Reference Tool - Video Game World Records

2000-09-10 Thread Walter Day
Dear News Reporter, The high-score database containing the official world records for video game and pinball playing is now available on the Internet as a free reference source. It can be found by clicking on SEARCH SCORES at: http://www.twingalaxies.com This body of information is essential

Re: devfsd permissions and makedev permissions coordination

2000-09-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 10, Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Terminal devices [1] root.tty 0666 This is obviously wrong, ttys must have 620 permissions (or 600 if you don't want people talk(1)ing to you, but I think the default should be to allow it). It's a huge security hole because

Re: RFP: WayV -- gesture based user interface

2000-09-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 09:51:23PM +0300, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > 1. Experiment with human computer interaction, especially gesture > based computing. > > 2. Initially some programs that work by extending the functionality of > the mouse to allow gestures to represent actions, i.e. draw a C and >

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-10 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 09:19:10AM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > Which is why it should only be killed in prerm/preinst. > > Which makes all the supposed simple "restart" solution for the runlevel > problem fail in _all_ cases. Thank you for remin

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-10 Thread Ingo Saitz
MoiN On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 09:19:10AM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > BTW, on an unrelated note, a ps | grep solution *MUST* deal with the > following possible scenarios, [...] > 3. Multiple instances of daemon (and you want to kill only the one you > started -- never seen anyone need

Re: Debian and KDE: Appology

2000-09-10 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:20:01PM -0600, Richard Stallman wrote: > I think you ought to apologize, for supporting this mob. I have > no reason to apologize for being its victim. I, on behalf of everyone involved in the GPL KDE fiasco, humbly apologize to everyone else for the actions, comitted b

RFP: Test::Cmd (libtest-cmd-perl) -- automated testing framework

2000-09-10 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist The Perl module is in CPAN. --8<-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ perl -MCPAN -e shell; ... cpan> i Test::Cmd ... DESCRIPTION Portable test infrastructure for commands CPAN_USERID KNIGHT (Steven Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) CPAN_VERSION 1.01 CPAN_F

RFP: LXR -- Linux Cross-Reference, web-based C source cross referencer

2000-09-10 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist http://lxr.linux.no/ (seems to be currently down - see google cache at http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:lxr.linux.no/+lxr&hl=en) --8<-- Motivation The Linux Cross-Reference project is the testbed application of a general hypertext cross-referencing tool. (Or

RFP: WayV -- gesture based user interface

2000-09-10 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist http://wayv.sourceforge.net/ --8<-- 1. Experiment with human computer interaction, especially gesture based computing. 2. Initially some programs that work by extending the functionality of the mouse to allow gestures to represent actions, i.e. draw a C and xcalc

RFP: xxdiff -- graphical diff & merge

2000-09-10 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist http://xxdiff.sourceforge.net/ --8<-- What is xxdiff? xxdiff is a file comparator and merge tool. It is an open-source replacement for Rudy Wortel's xdiff which comes with SGI machines (which was itself inspired by SGI's gdiff). The aim for version 1.0 of xxdiff

RFP: iGal -- online Image GALlery generator

2000-09-10 Thread Tommi Virtanen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist iGal: online Image GALlery generator http://www.stanford.edu/~epop/igal/ --8<-- [ What is iGal? ] iGal is a Perl-based program that can generate and publish an entire online picture show (HTML slides, thumbnails and index page included) with just one co

My orphaned packages.

