Re: Help to ship a better rsync on Buster

2018-12-24 Thread Paul Slootman
Hi Samuel, (replying above the message as it's all quite relevant but I don't have anything specific to comment on) It's true that I have a lot less time nowadays than a couple of years ago to spend on Debian, unfortunately. This is becoming more and more obvious. Feel free to upload a new release

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Paul Slootman
received via packages.debian.org the last couple of months was image spam, mail size 14-19kB. Paul Slootman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ITP: ttf-linex -- Free fonts for education and institutions

2008-03-12 Thread Paul Slootman
o the archive it should be uploaded to. The text first gave me the impression that the fonts were only free when used in education and institutions... Paul Slootman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs

2008-02-22 Thread Paul Slootman
Admittedly a fraction of his bug reports are valid, but then again the manner of reporting really sucks. All in all, the net result on my part is that his bug reports only serve to demotivate. Paul Slootman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#465568: ITP: pcmanfm -- an extremely fast and lightweight file manager for X

2008-02-13 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 13 Feb 2008, Asho Yeh wrote: > Subject: Bug#465568: ITP: pcmanfm -- an extremely fast and lightweight file > manager for X > > I intend to orphan the pcmanfm package. The upstream author released a Orphan? Or package? ITP implies the last. Paul Slootman -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: exim configuration in master, and per-user DNSBLs

2006-12-14 Thread Paul Slootman
. I'd add them to the top, as I wouldn't even want postmaster mail from such systems. Paul Slootman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: These new diffs are great, but...

2006-07-18 Thread Paul Slootman
eeded, and now I don't need that anymore. The high memory need was apparently related to processing all those diffs. Paul Slootman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which machine is best to build documentation package?

2003-12-18 Thread Paul Slootman
which are tiny). Paul Slootman

upload queue at erlangen

2003-12-08 Thread Paul Slootman
ages. In fact, going to ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/debian/UploadQueue/ it seems that it's been broken since beginning of October. Perhaps it should be disabled, and removed from the developer's reference? Or is something else the matter? Paul Slootman

Re: Accepted bwidget 1.6.0-1 (all source)

2003-05-27 Thread Paul Slootman
t necessarily reflect the point you're trying to get across). Perhaps a separate, concise message to debian-devel-announce? Paul Slootman

Re: Bug#194155: ITP: ehnt -- Extreme Happy Netflow Tool - Obtains useful information out of netflow data

2003-05-21 Thread Paul Slootman
appy Netflow Tool - Obtains useful information > out of netflow data > > (Include the long description here.) You might have made the effort of filling in the fields; I can't believe the version is x.y.z, the upstream author is Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, etc. Especially the license... Paul Slootman

Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from "vacation". (MIA?)]

2003-05-20 Thread Paul Slootman
ies and the pounds will take care of themselves." As in "penny wise, pound foolish" ? :-) (I love proverbs, there's one to prove anything.) Paul Slootman

Re: Michael-John Turner MIA? (was: Debian MIA check)

2003-05-16 Thread Paul Slootman
time. Done, mrtg 2.9.29-0.1 is accepted. I also needed to upload libsnmp-session-perl 0.95-0.1 as the new mrtg depends on this 0.93 or higher (only 0.90 was available), and MJ is also the maintainer for this package. Paul Slootman

Michael-John Turner MIA? (was: Debian MIA check)

2003-05-15 Thread Paul Slootman
2002. It's about bugs in mrtg that caused me to look for him. It may be necessary to hijack his packages if he is in fact MIA. A search on Google doesn't show any recent activity either. Paul Slootman pgpBUYYSNPpCQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#191072: ITP: dirvish -- Filesystem based backup system using rsync

2003-04-28 Thread Paul Slootman
over the network (using ssh). A proposed version can be downloaded with the following lines in sources.list: deb http://www.wurtel.net local main deb-src http://www.wurtel.net local main Paul Slootman

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-12 Thread Paul Slootman
to? Because I chose "Netherlands" and then http, "ftp.surfnet.nl" but that gave 404 errors. ftp.snt.utwente.nl works fine. Paul Slootman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-12 Thread Paul Slootman
ore uses than just talking to these things: it's also used when connecting to Windows VPN servers. So in those cases you also need pptp-linux (the point Bernd was making). Paul Slootman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Galeon not to be in Woody?

