Source Package for xterm?

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:02:07AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >> Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > can anyone tell me how to

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > can anyone tell me how to build an xterm with 256 colors using the > > debian source package? I'd just like a bit more flexibility -- and > > I'd like

Re: Few Questions...

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Miller
>"Failed to locate a program for configuring the date >and time. Perhaps none is installed?" > >What kind of program should I install? Maybe ntp-simple would do it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mozilla-firebird & passwords

2004-01-28 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:30:31PM -0500, David P James wrote: > On January 27, 2004 07:13, Matt Price wrote: > If I understand you correctly, pressing "View Passwords" does absolutely > nothing at all? The password manager in Firebird was changed in the 0.7 > release whi

256-color xterm

2004-01-28 Thread Matt Price
can anyone tell me how to build an xterm with 256 colors using the debian source package? I'd just like a bit more flexibility -- and I'd like to have the off-the-shelf values for emacs highlighting work when I'm in a terminal. Thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: can't shut down

2004-01-27 Thread Matt Miller
>If I am in Gnome how do I close Debian-linux down. You should have some menu icons somewhere on your screen. One of them should bring up an option labeled 'Log Out' or something like that. If you are logged in as root then the box that pops up should include an option to shutdown the machine. -

mozilla-firebird & passwords

2004-01-27 Thread Matt Price
ing thatthis doesn't work... Anyone know if there's another way to view pasword info, of where I should check to see if there's e.g. some kidn of permissions problem with the password file? Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

promail and address lists

2004-01-26 Thread Matt Price
D] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. I think I need to have one address per line, in order to make the grep command in the second line of the filter work. Anyway, obviously I am either doing a bad job of setting the variable SENDON, or SENDON is in a format that procmail or exim will not a

Re: using regex substitution on BASH variables

2004-01-26 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 03:54:52PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Now, if this information were stored in a file, it would be simple to > > manipulate with regex's: > > > > sed 's/@/ -at- /' addressfil

Re: flash plugin

2004-01-26 Thread Matt Miller
>I'm trying to install the flash plugin (6.0.79.0) but it isn't >working. When I try to access some webpage which contains some flash, >the browser is closed. I'm using mozilla-firebird 0.6.1 but the same >problem happens when I'm using mozilla 1.4. Try Firebird 0.7/Mozilla 1.6 (or at least Mozilla

Re: cron - stop console logging *FIXED*

2004-01-26 Thread Matt Miller
>>maybe /sbin/syslogd was somehow disappeared? Can I reinstall >>this package without removing it (along with packages dependent on >>it) and installing it again from scratch? >``apt-get install --reinstall sysklogd'' should do. This did the trick. cron is now quietly logging to /var/log/cron.lo

using regex substitution on BASH variables

2004-01-26 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:05:08PM +0100, Philipp Weis wrote: > On 26 Jan 2004, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I asusme the script is running, but it's not receiving the data it > > needs, or at least not understanding it. > > > > Procma

Re: cron - stop console logging

2004-01-26 Thread Matt Miller
>>Every couple minutes I get something like: >> >>cron(pam_unix)[15457]: session opened for user mail (uid=0) >Somehow syslog is not running. 'ps -A' shows that klogd is running, but no syslogd. When I try to install the inetutils-syslog package I get conflicts with sysklogd, which dselect is say

Re: cron - stop console logging

2004-01-26 Thread Matt Miller
>>and /etc/syslog.conf says: >> >> cron.* /var/log/cron.log >Is it really not commented No hash marks that I can see. >It seems like Woody r2 default syslog.conf reads >... I'm running sarge. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

cron - stop console logging

2004-01-25 Thread Matt Miller
cron is logging to the active console and I don't know how to turn it off. Every couple minutes I get something like: cron(pam_unix)[15457]: session opened for user mail (uid=0) cron(pam_unix)[15457]: session closed for user mail The cron man pages says that cron logs to the syslog facility 'cro

OT: procmail recipe/bash scripting issue

2004-01-25 Thread Matt Price
derailleur.org/movies.html; --- s... am I using the $@ wrong somehow? should I substitute somethng else? Thanks for your help! matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Module loading

2004-01-24 Thread matt zagrabelny
dutils) anyhow it seems very clean and straight-forward. i recommend it. :) -matt zagrabelny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dummy Flash plugin / URL extractor anyone?

