Re: what fax software do you suggest?

2000-11-18 Thread Andre Berger
em). > > > > Q> What software, from the debian distro, would you suggest which is > > easy to set up for sending PS files, for example. > > > > Thanks Tom > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany

Re: NetBus?!

2000-11-16 Thread Andre Berger
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Andre Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [snip] > > > > > > You can find out what process has a particular por

Re: NetBus?!

2000-11-16 Thread Andre Berger
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Andre Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm using potato and Helix-Gnome. I just installed nmap, and it gives > > me > > Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED], www.insecur

NetBus?!

2000-11-16 Thread Andre Berger
I'm using potato and Helix-Gnome. I just installed nmap, and it gives me Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED], www.insecure.org/nmap/) Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): PortState Protocol Service 9 opentcpdiscard 13 open

Re: lyx; how do I view/export a document as ps/dvi?

2000-11-13 Thread Andre Berger
Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm not able to make LyX view or export documents as ps or dvi. I > > have (I believe) all relevant packages installed. What do I do to > > solve this problem? Thanks > > run lyx from an xterm. watch for debugging output. Good idea! > you need dvi2ps (or

Re: lyx; how do I view/export a document as ps/dvi?

2000-11-13 Thread Andre Berger
uot;killall acroread ; acroread $(basename $$FName .dvi).pdf" \pdf_mode true That way you'll only be able to print (to printer or .ps file) from acroread, gv or whatever you use to display .pdf files. Also interesting: \show_banner false. Hope that helps, Andre -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany

Re: getting german "umlauts" on potato

2000-11-12 Thread Andre Berger
Gerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there! > > i found out to be unable to get other responses from my box than beeps > when i press the german umlaut keys like öäü on console aswell as > xterm... > > what am i missing? > > i fiddled arround with consolechars (former setfont), > /etc/consol

Re: Num lock activated by default, at start

2000-11-10 Thread Andre Berger
> > there is a X11 based version of setleds too but i can't remember what > its called (nor find the package for it...) > > -- > Ethan Benson > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ numlockx You can get it from freshmeat. But, the NumLock key has side effects on apps like acroread, so I've removed any automatic pushin' again. -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany

Re: need help locating a file

2000-11-07 Thread Andre Berger
Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This past weekend, I experienced a partial hard-drive crash. I've managed to > reinstall and recover most of my stuff, except for one thing. I used to have > several fonts, which came with Debian, but I have been unable to figure out > what package they

Re: w3m wouldn't load http://localhost

2000-11-07 Thread Andre Berger
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:58:45PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: > > >Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I have apache installed and lynx, netscape and mozilla do not have a > > >>problem to load http://

Re: latex question

2000-11-06 Thread Andre Berger
Sorry for this followup to my own posting. > Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > I'm looking for a latex file like g-brief.cls which is especialy for > > > > business letters. What I need to do is to define the footnote by > > > > myself. Can anyone give

Re: latex question

2000-11-06 Thread Andre Berger
hould read the .dvi file that comes with packages like g-brief. I suggest you also read a book about LaTeX, Vol. 1 of Kopka's LaTeX book is very good, or the LaTeX Companion, to get an idea about the underlying concepts. For now I'd take a look at lyx, a graphical frontend to LaTeX. It'

Re: xdm takes so long to start [was Re: New X Server crashes]

2000-11-06 Thread Andre Berger
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm not sure if it will help you, but check your /etc/X11/Xresources/* files, and your ~/.Xresources. If you have something very long like a complete netscape language localization in it, xrdb -merge can take a very long time, esp. on slow machines. -- Andr

Re: Making the computer less noisy

2000-11-05 Thread Andre Berger
shorten the HDDs' lifetime. Perhaps the best idea I saw was put the machine into another room (if you can), and use an old (or Apple-, a cheap 68k model with color display will do) laptop without fan to display the server's X output via ethernet. -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany

gedit/potato segfaults

2000-11-04 Thread Andre Berger
Anyone with the following segfault problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gedit Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GnomeApp' I thought the potato version 0.5.4-1 was stable? -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany

Re: Debian crashes: sw, hw or malicious hacker/virus problems?

2000-11-02 Thread Andre Berger
Björn Elwhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please check the mailing list archives. If i don't remember wrong > i've heard about a package that breaks after a certain time, a bug > that is resolved now. I don't remember which package it was but you > could at least try to find something about it.

