Re: Matrox G550 - MGA X server fails

2017-03-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
the X server to setuid and am going to swap the video card back in and try again later. On 22 Mar 2017 8:12 pm, "Sven Joachim" <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2017-03-22 10:25 +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > I am unable to start X using a Matrox Millennium G550 PCIe card.

Matrox G550 - MGA X server fails

2017-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
I am unable to start X using a Matrox Millennium G550 PCIe card. This is what I think is the relevant part of the log for the session: #011compiled for 1.19.2, module version = 0.1.0 #011ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0 (--) MGA(0): Chipset: "mgag550" xf86TokenToOptinfo: table is NULL

Re: Unwanted on-screen keyboard - which package.

2016-06-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2016-06-26 at 03:13 +1200, cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 05:06:13PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > I enabled the on-screen keyboard applet in Cinnamon so as to write > > some > > text with French accents. But then it kept on coming

Unwanted on-screen keyboard - which package.

2016-06-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
could get rid of this confounded nuisance until I rebooted again, after purging the antlr packages. But what package should have a bug filed? Using Debian testing on amd64, updated this morning. Thanks Oliver Elphick

Debian testing - update has partly broken X, but which package?

2016-05-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
browser). Highlighted text is no longer visible in evolution. The general appearance is very poor. Screenshot available at http://www.lfix.co.uk/images/x-problem.jpeg I would like to know which package is responsible for these features, please. Oliver Elphick Lincolnshire, UK

Re: Creating launcher in Gnome 3

2016-04-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 17:19 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 13:27 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > > I'm trying to create a launcher.  Following the explanation in  > > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/in > > de

Creating launcher in Gnome 3

2016-04-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
not appear in the menu. So what is missing, please? Oliver Elphick

Re: Do not know which package bug is in

2016-04-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 11:34 +0100, Robin Oberg wrote: > On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 11:21 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Intermittent failures like that sound more like hardware problems. > > I > > seem to recall reading that charging devices like that demands more > >

Re: Do not know which package bug is in

2016-04-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
harging devices like that demands more power than the computer can supply. Oliver Elphick

Re: How to debug systemd script?

2016-03-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2016-03-29 at 02:33 +1300, chrisb@localhost.localdomain wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 01:00:35PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > How can I find out what is going on to stop the normal init script > > from > > working? Is there some way to force systemctl to log

How to debug systemd script?

2016-03-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
is not started. How can I find out what is going on to stop the normal init script from working? Is there some way to force systemctl to log what it is doing? If it does log, where does it put the log? Thanks Oliver Elphick

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 16:36 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: >  > I didn't see a response to the question if this was a laptop? > It isn't.  It's a tower PC. The on-board Intel video is not used; there is a dual-head Nvidia card with both monitors.

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 20:55 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Oliver Elphick composed on 2016-03-21 22:56 (UTC): > > > What gfxchip powers your displays? > > > > Card: Nvidia > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [NVS > > 300] > > (

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 23:07 +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > It couldn't be a dodgy cable, could it? > > Mark I don't think so. If that were the case it would flash on and off as the cable moved. It is resolutely blank, except just sometimes. The cable is behind the desk, so it doesn't ge tmoved.

Re: Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 17:27 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Oliver Elphick composed on 2016-03-21 21:01 (UTC): > > > > > I have two monitors; the second one sometimes comes to life but is > > usually blank. However, the system thinks that it is active and > > displayi

Multi-display - one monitor active but blank

2016-03-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
leaving the monitors turned on 24 hours a day, but I have just installed Debian (instead of Mint) and the problem has come back. Any ideas where to start to solve this, please? -- Oliver Elphick Lincolnshire, England

Re: Dual monitor problems

2013-06-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
On 25/06/13 12:34, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 25 iun 13, 06:56:14, Oliver Elphick wrote: I am trying to use two monitors at once, for the first time, using an Nvidia dual head card. I have now got the two monitors displaying a single screen and the mouse passes from one to the other

Dual monitor problems

2013-06-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
it back to life. I can pass the mouse into it, or select a window that is on it, but it remains black. The only exception is that it will restore when the screen is locked and I enter my password to unlock it. Where should I look? Debian version: sid, recently updated Oliver Elphick

