Re: Anacron Problems

2008-03-07 Thread Sean Perry
Robert Peirce wrote: Problem 1 is trying to reach Sean Perry. Neither [EMAIL PROTECTED] nor [EMAIL PROTECTED], as listed in anacron.8, work. Problem 2 is trying t find out why my weekly job runs three times while my monthly and daily only run once. Furthermore, until a few weeks ago

Re: 64-bit transition deadline (Re: Etch in the hands of the Stable Release Managers)

2007-04-10 Thread Sean Perry
interfaces with such closed-source software is of some relevance to all of us who want to see Debian thrive, even if we choose not to use that software ourselves. Helping closed source software developers is not an itch I feel like scratching. But if other people want to spend

congratulations to the X team!!

2005-07-14 Thread Sean Perry
I just updated to X.org. With apt. Automatically. Woohoo!! I mean full on xserver-xorg too. I did not touch ANYTHING. X team you rock. This is why I started using Debian 7 years ago. This is what keeps me here. One and only one snag. purging the xfree86-common package failed because it was

Re: How to detect which user is connected to $DISPLAY

2005-03-27 Thread Sean Perry
sean finney wrote: i invite someone to invent a better way, i'd like to hear it :) Rather than invoke awk twice, just use awk for everything (-: (I used $DISPLAY for testing) w | awk \$3 ~ /$DISPLAY/ {print \$1; exit 0} Note the escaped '$'s. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Standard description file about maintainer groups

2005-03-27 Thread Sean Perry
Eduard Bloch wrote: So I suggest to set a kind of soft policy: every package maintained by a group should keep a file (with a common filename) in the Debian diff, which tells all neccessary things: - who are members of that group - which person from this group is responsible for exactly this

Re: NoX idea

2005-03-01 Thread Sean Perry
Jesus Climent wrote: What would people think about adding a check on all the *dm managers (read kdm, gdm and friends) about cheking the kernel command line from /proc/cmdline and grep for nox? I have the need some times to start a laptop with console mode, and it would be nice to just add an

Re: SourceForge.net PR-Web Upgrade Notice.

2004-10-28 Thread Sean Perry
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: i'm forwarding this to debian devel for people's attention because it would appear that debian has lost a quite large opportunity - by not having selinux available. PR choices, not much else. It is also entirely possible the last of the Debian faithful have

Re: Several X applications refuse to start

2004-10-28 Thread Sean Perry
Andreas Tille wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Simon Huggins wrote: Is this a Transmeta Crusoe based laptop? No. It is centrono based and I guess this is rather a problem of some pure X applications, because Gnome and KDE applications and also Mozilla are behaving fine. The only thing is that