Re: can somebody please give me some info regarding package dependencies.

2000-01-12 Thread Buddha Buck
also met. > > Any info would be greatly appreciated. > __ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Buddha Buck

Re: Routing table question

1999-07-28 Thread Buddha Buck
fault route, and sends it to 209.226.71.1 for forwarding. Clearer? > > -- > Arcady Genkin > "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate > of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard) > > > -- > Unsubscribe? ma

Re: dselect dconfusion

1999-07-28 Thread Buddha Buck
dly: fast, free, and accurate technical support : ) Danke. > > Thanks again, > > > Paul Nesbit > > Algonquin College > Computing Science / Computer Technology > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > --

Re: Mouse

1999-07-27 Thread Buddha Buck
; Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects." -- A.L.A. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice

Re: Help me stay away from visual C++ :)

1999-07-27 Thread Buddha Buck
tack that the buffer was allocated on. That means that a well-chosen long line could turn control of my program over to the attacker instead of the legitimate user. Hope this helps. > > cheers > venu > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] <

Re: file extensions -- batch mv'ing, mp3s

1999-07-26 Thread Buddha Buck
> >> > >> $ for x in *;do mv -iv "$x" `echo "$x"|sed -e 's/MP3$/mp3/'`;done > > > > bash$ for i in *.MP3; do mv $i ${i%.MP3}.mp3; done > > mmv '*.MP3' '#1.mp3' Nice, but mmv isn't a standard Unix co

Re: file extensions -- batch mv'ing, mp3s

1999-07-26 Thread Buddha Buck
st prefixes. I think it's shorter, clearer, and more efficient. Any better ways? -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects." -- A.L.A. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice

Re: infomagic

1999-07-23 Thread Buddha Buck
exactly what htey are doing. > > -- > Andrew > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects." -- A.L.A. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice

Re: Buddha's Dselect' way

1999-07-23 Thread Buddha Buck
ation of the Distribution, in absolute. > I think this is too hard for everyone. > bye , alex. > -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects." -- A.L.A. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice

Re: exmh installation

1999-07-22 Thread Buddha Buck
ebian package, you can check the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/.list, and get a listing of all files "owned" by . > > /* Mike Lieberman[EMAIL PROTECTED] */ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >

Re: Good HTML editor for debian Linux?

1999-07-21 Thread Buddha Buck
dit can do that Emacs can't? -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects." -- A.L.A. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice

Re: "S" file permissions

1999-07-21 Thread Buddha Buck
ld run as "tom" in group "student". > Can anyone enlighten me? > > (It's not in the info or man pages.) Check the info listing for "ls". It says there what s, S, t, and T all mean. > > TIA. > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe?

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-20 Thread Buddha Buck
ebian -- there were several packages I wanted to get rid of after the default install, so I went into the "select" option, cleared all my selections, chose the few packages I wanted to remove, fought my way past the dependency screen, and proceeded to [R]emove almost my entire syst

Re: problem with .xsession

1999-07-19 Thread Buddha Buck
c enlightenment The exec says "replace .xsession with enlightenment, rather than running it separately". It saves one process and probably a miniscule amount of memory, so it's not necessary, but it's tidy. > > Thanks alot in advance > -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects." -- A.L.A. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice

Unidentified subject!

1999-07-12 Thread Buddha Buck
ys cycle through sort options. I don't know which does which, so I usually hit "o" and "O" until I find the sort option I like. The default (new, updated, obsolete/local, installed, uninstalled) is convenient, so I usually don't bother with these. That's ab

Re: GMT ntp servers

1999-07-11 Thread Buddha Buck
p server -should- work fine. When I set my system time occasionally, I tend to use tock.usno.navy.mil. I -know- they report UTC. > thanks, > > chris > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- Buddha Buck

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-21 Thread Buddha Buck
ED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects." -- A.L.A. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice

Xdm serving network from my machine!

