Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-26 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:54:39AM +0100, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: Why does debian have to be different than the rest of the world in everything? Why do I get colors when I set TERM=xterm? there was already xterm-color and xterm-debian which could do colors. Other Linux distributions tend to

Re: Idea: Debian Developer Information Center

2000-03-26 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 10:40:27PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: [snip] With this system, each developer can add his own page on one of his bookmark and from time to time he can check what he's responsible for and what he should do in one look. [snip] It would be my first bookmark...

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-26 Thread Chris Frey
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 11:03:11PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: Chris Frey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So my question is, what are your thoughts on adding a signature to the current Packages.gz file, or adding a similar *dsc file for it, which is then signed? Do you want to sign each

Re: Idea: Debian Developer Information Center

2000-03-26 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:51:50PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hey people ! I posted this mail in order to have some input ... it would be great if some of you gave their opinion about this proposition I posted a while ago : [..] I'd have to bookmark myself. ; -- Joseph Carter [EMAIL

ITP Twig

2000-03-26 Thread Jordi Mallach
Hello, I'm not sure about this, but I think there's no web frontend for mail in Debian, so I am going to try to package twig. I have not seen any entry for this app in WNPP, but if anyone really wants this package, I have no problem giving it away. Taken from fm's description, TWIG is a

Re: ITP Twig

2000-03-26 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:43:51AM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: I'm not sure about this, but I think there's no web frontend for mail in Debian, so I am going to try to package twig. Well, there's IMP... but twig looks nice, so don't let that stop your ITP :-) -- Alisdair McDiarmid

RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Okay, since everyone really desperately wants to know, I ran the numbers on the effectiveness of RBL, RSS, DUL and ORBS against the mail intake for lists.debian.org. All of this is theoretical and done offline against the log file, we are blocking only via RBL (and now RSS) The period of

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 11:28:24PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: A perusal of the DUL ips all suggest they are *all* modems which is a really selective filter swath. No DSL or Cable IPs appear to be listed! Well, I don't know about the US, but I suspect that's because you can have a dialup

ITP: pcrd

2000-03-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
I have packaged 'pcrd', which is a utility for controlling an Icom PCR-1000 radio receiver. It is probably mostly of interest to amateur radio folk, and so will go in the hamradio section. The upstream site for this package is http://www.mv.net/ipusers/cdwalker/pcrd.html The PCR-1000

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Neuffer
* Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000326 08:45]: [...] ORBS - 314 Comparing connections it is found that 3970 out of 40236 connection attempts would have been blocked. This can be roughly considered to be 3970 emails blocked. [...] ORBS deserves special mention because of their

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: ORBS deserves special mention because of their insane hit count, I don't know what that is about but ORBS would block 10% of the mails we get. I think it is without question that the majority of those blocks are legitimate mails. ORBS is also almost

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 10:49:09AM +0200, Michael Neuffer wrote: ORBS deserves special mention because of their insane hit count, I don't know what that is about but ORBS would block 10% of the mails we get. I think it is without question that the majority of those blocks are legitimate

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Joseph Carter wrote: ORBS has a tendancy to not take the time to make sure their messages go to the right places and then they are very slow to take sites off the list after problems are fixed. afaik, ORBS sends to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What other right place could there be?

Bug#46388: marked as done (NO 2.1r3 M68K CDs: trn depends)

2000-03-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#50494: marked as done (general: More themes (gtk, gnome, various windowmanagers, etc) and more backgrounds)

2000-03-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#50534: marked as done (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux)

2000-03-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#60988: marked as done (general: problem with ssh install due to lack of gmp2 package in frozen)

2000-03-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Anyone's able to run 2.3.99-pre*?

2000-03-26 Thread Michael Meskes
e2fscheck always tells me it cannot read the superblock. Up to 2.3.4? it worked well. And of course 2.2.14 runs without a problem. Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz| Go Rhein Fire! Tel.: (+49) 2431/72651 | Use

Bug#29453: marked as done (KDE installation on Debian 2.0)

2000-03-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: Anyone's able to run 2.3.99-pre*?

