cape is an outdated version. it still needs the 4.7 binaries.
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On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 03:52:16PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:19:29PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > > BTW I was told removing all non-current Netscape Navigator versions
> > > will be done RSN (if it wasn't already done, haven't checked t
onfig?
>
> What's RH's chkconfig do?
its basically equivilent to update-rc.d except it lets you twiddle
stuff on and off by runlevel without having to -f remove the whole
batch of symlinks and then reinstall them again the way you wanted.
i don't know what it has to
ip. which unix utilities should not have any problem
with.
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; Is there any debian package (or in fact Unix tool at all) that allows
> > uncompression of Mac .sit (stuffit) archives?
>
> I think you want the macutils package.
nope, that package does not include the stuffit 1.5 utilities, because
they are quite old and broken.
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d experimental at
that) there are some of us who don't care for devfs and do not wish to
use it.
[0] read making it exceedingly inconvenient to forgo or disable devfs
in 2.4 kernels, for example neglecting to maintain or provide a real
(non-devfs) working /dev directory.
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dlocate it solves
that problem the Right Way. (unfortunatly it got removed from potato
for less then critical bugs)
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hat can be better
achieved by rebuilding a binary database with a cron job as in
dlocate.
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d how to
> change them.
wrong, ssh only cares if the home directory is *WRITABLE* by other
users then the owner, not if its readable.
my home directory is mode 710 and ssh works fine, on other systems my
home is mode 755 and ssh still works fine (all with RSA auth and
StrictModes yes)
-
with my home directory group set to my private group
`eb' same deal.
perhaps you have a different version of ssh?
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ould be
> pretty convenient.
perhaps because in the default configuration there is no display
manager, and thus no automatic runage of X.
also debian believes in leaving the runlevel configuration to the
admin to define.
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On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:30:06AM +0200, Per Lundberg wrote:
> >>>>> "EB" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> EB> perhaps because in the default configuration there is no
> EB> display manager, and thus no automatic runage of
ough*) there was a bit of discussion
on fixing this but i don't know if its being worked on actively or
not.
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centage of the installed base but it does
> exist and is used.
except this configuration has nothing to do with the runlevel links.
you have to alter the configuration file for xdm or whatever to not
manage a local X server, but you still need the daemon started at
boot, by yes
mails
> a year or so ago, I had a thrombosis about it.
maybe he was using one of those broken MUAs that don't understand
RFC 2015?
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ainst the
> possibility of Trusted (AIX|Solaris|PalmOS|whatever closed os) going belly
> up.
Hi, I'm from the government, I'm here to help you.
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t from a
packaging system. what exactly is missing/wrong with the debian
packaging system that makes you feel the need for wheel reinvention?
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rfect, you can always help the
> development of Dpkg, or apt.
i think the problem is supporting older machines such as 486s. bzip2
is horridly slow on this hardware. and iirc bzip2 takes more memory
(or its slower the less memory you have...)
since its been discussed before thats all ill say a
dpkg's code in 3 years.
personally the plain text database is one of dpkg's greatest assets.
its a royal pain to repair a binary database when it gets fscked. and
yes i have already been saved from a total reinstall through the
ability to fix dpkg's broken database with a text edit
just outputs a message saying the file has
been replaced, and follows the new one.
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NOT your own.
as for including other's in the Mail-Followup-To mutt only does this
if those users had used `lists' instead of `subscribe' indicating they
WANT to be CCed.
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there is no M-F-To header.
mutt then sets the M-F-To header to include you for the benifit of
later list-replies.
if this is the case the solution is fixing broken mailers, many of
them are Free software so why have patches to support M-F-To not been
made?
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r big offender of ignorage of M-F-To. (i am not sure if it
respects Mail-Copies-To: never i just started adding that.)
btw is it Mail-Copies-To: never or Mail-Copies-To: nobody ? i have
seen both which is correct? (assuming any MUA actually pays any
attention to this header anyway)
k on this problem and just did away with
cached man pages altogether. (no suid or sgid man)
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On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:53:37PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ethan Benson wrote:
> > the problem with this is you end up with the catman files owned by
> > whatever user reads whatever man page. personally as a sysadmin i
> > don't want users gaining write permission t
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:48:46AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> That just demonstrates you have no idea what you are talking about.
oh please. someone already pointed out to me that older versions of
Gnus ignored M-F-To but the current one does not.
go fuck off.
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t one no
longer has this problem like another poster did you had to be
insulting and condescending. well i returned the favor.
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please wait...
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]$
this one is the wrapper's fault, it does a chdir() somewhere and then
gzip doesn't find the page (since it gets a relative pathname).
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am which modifies it.
because /var is not always on the same partition as /
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re a particular reason to use /var/secure-bind rather than
> say /var/named which seems to be some what of an informal default.
