fearless sailtrip (aka the DPL goes on vacation)
I'm leaving tomorrow (saturday) on a week vacation to Greece. I'll be somewhere sailing on the greek waters, trying to work on a tan and check the sights. Of course the timing is slightly bad: the discussion period for the logo vote ends in the middle of the vacation. However I made arrangements for a virtual me to issue the CFV at the right time :). Anyway, I hope Debian will still exist and be in good shape when I return. Oh, and with lots less release-critical bugs of course ;) Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/ pgpCj4boLu1ce.pgp Description: PGP signature
tetex's environment of PS fonts
Hello, I am a member of Debian JP and use potato with kernel 2.2.5. I asked some question on tetex's environment of PostScript fonts about ten days ago but I do not have any comments. So I again ask with slightly arranging the question. [1] teTeX's status(the latest one, I think) nsx:~$ dpkg -l tetex* ii tetex-base 0.9.990406-1 basic teTeX library files ii tetex-bin 0.9.990406-1 teTeX binary files ii tetex-dev 0.9.990406-1 kpathsea.a and include files for teTeX ii tetex-doc 0.9.990406-1 teTeX documentation ii tetex-extra 0.9.990406-1 extra teTeX library files pn tetex-frenchnone (no description available) ii tetex-lib 0.9.990406-1 shared libkpathsea for teTeX ii tetex-nonfree 0.9.990406-1 non-free teTeX library files ii tetex-src 0.9.990326-1 teTeX texmf source files [2] Problem With some TeX file, I encountered the error messages like follows: --- (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex) (afjlfonts2.texkpathsea: Running mktextfm Times-Roman /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation T for Times-Roman. /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/share/texmf/fontname/special.map? mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=sparcptr; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Times-Roman This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3) (snip) ! Font \fivrm=Times-Roman at 5.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. --- You can guess that the above concerns a rather old style method of TeX for PostScript fonts, that is, it searches Times-Roman.tfm itself. But after some examinations I found, though it may be well known, that there is a mechanism in modern TeX to treat this kind of PostScript fonts. In short /usr/share/texmf/fontname/texfonts.map include /usr/share/texmf/fontname/adobe.map and it seems to me that adobe.map try to map Times-Roman.tfm to ptmr8a.tfm by the following entry: ptmr8aTimes-Roman A0.4tir_ but there is no ptmr8a.tfm in the system, even no ptmr8a.* nsx:~$ locate ptmr8 /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/times/ptmr8c.tfm /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/times/ptmr8r.tfm /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/times/ptmr8rn.tfm /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/times/ptmr8t.tfm /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/yandy/times/ptmr8y.tfm /usr/share/texmf/fonts/vf/adobe/times/ptmr8c.vf /usr/share/texmf/fonts/vf/adobe/times/ptmr8t.vf nsx:~$ Note adobe.map is of version=2.7, date=18 March 1999 [3] Question This situation looks like containing some inconsistencies to me. Is it really bugs of tetex family (of Debian) or is there some mechanism in tetex which makes it reasonable ? For your reference the old adobe.map of version=2.6 date=10 August 1998 contains the line as ptmr8rTimes-Roman 0.4 tir_ and lptmr8r.tfm exists in the system. When I put this old adobe.map in the current working directory and process the same TeX file there is no problems at all. I will very happy if any comments are given about this question. Thanks in advance. 1999.5.15 -- Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
Re: debian-upload-queue in Japan
Hi! Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hm... it would be valid, but no one would find it aesthetically correct :) But this is all not really important, it's just a string in a config file. Thank you for your comment :) I see. Other members in JP project told me their ideas: i.e. hinokuni, sukiyaki, karate, kiai, hiyoko, far_east, kyokutoh, wabisabi, wasabi,,, If it is not really important, I prefer wasabi as the nickname. -- Taketoshi Sano: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Homapages in list of maintainers
Are there any objections for Ukai's taking charge of New Maintainers Interview in Japan ? If not, Please tell me the address to contact about this. Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] the correct address to contact ? In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Taketoshi Sano [EMAIL PROTECTED] (me :) writes: Hi ! In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fumitoshi UKAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can volunteer to do it, if it is really needed and anyone object to it. I've been maintain Debian JP machines, ftp archive, web server, mailing-list and Debian official mirror in Japan about two years or three. Thank you for your proposal :). I think it is required very much to get the Debian project to be more global organization as fast as we can, because if more people can join the project smoothly, the project can get more resource to do various task. if someone has the required condition to pass the verification by the New Maintainers Group, I can not find the merit of keep him (or her) in the long waiting queue. If the problem is only related to the human power, the action to do should be to increase the member of the Group, not to keep the queue longer. Adam Di Calro told Remember that approving new maintainer is a very _sensitive_ area, and I think it should be, but if the members in the Debian Project want to make this project to be true global and universal, an action to make the waiting queue shorter should be taken anyway now or in the near future. I am eager to know if anyone has objection. -- Taketoshi Sano: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fixing the wnpp was ITP rx(v)p
