Re: essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread Tyler Smith
in the file /etc/apache/httpd.conf. Other than that there were no surprises. Now that I have nothing listening to the outside world, do I still need a firewall? I have been using firestarter, but not consistently. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

essential services? ssh, nfs?

2007-07-29 Thread Tyler Smith
listening to localhost, can I conclude they are not a security risk? Thanks for your help, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Tyler Smith
rds, what should I be doing? >From the advice received and what I'm reading, I'm getting two very different messages - I must reinstall to be 100% certain that I'm safe, and while I can't be 100% certain I'm safe it's pretty unlikely that I have a real probl

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-29, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:48:16PM +0000, Tyler Smith wrote: >> On 2007-07-29, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I ran rkhunter again, and then for good measure I aptitude --purged >> it, re

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-29 Thread Tyler Smith
going to read up on security stuff now, so maybe I'll have some idea how to proceed the next time. Thanks for your help, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-28 Thread Tyler Smith
y university via vpn. I've pasted the results of all the tests you suggested below. I don't understand much, but the md5sum mis-match for the rkhunter files is definitely worrying. Am I going to have to re-install? Thanks, Tyler > you can also install the debsums package, it wil

Re: /bin/login listening?

2007-07-28 Thread Tyler Smith
ian-exim3u IPv4 7971 TCP 127.0.0.1:smtp (LISTEN) inetd 3661root4u IPv4 8254 TCP *:auth (LISTEN) famd 3721 tyler3u IPv4 8323 TCP 127.0.0.1:929 (LISTEN) apache 3826root 16u IPv4 9177 TCP *:www (LISTEN) apache

/bin/login listening?

2007-07-28 Thread Tyler Smith
/bin/login hasn't shown up before. Is this something I need to worry about? Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SOLVED] Re: fluxbox weirdness

2007-07-23 Thread Tyler Smith
Correction to my previous post, it looks like 1.0rc3-3 actually does fix all my problems - I don't lose the first key press on switching windows now either, so all's well that ends well. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

[PARTIALLY SOLVED]Re: fluxbox weirdness

2007-07-23 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-20, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-07-14, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Kelly Clowers([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >>> > >>> >Further to these issues, I've now noticed that on switching >&

[OT] general mail questions

2007-07-20 Thread Tyler Smith
acs to write the emails. Is there an easier way to send mail via a pop account from a laptop? Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fluxbox weirdness

2007-07-19 Thread Tyler Smith
gestions as to what's going on? This is kind of frustrating as >> >it introduces typos into commands when I jump to an xterm. > > You didn't mention what version. That would have helped. > I'm using the 1.0rc3-1. Both of my problems seem to have appeared on upgrading

Re: fluxbox weirdness

2007-07-13 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-12, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just rebooted my laptop for the first time in ages (usually I just > hibernate to RAM). Fluxbox is behaving very strangely. I have the Alt > keys bound to a number of handy things, such as switching wi

Re: fluxbox weirdness

2007-07-12 Thread Tyler Smith
on > Tab Options > Tabs in Titlebar. > Thanks! Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fluxbox weirdness

2007-07-12 Thread Tyler Smith
, as does None Pause, None Scr_lock and None Print. Also, my xterm windows are now decorated with a title bar which sticks out above the window frame. Are these new fluxbox features? If so, how do I turn them off? If not, what's going on? Thanks, Tyler Lenny, Thinkpad R60 -- To UNSUBS

Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

2007-07-07 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-07, BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 6, 12:40 pm, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Presumably, >> if you just let apt handle all the upgrades you will probably find >> that you no longer have tetex by the time Etch g

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

2007-07-06 Thread Tyler Smith
alone re-installing. On the other hand, I haven't really noticed any change between Etch and Lenny, so if testing-Etch wasn't solid enough for you, I'm not sure that testing-Lenny is going to be better. HTH, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

2007-07-06 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-07-06, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070706 14:21]: >> Tyler Smith wrote: >> > On 2007-07-06, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > If you search the list you'll find several threa

Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

2007-07-06 Thread Tyler Smith
nd all packages have been replaced by texlive. Or something like that. If you search the list you'll find several threads about people switching from tetex to texlive now, which is generally painless. Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Updating without Apt

2007-06-30 Thread Tyler Smith
all Auctex, ESS, and slime, but just because I was poking around a lot figuring out how the load-path stuff works. No problems at all so far. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: script not working, cl works

2007-06-28 Thread Tyler Smith
into the first line of your script. So, in my case, I get: tyler:~-> echo $SHELL /bin/bash which means that I should have: #!/bin/bash as the first line of my shell scripts. As long as you pass the script to the same shell that you are running in your terminal, any command that works from

Re: emacs: too fast scroll speed when selecting region with mouse

2007-06-26 Thread Tyler Smith
tton. This variable's value may be non-integral. Setting this to zero causes Emacs to scroll as fast as it can. You can customize this variable. +-----+ HTH, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Slightly annoyed question about Debian package system

2007-06-22 Thread Tyler MacDonald
ght frusturated ;-) dpkg -S start-stop-daemon - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: screenshot

2007-06-20 Thread Tyler Smith
the handiest - I'm glad you asked, as I'd been wondering about this too. From the advice you got I found my answer. I've added the following to my .fluxbox/keys file, and I'm all set. Mod4 s :ExecCommand /usr/bin/import -window root ~/screenshots/scrshot$(date +%s).pn

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-06-06, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm glad I could help :-) > > There is no advantage in using "sh." I just wanted to skip the step of > making the script executable. > BTW, a previous message got lost in the tubes. I tried reset with

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Tyler Smith
--- > > Execute it by typing "sh ~/bin/mystartx" at a console. > That did it, thanks! Is there any advantage to using sh ~/bin/mystartx over just making it executable and running it directly? Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Tyler Smith
be used to start additional X > servers on other virtual terminals. But, not for starting the first X > server from a login manager (KDM, GDM, etc., also known as Display > Managers). > > > Sorry for the confusion. > No worries. I'm actually using fluxbox without a disp

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Tyler Smith
r, this doesn't seem to have changed anything - I logged out of x, back in, and then out again, and the problem remains. Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-04 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-06-05, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using fluxbox without a dm. When I exit from fluxbox and return to > the console, the text scrolls off the bottom of the screen so that the > active prompt is not visible. ... > The only thi

console too long after stopping x

2007-06-04 Thread Tyler Smith
= "serial" ] ; then loadkeys -q ${CONFFILE} 2>&1 > /dev/null else loadkeys -q ${CONFFILE} fi fi Any ideas what I've messed up? Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

[SOLVED] Re: console keymap and console-setup

2007-05-31 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-31, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-05-31, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I think that in the end console-setup uses the definitions in >> /etc/default/console-setup, which have a syntax similar to the keyb

Re: console keymap and console-setup

2007-05-31 Thread Tyler Smith
console-setup is very sketchy, and basically just says use the same options you use for your xorg.conf. Well, I've done that, and it still doesn't work. This is very frustrating. Thanks for your suggestions though! Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Tyler MacDonald
;,"111.111.111.111","RTP","54520" > "185","1324.078941","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","54521" This *might* work, it depends on the rest of your dataset; sed -e 's/,"Payload.*Seq=//' -e 's/, Time=.*$/"/' Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Tyler Smith
to use a , as delimiter: cut -d, -f1,2,3,4,5,8 Then you just need to get rid of the Seq= line, which sed will do with: sed s/Seq=//g So put them together: cut -d, -f1,2,3,4,5,8 input.file | sed s/Seq=//g That looks almost right. I'm missing the quotes around the last field. Two more sed commands fix this: cut -d, -f1,2,3,4,5,8 input.file | sed -e s/Seq=//g -e 's/, /,"/g' -e 's/$/"/g' That seems to do the job with your example text. HTH, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Tyler Smith
in fixing the issue, but it still needs to be coordinated with the package maintainer, judging from comments on the buglist for bash-doc Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Tyler Smith
f it's any compensation, this is a temporary situation. Once all the docs have been moved to non-free you'll have access to them via apt-get again, and the issue shouldn't come up again. We're just in the middle of an awkward transition at the moment. Tyler -- To UNSUBSC

