Re: emacsclient

On 17 Jun 2002, Tiarnan O Corrain wrote: > a question for the emacs-heads on the list: is there any way to get an > emacsclient process to connect to an emacs running on a remote host? I > can't find any answers in the documentation, but I think it should be > possible. Try Google: http://www.g

Re: Purging /var/cache/apt/archive

On 22 Mar 2002, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > I would like to purge /var/cache/apt/archive so that only the last > version of each package is preserved. You might want to check out aptsamever [1]. Or, if you don't like Python :-), I have a Perl script [2] that deletes every file from the cache that h

Re: ascii

On 15 Mar 2002, Marcelo Leal wrote: > hello, anybody knows one software to convert gif images to ascii images > (art ascii) ??? the gimp script fu don't work Try aview [1] (apt-get install aview) from the AA-Project [2]. You have to convert the GIF image to PNM first, or run asciiview which d

Re: Package database corrupted

On 14 Mar 2002, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I've gotten mail from cron the last three days about bad lines in > /var/lib/dpkg/status on one of my machines; Try restoring the file from /var/backups -- the backup can be out of date, though (ie. it may not reflect some recent changes of package states).

Re: About the i586 / i386 ' optimized releases ' differences ?

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:53:20PM +0100, spear wrote: > I was wondering, about the fact some Linux distributions are " optimized " > for i586 processors : what does it really change ? Are there any benchmarks > comparing a distribution giving the choice of both i386/i586 ? I don't know any, but

Re: Scanner and OCR advice

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:34:24AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > I've just received a grant for a project that will involve scanning and > > storing a substantial number (e.g., around 3000) of short documents. These > > documents will be analyzed as text, which means I'll have to use OCR > >

Re: CLI audio editor program

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 03:17:55PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What i want is something, preferably a command line program, > able of splitting a .mp3/.wav/.ogg file into smaller files These are the best: for mp3: ftp://iris.elte.hu/pub/dave/utils/mpgcut211.zip for wav: http://www.fom

Re: Cron & At Permissions

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:04:52PM -0500, David Raeker-Jordan wrote: > When my system boots and when I try to create an `at` job, I see > `at` permission errors. I am running the latest potato. > Here is what I have. Is this wrong? Yes. The /var/spool/cron directory should be 0755. $ ls -l /var

Re: 404 Not Found when upgrading to unstable

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:43:34PM +0100, Eric Smith wrote: > Err http://ftp.nl.debian.org unstable/main binutils 2.11.92.0.10-3 > 404 Not Found The reason is: $ ncftpls ftp://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ | head -1 Archive-Update-in-Progress-open.hands.com $ The archive is just being updated, th

Re: GNUPG and multiple keyservers?

On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 08:43:37PM -0800, Ron Farrer wrote: > Does anyone know if it is possible to get GNUPG to use multiple > keyservers? AFAIK it's not possible. > I'm running GNUPG 1.0.6-2. Basically what I would like to do > is have GNUPG request a key from keyring.debian.org and if it's no

Re: RCS/CVS for /etc

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:47:00AM +, xio wrote: > I have been playing around first with RCS and then CVS for /etc. Maybe you could check out `changetrack' before trying to implement it on your own. I use it for all my important config files and it's really great. Regards, -- BALI, Andra's

Re: Creating mp3's or vobis's from non CD sources?

On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:19:40PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > Next, I would like to read in non CD sources, tapes, LP's et all. I > recognize I will hev to enter all teh artist/Album/Track data by hand (big > task), and I'm willing to invest the time to do this. So, how do I go about > doing this?

Re: timeoutd and long usernames

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:21:40PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I've decided to enforce idle timeouts on one of my servers and, to > implement this, I've installed timeoutd on it. Unfortunately, it > seems that timeoutd doesn't like usernames in excess of 8 characters. This is a known bug

Re: apt logfile?

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:08:57AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Is there an apt (or dpkg) logfile? No, there isn't. > Does anyone else think this could be very useful? Yes. For more information, please read this thread from debian-dpkg: http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2001/debian-dpkg-2001

Re: How do I bind + in mutt?