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 06:17:00PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The wnpp has become exceptionally incorrect and out of date. What can we do as a group to fix this? One suggestion I just tossed out on IRC is to use the BTS Hmm, so newbie developer issues a bug against wnpp ITP foo. When foo is uploaded he either places closes #? in the Changelog or closes the bug by hand. Quite nice and takes the need away from having a wnpp maint (mostly). Also useful: Package: wnpp Subject: wnpp: wanted: package Priority: wishlist I'd like to see a package of foo, a program that does bar. It's licensed under the baz license. -- Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED]Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBEThe Source Comes First! - JHM Being overloaded is the sign of a true Debian maintainer. pgp0egI2iMHPZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Please adopt: prc-tools
John == John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John I tried giving it away last December, but apparently the John person that took it didn't have time to upload it, so I'm John trying again. Well, if you're happy for me to have it (again :/), I actually have a -2 package built ready to upload. -- Stephen --- Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier
Re: jdk117v3 package?
On Fri, 14 May, 1999, Vincent Murphy wrote: ok. i'm just wondering how SuSE and anybody else who gives it out on CDs gets away with it. when i tell my friends they should try debian instead of the usual distributions, everything's peachy until i tell them it doesn't include java (we're doing java as part of cs). what!? you mean i have to download the jdk AND netscape!? the jdk is getting bigger all the time too, so the chances of downloading it over slow links are getting slimmer. i guess this means we need an installer package like we used to have for netscape which sucks in the blackdown tarball and sticks the files in all the right places. i don't know how to make ordinary packages i'm afraid, never mind installer packages. although if anybody wants to take it on i'm willing to help in any way that i can. Easy solution, buy one of those non-free Debian CDs, with the bits of non-free they can shove on a CD on. Loads of vendors do them. -- I consume, therefore I am pgp1gm7ol2G1Y.pgp Description: PGP signature
ITP: netled
This is to be my first real package once my maintainer info has been sent to me.. (James has spoken to me by phone) I just found this, so I am just about to play with it. From the Web Page: http://mars.ark.com/~mbevan/products/netled.shtml Summary NetLED is a program that monitors an interface using the keyboard leds. Documentation The package contains a manpage, text documentation, and a configuration file. Distribution Contains source and binaries for i386 ELF Linux. Platforms i386 Linux. Source is included and should be portable to most UNIX flavours and probably MS-DOS compilers too. Copying Policy GPL - GNU General Public License. ^ I think this is Good :) Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Friends are relatives you make for yourself. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: debian-upload-queue in Japan
I got a mail of the idea just jp :) Thanks. It's most simple and clear, so I select this as my choice for the nickname of newly created dupload-queue. Any other opinions ? -- Taketoshi Sano: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ITP: netled
Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Summary NetLED is a program that monitors an interface using the keyboard leds. Is it different from tleds which is already packaged? -- Debian for hackers, Red Hat for suits, Slackware for loons. --CmdrTaco URL:http://slashdot.org/articles/99/03/22/0928207.shtml
Re: Intent to package: reportbug
* Version for virtual packages is the date of the report (/MM/DD) Any chance of making that an ISO-8601 format date instead? That is, -MM-DD. - Jim Van Zandt
Re: Package to give away/orphan: GNU acct
Hi Thomas, Thomas I am still using an acct_6.3.2-2_i386.deb package that I Thomas compiled on a 2.1.96 kernel. It works fine with the 2.2 kernel Thomas series for me. Thanks, that is another good data point. Which version of glibc are you running / did you compile against? Glibc 2.0 or 2.1 ? Thanks, Dirk -- According to the latest figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
Re: ITP: netled
On 14 May 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote: Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Summary NetLED is a program that monitors an interface using the keyboard leds. Is it different from tleds which is already packaged? I found tleds not all that easy to use, and I only had to type `make` and `./netleds console ppp0 ` and it is still running, even after a disconnect or two... But, I will have another look at tleds, to see if it is worth me packaging netleds. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - God's last name is not damn. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: ITP: netled
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 05:00:20PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: On 14 May 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote: I found tleds not all that easy to use, and I only had to type `make` and `./netleds console ppp0 ` and it is still running, even after a disconnect or two... But, I will have another look at tleds, to see if it is worth me packaging netleds. Please take a look at the one which I just uploaded, I'm all for two competing programs on this front.. (tleds has been on the same 'beta' for quite a while, though for the most part it works well) Note the config file and the just added call to deallocvt, which works quite nicely.. Zephaniah E. Hull.. (The tleds maintainer) Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - God's last name is not damn. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- PGP EA5198D1-Zephaniah E. Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED]-GPG E65A7801 Keys available at http://whitestar.soark.net/~warp/public_keys. CCs of replies from mailing lists are encouraged. pgpVVkkqurDrR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: alternative man page reader?
