Re: keystroke ctrl+s freezes terminal/console

2003-07-15 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
dy asked: Is there a way to disable this Ctrl-S shortcut? You could do an "stty stop undef" for the terminal in question. This disables the terminal's "stop" feature which is by default bound to ^S. "stty -a" shows the current settings... -- Erdmut Pfeif

Re: Need help building php4

2001-11-30 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
you'll get a rough idea of where stuff will be put, when looking at the directory names in the commands being printed during the dry run... Cheers -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag www.science-computing.de -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: Need help building php4

2001-11-30 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
help). I'm not a PHP expert (personally prefer mod_perl), so I can't tell you any details on which options you most probably want, and how to get those working properly -- I assume there is some PHP list to post specific questions to... Good luck -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag www.science-computing.de -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: quick ghoscript font question

2001-11-22 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
nably usable font editor xmbdfed. Unfortunately, it's Motif based, so it's probably easiest to directly get the statically linked binary, which is also available from http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/xmbdfed-4.5-LINUX.tar.gz -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag www.science-computing.de -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: X-Authentification with XFree 4?

2001-11-22 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
et to restart X). Also, if this box is more than a simple playstation, I guess (or hope) you are aware of security-related issues with "xhost +", are you? HTH -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag www.science-computing.de -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: an automated web browser

2001-11-22 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
ing a web session... You'd still first have to investigate what needs to be done and then tell curl to simulate the session in a series of individual requests (which links to follow, values of form variables, cookies, special HTTP headers, and whatever else may be required...). So, it may not b

Re: Realtek module don't want to be loaded! Is too busy... ;)

2001-11-21 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 03:13:44PM +, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: > > > check whether your BIOS has a "Windows 9x support" option or some > > b*llsh*t like that -- and if so, try to disable it. > > > >

Re: Realtek module don't want to be loaded! Is too busy... ;)

2001-11-21 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
same error, which was solved by disabling said option. This notebook has an *onboard* NIC (same RealTek chip), however, so YMMV... For details on the issue, see Donald Becker's pages, in particular: http://www.scyld.com/expert/irq-conflict.html Cheers -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computi

Re: Netscape in different desks with fvwm2

2001-11-09 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
her instance of Netscape. For details see http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html and have a look at Netscape's X-resources file Netscape.ad for further ideas on what you might want to control remotely -- just in case you start liking that feature :) Cheers -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag www.science-computing.de -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: a challenge

2001-10-18 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
re are various utilities to make your life easier. I'd suggest that you flip through the pages of the mentioned docs -- it might save you from reinventing the wheel ;) Cheers -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: OT: forking so apache won't wait

2001-09-27 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
.." header after the the "Status: 204" does not seem to work -- at least not with Netscape. So, for this to work, you would need a bit of javascript, something like: function check_done() { this.location.replace("<a rel="nofollow" href="http://your.s

Re: OT: HPLJ4, PCL, specifically tray selection

2001-08-30 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
ions for the topic at hand are: section 4.11. (2nd ed.), or chapter 6 (3rd ed.). Those should cover most of what you need to know. Cheers, -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: OT: HPLJ4, PCL, specifically tray selection

2001-08-30 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
an application insists on generating PCL code to select tray-1, this would simply override any attempts to select manual-feed, etc., as the 'tray-1' code appears later in the stream sent to the printer... Anyhow, these are just a few thoughts -- I haven't actually tried anything of this :) Cheers, -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: PHP4 compilation problem

2001-08-28 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
ext/imap/libimap.la ext/pcre/libpcre.la ext/pgsql/libpgsql.la > > > ext/posix/libposix.la ext/session/libsession.la > > ext/standard/libstandard.la > > > ext/xml/libxml.la TSRM/libtsrm.la -limap -ldl -lpq -lcrypt > > -lresolv -lm -ldl > > > -lnsl -lresolv > > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -limap -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: python-fcgi?

2001-08-27 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
pt -- in which case v1.5 obviously still seems to be present, too) And, once you've completed the upgrade, don't forget to change the #!-lines of the *.py scripts involved to reflect the change (i.e. #!/usr/local/bin/python1.5 or similar will no longer work then) Good luck, -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: python-fcgi?

2001-08-27 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
te place to install fcgi.py... If you can't find anything, and things work, I wouldn't bother too much, though :) > > > > http://alldunn.com/python/fcgi.py Cheers, -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: python-fcgi?

