Re: fakeroot on debian/rules binary?

2001-10-16 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 11:05:20PM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote: How do you do a fakeroot when you build a package from source? $debian/rules binary $fakeroot debian/rules binary -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
to install it in my system. I have a Pentium II, 266 MHz, with 128 MB of RAM. Is this sufficient to play DVDs using a software player? -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D AEED 5680 B41A 61FE 5A5F BB51 B853

Re: DVD Player Software

2001-10-15 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
a ATI 3D Rage II+ (Mach 64 chip, PCI card). I'm running xfree86 4.1.0. -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D AEED 5680 B41A 61FE 5A5F BB51 B853 FFFE

Re: Compiling a kernel on another processor

2001-09-16 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
/lib/modules/2.4.9 !!! Is this OK ? This shouldn't be a problem as long as you choose the correct processor when you run 'make config'. -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D AEED 5680 B41A 61FE 5A5F BB51 B853

Re: compiling in non-standard features

2001-07-20 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
/rules file and alter the ./configure call to add --with-sasl (or whatever ./configure command adds sasl support). -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D AEED 5680 B41A 61FE 5A5F BB51 B853 FFFE

Re: Reading WordPerfect files

2001-07-05 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
package, although it's written to work with WordPerfect 5 it might work with later versions. It works for everybody around here, but we use WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. Many people use later versions now and I don't know if the later version files work with wp2x. -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred

Re: Would like to ask for some information regarding about debian's installation

2001-07-05 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
remember what system it was using (not UNIX, the commands were more verbose, ex. COPY instead of cp. Also I think I remember it being all capitals but I can't remember.) In any case we became fairly profecient on it. -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly

Re: ntpdate on two machines

2001-06-18 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 03:57:15PM +0200, Matthieu Paindavoine wrote: I am running ntpdate as a cronjob on 2 machines. Both machines should have the same time. But, the second has a time which is one hour behind. What are the contents of /etc/timezone on each machine? -- Harry Henry Gebel

Re: transfer between win2k and debian

2001-06-12 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
in? -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D AEED 5680 B41A 61FE 5A5F BB51 B853 FFFE pgpgdeXdBxiwi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Is there a .deb of a (recent) html validator?

2001-06-08 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
anyone have a .deb of either an update of wdg-html-validator, or of some other html validator that does 4.01 transitional? nsgmls in package sp is a validating parser. -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D

Re: ascii formatting package

2001-06-07 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
to convert it to docbook; the docbook could then be converted to pdf using any of several tools; alternatively there is a Python library that can generate PDF files directly, so you could write a Python script to generate the PDF directly from the ascii text. -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred

Re: Help: removing ximian from testing

2001-06-07 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
by looking at the above pages. Also, if you were using gdm before, you will probably want to install it again. -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D AEED 5680 B41A 61FE 5A5F BB51 B853 FFFE pgp0vTw85SNHI.pgp

Re: fakeroot problem

2001-06-02 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
not since according to bug #98766 the change is necessary for sparc64) -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D AEED 5680 B41A 61FE 5A5F BB51 B853 FFFE pgp9tlzSdPyUR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: crontab running scripts

2001-05-31 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
of you script, this will eliminate having to type the paths over for each line. -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D AEED 5680 B41A 61FE 5A5F BB51 B853 FFFE pgpXaGl5eT4yE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SSHD-config

2001-05-31 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
and hosts.deny . I think the default hosts.deny in Debian is now 'ALL: PARANOID', at least that was the setting when I installed Debian (in September). -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D AEED 5680 B41A 61FE 5A5F BB51

Re: debs for python 2.1

2001-05-25 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
, and unofficial; they are from Gregor Hoffleit, the maintainer of the official Python debs. -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D AEED 5680 B41A 61FE 5A5F BB51 B853 FFFE pgpPKZyCn14BR.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Newbie: where did my tar.gz file decompress to?

2001-05-24 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
cron job hasn't run since you extracted the files run su -c /etc/cron.daily/find before running locate. Then just run locate name_of_file_or_piece_of_name -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D AEED 5680

Problem with today's testing upgrade

2001-05-09 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
I run testing and upgrade every 24 - 72 hours. When I upgraded today I managed to the packaging system into a state I can't get it out of. I have included a transcript of what I did, if anyone can point out what I did and how to fix it I would appreciate it. elroy:/home/hgebel# apt-get -u

Re: packaging-manual conflicts w/ debian-policy?

