Re: Debian v2.1 ("Slink") Deep Freeze

1999-01-21 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ivtools 31966 Post Inst error I sent in a patch for this; it's a trivial fix. -- Shields.

Re: Better (inc. asynchronous) DNS client (stub resolver)

1998-10-11 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On reading this paper, I discovered all of the reasons for why I knew > that the M$ way is wrong. Interesting, then, that Mr Lampson now works for Microsoft. http://www.research.microsoft.com/lampson/33-Hints/WebPage.html --

Re: selling hamm CD 's ?

1998-06-20 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, G John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have hamm CD's to sell yet ? I have a friend in Paris > who wants to install on a laptop. I'd hate to see him go RH. I think he > has a network card. Maybe apt and a remote archive works pretty well no

Re: mirroring policy

1998-06-12 Thread Michael Shields
I don't mind having people mirror off debian.crosslink.net; it has lots of capacity. The past problems with debian.crosslink.net not mirroring correctly, and the underlying problem of my having no time to fix it, have been resolved. Currently I'm mirroring it over rsync/ssh to master; but by hand

Re: Rescue and Installation (was Re: VI reasons)

1998-06-12 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Shorter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exactly! System "rescue" is fundamentally different from > "installation". It is logical and expedient to seperate the two functions. Take a look at the rescue disks on ftp.varesearch.com. They're very good. -- Sh

Re: burning debian 2.0 cdroms

1998-06-10 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > given that one day we will be able to release debian 2.0 : > we will have official cdrom images on some ftp servers. > > a) who could burn these iamges and test them ? many cd distributors don't have > alpha and m68k

Bug#4469: tcsh doesn't include /bin/tcsh

1996-09-11 Thread Michael Shields
Package: tcsh Version: 6.06-3 tcsh should include a symlink of /bin/tcsh -> ../usr/bin/tcsh. I think the FSSTND specifies that all shells should have symlinks present in /bin. -- Shields, CrossLink.

Bug#4470: ncftp installs manpage directly into /usr/man

1996-09-11 Thread Michael Shields
Package: ncftp Version: 2.3.0-6 ncftp installs a file called /usr/man/ncftp.1. This should of course be /usr/man/man1/ncftp.1, or it won't work. -- Shields, CrossLink.

Bug#4457: popclient conflicts with netstd

1996-09-10 Thread Michael Shields
> That sounds good... However, please -DON'T- mark popclient as Replaces: > netstd. As far as I understand, Replaces should only be used when one > package completely replaces another's functionality, and I don't thing > popclient replaces all of netstd. I thought it meant the package replace

Bug#4462: fvwm2 doesn't include FvwmClean

1996-09-10 Thread Michael Shields
Package: fvwm2 Version: 2.0.42-BETA-0 fvwm2 doesn't include the FvwmClean (aka NoClutter) module, even though it references it in the system .fvwm2rc. Preferably it should include this module, but if not it shouldn't be referenced. -- Shields, CrossLink.

Bug#4457: popclient conflicts with netstd

1996-09-09 Thread Michael Shields
> Suggestions: > > 1) Remove popclient from netstd, or > 2) Update the popclient in netstd and eliminate the separate package. I had already packaged and uploaded popclient before noticing this. I'm not sure it needs to be in netstd; if we take it out, I can trivially upload another version that

Bug#4419: dpkg-changelog-mode leaves blank lines

1996-09-06 Thread Michael Shields
> P.S.: BTW, the help message should say "Use C-c C-e" not "Use ^c^e", which > is not Emacs usage. Actually, it shouldn't use either -- it should use the magic substitution strings, which would cause the message to be displayed not only in the correct format, but to have the correct content even i

Bug#4415: gwm doesn't install documentation

1996-09-05 Thread Michael Shields
Package: gwm Version: 1.8c-3 gwm's source tree has a comprehensive doc/ directory, but it's not installed. It should be in /usr/doc/gwm, or if trying to keep the package size down, in a gwm-doc package which gwm Suggests:. -- Shields, CrossLink.

Bug#4390: xpdf doesn't set itself up to be launched

1996-09-03 Thread Michael Shields
Package: xpdf Version: 0.5-0 Until adding the appropriate entries to ~/.mime.types and ~/.mailcap, Mosaic does not know to launch xpdf for a PDF file. It would be nice if the postinst added this to /etc/mime.types and /etc/mailcap. -- Shields, CrossLink.

Bug#4354: movemail doesn't work

1996-09-02 Thread Michael Shields
> Michael Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Package: emacs > > Version: 19.31-2 > > > > movemail complains about not being able to write a temp file in > > /var/spool/mail. > > > > One fix might be to make it setgid mail, iff the code

Bug#4368: [SECURITY]

1996-09-02 Thread Michael Shields
Followup indicates that this will be fixed in NetKit-B 0.08, so we should update to that ASAP. --- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) --- Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from brimstone.netspace.org ([128.148.157.143]) by nessie.crosslink.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESM

Bug#4354: movemail doesn't work

1996-08-31 Thread Michael Shields
Package: emacs Version: 19.31-2 movemail complains about not being able to write a temp file in /var/spool/mail. One fix might be to make it setgid mail, iff the code is written to be sufficiently paranoid. -- Shields, CrossLink.

