Re: Bug#10902: Device driver 3c59x hangs

1997-06-28 Thread Herbert Xu
ink of v0.41 (the latest one)? Is it stable enough compared to 0.30? -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://greathan.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://greathan.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Can we learn something from RH 5.0?

1997-12-07 Thread Herbert Xu
David Engel wrote: > > I only know of one real bug so far. They didn't apply the fix needed > to use the NIS module from autofs with glibc. I found that problem Does there rpc.nfsd (or squid) leak? -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbe

Re: insmod sound makes a mess

1997-12-10 Thread Herbert Xu
es. What do you see if you type dmesg? -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://greathan.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://greathan.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: insmod sound makes a mess

1997-12-10 Thread Herbert Xu
Will Lowe wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > > Anytime I do "insmod sound" or run any program which causes kerneld to > > > have to load the sound module, my whole system freezes for a while -- > > > between 30 and 60 second

Re: bashisms

1997-12-14 Thread Herbert Xu
compliance. If you can find anything in ash that isn't POSIX, please file a bug report. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://greathan.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://greathan.apana.org.a

Re: ppp & pam (was: Re: ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts')

1997-12-18 Thread Herbert Xu
space on the installation floppies. Otherwise, ppp is optional anyway. So I'd prefer to see pppd stay as one package and linked with pam. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.

Re: 2.0.32, XNvidia, Vtk

1997-12-18 Thread Herbert Xu
xt major Debian release arrives? > If so, when will this happen? You should be able to install it onto a bo system. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://g

Re: redirecting stderr to memory

1997-12-18 Thread Herbert Xu
an GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: Does `dpkg' track the installation date of a package?

1997-12-18 Thread Herbert Xu
/www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ppp & pam (was: Re: ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts')

1997-12-18 Thread Herbert Xu
y a library package should depend on a binary one. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM T

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-09 Thread Herbert Xu
rofile? No, only bash does. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: BEWARE

1998-04-09 Thread Herbert Xu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I think this is so bad that every binary copy of grep 2.1-7 should be > deleted from every archive as soon as possible. You mean 2.1-6? -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAI

Re: HTTP site list

1998-04-09 Thread Herbert Xu
e main contrib non-free deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian frozen main contrib non-free -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://g

Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master

1998-04-09 Thread Herbert Xu
is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why isn't "/var/run" drwxrwxrwt ?

1998-04-09 Thread Herbert Xu
this isn't likely but it is possible). If you want to write pid files while not being root, create a subdirectory in /var/run owned by whatever uid that you're going to be. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is this a bug in libc6?

1998-04-11 Thread Herbert Xu
orrect wrt to the above > statement from the C standard. I said: "Corupting memory is not > acceptable behaviour! (Unless you document this)". The standard says > "permissible undefined behaviour ..." It also says that the standard imposes no requirements. --

Re: [grave] libstdc++2.8 needs versioned dependencies

1998-04-12 Thread Herbert Xu
to the old g++. For one, altg++ doesn't even work with it. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UN

Re: intent to package Netscape Communicator

1998-04-12 Thread Herbert Xu
ou certainly can do that, check out bash/libreadline for instance. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- T

Re: Bug#20587: libstdc++2.8-dev: std.h not found

1998-04-13 Thread Herbert Xu
Why would they? This is a GNU project after all. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Free-World maintainer for xpdf ?

1998-04-15 Thread Herbert Xu
ryption technology make no difference > between US and Canadian residents). Are you sure this is really necessary? It's only decryption... -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gon

Re: signals and atomicity

1998-04-18 Thread Herbert Xu
(0); return wait_or_timeout_retval; } -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: signals and atomicity

1998-04-23 Thread Herbert Xu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Herbert Xu wrote: >> This should work: >> >> static int wait_or_timeout_retval = -1; >> >> static void alarm_handler(int sig) { >> errno = ETIMEDOUT; >> } >> >&g

Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?

