Re: Begone, vile emacs!

Ray rote, > I know that when 2.2 installs in is emacs19. But of course you know that > as soon as you remove emacs RMS sends large men to your house to break >your knees. :) I like emacs but it is big. Yes, but in the true emacs anti-unix tradtion, they don't stop at doing one thing well, but i

RE: Linux programming book

Quoting Cantoni, Mike ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am looking for a book on Linux Programming. Does anyone have a preference > between Linux Application Development or Beginning Linux Programming or ___ > something else. The Wr

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Video Servers

The problem is that the service must be able to provide for a large number of video formats, namely: Real* (there is a server for Linux) Quicktime (there is some support through Apple's Darwin, but still not very reliable) ASF (I wish) Avi Mpeg ... I've tried to look into this as well. I do

Re: finding a tarball on a fat-less fat partition--disk editor? (fwd)

Oswald opined, > well ... i don't remember their names. i found some of them by searching > freshmeat.net and doing a generic web search for "linux disk editor" *DOH!* Now I feel foolish :) > or > something like that. i did not bookmark them, as they all were not very > satisfactory ... :-(

Re: this beeping makes me sick

Hi, if you're using bash (or any tool that uses readline), you can put the following in your ~/.inputrc set bell-style none That will turn it off. Check out the readline man page for more options. Cheers, Marcus On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Juli

Re: MBR

Use dd to copy to local_file and read with hex reader like MC. # dd if=/dev/hda of=local_file count=20 MC is midnight commander in console. Osamu On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 05:02:06PM +, stefan goeman wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way to read my current MBR, or is this the file mbr.b in

Re: which modules needed for gnome and where to get them?

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 03:35:39PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote: > ehm, you want to install GNOME? i suggest, that you use the uptodate > Helix GNOME. just add: > > deb ftp://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main > Would apt-get remove older gnome packages when installing

Re: [ot] grub is great!

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 03:14:01AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Andreas" == Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andreas> Hmm, if I remove the /vmlinuz symlink before installing the > Andreas> kernel-image I get the following: > >[Elided] > > Andreas> Hmm, this is not the

Re: upgrade gnumeric to woody

Julio Merino wrote: > Install the Helixcode GNOME woody distribution. > > http://www.helixcode.org How does this answer his question? Does it still have the same bug? Installing from Helixcode will bring in an equilavent number of new packages, except that they will probably have `helix' in th

X launchbar?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know of a basic X launchbar? Basic as in doesn't depend on too many libraries to run. Gets to be a pain to launch programs from different machines to my local desktop from the command line of each machine. :/ - -- Steve C.

Missing modules and the sound of silence

Hello! I've been compiling a new kernel (2.2.17 on Potato)to allow for sound support; I've done it three times and each time it hasn't worked! The steps I've followed are these (having unpacked the kernel source in a directory off /usr/local/src..) 1. make xconfig set up what I want includ

[OT] Re: BeOs

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 05:05:49PM +, stefan goeman wrote: > Any of you ever been playing around with BeOS? I have it installed, but I don't play around with it too much. That would involve me rebooting Linux, after all! 8-) > I wonder if it is easy to install especially on a PC with Win98 a

Re: BeOs

Hello, No, I don't have any boot problems (at least not at this moment). I just want to: 1) Study the boot process in more detail because I don't know exactly what happens and how I can influence (change) it 2) I just want to find out if it is worth the trouble trying to install BeOs and try it

script doesn't work (renaming files)

Hi there, I have to rename a lot of files containing special characters. I've got a script to do that, but it doesn't work here (unexpected end of file etc..). BTW: How do I get a list of files containing some special characters (äÄöÖüÜß)? Will the "find" do this job? Thank You, CU, Lars. -- S

Re: Linux programming book

Quoting Cantoni, Mike ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am looking for a book on Linux Programming. Does anyone have a preference > between Linux Application Development or Beginning Linux Programming or ___ > something else. The Wrox book

