Package: base
Version: 1.1.0-14
/tmp/base-1.1.0/prototype/etc$ grep majordom passwd
majordom:*:30:30:majordomo:/var/majordomo:/bin/sh
/tmp/base-1.1.0/prototype/etc$ grep majordom group
majordom:*:31:
--
Shields, CrossLink.
Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> /sbin/klogd and /sbin/syslogd should be 755.
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why? I don't see any reason they should be executable by everyone.
> I have copied those permissions from my predecessor and I agree to
> them.
First, I think
Daniel Quinlan writes:
>> Package: fdutils
>> Version: 4.3-3
>>
>> /usr/bin/fdmount should be mode 4755, not 4750.
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I agree that the installation is not correct, but I doubt mode 4755
> is a solution. I for one don't like the idea that everyone is abl
> Or do we do some kind of display-time conversion from info to HTML ?
This is probably best.
Thanks
Bruce
--
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Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats.
Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECT
Bruce:
> We can make your proposal simpler by using virtual package names to
> find the libraries.[ eg Provides: libX11.so.6 ]
From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> As it stands there are a couple of problems:
> [...] we need to depend on a particular version of the package
> [...] some pack
Package: samba
Version: 1.9.16alpha10-1
When left unattended, the smbd daemon (or several instances of such)
seems to go into some sort of busy look that eats up all of the
processor time of the computer. This seems to occur when no computers
are actually accessing shares exported by samba (i.e.
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Koenig writes:
>The problem is that Maple looks for these things under /usr/X386,
>as verified with strace.
>
>Solution: cd /usr ; ln -s X11R6 X386
Real Solution: Complain to your vendor about the use of inappropriate
paths.
Installing a link to /usr/X386 i
Hello,
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://www.nlanr.net/Squid/)
Greetings Squid Users! Version 1.0.6 is now available
I would like to help with making it Debian (if I can).
Also, on that same list is talk of kernel tuning,
max file descriptors etc.
Has someone looked at Linux kernel parameter
package: dpkg
version: 1.3.4
Some of us use the VERSION_CONTROL environment variable to get emacs
and patch (among others) to create a revision history when editing
files.
Unfortunately, dpkg-source doesn't pay any attention to the setting
for that variable, and therefore assumes patch will work
The following problem reports have not yet been marked as `taken up' by a
message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or or `forwarded' by a
message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The maintainer listed against each package is derived from the Maintainer
field of the package as found in the development tree; there is an ov
Support writes:
>
> Package: samba
> Version: 1.9.16alpha10-1
>
> When left unattended, the smbd daemon (or several instances of such)
> seems to go into some sort of busy look that eats up all of the
> processor time of the computer. This seems to occur when no computers
> are actually accessin
package: dpkg
version: 1.3.4
There seems to be a problem with debian-changelog-mode.
When I attempt to finalize the release, I get the following message in
the minibuffer:
Searching for program: no such file or directory, 822-date
It's fairly obvious where it's happening (just grep for 822-date
On 9 Aug 1996, Mark Eichin wrote:
> > Well, the question is, why does it set the value to 'w' when debian.rules
> > calls the make, but not when I call make from the prompt?
>
> Because it's a subprocess of another make. Like the doc says:
>
> > Normally, you do not need to specify this optio
Thomas> PACKAGE: motifnls
Thomas> VERSION: 2.1-1
Thomas>
Thomas> A commercial application (Maple VR3) does not run correctly under
Thomas> X11R6 even with motifnls installed. It complains abut unknown
Thomas> keysyms osf* (for example osfCopy), even though these are defined
Thom
Bruce Perens writes ("Re: Shared library dependencies revisited"):
...
> OK. Have each library-provider automaticaly include a "Provides: " for
> each library that it provides, with the name indicating the
> architecture, executable format, soname, and major and _minor_ numbers
> of the library.
>
Before anyone changes anything, please read the appropriate part of
the new policy manual.
Ian.
Package: libpaper
Version: 1.0-1
I suggest that this binary be renamed `papersize'.
Ian.
Package: libpaper
Version: 1.0-1
The package contains /etc/papersize as a dpkg-handled conffile, but
this file is also modified by many packages' maintainer scripts
(including those of libpaper).
This is forbidden. See the dpkg programmers' manual.
Ian.
Package: libpaper
Version: 1.0-1
The package contains:
-r--r--r-- root/root 718 Aug 13 18:04 1996 usr/man/man1/paper.1.gz
1. This file should be writeable by root (see the guidelines).
2. Either it should not be compressed (see the guidelines) or we
should mandate compressed manpages.
