Re: Apt and NFS?

2000-09-26 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:53:18PM -0800, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > try this program i found it in the BTS regarding mutt and NFS: It seems to have the same problem. # ./a.out /mnt/apt/foo fcntl()=-1, errno=9 -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "

Re: OT: reccomended IMAP4 compadible server?

2000-09-26 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
ed qmail, so i can't comment on that. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I will take the Ring, though i do not know the way." --Frodo Baggins pgpXChCAMw2VC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Apt and NFS?

2000-09-26 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
it doesn't work. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I will take the Ring, though i do not know the way." --Frodo Baggins pgpsFCRG1hqTP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [ot] dns questions

2000-09-24 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
set up? I guess I don't > fully understand the system. *sigh* This was a violation of policy when i was in school, so you should check on that before registering. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I will take the Ring, though i do not know the way." --Frodo Baggins pgpLrUU9S5SGR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Apt and NFS?

2000-09-23 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
dial-up link. > IIRC, that's the problem that prompted me to mount /var/cache/apt nolock. > Whether it was or not, I haven't had any problems with it since adding the > nolock. That fixed it. Thanks! -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I will take the R

Apt and NFS?

2000-09-22 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
? -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I will take the Ring, though i do not know the way." --Frodo Baggins pgpoYb03nijhb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: why so hard to decline recommend packages dselect/apt

2000-08-20 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
t, but as soon as it's done i can run 'apt-get upgrade' and it will upgrade a few more packages. I don't understand why that happens, but it does. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When I give food to the poor I am called a saint, when I ask

Re: Mailbox Formates (was: Expiring mail)

2000-08-13 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
in my archive directory. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When I give food to the poor I am called a saint, when I ask why they go hungry I am called a communist" --Bishop Helder Camara pgpQFaQK7Iqki.pgp Description: PGP signature

Fwd: Re: maildir & imap [SOLVED]

2000-08-08 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
This wasn't sent to the list, so i'm forwarding it in case someone else finds it useful. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When I give food to the poor I am called a saint, when I ask why they go hungry I am called a communist" --Bishop Helder Camara --

Re: maildir & imap

2000-08-08 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
Does yours look something like this? If this isn't the problem, then you have me stumped. Sorry. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When I give food to the poor I am called a saint, when I ask why they go hungry I am called a communist" --Bishop Helder Camara pgp1VfBhMQRcD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: maildir & imap

2000-08-08 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
you don't need subfolders; i was just demonstrating how to use them. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When I give food to the poor I am called a saint, when I ask why they go hungry I am called a communist" --Bishop Helder Camara pgpK42bnT8MWL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: maildir & imap

2000-08-07 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
-f Sent Maildir This will create ~/Maildir/.Sent which you can access via IMAP as INBOX.Sent. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When I give food to the poor I am called a saint, when I ask why they go hungry I am called a communist" --Bishop Helder Camara pgpMtohT2hHiV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Lastest sawfish debs?

2000-07-13 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
ng it in his free time. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have the metabolism of a dead turtle." --David Austin pgpeRZSupZ2tC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Quake2 debs?

2000-07-06 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
Where can i find quake2 debs for unstable? I remember using debs once before, but i can't find any now (except for 2.0, which don't work). -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have the metabolism of a dead turtle." --David Austin pgpMMsL2rWl0C.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Changinf from xinitrc to xsession

2000-06-28 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
nome-session will start that for you, and you can select a different window manager in the control center. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are goi

Re: Postfix troubles

2000-06-27 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
ildir/ The first line is related to the dialup link, and the second is for Maildirs. With this setup, i am able to send mail to root without problems. Do you have an alias for root in /etc/aliases? -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fi

Re: postfix help

2000-06-21 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
email address properly in the MUA. That's all i had to do for my wife's account (whose ISP username is different from local usrname), and everything works fine. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not ne

Re: postfix help

2000-06-12 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
to configure some things to behave the way you want rather than the way the maintainer wants. > Seems like a-lot of work compared to netscrape, but then, when X > goes down and your only help is > this mail-list...well, you get the point. Not nearly as hard as it looks :). -- Eri

Re: Gnome E-Mail-Client

2000-06-10 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
tp://www.cscmail.net/ -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead.&q

Re: Will Debian run on my system?

