Re: radius dev libs and choice

2003-03-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 17:48:02 +0100, Francois Chenais wrote: > I'm looking for radius client dev toolkit to build a radius client. Both radiusd-cistron and xtradius include a "radclient" program which should be a good starting point for RADIUS work. > Is there any good opensource r

Re: Newbie administrator

2003-03-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 14:09:41 -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > as i recall, mr. sheer had the source online for critique and i asked him > what "rute" was in "R ute U sers T utorial and E xposition" and he just > sent me a smiley. > > i'm guessing it's a homonym with a spelling different enough to

Re: where have the pthread manpages gone on woody?

2003-03-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:56:46 -0600, Lance Heller wrote: > Just had occasion to do some work with pthreads on a Woody box and > discovered the pthread man pages are absent. They're available on an > older Potato here, what's changed?? They were accidentally left out - see http://bugs.debian.o

Re: php4/libc6 problems

2003-03-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 17:16:58 +0200, Barak Korren wrote: > When I updated my system a few days ago, and got my libc6 updated to > version 2.3.1-14, I noticed that php4 and all dependent packages were > removed from my system, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-ann

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1

2003-10-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
[Please do not use HTML in email; see e.g. http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil_still.shtml] On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 13:54:07 +0100, brian.huckstep wrote: >I have a copy of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 on CD-Rom 7 discs in fact. >Unfortunately my computer bios only provides boot f

Re: Exim4 and MailDir

2003-10-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 00:07:53 -0500, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > Googling for an Exim4 + MailDir + HowTo has yeilded little of value to > this poor soul. > > One referred to a maildirmake command, which isn't on my sarge box inspite > of it's exim4 installation. That command can be used when crea

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 18:28:01 +0100, Pigeon wrote: > They use exim 4.10... anyone got an exim.conf rule for 4.10 to block swen > at SMTP time, so I can send them a prepackaged solution - "Read this line, > you can see it's not malignant, stick it in your exim.conf and make lots > of people very

Re: Sarge release date

2003-11-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:10:56 -0800, Ralph Bacolod wrote: > Hi! When is sarge release date? When it is ready. For more information, follow the debian-release list and http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ . This really ought to be in the FAQ. Ray -- "Perhaps they spent some of the time w

Re: Linux with BSD libc..

2003-01-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:22:01 -0800, nate wrote: > not sure if libc5 on linux was at all related to libc on *BSD.. AFAIK Linux libc5 and libc4 had their roots in GNU libc 1. Ray -- These days we're all supposed to believe that everyone's opinion is equally valid, but sometimes you just have t

Re: openssl Illegal instruction with sid version

2003-01-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:43:50 +1000, Mark Devin wrote: > So then I tried running: > openssl version > Illegal instruction > Does anyone have any idea what I should check next? Yes. You should check whether the 0.9.7-4 packages (currently in Incoming) fix your problem; they address http://bugs.

Re: M$ Curse

2003-01-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 14:22:46 +0100, Jernej Zidar wrote: > After a Windows reinstall, I have lost lilo. How do I install lilo or any > bootloader, so I will be able to access my linux system? > > As the system crash was not planned i have no floppy with my custom kernel > etc. The only thing i

Re: OT: finite-state automata in LaTeX

2003-01-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 13:43:53 -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i won't waste my time with it if i have to do it all in postscript, > but i was wondering if there were a LaTeX package out there for making > pretty FSA diagrams easily. you know, a few labelled circular nodes, > with labelled arrows

Re: gnomemeeting/kde madness

2003-02-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:27:02 +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:14:00PM +0100, Alain Van der Eycken wrote: > > I'm using debian sarge, and am trying to install gnomemeeting using > > apt-get Apt-get however insists on deleting everything related to kde > > before it wants t

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 07:56:04 +1100, David Pastern wrote: > I believe that they were using Debian GNU Linux for the first time onboard > the shuttle :-( No, this time it was Red Hat; see http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-31-016-26-NW-RH-PB . Debian was used to control a hydro

