Re: good book to learn perl

1999-11-21 Thread Dave Baker
> can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl > ? :) Go with the O'Reilly "Camel" books - you can't go wrong with them. try: http://www.perl.com and: http://www.oreilly.com -Dave -- | oOOooO / --|oOobodoO/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --|

Re: Can't "make menuconfig"

1999-11-20 Thread Dave Baker
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Kent West wrote: > I can "make config" and "make xconfig" but I can not "make menuconfig". > When I try, I get the following: I'm going to make the connection and presume you're trying to compile the kernel. It'd normally help if you say which kernel you're compiling since t

Potato, X and backspace/delete

1999-11-16 Thread Dave Baker
This should be an easy one but I've spent a few weeks on and off digging about in the archives and haven't run across the answer. When I upgrade slink->potato my keyboard mapping broke so that now Delete acts the same as Backspace (deletes to the left). I can fix this manually for xemacs with a

Re: find -exec

1999-11-13 Thread Dave Baker
> What i wanna do ..is 2 things > > find all files in a directory tree and chmod them 644 > > find . -exec chmod u+wx {} -type f > try this: find . -type f -exec echo {} \; I've replaced the chmod with a painless payload so you can test it out first. the \; is required to mark the end of the

Re: DON'T FORGET TO RESTART EXIM ?

1999-11-12 Thread Dave Baker
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > DON'T FORGET TO RESTART EXIM. > > > > Does exim run as a daemon on a desktop machines ? > Let me rephrase my statement. Don't forget to restart exim if you're running it as a daemon. I'll leave the discussion of daemon vs inetd to someone els

Re: exim problem with local usernames vs. ISP-mail name

1999-11-11 Thread Dave Baker
> I have a problem confuguring exim. > When I write mails that are delivered over my ISP, they have > my local username and local hostname as return-path, reply > and s an. [snip] > Has anyone an example how to do this ? I think this is nothing > unusual - but I am quit new to exim an the rest w

Re: mysql root password

1999-11-01 Thread Dave Baker
> Sometime, when i installed mysql ( don't know why exatcly ) the configure > script advised me to set a root password. I yelled for the ghosts ( is it > correct? ) and set one with > myswladm password XXX > ok, so far so good. > > Every time when some apt script touches the database, it tries it

Re: apt-get not updating

1999-10-29 Thread Dave Baker
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Paul McHale wrote: > Looking at the debian security page, I see the cron utility has been upgrade > to fix a security problem. This was in august. When I run "apt-get update" > it appears to run correctly. When I run "apt-get dist-upgrade", nothing > happens. > > Here is t

Re: Wvdial and non-root access

1999-10-29 Thread Dave Baker
> Only root is able to use wvdial, even though I thought wvdial has been set > up for use by non-root users. was wvdial set up for this by yourself, or by the wvdial install program? > When I, as user david, type wvdial, I get an error that david cannot have > access to /dev/ttyS1. That's bette

Re: restart exim

1999-10-28 Thread Dave Baker
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Richard Weil wrote: > How do you restart exim after changing exim.conf? The manual says to > send the daemon process a SIGHUP signal, but I can't find the daemon > process pid. I use: # /etc/init.d/exim restart Alternatively, you can try: # kill -HUP `pidof exim` or even #

unexpected file /1

1999-10-27 Thread Dave Baker
Browsing my fairly recently updated potato system I find a file named '1' in the root directory. It contains the following lines repeated many times over. Elements moved to a different document Elements moved to a different document Elements moved to a different document Elements moved to a diff

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-26 Thread Dave Baker
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > Not being able to distribute your changes, is not free speech. It's crap > > and they > > are only hoping to capitalize on the hardwork of others without giving them > > anything truly worthwhile in return. > > Hi, what about a free off

Re: Lynx and ATP with http proxy

1999-10-21 Thread Dave Baker
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Richard Clarke wrote: > Hi, > Could somebody please suggest to me how I can use APT and lynx when > I have to use a http proxy with my university. > set environment variables http_proxy and (if needed) ftp_proxy that'll do it for lynx -- | oOOooO /

Re: Does exim work with fetchmail?

1999-10-21 Thread Dave Baker
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I currently use smail which works well with fetchmail. > > I thought I'd try exim since this is becoming standard in potato, but > although local mail works I can't get any mail via pop3 and fetchmail. > There's a fetchmail error message saying somet

Re: slink and potato

1999-10-18 Thread Dave Baker
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Todd Suess wrote: > I was brave, I just did apt-get dist-upgrade and waiting about 10 hours > for it to download everything and upgrade. Have had very little trouble > with it. > > -Todd > > ps. for this to work, you of course have to have apt installed and > a entry in sou

Re: What is the status of GNOME for slink.

1999-10-16 Thread Dave Baker
> Recently, the GNOME project stopped mirroring the debianized packages of > GNOME because GNOME has been included in the main Debian distribution. > This is fine for potato users. However, I have Gnumeric 0.25 installed on > my slink machine. I would like to use 0.38 because of many improvements.

Re: Creating/Moving a partition

1999-10-15 Thread Dave Baker
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Andrew Hately wrote: > "David J. Kanter" wrote: > > > > I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive > > space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade. > > What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partit

Re: Netscape installation...

1999-10-10 Thread Dave Baker
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Greg & Heather Vence wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking to install Communicator 4.5 today. I installed the two packages > but don't see where or how to run them. What do I need to type at the > command prompt? What do I still need to install? > > TIA -- Greg. > Hi Greg, Y

Re: Copying to a floppy

1999-10-10 Thread Dave Baker
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, dyer wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > Silly-Newbie questions: > > 1. How do I read what is in a floppy - Cdrom? I have tried "ls -F > > /dev/fd0" but shows nothing? > > You must first mount the device--either floppy or cdrom. read the mount man > pages. > Man pages a

Re: crontab reports: ....

1999-10-09 Thread Dave Baker
> > /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: > > /usr/sbin/sendmail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 777 changed to > > root.root > 4755 > > > > this may sound stupid... but was does this error message means? > This means that suidmanager found a problem with the sendmail executable and fixed it. Having

KDE 1.1.2 : kdesupport - debian packages missing giflib?

1999-10-03 Thread Dave Baker
I've been trying to get KDevelop installed for a few days now. The kdevelop.org homepage seems to be offline, and previously when I was able to connect the .deb file I found did not download correctly. Installing from tarball, ./configure complains about not finding giflib30 which should be part

Re: wvdial hangs?

1999-10-02 Thread Dave Baker
> > is wvdial "hanging" when the cursor gets a blank line after: " - - > > starting pppd > @ (date/time) 1999"? or am i supposed to do something? shouldn't i > get some > sort of prompt? > wvdial stays in the foreground after connecting. either run it witha & on the end if you want to do some

Re: LiLO and Multi distributions

1999-09-28 Thread Dave Baker
> Hello all, > > I have isntalled two distributions of Linux (Reh Hat 6 and Debian 2.1) on > two hard disks, just like the following: > > hda1: Win98 > hda3: Debian > hdc5: Red Hat > > I have the joined lilo.conf file, and when I run "lilo" I get the message > "/boot/bzImage-2.0.37 not found". L

Debian homepage and apt: releases/stable

1999-09-23 Thread Dave Baker
The debian homepage: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable talks about the new version of apt being available from netgot.net's home page. Clicking the link gives a 404 and searching through the site doesn't show it anywhere. Does anyone know where this can now be downloaded from? Also, does an