Re: Using the SSL snakeoil certificate

2006-07-02 Thread Brian May
ministrator intervention, but a naming convention for the files that supports virtual hosts would be even better IMHO, e.g.: /etc/.../$hostname/... Where hostname is the name of the host identified by the certificate. That way adding/removing other certificates is easy. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PR

Re: initrd, lvm, and devfs

2005-01-17 Thread Brian May
ot;out-of-the-box" with 2.6.11 and LVM unless you compile your own kernel (one that doesn't require an initrd image), or fix this initrd image. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NPTL support in 2.4 kernel series?

2005-01-23 Thread Brian May
he running kernel version is the right one doesn't mean the system administrator isn't going to diagnose some serious problem with the new version that requires a downgrade (hopefully this isn't too frequent). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Reboot in postinst

2005-01-23 Thread Brian May
better to test rebooting first at low-demand times. Or if you plan on being off-site for an extended period of time. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Setting up a PPP server

1995-11-16 Thread Brian Hutchinson
Has anyone setup a PPP server under Debian? I tried a few times with R5 without much luck. I am about to try again with R6 and would like to know who to go to with questions without much clutter on this list. Thanks for any info or advice, Brian

Re: The PCMCIA and kernel packages

1996-06-16 Thread Brian Mays
es in the /usr/src/linux directory. This target provides a way to compile the kernel modules without using the kernel-source package. -- Brian Mays

Can someone release the latest i386 kernel packages?

1996-08-21 Thread Brian Mays
-i386/base are still version 2.0.6. Can someone please transfer these packages to the unstable distribution tree? Thanks. -- Brian

netcdf-perl_1.1-1 uploaded

1996-08-29 Thread Brian Mays
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:07:03 -0400 Source: netcdf-perl Binary: netcdf-perl Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: netcdf-perl - A perl extensi

maplay_1.2-1 uploaded

1996-08-29 Thread Brian Mays
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 22:51:53 -0400 Source: maplay Binary: maplay Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.2-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: maplay - An MPEG Audio Player. C

Re: Checking on possible bug in mt...

1996-09-03 Thread Brian Mays
ode for a `Function not implemented' error. If there is a problem, it is probably with the Linux SCSI tape driver. -- Brian

Bug#4482: dpkg-genchanges `-u' option not implemented

1996-09-12 Thread Brian Mays
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.4.0 The `-u' option in the dpkg-genchanges script has not yet been implemented. >From the man page: -uuploadfilesdir Look for the files to be uploaded in uploadfilesdir rather than .. (dpkg-genchanges needs to find

Bug#4574: gs -g flag does not work

1996-09-24 Thread Brian Mays
Package: gs Version: 4.01-4 The `-g' flag, which is described below, does not produce the intended effect. >From the man page: > -gnumber1xnumber2 > Equivalent to -dDEVICEWIDTH=number1 and -dDEVICE- > HEIGHT=number2. This is for the benefit of devices >

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-15 Thread Brian Mays
en rxvt would set TERM=rxvt-color when running on a display with Xdepth > 2 and TERM=rxvt otherwise. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Brian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-20 Thread Brian Mays
>>>>> "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 <[EMA

Re: rm -r * and the default prompt

1997-05-20 Thread Brian Mays
deconfigure it. If she must spend time and effort to rid her system of somebody else's nifty configuration, then IMO we're doing it wrong. Brian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-05-20 Thread Brian White
tdown ...) > > And v 1.06 is history anyways get 1.3 released. The bug is still open. This is a potentially serious problem. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ---

Re: config packages [Was: rm -r * and the default prompt]

1997-05-21 Thread Brian Mays
skel/.profile (or some such file), so that it is present on all new accounts. (Notice that I am talking about modifying the files in the /etc/skel directory when I said above that this should not be done.) This trick prevents a new user from inadvertently erasing important files until which point he

Re: config packages [Was: rm -r * and the default prompt]

1997-05-22 Thread Brian Mays
. This truly would be the best way to make Debian newbie-friendly. Now all we need is someone to write this thing (or to find and improve this dot file generator to which you refer, if it exists). Brian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMA

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-22 Thread Brian Mays
no xterm-color entry -- the color John> xterm has been in X for years) Don't tell me ... tell the xbase maintainer. Debian's xterm does not set TERM=xterm-color. [ stuff omitted ] >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Re: Old bug reports

1997-05-24 Thread Brian White
certain age (currently about 12 months) are send out monthly to the maintainers. Once Bo gets released and out of the way, I'm going to lower this to about 6 months. Brian

Re: Upgrading from 1.1 to frozen

1997-05-26 Thread Brian White
hing else? (dftp does this) > I think we should have it in big blinking font ;-) Netscape*blinkingEnabled: False Brian

Re: Add your location to the developer db so it can be added to the map

1999-09-22 Thread Brian Servis
lace which is really quite cool, http://www.astro.com/atlas/. It gave the following, Cologne, GER: 50n56, 6e59, Germany -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -

Re: Redesign of diskless NFS-root package & ITP diskless-image

1999-09-23 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 05:14:30PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:46:36AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > [description removed] > > I have made most of the changed required for my redesign of diskless. > Amazingly, it looks like no changed are required for dpk

Re: Disk Performance

1999-09-24 Thread Brian May
rformance IMPROVES... Just guessing: disk cache??? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Running daemons without asking for permission on install

1999-09-26 Thread Brian May
t you should get the general idea. Perhaps you may only want to include lines with *:* so that active connections are not counted. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

1999-09-27 Thread Brian May
, eg /usr/bin/z was overwritten by packge Y, which does something completely different? Also, --force-conflicts can hide other serious problems. eg if your package diverts a file, but with the wrong package name, when dpkg unpacks it, it will overwrite the original file. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Redesign of diskless NFS-root package & apt error

1999-09-27 Thread Brian May
ut why certain files, eg libc6 2.1 cannot be found on my local Debian mirror... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: mtools

1999-09-28 Thread Brian Servis
X is going to require >> them anyway, not just mtools. > > Better to fork off another package, which would include X support, and > leave the original package X-free. > What about the [x]emacs packages. I would hate to see forks of all those t

neighbour table overflow

1999-10-01 Thread Brian May
tatic. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Redesign of diskless NFS-root package & apt error

1999-10-01 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 05:16:28PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > apt, for starters is broken: Whats worse: 1. Complaining about a problem and not having it fixed. 2. Complaining about a problem, and subsequently finding it already has been fixed. Well, in my case, the problems I encounte

Re: Redesign of diskless NFS-root package & ITP diskless-image

1999-10-01 Thread Brian May
on disabled. This probably includes devices that manage /dev/pts. Could somebody tell my what devices (and other files) *must* have group and other write permission enabled? So far I have identified /dev/null /dev/zero and /tmp. Any reason why these are installed like this? Whats the best way to fix all the permissions (in one operation prefered)? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Suggestion: binfmt_misc handling

1999-10-03 Thread Brian May
ystem) for java... This file could potentially be used for more applications then just the kernel - any program that wants to map the file to a MIME type. (Apache already does this - is this any better? I suspect Apache's is hardcoded, but not sure). I think that this could be done with similar structure as originally proposed. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Suggestion: binfmt_misc handling

1999-10-04 Thread Brian May
pe text/html /path/to/file.html That would automatically parse /etc/mailcap and do the `right' thing, for the file /path/to/file.html, given it is text/html. Entries in /etc/binfmt_misc would contain statements like the above instead of the end program. This could be implemented with you original proposal with no changes (except the extra program), but having it integrated with the mime setup would be nice ;-). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: linking binfmt_misc with mime-types

1999-10-05 Thread Brian May
; >This is not user independant is it? The system can not be set so that one user >has support for running Java/JPEGs from the command line, and another does >not? These are questions I can't answer. I seriously doubt the kernel will be able to reliably distinguish all file types though - especially ones like HTML. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: linking binfmt_misc with mime-types

1999-10-05 Thread Brian May
xtension, but could just look at the value given by the filesystem. Changing the mime-type for one file would automatically effect all programs. [ runs for cover... ] -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: /usr/etc and /usr/local/etc?

