Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Joey Karl M. Hegbloom:
Since the output from cron jobs is mailed anyhow, as it should
be, I think that all cron scripts should report in as they are
run, and that this should be made a standard. Here's why.
Joey I think what we
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As the official version of perl 5.004 is finally out (I must admit I
haven't installed the debian package yet, but I run webservers with lots
of perl CGI and can't afford to break them), I have a few questions,
comments, and thoughts.
1. In building my own
Hi,
jwalther == jwalther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Are there any objections to moving the file into /boot?
jwalther Is there really any reason to take us farther away from the
jwalther standard that everyone else uses? Its just one more gotcha
jwalther that'll tick a newbie off when they
Hi,
Well, with 5.004, CGI-modules is obsolete, and so the
misnaming of the CGI modules package is a solved issue
;-). (Unless. of course, there is a hew-and-cry about removing the
package, I'd suggest removing CGI-modules from hamm).
As for the description issue, even the one
On 19 May 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Well, with 5.004, CGI-modules is obsolete, and so the
misnaming of the CGI modules package is a solved issue
;-). (Unless. of course, there is a hew-and-cry about removing the
package, I'd suggest removing CGI-modules from hamm).
No real
On 19 May 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Less blather this time. Yes, ther reason is that /boot
contains other useful information about the kernels ensconced there,
(like System.map, and psdatabase) but is missing one piece: exactly
what is configured into the kernel (which can be
Basically, mailx conflicts with smail.
dpkg: error processing xmysql (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up smail (3.2-3) ...
Error: system's FQDN hostname (citytel_prct40.citytel.net) doesn't match
RFC1035 syntax; cannot configure the mail system.
dpkg: error
Im sure there used to be a mysql package. the mysql db libs are in, and
xmysql front end is in the distro where the fundamental package? is it
being worked on? Im positive I installed it ages ago... foolish me for
uninstalling it, now its not there anymore.
Is there any reason that snarf
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9020: e2fsprogs- fsck.ext2: can't load library 'libcom_err.so.2'
9127: seyon- seyon depends on X11R6 instead of xlib6
9256: vrweb- Unresolved dependency report for vrweb
9258: sgml-tools - Unresolved dependency report for sgml-tools
9259: j1
Brian == Brian Mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Brian rxvt (and rxvt-xpm) always exports the variable COLORTERM
Brian so that programs can check for color support.
John == John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John Unfortunately, I know of no programs that make use of this
This is why changing the default prompt for everyone is not a good
idea. You guys can't even agree on what you want the new prompt to
be. And if you want my personal preference, any prompt longer than
'$ ' is too long. If I want to know what directory I'm in, I just
pwd.
Instead of arguing
Nicolás Lichtmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Most people that adopt Linux come from DOS. Linux is expanding the UNIX
users base. I come from DOS-OS/2 too. I used Slackware, and I changed
because it was a mess. Current newbies that start with RH won't change to
Debian, they don't need to. And
The difference is that RedHat's X configurator configures not only X,
but also mail, news, printers, networking, etc. It's a configurator
that runs under X -- not really a configurator for XFree86.
If we are wanting to go that way; fine. I have no problem with it.
As long as we don't go so far
Anybody should know that before typing rm -rf * or an equivolent,
you THINK FIRST, every time.
The problem does not arise when you type rm the first time but after you
have some confidence and you think you know what you are doing.
Everybody knows what you should think first. But who does after
Oh, I see. Nevermind then -- what you're saying is that the X
configurator is at the level of an X based dselect -- so that's the
problem of the diety team, right? (Thus it's not something I need
to be particularly concerned with.) Thanks... _Mark_
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Hi,
2. I installed shadowing as it suggested - started installing packages
merrily. I also installed and configured NIS - however, I cannot log in
any in my personal account - though I can finger anyone without trouble. I
deinstalled shadow by doing a shadowconfig off and that still didn't
At 09:26 AM 19/05/97 +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
2. I installed shadowing as it suggested - started installing packages
merrily. I also installed and configured NIS - however, I cannot log in
any in my personal account - though I can finger anyone without trouble. I
deinstalled shadow by
Anybody should know that before typing rm -rf * or an equivalent,
you THINK FIRST, every time.
And AFTER you type it.
The prompt doesn't make the slightest difference when the death knell sounds:
rm: .o: No such file or directory
and it dawns on you there was an extra space in the last
Hi,
2. I installed shadowing as it suggested - started installing packages
merrily. I also installed and configured NIS - however, I cannot log in
any in my personal account - though I can finger anyone without trouble. I
deinstalled shadow by doing a shadowconfig off and that still
In your email to me, Christoph, you wrote:
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On Mon, 19 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 19 May 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Less blather this time. Yes, ther reason is that /boot
contains other useful information about the kernels ensconced there,
(like System.map, and psdatabase) but is missing one piece: exactly
Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My main concern is that they neither bunch up on the dpkg select screen,
nor is it easy to search for perl modules in dselect (I'd like to be able
to find all the perl modules by searching on perl).
