're done. ;-) There are some more elegant ways in apt now. Check man apt-get (-t) and man apt_preferences, though

Re: mail notification

bash_profile export MAILPATH='~/var/spool/mail/YOU?`festival --tts ~/festmail.txt`' So festival will read the text of ~/festmail.txt to you instead of displaying "You have new mail". HTH, MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprin

festival and esd [was: mail notification]

speechio.org/archive/msg00059.html http://www.speechio.org/archive/msg00058.html Have a look at gstreamer (http://gstreamer.sourceforge.net/) ; it seems that it will be going to be packaged: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no\&bug=87667 HTH, MH -- (Dr.) Michae

Re: Minor, but irritating, symlink problem

strong evidence) -- give zsh a try. The default values are just working fine, but if you want so, you can spend a couple of weeks tuning around, but no need for this. Regards, MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372

Re: Suggestion for next Debian release

t installed "because Dimitri> somebody might want to * run $foo in xterm * authenticate Dimitri> HTTP requests against mysql database * etc." What's about filing a bug against bitchx instead of passively complaining here... MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL P

Re: Suggestion for next Debian release

>>>>> "Dimitri" == Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dimitri> * MH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... >> What's about filing a bug against bitchx instead of passively >> complaining here... Dimitri> I'm compl

Re: Suggestion for next Debian release

>>>>> "ben" == ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ben> On Saturday 16 February 2002 06:52 pm, Carel Fellinger wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 06:37:23PM -0800, ben wrote: >> > On Saturday 16 February 2002 06:33 pm, you wrote: >&

Re: Email embarrasment

like this? 2. Which stable, easy to use gui mail client Johann> would you recommend if the mail client is the problem? (I Johann> have even downloaded the latest version of mahogany (rpm) Johann> but it is dependend on libwx_gtk-2.2.so.6 and potato has Johann> only li

Re: rm a '-R' file

rm -- -R "--" indicates that the following isn't an option --> rm --help info rm HTH, MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01CA 0B56 B518 id: 1024D/0B56B518 key: http://www.seitung.net/key

Re: OT: reply-to-list in Gnus?

" to an nnimap Krzys> group (in this case, the debian-user list) in such a way Krzys> that the list, rather than the OP, appears in the To: Krzys> header? Krzys> -chris G c on the group -> customize buffer for the group -> give it a To Address ... (then F sh

Re: Cant kill .deb package after wood upgrade

rned error exit status 127 postinst called hanasaki> with unknown argument `abort-remove' Errors were hanasaki> encountered while processing: snort [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[47]~ Try: touch /etc/init.d/snort && chmod +x /etc/init.d/snort after the first removal attempt. T

Re: Tarball conversion

problems Paul> inherent in the Windows lifestyle ( grinding your teeth, Paul> pulling your hair out, punching your desk or wall, etc ) Paul> .. sigh Paul> Thanks for the tip. MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint =

Re: ? .bashrc and .bash_profile and PATH

les/bashrc.gz /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files/README.gz /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files/Bashrc.bfox.gz [...] HTH, MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01CA 0B56 B518 id: 1024D/0B56B

Re: Debian Lists, USENET & Spam

and so on) -- "Spamassassin as a debian package is relatively recent, so there are a lot of dependencies not met with potato (perl 5.6 ...). BTW, as Mail:Audit is a prerequisite, have a look at it as a replacement for procmail - if you want so... HTH, MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailt

Fwd: Silicon Graphics Indy workstations?

, | | Do you happen to know anything about the older, circa 1992, | Silicon Graphics Indy workstations? | | The model is CMN B006 if this helps any, but it does not have a | CD-ROM | drive bay. The beginnings of interest have started here at work about | Linux. | | The ma

Re: any good LaTeX books/docs recommended to beginners?

X documentation on your system (see above, but not only the docs from general)... HTH, MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01CA 0B56 B518 id: 1024D/0B56B518 key: http://www.seitung.net/key pgp45tulTAEHY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dpkg -S bug?

> "Carl" == Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Carl> Here is a selection from a screen capture. This is a bug, Carl> right? Carl> Carl> nitpicking:/home/carlf# dpkg -S audiofile.h dpkg: Carl> *audiofile

Re: untarring tar file into specific directory

ng the compressed tar archive here into the dir after -C ... man tar - and info tar for a lot of info ;-) [...] -C, --directory DIR change to directory DIR [...] HTH, MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9

Re: untarring tar file into specific directory

lizabeth> hth elizabeth That's right, I know. There is a bunch of options and methods ( even sledges and of course, Kalashnikovs, well tried Russian method ) -- but wrong attribution ... Never mind ... MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F

OT: ordokrefic pidgin [was: Training]

> "martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] martin> we are actually in the process of offering such martin> courses. could you let me know what time-frame you are martin> looking at, and whether it's just you, or whether you are martin> speaking for a gro

Re: emacs not using auto-fill-mode

w about a bit of RTFM? external: google "auto-fill-mode" has plenty of answers newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help, comp.emacs ... internal: "self-documenting" and the like C-h i -- choose emacs and type "i" for the index, then auto-fill ... ... init file --> (add-hook &#

Re: how to enable chinese viewing

bian-zh-faq-t So, this is only a starting point, since I don't know any Chinese (beside "goatie"), maybe you get some compatriot help. MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01CA 0B56 B518 i

Mail + swish++ (mutt and gnus)

ll mail junkies, so maybe you are interested and could give some feedback (no need to flood the list -- reply personally, though I hope this information is a bit more useful than "new photos from my party") Regards, MH -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PR

uptodate version of evolution for Debian stable/testing

Hello out there, does anybody know if there is an uptodate version of evolution available for Debian stable/testing? Regards Manfred -- manfred heubach edv und neue medien Hindenburgstr. 47 D-73728 Esslingen Tel. +49 711 9315824 Fax +49 711 9315825 www.heubach-edv.de Informationstechnologi

Postscript / Ghostskript with background Image

Hello, I want to create Postscript files from normal ascii text with some background graphics. Does anybody know how this can be done? (The whole thing is this: 1. Some piece of software creates some report, which is my ascii text 2. I have 2 images (logos) 3. I want a PDF file containing the logo

plextor px-230a Err in debian installation

Hi I have a plextor CD Writer on my PC , after booting from CD writer and running setup checks , debian throws an error that says can not find the CD ROM device while it`s booting from this device ! what` s the problem? thanks - Ahhh...imagining that irres

Re: process w/o attached tty?

> Hey, I have a question for you guys. Can you run a program and make it detach itself from the tty you run it from? Like say I open up an eterm, > run xmms from it and then decide to close down eterm, but it'll close xmms with it. Any way to get it so it doesn't close xmms as well? > > Thanks

Re: A good c++ mailing list

| On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 03:46:21PM +0800, Lamer wrote: | > droux wrote: | > > dman is right, learn Python. It's great. And if you programmed previously, | > > you'll pick it up in an afternoon. | > | > Isn't Perl an alternative? :P | | I don't know how to respond to that, except to suggest the

xmms-avi

Hi, Does anyone know of a debian package for avi-xmms ? (see http://www.xmms.org/plugins_input.html#122). I would really like to play avi, asf and divX ;-) files on my linux box so I can get rid of windows all together. Or are there any other players I should check out ? Thanks, --manu.