apt-build and Athlon question

2002-09-18 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I just installed apt-build and gcc3.2 to get some packages recompiled Athlon-optimized. In the installation screen, it promts me for the processor I am going to optimize for: athlon athlon-tbird athlon-4 athlon-xp athlon-mp How do I find out which one is mine? I know I don't have

Re: apt upgrade

2002-09-18 Thread Gottfried Szing
Am Mit, 2002-09-18 um 23.52 schrieb Colin Watson: > Always check the bug tracking system first. > > http://bugs.debian.org/coreutils > > Note that the bugs filed about this have been closed by a newer version, > which will be turning up on mirrors real soon now. yep, thats true. today the mi

postfix: how to apply uce control only to some accounts?

2002-09-18 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I have some UCE control rule in my postfix mail server. However, I'd like the postfix not to apply the UCE to everyone by default, while have a list who are willing to use UCE. In my main.cf, it looks something list this smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, check_cl

Re: procmail locking problem

2002-09-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Kenneth Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-18 15:55:30 -0500]: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Are you sure you are using procmail from woody? If so then that error > Reasonably. I had been running Potato but did a dist-upgrade. Sounds reasonable. > > message should be for

MS WINWORD and WINE problems....

2002-09-18 Thread Irvin Temp
Ive been playing with Wine(version in woody) and MS Offcie 2000. I was to configure wine manually and using winesetup... I also installed MS Office 2000 and was able to launch the MS WORD, EXCEL and POWERPPOINT apps. My problem here is when i close the WORD application i would get a pop-up box wi

Re: annoying console messeges

2002-09-18 Thread Larry Holish
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 03:15:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi list, > i recently did upgrade from potato to woody. After the upgrade > messages from packet log filter appears on console screen . How > can i avoid them to appeor on console - its very paiful do some > work on console whe

Re: unstable, just how unstable is it

2002-09-18 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, be careful if you are trying to upgrade from testing to unstable. I tried it last night and got stuck in some kind of conflict between coreutils and fileutils, where you were somehow going to have to temporarily remove fileutils because of the conflict. I decided to stick with testing from n

Re: Problems upgrading to testing dist...

2002-09-18 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 05:53:50AM -0600, Dave Bartmess wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade my system to the testing distro. But I made the > mistake of going to unstable first, and had all kinds of errors trying > to install, because libc6 wouldn't install. The only dependency libc6 has in sid

Re: Grammar Checker in Linux

2002-09-18 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 11:46, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On 18 Sep 2002 11:10:06 -0400 "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > For grammar profiling, there is always the command 'style' (package: > > astyle) > > Not quite. The command is indeed "style", but it's part of the "diction" >

Re: dselect fails to install mozilla-browser after upgrade to woody

2002-09-18 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:17:31PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: > IOn September 17, 2002 08:41 pm, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:39:03PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: [snip] > > Interestingly, I didn't see libnsp4 in the list of available packages. I did > see libnspr4, which

Re: Problems upgrading to testing dist...

2002-09-18 Thread Brian Nelson
Davor Balder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My understanding of your problem is that you are trying to downgrade. I > believe somebody asked this question before and the answer was that the > doengrades are not supported (that is what I remember at least)... Well, downgrades are unsupported becau

Re: Where to look up "%20"-like chars for use with HTML?

2002-09-18 Thread Travis Crump
Andre Berger wrote: > I have to mask a "&" in a URL (HTML 4.01 Transitional, text/html; > charset=utf-8) that pointing to a CGI script; "&" doesn't work. > You can mask special characters a la "%20" in HTML. What encoding is > this, and where can I find a listing? > > TIA > > -Andre I use http

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RE: Help needed setting up CDRW

2002-09-18 Thread Michael Olds
Bob et al, OK I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.18-686 which went smoothly except that this kernel uses something called initrd, which I opted out of the first go round for some reason I can't remember. Needed to add a line to /etc/lilo.conf 'initrd=/initrd.img' and one to /etc/kernel-img.conf which d

Re: running ntpdate as user

2002-09-18 Thread Andrew Pritchard
> > Anyone know what I need to change in order to run ntpdate as a user > > without using su sudo ...? > > Without looking I assume that changing the time is a root privilege > operation. Otherwise anyone could change the time and play games with > the system. Therefore what you would have to ch

