Re: Configure error gnome-print-0.37

2005-09-25 Thread Randy McMurchy
randhir phagura wrote these words on 09/26/05 01:44 CST: > Yaah. It is showing the static and dynamic libs and the symlinks as you > mentioned. But why is 'gnome-print' not able to get it? Coming in late on this thread, as I've been on the road trying to avoid a hurricane and just recently retur

Re: Configure error gnome-print-0.37

2005-09-25 Thread randhir phagura
Hi, Simon Geard wrote on Sat, 24 Sep 2005: In this case, the configure script is looking directly for the relevant library, in this case libxml.so, and isn't finding it. Since the .pc file shows it's installed to /usr, what does the following command show? ls -l /usr/lib/libxml.* The outpu

Re: OpenOffice 2.0beta2

2005-09-25 Thread DJ Lucas
Jeremy Byron wrote: > Well, for what it's worth, attached are some patches to help get things > started. I've cleaned up what I could from the 1.1.4 patches (not > including the gcc patch) but the java patch still needs work. > > Many sections from the java patch no longer exist in OOo2, but I us

Re: xterm setuid root

2005-09-25 Thread Archaic
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 02:27:01AM +, Lennon Cook wrote: > After a bit more googling, I found this: > > http://mirror.sg.depaul.edu/pub/x.org/R6.6/tars/RELNOTES.TXT > >For additional security you may install xterm without suid-root; however > >if you do, xterm will not be able to make utmp or

Re: xterm setuid root

2005-09-25 Thread Lennon Cook
After a bit more googling, I found this: http://mirror.sg.depaul.edu/pub/x.org/R6.6/tars/RELNOTES.TXT >For additional security you may install xterm without suid-root; however >if you do, xterm will not be able to make utmp or utmpx entries. (it's right down in 'Security Considerations', near the

aspell files to compile

2005-09-25 Thread Lennon Cook
In my attempts to compile a mail client to save me from GMail's woes, I am compiling aspell. Well, except that it tells me this as it tries to build: >>> ./.libs/libaspell.so: undefined reference to `acommon::HashTable::init(unsigned int)' ./.libs/libaspell.so: undefined reference to `acommon::Hash

Re: xterm setuid root

2005-09-25 Thread Brandin Creech
--- Lennon Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Archaic wrote: > > I fail to see how that link is supposed to help. It is dealing with > > debian's suid manager. > Sorry, wrong link. That'll teach me to check these things... > Here's the *right* one (hopefully :-)): > http://lists.freebsd.org/piperma

Re: Hornswoggled by XTerm Resources (SOLVED-DUH)

2005-09-25 Thread Dan McGhee
David Jensen wrote: Dan McGhee wrote: Just about ready to pull the last remaining hairs on my head. All I want is a black background with light text in my xterms. The only way I can get it is by putting 'xterm -bg black -fg grey90' in ~/.fluxbox/menu. my .Xresources: xterm*background: r

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.5

2005-09-25 Thread Jeremy Byron
Chris Staub wrote: The test_bin_loc patch is no longer needed since lfs no longer moves test to /bin - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter06/coreutils.html. I've even created a bugzilla entry about this - http://blfs-bugs.linuxfromscratch.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1566.

Fwd: xterm setuid root

2005-09-25 Thread Lennon Cook
And *AGAIN* I manage to send privately that's meant to go to the list, purely because GMail hid that from me... That's it, I'm compiling a mail client today. Anyway, the following was meant to arrive on the list about 22 hours ago. Sorry for the confusion... -- Forwarded message --

Re: Python make test failure

2005-09-25 Thread Keith
Declan Moriarty wrote: Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words choose_boundary hostid = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known') test_urllib2 No handlers could be found for logger "cookielib" test test_urllib2 failed -- Traceback (most

Re: xterm setuid root

2005-09-25 Thread Alex Prinsier
I also fail to see how that link is supposed to help me out... I don't understand why xterm needs to be setuid root. Alex Archaic wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 11:04:13PM +, Lennon Cook wrote: > >>See: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/02/msg01159.html > > > I fail to see how th

Re: Python make test failure

2005-09-25 Thread Keith
Declan Moriarty wrote: Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words choose_boundary hostid = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known') test_urllib2 No handlers could be found for logger "cookielib" test test_urllib2 failed -- Traceback (most

Re: Python make test failure

2005-09-25 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > choose_boundary >hostid = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) > gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known') > > test_urllib2 > No handlers could be found for logger "cookielib" > test test_urllib2 failed -- Traceback (most recent call las

Python make test failure

2005-09-25 Thread Keith
Tried searching the mailing lists, but nothing came up. Having two failures when running the Python 2.4.1 make test. test_mimetools test test_mimetools failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/sources/blfs/Python-2.4.1/Lib/test/test_mimetools.py", line 30, in test_boundary nb =