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-30 Thread Tyler Smith
e. That's all fine and good, and I've been persuaded to see the Debian perspective on this. However, there would be fewer angry users if the package maintainers put the non-DFSG stuff into non-free _before_ they excised it from main. Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: console keymap and console-setup

2007-05-30 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-30, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/30/2007 11:26 AM, Tyler Smith wrote: >> >> [...] I copied the custom keymap to /etc/console-setup/ and >> rebooted, but it still doesn't load. It works when I run >> /etc/console-setup/boottime.k

Re: Opening 300MB sent mail file

2007-05-30 Thread Tyler Smith
mand line tools like head and tail - with some experimenting you could hack it into 5 or 10 pieces and work with it that way. I've done this on occassion with files that were bigger than the maximum emacs buffer size. HTH, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: console keymap and console-setup

2007-05-30 Thread Tyler Smith
d, but it still doesn't load. It works when I run /etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz, but I have to do that manually for each boot. Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: console keymap and console-setup

2007-05-30 Thread Tyler Smith
ot up, /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz is *not* getting loaded. Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: console keymap and console-setup

2007-05-30 Thread Tyler Smith
d. See the man page for > install-keymap. > Maybe there should be see-also link to this from the loadkeys manpage... Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

console keymap and console-setup

2007-05-29 Thread Tyler Smith
mostly on account of the switch from keymap.sh to console-setup I think. Any help will be appreciated! Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XEmacs - how to automate mark-search-cut

2007-05-27 Thread Tyler Smith
the groups it contains. Of course, this is my first suggestion, since the only other explanation is that my code is not perfect ;) Another thing that will break my code as written is if you have a space (or any character) between \footnote and {. HTH, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: XEmacs - how to automate mark-search-cut

2007-05-26 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-26, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-05-26, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I need to extract footnotes from a very long LaTeX document. I would >> like to start with a copy of the document, then delete from the copy >>

Re: XEmacs - how to automate mark-search-cut

2007-05-26 Thread Tyler Smith
the message "The region is not active now". 'The region is not active now' indicates you are working in transient-mark-mode. If you turn this off the region is always active, which might solve the problem you ran into with your approach. You can toggle this on and off

Re: need typewriter-style quotes in LaTeX mode of emacs

2007-05-25 Thread Tyler Smith
for the built-in Tex modes that come with regular GNU Emacs. This is not the same in Xemacs. Presumably there would be a way to customize Xemacs to behave like this, but it is not there by default. I don't know enough about Xemacs to comment further. Sorry for the confusion. Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: emacs bugs post upgrade to etch

2007-05-25 Thread Tyler Smith
g, rather than Emacs. It was a long time ago now, and I can't remember the specifics, but something about how xorg was looking for fonts was screwed up. Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: need typewriter-style quotes in LaTeX mode of emacs

2007-05-24 Thread Tyler Smith
ul to get them just right! Here's what the Auctex manual says on the subject: In TeX, literal double quotes `"like this"' are seldom used, instead two single quotes are used ```like this'''. To help you insert these efficiently, AUCTeX allows you to continue to press

Re: need typewriter-style quotes in LaTeX mode of emacs

2007-05-24 Thread Tyler Smith
ching > from LaTeX mode to text mode. > There is another way to do this. It is a closely guarded secret, but I'll share it with you if you promise not to tell anyone else. Here it is: hit the " key (here's the tricky bit, pay attention!) hit the " key _a second time_

Re: Offline TexLive Installation

2007-05-24 Thread Tyler Smith
packages etc. If I were to install texlive-full now, aptitude reports it will use 678MB of disk space, so I think that's how much space I saved the first time around? I think that's probably accurate, as some of the individual packages that are uninstalled report sizes more than 100MB. HTH

Re: bash script error

2007-05-22 Thread Tyler Smith
ere /bin/sh is pointing - it's usually a symlink to /bin/bash, but maybe yours is pointed at something else. Assuming you just pasted the script into your post there are no typos... HTH, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Best of UNIX/Linux Books that you can't stop reading

