Bob Proulx wrote:
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
Same here, I also can't think of another spot. I think that ?dm are
seriously broken for not starting a login shell on behalf of the user
logging in.
You might find this bug interesting.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=250765
Looks like Gaim.
Kai
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L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .xsession
#!/bin/bash --login
exec startkde
Cool, that works indeed. .xsession needs to be executable, and it
needs to have --login or the semantic equivalent in the shebang
line.
However, there are a number of other things that
Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you want to change the envvars globally, then change them in
/etc/profile since all users' profile include that.
Is /etc/profile read when a user logs in via xdm, kdm, gdm or a
similar program?
I tried to get my ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile or
Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I discovered that sawfish, metacity and enlightenment work. Blackbox and
uwm don't (weird effects happen instead though - quite interesting!).
Still to try wmaker and a couple of others.
I haven't found a window manager fulfills all the little quirks
Angelo Bertolli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes, I'd like to find out a way to keep windows from stealing focus
if at all possible.
A number of window managers have a focus new windows option. It may
work to turn that off. I don't know whether your wm has such an
option, though.
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Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I only tried it with startx from a cmd line. Thanks for the info. But I
can't think where else you would set it up.
Same here, I also can't think of another spot. I think that ?dm are
seriously broken for not starting a login shell on behalf of the user
Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When I use ALT-Tab to cycle thro all open apps, I would like to see all
apps in a list or a row with the current selected app highlighted. I saw
one window manager doing it just how I like it but don't remember which
one now.
WindowMaker does this, I
Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm having a strange thing happening to me:
In .bashrc and .bash_profile I have the line
export TEXINPUTS=.:~/my_tex_macros:
Perhaps it works better to use $HOME instead of ~?
In Emacs, say M-x getenv RET TEXINPUTS RET to verify that Emacs knows
Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I didn't realise Gnome was a window manager. Yet it runs with sawfish.
Makes me think I should be able to choose Gnome and Enlightenment, but how?
Gnome is not a window manager. Gnome contains many programs, one of
which is a window manager.
There should
Perhaps different bashes overwrite each other's history? There is a
setting for appending to the history, rather than overwriting it.
Perhaps that helps?
Kai
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David Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 06:56:00PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
John L Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
.xsession or .xinitrc
Not sure what the difference between those two files are.
.xinitrc is invoked by xinit. startx invokes xinit
Joachim Fahnenmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry if the question is stupid, but: What is a session manager, and
how does it get involved?
A window manager allows you to move and resize windows, iconify them,
and so on.
A session manager remembers which windows (applications) were open and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
nuhup somecommand somefile sleep 1; tail -f somefile
Oh! Fascinating. Does nohup look with isatty(3) to determine what it
should do?
Yes. It looks at file descriptors 0, 1, and 2, and redirects any that
are a tty
Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The number of people who somehow think that $RANDOM_APPLICATION just
must have hidden options to do exactly whatever random thing they
think it should do always astounds me.
In Emacs, there is usually a $RANDOM_VARIABLE to tweak
$RANDOM_LISP_FUNCTION to
John L Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
.xsession or .xinitrc
Not sure what the difference between those two files are.
.xinitrc is invoked by xinit. startx invokes xinit.
.xsession is read by xdm. (And I think by other foodm programs, too,
such as kdm, gdm.)
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I am very fond of doing nohup somecommand sleep 1; tail -f
nohup.out to start a background job and then watch its output. Then
I can stop watching the output and log out and the job continues.
But what I don't like is that it is writing to nohup.out. I'd prefer
another filename, one that I can
David Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
nuhup somecommand somefile sleep 1; tail -f somefile
That will write nohup: appending output to `nohup.out' to the file
somefile :-)
The output from somecommand will still end up in nohup.out.
I was hoping I could say something like nohup -f
Maurits van Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:03:15PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
David Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
nuhup somecommand somefile sleep 1; tail -f somefile
That will write nohup: appending output to `nohup.out' to the file
somefile
You could start two instances of the X server, each running one
instance of gdm. One would be running on vty7, one on vty8, and you
could switch between them with Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8.
I don't know how to tweak the gdm setup to start two of them.
Kai
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M Carlock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
However, I find under Gnome and KDE that the ALT-GR
key no longer has any effect (which means among other
things that I cannot type a '@' character),
Does Ctrl-Alt work as a replacement for AltGr?
and that my ü, ö and ä keys now produce |, v and d,
Basajaun [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One question I would like to make myself (I mean... not _to_ myself,
hehehe) is: how does one get the modem not to produce its annoying
noises with pon?
There is an AT command you can send to the modem to tell it about the
noise. I believe the options are:
Edward Kamau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. apt-get has been unable to reach Debian mirrors for 'non-us' i.e apt
fails with a 404 error. I basically got around this by commenting out
the 'non-us' lines in my sources.list. Does anybody (in the US) have a
sources.list that works for them with
Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Secondly, why do I need root privileges for make-kpkg kernel-image? This
step merely creates the kernel*.deb file, I thought.
Perhaps fakeroot works? See the --rootcmd option for make-kpkg.
Kai
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Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
apt-get install kernel-2.6, for stable
in unstable (and poss.testing) renamed to sometihng else, do dpkg -l
'*kernel*'
In unstable, it's linux-image instead of kernel-image, linux-headers
instead of kernel-headers, and so on.
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Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
bash: /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java: No such file or directory
This message makes you think that /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java does
not exist. But that is sometimes wrong. Look if this file is a shell
script. If so, look at its shebang line and fix
Derek \The Monkey\ Wueppelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It used to be that when I went into the /etc/mail directory and made
changes to the access file then typed make, the access.db file would be
updated and I could then reload sendmail. It seems now with Sarge that
it does not do this
Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a JDK installed in /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/ when I attempt to execute
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java
I get
bash: /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java: No such file or directory
which is quite plainly wrong as the file most
Derek \The Monkey\ Wueppelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It looks like it does more from the output, however it still doesn't
create either an access.db or a mailertable.db file. Even though these
options are turned on in my sendmail.mc file. This causes big problems
as sendmail likes to fail
David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Looks to me like CRYPTNET.dll is missing from your WINE's
fake_windows. Did you run the MSN Messenger installer, or did you
simply run the EXE from an old Windows installation?
I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. I have partitioned by
Currently, I can type the ä character like this:
Multi_key a
Multi_key a
I would like to configure an additional combination:
Multi_key a e
How to do that?
(I know that the above combo produces æ, but I intend to configure
more combinations so that I can still produce æ.)
Kai
Zenaan Harkness [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks for the pointers though - and when I figure out how to scroll
back through screens scrollback buffer, I might even use that more
often. At least, it's useful to run stuff on remote hosts, so solved a
real problem there...
Hit Ctrl-A ESC, then
Magnus Therning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd love to swap gnome-terminal for xterm, but I can't live without
tabs...
I've started using screen recently. It's way cool. It doesn't have
tabs, but the functionality provided by tabs is there: you can have
multiple shells running in the same
What does apt-get -u dist-upgrade say? I usually use dist-upgrade
instead of upgrade.
Kai
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Joachim Reichel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't know how to change the menu font directly (at least I don't
remember) but IIRC a workaround is to change the order of the fonts
paths in XF86Config since they are search in order until an appropriate
font is found.
You should make sure
Another idea is to put the 100dpi and 75dpi unscaled fonts near the
beginning of the font path.
The font you're seeing looks like some fancy font that tries to be
cute. Hm. So perhaps try to find the font and remove it from your
system ;-)
Kai
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Joachim Reichel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This does not look like an entry in /etc/X11/XF86Config.
No, it is from xfs-xtt's config file. Anyway, I have the same order of
directories in XF86Config, after 'FontPath unix/:7110'.
Sorry for this bogus comment, I didn't (really) know what I was
s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Incoming from Faheem Mitha:
well. The bottom line is that in Python whitespace is syntatically
meaningful, in C etc. it is not.
This has the consequence that in C, emacs is able to correctly indent
the code, using the built-in syntax rules it knows
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
My proposal was meant to allow people to edit the same file, but to
see different things depending on their preferences. I believe in
giving people the choice to view things as they like.
Which doesn't work in a collaberative
Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If tabs and spaces are combined for indentation purposes, then when
you change your tab display width you will see a horrid mess of
incorrectly indented code.
This is often, but not always the case. I explained how tabs and
spaces are combined
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, of course it would, You used nothing but tabs to achieve the
alignment you wanted. There's no mixing of spaces and tabs.
There IS mixing of tabs and spaces. It seems there is a
misunderstanding.
In the following, I will use --- to show a tab
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Uck, nasty. Give me nothing but spaces, please, because there will be
problems in that setup.
The only problem I can see is that the right tab/space mix might get
lost.
Kai
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Kai Grossjohann wrote:
The style I'm proposing is designed to make it possible to change
tab width!
It does not work.
Yeah...