2000-09-10 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
[ CC me in replies; I am not subscribed right now. ] I do not have time anymore to work on the packages I once maintained for Debian. I'm sorry that I did not properly orphan them. I just don't have time for it. My health is most important, followed by studies. I cannot live in a

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-10 Thread Shigekazu Noka
Aaron Lehmann wrote: > > On my Athlon, Linux 2.2 sees only 65M of memory without using mem=. > Linux 2.4-test seems to fix the problem and detects the memory > automatically. Not sure this may do with Athlon, but for your info; Enhanced memory detection patches http://

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-10 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On my Athlon, Linux 2.2 sees only 65M of memory without using mem=. Linux 2.4-test seems to fix the problem and detects the memory automatically. On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:56:52PM -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > I just purchased two Athalon-based systems, each with 768M of ram. > However, under debia

ITP: IIIMECF (Internet/Intranet Input Method Emacs Client Framework)

2000-09-10 Thread Takuo KITAME
I intent to package `iiimecf'. (Internet/Intranet Input Method Emacs Client Framework) ftp://ftp.m17n.org/pub/mule/IIIM/IIIMECF-0.1.tar.gz License is GPL2. from README, IIIMECF conforms IIIM Protocol Specification defined by Sun Microsystems, and consists of a library to create IIIM awarded a

Re: Debian and KDE: Appology

2000-09-10 Thread Raul Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Stallman) writes: > > Meanwhile, you don't seem to be concerned about the mob of people > > who are attacking me. On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 06:06:53PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: > I may now be even more concerned that you seem to consider the authors > of free KDE software

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

2000-09-10 Thread Colin Watson
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 2829T092919+0200, Paul Slootman wrote: >> Really? I doubt that the package "build-essential" (to name a >> random example :-) needs the C compiler. > >You misread me (or did I express my badly?). I mean that "there exists >at least one prog

Re: BTS not showing my bugs

2000-09-10 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 01:44:29PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > All statically updated BTS pages are broken, please see DWN for details. > > Might it be an idea to put a notice about this on the web page? It'd > avoid a lot of confusion. Done. (at last :) -- Digital Electronic Being Intended

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-10 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > -x...), and only return a exit status code of 1 (start daemon) if this That should be exit status code 0, of course. Oh well... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind the

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-10 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henrique M. Holschuh) wrote: > >ISSUE: Is there a need for pre-depends? > > > >A package which needs a future version of the initsciptquery interface > >would need to pre-depends: sysvinit (>=someversion) | filerc > >(>=somev

Re: System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-10 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
Art, On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Art Edwards wrote: > I just purchased two Athalon-based systems, each with 768M of ram. > However, under debian (potato runnin kernel 2.2.17) the OS sees only 65 > M of memory. I have tried to use the append command > > mem=768M > > but it still sees only 65 M? > >

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-10 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Brendan O'Dea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This unfortunately doesn't work if you are trying to kill the previous > > version of a daemon in the postinst of a package, as the binary will > > have changed. > > Which is why it should only be killed in p

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-10 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henrique M. Holschuh) wrote: >ISSUE: Is there a need for pre-depends? > >A package which needs a future version of the initsciptquery interface >would need to pre-depends: sysvinit (>=someversion) | filerc >(>=someversion). How is this done for update-rc.d ? If you'

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-10 Thread Colin Watson
Samuel Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Sep 09, 2000, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: >> For some reason pidof doesn't work on the dictd daemon, so it may >> not work on others as well. See Bug#67021. > > Then I suggest the following : > > ps ax | grep '[ ]' > > I think the 'gre

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-10 Thread Herbert Xu
Brendan O'Dea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This unfortunately doesn't work if you are trying to kill the previous > version of a daemon in the postinst of a package, as the binary will > have changed. Which is why it should only be killed in prerm/preinst. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 04:03:50PM -0400, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > ps ax|grep |grep -v grep works for me. It works for you because you are interactive. A maintainer script is not. If you run ps ax|grep daemon|grep -v grep and you see: 12661 pts/0S 0:00 vi /etc/daemon.conf You

System sees only 65M of memory

2000-09-10 Thread Art Edwards
I just purchased two Athalon-based systems, each with 768M of ram. However, under debian (potato runnin kernel 2.2.17) the OS sees only 65 M of memory. I have tried to use the append command mem=768M but it still sees only 65 M? Does anyone have any ideas? -- Arthur H. Edwards 712 Valencia D