2007-05-21 Thread Tyler Smith
was, I take it, intended as an updating of the classic "Software tools" by Kernighan and Plauger. A great combination of shell scripting and command-line tools. A solid introduction to the *nix philosophy with more than enough practical examples to be immediately useful. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Tyler Smith
prove the quality of support offered by this list. Ultimately noone can impose a code of conduct on anyone else, but please give a little thought to the idea that your entertainment is diminishing the pleasure of others, others who may, now or in future, be able to help you out. Tyler -- T

Re: emacs info files?

2007-05-18 Thread Tyler Smith
ly, all the missing manuals will be in Lenny, but under the non-free directory. The devels seem to remove the offending documents from the main repository several weeks or months ahead of replacing them in the non-free repositories. HTH, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: dumpkeys on login [was keyboard tweaking without X]

2007-05-18 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-18, Mike McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18 May 2007 Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: >> Ok, I sorted this out with >> >> dumpkeys | sed -f /etc/console-tools/remap | loadkeys >> >> I needed to edit the remap file, changing

Re: dumpkeys on login [was keyboard tweaking without X]

2007-05-18 Thread Tyler Smith
d statement found there. Ok, I sorted this out with dumpkeys | sed -f /etc/console-tools/remap | loadkeys I needed to edit the remap file, changing Caps-Lock to Shift_Lock, (or the other way round). This line has to be run as root - where do I put it so that it happens every time I log in or boot?

Re: [OT, sorry] Re: keyboard tweaking without X

2007-05-17 Thread Tyler Smith
an shovel into emacs the better, since that is the best way to avoid the mouse. It just gets tricky managing all those buffers, even with the amazing iswitchb working its magic. Seeing how easy it was to toggle images on and off, and use the emacs movement commands to navigate webpages, w3m is really impressive. Any clues for importing my firefox bookmarks? Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: keyboard tweaking without X

2007-05-17 Thread Tyler Smith
;m not used to it yet. I'll have to see about tweaking the details to get my function keys working properly. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: keyboard tweaking without X

2007-05-17 Thread Tyler Smith
; > I hope that helps... > Thanks I'll look into that. Now that you've inadvertently put me onto w3m.el (if a lit student can do it...) I've finally found a text-based browser that provides all the features I need, which drastically reduces my need for X. Thanks, Tyler

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-17 Thread Tyler Smith
is the only format recognized by many of my customers. > If I sent them an MS Office document, they'd react like I dropped a dog > turd in their lap. > Who are these enlightened people? Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

keyboard tweaking without X

2007-05-17 Thread Tyler Smith
Are these just part of working in a console, or can someone point me to a resource for fixing them up? Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-17 Thread Tyler Smith
s probably what you're looking for. > It's deprecating Powerpoint at this point. > That would be great news, but why do you have that impression? Powerpoint is still the standard at my school and at any conferences I have attended in the last year. Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: bash scripting question

2007-05-16 Thread Tyler Smith
_let > B Much improved! > > This would need two loops, the outer to increment the 'tens' digit, the > inner to increment the 'ones' digit, but it would do the trick. For > example: > > x=(0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F) > I knew there was an array f

Re: bash scripting question

2007-05-16 Thread Tyler Smith
e is: > > #!/bin/bash > > ( cat < A aest_90 > B bush_90 > C carol_90 > D comp_90 > E hirs_90 > F roan_90 > G swan_90 > H vir_90 > ! > ) | while read letter name > do > printf '%s\n%s\n%s.ps\n\n' "$letter" "$name" "

bash scripting question

2007-05-16 Thread Tyler Smith
o -n $(printf "\\x$(echo $lab_num)")) This was the only way I could figure out to loop from A to H. But since it works on hex escape codes, it won't work past 9. Is there a cleaner, more general way to do this? Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: using sizeof

