Re: X starts on boot--no exit--shades of J P Sartre

2001-12-11 Thread Carl
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:37:41PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > The question remains, where is the init file that starts this on boot? > I've checked /etc/inittab which is a boot script, but not the right one. Look at /etc/init.d/xdm, which exists as links in /etc/rc[0-9].d. --

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-19 Thread Carl
environment to allow the teens to ruin things, and learn from experience.) -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-20 Thread Carl
to be using it both ways in this message or confusing the two. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread Carl
On 6/21/19 6:35 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: Carl Fink wrote: You seem to be assuming that Mr. Banjaya is in the USA. While that is not impossible, given the Javanese name and non-USA usage of English, I suspect that it is not correct. In Indonesia, the case resemble hypothetical case in this

Re: apache only servers text page

2019-09-30 Thread Carl
cated in the mime.types we use sublime to edit all of our .pl or .html pages. please advise. Did you restart apache after making the change? Did you grep the Apache configuration directory for other instances of "text/plain"? -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com

System time instantly wrong when network lost

2020-08-05 Thread Carl
? Debian Buster, freshly updated. Thanks. Carl Fink

Re: CUPS/foomatic/HP

2018-10-14 Thread Carl
On 10/14/2018 03:35 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 13 Oct 2018 at 23:11:13 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: So should foomatic-filters conflict with CUPS? Because in Testing it would seem that it does. https://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2014/03/msg00065.html Thank you. So why is foomatic-rips not

Re: kmail and encrypted mails

2018-12-26 Thread Carl
Just say "When I wrote 'based on' I meant 'based on the same code base.'" and move on. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com

Re: Install Report: Buster Weekly Build on Intel NUC (NUC8I5BEK1)

2019-02-07 Thread Carl
On 2/7/19 1:34 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Carl Fink wrote: First I used unetbootin to create a Testing (Buster) netinstall USB drive. This is deprecated by https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb "Please note, that Debian advises not using "unetbootin" for this task.

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-08 Thread Carl
st reading of the subject line. On November 7, 2014 9:20:47 PM EST, golinux wrote: >On Fri, 11/7/14, Carl Fink wrote: > > Subject: Re: Joey Hess is out? > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Friday, November 7, 2014, 7:49 PM > >> Anyone else read the subject

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread Carl
d. In the Free Software world, the response to something not working is generally: 1)If you know how, fix it and send the fix to the project so it helps everyone, or, 2)If you don't know how to fix it, report the problem in a useful way, so someone else can fix it and help everyone. -- Carl Fink

HP Laser Jet 1000

2006-04-24 Thread Carl
udev under Debian Etch Linux. A HP Laser Jet 1000 printer and driver was to be installed on a PC running Debian Etch. The appropriate packages were installed (ghost script, foo2zjs, cups, foomatic, some foo-ppd package etc.) No samba was needed. The printer needed a bit of special attent

Re: can anyone recomend an application ??? ...

2003-02-20 Thread Carl Johnson
es for the next two days and emails them to me. Remind is especially handy for birthdays or anniversaries because you can set it up to calculate how many years, just in case you sometimes forget... -- Carl Johnson[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Printing with lprng -- inexplicable pauses or halts

2003-03-17 Thread Carl Fink
gs 7.05-2.bunk What am I missing? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Printer configuration

2003-03-19 Thread Carl Fink
t use GNOME, I just type "magicfilterconfig" at a prompt. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Root login

2003-03-19 Thread Carl Fink
rm (or other x terminal) prompt. This allows local accounts other than the one that started X access to the display. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: xv (graphics package)

2003-03-19 Thread Carl Fink
anyone know if > it is available any longer as a debian package? Maybe I'm not looking in > the right place. Nonfree license, as I remember it, forbids its exclusion. You might look at xloadimage. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

2003-03-22 Thread Carl Fink
I've said this way more than enough times, but MORE THAN A YEAR for another stable release? This isn't a bad joke? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Re. CD writer

2003-10-15 Thread Carl Fink
One thing that occurs to me: you did do make modules make modules_install right? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Re. CD writer

2003-10-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:19:11PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > > --- Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One thing that occurs to me: you did do > > > > make modules > > make modules_install > > > > right? > > -- >

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1

2003-10-18 Thread Carl Fink
tp://www.debian.org. There's an "Installation Manual" link right there on the front page that explains everything quite well. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 04:26:45PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: [about emacs] > (And yes, as someone else mentioned, the CVS version cab be built > against GTK. Hopefully, there will be a release someday) One could say the same about Debian. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PRO

