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Re: [Alug] locale settings question
by MJ Ray 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Syd: > I sometimes get this error message (MDK8.0, su'd to root in a > terminal window): Can you define "sometimes", please? > Is it serious and what do I do about it? Incidentally I am not > trying to run perl - for example, the above is part of the output > in response to the supermount command. Maybe supermount runs perl? To me, the problem looks like you may not have the en_GB locale set up and configured. There's some info on this in the perllocale(1p) man page. How you correct it on Mandrake, I'm not sure. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Beep! How do I stop this?
by Ricardo Campos 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

> I'm running Mandrake 8.0 at the moment so just for the sheer hell of it > typed man man > and what do you know? Seems mine's the stinker, I reinstalled since I last tried it. I just thought a lack of a man man was some hilarious UNIX joke. ha ha. Well, I always thought my pc was an envoy of Satan, sent down (up?) to this world to cause me great confuZion. Hence it's hostname (which, quite frankly, is not repeatable), which originated from the stream of expletives I've hurled at it since I installed Linux! >:) Oh well... -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Beep! How do I stop this?
by Ricardo Campos 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

> q I believe, I enerally mash the keyboard until the man page disapears ;) Me too, but q doesn't work. :( Still, not a problem in an Xterm. > yes it does, type man man... First thing I tried! (It doesn't appear to have one on my system). Mandrake 8.0, you gotta love it's inconsistencies. ;) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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X 4.1.0 for Debian,
by Ricardo Campos 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Posted to the list, incase anyone wants X4.1.0 on Debian (or searches the archives for it later on) >I have the som 'unofficial' .deb packages to install X4.0.1 on Deb Potato (hopefully Debian 2.2r3 is Potato). > >> Add in your /etc/apt/sources.list: >> >> # - X4 from cpbotha >> deb http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ xf410_potato/i386/ >> deb http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ xf410_potato/all/ >> Unfortunately, we skipped configuring wvdial when installing Debian. Oh, yup. I won't be doing this tonight, as I'm off to a gig. I'm sure the next barrage of Debian questions will come as soon as I have time AND get bored of Tux Racer AND Rune. ;) Heh heh... Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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ALUG-IRC 8pm tonight
by MJ Ray 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

The regular weekly ALUG-IRC will take place in #alug on uk.openprojects.net / eu.openprojects.net tonight at 8pm. If you need help getting on IRC, take a look at http://www.alug.org.uk/articles/2001a/alugfaq.html or email me. Of course, we'd welcome other LUGs in the region to come along and join in, if you want. -- MJR Anglian LUG http://www.alug.org.uk/ No ePatents http://petition.eurolinux.org/ FSF Europe http://www.fsfeurope.org/

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Re: [Alug] Beep! How do I stop this?
by Ricardo Campos 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

> try 'man xset', I think there is an option in there... Incidentally, how do you exit a man page? I normally put it thru more instead: man xxx | more Of course, man has no man page! :D -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Beep! How do I stop this?
by Ricardo Campos 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Currently I'm using Black Box or WindowMaker as window managers. (mainly windowmaker). HOWEVER, they both make an annoying beep (via the motherboard- a system beep like when you boot up, rather than thru the soundcard) every hour on the hour. Very annoying when you're playing a DVD! I can't seem to find a setting in either manager to stop this, nor can I find any reference in their respective docs. It doesn't do it in Gnome or <shudder> KDE. Haven't tried Xfce (yet). Anyone come across this? -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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ODBC driver
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Hello, all: Can anyone recommend an ODBC driver i can use on the debian box: I want to go off and access data from an ms access database held on an NT server, bring it back, and display it on a web page. I can find "libiodbc", but this seems to be a driver manager rather than a driver. Thanks, Jenny.

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locale settings question
by Syd Hancock 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Hi all I sometimes get this error message (MDK8.0, su'd to root in a terminal window): --quote-- perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_GB:en", LC_ALL = (unset), LC_MESSAGES = "en_GB", LC_TIME = "en_GB", LC_NUMERIC = "en_GB", LC_CTYPE = "en_GB", LC_MONETARY = "en_GB", LC_COLLATE = "en_GB", LANG = "en" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). --end quote-- Is it serious and what do I do about it? Incidentally I am not trying to run perl - for example, the above is part of the output in response to the supermount command. Sorry if this is a simple question but as a newbie I really have no idea where to begin. I did look at man locale and man perl but did not find anything that seemed relevant to this problem. Many TIAs Syd

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Re: [Alug] 500Bytes - 40 Gig
by Ricardo Campos 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

> I've just had another complaint which indicates you may have killed all our > OE-using members... OK, we can probably agree on how crap that email client > is, but killing them before we convert them isn't helpful at all. :-( I have to say I reserved myself to bite on this little morsel til today. I'm glad I didn't subscribe to this list using my work mail. All e-mail including compressed (tgz, zip, etc) attachments are scanned for viruses here, both at the mailserver, and on workstations. This particular attachment is basically malicious code as the two virus-scanners I am aware of uncompress zip files to scan them. It would have crashed our mail server, and, had it actually come through, it would have crashed my desktop machine. Had that happened, I would NOT be a happy bunny. (Understatement of the year) > (Did any OE users get that message OK... and why are you using OE?!?) Just to annoy you! ;-P Actually I don't use OE anymore, but that's not the point. Seriously, though, some of us work in multi-OS environments, including Mac and M$, and so have to use virus scanners. I suspect that it could've nailed a linux box too, seeing as Linux is perfect for a multi-OS environment, as a mail/file server, etc. I've noticed a few people using work e-mails, so let's see how good *their* scanners are... If you want to send this kind of code do it directly to the person who asked for it, please. Anyone fancy posting the NIMDA sourcecode??? >;-) ha ha. Ricardito -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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