2007-05-14 Thread Tyler MacDonald
the structure if you absolutely need it (eg; to speak a particular networking/storage protocol...) - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-12 Thread Tyler Smith
I don't need to search for, and I haven't had any trouble going back to aptitude. Maybe I've just been lucky, but I thought that was how it was supposed to work. Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-12 Thread Tyler Smith
t the same thing. I'm going to spend some time with stumpwm when I get some free time, although that won't be soon. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-11 Thread Tyler Smith
the command line. If it's not installed you'll need to apt-get install aptitude first, of course. > > And all the packages for the console? > I don't know what this means. Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fluxbox slit

2007-05-11 Thread Tyler Smith
't realise the online docbook was as good as it is! I see that someone has already reported the missing docs as a bug report/wishlist. Unfortunately, that particular bug is over 2 years old, so the maintainers don't seem too worried about it. Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fluxbox slit

2007-05-11 Thread Tyler Smith
e out a > debian package. > I don't understand. Fluxbox comes with a well-written and detailed manpage. Would you rather it didn't, or did you mean to say it's too bad the documentation *isn't* included with fluxbox? Which suggests maybe you didn't realise the man page was there... Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Screen

2007-05-10 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-10, Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> First, for someone who claims not to be a *nix wizard you are not >> very convincing. There aren't a lot of 20 year-old non-compsci >> geeks around that

Re: [OT] Screen (was Affecting Inst. Change)

2007-05-09 Thread Tyler Smith
p; paste between xterms, which requires (clumsy) clicking about. That might be worth looking into... Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Screen (was Affecting Inst. Change)

2007-05-09 Thread Tyler Smith
sed (briefly I admit) the man page it isn't obvious to me what that might be. Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OT] Screen (was Affecting Inst. Change)

2007-05-09 Thread Tyler Smith
t of the time, emacs and xterm being my primary tools, but I keep seeing reference to this screen thing. Just curious... I'm going to have to take a look at Stump now too, since Fluxbox does still have me mousing around for a few things, mostly arranging my multiple xterms. Cheers, Tyler

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-08 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-08, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07 May 2007 23:35:59 GMT > Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> What I found, thanks to help from others here (Florian I think it >> was...) was that the directory structure under ~/texmf has t

top vs htop %MEM

2007-05-08 Thread Tyler Smith
was just a prettier top, but I can't find an explanation in the man pages for the difference in the reported MEM%. VIRT and RES are the same for both. Where does the difference come from? Not a burning issue, just curious... Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-07, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just jumped in, and the only issue I had was getting my source files >> (ie. non-standard .bst, .bib, .cls files) into the right directories > > If you have no

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Tyler Smith
the last month or two has the details of that). Doing an apt{get,itude} purge of the tetex stuff before installing texlive is probably a good idea. > Also, (very importantly) does AUCTeX work with TeXLive? > Once I got texlive installed I had no problems with Auctex. HTH, Tyler -- To UNS

Re: how to hide the mouse pointer

2007-05-03 Thread Tyler Smith
ht it too trivial to do anything about. Glad I asked! Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how to hide the mouse pointer

2007-05-03 Thread Tyler Smith
r the next time I move it, that would be handy. Not a real burning issue, I know. Is this possible, and if so how? Is this something that X can do, or is it controlled by the wm? Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: From "Etch" to Testing ("Lenny")

2007-05-01 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-01, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone any experience yet in changing their sources.list from "etch" > (back) to "testing" (i.e. "Lenny")? If so, has it been a smooth > transition, any problems or gotchas? > I switched from etch to testing during the freeze, and upgraded a f

Re: rootkit hunter and dhclient

2007-04-26 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-04-26, Juha Tuuna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 26 April 2007 15:04, Tyler Smith wrote: >> ... >> [07:42:52] Warning! Process /sbin/dhclient (25175) listening >> [07:42:52] Warning! Process /sbin/dhclient (25096) listening >> ... >> weren&#

rootkit hunter and dhclient

2007-04-26 Thread Tyler Smith
x27;t a problem. The dhclient warning is new though. Is this a problem? I couldn't find anything on google. It is possible that rkhunter hasn't run while my wireless connection was up before. Thanks! Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: texlive document source files