Hi, Actually you can make some text output with groff, for instance: groff -man -Tascii pon.1 pon.txt works for me :). Let's say for the manuals, but works. so long Othmar
FreeBuilder
Is there any intention to package Free Builder for Debian? Now that we have a reasonable java plataform (with jdk, kaffe, awt, xemacs, and ohers). Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique
Re: alternative man page reader?
Lars Wirzenius wrote: Manual pages are actually written in a new language, defined using the troff macro language. It is much simpler than the real troff language. This may no longer be true. I see quite a few codes in manpages that aren't defined by man(7). For example, the manpage for [ contains sequences like .B \-b \fIfile\fP The \fI and \fP don't look like man macros to me. Richard Braakman
Re: fearless sailtrip (aka the DPL goes on vacation)
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 01:22:13AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Anyway, I hope Debian will still exist and be in good shape when I return. Oh, and with lots less release-critical bugs of course ;) hehe. we know what the mice do when the cat's away, but what mischief do the cats get up to when the catherd's away??? :-) craig ps: i have no idea if catherd is a real word or not. by analogy to shepherd. -- craig sanders
Re: jdk117v3 package?
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 01:07:26AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: Easy solution, buy one of those non-free Debian CDs, with the bits of non-free they can shove on a CD on. Loads of vendors do them. No, the non-freeness isn't the problem with this version. FTP admin said that licence says that we can't distribute it at all. :( -- enJoy -*/\*- http://jagor.srce.hr/~jrodin/
Re: gnupg
On May 14, Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I add the following line to ~/.gnupg/options (as someone suggested on this mailing list) the gpg program segv's every time I try to decrypt data. keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.pgp GPG 0.9.6 is buggy, I sent a detailed bug report to the author today. I have been able to run gpg --update-trustdb on the debian keyring with an older release. -- ciao, Marco
Hardware working with Linux
Good morning fans, I have noticed that several HOWTO's are way out-dated. For example the Hardware-HOWTO is from July 1998. Same goes for the Ethernet-HOWTO etc. Thus they doesn't cover hardware which is supported by Linux 2.2.x and newer. However, there is a new service which has been opened to the Linux community, called linuxhardware.net. The maintainer, Mark Griskey, told me that it is his goal to provide a list of user experiences with hardware. Thus the kernel source is not compiled to produce such a list. This is why I would like you to check out the website http://www.linuxhardware.net/ and submit your experiences with your hardware. All Linux users would benefit from this since they could easily find out if their hardware works well with Linux. This is what Marc told me: Joey, thanks for the input. However, although this site strives to collect as much information about harware as possible, the goal is to provide a list of user experiences with hardware. If a piece of hardware is not mentioned, that is because no one submitted any information about it. The goal is provide listing of people's experiences with a piece of hardware, complete with additional comments and updates chronicaling everything that was done to get it to work properly. The site will only have as many items as users have submitted. Regards, Joey -- All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... -- Larry Wall Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.