1999-10-06 Thread Brian May
could be shared across a pool. > >Alternatively /etc/share/, /etc/arch and /etc/local could be >used. Just as one likes. I prefer /usr/etc, as this means a seperate mount point is not required, as /usr is already shared. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: linking binfmt_misc with mime-types

1999-10-06 Thread Brian May
- magicfilter (do I need to say more?) - can't remember what xv does. - lots more - I am not wide awake at the moment ;-) Currently, the file extension is used for a lot of things, but I think the filename should be for user identification of the file, and not for system identification. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: linking binfmt_misc with mime-types

1999-10-06 Thread Brian May
mt_misc proposal, where executing a file would automatically open the file with the correct program. However, this is already done with WWW, and I don't see any problems there (except misconfigured MIME types on some servers - something that would benifit from my proposal, at least for HTTP). I don't know how reliable file is either, but I strongly suspect that there will be files which will confuse it. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: linking binfmt_misc with mime-types

1999-10-06 Thread Brian May
text/html is a valid mime type, eg by inspecting /etc/mime.types As for Microsoft, do programs like Outlook even look at the mimetype? I remember sending some people a "plain/text" mime type attachment, and outlook got confused because it didn't recognise the file extension, and forced the user to save the file to disk... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: /usr/etc and /usr/local/etc?

1999-10-06 Thread Brian May
or programs that live in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin, but > would require program support to check for configs in multiple locations. > However, I suggest that programs living in /bin and /sbin MUST have > their configs in /etc in case /usr is not available. What files would you consider fall

Re: Does dpkg-divert work on conf files?

2000-03-09 Thread Brian May
ages don't do this. (or if you meant configuration files in general, that is a different thing altogether, dpkg-divert wont work though unless it is a normal file or a conffile). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: magnetic synchronous motor water pumps

2000-03-09 Thread Brian May
t;From:" address. If anybody really wants to know where this message is getting sent from, it should be easy to check. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (who currently wants all Debian mail to be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to aid sorting)

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger! (PCMCIA anyone?)

2000-03-13 Thread Brian Mays
ner -- just ask anyone who has worked with me on rxvt -- and could have warned him of this problem). By the way, this still needs to be fixed. Is anyone willing to rebuild the PCMCIA packages for slink to fix this problem? Please. I'll end with my main question: what is to be done about PCMCIA support for this new proposed kernel package? Brian

important bug - war (openldapd #57469)

2000-03-14 Thread Brian May
;break" with "last". Not tested. sidenote: [510] [lyell:bmay] ~ >perl -e 'use strict; while (1) { print "hi\n"; break; }' Bareword "break" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at -e line 1. Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. Personally, I use "use strict;" in all programs I write. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

WANPIPE X.25

2000-03-14 Thread Brian White
Is there anybody here using the Sangoma WANPIPE cards to do X.25? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- When you love someone, you're always ins

Re: important bug - war (openldapd #57469)

2000-03-14 Thread Brian May
another copy. Or, perhaps I should have put openldapd somewhere on the subject line? I guess my subject line could have been better. Ben> Sorry that you had to resort to this, it will be fixed soon Ben> enough. Thanks. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-14 Thread Brian Almeida
; generations in internet time), we have fastr become a distribution > that does not meet the needs of a vast number of people. I believe slink was released Mar 9, so we are just over a year, not 18 months (so we are only 2 generations behind ;) -- Brian Almeida Debian Developer

Re: Becoming a developer

2000-03-14 Thread Brian Kimball
lic Licence. Read this licence carefully before using, > distributing or modifying this program. Included with this > distribution is the QPL licence, a copy is also available at > www.troll.no -- Brian Kimball

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-16 Thread Brian Kimball
e. You seem like a smart guy, so I can only assume you were being dishonest, and not just incompetent. Combine that with your selfishness, your arrogance, and your excessive, unnecessary, and juvenile obscenity, and here's what you get: *plonk* -- Brian Kimball

