Re: mass-installing Debian

1999-05-26 Thread Brandon Mitchell
es, 2 for no, and one apparently for a shell (forgot about that one). Just add one more for a diff. Easy and useful. Brandon Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://bmitch.dhis.org/ ICQ: 30631197

Re: time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
e day. Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bmitch.dhis.org/ ICQ 30631197 | | Throughout history, UNIX systems have regularly been broken into, beaten, | | brutalized, corrupted, commandeered, compromised

Re: install report for Debian 2.1 and some comments on installation profiles

1999-05-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On 9 May 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > [Talking about tasks and profile from boot-floppies] > > >>>>> "brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > brandon> I'd personally like to see a way to easily add a profile via > bran

Re: Corel Setup Design Proposal

1999-05-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 8 May 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Brandon Mitchell wrote: > >On Fri, 7 May 1999, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > > >> pretty easy: every recent graphic card is pci or agp, so it's detected > as > >> pci device and listed in the /proc f

Re: cron has gone to UTC time?

1999-01-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
thing on the bug list. Thanks, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.resnet.wm.edu/~bhmit1 | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to an | | actual message is purely accidental. |

Re: XFree86 3.3.2.3a-8pre9v6 at master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86

1999-01-28 Thread Brandon Mitchell
it works, this would seem to be a solution that everyone can live with. Comments are welcome, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random sequence of b

Re: Proposal: increasing mirror security

1999-01-26 Thread Brandon Mitchell
# or maybe we don't need this Thanks, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to | | an actual message is purely accidental. |

Re: Proposal: increasing mirror security

1999-01-25 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ile needs a pgp signature stored in Packages.pgp. A less secure version would be to have the Packages.pgp file generated automatically. Sorry about the confusion, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.

Re: Proposal: increasing mirror security

1999-01-25 Thread Brandon Mitchell
e packages file contains md5sums, there is a decent check on package by package basis already in apt. Thanks for seeing this, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a complet

Proposal: increasing mirror security

1999-01-25 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ompromised. Thoughts? Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to | | an actual message is purely accidental. |

Re: Debian Weekly News - 12 to 18 Jan 1999

1999-01-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ther to call it X or XFree. I'll be more careful next time. Thanks, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to | | an actual message is purely accidental. |

Re: Debian v2.1 ("Slink") Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > > > Branden has a release candidate for X ready somewhere, and I urge > > > everyone to test that! > > >

Re: Debian v2.1 ("Slink") Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
is: http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86/ or in apt: deb http://master.debian.org/%7Ebranden xfree86/ These are considered experimental, but I'm sure he welcomes all testers. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMA

Re: Logo license update?

1999-01-18 Thread Brandon Mitchell
at you have at least 30 days to sell your inventory. Just a thought from an uninformed user, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any re

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
x27;t think it would hurt to leave it off the > cd's and make it available for download later. We can call it a beta or > whatever, but those who want it could still use it. I think sid is the place for this. When you are ready, you can move it to the current unstable. Brandon P

Re: location of 2.0.7 boot disks

1998-06-23 Thread Brandon Mitchell
tp://molec2.dfis.ull.es/pub/debian-spanish/boot-floppies/ but I can't get a connection to verify it right now. HTH, Brandon --+-- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Debian Testing Group Status PGP Key: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bhmit1.

Re: More corrupted utmp/wtmp

1998-06-22 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On 22 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure this is the fault of xterm. After a logout, it does this. > > Do an ldd on ssh before rebuilding. [ Note that this was my stupidity since the user said th

Re: More corrupted utmp/wtmp

1998-06-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
s. Do an ldd on ssh before rebuilding. Brandon --+-- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Debian Testing Group Status PGP Key: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/deb/ Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > : On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > : > : > I'm sorry to disapoint you, but US/Central is a perfectly valid timezone. > : > It is only intended for those

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ople with Daylight Savings Time. Brandon --+-- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Debian Testing Group Status PGP Key: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/deb/ Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Something is corrupting `wtmp/utmp' again.

1998-06-14 Thread Brandon Mitchell
:0.0 Sun Jun 14 11:37 still logged in xterm. The testers spent a while on this. The X maintainer is having a hard time with this size package. See: http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html HTH, Brandon --+-- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PR

Re: APT 0.0.16

1998-06-11 Thread Brandon Mitchell
on Brandon --+-- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Debian Testing Group Status PGP Key: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/deb/ Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Problems with the undead (zombies)

1998-06-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
. So the kernel keeps your undead child around until you run the wait or die yourself. When you die, apparently init, the parent of all, will get rid of the zombies. HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Hamm install on laptop

1998-06-05 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ng next week. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds" Phone: (757) 596-5550 --Linus Torvalds Debian Testing Group status: http://bhmit1.home.ml.

