Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-23 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 07:17:32PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > So? I didn't say it was. I didn't say that Debian maintainers > should clean up upstream documentation. > > I just argued that in doc directory, which typically contains > a mess of upstream files, there should be a file tha

[ADMIN] Unsubscription problems

2000-12-22 Thread Anand Kumria
Hi there, A number of people have reported problems with unsubscribing from various lists, principally debian-user and debian-devel. We, the listmaster team, believe we have fixed the underlying problem and you should merrily be able to [un]subscribe as needed. Please inform us if you aren't but

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-12 Thread Anand Kumria
On 3/12/06, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike McCarty said: > > I proposed a change in order to prevent such posts. I propose that > > messages which come from non-subscribed aliases be rejected from the > > list. > > This has been asked for and rejected for the past several years.

Re: Where to submitting a bug for GNOME panels

2006-03-12 Thread Anand Kumria
Hi Paoloa, On 3/12/06, Paolo Pantaleo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I found that when I try to move a GNOME panel (the ones where you > put application lists, volume controller, application menu, etc.) I > can place it far from scrren borders. After moving it, it is > impossible to move it again

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-12 Thread Anand Kumria
Steve, On 3/13/06, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Marsh wrote: > > Because not every user who has a question wants to agree to receive > > hundreds of email messages a day as the price. > > Vacation. Pof, no emails. Imagine that. > > > Because a community > > that accepts

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-12 Thread Anand Kumria
Steve, On 3/13/06, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anand Kumria wrote: > > It is because the listmasters, of which I am one, > > Good, finally a name to go with this idiocy. Anand Kumria, clueless list > manager. You can see who all the listmasters are a

Re: exim4: local parts case sensitive

2006-03-14 Thread Anand Kumria
Hello, On 3/14/06, listrcv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > what's the reasoning behind having local parts case sensitive with exim4? Well RFC2822 says that the local part (i.e. @) may be significant. However exim4 doesn't assume that by default. > Maybe I better turn that off? It'll likel

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-14 Thread Anand Kumria
On 3/13/06, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Sherohman said: > > You can attempt to convince the listmasters or the project as a whole > > in public without abusing them. (And it would be nice if they also > > replied to you in a calm, levelheaded manner as well...) > > Have I not

gtk-gnutella

2006-01-18 Thread Anand Kumria
Hi, If you are using gtk-gnutella in Debian stable you may be aware that the program is no longer functional. Worse you'll be actively performing an active on other participants on the network. While I won't point out the futility of shipping stable but non-functional software, I'll instead try

Re: gtk-gnutella

2006-01-18 Thread Anand Kumria
Hi Steve, On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:09:20PM +, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:40:42AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > > > wget > > http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/g/gtk-gnutella/gtk-gnutella_0.96b.orig.tar.gz > > wget > > http://ftp.debian.or

Re: dmsdosfs

1997-11-12 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Luka Pravica wrote: > I tried to use dmsdosfs-0.8.3.0 to access doublespace 3 compressed drive > on > my widows partition. I followed all instructions, recompiled kernel... > But when I try add module to the kernel with insmod dmsdos, I get > following error messages: > Look

Re: allow mount to normal user

1997-11-30 Thread Anand Kumria
On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Benoit Joly wrote: > i want to allow normal user to use mount for floppy and cdrom. > because i dont want to run apps in root account... > what should i do. One of the options you can specify to mount is the 'user' option which allows ordinary users to mount a filesystem. Che

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-02 Thread Anand Kumria
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Wintermute wrote: > I ask you.. what exactly is a "debian"... :) Funny you should mention that: I just happened to be going through my magazine and came across Linux Journal circa Dec 1994. On the cover "Exclusive Art Exhibit: What Is a Linux" and the rest of the cover is popu

Ease of Use was: Packaging Gimp .99.15

1997-12-03 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > like so far. The developers need to know what problems people > are having with the software and the packaging before it can be > fixed. My main problem with Debian (and most other Linux distributions) is that it assumes that your hardware is 'difficult

