Re: compiling packages

2007-05-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
2. In debian/rules, comment out the instruction to strip the binaries (such as dh_strip). Packages are too diverse to give a method that will work for every one. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://ww

Bug#406226: ITP: smarteiffel2 -- SmartEiffel language version 2

2007-01-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Oliver Elphick * Package name: smarteiffel2 Version : 2.99.beta3.1.20070108 Upstream Author : SmartEiffel Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://smarteiffel.loria.fr/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, Eiffel

Re: making developer location from ldap public?

2005-08-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
n > public, in the moment it is only accessible to debian developers. You haven't explained why letting other DDs know this information, which is available to them already, requires the whole world to know it. If you have some proposals for letting non-DDs have the data, you need t

Re: links to logs in /etc? (/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log)

2005-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
It is certainly desirable to keep things as much in accordance with the intention of policy as possible, but policy and the FHS do allow some latitude, even if only by not making their definitions rigorously complete. Since I don't know why Martin chose to do it thi

Re: links to logs in /etc? (/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log)

2005-06-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
stgresql/7.4/main/log), seems pretty evil. Any ideas why would > anybody do it? I'm not sure why Martin chose to put a log link in /etc, which is why I have not addressed that point. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight

Re: links to logs in /etc? (/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log)

2005-06-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
-S, not even when I dpkg -L all postgresql packages I have > installed (I guess it was created by postinst sript or something like that). The name indicates that it is created by postgresql-common (/usr/bin/pg_createcluster) in relation to a database whose server is postgresql-7.4 -- Oli

Re: packages missing from sarge

2005-05-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 21:03 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > So here is a list (from update-excuses) of all 491 packages that is > being held out of sarge[1]. ... > eglade There are no open bugs. Can it be put back in? -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.u

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-10-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
e not asked to run an SQL script under /usr/share/XXX (usually > doc/package/examples). Maybe even defining a common location for these > (/usr/share/db-setup/PACKAGE/.{mysql,pgsql}?). Notice that the SQL > script that needs to be run might difer between RDBMS. Almost certainly it

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-10-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
t; application to use (php web apps, for example). that's my opinion, > anyways. That may differ per application. I would argue that it is very bad security in all circumstances. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 21:41, Oliver Elphick wrote: > I attach a diff on the templates file, including questions for a > PostgreSQL installation.. Well, I do now. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight

Re: RFC: common database policy/infrastracture

2004-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
ion is completed; although the passwords.dat part of the debconf database has 600 perms, cleartext passwords should not be left lying around anywhere unless necessary. -- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk Isle of Wight http://w

Re: RFC: best practice creating database

2004-10-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
kup of the database during upgrades, "Just In Case" ...using the correct utility: pg_dump for PostgreSQL. > - don't store the pw in debconf, or at least ask the admin first > > if you think that it would be too complicated/flaky, i'd add a debconf > note (of _lo

Re: problem to unsubscribe

2003-12-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
your list mails are addressed by the mailing list server. It may sound obvious, but many people seem unable to understand it. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C:

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security

2003-12-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
ra, etc). I would place no reliance on such things unless they were administered under strict supervision, so that a human checked that it was a real finger or a real retina that was being examined. That puts the whole idea out of court for authenticating remote access.

Re: libc6 bug? or C programming error?

2003-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
t what you want; assuming you're looking > for the end of a NUL terminated string, the expression you are looking for > is "*curpos != '\0'". Thanks for catching that one, too! Any way, this confirms that it is not a bug in strchr(). -- Oliver Elphick

Re: libc6 bug? or C programming error?

2003-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
) == -1) { > > perror("Could not map user_clusters"); > > exit(LOC_ERR_READ_FAIL); > > } -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co

libc6 bug? or C programming error?

2003-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
ew line at start position (up to end position) */ memcpy(curpos, line, c); /* commit the file */ if (msync(curpos, strlen(curpos), MS_INVALIDATE & MS_SYNC) == -1) { perror("Failed to write new user_clusters file"); exit(LOC_ERR_WRITE_FAIL); } munmap(buf

Re: Debian packages of 7.4

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 13:46, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:14:45PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Debian packages of 7.4 have been uploaded to Debian's experimental > > archive. Because of certain issues with interlocking dependencies, I > > will

Re: [GENERAL] Debian packages of PostgreSQL 7.4

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
kaging > PostgreSQL for Debian to show this but got busy with other things. Did you get anywhere with it? When the PL/R package was requested, it was easiest for me to throw it in with the postgresql source package, but I'm quite willing to separate it out if it doesn't mean I have to rewri

