Re: RFC: Providing vi when /usr isn't mounted

2009-09-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 19:02 -0400, James Vega wrote: > tag 528494 help > thanks > > #528494 raised the idea of having vim-tiny (the default vi-like editor > on a base install) provide /bin/vi so that it would be accessible in > situations where /usr isn't available. At first glance, I naïvely > f

Re: /run vs. /lib/run

2005-12-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anthony Towns wrote: >On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:37:11AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> This works at least on 2.6. [...] >> This means that /var/run is always writable. > >That's really quite nice. I wonder if requirin

Re: /run vs. /lib/run

2005-12-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anthony Towns wrote: >/var/run has always been the right place in the namespace; it's just >not been usable for technical reasons. If we fix the technical reasons, >all is good. Well there is on more technical solution that might have been overlooked. Why not crea

Re: i386-uclibc debian

2005-09-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Ruoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm interested in maintaining a i386-uclibc architecture, which is, like >the name says, i386 binaries linked with uClibc. My plans are: > >Ok, now what's the problem... > >The i386 packages won't be compatible with my i386-u

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-09-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* Steve Langasek [Thu, 01 Sep 2005 23:03:21 -0700]: > >> Hrm. If this information is all just being copied to the real >> filesystem at the end of the boot process anyway, why does it need to >> write it out to disk instead

Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-08-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc Chantreux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >there are a lot of things in /etc/init.d/*, and {pre,post}inst >scripts that can be rewritten more efficiently ( i think ). > >for example, in /etc/init.d/mysqld > >mysqld_get_param() { >/usr/sbin/mysqld --print-def

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GOMBAS Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 04:05:43PM +0300, Timo Aaltonen wrote: > >> "Single-user" mode is a fiasco, because in /etc/rcS.d/* there are a number >> of services that really should not belong there. Examples: >> >> -networ

Re: debian.org email forwarding

2005-05-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >also sprach Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.07.1403 +0200]: >> Why are you so much worried about the envelope sender, when it is >> usually forged? You are not trying to bounce messages that you >> didn't want t

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 12:12:42AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Le samedi 23 avril 2005 à 13:20 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : >> > We are already running into size constraints (on an ongoing basis) with our >> > mirr

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> A silly question to you as release manager: > >Silly indeed. Use the list archives. You cannot miss the monstruous threads >about it. > >> What exactly are the techni

Re: Temporal Release Strategy

2005-04-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Why not let people choose what they want to use "woody" "sarge" or "sid" >and never change the names again. I think lots of people are happy with >how things work now. No need to ever do a release again. Just remove the >old/

Re: NPTL support in 2.4 kernel series?

2005-01-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >I am maintaining the packages of the MaxDB database system. > >Recently upstream has converted the database kernel from >linuxthread-style threading to NPTL. While -at least for i386- >linuxthreads is still supporte

Re: Reboot in postinst

2005-01-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Diogo Kollross writes: > >> shutdown -r now >> >> inside a postinst script of a package? > >If you're going do that, you may want to replace /bin/init temporarily >to finish the post-reboot part of the installation. T

Re: /sbin/halt always changes its access rights

2005-01-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[Otto Wyss] >> I've set the s attrtibute of halt since on my desktop any user may >> stop the system. But about each second month or so it's set back to >> it's original rights probably by a package upgrade. Is there a way

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Stopping releasing might be a good idea but there should be a better >way. IMO the problem is the stable release isn't updated on a regulare >basis. It might be a better idea to divide Debian into subsystems which >could be relea

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-12-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:51:32 -0600, Steve Greenland ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 16-Dec-04, 08:04 (CST), Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Take for example a web application like a forum. It requires

Re: Intel EM64T porting machine for Debian

2004-12-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:36:21AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> >> In addition, we have at least two other machines which are available >> to developers: >> >> pergolesi.debian.org -- admin is debian-admin (and all de

Re: mounting tmpfs (and sysfs) defaultly in sarge?

