Java (aka icedtea) plugin for iceweasel, settings

2015-11-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
I can pass options to java programs by setting the environment variable JAVA_ARGS. This works by ultimately passing the contents of the variable on the command line to the java runtime binary, such as /usr/bin/java; well behaved packages do this themselves by using the shell functions in

Re: Search engine for documentation indexing?

2010-02-10 Thread Ian Zimmerman
to the index. Is it possible to run 2 indexer processes at once, each updating the same index but with different files? -- Ian Zimmerman i...@buug.org gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Ham is for reading, not for eating. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Search engine for documentation indexing?

2010-02-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
to add a user-defined filter either to compensate for this (swish-e has user filters). I can't be the only one looking for this, so what do other debianists do? -- Ian Zimmerman i...@buug.org gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Ham

status of backports?

2009-03-21 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Is it just me, or is backports.org in trouble? -- Ian Zimmerman i...@buug.org gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Ham is for reading, not for eating. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: status of backports?

2009-03-21 Thread Ian Zimmerman
reply from host timeout receiving reply from host ^C^C^C^Ctimeout receiving reply from host --- http://194.8.57.6:80/ ping statistics --- 7 connects, 0 ok, 100.00% failed -- Ian Zimmerman i...@buug.org gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD

change tk fonts, how?

2008-03-22 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Tk (as of 8.4) uses a different (smaller, lighter) font for message boxes --- including error messages --- than for the rest of the widgets, at least by default. I have always thought this was a cosmetic glitch, but now I have a huge screen at work and the message font has become simply

export Mozilla Calendar data

2005-01-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Hi, the Mozilla Calendar looks and works really nice, but is there a way to get the data to any other program, in particular a command line program? I figured that the calendar data is stored in ~/.mozilla/defualt/${obfuscated_profile_name}/Calendar/CalendarDataFile.ics. Is there another program

cached tex fonts

2004-05-13 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Is there a simpler way to purge the cached font metrics in /var/cache/fonts than something like find /var/cache/fonts -type f -name *.pk -o -name *.tfm | xargs rm ? In particular, I find that upgrading tetex packages doesn't do this automatically. Should it? Is this a bug? -- Nothing can

sawfish and mozilla

2002-02-21 Thread Ian Zimmerman
. A carbon copy to my address is appreciated but I'll check the list archive too. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 The world has taken on a thickness of vulgarity that raises a spiritual man's contempt to the violence

Mozilla SSL root certificates

2001-10-10 Thread Ian Zimmerman
something that can be fed into openssl. Can somebody give me a hint how to convert it? I am not familiar with DER; I guess a reference to the definition of DER would be enough to make me grateful (though not yet happy :) Thanks, -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. Hypocrisy, arrogance

svgatextmode - fbset: not so smooth

2001-09-20 Thread Ian Zimmerman
this difficulty? Thanks, -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. The easiest way to win an argument: ridicule your opponent's basic assumptions by stating their negation and postfixing it with , right? GPG pub key: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087

policy/philosophy: bugs that depend on input files

2001-08-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
this would seem absurd, and so does the present case. What do you think? Please reply to me even if you choose to copy to the list (feel free to do that). -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive. GPG pub key: 433BA087

Re: Emacs: Memory exhausted

2001-08-07 Thread Ian Zimmerman
reporting a stack overflow (due to infinite recursion, of course) in y-or-n-p. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive. GPG pub key: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
understands them. So X gets some kind of error when processing the truetype line (which shouldn't be there), and never reads the rest of the paths, including the misc one (which is where fixed resides). -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient

Re: problem with new (unstable) xlibs

2001-02-07 Thread Ian Zimmerman
tree (be sure to man dpkg-deb 1st) c) delete the stupid ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults symlink from the private tree d) recreate the package with dpkg-deb --build e) install the recreated package locally with dpkg --install HTH, -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. EngSoc adopts market

Re: Ummm...Losing disk space. HELP.

