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Re: K7 and X11

2004-09-21 Thread Marco Gerards
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 06:32:01PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: >> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" >> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > I had problems with these. My mouse was not working correctly with > Em

Re: K7 - ssh

2004-09-21 Thread Derek Davies
Well, just for the record, I'm still fiddling with adding an entropy device to gnumach 1.x . However, my development machine died and I haven't had a chance to fix it b/c I'm up to my ears in day-job work. So, I'm sure no one's holding their breath but now that summer is winding down I'll probabl

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hurd package needs to drop /sbin/fsck (was: Re: hurd 20040508-3 with the ext2fs patch)

2004-09-21 Thread Michael Banck
Package: hurd Severity: serious On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 11:29:09AM +0200, Simon Kagstrom wrote: > It seems like this caused a dselect-upgrade to fail for me after i > updated today, see the log below. My sources.list contain > > deb http://ftp.gnuab.org/debian unreleased main > deb http://ftp.de.

Re: hurd 20040508-3 with the ext2fs patch

2004-09-21 Thread Ognyan Kulev
Simon Kagstrom wrote: (Reading database ... 9711 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace e2fsprogs 1.35-4 (using .../e2fsprogs_1.35-7_hurd-i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement e2fsprogs ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.35-7_hurd-i386.deb (--un

Re: hurd 20040508-3 with the ext2fs patch

2004-09-21 Thread Simon Kagstrom
On 2004-09-20, 11:40, Michael Banck wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:51:13AM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > > Mainline e2fsprogs 1.35-7 is uploaded yesterday and it can work on >2G > > partitions on the Hurd. Some DD can just build it and upload it to main > > Debian archive. > > I have done t

Re: K7 - ssh

2004-09-21 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Note that this would only be a short term solution.

Re: K7 - ssh

2004-09-21 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 07:35:09AM +, Marco Gerards wrote: > But it would be nice to have something that is a tiny bit more secure > in the Hurd package, IMHO. I was looking into packaging someone's work based on egd. However, egd is in perl, and some particular required part of perl was broke

Re: K7 and X11

2004-09-21 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Michael Banck wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 06:32:01PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" > > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > > I had problems with these. My mouse was not working correctly with >

Re: K7 - ssh

2004-09-21 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
>But it would be nice to have something that is a tiny bit more >secure in the Hurd package, IMHO. > > Please don't bring up that old tired thread, good entropy or no > entropy. Why not? It is something that just needs to be discussed. It was already discussed, read the

Re: K7 and X11

2004-09-21 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
And please keep the CC intact; I'm not the support channel... :) > I don't know > in which version of the Debian package it is in. Me neither :-) You could start by telling us what version of the Hurd Debian package you have installed.

Re: K7 - ssh

2004-09-21 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
>But it would be nice to have something that is a tiny bit more secure >in the Hurd package, IMHO. > > Please don't bring up that old tired thread, good entropy or no > entropy. What about an entropy generator for GNU? We have a couple hacks for gathering entropy, but th

Re: K7 and X11

2004-09-21 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 06:32:01PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" I had problems with these. My mouse was not working correctly with Emulate3Buttons enabled (though I cannot remember exac

Re: K7 - ssh

2004-09-21 Thread Marco Gerards
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >But it would be nice to have something that is a tiny bit more secure >in the Hurd package, IMHO. > > Please don't bring up that old tired thread, good entropy or no > entropy. Why not? It is something that just needs to be discussed. Do y

Re: K7 and X11

2004-09-21 Thread Marco Gerards
John Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 07:32 +, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Ognyan Kulev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Philip Charles wrote: >> >> Make these symlinks. ln -s /dev/cons/kbd /dev/kbd >> >> ln -s /dev/cons/mouse /dev/mou

Re: K7 - ssh

2004-09-21 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: >But it would be nice to have something that is a tiny bit more secure >in the Hurd package, IMHO. > > Please don't bring up that old tired thread, good entropy or no > entropy. What about an entropy generator for GNU? Phil. -- Philip Charl

Re: K7 and X11

2004-09-21 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
What am I doing wrong? You must be using the repeater patch, are you using it? I don't know in which version of the Debian package it is in.

Re: K7 and X11

2004-09-21 Thread John Williams
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 07:32 +, Marco Gerards wrote: > Ognyan Kulev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Philip Charles wrote: > >> Make these symlinks. ln -s /dev/cons/kbd /dev/kbd > >> ln -s /dev/cons/mouse /dev/mouse > > How is /dev/cons created? Marco earlier sa

Re: K7 - ssh

2004-09-21 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
But it would be nice to have something that is a tiny bit more secure in the Hurd package, IMHO. Please don't bring up that old tired thread, good entropy or no entropy.

Re: K7 - ssh

2004-09-21 Thread Marco Gerards
Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There used to be /dev/urandom where some entropy could be copied to enable > ssh to generate its keys. > > What is needed to be done to provide entropy for ssh now? What I do is: cp $RANDOM_BINARY /dev/urandom for example: cp /bin/bash /dev/urandom

Re: K7 and X11

2004-09-21 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> Make these symlinks. ln -s /dev/cons/kbd /dev/kbd > ln -s /dev/cons/mouse /dev/mouse (To Hurd console developers:) Is this the recommended way, or all (like X) should refer to /dev/cons/{kbd,mouse}? I think it would be better to use /dev/kbd and /dev/

Re: K7 and X11

2004-09-21 Thread Marco Gerards
Ognyan Kulev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Philip Charles wrote: >> Make these symlinks. ln -s /dev/cons/kbd /dev/kbd >> ln -s /dev/cons/mouse /dev/mouse > > (To Hurd console developers:) Is this the recommended way, or all > (like X) should refer to /dev/cons/{kbd,m

Re: K7 - ssh

2004-09-21 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
What is needed to be done to provide entropy for ssh now? Same thing as always, copy something to /dev/urandom, I like to copy /bin/bash. p.s. XFree works. Hurray!

K7 - ssh

2004-09-21 Thread Philip Charles
There used to be /dev/urandom where some entropy could be copied to enable ssh to generate its keys. What is needed to be done to provide entropy for ssh now? Phil. p.s. XFree works. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 48

Re: K7 and X11

2004-09-21 Thread Ognyan Kulev
Philip Charles wrote: Make these symlinks. ln -s /dev/cons/kbd /dev/kbd ln -s /dev/cons/mouse /dev/mouse (To Hurd console developers:) Is this the recommended way, or all (like X) should refer to /dev/cons/{kbd,mouse}? Regards, ogi

Re: K7 and X11

2004-09-21 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, John Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 02:10 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 11:50:01AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > > > I have problems getting X working, the idea is to include a quick > > > howto in the docs. > > > > > > # settrans -c /dev/mo

Re: K7 and X11

2004-09-21 Thread Ognyan Kulev
John Williams wrote: On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 02:10 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 11:50:01AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: I have problems getting X working, the idea is to include a quick howto in the docs. # settrans -c /dev/mouse /hurd/mouse --protocol=ps/2 You do not need to d