Subject: general:
Package: general
Version: 2315
Severity: grave
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /dev/null
crw-r--r--1 root root 1, 3 Feb 22 1999 /dev/null
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -ld /tmp
drwxr-xr-t3 root root 1024 Mar 14 18:40 /tmp
/dev/null was 644 not 666, whi
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 04:19:47PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> Now that xfs per default does not listen on a tcp port anymore, could
> anyone please tell me how to configure x (i.e. XF86Config) to use unix
> domain sockets instead?
I think the answer is in the FAQ:
zgrep -i unix /usr/share/doc
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
> Carlos Barros wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:19:39PM -0200, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
> >
> > > Yann Dirson wrote:
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > > > ** RHide: a curses-based IDE for FreePascal, with Borland look-and-feel
> > > > http://www.t
Damian M Gryski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Turbo Vision is non-free?
>
>From http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,17285,00.html
>(last modified Sept 01/99)
>
>
>Question:
> Where can I find the public domain version of Turbo Vision?
>
>Answer:
> It can
reassign 60573 SantiagoVila
thanks
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 04:57:37PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Subject: general:
> Package: general
> Version: 2315
> Severity: grave
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /dev/null
> crw-r--r--1 root root 1, 3 Feb 22 1999 /dev/null
>
> [EMAIL PROTEC
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> reassign 60573 SantiagoVila
Bug#60573: general: wrong perms on /dev/null and /tmp in potato upgrade
Bug reassigned from package `general' to `santiagovila'.
> thanks
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Previously Ruud de Rooij wrote:
> (of course, this attack can be prevented using mount options to
> disable setgid executables on all filesystems where users have write
> access)
In which case they just keep a filehandle open and use that later on.
You could also simply start a screen session whil
Previously Scott Jennings wrote:
> I've written an M4 file for sendmail 3.9.3, and packaged it up as
> a debian package.
Doesn't sendmail 8.10 already have something similar?
Wichert.
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Previously Tom Rothamel wrote:
> The problem I have is that dpkg keeps on prompting me as to the
> disposition of config files I have changed. Don't get me wrong, I like
> the fact that it asks me what to do... I just wish it would do it at
> the start, and proceed cleanly through the upgrade witho
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 01:04:48AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Scott Jennings wrote:
> > I've written an M4 file for sendmail 3.9.3, and packaged it up as
> > a debian package.
>
> Doesn't sendmail 8.10 already have something similar?
It supports arbitrary DNS blacklists, and it h
It seems to me that a better way to do this (in the abstract case :) ) would
be to librarify dpkg -- that is, to make a libdpkg which approximately parallels
libapt. This would also have the effect of solving some annoying quirks in the
apt/dpkg interaction which are caused (if I remember correc
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:24:47PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote:
> > One other question: Does anyone think having a "never ask about this
> > config file again" option is a good thing? I'm torn.
>
> Not on a per-conffile basis, I think. Maybe there should be a way to make
> the default for _all_ conffil
It's freeze time, and we are all discussing the same things, we would all
like to have a faster woody. I have a simple proposal for that:
Let's keep the system we have now.
But keeping the RC bug count low. A RC bug will only be permitted to stay
for long if it is related to a release goal. And
On 16-Mar-00, 18:02 (CST), Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oh, and you still loose if people don't use apt.
Well, there's a *lot* features one doesn't get unless one uses apt. So?
> There is already a patch to make dpkg log things using syslog. At some
> point I'ld like to generali
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Brian Mays wrote:
> The ligatures are supported, but dvips switches the characters in the
> font around. This can be fixed by turning off the "G" option in the
> /etc/texmf/dvips/config.pdf file.
But the comment says the whole story, it is compatible with standard
Adobe fon
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:36:15PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 16-Mar-00, 18:02 (CST), Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Oh, and you still loose if people don't use apt.
>
> Well, there's a *lot* features one doesn't get unless one uses apt. So?
>
> > There is already a patc
On 16 Mar 2000 20:14:47 -0500, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> It's rather slow, since you need to unpack the .deb to get the md5sums
> for its conffiles, read /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list to see if a conffiles
> still belongs to a package, /var/lib/dpkg/status to get the previous
> md5sums, etc.
Actually,
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:17:09PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> I have a laptop that uses the S3 Virge/MX video chip.
>
> I had this working well with the xserver-svga from slink. I recently upgraded
> to 3.3.6-3 and found that the quality of the display became significantly
> worse. I have no
The only problem would be if a package like util-linux or libc6 was
auto-pulled because of this system.
Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
>
> It's freeze time, and we are all discussing the same things, we would all
> like to have a faster woody. I have a simple proposal for that:
>
> Let's keep the sy
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:34:12PM -0500, Elie Rosenblum wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 01:04:48AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Previously Scott Jennings wrote:
> > > I've written an M4 file for sendmail 3.9.3, and packaged it up as
> > > a debian package.