2004-01-24 Thread matt zagrabelny
talling the "real" flash plugin for mozilla? apt-get flashplayer-mozilla -matt zagrabelny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "no screens found" error

2004-01-24 Thread matt zagrabelny
acturer chipset so i have a savage chipset then do # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to change the X settings. try these things and get back to us. -matt zagrabelny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

changing pcmcia device interfaces

2004-01-24 Thread matt zagrabelny
WepKey4 char parm:WepMode int parm:EncryptionLevel int parm:AuthenticationType int parm:PreambleType int parm:PwrMgmtMode int parm:BeaconPeriod int thanks for the help. -matt zagrabelny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

diagnosing system crash (hardware failure?)

2004-01-16 Thread Matt Price
e there general guidelines as to where to go next with this kind of problem? It's fairly annoying... thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: editors (was: Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian)

2004-01-16 Thread Matt Perry
seem to belie this, unless I'm > totally misunderstanding his point. Yeah, he doesn't seem to be fully clued in to what vim is capable of now. There are a lot fo great scripts to extend vim's functionality. However, I've found that installing a lot of these vim plugins w

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

2004-01-16 Thread Matt Perry
iginal RPM and APT). Fedora is still RPM based. Remember, apt is just a front end. It can be a front end for rpm or for dpkg like on debian. -- Matt Perry | matt at primefactor dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HELP] Debian Woody on HP Proliant DL 380 G-3

2004-01-15 Thread Matt Perry
o run the array configuration utility located on the SmartStart CD that came with the DL380. Most likely it came configured from the factory as a mirror with one hot spare. -- Matt Perry | matt at primefactor dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

setting print command in xemacs

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Price
o go about doing that. Any emacs curus out there know how to lend me a hand? Thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

enscript margins

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Price
are. When formatting text it prints just past the bottom edge of the page. I'm able to correct this with the --margins= switch, but I wonder if this points to some strange lack of communication bettween enscript and CUPS or something. Any idea how to fix t his, or where the problem might lie?

Re: charter font in debian's openoffice.org1.1

2004-01-13 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:00:53PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Matt Price([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > Hi, > > > > recentfly upgraded to OOo1.1 using the relativley new sid > > debs. New version is lovely -- well-done! -- but I've lo

Re: Ifup/ifdown

2004-01-11 Thread Matt Perry
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Russell Shaw wrote: > What do these isp proxies do? (apart from blindly relaying stuff) They usually cache the data on the proxy server so that it can save bandwidth for the ISP. -- Matt Perry | matt at primefactor dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Ifup/ifdown

2004-01-11 Thread Matt Perry
What you need to do it go to Edit|Preferences...|Advanced|Proxies and in the field labeled 'No Proxy For' add "localhost, 127.0.0.1" without the quotes, of course. That way Mozilla will make a direct connection to those addresses instead of forwarding the request to the pro

Problems with Debian + DL380 G3 and highmem

2004-01-09 Thread Matt Perry
CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set 53c53,55 < # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set --- > CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y > CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y > CONFIG_X86_PAE=y Has anyone seen this problem before? I have no idea why highmem support would make the kernel not be able to execute init. -- Matt Perry | matt at pr

dpkg-divert error

2004-01-09 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:14:12AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > after trouble with nvidia and my old kernel I am hoping to update to > 2.6.0, but am a bit stuck. when I installed one ofthe nvidia packages > installing the 2.4 or the 2.6 version of the package; I chose 2.4 (the > actual

nvidia-kernel-common/source + kernel 2.6 configuration question

2004-01-09 Thread Matt Price
ns. any suggestions? matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

set up simple mailing list?

