Re: OT:Netscape

2000-11-26 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, November 26, Stephan Kulka did write: I have a problem with netscape, which annoys me. Every time I start netscape the browser points to http:/// although I would like to point it to www.debian.org. Only when I open a new window this happens. Is this an known bug or can I

Re: Port 12345?

2000-11-28 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , November 28, Willy Lee did write: Robert == Robert Waldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:51:09 +0100, Svante Signell writes: Anyone knows what port 12345TCP is used for and which OSes are vulnerable? 12345 is NetBus (according to www.snort.org), vulnerable

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-28 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, November 28, Damian Menscher did write: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Pollywog wrote: On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:40:09 -0200 (EDT), Mario Olimpio de Menezes said: One computer where I have Debian installed was scanned recently. Someone probed several ports (~20), maybe trying to

Re: OT: port scan

2000-11-30 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, November 29, brian moore did write: On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 05:38:12PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: Well, they can be. Connections to TCP ports 137, 138, and 139 are part of Windows file- and printer-sharing. I don't know all that much about how SMB works, but I'm

Re: [OT] Apple IIe help please

2000-12-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, December 1, Lizard did write: At 06:25 PM 12/1/2000, D-Man wrote: Hi all. I apologize for the off topic-ness of the message and the cross-post. I have a friend who has a program she likes (written in BASIC) on an Apple IIe. I have a way to get into the code and list it

Re: Inappropriate postings: [kroger@Princeton.EDU: Re: OT: regular expression question]

2000-12-09 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, December 8, kmself@ix.netcom.com did write: Dr. Kroger: Attached are several recent posts you've made to the debian-users mailing list concerning the Debian GNU/Linux operating system (http://www.debian.org/). I think you'll find that instructions for unsubscribing from the

How to track *part* of unstable?

2000-12-22 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. I'm still fairly new to debian, so I'm not all that familiar with dpkg, dselect, and apt. Is there a way to track the unstable branch for only certain packages? I'd like to install the unstable version of gnucash. I downloaded the .deb and tried an apt-get install, but it

Re: How to track *part* of unstable?

2000-12-22 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, December 22, Rob VanFleet did write: On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 01:35:28PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: Is there a way to track the unstable branch for only certain packages? I'd like to install the unstable version of gnucash. Is gnucash_1.4.8 new enough for you? That'd

Re: Catch-22 with modules/backups

2000-12-23 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, December 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] did write: I am eager to try making a debian kernel, to make sure only the drivers I need are there, but first I need to make a backup !!! While backups never hurt, a kernel rebuild shouldn't require backups. If you leave out some necessary

Re: procmail

2000-12-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, December 24, Marcelo Chiapparini did write: Hi to all! I am using fetchmail+exim+mutt as an email system. All the incomming emails goes to /var/spool/mail/myaccount. I would like now to store the different messages in separate mailboxes files defined in /home/myaccount. I

Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)

2000-12-25 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, December 26, Patrick Schnorbus did write: Hi, I´ve just installed xfstt, put some TrueType Fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype and updated the xfstt fonts list. But i can´t use the fonts. First I tried them to use with konqueror, then with the GIMP, but in no program they

Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)

2000-12-26 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, December 26, Hall Stevenson did write: * Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001225 21:03]: Did you add xfstt to your X server's font path? In /etc/X11/XF86Config, section Files, the following line should work for the default setup: FontPath unix/:7101 See

Re: Changing screen size along with screen resolution?

2000-12-26 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, December 26, Lance Simmons did write: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 05:42:36PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: Lance Simmons wrote: Is there a way to change resolution _and_ screen size at the same time? does the game support fullscreen? Yes, it does. It's Heroes of

Re: Confusion over library names

2000-12-28 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, December 28, Michael and Ricia Banther did write: The ld program supports a -ln command line option. Why are you calling ld directly? g++ should do that for you--especially with respect to libstdc++ (see below). (Of course, gcc/g++ supports the same parameter.) Playing

Difficulties with FvwmPager in fvwm2 (potato)