2001-05-08 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
replacing the packaging manual, they will no longer be separate packages. -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D AEED 5680 B41A 61FE 5A5F BB51 B853 FFFE pgpOraK4T9SLF.pgp Description: PGP signature

man and screen size

2001-04-26 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
? -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D AEED 5680 B41A 61FE 5A5F BB51 B853 FFFE pgpEIMvxfUCgD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Getting package from testing for potato

2001-04-26 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:54:32AM -0700, D. Hoyem wrote: Do Not get to excited about this i did it last night and received this message unknown command -dep. I'm using Potato upgraded to 2.2r.3 --- csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 25 April 2001 18:15, Harry Henry Gebel wrote

Re: Getting package from testing for potato

2001-04-25 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
source`). -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware GPG encrypted email gladly accepted. Key ID: B853FFFE Fingerprint: 15A6 F58D AEED 5680 B41A 61FE 5A5F BB51 B853 FFFE pgpaRApZY1RkJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: The following packages have been held back...

2001-04-09 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
of the packages that was in the list. It upgraded without a problem. You can try to run `apt-get dist-upgrade`, this will often solve the problem, but make sure you read the report before saying Yes, because it may mark a package you want for deletion. -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: install package from source

2001-04-06 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
a particular dependency and can keep the packaging system happy. -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware pgpxJ8sm1l9XA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Linux Virus

2001-04-03 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
. -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware pgpu3SpgCGy6s.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mutt-1.3

2001-03-27 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
sniffer http://packages.debian.org/mutt indicates it's available for stable/potato, testing and unstable. Actually, it is only available in testing and unstable, potato has version 1.2.5 . -- Harry Henry Gebel West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: SCREENSHOT - what software/method to use

2000-12-12 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
simple questin make me blush since I see so many screen shots on the web. If you are using Gnome, you have one available called ScreenShooter which is in Applets/Utility . If you have the Gimp on your system, you can use File/Acquire/Screenshot . -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover

Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-11 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
at http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ , they explain it alot better than me. And did I mention in is REALLY easy to set up and GPLed. -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: DocBook -- stylesheets help?

2000-12-09 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
because I don't like the way the default stylesheets handle those tags. -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: Mutt Question

2000-12-07 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 07:49:38PM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: Is there a way to tell mutt to sort by thread mode by default (in .muttrc)? set sort=threads -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: Getting off-line version of debian manual

2000-12-06 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
in the package list, so whatever you are looking for is probably in there. -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-05 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
(specifically, where to resume the transfer). -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: apt: http vs. ftp?

2000-12-05 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
small that it wouldn't be worth not being able to use all of the existing http servers/clients that are already out their. -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: Modules not showing up after compile - why?

2000-12-04 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
/proc mounted). -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: mutt question

2000-12-04 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
know the answer off hand? I use the following line in .muttrc macro index C escc!\n Change to mail spool Change 'C' to 'left' (I think) for the left arrow key. This will also change you to the mail spool if you are already in it. -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: Modules not showing up after compile - why?

2000-12-04 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 03:04:53PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 04 Dec 2000, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:16:35PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: However, lsmod and modprobe show nothing: there is no /proc/ksyms or /proc/modules. Questions: why don't

does anyone use psgml with XEmacs?

2000-12-02 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
be extremely convenient if psgml mode was working to it's full potential. -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

does anyone use psgml with XEmacs - followup

2000-12-02 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
thought maybe that behavior could give someone an idea of what the problem is. -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: what is ?

2000-12-02 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 01:27:24PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Harry Henry Gebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The single quote retains it's special meaning because otherwise you would have no way to stop typing the argument, the backslash retains it's special meaning in case you have to insert

Re: executable compatible with Debian and Redhat?

2000-12-01 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
administer runs RedHat 7.0 or Woody, so I cannot comment on how packages from one run on the other. However, from everything I have heard the problem is primarily a gcc one, so I suspect that Woody and RedHat 7.0 are not compatible. -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: what is ?

2000-12-01 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
typing the argument, the backslash retains it's special meaning in case you have to insert a single quote character into the argument. You can also still abort the command with CTRL-C . -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

recommend a secure shell client for Windows

2000-11-30 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
will have to find a Windows X server for him, but that is a problem I'll deal with when it comes up, maybe by then he'll be willing to put Linux on one of his machines.) -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: Who is 'nobody'?

