xterm disappears after 'xterm -e login '

1998-05-18 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Does anyone know why $ xterm -e login briefly flashes an xterm window which immediately disappears if differs from the currently logged in user and if the currently logged in user isn't root? Normally the new xterm would remain with a password prompt. This started happening today for no ap

Rusting (machine becomes slower over time)

1998-05-15 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've just upgraded [...] to 2.1.101 and [...] The The "rusting" >seems much better (the machine used to become slower over time - My 2.0.33 kernel seems to slow down over time and is faster after I reboot. Can anyone direct me toward some documentation

Program to blink LED when mail arrives?

1998-03-15 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Is there a Debian package that blinks a keyboard LED when email arrives? mailleds is supposed to do that, but I haven't found a Debianized package for it. Alternatively, does anyone have a good script for telling when new mail has arrived? Thanks, Kingsley -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Swap Used is getting Bigger, BIGGER and B I G G E R!

1998-01-20 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Does anyone know why the "free" command would report that the swap space used is growing? A lot? Is there a "swap leak" bug? For example, no swap is being used immediately after booting the box. This is good. Then after using various and sundry applications, AND EXITING OUT OF THEM, the free comma

Re: /etc/profile and set -o vi

1998-01-19 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
"Walter L. Preuninger II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >before I upgraded to unstable, set -o vi, which was in my /etc/profile >worked. Now, I have to manually do a set -o vi after getting logged in. >Any ideas? This is a known problem. See Bug # 14672 at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/14/146

Lyx, Latex, \today deZember

1997-12-14 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Has anyone found a way to make the latex statement "\today" in a lyx file translate into "December" instead of "Dezember"? I live in the States ^ ^ where the former spelling is used. Thanks, Kingsley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Where is the Incoming directory?

1997-12-06 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Would someone be so kind as to tell me where the Incoming directory is? I'd like to check if updates of some programs that I use have arrived. (lyx and imagemagic, for example) Thanks Kingsley -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble

Imagemagick doesn't release shared memory

1997-11-21 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Will someone please test the 3.9.0-1 (unstable) version of Imagemagick to see if it releases shared memory on your box? It doesn't on mine, and I'd like to verify that it's a bug in Imagemagick, and not my box, before I file a bug report. Here's how to duplicate it: $ # First look at how much sh

Re: xinetd does not run at boot

1997-11-21 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Nick Gilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I know this is probably something really simple but after >installing xinetd in place of inetd, the super server (xinetd) >no longer loads at boot. [...] I ran into this bug too. It's a known problem. See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/12/12021.html f

Re: sl0: transmit timeout, bad line quality?

1997-11-19 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > Now, I can use pppd to manually put up my network... but diald (which > I normally use) doesn't work, it will fail with 'sl0: transmit > timeout, bad line quality?'... I just finished debugging it on my box. It's a known bug. See http://ww

Re: Bash 2.01-5 vi-style line editing- FIXED

1997-11-10 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Some days ago I asked for help on getting version 2.01-5 of bash to work with vi-style line editing. It turned out that putting set -o vi in $HOME/.bashrc breaks vi-style line editing! I filed a bug report and worked around it by putting set editing-mode vi set keymap vi in $HOME/.in

What happens to stable packages at ftp sites?

1997-11-08 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I must admit that I've been disappointed several times when I discovered that I couldn't find packages in the stable ftp directories. This has happened with the mutt, xmcd and probably other packages as well. A specific example at the moment is xmcd at ftp.debian.org in dists/unstable/main/binary-i

Re: How to use bash 2.01-5 vi-style line editing

1997-11-06 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997 Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: > >> Has anyone found a way to use vi-style line editing in the 2.01-5 >> version >> of bash? >> >> When I do a >> >> $ set -o v

nm reports no symbols

1997-11-06 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Does anyone happen to know why the nm command would report "no symbols"? Here's how I got it... $ nm /lib/libreadline.so.2.1 /lib/libreadline.so.2.1: no symbols Every other library that I've tried nm with reports "no symbols" also. I'm using libreadlineg version 2.1-7 and binutils version

How to use bash 2.01-5 vi-style line editing

1997-11-06 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Has anyone found a way to use vi-style line editing in the 2.01-5 version of bash? When I do a $ set -o vi $ k to recall the last command, I just get a "beep" instead of the last command. Has anyone found a way to use vi-style line editing in the 2.01-5 version of bash? Thanks, Kingsle

Lyx figures and mice

1997-06-06 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Does anyone know how to use figures in 0.10.7 version of Lyx from the "frozen" and "contrib" directories? When I click on the figure icon on the menu bar, I'm not prompted for the filename of a figure to include. :-( It WILL display a figure however, which I tested by editing the User Guide (/us

Re: Mutt Segmentation Fault at certain messages?

1997-05-10 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I seem to remember having similar problems a long time ago and fixed them by re-ordering the configuration lines in .muttrc. I attributed it to Mutt corrupting its stack while processing .muttrc, but I really don't know. Good luck, I hope you get a better answer. Perhaps you could try upgrading M

Re: Mutt and aliases

1997-05-10 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luis Francisco Gonzalez) wrote: [...] >I have been trying to get mutt to recognise the aliases but after quitting, >even thought it has saved them, it doesn't re-read the file because I can't >use them. [...] I've had the same problem with all versions of Mutt up to 0.69-1. I've

Re: shell problem after bo upgrade

1997-04-08 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
"John M. Rulnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >sh: -c:line 1:missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression >sh: -c:line 1:syntax error near unexpected token ';' >sh: -c:line 1:'((gv /tmp/MO233499B410060202.ps); rm /tmp/MO233499B410060202.ps >) &' >when I try to view a PostScript file under Netsca