Re: Huge font

2000-06-16 Thread Philip Lehman
tries in /etc/X11/XF86Config to put the path to the 75dpi fonts first. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Howto find out why a connection is opened....

2000-05-25 Thread Philip Lehman
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 25 May 2000, Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>See subject. >> >>I'm using a ISDN connection. > >...with isdn in autodial mode I guess. Try setting up ipchains and l

Re: Howto find out why a connection is opened....

2000-05-25 Thread Philip Lehman
nd try to guess from IP/port/protocol which process might trigger the dialout. See the ipchains HOWTO. Tracking this down is a science. Good luck! -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ghostscript message

2000-05-25 Thread Philip Lehman
anted even more additional fonts, well, I do. Didn't mean to sound rude, either. ;) -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Flirting with diaster (a bad installation experience)

2000-05-25 Thread Philip Lehman
l (more comprehensive than the first one) http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html (background and why you want to use LBA) There might be even more, just look around. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Testing firewall chains

2000-05-24 Thread Philip Lehman
g and after reading the HOWTOs and the ipchains docs I think I understand how it works, but I still feel a bit insecure. Any pointers to more documentation are welcome too. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ghostscript message

2000-05-24 Thread Philip Lehman
type, the fastest way I'm aware of is using ttf2afm (in the freetype package) and grep the name from the afm: ttf2afm font.ttf | grep "^FontName" -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Cannot find libz1 and libxpm4

2000-05-24 Thread Philip Lehman
t download the packages from there (apt is certainly more convenient), it might be helpfull as a means of orientation, especially if you're still exploring the load of packages which are available. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: can't print

2000-05-23 Thread Philip Lehman
to point to a magicfilter sript suitable for your modell. I hope I didn't omit anything essential. Helps? -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: power saving on my desktop...

2000-05-23 Thread Philip Lehman
ed. Is that what you used a cron job for? Would be unusual. 3. Configure X properly (set timeouts and define "power_saver") and run 'xset dpms' from .xinit. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

gs, wmaker debs? (was: Re: XFree86 4.0 debs ?)

2000-05-23 Thread Philip Lehman
've built wmaker and libproplist myself and it works right out of the box on potato. Merely a matter of half an hour (not flaming or anything, I'm just curious). -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Armin Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Use vim. It's hard to learn, but it is worse it. Interesting typo ;) (I'm writing this as a non-native speaker, no offence intended) -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Mouse doesn't work in Xwindow, NFS, bug(3.)???

2000-05-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Justin Megawarne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >And Philip Lehman bestowed upon us all: >> On Mon, 22 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> prw-r--r--1 root root0 May 22 23:01 /dev/gpmdata >>

Re: Mouse doesn't work in Xwindow, NFS, bug(3.)???

2000-05-22 Thread Philip Lehman
ta p` and try again. Helps? -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Mouse doesn't work in Xwindow, NFS, bug(3.)???

2000-05-22 Thread Philip Lehman
d to do is have X read from gpm's fifo, i.e. In /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section "Pointer" Protocol"MouseSystems" Device "/dev/gpmdata" ... EndSection In /etc/gpm.conf: device=/dev/psaux type=ps2 responsiveness= append1="-R"# -R for

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-22 Thread Philip Lehman
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Frank Mehnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm using joe for many purposes. The only feature I miss is syntax >highlighting in C. Are there any hints for such a small and fast >editor in Debian with that feature built in? jed? -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Minor Samba issues

2000-05-22 Thread Philip Lehman
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Lindsay Haisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The problem turned out to be in >/etc/printcap. The default printer pulled up in the share is 'lp', which is >basically a config for an old-fashioned dot matrix printer. It has no 'sf' >entry. Make sure the printcap entry definin

Minor Samba issues

2000-05-21 Thread Philip Lehman
int -" cat ) | /usr/bin/smbclient \\server\hp -P -U nobody -N -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

kernel: compiler error in function gen_rtx_combine

2000-05-09 Thread Philip Lehman
dir_fs] Error 2 I've also noticed that make segfaults sometimes when I try a make menuconfig. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

weird nfs mount problem

2000-05-08 Thread Philip Lehman
stuff used to "just work" when I installed nfs-common, put the server volumes in /etc/fstab and added the client to the server's /etc/hosts.allow. But not on this particular client. I will gladly provide more information if neccessary, it's just that I don't know where to search. TIA -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

NFS: sigpending lied?