BTW, I maintain alias and www-search (and libwww-perl
On 19 May 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
I agree with most of what you are saying; however, I think you sorta
missed the point I was trying to make (which is probably my fault
because I didn't make it very clearly g)
=)
My problem is not so much with changing root's default prompt on new
On May 19, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote:
So I say: PS1=[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ =D
Too long. But better than nothing.
It isn't too long...!
[nick] newton:~/src/deb/lftp-0.11.1$
[nick] newton:~/src/deb/lftp-0.11.1$
[nick]
Hi,
Jean == Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jean I agree with the basic concept but shouldn't this be placed in
Jean /etc instead of /boot. /etc defines the configuration for the
Jean host after all.
The config file, which shall reside in the kernel-image
package, is
On May 19, Brian C. White wrote
9259: j1 - Unresolved dependency report for j1
A fixed version of j1 is sitting in ~moth on master.debian.org
and has been since last week.
When I uploaded it, Incoming was not writeable, so I uploaded
a copy to my home directory and sent email to
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Brian Mays wrote:
This is why changing the default prompt for everyone is not a good
idea. You guys can't even agree on what you want the new prompt to
be. And if you want my personal preference, any prompt longer than
'$ ' is too long. If I want to know what directory
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
I think that this is the kind of thinking that is killing Debian.
1) Newbie setting doesn't mean annoying settings.
2) `real men' like you can change those settings.
3) Configuration packages is an awful idea that goes against the idea of
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that it would be a good idea to allow users to install to a UMSDOS
partition. I am sure there are a lot of people who would quite like to try
out Linux, but are frightened of the install process.
Imagine a future
Hi,
[This may well be orthogonal, or in addition to, the solutions discussed]
Maybe we could offer some example of tips and tricks? My
preffered prompt mechanism sets the xterm title to (like right now)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/var/tmp
with a short prompt of '__ ', or the above
Have a look at the bug report. I dont know why no one has marked it as
done yet. There is a file lists in the but report ending in .dpkg-tmp
evidently from a crash. Dont be buerocratic about releasing 1.3.
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Brian White wrote:
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Does anyone know what this error message indicates?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/debian/build/tmpdpkg-source -x xkobo_1.9-3.dsc
dpkg-source: extracting xkobo in xkobo-1.9
patch: .dpkg-orig is not a regular file--can't patch
dpkg-source: failure: patch gave error exit status 2
I can extract the
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
I think that this is the kind of thinking that is killing Debian.
1) Newbie setting doesn't mean annoying settings.
2) `real men' like you can change those settings.
3) Configuration
EZ == Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
EZ: The problem with that approach is that many of those newbie
EZ: settings are just a matter of taste. We don't want to set a
EZ: thousand of those parameters in hundreths of different config
EZ: files that will have to be edited
Include the multi-thread support patch for the Objective-C runtime lib (???)
According to Scott Christley [EMAIL PROTECTED] (de-facto
maintainer of the gcc Objective-C runtime), the Objective-C runtime should
be kept in sync with the gstep-base included in the release.
bo includes
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Mark W. Eichin wrote:
Is there a web page or other document that explains what our strategy
for libc6 is? I'm not talking about random comments on the list, I
mean something nailed down that I can refer to...
In particular, I've got a few issues to work out.
1)
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Scott Ellis, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
As the official version of perl 5.004 is finally out (I must admit I
haven't installed the debian package yet, but I run webservers with lots
of perl CGI and can't afford to break them), I have a few
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Tom Lees wrote:
3) can I drop the a.out-only dlltools package now? :-)
No. It is needed to build a.out versions of, e.g. svgalib. Some older
binary-only programs only come in a.out format (Doom, for example) :(.
Yes, it can be dropped _(;
1/ Doom comes without
this since he asked for it a while back. The upgrade to libc6 for perl
can't happen until there is a libgdbm compatible with it though since I
refuse to break everyone's dbm interfaces. I'll also be able to release
Great - as soon as I get some consensus on package naming, I'll try to
put
No. xlib6 should be for libc6 (more long-term solution). Then create an
xlib6-libc5. How we handle the dependencies for this, I don't know. Fix
But then anyone upgrading xlib6 (the 6 for x11r6, not libc6!) will
end up with a libc6 version; Is that what we want to happen?
alt-xlib6-dev that
1/ Doom comes without any source, so dlltools won't be of any use.
Irrelevant -- *aout-svgalib* is what needs dlltools, not doom itself.
Debian still support a.out executables _execution_ but not a.out
_development_ anymore...
I guess I could believe that as long as the a.out development
Gregor Hoffleit [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The remaining question the thread model to be enabled in the patched objc
runtime. The patched runtime can be compiled for e.g. PCthreads,
LinuxThreads or no threads at all. Who is to decide this ?
As I understand it, Debian is trying to
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