Bug#337084: tetex-base: latex/dvips/ps2pdf produces buggy pdf files

2005-11-03 Thread Richard Lewis
Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If Acrobat Reader can't search for keywords in files generated via latex/dvips/ps2pdf To circumvent this problem, there are some possibilities: * use of lmodern; * use of cm-super (my preferred solution); * use of ae (which is a big-no-no if you

Bug#336743: doesn't break long \hrefs in DVI while PDF does

2005-11-01 Thread Richard Lewis
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.devel.tetex as well. Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just upgraded to 3.0 and noticed that DVI does not break long \hrefs across a line - while PDF does. A simple test case is

Bug#311424: checking for write18

2006-01-17 Thread Richard Lewis
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.devel.tetex as well. Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Norbert Preining [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Therefor I suggest an appropriate error message, when the epstopdf packages is used in

Bug#500680: aptitude: ~i~Brecommends gives false positives

2008-09-30 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-4 Severity: normal the search aptitude search ~i~Brecommends lists packages that do not have missing recomends, e.g., logcheck is listed but the single package it recommends (logcheck-database) is actually installed. The packages listed are installed from

Bug#286735: filtering in chkrootkit

2008-07-19 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: chkrootkit Version: 0.47-1.1 Followup-For: Bug #286735 I've also done something similar, but I have used sed to change output rather than just deleting it. In any case, I suggest keeping the raw output from chkrootkit in, say, $LOG_DIR/log.today.raw and putting post-filtering

Bug#460531: closed by maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: linux-image-2.6.18-5-k7: kernel BUG at drivers/media/video/video-buf-dvb.c:58!)

2008-07-20 Thread Richard Lewis
:58! Version: 2.6.24-1 closing as report against old kernel version. assuming fixed since. also just a harmless bug on and not an oops. dvb saw lots of progress since. thanks for report -- maks -- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian

Bug#409398: Starting screen with 'screen -dm' gives a crippled TERMCAP

2008-07-20 Thread Richard Lewis
Does setting the variable work as expected? i.e. export SCREENCAP=.; screen -dm (SCREENCAP is the variable to use here I think.) I did (in a new gnome-terminal) SCREENCAP=$TERMCAP screen -dm screen -r There is a definite improvement on just plain screen -dm, e.g., the colours are

Bug#491550: sshd does not log login attempts using invalid public keys

2008-07-20 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: ssh Severity: normal If atatckers attempt to log in using invalid users/passwords then sshd adds a line to that effect to the log. But if they are using public keys that are not allowed then nothing is added. This means that if a system is still allowing vulnerable keys then an

Bug#449386: To use a separate sources.list, OPTIONS needs to set Dir::Etc::SourceParts along with Dir::Etc::SourceList

2008-01-12 Thread Richard Lewis
as far as i can see (which may not be very far) this is completely separate to bug #449391 (however it is still essentially a documentation issue rather than a bug) : the point is, both apt-get and aptitude will honour the setting of Dir::Etc::SourceParts which is, by default set to

Bug#460531: linux-image-2.6.18-5-k7: kernel BUG at drivers/media/video/video-buf-dvb.c:58!

2008-01-13 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-5-k7 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17 Severity: important If i have my dvb card (cx88 module) active when suspending to disk (via /sys/power/state using hibernate package) on resume the system will oops with the following backtrace. Jan 13 11:32:33 system kernel: Stopping

Bug#450725: rkhunter: Spurious message: gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on configuration file `/home/user/.gnupg/gpg.conf'

2007-12-01 Thread Richard Lewis
The cron job produces this every day, but the file in question has permissions 0600. It seems this happens because rkhunter runs gpg as a user (presumably root) other than the owner of gpg.conf. This warning isn't issued by rkhunter but by GnuPG itself. This is linked to the *ownership*

Bug#450725: rkhunter: Spurious message: gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on configuration file `/home/user/.gnupg/gpg.conf'

2007-11-09 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: rkhunter Version: 1.2.9-2 Severity: normal The cron job produces this every day, but the file in question has permissions 0600. It seems this happens because rkhunter runs gpg as a user (presumably root) other than the owner of gpg.conf. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT

Bug#294895: dependency problems prevent configuration of a2ps

2005-02-11 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: a2ps Version: 1:4.13b-4.3 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unupgradeable (I hope the severity is appropriate; it's not exactly hard to fix the problem but clearly something needs to be fixed) When doing a apt-get dist-upgrade (from version 1:4.13b-4) I got the following

