March 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Message refilling [was: Re: [SLE] Infamous pppd died unexpectedlly]
by pinard＠IRO.UMontreal.CA 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

Stefan Troeger <stefan.troeger(a)wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de> écrit: > > By the way, I just shared with a few friends the following piece of Emacs > > LISP, maybe it might be useful to some of you as well. The idea is that > > the `M-q' command, in Emacs, refills a paragraph by considering one line > > at a time, and this does not yield very satisfying results. The GNU `fmt' > > program, contributed by Ross Paterson, does much better, and relies on > > techniques published by Donald Knuth, in which the whole paragraph is taken > > under consideration to make the right ragging less apparent, as well as the > > fact that lines are better cut after some punctuation, and such things. > > `fmt' uses a (Dreyfus) dynamic programming engine if I remember well. > > So I managed to substitute the `M-q' processing with a connection to that > > external program. > Another possibility is to turn mail-mode on. I'm sorry, Stefan, but I do not understand your suggestion. Using mail-mode does not give us the Knuth refilling algorithm. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] WINDOWS NT and LINUX
by pinard＠IRO.UMontreal.CA 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

"Brian L. Jilek" <bljilek(a)bigfoot.com> writes: > I can read vcards fine with mutt. Also, Gnus handles vcards quite nicely, given you install: http://www.splode.com/users/friedman/software/emacs-lisp/src/vcard.el as well. Since this, vcards do not bother me at all. I do not think that I would make one for myself, however, unless they are standardised. The nicest attitude, in my opinion, is simultaneously being as tolerant as bearable (there are limits! :-) in what you accept, and closely sticking to standards and conventions in what you produce. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] Attachments in this list
by pinard＠IRO.UMontreal.CA 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

Kevin Jackson <kevin.jackson(a)jhallpr.demon.co.uk> écrit: > hey I'm not paranoid - or am I? hehehe. I obsessively wonder why, *why*, WHY everybody thinks I'm paranoid :-). > [...] despite me being in the department that agrees with me, our paying > directors don't think so! The problem is company internal, then. I feer you have to swallow it, without trying to make it become the problems of your correspondents... -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] 40 GB IDE Hard Drive?
by alex＠daniloff.com 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

Hello Linux folks! I want to install 40 GB Maxtor IDE ATA-66 hard drive on my Linux box. Does somebody know if there any obstacles with Linux installation on this big hard drive? Will Linux see and use full capacity of this drive? Thanks for any information. Alex -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] My experiences with Mozilla Milestone14-FullCircle
by jsabatke＠execpc.com 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

Thanks for the report. I switched too. I also had more luck with Java sites. M14 still coredumps seemingly randomly. Also, really strange, I can no longer get Netscape (any version) running, it just displays and locks, since running M14. On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Jerry L Kreps wrote: <snip> Subject: [SLE] My experiences with Mozilla Milestone14-FullCircle > > All in all. Not bad. > It crashed only once, while I was in the Preferences trying to find > out why Intellicast doesn't like M14's version of Java. <snip> -- Jim Sabatke SuSE 6.3 Linux Kernel - 2.2.13 All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] postfix-19991231-pl06 SuSE 6.3 RPMs
by sean.rima＠ntlworld.com 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

Hi folks Built SuSE 6.3 versions of Postfix-19991231-pl06. This is the bog standard. I am away for a few days and upon my return will build the PCRE and possibly the PCRE/MYSQL versions. Homepage as usual http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sean.rima Sean -- Linux User: #124682 ICQ: 679813 My Current Uptime is 6d, 0h and 28m on Linux 2.2.13 It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux... ...Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] My experiences with Mozilla Milestone14-FullCircle
by JerryKreps＠alltel.net 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