2000-12-31 Thread Richard Cobbe
Hello, all. I'm running fvwm 2.2.4-2 on Debian 2.2r2 (potato), and there's something that's been bugging me for a while. I don't have an .fvwm2rc in my home directory, so fvwm looks at Debian's /etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc and then reads the various hook files in ~/.fvwm. This generally works

Re: Tracking down IP's

2000-12-31 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, December 31, JD Kitch did write: Can anyone tell me what this person is looking for here, and how I can find out where this is coming from? Security Violations =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dec 31 11:06:47 tower kernel: Packet log: output REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 xx.xx.xxx.xx:61662

Re: Tracking down IP's

2000-12-31 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, December 31, ktb did write: On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 12:16:59PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: Security Violations =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dec 31 11:06:47 tower kernel: Packet log: output REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 xx.xx.xxx.xx:61662 172.16.72.113:161 L=106 S=0x00 I=7632 F=0x T=127

Re: Tracking down IP's

2000-12-31 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, December 31, Pollywog did write: On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:55:26 -0600 (CST), Richard Cobbe said: Did you change your IP address in the above report? IIRC, 172.16.*.* is a block of private addresses. Packets to this address should be dropped automatically

Re: Tracking down IP's

2000-12-31 Thread Richard Cobbe
JD Kitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me what this person is looking for here, and how I can find out where this is coming from? Security Violations =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dec 31 11:06:47 tower kernel: Packet log: output REJECT eth0 PROTO=17 xx.xx.xxx.xx:61662 172.16.72.113:161

Re: Tracking down IP's

2000-12-31 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, December 31, JD Kitch did write: Now, find out *who's* sending this traffic. Make sure you've got the lsof-2.2 package installed. As root, run lsof | grep 61662 | grep -i udp I do have that package, but this command turned up no output. Uh oh. And you're still

Re: Running something in a terminal

2001-01-01 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, January 1, Rob VanFleet did write: On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 03:04:30AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: $ x-terminal-emulator -T Mutt -e mutt Many thanks. ...set your linewrap to 72 chars. Sorry, did some pasting in my last message and I guess I mucked things up

Re: traslate elf/a.out to text file.

2001-01-01 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, January 1, Nguyen Hai Ha did write: Hi, Would anyone tell me what is the command to translate elf/a.out file to assembly file. OS: potato (linux-2.2.18pre21) ARC: x86 # in SPARCs, this is DIS /usr/bin/objdump -d object in the binutils package. object is a .o, .a,

Re: remote x via ssh question

2001-01-01 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , January 1, Forrest English did write: [reformatted for 80 columns] i know i can export it just like i would any other time, but i also set X11Forwarding yes, which i belive should forward it automaticaly, and here's what i recive when i try and run [EMAIL PROTECTED] forrest]$

Re: remote x via ssh question

2001-01-01 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , January 1, Forrest English did write: sorry about that, i should have been more specific. i have my sshd_config file set up on both machines to allow X11Forwarding. i am trying to connect from my desktop (thneed) to my server (truffula.net). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -X

Re: vim's syntax highlighting + typedefs from #include foo.h

2001-01-01 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, January 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] did write: Hi, Is it possible to get vim to have a look through your #included files and colour the defined types? In particular, it would be nice to have 'gfloat' coloured similar to 'float', when including glib.h As another poster mentioned,

Re: sharing internet between WINDOZE and LINUX

2001-01-01 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, January 1, Cameron Matheson did write: Hey, My family's crappy windows computer has this beautiful DSL connection, which I have lusted after for many months. Anyway, I can't steal the modem or anything, so I was wondering, is their a way to share a window's internet with a

Re: connection to internet fails?

2001-01-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, January 3, M.B.Midden did write: Hi a few days a go everything worked fine but i rebooted, and i had not al settings in the right places, because after reboot the settings were gone ( earlier today i asked how to boot the ip chains and stuff so that :). If i configured

Re: C compiler.

2001-01-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, January 2, Xucaen did write: huh??? it doesn't mention anything about this in the man pages (man gcc) Well, not in *that* man page, anyway. Normally, the man page for the library function in question will tell you what libraries you have to link against; pow(3) unfortunately

Re: glibc devel info pages

2001-01-03 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, January 3, Ben Collins did write: On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:37:44PM +1100, Brian May wrote: Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben By default, __USE_GNU is defined. If you want to define it (perhaps you meant ...is undefined???) Ben

Re: Problems w/ adduser... says user 'root' doesn't exist!