2000-05-07 Thread Philip Lehman
problems on the server side either with this particular client. All machines (server and clients) are running potato. I don't have the faintest idea what this error msg means. Any hints appreciated. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: lilo mbr on hda with linux on hdc?

2000-05-04 Thread Philip Lehman
On Thu, 4 May 2000, matthschulz wrote: >On Thu, 04 May 2000, Philip Lehman wrote: >> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: >> >> >> I have a machine with two hard disks here, that other OS resides >> >> on hda and I added the second drive (hdc) for

Re: lilo mbr on hda with linux on hdc?

2000-05-04 Thread Philip Lehman
gs with LI-. I did run lilo to update the MBR - several times. In lilo.conf I have: boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hdc1 ... image=/vmlinuz ... other=/dev/hda1 ... -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

lilo mbr on hda with linux on hdc?

2000-05-04 Thread Philip Lehman
with dual-boot setups in general, but I'm a bit clueless facing this particular setup. Any hints appreciated... -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-25 Thread Philip Lehman
o 2.2.14. This is scary. BTW: What's the best way to keep up with glitches like this if you don't follow devel and kernel lists? -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: how do you set your system clock from a remote time server?

2000-04-25 Thread Philip Lehman
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Harry ten Berge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Chris Mason wrote: >> Where can I get nptdate? >It's in 'xntp3'. ntpdate is a part of the complete 'time server suite'. At least in potato it's broken up into server and client. T

root filesystem corrupted, can't log in

2000-04-24 Thread Philip Lehman
e simply reboots. If I don't turn it off when the BIOS comes up, it keeps on looping. I'm desperate because the same happens when I boot from a rescue disk. What can I do about that? Any help will definetly be very much appreciated... -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: 3 questions. Please, HELP ME!

2000-04-01 Thread Philip Lehman
.] >3. I have the defrag utility. How can I defragment my Linux partition, >since a mounted drive cannot be defragmented? There is no need to 'defrag' ext2 filesystems, you don't have to worry about that. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

ip masquerading

2000-03-31 Thread Philip Lehman
etc/init.d/ipmasq is for, but I'm feeling lost as far as the configuration is concerned. The postinstall script asked for the client IPs on the LAN and I entered that, but where is this stored? Do I have to do anything in addition to that, or can I rely on the defaults? I don't need anythi

Re: Fonts too big after getting xfs-xtt to work

2000-02-07 Thread Philip Lehman
kde are in sync. Otherwise make sure the path setting used by the font server is sane, order does matter if you have different versions of one font. Put the dirs with the best fonts first. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Getting xfs-xtt to work

2000-02-07 Thread Philip Lehman
t font server address or syntax This is probably because there is no fonts.dir file. You don't have to worry about this as far as the xserver is concerned as it won't access the files but query the font server instead. But the font server might need this file. xfs and xfsft do, xfstt doesn't, I don't know about xfs-xtt. There should be some instructions that tell you what files you need. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: HELP:latex-babel still broken....

2000-02-06 Thread Philip Lehman
sed to produce my documents in french You might want to check if there is an updated version on CTAN, see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/babel/ -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [*] about x

2000-02-06 Thread Philip Lehman
ber correctly, there is an option in /etc/X11/config; something like "run-xdm". Change that to "no-run-xdm" or put a '#' on front of it. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: New versions of packages

2000-02-05 Thread Philip Lehman
7;s why they call it frozen ;) Only bug fixes will be included. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

weird scrolling problem

2000-02-05 Thread Philip Lehman
nt. Any help appreciated... -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Setting up Debian - II

2000-02-02 Thread Philip Lehman
20,332.2 mb Is this a typo or are you trying to reserve 39.2 megs for the root system? Keep in mind that this partition will contain everything below / except /usr, so this setup would be unusable. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

iso8859-15 input

2000-01-31 Thread Philip Lehman
th both X and the specific app. Any clarification and all hints appreciated. Oh, and I'm on Slink/Potato with XF86 3.3.5. TIA -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: x11amp/xmms

