Re: On packages depending on up-to-date data (was Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing)

2003-08-29 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > [Short version: see the patch below.] > (after a few days w/o answers from Snort's maintainer) > Sander, any comments wrt to this patch? Please at least say wether you are > going to forward this to Snort maintainers or use it in

Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing

2003-08-26 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I'm about to close 95153, 133049, 158040, 16, 170580, 173331, 176223, > > 135603, 161659, 165107, 165135, 165351, 171190, 172529, 173663, 174506, > > 174508, 174509, 192401, 193544, 101725, 122689, 159575, 165126, 182280, > > and 189780 with a nic

Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing

2003-08-26 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > That's for Martin Schulze (Joey - Stable Release Manager) and/or the > > security > > team to decide; not ftpmaster. > A quick scan of those bugs doesn't reveal anything which looks like a > security vulnerability, so this would seem to be purely an

Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing

2003-08-25 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Drew Scott Daniels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=183719 and bug 189267 > say: > DSA 297 closes these bugs. It may be worth noting that potato was not > affected. > What other security issues are there? Let's first start by telling that my back

Re: On packages depending on up-to-date data (was Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing)

2003-08-25 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Thus, it can't detect potentially harmful traffic. > That's not correct, it cannot detected _new_ potentially harmful traffic. > There's quite a lot of potentially harmful traffic (stable) snort can > detect. The fact that it's not up

Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing

2003-08-25 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Josip Rodin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I've upgraded to this version and it has required me to press y to replace > > > modified conffiles in /etc/snort/rules/ about two dozen times, while I'm > > > pretty sure I never touched any of them. That's an pretty impressive > > > amount > > > of

Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing

2003-08-25 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Before you object to this rather 'rude' bughandling, please keep in > > mind that version 1.8.4 of snort, which is in stable, has 3 severe > > security exploits, > So, why hasn't a security update been released for it? There has been a DSA about

Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing

2003-08-25 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Josip Rodin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Oh and it didn't even want to start properly -- and the init script wasn't > even so kind to tell me, I had to learn from syslog that > Aug 24 16:57:23 hostname snort: FATAL ERROR: Unable to open rules file: > ../rules/bad-traffic.rules or /etc/snort/../

Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing

2003-08-25 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Josip Rodin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > [2] deb http:///people.debian.org/~ssmeenk/snort-stable-i386/ ./ >~ Typo. Oops. > I've upgraded to this version and it has required me to press y to replace > modified conffiles in /etc/snort/rules/ about two dozen times, while I'm > p

Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing

2003-08-25 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > 'semi up to date'. Still a lot of people use the outdated and utterly > > broken 1.8.4 release and complain. Although these complaints are correct, > Maybe because they are not aware of your backporting efforts. And they never will b

Snort: Mass Bug Closing

2003-08-24 Thread Sander Smeenk
2], to have automatic installation of newer backported packages when they are released. If you feel this bug to be closed incorrectly, or the problem still exists in the newer version of snort, please reopen this bug. Thanks for your interrest in improving snort! Kind regards, Sander Smeenk. Snort pac

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-23 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > My point is: i understand what said in that paragraph, but what if new version > is a bugfix release that does not address only a secutiry issue? I'm not sure > that system administrators would like to have a buggy package on their host

Re: Gnome2, libgtk2 & gtk2 apps like gaim / mozilla

2003-05-14 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Mateusz Papiernik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I don't use Gnome2 as a desktop manager, eg. I don't have panels > > running, I only use gaim, which links against libgtk2. So the problem > > is where gaim (and other libgtk2 using apps) don't start some > > component that gnome-control-center doe

Re: Gnome2, libgtk2 & gtk2 apps like gaim / mozilla

2003-05-14 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Ross Burton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Since I while I am forced to shut down my Linux workstation when I leave > > my workplace. > If you don't want to start GNOME via gnome-session (you can remove the > panel from the session if you wish) you must run "gnome-settings-daemon" > in your sta