Re: gcc not working

2003-02-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:42:57 -0300, Albert Knox wrote: > configure:937: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works > configure:953: gcc -o conftestconftest.c 1>&5 > /usr/bin/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory Try "apt-get install libc6-dev". HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developi

Re: gcc not working

2003-02-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 12:17:58 -0300, Albert Knox wrote: > libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.5-14.3) but 2.3.1-9 is to be installed > E: Sorry, broken packages > I'm using testing. No you're not. At least, your /etc/apt/sources.list has entries for "sid" ("unstable") in it... 2.3.1-9 is a sid

Re: gnome kde conflict

2003-02-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:22:37 -0500, Bart J. Himel wrote: > I know this has probably already been answered, but I can't find it > anywhere. I installed Debian Unstable on my computer a couple of weeks ago, If you're running unstable and not following the debian-devel-announce and debian-devel

Re: pbuilder failing

2003-02-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 19:00:53 -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > I am not sure what list to report this to, so I'll start here. > > pbuilder for ppc is failing when trying to create a sid base.tgz. > > specifically, it can't download libpcap: > > (pts/0)root@phaeton:/mnt/nfs/pbuilder$ pbuilder creat

Re: xserver-xfree86: problem setting resolution with MGA G550

2003-09-24 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 15:19:47 +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > So, my question is quite simple: how can I get my box to provide an > X-Interface at 1280x1024? Or what do I have to change to make it work? Configure appropriate HorizSync and VertRefresh ranges in the Section "Monitor". HTH, Ray -- UN

Re: Unstable,gnumeric text import

2003-09-24 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 14:32:38 -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: >I am using unstable. In the gnumeric File menu the import function does not >appear. I'm behind an X-less box right now, so I can't properly check, but hasn't it moved to Data -> Get External Data -> Import Text File? (If not,

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

2003-09-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 20:04:54 -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 /u

Re: Lapack libraries

2003-09-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:54:15 +0100, Simon Tod wrote: > I was kinda expecting this in install Fortran libraries with names like > liblapack.a .a files are static libraries. > that I could just link to at compile time, but I don't, only > lapack.so and lapack.so.2 (maybe they have a 'lib' in fr

Re: razor report not working -- please help

2003-09-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:13:19 -0400, John Covici wrote: > replying with nsl=razor2 report failed: No such file or direc\tory > Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch at > /usr/share/perl5/Razor2/Client/Config.pm line 404, line 1. The Debian 'razor' package needs to have a pat

Re: cannot find libncurses

2003-09-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 13:45:38 -0400, Reaz Baksh wrote: > When I type 'make menuconfig' I get the following: > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status You need to have the ncurses development files installed; "apt-get install li

Re: NFS version 3?

2003-09-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 14:26:26 -0400, stan wrote: > How new a version of Debain do I need toprovide NFS V3 services? NFSv3 should work fine with Debian 3.0 (stable, woody). It might be necessary to build a recent 2.4.x kernel from source though. HTH, Ray -- Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Po

Re: Postgres

2003-10-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 18:17:24 -0600, Dan Roscoe wrote: > Warning: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL 1: IDENT > authentication failed for user "dan" in /var/www/boards/db/postgres7.php > on line 79 > phpBB : Critical Error > > Could not connect to the database > > which would lead s

Re: Games for 1-2 year old child. Recommendations wanted.

2003-10-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 15:32:38 +0900, Bengt Thure'e wrote: > I have a small girl at home (1 year old) who is fascinating with a Pippi > Longstocking game (with loads of various sound and visual effects) which > she loves, but it is for Windows. The highlight in this program is the > room with

Re: default keymap

2003-10-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 16:25:13 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I change the default keymap to be loaded at boot? > I tried to run "dpkg-reconfigure console-tools" and change from us to se > keymap, but still I get the us keymap loaded during boot. Try dpkg-reconfigure -plow cons

Re: Gnome2 program requirements

2003-10-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 10:00:34 -0700, Michael Montagne wrote: > I'm recently running into issues with certain gnome2 apps (maybe all) > installed from unstable (specifically gnumeric). I get an error that says > an error occurred when saving my configuration information... The details > portion