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
with an audio CD. Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1371806284.3409.0.camel@ruth

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 10:32 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 18 iun 13, 07:55:51, Oliver Elphick wrote: When a CD is inserted, it does not get mounted (data CD) or properly notified (audio CD). ... I don't know where the problem resides. Which package should I be looking at? You

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 20:31 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: For a start: Does eject -T open/close the drive? 'eject /dev/sr0' opens it (once unmounted), and -t closes it. -T gives an I/O error Any error messages in /var/log/syslog? No Does udevadm trigger help? --verbose gives a long

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
First, I was wrong about it's not mounting the data CD. I was looking in the wrong place. So it is only about audio CDs. When one is inserted: $ sudo udisks --monitor-detail Monitoring activity from the disks daemon. Press Ctrl+C to cancel. changed: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sr0

Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
When a CD is inserted, it does not get mounted (data CD) or properly notified (audio CD). I found that rhythmbox never showed an audio CD as available to play - it should come up under devices on the left-hand sidebar. I then tried setting the system to run VLC instead, using System Settings.

Re: plusieurs serveurs Postgres : accès par libpq ?

2007-10-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 09:10 +0200, Frédéric BOITEUX wrote: Le mer 17 oct 2007 23:07:37 CEST, Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Enveloppe tout dans un script : Ok, j'hésitais à faire ainsi, mais puisqu'il n'y a pas (pour l'instant ?) d'alternative, je vais suivre le conseil

Re: plusieurs serveurs Postgres : accès par libpq ?

2007-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
(). Enveloppe tout dans un script : #!/bin/bash VERSION=$1 CLUSTER=$2 mon_programme -p $( pg_lsclusters | grep ^$VERSION *$CLUSTER | awk '{print $3}' ) -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Commande sync

2007-08-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
on aurait fait sync ; sync ; sync ; reboot il ne faudrait pas assez de temps. De nos jours, ce n'est plus necessaire. Un seul sync est bien assez. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG

Re: Configuration DNS avec Bind 9

2007-06-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
as the zone default TTL (and which was also standarized in RFC 2308). You may find older documentation or zone file configurations which reflect the old usage (there there are still a lot of BIND 4 sites operational). -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL

Re: shorewall

2007-06-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
exactement. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA

Re: shorewall

2007-06-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 10:04 +0200, mess-mate wrote: Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Le routeur est le coupe-feu qui reçoit tous les paquets de l'internet. | Sur le coupe-feu on peut dévier certains paquets à autres machines. On | peut dévier les paquets https à une machine derrière

Cours de français [ Re: Comment utiliser compose ]

2007-06-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
Anglais, parce que nous avons seulement you. ) -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA

Re: Cours de français [ Re: Comment utiliser compose ]

2007-06-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
pas faire des différences entre ça et l'anglais ( c'est une faute de gnome-keyboard-properties ). Aussi, je ne sais pas quel spécification je devrais choisir pour le français si je pouvais les faire. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Comment utiliser compose pour produire l'accent circonflexe ?

2007-06-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
. (Maintenant j'ai trouvé les minuscules, mais pas les majuscules.) Est-ce que quelq'un peut me donner une liste de toutes les combinaisons, s'il vous plaît ? Au clavier azerty il y a le caractère ù ; est-ce qu'on jamais utilise ça en français ? -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Installation automatisée : partitionnement

2007-06-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
de dynamisme ? Peut-on mettre deux fois la même valeur afin que les tailles soient fixes ? Toute aide sera la bienvenue :) -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA

Re: outil graphique pour relations d'1 db

2007-06-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
après les avoir créés, parce que postgresql-autodoc dispose tous les tables à la même position. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0

Re: Crontab et permissions

2007-06-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
plait tout le monde, pour que je puisse le parler mieux.] -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA

Re: postgresql installation

2006-02-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
) and: ALTER USER username WITH PASSWORD 'newpassword'; now you should be able to connect using that password: psql -d template1 -h localhost -U username -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk

C++: Math function round() does not compile - why?

