Re: HOWTO? Fix a term that has "space junk"

2001-04-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: HOWTO? Fix a term that has "space junk" Date: Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:58:56PM -0500 In reply to:will trillich Quoting will trillich([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:51:11AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > Subject: HOWTO? Fix a term that has "spa

Package Installation Problem (Debian Linux)

2001-04-24 Thread sujit_pandit
Dear Sir, I have a PC with 20GB Hard disk, 810 Intel Chipset Motherboard and P-III 700 CPU. In my hard disk, there are two partition, First partition (i.e Pri. Dos portion) contain Windows'98 OS. I have already installed Debian Linux in my Second Partition, after installation I am facing

Package Installation Problem (Debian Linux)

2001-04-24 Thread sujit_pandit
Dear Sir, I have a PC with 20GB Hard disk, 810 Intel Chipset Motherboard and P-III 700 CPU. In my hard disk, there are two partition, First partition (i.e Pri. Dos portion) contain Windows'98 OS. I have already installed Debian Linux in my Second Partition, after installation I am facing

Re: [perl] glob() and filenames w/ spaces

2001-04-24 Thread John R Lenton
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:37:39AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > How do I deal with the situation where glob("*") is used and where there > are files that contain spaces in their file names? what "situation"? $ touch a\ b c\ d $ ls -l total 0 -rw-rw-r--1 john john

gnu-pop3d log messages

2001-04-24 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i'm getting flooded with messages from a recently installed gnu-pop3d: Apr 24 21:45:32 cx633007-b gnu-pop3d[657]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 6: can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(firestarter.lawnet) failed Apr 24 21:45:32 cx633007-b gnu-pop3d[6

Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

2001-04-24 Thread John R Lenton
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:32:43AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > [ ... about fiddling with mutt to get fancy signatures ...] What I'd really like (and implement if I had the time) is for mutt to have an option to check on startup if .signature is a pipe, and if so to write into it the header of th

Re: Mutt is best

2001-04-24 Thread John R Lenton
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:27:51AM +1000, Mark wrote: > Currently I am using Netscape for my emails. I know that Mutt will > handle gnupg signitures and encryption etc which Netscape doesn't seem > to. But will Mutt allow me to open .jpg, pdf and word files. Currently > I have Netscape set up to

Re: Compiling ghostscript 5.50 on woody : HELP !!!

2001-04-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:48:46PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: > I know that configuring my /etc/printcap with magicfilterconfig is OK, > but then I don't have access to my newly compiled driver... > > I've seen that you are the package maintainer for printtool, so I guess > you're the right p

Re: Data recovery

2001-04-24 Thread John Patton
Check out the following link: http://www.fish.com/forensics/ Especially the coronor's toolkit stuff. Undeletion is hard however: unless you have irreplacable stuff under /usr/local like project reports or something, it would probably be easier just to reinstall everything. On Tue, Apr 24, 20

Re: Data recovery

2001-04-24 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Jason Whittle wrote: > I managed to reformat my /usr/local partition (ext2; not backwards > compatible) and I was wondering > if there was any way to recover some of the data I lost by doing that. I > haven't written anything > to the partition since reformatting, so nothing'

Data recovery

2001-04-24 Thread Jason Whittle
I managed to reformat my /usr/local partition (ext2; not backwards compatible) and I was wondering if there was any way to recover some of the data I lost by doing that. I haven't written anything to the partition since reformatting, so nothing's been zeroed except the very highest-level stuff.

Re: X gone all goofy

2001-04-24 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Glenn Becker wrote: > > Hi all, > > First time this has happened in some time, but after a fairly minor > apt-get dist-upgrade, X no longer seems to want to work. I have attached > the full output of the command (I don't know whether it is relevant), but > the tail end of it

X log files and xscreensaver

2001-04-24 Thread Michael Abraham Shulman
I find that whenever xscreensaver is running, XFree86.0.log and xdm.log fill up with lines like these (in fact, identical to these): GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 108000 GetModeLine - hdsp: 1280 hbeg: 1328 hend: 1440 httl: 1688 vdsp: 1024 vbeg: 1025 vend: 1028 vttl: 1066 flags: 5 The

Re: OT: palms vs hp49

2001-04-24 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: > first of all hello and sorry bout the off-topic but i have nowhere to ask, > sometime earlier in this month i asked about what came to be octave, > it was really cool. > > Well right now i'm going to have the oportunity to buy a palm or sci calc