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Geoff Crompton said: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 08:43:24AM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > > One other thing I noticed is that Gentoo brought up my disks in UDMA > > 100 mode, Debian did not. Ofcourse I went in to change this in > > Debian. Et voila, a speed increase th

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-18 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 08:43:24AM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > One other thing I noticed is that Gentoo brought up my disks in UDMA > 100 mode, Debian did not. Ofcourse I went in to change this in > Debian. Et voila, a speed increase that I never thought of getting > before. > 'scuse my i

RE: Mac Fonts

2002-09-18 Thread dbalder
>Hello, >How can I installed some Mac fonts on my x86 Linux Box ? >Thanks >Yogesh Mac fonts are not any different than those ttf fonts in Windows but anyway... 1. Use ttfconverter (a handy Macintosh utility that should still be folating around the cyberspace) to convert Macintosh true type f

Re: Why do the config scripts always get run twice during install?

2002-09-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 02:53:29PM -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote: > I run about 7 Debian boxes... and I keep them all up with "unstable". > I use dselect to maintain my list of packages to install/remove, and I > used to use ftp as the fetch method, but I've recently converted all > over to apt. > >

Re: apt upgrade

2002-09-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 11:36:08PM +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote: > so i thought its to to a > > igate:~# apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Calculating Upgrade... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: > coreutils dash defoma

Why do the config scripts always get run twice during install?

2002-09-18 Thread Joe Emenaker
I run about 7 Debian boxes... and I keep them all up with "unstable". I use dselect to maintain my list of packages to install/remove, and I used to use ftp as the fetch method, but I've recently converted all over to apt.   Anyway, some time ago (about a year, it seems), many if not all of

Re: moving from sid to sarge.

2002-09-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 22:59:09 -0700, Steve Juranich wrote: > I'm starting to come to the conclusion that the new way that AJ is running > the sarge release cycle is leaving far more truly "unstable" packages in > the "unstable" tree, I see little difference with the previous development cycle.

apt upgrade

2002-09-18 Thread Gottfried Szing
hi i hope someone can help to fix my small problem regarding apt-upgrade. today i have upgraded with (slightly reformatted output) igate:~# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back analog ash fileutils gsynapti

Re: DOS on non-x86 systems?

2002-09-18 Thread Carl Johnson
"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > on Wed, Sep 11, 2002, nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Michael D. Crawford said: > > > What options are available for running DOS on a system that does not have > > > an x86 processor, like a PowerPC Macintosh? > > > > dosemu may work ?? > > N

Re: procmail locking problem

2002-09-18 Thread Kenneth Stephen
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Bob Proulx wrote: > Are you sure you are using procmail from woody? If so then that error Reasonably. I had been running Potato but did a dist-upgrade. > message should be for /var/mail/y2kmvs.lock and not /var/spool/mail. > /var/spool/mail should be a symlink to

Re: Motherboards

2002-09-18 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Mon, 09 Sep 2002 19:32:27 -0400 Vikki Roemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Whitman wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I'm looking for information on P4 motherboards and chipsets for > >Woody? > > > >Please share any success or failure information. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Jeff > > > > > > > > > Wel

Re: annoying console messeges

2002-09-18 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 03:15:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i recently did upgrade from potato to woody. After the upgrade > messages from packet log filter appears on console screen . How > can i avoid them to appeor on console - its very paiful do some > work on console when they appea

Re: procmail locking problem

2002-09-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Kenneth Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-18 11:43:43 -0500]: > I am using Postfix on Woody as the MTA and procmail as the MDA. In > my procmail log file, I see messages such as : > > procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/y2kmvs.lock" > > The ownership of /var/spool/mail is r

Re: running ntpdate as user

2002-09-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-18 08:39:56 -0500]: > Anyone know what I need to change in > order to run ntpdate as a user without > using su sudo ...? Without looking I assume that changing the time is a root privilege operation. Otherwise anyone could change the time and play g

Re: help with dual-head OpenGL? [was: Woody + mesag3 + xinerama = problem]

2002-09-18 Thread Ignacio Solis
* Mike Pfleger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > I find it hard to believe that nobody else on the list has seen this > problem. I had GL working on both displays in xinerama when Woody was > still testing, but my latest install only has GL working on display 0. > This can be verified with the GL scree

annoying console messeges

2002-09-18 Thread PetDnk12
Hi list, i recently did upgrade from potato to woody. After the upgrade messages from packet log filter appears on console screen . How can i avoid them to appeor on console - its very paiful do some work on console when they appear. I have 2.2.18 kernel compiled myself with ipchains installe

Re: Where to look up "%20"-like chars for use with HTML?

