Re: FreeGica Mandrakesoft

2002-01-23 Thread Laurent Martelli
ple. Was rather annoyed that Paul> Slashdot rejected "Mandrake spams Debian-User" article I wrote Paul> almost instantly, which included thier little spam. The spam did not originate from Mandrake, after all. -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bearteam.org/~laurent/

capt request on cosource.com

1999-12-16 Thread Laurent Martelli
I made a request to improve capt on cosource.com. I want the ability to search package descriptions : The exact request can be seen at this URL : http://www.cosource.com/cgi-bin/cos.pl/wish/info/227 -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Squid (suddenly) does not resolv local hostnames

1999-10-12 Thread Laurent Martelli
Address: 127.0.0.1 Name:lolo.martelli.fremiet Address: 192.168.1.1 Aliases: www.martelli.fremiet And it works it I do try to access www.martelli.fremiet. I have no dns_nameserver specified in /etc/squid.conf I have kernel 2.2.12. Any idea of what's g

Re: Printable area for HP LJ 6L

1999-10-12 Thread Laurent Martelli
they are printted printed completely. Characters are cut horizontally. -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: www connection????

1999-10-09 Thread Laurent Martelli
: ethernet(eth0), and loopback(lo). If your ppp connection if available, you'll have a ppp0 interface. -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VERY Strange Problem since last update

1999-10-05 Thread Laurent Martelli
(I do not use gnome-panel). Joey> I'll also bet you'll find several dozen update-menus processes Joey> running. If you do, tell me what version of menu you have Joey> installed. ii menu 2.1.3-2provides update-menus functions for some app -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Printing restart (lpr)

1999-09-28 Thread Laurent Martelli
>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Eugene Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Alan> Is there any sequence of steps that will enable me to cleanly Alan> recover to a known state between printer and spooler? I'd Alan> rather not lose a job. as

Re: Deleted menu in Wmaker

1999-09-25 Thread Laurent Martelli
w; nothing! Alan> Right-clicked on an xterm: nothing. Right-clicked on the Alan> configurator: nothing. run wmakerconf, select the "menu" tab, and right-click on the root node of the tree-view in the left frame. A popup menu should appear, containing "insert a command",

Re: Deleted menu in Wmaker

1999-09-25 Thread Laurent Martelli
ate-menu that is run when install new packages is ran as root and only update menus in /etc. -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Does X11 ignore ~/.bash_profile?

1999-09-24 Thread Laurent Martelli
11R6/bin: >> /usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/etc:/etc:/sbin: >> /usr/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/home/jhspies/bin: >> /usr/arx/bin:/usr/local/lib >> >> Does X11 ignore ~/.bash_profile? Yes. Since it does not know what shell you are using. It's a features of bash, and logging in with xdm does not start a login shell. -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Job in queue on hold, but not job in queue. Huh?!

1999-09-18 Thread Laurent Martelli
> Laserjet 4L' Queue: no printable jobs in queue What version of lprng are you using ? There was a bug in potato for a couple of days, but it has been fixed. If you're on potato, try upgrade to the latest version of lprng. -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System defaults: user enviroment

1999-09-02 Thread Laurent Martelli
nd that you source it in .bashrc and .bash_profile. -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel 2.2.12

1999-08-30 Thread Laurent Martelli
#x27;make dep' ? I had something similar when trying to compile 2.2.11. I downloaded the whole 2.2.12, unpacked it in a fresh new directory, and it compiled fine. -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system

1999-08-04 Thread Laurent Martelli
heir entire system x> RELIGIOUSLY? See http://visar.csustan.edu/bazaar/bazaar_dateoffers.html and look for offer 990307A. I invite you to increase my offer if you are interested. -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Update-menus hanging during dselect / apt-get

1999-07-28 Thread Laurent Martelli
bed to Debian-User? I saw something about this in debian-devel, and I think there's a bug report now. -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LPRng problem.

1999-07-27 Thread Laurent Martelli
t configured. And Bill> I wasn't sure which filter to use, well, lpf wouldn't work for Bill> the PostScript, and I was trying to use ifhp -Tstatus=off but Bill> no luck with that either. Magicfilter is your friend then. I use the ljet4 config, and it works fine for me. -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: restoring Linux from a tape backup

1999-07-12 Thread Laurent Martelli
what packages are installed at the time of the backup, files which belong to a package but were modified (configuration files, for instance), and all files which are not part of any package. The apt program should be used to restore the saved system. I invi

Re: tape backups and backup software

1999-07-10 Thread Laurent Martelli
#x27;t support my drives, and it's not Paul> free). Your question should probably be split into two parts : Drivers for your cards, and backup software. Concerning the backup software, I made an offer on Free Software Bazaar (http://visar.csustan.edu/bazaar/bazaar.html), the ID is 99030

Re: dhcp and dual-homed filtering host

1999-07-07 Thread Laurent Martelli
hanges I made: You should also be able to do this by putting IFACE=eth1 in /etc/dhcpc/config -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Configuring two networks with the same interface card

1999-07-07 Thread Laurent Martelli
r faultly changes my IP address. The only solution I have found so far is to reboot my machine (which makes me think that the problem is on my side, not on my ISP's). Any explanation ? -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS Lookups

1999-07-05 Thread Laurent Martelli
om www.ora.com and learn how George> to build your own DNS server. Or just read the DNS-howto. It mau enough for simple usage. -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: named.local

1999-06-30 Thread Laurent Martelli
es : ( I have a local network with two machines : 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 ) boot.options Description: Binary data martelli.fremiet Description: Binary data rev-martelli.fremiet Description: Binary data -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Emacs psgml mode?

1999-06-30 Thread Laurent Martelli
in the psgml doc files, Timothy> but html files are still quite normal looking:(. Do the files have a proper ? -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: upgrading Xfree86

1999-06-22 Thread Laurent Martelli
grade to X version 3.3.3.1. Can Shawn> anyone please tell me what line I should add to my apt-get Shawn> source file so that I can run an upgrade of X? Thanks for Shawn> any help. This should work. (BTW it was in /usr/doc/apt/examples) deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian un

Re: how do i produce a core file?

1999-06-16 Thread Laurent Martelli
nge this behavior for debugging Jeremy> purposes? `help ulimit` in bash. I think the default is to limit the size of cores to 0. -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Remote print spooling, Debian/LPRng

1999-06-16 Thread Laurent Martelli
awac' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed Have you looked at /etc/lpd.conf and /etc/lpd.perms ? -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Source Depends

1999-06-16 Thread Laurent Martelli
solved if I saw in the Paulo> packages binary file... Thanks, PH There's currently no way tell, except by being careful during the execution of the configure script. But I've heard the concept of source dependency has been discussed on the devel list. -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Emacs without X in Debian?

1999-06-10 Thread Laurent Martelli
ib, etc? Loren> Thanks in advance. Loren. You should be able to install it without having X installed. See dpkg --force-help. -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get proxy

1999-06-03 Thread Laurent Martelli
ication You can either set the ftp_proxy and http_proxy environment variables, or configure /etc/apt/apt.conf. Using a proxy for FTP won't work unless you use a little trick : go into /usr/lib/apt/methods, and link ftp to http. It works for me. -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Offer for apt improvements at the Free Software Bazaar

1999-06-02 Thread Laurent Martelli
nstall one package and download another one in parallel. The ID of my request is 990528A. -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-20 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "ChL" == Christian Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ChL> Bottom line: Debian should remain developer controlled. What about non-developper users ? Shouldn't they have a word to say, even if they can't or do not have the time to contribute with code ? Laurent