Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?

[Christopher Splinter]

* Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> do you happen to know whether ps2ascii is safe ?

Look for yourself :-):  `which ps2ascii`

Re: mp3-encoder

[Christopher Splinter]

* Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Bladeenc is faster but not as high quality as lame (YMMV).  I
> have been using bladeenc, but switched to lame for low bitrate
> encodings.

The latest lame beta (3.83) is quite fast.

Re: kernel-2.2.16

[Christopher Splinter]

* Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Umum Wijoyo wrote:
>> I read in the Debian Security section, there's a serious bug
>> in the Linux kernel, and we are advised to do an upgrade.  So
>> where can I find the kernel-2.2.16 source? This version is OK,
>> I presume?
> Yes, the 2.2.16 kernel has the security fix.

But it has some other bugs - see
 and
.

Re: mailing-list managers (Re: majordomo gone?)

[Christopher Splinter]

* Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I'd be grateful if some people on the list would share their
> opinions on other mailinglist-managers.

Mailman  is pretty good, IMHO.

Re: truss

[Christopher Splinter]

* "John Gosling (GOSLIJA @ GBNUHO)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  Is there a utility under linux which will write a dos format
>  file.

superformat /dev/fd0 && mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0 && mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy

Re: Xemacs/GNUs

[Christopher Splinter]

* Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm using Xemacs21.1.10(nomule)/GNUs 5.6.45 and I would like to
> filter out all duplicate messages (the ones GNUs warns about).

See section 6.3.11 in the Gnus manual:

,
|   6.3.11 Duplicates
|  
|If you are a member of a couple of mailing lists, you will sometimes 
receive two
|copies of the same mail. This can be quite annoying, so nnmail checks for 
and
|treats any duplicates it might find. To do this, it keeps a cache of old
|Message-IDs--- nnmail-message-id-cache-file, which is `~/.nnmail-cache' by
|default. The approximate maximum number of Message-IDs stored there is
|controlled by the nnmail-message-id-cache-length variable, which is 1000 by
|default. (So 1000 Message-IDs will be stored.) If all this sounds scary to 
you,
|you can set nnmail-treat-duplicates to warn (which is what it is by 
default),
|and nnmail won't delete duplicate mails. Instead it will insert a warning 
into
|the head of the mail saying that it thinks that this is a duplicate of a
|different message.
|   
|This variable can also be a function. If that's the case, the function 
will be
|called from a buffer narrowed to the message in question with the 
Message-ID as
|a parameter. The function must return either nil, warn, or delete.
|   
|You can turn this feature off completely by setting the variable to nil.
|
|If you want all the duplicate mails to be put into a special duplicates 
group,
|you could do that using the normal mail split methods:
| (setq nnmail-split-fancy
|   '(| ;; Messages duplicates go to a separate group.
|   ("gnus-warning" "duplication of message" "duplicate")
|   ;; Message from daemons, postmaster, and the like to another.
|   (any mail "mail.misc")
|   ;; Other rules.
|   [ ... ] ))
|
|Or something like:
| (setq nnmail-split-methods
|   '(("duplicates" "^Gnus-Warning:")
| ;; Other rules.
| [...]))
`

Re: netscape-amended

[Christopher Splinter]

* Jacob Stowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 277: `  for f in ( cd $d;ls -1 .
> | sort ); do'

A patch was posted on this list a short time ago (today or
yesterday). Look in the archives.

Re: make menuconfig burp

[Christopher Splinter]

* Dave Bateman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm trying to build a kernel and "make menuconfig" gives the
> following error:
> 
> debian:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.15# make menuconfig

2.2.15 has had some ugly bugs - you may want to upgrade to 2.2.17pre1.

> dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory

[EMAIL PROTECTED] chris]$ dpkg -S curses.h
libncurses4-dev: /usr/include/curses.h
[...]

-> You need to install libncurses4-dev

Re: rpm2deb

[Christopher Splinter]

* "S. Champ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> does anyone have a URL for rpm2deb ?

Use alien.

Re: Xemacs/GNUs and decoding attachments

[Christopher Splinter]

* Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> application/x-gzip; base64 -> /tmp/Xautoconfig-0.6.tar.gz
> /usr/share/xemacs21/packages/lib-src/tmdecode: mmencode: command not found

Try putting "/usr/lib/xemacs-21.1.10/i386-debian-linux/" in your $PATH.