Re: exim exposed to the internet

2003-10-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 17:12:43 +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > So I decided to run eximconfig and upgraded my mail server to not use a > smarthost. Works perfectly! I still have port 25 closed on my server, > however. Can I just open it Perhaps you should first ask yourself why you would want to h

Re: mutt header display question

2003-10-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:42:17 -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > Just a minute ago, when I just catted a sample msg file in the shell it > showed as > > AmikaGuardian (TM) Server <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > So now I understand why my filter wasn't working. Can someone explain to > me why mutt's disp

Re: Installing with root fs as reiserfs

2003-10-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 13:06:17 -0400, stan wrote: > I've done this in the past by downloading some special floppy images, but > when I looked at that site, I found out that the images are for the > distribution prior to the current stable oen. Current stable (woody) supports installation on Reis

Re: Pretty hard copies of info, man pages.

2003-10-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 05:56:01 -0400, Antonio Rodr wrote: > Could someone provide some example of the sequence to get some nice > (dvi, ps, html, whatever) file of the info pages? There's an info2www CGI script to convert to HTML. For DVI and PS, info is not the appropriate format to start from.

Re: Debian vs. SuSE 8.1

2002-10-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:14:08 -0400, geno wrote: > A 7-disk set of Debian costs approximately one-third the $50. price of the > comparable low-documents SuSE package. > Other than price, what is the attraction of Debian over Red Hat, SuSE or > Mandrake? The fact that people on the -user list

Re: EVMS vs. LVM

2002-10-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:01:07 -0400, nuk wrote: > But I noticed that Debian does support EVMS. Is it a 'superset' of the > features of LVM, or what? Mostly yes. For example, EMVS includes compatibility with Linux LVM volume groups and logical volumes. You can find documentation on EMVS at http

Re: locales and accented charaters

2002-10-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 08:40:46 -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Sat, 26 Oct 2002 02:40:05AM -0400, sean finney insinuated: > > maybe it's a dumb question, but do you have $LANG set appropriately for > > your shell? > > i believe so ... it's set to en, and changing it to en_US doesn't appear > t

Re: locales and accented charaters

2002-10-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 13:24:09 -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > fwiw, all the relevant variables i have set in my ~/.zshenv are > > export LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 > export LC_ALL=POSIX LC_ALL overrides all other LC_ variables IIRC. Don't set it when you want more specific settings to have effec

Re: Visualizing debian releases

2002-10-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 18:30:12 +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > To present how the different debian releases are related, I'd like to > visualize with a graph. The graph represents package versions (and > overall functionality): I suspect the following may be a bit clearer: sid--

Re: Visualizing debian releases

2002-10-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 18:32:20 +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > I suspect the following may be a bit clearer: Hmm... looks like an eight-bit character I used got dropped silently. Let's try again, now with clean ASCII

Re: error during make menuconfig...

2002-11-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:56:12 -0800, Irvin Temp wrote: > In file included from lxdialog.c:22: > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory > at first my hunch was that the ncurses was not > installed but when i checked it i had ... > > ncurses-base, ncurses-bin and libncurses5 installed

Re: wtd - old package

2002-11-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 00:03:46 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > I'm after a copy of libapache-mod-ssl_2.8.9-2_i386.deb > > It's been superseded - it's the one I'm upgrading from, but I'd like a > copy available on the offchance the upgrade breaks something. I've just > started working on this box,

Re: galeon-snapshot issues

2002-11-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 02:31:41 +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > Firstly, image blocking seems to be gone. Have I missed something > obvious? > > Secondly, how do I setup proxies? There doesn't seem to be an option in > Galeon preference panel anymore, and it seems to ignore the GNOME 2 > setting. Gal

Re: apache+libapache-mod-ssl vs apache-ssl?

2002-11-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 17:47:42 +0100, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Right now I'm using apache-ssl, but I noticed that it is something > different from apache + libapache-mod-ssl. > > What is not clear to me is exactly how the two options differ and what the > relative pros and cons of each choice are.

Re: Lots of updates!