2003-12-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >- I sometimes switch to my old 2.4 for testing purposes. Then of > course mounting /sys will fail and the user will get an error > message (it doesn't harm, though). This problem could only be > circumvented by not mounting

Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages

2003-12-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 18:30, Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:59:40PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: >> > On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 16:41, Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > So, I was

Re: Bits from the RM

2003-12-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anthony Towns wrote: >Without having evaluated null hypotheses or done exhaustive analyses, >the correlation nevertheless seems fairly convincing. To put it bluntly, >our regular package maintainers are doing such a bad job that without >significant assistance from

Re: POSIX capabilities patch

2003-11-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Nov 15, Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Sorry: http://www.linux.it/~md/software/ssd.tgz . > > > >Should that go into /sbin/init itself, so that yo

Re: POSIX capabilities patch

2003-11-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Nov 15, Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >And if i enable SETPCAP for init, will init drop that capability? Will it > >> >pass it to all started programs? > >> See http://www.linux.it/~md/ssd.tgz . > >> N

Re: Bug#155583: radiusd-freeradius history and future

2003-11-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I think dpkg-statoverride is not too bad in this case. I'll talk to >>the nis package mainta

Re: Bug#155583: radiusd-freeradius history and future

2003-11-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think dpkg-statoverride is not too bad in this case. I'll talk to >the nis package maintainer and see if that's acceptable. If not, nis >could install some flag file. The unix_chkpwd could start with root >privs, chuck fo

Re: radiusd-freeradius history and future

2003-11-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:50:05AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: >> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:15, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > > Or do you have to be root for getpwnam() to work on NIS accou

Re: radiusd-freeradius history and future

2003-11-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Cistron begat FreeRADIUS. FreeRADIUS is certainly actively maintained >upstream. xtRADIUS is also begat of Cistron. I'd assumed that Cistron >is dead upstream too, and xtRADIUS active. Cistron radius is not dead. It's just i

Re: Inittab runlevel problem

2003-11-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tobias Wolter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 2003-11-10T17:28:10+0100 (Monday), François TOURDE wrote: >> Runlevels are distro dependants. Debian default is 2. Red Hat, for >> example is 2->text login, 3->[x|g|?]dm graphic login. > >I had to retrofit my runlevels wi

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We are pleased to announce the first beta release of debian-installer, the >new installation system for sarge. We want screenshots! Mike.

Re: faster boot

2003-10-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 06:57, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> However, if you read the paper in http://people.d.o/~hmh, and implement the >> demultiplexer, we could probably modify one of the above methods to work >> well, w

Re: recent spam to this list

2003-10-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You know, there is a difference between Envelope-From (SMTP MAIL FROM:) >> and whatever you put in the From: header. They don't ha

Re: recent spam to this list

2003-10-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >SMTP AUTH is no magic solution, you'd have to start routing mail by >sender instead of recipient. > >Take myself, sharing a computer at home with somebody else who uses a >completely different domain for her e-mail. Curren

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE UNSTABLE: Terminal text stops functioning

2003-07-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
confirmed this on two different >computers. Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:43:07 +0200 Source: sysvinit Binary: sysv-rc sysvinit initscripts Architecture: source i386 all Version: 2.85-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By:

woody/sid packages in dists/potato

2003-07-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
I'm trying to run debootstrap to see if it plays nice with sysvinit. And the other way around. But at the moment, it bails out because it wants to install libident which still is in the potato part of the archive ... and my local mirror doesn't carry dists/potato anymore. There's a handful of pac

Re: debootstrapping and sysvinit

2003-07-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Julian Mehnle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> Tobias Wolter wrote: >> > I still haven't seen any bugfix from you. How about you go stop >> > ranting about being treated unfair and DOING YOU

Re: debootstrapping and sysvinit

2003-07-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tobias Wolter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >No. From my point of view, it's an acceptable step out of bounds. For me it isn't. >I still haven't seen any bugfix from you. How about you go stop >ranting about being treated unfair and DOING YOUR WORK? And you think an