Consider the problems created with a code file created by a user who
prefers 8-character-width tabs _and_ 80 columns.
Now
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
Well, nothing that couldn't be solved with a somewhat wider window.
Many people like to have windows wider than 80 columns. (I prefer 80
columns, myself.)
And wider paper? The commonly accepted practice is that code should
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
You have mentioned a number of problems, but your proposal has even
more problems.
Such as what exactly?
Indention works. Alignment works. Everyone sees the same thing.
This is the problem: everyone sees the same
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I set tab width to 4, align at 6. Tab + 2 spaces. Person sets his tabs
to 8 the line is 10 spaces out, 4 spaces too far. That's why people insist on
a tab width of 8. If tabs were immutable like that mixing tabs and spaces
wouldn't be a problem.
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
This will work for one level of nesting. But this means you need to
keep track of the nesting levels when moving things around in the
code.
Huh? Works for multiple levels. I've often refactored code from simple
functions
Tony Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Could you please explain how to install two or more distributions
alongside one another on the same system, so that I can choose between
them using LILO.
Create a partition or two for Debian, then tell the Debian installer
to use them.
Then you'll need
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Faheem Mitha wrote:
Bob Proulx makes good points elsewhere in this thread. Whether you
like the indentation as syntax feature is really a matter of
taste. Personally, I am ambivalent about it. On the one hand it makes
code more compact. On the other hand,
Monique Y. Mudama [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I may or may not feel like changing my tabwidth settings just to read
your g*dd*mn code!
Actually, using real tabs allows us to view the same file with
different indentation levels. However, this requires some thought
and no editor I know of applies
Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 07:21:38PM +, Faheem Mitha wrote:
| On the other hand, indentation is easily lost
| information, for example when cutting and pasting.
In practice this isn't a problem. Cut and paste the entire block of
code and
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
If the middle two lines were indented with a tab, then people could
view this code with different indentation settings by just frobbing
the tab width, without changing the file contents.
Good in theory, bad in practice
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
First off it looks damned wrong so you know something's wrong. Where in
the above example it looks wrong but works. It may, in fact, *be* weong.
Secondly I dunno about EMACS but in VIM, highligh the 2 middle lines, hit .
Tada, indented just fine.
charlie derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would be hesitant to add several different discrete backport urls
to my /apt/sources/list unless i was certain there would be no
overlap in affected libraries.
backports.org was designed in such a way that adding several discrete
backport URLs works
richard lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But it seems to me most rational to use the opportunity to begin
learning one of the lighter languages that I keep seeing mention of.
So the question is, which do you people recommend?
IMHO, none of Perl, Python, Ruby is lighter than the others.
I would like to compile Tora with Oracle support. If I want to do it
once, I do like this: I fetch the sources with apt-get, then I edit
debian/rules (perhaps other debian/* files, too), then I build the
package, then dpkg -i.
But when a new version of the Debian package comes out, I have to
We might like to install some non-standard Debian packages. For
example, we would like to compile Tora with Oracle support. Another
thing is that I would like to compile Emacs from CVS (the Emacs CVS
repository, not the Debian CVS repository) as a Debian package --
maybe my colleagues might like
Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
cvs-autoreleasedeb is probably what you're looking for, though I haven't
tried it myself.
This calls cvs-buildpackage, and that one talks of having
*.orig.tar.gz files. This sounds as if they mean something other
than what I mean, when they talk about
I work with the CVS version of Emacs every day. Currently, I install
it into a specific subdir of my home dir, but I think it would be
useful to have it available as a Debian package so that I can take
advantage of the added convenience of having Debianized add-ons.
What's the right way to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want to do this for all users on the system, so I thought: edit
/etc/profile
I did that... but it doesn't seem to make a difference, and worse,
/etc/profile seems to get nuked upon logout/login. So clearly I am
doing this in the wrong place.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a question about switching between kde and other window managers
(blackbox, fluxbox, ion, etc).
I am interested in learning what is the preferred or intended method of
switching between kde and other 'more traditional' window managers in Debian.
Maybe the
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What kind of advantages [of nnmaildir] are we talking about?
Here is the blurb from the info file:
`nnmaildir' stores mail in the maildir format, with each maildir
corresponding to a group in Gnus. This format is documented here:
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alright, I got it sorted out. I'm now using the nnml backend. Here's
what fixed mail for me...
I don't think it's necessary to switch to nnml. Everything should
work with nnfolder, too.
First, had to tell procmail to spew at another directory. Then,
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kai Grossjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alright, I got it sorted out. I'm now using the nnml backend. Here's
what fixed mail for me...
