Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-03 Thread Anthony Towns
s all about. * laws to make exploiting security bugs illegal even on your own system, which we already have or are getting in most of the "free" world. TCPA: propping up yesterday's business models, today. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: opening morgue/rhona for public access? (was Re: .deb archive?)

2001-11-08 Thread Anthony Towns
m for a couple of days beyond when they were last referenced. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. "Security here. Yes, maam. Yes. Groucho glasses. Yes, we'r

Re: regexp BUG in multiple GUI text editing programs

2001-08-23 Thread Anthony Towns
ay is a Perl regexp thing, iirc, and can't be relied on everywhere. Use "<[^>]*>" if you want to be sure. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_An

Re: libdb.so.3 woody upgrade failure-bug - Please help.

2001-08-20 Thread Anthony Towns
e been fixed recently, and are currently being built for all arches. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade -u on testing wants to uninstall 189 packages

2001-03-05 Thread Anthony Towns
pt-get remove data-dumper first. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, c

Re: Networking, /etc/network/interfaces, mapping, iface, and multiple configurations

2001-02-10 Thread Anthony Towns
ou get the "map" lines (without the word "map") in standard input, and you just have to echo the name of the logical interface you want on standard output when you're done (or exit 1 if you give up). Dunno if that helps. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: testing distribution security updates?

2001-01-29 Thread Anthony Towns
uppose that if dependancies keep them out of testing, > this could be a problem. Getting packages compiled on all architectures is more likely to be the problem: glibc has been held up because the arm autobuilder was running out of space trying to compile it, eg. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns &l

Re: Package pool information?

2000-12-19 Thread Anthony Towns
debian/dists/sid on ftp.debian.org (or your favourite mirror), and looking through some Packages files, to see what they say. FWIW, HTH, etc. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed

Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-23 Thread Anthony Towns
shouldn't be particularly difficult to write, and it doesn't require 4000 packages to be changed so it's much much easier to get accepted. What, exactly, is it you want that dpkg -L doesn't provide? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.hum

Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-22 Thread Anthony Towns
e, dpkg -s to look at the description again) > Some packages don't have a documentation directory at all. Erm. Every package must have /usr/doc//copyright (or /usr/share/doc//copyright. Which ones don't? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.o

Re: network setup script ??

2000-05-30 Thread Anthony Towns
, run "ifup eth0" or "ifdown eth0", or just leave it to /etc/init.d/networking, which is run at bootup and shutdown. See ifup(8) and interfaces(5) for more info. Cheers, aj (netbase maintainer) -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/&

Re: Suggestion for change to debian package format

1999-03-29 Thread Anthony Towns
rid of the grep's on the first line to look for all packages that aren't depended on by anything else, if you're in the mood. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypt

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 12:14:34AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 1998 16:25:46 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > >The "other data" in Debian's case is stuff like dependency information, > >installation and removal scripts, and the maintainer's contact a

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 09:52:51PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 1998 14:10:40 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > >(Oh, and the nice thing about having an ar of two tar's rather than a > >tar with some extra stuff tacked on the end is that you can get to *all* >

Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV

1998-05-23 Thread Anthony Towns
to whip out the ol' C compiler if you don't have the appropriate packager handy) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``It's not a vision, o

Re: Outgoing Message Error

1998-04-10 Thread Anthony Towns
e:/var/doc/majordomo/lists/crew702 ^^^ doc? As far as I'm aware, both those should be /var/lib/majordomo/lists/crew702. > owner-crew702: htuttle > crew702-owner: htuttle > crew702-request:"|/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper majordomo -l crew702" Cheers, aj -- Anthony Tow

Re: JPEG parameter struct mismatch.........

1998-03-22 Thread Anthony Towns
Group's jpeg runtime li ii libjpegg6a 6a-11 The Independent JPEG Group's jpeg runtime li ii zgv 2.8-4 SVGAlib graphics viewer HTH. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't spea

Re: limiting user access

1998-02-13 Thread Anthony Towns
large, then rely on the grace period to ensure that anyone who does play with big files gets rid of them quickly. For /tmp and /var/tmp, a 24 hour grace period would probably be reasonable. Only if you're being fascist, of course. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <ht

Re: lynx with a proxy

1998-02-13 Thread Anthony Towns
y="http://localhost:8000/"; to, iirc, get some support for https:// urls, if your proxy supports them, even if Lynx doesn't. (replace 'export' with 'setenv' if you're using csh or tcsh instead of sh, ksh or bash) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL

Re: limiting user access

1998-02-13 Thread Anthony Towns
ory read-only, but that limits its utility. And the /tmp and /var/tmp directories as well. Which kinda limits their utility too. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred.

Summaries for /var/log log files.

1998-02-01 Thread Anthony Towns
daemons, and so on and so forth. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Cheers, aj - -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``NT, Networking, Security. Pick a

Re: tricks for fetchmail and signify

1998-02-01 Thread Anthony Towns
-S|--start options ... -- arguments ... So, start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/bin/fetchmail -- -d 300 is the way to startup 'fetchmail -d 300'. Cheers, aj - -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. P

Re: Whiney little request

1998-01-15 Thread Anthony Towns
irrors at all, and may cause problems when a new version of netscape (or whatever) gets released. Whether the wrapper needs to be updated anyway for new releases of the wrapee, is another matter too. In any case, automating this wrapping process a little further would be nice. Comments? C