Re: debootstrapping and sysvinit

2003-07-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tobias Wolter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 2003-06-29T12:40:56+ (Sunday), Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >> Yes, NMUing essential packages without bothering to contact the >> maintainer is cooperation at work. NOT. > >

Re: debootstrapping and sysvinit

2003-06-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've received several reports that debootstrap of sid has not been >> possible recently due to sysvinit. > >I've noticed that waldi already did a NMU. >I'm moved. It's free-software and cooperation at work. Yes, NMUing

Re: Bug in apt-get ? [replace essential package / Yes, do as I say]

2003-04-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 11:12:00AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > It seems that currently apt is not able to replace an essential > > package. Well in fact the package I am trying to replace isn't > > even really essent

Re: Bug in apt-get ? [replace essential package / Yes, do as I say]

2003-04-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anthony Towns wrote: >On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 11:12:00AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> Sysvinit was split up in sysvinit, initscripts and sysv-rc. The last >> one can be replaced by file-rc. Sysv-rc and file-rc conflict and >>

Bug in apt-get ? [replace essential package / Yes, do as I say]

2003-04-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
Before I file a bugreport I thought I'd ask here first .. It seems that currently apt is not able to replace an essential package. Well in fact the package I am trying to replace isn't even really essential... Sysvinit was split up in sysvinit, initscripts and sysv-rc. The last one can be replace

New packages taking over config files from old packages, depends, order

2003-04-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
I have split up sysvinit into three packages: - sysvinit - initscripts - sysv-rc This is so that BSD and the Hurd can easier replace just the parts they need, probably just initscripts and sysv-rc, and so that alternative systems like file-rc can be dropped in easier. Initscripts now contains th

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Possible -- sure, but not useful except as an option for the initial >bootstrap that might not fully work with /lib64. >I've followed both SuSE and Red Hat making that mistake with their early >s390x distributions. They both

Re: Scripts in /etc/init.d Question and Comment.

2002-04-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, JPS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There is something that has always bothered me about the scripts in >`/etc/init.d'. Every once in a while I attempt to execute one of these >scripts while logged in as a non-root user. This is Unix. It gives you enough rope to hang y

Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sure, everyone agrees. This has been hashed over and over and over. Talking >about it doesn't help. Solve the problem. Debian is too big. Split it up in 'core' (must fit easily on one CD) and 'added value' (the other 21 CD

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

2002-01-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ari Makela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:23:24PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > >> As far as I know most keyboards don't have an AltGr key.. > >In North America that's probably correct (what would they do with it?) >but it's essential wit

Re: VIM features

2002-01-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to see more user feedback on Debian's settings of the >VIM editor. Currently, two important features are disabled in the >default configurations: Syntax highlighting and special intending >schemes. The question i

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

2002-01-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The best one is where microsoft put their symbol in >'iso-8859-1'-cp1252-winlatin1, which is in 80, instead of a4 where >iso-8859-15 puts it. What does most codepages use? 80 or A4? Does >iso-8859-1 even have anything in 80?

Re: Netwinder debussy.debian.org upgraded

2001-09-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Othmar Pasteka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm happy to announce that the Netwinder debussy.debian.org is upgraded >and again available for every Debian developer. The upgrade took >longer than expected, but it's finally done. % ssh debussy.debian.org Creating hom

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >People should not be using them, but if they do, they should use a >kernel-headers package, and not rely on the headers in libc6-dev which >are different on all archs, and change almost every new glibc build. You >are never gu

Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!