All in all. Not bad. It crashed only once, while I was in the Preferences trying to find out why Intellicast doesn't like M14's version of Java. I vistied the sites that made Netscape 4.7.2 lock up and I can report that M14 did NOT lockup when I attempted to display the radar loop on Intellicast.com. BUT, even though Java has been 'enabled' I couldn't display the radar java loop. Intellicast told me it had trouble with Mozilla's Java engine and wouldn't display the loop. The look and feel is spiffy and nice, but my box is a P166 with 64M of RAM and MileStone14 wasn't too swift. Just about as fast as Netscape 4.7.2. Browser only....Email and composer were not installed. It's different. I still haven't figured out where/how to install applications like RealPlayer, if that is possible with M14. I was thinking about switching to Mozilla when it comes out of beta. I am not so sure now. All I want in a browser is basically what Netscape 4.x supplied, but without the instability and as much speed as possible: A browser with bookmarks easy to use and modify, email with the ability to have more than one email profile and each addressing more than one ISP, and a newreader. Import and export of the addressbook and the bookmarks. Nothing much that isn't already out there. JUST DON'T CRASH. I'll wait to see what Konquor looks like. JLK -- __ _ / / (_)__ __ ____ __ * Powerful * Flexible * Compatible * Reliable * / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / *Well Supported * Thousands of New Users Every Day* /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ The Cost Effective Choice - Linux Means Business! -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] lvm failure modes?
by jmgrant＠adsl-63-194-251-2.pacbell.net 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

How easy is the lvm system to deal with in less-than-ideal situations? I'm especially interested in catastrophic failures. If I lose a physical drive (head crash, for example), how would I go about recovering? How would I even know which files I've lost? Also, if I'm lucky enough to get some advanced warning of a drive going bad, how easy is it to move files from one PE to another? If I've already lost a couple (physical) blocks, how do I separate out the good files from those that are corrupted. In other words, assuming I know which blocks on the drive are suspect/bad, how do I then find out which files in the corresponding physical extent are actually using those blocks? I've read the man pages and played around a little with loop-ed files so I know the basics of the lvm system. I wasn't able to figure out what to do in these sorts of circumstances however. TIA for answers (or ptrs to answers).. -John -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] Printing to a HP Laserjet 5L XTRA - help?
by samelash＠ix.netcom.com 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

Follow up to my last post , ita a hp5l Xtra , works like a charm. At 12:13 PM 3/31/2000 +0200, Robert Wetzel wrote: > > >Hi, > >I have a LaserJet 5L (no XTRA) myself and it works fine (with only 1MB!). >The main thing is (as said before) that you have to select one of >the ljet4 entries, but nothing of the ljet5 ones (this resulted in >much scrap on the 'printouts'). > >Hope that helps. > >Robert. > > > >-- >To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com >For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com >Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ > > -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Printing to a HP Laserjet 5L XTRA - help?
by agtiger＠coolnet.net 31 Mar '00

31 Mar '00

I have an HP LJ5L XTRA that I have hooked to the parallel port on one of my SuSE Linux 6.3 boxes. Per SuSE's hardware support database, I have used YAST to set this printer up via APS filter as: Printer type: Other printer Printer name: ljet4 Paper format: a4 Connected to port: Parallel Port Device name: /dev/lp0 Resolution in dpi: 600x600 Configuration of apsfilter was successful! The following printers have been created on your system: ### ljet4 a4 mono 600 ### ascii|lp1|ljet4-a4-ascii-mono-600|ljet4 a4 ascii mono 600 lp|lp2|jet4-a4-auto-mono-600|ljet4 ar auto mono 600 raw|lp3|ljet4-a4-raw|ljet4 a4 raw I then tried (per another article I have in my SuSE-Linux-E archives) to use lpc to clean out the queues, down all the printers, and bring them back up again: lpc lpc> down all ascii: printer and queueing disabled lp: printer and queueing disabled raw: printer and queueing disabled lpc> clean all ascii: lp: raw: lpc> up all ascii: printing enabled daemon started lp: printing enabled daemon started raw: printing enabled daemon started lpc> quit Then I tried to lpr a simple file (again): lpr /etc/hosts.allow Again, no life from the printer. lpq shows: Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1st root 0 /etc/hosts.allow 272 bytes 2nd root 1 /etc/hosts.allow 272 bytes I've tried setting up under Yast as an lj5grey, and lj5mono, same results (ie, no life from the printer). Yes it's plugged in, and yes it's turned on. :-) The computer's bios shows that the parallel port is configured at I/O 378 and IRQ 7. The parallel port mode has three options: SPP EPP1.7 ECPEPP1.7 (with DMA option currently set to 3) EPP1.9 ECP (with DMA option currently set to 3) ECPEPP1.9 (with DMA option currently set to 3) <<<--- current selection Oh, and after rebooting to get that last information, lpc's status command now shows the following: ascii: queuing is enabled printing is enabled no entries no daemon present lp: queuing is enabled printing is enabled 2 entries in spool area waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?) raw: queuing is enabled printing is enabled no entries no daemon present In summary: ARGH! -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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