2001-01-12 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, January 11, Monte Milanuk did write: Ethan Benson wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:38:21PM -0700, Monte Milanuk wrote: I'm a bit confused here... I used dselect to install CUPS and it's dependent packages, but no config program, which seemed odd. I used links to

Re: xterm menus

2003-01-06 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, January 6, will trillich did write: snip From /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color: ! The following two sections take advantage of new features in version 7 ! of the Athena widget library. Comment them out if you have a shallow ! color depth. ... or if you use a dark

Re: xterm menus

2003-01-07 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, January 7, will trillich did write: On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 06:21:07PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: SNIP What does `hideous' mean here, specifically? I commented these same lines out back when I upgraded to woody, and now my xterm menus look fine---same foreground

Re: SOLVED: Still have no idea of the xhost replacement

2003-01-07 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, January 6, nate did write: Abdul Latip said: IT WORKS! Thank you very much! May I know for what is -nolisten tcp in xserverrc? sure, glad to help. the nolisten tcp is to prevent the X server from listening for connections on TCP ports. ... which is a good thing for

Re: How to make Alt GNU Emacs Meta?

2003-01-11 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, January 11, Bob Proulx did write: Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-10 22:28:14 -0800]: In the current stable release of debian, GNU Emacs uses the Windows key as Meta instead of Alt. I am told this is not true for other linux distributions or other releases of debian.

Re: how to set my email address on outgoing mail?

2003-01-15 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, January 15, Adam did write: On my ISP shell account I can set my email address in Emacs when using RMAIL but this doesn't work on my Debian box, is this exim's doing? I don't think so; I'm able to configure my outgoing email address successfully using VM, XEmacs, and

Re: Compiler error: C compiler cannot create executables

2003-01-18 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, January 18, Eric G. Miller did write: On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 12:07:24PM +0100, Achton N. Netherclift wrote: [snip] According to packages.debian.org, the file that is missing according to the config.logs (crt1.o) is contained in the libc6-dev package. The file is missing

Can't print from woody: HPDJ 670C, gs 6.53-3, magicfilter 1.2-53

2003-02-18 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. I'm having serious trouble printing postscript files from my Woody system. I've got a HPDJ 670c, and I'm running gs 6.53-3 and magicfilter 1.2-53. (This, of course, applies to printing anything that goes through PostScript, like PDF.) I'm using lprng 3.8.10-1. The actual

Where to put local PPD file for CUPS?

2003-02-23 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. I've just switched to CUPS from lprng. I've been quite happy with it; the web configuration interface is particularly nice. Only one minor question: the best .ppd for my particular printer is not, so far as I can tell, included in any of the cups-related packages (at least in

RE: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-12 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, July 12, Kurt Lieber did write: I'm wedded to the way Outlook displays information. With one look at the main Outlook screen, I can tell how many unread messages I have in each account, the content of the first unread message in my primary account (via the preview pane) as

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-13 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , July 13, John S. J. Anderson did write: On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:31:23 -0500 (CDT), Richard Cobbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Richard I'm a fan of VM, because I'm used to the Emacs keybindings, Richard and it's the only MUA I've found which lets you edit messages Richard that you

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, July 19, Joost Kooij did write: The xfree86 packages have been changed to not accept tcp connections at all by default. Check out the -nolisten option in your xserver manual page. I don't think this holds for potato. I'm pretty certain I never explicity re-enabled it on

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, July 19, Richard Black did write: Joost Kooij wrote: Generally, don't use xhost, it is not safe. Instead use xauth. But...how do I use xauth? I have tried doing what what suggested in the man page ie variants of xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth merge -

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, July 24, Dave Sherohman did write: I've finally gotten around to learning some TeX and I'm having a terrible time with fonts: First I looked at the Gentle Guide's list of 'normally available' fonts and grabbed the biggest Roman I could find, only to be told ! Font \sf=CMR17

Re: bash: man: command not found

2001-07-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, July 24, Joost Kooij did write: On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:55:43PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: wonder if someone can help me. was playing around with dselect trying to fix a package dependency issue, removed 2 many packages and now it says that 'man' can no longer be

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
Alan Shutko got most of your questions in a separate mail; there are just a couple of loose endings. Lo, on Tuesday, July 24, Dave Sherohman did write: On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:17:16PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: Hm. When you say that cmr17 looks almost as bad as cmr10, what exactly do

Re: C programming: Segmentation fault within malloc?

