Re: xdm: init script's execution can be terminated prematurely if invoke-rc.d run from child process of xdm

2003-12-03 Thread Dan Jacobson
I recall prepending a nohup: [EMAIL PROTECTED] nohup invoke-rc.d xdm stop solved the problem. So maybe a nohup or trap inside /etc/init.d/xdm would be what you want. The only problem left then would be cleaning up the nohup.out created. This could also be done for other /etc/init.d/?dm's.

Re: xdm: init script's execution can be terminated prematurely if invoke-rc.d run from child process of xdm

2003-12-05 Thread Dan Jacobson
Maybe remove the pid file before killing, not after? If it resists our best attempts at killing. including -9, that would be a different bug, and leaving a pid file would be useless anyway? Just a guess.

Bug#159385: general: install a package but don't have it's magic funcionality on by default

2002-09-02 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: general Version: N/A; reported 2002-09-03 Severity: minor First examine a bug report I sent regarding a typical package, "bl": My idea of inviting bl onto my computer was that it would be there when i need it, but not on by default. as there is no easy way of configuring it not to start

Bug#170472: info: top Info pages of different packages wildly differ

2002-11-23 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: info Version: 4.1-2 Severity: normal Gentlemen, the top Info pages of different packages wildly differ: e.g. $ info m4 has a nice header "GNU m4" but $ info gawk has a lower level header 'General introduction', while $ info yorick has a menu without a header, while $ info emacs says "the

Re: can touch(1) readonly files

2003-05-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
But how can I protect _myself_ from _myself_? I seem to recall in past UNIXes things weren't this "bad". $ id uid=1000(jidanni) gid=1000(jidanni) ... $ chmod -w -R ee $ find ee|xargs touch -d 'next year' $ find ee|xargs ls -ld dr-xr-xr-x3 jidanni jidanni 1024 2004-05-13 16:43 ee -r--r--r-

Re: can touch(1) readonly files

2003-05-14 Thread Dan Jacobson
I see, if I wanted chmod 444 to stop me from touch(1)ing my files, then I would have to give up $ chmod 0 x; ls -l x -- 1 jidanni jidanni 0 2003-05-14 07:38 x listing my files. Ok, over and out.

upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-01 Thread Dan Christensen
t might be necessary to download the package and have a script look through the changelog. Could apt-listchanges be hacked to do this? Or could apt's new pinning mechanism help? Is urgency information stored anywhere besides the changelog? How do the testing scripts do this? Thanks for any suggestions, Dan

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-02 Thread Dan Christensen
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 02:12:24PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > > > Is there a way to upgrade all currently installed packages which have > > had an urgency=high version uploaded to the archive since I last > > upgrad

Re: upgrading only urgency=high packages

2001-05-02 Thread Dan Christensen
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:38:23PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > > > These ideas sound great to me. In case they don't get implemented, or until > > they do, would it be hard to cook up a script that does what I

Debian.

2014-07-07 Thread Dan Rulos
How are you developing debian? I need to develop a new linux distro based on debian squeeze, how can i ? Thanks. I'm 14 years old spanish and my english is not perfect. -- Saludos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-02 Thread Dan Shearer
id3 squidguard subversion syrep tcpstat torrus trustedqsl vacation webalizer webdruid wvstreams xastir xemacs21 zeroc-ice HtH, -- Dan Shearer d...@shearer.org [1] KVP: Key value pair store is an unordered list of paired items, with an index. http:

Install issue

1998-06-06 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
to mount it by hand in the other VC and continue, though. Any ideas? dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install issue

1998-06-06 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
linux partition), right? hdc1 was FAT32, as was hda1 (which did show up). The boot-floppies was (i think) 2.0.6 - it was the current set off of ftp.debian.org as of midday yesterday. hdc2 and hdc3, which I created with cfdisk during the install, did indeed get deteceted properly and initializ

Re: Install issue

1998-06-06 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
disk. hdb is my cdrom, but there is no disk in it. I assume that's why it wasn't showing up. Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Propersel for standerd configuration system.

1998-06-12 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
realizing that alas, I could not get that hostname! It was a royal pain to find all occurances of that hostname and change them all. Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stop vi discussion

1998-06-16 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
mimics quite closely. And joe, like ae, emulates other editors - not quite perfectly, perhaps, but I'm writing this non-flame in jpico, which I find exceedingly convenient sometimes (I symlink /usr/local/bin/pico to it and can get by that way; evil habit of mine). But this thread rell

Intent to Package: mod_perl

1998-06-16 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
ge is almost ready. Source: libapache-mod-perl Section: main/web Priority: optional Maintainer: Dan Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Standards-Version: 2.4.1 Package: libapache-mod-perl Architecture: i386 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, apache (>= 1.3.0), perl Description: Integration of perl w

RFC: worth packaging apache-modperl ?

1998-06-18 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
his issue is resolved and I have received several messages which suggest people want a mod_perl solution fairly promptly. This would beat each user trying to compile it into apache themselves, certainly. Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: worth packaging apache-modperl ?