Re: [GENERAL] Debian packages of 7.4

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 12:59, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Oliver Elphick writes: > > > Please note that the python packages have been dropped from this build, > > since the PyGreSQL source tree is now independent. Another maintainer > > will take those on. > > Then

Debian packages of 7.4

2003-11-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
SQL source tree is now independent. Another maintainer will take those on. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D

Re: radiusd-freeradius history and future

2003-11-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 21:53, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:39:52PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 21:00, Paul Hampson wrote: > > > PostgreSQL requires license changes, and I've not had much luck buiding > > > impetus

Re: radiusd-freeradius history and future

2003-11-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
ing, since it's BSD. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C

Re: Pre-Depends for postgresql

2003-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
the same interface for > user-allocation IMHO is valuable on its own and outweighs getting rid > of a predependency. If any package that needs to add a user should always use adduser, should that not be a required package rather than just important? I had always thought that Pre-Dependencies were ve

Re: debian-postgresql list closed and postgresql problem

2003-10-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
-p 5432 -h localhost template1 > > fails as well. > > Any hint whether there is a general problem on Sparc? I haven't heard of a Sparc problem. Is there anything in the log? (/var/log/postgresql/postgres.log) or in syslog? -- Oliver Elphick[EM

Alioth services down?

2003-10-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
Alioth is not accepting ssh connections and mail to a mailing list is neither arriving nor bouncing. I have mailed [EMAIL PROTECTED], but it occurs to me that if mail is not getting through to the lists, it may not have got to that address either. -- Oliver Elphick

Co-maintainers wanted [was Re: Debian experimental packages of PostgreSQL 7.4beta4]

2003-10-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 23:50, Kenshi Muto wrote: > Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Debian packages of PostgreSQL 7.4beta4 are available in the experimental > > section of the Debian archive. > > Could you consider changing templates to po-debconf style? (Bug#195248) I'm quit

Re: Removing python-pygresql and libpqpp packages

2003-10-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 15:53, Jim Penny wrote: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:46:15 +0100 > Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Barring objection, and there may be some legitimate objection, as I am > well behind and feeling mighty damned guilty about it, I will pick it > up. This is somewhat

Removing python-pygresql and libpqpp packages

2003-10-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
l and libpq++ are available from gborg.postgresql.org Dependencies: libpqpp and libpqpp-dev: none that I know of libpgsql2 (obsolete; contains libpq++): trafstats python-pygresql: cherrypy (suggests) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wigh

Debian packages of 7.4beta2

2003-09-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
will be welcome. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "And he sai

Re: Help wanted for packaging postgresql application

2003-05-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
any other connection/database/user combination needs an md5-encrypted password. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34

PostgreSQL lexer changes needed [Re: Bug#190329: postgresql depends on flex]

2003-04-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
ind any document that details exactly what changes have been made between 2.5.4a and 2.5.31. Furthermore, I have no experience of writing lexer code and no time at present to spend on this, so all help will be very welcome. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wi

postgresql RC bug: Help needed in tracking this down

2003-04-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
does kill -9). For unkown reasons the proper file is not being restored during some upgrades. It looks as though postgresql-dump is being called when an upgrade is not needed, but I'm not sure if this is a result or a cause of the problem. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL

Bug#170932: ITP: libpqxx -- C++ library for connecting to a PostgreSQL database

2002-11-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2002-11-27 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libpqxx Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Jeroen T. Vermeulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gborg.postgresql.org/ * License : BSD Description : C++ library for

PostgreSQL 7.3 about to be released

2002-11-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
source package If anyone has tried these packages and has any comments, please let me know very soon. -- Oliver Elphick LFIX Limited signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Migration to /usr/share/doc

2002-08-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
ge. See /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/index.html > - Is it possible to move their contents to /usr/share/doc/ allowing a > faster search through the filesystem? No. The files in /usr/share/doc-base/ are not documentation and do not belong in /usr/share/doc/ -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-08-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
icial, or if I > should just make them and put them on my SourceForge project pages. Does > anybody have any recommendations? Should you not describe them. You haven't given much detail here, you know... -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, U

Machine usage policies

2002-08-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
ts of that country. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "

dpkg should prompt re missing conffiles [was Re: When bind9 reinstalls, no db.root]

2002-08-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
e default package file should be installed. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C ==

