Re: [expert] Using Red-Carpet for Evolution 1.2?
On Thursday 19 December 2002 01:15, Jack Coates wrote: There is also this site: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php very useful for us urpmi junkies! urpmi.addmedia Texstar http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linu x/distributions/mandrake/9.0/rpms with ./hdlist.cz Do you know how to add both the RPMS and the Contrib directories of a Texstar mirror to the MandrakeUpdate program available in MDK 9.0 ? -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] apt sources
I just installed texstar's apt and synaptic. I like the concept, but the iblio.org server is so sl o o o o w .. Can anyone point me to an alternative site or two? TIA -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] seeking xine plugins
On Friday 13 December 2002 02:27, Azrael wrote: looking for xine plugins: Divx audio (wma) Windows media video 8 Penguin Liberation Front http://www.zoreil.com/mirrors/www.plf.org/9.0 -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Is it possible to speed up the boot?
On Saturday 07 December 2002 18:15, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I wonder whether at boot time services are started one after the other or two or three at time. Unless you have a multi-processor box, all programs are started one after another ... -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mozilla quickstart in Mandrake ???
On Friday 15 November 2002 02:48, Tom Brinkman wrote: In your mailer, instead of leaving 'reply to' blank, you entered your email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). This overides auto replies comin to the list. You're not the only one, on this list or many other lists doin this. Tryin to stop people from makin this mildy rude mistake is like discouraging HTML (very rude). Hmmm, thanks for the heads-up - I would be one of those. I checked and saw that kmail inserted this automagically, so I went back to my configuration and took out the reply-to. Always did wonder why it wanted to know my email address twice (in Reply-to and Email Adress fields). The kmail docs are no help on this at all. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] orphaned packages?
OK, call me anally retentive if you must but ... Debian has a utility called deborphan that sniffs out packages (usually libraries) that no longer have anything else depending on them and that can be removed. AFAIK it doesn't actually delete them, it just tells you what they are. Is there a way to do the same thing on Mandrake 9 or does this rely on something in debian's dpkg and/or the .deb format? I know they don't do any actual harm just lying there on the hd, but (a) sooner or later they will waste my bandwith when an upgrade becomes available and (b) I just like to run a tight ship. TIA Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] databases for linux
On Thursday 21 February 2002 00:27, you wrote: I'm having a helluva time trying to get xmbase-grok to work correctly. I first tried the 1.5 source install. Try version 1.4.3 Runs fine over here on lesstif -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ... Linux users and the women who chase them - next Oprah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] weird error message - followup
Hi all
a few days ago I wrote:
The last few days, whenever I start a new terminal or CTL-ALT-Fn to a
terminal, the first thing to print is this spectacularly unhelpful error
message:
[: : integer expression expected
I have now tracked this down to /etc/profile.d/msec.sh (thanks to all who
responded), which makes sense, since I did upgrade the msec pkg recently,
and more particularly to the following snippet of code
#if [ -n $SECURE_LEVEL -a $SECURE_LEVEL -le 1 ] ! echo ${PATH} |
fgrep -q :.; then
#export PATH=$PATH:.
#fi
As an experiment, I've commented it out and nothing seems to have broken,
even my path is exactly the same. But what should it be?
Near as I can make out, this is saying that if the value of SECURE_LEVEL
is 1 or lower and the characters :. do not appear in the PATH, then add .
(the current directory) to the PATH. So where's the typo that causes the
error msg?