Ian
Package: dosemu
Version: 0.60.3-1
The normal dosemu package comes with some dos utilities that can be run
under dosemu. The most useful one is "exitemu", which is required to
leave the doe emulator, but there are lots of other userful programs in
there. The dosemu .deb is lacking all these utiliti
Package: rsynth
Version: 1.0-1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin>file say
say: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (ZMAGIC), stripped
This should be updated to elf.
PS: it'd be nice to include some of the prononciation dictionaries 'say'
can use. (Probably as seperate packages, as they are all very lar
Package: ldso
Version: 1.7.14-4
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /lib>file ld.so*
ld.so:Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC), stripped
ld.so.1.7.14: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC), stripped
Looks like ld.so is still a.out. This is very annoying, because it means
that the a.out kernel
Package: symlinks
Version: 1.0-2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin>file symlinks
symlinks: Linux/i386 impure executable (OMAGIC), stripped
I've not seen an OMAGIC binary before, but I presume this is an a.out
executable format. If so, it should be recompiled as an elf binary.
--
#!/usr/bin/perl -i\$q=
Package: fortune
Version: 2.1-1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin>file *str*
strfile: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC)
unstr: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC)
These should be recompiled as elf.
--
#!/usr/bin/perl -i\$q='$q',\$p='$p';eval\$q.\$\^I#\n"#[EMAIL PROTECTED]
$q='
Package: fortune
Version: 2.1-1
Oh, fortune is a.out as well:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/games>file fortune
fortune: setuid Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC)
Please recompile the whole fortune package as elf.
--
#!/usr/bin/perl -i\$q='$q',\$p='$p';eval\$q.\$\^I#\n"#[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cfingerd always seems to report "[MSG-N]", even when I do have messages
turned on:
Package: cfingerd
Version: 1.2.2-4
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~>mesg y
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~>finger joey@
[]
Username: joey In real life: Joey Hess
Home directory: /home/joey Shel
Package: mount
Version: 2.5j-1
I don't know if we have this problem currently, but I'd appreciate it
if you'd check.
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[8323] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Theodore Y. Ts'o) Consulting_FYI 08/13/96 19:59 (73
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Subject: [linux-security] Vulnerability in ALL linux distribut
> > > Non-usual-maintainer updates, hello-1.3-8 -> hello-1.4-0.1
> > > Usual-maintainer updates, hello-1.3-8 -> hello-1.4-1
> > >
> > > Usual-maintainer should never use -0 for revisions.
> > > And if we agree on this, it should be mandated in the manual.
> >
> > I think this seems reasonable. I
Package: libtiff3-dev
Version: 3.4beta034-1
The following files cause `man' to complain when updating its index cache:
man3/TIFFCheckTile.3t:.so TIFFtile.3t
man3/TIFFComputeStrip.3t:.so TIFFstrip.3t
man3/TIFFComputeTile.3t:.so TIFFtile.3t
man3/TIFFCurrentDirectory.3t:.so TIFFquery.3t
man3/TIFFCur
Package: base(?)
Version: 1.1.0-14
During the initial installation of Debian 1.1, the user is asked for
information which is used to construct an /etc/resolv.conf file.
However:
- If the user enters more than one nameserver IP address, all the
addresses are listed on a single line in /etc/
Package: smail
Version: 3.1.29.1
When removing smail from the system (in favour of sendmail) with
dselect, /etc/cron.daily/smail is not removed. This results in
unnecessary mail being sent to root.
--
Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The joy of engineering is to find a straig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>MAPLE=/usr/local/maple
>export MAPLE
>[...]
># This variable tells Maple's Motif interface where to find its resource
># files. This should be set even if TTY Maple is being run, as the user
># might still open a Motif plot window.
>XAPPLRESDIR=$MAPLE/X11_defaults
>expo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Format: 1.5
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 14:46:47 +0100
Source: dpkg
Binary: dpkg
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.3.5
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low (high for debian-changelog-mode)
Maintainer: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
dpkg - P
Hi,
Should we use $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu as parameter for ./configure
and $(ARCH)-debian-linux?
If so can it specified in the guidelines.
If not what should we use?
Erick
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Andrew Howell wrote:
> Support writes:
> > Package: samba
> > Version: 1.9.16alpha10-1
> >
> > When left unattended, the smbd daemon (or several instances of
> > such) seems to go into some sort of busy look that eats up all of
> > the processor time of the computer. This se
Hello all,
A quick question (probably directed most at Ian). I notice that
/usr/lib/locale is part of the base system, but that nothing uses it.