2000-01-22 Thread Philip Lehman
the >x11amp one). Does anyone happen have it or know anyone who has it? I'd love >to get a copy. Hint: XMMS supports winamp 1.x and 2.x skins. There are serveral hundred skins available for download at www.winamp.com, I'm sure you'll find something that makes you upgrade ;) -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: help

2000-01-21 Thread Philip Lehman
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Emmanuel wrote: >hello > >I'm trying to add a gateway on a debian but there's no man on the computer. man route, the option is called "-gw". The NET-3-HOWTO decribes the whole procedure in more detail. HTH -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: mounting zip disks and nfs

2000-01-21 Thread Philip Lehman
On 21 Jan 2000, Roland Mas wrote: >Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Is there an automount solution out there that would facilitate this? >> What I have in mind is automatic unmounting of the drive when there is >> no nfs connect and mounting it as

mounting zip disks and nfs

2000-01-21 Thread Philip Lehman
n the server. Is there an automount solution out there that would facilitate this? What I have in mind is automatic unmounting of the drive when there is no nfs connect and mounting it as soon someone requests it over nfs. Any recommendations? -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Philip Lehman
-source 3.0.14 yesterday and everything is up and running again. pcmcia-cs is 3.1.8-4 and setserial is still installed. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Philip Lehman
> I recently upgraded my laptop to Linux 2.2.14 (from 2.0.36) with the > latest pcmcia-* and modutils, too. I compiled both the kernel and the > pcmcia-source myself. I don't know if the kernel upgrade is > significant or the upgrade of pcmcia-*. I don't think it's the kernel. I used to run 2.2.9

Re: netscape sharing win98/linux

2000-01-16 Thread Philip Lehman
at (that is, the pcpine part of it), but it should work. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: tex/latex: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

2000-01-11 Thread Philip Lehman
ail as well? ... >I assume that this is something very simple, but I'm stumped. I'm afraid that's too trivial, but anyway: did you update the ls-R databases? If it still doesn't work, take a look at /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and check if $TEXMFMAIN and $TEXMF are set correctly. $

anacron jobs for users

2000-01-11 Thread Philip Lehman
laptop so cron jobs are not quite the way to go, but I'm sure there's a better way than putting "sudo -u username myscript" in the system-wide anacrontab? -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How to install pine on slink from source

1999-11-17 Thread Philip Lehman
also need dpkg-dev and the development packages of the libs required by Pine. This will patch the source, compile, and build binary debs ready to install with dpkg/dselect. HTH -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Postscript, Ghostscript, Unicode, and TT fonts...

1999-11-17 Thread Philip Lehman
le file, that is I changed 16#84 /quotedblbase to 16#201e /quotedblbase but to no avail. gs doesn't give any error messages, it simply subsitutes 'notdef' for 'quotedblbase'. Is the whole idea nonsense or is this possible (in theory at least)? And in practice? Please help me out here... TIA -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

converting unicode ttf to cp1252 type1

1999-11-14 Thread Philip Lehman
*input* encodings only. The resulting type1 fonts I got were always standard latin. I spent the entire weekend trying to figure this out and it drives me crazy... Can anybody help me out here? -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: emacs and word processing

1999-11-11 Thread Philip Lehman
Thanks a lot for all the input, this really helps me out. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

emacs and word processing

1999-11-10 Thread Philip Lehman
and the 'shadowWidth' of the minibuffer bar (I have a very specific understanding of the word customization ;). Oh, and if there is any documentation on (X)Emacs which is not systematic but rather task oriented, I'd be interested in some pointers. TIA -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: sigh......

1999-10-28 Thread Philip Lehman
on/deb/slink/i386/ ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/1.1.2/distribution/deb/potato/i386/ There's a list of all mirrors at http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html HTH -- Space for hire. Contact Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Netscape vs M$ IE (Re: Sun goes...)