2001-07-26 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, July 26, Shaul Karl did write: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x400af19e in malloc () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) How can it be? If malloc can not allocate memory it should return a NULL pointer. How can it Seg fault? As Andrew Agno and Alan Shutko

Re: netscape freeze, additional info

2001-07-26 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, July 26, Karsten M. Self did write: ObligTelnetBashing: don't use telnet. Remove your telnet daemon. Use SSH for all remote access. Consider removing your telnet client (there's an alternative, whose name I forget, which is useful for establishing connections to various

Re: Freeing up lost memory

2001-07-29 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, July 29, Damon Muller did write: Quoth Osamu Aoki, On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 04:48:05PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: Hi gang, I foolishly left Opera 5 overnight last night. It seems that it leaks memory like a sieve, as when I woke up this morning, I had only about

Setting FQDN with pump?

2001-07-30 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. I'm running 2.2r3, and I'm having some difficulties setting my FQDN. My IP address is assigned via DHCP from a server here at work; I'm using pump. The DHCP server is set up such that when it assigns an IP address, it automatically updates the DNS tables on that server according

Re: gnumeric and gnome-print

2001-08-12 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, August 12, Hugo van der Merwe did write: Does running /usr/share/doc/libgnomeprint-data/run-gnome-font-install help? No it doesn't, because the above file doesn't exist! ;^) I believe it does. At least on my system. Needs to be executed with perl. It seems to be in

Re: ssh and X11Forwarding

2001-08-16 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, August 16, Svante Signell did write: When ssh-ing to a computer in my small LAN as a normal user and using X applications, such as emacs, everything works OK. Howver, with su to root on the remote box X is refused: Connection lost to X server`host:11.0' Let me make sure I

Multiple X servers?

2001-08-23 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. I'm running a stock Potato r3, and I'm having some difficulty getting X to cooperate. My computer uses the Intel i810 chipset on its video hardware, and I've downloaded the necessary modules and X server from Intel, and in general, things are working fine. Intel's X server for

Re: Multiple X servers?

2001-08-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
throughout. on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:51:50PM -0500, Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greetings, all. I'm running a stock Potato r3, and I'm having some difficulty getting X to cooperate. My computer uses the Intel i810 chipset on its video hardware, and I've downloaded the necessary

Re: Galeon problem ...

2001-08-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, August 24, Steven Yap did write: On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:49:36AM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: Sounds great. I have, however, just blown an hour trying to get the thing working, with no success. SNIP As attractive as galeon may be, I don't have this kind of time

Re: Multiple X servers?

2001-08-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, August 24, Karsten M. Self did write: on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:49:36AM -0500, Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Lo, on Friday, August 24, Karsten M. Self did write: The gconf bug has been a recurring one in 0.11 and 0.12 releases. I'm clean with 0.11.5, if you

Re: Multiple X servers?

2001-08-27 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, August 24, Karsten M. Self did write: on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:49:36AM -0500, Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Lo, on Friday, August 24, Karsten M. Self did write: --kunpHVz1op/+13PW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii Content-Disposition: inline

Galeon problem solved!