X gone all goofy

2001-04-24 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi all, First time this has happened in some time, but after a fairly minor apt-get dist-upgrade, X no longer seems to want to work. I have attached the full output of the command (I don't know whether it is relevant), but the tail end of it is as follows: Could not init font path element /usr/X

Re: ipmasq

2001-04-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:55:18PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: > I put the line: > nameserver > in that file, just like it's in the same file on the box that does the > masquerading. Now it works. It was so easy! Sometimes Debian is > great. Well, if you setup caching DNS on gateway machine and l

Re: OT: palms vs hp49

2001-04-24 Thread Nate Amsden
"Sergio E. Schvezov" wrote: > Well right now i'm going to have the oportunity to buy a palm or sci calc > i saw the vr3 wich runs on a modified linux wich i kind of liked. not sure what you mean by palm..wether its a palmOS system or a palm branded system. i highly reccomend the visor because of

Re: WinTV card not working

2001-04-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Brad Cramer wrote: > the tuner. I know it has a ntsc Philips tuner but no luck. Anyone have any > ideas? > Thanks > Brad works great here. course i don't change channels, my cable box(and now tivo) handles that ! my wintv sits in 640x480 16bit in full screen with no window manager 24/7. r

OT: palms vs hp49

2001-04-24 Thread Sergio E. Schvezov
first of all hello and sorry bout the off-topic but i have nowhere to ask, sometime earlier in this month i asked about what came to be octave, it was really cool. Well right now i'm going to have the oportunity to buy a palm or sci calc i saw the vr3 wich runs on a modified linux wich i kind of

Re: Getting package from "testing" for potato

2001-04-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:18:46PM +1000, Mark wrote: > OK, I still don't understand how to do this properly. > > I am running a 2.4.3 kernel on potato using Adrian Bunk's extra packages > for 2.4.x kernels. > > Lets say I need the package hotplug (which allows me to setup my usb > cdrw). > > No

Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

2001-04-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:12:34PM -0400, Mark Hurley wrote: > > So I can automatically strip it out when I reply? Would save me from > having to delete even more from a message. On another tangent, could > everyone do me a favor and surround any signature with . there is already a convention

Re: How to remove messages from mbox based on relative date?

2001-04-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:48:58PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > I have a bunch of users that keep messages on the server, but the client > won't delete the messages automatically. Cucipop will delete the message if > it's older than a certain date, but only if the client tries to _retr_ it > when it

Getting package from "testing" for potato

2001-04-24 Thread Mark
OK, I still don't understand how to do this properly. I am running a 2.4.3 kernel on potato using Adrian Bunk's extra packages for 2.4.x kernels. Lets say I need the package hotplug (which allows me to setup my usb cdrw). Now do I do the following to get this: 1. Change my sources.list to cont

High Quality Graphics Service Provider

2001-04-24 Thread business toonaphoto.com
Hello, We found your address on the website http://www.debian.org/ and decided to contact you to propose a commercial alliance between our website (www.toonaphoto.com) and yours. We hope that our alliance programs will be of your interest and that soon we can establish a commercial relations

Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

2001-04-24 Thread Mark Hurley
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:24:01AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > -- > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP: > What's a "manpage"? It's the documentation you get when you enter > "man SOMETHING" such as "man ps" or "man bash" or "man apt-setup". > > ...from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think this is a great idea where every

Re: perfect debian computer

2001-04-24 Thread Nate Amsden
> Lend27 wrote: > > I have setup a few linux debian boxes in the past year, but I am by no means > an expert. > Based upon my trials, tribulations,failures and ultimate successes, I > recommend the following: > > 1. Soundblaster Live sound card > 2. NVidia Geforce 2 MX 32 meg video card. ( Inexp

Re: EMAIL PROCESSORS WANTED IMMEDIATLY

2001-04-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:43:13AM +0200, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: > He's probably just trying to collect email addresses with a status of > "verified-by-human", which he himself can then sell to earn the $5000. OOh! Keep a list of people you don't like, and write a procmail ruleset that will reply w

dhcpcd

2001-04-24 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 the man page for dhcpcd says that by default dhcpcd will "NOT" set the hostname of the host to the hostname option received from the DHCP server. To override this (i.e., and force the hostname to be changed), use the -H option. i'm executing the follo