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-10 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 09 Sep 2000, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > > > daemon is running, and only restart it if it found it was running? > > > > Because if the user removes but not purges a package, all the configuration > > data related to initscripts is kept. The daemon is not running, but the > > runlevel restr

Insight progress

2000-09-10 Thread Eray Ozkural
For those who're keen on seeing the insight and sourcenav packages, I've made some progress on the matter. I was unable to spare any volunteer time due to a hardware crash this week and a problem with the lame cable company the week before that, so there was a small delay. :I It seems that the pa

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-10 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 08:32:24PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote: >On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 06:23:03PM -0400, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: >> Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > >> > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 04:03:50PM -0400, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: >> > > ps ax|grep |grep -v grep work

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-10 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Sep 08, Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Their list is much more comprehensive than mine, but mine contains far > >more detail. So it's worth merging them, but I'm not quite sure how > >you'd like to do this. There is also the implicit assumption in their > If there are no f

Re: Debian banner ad outdated

2000-09-10 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Edward Betts wrote: > Same on sourceforge.net I'll bug the osdn folks about it. Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.liacs

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-10 Thread Adam McKenna
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 06:23:03PM -0400, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 04:03:50PM -0400, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > > > ps ax|grep |grep -v grep works for me. > > > > if [ "`pidof `" ] ; then > > ... > > fi > >

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-10 Thread Samuel Hocevar
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > ps ax|grep |grep -v grep works for me. > > > > if [ "`pidof `" ] ; then > > For some reason pidof doesn't work on the dictd daemon, so it may > not work on others as well. See Bug#67021.

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-10 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 03:11:48PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 08, Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Their list is much more comprehensive than mine, but mine contains far > >more detail. So it's worth merging them, but I'm not quite sure how > >you'd like to do this. Ther

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-10 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 04:03:50PM -0400, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > > ps ax|grep |grep -v grep works for me. > > if [ "`pidof `" ] ; then > ... > fi For some reason pidof doesn't work on the dictd daemon, so it may not work on others as w

devfsd permissions and makedev permissions coordination

2000-09-10 Thread Tom Lees
Hi there. I'm the current Debian devfsd maintainer. As you may or may not know, the current devfsd package parses the /sbin/MAKEDEV script in its build procedure to generate a standard list of permissions for devices (one of the main functions of devfsd is to control the permissions of the automat

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-10 Thread Tom Lees
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 03:00:56PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Paul" == Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Paul> Please check the BTS for apt-move, this is discussed > Paul> externsively. Apparently it's a (for me non-obvious) bug in > Paul> bash. > > Why not change t

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start on package install/upgrade out-of-runlevel

2000-09-10 Thread Adam McKenna
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 04:03:50PM -0400, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > ps ax|grep |grep -v grep works for me. if [ "`pidof `" ] ; then ... fi --Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: maintainers in Cambridge, UK?

2000-09-10 Thread Tom Lees
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 10:35:21AM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: > Are there any maintainers in Cambridge who would be willing to sign my GPG > key? You might be better off sending this to the debian-uk list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] But I think most people there also read -devel. There are a number of

Re: Alternatives to ftp.debian.org

2000-09-10 Thread Edward Betts
Matt Taggart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By hand I run the list of mirrors > (http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors) thru netselect to get the > best one for the machine I'm on, then stick that in sources.list. I tried that, I got a mirror with a low ping, low round trip and good response, bu

Re: Debian banner ad outdated

2000-09-10 Thread Edward Betts
Florian Hinzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just browsed freshmeat and a Debian banner appeared at the > top of that page. Unfortunately it reads "version 2.1". > > Who might be able to fix this? Same on sourceforge.net -- Don't worry -- shop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: ITP: Sword, GnomeSword

2000-09-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, David Starner wrote: > If the program needs one to run, then at least one should be packaged. > I'd prefer not to see a lot of installers that download free software - > the one's that download non-free stuff are annoying and cause enough > problems as it is. Sure. Probably th