Re: new to debian

2003-10-23 Thread Carl Fink
that KDE also has an login manager called kdm which you maybe want > to install instead of gdm if you use KDE instead of Gnome. Note even further that if, like me, you don't want to use either KDE or GNOME, you can apt-get install xdm instead. I prefer the most minimal, gewgaw-free

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Carl Fink
a file://. listing. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mplayer (again)

2003-10-31 Thread Carl Fink
r /dev/scd?, > depending or your configuration and amount of drives). Also, don't mount the disk. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Carl Fink
word-common (= 1.0.2+cvs.2002.06.05-1) but 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-0jds1 is to be installed I *use* abiword, dammit. Is it worth writing bug reports given the current fluid state of Testing? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http:/

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Carl Fink
2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1 0 > 500 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main Packages I don't know how to interpret this. Are you saying it's not in Testing? Then why do I get the messages I posted in my previous? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Ministe

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:19:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 19:25, Carl Fink wrote: > > > $ apt-cache policy abiword > > > abiword: > > > Installed: (none) > > > Candidate: 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1 > > > Vers

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:32:51PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 20:25, Carl Fink wrote: > > Same thing as you, as I quoted above. So what's apt-get trying to > > install? > > Dunno. Show us the whole command + all messages. Okay, here's w

Re: OT: Where Best to Express My Rage at M$

2003-11-12 Thread Carl Fink
Annoying though it may be, license terms you don't like are not necessarily illegal. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-09 Thread Carl Fink
gt; .ltf > .ods > .odt Are you familiar with http://www.filext.com? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: eFax tiff viewer?

2003-09-11 Thread Carl Fink
er displays all pages of a multipage fax? I asked this very question on this very list, years ago. Display from the ImageMagick package works fine. BTW, as of 2000 you could run the eFax viewer (Windows software) under WINE just fine. I did. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jaboot

Re: Browser problems

2003-09-13 Thread Carl Fink
use dpkg or your favorite front-end to be sure they're actually installed. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sound capture via fake driver

2003-09-15 Thread Carl Fink
I remember, sometime last year, using a replacement sound module to capture streaming audio to a file. It worked quite well. Then I didn't have to do it for over six months and completely forgot what the program was called. Anyone want to jog my memory? Thanks. -- Carl

Re: Sound capture via fake driver

2003-09-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 04:18:01AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:40:44PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > I remember, sometime last year, using a replacement sound module to capture > > streaming audio to a file. It worked quite well. > > Are you

Re: Sound capture via fake driver

2003-09-16 Thread Carl Fink
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. > If the url's plain http://, wget. Will wget work with rtsp streams? -- Carl Fink

Re: Sound capture via fake driver

2003-09-17 Thread Carl Fink
Cool program. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Burned by domain name registrar for $150, suggestions?

2003-09-18 Thread Carl Fink
ways sue in small claims court. If the court accepts the case, N4E might have to send a lawyer out to deal, costing them quite a bit more than the damages win or lose. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUB

Re: Debian release schedule

2003-09-19 Thread Carl Fink
create a .deb package that is meant to be used on a computer running stable, but not have that package included in the Debian distribution. This package is not official, but it's designed for stable. If you make this package available via apt, then that's a non-official apt repository.

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-20 Thread Carl Fink
via people's cache files. Debian-user is echoed as a Usenet newsgroup. I got over 1200 this weekend, and I'm a big poster to Usenet. People I know got like a dozen, and universally they are not. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading htt

TV tuner cards?

2003-09-26 Thread Carl Fink
ceive broadcast TV, accept NTSC and S-Video inputs, and in an ideal world also receive FM. Oh, and it should be cheap. In this ideal world. Anyone have experience using such a card on a laptop running Debian? Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister

Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

2003-10-09 Thread Carl Fink
gt; drive is fine so I can boot OK if I unplug the defective drive, its my 180G > data drive thats screwed.) Sure. Edit /etc/fstab and add the keyword noauto to the entry for the suspect drive. You can of course check man fstab for more details. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cellular internet?

2003-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
fact that cellular is slow -- the beauty of a Debian box is that I can schedule transfers for most things (e.g. mail, news, web pages I read every day) and read them at my leisure. I'd appreciate any anecdotes, or of course any actual reviews or articles anyone can point out to me. Thanks. --

Re: CD writer

2003-10-14 Thread Carl Fink
an anybody tell what to do to install my cd > writer. Just out of curiosity, what do you get if you type "locate ide-scsi"? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: locales and accented charaters

2002-10-27 Thread Carl Johnson
s, then LC_ALL won't be necessary, and you won't need an alias for ls. I've been through a similar process, and that is all that is necessary. The LANG variable is the master for all of the other LC_* variables, and each default to it. If any of the LC_* variables is individually set then

Re: xclock with 12-hour time?

