Re: Mozilla & Adobe's SVG viewer

2003-02-19 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:47:12AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I downloaded the Adobe SVG viewer plugin. Currently, I'm using > Sid's Mozilla snapshot. The plugin doesn't work. Question is: is it > really not working for mozilla-snapshot? I'm just want to make sure. Last I knew, th

Re: X Windows has strange color scheme

2003-02-21 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:25:32PM +0100, Robert Ewald wrote: > It might be just a wild guess, but could it be that you hit CTRL-ALT-+ at some > point and switched the color depth to 8? Then strange colors like this, which > turn normal on clicking in the window would be explainable. > just hit

Re: What he heck is FIFO?

2003-03-04 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:23:40PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 04 Mar 2003, Greg Madden wrote: > > > the remote I am asked for an IP and port. Grrr. For the local I am asked > > > for a FIFO. Please tell me what to do to dial. By the way, I am in Gnome. > BTW, install dictd

Re: odd compiler behaviour?

2003-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:06:01PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > I stand corrected, then. Although 'info libc' does say that (void) is OK > for main() in ISO C. Correct. Two ISO C forms of main are: int main (void) { ... } /* identical to: int main () { ... } */ or int main (int argc,

Re: odd compiler behaviour?

2003-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 12:40:52PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:56:53PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:00:22PM +, Bruynooghe Floris wrote: > > > > > > int main() > > > > An addition to what everyone else said, this really should be > > > > i

Re: [ot] Linux stdio question, howto find fopened files

2003-03-21 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:03:33PM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote: > Well, __iob is reasonably portable because it looks like it's a standard > part of a System V libc. In theory, I think glibc is supposed to support > the System V ABI, but it doesn't seem to have an __iob[]. I don't think > __io

Re: [ot] Linux stdio question, howto find fopened files

2003-03-19 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:32:26PM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > please retain the CC to rbutterworth > > > Subject: Linux stdio question. > > On non-linux unix systems, one can reference __iob[] > to find all currently fopen()ed files > (e.g. when forking a new process one would generally > wan

Re: mutt : how do I send multipart/alternative ?

2003-03-21 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:12:17PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to send MIME multipart/alternative mails with mutt. The only > things I find about mutt and multipart/alternative are about how to > display such mails. Is there any documentation on this available > somewhere ? >

Re: OT: functional languages

2003-01-20 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:07:31PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) writes: > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:23:43AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > >> "imperative" and "procedural" are the same thing, and C is a prime > >> example. It is such because the structure

Re: getting time from timeserver on a dial-up

2003-01-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 12:33:45PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, >I'm using Debian 3.0r1 stable on a dialup in the UK. I'm using PAP > authentication that CHAT's to the modem then launches pppd and away we go. > What I'd like is for the machine to check and set (if necessary) the system

Re: XPDF can't find fonts

2003-01-27 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:58:36AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Sorry for double posting but it seems nobody has > answered on this yet. > > > When I try to read a pdf using xpdf it opens but it > shows junk. I get these messages: > > Error: Couldn't create FreeType font fr

Re: invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31

2003-01-27 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:59:47PM -0500, Stan Heckman wrote: > On my system, date -d returns "invalid date" for dates before 1970. It > is possible that this began when I upgraded libc6. Any suggestions? 1970-01-01 is time zero for *nixen. You're asking about what happened before the big bang!

Re: invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31

2003-01-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:32:45AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:36:36PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:59:47PM -0500, Stan Heckman wrote: > >> On my system, date -d returns "invalid date" for dates before 19

Re: problem with xlibs?

2003-02-02 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:34:32PM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi folk. > I have this when compile some programme: > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a(XlibInt.o): In function `_XEventsQueued': > XlibInt.o(.text+0x76c): undefined reference to `pthread_equal' > XlibInt.o(.text+0x786): undefined reference to `p

Re: problem with xlibs?

2003-02-03 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:39:20AM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi. > > > I have this when compile some programme: > > > > > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a(XlibInt.o): In function `_XEventsQueued': You're trying the link a *static* library that depends on libpthread. If you link against the shared library,

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:57:29AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >Considering the military accounts for over 40% of government spending, > >I think we found a place to start trimming fat heavily. Especially if > >our politicians are going to keep claiming we're a peace-loving

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-09 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 12:30:57AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:24:22AM -0500, Geordie Birch wrote: > > I thought so too, but no bank in Arcata would touch it if I didn't have an > > account. This was in 1995. > > What do you expect? It's a state that's been 0wnz3d by