2000-03-26 Thread Petr Cech
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 10:35:02AM +0200 , Michael Meskes wrote: e2fscheck always tells me it cannot read the superblock. Up to 2.3.4? it worked well. And of course 2.2.14 runs without a problem. check that you don't mount devfs, and have IDE subsystem compiled in (it changed location).

Bug#40117: marked as done (idea: subarchitectures for x86)

2000-03-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#55773: marked as done (general: apt/sources.list on a per mirror basis?)

2000-03-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#21464: marked as done (bo - hamm upgrade problems)

2000-03-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#23883: marked as done (Danger in using autoup.sh)

2000-03-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#28170: marked as done (2.0: upgrade/cd_autoup.sh fails to find libraries)

2000-03-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: Anyone's able to run 2.3.99-pre*?

2000-03-26 Thread kimo_sabe
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 10:35:02AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: e2fscheck always tells me it cannot read the superblock. Up to 2.3.4? it worked well. And of course 2.2.14 runs without a problem. Do you have an IDE ZIP drive? I believe I had the same problem starting around 2.3.43. The

ITP: xastir

2000-03-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
As discussed on the debian-hams list, I am packaging xastir. Xastir is an X client for APRS, the Automatic Position Reporting System. In APRS, objects (houses, cars, people or whatever) report their position on the air. (Usually their position is obtained using GPS for mobile objects, or entered

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Jason Henry Parker
Nils Jeppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And taking people off the list is automatic. Fix it, enter the IP in their form, it gets re-cehcekd and taken off the list. Works like a charm. My recent experience with ORBS backs this up. If people configured their servers correctly, they'd never get on

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:15:42AM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote: ORBS has a tendancy to not take the time to make sure their messages go to the right places and then they are very slow to take sites off the list after problems are fixed. afaik, ORBS sends to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What other right

Re: Idea: Debian Developer Information Center

2000-03-26 Thread Peter Makholm
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey people ! I posted this mail in order to have some input ... it would be great if some of you gave their opinion about this proposition I posted a while ago : Just like everyone else: A great idea to which I have no futher idears right now. If I

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:41:09AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: The domain's technical contact. Ideally, yes. In practice, I'd say that's no more likely to work than [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've seen NIC entries with technical contacts called NOC Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]; do you think hotmail

Bug#32888: marked as done (base: Removing Obsolete package base kills a system)

2000-03-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh, I can find at least one site real quickly whose admin will tell you that he got a message from ORBS, fixed the problem, was blacklisted anyway, and it took him a month to get off that list even though the problem was fixed

Re: Bug#32888: marked as done (base: Removing Obsolete package base kills a system)

2000-03-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:03:27AM -, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: The base package doesn't exist any more for quite a long time, those first time Debian user are most of them quite good and knows what to do to correct this problem. Furthermore for those who can't, they simply have to

Bug#42795: marked as done (Need mechanism to detect unmaintained packages)

2000-03-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#32888: marked as done (base: Removing Obsolete package base kills a system)

2000-03-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 09:39:09PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt écrivait: I think we are closing bugs for the sake of it here. Any reason why the suggestion can't be implemented? (ie make base-files.postinst Yes, because Santiago Vila doesn't want it and because it looks like a crude hack. If you

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:05:40AM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote: ORBS blocks all open relays. A lot of people have open relays. Since open relays still do not have any reason for existence other than admin ignorance, the correct way here would be to block all open relays and ORBS also blacklist

GOB

2000-03-26 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
There has been some discussion about packaging GOB on the lists. I have made some test packages which should be available from: http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~rgmerk/software If they are OK and a developer is prepared to sponsor me I'd love to have the packages added to the distribution. --

Bug#49962: marked as done (Debian FSS-upgrade process: man pages)

2000-03-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#51558: marked as done (debconf: arch query)

