Re: Howto change default keymap

2001-03-27 Thread Marcus Geiger
Thanks a lot, I will give it a try. It seems not so easy (as it could be) to accomplish this. Yours --Marcus On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:05:20PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 06:35:41PM +0200, Marcus Geiger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hi, > > &

Howto change default keymap

2001-03-27 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, how do I change the default keymap. I want my system to keep the setting if reboot. install-keymap dvorak seems to me not enough. Thanks --Marcus -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antbear.org

Re: Making root run fetchmail as a user?

2001-03-26 Thread Marcus Geiger
Why don't you try: su user -c "cd ~ && fetchmail --any-options-come-here" in your scripts? --Marcus On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:45:44PM +1000, Mark Devin wrote: > I would like to make fetchmail run as a user rather than root when run > via my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail-up script > > Here i

Re: fetchmail in unstable

2001-03-26 Thread Marcus Geiger
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:07:27PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > A possible solution might be not to have fetchmail starts at boot time, but > by > /etc/ppp/ip-up. This scripts runs after the link is up, it run the scripts in > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d and has the assigned IP transfered to them. > > You c

fetchmail in unstable

2001-03-26 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, I'm having trouble with fetchmail in unstable. The new policy starts fetchmail at boot time. The problem is I don't know howto tell fetchmail that it should wait until the interface it listens on is *really* active. Currently I use these options. interface ippp0/127.0.0.1/0.0.0.0 When my

Re: X11 header files - which package? -SOLVED

2001-03-23 Thread Marcus Geiger
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:41:29PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Thanks to you and Moritz Schulte for replies. I got vim-6.0y to compile > in the end; I deleted the whole directory and unpacked the tar.gz files > again, and this time it worked. I suppose there were some broken files > left over

Re: X11 header files - which package?

2001-03-23 Thread Marcus Geiger
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:22:38AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Can someone kindly remind me which package is needed to supply X11 > header files? I've come up against this one in the past but I can't > remember the solution. > For XFree 4.02 it is: xlibs-dev -- Marcus > Anthony > > > >

Unreal Tournament performance

2000-09-15 Thread Marcus Geiger
28MB ram. Any suggestions? Marcus --- Marcus Geiger, SPQR Informatik GmbH Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW:http://www.spqr-gmbh.de

Email encryption within netscape

1999-01-20 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, sorry for my offtopic question, but I can't remeber. What was the name of the app which enables secure-encryption support from within netscape communicator. Yours Marcus

X questions

1998-12-28 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, I want to know, with which X-toolkits some of the traditional X applications are implemented: ghostview, offix-files. (isn't it the athena widget set ???). Please give me some hints where to find information about those topics (books, tutorials...) Thanks Marcus

Disableling unsecure services ?

1998-12-26 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, I tried to disable all 'unsecure' network-services on my machine. I started with commenting out the rpc-based entries in /etc/inetd.conf. But when I'am doing a netstat -a, it seems that those services still are hanging around listening. Ok I cannot start any of those services (tried it with

cannot find share lib

1998-12-24 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, I installed xlogmaster from the slink distribution (I know I should better wait for a while) with apt-get. Install was no problem, but when try to start it, I get the following errror: xlogmaster: error in loading shared libraries libgmodule-1.1.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such f

diald and pon

1998-12-23 Thread Marcus Geiger
I'm trying to get diald running. The diald example configuration comes with a connect script. But isn't it a better idea to use pon as the program to establish a connection from within diald ? Does this work ? And when how ? Also can't the ip-up scripts shared between diald and pon.. ? This wou

query dialup-hostsname

1998-12-15 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, does anyone knows a possibility to query the hostname (dns) that will be assigned after dialing into a internet service provider ? Sometimes when logging into a ftp server, I will be greeted with something like 'dialup.a-number.lrz-muenchen.de'. I want to query this hostname to work with it

mailers machine name

1998-12-08 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, sometimes I get serious problem when posting to some systems. I installed smail on my local machine (connected to my ISP via ppp) and forwad all mail which smail cannot send by itself to my ISP's mailhost (smarthost !?). But some servers refuse my mail. I think this depends on my unregistere

gnome-core dependencies ?

1998-12-03 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, today I tried a download of the gnome-packages (0.30-2). But I can't figure out how to solve the dependency problems of gnome-core. The dpkg packaging tool tells me that gnome-core (and so on libgtkxmhtml0) depends libgnome0_0.30.1-3.deb; But where can I get it ? dpkg-Output: --

kde: libkdeui.so.2 ... not found

1998-11-20 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, recently I installed the debian-kde-packages. Almost everything works fine, except ksysv and some tools, which write to my console: Cannot find libkdeui.so.2 Does anyone know this, or give me a hint. (I dont have this shared object). Marcs

Some Keyboard questions

1998-11-16 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hello, configuring keyboard settings on linux is driving me insane. But someone of you can help me with this trivial requirements. I want an identical setup for console, X and Xemacs: [Backspace] deletes to left, [delete] deletes to right, [left-control] should be control and finally [left-alt] sh

Communicator4.5

1998-11-15 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, I want install the communicator 4.5 package(s) from the slink distribution. I found out that: communicator-base-45 |-depends on: netscape-base-45 |-depends on: netscape-base-4 So far so good, but I cannot find the netscape-base-4 package. Is the name mispselled or what I am do

Re: XEmacs shell garbage

1998-11-13 Thread Marcus Geiger
Thank Thorsten, I will read the documentation to term-mode, hope this will help me ! Marcus Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > > On: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:09:20 +0100 Marcus Geiger writes: > > > > XEmacs-Shell-mode doesn't seem to work correctly. I get some > > [ldksjf] &

XEmacs shell garbage

1998-11-11 Thread Marcus Geiger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- XEmacs-Shell-mode doesn't seem to work correctly. I get some [ldksjf] <- control-codes in braces. My machine is setup for german-keymaps and I installed the german-package. Does any has an idea. Is it possible that the terminal mode irritates Xemacs-shell-mode ?

XEmacs shell-trash

1998-11-08 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, I encounter problems with XEmacs when using a shell within XEmacs. My linux is configured for german (also X). When I do an ls with the xemacs-shell, I get a lot of jam in braces [~sdklgja] ... Any ideas ? Please help. Marcus

Netscape problems, questions

1998-10-30 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, I tried to install netscape 4.04 on my system but the .deb package tells me, that libg++27 is not installed and xpm4.7 also. What should I do ? Finally what deb package do You recommend and what netscape version should I use ? Please help me. Marcus

SIS5591 Bootproblems, help

1998-10-26 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi folks, I am still trying to boot a linux installation kernel. My system uses two SCSI disks attached on a Adaptec 2940UW. My IDE-Atapi cdrom is connected to my onboard IDE controller (chipset SIS5591). My problem is that I can only boot one of my kernels I have on floppy disks or cdroms, when

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1998-10-25 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, I am new to debian linux (not new to linux in general), and still trying to install debian 2.0. All kernels I tried to boot on my machine, hang after they found my CD-ROM drive (FreeBSD boots clearly) My setup is: ASUS SP98AGP-X K6-233 Adaptec 2940UW (rev 1.32) 2 x SCSI hardisks IDE-CDROM 12