2000-12-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tinguaro Barreno Delgado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I maintain a rsync mirror of potato and woody (i386) and this week the >distribution has lost +50 packages. They aren't in ftp.debian.org (I'm >rsyncing from ftp.de.debian.org). Can anyone explain this? Yes. Th

Re: NSA's Secure Linux Distribution

2000-12-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >No doubt most of you have seen the NSA's secure linux posting >on Slashdot this morning. > >Looking at: >http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/docs.html > >there appears to be several utilities that have been updated >to provide enhanc

Re: RFC: fix for daemon start (2)

2000-09-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Here's an updated version of the RFC text, as well as a new version of the >initscriptquery reference script. The fragments.sh script is included just >for completeness, and was not modified. I like it, but why not fo

Re: determining if we're using db.h from libc6 or libdb2?

2000-09-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ben Collins, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >>On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 12:46:02AM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: >>> Is there some set of defines such that I can determine with #ifdef that >>>

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:44:06PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> A server on the 'net without matching forward/reverse DNS is broken. >> Period. > >Complete bullshit. Show

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:37:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> yes. get an ISP that can do reverse DNS. YEESHHH! I'll happily bounce >> their mail until then. > >Are you willing to pay the difference between the co

Map on debian website - bug in apache?

2000-09-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/developers.loc , there's supposed to be a jpeg of a world map with debian developers. On the main website, www.debian.org, there is. It seems that the .nl webserver is interpreting the filename "developers.map.jpeg" as a .map image-map file according to this error

Re: Bug#33993: general: Should log all the boot messages

2000-08-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Cesar Eduardo Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> There are too many boot messages, and they sometimes scroll too >>> fast. It would be nice to log all the outp

Re: [Election Results] Official and Final

2000-03-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 07:08:07PM -, Darren Benham wrote: >> The ballots came from: > >216 people, if I counted right (wc(1) :). So much for the `300 active >developers' vaporware, even if you include dissidents et al...

Re: first draft "aptitude howto"

2000-03-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >With those two keys you usually will type 'u' and then 'f' in aptitude to >reset it to its default working mode. In that mode you have a list of: > >If you have a packe selected, you will get information about it in the >s

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Uh, I can find at least one site real quickly whose admin will tell you >that he got a message from ORBS, fixed the problem, was blacklisted >anyway, and it took him a month to get off that list even though the >problem was

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Package: hostname (debian/main). >Maintainer: Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 59410 hostname: found how to set domainname for linux That is not a bug at all - I've mailed an explanation to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and set the

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mar 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >For an example why I think this is really a bug with severity normal, and > >not a wish or feature request, see > >http://duckman.blub.net/~wouter/muttdefaults.png >Seen. My xterms are

Re: portmap/networking: shutdown script links screwed-up?

2000-03-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Jose Marin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Incidentally, why isn't there a script "umount-nfs" separated from >> "umountfs"??? > >That's something I've been pondering about. It's a good idea. Maybe a >wishlist bug ? :-) You

Re: Packages removed from frozen

2000-03-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 03:56:51PM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote: >> Package: transproxy (debian/main). >> Maintainer: Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> 56998 transproxy: daemon does not start > >What needs to be done to

Re: Increasing regularity of build systems

1999-09-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Ben Collins: > > Or even simpler: > > > > test -f config.status || ./configure > > No, this case will cause the make to fail. No it won't. % false || true % echo $? 0 Mike. -- ... somehow I have a feeling the hurting hasn't even begun yet -- Bill, "The Terrible Thunde

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yes, this is one of the most infuriating thing with a base debian system, no >true vi. On the rescue disk, there's no true vi, but elvis-tiny is in the base system and it's no vim but it still is a complete vi (and only 64K)

Re: Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So, for example, GnuPG package would have `Section: non-US/main` in its >debian/control file, and ssh would have `Section: non-US/non-free`. Ah, OK. Thanks. libapache-mod-ssl will have Section: non-US/main then. Mike. -- In

Re: Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Many of you are confused because you are getting messages that your >packages are new when they really aren't, or perhaps dinstall is >rejecting them because it can't find the orig.tar.gz. > >Because nonus is now divided into mai

