Re: Software For Book Writing
> "Tzafrir" == Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you want them to be able to edit it: how are you going > to merge in their changes? That is very easy with plain text latex files - from diff on the simple end to CVS on the even-simpler-but-a-bit-more-overhead end. M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mac grapher for linux
> "Jordi" == Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know we have more options, but I can't remember what they > are. There's a pretty big graphics package that I think > had to do with KDE. I seem to recall the maintainer had a > female name, but it looks like it's not Miriam Ruiz like > usual. For high quality plots, I use R. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
installing SAM/ELN using apache+tomcat on debian?
I am attempting to install the SAM/ELN software from ORNL/PNNL (collaboratory.emsl.pnl.gov and sourceforge.net/projects/eln/) but I am hampered by having no experience with tomcat. Has anyone successfully run this software on a debian box with apache and tomcat? I am not able to get user authentication to work. Mike P.S. I am using tomcat5 5.0.30-12etch1 and apache2.2 2.2.3-4+etch3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: file system on / grew over night?
Found the problem - here's the story... I have an external usb drive mounted at /mnt/mirror. I do a nightly rsync to of system and home dirs to there. For some reason - still not sure what - it was not mounted, so /mnt/mirror was part of /. The nightly rsync wrote to /mnt/mirror, and filled the partition. I rebooted and the external drive was properly mounted, so I couldn't see the directories that it was mounted over. I'm cleaning that up now and am trying to figure out what went wrong. One easy fix is to put a check for the properly mounted disk in my rsync script. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
file system on / grew over night?
I came in this morning to find that the / filesystem on a machine is at 100%. This is on a stable machine installed with one partition as per the installer suggestions. I've cleared off enough space to be able to get log in and find that the disk seems full: /dev/hda1 71G 65G 3.0G 96% / But when I du to find out what caused it, I can only find 47 GB in use. So it seems that something happened to create 18 GB that I cannot find. Does anyone have suggestions as to how to trouble shoot this? Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
setup wiki with apache2 and mod-python?
Can anyone supply an example of how to setup a new moinmoin wiki using apache2 and mod_python? I had one working with apache 1.3, but I'm trying to move that to a different machine. I've read through /usr/share/doc/moinmoin-common/INSTALL.html and the examples, but I'm confused about where all the files go. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need a pointer on emacs
> "Chuck" == Chuck Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Can someone point me to a website that explains how I can >> use emacs to complice, I get a thousands site with I try >> to use google to look it. Have you looked at the emacs info pages? There is a section there on "Compilation Mode" (22.3 in the version I'm looking at). >From within emacs, to a M-x info, or use the Help -> Manuals -> Browse with info menu. Make sure you've installed the emacs21-common-non-dfsg package! Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portable OGG Player
> "Derek" == Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann writes: > On Fri, 2005-26-08 at 12:23 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > Anybody have a player that has at least 20GB of storage > that plays oggs? I use a neuros with a 30 Gbyte drive. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
trouble setting up leafnode
I've just installed leafnode package (version 1.11.3.rel2) on a testing/unstable machine and I'm having trouble using it. It works so far as getting the active list from the server, but when I try to access the local server by setting NNTPSERVER=127.0.0.1 and running slrn, I get the following errors: > export NNTPSERVER=127.0.0.1 > slrn slrn 0.9.8.1pl1 [2005-02-17] Reading startup file /etc/news/slrn.rc. Using newsrc file /home/miller/.jnewsrc for server 127.0.0.1.slrn fatal error: Unable to open /home/miller/.jnewsrc. If you want to create /home/miller/.jnewsrc, add command line options: -f /home/miller/.jnewsrc --create > slrn -f /home/miller/.jnewsrc --create slrn 0.9.8.1pl1 [2005-02-17] Reading startup file /etc/news/slrn.rc. Using newsrc file /home/miller/.jnewsrc for server 127.0.0.1. Connecting to host 127.0.0.1 ...Unable to make connection. Giving up. slrn fatal error: Failed to initialize server. I haven't been able to sort out why this is not working. Can anyone give me a pointer on using leafnode once it is installed? Regards, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spamassassin rules for swen? [Re: getting viruses/spam after posting to this list]
> "Amal" == Amal Phadke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am currently using combination of Spamassassin and access > control via /etc/mail/access (I use sendmail) with good > success. Now "MS Patches" are down to one or two per > day. Before I used to get about 80 or more in a day. What spamassassin rules are you using for swen? After googling for a while, I assembled the following rules that seem to work pretty well. But I wonder if there is something more elegant that I could do. For example, I expect this message to get scored high when spamassassin sees the body ;-) Mike score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE +5 body SWENVIRUS /allow an malicious user to run code on your computer/ score SWENVIRUS +5.5 body SWENVIRUS2 /Microsoft C.*mer/i score SWENVIRUS2 +2 body SWENVIRUS3 /You don't need to do anything after installing this item/i score SWENVIRUS3 +2 header SWENHEADERSubject =~ /Microsoft Critical/i score SWENHEADER+2 header SWENHEADER2 Subject =~ /New Microsoft Security Update/i score SWENHEADER2 +2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents
> "Sridhar" == Sridhar M A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Personally the best thing for writing LaTeX docs is > vim/emacs :-) Emacs + auctex is good too... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Graphing/Charting software
>>>>> "Kjetil" == Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Everybody go: apt-get install r-recommended now! :-) I heartily second that! R is an extremely capable and well done system that not only produces very nice graphs, but is well ahead of many commercial/professional statistics systems as well. Mike -- Michael A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imaging Sciences, Department of Radiology, IU School of Medicine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Packages.gz blocked by Symantec Web Security
> "Frank" == Frank Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, My company uses Symantec Web Security to screen for > viruses at the HTTP proxy machine (and there's no way to > bypass the proxy). SWS returns with this message when I try > to open any Packages.gz [...] That problem is similar to one that occurs when using apt and dansguardian/squid. The proxy gunzips the Packages files and does not regzip them before handing them off to apt-get. So apt-get fails because it tries to gunzip the already ungzipped file. Bug report #200193 for dansguardian addresses the issue. Another fix is to simply turn off the proxy, but I'm afraid neither of those will work for you. I don't have a fix for you, but you are not alone in having problems with Packages.gz files and a proxy. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
default fonts for java applications?
I'm running ImageJ (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/) using Sun's J2SE v 1.4.2, installed from j2sdk-1.4.2-nb-3.5-bin-linux.bin. When I start the application, the font used for the menu bar is big enough that the menu items don't all fit in the window. Can anyone suggest a way to change the default font in this case. The application itself doesn't specify a font - it just uses the system default. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get update: gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> "Robert" == Robert August Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Question: > 1. Is this a bug in Dansguardian, or is it the fault of the > webservers which deliver incorrect Content-Type: headers? Sounds like Dansguardian is at fault to me. Have you submitted a bug report for the Debian package? > 2. Should I post my work-around patch? Is there a better > way? Please post it. I've been trying so sort out the same problem. Thanks to your finding the root of it, I've been solving it by doing an unset http_proxy before running apt-get. There's got to be a better way... Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: erratic mouse with xfree86 4.1.0?
> "Derrick" == Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is gpm running? If so, that is going to cause problems. Ah ha! That was it. I should have known - thanks. > | (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled > What is this? Maybe this is causing the problems? I don't know what it is. I did a search at Nvidia's web site and didn't find anything but that same message. I don't think it is the problem. All seems to be ok after stoping gpm. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
erratic mouse with xfree86 4.1.0?
I'm having trouble with erratic mouse behavior on new machine. I recently replaced a pc with a machine that has an NVidia GeForce2 MX graphics card. This machine replaces an older pc with an ATI Rage 128 card. The monitor, mouse and key board are all the same as before and are connected through a kvm switch. The mouse is a logitech two button mouse with a scroll wheel (from gateway). In the previous incarnation, I was running stable with the ati driver for x11 and had no problems when using the ImPS/2 protocol for my mouse. Now I've installed testing and used the nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src packages with a 2.4.17 kernel so I can take advantage of the new hardware card and I find that the mouse is very erratic when I use the ImPS/2 protocol. By erratic, I mean that the screen pointer will sometimes jump around on the screen and there are apparently random button presses. If I switch to the PS/2 protocol, this happens less often, but doesn't go away completely. Can anyone suggest a solution to this problem? Mike P.S. Here are the mouse-related parts of me XFree86 log: (II) LoadModule: "mouse" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o (II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.2 (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "PS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" (**) Option "Buttons" "3" (**) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 3 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with VLAN and 3com card
Our network was recently changed to a cicso-based vlan system. I am not a network export, so I can't give many details here). Since the upgrade, the Debian (stable/testing) machine on my desktop has had intermitent problems with the network. Our network admin tells me that there is a known problem with 3com network cards. Tthe machine in question is a three year old gateway pc with a 3c905B card in it (built in, although not on the mother board). Sometimes I get frequent transmit timed out errors and sometimes I don't. When I put in a linksys LNE100TX card, I get similar problems. Is there anyone out there who has seen such a problem who can give me a hint on where to go with this? Our linux admins primarilly support redhat, and, while they haven't suggested it yet, I'm afraid they'll eventally suggest that I drop Debian and go that route if I want support. And I don't want to do that! Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ssh and private resources?