I don't think it's necessary to switch to nnml. Everything should
work
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
gnus seems to have this odd habit of at least appearing not to handle
incoming mail very well. It warns that the mailbox was changed on
disk out from under emacs and asks if I really want to save my
changes.
Never, never, NEVER let any program write to
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Looking through the gnus manual, I cannot for the life of me find any
information on whether or not gnus even has any method for saving and
retrieving email addresses in any sort of sane manner.
Gnus comes with more than one manual. Enter the `message'
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kai Grossjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Never, never, NEVER let any program write to the files that Gnus is
using. That is, in the default configuration Gnus uses
~/Mail/mail/misc (or ~/Mail/mail.misc) for the default mail group,
and if you tell
Beretta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How in God's name is it an obstacle? Who the hell needs all 13 CD's?
Are you planning on installing every single binary package there is?
I don't know about you, but the idea of
- buy CD 1 via mail order
- wait a week for it to arrive
- start Debian
UnKnown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've just install sid in a machine but i would need to downgrade to
sarge or woody, I've never done that so I would apreciate some
advice on it.
Just reinstall the machine, that's the safest procedure.
Kai
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Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
maybe SASL is what i'm looking for? not sure... (i installed
libsasl7 but there are dozens of other sasl packages to choose
from as well...?)
Yes, you need to tell Cyrus to authenticate against sasl. IIRC, this
is automatic for the Cyrus 2 Debian
Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
maybe SASL is what i'm looking for? not sure... (i installed
libsasl7 but there are dozens of other sasl packages to choose
from as well...?)
Found it. It's the settings sasl_pwcheck_method and
sasl_auxprop_plugin in /etc/imapd.conf if you're running
People at my site wish to migrate away from Debian stable to
something more current. I understand that unstable is more bleeding
edge than testing, and that there is some kind of automatic process
whereby packages migrate from unstable to testing. (That automatic
process makes sure there are no
Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Personally, I run unstable on all the workstations I administer.
But, then again, I like living dangerously :-)
Heh ;-)
If your people want more current apps, then think about backports
(either from www.backports.org, or doing it yourself).
Doing
Danie Roux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want to continue working on a running GNOME desktop in my office from
a remote location.
Maybe it's sufficient to just run the applications you need? Just
ssh into your office (using the -X option if needed), and start
running X11 programs.
This is not
I have seriously hosed my mail setup in the past few days and might
have deleted mail you sent between October 1st and a few minutes ago.
Please accept my apologies for this mishap; I am truly sorry about
this. Could you resend your message, please?
If you haven't sent me a message since October
On 31 Dec 1997, Kai Grossjohann said:
Kai Franklin is writing pop3-biff.el. Of course, it is only appropriate
Kai to have this thing bark. Now, barking in English is easy: woof!
Kai will do just fine. But nowadays, some i18n is called for. So I told
Kai him that wau! (or wuff!) would
people on this list can help?
I think Klingon and Esperanto as well as maybe Swahili are very
important in order not to alienate a significant user population!
PS: Franklin, I hope you didn't mind me posting here.
tia,
kai
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On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, George Bonser said:
George One of the points raised was that even though there is a
George filesystem standard, there is still too much leeway in that
George some things like system initialization files and how they
George are arrainged can differ widely from one
On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Gonzalo A Diethelm said:
Gonzalo [...]I very much like the idea of contributing to the free
Gonzalo software idea, but I'd also like to get a functional,
Gonzalo feature-loaded and maintainable system;[...]
The package maintenance software has an unusual interface (ie
On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, W Paul Mills said:
Paul I do not like the idea of replying to poster, who will then
Paul give a summary. Personally I would rather see all responses to
Paul a thread. There is often more than one way to solve a
Paul problem. What is best for one case may not be best
On Wed, 06 Aug 1997, Victor Torrico said:
Victor I'm running a ppp dialup to an ISP who uses pop3 and dynamic
Victor addressing. This is my only access to the net. I have no
Victor local net.
Victor Is it to my advantage to run uucp over tcp/ip?
Both ends of a connection must support
On 05 Aug 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen said:
SSM What kind of workstation are you setting up?
SSM [ ] normal workstation
SSM [ ] Word processor (lyx/latex/emacs ... )
SSM [ ] X-terminal
SSM [ ] ...
As I read this, the Deity project is developing something that has
this capability.
On Fri, 1 Aug 97 15:08 PDT, Bruce Perens said:
Bruce [...] I've been thinking of splitting the debian-user list
Bruce into several lists: [...]