2004-01-08 Thread Matt Price
I receive most of my mail via getmail and that it gets filtered through procmail. I thought that at one time I had to write a .forward file "|/usr/bin/promcail" but I find that my main account doesn't HAVE a .forward. huh. seems odd. if nayone can help, I'll send

Re: killthread script

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:03:04PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Matt Price: > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:49:18AM -0600, Jesse Meyer wrote: > > > > > > First of all, a good email client, aliases, and a killthread script is > > > > I have pret

Re: changing interface font size in openoffice

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
see the README file in /usr/share/do/openoffice. but short and easy answer: tools -options - view - scale -- set it to somewhere between 110 and 135% and you should get what you're looging for. matt On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:28:45PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > Is it possible to ch

Re: urgent nvidia problem

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:46:49AM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:42:06PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > > > so, no, "nvidia" is not loaded. I tried modprobe nvidia, and got: > > "modprobe: can't locate module nvidia"

Re: urgent nvidia problem

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:15:01AM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:44:18AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > > > Rebooted and x wouldn't start because of a problem with nvidiactl (I > > have to use the nonfree drivers to make X work at all...). &

killthread script

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
it. debian-user is a flood of information. I have pretty good spamfilters up now, but I still find there's a bit too much info for me. How does one implement a "killthread script"? any pointers? matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

crash messages

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
hi everyone, failed to attach this part of my /var/log/messages, as promised. So I'll just insert it in this message. I assume the eth-00 messages are harmless? In which case all I can see are messages of this kind: Jan 6 17:12:34 pc09 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272

urgent nvidia problem

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - if anyone can help. I really need it! thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Evolution and Firebird

2004-01-05 Thread Matt Price
gt; >- how to tell firebird to use evolution to handle mailto: links you need the mozex extension -- mozex.mozdev.org has it and is well-documented. matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: passing values to ls -- more questions!

2004-01-04 Thread Matt Price
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:56:18PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:41:48AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > I can collapse these two steps now with: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll $(which emacs) > > > > ... but is there a way to trace the

Re: OT: passing values to ls -- more questions!

2004-01-04 Thread Matt Price
at a real file? I've tried various switches on ls (ls -H, ls -L) but they don't seem to do what I want them to... anyway, thanks a bunch! matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: bash scripting question -- passing values to ls

2004-01-04 Thread Matt Price
ts/vf/bitstrea/charter then I want to ls -l each of these files... so I have to do it by hand at the moment. But shouldn't I be able to automate it with somthing like: ls < locate charter | grep -i font ? nothing I try works -- but I can't believe it's impossible! any hin

OpenOffice crashes! was: charter font in debian's openoffice.org1.1

2004-01-02 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:00:53PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Matt Price([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > Hi, > > > > ok... but where do I find the fonts that spadmin installed? the main > > one I'm worried about is charter, whic

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2003-12-31 Thread Matt Flores
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charter font in debian's openoffice.org1.1

2003-12-31 Thread Matt Price
traightforward, and has a useful italics mode (thhe bittstream vera serif, which is the default, doesn't). The only filles named "charter""" i cna find are in /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter how do I "move" them to .fonts, as the readme suggests, o

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2003-12-30 Thread Matt Flores
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2003-12-30 Thread Matt Flores
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Re: nvidia-kernel & 2.6.0

2003-12-29 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 03:38:19PM -0500, Jerome R. Acks wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 07:44:49PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > Hey Folks, > > > > now that there are patches for the nvidia non-free drivers > > (http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/nvidia-2.6-Debian/) >

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-22 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:18:12AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Dan Griswold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031220 06:55]: > > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an > > > MSWord doc

make-kpkg modules_iimage error

2003-12-22 Thread Matt Price
the running kernel? THis does not, for instance, happen when I try the non-debian method for compiling these sources mentioned in http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html (but since I don't understand how the prcess outlined there works, I'd rather stick to the tried-and-true debian way. can