On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 04:50:15PM +, John Ericson wrote: > I want to set in my .muttrc two bind lines that calls next-entry and > previous-entry if Im pressing + or +. How can I > do this? What is the syntax for telling that you want the bind action to > occour > when two (or more) buttons a

Re: Can't find ide-cd at power down

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 05:53:33PM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: > Since a recent upgrade (sync'd with "testing"), just about the last thing > my machine says when powering down is that modprobe can't locate module > ide-cd, hdc: drive not present. (kernel 2.2.19) This is because the rc script (/etc

Re: a bit OT: testing my hard disk

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 03:52:20PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > Since my debian has just crashed out with possible disk corruption on a > newly bought HD, I'd like to get hold of a good hard disk testing util - > can anyone suggest any good free utils? Something bootable from floppy > and linuxy w

Re: Patching and unpatching

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:14:50AM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > If i want the ac version of the 2.4.12 kernel i have to download it and patch > it with the ac patch. Correct. > How is it if the new stable is 2.4.13? I can't just take the normal linux > patch because that is assuming that i

Re: Mysql-Php error

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:37:25AM -0400, Eileen Orbell wrote: > Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in > /var/www/html/mainfile.php on line 42 Solution A: Edit /etc/php4/apache/php.ini and add the following line at the end of the file: extension = mysql.so Solution B: If you do

Re: easy libc6 2.2.4-2 fix

On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 09:29:03AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Running 'echo libc6 hold | dpkg --set-selections', as suggested by > Colin, wouldn't be necessary then, right ?? Right, I assume (but I haven't been following the thread). But putting a package on hold is a much better way of preve

Re: Another mutt question?

On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:59:28AM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: > I have a small mutt question. I have my mailing lists I am > subscribe to all listed as subscribed in my muttrc and everything. > It all seems to work fine with the follow-up-to etc. The problem is > that when I open the say 'debia

Re: Address book for mutt?

On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:08:36PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > I was just curious - is it possible to somehow incorporate my current > address book (GnomeCard) with mutt? - I would like to do something so > that I can tab-complete at the very least. It seems doable, although I > see no mention i

Re: bash question: identify line number of function call

On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 05:28:35PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > in bash, is it possible to identify the line number of a script, from > where a function has been called? You have $LINENO, but it restarts counting from 1 in functions. But if you invoke the function with $LINENO as argument, the

Re: does and irc-fserver exist under unix/linux??

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 09:39:03AM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > i am trying to find an fserver to run on an irc channel, and i don't > want to install winblows on my machines just to run that... but the only > fservers i found are winblows progs You may want to install iroffer [1]. $ apt-

Re: aptitude broken in unstable?

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:09:30PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > has anyone else had trouble with aptitude in debian untable? it's > been broken for me for probably nearly a week now. It's known to be broken, see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200109/msg00782.html h

Re: procmail syntax problem

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:45:54PM +, John Ericson wrote: > I have a bit problem with 4 lines that lookes like this: > :0: > * ^Subject: 24 Hours of Slashdot Headlines For \ > | ^Subject: \[ Slashdot Message \] Daily Headlines > in-slashdot_hl You may want to write :0: * ^Subject: 24 Hours

Re: What replaces glimpse?

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 05:38:25PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Htdig seems to be for html only. To be a bit more precise, it can index files that can be retrieved using the HTTP protocol. The core program can index only HTML and plain text files, but you can use external parsers for any type

Re: What replaces glimpse?

On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 03:14:58PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Apt/dselect has just removed my glimpse package :-( > > What is supposed to replace this? > I've occasionally found packages removed in updates, recently it was > aptitude. Not sure why. No, glimpse is removed from the Debian

openssh segfaults at login if ~/.hushlogin does not exist

Hi, I'm using Woody but this problem occured in Potato as well. I have the latest OpenSSH installed (ssh_1%3a1.2.3-9_i386.deb) with SUID root enabled. I haven't modified any of the configuration files, they're from the stock debian package. When a user that doesn't have a ~/.hushlogin file tries t

Re: Screen Capture

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 03:23:12PM +0200, Michal Novak wrote: > I need screen capture program for X, which capture complete screen as is. The simpliest solution is to use "xwd" from the x11/xbase-clients package. Enter the following command in an xterm: $ xwd -root -out shot.xwd The .xwd file