prevent um-imapd writing folders to $HOME?

2004-03-10 Thread Benjamin Rutt
I'm running debian unstable, and uw-imapd. Is there any way to prevent uw-imapd from writing its mail folders to $HOME, which clutters up things in the $HOME directory terribly? I'd really like it to put the folders in $HOME/imap-folders etc. I tried reading some notes under

frozen-bubble won't load after moving to unstable

2003-12-06 Thread Benjamin Rutt
Ever since I upgraded from stable to unstable recently, I have been unable to execute frozen-bubble anymore. I've been getting the following errors: $ /usr/games/frozen-bubble Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/auto/SDL_perl/SDL_perl.so' for module SDL_perl: libGL.so.1: cannot handle TLS data

Re: sndconfig problems: sound only works until reboot

2003-05-29 Thread Benjamin Rutt
Joris Huizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the problem is that sndconfig uses modules which are normally not active (temporarily activating them or something) - I allready found it uses a module called 'opl3' which was not active. I now have got the following sound modules installed:

Re: searching for what package includes a given file

2003-04-03 Thread Benjamin Rutt
Nicolas Kratz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:36:28PM -0500, Benjamin Rutt wrote: Is there a way to do that search via command-line tools without resorting to the web page? I know that dpkg -S expression will do that for packages already installed on your system

Re: searching for what package includes a given file

2003-04-03 Thread Benjamin Rutt
Nicolas Kratz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:36:28PM -0500, Benjamin Rutt wrote: Is there a way to do that search via command-line tools without resorting to the web page? I know that dpkg -S expression will do that for packages already installed on your system

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-03 Thread Benjamin Rutt
Hugh Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:18:30AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't meant to be picking on you. But I've been considering this for a while. People shouldn't wrap lines at all in messages they send -- this is a hoary hold-over from the dark

searching for what package includes a given file

2003-04-02 Thread Benjamin Rutt
I just successfully used Search the contents of packages from http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages to determine what package in stable provides GL/glx.h. Is there a way to do that search via command-line tools without resorting to the web page? I know that dpkg -S expression will do that for

Re: alternative to endeavour2

2003-03-13 Thread Benjamin Rutt
Bob Paige [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Speaking of replying, I use Mozilla-Mail. Is there a way to have it default to replying only to the list, and not all recipients? Upgrade to a mail client that supports the Mail-Followup-To: header. That way, when you respond to a mailing list post which

image viewer that refreshes?

2003-03-11 Thread Benjamin Rutt
I have a .jpg image that keeps changing (from a webcam). Is there an image viewer in debian's packages that will display the image and automatically refresh the image when it has changed? I've already tried gqview, xli and display, and qiv. ('display -update 1' doesn't update as advertised).

Re: image viewer that refreshes?

2003-03-11 Thread Benjamin Rutt
Gregory Seidman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let us assume that your image is the free JenniCam, which updates every 20 minutes, and that you have a cron job or some other process doing the downloading: #!/bin/sh WATCHIMG=/tmp/jennicam.jpg display -immutable $WATCHIMG while true do

Re: image viewer that refreshes?

2003-03-11 Thread Benjamin Rutt
Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I haven't used this, but I have used a number of other applications that work like this. Basically, giving 'display' the option '-immutable' and throwing it into the background makes display sorta kinda act like a server of sorts -- commands

Re: How can I find out what MTA a debian machine is using?

2003-03-10 Thread Benjamin Rutt
stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thinking that this should be simple, I looked in /etc/alternatives, but I did not see anything that looke liek a reference to an MTA there. You can do 'ls -al /usr/lib/sendmail'; typically, that file identifies your MTA. -- Benjamin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: commands within shell script

2003-03-04 Thread Benjamin Rutt
Nori Heikkinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: okay, this is cool ... i'd just misunderstood a friend's question. he doesn't even want to run top, he wants to stick in a bunch of echo statements. In that case, place 'set -x' as the 2nd line of the shell script (the line after the #! business) and