2001-02-07 Thread Ian Zimmerman
to me; I once again got tired of the volume on this list. - -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy

Re: debian init.d scripts

2001-01-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
. You didn't get my meaning. I don't object to there being a small rcS script which run-parts a directory; I object to there being rc _and_ rcS which do the same thing, but are distinct. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient

Re: Control CPU fan's speed

2001-01-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
in the BIOS: in fact it is in a tight loop waiting for keyboard input. The reading you get from BIOS is likely _higher_ than one you will/would get from lmsensors on a normally loaded Linux system. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful

Re: debian init.d scripts

2001-01-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
as rc (indeed they should be the same script). Ask me when I am a developer :) -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.

Re: upgraded libc6 and libc6 and broke my system (Woody)

2000-09-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
? Since the problem seems to be vaguely located in the db part of libc, it is possible that it only affects exim installations that actually do db lookups (which I think is rare on typical desktops, most people just use flat text file maps). -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own

Re: TOT: Virus reports to the list and x-envelope-to:

2000-09-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
bounce-debian-user-blahlbahlbah, but that head appears in From Ethan (NOT From: with the colon) and in an X-From_: The From (sans colon) line is NOT part of the message, it is an artifact of the mailbox file format. By sheer accident it is sometimes set to the envelope sender address :-) -- Ian

Re: sawfish doesn't work

2000-09-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
package, helix-sweetpill or so. The helix people made it the default but omitted adding a dependency to the sawfish package. So if this is the whole problem, just apt-get install helix-sweetpill first and it should work. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears

[OT] History: GNUStep vs. Gnome

2000-09-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
? :( -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

woody: ssh and rxvt

2000-09-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
from some.other.host Tuesday September 26, 2000 * 7:30pm to 10:30pm Cal Bridge Club at 123 Wheeler Do you want to see the TODO list? n kronstadt:~$ -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: Making chrony work

2000-09-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
, because that would hurt cron and other time sensitive things. Instead, it uses the adjtime system call to make the system clock run just a little bit faster (or slower as the case may be) until it's right. Cheers, -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears

Re: Debian Menu with Sawfish (Helix)

2000-09-14 Thread Ian Zimmerman
that file reads the menu from must agree with the location update-menu creates it (and that is specified in /etc/menu-methods/sawmill). -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: remote backspace/delete problems

2000-09-14 Thread Ian Zimmerman
/terminfo -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: kernel hangs after trying to free unused memory.

2000-09-07 Thread Ian Zimmerman
happen at that point. It is just before init is executed (during a successful boot, the next message would be INIT v.2.78 booting or something like that). I got hung at this point when my SCSI BIOS setup was wrong for my disk. But obviously you don't have SCSI so that doesn't apply to you. -- Ian

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-09-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
the debianized versions of things where possible, and I think that's what the original question was about, too. I am sure many of the wm's have better Gnome support now in their bleeding edge versions, but I will not use them. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears

gcd (playing audio CDs)

2000-09-05 Thread Ian Zimmerman
. The drive works perfectly for reading filesystem data. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: ippl-listfiles vs logrotate

2000-09-01 Thread Ian Zimmerman
ippl does. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: kde or gnome?

2000-09-01 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Windoze; with Gnome and E, it's a toss-up :-( That's on a 32M/P160 machine, which doesn't strike me as minimalistic. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: Debian packages..

2000-08-24 Thread Ian Zimmerman
in this situation. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: KDE2 debs from TDYC

2000-08-24 Thread Ian Zimmerman
kdm (of course), do you? And this is on potato, with the potato debs from tdyc. These shouldn't really change from now on, should they? -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: Mapping keys to console

2000-08-24 Thread Ian Zimmerman
(with a selectable signal) whenever the virtual terminals are switched. So you can write something that runs in the background, traps these switches and reloads the keymap based on a config file. Start by looking at /usr/include/linux/vt.h if you decide to take the challenge. :) -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland

weird ssh message

2000-08-24 Thread Ian Zimmerman
:) on the destination box, owned by me and permed 700, but of course no /tmp/ssh-itz. The destination machines are potatoes :-) This does not happen for connections in the other direction, nor did I ever notice it before in this direction. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own

Re: xconsole

2000-08-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: Setting proper From: lines

2000-08-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
name' during the Exim configuration) or if Spinfire this is a Mutt issue. It can be solved with Exim (look for Address rewriting in the docs) but that is more like a work-around. Better tell Mutt to set the From header correctly in the first place. Sorry, no Mutt experience here. -- Ian

