Re: [arch-general] Bind - working directory not writeable issue - a possible fix?

2013-02-09 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Hello Mike, Le samedi 9 à 12:01, Mike Cloaked a écrit : > So doing: > > [root@lapmike3 ~]# chmod 770 /var/named > > But the question is whether or not this is a good thing to do? Does > anyone know if there are any bad consequences to resolving this > problem by changing the permissions of /var/na

Re: [arch-general] How do I uncomment a locale?

2011-12-15 Thread Frédéric Perrin
On 14.12.2011 01:02, Sébastien Leblanc wrote: In your case it would be the Australian English locale (en_AU, I think). What is the difference between en_GB, en_US and en_AU ? Is the motd updated to tell you "Good morning, Sir", "Hi guy" or "Good day, mate"? -- Fred

Re: [arch-general] Localization issues (Attention Developers)

2011-11-26 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le vendredi 25 à 13:51, atilla ontas a écrit : > You see, how variables reversed? So if you, developers, mind to and if > it is possible use only one %s in a string it will be much > appreciated. The strings that you find in a .po file are (almost always) fed to printf(3). In such a string, the f

Re: [arch-general] Ye Olde Package Manager

2011-01-16 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le dimanche 16 à 13:52, Ng Oon-Ee a écrit : > On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 12:22 +0100, Frédéric Perrin wrote: >> Why would a database be more subject to corruption than a tar file, and >> harder to recover? > > An answer from an average user: I believe in tar files corruption wo

Re: [arch-general] umask gnome

2011-01-16 Thread Frédéric Perrin
ssible to set a system-wide umask settings? > > Put it in ~/.bashrc, before the following line: > > [ -z "$PS1" ] && return GNOME is launched from a user shell, and one that wouldn't read /etc/profile ? Sounds strange... Béla: have you looked into pam_umask? -- Frédéric Perrin -- http://tar-jx.bz

Re: [arch-general] Ye Olde Package Manager

2011-01-16 Thread Frédéric Perrin
e average user): Why would a database be more subject to corruption than a tar file, and harder to recover? -- Frédéric Perrin -- http://tar-jx.bz

Re: [arch-general] xdg autostart files.

2011-01-14 Thread Frédéric Perrin
ngy for stopping such applications to start with the user's session. It seems to mainly copy the .desktop file to ~/.config/autostart and add a line with X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false. Surely KDE has a similar feature (both a dialog box for choosing which applications to start, and a cust

Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

2010-12-13 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le mercredi 8 à 0:55, Brendan Long a écrit : > Have you seen the PulseAudio volume control applet (for Gnome)? My > favorite two parts are being able to control sound for each > application separately (Pidgin doesn't need to be as loud as Banshee), > and being able to switch output while things are

Re: [arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

2010-10-21 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le mercredi 20 à 22:47, Rthoreau a écrit : > What would be ideal is to get Hunspell working if you follow the > emacswiki I still do not have a valid Hunspell working on two operating > systems. One being Arch, the other OpenIndiana so I had to resort back > to aspell for both. Is the problem tha

[arch-general] audacious segfaults; can debug because of dependencies

2010-06-09 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Hello list, I tried audacious for a change this morning, but it segfaulted on visualisation change[1]. From the look of the backtrace[2], and seeing that glib was updated a couple of days ago, a simple rebuild of the package should be sufficient. I would normally have submitted that to the bug tr

Re: [arch-general] A question about Arch Sixty Four

2010-05-24 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le lundi 24 à 0:29, C Anthony Risinger a écrit : > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Keith Hinton wrote: >> I had a question about the sixty four bit port of Arch in general >> so figured this would be an okay place besides IRC to obtain any >> help I needed. I wanted to find out ruffly how much

[arch-general] audacious segfaults; can debug because of dependencies

2010-05-08 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Hello list, I tried audacious for a change this morning, but it segfaulted on visualisation change[1]. From the look of the backtrace[2], and seeing that glib was updated a couple of days ago, a simple rebuild of the package should be sufficient. I would normally have submitted that to the bug tr

Re: [arch-general] A universal Operating System API - why don't we have it?

2009-12-21 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le lundi 21 à 18:57, Laurie Clark-Michalek a écrit : > And on the anal sex point... actually, I think it'd be better for the > convocation as a whole if we dropped that analogy. Is that what they call a

Re: [arch-general] Good press at distrowatch.com

2009-12-19 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le samedi 19 à 22:59, Dieter Plaetinck a écrit : >> You've never installed Debian/Ubuntu with a preseed.cfg file that >> answer all the questions for you (or, at your option, as many or as >> few questions as you wish)? You've never used FAI (Fully Automated >> Installed) either? > > I have used FA

Re: [arch-general] A universal Operating System API - why don't we have it?

2009-12-19 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le vendredi 18 à 10:24, RedShift a écrit : > Things like enumerating all hardware > devices, configuring a network interface, drawing a window, ejecting > the CD-ROM drive, getting notified about new hardware plugged in, > etc... It's different on every operating system.

