Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves.

Steve Lamb wrote: Bah, and to think I do that from time to time on purpose just to see how far I can fork before the machine hangs. Last time was playing with Python's threading. Decided to have a thread recursively start itself as child threads. Got up to over 1000 before the machine was not

Re: alsa problem

Ionut Georgescu wrote: Then, if you you use lilo, create the following entry in /etc/lilo.conf: Don't the kernel package install scripts manage lilo.conf themselves? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Probably a stupid question but...

Certainly a stupid Subject: line (sorry :P) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: root compromise on debian woody

kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Thanks for sending the file. I tried it on sid and it is not giving any root access for an ordinary user. Guess it is a problem with woody or a particular kernel version then. Strace it - what is it trying to do? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Xen Virtual Server

Timothy Spear wrote: Before I try the Xen Virtual Server from unstable, on my Sarge based desktop, is there anyone out there running Xen on Sarge and can give some pointers or howto information? I will be starting to try this out today, in fact - I imagine by mid next-week I can

Re: root compromise on debian woody

Sean Davis wrote: I can tolerate the Debian environment, but when they can't decide whether or not to actually release Sarge Well the RC bug count is still > 0, but it has dropped nearly 2/3 since the last BTS, from ~90 to ~30. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: system.map files

LeVA wrote: Hi! Would someone please tell me what are those /boot/System.map* files for? Thanks! Daniel The website (via google) describes it so well that any attempt to summarize would pale in comparison. So I won't :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: tun failing: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device

Geoff Reidy wrote: It would take about 10 seconds to verify this! modprobe tun ifconfig tun0 Debian sid 2.6.11 kernel. Is this too much to ask? anubis:/home/jon# modprobe tun anubis:/home/jon# ifconfig tun0 tun0: error fetching interface information: Device not found anubis:/home/jon# uname -

Re: Installing Woody and LARGE download of UNCHOOSEN packages

Sebastijan Plut wrote: Was it something wrong during Debian config? I have to mention that I have not say YES when asked Run TaskSel nor DSelect during Debian Config. Where did I failed? I believe this is a well known and much hated side-effect of opening dselect - a default package selectio

Re: gaim bold-italic-underline

sturla wrote: Whenever i press enter to send a message the bold, italic and underline buttons in my gaim-window gets pressed what the f... Anyone has a tip? Via a terminal, start `xev'. Focus on the xev window, hit enter. What does the console report? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: running one thin client?

Cameron Matheson wrote: So my computer is kind of loud which is drawing some complaints from other people in my room at night... anyway, i'm thinking about moving the compute downstairs and using my laptop as a thin client (i really hate turning my computer off and losing uptime... garg). Beat

Re: Driver Authoring????

Lee Braiden wrote: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive/ That was going to be my suggestion, too. The book is available online at . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: External modem

Mr Mike wrote: I'm guessing you are relatively new to linux?? pon and poff are part and parcial and should be on all linux if ppp is installed.. I've never heard of these before. Admittedly I haven't dialled up for 5 or so years, but when I did, wvdial was the de-facto standard. -- To UNSU

Re: nano and pine [SOLVED]

Patrick Wiseman wrote: So I downloaded the 'testing' nano.deb file, and used dpkg to install it, with the '--force-overwrite' option. That seems to have worked (until, of course, I upgrade pine, when I'll have to go through the whole thing again!). You could install one using just the tarball,

Re: Amd K6 machine - advice please

Robert Storey wrote: I believe that K6 is compatible with 486 and even 586. However, I don't have one here to test it, so you'll have to try it yourself. I would second this, K6 implements pentium instructions (586) and I'll raise you a pentium pro :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Debian on Sparc20

Luiz Amaral wrote: Hi All, I can install the Debian 3.0-SparcEdition on Sparc20Station? The Machine is a 2 Processor (390Z50) with 192M and 5 SCSI HDs (2 internal and 3 external) = 20G.# I've installed debian 3.0 on a sparcstation 5 (via serial link) with few problems. However, I'd definit

sarge testing->stable and USB mouse issue

Hi all - it seems a lot of people are having trouble with their mice after the sarge move from testing to stable. I am also having a problem which seems to be different from those who have already posted on d-u and I can't find any relevant bugs against xserver-xfree86. When I get into work in

Re: Apache PHP Pains, oh the pain!