2002-09-18 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 09:35, Andre Berger wrote: > I have to mask a "&" in a URL (HTML 4.01 Transitional, text/html; > charset=utf-8) that pointing to a CGI script; "&" doesn't work. > You can mask special characters a la "%20" in HTML. What encoding is > this, and where can I find a listing? The

Mac Fonts

2002-09-18 Thread Yogesh Sharma
Hello, How can I installed some Mac fonts on my x86 Linux Box ? Thanks Yogesh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testing has broken my fonts today

2002-09-18 Thread vanillicat
On 18 Sep 2002 13:51:56 -0400 "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should not need to do both. > > Defoma font management is a _replacement_ for the part of the > update-ms-fonts script that was commented out; that's why it was > commented out. Right, I understand that this is what is

Installation: pkgs held back question

2002-09-18 Thread David Teague
Hi Thanks for the help from members of the list. I'd like some more help, please. I noticed the warning about openssl security. I found it installed on my Woody system. I wanted the latest security (and other) updates. I attempted to update my system using apt-get update then itera

Re: Testing has broken my fonts today

2002-09-18 Thread Paul Smith
%% vanillicat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: v> Oops, I realize I forgot to mention that I didn't have defoma v> installed, so I used apt-get to install this, as well as v> x-ttcidfont-conf. I also added v> /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType and v> /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfon

Re: Where to look up "%20"-like chars for use with HTML?

2002-09-18 Thread Andre Berger
--eqp4TxRxnD4KrmFZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline * Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-09-18 12:39 -0400: > I have to mask a "&" in a URL (HTML 4.01 Transitional, text/html; > charset=utf-8) that pointing to a CGI script; "&" doesn't work. > You can ma

Re: Loop in today's sid

2002-09-18 Thread Jeff
Tim Moss, 2002-Sep-18 10:15 -0700: > Apparently, on Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:27:40AM -0700, Jeff wrote: > > > > I got this too, but the dist-upgrade didn't fix it. Any ideas? I'm > > afraid to try the Force-LoopBreak option. > > > Try this > apt-get install libtext-iconv-perl > and then maybe a

Re: Video window still dark....

2002-09-18 Thread Pierre Dupuis
I have got a ATI radeon 8500, and i'm using the 4.2.1.0-pre1 xfree server...I'm going to test some over color depth, i will infor you :) Thanx for all Pierre nate wrote: >Pierre Dupuis said: > > >>Thanx, >> >>With Xshm it slower but it's ok. >> >>U tell me maybe it is color depth with X

Re: help with dual-head OpenGL? [was: Woody + mesag3 + xinerama = problem]

2002-09-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Mike Pfleger said: > I find it hard to believe that nobody else on the list has seen this > problem. I had GL working on both displays in xinerama when Woody was > still testing, but my latest install only has GL working on display 0. > This can be verified with the G

Re: Video window still dark....

2002-09-18 Thread nate
Pierre Dupuis said: > Thanx, > > With Xshm it slower but it's ok. > > U tell me maybe it is color depth with Xv which is the reason of the > problem ? Only way to find out is to do some searching, try to find a mailing list for the card your using and ask.. I don't remember where I saw the in

Re: Testing has broken my fonts today

2002-09-18 Thread DvB
vanillicat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 18 Sep 2002 10:05:09 -0500 > DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Actually, this bug explains the problem in more detail: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=160902&repeatmerged=yes > > Thanks so much for linking to this. I

Re: DOS on non-x86 systems?

2002-09-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Sep 11, 2002, nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Michael D. Crawford said: > > What options are available for running DOS on a system that does not have > > an x86 processor, like a PowerPC Macintosh? > > dosemu may work ?? No, it won't. dosemu requires the virtual 386 mode of an x86 CP

Re: setuid.changes

2002-09-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:55:58PM +, Martin Clarke wrote: > apologies for posting what will most likely be considered trivial > but I have been curious about for some time is the format of the > setuid.changes file that is generated by cron scripts on my machine > I have read the checksecurit

Re: Video window still dark....

