rescue mail off secondary server contingency plan

2003-10-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
Let's assume it's Friday and one's primary mx server cannot be fixed until Monday. Maybe I can write a standard procedure for other low bandwidth users to use. Mail is accruing on the secondary, but not yet cleaned of spam, nor in a mailbox fetchable. We copy our latest .procmailrc, and

Re: rescue mail off secondary server contingency plan

2003-10-14 Thread Dan Jacobson
Let's assume it's Friday and one's primary mx server cannot be fixed until Monday. Maybe I can write a standard procedure for other low bandwidth users to use. S It has been around for years, and is called uucp. and how does one use uucp to manipulate the exim queue on a remote machine? is

The following packages have been kept back

2003-10-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
Fellows, it's time for a dist-upgrade, but The following packages have been kept back python-gtk2 python2.3-gtk2 Could it be a fault of mine? # apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true dist-upgrade Package perl-modules has broken dep on libcgi-pm-perl Considering libcgi-pm-perl 0 as a

how could Packages mention files that don't exist yet?

2003-10-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
How do the mirrors work? Are the Packages files always copied last, to ensure all the versions mentioned in them already exist on the disk when you try to get them? In what cases could an hours old Packages file mention packages that apparently haven't been copied to the mirror yet? E.g.

Re: how could Packages mention files that don't exist yet?

2003-10-18 Thread Dan Jacobson
P Possible. Could be a bad copy of files. Could be anything. Try manually P browsing the mirror using your webbrowser or lftp etc. to see if the P files are there. Yes, http://debian.linux.org.tw/debian/pool/main/f/file/ shows no Oct 03 additions, whereas

what tool to view CDROM containing TV show?

2003-10-29 Thread Dan Jacobson
Gentlemen, I have been send a CDROM with a television show on it. What might be the right tool to view it? The CDROM's structure is: $ tree -s |-- [ 27] autorun.inf |-- [ 2048] cdda |-- [ 2048] cdi |-- [ 2048] ext |-- [ 155648] mpeg2dmx.ax |-- [ 2048] mpegav | `--

only one new debian-user thread a day according to google

2003-10-30 Thread Dan Jacobson
After Oct 21st, this group has suddenly dwindled to only about one new thread a day: http://groups.google.com/groups?group=linux.debian.user Some of us low bandwidth users read via google, as gmane.org's search isn't as good yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

make the left speaker a copy of the right with amixer?

2004-01-21 Thread Dan Jacobson
How can I make the left speaker a copy of the right with amixer? Sound is coming out of the left, I want it to come out both [i.e. mono]. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-get via Windows

2004-01-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
With apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris, or apt-zip, I am able to produce a list of the URLs I need to do a dist-upgrade. However, I don't have the bandwidth to download all those files (which would fill a CDROM). So I beg someone in town, where there is lots of Windows machines, to download the

no tool to read MS Windows Help Data?

2004-02-02 Thread Dan Jacobson
I bet there is no Debian tool to read this kind of file: $ file wget.hlp wget.hlp: MS Windows Help Data Not that there is a burning need. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

minimal dpkg status file for apt

2004-02-06 Thread Dan Jacobson
What are the minimal fields needed in a dpkg status file, grep-status -vF Status 'purge ok not-installed' -s ??? /tmp/status for apt-get -o Dir::State::status=/tmp/status dist-upgrade --print-uris -yqq to give the same result as apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris -yqq (These are my first steps at

apt.debian.org server to compute dist-upgrade needs

2004-02-07 Thread Dan Jacobson
[Say] we can't do apt-get dist-upgrade over our puny modem. We must go to town to burn the files onto a CDROM and take them back to install it. Sure, we could do apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris, or use apt-zip, but that creates a list that gets stale in the few days it takes us to get to

dist-upgrade needs computation via another machine

2004-02-07 Thread Dan Jacobson
#Makefile #We can't do apt-get dist-upgrade over our puny modem, #we must go to town to a pal's Debian machine and burn the #files onto a CDROM to take back and install. #Apt-zip like idea, without ignoring newer packages that #appeared while our list is in transport. #On one's poorly connected

saving .debs to their original name

2004-02-08 Thread Dan Jacobson
Say, apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris makes lines with URL FILE SIZE MD5. What are the bad things that might happen if I just use wget to get the URLs, without using the FILEname? I intend to use dpkg-scanpackages later. Hopefully the URLs are OK on Windows and CDROMs too, which I might need to

how to tell if anything evil lurking in an .xls file?