2007-04-25 Thread Tyler Smith
andy. Incidentally, it turns out my installation doesn't have a /usr/share/texmf/bibtex directory, only the texmf-texlive version. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: texlive document source files

2007-04-24 Thread Tyler Smith
Thankfully it doesn't need doing often. Then again, everytime I need to tinker with it I've forgotten what I learned the last time :( Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

2007-04-24 Thread Tyler Smith
out of 3 Canadian Universities I have attended were running MS-only labs. Ah, not true, my current department maintains a single mac for some phylogenetic software. The first time I ever saw a *nix OS other than my own was on a visit to Oxford, where the computer lab was running Suse. Tyler

texlive document source files

2007-04-23 Thread Tyler Smith
er, bibtex complains that the file is not found when I run it. What have I missed? I'm using emacs with auctex/reftex, running the latest version of texlive et al on Lenny. Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: grep | sed do not function inline?

2007-04-23 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-04-23, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tyler, look at what "tail -f" it means (basically): > > -f, --follow[=3D{name|descriptor}] > output appended data as the file grows; -f, --follow, and > --follow=3Ddescripto

Re: grep | sed do not function inline?

2007-04-22 Thread Tyler Smith
nd extracts the last 200. The data you want is apparently not in the last 10 lines of mylog. Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

rsync and symlinks

2007-04-19 Thread Tyler Smith
D]:1174748709" failed: Operation not permitted (1) rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(977) [sender=2.6.9] The file in question is not a symlink, or anything special: tyler:tylers_laptop-> cd ~/analysis/aflp/ tyler:aflp-> ls -l total 3704 *output snipped* -rw-

Re: Why emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch?

2007-04-18 Thread Tyler Smith
ng. Checking the debian package search website shows emacs-snapshot is only in unstable. Where did you get a testing version? Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I can't change monitor resolution in gnome

2007-04-17 Thread Tyler MacDonald
detection; if that doesnt give you what you want, break out your monitor's manual and enter the sync rates, etc manually. At the end of the monitor configuration, you should get a list of video modes; check off all the ones you want to use, restart GDM, and hope for the best. :-) Chee

Re: Debian Etch - CLARIFIED

2007-04-17 Thread Tyler Smith
ed > too... which would be handy. > > Thoughts! I have no idea what you're talking about, but you should check out man apt-cache: tyler:~-> apt-cache search 'control panel' dtc-xen - A SOAP daemon and help scripts so a control panel can manage Xen VMs geomview - intera

Re: Debian Etch - CLARIFIED

2007-04-17 Thread Tyler Smith
d too... which > would be handy. > > Thoughts! I have no idea what you're talking about, but you should check out man apt-cache: tyler:~-> apt-cache search 'control panel' dtc-xen - A SOAP daemon and help scripts so a control panel can manage Xen VMs geomview - intera

[SOLVED] bash prompt won't wrap properly

2007-04-16 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-04-16, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-04-15, Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I encountered the same problem and I solved it adding \]\n[\ in my PS1. >> >> my PS1: >> >> PS1="${magenta}[\[$TIME\] [EMAI

Re: teTeX --> TeX live: When to migrate?

2007-04-15 Thread Tyler Smith
d up reinstalling, but it did take me a few hours to realise what was wrong. hth, Tyler > I failed to do so, and ended up reinstalling Debian (which was not a > bad experience, but it took a full day for me to get all the packages > installed and everything configured). > > RLH &g

Re: bash prompt won't wrap properly

2007-04-15 Thread Tyler Smith
nes wrap correctly at 80 characters and spill onto the following line, rather than overwriting the current line. So the only functional option so far is to add the \n at the end of my prompt. However, I'd rather have my prompt on the same line as the input, which doesn't seem like an

bash prompt won't wrap properly

2007-04-15 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I've modified my bash prompt to display the number of minutes of battery time left. I use the following code in my .bashrc: ## alias bt="acpi | awk '{print \$5}' | awk -F : '{print \$1*60 + \$2}'" # set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color) case "$TERM" in xterm

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