Re: Non-US uploads are stopped for a little while

2002-03-20 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 21:04:31 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > sylpheed upload... indeed, I think this should've been announced > > on debian-devel-announce... > > Well, I tr

Re: Non-US uploads are stopped for a little while

2002-03-20 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:30:48 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uploads to non-us are not making it to the archive right now. This situation > is supposed to be over soon. It is related to the crypto-in-main > transitions. For all I know, it might be over today or next

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:22:02 -0600 ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:41:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc > > windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a > > kiosk style setu

Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:35:53 +0100 Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing a > little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that includes > spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example:

Re: menu

2002-03-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:07:34 -0600 ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:39:18AM +, Marcelo Leal wrote: > > Has anyone a menu script done??? I need do some scripts, and i will have > > to do a nice interface... i thought if somebody have a default one... > > with colors a

Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:33:10 -0600 Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Michael Marziani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > I recently started with a new company and they are using lots of Linux > > systems, mostly RedHat and SuSE. We are in the middle of upgrading a > > bunch of the

Re: command line php

2002-03-18 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:47:30 +0100 Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Listpeople - I would like to execute a php script from crontab. > Some Suse users told me they have a /usr/bin/php which allows for > just that. > I have tried to find a package in Debian which brings this, but

Re: Debian maintenance question: apt-get vs. dselect vs. dpkg-- help!

2002-03-16 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:38:57 -0800 wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the best way of installing things? Apt-get? Dselect? Compiling from > source? apt-get or dselect... or aptitude, or gnome-apt... or deity... it's a matter of personal preference > Moreover, what's the difference? I see

Re: making gnome2 packages from unstable install

2002-03-14 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:04:02 -0900 (AKST) Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to do this without breaking all the existing gnome > packages? I thought the point of packages having names like gnome2 was to > allow things to coexist somehow... no... there's no way... it would be pos

Re: enlightenment...

2002-03-13 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On 13 Mar 2002 10:56:21 + Marcelo Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi everybody, hello Marcelo > my name is marcelo, i'm brazilian, so sorry by the english. why not use debian-user-portuguese, then? > fine... when i go to another area, the screen produce a strange > effect... when i move th

Re: Why Debian?

2002-03-01 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On 01 Mar 2002 11:10:11 -0600 Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why Debian? > > - It's very easy to upgrade and maintain your system > - It has a wide variety of packages to use > - It's a completely free distribution run by volunteers > > Why not Debian? > > - Lon

Re: gconv-modules??

2002-02-27 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 20:20:05 +0100 Elias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Estoy intentando instalar GNOME y cada vez me da más problemas. Según > apt-get check no puedo instalar "libgtk1.2" porque el paquete > "gconv-modules" no está instalado. ¿De donde me bajo ese paquete? No lo > encuentro. (let

Re: apt logs

2002-02-27 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:43:24 -0800 Richard Wurdack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Me too. > > Having recently started using Linux, I'd like to see a log of what files > were put where, deleted, or changed. It's sort of frustrating to run > apt-get, have it put 4MB of new stuff on the disk, and not

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 02:00:03 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I dunno. Don't have it installed anymore. Pretty recent version > > > of the non-claws version (last month or so). The memory leak was > > > a slow but substantial one. I was often leaving Sylpheed running > > > for

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On 24 Feb 2002 20:28:56 + Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 19:55, Bill Moseley wrote: > > At 11:25 AM 02/24/02 -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > > > > Although I read that IMAP can be slow if you have many mailboxes (I have > > almost 100), and hundreds of messa

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:06:10 -0800 "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > I dunno. Don't have it installed anymore. Pretty recent version > of the non-claws version (last month or so). The memory leak was > a slow but substantial one. I was often leaving Sylpheed running > for days, but after a couple it w

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 21:56:23 -0800 "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > Possibly dead? > > > Sylpheed: (which I just read about on this list). > > Works pretty well. Is fairly lightweight. I noticed it leaks a > significant amount of memory over time (days). No idea about > IMAP support (think

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:41:54 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:33:55AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > > > Sylpheed is quite nice. I don't use it myself because I don't want to be > > dependent on an X app to read my mail (I use mutt), but my wife switched > > to Sylphee

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:22:22 -0800 Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin Michael P. Soulier quotation: > > > Sylpheed is excellent I'm told. > > Sylpheed is quite nice. I don't use it myself because I don't want to be > dependent on an X app to read my mail (I use mutt), but my

Re: Using the "menu" system

2002-02-24 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 21:03:52 -0600 "Timothy R. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am now finishing my un-glade-ization (I cannot work on code I don't > > understand =P and glade confuses my head)... I'll start working on the > > real issues soon (like avoiding the program edition of /u