Bug#4344: trn should provide news-reader

1996-08-30 Thread Michael Shields
Package: trn Version: 3.6-5 trn should provide the virutal package `news-reader'. -- Shields, CrossLink.

Re:dselect/dpkg & multiple versions

1996-08-29 Thread Michael Shields
At 1996-08-28 21:59 +, Brian C. White wrote: >I know that at one point the dselect/dpkg combination had fairly serious >problems if the same package name existed with multiple versions. I learned >this the hard way when I installed from a mirror that had not run to >completion and thus had not

Bug#4323: xntp allows only one timeserver

1996-08-28 Thread Michael Shields
Package: xntp Version: 3.5c-1 xntp's postinst only lets you input one timeserver. It would be easy to have it allow you to enter multiple space-seperated timeservers, and output multiple `server' lines into /etc/ntp.conf. -- Shields, CrossLink.

Bug#4322: lclint postinst gives error if no site-start.el

1996-08-28 Thread Michael Shields
Package: lclint Version: 2.1b-1 While installing lclint, it says grep: /etc/site-start.el: No such file or directory This may or may not be cosmetic. -- Shields, CrossLink.

Bug#4296: named should provide reverse on all of 127/8

1996-08-26 Thread Michael Shields
Package: bind Version: 4.9.3-P1-3 If you say yes at the appropriate prompt, bindconfig will create zones called `localhost' and `0.0.127.in-addr.arpa'. This is correct, but it could go further -- all of 127.0.0.0/8 is loopback, so it could provide the `127.in-addr.arpa' zone with one entry, `1.0.

Bug#4253: [SECURITY] BoS: BUG in /bin/bash (fwd)

1996-08-23 Thread Michael Shields
Package: bash Version: 1.14.6-4 I've confirmed that this is a problem on i386. >Resent-Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 05:42:28 +1000 >Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 15:35:51 -0400 (EDT) >From: Brian Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Best of Security <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >MIME-Version:

Bug#4107: emacs leaves stale lockfiles and publishes pathnames

1996-08-15 Thread Michael Shields
At 1996-08-12 03:48 +, Mark W. Eichin wrote: >Second, the lock file names *have* to be world visible, in order for >locking to actually work among users... hmm, your suggestion of a >one-way hash make sense, I'll pass it upstream and see if it goes >anywhere (xemacs has built in md5 support, bu

Bug#4131: majordom -- 30 or 31?

1996-08-14 Thread Michael Shields
Package: base Version: 1.1.0-14 /tmp/base-1.1.0/prototype/etc$ grep majordom passwd majordom:*:30:30:majordomo:/var/majordomo:/bin/sh /tmp/base-1.1.0/prototype/etc$ grep majordom group majordom:*:31: -- Shields, CrossLink.

Bug#4127: uucp uses /usr/spool

1996-08-13 Thread Michael Shields
Package: uucp Version: 1.06.1-2 uucp has several references to /usr/spool/uucp and /usr/spool/uucppublic. These should be in /var/spool. -- Shields, CrossLink.

Re: New virtual packages suggestion

1996-08-09 Thread Michael Shields
At 1996-07-25 16:29 +, Guy Maor wrote: >On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Michael Shields wrote: > >> Shouldn't all non-cosmetic bugs [in buzz] be fixed? > >No, only serious bugs and security holes. Otherwise there would be no >difference betweem rex and buzz. The definition of

Bug#4085: /etc/init.d/sendmail does not stop and restart correctly

1996-08-09 Thread Michael Shields
Package: sendmail Version: 8.7.5-4 After saying `/etc/init.d/sendmail stop', `/etc/init.d/sendmail start' will not restart sendmail because it thinks it is already running. I think this is because /var/run/sendmail.pid isn't unlinked for some reason. This is a serious problem; if you edit /etc/m

Bug#4064: sendmail should recommend deliver, not depend

1996-08-08 Thread Michael Shields
At 1996-08-07 09:57 +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >You (Michael Shields) wrote: >> Package: sendmail >> Version: 8.7.5-4 >> >> sendmail depends on deliver. However, in at least two common >> configurations -- null client, and delivery by procmail -- it will

Bug#4065: FEATURE(local_procmail) needs manual override to /usr/bin

1996-08-07 Thread Michael Shields
Package: sendmail Version: 8.7.5-4 This line in sendmail.mc: FEATURE(local_procmail) doesn't work, because it's looking in /usr/local/bin. This works: FEATURE(local_procmail, `/usr/bin/procmail') (assuming the procmail package is installed), but it shouldn't be necessary to do this as

Bug#4064: sendmail should recommend deliver, not depend

1996-08-07 Thread Michael Shields
Package: sendmail Version: 8.7.5-4 sendmail depends on deliver. However, in at least two common configurations -- null client, and delivery by procmail -- it will run perfectly without deliver. sendmail should only recommend it. -- Shields, CrossLink.

Bug#3318: traceroute doesn't work with 1.2.13

1996-06-18 Thread Michael Shields
Package: netstd Version: 2.05-1 Debian 1.1 is supposed to work with kernel 1.2.13. But traceroute is broken. traceroute: IP_HDRINCL: Protocol not available -- Shields, CrossLink.