1998-04-23 Thread Herbert Xu
/passwd? And do cron and at also > know about these fields? If cron and at don't know about them and don't > support them they're practically useless, like I said before. Use the allow/deny files for cron and at. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.

Re: Blender 3D

1998-04-23 Thread Herbert Xu
h libc6 based libs. What? I thought hamm is supposed to be libc5 compatible. Would you remove ncurses3.0 because no Debian packages depended on it? I think it should be reintroduced and maybe removed for slink. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu

Re: Gnome debs?

1998-04-23 Thread Herbert Xu
.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /bin/sh has no man page.

1998-04-23 Thread Herbert Xu
x 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Synchronised sonames (was: Gnome debs?)

1998-04-24 Thread Herbert Xu
; > For now, most of these issues can be resolved by using symlinks. But > sonames should be synchronized with Red Hat in the future. Indeed, perhaps this should be put into our policy? -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~}

Re: Lists archives outside debian.org

1998-04-25 Thread Herbert Xu
an. You can't fight spam by hiding your email address. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSU

Re: 21164 must be fixed before 2.0.34 comes out!

1998-04-25 Thread Herbert Xu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > bug 21164 does not seem to be a bug in the libc. > it is instead a kernel bug. FWIW, I just tried it on my Debian 2.0 2.0.32 machine: $ ./yyys Killed -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV&

Re: http://www.debian.org/security/

1998-04-26 Thread Herbert Xu
information for either overdrop or nestea - new bugs both afflicting linux. netsea has been fixed in 2.0.33-7. overdrop only fills up your syslog file which can be done anyway (say via ICMP redirects). -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~

non-maintainer ssh package available

1998-04-28 Thread Herbert Xu
is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Possible DoS attack with new IPlogger release

1998-04-30 Thread Herbert Xu
ular the tcp wrapper does so too. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Why is dosemu in contrib?

1998-04-30 Thread Herbert Xu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > dpkg -s dosemu says: > Package: dosemu > Status: install ok installed > Priority: extra > Section: contrib > Installed-Size: 1799 > Maintainer: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Version: 0.66.7-10 > Depends

Re: Why is dosemu in contrib?

1998-04-30 Thread Herbert Xu
Joey Hess wrote: > Herbert Xu wrote: > > Not my fault. I can't even find the word contrib in my debian/ directory. > > I'd assume it's a bad override file, then. Talk to Guy. FWIW, the Packages file and master contains the right info. So I suspect a bad mirror is

Re: intent to take mawk and gawk

1998-05-04 Thread Herbert Xu
l my time. > FUD. > I created PGP keys three years ago because I needed to sign Debian uploads. But I don't think it was enforced until (relatively) recently. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hom

Bug#1764: /bin/kill segfaults

1995-10-25 Thread Herbert Xu
memories about Pascal :) PS NSIG is the largest valid signal number + 1. -- A. B <=> True B. A <=> False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other key sites -- --- kill.c.orig Wed Mar 22 05:57:31 1995 +++ kill

Bug#4002: base wipes out utmp & wtmp

1996-08-02 Thread Herbert Xu
Package: base Version: 1.1.0-14 The installation of this package wipes out the file /var/run/utmp and creates /var/run/wtmp which really should be in /var/log. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B <=> True B. A <=> False Email: Herbert

Bug#4001: w segfaults on empty utmp

1996-08-02 Thread Herbert Xu
Package: procps Version: 1.01a-1 This isn't really a problem as utmp usually should not be empty but still w should not segfault. The reason I stepped on this is because the base package wipes out the utmp file.

Bug#4010: perl-tk doesn't work with perl 5.003

1996-08-03 Thread Herbert Xu
Package: perl-tk Version: b11.02-2 It puts stuff into /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux/5.002 which is not searched by perl 5.003 and consequently nothing works :( -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B <=> True B. A <=> False Email: Herbert

Bug#4011: simple c++ program segfaults

1996-08-03 Thread Herbert Xu
*argv) { ofstream ofst; ofst.ofstream( argv[1]); ofst.form( "%s\n", "Hello world"); ofst.~ofstream(); } -- Running it with the argument of 'test' produces a segfault. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B <=> True B.