Re: Intent to package: reportbug
On May 14, James R. Van Zandt wrote: * Version for virtual packages is the date of the report (/MM/DD) Any chance of making that an ISO-8601 format date instead? That is, -MM-DD. - Jim Van Zandt Done in 0.2. Chris -- = |Chris Lawrence| Visit my home page!| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ | | || | Grad Student, Pol. Sci.| Visit the Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5: | | University of Mississippi | * http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/ * | =
Intent to package Gnofin
Hi Darin! I was seeking for a tiny finance tracking tool to make better use of my money and found Gnofin on freshmeat. I learned that there is no Debian package for it so I grabbed the sources and made one myself. Thanks for this cool utility - I like it very much and I would like to make an official Debian package of it. I do not know if somebody else is working on this - please let me know if you are. If you oppose to this plan please let me know. Thank you Torsten PS: If you plan to add i18n-support I would be glad to help out with the german translation. pgpeXbzJylc2f.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Please adopt: prc-tools
By all means go right ahead and upload :-) -- John Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John == John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John I tried giving it away last December, but apparently the John person that took it didn't have time to upload it, so I'm John trying again. Well, if you're happy for me to have it (again :/), I actually have a -2 package built ready to upload. -- Stephen --- Long noun chains don't automatically imply security. - Bruce Schneier -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | + The 35,974,939th prime number is 694,341,517.
Re: debian-upload-queue in Japan
Hi,
I've set up debian upload queue in Japan. So please add the information
about this to dupload.conf and developers-references section 6.2.x.
Should I send it as wishlist to BTS?
nickname: jp
FQDN: master.debian.or.jp
path name: /pub/Incoming/upload
For dupload.conf
$cfg{jp} = {
fqdn = master.debian.or.jp,
incoming = /pub/Incoming/upload/,
mailto = [EMAIL PROTECTED], # stable, contrib, non-free
mailtx = [EMAIL PROTECTED], # unstable, exper.
visibleuser = getlogin() || $ENV{USER} || $ENV{LOGNAME},
visiblename = ,
fullname = ,
};
For developers-reference
Uploads via `jp
---
Another upload queue is available in Japan: just upload the files
via anonymous FTP to
ftp://master.debian.or.jp/pub/Incoming/upload/
(rest is same as `erlangen', I suppose)
Thanks,
Fumitoshi UKAI
Re: Intent to package: ttfprint
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 05:15:42PM -0400, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: | |On Sat, 15 May 1999, Anthony Wong wrote: | | The package 'ttfprint' is ready for upload: | |Interesting... Is it specific to Chinese, or can it do other truetype |stuff ? E.g. Russian ? Yes, ttfprint is specific to Chinese because it only processes Chinese characters in the original text file but not English and other languages. But I think the ttf2ps engine is not limited to Chinese truetype fonts. -- Cheers, Anthony Wong.
ITP: bg5ps
The package 'bg5ps' is ready for upload: Package: bg5ps Version: 1.1b2-1 Section: text Priority: optional Architecture: i386 Depends: libc6 (= 2.1), python, ttf-twmoe-kai | ttf-twmoe-sung Installed-Size: 96 Maintainer: Anthony Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: A utility to print Chinese Big5 documents using truetype fonts Bg5ps is a utility to output a Postscript file froma Chinese Big5 encoding document by using Truetype fonts. . Postscript files produced by Netscape and mpage that contain Big5 characters can be filtered by bg5ps so that the Chinese characters within can be printed correctly. -- Cheers, Anthony Wong.
