compiling PHP3 on potato againt postgres, c.

2000-12-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
for ImageMagick and bz2 on the system. Thanks for any pointers, A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street

Re: building postgres 7.0.3 on potato?

2000-12-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 05:51:16PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: Do you have bison and flex installed? They're required for the parser. Oh, shoot, I thought I'd checked on bison, but I just re-checked, and you're right. I'm a moron. Thanks. -- Andrew Sullivan

Re: way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?

2000-12-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:57:24AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: dpkg --get-selections --root=/whever-you-have-mounted-your-dead-system may work. This worked beautifully, once I constructed a fake path under a temporary directory. Thanks for the suggestions, all. A -- Andrew Sullivan

way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?

2000-12-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
? A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7R 1J4

Re: way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?

2000-12-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
, A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7R 1J4

building postgres 7.0.3 on potato?

2000-12-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
-stamp] Error 1 debuild: fatal error at line 293: dpkg-buildpackage failed: Illegal seek A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New

Re: way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?

2000-12-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
up with. It's not suitable for --set-selections, but it'll do. Thanks. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street

LyX and HTML exports

2000-12-01 Thread Andrew Sullivan
, so it looks like hell, but it's still there. Naturally, though, this is an imperfect solution. Any further suggestions on something that I might be overlooking would be more than welcome. Thanks. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED

LyX and HTML exports

2000-11-28 Thread Andrew Sullivan
, the responses indicated that others have had no problem. It could be only a local problem, of course, so I'm wondering if anyone else has managed to get the lyxcode environment to put out fixed-width HTML under Debian. If so, did you do anything special, or did it just work? Thanks, A -- Andrew Sullivan

Re: fullscreen apps (in X) - windowmanager support?

2000-11-14 Thread Andrew Sullivan
haven't tried it, though. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street Burlington, Ontario

Re: Where on the disks 2.2 is LyX?

2000-11-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
is not in main, but in contrib, because it depends on the Xforms library, which is not free. There is a current effort under way to port LyX to GTK+, I believe. If you want LyX, add the relevant contrib and non-free sections to your apt sources.list, and it will install. A -- Andrew Sullivan

Re: GPL and software I have written

2000-11-01 Thread Andrew Sullivan
is quite another matter, since no-one's ever tested it.) A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street

OT: Who's governed by GPL? (Was: GPL and software I have written)

2000-11-01 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 05:39:40PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not true that nothing in the GPL restricts the author in any way. IANAL, but this sounds nonsensical. The licence is a grant of rights from the licensor to the licensee, and it's up

Re: Sound on Diamond Sonic Impact, searching for a appropiate module

2000-10-26 Thread Andrew Sullivan
even know there were such things), the video portion would not be relevant to the support for the sound. Just having a look at the new system pertubed me - there is no /usr/src/linux directory! You likely haven't installed the kernel-source package for your preferred kernel. A -- Andrew

Re: Stormix and Brokerage Fees

2000-10-20 Thread Andrew Sullivan
fees for such a straightforward transaction. Given the NAFTA, one would have imagined that brokers would have dried up; that there are more brokers than ever gives the lie to the F in the acronym. I speak only for myself, and not the BPL. -- Andrew Sullivan

Re: Problems with my cable company

2000-10-18 Thread Andrew Sullivan
the cable modem, and there's already a MAC address cached, you can't get another card to grab an IP. The answer, in this case, is to reset the cable modem. That will mkae it lose its cache. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PHP4 Apache

2000-10-11 Thread Andrew Sullivan
? Do you have a mime-type or an application type set of PHP4? Is it the same extension? --- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street

Re: PHP4 Apache

2000-10-11 Thread Andrew Sullivan
about this, because I haven't played with the config too much (PHP4 was not ready when I started the project I'm using PHP3 for, and I'm in no hurry to go back and re-test everything with PHP4). Hope this is useful, anyway. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services

Re: PHP - A new approach

2000-10-11 Thread Andrew Sullivan
is loaded properly (it is never configured to load for me by default); alternatively, manually call the module for insertion from inside your PHP scripts. This is slower if you're using the database on every page. That's all I've ever done. Good luck. A -- Andrew Sullivan

Re: Followup: access to /var/log/messages

2000-09-01 Thread Andrew Sullivan
$ls -l /var/log/messages gets you -rw-r-1 root adm 78711 Sep 1 15:52 /var/log/messages which tells you that user root can read and write to this file, and anyone in the group adm can _read_ the file. No-one else can read it, either. A -- Andrew Sullivan

snet-mail in mutt (was:Re: mail)

2000-08-25 Thread Andrew Sullivan
in pine)?? Yes, you can use the record-option in your .muttrc. Something like: set record = =sent-messages does the job. And you can get the month and year in there, too, just like in pine. See the mutt FAQ: http://www.fefe.de/muttfaq/faq.html#common-problems a -- Andrew Sullivan

Re: Helix Gnome Evolution 0.3

2000-08-04 Thread Andrew Sullivan
that makes it immune to those problems. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street Burlington

Re: Man -K

2000-08-02 Thread Andrew Sullivan
, though, on potato. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7R

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-26 Thread Andrew Sullivan
-9902/ you find it on page 2. The word fetchpop is also in the body of the message, so why wouldn't a search on this turn it up? Are the mail archives badly broken? (And if so, could someone post a note to that effect until they get fixed?) A -- Andrew Sullivan

Re: Getting apache, PHP3, and PostgreSQL working together.

