Re: Total Packages in Sid?

2009-01-12 Thread Kumar Appaiah
mber, though you can estimate it if you account for the things I mention (and other problems). HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Lightweight alternative to imagemagick?

2009-01-11 Thread Kumar Appaiah
emagick convert will stress your SLUG a little, it might still do the job for you as long as you don't run much else on the Slug... Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Kumar Appaiah
aging respectively. Both of which have >> had the patch as part of the Debian version for close to 2 years now (I >> think). > > God must not love you. Aren't you guys talking about Icedove, or am I missing something? Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Compiling qtstalker 0.36 in lenny.

2008-11-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ay to sort this issue out; either use an old compiler or add the missing headers in each source file (or figure out a smart and neat included file to put these headers where all of them pick it up)... Hope this helps. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compiling qtstalker 0.36 in lenny.

2008-11-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
deMessage.o] Error 1 > >I searched google for �system� was not declared in this scope. But I >couldn't get any link. Try adding #include in the top of the file, along with the other #include lines. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: using dual core to build kernels

2008-11-27 Thread Kumar Appaiah
apparent from a cursory glance. Glad to have been of help. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using dual core to build kernels

2008-11-27 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ot;grep -c ’^processor’ /proc/cpuinfo" WARNING: Do NOT set the -j option in MAKEFLAGS directly, this shall call the build to fail." Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What package should I install to see man pages for C library?

2008-11-09 Thread Kumar Appaiah
intf", "No manual entry for fprintf" message is found. > Please let me know what package I should install. manpages-dev. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shutdown hooks

2008-10-27 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:51:36AM -0500, green wrote: > On Sun, 2008.10.12, 286, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > /etc/rc0.d and /etc/rc6.d should be where you should place hooks for > > running programs as you shut down or restart the machine > > respectively. The convention is

Re: Hunting a Math Application

2008-10-26 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:36:00AM -0700, Wu, Kejia wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there some open source application with functions as Matlab on linux? > > I feel very grateful to any suggestion. GNU Octave. Freemat may also work, though I have never tried it. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar A

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
not for X based applications, but works nicely for console based ones. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ed via scripts. This has always been my point of reference for GMail: http://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4 I think you can use your scripts with this, as long as you are willing to store your GMail password on the machine which is to run the scripts. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Shutdown hooks

2008-10-12 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ss wrapping the command you use for shutting down is the simplest way then. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Shutdown hooks

2008-10-12 Thread Kumar Appaiah
r running programs as you shut down or restart the machine respectively. The convention is to put the scripts in /etc/init.d and then create symlinks in /etc/rc.d, best handled with update-rc.d. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: awk manipulating string

2008-10-11 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 06:47:41AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > How do you remove the last character of a string in awk? Here's one way: awk 'BEGIN { x = "Hello!"; print substr(x, 0, length(x) - 1)}' Can't think of anything better quickly...

Re: Postfix config question..

2008-09-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
e Postfix use your school's SMTP as a smarthost. I don't know the way to configure this in Postfix, but that's the way I use Exim. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: High frequency of laptop drive load/unload cycles: is Debian affected?

2008-09-19 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian Users, > > In short: is a default Debian installation affected by this bug? (I > know I am not affected, but just wanted to make sure...). Sorry, the question is made irrelevant now, thanks to this: (fixe

High frequency of laptop drive load/unload cycles: is Debian affected?

2008-09-19 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian Users, In short: is a default Debian installation affected by this bug? (I know I am not affected, but just wanted to make sure...). Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where is libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0?

2008-09-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
e Lenny versions. It just may so happen that this bug isn't there on mine, but I don't know if it's worth trying. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where is libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0?

2008-09-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ii ia32-libs 2.7 ii ia32-libs-gtk 2.7 ii ia32-libs-xulrunner 1.8.1.3-0.2 ii nspluginwrapper 1.0.0-1 Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where is libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0?

2008-09-12 Thread Kumar Appaiah
el, and my Flash plugin is 9.0 r124. Please let me know if I can help further. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where is libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0?

