Re: translated templates files

2001-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
svenska!) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#213931: What happened to linuxconf

2003-10-03 Thread Colin Watson
Package: passwd Version: 4.0.3-8 Severity: minor On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 06:33:50AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:07:39PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: You don't need root privileges in order to run chfn! You do if you want to change your name. Oops, I stand corrected

Re: Debian shuts down sitefinder

2003-10-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:54:06PM -0700, Tom wrote: Verisign has stopped sitefinder; they say temporarily. Seems like a good sign! It is indeed. Although I think your choice of subject line gives us credit we really don't deserve! ;) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Re: Virus-infected hosts list

2003-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
or requests for removal. If I get a lot of interest, I might make an RBL out of it. You realize of course that probably 60-70% are dynamic IPs. And why exactly are people sending mail from dynamic IPs rather than using their ISP's smarthost or similar? -- Colin Watson

Re: installing unstable package in woody

2003-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
is completely agnostic of distributions; only higher-level package acquisition tools care. It does appear that you can install this *particular* package from unstable on a stable system, yes. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Release statusus

2003-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
testing to stable to oldstable to archive.debian.org. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release statusus

2003-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release statusus

2003-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
), put a name on it, put it in testing and let it grow to a stable release? This name sid just confuses things, in my humble opinion. Hm? Kernel releases are only a very small part of the development of the Debian distribution. They aren't suitable for this purpose. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: outlineing program?

2003-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
. 'apt-cache search outline' gives me gnome-think Cool that's it thanks. BTW does that apt-cache command wor if a package _is not_ isntalled on your machine? Yes: it searches package lists, not the packages themselves. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Diffing arbitrary deb-source packages

2003-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
snapshot.debian.net. I don't think anyone's done a webbified version of this yet, though. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Diffing arbitrary deb-source packages

2003-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 03:27:47AM -0700, Tom wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:54:30AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:37:16AM -0700, Tom wrote: However, sometimes I find reading the source code helps me understand the developer's comments better. Is there any easy

Re: pam_mkhomedir

2003-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
as the authenticated user, not as root. (I think 3.7 changes this.) While this appeared at the same time as privilege separation, it's not an intrinsic consequence of it. Is this a known problem? Yes, very much so. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: pam_mkhomedir

2003-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:21:17PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.10.06.1833 +0200]: sshd currently runs PAM session modules as the authenticated user, not as root. (I think 3.7 changes this.) [...] Is this a known problem? Yes

Re: pls explain setrlimit log message

2003-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
? snail pam_limits[14846]: setrlimit limit #6 to soft=-1, hard=-1 failed: Operation not permitted; uid=1000 euid=1000 It's a cosmetic problem due to a (probable) bug in sshd: see bugs #159053 and #171673. Ignore it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Are we on track for a new release in December?

2003-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
to have 710 Release Critical bugs... http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ Remember to subtract the count of bugs on packages not in testing. But sure, it really should be lower than that. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Are we on track for a new release in December?

2003-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:50:55AM -0400, Antonio Rodr)tonio wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 09:09:02 +0100 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:05:41PM +0900, Bengt Thure'e wrote: Me not beeing an developer I do not quite know if we are on track for the release

Re: gv segfaulting

2003-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
with older gv, to make sure) will be in testing as of this evening's mirror sync. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Are we on track for a new release in December?

2003-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
things are different. As to design issues, these would be best brought up on debian-boot (rather than debian-user) now rather than later. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Updating Woody-Prerelease to Woody

2003-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 12:55:37PM +0200, Johann Hartwig Hauschild wrote: I'm back, so I'll post the deps. Zitat von Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think I meant something more like could we see a transcript of what you're doing and the error messages? Unsatisfied build-dependencies

Re: How to manage services?

2003-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
by automatic scripts until you're familiar with it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: man/mandb errors

2003-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
manpath to drop the java man directory? As a workaround until the bug is fixed, you could set an explicit MANPATH not including /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_02/man. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: X Forwarding with ssh

2003-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep ^x xfree86-common install xlibs install You need xbase-clients too for the xauth program. ssh suggests xbase-clients as a hint. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: where did xclock go?

