apt-get update error

2004-02-19 Thread Deboo
/ftp.iitm.ac.in_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. I tried deleting this file and re-running apt-get update but still the same. What am I doing wrong? The file seems to be fine if I open it with a pager/editor. Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: apt-get update error

2004-02-19 Thread Deboo
installed I can see. I better wouldn't have done this mess if I would have used somebackport version of what I needed :/ Please help! Regards, Deboo -- --- He does not suffer sorrow in sorrow, who does not look for pleasure in pleasure

Help! unable to login!

2004-02-19 Thread Deboo
installed I can see. I better wouldn't have done this mess if I would have used somebackport version of what I needed :/ Please help! Regards, Deboo -- --- He does not suffer sorrow in sorrow, who does not look for pleasure in pleasure

Help urgently needed before there's a blackout!

2004-02-19 Thread Deboo
packages.debian.org This is what I get when I try to login: -bash: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by /lib/libncurses.so.5) Please help! Thanks a lot Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Help urgently needed before there's a blackout!

2004-02-19 Thread Deboo
but I guess I could give it a try? I'm not ready to reinstall. Thanks for the help ... I survived a quick brownout a few minutes ago. Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Kernel compile blues

2004-02-21 Thread Deboo
I'm using debian woody. Been compiling kernels since quite many years on Slack, RH and Mandrake. It's very few times I have completely been successful booting with the compiled kernel in debian (Have used sarge too). Past few days I have been sitting just compiling and re-compiling various

Problem with apt-get and gpm

2004-02-21 Thread Deboo
I was using screen, and in one of the session, apt-get installed rspfd daemon. apt-get hun while trying to start this daemon. I couldn't do anything except killing apt-get and screen. But after that I'm not able to run apt-get anymore, I get this error: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock -

Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-21 Thread Deboo
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Kai Schindelka wrote: Have a look at the packages build-essential and kernel-package. The following works for me on a Debian stable: cd /usr/src/linux/ make menuconfig make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --revision revision --append_to_version

Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-21 Thread Deboo
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Kai Schindelka wrote: VFS: Cannot open root device or 03:06 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06 Looks like the HA driver module the boot drive is attached to is missing in initrd. A misconfigured LILO may also be the cause. HA driver module?

Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-21 Thread Deboo
to compile a kernel in the generic way before using kpkg? Regards, Deboo -- --- Can someone, who causes pain to others, experience real joy? --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Postfix needs an FQDN?

2004-02-22 Thread Deboo
or directory What do I need to do for this? Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Postfix again

2004-02-22 Thread Deboo
or directory I've configured postfix to relay mail to another smarthost. Do I really need to have a dns server for postfix to work? Because a fake domain lookup will always fail and postfix would never seem to work it seems, like this. How do I make postfix work now? Regards, Deboo

Shutdown and reboot doesn't unmount partitions

2004-02-22 Thread Deboo
by experience, I guess it's better to have many small partitions than one big root partition. Atleast it saves the time when fscking. Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unidentified subject!

2004-02-22 Thread Deboo
that debian uses to start things at startup other than /etc/rc.boot? Like the rc.local file in RH/Mandrake? Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mac address changing utility?

2004-02-22 Thread Deboo
to access the net using the ip address of the desktop machine. If someone knows of any such utility, I'd be grateful if he/she replies to this message. Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bdflush can't work with ext3

2004-02-22 Thread Deboo
with ext3? If no, then is reiser or any other kind of journalled FS work with bdflush? Or is there any other bdflush type utility to do this? Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Need a shell or perl script

2004-02-22 Thread Deboo
make a dir listing of the mailboxes and send you the list so you know these are my friends and not some spam thing I am asking. Thanks and Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cron problem?

2004-02-22 Thread Deboo
. Wierd. What could it be? Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Old hdd and cdrom errors at bootup

2004-02-22 Thread Deboo
: no response (status = 0x0a) ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 I commented any lines in /etc/fstab about both of them but still I get them. What is causing these errors? Why is debian trying to access them or mount them at boot when they aren't there in fstab? Regards, Deboo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Need a shell or perl script

2004-02-23 Thread Deboo
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-22, Deboo penned: but I know neither. Not that I do not want to learn, but I need help to get this list. Can anyone help me out by giving the commands needed to do this? If they think this I am asking for mass e-mail, then I could

Re[2]: OT: Linux or Cisco

2007-04-04 Thread Deboo
to understand. If anyone can tell me a book that has easy to understand language for non-English readers, I'd sure try it out. Regards, Deboo Thursday, April 5, 2007, 12:09:08 AM, you wrote: On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:05:57AM +0530, CCNAStuff wrote: I already get about 4 - 5 mails everyday for sysadmin

Problem mounting Ext2 CDs

2007-04-15 Thread Deboo ^
. Please give a solution someone. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to boot in to Etch if grub fails to load and deletes NTLDR?