Inexplicable segfault in libgtk-1.2

2002-04-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
(gdb) nexti 0x401075da 3156} (gdb) nexti Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x401075da in gtk_widget_real_grab_focus (focus_widget=0x8a3e1a8) at gtkwidget.c:3156 3156 } -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: PostgreSQL update_excuses

2002-04-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 11:05, Anthony Towns wrote: > Renaming packages -- even renaming them back -- is bad, mmkay? I realise! On the other hand I found I had got myself into a hole with libpgsql2.1 -- better to get rid of it once and for all. -- Oliver Elph

Re: PostgreSQL update_excuses

2002-04-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 09:49, Tille, Andreas wrote: > http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html#postgresql : > > * postgresql (7.1.3-7 to 7.2.1-2) > > * Maintainer: Oliver Elphick > * 12 days old (needed 5 days) > * Valid candidate > > Ther

Re: Dependencies on libpgsql2.1

2002-04-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
1.3: after a crash it was possible for sequences to go backwards. This has been cured in 7.2.1 and it is highly desirable that that version be in woody. Perhaps we should be filing RC bugs against the woody versions of these packages? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROT

Re: Installed postgresql 7.1.3-6 (i386 all source)

2002-01-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 16:59, Roland Mas wrote: > Oliver Elphick (2002-01-05 20:53:08 +0100) : > > > Closes: 12166 121666 121699 121712 121944 122167 122871 123349 123950 > > 124317 125772 126193 126440 127004 127275 > > Changes: > > postgresql (

Evolution and GnuPG

2002-01-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
C3 988F 0096 3E4F EA4C 661F 2B46 A27C Do other mail clients give similar results? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "T

Openssl - progression into testing

2001-09-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
(from 0.9.6b-1) there are up to date bins in ia64 also -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA1

Re: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

2001-09-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
ount and >the amount involved is (USD 126M) One hundred and >twenty six million United States Dollars million >dollars. I want to first transfer USDM twenty six So you want a "reliable and honest person" to help you with a fraud? You don't, of course, since you are a c

Re: franc,ais locale (was Re: A language by any other name)

2001-09-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
s seem to have been dropped. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
ause most people will need to modify it" but Ben does not agree >that people using locales is "most people". In that case, I disagree with Ben. My default locale is en_GB. Only US users will probably not want to change locale, though of course non-US

Re: Postgres and non-us

2001-05-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
Jim Penny wrote: >PostgreSQL now has a dependency on openssl/ssl.h in a fundamental >header file, postgresql/libpq-fe.h. > >Does this mean that every piece of software which requires this >header file to compile will also have to be migrated to nonus? Yes. (Sorry!) --

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
Hilko Bengen wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > >> No, no. Pigeons are ugly horrid things that infest cities and leave >> droppings on my car. > >You mean packet loss? I think it's network overhead. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: PostgreSQL in testing

2001-05-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
her similar things. It gets quite complicated :) Is the automatic system capable of handling that (when the versions in unstable work together)? or will it need manual intervention? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http:

apt complaining about valid dependencies

2001-05-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
to be installed E: Internal Error, InstallPackages was called with broken packages! -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC

Re: Finishing the FHS transition

2001-05-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
Adrian Bunk wrote: ... >Oliver Elphick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) libpgsql This package is obsolete and should not be included in any release. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
Jargon file, Appendix A. (http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09

Re: Bug#95818: libpgsql2.1: should not depend on ident-server

2001-05-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
ng on that) I have created this feature, using autoconf/configure to test if it is supported, and have sent a patch upstream. The feature will be in Debian anyway. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.

Re: Bug#95818: libpgsql2.1: should not depend on ident-server

2001-04-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
table features; I might be able to get it added under a config option. (portable means BSD Linux AIX HP-UX VAX Solaris Windows ...) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97

Re: Bug#95818: libpgsql2.1: should not depend on ident-server

2001-04-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
x27;t be an upstream option. How portable is it within Linux? I just tried looking for the documentation on it in libc.info and couldn't find anything. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: Bug#95818: libpgsql2.1: should not depend on ident-server

2001-04-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
options for Unix socket access are password-protection or trust (that is, a completely open database). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC

postgresql and libssl - Bug#95146

2001-04-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
leave it alone pending resolution of the legal question? (I do not propose to do anything to remove the ssl code from PostgreSQL.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D