2000-06-09 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
here will be any hardware > problems with it. Many thanks! It all looks fine to me. The only thing that might give you trouble are the Soundblaster and TNT cards, tough i'm not sure. Probably someone more informed about newer graphics and sound cards will tell you. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*&

Re: sawmillthemestodeb conversions

2000-06-08 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
quick fix is to remove the version number from the tarball name before running the conversion program. The solution is for the sawmill.themes.org people to stop messing with the filenames. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. Howeve

Re: staroffice

2000-06-02 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
with the '/net' option, and then each user who wants to run it has to run the setup program. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going

ipchains question

2000-05-09 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
t still doesn't work. I can't download mail, can't connect to web sites, etc. What am i doing wrong? -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy." --OMM (THX 1138) pgpySPq3T71F0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bag o' Questions

2000-05-06 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
le "[EMAIL PROTECTED]: %~" } P.S. Please wrap lines at 65 columns. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy." --OMM (THX 1138) pgpzHedsIofTW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Gnome gripes

2000-05-03 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
to ~/.Xresources like this: Xterm*font: fontname For Gnome apps, this is in a rather unintuitive place. It's in the "Theme Selector" section of the Control Center. For other apps, there's no telling, but it might be an X resource. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTE

moving from procmail to exim

2000-05-01 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
l somehow is the only solution, i'll take it. It's better than nothing. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy." --OMM (THX 1138) pgpdEiHCvlYVG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mutt and courier-imapd

2000-04-30 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
e're trying to get > mutt 1.2 out the door soon. So if it works and in particular if it > doesn't work, please let me know. Thanks for tracking this down! Hopefully, it will be fixed in courier soon, but in the meantime, your patch works great! I've gone back to using cour

Re: how do you set your system clock from a remote time server?

2000-04-22 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 10:54:03AM -0400, Maury Merkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saw, just a few days ago, a post with a command to get the current > time and reset the system clock. You're looking for ntpdate. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] &quo

Re: IMAP

2000-04-20 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
urier-imap, each user will have to run 'maildirmake Maildir' to create their INBOX, but that's it! Both packages come with good documentation. > Currently I use Exim. Both imap daemons i mentioned work well with Exim (that's what i'm using). P.S. Please wrap lines at 6

Re: Help with GDM (SOLVED!)

2000-04-12 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
nt it, and it works! -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy." --OMM (THX 1138) pgpM6Q3jjE4ay.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Help with GDM

2000-04-12 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
So, no one knows how to fix GDM? That's too bad. I was hoping that updating to Debian unstable would eliminate my needs for Red Hat. Looks like it's back to stupid old RPM... -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy m

Re: Help with GDM

2000-04-10 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
respawning after dying. I just can't figure out why it's dying. xdm is not even installed; gdm conflicts with it. Thanks for the speedy response. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy." --OMM (THX 1138) pgp2rtH7kbds1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Help with GDM

2000-04-10 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
l-alt-backspace it. Attached are the relevant parts of /var/log/syslog and the only two files i've modified from the default debian install, /etc/gdm/Init/Default and /etc/gdm/gdm.conf. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. B

Re: Linux Scripts

2000-03-05 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
nd a website on scripting. First of all, they're not "Linux scripts"; they're Bourne shell scripts, and, if written correctly, should run on any Unix system. Try 'man bash' for all the details. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Let us be thankful we

Re: A-x not defined in XEmacs

2000-02-15 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
aprc to ~/.Xmodmap, and the Debian X startup script (/etc/X11/Xsession) will load it for you. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy. And be happy." --OMM (THX 1138) pgpetAwu71Oyq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Is ppp still active when ip-down is called?

2000-02-07 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
our own poff to tell dyndns.org the new IP and then call the Debian poff. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] All hail the Dollar, King of the Earth. pgpssLENESn3j.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: = = = Beginner's Question = = = =

2000-01-31 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
"stdio.h"), when it should have been in greater-than/less-than brackets (). > %PATH does not include /usr/include now. Nor should it. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] All hail the Dollar, King of the Earth. pgp6UxzWUFt84.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to use ntp/ntpdate to fix my clock

2000-01-29 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
kind of problem does hwclock cause for ntp? -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] All hail the Dollar, King of the Earth. pgpUV7KksvFPh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Emacs with neXtaw?

2000-01-06 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
bian/rules to call ./configure with --with-x-toolkit=athena. This produced the exact same binary that came with slink. Then I tried making the same changes to the potato sources, and I still get a binary that doesn't use athena at all. Is there any way to do this? -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*&g

Re: What's the deal with .gnome-desktop?

1999-12-26 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
etc.. Instead of copying his .gnome-desktop, just right-click on the desktop and select the "Recreate Default Icons" item. This should create the device icons, with the proper mount/umount/eject menu items. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] All hail the Dollar, King of the Earth. pgpyC81KaA6C9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: I thought KDE wasn't included because of QT?!?