2004-02-08 Thread Dan Jacobson
How can one tell if anything evil is lurking in an .xls file? Gnumeric, openoffice, etc. have selections to show properties, but that doesn't give me confidence about all the mess that less(1) shows exists. I wouldn't want to pass an evil .xls along to my MS buddies. Also how can one reduce the

Re: saving .debs to their original name

2004-02-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
Perhaps someone can resubmit http://bugs.debian.org/231776 so the strategy behind $ man apt-get --print-uris Note that the file name to write to will not always match the file name on the remote site! can get documented somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: how to tell if anything evil lurking in an .xls file?

2004-02-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
But if I convert it to .cvs format, all the =... formulas of the spreadsheet are lost. All I am left with is just a snapshot of what it looked like on the face of it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to tell if anything evil lurking in an .xls file?

2004-02-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
You could save it in the native format of Gnumeric or OpenOffice.org Calc, then convert it back to xls. That will likely strip out any nastiness hiding in the original xls file. You know you can set Security Level = {Medium,High} in Office right? All along there is no tool to view all of

Re: saving .debs to their original name

2004-02-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
Why? It might change, and you don't need it. apt-get --print-uris gives you the URI and the filename. Since you have both, you can either use wget's -O to put it in the right place when downloading, or rename things to the correct filename afterwards. In

what package creates /var/log/faillog?

2004-02-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
What package creates /var/log/faillog? What is the recommended way of finding out next time without posting here? $ strings /var/log/faillog tty1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#417953: apt's Packages.diff: 7 days, but Christmas has 12

2007-04-05 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: apt Version: 0.6.46.4 Severity: wishlist Why go through all the effort to make a Packages.diff directory, and then only keep one week of diffs in it? Doesn't the song go on the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...one tiny missing .diff, so I have to download the whole

how many USB resets per day is normal?

2006-10-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
How many usb 3-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2's is normal per day for you card reader users, as seen in dmesg? I use udev and hal on sid. Resets are just normal and don't mean files are going to get corrupted, right? If files were going to get corrupted then cp(1)

memory not pro-actively marked free?

2003-11-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
Instead of doing shutdown, I did init 1, doing away with X windows, etc. and in maintenance mode, I did top(1). However it reported total memory usage still as high as ever. How might that be? P.S. is that the usual way to get rid of X windows if in case one wants just to use the humble

CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server

2003-11-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
is that the usual way to get rid of X windows if in case one wants just to use the humble console? I know there is a startx program, but no stopx. Preston CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server. Indeed it does, with no questions asked. But then it just springs back to life again, with a

communication structures crumbled

2003-11-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
To us debian users, the most notable thing during this break in or whatever episode, is how the communication structures crumbled. debian-announce had one message on the 21st, five days ago, saying for more information, see www.debian.org. Nothing special there, so I checked

no way to remove something if the control file is damaged

2003-12-05 Thread Dan Jacobson
M I'm trying to get rid of a package here M or at least put it on hold, or just get apt M to shuttup about it already, and I'm at M a loss. Any ideas? M # dpkg --purge --force-all sysadmin-guide M dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: M Package is in a very bad

Re: Bug#223372: apt-zip: dynamic computation of what files we need

2003-12-09 Thread Dan Jacobson
all along the way, plus mom needs to use it while we are gone. G == Giacomo A Catenazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: G Dan Jacobson wrote: Package: apt-zip Version: 0.13.2 Severity: wishlist Let's say I leave home with fetch-script-wget-jidanni.org for a two week trip to a place with fast

Re: need Ph.D. for sound even with common hardware?