2002-04-11 Thread Paul Slootman
supported by netscape, opera, mozilla, ... It's pretty standard behaviour. Read the docs or at least think about how something like this is useful, before complaining about "strange middlemouse behavior". "Duh, they should fix thumb-tacks so I don't hurt myself when I use

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-11 Thread Paul Slootman
; > planning to reconfigure all such modems as part of the standard > > installation. Perhaps they have worked out a deal with Alcatel? Upgrading the firmware officially (as the latest types won't accept the "sateh" hack). Paul Slootman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-11 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 11 Apr 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 22:40, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > Over the past few weeks most of the following packages have been removed > > > from the upcoming release due to bugs and such [0]. > > > > [...] > > > > &g

Re: Packages still in Potato

2002-04-11 Thread Paul Slootman
rrently in /pool/, the situation isn't that different from earlier releases where the files were still in the previous release's hierarchy, and were moved to the new release hierarchy when that was released (or was it when it was frozen). I'de hate to see a flurry of useless upl

Re: How about pptp-linux? (was: Why was libpam-pgsql removed from the woody lineup?)

2002-04-09 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 09 Apr 2002, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote: > On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:57:00AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > > > > On a related note: > > > No one's responded to my question as to why ppt

How about pptp-linux? (was: Why was libpam-pgsql removed from the woody lineup?)

2002-04-09 Thread Paul Slootman
to my question as to why pptp-linux was removed. Its last RC bug was resolved already by the version in testing before it was removed from testing. It's a pretty important package for those who use ADSL, at least here in the Netherlands. madison on pandora doesn't say anything a

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-07 Thread Paul Slootman
alls it) has taken quite a flight here in the Netherlands, and for that pptp-linux is needed... Paul Slootman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#138659: RFP: gil -- GTK ISDN Launcher (was: Bug#138659: isdnutils-xtools: Add Gi to this package)

2002-04-04 Thread Paul Slootman
his package to wnpp (work-needing and prospective packages, see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/). Paul Slootman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-12 Thread Paul Slootman
ail/rob The first cat up to and including the pipe is totally useless, the way it's written. Of course, Rob probably meant a > after the second cat, in which case the pipe and the second cat is superfluous. Paul Slootman

Re: find eating all memory

2002-01-04 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 03 Jan 2002, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > By default, find doesn't follow links. When forced to (-follow), it > keeps track of inodes and doesn't enter the same directory twice. I wish diff -r did the same :-( Paul Slootman

Re: isdnutils getting into testing is a problem...

2001-09-17 Thread Paul Slootman
a (the recommends was actually too weak, as isdnlog won't run if it can't find any data), and isdnlog-data recommends isdnlog (so it can be installed on those architectures that don't have isdnlog; perhaps at some stage another app may want to use isdnlog's data?) Paul Slootman

Re: New update_excuses output

2001-09-16 Thread Paul Slootman
abviously something wrong in general with it. If it's only alpha (or maybe one other arch), then it's probable that it's an alpha-specific thing that I may be solve quickly (having seen the same problem in other packages, perhaps...) So I find the current output OK, and the compressed version works nicely now; thanks, AJ, for the quick fix :-) Paul Slootman

Re: New update_excuses output

2001-09-15 Thread Paul Slootman
ger than normal (usually indicating a problem that can't be handled by the build daemon), and hence look at that list quite regularly. Thanks, Paul Slootman

Re: isdnutils getting into testing is a problem...

2001-09-12 Thread Paul Slootman
lot of time to get the data in an architecture-independent form (i.e. byte order independent), together with upstream, resulting in a rewrite of some parts of the data accessing routines. But I would have thought that the fact that it's actually Architecture: all would be apparent

isdnutils getting into testing is a problem...