2001-09-11 Thread Richard Cobbe
First, I'd like to thank Karsten Self Steven Yap for their help in getting Galeon up and running. I must say, I'm quite impressed with this particular browser. Also, apologies for the length of time between last posting and this message, and apologies that I didn't follow up in-thread. A

Re: info to man

2001-09-22 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, September 22, Michael P. Soulier did write: Hey people. Is there a decent way to translate from info to man? I personally hate info pages, and I'd like to convert and contribute some converted info documentation. I greatly prefer man. I know there are tools

Re: install questions

2001-02-26 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, February 26, Ethan Benson did write: On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 06:05:03AM +0800, #KUNDAN KUMAR# wrote: Are you using su to run the xcnofig? If that is the case, try running xhost + inside the termianal. Then run su and do the kernel compilation... let's see if it works.. just

Re: Bash .bashrc

2001-03-07 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, March 7, Colin Cashman did write: I have .bashrc set up to support color ls, but .bashrc isn't called when I log in. As expected. See bash's man page (specifically the `INVOCATION' section) for a discussion of the startup sequence. If I subsequently start a new shell,

Where'd the Linux modem compatibility database go?

2001-03-09 Thread Richard Cobbe
Hello, all. A friend has expressed some interest in installing Linux, so I was going to point him to some web pages listing compatible hardware. I wanted to supply him with the URL to the Linux modem compatibility database, http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html, but this is no longer valid.

Re: Give me my econ-gnome-ical text mode back!

2001-04-05 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, April 5, Kevin Stokes did write: What I'm looking to do is be able to run Telnet on my Windows machines, and log into my Linux system across the room and use it, since it would be much more comfortable for me. Well, YMMV, but I find the standard Windows telnet client so bad

Re: compile probs with 2 diff progs

2001-04-06 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, April 6, Nathan did write: I get the below problem when trying to compile 2 KDE apps, can anyone help?? checking for KDE... configure: error: in the prefix, you've chosen, are no kde headers installed. This will fail. So, check this please and use another prefix! I have

RE: 'S' permissions

2001-01-15 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, January 15, Fernando Carvajal did write: it's the suid bit but the file have no execution permission Minor nit, but drw-r-Sr-- is actually the set*gid* bit; setuid would be drwSr--r--. Richard

Re: 'S' permissions -- in home dir?

2001-01-15 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, January 15, Thomas J. Hamman did write: On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:11:53AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: I have a related question: How come almost every file in my home directory has s or S permissions set? Even if I change them to x, I find later on that they have mysteriously

Re: .forward syntax

2001-01-15 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, January 15, Ayman Haidar did write: I haven't used .forward file for a long time. if you use fetchmail and procmail (of course I do) you can add this line to .fetchmailrc mda /usr/bin/procmail -d %s I hope this helps Since most of the MTAs shipped with Linux

How to make apt-get upgrade interactive?

2001-01-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
Hello, all. While I generally trust apt-get upgrade, I'd like to have it print out a list of the packages to be upgraded and possibly check with me before it actually does anything. I'm a little unsure how to do this, though. Based on the manpage, I added APT::Get::Show-Upgraded true; to

Re: How to make apt-get upgrade interactive?

2001-01-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, January 20, Hall Stevenson did write: * Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010120 09:10]: Hello, all. While I generally trust apt-get upgrade, I'd like to have it print out a list of the packages to be upgraded and possibly check with me before it actually does

Re: Emacs Esc- key (off topic)

2001-01-21 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, January 20, Dale Morris did write: My apologies for posting off topic. I want to bind the Alt key to the Meta key in Emacs. Is there a simple 'newbie' way to do that? Assuming you mean in X, since this is standard on the console. As MH [EMAIL PROTECTED] suggested, xmodmap is

Re: 128-bit encryption netscape

2001-01-21 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, January 21, Michael P. Soulier did write: Granted, but how do I know this before I install? Should this not be in the description? Mike I'd think so, yes. Log a bug against the netscape package. Richard

Re: bad md5 checksum

2001-01-21 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, February 21, Robert did write: hi! [adjusted line breaks] I downloaded a debian .iso image and the md5 checksums didn't match, then i mounted it (with -o loop) and checked the checksums of all individual files, finding 3 of them are corrupted. Have downloaded them and I

Re: FVWM menus and colors

2001-01-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, January 24, Erik Steffl did write: Xucaen wrote: SNIP what is auto-generation? where is the program called update-menus(is it a program??), how do I yes, that's it, to find a program: which program locate program find / -name program -print This assumes