2002-09-18 Thread Pierre Dupuis
Thanx, With Xshm it slower but it's ok. U tell me maybe it is color depth with Xv which is the reason of the problem ? Thanx Pierre [EMAIL PROTECTED] nate wrote: >Pierre Dupuis said: > > >>Good evening everyone :) >> >>Sorry to disturb you, but my problem is really annoying.. >> >>Whe

Re: Loop in today's sid

2002-09-18 Thread Tim Moss
Apparently, on Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:27:40AM -0700, Jeff wrote: > > I got this too, but the dist-upgrade didn't fix it. Any ideas? I'm > afraid to try the Force-LoopBreak option. > Try this apt-get install libtext-iconv-perl and then maybe a dist-upgrade or dpkg --configure -a -- To UNSU

Re: Testing has broken my fonts today

2002-09-18 Thread vanillicat
Oops, I realize I forgot to mention that I didn't have defoma installed, so I used apt-get to install this, as well as x-ttcidfont-conf. I also added /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType and /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID to my FontPath as mentioned by x-ttcidfont-conf as

Re: Video window still dark....

2002-09-18 Thread nate
Pierre Dupuis said: > Good evening everyone :) > > Sorry to disturb you, but my problem is really annoying.. > > When i want to play avi, mpeg, qt or rm with xine, aviplay or some other > view vid soft.the soft detect the size of th vid (the display window > adapt itself to the vid size) but t

setuid.changes

2002-09-18 Thread Martin Clarke
apologies for posting what will most likely be considered trivial but I have been curious about for some time is the format of the setuid.changes file that is generated by cron scripts on my machine I have read the checksecurity man page but am still kinda curious as to what exactly that file is s

Re: Testing has broken my fonts today

2002-09-18 Thread vanillicat
On 18 Sep 2002 10:05:09 -0500 DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, this bug explains the problem in more detail: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=160902&repeatmerged=yes Thanks so much for linking to this. I got panicky when none of my programs were working, and I

Re: question about editors for lil.conf and other configuration files

2002-09-18 Thread D.
I realize that by now you have probably resolved your editor problem. I like you also I would prefer something other than vi for editing so I use "joe". It is available from the 3 cd set and is easy to use. Works like most MS text editors and to save all you need to do is a ctrl kx HTH Don ---

Re: Where to look up "%20"-like chars for use with HTML?

2002-09-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:35:15PM -0400, Andre Berger wrote: > I have to mask a "&" in a URL (HTML 4.01 Transitional, text/html; > charset=utf-8) that pointing to a CGI script; "&" doesn't work. > You can mask special characters a la "%20" in HTML. What encoding is > this, and where can I find a

Video window still dark....

2002-09-18 Thread Pierre Dupuis
Good evening everyone :) Sorry to disturb you, but my problem is really annoying.. When i want to play avi, mpeg, qt or rm with xine, aviplay or some other view vid soft.the soft detect the size of th vid (the display window adapt itself to the vid size) but the display window is dark, i'v

RE: Where to look up "%20"-like chars for use with HTML?

2002-09-18 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| I have to mask a "&" in a URL (HTML 4.01 Transitional, text/html; | charset=utf-8) that pointing to a CGI script; "&" doesn't work. | You can mask special characters a la "%20" in HTML. What encoding is | this, and where can I find a listing? IIRC, this is hex. the %20 would be 0x20 (am I doin

Re: Where to look up "%20"-like chars for use with HTML?

2002-09-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 09:35, Andre Berger wrote: > I have to mask a "&" in a URL (HTML 4.01 Transitional, text/html; > charset=utf-8) that pointing to a CGI script; "&" doesn't work. > You can mask special characters a la "%20" in HTML. What encoding is > this, and where can I find a list

procmail locking problem

2002-09-18 Thread Kenneth Stephen
Hi, I am using Postfix on Woody as the MTA and procmail as the MDA. In my procmail log file, I see messages such as : procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/y2kmvs.lock" The ownership of /var/spool/mail is root.mail and the permissions are rwxrwsr-x . If this is a permission

Where to look up "%20"-like chars for use with HTML?

