Re: fvwm and post.hook problem

2004-04-16 Thread Kirk Hilliard
;" \ title() "\" Title Top\n" endmenu= "\n" -- >8 -- and then ran update-menus. Remember that the menus are automatically generated. Kirk Hilliard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Looking for old Debian Logo Candidate (Ant)

2000-08-02 Thread Kirk Hilliard
I am trying to find one of the candidates from the Debian Logo competition of last year. It was an ant, was known as jeannette-0, and used to be available at: http://contest.gimp.org/view.cgi?month=1999-02&mode=show&graphic=jeannette-0 I am particularly looking for the ant head design, not the

Authenticating SMTP Server

2000-05-26 Thread Kirk Hilliard
ected, one particularly elegant one accepting outgoing mail from any IP from which the user has successfully checked POP3 mail in the last several hours -- but they seem to be for commercial servers. Neither Mail-Administrator-HOWTO nor Mail-HOWTO mention authentication. What Debian options are th

Re: OpenSSH <--> SSH2 interoperability

2000-04-22 Thread Kirk Hilliard
talled. You have an ssh1 server installed and answering, the person trying to connect should install an ssh1 client so that his ssh2 client can fall back to version 1. -- >8 ------ Thanks again, Brian. Kirk Hilliard

OpenSSH <--> SSH2 interoperability

2000-04-22 Thread Kirk Hilliard
SSH-1.2.3, from ssh_1.2.3-2) with an ssh version 2.0.9 and was told: Disconnected; protocol version not supported. Has anyone here run experienced this? I thought that various versions of ssh played well together even with OpenSSH's default configuration, but the name "SSH2 compatibil

Re: Help Reproduce a Bash Bug

2000-04-13 Thread Kirk Hilliard
I asked: > Please help us reproduce an elusive bash bug. Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > ask them if they are using kernel 2.3.99 (or maybe some earlier 2.3.* > kernel) there has been some notes about this on the kernel > list. apparently the kernel has a bug or `feature' where it ret

Help Reproduce a Bash Bug

2000-04-13 Thread Kirk Hilliard
does not exist) then please run the these commands: ./thisdoesnotexist ls -ld . thisdoesnotexist echo $SHELL echo $BASH_VERSION pwd mount uname -srm and paste the results into a mail message to me. Thank you, Kirk Hilliard

Re: password

2000-04-08 Thread Kirk Hilliard
an man".) Only 3 of the 30 are from section 1, "Executable programs or shell commands", and the one you want is: passwd (1) - change user password So read "man passwd" and then run it. Kirk Hilliard

Re: END Key in Emacs (only in Xterm)

2000-04-06 Thread Kirk Hilliard
s pretty small.) I sent a note about this problem to debian-emacsen. Kirk Hilliard

Re: END Key in Emacs (only in Xterm)

2000-04-06 Thread Kirk Hilliard
you will find: M-[ 4 ~ end [snip 5 lines] M-[ 1 ~ home The problem exists with both versions of emacs, but emacs19 doesn't have the describe-bindings-internal function. This is with an up to date potato system running xterm 3.3.6-6, emacs20 20.5a-2, and emacs19 19.34-26.3. Kirk Hilliard

Re: 80 MB ram in debian system

1998-03-09 Thread Kirk Hilliard
et the the "boot:" prompt? I remember seeing it a while back, but now the first thing that I see is "Loading...". Kirk Hilliard -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: less clears screen after exiting

1998-02-13 Thread Kirk Hilliard
's not hamm since I am running an up to date unstable system and I have the same behavior that Tomihisa describes. Are you doing anything unusual in your .bashrc? This situation should be figured out and either fixed (so that the arrow keys work with ``less -X'') or a work-around put o

Re: X Windows

1998-02-12 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I wrote: > > If you have a ps2 mouse, run gpm with the -R repeater switch, and > tell X to use > > Protocol"MouseSystems" > Device "/dev/gpmdata" > > in the "Pointer" section of your XF86Config so that you will still > be able to

Re: X Windows

1998-02-12 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Hi Pete, > Does anyone think X windows is something I should have for my linux > system? All I do is program. Would it help me in any way? This depends on your personal taste and on your hardware. For me, my 486-33 with a non-accelerated ISA video board did not have enough performance to justi