2002-11-03 Thread Carl Johnson
work with other window managers, and both can display 12 hour clocks. -- Carl Johnson[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help compiling 3CR990-TX-97 driver...

2002-11-05 Thread Carl Fenley
that path does exist on my system; there is no such file as modversions.h on my system. --- I am familiar with getting around on the command-line, vi, and dselect, but I have never successfully compiled anything on a linux system. Any help in getting my network driver compiled and working w

Re: Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread Carl Fink
ans. Let me rephrase it: "The lurkers support me in email." -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lockup

2003-08-14 Thread Carl Fink
press the reset > button. :( The most obvious thing to do is check the logs. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla/Galeon wav plugin

2003-08-14 Thread Carl Fink
#x27;s "Helper Applications" list to use your favorite sound player to play .wav files. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CD-ROM read fails. Recovery is impossible.

2003-08-14 Thread Carl Fink
re bug". I copied 300 MB of data off it without errors after the reboot. I'll report it as a wishlist bug on the kernel. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Midnight commander won't start on new install

2003-08-14 Thread Carl Fink
happens? Hey, why isn't mc in /usr/bin where it belongs? What if you type the full path? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CD-ROM read fails. Recovery is impossible.

2003-08-14 Thread Carl Fink
pointless obstacles in the way of performing this most common of > servicing tasks. (Hint to CD-ROM manufacturers: The lid is supposed > to come off the top of a box, not the bottom.) I take those "don't fool with the laser" warnings seriously, plus a replacement dri

Continuing sound freezes with Sarge

2003-08-14 Thread Carl Fink
about suggesting somewhere else to ask? (Demudi?) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CD-ROM read fails. Recovery is impossible.

2003-08-14 Thread Carl Fink
urn control to the user when DMA fails.") Would it be a bug in the IDE driver, or the CD driver? I appreciate any help. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

2003-08-16 Thread Carl Fink
editor you like? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

2003-08-16 Thread Carl Fink
if possible. When I tried to cut and past I get all > of the .pdf encoding > as characters. You need Acrobat Reader version 6 or better, as far as I know, if you mean the PDF forms are meant to be filled out on a computer. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-16 Thread Carl Fink
illy, or read it at <http://www.fiafzilla.org>. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Carl Fink
> is the one who started Debian. That's not quite correct, although RMS was involved before a Debian distro existed. Read _Free as in Freedom_. Ian Murdock came up with the idea, but the FSF supported him very early. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Ministe

Re: [OT] Is RMS a Star Trek fan??

2003-08-18 Thread Carl Fink
I don't know about Trek in particular, but rms is a science fiction fan and has written at least one story. He was one of the Guests of Honor at I-Con (at my invitation) in 2002. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con Internet Liason and Postmaster <http://www.iconsf.org/&g

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-18 Thread Carl Fink
moral issue, and by distributing non-free software Debian is doing something *morally wrong*, as if they were picking someone's pocket or vandalizing people's cars. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSU

Re: Debian policy, major change ?

2003-08-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 04:51:42PM +0200, Stephane wrote: > Next debian stable to be released on 1st december: > I would love to hear some comments :) Coool. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSC

Re: explanation of the noise (was Re: Norton AntiVirus detected and quarantined a virus in a message you sent.)

2003-08-19 Thread Carl Fink
) all messages that contain attachments over 2K? (Exception there to cover PGP signatures.) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with rebooting or shutting down the system

2003-08-20 Thread Carl Fink
#x27;t > know how to get out. Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work. Any idea or solution??? Why log out? I just use su or sudo in an x-terminal and shut down from there. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIB

mplex shortens MPEG1 video to under five minutes?

2003-09-01 Thread Carl Fink
-sarge0.1 mencoder: 1:0.91-sarge0.1 mjpegtools: 1:1.6.1.90-sarge0.1 Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mplex shortens MPEG1 video to under five minutes?

2003-09-02 Thread Carl Fink
gt; I found tcmplex from transcode to be much more robust. The mencvcd script and avidemux instructions mention mplex. I'm not an expert, I use what they say to use. I had actually thought of using tcmplex but hadn't gotten around to it. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: mplex shortens MPEG1 video to under five minutes?