I'm having trouble running a commercial application. When I ssh to the redhat machine that the application is installed on and try to run it, it crashes with display errors like "X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)". The vendor tells me that "this is because ssh does not permit the sharing of X resources which [their app] needs to do." The solution that they suggest is to set my DISPLAY variable and do authentication with xhost or xauth, just like the good old days. That doesn't mesh with our local security policy, so I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a way to get ssh to "permit the sharing of X resources". Can anyone help me get started on this? Mike -- Michael A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imaging Sciences, Department of Radiology, IU School of Medicine
"syslog-ng[16821]: STATS: dropped 0" ?
I've got a system that has started to produce many messages in the system logs that say "syslog-ng[16821]: STATS: dropped 0". I've looked over the syslog-ng docs, but I've been unable to figure out what these messages mean. Can anyone explain them to me? Mike
Re: graphics processing progs ???
> "Mark" == Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not sure about animations, though. ImageMagick can handle mpeg, as in `convert *.jpg animation.mpeg'
lilo and moving IDE drives for dual booting?
I have a Debian (testing) machine with a single hard drive that is the master on the IDE bus. I've chosen to install win98 so that I can dual boot. I've installed Win98 on a second hard drive that I installed as the IDE master after unplugging the original drive. Now what I'd like to do is to put the original debian drive in as the IDE slave and install a boot block so that I can dual boot between Debian and Win98. As it stands, I can boot Debian or win98 by jumper'ing the appropriate drive to the IDE master. I'd rather be able to boot either one by selecting at the boot prompt. My current arrangement is hda = Debian with lilo/mbr and hdb = Win98. I think that I can dual boot if I can arrange it so that hda = Win98 with lilo/mbr and hdb = Debian. Are there any lilo experts who know how to get lilo to write a boot block to a drive while convincing it that the hard drive IDs are what they'll be after I rearrange them? If that isn't possible, can anyone suggest another way to add win98 to an existing Debian machine? Thanks in advance, Mike
Re: OT: Rant
> "Kent" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] it's just that WP's method was so easy. Type your > text, hit Ctrl-F7, type the centered text, hit Alt-F7, type > the rightmost text, and you're done. It's easy in LaTeX too ... man(1) \hfill Manual pager utils \hfill man(1)
exim + fetchmail configuration question
I'm about to move inside of a firewall. I'm told that I can get my mail from our imap server (which is outside the firewall) using fetchmail. This fails with a message that says Some addresses were rejected by the MDA fetchmail forwards to. Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 14:23:40 -0500 (EST) Action: failed Status: m.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: miller: 550 relaying to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited by administrator I think that can solve this problem if I add localhost to me local_domains in the exim config file. Would someone with exim expertise let me know if this is the correct way to do this? Or if there is a better way? Mike
Re: [OT] Open Portable Document Format?
> "Andras" == Andras Simonyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > first about postscript: AFAIK it is the "intellectual > property" of Adobe in the same way as pdf, and moreover it > doesn't have hyperlinks and more importantly forms > (checkboxes etc) which are essential to downloadable > application forms etc. So ps is not an alternative in this > respect. Would you share a pointer to a pdf document with checkboxes, etc, and explain how to use it on a Debian system? I'd also like to see an example of how to create such a document with a Debian system. Thanks, Mike
Re: scientific graphing program with histograms
> "David" == David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone suggest a scientific graphing program that can > do histograms. * i don't know if guppi can, but there is > no debian package I use R - install the r-base and r-recommended packages to set it up. Mike
Re: Gnus and IMAP on Debian?
> "Brian" == Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> (imap-stream kerberos4 > ^^^ > Oops, that looks like a typo. That should be > (nnimap-stream kerberos4) That gives me an error. After stripping most of my .gnus away, so I'm left with only the select methods parts, the error goes away. Looks like some more debugging is in order ... > Also, there's a bug report on http://bugs.debian.org/121560 > that says that 'imtest' is required to make a kerberos_v4 > imap connection. That file only seems to be available in > the cyrus-imapd package. That was my report. imtest appears to by used to probe the server for defaults. For example, if I use the corrected (nnimap-stream kerberos4), I get imtest: command not found, Process imap exited abnormally with code 127 in my *imap-log* buffer. If I make sure that imtest is in my path (by installing cyrus-admin, cyrus-common and cyrus-imap, and then copying imtest from /usr/sbin to /usr/local/bin), I'm told usage: imtest [-p] Process imap exited abnormally with code 1 The imtest in cyrus-imapd doesn't come with a man page and doesn't appear to accept all of the arguments that are discussed in the install.txt that is part of cyrus-common. I'm stumped. Mike
Re: Gnus and IMAP on Debian?