I've been on the sun-managers list for a couple of years. They use
the reply to the author, author sends summary scheme of things, and
the volume
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, R Chris Ross said:
Chris [...] I would like to have them set up so that they can FTP
Chris their data in, both us and them can look at it and off we go.
Chris It seamed that the easiest way was to set them up as a user
Chris then symlink the directory that is the
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, sca bbs said:
sca What's the directory '/etc/emacs/site-start.d' for?
sca When I installed 'calc', I found that the 'calc autoloads'
sca file '50calc.el' is in '/etc/emacs/site-start.d/';
sca but emacs doesn't seem to automatically load it.
I think there is
Stephen Zander writes:
Stephen Currently I'm using xmh and it's just not cutting the 200+
Stephen emails I see a day. I like the MH features, I just need
Stephen multiple inboxes, which it doesn't do :(
I use Gnus, the Emacs mail/news reader. It handles large amounts of
mail very
David R Kohel writes:
David This is not really Debian specific, but is relevant to
David handling the volume of mail from this mailing list. [...]
David Emacs? Are the mail handling tools of emacs worth looking
David into?
I am an Emacs aficionado. I use the Gnus combined mail and
Eloy A Paris writes:
Eloy rmail??? Isn't this rmail the one that comes in the sendmail
Eloy package and is used for UUCP mail? I guess not...
As it happens, rmail is a homonym (or is it polyseme?). Not only is
the program that's used with UUCP called rmail, but RMAIL is also an
Emacs mail
mark powers writes:
mark [...] GNUS has a lot of nice things about it, though I
mark don't think it does any sorting functions for MH
mark mail. (correct me if I'm mistaken here) Though, the nnmh
mark method works quite well if you have an external mail sorting
mark app (such as
Carey Evans writes:
Carey For example, my ISP adds X-Envelope-To: and Return-Path:
Carey headers which is all the extra OOB information.
You've got a very nice ISP :-)
kai
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George Bonser writes:
George ...and they are fetched individually.
jghasler writes:
John You can put all the mail for each branch office in one
John mailbox. Fetchmail can sort them out.
How does fetchmail deal with mailing lists? I'd imagine that all that
fetchmail can do is look
I compiled Emacs myself and put it in /usr/local. How do I tell dpkg
that it's OK to install packages that depend on Emacs though it's not
a Debian package install?
tia,
kai
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The Good ol' tavo =) writes:
orojas how can i port the gnu or tar or gzip or .deb files that i
orojas download using MSIE30 to linux? and how can i install all
orojas the packages that come with the debian system that i
orojas downloaded from the internet without causing conflicts
Nathan E Norman writes:
Nathan [...] The biggest difference is the price tag. An unlimited
Nathan BSDI 3.0 license is $2995. An unlimited Linux licenses
Nathan costs about $0. [...]
Of course, BSDI isn't the only BSD out there and there are several
that cost $0, too.
kai
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Chris Hanson writes:
Chris [...] In the future, you will have to be careful not to
Chris update the XFree86 server package accidentally, because this
Chris will overwrite the AcceleratedX server. [...]
I didn't change any symlinks. I went into the X86 config file (forget
the exact name)
BodakSean writes:
Sean [...] to reach these worlds i have to have some kinda
Sean unzipping device and other complicated utilities for a first
Sean time user. [...]
To find things out there a web search engine is the place to go.
For example, I pointed my web browser at the URL
Jason Costomiris writes:
Jason I get calls from users all the time asking How do I search
Jason and replace in my file? 9 times out of 10, they are using
Jason pico, which has to be the most brain dead editor ever
Jason created. I always tell them, use vi, [...]
Well, vi is not the
Craig Sanders writes:
vi:
Craig 1G # move to start of file
Craig /192.168.1 # search for 192.168.1
Craig 5cw192.168.200ESC # change 5 'words' to 192.168.2
Craig n # find next
Craig . # repeat change
Craig n
adavis writes:
adavis Is it possible to install packages via dftp without using
adavis dselect?
There is dftp and there is dpkg-ftp. dftp is meant to be used without
dselect whereas dpkg-ftp adds the ftp method to dselect.
I used dftp exactly as described with dftp --help, and I had no
Daniel Karlsson writes:
Daniel AVAILABILITY
Daniel This command is available with the OpenWindows
Daniel environment. It uses the OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface.
Daniel Is it impossible to run OpenWindows programs in X? Or how
Daniel can I get passed this?
Well, OpenWindows
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