2007-05-03 Thread Deboo ^
can only give me a basic shell and can not boot normally in to the installed basic debian system. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to boot in to Etch if grub fails to load and deletes NTLDR?

2007-05-03 Thread Deboo ^
/Fedora systems towards the end of installation? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to boot in to Etch if grub fails to load and deletes NTLDR?

2007-05-04 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/4/07, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:39:57AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: Is there an option I can make a boot CD like the boot floppy option present in RedHat/Fedora systems towards the end of installation? You can use the netinst CD as a rescue disk. Just

Re: How to boot in to Etch if grub fails to load and deletes NTLDR?

2007-05-05 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/4/07, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 04:46:27PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/4/07, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:39:57AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: Is there an option I can make a boot CD like

[Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup

2007-05-05 Thread Deboo ^
not even the nslookup, or host commands, nor telnet. Atleast ssh exists so I tested with that. What do I do? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup

2007-05-05 Thread Deboo ^
Also note that I tried pinging remote ip addresses (like google.com's and yahoo.com's) and was unable to get any response. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup

2007-05-06 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:12:25PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: Also note that I tried pinging remote ip addresses (like google.com's and yahoo.com's) and was unable to get any response. is that by ip address or by name? Well it should

Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup

2007-05-06 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/7/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 07:11:34PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:12:25PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: Also note that I tried pinging remote ip addresses (like

Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup

2007-05-07 Thread Deboo ^
of the two? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OT] SWF to MP4 converter

2007-05-07 Thread Deboo ^
I would like to convert some swf video files to either xvid or mpeg4 avi. Is there any converter available for this in debian? Or even a non-deb file? Windows versions for one, ask $$ and then need to play and capture each file to record and convert. Too much time consuming. Regards, Deboo

francine: unable to login

2007-05-07 Thread Deboo ^
since the first time I discovered it and it's been like more than 2 years now. May be even 4. I don't know if the problem is with francine or with rungetty but if either has the problem, they shouldn't be included in stable then, isn't it? Any solution to the above problem anyone Regards, Deboo

Re: francine: unable to login

2007-05-07 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/8/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:19:15AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: There comes a neat little proggie since I think Sarge called francine which is a console login program or wrapper displaying a nice debian logo and prompt for login and password

Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter

2007-05-10 Thread Deboo ^
convert or not though. SWF to any video format is fine. Next step I could convert them all in to mp4. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

strange ? characters all over the screen in aptitude, mc and other ncurses programs

2007-05-10 Thread Deboo ^
this has to do somethign with either whiptail or readline? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter

2007-05-11 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/8/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:05:06AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: I would like to convert some swf video files to either xvid or mpeg4 avi. Is there any converter available for this in debian? Or even a non-deb file? Windows versions for one

Re: How do yo u install minimal X with fluxbox on Etch?

2007-05-11 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/11/07, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:42:31PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: Even though I do not need to install X on my new Etch console system, I would like to know how do you install X, is there some new way. How to install a minimal X so that if I need to run

How do yo u install minimal X with fluxbox on Etch?

2007-05-11 Thread Deboo ^
Even though I do not need to install X on my new Etch console system, I would like to know how do you install X, is there some new way. How to install a minimal X so that if I need to run some remove X apps, I can, with ssh. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list

Best Debian packages

2007-05-11 Thread Deboo ^
Is there a list of best (most used) packages in debian? Another list of all console packages in debian? I see Etch has 21 CDs ... how many have the source and how many have packages? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: How do yo u install minimal X with fluxbox on Etch?

2007-05-11 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/11/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:56:41PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/11/07, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:42:31PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: Even though I do not need to install X on my new Etch console system, I

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-11 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/12/07, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:10:36AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:15:45PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: Is there a list of best (most used) packages in debian? Another list of all console packages in debian? I see Etch

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-12 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/12/07, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 07:32:36AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: How do you list all the available packaes with apt-get? aptitude in interactive mode has several ways of listing packages. And all the packages for the console? Views - New Debtags

[OT] Working news server

2007-05-13 Thread Deboo ^
number of ngs and also allows posting and is free to use? Searching newsbot reveals either unknown or no posting allowed. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-13 Thread Deboo ^
as I know [0], but if it does, you an easily fix this by just cancelling all the removals (e.g. with keep-all or pressing : on the group of autoremoved packages). Thanks, that worked but can/will I need to do it again and again? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-05-14 Thread Deboo ^
the files which have changed. Try it out, you'll love it. Another cool console ftp client which uses arrow keys to browse is cftp. Try this out too, tho this is not for backing up. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-05-14 Thread Deboo ^
of this? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.

