Re: Bash problem with subshell and *

2006-12-13 Thread Almut Behrens
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:10:58 +0100, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > Hi. I'm working on Sarge. I'm parsing a text file when.. > > cd tmp > ls > aaa bbb ccc ddd > > My script parse all file into directory, and grep ^Subject line. > > for i in *; do > egrep '^Subject:' $i > done > > Subject: Hello Andre

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 03:41:53PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/07/06 15:12, Almut Behrens wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:16:54PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > >> I have a directory of files t

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:16:54PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I have a directory of files that are created daily using > filename-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz so I have a directory with files whose > names advance from filename-20061201.tar.gz to filename-20061202.tar.gz > to filename-20061203.tar.

Re: Font for PC graphics characters

2006-05-08 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:46:31PM -0400, T wrote: > On Mon, 08 May 2006 13:31:27 -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:27:59PM -0400, T wrote: > >> which font is capable of showing the PC graphics characters (ie ascii > >> art)? > > > > Well, if you want to display AS

Re: Makefile parametrisation

2006-04-25 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:56:27PM +0200, Dennis Stosberg wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'd like to define a symbol ARCH in my Makefile to be the output > > of > > uname -m > > > > The obvious thing, just starting with > > > > ARCH = `uname -m` > > > > didn't seem to work. It defi

Re: libXda.so

2006-04-24 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:52:25AM -0700, Isabella Thomm wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Debian unstable and since the last update to the new xorg my > 3d acceleration does not work anymore. glxgears tells that it misses the > accelerated x library libXda.so.1, which was not necessary before. In >

Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH under Linux

2006-04-12 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:23:00PM -0400, T wrote: > On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:17:44 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >> We used the environment var LD_LIBRARY_PATH to give preference/order of > >> the libraries that we use. Does this still applied to Linux? > >> > >> I tried to do it under Linu

Re: Stupid shell script question about "read"

2006-03-02 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:19:02AM -0800, David Kirchner wrote: > On 3/2/06, Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > Could someone tell me why the following works in zsh but not in > > bash/posh/dash? > > > > benjo[3]:~% echo foo bar baz | read a b c > > benjo[4]:~% echo $a

Re: urgent newbie question : ssh : problem with variable inside ssh session

2006-01-25 Thread Almut Behrens
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:49:39AM +0100, Stephane Durieux wrote: > Hello > > I have a problem in a ssh script: > ssh host << EOF > for o in /directory/* > cp -pr /directory/* /other_location > > the problem is that variable o isn t created in fact. It seems that the it > is created

Re: xterm and mc shortcuts

2006-01-25 Thread Almut Behrens
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 09:21:43AM +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: > > so /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm is used in both cases. Regarding the stty -a > output they are also the same. When pressing Ctrl-V the behaviour is the > same: if I press once then nothing and if I press twice then ^V appears. If >

Re: Appletalk Starting and Failing during Sarge Boot

2006-01-24 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:15:11PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Almut Behrens wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 05:21:57AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > >>Thanks very much for the advice. I'll go to her machine and > >>try to figure out how to uninstall. > > &g

Re: Appletalk Starting and Failing during Sarge Boot

2006-01-24 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 05:21:57AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Chinook wrote: > > [uninstall netatalk, possibly task-howl, howl-tools, and mdnsresponder] > > > Thanks very much for the advice. I'll go to her machine and > try to figure out how to uninstall. or better even, let her do it hersel

Re: xterm and mc shortcuts

2006-01-24 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:06:25AM +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using xterm but there is a thing that annoys me: when I'm using xterm as > a normal user there is no problem using the shortcuts with mc (Alt+C or > Alt+S an so on), but as I do a su in the same vt and try to use the > s

Re: gs-esp, gs-gpl or gs-afpl?

