Q. Why do so many processes owned by me have PPID=1?

2007-09-28 Thread wtautz
Hi, Just wondering if someone could explain the mechanism of gnome desktop with respect to processes. In particular gnome-terminal has PPID=1 If I launch apps from gnome-panel this seems to be the case by default. I assume this is by design? Just trying to get more insights into how things work

Ubuntu Feisty i386 make deb fails for version 3.9.6

2007-09-19 Thread wtautz
Tried to do a make deb for systemimager 3.9.6 sources on Ubuntu Feisty i386: ./initrd_source/patches/sysvinit.compile_portability.patch ./initrd_source/patches/udev.debian_rules.patch ./initrd_source/patches/modutils.lexfix.patch rm /home/wtautz/systemimager-3.9.6/tmp/systemimager-3.9.6

Re: Timezone change in US

2007-02-19 Thread wtautz
Martin Pitt wrote: > Hi, > > t u [2007-02-19 10:18 -0500]: > >> I'm subscribed to Slackware security notices and they seem to have >> released an update to their system for the time zone changes in the >> US. I was wondering whether we received such an update ourselves. I do >> not remember upda