[e-smith-devinfo] ANNOUNCE: apsfilter-RPM and HOWTO available

2002-06-04 Thread Robert van den Aker
to the RPM) is available at the following URL: http://www.robert2.dds.nl/howtos/apsfilter-howto.html Regards, Robert van den Aker -- -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] ANNOUNCE: apsfilter-RPM and HOWTO available

2002-06-04 Thread Robert van den Aker
. The HOWTO (with a link to the RPM) is available at the following URL: http://www.robert2.dds.nl/howtos/apsfilter-howto.html Regards, Robert van den Aker -- -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered

[e-smith-devinfo] ANNOUNCE: SME 5.1.2 for Alpha

2002-06-04 Thread Robert van den Aker
An unofficial port of SME 5.1.2 to the Alpha (aka DEC Alpha, Compaq Alpha, AXP) architecture is available now in my contrib area (thanks to Mitel for hosting it!). Please refer to the following webpage for further details (also linked from the 'Contributed HOWTO' page):

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] ANNOUNCE: SME 5.1.2 for Alpha

2002-06-05 Thread Robert van den Aker
, Robert Jan van Haarst wrote: On 4 Jun 2002 at 21:08, Robert van den Aker wrote: An unofficial port of SME 5.1.2 to the Alpha (aka DEC Alpha, Compaq Alpha, AXP) architecture is available now in my contrib area (thanks to Mitel for hosting it!). Please refer to the following webpage

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] ANNOUNCE: SME 5.1.2 for Alpha

2002-06-05 Thread Robert van den Aker
At 09:52 -0400 05-06-2002, Tony Clayton wrote: Looks like Red Hat might have future plans for PPC: http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0203/11.redhat.php Tony et alii, RedHat are already in the PPC market. In fact, they have an official RedHat 7.1 release for PPC. It's just not for Apples (or

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] ANNOUNCE: SME 5.1.2 for Alpha

2002-06-06 Thread Robert van den Aker
in the iso. Any changes I made were made through patches to the original sources, or otherwise clearly commented and traceable. Regards, Robert Jan van Haarst wrote: On 4 Jun 2002 at 21:08, Robert van den Aker wrote: An unofficial port of SME 5.1.2 to the Alpha (aka DEC

[e-smith-devinfo] Kernel headers on build host

2002-07-03 Thread Robert van den Aker
Further to the discussion on (samba) build host configuration, I have a question about kernel headers. I've been using 2.4 kernel headers with no apparent problems on my build host (RedHat 7.1 w/ 2.2.19 kernel), but wondered how safe it is to do that. I assumed it would be safe to use 2.4

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Kernel headers on build host

2002-07-04 Thread Robert van den Aker
The kernel-source RPM contains the headers, but a separate kernel-headers RPM is a build requirement for a lot of packages. So, which kernel-headers RPM is installed on Mitel's build host(s) and where did you get it? To the best of my knowledge RedHat never provided

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Kernel headers on build host

2002-07-05 Thread Robert van den Aker
I'm sorry, what I meant to ask was if Mitel (but I'm interested to hear what others did) built their own kernel-headers RPM from the kernel source, given the fact that, to the best of my knowledge, RedHat never provided a kernel-headers RPM for 2.2.19-7.0.8 (probably because standard RedHat

[e-smith-devinfo] tcpserver and mailfront on Alpha

2002-11-20 Thread Robert van den Aker
While we're on the subject of tcpserver and mailfront, I'd like to add that I've had limited success with them on the Alpha. tcpserver/mailfront/qmail would relay mail from the localhost only (tested with pine and imp). Mailfront would also give a greeting when I ran mconnect from the

[e-smith-devinfo] Coming soon: Unofficial SME 5.5 for Alpha

2002-11-20 Thread Robert van den Aker
Dear Alphaphiles, I'm sure it's not as eagerly awaited as SME 5.6 for x86, and the announcement is a bit premature, because some final testing remains to be done, but I'd like to inform anyone interested in the unofficial Alpha port of SME that I'm currently running what I believe will be the

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] tcpserver and mailfront on Alpha