2001-09-12 Thread Paul Slootman
by every build daemon and that data gets duplicated uselessly in the archives). If I have to choose, I choose the first, but I'm hoping there's an override possible. Help! :-) Paul Slootman pgpj1UbZ9Zkaf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Request for testers for new gphoto package

2001-09-10 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 10 Sep 2001, Paul Slootman wrote: > > However, I can't install your package: Removing the partly installed package also doesn't work well: # dpkg --purge gphoto (Reading database ... 44388 files and directories currently installed.) Removing gphoto ... Purging configu

Re: Request for testers for new gphoto package

2001-09-10 Thread Paul Slootman
re... Apparently libusb1 was removed a couple of weeks ago. > PS: Please send copies to me and not to the list, in order to not clobber > it (I'm not subscribed so keep that in mind) To the list anyway to prevent others from running into the same problem and wasting their time. Paul Slootman

Re: [Debian-devel]Compiling Kernel on SPARC 2.2(potato)) -> 2.4.9

2001-09-10 Thread Paul Slootman
AFAIK linux 2.4 simply isn't suitable for sparc yet (sparc64 is a different matter). Paul Slootman

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-04 Thread Paul Slootman
suddenly it doesn't anymore even though the docs have not changed one iota in this respect. I'd suggest that as long as the "charset" setting is still supported in mutt, mutt should use that to override an absence of any locale settings (as it in fact did in the past, effectively

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Paul Slootman
lain what is really broken about it. After all, it's NSlookup, not HOSTlookup or whatever. Both dig and host are too noisy for me, although I won't hesitate to use them when I need their specific functionality. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-02 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 02 May 2001, Marco d'Itri wrote: > close 95975 I disagree about whether the bug is closed, as you "forget" to notice parts of my message. However, I don't feel like petty BTS games (*) > On May 02, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-02 Thread Paul Slootman
ay and enter textual data. Obviously it doesn't work that way anymore! So don't say I should read the FM, I F did. README.Debian is NOT a manual. manual.txt is. So fix the FM if the way it works has changed. Perhaps even give an error if charset is defined, as it apparently isn't used anymore. Paul Slootman

Re: Bug#81396: root shell fscked after upgrade to woody

2001-01-07 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sun 07 Jan 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Search google for putty, if you need an ssh client for windows. > > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ (hmm, I appear to > have that memorized - I end up grabbi

Re: Bug#81396: root shell fscked after upgrade to woody

2001-01-07 Thread Paul Slootman
t; not able to use an ssh client... it's easier. Search google for putty, if you need an ssh client for windows. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.

Re: update excuses.. how to read them

2001-01-07 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sun 07 Jan 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 01:05:57AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > > jed-sl-ja is not built anymore (note that it is "out of date" on > > ALL architectures). Does this mean it won't be installed into > > woody u

Re: update excuses.. how to read them

2001-01-06 Thread Paul Slootman
alled into woody until someone manually removes jed-sl-ja_0.98.7.j055-2.deb from all architectures in sid? > > Is there a build-info for all the other platforms, too? How can I see why > > the alpha failed to build my package? See bug 81379 :-) Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL P

updated experimental ISDNUTILS packages available 1:3.1pre1b-1.1

2000-09-08 Thread Paul Slootman
Re-implemented some "smart" stuff in vboxmail and vboxplay that I had added in the 3.0 series of isdnutils. The old ones (3.1pre1b-1) is available in http://www.murphy.nl/~paul/debian/isdnutils/1/ if the need arises... Enjoy. I'll be back on Monday. Paul Slootman -- home

Re: Debian and KDE: Appology

2000-09-08 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 08 Sep 2000, Joseph Carter wrote: > IMO, this makes him as dangerous > as Eric Raymond. OTOH, Eric Raymond owns guns and is fanatic about it :-) Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian and KDE: Appology

2000-09-08 Thread Paul Slootman
RMS should IMHO publically apologize with the KDE people for this > condescending part of his otherwise correct article. He should be So now _you_ are telling someone to ask for forgiveness? Paul Slootman (not a follower of RMS myself) -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurt

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 07 Sep 2000, Paul Slootman wrote: > These packages have been uploaded to the "experimental" distribution > (but not yet installed at this moment, maybe today?), FYI: I got got mail from the installer that it's been put into experimental. Paul Slootman -- home:

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Paul Slootman
the script... Maybe tomorrow, otherwise early next week. Thanks, Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ isdn4linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.isd

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Paul Slootman
dn.conf for .de from /usr/share/doc/isdnlog/examples/isdn.conf.de.gz which should have the correct settings. Or throw away your /etc/isdn/isdn.conf and run dpkg-reconfigure isdnlog :-) Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ww

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-07 Thread Paul Slootman
at it canĀ“t possibly be typos. Please check the BTS for apt-move, this is discussed externsively. Apparently it's a (for me non-obvious) bug in bash. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debia

Re: alternatives for MUA and NUA?