Re: EMAIL PROCESSORS WANTED IMMEDIATLY

2001-04-24 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:42:07PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:02:53AM -0700, paul wrote: > > EMAIL PROCESSING COMPANY LOOKING FOR EMAIL PROCESSORS IMMEDIATELY, > > TO SUSTAIN EXPLOSIVE GROWTH. EARN $5,000- $10,000.00 AND > > MORE MONTHLY. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. SEND

Re: EMAIL PROCESSORS WANTED IMMEDIATLY

2001-04-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:42:07PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:02:53AM -0700, paul wrote: > > EMAIL PROCESSING COMPANY LOOKING FOR EMAIL PROCESSORS IMMEDIATELY, > > TO SUSTAIN EXPLOSIVE GROWTH. EARN $5,000- $10,000.00 AND > > MORE MONTHLY. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. SEND

Re: [perl] glob() and filenames w/ spaces

2001-04-24 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:37:39AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi all > > Sorry if this is too off-topic, but on debian-user there is usually > excellent help, so I cannot resist. =) > > How do I deal with the situation where glob("*") is used and where there > are files that contain spaces in

PopstFix config.

2001-04-24 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi all! For those of you still interested i taking a look at this... this is an extract from my log files... Perhaps it can help you guys more than it is helping me... ;) For those of you who are going to scroll down... perhaps you can see what i can: a DNS thing going o

Re: mutt and the running emacs

2001-04-24 Thread Jonathan David Wheelhouse
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:12:54AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > [snip] > I'm migrating from emacs RMAIL to mutt and liking it (mutt) more and > more. Within mutt, I have the editor set to emacs. But I always have > emacs running anyway, so there's an annoying duplication when mutt > starts its o

Re: [perl] glob() and filenames w/ spaces

2001-04-24 Thread Juan Fuentes
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:37:39AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi all > > Sorry if this is too off-topic, but on debian-user there is usually > excellent help, so I cannot resist. =) > > How do I deal with the situation where glob("*") is used and where there > are files that contain spaces in

Re: [perl] glob() and filenames w/ spaces

2001-04-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
> perl -e 'opendir DIR,".";print join ":",grep/.*/,readdir DIR' What's the point of the grep() there? grep /.*/ by definition returns all elements (since . is 'any character' and * is 'zero or more of them'). -- Andrew J P

Re: [perl] glob() and filenames w/ spaces

2001-04-24 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:37:39AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi all > > Sorry if this is too off-topic, but on debian-user there is usually > excellent help, so I cannot resist. =) > > How do I deal with the situation where glob("*") is used and where there > are files that contain spaces in

Re: mutt's default colors (Potato)

2001-04-24 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:02:11PM -0700, Steven E. Harris wrote: > Where are these default colors defined in the Potato mutt package? I 19:55 $ ls -l /etc/Muttrc -rw-r--r--1 root root 4183 Oct 29 07:13 /etc/Muttrc 19:55 $ grep color /etc/Muttrc # colors color hdrdefault cyan defau

Re: OT: command line vs. cron

2001-04-24 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:59:20PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > > i've run into a problem i've never seen before. when i execute > > /usr/bin/tvguide.pl > /www/htdocs/tvguide.inc > > from the commandline, it works perfectly. however, when i put > > 0,30 * * * * /usr/bin/tvguide.pl > /ww

Re: EMAIL PROCESSORS WANTED IMMEDIATLY

2001-04-24 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:02:53AM -0700, paul wrote: > EMAIL PROCESSING COMPANY LOOKING FOR EMAIL PROCESSORS IMMEDIATELY, > TO SUSTAIN EXPLOSIVE GROWTH. EARN $5,000- $10,000.00 AND > MORE MONTHLY. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. SEND AN EMAIL TO > [EMAIL PROTECTED] WITH "EMAIL PROCESSOR" IN THE > SUB

Re: Mutt is best

2001-04-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:34:58PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Right now, my system is using image magic for viewing, but it takes a while > on my celeron 366 to load a jpg, is there a faster viewer that doesn't have > the editing capabilities I'm not using and is in potato? Just changed it to xli,

Re: mutt's default colors (Potato)

2001-04-24 Thread ktb
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:32:18PM -0700, Steven E. Harris wrote: > Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Strange, I don't have anything like that in my .mutrc, and the > > colors work from console, xterm, and remote ssh. > > Yes, that's (partly) my point. The Debianized mutt has colors by