Re: MacIntosh diskettes

1997-12-06 Thread Anand Kumria
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Guido Bozzetto wrote: > How can I configure a Debian 1.3.1 box to read and write on/to Mac > diskettes and which programs can I use ? You won't be able to read or write low-density disks, only disks which are in 1.44Mb format. As Nils has suggested you can use hfstools (or hf

Serial problems

1997-07-23 Thread Anand Kumria
Hi there, I recently upgraded two Debian machines and installed it afrsh on two others. They are all running 1.3.1 I found that when I installed it freshly the machines hang just after they load the serial module. Both the machines this is happening too are fairly standard. Machine 1, medusa,

Version numbers go where Was: xemacs20

1997-07-23 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: > Has anyone had success running the new debian xemacs20 package in hamm? > > Mine installs OK but dumps core when run and wont come up on the screen. On another topic entirely, why is the version number in the packag

Re: Version numbers go where Was: xemacs20

1997-07-23 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Anand Kumria wrote: > > > On another topic entirely, why is the version number in the package name? > > I thought that version numbers were supposed to be in the debian filename. > > No, it's there so

Re: debian dpkg problem

1997-07-28 Thread Anand Kumria
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Ching-Chuan Chiang(¦¿²M¬u) wrote: > My disk space is full while I am installing packages by using > "dpkg -i package.deb". > Then, I cannot access my original status, that is, > "dpkg -l" shows nothing. > The disk full is due to the log file created by configurating pack

Re: dselect wigged out and everything's seg-faulting!

1997-07-30 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Joe Emenaker wrote: [snip] > - Broken Required packages - > --- Broken Required packages in section base --- > RC** Req base ldso 1.9.2-3 1.9.4-1 >U** Req base libc55.4.33-5

[EMAIL - MTA] Configuration problem Was: Can't send mail

1997-08-04 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > When I send mail to myself at [EMAIL PROTECTED] it immediately goes to > the /var/spool/mail/vtorrico file. I can then inc it with exmh and it > appends to the end of the inbox list OK. The problem is that it never > leaves my machine to go to my ISP's mail

[IPLOGGER] Odd log messages Was: problem with named

1997-08-04 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Alexander Koch wrote: > Aug 2 09:25:19 cephyr icmplogd: destination unreachable from > cephyr.cid-net.de > Aug 2 09:25:40 cephyr icmplogd: destination unreachable from > cephyr.cid-net.de > > There're two routes going out. default is the

[NAME SERVICE] Re: problem with named

1997-08-04 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Alexander Koch wrote: > Aug 2 09:01:37 cephyr named[17820]: Malformed response from > [194.221.77.66].53 > (answer to wrong question) > Aug 2 09:01:42 cephyr named[17820]: Malformed response from > [130.149.17.5].53 ( > answer to wrong

[DEBIAN-USER] Should we split it? Should we have a Debian-new? was: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-04 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Aug 02, Anand Kumria wrote: > > > > I like the idea of a debian-news mailing list, and would think it would be > > a good idea to gate whatever it sent to it to the debian-user mailing

[DEBIAN-USER] Using debian-announce instead of debian-news Was: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-04 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: > >>> A third idea, make a debian-news. A few debian people put together some > >>> pages each week summarizing the latest with debian. > >Couldn't debian-announce be used for this? Weekly, or daily traffic on debi

[PGP] Re: fingering/pgp keys

1997-08-04 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > === > Key matching expected Key ID E726EDE5 not found in file > '/home/wildfire/.pgp/pubring.pgp'. > Enter public key filename: > WARNING: Can't fi

Re: ldso 1.8.11 makes system unusable

1997-08-04 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Try running 'ldconfig' with root... > > On Jul 29, Winfried Truemper wrote: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/winni> dpkg -i ldso_1.8.11-1_i386.deb > > (Reading database ... 19925 files and directories currentl

Re: splitting up the debian-user mailing list

1997-08-04 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > I am afraid that I am no longer capable of reading every article in > > > the debian lists. I guess it's the price of success. But then I don't neccessarily think you should. I think (personally) you should help

[NCURSES] Re: A quick question

1997-08-07 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote: > Hi > Where do I find "libncurses.so.3.2". In my system I have the 3.2 version. If you already have the 3.2 version, perhaps it has not been configured yet? > Is it in some directory of ftp.debian.org? ftp://ftp.