> "Brian" == Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Try: > (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.iupui.edu")) > (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods > '((nnml "") > (nnimap "imap1.iupui.edu" > (nnimap-address "imap1.iupui.edu") > (imap-stream kerberos4 Thanks Brian, Specifying the stream stops Gnus from trying (and failing) to probe for the stream, but still doesn't get me connected. When I put this in my .gnus: (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.iupui.edu")) ;(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml ""))) (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml "")) (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnimap "imap1.iupui.edu" (nnimap-address "imap1.iupui.edu") (imap-stream kerberos_v4) )) (setq debug-on-error t) (setq imap-log "*imap-log*") (setq imap-debug "*imap-debug*") (setq nnimap-debug "*nnimap-debug*") My results are as appended below. I don't have any problems checking the server with fetchmail (results also appended below), but I just can't Gnus v5.8.8 to successfully connect. (I'm running debian testing). Do you or anyone else have suggestions for debugging this further? There was a recent post on gnu.emacs.gnus from someone who seems to be having similar troubles with Gnus on a Debian system (although he is trying to use ssl rather than kerberos). Mike *Messages* : Loading gnus... Loading gnus...done Loading gnus-start... Loading gnus-start...done Loading cl-seq... Loading cl-seq...done Loading gnus-demon... Loading gnus-demon...done Loading bbdb-gnus... Loading bbdb-gnus...done Reading /home/miller/.newsrc.eld... Loading gnus-group... Loading gnus-group...done Reading active file from news.iupui.edu via nntp... Reading active file from imap1.iupui.edu via nnimap... Opening nnimap server on imap1.iupui.edu... imap: Connecting to imap1.iupui.edu... imap: Connecting to imap1.iupui.edu...failed Reading active file via nnml... Opening nnml server... nnml: Reading incoming mail from file... Wrote /home/miller/[...] Wrote /home/miller/[...] nnml: Reading incoming mail (2 new)...done Reading active file via nnml... Reading active file via nnml...done Loading gnus-cache... Loading gnus-cache...done Opening nnimap server on imap1.iupui.edu... Denied server No new newsgroups Checking new news... Opening nndraft server... Loading gnus-sum... Loading gnus-sum...done Checking new news...done Loading gnus-topic... Loading gnus-topic...done *imap-debug* : | 2 -> imap-opened: buffer=" *nnimap* imap1.iupui.edu" | 2 <- imap-opened: nil | | 3 -> imap-open: server="imap1.iupui.edu" port=nil stream=nil auth=nil buffer=" *nnimap* imap1.iupui.edu" | | | 4 -> imap-opened: buffer=" *nnimap* imap1.iupui.edu" | | | 4 <- imap-opened: nil | | | 4 -> imap-open-1: buffer=" *nnimap* imap1.iupui.edu" | | | 4 <- imap-open-1: nil | | | 4 -> imap-opened: buffer=" *nnimap* imap1.iupui.edu" | | | 4 <- imap-opened: nil | | 3 <- imap-open: nil *nnimap-debug* : = 1 -> nnimap-server-opened: server="imap1.iupui.edu" 1 <- nnimap-server-opened: nil == 1 -> nnimap-open-server: server="imap1.iupui.edu" defs=((nnimap-address "imap1.iupui.edu") (imap-stream kerberos_v4)) | 2 -> nnimap-server-opened: server="imap1.iupui.edu" | 2 <- nnimap-server-opened: nil | 2 -> nnimap-open-connection: server="imap1.iupui.edu" | 2 <- nnimap-open-connection: nil 1 <- nnimap-open-server: nil fetchmail output: fetchmail -v -u mmiller3 -c imap1.iupui.edu Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fetchmail: 5.9.5 querying imap1.iupui.edu (protocol auto) at Tue Dec 4 09:20:18 2001: poll started fetchmail: 5.9.5 querying imap1.iupui.edu (protocol IMAP) at Tue Dec 4 09:20:18 2001: poll started fetchmail: IMAP< * OK smack Cyrus IMAP4 v1.5.2 server ready fetchmail: IMAP> A0001 CAPABILITY fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ X-NON-HIERARCHICAL-RENAME AUTH=KERBEROS_V4 fetchmail: IMAP< A0001 OK Completed fetchmail: IMAP> A0002 LOGIN "mmiller3" "*" fetchmail: IMAP< A0002 OK User logged in fetchmail: IMAP> A0003 EXAMINE "INBOX" fetchmail: IMAP< * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen) fetchmail: IMAP< * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \*)] fetchmail: IMAP< * 1 EXISTS fetchmail: IMAP< * 0 RECENT fetchmail: IMAP< * OK [UIDVALIDITY 959245548] fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 OK [READ-ONLY] Completed fetchmail: IMAP> A0004 SEARCH UNSEEN fetchmail: IMAP< * SEARCH fetchmail: IMAP< A0004 OK Completed 1 message (1 seen) for mmiller3 at imap1.iupui.edu. fetchmail: IMAP> A0005 LOGOUT fetchmail: IMAP< * BYE LOGOUT received fetchmail: IMAP< A0005 OK Completed fetchmail: 5.9.5 querying imap1.iupui.edu (protocol IMAP) at Tue De
Gnus and IMAP on Debian?