Re: upgrade gnumeric to woody

Install the Helixcode GNOME woody distribution. http://www.helixcode.org HTH Julio On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:26:27AM +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > Hi Debians! > > Gnumeric 0.47 from potato is a little bit buggy, often the cell > formats I made are gone. So I would like to upgrade to wood

BeOs

Hello, Any of you ever been playing around with BeOS? I wonder if it is easy to install especially on a PC with Win98 and linux already running? >From there web page and some other documentation, I have the impression they have a very good bootmanager. Greetings, Stefan

Debian Policy

The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) Presents Debian Policy When: Wednesday 20 September 2000, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Presenter: Chr

Linux programming book

I am looking for a book on Linux Programming. Does anyone have a preference between Linux Application Development or Beginning Linux Programming or something else. Thanks in advance

MBR

Hello, Is there a way to read my current MBR, or is this the file mbr.b in /boot? I am not sure. I did not use LILO to configure my MBR but I used an external bootmaster (I think from Partition Magick). This is a strange type of file. Is there a way to make it more human readable? Greetings

Turning DMA on

How do I turn DMA on in Debian? -- Leonardo Dias Analista Programador / Analyst Programmer Catho Online http://www.catho.com.br

Re: how to briefly disable mouse under X?

Quoting Krzys Majewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What's a good way to programmatically disable the mouse under > X, and re-enable it again, without restarting X. By > programmatically I mean "not by unplugging the mouse or cutting > the wire and re-soldering it". /etc/init.d/gpm stop (and start) if

Re: html2ps

"nw x" wrote: > Hi, Debians: > I have a question about html2ps that is I just install it under my usr/local > directory and then I use the command > html2ps filename.html > filename.ps > however, it report the following warning message: > can not find the file and /usr/local/lib/html2ps/html2psr

Re: this beeping makes me sick

You can just modify the linux kernel to disable the beep support. I did this some time ago and then you won't listed that beep in any part of the system. Another way is to unplug it :) HTH On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 06:00:30PM +0200, QBA wrote: > Hi, > > I just want to turn off beeping in linux. I

mozila eats memory

Yes, we all know that of course. My question is, if I have several instances running, is there a separate process space for each or does anything get shared? I ask this because I sometimes run a few browsers, and memory seems to get eaten very quickly. Tim Anderson

Re: gpm and X and mouse (fwd)

I have had 3 or 4 computers, and many different pointing devices. All have worked fine this way. Mostly Logitech mice, but others also. Chris Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : It's been three computers and four mice already, and I've never : had this working, so I'm curious if anyone has go

Re: serial mouse not working

Post your /etc/gpm.conf file and the Pointer section of /etc/X11/XF86Config. Then perhaps someone can help identify your problem. Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : hi, : I have a serial MS-mouse which runs great with gpm, but I do not get any : reaction under xfree86 3.3.6 (configured u

Re: mutt macro syntax

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 12:22:20PM +0200, Egbert Bouwman wrote: ... > I tried: > >macro pager - delete-thread exit > > but that doesn't work. > Does somebody know the right syntax ? > The manual is not particularly helpful. Indeed the manual is a little sparse on the subject:), but taking

RE: free Interrnet provider for Linux and exim

I got this with Mozilla, but it was OK after I fired it up again and it asked me for a password. I put it down to a bug in M14, I thought maybe mozilla forgets your password (or I hadn't found the option to keep it longer). So I guess you could check your password status. Tim Anderson

Re: upgrade gnumeric to woody

|> Gnumeric 0.47 from potato is a little bit buggy, often the cell |> formats I made are gone. So I would like to upgrade to woody. Now my |> questions. Is this bug fixed in woody and can I risk an upgrade? I upgraded to the woody version of gnumeric because the potato version kept producing seg

Re: Problem with 2.2r0 install.

Use the adduser script rather than useradd. It'll take care of little things like creating the home directory. See /etc/skel too for dotfiles. On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:13:28AM +1000, Andrew Clark wrote: > Hey guys, > > I just installed 2.2r0 on one of my machines. Root can log in, but no > o

Re: Problem with 2.2r0 install.

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:13:28AM +1000, Andrew Clark wrote: > I just installed 2.2r0 on one of my machines. Root can log in, but no > other users I create can, they get "Could not cd to [home directory]" and > if I try to su to the account from root I get No Shell. how did you created the othe

Problem with 2.2r0 install.

Hey guys, I just installed 2.2r0 on one of my machines. Root can log in, but no other users I create can, they get "Could not cd to [home directory]" and if I try to su to the account from root I get No Shell. Any help would be appreciated and can replies please be cc'd by [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I

[OFF-TOPIC] Video Servers

Hi This question is related to linux but not directly to Debian. IF you're not inrested in reading it, please accept my apologie and delete it. I have to setup a Video on Demand Service (VoD). The customer isn't particularly picky (?) about the operating system: it can be either windows NT or Li

Re: mutt macro syntax

This is the mutt macro i tried unsuccesfully: macro pager - delete-thread exit On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:58:03AM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: > delete-thread is already bound to ^D (Ctrl-d) > and works fine. My object is to minimise finger movements, so i try to do most of the reading and deleting w

Re: Recommended Partitioning

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 08:32:48PM -0400, Rob wrote: > Hey, im about to install deb2.2, can anyone recommend a specific > partitioning scheme? > > Like if im willing to allocate 20 gigs. I figured id just do 128 for /swap, > and the rest to /, but ive had friends tell me they do other partitions

Re: F2 key programming

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 12:14:38PM +0200, Thomas Guettler wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 09:43:46PM +0100, ivan wrote: > > I'd like to be able to press the F2 key when in X-windows xterm instead of > > entering > > " | more " (par exemple). What is the easiest way of achieving this? I've > > t

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Re: Perl @INC - include NFS mounted repository

Hi, > (1) you can setup the PERL5LIB environment variable (or PERLLIB > if you want it to apply for both Perl4 and Perl5) to contain > the appropriate search path for the Modules (a colon-separated > list of directories) > If you want local modules to be found first, just put the

Re: which modules needed for gnome and where to get them?

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:42:42AM -0400, Anderson, James H [IT] wrote: [ sorry, i sent and empty reply] > The O'Reilly Debian book lists the modules needed for installing gnome and > enlightenment. I think I have a pretty "normal" apt sources list, but I > can't find: > > task-gnome-desk

Re: which modules needed for gnome and where to get them?

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:42:42AM -0400, Anderson, James H [IT] wrote: > The O'Reilly Debian book lists the modules needed for installing gnome and > enlightenment. I think I have a pretty "normal" apt sources list, but I > can't find: > > task-gnome-desk > task-gnome-game > ta

Re: Printing w/Epson SC800

This problem is a bit difficult for me to attempt because you are on 2.2.17, of which I have nil experience. However the problem seems somewhere between your lpd daemon and the kernel response. Kernel 2.2.17 seems to be an okay kernel from the reports that I read, however, there has been one

Re: Gnome mouse icon

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Gnome question] > Any clue? Why did you reference that to my posting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> which was about gateway configuration? Greetings, Stefan. -- Stefan Bellon * *

which modules needed for gnome and where to get them?

The O'Reilly Debian book lists the modules needed for installing gnome and enlightenment. I think I have a pretty "normal" apt sources list, but I can't find: task-gnome-desk task-gnome-game task-gnome-wm wmaker-gnome wmaker-userguide-ps Any help much appre

Re: Gnome mouse icon

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 01:24:27PM +0200, Richard wrote: > Hi all, > > I have installed Gnome over Debian. Everything goes ok, but the mouse > icon: there is no mouse icon. Instead, there is a blank square, > without any arrow. > > Any clue? Gotta be a Window Manager thing. I don't think GNOME

Re: deb packages not offered: lame xcdplay?

Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Peter Jay Salzman wrote: >> there are a few packages i like to have, like lame and xcdplay. >> can't find any deb pkgs, though. > >There was an intent to package (ITP) lame awhile ago--check out the >debian developer list archives. lame can't be packaged,

Gnome mouse icon

Hi all, I have installed Gnome over Debian. Everything goes ok, but the mouse icon: there is no mouse icon. Instead, there is a blank square, without any arrow. Any clue? Thanks in advance.

Re: XEmacs 21 and updating packages question

Omen Wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have found the pui-package-install-dest-dir variable and set it to > /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/ and XEmacs happily installs ^ > packages into that directory. But, and here is the question, how do I > get X

Re: dselect and apt-get

kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > $ apt-get install apt-cache > $ man apt-cache > $ apt-cache search foo The first step should yield an error messages -- it isn't necessary, because apt-cache is part of the apt package (dpkg -S apt-cache). In addition, one could mention `apt-cache show

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:08:15AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > >Yesterday I posted three messages to this list. All arrived (I received > >them today), but I also got 3 notifications (one attached) saying that > >they couldn't be delivered because the recipient's

Re: Searching in dselect

kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >> How can I search for a package in the dselect program? > >'?' brings up a list of keystrokes. > >'/' starts a search. > >'n' finds next instance of pattern. 'n' advances 1 line; '\' finds next instance -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

Anthony Campbell wrote: >Yesterday I posted three messages to this list. All arrived (I received >them today), but I also got 3 notifications (one attached) saying that >they couldn't be delivered because the recipient's mail box was full. > >Has anyone seen anything like this? Any expla

Re: mutt macro syntax

> Hello, > In my Muttrc i have the line: > >bind pager - delete-thread > > I tried: > >macro pager - delete-thread exit > > but that doesn't work. > Does somebody know the right syntax ? > The manual is not particularly helpful. > egbert delete-thread is already bound to ^D (Ctrl-d)

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:10:20AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Yesterday I posted three messages to this list. All arrived (I received > them today), but I also got 3 notifications (one attached) saying that > they couldn't be delivered because the recipient's mail box was full. > > Has anyon

Re: compiling gaim on woody

You do have the *-dev debs installed, no? Otherwise, you ain't compiling anything. On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 01:48:54AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > im having trouble compiling gaim from source (found on > http://www.marko.net/gaim) > > it says glib verion >= 1.2.0...no gtk version >= 1.2.0..

mutt macro syntax

Hello, In my Muttrc i have the line: bind pager - delete-thread Now i can delete the whole thread of the message i am reading, but i still stay in the message. I want to return to the index-page. I tried: macro pager - delete-thread exit but that doesn't work. Does somebody know the righ

Re: UDMA100 support?

Hi Victor, On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Victor Cassen wrote: > Can anyone tell me if UDMA100 support is available or will be > available anytime soon? I am trying to do an install to such > a machine. I found the UDMA66 kernel, but the install > program (loadlin) complained that no disks were detected

compiling gaim on woody

im having trouble compiling gaim from source (found on http://www.marko.net/gaim) it says glib verion >= 1.2.0...no gtk version >= 1.2.0...no but i know i have all the recent libs from woody (unstable). i have gtk 1.2.8-1 glib 1.2.8-1 is there any way i can get gaim sources (and im assuming tha

Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

Yesterday I posted three messages to this list. All arrived (I received them today), but I also got 3 notifications (one attached) saying that they couldn't be delivered because the recipient's mail box was full. Has anyone seen anything like this? Any explanation? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell

Configuration router / gateway use

Hi all! I've recently installed a ELSA MicroLink ISDN 4U to my local network. In case you don't know it, it's an ISDN terminal adapter combined with a 4 port hub for a local network. I've three computers connected to is, two running RISC OS and one notebook running either GNU/Linux or (rarely) Win

upgrade gnumeric to woody

Hi Debians! Gnumeric 0.47 from potato is a little bit buggy, often the cell formats I made are gone. So I would like to upgrade to woody. Now my questions. Is this bug fixed in woody and can I risk an upgrade? apt-get install gnumeric would make this: The following extra packages will be instal