2002-12-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
|It sounds like you just don't have sound. I confirmed that if the jack is pulled out of the Epox 8KHA+ 'speaker' jack in the manual's photo, and stuck into a radio, there is sound. |First make sure you're in the audio group (become_root addgroup dan |audio - then log out and back in as dan --

Re: need Ph.D. for sound even with common hardware?

2002-12-23 Thread Dan Jacobson
I have apparently now gotten beep(1) to beep thru the speaker, [as well as the tiny PC speaker like it used to.] This I did by aumix's Vol and Spkr controls. How then can I make play(1),cat $file /dev/audio, splay, mpg123, mpg321,mpg123-oss etc. also make the speaker come alive? they do

just a small package and its docs, spread over many CDs

2002-12-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
Just to install gocr,gocr-gtk,gocr-tk,gocr-doc I had to insert three different SID CD's. Is that normal? I wonder what if I wanted the other parts of it... -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

files who won't tell who their parent packages are

2002-12-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
Let's say a file is bothering me and I want to report it to its parents or owners or anything $ locate sndstat /dev/sndstat #no similarly named brothers $ apropos sndstat sndstat: nothing appropriate. $ dpkg -S /dev/sndstat dpkg: /dev/sndstat not found. $ reportbug -f /dev/sndstat Finding package

Re: Computer beeping but no sound on

2002-12-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
H == Hanasaki JiJi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: H Any thoughts as to why my system would be beeping? Its the speaker H inside the case. The speakers are off and the Linux sound control is H muted. When mute is off, the beeps come from the speakers. My problem is ever since I turned up the

SmartMedia: buy what card reader?

2002-12-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
I'm about to buy a smartmedia card reader for my http://jidanni.org/comp/system.txt . Can I get away with just a $15 single reader, or must I get a 5 in 1 with onboard memory at 4 times the price to avoid coming all the way back home and it won't work? I suppose USB is the best bet these days?

^G beeps also come out my fancy speakers

2002-12-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
Gentlemen, what is the deal when one can make C-g beeps also come out one's speaker that is plugged into the speaker jack, with modprobe -v via82cxxx_audio aumix -v 88 -p 88 modprobe -rv via82cxxx_audio echo -e \\a /dev/console as well as the PC board speaker, and even after the modules are

am I a sitting duck for fetchmail hole because can't upgrade?

2002-12-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
Just curious, we see a security bulletin that fetchmail should be upgraded to avoid a malformed hostname threat. I could wget the new fetchmail .deb with my flimsy modem but I see it depends on libc6 that is newer than the one on the sid cd set of 2002.10.10 that I have installed. If I also get

old /lib/modules still there after purging kernel

2003-01-01 Thread Dan Jacobson
I long ago stopped using the older kernel, 2.2. However in /lib/modules/ I see 2.2.20/ 2.2.20-idepci/ 2.4.18-k7/ . What is the recommended way of cleaning up the older ones? Is the user supposed to just rm -r? -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

is my exim filter with white word cool?

2003-01-01 Thread Dan Jacobson
Fellas, what do you think of my exim filter file filtering spamassassin results... I first give 'em a pass-word in case they're real. [You see, I don't operate spamassassin, just have access to its results.] I do the best I can with the paltry exim user assignable variables available, numbers.

sound possible on Epox 8kha+ motherboard?

2003-01-02 Thread Dan Jacobson
Did anybody ever get sound to work on your EPOX 8kha+ board? I have 10/10/02 sid cds. I tried everything. I can make the console beep out of the speaker only. Alsaconf doesn't have the card. http://jidanni.org/comp/system.txt is my sorry system. I can use kernel -18 or -19. -- To

make CD of only newest 3 months of sid

2003-01-06 Thread Dan Jacobson
Dear Debian Sirs, a few months ago I want to town and my friend made me 10 cd's: _Sid_ - fsn.hu unofficial i386 Binary (20021010)] Now if I go to town again can I say, have him use the jigdo mechanism to make just a few cd's that hold only the changes to sid since 20021010, avoiding the

CDROM's headphone jack old-fashioned?