Re: ITP: dvipdfm - A DVI to PDF translator

2000-03-16 Thread Brian Mays
.. fonts. I don't know of any, but I % haven't even tested this with BaKoMa fonts. %G - Brian

Re: ITP: dvipdfm - A DVI to PDF translator

2000-03-17 Thread Brian Mays
is incorrect. - Brian

Re: sendmail M4 to run DNS based spam filters per RCPT

2000-03-17 Thread brian moore
move off my existing Solaris setup and will allow more sites to give control to their users, where it should be. (Yeah, yeah, but Sparc Linux was barely useful in '96 and I can't afford the downtime to format for Debian now but I've also got 'buy new machines' on my w

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Brian Kimball
ack and reproduce it. Any clean install would have the problem though, I guess. (BTW, at what point should we trim To: and Cc:? If I had sent this to just the bug database and debian-devel would that have been enough to have it propogate to the right people?) -- Brian Kimball

Re: I don't get copies of bug reports to my packages

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
[EMAIL PROTECTED] process (and reply) to my bug reports two times, the first time works, the next time complains saying the task was already done. This is when I mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], and possibly the bug submitter (no one else). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
the same deb file with dpkg... (sorry, my news feed is still catching up after being down for some time, so this may have already been addressed). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
ieve the original poster used dpkg -i to install the same copy that apt had downloaded - ie only one copy ever downloaded. Not sure about libtool, but have a look at bugs 60339 and 60399 for a similar problem with man-db. This was posted as another thread on debian-devel. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
urned error exit status 2 >> > Building manual page index in background. > Errors were >> encountered while processing: > >> /var/cache/apt/archives/man-db_2.3.14_i386.deb > E: Sub-process >> /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Ben> This looks like a s

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
oo soon, it might have been 2.2.13. The 2.2.14 system worked. I don't have access to the broken system again until next Monday. I will try it on another 2.2.14 system ASAP. I think it is worth noting though that dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile worked, although I didn't check if the output was valid. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
Ben> track it down. It is easy for me to reproduce - simply downgrade to man-db .13, and use apt-get upgrade to upgrade to version .14 again -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-18 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> I will try it on another 2.2.14 system ASAP. It worked, as such, it might be a bug specific to Linux 2.2.13. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-19 Thread Brian May
ny false conclusions. False conclusion #1: now, it seems to crash regardless of if mandb is running or not. ARGGHH!! However, I have left in that in the message, in case it gives anybody else some ideas. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-20 Thread Brian May
, I was confused. In this case the error is generating by apt-get, in my case the error was generated by dpkg. I will take Jason's word for it that a deb file with bytes missing can still be valid... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-21 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andreas> On 20 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: >> I have to agree with Jason here, I was confused. In this case >> the error is generating by apt-get, in my case the error was &g

Re: [transcript] source package formats

2000-03-21 Thread Brian May
packages easier, if diff files can live in a standard spot within the source structure. However, I may have lost the plot somewhere here ;-) -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-21 Thread Brian May
realizing it. IMHO, the sooner this dead escape standard is dropped in favour of the better standard (IIRC: set the high bit on control characters), the better. However, I cannot see a lot of progress from here... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [transcript] source package formats

2000-03-21 Thread Brian May
the standard build process? Adam> And the diffs do live in a standard spot, in Adam> ../*.diffs.tar.gz. I meant in uncompressed form. I have not gone into depth into any of the above issues, but will leave it at that until I understand the proposal a bit better. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-22 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Radovan" == Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Radovan> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:33:13PM +1100, Brian May Radovan> wrote: >> For instance I push the up arrow numerous times to get my >> editor to go to the top of

Re: 0 days till bug horizon

2000-03-28 Thread Brian May
still couldn't use bbdb from Gnus, so I am hoping this doesn't indicate another problem. However, nobody has even tried to contact me... (I haven't checked the BTS though, so somebody may have sent a message there, and failed to send me a CC). I can provide more details, if you tell me what I should check. I don't think it is worth dropping the package though. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: WNPP