> Process tm-file exited abnormally with code 127
  ^^
If you use tm, you probably also use Gnus < 5.8.0, right? You
should upgrade.

Re: Xemacs/GNUs and decoding attachments

[Christopher Splinter]

* Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Christopher Splinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > If you use tm, you probably also use Gnus < 5.8.0, right? You
> > should upgrade.
> I did, and the problem is gone. But I get errors on startup:
[...]

Have a look at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[1].

Does this help?

[1] <http://www.deja.com/forms/mid.shtml>

Re: Xemacs/GNUs and decoding attachments

[Christopher Splinter]

* Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Christopher Splinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > * Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Christopher Splinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > If you use tm, you probably also use Gnus < 5.8.0, right? You
> > > > should upgrade.
> > > I did, and the problem is gone. But I get errors on startup:
> > [...]
> > Have a look at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[1].
> Sorry the article is not there.

OK, here it is:

,
| From: "Robin S. Socha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Subject: Upgrade auf Gnus 5.8.x (was: Gnus 5.8.2 und mime)
| Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Newsgroups: de.comp.gnu
| 
| [...]
| ;;*
| ;;* MIME Settings for PGnus
| ;;*
| (require 'mm-util)
| (defun mm-read-charset (prompt)
|   "Return a charset."
|   'iso-8859-1)
| (setq gnus-default-posting-charset (quote iso-8859-1))
| 
| ;;*
| ;;* Workaround for quoted printable encoding of attachments
| ;;*
| (setq mm-content-transfer-encoding-defaults
|   '(("text/x-patch" 8bit)
| ("text/.*" qp-or-base64)
| ("message/rfc822" 8bit)
| ("application/emacs-lisp" 8bit)
| ("application/x-patch" 8bit)
| (".*" base64)))
| ;;*
| ;;* Decode RFC2047-encoded words in the article headers
| ;;*
| (setq  gnus-article-decode-mime-words t)
| ;;*
| ;;* Decode encoded article bodies as well as charsets
| ;;This command looks in the `Content-Type' header to determine the
| ;;charset.  If there is no such header in the article, you can give
| ;;it a prefix, which will prompt for the charset to decode as.  In
| ;;regional groups where people post using some common encoding (but
| ;;do not include MIME headers), you can set the `charset' group/topic
| ;;parameter to the required charset
| ;;*
| (setq gnus-article-decode-charset 1)
| ;;*
| ;;* View all the MIME parts in the current article
| ;;*
| (setq gnus-mime-view-all-parts t)
| ;;*
| ;;* To have all Vcards be ignored, you'd say something like this:
| ;;*
| (setq gnus-ignored-mime-types
|   '("text/x-vcard"))
| ;;*
| ;;* List of MIME types that should not be given buttons when rendered.
| ;;*
| (setq gnus-unbuttonized-mime-types nil)
| ;;*
| ;;*
| ;;*
| ;;* This replaces the obsolete "gnus-article-display-hook" functions.
| ;;*
| (setq 
|  ;; Add buttons
|  gnus-treat-buttonize t
|  ;; Add buttons to the head
|  gnus-treat-buttonize-head 'head
|  ;; Emphasize text
|  gnus-treat-emphasize t
|  ;; Fill the article
|  gnus-treat-fill-article nil
|  ;; Remove carriage returns
|  gnus-treat-strip-cr 'last
|  ;; Hide headers
|  gnus-treat-hide-headers 'head
|  ;; Hide boring headers
|  gnus-treat-hide-boring-headers 'head
|  ;; Hide the signature if > 5 lines
|  gnus-treat-hide-signature nil
|  ;; Hide cited text
|  gnus-treat-hide-citation nil
|  ;; Strip PGP signatures
|  gnus-treat-strip-pgp 'last
|  ;; Strip PEM signatures
|  gnus-treat-strip-pem 'last
|  ;; Highlight the headers
|  gnus-treat-highlight-headers 'head
|  ;; Highlight cited text
|  gnus-treat-highlight-citation 'last
|  ;; Highlight the signature
|  gnus-treat-highlight-signature 'last
|  ;; Display the Date in UT (GMT)
|  gnus-treat-date-ut nil
|  ;; Display the Date in the local timezone
|  gnus-treat-date-local nil
|  ;; Display the Date header in a way that says how much time has elapsed
|  gnus-treat-date-lapsed 'head
|  ;; Display the date in the original timezone
|  gnus-treat-date-original nil
|  ;; Strip trailing blank lines
|  gnus-treat-strip-trailing-blank-lines 'last
|  ;; Strip leading blank lines
|  gnus-treat-strip-leading-blank-lines 'last
|  ;; Strip multiple blank lines
|  gnus-treat-strip-multiple-blank-lines 'last
|  ;; Strip all blank lines
|  gnus-treat-strip-blank-lines nil
|  ;; Treat overstrike highlighting
|  gnus-treat-overstrike 'last
|  ;; Strip multiple blank lines
|  gnus-treat-strip-multiple-blank-lines t
|  ;; Display the Date header in a way that says how much time has elapsed
|  gnus-treat-date-lapsed 'head
|  ;; If non-nil, subjects will be ignored when doing thread commands
|  gnus-thread-operation-ignore-subject 'fuzzy
|  ;; If non-nil, save group scoring info
|  gnus-save-score t
| )
| ;;*===