Re: Console fonts in rxvt

2003-02-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:06:06PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > Hi, another question on the same topic... > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:32:49PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > >What are you using as a font name? You just use any font that X > >recognizes (use xfontsel to get the font-nam

Re: Newbie Installation Problems

2003-02-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:47:04PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Fun fact: Today is Oregon Day. On this day in 1859, Oregon became the > US's 33rd state, the result of the Vote at Champoeg, in which two > Canadians wanted dead or alive tipped the vote from 49/50 to 51/50 in > favor of becoming a U

Re: ftpd-ssl

2003-02-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:52:17AM +, mjoyce wrote: > I have ftpd-ssl running, it seems to work very well. > > As far as I can tell it just uses port 22, neat, this seems to make the > problems of ftp, port, firewalls, passive clients etc, go away, just open and > forward port 22. > > Is th

Re: Setting progs at a runlevel

2003-02-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:45:10AM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > As a RH refugee, I'm used to running the 'setup' program to enable/disable > program startups at runtime. For Debian, am I correct in cd'ing to the > /etc/rcX.d dir and moving SXXprogram to KXXprogram to disable it? > > If so, is the

Re: My cup runneth over!

2003-02-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:11:51PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:46:03PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > > You sure there ain't some way to prevent a slew of xterm windows from > > opening up each time I reboot into gdm? > > > > Earlier today, if there was one, there was

Re: VERY OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-04 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:23:01AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Pure crap. Let me give you an example: You haven't paid property tax for > a while. Then your property can be taken away from you. Which means it > was never yours. You just had a licence to say it was yours. As soon as > you

Re: [OT] - Interesting politics and the GPL

2002-10-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
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Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
K, it's mostly free software with some proprietary glue (no idea how well it works...). -- static const char signature[] = "Copyright (c) 2002 Eric G. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-03 Thread Eric G. Miller
t of swap, until you reboot. Or the parent calls waitpid(), or the parent exits... OP should look at what the "D" means and see why kill is not working... -- static const char signature[] = "Copyright (c) 2002 Eric G. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"; -- To UNSUB

Re: pan from unstable too unstable??

2002-11-05 Thread Eric G. Miller
matter, pan crashes. > I think i've configured everything right. > > is that a known problem? > anybody running pan from unstable and everything(eg posting to > newsgroups via mail) is working stable?? See: /usr/share/doc/pan/README.composer -- static const char signature

Re: GLX and undefined references

2002-11-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:38:14PM +0100, Roman Joost wrote: [snip] > gcc lesson06.c -o lesson06 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGL -lGLU -lXxf86vm You probably need to add -lX11 for any X proggy (and maybe others). -- static const char signature[] = "Copyright (c) 2002 Eric G. Miller

Re: Modem connection.

2002-11-12 Thread Eric G. Miller
Fix your dang clock already! I'm quite sure this month is November not January ;-) -- static const char signature[] = "Copyright (c) 2002 Eric G. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: filtering unicode files

2002-11-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
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Re: X 4.2 byting more than I can allow it to chew

2002-11-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
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Re: Setting default width of xman

2002-11-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
the widget hirarchy can be > obtained with man xman You can play with "Editres" ; figuring out valid values for resources is another matter... -- static const char signature[] = "Copyright (c) 2002 Eric G. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"; -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: ld and g2c

2002-11-18 Thread Eric G. Miller
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Re: (fwd) unsubscribe

2002-11-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 05:31:08PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > On 2002.11.23 16:30 Pigeon wrote: > >>> Is he silly? > >> > >>Another jackass ... is it against the law to hit stupid people? > >> > >>Oliver > > > >See Romans 12:19 > > > Then try Isaiah 45:7 and Psalm 137:9. "Forgive them firs

Re: Stripping EOL feeds...

2002-11-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:32:14PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: > I'm trying to format the debian install manual (text version) for > printing and I'm trying to save a couple of trees. Is there an easy way > to strip the line breaks so the text will come out unformatted? This > way I can reduce th

Re: How to escape "find" result

2002-11-29 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 08:52:36PM -0500, Try KDE wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to run the following script: > for f in $(find . -name "*.txt"); do cmd1;cmd2;cmd3; done > ,where cmd1, cmd2 and cmd3 are arbiturary commands. The problem is, if > the found file names contain a space , for example "p

Re: GSview on Debian anybody?