2002-09-18 Thread Andre Berger
--xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline I have to mask a "&" in a URL (HTML 4.01 Transitional, text/html; charset=utf-8) that pointing to a CGI script; "&" doesn't work. You can mask special characters a la "%20" in HTML. What encoding is this, a

BackPack Parallel Port CD-ReWriter

2002-09-18 Thread Yogesh Sharma
Hello, I recently moved to Debain from RedHat. My config is AThlon XP 2100+, 512 MB RAM, 28GB Maxtor (hda) 80Gb Maxtor (hdb), Creative CDROM 52x (hdc). Mother board is Gigabyte 7VTXHE+, Kernel 2.4.19. My BackPack cdrw used to work perfectly with Redhat 7.3 Kernel 2.4.18 using these modules. mo

lost Interupt

2002-09-18 Thread Yogesh Sharma
Hello, I recently moved to Debain from RedHat. My config is AThlon XP 2100+, 512 MB RAM, 28GB Maxtor (hda) 80Gb Maxtor (hdb), Creative CDROM 52x (hdc). Mother board is Gigabyte 7VTXHE+, Kernel 2.4.19. As soon as I attach my ATAPI ZIP drive (100 MB) I get lost interrupt message on the console.

Re: Loop in today's sid

2002-09-18 Thread Jeff
Cameron Matheson, 2002-Sep-17 23:43 -0600: > Hey, > > doing an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' solved the problem for me. > > Cam > > > Paul Johnson wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Did a dist-upgrade today and got this... > > > >Preconfiguring packages ... > >Selecting

Re: dselect fails to install mozilla-browser after upgrade to woody

2002-09-18 Thread Levi Waldron
IOn September 17, 2002 08:41 pm, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 04:39:03PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: > > I've successfully upgraded to Woody and am now just trying to install > > Mozilla and its components. dselect gives the following output and fails > > to install. Any ideas?

Re: Woody: pthread_rwlock_t error

2002-09-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:06:56PM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > [...] > > #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500 > > > > ... at the top of your file to access it. See 'info libc "Feature Test > > Macros"'. > > I followed your advice and read the section you men

help with dual-head OpenGL? [was: Woody + mesag3 + xinerama = problem]

2002-09-18 Thread Mike Pfleger
I find it hard to believe that nobody else on the list has seen this problem. I had GL working on both displays in xinerama when Woody was still testing, but my latest install only has GL working on display 0. This can be verified with the GL screensavers, as detailed below, but it affects real a

Re: Woody: pthread_rwlock_t error

2002-09-18 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi Colin! Thanks a lot for this really quick reply! On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > [...] > #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500 > > ... at the top of your file to access it. See 'info libc "Feature Test > Macros"'. I followed your advice and read the section you mentioned. I found out tha

Re: Grammar Checker in Linux

2002-09-18 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On 18 Sep 2002 11:10:06 -0400 "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For grammar profiling, there is always the command 'style' (package: > astyle) Not quite. The command is indeed "style", but it's part of the "diction" package. The "astyle" package appears to be for source code formatt

Re: Testing has broken my fonts today

2002-09-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Sep 2002, Alan Shutko wrote: > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I did a routine upgrade from testing today; only one package, the one > > that installs the Microsoft fonts (serve me right for using them I > > suppose!) > > msttcorefonts uses defoma now. Do you have x-ttc

Re: Woody: pthread_rwlock_t error

2002-09-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 05:03:01PM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote: > Why does the following simple test program > > #include > > pthread_rwlock_t lock; > > int main( int argc, char** argv ) > { > return(0); > } > > yield these errors: > > thread_test.c:3: parse error before `lock' > thread_test.c

Re: Grammar Checker in Linux

2002-09-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 06:52, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: > > I wonder if any of you know of a grammar checker available for > linux in English. A Google search didn't give me anything for english, > neither did www.linux.org Have any. > there are not a lot of options unfortunat

Re: Testing has broken my fonts today

2002-09-18 Thread DvB
DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I did a routine upgrade from testing today; only one package, the one > > that installs the Microsoft fonts (serve me right for using them I > > suppose!) > > > > Anyway, now I can't run either xdvi or xfontsel

Re: Grammar Checker in Linux

2002-09-18 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 09:52, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: > > I wonder if any of you know of a grammar checker available for > linux in English. A Google search didn't give me anything for english, > neither did www.linux.org Have any. > > Thanks. > > Sebastian Canagaratna > -- > Se

Re: package clean

2002-09-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 16:08, Tom Allison wrote: > Is there anything that will find unused / zero dependency libraries > and the like and prompt them for removal? > > Here's the problem. I install one package, which brings in 12 > dependencies. > I uninstall the one package, but the 12 depe