2000-09-07 Thread Paul Slootman
"imput" should have a /usr/sbin/sendmail - compatible wrapper? Perhaps it already does? > Maybe I'm weird. No comment :-) Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PRO

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 07 Sep 2000, Andreas Fuchs wrote: > Today, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been promising this for a while, but now it's happened: > > The latest version of isdn4k-utils has been packaged. > > Yippie! :-) > > deb http://www.

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 07 Sep 2000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:58:33AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > In any case, reverse DNS lookup is reasonable, no matter what you > > > think of DUL. > > > > I have to agree with this. The previous time, the disc

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 08 Sep 2000, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 07:40:02AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > > These packages have been uploaded to the "experimental" distribution > > (but not yet installed at this moment, maybe today?), > > but are also available

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Paul Slootman
nced that their setup was correct. They also tried to convince me that I misunderstood the problem. Yeah, right. I recommended my client to go elsewhere for internet connectivity. He did, and now knows that it is possible to have a reliable internet connection. He now also pays in excess of US$1000 a y

new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Paul Slootman
ld be enough according to the debconf docs. Anyone know what to do about it?) Enjoy, Paul Slootman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

db.debian.org (was: libgd1 vs. libgd1g)

2000-09-05 Thread Paul Slootman
that this info can't be retrieved without logging in. Misleading. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ isdn4linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: Debian, daemons and runlevels (was: Re: X and runlevels)

2000-09-04 Thread Paul Slootman
future packages of the same sort) which allows a script to query if a > certain init.d script should be started [in the current runlevel]. This sounds like the most reasonable way of doing it IMHO. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work:

Re: X and runlevels

2000-09-04 Thread Paul Slootman
switching with alt-ctrl-F1 and staying there). Nowadays xdm detects that the X server is looping, and after a couple of times stops restarting the X server. This has saved me once or twice. Thanks, Branden! (or was it someone else's work?) Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: Re[2]: X and runlevels

2000-09-04 Thread Paul Slootman
evel can be used to find the current runlevel So it does. It just reads /var/run/utmp, like who does, so it should be trivial to add the -r flag to who :-) Thanks, Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.m

Re: WARNING: potato has horrible broken locales

2000-09-04 Thread Paul Slootman
aming ls to List-Directory :-( > On pandora I just did the following: > $ touch a b c A B C > $ echo [[:lower:]] > a b c > $ echo [[:upper:]] > A B C > $ echo [a-c] > a b c The scary thing (for me :-) is that this also works on Solaris already. At least, with ksh, not

Re: X and runlevels

2000-09-04 Thread Paul Slootman
ould be used: RL=`who -r` if [ -x /etc/rc$RC.d/S??$PKGNAME ]; then /etc/rc$RC.d/S??$PKGNAME start fi That's ignoring file-rc, unfortunately. Is there an easy way of determining whether a certain init.d script should be started in the current runlevel that w

Re: X and runlevels

2000-09-04 Thread Paul Slootman
ch and every time gpm is updated (two times Don't remove _all_ the symlinks, leave the K ones. Or move one of the symlinks to rc5.d or whatever. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian

Re: X and runlevels

2000-09-04 Thread Paul Slootman
rc.d does nothing. This is so that the system :administrator can rearrange the links, provided that they :leave at least one link remaining, without having their : configuration overwritten. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl

Re: intent to package countrycodes

2000-09-04 Thread Paul Slootman
ckaging paradigms are mastered, I don't think this package is fit for uploading yet. Perhaps you should ask for more help in debian-mentors (which is for helping new maintainers)? Good luck, Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL P

Re: Map on debian website - bug in apache?

2000-09-04 Thread Paul Slootman
preting the filename > "developers.map.jpeg" as a .map image-map file according to this error: It sounds like it's not recognizing the .jpeg, and using .map instead? Is .jpeg a recognized extension for .jpg? Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ wo

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

2000-09-04 Thread Paul Slootman
and yes, it happened near the end). Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ isdn4linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.isdn4linux.de/ -- To UNSUB

va.debian.org is down?