I'd like to use Gnus (gnus_5.8.8-4 and emacs20_20.7-10.1) to extract mail from an IMAP server. I can check my mail with fetchmail (popclient) with no trouble, but when I try with gnus-secondary-select-methods, as in (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.iupui.edu")) (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml "")) (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnimap "imap1.iupui.edu")) I'm told (in *Messages*) that: Opening nnimap server on imap1.iupui.edu.edu... Denied server If I try using mail-sources instead, as I've seen in some posts here, like this (with xxx replaced with the correct password): (setq mail-sources '((imap :server "imap1.iupui.edu" :user "mmiller3" :password "" ))) I get this: nnml: Reading incoming mail from imap... Loading imap... Loading imap...done imap: Connecting to imap1.iupui.edu... Waiting for response from imap1.iupui.edu...done imap: Connecting to imap1.iupui.edu...done imap: Reconnecting with stream `kerberos4'... Opening Kerberos 4 IMAP connection with `imtest -m kerberos_v4 -u %l -p %p %s'... Opening Kerberos 4 IMAP connection with `imtest -m kerberos_v4 -u %l -p %p %s'...failed Opening Kerberos 4 IMAP connection with `imtest -kp %s %p'... Opening Kerberos 4 IMAP connection with `imtest -kp %s %p'...failed imap: Reconnecting with stream `kerberos4'...failed This looks like it is exposing a bug - a dependency on cyrus-imapd, which contains imtest. Would someone who has used the Debian Gnus/Emacs packages to read an IMAP server help me sort this out before I send in a bug report? Mike '
configuration for cdrecord and readcd?
When I try to use readcd, which is part of the cdrecord package, I'm told > readcd dev=$SCSI_BUS,$SCSI_ID,$SCSI_LUN > f=/mnt/jaz.ext2/miller/aha2001.image.readcd readcd: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/sg0'. Cannot open SCSI driver. I have lots of questions that I think are scsi permissions related... What is /dev/sg0? How does it differ from /dev/scd0? How can I allow normal users to use readcd? Once upon a time, I used suidregister on cdrecord so that I could use it as a normal user, as in "suidregister /usr/bin/cdrecord root cdburners 4710". Is that recommended for readcd? Or is it a device permissions issue? Or is there something else ... ? Mike P.S. The devices in question look like this: > ls -l /dev/cdrom /dev/scd0 /dev/sg0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root disk4 Feb 8 2000 /dev/cdrom -> scd0 brw-rw1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jan 4 2001 /dev/scd0 crw---1 root root 21, 0 Feb 8 2000 /dev/sg0
Re: downloading with apt-get --download-only install package
> "Michael" == Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > apt-get install $yourpackages --print-uris That's the trick! Thanks. The other thing that someone pointed out is apt-zip, which also works quite well. Mike
downloading with apt-get --download-only install package
I'd like to download a selection of packages for machine A that is on a slow connection. So I made a list of what I want and went to machine B, which has a fast connection, and used "apt-get --download-only install package". This didn't work for packages that are already installed on machine B because apt-get saw them as already up-to-date. Can anyone tell me if there is a way to force apt-get (or any other tool) to download a package regardless of it's status on the machine from which it is being downloaded? I could do this easily with wget if I knew a way to automatically find the url for a package, based on my sources.list. Any ideas on that? Mike
squid and squidguard on a single machine?
I'd like to set up some sort of filtering to make it easier to keep adult content out of my home and away from the kids. It looks like squid and squidguard will almost do it for me. Almost in that, at first skimming of the docs, it looks like squid needs to be run through external hardware, either a router of a proxy server. Is there a way to use squid and squidguard on a single machine? Is there a novice level HOWTO that can get me started? Failing that, does anyone know of any consultants who can help set up such things? Mike
Re: Movie makers for Linux?
> "Gary" == Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got a series of still captures of some scientific data > that I'd like to string together to form an animation, > picture-book style. You can try using convert (part of the imagemagick package), to make mpegs, as in convert *.png movie.mpeg Mike
gnome panel and syslog messages - VFS: Disk change detected ...
I've recently upgraded a system to testing and, when gnome panel is running, I'm getting many messages (about two per second) in syslog. They look like this: Oct 15 10:27:20 lumen VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0) Can anyone help me understand what this means? Mike P.S. I'm using gnome-panel 1.4.0.4-8
Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.
> "Sunny" == Sunny Dubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not only is Applixware decent stuff, but it does have nice > filters ot export and import Microsoft office file formats. > However it is closed source technology, and costs about 50 > bucks a license. How much do you spend on licenses for Microsoft products?
Re: offtopic: which text language to use?