Bug#260672: gdm: I can reproduce this with 2.6.0.6-1

2005-02-11 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: gdm Version: 2.6.0.6-1 Followup-For: Bug #260672 This crash happens reliably for me, both on the 'login screen' and when running gdmsetup within gnome. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux

Bug#306595: tetex-bin: postinst failure with jadetex and xmltex

2005-04-27 Thread Richard Lewis
Laurent Bonnaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: here is the problem: Setting up tetex-bin (3.0-3) ... Merging information from /etc/texmf/texmf.d/ into /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ... done Regenerating /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf ... done Running fmtutil-sys. This may take some time. ... Error:

Bug#280368: gnuserv: dtemacs should not start emacs iconified

2005-01-19 Thread Richard Lewis
if it is important enough to include in Debian... :-) Richard == Richard Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Package: gnuserv Richard Version: 3.12.6-1 Richard Severity: wishlist Richard Tags: patch Richard If emacs is not running, the dtemacs script starts

Bug#297109: galeon: Reloading 'My Portal' causes segfault

2005-02-26 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: galeon Version: 1.3.19-4 Severity: normal Whenever I relaod a My Portal page, galeon segfaults. (there's no problem on other pages) Here's a backtrace from gdb: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1220663776 (LWP 31044)] 0xb6047dc1 in NSGetModule

Bug#294895: Patch for a2ps

2005-02-27 Thread Richard Lewis
Frank Küster writes: When doing a apt-get dist-upgrade (from version 1:4.13b-4) I got the following error dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of a2ps: a2ps depends on emacsen-common; however: Package emacsen-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing a2ps

Bug#294895: Patch for a2ps

2005-03-07 Thread Richard Lewis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Küster) writes: Richard Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no errors were displayed. I've got a transcript of the whole upgrade (both the first run that gave the error, and the second that succeeded) which I could provide if needed. Yes, it would be very good if you

Bug#449386: To use a separate sources.list, OPTIONS needs to set Dir::Etc::SourceParts along with Dir::Etc::SourceList

2007-11-05 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: cron-apt Version: 0.4.14 Severity: normal The comments in /etc/cron-apt/config say # You can for example add an alternative sources.list file here. # OPTIONS=-o quiet=1 -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/security.sources.list But this is not sufficient since

Bug#449391: cron-apt: Using a special sources.list file breaks apt-show-versions

2007-11-05 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: cron-apt Version: 0.4.14 Severity: normal Setting cron-apt to use a separate sources.list file causes package lists for files not mentioned in that file to be deleted. This means apt-show-versions will report everything as not available in the archive, eg after the nightly run i see $

Bug#449391: cron-apt: Using a special sources.list file breaks apt-show-versions

2007-11-05 Thread Richard Lewis
submitter 449391 ! thanks Bob Proulx wrote: Richard Lewis wrote: Setting cron-apt to use a separate sources.list file causes package lists for files not mentioned in that file to be deleted. Add the --no-list-cleanup option to your OPTIONS list when using a separate sources.list file

Bug#449391: cron-apt: Using a special sources.list file breaks apt-show-versions

2007-11-05 Thread Richard Lewis
On 05/11/2007, Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aptitude has so far not worked very well with wrapper programs such as cron-apt. See also Bug#438537 for more discussion of this I see. (and indeed with APTCOMMAND=/usr/bin/apt-get OPTIONS=-o quiet=1 -o Apt::Get::List-CleanUp=false -o

Bug#449439: Message 'con010c' cannot be overriden by tiger.ignore

2007-11-05 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: tiger Version: 1:3.2.1-35 Severity: normal If one uses encfs to mount an encrypted filesystem, you get [con010c] reported every couple of hours. The exact message is --CONFIG-- [con010c] Filesystem 'fuse' used by 'encfs' is not recognised as a local filesystem Adding Filesystem

Bug#409398: Starting screen with 'screen -dm' gives a crippled TERMCAP

2007-02-02 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: screen Version: 4.0.2-4.1sarge1 Severity: normal Consider the following two ways to create a new screen session: 1) starting screen with a plain 'screen' This works fine, from withing gnome-terminal we have $ echo TERMCAP=$TERMCAP TERMCAP=SC|screen|VT 100/ANSI X3.64 virtual terminal:\

Bug#428558: python-rdflib: Hard Python dependency

2007-06-12 Thread Richard Lewis
) should be sufficient. Cheers, Richard Lewis -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8

Bug#322221: subversion: switch to expand only the long forms of keywords

2005-08-12 Thread Richard Lewis
Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: in LaTeX it's not unusual to use $Rev$ or $Date$ or $id$. Subversion would replace them, because they are keywords. You can always use \(Rev\) or ^^24Date^^24.

Bug#316154: texmf.cfg: Close possible security problem

2005-06-29 Thread Richard Lewis
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.devel.tetex as well. Joachim Breitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the shipped /etc/texmf/texmf.cfg has the following lines: openout_any = p openin_any = a While the first line is so far ok, the

Bug#312924: tetex-base tries to install /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci as an info file

2005-06-13 Thread Richard Lewis
[resending as it appears i sent a message to the mailing list but not the bug or the submitter. Sorry for the inconvenience] William Lee Irwin III [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: tetex-base The thing won't install. It seems to be trying to install /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci as an info file,

Bug#484296: Emacs hangs on cursor movement in erc buffer

2008-06-03 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: erc Version: 5.3-1 Severity: important When I try to move the cursor in an ERC channel buffer Emacs hangs. It also seems to make my processor scale up to its maximum speed. Cheers. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500,

Bug#353474: tetex-bin: Fails to install

2006-02-23 Thread Richard Lewis
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.devel.tetex as well. John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But I had rejected the updates to the conffiles because I had some custom things in there to increase memory limits for various items.

Bug#351825: Testcase

2006-02-07 Thread Richard Lewis
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.devel.tetex as well. Norbert Preining [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Die, 07 Feb 2006, Jiri Palecek wrote: \documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} \usepackage{syntax} \begin{document}

Bug#350105: /etc/lirc/hardware.conf generated incorrectly with 'linux input layer'

2006-01-27 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: lirc Version: 0.7.1pre2-2 aptitude install lirc select 0. other (MIDI, Bluetooch, etc), then select 6. linux input layer Now /etc/lirc/hardware.conf contains a line DRIVER=devinput but this is wrong, and lirc cannot be used with htis setting it should be DRIVER=dev/input -- System

Bug#469824: kontact: Kontact crashes on startup

2008-03-07 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: kontact Version: 4:3.5.9-1 Severity: important Kontact crashes whenever I start it up. I can use KMail by itself. Here is a stacktrace: Using host libthread_db library /lib/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1. [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 0xb5fe36c0 (LWP 889)] [New

Bug#469824: kontact: Kontact crashes on startup

2008-03-07 Thread Richard Lewis
On Friday 07 March 2008 10:56:37 you wrote: Hi, 2008 m. March 7 d., Friday, Richard Lewis rašė: Using host libthread_db library /lib/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1. [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 0xb5fe36c0 (LWP 889)] [New Thread 0xb3545b90 (LWP 893)] [New

Bug#563264: kismet: broken symlink /etc/others-menu/0000_kismet.desktop - /usr/share/applications/hildon/kismet.desktop

2010-01-01 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: kismet Version: 2008-05-R1-4 Severity: normal The symlink at /etc/others-menu/_kismet.desktop points to the non-existent file /usr/share/applications/hildon/kismet.desktop -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture:

Bug#529041: tiger: fusectl filesystem not recognised as local

2009-08-20 Thread Richard Lewis
On new kernels, using fuse creates a virtual 'fusectl' filesystem [fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime) according to mount(1)]  that tiger reports as unrecognised every couple of hours. What tiger version are you using? This should have been fixed in tiger

Bug#529804: Uninstallable: depends on unavailable packages

2009-05-21 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: gworkspace.app Version: 0.8.6-1+b1 Severity: important The package gnustep cannot be installed because its dependent package, gworkspace.app, depends on three virtual packages which are not available in sid: The following packages have unmet dependencies: gworkspace.app: Depends:

Bug#575809: fluxbox: Mouse cursor invisible with xrandr

2010-03-29 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: fluxbox Version: 1.1.1-7 Severity: normal When using XRandR to switch the resolution of my VGA-connected external monitor for my laptop, the mouse cursor disappears. The mouse cursor is still visible on the laptop display. The problem does not occur with metacity, just with fluxbox.