Re: SOLVED: Re: ~/.xsession causes X to restart (infinite loop)

2001-01-25 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, January 25, Pollywog did write: On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:22:51 -0800 (PST), Xucaen said: does anyone know why creating .xsession causes fvwm to NOT load anymore? I'd really like to know why I don't think you need the following your window manager. True, exec

Re: NIS with shadow passwords

2001-01-25 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, January 25, Nate Amsden did write: Pedro Pereira wrote: Hi. I have NIS installed and working good on my LAN. But I'd like to install shadow passwords as well. I've tried it, but as I compile the NIS maps, the users aren't no longer able to login :( Could somebody

Re: installing debian2.2r2.iso

2001-02-01 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, February 2, Zlatko Zlatinoff did write: How to install xxx.iso (potato r2.2) file ? This is almost certainly a CD image file (ISO 9660 filesystem). Probably the easiest way is to burn it to a CD, then install off the CD as in the installation instructions. It might be possible

Re: MS internet keyboard

2001-02-04 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, February 4, Romain Lerallut did write: Good evening everyone, I'd like to use the wart-like special keys that came with my (ahem) MS internet keyboard, with X and if possible, with the console. SNIP I'm not sure how to do it on the console, but under X, this is pretty

Suggestions for and comments on trackballs?

2001-02-17 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. Over the last several months, I've been having increasing pain in my right wrist. A co-worker suggested that this is due to problems with standard mice and recommended that I try a trackball instead. So, I'm looking for a trackball that will work well with potato/X. My primary

Re: Suggestions for and comments on trackballs?

2001-02-17 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, February 17, Sebastiaan did write: Hi, I have been using AlfaData's trackballs almost half my life now. Perhaps they make them now with PS/2 and the third button enabled, *IF* they are still in production. Is this www.alfadata.com? If so, it would appear that they no

Re: Suggestions for and comments on trackballs?

2001-02-17 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, February 17, Bud Rogers did write: On Saturday 17 February 2001 12:18, Richard Cobbe wrote: * the ball should be under my fingers, not my thumb, as it generates the most pain. A pity, that. Truly---it's starting to cause problems when I write for long stretches

Re: Suggestions for and comments on trackballs?

2001-02-18 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, February 17, John Galt did write: On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Richard Cobbe wrote: Greetings, all. Over the last several months, I've been having increasing pain in my right wrist. A co-worker suggested that this is due to problems with standard mice and recommended that I try

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-19 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, February 19, Raffaele Sandrini did write: Hi all I want to make backups to CD-RW. So i have to do it with the mkisofs prog to create the image. Is it possible that i culd make an exact copy of my files, i mean, that no name is altered after? I tried it but i never got the

Re: Making a Backup to a CD-RW

2001-02-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, February 20, Rich Renomeron did write: On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Phillip Deackes wrote: Thanks, Richard. I downloaded cddump and it works well. However, I can't seem to get it to backup multiple directories. How would I, say, get it backup /home and /etc? I tried 'cddump 0

Re: for i in *

2001-05-21 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, May 20, Viktor Rosenfeld did write: Martin Fluch wrote: Of course, some people argue, that spaces in filenames is a Bad Thing(tm), but I fail to see why. Could exactly this be the reason, why spaces in filenames are considered as a bad thing, since they easily lead

Re: line numbers in code

2001-06-02 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, June 1, D-Man did write: On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 06:49:31PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: snip the vi/emacs proselytizing | Type M-x tutorial (Escape-x tutorial) for a 15 minute intro that will That is press and release Escape, press and release x, type 'tutorial'. (this

Re: METAFONT

2001-06-07 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, June 3, Robin Gerard did write: hello, I tried to use METAFONT and when I did mf dessinmf.mf I got this message : proofrulethickness .05u (1) mf: Window support for X was not compiled into this binary (2) mf: to do so, rerun configure --with-x,

Re: emacs

2001-06-09 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, June 7, Andrew D Dixon did write: HI All, Does anyone know how to change the keybindings in emacs? Specifically I'd like to make my Backspace key delete the character before the cursor (seems like a natural thing to me) instead of what it's doing now (which is being wierd).