Bug#4015: xterm & xterm.color sets broken TERMCAP

1996-08-04 Thread Herbert Xu
reliable source of info. It also makes anything that uses libslang unusable as it thinks my TERMCAP is too simple :) This should be disabled by default. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B <=> True B. A <=> False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV&

Bug#4011: simple c++ program segfaults

1996-08-07 Thread Herbert Xu
B. A <=> False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other key sites

Bug#4068: pgs in perl-tk does not work

1996-08-07 Thread Herbert Xu
tter. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B <=> True B. A <=> False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other key sites

Bug#4099: typo in fvwm2 man page

1996-08-11 Thread Herbert Xu
\fP. +Moves the selected window to the desktop specified as \fInew_desk\fP. .IP "XORvalue \fInumber\fP" -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B <=> True B. A <=> False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#4100: pixmap dumps core (bad depth?)

1996-08-11 Thread Herbert Xu
B. A <=> False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other key sites

Bug#4118: xosview doesn't use XUSERFILESEARCHPATH

1996-08-12 Thread Herbert Xu
Package: xosview Version: 1.3.2-6 The program doesn't access the directories listed in XUSERFILESEARCHPATH but it does read the default file in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults.

Bug#3857: Core dump caused by Xaw3d!

1996-08-13 Thread Herbert Xu
B. A <=> False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other key sites

Bug#4124: typo in XtOpenApplication manpage

1996-08-13 Thread Herbert Xu
=> False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other key sites

Bug#4124: XtAppInitialize page has the same problem

1996-08-13 Thread Herbert Xu
Please fix it accordingly. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B <=> True B. A <=> False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other key sites

Bug#4391: gzip -cd gives incorrect output

1996-09-04 Thread Herbert Xu
consoles. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B <=> True B. A <=> False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other key sites -- begin 600 a.gz M'XL("#,A+3(``V$`[=,[EMAIL PRO

Bug#4392: xfishtank coredumps at 16bpps

1996-09-04 Thread Herbert Xu
Package: xfishtank Version: 2.2-1 As the subject says, xfishtank dumps core at 16 bpp. It works fine at 8 bpp, at least on my machine. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B <=> True B. A <=> False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} &l

Bug#4391: gzip -cd gives incorrect output

1996-09-04 Thread Herbert Xu
I've tried this on a 1.2.8 machine with the same gzip and it doesn't happen. Although the problem exists for 2.0.12 on an alpha. And gzip on SunOS 5.5 doesn't have this problem. So which kernel did you use? -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B <=> True

Bug#4430: gcc -O coredumps

1996-09-07 Thread Herbert Xu
Package: gcc Version: 2.7.2.1-1 Compiling the attached file with the "-O" flag kills cc1. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B <=> True B. A <=> False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: [EM

Bug#4518: xauth bug

1996-09-20 Thread Herbert Xu
1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B <=> True B. A <=> False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other key sites

Bug#4486: clock bug

1996-09-22 Thread Herbert Xu
The problem still exists with util-linux_2.5-6. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B <=> True B. A <=> False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any other key sites

Re: list of bashisms

1997-05-18 Thread Herbert Xu
the `original sh'. I usually refer to the solaris manpage. But I suppose the manpage for ash should work too. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://greathan.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: h

Removing packages with critical bugs

1997-05-23 Thread Herbert Xu
I've just read a few messages complaining about the removal of xemacs from bo. Why don't we simply move those packages with critical bugs to contrib? -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb

1999-09-23 Thread Herbert Xu
home-made apple pie", but nobody has packaged that (yet). Just make sure that when you do throw it out, you take the bible with it :) -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~her