2006-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
-fexceptions -fno-rtti -Wall -W -g -std=c99 -I/opt/Qtopia/include -o orderimpl.o orderimpl.cpp orderimpl.cpp: In method `void OrderImpl::calculate_line(int)': orderimpl.cpp:84: implicit declaration of function `int round(...)' -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle

Re: Postgresql pg_autovacuum in Sarge?

2006-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
a vacuum is required. space that vacuum does not reclaim vacuumlo - Vacuum deleted large objects Look for the file pg_autovacuum. It is in postgresql-contrib. (There is a temporary replacement for packages.debian.org up at http://pdo.debian.net) -- Oliver Elphick

Re: C++: Math function round() does not compile - why?

2006-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
... YMMV. I've got no g++-2.95 here to continue the tests. with g++-2.95, this gives no prototypes for round(). So it appears that -std=c99 does not work. Is there some way to achieve this for 2.95? (This is now academic, since I have written my own version for this application.) -- Oliver

Re: C++: Math function round() does not compile - why? - resolution

2006-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
, or even _GNU_SOURCE), so perhaps you should have a closer look at features.h if you plan to use it directly. Thanks to you and others for that suggestion. Defining _GNU_SOURCE fixes the problem for g++-2.95. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight

Re: C++: Math function round() does not compile - why?

2006-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
module of many, with the compilation of each module called from a makefile. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA

Re: Kernel Source

2006-01-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
-source-2.6.x. I think that will apply to etch as well. Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unsure about security requirements for workstation/server

2006-01-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
. As a compromise, you could install testing, which will be some way behind unstable, but somewhat less likely to contain serious problems. For security of your internet connection, install a firewall such as shorewall (Debian package) and configure it very restrictively. Oliver Elphick

Re: IP forwarding problem

2006-01-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 14:52 +, Oliver Elphick wrote: Can anyone help with this network problem, please? This machine is an internal router, with two network cards. iptables is not configured in the kernel, since masquerading and filtering is not required. (There is a separate firewall

IP forwarding problem

2006-01-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:524809613 (500.4 MiB) TX bytes:358879507 (342.2 MiB) Interrupt:161 Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: IP forwarding problem

2006-01-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 12:31 -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 14:52 +, Oliver Elphick wrote: Can anyone help with this network problem, please? This machine is an internal router, with two network cards. iptables is not configured in the kernel, since masquerading

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
/some/path ar x /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386_2.6.8-16sarge1_i386.deb That will give you a control tar archive and a data tar archive. Unpack the data archive and you should have the filetree that would be installed. Oliver Elphick

Re: HELP

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
the wrong list. Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 14:14 +0100, gregory duchesnes wrote: Do you know where i could find those 3Mb? I don't wnanna break anything and i don't know what i could remove from / It all depends what you have installed. What might be simpler is to swap your /tmp and / partitions: reboot

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 09:08 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: On 12/16/05, gregory duchesnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know where i could find those 3Mb? I don't wnanna break anything and i don't know what i could remove from / Have you tried apt-get clean? That empties /var/cache/apt,

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 15:11 +0100, gregory duchesnes wrote: Yes i did, didn't help. Listen guys, i have 36Mb of modules in /lib/modules, what would happen if i erase (or just move for the moment) modules that i'm sure i don't need, like (isdn drivers)? No problem. IF they aren't used,

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 15:25 +0100, gregory duchesnes wrote: Is there a quick way to get the list of modules and drivers i can erase? Try this script: #!/bin/bash export module for m in $(find /lib/modules -name '*.ko') do module=$(basename $(basename $m) .ko) if [ -z $((echo

Re: How to install debian on an external hard disk drive

2005-10-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
the drive as a boot option, you may have to write a boot CD with a kernel and initial root image (initrd) on it. Once you have a system that can boot into Debian, you can install further packages over the net. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight

Re: Debian can't connect to internet gateway

2005-10-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
192.168.2.255 Don't you need a line here to specify the router? gateway 192.168.2.1 Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: postgresql encoding

2005-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
. It is set to SQL_ASCII and I want to change it to UNICODE No. You have to dump and reload. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F

Re: Y or I, N or O

2005-10-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
and replaced by the package's version. If you choose N, the existing configuration file will be left untouched and the new version will be saved in the same directory under the name filename.dpkg-dist (or filename.dpkg-new). -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle

Re: 6Gb of invisible files, or what?