Re: Internet Cafe

ChrisHellberg<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So it can be done over ethernet? Sweet. So I spose if I'm not going to > do down the radius path, and a simple app to boot them off the PC, would > it be a matter of killall -9 , including > the NFS mount? When using Gnome's GDM, you could write a simple

Re: Too many messages

** On Sep 19, Rob scribbled: > Heh. guys this is sort of off-topic (sorry) but its so typically me that I > signed up for like four of the topics on the mailing list and im revieving > like 200 messages a day, which I just dont have time to read, how can I > cancel all of the lists except for one?

serial mouse not working

hi, I have a serial MS-mouse which runs great with gpm, but I do not get any reaction under xfree86 3.3.6 (configured using XF86Setup). thanks, -- Felix Natter

Re: Install KDE2 and remove Gnome?

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: > 1. How can I get a minimal KDE2 - which packages do I ned tio > download for a KDE2 "base"? (If there's a doc. on this please > point me to it..) A quick dselect trawl through the package > lists suggests that there are dozens of KDE packages some of >

Install KDE2 and remove Gnome?

Hi!I want to begin installing KDE2 on my machine; and to remove as much of Gnome as is possible. And for things to work afterwards! So I have two questions 1. How can I get a minimal KDE2 - which packages do I ned tio download for a KDE2 "base"? (If there's a doc. on this please point me

Re: Download

I just installed Debian for the first time and I only downloaded four files: root.bin rescue.bin drivers.tgz base2_2.tgz These are the only files you need to download to install Debian. This will install a very basic system, and after that you can let the packaging system worry about downloading

Re: Download

"webmail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am an old Unix user (SunOs) and I would like to try my hand at Debian > Linux. Here I am not even able to download it - I have made thousands > of downloads under many conditions, but, in this case, all that happens > to me is that my system (windows NT

Re: APM: disable mouse interrupt?

What!? And here I thought I was at the height of fashion with my brand new PS/2 mouse. (The hell is a PS/2, anyway?). Anyway, eventually I'll figure out how to dispense with the mouse entirely and throw it happily out the window into the lane. Lots of good things to be found in that lane. -chris

Re: gpm and X and mouse

Yeah I guess the repeat_type vs. repeat_data thing might have been part of it, aside from this all I meant is that my /etc/init.d/gpm may have been an old one from say 1996 (who remembers what that dbn was called??), and I may have answered "no" to subsequent "overwrite old /etc/init.d/gpm?" prompt

Download

I am an old Unix user (SunOs) and I would like to try my hand at Debian Linux.  Here I am not even able to download it - I have made thousands of downloads under many conditions, but, in this case,  all that happens to me is that my system (windows NT workstation) spends inordinate amounts o

Re: deb packages not offered: lame xcdplay?

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:42:05PM -0600, Hubert Chan wrote: > locations than Debian (notably the initialization files, like /etc/init.d/*), > so converting those packages may not work. This will probably change with the new version, because AFAIK, RedHat 7.0 will have the init files in /etc/ini

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

Sie schrieben: > > What's the output of "lpr -V -V your-file.ps"? > > That gives me no output... are you sure the -V options are correct? I > don't see -V listed in lpr's man page. > From man lpr (woody): -V Verbose mode. Additional -V flags increase verbosity. Use debug flags fo

Re: apt-get problems

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:45:01PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > I just compiled kernel 2.2.17 today with the kernel-package tools. I > installed the resulting kernel-image-2.2.17_custom1.0_i386.deb with > dpkg -i. > > Everything is OK. Now, as soon as I apt-get > update && apt-get dist-upgrade, apt

Re: using sudo (was Re: bash login for root)

On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 11:36:12PM -0800, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 11:55:23PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Also, as this started off as a Debian thread somewhere/somehow, do you > > have any suggestions for auditing a box through dpkg / apt, incl

Re: dselect and apt-get

Please set your mailer line wrap to 72 characters. On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 02:37:34PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > I've made heavy use of apt-get to install packages as needed. While > this is great it does require me to know or find out the package name,

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