2003-09-02 Thread Carl Fink
a new (dated 22 August) mjpegtools, which I automatically installed. I suspect the problem is indeed iwth the current mplex, because ... > I found tcmplex from transcode to be much more robust. And it works here, too. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu'

RE: squirrelmail

2002-12-20 Thread Carl Johnstone
.conf So just include that only in your apache-ssl config, (or SSL part with apache2) and not your regular apache config. IIRC the SquirrelMail package offers to do this automaticaly for you when you install it. Try dpkg-reconfigure squirrelmail as root to reconfig. Carl -Original Me

Re: sound when playing audio files, but not when playing cd

2003-01-06 Thread Carl Johnson
. I tried that a few days ago, and found the audio was distorted. I didn't notice it at first, but later I noticed an odd warbling quality to some passages. I then ripped to .ogg files, but they sounded fine. -- Carl Johnson[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: local mail delivery

1999-06-04 Thread Carl Mummert
>Unfortunately, that seems to not be the case...all of the mail is >deliverd to the account which invokes fetchmail. The To: header points >to a local user, but is not delivered to that user. Are you running fetchmail as root, as the procmail manpage suggests?

Re: gtk1.2.3

1999-06-04 Thread Carl Mummert
p locally . Carl

Re: awk progfile

1999-06-04 Thread Carl Mummert
>BTW: Can somebody give me a clue why awk is /usr/bin/awk in Debian (also >e.g., ksh) (and /bin/awk in most other systems I've seen)? >What's the standard "#! " way to get a script running on both? ln -s >/usr/bin/ /bin/ in Debian (and vice versa in other systems)? >(please cc me) Debian tries to

Re: Kernel too big

1999-06-04 Thread Carl Mummert
>No idea, and I doubt it. Isn't it a LILO problem? No, it is because the BIOS has to load the kernel, and because the kenrel starts in real mode, not protected mode. There is a thorough description in the archives sometime this earlier this year. Carl

Re: Kernel too big

1999-06-04 Thread Carl Fink
0K barrier in real mode. Don't "remove" any drivers, but compile them as modules instead of static parts of the kernel. For instance, if you need vfat support for Windows disks, or ISO9660 for CDs, or sound support, or PPP for a modem, you can compile all of those as modules and th

Re: What is ELF?

1999-06-05 Thread Carl Mummert
your compiled file a.out). The kernel runs ELF binaries natively, and runs a.out binaries if you have support compiled in for them (or in a module - called binfmt_aout or something like that). Use the 'file' command to see what sort of file an executable is. Carl

Re: Eterm

1999-06-10 Thread Carl Mummert
e subshell: ( Eterm -P none -C --scrollbar-color gray \ --unfocused-scrollbar-color gray -g 80x40 \ -T 'm u t t' --name mail --icon-name 'm u t t' \ --term-name rxvt -M menu -e mutt ) \ > /dev/null 2>&1 & Carl

Re: loggin 'su'

1999-06-11 Thread Carl Mummert
run debian/rules binary from the top of the source tree to generate a debian package, and then iat, if you don't like to run make by hand. However, this will also remake all the other shellutils, so the compile time will be longer carl

Re: logging 'su'

1999-06-11 Thread Carl Mummert
run debian/rules binary from the top of the source tree to generate a debian package, and then iat, if you don't like to run make by hand. However, this will also remake all the other shellutils, so the compile time will be longer carl

Re: logging 'su'

1999-06-11 Thread Carl Mummert
run debian/rules binary from the top of the source tree to generate a debian package, and then iat, if you don't like to run make by hand. However, this will also remake all the other shellutils, so the compile time will be longer carl

Re: Please Help Me ... Please Help Me ... Please Help Me ... Please Help Me ...

1999-06-12 Thread Carl Fink
/mini on your system. Win98 is effectively identical to Win95. The programs you might use are LILO and loadlin. If you install them on your Debian system, their documentation will appear in /usr/doc as well. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>

Re: Xwindow manager

1999-06-12 Thread Carl Fink
personally use icewm, because it's simple and fast. Why not install several and see which one you like the most? Almost all of them are completely free, and Debian's package system makes installing/deinstalling them pretty simple. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] "This

Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?

1999-06-12 Thread Carl Mummert
>> I am wondering about way to grep or to view with editor /usr/doc/*/* files. >zgrep >zless >zmore >all work on gzipped files. lynx will also open gzipped html pages, but currently is not bright enough to look for gzipped pages as link destinations. carl

Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?