Re: man gives segmentation fault

1997-08-07 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- [apologies for the big CC and To list. I couldn't determine who wrote initally] On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > > > > I am running Debian 1.3.1, and recently trying to run man gives a > > segmentation fault when run as a normal user (but not w

Debian Version Numbers Was: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)

1997-08-19 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > From: Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Does bash 2.01 solve the problem? We do update 'stable' - we're > > currently debating that strategy on the debian-private (developers only) > > mailing list right now. If bash

Re: Debian Version Numbers Was: Is this the Debian Philosophy? (or.... $#@!@#$ bash 2.0!)

1997-08-19 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > The next version of the system will be called "Debian 1.3.1 Revision 1". > > > People who make long-term products based on Debian requested that > > > we not change the version number of the system if we were onl

[META] Re: Proposal: User list forking.

1997-08-23 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > Hello fellow Debian users. > > I propose that we fork the debian-user list such that there are one or two > lists whose content is limited to technical questions and answers. If we > had a debian-help list, we c

Re: Release naming ...

1997-08-23 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Richard G. Roberto wrote: > A while ago I posted my feelings on this to Debian private, > but it was _very_ ill received at the time. I'll restate it > now. Commercial products do not rename their OS every time > there's a bug fix! I sugg

Re: Dave Cinege and Paul Wade

1997-08-23 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > I sent this message to Dave Cinege and Paul Wade yesterday. [snip - a personal message inexcusably sent to a mailing list instead] > As you can see, Dave hasn't removed his sorry excuse for dialog from > debian-user.

[DSELECT] Gotchas Was: X installation calamity solved. Thank you!

1997-08-23 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > you should not upgrade ssh when dselect or dpkg is running inside > > a ssh session. > > If anybody else knows of any more gotchas with dselect, I'd love to hear

Re: Madge Token Ring Cards

1997-10-07 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Bob Jonkman wrote: > Hi all: Are "Madge Smart 16/4 Ringnode" or "Madge Smart 16/4 ISA > Client Plus Ringnode" Token Ring cards usable? I saw nothing > about them in the HOWTO Hardware compatibility list, so I assume the > worst... They a

Re: ssh

1997-10-08 Thread Anand Kumria
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > Ok. I'm trying to use ssh to connect between remote machines, say from > my machine to master.debian.org. I've read the docs but I'm still > confused: > > 1) how do I enter a host into the "list of named hosts" that ssh

subscribe

2003-02-16 Thread Anand Kumria
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Re: Reply To Field in emails

2003-02-18 Thread Anand Kumria
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:36:04PM +0530, Sharninder wrote: > > > > It's not that way on the NANOG list that I'm on. > > > > Couldn't you just use the Reply-All and then the list will be > > included in the Cc: address? > > > > i used reply all on this mail ... the CC: now had the list > address,

Re: File systems -- reiser vs. ext3

2003-02-20 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:51:36AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > Hall Stevenson wrote: > > ...(see this page, > > http://www.zip.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html, for full info), etc, > > ... > > Is anyone else having trouble accessing that page (unknown host)? .au operates a three-level domain he

Re: bogomips ?

2003-02-20 Thread Anand Kumria
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:05:24AM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi. > A little question: programme `linux_logo' show 1264.84 Bogomips Total on my system, > but `bogomips' - 634.00 BogoMips. Why do these values be different? Possibly you have a dual-CPU machine since 634*2 ~= 1264. Cat /proc/cpuinfo f