Re: en_US.UTF-8 compose bug fixed, but whom should i send it to ?

2003-09-23 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:43:36AM -0300, Jan Pfeifer wrote: > So I just patched the file > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose > > to include any order (for all key compositions). > > i'd like to send the fix to the proper debian maintainer(s). How do I > find this out ? $ dpkg -S

Re: SpamAssassin and false-negative spam

2003-09-23 Thread Robert Vollmert
> I always pipe it through "spamc", and the report is added to the > headers, even when it's ham. > > Doesn't that work for you, too? It does, actually. I was thinking of the more detailed report that comes in the body of spam messages, and which lists each matched test's score and description.

Re: SpamAssassin and false-negative spam

2003-09-23 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:10:42AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > How can I find out the SA (v2.55) scores of all email? > > Ok, clarification: I'm not asking for the score parameters; I'm > asking for the score of each individual email. easiest seems to be to pipe the message to 'spamassassin

Re: Procmailrc to play sound async when message arrives

2003-09-23 Thread Robert Vollmert
> if I fork bplay several times, it doesn't "mix" the sounds: they > still play out synchronously, even though the caller isn't blocked. I've experienced this with OSS emulation on ALSA. Perhaps playing the sound with 'aplay' instead helps? If not, consider configuring the 'dmix' plug-in for ALSA

Re: record sound...

2003-09-22 Thread Robert Vollmert
> I am not using alsa :). Any other ideas? Or programs? sox will work, though I don't know the correct arguments. Or try audacity. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: record sound...

2003-09-22 Thread Robert Vollmert
> I need a program that can record from mic, or line-in, and encode > realtime to mp3/ogg, or just record to wav. > Anyone knows a program which can do this? If you're using ALSA, try arecord with oggenc: $ arecord | oggenc -o record.ogg - Select the recording device using a mixer (e.g. alsamix

Re: Getting X to recognise usb mouse on plugin

2003-09-21 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:43:51PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > I have a usb mous which isn't always plugged in (its a loptop). > It its plugged in when X starts up it is recognised ok (there is a > pointer entry for /dev/input/mice). If its not plugged in its not always > recognized. I haven't man

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 05:06:26PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I need to convert a bunch of filenames to uppercase. I tried the script below, > which does...nothing. While we're at it: $ rename tr/a-z/A-Z/ * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: starting different window managers

2003-09-20 Thread Robert Vollmert
> Now I'm trying to build an box for audio work, where kde is too heavy. > So I would like to try out some lightweight windowmanagers. What is an > easy way to start different window managers (so I can try them out)? > I'm working on Debian unstable. $ startx /usr/bin/X11/mywindowmanager or even

Re: Insert module at startup

2003-09-18 Thread Robert Vollmert
> But how can i add the module so that it starts when the system boots, i find > information about modutils, modules.conf, ... But all this is not so clear! > Could someone *plz* explain me clairly how i have to do it ? Or a link or > whatever ? Just add a line to /etc/modules. > And what dhcp cl

Re: reiserfs

2003-09-17 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:50:53PM +0200, Robert Epprecht wrote: > I have created the partition, re-booted, mkfs.reiser. > I have created the directory (as user), but whatever I have tried in > /etc/fstab I cannot write to the directory as normal user, only as > root. As soon as I mount the partiti

Re: Sound capture via fake driver

2003-09-17 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:23:15PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 07:57:57AM +0800, csj wrote: > > > Why not try mplayer? > > Because it doesn't work well with streaming stuff in general and > never with RealAudio, on my system. mplayer works for capturing realaudio streams he

Re: Dont wanna upgrade package

1999-09-21 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 10:21:15AM +0200, Steeve Lennmark wrote: > Hi, Can I somehow say to apt that i dont want to upgrade a package, EVER? I think echo packagename hold | dpkg --set-selections should work. HTH, Robert -- Robert Vollmert [EM

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-19 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 12:31:27AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 06:36:47PM +0200, Robert Vollmert wrote: > > With /bin/sh -> /bin/ash, I get the following error: > > > > guess.datestyle: 25: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")"

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-18 Thread Robert Vollmert
: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")") It works fine with bash. It seems the opening brace on case "$x" in ( SystemV | posix | right ) ^ is causing this. -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Video Rules?

1999-08-22 Thread Robert Vollmert
heoretical maximum at 16 bit would be something like 836x627, 1180x885 at 8 bit, provided you want a 4x3 display ratio. See the XFree86-VideoTimings-HOWTO for additional information. HTH, Robert -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CS 4232

1999-08-13 Thread Robert Vollmert
cat /proc/sound shows: Hi, your config looks fine. Probably, all you have to do is create the audio devices (as root): # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV audio If things still don't work, please post exactly what fails and any related error messages. HTH, Robert

Re: Sound module problems

1999-08-10 Thread Robert Vollmert
smod > Module Size Used by > soundcore 2372 0 (autoclean) (unused) > > modprobe -a opl3sa2 works fine, however. > > Do I need to add aliases for sound-slot-0 and sound-service-0-3 or what? I think that alias sound-slot-0 opl3sa2 should make things work. HT

Re: Init takes long time and what is lspci?