2003-03-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 14:22:51 +0200, Ronald Castillo wrote: > I haven't done an 'apt-get dist-upgrade -u' for about a month, Which means you probably haven't noticed the percolation of a newer glibc from sid to sarge; see http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=920 . > ronaldace:/home/ronald#

Re: compiling pan

2003-04-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 19:49:49 +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > I tried to compile pan 0.13.4, but got a configure error saying that it > couldn't find gnet >= 1.1.5 so I installed the unstable version 1.1.7-3. > However configure still gives the same error, and also complains about not > finding g

[OT] IBM clicky keyboards (was Re: ergonomic setups)

2003-06-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 19:21:08 +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 12:10:31PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > After all, your employer is much more likely to get you a comfortable > > keyboard than a new, ergonomically designed office setup... > > Where from? The only genuine IBM cl

Re: tethereal warning message

2003-06-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 16:51:49 +0530, K S Sreeram wrote: > ks:~# tethereal > tethereal: Symbol `pcap_version' has different size in shared object, > consider re-linking > Is this warning message because of a bug in debian? More like a potential bug - AFAIK the different symbol size doesn't act

Re: Convenient way to UN-install build deps

2003-06-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 01:19:34 +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > If I want to install the build-dependencies of a package (to build my own > copy with a patch), I run apt-get build-dep . That's OK. But > how do I get rid of them? If you have the resources for it, pbuilder is probably a much more

Re: missing rm

2003-01-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 07:31:16 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > OK, I tried to do a dist-upgrade from stable to testing. > > rm, ls and all the fileutil goodies got scrapped and cannot be reinstalled > with dpkg (.deb package is on the disk). That's weird - that upgrade path should work. (It should

Re: does slrn host a collection of all newsgroups only temporarly?

2003-01-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 14:49:09 +0100, Robert Land wrote: > I'm new to slrn and did a apt-get install a few weeks ago. I'm not that > sure anymore but I thought apt-get had prompted for a valid news server > while being in installation mode. > Addionaly I also thought slrn had pulled all newsgrou

Re: URGENT: ipqueue missing

2003-01-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 09:31:29 -, Rena Sygkouna wrote: > At Networking Options --> IP:Netfilter Configuration, the option "Userspace > queueing via NETLINK (EXPERIMENTAL)" is not activated so as to be selected. Did you set CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL to Y? (In t

Re: Potato release?

1999-07-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 10:54:27 +0200, Johan Groth wrote: > I wonder if there are any rumours when potato will be released? Whatever rumours there are, their informational value is most likely zero. Currently, we're not even in code freeze yet, and AFAIK, the release manager is not considering c

Re: font conversion

1999-07-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 08:29:37 -0700, John Haggerty wrote: > However when I try to export the font to something I can use (psf) it just > fails. That's not a very informative description of your problem. > Could someone recommend a fix for this Please submit a detailed description of the probl

Re: C++ functions help

1999-07-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 20:24:52 +0200, Bernhard Rieder wrote: > I haven't found any really good documantation about the rest of the C++ > library. If you have a good net connection, http://www.dinkumware.com/htm_cpl/ is nice. HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voya

Re: C++ functions help

1999-07-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 12:25:15 -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: > A word of warning: In my (albeit limited) experience, C++ and > the STL has been more of a pain than a blessing. I wrote several > programs that used the STL for linked lists and sorting, and > found out that FreeBSD is not up to par wi

Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm,

1999-08-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 15:39:17 -0700, Oz Dror wrote: > On xterm I have to type crtl-h to generate the backspace character The consistent keyboard behaviour implementation for X relies on the use of the X Keyboard Extension. Make sure you don't have a "XkbDisable" in /etc/X11/XF86Config. HTH, Ra

Re: how to auto-reply ?