Re: ITP: bg5ps
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 03:02:00AM +0800, Anthony Wong wrote: The package 'bg5ps' is ready for upload: You know I download my email every 5 minutes and scroll though it. It's bothersome to see an intent-to-package come in at the same time as the upload announcement. The reason for anouncing ITP is so that if there is some one working on it already they can speak up and work out some sort of collaboration or what have you. Please, people, give some time between ITP announcements and uploading (atleast 1 day, preferebly 2). It's this very thing that makes it so hard to maintain wnpp in it's current state. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]Debian GNU/Linux OpenLDAP Dev - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Choice of the GNU Generation -- -- - - - --- --- -- - - --- - --
Bug#37755: general: Woes from upgrading 2.0 - 2.1
Package: general Version: N/A Hi Would like to contribute the problems I experienced when upgrading from 2.0 to 2.1 using a 2.2.6 kernel. Hope they are useful. I attach an script for the upgrade (^Ms removed). The main points to note about it is apt-get suddenly died about seven times in all the upgrade process (E: Sub-process returned error code). Sometimes it was enough to invoke 'dpkg --configure -a' and when finished, continue with 'apt-get dist-upgrade', but sometimes it left a package in such a state it had to be removed manually from /var/lib/dpkg/status [trying to purge or re-install would not do]. Other than that, it worked fine. I just miss someway to make apt-get understand multi-cd. Congratulations to all :) Ok, here I include the script log for the upgrade, bz2ipped. begin 644 Upgrade-script.log.bz2 [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]7O=[[9IV] M]OT`+[EMAIL PROTECTED]@```3@/[EMAIL PROTECTED],JI[X^;O;=];R][EAZ?/GO?%MUUN^;M!ZQ MMWW7P/MJ0A(1K!*AVR2K[WW@;,5.3NPNVBJ'[EMAIL PROTECTED]E M=5L[G;S#8]9E#[SO;H\]R^*7GWU[NPWE7F]HY8MW=;ONVWGO=UM=W=!%5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]VB?)IV8MM):LR!4A58\9#NJZN-MLA9M[;#TSKME4-:70VWO;SO M``YUF1)LU/I[MW#G1[YGUJ*O;=6U5[EMAIL PROTECTED]:],O)D M]LZ*TE[O:5WHNFKO'NV4I?=TX8O6E*.2^1W*9[NBT.DJZC0:C64ZV]C=33V M]U]]40*14?:;NJMV=5)V:IMRW??,[EMAIL PROTECTED]:J[5B^+$P`S?0[OO MMZ3K'3`\C4V*5UY=IB[EMAIL PROTECTED]`F)-@34T9--4_5/R4RHD/ M*'J/*-`R8(`-,@(A`B:)/0BA33U1XIZ(#0'J`T@E-I)(1,FA`R328 MH_2909CU`-`TAH`D]5)$$::C!)Z90R`!H[EMAIL PROTECTED]:)(30AJ0 M*9H*J?^4E-J;14_%3S4--3P)JAIJU-/%-I/((T)(($!`C0$T)/)BC%'I MZJ[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\K9?BKEM-)5K_3[7WDNQ/[6/^/6:!`DW^ MP-NN5?^_\6_P[G^O^'^*\`^P_9^C^`O\'YG\\.X_[EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED] M20L]]SXYHSXUG[_=L?[+H!4`[:TG(EHM04D#]V=YF%G%.H.R[I9U`[S% MFS//4VHDC$DF(5(0F(5#0B_X^E'3./\+F;CMRP_]!FW^0+IRKX+C^\L M/0UG0L8]HB^9H,G,`$17@@V((EB([EMAIL PROTECTED]'(CB_MGI.E6.0V+A) M(0$R$B0%(;$?\4FW8T!?(%GEOH6Z`NPX[_AOO/Q\C2-1Z^,ISEQM4FUO.! M_#Z5[^M6T[0+O1$2[O=?\/=?R)/\LV`$[EMAIL PROTECTED]'[EMAIL PROTECTED] M4X/^!28G#9)@[EMAIL PROTECTED]/1^\R:/_LT8(]\,.D!\=D0Q7(#S MCT[X`J:UDSF5Y9B.[)C_IXX+2?#W6*EY40O`JC))H*\'JYR][(!TCB( M)`)))Q[)0]F`AK]F?G:YD@Q,_?7*U213QFDUBBQ$;1;,441;$5O:VN)- M*HL:DBTF9C9AF4-V^'J[-BV\';Z'L;OX]\=-Q70HMUF5\7-Q(Q0F:9HV) MD*!/6YD9+*9,248WESEPA#[EMAIL PROTECTED]:ETY6,E)@Q)I7M7BVNKGSXT* M3EUQ#!BMKT57HU6\VM[5V5B\JXVVXMC6O@;;Q%E;[EMAIL PROTECTED]D9^'IX)_NAV [EMAIL PROTECTED]/Y_SV#9/=/O[%MZERRK:);$FQ7G7GTYW-9KKIO\6-]_G:.,A\]WE5 M_YC,%`8I[EMAIL PROTECTED](X$B@O0+XZMT'O76$E5)#,%9_:+$QX;L''ZH10,@ M(09S7OX`DLXR(0(4_2%(51]S=V)=^9I?=]CO\\7`L5$PQSV6L)_9U^= M]=_8''ZHG/ET-;JH'JV$UJ@/[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]:=I136 M?T[_R?H[EMAIL PROTECTED]P4^C!L`(F45\?