1999-08-01 Thread Robert Vollmert
ges, it worked again. I can't remember which packages exactly, but I think sysvinit was among them. -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new mail messages

1999-06-26 Thread Robert Vollmert
ariable is not set, Bash informs the user of the arrival of mail in the specified file. HTH, Robert -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Flushing the slink question cache

1999-06-24 Thread Robert Vollmert
for potato to be able to use apt with multiple cd: > am I right? And for multi_cd, what's the right way of operation? > I have never been asked for the second CD. When setting up (or was it updating?) multi_cd, you have to insert the _last_ binary CD of your set. HTH, Robert -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh and PATH trouble

1999-05-22 Thread Robert Vollmert
il- ing ssh or, on some systems, /etc/environment or /etc/default/login. HTH, Robert -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Environment variables and X

1999-05-22 Thread Robert Vollmert
r a profile that wdm executes on > startup (I would be very surprised if there wasn't one), in that > file, source your .profile or .bashrc or both: > > . $HOME/.profile Or put the above line into ~/.xsession . -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Aliases in .bashrc

1999-05-19 Thread Robert Vollmert
> alias mcd='mount /dev/hdb /cdrom|cd /cdrom' try alias mcd='mount /dev/hdb /cdrom && cd /cdrom' -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HTML formatter

1999-05-19 Thread Robert Vollmert
Emacs's "html-helper-mode" may be an > option. Select the entire buffer and run "M-x indent-region" (forgot > the keystroke, sorry). Where can I find html-helper-mode? It doesn't seem to be include in emacs20. -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPP with IP masquerading over a null modem

1999-05-18 Thread Robert Vollmert
nd > startup files that I should be modifying to make these changes > sticky (/etc/init.d/network ?). The routes are set usually set up in /etc/init.d/network, and you could put the pppd calls into this file as well, I suppose (although there is a /etc/init.d/ppp script you might want to look at). > I am not a complete newbie...but take it slow =). > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance! > > Nathaniel HTH, Robert -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gui progs as root in x under normal user?

1999-05-18 Thread Robert Vollmert
ome/yourname/.Xauthority or (if ssh is installed) $ ssh -l root localhost -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

remote execution

1999-05-13 Thread Robert Vollmert
dangerous. Any better suggestions? TIA, Robert -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember?

1999-05-12 Thread Robert Vollmert
why this happens and know what I need to do to work around it > please let me know. If they aren't .tar.gz/.tgz's, they might be .zip files (especially since you can view them in Windows. In that case, use unzip (package unzip). HTH, Robert -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libpcre.so.1 and libpcre.so.1.01

1999-04-29 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 01:56:57PM -0600, David Karlin wrote: > What is the difference between libpcre.so.1 and libpcre.so.1.01? > Have I installed an incompatible version of libpcre1? Hello, as far as I know, libpcre.so.1 should be a symlink to libpcre.so.1.01 . Regards, Robert --

Re: system shutdown from xdm

1999-04-28 Thread Robert Vollmert
;shutdown"'s shell a script which calls the > shutdown command. However xdm does not seem to run this script. Hi, on X login, ~/.xsession is executed by default, so I suppose you could call your shutdown script from there. Robert -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Direct serial connection

1999-04-25 Thread Robert Vollmert
(you would need a null-modem cable for this). You can then use telnet on A to work on B, and can even run X apps on B. There is a section on this in the PPP HOWTO (packages doc-linux-text or doc-linux-html). Good luck, Robert -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: diff.gz file size

1999-03-20 Thread Robert Vollmert
e doesn't actually unzip .gz-Files when downloading them, it simply strips the .gz. So maybe you gzipped an already gzipped file which would explain the difference in size. -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: exim

1999-02-21 Thread Robert Vollmert
> When I use fetchmail to retrieve my mail, exim delivers the first 10 and > then leaves the rest queued until cron next fires-up it's queue-runner. Take a look at `smtp_accept_queue_per_connection' in /usr/doc/exim/NewStuff.gz . -- Robert Vollmert

Re: creating 10 disks of Debian

1999-02-17 Thread Robert Vollmert
gt; > After trying to create the third - I get a disk that shows now files in > Windows 3.1 filemanager. I think that only the first two disks contain MS-DOS filesystems, the others aren't readable by DOS/Windows. Robert -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound card/which kernel

1999-02-15 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 11:27:51AM -0600, ktb wrote: > Hi, I'm attempting to compile my kernel (2.0.34) for the first time to > enable sound. I was reading in the sound HOWTO that there is a card > supported "Crystal CS4232 (PnP)" mine is "Crystal pnp Audio System > CODEC" I was wondering if any

starting X apps as root

1999-01-20 Thread Robert Vollmert
`root menu'), something like a part of the window manager running as another user. Does any window manager implement this, or does anyone know a stand-alone program? Thank you in advance, Robert -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I tweaked my Linux box too much!

1998-12-14 Thread Robert Vollmert
> went blank and everything locked up. I figured that if I new how to > disable xdm, I could boot up to just the Linux command line and run > XF86Setup again, but I do not know what config file to edit in order to > disable xdm. To disable xdm, you can also replace the start-xdm line in '/etc/X1

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-12 Thread Robert Vollmert
> > Look at the message just before the md driver message for the > > problem. It will probably turn out to be the disk controler doesn't > > like being probed at boot time and is locking up. Some systems will > > require an entry on the "boot line" or use the tecra rescue disk like the > > lap t

Re: Pine & Netscape

1998-12-09 Thread Robert Vollmert
> Hello everyone, > I've been playing with pine so it'll open a netscape window if I > wish to follow a link from an email. I've read through the 'online' help > in pine and even found a link on the netscape site about the -remote > (http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std/x-remote.html) argumen

Re: Debian installation hangs

1998-12-09 Thread Robert Vollmert
similar machine: When booting a pre- compiled debian kernel, my computer halts for about 30 seconds at the above line. Afterwards, it continues perfectly. Try waiting? Robert -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]