2001-08-27 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
are any ready-to-install deb packages for those components yet. HTH -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: mod-ssl vs apache-ssl

2001-08-26 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
red... As to the stability of mod_ssl, I can say that we've been using apache + mod_ssl in various projects for quite some time now, and we've never had any problems with stability so far. Just my 2 cents. -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: Stable and XFree86 4.x

2001-08-24 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
are. see here: http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ or, if you're feeling adventurous: http://cpbotha.net/building_xfree86_4.1.0_debs_on_potato.HOWTO -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: X11: double-click word delimiters

2001-08-24 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
details. Searching in the respective manpages or other docs for "char", "delimit", "cut" or "select" might also point you to the appropriate section... YMMV. HTH -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: Ethernet Card Setup

2001-08-22 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
, and this change makes it easier to mix real-mode and protected-mode device drivers. This is an excellent example of Microsoft using its dominant position in the software industry force a technical change that is detrimental to other operating systems." (Donald Becker, http://scyld.com/expert/modules.html ) Sheesh! -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: Very odd programming trouble

2001-08-07 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
s violation. Your options are to use a local variable as the string buffer (which will reside on the stack), a global variable (data segment) or allocate memory dynamically from the heap with malloc(). Cheers -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: default shell

2001-08-07 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
current shell (csh) instead of creating a new process for the bash (fork + exec). You will benefit from saving a bit of memory, especially if you do it many times in your 20+ terminals... Cheers -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: disabling DELETE in potato's apache

2001-07-24 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
7;ve heard rumors that there's a similar module "mod_webdav" (reported to be by www.cyberteams.com), but I've never gotten hold of that one) Cheers, -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: Draft printing.

2001-07-13 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
tring" Printing at a lower resolution (e.g. -r180x180) might have a similar effect as 'economy'. YMMV. HTH, -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: cannot open display

2001-06-21 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
ght still be in the variable $USER, so the following should work too $ xauth merge ~$USER/.Xauthority $USER may already be set to 'root' in some other contexts, though. -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: login hassles........

2001-04-27 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
t; If this server is no longer running, remove > /tmp/.X0-lock > and start again. if you have X already running, then this is the message one would expect. If not, then simply do what the message suggests ;) Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: OT: compile problem--where 2 look 4 cause? (short story, long info)

2001-04-27 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
r *, char > *)' > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [autodock3] Error 1 > > ---end of run--next is a listing by nm of libad.a for get_atom_type > > daddy:/home/local/src/autodock/dist305/src/autodock# nm libad.a|grep -i > get_atom_type > U get_atom

Re: Shutting down as a user

2001-04-27 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Using debian on a stand-alone laptop I usually work as an ordinary user > > > and find somewhat awkward the fact that I have to su in order to shutdown > > > the PC. Is there a way to power my PC off as a user? -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: EMAIL PROCESSORS WANTED IMMEDIATLY

2001-04-24 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
t line. > > Thank you for your time > > Paul, > > You should look into procmail. It's an excellent email processor and > available for much less than $5,000. ;) He's probably just trying to collect email addresses with a status of "verified-by-human"

Re: [perl] glob() and filenames w/ spaces

2001-04-24 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
blems. Perl-5.004 was buggy in that respect, while perl-5.005_03 and perl-5.6.x work correctly: $ ls -1 test 1.dat test 2.dat with version 5.004 you get: $ perl -e 'print join "\n",glob("*")' test 1.dat test 2.dat with both 5.005 and 5.6 you get (at least I do he

Re: MC

2001-04-24 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
mcap/terminfo setting of your terminal. There's a commandline option to force it to start in color mode: mc -c Alternatively, you can set the environment variable COLORTERM before starting mc. HTH, Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: why does ps->eps conversion reduce line thickness?

2001-04-23 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
m left > > /inch {72 mul} def > > newpath | > 1 inch 1 inch moveto | > 2 inch 1 inch lineto | this is the path construction > 2 inch 2 inch lineto | > 1 inch 2 inch lineto | > closepath| 5 setlinewidth > stroke this renders the square > showpagethis transfers it to the paper > -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: Corruption many (unknown) files; how best to restore?