Re: [arch-general] Good press at distrowatch.com

2009-12-19 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le jeudi 17 à 20:35, Dieter Plaetinck a écrit : > On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:33:22 -0500 > Denis Kobozev wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Dieter Plaetinck >> wrote: >>> did that guy actually say that point and click visual installers >>> are a time *saver* ?? is he out of his mind? >> >>

Re: [arch-general] which package provides ifup & ifdown command ?

2009-08-25 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le mardi 25 à 10:05, Jeff Horelick a écrit : > As Sven-Hendrik said, you need to use ifconfig $interface up and ifconfig > $interface down. If you really need ifup and ifdown, put this in your > .bashrc: > > alias 'ifup eth0'='ifconfig eth0 up' > alias 'ifdown eth0'='ifconfig eth0 down" You *do* r

Re: [arch-general] Script for finding and "moving" older duplicate packages from /var/cache/pacman/pkg

2009-08-25 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le mardi 25 à 17:03, Patrick Brisbin a écrit : > tar -xf on a 3 GB cache -> 1m 42s > > bsdtar -qxf on the same cache -> 0m 9s If you ran both of them on the same set of files, BSD tar was certainly quicker because it took advantage of the files being cached thanks to the first run of GNU tar. Now,

Re: [arch-general] Emacs 23 window resize on startup

2009-07-30 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le jeudi 30 à 15:15, Edgar Kalkowski a écrit : > I just updated to Emacs 23 which has new fancy font code with > antialiasing etc. However the default font of 12pt is way too big for > my taste. So I changed it to 10pt and saved the configuration to my > ~/.emacs file. > > Everything works fine --

Re: [arch-general] Openbox - great lightweight desktop, similar to icewm, but better in several regards

2009-06-12 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le Mercredi 10 à 9:46, David C. Rankin a écrit : > Listmates, > > After reading the newsletter article about old boxes with > minimal hardware collecting dust in a closet, I thought about the > openbox desktop I had just given a run-through and thought I would > pass it along. You have severa

Re: [arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.

2009-05-28 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le Vendredi 29 à 1:47, Daenyth Blank a écrit : > I don't really see how this is needed. If a user updates package X > which he knows is running a daemon, it's not hard to know whether or > not it should be restarted. We should always assume the user is > competant When PAM is updated, sshd may nee

Re: [arch-general] Fix or not fix? install scriptlets with user handling.

2009-05-28 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Hello, Le Vendredi 29 à 0:03, Daenyth Blank a écrit : > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 17:33, Attila wrote: >> But -1 for don't restarting because it is the job of a package >> management to guarantee that an upgrade is safe and if a daemon needs >> to restart than doing this is better as doing nothing.

Re: [arch-general] How do we handle sudo or kdesu in Archlinux?

2009-05-14 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le Jeudi 14 à 23:03, Attila a écrit : > I prefer to use gpasswd because for me the big advantage is that you > don't have to log out than. But i don't know too what speak against > editing /etc/group by hand if you can live with it that you have to > log out. You don't have to log out / log back i

Re: [arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention

2009-05-06 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le Mercredi 6 à 13:07, Jan de Groot a écrit : > On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 07:54 -0300, André Ramaciotti wrote: >> Just a question about this new vi package. Am I the only one having >> problems when openning UTF-8 files? I can't even type words with >> diacritics or vi will abort. For example, try to c

Re: [arch-general] Starting gpg-agent on X login (gdm)

2009-04-27 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le Lundi 27 à 5:12, Shridhar Daithankar a écrit : > Hmm.. I use kde and there is nothing for ssh-agent in /etc. I think it > should go in shell startup so that even non-gui session have ssh-agent > too. I would agree with that. Having it enabled for everyone, I'm not sure. You should consider addi

Re: [arch-general] Understanding permissions

2009-04-16 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le Jeudi 16 à 17:45, kludge a écrit : > Dieter Plaetinck wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:36:36 +0200 >> Johannes Held wrote: >>> Maurí­cio : stat("/home/mauricio/public_html", 0x7fffceb2dcb0) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) >>> Is your ~ r-x for others? >> >> actually only x is needed

Re: [arch-general] xscreensaver broken?

2009-01-06 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le Mardi 6 à 19:46, Guus Snijders a écrit : > Well, removing glib didn't make a difference, so i tried recompiling > it (with yaourt -Sb xscreensaver). > > But alas, compiling ended with: > > galaxy.c: In function 'draw_galaxy': > galaxy.c:462: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault > Please s

Re: [arch-general] Dealing with Info documentation

2008-06-13 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Hello, Oops, I accidently hit the send button... Sorry for the previous almost empty message. Alessio Bolognino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recall a recent thread in arch-dev-public about a new policy about > info docs; I think devs decided to include info docs in the new > packages, but I'm

Re: [arch-general] Dealing with Info documentation

2008-06-13 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Hello, Alessio Bolognino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recall a recent thread in arch-dev-public about a new policy about > info docs; I think devs decided to include info docs in the new > packages, but I'm not 100% sure. After some manual searching, I found the following thread : [arch-dev-p

[arch-general] Dealing with Info documentation

2008-06-13 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Hello Archlinux, I like reading documentation in the Info format (especially when it is the prefered / only form of documentation). However, Archlinux decides to strip by default the Info documentation from its packages. I am not going to contest that decision, but I'd like to install Info docs.