Re: bootable floppy

2001-05-19 Thread Murat Demirten
Hi, You can find answers of this type of questions on www.linuxfromscratch.org murat, On Sat, 19 May 2001, Halil Demirezen wrote: i wanna know how can i make a floppy bootable and it will run directly my program that i write in c or any other programinng languages. for exaple think that

pam-mysql has open security bug since 180 days - want NMU!

2001-05-19 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello According to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=77537repeatmerged=yes this package has a open security bug for more than 180 days. Although the fix would simply be an upgrade to the version Wichert mentioned. The maintainer Michael Alan Dorman did not response to

GnuPG breakage

2001-05-19 Thread Martin Christensen
Howdy! GnuPG 1.0.5-2 went into Woody the other day, and of course I upgraded as I always do. However, now it has started complaining that there's no valid OpenPGP data found. An example: % gpg -r [EMAIL PROTECTED] somefile.txt gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. gpg: processing message failed:

Re: use of /tmp by installers

2001-05-19 Thread Herbert Xu
Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is debian's stance on this? I would prefer to leave /tmp mounted noexec. IMHO it's pointless to have /tmp mounted noexec. Anyone can run programs there by invoking /lib/ld-linux.so.2 or the relevant interpreter. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! (

kernel-patches

2001-05-19 Thread str8edge
Hi, I'm trying to apply the lids2.2.19 kernel patch to a group of 5 machines. I was hoping to use make-kpkg's patching facility to automate the kernel build process. however, when I try to use the PATCH_THE_KERNEL env variable, or adding patch_the_kernel := yes or patch_the_kernel = yes to

Re: use of /tmp by installers

2001-05-19 Thread Kevin
You might be just as well mounting it nosuid, and you'd end up breaking a lot less. -- Kevin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Hi, i have my /tmp mounted noexec, but I was suprised to see the Postfix installer (in testing) want to execute some temporary scripts out of /tmp. Of course, there

Re: use of /tmp by installers

2001-05-19 Thread Jörgen Persson
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 12:51:08PM +1000, Ian wrote: Hi, i have my /tmp mounted noexec, but I was suprised to see the Postfix installer (in testing) want to execute some temporary scripts out of /tmp. [snip] I'm no Postfix freak but doesn't it honour $TMP or $TMPDIR?? I prefer exporting

Re: bootable floppy

2001-05-19 Thread Murat Demirten
Hi, You can find answers of this type of questions on www.linuxfromscratch.org murat, On Sat, 19 May 2001, Halil Demirezen wrote: i wanna know how can i make a floppy bootable and it will run directly my program that i write in c or any other programinng languages. for exaple think that you

pam-mysql has open security bug since 180 days - want NMU!

2001-05-19 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello According to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=77537repeatmerged=yes this package has a open security bug for more than 180 days. Although the fix would simply be an upgrade to the version Wichert mentioned. The maintainer Michael Alan Dorman did not response to

GnuPG breakage

2001-05-19 Thread Martin Christensen
Howdy! GnuPG 1.0.5-2 went into Woody the other day, and of course I upgraded as I always do. However, now it has started complaining that there's no valid OpenPGP data found. An example: % gpg -r [EMAIL PROTECTED] somefile.txt gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. gpg: processing message failed: eof