2000-03-28 Thread Brian Almeida
NSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brian Almeida Debian Developer | http://www.debian.org Linux Systems Engineer @ Winstar | http://www.winstar.com

Re: WNPP

2000-03-28 Thread Brian Almeida
...or maybe not. It's got cryptographic hashing algos (tiger, sha1, etc), so I probably can't package it due to wonderful US laws. Drat. On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Brian Almeida wrote: > I'll do this, since it relates to my work. :-) > > On Mon, Mar 27,

Re: 0 days till bug horizon

2000-03-29 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:03:33AM +1000, Brian May Richard> wrote: >> I set the severity to important, as I feel that bbdb support is >> important for

Re: important vs release critical bugs

2000-03-29 Thread Brian May
ain, perhaps this bug *should* be important, oh sorry, it is... (not sure if this package has been affected by the last bug horizon or not, if this was discussed, then sorry, I missed it). Disclaimer: some of these bugs may have been fixed, I know some haven't. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: What's changed in su/bash? "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"

2000-03-30 Thread Brian Greenfield
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:12:12 +0900, Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:10:20 +0100, de profundis "Oliver Elphick" > cum veritas scribat >and see how many processes root is running ... 237! Samba running as a daemon rather than from inetd seems to have cured it.

Re: X with wdm capable of selecting host at login

2000-08-14 Thread Brian May
configuration file." fi else echo "unable to check." fi else echo "file not found." fi if [ "$problem" ]; then echo "Not starting X display manager." echo "Pausing for five minutes." sleep 300 exit 1 else echo "done." fi fi echo "Starting X server: X" $DAEMON $PARAMS exit 0 -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: X with wdm capable of selecting host at login

2000-08-14 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: esoR> # /etc/init.d/wdm stop # X -indirect localhost esoR> and I get an X background with a mouse cursor but no wdm esoR> panel. I, once again, assume that this is the correct esoR>

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-15 Thread Brian May
password, which must be kept as secure as possible. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-15 Thread Brian May
ot sure how well temp files are managed. I was told though, for the purpose of Heimdal-kdc, to put it in the postinst directory. This means it doesn't have to get stored in the database. ie the postinst script does a "db_get" followed by a "db_set". -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-15 Thread Brian May
never Joey> designed to do. I think something needs to be done to address this issue. Yes, you can force dpkg to always use the old file, but then this will break applications which require the new file to be installed. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#69271: general: why not a praise tracking system?

2000-08-16 Thread Brian May
ng number of applications (WNPP,praise tracking,etc) (eg fields specific to each application, instead of using the title for this purpose)? Or an alternative I haven't specified. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

BTS not showing my bugs

2000-08-30 Thread Brian May
Ok, Can somebody explain the following? >From http://www.debian.org/Bugs/>, click on "Index of maintainers of packages with bug reports.", and then "Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" takes you to: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/ma/lBrian_May,bam,debian.org,.html>

Re: trouble with portmap on diskless machines

2000-08-31 Thread Brian May
ubmitted a patch about this years ago, but for some reason it was later removed. It is easy to fix in the source code (IIRC: modify the if condition to test if F_GETLK returns the PID of the current process), but am not sure if this is the current fix or not. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Where's the prc-tools package?

2000-08-31 Thread Brian Almeida
needs to re-uploaded a recompiled version for woody. -- Brian M. Almeida Linux Systems Engineer | http://www.winstar.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Developer | http://www.debian.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bosnia Marxist smuggle Soviet munitions explosion Watergate Noriega JFK dom

Re: X and runlevels

2000-09-04 Thread Brian Mays
iuser state). It does not specify anything about runlevels for Linux or any other OS. - Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2

2000-09-05 Thread Brian May
e the best choice of protocol depends on the file: Packages - rsync. *.deb- http, as a http caching server can be used. which is oversimplified to some degree because it doesn't allow caching the Packages file (eg if updating many computers on the one network). At least you only need to do