> "A" == A R (Tom) Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you want to design printed output, use a wordprocessor. For designing and producing high quality output, printed or otherwise, I suggest using a typographic design system, such as LaTeX, that makes it easy to logically design the document. Word processors can be used to do visual design, but they are not IMO nearly as useful for logical design, which is what I think the original message in this thread was asking about. As Lamport said in the original LaTeX docs, the primary function of design is to make documents easier to read, not prettier. Visual design lends itself well to creating pretty documents that are hard to read. Mike
Re: Mutt users secretly dominating debian-user!
> "oivvio" == oivvio polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > New script, counting each sender once. (Couldn't do this in > a oneliner. Maybe I'm an MS agent.) : Some plots... http://php.iupui.edu/~mmiller3/debian Note that mutt users are closely followed by the users of the mysterious unknown mailer.!
Re[2]: bbdb-initialize in .emacs
I'm trying to set up bbdb and am unclear on the process for the
bbdb package. The docs (/usr/share/doc/bbdb/README.Debian) say
that to enable bbdb support, I need to add a call to
bbdb-initialize in my .emacs. So I added
(bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message)
After doing that, M-x bbdb tells me "no match". A look at my
*Messages* buffer does not give any indication that bbdb is loaded
at all. After simplifying my .emacs until it contains only
(bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message)
I'm told
Error in init file: Symbol's function definition is void: bbdb-initialize
emacs --debug-init tells me
Signaling: (void-function bbdb-initialize)
(bbdb-initialize (quote gnus) (quote message))
eval-buffer(# nil "~/.emacs")
load-with-code-conversion("/home/miller/.emacs" "~/.emacs" t t)
load("~/.emacs" t t)
#[nil "
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Ï=1 Ð5 ÇÑQÒÓ\nÒ#Ò =F Ë\fR Ë ÓÔÒ#))" [init-file-user system-type
user-init-file-1 user-init-file inhibit-default-init inhibit-startup-message
ms-dos "~" "/_emacs" windows-nt directory-files nil "^\\.emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$"
"~/.emacs" "~/_emacs" vax-vms "sys$login:.emacs" "/.emacs" t load "default"]
4]()
command-line()
normal-top-level()
I've got these packages installed: bbdb_2.3-2, emacs20_20.7-3,
gnus_5.8.3-9. Can anyone tell me how to use the Debian bbdb
package? Can anyone provide me with a stripped down .emacs that
contains only (working) bbdb initialization?
Mike
Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP
> "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > can't you install a cygwin version into your > homedirectory??? If by "homedirectory" you mean my configuration space on the win2000 system, yes I can, but there are two complications that make that not so usefull. The first is that there are spaces in the directory name, so cygwin can't handle it. The second is that I'd have to do it separately on every machine as they are set up so that they don't share configuration. I think that the most likely to succeed thing for me will be to lobby the security folks to add ssh and friends to the "campus standard" communications software kit. Then it would someday RSN propagate to all of the campus machines. Thanks, Mike
Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP
> "Haim" == Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. as many people stated, DON"T use ftp. it's the most > dangerous protocol. use scp instead. Can anyone suggest a way to scp from a machine where I'm not allowed to install scp? (For example, win98 and win2000 machines in our libraries)
Re: xv alternatives
> "Noah" == Noah L Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since xv is being removed from the distribution, I would > like to find a new image viewer to use. I use "display", which is part of the imagemagick package. > 1. Lots of easy keyboard commands (Tab & Backspace were > great in XV) There are 70 or so keyboard accelerators listed in the man page, including F1, which brings up a list of all of them. Space and backspace function as with xv (for xv, space is the same as tab). > 3. Simple image manipulation algorithms. Lots of functionality... > 4. Simplicity. I don't want to have to install CORBA to > get an image viewer. I want a nice, simple image viewer. > I use the GIMP, but that's much bigger than what I'm asking > for here. apt-get install imagemagick Mike
Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !
> "Jason" == Jason Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's why you can say "asprin" when you want to cure a > headache (because Bayer didn't defend its trademark), but > not Xerox(tm) to mean photocopying, Kleenex(tm) to mean > facial tissues, and Ziplock(tm) to refer to plastic storage > bags. Nor spam to mean SPAM(tm) luncheon meat.
kernel 2.4.5 + ncpfs = 8.3 file names ?