Woody: pthread_rwlock_t error

2002-09-18 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! Why does the following simple test program #include pthread_rwlock_t lock; int main( int argc, char** argv ) { return(0); } yield these errors: thread_test.c:3: parse error before `lock' thread_test.c:3: warning: data definition has no type or storage class and what can I do to fix the

Re: Testing has broken my fonts today

2002-09-18 Thread Alan Shutko
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did a routine upgrade from testing today; only one package, the one > that installs the Microsoft fonts (serve me right for using them I > suppose!) msttcorefonts uses defoma now. Do you have x-ttcidfont-conf installed and /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcid

Re: mozilla too many process

2002-09-18 Thread Isaac To
> "Derrick" == Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Derrick> On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 06:53:11PM -0400, Seiichiro Tanizaki Derrick> wrote: | When I lunch mozilla, it takes about 80M of memory Derrick> | with seven processes running. Derrick> This last statement i

Re: Need witnesses

2002-09-18 Thread Michael Cardenas
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 07:15:13PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: > Folks, > > Please download > > http://www.softwarechoice.org/download_files/Maccrisken.Letter.doc . > > Please be prepared to stand as witnesses when I expose some odd things in the > file . If you run strings on the file, at the e

Re: unstable coreutils problem

2002-09-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 10:45:34AM -0400, Quenten Griffith wrote: > Anyone else having a problem doing an apt-get upgrade on unstable today? Grab the newer versions of coreutils/fileutils from incoming.debian.org, or wait for this evening's updates. -- Colin Watson

Re: removing files with unprintable characters in their filename

2002-09-18 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Mark T. Valites wrote: > How about shells other than bash? > > Is there a shell independant way of doing this? > > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Mark T. Valites wrote: i browsed a solaris sh man page, and i didn't find anything like $'...'. you can probably use something like $ ls > list then edit th

Re: Testing has broken my fonts today

2002-09-18 Thread DvB
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did a routine upgrade from testing today; only one package, the one > that installs the Microsoft fonts (serve me right for using them I > suppose!) > > Anyway, now I can't run either xdvi or xfontsel (and possibly other > apps). When I try I get:

unstable coreutils problem

2002-09-18 Thread Quenten Griffith
Anyone else having a problem doing an apt-get upgrade on unstable today? I saw earlier that someone was and they did an apt-get dist-upgrade but that didn't fix my problem I still get dpkg: regarding .../coreutils_4.5.1-1_i386.deb containing coreutils: fileutils conflicts with stat coreutil

Re: removing files with unprintable characters in their filename

2002-09-18 Thread Mark T. Valites
How about shells other than bash? Is there a shell independant way of doing this? On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Mark T. Valites wrote: > Pietro, > > Thank you very much for the reply!!! > > THe --escape and -b are the same options, with the same output, but the > $'' was new to me & works. > > I have al

Testing has broken my fonts today

2002-09-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
I did a routine upgrade from testing today; only one package, the one that installs the Microsoft fonts (serve me right for using them I suppose!) Anyway, now I can't run either xdvi or xfontsel (and possibly other apps). When I try I get: Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859-1 font Warnin

Re: latest msttcorefonts broken?

2002-09-18 Thread DvB
Tom Badran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 17 Sep 2002 11:23 pm, DvB wrote: > > I ran an apt-get upgrade a while back, which upgraded my msttcorefonts > > package. Ever since then mozilla, which I had configured to use the > > monotype-arial-iso8859-1 fontset from that package keeps prin

Re: removing files with unprintable characters in their filename

2002-09-18 Thread Mark T. Valites
Pietro, Thank you very much for the reply!!! THe --escape and -b are the same options, with the same output, but the $'' was new to me & works. I have always though to completely understand shell quoting is to become one with the shell... Thanks!! On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: >

Re: removing files with unprintable characters in their filename

2002-09-18 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
Mark T. Valites wrote: > Every once in a while, either a user somehow comes up with a file with > funky characters, or I create one by accident. When displayed through a > 'ls', the non-printable characters are displayed with "?"s. The "?"s are > not literal question marks, but just represent an

Grammar Checker in Linux

2002-09-18 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I wonder if any of you know of a grammar checker available for linux in English. A Google search didn't give me anything for english, neither did www.linux.org Have any. Thanks. Sebastian Canagaratna -- Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University [EMAIL PROT

