Bug#489725: /usr/bin/apt-listchanges: mails are sent with current user's locale

2008-07-07 Thread River Tarnell
Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.82 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/apt-listchanges when apt-listchanges sends mail for changes, it uses the current user's locale for the mail (at least the subject line). this is wrong; just because the current user prefers German doesn't mean everyone readi

Bug#461755: [php-maint] Bug#461755: /etc/cron.d/php5: /etc/cron.d/php5 fails with too many sessions

2008-01-27 Thread River Tarnell
Steve Langasek: SL> On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 03:17:35PM +0000, River Tarnell wrote: >> i'm not sure what's causing this, but the use of xargs seems pointless >> anyway; 'find -exec rm {};' should work without the possibility of >> producing this error. SL

Bug#461755: /etc/cron.d/php5: /etc/cron.d/php5 fails with too many sessions

2008-01-20 Thread River Tarnell
Package: php5-common Version: 5.2.4-2+b1 Severity: normal File: /etc/cron.d/php5 recently, our /etc/cron.d/php5 has been generating this message: xargs: rm: Argument list too long i'm not sure what's causing this, but the use of xargs seems pointless anyway; 'find -exec rm {};' should w

Bug#458499: /usr/lib/man-db/man: support '-s' switch

2008-01-01 Thread River Tarnell
Package: man-db Version: 2.5.0-4 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/lib/man-db/man System V systems (e.g. Solaris) use the syntax 'man -sSECTION PAGE' instead of 'man SECTION PAGE'. since -s is not already used by man(1), it would be nice if this syntax could be supported in additional to the curre

Bug#443615: /usr/sbin/cron: sometimes, @reboot jobs are not run

2007-09-22 Thread River Tarnell
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-100 Severity: important File: /usr/sbin/cron sometimes, @reboot jobs in users' crontabs are not run, while other users' are. cron does log the execution of these jobs to syslog, but they are not executed. this issue is also being tracked in our bug tracker: htt

Bug#436338: /bin/df: df rounds sizes incorrectly

2007-08-06 Thread River Tarnell
Package: coreutils Version: 5.97-5.3 Severity: normal File: /bin/df i have a filesystem exported from a Solaris host via NFSv3 to a Linux client. according to df -k on both sides, this filesystem has 2290522928 KB space used: Filesystemkbytesused avail capacity Mounted on if

Bug#428066: /etc/init.d/auditd: meaning of AUDITD_CLEAN_STOP is inverted

2007-06-08 Thread River Tarnell
Package: auditd Version: 1.5.3-1 Severity: critical File: /etc/init.d/auditd Justification: breaks the whole system /etc/init.d/auditd contains this code: # Remove watches so shutdown works cleanly case "$AUDITD_CLEAN_STOP" in no|NO) /sbin/auditctl -D >/dev/null ;;

Bug#426328: /usr/bin/screen: 'screen -q -ls' doesn't work as documented

2007-05-27 Thread River Tarnell
Package: screen Version: 4.0.3-0.3 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/screen according to the manual page screen(1), -q when used with -ls should exit with 10+N, where N is the number of usable sessions; or exit with 9 or 10 if there are no sessions. however, even when sessions are available, it

Bug#424655: groff-base: koi8-r(7) manpage causes assertion failure in troff

2007-05-16 Thread River Tarnell
Package: groff-base Version: 1.18.1.1-12 Severity: normal running "man koi8-r" displays a truncated manual page, with the following error message: /tmp/zmanW0Hh4h:63: warning: can't find numbered character 131 /tmp/zmanW0Hh4h:71: warning: can't find numbered character 139 /tmp/zmanW0Hh4h:72: war