1999-08-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 15:07:44 +0200, Marc Dubrowski wrote: > BUT, I was asked too if there was a possibility for the user to have an > automatic reply sent to their correspondents when they were out for a while vacation(1) from "bsdmainutils". HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservati

Re: unpredictable gcc behavior (not signal 11) with recent slink system

1999-08-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 21:59:26 -0400, Timothy Burt wrote: > Could it be some other motherboard problem? Or even the cpu? http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11 lists a whole list of problems that have resulted in signal11 and related unpredicatable behaviours. HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat

Re: Qmail

1999-08-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 15:47:24 +0300, Justa na acount to get my list mails wrote: > What do you think about Qmail. It is non-free software; there are free software alternatives (at least for my MTA needs), so I don't think about it much. > I think it sould become the default mta of debian. De

Re: Qmail

1999-08-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 16:11:35 +, Justa na acount to get my list mails wrote: > I have recently read that debian is going to cooparate with Corel and kde > for a easy distribution... etc. etc. > > i thought that the qt libs are not free Qt version 1 was non-free. Qt version 2 is un

Re: g++ (egcs) and g++272

1999-08-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 08:01:37 -0600, Robert Kerr wrote: > can g++ (the egcs version) and g++272 coexist successfully? No; the library packages they need conflict. g++272 was a crude hack to allow package maintainers a backdoor for compiling old code. > I'm using a slink system, and think tha

Re: Mozilla vs. Communicator

1999-08-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 11:38:43 -0300, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > I've noticed there's different packages for Netscape Communicator & > Mozilla... Is the up-to-date Mozilla release as good as Netscape > Communicator 4.61 (or hopefuilly better, as NS seems to enjoy a lot the > ¨killing itself f

Re: Mozilla vs. Communicator

1999-08-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 12:12:38 -0300, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > > This may not be netscape's fault; there are indications that there may > > be a subtle compiler problem affecting X resulting in these crashes. [These indications come from Adam Heath, our netscape maintainer, if memory serve

Re: bizzare mutt behavior

1998-12-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 22:12:23 -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > Whenever I go to compose a message in mutt, I have a problem with the > "d" key when mutt prompts me for the "to:" field. You are using a recent mutt with an old muttrc. Current muttrc-s need to have <..> around multi-character keynames.

Re: g++2.8, egcs, gcc 2.7.2, etc. - *very confused*

1998-12-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 00:13:16 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > >Read /usr/doc/gcc/README.Debian . > It didn't say *why* we have an apparent fork in compiler development. It doesn't contain a full history of the free software movement either, as that's out of scope for that document too. > Since t

Re: Continued libc6 problems....

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 15:21:33 -0800, Curt Howland wrote: [libstdc++2.8 upgraded, dselect still breaks] You don't mention what version of dpkg you have installed. The current version of dpkg in frozen is linked against libstdc++2.9, not 2.8, so it's quite likely that upgrading your libstdc++2.9

Re: Anyone know what this is?? (SPAM?)

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 08:06:23 -0500, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: > For the past few days everytime i post to debian-user I get this back. It > has started to become very annoying :-( > > -- Forwarded message -- [A French mail delivery failure message] Listmaster, please look

Re: recommendation on presentation software

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 17:36:32 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i need to make a presentation, and i'd like to do it with my laptop "a la" > Powerpoint. (ie video output of laptop plugged on LCD retroprojector) Take a look at MagicPoint (the "mgp" package). HTH, Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to

Re: floating point exeption?

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 16:38:33 +0200, virtanen wrote: > 'floating point exeption' > > and what to do with it? On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 18:27:39 +0200, virtanen wrote: > I used earlier suse 5.2. and installed the same program and it worked > perfectly SuSE 5.2 is a libc5 system. Perhaps you ha

Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 16:38:10 +, Patrick Colbeck wrote: > I am converting from RedHat to Debian and in the main am pleased with > Debian. One thing I can't quite work out though is how Debian handles > updated packages. > For example XFree86 3.3.3 is out now, will this eventually be integrat

Re: xterm-debian

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 12:22:00 -0500, Paul Miller wrote: > What's the deal with the terminal setting "xterm-debian?" Read /usr/doc/xterm/README.Debian in frozen's "xterm" package. Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore str

Re: SANE install catch-22

1998-12-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Jan 01, 1996 at 20:12:48 +, Ted Llewellyn wrote: > Well, this is very pretty.I'm running Debian 2.0 with the default > SANE--the doc says v0.71 but I think it's v0.74. I was going to upgrade > to version 1.0. To do that, I have to install the new libc6, and to do > that I have to

Re: C++ no more...