Bug#529041: tiger: fusectl filesystem not recognised as local

2009-05-17 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: tiger Hi, On new kernels, using fuse creates a virtual 'fusectl' filesystem [fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime) according to mount(1)] that tiger reports as unrecognised every couple of hours. The message is --CONFIG-- [con010c] Filesystem 'fusectl' used

Bug#521324: elscreen: Tab bar hidden by some major modes

2009-03-26 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: elscreen Version: 1.4.6-4 Severity: normal Some major modes hide elscreen's tab bar. The two I notice regularly are ERC and emacs-jabber. It would be good if elscreen could have exclusive access to the very top line of emacs and somehow fool other modes into using the second line down

Bug#518623: pylucene: Dependent on specific JDK and Python versions

2009-03-07 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: pylucene Version: 2.3.1-1.1 Severity: important pylucene is dependent on openjdk-6-jre. It should rather depend on java6-runtime to allow users to choose their own jre. (Similarly, it depends on python2.5 rather than python (= 2.5). Though this is less of a problem.) -- System

Bug#593514: fluxbox: No longer able to resize or move windows

2010-08-18 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: fluxbox Version: 1.1.1+git20100807.0cc08f9-1 Severity: important Since the last upgrade of fluxbox in Debian, windows will not longer move or resize by dragging the title bar (bottom bar) or by dragging the edges or resize handle resptively. However, the keybindings I have set up using

Bug#593514: fluxbox: No longer able to resize or move windows

2010-08-18 Thread Richard Lewis
with the mouse works. Thanks! Paul On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hey Richard, Thanks for the bug report -- On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Richard Lewis richardle...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: Package: fluxbox Version: 1.1.1

Bug#593514: fluxbox: No longer able to resize or move windows

2010-08-19 Thread Richard Lewis
At Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:30:23 -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Richard Lewis richardle...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: At Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:17:03 -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: I'm sorry, these are the correct lines: OnLeftGrip Move1 :StartResizing

Bug#671752: ecl-doc: Contains no documentation

2012-05-06 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: ecl-doc Version: 11.1.1-4 Severity: normal The ecl-doc package contains none of the ECL documentation. Previous versions used to contain two info docs. Perhaps the HTML manual could be packaged up for inclusion in this package? http://ecls.sourceforge.net/new-manual/ -- System

Bug#720763: pcmanfm: dependency conflict with lxde-core (libmenu-cache1)

2013-08-25 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: pcmanfm Version: 0.9.10-3 Severity: important Hi there, I currently cane't upgrade lxde-core on my sid system. pcmanfm depends on libmenu-cache1 while lxde-core depends on lxpanel which in turn depends on libmenu-cache3. libmenu-cache3 conflicts with libmenu-cache1. Could pcmanfm

Bug#720763: pcmanfm: dependency conflict with lxde-core (libmenu-cache1)

2013-09-01 Thread Richard Lewis
At Sun, 25 Aug 2013 21:18:22 +0300, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote: control: tag -1 + fixed Hello! The new pcmanfm package in sid does not depend on libmenu-cache1 but it cannot be installed currently because its dependency libfm-gtk3 is stuck in NEW queue. Be patient, please, and wait until

Bug#758704: bluetoothctl not accepting input

2014-08-20 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: bluetooth Version: 5.21-2 Severity: important Hi there, When I run bluetoothctl I get a [bluetooth]# command prompt but it doesn't echo any of my input. The only thing it reacts to is Ctrl+C which causes a fresh prompt to appear on the following line. I can kill the process with

Bug#816397: libvlfeat-dev: SIFT feature silently removed

2016-03-01 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: libvlfeat-dev Version: 0.9.20+dfsg0-1 Severity: minor Hi there, I was hoping to use the SIFT feature from libvlfeat so I installed the libvlfeat-dev package which explicitly mentions SIFT in its description. However, it seems that the SIFT implementation has been removed from the

Bug#867735: /etc/bash_completion.d/dlocate-completion: Re: dlocate completions

2019-03-01 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: dlocate Version: 1.07+nmu1 Followup-For: Bug #867735 Dear all, The following should make dlocate complete files: *** /tmp/dlocate-completion.patch --- dlocate-completion.orig 2019-03-01 23:12:53.653178500 + +++ dlocate-completion.new 2019-03-01 23:13:16.221498109 + @@

Bug#923000: iptables-apply does not restart fail2ban when reverting

2019-02-22 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: iptables Version: 1.6.0+snapshot20161117-6 Severity: normal File: /sbin/iptables-apply Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, iptables-apply stops fail2ban (line 48) but only restarts it if it gets to line 291. If rules were reverted line 291 is not executed and the system is not in the same