Re: how to update

1998-02-11 Thread Kirk Hilliard
d do this not only so that you know what process is being automated, but also because it mentions some of the ramifications of the upgrade which aren't discussed in the script. The autoup script does not yet have its own stand-alone documentation. Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: cdwrite and cd writers

1998-02-11 Thread Kirk Hilliard
one (by cdrecord's upstream author J. Schilling, by cdrecord's Debian package maintainer Erik Andersen, by one of the Debian developers working on the ports to non-i386 platforms)? What do these people have to say about the situation? You should open a bug against this package so that th

Re: hamm

1998-02-08 Thread Kirk Hilliard
tp://www.debian.org/developers_corner.htm) Most all of this process is automated by the autoup.sh script found at: http://taz.net.au/autoup/ You should still read over the Mini-HOWTO even if you use the script. Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscr

Re: Hamm fvwm2 -- new Focus behavior

1998-01-28 Thread Kirk Hilliard
se # And here are the new bindings. Key Tab A M Next [CurrentDesk !iconic] focus-and-raise Key Tab A MS Prev [CurrentDesk !iconic] focus-and-raise Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [E

Re: adduser in hamm dumps core !

1998-01-27 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Hi Joost! I also upgraded to the 5.004.04-4 perl and perl-base packages this morning. While adduser still does not segfault for me, perl still segfaults and dumps core when I run either my couple hundred line mail preprocessing script on one particular input file, or when I run Vitaly Belostotsky

Re: Ans: Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?

1998-01-27 Thread Kirk Hilliard
amm: $ ulimit unlimited I ran out of space at 1GB on the bo machine, but I don't have space to check this on the hamm machine. Did anyone here run into a 1GB limit on a hamm machine? Kirk Hilliard P.S. There doesn't seem to be sufficient difference between /etc/login.defs

Re: adduser in hamm dumps core !

1998-01-27 Thread Kirk Hilliard
usr/bin/{perl,perl.dist,perl5.00404} 115161 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 492108 Dec 9 20:17 /usr/bin/perl* 115161 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 492108 Dec 9 20:17 /usr/bin/perl.dist* 114698 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 492108 Dec 9 20:17 /usr/bin/perl5.00404* ~ $ diff /usr/bin/{perl,perl5.00404}

Re: How to properly set TERM variable

1998-01-26 Thread Kirk Hilliard
.debian.org/Bugs/db/14/14366.html Kirk Hilliard [1] I hate dselect[2] in a color xterm since the whitespace surrounding the descriptive text of the information section is not colored, so big blocks of reverse video text jump around as I scroll through packages. Hence, I alw

Re: adduser in hamm dumps core !

1998-01-26 Thread Kirk Hilliard
ensitive to print statements that I added for debugging purposes). Since adduser reads system information, it could be that the data it gets from your system is just right to trigger this bug. I bumped the severity of bug#17393 up to important yesterday. Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS M

Re: Hamm fvwm2 -- new Focus behavior

1998-01-26 Thread Kirk Hilliard
nc previous-and-raise AddToFunc previous-and-raise I Prev [CurrentDesk !iconic] Focus AddToFunc previous-and-raise I Current Raise Key Tab A M Function next-and-raise Key Tab A MS Function previous-and-raise Thanks Jameson, Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUB

Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?

1998-01-25 Thread Kirk Hilliard
/33 running stock Debian 1.3 using the kernel from a 1997-06-20 rescue disk. Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: [Q] dselect-mountable install does not find packages

1998-01-25 Thread Kirk Hilliard
s complaining about are in place on your mirror, either in binary-i386 or as a symlink from there to binary-all? If so, then I don't know what is going on. Have you tried dselect's "mounted" method? The "mountable" method is great, but this could provide a good debugg

Re: [Q] dselect-mountable install does not find packages

1998-01-25 Thread Kirk Hilliard
s for the files in the wrong directory... Packages.gz is supposed to be in binary-i386. Oh! Are you not mirroring binary-all? A lot of the "packages" in binary-i386 are actually links to binary-all. Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: [Q] dselect-mountable install does not find packages

1998-01-25 Thread Kirk Hilliard
lease. Andy, do you think that bug#8054 will be resolved prior to the release of hamm? Do you need someone to help debugging? Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Hamm fvwm2 -- new Focus behavior