Derek Wueppelmann wrote: Can anybody shed some light as to why this would be happening. I have tried numerous things to get thsi to work but to no avail. I have tried upgrading to apache2 and then back down to apache. I tried having the deb package build a brand new httpd.conf file but still not

Re: Apache PHP Pains, oh the pain!

Almut Behrens wrote: In that context, the 'livehttpheaders' Mozilla/Firefox extension (http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/) also is a convenient debugging tool... Indeed, especially for HTTPS :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: easiest way to upgrade woody to sarge?

Sean Davis wrote: I've got a Debian Woody system that's been running decently for over a month now, and would like to update it to Sarge. I know it's been covered before, but is there an authoritative document on updating? Yes, the sarge release notes.

Re: gnome-panel .. gone .. #@!!!!

alan bonard wrote: Is this something affecting other Debian unstable users at the moment, or just me ? I'd bet it's to do with the gnome 2.10 packages being on their way into unstable. I'd avoid using unstable for machines that you need to work at short notice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: sarge testing->stable and USB mouse issue

On 6/9/05, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Footnote: I may be having the same problem at home, too (similarly > sarge 2.6.11, albeit PS2 mouse this time). However I can't confirm > that, I haven't used that machine much recently and I think the mouse > actua

Re: sarge testing->stable and USB mouse issue

Jon Dowland wrote: On 6/9/05, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Right - well indeed when I got in my PS2 mouse wasn't working in X. No events on /dev/input/mice. psmouse module loaded, '0' modules depending on it. rmmod psmouse; modprobe psmouse resulted in t

Re: iptables init.d script: where is it?

Shaun Lipscombe wrote: Yes I'm aware of iptables-save and iptables-restore but in what script is iptables-restore called on system startup/run level change? I grepped /etc/init.d/* for iptables and it found nada. Also is /var/lib/iptables/active still the correct place for the rules? It isn't

Re: iptables init.d script: where is it?

Lars Roland wrote: You do not need the init script just use iptables-save to save your current rules. But, you then need to manually call iptables-restore whenever you boot... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

Paulo M C Aragão wrote: My ignorance: how do I check if I am using devfs or udev ? Good question. I think `mount' will tell you in the case of devfs. I thought it would for udev too, but it hasn't uttered anything useful for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not so keen on KDE/GNOME because as I understand they are somewhat CPU-intensive and take longer to load than the traditional WMs. They do indeed - because they are desktop environments, not WMs. E.g. in GNOME's case, you've got a file manager, panel (launching tool),

Re: stopping ssh attacks

Have you tried searching the list? This has come up many times in the last few months. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stopping ssh attacks

Mart Frauenlob wrote: get 'chkrootkit' (www.chkrootkit.org) and 'rootkit hunter' (www.rootkit.nl) and check your box. Any reason why 'apt-get install chkrootkit' wouldn't suffice? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: tar fun

nodata wrote: Any way around this using tar (without changing users etc)? the --no-same-permissions argument may be useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: x11-selection in vim (running in xterm)

Jan Otte wrote: Reply on e-mail please. But CC the list - as other people may be interested in the response :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SquashFS

Clinton V. Weiss wrote: Has anyone had any luck mounting a squashfs under Debian? I've got packages squashfs-tools and kernel-patch-squashfs installed, and with neither I can mount. Obviously, the latter requires me to recompile my kernel with a patch - I'd rather not do that - I'm quite happy u

Re: dpkg and apt

Edward Dunagin wrote: this dosent work for me. neither as apt-get or dpkg. what am i doing wrong? You should run # dselect update not apt-get dselect update, dpkg dselect update, or any other permutation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Remote administration of a server

Hi - you appear to have the wrong date set on your computer. Your post claims to be from 07/08/05 (which to me reads '7th of august 2005', but could be interpreted as '8th july 2005, too). As you're using gmail, I'm not sure how that's happened? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How come packages dont have a homepage field?