I recently moved a machine to testing and compiled a 2.4.5 kernel. Now when I ncpmount from our novell file server, file names appear in 8.3 format, rather than the full file name. This is new behavior - falling back to a 2.2.14 kernel got me back to the full file names. Can anyone suggest how I might find the cause of this problem? I'm using the 2.2.0.18-5 versions of ncpfs and ipx. Mike
statistical packages for Debian {Re: help}
>>>>> "barsi" == barsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... but I still need a couple statistical packages > currently only available for MS windows ... You might find that you can do a lot of your statistics on Debian as well. Although I have a dual-boot laptop specifically so I can use SPSS when I need it, lately I'm finding that I prefer to use R <http://www.R-project.org>, which is a lot like S-plus and has nice plotting capabilities. There is also PSPP, which is something like SPSS. Both are packaged for Debian. The R project people have up-to-date versions debianized on the archive sites. Mike -- Michael A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Krannert Institute of Cardiology, IU School of Medicine Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine
Re: GUI Email program
> "Ross" == Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I took a look at evolution, but when the 2nd thing I tried > to do (set up a weekly appointment that didn't start today) > didn't work I decided it still needed some work. Back in the 1900s, it was said that no application was feature-complete until you could read email with it (someone's law - don't remember who's). It looks like the 21 century corollary is that no application is complete until the email portion also functions as a calendar tool. :-)
backup home to a second hard drive? File size limits
I've been using a script to tar and gzip nightly backups of user directories in /home to a second hard drive. The other day one of the users (actually it was me :) hit the size limit so that the resulting tar'ed gzip'ed file exceeds the 2^31-1 byte file size limit. Can anyone suggest a way to anticipate that and split the archive to avoid the file size limit. Mike
Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.
> "Kevin" == Kevin Stokes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Once again I find myself helpless. As unreliable and as > frustrating as Windows is, in Linux it seems like you can't > do anything without asking for help. > I wanted to remotely login from a Windows machine to my > linux machine. [...] > -Kevin Stokes frustrated Linux Newbie. It might help you manage your frustration if you keep in mind that doing the opposite is even harder. When was the last time you remotely logged in to a windows 9x box, from linux or any other platform? (you can do that, in a manner of speaking, if you install the vnc packages) Mike P.S. From the windows side, you can install teraterm and use it connect to a machine running an ssh server.
hardware clock keeps local time?
I've just added a win98 partition to a debian machine and would like to arrange for the hardware clock to use local time. I've changed "UTC=yes" to "UTC=no" in /etc/default/rcS, but my system is still getting changed back to utc. Can anyone point me to what else needs to be adjusted? Thanks, Mike
mouse troubles with Debian on Dell Latitude CPx J650GT
I've recently installed Debian (stable) onto a Dell CPx J650GT laptop. After installing the base system and the required packages, I added the SVGA and Mach64 xservers and the depended-upon packages. startx works in that I get a screen with an xterm in it, but I cannot move my pointer with the touch pad, the pointing stick, or an externally attached ps/2 mouse. This is using the PS/2 protocol and /dev/mouse in my XF86Config file. If I switch to /dev/psaux, the pointer zooms off screen as soon as I touch the touch pad or mouse. Any suggestions on how to trouble shoot this? Gpm seems to work fine on the console. Mike -- Michael A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Krannert Institute of Cardiology, IU School of Medicine Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine
Re: keeping a process running?
> "Tibor" == Tibor D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe "run" is what you're looking for? I haven't been able to find that in the packages - what package is that a part of?
keeping a process running?
Can anyone suggest a way to monitor a process and restart it if it stops? I seem to remember some discussion about this on debian-user, but I haven't been able to track it down in the archives. Mike
Tools for creating a movie from a sequence of images?
Are there any tools (or libraries) in Debian that will allow me to create an animation from a sequence of images? Mike
Re: interesting xmcd conundrum
Did you find a solution to this problem yet? I've had the same thing happen to me and haven't been able to sort it out either. Mike
Re: Java Debian Package
> "FIOL" == FIOL BONNIN Antonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, I have written a program in Java, and I would like > to create a debian package with it. There is some discussion of this on the debian-java list which is archived at http://lists.debian.org/. Mike
time-frequency analysis and Gabor spectrogram software in Debian?
Is anyone aware of software available in Debian or for *nix at large that will allow me to calculate gabor spectrograms and do general time-frequency analysis on signal data that is not limited to audio file formats? Mike
Re: jdk - installation
> "Michael" == Michael Mertins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > maybe even a development environment... JDE is packaged for Debian...
X11 Clock for different time zones?
Does anyone know of a Debian application that will display the time and and a user specified time zone?
replacement for ftp using ssh/scp?
Is there anything available that looks and acts like ftp, but will let me connect to hosts through ssh/scp? Mike
Re: Star Office
> "Shane" == Shane writes: > I need to read a MS Word document. Are there any other > software in Debian for viewing a MS Word doc?. Catdoc may help. Mike P.S. It's partner, xls2csv, is also very handy for extracting fields from excel files. > dpkg --status catdoc Package: catdoc Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: text Installed-Size: 636 Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 0.91.4-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) Suggests: wish Conffiles: /etc/catdocrc d1470cea126a7a524089fb4da51ab0fe Description: MS-Word to TeX or plain text converter This program extracts text from MS-Word files, trying to preserve as many special printable characters as possible. catdoc supports everything up to Word-97. . It doesn't even try to preserve fancy Word formatting, because Word users usually don't care about document structure, and it is this very thing which is important to LaTeX users. . Also provided is xls2csv, which extracts data from Excel spreadsheets and outputs it in comma-separated-value format. . This package suggests 'wish' because it also includes wordview, an optional Tk-based GUI for catdoc. The MIME config provided in this package will use wordview is X is running, or catdoc directly if it is not.
whiteboard software?