OTOH, some packages do provide /usr/share/locale:
$ dpkg -S /usr/share/locale
textutils, fileutils, sharutils: /usr/share/locale
I have to decide what
I just talked to Ian about the name of the source dir in our new source
format. Since we're changing the format anyway I think we should use the
same format for source and binaries. For instance I'd like to name the
modules source file modules_2.0.0-8.tar.gz, the binary
modules_2.0.0-8_i386.deb and
On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I'm considering adding a paragraph to the policy manual telling people
> not to CC each other when replying to messages on debian-devel.
>
> Is it the consensus of the list that this would be a good idea ?
>
It would certainly keep the multiplicity of mes
Just a thought, but I was wondering if perhaps the dselect program
could be modified to allow for it to not allow you to be able to select
.deb archives that are non-existent? I've noticed that for the .deb
archives that I haven't downloaded, the only way I know that they're
not there, is that the
Unsusbscribe Gilles Chiasson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: 14 Aug 96 14:22 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: fileutils
Version: 3.13-4
Binary: fileutils
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
fileutils: GNU file management utilities.
C
Lars Wirzenius writes:
> I guess I'm repeating myself, but oh well. In my opinion, the main Debian
> distribution (i.e., not including non-free or contrib) should consist only
> of free software, where the definition of free includes the requirement
> that source code is available and that the prog
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thomas> Hmm... I just found that particular string in libX11.so.3.1.0 and
> Thomas> in libXt.so.3.1.0, under /usr/X11R5/lib. Strace verivies that they
> Thomas> are indeed used, so that's probably where that path comes from.
> Thomas> The vendor is not to blame.
>
>
> Should we use $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu as parameter for ./configure
> and $(ARCH)-debian-linux?
>
> If so can it specified in the guidelines.
> If not what should we use?
In the transition to ELF phase, our gcc package used i486-debian-linux,
which then caused some problems with software/docu
> Package: ldso
> Version: 1.7.14-4
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /lib>file ld.so*
> ld.so:Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC), stripped
> ld.so.1.7.14: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC), stripped
>
> Looks like ld.so is still a.out. This is very annoying, because it means
> tha
On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Dale Scheetz writes ("Re: New virtual package names. "):
> ...
> > On another note, is there an editor virtual package? Is there any interest
> > in adding one? It could be valuable to add Provides: editor to ae (and
> > others as well).
>
> Sorry I'm comi
[...]
Thomas> Same thing here (same version, I suspect), only it doesn't work.
[...]
Thomas> Hmm... I just found that particular string in libX11.so.3.1.0 and
Thomas> in libXt.so.3.1.0, under /usr/X11R5/lib. Strace verivies that they
Thomas> are indeed used, so that's probably where that
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Date: 14 Aug 96 11:01 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: lyx
Version: 0.10.1-1
Binary: lyx
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
lyx: High Level Word Processeor (BETA version)
Changes:
package: procps
version: 1.01a-1
psupdate seems to have recently taken to writing the psdatabase into
/etc, not into /boot.
This breaks the current kernel-package slightly (nothing fatal, just
annoying).
If /boot was the wrong place, please let me know so we can update
kernel-package. If /etc i
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> Package: boot (boot1440.bin, install)
> Version: 1.1 (kernel is 2.0.0)
>
> Updated information...
>
> Problem: On some systems, the compressed kernel image provided on the
> installation floppy (boot1440.bin) is not decompressed properly when
Hello Peter,
> Package: ssh
> Version: 1.2.13-1
Could you please check the version 1.2.14-1 if it occurs as well? (I am not
using gpm, so i can not check it.)
Thanks,
Dominik
Ian> 2. Either it should not be compressed (see the guidelines) or we
Ian> should mandate compressed manpages.
In this case the guidelines are of. Bruce waved his hand a while ago and
allowed parallel existence of compressed and uncompressed manpages.
Some maintainers, yours truly included,
Michael> I'd like to name the modules source file modules_2.0.0-8.tar.gz,
Michael> the binary modules_2.0.0-8_i386.deb and the directory in which the
Michael> source is stored IMO should be modules_2.0.0.
As the saying goes: You can't have the pie and eat it.
There are conflicting goals: e
> "IJ" == Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It would be nice also to not have long messages fully quoted :-(
IJ> Right, this is going into the policy manual.
Please put also something about long signatures (> 4 lines) or
signatures whose first line is not "-- ".
Ciao, Emilio.
--
Package: shellutils
Version: 1.12-5
/bin/echo does not support the `-' or `--' constructs for separating
non-option arguments from options. Nor does it give a separate option
for this purpose (a la `-e' for grep).
This means that the only way to print strings that look like its
options is to use
On Aug 14, 3:10pm, Sebastian Benoit wrote:
:
: It is possible that your system has timing problems ... Try to
: increase the IO-Waitstates in the BIOS-Setup (if there is an option
: like that), and leave both internal and external cache on.
