Re: broken ligatures in Times with dvips -Ppdf

of arguments is significant). -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of Leicester phone: (+44) 116 252 3902 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: acroread and anti-aliased text

to produce the right sort of fonts, and more besides), and finally ps2pdf to convert it to pdf. If you are using normal ps fonts (times, helvetica etc) in your tex, then you might find that dvips -Ppdf -G0 (order of arguments is significant) deals with ligatures better. -- Gilbert Laycock

Re: Apache (PHP not working)

before filing one myself. Also, note that you should re-start your browser (or at least clear the cache) each time you re-start apache. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University

Re: UML Modeling w/o Rational Rose

models. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of Leicester phone: (+44) 116 252 3902 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: NIS+ in sid?

, but they work fine on our woody machines. However I see there is now also a subdir labelled woody. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of Leicester phone: (+44) 116 252

Re: global environment variables?

that the cron daemon also uses a pam module, so this might actually be a solution to the original question about setting http_proxy etc for cron as well as ordinary login session. Not tried this aspect of it myself though... -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths

Re: 3C905c summary.

a working network card is left as an exercise... -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of Leicester phone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: 3com 3c905c question

if the patch has already been applied. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of Leicester phone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: Managing many Debian machines

managed to automate the installation process to a greater or lesser extent (see the debian-admintool mailing list), and the growing use of debconf has improved things considerably. You may also find www.progeny.com of interest. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: hdparm

to add it to a startup script so my question is where would be the best place to add it? Thanks all. If you install the hwtools package, it will install the file /etc/init.d/hwtools which contains a space waiting for you to enter your hdparm commands. -- Gilbert Laycock email

Re: tetex-extra problem

langauge.dat.dpkg-dist there to refer to), and then run dpkg --configure -a -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of Leicester phone: (+44) 116 252 3902

setting framebuffer mode during boot

screen. Partly the difficulty seems to be to get a definitive list of VESA mode numbers. I assume that many people have this working, so what am I doing wrong? -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk

Re: Debian Potato NIS+

://www.realbodo.de/ debian/ deb-src http://www.realbodo.de/ debian/ I have had NIS+ running on a couple of machines quite satisfactorily for a few months now, and plan to switch all our other Debian boxes from plain NIS as I upgrade them to potato over the summer. -- Gilbert Laycock

Re: nisplus avaliable on debian?

... -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of Leicester phone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: nisplus avaliable on debian?

the following in sources.list: deb http://www.realbodo.de/ debian/ -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of Leicester phone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: CD/RW under potato

web sites that I found very helpful when first setting up my CDRW. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock University of Leicester phone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: mod-auth-mysql

, but this (apache modules for mysql and php) is one of the bits of potato that has been unstable for me, and I haven't really looked at it since I got it working on our slink web server. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http

Re: How to start cfengine's cfd automatically?

Usage: /etc/init.d/cfd {start|stop} exit 1 esac exit 0 -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: windowmaker and gnome

use gnome (yet), but I had a similar problem with window maker freezing when starting xautolock from autostart. Have you put after the commands that start apps in autostart? For example: #!/bin/sh xset m 42/10 4 xautolock -notify 10 -bell 100 -- Gilbert Laycock email

qt1g and kde for debian 2.1 (slink)

and I want to put kde on them. Oh well; maybe I can convert a few users to WindowMaker instead...) -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116

Re: /etc/environment

/environment to work as advertised as a single location for global environment settings. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: Re[2]: Separate list for newbies

at choosing suitable keywords for the search, so the results are useless. Nobody has the time to write such a system (I certainly don't) so it never gets done. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk

console only groups and xdm

)? -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: new kernel release

options with auto-loading. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: Please help with CD writer questions

it heavily. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: Non-SCSI ATAPI CD burner?

/employees/joerg.schilling/private/man/README/README.ATAPI -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: lp accounting -- lprng [pages?]

on all of the required log, lock, spool etc files, you can use the checkpc command that is part of lprng. By default it just checks the permissions, but if you give it the -f flag, it will attempt to fix any problems too. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Printing *huge* files via compressed pipe ?

data then unzip it and deal with the results. I've never tried anything like this, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester University

Re: NIS

glibc. See http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html On the other hand, if the server is running NIS (or NIS+ in NIS emulation mode) then it should work fine (except for netgroups). I use it all the time, and your setup sounds OK to me. -- Gilbert Laycock

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

problems with my setup. I think I will have to go and read the Debian keyboard policy again. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

way to delete a word, since it is emulating emacs key bindings. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

the various emacs have always used Meta as the modifier key, and just did the best they could on keyboards with not enough buttons so that Alt and Meta couldn't be separate. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http

Re: Correction of Clock for summer time

it to the right time zone (I use Europe/London). -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902

debian 2.0 as a NIS+ client

the impression from there that a patched version of a newer (non-stable) version of glibc2 is required. But perhaps that is just for a NIS+ server (which I don't need)? Does anybody have any experience with this? -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths

Re: Linux cannot find NE-2000 network card

with the cards (probably available from the 3com web site too), but I have a vague memory of somebody mentioning a Linux tool to do the job. Hope this helps. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester

afterstep config file in /tmp

it tends to be copied around), but since I am not an afterstep user I haven't been able to spot anything untoward in the .steprc files concerned. The afterstep man page and FAQ do not mention the use of this temporary file at all. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL

Re: emacs and .Xdefaults

with the system ones. (Or was it the other way around?) -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Undefined reference to '...'

to do in this situation. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Undefined reference to '...'

building from one of their snapshots. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Green monitor functions

way to configure this outside of X? I know about setterm blank n which is fine as far as it goes, but I think it only blanks the screen rather than using the more advanced power saving features. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer

Re: upgrade path

it is of some help. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: procmail -- 'or'

. For instance, I use :0: * ^TOdebian list.debian.in for the debian lists. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902

Installation fails to make hard drive bootable (1FA:)

.tgz), but the same thing happened with the 1.2 install disks. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Boot problem

you have . in your PATH environment variable? If not then the current directory will not be searched when looking for executables. The solution is to either: * add . to your PATH; or * include the . whenever you run the program, eg ./slogin or whatever. -- Gilbert Laycock