Bug#960704: cp: --dereference -a gives different behaviour to -a --dereference

2020-05-15 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: coreutils Version: 8.30-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, 'cp -a --dereference' exhibits different behaviour to 'cp --dereference -a' -- one makes a file, the other a symlink: touch file ln -s file symlink # the following works as expected: copy is a file cp -a --dereference

Bug#960708: dupload: please allow mailtx to work for non-standard distributions

2020-05-15 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: dupload Version: 2.9.4 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, In dupload.conf, mailto sends a mail for duploads to stable and mailtx works for unstable and experimental, but there's nothing for non-standard (eg private distributions/names). Perhaps a 'mailty' is needed? Thanks Richard

Bug#961885: apt-show-versions: patch for 'apt-show-versions bash: completion: function `_apt_show_versions' not found'

2020-05-30 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: apt-show-versions Version: 0.22.11 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, On some systems, when i type apt-show-versions TAB I get 'apt-show-versions bash: completion: function _apt_show_versions' not found' despite having bash-completion installed. This seems to be because

Bug#948706: Polite ping

2020-06-20 Thread Richard Lewis
Is there a recommended alternative way to implement greylisting with exim? On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 at 14:18, Eugene Berdnikov wrote: > > Hi. > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 02:01:33PM +0200, Benedikt Spranger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > are there any updates or is more help needed? > > Unfortunately, this

Bug#950971: Detecting false positives about i915 firmware

2020-06-20 Thread Richard Lewis
I also have these messages but I think they are likely false positives. There seems to be a lot of possibly misleading information and advice on the internet about these warnings -- would love to her your advice on this, but i think these are mostly false positives * am i right in suspecting that

Bug#981637: ifscheme: ifup no longer recognises interface names with ifscheme suffixes

2021-02-02 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: ifscheme Version: 1.7-6 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: richardle...@fastmail.co.uk I've used ifscheme happily for a long time and on numerous computers. Just recently I installed "unstable" from scratch on a Dell XPS 13 9343. And now ifscheme doesn't work anymore. This if the

Bug#993748: rkhunter: patch for /etc/apt.conf.d/90rkhunter

2021-09-05 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: rkhunter Version: 1.4.6-9 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, Please consider the attached patch for /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90rkhunter It adds || true to ensure apt completes its actions even if there are problems running rkhunter. I had such issues when upgrading from

Bug#630880: chkrootkit: Patch for 630880

2021-09-12 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: chkrootkit Version: 0.54-1+b2 Tags: patch Followup-For: Bug #630880 X-Debbugs-Cc: richard.lewis.deb...@googlemail.com Dear Maintainer, Please consider the attached patch that fixes this bug The patch - improves the filtering for /etc/cron.daily/chkrootkit by expanding the list of

Bug#994153: chkrootkit: bashism resulting in spurious '-e' in output

2021-09-12 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: chkrootkit Version: 0.54-1+b2 Severity: normal Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: richard.lewis.deb...@googlemail.com Dear Maintainer, Line 814 of /usr/sbin/chkrootkit assumes the shell is bash, and passes '-e' to echo - this is not supported by POSIX and I get a spurious '-e' in the output of

Bug#985406: apt-cacher-ng: Here is one solution for this bug

2021-09-07 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: apt-cacher-ng Tags: patch Followup-For: Bug #985406 Dear Maintainer, I also see this bug. Attached is one way to solve it - depends only on find(1). i put this as a separate file in /etc/cron.daily/ but you might want to append it to the existing cron script. Would be great to get

Bug#993880: exim4-config: additional dkim macro for dkim_identity

2021-09-07 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: exim4-config Version: 4.94.2-7 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, In the file /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote-smtp there are various macros around various dkim settings. But there is nothing for dkim_identity (which sets the 'i=', see eg

Bug#994707: checksecurity: Please move /etc/checksecurity.conf to /etc/checksecurity/checksecurity.conf

2021-09-19 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: checksecurity Version: 2.0.16+nmu2 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: richard.lewis.deb...@googlemail.com Dear Maintainer, Please consider moving /etc/checksecurity.conf inside /etc/checksecurity/ this would make it easier to keep all config files in a single git repository thanks for

Bug#986354: why this bug matters

2021-09-19 Thread Richard Lewis
I think the severity of this bug should really be set to critical per debian's definitions (breaks unrelated software on the system) In buster this package worked fine with gnome, in bullseye it breaks other packages. This includes at lease uuidd-runtime upower and parts of gnome (gnome settings

Bug#994722: apt-show-versions: Syntax error on or around line 378.