\06D1V08J]T`0'$_H([EMAIL PROTECTED] M\?H/F?$RW^QOB2O[EMAIL PROTECTED]_S(-P5?=`/P]J_'[I:OER_[@@XCTX_ M[J9U:)J6M\=K?,X#R_6:XEY^'ZG`5FX_+_%GN@'J0#'MB]%^YA\?W8\ M:Z#7Y?+5W)NU^;A2K_W9OCOA7?A]\N''/:6RC?*7/XP[#)PX[EMAIL PROTECTED]1 ML5=#=RY+NMIPBD80_\WNW?Q[;BENZW;ASJ^UF_0C3MG,7WZ.+AT/'F9\ M%VEW:E-I;UYZ:;/Q6.,Z1=]6_[M8PCC\O+LECUSRPT)L^;@NG(Z!].'B(M; M3K:;E(JL!3PHYNREVM-\7$:3E9#[%RB)9]G\O8-FIM^.HW?$CQQEA_#A4:= M)R;RM%A%.'J/L`1`J')!GPZVZZ7V=S([\ZCBZ6W7R._3F.D([EMAIL PROTECTED]@S' MI?AQCO1_[^(5]`Z!@]Q:'O*$U0(7S1AXS%E53G)[EMAIL PROTECTED])L5)HDBZ=4 MKNG!0BP[.0-1H/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'([EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]2:)6M!]0X M2T'*B^I,A$T2Q#*8%BTG;)[EMAIL PROTECTED](=2!XESQ0#![L/D%(U`Q^SE*[; MY48U)DT6,%;[EMAIL PROTECTED];BDK$D8MC8V(C%0:0P9#8M$F2,49-**( MC8Q(R6,8LECP1@T914E(S1I-HH)-BBQ7X/A5RZHC!L41HK)ML9F9DUB M_RNDVE,[EMAIL PROTECTED]),A%HT!)HR1L:-HL!8J2BDHDBB-%BLFQH*,049+YEN-J M*#4:R[:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@MH(YSDFV31%B+1:Z;BUDL%HJ(U%C!B(J$L6#-)76Y- [EMAIL PROTECTED])1HBC18B2C125%$:R)4S01L]7.-I)+%BQB`Q ML:-,2:-%1L;8HB$VS(VB*P:3)1B+2WRRN((BHHT;16C8S+MSDY[/N5+Z MRWDW?Z]'[EMAIL PROTECTED];TVEH!G%(8CF=\2T7,,00UB:Q2=*'X0*B9A\X-80[EMAIL PROTECTED]) MV^9P09'+L'D/0($(P551\_E;[EMAIL PROTECTED];;'LJM,M* MFCX8IQN\PHGWLT'M)WAPORCZK(1\XSU^F_9N\G*H^3W4$GZGY=\^W3ERPOS M7+/SRCF16.-/F?+45XV?T.[G^3H6^:KYZCQRWX.IO3=UCRKMCH+\C'2E M6X;E2O//=NG`;TMT$LZ7QIB^VL%\(_%W\G54Z[O5[LBC$#;.T,K4G5WCG [EMAIL PROTECTED]1`S+$%E2I)`Y:@#D?,YE`3QY][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] M;Z[EMAIL PROTECTED]/+YZKUGGI2/LKV=5YU:E7TE:(UBM[EMAIL PROTECTED]: MMI(I$(1)$#_GO4_'FEL0I3WKRXUOQM6VN`P@'0_66$M!S5)M`..M6MO94 M=GD[PUR3[K(-2H-:UWEA;P[0TO0+T8O?)6Z;7-)(C2%L;R^HJ2=8%' M[W(02/H0-N_5=$[RPUNI-HW\$7B):Z/CBQTJ!]!W^M`$`GXS_`\0G1X[7 MN'(9^PE[`]Q!YUX$IYUUJ?'5C!_K+%)M+E'OZMO%\M;[?T)GL^#\GF M-)\-QU`3UA\.6WQ'M^48[+31VJ[];0$/([EMAIL PROTECTED]'5\O,0?8^8\XK'+ MO\J91/77Q;MZMRQD'.=\^G:G,=_J1$#%``NAIR?=7#/;FW*/Q=I.#RM:L [EMAIL PROTECTED](,[S+CWR49^E94$J`C\Y\JN-3Y-VZG:K)[O+YG.X=3RH\!=SO M0_2`OZ!@L%KU!\-/L(,[50[EMAIL PROTECTED]#V0#:8(92'MM(32(F M;7S75HTS7/[S3\3?4/D?D#^9[?`Y`OXO#_4TR8JCZ66U)4\3U-I,G M0*AYKT/9A[EMAIL PROTECTED],MJ8[G7M?1A/796OM`7MTYE'[EMAIL PROTECTED]!WO$U!8GX?O_ M[4%(CPB]Z#C9%^IU/Q-#QX3*`2??WL%CY%57`@+?HW+HO(#0UH^=6JJW1 M??8%K/]G.CS,D-VR2CI\C?_#3$!?7[*\%N!W*L#81(X.]O0]O/1T*G%I;
Update ... Re: Ethernet newbee failure
First I want to thank everyone who sent me a reply, both private and on the list. I now know 3 different way to create working routing tables. With regret, this has not resolved the problem. It was John Hasler who actually resolved things for me. I now have the following routing tables on both machines: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 01 lo 10.0.0.0* 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 eth0 I get better results now than ever before, but still can't complete a ping. Here are the facts: 1. Each machine can ping itself successfully. 2. A ping to the other machine returns 0 packets to the kernel. 3. The PKT light on the hub blinks while a failed ping is in progress. The NICs are EtherLink III cards connected through a hub using twisted pair cable. Suppositions: Fact 1 is not useful, as the kernel, seeing the information in the routing table, has no reason to go to the card to resolve the ping. In this circumstance the kernel is talking to itself and the ping program, not the card. Fact 3 indicates that the ping is getting out of the kernel, into the card, and onto the cable. When properly configured the card in machine one gets a reply from the card in machine two, but fails to get that message to the kernel. (fact 2) At this