[CLUE-Tech] Re: CLUE-Tech digest, Vol 1 #1599 - 13 msgs

[jim feldman]

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>Today's Topics:
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>   1. Suse 9.1 (Mike Staver)
>   2. X Won't Use my TrueType Fonts (Jed S. Baer)
>   3. Re: X Won't Use my TrueType Fonts (Angelo Bertolli)
>   4. Re: X Won't Use my TrueType Fonts (Jed S. Baer)
>   5. Re: X Won't Use my TrueType Fonts (Collins Richey)
>   6. Re: X Won't Use my TrueType Fonts (Jed S. Baer)
>   7. Re: X Won't Use my TrueType Fonts (Jeff Cann)
>   8. Re: X Won't Use my TrueType Fonts (Jed S. Baer)
>   9. Re: X Won't Use my TrueType Fonts (Jed S. Baer)
>  10. Re: X Won't Use my TrueType Fonts (Nate Duehr)
>  11. Re: X Won't Use my TrueType Fonts (Jed S. Baer)
>  12. Re: X Won't Use my TrueType Fonts (Jed S. Baer)
>  13. Re: X Won't Use my TrueType Fonts (Collins Richey)
>
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>Message: 1
>Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 06:56:55 -0600 (MDT)
>From: Mike Staver <staver at mail.fimble.com>
>To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
>Subject: [CLUE-Tech] Suse 9.1
>Reply-To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
>
>I just installed Suse 9.1, upgrading from Red Hat 9 (I know, I'm way 
>behind) and I have several questions.  I installed Sendmail instead of    
>postfix because I know it, and I turned on imap in /etc/xinit.d and then  
>restarted the machine..... I'm having 2 issues:
>                                
>1) When users try to connect over imap using something like 
>mozilla thunderbird, they are prompted for their password, but even though
>they may enter the correct password, the login fails each time. I have no
>idea why or how to correct this. This is an example of what I'm getting:
>
>Oct  5 06:26:59 mail imapd[13128]: Login disabled user=josh 
>
>I keep googling for answers on this, and the only thing I can find is that 
>people suggest using a different imap server.... which completely defeats 
>the purpose of using Suse so I don't have to compile my own stuff. Anybody 
>have a fix for this??
>                                
>2) My .procmailrc file is being ignored - I used to have stuff like this  
>in it:                          
>                                
>:0 B                            
>* ^ *Content-Disposition: attachment;
>* filename=".*\.(vbs|scr|pif|com|bat|dll)"
>/dev/null                       
>                                
>How can I make sure Suse, Sendmail, or whatever use that .procmailrc file? 
>In the README in /etc/mail, it says Suse uses procmail by default... and 
>then I should man procmailrc.... which doesn't help because 
>
>				-Mike Staver
>				 staver at fimble.com
>                                 mstaver at globaltaxnetwork.com
>				 http://www.fimble.com/staver
>
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>Message: 2
>Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:41:50 -0600
>From: "Jed S. Baer" <thag at frii.com>
>To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
>Organization: heap
>Subject: [CLUE-Tech] X Won't Use my TrueType Fonts
>Reply-To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
>
>After a few years of having no trouble with TrueType fonts, I discover
>today that X is no longer serving them up.
>
>I haven't changed anything. No upgrades, no changes to my XF86Config file.
>
>The only clue I have here is the message from X:
>"Could not init font path element /public/fonts, removing from list!"
>
>I've recreated both the fonts.scale and fonts.dir files in my directory of
>TT fonts. No luck, and in the process lost the encodings.dir file (needed,
>I understand, by OO).
>
>My question then is, I guess, how do get X to tell my WHY it can't init
>that font path element?
>
>Is there a utility in X somewhere to examine a font directory and report
>on its status? I get no errors when I do 'xset +fp /public/fonts'. And
>doing so doesn't cause the fonts to show up, for example, in The GIMP.
>
>This is a RH8 box.
>
>jed
>  
>