Re: ssh keys in ldap

1999-09-26 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Jason == Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jason If nobody can see why this would be a bad idea I will Jason deploy this system on db.debian.org and the debian.org Jason machines in the near future. I hope that when lsh becomes Jason usable a similar patch to it can be

Re: Funding for a Crazy Idea

1999-09-26 Thread Helen McCall
Hello Craig, I would guess that you are one of Aaron Sloman's students from the University of Birmingham in the UK. Am I right? My comment about NATO having improved was in respect of their previous treatment of countries like Portugal, Greece and Turkey as sensitive areas. My reservations

basic c thing

1999-09-26 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, Im just beginning to mess my hands into c, so i need some tips... i want to make a program that will rename all dirs in the current dir position to dir-name-renamed. rename files instead of dirs would help me a lot too... i cannot figure out how to do this. can u send me some tips?

Re: Status of GNOME in potato

1999-09-26 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gnome-libs-1.0.40.tar.gz The main GNOME libraries * current Debian version: 1.0.10-3 [NMU of 1.0.40-0.1 is in Incoming/] I am committed to keeping this up to date. If Steve Haslam doesn't show up soon, I'm going to adopt it. Mike.

Re: Running daemons without asking for permission on install

1999-09-26 Thread Brian May
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Which reminds me, it might be nice for Debian to run something akin to a port scanner locally from cron.daily or something, so that the sysadmin will notice such problems better. (Optionally, and not reporting ports that the sysadmin knows are OK.) How

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Joey Hess wrote: Not really. I named it dpkg-reconfigure for a reason. :-) Have you thought about how you want to integrate it? I've been looking into that a bit and it's not trivial. Wichert. -- == This

Re: possible problem with new perl, libc6 on Sep 23rd

1999-09-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Joey Hess wrote: if (lstat(pathname,stab)) return -1; if (S_ISREG(stab.st_mode) ? (stab.st_mode | 07000) : !(S_ISLNK(stab.st_mode) || S_ISDIR(stab.st_mode) || S_ISFIFO(stab.st_mode) || S_ISSOCK(stab.st_mode))) { You found a nice little bug in there: (stab.st_mode |

Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb

1999-09-26 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Craig Sanders wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 05:59:07PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: The criterion should be utility. wrong. we've had this censorship discussion many times before. the only criteria for inclusion in debian is: Yes I know. I remember it

Re: Funding for a Crazy Idea

1999-09-26 Thread Craig Brozefsky
I will close my comments on this thread by saying that Debian's acceptance of funds from NATO would prolly result in severe upheaval. Not JUST because of NATO's history of atrocities, but because its a non-inclusive political organizations which seeks to advance its member states thru a collusion

Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb

1999-09-26 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On 25 Sep 1999, Rainer Weikusat wrote: You might equally well consider this for yourself. Other people (including other people belonging to your particular religion) might regard different things as offensive than you do. If one is worried about how something is going to be viewed by

Re: ssh keys in ldap

1999-09-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote: I would like a couple people to look over this patch I have made to SSH. It creates a new option that allows ssh to lookup RSA authentication keys in a global file modeled after the shadow password file. Does this support multiple keys? Wichert. --

Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb

1999-09-26 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 09:10:19PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: - is it free? - could someone be bothered doing the work of packaging it? if the answer to both questions is yes, then there is no justification for refusing the package. Yes but the maintainer should also ask - Does

Re: Conference! - around the world with Debian

1999-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 11:08:37AM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: Well, this is completely off-topic, but I wouldn't be so sure. I have plenty of electronic equipment here which generates an awful lot of interference to my sensitive radio receivers. Switch-mode power supplies in particular

Re: ssh keys in ldap

1999-09-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote: I would like a couple people to look over this patch I have made to SSH. It creates a new option that allows ssh to lookup RSA authentication keys in a global file modeled after the shadow password file.

ITP: FOP, FESI

1999-09-26 Thread Julio
If there is no objections, I'd like to package FOP and FESI. As stated in their control files: Package: lib-fop-java Architecture: all Depends: java-common, lib-xt-java Description: A [XSL] Formatting Object to PDF Translator FOP is a print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects. It is a

Hysterical Onanistic ITP's (was: ITP: Country Codes)

1999-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 03:01:22AM +0900, Keita Maehara wrote: Country Codes is an ISO 3166 country code finder. I'll upload it as countrycodes. Here is some example output: % iso3166 -d ftp.chiark.greenend.org.uk Domain name : ftp.chiark.greenend.org.uk You don't need to echo back the

Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb

1999-09-26 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
Sorry to sort of butt in here again, but maybe a committed Debian user's perspective would be helpful... On 09/26/99 at 11:55:09, Craig Sanders wrote concerning Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb: One approach which has been suggested is to make extra cds by section. So a data CD could include the

Re: scanning my ports

1999-09-26 Thread Mark W. Eichin
In addition to apologies to Mr. Norman, perhaps there's some value in either (1) making tcplogd etc. require enough configuration to force people to read the documentation, or (2) enhance those packages to interpret things a little more, so they scare naive users a bit less?