2006-01-22 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 12:38:27PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > > While reading another post here, I noticed gs-afpl was giving smaller > PDF files of these gs-* options to a user. > > Which of the three is 'better'? Or, which of the three makes 'best' PS > or PDF files? Any recommendations? Unfortunate

Re: System administration question

2006-01-22 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 02:33:47PM +0100, Mitja Podreka wrote: > hello > > As I'm very new in system administrating and not an old Debian user > either, I would like to ask you for some suggestions about system > administration. > I have six identical networked computers running Debian. All the

Re: Building Linux 2.6.16-rc1-git4

2006-01-22 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 01:50:37AM +0200, Linas Zvirblis wrote: > I cannot get 2.6.16-rc1[-git4] to build, so am seeking advice here. > > "make vmlinux" gives me this: > > /bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `(' > /bin/sh: -c: line 0: `set -e; echo ' CHK include/linux/ver

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-22 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 02:49:17AM -0500, Chinook wrote: > The issue is something that I wondered about (and commented on) early > on. On my Mac I see the printer [EMAIL PROTECTED] but my Mac can't > actually print to it because my Mac (via my router) can't resolve the > hostname "debian1." >

Re: Most directories locked read-only: unlocked!

2006-01-19 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 10:04:17PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > > I then was able to amend /etc/fstab for the root directory mount by > fixing the typo. I also removed the "errors=remount-ro" option. > Apparently the Debian installer always adds this option to the fstab > mount line for the

Re: permissions - is this the best approach?

2006-01-19 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 12:45:55PM -0500, Chinook wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >>On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 01:38 -0500, Chinook wrote: > >>>The idea is to allow various users on the Linux box the ability to > >>>create and delete their own files in /home/lanshare/public and to > >>>read/copy

Re: Most directories locked read-only: how to unlock them?

2006-01-18 Thread Almut Behrens
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:56:31PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > Almut Behrens wrote: > > >Copy /etc/fstab to /tmp/fstab and fix your "drfaults" typo in there. > > I copied /etc/fstab to /var/fstab and fixed the typ. > > >Then patch a temporary copy of /bi

Re: Scripting again...

2006-01-16 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:40:48AM +0100, John Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > how do you change (from the command line) with (sed/awk/... > anything that's available in the installation environment) > > "text:\n someothertext" to "text: someothertext" > > The trick is in the new

Re: Most directories locked read-only: how to unlock them?

2006-01-16 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 07:42:38PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > Thanks to Stural Holm Hansen and Steve Kemp for answering my post. > Unfortunately I my problem is still not solved. > > I first tried Steve Kemp's suggestion, because it was the simpler, > as it did not require use o

Re: Script challenge

2006-01-14 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 02:39:17PM +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 11:37:42AM +0100, John Smith wrote: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > cat [snip] > > It's driving me nuts!!! > > Depending on what you want cat to the newscriptfile.sh, you need to > escape all the

Re: Bug #269499 apache-ssl CustomLog problems

2006-01-12 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:38:29AM -0500, jef e wrote: > apache-ssl bug #269499 "apache-ssl: SSL log directives don't work" > > I'm wondering if anyone has found or is using an easy workaround for > this particular bug that doesn't require a recompile/source code change > of the package as ment

Re: Problem with kdm 3.5 not starting

2006-01-10 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:07:10PM +, David Goodenough wrote: > I have a sacrificial machine which I keep fully up to date with unstable. > > This morning KDE 3.5 arrived, so I installed it. It seems to work just fine > if I start it with startx. > > BUT kdm will not start, and in the file

Re: dialup internet connection + mc = long startup

2006-01-06 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 03:28:01AM +0300, Roman Makurin wrote: > Hi All! > > At home I`ve got slow dialup internet connection and when I connect to > internet mc startup time becomes very long - about 20 seconds :) When I > disconect everything goes fine - strtup less then a second. I think it`s

Re: Boot in console not X [Was]Re: X server problem

2006-01-05 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 01:35:40PM +, David Pead wrote: > > Now however, in my fumbling around trying to fix the Xserver I've messed up > the keyboard mapping. I need to get back to the command line to reconfigure > but can't use the usual alt-F1. normally, from within X, that would be ctrl-a

Re: MTA slow to start

2006-01-05 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 01:13:21AM -0500, Tyler Smith wrote: > > I'm still not clear on the purpose of exim4. I understand that the > system will on occassion send me a message, but in several months on > Sarge this has never happened. I get all my mail via a pop account - > does exim4 know my

Re: cdrecord as user

2006-01-04 Thread Almut Behrens
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:43:29AM +0100, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > Hi, I need help get cdrecord running as normal user. > > I have installed it as suid root but get access denied trying to run it as > normal user. The user is in the group "cdrom" > > cdrom dev is: brw-rw 1 root cdrom 11,