2000-09-01 Thread Paul Slootman
I can't ssh to it, and www.debian.org doesn't work either. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ isdn4linux: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: APT problem

2000-08-31 Thread Paul Slootman
d to different compression behaviour, hence different sizes. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ isdn4linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.isdn4linux.de/

Re: imap mailbox killer

2000-08-31 Thread Paul Slootman
Package: imap Version: 4.7c-1 Severity: important On Thu 31 Aug 2000, Paul Slootman wrote: > Yuck. Smells like a serious buffer overflow somewhere. Upon a quick glance, there indeed appears to be no checks at all for buffer overflows. A buf of 8k is allocated into which the From:, Status:

Re: imap mailbox killer

2000-08-31 Thread Paul Slootman
initial values. > `- > > and a lot of NULL characters preceeding a few (5-6) of the messages in some > boxes. Yuck. Smells like a serious buffer overflow somewhere. This needs to be fixed fast. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.n

Re: .bashrc (ls --color=auto setting)

2000-08-31 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 30 Aug 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Paul Slootman wrote: > > Then you must have some other arrangement to get the colors; > > it's not enabled by default. Try a fresh install (I have). > > Maybe a direct setting of LS_COLORS in your .bash_profile

debian 2.2 review at http://www.securityportal.com/closet/

2000-08-30 Thread Paul Slootman
ple like yourself to test the system and submit bug reports where necessary. I hope that when debian 2.3 is frozen you will take the time to do another thorough review _before_ it is released. Regards, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: .bashrc (ls --color=auto setting)

2000-08-30 Thread Paul Slootman
? I don't and I still get > coloured output.. Then you must have some other arrangement to get the colors; it's not enabled by default. Try a fresh install (I have). Maybe a direct setting of LS_COLORS in your .bash_profile or whatever? Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#33993: general: Should log all the boot messages

2000-08-18 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 18 Aug 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:20:48AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > > On Thu 17 Aug 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > > > (I usually recommend Ctrl-S (stop output) and Ctrl-Q (restart output).) > > > > Or sh

Re: Bug#33993: general: Should log all the boot messages

2000-08-18 Thread Paul Slootman
E.g. after a day you notice something isn't running, and you wonder whether there was some message from the init.d script. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I propose gazillion packages (LONG)

2000-08-17 Thread Paul Slootman
talled: boxes and deroff. I'm sure there are more. But otherwise, some are probably good suggestions. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/

Re: Office Suite for Debian Linux

2000-08-17 Thread Paul Slootman
ract business; if someone responds, he goes to where ever the "offices" happen to be. Should this be considered spam? As far as I'm concerned, it's unsollicited commercial email, thus spam. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work:

Re: Intel Assembly error

2000-08-16 Thread Paul Slootman
access the high 16 bits of EAX, and AL for the low 16 bits of EAX. Or was that the high 8 bits of AX etc... Apart from that, using assembler is evil (if there isn't a C language alternative) because then your source will never run on anything besides the processor the assembler code is w

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-15 Thread Paul Slootman
personal information' to be able > to access the required files. This couldn't be handled by `expect' or similar? Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: isdnutils dilemma

2000-08-15 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 07 Aug 2000, Ruud de Rooij wrote: > Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm in the process for building the latest version of the isdnutils, > > with the latest upstream sources. However, I've run into a glitch, > > licence-wise. Th

Re: ITP: noffle

2000-08-15 Thread Paul Slootman
FYI: > On Wed 28 Jun 2000, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > The README says: > > > > Noffle is a Usenet news server optimized for few users and low speed > > dial-up > > connections to the Internet. It acts as a server to news clients running > > on &g

Re: eximconfig: Option 4, Local delivery only

2000-04-03 Thread Paul Slootman
O configure it to not use SMTP at all, that should be the default (again, IMHO) if you choose option 4. I don't think that any daemons etc. try to deliver to a local user via SMTP. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Advice on inetd Denial of Service Bug

2000-03-30 Thread Paul Slootman
owner of such process to have all it's sockets matched to it or generally root user will see all the necessary information in place. Ah, it's not in the synopsis, but _is_ described. BTW: it should be "all its sockets", no apostrophe. Paul Sloot