1999-10-28 Thread Philip Lehman
a 4.0... -- Space for hire. Contact Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Wp8 and Debian 2.1

1999-10-28 Thread Philip Lehman
ot;/lib/libc5-compat:/usr/lib/libc5-compat:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" export LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" $WPDIR/wpbin/xwp.bin $@ & HTH -- Space for hire. Contact Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: connection cost monitor anyone?

1999-10-26 Thread Philip Lehman
c/ppp/ip-up or as a daemon (monitoring all connections no matter who fires up pppd and how) and a corresponding X interface that displays some info and warning messages (e.g. after a certain online time or depending on the accumulated costs). -- Space for hire. Contact Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: HELP!! Re: HELP!: problems after POTATO upgrade

1999-10-26 Thread Philip Lehman
#x27;t have libcrypt installed, remove to link. -- Space for hire. Contact Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

connection cost monitor anyone?

1999-10-26 Thread Philip Lehman
l-featured. Any recommendations? -- Space for hire. Contact Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Diskless and Stare Office??

1999-10-25 Thread Philip Lehman
the network in particular, but I tried it out on my Notebook, a P233 with 64 MB. SO is useable, but working is painful. This is mostly a RAM issue, I think. It's bearable with 128 MB, but still feels somewhat sluggish. If you ever thought Netscape was a pig... ;) -- Space for hire. Cont

Re: Exim and fetchmail

1999-10-21 Thread Philip Lehman
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Philip Lehman wrote: >root, the command in /etc/ppp/ip-* should be preceded by a `sudo` >command, e.g. > >sudo fetchmail -d 600 It's `sudo -u ...`, forgot the '-u', sorry. -- Space for hire. Contact Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Exim and fetchmail

1999-10-21 Thread Philip Lehman
wake up the daemon process. Don't forget to add this fetchmail --quit to '/etc/ppp/ip.down'. If you don't want/need to run fetchmail as root, the command in /etc/ppp/ip-* should be preceded by a `sudo` command, e.g. sudo fetchmail -d 600 Let us know what you come up with. -- Space for hire. Contact Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Wordperfect 8 woes again

1999-10-20 Thread Philip Lehman
avail. In detail, that's: libc5 5.4.46-3 xlib6 3.3.5-1 xpm4.7 3.4k-2 That's what was mentioned several times on this list and that's what ldd suggests too. Am I missing something? Any ideas? -- Space for hire. Contact Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Exim config question

1999-07-25 Thread Philip Lehman
t;sender_host_reject_relay = *", which would bounce all mail from mach2... -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Pascal

1999-07-24 Thread Philip Lehman
tup. Recompile them and see if that helps. If not, put the 2.0 version of glibc somewhere in /usr/local/lib, add this location to your environment and to /etc/ld.so.conf, and run ldconfig. And make sure your apps use the right linker. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Gnome runs out of sockets without sound?

1999-07-24 Thread Philip Lehman
ompatible clone, it will work with the SB drivers. Dunno how to deactivate sound in Gnome, but if you'd like some noise anyway, it might be worth a try to set up sound. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
;- and this was supposed to improve stability. Shouldn't make a difference, though. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
arted giving me those bus errors. I'm not running an all potato system, just slink with some unstable stuff thrown in and glibc seems to be the only relevant part in my case, but I may be overlooking something. This is a *royal* PITA. If you find out more, please post it. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

gv with neXtaw anyone?

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
I'm trying to build gv using neXtaw, but it segfaults. Linking to neXtaw works fine with Xaw based apps for me, but I'm not sure about replacing Xaw3d with neXtaw. Is this at all possible or am I getting somthing wrong here? -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
grep apm > root 2169 0.0 0.3 1148 416 pts/0S15:39 0:00 grep > apm* > >to be sure I am recompiling my kernel. Have you tried calling shutdown via /sbin/poweroff? -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: default font for Xaw - Applications

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
ick. Just copy you old xfs paths and append the paths to your ttf fonts at the end of the list. HTH. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: modem line speed

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
/etc/ppp/peers/my_isp file. It will write the connect speed to a (custom) log file. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adam Shand wrote: >i was trying to find a pattern among the info people posted but couldn't >really see one. did anyone else figure this out? > >- p2-266 128mb ram >- kernel 2.2.9 >- glibc 2.1.1-13 It's the glibc from unstable. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>