Re: Getting current keymap

2000-09-14 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:47:09AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: 3) S30checkfs.sh fails and bails out into a shell (using sulogin). Currently the keyboard mapping is loaded in S05keymaps-lct.sh and I think that's a good thing. Thanks, good point. I'll put this rationale into

RFP: vtgrab: monitoring the VC's of another machines

2000-09-14 Thread Michael Bramer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist thanks from the web-page (http://people.redhat.com/twaugh/vtgrab/): What is it? This is a utility for monitoring the screen of another machine. It only works for text consoles: for X, the idea is to use VNC instead. Where is it?

Re: Bug#71237: cdparanoia: cannot use cdparanoia 'out of the box' as a non-root user.

2000-09-14 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. No package called `scsidev' exists in Debian (potato|woody). Pointer? Oops. scsidev is a part of the scsitools package. Remco -- qn195-66-31-144: 11:00pm up 8 days, 23:14, 6 users, load average: 2.03, 1.49, 1.69 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

too funny to not pass on...

2000-09-14 Thread Seth Cohn
from debian-freshmeat, where we are talking about setting up the new DFMR (Debian Freshmeat Repository) Seth: b) apt-get able, so it's a ftp and/or http site, and a single line to stick into etc/apt/sources.list Jeff Covey of freshmeat: this would rock. hhos we'll have to work with the apt

Re: determining if we're using db.h from libc6 or libdb2?

2000-09-14 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
Domenico Andreoli, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: i don't know how much what i'm going to say would be of help, but if you added a new check in configure.in in order to let your source know what kind of db.h you have? you could be pretty sure that your sources are getting compiled

Webmin: we're almost there

2000-09-14 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Of course the moment I decided to upload 0.80 they released 0.81. Luckily most of the modifications survived intact. I'm just fixing up a few little things. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: mp3 encoding patents.

2000-09-14 Thread Bart Schuller
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:57:10PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 13-Sep-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to bring up this subject again. I just wanted to know that can't mp3 encoders be distributed from a non-us site where the policies are much more relaxed ? the patents are

Re: determining if we're using db.h from libc6 or libdb2?

2000-09-14 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 02:38:07PM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: Domenico Andreoli, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: i don't know how much what i'm going to say would be of help, but if you added a new check in configure.in in order to let your source know what kind of

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start (2)

2000-09-14 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: I like it, but why not fold this functionality in update-rc.d itself? update-rc.d --query ? And why not define update-rc.d --list as well.. Well, for starters I don't grok perl, and I wasn't about to let that little detail stop me from writing

Re: apt-get and proxy

2000-09-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Andreas Tille wrote: From /var/lib/dpkg/available: Package: makedev: ... MD5sum: 7f6b97b984c246ead2c7be45ce4f1678 /var/cache/apt/archives/partial md5sum makedev_2.3.1-46_all.deb 7f6b97b984c246ead2c7be45ce4f1678 makedev_2.3.1-46_all.deb Please use apt-cache show

Re: apt-get and proxy

2000-09-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Andreas Tille wrote: When I wrote, that the proxy variables were ignored just my description was wrong. May be they are used but they are used in an other way than if I use settings in /etc/apt/apt.conf. While trying several different proxy-settings (sorry, don't

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
John Galt wrote: The big package breakups have historically been related to licensing issues Not as far as I can remember. The X breakup and the netbase breakup, for instance, had nothing to do with licenses that I know of. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-14 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
Purpose of Rant: Stir up the coals ... Have you already put some meat? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel BUG [Was: Re: rm and ls don't work for large files]

2000-09-14 Thread Jason Hansen
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 08:39:33AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: On Mon 28 Aug 2000, Nils Rennebarth wrote: On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 02:52:01PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: The problem here, as I mentioned in an earlier reply before this got crossposted to l-k, is that our version of libc

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-14 Thread John Galt
I thought the netbase breakup was because of a old-BSD/GPL license incompatibility... On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote: John Galt wrote: The big package breakups have historically been related to licensing issues Not as far as I can remember. The X breakup and the netbase breakup,

Re: nice demolition job ... epilog

2000-09-14 Thread Debian Linux User
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:54:32PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: Purpose of Rant: Stir up the coals ... Have you already put some meat? Yes, but unfortunately it was all devoured immediately by ravenous wolves. Barely raw as well... and apparently there was some indigestion