2000-03-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Mark Brown wrote: ORBS also blacklist sites for other reasons, such as if their probes are firewalled out. This will, for example, catch sites that automatically firewall out sites that attempt to relay through them - the site notices the first check, blocks the rest and

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Joseph Carter wrote: afaik, ORBS sends to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What other right place could there be? The domain's technical contact. Might be a good idea to do this in addition to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I fail to see where this is better - Most domains have quite

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 09:00:34AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: The whole file --- verifying each entry would take at least three minutes on my hardware, and god knows how long on anything moderately old or outdated. I certainly wouldn't want to try it on m68k on a regular basis, eg. (If doing

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Nils Jeppe
On 26 Mar 2000, Jason Henry Parker wrote: postmaster at a host I co-admin got mail from ORBS a few days before Christmas of 1999. We were given four weeks to fix our open relay, plenty of logs and a reasonable amount of help from the ORBS website on how to fix it. The only difficult part

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-26 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 10:11:57AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:54:39AM +0100, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: Why does debian have to be different than the rest of the world in everything? Why do I get colors when I set TERM=xterm? there was already xterm-color and

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Joseph Carter wrote: Or it appears to have been accepted and goes nowhere. I've seen a setup or two like this specifically for the purposes of tracking who was trying to use the relay... Just check your reject log for ip adresses ;-) If someone has some weird setup like

Re: GOB

2000-03-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 12:12:26AM +1000, Robert Graham Merkel écrivait: There has been some discussion about packaging GOB on the lists. I have made some test packages which should be available from: http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~rgmerk/software If they are OK and a developer is prepared to

Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread Rodrigo Castro
Hello Sorry for asking again about my problem but I can't make my letter E work in bash (neither in console nor xterm). See what happens: - E is treated like a dead key. It is not showed at first time, but when you press another key after E, it beeps - E works in other programs and

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Joseph Carter wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:00:54PM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote: Given every report I've heard to the contrary, I'm not sure I believe that. I've also been told that there are cases where their tests produce false positives. This used to be true.

Re: GOB

2000-03-26 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 12:12:26AM +1000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: There has been some discussion about packaging GOB on the lists. If they are OK and a developer is prepared to sponsor me I'd love to have the packages added to the distribution. I already uploaded a package to Incoming.

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:34:37PM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote: Unfortunately, it demonstrates that ORBS is a little more indiscriminant than perhaps is good. Yes; because innocent people do get caught in the middle of it. But it's the only method to fight open relays. I've said it before and

Bug#52748: marked as done (Potato debs using new chmod/rmdir options should depend on new fileutils)

2000-03-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Joseph Carter wrote: The point exactly.. If RBL or RSS blacklists someone, it's a known spammer or a site which has refused to act against spammers abusing their systems. In these instances, the blacklisting happens as a last resort. But you can't keep up with the

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-26 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: Oh crap, you're right. I wasn't thinking on that one. Oh well, I guess somebody will have to find good colour combinations for every colour package. I can do that. Black on white. Proven to work perfectly for centuries. Or do you only read books with white

Re: New version of xserver-svga gives poorer display on laptop

2000-03-26 Thread Konstantin Kivi
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 12:14:04PM +, Joseph Heenan wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk wrote: The nature of the problem is this: There is a tendency for the image to be smeared to the right. This is particularly noticeable with the mouse

Re: Idea: Debian Developer Information Center

2000-03-26 Thread Petr Cech
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:51:50PM +0100 , Raphael Hertzog wrote: Le Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 12:31:54AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog crivait: Hi dear co-developers, Hey people ! I posted this mail in order to have some input ... it would be great if some of you gave their opinion about this

Re: ITP John the ripper

2000-03-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 03:39:24PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: as jsut discussed on debian-devel, I would like to package John the Ripper. If someone already has done or is working on it, please mail me, then I will stop packing it. Otherwise I will try to upload this package till friday

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Craig Brozefsky
Nils Jeppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Mark Brown wrote: ORBS also blacklist sites for other reasons, such as if their probes are firewalled out. This will, for example, catch sites that automatically firewall out sites that attempt to relay through them - the site

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Nils Jeppe
On 26 Mar 2000, Craig Brozefsky wrote: It's just an illustration of the problems of attempting to enforce your preferred policies upon others. I'd call it self-defense, really. -- Kif, if there's one thing I don't need it's your 'I don't think that's wise' attitude.