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-22 Thread Matt Price
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 08:39:17AM -0500, Dan Griswold wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an > > MSWord document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord and > > KWord all open

Re: diagnosing firewire hard drive problems

2003-12-21 Thread Matt Price
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 06:09:20PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 17:39, Matt Price wrote: > > hey folks, > > > > I have an external firewire hard drive mounted via the scsi/firewire > > system -- I store my mp3's there mainly. > >

diagnosing firewire hard drive problems

2003-12-21 Thread Matt Price
so my question: how do I start figuring out what's wrong? I'd rather not have to delete the whole iflesystem... any suggestions? thx, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-19 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:12:21PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Matt Price ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031219 16:52]: > > A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an MSWord > > document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord and KWord all > > op

apple MSWord files

2003-12-19 Thread Matt Price
. I assume the problem is related to endian-issues, or non-standard ascii coding, or something; but also that the problem should be solvable. Is there, then, a general strategy for dealing with these icky MacOS files? Help appreciated! Thanks, Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

nvidia-kernel & 2.6.0

2003-12-19 Thread Matt Price
ernel failed. 2.4.18-586-demudi is my currently-running kernel. For some reason the nvidia sources want to access something from the running kernel! anyone know how to make them NOT do that? Anyway, thanks much for your help. best, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

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2003-12-11 Thread Matt Giddings
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jabber

2003-12-10 Thread Matt Giddings
uide). I make it partially way through Checkpoint #2, my login dies on step 4 of CP#4. Thanks, Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xscreensaver-gl issue, gl only works once per session

2003-12-08 Thread Matt Rechkemmer
in xscreensaver. I'm using the latest drivers, and am literally bashing my head in trying to figure this out. If anyone has any advice, or ideas, please let me know. Much appreciated :). Matt Rechkemmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

general apt problem

2003-12-05 Thread Matt Peter
been over the debian docs, but I'm looking for a general strategy for solving dependency issues when they arise, so I don't have to keep messing with my system until it /just works/ again. Does anyone know if such a doc has been created? Thanks in advance Matt Peter -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Newsreader-like killfiling in email?

2003-11-30 Thread Matt Price
hat tin gives you for news? > > All I did was add a couple of macros that saved from(s) and subject(s) to a > file that procmail could look at and dump if it found a match. can you reproduce the macros and the relevant parts of your procmailrc? wouldl ove to have this! thx, matt -- T

Xterm only -- umlauts, accents in (x)emacs

2003-11-28 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 01:35:25PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I occasionally write in french and german and just recently noticed > that umlauted and accented characters which now work fine in bash, > openoffice, and mozilla, do not work in emacs or xemacs

Re: xterm title bars

2003-11-28 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 04:04:41PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 03:21:31PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > I've used this (excellent) howto to set my prompt up nicely, and to > > echo things like pwd, time, and username to the xterm title. However, >

umlauts, accents in (x)emacs

2003-11-28 Thread Matt Price
thing special that needs to go in my .init.el, for instance? I've recently been messing with my config files, so I may have screwed something up -- but the accents don't seem to work for me on any of my machines, so I suspect the problem is more fundamental than that. anyway, thanks,

Re: building a tivo?

2003-11-27 Thread Matt Price
> things you were interested in. That would probably be the hardest part. > > > > On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 15:57, Matt Price wrote: > > > Anyone out there built a tivo-like DVR to record programs off of > > > cabsle or stellite tv? What's involved? I imagine one

Re: xterm title bars

2003-11-27 Thread Matt Price
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:25:17AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:43:00PM -0500, Matt Price ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > lists.debian.org seems to be down, so I couldn't search the list > > archives properly; sor

Re: nagios on unstable

2003-11-26 Thread Matt Olson
Did you ever have any luck in resolving this? It looks like, at the moment, I'm stuck exactly where your were. Thx. molson -- Matt Olson Platform Engineer Kavi Corporation -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xterm title bars

2003-11-25 Thread Matt Price
ange the window title automatically. Is there any hope? thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

building a tivo?