Re: Using the "menu" system

2002-02-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 18:59:44 -0300 Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI, I managed to build menudrake without gtk+mdk and am now working > on hacking it to work correctly on Debian systems... I'll probably fork() > it to menudeb, instead of menudrake as I t

Re: Using the "menu" system

2002-02-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 21:51:39 -0600 "Timothy R. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > h... anyone familiar with mandrake's repositories could get a download > > URL for this program's source? > > I put it up on my new Debian package page - > http://www.uninetsolutions.com/tbutler/linux/

Re: Using the "menu" system

2002-02-21 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
GUI > that can manage the global and personal files used by update-menus. It looks > as close to the look of the KDE MenuEdit utility as any GTK app can. h... anyone familiar with mandrake's repositories could get a download URL for this program's source? []s! -

Re: Using the "menu" system

2002-02-21 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
MenuDrake is not useful for our purpose... we must think about reading/writing the Debian menu's format maybe we can borrow something from the GUI thing... I'll try to find it's source to check whether it is useful or not []s! -- G

Re: Using the "menu" system

2002-02-21 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
was thinking about trying to get > MDK's Menudrake working). what's this Menudrake all about? any URL? Does MDK use the Debian's menu system? []s! -- Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov> *-* -+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--

Re: Using the "menu" system

2002-02-20 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
too bad, although it's ashame there isn't some type of > > GUI. :-\ > > > > So write one (-: exactly what I would say... it's not a shame... it's a need, if you want to start one I'm willing to contribute code, if not I'm planning to create one *when

Re: Blank Messages To Mailing List With Attachments Containing Message

2002-02-20 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
thout my standard signature so you'll see it. > > Your best bet is to dump OE and go with either Eurdora (if you must do > email on Windows) or go with a linux solution like Mutt. or try compiling sylpheed on m

Re: JOINT VENTR

2002-02-20 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
g list is a very good way of keeping secrets =) hahhaa []s! -- Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov> *-* -+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+-+ | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: <http://www.debian.org> | | : :' : + D

Re: Few Simple Question

2002-02-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
I usually call it 'mundo', or 'terra' =) > Thank You very much and I look forward to joining the wonderful world of open > source OS! be welcome []s! -- Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov> *-* -+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+-

Re: Downloading deb's

2002-02-18 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
he job... insert your urls one by line in the my-urls file and run the script... not tested, though... []s! -- Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov> *-* -+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+-+ | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: <http://www.debian.org

Re: Help! I have deleted my "startx"-File!

2002-02-17 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
> Is there a fast method to regain the deleted file? > Or can anybody post it for me? try 'apt-get --reinstall install xbase-files' > PS: Please don't bash me for my stupidity! I already suffer extremly! =8-Q I imagine =) []s! --

Re: GTK Themes not working

2002-02-15 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
ed a theme which depends on a specific engine... my theme, for example, depends on the xenophilia engine, which is provided by the gtk-engines-xenophilia package. Most themes I've seen depend on the gtk-engines-pixmap package []s! -- Gustavo Noronha Silva

Re: gcc3 and gcc 2.95

2002-02-14 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
erent binary names []s! -- Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov> *-* -+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+-+ | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: <http://www.debian.org> | | : :' : + Debian BR...: <http://debian-br.cip

Re: to woody from potato, some advices...

2002-02-14 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
no need for this... btw, Marcelo, there a "transition" document on http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br, that could have been useful for you, as a Portuguese-speaker =). if you want to improve that document to help other people, be welcome. []s! -- Gust

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-13 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
help. --Hans > > > I just did > chmod a+s /sbin/shutdown > But you have to rerun it whenever you update that package. I think you can make it permanent by using: # dpkg-statoverride --update --add root root 04755 /sbin/shutdown (for woody/unstable only... IIRC, potato use

Re: Mixing Debian releases the easy way - HowTo - questions

2002-02-13 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
messing with difficult to understand priorities and stuff []s! -- Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov> *-* -+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+-+ | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: <http://www.debian.org> | | : :' : + De

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-09 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
gt; > not sure, i don't trust APM, i rather turn my monitor off > with the switch then trust APM to do it for me. I don't think this is related to APM... this seems to be related to DPMS... try xset --help and check the DPMS options []s! -- Gus

Re: keyboard layout

2002-02-09 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
nd=dialog try console-common instead of base-config []s! -- Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov> *-* -+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+-+ | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: <http://www.debian.org> | | : :' : + Debian BR

Re: Aviplay question

2002-02-07 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
the right permissions on /dev/dsp, of course (adduser user audio and a relogin would do it)) []s! -- Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov> *-* -+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+-+ | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: <http://www.debian.org&

Re: controlling apt-get

2002-02-07 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
to tell apt-get not to overwrite my compiled > package which has the same version number? echo exim hold | dpkg --set-selections []s! -- Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov <http://www.metainfo.org/kov> *-* -+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+-+ | .