Re: [ykarant@csci.csusb.edu: xdm potato wm no go]

2000-08-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
and TakeConsole scripts somewhere under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. Basically the scripts were broken by a subtle change in semantics in GNU fileutils (having to do with chmod or chown following symlinks). -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he

netatalk nits

2000-08-14 Thread Ian Zimmerman
want to continue copying? The folder is on one of the Samba shares (actually, I set the netatalk shares to be the same as the Samba ones), and Windows machines can read and write it fine. What does this mean? -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California

Re: update-alternatives -- changing preferences

2000-08-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
reported it as such after discussing these issues on the list some months ago, and I enclosed an ugly perl hack that serves as a temporary replacement for me. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys

Re: Favorite getty for serial consoles?

2000-07-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
I'd like to be able to specify parity, hardware flow control Simon etc on the server end. Does anyone have a favorite getty that Simon permits this? mgetty is the normal choice, but I think gettyps should work as well; if it doesn't something is misconfigured. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland

Re: char-major-6

2000-07-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
question would be, what/who is trying to access the port? -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: Unthinkable routing problem

2000-07-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
alter it to protect the innocent, but take care to substitute equals for equals, and only. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: Tape backup software?

2000-07-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
were OK, I'm sure of it). I got the source for the last version of the driver and compiled it, it didn't help. Then I bought the cheapest SCSI drive I could find and it works perfectly. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all

Re: Cannot find map file

2000-07-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
really the correct answer is: man make-kpkg. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: Amanda backup: Labeling Tapes

2000-07-20 Thread Ian Zimmerman
: all tapes match and my tapes are labelled DailySet1-01, DailySet1-02, etc. .. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: does 'apt-get remove' nuke packages recursively?

2000-07-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
what you want _in this case_. Of course, that requires you to first check the back dependencies of A, then the forward dependencies of B manually. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

__STDC__

2000-07-10 Thread Ian Zimmerman
#define __unix__ 1 #define __GNUC__ 2 #define __linux 1 #define __ELF__ 1 #define unix 1 kronstadt:/usr/include$ -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: __STDC__

2000-07-10 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Mark That doesn't define __STDC__ on Slink either. Hmmm. I have actually solved the compilation problem, and it was unrelated; in other words, __STDC__ _is_ defined during normal compiles. Any gcc guru here to explain why it doesn't show in the output of the above command? -- Ian Zimmerman

Re: __STDC__

2000-07-10 Thread Ian Zimmerman
out is exactly what the -dM flag should do. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

snort

2000-07-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Does anybody have a solution or workaround for Bug #66057 (snort: 5snort from cron.daily exited with status 1)? Happens here too :-( -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: Compiling BIND 8.2.2 P5

2000-07-04 Thread Ian Zimmerman
you? -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: telnet vs ^Z

2000-07-02 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Will i tried % bash $ vi and then '^Z', and still get nothing but a Will screen-flash (as if doing a quick redraw). That's not good enough, it has to be your login shell. See Stevens, A.P.U.E. pp. 246 and forward, why it makes a difference. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his

Re: telnet vs ^Z

2000-06-30 Thread Ian Zimmerman
problems of this kind with csh type shells. Bash gets most of it right. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: gnuclient vs emacsclient

2000-06-30 Thread Ian Zimmerman
other buffer, with C-x C-q. With gnuclient (actually gnudoit), gnudoit '(find-file-read-only foo.txt)' -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: logrotate

2000-06-28 Thread Ian Zimmerman
crontabs and the root crontab) in /etc/cron.{d,daily,weekly,monthly} The logrotate thing is (not surprising) in /etc/cron.daily/logrotate. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: safe to use woody packages in potato?