Re: anyone knows DIAL-BACK ppp??

2000-10-31 Thread Andre Berger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > i dont know whether the word "DIAL-BACK" really exist,i need this > function: when i dial to a ppp server,and the server can dial > back to my pc,so i can use less telephone fee,can anyone tell me > how to config the ppp server to implementation this function > /

Re: ssh is refusing connections

2000-10-30 Thread Andre Berger
Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been running my server for 89 days now, on potato for the whole > time. It's been quite stable and happy for a while now. However, > without an update to either the server or my portable machine, ssh > began refusing connections all of a sudden. '

Re: Q: Best printer-HP LaserJet II, III, IIIP

2000-10-28 Thread Andre Berger
"Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which is the best for working with Linux and existing drivers and is the > IIIP postscript? These are all old, but good machines and I have a chance at > one. Of the three, IIIP/4MB (I think this is the maximum it can take?). My LaserJet IIP PS/4MB w

Re: netscape bookmark.html

2000-10-28 Thread Andre Berger
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i keep a global bookmark.html in /usr/local/share/users/bookmark.html, and > make symbolic links from within $HOME/.netscape, so all incarnations of me > can use the same bookmark file. > > the trouble is, when i edit the bookmarks, say as user p, t

Re: wget can't find remote directory [SOLVED]

2000-10-28 Thread Andre Berger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vee-Eye) writes: > > Very short: There is a "Gesamttext zum Herunterladen", in the case you > > missed it. > > I think it's a normal directory, where you are not allowed to cd to. > > read: to list the contents ... > > Another solution would be a shell for-loop with wget, becau

mgetty-fax: cannot write to /var/spool/fax/outgoing!

2000-10-27 Thread Andre Berger
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ faxspool 0 testfax.ps cannot write to /var/spool/fax/outgoing! is the error I get when I try to send a fax via mgetty-fax as user. andre is a member of groups fax and dialout, permissions for /var/spool/fax/ are drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Aug 31 20:09 inc

wget can't find remote directory

2000-10-27 Thread Andre Berger
I'm trying to download documents from http://www.textkritik.de/bka/dokumente/dok_buelow/ With Netscape I have access to the .htm files in that directory, 'wget -r http://www.textkritik.de/bka/dokumente/dok_buelow/' doesn't work, probably because the site is obviously databased. Is there a way to d

Mouse freezes

2000-10-27 Thread Andre Berger
I have a very annoying problem. My system is potato with helix-gnome, gpm, and a Multi-I/O card the mouse is attached to. Now every now and then, after hours of working, the mouse pointer freezes. I found out if I don't reboot, the system locks up completely after some time and I have to reset it (

Re: X

2000-10-26 Thread Andre Berger
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 10:37:46PM -0500, chudpi wrote: > > > > Also, could anyone tell me how to activate the locatedb so I can use locate? > > Thanx. > > XsX > > don't turn your computer off at night. > > (the locatedb is rebuilt in a daily cron job

Re: (Psion) plptools compilation error

2000-10-24 Thread Andre Berger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > >> The code then compiles fine - well, there are a few warnings > >> (two-digit years - I can only hope this is just something that the Psion > >> link protocol requires), but nothing

Re: (Psion) plptools compilation error

2000-10-23 Thread Andre Berger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >Has anyone managed to compile plptools (unfortunately there's no > >> >Debian package)? I found no email address, and I couldn't even find > >> >out w

Re: (Psion) plptools compilation error

2000-10-23 Thread Andre Berger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Has anyone managed to compile plptools (unfortunately there's no > >Debian package)? I found no email address, and I couldn't even find > >out who's the author. > > Where can we get the source code? Sorry, it's

(Psion) plptools compilation error

2000-10-21 Thread Andre Berger
Has anyone managed to compile plptools (unfortunately there's no Debian package)? I found no email address, and I couldn't even find out who's the author. I get this error on my up-to-date potato system: Making all in plpftp make[1]: Entering directory `/home/andre/plptools-0.6/plpftp' g++ -DHAVE

Re: OT: Cross-platform document format?