Gnome2, libgtk2 & gtk2 apps like gaim / mozilla

2003-05-14 Thread Sander Smeenk
Hi, Since I while I am forced to shut down my Linux workstation when I leave my workplace. And since then I noticed that every time I boot again, and start my X, and open my apps like Gaim and Mozilla, the font used is HUGE (Helvetica, 12px, or something), while I have set the font to be Verdana,

Re: Subversion packages

2002-04-10 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Marcelo E. Magallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Now let's lart Thom for compiling apache2 against libdb3, instead of > > > > libdb4, which renders subversion unusable :) > > > Again, I don't know about this... > > Thom does :) He didn't want tons of emails questioning where to ge

Re: Subversion packages

2002-04-10 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Thom May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Now let's lart Thom for compiling apache2 against libdb3, instead of > > > libdb4, which renders subversion unusable :) > > Again, I don't know about this... > I'm pretty unhappy about the LARTing ;-) heh.. sorry? :) Regards, Sander. -- | Is er ee

Re: Subversion packages

2002-04-10 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Marcelo E. Magallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > missing... try "deb http://people.debian.org/~ssmeenk/ ./" for > http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/subversion/ sid/i386/ > should work. Okay, I admit, i'm a mess at creating apt-lines :) Your packages are fine, Thom will add '

Re: Apache2 Debian Packages

2002-04-10 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Thom May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Very nice :) But I have 2 things: > > 1) Where's apache2-modules? Subversion depends on them! > Subversion needs to update :) Happily, I don't have to be back compat, but I > will add a provides for apache2-modules. We scrapped the seperate deb as it >

Re: Apache2 Debian Packages

2002-04-09 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Thom May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > As those of you who read slashdot know, Apache 2.0 was released last night. > deb http://pandora.debian.org/~thom/apache2 ./ Very nice :) But I have 2 things: 1) Where's apache2-modules? Subversion depends on them! 2) Why is apache2 compiled against libd

Re: Subversion packages

2002-04-09 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Marcelo E. Magallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/subversion/ Much appreciated!! But I have two things: 1) that directory isn't apt-gettable, the Packages.gz file is missing... try "deb http://people.debian.org/~ssmeenk/ ./" for

Re: xfonts-*dpi and reiserfs?

2001-09-11 Thread Sander Smeenk \(CistroN Medewerker\)
Quoting Sander Smeenk (CistroN Medewerker) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > | unable to make backup link of > |`./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/lutBS19-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz' before > |installing new version: Device or resource busy > > |Sep 10 11:54:05 replicator kernel: reiserfs_add_en

Re: xfonts-*dpi and reiserfs?

2001-09-10 Thread Sander Smeenk \(CistroN Medewerker\)
Quoting Wessel Dankers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > |Sep 10 11:54:05 replicator kernel: reiserfs_add_entry: Congratulations! > > > |we have got hash function screwed up > > So what kernel are you running Sander? There are data corruption bugs in > > earlier 2.4 kernels. > My guess would be that the b

xfonts-*dpi and reiserfs?

2001-09-10 Thread Sander Smeenk \(CistroN Medewerker\)
Hey, I have this weird 'problem' I can't figure out what causes this, and I was wondering if anyone else is having the same problem. I wrote Branden (xfonts-*dpi maintainer) about this, but he hasn't received any other messages about this yet. This is what happens: Each and every time I receive

Re: Why why why!!???

2001-05-04 Thread Sander Smeenk \(CistroN Medewerker\)
Quoting Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >http://zipnab.yoll.net/icons/ > Wow, that's the most creative spam I've ever read..it almost was worth the > effort :) In fact, if you take a look at the page, there is nothing commercial, it only shows some apache standard icons, some debian l

Re: libgd's dependency on xlib stops netsaint from "testing"

2001-01-01 Thread Sander Smeenk \(CistroN Medewerker\)
Quoting Bernd Eckenfels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > It would be nice if you can avoid using xlibs, which > in turn depends in xfree86-common. A simple solution for this would be to make libgd1 *suggest* xlibs, but not depend on it. Since libgd1 will work when xlibs is not installed (eg. purged with --