2003-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 06:20:42PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: anybody know where debian's xclock package went? seems pretty innocuous, but i can't find it in the archives anywhere! :( It seems to be part of xbase-clients. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

Re: changing permissions of files in directories

2003-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
to the end of the command line. Fortunately, most command-line Unix utilities behave this way or can be made to behave this way. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: changing permissions of files in directories

2003-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:42:55PM +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Once upon a time Colin Watson said... The downside is that you can only use xargs this way for programs that let you specify an arbitrary number of filenames lasting up to the end of the command line. xargs -n 1 command

Re: I cannot install mysql package on Debian woody r3.01

2003-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
appropriate for debian-user; moving thread.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: man dangling symlink question

2003-10-09 Thread Colin Watson
to randomly set links back to auto mode when you didn't want it to. Furthermore, it's very unclear exactly when packages are supposed to call update-alternatives in order to get upgrades right, and there's still no policy on this (see bug #71621). -- Colin Watson

Re: squirrelmail and exim send problem

2003-10-09 Thread Colin Watson
): domainname.ddts.net:apacheport That should be HELO, not EHLO. Either someone/thing has modified the php code that sends that, or the version you got is just plain corrupt. Uh ... EHLO is the Extended HELLO command in SMTP. See RFC 2821. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
you could set up vim's C indenting to produce the results you want naturally, then run the whole thing through '='? You could also use the 'indent' program, which has an insane range of options so can probably reproduce most reasonable and unreasonable styles. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: What holds up a package in incoming?

2003-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
is based on when it was uploaded, not when it was approved and moved out of the NEW queue. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: windows NT

2003-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
be believed unless you have good evidence to the contrary. None of the previous posts you're referring to even mentioned Debian at all. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: deb package small file size?

2003-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
, but the deb was 1 MB! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the wine package itself just contains the WINE executables and a few other bits and pieces. You also need libwine, and the sum of the sizes of wine and libwine are rather closer to the RPM sizes you quote. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: mutt: how to forward envelope From?

2003-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
-specific thing. Better to have exim insert it as a real header if you want to deal with it normally, I feel. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: windows NT

2003-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
OS's, it *is* one. Did you even read the web page (http://debian.org/) to avoid looking like an idiot up front, or did you need to prove it to the world? Damn, you're hostile today. Was there a need for that? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: How to find out why python-apt is broken in testing

2003-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
it) that would work? Exactly that procedure should work, but if you have other python-dependent packages installed you may have to upgrade some of those too. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: How do I prevent User 'A' from seeing User 'B' /home contents

2003-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
The advice in the post you're replying to is much less invasive: note that it doesn't have the -R flag, so it only affects the directories in /home itself. These should all be executable anyway. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: HOWTO enter Ctrl-S to BASH from console

2003-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
(normal incremental search). You need to use stty to make 'stop' something other than ^S. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Group src

2003-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
source for that document is currently here: http://riva.ucam.org/svn/cjwatson/src/debian/base-passwd/trunk/base-passwd/doc/users-and-groups.sgml Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Group src

2003-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:39:46PM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: El domingo, 12 de octubre de 2003, a las 19:37, Colin Watson escribe: This group owns source code, including files in /usr/src. It can be used locally to give a user the ability to manage system source

Re: shell script question

2003-10-12 Thread Colin Watson
/sh for i in *; do if test -f $i; then mv $i `echo $i | tr ' ' _` fi done Also consider 'set -e' just below the #! line, in case one of the mv commands goes bananas for some reason. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: shell script question

2003-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
.extension from $1 and tacks on .wav. ${1%.*}.wav Look under Parameter Expansion in bash(1) for how this works. Note that some of the constructions there are bash-specific; you can compare with Parameter Expansion in dash(1) to get the portable subset. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
actually has an effect if you do 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' (or 'dselect install', less circuitously). 'apt-get upgrade' uses apt's own upgrading logic rather than what you selected. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: shell script question

2003-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:27:23AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: Carlos Sousa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:30:23 +0100 Colin Watson wrote: Here's a little expression that strips off any trailing .extension from $1 and tacks on .wav. ${1%.*}.wav That's much better

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:44:07PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote: I believe that --set-selections only actually has an effect if you do 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' (or 'dselect install', less circuitously). 'apt-get upgrade' uses apt's own upgrading

Re: International Characters

2003-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
?? instead of the charcters. How can I overcome that? AFAIK these are upper-ASCII, not UTF, chars. When you type 'locale', what is the output? It really sounds like you have LC_CTYPE=C, i.e. ASCII-only. (That said, I'm not sure about gnome-terminal. I use pterm.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: International Characters

2003-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
help. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh-add defunct: where's the reaper.

