Re: How to modify /etc/services?

1999-09-25 Thread Seth R Arnold
If I am not mistaken, since it is a conffile for netstd, other packages are forbidden from doing anything with it? I think the proper response is: get Maintainer: Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to include your service in /etc/services, then your package depends on a specific version of netstd.

How to modify /etc/services?

1999-09-25 Thread Harley Pebley
I know I can edit /etc/services manually. What's the best way to modify it from a shell script (e.g. postinst)? Is there something analogous to update-inetd? Thanks for any help, Harley Pebley

Re: new maintainer in Australia PLUS gpg questions

1999-09-25 Thread Paul Harris
huh? i'm the new maintainer for vrweb and am a first-time maintainer. i'm happy that MY package of vrweb is going ok. i've asked Fabien to look over my patch, but if you like you can take a look at it yourself at: http://swww.ee.uwa.edu.au/~harri-pc/ tell me what you think (all bugs will be close

Re: new maintainer in Australia PLUS gpg questions

1999-09-25 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Harris wrote: > (vrweb is packaging nicely :) I'll say: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>dpkg --print-avail vrweb Package: vrweb Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 2498 Maintainer: Fabien Ninoles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 1.5-2 Provides: vrml Depends: libc6, libg++272 (

Re: new maintainer in Australia

1999-09-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 03:08:57AM +0800, Paul Harris wrote: > is the waiting list really bad? i live in Perth, Australia, which is about > as far from anywhere as you can get... what should i use for scannable id? > passport? is there _ANY_ developer in Western Australia? am I the first? > (wow th

Re: VRweb on the web

1999-09-25 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Paul Harris wrote: > could I also please ask Christopher to attempt to build it on his Alpha > (mmm wish i had access ;). also if anyone has access to a platform other > than an i386 (i have that), could i get them to please check it out? I took the Alpha down today (am movi

Re: nscd confuses my preinst :-(

1999-09-25 Thread Brian May
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 10:50:01PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > I have a big problem with this new glibc2 "nscd" program. This program > seems to be a cache for the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow: > > -=(/home/ch/debian/DOC)# adduser --system mysql > Adding system user mysql... > Ad