xvmount_3.6-5 uploaded to master
I have uploaded version 3.6-5 of my xvmount package to master. It fixes the security hole (#15029) which could enable normal users to change the permissions of /etc/mtab by means of xvmount. Here comes the signed changes file: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:00:00 +0200 Source: xvmount Binary: xvmount Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.6-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Volker Ossenkopf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: xvmount- Small graphical utility for mounting devices by users. Changes: xvmount (3.6-5) unstable; urgency=high . * Removed security hole concerning the permissions of /etc/mtab (#15029) Files: 851397fb0da017851c7b08b0b0eb7a46 538 x11 extra xvmount_3.6-5.dsc dd52e7855c672bb807924e6100c4e7fa 4318 x11 extra xvmount_3.6-5.diff.gz 7e1f5614ee8fa0e31ccabdaf970ef63d 10214 x11 extra xvmount_3.6-5_i386.deb -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQBVAwUBNHPuomEcOYUGBVv5AQF7HQH/eLtdYnegeSlxGTHdaX4H2jnn7Jik4jYv 8zzEkxj67m7M05cTDC9WmzrjE92W4rXLrGGq/q9XdAN/LvuiFPsSlw== =AQSD -END PGP SIGNATURE- Best wishes -- Volker - Volker OssenkopfKOSMA (Kölner Observatorium für submm-Astronomie) Tel.: 0221 47034851. Physikalisches Institut der Fax.: 0221 4705162 Universität zu Köln E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: workman_1.3a-5 uploaded to master
I have uploaded a new version of the workman package to master. It adjusts the postinst file to better meet the Debian policy. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:00:00 +0200 Source: workman Binary: workman Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.3a-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Volker Ossenkopf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: workman- Graphical tool for playing audio CDs on a CD-ROM drive. Changes: workman (1.3a-5) unstable; urgency=low . * Included abort handling in postinst Files: 3a65a788d161e8b0dbbd2b260b895088 544 sound extra workman_1.3a-5.dsc 8d2a76241f42c0aa49c5cd7b5b9210bc 5911 sound extra workman_1.3a-5.diff.gz 7a69376316cd7558e85cdb76006f7efc 102596 sound extra workman_1.3a-5_i386.deb -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQBVAwUBNB7nEmEcOYUGBVv5AQE9yAH9HoUHIdkhlNRyAvbzG2sUVF+kZcBz5Ogc xooH5UkyKB0tH5K4MLiDWqHWswaVG3Im4M1ELR2AMjC3Ib/y8SUWHg== =VrEU -END PGP SIGNATURE- Best wishes -- Volker - Volker OssenkopfKOSMA (Kölner Observatorium für submm-Astronomie) Tel.: 0221 47034851. Physikalisches Institut der Fax.: 0221 4705162 Universität zu Köln E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xvmount_3.6-4 uploaded to master
I have uploaded a new version of the xvmount package to master. It adjusts the postinst script to better meet the Debian policy. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:00:00 +0200 Source: xvmount Binary: xvmount Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.6-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Volker Ossenkopf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: xvmount- Small graphical utility for mounting devices by users. Changes: xvmount (3.6-4) unstable; urgency=low . * Included abort handling in postinst * Removed outdated dependency on elf-x11r6lib * New maintainer address Files: 7685aa77559d308a70ba49cae3f745c5 539 x11 extra xvmount_3.6-4.dsc 0b2de3a89ed3bf94c4e05afce6aed090 3916 x11 extra xvmount_3.6-4.diff.gz d2929b799e751e029143b09531b03223 9950 x11 extra xvmount_3.6-4_i386.deb -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQBVAwUBNB7q7mEcOYUGBVv5AQH1hgH9EnUSNWNZ5vIHOIlzyC2Jqb1mD9aRRP3i XIuNzHBkZJA3jFC3NsDvAc9t8XsADh5M7eiqM1P34eQKREfnKmRFvA== =FJPv -END PGP SIGNATURE- Best wishes -- Volker - Volker OssenkopfKOSMA (Kölner Observatorium für submm-Astronomie) Tel.: 0221 47034851. Physikalisches Institut der Fax.: 0221 4705162 Universität zu Köln E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: one thing latex is better than tetex
Lawrence Chim wrote: previously, dvips gave me ps file with page numbering and I can go to a particular page using ghostview or gv. after I installed tetex and found that the ps file no more numbered At least I can state that this is no general problem. I use the tetex-04.pl6-4 packages and in my configuration it definitely works without changes. My be there are different versions - look in the CHANGES file. Best wishes -- Volker - Volker OssenkopfKOSMA (Kvlner Observatorium f|r submm-Astronomie) Tel.: 0221 47034851. Physikalisches Institut der Fax.: 0221 4705162 Universitdt zu Kvln E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xvmount_3.6-2 uploaded to master
