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A KDE2 mystery
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 13 Apr '02

13 Apr '02

After upgrading Debian Potato/KDE1 to Debian Testing/KDE2 an icon on the KDE desktop which should run Word Perfect now doesn't. I have seen in the .xsession-errors file a line which says: cannot find path to /usr/local/WordPerfect/wpbin/xwp This used to work under KDE1 but the mystery is that if I copy the command line from the icon properties and paste it into a shell window Word Perfect runs without problems. If I enable the icon property 'Run in terminal' then it will run. Can anyone explain this please? Barry Samuels

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Re: [Alug] Introduction
by Matt Parker 12 Apr '02

12 Apr '02

On Friday 12 April 2002 07:17, you wrote: > Keith Watson wrote: > > Just a quick hello from someone who's just joined. > > Welcome to ALUG, Keith... > > [SNIP] > > > Reason for joining: After many years of saying "This year I'm going to > > install an Intel version of Unix on my PC" I finally got round to putting > > Mandrake 7.0 on early last year. I immediately started to try and > > customise it to suit my hardware and ran into all sorts of problems. I'm > > now in the midst of trying to install my own flavour of Linux from the > > Linux From Scratch project <http://www.linuxfromscratch.org> and having > > moderate success. I hope to learn enough from this to have a bit more > > success tailoring Linux for my own use. It would be nice to link up with > > other Linux afficianados in the area and swap war stories, experiences > > etc. and perhaps be able to help others out where possible. > > Although I understand that Mandrake is the easiect to install, I > doubt it will suit someone with real knowledge, with results you've > seen. I've found that, as my knowledge has increased, I have become > more and more frustrated with packaged Linux systems. My personal > favourite, and which remains so for the desktop, is SuSE. I'm quite > happy to allow them to cosset me in the land of sound, X, and such > stuff. However, servers are another matter entirely. [SNIP] I run Mandrake on my machine. I let it set up all my X server, gadgets, games etc. and installed all the server stuff from source. Since I sometimes play about with stuff at home for work I find that Mandrake's default installation locations are pants, not to mention the fact that it installs Apache with *everything* turned on. In fact I hardly ever install from packages. I don't find that Mandrake complains at all. If I need to install something from the CDs then I use the source RPM and build it from there. That way I don't have to worry about missing dependencies etc. All in all, a great distro - and this comes from a "hardcore" Unix user who plays with Solaris at work. Matt

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Re: [Alug] Looking for a low-end Linux server
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 12 Apr '02

12 Apr '02

Chris Allen wrote: >Does anybody have any idea where I can buy such a beast? Try cambridge computer supplies; I got an excellent box there without an OS installed, all the hardware was supported (SIS stuff mostly). http://www.cambridge-computers.com/ http://www.sis.com/support/driver/linux.htm Jen

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Re: [Alug] Lynn meeting?
by MJ Ray 12 Apr '02

12 Apr '02

> I'm going to be in at UEA tomorrow, will do that if you like. Who do I get > in touch with? Room bookings, but I've not booked a room since they've moved. I'm told that you can do it by email now. A quick search of their "intranet" should show it up. -- MJR

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FORTRASH
by David Freeman 12 Apr '02

12 Apr '02

I need to learn FORTRAN for a Summer job I have just got, anyone got any suggestions on good books etc... to learn from? D

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Not sure what the subject should be!!!
by Simon 11 Apr '02

11 Apr '02

Hi chaps and chappesses.. It's probably possible and really easy, but I don't know how... I want to dump a file in a directory and as soon as it appears to be executed then removed... i.e ftp a file onto a server in a particular directory, once uploaded, the file gets executed immediately... Possible yes/no? I'm sure I've heard that this can be done, just can't remember.. TIA Simon

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Re: [Alug] Venue.
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 11 Apr '02

11 Apr '02

MJRay wrote: > Shall we have a topic or theme for the meeting? email setup? Good plan! I can hold forth for an hour on how not to do it..... >Yeah, maildrop is waaay easier to configure. I was looking at "multidrop" by mistake. Are we set on Sun 21st April for a meeting date, then, possibly still at King's Lynn but most likely at Elmswell? Re. poster for install day...I did a pretty crappy one last year, we could get it out and dust it a bit and re-use it, but a slightly more inspired one might be better? http://www.linuxinstallday.org/joinin.php Maybe if we sign up we'll be sent stuff like that? Jen.

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training thing
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 11 Apr '02

11 Apr '02

They want to set up a stall at Glastonbury :-) http://www.fraw.org.uk/archive/rangers/cltc/cltc_proposal.html

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Re: [Alug] Venue.
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 11 Apr '02

11 Apr '02

Rob wrote: >I wrote a message about 4:30pm but it hasn't appeared yet, I must have just clicked replay and not reply all. >Anyway gist of it was you can always use Elmswell if you want. >Regards, Rob. Sounds brilliant to me - Sun 21st April, 2-6? We ought to check most people can make that so you have a nice roomful of geek-types this time. I can bring all my computers and everyone can laugh at my fetchmail config files. Last night I decided that I needed to tell fetchmail that it had to use procmail to deliver mail locally, and I then wrote what I considered to be a basic procmail file. I then expectantly fetched my mail, and sat back in joy and delight as the mail plopped into the right boxes. Two minutes later, after wondering why the computer was still scrunching , I did a ps aux, and realised exim was undergoing a new process every second or so, then on opening a groaning heaving mutt I realised I had unwittingly set up a mail loop and my mail was replicating and sending itself back to me, so i now have four copies of every message in my mailbox, great. About 4,000 mails. Back to the drawing board on that one, eh! (Mark is now going to post a message asking why on earth I was tryng to use procmail in the first place....;-) ) Jenny.

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Lynn meeting?
by Dryden 11 Apr '02

11 Apr '02

Well when and where will it be in kings lynn? sorry i dont know if any of this has been decided yet and was just wondering what was happening(if anything)? Also just a note for the install days i think that games are a big selling point about any operating system. If your going to try and convert people then maybe you should show the average user that its posible to play games on linux. Have quake 1, 2 or 3 playing would be nice and maybe an emulator or two(xmame runing metal slug is quite nice). Dennis Dryden (sorry about the bellow bloat :( but i cant sort it out) ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This email and its attachments are intended for the addressee only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them nor must you copy or show them to anyone; please telephone us immediately. The contents of this email and attachments represent the views of the sender and are not necessarily the representative of the views of The College of West Anglia **********************************************************************

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