Bug#1799: smail nameresloving problems

1995-11-03 Thread John T. Larkin
smail: 3.1.29.1 rev 13. I'm having a problem with smail. It was recently working just fine. But for some reason unknown to me, it has stopped working. Here is a summary of the problem: My fdqn is aij.st.hmc.edu. Foo.st.hmc.edu is a another member of the domain st.hmc.edu. I have no problems us

Bug#1798: /etc/login has no effect when using xdm from other machines

1995-11-03 Thread Winfried Truemper
Package: xdm Instead of testing for "/etc/nologin" in "/etc/X11/Xstartup", the testing should be done in "/etc/X11/Xsession". And a "-geometry +100+100" will make it look nicer; probably a "-bg yellow" will wake up the user ... Winfried

Unanswered problem reports

1995-11-03 Thread iwj10
The following problem reports have not yet been marked as `taken up' by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OVER 9 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED: Ref PackageKeywords/Subject Submitter 379 mount Repeatable mount(1) problem wi Bill Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED] OVER 8 MONTH

Re: FTP Installation & Package Naming Conventions

1995-11-03 Thread Ian Jackson
brian white writes ("Re: FTP Installation & Package Naming Conventions "): > >brian white writes ("Re: FTP Installation & Package Naming Conventions "): > >> Also, while the versions are not choosen by Debian, the format in which > >> they are written could be. It really makes little difference wh

Re: Release management and package announcements

1995-11-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Murdock writes ("Re: Release management and package announcements"): > I agree with Ian--putting the debian-1.0 tree under private makes it > difficult for it to double as our bleeding edge a.out distribution. > (If we had a separate a.out bleeding edge tree, I'd agree with Bruce. > I'm not sur

Re: packaging X things

1995-11-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Sven Rudolph writes ("Re: packaging X things"): > Andrew D. Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am in the process of packaging up x3270 for debian, and while I have > > built > > X-stuff via imake before, I have never had to modify things. > > > > Until now. > > > > Is there an easy way

Re: FTP Installation & Package Naming Conventions

1995-11-03 Thread Ian Jackson
(Crosspost to debian-user removed.) Bruce Perens writes ("Re: Autorename packages/add a filename field in packages-master "): > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > add Filename: field in Packages-Master > > I think the script that generates the Packages and Packages-Master files has > all of the informa

Bug#1794: bin/sh is shell when none specified in /etc/passwd

1995-11-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Bruce Perens writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > [empty shell fields in /etc/passwd mean /bin/sh] > > This is common practice, and perhaps important if you are using > a Yellow Pages password database that originates on a different > system. I see. I don't really approve, but such things are to

Re: packaging X things

1995-11-03 Thread Sven Rudolph
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Andrew D. Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am in the process of packaging up x3270 for debian, and while I have built > X-stuff via imake before, I have never had to modify things. > > Until now. > > Is there an easy way of modifying the (i)makefiles to

Re: Telnetd Environment Vulnerability (fwd)

1995-11-03 Thread Peter Tobias
Matthew Bailey wrote: > FYI > > If this has been covered already ignore me I am behind on mail again.. :) > Matt The bug has been fixed 11 days ago. There was no Changlog entry for this bugfix (only the words "security bugfixes") because the bug should not be made public at this point. Netstd ve

Bug#1796: missing call to ntohs in X server

1995-11-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: xs3 Version: 3.1.2-1 I see: AUDIT: Fri Nov 3 09:21:37 1995: 23964 X: client 15 rejected from IP 127.0.0.1 port 32517 Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 But, from netstat we can see that the port wasn't 32517 (0x7f05) but 1407 (0x057f): tcp1 0 localhost:6000 localhost

forwarded message from CERT Bulletin

1995-11-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Here's another CERT advisory. I'm not sure what to do about this, apart from grepping the logs for access control failures and using a crowbar to investigate anyone I catch attacking my server. The XFree86 people have clearly decided that Linux isn't worth their while and so they haven't bothered

Bug#1778: Zombies from Cern-Httpd (solved)

1995-11-03 Thread Daniel Quinlan
eckes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: cern-httpd > Version: 3.0-4 > > There is an error in the Signal handling of the cern-httpd, which makes > zombies hang around, especially on heavy loaded WWW Server. The following > Patch may solve this: > > --- WWW/All/linux/Makefile.include.org Sun O