2003-01-06 Thread Dan Jacobson
What are the 4 wires from analog prongs of my CDROM unit to the CD1 prongs on my motherboard for? Is this an old fashioned way of listening to music? How about the headphone jack on the front of the CDROM unit? Old fashioned too? Take my RICOH CD-R/RW MP7080A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive, which

Re: sound possible on Epox 8kha+ motherboard?

2003-01-06 Thread Dan Jacobson
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.epox as well. Did anybody ever get sound to work on your EPOX 8kha+ board with debian? I have 10/10/02 sid cds. I can make the console beep out of the speaker only. Rico Would you mind

hard to find out what those daemons are about

2003-01-06 Thread Dan Jacobson
I do pstree and I see khubd. What could that be about?, I say. I try locate, man, apt-cache search, looking in /proc/{it's pid}, everything I can think of. After removing the k, find /var/tmp/kernel-source-2.4.18/|grep hubd finds some uncommented files that may have something to do with it...

make CD of only newest month of sid

2003-01-07 Thread Dan Jacobson
make CDs of just those. then use apt-cdrom to register them. R == Richard Atterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: R Hi Dan, R On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:58:01AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: Now if I go to town again can I say, have him use the jigdo mechanism to make just a few cd's that hold only

Re: make CD of only newest 3 months of sid

2003-01-07 Thread Dan Jacobson
[add a ftp mirror to sources.list and run] F apt-get update # a few megabytes hmm, this would have permanent effects... but then I can just restore sources.list back to just my listing my current cds to make those effects go away later? Apparently all it does is add files to /var/lib/apt/lists I

Re: sound possible on Epox 8kha+ motherboard?

2003-01-07 Thread Dan Jacobson
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.epox as well. Regarding sound on debian, indeed, I followed Colin Keefe's advice http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20030107020013$64eb%40gated-at.bofh.itrnum=6 with initial success after

Re: make CD of only newest month of sid

2003-01-08 Thread Dan Jacobson
R == Richard Atterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: R Hi Dan, R hmmm, there's one more possibility: apt-zip. You first do an apt-get R update on your machine (will take closer to 15 than 10 minutes, I'm R afraid!-), choose the packages you want and run apt-zip. It outputs a shell R script which

apt-get --print-uris: why filenames sometimes different?

2003-01-08 Thread Dan Jacobson
$ man apt-get --print-uris Instead of fetching the files to install their URIs are printed. Each URI will have the path, the destination file name, ... Note that the file name to write to will not always match the file name on the

Re: make CD of only newest month of sid

2003-01-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
One problem with the methods discussed is that we are only bringing home a CD with updates to installed packages, thus will miss out on the next kernel sub version, alsa etc. drivers for it, emacs22 etc... From studying man 5 apt_preferences etc., it seems to avoid the deadly libc6 2.3.1-9 in

I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
closed by one of the developers, namely Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate message then please contact the developer, by replying to this email. Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED

top bug reporters (quantity, not quality) are who?

2003-01-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting does not show how to find who are the top bug reporters for the past month, etc. statistics. Also top bug reported packages and top bugs themselves... how to know these? -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

do I really need to be in all those /etc/groups?

2003-01-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
Just look at me, $ id uid=1000(jidanni) gid=1000(jidanni) groups=1000(jidanni),20(dialout),24(cdrom),29(audio),1004(scanner) My latest addgroup was disk, so I wouldn't get error messages when eject(1)ing USBs. However $ find /dev |wc -l 5142 $ find /dev -group disk -perm -20|wc -l 4006

can exim try other route if first is rejected or down?