2001-04-22 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
was still working properly? ;) That doesn't solve the automatic reinstallation part, though. Maybe someone else has a better suggestion. Anyway, it's a good moment to reconsider installing a tool like tripwire (www.tripwire.org) -- or if you think that's overkill, run something like "find / -type f | xargs md5sum >files.md5" periodically... Good luck, Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: make xconfig button.ref eroor

2001-04-17 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
ot;:0" > Error in startup script: invalid command name "button" > while executing > "button .ref" > (file "scripts/kconfig.tk" line 51) > make: *** [xconfig] Error 1 -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: elm-me+:Failed: :No such file or directory

2001-04-17 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
rch /tmp/elm-strace.out (near the end) for a line resembling open("", ...) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) immediately followed by a couple of write() calls printing out the "Failed: ..." error message you see. This should give you an idea of what's going wrong.

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-25 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
... just an idea. Erdmut PS: I cannot promise to be able to take a closer look at this immediately, but I _will_ as soon as time permits. After all, getting a deeper understanding of the lprng mechanics might help me to eventually solve a somewhat similar problem I'm experiencing myself sporadically ;) -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: Setting time to 24 hour format

2001-03-19 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
realtime->tm_min, realtime->tm_hour > 11 ? "pm" : "am"); I guess you'd have to change this, if the 12 hour mode really bothers you badly enough ;) Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
had something > to do with the way the document was created and neither acroread nor > pdftops could convert to level 2 postscript, although I had selected > level 2 in the acroread print dialog box. -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
capture the return code of the print command -- should be 0 if OK Then you can also compare the /tmp/acroprint-out with the file you created when printing directly to a file from within the dialogbox. I guess both files should be identical. Also, feel free to add other debugging commands you c

Re: can't print from acroread

2001-03-16 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
at which to attempt to trace what's going on here and > where the failure is occurring? can you print the file in question if you have acroread direct its output to a file, which you then send to the printer manually? Can you view the resulting PS-file in ghostscript? Erdmut -- Erdmut P

Re: After Debian install, XMS and HIMEM errors prevent Win95 launch.

2001-03-07 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
by introducing some weird mechanics into the PC hardware that allows to switch that special addressing scheme on or off. It's one of the prototypical examples of how an ad-hoc solution of no real benefit can cause headaches for thousands of people. Even years after its invention it seems to ha

Re: lag?

2001-03-05 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 06:52:43PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > is it just me and my mail server, or is the debian-users list like 10 > minutes behind? > > fishbowl:~/web/limerence.org> date > Mon Mar 5 18:52:33 EST 2001 for me the delay is around 40 minutes. -- Erdmut Pfeifer

Re: Anacron schedule

2001-03-05 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:58:10PM -0600, Judith Elaine Bush wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 09:12:33PM +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: > > > > as there is /etc/crontab for cron, there is a /etc/anacrontab for anacron. > > Indeed. Except the /etc/anacron specifies frequency (

Re: Anacron schedule

2001-03-05 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
nacrontab for anacron. See man anacron[tab] for the details... The suggested "test -x ..." lines in crontab are just to disable those entries temporarily while anacron is installed. This way, if you decide to uninstall anacron, the crontab entries will automatically be reactivated, with

Re: Simple c program won't compile

2001-03-05 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
errors: > > $ gcc thick.c > /tmp/ccU9fgSr.o: In function `main': > /tmp/ccU9fgSr.o(.text+0x16): undefined reference to `sqrt' > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status you have to link it with the math lib: gcc thick.c -lm ^^ Cheers, Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer s

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-04 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 07:41:28PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 05:22:50AM +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: > > > > exactly -- at least that's what one would expect. > > Normally gs should just load the svga shared lib, but not start reading >

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-04 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
ace I don't see anything like what you get above before it fails. Does at least that work for you or do you get the same error? Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-04 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
d it to me privately if you feel that is is too lengthy for the list)? Don't know whether I'll be able to help, but perhaps we could start narrowing things down a little... Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: OT: Re: C editor

2001-03-04 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
u not to try it, except you consider yourself an experts in these kind of things. Although theoretically possible, it's definitely nothing for the faint-hearted. ;) Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: making thumbnails

2001-03-03 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
can easily customize it even further... Cheers, Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: #! syntax

2001-02-26 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
n/env perl -w > > > % ./t348.sh > > > env: perl -w: No such file or directory > > > > > > How does one get around this? Please don't say, "Don't use perl." > > > > Just write some wrapper and use > > #!/your/wrapper > > > > wrapper will be runned as > > > > wrapper 'name_of_your_script' -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: who/finger output - billions of pts

2001-02-20 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
> > any pointers? rxvt has a compile-time option for wtmp/utmp support. Maybe that's where the distros differ... For testing purposes you might want to roll one your own rxvt (reasonably simple) without wtmp/utmp support and see if the problem/feature goes away. (Or, if you are lucky, t

Re: can't exec some CGI scripts

2001-02-20 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
p empty handed. Any help > would be appreciated. Can you run the script normally outside of apache -- it may not do what you want it to do, then, but does it start properly? It might also be useful if you would post the info you get in the error log when using "-w". Erdmut --

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

2001-02-20 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
tter still, what to do about it. > > > > > > TIA, > > > > > > James > > > > > > -- > > > James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669 > > > PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669 > PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350 > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh Hagellocher Weg 73 phone: +49 (0)7071-9457-255 D-72070 Tuebingen email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: Hair-puller

2001-02-18 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
have been there... If you also do have that file, try moving it away temporarily and see if it works then. Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: cannot forward X11

2001-02-18 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
warding disabled in your sshd configuration? Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: cannot forward X11

2001-02-18 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
or these ports need to be routed correctly. Can you establish an X connection through an ssh tunnel? (you probably know that you don't need to / should not set the DISPLAY variable yourself when using ssh to forward X, as it's doing it for you) Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: OffTopic - What's the proper way to...

2001-02-16 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
would be useless... Maybe you could elaborate a little more on the details of your intentions... (e.g. what you mean by "let them see the page", etc.) Cheers, Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: HD size problem (IBM 30 GB)

2001-02-16 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
-Disk.html > Too bad of the patches, I should rewrite them I guess. as a temporary solution you might try to find a patch for your kernel version. If I remember correctly, there is one for 2.0.38, maybe you can somehow get that working for 2.0.33... In the long run, it would probably be a better idea to rewrite your patches ;) Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: Here you have

2001-02-13 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 05:33:26PM -0500, DSC Lithuania wrote: > Actually, that was a highly irresponsible thing to do. I do use Microsoft > Outlook > and Netscape both, and I am subscribed to the Linux User list because I am > trying > to set up a Linux system at the place I work. > > It would b

Re: mke2fs: invalid arg to ext2 library ?

2001-02-11 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
do with the partition table having been reread (though I did also reboot the machine the first time), or maybe some hidden bug in mke2fs, like uninitialized variables or such. Currently I can't reproduce the problem, so there's no way for me to find out... I guess you've probably

Re: Shell-script question

2001-02-11 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 03:42:15PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote: > On 2001-02-11 15:16 +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 02:26:51PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote: > > > I wrote a shell script "/usr/local/bin/mailcheck" (/usr/

Re: Shell-script question

2001-02-11 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
nothing's dialed. just guessing...: maybe you have different sets of environment variables for the different invocations. From where do you execute the "rxvt ..."? You might want to put a "set >/tmp/somefile" in your script and see if the relevant env settings differ from where

Re: OT: autoresponder at unix,inc / info@listbank.ne.jp

2001-02-08 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
5) (210.153.132.87) > by listbank.ne.jp with SMTP; 8 Feb 2001 16:10:31 +0900 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "unix,inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I've reported same to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and am filtering it as > spam, but it's annoyin

Re: Memory/cpu quoatas for users

2001-02-08 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
gt; making so many > changes to the apache setup but, for now, it is a pain to have to ask > for my machine to be > powercycled. Regardless, it would be nice to know I have a safety net, > just in case. > > Thanks, > > -- > Mike > > > -- > To UNSUBSC

Re: debian & poster

2001-02-07 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
in quality. If you need to render it into a pixel-based format, you can use Ghostscript, which offers a wide range of output raster formats like png, jpg, etc. Cheers, Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: Please Help: cut-n-paste problem while using hpterm on Debian 2.2 (kernel 2.4.1)

2001-02-06 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
7;t like the appearance > >of 'dtterm'. > > > >My libc version is : libc-2.1.3.so and ncurses version is 5.0-6.0. the debian-side ncurses certainly is not involved, the libc might be involved indirectly (via the X server using some functions of it), but what would probably be more interesting is the version of the X server you are running :) HTH, Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: [OT] perl regex problem

2001-02-06 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
ticated matching, independently of some concept of line termination... BTW, if you don't want the modification of the input record separator to apply globally for the script, you can use "local $/ =..." instead, in soubroutines, for example ("my" doesn't work here). Cheers, Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: xterm

2001-01-30 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
nstall a new version. Anyway I figure it out that > I have a version with a older documentation. well, I would say, if your current xterm accepts the X-Resource settings you need (and does behave as expected), you might just as well leave things as they are. But, of course, that's up to you...