Re: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

2006-01-01 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 08:01:37PM -0600, Matt England wrote: > I'm still looking for any guidance on this topic. > > In summary: > > Can one run Sarge-built binaries on Woody? As I tried to explain at length in my previous post: in general no, except with massive tweaking (either at build-time,

Re: php4.so, undefined symbol: RAND_load_file (Apache 1.3)

2005-12-31 Thread Almut Behrens
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 07:12:20PM -0500, Julien Lamarche wrote: > > For MapTools' FGS base with Chamelon, I used it's own install script. Did you run the install script as root, or as your normal user? Which destination directory did you specify when asked? I haven't really used FGS myself so

Re: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

2005-12-29 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:45:55PM -0600, Matt England wrote: > Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems: > > Is this feasible? > > I'm not talking about package management...just the raw, binary. > > Are dynamic-library-management tricks needed? Does the Debian testing > authority (or wh

Re: searching for a font - not a debian specific topic

2005-12-27 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 07:02:02PM +0100, LeVA wrote: > > I'm looking for a font, and I hope someone recognise it, or can show me > something similar. (...) "HelveticaNeue-BlackCond" looks pretty similar. Contact me off-list if you have further questions... Almut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: unsubscribe

2005-12-20 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:51:31PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 15:42, Almut Behrens wrote: > >Sometimes I'm wondering whether it's that very "REQUEST" being > >capitalized that's confusing people -- and whether simply using >

Re: unsubscribe

2005-12-20 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 07:58:19PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:49:19 -0700 > Richard DeVillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > unsubscribe > > > > PLEASE! > > Maybe a pretty please will help :))) > > Don't send this to the list, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sometimes

Re: find/replace in place

2005-12-19 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:38:23PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > I have a database name I want to replace inside of an xml file. I can do > this in several step using sed, but I would like to do it in a single step > using perl. This is what I have in sed and what does not work in perl. > > SED > #!/

Re: Customize xfterm4 for a terminal-bound program in Xfce

2005-12-17 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:54:53AM -0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: > Hi, > > I'm migrating from KDE to Xfce and I'm not being able to do this: to add a > launcher in the Panel for a program running on a terminal, with customized > terminal properties. For example, I'd like to launch mut

Re: Apache2 error

2005-12-17 Thread Almut Behrens
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:28:47PM +0100, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > > [emerg] (38)Function not implemented: Couldn't create accept lock > > Kernel is 2.6.13.4 > Dual xeon proc, 1gb ram > > New installation, everything installed with apt-get > > I have no idea what it means Typicall

Re: WordPerfect 8.0 (installation)

2005-12-16 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 06:04:59PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > So it would appear that packages xlibs and xlibs-data supercede > xlib6g. In fact, the properties list of xlibs_4.3.0dfsg.1-14sarge1 says > that it replaces xlib6g(<< 4.0). The xlib6g I was trying to install was > 3.3.5-1.0.

Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?

2005-12-13 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 07:52:56PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > $ ldd qcad > linux-gate.so.1 => (0x) > ... > libXcursor.so.1 => not found > ... > > I cannot find linux-gate on packages.debian, so I don't know about that. That linux-gate.so is a "virtual D

Re: start-stop-daemon.... for the love of GOD! Why?

2005-12-12 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 03:32:57PM -0700, Mike wrote: > > normally you just have a set of source functions library like > /etc/init.d/functions or some other path that you use for your init > scripts. Debian has decided to daomonize it with this start-stop-daemon > thing they made up. I guess I co

Re: XKB problem with x-terminal

2005-12-11 Thread Almut Behrens
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 11:22:30PM +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:34:26PM +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:16:09PM +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote: > > > Is there a way to compile keyboard definitions for X and save them > > > s

Re: start-stop-daemon and java

2005-12-10 Thread Almut Behrens
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 10:26:46PM -0800, Scott Muir wrote: > Have a question which i think relates to s-s-d more than java but as i've > been learning, what do i know? > > part of my init.d script. > > APPDIR="/usr/jsyncmanager" > APPUSER="jsync" > ARGS="-Xmx256M -jar jsyncmanager.ja

Re: Help with syslog.conf syntax and structure?