1999-12-23 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
his mixed code, and Debian will not do it. The KDE guys shouldn't either, but they don't seem to care. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] All hail the Dollar, King of the Earth. pgppyNZ9npBB1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DocBook Tools?

1999-12-14 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
ets Please excuse my stupidity. Apparently, temporary insanity led me to use grep instead of zgrep. I feel like a newbie. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] All hail the Dollar, King of the Earth. pgpXaESRKdvBG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DocBook Tools?

1999-12-13 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
ep db2html Contents-i386.gz ~$ Hmmm. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] All hail the Dollar, King of the Earth. pgpDoUGJNcyGo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ssh pam

1999-12-13 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
so free) to use SSH. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] All hail the Dollar, King of the Earth. pgpwFFLFya9wp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DocBook Tools?

1999-12-13 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
om/pub/docbook-tools/docware/RPMS/noarch/ > the source should also be there so you could roll your own. Thanks, I'm downloading now. Are there any plans to package these? I'd do it of course, except they haven't started taking new maintainers yet... -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <

DocBook Tools?

1999-12-13 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
Where can I get the tools db2html, db2ps, db2rtf, etc.? They are used in generating documentation for Gnome, but I can't find them. I've grepped the Contents file for slink and potato, but don't see them. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] All hail the Doll

Re: Outlook and HTML

1999-12-03 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
m sure most other software does as well. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] All hail the Dollar, King of the Earth. pgpDCQ9pAv7Fi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: same-gnome kills sawmill

1999-11-30 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
only command in .xsession) killing all > other applications except communicator which has to be killed manually. > This doesn't happen when running Enlightenment. > > Can you verify this? Just tried it, and I had no problems. I'm running October Gnome with Sawmill 0.17 (bo

Re: Mutt group reply

1999-11-17 Thread Eric Gillespie Jr.
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 04:22:51PM +1100, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My fault - I was searching for alternatives, not alternates :-( This is why I search for things like 'lternat', which matches both words. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] &quo

Re: Mutt group reply

1999-11-17 Thread Eric Gillespie Jr.
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 02:17:01PM +1100, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Strange it is not mentioned in: > > /usr/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz I am running mutt v0.95.3i from slink, and it *is* in /usr/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz, beginning at line 2848. -- Eric Gillespie,

Re: Mutt group reply

1999-11-17 Thread Eric Gillespie Jr.
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 01:11:23PM +1100, Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I give mutt a list of E-Mail addresses that are mine? set alternates=([EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]) This will take care of the group reply problem you described. -- Eric

Re: Cron jobs

1999-11-11 Thread Eric Gillespie Jr.
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 11:41:19AM -0500, Brian Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I want is it to email me if it does not exit out prematurely. That > way I can tell when I had to run the script so I can get a feal as to how > often I end up with a problem. Just echo whatever you want. Th

Re: gnomeicu w/out the rest of gnome?

1999-11-11 Thread Eric Gillespie Jr.
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 06:05:15PM -0800, Ron Farrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to use gnomeicu without the gnome panel and stuff opening gnomeicu -a -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I thought I was in love once. Later I learned it was an

Re: Can Navigator spawn other mail proggy?

1999-10-27 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
While this launches mutt, I'm sure it can easily be modified to launch another mailer. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I thought I was in love once. Later I learned it was an inner ear infection." --Constable Benton Fraser (Due South) pgpK1SBKeqtfB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Postgresql Beginner

1999-10-22 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
k without being root. > I would gladly be directed to a usable FAQ for beginners. The Postgresql > HOW-TO is long on philosophy and testing, but lacking in basic intro kind of > stuff. Install postgresql-doc and check out /usr/doc/postresql-doc/index.html for lots of good information. --

Re: SED question

1999-10-21 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
s like, one per line. value=`grep florida roam.db | sed -e "s/^.*\? //g"` Those are backticks (`), not apostrophes ('). -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous o

Re: Good News Reader?

1999-10-21 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
usr/doc/slrn/examples/slrn.rc.gz for examples. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous shuddering and stopping." --Friedrich Nietzsche pgpgcmD4Urjdh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: writting a Daemon in c

1999-10-20 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
rl scripts, but can't not > figure it out with c. Thanks in advance man 3 daemon -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back, a

Re: staroffice - multiuser?

1999-10-20 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
nstall it as root with "./setup /net". Any user who wants to use it should switch to the directory it was installed in and type "./setup". -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. A danger

Re: Did Mutt eat my mail?

1999-10-20 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
en I download a lot of mail, smail seems to get stuck. You can type "mailq" to see how many messages are waiting to be delivered, and "runq" to tell smail to wake up and deliver the messages. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man is a rope, tied between be

Re: SECOND TRY: Re: Group "adm"?