Security Breach: A zero byte file created in my home directory

2007-05-15 Thread Deboo ^
this, that file is GONE. I did not delete it. Even with the firewall, someone is in my computer? What do I need to do? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Security Breach: A zero byte file created in my home directory

2007-05-15 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/15/07, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-05-15 11:35:03 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: I saw today that there's a zero byte file in my hoem dir with the name Brendan created yesterday but I couldn't search whp created it or what was the command that created it etc from any log

xterm fonts

2007-05-15 Thread Deboo ^
to use the dektop icons that DSL is able to use with fluxbox? I already installed fbdesk but it seems of no use at all or is it buggy? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-15 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/16/07, cothrige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two other terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them give very small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable font

Re: Security Breach: A zero byte file created in my home directory

2007-05-15 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/16/07, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-05-16 02:54:06 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/15/07, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-05-15 11:35:03 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: I saw today that there's a zero byte file in my hoem dir with the name Brendan created

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-16 Thread Deboo ^
. Is it really needed to do that dd command before installing W2K? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Solved] Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-16 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/16/07, Michael V. De Palatis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should run xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults to reload the file. However, some intricacies can be involved if the program name launched from the menu is not `xterm`. Thanks for this. It worked but the only thing I played a bit with

[OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

2007-05-16 Thread Deboo ^
with this error and no solution. I got the info that this problem is due to the certs. I double checked the paths to the certs and all is fine. So why this problem? Can someone help? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

2007-05-17 Thread Deboo ^
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 36005 smtpd_use_tls = yes tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [not-OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

2007-05-17 Thread Deboo ^
? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

2007-05-17 Thread Deboo ^
. That is why I sent a reply to you too. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

2007-05-17 Thread Deboo ^
Does user postfix have access to the key file ? I chowned the postfix directory to user postfix and still it's the same thing. Should I regenerate the keys? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-17 Thread Deboo ^
Also how to use the dektop icons that DSL is able to use with fluxbox? I already installed fbdesk but it seems of no use at all or is it buggy? ibid. What's that ibid and how do you install it? I couldn't find any such thing with apt. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm

Where do you get beaver?

2007-05-17 Thread Deboo ^
a tarball, can someone tell me where to get a .deb or how to apt-get it? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where do you get beaver?

2007-05-17 Thread Deboo ^
and small app like beaver for a start. I can help in documentation if you wish. In that case, I'll go ahead and install the tarball to make a manpage. :-) Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Where do you get beaver?

2007-05-17 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/18/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/07 20:30, Deboo ^ wrote: Canada? No, India. Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! Nice one btw :-) Regards, Deboo -- Please don't

Re: Where do you get beaver?

2007-05-17 Thread Deboo ^
not work. I tried to paste some code from an email (using firefox) in to even ted but there also both Ctrl-v or Middle mouse button paste the text I had copied usign the mouse button previously. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Where do you get beaver?

2007-05-18 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/18/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Canada? No, India. This is a family list, so I won't ask what kind of beaver you find in India... I didn't know what the word really meant, now I know. -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Where do you get beaver?

2007-05-18 Thread Deboo ^
it was removed. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where do you get beaver?

2007-05-18 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/18/07, Liam O'Toole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry if this question appears condescending, but when trying to paste into vi are you in 'insert' mode? Ofcourse! Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Where do you get beaver?

2007-05-18 Thread Deboo ^
and small in size. What is the policy used to drop a package? Regards, Deboo? -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-18 Thread Deboo ^
) [syn: {ib.}, {ibidem}] Well I still do not understand. I was wonderign if he meant fribidi or some such package ... to install fluxbox desktop icons easily ... Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-19 Thread Deboo ^
it in the /etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu and it works. The next time I start x, xterm is again the small default one with different colors. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

man beeps more than woman

2007-05-19 Thread Deboo ^
How do you stop man from beeping when going below or above EOF or at other times when it beeps? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: man beeps more than woman

2007-05-19 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/19/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/19/2007 07:40 AM, Deboo ^ wrote: How do you stop man from beeping when going below or above EOF or at other times when it beeps? Regards, Deboo Tell the less(1) pager to be quiet: export LESS=-q man 1 less I already made an alias

Re: man beeps more than woman

2007-05-19 Thread Deboo ^
all the options. Thanks Greg! Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: man beeps more than woman

2007-05-19 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/20/07, Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I found tried to use woman in emacs and found that emacs does tab completion for man pages too and also shows possible list of completions. Not just that but all in pretty color.! Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-19 Thread Deboo ^
: xterm -bg black -fg white -fn 12x24 firefox exec /usr/bin/fluxbox and xterm is an alias to xterm -bg black -fg white -fn 12x24 so that any new xterms I can staart thru the first one and they will be with similar options. The fluxbox menu XShells - xterm however remains as it is. Regards, Deboo

emacs and jed extremely slow

2007-05-20 Thread Deboo ^
When I start emacs or jed at times, both of them pause for a long tiem before starting up. This only happens sometimes. How can I dermine what is the cause? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: emacs and jed extremely slow

2007-05-20 Thread Deboo ^
emacs runs in about 2 seconds or less normally so I wonder what causes the delay? Cronjobs? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.

