Thanks Bish, Suresh, Sudhakar for response. About mail notification - Actually biff seems to be there, because whenever I log in it always says No Mail ( even if there is new mail ) I think it only checks /var/spool/mail/sachin, where as my MAILDIR as specified in .procmailrc is ~/Mail. Before using procmail by including .forward file in $HOME, everything was working well - I was being notified of new mail. But now all the mails are forwarded to procmail, & it stores them in ~Mail or ~/MAIL/mail_asmita, and *this change of location* is not recognised by 'mail' program so it just says 'no mail for sachin' even if there are mails. Now what ?
About gcc - on dpkg -S iostream.h it said file not found inspite of the fact that libstdc++ *is there*. I want to know where to specify the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH ? I would also point out that on doing g++ it says that 'command not found', I was doing apt-get from cdrom not www. Will removing the package & reinstalling help ? Is there any way to reconfigure gcc ? ~Sachin ----- Original Message ----- From: USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LIH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 7:34 PM Subject: Re: [LIH]of colored bash prompt, mail notification, broken gcc > On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:49:02AM +0530, Dr. Sachin Kale wrote: > > > > 1. Can somebosy pls tell me how to set PS1 so that prompt is colored ? > > ( bash on debian potato 2.2 r5). They have mentioned something about > > using nonprintable charecters to achieve it, but after several tries > > I am not able to configure it. > > > > The way to go about it is to embed ANSI esc sequences within the PS1 > string. This string is for green colour [\e[22m\e[40m\e[32m\]. Please > see LOST #121 below for a working solution. > > > > > 2. Using exim as MTA, Mutt as MUA & procmail as MDA. I have set > > filters in .procmailrc to deliver mails from asmita & saurav to > > ~/Mail/mail_asmita & ~/Mail/mail_saurav. They are delivering ok, > > but shell is not able to inform me of new mail. I tried to set > > MAIL variable in .bash_profile to these mailboxes,also tried to > > MAILPATH to point to these mailboxes, but still I am not being > > notified by shell of new mail. I have to do mutt -Z to check > > the whether any mail has arrived. Can you sugest something so > > that shell will be able to inform me of new mail. > > > > Don't think setting $MAIL is enough, you need the notification > mechanism also set. Putting the following in /etc/profile (for a > system wide configuration) does the job, (if biff is installed): > > <snip>-------------------- > > # Notify user of incoming mail. This can be overridden in the > # user's local startup files (~/.bash_profile or whatever) > if [ -x /usr/bin/biff ]; then 19 17 > biff y > fi > > </snip>------------------- > > > > > > 3. I was doing - > > apt-get install mutt (& postgresql, & emacs20) one after the other. > > But everytime there was some dependency problem. so tried apt-get f > > install And suddenly apt-get removed neary 60 packages & installed > > mutt, emacs20 & postgresql (all which r working well) > > > > Now I find that gcc is not able to find *any* header file. gcc, now > > is unable to find the c, cpp header files, when I try to compile > > anthing it just says "iostream.h or stdio.h file not found", depen- > > ding on c++ or c program. I dont know what to do can you suggest > > something ? ( when reinstalling it says that gcc is already the > > latest version) I think it removed gconv.module so the libraries > > dependent on it like libc, and libgtk are not working. So I am stuck. > > > > This is a blind guess. The only situation that I think where 60+ pack- > ages would be removed is changing the source tree to woody (or syd) > on a basic potato install ... might need to do a dist-upgrade ! Just a > hunch though. I reverted from deb to Slack about a year ago, because > of this type of problem, but never have I faced a 60 package removal > on apt-get at any time ! > > Bish > > -- > : > ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### > > Sub : Colourful Prompts LOST #121 > > Put this in your .bashrc / .bash_profile > For Root : > PS1='\[\e[22m\e[40m\e[41m\]\h:\w\$\[\e[22m\e[40m\e[37m\] ' > For an User: > PS1='\[\e[22m\e[40m\e[32m\]\u@\h:\w\$\[\e[22m\e[40m\e[37m\] ' > > ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>########################################### > : > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Sponsored by: > ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy >>> http://thinkgeek.com/sf <<< _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