2003-11-24 Thread Matt Price
Anyone out there built a tivo-like DVR to record programs off of cabsle or stellite tv? What's involved? I imagine one of the big tricks is justtuningthe hcannel -- or am I wrong? look forward from hearing from y'a\ll. thx, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: scripting gnuclient and emacs for mutt [ was: emacsclient -nw]

2003-11-21 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:56:01AM -0600, Lucas Bergman wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > David Z Maze wrote: > > > > is it possible in bash to test whether a comand has actually worked? > > The '||' operator does this, like:

Re: scripting gnuclient and emacs for mutt [ was: emacsclient -nw]

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:29:39PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:49:45AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > is it possible in bash to test whether a comand has actually worked? > > I feel like I've seen such tests, but I tried one and can'

xemacs colorless in xterm

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Price
#x27;s a simple solution for this? thanks much, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

scripting gnuclient and emacs for mutt [ was: emacsclient -nw]

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:54:48PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > While this doesn't help your actual problem, you should probably be > aware that 'emacs' and 'xemacs' are separate programs, either of which >

Re: emacs -nw and emacsclient

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:23:56AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 22:23, Matt Price wrote: > > That is, I'd like to have something along the lines of > > "emacsclient -nw" as my default editor. But as far as I can tell this > > opti

emacs -nw and emacsclient

2003-11-18 Thread Matt Price
xterm window 'm currently using. That is, I'd like to have something along the lines of "emacsclient -nw" as my default editor. But as far as I can tell this option isn't available. Any suggestions? Thanks as always, Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: How do I use dpkg without superuser privileges?

2003-11-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
(this is debian-user; please read the descriptions of the various lists) On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:02:27AM -0800, Debs Spammagnet wrote: > I've been trying to de-deb a .deb file without root > permission. I just want to unwrap the file like a tar > file. I DO NOT WANT TO INSTALL IT. I just want t

Re: [no subject]

2003-11-05 Thread Matt Eberhardt
I ran cat on /dev/mouse/install and sure enough... no mouse installed... i already have hotplug installed how exactly do i go about installing a mouse? i am used to the distro install handling this Thanks for the help - Original Message - From: "Alex Malinovich" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

ooppss.. my subject should read XFree86 server problems...

2003-11-05 Thread Matt Eberhardt
i click too fast apparently... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[no subject]

2003-11-05 Thread Matt Eberhardt
0 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Configured Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) Fatal server error: Caught signal 4. Server aborting Any ideas? I've googled and it appears this is not uncommon, i even saw a mention of this as a bug for debian, but I am not able to resolve it. I've attached my full XF86Config-4 file Thanks! Matt XF86Config-4 Description: Binary data

Re: fsck seg. fault Please Help! -- (OK so far!)

2003-11-04 Thread Matt
Werner Scharinger wrote: Am Montag, 3. November 2003 09:00 schrieb Matt: Bruce Sass wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, matt wrote: hi, the other day my woody machine just kinda stopped working...upon a reboot i learned via beep-codes that the ram had failed. i broke out the shop-vac and

Re: fsck seg. fault Please Help!

2003-11-03 Thread Matt
Bruce Sass wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, matt wrote: hi, the other day my woody machine just kinda stopped working...upon a reboot i learned via beep-codes that the ram had failed. i broke out the shop-vac and cleaned it out and it started to boot...here's where the troubble

Re: blog-lite for Debian Stable?

2003-10-31 Thread Matt Eberhardt
Did you check out freshmeat? http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=weblog§ion=projects you will probably need to install mysql for any type of weblog, and php if not already there Matt - Original Message - From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Se

Re: Restarting killed processes

2003-10-31 Thread Matt Eberhardt
Do a "ps -A" or, if you know the process, you can trim that down like: "ps -A | grep apache" to kick it off again: "/etc/init.d/apache start" if you look in /etc/init.d you can get the names for the other processes. Matt - Original Message - From: &

fsck seg. fault Please Help!

