Re: broken ligatures in Times with dvips -Ppdf

2002-12-12 Thread Gilbert Laycock
t; ligature. dvips -Ppdf -G0 (order of arguments is significant). -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of Leicester phone: (+44) 116 252 3902 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-11 Thread Gilbert Laycock
d that dvips -Ppdf -G0 (order of arguments is significant) deals with ligatures better. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of Leicester phone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: Apache (PHP not working)

2002-11-14 Thread Gilbert Laycock
waiting until I could repeat the experiment before filing one myself. Also, note that you should re-start your browser (or at least clear the cache) each time you re-start apache. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs

Re: UML Modeling w/o Rational Rose

2002-06-05 Thread Gilbert Laycock
. Features to be added later include constraint checking across documents and executable models. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of Leicester phone: (+44) 11

Re: NIS+ in sid?

2002-04-23 Thread Gilbert Laycock
able debian packages. These are potato packages, but they work fine on our woody machines. However I see there is now also a subdir labelled woody. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of

Re: global environment variables?

2001-12-03 Thread Gilbert Laycock
u use when logging in (login, gdm ,etc)) It appears that the cron daemon also uses a pam module, so this might actually be a solution to the original question about setting http_proxy etc for cron as well as ordinary login session. Not tried this aspect of it myself though... -- Gilbert La

Re: 3C905c summary.

2001-04-20 Thread Gilbert Laycock
achine without a working network card is left as an exercise... -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of Leicester phone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: 3com 3c905c question

2001-03-21 Thread Gilbert Laycock
d see if the patch has already been applied. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of Leicester phone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: Managing many Debian machines

2001-02-05 Thread Gilbert Laycock
be workable for us. There are a couple of projects around where people have managed to automate the installation process to a greater or lesser extent (see the debian-admintool mailing list), and the growing use of debconf has improved things considerably. You may also find www.proge

Re: hdparm

2000-12-01 Thread Gilbert Laycock
se in performance) but now I want to > add it to a startup script so my question is where would be the > best place to add it? Thanks all. If you install the hwtools package, it will install the file /etc/init.d/hwtools which contains a space waiting for you to enter your hd

Re: tetex-extra problem

2000-08-17 Thread Gilbert Laycock
My guess is that when upgrading, and it asked whether you wanted to keep or replace /etc/texmf/langauge.dat you opted to keep the old one, with. To fix, simply edit language.dat to use fr19998t.tex instead of frhyph.tex (or you should have langauge.dat.dpkg-dist there to refer to), and then run dp

setting framebuffer mode during boot

2000-07-28 Thread Gilbert Laycock
Partly the difficulty seems to be to get a definitive list of VESA mode numbers. I assume that many people have this working, so what am I doing wrong? -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Uni

Re: Debian Potato & NIS+

2000-06-15 Thread Gilbert Laycock
to apt-get the packages/source deb http://www.realbodo.de/ debian/ deb-src http://www.realbodo.de/ debian/ I have had NIS+ running on a couple of machines quite satisfactorily for a few months now, and plan to switch all our other Debian boxes from plain NIS as I upgrade them to potato over

Re: nisplus avaliable on debian?

2000-05-31 Thread Gilbert Laycock
cceptable? I've no idea really... -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of Leicester phone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: nisplus avaliable on debian?

2000-05-30 Thread Gilbert Laycock
ble packages. I use the following in sources.list: deb http://www.realbodo.de/ debian/ -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of Leicester phone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: CD/RW under potato

2000-04-07 Thread Gilbert Laycock
shows up as /dev/scd0, so in /dev I have a symlink: /dev/cdrom -> scd0 Your second drive will presumably show up as /dev/scd1. The CD-Writing-HOWTO goes into more detail, and points to some web sites that I found very helpful when first setting up my CDRW. -- Gilbert Laycock

Re: Running X on a Toshiba Tecra 8000

2000-02-08 Thread Gilbert Laycock
(NT), and it works fine in the Linux console. However, in X, when I switch to "both" mode, both screens are corrupt. So I suspect that the modelines in my config file could be improved... XF86Config Description: Binary data -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL

Re: mod-auth-mysql

1999-12-02 Thread Gilbert Laycock
imes, I have had mod-auth-mysql working with potato, but this (apache modules for mysql and php) is one of the bits of potato that has been "unstable" for me, and I haven't really looked at it since I got it working on our slink web server. -- Gilbert Laycock email:

Re: How to start cfengine's cfd automatically?

1999-08-16 Thread Gilbert Laycock
cfd" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/sbin/cfd echo "." ;; *) echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/cfd {start|stop}" exit 1 esac exit 0 -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: windowmaker and gnome

1999-07-06 Thread Gilbert Laycock
t; autoload? I don't use gnome (yet), but I had a similar problem with window maker freezing when starting xautolock from autostart. Have you put "&" after the commands that start apps in autostart? For example: #!/bin/sh xset m 42/10 4 xautolock -notify 10 -b

qt1g and kde for debian 2.1 (slink)

1999-06-28 Thread Gilbert Laycock
machines arriving and I want to put kde on them. Oh well; maybe I can convert a few users to WindowMaker instead...) -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone:

Re: /etc/environment

1999-06-23 Thread Gilbert Laycock
AGER=less PAGER=less This is as close as I have come to getting /etc/environment to work as advertised as a single location for global environment settings. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock

Re: Re[2]: Separate list for newbies

1999-05-20 Thread Gilbert Laycock
worse: after all it would be sending out lots of extra messages to a list that is already busy. The system might be no good at choosing suitable keywords for the search, so the results are useless. Nobody has the time to write such a system (I certainly don't) so it never gets don

"console" only groups and xdm

1999-04-06 Thread Gilbert Laycock
)? -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: new kernel release

1999-01-27 Thread Gilbert Laycock
. I've not tried it with a sound card, but that's how I set my network card options with auto-loading. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: Please help with CD writer questions

1998-11-27 Thread Gilbert Laycock
riter+, 7200 series, 768K buffer) that has worked without problems for me. But I don't use it heavily. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: Non-SCSI ATAPI CD burner?

1998-11-19 Thread Gilbert Laycock
.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/man/README/README.ATAPI -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: lp accounting -- lprng [pages?]

1998-11-04 Thread Gilbert Laycock
issions and so forth on all of the required log, lock, spool etc files, you can use the "checkpc" command that is part of lprng. By default it just checks the permissions, but if you give it the -f flag, it will attempt to fix any problems too. -- Gilbert Laycock email:

Re: Printing *huge* files via compressed pipe ?

1998-10-30 Thread Gilbert Laycock
ter; all the example filter scripts show how to get it to recognise incoming gzipped data then unzip it and deal with the results. I've never tried anything like this, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: NIS

1998-10-15 Thread Gilbert Laycock
aris NIS server running NIS+ ? If so you might be out of luck, unless you are prepared to build your own glibc. See http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html On the other hand, if the server is running NIS (or NIS+ in NIS emulation mode) then it should work fine (except for netgr

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-10 Thread Gilbert Laycock
y resource. I think I just never use any "older xterms"; I've not noticed any problems with my setup. I think I will have to go and read the Debian keyboard policy again. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-09 Thread Gilbert Laycock
use Alt-Tab to cycle through my windows while Meta-Tab does mail alias completion in emacs. AFAIK the various emacs have always used Meta as the modifier key, and just did the best they could on keyboards with not enough buttons so that Alt and Meta couldn't be separate. -- Gilbert Laycock

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-09 Thread Gilbert Laycock
that Meta-backspace is the definitive way to delete a word, since it is emulating "emacs key bindings". -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: Correction of Clock for summer time

1998-09-04 Thread Gilbert Laycock
is the case runs tzconfig to set it to the right time zone (I use Europe/London). -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902

debian 2.0 as a NIS+ client

1998-09-02 Thread Gilbert Laycock
impression from there that a patched version of a newer (non-stable) version of glibc2 is required. But perhaps that is just for a NIS+ server (which I don't need)? Does anybody have any experience with this? -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Math

Re: Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

1998-04-24 Thread Gilbert Laycock
the DOS 3com509 config program that comes with the cards (probably available from the 3com web site too), but I have a vague memory of somebody mentioning a Linux tool to do the job. Hope this helps. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer

afterstep config file in /tmp

1998-02-13 Thread Gilbert Laycock
ooking setup it tends to be copied around), but since I am not an afterstep user I haven't been able to spot anything untoward in the .steprc files concerned. The afterstep man page and FAQ do not mention the use of this temporary file at all. -- Gilbert Laycock em

Re: emacs and .Xdefaults

1997-12-05 Thread Gilbert Laycock
e xrdb settings whereas ~/.Xresources will be merged with the system ones. (Or was it the other way around?) -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone:

Re: Undefined reference to '...'

1997-09-03 Thread Gilbert Laycock
me file* as the definition. Plenty of other posts in this thread have suggested what to do in this situation. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone:

Re: Undefined reference to '...'

1997-09-02 Thread Gilbert Laycock
http://www.cygnus.com/egcs/ is (I think) using much of the same same code base as gcc 2.8, so if it is important to you, you could try building from one of their snapshots. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.

Re: Green monitor functions

1997-09-01 Thread Gilbert Laycock
; > > Device "S3_868" > > BlankTime 15 > > SuspendTime 20 > > OffTime 30 Is there any way to configure this outside of X? I know about setterm blank n which is fine as far as it goes, but I think it only blanks the screen rather than using the more advanc

Re: upgrade path

1997-08-26 Thread Gilbert Laycock
latively easy - a normal dselect/ftp upgrade. Sorry this is a bit vague, but hopefully it is of some help. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone:

Re: procmail -- 'or'

1997-08-13 Thread Gilbert Laycock
which should catch all destination specifications containing a specific word. For instance, I use :0: * ^TOdebian list.debian.in for the debian lists. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~gla

Installation fails to make hard drive bootable (1FA:)

1997-06-09 Thread Gilbert Laycock
hard drive. I am using the 1.3 install disks (with NFS mounted base1_3.tgz), but the same thing happened with the 1.2 install disks. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universi

Re: Boot problem

1997-04-11 Thread Gilbert Laycock
me I can't execute the file even though I am in the same Daniel> directory? Do you have "." in your PATH environment variable? If not then the current directory will not be searched when looking for executables. The solution is to either: * add "." to your PATH; or