Re: usb logitech wheel/optical mouse

> "Wi" == William Leese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wi> I'm trying to get a logitech usb mouse to work, without much luck. Hello, I just bought a Logitech Cordless MouseMan Optical mice (it has a wheel too) two weeks ago, I use it thru the USB port. Wi> In modconf I've loaded the module

Re: autorestart pppd

> "Se" == Sebas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Se> pppd[90]: Serial link appears to be disconnected Se> pppd[90]: Connection terminated. Se> Is it possible that when something like this happens, pppd will Se> automatically reconnect? In that case, my down time will be Se> minimized af

MACRO key, how to use it under X?

Hoi All! My 7-year-old keyboard has a unique key named "MACRO" on its lower left corner. `showkey' shows its keycode as 112, but under X I can't use this key, even xev doesn't notice when I press/release it. Any hints how can I use this button under X? -- ignotus

Re: XEmacs & CPerl: DEL doesn't forward-delete?

> "Ra" == Ralf G R Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ra> I'm having a hard time fighting with XEmacs and/or CPerl. Ra> For whatever reason the DEL key deletes backwords in XEmacs, but ONLY Ra> in CPerl mode. [...] Same here. :-( (Wow, random sig... ;-)) -- ...sutongi tti olleh

Re: Refusing mail if via ISP? [was Re: apology]

Hoi Jeremy! Jeremy> Here, I use fetchmail to pop mail from seven POP3 accounts on Jeremy> various providers. Fetchmail passes it off to my MTA (sendmail) [...] You can use popsneaker to automagically delete mail (you can specify various criterias of course) from your pop3 account before fet

Re: How can I put a package on hold without using Dselect?

Hoi Ben, ALL! >> Dselect is slow on my old machine. How can I put a package on hold >> without using Dselect? Ben> echo hold | dpkg --set-selections btw, How can I "unhold" a package? -- ...sutongi tti olleh The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Re: Debian News Group Needed

Hoi Paul, ALL! p> I seriously believe that this and other debian lists are far better p> managed both by users and debian, using NewsGroups rather than mail p> lists. Paul> Just use Gnus. You can filter debian-user mail into a separate Paul> spool file and have Gnus read it, and it'll

Re: Emacs meta-key

Hoi Nick! Nick> I installed potato on another machine (without going through slink). The Nick> alt-key won't function as meta in Emacs on this one. I've used xev to Nick> check. Sure enough alt is there, but not for Emacs. Load xkeycaps and set one of your alts modifier to Mod4 (which is me

Re: filtering spam with procmail

Hoi Noah! Noah> Hey all. Over the past couple weeks or so the volume of spam to my inbox Noah> has grown by a disturbing amount (I should have been more careful...). Noah> I'm not sure what to use for such a procmail rule, though. Does anybody Noah> here do anything similar to this? I

Re: How do I get flexible email headers and sigs?

Hoi Tony! Tony> I have several "identities" I'd like my mail to go out under - Tony> [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my academic work, [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the Tony> start-up I sometimes act for, [EMAIL PROTECTED] for personal stuff etc. Tony> I'd like the From:, Reply-To: fields and the signatu

Re: random signature

Hoi Sven! Sven> Is there a way to put some sort of random signature system to use in Sven> mutt? If not, can any other mail client do this? (I dont want / have X Sven> on this box here) Yes, check out signify it can do everything with your signature(s) you can imagine! :) (You can use it w/

Re: Non-OpenGL online games for Linux?

Hoi Bart! Bart> I'm having trouble finding some action/adventure games for Bart> Linux that don't require an OpenGL-able graphics card where Bart> I could play against at least one other person online. Can Bart> anyone recommend any? Check out myth2 (demo) from LokiGames (http://www.lokig

Re: automagically queuing sendmail on dial-up

Hoi Joseph, ALL! You've to put a little script to /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/. Edit (/create) a sendmail_queue (you can give it any other name) file: , | #!/bin/sh | # Flush sendmail queue | | sendmail -q & ` Then do a chmod +x /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/sendmail_queue (as root), that's it! This script'll

Re: Server-side spam and e-mail virus protection

Hoi Joe, ALL! Joe> I'm interested in implementing some form of spam and e-mail virus Joe> filtering at the daemon. Have you ever heard of NoCeM (no see-'em)? Maybe you'll find it interesting, www.cm.org is a good starting point. -- ignotus

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

Hoi Frank, ALL! Frank> I'm using joe for many purposes. The only feature I miss is Frank> syntax highlighting in C. Are there any hints for such a Frank> small and fast editor in Debian with that feature built in? fte, vim, jed (emacs ;-)) -- ignotus

Re: Gnus 5.8.6 not sending attachments?

