Re: Cracklib setup

2005-08-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 08/08/05 00:17 CST: Maybe this wording: The wordlist used with Cracklib should contain combinations of keystrokes that are typically chosen by the users as bad (guessable) passwords. Otherwise, Cracklib would encourage users to choose passwords

Re: KDE installation

2005-08-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Chris Staub wrote these words on 08/08/05 02:16 CST: The installation for kdelibs and kdebase as given in the book creates a couple files in /usr/etc. It should be consistent with the rest of the book in putting all configuration files in /etc, so --sysconfdir=/etc should be added to the

Re: Cracklib setup

2005-08-08 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Randy McMurchy wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 08/08/05 00:17 CST: Maybe this wording: The wordlist used with Cracklib should contain combinations of keystrokes that are typically chosen by the users as bad (guessable) passwords. Otherwise, Cracklib would encourage users to

Option CLOSE_SESSIONS in login.defs - shadow.

2005-08-08 Thread Stef Bon
Hello, I'm working with a module pam_script, which executes a script at login and logout. Very important - when logging out with the login command from the shadow package, is the option CLOSE_SESSIONS. If omitted or set to no no module will be executed/processed when a session is closed. I

FontConfig installation

2005-08-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, I'm looking for some suggestions on how to fix the FontConfig instructions. Currently, they are broken if you have DocBook-utils installed, but don't have the SGMLSpm Perl module or JadeTeX installed. Here is what happens if for example you have DocBook-utils installed, but not JadeTex:

Re: FontConfig installation

2005-08-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 08/08/05 16:30 CST: Randy McMurchy wrote: How do we state this in the book? Folks may not know if DocBook-utils is installed. DocBook-utils can be detected by checking for /usr/bin/pdfjadetex No, this is incorrect. pdfjadetex is installed by the JadeTeX

Re: FontConfig installation

2005-08-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 08/08/05 16:30 CST: Randy McMurchy wrote: How do we state this in the book? Folks may not know if DocBook-utils is installed. DocBook-utils can be detected by checking for /usr/bin/pdfjadetex No, this is incorrect. pdfjadetex is

Re: FontConfig installation

2005-08-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 08/08/05 17:53 CST: Randy McMurchy wrote: This doesn't work either. We cannot be in the business of putting commands in the book that *might* work if certain software is already installed, and may just as easily break if other certain software is installed. It is

Re: FontConfig installation

2005-08-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hand create the required directory tree and populate it by installing the files manually, as is done in *lots* of the package instructions. install -v -m755 -d dirname install -v -m644 files dirname I have not yet figured out what the dirname is, or I would have

Re: FontConfig installation

2005-08-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 08/08/05 18:29 CST: As I see it there is: cd doc install -v -m 644 *.3 /usr/share/man/man3 install -v -m 644 *.5 /usr/share/man/man5 install -v -m 755 -d /usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-devel install -v -m 644 *.html *.pdf *.txt

Re: GCC-4.0.1

2005-08-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Ag Hatzim wrote these words on 08/05/05 17:05 CST: I had the chance in the last 2 days to finish the GCC4-20050730 built. Untill now almost 60 packages (log attached) compiled cleanly and without any additional patches,exept... Thanks for the input. I should have the branch committed with

Re: PAM+Shadow looses path for su

2005-08-08 Thread DJ Lucas
DJ Lucas wrote: Just a thought, but if you have the copy of login.defs, that could be used to extract the original default path as it might have already been modified by the user. Changes comitted in r4900. Needs merged to 6.1 branch. -- DJ Lucas --

[RFC] Multiple ghostscript packages

2005-08-08 Thread Tushar Teredesai
Hi: I was checking out ghostscript and there are 4 different packages in the wild providing the same functionality. * AFPL Ghostscript 8.51 ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/: This is the official release from Artifex which has restrictions on re-distribution and commercial use. *

[Patch] 6.1 Download urls

2005-08-08 Thread stirling
Just a few updates to download urls. SLIB Apache-Ant DHCP Rsync QT diff -Naur 6.1/BOOK/general/genlib/slib.xml 6.1-local/BOOK/general/genlib/slib.xml --- 6.1/BOOK/general/genlib/slib.xml 2005-08-04 16:23:09.754194368 + +++ 6.1-local/BOOK/general/genlib/slib.xml 2005-08-04 13:31:15.321681496

[Patch] 6.1 unpacking.xml

2005-08-08 Thread stirling
I noticed the tar commands are missing the appropriate compression options in Unpacking the Software: tar -xvf filename.tar.gz tar -xvf filename.tgz tar -xvf filename.tar.Z tar -xvf filename.tar.bz2 tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz tar -xvzf filename.tgz tar -xvzf filename.tar.Z tar -xvjf