Re: Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux
On Sun, 08 Dec 2002, John Lines wrote: Reading the thread on installation from Windows - one thing which might help new Linux users would be a program which they ran from Windows before they started, which would record all the things Windows knows about their system which will be required by a Linux installation. This could include information on the hardware, such as graphics cards, and some things related to the user, such as language settings and time zones. These could be written to a floppy and used to supply the information which Debian Installer will need (a bit like a RedHat Kickstart floppy) IIRC, the Corel Linux installer did something like this. Since they sold the rights to Xandros, I assume the Xandros installer does the same thing. Damian -- Damian Gryski | There is a crack, a crack in everything. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | That's how the light gets in. gnu / geek / juggler / coder / compsci / crypto / security pgpKmIJd0SoTq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Why do system users have shells?
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:34:52PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: But there are programs that don't use su -s. E.g., custom logins (non-anonymous) from wu-ftpd will fail if the login shell is set to /bin/false. You can add /bin/false to /etc/shells to fix that, but actually it is a feature to prevent exactly this. login with system user accounts. I find putting /bin/true in /etc/shells gives nicer semantic meaning, since 'true' accounts can still ftp, while 'false' accounts cannot. Of course, everyone should scp these days anyway... Damian -- Damian Gryski | There is a crack, a crack in everything. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | That's how the light gets in. gnu / geek / juggler / coder / compsci / crypto / security pgpDIMP0E4YaI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: (open)ssh-2.3.0p1 when??
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001, Svante Signell wrote: Is openssh ever going to be upgraded? Latest unstable version is 2.2.0p1-1.1 from September? while the latest OpenBSD release is now 2.3.0p1! Maybe the package also should change name from ssh to openssh. openssh 2.3.0p1 was installed into unstable (sid) on Dec 30. If you think you're tracking unstable, then you probably forgot to change the distribution from 'woody' to 'sid' in /etc/apt/sources.list for your non-us machine. Otherwise, wait another week and it should be moved into woody. HTH, Damian -- Damian Gryski == [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux, the choice of a GNU generation 512 pt Hacker Test score = 37% | 500 pt Nerd Test score = 56% geek / linux zealot / coder / juggler
Re: (open)ssh-2.3.0p1 when??
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001, Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: Damian M Gryski wrote: On Sun, 07 Jan 2001, Svante Signell wrote: Is openssh ever going to be upgraded? Latest unstable version is 2.2.0p1-1.1 from September? while the latest OpenBSD release is now 2.3.0p1! Maybe the package also should change name from ssh to openssh. openssh 2.3.0p1 was installed into unstable (sid) on Dec 30. Just uploaded or actually installed? It didn't show up on non-us.debian.org until today (Jan 7th). Today I noticed that *my* /etc/apt/sources.list was still pointing at woody/non-us instead of unstable/non-us. I changed it, ran apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade, and down came openssh. The date of the ssh .deb in the pools directory for non-us is Dec 30, 2000. (http://non-us.debian.org/pool/non-US/main/o/openssh/) It is very possible that the file date reflects the upload date and not the installation date. shrug Damian -- Damian Gryski == [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux, the choice of a GNU generation 512 pt Hacker Test score = 37% | 500 pt Nerd Test score = 56% geek / linux zealot / coder / juggler
Turbo Vision non-free? (Was Re: Another packages wishlist)
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: Carlos Barros wrote: On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:19:39PM -0200, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: Yann Dirson wrote: [snip] ** RHide: a curses-based IDE for FreePascal, with Borland look-and-feel http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~sho/rho/rhide/rhide.html [snip] This one I think requires a not free library. rhtvision. I was a sponsor of the rhtvision and setedit packages and it has problems due to rhtvision is derivated from tvision and tvision is not free. -- Carlos Barros. o well ... then i withdraw the ITP will wait for better times or, maybe can statically linked binary only package be placed at least in non-free? Turbo Vision is non-free? From http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,17285,00.html (last modified Sept 01/99) quote Question: Where can I find the public domain version of Turbo Vision? Answer: It can be found at ftp.inprise.com/pub/borlandcpp/devsupport/archive/turbovision/ /quote Is Borland's page wrong? You should mail them and get an official answer. (Isn't a FAQ on their site official enough?) Damian -- Damian Gryski == [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux, the choice of a GNU generation 512 pt Hacker Test score = 37% | 500 pt Nerd Test score = 56% geek / linux zealot / coder / juggler / sysadmin
