Re: Lost sources.list - can it be recovered?

2001-09-11 Thread Neil Glenn
Adam McKenna wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:24:42PM -0600, Neil Glenn wrote: > > I thought I had built up a nice sources.list over the months. > > I'm pretty confused at what you mean by "nice" sources.list. > > You are aware that every entry in sources.list gives someone else > root a

Re: Lost sources.list - can it be recovered?

2001-09-11 Thread Neil Glenn
Adam McKenna wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:24:42PM -0600, Neil Glenn wrote: > > I thought I had built up a nice sources.list over the months. > > I'm pretty confused at what you mean by "nice" sources.list. > > You are aware that every entry in sources.list gives someone else > root

Re: Lost sources.list - can it be recovered?

2001-09-11 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 11 Sep 2001 8:21 am, Adam McKenna wrote: > You are aware that every entry in sources.list gives someone else root > access to your computer, right? I hope you mean "potentially", because just having "debian.org hosts" is not any kind of security.

Re: Lost sources.list - can it be recovered?

2001-09-11 Thread Will Newton
On Tuesday 11 Sep 2001 8:21 am, Adam McKenna wrote: > You are aware that every entry in sources.list gives someone else root > access to your computer, right? I hope you mean "potentially", because just having "debian.org hosts" is not any kind of security. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Lost sources.list - can it be recovered?

2001-09-11 Thread Adam McKenna
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:24:42PM -0600, Neil Glenn wrote: > I thought I had built up a nice sources.list over the months. I went for > the draw, but too quickly shot myself in the foot. Ouch! Now I have no > sources.list file. (And I was not practising safe computing - no > backup!) I'm pretty c

Re: Lost sources.list - can it be recovered?

2001-09-11 Thread Junaedi Kartawijaya
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Now I have no sources.list file. (And I was not practising safe > > computing - no backup!) > Take a gander in /var/lib/apt/lists/ perhaps? running dselect then choose setup may also fix it I guess. Or run apt-cdrom. Junaedi __