Re: emacs and jed extremely slow

2007-05-20 Thread Deboo ^
when I h ave seen this happen. Does nto happen always but only sometimes. Say once a night. Seen this since last 3 or 4 days. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.

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

2007-05-21 Thread Deboo ^
by Michael Stutz Please add to the list. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-22 Thread Deboo ^
to find it now. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-22 Thread Deboo ^
/ directory? I made the directory but nothing changed since it did not load. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-22 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/23/07, Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/20/07, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying this, I lost the fluxbox menu totally, I wonder why. Whatever I I'd wonder why too. There must be something else going on that you're missing. did I couldn't get back the fluxbox menu

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-22 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/22/07, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apt-cache show dfm Great. Thanks for the info. Works OOB! Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-22 Thread Deboo ^
to the memory footprint. Even though mrxvt is working for me, I found xfce4-terminal nice. Even though it installed more libs, it's quite light. Nice options and a tabbed terminal! Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-22 Thread Deboo ^
be done? Is it from my side? Which files to look in to? Depends what you call nice. I think man xterm from a shell prompt brings up something that's both very nice and totally _accurate_ .. Beware of imitations. Thanks I'll read it completely and thoroughly this time. Regards, Deboo -- Please

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/23/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/22/2007 07:26 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: Another odd thing happened. Now when I start X, in the fluxbox menu, there is only one Wrkspace, not the default 4 and I have to recreate the other three everytime. How do I do this auto? Regards, Deboo

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread Deboo ^
, and it functions normally (four workspaces, normal menus). The problem isn't with fluxbox it seems but somehow even purging fluxbox, along with the ~/.fluxbox directory and even the /var/cache/apt/archives/flux*, somewhere the goofed up flux config stays. Wierdly! Regards, Deboo P.S.: Can someone paste

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread Deboo ^
want something similar. Which packages will install extra and bigger fonts for xterm or any other terminal for that matter, to use? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread Deboo ^
the 24 option too but if I click that, the alphabet changes from English to Indic. LOL. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread Deboo ^
as Workspace 1, Workspace2 etc I renamed the init in /etc to have same names as the one in ~/.fluxbox and got back the 4 workspaces. Has anyone else with Etch Stable had the same problem? Or can someone try to purge and reinstall fluxbox to check if this is replicable? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't

Re: xterm fonts - problem solved and able to replicate

2007-05-23 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/23/07, Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even though I was able to reinstal flubbox after purging it several times and afte ra power failure, fluxbox worked with the menus, now still xterm is without a menu. And I am forced to use another term. I'm using mrxc\vt because it has tabs

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/23/07, Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even though I was able to reinstal flubbox after purging it several times and afte ra power failure, fluxbox worked with the menus, now still xterm is without a menu. And I am forced to use another term. I'm using mrxc\vt because it has tabs

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-27 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/26/07, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2007-05-23 05:19:31, schrieb Deboo ^: On 5/22/07, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note, that the FILE ~/.Xresources is deprecated in favour of the directory. ~/.Xresources/. You can load ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources

X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-28 Thread Deboo ^
I trace the problem? This does not happen if I am just working in console. It only happens if I switch to tty consoles even for a minute and then back to X ... btw, just had to do that just now too. Any help appriciated. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-28 Thread Deboo ^
is onboard ATI Radeon. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

2007-05-28 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/18/07, Mihira Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deboo ^ wrote: Does user postfix have access to the key file ? I chowned the postfix directory to user postfix and still it's the same thing. Maybe you need to explicitly chmod/chown the key files to postfix user. Worth givving a shot

Is Etch Stable is really stable?

2007-05-28 Thread Deboo ^
sources? I have a minimalist system and I thought there shouldn't be anything wrong since I haven't installed any crap. Is courier broken or something in Etch? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-28 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/29/07, fabio natali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deboo wrote: [...] When switching to console ttys and then back, most of the time, as soon as I go back to X, the system just freezes and refuses to respond i had kind of a similar problem and i resolved appending vga=791 at the end of my boot

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-05-28 Thread Deboo ^
, called cftp which is quite cute, given it uses lynz like keys to browse and download files from ftp. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-05-29 Thread Deboo ^
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