2005-12-08 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:01:53AM +, Adam Funk wrote: > I've been running leafnode, which generates a lot of news.info syslog > entries -- making up over 95% of /var/log/syslog -- so I want to stop > logging news.info at all, but without interfering with anything else. > > I've read various m

Re: mod_perl installation docs

2005-12-08 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:06:39AM -0500, Mark Copper wrote: > > In /usr/share/doc/apache-perl/README-perl.Debian it says > "Apache can be configured to pass requests for dynamic content to a > second server. See the mod_perl documentation for more details on this." > > Would any of you mi

Re: XKB problem with x-terminal

2005-12-08 Thread Almut Behrens
(okay, took me while to reply, but just in case you haven't figured it out yourself in the meantime...) On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:16:09PM +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to compile keyboard definitions for X and save them > somewhere, where XServer can read them, when it start

Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?

2005-12-07 Thread Almut Behrens
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 12:17:47PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 19:41:04 +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: > > you probably want to install ia32-libs. This should provide > > the 32-bit compatibility libraries, and the correct link > > > >

Re: postfix + osCommerce problem

2005-12-06 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:30:48PM +0100, Thomas Jollans wrote: > I am creating an osCommerce-based webshop and am having probems with > postfix. the mail below gets returned by the mailer. (things in square > brackets were left because they are unimportant and/or to protect my and > other's pri

Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?

2005-12-06 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:59:50PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 19:41:04 +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: > > If both approaches fail to work, try bugging whoever you paid for the > > license to supply a true 64-bit version. Or, if you don't need t

Re: bash and variable holding directories with spaces

2005-12-06 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:07:02PM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 12:11:22AM +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 05:58:28PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > > > > > $ DIRS="'file\ 1 file\ 2'"; ls -ln "$DIRS"

Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?

2005-12-06 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:26:36PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > # ls -l /lib/ld-linux* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2005-11-26 09:24 /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -> > ld-2.3.5.so > > so I did: > > # ln -s /lib/ld-2.3.5.so /lib/ld-linux.so.2 > > after which > > # ./qcad > bash: ./qcad: Accessing

Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?

2005-12-06 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:41:46AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 1:11:32 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > > > > > >The problem is that installed software sometimes refuses to run, giving > > >'file not found', in spite

Re: Defining environment variables and cgi scripts

2005-12-04 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 10:15:55PM -0500, Tom Moore wrote: > hi. > I have a cgi script I want apache to execute for me. > The problem I'm having is I don't know how to include editional > environmental variables that the script requires. > How do I add a variable called PAYMENTIC_HOME to the list

Re: bash and variable holding directories with spaces

2005-12-03 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 05:58:28PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > Michael Marsh wrote: > > If I understand the behavior you want correctly, then > > DIRS="'/cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings /cygdrive/d/My\ Data'" > > works for me. > > > > This also works for constructions like > > DIRS="'$dir1 $dir2'" >

Re: Help about tftpd!

2005-12-01 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:08:16PM +0800, Li Weichen wrote: > Hi all, > > I have encountered a question about tftpd. I use tftpd-hpa to set up a tftp > server in my Debian sarge 3.1. If I start the tftpd use > '/etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa start' command, I will get the "file not found" > message after

Re: ALL my email vanished

2005-12-01 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:27:14PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:56:09PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > > Clive Menzies wrote: > > >On (01/12/05 18:21), Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >>On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >>>Last nighe all my email in /v

Re: vesa mode for MPlayer compile problem

2005-12-01 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:36:04PM +0100, Dirk wrote: > which package containes ? > > MPlayer needs it for the vesa mode output... Just grepped in the mplayer sources for a reference of "vbe.h", but couldn't find anything -- so, not sure what exactly you need... Normally, for the "true" VESA mo

Re: Kerberos acl permission

2005-12-01 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:00:49PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Trying to set up keberos5 on a Debian Sarge server. As a note I am going > by the instructions provided by a Linux Journal article, which may be > found at: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7336 > > Regardless, setting it up ha

Re: screen blanking

2005-11-30 Thread Almut Behrens
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:11:39PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Xset did not define the dpms states, this does: > http://webpages.charter.net/dperr/dpms.htm > > Also you have to set the option in the monitor section, per googling for > dpms subject. > > However, doing all that, I got it to wo

Re: Help understanding this apache2 directive from apache2.conf

2005-11-30 Thread Almut Behrens
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:35:40PM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote: > In [/etc/apache2/apache2.conf] file there's this line : > <<< > # Include generic snippets of statements > Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/[^.#]* > >>> > > What does the [^.#]* say ? > I know that it's regular expression but I've yet to s

