Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-08-26 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
; # Add necessary new display entries to .Xauthority file. xauth -v add "${eth0}:${xdpnum}" "${access}" "${mcookie}" xauth -v add "${host}:${xdpnum}" "${access}" "${mcookie}" xauth -v add "${host}/unix:${xdpnum}" "${access}" "${mcookie}" Why does anyone need to read megabytes of urandom? If it really is random, then 16 bytes should be enough. -- Jeff Sheinberg

Re: assimilating OpenBSD

2001-02-09 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
nd with debian-bsd. It's not the existing debian packages that need to be ported, they should essentially work as is. This is approach that Marcus Brinkmann is taking with debian-hurd. Only the essential BSD tools like disklabel, newfs, fsck, etc need to be packaged as debian packages, at fir

RE: assimilating OpenBSD

2001-02-09 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
ed" BSD tools anymore.) I am personally interested in using FreeBSD as the base, so I have no particular interest in the OpenBSD `audited' tools. -- Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: assimilating OpenBSD

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
packaged on Debian. An autobuilder will do most of the work in this area. What's needed is a `base' debian-bsd system. The basic (/bin, /sbin) *BSD binaries is what is needed to be packaged the Debian way. -- Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: assimilating OpenBSD

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
r that no software is > good enough to stand unchanged for any significant length of time, and > that smooth upgrading is the key reason to even *have* a packaging > system... -- Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Off topic question about HD filesystems

2000-11-21 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
which can be easily fixed (by an expert). HTH, -- Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Re: Debian BSD.. cool idea

2000-02-02 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
Dan Papasian writes: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 02:26:16PM -0500, Jeff Sheinberg wrote: > > The Debian package maintainer insures that upgrading mySQL from a > > prior version goes smoothly. > > > > The Debian package maintainer insures that replacing mySQL with a

Re: Re: Debian BSD.. cool idea

2000-02-01 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
tely begin to scream that your toy is about to be violated by a rapist! -- Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: More questions and qualms

1999-12-24 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
upgrading both userland and base system packages on your new Debian/GNU Linux (potato) system. Apt method in dselect does it all for you! And you haven't had to compile anything. You must try it, and live with it for a wh

Re: OT Re: Advantage of debs?

1999-12-22 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
ystem (newfs, fdisk, disklabel, fsck.ufs, various console utilities, sysinit scripts, etc) being composed of debian packages. HTH, -- Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Progres?

1999-10-26 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
packages and apt upgrade. -- Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>