2003-01-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
Dear Sirs [great spam phrase, actually. Thought I was really renaissance, but just added to my SpamAssassin score by using it, probably.] Anyway, Dear Sirs, I have an officially approved great question, i.e. I wouldn't send a normal question to the list, only great ones M == Mark Symonds

dist-upgrade better than freshen my sid CDs

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
Summary: freshen my sid CDs probably worse than get fresh CDs or dist-upgrade via apt-zip. Recently I posted on http://lists.debian.org/deity/2003/deity-200301/author.html about ideas for modem users on how to freshen their sid CD set: 1. not like apt-zip, which is gets fresh versions of what you

apt-get install libc6 but want non-latest version

2003-01-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
It seems if I want to get any new things from sid over my modem, I will have to get a new libc6. This shouldn't be too big: # apt-get install libc6 The following extra packages will be installed: libc6-dev locales Need to get 9348kB of archives. After unpacking 279kB will be used. Do you want

how to apt-get the smaller Packages.bz2s?

2003-01-26 Thread Dan Jacobson
I notice there are Packages.bz2 and Packages.gz on the mirrors. How to tell 'apt-get update' to get the smaller .bz2s? -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

give cdrom source more priority in apt-get

2003-01-26 Thread Dan Jacobson
Assuming $ apt-cache policy twlog twlog: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.3-2 Version Table: 1.3-2 0 500 http://linux.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw sid/main Packages 500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux SID _Sid_ - fsn.hu unofficial i386 Binary-4 (20021010)] unstable/main Packages How can

Empty package to facilitate upgrades, can be safely removed.Really?

2003-07-23 Thread Dan Jacobson
# apt-cache show fileutils Description: The GNU file management utilities (transitional package) Empty package to facilitate upgrades, can be safely removed. # apt-get remove fileutils The following packages will be REMOVED: alsa-modules-2.4.18-k7 fileutils kernel-doc-2.4.18 kernel-doc-2.4.19

what non-free packages do I have installed?

2003-07-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
What is the command to see how much non-free software I have installed? I.e. those with Section: non-free... in Packages.gz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

only get packages that haven't changed in last 5 days

2003-07-28 Thread Dan Jacobson
I want to only upgrade packages that haven't changed on sid in the last 5 days, but without date information in Packages.gz it isn't easy... I suppose one could plaster something together with apt-get --print-uris|...|xargs wget --spider ... bleh, on a modem too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

can mozilla be safely removed?

2003-07-29 Thread Dan Jacobson
$ apt-cache show mozilla Description: Mozilla Web Browser - dummy package This is a dummy package that depends on the main components of the mozilla web browser. It is here to ease upgrades, installations, and provide a consistent upgrade path from previous versions. It can safely be removed

apt-get -d is cool, but now to install them

2003-07-29 Thread Dan Jacobson
The apt-get --download-only is neat, but what about now later when you want to install them? No single command to then install all you've recently downloaded, without editing each history entry or scanning ctimes of files in /var/cache/apt/archives/? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: packages removed by Release Manager just reveal older versions

2003-07-30 Thread Dan Jacobson
Keeping the /etc/apt/sources.list in a reasonable state is something that Debian can't help the admin with. [Rural modem users have lots of CDs.] Ron Why not use -t? I have a mostly sarge system with some sid. Ron The -t makes it very easy to do this: Ron # apt-get -t testing upgrade Ron #

Re: apt-get -d is cool, but now to install them

2003-07-30 Thread Dan Jacobson
Alas, after a lot of apt-get -d's during the previous connection, the only way to use apt-get (not dpkg) to then install them seems to be: set -- `find /var/cache/apt/archives -name \*.deb -cmin -60 -print| sed '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@@;s/_.*//'`; apt-get install $@ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

looking at deborphan's output first

2003-08-09 Thread Dan Jacobson
Is part of deborphan's job to clean up for sloppy package maintainers' bad Depends: etc. fields? Or during normal usage does a debian system accrue useless packages? In /usr/share/doc/deborphan/README.gz : REMOVING ALL SUGGESTED PACKAGES --- deborphan -p4 |