1998-06-20 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
, and work on top of that. Slightly puzzled. Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: The BTS, "Severity: Fixed", etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-23 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
hink we can do the same way more efficent. Each bug already > has a Version-number. Now we if we add a field Fixed-in-Version the BTS > can simply look for which architectures the fixed version is available. Except that sometimes bugs are architecture-related. For instance, an endian assumptio

Re: Upgrade report from "bo" to "hamm" :-(

1998-06-23 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
ractive but non-vital configurations could then happen at the very end, easing one point. It would probably allow one running of inittex and one selection of ispell dictionaries. Ideas? Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xterm-debian terminfo entry

1998-06-23 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
Or at least offer an xterm-cons or xterm-black-bg. Also, could someone PLEASE figure out the remaining options to make xterm behave graphically like a console? I can't get the combination of bold and 16 colors to work correctly. Dan On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 05:43:54PM -0500, Alexander E.

Re: Gothenburg -> Vancouver

1998-06-24 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
The problem with roadrunner is this: They explicitly disallow all servers of ANY kind. No open ports, except maybe identd. A friend of mine was running one just fine under linux, with dhcp and all, but got his account terminated for having sendmail up :) So be careful. Dan -- To

Bug#292909: ITP: gnome-translate -- natural language translator for GNOME

2005-01-30 Thread Dan Korostelev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dan Korostelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gnome-translate Version : 0.99 Upstream Author : Jean-Yves Lefort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.nongnu.org/libtranslate/gnome-translate/ * License

Re: PERL: patch for glibc 2.1

1998-10-06 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
ke sure it's still needed and get me a new patch if > it is? > As a general aside, if you want an account to test something, tervola (powerpc.debian.org) is already available, and my machine here at CMU will be providing developer accounts in a few days (soon as my nine gig drive gets here and I have room for the lot of you :)> Dan

Re: korganizer debian package (OT: licence interpretation)

1998-10-06 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
make it legal. The exception still needs to be present if it is intended. Dan

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-07 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
ne word? Another vote for penguins. Speaking of which, anyone want to call a vote? :) And yes, it is one word. Dan

Re: PERL: patch for glibc 2.1

1998-10-07 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
on powerpc. We have hopes that a new set of compiler and libc will resolve the issue - expect progress reports in the next few days :) Dan

Re: Perl policy for managing modules ?

1998-10-08 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
n usually be easily rewritten to work for any version (use perl5/5.*/, etc.). Dan

Re: libapache-mod-perl

1998-10-12 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 08:01:42PM -0500, Justin A. McCright wrote: > Is anyone going to try and get a version of this that works with newer > Apaches out before the freeze? I'm working on it. It's very broken at the moment! Dan

Electric VLSI Design System now open source!

1998-10-12 Thread Dan Kegel
Saw the following on http://slashdot.org. Sounds like very good news. - Dan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 1998/10/10 Newsgroups: alt.electronics.analog.vlsi, can.vlsi, comp.lsi, comp.lsi.cad, cu.vlsi I am pleased to announce that the "Electric VLSI Design System" is now available

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
TED] ) PowerPC has more or less given up on making 2.1. We're moving well, but I'm of the inclination we shouldn't release until we have a truly stabilized libc - or at least until we're a lot closer. Dan

Re: [] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-15 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 10:05:09PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > Nobody has moved on getting libstdc++2.8 back in slink, even without > a -dev. > > Is anyone going to do this? > > Ben See, it's not "Is anyone going to?" or "Do we agree we should?"

Re: [] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-16 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:56:56PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dan> See, it's not "Is anyone going to?" or "Do we agree we > Dan> should?" righ

Re: [] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-17 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 09:49:22PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dan> See, it's not "Is anyone going to?" or "Do we agree we > Dan> should?" righ

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
t the author of mutt-i was a US resident (I don't use > mutt at all, myself). > He isn't. ME no longer does the mutt-i patches; they are maintained in Germany. Dan

Re: mutt

1998-10-17 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
eve he is at > any risk of prosecution, we should respect his wishes. > > We should also consider moving any other software that is non-us because of > encryption hooks out of non-us. And I maintain that we can not do this. Much as I wish we could. Note that mutt-i has a separate upstream source - in Germany. Dan

Re: time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread Dan Nguyen
ieve that libdpkg should definately be written in C. If you want to use C++ for he actual dpkg, then you can make C++ wrappers around libdpkg for that. C++ has problems, its size is one of them. The other is, C++ is in a constant state of flux. -- Dan Nguyen | It is with tru

Intent to package netspades

1999-05-20 Thread Dan Nguyen
which doesn't use Linux then there is Windows base client as well. NetSpades is released under the GPL. More info about NetSpades can be found at http://www-ece.rice.edu/~brentmh/spades/ I've got the packages pretty much done. And will be uploading it in a few days. --

levee update

1999-05-26 Thread Dan Gohman
. Unfortunately, support for FlexOS, Atari, and MS-Dos, OS/2, or RMX is not still there. If you are interested in levee, please take a look! -- Dan Gohman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

QDMR on Raspberry Pi OS?