I have uploaded the corrected package xvmount_3.6-2 to master. It should appear in unstable as soon as it is moved automatically out of Incoming. Users of the previous package xvmount_3.6-1 should upgrade as soon as possible since the old version contains a security hole which allows normal users to gain root access. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 21:45:00 +0200 Source: xvmount Binary: xvmount Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.6-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Volker Ossenkopf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: xvmount- Small graphical utility for mounting devices by users. Changes: xvmount (3.6-2) unstable; urgency=high . * Changed defaults equivalent to user mounts (noexec, nosuid, nodev) * Removed possibility to use an alternative configuration file * Corrected bug in description field * Compressed man page * Corrected maintainers address Files: 9fdf7b17d46bea7dfe00b44ae945fcf4 539 x11 extra xvmount_3.6-2.dsc a9a134b1190ae5fe4d7feaca66d271c7 3652 x11 extra xvmount_3.6-2.diff.gz 5f54075b571b97b6311370744e71ad1c 10408 x11 extra xvmount_3.6-2_i386.deb -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQBVAwUBMy2wMWEcOYUGBVv5AQHnvQH/XoGvX4C82DZMK8ADt5YMqRO47cMHt+nU VHxBTk/GDf1irirEdUdZB5LgRtx/WFuYaVdZKJaw5/yUgCHg2Rp0UA== =N14P -END PGP SIGNATURE- Best wishes -- Volker - Volker OssenkopfKOSMA (Kölner Observatorium für submm-Astronomie) Tel.: 0221 47034851. Physikalisches Institut der Fax.: 0221 4705162 Universität zu Köln E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Re: Is there a WorkMan deb?
Riku Saikkonen wrote: I like WorkMan too, except for the fact that it uses the XView libraries (which wouldn't be so bad if something else used them too, but it's kind of a waste to have them for just one small program). I haven't seen WorkMan in the Debian distribution, though -- maybe someone should package it? Workman has bee available as Debian package in the experimental section since December 1996. Probably, I should not have put it into experimental since almost nobody looks into this section so that I even did not get back any bug-reports. But I was not very sure that I collected everything right. Probably, I should ask Bruce to put the package now into unstable instead. Best wishes -- Volker - Volker OssenkopfKOSMA (Kvlner Observatorium f|r submm-Astronomie) Tel.: 0221 47034851. Physikalisches Institut der Fax.: 0221 4705162 Universitdt zu Kvln E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How emulate a SUN keyboard in olvwm?
Dany Dionne wrote: we have olvwm in your debian box and we would be able to use the F keys (F1,F2,etc) to emulate the keys front,open,cut,copy,paste,help on a SUN keyboard. I think that i must edit the .Xmodmap file but i don't known what i must write in it. Since I need F1 to 10 for the mc, I have put the four most important SUN keys to F11 and F12: .Xmodmap: ! F1=Help (move pointer on panel, press F1 to show help on the item) ! F19=Find (after having selected some text, press F2 to do a search) ! F20=Cut (select text, press F3 to move text into clipboard) ! F16=Copy (select text, press F4 to copy text into clipboard) ! F18=Paste (insert text from clipboard at caret position) ! keycode 0x5F = F20 F20 F19 F19 keycode 0x60 = F18 F18 F16 F16 This means F11=Cut, Alt-F11=Find, F12=Paste, Alt-F12=Copy. All SUN keys are recognized as F15 to F25 so you can address them in a similar way. Best wishes -- Volker -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 1.2: mc dependency problem
Alexander LIST ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I just upgraded my Debian system from 1.1 to 1.2. When installing mc, : I found that mc suggests gpm, but there's no dependency on libgpm1. : Without libgpm1, mc won't run. This is not generally true. It depends on your TERM. You need libgpm when running mc at the console with mouse support. Using a terminfo which does not suggest mouse support should make mc running as well on the console without the mouse. Anyway you do not need libgpm in an X environment. Best wishes -- Volker Volker Ossenkopf, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Astrophysikalisches Institut und\\/// Universitaets-Sternwarte Jena ( . . ) Tel.: 03641/630324 --oOo--(_)--oOo- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Managing a network of Debian machines?
