craetion of /srv/ftp or /home/ftp by a ftpserver.deb

2009-02-18 Thread shaul Karl
1) (/srv/) SRV DATA FOR SERVICES PROVIDED BY SYSTEM http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM asserts that: no program should rely on a specific subdirectory structure of /srv existing or data necessarily being stored in /srv 2) (/

Re: adduser: what is the difference between --disabled-password and--disabled-login

2005-05-10 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 01:14:27PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: > > On Mon, 09 May 2005 15:34:06 +0300, Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >adduser(8) states that > > > > > >With the --disabled-log

adduser: what is the difference between --disabled-password and--disabled-login

2005-05-09 Thread Shaul Karl
adduser(8) states that With the --disabled-login option, the account will be created but will be disabled until a password is set. The --disabled-password option will not set a password, but login are still possible for example through SSH RSA keys. I wonder what is the differenc

Are there any problems with mirrors.kernel.org/debian?

2005-04-08 Thread Shaul Karl
Am I right that according to mirrors.kernel.org/debian, the archive was not updated for several days? Is that related to the fact that mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ls-lR* have time stamps of 30-Mar-2005? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-12 Thread Shaul Karl
I am forwarding this to linux-fai at uni-koeln dot de. I believe many people interested in this discussion hang out there. On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:35:45PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:44:25AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > > 60 PCs with Debian and th

Re: Switchconf: Orphaning or removing?

2005-03-07 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:25:46PM +, Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz wrote: > > Yes, I care about it. I use it on my laptop to have personalized > configurations for the places I connect to the Internet. For example > besides interfaces, I have a sources.list optimized. > > Now I have to i

pbuilder and sid.

2003-04-24 Thread Shaul Karl
ce-depends --install /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_3.0.8_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.3_i386.deb pbuilder: debootstrap failed -> Aborting with an error -> cleaning the build env -- Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t

Re: O: libsafe -- Protection against buffer overflow vulnerabilities

2001-12-30 Thread Shaul Karl
g time this package has not been uploaded and the maintainer just orphaning it. -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:42:21 +0200 Should I upload it? > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > The current maintainer of libsafe, Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-23 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:16:02PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > For a large set of programs, the solution is using QT 3.0 or libgtk 2.4 > > > (or is it 3.0?). > > > > I still do not find it satisfactory, mostly because it is not part of the > >

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-23 Thread Shaul Karl
2:16:42 David Starner wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:21:39AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > >> [05:09:10 tmp]$ grep-available -PX xfonts-intl-arabic > >> Package: xfonts-intl-arabic > > > >Which are couple of fonts in an Emacs-only encoding, not useful > &g

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-23 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:21:39AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > [05:09:10 tmp]$ grep-available -PX xfonts-intl-arabic > > Package: xfonts-intl-arabic > > Which are couple of fonts in an Emacs-only encoding, not useful > outside of Emacs. > > > Please note t

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-21 Thread Shaul Karl
problem is shared among Arabic and Hebrew. > > > Thanks > > > Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account > at http://www.eudoramail.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "u

Re: How to make your custom debian packages apt-gettable

2001-09-08 Thread Shaul Karl
gt; PGP Key http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/pub-key.txt > Key fingerprint = 6142 8D07 9C5B 159B C170 1F4A 40D6 F42E F464 A695 > > I always put away what I take. > --- Ryuji Akai, "Star a way" > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Two debconf issues

2001-05-04 Thread Shaul Karl
ed or awk, even for exactly the kind of pattern > matching tasks that sed and awk are designed for. > > Perl ain't your problem, it really ain't. > > Jules > Can you compare Perl speed to Python? Just curious, have no prior knowledge on this. -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#95430 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#95430: ash: word-splitting changes break shell scripts)

2001-05-03 Thread Shaul Karl
larly good example, as it's one of the > most completely broken Bourne shells shipped with a modern OS. It doesn't > even try to be POSIX-compliant. > > -- > Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > > > -- > To

Re: Only one who have parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/available?

2001-04-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> --pgp-sign-Multipart_Fri_Apr_27_01:25:02_2001-1 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > > At Thu, 26 Apr 2001 00:14:01 -0500 (CDT), > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > > > Yes there i

Re: Only one who have parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/available?

2001-04-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > Yes there is: > > > > [12:36:41 /tmp]$ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/available > > -rw-r--r--1 root root 2547713 Apr 25 00:46 > > /var/lib/dpkg/available > > [12:39:36 /tmp]$ od -cj 2547700 /var/lib/dpkg/

Re: Only one who have parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/available?

2001-04-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > Package: ng-cjk > > Priority: optional > > Section: editors > > Installed-Size: 164 > > Maintainer: Yasuhiro Take <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Architecture: i386 > > Source: ng > > Version: 1.4

Re: Only one who have parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/available?

2001-04-25 Thread Shaul Karl
> Previously Shaul Karl wrote: > > [00:44:26 /tmp]$ dpkg -l doc-linux-text > > dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 69953 > > package > > `ng-cjk': > > EOF during value of field `MD5sum' (missing final newline) > >

Only one who have parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/available?

2001-04-24 Thread Shaul Karl
vail > /var/lib/dpkg/available"; line in my /etc/apt/apt.conf DPkg section if this makes any difference. -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-10 Thread Shaul Karl
d vice versa. > -- > ciao, > Marco > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Donate free food to the w

Re: Becoming a Pkg Mgr.

2000-03-24 Thread Shaul Karl
hungersite.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.

Re: An advise how to apply for the TkMan author to change his license.

2000-03-15 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 03:18:47AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > > [22:42:00 src]$ tail -n 9 tkman-2.1b4/README-tkman > > > > Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its > > documentation for documentation for any purpose, without fee, and >