Re: /etc/shells policy?

1998-09-24 Thread Carl R. Witty
Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The question is what should I do. AFAIK, /etc/shells is used to determine > which shells can be used with chsh. I am not aware of any other use. I think > it makes perfect sense that shells (un)register themselves in that file upon > installati

Re: /etc/shells policy?

1998-09-22 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Hi, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Luis" == Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Luis> there is an "oldish" bug report open on tcsh that complains > Luis> about tcsh not deleting it's own entry from /etc/shells upon > Luis> removal from the system. > > Since that file b

conffiles vs. scripts (was: /etc/shells policy?)

1998-09-20 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 18.09.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > __ > If two or more packages use the same configuration file, one of these > packages has to be defined as *owner* of the configuration fi

Re: /etc/shells policy?

1998-09-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Luis" == Luis Francisco Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Luis> there is an "oldish" bug report open on tcsh that complains Luis> about tcsh not deleting it's own entry from /etc/shells upon Luis> removal from the system. Since that file belongs to another package, and shells

/etc/shells policy?

1998-09-18 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
[I am CCing [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I am not sure if the maintainer is subscribed to debian-policy] Hi, there is an "oldish" bug report open on tcsh that complains about tcsh not deleting it's own entry from /etc/shells upon removal from the system. http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/16/16072.html Now,