Re: My recent bug's and continuing effort to debconf-ize Debian

2000-09-05 Thread Brian May
oss of the private key will typically affect the security of more then just the local computer, too. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ITP: SkipStone

2000-09-05 Thread Brian Almeida
Skipstone is a GTK+ webbrowser that uses mozilla's embed features. It is similar to galeon only it is pure GTK+, no GNOME. The author asked me to make packages of it, and I have uploaded it into Debian. It is placed under the GPL. See http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ for more info. -- Br

Re: ITP: SkipStone

2000-09-05 Thread Brian Almeida
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:42:56AM -0400, Peter Teichman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:03:07AM -0400, Brian Almeida wrote: > > Skipstone is a GTK+ webbrowser that uses mozilla's embed features. It is > > similar to galeon only it is pure GTK+, no GNOME. The author

Re: ITP: SkipStone

2000-09-05 Thread Brian Almeida
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:48:17PM +0200, Samuel Hocevar wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000, Brian Almeida wrote: > > Skipstone is a GTK+ webbrowser that uses mozilla's embed features. It is > > similar to galeon only it is pure GTK+, no GNOME. The author asked me to > >

Re: X and runlevels

2000-09-05 Thread Brian Mays
> On 04 Sep 2000, Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not quite. The FHS briefly mentions *System V's* runlevel 2 and > > 3 (along with Berkley's multiuser state). It does not specify > > anything about runlevels for Linux or any other OS. Gerfr

Re: alternatives for MUA and NUA?

2000-09-06 Thread Brian May
age appears in *2 frames*: the current gnus frame *and* a new frame. There is no need to use two frames, and it only adds to the clutter of windows I already have on my desktop. If only it would leave the current frame alone, and it would be OK. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alternatives for MUA and NUA?

2000-09-06 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hamish> On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:20:12AM +1100, Brian May wrote: >> How about defining a standard interface and using wrapper >> scripts to convert the parameters? Hamis

Re: Mozilla update in Potato Proposed updates?

2000-09-06 Thread Brian May
le that I believe will be solved by package pools... ...if/when it gets implemented that is. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: removal of libqt1g from woody

2000-09-07 Thread Brian Almeida
nse and all, I think we should discourage it's > use just as Troll is. 'explorer' also depends on it (using the old qt1g package name): [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]: grep-dctrl -F Depends qt1g /var/lib/dpkg/available|grep ^Package Package: explorer Package

Re: RFC: removal of libqt1g from woody

2000-09-08 Thread Brian Almeida
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 09:57:41AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > I don't think explorer is sufficient justification to keep qt1 in woody. I wasn't implying it was. I was just saying it needs to be fixed, or removed. -- Brian M. Almeida Linux Systems Engineer | http://www.winstar

Re: alternatives for MUA and NUA?

2000-09-09 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hamish> On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:16:38PM +1100, Brian May wrote: >> Programs like reportbug, netscape, err I mean Mozilla, etc, >> wouldn't have to be manually configured

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-09 Thread Brian May
am just curious... PS. I am using apt-move 4.1.9. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

2000-12-25 Thread Brian May
e relevant software. As for the issue that www-data shouldn't own any data files (now that is a contradiction in names), that is less clear cut. People want web pages to be a) private, so access can be controlled via apache. b) editable by anyone in the www-data group can make changes. c) read-

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-25 Thread Brian May
sues remain unsolved). 3. Other minor issues, eg prevent a package from getting purged but accidently leaving files behind for whatever reason, etc. Actually, but doing 2 you will automatically solve one of the biggest issues in solving 1. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

2000-12-25 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hamish> On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:13:13AM +1100, Brian May wrote: >> However, the idea of one UID per daemon is (IMHO) a really >> horrible solution, too, as you end up

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

2000-12-25 Thread Brian May
>>>>> "exa" == exa writes: exa> Brian May wrote: >> - harder to administrate /etc/passwd as more users exist. exa> I like using groups to give different sets of rights and I'm exa> annoyed by Debian giving every user his own group.

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