> >
> > Doesn't sendmail 8.10 a
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 01:30:15PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote:
> The configuration script for cvs_1.10.7-6 mentions that you can create
> a repository with standard permissions using cvs-makerepos. Is that a
> program or an option to cvs or ...?
cvs init
should do what you want. It is documented
Matthias Berse wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:17:09PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>> I have a laptop that uses the S3 Virge/MX video chip.
>>
>> I had this working well with the xserver-svga from slink. I recently upgr
>aded
>> to 3.3.6-3 and found that the quality of the dis
Tomorrow, brainfood(formerly novare) will be moving master into a rack mount
case, out of its current mid-tower. This is being done to have our rack
better organized, and to make it more efficient.
Minimum downtime is estimated at one hour, and should start between 3pm and
4pm UTC(9am and 10am lo
I hope you all voted! :-)
http://www.linuxcare.com/products/prodmore.epl?PRODUCT_GROUP=Linux+Distributions
Michael
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I have decided to not upload a new version of quota for frozen, since the
upstream is not sure when the 2.00 release will be finalized. In fact I
doubt he's even sure it ever will be. :-)
The only newer stable version 1.70 does not fix all bugs we already have
fixed in 1.65. So that does not make
It seems master does not accept ssh connections. What's going on?
Michael
P.S.: Pleasee CC me on my private address on replies since I rely on ssh to
master for my debian mail.
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 michael@fam-meskes.de wrote:
> It seems master does not accept ssh connections. What's going on?
No, just from you..
Mar 17 00:57:44 master named[1815]: bad referral (de.colt.net !<
host.DE.COLT.net)
Mar 17 00:57:44 master sshd[4266]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line 15:
can't
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> I think if you reupload your packages with the correct Maintainer field, then
> the bug system will fix itself.
Hmmm, that might fix the situation of two entries in the bug report
for woody but not for slink or potato bugs.
Moreover I consider it to be nons
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 08:25:47AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hmmm, that might fix the situation of two entries in the bug report
> for woody but not for slink or potato bugs.
I don't think that the bug tracking system takes this into account at all.
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> I don't think that the bug tracking system takes this into account at all.
Yes, and I wonder, if it should identify the maintainer regarding
to his name (in the moment the unique identification is possible
by first and last name) and not by e-mail adresses.
Nicolás Lichtmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But keeping the RC bug count low. A RC bug will only be permitted to stay
> for long if it is related to a release goal. And people must be working for
Since we don't have release goals it would even be easy to implement.
--
They say that a baby
So is there any good reason why asclock replaces gnome-panel-data ??
It seems to me that both could quite happily co-exist but the
interdependencies don't allow it...
Stuart
Hi,
I'm going to be in Heidelberg (Universitäts-Rechenzentrum) the
next week (20th to 24th of march). I'd like to meet some other
Debian developers to swap keys and have a beer in the evening.
Please mail me privately since I'm not subscribe to these lists.
Regards,
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It seems like they've given up their rights by calling it public domain
in a public forum...
Debian needs a lawyer for things like this.
Regards
Jeff
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 04:51:51PM -0800, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote:
> Damian M Gryski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >Turbo Vision is non
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:10:53AM +0100, Philipp Frauenfelder wrote:
> I'm going to be in Heidelberg (Universitäts-Rechenzentrum) the
> next week (20th to 24th of march). I'd like to meet some other
> Debian developers to swap keys and have a beer in the evening.
Fine. I can't yet suggest an exac
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 04:51:51PM -0800, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote:
> /*
> * Turbo Vision - Version 2.0
> *
> * Copyright (c) 1994 by Borland International
> * All Rights Reserved.
> *
> */
>
> That's about as non-free as you can get.
Only if there isn't a copyright file so
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Oliver Elphick" wrote:
> I have a laptop that uses the S3 Virge/MX video chip.
>
> I had this working well with the xserver-svga from slink. I
> recently upgraded to 3.3.6-3 and found that the quality of the
> display became significantly worse. I have
reassign 60573 general
thanks
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Branden Robinson wrote:
> reassign 60573 SantiagoVila
> thanks
Considering the way the bug system forwards reports to maintainers, a
bug should never be reassigned to a package which does not exist.
For what is worth, base-files does not change
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 08:25:47AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > I think if you reupload your packages with the correct Maintainer field,
> > then
> > the bug system will fix itself.
> Hmmm, that might fix the situation of two entries in the bug report
> for woody but not for slink or potato bug
Potato + .5 sounds like a good idea to me! Right
now I don't want to wait a single day more for the new
Debian release. IMHO the release cycle is way to
slow, I would like to see more frequent updates.