Re: Hysterical Onanistic ITP's (was: ITP: Country Codes)

1999-09-26 Thread Keita Maehara
From: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hysterical Onanistic ITP's (was: ITP: Country Codes) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 23:14:02 -0400 At the risk of starting another flamewar or being called some kind of cultural chauvinist, this isn't the first program I've seen from .jp that has big

Re: scanning my ports

1999-09-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 26 Sep 1999, Mark W. Eichin wrote: : In addition to apologies to Mr. Norman, perhaps there's some value in : either (1) making tcplogd etc. require enough configuration to force : people to read the documentation, or (2) enhance those packages to : interpret things a little more, so they

Re: Hysterical Onanistic ITP's (was: ITP: Country Codes)

1999-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 02:21:52PM +0900, Keita Maehara wrote: Country Codes is not a program developed by a Japanese programmer. I used jp just as an example. I hope someone won't call you some kind of cultural chauvinist :). Okay, then feel free to heap all my scorn and derision on whoever

Re: scanning my ports

1999-09-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 26 Sep 1999, Mark W. Eichin wrote: In addition to apologies to Mr. Norman, perhaps there's some value in either (1) making tcplogd etc. require enough configuration to force people to read the documentation, or (2) enhance those packages to interpret things a little more, so they scare

Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb

1999-09-26 Thread Thierry LARONDE
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 11:55:09AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 09:10:19PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: - is it free? - could someone be bothered doing the work of packaging it? if the answer to both questions is yes, then there is no justification for

Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb

1999-09-26 Thread Ed Boraas
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: Some packages are worth more than others. Worth is often hard to define but not impossible. Debian may not want to get into the definition business but that doesn't mean it can't be done and circumstances may force it too. I can't help but infer

Re: basic c thing

1999-09-26 Thread Thomas Schoepf
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Phillip Neumann wrote: Im just beginning to mess my hands into c, so i need some tips... i want to make a program that will rename all dirs in the current dir position to dir-name-renamed. rename files instead of dirs would help me a lot too... Is this everything you

Re: Aaron Sloman

1999-09-26 Thread Helen McCall
Hello Craig, On 25 Sep 1999, Craig Brozefsky wrote: For the record, I am not a student of Aaron Sloman, but have helped him a bit with the Free Poplog release, contributed a few fixes, and talk with him via email on occasion. I never went to college and work professionally as a software

Re: Conference! - around the world with Debian

1999-09-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 10:57:31PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: Mind you, I'm not cheering for the FCC here -- in fact that I think their restrictions on output power for private radio transmitters are hideously excessive -- [snip] Really? I don't consider the 1.5kW limit for US amateurs

archive help

1999-09-26 Thread Robert Thorncrantz

ITP: xcut

1999-09-26 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
Source: xcut Section: x11 Priority: optional Maintainer: Roland Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Standards-Version: 3.0.1 Package: xcut Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Description: Manipulate X cut buffers from command line xcut is a small but useful program which can take standard input

Re: Status of GNOME in potato

1999-09-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 08:16:45PM +, Vincent Renardias wrote: Development tools glade-0.5.3.tar.gzGUI builder * current Debian version: 0.4.1-1 I am waiting for gnome-libs. Gtk---1.0.2.tar.gzC++ language bindings * 1.0.2-1 [OK] Note that Gtk--

Re: Status of GNOME in potato

1999-09-26 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 08:16:45PM +, Vincent Renardias wrote: Development tools glade-0.5.3.tar.gz GUI builder * current Debian version: 0.4.1-1 I am waiting for gnome-libs. potato currently have 1.0.16-1. 1.0.40-0.1

Re: Aaron Sloman

1999-09-26 Thread Craig Brozefsky
Helen McCall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Every single flame I have received over the last ten years has been from someone connected with Aaron Sloman. These flames have been on numerous and diverse subjects. Whether this is just some amazing coincidence, or that Aaron Sloman is just an

Re: Status of GNOME in potato

1999-09-26 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: a few more binary packages are produced) Only one, really. Mike.

Re: Status of GNOME in potato

1999-09-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ CC and reply-to on debian-gtk-gnome list ] Le Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 08:16:45PM +, Vincent Renardias écrivait: Now that GNOME 1.0.40 is out for beta testing, I had a look at what needs to be updated in potato. Needless to say it would be great to have an up to date GNOME in potato before

Intent to Package: gtkpool

1999-09-26 Thread Chris Waters
gtkpool is a simple simulation of the game of pool (i.e. similar to billiards and snooker), written and copyright 1999 by Jacques Fortier, licensed under the GPL. Because Debian *always* needs more games. -- Chris Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I have a truly elegant proof of the or

Re: Why was Bug#40360 not closed automatically?

1999-09-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 26, Thomas Schoepf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed that the BTS lists 2 outstanding important bugs (#40360,#40459) against mutt, although they have been closed by mutt_0.95.7-1: They have been reopened, the bug is not fixed. If someone understands automake please help. -- ciao,