Re: [Q] dselect-mountable install does not find packages

1998-01-30 Thread Andy Mortimer
Kirk Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: grin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The 'mountable' method of dselect is great -- you don't have to wait for thousands of packages telling you it's already installed. Agreed! BZ to its author (Andy Mortimer, I think). But while from the local disk

Re: web documentation

1997-06-11 Thread Andy Mortimer
was running it from inetd anyway, so it was a little more complicated, but you can probably just remove apache before starting boa and it'll all be fine. Either that, or just run /etc/init.d/boa start once you've removed apache. E -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.poboxes.com

Re: DSELECT question

1997-06-11 Thread Andy Mortimer
On Jun 3, Alexander Stavitsky wrote On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Andy Mortimer wrote: On Jun 3, Fredrik Ax wrote I agree with you that it is a bit irretating that deselect scans for ALL pakages ... I can see that it's done for consistency reasons, BUT it would be great if there was a switch

Re: DSELECT question

1997-06-03 Thread Andy Mortimer
it manually, but it's mostly only for convenience; unless you're fairly sure what you're doing, you'd probably do better to steer clear of it, especially as unstable is going over to use libc6 fairly soon. Neither of these two methods, though, should have any problem with symlinks. E -- Andy

Re: EMACS screen weirdness

1997-05-28 Thread Andy Mortimer
On May 28, Kendall P. Bullen wrote On Mon, 26 May 1997, Andy Mortimer wrote: This is probably not the case, but I thought I'd mention it; you aren't by any chance using XEmacs rather than FSF Emacs, are you? ISTR getting this problem with 19.14; although it has been fixed in 19.15

Re: EMACS screen weirdness

1997-05-26 Thread Andy Mortimer
I'd mention it; you aren't by any chance using XEmacs rather than FSF Emacs, are you? ISTR getting this problem with 19.14; although it has been fixed in 19.15 (in Hamm), this version has it's own problems. Sorry I can't suggest any fixes if this is the case, though. :( E -- Andy Mortimer

Re: missed cron jobs

1997-05-15 Thread Andy Mortimer
just this. It can be run at bootup and from cron, and if it hasn't been run yet that day, executes the scripts. So you can turn your machine on, and go and have breakfast, and come back when it's done! (I too have a lowly 486 :) E -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netforward.com

Re: binary problems

1997-05-01 Thread Andy Mortimer
]:~$ --- The fix is to recompile your kernel, and include support for a.out binaries either as a module or in the kernel. If you just want it as a module (which I'd recommend), you probably only need to make the modules. I have no idea why it compiled as a.out for you, though ... HTH, E -- Andy

Re: Things I miss from Slackware - Could I implement this in my Debian system?

1997-04-25 Thread Andy Mortimer
yellow Hope this helps. I find it very useful. E -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netforward.com/poboxes/?andy.mortimer Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key -- i've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they're real i've been living so long

Announce: generic user interfacing tool (was: Re: A Qt alternati

1997-04-04 Thread Andy Mortimer
[ CC to debian-user left in, but I don't read it, so please preserve a CC to me if you respond to it on there ] On 3 Apr 97, Lars Hallberg Micro++ wrote: What do You think of a Wrapper Class Libary that makes it easy to write code that runns on diferent widget sets? If it makes it posably

Re: strange who/wtmp

1997-03-13 Thread Andy Mortimer
. The only way I could find to get around it was to log out and back in again. I suppose I ought to do some more research on this, actually ... HTH, E -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netforward.com/poboxes/?andy.mortimer Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key -- i've been looking