2000-11-30 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
that can be caused by a bug or security problem in the program. -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: Who is 'nobody'?

2000-11-30 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
be world readable and why shadow passwords came into existence.) If 'nobody' was not listed in /etc/password su (or any other program) would be able to figure out what UID to change to. -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

PSGML problems since upgrade

2000-11-30 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
configuration file; but I created a new user and got the same problem when logged in as that user. Does anyone have an idea what is going on here? I wish I knew more about psgml (and sgml in general) internals so I could figure it out on my own, but I don't. -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382

Re: gpg: Warning: using shared memory - SUID?

2000-11-30 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
. -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: executable compatible with Debian and Redhat?

2000-11-30 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
binary incompatable with any other GNU/Linux implementation. As I said this is hear say, I'll try and find references one way or the other. This is true, you can find a discussion of it on lwn.net a few weeks back. -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: gpg: Warning: using shared memory - SUID?

2000-11-30 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:03:57PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:57:53PM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:09:26PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: kmself == kmself kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: You're probably

Re: Debian Task Installer

2000-11-29 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 11:50:17AM +0200, Adrian Nims wrote: and I want to run Debian Task Installer after the installation complete. Can anyone help me, please, and remind me the name of this programm to The program is `tasksel` -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred

Re: Froze Up: Lack of Memory

2000-11-28 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
that it will, but I never found out about Magic SysRq until after the Mach64 xserver advanced past the stage where it locks up all of the time, so I haven't been able to test it. -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: disk space anomaly

2000-11-26 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
bad blocks on a brand new computer you should be able to get a warranty replacement. -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: how to access image file without floppy

2000-11-24 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
is a compressed ext2 filesystem) Backup file: cp root.bin temp_root.bin.gz decompress:gunzip temp_root.bin.gz mount: mount -o loop -t ext2 temp_root.bin /mnt -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

X configuration deleted by upgrade (potato r0 to r1)! Please help

2000-11-22 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
-- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

X configuration help needed (3.3.6)

2000-11-22 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1024x768 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 32 Modes 1024x768 EndSubsection EndSection -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: Preserving config across updates

2000-11-22 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
). -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: X configuration help needed (3.3.6)

2000-11-22 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
, that was the last problem. I am still curious as to my original file was replaced without asking me, and why no backup was kept of it, but at least everything is working now. Thanks again! -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: Mutt Address book

2000-10-02 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
. Unfortunately, that only works if you are keeping them in alphabetical order or some other order that the computer can easily deduce. I keep them in order by category, how long I have known the person (if it's a person), and whether I have ever met them face-to-face. -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior

Re: Mutt Address book

2000-09-27 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
the alias command in .muttrc like so: alias harry Harry Henry Gebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] This command would set harry to equal my address. You can also have multiple address like this: alias a [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias g a, [EMAIL PROTECTED] after this g would equal [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: debian: C library man pages

2000-09-26 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:31:22PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: What package do I need to install to get the C library manpages. Try package manpages-dev . -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBSICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: xscreensaver password

2000-09-25 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
that instead? Otherwise I guess you have to be careful to make sure you run passwd before you log out after making this change. -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBSICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: Obsolete packages

2000-09-24 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
soundalsa-utils 0.5.9-1 none *** Xtr soundlibasound1 0.5.9-1 none *** Xtr soundlibasound1-d 0.5.9-1 none -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBSICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: Mozilla eats even more memory

2000-09-22 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
knowledge could clear this up? -- Harry Henry Gebel, Landon House SBSICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Question about updates

2000-09-20 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
also be phrased: what is the criterion for an updated package being placed in stable, and if I want to keep up with security updates and bug fixes do I have to track anything else that the default locations? -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBSICQ# 76308382 West Dover

Re: Download

2000-09-19 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
files for you. -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBSICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

2000-09-19 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBSICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: apt-get problems

2000-09-18 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
into dselect and pressed '=' while highlighting kernel_image, this worked for me. -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBSICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware

How do I use setiathome package?

2000-09-17 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
faster than the i386 version (if not I can just get the i386 version and use it instead.) -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBSICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware