Re: *tex: personal ls-R being owned by root

2003-02-20 Thread Jason McCarty
I believe the file /etc/cron.daily/tetex-bin is your problem. If a variable is set to 0, it calls mktexlsr for each path in `kpsewhich --show-path=ls-R`, which on my machine expands to /home/jason/texmf:/usr/local/share/texmf:/usr/local/lib/texmf:/usr/share/texmf:/var/cache/fonts. Although, the

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-26 Thread Jason McCarty
Hans Wilmer wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:18:46PM -0500, Jason McCarty wrote: > > > > Well, it does :) What is the difference between 'cached' and > > > 'buffers'? I wanted to know that since long, but never found out. > > > > Well,

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-25 Thread Jason McCarty
Hans Wilmer wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:27:08AM -0500, Jason McCarty wrote: > > > Hope this interests somebody besides myself ;) > > Well, it does :) What is the difference between 'cached' and > 'buffers'? I wanted to know that since long,

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-24 Thread Jason McCarty
Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:53:19PM -0500, Jason McCarty wrote: > > So, I understand the output of "free" and all that, but can anyone > > explain the behavior shown below? This after my computer has been up for > > a couple hours, doing ver

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-24 Thread Jason McCarty
So, I understand the output of "free" and all that, but can anyone explain the behavior shown below? This after my computer has been up for a couple hours, doing very little. It usually shows this behavior, especially if I've run a lot of programs first. It seems like memory is being reclaimed from

Re: listing intstalled packages and their origin

2003-01-15 Thread Jason McCarty
Willem wrote: > Hi, > > There are several ways to get a list of the packages which are installed > but i haven't been able to figure out if it i possible to list the dist they're from > stable, testing or unstable. > Is there a command for this or could i pipe dpgk -l through something else > to

Re: mutt 1.5.3 test package

2003-01-15 Thread Jason McCarty
Marco D'Itri wrote: > http://www.bofh.it/~md/mutt/ > > Please test and let me know[1] if anything breaks. > > > [1] By private mail, I'm not subscribed. Marco, I'm interested in testing your package, but the URL you gave 404's. Is there another address I can get the package at? Thanks,

Re: Script to stop DCHP client if no ethernet cable attached

2002-09-10 Thread Jason McCarty
script, I'm sure someone on debian-user could help with that as well. Good Luck! Jason McCarty PS: Please CC me on replies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to find out pppd's exit status?

2002-09-03 Thread Jason McCarty
> else? I thought I could start writing information to a file as soon > as I'd find out about pppd's status: if it got a busy-signal or > anything else, no information would be written to the file. Can I do > it in a script? Try parsing the end of /var/log/ppp-connect-errors and/or /var/log/syslo