Re: Two debconf issues

2001-05-04 Thread mdanish
I created a test program to do fibonacci series recursively in Perl, Python, Scheme, Lisp, C, and OCaML. Needless to say, OCaML kicked ass ;) But between Perl and Python, Python performed better by about 20%. On the other hand, fibonacci series is a bit of a different application than whatever ta

Re: Work-needing packages report for May 4, 2001

2001-05-04 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 04-May-2001 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > retitle 86871 ITA: snarf -- command line URL grabber > >>snarf (#86871), orphaned 71 days ago >> Description: A command-line URL grabber > > I'll take this. It's one of the first packages I install on a new > system, and I use it all the time.

Re: Chrony mailing list needs a home

2001-05-04 Thread John Hasler
Carlos Laviola writes: > Register your project... Not my project. I'm just the Debian maintainer. I was just trying to do the upstream author a favor. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Chrony mailing list needs a home

2001-05-04 Thread Carlos Laviola
On 05-May-2001 Roland Bauerschmidt wrote: > John Hasler wrote: >> The chrony mailing list is a "Yahoo Group" at the moment. This less than >> optimal. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to look for a (free) >> home? > > Sourceforge? Register your project at http://sourceforge.net, an

Re: Chrony mailing list needs a home

2001-05-04 Thread John Hasler
Joey Hess writes: > Well I guess you could use sourceforge. I assume that the author has his reasons for not wanting to use Sourceforge. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Chrony mailing list needs a home

2001-05-04 Thread Roland Bauerschmidt
John Hasler wrote: > The chrony mailing list is a "Yahoo Group" at the moment. This less than > optimal. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to look for a (free) > home? Sourceforge? Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt

Re: Chrony mailing list needs a home

2001-05-04 Thread Joey Hess
John Hasler wrote: > The chrony mailing list is a "Yahoo Group" at the moment. This less than > optimal. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to look for a (free) > home? Well I guess you could use sourceforge. -- see shy jo

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-05-04 Thread Tom Lear
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:52:46PM +, Will Lowe wrote: > Sure, don't run the daemon at all. When you install exim, "rm > /etc/init.d/rc?.d/S*exim" and it won't start. Local processes will be BTW, I think this is what ssh should do if you choose not to run the daemon on startup (rather than m

Chrony mailing list needs a home

2001-05-04 Thread John Hasler
The chrony mailing list is a "Yahoo Group" at the moment. This less than optimal. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to look for a (free) home? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-04 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sam Couter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pigeons *are* doves. What you think of as pigeons are probably rock doves. No, no. Pigeons are ugly horrid things that infest cities and leave droppings on my car. They are best known as "rats with wings". With appropriate adjectives, pigeons are cool.

Re: Two debconf issues

2001-05-04 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:00:29PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote: > > > > It might happen if there was a good reason, but nobody has suggested > > > > one yet. > > > > I doubt there is one. > > > > > > I have one. It's that dependency on perl makes owners of 486 machines d

Re: dm management of wm listings (kdm/gdm/etc..)

2001-05-04 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
> Ivan> Solution?: create a program (update-dm?) that would pull > Ivan> the current list of window/session-managers installed on the > Ivan> system and build the appropriate config files for whichever > > You should probably consider whether this program ought to simply be > update-

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-04 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:09:55PM +0100, Paul Martin wrote: > Now, a problem arises if we are to package the common denominator "dove" > or to provide separate packages optimised for various types of racing > pigeons. Anyone who wants to squeeze an extra 10% increase in performance can spend five

Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-04 Thread Simon Richter
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > Perhaps hostname --fqdn is failing? Try DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer Hrm, the hostname command works (as verified by "echo $hostname"). I'll try the debug option as soon as I get home. Simon -- GPG public key available from http://phobos.fs.tum.de/pgp/Simon

Re: gdb adoption

2001-05-04 Thread Fabrice Gautier
On Thu, 3 May 2001 15:14:55 +0200 Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi Vincent! > > i'd like a lot to take the maintainment of gdb, Oh yes! Please! > are you still > maintaining it? i see an update long time ago, it has now some > problems and it isn't going into testing. > > tha

Bug#96359: make-kpkg, glibc, /usr/src/linux and FHS

2001-05-04 Thread Itai Zukerman
Package: kernel-package Severity: wishlist According to the FHS (2.1), 6.1.6 /usr/src : Source code For systems based on glibc, there are no specific guidelines for this directory. For systems based on Linux libc revisions prior to glibc, the following guidelines and ra