removed kde but remnants remain

2003-08-09 Thread Dan Jacobson
I recall I at one point removed kde from my system, however I still see # dpkg -l kde\*|grep ^i ii kdeaddons-doc- 3.1.2-1KDE add-ons documentation in HTML format ii kdeartwork-the 3.1.2-2icon themes released with KDE ii kdebase-data 3.1.2-1KDE Base (shared data) ii

let's remove fortran from my system

2003-08-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
I never use fortran, so # apt-cache show libg2c0 Description: Runtime library for GNU Fortran 77 applications # apt-get --purge remove libg2c0 The following packages will be REMOVED: atlas2-3dnow* libg2c0* pdl* r-base* r-base-core* r-base-html* r-base-latex* After unpacking 56.1MB

can see almost all languages in mozilla

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Jacobson
Looking at the bottom of http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ I see the names of various languages in their native fashion. Everything is hunky dory, except the Korean (Hangul), I see squares with hex in them for the #54620;#44397;#50612; Did I forget to apt-get something, or is Mozilla Debian Package

/var/lib/dpkg/available a day behind apt

2003-08-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
Gentlemen, my /var/lib/dpkg/available file always seems a day behind apt: $ grep-available -s version -XP zsh version: 4.0.7-6 $ apt-cache policy zsh Installed: 4.0.7-3 Candidate: 4.0.7-6 $ grep-available -s version -XP base-config version: 1.67 $ apt-cache policy base-config Installed:

APT::Cache-Limit 16777216 still needed?

2003-08-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
How can one tell if I still need to set APT::Cache-Limit 16777216; for the current version of apt? $ apt-config dump doesn't say if the default value has been increased. $ which apt-get|xargs strings -a|grep -i limit doesn't help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

can't post via gmane.linux.debian.user

2003-08-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
I notice nntp postings via gmane.org's gmane.linux.debian.user to this group never get posted, even though NNTP returns 240 OK and http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ says This list is not moderated, posting is allowed to anyone. On gmane.discuss they have no further solutions. I don't know if

apt-get install c-compiler

2003-08-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
# apt-get install c-compiler Package c-compiler is a virtual package provided by: gcc-3.0 1:3.0.4-13 tcc 0.9.19-1 gcc272 2.7.2.3-18 gcc-3.3 1:3.3.1-1 gcc-3.2 1:3.2.3-7 gcc-2.95 1:2.95.4-17 gcc 4:3.3.1-1 bcc 0.16.3-2 altgcc 1:2.7.2.3-2 You should explicitly select one to install.

Re: can see almost all languages in mozilla

2003-08-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
Ladislav apt-get install ttf-baekmuk should solve your problem. OK, now looking at Japanese, I occasionally notice boxes with 9A28, 6CA2, etc. I must be missing a few chars. What would the mozilla user of today be sure to have apt-gotten in order to be prepared for almost any language? Do I

Re: APT::Cache-Limit 16777216 still needed?

2003-08-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
Greg It is needed. If you have a ba-zillion deb and deb-src lines and all Greg three/four Debian tick-marks. (stable, testing, unstable, experimental). I see. Can one tell what APT::Cache-Limit value is without resorting to the source? apt-config dump doesn't tell default values. Would adding

Re: Bug#205997: /usr/bin/apt-get: package's new versions ignoredafter failed config

2003-08-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
18, 2003 at 07:11:17AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: Package: apt Version: 0.5.9 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/apt-get Consider the case of netbase 4.11, a package with a broken script that fails configuration. Then one does apt-get update and 4.13 is now the candidate as seen in apt

backing out from apt-get postinst failures

2003-08-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
Just curious. If a $ apt-get install some_package gets stuck in some bug in /var/lib/dpkg/info/some_package.postinst what is the proper way to back out until a newer version is available? At this point restoring ones system to the previous state is now beyond the ability of apt-get and will take

Re: backing out from apt-get postinst failures

2003-08-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
$ apt-get install some_package gets stuck in some bug in /var/lib/dpkg/info/some_package.postinst what is the proper way to back out until a newer version is available? C Usually, edit the postinst script until it doesn't get stuck. I assume if one does not want to hack the system, the answer

debian lists have no nomail option

2003-08-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
buried with extra copies of messages one normally reads elsewhere. D == Debian Bug Tracking System [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report D #206959: lists.debian.org: no options control information, D Dan Jacobson wrote: Package: lists.debian.org

dselect: how to jump to next section?

