Re: Package titles

2010-08-23 Thread Wayne Blaszczyk
On 23/08/10 03:36, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Wayne, I'm updating the mirrors and sometimes have problems finding a package. It would really help if you change the titles of packages to match the file names when possible. For instance, the package evolution-data-server-2.30.2.1.tar.bz2 has

Re: Package titles

2010-08-23 Thread Wayne Blaszczyk
On 23/08/10 05:47, William Immendorf wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Wayne, I'm updating the mirrors and sometimes have problems finding a package. It would really help if you change the titles of packages to match the file names when

Re: Package titles

2010-08-23 Thread Wayne Blaszczyk
On 23/08/10 18:45, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: On 23/08/10 05:47, William Immendorf wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Wayne, I'm updating the mirrors and sometimes have problems finding a package. It would really help if you change the titles of

Re: Package titles

2010-08-23 Thread William Immendorf
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Wayne Blaszczyk wblas...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Sorry William but I did not receive any personal email from you. In regards to removing Devicekit, it's on the todo list, I'm still not finished with updating 2.30.2. As far as system-tools-backend, version 2.8.1

ntp init script

2010-08-23 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Hi, This has come up before, but I want to bring it up again now because it's such a simple fix to an old problem. Given that the purpose of the init script is to (as the book puts it): run ntpd continuously and allow it to synchronize the time in a gradual manner., the current options passed

Re: Package titles

2010-08-23 Thread Randy McMurchy
On 8/23/2010 10:31 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: Bruce, I have always been confused on what style should be use for the title. In the template.xml file there is mention of 'Use Title Case in All Titles'. Well, I probably write that a long time ago. New experience has

Re: Package titles

2010-08-23 Thread DJ Lucas
On 08/23/2010 01:54 PM, Randy McMurchy wrote: On 8/23/2010 10:31 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: Bruce, I have always been confused on what style should be use for the title. In the template.xml file there is mention of 'Use Title Case in All Titles'. Well, I probably

Re: ntp init script

2010-08-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Hi, This has come up before, but I want to bring it up again now because it's such a simple fix to an old problem. Given that the purpose of the init script is to (as the book puts it): run ntpd continuously and allow it to synchronize the time in a gradual

Re: ntp init script

2010-08-23 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On 8/23/10 3:34 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: You are quoting out of context. The fill startup is: boot_mesg Starting ntpd... ntpd -gqx loadproc /usr/sbin/ntpd Ah, my mistake. I didn't actually see the loadproc line underneath. In theory, yes, ntpd -q should be run once first, to update the

Re: ntp init script

2010-08-23 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On 8/23/10 4:54 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Since we use *pool.ntp.org, how would you propose doing that? I agree that it would be nice, but I don't know how. I don't know either, at least, I haven't given much thought to it. My solution for myself was just to assume a correct date has been set at

Re: ntp init script

2010-08-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: On 8/23/10 4:54 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Since we use *pool.ntp.org, how would you propose doing that? I agree that it would be nice, but I don't know how. I don't know either, at least, I haven't given much thought to it. My solution for myself was just to assume a

Re: ntp init script

2010-08-23 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On 8/23/10 6:10 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: What if the ntp server provided is down like in the 2nd entry above? Or (for who knows what reason) outgoing ICMP packets are blocked where you have no control? This problem is not easily solved. Understood and agreed. Again, I think that initial set of