2002-12-10 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:24:18PM +0100, Volodya Mumariv wrote: > Stephen Patterson wrote: > > > >On 9 Dec 2002 12:34:10 -0800, Volodya Mumariv wrote: > >> Did anybody succeed to pack GSview for Debian or install it in any > >> ather way? > > > >Yes, there's a gv package (from the package info) >

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 08:59:43PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Alan Shutko wrote: > > >Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Not sure that's the only cause. Documents created by LaTeX and > >> converted to PDF have the same problem. > > > >True, but the problem with (naively created)

Re: Compiling gsview

2002-12-10 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 07:31:49AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to run gsview 4.3. When I try opening a ps file, it says > that it cannot find libgs.so. A quick search on debian's packages page > did not yield any package that contained the above mentioned file. > > Is there

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

2002-12-10 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:25:51PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Eric G. Miller wrote: > >I've had good luck with dvipdfm. Understands hyperref, no messy > >conversions of eps files (use graphicx), no pdflatex headaches... > > > Looking at the man page on this is e

Re: Programing Question

2003-03-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:09:44AM -0600, Harley D. Eades III wrote: > Hello, >This might be off topic, but I hope someone can answer a question > for me. Is there any documentation on parport.h parport_pc.h. I seem to > get err's when I try to use either of them. > Do you have to link to a

Re: gcc complains there is now ada compiler installed

2002-12-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:34:43PM +0100, Martin Hermanowski wrote: > Hello, > I want to compile an ada program, it works if I use `gnatmake', but if > I want to use a Makefile or cook, gcc -c won't compile: > > , > | (22:29:58)(#1,x0)martin@pegasus:~/priv/dev/ada (626)>cook > | /* /home/marti

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-12-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:11:26PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: [snip] > It really is a cool language; the only one I know of with a really > usable concurrency model. (C/C++ have no concurrency model; Java's > requires programmers to stick the "synchronized" keyword in all the > right places; Haske

Re: Exchange Calendar client?

2002-12-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 07:15:25PM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote: > OK, I have a serious question here. I've heard the same type of comment > before. And I used to work at a company that used Outlook/Exchange > worldwide, including all the shared calendaring and a global address > book with the

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-12-14 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 08:46:43PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Yes, but the question is, how usable is it in practice? [snip] People use "tasks" in Ada on a regular basis. So, it must be usable, neigh? > I have never learned Ada, partly because I've never needed to and > partially because it

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-12-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 09:09:48AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Eric G. Miller wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 08:46:43PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > > > > Yes, but the question is, how usable is it in practice? > > [snip] > > > > People u

Re: Default fonts for applications?

2002-12-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 04:44:09PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Lloyd Zusman wrote: > > > >Perhaps I didn't make my original question clear. Many X apps, > >including mozilla (which is NOT a gtk app) > > Mozilla has its own widget layer[xul] to allow for easy cross-platform > development, but

Re: ps/gs issue ; individual pages look different

2002-12-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
See -sPAPERSIZE=letter (or whatever) and -dFIXEDMEDIA. /usr/share/doc/gs-aladdin/Use.htm (if using gs-aladdin) -- "...the plural of anecdote is [not?] data." - attrib. to George Stigler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: vi alternate problem

2002-12-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 08:12:29PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > One day I installed 'vim'. > > Now I have nothing that is recognized as 'vi' > > What do I actually install in order to regain this tidy little editor? nvi maybe? Vim has a compatibility mode (vim -v) to more like the original vi...

Re: Blackbox/Fluxbox, no EXIT command

2002-12-21 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:34:00AM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > Hi all, > > Seems that the Debian default installation of both Blackbox and > Fluxbox doesn't include an "Exit" command. The only way I can get > out of X is to hit ctrl-alt-backspace, which is not very elegant. > Does anyone know wh

Re: This is incorrect advice (Re: ntpdate from cron -- DON'T DO THAT!)

2002-12-21 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 10:12:56PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Michael D. Schleif writes: > > granted, wherever feasible, ntpd is technically the best . . . > > Do you know of some benchmarks comparing ntp and chrony? I thought chronyd did not implement all of the time protocol RFC and had fewer

Re: kernel panic: i have no root and i want to scream

2002-12-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 04:18:37PM +0900, Elijah wrote: > Hello, > > got this error upon booting to debian, here's some details on the boot [snip] > Kernel panic: I have no root and I want to scream > --- > > here's my grub menu.lst > > title Debia

Re: Timing a program run?

2003-01-02 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:31:39AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 02:07:03 -0800 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:57:10AM -0600, Gerald Livingston wrote: > > > How the heck do I time how long it takes a certain script to run? > > > >

Re: Compiler error: C compiler cannot create executables

2003-01-18 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 12:07:24PM +0100, Achton N. Netherclift wrote: [snip] > According to packages.debian.org, the file that is missing according to > the config.logs (crt1.o) is contained in the libc6-dev package. The file is > missing on my system, so I attempt to install it: AFAIK crt1.o wou

Apache won't run...