1998-12-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 22:35:31 +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > I don't know how or why, but when I try and run a ./configure script for > a few different programs, it tells me c++ cannot create executables. You don't quote the relevant part of the "config.log" configure generates, so it's very diff

Re: QUantifiable reasons to use debian instead of redhat...?

1998-12-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 01:02:33 +0100, Thomas Adams wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 03:11:52PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > > Debian is not motivated by profit, so when a new Debian release cometh, > > you can be sure it's been tested to a full extent. I think > > Sorry, but I want to disagree h

Re: Help with libc6/libstdc++2.8

1998-12-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 02:13:28 +, Charles Collicutt wrote: > Any ideas anyone? Yes. Make a habit out of reporting precise version numbers when you complain about packages. The combination of dpkg 1.4.0.31 (or newer), libc6 2.0.7u-7.1 (or newer), libstdc++2.8 2.90.29-2 (or newer), libstdc++2

Re: recommendation on presentation software

1998-12-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 14:40:54 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 03:41:33PM +0100, Blazej Sawionek wrote: > > "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > > > Take a look at MagicPoint (the "mgp" package). > > Where can I find it? Ds

Re: C++ include files

1998-12-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 12:52:37 +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: > I using egcs1.0.3 (?) and libstd++2.9 (I think.) That may be your problem. For egcs 1.0.3, you need libstdc++2.8(-dev), not 2.9. 2.9 is for use with egcs 1.1 and 1.1.1 . Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of m

Re: Unpacking Mac HQX files in GNU/Linux

1998-12-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 15:17:17 +, Stefan Baums wrote: > STEDTpack50.sea.Hqx According to the file extensions list at http://whatis.com/ , that's BinHex encoded. The "macutils" package can convert that. Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.

Re: Unpacking Mac HQX files in GNU/Linux

1998-12-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 19:31:19 +, Stefan Baums wrote: > My guess is that STEDT.bin is the font file. So I tried all the converters > in macutils on that file, but I couldn't get the .ttf's out of it. Since I > have no clue how Macs work, I'm at a loss what to do now. Run "file" on the extrac

Re: GSM

1999-08-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 10:32:03 +0200, erasmo perez wrote: > the GSM number is: 0476823240 > > how can i call her? Have you tried simply using that number? > the long distance in germany is 00 > the acces code for belgium is 32 > the acces code for brussels is 2 In my experience, these number

Re: c++ include problem (preprocessor directives)

1999-08-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 13:48:48 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > only then i get an error that the functions declared inside input.h can't > be found. The linker says: Preprocessing and linking are separate stages of the compilation proccess. Your .h file tells the compiler how input() looks, but you

Re: tar -I

1999-08-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 20:32:07 +0200, Lex Chive wrote: > tar used to accept the -I option to use bzip2 (instead of gzip with -z). > Now the option is still documented in the man page but it no longer works. > Why was the behaviour changed? It looks like the maintainer forgot to reapply the patch

Re: USB for Linux???

1999-08-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 19:01:31 +0100, John Gay wrote: > Does anyone know what the current status of USB on Linux is? If you use the latest stable kernel (2.2.11), possibly with Alan Cox' patches (-ac3), the kernel has USB driver support, but it's marked as experimental. You may want to check www

Re: package update log?

1999-08-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 11:27:36 -0300, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > if it exists, It's debian-changes (for stable) and debian-devel-changes (for unstable); both @lists.debian.org. > please just give me the directions to subscribe to it! ;-) http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe HTH,

Re: Redhat mutt with xterm-debian

1999-08-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 13:13:33 -0400, Andrew Leiserson wrote: > but since I have the xterm-debian entry in ~/.terminfo/x/ I don't see why > mutt shouldn't work. Did you set the environment variable TERMINFO to point to $HOME/.terminfo ? Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited

Re: [Test] Message to debian-user@lists.debian.org

1999-08-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 06:46:50 -0500, Stanley J. Benes wrote: > I stopped getting my mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sending this > test to see if our company's firewall is screening out my messages, or if > something else is going on. It's getting out. Probably your company email server has bee