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-24 Thread Herbert Xu
$(HPATH) > > This goes for other (debian|upstream) versions as well. You can easily override this on the command line or in the environment. > BTW, is any 2.0.38 package planned? Yes, but it is pretty low priority on my todo list. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debia

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for September 24, 1999

1999-09-24 Thread Herbert Xu
quite simpel acctually. > What identd's are there? > oidentd > pidentd > which else? Please don't do the conflict thing, get pidentd and see how it deals with it. Do the same in yours. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ )

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

1999-09-24 Thread Herbert Xu
e there is no reason why we can't have multiple identd's installed, or multiple fignerd's, etc. as long as they don't overlap in their fs namespace. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-25 Thread Herbert Xu
stuff like dependencies, you need to set HOSTCC. But for the problem at hand, which is compiling the actual kernel with gcc272, CC works just fine. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.or

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-25 Thread Herbert Xu
make: gcc: Command not found > make: *** [scripts/mkdep] Error 127 Yes it does, make bzImage HOSTCC=/usr/bin/egcs -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-25 Thread Herbert Xu
a patch... -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-27 Thread Herbert Xu
d a check?). This is arguably a bug in dpkg since the upstream kernel actually sets CC to include certain options. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: a question about BTS severities

1999-09-27 Thread Herbert Xu
it. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: [Q] Use gcc272 to compile package for potato?

1999-09-27 Thread Herbert Xu
es compiled with gcc272? IMHO you should try to find the reason for it if at all possible, and only consider gcc272 as a last resort. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbe

Re: a question about BTS severities

1999-09-28 Thread Herbert Xu
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Herbert Xu wrote: >> >> I disagree. If a package causes a remote root exploit to be available, even >> if it's only in a very specific configuration, I would say that it is >> critical. > No, it's grave.

Re: a question about BTS severities

1999-09-28 Thread Herbert Xu
IO, etc. Also, AFAIK, critical is listed above grave (and important and others) in all the relevant docos that I've seen. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: {R,I[INEW]}TP: free ssh [non-US]

1999-10-01 Thread Herbert Xu
't live in the USA) have a look/go... The license issues seem to be sorted out for me. So I'll have a go at it. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: slink -> potato

1999-10-01 Thread Herbert Xu
it does not kill any existing telnet connections. The same thing applies to other daemons being upgraded, including ssh. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: SSH never free

1999-10-02 Thread Herbert Xu
t; usefull as a security tool without a public key mechism, not to mention > that existin ssh clients would not be able to securely connect to obsd-ssh > servers :< They use libssl, which begs the question why isn't libssl in non-US/non-free? -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://ww

Re: SSH never free

1999-10-02 Thread Herbert Xu
Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:06 +1000 1999-10-02, Herbert Xu wrote: >>They use libssl, which begs the question why isn't libssl in non-US/non-free? > Uh, because it isn't non-free? Here's a quote from the policy: `Non-free' contains

Re: slink -> potato

1999-10-02 Thread Herbert Xu
updates, though :) AFAIK ssh does exactly the same thing in its prerm. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: slink -> potato

1999-10-02 Thread Herbert Xu
d solve the original problem > pretty well, it seems to me. Anyway, back to the original problem, the best solution IMHO is just to run telnet/ssh and screen so that none of this really affects you. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} &l

Re: slink -> potato

1999-10-03 Thread Herbert Xu
nd they should be upgraded (by whatever program that is in charge) one by one. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: slink -> potato

1999-10-03 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:06:10PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:15:54AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > I think the worst case would be a telnetd linked with a broken > > shlib (or in the case of telnetd, perhaps a missing or broken > > /usr/lib/t

Re: slink -> potato

1999-10-04 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 09:36:36PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > If anyone has seen an existing connection die, please report that as a bug. > > what against? "internet" ?? My message was about telnetd getting kill

Re: should installed daemons automatically restart upon upgrade?