Re: Xemacs/GNUs and decoding attachments

[Christopher Splinter]

* Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Not quite what I wanted though... I would like to get my MIME
> right to the Field menu back whenever I write or read a
> message.

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| from .emacs, but unfortunately I have to "M-x mime/editor-mode" by
| hand now.

Hm .. isn't that a tm thing? You don't need tm anymore since Gnus
5.8.x does MIME out-of-the-box.

Re: non-US Packages

[Christopher Splinter]

* Russ Pitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Failed to fetch
> ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/non-US/binary-i386/Packages
>   Unable to fetch file, server said
> '/debian/dists/potato/non-US/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or
> directory  '

I have the following in my /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main

Does this work for you?

Re: pgp_encryptself in Mutt 1.2i and pgp5

[Christopher Splinter]

* Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 09:35:02PM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
> > Dear list, since I have upgraded Mutt to 1.2i, I get an error
> > when Mutt reads the .muttrc on the command: set
> > pgp_encryptself.
> Pardon my ignorance, but does pgp_encryptself cause all mails
> to be encrypted?

IIRC, this decrypts all mails you encrypted with PGP or GPG that
go to your sent-mails (or whatever) folder.

Erik, have a look at the appropriate file for your PGP-version in
contrib/.

For example, contrib/pgp2.txt says:

# Note: In order to be able to read your own messages, you'll have
# the +encrypttoself command line parameter to the pgp_encrypt_only_command
# and pgp_encrypt_sign_command variables.

> How did you put a folder like sent-items to use? That's what I
> *want*, too. :)

set record=/your/outgoing/mailbox/goes/here

Re: Exim and "frozen" message status

[Christopher Splinter]

* Alec Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm noticing that some messages are stuck in a "frozen" state
> by Exim for days (or weeks) at a time without being sent. What
> does this mean,

spec.txt:

If a failure report (either locally generated or received from a
remote host) itself suffers a delivery failure, the message is
left on the queue, but is 'frozen', awaiting the attention of an
administrator. There are options which can be used to make Exim
discard such failure reports, or to keep them for only a short
time.

> and is there a way to force sending of the messages?

spec.txt:

There is also an auto_thaw option, which can be used to cause
Exim to retry frozen messages after a certain time. When this is
set, no message will remain on the queue for ever, because the
delivery timeout will eventually be reached. Delivery failure
reports that reach this timeout are discarded.

Re: rxvt -> strange

[Christopher Splinter]

* Christopher Mosley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I swear there is something subtly wrong with the geometry of
> the rxvt window: Lines not quite straight; slightly curved;
> slight convergence of lines etc.

I don't see anything like that. Which version do you use?

Re: Cant find bzImage

[Christopher Splinter]

* Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> First of all, get the patch from 2.2.15 to 2.2.16 if you're
> connected to the internet.  There are security risks with
> 2.2.15.

Re: random signature

[Christopher Splinter]

* Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is there a way to put some sort of random signature system to
> use in mutt?

Untested:

#!/usr/bin/perl
# Version: let's call it 0.9.9, date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 21:03:36 +0200
# Version: 0.9.9a, date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 17:54:44 +0200
# Written by Eduard Bloch, Licence: GPL Installation is simple: copy
# this somewhere, in your home directory for example, make it executable
# (chmod +x) and start it. You may want it be started at boot time, just
# put a command like this in a init-script:
# su -c '/usr/bin/sigrot' user

# WARNING: First created the .signature fifo, don't forget to run
# sigrotate before using the client program. Otherwise you will wonder
# what the program is waiting for.