On some newer machines I had to install Red Hat, since
slink was too backlevel, and I had
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, David Starner wrote:
> Honestly, I found the interface of ImageMagick to be too clumsy
> to just view pictures. Until I grabbed xzgv out of Incoming,
> xv was the least clumsy graphic viewer interface. The authors
> of xzgv have produced an X viewer that I can be happy with.
Th
Hello,
I will not have the time to package Guppi (http://www.gnome.org/guppi)
but it seems worth packaging. Any volunteer?
Happy weekend
Andreas.
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But the comment says the whole story, it is compatible with standard
> Adobe fonts, aka times which is what I had the problem with.
Jason - You would think so. Nevertheless, try it; it works. Therefore, I
must assume that the comment is incorrect.
severity 59860 fixed
close 60489
thanks
> Package: emacs19 (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Mark W. Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 59860 [NMU] Emacs19 can't be built from source
I think this might be fixed now from Joey's NMU.
> Package: kaffe (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Ean R. Schuessler <[EMAIL P
Hi, distmp3 is a tool to allow encoding of mp3's across a network.
It consists of a client perl script and a server perl script.
http://wlug.westbo.se/medlprog/distmp3-0.1.5.tar.gz
Currently it has no license but I've contacted the upstream author and he
will be doing another release shortly that
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> reassign 60573 general
Bug#60573: general: wrong perms on /dev/null and /tmp in potato upgrade
Bug reassigned from package `general' to `general'.
> thanks
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[can anybody with knowledgs of the internals of dpkg/apt take a look at
this?]
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:13:52AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
>
> Fabrizio> If you downgrade man-db (I'm reuploading 2.3.13 so
> Fabrizio> you'll find it in Incoming or Incoming/REJECT) and then
> Fabrizio> re
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:47:16PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> [can anybody with knowledgs of the internals of dpkg/apt take a look at
> this?]
>
> > Unpacking replacement man-db ...
> > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archiv
i experienced this bug on two seperate systems, both fresh installs of
potato from the netboot test cd on cdimage.debian.org. one a k6/266 and the
other a k6-2/350. i remember at least one other person reporting the same
bug on this list the morning after i noticed it.
ben, any way we could get dp
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:24:52PM -0800, Bill Jennings wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:34:12PM -0500, Elie Rosenblum wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 01:04:48AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > > Previously Scott Jennings wrote:
> > > > I've written an M4 file for sendmail 3.9.3, and p
testing the list, sorry.
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:58:16AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
> i experienced this bug on two seperate systems, both fresh installs of
> potato from the netboot test cd on cdimage.debian.org. one a k6/266 and the
> other a k6-2/350. i remember at least one other person reporting the same
> bug on th
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Package: prc-tools (debian/main) Maintainer: Stephen Zander
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 51647 prc-tools: fails building on sparc
Ben> This is going to either require me to port some stuff from
Ben> gcc272 into this package, or ma
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:09:07AM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote:
> > "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> Package: prc-tools (debian/main) Maintainer: Stephen Zander
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 51647 prc-tools: fails building on sparc
>
> Ben> This is going to either r
Thus spake Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I will not have the time to package Guppi (http://www.gnome.org/guppi)
> but it seems worth packaging. Any volunteer?
Accoring to http://www.gnome.org/guppi/#get, Cesar Talon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has already packaged it. The deb is at
ftp://ftp.gnom
Package: general
Version: 2308
Severity: normal
I have created a new user called reim with a shell /bin/false
(included into /etc/shells, but even if not, same effect) to prevent
the user from login. If that user logs in via a getty the user will
be logged out correctly immediately after the
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Brian Mays wrote:
> > But the comment says the whole story, it is compatible with standard
> > Adobe fonts, aka times which is what I had the problem with.
> Jason - You would think so. Nevertheless, try it; it works. Therefore, I
> must assume that the comment is incorr
Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> try running:
>
> dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir
>
> If that fails too, then add "strace -o dpkg-deb.out" to the start of that
> line and send me the dpkg-deb.out file.
i don't have a 'broken' archive any longer, but i did try dpkg --fsystarfile
(o
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:05:44PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
> Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > try running:
> >
> > dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir
> >
> > If that fails too, then add "strace -o dpkg-deb.out" to the start of that
> > line and send me the dpkg-deb.out file.
>
>
This is my intent to package the lvs-gui code written by Horn at VA
for their web-server farm demo. Unless someone else already did it of
course. :)
http://ultramonkey.sourceforge.net/> if you care.
--
Stephen
"If I claimed I was emporer just cause some moistened bint lobbed a
scimitar at me
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