1997-09-22 Thread Buddha Buck
f that is how xdm is configured by default, I'll definately file a bug on it. How can I configure xdm so that it will -only- serve local servers? Later, Buddha -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the streng

Re: Date in mail headers

1997-09-05 Thread Buddha Buck
ply in making my software 7-bits just for > those servers, they'll just have to break, until the administrators find it > with > in their time to comply to evolution. These servers are out-dated by 50 > years. :-) Not really. The current -standard- for email transmission is RF

Re: Minimizing Mail Packages?

1997-07-30 Thread Buddha Buck
or subsidiary usage. > > Victor > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as th

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-23 Thread Buddha Buck
bian anyway. 2) the name must not encourage people to use it directly, since we have run into problems in the past of people publishing releases that weren't ready for release, because the name made people think it was ready (the Debian-1.0 fiasco). This means that the name most

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-23 Thread Buddha Buck
John Hasler writes: > Buddha Buck writes: > > It was seen that one reason for this was that someone looking at the FTP > > site, seeing a directory with a numbered version would think that that > > version was ready for release. A policy decision was made to name > > re

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-23 Thread Buddha Buck
John Hasler writes: > Buddha Buck writes: > > It was seen that one reason for this was that someone looking at the FTP > > site, seeing a directory with a numbered version would think that that > > version was ready for release. A policy decision was made to name > > re

Re: naming convention question

1997-07-22 Thread Buddha Buck
ROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects."

Re: make-kpkg problem

1997-07-18 Thread Buddha Buck
86modem +61 8 9364-9832 32S, 116E > http: http://rolf.ece.curtin.edu.au/~lindsay debian linux > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . >

Re: Certification

1997-07-11 Thread Buddha Buck
ard, and Perl is a good choice for it. > > For the forseeable future, having certification in solaris or whatever > will be a bigger job getter, but I wish we had a certification to > advertise our love of free software. > > steve -- Buddha Buck

Re: xinitrc vs. xsession (was Re: Window Managers)

1997-07-04 Thread Buddha Buck
and /etc/X11/Xsession are the Debian way to do it. When I was figuring this out months ago, it was a tedious matter of chasing through man pages to find the config files that specified the start-up scripts, which were symlinks to the real scripts, etc, all to find out that I was looking for .x

Re: choosing a linux distribution

1997-06-28 Thread Buddha Buck
update your web page to state what versions of Slackware, Red Hat, and Debian you are reviewing. -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech th

Re: Xfree33

1997-06-21 Thread Buddha Buck
ou can read. When some program tries to connect to the server, it asks for that magic cookie. If the program can't provide it, the program can't talk to your server. If you want other people (like root, or yourself logged into another machine, or your friend next to you) to be able t

Re: Xemacs vs. Emacs

1997-06-17 Thread Buddha Buck
7;t want to give up my old friend Emacs! XEmacs is just like Emacs, but a bit prettier, with a few new features, and only slightly slower. > > -- > Pedro I. Sanchez > > -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is cha

Re: Release Date for Debian 1.3.1

1997-06-15 Thread Buddha Buck
NSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our libe

Re: Making kernel using "make install"

1997-01-17 Thread Buddha Buck
Computer & Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 > Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --

Re: Can any one recommend a mailreader...

1997-01-16 Thread Buddha Buck
t; The system I intend to run it on is the university system running > > slackware. > -- > John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) > Custom Programming| > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &quo

Debian and Windows95

1996-12-27 Thread Buddha Buck
o play around with the MBR and partition tables to make sure that it is the only or primary OS on the system. How can I make certain that I don't lose anything critical when installing it? Has anyone else done this? What can I expect? -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROT

Re: Please do not use Qt (fwd)

1996-11-23 Thread Buddha Buck
since the Windows Qt libraries are proprietary without source, this seems to be evidence that the authors of Qt do -not- want you to be able to port it to new platforms. This is in direct violation of the letter and spirit of the GPL. > > How does it come that you are talking about stuf

Re: How to choose safe configuration at boot time?