1999-10-04 Thread Herbert Xu
rc.d -f gpm remove Try editing /etc/init.d/gpm instead. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: SSH never free

1999-10-06 Thread Herbert Xu
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 02, Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The patent makes it non-free, so does the new license. > Really? In my country RSA is not patented, why should I care about what > happens in someone else country

Re: netstd split results in loss of functionality

2000-03-11 Thread Herbert Xu
ged > and the new package does not update the inetd entry. The reason is that the old netstd did not enable tftpd by default, while the new tftpd package always enables tftpd. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL P

Re: weird NFS problem

2000-03-12 Thread Herbert Xu
. I have a fixed version here. Whether it will get into potato is up to the release manager. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 10, 2000

2000-03-12 Thread Herbert Xu
h Standard package nfs-server >> > Package: nfs-server (debian/main) >> > Maintainer: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > 59642 nfs-server: conflicts with Standard package nfs-kernel-server >> Huh? Isn't this what it is expected to? > They can&#x

Re: Permission policy

2000-03-16 Thread Herbert Xu
w whenever he logs in from anywhere else in the world, he can request the privileges from that process. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Two maintainer entrys in "bug reports by maintainer"

2000-03-16 Thread Herbert Xu
stem will fix itself. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Two maintainer entrys in "bug reports by maintainer"

2000-03-17 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: Advice on inetd Denial of Service Bug

2000-03-30 Thread Herbert Xu
to the dependency on fuser, hmm, now what's that thing called netstat(1) which happens to be in your package and also happens to have a flag called -p? :) -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://go

Re: Advice on inetd Denial of Service Bug

2000-03-30 Thread Herbert Xu
ncing them against > /proc//fd/*, but that's not a very attractive solution. Which is essentially what netstat does with -p. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: DUL (was Re: RBL report..)

2000-04-03 Thread Herbert Xu
s easily due to its dynamic nature. OTOH, if a relay doesn't do something about a spammer, it can easily be blocked, thus giving a relay's admin a very strong incentive to act. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-15 Thread Herbert Xu
way (in posix sh) to invoke a > command that should be in the path (but look before you leap) is this: But I thought one of the main complaints was that /usr/sbin wasn't in the PATH. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-15 Thread Herbert Xu
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 05:55:38PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > >> But I thought one of the main complaints was that /usr/sbin wasn't in the >> PATH. > Generally, maintainer scripts, and programs meant to be run by root

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Herbert Xu
imilar to how things were moved around when the FSSTND first came about. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Intel Assembly error

2000-08-16 Thread Herbert Xu
gt; I am not an assembly guru on any architecture, but here's what I think this > means. Please be warned that these could be the ravings of a deranged > lunatic. Which they are, as usual. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~}

Re: Intel Assembly error

2000-08-16 Thread Herbert Xu
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > int bradon; > __asm__(".align 2,0x90\n1:\tdecl %0\n\tjns 1b" > : "=a" (=brandon): "0" (loops)); Make that int brandon; __asm__ __volatile__(".align 2,0x90\n1:\tdecl %0\n\tjns 1b" :

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-16 Thread Herbert Xu
an GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-17 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: /bin/ksh as a default POSIX shell

2000-08-30 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:10:04AM +0100, Anton Ivanov wrote: > > It parses command line -en different from bash. Different getopts ;-) How does it differ? AFAIK, ash's getopts is POSIX compliant. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV&g

Re: /bin/ksh as a default POSIX shell

2000-08-30 Thread Herbert Xu
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Re: /bin/ksh as a default POSIX shell

2000-08-30 Thread Herbert Xu
eak. And this is Debian where we have a policy that says #!/bin/sh scripts need to be POSIX compliant. > You cannot use it as a default shell without auditing all scripts. I use it on all my systems and currently nothing breaks. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ )

Re: /bin/ksh as a default POSIX shell

2000-08-30 Thread Herbert Xu
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>"Herbert" == Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Herbert> And this is Debian where we have a policy that says #!/bin/sh > scripts > Herbert> need to be POSIX compliant. > What policy s

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