rkhunter: Did anybody review it's code?

2009-08-11 Thread Siggy Brentrup
Hi list, while looking at rkhunter bugs, I noticed maintainer arguing with a bogus test on Bug#518405, for details see my followup there. (I know I forgot parenthesises in the 1st command line) Given the test is from rkhunter's code, I doubt it's usefulness now before someone more competent than

Re: default character encoding for everything in debian

2009-08-10 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 19:53 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 01:45:40PM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > While utf-8 covers the broadest set of character glyphs possible, it > > suffers from size as well as performance penalties. Characters no > > longer

Re: default character encoding for everything in debian

2009-08-10 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 13:09 +0200, Thomas Koch wrote: > Hi, > > I've an issue, that I forgot to set the character encoding of tomcat to utf-8 > after reinstalling a server. > Now, before I report a wishlist(?) bug to tomcat, I want to ask (and invite > to > discuss) shouldn't utf8 be the defa

Re: Bug#540341: RFH: apt-cross -- retrieve, build and install libraries for cross-compiling

2009-08-07 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 11:04 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > The package description is: > apt-cross is intended to make it easier to locate, download, install and > update your cross-compiling libraries, directly from the Debian archives. I'm interested to help on this, but I'm still waiting for

Re: Spam on the lists [Was: Re: Account Upgrade (Unex)]

2009-08-04 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:36 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 08:33, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:28 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 08:24, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > >> > And if for whatever reason s

Re: Spam on the lists [Was: Re: Account Upgrade (Unex)]

2009-08-03 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:28 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 08:24, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > And if for whatever reason somebody wants to see your list disfunctional, > > you open an easy way to do so by implementing a bot that reports every > > mes

Re: Spam on the lists [Was: Re: Account Upgrade (Unex)]

2009-08-03 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 08:48 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 01:39, brian m. > carlson wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 02:24:28AM +0300, Eugene Gorodinsky wrote: > >> Is there any way to actually make it harder to spam the list? I just > >> subscribed and already see spam and

Re: Orphaning debmirror

2009-08-03 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:36 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I doubt there is much style left in the code. Thanks for this helpful line :) Siggy -- Please don't Cc: me when replying, I might not see either copy. bsb-at-psycho-dot-informationsanarchistik-dot-de

Re: Orphaning debmirror

2009-08-02 Thread Siggy Brentrup
Hi, sorry for the late reply, we were celebrating my wife's birthday at the seaside until yesterday late in the evenign. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 17:53 +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Fri Jul 31, 2009 at 18:47:58 +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > > Who wrote debmirror? Without i

Re: Orphaning debmirror

2009-07-31 Thread Siggy Brentrup
Hi Goswin, on Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:51 +0200, you wrote: > I'm still looking for a new maintainer of debmirror and I'm > considering orphaning the package now if nobody steps up. > Debmirror is written in perl so you should have some grasp and love > for the language. No way. > I hate perl

[Answered] Question regarding the default system shell

2009-07-26 Thread Siggy Brentrup
Hi Stefano, you must have missed my followup to Manoj. On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 18:35 +0200, you wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 02:04:51PM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > > > My question is: will it ever happen that I may safely leave > > > > /bin/sh -> das

[Answered] Question regarding the default system shell

2009-07-26 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 09:58 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, Jul 26 2009, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > > > My question is: will it ever happen that I may safely leave > > /bin/sh -> dash > > while running an upgrade without fearing a maintainer script &

Re: Question regarding the default system shell

2009-07-26 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 14:49 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > su, 2009-07-26 kello 13:36 +0200, Siggy Brentrup kirjoitti: > > My question is: will it ever happen that I may safely leave > > /bin/sh -> dash > > while running an upgrade without fearing a maintainer scr

Question regarding the default system shell

2009-07-26 Thread Siggy Brentrup
Hi list, apologies again for the nonsense I uttered in another thread on this issue. I've been off list for more than 5 years now and I remember the discussion on changing the default system shell to be recurring every now and then in '03-'04. Arguments were essentially the same as nowadays mean