2008-09-11 Thread Kumar Appaiah
org/file:libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 Then click amd64 (I am guessing that since the OP is using nspluginwrapper), and if you click on lenny as well, you see the additional package ia32-libs-gtk. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Video with Etch Chroot on amd64?

2008-09-11 Thread Kumar Appaiah
gt; file or directory." > > I'm working on fixing this. Just to be sure, insure that you have the ia32-libs-gtk. Installing ia32-libs usually solves these issues... HTH and thanks for the explanation. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Video with Etch Chroot on amd64?

2008-09-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
lash videos etc.; because I am able to use Flash on an amd64 using nspluginwrapper without having to start the browser from a chroot. Do you have any other purpose served by possessing the chroot? I'd like to know if there is something for which a 32-bit chroot would be an absolute necessity. Than

Reg. spin up and down of a laptop hard disk

2008-09-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian users, I am using Debian on a laptop, and was wondering what an ideal value for spin up/down for the drive would be. Right now, I have not touched the defaults, but I want to know what the right setting would be to ensure a decent life for the hard disk. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar

Re: Which ISO to use for Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5550?

2008-08-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAMD64 HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch -> Lenny: Problem list on Thinkpad T60p

2008-08-25 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ou let Emacs guess automatically? It is my assumption that those who would want uniform Emacs colours irrespective of terminals would set these. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: compatibility

2008-08-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
face" is based on AutoCAD. :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: KDE Automount stopped working

2008-08-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
e of this error? HAL, DBus etc.? Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah signature.asc Description: Digital signature

KDE Automount stopped working

2008-08-18 Thread Kumar Appaiah
0.5.11-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer ii dbus 1.2.1-3simple interprocess messaging system Thanks in advance. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apache adding users?

2008-08-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 09:29:27PM -0400, Zach Uram wrote: > I have Apache 1.3 and now as root to add content I add files into /var/www > > I have a regular user /home/bob but how do I allow him to a have space > on the webserver and what will his URL be? > > Also how do I enable PHP and cgi-bin

Re: MY DVD DRIVE DOES'NT DETECT BINARY1 DVD.. WHY??

2008-07-31 Thread Kumar Appaiah
urning another ISO and then trying it on your machine? - By detecting, do you mean opening on your OS or being bootable on computer switch on? Please answer these, and we'll try to help you out further. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: [OT] RE: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 - US - Debian mirror?

2008-07-31 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Out of curiosity, is it a case of over-confidence that the attacks can't cause harm, or is it a case of not worrying because ignorance is bliss? :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's the best IDE for C programming in Debian?

2008-07-31 Thread Kumar Appaiah
I see this a > lot where I work. There is a longer learning curve I think with the method I > recommend, but I also think that knowledge gained is well worth the effort. Might I also add kdevelop and Anjuta? While they are pretty different from the class you discuss, they also fit the bil

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-16 Thread kumar . appaiah
That's about six-seven cups of tea/coffee (still a bit above my comfort level), but I get what you mean. I guess it's worth paying that much for the convenience one gets. :-) Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-16 Thread kumar . appaiah
ourse, while I'd love to host my own mini-Mail data center, I can't afford it. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian build tools

2008-06-16 Thread Kumar Appaiah
igure out how to edit or not run that during the build to prevent the rebranding (easier said than done, but I guess it should be doable) Long term: I would suggest reading the Debian New Maintainers' guide (maint-guide package). It'll help you make your own packages as well. HTH. Kumar -- Ku

Re: External IP

2008-04-26 Thread Kumar Appaiah
es > containing files that end with . +1. Please also check out apt-file and dlocate (for installed packages); they are invaluable in quick searching if you do not have internet access at all times. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: apt-get from hard disk

2008-04-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
you can generate the packages file which can be used by APT when you do apt-get update. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-26 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ile less people are Googling for Debian, if the activity in the Debian user and developer lists are something to go by, Debian is not doing too bad. Granted that we could do with popularity boosts, but I guess the loyal followers will always remain and keep trying to pull in more people. :-) K

Re: How to create an ssh chain A->B->C to do http over ssh across the chain?

2008-03-18 Thread Kumar Appaiah
d on B through using C via a ssh tunnel > from B to C. In case you want to set up a multi-level ssh connection for port forwarding etc., the following helped me: http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2007/12/15/using-a-ssh-jumphost.html HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian In

Re: rotating a rectangular image in Gimp

2008-03-05 Thread Kumar Appaiah
request you to try imagemagick convert. convert image.png -rotate 90 image_rotated.png Though, of course, you might have a reason to use Gimp. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Basic bash question.

2008-03-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:10:25PM +0800, hhding wrote: > Any method to redirect any fd to the pipe? > Not only stdout,stderr. If you mean both stdout and stderr ./configure 2>&1 | tee log.txt would work. But I don't know if that is what you meant. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Ap

Re: Basic bash question.

2008-03-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
output and files HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Help for a newbie SSH and Aptitude

2008-02-28 Thread Kumar Appaiah
e else could probably suggest something better... HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to compare the package version?

2008-02-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
w version or not? I have read the debian policy manual, but no > version compare tool or command is mentioned. if dpkg --compare-versions 4.1.2-18 gt 4.1.2-15;then echo 4.1.2-18 is more than 4.1.2-15;fi This prints: 4.1.2-18 is more than 4.1.2-15 HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna

Re: Serious local root exploit in linux kernel

2008-02-11 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:08:17PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:07:41PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > A local root exploit has been discovered in the linux kernel yesterday. > > > Virtually all the stock kernels provided by several

Re: Serious local root exploit in linux kernel

2008-02-11 Thread Kumar Appaiah
it specific to x86 (not x86_64) as the exploit contains x86 code, > or are other architectures also vulnerable in some other way? You can get the list of architectures for which built kernels were uploaded here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=72;bug=464945 HTH. Kumar -- Kumar

Re: Problem with console and locales

2008-01-21 Thread kumar . appaiah
DejaVu Sans Mono, for instance. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is it possible to get Nvidia 8500GT Vid. card to work with debian stable?

2008-01-12 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ht.org/blog/debian/#1-148 HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: reporting BTS spam easily from Mutt]

2008-01-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 05:46:29PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > Just replace "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" macro index , "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" macro pager , "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Thanks for forwarding it here, Chris. I trust this worked

Re: problem restarting services ...

2008-01-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
grams that the > other one does ( sudo for example ), I'm missing something ... Please check the contents of /etc/default/apache2. It should have NO_START=0. (Just a guess). HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Recording PCM output to file

2007-12-15 Thread Kumar Appaiah
n. (I am also trying my best). :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Recording PCM output to file

2007-12-12 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Left: Capture 120 [100%] [30.00dB] Front Right: Capture 120 [100%] [30.00dB] Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0 Capabilities: cenum Items: 'Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD' Item0: 'Line' Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1 Capabilities: cenum Items: 'Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD' Item0: 'Line' Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: no email

2007-12-11 Thread Kumar Appaiah
minated common problems, like a spamfilter at your end? Sometimes, people don't realise that all their mails are silently eaten up by the spam filters. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Recording PCM output to file

2007-12-09 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 01:45:45PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian Users, > > I've been trying for a long time to record from my sound card's PCM > out to a Wave file. I've tried many things, but all I get is silence! > :-) > > Anyway, let me mak

Recording PCM output to file

2007-12-09 Thread Kumar Appaiah
sound card does not seem to have the Mix control at all. The other (Capture etc.) controls are OK, and I get no error, but the sound just doesn't record. Could you please give me some pointers? Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madra

Re: removing kde

2007-11-26 Thread Kumar Appaiah
KDE packages depend on kdebase, IIRC. So, removing kdebase should remove most KDE packages. apt-get remove kdebase. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: mutt: the + tag

2007-11-24 Thread Kumar Appaiah
instruct mutt that my real address is also "me"? Search for alternates in the mutt manual. There's a whole section on "Alternative addresses", and that should probably solve your problem. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Re: ftp.debian.org