Re: mozilla too many process

2002-09-18 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Seiichiro Tanizaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I lunch mozilla, it takes about 80M of memory with seven > processes running. I dumped mozilla and run opera: kbk 5792 0.0 0.0 16680 ?SW 08:54 0:00 [opera] kbk 5794 0.0 0.0 16800 ?SW 08:54 0

running ntpdate as user

2002-09-18 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Anyone know what I need to change in order to run ntpdate as a user without using su sudo ...? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

removing files with unprintable characters in their filename

2002-09-18 Thread Mark T. Valites
Every once in a while, either a user somehow comes up with a file with funky characters, or I create one by accident. When displayed through a 'ls', the non-printable characters are displayed with "?"s. The "?"s are not literal question marks, but just represent an unprintable character. Withou

Re: Help needed setting up CDRW

2002-09-18 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 09:27, Michael Olds wrote: > Bob, > > Thank you for this response. I am still very new at Linux and have > hesitated doing a kernel rebuild, but that is on the list...I just > want to get a way to do a backup so that when something goes wrong > I won't have to start

RE: Help needed setting up CDRW

2002-09-18 Thread Michael Olds
Bob, Thank you for this response. I am still very new at Linux and have hesitated doing a kernel rebuild, but that is on the list...I just want to get a way to do a backup so that when something goes wrong I won't have to start from scratch ... I'm on about the 15th install and it's getting tires

Re: Help needed setting up CDRW

2002-09-18 Thread Bob Underwood
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 08:53, Michael Olds wrote: > This boils down to two problems: if a module is missing, where can > I get it? I did a Google search and there are a zillion references > to the missing modules but no mention of where they can be found. > > And Second, what is the proced

mv command implicitely copies files

2002-09-18 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello I hate the behaviour of the mv command to make copies if it can't move a file. There should at least be options to switch this off (so I could alias it in my shell startup files with those options on). It would be ok to copy a file if it *can* remove the file from the old place (and it

Help needed setting up CDRW

2002-09-18 Thread Michael Olds
Apologies if this is a duplicate, Postmaster sent me a message this morning that this did not go through and I could not find it in the archives. This boils down to two problems: if a module is missing, where can I get it? I did a Google search and there are a zillion references to the missing mo

Re: unstable, just how unstable is it

2002-09-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 05:25:19AM -0700, Charles Baker wrote: > --- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > glibc is pretty much fixed, although you'll have a temporary problem > > upgrading to the current libc6/locales combination because they're > > out of sync on i386. (Will be fixed this

Re: unstable, just how unstable is it

2002-09-18 Thread Charles Baker
--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 07:46:45PM -0700, Charles > Baker wrote: > > Okay I asked this question a few weeks ago and got > the above warning > > about Python, Perl and glibc. Can anyone tell me > if these issues been > > resoloved yet? I see few Python

Re: Problems upgrading to testing dist...

2002-09-18 Thread Davor Balder
My understanding of your problem is that you are trying to downgrade. I believe somebody asked this question before and the answer was that the doengrades are not supported (that is what I remember at least)... Hopefully somebody else can give a more complete explanation and even a workaround (ap

Problems upgrading to testing dist...

2002-09-18 Thread Dave Bartmess
I'm trying to upgrade my system to the testing distro. But I made the mistake of going to unstable first, and had all kinds of errors trying to install, because libc6 wouldn't install. So I decided to go back to the testing dist. Now I run into NEW problems, as I can't remove the unstable

Re: Lyx package

2002-09-18 Thread shaulka
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 12:30:38PM +0200, Riaan Rottier wrote: > Hi > > Does anybody know if the Lyx package are still being maintained, version > 1.2 has been out since May this year and 1.2.1 since August. Or are the > perhaps other problems that prevent the updated versions from being > packa

locales other than US and encoding issues

2002-09-18 Thread chavdar
Hi all, I installed the Debian 3.0 from the 1st CD - I do not have the other ones. I need to be able to read and write in Bulgarian - for this reason I have to use encoding cp-1251. It is not included in KDE COntrol Center and thus I cannot switch to the desired encoding. When I set the defaul

Business Proposal

2002-09-18 Thread info
My name is Bryant Smith, I'm 19 years old, and am the owner of FloridaDesigns.com (website design). I recently visited your website, and would like to exchange links with you. This link exchange will be great for the both of us (I get over 350,000 hits a month). Please add a link, or listing, to

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