Re: scripting problem

2005-11-26 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 08:16:31PM +0100, John Smith wrote: > does somebody know why I keep losing the first character of the > third resulting string? > > === > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user/tmp >cat t4.sh > #!/bin/sh > > export INPUT='

Re: compiling kernel module question

2005-11-26 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 12:51:55AM -0500, Amish Rughoonundon wrote: > lemme see if I understand what you meant: The kernel-source files that I > downloaded is common to all linux distribution while the kernel-header > files is particular to a certain version and distribution. ...not so much the

Re: compiling kernel module question

2005-11-25 Thread Almut Behrens
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 05:36:26PM -0500, Amish Rughoonundon wrote: > Hi, > I have been trying to compile and insert a simple kernel module but > without luck. This is what I did. > Since the freshly installed debian sarge 3.1 distro did not have any > source files under /usr/src, I di uname -a to

Re: xkb Layout does not work altGr key

2005-11-20 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 09:13:03PM +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:33:33AM +0100, Jose Salavert wrote: > > I have made this dvorak layout , but AltGr does not work. > (...) > > key {[ 1, EuroSign, ] >

Re: xkb Layout does not work altGr key

2005-11-20 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:33:33AM +0100, Jose Salavert wrote: > I have made this dvorak layout , but AltGr does not work. > I am mad trying to understand or see what I forgot. > Another question is what to do to use a left menu key or similar as AltGr > too, or shift control or something, is for f

Re: WordPerfect 8.0

2005-11-19 Thread Almut Behrens
(having nothing to contribute to that Corel/SCO/whoever issue, I'll try to answer the original question...;) On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 06:33:25PM +, Ken Heard wrote: > (...) > Debian being Debian, surely there is a way to install xlib6g without > having to remove all 175 of those other pa

Re: WordPerfect 8.0

2005-11-19 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 07:58:00AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > If you want Reveal Codes, you could always edit the XML in Vim... > > Ugggh! I'll use FTE instead. ;-) Heh! another fte user -- unbelievable :) (That's my secret love, too, but so far I got the impression I'm the only one in th

Re: bad md5sum for initrd in hd-media?

2005-11-18 Thread Almut Behrens
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 01:21:22PM -0700, David Emerson wrote: > I downloaded initrd.gz and vmlinuz from: > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/other/hd-media/2.6/ > > (I'm intending to install sarge from hard drive on a computer with a flaky > cd-rom) > > There are md5sums at > htt

Re: fortran compiler bug

2005-11-16 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 04:55:22PM +1300, Steven Jones wrote: > We seem to be having issues getting a bug registered > ... because I don't know what the bug-reporting web site > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi > means by host,target and build triplets. I'd guess they're referring

Re: redirecting the output with sudo

2005-11-16 Thread Almut Behrens
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:29:43PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Is there a way to do this in one single command? > > $wajig doc > /tmp/wajig_doc.txt > $sudo mv /tmp/wajig_doc.txt /root/wajig_doc.txt > > ie I want to redirect the output of a command to a file and store this > in a director

Re: VSFTPD problems

2005-11-16 Thread Almut Behrens
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 07:55:08PM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Rudi Starcevic on 16/11/05 07:52, wrote: > >Hello, > > > >Just can't get vsftpd to work? > > > >apt-get install vsftpd always used to work > > > >This is my error: > > > >*500 **OOPS*: *cap_set_proc* > > > > > >[quote] > >On Linux s

Re: speaker bell in konsole

2005-11-14 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 02:50:12PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I use konsole with fvwm. > > Bell is set to "system bell" but no PC speaker beep is produced. > > Xterm does. > > Does Konsole enable the PC speaker as bell sound? I'm not using konsole/kde, so this may be utter nonsense... Anyw

Re: Can't Start KDE from Normal User; Only from Root

2005-11-12 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 10:31:22AM -0500, David R. Litwin wrote: > When I try to log in to KDE using KDM through my normal user, the screen > goes black, then returns to KDM. This is indicative of X having crashed, > since I told KDM to re-appear if that should happen. Loging in through a > consle

Re: How to downgrade libc6 ?