2007-11-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
, is also down at the moment. What a bad day!) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Locale Problem

2007-11-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
would be to set export LANG=en_US (or similar) in your bashrc. But the proper way would be to run dpkg-reconfigure locales and choose only the locales you are intersted in and set the right default locale. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Ch

Re: using mail in scripts

2007-11-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 05:56:59PM +, cs wrote: > On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 21:54 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > If I recall correctly, single quote dumps values literally. You might > > want to use doublt quotes for the value of ${0} to be substituted, > > though I am no

Re: using mail in scripts

2007-11-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
mails the string $0 not the value. Removing the quotes results > in an error. If I recall correctly, single quote dumps values literally. You might want to use doublt quotes for the value of ${0} to be substituted, though I am not 100% sure that that will solve the problem. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah

Re: updates in Sid

2007-11-12 Thread Kumar Appaiah
st (very low > > volume). > >Great. More messages to add to the 450 a day I get now :) It is really very low volume. There have been three messages so far in November. Besides, only posts signed by Debian developers are allowed, and it _is_ purely for announcements. Kumar -- Kumar

Re: Yes I am having a problem

2007-11-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
protocols. These > installers don't move the same way my brain does. Well, you have not ptovided us sufficient information on why your installation failed. So, what happens if you insert the first CD and boot using it? What errors do you get, or what problems do you face? Kumar -- Kumar A

Re: Why kernel 2.6.23 does not appear in sid packages?

2007-11-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
so. I don't thnik you'll get upgrades the next day, for example, since ries.debian.org == ftp-master.debian.org is still down. So, no new uploads are possible. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: how to read http mails in mutt mail reader (vim)?

2007-11-05 Thread Kumar Appaiah
\ > set my_pipe_decode=\$pipe_decode pipe_decode\ > urlview\ > set pipe_decode=\$my_pipe_decode; unset > my_pipe_decode" \ > "call urlview to extract URLs out of a message" You are right. Thanks for pointing this out. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Ins

Re: bootsplash ramble

2007-11-04 Thread Kumar Appaiah
, it has worked for me earlier: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/h/3124 HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to read http mails in mutt mail reader (vim)?

2007-11-04 Thread Kumar Appaiah
quot; urlview" # simulate the old browse-url function HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude upgrade through proxy

2007-10-24 Thread Kumar Appaiah
configuration http { Proxy "http://:"; }; }; HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: online sourcecode viewer

2007-10-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
e: > http://gpc-qt.sourceforge.net/ While you're at it, try this (scroll down): http://pygments.org/ HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Where is linux-kernel-headers_2.6.18-4_i386.deb?

2007-10-21 Thread Kumar Appaiah
e can I find linux-kernel-headers_2.6.18-4_i386.deb? Use linux-headers-*. For example: http://packages.debian.org/sarge-backports/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-486 Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: (mod-) ssl for apache 2.2.x

2007-10-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ges for Debian etch. > You don't need a separate package for that as it was with apache 1.3. > You just need to enable the module. Moreover, libapache-mod-* packages are for Apache 1.x. One should always look for libapache2-mod-* for the current apache2. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah,

Re: sshfs installation error

2007-10-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 06:26:00PM +0100, michael wrote: > /etc/init.d/fuse: line 24: /lib/init/vars.sh: No such file or directory sudo touch /lib/init/vars.sh might help. It worked for me some time back. In any case, that script should be in the initscripts package. Kumar -- Kumar Appa

Re: Listing packages

2007-10-12 Thread Kumar Appaiah
t nothing until now. With > > dpkg -l or apt-show-versions > > I can find the version number of the package, but not the repo. How about combining it with apt-cache madison ? That'll tell you the version and the repository. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel

Re: Best text

2007-10-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
oo much myself, but I have heard good things about the Debian System by Martin "madduck" Krafft. http://debiansystem.info/ Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cannot apt-get update

