One of my gaping holes of ignorance has to do with utmp entries; what
they are, why are they gone, where is the package that creates them?
I know that one of the latest fixes to dpkg-buildpackage deals with the
lack of utmp entries, but don't understand why they were abandoned.
I just discovered
On 02-Dec-1997 12:45:31, Joe Emenaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has much discussion been had about a possible configuration file
management script for the package config scripts to use?
For example, I installed cron on a Debian box, and then installed mgetty.
Mgetty placed the following at
First, a little history.
As I am sure we all know, Linux currently does not support masquerading of video
conferencing protocols, including H.323. There are partial solutions using
IPPORTFW, but none that work transparently.
So, a few weeks ago I started research into this project. I found
Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That said, it appears that the only policy compliant way for a package
to run a script more frequently than once a day is to register a user,
and create a crontab for that user. This is not too onerous for
news or sendmail, but seems like overkill for
Steve Greenland wrote:
That said, it appears that the only policy compliant way for a package
to run a script more frequently than once a day is to register a user,
and create a crontab for that user. This is not too onerous for
news or sendmail, but seems like overkill for every little
Raul Miller wrote:
Creating a user shouldn't be that big of a deal, as long as it's a
useful abstraction. Having a user for a fax system seems apropriate.
Having a user for mrtg doesn't seem very appropriate to me, though. Mrtg is
a simple program, that needs to run every 5 minutes. A user is
Yann Dirson wrote:
One nice thing would be to document a way for anyone to know which
debian lists he's currently subscribed to.
Is there such a mechanism, or is there only this stuff (what's its
name, anyway ?) to be run on master to get the info ?
I know there's a way that Pete Templin
Just to let everyone know, EGCS has very recently (hours) just put out
their first release!
ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/egcs-1.0
It contians it's own integrated libstdc++, libg++ is not supported right
now and is obscolecent.
Jason
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You might look at the rsalabs web site; there's an introduction to
asn.1 document there which is quite thorough, despite the name,
though if I remember correctly it only describes one of BER or DER,
whichever PKCS actually use. It might be worth a look.
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Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Having a user for mrtg doesn't seem very appropriate to me, though.
Mrtg is a simple program, that needs to run every 5 minutes. A user is
overkill.
If a user is overkill then cron probably is too. You'd probably do
fine with something like
(
trap
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From: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Date: Wednesday, December 03, 1997 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: Config file management utility
On 02-Dec-1997 12:45:31, Joe Emenaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has much
Raul Miller wrote:
If a user is overkill then cron probably is too. You'd probably do
fine with something like
(
trap SIGHUP
su nobody -c '
while sleep 300; do
whatever;
done /dev/null /dev/null 21
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
Just to let everyone know, EGCS has very recently (hours) just put out
their first release!
ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/egcs-1.0
It contians it's own integrated libstdc++,
true
libg++ is not supported right now and is
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Another way, that sould comply with policy, were if cron came with a
update-crontab script, that was responsible for modifying /etc/crontab,
in a similar fasion to update-inetd.
I think that this, or something similar, is in the end, the right
solution.
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote:
libg++ is not supported right now and is obscolecent.
it's a bit misleading. It's not integrated into
tarball, but it's quite good piece of C++ codeand
can be compiled by EGCS. HJ has it packed separately
somewhere
Ah, well any code that uses
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I intend to package the beta enlightenment window manager, imlib, and
the default themes. If anyone wants to do it instead, I'll happily
fall back to kibitz mode -- let me know.
Lalo Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] did a package of beta 12, back in August,
I plan to package sane, an API for scanners, in the very near future.
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I have an internal ISDN card using the HiSax driver and isdnutils; the
kernel is 2.0.31 + patches (equivalent, I think, to 2.0.32)
Versions:
ii isdnutils 2.1.beta1-16 isdn utilities
ii ppp 2.3.1-6Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon.
ii diald 0.16.4-10
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On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Bdale Garbee wrote:
In bug report 15091, Christian Meder suggests to me that I make gzip predepend
on libc6. It is not clear to me that this is a good thing to do.
[ I think it is a good thing to do, so I have changed the severity to
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of my gaping holes of ignorance has to do with utmp entries; what
they are, why are they gone, where is the package that creates them?
An utmp entry is an entry in a fixed-size binary database located in
/var/run/utmp. It
It disappeared on my system. Is it in a different package nowadays?
Michael
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Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lalo Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] did a package of beta 12, back in
August, but he didn't upload it since he was waiting for developer
status. I wonder what happened? Did we lose another one?
I was going to pick it up from him, but...
Anyways, his old package
How come this packaged hasn't been updated for a while. Since H.J. Lu is
adding more and more libc6 compatibility changes I think it makes sense to
stay up-to-date with libc5, too.
Michael
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On 3 Dec 1997, Ed Donovan wrote:
I think Dermot Bradley isn't actively maintaining packages. I sent mail
to one of his addresses, about packaging gated, a while back. I didn't
hear from him, though I saw gated came off the WNPP list under his name
later on. His packages in the archive are
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Michael Meskes wrote:
It disappeared on my system. Is it in a different package nowadays?