2000-07-18 Thread Andrew Sullivan
don't know. I do know that you can install the php3-pgsql package without having PostgreSQL installed, so apparently there is no dependency. -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611

Re: [Q] virus susceptibility data

2000-07-18 Thread Andrew Sullivan
trivia, Tom Christiansen has a long rant on why the plural of virus is 'viruses', and most especially, is not 'virii': http://language.perl.com/misc/virus.html -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington

Re: Offering external services, rlogins, smtp etc: how does it work?

2000-07-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:02:39AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use ssh, or telnet, if you must (although that's just as risky). I've heard it said that rlogin has security problems, but I don't understand why? And surely if there are problems

Re: Postgresql 7.02 and Debian

2000-06-27 Thread Andrew Sullivan
with the version from woody, and you want to use PHP, you may have to do some compiling from source. -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New

Re: postfix help

2000-06-22 Thread Andrew Sullivan
sorted out, but a cool service. -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street Burlington, Ontario

Pine (Was: [Fwd: dependencies rpoblem])

2000-06-21 Thread Andrew Sullivan
to Debian policy, and the copyright holders on pine do not allow you to distribute altered binaries. Therefore, pine is in non-free (and, just to be clear, it's not part of official Debian). There's also a set of diffs for altering pine to make it Debianized. A -- Andrew Sullivan

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-16 Thread Andrew Sullivan
Win4Lin: http://www.trelos.com/trelos/Trelos/Products/Product_Information.htm This is useful if you _only_ want to use Windows (and don't need other OS environments). I don't know how it works, though. It's new. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer

Re: pgaccess Postgresql

2000-06-13 Thread Andrew Sullivan
_think_ that pgaccess connects to a TCP/IP socket. -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street

Re: Best way to copy Linux from one drive to another

2000-06-12 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 08:18:05AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best way to copy my Debian installation from one disk to another? Try the HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html -- Andrew Sullivan Computer

Re: telnet replacement

2000-06-12 Thread Andrew Sullivan
A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7R 1J4

Re: Kernel Compile on Potato

2000-06-09 Thread Andrew Sullivan
solve it by appending -dev to the package name.) -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street

Re: gv

2000-06-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 07:14:10AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: BTW, what kind of tool do you use to convert .ps to .pdf? gv can do .pdf to .ps, acroread does the same thing too. ps2pdf. It should be in the gs package, I think. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer

Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
, and do not represent the opinion of the BPL. -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street

Re: Need help with mirroring non-US (fwd)

2000-04-14 Thread Andrew Sullivan
Here's one that works for me: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US frozen non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free (the line is wrapped, but you can fix that at your end). -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Another modem question (was: Modem not working)

2000-04-14 Thread Andrew Sullivan
are Winmodems. As for the install-'em-both approach, I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158

php3-pgsql module not loading?

2000-04-13 Thread Andrew Sullivan
for any tips. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7R 1J4

Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'

2000-03-25 Thread Andrew Sullivan
to get this to work. this is also a somewhat obscure solution to propose to the clients. it also (again afaict) requires the user to have a interactive ssh account. again this won't work for ftp only users. See the man pages for ssh-agent. -- Andrew Sullivan

Re: ...no Masquerade...?

2000-03-25 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 05:37:19PM +1030, John Pearson wrote: Um.. in spite of what Andrew said, they're not modules. I hate it when I write without my brain engaged. Sorry, I wasn't thinking. -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Moving /home to new Parition

2000-03-24 Thread Andrew Sullivan
/home on /dev/hda12? mount /dev/hda12 /mnt cp -ra /home/* /mnt umount /mnt mv /home /oldhome [paranoia setting = high] [edit /etc/fstab to get /dev/hda12 to mount as /home] mount -a Should get you what you want. -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL

Re: Limping and bleeding with Corel Linux

2000-03-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
peculiar to some IBM laptops (and, presumably, other machines that do the same thing with shadowing the video RAM). A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158

Re: Changing the appearance of XDM

2000-03-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 05:35:55PM +0100, Christian Rishøj wrote: How can I change the appearance of the XDM login screen? I am thinking about changing the background and the font types. Make sure you have XBanner installed, and edit the file /etc/X11/XBanner.ad A -- Andrew

latex2html no such image type

2000-03-18 Thread Andrew Sullivan
-verbositty 8 I still get the same output. Any suggestions? Thanks, A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street