:
>-- End of excerpt from Sebastian Benoit
Thanks for
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On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
(a problem with talk)
> I'm connected to the internet via PPP with dynamic addressing
Does your /etc/ppp/ip-up edit /etc/hosts, inserting your dynamic
address? If not, that's the problem.
Guy
"Alexander O. Yuriev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I trust you are all aware of the information released to
> bugtraq/linux-security and linux-alert mailing lists about the vulnerability
> of mount/umount utilities in Linux.
> I'd really appreciate if you provide some official informa
Thomas> But they're loaded by irisVxm, the graphical front end:
Which I don't use ..., I use the xmaple shell script (see below).
Thomas> (Dirk, it might be a good idea to check wether you have something
Thomas> like this in your environment; another suspect is the XKEYSYMDB
Thomas> env
Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Andrew Howell wrote:
> > Support writes:
> > > Package: samba
> > > Version: 1.9.16alpha10-1
> > >
> > > When left unattended, the smbd daemon (or several instances of
> > > such) seems to go into some sort of busy look that eats up all of
> > > the proce
Package: rpncalc
Version: 1.1-1
Directories must be 755 root.root.
Ian.
chiark:~/junk> dpkg --contents
/csunix-export1/debian/unstable/binary-i386/math/rpncalc_1.1-1.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Jul 23 23:00 1996 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Jul 23 23:00 1996 usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/ro
Michael Meskes wrote:
>
> I just talked to Ian about the name of the source dir in our new source
> format. Since we're changing the format anyway I think we should use the
> same format for source and binaries. For instance I'd like to name the
> modules source file modules_2.0.0-8.tar.gz, the bi
Hi all,
I got a request from Jim Meyering (gnu maintainer shellutils, textutils,
fileutils etc.) whether or not he could get the bug-reports filed against
his packages.
I asked Ian J. about this but he couldn't come up with something more than
adding the mainstream maintainer in the maintainer fi
Erick Branderhorst writes in private email (I hope he doesn't mind me
posting):
> I noticed that dpkg comes with debian-changelog-mode.el instead of
> a precompiled .elc file.
>
> Here is a file elisp-comp which is used in several gnu packages as
> well for compiling and installing .el[c] files:
Brian C. White writes ("Bug#4122: update-rc.d failed"):
...
> echo "- Installing 'start' ..."
> update-rc.d genpowerd start 11 1 2 3 4 5
> echo "- Installing 'stop' ..."
> update-rc.d genpowerd stop 99 0
...
> shift: shift count must be <= $#
...
> I could not find any installed packages
Date outputs from 'at' are mandated as
date +"%a %b %e %T %Y"
(i.e. "Wed Aug 14 20:05:13 1996") by the Posix.2a draft I have, which is
the date used in the upcoming release 3.0 of at(1).
Yep, that's pretty broken. If anybody has later, better news, please
let me know.
--
Thomas Koenig,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ("Re: Bug#4078: lynx should be in `contrib'"):
...
> I would still not be able to rebuild from scratch. Any user should be able
> to rebuild any package in the official Debian distribution from the
> original source plus our patches.
Thank you, that is exactly what the pol
Frank Neumann writes ("Re: Bug#4078: lynx should be in `contrib'"):
...
> So I'd say: Both XForms and LyX go into non-free. Compiling/linking LyX
> statically doesn't change this point, IMHO.
LyX and the XForms binary do not need to go into non-free because
AFAIAA[1] their distribution is not rest
Martin Schulze writes ("Bug#4049: access permissions for sysklogd"):
> Good morning Daniel!
>
> }/sbin/klogd and /sbin/syslogd should be 755.
>
> Why? I don't see any reason they should be executable by everyone. I
> have copied those permissions from my predecessor and I agree to them.
Please
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Thomas> But they're loaded by irisVxm, the graphical front end:
>
>Which I don't use ..., I use the xmaple shell script (see below).
I also use xmaple. xmaple execs "maple -x", which in turn execs
irisVxm, which forks and execs mapleV.
Here's the output of
$ strac
> Michael> I'd like to name the modules source file modules_2.0.0-8.tar.gz,
> Michael> the binary modules_2.0.0-8_i386.deb and the directory in which the
> Michael> source is stored IMO should be modules_2.0.0.
> As the saying goes: You can't have the pie and eat it.
> There are conflicting
Package: ptx
Version: 0.4-1
> Description: GNU permutated indexer
> ...
`permutated' has lackingness of word-nature.
Ian.
Ahem, I am sorry. I also get the
[...]
Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDelete
Warning: ... found while parsing 'osfDelete: delete-previous-character()'
errors which I must have missed before when I started xmaple out of my
.fvwmrc.
So you're right, one need
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