2000-06-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
haven't done this myself, yet, so you want a 2nd opinion. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: logrotate

2000-06-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Sven == Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven Hi debs On the subject of logrotate, how do you guys put that to Sven use? For me, root has a crontab entry for this as follows: Doesn't the logrotate package install a daily cron by itself ??! It certainly did for me (in potato). -- Ian

Re: package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Jason == Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jason On 25 Jun 2000, Ian Zimmerman wrote: deb file:/usr/local/src/debs localdebs main non-free Then apt-get update looks for /usr/local/src/debs/dists/localdebs/{main,non-free}/binary-i386/Packages but apt-get install pysol looks

gap (maths package) versions

2000-06-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
on? I've installed GAP4 in /usr/local, but I'd prefer a deb .. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
generate one; dpkg-scanpackages doesn't. Or is there something else wrong with what I'm trying? -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: question on sysvinit

2000-06-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
it the Debian way, I believe. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: safe to use woody packages in potato?

2000-06-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
to use the newer packages. Are there any caveats with John doing this? (It's difficult for me to recover from an unbootable John Linux on this box.) What will that do that simply switching to woody wouldn't? -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from

Re: package versions in dselect, and Release file

2000-06-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
about the semantics of a trailing slash on the deb URL. Apparently the thorough explanation given still haven't exhausted the topic :-( -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: question on sysvinit

2000-06-24 Thread Ian Zimmerman
-dimensional. So the transition must be defined independently of the old level. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

HELP! Netscape completely broken by tonight's upgrade!

2000-06-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Navigator-smotif-473 and friends stopped working completely after I unpacked today's versions. The first problem was a syntax error in the shell script /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape, but after I fixed that by hand all hell breaks loose. I had to remove the packages. Please help! -- Ian Zimmerman

Re: HELP! Netscape completely broken by tonight's upgrade!

2000-06-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
itz == Ian Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: itz Navigator-smotif-473 and friends stopped working completely after itz I unpacked today's versions. The first problem was a syntax itz error in the shell script /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape, but after I itz fixed that by hand all hell breaks loose

Re: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-6 ?

2000-06-20 Thread Ian Zimmerman
. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-6 ?

2000-06-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
-Debian way, on demand, he needs to add this line to /etc/modutils/aliases: alias char-major-6 lp then run update-modules. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: files/dirs under /var/www/

2000-06-05 Thread Ian Zimmerman
already state this i don't recall (and don't have Ethan time to look it up atm) I had this same dilemma and couldn't find anything on it in policy, so I just changed DocumentRoot to /usr/local/share/www. (Web files are mostly static anyway, why under /var?) -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A

Gnus broken by Emacs upgrade!!

2000-06-04 Thread Ian Zimmerman
;G5S+6YO+7-EG9EBD*(!E5C=71E+65X=5N95D+6-O;6UA M;F0H;FEL*0H@(-A;PM:6YT97)A8W1I=F5L2AE5C=71E+65X=5N95D *+6-O;6UA;F0I@`` ` end Please help! I cannot properly read my mail without Gnus! Please Cc my address on any followups. Thanks. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man

Re: Colormaps in Linux

2000-05-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
first thing you start in X? -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: apache question

2000-05-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
it takes is one of those unprivileged child Ethan processes to be exploited and your web site can be replaced and Ethan your logs can be removed. bad bad bad. As for the document tree, I largely agree. But as for the logs, don't the child servers need to write them, almost by definition? -- Ian

Re: man -- info?

2000-05-20 Thread Ian Zimmerman
does. Of course, the FSF policy itself is an Info document (standards.info). Maybe that is the real bug :-) -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: xterm xterm-debian

2000-05-20 Thread Ian Zimmerman
to remote ~/terminfo/x/xterm-debian (Modification for termcap based remote systems left as exercise for the user) -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles.

Re: Latin-1 characters in X, how?

2000-05-14 Thread Ian Zimmerman
system I use Control-ScrolLock as compose key in X. I Johann think it is the standard setup. No, that only turns on ScrollLock for me, as if Control were not involved. I tried both left and right Control. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. In his own soul a man bears the source from

new perl dependencies

2000-04-28 Thread Ian Zimmerman
and perl-5.005-doc. And no matter what I did, dselect threw me into that screen again and again. I had to force my way out with an `x'. Everything seems to run for the moment, but I am shaken. Is this some kind of circular dependency among the packages involved? Can it be fixed? -- Ian

more real runlevels?

2000-04-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
with Debian. I can make my own runlevels from among 3-5 by removing some of the links from /etc/rc[345].d, but will the next upgrade of the relevant packages re-create the links? If so, what _is_ the proper way to do this with Debian? Thanks for your answers. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc

Re: update-alternatives: bug or misunderstanding?