1998-01-24 Thread Kirk Hilliard
t of SloppyFocus, which I normally use.) Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

pcmcia Megahertz XJ10BT troubles

1998-01-23 Thread Kirk Hilliard
find any problems reported against this card. Any suggestions? Kirk Hilliard P.S. The Linksys card is physically damaged and I need to prop popsicle sticks under the connector to make it work, so I would like to get the Megahertz working. Besides, I want to see how well that cool lo

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-21 Thread Kirk Hilliard
n emacs for secondary selection. I will bring this up with the fvwm2 maintainer if this line is still in the hamm version. Kirk Hilliard P.S. I would rather use "emacs -nw" in an xterm than use emacs in its own window if it were not for secondary selection and mouse-yank

Re: Mirroring hamm question

1997-12-13 Thread Kirk Hilliard
ed in a (partial) bo tree, and keep the links as links in my local hamm mirror. Is it possible to tell mirror to do that? I don't have enough disk space to have a complete mirror of bo in addition to hamm, and I like to be able to see the links as they indicate that the file has not yet bee

Re: ThinkPad 560

1997-12-09 Thread Kirk Hilliard
s, but were compiled with the kernel patch from Jen's Maurer's site, "Linux on the Toshiba Tecra series": http://www.cck.uni-kl.de/misc/tecra710/ If this is still the case, is the patch provided in one of the source packages? Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Cron and find

1997-12-04 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Hi G'razel! Have you tried adding the NFS mount point to PRUNEPATHS in /etc/updatedb.conf? Check out updatedb(1). HTH, Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ALT key in X for Emacs

1997-12-04 Thread Kirk Hilliard
ith secondary selection. Mouse 0 W M - I have been meaning to check and see if a bug report has been filed on this yet. Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: emacs and .Xdefaults

1997-12-04 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Since it only works for the current X session, I added it to my ~/.xsession file and all is fine. Still, I did not have to do this in rex. Is this change a bug or a feature? Thanks, Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PR

emacs and .Xdefaults

1997-11-30 Thread Kirk Hilliard
I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex. ~ $ cat ~/.Xdefaults emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1 ~ $ cat ~/.Xdefaults-globe emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-

Re: Laptop computers

1997-11-26 Thread Kirk Hilliard
reciative! (Chipset is > CL65550.) Hi Kevin! Check out: Jens Maurer's Linux on the Toshiba Tecra series http://www.cck.uni-kl.de/misc/tecra710/ While Jens owns a 710, the page discusses all of the Tecras. Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &quo

Re: Yamaha CDrecorder 400tx

1997-11-25 Thread Kirk Hilliard
sofs, but cdrecord has worked with my Yamaha CDR400tx. Unfortunately, last I looked, the only Debian cdrecord package was in hamm (unstable), so I grabbed the sources from http://www.fokus.gmd.de/nthp/employees/schilling/cdrecord.html and built it myself without any problems. Kirk Hilliard -- TO

loadlin -- A20 gating failed (tecra/bo)

1997-10-26 Thread Kirk Hilliard
t's what the "tecra" disks are for. What is going on here? Loadlin works fine with rex's vmlinuz-2.0.27 tecra kernel. (I am using loadlin-1.6.) Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: cdwrite trouble: SENSE_ERROR

1997-10-22 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Does write speed affect the quality of the CDR? Also, are gold on gold CDRs supposed to be better? I found what I think is a pretty good deal on some HP C4432A gold on gold CDRs at CompUSA -- qty 25 for US$70 minus US$20 rebate (limit two on the rebate). Kirk Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cdwrite trouble: SENSE_ERROR

1997-10-21 Thread Kirk Hilliard
SENSE_ERROR iter 2: pipe_to_cd result 0, pack_id 15 sense 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 ... and so on until I kill it. Has anyone here seen this before? TIA, Kirk Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Maarten Boekhold et. al.

1997-09-30 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Oops. Kirk "can't differentiate between Subject: and Cc:" Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Maarten Boekhold , Manoj Srivastava , sanvila@ctv.es

1997-09-30 Thread Kirk Hilliard
before taking it to gnu.utils.bug. I'll post a note back here vindicating either flex-2.5.4 or my suspicions when I figure it all out. Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Possible flex-2.5.4 bug

1997-09-29 Thread Kirk Hilliard
ex-2.5.4 has been out for over a year now. One thing which is clear is that my program does what I expect it to with flex-2.5.2 but not with flex-2.5.4. Kirk Hilliard -- ~/flexbug $ flex --version flex version 2.5.2 ~/flexbug $ ./