2003-08-31 Thread Dan Jacobson
In dselect, hitting O gives me: - All packages - @-- Installed packages --- - Installed Required packages -... Say my cursor is on the @, how do I jump to the end of Installed packages? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

XIM vs. mozilla

2003-09-12 Thread Dan Jacobson
Even though /etc/mozilla-*/prefs.js has // XIM style pref(xim.input_style, over-the-spot); but I still can't use it. I.e. forget about typing Chinese into mozilla-snapshot, etc. Apparently that how life is for the last few months, bug reports or not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

add devfs=mount as a kernel command-line boot parameter?

2003-09-12 Thread Dan Jacobson
LILO version 22.5.7.2 says Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure. The kernel was compiled with DEVFS_FS, but 'devfs=mount' was omitted as a kernel command-line boot parameter; hence, the '/dev' directory structure does not reflect

just get the changelog

2003-09-12 Thread Dan Jacobson
What is the URL these days to just get a changelog? http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=somepackage doesn't work. Aptitude's C won't work. Is http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/somepackage.html and then browsing news items there the best one can do without downloading any extra

apt-mature: take the edge off the bleeding edge of sid

2003-09-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
Announcing apt-mature, which should supposedly tell you how long upgradable packages have been on the mirror so you can pick older ones etc., all offline. http://jidanni.org/comp/apt-mature -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: obsolete Suggests field seen on apt-get installs

2003-09-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
Regarding seeing obsolete Suggests fields when doing apt-get installs, it turns out that just doing a daily apt-get update isn't enough, one should instead do a dselect update, it turns out. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

ps axu|grep grep doesn't output always

2003-10-01 Thread Dan Jacobson
Just curious, why doesn't this make output every run: $ ps axu|grep grep jidanni 1163 0.0 0.2 2376 608 pts/1R02:26 0:00 grep grep $ ps axu|grep grep $ ps axu|grep grep $ ps axu|grep grep $ ps axu|grep grep jidanni 1171 0.0 0.2 2376 608 pts/1R02:26 0:00 grep grep Is

apt 1000 different levels of priority mere eye candy?

2003-02-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
Is it true that the apparently 1000+ different levels of priority mentioned on the apt_preferences(5) man page are actually just a handful? If one manages to make 'apt-cache policy' report one item with priority 504 and another with priority 506, there are still other factors that override this

sid or sarge for wimp user

2002-11-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
In December a friend will burn 9 debian CDs for me to upgrade my poorly networked 'woody of may 02' system. Shall I have him burn sid or sarge? I'm basically a wimp user but need fresh software so I don't sound too silly in my many bug reports. What are the chances my system will come to a

debian user vs. browser plug-ins

2002-11-28 Thread Dan Jacobson
Just curious what the debian user does if he wants to browse like his microsoft counterpart when encountering flash, java, etc. 'enhanced' web pages. These cause mozilla 0.99 to ask me to download some 'plug-ins' in some wacky fail prone way on my frail costly modem connection. Why can't we

10MB lost per CD multi-session?

2002-12-09 Thread Dan Jacobson
http://www.cliffshade.com/dpfwiw/cd-r.htm#multi says each time you add another session (more data) to a disc you loose 10MB of space to the needed header files for the new session. Is it that serious on GNU/Linux with cdrecord, and if so, I don't think I saw it in the docs. --

wget PASV no route to host

2002-12-09 Thread Dan Jacobson
I updated to sid and now have a wget failure: --06:52:39-- ftp://ftpsv.cwb.gov.tw/pub/satellite/s1q2002-12-10_06.jpg (try:20) = `s1q2002-12-10_06.jpg' Connecting to ftpsv.cwb.gov.tw[163.29.179.241]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! == SYST ... done.== PWD ... done. ==

Re: 10MB lost per CD multi-session?