2003-10-15 Thread Colin Watson
this instead. xterm -e ssh-add When ssh-add's stdin is not a tty and $DISPLAY is set, it pops up ssh-askpass to ask you for a passphrase. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Colin Watson
/ shows it as consistently the most up-to-date architecture in unstable save for i386 at the moment. A few specific things are missing. I expect to miss valgrind, certainly. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:46:15PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: I'd suggest you try OS X if you buy a Mac before you give up and go to Debian or some other Linux distribution. Moving to Debian is not giving up! :-P Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: debian daemon init

2003-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
maintainers (of which I'm one) do exactly this. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:17:45PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 at 23:42 GMT, Colin Watson penned: Heh. I've just ordered one of these, which will probably become my new primary development machine. It's due to arrive in early November. [...] Have you run debian

Re: The following packages have been kept back

2003-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
such as this. You shouldn't have to go through this kind of procedure. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stable security updates when installing testing (sarge)??

2003-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
to happen is that they won't be installable. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Group of new files

2003-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
, i.e. 'chmod g+s directory'. This is a good idea for directories in which shared work is to take place. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: getting viruses/spam after posting to this list

2003-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: getting viruses/spam after posting to this list

2003-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
, and that whoever is behind swen has access to MSs' mailing list? It has nothing to do with Microsoft's mailing lists. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is certainly not on any of those. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#215999: mldonkey source code not found on website

2003-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
Lichtenheld is working on rewriting that part of the web site anyway; he's probably fixed this in the process, but it wouldn't hurt to check. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Colin Watson
the spammer's webhosts and email providers involved to cut them off. If only this were practical for the volume of spam bugs.debian.org gets (2Gb caught by spamassassin in the last two weeks). We just don't have the manpower even to make a dent here. :-( -- Colin Watson

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 09:46:15AM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: On Friday 17 October 2003 9:23 am, Colin Watson wrote: If only this were practical for the volume of spam bugs.debian.org gets (2Gb caught by spamassassin in the last two weeks). We just don't have the manpower even to make a dent

Re: exim4: How to stop viruses at SMTP time

2003-10-17 Thread Colin Watson
getting listed. Ah, but then one has to ask why m.d.o isn't using clamav up front as well. Because we're already beating master into the freaking ground trying to scan things, OK? We need to make it do something sensible with crossposts before doing anything like that. -- Colin Watson

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Colin Watson
these days. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread Colin Watson
. It is a fairly large program, and could have some rather complex behavior. Swen harvests addresses from Usenet. The list is gatewayed to Usenet (and many people rely on that). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Will a binary deb package ever not end in extension .deb?

2003-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
be installing .udebs on a real system. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get install pkg and remove pkg on the same line?!

2003-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
. If a hyphen is appended to the package name (with no intervening space), the identified package will be removed if it is installed. So you can say: apt-get install package1 package2 package3- package4- Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
Could this thread please be taken to some other list or private mail? I think it's clear that it's got hopelessly off-topic. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Where to download old Potato packages?

2003-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
now ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: package for bug regarding system installation and boot logo

2003-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:32:19PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: What's the right package or pseudo-package to use to report a bug about the boot logo in a new installation? Is this a logo that's displayed before the kernel is loaded? If so, my guess would be lilo. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
testing quite happily on my work desktop, and used to run stable on it until I got bored of putting up with bugs that I'd fixed months ago. With the exception of KDE, testing's not all that far behind these days. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NGPT for/in Debian?

2003-10-21 Thread Colin Watson
at the moment. It may make it into the sarge release, but that hasn't yet been decided. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-21 Thread Colin Watson
to an administrator is luxury, not necessity. The base system is a superset of what's actually required. There are parts of the base system that can be removed. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
to them. I know of a couple of Debian developers who are blind, or close to it. I've met one of them. Those that I know of all make tremendously useful contributions, more than many sighted developers. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Is testing somewhat stable again

2003-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
should see what your package manager proposes to do. (I need a new X for my Radeon card Doesn't that require XFree86 4.3? That isn't in testing (or unstable) yet. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NPTL (was: NGPT for/in Debian?)