Re: Pandora is born

1999-05-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Um, non-us has been terribly broken since BEFORE I was a developer. In >fact, it was broken when I first installed Bo a year and a half ago. Not to mention that the European connectivity of pandora is _way_ better than tha

Debian.Org and nameservers

1999-05-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
I just noticed that debian.org has a boatload of nameservers: # host -t ns debian.org debian.org NS saens.debian.org debian.org NS va.debian.org debian.org NS pandora.debian.org debian.org NS murphy.debian.org debian.org

Re: sendmail & libc6 [was: Squid2, how to handle incompatible upgrade]

1998-10-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> #27334: libc6: breaks sendmail, probably problem in resolver >> details at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/27/27334.html >> This is release-cr

sendmail & libc6 [was: Squid2, how to handle incompatible upgrade]

1998-10-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The only pain I had to face was that I had to upgrade my libc6 and >that upgrade broke sendmail, so I had to upgrade sendmail as well. Uh - oh .. please check out this bug: #27334: libc6: breaks sendmail, probably problem in resolver d

Re: strange sendmail behaviour (bug?)

1998-10-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ardo van Rangelrooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Last Monday I uploaded a new version of one of my packages. In my >~/.dupload.conf file I've defined the parameter 'fullname' as my full >name :-). The dupload script passes this parameter to the -F flag of >sendmail

Re: Squid2, how to handle incompatible upgrade

1998-10-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I did notice a reference on the mailing list (no specifics), on a way >you could keep your existing cache hierarchy with squid2. Yes, by running the old and the new server at the same time and requesting all stored dat

Re: Squid2, how to handle incompatible upgrade

1998-10-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >However the problem is dat squid-2.0 is totally incompatible with squid-1.2. >The cache directory and file format has changed, and the config file >format has changed .. in fact it's a ne

Squid2, how to handle incompatible upgrade

1998-10-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
I'm currently maintaining squid, and squid-2.0 has been released. We have been running the beta versions on our own machines for quite some time and it's much better/faster than the 1.2 versions. However the problem is dat squid-2.0 is totally incompatible with squid-1.2. The cache directory and f

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
Here then >is /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh: You can set it in /etc/default/rcS, just as all the other variables for the init startup scripts .. But that doesn't work with file-rc. I'm uploading a sysvinit_2.75-3 tomorrow morning to solve the file-rc problems. Which are release-critical,

Re: About 2.0.34 not being perfect

1998-06-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
.[0-3] and runs rockstable with 2.0.34 ... Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
24012 Apr 13 15:12 /bin/ae* Is there a termcap-emulation mode in the slang library? If so, elvis-tiny could be linked with it .. it uses termcap, not terminfo Just throwing some fuel on the fire :) Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
s .. :) Sorry, but you're asking for a flamewar. Which is why I (vi user) will not reply to your question. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Uploaded mpsql 2.0-1 (source i386) to erlangen

1998-06-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Michael Meskes: > Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: > > Another one is using a '-' as seperator. a '-' sorts lower then a '.', > > so you can have > > > > mpsql_2.0-b1 > > > > And then release > > > >

Re: Uploaded mpsql 2.0-1 (source i386) to erlangen

1998-06-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
a '.', so you can have mpsql_2.0-b1 And then release mpsql_2.0.0 The only problem is that "mpsql_2.0" does sort lower so it depends a bit on the version number. But with "squid_2.1-beta22" and later "squid_2.1.0" it will work. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg

Re: advantage of new kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
pub/linux/linux-2.0/ ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/linux/kernel/v2.0/ Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: advantage of new kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
.34pre16 since it was out, as have most of our other servers. And 2.0.34-release is just 2.0.34pre16. I'd say it's _more_ stable then any other 2.0.x kernel. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UN

Re: FILESYSTEM CORRUPTION

1998-04-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
the bug to sysvinit so that I can fix umountfs (actually I already did that ofcourse). Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is this a bug in libc6?