1999-10-16 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
results in the group owner of the temp subdir > being 'adm'. > This is why I didn't reply to your original post. I have no idea what's wrong. Sorry. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over a

Re: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions

1999-10-15 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
gt; 3Com 3C905B > Diamond v770 Ultra > Iomega Zip 100 > Iomega Jaz 2GB > I have a friend with an Abit motherboard with a celeron, and it works great. I can personally vouch for the network card. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man is a rope, tied between bea

Re: SECOND TRY: Re: Group "adm"?

1999-10-15 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
root to fix things. Is this normal? Why do they > > get the group of "adm"? > > This is just a guess, and I don't know how it could have happened, but your home directory might belong to group adm. My homedir is SGID, so that all files are owned by the same group as it.

Re: A GnuPG package for stable?

1999-09-22 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
I have gpg as well as a few other potato packages compiled for slink at http://www.pobox.com/~epg/debian -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looki

Re: emacs or xemacs ?

1999-09-15 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
-variables '(mouse-yank-at-point t) '(font-lock-use-fonts nil) '(font-lock-use-colors t) '(font-lock-maximum-size 256000)) (setq-default font-lock-maximum-decoration t) (require 'font-lock) (custom-set-faces) -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] &quo

Re: dselect in xterm

1999-09-05 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
rm*background: black XTerm*foreground: gray90 -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous shuddering and stopping." --Fri

Re: Manually importing Debian menu to WMaker

1999-09-04 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
ult menus aren't merged w/ WMaker's own menus at > installation, and I don't know how to do so... Can someone help me? > Read /usr/doc/menu/html/index.html. It's fairly straightforward, and I was able to make a menu method for the FvwmGtk module in CVS fvwm. -- Er

Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont

1999-09-02 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
edia/fonts.html This page has a lot of information about fonts, including a link to the Font Deuglification Mini-Howto. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-wa

Re: WordPerfect Trouble

1999-09-02 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
11/xpm4g usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4.10x11/xpm4g usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4oldlibs/xpm4.7 usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4.10 oldlibs/xpm4.7 $ apt-get install xpm4g xpm4.7 Or use dselect and make sure both packages are installed. -- Eric Gille

Re: nas???

1999-08-31 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
my system rather than the remote one. Just make sure xmms is set up to use the esd plugin. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-bac

Re: xemacs's shell mode

1999-08-26 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
rly. > > The filename is actually displays as ^[[0mfilename^[[0m > > > > What am I doing wrong? Thanks. > > Shao. > Even better, use term mode instead of shell. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man is a rope, tied between beast and

Re: Xterm

1999-08-19 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
gin shells. .bashrc is read by bash in all interactive shells, unless it is invoked as sh. The only thing I can think of is that his xterm is invoking sh rather than bash. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over

Re: Sound programs

1999-08-18 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
ooks like you have enough software to me. Make sure /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to your cdrom device, most likely /dev/hdb or /dev/hdd. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a danger

permissions/ownership of /tmp

1999-08-17 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
twice on the Debian IRC channel, and got no response at all. I supposed I'll stick to the mailing list, where I've always gotten speedy help. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous acro

Re: Problems compiling Citadel/UX

1999-08-16 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
ines. fi and fo are being initialized with a variable, which isn't legal. They should be set in main(), not here. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous shuddering and stopping." --Friedrich Nietzsche

Re: looking for a mail client

1999-08-09 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
der. For example, I have mutt set the reply-to properly whenever I'm reading a folder for a mailing list (like this one, check my headers). -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a d

Contents file [was Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!]

1999-06-12 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
it just isn't there. I took a look at the dpkg man page and > see no reference to the file. I see that you can look for packages in > /var/lib/dpkg/available but that's not the same. > Thanks, > kent > You can pull it out of your Debian mirror from dists/slink/Cont

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-12 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
wering your question should have told you how to search the Contents file (dists/slink/Contents-i386.gz). -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't you try to out-weird me! I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal! --Zaphod Beeblebrox

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-11 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
man a fish and you feed him that day, teach the man to fish, and he'll never starve again. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't you try to out-weird me! I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal! --Zaphod Beeblebrox

Re: Floppy Mounting Problems

1999-06-01 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
an't be mounted to. This is unacceptable. I would think this is a bug in the kernel (the mount() call) or in the mount program, since mount segfaults before its done. I'm guessing it isn't unlocking the directory or something. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don&#x

