Re: The perfect X text editor
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 14:13:33 +1030 Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You are using gnuclient and not loading a whole new copy of Emacs >> every time aren't you? > No. What is gnuclient, how does it work, and what package is it > in? Gnuclient is a small tools that tells a running instance of (X)emacs that you want to edit a file. It will variously (depending on your (X)Emacs config and current setup either spawn a new frame for the file, addit it to your edit ring, or bring a text mode session in your current terminal. The advantage is that you only ever need to start and load (X)Emacs once. From then on you're just attaching edit sessions to the single running instance. Gnuclient is packaged as a part of XEmacs (which I use in preference to GNU Emacs), or as a seperate package for GNU Emacs. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: The perfect X text editor
On Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:18:28 +1030 Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In particular I am looking for an emacs replacement for email > composition. I use emacs in conjunction with exmh which is quite > nice in terms of editing power. In particular I like the way it > can reformat paragraphs, and even does this reformatting correctly > when the paragraph is indented using ">" characters or whatever. > The main problem is that it takes forever to load, even when you > only want to write a simple email. Can anyone recommend a > replacement? You are using gnuclient and not loading a whole new copy of Emacs every time aren't you? -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: PHP3 and MySQL
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 01:59:28 -0700 Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There *is* a way to get apache/php3/mysql to play nicely without > having to use the dl() for it in every script... Add "extension=mysql.so" to /etc/php/apache/php.ini -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: Java compiler
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 21:25:36 -0500 (EST) Jozef Skvarcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I heard that it is possible to speed-up Java programs by > compiling them into binaries (instead using JVM). Can someone > point me into a place where I could find more information? Which > compiler should I use? www.towerj.com -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: mailman craziness
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 19:57:29 -0800 Mark Symonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - I immediately noticed that it's asking for the admin password > *alot* more. Every single link or button on an admin page spawns > an authentication request. Even clicking "details" links in the > general options window gets a passwd prompt. Exit your browser. Delete your cookies file. Try again. This is a standard and well known problem (usually with IE from what I recall) with browsers and cookies -- see the MailMan list archives for further details. > And there's more. Before posting I went ahead and uninstalled/ > reinstalled mailman. My lists are very small at this point so I > gave it a shot. Same problem. As the problem is with your browser incorrectly handling MailMan's authentication cookies that won't actually change anything. You need to fix the source of the problem -- your browser. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: Tracking Web Page hits
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 04:28:20 EST TKWJ3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to be able to track people that come to my webpages. Install webalizer. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: Pronounciation of Linux that important?
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 16:28:59 -0500 Bart Szyszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the pronunciation of the word 'Linux' that much of an issue? So > what if we don't pronounce it like Linus pronounces it? Linus' own pronunciation of "linux" is not consistent. I've head him use each of the main pronunciation forms at various times, and often within the same conversation or speech. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: Whiteboard for debian?
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 18:13:27 +0100 Wojciech Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, I'm looking for the whiteboard teleconferencing utility, > available for both Linux and Winblow$. It should be open source of > course... CVW -- http://www.mitre.org/ -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: Schedule-like app for Linux
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000 17:00:18 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What this boils down to is: Is there a program for Linux that will > do essentially the same thing as Schedule+? CyberScheduler from CrossWinds. Linux, Windows, web, text mode, etc versions, and Palm support... -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: dselect
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 12:57:20 +0100 (CET) Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anybody tell me where the list with packages that are selected > in dselect resites? dpkg --get-selections -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: Moving from RedHat to Debian
