On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Brian Bassett wrote:
I recently switched to Debian from RedHat 4.2 and the one thing that I
think that Debian could really use is an administration tool.
I suggested something similar a couple weeks ago and was informed that
this discussion had taken place already. I
On 12 Dec 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
Scott Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I HAVEN'T HEARD ANY REASONS WHY UTMP CORRUPTION IS SO EVIL THAT WE
NEED TO MAKE ANYONE WHO WANTS TO RUN A FEW LIBC6 PROGRAMS ON BO GO
THROUGH HELL.
Say you're an ISP running Debian (bo) on a bunch of machines
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
Some things to look out for, though:
- if the file alter-file is a conffile, there will be problems later when
you upgrade the package containg the conffile.
I'm not sure I follow what you're getting at.
The way I'm thinking, if a package (say, cron)
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
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
One of the faculty I have to support here is using Caldera's OpenLinux.
Although Debian is still my favorite, I am pleased with some of the easy
configuration features of OpenLinux.
For those of you who are unaware, OpenLinux has a directory under /etc
called, I believe, sysconfig. In there are
I was just poking around on the Debian web site and noticed that there's a
list of some known vulnerabilities in some packages.
Has anyone discussed making a tool that could ftp a current copy of this
list (in a properly formatted form, of course) and using it along with
dpkg to determine if a
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