On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 01:15:02AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> * Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080617 01:00]:
> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:28:26AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > > Running Debian and the Gnome desktop, what is necessary for a
> > > dictionary which may be used off-line -- that is, going to localhost
> > > rather than to dict.org ?
> > >
> > > The man pages for dict and dictd don't appear to discuss off-line
> > > access. The instructions I found in a wiki titled "Gnome-dictionary
> > > Offline" do not agree with the menus which I find in Dictionary
> > > 2.14.0.
> >
> > I only use the dict-packages offline. Just install all the
> > dictionaries you want to use and make sure that your dict client refer
> > to localhost as server.
>
> Thanks, but I already did that, using the edit -> preferences menu of
> Dictionary 2.14.0. But the response is very slow (several seconds,
> because another machine on the network is doing a jidgo download), so
> it is obvious that the client is going out to dict.org.
>
> Perhaps dictd is not running? How can I check to see?
'sudo nmap localhost' on my PC shows inter alia:
2628/tcp open dict
or
~$ ps aux | grep [d]ict
dictd 4929 0.0 0.2 95752 4276 ? Ss Jun02 0:00 dictd 1.10.11:
If it is not running, try /etc/init.d/dictd restart. You can also
check your /var/log/daemon.log for messages about dictd.
Regards
Johann
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