2000-10-21 Thread Andre Berger
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Ingles, Raymond" wrote: > > > > > From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > LaTeX or Lout (combined with say xfig or dia for graphics) > > > > may fit the bill, > > > > > Thanks for the response. I was looking for a common document > > > form

Re: Unresolved symbols with pcmcia-source

2000-10-20 Thread Andre Berger
Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just upgraded a machine from unstable potato to stable potato > and among other things, I recompiled the PCMCIA modules provided > by pcmcia-source. > > Now I get unresolved symbols in epic_cb.o when doing a 'depmod > -a'. This is merely a cosmetic i

Re: pdf2ps problem [solved]

2000-10-19 Thread Andre Berger
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had to convert a 114 MB pdf-file to ps. This took several hours on > my P133, the result is 908 MB... The command I used was > 'pdf2ps -dPSLevel1 name.pdf name.ps' > > But I can't use the .ps file! Can I fix

Re: pdf2ps problem

2000-10-19 Thread Andre Berger
John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 01:20 AM 10/19/2000 +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > >I had to convert a 114 MB pdf-file to ps. This took several hours on > >my P133, the result is 908 MB... The command I used was > >'pdf2ps -dPSLevel1 name.pdf name.ps

pdf2ps problem

2000-10-19 Thread Andre Berger
I had to convert a 114 MB pdf-file to ps. This took several hours on my P133, the result is 908 MB... The command I used was 'pdf2ps -dPSLevel1 name.pdf name.ps' But I can't use the .ps file! Can I fix the following gv error? I have gs-aladdin, potato. -- Andre Error: /undefinedAladdin Ghostscr

Re: Can apt be steered?

2000-10-18 Thread Andre Berger
Michael Epting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > apt should install the package with the highest version number it can find. > > You can watch what it's getting while it's downloading (or use > > --dummy-run to do a dummy run). > > I did

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #270

2000-10-17 Thread Andre Berger
Chris Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What's that, a comment or do you just have problems to unsubscribe? May I quote from what's been added to your msg automatically: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Andre > Please remove me from this list. >

Re: ELO Touch Monitors

2000-10-16 Thread Andre Berger
Sanjeev Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, does anyone know how to run Navigator full screen (no icons, no menu > bar). I want to ensure that the user cannot close the window. Don't use a window manager, put netscape run into an infinite loop that keeps restarting it. I assume you want so

Re: Help: Ghostview font error?

2000-10-15 Thread Andre Berger
"Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ghostview, gv or gs, will not read any ps document. When opening one it > comes up with a font error msg. I looked at my XF86Config and found miscc, > 75dpi, Type1 in my path. Any ideas? Maybe the gsfonts package isn't installed? -- Andre

Re: libc6 -- down to potato? [solved]

2000-10-15 Thread Andre Berger
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 15-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote: > > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> On 14-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote: > >> > I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody > >>

Re: libc6 -- down to potato?

2000-10-15 Thread Andre Berger
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 15-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote: > > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> On 14-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote: > >> > I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody > >>

Re: libc6 -- down to potato?

2000-10-14 Thread Andre Berger
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 14-Oct-2000 Andre Berger wrote: > > I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody > > packages -- libc6 was replaced on my potato box. Am I damned to use > > woody forever? Seriously, I want the stable vers

libc6 -- down to potato?

2000-10-14 Thread Andre Berger
I made a mistake when I upgraded my xemacs21-nomule from the woody packages -- libc6 was replaced on my potato box. Am I damned to use woody forever? Seriously, I want the stable version! Any help will be appreciated. -- Andre

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-14 Thread Andre Berger
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > emacs fans, please turn the other cheek-- > > how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog? > which does better syntax highlighting? which makes your teeth > whiter? Is there anything like reftex for vim? -- Andre

Re: Help Again moving /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom for apt-get

2000-10-14 Thread Andre Berger
Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:41:22AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > I used apt-cdrom briefly a few weeks ago and noted that it appears to be > > hardcoded to use /cdrom as a mountpoint. There must be a /cdrom > > directory, and an /etc/fstab ent

Re: Xvidtune

2000-10-11 Thread Andre Berger
"Cavaiani, Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Someone told me yesterday that I have "lousy modelines" and that I should > run Xvidtune. My problem is that I navigated through many directories to > get to that, but then it doesn't execute when I type in that name? Says > "command not found". 'xv

Re: ODP: Printer configuration on debian

2000-10-10 Thread Andre Berger
bscribe > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > -- > > "The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck > the societies in which they occur." > --Albert North Whitehead > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany

Re: installer won't boot on Mac IIcx

2000-10-05 Thread Andre Berger
Richard Jeantheau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My apologies if this has been covered -- I'm brand new > to the list and to Debian. > I am attempting to install potato on a Mac IIcx. Go to , you'll find the right kind of people there :) (But of course also stay subscribed here!) Installation o

Re: local printer ? i dunno

2000-10-04 Thread Andre Berger
David Erdman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > been having loads of problems getting a printer to work in debian. i keep > getting this. i have apsfilter loaded right now (as opposed to > magicfilter)...and lpr. the printer is an hp 4L laserjet. > i am using printtool to configure everything.