On 25 Dec 1999 14:47:55 -0700 linuxdevil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using RedHat for about eight months, but I'd like to > switch to Debian. Having made the switch for a number of machines (web servers, mail servers, desktops, etc), its not *that* difficult. > Is there any easy way to do this, or is it going to be a painful > transition? It really depends on how well you've kept your house in order, and your records straight on your RH box. Wht do you do on your HR boxes? What applications do you use? What versions? Are those same versions of those same packages available under Debian? Are older versions available? Does the difference matter to you? How much of your system did your build and configure from sources? How dependency and inter-relation is there between the "critical" compnents of your work environment? Do you know hoe to rebuild that same level of relation from scratch with the raw applications? The move need not be painful. It took me about a half a day per machine including install time to potato, with the larger servers taking just over a week per machine due to gradual staged roll-overs and running both servers in parallel for several days to watch performance and configurations. > Also, what's the best way to go about installing Debian? I started with the ISO image on the Debian FTP site to get the base image installed, and then rolled straight to potato from a local mirror. Given a local mirror on 100base, you can get the entire install done in about 15 or 20 minutes from the initial book. > I have a fast connection, so I'm wondering if an ftp install is > the way to go? HTTP is fastest, with FTP and NFS following close behind depending on the performance of the various server stacks (Linux NFS on the server is faster than FTP, Solaris NFS is slower due to Linux NFS shortcomings). -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: the perils of software re-use
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 19:35:03 -0500 Joe Bouchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend of mine proposes this be marketed as a game. Call it > Kanga-Doom. "Urk!" he says without noticing the domain he is emailing from. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: An open letter to the debian community
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:53:41 -0800 (PST) George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, J C Lawrence wrote: >> There are a great many people for whom the only particular value >> Debian brings to the table is apt-get and friends. They have no >> interest in religion, no interest or strong values relating to >> the variations in freedom of DFSG vs OSD vs -- they >> just want a box they can build and administer easily, and Debian >> offers them that by providing a system they can upgrade and >> extend over the wire, and potentially apply that same >> distribution and administration model across a lab of hundreds of >> machines. > Well said. The computer is a tool. People often use it to get real > work done with real deadlines. Real money depends on this > work. Debian offers the best ENVORONMENT, so far, for maintaining > and supporting software for Linux in the enterprise. > Political values of the distribution mean little in that > context. It stands on its TECHNICAL merits and not its POLITICAL > ideology. In this environment, commercial software is often needed > to get the job done. Products such as IBM's application servers, > java stuff, things from Corel, make Linux useful in the > enterprise. Or, if you wish, there is a place in the world for closed source development and middle-ground products which aren't really Open Source, and aren't really Closed Source. This may not be what one prefers, but it is a fact of the world that Debian lives in. The important bit that Debian and the OS community needs to take note of here is in helping to form that middle ground and ensuring that the not-quite-open licenses (of which there will undoubtedly be many) are not excessively offensive. This is a game of shades of gray. Debian helps mark one end of the scale. It cannot afford to limit itself to just that end or it runs the risk of being marked irrelevant. Debian has the potential, along with RMS, Perens, et al, to also influence and help form the gray ground that lies between the DFSG and the closed source community. Its Debian's ball to pick up or drop. > The enterprise is what makes the difference between a hobby or > research project and something you can send the kids to college > with. Mortgage banks, grocery stores, and schools require real > money. They do not give any discounts for having contributed to > Free software. Debian may be great from a political standpoint but > if it will not get the job done at work, it is not likely to ever > be used there and WILL be replaced by a distribution that targets > that area. Which in turn raises the whole challenge of wrapping business models for software development around the OSD anbd DFSG. Its not a pretty battlefied currently and its one that needs to be confronted a little deeper than ESR's arm-waving comments. People have to make money. Share holder value needs to be preserved and grown, mortgages and school bills need to be paid, and careers and IT development investments need to be supportable as an _industry_ etc. >> And even more interestingly, Debian needs those people. They are >> the users of the world and Debian cannot surivive without a user >> pool to draw new talent from as the old leaves thru attrition. > Yup. A lot easier for a newbie to Linux to become a maintainer if > that newbie starts out on Debian at the start. If a business uses > Debian in its infrastructure, a good number of pretty bright > people can become exposed to its methods quickly. Quite. Further, they are exposed to the moral structures (DFSG, OSD, free/non-free, license issues, etc) at a fundamental level which helps promulgate the basic issues and impacts of Open Source we're really interested in. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: An open letter to the debian community