Hoi Jeronimo! J> since a couple of weeks ago Gnus seems not to be including MIME J> attachemnts sometimes. I'm unsing emacs 20.6.2 and Gnus 5.8.6. [...] J> So, did anyone else have such a problem? Any ideas of what's J> going on? I'll try downgrading Gnus next, then I'll come back to J

Re: init - autostarts

Hoi Dominic! Dominic> all that "starting syslogd", "starting inetd" etc Dominic> when you're booting, it's controlled by init, right? Dominic> how do i tell it not to start the things I'd rather Dominic> not be running? I don't know how good or sloppy solution this is, but I usually sim

Re: APM Disable

Hoi Jay! Jay> After a few minutes my monitors shut due to APM. Where do I Jay> shutoff APM? I checked the bios and didnt see anything dor the Jay> monitor. Any sugestion would be great How about setting your monitor's turn off time? Under X xset, under console setterm can do the job for y

Re: xntp

Hoi John! John> I wish to keep time synchronised by using my ISP's John> timeserver. This box is a stand-alone one, and I connect using John> a modem. John> After installing xntp3 and xntp3-doc packages, I find the docs John> far too complex to fully understand, and the program aims for

Re: man --> info?

Hoi Gregory, ALL! Gregory> Why are man pages abandoned for info? Info requires emacs Gregory> knowledge to navigate, and are text only. Check out pinfo (in doc section), it's a terminal based info-browser and it has a very intuitive interface. -- ignotus

Re: How do I run multiple X sessions?

Hoi Marc! m> I seem to recall having seen, somewhere, that it is possible to m> have multiple X sessions running at the same time. You can start a second X with this command: startx -- :1 So if you have 2 running Xs, one'll be at 'alt-f7' and the other at 'alt-f8'. Hope this helps. -- ign

Re: ICQ

Hoi Daniel! Daniel> Can anyone recommend an ICQ app? I heard KICQ lacks a lot of Daniel> feature and won't let you create new accounts. AFAIK the best graphical icq programs are kxicq and gnomeicu (which is in main/net). -- ...sutongi tti olleh /You will never amount to muc

Re: entering non-ASCII characters in xemacs21

Hoi Brian! Brian> Ok, I would have thought this would be easy, but how. eg how Brian> do I enter latan characters with accents, such as é, ö, etc, Brian> with a standard US type keyboard? Try iso-accents-mode. (M-x iso-accents-mode) Then you can type 'a -> á, "o -> ö etc... Brian> I get

Re: site to site ftp?

Hoi Ron! Ron> Is there a tool available that can do a site to site ftp? I Ron> need to transfer a few files from one ftp site (via anonymous Ron> ftp) to another site (via user ftp). Unfortunately the Ron> destination site does not allow users to ftp out, but you can Ron> ftp in. So basi

Re: Planning Upgrade.

Hoi Paulo! Paulo> Is there any way to make apt-get list the URL of the files it Paulo> would like to download? (If anyone wants to know why I need Paulo> this, an explanation follows). You should read /usr/doc/apt/offline.html, the process you mentioned later in your letter is well document

Re: changing refreshrate on the console, with lilo.conf?

Hoi Kent! Kent> I am using vga=9 on at the moment in my lilo.conf . I would Kent> like to use the next mode, but my my eyes dont like the low Kent> refreshrate :( I dont use framebuffer, since the console gets Kent> so slow, try running ls /dev if you are using framebuffer at Kent> 1280

Re: Archiving and Expiring Mail

Hoi Erik! Erik> I use Procmail and Mutt for processing +200 mail messages Erik> every day (large share from this list ;-)) I would like to Erik> have a tool which is able to archive and/or expire mail Erik> messages on a per mailbox bases. I think that procmail can do that job. Here's an

Re: Help--language problem

Hoi Steve! Steve> I can't change my keyboard in to from English to other Steve> language in Debian (slink) with Gnome. I need spanish as I Steve> write lots in that language. I go through all the correct Steve> steps going to panel , properties, etc and I have a nice old Steve> Spanish

Re: Alt Keys -> Meta (under X11)

Hoi joostje, All! > Does anyone know how to make the Alt keys generate Meta? > That is I want Alt-F to generate Meta-F (under Emacs, bash, etc). I put these lines to my .Xclients: ## xmodmap -e "clear mod1" xmodmap -e "keycode 64 = Meta_L" -e "add mod1 = Meta_L" ## Now left alt generates the