2005-11-12 Thread Almut Behrens
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 04:14:07PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > today, I aptitude installed apache2, which took a new libc6 with it. > Now I can't link against one of my libs anymore: > > /usr/local/lib/libcpdbg.a(cpdebug.o)(.text+0x374): In function > `dbgSprintx': > : undefined reference t

Re: Portable way to get my NICs' IPs

2005-10-27 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 04:54:22PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 01:45:36PM -0700, John Purser wrote: > > You might consider one of the multi-platform languages like Python or > > Perl. Both have modules that will do this I believe. > > Yeah, that's what I'm looking for

Re: Building Tuxmath with KDevelop

2005-10-10 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 05:20:23PM -0400, David Bruce wrote: > > I installed the source package for TuxMath using the source option for > apt-get, and also grabbed libsdl-dev. AFAIK, there is no such package (libsdl-dev), but rather several libsdl-*-dev packages, containing various components (t

Re: apache2 mod_perl sarge not working

2005-09-30 Thread Almut Behrens
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:33:16PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to get mod_perl working on my Debian Sarge box. I have > installed the libapache2-mod-perl2 and its dependencies via Synaptic. > > My /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/perl.load file has the following: > > --

Re: counting bandwidth usage

2005-09-29 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:14:41PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Very trivial question. I have two machines workA, homeB. Let's say I am > sitting at workA and run an nxclient session to connect to homeB. Now in > this homeB session, I open a konsole and download 1GB file (using wget). > W

Re: annoying eog warnings

2005-09-29 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:26:32AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > When I run "eog" to view an image, it always outputs some warnings: > >$ LANG=C eog ../images/image73-s1280x1024-a3-Ftriang-g1.8.png >** (eog:5433): WARNING **: Failed to lock: No locks available >** (eog:5433): WARNING **

Re: embedding fonts

2005-09-20 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 01:39:48AM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > Hi, I'm running testing. I am having trouble with creating PDFs with > embedded fonts. (I'm generating them from LyX and LaTeX sources.) The > process worked before an apt-upgrade I did a week ago. > > I'm still investigating; I

Re: OT [Re: Advice needed about submitting bugs]

2005-09-19 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 11:50:05PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:55:31PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alberto Zeni wrote: > > > Dear Sirs, > > > > There are some Madams here as well. :-) > > It has come to my attention

Re: bash script

2005-09-17 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:33:03PM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: > Am trying to automate some stuff for future installs. > I'd like to echo multiple lines to the end of a file. Like this > > echo '. /etc/bash_completion' >> ~/.bashrc > > But I'd like to add multiple lines at one time. Like the on

Re: adventures with window managers

2005-09-11 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 11:47:04PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Adam Hardy on 11/09/05 23:00, wrote: > > >UWM: Your X-Server doesn't support the SHAPES extension . terminating > > > >I can't find any reference to SHAPES extension in synaptic. Where does > >it reside? > > Just realised you prob

Re: cyrus getting slower over time

2005-09-09 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 09:20:16PM +0200, oneman wrote: > > I've got a problem with cyrus getting slower over time when checking > mail, up to a point where clients start timing out... First cyrus > works flawlessly, then it starts responding slower to mailchecking > and eventually becomes u

Re: apache2 and php rendering

2005-09-08 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 06:01:07PM -0400, Bernd Prager wrote: > > I'm trying to use some Flickr images on my website and wrote a php > script that gets me the link. > Within the html page I want to use now a tag like src="/php/getImage.php" /> for the image. > If I call the script directly in the

Re: pb with Printing using CUPS v1.1.x and lpd LaserJet1100

2005-09-08 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 03:03:24PM +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: > >D [08/Sep/2005:10:45:57 +0200] [Job 20] Spooler: cups > >D [08/Sep/2005:10:45:57 +0200] [Job 20] Printer: HPLaserJet1100CUPSv1.1.x > >D [08/Sep/2005:10:45:57 +0200] [Job 20] PPD file: > >/etc/cups/ppd/HPLaserJet1100CUPSv1.1.x.p

Re: Desperation with Hylafax and AVM Fritz ISDN Card PCI on a debian system

2005-09-07 Thread Almut Behrens
Hi Andreas, quick side note: please keep the thread on-list, so other people who might google this up some time in the future will have a chance to see if/how the problem was solved. It's kinda frustrating when you google and only find others having the same problem, but no solutions... don't you

