Nicol?s Lichtmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Are we really that good?? =)
:-)
Probably they are grateful to us because they use Debian on their own
systems?
E.-
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On 21 Apr 1998, Guy Maor wrote:
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If shadow-login is the only program that supports these fields, they are
useless. If a user had a value pri=5, he would only have to do something
like
echo 'command' | at now
to get 'command' executed at normal
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote:
xdm-shadow is already available.
Yes, and I am using it. But the question is, does it support the pri=,
umask= and ulimit= fields in /etc/passwd? And do cron and at also
know about these fields? If cron and at don't know about them and don't
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I think you are missing th epoin there somewhat.
I belive the original intent was NOT to modify libc so that
/tmp exploits are impossible as a be-all and end-all solution
The idea was to modify libc so that anything which used /tmp
in blatantly unsafe ways
(I
Eloy A. Paris wrote:
Nicol?s Lichtmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Are we really that good?? =)
Probably they are grateful to us because they use Debian on their own
systems?
The Minig Co? Not likely. I did a little bit of part time work for them
and was even offered a job a year and half
Hi Mark...
What about using soft-raid1/5? there are working raid-L0145
patches for 2.0.xx... when a drive in the array fails the others
continue working (well, if all drives in the raid array fail you
are lost, but that only happens at debian-release-time :)
Just my 0.02 cents ;-)
On Tuesday,
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
The Minig Co? Not likely. I did a little bit of part time work for them
and was even offered a job a year and half back. I refused to take it up
because they were Gung Ho about NT. For one of my projects for them I
Yeah, it
Yo-
I would like suggestions and input on how to sell Debian in the sense of
Debian versus RedHat, FreeBSD, or any other distribution. I will attempt
to persuade a small committee of faculty to install Debian on a yet to be
purchased machine. The machine is an experiment at my university to
It's late. I forgot the subject. Geez.
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Richard Braakman wrote:
I've added the if binary executable, use strings on it to lessopen. I
could see marginal use for looking at the raw executable, so if anyone
has any objections, speak up before Saturday Night (-0800Z) or file a
bug against less and I'll take it out. (cc'ing
Joey Hess wrote:
This seems like a bad idea. strings is not the obvious information
to provide about an executable. (Consider size, objdump, od, hexdump,
et cetera).
I only use strings when I pipe through grep. When I use less it's
just as easy to search the file directly.
I
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Alex Romosan wrote:
Why dont u make a debian PAckage out of it? You can do one PAckage
xteddy with an additonal command-line parameter to select the
personality shown.
somebody else (Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED]) has already
expressed interest in packaging xteddy. i
Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
but for symlinks pointing to something excluded from mirroring,
it should download the file. this way i could burn a complete hamm...
I turned the hamm-bo symlinks into files a few days ago.
Guy
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Apologies are due for my not trimming the crossposting before; I meant to,
but I forgot to. As I understand things, there should be no crossposting
amongst the debian mailing lists.
If I make further comment, therefore, I will be careful to trim the
mail distribution to one of them only, and
Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
: fast. Its not agood solution, so thats why I asked here about
: integrating bzip2 support into gzip.
Points well taken. You're just asking in the wrong place. You should take
this up with the gzip upstream
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erv Walter) writes:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Sorry for the late reply - catching up.
IMHO speed is always relevant, and so is memory usage. This is the trap
Micro$oft
and Apple have fallen into. Just because the hardware is capable of running
Do we have a modula-3 compiler? I thought about packaging cvsup. Since
postgresql is distributed via cvsup I use it anyway and I'd like to get rid
of that local precompiled libc5 version I use right now. But packaging
modula-3 compiler seems like a lot of work.
Michael
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On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 02:34:51PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
Do we have a modula-3 compiler? I thought about packaging cvsup. Since
postgresql is distributed via cvsup I use it anyway and I'd like to get rid
of that local precompiled libc5 version I use right now. But packaging
modula-3
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Hi there,
I somewhere read that you need more beta testing of frozen, so I
updated my system yesterday. Here's my report:
System: P100, 64 MB RAM, IBM 4,3 GB (DCAA), Quantum 1,2 GB (Fireball),
Fritz! ISDN, Spea Mercury P64
OS: WinNT and Debian
Hi!
Who maintains frozen? l3 (non-free) has expired. The author (Fraunhofer
Institut IIS) has released a new version called mp3encdemo, but this
version is limited to 30s of music (so it#s not longer useful) :(((.
So please remove my l3 package from frozen. Thanks.
cu, Marco
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Hello,
when building the packages I want to maintain I need to define
some PATH-variables for pixmaps and libraries.
What would be the appropriate way to do that?
In the case of xteddy, I have to tell xteddy, where to look for
the pixmaps (my version can load not only xteddy but any pixmap
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Who maintains frozen? l3 (non-free) has expired. The author (Fraunhofer
Institut IIS) has released a new version called mp3encdemo, but this
version is limited to 30s of music (so it#s not longer useful) :(((.
Well, you're in luck. A bunch of us from
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello,
Is there another way to tell programs where to look for pixmaps
or libraries. Is there a library which handles such problems
(I want to do the following: at first search the files in . than
in the path defined by PIXMAP_PATH, may be it is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Budde) writes:
Who maintains frozen? l3 (non-free) has expired. The author
(Fraunhofer Institut IIS) has released a new version called
mp3encdemo, but this version is limited to 30s of music (so it#s not
longer useful) :(((.