2002-12-09 Thread Dan Jacobson
E == Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: E Blind? E # zgrep overhead /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.multi.gz Eoverhead + 150 sectors for the pre-gap of the first track after the Eoverhead + 150 sectors for the pre-gap of the first track after the E The total amount

first audio hopes dashed: drain playback error -512

2002-12-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
Dear sirs, I have connected speakers to my system (http://jidanni.org/comp/system.txt), done # modprobe via82cxxx_audio # play file.au But nothing happens and I have to hit C-c to get my prompt back. # dmesg Via 686a audio driver 1.9.1 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x414c:0x4710 (ALC200/200P)

Re: need Ph.D. for sound even with common hardware?

2002-12-21 Thread Dan Jacobson
How kind of you to help me find the simplest way to make my system give even the littlest bleat. I did # modprobe ac97 # modprobe ac97_codec # modprobe via82cxxx_audio # cat bleat.au /dev/audio # tail /var/log/syslog Via 686a audio driver 1.9.1 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x414c:0x4710

many marillat users don't realize their Packages.gz is old

2003-12-26 Thread Dan Jacobson
Dan Because of the broken Last-Modified, I am unable to get fresh Dan copies of Dan http://marillat.free.fr/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Dan from my ISP's cache!: Cristian Please read my home page. http://marillat.free.fr: Since yesterday all packages uploaded got the nice

no response from the most generic 3-button mouses

2004-01-16 Thread Dan Jacobson
In XF86Config-4, these work fine for my Trackman Marble+: Option Device /dev/ttyS1 Option Protocol IntelliMouse But when I instead attach the most common simplest 3 button mouses, I get no response from the mouses at all. mdetect doesn't detect them, moving around the mouse or not, yes with xdm

Re: no response from the most generic 3-button mouses

2004-01-18 Thread Dan Jacobson
PS/2 mice - those with the mini-DIN plug - use a different device. You want /dev/psaux for the Device and probably PS/2 for Protocol (for a plain 3-button mouse) or ImPS/2 (if it's got scroll wheels). OK, I'll try that. I thought if the manufacturer supplied it with a RS-232 9 pin adapter,

spamdealer: smtp time filter for non-root offline users

2003-06-02 Thread Dan Jacobson
Is my http://jidanni.org/comp/spam/spamdealer.html a breakthrough for non-root offline users? If so, maybe someone can give me an account so I can set up camp to get my email back into shape. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Packages file under version control

2003-06-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
I am fortunate to have an account on debian.linux.org.tw, I.e. a mirror. Maybe I can make a script to just do a diff of the Packages file and then just download this diff over my modem? I hate downloading megabytes just because I want to upgrade some puny package without resorting to dpkg. I

Re: Packages file under version control

2003-06-14 Thread Dan Jacobson
$ wget http://home.tiscali.cz:8080/~cz210552/download/apt-rsync $ chmod +x apt-rsync Traceback (most recent call last): File ./apt-rsync, line 58, in ? f=PrivoxyWindowOpen(SOURCES) NameError: name 'PrivoxyWindowOpen' is not defined Now what? I do in fact use privoxy BTW. Of course the

why is the access time of dirs not chaged?

2003-06-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.unix.shell as well. If I do cat dir/file, why is the access time of dir not changed, as seen with stat(1) or ls -ul? Only if we do ls dir will dir's access time be changed. Maybe it is on purpose to avoid too

but I don't want the Russian etc. documentation

2003-07-05 Thread Dan Jacobson
As a faithful Debian user, I must keep abreast of all latest advances. # apt-get --print-uris -y dist-upgrade|awk 'NF==4{print $3,$2}'|grep apt-|sort -rn 300030 apt-howto-ru_1.8.5-2_all.deb 258682 apt-howto-pl_1.8.5-2_all.deb 257092 apt-howto-de_1.8.5-2_all.deb 249416 apt-howto-fr_1.8.5-2_all.deb

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