Yes, I know I could just leave things commented out (I run a higher
security level anyway), but I'm trying to learn something here g
TIA
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Re: [expert] databases for linux
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 16:35, you wrote: I'm using Postgres now as the backend to my library (about 2,000 books, 300 CDs). Wow, that's like swatting a mosquito with a cruise missile. If anyone needs only a simple flat-file database for personal use, try xmbase-grok: http://www.bitrot.de/grok.html Simple to set up (rpms available at rpmfind.net), saves its data files as plain text, and it goes like hell! -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ... Linux users and the women who chase them - next Oprah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] databases for linux
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 19:51, you wrote: If anyone needs only a simple flat-file database for personal use, try xmbase-grok: Interesting program. How is its performance with large data files? Haven't tried it with anything major, but I suspect performance would start to suffer after 10 000 records or so. It was never made with that in mind. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ... Linux users and the women who chase them - next Oprah! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] weird error message
Hi all The last few days, whenever I start a new terminal or CTL-ALT-Fn to a terminal, the first thing to print is this spectacularly unhelpful error message: [: : integer expression expected This happens in both root and normal user mode, so I imagine the problem is somewhere in /etc. I've looked through /etc/bashrc and /etc/profile, but I can't find anything that looks suspect. I know, I know, it really is just a minor annoyance. But those little niggles get on one's nerves after a while. Any ideas on where else to look? TIA -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] weird error message
On Friday 15 February 2002 23:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [: : integer expression expected This happens in both root and normal user mode, so I imagine the problem is somewhere in /etc. I've looked through /etc/bashrc and /etc/profile, but I can't find anything that looks suspect. Is your /bin/sh still pointing to /bin/bash? Check Have you changed your login shell? Nope. But I did upgrade the initscripts-xx.rpm from cooker recently -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] POP3 Problems
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 18:39, Bill wrote: Hello All Hope everyones ready for Valentines Day :) Oh yes, I downloaded the latest stable version of the gimp tonight and there are all sorts of new goodies in the cooker for me and 'puter to try out on Thursday night. I might even surprise her with a new kernel. What? You gotta problem with that? g -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] fetchmail -- almost, i can smell it
On Sunday 10 February 2002 21:22, Skippi wrote: Ok, yet another question -- oh and thanks for the more help from everyone. Things are looking up. I think I'm getting my mail downloaded to my box here, but, where does it go I mean as in what file? Fetchmail is getting things from my pop accounts, sendmail seems to be working, but what file does sendmail put my incoming mail in? My email program wants to know I have no clue. I am guessing it's someplace in /var but I have looked all over no joy. Well, mine ends up in /var/spool/mail/username YMMV -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sites with up to date apt *.cooker files?
On Friday 08 February 2002 21:29, Svante Signell wrote: After trying to use the Mandrake update tools urpmi, rpmdrake, etc and finding them more or less unusable (at least to follow cooker), I tried apt(-rpm) and these tools are. Or should be, as expected from the apt tools in Debian (used on my other boxes; no probs eg to follow unstable), _if_ the ftp sites had updated *.cooker files! But they do not, for example ftp.sunet.se shows: mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake: RPMS.cooker 0 04/28/01 02:00:00 mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/base: pkglist.cooker 10719066 12/24/01 20:54:00 srclist.cooker 883823 07/27/01 02:00:00 Looks about right - apt worked great for me until last Christmas, and hasn't worked at all since, on any cooker site. I suspect the guy at mandrake who used to do this has left, and they never bothered to assign the task to someone else. (Also, maybe apt should be moved from RPMS2 to RPMS, at least for cooker??) Not much point in that if they aren't going to maintain the .cooker files, is there? -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Wine on mandrake
On Thursday 07 February 2002 20:48, no ads wrote: I just installed codeweavers wine and configuration went well, but I don't really know how to start it. You don't. Wine is not a complete emulation of the windows desktop: it is a way to run windows apps on the X11 desktop. So you now have to install your windows app (or try to), then you run it with wine --managed appname.exe So how do you install them in the first place? well, install.exe is an appname too, right? Don't bother trying to install MS Office, btw. Start with something more modest. Like notepad.exe -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] South Africa takes the plunge...
On Thursday 07 February 2002 02:58, Sevatio wrote: Kudos! On Wednesday 06 February 2002 01:59pm, you wrote: Thought this might make some people smile: http://www.naci.org.za/docs/opensource.html disclaimer: it is a submission to a parliamentary committee. But it is a long way from becoming law yet. One important unmentioned factor may be that Apple's market share is negligible in this country (given current exchange rates, I can buy TWO Athlon systems from the local mom 'n pop store for the price of an iMac), which gives Microsoft a 99.99% monopoly. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ticks and other invertebrates (was: Shell Script Question)
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 22:52, Bryan B Whitehead wrote: ` - backtick ' - tick . - flea (prone) , - flea (jumping) ~ -worm g -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Shell Script Question
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 22:16, Robert Goshko wrote: I have a line from one of my shell scripts to load the current date and time into a variable: $curdttm = 'echo $blank |date +%Y%m%d-%H%M' I have used this on both AIX and HP-UX and it has worked great. Doesn't do diddly on my Linux box but set the $curdttm variable to a value of $'echo $blank |date +%Y%m%d-%H%M'. I know someone out there will have another way to do this. Does this help? curdttm=`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M` echo $curdttm 20020205-2231 note use of backticks rather than single quotes -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] old wordperfect?
A month or two ago, someone mentioned that it was still possible to download and compile the old character-mode WordPerfect for Unix. If anyone has some URL's for this, I'd appreciate it. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] I want my BKSPC back!
[Well, it looks like the newbie list is stumped, so let's try the big guns] Hi gang All of a sardine my backspace key behaves like a delete key - ie it deletes to the right rather than to the left. Please tell me where to fix this - It's driving me insane! -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC All in all, you're just another brick in the wall- Pink Floyd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] anyone else see this?