Re: User privelidges

2000-10-02 Thread Andre Berger
"ObeseWhale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I let users run X and mount drives? Thanks in advance. > > Matt "ObeseWhale" Grinshpun Tkdesk, set the "Directory" options (near bottom) to your mount points. But, more important, automate the unmounting of drives! E.g. in /etc/gdm/Postsessi

Re: German language for netscape 4.73, how?

2000-09-22 Thread Andre Berger
Molnar Imre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I found in internet several files "Netscape.ad" for diverse netscape versions, > bat not for the version 4.73. Netscape accepted only the same version of > "Netscape.ad"! Please help. copy Netscape.ad (for exmaple to be found at SuSE's ftp site ) to /etc/

Re: Do you recomend to upgrade to Woody?

2000-09-21 Thread Andre Berger
Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What's the best way to downgrade from woody to potato? > > I've never done it, but I think just editing /etc/apt/sources.list to > point to 'potato' instead of 'woody', then 'apt-get dist-upgrade', will do > it. apt-get & friends just know that woody

Re: Do you recomend to upgrade to Woody?

2000-09-20 Thread Andre Berger
Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This kind of question is pretty hard to answer, since it depends very > intimately on your situation, what you use it for, your skill and comfort > level, etc. Probably the answer is, it isn't a big deal either way. > Maybe the best thing is to just tr

Re: Internet Cafe

2000-09-20 Thread Andre Berger
/mnt/ ) do umount /mnt/$i 2> /dev/null done for i in $( ls /amnt/ ) do umount /amnt/$i 2> /dev/null done > Does GDM have PAM support so I can use LDAP authentication or if I'm > feeling lazy and not security conscious, a mysql table of users? No idea, sorry. -- Andre -- An

Re: Off Topic - putty, RH, debian, title changes upon login

2000-09-19 Thread Andre Berger
William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi guys, > > I found this little bit of trivia interesting but I cannot figure out how it > is happening. Under a friends RH box when I ssh into it from PuTTY it will > change the titlebar to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: /directory. That's very cool, > however

Psion S5

2000-09-09 Thread Andre Berger
I have a Psion S5 and would like to mount it on my potato box, which sould be more elegant than minicom/Comms single file ymodem transfers. p3nfsd should do, but I can't get it to work. I simply don't understand the documentation. I'm even unsure if I would have to install nfs in order to use p3nfs

Re: /tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread Andre Berger
"Bryan K. Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, >I made a horrible mistake today. I accidentally deleted the /tmp > directory and its contents. I quickly realized my mistake. I created it > again (but wasn't able to replace the contents of it). Now, I can start X as > root, b

Woody --> potato?

2000-09-06 Thread Andre Berger
Is there anything like apt-get dist-downgrade? -- Andre

Low memory laser printers (LJ Series II)

2000-08-26 Thread Andre Berger
Is there a way to print to low memory laser printers? My LaserJet Series II has 512k (or is it only 384k?) RAM, I would like to use cups but can't print the test page at 150dpi. The 'laserjetlo' 150dpi option from the magicfilter package works better, but the character spacing on the second half of

Re: fetchmail is eating my mail

2000-08-17 Thread Andre Berger
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andre Berger writes: > > I had pretty much the same symptoms. It happened because fetchmail didn't > > know where to deliver the mail because localhost was unknown. > > That should result in the mail being left on the s

Re: fetchmail is eating my mail

2000-08-17 Thread Andre Berger
"Richard E. Hawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Due to hardware problems, I've had to reinstall. I've lost the > configuration that was semi-working. > > Fetchmail is now eating my mail. It retrieves the messages, deletes > them from the server, and yet I have no mail. /var/spool/mqueue is

Re: please read this everyone

2000-08-12 Thread Andre Berger
James Waterhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everyone, > thanks for taking the time to read this. I'm a new user of debian > and I seem to be having troubles. I'm running ypbind on a mac (running > debian-68k 2.2) and I cannot get it to bind to my nis server (I've had > no problems wit

Re: ppp connect/disconnect notification?