Re: xterm

2001-01-29 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
was added. If you are interested in all the details, you might want to browse the changelog at http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.log.html (though that's probably more than you want to know :) Also, if you are not afraid of reading the source, have a look at the file "charclass.c"

Re: jpeg bad bitmap format file (was: xsetroot -bitmap)

2001-01-26 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
program called xpmroot which > uses an .xpm. but so far I haven't found anything > that will use a .jpg. how are you doing it? xli -- as has already been suggested. $ xli -onroot -quiet http://packages.debian.org/stable/graphics/xli.html Cheers, Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: GD::Image does not support PNG

2001-01-23 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
sion is 1.32) ... The version 1.7.3 of the C-library the Perl module is based upon, should be ok, I guess -- though the most recent version is 1.8.3. Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: OT: check book balancer - xacc packages

2001-01-22 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
nto the program. This way you do not need a copy of Motif. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: install/partition weirdness; 60Gig ATA100 HD

2001-01-22 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
arge-Disk.html Maybe you'll find something useful there (especially the 34 GB limit that used to exist with somewhat older kernels...). -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: Apache, SSL, proxy, etc.

2001-01-18 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
he-SSL and Apache+mod_ssl, I tried both, and both worked well. I then decided to stick with the mod_ssl solution (for some minor reasons) and haven't had any problems since. (But that might not be relevant, anyway.) Hope that clarified things a little... Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: LAMP Question -- Perl AND PHP

2001-01-17 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
e related stuff... > > If I must dynamically load mod_perl or PHP, which offers the best > performance improvement when statically linked? Does dynamic linking of > mod_perl and PHP reduce performance of both/either dramatically? > I don't think there's much difference in performan

Re: [OT] sound card recommendations

2001-01-17 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
before bying one of these, though, I'd check that the special features that cause the difference in price, are _really_ supported by the corresponding driver -- I mean, there are varying degrees of 'supportedness'... just my 5 cents :) Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing

Re: static vs modules

2001-01-17 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
ule version when the load rises just another few percent above the point where the dynamic version gets into problems... any other explanations? I'd appreciate comments -- though I know it's somewhat off-topic... :) Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: manually installing perl lib's

2001-01-16 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
If you know for sure, though, that you only have _one_ Perl, forget about the last note ;) More information is included in the files INSTALL / README that should come with most perlmodule source packages (very small ones occasionally don't have an INSTALL file...) HTH, Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: [OT] Bash Script won't work in fvwm menu.

2001-01-13 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
;> echo -e "\nLockfile was removed.\n" >> fi >> >> netscape -no-about-splash & >> >> ### >> >> -- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh Hagellocher Weg 71 phone: +49 (0)7071-9457-255 D-72070 Tuebingen email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: save msgs to default mailbox in Mutt

2001-01-12 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 05:59:39PM -0500, mike wrote: > Since at least half-this list uses Mutt i thought i would ask > my Mutt question here. >I set up a save-hook to save any message to a default mailbox. > So when i press 's' to save a message i get a prompt to save to the default

Re: [WOT] sh script to relace chars in #1 w/ chars in #2?

2001-01-12 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:46:36AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > Hi, > > I have written about 5 successful low-level scripts to do various things, > and want to learn more about the ways, but I'm in a time crunch (classes > are starting next week) and I can't begin to grok what's needed for thi

Re: MUAs and timestamps, was Re: how to grep without changing timestamps?