Re: Desperation with Hylafax and AVM Fritz ISDN Card PCI on a debian system

2005-09-06 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:17:17PM +0200, Andreas Moser wrote: > Hello Almut, > > after changing the rights for the capi20 device, there was no > difference in the delivery of the facsimile. > Any other ideas? Not really ;) -- well, ok, next thing I would try is to manually call c2faxsend from th

Re: Desperation with Hylafax and AVM Fritz ISDN Card PCI on a debian system

2005-09-05 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:53:27PM +0200, Andreas Moser wrote: > (...) > Seems so that my controller is working. > Now I had to check whether the group dialout can access on /dev/capi20 > and the user "uucp" is member in this group too. > > alpha:/dev# ls -l capi20 > crw--- 1 uucp dialout 68,

Re: European chars to ascii

2005-08-19 Thread Almut Behrens
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:34:24AM -0400, Tong wrote: > > Is there any tools that can convert European characters to plain > 7bit-Ascii? > > E.g., ä => a, ö => o, etc. I don't know if there's a better tool, but I would do something like: $ tr 'äöüß' 'aous' ascii-out (simply extend the char li

Re: Re: SSL problem + Apache 1.3.33

2005-08-19 Thread Almut Behrens
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:45:36AM +0200, Belikov Anton wrote: > > Hi All, > I have the same problem with Apache 2 / mod_ssl under Red Hat. Can you please > give me a hint. What was the reason in this case? I also can use > http://myserver:443 while https://myserver doesn't work and I see in >

Re: UT2k4 install questions

2005-08-11 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 06:36:31PM +, Mike Markiw III wrote: > > On the DVD is a file named linux-installer.sh. I su to root and try to > execute it when I get the following message: > bash: ./linux-installer.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied Most likely, the script doesn't hav

Re: stable mod_python apache not working

2005-07-11 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 04:57:25PM -0500, Indraneel Majumdar wrote: > I am unable to get the example from the mod_python tutorial working with > apache, on debian stable. No error in the server logs. Apache just shows > me the script contents when I point the browser at it. To have Python code be

Re: Why has "find ... -exec rm -i '{}' ';'" stopped working?

2005-07-05 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 12:41:48PM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > michael wrote: > > Well on 'sarge', under bash, the > > find . -name 'whatever' -exec rm -i {} ";" > > works as expected for me, but the above example exhibits the same > > performance as you note (I'm no 'xargs' expert and can's see wh

Re: System exiting due to kernel....

2005-06-30 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:55:23PM +0200, Marco Calviani wrote: > ..., but what is an OOM Killer? OOM = out of memory. The OOM killer is responsible for killing processes when the system is running out of virtual memory (so the system itself will "stay alive"). (In your case it hit the X serve

Re: Accessing a program started in another term

2005-06-30 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:29:50PM -0500, Colin Ingram wrote: > Lets say, I'm at work and I start a remote session for an interactive > program, like octave. Then I go home with and my remote terminal > session and the octave program are still running at work. Is there a > way for me to take c

Re: Printing on a shared printer from debian to Novell Server

2005-06-30 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:05:01PM +0200, Almut Behrens wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:37:26PM +0700, Prabu Subroto wrote: > > > > I work at a workstation and my workstation is associated in a LAN. My > > internet connection is only through http proxy server. So i

Re: Printing on a shared printer from debian to Novell Server

2005-06-30 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:37:26PM +0700, Prabu Subroto wrote: > > I work at a workstation and my workstation is associated in a LAN. My > internet connection is only through http proxy server. So if I want to > go to internet, I have to set my internet browser for the ip number and > the port num

Re: question about sarge and Sony Vaio PCG V505 EX

2005-06-29 Thread Almut Behrens
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:06:54PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to install sarge in a Sony Vaio PCG V505 EX laptop. I didn't find > anything about it in the list. Besides, in the site > http://www.linux-laptop.net/ there is only information about woody and > gentoo on

Re: Avidemux won't open 2,8GB movie

2005-06-29 Thread Almut Behrens
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:45:51PM +0200, Vegard|drageV wrote: > Avidemux works fine with smaller movies (typically 700MB), but gives > an errormessage in the commandwindow: > > Images stat:___Max memory consumed (MB) : 0 > Current memory consumed (MB) : 0 > Max image used

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