ITP: cmatrix

2000-03-26 Thread Edward Betts
Package: cmatrix Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 76 Maintainer: Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 1.0b-1 Depends: libc6 (= 2.1), libncurses4 (= 4.2-3.1), xbase-clients (= 3.3.3.1-5), kbd-compat | kbd Description: Console Matrix simulates the

Re: ITP: cmatrix

2000-03-26 Thread David Starner
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 05:32:13PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: Did this message mess with GnuPG on any one else's system? I had to kill gpg (1.0.1-2) to get mutt to continue, and then I got [-- PGP output follows --] ... Good signature from ... ... gpg: waiting for lock (hold by 829 - probably

Re: ITP: cmatrix

2000-03-26 Thread David Starner
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:08:10AM -0600, David Starner wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 05:32:13PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: Did this message mess with GnuPG on any one else's system? I had to kill gpg (1.0.1-2) to get mutt to continue, and then I got [-- PGP output follows --] ... Good

Re: ITP: cmatrix

2000-03-26 Thread Edward Betts
David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 05:32:13PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: Did this message mess with GnuPG on any one else's system? I had to kill gpg (1.0.1-2) to get mutt to continue, and then I got [-- PGP output follows --] ... Good signature from ... ...

Re: ITP: cmatrix

2000-03-26 Thread Edward Betts
Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: cmatrix Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 76 Maintainer: Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 1.0b-1 Depends: libc6 (= 2.1), libncurses4 (= 4.2-3.1), xbase-clients (= 3.3.3.1-5), kbd-compat |

Re: [dickey@clark.net: Re: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59191]

2000-03-26 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 07:56:07PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Le Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Santiago Vila écrivait: Perhaps we should open the Bug System to upstream maintainers by adding a flag to every package. If this flag is on, reports are automatically forwarded to a

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Steve Robbins
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Michael Neuffer wrote: * Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000326 08:45]: [...] ORBS - 314 Comparing connections it is found that 3970 out of 40236 connection attempts would have been blocked. This can be roughly considered to be 3970 emails blocked.

Re: ITP John the ripper

2000-03-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:15:20AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: as jsut discussed on debian-devel, I would like to package John the Ripper. If someone already has done or is working on it, please mail me, then I will stop packing it. Otherwise I will try to upload this package till friday

Re: New version of xserver-svga gives poorer display on laptop

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 06:05:43PM +0400, Konstantin Kivi wrote: I also had to add Set_LCDClk 40 to the Device section. Be aware that parse-xf86config used in /etc/init.d/xdm doesn't unserstand it Be aware that because of problems like this, parse-xf86config has been eliminated from

stuffit expander?

2000-03-26 Thread Nils Jeppe
Hello, Is there any debian package (or in fact Unix tool at all) that allows uncompression of Mac .sit (stuffit) archives? Nils -- Kif, if there's one thing I don't need it's your 'I don't think that's wise' attitude. --- Zap Brannigan

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:54:39AM +0100, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: Oh crap, you're right. I wasn't thinking on that one. Oh well, I guess somebody will have to find good colour combinations for every colour package. I can do that. Black on white. Proven to work perfectly for

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:07:11PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: So why don't you just change your local settings to make xterm be mono? Ummm. `XTerm*ColorMode: no' seems like it'd do what you want. That seems to work just fine. I wish I was aware of that resource a bit earlier...