Re: ITP: manpages-da

2000-03-29 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 28 Mar 2000, Peter Makholm wrote: > Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Wouldn't manpages-dk be the correct name? > > That depends > > The two letter language code is da and the two letter country code is > DK (making the correct loca

Re: ITP: manpages-da

2000-03-28 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 24 Mar 2000, Peter Makholm wrote: > In SSLUG (swedish/danish LUG) we have begun translating > man-pages to danish. when we have finished a nice set (like > file-utils) I will make a debian package out of it. Wouldn't manpages-dk be the correct name? Paul Slootman -- home

Re: Danger, Branden Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-16 Thread Paul Slootman
ust one package: glibc-doc i18ndata libc6 libc6-dev locales It _is_ useful to be able to install these separate parts, of course... Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian:

mailcap stress (was: Potato fresh install)

2000-03-16 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 13 Mar 2000, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > Also, when upgrading mime-support, it always offers to replace the > > conffile /etc/mailcap, which is NEVER a smart thing to do. Maybe > > /etc/mailcap should be one of the bas

Re: Danger, Branden Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Paul Slootman
ver binary, too. > > There are exactly ONE HUNDRED server modules built by the stock 4.0 source > tree. A separate xserver section might be useful for separating the servers (and fonts etc) and the applications. If you have a working X setup, then you don't need to look at xse

Re: Potato fresh install

2000-03-13 Thread Paul Slootman
in /etc/mailcap? If so, perhaps mime-support should be installed much earlier. Also, when upgrading mime-support, it always offers to replace the conffile /etc/mailcap, which is NEVER a smart thing to do. Maybe /etc/mailcap should be one of the base files, and not part of mime-support? Paul Slootma

dpkg: dpkg-divert syntax error

2000-03-10 Thread Paul Slootman
s the code: if ($1 == ENOENT) { $dorename = 0; } else unlink ("${file}.dpkg-devert.tmp"); Note the missing braces round the unlink statement. Besides, "devert" is spelled wrong (but that's not important). Paul Slootman --

Re: Packages to remove from frozen

2000-03-09 Thread Paul Slootman
o a random number of different hosts (I connect daily to a random 5-10 systems out of a collection 700 hosts (each running ssh 1.2.17), which IMHO means the sample is quite random, but then statistics lessons was a long time ago). Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurte

Re: Use https://db.debian.org/ [was Re: Add your location ...]

1999-09-23 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 23 Sep 1999, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > > I should have used https://www.debian.org/ in the original mail. No, you should have used https://db.debian.org/ ... > I get 'connection refused by the server'... ... because db.debian.org does accept https connecti

Re: Use https://db.debian.org/ [was Re: Add your location ...]

1999-09-23 Thread Paul Slootman
ge, but my postcode is STILL not getting added (it is "7609 JD"; yes, with a space), and also my coordinates (0521952 / 0063753) were not added. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/

Re: Debian's involvement in another exhibition

1999-09-23 Thread Paul Slootman
from www.linuxtag.de ... Where is Oldenburg geographically? E.g. how far from Holland? :-) Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ isdn4linux: [EM

Re: ITP: Rael's Binary Grabber

1999-09-17 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 16 Sep 1999, Joe Drew wrote: > > I've received an OK from the author of Rael's Binary Grabber to redistribute Perhaps you could shed some light on what `Rael's Binary Grabber' is? Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ wo

Re: Strange mail from Anders Arnholm (was Re: /opt/ again (was Re: FreeBSD-like approach for Debian? [was: ...]))

1999-09-16 Thread Paul Slootman
-) > > Xref: sheikh.hands.com debian:30380 debian.devel:24066 You expand locally to a newsgroup? Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/

Re: man preprocessor different than on Red Hat?

1999-09-15 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 15 Sep 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > The man page defines a table like so: What happens if you pass the -pt option to man? Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian:

Re: NOT done!

1999-09-15 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 15 Sep 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > Perhaps someone made a typo and closed the wrong bug? It was apparently done by the maintainer, and no further response from him. Curious. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Increasing regularity of build systems

1999-09-15 Thread Paul Slootman
#x27; will do it (or some subtle variation that a glance at the rules file will make clear). Once it builds, I do 'debian/rules clean' and then restart the package build, to ensure that the final package can be reproduced (restarting things from the middle sometimes leads to things happen

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