Since this morning, the top inch of my monitor is very fuzzy. Text is quite unreadable tight at the top, then slowly becomes more legible as you pull the window down the screen. I suspect yesterday's upgrade (from cooker) to XFree86-4.1.99.6-2 OTOH, maybe my monitor is going south? -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] anyone else see this?
On Sunday 20 January 2002 17:42, Randy Kramer wrote: Since this morning, the top inch of my monitor is very fuzzy. Text is quite unreadable tight at the top, then slowly becomes more legible as you pull the window down the screen. I suspect yesterday's upgrade (from cooker) to XFree86-4.1.99.6-2 How old is your monitor -- is it old enough that going south is a reasonable thing? Acer 33D, 14 and it's outlived four computers - I'm not sure they even make those any more ... The last thing you did was install a new XFree and now you have problems? Suspect the new XFree or its configuration. Tres weird. An unrelated reboot cleared things up, but now there's this huge rectangular shadow whenever xscreensaver is active. Looks like there will be an XFree bugfix soon... -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] X Windows, too heavy, isn't it?
On Sunday 20 January 2002 18:37, Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez wrote: Hi, just to pulse the list opinion on this topic, The point here is, if Linux wants to make it on the desktop and on embedded appliances (with builtin screens) it should start to think about getting rid of the old and heavy XWindows. FYI, here is a bunch of BeOS fans trying to recreate their OS on top of the Linux kernel: http://blueos.free.fr/ If I understand what they are trying to do, this will eventually involve dumping X -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Weird Problems #3: Copy/Cut and Paste
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 08:48, bascule wrote: everyone is right of course, except that i wouldn't mind being able to highlight/select a useful url when i see one, go to my browser and highlight whatever is in the loc bar hit delete and then paste in my new 'find' and not what i just deleted, is there no way to make a 'highlighting' of text semi-permanent so that the next highlighting doesn't immediately replace it? i think 'klipper' might do this for kde apps but i'm thinking of something more 'X'y using the keyboard amd mouse buttons? I generally keep a text editor open (nedit, gedit, kedit, take your pick). Resize it to just one or two lines and stick it in an unobtrusive corner and you can move lines of text back and forth very quickly. Or you can look into those yellow post-it notes apps - I haven't found one yet that works right for me, but the search continues! -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Cooker
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 19:29, Timothy R. Butler wrote: I've been attempting to update to the Cooker KDE RPM's for several days, but it seems that kdebase has continued to show that it is 99 megs in size even though that is clearly incorrect (it refused to download). I've be trying the ciril.fr and suset.se mirrors, and I have refreshed URPMI. Any suggestions? Fire up any ftp client, point it to the server of your choice and download kdebase-xxx.rpm to the same directory as the other files (probably /var/cache/grpmi) Now open a terminal, su to root and type the following: rpm -Uvh arts* libarts* kde* -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK 8.1 vs Redhat 7.2
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 22:09, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Over this past weekend, I was in a scary mood, and decided to check out Redhat 7.2 Enigma. snip I've since reloaded Mandrake on my desktop, and will stick with it for now. ;) We forgive you, O prodigal son. Here, have a piece of fattened calf. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate
On Saturday 05 January 2002 20:57, Timothy R. Butler wrote: It's my understanding, at least, that MandrakeUpdate should work in a fashion that lets me upgrade any part of my system that Mandrake updates the RPMS to. Additionally, if I understand right, since Mandrake makes KDE updates available, I understood that KDE 2.2.2 should become available through MandrakeUpdate. However, even though I have both a security and Cooker site registered with rpmdrake/urpmi, I do not seem to be offered the choice to upgrade to KDE 2.2.2 through MandrakeUpdate. I should hope so, since I downloaded v2.2.2-17 of kdebase just this morning Let's get the elementary things out of the way first- you have refreshed your urpmi database? When you run MandrakeUpdate, cancel your way out of that annoying wizard thingy and get to the real interface, then use the icon on top to refresh your system's aquaintance with the cooker. Try a different cooker site: ftp.ciril.fr works well for me at the moment, but last week ftp.sunet.se was better. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] daemon scripts
I want to know how to kill a thread without having to manually call 'top' and search for the pid then running kill on that pid. Have you tried killall appname? -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux?
On Sunday 16 December 2001 01:39, Michel Clasquin wrote: There is also a try-before-you-buy program from IBM, sorry, no URL handy, but it relies on a special IBM version of wine that nukes your regular wine setup. It does have the site design aspects rather than just being a page editor, just like FP. IIRC after 30 days some parts stop working, but it can still be used for simple page layouts. Found it! WebSphere Homepage Builder for Linux http://commerce.www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/CategoryDisplay?cntrfnbr=1cgmenbr=1cntry=840lang=en_USscrfnbr=73cgrfnbr=2057316x=9y=10 -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