2005-09-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
space is visible in the filesystem? -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA

Re: 6Gb of invisible files, or what?

2005-09-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
-a). -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA Do you want

Re: Newbie --Admin access problem on KDE... HELP!!

2005-09-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
. If you want to use DHCP to get an address automatically, it will be different - sorry, I haven't got an example here. If you have that, try typing ifup eth0 That may either work or show other errors - see how far you get. Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ktechlab on sarge

2005-09-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
it is going to do before it starts deleting or overwriting stuff you want to keep. Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re:

2005-08-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
is controlled by options in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf: SystemMenu and SecureSystemMenu -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA

Where is autologout control in sarge / gnome?

2005-08-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
I have a computer which is kept at current stable release. Since it was upgraded to sarge, it has taken to doing an autologout from an X session after an hour or so of inactivity. Where is this controlled from? I can't find a control for it in Gnome nor in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf -- Oliver Elphick

Re: tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh are not included in the binary distribution

2005-08-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
and tkConfig.sh are not found. Hence I am unable to install such packages. I need help on this... thank you You should find it in the tcl8.4-dev binary package, at /usr/lib/tcl8.4/tclConfig.sh -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: compile kernel for remote machine

2005-08-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 08:34 +0200, Brent Clark wrote: Hi all Would anyone know how I can compile a kernel for my remote machine on my machine. ... Baring in mind they are both debian machine and both running 2.6 kernel and both running testing. Since they are both Debian machines, you

Re: diary with encryption

2005-08-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
a small encrypted filesystem out of a normal directory; then you can store your diary in the encrypted filesystem. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E

Re: Two problems: Low resolution and login screen

2005-08-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
/XF86Config. When X starts, it tries to find the mode with the closest match to the screen resolution you are asking for; in this case, the best it can do is 800x600. Look at the X startup log to see what it was doing. (The log is in /var/log/XFree86.log.0, I think.) -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Backup/Restore debian package

2005-08-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
not 'test.deb' file 'version 1.0'. How can i backup 'test version 1.0' for restore purpose after if needed. Old package versions can possibly be recovered from http://snapshot.debian.net/ -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight

Re: Backup/Restore debian package

2005-08-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 06:09 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I meaned my own deb packages that are not on the Internet. In that case, if you didn't keep copies of old debs, no-one else can help. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight

Re: [networking] Computer can't see the outside world any more

2005-08-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
that? (The DHCP server can be configured to avoid that address.) You could also try running tcpdump on another machine to see if packets from the web-server appear on the network. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http

How to bounce emails selectively with exim?

2005-06-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
We get a number of spam mails and viruses sent to us with the sender address spoofed to appear to be from our domain. These get bounced for the appropriate reason (unrouteable address, spam, etc) but if the mail got routed through our ISP, the ISP sends the bounce straight back to me because they

Re: dselect and a Recent Experience

2005-06-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
, a lot of your packages are now regarded as obsolete. You should either reference woody explicitly or do a complete upgrade (recommended!) using the instructions in the release notes at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/index.en.html Oliver Elphick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Gnome doesn't see user's PATH

2005-06-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 11:49 -0500, Forrest Smith wrote: Hi all! Does anyone know why apps run from the panel aren't aware of user's environment vars, specifically PATH? Example, if Mutt is executed from my panel, I can't execute commands that are in my PATH. If I run it from a terminal

Sarge problems with MySQL and DBI / DBD::mysql

2005-06-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
-multi/common/cgi-lib.pl:117): If a row is added to the table to be returned by this query, the problem goes away. How can I debug or fix this problem, please? -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk

Re: postgresql

2005-01-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
/postmaster.pid. If you run ipcs -m (as root) do you see any blocks owned by postgres? -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [exim4debian] Re: Debian-exim - blech!

2004-09-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
as that mail might be so assigned. Second, purging exim4 in such a situation could lead to all files belonging to that user to be deleted. Purging exim4 should not cause the deletion of the username nor of files that exim4 did not install. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: [exim4debian] Re: Debian-exim - blech!