Floppy Mounting Problems

1999-06-01 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
rom the kernel. Eventually i run out of directories to mount to and have to reboot. This is unacceptable. Any ideas? -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't you try to out-weird me! I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal! --Zaphod Beeblebrox

Re: /bin/bash -> /bin/sh

1999-05-26 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
gt; > You could also provide another posix complient bourne shell. I was not speaking from knowledge of code in ash, so I couldn't be more specific. Run tests/posix.tests (from the bash source directory) through ash, and it will say what tests were failed. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMA

Re: /bin/bash -> /bin/sh

1999-05-25 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
d as sh. Install the bash source and look in the tests/ directory. Run the file posix.tests with bash, and it passes every test. Ash fails 8 of the tests. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't you try to out-weird me! I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal! --Zaphod Beeblebrox

Re: HOWTOs to txt..

1999-05-04 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
I've ever seen. It's nearly all the HOWTOs, and some of the other docs from the Documentation Project. I forget how much it is, but it was definitely worth the money. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't you try to out-weird me! I get stranger things than you fre

Re: Address book in mutt?

1999-04-26 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
asically includes the file at that point. You could put all your alias definitions into .muttrc. When adding aliases from within mutt (key 'a'), I believe it appends them to .muttrc by default. Setting the alias_file variable makes it append them to that file instead. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr.

Re: From hdr in mutt

1999-04-18 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
t work. > > Can anyone please help?? > Straight from my .muttrc: set realname="Eric Gillespie, Jr." unset use_from my_hdr From: \"$realname\" \<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't you try to out-weird me! I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal! --Zaphod Beeblebrox

Re: IRC and BitchX newbie -- how to get started?

1999-03-02 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
also applies to BitchX, as it is just an improved version. -- /---\ | Eric Gillespie, Jr.| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |<*>| | "Between depriving a man of one hour from his

Re: Help

1999-03-01 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
5 > as my x manager. I find it annoying to have to resize the windows every > time I start X and Netscape. > Not sure about this. I use FVWM and don't have that problem, but I always thought it was Netscape that was remembering its size. -- /---

Re: Date Problems

1999-03-01 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
7;Mar 1 8:55am 1999' is the same as date -s '3/1/1999 8:55:00'. -- /-------\ | Eric Gillespie, Jr.| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |<*>| | "Between depriving a man of one hour from his l

Re: Quicktime player for Linux?

1999-02-01 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
ys it straight from the file. /--\ | pretzelgod | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | (Eric Gillespie, Jr.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |---<*>| | "That'

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (was: RH vs Debian)]

1999-01-20 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
inux way. > > Jernej None of this would change. As for your comment about the "Linux way", I don't buy it. Over the course of the last year Linux has become *heavily* commercialized. I am dead against that. What I propose is the exact opposite, securing the developers and users

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-20 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
voie > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > /----------\ | pretzelgod | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | (Eric Gillespie, Jr.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |---<*>| |

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (was: RH vs Debian)]

1999-01-19 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
for what you said about two classes of developers, that doesn't make any sense. If developers are willing to work for free now, why wouldn't they be able to work for free if some of the core group are getting paid? I certainly wouldn't have a problem with it. /--

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (

1999-01-19 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about an equal split of the corporation's profits among the developers. /--\ | pretzelgod | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | (Eric Gillespie, Jr.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |---<

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (was: RH vs Debian)]

1999-01-19 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
27; we've been talking about. Surely they have opinions? /--\ | pretzelgod | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | (Eric Gillespie, Jr.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |---<*>| | "That's th

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (was: RH vs Debian)]

1999-01-19 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
get a vote. A democratic corporation indeed. This may sound radical, but we'll never know if it will work unless we try, will we? /------\ | pretzelgod | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | (Eric Gillespie, Jr.) | [EMAIL PR

Re: CDROM & ISE-SCSI: Help please!

1999-01-17 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
SCSI CD-ROM support, and SCSI generic support compiled *in* the kernel, not as modules. /--\ | pretzelgod | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | (Eric Gillespie, Jr.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |---<*

Re: substitute strings in text files (links in html files)

1999-01-15 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
-- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > /----------\ | pretzelgod | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | (Eric Gillespie, Jr.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |---<*&g

Re: timezone = 1168 ???

1999-01-13 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
ians 10:12 > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > You're right, I don't know why I was counting minutes instead of seconds. The real problem is, of course, the EST. /---------

Re: timezone = 1168 ???

1999-01-13 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
output: tzname=[EST,CDT] timezone=21600 That should be CST,CDT and 3600. Does anyone know what's going on here? I almost forgot. I did not have this problem under bo. It began with hamm and has continued into slink. /--\ |

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