Stefhen Hovland wrote: I am sure about 99% of packages out there have a homepage I think the ratio is much smaller than that but I will not offer a figure myself :-) Most packages have the URL, where applicable, in the copyright file for the program. I wouldn't like to see debian become to

Re: secure apache in debian

Michael Martinell wrote: What is the best way to secure an entire site in apache? I have 3.1 r0 and have installed the apache package. Basically I want 1 user to be able to access any directory or folder that exists now or will ever exist in the future in the /var/www path. You'll have to be a

Re: newbie can't install 3.1

Kent West wrote: #apt-get install aptitude #aptitude install x-window-system kde gnome icewm wmaker fluxbox (This assumes you've got plenty of free drive space, say a couple of hundred megs. The 'desktop environment' task, which does not include icewm/wmaker/fluxbox, but does include the ot

Re: menu problem

Mal Beaton wrote: I am using the menu package to create customised menus However of late It doesnt update menus but says it does You are using KDE. Are the menus properly updated in another window manager (I see you have twm installed there for example). GNOME and KDE treat the debian menu a

Re: cgi.pm and related issues

of > /home/tony/cgi/try failed > [Tue Oct 12 14:19:42 2004] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script > headers: /home/tony/cgi/try What lines have you added to httpd.conf (and other conf modules) relating to the directory /home/tony/cgi ? Should it not be something like cgi-bin,

Re: Mouse Scrolling Troubles

. He's reporting problems with scrolling but not with general behaviour. If X is set to listen to /dev/psaux and its a USB mouse then surely he shouldn't get any movement at all? Or can USB be pushed through psaux somehow? -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Mouse Scrolling Troubles

an email. Also see if your scroll wheel generates horizontal scroll events- i.e. resize a KDE window too short on the horizontal axis so you have a scrollbar and see if the wheel moves it. That can happen sometimes (I have to remap my 4,5 and 6,7 buttons) -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: SSH Cracking Attempts

might like). cons: you need to have software which supports port knocking to open up the port, which you may not have to hand in say e.g. a friends house, an internet cafe. con: depending on implementation, you might be vulnerable to exploits in the port-knocking daemon (so a tradeoff with the fi

Re: Good tool for light photo editing?

webserver, and it will handle uploading and importing the pictures, generating thumbnails, etc. It also provides just the lightweight editing facilities you need - namely, rotation and a touch of cropping. -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Good tool for light photo editing?

On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 08:16:17 -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem with gallery is that it requires Apache; not all of us want > to run a web server just to edit some pix. Of course - but OP has said he is running one. -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:22:59 +0800, gimmy tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just like solaris. > gimmy Which window manager? In ion, its MOD1+t to tag, MOD1+k a to attach tagged, by default. I bet you're not using ion, though. :P -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSU

Re: HOW to change the theme of the window?

ng. Or, which graphical environment (e.g. GNOME, KDE) possibly. -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

xt2 partitions > (never used myself). explore2fs is pretty good. I think there are some commercial ext2 drivers doing the rounds for windows but I've never used them. You could investigate using UMSDOS (fat16+extras, I think), although to be honest, they're all pretty crap file system

Re: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

ndly, please avoid top-posting as this makes threads hard to read: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html for info. Cheers and enjoy yourself with debian! -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HOW to change the theme of the window?

ul: > KDE version:2.2.2 > The style is default. > The number os desktope is 4. > best, > gimmy Ah, there you go. Use the KDE Control Center to choose a different style. Please refer to my reply to your other question to learn about top-posting and replying to the list publically. --

Re: USE flags ??

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:56:43 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a possibility to use "USE FLAGS" like in gentoo ? > > No. We're not ricers. http://www.funroll-loops.org/ There's plenty of reasons to make fun of gentoo users -

Re: USE flags ??

nd thus pulls in xlibs etc. etc. Pulling the emacs source, the build-deps and modifying debian/rules would allow you to build it w/o X, but it wouldn't modify the package dependencies and the build-deps I think would pull in various X things. -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSC

Re: USE flags ??

o could reach this stage just by having a distribution-wide distributed ccache, or something. -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: All these open ports

the online version at the above page. Thanks - that is a good guide. -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cgi.pm and related issues

is happen to myself once through confusion. -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best way to get upgrade list

Alternatively, install > apt-listchanges and it will show you the new changelog entries for every > package being upgraded[requires downloading the debs]. Wow - thanks for that. I'm so glad that feature is in there - and I must apologise for not checking before I post. Terrific! -- Jon Dowla

Re: Need help playing mp3 files and /or configuring sound

p audio. # adduser sean audio You need to work from a fresh login (e.g. log out of your terminal and/or X, log in again) in order for the new group to take effect. -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UML and debian

rg/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=27 (e.g. the sparse file one) -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USE flags ??