Re: Problem with installing Postgres throught APT

2001-04-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
will help there. I am happy to accept any suggestions that improve upon the current setup: Source: postgresql Section: misc Priority: optional Maintainer: Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Standards-Version: 3.2.1 Build-Depends: libncurses5-dev (>= 5.0), tcl8.3-dev, bison, python-d

Re: Problem with installing Postgres throught APT

2001-04-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
and conflicts with libpgsql2 It hasn't stopped its being installed on my system or on a number of others. I found the conflict was necessary to force the removal of libpgsql2, but it does indeed provide libpgsql2 to other packages that depend on that. I feel there must be some other problem

Re: postgres user

2001-04-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
t to take advantage of this. The reason for the change is to improve the default security of PostgreSQL. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC

Re: Bug#95146: postgresql depends on libssl - move to non-us?

2001-04-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
James Troup wrote: [serious bug: postgresql depends on libssl0.9.6 from non-us/main] >"Oliver Elphick" writes: >> Hmm, yes. So postgresql had better move to non-us. > >While not necessarily a bad thing, it's worth noting that that is >going to drag a l

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
g them. This means that the onus is perforce on those who don't want duplicates to eliminate them before reading. The manpage procmailex gives a recipe for using procmail and formail to eliminate duplicate mails or to divert them into a duplicates folder.

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

2000-12-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
> >mgetty is not important, it's extra. That may be, but where has it gone? Apparently libperl5.6 has disappeared as well. Again there is a pointer from packages.debian.org, but the deb is not in the directory pointed to. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Postgres removing old database

2000-08-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
dump and restore the databases itself. I can remember an older >upgrade of postgres (6.0 -> 6.5 perhaps?) doing just this, so I wonder >why this didn't. It should have done; I can't think why it didn't. If you can repeat the operation and capture the whole session with sc

WARNING: problems with postgresql-7.0-0.beta3.[12]

2000-04-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
-2_all.deb postgresql-pl_7.0-0.beta3-2_i386.deb postgresql-test_7.0-0.beta3-2_i386.deb postgresql_7.0-0.beta3-2_i386.deb python-pygresql_7.0-0.beta3-2_i386.deb Source: postgresql_7.0-0.beta3-2.diff.gz postgresql_7.0-0.beta3-2.dsc postgresql_7.0.orig.tar.gz -- Oliver Elphick

Re: What's changed in su/bash? "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"

2000-03-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
Brian Greenfield wrote: >On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:12:12 +0900, Junichi Uekawa ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>In Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:10:20 +0100, de profundis "Oliver Elphick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >x.co.uk> cum veritas scribat > &

Re: What's changed in su/bash? "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"

2000-03-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
limited The su being used is /bin/su from login (source package: shadow; Version: 19990827-18) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers;

Re: What's changed in su/bash? "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"

2000-03-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
IL PROTECTED] su -c ls Password: 0.0=1.29172.exmh exmh.1563.html filevV2bSYpg7 ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] su Password: linda:/tmp# ls bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable linda:/tmp# cd linda:~# but, as you see, shell built-ins still work. -- Ol

What's changed in su/bash? "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"

2000-03-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
If I su, I then get the message "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable" on almost every command I try. I found that `exec sh' let me do things. So it seems that something has changed in the set-up of bash or su -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PRO

Re: New version of xserver-svga gives poorer display on laptop

2000-03-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
Thanks to all who replied about this. The problem was solved by reducing the dot clock from 75.0 to 65.0. This gave a much better picture than I used to have before I upgraded xserver-svga. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: New version of xserver-svga gives poorer display on laptop

2000-03-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
Matthias Berse wrote: >On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:17:09PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> I have a laptop that uses the S3 Virge/MX video chip. >> >> I had this working well with the xserver-svga from slink. I recently upgr >aded >> to 3.3.6-3 and

New version of xserver-svga gives poorer display on laptop

2000-03-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
: s3_virge (**) SVGA: videoram: 4096k (**) SVGA: Option "slow_edodram" (**) SVGA: Option "early_ras_precharge" (**) SVGA: Option "fifo_conservative" (**) SVGA: Option "pci_burst_on" (**) SVGA: Option "hw_cursor" (**) SVGA: Option "pci_retry"

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
"$x" in ( SystemV | posix | right ) > ^ >is causing this. Thanks; I'll remove it. -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

What has happened to gnome-apt?

