Re: Proposal: Source file package format

1999-12-02 Thread Daniel Quinlan
>> ... the LSB is working with GNU Project developers, especially from >> Debian. ... Dylan Thurston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ Dylan's private email is quoted with his permission ] > One comment that you probably know by now: Debian is not the GNU > project. There is no official relation be

Re: Proposal: Source file package format

1999-12-02 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Subject: Re: Proposal: Source file package format >> >> ++ Enables convergence towards Linux Standard Base (LSB) > Reducing incompatibility between the variants of the GNU operating > system that use Linux as the kernel is a useful job. The GNU

Re: Form XSB, take some load off LSB.

1998-11-26 Thread Daniel Quinlan
BadlandZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't think that now is the time for the LSB to take on making X > window managers more compatible. But, I do think that getting X window > managers more compatible (API/config files) is something that should > start ASAP. Therefore, why not approach GNOM

Re: Desktop normalization

1998-11-25 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Jean-Eric Cuendet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm asking me a question. There is now 2 big desktops for Linux: KDE > and Gnome. This issue has come up at several meetings with Linux distributors and developers. The general view (which I share) is that the LSB should not address the desktop qui

apt and multiple cdroms

1998-09-10 Thread Daniel Quinlan
with a different cd each time how will that affect the package cache? I get < 1k/s over my net link so using the cd's would be preferred thanks, -- Daniel Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netwise Australia 0417 677 377 "Engineering Network Solutions"

Exim and procmail

1998-04-20 Thread Daniel Quinlan
gt; D=userforward T=address_pipe: "IF S='" command not found for address_pipe transport It looks to me as if exim is taking the " at the start of the forward to be closed by ' Any ideas? -- Daniel Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netwise Australia

stopping pppd redial with persistent connection

1998-03-29 Thread Daniel Quinlan
nutes apart. This isn't as critical tho. thanks in advance, -- Daniel Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netwise Australia 0417 677 377 "Engineering Network Solutions" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mail server

1998-03-28 Thread Daniel Quinlan
smarthost. Now when I go to install the standard mail server (smail?) it offers a couple of choices, I'm not sure which one would be appopriate. Any help appreciated, -- Daniel Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netwise Australia 0417 677 377 "

Re: Problems adding swap files

1997-05-14 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having some difficulty creating "special" swapfiles to be able to test > swapping to/from an "md" device (raid0). I've followed the manpage hints > as indicated below, and think that it's complaining about the individual > file(s). Can anyone guide

Re: Dual CPU's and Debian Linux

1997-05-12 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Make sure you get 256K or 512K of pipeline-burst cache. Dale Martin writes: > The cache is in the PPro chip. [...] I was speaking of Pentiums. Pentium machines can come with a variety of cache types. > The 512K 200MHz par

Re: Dual CPU's and Debian Linux

1997-05-12 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My research group will soon upgrade a mission-critical Debian machine > to 256M of RAM for running FPU-intensive simulations. I will get to > choose a new motherboard and CPU combo as well, but I'll be limited on > price which probably means no pen

Re: hot-change disk arrays...can I do it on Linux?

1997-05-04 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hot-swap drives: this is a functionality of the drives, right? I'd > have to have disk drives that were manufactured to stand up to that, > correct? The hardware (and maybe the software too) must support hot-swap. > Assuming that I have a hot-swap disk

Re: wtmp and utmp

1997-04-28 Thread Daniel Quinlan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin J Poorman) writes: > what do the files wtmp and utmp do ? type: "man wtmp" or "man utmp". Dan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: NOT urgent: 586 assumptions?

1997-04-22 Thread Daniel Quinlan
[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to this message on a mailing list ] Joost Witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I used to have a CYRIX 486, that gave me floating point errors. > This apparently was due to a bug in the CYRIX (wasn't there with > other 486's or pentiums). I have worked on an

Re: Comments about FHS -and- Re: Cross posting per request

1996-09-05 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Glenn Bily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Folks, > [This should spark a debate :)] > > What is the fine line between a library such as libc.so.5, libm.so.5 or > libcurses.a and just a compiled object file? Please do not try to "spark debate" (troll) on the FHS discussion mailing list. I do not ap

Re: Consensus about /bin/perl.

1996-08-09 Thread Daniel Quinlan
rs. It would make sense to have scripts access it where you can expect it. FSSTND compliant Perl scripts would definitely use /usr/bin/perl. Dan -- Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / Member of the LPF http://www.bucknell.edu/~quinlan / http://www.lpf.org

problems with talk and ytalk

1996-08-02 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Linux `talk' should be able to talk to all common flavors of talk. Dan -- Daniel Quinlan Member of the League for Programming Freedom [EMAIL PROTECTED]