Re: Bug#357703: udev breaks syslog

2006-03-30 Thread Rich Walker
patch to each logging daemon to add/remove this link when the package is installed/removed? -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand? London N1 1LX | +UK 20 7700 2487 www.shadow.org.uk/products

Re: Bug#357703: udev breaks syslog

2006-03-28 Thread Rich Walker
daemon Presumably, there is a standard way to handle the case of needing to restart a 1-of-N service handler? cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand? London N1 1LX | +UK 20 7700

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-18 Thread Rich Walker
circumstances would you be typing /rTAB rather than ~/ ? cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand? London N1 1LX | +UK 20 7700 2487 www.shadow.org.uk/products/newhand.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Man page owner

2005-11-20 Thread Rich Walker
Hi, This is probably a question with an obvious answer, but I couldn't find the answer. Why are man pages installed with owner and group root rather than owner and group man? cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251

Re: Man page owner

2005-11-20 Thread Rich Walker
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:40:17PM +, Rich Walker wrote: This is probably a question with an obvious answer, but I couldn't find the answer. Why are man pages installed with owner and group root rather than owner and group man? Why would man

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Rich Walker
, while restricting the usage rights of the community, is OK to ensure the success of the conference. Hold on - does this mean I will or won't be able to do apt-get install debconf6-doc ? cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-14 Thread Rich Walker
Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas Schuldei [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-14 18:46:50]: Hold on - does this mean I will or won't be able to do apt-get install debconf6-doc you will, and most likely it will be 100% complete. if someone

Re: real-i386

2005-11-04 Thread Rich Walker
in a *lot* of systems. Not having a 386-compatible kernel+libc, just a 686-compatible one, would mean you couldn't run Debian at all on those machines. cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand

Re: /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/ --- Why ­­/etc ?

2005-09-24 Thread Rich Walker
not ideal. Also, the presence of 20MB of extra files in /etc/ is a serious hindrance on machines with limited disk space or small root partitions. cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand

Re: unreproducable bugs

2005-07-15 Thread Rich Walker
their creativity, hinder their intellect, and prevent the development of a consistent style! Sheesh, next you'll be arguing in favour of personal indentation styles! cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need

Re: unreproducable bugs

2005-07-15 Thread Rich Walker
Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7/15/05, Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7/15/05, Manoj Srivastava va, manoj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's with the recent push to get every little things written down

Re: unreproducable bugs

2005-07-15 Thread Rich Walker
Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7/15/05, Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a hard time reading this as anything but a non sequitur. Umm; it follows more from Manoj's comment than yours. Ah. OK. Should have sent two postings :- Personally, I prefer

Re: RFA: etask-el -- Define and manage projects within Emacs with Gantt

2005-07-11 Thread Rich Walker
Daniel Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Site =http://members.chello.at/rene.weichselbaum/etask.el You mean http://members.chello.at/rene.weichselbaum/etask.html cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251

Re: [Debian-uk] Sun have (probably) patented apt-get

2005-07-06 Thread Rich Walker
Debian Person sending the letter, with dates of when the technology was introduced into Debian, and perhaps extracts from the Packaging Manuals of the period to show this. cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-16 Thread Rich Walker
servers is incomplete, and the delay introduced on first-time-mails from legitimate sources, results in screaming from users really quick :- cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand? London

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Rich Walker
to loose this since there is no comparable commandline tool fdupes? Doesn't do partial matching, but is otherwise excellent. cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand? London N1 1LX

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Rich Walker
for it to be converted to GPL. And moria hasn't had a bug in a long time. cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand? London N1 1LX | +UK 20 7700 2487 www.shadow.org.uk/products

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-16 Thread Rich Walker
to those that use them. But this has to be only a temporary solution. Point taken. cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand? London N1 1LX | +UK 20 7700 2487 www.shadow.org.uk

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-16 Thread Rich Walker
before. This is *guaranteed* to cause senior people in the company to come knocking on your door within hours of you turning it on. Otherwise, I'd use it :- cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand

Re: TODO for etch ?

2005-06-15 Thread Rich Walker
system (dependencies encoded in makefile fragments, some kind of foo Provides firewall structure, and (hard) a method for stopping things as well as starting them would (a) allow parallel startup, important for some users (b) allow correct ordering to be specified cheers, Rich. -- rich walker

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-14 Thread Rich Walker
/LSB-Core-generic/runlevels.html. Given that they *suggest* a set of runlevels, which provides one spare for local config, would it be out of order for users to file wishlist bugs on packages not following these guidelines? cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-10 Thread Rich Walker
Darren Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I demand that Rich Walker may or may not have written... Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How common was that problem you were trying to solve, again? Presumably, you never used an S3 video card. (Locks up on leaving X in many card/X

Re: Bug#312669: /sbin/ifconfig: Add ifconfig to user path

2005-06-10 Thread Rich Walker
is Wrong. iproute does much more than route/ifconfig, which cannot support all the features of = 2.4 networking stacks. Hey! Some of us still don't need all the features of 2.4! cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Rich Walker
, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand? London N1 1LX | +UK 20 7700 2487 www.shadow.org.uk/products/newhand.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Example where testing-security was used?

2005-06-01 Thread Rich Walker
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:30:40PM +0100, Rich Walker wrote: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Moore's law is cpu speed. *TRANSISTORS* on a single die http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/mooreslaw.htm Bah, yeah, but it's more

Re: proficiency-level tag for debian packages

2005-05-31 Thread Rich Walker
Relevant] cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand? London N1 1LX | +UK 20 7700 2487 www.shadow.org.uk/products/newhand.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Example where testing-security was used?

2005-05-31 Thread Rich Walker
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Moore's law is cpu speed. *TRANSISTORS* on a single die http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/mooreslaw.htm cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand

Re: proficiency-level tag for debian packages

2005-05-31 Thread Rich Walker
Will Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 31 May 2005 20:07, Rich Walker wrote: Even within these categories there is some need for finer grain. For example, groupware clients are mostly easy, end-user, corporate groupware servers are mostly impossible, sysadmin, corporate, server

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-22 Thread Rich Walker
whether the requirements are being met, and would scream like hell if one of the hosts was insecure? Even better - use cfengine to automagically check that the config files were accurate. Plus, it would make a good example cfengine file for the documentation package. cheers, Rich. -- rich

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-10 Thread Rich Walker
, and wmbubblemon does the same job better, why add another? cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand? London N1 1LX | +UK 20 7700 2487 www.shadow.org.uk/products/newhand.shtml

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-10 Thread Rich Walker
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Though you could try the following set of criteria: [I added these back in for the sake of clarity] 1. Are there already similar packages in Debian? NO - okay, add. 2. Does it offer significant *technical

Re: Which 2.6 kernel for Sarge on a Via C3?

2004-11-11 Thread Rich Walker
if there was a Debian kernel supporting them. Especially if it supported the crypto acceleration and hardware RNG available on later VIA cpu s. cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand? London N1 1LX

verifying deb installation

2001-09-14 Thread rich walker
. Seems okay, but we'll see) cheers, Rich. -- rich walker no-work anarcho and stuff his signature file no content yet no vanity website