2002-11-20 Thread Robert van den Aker
At 16:38 -0500 20-11-2002, Charlie Brady wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Robert van den Aker wrote: However, tcpserver/mailfront/qmail would not relay mail from hosts on the network. I could not connect to the smtp service when running mconnect from a host on the internal network. I _was_ able

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Coming soon: Unofficial SME 5.5 for Alpha

2002-11-27 Thread Robert van den Aker
At 19:51 -0500 20-11-2002, Rich Lafferty wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:31:35PM +0100, Robert van den Aker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The most surprising packages in this set are probably obtuse-smtpd-qmail and e-smith-obtuse-smtpd. I had to revert to using obtuse-smtpd because mailfront

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Custom ISO modifying RPMs

2003-01-10 Thread Robert van den Aker
At 19:40 -0500 10-01-2003, Charlie Brady wrote: On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Nathan Price wrote: Thanks for the info about PreReq and Requires. But, more on the patch files. Make a patch file containing your changes: diff -ruN BUILD/e-smith-pkg-0.3-{3,4} \

[e-smith-devinfo] Announcing unofficial SME/Alpha V5.5 for DEC Alpha architecture

2003-01-29 Thread Robert van den Aker
Dear Alphaphiles, Looks like my preannouncement in November was a bit premature, but my unofficial and unsupported port of SME 5.5 to the Alpha (aka DEC Alpha, Compaq Alpha, AXP) architecture is now ready to be released. I want to thank Chaloner Hale for all the time and effort he put in to

[e-smith-devinfo] Apsfilter HOWTO and RPM updated

2003-02-20 Thread Robert van den Aker
Dear PostScript-printing friends, I have updated my apsfilter-HOWTO for SME 5.6 and packaged the latest apsfilter into an RPM. For those unfamiliar with apsfilter, apsfilter and ghostscript will let you print text, PDF and PostScript to {non-,}PostScript printers with a simple 'lpr' command. It

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Launch script after IP change

2003-05-30 Thread Robert van den Aker
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Michiel Blotwijk wrote: Hi there, What is the best way to launch a script when your IP address changes? I could run a cron-job to test for a new IP, but I guess there is a cleaner way. regards, Michiel You can put your script in the ip-change event. That's what

[e-smith-devinfo] Updated cups, hpijs packages seeking x86 build host.

2003-07-09 Thread Robert van den Aker
NT/2k/XP, which may come in handy for printing to filtering queues (for page accounting, quotas, etc.). Regards, Robert van den Aker -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Updated cups, hpijs packages seeking x86 buildhost.

2003-07-10 Thread Robert van den Aker
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Dan Brown wrote: From: Robert van den Aker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The source RPMS can be found at http://www.contribs.org/contribs/rvandenaker/beta/e-smith-cups/SRPMS / (please grab the latest). Once we have x86 binaries, I can upload a new Built

[e-smith-devinfo] Announcing updated e-smith-cups, cups, hpijs packages

2003-07-11 Thread Robert van den Aker
Dear all, Updated e-smith-cups, cups, and hpijs packages for Alpha and x86 (thanks again, Dan) are in my contrib directory at http://www.contribs.org/contribs/rvandenaker/beta/e-smith-cups/. If you're upgrading from a previous version, download the updated packages, install them all in one go,

[e-smith-devinfo] e-smith-cups update available for testing

2003-09-21 Thread Robert van den Aker
I've had two reports from users of my e-smith-cups contrib about authorization problems when printing to samba shares. One user was trying to print from a Windows 2000 host, the other from a Windows XP host. My own limited testing from a Windows 98 host had not shown any such problems. The samba

[e-smith-devinfo] Perl error: Modification of a read-only value attempted ...

2003-09-23 Thread Robert van den Aker
I have the following template fragments: /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/atalk/papd.conf/00ReadPrintersConf { @printers = (); open (RD, /etc/cups/printers.conf) || warn Cannot open input file /etc/cups/printers.conf: $!\n; while (RD) { if (/^(Default)?Printer ([\w\-]+)/)

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Perl error: Modification of a read-only value attempted ...