2021-09-19 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: apt-show-versions Version: 0.22.12 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: richard.lewis.deb...@googlemail.com Dear Maintainer, giving two arguments including one that is not a package shows there is a syntax error somewhere around line 378: $ apt-show-versions apt whatever apt:amd64/bullseye

Bug#993715: plocate: Please support option --existing for compatibility with mlocate

2021-09-05 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: plocate Version: 1.1.8-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, mlocate supported --existing to only print results that still exist, but plocate does not have such an option, could be it added? Thanks *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** *

Bug#993717: base-passwd: Please document passwd.org shadow.org and group.org

2021-09-05 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: base-passwd Version: 3.5.51 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, As part of the buster -> bullseye upgrade, /etc/{passwd,shadow,group}.org are created, but there is no documentation as to why Can we have some documentation as to what these are for, why they were made and what they are

Bug#993718: bind9: Broken symlink bind9.service after upgrade buster -> bullseye

2021-09-05 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: bind9 Version: 1:9.16.15-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, After upgrading buster -> bullseye I have a broken symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/bind9/service -> /lib/systemd/system/bind9.service where /lib/systemd/system/bind9.service does not exist. Is this

Bug#995975: apt-cacher-ng: Listens on 0.0.0.0 despite "BindAddress" being set

2021-10-09 Thread Richard Lewis
Package: apt-cacher-ng Version: 3.6.4-1 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: richard.lewis.deb...@googlemail.com Dear Maintainer, Thanks for maintaining apt-cacher-ng, I set "BindAddress: localhost" in /etc/apt-cacher-ng/acng.conf when i restart the service it is indeed listening on

Bug#932594: Handle /usr/bin/egrep etc

2021-12-17 Thread Richard Lewis
On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 21:29:35 +1300 Andrew Ruthven wrote: > I have just spent a little bit of time digging into this, as I want > rkhunter to work (almost) turnkey, without needing users to have to > customise any configuration files. I'm just a fellow user here - when i started using this

Bug#1002558: chkrootkit: false positive: knockd

2021-12-28 Thread Richard Lewis
hi harry, thanks for the report - I don't think this a bug per se, but it is helpful reminder of knockd while knockd is not a malicious packet sniffer, it does "sniff packets" (not the greatest term in any case), so chkrootkit is working as intended by flagging it. It's the classic case of a

Bug#1002522: chkrootkit: autopkgtest failure everywhere except amd64

2021-12-24 Thread Richard Lewis
control: fixed -1 0.55-4 thanks On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 21:36:11 +0100 Paul Gevers wrote: > So let's assume the results will be OK, then you can just close this bug > with fixed version 0.55-4 and ignore it further. Thanks, it seems 0.55-4 is indeed testing fine everywhere, according to the

Bug#589682:

2021-12-23 Thread Richard Lewis
> (However, it seems to me that not every cmd in cmdlist is always > invoked as ${cmd} - something to investigate) I started a patch to replace all uses of cmd with $cmd, however, i found that it actually broke the test of .php files (!). Probably i messed up, but it seems it needs more thought

Bug#981446: RFA: logcheck -- mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the administrator

2021-12-29 Thread Richard Lewis
n - merely an exercise in understanding the existing code (which needs further simplifications in my view). if debian goes in another direction i will probably rebase and amend commits to follow On Wed, 8 Dec 2021, 19:50 Richard Lewis, < richard.lewis.deb...@googlemail.com> wrot

Bug#595133: work in progress on bug 595133

2021-12-23 Thread Richard Lewis
As of 2021, chkrootkit and chklastlog do not hang if wtmp and/or lastlog are deleted or are empty It's possible this bug is no longer present. However, the strace suggests some LDAP files are being consulted - so this could be the same issue reported at

Bug#600380: work in progress on bug #600380

2021-12-23 Thread Richard Lewis
In Dec 2021, i have verified that if you set up a chroot with an LDAP client set to connect to a non-existant ldap server chklastlog and chkrootkit still works, so the issue isnt that something is always reaching out to the LDAP server and hanging when there is no response. But it may be that you

Bug#589682:

2021-11-25 Thread Richard Lewis
The issue described in this report isnt a bug: $egrep and ${egrep} are the same. The variable is set indirectly by the code that supports the '-p' option (which sets a variable for everything in cmdlist) (However, it seems to me that not every cmd in cmdlist is always invoked as ${cmd} -