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:40:00 +, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > every piece > of software on my system from the bootstrap up is compiled for my > hardware aka p4, every debian binary is built for a 386 machine to keep > compatibility! Show me the proof that this is faster and I'd be co

Re: nv vs. nvidia

arably slow at 1280x1024. -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nv vs. nvidia

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:22:46 +0200, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think the CPU is your problem. Do you have a TNT-2 or older > Nvidia chip? No, a Geforce2 MX > The XVideo support for them is not complete, which means > taht watching videos becomes _very_ CPU intensive. It

Re: apache reload v. apache restart

Not sure if this is related but my apache on a woody server keeps dying and /tmp filling up. Only recently experienced this, think it might be related to PHP4. Do you have php4 linked into your apache? Are you on a woody system? -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Why are company's not certifying Debian? - raid

le people who wander off topic either, so please refrain from that too. -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apache reload v. apache restart

id this start happening? It started for me on Oct 25 and continued daily. I notice that it dies on 'graceful restart' at roughly 04:00 every night. Does this have a bug number? -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to activate a theme look of gtk/gnome application when I usen't gnome session ?

s theme always ? > > Thanks for your help > > Stéphane KLEIN Do you have gnome-theme-manager program? If you run that, and set a theme, is it then persistent? -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

unsure if I am suffering the same tihng

I am not sure if what I am suffering is due to the same bug. Firstly, if this is a known problem, I have only been experiencing it since Oct 25. It is not intermittent for me and happens consistently at night. I believe this is due to logrotation, it appears at least that apache dies at roughly

Re: why debian

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:35:41 +0200, Emil Perhinschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't like Debian very much :) You don't seem to explain why, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:21:54 + (GMT), Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can see no advantages to using aptitude over apt-get. If I'm not mistaken, d-i uses aptitude (or maybe its a cut-down fork or something). If a user installs using the new d-i, opts for manual package configuratio

Re: apt-get Failure

ug-fix to get into unstable and then try again? > (BTW followed the link in another email but it didn't really help me) Sit tight - welcome to the world of unstable! Better get used to it ;) -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ip masquerading

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:04:16 -0800, Daniel Asarnow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the advice. It looks like I'll be at this for a while...if > I can't make any headway with it, I'll ask for more help > > Thanks again, As a basis for your rules I recommend http://www.netfilter.org/docume

Re: SCP GUI

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:21:33 +0100, Christian Christmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > are there any SCP GUI clients for Sarge? Slightly OT, but if possible suggest you use SFTP over SCP. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=144579 -- Jon Dowland --

Re: debian architectures

eric hardware, ia64 64bit PCs, hppa afaik the HP-UX server arch (although I think more modern ones use powerpc?) etc. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which dhcp client should be used?

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 13:59:55 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am interested in setting up my machine as a dhcp client. Doing > apt-cache search for dhcp clients on unstable debian, I get > > dhcp-client - DHCP Client > dhcp3-client - DHCP Client > dhcpcd - DHCP client f

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

ally `auto-folding' which collapses each section up until you ask it to be expanded. Find and print out a good reference sheet and try out vim-latexsuite, an emacs equivalent if thats your poison or an environment such as kile or lyx. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: mounting w2k share as non-root user

all sorts of problems, I've looked online, and > found information but its not really very clear. Is there anyone on > the list that can give me a helping hand? or point me in the direction > of a good howto that works;) Please supply the line corresponding to your win2k part

Re: System console on serial port

have the com ports enabled with getty. Presumably, you are trying to install on a PC. Different architectures have different schemes: e.g. openboot on a sparc machine will automatically enable a serial console if there is no keyboard present. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

an the various terminals, browsers, editors, file managers etc. re-implement them internally again and again. I'd recommend fluxbox if you need some windows-esque comforts, and ion if you fancy trying something new. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

t is very entertaining, explains many of the good points of fvwm and provides many sample configurations. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I get rid of the mutt mail headers?

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 09:54:19 -0600, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Incoming from Jake Johnson: > > > > I am trying to get rid of the mutt mail headers. I don't like it > > that I have to page through so much text just to read the email. > > Please note that it is not the verbose headers

Re: Anyone using GNUstep?