2000-08-10 Thread Andre Berger
"Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:06:49AM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote: > > In /etc/ppp, there are scripts ip-up and ip-down, which, in turn, > > call programs and scripts in ip-up.d and ip-down.d, in which you > > can put some script that echoes a connection n

Re: Macintosh 840AV?

2000-08-10 Thread Andre Berger
Richard Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know if the Debian 68k version of Linux will work with a Mac > 840AV? > > I almost had it running from the files I downloaded from the Debian site, but > the penguin would hang on what seemed to be the final step in the install. So > I

Re: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

2000-08-08 Thread Andre Berger
Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello there, > > I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week, > which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is > working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot > from harddis

Re: Xfree mouse trouble

2000-08-07 Thread Andre Berger
"CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was just wondering, what are the differences (if any) between using gpm > and the x-mouse?...and what are the advantages? gpm will give you a mouse cursor on the consoles, so you have the ability to paste selected text with the middle b

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-07-29 Thread Andre Berger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marek Habersack) writes: > it as on a marketing/support factor. If any of your customers would come to > you and say "hm... I would switch to Linux, but I kinda like the M$ Outlook. > If Linux had something like that...". Now you will be able to say "Voila! > Evolution - right h

papersize in pixels; reverse printing

2000-07-21 Thread Andre Berger
ully understand 'man ps2ps' in this respect, and I'm not sure where to put the pipe into my /etc/printcap. Andre -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany

Re: Background mail transfers

2000-07-18 Thread Andre Berger
Barry Samuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I normally work within a window manager environment (mostly KDE) when > using Debian Potato and have used KMail to download mail directly from my > ISP pop3 accounts. > > I recently decided to setup fetchmail to poll my pop3 mail servers in the > backgr

Re: anyone knowledgeable enough pls help!

2000-07-17 Thread Andre Berger
;s lock file (see the Kiosk HOWTO). - if you want them to be able to save pages to floppies, use autofs The whole thing will _definitely_ compromize security. > btw, what's the difference between keycodes and keysyms? Can't help you in this respect. HTH Andre -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany

Re: TkDesk problem

2000-07-06 Thread Andre Berger
Let TkDesk read its configuration from its library directory. This means that TkDesk will start using the default configuration. Andre -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany No computer was harmed during the making of this message.

Re: Mustek 12000SP (SANE)

2000-07-05 Thread Andre Berger
Sven Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you if there is any way to say them that my scanner is a MUSTEK ? (a > configuration file) Try man sane-mustek Andre

Re: which netscape? lynx set-up?

2000-07-03 Thread Andre Berger
Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 06:27:17PM -0500, Philippe wrote: > > also, do you know how to configure an X manager so that a 1 button USB > > macintosh mouse can copy and paste in xterminals? (it is able to select > > text in emacs currently but not to paste by a clic

Re: Xemacs/GNUs and decoding attachments

2000-07-02 Thread Andre Berger
Christopher Splinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Christopher Splinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Christopher Splinter <[EMAIL PR

Re: Xemacs/GNUs and decoding attachments

2000-07-01 Thread Andre Berger
Christopher Splinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Christopher Splinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you use tm, you probably also use Gnus < 5.8.0, right? You > > > should upgrade. >

Re: Xemacs/GNUs and decoding attachments

2000-07-01 Thread Andre Berger
Christopher Splinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > application/x-gzip; base64 -> /tmp/Xautoconfig-0.6.tar.gz > > /usr/share/xemacs21/packages/lib-src/tmdecode: mmencode: command not found > > Try putting &qu

Xemacs/GNUs and decoding attachments

2000-07-01 Thread Andre Berger
I get this error when I try to decode an attachment I received. application/x-gzip; base64 -> /tmp/Xautoconfig-0.6.tar.gz /usr/share/xemacs21/packages/lib-src/tmdecode: mmencode: command not found Process tm-file exited abnormally with code 127 How can I get rid of it? I'm using potato/PPC and

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-07-01 Thread Andre Berger
Stefan Nobis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bill Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Missing files in the compile. > > The log follows. Snipped out all the good makes. This was a second run. > > If you got postgresql with apt-get source... then there are 3 files: > > *.orig.tar.gz > *.dif