Re: Netscape v.s. C source code

2001-05-04 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:58:59PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:20:15PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > > WTF? It's *text*, after all. What magic spell is needed to convince > > navigator to put it into the main window like a "foo.txt" file? > > > > Setup apache

Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-04 Thread Joey Hess
Simon Richter wrote: > The templates file says: > > Description: uprecords.cgi has been installed into the webtree > You have installed the uprecords-cgi package. That means that a new CGI > script has been installed, which is now visible to the outside world as > http://${hostname}/cgi-bin/upr

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread David Starner
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:17:33PM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote: > Am 4.05.01 um 16:28:16 schrieb Josip Rodin: > > It acts as if the interpunction doesn't exist, which is just plain wrong! > > Actually I'd expect my dictionary to be sorted exactly this way. And > that's what LC_COLLATE is for. It'

Re: Netscape v.s. C source code

2001-05-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:20:15PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > WTF? It's *text*, after all. What magic spell is needed to convince > navigator to put it into the main window like a "foo.txt" file? > Setup apache to treat .h and .c as text/plain. That will tell netscape and any other web

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-05-04 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:49:47PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:52:46PM +, Will Lowe wrote: > > > > > I think it's safe to assume that your system MUST have a working MTA > > > > > of some sort (even if it's local-only, which is

Netscape v.s. C source code

2001-05-04 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, No response from -user, here's hoping someone on -devel can shed some light. I have HTML-ized documentation for a code library that contains links to the actual header files. Clicking on the link is supposed to show the contents of the "fool.h" file, for example. However, instead of display

Re: Bug#95430 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#95430: ash: word-splitting changes break shell scripts)

2001-05-04 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:44:46PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > I could read that as requiring that if IFS is unset, then you get > > "" if you inspect its value, NOT the null string. > > I have to disagree with this interpretation. The sentence above specifies > that "the shell will behave _

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:26:12PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > A paper dictionary would never contain a word starting with a `.', at least > > not one written in my language :) > > Even if it explains the term ".com"? :) You got me there. :) -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassi

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 04, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sure, whatever, but *my* original point is that there is a setting in >mutt, namely "charset", which is documented to tell mutt what character >set the terminal is capable of displaying and entering. This used to That's correct. It's used to

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 04, Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It's not just mutt. GTK+ has the same problem. The solution is to Every application using gettext has the same "problem". -- ciao, Marco

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:30:36PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:03:18AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/LC]% LANG=hr_HR ls -A > > .A .B .C .a .b .c A B C a b c > > Probably because your locale.gen isn't configured to build an hr_

Re: Work-needing packages report for May 4, 2001

2001-05-04 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
retitle 86871 ITA: snarf -- command line URL grabber >snarf (#86871), orphaned 71 days ago > Description: A command-line URL grabber I'll take this. It's one of the first packages I install on a new system, and I use it all the time. Plus I know the guy who wrote it. And anybody who t

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:03:18AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/LC]% LANG=hr_HR ls -A > .A .B .C .a .b .c A B C a b c Probably because your locale.gen isn't configured to build an hr_HR locale. -- Mike Stone

Re: Why why why!!???

2001-05-04 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:33:58AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Oh crap. Ok guys it's been a lot of fun. I really enjoyed working with > you and meeting some of you in person but now that Debian is going to > be shut down I'll have to look for another operating system. > > Does anyone know if

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:28:16PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > > hmm, what's LC_COLLATE for again? > > ? I was referring to this: > > % touch a b c .a .b .c A B C .A .B .C > % LANG=C ls -A > .A .B .C .a .b .c A B C a b c > % LANG=hr_HR ls -A > a .a A .A b .b B .B c .c C

Re: Why why why!!???

2001-05-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:19:06AM -0500, The Doctor What <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > That's exactly what it is: Debian Apache Default Page Syndrome > > for i in *everydebiansystem* > do > http://$i/icons/ > done Oh. Doh. I'll go crawl under a rock now :) Daniel -- /--

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:17:33PM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote: > > It acts as if the interpunction doesn't exist, which is just plain wrong! > > Actually I'd expect my dictionary to be sorted exactly this way. A paper dictionary would never contain a word starting with a `.', at least not one wr

Re: Why why why!!???

2001-05-04 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 4 May 2001, may wrote: > why the hell did you hack my site!!???!! > > i opened it today... > and it was full!! of you're icons > why why why!!!?? > > I will report you! > > and i Will shut you down if i have to! > Oh crap. Ok guys it's been a lot of fun. I really enjoyed working wi

Re: Why why why!!???