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash without dash essential

2009-07-26 Thread Siggy Brentrup
Hi Sam, on Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 16:53 -0400, you wrote: > >>>>> "Siggy" == Siggy Brentrup writes: [snipping nonsense and reply] My sincere apologies for that nonsense, my only excuse is that I was overtired and I'm quite concerned about this issue not being so

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash without dash essential

2009-07-23 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:19 -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > Folks, there was a longish discussion on IRC starting about an hour > ago about dash and bash. These discussions are extremely long standing :) The move away from bash has been aimed at long before I vanished from the project in 2004. I'

[SOLVED] MTA experts: address rewriting depending on next hop

2009-07-22 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:36 +0200, Izak Burger wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > Here's the question again: which one of the abundance of MTAs in > > Debian is capable of address rewriting depending on destination? > > I am pretty sure

Re: MTA experts: address rewriting depending on next hop

2009-07-22 Thread Siggy Brentrup
Hi Izak, On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:36 +0200, you wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > Here's the question again: which one of the abundance of MTAs in > > Debian is capable of address rewriting depending on destination? > > I am pr

MTA experts: address rewriting depending on next hop

2009-07-21 Thread Siggy Brentrup
Sorry list, if you see it again; yesterday I posted this to d-u and apart from a quick but useless reply got no reaction. I can't tell whether my English is to bad, or he was just trolling. - Forwarded message from Siggy Brentrup - Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:03:01 +0200 From:

Re: Bug#537852: ITP: notify-osd -- daemon that displays passive pop-up notifications

2009-07-21 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:59 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: [snip] > The Desktop Notifications framework provides a standard way of doing > passive pop-up notifications on the Linux desktop. These are > designed to notify the user of something without interrupting their > work with a dialog

Re: Bug#172037: ITP: styx, styx-{dev,doc}, lib[dx]styx -- a combined parser/scanner generator

2002-12-06 Thread Siggy Brentrup
Sorry, I forgot to mention preliminary packages for i386 and mips are available at http://xlab.winnegan.de/styx/ On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 08:21:25PM +0100, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: unavailable; reported 2002-12-06 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name

Bug#172037: ITP: styx, styx-{dev,doc}, lib[dx]styx -- a combined parser/scanner generator

2002-12-06 Thread Siggy Brentrup
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2002-12-06 Severity: wishlist * Package name: styx, styx-{dev,doc}, lib[dx]styx Version : 1.5.1 Upstream Author : Heike Manns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lars Doelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.speculat

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-04-03 Thread Siggy Brentrup
BugScan reporter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Package: at (debian/main) > Maintainer: Siggy Brentrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 61295 at depends on libelfg0 This bug is fixed in at 3.1.8-10. Since I still can't upload to master, would some kind soul please do i

Re: Censoring :) (was: Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb)

1999-09-28 Thread Siggy Brentrup
y ours. At present it's a bit biased since no one volunteered to package opposite views. -- noch nichts Aufregendes: Siggy Brentrup - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: +49-441-6990134

Censoring :) (was: Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb)

1999-09-27 Thread Siggy Brentrup
*** Please _don't_Cc:_ me when following up to the list *** Sorry for responding late, had a mail hickup on sunday :( Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > it's irrelevant whether other debian developers or users agree with me > or disagree with me about the relative utility of the

Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb

1999-09-24 Thread Siggy Brentrup
uot; or Mao's "Little Red Book" and package it for debian just for fun. Either have to go into non-us I presume :) > btw : im atheist Please define in private mail, dunno wether I'm atheist, antitheist, agnostic or simply a pagean. In our culture definitions of these terms mostly

Bug#2072: MANOPT not parsed well?

1995-12-31 Thread Siggy Brentrup
> "Bruce" == Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [unnecessary kludge deleted] Bruce> By chance, does man evaluate the $PAGER variable? I don't Bruce> have man working at the moment on my own system due to an Bruce> ELF library conflict. You're right, man evaluates $PAGER (I'

Re: why doesn't binutils-2.6-1 provide a shared library?