2003-09-24 Thread Robert van den Aker
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 23/09/03 Robert van den Aker did say: But if I run atalk-conf, which contains foreach (qw( ... papd.conf ... )) { esmith::util::processTemplate ({ ... TEMPLATE_PATH = /etc/atalk

[e-smith-devinfo] Missing srpms for proftpd and e-smith-proftpd

2003-10-08 Thread Robert van den Aker
I filed this as a bug with [EMAIL PROTECTED] as suggested on one of the user forums, but haven't had a response (from a human). The srpm for proftpd-1.2.8p-es1 is missing from the 5.6 and 6.0b3 updates directories. The srpm for e-smith-proftpd-1.8.0-02 is missing from the 5.6 updates directory.

[e-smith-devinfo] proftpd errata for SME/Alpha 5.5

2003-10-12 Thread Robert van den Aker
Alphaphiles, I finally got around to building proftpd errata packages for SME/Alpha 5.5. You can find them in the usual location. Robert -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to

[e-smith-devinfo] Fix for CUPS installation bug

2003-11-13 Thread Robert van den Aker
Steven Curren reported a rather interesting bug against my cups-1.1.19 build, which is a RawHide build with minor modifications. Upgrading the cups-1.1.19 package over an existing LPRng package, which is possible because the cups package Obsoletes the LPRng package and is the method recommended in

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Fix for CUPS installation bug

2003-11-13 Thread Robert van den Aker
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Charlie Brady wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Robert van den Aker wrote: I believe it should be possible to 'rpm -U' cups over LPRng properly if the cups package didn't Provide LPRng, which it does to meet a redhat-printerconf dependency. Why would you need or want

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Fix for CUPS installation bug

2003-11-13 Thread Robert van den Aker
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Robert van den Aker wrote: I'm not using or requiring redhat-printerconf. But redhat-printerconf requires LPRng, which is why the Red Hat packager for cups decided to make the cups package provide LPRng. Odd, I looked it up on rpmfind.net and recent versions of redhat

[e-smith-devinfo] Spanish translator wanted for e-smith-cups

2003-11-24 Thread Robert van den Aker
Hi, I was wondering if someone on this list might have the time, skill and inclination to translate two rather short lexicon files from my e-smith-cups contrib from English to Spanish. It would be much appreciated. The lexicon files are here: http://www.robert2.dds.nl/test/printers_en-us.txt

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Spanish translator wanted for e-smith-cups

2003-11-24 Thread Robert van den Aker
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Robert van den Aker wrote: I was wondering if someone on this list might have the time, skill and inclination to translate two rather short lexicon files from my e-smith-cups contrib from English to Spanish. It would be much appreciated. Jaime Nebrera Herrera has kindly

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] FAQ maintenance

2003-11-26 Thread Robert van den Aker
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:30:53PM -0700, Jeff Coleman wrote: We will setup a list shortly on contribs.org to discuss the future and potential of the e-smith release. To echo Charlie's question: what's wrong with this list? Cheers, Robert -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] FAQ maintenance

2003-11-26 Thread Robert van den Aker
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:57:07PM -0800, Greg Zartman wrote: To echo Charlie's question: what's wrong with this list? Well, if Mitel is throwing in the towel (so to speak), then this list will eventually go away. Further, this discussion has nothing to do with Mitel. It is a community

[e-smith-devinfo] [contrib] e-smith-cups for SME 6.0b3

2003-12-01 Thread Robert van den Aker
The e-smith-cups package has been updated to work with SME 6.0b3. Special thanks to: - Peter Schubert for SME 6 compatibility testing and fixes, - Jaime Nebrera Herrera for the Spanish translation, - Fabien Illide for the French translation, - Charlie Brady for the suggestion to use standard SME

[e-smith-devinfo] [announcement] SME/Alpha V5.5 to be orphaned 31 Dec 2003

2003-12-01 Thread Robert van den Aker
to download myself. Kind regards, Robert van den Aker -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] E-smith to Debian?

2003-12-13 Thread Robert van den Aker
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, TekUnsupported wrote: [snip] with the possibility of E-smith being ported to Debian [...], has anybody considered re-initiating E-smith support on platforms such as Sparc or Alpha since the Debian distros are still rather loyal to the respective aforementioned