2023-10-09 Thread Dan Tallant
Like the subject says, curious about bringing the QDMR cps software for Linux to the Raspberry Pi os (specifically 64 bit running on the Pi4 w/8gb RAM) Dan Tallant "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants..." - Thomas Jefferson

Making Debian available

2021-01-12 Thread Dan Pal
chipset not being supported directly by Debian. The current policy of hiding other versions of Debian is limiting the adoption of your OS by people like me who are interested in moving from Windows 10. Sincerely, Dan

Not-Forking: automation to avoid vendoring and whole-project forks

2021-01-26 Thread Dan Shearer
sions of all upstreams, so that a build system can step through a large matrix of versions of code quickly, perhaps for test/benchmark Not-Forking was developed for the LumoSQL project, https://lumosql.org/src/lumosql . -- Dan Shearer d...@shearer.org

Bug#993557: ITP: gnome-shell-extension-pop-shell -- keyboard-driven layer for GNOME with tiling window management

2021-09-02 Thread Dan Bungert
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dan Bungert X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, danielbung...@gmail.com * Package name: gnome-shell-extension-pop-shell Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : System76 * URL : https://github.com/pop-os/shell * License

Bug#1030189: Let regular users know need to put non-free-firmware in sources.list

2023-01-31 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: general The average user will not notice his firmware is not updating any more. Some users, if they do $ apt-show-versions |grep 'No available version in archive' will see firmware-amd-graphics:all 20221214-3 installed: No available version in archive firmware-brcm80211:all 20221214-3 in

Re: Congratulations dan , Your Roof is Covered. Thank You!uS28

2017-02-13 Thread Dan Edwards
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Re: [openstack-dev] The end of OpenStack packages in Debian?

2017-02-16 Thread Dan Prince
Nice work on the packages Thomas. I've always admired that you got the Debian packages upstream first :). Best wishes. Dan On Wed, 2017-02-15 at 13:42 +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi there, > > It's been a while since I planed on writing this message. I couldn'

Q about g++-3 and template instantiation

2001-05-03 Thread Dan E. Kelley
ut for which g++-3 yields the error messages: test-template.cc:4: non-template used as template test-template.cc:6: non-template used as template QUESTION: am I doing something wrong? Dan E. Kelley phone:(902)494-1694 Oceanography Department, Dalhousie

Re: Q about g++-3 and template instantiation

2001-05-03 Thread Dan E. Kelley
); #endif #endif Thanks very much for the help, delivered so quickly!! Dan. On 3 May 2001, Ilya Martynov wrote: > Date: 03 May 2001 17:50:45 +0400 > From: Ilya Martynov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Dan Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Sub

Re: Q about g++-3 and template instantiation

2001-05-03 Thread Dan E. Kelley
#x27;s why I put in the things to test which g++ I have. Thanks again for the help. Dan. stats.o: In function `__default_alloc_template::_Lock::~_Lock(void)': /usr/include/g++-3/stl_alloc.h(.void gnu.linkonce.t.sort(double *, double *)+0x4c): undefined reference to `void __intr

more files in /usr/share/doc could possibly be symlinked

2014-08-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Perhaps more duplicate files in /usr/share/doc could be symlinked to save space in some cases, depending on their dependencies... $ cd /usr/share/doc && ls -ogi */changelog.gz|sort -k 4nr|head 25166091 -rw-r--r-- 1 2606373 07-24 01:11 krb5-locales/changelog.gz 25302407 -rw-r--r-- 1 1944189 07-31 23

bootlogd fills up entire disk eventually

2014-06-02 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
severity 725120 critical version 725120 2.88dsf-55 forcemerge 725120 743001 forcemerge 725120 724712 thanks The logs finally got so big, never getting rotated, that they filled up the disk, rendering the ENTIRE SYSTEM unusable! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Bug#934413: .debs are old fashioned. e.g., Google Play makes smaller updates

2019-08-10 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: general Just the other day I noticed Google Play seems to make smaller updates than when installing an initial package. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572812 So maybe instead of bulky .debs, Debian could do similar. Hmmm, http://debdelta.debian.net/ https://wiki.ubuntu.c

Debian-wide firmware prober

2021-02-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Hey everybody, wouldn't it be nice if there was a prober, like lshw, that probed all the firmware one needed? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=982402 It would say: " You need the following Debian firmware packages firmware-X firmware-Y firmware-Z Remember, a proper system need

Re: Debian-wide firmware prober

2021-02-10 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Z> isenkram-cli OK, but it seems to work differently that what I was thinking.

Bug#901003: There is no standard way of removing transitional / dummy packages

2018-06-07 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: general There is no standard way of removing transitional / dummy packages. One has to grep for the words transitional / dummy in their descriptions to find them. They should all have a standard Tag:. And the Debian documentation should mention what apt command will remove them.

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