1995-12-20 Thread Siggy Brentrup
> "Darren" == Darren/Torin/Who Ever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Darren> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Engel), in a magnificent manifestation of deity, wrote: >> It could. There is already some support for it in the >> Makefiles. I chose to leave it for the eventual maintainer to

Re: Downloading from US sites

1995-12-10 Thread Siggy Brentrup
> "Matt" == Matthew Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt> I am sorry to be an ass here but you have to understand Matt> these views. I am doing what is best for the University by Matt> not allowing for illegal software to be downloaded. The point isn't downloading illegal softw

Downloading from US sites

1995-12-10 Thread Siggy Brentrup
Hi all, finally I have got my network connection up to speed with accepable transfer rates when connected to european sites and I'm trying hard to download David's work from ftp.ods.com, but at about 100 cps this is a pain in the ... With current phone rates that's 3.35DM/MB and will be as high a

Re: New a.out/ELF development packages

1995-11-26 Thread Siggy Brentrup
> "Chris" == Chris Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> In the "binutils-2.5.2l.20-2" package, "/usr/lib/libbfd.so.2.5.2l.20" Chris> should be moved to "/lib/", because it is needed by "nm", which is Chris> invoked by "depmod", which is run before the non-root file systems ar

Re: TERM=linux & ncurses-1.9.7a...

1995-11-20 Thread Siggy Brentrup
> "Mike" == Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> Also, I seem to be missing untic or infotocap or anything that would let Mike> me look at the entry, so I'm sort of at a loss to guess where the problem Mike> might lie. Try infocmp linux Siggy -- email: [EMA

Re: ELF ncurses

1995-11-18 Thread Siggy Brentrup
stuff in debian-1.0. Jeff> Also, the ELF ncurses in the experimental directory seems to use Jeff> the wrong soname. Jeff> Is anyone working on this? Sorry, I obviously forgot to cc my reply to Bill Mitchell's message, here it is: --------[ snip ]---

Re: New a.out/ELF development packages

1995-11-17 Thread Siggy Brentrup
F'up to debian-devel! > "Dirk" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dirk> Will ligb++-2.7.x be debianized or do we have to grab that ourselves? libg++ is high on my personal priority list, since I'm using it extensively for my work. But you'll have to wait til my network con

Re: ELF packages

1995-11-16 Thread Siggy Brentrup
>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bruce> Siggy Brentrup is taking over ncurses. I must have omitted the cc to debian-devel in my reply to Bill. Sorry Siggy -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Poll: Python wishlist

1995-11-06 Thread Siggy Brentrup
Since Guido van Rossum released Python 1.3 on Oct 12 and I am successfully running locally installed a.out and elf versions. Before putting together Debian binary packages, I'd like to hear from those of you who are using the language, which extension modules you want to be compiled into the a.out

Bug#1780: mh looks in the wrong place for 'more'

1995-10-30 Thread Siggy Brentrup
Bdale Garbee writes: >It is possible to work around this defect by specifying an explicit path for >more in the user's .mh_profile: > > moreproc: /bin/more Dunno much about MH but your might consider the following for a workaround: If there is a global config file for mh, you may put it ther

Re: package uploading probs

1995-10-30 Thread Siggy Brentrup
Just finished with my 1st cup of coffee today :) Nice to see there's some discussion on this topic underway. Martin Schulze writes: >Hallo Matthew Bailey! > >}> directory across some sites with good connectivity and use rdist(1) to keep >them >}> in sync? Major mirror sites might be good candi

Re: package uploading probs

1995-10-29 Thread Siggy Brentrup
I hate to follow-up to my own message, but it's only after it was out that I got this one in linux-announce: --[ quoting Thomas Koenig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ]--- >I have uploaded another version of rdist to sunsite.unc.edu's Incoming >directory. Rdist is, to quote the mangpage, "a program t

package uploading probs

1995-10-29 Thread Siggy Brentrup
This message is intended in the first place for developers over here in Europe. I wonder if there are others experiencing the same problems that I have when uploading files to ftp.debian.org and are looking out for a solution. Since my account @uni-muenster.de is a rather limited one, I'm working