Re: MySQL non-free?

2001-08-18 Thread Leonard Stiles
gnu.org but vrms claims both were non-free? ... which is correct, sort of. They both *were* non-free, before MySQL was GPLed. See http://www.mysql.com/news/article-23.html>. Given that MySQL is now free software, maybe this should be considered a bug in vrms. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: OT: problem compiling GnoCam-0.10

2001-08-16 Thread Leonard Stiles
they will probably be called libgal6-dev and libgal9-dev. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: libdb.so.3

2001-08-16 Thread Leonard Stiles
ously using and building your own nmap .deb from the package source (using dpkg-buildpackage). If all goes well, your homemade nmap .deb will then depend on the version of libc6 you currently have installed, and you will be able to install it without any problems. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: best practice for tar and gzip?

2001-08-12 Thread Leonard Stiles
tead of the normal tar.gz > operation, to have the best chance of recovering as many files as > possible? There is an alternative archiving tool called afio (packaged in stable) which apparently does this. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Help with Permissions for vfat

2001-08-10 Thread Leonard Stiles
ad to the files being writable for root and group . -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: changing console cursor

2001-08-08 Thread Leonard Stiles
Juha Erkkila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 03:15:28PM +0200, Leonard Stiles wrote: > > Juha Erkkila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i'm looking for a way i can get rid of the blinking underline cursor > > > on console scree

Re: changing console cursor

2001-08-01 Thread Leonard Stiles
e shell variable PROMPT_COMMAND, causing it to be run immediately before the shell prints a prompt. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: pdf editor

2001-07-29 Thread Leonard Stiles
ok (see http://www.awlonline.com/product/0,2627,0201379228,00.html>) or read about it online at http://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/resources.html> (in PDF, ironically). Also, I think "implementation" is a better word than "clone" in this context. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: default shell

2001-07-25 Thread Leonard Stiles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (pkm) writes: > hey... how can I set my default shell (when I don't have root > access)... I'm being forced to use csh but I want to use bash man chsh -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: bash ${parameter%%patern} does not work ?

2001-07-23 Thread Leonard Stiles
7;t understand something after reading the relevant parts of the documentation, post examples where bash behaviour deviates from what you expect, and explain what you though would happen. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: obtaining the absolute path of a shell script within itself

2001-07-21 Thread Leonard Stiles
which does exactly what you want; see http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/cleanname> -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Where is the kernel source?

2001-07-20 Thread Leonard Stiles
1-ide You may however want to get version 2.2.19 of these packages, as there are some security issues which affect 2.2.18pre21 (see http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-047>). For details of how to build a patched kernel-image package, see the documentation of `kernel-package'. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Tape backup software

2001-07-19 Thread Leonard Stiles
Stephen J.Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone recomend some tape backup software for a DAT drive? I need > software that can allow backups to span multiple tapes. Well, the obvious answer is tar (has a --multi-volume option). -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: zip drive?

2001-07-17 Thread Leonard Stiles
Frank Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Leonard Stiles wrote: > > > Frank Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>I realized some problemes with "auto" and vfat, namely long > >>filenames. When I tried the auto/detecti

Re: lanuage

2001-07-17 Thread Leonard Stiles
"Martin Bretschneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Leonard Stiles" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Not sure if this is what you mean, but posts to > > news:linux.debian.user> are not sent to th

Re: zip drive?

2001-07-17 Thread Leonard Stiles
compiled into your kernel, or is it a module? What about fat and msdos? -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: "man" command made easy?

2001-07-17 Thread Leonard Stiles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:35:30PM +0200, Leonard Stiles wrote: > > Even vi is an overkill here, let alone an advanced editor:-) > > > > #!/bin/sh > Even easier: > > install package dwww, point browser to: > htt

Re: lanuage

2001-07-16 Thread Leonard Stiles
a recent Sid and have got a problem: All my programm are > English, even selfcompiled. I want German;) Is there a variable to > set? Put LANG=de in your environment. Of course, it will only work if the programs are internationalised and contain German translations. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: "man" command made easy?

2001-07-16 Thread Leonard Stiles
useful. { echo 'http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/strict.dtd";>'; echo 'Documentation Links'; find /usr/doc -name index.html \ -printf '%P\n'; echo ''; } > links.html -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: zip drive?

2001-07-16 Thread Leonard Stiles
"auto" as the file-system type, in which case it will be auto-detected by mount. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How to write a man page?

2001-07-15 Thread Leonard Stiles
macros. If you're new to troff this http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/troff.html> might be of assistance. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Module Kernel Problems DAMMIT! :(

2001-07-13 Thread Leonard Stiles
>. > On a side note i am also looking for a way to compile DVD support into > my system but don't have the udf.o module or the option during the > config process to do this. any suggestions? You will probably have to upgrade to a 2.4.x kernel for DVD support. See http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html>. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: debian stable + 2.4.6

2001-07-13 Thread Leonard Stiles
27;t any packages available, should I compile them myself? For packages and more information on running 2.4.x on potato, see http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html>. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: which rc file for hdparm commands?

2001-07-13 Thread Leonard Stiles
few moments ago. Create a new file and put it in /etc/init.d/, then use update-rc.d(8) to set it to run at whichever run-level(s) you deem appropriate. For more comprehensive information on how the init scripts work see http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-sysvinit>. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Problems with info

2001-07-10 Thread Leonard Stiles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis) writes: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:50:09 +0200, Leonard Stiles wrote: > > Comparing this to the error message you get leads me to believe > > that your dir file is present but corrupted in some way. > > Yes, you are right. I just have the /u

Re: Problems with info

2001-07-10 Thread Leonard Stiles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis) writes: > On Mon, 09 Jul 2001 12:50:08 +0200, Leonard Stiles wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis) writes: > > > >> When I run something like 'info info', I get this: > >> info: Cannot find node op'. > >

Re: Problems with info

2001-07-09 Thread Leonard Stiles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis) writes: > When I run something like 'info info', I get this: > info: Cannot find node op'. What happens when you just run "info"? What is the INFOPATH environment variable set to? -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: security report

2001-07-02 Thread Leonard Stiles
to was addressed by DSA-027 http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-027>. If you have security.debian.org in your sources.list the fix should have been installed when you apt-got. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Speeding up Kernel compiles using make-kpkg

2001-07-02 Thread Leonard Stiles
S.Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any way to pass the "-j " option to make when building > kernels using make-kpkg ? Yes. See kernel-pkg.conf(5) for details. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>