2007-10-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
t; might sit at an OpenSuse machine. I like to learn distro-ambiguous > tools. This might be useful: http://chennailug.org/wiki/?title=Find_your_distro Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-26 Thread Kumar Appaiah
sides, it is always better to trim replies and quote only the things related to context. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Is it possible to keep a program running even when when no users are logged in

2007-09-25 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 07:23:55PM -0500, Sid Arth wrote: > What is screen? http://packages.debian.org/sid/screen http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ooks are typeset in TeX, which is what eh created TeX for. Besides, I am really surprised publishers won't want TeX, since a lot of books I've read have acklowledged that they were written in TeX. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Kumar Appaiah
respect to the thread. :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: need a pointer on emacs

2007-09-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
you to the correct position in the correct file in the source code? Improves efficiency a lot! Of course, more experienced users can chip in with their tips. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Debian p.d.o stats

2007-09-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian Users, Joerg has an interesting list of stats for packages.debian.org. Have a look at it: http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2007/09/10#pdo_stats Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: exim4 maybe too complex to remain useful

2007-09-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
of them. sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config Adn this is waay less complex than anything else I've seen for smarthost! This is also useful, even for non-GMail configuration: http://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4 HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology M

Re: Where to find missing documentation

2007-09-09 Thread Kumar Appaiah
the 'non-free' section so that maintaining current versions of the > documentation is taken care of. I agree with this. If not for MySQL (I don't use it), at least for bash, please provide the info files in non-free. Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian

Re: Where to find missing documentation

2007-09-09 Thread Kumar Appaiah
setting package has it's doc in context-doc-nonfree, which is in pool/non-free/c/context-doc-nonfree/ So, you might want to add non-free to your sources.list, if you already haven't done so. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

Re: How to get a list of installed packages

2007-09-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
er answer would be dpkg -l|awk 'NR > 5 { print $2}' HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is it a BUG????

2007-09-04 Thread Kumar Appaiah
d. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help

2007-09-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ot; at the boot prompt, and it will boot into the GUI mode. Please read the Debian Installer manual fully to know the full steps to set Debian up. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Welcome to SI Network - Your Career, Your Country.

2007-09-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
appears to come from Bangalore, India.] Though we have laws for unsolicited SMS on mobiles, I don't think we have any anti-spam laws. Tough luck on that front! :-( Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

2007-09-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
's stdin and stdout as pipes. The commands module might also be of interest. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
you want decides your choice. But I think it's just because you tried sid that you decided to stay with it. So, others can also try if they have the time (and a little courage :-). But believe me, it's NOT unstable! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technol

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

2007-09-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
oblem. I > still got exim: permission denied when I executed mailq as user tom. mailq > works for root. OK, I meant su;mailq or sudo mailq. You should be able to run mailq as root. Otherwise, you have a problem. For me, it's just a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/exim4. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
may be just the right balance you are looking for, but YMMV. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

2007-09-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 06:16:05PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: >> Does /var/log/mail.log say to where the messages were delivered? >> >> Ben >> > It says connection refused by 127.0.0.1 What is the output of mailq? Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
ight (or might not) want to do is, a straight dist-upgrade to unstable (sid) using apt-get dist-upgrade, but the choice is yours. Kumar P.S. I've been using sid for a long time, and am able to get work done with no problems! So, don't be afraid. -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, I

Re: /etc/grub.conf + /boot/grub/menu.lst

2007-09-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
update-grub updates. I think a symlink will have the desired effect, but I am not sure. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hi where can I get g++ package

2007-09-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
s line: deb ftp://10.65.0.42/debian stable main contrib non-free 2. apt-get update 3. apt-get install g++ That's all! APT does all dependency resolution for you. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Network problem.

2007-09-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
he appropriate line of the output of the lspci command. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Editing a text file with sed

2007-08-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
have some very > strange characters in them, but they don't seem to show up when I cat the > file. OK, how about fill-region of emacs (and gq of Vim)? Would they be of use here? This is, of course, assuming your files show up well in Emacs and Vim. Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 4

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