2000-04-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
that it would figure that out automatically. Certainly the system has enough information to do that, looking at the files in /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107

update-alternatives: bug or misunderstanding?

2000-04-24 Thread Ian Zimmerman
or will it confuse the system even more? -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107

Re: SVGA Text Mode ATI Charger video card

2000-04-24 Thread Ian Zimmerman
?) To get my favorite text mode resolution I had to recompile my own kernel for potato. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107

potato growing pains

2000-04-21 Thread Ian Zimmerman
parameter perhaps? I read kernel/Documentation/fb/* but all I can see is a mention of a video= parameter with no explanation what should go on the right side. :-( Thanks for help, -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107

Re: ssh loading at startup

2000-04-07 Thread Ian Zimmerman
already works without any additional effort. If not, look in /etc/inetd.conf for a line mentioning ssh, perhaps there's something wrong with it. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107

Re: ATAPI tape drives.

2000-04-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
and I want to Edward be sure that it is totally useless before I return it. It is probably not TOTALLY useless .. but .. I had insuperable problems trying to use the driver with a HP/Colorado 5000 ATAPI drive. Gave up and shelled out $500 for a SCSI drive. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc

smbfs - remote directories truncated ?!

2000-01-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
some visible files I get to see the rest. Has anyone else seen this and have a suggestion? -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107

Re: Soft ejects

2000-01-14 Thread Ian Zimmerman
, bitch at the user to insert the correct CDROM again. Really high tech. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107

Re: MTA

1999-12-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
sendmail -q in a cron job or similar. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107

Re: Modem does not work

1999-12-21 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Pedro == Pedro Quaresma de Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pedro It is an internal PCI modem, Windows says that it is on COM3, Pedro IRQ10, so it should be in /dev/ttyS3, but I only have two Pedro serial connections working, No, COM3 == ttyS2 ! -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd

Re: Stupid question regarding foreign characters and how to output them?

1999-12-13 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Ctrl-. , so to get the character you want you type the sequence Ctrl-. ~ n. But it depends on your keytable, I am not sure where Debian puts keytables - anyone? -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Installer, there are non-SVGA cards out there, like the Hercules and clones. Does Windows 9[0-9] work at all on those? -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107

Re: xemacs text-mode and gpm mouse issues

1999-11-22 Thread Ian Zimmerman
configuration in either case, only the gpm daemon does. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107

Re: X, middle mouse,Artec, do see output in /dev/mouse

1999-11-22 Thread Ian Zimmerman
suppliers. FWIW (and OT :-) the middle button on an Artec doesn't work in Windoze NT either. It's just a strange mouse. I'd buy a Logitech Mouseman instead. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107

Re: xemacs text-mode and gpm mouse issues

1999-11-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
option or it can't be disabled at all. Ian, who was upstream gpm maintainer for a while. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107

Re: cron messages

1999-11-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
). Somebody else on the list already helped you with the suidmanager part, I think. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107

Re: umount

1999-11-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
hierarchy for clue the next time it happens. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107

Re: I killed my monitor!!

1999-11-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
console/xterm. Another way is the grabmode program from SVGATextmode (when run from an xterm or rxvt window of course). -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107

Re: Problem with named

1999-11-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
your Nate /etc/resolv.conf so it has this in it: Nate order local,bind Nate so it will search hosts before it asks the DNS for host info. Hmm, doesn't that defeat the purpose of running named in the first place? I'd add a new zone file and reference it from /etc/named.conf. -- Ian Zimmerman

Re: fetchmail vs. ?

1999-10-14 Thread Ian Zimmerman
this; they all rely internally on a helper program called movemail, which can be instructed to do exactly what you want. Even if you don't want to use Emacs (but why shouldn't you? :) you can consider installing it just for movemail. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San

Re: html, and a file manager.

1999-10-14 Thread Ian Zimmerman
(including the ones you mention, plus Linux explorer, Tkdesk, and probably others I forget) with the one and only exception of kfm. It isn't a killer app, but it's the only one that doesn't frustrate my very modest configuration wishes every minute. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street

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