2001-05-04 Thread The Doctor What
* Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010504 10:17]: > All right, I apologize for calling it spam :) > I don't understand the intent behind the initial message, then. Unless he > really thinks someone broke into his site (it doesn't look like apache default > page syndrome, but who knows..) T

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread Michael Piefel
Am 4.05.01 um 16:28:16 schrieb Josip Rodin: > It acts as if the interpunction doesn't exist, which is just plain wrong! Actually I'd expect my dictionary to be sorted exactly this way. And that's what LC_COLLATE is for. It's a different story that this behaviour is outright silly when in a shell.

Re: Why why why!!???

2001-05-04 Thread The Doctor What
* may ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010504 08:57]: > why the hell did you hack my site!!???!! > > i opened it today... > and it was full!! of you're icons > why why why!!!?? > > I will report you! > > and i Will shut you down if i have to! > > pleas check it out > >http://zipnab.yoll.net/i

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:48:33AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > > It acts as if the interpunction doesn't exist, which is just plain wrong! > > And it's not happening on potato. > > Whee, I switched to Debian in time to catch the fury here, too. > > Basically, the situation is: > > Take i

Re: Why why why!!???

2001-05-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:18:37PM +0200, "Sander Smeenk (CistroN Medewerker)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > In fact, if you take a look at the page, there is nothing commercial, > it only shows some apache standard icons, some debian logo's and > a couple of funny Dragon Ball Z animated

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:38:06AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > > Changing the LANG to en_US may have some unexpected side effects and > > > > > should not be done without at least some thought for the consequences. > > > > > (E.g., the sort order will be radically different.) > > > > > > >

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread Alan Shutko
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:46:15PM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote: > ? I was referring to this: And Arthur was referring to the fact that you can set LANG=hr_HR and LC_COLLATE=C and get the old behavior. > It acts as if the interpunction doesn't exist, which

Re: Why why why!!???

2001-05-04 Thread Alan Shutko
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wow, that's the most creative spam I've ever read..it almost was worth the > effort :) Except there was really nothing there! -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost.

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:46:15PM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote: > > > > Changing the LANG to en_US may have some unexpected side effects and > > > > should not be done without at least some thought for the consequences. > > > > (E.g., the sort order will be ra

Re: searching for Tomas Pospisek [Mailer-Daemon@master.debian.org: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender]

2001-05-04 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
OK, thanks a lot, I'll take care of that, I hadn't realized, that my email address was wrong. I'll correct that ASAP. *t Tomas Pospisek SourcePole - Linux & Open Source Solutions

Re: Why why why!!???

2001-05-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:01:08PM +0200, may wrote: > why the hell did you hack my site!!???!! > > i opened it today... > and it was full!! of you're icons > why why why!!!?? > > I will report you! > > and i Will shut you down if i have to! > > pleas check it out > >http://zipnab

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:46:15PM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote: > > > Changing the LANG to en_US may have some unexpected side effects and > > > should not be done without at least some thought for the consequences. > > > (E.g., the sort order will be radically different.) > > > > Hear, hear, the thi

Re: Why why why!!???

2001-05-04 Thread Sander Smeenk \(CistroN Medewerker\)
Quoting Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >http://zipnab.yoll.net/icons/ > Wow, that's the most creative spam I've ever read..it almost was worth the > effort :) In fact, if you take a look at the page, there is nothing commercial, it only shows some apache standard icons, some debian l

Processed: Re: Bug#96299: general: inn2-inews

2001-05-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 96299 inn2 Bug#96299: general: inn2-inews Bug reassigned from package `general' to `inn2'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database)

Re: Why why why!!???

2001-05-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:01:08PM +0200, may <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > pleas check it out > >http://zipnab.yoll.net/icons/ > > and tell me .. Why!!?? Wow, that's the most creative spam I've ever read..it almost was worth the effort :) Daniel -- /---

Why why why!!???

2001-05-04 Thread may
why the hell did you hack my site!!???!! i opened it today... and it was full!! of you're icons why why why!!!?? I will report you! and i Will shut you down if i have to! pleas check it out http://zipnab.yoll.net/icons/ and tell me .. Why!!??