$signaturedb=$ENV{"HOME"}."/sigs";
# file where the signatures are stored in
# The format is simple: many signatures separated by lines containing "-- "
# or "--"

$signatur=$ENV{"HOME"}."/.signature";
# file to be used by news/mail agents as the signature source. If
# exists, the file will be renamed and a fifo will be created in its place

$psfile=($ENV{"HOME"}."/.psig");
# specify a file for personal stuff like "/me is Foo Bar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"

$lockfile=($ENV{"HOME"}."/.sigrot.lck");
# specify a file for personal stuff like "/me is Foo Bar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"

$parm = $ARGV[0];
if($parm =~/^-help/)
{
#print "Usage: sigrotate [-ps|-sp leftwidth separator rightwidth]\n"; 
exit 0;
};

if(-f $signatur)
{rename($signatur,$signatur.".sr".(time)) || die "Old signature found and 
couldn't be renamed\n" }

if(!-p $signatur){system "mkfifo $signatur" || die "couldn't create fifo file"};

sub spalten {
($text) = @_;
$text =~ s/\n|\r/ /gi;
return $text;
};
open(LOCK,">$lockfile");
if(flock(LOCK,2|4)){
# Wenn nicht gelockt, dann locken
flock(LOCK,2);
print STDERR "Starting sigrotate using $signaturedb, forking to 
background." if($ARGV[0] ne "-q");
}else{
print STDERR "Signature Rotator is already running...(exiting)\n" 
if($ARGV[0] ne "-q");
exit 1;
};

if(!($a=fork))
{while(1){
$i = 0;
undef(@sigs);
#   chdir($ENV{"HOME"}."/testing");
open(fifo,">$signatur");
#   fifo geöffnet, warten bis ein Programm liest
open(sigfile,"<$signaturedb");
while()
{
$sigs[$i].=$_ if(!/^--(\n| )/);
$i++ if(/^--(\n| )/); 
};
close(sigfile);

# uncomment the following line to add "-- " if the client program 
doesn't do
# this automaticaly - not needed by the the most user agents
# print fifo "-- \n";

# now, use this construction below to import the personal stuff from a
# file (~/.psig)
open(person,"<$psfile");
while(){print fifo $_};
close(person);

$sigraw=$sigs[sprintf("%.0f",(rand($i)))];

# WIRD SPAETER IMPLEMENTIERT
#   if($parm =~/^-/)
#   {
#   print fifo "test".spalten($sigraw);
#   # in entw.: Spalten mit Trennzeichen, Breite fest über Parameter
#   # oder variabel (so breit das der text die gleiche Länge hat)
#   }
#   else
#   {
print fifo $sigraw;
#   };

  close fifo;
sleep 1;
}
}
print "..done.\n"  if($ARGV[0] ne "-q");

Re: Installation of .tgz files

[Christopher Splinter]

* "Suresh Kumar. R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> When we install some package using .tgz files, the debian
> package mechanism is not aware that the particular package is
> installed. For ex. I installed postfix*.tgz but apt is unaware
> of it. Therefore, when I use apt-get for installilng something
> else, it would say, MTA not installed and it would try to
> install one.
> 
> Is there any way to fix it so that I can still enjoy apt-get
> install?

There is a package called "equivs" that does what you
want.

apt-get install equivs && man equivs-build

Re: random signature

[Christopher Splinter]

* Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > > Is there a way to put some sort of random signature system to
> > > use in mutt?
> I assume mutt isn't able to handle multiple signatures or is
> there a way to rot' the sigs for every mail I compose? :)

???

The perlscript I posted does nothing but that.

Re: Exim doubt

[Christopher Splinter]

* Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have an exim mail server installed and I want to:
>Limit each user e-mail account in 3 Mb.

Use quotas.

Ciao,
Christopher
-- 
We need killfiles that actually *kill*.
   [Sven Guckes in nsr]

Re: Strange Mail Problem

[Christopher Splinter]

* Jay Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Ok it looks like its downloading the mail but I cant find it anywhere. I
> start mutt and there is nothing there. I cd/var/mail/neutec and theres no
> mail there.

Your mail is probably in /var/spool/mail/$USER.

man muttrc:

,
|mailboxes filename [ filename ... ]
|   This command specifies folders  which  can  receive
|   mail  and  which  will be checked for new messages.
|   When changing folders, pressing  space  will  cycle
|   through folders with new mail.
`
-- 
I am OE of Borg.  You will be quoted awfully.  Sigtrenner is futile.