>
> I'm going to ask on the FHS mailing list about their thoughts on chroot
> enviroments and how it might fit in FHS policy.
it certainly would
it wouldn't call the compressing code directly,
> but through a wrapper).
makes sense
> Any objections?
see above
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2.2.19/include/linux: modules
Only in /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.19/include/linux: modversions.h
Only in /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.19/include/linux: version.h
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c so your Mail-Followup-To header will be properly setup.
> Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned:
> > the way i do it is the initscript replaces the binaries in the chroot
> > jail before starting them, this way the mainline bind package can
> > get upgraded
[ i do read the list so i don't need a CC ]
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:12:59PM +1200, Nicholas Lee wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:54:42PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> >
> > fine, no disagreement here, what im pointing out is that with at least
> > bind 8 (some
in to change with new kernels. i suppose you
could modifiy make-kpkg to save an ls -R or something to a file and
compare afterwords but that seems gross and perhaps unreliable.
its just not as trivial as it sounds i don't think.
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in runlevel 0 or 6 update-rc.d will refuse to add any new
links. policy requires the use of update-rc.d so packages can't add
any links so long as you leave at least one. if you find a package
that does otherwise thats a bug.
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:14:36PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:00:13AM -0400, Itai Zukerman wrote:
> >> you want. The postinst code would call the compression routines,
> >> which might not
ion every time
the package is upgraded to get a fulltime normal non-upx binary if
they don't want this crap.
> You seem to want *all* binaries compressed. I'm suggesting that some
> binaries are best left uncompressed, and that that would be the
> maintainer's decision.
a
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:36:21AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> Unless, of course, you can do your filtering on the mail server, as I do.
and how many isps allow this?
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/var/svr would make more sense IMO. / has enough already.
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chived. thats what the `search archived bugs' option in
the search page is for. it would be quite a mess if bugs were listed
on packages for eternity after they are closed.
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HO, it should be up to the distribution makers to do packaging,
not upstream as its usually not thier specialty and thus they often
end up making a crappy package. standard or not i think this will
always be the case.
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l.
this choice of using the rpm binary format should be reconsidered
IMNSHO. i don't really care whether you use the debian ar+tar+gzip,
or just plain .tar.gz, just use something i can extract *anywhere*
with the most basic and standard tools, without having to go and
compile rpm or some
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:47:00PM -0500, Sam TH wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:14:20PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > this choice of using the rpm binary format should be reconsidered
> > IMNSHO. i don't really care whether you use the debian ar+tar+gzip,
> > or ju
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:32:14PM -0400, Timothy H. Keitt wrote:
> Its been a while, but if I remember correctly, RPMs are in cpio format.
no there not, they are in a goofed up customized cpio format that cpio
no longer recognizes.
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based on cpio is a far cry from BEING a cpio archive.
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e the option).
>
> Or just ask via debconf.
no package is permitted to modify /etc/sysctl.conf.
its a conffile belonging to procps, anything (except the admin)
modifying it should receive a severity serious bug report.
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o be asked about it very often.
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c/network/options just like
the current syncookies option.
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to 2.2 you start getting errors at boot
again.
since aj won't add anything to netbase the admin will simply have to
turn off ecn themselves. thats the only option.
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/ask the user about
> it when installing a new kernel.
and store/implement it where? /etc/sysctl.conf is unacceptable as its
a conffile belonging to procps.
and personally i don't want /etc/sysctl.conf to become another debconf
[mis]managed config file.
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> % df -h /usr/share/man/man3/
> FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3 27G 20G 7.6G 72% /
>
>
> "mount" shows:
>
> /dev/hda3 on / type reiserfs (rw)
might i suggest XFS, or even ext2.
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ermission denied
i would suggest the immutable flag, but AFAIK reiserfs has no such
thing. thats the only time ive ever seen root denied permission to do
such things (other then /proc..).
sure someone isn't playing a joke on you and replaced /bin/su with
fakeroot ;-)
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foot, let them.
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til the next release after woody when debian-installer may become
viable you have to live with these -bf packages as they currently
exist.
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yes the proper way is usually /etc/default/package which has config
variables for the initscript, such as CHROOT=yes
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discussed in various places. task- packages are a ugly
kludge that have been replaced by a proper implementation: the Task:
feild of the control file, the new tasksel uses this now instead of
task- packages.
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n.
if you were insane enough to get a kernel supporting all of ext2,
ext3, xfs, and reiserfs and had all the mkfs utils you would be
offered a choice between all 4.
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hat the mount in question
correct, mount --bind is just a shortcut for:
mount -t none -o bind /somewhere /some/where/else
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--bind' but not '-t none' or '-o
> bind'?)
i don't know that either.. i prefer the latter since its standard
usage of mount, it also makes it more clear that something like this
in /etc/fstab will (and does) work as expected:
/tmp/var/tmpnonebind0
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