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-05-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:35:03PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Quoting Anthony Towns : > > + roxen-fonts-iso8859-2 uploaded 399 days ago, out of date by > > + roxen-fonts-iso8859-1 uploaded 399 days ago, out of date by > These are fonts. Why should they be 'out of date'?! Because they're not

searching for Tomas Pospisek [Mailer-Daemon@master.debian.org: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender]

2001-05-04 Thread Josip Rodin
- Forwarded message from Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivery-date: Fri, 04 May 2001 04:50:13 +0200 X-Failed-Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Date: Th

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-05-04 Thread Steve Greenland
On 04-May-01, 07:49 (CDT), Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:52:46PM +, Will Lowe wrote: > > > > > I think it's safe to assume that your system MUST have a working MTA > > > > > of > > > > > some sort (even if it's loca

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-05-04 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:52:46PM +, Will Lowe wrote: > > > > I think it's safe to assume that your system MUST have a working MTA of > > > > some sort (even if it's local-only, which is supported by eximconfig). > > > This is true, but does it need to be world-ac

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread Arthur Korn
Josip Rodin schrieb: > > Changing the LANG to en_US may have some unexpected side effects and > > should not be done without at least some thought for the consequences. > > (E.g., the sort order will be radically different.) > > Hear, hear, the thing with the sort order is so annoying. But I guess

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-05-04 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Anthony Towns : > + roxen-fonts-iso8859-2 uploaded 399 days ago, out of date by > + roxen-fonts-iso8859-1 uploaded 399 days ago, out of date by These are fonts. Why should they be 'out of date'?! Reason why these haven't made it into testing is the same as for: > + libroxen-templatecrea

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:35:53PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > The solution is to get LANG set to at least en_US by default for > > everyone, as LANG=C is just not useful any more. > > Changing the LANG to en_US may have some unexpected side effects and > should not be done without at least so

Re: package servers inconsistent?

2001-05-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:53:03PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Maybe its too difficult to provide consistent package files for the short > > window while the mirror updates are running. No cons. > > > > But is it possible to set some kind of flag to indicate that I am probably > > downloading

Bug#96299: general: inn2-inews

2001-05-04 Thread Tomasz Dymek
Package: general Version: 20010504 Severity: normal I've problem with receiving uucp feed. Sending works ok == uucico dixie - (2001-05-04 12:19:38.72 31948) Handshake successful (protocol 't') uucico dixie news (2001-05-04 12:19:38.73 31948) Receiving rnews (57

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-04 Thread Joost Kooij
Hi, On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:46:42PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:03:06AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > On Monday 30 April 2001 00:04, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I don't see why. Nor is this any different to any external drives. > > > You have a hefty ground conne

Bug#96294: ITP: netsaint-nrpe -- NetSaint Remote Plugin Executor

2001-05-04 Thread Ben Bell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist nrpe is a server and plugin pair to allow NetSaintplugins to be executed on hosts other than the main NetSaint server. Possible uses include checking the load and disk usage of remote machines, or checking network connectivity from a remote machine's perspective.

Fwd: Re: ITA: centericq - A text-mode icq client based on ncurses

2001-05-04 Thread Ben Burton
> >The following packages are up for adoption: > > centericq (#95054), offered 10 days ago > > Description: A text-based ICQ client > > What is happening here? Standard procedure for adopting a package is to retitle the RFA bug (#95054) from RFA: to ITA: once you plan to adopt, and then to

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-04 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:24:53PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > Oh, and (since they sound like the kind of servers that come with > monitors) don't plug monitors into UPSen. Uhm, sorry, why not? I have connected a monitor (14", normally turned off) to our server and to his USV so I can even re

ITA: centericq - A text-mode icq client based on ncurses

2001-05-04 Thread Wouter de Vries
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I already uploaded the package, forgetting to send this mail. It seems though that the package has already been passed over to me. It says so on http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/centericq.html . An email I received from debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 03 May 2001, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 05:51:53PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > > "Paul" == Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Paul> I think that *mutt* is definitely broken in this regard, > > Paul> because *no* other console program i know

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Christoph Simon (please get a proper sig delimiter) | The german expression has a somewhat special history. Some centuries | ago, a person could be declared to be "vogelfrei", as free as a bird, | but in a not so romantic sense, as he would find himself disprovided | of any kind of legal prote

Re: Bug#96102: ITP: serpento -- dictd server written in python

2001-05-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Radovan Garabik | > Can it be run from inetd? I'm really dying for a dict server that can be | | More or less, yes, it can, but currently it is a bit unusable | since it takes forever to start (it has to parse the index file(s), | and parsing is written in python - rewritting it in C is on my

taking over unixodbc

2001-05-04 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi If no one else wants it (was orphaned) I could take this. I have mysql and myodbc, too. bye, -christian-

Re: Bug#95430 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#95430: ash: word-splitting changes break shell scripts)

2001-05-04 Thread Richard Braakman
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 04:36:43PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: [...] > [16:24:46 tmp]$ bash -c 'echo x-${IFS}-x' > x- -x > > Ah, something might be wrong with the above tests: Right. The invoked shell will expand ${IFS} to a string that happens to be whitespace, then parse the line as an "echo" com