Re: mozilla segfault...

[Christopher Splinter]

* rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > monkeyhouse:~/$ mozilla
[...]
> > Segmentation fault
> Any ideas?

What does strace say?
-- 
Microsoft is sort of a mixture between the Borg and the
Ferengi. Combine the Borg marketing with Ferengi networking...
[Andre Beck in dcouln]

Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?

[Christopher Splinter]

* Oliver Schoenknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Besides I am also searching a good and powerful HTML-editor

XEmacs.

> and a logo creation tool like Xara Webstyle...

Hm, Gimp? :-)

Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?

[Christopher Splinter]

* Jeff Noxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> gs contains a program called ps2pdf that will convert any
> Postscript file to PDF.

ps2pdf is only a wrapper around ghostscript:

,[ ps2pdf ]
| [...]
| # Doing an initial 'save' helps keep fonts from being flushed between pages.
| exec gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$outfile $OPTIONS 
-c save pop -f $infile
`

Re: Wheel mouse not working...oy.

[Christopher Splinter]

* Tim Jump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Section "Pointer"
[...]
>Buttons 3
[...]
> EndSection

This should read "Buttons   5".

Re: HDA is crashing..How can I duplicate it?

[Christopher Splinter]

Please do not use HTML since many mailclients cannot display it
properly. Thank you.

* Kevin Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Can anyone tell me how I can place another hard drive into the
> Linux 2.1 box, copy everything from drive 1 to drive 2 and then
> come up on drive 2?

If there are no partitions on drive 2, you can boot from an
emergency system (like tomsrtbt ) and
use dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdX. This way your
old drive will be copied sector-by-sector which means that
partitions are created automatically.

If there are partitions on drive 2, I'd suggest the use of tar;
mount every partition on drive 1 and do a tar czvf *
/a/partition/on/drive2.tar.gz in the root directory of drive 1.

Re: telnet replacement

[Christopher Splinter]

* Timothy C Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>   Recently, I have learned that telnet is not a good idea and
>   have seen so many suggestion on ssh and wondering how would I
>   do this from windows/NT?  I did not seen windows/NT provide
>   the ssh.

You could use PuTTY or TeraTerm Pro (haven't got an URL, but I'm
sure that you can find it at  or any
other search engine of your choice).

Re: sawfish problem

[Christopher Splinter]

* Joseph de los Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I wanted to try sawfish but it seems that it wants
> libreadline.so.3 instead of what is unstable or woody is using
> right now (libreadline.so.4).is there a way I can get sawfish
> to use libreadline.so.4 instead of 3?

How about making a symlink? ln -s /lib/libreadline.so.4
/usr/local/lib/libreadline.3 && ldconfig (make sure that
/usr/local/lib is somewhere in your /etc/ld.so.conf or
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH).

Re: xterm

[Christopher Splinter]

* cls--colo spgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> is there a way make the xterm "box" a "see-through" (to
> the background or to a background image)?

XTerm doesn't offer this kind of feature but ETerm does; try
Eterm -O --shade 30.

man Eterm:

,
|-O, --trans
|   This gives a pseudo-transparent Eterm.   The  image
|   is  taken  directly  from  the  root window, so any
|   requests for changing the pixmap are  ignored.   If
|   you do not use Enlightenment (http://www.enlighten­
|   ment.org/) as your window manager, you will need to
|   use  the  Esetroot program in the doc/ directory to
|   set your root background image.
| 
|--shade percentage
|   Darkens the background pixmap (either an image file
|   or  the  transparent  portion  can be shaded).  The
|   amount of shading is controlled  by  the  specified
|   percentage,  which  may or may not be followed by a
|   percent sign.
`

Re: xterm

[Christopher Splinter]

* S Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> rxvt does transparency ? How ?

rxvt-xpm -tr

Re: firewall

[Christopher Splinter]

* Timothy C Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>   My next task is setting firewall.  Would someone please let
>   me know where can I find doc on this fireewall subject.

/usr/doc/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO

Re: fetchmail question (newbie)

[Christopher Splinter]

* Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> So I thought of placing a script with `fetchmail -d 300` into
> the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d directory and a script with `fetchmail -q`
> into the /etc/ppp/ip-down.d directory.  The problem is that
> those scripts are executed as root,

su - -c "fetchmail -d 300"