Re: mutt's default colors (Potato)

2001-04-24 Thread Steven E. Harris
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > echo $TERM It thinks I'm using "rxvt," which is available in /etc/termcap there. That's probably not the problem, though, because I just found their /etc/Muttrc file (thanks to a previous reply). Unlike the Debian /etc/Muttrc, the one at my ISP lacks an

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:42:49PM -0400, Daniel Katz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > YMMV. Does anyone who uses Abiword on Stable know how well > > > importing works? > > > > Sorry about my ignorance, but what does YMMV mean? > > > > "Your

Re: Mutt is best

2001-04-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:01:54PM -0700, Steven E. Harris wrote: > Chris Cyll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Apologies. > > I meant to reply to the default color thread. > > No problem. I caught the reply here. I made the same mistake as Mike > of missing the capital 'M' when searching with l

PostFix Configuration.

2001-04-24 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi Folks, I just upgraded to 2.2r3 and just installed PostFix (in place of exim). However, I having a little trouble configuring it... :( I tried all the manpages/HOWTOs and the online documentation that i could find... Anybody has any source of docs or would give me a little hel

Re: Mutt is best

2001-04-24 Thread Steven E. Harris
Chris Cyll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Apologies. > I meant to reply to the default color thread. No problem. I caught the reply here. I made the same mistake as Mike of missing the capital 'M' when searching with locate. -- Steven E. Harris:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG

Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

2001-04-24 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
And if we come to talk about network cards, avoid like hell the chipset realtek 8139, especially if you have a K7/VIA based motherboard. avoid like hell DFE-530TX, only if you have a K7/VIA confguration. I can tell you from experience on 3 <> computers that they either, do not run in a useable wa

Re: gcc 3.0, namespace, and such

2001-04-24 Thread Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note
I'm far from being an expert, but : 1- yes you can safely install gcc v3 (and g++ v3 and so on) alongside the 2.9X you call it only by appending -3.0 to its name. 2- I have some syntactic problems with g++ v3 as far as dereferencing functionsis concerned. Hell, i'm really not an expert, but someth

Re: Mutt is best

2001-04-24 Thread Chris Cyll
Apologies. I meant to reply to the default color thread. -Chris On Tuesday 24 April 2001 19:36, Chris Cyll wrote: > Excerpt from my unmodified default debian /etc/Muttrc file follows... > > # colors > color normal white black > color attachment brightyellow black > color hdrdefault cyan black > c

Re: Mutt is best

2001-04-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:36:11PM -0500, Chris Cyll wrote: > Excerpt from my unmodified default debian /etc/Muttrc file follows... > > # colors > color normal white black > color attachment brightyellow black > color hdrdefault cyan black > color indicator black cyan > color markers brightred bl

Re: mutt's default colors (Potato)

2001-04-24 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:32:18PM -0700, Steven E. Harris wrote: > Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Strange, I don't have anything like that in my .mutrc, and the > > colors work from console, xterm, and remote ssh. > > Yes, that's (partly) my point. The Debianized mutt has colors by

Re: Mutt is best

2001-04-24 Thread Chris Cyll
Excerpt from my unmodified default debian /etc/Muttrc file follows... # colors color normalwhite black color attachment brightyellow black color hdrdefault cyan black color indicator black cyan color markers brightred black color quotedgreen black color signature cyan black color status

[perl] glob() and filenames w/ spaces

2001-04-24 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all Sorry if this is too off-topic, but on debian-user there is usually excellent help, so I cannot resist. =) How do I deal with the situation where glob("*") is used and where there are files that contain spaces in their file names? I know spaces in file names suck. I have no choice. It's t

Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

2001-04-24 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:53:20AM +0200, Romain Lerallut wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote: > > karl and romain -- this indeed looks easy. but it feels like i'll > > be adding comments and tips daily if not hourly, for a while at > > least. maybe when it calms down a bit, i'll hamm

Re: Mutt is best

2001-04-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:27:51AM +1000, Mark wrote: > OK, from reading many of these emails I am getting the impression that > Mutt sucks less. > > Currently I am using Netscape for my emails. I know that Mutt will > handle gnupg signitures and encryption etc which Netscape doesn't seem > to.