Bug#1000957:

2021-12-02 Thread Richard Lewis
Seems to be the same as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993748 -- so patch available, just waiting for someone to merge it

Bug#981446: RFA: logcheck -- mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the administrator

2021-12-08 Thread Richard Lewis
great idea - is there anyone who will merge (good, sensible) contributions? it seems there are many people interested in this RFA over the years but no-one who has the ability (ie a DD) to do the final merge/upload. regatdless, let's not have a competition but get many people involved (im sure

Bug#999082: offering to help with checksecurity

2021-12-14 Thread Richard Lewis
Hi, I don't know how much attention this package gets, but i still use it The repository at https://salsa.debian.org/rpil2/checksecurity/ includes a 'modernised' 3-line debian/rules (plus other things) that would, i think, fix this bug. That repository includes all the history that

Bug#1049412: logcheck: Does not respect removal of /etc/logcheck/header.txt in bullseye

2023-09-10 Thread Richard Lewis
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 19:54:26 +0200 Santiago Vila wrote: > In preinst, do something like this: > > if upgrading-from-previous-version-whatever-is-coded >if [ ! -f /etc/logcheck/header.txt ]; then > touch /etc/logcheck.header.was.removed.txt >fi > fi > > Then in postinst, do something

Bug#1051896: rkhunter: CVE-2023-4413

2023-09-14 Thread Richard Lewis
On Thu, 14 Sep 2023, 06:00 Francois Marier, wrote: > On 2023-09-13 at 14:15:53, Moritz Mühlenhoff (j...@inutil.org) wrote: > > https://gist.github.com/MatheuZSecurity/16ef0219db8f85f49f945a25d5eb42d7 > > My summary of this is: it's possible to figure out what files/ports/etc. > rkhunter is

Bug#1049411: chkrootkit: Possible Adore Worm in ansible

2023-08-28 Thread Richard Lewis
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 at 12:51, Santiago Vila wrote: > On a Debian system with ansible and chkrootkit installed, > chkrootkit warns that ansible has possibly the Adore Worm. > WARNING: Possible Adore Worm installed: > /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible_collections/cyberark/conjur/dev/start.sh

Bug#1040690: emacsen-common analysis for cruft files from elpa-foo packages during apt upgrade

2023-08-28 Thread Richard Lewis
On Thu, 17 Aug 2023, 20:57 Nicholas D Steeves, wrote: > Richard Lewis wrote: > > David Bremner wrote: > > > Richard Lewis writes: > > > > David Bremner wrote: > > > > What happens in the 'apt upgrade' is: > > > > the old emacsen-common

Bug#1053979: chkrootkit: ignore or lower to info for files owned by installed debian packages and unchanged

2023-10-15 Thread Richard Lewis
Thanks - i really like the idea to checking whether results are from Debian packages as that is the first thing a user will want to know. I doubt upstream would include such a patch, but debian has already made huge changes to the output. There is no concept of 'INFO' or 'lowering' of messages in

Bug#1019202: dh-make-elpa: crashes with: Can't locate object method "gecos"

2023-10-19 Thread Richard Lewis
On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 at 09:00, Lev Lamberov wrote: > Вс 15 окт 2023 @ 19:37 Richard Lewis : > > On Mon, 05 Sep 2022 19:44:27 -0300 David Bremner wrote: > >> Lev Lamberov writes: > > I also see this bug in bookwork: dh-make-elpa doesnt work at all > > unless D

Bug#1019690: lintian: Exit code = 2 when using --show-overrides with overriden lintian error

2023-10-27 Thread Richard Lewis
On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:01:43 +0200 Philipp Huebner wrote: > FWIW, I can reproduce and thus confirm this. This issue - that the error code is 2 when --show-overrides is used and 0 otherwise is also reproduced in

Bug#1043043: UDD patches: marks Forwarded as invalid if not 'no', 'not-needed', 'yes' or URL

2023-10-01 Thread Richard Lewis
On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 01:19:38 +0200 Guillem Jover wrote: > On Fri, 2023-08-04 at 23:35:27 -0300, David da Silva Polverari wrote: > > When using https://udd.debian.org/patches.cgi, I notice that whenever > > the Forwarded field contains anything other than "no", "not-needed", > > "yes" or an URL,

Bug#953591: bash: colors should be enabled by default (force_color_prompt)