1998-04-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
ed at the same place as the previous one. And if you then fclose(old_fp) you're really in trouble. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian 2.0 release requirements

1998-01-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
all terminals (certainly the Linux console, xterm and rxvt) support that by default. Characters not in that set will be shown as escaped control characters. It's nice to be able to see Á Å Ï ïáî etc by default. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed

Re: file descriptors??

1998-01-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
-H -n' on my linux 2.0.32 machines and got 256. Did > you have to recompile the kernel to get more than that? what kernel > version are you running? 2.0.33 + the above mentioned patch. > (you may remember that i was the one who made the first debian package > for squid back in jun

Re: file descriptors??

1998-01-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
le.patch.linux, or look in the squid FAQ) Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: file descriptors??

1998-01-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
y 9GB of cache tho') and it hasn't crashed ever. Except for the libc6 problems, but these are now solved. I sacrificed myself as guinea pig when the box was still installed here locally, and I think all bugs are gone now. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomni

Re: file descriptors??

1998-01-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
41] kernel# echo 2048>file-max; echo > 8192>inode-max > bash: file-max: Bad file descriptor > bash: inode-max: Bad file descriptor You forgot a space. Try echo 2048 > file-max. 2048>file-max means something entirely different in shell-syntax.. Mike. -- Miquel van

Re: Intent to package mrtg & nntpcache...

1998-01-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
t go in non-free, but it is worlds more >capable than leafnode, and I must have the features. Did you look at newscache, http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/NewsCache/ It's supposed to do the same as nntpcache, but it's GPL'ed Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic,

Re: su and init scripts

1997-12-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Meskes, Michael: > Hmm, I should have mentioned that I use secure-su not GNU su. Could it > be you use GNU's version? Yep, standard GNU su > Then I guess it's a bug in secure-su. Time to file a bugreport.. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Studying

Re: sulogin timeout, in /etc/init.d/checkroot

1997-12-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
nything to do with /etc/rcS.d I'll fix it in 2.73, but I cannot release that yet because I have to clear up some conflicts with the maintainer of ``kbd'' (conflicts between our respective packages, that is :)) Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Studying to be a technomage &l

Re: su and init scripts

1997-12-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
= 0 execve("/usr/bin/zsh", ["zsh", "-c", "echo $SHELL"], [/* 20 vars */]) = 0 A recent hamm system shows the same behaviour, btw I realize all this doesn't help you very much (sorry) in a direct way but hopefully it gives some more insi

Re: /sbin/hwclock and /etc/init.d/boot

1997-12-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
;t matter, it isn't being used anymore. It has been replaced with the /etc/rsS.d stuff. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Studying to be a technomage <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "May you live in interesting times" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Libc6 2.0.5c has a leak in inet_ntoa

1997-12-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
ix >for this yet? Yep, download libc6_2.0.6-0.2 (prerelease 2) from ftp://ftp.ods.com/pub/linux/ and send [EMAIL PROTECTED] an email with your experiences .. Has been running fine here for two or three weeks. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Studying to be a technomage <*> [

Re: crontab

1997-12-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
, and recommend something like: crontab -l | sed -e '/^#.*\(DO NOT EDIT\|Cron version\|installed on\).*$/d' instead. Then wait for Debian 2.2 or so, so you can be reasonably sure everybody has upgraded all those packages at least once and release a new cron.. Mike. -- Miqu

Re: What, why, where, utmp?

1997-12-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
bit off login! >So, if there is anyone out there who can explain the problem (and has the >inclination) I would appreciate some education. A good reference would >probably work as well. Hmm, I'm not sure if there's a complete reference somewhere.. I found out all this stuff by t

Re: DEBIAN ANNOUNCES $1000 GRANT TO GNOME PROJECT

1997-12-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Oops, I left an SMTP command at the end of that message. Did you see it? Yep I was tempted to answer with just :wq quit EXIT ^] ^C eat flaming death :) Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Studying to be a technomage

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