Re: Hornswoggled by XTerm Resources

2005-09-25 Thread Uli Fahrenberg
Dan McGhee, Sep 25, 11:34 -0500: All I want is a black background with light text in my xterms. Just tested: XTerm.background: rgb:90/80/90 works for rxvt but not for xterm xterm*background: rgb:90/80/90 works for xterm but not for rxvt XTerm*background: rgb:90/80/

Re: bash scripting help needed

2005-09-25 Thread Dan McGhee
Archaic wrote: On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 01:44:38PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: That scripting guide is really great. After the quote that I provided, it gives some scripting examples. Yeah, I must have skimmed too fast. But I'm glad Brandon gave the ${!var} example as that is much more st

Re: bash scripting help needed

2005-09-25 Thread Archaic
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 01:44:38PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: > > That scripting guide is really great. After the quote that I provided, > it gives some scripting examples. Yeah, I must have skimmed too fast. But I'm glad Brandon gave the ${!var} example as that is much more straightforward. Thank

Re: bash scripting help needed

2005-09-25 Thread Archaic
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 11:24:17AM -0700, Brandin Creech wrote: > <..> Thanks a lot. That is exactly what I was looking for! :) -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscr

Re: bash scripting help needed

2005-09-25 Thread Dan McGhee
Archaic wrote: I'm writing a function that will script the generation of the ifconfig subdirs. The problem is that I'm trying to expand the value of a variable where the variable name itself is a variable. EX: eth0_onboot=yes eth1_onboot=no The relevant part of the function is this: mknet ()

Re: bash scripting help needed

2005-09-25 Thread Brandin Creech
--- Archaic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm writing a function that will script the generation of the ifconfig > subdirs. The problem is that I'm trying to expand the value of a > variable where the variable name itself is a variable. The bash (1) manpage calls this indirection; it is described

Re: bash scripting help needed

2005-09-25 Thread Carlos Eduardo de Brito Novaes
Dont know how to expand this variable, but maybe you should use arrays. to declare an array: declare -a OnBootEth and to use: OnBootEth[ 0 ]="yes" OnBootEth[ 1 ]="no" if [ "yes" == OnBootEth[

bash scripting help needed

2005-09-25 Thread Archaic
I'm writing a function that will script the generation of the ifconfig subdirs. The problem is that I'm trying to expand the value of a variable where the variable name itself is a variable. EX: eth0_onboot=yes eth1_onboot=no The relevant part of the function is this: mknet () { net_dir=/etc/s

Re: Removing Source Trees--Paranoia Acting Up

2005-09-25 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 04:42:36PM -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: > > > > I thought I remembered some words in LFS or BLFS about removing > > sources, but, except for the clean-up in LFS, I can't find anything. > > Am I just paranoid or should I turn 'rm

Re: Hornswoggled by XTerm Resources

2005-09-25 Thread David Jensen
Dan McGhee wrote: Just about ready to pull the last remaining hairs on my head. All I want is a black background with light text in my xterms. The only way I can get it is by putting 'xterm -bg black -fg grey90' in ~/.fluxbox/menu. my .Xresources: xterm*background: rgb:00/12/18 xterm*fore

Hornswoggled by XTerm Resources

2005-09-25 Thread Dan McGhee
Just about ready to pull the last remaining hairs on my head. All I want is a black background with light text in my xterms. The only way I can get it is by putting 'xterm -bg black -fg grey90' in ~/.fluxbox/menu. I must confess that, by those last remaining hairs on my head, I did something

Subject: bonobo-1.0.22 configure error

2005-09-25 Thread randhir phagura
Hi, Iam getting the following error while running configure on bonobo-1.0.22: checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext checking for catalogs to be installed... az ca da de el en_GB es eu fi fr ga gl hu it ja ko lt nl no pl pt pt_BR ro ru sk sl sv uk wa

Re: GConf / *.schemas question

2005-09-25 Thread randhir phagura
Hi Lennon, Hi David, Thanks for your answers. I am obliged. Regards, Randhir Phagura -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Configure error gnome-print-0.37

2005-09-25 Thread randhir phagura
Hi, Simon Geard wrote on Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:12:58 +1200: What does the following command show? ls -l /usr/lib/libxml.* Thanks for your response, Simon. The other system being in office, will get back with the results of the above command to-morrow. David Ciecierski wrote on Sat, 24

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.5

2005-09-25 Thread Chris Staub
Jeremy Byron wrote: David Ciecierski wrote: A few things to get you started with OOo2.0b2.. I haven't had time to get very far with it yet. The test_bin_loc patch should still work, but only the last(?) entry is relevant in 2.0b2 - should just edit the file manually and make a new patc

Re: OpenOffice 2.0beta2 (was Re: OpenOffice 1.1.5)

2005-09-25 Thread David Ciecierski
Well, for what it's worth, attached are some patches to help get things started. Thanks a lot Jeremy; a pity I had TBird closed while going through OOo source & available patches... I'll go through them later and see if I missed something. OOs's compiling now, and since it's going to take sev