2003-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
and debian-glibc. (BTW, I read debian-user, so no need to cc me.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Waaaaaay OT] Grammer

2003-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
. The correct plural is octopuses damn it! ... so shouldn't it be 'octopedes' IIRC? Haralambos? Octopodes, I think ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:44:25PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:13:08AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: I know of a couple of Debian developers who are blind, or close to it. I've met one of them. Those that I know of all make tremendously useful contributions, more than

Re: new to debian

2003-10-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:47:34AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Okay, I'll bite. apt-get install wdm Kent, Could you turn off HTML mail, please? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: I broke gnome2 *snff*

2003-10-24 Thread Colin Watson
to include '.' and '..', and if you happen to have privileges to write to the parent directory then you'll end up removing all directories *next* to your current directory as well! Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

2003-10-27 Thread Colin Watson
, I don't think about any of this. My fingers pretty much do it for me. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A newbies confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-27 Thread Colin Watson
mailer about threading, so that I can delete it more efficiently? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: remote update - how to re-enforce

2003-10-28 Thread Colin Watson
the upgrade complete otherwise. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can I get a working Gnome installation on a new testing machine?

2003-10-28 Thread Colin Watson
Should I drop the stable entry? Well ... why do you think that you need it? Mixing stable, testing, and unstable is almost always a bad idea. They were never designed to work that way. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: cvs import version numbers

2003-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
project. As far as file revision numbers go, it's best by far just to let CVS get on with it and forget that they have any meaning. In particular, trying to change the length of branch version numbers will lead you into a world of pain, and I suspect is probably not possible. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
with people ccing me on list replies, and decided that filtering duplicates wasn't suitable for me. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting HP to support Debian

2003-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
against SCO et al. Same for Sun etc. HP is also sponsoring Debian in really quite a big way. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debootstrap can't download console-tools-libs

2003-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
bootstrapping unstable, in general you need the version of debootstrap in unstable; the one in stable won't be good enough. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Base files for Debian 3.0

2003-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
base tarballs in Debian 3.0. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pathetic Writer (or siagoffice)

2003-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
the stable and unstable distributions. There are a number of bugs (check BTS) fixed in current unstable. siag has been removed from unstable because nobody was willing to maintain it properly. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Getting HP to support Debian

2003-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:43:52PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 01:04:03 +, Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:15:26AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..HP is sponsoring SCO City to City Tour. I say boycott HP

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:57:42AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:14:15AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:03:05PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Most of the people who have this problem, I believe, have the technical ability to setup

Re: Getting HP to support Debian

2003-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:26:09PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:08:17 +, Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:43:52PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 01:04:03 +, Colin Watson [EMAIL

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
weird things (I don't remember exactly what, but it might have shown debian-user as the sender of all messages from debian-user, instead of the actual senders). You want this in ~/.muttrc: set index_format=%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15F (%4l) %s Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
without the Mail-Followup-To: header, which my mailer respects automatically.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting HP to support Debian

2003-10-29 Thread Colin Watson
. Please moderate your rants until you're better informed. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting HP to support Debian

2003-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:21:06AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote: They employ many people to develop Debian GNU/Linux and have donated quite a bit of our core infrastructure. Their Linux Chief Technology Officer is a former Debian Project Leader

Re: .muttrc for mailing list

2003-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:12:22PM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:21:50PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:00:25PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: To use L I have to define the mailing lists I am subscribed to, this causes mutt to do weird things (I

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
would you ever want to start X as root? It's not generally considered a good idea. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
. (If you don't know, it probably isn't.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 06:30:14AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: Colin Watson wrote: No, I think if you had actually started X as root then you certainly would have an appropriate $DISPLAY. The issue is not really rootness, it's that $DISPLAY is set in the environment of the X session which

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
should put them in your .xsession (or .xinitrc if you're using startx). Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-31 Thread Colin Watson
perhaps it doesn't come with source code, or you aren't allowed to modify it, or you're only allowed to put it to non-commercial use, or something similar. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

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