So please remove my l3 package from
On 21 Apr 1998 08:55:51 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) said:
It's just a silly bug. It calls that code from some scripts which
have fd0 dup'd elsewhere, so isatty(0) is false and getlogin() fails.
Will someone please fix it? It's really annoying. Is it in the bug
sys?
The
On 22 Apr 1998, Brederlow wrote:
Do you look at ~/ ? Maybe ~/.tedy.xpm should be used if present. :)
That seems me a little bit oversized. To make it more clear what I want to
do:
xteddy needs four files:
NAME_bw.xbm - gray if libXpm isn't available
NAME_color.xpm - the nice
--On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 5:23 pm +0200 Andreas Tille
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 22 Apr 1998, Brederlow wrote:
Do you look at ~/ ? Maybe ~/.tedy.xpm should be used if present. :)
That seems me a little bit oversized. To make it more clear what I want
to
do:
xteddy needs four files:
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
OK. This doesn't answer your question, but as an additional feature
request, how about if no -F is given, use argv[0]. So a hard link to
xpenguin gets the debian chap, etc...
That's a good idea. I'll do that.
What does debian's automatic make supply
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am not really a programer, but I wonder how hard it would be to put
support for these fields in all programs like login, xdm, cron, at and
anything I am forgetting. Could this be done?
The difficulty isn't so much making the change, once (though that
What would be the use of looking at a screen full of control characters?
Because when I look at a binary with less, I *mean* to do
that... usually to look for corruption (blocks of nulls) or things
like *short* strings or strings not in the text section, that
strings *won't find*.
mentioned
Hi all there!
During reading the bzip2 thread, because there is no bzip2
support (at least until bzip2 is integrated in gzip),
I added folowing in vimrc:
augroup bzip2
Remove all bzip2 autocommands
au!
Enable editing of bzipped files
read: set binary mode before reading the
What would be the use of looking at a screen full of control characters?
Because when I look at a binary with less, I *mean* to do
that... usually to look for corruption (blocks of nulls) or things
like *short* strings or strings not in the text section, that
strings *won't find*.
I installed a debian hamm system yesterday and noticed a problem involving
dpkg-perl. After installing the base system from disks, I ran dselect
to install some more packages. On the first installation run however,
dpkg-perl was the first package installed, and it failed because perl
was not yet
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 01:17:27PM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote:
What would be the use of looking at a screen full of control characters?
Because when I look at a binary with less, I *mean* to do
that... usually to look for corruption (blocks of nulls) or things
like *short* strings
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 22 Apr 1998, Brederlow wrote:
Do you look at ~/ ? Maybe ~/.tedy.xpm should be used if present. :)
That seems me a little bit oversized. To make it more clear what I want to
do:
xteddy needs four files:
NAME_bw.xbm - gray if libXpm
Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 5:23 pm +0200 Andreas Tille
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK. This doesn't answer your question, but as an additional feature
request, how about if no -F is given, use argv[0]. So a hard link to
xpenguin gets the debian chap, etc...
On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 04:54:37AM +1000, Martin Mitchell wrote:
I installed a debian hamm system yesterday and noticed a problem involving
dpkg-perl. After installing the base system from disks, I ran dselect
to install some more packages. On the first installation run however,
dpkg-perl was
Vaclav Hula [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all there!
Hi
P.S. Is something wrong with this:
*.tar.gz|*.tgz|*.tar.Z)
tar tzvf $1 ;;
*.gz|*.Z|*.z)
gzip -dc $1 ;;
+*.tar.bz2|*.tbz2)
+tar tIvf $1 ;;
Tar forks to bzip2, so that
I have fixed yet some more little mistakes, and enhanced the install doc some
more. This time, I mostly had to include the suggestions from other people.
Thanks to Ben Gertzfield, Bob Hilliard and Jim Van Zandt (and I know I am
forgetting someone) for their contributions. I think this is
I seem to be experiencing problems with builds under the fakeroot
environment not creating setuid/gid flags correctly. This may be
related to the fact that I have installed eg++ and libstdc++-2.8,
while the current fakeroot (0.0-11) is still built with
libstdc++-2.7.2.
Trying to rebuild fakeroot
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Schulze) writes:
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 12:58:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it would be useful to archive the Debian lists there too (in
addition to our www.debian.org archive).
Do others have an oppinion on it,
David Welton wrote:
One of the things I like about Linux, and Unix in general, is that it
doesn't try to be smart where you don't expect it to.
But when you say, 'less binfile', what do you expect it to do?
I had thought that the idea of lesspipe is to have less give you more
useful
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 04:15:51PM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote:
David Welton wrote:
One of the things I like about Linux, and Unix in general, is that it
doesn't try to be smart where you don't expect it to.
But when you say, 'less binfile', what do you expect it to do?
Show me the
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 04:15:04PM -0300, Steve Kostecke wrote:
Debian-private should not be archived by a third party. I'm undecided
about the others.
Debian-private is out of discussion. It must not be archived
outside of active developers - that's the case atm.
Regards,
Joey
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zless, so, why not build on that and just use a different name. Or is
there something that I am missing because of my late entry into the
discussion (sorry)?
Background: when 'less' runs, it looks for an environment var called
LESSOPEN If it finds one, it uses the value to
Only a few files were corrupted in the crash. I'll fix everything up
this evening (in about 5 hours) and turn ftp access on again.
Guy
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/bin/sh is provided by bash, but doesn't come with its own man page.
How does one determine the differences between sh and bash?
Is there some documentation that I have missed?
Thanks,
Dwarf
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