1999-09-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
gnome-apt is no longer installable, because it depends on libapt-pkg2.5, which does not exist. What's going on? -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ Oliver Elphick[

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
Carey Evans wrote: >"Oliver Elphick" writes: > >> If you have a recent potato system, with timezone files in >> /usr/share/zoneinfo, could you please run the script and let me know if >> it gives WRONG results for you. If it does, please tell me your t

Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
* ) # The rest of the world uses normal European format GuessDateStyle=EURO ;; esac echo $tzcountry $GuessDateStyle exit 0 # The End Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ Oliver E

Re: Debian coding style?

1999-05-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
d throw away the rest of the line. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-01-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
> > - eagles Yes; I like this idea. How about a line drawing of an eagle in flight? We could have a bigger version somewhere with Evil Emperor Bill in its talons... -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://w

Re: bug? with file-rc

1999-01-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
is very clumsy for an administrator who wants to assign meanings to run-levels 2 to 5 (which Debian does not currently do). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP k

Re: non-us.debian.org OK?

1999-01-31 Thread Oliver Elphick
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/Linux/debian-non-US potato/non-US/binary-$(ARCH)/ -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8F

Re: off-topic! Anonymous CVS access?

1999-01-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
uot;password","tL"));}'>t.c; \ > gcc -o t t.c -lcrypt; ./t; rm t t.c > >NB, replace "tL" with two random characters, and "password" with your desire >d >password. The package `makepasswd' provides an easier command li

Re: the Great X Reorganization, package splits, and renaming

1999-01-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
allation scripts? The method would be something like this: scan the database for the renamed packages for each renamed package that is installed mark the package for removal mark its replacement for installation -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Where does 'www-data' come from?

1999-01-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
he www-data group, do you suggest I make them members of roo >t? Have PostgreSQL tables accessible by the *PostgreSQL* user `nobody', and have the web server connect to PostgreSQL as `nobody'. (PostgreSQL users are not (necessarily) the same as Unix logins.) More detailed docum

Re: Where does 'www-data' come from?

1999-01-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
At the very least createuser could have an >--allow-badname option like adduser. The SQL command, CREATE USER, does allow it; I specifically disallowed it in the createuser command in order to stop people running into the GRANT bug. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAI

Re: Where does 'www-data' come from?

1999-01-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
ct on shares to "www-data"; ERROR: aclparse: mode flags must use "arwR" -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: Bug#27753: libpgjava: depends on jdk1.1-runtime, which is now included in jdk1.1

1998-10-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Package: libpgjava >Version: 6.3.2-1 >Severity: important > I cannot rebuild this package at present because javac always segfaults for me. If anyone would like to do a non-maintainer release, I would be grateful... -- Ol

Re: more trouble with deleted root partition please help !!!!! (fwd)

1998-10-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
c000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40027000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) You will need someone else with a working 2.0 system to copy these from, or else extract them from the appropriate .deb files onto some working machine (remember that a .deb file

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Steve Lamb" wrote: >Dust Bunny!!! Dust Bunny!!! > >And not Crud Bunny :) Better not be Bugs Bunny! -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: problem w/ the Java interface lib for PostgreSQL

1998-10-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
2.01.1-3 The GNU Bourne Again SHell -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1

Re: Including Mysql in the Main Distrubation

1998-06-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
ckage description). Thank you for the suggestion. I have added a note to README.Debian. This will be in 6.3.2-10 (slink). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
.. > That's a preference setting: Simple Editor - Format Mail default = OnSend -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PG

Re: help: uid_t structure !

1998-06-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
gt; return (err); >} >- > >What is going wrong ? > > uid_t structure isn`t already defined ? You also need: #include I am reporting this as a bug in the manpage of getuid and setuid against manpages-dev. -- Oliver Elphick

Need a CD of hamm

1998-05-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
Can anyone in UK make me a CD of current hamm, please. This is needed for Monday week. (I know of a source in Germany, but I would like to save on postage and currency translation.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Bug#21969: debian-policy: needs clarification about Standards-Version

1998-05-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
ntainer says that policy is _not_ broken, the fault must be with the package. You are saying that you would reassign a bug to policy, while at the same time denying that policy is broken? That does not make sense. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of

Re: Coming to closure on ae...

1998-05-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
an xterm where TERM is set to something different, it won't work, but it seems a bit unreasonable for anyone to do such a thing. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-05-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
rmation which is obscured by a numeric sort. Surely it can't be hard to do? You're extracting fields from the bugs database by some process; just pipe it through sort before you format it. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: tetex: symlink "loop"

1998-05-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
see any bug reports for it. I don't have /etc/texmf/dvips/config on my system (same versions of these packages). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/o

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