Re: mutt's default colors (Potato)

2001-04-24 Thread Steven E. Harris
Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Strange, I don't have anything like that in my .mutrc, and the > colors work from console, xterm, and remote ssh. Yes, that's (partly) my point. The Debianized mutt has colors by default, but this other installation at my ISP doesn't. I'm wondering if ther

Mutt is best

2001-04-24 Thread Mark
OK, from reading many of these emails I am getting the impression that Mutt sucks less. Currently I am using Netscape for my emails. I know that Mutt will handle gnupg signitures and encryption etc which Netscape doesn't seem to. But will Mutt allow me to open .jpg, pdf and word files. Currentl

Re: mutt's default colors (Potato)

2001-04-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:15:51PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:02:11PM -0700, Steven E. Harris wrote: > > When I use mutt on my Potato system without any color settings (that > > is, no ~/.muttrc), the default colors are just about right. The > > documentation on how to

Re: OT: command line vs. cron

2001-04-24 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:59:20PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > i've run into a problem i've never seen before. when i execute > > /usr/bin/tvguide.pl > /www/htdocs/tvguide.inc > > from the commandline, it works perfectly. however, when i put > > 0,30 * * * * /usr/bin/tvguide.pl > /www/

gcc 3.0, namespace, and such

2001-04-24 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi all, Here's my situation. I'm developing a rather large project, and we're starting to use stl stuff. Unfortunately, one of our vendor libraries uses a "vector", which then clashes with the stl vectors we're starting to use. Because of gcc 2.95.2 not supporting namespace correctly (ie. puttin

Re: OT: command line vs. cron

2001-04-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:59:20PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > i've run into a problem i've never seen before. when i execute > > /usr/bin/tvguide.pl > /www/htdocs/tvguide.inc > > from the commandline, it works perfectly. however, whe

Re: mutt's default colors (Potato)

2001-04-24 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:02:11PM -0700, Steven E. Harris wrote: > When I use mutt on my Potato system without any color settings (that > is, no ~/.muttrc), the default colors are just about right. The > documentation on how to change the colors is adequate. When I run mutt > on my shell account a

mutt's default colors (Potato)

2001-04-24 Thread Steven E. Harris
When I use mutt on my Potato system without any color settings (that is, no ~/.muttrc), the default colors are just about right. The documentation on how to change the colors is adequate. When I run mutt on my shell account at my ISP, there are no colors by default (that is, with no ~/.muttrc). If

RE: perfect debian computer

2001-04-24 Thread Lend27
I have setup a few linux debian boxes in the past year, but I am by no means an expert. Based  upon my trials, tribulations,failures and ultimate successes, I recommend the following:   1. Soundblaster Live sound card 2. NVidia Geforce 2 MX 32 meg video card. ( Inexpensive but it does a gre

OT: command line vs. cron

2001-04-24 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i've run into a problem i've never seen before. when i execute /usr/bin/tvguide.pl > /www/htdocs/tvguide.inc from the commandline, it works perfectly. however, when i put 0,30 * * * * /usr/bin/tvguide.pl > /www/htdocs/tvguide.inc into root's cron

Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

2001-04-24 Thread Romain Lerallut
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:28:55PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:32:43AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > > > > > Have you considered implementing this as a fortune type deal rather than > > > > your perl script? > karl a

Re: MC

2001-04-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:12:48AM +0200, Erdmut Pfeifer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:25:55AM +0200, Ales Jerman wrote: > > Why is mc in xterm black&white, why there are no colors? Because ls > > --color does what I asked for, why not mc? (mc-Midnight Commander) > > Than

Re: Shell prompts (was Re: floppy permissions)

2001-04-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:57:32PM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:14:27PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:07:38PM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > here's my iteration on top of your stuff, and >

Re: Static and Dynamic NAT

2001-04-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 04:33:39PM -0600, Bill Fowler wrote: > I setting up a linux system to be a router and want to do static and dynamic > NAT with a pool of public IPs (as opposed to masquerading with one IP). I'm > using 2.2.18 kernel. If someone could point me in the right direction I > wou

Re: 3c509 and 2.2r2 installation

2001-04-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:15:44PM +0100, Harry Newton wrote: > I'm having a little trouble doing an NFS install on a machine with a > 3com 3c509 card ( 3 ports ) for Debian 2.2r2. > > I start the installation and after a while reach the stage where I > need to load the module for this card: this

Static and Dynamic NAT

2001-04-24 Thread Bill Fowler
I setting up a linux system to be a router and want to do static and dynamic NAT with a pool of public IPs (as opposed to masquerading with one IP). I'm using 2.2.18 kernel. If someone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Thanks, Bill

Re: gnome cal? Doesn't seem to process alarms

2001-04-24 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Steve Witt wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > > Is anybody using gnome calendar (gnome-pim package)? I've tried many times > > over the last 6 months and I've never been able to get it to do anything. > > The specified times pass with no notification.

Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

2001-04-24 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:03:09AM -0500, Mullins, Ron wrote: > > # pipe randomized 'tip' from perl script-- > > send-hook debian- "set signature='~/.signature-debian |'" > > # any email going out to any address containing "debian-" > > # gets the output of ~/.signature-debian as a

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:40:07PM -0400, Daniel Freedman wrote: > incomplete and quite buggy). First of all, it is constantly evolving > through versions of Word, and much worse, it is supposedly very > dependent upon the overall environment of windows (font settings, > etc.). Or my favorite: Wo

Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

2001-04-24 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:28:55PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:32:43AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > > > Have you considered implementing this as a fortune type deal rather than > > > your perl script? > > > > hadn't come up with that concept yet, no. i had cond

3c509 and 2.2r2 installation

2001-04-24 Thread Harry Newton
I'm having a little trouble doing an NFS install on a machine with a 3com 3c509 card ( 3 ports ) for Debian 2.2r2. I start the installation and after a while reach the stage where I need to load the module for this card: this I do and the module installation proceeds with no erros. ( I use the def

Re: OT : find problems or updatedb ?

2001-04-24 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:38:42AM +0200, Petr Danek wrote: > Hi list, > > i have some problem with find . For example when i try > > find / -name foo > > the command finishes immediately and didnt give any results altough file foo > exists somewhere in directory tree. I use binutils 2.9.5.0.

perfect debian computer

2001-04-24 Thread Saqib Shaikh
ok, in my opinion: modem: go with 3com modems, they are the best internal modems for linux since they generally aren't winmodems. almost all external modems will work. finally for internal modem info could try www.linmodems.com sound card: i strongly recommend sound blaster 1024 live or sound

Apsfilter for HP Deskjet 959C

2001-04-24 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hello, Does anybody have an experience with the setup of apsfilter with a DJ 959C printer ? I use the following : gs 5.50 compiled with driver hpijs 0.95 from HP apsfilter 6.0.0 I'd like to setup a rought ascii printer, a normal mode (say 300x300 color), and a photo-quality mode. Thanks for you

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Chris Cyll
Marcelo, Actually, I was just on the Abiword (www.abiword.org) web page and I notice that they provide deb packages for the recently release 0.7.14. I love it when people do that. Not to mention that the packages run on both potato and unstable. So, if you want to run a more recent version th

Re: debian newbie "tip-of-the-day" signature script

2001-04-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:32:43AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > not very, not yet. when i see question #X go by for the tenth > time in a month, i add a quickie (and hopefully i don't get them > wrong). short answer: 26 so far. i try to keep them under four > lines, but that ain't always feasibl

Re: ipmasq

2001-04-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:14:50PM +0200, Michael Steiner wrote: > As far as I know masquerading is working only for tcp. Have to disagree there. Works fine for UDP too for me. > Domain services are using mainly udp. > Therefor I have running at the firewall a dns server. Always a good choice. A

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Shutko
Daniel Freedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From what I know, MS Word Import is so hard mainly because .DOC it > is not a very explicitly defined format Actually, Abiword does very well at it. The major problem comes from documents with things Abiword doesn't support (mostly tables). -- Alan

Re: HOWTO? Fix a term that has "space junk"

2001-04-24 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:51:11AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: HOWTO? Fix a term that has "space junk" > Date: Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 10:47:22PM -0400 > > In reply to:Mark Hurley > > Quoting Mark Hurley([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I'd like to think I resort to man's, HOWTO's etc.