1999-06-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
e computer without a FQDN. I know this is possible, but I'm not sure where it's having the problem. My hostname is set, and can be found with "echo $HOSTNAME", the ServerName is set in httpd.conf, and the "bogus" IP address is in /etc/hosts. What am I missing? --

Re: do I have to use Redhat?

1999-06-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
have to pay for Internet by usage or if your connections are often dropped this may not be an ideal solution. You might try ordering a snapshot CD of Potato (check the debian site for who supplies them) as this will certainly save the PPP long download. -- -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the http:/

Re: pppd/pon permission problem

1999-06-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
look, then take a look at cron.daily for the offending line. -- -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the http://www.debian.org";>POTATO!

Re: xlib6g-dev problem

1999-06-14 Thread Eric G. Miller
topic under one of the developer lists, or some usenet groups. Also, I'd suggest using ANSI style C vs. the K&R style in your snippet. Example: int main(int argc, char **argv) { return 0; /* main() always returns an int */ } -- -- Eric G. Miller Powered by

Re: how do i modify the kernel for apm / ipmasq

1999-06-15 Thread Eric G. Miller
/[insert kernel version here], run menuconfig or xmenuconfig to select what you want in your kernel (There is help on the selections). Then follow the instructions for building a custom dpkg type kernel in the debian-docs. It might take you a few tries, but it's been made pretty easy fo

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-06-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
Yea, use the 4.08 version of Netscape. You might also try with statically linked motif (it's a bit bigger, but avoids shared library probs). -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the http://www.debian.org";>POTATO!

Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug

1999-06-17 Thread Eric G. Miller
Use SHIFT-Click when downloading zipped files to stop Netscape from unzipping it. I think there might be a way to configure it not to have this behaviour... -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the http://www.debian.org";>POTATO!

RealPlayer G2 + potato

1999-06-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California > EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] <> > PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126 > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Eric G. Miller Powered by the http://www.debian.org";>POTATO!

Re: X-Windows running automatically and not working. :(

1999-06-20 Thread Eric G. Miller
p X from automatically running when you boot up. Now try to fix the problem with X, testing it out with "startx". When you fix the problem, you can get X to start automatically again by typing "ln -s /etc/init.d/xdm /etc/rcN.d/S99xdm", again where "N" is the tar

libXt.a, libX11.a

1999-06-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
type libraries work? If not, where can I get the "ar" type libraries? Thanks in advance Eric G. Miller Powered by the http://www.debian.org";>POTATO!

Re: libXt.a, libX11.a

1999-06-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
Thanks to those that responded, I'm getting the package now... | "Eric G . Miller" wrote: | > | > I'm trying to compile GRASS, but it wants these X libraries: | > libXt.a & libX11.a. Unfortunately, they don't exist. I do | > have l

Re: ppp connection and winmodem is supported

1999-06-21 Thread Eric G . Miller
is not supported by linux ppp. I use US | Robotics 56 K VoiceWin modem? is it true? Eric G. Miller Powered by the http://www.debian.org";>POTATO!

Re: install-device driver problem

1999-06-21 Thread Eric G . Miller
| | Phil | | | | | | | -- | Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null | | Eric G. Miller Powered by the http://www.debian.org";>POTATO!

RealPlayer G2 for Linux -- where to get?

1999-06-22 Thread Eric G . Miller
s nothing in this world, not even a certificate | of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard) | | | -- | Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null | | Eric G. Miller Powered by the http://www.debian.org";>POTATO!

Popping Sound problem

1999-08-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
he problem. Any insights? -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: XFree86 (3.3.4), graphics cards, and BIOS weirdness.

1999-08-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
Of course, you're aware that those debs are not official and may give you problems. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: looking for a mail client

1999-08-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
found that mutt definetely "sucks less" than many other mail clients. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: looking for a mail client

1999-08-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
I stand corrected. I was actually thinking of the mbox-hook, but that only processes messages /after/ they have been read. Seems procmail would be the ticket for filtering large volumes of mail. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: Netscape died on me.

1999-08-09 Thread Eric G . Miller
Did you try first purging all of the netscape stuff and then reinstalling? It's not an elegant solution but it may work. I've pretty much stuck with the 4.08 version for some time because it's given me few problems (though this apparently isn't universal). -- Eric

Re: Easy way to install potato?