1999-06-12 Thread Carl Mummert
yet have someone knowledgable read over it and give you their opinion. --begin /usr/lib/cgi-bin/doc #!/usr/bin/perl # A small hack by Carl Mummert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to # auto-gunzip compressed html files in /usr/doc # # I release this to the public domain; # do whatever you w

Re: do I have to use Redhat?

1999-06-13 Thread Carl Mummert
f you don't ALWAYS want the unstable version, use a real distribution name instead of 'unstable'. Carl

Re: xlib6g-dev problem

1999-06-14 Thread Carl Mummert
You need to specify to gcc the X library that contains all those functions. Try something like: gcc -L/usr/X11R6/lib file.c -lXt -lXaw The profileration of those -l options isone reason that makefiles are so popular. Carl

Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?

1999-06-14 Thread Carl Mummert
inst packages >that have compressed html files without hacked URLs such that they >still work. Not good. If the html is hacked so that links work while it is compressed, then when someone UNcompresses it, the links will break. This would certainly be a surprising effect of unzpping html files. Carl

Re: ATX power on

1999-06-16 Thread Carl Mummert
long discussion of this on slashdot.org last week; look in their archives. The solution is to electrically connect (certain) two of the wires in the bundle that plugs into the motheboard, or else to connect some of the wires leading to the power 'switch'. The deatails are over there. Carl

Re: Refusing to deliver mail

1999-06-18 Thread Carl Mummert
this rule to the .procmailrc : :0 * ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (formail -r ; cat bounce.message) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t Carl

Re: /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm?

1999-06-28 Thread Carl Mummert
Look in the archives here: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9702/msg00686.html for a note from linus about why things are the way they are. Carl

.bash_profile never read in X

1999-06-29 Thread Carl Fink
I'm actually using xterm, but I always assumed xterm was some sort of graphical shell for bash, especially since xterms show up in top or ps as "bash". So: how can I make my xterms read my bash resource files? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Compu

Re: /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm?

1999-06-29 Thread Carl Mummert
>I would have thought that someone would have figured out by now that >/usr/include/linux (at the very least) should reflect the status of the >kernel so that kernel-specific stuff can be done and that NOTHING in the >library or in the include files associated with that library should depend >upon

Re: .bash_profile never read in X

1999-06-30 Thread Carl Fink
n/X11:/usr/games:/home/carlf/bin) . . . so why won't the xterm execute files in /home/carlf/bin unless I prepend an explicit path to them? I have a script, /home/carlf/bin/newsguy, but typing just "newsguy" get me "command not found", although ~carlf/bin/new

Re: .bash_profile never read in X

1999-06-30 Thread Carl Fink
xist. > > Hint: this is Bourne shell, not C shell; you never put parentheses around > variable values. Ouch. I copied the syntax from some example file years ago and never thought about it until you pointed that out. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: StarOffice help

1999-07-01 Thread Carl Fink
t cannot log into >> the server. > >Please try '127.0.0.1' instead of 'localhost'=20 >and tell us if it works... :-) On my box, SO5.1 wouldn't recognize my local caching proxy as "localhost" until I installed bind as a caching-only nam

Porting Fortran apps to Debian

1999-07-04 Thread Carl Greco
ution). o estimate of man-hours to convert per lines of code. o references to web sites or journal articles if available. TIA. -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Remove funny files

1999-07-05 Thread Carl Mummert
$ echo 'int main(){ unlink("--exclude_files=\"blah\"");}' > file.c && \ > gcc file.c && ./a.out && rm -f a.out file.c & Carl

Re: Tab Tab program/command line editing

1999-07-06 Thread Carl Mummert
hy it's doing it when you press esc twice. i have to press >esc four times to do it... Is this on a console or over a terminal? It may be that you have to press escape twice to get a single escape character to be read; that is, escape may be acting as a sticky modifier, and you have to hit it twice to get the actuasl keycode. Carl

Re: Fate strikes again

1999-07-06 Thread Carl Mummert
forget what its called. Oh well. Ctl-Alt-F1 to switch to a text console login as root /etc/init.d/xdm stop dpkg --purge xdm done Carl

Re: Making more groups and removing 32 groups limit.

1999-07-06 Thread Carl Mummert
o >divide the system into a multitude of groups. Wait a little while; there is talk of adding ACL features to linux, which would fix your '32-group' problem. Carl

Re: where do i find crypt ?

1999-07-08 Thread Carl Mummert
crack ues its own version of crypt, you have to cd to the correct source directory of teh crack distribution and make the crypt library. They discuss this in the crack documentation. Carl

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