Possible flex-2.5.4 bug

1997-09-28 Thread Kirk Hilliard
than I do about flex tell me if I am screwing something up. If my code looks OK I will submit a bug report. (I discovered this problem on an RS/6000 where I have an immediate need for a working flex. I could not locate flex-2.5.2 on the net, but was happy to find the sour

Re: Netscape uses SOCKS host for local servers

1997-06-23 Thread Kirk Hilliard
> Subject: Re: Netscape uses SOCKS host for local servers > Kirk Hilliard wrote: > > How do I get Netscape to not use a SOCKS host for machines in my local > domain? > > I am running "Mozilla/3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.27 i586)" on my > Debian 1.2 box, which

Netscape uses SOCKS host for local servers

1997-06-22 Thread Kirk Hilliard
d with only 10Kbps pipe.) I set the "No Proxy for" field to the local domain name but this had no effect. "Mozilla/3.0Gold (WinNT; 1)", similarly set up to use the SOCKS host, connects to local http servers directly, even without an entry in the "No Proxy for" field.

Re: Latest rescue disk locks up Thinkpad

1997-05-17 Thread Kirk Hilliard
rescue disks, one with, and one without the Tecra patch, if you want to experiment. Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: pointing device on Toshiba Satellite 110CS

1997-03-19 Thread Kirk Hilliard
is that I use mouse-3 (WindowList) against the fvwm2 background much more than I do mouse-2, so I added Mouse 2 R A WindowList Mouse 3 R A Menu Window-Ops to my ~/.fvwm2/post.hook to swap those two. Email me if you need more details. Kirk Hilliard

Re: Is there a dictionary for abbreviations like "WTF"?

1997-02-19 Thread Kirk Hilliard
o with a dictionary and thesaurus. (They have also released a version of Roget's Thesaurus.) At the very least, a contrib package could be built containing viewers (and possible even ``webster''-like client and server) and including instructions for downloading the data files. Is a

Re: loadlin (was: CD-ROM -- how to mount, etc.)

1997-01-20 Thread Kirk Hilliard
load bzImages. I could not find out who is responsible for this directory so I sent a note to Christoph Lameter, the loadlin package maintainer, which he forwarded on to Bruce. Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Tecras and Debian 1.2

1997-01-15 Thread Kirk Hilliard
he cache. More details can be found at: http://www.cck.uni-kl.de/misc/tecra710/ and a temporary replacement rescue disk can be found at: http://www.math.virginia.edu/~kdh5j/debian/tecra730 The next set of boot disks will contain this kernel patch. I think that your concern is a common one. Perhaps

Re: Tecras and Debian 1.2

1997-01-15 Thread Kirk Hilliard
w_ it reboots like everybody else :-( So I'm > looking for an update on this issue. Welcome back into the fold of non-bzImage-booting Tecra 700 series owners. Kirk Hilliard Irreproducible events abound! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread Kirk Hilliard
ng out the Debian web page, I notice that there is a debian-dpkg mailing list mentioned, but no archived messages are available for it. Does anyone know the story behind that. Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-07 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Debian's face to the world, it is also an administrative tool which should be quick, powerful, and convenient for even experienced administrators to use. Unless a group like this is already in place, I propose that we form a working group to initially hash out how dselect should be improved, and

Tecra Rescue Disk

1997-01-05 Thread Kirk Hilliard
patch. This should help out until the new boot disks arrive. You can find my resq144t.bin at http://www.math.virginia.edu/~kdh5j/debian/tecra730 Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rescue disks for a tecra

1997-01-03 Thread Kirk Hilliard
as an alternative. I don't have access to outgoing ftp, but a link to a binary should be downloadable over the web. Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian 1.2 rescue disk reboots Toshiba Tecra laptop

1996-12-26 Thread Kirk Hilliard
list of 1.2 glitches and simple fixes a la mode de Scott Barker's "SimpleFixes for Slackware Linux"? I am very impressed with Debian 1.2 Congratulations! Thanks, Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Debian 1.2 rescue disk reboots Toshiba Tecra laptop

1996-12-25 Thread Kirk Hilliard
ng the 1.2 base disks or by substituting the 1.2 CD when I reboot, or do I need to run dselect on 1.1 before shift to the 1.2 upgrade? This problem does not affect loadlin. Thanks, Kirk Hilliard P.S. Is someone maintaining a list of 1.2 glitches and simple fixes? -- This message was delayed