Re: [PROPOSAL] Directories for local initialization scripts

1999-09-04 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 01:10:44PM -0300, Julio wrote: > Given the comments on my proposal, I'm rewriting it to the following: > > 1. to provide support for separation of local initialization scripts, > allow update-rc.d to handle subdirectories. So, a /etc/init.d/local (or > whatever) dir could b

Re: uid/gid - comments?

1999-09-02 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:40:38AM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > This is common enough... should we perhaps create a system wide file, that > > maps default {user,group}names to local {user,group}names? > > > > eg, in /etc/local_names: > > mysql mysql > > ups ups2 > > no, please do

Re: uid/gid - comments?

1999-09-01 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 04:32:25PM +, David Coe wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > I notice that mysql-server has the same situation; it creates or takes over > the 'mysql' group and user, in the mysql-server.preinst file. > > (If I happened to have a user with that name before

Re: Bug#43529: debian-policy: mail locking in Debian is _not_ NFS safe

1999-08-27 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:50:32PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 27, Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >mbox format mail is not safe over NFS even if there is locking. > Is not safe if there is a crash, but otherwise it works. > > >So perhaps we should mandate that all mail pro

Re: I'm sorry to open another can of worms but.. /usr/share/man transition

1999-08-10 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 11:44:08PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Well we arn't getting anywhere at all with a good transition to > /usr/share/doc, but perhaps this will be easier. > > I'm concerned about what happens when packages start using /usr/share/man. > Suppose I convert alien to put it's man p