2001-01-12 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
e for all files foreach $f (@times) { utime @$f; } You would call it more or less like grep. Assuming you name it mygrep: mygrep [options] search-regex files... Cheers, Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: eml attached file problem

2001-01-09 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
.g. "base64dec.pl", make it executable and call it like this base64dec.pl in.base64 >out.gif "in.base64" is your chunk of cryptic-looking data you're having problems with. It should consist of the part *between* the separator lines (there should be two identical line

Re: X Window Manager

2001-01-09 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
ify it to suit whatever special needs you have... I personally like it very much -- even on machines which could run anything. It has no gimmicks, but everything I really need, like arbitrary number of virtual desktops, etc. Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: invalidfontAladdin

2001-01-09 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
ot;Fontmap" and can be found in the directory where ghostscript is installed (.../ghostscript//Fontmap, I assume) The default configuration should, however, be set up reasonably, so at least the usual fonts like Times-Roman, Helvetica, etc. should work... So, I guess, you either haven't yet installed the gs font package, or for some reason it ended up where it isn't found -- unlikely. HTH, Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

[Sorry] Re: Command line search and replace

2001-01-09 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
his: > > find . -name *.txt | xargs perl -pi -e 's/foo/boo/g;' > > joachim > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction

2000-12-06 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
> bsdmainutils depends on debconf; however: > Package debconf is not configured yet. > Package debconf-tiny which provides debconf is not installed. > dpkg: error processing bsdmainutils (--configure): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: Mutt: save without prompting --- how? Multi-message save?

2000-10-27 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
m not sure whether you can somehow achieve a mixed configuration, where you are being prompted for one keystroke but not for another... > It would be nice to have > a key which saves straight to the default location without prompting. -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: Help: How replace comma with a tab in a text file?

2000-10-24 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
your ex-database file is in CSV format (as for example used by some M$ programs) then you might get problems, if there are strings in your data containing commas, as in 1,"Smith, Joe",3, ... The tr method replaces *every* comma, so it's a little too simple for the case mentioned abo

Re: pdf2ps problem

2000-10-19 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
hen printing, so you could also save the output to a file, if you need to...) If that doesn't work, I would offer that you send me the first 1500 bytes of your PS-file that doesn't work (please not the whole file :-)) and I have a closer look at it. Then I might find out what the problem i

Re: [OT] gcc-warning: more info

2000-10-18 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
); > } > > line marked with ---> is the line, the compiler complains about. > I don't quite understand this, because I never declared function read_data > to return an int. Is something wrong with my function declaration? sorry, I can't tell you what the problem is -- doesn't seem to be in the syntax. My gcc (egcs-2.91.66) doesn't have any problems with this code fragment. -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: [OT] gcc-warnings

2000-10-17 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
using a type cast, e.g. double * p; p = (double *) func_that_returns_int(); ^^ Keep in mind, however, that in this case you are fully responsible for what you do. You can no longer rely on type-checking assistance from the compiler... HTH, Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computin

Re: mySQL errors

2000-09-21 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
ut I assume it is supposed to allow local clients to connect via a unix domain socket instead of the usual inet socket on port 3306. Maybe that helps, Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh Hagellocher Weg 71 phone: +49 (0)7071-9457-255 D-72070 Tuebingen email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: INI like package

2000-09-20 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
t;. I've never used it, but from the description it sounds like it is what you are looking for... It seems to be targeted at the windows platform, but if it's a Perl-only module it shouldn't be too hard to get it running under a decent OS ;-) Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computi

Re: Perl @INC - include NFS mounted repository

2000-09-18 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
f "fall-through" behaviour you need. (if anyone knows how to do this, I'd like to know) Good luck, Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: How to use libhtml-embperl-perl as cgi

2000-09-08 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
know, the debian embperl-package isn't quite the most recent version, so you might consider building your own newer one (1.3b5) -- if you can live with a non-debian package on your system) Also, just in case you didn't know, there is an embperl mailing list (embperl@perl.apache.org), for the kind of problems where you need real experts ;-) Good luck, Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh  -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

Re: rewrite and change document root on apache

2000-09-06 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
st part. When using the RewriteRule alone, you would have to make sure that the string portion, which comes out of the rewrite rule, will give the final document path when concatenated to the DocumentRoot. For this you would either have to use a different DocumentRoot or a different rewrite rule to a

Re: rewrite and change document root on apache

2000-09-06 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
] (pass-through) at the end of the line with the rewrite rule. This has the effect of giving mod_alias also a chance to process the URL... RewriteRule ^/stats(.*)/reports/%{SERVER_NAME}$1 [PT] In this particular case: why not directly rewrite it to "/var/reports/..."? Hope that helps, -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh  -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --

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