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Russell May
Daniel Katz wrote: > > Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > YMMV. Does anyone who uses Abiword on Stable know how well > > > importing works? > > > > Sorry about my ignorance, but what does YMMV mean? > > > > "Your Mileage May Vary." It is essentially a disclaimer. > > Th

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Daniel Katz
Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > YMMV. Does anyone who uses Abiword on Stable know how well > > importing works? > > Sorry about my ignorance, but what does YMMV mean? > "Your Mileage May Vary." It is essentially a disclaimer. This acronym and much other lore can be found

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi Christopher > thanks for your answer > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:03:05PM -0500, Christopher Cyll wrote: > > Hi Marcelo, > > The Abiword in Unstable reads Word97 just fine (though complicated MS Word > > features will not show up). What ver

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Kent West
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Stable is a bunch of revisions behind on Abiword, so if that's what you run, > > YMMV. Does anyone who uses Abiword on Stable know how well importing works? > > Sorry about my ignorance, but what does YMMV mean? > > Thanks! > Marcelo Your Mileage May Vary = you

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi Christopher thanks for your answer On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 05:03:05PM -0500, Christopher Cyll wrote: > Hi Marcelo, > The Abiword in Unstable reads Word97 just fine (though complicated MS Word > features will not show up). What version of Debian are you running? Potato! > Stable is a bunch

Re: isdn routher

2001-04-24 Thread Karsten Heymann
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Brian Smith wrote: > I'm trying to build an isdn router using linux, > > [...] > > an old pc and isdn card, I noticed isdn modules in the install list > when I installed potatoe, are these made for building a router ? > does anyone know of an isdn card that is definitely s

Re: Keyboard language settings in woody

2001-04-24 Thread Willi Dyck
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:41:02PM +0200, Ralf Batri wrote: > In your /etc/init.d/keymap.sh is a reverence which looks for > /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz. > Create one or copy /etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz . Wow, thanks for that tip. I had just scripted my own one to load that map at bootti

Re: The Perfect Debian / Personal Computer

2001-04-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:14:52AM -0700, Denzil Kelly wrote: > If you already have an internal modem you can use it, > but if you were buying one get an external one. This > is not really that big of an issue. I was assuming > that you were building the box from scratch. One > reason to avoid inte

Re: abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Christopher Cyll
Hi Marcelo, The Abiword in Unstable reads Word97 just fine (though complicated MS Word features will not show up). What version of Debian are you running? Stable is a bunch of revisions behind on Abiword, so if that's what you run, YMMV. Does anyone who uses Abiword on Stable know how well imp

Re: Which bootup script brings up interface 'lo'

2001-04-24 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> I'm trying to work out where interface 'lo' is brought up on potato. |> |> I've grepped through /etc, but can't see any references to |> 'ifconfig'. Under potato (2.2) the standard scheme is this: . the script `networking' is run at boot time . `networking' calls `ifup' (cf the manpage)

abiword

2001-04-24 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! The AbiWord's site says that AbiWord works fine with Word97 *.doc files. Is it true? Thanks in advance! Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Keyboard language settings in woody

2001-04-24 Thread Ralf Batri
On Die, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:41:59 +0200, Willi Dyck wrote: > Hi *, > > after upgrading to woody, my keyboard language setting is US, but only > on the console. No prob. in X. My question now, how/where can I change > this back to germany? > TIA > MfG/Regards, Willi Hi Willi, there has been a thr

Re: gnome cal? Doesn't seem to process alarms

2001-04-24 Thread Steve Witt
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > Is anybody using gnome calendar (gnome-pim package)? I've tried many times > over the last 6 months and I've never been able to get it to do anything. > The specified times pass with no notification. > > I'm currently using woody. > > ...RickM... > Y

Re: hda timeout waiting for DMA?

2001-04-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:06:38PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > > Is it a western digital? Really old? Do you have an unsupported chipset? > > Yes, it's a WD. Probably 5 years old, max. The chipset (which escapes me > at the moment) is suppor

Re: WinTV card not working

2001-04-24 Thread Volker Schlecht
> running Sid updated today, kernel 2.4.3, bttv driver 7.63 and xawtv. I have > tried everyway I can figure to load the modules and lsmod is showing the > tuner module is loaded but it won't work. I have tried various methods of > loading the tuner. I know it has a ntsc Philips tuner but no luck.

Re: Keyboard language settings in woody

2001-04-24 Thread Willi Dyck
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:41:59PM +0200, Willi Dyck wrote: > Hi *, > > after upgrading to woody, my keyboard language setting is US, but only > on the console. No prob. in X. My question now, how/where can I change > this back to germany? > TIA > MfG/Regards, Willi Just solved this problem by `l

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