Re: Accepted ibm-3270 3.3.4p6-1 (source all i386)

2006-02-19 Thread Richard A Nelson
Not only did you hijack these packages, and without *ANY* communication, you missed tcl3270, ICU builds (for the non-US folk)... Have you dealt with anyone on the issues, or do you even know what they are ? On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Bastian Blank wrote: Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:12:39 -0800 From:

Re: Accepted ibm-3270 3.3.4p6-1 (source all i386)

2006-02-20 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 10571 March 1977, Richard A. Nelson wrote: Not only did you hijack these packages, and without *ANY* communication, you missed tcl3270, ICU builds (for the non-US folk)... You know that this package set was removed since march, so you cant say

Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?

2006-09-17 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Sep 17, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I got the commands used by Andreas Metzler to extract packages in sarge with files or directories in /var/run/, and ran the it on etch. These are the 159 packages: Not all of them are buggy, e.g

Re: flock() and sendmail

2006-11-16 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, John Kelly wrote: I don't need NFS with sendmail. Surely flock() is not *still* broken in 2.6 kernels? I doubt that flock is *still* broken - that was quite some time ago... ** NOTE: Override HASFLOCK as you will but, as of 1.99.6, mixed-style ** file locking is n

Re: flock() and sendmail

2006-11-17 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, John Kelly wrote: Then I have to wonder why sendmail is still configured to use fcntl() when running on linux. Sounds like the modern kernel implementation of flock() would be better. The most general solution wins ... and that is fcntl() ! afaict, flock() *still* does n

Re: System users and valid shells...

2006-05-02 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Wed, 3 May 2006, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:45:56AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: this may be a dumb question, but I really wonder if there's a policy (which I obviously haven't found) about which system users should get a valid shell and which shouldn't. Yeah, I had the sa

Can't we at least agree on Anti-Virus for our mail

2005-08-24 Thread Richard A Nelson
Just today 250+ viruses, mostly - clamd found the Worm.Mydoom.AT virus These are coming from master/gluck, and being a good citizen, I'm just dropping them on the floor (instead of creating backscatter). I know there's been heated debate about which, if any RBLs and other anti-spam tools to emp

Re: Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess

2008-05-18 Thread Richard A Nelson
On a related note If I dood it, I get a whipping. I dood it. What about the possibility of MTA/MSP alternatives - I'd like to support the next generation sendmail (Meta - used to be SM x) - a very postfix like design for enhanced security. I recall RH, or a deriviative that su

Re: Bug#560216: Missing symbol HEIMDAL_KRB5_1.0

2009-12-10 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Brian May wrote: What do I do about this issue: On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:07:45PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: $ krb5-auth-dialog -A krb5-auth-dialog: /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.25: version `HEIMDAL_KRB5_1.0' not found (required by krb5-auth-dialog) If I look through the libra

Re: libgcrypt brain dead?

2010-03-20 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Brian May wrote: Unfortunately, gcrypt is used by gnutls, which is used in ldap, which is frequently used in PAM and NSS. So this is an issue. There might be other NSS and PAM modules that use it too. Indeed, and this causes significant pain for Debian users in a lot of env

Re: libgcrypt brain dead?

2010-03-20 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: Hrm, I've been swamped with work, and have neglected most of my packages for far too long (though some intentional), I'll give the idea some thought, though, OpenLDAP is *very* critical to both my home and work setup ! The first step would be to reach co

Re: Richard A Nelson (Rick) MIA

2010-09-27 Thread Richard A Nelson
On 09/27/2010 10:14 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 06:33:05PM +0200, Harald Jenny wrote: >> I'm sorry for disturbing all of you but I'm currently facing the problem that >> the maintainer of the Debian sendmail package, Richard A Nelson, seems t

Re: Richard A Nelson (Rick) MIA

2010-11-01 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Harald Jenny wrote: sorry to disturb you but it seems like a month has passed and the situation is still unclear. 'Tis now on the correct track, finally. Trying to contact you in private seems to fail so I was forced to use this way. Fail? How? I checked my logs (back t

Re: ppp/ip-up vs. network/if-up

2004-10-13 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Thomas Hood wrote: > FYI: The experimental ifupdown does not currently rerun "up" scripts if > pppd reconnects. Is not the same true for DHCP ? > I can see why, in the case of PPP interfaces, that might be desired. I am > not sure that we should implement it, though. It wo

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-07 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: Stefano Zacchiroli writes: Yes, the most repeated argument has been mount /usr via NFS. Unfortunately, nobody yet explained how do they update the resulting cluster of machines. It's not particularly difficult. You update the system master and push t

Re: integrating PAM module into nss-ldapd (RFH)

2009-05-30 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Sat, 16 May 2009, Arthur de Jong wrote: I'm working on integrating a PAM module into nss-ldapd and am looking for input on this. The PAM module was kindly provided by Howard Chu from the OpenLDAP project but I'm still working on the server part. Interesting, I talked briefly with Howard (on

Re: sendmail 8.9.0

1998-06-10 Thread Richard A Nelson
Ack... Been out of town, no computer access. Sorry for the delay, but I'm looking at these now... -- Rick Nelson On 6 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote: > Date: 06 Jun 1998 11:49:57 -0500 > From: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: sendmail 8.9.0 > Resent-

Re: Intent to package: smtpfeed and sendmail-wide

1998-10-08 Thread Richard A Nelson
hrm... The requested URL /~monotori/sendmail.html was not found on this server. Is there somewhere else I can look? am I correct in assuming that WIDE is support for DBCS? -- Rick Nelson On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Fumitoshi UKAI wrote: > Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 14:34:14 +0900 (JST) > From: Fumitoshi

Re: strange sendmail behaviour (bug?)

1998-10-08 Thread Richard A Nelson
Yes, a bug... due to socks support (which is being taken out until I figure a better way to handle it; runsocks just don't cut it). This, and a few more will be corrected very quick now -- Rick Nelson On 8 Oct 1998, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: > Date: 08 Oct 1998 21:19:27 +0200 > From: Ardo van