On Mon, 06 Dec 1999 08:51:31 +1100 Frank Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Blackman wrote: >> Lately I've been thinking about forking Debian, into DWA, meaning >> Debian Without Attitude. We'll drop the attitude, and the >> pretenses, about what Free means, and get licensing deals with >> Corel, Netscape, and Sun, to include Wordperfect, Communicator, >> and Staroffice. We'll make the install process less cryptic, >> include non-free on the CD and forget the Debian philosophy, that >> the only way to learn is by doing it the hard way. > I happen to like Debian *With* Attitude. It fills a very important > niche in the Linux ecosystem, and if Debian changed in the way you > want it to then it would be necessary IMHO to reinvent it under > another name. There are a great many people for whom the only value particular Debian brings to the table is apt-get and friends. They have no interest in religion, no interest or strong values relating to the variations in freedom of DFSG vs OSD vs -- they just want a box they can build and administer easily, and Debian offers them that by providing a system they can upgrade and extend over the wire, and potentially apply that same distribution and administration model acros a lab of hundreds of machines. And even more interestingly, Debian needs those people. They are the users of the world and Debian cannot surivive without a user pool to draw new talent from as the old leaves thru attrition. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: system logs management
On Sun, 5 Dec 99 20:33:06 GMT John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What steps do users take to keep logs down to reasonable sizes? I > have seen nothing on this aspect of management and so have been > using 'rm' and then creating a new file. Look into the logrotate package. > If it is possible, I would like to remove everything older than > say seven days on a twice monthly basis after checking there is > nothing I would like to archive for possible future reference. This is possible with logrotate. > I haven't yet found a command to empty a file as opposed to > removing it - does one exist? # > file -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: Clipboard-like software?
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 22:50:21 -0800 Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometimes I have a bunch of xterms and other apps running, I > select some text, find the one I want to paste into, but somewhere > along the way I double click and lose the selection. XClipboard can help here in that it can keep a stack of preserved clipboard buffers. There's also the `cutview` utility which I've mostly used on commercial Unixes, which will automatically maintain a stack of the last N X clipboards (ie it automagically grabs things as you select them), but I'm not sure where source for that is. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: exim and procmail, and how to stop spammers?
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 22:28:12 -0800 (PST)
ferret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to make exim use procmail to deliver incoming messages by
> default, using the ~/.procmailrc file.
Transport:
procmail_pipe:
driver = pipe
command = "/usr/bin/procmail"
user = ${local_part}
delivery_date_add
envelope_to_add
return_path_add
from_hack
Director:
procmail:
driver = localuser
require_files = ${local_part}:${home}/.procmailrc
transport = procmail_pipe
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Re: Mail problems and procmail
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999 01:49:36 + Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > J C Lawrence wrote: >> Even better is to get rid of the .forward and have Exim >> recognise that you are using procmail as an LDA by inserting the >> following director and transport in exim.conf: > Thanks. I decided to go the more elegant route. I'm getting an > error message though. It looks similar to one in an earlier > procmail thread, but here it is: > 1999-11-24 17:41:31 Exim configuration error director > procmail_pipe: cannot find driver "pipe" in line 212 Error sending > message, child exited 1 (). The pipe driver is a built in driver for Exim. It should require no config file supports. Something else is wrong with your setup. Alas, as I have to prepare for the drive home now so I can't do much analysis on this now, so I've attached my exim.conf in a seperate message to you. I suggest you diff that against yours and resolve the differences. -- J C Lawrence Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*)Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...Honorary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith...
Re: databases, which one?
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999 02:36:36 +0100 Jean-Yves BARBIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, I wonder if there's a package with > easy-to-use-and-powerfull database? (something like dBase > III+/IV) mySQL is more than fair. -- J C Lawrence Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*)Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...Honorary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith...
Re: Mail problems and procmail
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 11:29:58 -0800
Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
The total contents of your .forward under Exim should be:
"| /usr/bin/procmail -f-"
Even better is to get rid of the .forward and have Exim recognise
that you are using procmail as an LDA by inserting the following
director and transport in exim.conf:
The director:
procmail_pipe:
driver = pipe
command = "/usr/bin/procmail"
user = ${local_part}
delivery_date_add
envelope_to_add
return_path_add
from_hack
The transport:
procmail:
driver = localuser
require_files = ${local_part}:${home}/.procmailrc
transport = procmail_pipe
Voila! Exim will see that you have a .procmailrc in your $HOME and
automagically invoke procmail as an LDA.