Can anyone recommend whiteboard software (for networked conferencing) that will work well on a Debian system? How about in a mixed Debian/Mac/MS group? Mike
Re: are there any good free 3d modeling tools?
> "Chris" == Chris Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, I'm looking for good free (as in speech) 3d modeling > tools. Geomview is packaged for Debian. http://www.geom.umn.edu/software/download/geomview.html
[Bug #60204] ibm-jdk1.1.8 package ?
Brent Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes... > After upgrading the potato distribution to the sources > found on the server on 11 Mar 00, the following broke with > the jdk1.1 (1.1.8v1-1) package: > When issuing a command such as: jre -cp /usr/local/lib/cma.jar ovro.cma.rtd.Start > I receive the error message: > Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class > java/lang/Thread Could not create Java VM > This did not occur until the latest jkd1.1 runtime update. > Running java apps with the ibm-jdk1.1.8 package gets around > this problem for now... Can anyone provide a url for the ibm-jdk1.1.8 package? Mike -- Michael A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Krannert Institute of Cardiology, IU School of Medicine Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine
Re: Somebody using MuPAD on Debian potato/woody?
>>>>> "Julian" == Julian Stoev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there somebody using 1.4.2 version of MuPAD > (www.mupad.de) on debian Potato/Woody. I have used mupad on a Debian 2.2 (frozen potato) system. I needed to install xviewg (version 3.2p1.4-9) before it would run. Mike -- Michael A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Krannert Institute of Cardiology, IU School of Medicine
Re: cron.daily isn't
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If your system is up 24/7, I suggest removing at. It is > only meant for machines that are up "sometimes, like dual > boot setups, desktops that get shutdown at night, etc... For machines that are not up 24/7, what replaces at? Mike
Re: Wordperfect segmentation fault
> "James" == James Sleeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have never been able to get WP or Adobe Acrobat reader to > work under Debian (neither Slink, nor Potato), they both > just segfault, I thought it was just a debian peculiarity, > possibly to do with libc5 which I understand is slightly > modified in debian packaged, but if you have had it working > then I guess something really wierd must be going on with > my system because I havn't noticed any other problems. I found that acroread, wordperfect and rvplayer segfaulted on my slink system when I was using the XFCom_Rage128 xserver (installed from the RPMs with alien). The source of the segfaults was that I'd added the regframe library to /etc/ld.so.preloads. If this is what is causing your problem, I know of two ways to resolve this problem: A fix that works for slink is to arrange for the preload to be seen only by the xserver. This can be done by removing the entry in /etc/ld.so.preloads and adding a LD_PRELOAD line to your /etc/init.d/xdm script. See /usr/doc/regframe/copyright for details. For potato, you can remove the alien packages and use the Debian XFree86 3.3.6 packages, including the xserver-rage128 package. Mike
adding headers to postscript files
I'm looking for a filter that will allow me to add headers to existing postscript files (i.e. file names and date stamps). Mpage comes close with the -X option, but does not allow me to specify the header content. Is there anything else packaged for Debian that will do this? Mike
dpkg freezes system
Dear Debian Users, I've recently installed debian linux on my portable and have run into a problem with dpkg. First, some background. I don't have access to an up and running linux machine, except for one with minimal disk space. I used that to make floppies for a base installation. Then I put my zip drive on a mac with an ethernet card and ftp-ed the most of the debian installation from my our mirror (most means Packages.gz and the directories admin, base, comm, devel, doc, editors, mail, math, misc, net, news, shells, sound, tex, text, and x11) I ftp-ed these to a dos formatted zip disks. Next, I reformatted my hard drive with three partitions: one for linux, one for linux swap and one a 200 Mb dos partition. Then, I booted DOS from a floppy that included drivers for my adaptec pcmcia scsi card, and I copied everything from the zip disks to the dos partition on the hard drive. After that, I rebooted with the linux boot floppy and went through the installation procedure. Up to this point all was great. I had a working base installation and I could boot linux from my hard drive. When running dselect, all seemed to be ok, but I couldn't seem to install anything, even when dselect told me it had installed things. So, I looked at the debian .deb files on the msdos partition. Because they were copied from a mac to a dos formatted disk, they all had names like `!acct_62.-0d'. To simplify dealing with them from bash, I wrote a script that removed the `!' from the filenames. Still, dselect didn't seem to be able to find them, so I started using dpkg by itself. This worked great, until I started trying to install xlib and emacs. Now dselect tells me that they are both half installed and need to be reconfigured. When I run dpkg to reinstall them, dpkg freezes my machine. Any ideas? Regards, Mike