Re: Problems with the undead (zombies)

1998-06-05 Thread Brandon Mitchell
do I get rid of zombies? ] See wait(2). Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds" Phone: (757) 596-5550 --Linus Torvalds Debian Testin

Re: problem with dselect and the "dists" hierarchy

1998-06-03 Thread Brandon Mitchell
plete rewrite may result in bugs that don't show up until after release, but we may be able to change it with a simple search and replace of the offending directory names). Comments? Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger

Re: Colored Shell

1998-04-16 Thread Brandon Mitchell
s for you. (I'm not flaming you, they are the kind of things you learn by trial and error.) To get the color ls, put: alias ls='ls --color=auto' in your .bashrc and .bash_profile or in the /etc/profile. To change your shell, use chsh. HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMA

Re: Dumping core: root vs. normal user

1998-04-15 Thread Brandon Mitchell
off emacs on vi off Also, note that I haven't updated my system in quite a while. Let me know what other packages could do this: ii libc6 2.0.7pre1-1The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files) ii bash2.01-5 The GNU Bourne Again SHell

Re: Dumping core: root vs. normal user

1998-04-15 Thread Brandon Mitchell
:cs315# gcc core-test.c -o core-test [EMAIL PROTECTED](p5):cs315# ./core-test Segmentation fault (core dumped) [EMAIL PROTECTED](p5):cs315# whoami root [EMAIL PROTECTED](p5):cs315# ulimit -c unlimited I'd check the ulimit, Brandon ----- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We a

Re: Locked out of Root after attemting to change shells

1998-01-08 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To whom it may concern: > > I recently installed Debian Linux 1.3 on my computer, and while I > was trying to change my login shell for root the other day with chsh, > I accidently typed in an incorrect path to the shell I wanted. Being > root,

Re: hamm base disks?

1997-12-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Simon's Mailing List Account wrote: > does anybody have hamm base disks that need to be tested? > or do we still need to use the bo ones and then upgrade the base packages? The testing group is waiting for Sven to put them together, and I haven't heard any estimates. BTW, a

Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken

1997-12-13 Thread Brandon Mitchell
p. Thanks, Brandon ----- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds" Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Checklist request (was: RFC: Deb 2.0 testing process)

1997-12-11 Thread Brandon Mitchell
we'll probably send it to the maintainer if they are interested, but keep it on a web site for faster distribution among ourselves. Waiting for a package to be uploaded for a test script during a frozen period may make this process painfully long. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell &l

Re: Checklist request (was: RFC: Deb 2.0 testing process)

1997-12-11 Thread Brandon Mitchell
hamm, I know > the freeze is a ways off and there's a lot of instability going on.] But given my schedule over the next month, any freeze will be too soon. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROT

Re: Checklist request (was: RFC: Deb 2.0 testing process)

1997-12-10 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Philip Hands wrote: > > For example, with the diff package: > > > > Package: diff > > - cmp works on identical and different binary or text files > > - diff works on files, directories, normal or 2 column > > - sdiff correctly merges two files > > - diff3 correctly compa

Debian needs guinea pigs

1997-12-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
process below to give you an idea of how this works. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds" Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds DE

Checklist request (was: RFC: Deb 2.0 testing process)

1997-12-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
packages. E.g. a web server checklist. Also a checklist that applies to all packages should be made (e.g. almost all files should be readable by everyone and in locations required by the standard). The first entry of a web server will then say it should pass the general web server checklist.

Re: pentium specific packages

1997-12-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
conversion from what I'm suggesting now to a deity way will probably be painless, remove the symlinks, point deity to binary-i586 first and have binary-i386 as the second choice. Thanks, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it P

Re: pentium specific packages

1997-12-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
e things will get really confusing, and defeating the purpose of having different directories for different architectures. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds" Ph

Re: pentium specific packages

1997-12-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
we need to tell dselect(ftp) to get the packages from binary-pent instead of binary-i386. Is there an easy way to do this? (Also, if pentium clones also work with the ecgs compiled packages, maybe i586 is better than pent.) Thanks, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &qu

Re: random numbers

1997-12-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
l for a course that spent a large amount of time on a random generator. What were you testing? How long it took to generate a bunch of numbers? I had a hard time figuring out what you meant by worse performance. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux

Re: RFC: Deb 2.0 testing process

1997-12-05 Thread Brandon Mitchell
get more opinions before I start doing this. Fixing any problems now is much easier than if we wait until half of the maintainers have already submitted list. Thanks for your comments, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger

Re: Future security problem (was Re: be careful with Replaces, please)

1997-12-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
he idea is to allow those that can and want to be more secure that ability. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds" Phone: (757) 221-4847

Future security problem (was Re: be careful with Replaces, please)

1997-12-01 Thread Brandon Mitchell
lations too). I'd also be interested in some kind of verification, so I can accept all packages put together by some maintainer, and the maintainers on the debian keyring, but no one else. We have time to think about this, but the sooner the better in my opinion. Thanks, Brandon - Brandon

RFC: Deb 2.0 testing process

1997-11-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
What I'd like to ask for now is any comments on this. Please do NOT send any checklist at this time. After a few weeks, I'll post a request for the list, and inform everyone of the final decision. Thanks, Brandon ----- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linu