1996-11-21 Thread Buddha Buck
I know that "bigpassw" is equivilant to "bigpassword", but I still -think- of my password as "bigpassword". If the shadow suite changes this behavior, I might consider switching to it. -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of

Re: cannot compile 2.1.5 due to /usr/include/linux being in libc5-dev

1996-10-28 Thread Buddha Buck
someone else can tink of some better solution/compromise. I haven't gone to 2.1 yet (the horror stories of device drivers crashing because of the memory management reorganization scare me), so I don't know if things have changed in this regard. > > Erv -- Buddha Buck

Re: Opinions on Linux Journal article

1996-10-22 Thread Buddha Buck
strengths and weaknesses. Which article? Which issue? -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects." -- A.L.

Re: Can't do setuid

1996-10-09 Thread Buddha Buck
uivalent of setuid but the > issue here is why isn't the setuid function implemented (apparantly)? > > Jim > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Buddha

Re: The *"'($^"'( list... and Xdm login

1996-09-28 Thread Buddha Buck
ant characters. How many utilities would have to be changed to implement the following password logic: If the stored hash is 13 characters long, use crypt(). If it is 32 characters long, use md5sum(). Otherwise, fail. This would allow us to retain backwards compatability while potentially incr

Re: where's man ??

1996-09-18 Thread Buddha Buck
s not in /usr/bin. > > what gives?? The man pages and man program have to be installed in addition to the base packages. They are in the doc section of the distribution, in the packages manpages and man, respectively. > > Thanks, Chris. > > === > Chris R. Martin

Re: Two Packages Missing

1996-09-03 Thread Buddha Buck
MAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1994.03.01p1-5 Description: netpbm -- graphics conversion tools. Netpbm is a toolkit for conversion of images between a variety of different formats, as well as to allow a few basic image operations. It is based on the pbmplus distribution. bash$ -- Buddha Buck

Re: hardware needed for real terminals..or consoles

1996-08-31 Thread Buddha Buck
be limited to text. X will be impossible. If this is acceptable to you, then this is probably the least expensive option. If you want X-like capabilities, then you need to go a more complicated route, a route that most likely involves ethernet. I'll let others deal with t

Re: mailing list

1996-08-29 Thread Buddha Buck
Where was that? I don't know, it's in my Netscape bookmarks. But I don't leave Netscape up all the time, it's a memory hog. My mail reader, however, isn't. I also don't have to be online, nor do I have to go to it, and so forth. > > Thanks and sorry for this

Re: Loading X Windows

1996-06-14 Thread Buddha Buck
ial support yet), so it made the machine a bit unusable and forced a reboot. -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacaphony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects." -- A.L.A. v. U.S. Dept. of Justice

Re: X Windows

1996-05-18 Thread Buddha Buck
should be able to stop it with "/etc/init.d/xdm stop". In fact, that might work even if you didn't (I haven't tried) -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "She was infatuated with their male prostitutes, whose members were like those of donkeys and

Re: Checking if the network is up

1996-05-11 Thread Buddha Buck
on't even notice that i have them running. Will this not work for you, too? > > Thanks. > Luis. > -- Buddha Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] "She was infatuated with their male prostitutes, whose members were like those of donkeys and whose seed came in floods like that of stallions." -- Ezekiel 23:20

Re: more mirror questions

1996-05-08 Thread Buddha Buck
stions about streamlining this process ? It would be nice if mirror had a remote_tiimezone key that could be set. That would allow the mirror sites to all have the same real time on the files (as opposed to the difference between ftp.ion.com.au and ftp.tower.net.au above). -- Buddha Buck

Re: xconsole

1996-05-08 Thread Buddha Buck
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > There is also an error on booting from syslogd about not being > able to find /dev/xconsole. What is /dev/xconsole for? /dev/xconsole is a named pipe that syslogd uses to communicate to xconsole. -- Buddha Buck [