Capabilities

2000-03-27 Thread Magosanyi Arpad
Hi! I have recently made a restricted-capability system, using medusa DS9. It has some properties of a TCSEC B3 level system, and IT WORKS! There were some little problem though, one is Bug#60303: The start-stop script of postgresql assumed DAC_SEARCH capability. Oliver has added the needed chan

Re: Process is no substitute for understanding

2000-03-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Ian" == Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Secondly, looking at what policy covers, there is no >> such thing as an expert. Ian> You're assuming that I'm suggesting that a single individual (or small Ian> group) be responsible for the whole of policy. But, I don't think Ian> that

Re: Bug#61116: /etc/motd references BOTH /usr/doc/*/copyright AND /usr/share/doc/*/copyright

2000-03-27 Thread Adam Heath
reopen 61116 thanks On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Adam Heath wrote: > > > package: base-files > > severity: important > > > > During my upgrade tonite, /etc/motd was flagged as a changed conf file, so I > > hit 'D' to see the diff. I was a little disturbed wh

Bug#60979: What /etc/init.d/xxx restart does?

2000-03-27 Thread Radim Kolar
> That may violate the principle of least surprise. ok > What I do not have a handle on yet is which is the more common case, and > thus which should be the default behavior. default should be: restart=always start and this will not broke any existing configurations. So it would be nice to add

Discussion on IRC about policy

2000-03-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Wichert suggested a meeting on IRC, for discussion about -policy. The discussion is open to all comers (irc.debian.org), but may be moderated and read only, on a channel to be decided. Since Wednesday appears to be the earliest time that may work, how about this: Wednesda

/etc/motd references BOTH /usr/doc/*/copyright AND /usr/share/doc/*/copyright

2000-03-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This is my take on the subject. An user should not need to know about /usr/share/doc; mentioning it, espescially with the wording that implies that one needs look into both dirs to be sure, is exactly the kind of user interface lossage we were trying to avoid. /usr/doc sym