2004-09-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
and databases, for example. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA

Re: [exim4debian] Re: Debian-exim - blech!

2004-09-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
deliberately created by the local admin. I never did understand: what was the problem with mail? -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664

Re: getting full package name

2004-09-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
that I cannot tell what the name is. In that situation if grep through the file /var/lib/dpkg/available and I find the full name. This is just a helpful hint for newbies that may have this problem. This is easier: COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l dhcp\* -- Oliver Elphick

Re: How to set up CUPS client

2004-09-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
that sets ServerName -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA

Re: finance/business

2004-09-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
only in the planning stage and is certainly not a possibility for someone wanting to change right now. On the other hand, if they really want to go open-souorce and would like to contribute to the specification, that would be very good. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Usability Questions

2004-09-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
-- switches to first virtual console Ctrl-Alt-Del -- standard shutdown/reboot Make sure that the shutdown line in /etc/inittab says -h rather than -r, otherwise it will just reboot. Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work in X; that's why you have to switch to a console screen first. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Network Connection Question

2004-09-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
PCI Fax/Modem PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse Stereo Speakers Thanks Regards, -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543

Re: Help!!!! If I'm to get debian up, I need help solving this...

2004-09-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
that is at fault. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA

Re: please help

2004-08-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
://www.designjet.hp.com/reg_product_home.html?new_product=750Cpageseq=937897 -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA

Re: OpenOffice.org and Spelling

2004-08-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
? Thanks. There is an implication of a cd into the new directory before making the link. Would that work? -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E

Re: postgres phpgroupware login woes

2004-08-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
modes can have different authentication, as explained above. Oliver Elphick maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: postgres phpgroupware login woes

2004-08-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
: Re: postgres phpgroupware login woes From: Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Wrong interpretation og '\$' by bash?

2004-08-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
the latter quoting style produced the expected result but the former did not. I have no idea why this is (a bug?) It is a consequence of shell quoting rules. ... does variable substitution and backslash escaping, '...' does no substitution or escaping. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: select N random lines in a file

2004-08-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 20:35, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hello all, I would like to write a script that will select N number of random lines in a file. Any suggestions on how to do this? Use the rand() function in awk -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL

Re: Sid and security

2004-08-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
that a parallel location for unstable is not needed? There is none. It would be far too much effort for the security team to cope with. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D

Re: Sid and security

2004-08-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
into sarge (testing) which is soon to become the new stable. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA

Re: Wrong interpretation og '\$' by bash?

2004-08-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
'#' if the effective uid is 0, and how it can be corrected? Quoting, I think. Because you are using double quotes, the backslash is being interpreted by the shell as an escape character, as if you were specifying a literal dollar sign. Use single quotes instead. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: OT: Questions or Doubts?

2004-08-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
... -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA But I would not have

Re: Obsessed with a clean system

2004-08-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
of your system is concerned. It might in the future lead to some hiccups; for example, if a new and necessary dependency were to be added to kde, you would miss it. Arguably, that would be added at the wrong level, though. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

2004-08-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 14:10, Oliver Elphick wrote: On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 02:14, John Hasler wrote: Oliver Elphick writes: I have the beginnings of the design of such a system; if anyone else would like to contribute ideas, please email me. Your requirements sound good to me, though

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

2004-08-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
the beginnings of the design of such a system; if anyone else would like to contribute ideas, please email me. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

2004-08-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 11:41, Johann Spies wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:44:38AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: I found the documentation confusing to say the least. I agree with that. (Once I got it working, I found sql-ledger to be cumbersome and not in my opinion suitable for use

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

2004-08-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 13:52, John Hasler wrote: Oliver Elphick writes: I have written an accounting system in the past and now I have looked at sql-ledger I prefer to do the same again, since it doesn't suit my ideas of what such a system should be like. Any chance that you will package

Re: sql-ledger and postgresql: HOWTO?

2004-08-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
interfaces to the same database. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA

Re: kill process by name

2004-08-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 19:29, Muratorio, Diego wrote: Hello Rick, I am looking for the same, did you find something about kill process by name? You want killall, from the psmisc package. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

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