Nelson Minar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : What's the right solution? Assume disk is cheap, bandwidth is fairly : cheap, but sysadmin time is really expensive. If Debian could provide : some solution, it would be a big help to Linux administrators. The solution running here is: 1) /, /etc, /var in one partition locally on each machine. Configuration is still too machine dependent. 2) /usr mounted via NFS. The disk really hosting the /usr files is a DEC-Alpha but each Linux machine could serve as well. 3) /usr/local is a symbolic link to /local on each machine. Here, machine specific applications are stored. They should not be touched by Debian packages. Due to the strict separation between configuration files and programs in Debian, this works quite well. All programs except for those installed in /usr/local have to be maintained only centrally. The netload due to the program loading on execution is still relatively small compared to the load produced by the real data which are also often treated via NFSi here. Hope this helps. Best regards -- Volker Volker Ossenkopf, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Astrophysikalisches Institut und\\/// Universitaets-Sternwarte Jena ( . . ) Tel.: 03641/630324 --oOo--(_)--oOo- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenView problems
Kevin M Bealer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Arrigo Triulzi wrote: : the OpenView stuff coming with Debian seems to work a little : strangely: I have no borders on menus or any item. I don't really care : I noticed this too, it seemed to depend on color* depth. I : think it worked under pseudocolor, but did not work correctly : under 64K colors. I never bothered to find out why, The xview-clients package is broken. To get correct results on hicolor servers, the byte order has to be changed (in the Makefile) relative to the original SUN version. Take the binaries for olwm or olvwm from slackware or any other distribution. There, this problem was corrected already half a year ago. Best wishes -- Volker Volker Ossenkopf, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Astrophysikalisches Institut und\\/// Universitaets-Sternwarte Jena ( . . ) Tel.: 03641/630324 --oOo--(_)--oOo- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where is pgp?
In an old package list, I have copied in August, the debian pgp packages (US and international) were in non-free. Nowadays, there does not seem to be any pgp package available. I have scanned the ls-lRs at Debian and some mirrors, but NO pgp. I desperately need pgp since I have created some new debian packages (xvmount and xcolorsel) but I cannot submit them without pgping them (until now I never saw a real reason for pgp signing or encrypting anything.). Where can I find the debian pgp packages now? Hoping for help -- Volker Volker Ossenkopf, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Astrophysikalisches Institut und\\/// Universitaets-Sternwarte Jena ( . . ) Tel.: 03641/630324 --oOo--(_)--oOo- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work under X?
: From: Arrigo Triulzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Hello, : : sorry for writing to you direct but this is urgent: it seems : that under the Debian X11 installation it is impossible to reboot the : machine at the Xlogin prompt under xdm. I know this is a Good Idea : (tm) but we are running dual-boot systems and this is a requirement so : that students can switch back to DOS when then need. : : Basically, if we can't find a way of doing this we have to : remove Linux and we lose the chance of introducing it into the Dept. : : Please let me know if you have any idea on how to get C-A-Del : to work at the Xlogin prompt under xdm. I have checked the HOWTO's but : to no avail. We use the following solution here: 1. Creat a user shutdown or reboot. 2. Give him a password. 3. Change /etc/passwd so that a) his user id is equal to root, b) his home directory is some safe place c) his default shell is /sbin/sysdown 4. sysdown has to be a script that calls shutdown, e.g. #!/bin/sh /sbin/shutdown -h now 5. create a file .xsession.linux in his home directory which calls sysdown. Attention! In this solution, everybody who knows the shutdown-passwd can shutdown the machine even from a remote system. Hope this meets your needs. Best regards -- Volker Volker Ossenkopf, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Astrophysikalisches Institut und\\/// Universitaets-Sternwarte Jena ( . . ) Tel.: 03641/630324 --oOo--(_)--oOo- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to debianize packages?
I have become more or less convinced to switch to Debian 1.1 in the next large update of my system in the next weeks. However, until now I have not yet found an answer on how to handle all those non-standard packages like pgplot, wip, vile and the hundreds of other tools which are not available as debian packages but simply as tar.gz archives. To maintain a well organized system I would like to install them with the Debian package installation tools and not by hand or at least to register them when being installed as debian packages. To focus the problem: How do I convert tar.gz archives (when no installation scripts are needed) into debian packages? How do I create a debian archive from installed files ? Any help appreciated. Best wishes -- Volker Volker Ossenkopf, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Astrophysikalisches Institut und\\/// Universitaets-Sternwarte Jena ( . . ) Tel.: 03641/630324 --oOo--(_)--oOo-