Re: standard filepermissions

2001-06-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, June 19, bernd b did write: Hi, In DEBIAN new directories are made drwxr-sr-x. Of course this can be changed with umask But where is the default file permission and the setgid bit set? How should i create dirs which are default drwxr-xr-x; without the gid bit set?

Re: how to get list of emacs key descriptions

2001-06-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, June 22, Britton did write: I know for example that meta x is described as \M-x. How is tab described, or how can I find out for a general key. I'm not seeing it in the docs. I'm a bit confused: are you asking how to represent a particular keypress within elisp code (as

Re: [users] Re: how to prevent apt-get upgrading a package?

2001-07-01 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, July 1, Martin F. Krafft did write: also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 03:23:37PM +0200): It's called dselect. But it is a secret. If you tell anyone about it, the cabal will have to send a mob onto you. ;-) but as far as i know, you only want to place a hold

Re: rm a '-R' file

2001-11-11 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, November 10, Lance Hoffmeyer did write: I have a file that was created called -R. How do I delete this file? `rm ./-R' will work. In addition, most of the GNU utils accept the special parameter `--' to mean ``everything else on this command line is a filename, not an

Re: cvs

2001-11-11 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, November 11, Tom Allison did write: I'm having trouble setting up my CVS. SNIP While it looks like most of your questions have been answered, I'd like to point out that there's a mailing list for questions and discussions specifically related to CVS. To subscribe, send mail to

Re: Message fron chron: cannot get ip address for localhost

2001-11-11 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , November 11, Michael Heldebrant did write: On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 13:31, Cheryl Homiak wrote: problem snipped since all relevance is right here below My /etc/hosts contains the following: 127.0.0.1 maranatha This is most likely the root of your problems. Your computer can't

Re: Message fron chron: cannot get ip address for localhost

2001-11-11 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , November 11, Michael Heldebrant did write: lo should be there, it's going to be the major interface, if not the only interface (I can't think of why it wouldn't but ... *shrug* I'm not that much of an expert), that localhost traffic uses. My understanding is that it depends on the

Re: Message fron chron: cannot get ip address for localhost

2001-11-12 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, November 12, Cheryl Homiak did write: Ok, fitst I checked and made sure I do have a dynamic isp. I do. Secondly, I now have got it to recognize my fqdn as maranatha.chartermi.net and my dnsdomainname as chartermi.net. However, if I put localhost in between the 127.0.0.1 and

What's with the bounces from sprintpcs.com?

2001-11-13 Thread Richard Cobbe
Over the last few days, everything I've posted to the list has generated a bounce message indicating an error in delivering to the address [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The messages do make it to the list, but I'm getting a little tired of the bounces. Is anyone else getting these? If this is a bad

Re: How do I set a domain name?

2001-11-14 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, November 13, Williasm Dowling did write: ^ Minor nit, but it looks like you've got a typo in your MUA configuration. I am having trouble installing exim; when it fails it says: hostname: Unknown host hostname --fqdn gave non-zero exit code

Re: which package contains file domainname ?

2001-11-14 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, November 14, Heinrich Rebehn did write: Shaul Karl wrote: Hi, I am using debian testing and i am wondering how i can find out which package contains 'domainname' or any other file i require. I tried 'dpkg -S' but it only seems to search the packages that are

Re: emacs related

2001-11-17 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, November 16, Michael P. Soulier did write: On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 07:56:37PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: Jeffrin wrote: I think you want auto-fill-mode. You may also want to look at some of the Emacs Lisp variables having to do with auto-formatting, such as

Procmail question (was Re: Virus incident)

2001-11-22 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, November 22, Linda Laubenheimer did write: Craig Dickson wrote: * 1^0 ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 1^0 ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Add * 1^0 ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] to that last one... I understood all of the rules that were posted except for one thing.

Re: cvs : access denied

2001-11-23 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , November 22, franck routier did write: Hi, I have just installed cvs on my sid box via pat-get install cvs. It created that directory in /var/lib/ : drwxrwsr-x4 root src30 nov 22 13:29 cvs I did : adduser myuser src But when I try 'cvs -d/var/lib/cvs

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