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J C Lawrence Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: exim and procmail?
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:52:03 -0500
David S Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been getting an error procmail which has been bouncing my
> mails to debian-user. Basically, the procmail log messages get
> echoed back to the debian list server. I edited a line in
> /etc/exim.conf:
A more elegant way of running procmail under Exim as an LDA is to
install the following transport and director in /etc/exim.conf:
The director:
procmail_pipe:
driver = pipe
command = "/usr/bin/procmail"
user = ${local_part}
delivery_date_add
envelope_to_add
return_path_add
from_hack
The transport:
procmail:
driver = localuser
require_files = ${local_part}:${home}/.procmailrc
transport = procmail_pipe
--
J C Lawrence Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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...Honorary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith...
Re: secure pop3 via ssh
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:38:08 -0200 (EDT) Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I set a secure pop3 server using ssh? I read the > man page for fetchmail and there is an example of a secure > conection via ssh. How do I implement the server? Install the sshd (comes as part of SSH) on the server. Hang the POP server of /etc/inetd.conf (should happen automatically). Make sure that you are using TCP Wrappers (tcpd). Add a line in /etc/hosts.deny reading: : all Add a line to /etc/hosts.allow reading: : localhost Done. -- J C Lawrence Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*)Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...Honorary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith...
Re: DON'T FORGET TO RESTART EXIM ?
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 22:49:05 +0200 Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does exim run as a daemon on a desktop machines ? It can, and the default potato install runs it that way, but it need not and I would recommend running it aw as a daemon if you have any sort of noticable mail load. Of course the fact that Exim is not built against TCP Wrappers in potato actively encourages running it under inet.d, which is a bloody shame. -- J C Lawrence Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*)Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...Honorary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith...
Netscape 4.05 tarball?
Does anybody have a copy of the original netscape 4.05 tarball? -- J C Lawrence Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*)Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...Honorary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith...
Re: xxgdb: Cannot perform malloc
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 22:03:13 +0100 wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 11:20:28 -0800, J C Lawrence wrote: >> Unfortunately I can't let you onto the machine in question >> (behind a firewall). Is there any data I could provide that >> might be useful? > I can't think of anything anymore short of compiling xxgdb from > source and debugging it under gdb. I'll try that... > I would be interested to know why people still use xxgdb now that > DDD is stable though; if there are good reasons (rather than old > habits dying hard), it makes sense to try to look into the problem > again; if there aren't, IMO xxgdb could be dropped in favour of > DDD with the release of potato. Familiarity. >> BTW: The "\(Ray\)" in in your GECOS field screws up SuperCite as >> a broken regex. You might want to lose the backslashes. > In my GECOS field it has no quotes or backslashes; I still haven't > figured out what is adding them (probably my MTA). The quotes are mine. Your exact From: line appears as follows: From: "J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes, I'd suspect your MTA. For a possible quick solution I'd suggest changing the parens to something else (single quotes?). -- J C Lawrence Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*)Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...Honorary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith...
Re: xxgdb: Cannot perform malloc
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 18:17:20 +0100 Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 13:03:56 -0800, J C Lawrence wrote: >> I'm running a straight Debian potato system. Everything is up to >> date. gdb works just fine. xxgdb returns the following, always: >> >> Error: Cannot perform malloc > That's bug #47452 (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/47/47452.html); > I've had a look at it, but couldn't reproduce it. Unfortunately I can't let you onto the machine in question (behind a firewall). Is there any data I could provide that might be useful? BTW: The "\(Ray\)" in in your GECOS field screws up SuperCite as a broken regex. You might want to lose the backslashes. -- J C Lawrence Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*)Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...Honorary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith...
xxgdb: Cannot perform malloc
I'm running a straight Debian potato system. Everything is up to date. gdb works just fine. xxgdb returns the following, always: Error: Cannot perform malloc Ideas? -- J C Lawrence Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*)Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...Honorary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith...