Re: Bug#32888: marked as done (base: Removing Obsolete package base kills a system)

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:53:30PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Yes, because Santiago Vila doesn't want it and because it looks like a crude hack. There is no correlation there. Or if there is, it is a negative one. -- G. Branden Robinson| If a man ate a pound of pasta and a

Re: ITP John the ripper

2000-03-26 Thread Christian Kurz
On 00-03-26 Josip Rodin wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:15:20AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: as jsut discussed on debian-devel, I would like to package John the Ripper. If someone already has done or is working on it, please mail me, then I will stop packing it. Otherwise I will try to

Would you like to save 30% on your phone bills and...

2000-03-26 Thread jeffallen
To be removed from this mailing list immediately press reply and enter REMOVE on the subject line. Would you like some information on saving 30% on your Phone bills each month and how to get up to 8% back each month on your Utilities including phone. This service works for both business and

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Jason Henry Parker
Nils Jeppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Four weeks? Did they change this? When we got blacklisted coz a customer (open relay) used us as a smart host, they gave us four days ;-). All I can report is my experience. I got four weeks. Yeah, me too. They're competent, cool people, and their system

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread Samuel Tardieu
| - I booted with init option (linux init=/bin/bash) in order to run no | init script and it didn't work either. I also tried D option (linux | D). Assuming that your mail is serious requires a fair amount of work, but I'll try anyway. bash man page reports that /etc/profile is read first. What

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Jason Henry Parker
Steve Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is misleading. What ORBS does is *test* mail servers to ensure that it *is* an open relay, before adding the relay's address to the list. They do NOT (according to the web page) scan the net for open relays. Rather, the list is generated

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread rodsc
Hello, On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 08:13:25AM -0800, David Benson wrote: I only have one debugging idea, but your problem sounds like no fun, so I hope this helps... Try running ``strace bash'' to see whether the key-event is making it to bash. If so, try other libreadline-based programs (eg

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread Rodrigo Castro
Hello, On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:07:15PM +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote: | - I booted with init option (linux init=/bin/bash) in order to run no | init script and it didn't work either. I also tried D option (linux | D). Assuming that your mail is serious requires a fair amount of work, but

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:00:54PM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote: I don't see how you can create a false positive on a relay test. Either the message gets through, and you're an open relay, or it doesn't, and you're fine. It's quite simple, really. Actually, I ran the relay test at abuse.net on two

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Jason Henry Parker
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:00:54PM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote: I don't see how you can create a false positive on a relay test. Either the message gets through, and you're an open relay, or it doesn't, and you're fine. It's quite simple, really.

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-26 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:02:20PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 09:00:34AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: The whole file --- verifying each entry would take at least three minutes on my hardware, and god knows how long on anything moderately old or outdated. I

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-26 Thread Rodrigo Castro
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 01:11:17AM +0200, Antonio Fiol Bonnín wrote: I have no idea, but what does it do when you press your E key while in the middle of a command (while editing). I am afraid it has the same symptoms. :-( PS: Please carbon copy messages to me. []'s -- Rodrigo

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 05:10:06PM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote: On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Joseph Carter wrote: DUL and ORBS both seem to think they need to punish anyone whose config or origin does not meet their standards (or as someone else noted in the case of ORBS, if they are unable to test

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-26 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 11:03:11PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: Do you want to sign each package entry, or the whole file? The whole file --- verifying each entry would take at least three minutes on my hardware, and god knows how long on

RFP: bidwatcher

2000-03-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
I've built a package of bidwatcher, which is a tool for users of eBay, that assists in placing and monitoring bids. I don't really want to maintain the package, though, so I'm calling for a volunteer to package this for real and upload it. I'm happy to provide what I've done so far, but it's

Re: Idea: Debian Developer Information Center

2000-03-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 06:10:36PM +0200, Petr Cech écrivait: This is cool. Could it be added to db.d.o right now? It could, but not right now since I've not yet started to work on this... I'll have some technical details to resolve. I need access to the BTS, the LDAP database and probably the