Re: [vox-tech] Vim Colors

2003-04-02 Thread Charles Polisher
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 06:15:18PM -0600, Jay Strauss wrote: > Nevermind about the colors, it seems to be working > > But I'd still like to determine the fonts that are installed > Here's my list of font-related programs, most of them are directly related to X. My fave: tkfont. Most cryptic: xfon

Re: [vox-tech] vi key bindings, readline and bash

2003-03-26 Thread Charles Polisher
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin Charles Polisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > chuck, > > > > > > is your libreadline 4.2 or 4.3?every 4.2 system i've tried, it > > > works. > > > > >

Re: [vox-tech] vi key bindings, readline and bash

2003-03-26 Thread Charles Polisher
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > chuck, > > is your libreadline 4.2 or 4.3?every 4.2 system i've tried, it > works. > > it doesn't seem to work on 4.3. I locate'd this file: /lib/libreadline.so.4.2 so I guess it's 4.2... Could it be something to do with $TERM ? Mine's set to "xterm", but iirc som

Re: [vox-tech] vi key bindings, readline and bash

2003-03-25 Thread Charles Polisher
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > does it work for anybody? > > > > > > Not here. > > > > SuSE does the right thing as-is; this is from /etc/inputrc : > > $if mode=vi > > set editing-mode vi > > set keymap vi > > $endif > > and the environment has INPUTRC set to "/etc/inputrc", >

Re: [vox-tech] vi key bindings, readline and bash

2003-03-25 Thread Charles Polisher
Tim Riley wrote: > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > if someone wants to do me a favor... > > 1. download "bash_bindings.txt" from > > > >vh224401.truman.edu/~dbindner/mirror > > 2. source it (source bash_bindings.txt) > > 3. hit the up arrow key > > 4. make sure your last history item is pulled

Re: [vox-tech] Recovering data

2003-03-19 Thread Charles Polisher
Michael J Wenk wrote: > Problem with mc on this problem was that it hung. I don't know why, but it > did hang. mc to system library: hand over another block! System library to disk driver: another block on the double! Disk driver to IDE interface: read block xyz, I'll wait for it! Disk drive t

Re: [vox-tech] Recovering data

2003-03-18 Thread Charles Polisher
Have you checked if ls is correctly reporting the file size? Maybe du / df or some such would help confirm the fire is actually small. Find midnite commander, it has a Linux un-rm feature that rocks. It might already be installed as mc, but you can also find it at http://www.gnome.org/mc/ _

Re: [vox-tech] newbie annoyed with tin

2003-01-31 Thread Charles Polisher
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:21:27PM -0800, Katie wrote: > OK, here's what I've got: > > #!/bin/bash > > qy | lynx "https://secureweb.ucdavis.edu:443/cgi-auth/sendback?"\ > "http://email.ucdavis.edu/news/news-succeed.html"\ ^^

Re: [vox-tech] Segmentation Fault with RPM --rebuilddb

2003-01-03 Thread Charles Polisher
Also see: http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] Segmentation Fault with RPM --rebuilddb

2003-01-02 Thread Charles Polisher
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:28:57AM -0800, Richard Crawford wrote: > Trying to get my system ready for upgrading to RH8, I decided to run rpm > --rebuilddb on my system. I got "Segmentation fault". > > What does this mean? How can I repair the fault? > > -- > Slainte, > Richard S. Crawford > T

Re: [vox-tech] Sendmail trouble

2002-12-31 Thread Charles Polisher
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 05:11:11AM +0530, karthikeyan.balasubramanian wrote: > Hi All, > Wish you all a very Happy New Year. > I am having problem with my sendmail. Somehow mails are not going outside. > My Environment is Redhat Linux 7.3. > What are all the files (logs) i need to check

Re: [vox-tech] Redundant DSL Question

2002-12-23 Thread Charles Polisher
On Sun, Rod Roark wrote: > Indeed, service failure might not be mechanical at all, but > human error in managing the account (either on the part of ^ [1][2] [1] Surely this is a typo? ITYM sub- or in-human. [2] ITYM 'mangling' Alwayys speel-check befor sendi

Re: [vox-tech] Redundant DSL Question

2002-12-22 Thread Charles Polisher
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 10:25:53AM -0800, Rod Roark wrote: > Suppose I have two DSL lines attached to my multi-homed > server. I can think of two different ways to handle the > DNS: Two DSL lines to the same service address very likely share space in the same conduit all the way to the central o

Re: [vox-tech] Dia & Visio

2002-10-29 Thread Charles Polisher
Ryan wrote: > I should think visio can export to some sane format. I'll check at work > tomorrow I seem to remember that Visio will export in Adobe Illustrator format, which is actually PostScript under the hood. It might be possible to walk Visio's internal data structures in Ivfhny Onfvp and h

Re: [vox-tech] TeX question: writing a robust fraction macro

2002-07-13 Thread Charles Polisher
Henry House wrote: > > The macro is to be used for typesetting a cookbook; comparable usage suggests > that fractions should be not be written out in words but should change to > italics in italic text. (Keeping maths in roman in italic blocks is of course > the correct usage in the mathematical

Re: [vox-tech] advanced gdb question

2002-06-14 Thread Charles Polisher
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 06:58:38PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: > Peter Jay Salzman writes: > > hey there, > > > > every tutorial on gdb says "compile with -g" within the first few lines. > > but what if you don't? or rather, what if you can't compile with -g? > > > > but how do you inspect

Re: [vox-tech] any way to spy on a process's environment?

2002-05-25 Thread Charles Polisher
May 25,Shawn P. Neugebauer wrote: > > Does anyone know a way to peek at the environment of a processes, e.g., a > > daemon? > > sure, "cat /proc/PID/environ" where PID is the process ID. That's the best way for sure. Once in a while this is handy too: ps ewww (note there's no hyphen in front of

Re: [vox-tech] Mysteriously Expanding Home Directory

2002-05-20 Thread Charles Polisher
and so on, until the listing is of _files_, and there you should have an inkling of what is soaking up all your disk space. In your case, cd /home du -ks * |sort -nr Be cautious about blowing away or truncating any files or directories if you're not sure of their function. Happy

Re: [vox-tech] CD-burn attempts

2002-05-17 Thread Charles Polisher
Alexandra Thorn wrote: > > I've been trying to get some files onto a CD-RW, to bring them to my home > computer from campus. So far, no success. It seems to do better in dummy > mode than when I try to do the actual burn. Trying to erase the disk > doesn't seem to work at all, even in dummy mo

Re: [vox-tech] power supply question

2002-05-11 Thread Charles Polisher
Peter Salzman wrote: > i built this system myself, so there is no warrantee, i'm afraid. > > as for voiding the non-existant warrantee, i've already voided it. the > power supply is laying open on my table. :) > > i'm going to fry's tomorrow to pick up a new fan *and* power supply. if > swapp

Re: [vox-tech] X-win port 177

2002-04-28 Thread Charles Polisher
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 11:11:05PM -0700, Tom wrote: > Looked up port 177 (XDMCP) on google... > http://www.microimages.com/mix/xdmconfig.htm > > I dunno about XDMCP, but a > tom@dilweed:~$ xhost + > access control disabled, clients can connect from any host > Will turn off access controls. > >

Re: [vox-tech] Wine and fonts?

2002-04-28 Thread Charles Polisher
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:35:05PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > the easiest way to set up wine is by using winex -- www.transgaming.com. > it costs 5 bucks, and they just released a new version of winex: 2.0.1. > once you get winex installed (deb or rpm format available) you can copy > your

Re: [vox-tech] Not able to log into root.

2002-04-23 Thread Charles Polisher
nbs wrote: > Rusty Minden wrote: > > Dohh! Yes I do I flubbed when doing a search using vim sorry. Still can't use > > su to log into root. > > You'll probably need to boot into single user mode (err.. if you CAN > with a botched /etc/passwd), or (more likely) use a rescue disk. > > BTW - use "

Re: [vox-tech] not sure what to call it

2002-04-13 Thread Charles Polisher
On Apr 13, 2002 Patrick Stockton wrote: > When sitting at a text login at the actuall box for example I'll enter the > username and password and it'll stop moving. So I'll hit ALT+F3 to get a > different terminal and I get a black screen, no prompts. So I hit ALT+F7 to > get to my X windows and

Re: [vox-tech] need to debug boot crash

2002-03-25 Thread Charles Polisher
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 09:49:56PM -0800, eric nelson wrote: > ME wrote: > > > On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, eric nelson wrote: > > > Its not panicking. I'm doing an nfs mount of the os, and something went > > > wrong init the initscripts. The shift-pageup is a really good idea, I didn't > > > know abou

Re: [vox-tech] What I Did Tonight

2002-03-22 Thread Charles Polisher
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:28:48PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > Tonight, in a desperate bid to free up some space on my hard drive, I went > ahead and created a new directory on my huge unused /u2 partition called > bin. Then I copied everything from /bin to /u2/bin. Then I deleted /bin

Re: [vox-tech] gzip bug?

2002-03-15 Thread Charles Polisher
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:03:22AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin Charles Polisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:14:08PM -0800, Kevin Dawson wrote: > > yeah, before i replied to this message, i checked what libraries gzip is > linked aga

Re: [vox-tech] gzip bug?

2002-03-15 Thread Charles Polisher
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 07:42:59AM -0800, Charles Polisher wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:14:08PM -0800, Kevin Dawson wrote: > > > > - Can you run md5sum `which gzip` `which gunzip`? > > Perhaps someone running your version of Redhat can verify your > > ex

Re: [vox-tech] gzip bug?

2002-03-15 Thread Charles Polisher
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:14:08PM -0800, Kevin Dawson wrote: > > - Can you run md5sum `which gzip` `which gunzip`? > Perhaps someone running your version of Redhat can verify your > executables are not corrupted. > > Ocae 9777 548d 5dcb 6179 5599 6f51 3525 On a freshly d/l'd and verified g

Re: [vox-tech] another gcc question

2002-02-27 Thread Charles Polisher
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:03:22AM -0800, ME wrote: > $ gcc gcc -funroll-all-loops -S sample.c > > When I inspect the above, I see loops included. > -12(%ebp) (3 32-bit offset from %ebp) is set to 5 and -4(%ebp) is incl > until it is cmpl to be no longer less than -12(%ebp). > > Labels even sho

Re: [vox-tech] +'d email addresses

2002-02-23 Thread Charles Polisher
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 07:39:48PM -0800, Ryan wrote: > Does anyone know what mail servers support [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] style alaising? Sendmail has an amazingly flexible re-writing capability, great documentation, and a very easy to use (and helpful!) re-writing debug environ

Re: [vox-tech] ssh remote commands

2002-02-18 Thread Charles Polisher
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 03:19:43AM -0800, nbs wrote: > I'm trying to set up remote access to the PC on my LAN which has the > Rio MP3 player connected to it. Unfortunately, the command which talks > to it, "rio", requires root access. > > As an exercise in safety, I'd like to set up password-les

Re: [vox-tech] ZIP drive woes

2002-02-05 Thread Charles Polisher
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:15:30PM -0800, nbs wrote: > I found some old ZIP disks I had backed up some of my websites on, > and thought I'd poke around and see what I had. > > Unfortunately, when I went to use my drive (an older, PPA-style 100MB drive), > I was faced with the following: [snip] I