2023-10-09 Thread Richard Lewis
On Mon, 9 Oct 2023, 04:09 Kevin Otte, wrote: > I wrote a patch to address #1026379 that I feel would be appropriate > here too. As I noted there, using tput for detection basically means > having ncurses-bin as a Recommends, so we may want a better way of doing > this detection. > is it more

Bug#1019202: dh-make-elpa: crashes with: Can't locate object method "gecos"

2023-10-22 Thread Richard Lewis
: > > Hi Richard, > > Чт 19 окт 2023 @ 22:42 Richard Lewis : > > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 at 09:00, Lev Lamberov wrote: > >> Вс 15 окт 2023 @ 19:37 Richard Lewis : > >> > On Mon, 05 Sep 2022 19:44:27 -0300 David Bremner > >> > wrote: > &

Bug#1019202: dh-make-elpa: crashes with: Can't locate object method "gecos"

2023-10-15 Thread Richard Lewis
On Mon, 05 Sep 2022 19:44:27 -0300 David Bremner wrote: > Lev Lamberov writes: > > yes I did cd (just did again to double check). I don't have DEBFULLNAME > set, maybe that makes a difference. I also see this bug in bookwork: dh-make-elpa doesnt work at all unless DEBFULLNAME (and maybe

Bug#1053898: Hardening rsyslog.service breaks debian/tests/logcheck autopkgtest

2023-10-14 Thread Richard Lewis
On Fri, 13 Oct 2023 at 20:27, Michael Biebl wrote: > It turns out that `PrivateTmp=yes` breaks the logcheck autopkgtest. i think the test tells rsyslog to write to /tmp and then calls logcheck on the output outside the unit. But the PrivateTmp=true means rsyslog is actually writing to

Bug#1049412: logcheck: Does not respect removal of /etc/logcheck/header.txt in bullseye

2023-08-15 Thread Richard Lewis
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023, 13:15 Santiago Vila, wrote: > > On a Debian 11 system where logcheck is installed, removing > /etc/logcheck/header.txt and then upgrading to Debian 12 > makes such file to reappear again. > > > thanks - i agree this is a bug and a patch to fix it would be great :) In the

Bug#1015201: logcheck: Update patterns, here: rsyslogd

2022-07-17 Thread Richard Lewis
> The pattern for rsyslogd can be improved. Please add the following > line: > > imuxsock: Acquired UNIX socket '/run/systemd/journal/syslog' \(fd 3\) from > systemd. \[v8.2206.0\] > > You might want to generalize the fd (on my system it is always fd 3, > but I don't know if this is general) and

Bug#1019460: chkrootkit: warning: egrep is obsolescent

2022-09-10 Thread Richard Lewis
On Fri, 9 Sep 2022 07:24:34 -0500 "Marc F. Clemente" wrote: > I upgraded grep from version 3.7-1 to 3.8-1. Something in the readme > says that "Upstream has made egrep and fgrep obsolecent." > > Now chkrootkit spews a bunch of relatively harmless warnings: > > egrep: warning: egrep is

Bug#1018841: logcheck: sent email for lines matched in rules file

2022-09-20 Thread Richard Lewis
Not sure this will help you, but no-one else replied so: i have previously looked at the logcheck code and i didnt see any way for there to be a bug where a rule matches but have output be sent anyway - (the way the paranoid level is implemented is less clear, but that does not apply here as far

Bug#1020827: grep: warning: stray \ befor ...

2022-10-09 Thread Richard Lewis
On Tue, 27 Sep 2022, 09:27 Stefano Callegari, wrote: > I have an email like this every cron > grep: warning: stray \ before ! > grep: warning: stray \ before " > grep: warning: stray \ before " > grep: warning: stray \ before & > grep: warning: stray \ before " > grep: warning: stray \ before "

Bug#1020827: logcheck-database: supplied patch file

2022-10-14 Thread Richard Lewis
control: tags -1 +patch On Fri, 14 Oct 2022, 08:24 Thomas Dorner, wrote: > same here, I've patched it locally and just wanted to supply the patch. > > Hmm, I've just noticed, there actually already seems to be one. I send > this nonetheless. Hi Thomas - i provided the previous patch: you

Bug#1016475: tmux sessions do not persist through logout

2022-08-07 Thread Richard Lewis
On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 20:34:27 +0200 Romain Francoise wrote: > There’s nothing tmux can do right now about systemd killing user > sessions without lingering enabled; just run `sudo loginctl > enable-linger $USER`. I start tmux with $ systemd-run --scope --user tmux -2 # etc and it seems to work

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