(at > least for me) than that offered by Gnome or KDE. I gave the gnustep livecd a go the other day out of curiosity. Not bad but a bit skimpy. A while ago I attempted to try out the gnustep development tools under unstable; but they were very broken. Have you tried the afterstep window manager

Re: modules_image

led sid though a nework > install. In my experience the .deb is not put in the cwd but elsewhere... e.g. I call make-kpkg from /usr/src/linux and it puts the .deb in /usr/src. Have you tried there? Also check /usr/src/modules. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 13:48:35 +0100 (BST), Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why not try a tabbed window manager? It seems to me that grouping > > Because it doesn't answer the question. :) It would sol

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:10:45 +0300, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:07:37PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:21:41 -0500, cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Someone told me today at lunch t

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

On 01 Jul 2004 09:42:31 -0400, Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Much of the power that latex has exists now in word: e.g. automatic > > contents building. > > How about automatic equation numbering like

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

t seen raised yet - handling of embedded images in (la)tex documents. Iused a package 'epsfig' to include encapsulated post script images; but that entailed conversion of many bitmaps to EPS, which involved pixels to inches/centimetres, with dots per inch cropping up, etc. Not a pleasant experi

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 11:49:35 -0500, Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never seen a Word document match a good LaTeX or TeX document, > because Word doesn't have as good a layout algorithm. I'd certainly agree that Knuth's typesetting algorithm is

Re: backing up to ftp server

Take a look at http://syncftp.sf.net/ - there's the original syncftp, a re-implementation using GNOME libraries by my co-author; also links to other, similar programs. Also, for scheduling combine with logrotate and cron (both in debian in various forms) -- Jon Dowland -- To UN

Re: Copyright/License of Debian Constitution

e, which can be used to verify > its authenticity. If the message itself appears as an attachment, you are > probably using using a broken mail program, such as Microsoft Outlook Express. It might be worth trying on debian-legal. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Copy Paste into vi??

ur mouse or if you have two button > mouse, press button 1 + 2 simultanously. Vim, and possibly other vi implementations, may grab the middle-click for their own purposes (in vim's case; internal cut buffer). In this case, try holding down shift when you click. This behaviour can probab

Re: acme

sted in what chains of packages conflict with what other chains/groups; use something like aptitude and try changing the status of packages from install to remove without actually committing to an action (i.e. don't press 'g' afterwards). -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Pick up a shell session after ssh timeout

t think so, I was more curious then in need of a fix :) > > joost Actually I think it is possible. See the debian-user thread 'detaching a process from an ssh session ??', one of the replies has message id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. You can disown the process and reparent it later, I b

Re: About emacs

ge for emacs does not build correctly with all the build-depends installed and using the standard debian package building scripts. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on a Dedicated Server

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:13:01 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Retard-style quoting fixed. Please do it yourself in the future. > http://learn.to/quote/ > > Stelios Asmargianakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:13:40 -0400 Ryan Waye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: auto delete spam

alse positives: :0: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes $HOME/Mail//filtered/ Notice the trailing slash - this specifies Maildir. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The state of debian security

o be frustrated by slow response times to security issues and > poor developer attitudes, debian has no real advantage over any other distro. > > Frustrated and vulnerable… Could you supply links / information about the vulnerabilities? -- Jon Dowland

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

yboard; but the key is next to the left shift key rather than the right. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's the diff between 'make bzImage' and 'make zImage' while compiling kernel?

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:07:26 +0800, cwinl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi,all > > http://ertw.com/blog/archives/make_bzimage_vs_make_zimage-170404.html > > someone tell me that the kernel made by 'make bzImage' is smaller then the one 'make > zImage' made it. > > is it correct? Interesting art

Re: Help: My 'e' and 'c' keys no longer work!

or 'uk' does though. I would understand if the ukgb map was renamed or deleted, but to have it half-work is bizarre. -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

ur head may have missed. I think this is only the tip of the iceberg. Without scaremongering, if the information you want to remove is of such a critical nature that it must never be recovered no matter what cost; you would have to destroy the drive. -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNS

Re: need help with bind9-host

Hi, what debian version (stable/testing/unstable/other) are you using; and what are the package version for all installed bind* packages; and which ever package provides libdns? What are the file permissions on /usr/lib/libdns.so.11? -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Configuring Cube

How might I bind arrow-pad keys differently? (They now work as slide left and > right which is less usefull) You should try the cube forums. The homepage is down at time of writing but is http://www.cubeengine.com/. Also see http://sf.net/projects/cube/. -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

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