Re: cannot open -lXm

1999-08-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 10:04:25 -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > antelope:/usr/X11R6/lib# ls libXm* > libXm.so libXm.so.1 libXmu.so libXmu.so.6.0 > libXm.so.0 libXm.so.1.2 libXmu.so.6 Try ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so and check that it points to an existing file. HTH, Ray --

Re: cannot open -lXm

1999-08-29 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 18:38:05 -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > Ted required statically linked versions of the libraries... You may want to use the source package from unstable then; it produces a dynamically linked Ted package. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig

Re: XML conversion

1999-09-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 18:28:01 -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: >I got the Havoc Gnome book from Gnome-CVS, but it's in XML. What tool in >Potato I can use to change it to .html or .txt or .ps or something readble? Quoting Havoc's page http://www106.pair.com/rhp/gnome-app-devel

Re: Assembly Compiler

1999-09-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 13:54:57 -0400, Cory Rudder wrote: > Does any one know if there is an assembly lang. compiler available for > Debian? As an asside, the term "compiler" is typically used for programs that translate from high-level languages. "assembler" is the standard term for something t

Re: problems with 2.2.11 and serial port (pilot, camera)

1999-09-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 14:31:06 -0400, Mark Buda wrote: > Is anybody else trying to use pilot-manager under a 2.2 kernel? > Does it work for you? Yes (2x). Potato system running kernel 2.2.12. HTH, Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may [EMAIL PROT

Re: is malloc() reentrant ?

1999-09-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 17:41:01 -0400, Seong Hoon Kim wrote: > is malloc() reentrant ? I strongly suspect it is. Read "info libc 'Feature Test Macros'" on how to compile for threadsafety. HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations

Re: Y2K / contact address needed /wsb SPARC-Solaris 2.0b01

1999-09-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 19:54:07 +0200, Marcel von Ranson wrote: > Ref.: > wsb SPARC-Solaris 2.0b01 > To ensure y2k compliance of our hardware/software partners we would like > to ask for information. The Debian project does not deal with Solaris in any way. If you are interested in running Debia

Re: Meta key

1999-09-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 13:19:01 -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote: > Is there another way to map the Meta key rather than xmodmap? I suspect there's a way to do it with the XKB configuration; unfortunately, it's very badly documented. What's wrong with xmodmap? It's a bit low-level, but if that's w

Re: fmware

1999-09-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 13:46:36 -0500, Kent West wrote: > A week or two ago I saw a posting on Wired or /. or Linux.com or etc > about fmware being developed as a free alternative to vmware. ITYM FreeMWare: http://freemware.org/ . HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if

Re: Potato Install problems on PowerMac

1999-09-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:20:40 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote: > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adduser: > adduser depends on perl-base; however: > Package perl-base is not installed. This is the root of your problem. Many other packages fail because their maintainer scripts

Re: Potato Install problems on PowerMac

1999-09-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 14:11:27 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote: > > Try downloading a perl-base .deb and installing that with dpkg > > (dpkg -OEG -i perl-base*deb). > I have the whole snapshot on CD-Rom. > Did so: dpkg -OEG -i perl-base_5.004.05-1.deb > -> Skipping deselected package perl-base Oops.

Re: Potato Install problems on PowerMac

1999-09-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 14:47:35 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote: > Unpacking perl-base > dpkg:dependency problems prevent configuration of perl-base: > perl-base depends on perl5-base;however; > Package perl5-base is not installed. > .. > > When I try to install a perl-5*-base I get an error abou

Re: Potato Install problems on PowerMac

1999-09-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 13:45:47 -0500, Brad wrote: > The file /usr/sbin/update-rc.d is in the dpkg package, i'm not sure why > you don't have it... It's not the file Andreas doesn't have; it's the interpreter (/usr/bin/perl) he doesn't have yet (as it's a symlink managed by update-alternatives an

Re: Open-SSL

1999-09-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:22:53 +0200, Robert Varga wrote: > Where can I download Open-SSL from? non-US.debian.org > Or is there any ready-made program which provides an SSL proxy for a POP3 > connection on the POP3 server? ssltunnel? (also on non-US). HTH, Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to adva

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