point, it is my supposition that the card is responding on another interrupt from the one it was commanded to use by isapnp, and the driver. The kernel, the driver, and the isapnp program, all think the card has been configured for base address 0300, and irq 10, yet no traffic makes it out of the card into the kernel, suggesting that it is using another interrupt. As painful as it seemed at this point, I was ready to try loading the driver commanding each interrupt that the card might use, hoping to stumble on it by a careful search. Although the documentation seems to indicate that the only parameter that I can send to the driver is the irq, modconf says that the io base address can also be entered. Worse than that, if you try to specify another interrupt for the driver install, it hangs forever. I was able to do an insmod including the parrameter, but the results were not what I expected: dwarf# insmod 3c509 irq=12 eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 10 5a de c8 16, IRQ 10. 3c509.c:1.16 2/3/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note that the driver still declares irq 10 rather than the irq 12 that I requested. Is my syntax faulty? Ben Pfaff indicated that his card requires a special option before the kernel can hear it. I can find no such indication for the EtherLink III card, but his experience seems similar to mine. Can anyone clue me in? Thanks, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of The Debian Linux User's Guide _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_-
Re: Intent to package Gnofin
thanks!! i will send you mail whenever i update the source. darin On Sat, 15 May 1999, Torsten Landschoff wrote: Hi Darin! I was seeking for a tiny finance tracking tool to make better use of my money and found Gnofin on freshmeat. I learned that there is no Debian package for it so I grabbed the sources and made one myself. Thanks for this cool utility - I like it very much and I would like to make an official Debian package of it. I do not know if somebody else is working on this - please let me know if you are. If you oppose to this plan please let me know. Thank you Torsten PS: If you plan to add i18n-support I would be glad to help out with the german translation.
Re: Bug#37606: /var/spool/texmf/ls-R unwritable
On Thu, 13 May 1999 15:02:40 +0100 (BST), Julian Gilbey wrote:
Glad to hear all of this. I just have one comment:
- The mktexlsr, mktexdir and mktexupd scripts must not be setuid.
If they are, anyone could run them, which is unnecessary. Any
extra privileges they require will be gained when they are called
from other setuid processes.
It seems to me that *only* these three should be setuid, since only
these three need elevated privileges. mktextfm, etc. should be
changed to write the output into a scratch directory, and have
mktexupd move it into place.
Yes, this does mean anyone can invoke them, but if properly designed
no damage can be done, and this restricts the scope of the changes and
the scope of the specially privileged code much better.
No, absolutely not. If mktexupd is setuid, then anyone can make it do
anything to the ls-R file, I would guess.
Only if mktexupd is misdesigned; it ought to be capable of validating
updates.
How?
And having mktex{mf,tfm,pk}
writing to a scratch directory defeats the purpose of making the fonts
directory read only, as anyone could then create a corrupt font file
in the scratch directory and run mktexupd.
This is a problem, but isn't there some simple, efficient way to
validate font files?
Yes: recreate them and compare the outputs. You don't want to just
check that the files are valid, but also that they have the correct
content.
Julian
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