I believe lilo20 obsoleted it. Check out the lilo docs.
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Dermot John Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW Can anyone tell me how to create a package based on pristine source
using debmake?
From www.debian.org, hit developers corner. Then, start with Creating
a Package using Debmake, after that, hit New-Maintainer's Debian
Packaging Howto. Get your
Michael Meskes wrote:
How come this packaged hasn't been updated for a while. Since H.J. Lu is
adding more and more libc6 compatibility changes I think it makes sense to
stay up-to-date with libc5, too.
I haven't heard anything from Helmut Geyer in months, except for a
message on Sep 24 saying
Just to let everyone know, EGCS has very recently (hours) just put out
their first release!
ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/egcs-1.0
It contians it's own integrated libstdc++, libg++ is not supported right
now and is obscolecent.
Interesting. I didn't think it was a Cygnus
Brian Morality is a touchy subject and (in my opinion) the _only_ place to
Brian draw this line is all or nothing.
Agreed, except that clearly illegal stuff should be banned, of
course. I doubt anyone would condone a child_pornography.deb package,
for instance :-)
Yes, the law is a good
Nope, didn't seem to be flagged for install on my end. I would have
suggested keeping the same name and conflicting with the versions of dump
and quota that would have depended on the libraries.
OK. I think I'll change the name back to e2fsprogs, and just make it
conflict with old
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Brian White wrote:
Just to let everyone know, EGCS has very recently (hours) just put out
their first release!
ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/egcs-1.0
It contians it's own integrated libstdc++, libg++ is not supported right
now and is obscolecent.
Hello everyone,
don't you think that having master's Incoming directory full of new
packages that haven't been integrated to hamm may delay 2.0 release?
I know Guy is having problems with his Internet connection but
wouldn't it be nice if we had more people taking care of Incoming?
What do you
Behan Webster wrote:
*sigh*... not diety, Deity.
^^
I wish people would learn to spell. This is one of the exceptions to
the i before e rule.
That's what comes from people not learning Latin at school anymore :)
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charge of maintaining the user accounts there?
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On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Brian White wrote:
Just to let everyone know, EGCS has very recently (hours) just put out
their first release!
ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/egcs-1.0
It contians it's own integrated libstdc++, libg++ is not supported right
now and is obscolecent.
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Adam Heath wrote:
How about this. Some one creates a script, that is run from /etc/crontab.
Whenever this script is run, it checks to see if another program is supposed
to be run. If so, it does it, then checks to see when the next script is
supposed to run. It then
At 08:39 PM 12/3/97 -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
First, a little history.
As I am sure we all know, Linux currently does not support masquerading of
video
conferencing protocols, including H.323. There are partial solutions using
IPPORTFW, but none that work transparently.
So, a few weeks ago I
Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Anon wrote:]
Perhaps Diety should become a part of that?
*sigh*... not diety, Deity.
^^
Diety, of course, meaning of or like a diet. In the same vein as
boxy.
At least, that's what I think every time someone spells it like that.
On 04-Dec-1997 14:08:59, Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Baker) writes:
Well, this temporary problem lasts since quite a while now and i fear
that it will last for quite a while longer. I don't expect Debian-2.0
to happen earlier than somewhere at the end of
On 3 Dec 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Another way, that sould comply with policy, were if cron came with a
update-crontab script, that was responsible for modifying /etc/crontab,
in a similar fasion to update-inetd.
I think that this, or something
Eloy A. Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I know Guy is having problems with his Internet connection but
wouldn't it be nice if we had more people taking care of Incoming?
Guy is back in some form, at least he just dealt with a whole host of
bugs filed against ftp.debian.org.
Martin and I have
Joe Emenaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only problem is that it uses Perl. I haven't read the Debian policies
so I don't know if Perl (or a stripped down version of it) is one of the
things I can assume is on even the most minimal system. If not, I can do
the same thing with bash/sed, I
Joe Emenaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, that's pretty much what I was suggesting in the beginning. The only
difference is that you wouldn't have one, monolithic section. Rather,
you'd have sections placed there by the individual packages. For example:
The only advantage to the monolithic
I'm trying to improve some stuff in the rscheme package, and I have
several shared libraries (for rscheme internal use only), that I need
to glom together into one big shared library -- i.e. I want the
collected library to contain all the code from the sub-libraries -- no
dynamic links to any of
Hamish Moffatt writes:
ctangle and cweave - simple literate C programming tools
These are already part of the cweb package. If there're different,
you may use alternatives ?
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With the latest version of dump, I tried to backup my new 4.5Gb disk to DAT
tape:
linda# /sbin/dump 0nufB /dev/st0 1365000 /usr1
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Dec 4 22:46:30 1997
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/sdb1 (/usr1) to /dev/st0
DUMP: mapping
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