Re: setgid stuff

1999-11-24 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 10:09:53PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > I do have it pointing to debian/tmp. The output doesn't list any errors: > > > chmod 2755 debian/tmp/usr/bin/jwhois > chgrp users debian/tmp/usr/bin/jwhois > [...] > dh_suidregister /usr/bin/jwhois What's the [...]? What do you s

Re: setgid stuff

1999-11-24 Thread peter karlsson
Julian Gilbey: > I think, BTW, that I meant: > chmod 2755 debian/tmp/usr/bin/jwhois > That could be the problem (And change debian/tmp to whatever is > appropriate.) I do have it pointing to debian/tmp. The output doesn't list any errors: chmod 2755 debian/tmp/usr/bin/jwhois chgrp users

Re: setgid stuff

1999-11-24 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 08:32:39PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > Julian Gilbey: > > > chmod 2755 /usr/bin/jwhois > > I can't seem to get this (+chown) past. I'm creating the package using > fakeroot, which might be the problem. fakeroot shouldn't have a problem with this. What error message

compound packages

1999-11-24 Thread Radovan Garabik
I have written couple (so far only 2) of small but useful programs (in python) and packaged them. The packages size is of order of a few KB. Suck packages are just polluting archive namespace, so I am thinking of making debian package consisting of all (both) those programs, but I can't decide what

Re: setgid stuff

1999-11-24 Thread peter karlsson
> You're calling dh_suidregister incorrectly. I have made it print error > messages when you do that, now. Read the man page.. I tried, but I didn't find out from there what the format of the suid file was, so I figured it should be the same as the suid.conf file, but I guess I was wrong. Now to