1999-08-09 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, 08 Aug 1999, Francis J. Bruening wrote: | Hi, | | I'd like to do a fresh install of potato? What's the easiest way to do that? | | I'm thinking of installing the base slink stuff, and then using apt to | update & upgrade after pointing sources.list to the potato stuff? | Y

Re: Module problems

1999-08-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
rnel version] 3. Then do "dpkg -i ../kernel-source... " -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: dselect problem with Packages.cd

1999-08-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
Are you sure they exist on the CD? -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: Switching to KDM...

1999-08-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
e] 3. update-rc.d xdm remove 4. update-rc.d kdm defaults (Probably already done if Step 1 done) kde packages are available from http://kde.tdyc.com [dist] kde kde2 rkrusty contrib -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: Easy way to install potato?

1999-08-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
right. After putting of upgrading my potato for the last few weeks do to Perl, libc6 probs, I upgraded yesterday, and all went well (except an errant kde package). -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: Module problems

1999-08-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
necessary to do this extra step. I never have. Correct. I was thinking of add-on modules that live under /usr/src/modules. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: Problems with fetchmail.. can anyone help?

1999-08-11 Thread Eric G . Miller
27; | fetchmail: can't even send to shadow! | fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from | mcmi0037.email.umn.edu | fetchmail: Query status=10 I've had the same problem. Your local mail handler (exim, sendmail, whatever) is not configured properly. -- Eric G. Mil

Re: loopback route fails?

1999-08-11 Thread Eric G . Miller
Because you don't need it with 2.2.x kernel. Comment it out. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: ugh!! Why does my time keep resetting?!

1999-08-12 Thread Eric G . Miller
Look at the manual for date for all of the ways to change it's output. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Need exim to rewrite Sender header

1999-08-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
header for any mail not being delivered locally. I tried the header rewrite, but it apparently doesn't work with the "smarthost" transport. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: why no linuxconf package?

1999-08-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
ne is working on porting COAS (from Caldera?). Can't really say anything about that though. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: New User having Problems with dselect

1999-08-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
h package. Went off without a hitch! -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

vim config bug in potato

1999-08-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
Error detected while processing Syntax Auto commands for "c": Can't open file /usr/share/vim/syntax/c.vim Press RETURN or enter command to continue The problem is the path should be /usr/share/vim/vim54/syntax/c.vim. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

ALSA sound

1999-08-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
ds -- a problem I'd like to remedy. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: Need exim to rewrite Sender header

1999-08-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] egm2@jps.net Ffsr does work. My next task is to make it use a list to do the replacements. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: Logging in w/ session-specific passwd

1999-08-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
hat am I doing wrong? It may be you need to add the group "dialout". By default regular users don't have permission to use pppd. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: Strange dependencies.

1999-08-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
If /dev/hda5 doesn't exist anymore, then you need to remove the line referencing it in /etc/fstab. See the manuals on fstab and mount for more info. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: Bizarre Clock Problem

1999-08-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
One possibility is you need a new battery. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: More Netscape Stuff

1999-08-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
e you have a Java ARchive file that's been renamed, with ".old" appended to it. Perhaps you have another file with the same name, only without the ".old". If so, you probably can just remove the file. Though, on my set-up, all the jar files are under a java dir

Re: LILO saved me!

1999-08-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
setup | and what do you have to watch out for? | | -- Hans Take a look at the timeout and prompt commands in man lilo.conf. I think that's what you're looking for. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: ALSA sound

1999-08-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
| compile the modules. | /nisse Yes, but the modules do not compile :-(! -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: No Mouse, No X Windows

1999-08-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
WTO's aren't helping). I just want to install a standard microsoft mouse. I know this is easy, but I can't seem to find information on this, maybe makedev can do this? ARGH!!! Help...Please?!! | | | -WXB1 -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: How to quit XDM ?

1999-08-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
runlevel I typically don't use. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: startup commands

1999-08-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
mands at startup ? | | Best regards | Joakim | | | -- | Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null | | -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: startup commands

1999-08-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
re using doesn't play by the rules. I noticed kdm is this way if I select kde in the chooser (this turns out to be a good thing though, since I run gnome-session from my ~/.xsession. gnome-session and kde don't get along very well.). -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

Re: How to quit XDM ?

1999-08-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
sense to me, is when you want to do maintainence, and don't want anyone else using the system, and only the minimal services running. For that, using "shutdown now" brings you down to runlevel 1, then you log in as root, do whatever, and then bring the system back up. Am I

Re: How to quit XDM ?

1999-08-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
anges its process group affiliation it will not receive these signals. Such processes need to be terminated separately. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!

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