2003-10-29 Thread matt
08 75 ee 66 39 70 0c 75 e8 89 c2 Segmentation fault" HELP ME! i need to recover my home directory! i've learned my lesson and promise to make use of my tape drive from now on to backup! but seriously, what other utils can i use instead of fsck to repair the drive? when i mount the

Re: bit of help for new debian user....

2003-10-29 Thread Matt Eberhardt
ust a network restart. I had been playing with ip failover and ip address changing, I am thinking that mucked something up and something needed a restart Thanks for the suggestions though! Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

a bit more info

2003-10-29 Thread Matt Eberhardt
inet static address 192.168.1.125 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 __ Matt Eberhardt Web Developer -- The information contained in this communication may be confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above, and may be legally privileged. If

bit of help for new debian user....

2003-10-29 Thread Matt Eberhardt
ps iptables was blocking it, so I ran "/etc/init.d/iptables clear" but that did not fix anything. I'm stumped... and there is nothing in the logs that is tossing an error Any ideas? (note, my linux experience is mostly slackware with some redhat and mandrake tossed in) __

gnome-terminal starts, closes immediatly

2003-10-19 Thread Matt McMinn
r from an xterm when I run it or anything. Any ideas? Compaq Presario 2105us, X 4.3, Gnome 2.2, kernel 2.6.0-test7 Thanks Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Random Lockups w/ caps lock, scroll lock

2003-10-14 Thread Matt McMinn
David Fokkema wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 08:44, Matt McMinn wrote: I've started to experience "random" lockups with my debian system. It seems to be similar to this problem in Suse: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Dec/0623.html I tried that barrier=none

Random Lockups w/ caps lock, scroll lock

2003-10-14 Thread Matt McMinn
r box to see what's going on. I haven't seen anything in the syslog either. I had a slightly older debian system on here a while back that I had to wipe that was rock solid, so it must be a config problem somewhere. Any ideas? Thanks Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

SOLVED: help! bogofilter broken, flooded with spam

2003-10-03 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:27:24AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > hey folks, > > wasn't bpaying attention to disk usage and my /home directory filled > up due to the eormous number of swen mails I've been getting. > bogofilter was running when the directory filled up, and the

help! bogofilter broken, flooded with spam

2003-10-03 Thread Matt Price
s: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bogofilter -sNM -I Mail/spam-bogofilter bogofilter: (db) db_get_dbvalue( '.MSG_COUNT' ), err: -30982, DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery anyone know how to 'run database recovery'? meanwhile, I'm drowning in spam! matt -- To UNS

repairing unusable console keyboard

2003-10-03 Thread Matt Price
@ symbol on my apple German keyboard (the pre-made keyboards don't seem to do this properly). Also, is there a straightforward wayto make simultaneous modifications to the x keymap and th console keymap, so that the keyboard behaviour is always identical in both environments? thanks as al

Re: modconf under 2.6.0-testn

2003-10-02 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 05:55:46PM +0200, Bjoern Paetzel wrote: > Nick Hastings wrote: > > >>I have been unable to get modconf to work under 2.6.0-test2 or -test4. > >>The program runs, but shows only the "exit" option, with no modules > >>displayed for selecting. Has anyone else seen this sort of

Re: howto/faq: installing & configuring debian on old hardware

2003-09-30 Thread matt wilkie
thank you for your concise and informative response Wilko. -matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

howto/faq: installing & configuring debian on old hardware

2003-09-30 Thread matt wilkie
ility is key. If the computers can be setup to dial an ISP, check email and surf the web is probably enough. Having to login or sudo to root in order to do system things is probably too complicated. thanks, -matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: [OT]: launch a file from mc?

2003-09-29 Thread Matt Price
ll ok now, thanks. mc is so FAST! matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OT]: launch a file from mc?

2003-09-29 Thread Matt Price
anyone know if it's possible to launch an external program from mc? For instance, I'd like to get mc to launch openoffice when I double-lick or press on a .sxw file. Is there a way to do this? thx, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

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