Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-04-03 Thread Nils Kassube
Matt Wheeler wrote: > but can we trust update-manager not to break and give someone > privileges they shouldn't have? I don't know, maybe we can, I just > think it's worth being very careful about it. If you don't trust update-manager you would have to check everything after an update. I don't t

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-04-03 Thread Matt Wheeler
2009/4/4 Remco : > That's a different idea though. My idea is that having to provide a > password is an unnecessary hurdle to people. Why must a password be > provided to start the update process? A policy could be made to allow > the update manager to do its thing without passwords. Unless I'm mi

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-04-03 Thread Remco
2009/4/3 (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo : > Olá Remco e a todos. > > On Thursday 02 April 2009 14:12:00 Remco wrote: >> One wishlist idea I have is that updates can be installed without having to >> provide a password. > > There's a public wishbug to allow Security Updates to be auto-installed, as > an o

Looking for a List of log messages that Linux sends

2009-04-03 Thread raahi 108
Hello Experts, I am doing some syslog analysis from various devices. For Linux, i was trying to find if there is a document listing formats for ALL logs that linux sends out... -e.g. --- <92>pure-ftpd: (?...@theman) [WARNING] Authentication failed for user [root] <38>sshd(pam_unix)[22547]:

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-04-03 Thread (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo
Olá Remco e a todos. On Thursday 02 April 2009 14:12:00 Remco wrote: > One wishlist idea I have is that updates can be installed without having to > provide a password. There's a public wishbug to allow Security Updates to be auto-installed, as an option available on OEM,regular installer an on

Re: Looking at Package Management for Karmic or Karmic+1

2009-04-03 Thread (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo
Olá Matthew e a todos. On Thursday 02 April 2009 09:47:32 Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > For example here, if measurement has shown that downloading on average > takes 60% of the time and installing on average takes 40 % of the time, > and you're installing updates where the downloading is 80 % comp