Re: Which window manager

2000-07-01 Thread Andre Berger
Dinesh Nadarajah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am looking for a window manager for debian that will > not soakup the system resources. Which one would you > suggest? > > Thanks. > > -D My favourite combo is sawfish (CoolClean Theme) with tkdesk (Be'ish style) instead of gnome-panel. Sawfish i

dialup scripts

2000-06-26 Thread Andre Berger
I would like to add a script "/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/zzdone" which looks for a file "MAILONLY" in the Home-directory of the non-root user who invoked pon, and if this file exists, terminates the PPP session of this user. How can "etc/ppp/ip-up.d/zzdone" know which user started "pon"? The pppd process i

Re: Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)

2000-06-24 Thread Andre Berger
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sorry, use kill -9 $(pidof communicator-smotif.real) or something like that. Andre > Peter Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > > From man 1 bash: > >Com

Re: Bash script question (was: Re: Netscape 4.73 wrapper broken)

2000-06-24 Thread Andre Berger
Peter Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > From man 1 bash: >Command Substitution >Command substitution allows the output of a command to >replace the command name. There are two forms: > > $(command) >or >

Re: Xemacs/GNUs

2000-06-22 Thread Andre Berger
Christopher Splinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm using Xemacs21.1.10(nomule)/GNUs 5.6.45 and I would like to > > filter out all duplicate messages (the ones GNUs warns about). > > See section

Xemacs/GNUs

2000-06-22 Thread Andre Berger
I'm using Xemacs21.1.10(nomule)/GNUs 5.6.45 and I would like to filter out all duplicate messages (the ones GNUs warns about). I will have to set up a global kill file with a regexp, won't I? (It would be great if someone could provide an example.) Andre

Re: your mail

2000-06-19 Thread Andre Berger
Please: Avoid mails with subjects like "Re: your mail" and responses like "What version of windows". Respect the public character of this mailing list. Andre "Arthur H. Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What version of windows? > > Arthur H. Edwards > 712 Valencia Dr. NE > Abq. NM 87108 >

Re: Netscape using exim/fetchmail?

2000-06-16 Thread Andre Berger
or the Outgoing Mail server for the use with exim? How does e.g. GNUs spool to exim and can I adopt this for Netscape? Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can I force Netscape Communicator 4.72 to bypass its own mail system > and use exim and fetchmail instead? Background: I have a

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-06-15 Thread Andre Berger
Your newsgroup is . Use a meaningful subject line, please. Andre "Harold G. Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm shopping for an Apple PowerBook 500MHz 128MB 12GB hard drive. > > 1- can anyone suggest where to buy it at lowest cost? > > 2- any suggestions on installing and

Netscape using exim/fetchmail?

2000-06-08 Thread Andre Berger
Can I force Netscape Communicator 4.72 to bypass its own mail system and use exim and fetchmail instead? Background: I have a dial-up connection and a few users (my family) with www-based free mail accounts (gmx) who are used to Netscape, but want to write their mail off-line. It would be much chea

Re: Strange GPM behavior

2000-05-31 Thread Andre Berger
I would try to remove the line repeat_type=ms3 first. Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have this with XF86 4.0 (compiled locally) but not with 3.3.6 installed > from Potato. I'm using a Logitech multiprotocol ps2 mouse in ps2 mode. > > On Sun, 28 May 2000, Craig McPherson wrote: > >

OT: Xemacs21-nomule/GNUs: turn off split by default?

2000-05-31 Thread Andre Berger
Does anybody know the trick to turn off the Multipart Mime splitting of messages with larger attachments in Xemacs21-nomule/GNUS by default? Andre

Re: ssh stopped working

2000-05-29 Thread Andre Berger
Sorry for my quite unprofessional posting. The problem has been solved now; my ISP's dialin-server had a wrong configuration. Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can you take a look at the syslog of the o

ssh stopped working

2000-05-27 Thread Andre Berger
I had a functional ssh (potato/ppc), but now it has stopped working. The error message I get is ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host when I try to connect to the same hosts as before. I have no idea why. (ssh is already purged and reinstalled.) -- Andre

fetchmail

2000-05-11 Thread Andre Berger
n and they work fine there: #/home/andre/.fetchmailrc poll mailin.uni-bonn.de with protocol POP3, with options user "myname" there with password "mypass" is andre here I'm absolutely clueless. Andre -- Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from Bonn, Germany

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